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Guten morgen klasse sieben.
Why seven?
Because our year 7 German class had a CD that said that every time 😀
So you couldn’t remember any other german number? 😛
ALL LUCKY SEVENS!
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120515210307/finalfantasy/images/f/f1/All_lucky_7s.jpg
No, it’s just that particular phrase stuck with me because it was played so often 😀
eins, zwei. drei, vier. funf, sechs, sieben, acht, neun, zehn, elf, zwolf, dreizehn etc. (spelling errorz)
Achtung!
FRANKFURT LEDERHOSEN.
Ich hatte einen Apfel zum fruhstuck. \o/
Thank YOU duolingo.
Thank you Google translate! 😛
BOKEH.
PARALLAX OCCLUSION FIELD MAPPING.
SAUSAGE HUGS.
I’LL BRING THE SAUSAGE!
MORNING TAY!
I had a chance to re-read The Lesser Evil this morning (received a digital proof for the omnibus edition!). It’s not as lousy as I remember it being \o/ but I genuinely can’t decide how I feel about the new cover. I don’t think I like it.
@virus__ haven’t heard from you re: the silk The Living End banner I have on offer. Want it?
@dc (and Spec Ops folks), I have started playing Spec Ops. Unsure how I feel about it so far.
Played about three hours of this last night. It’s tough. Keep dying. I suck at shooters. I’m currently stuck at the bit where Walker has fallen from the top of the skyscraper and is now unarmed and surrounded by guys hunting for him. Only weapon in reach is a damn shotgun 😛Don’t know if I’ve made any choices yet. The CIA guy was edging away from me while talking, and I thought he was up to something, so I shot him in the leg to stop him moving. My guys took that as a cue to open fire :\ (guess I tried to make a choice the game wouldn’t allow… but I kind of suspected that blood was inevitable there)And the hostage situation right at the start. I opened fire. The guy ended up dead anyway. Unsure how scripted that was, because I’m pretty sure no one actually shot him 😛mornin’
I did the same thing with the CIA guy. I wonder how common it is. With the unarmed situation you can melee one of the guys and take their weaponHahahaha, oh man, I really suck at these games. Here’s something I just found out from the internet:
I’m not actually unarmed. I have a full pistol 😛I was misled by the “0” indicator. Keep forgetting it’s zero spare bullets. But I still have a full clip.
#EpicFacePalm
Are you serious!!!???
I went through that ENTIRE section trying to steal a gun!!!
Bes tthing to do is to take the shotty, hide behind the car and take at people as they approach – just make sure you watch both flanks. It took me about 15 tries. Super frustrated. lol.But seriously – keep playing – such an amazing game 😀
The gameplay is a bit clunky and the game is really tough, even on lower difficulties.
I consider this to be part of the narrative experience. There is a bit near the end that will feel like you are beating your head against a brick wall, but please, please get through!
Damn it, I should have picked “easy” mode 😛
Pretty sure you can change it on the fly, can’t you?
Every day’s a school day \o/
Hey man, I haven’t been getting @ mentions or notifications for people responding to my comments.. So sorry!
Uh, I would like to say yes. But alas I do not have any space to put it =/ So I will have to say thanks, but no thanks cause if I can’t hang it I would feel guilty! I have to find room (I won’t) for a place to hang my signed Living End poster from the retrospective tour =/
@greenius
Just clarifying, as I’m sure this isn’t the case.
But our “arguments” about the specifics of games ect don’t piss you off do they?
I’m pretty sure they don’t since you keep coming back for more, but the net is a strange and wondouros place and I’ve pissed off people for less.
😀
Yeah stuff you Jimmy, for something something something. 😛
Course not Jemu 🙂
But I don’t quite understand your last point :P. That’s what I’m saying – Fire Emblem and P4G are both excellent in their own genres so it’s hard to compare them :). And it’s a bit unfair for you to compare them since you haven’t played both.
I played the demo, that was enough to show me I’d never like it as much. I just like the playstyle of P4G more and that’s before you consider the social aspects let alone the art style or anything else.
I do understand what your saying and normally I have that kind of thinking but in a special case like this I can compare.
I’m pretty sure I will like Faih Imblim btw, just not as much 😉
I’ve never attempted writing a top ten games of all time, but I’m loving P4G so much that atm it is prolly on there.
(one day I will, one day I’ll write a top ten!)
I’ll help you.
1. Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Ed (360)
2. Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Ed (PS3)
3. Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Ed (PC)
4. Demon’s Souls
5. Dark Souls (360)
6. Dark Souls (PS3)
7. Dark Souls 2 (360)
8. Dark Souls 2 (PS3)
9. Dark Souls 2 (PC)
10. …
Fuck.
I have to respectfully disagree here. Surely DS: PTDE (PS3) is superior to the 360 version!
Indeed. It’s the version that has “YOU DEFEATED!” back in, after all. 😀
Demon’s Souls: Black Phantom edition.
😛
Time for an EDIT @shane
What. I don’t edit my posts.
Is ok, @shane
Game of “fuck” is pritty phunn :p
I’m not sure about top 10 but P4G is really up there for me… ok, maybe it’s in the top 10 🙂
Definitely top 10 JRPGs though!
I can def say that JRPGs are in my top 3 genres with 2D platformers
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-q4t1nWYdbvU/UIEpC9VFxoI/AAAAAAAAAQI/yR4WLXN0GnQ/s640/castlevania-symphony-of-the-night+(1).jpg
Also, a general apology to everyone for my appauling spelling.
MS Word has ruined me, you should see my handwriting *facepalm*
No need to apologise. 🙂
I’m just happy you’re around again. I don’t really care about your spelling.
I’ll only be back as long as I sit at a desk where the monitor faces the wall.
(and evenings)
You only need to apologise to Paul for using his name in vain.
Not to me. It doesn’t bother me.
NEVER!
redacted
Third times the charm.
So.. A straight man..?
That’s generally just called friendship.
Or kidnapping!
It’s how I meet new people!
Friendship, fuck i already have too many friends, i have been meaning to cull some of you but I can’t bear the suffering it will inflict on you people.
I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE
Nah i need you as part of my “rocketman is cultured as fuck initiative”
also because “I’m not racist, a yellow guy is a good friend”
“non lesbian, non gay man”
…so you have a date with a straight man then?
Edit: goddamn it BDKIAF….
Ooooo. The early bird gets the platonic worm!
Enjoy your mandate! \o/
Also, congrats on the job! \o/
I spose i would love you all less if you weren’t all super sarcastic all the time.
Wha…?
Things appear to be looking up, Rockets. *hugasaurus*
You can’t hug me for good things, god woman 😛
I can hug you whenever I like. So there! 😛
Hoorays 🙂
\o/
Hello Everyone! It’s chilly for those who haven’t been out yet…and there you have my ‘Amazing Comment of Observation’ for today.
Hello HotDamn!. I’m wearing a singlet. I know not of this “chilly” of which you speak. 😛
I admire your foresight, Strange. However, aren’t you in QLD? It’s 20 degrees up there and apparently on 14 degrees here. So….just sayin’! 😉
I had a runny nose all morning on the way in… bloody Melbourne weather
Wow… so this is what these things look like before they hit the quadruple digits. What a sight.
It’s creepy isn’t it. Like being in a shopping centre before it opens
Which is when the zombies come
Hmm. I have done this before. LotR marathon at Burwood when the third movie came out.
Though I think creepier still was going to a 24-hour Kmart at Casula for the Wii U launch at midnight. That was just friggen weird.
If you get in on the first page, it’s easier to stick around to the quadruple digit stage.
*looks around*
Nope, still too overwhelming and/or scary. Retreat!
Come baaaaack! We don’t bite.
Oh wait…Mr. Taco you say?! Hmmmmm. 😛
What? I don’t see any Mexican foodstuffs around here >.>
That’s funny…I could have sworn…..
*goes off to search Page 2*
At Junes, everyday is Customer Appreciation Day. Come see for yourself, and get in touch with our products! Every day’s great at your Junes!
♪Every day’s great at your Ju-nes! ♫
Nana-chan?
Hola Tayberinos
I am in Cusco. It is amazing.
Un cuestionar de manana lunes:
Llamas?
Llamas! \o/
LLAMAS! 😀
Ducks.
Alpaca are totally better! Llama? More like Lame-a
WINAMP WINAMP WINAMP! It really whips the llama’s ass.
Oh wow, blast from the past
What is this, deviantart?
Speaking of deviantart, noice http://spoonfishlee.deviantart.com/art/Journey-the-drop-369730001
meh (I can’t see DA at the wurk)
What a noob doesn’t have the white robe.
Very Noicemeh
laughingjourneyguy.jpg
/jimu
😀
Whoaaaaaa! :OIt’s Novakiin
@greenius
I saw your reply on the previous TAY. YOU CAN’T HIDE FROM ME! (Ugh, Ser Stalkulus). I don’t recall ever having problems with the menus in WeeGee’s Mansion 2. What specifically are you talking about?
Just the way it looks, just seems super outdated and crappy. It’s also pretty pixelated :/
It still functions fine, I’m just talking aesthetically 😛
I found it very simple which I really liked. Usually when you start getting flashy / fancy menus you start losing practicality.
An ingame menu should be practical, not pretty looking (That’s just my opinion though).
WHy can’t it be both ? 🙂
It should, but most of the time it isn’t.
Adrian Edmonson and the Bad Shepherds were so damn fun. You all missed out. Man, those guys can play. They opened with ‘Anarchy in the UK’ and managed to make that anthemic, ranty song sound beautiful and floaty. And it only got better from there.
At one point it even sounded almost exactly like that bit in FFVIII when you have to organise the festival and you need to choose music parts and instruments for each character. 😀
First time I’d been to a non-metal gig fora while and I’d forgotten how chilled it can be. At metal gigs from the moment you go in there’s always a bunch of people staking claims at the front but this show was funny because before the band came on there was just a big open space in front of the stage. There were a fair few people close to the front who obviously wanted to be right up to the stage but it was like they didn’t want to look like they wanted to be, so they were all moving towards the stage inch by inch. 😛
If it’s like when I did that bit in FF8 then it sounded teeerible :p
It was like the guitar, flute and violin parts.
http://youtu.be/znf1gNktsCc?t=1m13s
a yootoob? D:
Sorry,I know you can’t youtube, the link was more for others who wouldn’t know FFVIII very well. I realised as I hit ‘Submit’ I probably shouldn’t have made that a reply to you.
I forgive you…this time >:-(
:p
Haha, the crowd sounds like every show I go to XD
You should have gone,then. 😛
Shoulda coulda woulda
So here’s some good news that I direly needed, my parents are going away for a whole month to tour Europe, I got the house to myself until then! \o/
Downside: I gotta study to recertify my CCNA which expires soon /o\
Hope everyone’s having an amazing morning.
All I read was party at Techie’s, everyone is invited 😀
That’s all that was in there.
I have a lot of single player games, a PS3 with one controller, one PC and one laptop… I’m not good at this “hosting a party” thing. 😛
I’ll bring boardgames.
Either that or techie’s plan is a party where we all study CCNA documentation
Bahahaha 🙂
Boardgames I can do, I got a larger living area
Dear TAY, as I write this, I am very sad. Our president has been overthrown and REPLACED BY THE BENEVOLENT GENERAL KRULL. ALL HAIL KRULL AND HIS GLORIOUS NEW REGIME. Sincerely, Little B-Funk.
The Australian Toy Associations Toy of the Year 2012.
:S
Really?
…
…:SI’ll take tenNow, this isn’t uncommon, seeing toys based around bodily functions.
But those shifty eyes. Goddamn, those shifty eyes.
The toy is much more poignant than it seems at first glance.
Whilst not particularly physically strenuous, the mental steps it encourages the children to take set them up for a life of doing things they don’t want to do, but are required to. All part of being an adult, making sacrifices and doing undesirable things (in this case, this will eventuate to the actions of picking up the fresh faeces of another living animal) for a trade-off they deem reasonable (the companionship of man’s best friend, because cats are the worst). In this age of babying our children and telling them they are the best at everything, which when brought to the reality of life will expose to them how much you lied to them for years and even decades, this simple toy teaches one critical life lesson: At some point in time, you will have to pick up someone else’s crap. Deal with it.
Youre like the Roger Ebert of toys
Except not dead.
Our text message conversations usually only last until you tell me what you had for dinner, yet you spill 200 words on dog poo toy?
The worst.
Hi @dc
Snake? SNAAAAAAAKE!
@jimu! Have you heard of this game called Ico! It’s good! 😛
Yes! I owned it on PS2, got stuck and never finished it! /o\
I liked it.
Morning all.
How is everyone?
I’ve pretty much given up on being outraged about America’s idiocy in regards to video games. We can’t really do anything, it’s the Americans who can change it, but the NRA won’t allow it. =/
“What are the positives of a bad talk show?” was what made me lol, such a burn
As Blood Dragon has taught me:
Anyone who thinks games make people aggressive is a fucking idiot. Fuck in this case meaning Failing to Understand our Capacity for Kindness.I love this game so much.
Yeah, I feel the same way. It use to outrage me but we can’t do anything about it so I’ve moved into the “meh” category.
That’s what I’m doing \o/
Morning All,
How is everyone?
How were your weekends?
We’ve had our car a scant 4 months and my wife is already agitating for us to get something else, something smaller, newer and sportier, since money grows on trees now. And of course the fact that I’m 6’3″ and won’t fit behind the wheel of anything too small hasn’t stopped her dreaming about the Toyota Yaris and the Hyundai Getz. Her solution? “We can just keep the Sonata so you have something to drive too!”
PAYING REGO AND INSURANCE ON TWO CARS? BRILLIANT! WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF THAT.
Pardon me. I needed to vent. I’m not actually mad.
I also woke up with a nasty cold. The kind where your nose just runs and runs but blowing it accomplishes nothing.
Has one of her friends just got one?
Not much you can do unless it becomes constant nagging. People can dream and as long as it isn’t putting pressure on you there isn’t too much harm in that.
You have a perfectly functional car that sounds like what you need. It’s not like you have a young family and went out and bought a ute. That would be the blurst.
Nah, none of her friends have cars. It seems like everyone around us (including her dad and aunt) are just learning to drive, but only her and her aunt have actually gotten to the stage where they’re on their Ps and own their own cars. Granted, her aunt bought a brand new Suzuki Alto (another car I can’t even fit in) but she earns twice what I do.
I will admit that the Sonata is a bit big and kind of hard to park, that doesn’t make money magically appear in the bank. /o\
Morining TAY.
I downloaded the Open Beta/Soft Launch for Neverwinter. Oh man, that’s some game. It has a lot of what I thought were the “best bits” of a lot of different MMO’s. Kinda glad that it is F2P, kinda disappointed that the $200 “Founder Pack” costs so much – I would like to play as a Menzoberranzen Renegade, but not going to pay for the privilege. I’ll probably play on and off for a bit, but the economy already feels skewed towards the $$ store.
If anyone else is playing, or is interested, I’m playing on the “Dragon” shard. You can friend alfie@mawticus, I’m a Half-Orc Rogue.
Well I finally made the choice to continue with my xcom game knowing that I was in a dire position and wouldn’t be able to win
Had one last roll of the dice to save humanity
It didn’t go quite as planned
Well have to start again now and see if the mistakes I made that time around can be avoided
Sitting by myself in a VMax cinema with about 4 other people in it to see Iron Man 3.
It’s a little strange and creepy feeling.
I did that, but two of them were friends. Also, in 3D.
Are you sitting directly behind somebody?
No you’re doing it wrong, you should be sitting directly IN FRONT of one of those 4 other people and chew your popcorn loudly 😛
Sounds almost perfect to me. I love it when nobody else is in the cinema.
I went to the cinema when everyone thought Brisbane was flooding again – http://instagram.com/p/VAl5mdxaJH/#
You’ll be fine as long as you don’t see anyone at the back in a long coat grunting
Radio Numbers Request Thread, GO!
Chainsaw Gutsfuck.
Or something by Bluejuice. Act Yr Age?
I can do that, Its got a cool sound to it.
Bluejuice is on the list.
Paul Simon: Under African Skies
I love that song!
Done!
I Want It All by Queen
Cool, on the list.
The sweet- Ballroom blitz
On the list.
Morning all!
Moved house on the weekend!
Got HeartGold for $20, found the old DS, it still had charge from when I last plugged it in around 2009. Pip is now discovering the wonderful world of Pokémon, which likely means we’ll be able to do a collaborative play through of X and Y later this year (if I get her a 3DS). I’m actually quite excited about that since I’ve generally done solo play throughs and just sighed wistfully at the gaps in the Pokédex.
Also started playing Fire Emblem, seems like it will be well suited to 40-50 minute bursts on the commute.
Hopefully should even have internet at home tonight!
Pokemans! \o/
Living the dream!
Do you know if you’ll get X or Y?
I want X but am thinking Y cos X seems thr popular choice.
At least I can trade online this time! \o/
Really? I thought everybody wanted Y 😛
I haven’t decided yet. I’ll wait to see if the regions/stories are any different. Not going to look at version-exclusive Pokemon though, I want most of the new Pokemon to be a surprise! (plus I can just trade with someone in TAY if I want something exclusive so it doesn’t matter)
I kept hearing X, did you hear Y, really?
I was just worried everyone I knew would get the same one and I’d be stuck.
What about you @greenius @mawt @bish
Y based on the cover legendary and I always seem to end up with the second one.
Really? How do you get the second? Just cave in and buy it later?
(but he still never played Platinum frickimfrackim)
No, I mean when I choose by legendaries I somehow always ended picking the second game in the title. So Silver, Sapphire, LG, Pearl, SS, White/2. Bit of a tradition 🙂
@greenius Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I see.
If you get Y, I can get X & we can trade \o/
I’ll be getting both straight away. I’ll base my decision of which one to “main” based off which non-legendary version exclusives I deem to be the “better” pick.
My choice has been based on the colour scheme and legendary so far, who knows how I’ll actually feel come October.
X for me, Y for her. I listed off both options for each Gen and got her to pick one.
$20? SO good!
Pity Silver is still 50.
Wait…there’s more $20 HGs?
I’m out in the sticks now so no-one buys the cheap games. There’s still 15+ HGs at my local target. And same for OoT, etc.
Woh! I want $20 HG, which sticks you at?
Northern fringe of Melbourne.
I attempt playing Fire Emberu in 40 min bursts. 40 minutes quickly becomes 5 hours though.
Also I know exactly what you mean about Pip and losing that solo drought. So good. My son got into pokemon in a big way, makes it so much more enjoyable for me to play along with him.
3 more years!
Ash was playing before he could read. Needless to say, these were the less enjoyable times of playing pokemon together.
Just not keen on handing my son a 3DS til he turns 6 so i can still sue Ninty when he goes blind.
He’s been playing Sonic 2 on PSP & Guacamelee on Vita, kid’s a natural 🙂
But… he doesnt have to have the 3d on jimjim
Like he won’t switch it on
Oh wait, There’s an option that switches it off forver yeah? Hmmmmmm
I believe it can be disabled with parental controls.
Kinda funny that I’ll break it at the point it would be getting advanced enough to break it online anyway. But yeah, definitely looking forward to it – I can pace my play through to about what time she has, no need to rush.
Sorry I’m forgetful, where are you staying now?
Ages away on the northern fringe. Decent train trip = games and was the reason for me to finally get a 3DS, so not all bad. Larger home, cheaper rent, reasonable prospects for buying in the area.
I swear I just found a booger on my desk.
God I hope that’s mine.
You should eat it to gain it’s healthy nutrients.
Lifehacker told me to!Mum always said to eat your greens!
@mrtaco
Aha! I knew I’d seen a taco somewhere. 😛
Oh man, I am soooo hungry….
D.C.esque confession:
I’ve never eaten a taco!
Time for a triple M
Melbourne Mexican MeatMeat made of melbournians??
Mmmm… tacos…
Get.
Out.
:-O
I had a double helping of my home-made spanish style baked beans with chorizo.
I am completely satisfied.
I’m not helping, am I?
I prefer the wraps, the solid tacos always cut my gums in some way 🙁
What kind of wussy robot are you?!!?
Your mechanical gums should be cutting the register clerk!
Ain’t nothing wrong with a soft taco.
The only wrong way to taco is to not taco at all.
I’m totally getting tacos for lunch.
TACO TACO TACO!
There is one wrong way to taco. That is the square taco abomination.
Urang?
…dammit!
Oh shhazbot! i just realised that you’re Mr. Taco.
You changed your name!??!
He was trying to avoid being bitten. 😛
Twice shy now.
You tried to keep your distance, but you still caught Strange’s eye.
Next time I’ll have to try be MORE uncoordinated.
I have some shocking news.
MRTACO WAS NEVER MY REAL NAME! 😮
my illusions – they are shattered!
I deceived you. I am sorry 🙁
Dat Drive OST.
Damn.
DAMN.
DAYUM!http://bit.ly/10hKWLT
Doodee doodoo dedoo (doo doo), repeat lots
Dowdowdowdowdowdowdow.
Reeeeeaaal huumaan being!
Cutting between the party and Gosling alone in his apartment as “you keep me under your spell” repeats is sheer genius
Totally watching Drive tonight.
OH GOD I just remembered something. A friend of mine on the weekend said a friend of hers won a competition for the actual jacket from the film. Fuck that guy man.
Fuck. that. guy.
And then my friend said she wore it so she could be a part of Ryan. I was even jealous of that.
I thought some game designer bought it? Kojima? His must be a replica.
But yeah, seriously, fuck that guy.
Just out of curiousity, where does this guy live?
Edit: Yeah, it was Kojima, and it’s a replica.
Oh relly? I dunno, you could very well be right, and this guy is trying to make it out like he has it. Yes, I will tell myself this, and then I will be able to sleep again.
Also if I knew, we wouldnt be having this conversation. We would have one that began with “Hey guess what I found…”
I just got a phone call, it beeped 7 times (3 then 1 then 3) and hung up.
Wut.
MORSE CODE!
THE NAZI’S ARE COMING!
If it was Morse, then is sounds like someone was calling Numbers their sister.
Edit: Or asking for the State Emergency Services.
Fax machine possibly. Mr Fax has a habit of doing that, but that’s because humans point him to the wrong numbers! (no pun intended… maybe)
Mr. Fax needs to learn to take responsibility for his own actions.
Fax is better than phone virus
Amorphis are coming to Australia!
Won’t be quite as awesome as when Marco from Nightwish joined them onstage at 70000 Tons of Metal but wow, has this year been great for bands touring here for the first time. 😀
ANIMORPHS?!?!? MAN THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN SO COOL IF I WASN’T SO BUSY READY GOOSEBUMPS!!!
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A short whinge about last week.
Last week I had to move. I spent basically all of last Friday-Sunday packing as I had so much stuff to pack. Monday I had to work, got home and then kept packing and cleaning. Tuesday morning the removalists came and spent 5 hours moving, I then spent the whole evening rebuilding my bed and some drawers etc., Wednesday back to work, but had to leave twice as I had to go back to my old place to let cleaners in and then come back when they finished. Thursday I was working but I had to go back to my old place to check the mailbox and then go to the old agents and hand in the keys. Friday I had to wake up at 5.30am so I could organise a couple things so a plumber could come in to fix some leaking taps and shower heads before I go to work. My weekend consisted of going to ikea to buy shelves and then unpacking about a million things, putting furniture together and also doing inspections for potential housemates (one of them is moving in today).
I have been tired and irritable for an entire week. Barely sleeping and barely having a chance to just sit down and not stress about something. I am actually happy to be at work today and not have to go running around during my lunch break. Last week I told off some old lady on the train for being a cow, when usually I would have just let it slide.
TGIM.
Moving sucks balls, it makes even the calmest of people annoyed. The act of moving is one of the most stressful things anyone can do. But you will be back to yourself in no time. Just got to weather the storm. Good luck frond.
Thank you, sir. My gf and I have vowed that this is the last time until we move to a house we have bought.
My wife’s aunt recently bought a two-storey house (it’s basically two houses in one – upstairs and downstairs each have kitchen, bathroom, living room, bedrooms, etc.) and she’s currently sharing it with her parents.
Basically when her parents pass away (not that we’re hoping for it to happen!), my wife and I will move into the downstairs so her aunt doesn’t have to get strangers to board there, which she is not comfortable with. Ultimately my wife stands to inherit the house since her aunt never had kids.
Anyway, now that I’ve shared my entire goddamn life story, we’re in the same position as you. We moved about 3 years ago and although we could be in our current place another 5-10 years we’re kind of treating it as an interim measure because we know we won’t be there “forever”, and while we could probably move somewhere slightly nicer, we just don’t feel like it’s worth it to go through the hassle of moving again when we know the next time we move it will be the last time for a long, long time.
That works out for you. I’m not sure what direction I will personally take.
My gf’s parents offered us $100K for a deposit as long as we get a house, so that will definitely help.
I have two uncles (technically they’re second cousins) that are both over 50 and have a house each and no wife/kids. They’re both approaching retirement and are both stressed about making sure they have enough super for their retirement. I’m thinking we could buy a large place together, this way it will likely free up some money for them, we get a decent home and I am happy to help them as they get older.
Just ‘moved’ on the weekend, I put it that way since we’re paying a shitload of overlap to get the place we wanted. Taking our time has reduced some of the stress, but there’s still so much to do. And we also want the next move to be into a place we buy, make this the last rental with all the crap you have to go through.
We were sort of lucky because the owner is moving back in and therefore had to give us 90 days notice and we didn’t have to give notice at all during this period.
If it makes you feel better, I am paying a fortune from my bond as I had two housemates that jumped out early and both caused wall damage and one left a giant stain on the carpet. I am NOT looking forward to the phone call from the old agent. This REALLY sucks because I was so careful with my room. -_-
This is my 4th move in 5 years, it doesn’t get easier each time though. I want the next to be a long time away, and to be the last for a very long time.
Haha, who sells their games in the garden? This guy I guess http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Fire-Emblem-Awakening-Nintendo-3DS-2013-NEU-OVP-Club-Nintendo-Code-/290911404676?pt=DE_PC_Videospiele&hash=item43bbabc284
Germans.
Speaking of Fire Emblem:
I class-changed one of my male units into a Dark Mage last night and cracked up laughing. Have you seen it? It’s basically Tharja’s see-through clothing on a male (not my screenshot :P).
HAHAH! Oh my :O
I did that to my avatar and :'(
Everyone should start listening to
The sweet- Ballroom blitz
Mostly because whenever i am going somewhere with anyone regardless of their name i always repeat.
“Are you ready Steve?”
also fox on the run is pretty great.
Andy?
MICK?
All right fellas, let’s GOOOOOOO!
I love that song so freaking much.That’s because 80’s music is utterly awesome and so are you.
Oh god, a compliment!
Flee!
I approve of this.
I endorse this comment.
Listening now.
My god i LOVE this song.
Also – Tia Carrere <3
So I planned to buy Blood Dragon for $19 last week, but I bought Star Command for iOS instead for $2.99. I’m definitely way cheaper than I thought I was.
I’m hoping bee with pick it up for me for my b’day 😀
How is it? It kind of seemed like if I already have FTL then Star Command is a bit meh.
I like it. Has an old school feel to it. Not easy either, I get about one or two battles in before bed and they can easily take up to an hour. Never played FTL.
Shiggyyyyy wants to know what you’re excited about for the rest of this year.
On Saturday I went over to Freyjr and Trjn’s after free comic book day to play a whole bunch of board games I’ve never played before. It took…some getting used to. My bad luck with board games utterly destroyed us in Pandemic, where I started an epidemic and two disease outbreaks on my first turn. And there were giant gaps in our games of Dominion where I was just staring at the cards in my hand with a blank expression. But it was a lot of fun, and yesterday I found myself looking up board games on the interwebs, so uh-oh.
THEY REPLACED ME WITH A MORE HANDSOME VERSION.
SAD PANDA
@trjn replaced all of Brisbane with Sydney
Isn’t that how moving works?
Its how being a dickman works
Nearly fell off my chair laughing at “dickman”
I cant take credit, its become a common tay terminology now
I’ve got a new @trjn lined up
Her name is based on another Python gag @Polly
:pI think @NorwegianBlue would be a better name.
Surely it would be @NrwgnBlu or something, right? (I’m not sure how to do the blue sound properly…)
This guy gets it
@trjn It’s @NRWGN and @strange & son call her Bluey
On second thoughts, @polly sounds too much like a Faulty Towers ref
Oh that reminds me. We are holding auditions in Brisbane for a new snarky member for the Brisbane TAY crew.
Don’t forget younger. I’m also younger.
Egads I’m younger than you. Sometimes I forget that.
BabbyPants.
Because i am so immature?
Real nice pants,
😛
I am bully.
Look up Relic – it’s AWESOME
Also… *puts on missionary badge*… I’d like a minute of your time so i can share my love of Warhammer 40,000 with you
Oh nonononono that’s alright really…
Someone. Help. I need an adult.
And your distaste for GW, amiright?
Did you hear they might be preparing to sell off GW?
No I didn’t hear that. Who would they sell it to?
All I heard was that they sent out new contracts to all distributors forbidding them from selling anything internationally and also somehow managed to kill the “bitz” business.
Everything this company has done over the last 5 years seems completely counter intuitive. It’s like trying to do damage control with a wrecking ball.
@shiggyninty Likes Nintendo games!
I call bias!
:pBest Dominion strategy – be the drunkest person there & don’t stop playing markets.
That has proven to be a consistent strategy.
It was so much fun! I was worried though that you’d be all weirded out by the hanging out with us thing.
Also you should buy board games. And then we can have board game meats. And drink! Because drinking is clearly the way to win.
I regret skipping breakfast.
I got Maccas to solve that problem.
I had a fast food moment on the weekend. I was severely hungover waiting for my bus at queen st station, and was waiting in line for kfc, and my eyes kind of glazed over everything on the menu. And then the people lining up. And then I thought about my life at that point in time. I was like no, no I cant do this, and meekly walked away.
Really? I always consider the oilest crap to be the best hangover cure
As the old fella in Ninja Scroll says: Poison beats poison
Yeah usually. I just couldnt do it. I just couldnt.
Also, I have no problem digesting a bacon &egg Muffin.
Lunch menu is a different story
that involves pooIt’s not too late for brunch and that can make up for it.
Today (Sunday) I have had:
– Lunch for Brunch
– Breakfast for Lunch
– Dinner for Afternoon tea
– And orange for dinner
– Far too many cupcakes
This helps you in no way at all, but at least food.
Did you wrong / anger someone in Canada?
This whole country makes me angry!
I did a D.C. and ate some chocolates but got hungry and ate some chips as well :P. So while I regret not having a proper breakfast I’m going to regret the KFC lunch more D:
Not KFC! /o\
Don’t do it! You have so much to live for!
But I have couponssssss!
Oh well, @greenius had a good run.
KFC!
DOIT DOIT DOIT!!!
best takeaway!!!Oh my god. This is AMAZING
http://gawker.com/guys-wife-gets-drunk-tells-him-a-joke-he-animates-th-488907526
Welcome to last week, dickman.
Seriously though, I got a good laugh when I saw that. Last week.
THANKS FOR SHARING VAGIMITE
Oi. Next you’ll post about how good brie is with turkey and cranberry.
Spoilers:
Very.I DON’T KNOW WHAT BRIE IS
Except for Alison Brie 😛I feel like even that brie would be good with turkey and cranberry.
It’s VAGINAmite
& the opposite would be PENISpaste, so I don’t know what you’re on about
:pDoesnt penis butter make more sense
I’m a fan of alliteration but both are fine
Hahaha! Oh man… amazing
I welcome you to last week 😀
Mandrill sounds dirty.
Kumquat
I imagine Mandrill is like a Beedrill, but with willies instead of spikes.
Like the Penis Pig @harli has on her avatar?
penicl pig!
Hi!
Only if you’re the one doing the drilling
Sounds like something those naughty colobus monkeys would get up to
I see that everyone else is taking Monday morning the same way as I am.
Complete and utter lunacy and brain damage.
I so don’t want to be here today (or any other day for that matter).
So how is everyone anyway?
I spent the entire weekend working on assignments.
Reason for brain damage – confirmed
Oh @chuloopa
I’m currently modelling an Inquisitorial Rosette in solidworks to 3D print it.
I’m going to try Shapeways and get it done in metal or ceramic.
As a side note, skulls are stupidly complex to model and have way too many surfaces for my crappy work computer to handle.
My god – this makes me so man-happy.
I’ll be expecting a giant Dark Angels insignia of some variety on my desk by Monday?
What? It is Monday?
Better get to work then.
PS. That’s soooo awesome! 😀
Link me an image and I’ll see what I can do. I’ll have to do complex stuff at home though because my work computer can’t handle anything more than 2 cubes.
Work in progress
http://i.imgur.com/64aee2Z.jpg
That is sooooooo awesome.
And don’t worry – i won’t actually get you to do a DA logo… i’d hate to think of how long that would take.
Now you can make a LIFE SIZE 40k army! 😀
Yes this little 3D printed object will automatically give me the power to exterminate entire planets!!
I think I’m pretty much finished except for the colors and the skull in the centre… that’s going to suck to model.
I got ZombiU on the weekend after trying out the demo (which isn’t a good demo. 1.6 gig in size and then it only gives about 15 minuts of gameplay). It’s got some flaws, but I’m really enjoying it. It’s intense and makes zombies scary again. It’s sort of like The Walking Dead in that regard, except not an adventure game or as story intensive. It was only when I was up to my fourth survivor that I thought I should start keeping a record of all the people I’ve played as and how they died. So far, a lot of my deaths have been because I’ve been reloading my gun and backed into a corner, or because I hit the wrong button. I would keep hitting R to attack, but it would just spin me around. I’m up to my eighth survivor and I think I’m doing better now that I’ve got a hang of the controls and how things work in the game. Course I thought I was doing better several survivors ago only to keep getting eaten.
Now for something stupid:
ZombiU from the Nintendo eshop: $89.99
ZombiU from EB: $88.00
ZombiU from ozgameshop: $54.99
ZombiU from JB: $49.00
I don’t know how Nintendo expects any Australian to use their eshop at those prices.
Apparently they’re copying the Xbox Live Marketplace model, where 3 year old games still cost $99.99.
Don’t original Xbox games still go for $50? Or did they finally stop that?
I haven’t ever looked at original xbox titles ion the marketplace.
Back when I got my Xbox I was looking for KoTOR1&2 & Jade Empire.
Jade is on the marketplace but it was something like $50 or $15 from EB.
I rememebr looking through a year later and seeing the same shitty price.
I guess now though, those older games are hard to get?
Still.
I think there’s a thing in the in-game journal that lists all your previous survivors and where they died.
I’ve really got to finish that game. I was really enjoying it but stopped two or three missions before the end 😛
It’d be cool if there is. I was looking for a way to see what characters I’d played as but couldn’t find anything, but maybe I just missed it.
ZombiU was just on sale for the last month on the Nintendo eShop for 50% off. By the power vested in me by Maths! I calculate that to be $44.99. I guess that sale is over now.
Plus one for ZombiU love!
I need to get back to that game. But now I’ll probably be too cooled down to not suck at it any more and I’ll die a billion times trying to get to the end.
Previously on AMC’s Mad Men…
is what I will hear later today.
Previously on X-Men: Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeean!
I’m the best there is at what I do…
Oh my stars and garters
Sugah
I would upvote it, but I dont know what youre talking about and I feel like a liar
You didn’t watch the 90s Animated X-Men?
for shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame
I did, but I was a kid mang. I dont remember these details.
I saw it again about 7 years ago.
Piss-funny.
All of the stories ripped straight from the comic and dumbed down.
Some (unintentionaly) hilarious one-liners
I just always remember EVERY episode after the Pheonix Saga starting with a recap of Cyclops yealling “JEEEEEEEEEEEAN”
Previously on Game of Thrones…
Is what I’m waiting to hear today!
Do they say that? I dont think they say that…
Maybe its written. I dont know these things. But I will see that too 🙂
As well as Previously on the Amazing Race…
Actually you might be right… it’s definitely written on screen, maybe I’m the one saying it!
Previously on Dragon Ball Z
HHHHNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
OVER 9000 D:
Previously on Two and a Half Men…
You mooch get out of my house.
Seems like ages since the last ep!
I knew you would save my from my lack of upvotes deecee!
I’ll help you out too, because Mad Men is all right! \o/
And nothing wrong at all.
@inquisitorsz and all those who may be interested –
http://blog.spikeybits.com/2013/05/drop-it-like-its-hot-gw-killing-special.html
So rumors are starting to spread more and more, and it looks like GW may be trimming everything back in order to sell the company off – which would pretty much explain all the BS they have been doing lately while completely ignoring counterfeiters.
Definately one of those ‘watch this space’ kind of things.
To be honest things like BFG, Epic, Necromunda etc could be costly to maintain give the small market. I highly doubt anyone would still play or buy BFG.
It’s more the dicking over customers and suppliers that’s annoying.
There is nothing wrong with phasing out old games, they’ve done it before. Forgeworld seems to still be going strong with all the Horus stuff.
that being said, GW stock is like 700 pounds per share. That’s more than Google stock is worth. Seem incredibly overpriced to me.
Traditionally when a company is getting ready to sell, they will run the share price into the ground to make it more attractive. That way the directors and board still get their shares (and usually options) paid out, while the company is relatively cheap for someone to want to buy it.
Of course if they already have a buyer then you don’t need to drop the price.
I wonder who it could be. It would have to be someone huge like disney or hasbro.
Which of course would suck balls.
As i said – it could be a very interesting development.
Also there is plenty sense in them phasing out old brands, but there are quite a few there that people still play. Especially games like bloodbowl and necromunda.
I’d say they’d be more in the stage of saying “look how strong we are as a business – you should totally become a part of this non stop money ride!”
I’m actually interested in the prospect of someone taking GW over, since all GW have done is spend the last couple of years convincing the world they’re assholes. New owners would be hard pressed to do a worse job than GW. The only concern I’d have is if the brands took a change in direction – Warhammer, 40K, etc. As long as their products remain the same, but get better management, I’ll be happy.
NEEDS MOAR GRIMDARK!!!
Yeah, i find it hard to imagine anyone could manage such a successful IP any worse.. lol
Huh. So Iron Man 3 is pretty awesome.
It’s a good thing the theatre was fairly empty, because I burst out laughing at their explanation of how “OUR DNA SHOWS OUR POTENTIAL TO GROW!” I just… what. Also, the twist with The Mandarin was fantastic.Ico! Believe the hype!
I know that guy got in trouble for saying you protect Lara in the new Tomb Raider, but I totally am protecting this girl in Ico like crazy. My heart starts pounding when things try to take her.Such a good game. Makes Sands of Time from the same era look insanely dated.
Was going to take the day off TAY because I was feeling down. Maybe sit in front of the TV and watch Tree of Life, then it arrived. Mood improved instantly.
I’m glad you’re enjoying it. I should get Rocketman and JM2 to get in here, to describe our adventures of playing Ico (they end poorly).
Must hold hand at all times, otherwise something bad might happen.WE ARE MERELY EXCHANGING LONG PROTEIN STRINGS, IF YOU CAN THINK OF A SIMPLER WAY, I’D LIKE TO HEAR IT.Yeah I’m glad youre enjoying it too mang! You never really now if it will or wont click with people, especially since so much time has passed. Good to see you still get it!
edit: also I was laying in bed last night thinking no, I wont go on tay tomorrow and I”l get so much work done. Then I woke up and was like lol TAY!
Great sense of exploration and visual story telling. Plenty of atmosphere too! So good! Hope it’s not a short game, though. :'(
Edit: Haha! You so crazy, at least you’ve got photoshop opened, right? RIGHT?
I even drew a table!
When @dc’s not on screen, all the other characters should stand around asking “Where’s @dc?”
Well. That’ll teach me to not refresh TAY properly
Spec Ops! 😀
I am really legitimately bad at Spec Ops. Really, really, really bad at it 😛
I hate when I have to take point. I just want to send my squadmates ahead without me 😛Haha! Do you like the story/setting though? Turn it down to easy, play for the experience! 😀
Not yet. It’s all right, I suppose, but it seems pretty generic at this stage.
There’s the underlying sense of mystery which is kind of interesting, but beyond that… it seems really standard shooter fare. From what I’ve heard around the traps, the second half of the game is where the story and atmosphere kick off. Just gotta get there. Is that right?I liked it from start to finish, but yeah, that’s probably true! The setting was incredible to explore too, no setting like it in a game. Make sure to take in the surrounds from time-to-time too.This!
It’s a really gorgeous game. The city is an amazing place to explore, for sure.
Stick with it, please.
It’s my GOTY for 2012 by far.
Yeah, same here. That or Mass Effect 3.
I’ll stick with it. I paid money for the durned thing 😛
I think I am about to go out and buy the parts to build a new computer.
I’ve never had a new computer before. I’ve been using what was once the family computer for the past ten years. The closest I’ve come to ever building a computer is replacing the old graphics card when the last one burnt out (mmm, sweet sweet AGP port).
I am too terrified of the whole thing to even leave the house.
Hah, it can seems a little intimidating at first. These days things are pretty simple when it comes to the physical “building” of a PC. Just plug things into the socket it fits into. =P
Also give the motherboard manual a quick skim over if you need help, it’s usually helpful. (or ask here)
Yeah, I think I have a fairly reasonable idea of what to do. Watched a few videos, and been agonising over the different parts for the last few weeks, reading specifications and a few manual pdfs. It doesn’t seem like it should be all that bad.
But I still want to just run away and curl up next to a nice friendly console.
It really depends on where you are getting it from
I’ve built a few PC in my tiem but these days I just get the store to put it together from the parts I select. Cost around $100 at the place I go to.
And they do all the stuff I can’t be bothered doing. So sexy without cables hanging out everywhere
It was tempting to go that route. But with how badly my wallet is bleeding lately, I’ve been trying to scrape off every extra dollar I can 😛 Also figured I might even learn something this way, who knows.
@greenius
KFC, I did it 😀
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
YOUR INSIDES!!!
*cries*
Poor @jimu, we hardly knew him. ='(
So The Last Guardian is coming out soon, right?
…
RIGHT?
I’m actually at the point now I’m praying Last Guardian and HL3 never arrive. These two games will be the definition of hype if they ever arrive. I’m not sure anything in this realm of existence could live up to the hype levels those two games have produced without even being confirmed.
Wait til you get the sense of scale in SotC. Then you’ll be even more sad about TLG not having a release date.
BRISBANE:
@batguy lunch:
Wednesday May 8th in the CBD around lunch time!
Star Trek Into Darkness Meat
Saturday May 11th
OTHER STATES:
I don’t care. 😛
Star Trek on Saturday, because you hat me :'(
Aw man, you said you were able to at first and I was psyched. Psyched I tells ya, then you changed plans. :'(
D:
I love Star Trek and will probably be keen to see it twice, maybe. (Though you might want to drive-in it with your other pals if you can’t make Saturday!)
Edit: Actually I’m pretty poor, so rewatching movies might not be a good idea. We’ll see another movie some other time though! 😀
I promise to leave all my hats at home when I come to Brisbane.
Sydney Meats (now with added @blaghman)!
Drinks!
Friday Evening – May 10th
Star Trek Into Darkness IMAX Meat
Saturday – May 11th
Evil Dead Meat
Saturday Evening – May 11th
Your move Brisbane.
But I care about you guys states… 🙁
Economist parties can get pretty crazy. Just the other day I went to one and it got so out of hand they started Raising the Floor.
#Commercejokes
#notfunny
#waitthisisnttwitter
Oh Chuloopa… why are your page gets always the blurst…
You mean that page get was an accident? Sorry, I’m not buying it.
You can always count on the terrible jokes around here?
Yup, dad jokes get passed around here like currency.
I have great interest in them.
And my rate of interest just keeps on increasing.
Good to see you put your money where your mouth is!
Good thing DC posted something different below. Somebody needed to balance this sheet
Crown of Love – Arcade Fire, sung incredibly loudly possibly while the courier guy was standing outside.
Helicopter – Bloc Party
Eyyyy! Love that song.
You pray for rain, I pray for blindness!
Funerals the best album I’ve ever heard.
Moo Moo Farm/ Yoshi Valley – Kenta Nagata – Mario Kart 64 OST
Sleazy Bed Track – The Bluetones
Fuck yeah!
@spaghett & @redartifice, if you come back as zombies, don’t eat my face. Everything else is cool, just not the money maker.
A Real Hero – College & Electric Youth
Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence (Office noise remix)
You’re the best!
One of these days youre going to ask, and I’m going to be like nooooo they will know I listen to Bieber, I have to lie
Is that why you haven’t posted your answer this time
>_>
<_
wheres my eye gone
There is a price to pay for listening to Bieber
Trenches – The Haunted
Jambi – Tool
In preperation for their concert tonight
DARK SOULS /o\
So, I’ve had a tough couple of days in Dark Souls. I’ve been mucking around Anor Londo, co-oping bosses as much as I could while I still have Gold. Earned enough souls to level myself up quite a few times, and then found I’d levelled myself right into some NG+ summons. Lag and NG+ conspire to slaughter my SunbroPhantom in a number of truly embarrassing ways. Made it to the end of one Gwyndolin battle, but haven’t yet survived to the end of a NG+ O&S battle yet. Still earning a buttload of souls though. Because I have all the weapon upgrades I could possibly need and all the purchaseable spells, I have nothing to spend souls on but levels. Went from level 80 to 95 in the space of four sessions of about two hours each, with the Silver Covetous Ring. Then I decided to tackle the Duke’s Archives. Got all the prison bit done, but got killed in the library afterwards, dropping 50,000 souls and 15 soft humanity. They’re there waiting for me now, a long and dangerous distance from the bonfire, and I psyched myself out of playing. Picked up Spec Ops: The Line instead.Got lost on the previous page, but upcoming meats in Brisbane.
— Batguy Meat, May 8th in the CBD around lunch time!
— Star Trek Into Darkness Meat, May 11th
@jimu, @sughly, @freezespreston, @strange, @welbot, @lambomann007, @virus__, @sernobulus, @beardymcmuttonchops, @dkzeitgeist, @gutsoup
Is there any more info on both these events? Or are we just gonna do what we always do?
Let @freezespreston plan everything.Its funny caus its true
Jell-O shots and titty bars.
I’m completely at the mercy of your organisation. If that’s where we end up, I am completely absolved of any responsibility.
There’s actually an all you can eat lunch titty bar diagonally across from that EB we often met at
I miss Trjn, he totally was responsible for the ParaNommin’ meat actually happening. 😛
Well, it was @Batguy that responsible for the sportsball mini-meat on last weekend, so having him involved makes for a good sign.
That super meat where two of us turned up? I’m some kind of organising-savant, it would seem 🙂
Though I did get us there and back successfully. So that must count for something.
Any cinema/food preferences for Star Trek Into Darkness? We’ll probably need numbers by Thursday or something so we can book tickets. I suspect it’ll be popular. Lunch time meats are always pretty informal, we could go to MOS Burger or that place from when Tigs was in town? What time’s good for you and @jimu?
Anytime (within reason) for me really.
Iced tea and Skittles is the best cinema food.
IMAX
IJIMU
:'(
Mos Burger.
YES.
They only seem to exist in Japan an Queensland. I went to one when I was in the Gold Coast a couple of years ago and it was like being back in Akihabara. But with beaches and bikins instead of Games stores and hostess outfits.
Surprise, wasabi!
It was not a nice surprise.What about 11:30ish to 12ish, meet at the EB Games next to Rocking Horse. (That happens to be opposite of MOS Burger?)
I tried Mos Burger in Japan recently, at the strong recommendation of one of the other guys on the trip (his friend telling him that he HAD to try one).
I didn’t see what the big deal was.
A lot of the appeal was the unique burgers they had on offer, and the way their level of presentation was more upmarket than the McDonalds and so on (at least, to my memory).
That said, you are now dead to me.
It’ll make it easier to slink back into the shadows.
we can go to MOS burger at sunnybank while you’re here if you want!
I can head out to lunch whenever
Sweet! I don’t know if I can do Wednesday lunch time. I’ve got a job interview and have to be back at work around midday. Sorry @batguy – I don’t think I’ll be able to make it 🙁
But Star Trek Meat, Ber and I will definitely be there. Just let us know what to go is for tickets etc and we’ll give you sum dolla dolla bills y’all.
It’s cool, I don’t really expect everybody to go out of their way for me in the middle of a weekday. To be honest I’m surprised that it looks like this many people actually will turn up!
Repost from twitter :
…or saturday. whichever.
Or Monday or Tuesday?
Did I mention I’m in Sydney Monday and Tuesday night and have nothing to do?
Did we want to organise something for Monday or Tuesday?
There you go Freeze old boy.
I’m wanted 😀
Lets not get ahead of ourselves now
So you’re just like every one else and just want my body.
I thought we had something but you’re just like @jimu. :'(
Hobbit-like?
Yo 35! See below!
I’ll try to make it to this one.
@sughly
Is Kavinsky’s album any good? I kind of want to buy it, but I’m pretty sure it’s not going to be a full album of Nightcall.
Yeah kinda this. He’s got a couple of things he’s done, his latest being Outrun, which is kinda cool. Ive only given it a few listens, wasnt enough to warrant more at the moment. I quite like this other thing he did, trying to remember… ehhh itll come to me later, maybe XD His 1986 ep is quite good, he does a lot of tracks that are for fake films, with voice overs and stuff, theyre cool.
You should just do like someone who definitely isnt me and seven seas them to try them out, then buy if you like. Its
mysomeone else’s motto!edit: oh wait yeah some of those fake film things I was saying are on his Teddy Boy ep too actually.
edit2: actually you should check out Chromatics, if you havent before. They did that Tick of the clock song on Drive. I really like their album Night Call, and they have another more recent one Kill For Love which is quite good too.
Huuuhhh.. Pass.
:'(
Haha, that was before edit2! I’m listening to Chromatics now!
Edit: Interesting! I really want more Nightcall, though 🙁
Yeah, its true, that is a one of a kind song.
Judging by Protovision, OutRun isn’t what I wanted 🙁
I’ll have to get myself a synth and make myself some more Nightcall 😛
And distort your voice until you sound like a sexy, sexy robot
@sughly
I’ll get right on it as soon as you get back to working on Anna’s Quest 😛
http://www.exotica.org.uk/mediawiki/files/a/a7/Out_Run_title_(arcade).png
Because @dc is a jerk and only cares about himself:
Sydney Meats (now with added @blaghman*)!
Drinks!
Friday Evening – May 10th
Star Trek Into Darkness IMAX Meat
Saturday – May 11th [I’m going to book tickets for this tonight so if you want to come let me know.]
3pm Sydney IMAX
Evil Dead Meat
Saturday Evening – May 11th
7:15 Newtown Dendy
Uncle Freeze Touched Me
with his kindnessMeatMonday or Tuesday Evening – May 13th of 14th
Dinner?
Your move Brisbane.
I can’t be bothered tagging everyone*Use caution when inhaling Blaghman. Some side effects may occur.
Two things:
1) Holy shit, you’re not dead! thats cool.
2) friday drinks. See above
Wait, I’m not?
Shit.
apparently not.
dont complain though. its a good thing.
Are you joining any of the movie meats?
I’m trying to be all grown-up & financially responsible at the moment, so I’ll have to wait & see what my wallet says closer to the date. But hopefully, I’ll be able to make it to at least one of them.
Should come to Evil Dead at least man.
I will buy your ticket if needed.
thanks for the super kind offer man, but I’m sure that wont be necessary.
pretty sure I can make the Evil Dead.
(though if what i’ve read in previews, being able to stomach it might be something else entirely…)
@35 isn’t that half the appeal?
@cakesmith I dunno man. I’m not very good with gore in movies. But I’m sure I can tough it out.
@35 There’s always
Top Gun In Space 2Star Trek. Wee bit more expensive but IMAX!Don’t worry, Cakesmith. I hate D.C. too.
Too bad Brisbane doesn’t have a (proper) IMAX. :'(
What’s wrong with our Imax?
Doesn’t actually use IMAX projector any more, I don’t think. 🙁 They just stretch the print size to fit the screen.
Hahaha, really? Wow 😛
Brisbane! Come for the JB Hifi on Adelaide St, stay for the JB Hifi on Albert St!
Sold! I’ll take ten.
Back to ICO! Catch you on the flipside, home slices!
Where’s @dc?
He had to go to his home planet
he died on the way to his home planetAre you saying that D.C. is a cartoon dog voiced by Homer Simpson?You mean he’s not?
Foundations of reality begin to crumble…
Enjoy!
No! Youre not my real dad!
Dane, I am your father!
The Place Beyond the Pines was awesome! 😀
Empire Strikes Back actually.
That’s not true! THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE!
Was referenced Jimu. Youd know this if you were cool.
Why would I be cool? I’m a dad. I know there’s dads out there that think they’re still cool.
They are delusional.
OoooOOOoo!! Inspired by @bdkiaf’s Drive music query, I got stuck on the wiki page and saw this… (spoilers for the film in here)
James Sallis, author of the original Drive novel, wrote a sequel titled Driven, which was published in April 2012.[129] Director Nicolas Winding Refn has expressed interest in filming a sequel, saying: “The character is born, he’s out there, he transforms himself completely into what he’s meant to be, he was always meant to be this… He goes on to more and new adventure[s].”[130] Refn further says that he intends the sequel to feature two drivers, one of them a villain counterpart to Ryan Gosling’s character, comparing the new driver to Lex Luthor and Professor Moriarty.[130] Gosling also expressed interest in starring in a sequel, saying that he would “love to make a Drive 2” but that he “[doesn’t] want to make the same movie” again.Zooooooomg. Zomg. I hope this happens. I hope so badly. Zomg.
WHAT?! WHAAAAAAT?! OHMANOHMANOHMANOHMAN!
Ohhhhh lordy… I just read the setup of the story. OHHHHHHH MY GAWD hahaha why the fuck am I doing this to myself XD
I suppose I should watch Drive one of these days, huh?
#baiting
Even @dc has seen Drive!
Shane hasn’t seen any thing, yet no one harasses him. What gives? 😛
(Granted he didn’t go to film school. :P)
Because I’m no fun to tease.
Yeah, y… you… jerk !
Yep, you’re right. Not as fun.
There’s violence and a jacket.That pretty much sums it up.
AND SYYYYYYYYYYNTH!
And Gosling.
And Walter White.
And Carey Mulligan.
ಠ_ಠ
I haven’t seen it too. Let’s watch it…
oh… that’s right
No. Meating. Shane. >:|
Today’s song from Sughly that he likes and wants to share for no reason other than yay music: The Fox – Niki & the Dove
Ooooo. That’s cool!
Edit: I think this initiative needs a snappier name though.
Sughly’s Hipster Indie Tendencies Shine Through Over Ridiculous Mainstream?
I knew you’d have something. You should be a writer.
Shane now has a nude erection in life.
Well, might as well be a writer then, since I assume you’ve just been fired/arrested.
I know this! I’ve heard this before! Possibly in your car on one of our adventures!
Do a barrel roll, Sughly
Was getting a very strong star fox vibe from that clip. The clip was very cool but the actual song didn’t do much for me. Just not my style, whatever that style is. I don’t really like synth so the doesn’t help.
That said the part where they hit the ground and break through is a wonderful visual
Yeah I liek dem visuals an stuff. But yes, if you dont like synths you probably wont like this. Maybe I need to put synth disclaimers on for you weird people.
So @shane, Twitter TAYbies mentioned you were offloading copies of Ico and/or Okami? If so, you have a buyer right here.
I used to have a spare PS2 copy of Okami (I say spare, but I never actually owned a PS2, so I don’t know why I had it), but I can’t seem to find it, which is annoying.
This story doesn’t help you in the slightest, but I wanted to tell someone.
But you gave it thought, and that’s cool with me.
Hahaha, oh man, I am so bad at refreshing TAY today. See below 😛
@jamiedeecee, I have a PAL copy of ICO and a NTSC Shadow of the Colossus. (Edit: not Okami, though. Whoever said I owned that game is a filthy liar. Looking at you @greenius *shakes fist @dc -style*) The PAL ICO doesn’t have a case or manual. Let me know if you’re interested. You’ll also need to email me: shane at shanewsmith dot com
and make sure you’ve bought and enjoyed my books (http://shanewsmith.com/) 😛Edit: Just to be clear, because I don’t think my sense of humour really comes across unless you know me: I don’t expect you to have done the last bit., You can still have the game.Will email you shortly, thanks a bunch, I’ll keep an eye out for Okami, maybe @blaghman can come up with the goods!
Or maybe not!BUY ALL THE BOOKS! But seriously, would get one to pay for the game.I shall await your communique.
Older brother, the spoiler tags aren’t toys… 😛
Alexander, our older brother. Set out for a great adventure.
*All Arcade Fire, all the time*
:D!
They totally are.
You just don’t get human humour.Because you’re a ….…robot.Or something.Of course they are! But I guess I did get carried away. Accept my apologies below.
Haha nope.Actually, I have a PAL copy of Okami that you can have, because I bought it second hand (in fantastic condition), barely played it, and then bought the HD version on the PS3.
So Twitter DM your details, and this time I will actually send you something – and you can keep it!
\o/ Thanks Mr Guy! Will DM shortly
Hey, I said you had copies of Ico and SotC!
Currently looking for broadband recommendations! TPG has just informed me they can’t set up at my place due to Telstra blahblahblah.
I was looking at deals on iPrimus and their deal on a site comparing deals looked good. But then I went to the website and their “deal” was a rotten lie.
I hate that. I swear I get that from ISP’s erywhere I go :'(
p.s. if TPG say they cant, wont other isp’s be the same? I went cable when that happened to me…
p.p.s I dont really know what I’m talking about. I can recommend music or films if you like? No?
Telstra said that they couldn’t give us broadband because Telstra… but TPG could connect me. Hahaha?
Ergh, what is with these guys. It took them 2 months between them to tell me to get cable last place I lived in, and that was after digging a trench for them. I hat them. I hat them all.
This country desperately needs the NBN. Desperately.
I’ve used iiNet for around 5 years and can’t recommend them highly enough. Decent plans, great speed and when you have troubles you can ring up and speak to someone that you can not only understand, but they actually know what they’re talking about. A lot of the outsourced call center support staff actually have next to no knowledge of tech support. They just go off a script, and anything that deviates from said script does not compute.
Pretty much every ISP I hear about has either outsourced or just plain worthless support.
SOLD
I was with iiNet for 4 years but had trouble when I moved to a Telstra hardware only area – they could only get me ADSL 1, and it was more expensive. Ended up signing up with Telstra – $80, 200GB.
I think we need to do this, TPG sucks out inna sticks :-/
TAYlist for the 6th of May 2013
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by oily bubbles in my tea, it was grossQueen – I Want It All (Requested by @ontargett)
Phil Collins – I Wish It Would All Rain Down
Garbage – Androgyny (Got a pretty good sound, IMO)
Hoodoo Gurus – 1000 Miles Away
Bluejuice – Act Yr Age (For @BDKIAF, Aussie requests are the bomb)
Sherbert – Howzat
Mental As Anything – Live It Up
Plastic Bertrand – Ca Plane Pour Moi (And now I know the artist and name of this song)
Cat Stevens – Wild World
Paul Simon – Under African Skies (Requested by @strange, Paul is one of my all time favourite artists, how could I not play this song?)
INXS & Jimmy Barnes – Good Times (“We’re gonna have a good time tonight”)
The Sweet – Ballroom Blitz (@rocketman, you and your gay 80s music :P)
Blink 182 – What’s My Age Again? (“What the hell is Call ID?”)
Wild Cherry – Play That Funky Music
*Gasp* Ballroom Blitz is an awesome song!
Oohhhh Androgyny that’s one I haven’t heard for a while. Good choice
I think I know what I’m listening to this afternoon
Heh, I just managed to accidentally work the name Tay for a character into the story I’m writing.
Oh man, now I wish I’d done that.
@dc is enjoying another Japanese game! 😀
Possibly more than Ni No Kuni, gameplay wise.
Though I can see what Strange means about the fighting in Ico:
The encounters are an adrenaline rush and awesome, but there were way too many enemies in that last battle I did. Still great though.Urgh! Shouldn’t be hard, I’m so over that combat system :-/
Sooo..
Justin Timberlake’s new album is surprisingly enjoyable.I don’t even know who I am anymore!
I’m bringing Sexy Back. (YEAH!)
I remember drunkenly singing that at a party in 2006. XD
And sexy hasn’t left you since.
I would pay real money to see this
D.C. stopped drinking and weirdly the instances of singing in public have decreased. Coincidence? 😛
A sad, sad coincidence
I didn’t mind the one that Skateboard P wrote for MJ.
Yeah him, I havent listend, but I’m not a fan of his stuff anyhoo. But I get why people like him.
I’m not sure you’d like it too much. Very R&B/Soul feel, rather than generic pop crap. Horns for days. I saw a review on Pitchfork for it and they were pretty keen on it, so I thought I’d check it out.
Edit: This reads like I’m saying you enjoy generic pop crap, which is obviously not a true fact.
Haha! No I getchu. And I sounded dismissive actually, which I didnt mean either, was meaning to stress the point that I totally get why people like him.
I’m installing Ragnarok Online 2. This will not end well. Who wants to join me in my misadventures?
Zenny plz!
Healz plz!
Revive plz!
I’ll download it tonight.
/sit
I do but alas I cannot.
I also want to play Phantasy Star Online 2 and Final Fantasy online 2 (AKA 14)
I like how Redartifice is out of the country and this is the second article I’ve had to put up by him in that time. Duel Shock! Sure he worked on them before leaving but still, he’s a champ.
And now for Game of Thrones! I’ve mostly been more and more impressed with every episode that’s gone by this season, so I’m hoping that’ll keep going. In pretty much every respect this season has been a lot better than the last.
Although Foxtel just played a ‘Game of Thrones Season 2 continues next’ promo. So that’s something.
I just sent you an article! Does that mean I can go overseas now?
Yes.
Wait. No.
Hey I was doing one of those things.
Pretty sure I’m waiting on Mr Artifice for a reply. Maybe I’ll just check
Whew, I’m glad it’s a slow week for games this week, been spoiled for choice lately, gotta get through Fire Emblem, Dead Island Riptide, Blood Dragon (which is amazeballs, even the descriptions of items are hilarious), then ps+ throws Catherine and Thomas was alone at me, plus i have a billion games from ps+ i haven’t touched. Tis a fine time to be one who enjoys the digital arts, for once I’m game rich and time poor. Just thought I’d share 😛
Catherine! Game o tha Yeer 2012!!!
Trying to think… probably missing something, but yeah youre probably right
It’s a block puzzle game with social game bits made by Atlus.
It’s so hard but so good.
Or do you mean you’re trying to think of something better?
It is with the deepest and most sincere regret that I inform you all that I have just renewed the http://shanewsmith.com domain and hosting for another twelve months.
You thought you were nearly free. That reprieve was within reach. That there was light at the end of the tunnel.
You were wrong.
What does that cost?
Or is that a trade secret 😉$95 a year for hosting. $35 for domain name registration.
I know I did it all wrong (especially should have registered the domain myself), and there are better deals out there, but these guys are decent hosts and the service is reliable, the support is excellent, and I’m overall happy with the product.
(jumpline.com)
imagine you let it lapse one year and a TAYbie scooped it up.
the lulz that would be had.
One day you’ll be the real Shane Smith and not W.
That W stands for Wannabee after all.
Here you go.
I hate Adobe products :l With the exception of a few of them (Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects) they all suck. They’re the most bloated pieces of software ever made. The fact that they can’t even manage to make a text editor (flash builder for those playing along at home) without it lagging between every new line, having popups cover the entire program, and the god damn fucking spell check popping up with errors before you’ve ever gotten half way through writing a word, and then taking a good 5 seconds to go away.
I’ll be here all day if I get started on Fireworks, or how counter-intuitive Illustrator is, or how just plain hard to use InDesign is (it’s not as bad as the others, but everything is so terribly counter-intuitive), or Adobe’s insistence on using proprietary file formats and doing away with most vector file types. Even Dreamweaver (which you shouldn’t be using in the first place!) completely screws up code. They can go fuck themselves. Nothing has ever made me more frustrated in my life than using their software. They even make keyboard shortcuts a pain in the arse.
In happier news I did find out I’d finished my major game assignment today unexpectedly. Apparently following the tutorial we got and just modifying some assets is enough for the lowest weighting. (I split the 2 assignments we got up to give the review the highest weighting so I didn’t have to stuff around with Flash, so the 2 assignments equal 40% of our grade with 30% going to the review and 10% going to the game.)
I think I was right to be terrified of leaving the house.
I’m back now, but missing $900. MAKE IT COME BACK ;_;
Mugged?
If that’s what the M stands for in MSY, then yes.
Muggin Shit Yo
If it’s only $900 then you got of lightly
It was supposed to be $875!
DC was right, you were mugged!
@sughly
Try not to get too lost listening to the rest of them.
Oh my.
Ohhhhh myyyyyy…
That theme song! :O
I just spent $17 buying the album on iTunes.
Wifey is going to kill me.
It will be an honourable death
Well scored too.
Composer: Power Glove
bwahahahahahahahhahahahaha
List movies for the rest of the week:
— Tree of Life
— Safety Not Guaranteed
— The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Oh man, very nice!
Fincher tattoo?
You know it!
No one seems to agree, but I prefer it.
Great soundtrack too!
Reznor, right?
You know it!
I agree, I agree wholeheartedly! You kiddin me, the first doesnt even come close. Only thing that stands against it is Noomi Rapace, and even then Rooney somehow manages to equal her.
Steam has battlefront 2 on sale?!?!
Do people still play it online?!?! If so… i may have to consider it..
BOOM
God damn it lambo!!!
LOL
<3
Dammit loops
And now I’m considering Republic commando as well. Even though I have completed it and will probably never lay it again.
I guess I’ll just decide after I get back from trivia. Making purchasing decisions after going to the pub, can’t see what could possibly go wrong with that
NOTHING EVER GOES WRONG WHEN ALCOHOL IS INVOLVED!
I wonder which has the better love story, Twilight or the Star Wars Prequels?
Those films had love stories?
Also lambo, stop thinking.
Probably twilight.
Yes. Incest and necrophilia. Duh.
Incest? I thought they were ok with bestiality, but drew the line at incest
Haha, Twitter’s UI is borked.
But I can still read it through the power of my mind!!*
Here are some actual tweets going on in the world right now:
I AM A GOD!!!
*or my work, whatever
Great. Serrels posted this on Facebook and now I’m stuck.
http://textastrophe.com
It’s so worth it though.
I went through the entire archives after Serrels posted that last night. So frigging good.
Dammit. At least I was strong enough to close it after the first page
I wasn’t… 🙁
Whew! All done 😀
Sydney Meats (now with added @blaghman*)!
Drinks!
Friday Evening – May 10th
Mojos? Mojos!
Top Gun In Space 2Star Trek Into Darkness IMAX MeatSaturday – May 11th [I’m going to book tickets for this tonight so if you want to come let me know.]
3pm Sydney IMAX
Evil Dead Meat
Saturday Evening – May 11th
7:15 Newtown Dendy
Uncle Freeze Touched Me
with his kindnessMeatMonday or Tuesday Evening – May 13th of 14th
Dinner?
I can’t be bothered tagging everyone*Prolonged exposure to Blaghman may cause random outbursts of musical songs. If symptoms persist please see your doctor
If you come for Monday or Tuesday night you can be touched by Uncle Freeze too!
Note: If you need help tagging people just press @ followed by a “D” and a “C”. It usually takes care of itself after that.
Or do I say his name 3 times?
@dc
@dc
@dc
*waits*
I love Almost Famous! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qn3tel9FWU
Haha! Reply fail, but I’m just going to leave it here. 😛
I also love that movie.
Don’t really know all the Sydney people, unfortunately.
@freezespreston it’s not working. Is it broken?
*sigh*
@alexpants, @cakesmith, @35, @shiggyninty, @doc_what, @effluvium-boy, @batgirl, @blaghman, @trjn, @Freya, @fatshady, @gorzilla, @harli, @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian, @powalen, @ruffleberg, @spaghett …
And all the rest?
That’ll do pig. That’ll do.
Get it? Because your avatar is Pey’j
Sounds like a good reason to come visit us then!
No. Meating. Sydney. >:|
GET. DOWN. HERE. NOW.
or you know… whenever.
either way… MEAT SYDNEY.
NOPE! 😛
@dc
C’mon Man, don’t you want to meat me? Think about it, we can sit in the corner, discussing movies that neither of us have seen!
@dc don’t listen to him. Blaghs is terrifying.
@dc, @freezespreston
Shush now, I’ve only caused terror induced comas six times this year, I’m getting better!
Dunno why you hat us so, DC.
sunny
Hehehe http://hugsown.com/671
I laughed so much at that for some reason 😀
Probably because my browser loaded the picture slowly and the last row of panels suddenly popped up :D!!!
I’m cooking a Beef Vindaloo using my wok at the moment. It smells amazing. Looking forward to actually eating it.
Got stuck in Ico for about twenty minutes, only realizing that I could swing on the chain after that — at the same time, it’s a refreshing change there’s no control tutorials. Fun working it out on your own…
There’s one bit that might annoy you because of terribleness 😛
Ominous.
I’m up to the part with the windmill.I remember that part making me want to cry.
This movie had an amazing OST, no matter what you think of the film itself!
I know Sughly will disagree with me (and I can understand his reasonings), but I really do love the movie. While some of the changes weren’t great, a lot of them were -in my opinion- necessary (the side stories were largely irrelevant, and were a super comic-booky way of retelling the character story that the comic was already telling, and its ending was so freaking dumb, and I say that as a fan of Lovecraft style horrors).
What we can all agree on however, was that
its sex scene to Hallelujah was fucking terrible.I do love Snyder’s soundtracks.
I liked it too. Dawn of the Dead’s my favourite Snyder movie, but this is a close second. So much atmosphere. Setting felt well realized.
I liked Dawn of the Dead too. I also feel like 300 was about as good an adaptation as we were likely to get, since the comic really is a bit crap. It looked really cool though (although some scenes had some dreadful lighting issues), and I saw it at the IMAX in Sydney, which was pretty nice.
Synder’s always good at the visual thing, it’s usually the stories that are lacking. XD
I was lost completely at the spoiler scene XD
Watchmen?
Was one of the better Hollywood made comic book ads I’ve seen.
Learning that sinistral is another way of referring to a left handed person has kinda changed how I feel about lufia :S
My childhood was setting me up… to be against left handed people!
As well you should be.
Shifty buggers can’t be trusted.
GIANT left handed people…
TAY!
I feel like shit, physically and metaphorically.
I think this flu’s given me a virus.
Also, when I was out of bed on the weekend, I ended up playing Katawa Shoujo.
Rin’s good ending: Dandelions and feels. So good. 🙂Hanako’s good ending: Pure feels. I think I teared up a bit during it.
@effluvium-boy gave you @virus__?
Not sure he can do that legally.
but flu is a virus?! … o-o … o-O … O-O
Katawa Shoujo gives me all of the feels
Hope you’re feeling better soon 🙂
I think Hanako’s good ending is the only one I’m yet to play 🙁
I know Katawa Shoujo is unique, but can anyone recommend me another game based on how much I loved KS?
All I can think of is Shuffle!, or School Days, but if you’re after others, try this site:
http://fuwanovel.org/novels
Thanks mate 🙂
P’tang Yang Kipper Bang Uh!
Edit: this post was a test. You should be able to hover over the text to see a comment.
Hi TAY.
I’ve been recently pairing up songs where one has clearly been an influence on the other. It’s a bit hard to describe how this can manifest itself, so here’s the two examples I’ve come up with so far:
1. Iron Man by Black Sabbath & Colossal by Wolfmother.
To my knowledge, Wolfmother never shied away from the fact that Black Sabbath were an influence for them and definitely I think these two songs are actually a good example of Stockdale sounding like Ozzy. However, I think it’s the drums and guitar that stand out here.
2. Prime Time of Your Life by Daft Punk & Some Chords by Deadmau5
I think the chord progression is pretty similar between the two (I think it’s maybe better to compare against a live version of Prime Time; see Alive 2007). Not sure if I’m reading too much into this one.
So I’m not really going for flagrant plagiarism or sampling, but I think that the influence of the older songs is apparent on the newer ones in both cases.
every new song ever – every old song ever
As says this jaded old dad :-/
Just watched the latest GoT, good episode(shocker):
As usual, the Queen of Thorns had me in stitches. Funny how they’re super joyous at hitting the top of the Wall, when, given the length of their ropes, I can only image that the climb down would be even harder.Non specific book related stuff:
Wut. That’s not how that happened. At all. And by “that” I mean half the friggin’ episode.Book/Episode Spoilers:
I was sad for Gendry. But I was also glad they’re mixing it up a bit, and in the good way, not in the Thalisa kind of way. Also Tormund finally seemed to be more like Tormund (A few HAR!’s here and there). Also Theon made me cringe. Lots. AND HOW COOL IS BLACKFISH HE’S STILL EVERY BIT AS BADASS AS I IMAGINED. The Bear and the Maiden Fair is next week! HYPE!Yeah, I agree. Some of these are big changes, but they feel like they have a good reason behind them. Edit: And I’m not against the changes to Talisa, really. She lacked so much character in the books that I think it needed to be changed at least a little. Though they could have done it in a truer way.All the Book and Episode Spoilers:
I’m not sure if I missed it in the books but I didn’t know it was explicit that Joffrey ordered Mandon to try and kill Tyrion, I always assumed it was either Cersei or Joff but GRRM was being deliberately vague about it. Also if there’s one thing I wanted them to change in the show, it was that Ice never gets reforged into Widow’s Wail and Oathkeeper. That hurt me a lot, seeing Ice, sword of the Starks for centuries, turned into something Joffrey uses to be a douche and cut that book Tyrion gave him.it should hurt, that’s why it’s so good!Episode and book spoilers
I really liked the change with Melisandre and the Brotherhood. Gendry’s acting as a replacement for Edric Storm which makes sense by itself, but the extended character interactions we’ve never had before were wonderful. Mels looking jealous that Thoros of Myr could revive Beric was a nice way of toning down her character, and I loved that little bit at the end between her and Arya.Just when I was beginning to like Ros. 🙁 Joffrey is more monster in the television series than he ever was in the books. Sure, he was a cunt in the books. But he wasn’t this sociopathic and cruel. At least he never read that way to me. He was a spoilt, jealous, angry child… but he was no Hannibal Lecter of Westeros, and that’s what the TV series is making him into.Book 3 spoilers:
Dude wanted to give Robb Starks head to Sansa at his wedding. And sent the assassin to Bran. I’d say he’s about the same level of crazy.http://i.imgur.com/PmlFWVw.jpg 😀
very nice, i’m loving all of the sets that adult swim are releasing.
i’m currently borrowing the venture bro’s set from a friend.
and oh man, venture bro’s is hilarious!
up to the second season, it’s gotten so much more violent D:
but also so much more funny.
VENTURE BROS!
Goddamn but is that my favorite show. I haven’t been able to convince anyone to watch it yet.
BUT YOU ARE! FRIEND!
Help me [REDACTED] it and I’ll be happy to watch it
I’ve seen them all and recommended it to TAYbies, but I see how it is :'(
I keep forgetting! 😀
There was a flyer for the Tim and Eric box set which I had no idea even existed. I want that now too!
Downloaded Ragnarok Online 2. Played Ragnarok Online 2.
Downloaded Ragnarok Online…
RO is one of the only online games I’ve put much time into. Got it free with GamePro and me & my roommate played it for a while, he got hooked and it was his world before WoW
Hey there TAY! You all good? I’m good. Hope you’re all good!
Just took two Codral night capsules…
So, yeah, still the same.
Those should help you get a good night’s sleep. Feel better tomorrow 🙂
The Amazing Race:
@sughly @powalen @dc
I betcha’ll forgot it was on!
I just finished it but there’s not much to discuss :). I’ll probably continue watching the show as long as I’ve got buddies to talk about it with!
What do you mean there’s not much to say! It was the final episode, wasn’t it!?
Probably won’t see it until tomorrow 😛
It was! Discussions will be had when you guys watch it 😛
Didn’t forget it was on, just not close to be downloaded. Haha.
Figured you’d be too engrossed in Ico :). Finished it yet? Easily beatable in a day!
Nope. Playing slow, my friend!
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/05/06/whats-your-game-of-2013-so-far/
BioShock Infinite for me, followed by Thomas Was Alone (even though I played it on PC and it came out last year. But it came out again on PS3 this year, so shut up).
Probably still To The Moon (I played it this year, so shut up). Then P4G. Then Bioshock Infinite.
Bioshock infinite. Yes I’m predictable.
Out of Ni ni Kuni, Sim City, LEGO City Undercover and Fire Emblem (the only new games I’ve bought this year)… it’s a toss-up between LEGO and Fire Emblem.
Probably Fire Emblem.
Probably P4G for me too even though it came out last year (in the US) and I started playing it then… but shut up.
Really enjoyed Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate though and Thomas Was Alone was a pleasant surprise but I did miss out on big titles like Tomb Raider and BioShock Infinite although I doubt it would’ve changed things.
Bioshock Infinite first. DmC. Fire Emblem. In that order.
P4G
@dc Just watched Silver Linings Playbook. Why didn’t you tell me about this movie sooner?!
😀 GOOD MOVIE!
…I’m torn over whether I should go to sleep or not… :\
You most definitely should!
Hope you feel better in the morrow my crazy friend! 😀
What this guy said 🙂
Eh, I may as well.
See you all tomorrow!
bleh … my throat feels like I’ve been gargling broken glass and ice cream does nothing.
Seeing as “I know that voice” isn’t out yet, I’ll have to watch something just as awesome. SCOTT PILGRIM!
Man, Greenlight is horrible.
Alltynex Second has received 2850 yes votes.
Nearly 8000 have said no. This is despite the fact that the kickstarter has gained 220% in donations. Unfortunately, the system means that no one would really know about it being there unless they were actively searching for it. To say Greenlight is broken is the understatement of the century.
I think Greenlight is one of the stupidest things Valve have ever done (I’m… not a fan of Steam in the slightest, so that probably affects my opinion). Not only is it a popularity contest, those games that do get through have the “this game has been greenlit” banner, which really makes everything that has been greenlit look second rate to everything else.
Oh and the mandantory $100 to charity just to get on there. I really don’t like the idea of having no choice but to hand $100 over to charity just to have a chance of getting a game sold on Steam. I’d rather Valve kept the money in all honesty.
It’s also a rigged popularity contest because usually people go on there with the game they want to vote for already in mind. This means that we won’t be able to find awesome games we normally wouldn’t. Pretty much nothing has changed.
Dark souls:
Was called a “ganker” by some guy today. Had to google it, I thought he’d replaced a w with a g.
Turns out being summoned by someone whilst in the forest section of Darkwood Garden is a big no no. I didn’t feel too bad, the blue phantoms were doing well against the 2 of us.I assume the guy played alot of wow, it’s very common term for people who attack you when you are not seeking PvP.
PvP servers were fun, I miss my WoW days lol.
Just gonna have a little whinge about uPlay, spoiler tagged since “who really cares about this crap?”
Man, Ubisoft really needs to get its crap together. I’ve always defended uPlay in the past as “a kind of terrible system, but it’s really not that bad,” but tonight has been an exercise in frustration. I bought a CD key for Blood Dragon from a nicedodgytotally legit site, and it gave me a code. After derping about in uPlay for 10 minutes, trying to find where to redeem this code, I notice that I have to redeem it via a webpage, and said code gives me another code, which is the CD key for the gorramn game. After redeeming that, it gives me a downloader, through which I download Blood Dragon, thinking “gee whiz, 8 gig seems pretty big.” After downloading that all, I finally go to install it, only to find that the download wants to automatically extract itself to C drive. So I have to fix that manually, because my main drive does not have enough space. Only after all of this, do I find out that the downloader that the Ubisoft store gave me, was simply for normal FarCry 3 (which I already have), and that while I wasn’t looking, it dropped a downloader for Blood Dragon into uPlay.OK, I think, my personal little nightmare is over. I’ve already gone through 16% of my monthly quota in one day, what’s another 5%? Oh. Okay. Ummm. So uPlay doesn’t have an option within it for where you would like to download the games. So after the download crashes, complaining about lack of space, I have to link the C drive directory it downloads to by default to something on E.And now it might actually be working. Maybe.@chuloopa, I have a copy of Star Wars Battlefront 1 for the PC going cheap (read: free). Found it while cleaning out garage. Want it?
Everyone else, Mad Men season 4 spoilers (end season):
I called it. At least six eps ago, I knew Don was gonna marry his new secretary, despite having two blondes on the go at the time. (The scene where Sally falls over and then hugs her was the absolute confirmation for me, coupled with the statement at the start of the season that Don would be married by the end of the year :P) Either this show’s getting predictable, or I’m getting better at reading it. I hope it’s the latter. Really enjoying it. On to Season 5 (later today).There were some genuinely upsetting scenes in the penultimate episode, though – especially the heroin-addicted ex he ran into ‘by chance’. Really felt inspiration when he used her painting to write that article/ad about dumping cigarettes though \o/Hey buddy!
Thanks for the offer – i’m actually pretty sure i have #1, but i’ll double check when i get home 🙂
Oh man, great ep of Mad Men. And Game of Thrones.
Old Mad Men discussion on previous page.
Sleep awaits, but I’m always up for Mad Men ramblings. Look forward to talking new and old eps tomorrow. And more Ico. 😀
I [redacted] eps 1-4 of Mad Men Season 6 tonight. I’m getting ready. How many have aired?
Just watched ep 6!
2013 GOTY so far?
WeeGee’s Mansion 2, definitely WeeGee’s Mansion 2.
Blood Dragon, definitely Blood Dragon.
You know what I’d play?
Blood Dragon Age
A fantasy epic set in the 80s!
Neon magic! 😀
Dark Souls. GOEY
GOTF
I… can’t figure this one out 😛
Forever?
Game of the Forever
Grammar is not so much.
Oh well look at what we have here a fancy writer. Jerk guy you have. A problem with my. Grammar!
P4G, don’t care if it’s just an update.
Candies.
Probably Ni No Kuni, Tomb Raider and BioShock Infinite.
Yup, all three. >:|
http://www.siliconera.com/2013/05/06/ea-studios-dice-and-visceral-to-produce-star-wars-games-in-multi-year-deal/
I wish EA made Bioware make KotOR III. Visceral is an obvious fit but will the next Mirror’s Edge by on Coruscant(spelling)
Battlefront 3! \o/
Not a fan, but yay for you! \o/
(had real trouble writing that comment with sounding condescending)
Kind of sad I never really played Battlefront. I know a bunch of people that have a real soft spot for that game.
It’s the most fun I’ve had in a battlefield type game. I never played multiplayer though (only split screen). Still, it was heaps of fun.
Nothing quite like riding a Tauntaun around as Darth Vader
Someone has been on reddit lately =P
Is there a new meme or something? I just thought the best part of Hoth split screen were the Father/Son Tauntaun races
Yeah someone made a “best thing about battlefront was Darth Vader on a Tauntaun” picture.
There’s been a bit of Starwars and Battlefront talk on the gaming subreddit lately.
Last post on Page 4 of TAY. If Loops isn’t interested, it’s yours…?
Nah it’s okay, thanks for the offer though. I was more lamenting the fact I’m pretty sure I missed the boat on Battlefront. If I fired it up now, it probably wouldn’t be as nearly as impressive as it was when it came out.
It wouldn’t. You’d be playing mostly against AI, and the AI in that game was…have you ever seen a tiger fight a loaf of bread? Now imagine the loaf of bread winning.
Yeah, the AI is the bread.
I hear wholemeal is pretty badass though.
Nah, wholemeal is pretty goodass. It’s from all the fibre.
Something pun about moral fibre.
So, I just asked my publisher to change the cover for The Lesser Evil omnibus. I’m not good at standing up for myself, so now I’m all anxious. It’s for the best, though.
Really? I’d be super obsessive over my cover. I hate bad covers on everything.
(not that I ever got my shit together to make my own comic, but you can imagine…)
Good morning TAY~
It’s been a while (about three weeks, I think) since my last posts but I’m back.
Let’s just say I was having a break.Anyway, I took up Japanese last week. I like the language, and it hasn’t been hard to pick up so far.
A friend of mine told me to stay away from romanji where I can, so I’ve been learning the Hiragana to start with.
Anyone got anything I can read~?
Also, Dark Souls.
I got twin Skeleton shields for my guy. I attack with one of them at lightning +5 — It’s surprisingly (depressingly) effective in PVP.
And I made a grave-lord Character over the last week too… I hate it.
My Eldest: Do I have to carry my school bag? It’s so heavy.
Me: Of course you do. It’s your school bag. Daddy had to carry his school bag and he had to catch the bus. No one dropped me off to school.
My Eldest: But you’re old and no one cares about old people.
Me: :'(
I foresee a home in my future. And not a nice one. One if those dodgy ones from 60 Minutes.
Hahaha, that made me laugh more then it should.
Kids. So damn mean.
My three year old told my wife yesterday: “no one loves you”
Edit: And her favourite phrase is “Stupid fellow” (we have never said either word in her presence, so no idea where it came from). From the way she says it, I think she thinks “fellow” is equivalent to “fuckwit”
Wait… it isn’t??
Well. I have been alarmingly pleasant to people I did not intend to be to.
It certainly changes the tone of British TV, that’s for sure 😛
Old Man Freeze!
My son, while attacking me, hurt his wrist last night. So I gave him a hug to help him feel better.
He then jumped straight up, head butting my chin, casuing me to slam my teeth shut.
So painful
Lucky I didn’t bite a chunk outta my tongue.
And the stone tablets you had to carry where much heavier than her notebooks!
Not to mention all the running he had to do to get the bus to start moving, Flintstones-style.
In a blizzard.
Up a mountain.
With bare feet.
@shane:
Mad Men Season Four finale spoilers!
Don’s a creepy old man.Everyone else:
Mad Men Season Six, Ep 6 spoilers!
Don’s an impulsive, creepy old man.Didn’t we know that already?Betty, on the other hand, is a complete and total wreck of a person. Honestly, I think she’s starting to rile me up more than Janice Soprano, who was my previous choice for “most detested character of all time”. I don’t think I actually detest Betty as much as I did Janice, but Betty is at least as toxic. Feel so bad for poor Sally 🙁I was disappointed we didn’t get to see Disneyland. :'( Also, the ep aired in October 2010 so I forget most of the details. D: Season five is amazing and so is season six so far! I really like Meagan too!It’s the one where Glen and Sally are really good friends, and Betty gets… jealous or angry or both, and fires Carla and moves the family out of the house, just to get away from Glen.Also, can you imagine the cost of reconstructing Disneyland as it looked in 1964? 😛Edit: Also, I am disappointed to learn that you don’t rewatch old eps in preparation for new episodes. How do you expect to catch all the little details?!
Main Street U.S.A. has basically looked the same since the park opened. Also some of the areas like Fantasyland haven’t changed all that much either. *Disney Fanboy*Haha, that’s two seasons ago man. You can’t rewatch the entire run before the new season. 😛
I kind of like that they didn’t show it.
Disneyland wasn’t the point, as we were led to believe. Don went to California, not for a holiday, but to sign Anna’s papers. 🙁(Oh, and I like that he told the kids that it was his name painted on the wall.)
Edit: And of course you can! We rewatch Sons of Anarchy in its entirety before each new season. And we have less free time than you do. 😛
Just… Disney fanboy. I’ve been to 8 Disney parks, okay? 😛Hurry up and catch up! 😀 That would make five rewatches of the show by this point if I did that. :S
Well, after you’re familiar enough with it, you can just rewatch the most recent season(s). I did that with The Shield. Just watched seasons 4 and 5 in prep for 6, and 5 and 6 in prep for 7. 😀
Edit: It might be five rewatches of season 1, but it would only be one rewatch of the most recent season.
I remember season five fine, though. Season four was just ages ago, there were contract negotiations and an 18 month break between seasons. XD
Morning all!
Finished Sleeping Dogs last night:
I didn’t expect the end mission to be the end of the game. It kind of felt like they suddenly hit a button and wrapped up the story in 5 minutes. Regardless, the whole game was a hell of a lot of fun. I think I finished with about 85 – 90% completion, with only some achievements remaining. I’m tempted to go back, but so many other games I want to play!I’d give the game a 7 out of 10. It loses a point for camera spasms (seriously).
I thought Sleeping Dogs was one of the most fun games I played last year. I enjoyed just driving around Hong Kong looking for collectibles.
Same, which is how I ended up with all of them 😛
One of my favourite games of last year. The controls are the best I’ve come across in a sandbox game. It also made me consistently hungry, “WHY YOU NO HAVE A PORK BUN IN YOUR HAND??”.
Sleeping dogs was a 9/10 for me. A few minor issues, and it was a shame the dating side stories weren’t better fleshed out, but apparently that was a budget issue. They still added some nice flavour, and overall it was a pretty nicely realised world. I think my favourite part was collecting the jade statues and returning them to the martial arts instructor. Even without that being the only way to rank up your kung fu abilities, the little conversations between him and Wei were just great.
I really hope we get more games like this in the future.
Ico is fun, but some of the check pointing decisions are beginning to annoy me. It’s never fun to have to replay chunks of games over and over again. *shakes fist*
That’s old school challenge for you.
Games are so forgiving these days.
But I know what you mean.
Even BioShock Infinite has annoying check point problems though. I’m much more forgiving about these ones, PS2 era and all that. 😀
PS2 era = bes….no no no, that’s not right.
PS2 era = great era! 😀
Ico spoilers.
I really like how you bond with the girl in the game, you’re her protector and it makes you feel things when you’ve got to leave her by herself for a while… and then they have her attacked while you’re ages away. Stop toying with my emotions! XDIt was so long ago I really can’t remember.
All I remember is loving the castle(?) design, would really like to see that in HD.
Oh yeah, it’s pretty amazing having a sense of where you are based on where you’ve been. Looking over the horizon and seeing somewhere you explored an hour ago is awesome. 😀
Dark Souls does this better than any game I’ve seen. It’s pretty amazing world design.
@shane: That’s something I liked about Dark Souls from my limited time with it. :'(
Tou know what’s better than Dark Souls @shane ?
MArio Kart DS. You can shoot red shells while racing, WHILE RACING!
@jimu, sidevote for dissing Dark Souls >:( but also a successful bait! 😀
@shane I haven’t even played, but safe bet is I wouldn’t like it as much.
I’m drowning in your Dark Souls propaganda BTW
(Not the general discussion, the propaganda)
So much anti EA on twitter. Gotta take a breather…*breathes deep*
It’s my own fault for trying to preach the silver lining
That Star Wars is ruined and can’t get any worse? So there’s nothing to lose? 😛
#baiting
My big point is, EA is so big, they can make so many games. I’ll be happy if they make one good game.
There’s been a lot of Star Wars games made. I only *love* KotOR 1&2.
I know man. I like a few Star Wars games too. Like as many as not, approximately.
I’m cool with the news. Just like baiting people.
#hookline&sinker
But X-Wing vs Tie-Fighter :'(
I said “love” must I love every good game?
Yeah, it really frustrates me. I would prefer EA pick up the starwars game franchise rather the alternative (no starwars games).
I was actually happy, then went to twitter … now I feel bleh.
I reckon we’ll get something good out of it.
Activision.
I’m totally on your side!
I hope EA has more creative control with the licence. That would make KotOR 3 more appealing to BioWare, I hope. 😀
That’d be nice. Hopefully with Geoge “Bullfrog neck” Lucas gone things will be a little more lax.
I actually actively switch off from most of it. The anti EA stuff has just gone too far. Sure they’re not the greatest, but the internet would have you believe they sacrifice newborns and mutilate small animals to facilitate their goal of ruining the games industry.
Over it.
I think they’re just so big now, you know?
Of course they’ll make mistakes, but they still make decent games.
They got Mass Effect 1 on PS3, that was good. Bioware never could have pulled that shit on their own. Now I can play it on my preferred console 🙂
They are the world’s worst company. It was voted. It is truth.
Oil companies… nah.
Weapons manufacturers… nah.
Banks… nah.
EA is way worse than all of those put together and wrapped up in barbed wire and dipped in the purified kidney blood of aborted babies.
this 100 times.
I just don’t understand how anyone who is a fan of Star Wars can be upset by this news. It’s just the usual blind EA hate. New Star Wars games by DICE, Bioware and Visceral though? Sign me the fuck up.
Totally, it is the blind EA hate. I think a lot of it isn’t even Star Wars fans and just EA haters that have jumped on the new excuse to whinge.
I’m mainly just worried about how they’ll market these future star wars titles. That’s my only beef with EA, they don’t make bad games, definitely not, it’s how they sell their content that grinds my gears a fair bit. So what I feel right now is not hate, it’s worry, but I am personally glad it’s not completely gone forever
Huh?
Why do ou care how they advertise?
I don’t understand.
Because they do so on the backs of demonspawn that feed upon the sweet, sweet bone marrow of cute puppies and the half-formed eyeballs of deformed children.
Sorry misworded, won’t bother editing. I meant their trend of microtransactions and DLC in their titles.
Oh yeah, that could be an issue.
I assume you’re talking about EA’s history of online passes and DLC? I’ve never had an issue with all that, personally. They’re entitled to make money off of their product. And as far as DLC outrage goes, it’s extra content. If you don’t want to pay for it, don’t get upset when you can’t play it.
The issue people seem to have with the DLC is that EA is pushing further and further to releasing incomplete games that you need to purchase DLC to see the end of the story. So breaking chunks of the game out and making it DLC (available at launch) basically means they are increasing the price of their base game to 50% higher than normal.
Personally I just don’t buy games that has stuff I disagree with. Almost bought tomb raider the other day, but convict tax so didn’t. If you disagree as much as these people seem to, they really need to stop buying it
* Re-post from Twitter*
I need some PC help guys. I’m trying to back up my laptop but I keep getting an I/O error. What could be causing this and how do I fix it?
The message that comes up reads, ‘One of the backup files could not be created. Details: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.’
What does it mean by device error? Is the problem with my laptop or the external drive? The external drive is new if that helps.
Thanks
Could mean any number of faults, but the short of it is that one of the hard drives involved has an issue, potentially a serious one.
Or possibly not so serious, according to cursory googling. What’s the external drive, @masha2932?
The external drive is a seagate expansion desktop
STBV3000300
regulatory model: srdoof2
Right. Issue seems to be that Windows backup doesn’t support your drive due to it not using 512 byte sectors, which is an old standard. Apparently 4k sectors are supported in Windows 8 though. Assuming you’re not on 8, you might need to try a different backup program. I can’t comment on that though, perhaps Rize might know.
Thanks. What other back up program would you recommend?
Also if it is the sector issue is there a way I can create a 512byte sector or will it ruin my external drive? (no idea if this is possible :-))
I haven’t used any other backup programs, so I won’t be much help there. Any suggestions, @rize?
Wow 🙁 The external drive is brand new so it might be my laptop drive? If that is the problem is there another way to back up my stuff or do I just have to copy and paste the important files?
Hola Tay
I am in Cusco. I have done writings:
http://redartifice.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/marchers-and-mountains-lima-to-cusco
Hope you are all well. Enjoy your star Trek and @beardymc, good luck with your job interview.
I will stop typing now because my tablet keyboard is doing my fucking head in. May pop back in later in the week.
Muchas gracias, Red! Hope you’re well!
Cusco is awesome.
Are you going up to Machu Pichu? Do the 4 day hike if you can. So much better than just catching the bus up =P
He was definitely planning to do Machu Pichu but not sure on how he was planning to get there
We’re bussing it from Aguas Calientes
So a mate at work started this cool little site: http://illoscript.com/ that pairs up writers and artists to create some awesome little short tales.
Given that there are soooo many talented people here as well as those that enjoy looking at words and drawings, I thought I’d share it.
ALSO! POTAKU!
Does anyone wanna come on and talk about handhelds? From the Game Boy to the Vita via Game Gear and 3DS. Also… I guess the iPhone counts or something…
Interesting… What day do you record?
THOR’S DAY!
What the heck! Count me in!
…if you’ll have me.
Always!
Moving house means I’ve just rediscovered all the old Pokemon machines.
Moving house also means I still have no internet. Plus it’s all a bit 1 sided for me – all Nintendo, 90% Pokémon games.
I owned most handhelds, but I don’t have the time
#sosad
Final Fantasy.
@Jimu!
Dood(s), I really wanna, I’m just barely ever free in the evening.
It sucks.
Like I said before, if you just get @strange and @freezespreston together at the same time, go ahead without me.
I can’t commit to a date 🙁
I remember Link’s Awakening created a rift between me and my brother and ended up with us each getting a Game Boy AND each getting a copy of the game 😛
I also remember that the Donkey Kong game on the original Game Boy was the greatest game ever made, at the time.
I haven’t owned a handheld since the original Game Boy, because what experience could match that?
Feel free to use that story. But I have nothing else to contribute 😛
Game Boy is an awesome system. My first !
Link’s Awakening was/is brilliant. I remember I finished it so many times I used to time myself and do speedruns. I should play it again, I have the DX (GB Color) version on 3DS, but haven’t gotten around to it.
I always had trouble deciding if Link to the Past or Link’s Awakening were better, but I decided not to choose. They’re both great for different reasons. Never really did any other Zelda games, except Ocarina of Time back when it came out and I had my N64.
I tried them all but LA, LttP and OoT are the holy trinity of Zelda gaming. Head, shoulders, chest and groin above all the others.
Link’s Awakening was my first, but I played LttP shortly after and was just as impressed.
Imma jump in & proclaim dat LA, MM & WW are mai Holy Trinity.
But I think OoT is the best.
I just want the world to know that when I got my DS in second year of uni, I started getting a butt-ton of Distinctions instead of just Passes and Credits.
My DS made me smrt and that’s scientific proof.
Does Virtual Boy count as a handheld?
Surely this is the episode for Bluemaxima, right?
Firefox is breaking the reply function — but this is for @doc_what
I used to do art (and was a founding member~) for this online publication a few years back — http://premierpulp.wordpress.com/
Haven’t been on their IRC in ages, and haven’t had the time to make/finish comics because of work.
Depression.
I know these feels!
Same boat here. I think about all the creative work I could be getting done if not for my daily grind and I get tres sad.
@gutsoup, @strange: How was the Tool concert? That was last night, right? 😀
Pretty amazing . Was awesome last time we went we were in the second barrier so we didn’t have the best view, this time there was no barrier so we got in nice and close. Great show, good sound & spectacular visuals as usual. A good night indeed
Bowbowbowbowbowbowbowbow
Reeeeaaaal huuumaaan beeeing!
A Real Hero – College & Electric Youth
I’ve had my headphones off, but forgot to stop my playlist from rolling. Apparently, last song played is “Roll With It – Oasis”. Last song I listened to was “Too Many Looks In Your Eye – Andy Gibb”
British India – Summer Forgive me
i am just listening to the JJJ hitlist on spotify, its pretty good for random internet browsing, lots of different genres.
Darkness that Lurks in our mind – Akira Yamaoka – Silent Hill 2 OST
Abraham’s Daughter – Arcade Fire, I like it when Regine sings. 😀
I like Arcade Fire PERIOD
i can’t find a bad song of theirs.
AGREED! 😀
ARCADE FIRE CHESTBUMP
Scars by Papa Roach
I’ll always remember Papa Roach for that awesome line:
“Suffocation, no breathing”
So i was waiting on a phone call yesterday to discuss my reemployment stuff with the CEO of the company. He called this morning and offered me more money than i used to be on to work in a better environment.
What the shit?
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!!!
Congrats, my friend!
Congrats dude. That’s awesome.
It’s because they’re falling to bits without you. I knew it!
Well i spoke to the receptionist for a little yesterday. Apparently the service department doesn’t answer phones without me there. I wasn’t shocked. Its nice to be appreciated.
It is very good to be appreciated!
Congrats.
Icing on the cake!
Sprinkles on the icing!
SUCCESS!!!
Nice mang. Your shout when I get up to Townsville next then 😉
No, that’s not shit, that is awesomesauce. Similar colour, different result
One assignment down – got it in with an hour to spare – didn’t go to sleep until 1am 😐
Another assignment due tomorrow at 8pm and i’ve barely only done 3 sections… le sigh…
Hey all long time no speak. I’ve actually seen more of you in real life over the last few weeks than I have been on TAY which is odd. A bunch of people at the Pez Music party meat and the Batguy and Bunny at the SCG of all places 🙂
Well it seems I am at it again… I’ve got myself into a few pretty cool things at the moment but I can’t really talk about them yet. Some of you know and it is seriously killing me that I can’t blurt it out.. I’ll be back on here as soon as I can to talk about it. But yes it is all Trials related in one way shape or form as you know it would be. Im super fun happy slide kinds of hype right now though.
The good news is that I’ve started a business (FatShady Productions) as a hobby of sorts for all the video work i’ve been doing and i’ve got a number of really good opportunities that I am currently negotiating. I still feel like a complete Noob so it’s really satisfying to see professional type people see value in what I do.
PS: I hope @crazyguy1990 and @tofu are feeling better
@Chuloopa – are you STILL making economics jokes???
@shane – you change that cover man and stick to your guns. if that doesn’t work get guns. 🙂
Oh and just one last story.. I was watching a movie on the train last night called black swan (Im literally going through my 300+ movie list on my NAS drive that I just copied one by one and watching alphabetically) and it got to the scene with Mila Kunis doing things to another girls lady parts.. yeah, that was an interesting thing to watch while on a peak hour train… The screen even reflects off the windows of the train, so I was surrounded by mini screens.
Supply and demand, my friend.
Supply and demand.
Also – PUBLIC TRANSPORT PORN!!!!
I haven’t seen Black Swan, and i have no intention to. lol
Also Also : FATSHADY PRODUCTIONS!!! \o/
Black Swan is a legitimately good movie, even if the Portman/Kunis sex scene was really oversold in the pre-release hype.
The sex scene was only really interesting because of the club scene before it. I just liked the movie. Enough that I saw it twice in cinemas. People thought I was there for the lesbian sex. I have the internet dammit.
Maybe for that movie, sure. But now that you’re living with a woman, it’s a 50/50 bet that you’d seek safer venues outside the house… 😛
She knows that I watch porn.
Well, that changes those odds a bit.
Oddly enough, we were talking about how she hasn’t caught me watching porn yet right before I replied.
I guess I just feel like I need to stipulate that the lesbian sex scene doesn’t detract from it being a good movie, but it’s also not a reason to see the movie. If you go in thinking that’s what the movie is, please readjsut your expectations.
Or… don’t, and be blown away by how actually good it is. 😛
I’m not saying that scene was bad, just that the scene before made it.
I’m also not saying the scene was bad, just that people might have low opinions of the movie given that the pre-release hype seemed to centre around it.
I just had a thought. Is there a website to find out where all the nudie bits are in a particular movie? I feel like something like that would be probably be quite successful.
Oh you, if i lived in Canberra i would want to have a beer with you every weekend. Not blaghs though, he isn’t invited to fun times 😛
I have a beer with me every weekend. It’s significantly more depressing than you’d think.
He’s not up to “K” yet. He probably doesn’t know the reference 😛
I know the reference jackass 😛 its from knocked up.
I know. I was making a joke that Fatshady would probably not know the reference, because he’s watching alphabetically and was only up to “B”lack Swan
😛
Well its not as fun if i get defensive for no reason. WOuld you mind if i yelled at you some more? 😛
Fair enough. Have at it 🙂
I REALLY LIKE YOU AND THE WONDERFUL PERSON YOU ARE. SUCH A KIND AND GENEROUS NATURE IS RARELY FOUND. YOU ARE A BEAUTIFUL HUMAN.
@rocketman, that is genuinely unsettling yelling. I honestly think this is more upsetting than insults 😛
mrskin.com 1h 8m 14s is what i was talking about… lol..
Oh, there is! Rad.
Why did I think that was a good site to click on while at work????
Oh sorry man.. yeah I assumed that this whole thread was NSFW
No issue and I was more mocking myself than the fact you didn’t put a warning on it
Plus I’m the boss so no harm
Speaking of being a boss congratulations. What sort of stuff do you do? And in what area?
Either you’ve never heard of Mr. Skin or you’re making an oblique reference to the subplot of Knocked Up.
The first one. Well, until just now.
Hahaha, oh man, I just assumed you were talking “Knocked Up” 😛 Sorry!
I actually had no idea it was a reference to Knocked Up until you said it. I was sitting here trying desperately to think of something that started with K which would have that. It sounds an awful lot like something from a Kevin Smith movie though.
id never heard of it tbh.
We’re not all perverts like you, @kermitron.
😛What, were you never a teenager? Mr. Skin is like the first thing that comes up any time you google “(celebrity name) nude”. 😛
Also the sideplot of Knocked Up is that Seth Rogan and his friends, who are movie nudity afficionados, want to start a website that catalogues all instances of nudity in movies and can’t believe no one ever thought of this before. About 3/4 of the way through the movie Paul Rudd’s character is all like “what, like Mr. Skin?”.
I’ve literally just learnt all of this in the last 20 minutes. Though I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised at the internet’s resourcefulness when it comes to boobies.
Well, now you know where to go when you need to know which movies (celebrity) got her boobs out in. I assume if you actually subscribe to the site you can just see the images and/or video clips and this saves precious time you might otherwise spend sitting through boring stuff like plot and story.
I’m hoping this is a Knocked Up reference
We’ve covered this already, dickman.
Hehe ^_^
i was playing mortal kombat 9 on the bus.
after doing a few fatilities i realised how innapropiate it was to play it.
but then i also thought how fun it was, so i didn’t care.
Yeah, I don’t play next to gram-mas or chidlerun
Mila Kunis girl-on-girl sex scene? I think this is a chick-flick I could enjoy whilst earning browny points at the same time!
Just because it has a female lead doesn’t make it a chick flick. It’s directed by the same guy that did The Wrestler and Requiem for a Dream.
So long as his chick doesn’t know that it still counts for brownie points
It’s about ballet and is awesome. That’s all anyone needs to know.
SHADY!!! awesome to hear you started a production company type thing. High five for you.
I feel like death at the moment … and not the bad arse cloaked skeleton with a sythe type, the bad type. Where everything is fevers, aches, headaches and my throat feeling like Ron Perlman and James Earl Jones got into a screaming match. On the plus side I’ve been quarantined in the server room away from all the developers because I’m too stubborn to stay home, so they gave me this giant bowl of butterscotch fudge and I got to wear a bitching scarf to work today so I was all nice and toasty.
God I hate customers. One wants their car key cut. It’s $180 due to the transponder chip. Customer goes off telling me their car doesn’t have it. Try to explain to them that yes, it does, all modern cars do. They tell me I’m an idiot and to just cut the chip less key. So I do. 20 minutes later they turn up again screaming about my shit quality work because the car won’t start and telling customers at the counter not to bother.
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As a general rule
People are pricks.
As a more general rule
They are also dumb as shit.
But we like you and when i go to get my new key for my car i will be kind the the key cutter.
Oh man. Want to laugh, but that’s too mean. Honestly don’t know how you put up with this stuff. Even I, oft-reputed to be the most sedate person in a sedate city, would have been put up on assault charges if I had to live through what you have 😛
wat…
even i know about those chip thingies, and i don’t even have a license let alone do i even care about cars.
customers are the worst.
had a person get into a full argument just because she thought that the price for tickets on her loyalty card was 1 dollar cheaper than what it is now. i explained to her that it had gone up by one dollar at the start of this year, and had also been like that for all of this year. i showed her the pamphlet that says the price of the tickets are $11, she goes on about how she has been paying $10 for tickets all year, i explain that that’s impossible. she calls me a liar and storms off.
customers…
Sometimes I imagine you standing at the counter yelling “I AM THE KEYMASTER”, and someone from across the shopping center yells out “I AM ZOOL” and then you sprint towards each other and high five.
I don’t think that’s how it happened in the movie…
Much like that Replace Guns with Thumbs Up site, I’m going to start a site where all sexytime scenes (implied or shown) will be replaced with high-fives.
Was it a Commodore?
I bet it was a Commodore.
Sounds like the actions of a Commodore driver
… Or Falcon… Basically the frist choices for dip-shits Australia-wide
ಠ_ಠ
Is that a yes? 😛
I drive a commodore jackass. 😛
Would this be one of those “oh rocketman” moments?
Oi. Mate. I’ll wreck you.
Can’t you just write an angry song about me instead?
Hey unca Freeeeze, I hate to bug you with work related questions but I have a ’99 Hyundai Sonata which has a remote that unlocks the doors and disables the immobiliser. The remote’s button is cracked so we want to replace it before we’re prevented from using the car (it isn’t modern enough to have the slot in the steering column that you insert the remote into to disable the immobiliser if the battery in it dies).
We’re thinking since I’m going to be driving soon I should have my own immobiliser. Also, they keys are so worn out they no longer unlock the doors (only the boot and ignition) so we want to get replacements cut while we’re at it.
Any idea what kind of pricing we’d be looking at? I think the remotes alone are like $80, then they have to be programmed. I am assuming that our keys won’t be $180 because our car definitely is not modern enough for that transponder chip… or is it?
I had a ’97 car once (Mirage), and it had transponder.
Huh, really? My mum had a ’97 Mirage and I had no idea. Granted, I was 15 then.
Well, when I got mine in 2003, they told me replacement keys would be $400 each, and they couldn’t be cut at a Mr Minit.
Assuming that means transponder. 😛
It does but it’s a damn lie. We do cut them.
Anything 96 onwards generally has the chip. You can get a lot cheaper. $180 is the chump price really. I do a lot for the $140 mark and we aren’t the cheapest. The remote your stuck with Hyundai as they’re jerks and won’t allow aftermarket remotes to work in their cars.
Just don’t get a key off eBay. It sounds attractive at $10 or so but it will usually cost another $25-40 to cut and another $200 odd to program if it can be at all. eBay keys generally end up either twice the price or something that isn’t even a good paperweight.
Yeah, I’m going to do it all through a Hyundai dealership. I’m not car-savvy enough to take chances on that. Just want to know what kind of wallet-rape to expect when we pop in after pay-day.
Might just get the remotes done this month and keys done another month. As long as the keys work in the ignition it doesn’t matter if they won’t unlock the doors when we’ve got brand new remotes.
Get the keys done through a Locksmith. They will cut it back to what it was originally from the factory and they’ll work in the doors again. All for half the dealers price.
The thing is, we already have a key that’s been duplicated off the worn down original, so it has the same issues as the original despite being almost new. I can only use it to open the boot, it doesn’t “match” the door locks anymore.
Not duplicated. Cut to code by a computer cutter. Different thing. It will cut a key with no wear in it.
I wanna buy Dead Rising 2: Off The Record but I haven’t played Dead Rising 2.
Will this be a problem?
Should I care about Chuck Green?
you don’t need to have played DR2 to play off the record.
Chuck Greene’s story was pretty nice, as he has to save his daughter (she doesn’t get in the way of the game though) which is a nicer story.
i haven’t played of the record, but i believe frank west is their to take pictures or something because he’s covered wars and such.
I don’t think it matters.
I have DR2 and have been meaning to play it – but i just Haven’t. Played the crap out of case 0, though.
Chucks a pretty cool dude – he takes good care of his daughter.
DR2 Off the Record is just a standalone sandbox Dead Rising game with Frank West instead of Chuck Greene. Don’t need to have played DR2, or DR1 – but DR1 would give you more of a Frank West appreciation. It’s actually a ton of fun. Cheap too, from memory.
Loved DR1 and Frank West.
Off The Record is, like, half the price of DR2 vanilla, so it seems craxy not to jump on it.
It and Lollipop Chainsaw are 2 for $40 at JB.
Get on it man, it’s a lot of fun. There’s a lot of silly humour included because it’s a standalone/fun title, they’ve let loose a little. Frank West is funny.
Dead Rising 2 was a hell of a lot of fun.
From what’d I’d heard from others (haven’t played Off the Record myself) OTR was basically a grab at the attention of people who liked Frank West, and wasn’t really worth it in comparison to DR2.
I guess if you haven’t played either, pick either. Though Chuck looks amazing in cut-off jean shorts and cowboy boots. Just sayin’.
I’m a bit late to it, but yah agree with eryone – great great Mad Men and Game of Thrones eps woo! As for Amazing Race…
DISAPPOINTED!MAD MEN. GAME OF THRONES. WOOOOO.
Haven’t watched Amazing Race yet.
Mad Men 6×06 spoilers:
Something makes me feel uneasy about this merger this time. There wasn’t that sense of excitement when they defected from the agency in season three. It’s an awesome story direction, but part of me thinks it won’t be as seamless this time for them. I guess they finally got Heinz sauce and Chevy now. 😀Game of Thrones latest ep spoilers:
Funniest episode of the season. I liked the awkward Sansa ‘date’ in the park and the conversation with Cercei and Tyrion afterwards about them all being dragged to hell together. XDMad Men…
I think Don needed to change things up for himself workwise. I felt bad for him having to come in and deal with Pete’s whinging and whatnot. But that being said, I felt so so bad for Joan when she was like if I can deal with him then you can :'( But I completely get Don’s disdain for that douche. When he started telling Don he was being guided by someone I knew he was gone XD But no I was excited to see the merge. I think youre right, but I also think its the best thing for Don. Which doesnt necessarily equate to best thing for Pete, but screw Pete 😀 Interesting reaction from Peggy though. I think its been good for her to be away from Don, and now she’s back there under him again. Do you reckon thats what it was more or less about? I think shed come to like the dynamic of the firm before the merge, and now all the negative stuff in her previous experiences will be back again I guess. Also, Trudy is so good this season. SO good. But fuck her dad, what a hypocritical douche XDGoT…
fuck couldnt be bothered typing any more haha! Sansa date was amazing. Ooooo I loved that momont with err, the wildling girl and Jon Snow, where shes all now youre indebted to me. Sneaaaaaaky! I get that shes genuinely in with him romanticwise, but theres no denying she had an agenda for making it happen. Very cool. You could see in his face that his last hope of jumping ship when he could was burnt away when she said that. Cool cool season…Agreed.
(Haha! Too lazy to type more elaborate thoughts, but basically agree on all counts. :D)
Mad Men:
I do think Peggy was disappointed that she’s back with Don and I suspect that the idea of getting Peggy back subconsciously appealed to Don ever since the Heinz pitch where she kind of ‘betrayed’ them. He took it out on Megan on set about the sex scene thing, but I think half of that was about Peggy. Man, Pete’s a punchable mofo, though I can understand why they’d be mad that Don made the call without even consulting them. (Even if it was the right one!) Poor Joan. :'(Oh hey @rocketman and @bdkiaf – a wild Vampire Weekend appears on the seven seas!
DOWNLOADING NOW
hype hype hype
Diane Young has been rotating through my playlist as much as new daft punk.
Thanks sughs, i will listen a few times and give you my review 😛
Diane Young is sooooooooo good. So good.
Wuuuuuuut? Why you gotta drop this shit on me while I’m at work?
Did you see the Steve Buscemi promo videos with them? So so funny. If not mebe you can watch them at work? Mebe?
Mebe.
Wait a minute. I am back in here a second day. And made repeated and frequent visits the previous day.
What have you done to me, @strange??
Ha! I knew if I could just get you onto Page 2 you’d never escape us!
I had a plan where I was going to mention you on each page but it soon became obvious I didn’t need to. 😛
Well, huff.
*sits on floor and sulks*
One of us, one of us…
Would anyone be interested in doing a podcast with me? Have the equipment and the will but struggling to find co-hosts.
There’s two already in here, it might be starting to get a little podcast crowded at three sadly 🙁
Nope. I listen to Potaku on Monday, Zeitgeist on Wednesday. There’s still three more work days to fill.
Would love to fill your spot.
That’s dirty.
But okay!
depends on what you’d be podcasting about
Games. Personally, I play a wide variety of genres and keep up to date with the news so it would be along those lines.
What’s the topic?
Judging by this website:
Deep Sea FishingI’d say yes but I can never get a free moment :-/
Needs moar chuloopa.
Alas, i am in a different state. lol
Can be/would be done over skype
Game of Thrones discussion: (potential spoilers, too I guess)
Is it just me, or does S3 feel like a whole lot of not much has happened? I realised yesterday was E6, which only leaves four for this season. Why do I feel like nothing much has happened? I think it’s more to do with the fact we’ve got 27 different stories going at once and it feels like they’re trying to spread themselves too thin. Not sure if this is what occurs in the books, but it doesn’t feel terribly interesting to present it in such a way for the TV show. I’m a huge fan of the series, and I’ve watched S1 and S2 two or three times over each.I dunno man. Not trying to be down on GoT or anything, but I feel like I’m getting a bit bored – at least compared to the previous seasons. I’m sure S3 will ramp up in the final episodes….. I don’t know.I guess I’m asking, is it just me?
Are the seasons still roughly following the books?
Because exciting things happen in Storm of Swords.
Book spoilers:
By which I mean Snape kills Dumbledore.Y’all know what I’m talking bout.
I’m not clicking that until someone confirms whether it’s book spoilers. It seems like it could be though.
Edit: Cool. Avoiding.
It is! Sort of.
Edited, though, my apologies.
You are trollin in dangerous territories 😛
I know, I know. Just glad I semi-spolier-proofed it.
Y’all totally know what I’m talking about if you’ve read the books though.
You’re right that this season has been a lot slower, but I feel like it’s just putting everything in place, setting up for the last 4 episodes. There are 3 different groups headed to the wall, Robb is preparing to take Casterly(sp?) Rock, and Daenerys now has an army. I think we’re in for a massive run to the end of this season. That said, I’ve been loving the build-up, the plotting and intrigue is really what the show is about.I think you’re right. I guess I kind of enjoy the build-up, plotting etc to be broken up with some actual events. S1 and S2 felt like they struck a much more even balance is all. I’m pretty sure shit’s going down in the next few episodes as well. Maybe I’m being impatient? Not sure.I’d say we’ll have a better idea when the season is finished. Almost everything so far has been setting up things long term, and I guess we won’t really have an idea of this season until we see the payoff for everything that’s happened so far. Wait and see how you feel at the end of the season, I’m expecting that your opinion will be different then.I suspect you are right.
Hold me.
Action and big plot points doesnt necessarily equate to more happening. There’s tonnes in my mind, but it’s all subtle and calculated.I want to make sure people don’t think I’m simply just missing the subtler points of the show, particularly regarding plotting, scheming, politics, etc. I mean I love Tywin and Tyrion Lannister in particular, setting things up, playing people off and whatnot. I just feel like S3 is missing something. Maybe I’m not pinpointing it correctly.Yeah but honestly, I respectfully disagree. This has been a great great season imo.Fair enough. I’m asking to see what other people think, after all!
Honestly, I thought
Book One was best book. Yep: book discussion to follow. No real spoilers though.Perfect balance. Everything after that has been kind of skewed. Quite verbose, and while deep with intrigue, has lost a lot of the subtextual magic of the first book. Makes sense the show would be the same.I did feel like E6 was a reeeeally slow episode. I swear about half the screen time was devoted to
the Wildlings climbing the wall.That said, plenty has still happened. Is the season only 10 eps long? I thought it was 12. I haven’t read this far (I’m currently haflway through the first book, my wife is on the 2nd) so I don’t know what’s expected to happen.
People I know who have read this far make references to
the Red Weddingwhich could beJoffrey and Margery or Tyrion and Sansa or Cersei and Lorasso I’m still completely in the dark.That is so good, that last guess, I love it! 😀
Now I assume it’s none of these. Here’s my reasoning for each case:
Red could refer to the Red Keep in which case Joffrey and Margery, or it could refer to Sansa’s red hair. I only threw Cersei and Loras in there because that’s the only other wedding I know about.Then again, we also have Melisandre floating around and she just bought Gendry from the Brotherhood without Banners, asserting she has big plans for him, so it could be something to do with her as a red priestess and the Lord of Light.
So basically that phrase means nothing to me because there’s half a diozen possiblities for what it could mean, and probably a hundred other things I haven’t conceived of.
I love this!
I HATE YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING ME SECOND GUESS MYSELF.
Seriously I assume red is probably a double-meaning for blood. I don’t think the “red wedding” relates to an actual wedding, but someone dying horribly during one of those events.
I’m not giving it away.
I just think this is awesome. (the guesswork not the h8)
I just feel silly for throwing out my silly theories. I’m normally so spot on with predicting stuff but that’s because I’m so used to conventional storytelling. G R R just doesn’t give a fuck, so I’m not keen to latch onto any one person as a likely hero, because they’ll probably die.
At this point I reckon Littlefinger will be more likely to sit on the iron throne before Robb Stark.
@kermitron
That’s the fun of these books/TV shows imho.
I get bored by so much stuff because I know the hero will win.
All bets are off in this series 😀
Not just you!
Well it slipped on twitter because I forgot that my tumblr posts are automatically tweeted, but over the weekend I proposed to my girlfriend of 5 years over champagne, strawberries and the sunrise view from the top of a local mountain range. The strawberries were a bit shit, there was too much fog to enjoy the view and worst of all the champagne was non-alcoholic…but she said yes!
Congratulations!
Hell yeah! Congrats, man.
Congrats, my friend! That’s all kinds of awesome!
Finally gave in to all the hinting, huh?
If only you would give in to my hint(we should get married)ing.
Pasta Salad.
Steak burgers.
“Read between the lines, Mr Simpson”
yey!
Well done boy! I hope that means you got negotiating potential to still play games 😛
And with that one statement, dreams across the nation are crushed
High five! It would be kind of uncomfortable if she said no.
I freakin’ love Ico. I really like the new direction of Tomb Raider, but part of me wanted a Tomb Raider game to be like this. Minimal combat, environmental puzzles and cool sense of ‘place’…
(Tomb Raider has a cool sense of place and environmental puzzles, but it’s not the same. :P)
Also eager to try SotC every time I see its icon on the main menu!
What about SotN?
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qSoXaKW2Pcw/TRpV9b8pPWI/AAAAAAAAATk/piD72UGH4iU/s1600/sotn-castle.png
Don’t know what that is. XD
Pure awesome 😀 That’s what!
That map reminds me of The Cave, though. Cool, interconnected areas.
It reminds me of DARK SOULS, where everything is interconnected.
Probably it inspired Dark Souls
Which itself was inspired by Metroid
Symphony of the night I think. Castlevania
Team Belmont. I was upset when my friend who was right into the twilight movies didn’t invite me to go see them with her. I would have bought the team Belmont shirt to go there. On the plus side, I didn’t have to see the movies
YOU HAVE HYPED THIS UP SO MUCH DC, CHOO CHOO
Can there be a hype train for a game over 10 years old?
Edit: http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/10/7-train-take-off.jpg
Haha, it’s a steam engine sitting out the back off the rails, filled with grandpas saying “Back in my day…”
Oh man, there used to be a restaurant here that had old tram/train cars with tables set up inside. So rad for a small child.
I fucking miss that place. Those schnitzels were HUGE as well. So good 🙁
They have huge schnitzels again! And cheap. No trains though 🙁
The trains were the draw card. I wanted to take my kids there 🙁
@shane – take them to an abandoned train lot and setup a picnic?
Abandoned train lots are awesome and creepy, ever since I played The X-Files adventure game! 😀
People have been hyping this up for me since 2001. XD
Edit: Also compliments on the user name, deecee. And the cat gravatar! I like you! 😀
Okay, so I’m slightly LttP. DEAL WITH IT 🙂
You are slightly Link to the Past?
Arent we all.
I thought Tomb Raider did have pretty minimal combat.
Thought to be honest, I find the Tomb Raider combat to be very trivial. It’s not challenging at all.
She killed over 1,000 people! 😀And it was far too easy. That being said I wonder how that number compares to other games.Also from about halfway through the game I’ve been questioning how so many people ended up on the damn island. I know they can’t leave but after killing 1000 people, and all the bodies strung up and skulls it implies that there were probably 5000 people on this island at some point. Most of the corpses are pretty fresh.
Yeah, that’s when it becomes clear that it’s really just a gameplay mechanic rather than story choice. I can understand that though.That emoticon there makes you sound psychotic 😛
Oh and while I’m actually posting I may as well ask if anyone can recommend a good turn-based game? Don’t know if I mentioned it but I broke my right (dominant) hand playing footy the other week and I can’t really control a mouse/controller. Turn-based is preferable because using a mouse with my left hand is pretty uncoordinated. Wii/PC are what I currently have running.
I hear chess is a decent option. Hearts as well. Your PC should have both, out of the box! \o/
Battle Chess!
<3
CIV V!
Leviathan Warships is fairly enjoyable. Bit short and fairly basic but can be quite hard and it’s only $10 on steam.
Wii and PC…I don’t…
Awww, I love Turn-based. 🙁
Might and Magic Heroes 6!
Hopefully you don’t have an nVidia card though… I’ve had lots of issues with that game
I’ve played the game on 3 different Nvidia cards (GTX Titan, GTX670 (both single and SLI) and a GTX460M) and never had a single issue. I have heard some people have had problems, but they may not be as widespread as people make out.
yeah I’ve had stuck-on-black-screen problems when going into battles (More often city siege fights) with my GTX 580, tried turning graphics down but that did nothing.
WAIT!
Final Fantasy VII is on PC!
Just set the combat to “WAIT”
X-com is awesome
Civ 5
Dungeons of Dredmor have new expansions if you haven’t played for a while
Blood bowl is turn based but has a time limit so depending on how well you can use mouse might work
There is a all the city building real time kinda games like evil genius or game of dwarves
Or you have the full range of point and click adventure games
Also welcome back
OMG I totally injured my left hand in a door. I’ve been playing Ticket to Ride…
Same here!
As in I’ve been playing Ticket to Ride too, not that I injured my hand a door.
My hand a door!
Xcom Enemy Unknown is turn based I believe, unless my memory failing me.
Dammit @tigerion!
😀
New cover design in a few days \o/
I’m literary excited. Book me a seat on the hype train. Page me if it leaves early.
Dad Joke Page 6. Yep, that just about covers it.
Puns on page 6? How novel.
What a painful chapter of our weekly schedule.
SEE, you can’t QUELL the mighty pun (which they say is mightier than the sword)!
You mean QUILL right?
If I wasn’t so desperately trying to pun with the word “sequel” I totally would pretend to have meant “quill”
You could have used SEE QUILL and got the rare double pun.
I might never get that opportunity again 🙁
I’d totally subscribe to that idea.
Conflicted. Want to upvote stuff about new cover design, don’t want to enable destructive pun behaviour. :'(
Yes it might turn into a comic-sans-atrophy
that was a reach
Comic-sans gets a bad rap.
Sidevote motherfucker.
These puns send chills down my spine.
Nice! You should totally spend some more time around here.
A punner around here is treated like a prints. Or like royalties at least.
Stop it, you’re giving me a hard cover!
For this @batguy meat tomorrow, do you guys just want to meet around 11:30 to 12:00ish outside the EB next to Rocking Horse again? MOS Burger is across from it and that food place we went to with Tigs is a couple of minutes away. (Unless anyone’s got better times, more elaborate plans? :D)
No.
They haven’t forgotten me \o/
Still waiting for that write-up. 😛
Sounds like a plan. My attendance will now depend on if my son gets better, though. 🙁
🙁 Aw, hope he feels better.
I won’t be able to attend. Will be out of the city that day. /o\
…
:'(
To be specific, I can’t make it due to having to work on Wednesdays now.
Who’s definitely going? Definitely don’t want to subject Batguy to one-on-one D.C. alone time. XD
Yeah that would suck.
I’m going to be eating lunch at Mos Burger regardless. If I have to do so by myself, so be it.
me, but I don’t like Mosburger (it’s OK, dunno what all the fuss is about)
Sweet! I’ll definitely be going as long as it’s not just me. Strangers scare me!
:'(
I told you deecee I’m going, y u no remember
That’s 4!
Haha! That’s true, I like reassurance though. Reassurance is good! 😀
So Tool were good last night. Not the greatest Tool concert I’ve ever seen but was good hear a couple songs I hadn’t seen them play live for a very long time. And oh man was Opiate incredible.
Not sure of the logic behind a 12 minute intermission halfway through, though. It broke the atmosphere. Not to mention all the people who paid over $100 for a ticket only to constantly just get up and down and go buy drinks or whatever. I was sitting close-ish to an aisle and there was a steady stream of people going up and down it for almost the whole time. So distracting! >:(
One thing that sucked though is the amount of quality live bands I’ve seen since I last saw Tool. I know it’s Tool’s thing to kind of be chilled and have the music and visuals speak for them but after seeing for instance Epica, Nightwish or Sabaton who are all incredible showmen, Tool themselves onstage were kind of boring. They had a humongous stage but barely moved from their designated spots. I miss the early days when I saw them in more intimate venues where they had nowhere to hide and had to actually perform. #oldladystrange
I’ve also had almost no sleep. Got into bed and was woken by my son who was not well. He stayed in our bed all night, wriggling, and kicking us and constantly saying “Owww!”. At least with him sick though he’s too busy snuggling me to get into mischief.:P
Could be worse. I’ve heard of Maynard doing whole shows facing the back of the stage XD
When I saw APC he didn’t stop staring at the right wing of the stage. Didn’t even acknowledge the crowd existed.
Was pretty boring.
I was at that gig, I was really impressed by what a dick he was being. Hilarious!
I expect that kind of behaviour from him though.
What a tool.
I’ve been to one of those! I’ve also been to one where he was singing practically into my face. I know which I prefer. 😛
They had a question on spicks and specks about pick what actually happened when Stevie wright was doing that when singing Evie to a fan.
He through up on them.
You dodged a bullet that time Strange
I had Cat Power sing right in front of me once. Then she picked a winner right between verses and flicked it towards me. Mixed emotions on that one.
Oh! And also, despite keeping an eye out for Sephiroth/@gutsoup I was very disappointed to not even catch a glimpse of him.
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What I liked about Tool when I saw them many moons ago, was that they could actually perform they’re songs live to the quality it is on the album.
So many live gigs I saw were dissapointing because they just couldn’t pull off live what they did in the studio.
Unfortunatly for me, I love a good studio album.
I dunno. While I agree with that sentiment, there’s many bands who can surpass the album live. That’s when a live show is something special.
Sure, sure.
I was just content with musicians that could play their instruments.
That’s why I can’t enjoy Sigur Ros anymore, that live show just killed the studio recordings.
Something something something GUILD WARS 2 something something
@rize
What’s a rize?
(I downloaded GW2 last night)
A strange sensation in my pants when I think about Blaghs.
JOIN US NOB! JOIN USSSSS!
I will join you! (Not the in the pants part though, just the game part).
I think that’s a fair compromise.
Why @blaghman why?
Because I’m a monster.
Jerkman
OI WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?
I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD?
Why are you questioning yourself about me being dead?
Also busy and stuff.
Which reminds me, You need to remind me i will get your PAX ticket, or i will be all like, WHy the shit have i got 3?
Don’t forget Rocket, you’re getting my PAX ticket.
Wait, what? You guys are getting into it? (again?) I’m normally on at least once every 2 days or so…. (Sea of Sorrows)
I’m on Sea of Sorrows but I’ve been guesting to Rizes server because reasons.
What kind of content have you guys been running?
We started new characters so just derping around at the moment
I really need to pick that up again, I updated last week.
Also Just Cause 2 is currently $3.74 on Steam. Do it.
@sughly
First listen of Vampire weekend album, I really like it, im not exactly sure why, to me i cant find a overall theme of the album each song is so different, Don’t get me wrong it is still filled with those vocals i adore and a really meleodic pop tunes that make me so very happy im just not exactly sure what they were going for. I hope i figure it out in a few more listens.
Personal faves
Worship you- very uplifting, i enjoy the train sounding drums and the lyric delivery which is at 100 miles n hour.
I hadnt given it a listen since I was watching NBA 😀 But I’m up to Worship You right now. So far I’m agreeing with you completely. I loooooved Hannah Hunt though, oh man that was great. It’s a lot more solid on first listen than what I remember thinking hearing Contra for the first time though…
Its totally solid and yes i also enjoyed Hannah Hunt. I imagine i am going to listen to it a lot.
Haha. Actually I really like that on a whole its a lot calmer. It ebs and flows in intencity which I quite like. Of course the high tempo ones are amazing (ala Diane Young), but the calmer sections are really really nice.
HOLY SHIT how good is Hudson!? :O Whhoooooaaaa… what an amazing direction of their sound. Incredible.
Hudson is kind of creepy and great at the same time. Thats my fave of the slower tempo ones.
Just as I was typing that XD
:'(
I will talk about it all over again witchu
Hello.
*smooch*
Oh my.
Good morning, how are you? I’m Doctor Worm.
@dc
If you like interconnected, that game should be available on PSN
Dunno how much they charge in AussiStralia though.
that game …
😀
Oh man, Richard Scarry books were the fucking best.
Sometime kickstarter can just be mean
One of the project I have back have released stretch goals that sound awesome, modern road rash remake and they have just added a stretch goal of Rift support. They are pushing to even make their target, let alone the stretch goals.
Why do they taunt me so.
In the hopes that people start excitedly throwing money in order to get to target, and then everyone will be like awww we didnt get so and so stretch but the people campaigning will be like lol yay money
So what you are saying is that people are getting excited so if I get excited as well and send them money it will get Rift support.
Thanks Sughly!
No problem!
Wait
Morning TAYbies, someone was cruel and showed me these … now I have a mighty need to get them.
http://juniperbooks.com/?s=harry+potter&post_type=product
Wow!
They’re a little expensive, but damn I want that hufflepuff set. it looks amazeballs
See I like Harry Potter, but then people go and say stuff like hufflepuff and I’m like fuck why do I like this.
Damn it Sughly … I thought you were cool.
What’s wrong with hufflepuff?
I dont even remmeber what a hufflepuff is. Sounds like Play School slang for drugs.
Who doesn’t enjoy a good hufflepuff behind the school hall between classes?
Unfortunately them and ravenclaw are kind of just there in the background of the whole books.
Thats where the drug kids tend to hang
Typical Slytherin.
Put your cool in your pocket and relax
Oh that website is cooooool.
Pretty intrigued by the whole @kermitron and @jimu GoT thread up there. So I’mma hijack it and bring it here :3
No I just wanted to continue on the last points you brought up… EP spoilers, no book talk pleeeease
I cant see Rob Stark getting anywhere near the throne. He’s up against a woman with a huge army and dragons, a sneaky weasily man who knows how to get his way constantly (finger of little), and then this whole god of light business. As if a little well meaning family with a bunch of people here and there willing to help can make a dent in that. Of course, I too am just speculating since I hasnt read anything, but yeah… Rob doesnt seem to have much going for him in comparison :/Actually, UNLESS
Rob previals by being all smart and clever and doing smart and clever stuff at all the right times so we can all be like yay go the good guys! and have something to cheer about. And then he’ll get killed. Or something. And it will be bittersweet and we will be like yaaaay… oh… yay? And be emotionally confused as always.Book spoilers that are clearly labelled as such, mostly just to annoy you since you specifically didn’t want them:
Ahahahaha. Hahahaha. Oh Robb. *wipes tear of laughter from eye*Booooo! Booo I say!
I think that Robb
was screwed the second he lost the Karstarks, and the Lannisters know it. Moving on Casterly Rock is the only option he has right now, but I reckon he doesn’t make it. I feel like he’s being built up to be the winner which probably means he’s going to die soon. I’m not sure what’s going to happen with Catelyn, frankly i’m surprised Robb didn’t execute her when she released Jamie.As for Daenerys
now that she has 8,000+ Unsullied and however many Dothraki and three dragons that are growing bigger all the time, I don’t see how she can be stopped. Yet we’re only on the third book out of a planned seven! Either it’s a reeeeeeally long way from Q’arth to King’s Landing, or she faces some serious obstacles on the way, which are probably just going to result in her being a bigger menace with a bigger army.Littlefinger
is being shipped off to the Eyrie (however you spell that) which makes him the new Warden of the East, which is where Daenerys is coming from, right? If he doesn’t somehow still get ahold of Sansa despite her betrothal to Tyrion and secure control of whatever’s left of the North, he’ll probably just join Daenerys when she rolls into town. He’s an excellent opportunist, if nothing else.I don’t really see Stannis as a serious threat at this point.
He seems to really have nothing going for him, since the Battle of the Black Water.Yeah its true about Stannis
But god of light! Some freaky shit there, makin freaky babehs and bringing people back to life and god knows what else this woman plans to do. She keeps talking about how she knows he will get what he deserves and stuff, and she seems to have a pretty good idea about things. Also ermagerd at what she saw in Arya. WoooOOOooo! Ominous…Well it’s interesting that Melisandre
has captured/bought Gendry and has plans for him. She abandoned Stannis because “his fires burn low”, but has great things in store for Gendry. he is a Baratheon, is that going to be significant? I wonder if she plans to use him to boost Stannis’ strength somehow, or even use him to replace Stannis outright, or just use him to make more ahdow babies.I really just have no idea at this point.
Geography points (relating to your Littlefinger stuff):
The Eyrie is the keep of “The Vale (Also known as The Vale of Arryn)” which is on the Eastern side of Westeros (the continent which The North, King’s Landing, Dorne, The Wall, etc. etc. are on). As it is though, it’s not even the most Eastern part, the Eastern coast of Westeros is more or less straight down, for a large chunk that is across from Essos. Essos is the other main continent, that has The Free Cities (Bravos, Myr, Pentos etc.), Qarth, The Dothraki Sea, and so forth. Its western edge (which has the Free Cities on it) is across the Narrow Sea from Westeros. As a note, Qarth is on the Eastern edge of Essos, which makes it a very long way away from Westeros.So, as it stands, it’s a very long way from where Daenerys is, and there’s a very large of stuff in between them, and the two logical routes from where she is would either be across Essos again, landing somewhere on the Eastern edge of Westeros (such as the Eyrie), or via boat, and probably landing in Dorne.Cool, thanks. I have the first book in ebook format and I’ve been reading it on my phone. It has maps in the front but I haven’t bothered to examine them because it’s just too bloody small, so my geographic knowledge comes from the opening credits map which I see fleetingly once a week. 😛
Hahaha, that’s fair. I got about halfway through the first book before I sat down with a map, and I spent a good hour or so going through the wiki, just trying to wrap my head around it. I’ve never been good at maps, so it was a bit of a pain.
I can’t comment cos I read the books 🙂
Anyone got much knowledge about cloud storage? I really want/need something that just lets me select a folder on my PC to automatically sync to the cloud and preferably just show up on my mac. So, save on PC, automatically uploads to cloud, automatically downloads folder to my mac and lets me do the same thing in reverse (mac to pc).
At the moment I’m using Skydrive but it only syncs things shoved in the Skydrive folder, and that’s annoying and not very useful.
ben use drop box, and download the client side software.
Will do! Thanks 🙂
Dropbox will do that.
ICO!
After unlocking the East Gate, I’m now at this weird place with a room with six explosives and no obvious place to go. I suspect I need to explode the water tower, but have to ponder how to get the bombs up there. Or find the obvious other path I totally missed. 😛Great game!
Back to Ico!
YOU CAN TOTALLY THROW THE BOMBS! D:IT’S TIME FOR CHULOOPA’S ‘IN MY ASS’ GAME!!!
The name of the last song you listened to with ‘in my ass’ added to the end of it!!!
FUN TIME!!
—
Get Lucky in my ass
As much as this thread grosses me out… the last song I heard was called Finger Back :/
It’s because of that song title this game grosses you out so much! 😀
I refuse to defile this John Williams music I’m listening to. >:|
Warzone in my ass
I went to sleep listening to that soundtrack last night. So good.
Beds are Burning in my ass
Into The Night In My Ass
(I’ll try again later)
she shook me all night long in my ass…
Jenny Was a Friend of Mine (in my ass)
The Things I’ve Done in my ass
Aria of the Soul in my Ass. Doesn’t really have that good a ring to it.
Stupid Girl in my ass.
Heart shaped box in my ass
Smells Like Teen Spirit in my ass.
Nike and the Dove – The Fox in my ass
Champion in my ass…
I Appear Missing in my ass
all you glasses wearing folk…. is it normal to get eyestrain the first time you wear them? mine just came today but even though my vision is great, they seem to be putting a bit of strain on my eyes.
Yes. Your eyes aren’t used to seeing like that and are having a spaz trying to adjust to the norm.
yeah, i figured as much i think im paying too much attention to the frame which also isnt helping….
No bullshit, this is why I moved to large frame Raybans. (literally, before it was cool)
Little frames gave me really bad headaches.
If it persists, join the huge mega frame club.
We’re pretty cool.
I got headaches for a week or so after I started wearing them. It’ll pass.
I got a bit when I first started wearing them, but five minutes without them for every three or four hours with them was pretty manageable.
ive been taking them off every half hour for about 5-10 minutes each time. my eyes feel so relaxed every time…
Give it a coupla days, if it’s still so bad, then there may be an issue with your prescription.
Absolutely. Even as someone who has worn glasses for 23 years, every time I up my prescription it takes a few days to get used to them again.
i think im kinda lucky i only need to wear them when im in front of a computer but even then thats at least 12-14 hours a day for me :S
I originally only needed mine in school and to watch TV, my eyes were supposed to correct themselves back to normal after a few months.
Nope. 🙁
Yeah man. I’m three weeks in, and it’s only just starting to get good. Really starting to notice the difference when I’m not wearing them though! Can’t believe how much I must have been straining before.
god, i hope you’re right man…. its just painful at the moment… 🙁
I was there. I’m sure that if I wasn’t so damn lazy, I could find my TAY post asking the very same question you’re asking, in fact. It was lousy painful for a while, with headaches, and especially aching eyes. It’s all starting to turn a corner now for me, and (hopefully) will for you too!
Every evening I get eye strain 🙁
Amazing Race spoilers! @greenius @sughly @dc
Man, SO disappointed 😛 The ONE team I didn’t want to win won by a mile. Ugh! I hate when we have a runaway winning team though. They should put an equaliser-point before the final challenge. They had enough of them throughout the series when they didn’t need them!I can see why nobody has really discussed anything yet though. Nothing really spectacular happened. It was frustrating watching some of the challenges in this series though because they looked so easy (even though they’re probably much harder than they appear). Like the Singers and the swimming in muddy water challenge. I’m thinking JUST SWIM. IT’S NOT THAT HARD 😛
Oh well. At least I don’t have to be reminded of the team youtube ‘raise the roof’ scene in the title sequence anymore 😛
Good to discuss these things with you all though! Hopefully you’ll join me in watching The Mole when it starts airing! (on Channel 7 I think?)
People still watch that?!?!
I thought show peaked as soon as the girl got slugged in the face with a mellon-pault!
Get out.
That was the funniest challenge I’ve ever seen in my life.
Right in the kisser! (I’m still surprised she walked away unharmed :P)
Such great television
HOW THE HELL DID THAT NOT BREAK EVERY BONE IN HER FACE?!
I hated that there was nothing to slow the hockey guys down with. They can ask people stuff for the case obviously, they can throw and catch balls. I suppose the geography thing could potentially throw them, but theyd be stupid not to freshen up on that stuff for the race. Needed something more puzzley before it. Eh well. Was good discussing with you too popo!But The Mole is Australian and thus, will be harder to yargh! episodes 😛
Not sure how much more of today I can take.
i feel you man…im having one of those days too… i had a 4 day long weekend and first day back is just painful.
More incentive to drive safely.
Indefatigable
Such an awesome word.
Listening to Eve of the War again.
So. Much. Awesome.
New QoTSA.
Sick.
Woooowwww. I was excited for this album before, but holy crap. That exceeded my expectations right there.
(Could even say it was… sick sick sick. Hyuk. Hyuk)
Maybe.
Probs wouldn’t, but.
But… it did.
What?
In response to “Could even say it was… sick sick sick.” ya Charlie!
EDITED TO DE-JIMU ORIGINAL.
OOOHHHHHH hehe.
Heh.
Good song though.
Yeah, dawg.
Why is it that building air conditioning has to ALWAYS be permanently set to “arctic”?
It’s hard enough to cram behaviour trees into my head as it is, but there’s a torrent of icy air just gush down the wall and pummeling me from above. Beanie’s saving me from dying completely, but really wish I’d brought a jacket now. Would probably need gloves also. Actually would definitely need gloves.
Offices are ridiculous. Here, I need to wear a jumper in the summer and short sleeves in winter. It’s insane. There’s no way it can be healthy changing temperature so drastically and suddenly several times a day :\
You have my sympathies – your situation sounds even worse 🙁
Actually one of the places I worked at, I was going in wearing basically a three piece suit every day just in the hopes of staying somewhat warm. Kept the jacket on all day and had a knitted vest on underneath. Even when the weather was hot, still went in exactly the same.
Here at school (college, whatever), I was bringing in a hooded jacket to school every day even throughout summer, so I could at the very least pull the thing over my head. This year we’re in a room that isn’t subject to the building’s ducted system, so it hasn’t been so bad and I haven’t been bringing it in. But I’m in during the first year’s half of the week at the moment, and their teacher doesn’t like second years using the spare machines in there any more so I have to sit here on the spare machines in the lunch room. Soooo much worse than what I had last year.
Got somewhat of a solution now though. I went and filled my lunchbox with hot water from the tap, then microwaved it a little. Now I’m sitting here with it on my lap. Seems to work ok.
Thermal underwears.
This is not a bad idea, but can come back to bite you if you’re moving between temperatures. I always regret thermals when I get to work and find that I’ve emerged into a tropical setting.
Saved my life in Japan!
Actually it was weird. Here, I complain endlessly about it being cold on all those 14-~20º days. Over there though, it was between -1 and 10 every single day, and I spent the whole trip comfortably walking around in t-shirts. Mine were the only bare pair of arms I saw the whole time I was over there 😛 Whenever I had my jacket on in the daytime, I just got too hot, a thin pair of gloves and my beanie were enough for warmth.
Why are jeans so good at letting the cold go straight through them anyway? And what alternatives are there in pants, really? I mean, other than tracksuit pants.
Suit pants. Suit pants are great. You can wear them with a t-shirt, or a proper shirt. Well-fitted suit pants are best pants.
This is true. I remember when I first got my suit for my year 12 formal, they were the most comfiest pants I’d ever worn. Not sure I could wear them everywhere though, especially with all the crap I carry in my pockets.
OH sweet zombie jesus … My mum was cleaning out her cupboards and found the driver disk for her scanner and all my old baby pictures and she’s putting them up on facebook.
D:
Could be worse. My mother put up a heap of photos of the stupid things I did as a teenager. Including pink hair.
Sassy!
My mum had enough of those as well … luckily they were slowly acquired by me over a few years. There shall be no evidence I am anything less than awesome. Although she does still have a baby picture of me covered in what she assures me is vegemite but could easily be mistaken for other things
The freaky ones always have whacky hair.
hahahahahhahahahahahha
You are adorable
Damn straight I am, but my friends are mostly bastards and there’s a few blackmail worthy pictures she’s uploading and purposefully tagging me in
Thomas Was Alone.
Why did nobody warn me it was a platformer. I hate jumpy games. >:(Wait…I do hate jumpy games, so why can’t I stop playing this?!Claire the superhero has joined me for the last few levels but now Claire Was Alone. And there’s spikes.Stoopid spikes.I give up. 🙁For now….“I hate jumpy games”
🙁
I really, REALLY, dislike Thomas Was Alone.
Does it get less shit gameplay wise?
I’m still having to stack blocks over and over to make it up large jumps and I think I’ve met the water one.
Does it get better?
I’m just past the water one. Had to turn it off again because it was frustrating. It’s just more of the same. I’m assuming because of all the accolades its story is what makes it great so I’m sticking it out awhile to see.
That’s disheartening.
Is it’s story actually anything special or is it Innernette giving it a free pass due to the British stand up narrator?
Maybe I should stick with CoD.
Blood Dragon.
It has a narrator? I’m pretty sure when I played it on pc it was narratorless… is that a new thing?
Not sure.
I’m playing the Vita version that only just came out? I think?
I think there was a Flash game first (you probably played that?) but I believe the proper PC version that came out last yearish had narration.
I can’t even imagine playing it without a narrator. It would be pretty crap without it.
I’ll let you know if it’s worth it when/if I make it to the end.
Theanx!
That part is kind of annoying and even the creator regrets a lot of it (especially stairs and shit… fuck off!). Honestly, if you hate that there is quite a bit of it but most of it is right at the first few chapters (should start to be less by the time you meet Claire).
That aspect really annoyed me too but I enjoyed the game enough to stick around. Give it another shot I guess as that stuff does decrease but it’s still there throughout the game, but made manageable by the “story” and different characters.
Story stuff:
Is it really that good? Honestly, I didn’t really think so but I just liked how everything was done and how these shapes had names and personalities and shit. Something about that just seemed so stupidly awesome.
I’ve moved on a few levels now
and met Laura. Just at an annoying level where they’ve just got back together and need to all float up on Claire whilst pushing some buttons on the way to make the water level rise.I quit again. 😛I really do hate platforming. Is it worth it to continue? To be honest I wouldn’t even have played it this much if my son hadn’t been loving it and commenting and encouraging me.
Like I said below, the platforming isn’t really too hard and those water rising levels are probably the hardest, but it IS a puzzle/platformer so if you’re not into it then it’s probably not for you 🙁Yeah, the stacking element is driving me nuts.
I’ll try and get through it but I also dislike the narrator, but I like the idea of them all being programming anomalies.
I’d recommend playing it with the developer commentary instead (or just turning the narration off). It provides an awesome insight into the game and it’s really interesting but I guess the developer one is a bit spoilery
Luckily it’s not very jumpy or hard and it’s more about just playing it rather than actual platforming or puzzle solving 🙂
My favourite thing on YouTube is still this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py_30jZGUYk It might always be this 😀
My god… that was AMAZING!!!
It makes me happy every time I see it. No matter what mood I was in before. It’s completely magic.
I LOVE FotC, yet i’ve never seen this.
It toally made my day.
It also seems as though NZ musos are 20x more talented than anything we’ve offered up.
Careful what you say there boyo
As soon as i said that i knew hipster Sughly would dive straight into the fray 😛
You should pay more attention to me. I post this link at least once a month! \o/
NSW Taybies – random question – do any of you live in camden or near camden?
NOPE.
#Helping
I used to know a guy who does.
I know a guy who says he used to know a guy who does.
#Helpius
He sounds charming.
@shiggyninty kind of is. I’m pretty sure @fatshadylive is down that way as well.
Hope this lifts everyone’s spirits! 🙂
My chances of getting into the police force are getting increasingly slim as more customers keep it up.
On the positive side I will be able to claim that I’ve killed someone and be all dangerous and mysterious.
“I once killed a man…”
“So?”
“I killed him with a transponder”
“dayyuuummm”
Ohhh anyone else see that nba game with spurs and golden state just then?
No? Anyone..?
Because it was really good 🙁
Basketball is foul. Actually, I would have watched it, but I am layed-up at work. I hoop next time things will be different.
#LegitSportsballJokes
I wish I hadnt already used up my ‘Get out’ for this week
Use one of mine … I never use them so I’ve got a backlog
Don’t worry man. We’re golden. I was just spurring you on to greater things 😛
You’re a monster, Shane. 🙁
Get. Out.
Wat. You usually like my puns. Guess I was courting disaster.
6th personal foul.
Ejected from game.
I once tried out for the school basketball team in Year 7. Didn’t make the cut.
Then they recruited a classmate who was a foot shorter than me 😛
Where’s the pun? I don’t get it. Maybe I’m just a dribbling idiot, or a basket case.
There was no pun.
The moral of the story is that I was so bad at basketball that my height advantage couldn’t even net me a shot on the team.
(THERE’S YOUR PUNS)
*releases held breath* Phew.
PS: You don’t have to be so defensive.
Good day for it.
HE’S ON FIRE!
That part where the Spurs centre charged down the middle right up to the base line to score the halftime final was amazing.
Actually youre not far off, and it kind of was XD
That was a bit of a long shot!
#3Points
I wish Houston would start being good again 🙁
I miss Hakeem…
Houston are good. They only just got beaten by OKC, who came second last year
Yeah i know, i know. I mean, i should be happy we have so many awesome players.. but still. I was a championship.
*crosses arms and pouts*
@jacksonwryan likes basketball!
Hey @jacksonwryan! Talk to meeeeee, I’m so lonely
I like me some basketball.
I also have work though, so no, I didn’t see the game.
:'(
Sughly! I didn’t know you liked basketball? Do we follow each other in twitter. I am much more active there, but yes. I did see the game! The spurs are my team man! I almost died… We had no right being in that game and yet… Somehow we got back into it and then we won. Instant classic. Stephen Curry was unconscious the entire third quarter… He could not miss. Ugh. I am worried about this series but it’s super exciting.
As for other games… Well new York aren’t food enough to beat the pacers, the bulls game was interesting but you can’t imagine they’d win the series, though the proverbial is amongst the pigeons there and the grizz… They *should* overrun the thunder in the end, the thunder are struggling hard.
Hope that satiated your hunger for basketball talks!
Ps. Spelling errors because phone.
Love Hermes.
Based on some of you guys calling me Perstephanie a lot, this commenter on Gizmodo just kind of freaked me out. 😛
It’s meant to be. Don’t fight destiny.
LOLOLOL!
… Perstephanie XD
Too bad :p
I’m BORED.
@dkzeitgeist, any chance of two eps a week? Or, you know, like, eight?
@doc_what, @shiggyninty, same question.
http://smodcast.com/channels/hollywood-babble-on/
I’ll start a daily Potaku side-podcast. Just two hours of me playing games or reading comics and giving play-by-play commentary. Babbling Pants.
I’ll work on the name. Or, best suggestion gets a free t-shirt.
I’ll start with a Dark Souls playthrough. And when it’s done I’ll remix a special episode filled with all the swearing and rage.
If you sing throughout it, it could be like, Pants Chants.
Pants Transplants!
Pants Rants.
YOU WIN A T-SHIRT.
Does it have your face on it? I want it to be like one of those Che Guevara shirts, except that Pants Supplants himself there.
Okay, that one was a stretch.
Just for that I’m revoking your free t-shirt prize.
Maan, suddenly busy day means I missed a bunch of TAY. I mean, I COULD go back and read it, buuuut…
But Butts
I’d link a pic, but at wurk 🙁
Blergh!
How many times have I told you people, it’s “Blaghs.”
Don’t make fun of my accent, racist >:-(
Did you start up P4G straight away or you having a break?
I’m trying to finish P3P before P4A arrives because there’s some crossover.
I’m taking a break. I’ll probably play P4A before I do a new playthrough.
Have you already played P3 or P3P?
I have not, P4G was my first.
Playing P3P, it’s decent but nowhere near as good.
Suprisingly in every way. Social aspects aren’t as well realised, art style isn’t as good, character development, music, battles.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m enjoying it, it’s fun. You can really see how much of a jump 4 was though.
Finished Ico. 7 hours, 30 minutes. Not the longest of games, but extremely good. Great story too.
*crosses Ico off game list*
I think I’ll hold off starting SotC for a while.
You know what game I miss? Ico. :'(
I’ll shut up talking about Ico now. Sorry for the ramblings. Haha!YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO TALK ABOUT THINGS YOU LIKE. ESPECIALLY VIDEO GAMES ON A VIDEO GAME SITE. 😛
Honestly man, no one is bothered! It’s sparking discussion and everyone’s happy :D. Keep at it, you bum!
I feel like the last two days I’ve just been spamming Ico and then leave to play Ico and then spamming Ico on my triumphant return. 😛
And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that :)!
Woah…I had not even seen your comment when I posted mine. Creepy!
I was about to edit my comment saying that this was “Freaky”. Not exactly “Creepy” but somewhat similar thought! :O
Freaky x2!
There is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
I WIN!
@greenius: What was the part of the game you thought I’d hate? (You mentioned something yesterday about that.)
I think it was like a watermill or something and you have to do some platforming on it. Maybe 3/4 way into the game? It was just annoying because the platforming and jumping was done really badly because it was dated and because it was so bad I didn’t think I needed to go there 😛Oh yeah, some times the platforming could be a bit annoying, but I found it forgivable since it’s from the PS2 era.
Yeah, doesn’t mean it wasn’t annoying though! 😀
Some things in SotC annoyed me too and you’ll soon see what!
Optimism! *shakes fist*
😀
Great game though! You’ll love staring at all the environment things!
Don’t hold off. The feels you have will serve you well on your lonely SotC journey.
But… I miss you guys and if I start it now you won’t see me for the rest of the week. XD
Yeah we will. It’s kind of broken up into sections so you can report back to us after each major event.
Oh really? I like the idea of playing a chapter a day!
Not sure why Strangey is being Vaguey but you can most definitely just play a Colossi (or two) a day. No point holding out as all you’ll want to do is play it anyway!
You can always replay them 🙂
I’m being vague because I wanted him to be able to experience as much as he can without the details so fresh in his mind.
Good luck having the willpower to stop though. 😛
I have plenty of willpower.
*looks at unopened Final Draft*
:'(
Took me longer than I care to admit working out that Ico was the kids name. :SEnding spoilers.
Really liked how the end of the game mirrored the opening, except with Ico retracing his steps on purpose, wanting to get back inside this place. The storm and all the touches of detail. So damn good.Maybe you can tell me since it’s fresh in your mind
I got stuck, I been all around the castle and I made it back to what looked like a sofa with the girl, a place I’m pretty sure I’d been before but not with her.I read something about walking out of the castle and the game changing after that.
I was stuck, would it make sense that I was supposed to walk out of the castle?
It was a long time ago and my memories are foggy, sorry if this desription is too vague
Was it a court yard with a bunch of pedestals with lanterns on them? By the front gate?Sorry, I really can’t recall :-/
I’ll replay it eventually. If they did a Vita port I’da got it already, but my PS3 pile just grows
I have drawn so many chairs oh god, chairs erywhere. That’s what I get for putting a tavern in Annas Quest :'(
Any Brothers Grimm-like twist to the chairs? Possibly transformed customers who have wronged the inn keeper some how? D:
…
Or just the regular kind?
Regular kind 🙁
They have straw seats though! Woo?
Fancy!
Will the chairs have stuff scratched into them by travellers?
Stuff like janeandjohn4eva or so and so was here.
@sughly
Woooaaaahhhh. Chvrches are rad. Not enough songs though 🙁
Yep yep. Mother we share right, soooo good. Was one of my faves last year. Theyve been recording an album though, should be getting it at some point this year woo
Synth for daaaaayyysss. Recover EP only has 3 songs and 2 remixes 🙁
Yeah. 3 pretty good songs though. Not a big fan of recover, but love now is not the time. But if thats the only Chvrches you got, do make sure you track down Mother we share, easily my fave of theirs.
Already listened to it on YouTube about 5 times this afternoon.
Oh yeah thats right, you might like this mebe – they did a game of thrones cover XD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hECvAGhMPxM
I may have already found that 😛
I posted this before and noone liked it :'(
Where were you bdkiaf? WHERE WERE YOU!?
@sughly: I said it then, I’ll say now… why ruin a perfectly good theme song? 😛
Hey @dc and @batguy, looks like I’m probably gonna be able to make lunch tomorrow because I have a rad boss.
Beardy: Yeah my friends are going out for lunch tomorrow, and I’m kinda bummed I’m gonna miss it 🙁
Boss: Oh, I didn’t think you were coming in tomorrow at all, so just take the day off if you like.
Yeah, you’re all my friends. You’re just gonna have to deal with that little truth nugget. Even @dkzeitgeist.
😀 Woooo!
So meet at 11:30ish, lunch at 12ish at Mos Burger. Is that still the plan?
Not sure if MOS Burger is 100% certain, but we’ll be meeting at that time outside EB Games next to Rocking Horse. Decide from there what to eat, though MOS is conveniently right across the street. 😀
Hooray! \o/
Mosburger is gross.
You’re not lichen it?
Page 6 is <– that way.
I’m a lone wolf.
I do my best work alone.
Just ask Sally.
Lol, wanking.
I’ve been uninvited D:
:pOh my word! http://www.precursorgames.com/shadowoftheeternals/
Edit due to failing at quote tags
Oh man. Episodic content would fit that type of game so well. Hell, Eternal Darkness was pretty much 12 (or was it 13/14?) standalone chapters.
Man, those sanity effects were the best. I remember playing through the 3 paths to unlock the ‘true’ ending 😀
Such a great game!
Hahahahahahahahaahahahha!!!!
Game of Thrones S03E06 episode spoilers. Click me.
“Oh he’s a sword swallower, through and through” was a great lineFavourite line in that ep…
… was from Cersei about the arranged marriages, saying they’ll all be dragged to hell together. XDAs if Cersei is going to take this laying down. Some shits gonna go down, and its going to be her causing it.Great season! 😀
I think I preferred Aidan Gillen’s speech at the end about chaos, not exactly a line but still cool.I… don’t know who that is. Haha! Game of Thrones names and D.C. don’t mix. 😛
Petyr Baelish in the show, Aidan Gillen is his RL name
…
Carcetti!
The Wire will be lost on this pleb 😛
@sughly: TREME! >:|
Baelish = Littlefinger. The guy with the beard. The one that isn’t a bald eunuch.
Ooooh, the villain from Shanghai Knights
@sughly @dc @greenius
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3r3ph1ecX1qctd9y.jpg
Petyr Baelish aka. Littlefinger aka. The guy who cannot hold a consistent accentOoooh
Whore House guy!aka the only known pimp in a world full of prostitutes.Aka the guy at the start of The Dark Knight Rises who doesn’t think to check under the hoods of the captives before letting them on his plane.Tyrion’s response to that was better.Tyrion/ Arya > everything else
@greenius: After playing Ico, I can see the influences of the game on Double Fine Amnesia Fortnight’s White Birch… only no where near as good. XD
Yeah, it tried too hard to be Ico and it failed pretty badly 😛
BLACK LAKE ALL THE WAYYYYYYY
Phew, today was… rough. Anxiety attack (btw, thanks @dkzeitgest, I really appreciate the help man.) which turned out to be all for naught. Essentially spent the day wasting my time, in the end 😛
Anyway, I’m pooped. It’s bedtime.
@dkzeitgeist
…dammit.
Disappointing.
How shit are anxiety attacks? I went through a patch when I was 19 where I had them on the train to and from film school almost everyday.
Eventually they’ll go away so you’ve just gotta remember it’s all in your head and focus on the in and out (lol) of your breathing.
Also be less shit.
S’what helped me.
http://www.reallyslick.com/screensavers/
Get these, set your screen saver to Skyrocket, and enjoy!
It works best with headphones or a 2.1/5.1 speaker setup.
Oh, and it looks even better on multiple monitors. 🙂
Not sure if anyone posted anywhere, can’t be bothered trawling a couple of days posts at the moment 😛
Anamanaguchi are releasing a new album, and you can (preorder) fund on kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dreamhax/anamanaguchi-make-endless-fantasy-more-than-album
@grandmasterb-funk
aaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
awesome, i wonder how much i would have to donate to get them to come to australia 🙁
Totes listened to it, in ah… by ah…
I listened to it. It’s good. Really good.
In today’s episode of Sughly’s Hipster Indie Tendencies Shine Through Over Ridiculous Mainstream, which I will refer to as shitstorm from now on:
Fool of me, by Say Lou Lou (feat. Chet Faker)
And there was some pleb saying there’s no Australian talent today, pah
That ain’t too shabby!
There are people who share my taste in music, however none of them post in TAY.
I’m sorry….
Just kidding. I’m not sorry at all.Best way to play chess
The Amazing Race finale!
*shrugs*Edit: Oh man, worst page get… should replace it with something profound.
The only thing we have to fear… is fear, itself…
Worst spoiler I’ve ever seen.
*shrugs*MEALTAKU!
Lazyfuck edition…
Bread.
Cheese.
Dijon.
Mix it in a bowl or some shit.
Throw it at the toaster.
Faceplant.
2/7 Shiggybishes.
Upvote for laziness and using the phrase ‘or some shit’. Two thumbs up.
I hope The Last Guardian is a PS4 launch title some how. Day one buy! (Console and the game.)
Even if they decide to make the console the same ludicrous price as the PS3 launch? that’s alot of money.
Dog creature with feathers, my friend — that picks up kid by scruff and lifts him to higher ground! (That totally won’t be killed off to toy with our emotions!) Also, yeah, day one purchase depends if I even have the money to buy it on day one. 😛
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D_Z-D2tzi14/S8TRIo4br3I/AAAAAAAACv4/Zh7_GcMlRKo/s400/ALOT.png
Where do you get money from?
What do jobs?
How we life?
I work my arse off all week, I can’t even consider getting consoles at launch.
I couldn’t do it before I was married, a father or had a mortgage.
Seriously, I was single, had a permenant job and payed under $100 a week rent. I couldn’t.
I don’t get it.
@dc claims to have saved up money from when he worked but we all know he’s a dirty, dirty drug dealer. Just look at that beanie, long hair and patchy beard!
Oh yeah, I did buy all that heroin of him the other week
OF COURSE!
Shouldn’t you be sleeping?
WTF??!!
I have Uni today at 1-2 (I leave the house at like 11:45) so can’t sleep too long anyway :P. I had a “nap” of sorts I guess
Now that youve finished Ico @dc (spoilers, for everyone else’s sake) – http://phuzzycomics.monicaray.com/comic/ico/
Haha! I get references now! 😛
Aw man, you’ve been hoarding that for weeks! XD
Never found that spikey mace or shiny sword. :S Just watched that video on how to get it, I totally thought that was a door but figured the game would bring me back to it eventually. *shakes fist* Also, what happens if you don’t jump back to save the girl, can you keep running across the bridge all coward like?I’m not sure, I never tried… :/
Would be too shameful to admit if you had, though. *shifty eyes*
The best weapon is the lightsaber, that grows longer when you grab girl-face’s hand.RELEASE A GAY PUMPKIN
Congrats on your new found lifestyle choices! 😀
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/05/heres-a-teaser-trailer-for-plants-vs-zombies-2/
Going for a job interview tomorrow for a job I really don’t want. At least lunch will be good.
Will be good to see you at lunch, man. Hope things work out on the job front too!
@shane
You mentioned that you were bored and needed more podcasts on the previous page. Well as someone who listens to podcasts almost everyday, let me recommend some. I listen to them while gaming(so good when playing a game without a story, replaying a game, open world derping etc), travelling and even working-before my boss put a stop to that 🙁
I can listen to them during the overnight shift though.
Anyway onto the podcasts (these are not only for Shane. anyone else who is interested feel free to try them out)
Gaming Podcasts
1. Giant Bombcast-one of the best podcasts out there. They go through the gaming stories of the week along with humourous stories about what they’ve been up to. I think you’ll appreciate this clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGGGJcpxxRg
Having a long day? Just turn on the Giant Bombcast and watch the hours fly by. The episodes range from 2-3hrs long so that’s a large percentage of your working day filled with a fun podcast
2.Gamers with jobs- this podcast is more discussion based. They still talk about what they’ve been playing but the crew chooses a single topic every week and discusses it.
3. Epic battle cry-discussion of the weekly news and some discussion thrown in.
4. Weekend Confirmed-every Saturday morning. Like the podcast’s title it’s the best way to start your weekend.
5. Irrational interviews and irrational behaviours- The irrational games’ podcast. They haven’t updated in a while but it’s worth going back to listen to Ken Levine talk to his team and other special guests. I would recommend the episodes with Guillermo Del toro and Amy Hennig
6. The brainy gamer podcast is Ok too although I haven’t caught up on the latest episodes.
Non-game related shows, Radio plays and mini-documentaries every week
1. This American life- YOU MUST LISTEN TO THIS!! It is so well produced and there is an interesting story every week about different people, events and just strange occurrences. Note though that you must download the latest episode withing the week it airs otherwise they are locked behind a paywall. It’s 99c an episode though and they are worth it. Just get an rss reader annd you will get the reminder.
2. Radiolab-More science based. They talk about various scientific things in an easy to understand and fun manner. 15-30min long too, so it’s a nice filler between the 1-2hr podcats.
3. Savage lovecast- MY NEW FAVOURITE PODCAST. It’s a relationship advice podcast. it’s not for the squeamish though. All fetishes and sexual fantasies are fair game. The show has made me more open -minded though and you learn stuff too. Don’t think that’s it’s just about titillation, the host Dan Savage has great advice for all couples.
4. Geek a Week-the host of this podcast interviews a geek every week asking them the same questions. It’s a good show to learn about various ‘geeks’ in entertainment -he has also done a series on video game creators and personalities. Guests include-cliffy B, guillermo, Ron Gilbert, Nolan North, Adam and Jamie from mythbusters, steve wozniak among others. What I do is instead of listening to people I may not know I just scroll down through the podcast page and download the podcasts about people I’m interested in listening about.
Try out an episode of My brother my brother and me too. It’s a funny show but I’ve stopped listening to it because of the DAMN AUDIO SPIKES!! UGH!! The brothers have a tendency to laugh a lot during the show and while it’s endearing at first I got frustrated of torturing my ears and having to constantly turn my volume up and down to account for their laughter. It’s a shame since it can be a funny show.
Those should be enough podcasts to help with your boredom for this week. If you need more recommendations just let me know. I didn’t want the comment to go into moderation otherwise I would have provided links to some of my favourite episodes.
🙂
Another great Giant Bomb podcast moment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQZOwKvGcUI
🙂
Helpius!
Helpasha.
Niceasha.
Friendasha.
BUMASHA !
@masha2932 🙂
Giant Bombcast is great. I also suggest checking out Patrick’s side project he just started, the Interview Dumptruck. It’s basically his interviews with various developers, unedited. Pretty interesting.
Personally I also listen to Weekend Confirmed because I was really into 1up Yours back in the day and it’s basically the only decent continuation of that, though recently I’ve been finding it’s getting a little stale. Also listen to 8-4’s podcasts when they put them out, but that’s about every 2 weeks and not super regular when they’re working on big localizations (they’re a localization company based in Japan who have worked on a ton of games eg all the Tales stuff, Fire Emblem, Monster Hunter). Generally talk a lot about Japanese stuff.
Yeah the dump truck is good. Very easy to skip topics you’re not interested in as well. There is a similar podcast on Destructoid called Sup Holmes where the host talks to indies. It’s about 1hr long though. The dump trucks are nice and quick.
I also love the Giant Bomb gaming minute. I wish there were more of them. It’s just nice to have that quick minute of Jeff talking about a game.
Best moments in Giant Bombcasts are usually when someone mentions some sacred game and Jeff goes off on how fucking terrible it is. IIRC he did it recently with Yoshi’s Island and I remember him ranting similarly about how absolutely terrible Nights into Dreams was too.
I can’t recommend strongly enough the podcast of This American Life. Each week they have a theme, and the theme is explored through different ways. It may be a single story that is explored in depth, or you may get 4 or 5 different stories related to the theme, some true, some fiction, always riveting! (mostly true stories, but there is the occasional short story that fits the theme)
Yes, each episode is only available for a week or two, but there are many ways to auto-download them and they’re available to listen to on the website if you miss the podcast.
Bombcast is amazingly hilarious.
And now begins my all nighter assignment fest.
WOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
… I’m getting tired already :/
I believe in you, Greenius!
Invoke the power of greyskull.
You can do it!!
C’mon Alex!
(@dc)
GUYS I’M DONE!
…5% DONE
OOOO YEAH!
OMG GUIS I JUST SOLVED A REALLY TRICKY PROBLEM AND I FEEL LIKE A CHAMP!
I betcha it’s wrong though but if it’s right and I get a HD I will dance a joyous dance.
I’m at like 40ish% 😀 wooo progress!
But then I’ve got 3 more assignments due as well…
…
🙁
BUT I SOLVED A TRICKY THING!
WOOOOOOOOOO TALKING TO MYSELF WHEN IT’S LATE LIKE @SATURDAY AND @BLAGHMAN. DON’T YELL AT ME @STRANGE
WHY AM I TALKING IN FULL CAPS? BECAUSE IT’S FUN. THAT’S WHY! WOOOO I’M CRAZY LIKE MIDNIGHT @MASHA2932 C-C-C-C-C-C-C-RAZYYYYYYYYYYY CRAZY LIKE @CRAZYGUY1990
BLEEEP BLOOOP
Okay, I’m not that crazy but I am a bit tired and this is a decent way to procrastinate :).
So the first of Level-5’s Guild 02 games is coming out on 3DS eShop this week. Starship Damrey. By the same guys who did Kamaitachi no Yoru back on the SNES, which was one of the first ever visual novels. Looks like it’s something kind of similar. It looks like it’s a creepy exploration game where you wake up in a cold sleep capsule on an abandoned spaceship and have to piece together what’s been going on. Which sounds honestly pretty cool. Probably won’t be remotely as creepy as, say, Corpse Party, but the number of good Science Fiction suspense / horror games can be counted on one hand…
Premise sounds incredibly cool. (Might not be very original, but cool all the same. :D)
Edit: Reminds me of the upcoming adventure game Stasis.
Ooooo! I see Level-5, visual novel, and sci-fi. I like what I see!
I want the Monsters Friday thingy…I can’t remember the name cos they change it :-/
I’ve been itching to play FIFA a lot lately. I’ve been thinking of a mini league of some sort where we each play a 10min match every week and we can have a league table with a group of 5-6 people.
I need to practise though. I’m really bad at the moment.
I used to do this a lot as a kid with friends on the PS1. We would do a cup format on PES(or winning eleven) where we would each pick a team and play against each other for the cup title or have a league and play with kids from other suburbs.
I know @sughly plays. Do any other TAYbies play?
I only have FIFA 11 unfortunately and EA shut down the servers in January 🙁
I think FIFA 12 should be cheap though.-Dumb FIFA games rarely dropping in price until the new one arrives. 🙁
I own FIFA 11 on PC, Xbox 360 and Vita.
I’ve only played each of them a few times though.
Didn’t know you were a #VitaBro!
I’ve got every FIFA game on PS3, so I’m in if it’s one of those.
I bought Ticket to Ride for myself and a friend when it was on sale, and she and I have played a few games together this week. I think this game is going to do bad things to our friendship though. Let’s just say we both have a ‘healthy’ dose of competitive spirit… 😛
That sounds familiar, my girlfriend and I just spent the last half an hour arguing over who was the better putt-putt player. I’m fairly sure it ended in us agreeing to disagree 🙂
You know that there’s a simple way to find out, right?
BLOOD CHALLENGE TIME!
Oh don’t worry, a date has set. 2 will enter, and only one will reign supreme. Place your bets folks.
I’m going to bet on you. Bro’s before other people.
@freya has been playing Ticket to Ride near constantly since she bought it. She yells at the computer.
We also play against each other. The term “dickbag” sees healthy usage.
<3
@sughly
Modern Vampires Of The City.
Oh man.
OH MAN!
So gooooood.
It really is right! It really is making a way bigger impression on me than Contra, and I liked Contra. They made much bigger moves between albums than they did last time though, and theyre all good moves. How good is that Hudson song!
Woah! I think we have a contender for the coveted Most Downvoted Comment award! http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/05/how-fast-is-the-nbn-versus-the-coalitions-broadband-plan-this-site-might-help/comment-page-1/#comment-949969
Wow… and to think it also got 4 Upvotes.
In other news, I hear we are turning Potaku into Poketaku this week 😛
I actually started looking through my old handheld games today just so I didn’t just harp on about Pokemon the whole time haha
Hey, they did a Zeldacast, and a Megamancast. Why can’t we have a Pokecast? We should probably let @doc_what and @shiggyninty know what we are planning 🙂
WE WILL DO THIS!
But not this week!
STAY OUT OF THE DAMNED COMMENTS SECTION.
Sheesh, kids these days!
But… the big red number!
It is big
HOLY JESUS!
That’s probably the most downvoted and upvoted comments I’ve ever seen :O
I didn’t even know 63 people went on Gizmodo!
May I suggest another Whitenoise inTAYsion?
fucking politics
#Vomit
Is “I don’t care” a good enough response to a 3000 word assignment on the usage of social networking? :l
I’ve been in such a shit, cynical mood these past couple of days 🙁 I have no idea why.
Watching Resident Evil: Retribution. It’s. it’s just beyond stupid. Not even fun stupid. Just regular stupid.
Also boring.
What really hurts is Gore Verbinski’s Bioshock (which sounded amazing) gets not a lot of anything and dies yet this utter drek gets financed again and again.
Gore Verbinski fell into the same trap as Guillermo Del Toro. Studios don’t want to gamble on a big budget R rated film. All the money is in PG/M rated junk. We’re actually kind of lucky as gamers. The games that make the most money tend to be of at least a minimal level of quality. Whereas when it comes to movies, Transformers rakes in enough money to buy half of Europe, but is a genuinely awful piece of cinema. If filmic quality actually represented financial success, then we might get some more interesting movies.
It does in some countries at least though to a certain extent, like France. There’s hope for humans yet!
Ha, your optimism amuses me.
And even in the U.S. there’s so much good stuff being released every year. Things might not be as dire as it looks. 😀
Hey fuck you man, The Expendables was the greatest piece of cinematography and storytelling in recent history.
Yeah, I actually felt dirty typing thatI actually worked with a 4osomething year old mother that was telling me how great a film it was cos all her favourite actors were in it. 0_o
I thought it was a funnier comedy than Die Hard 4.
#cackfest
I could introduce the most amazing sounding film to mum, and she will inevitably still say “who’s in it?”
My mum actually like half decent films, loves the fifth element, often introduces me to foreign stuff I’ve never heard of.
But if it’s animated, she just can’t do it.
She’ll watch the Simpsons.
Anything that you could think of as art that is animated, nope.
So frustrating.
So, new Wolfenstein announced. If nothing else, at least its trailer has a rad song.
Also, it’s being made by a lot of the guys who worked on Chronicles of Riddick, which was a rad game.
I wonder if there will actually be a wolf in this one?
Or a frankenstein
… I dunno… but if it completely de-bones fish… I might be interested.
Man, those are some tiny fish o.0
I’d need a HUGE wunder boner up here 😛
Somehow just spent 2 hours hanging out with Oliver and another friend in his room, he’s on Kotaku, and all I’m thinking the entire time is “Please don’t go on TAY, please don’t go on TAY, for the love of god please don’t go on TAY!!!”
Thank god he didn’t click on TAY.
In a bit better mood now, too bad it’s time for bed. I really need to do assignments though! I’m spending wayyy too much time with other people and not enough time being productive.
Haha! You should’ve set off a fire alarm, just in case. XD
Wait, so you’re using his real name and discussing his personal life in here and he doesn’t know? That….doesn’t seem good,
No, other friend. (Oliver knows I go on here, but he thinks it’s the worst gaming site ever so refuses to)
Oh phew! That’s okay then. 🙂
Although hmmm…you’re ashamed of us?! 😛
Time for bed.
(╯°□°)╯︵ |—o|
Goodnight.
Well the sun’s rising 😛
I’m disappointed at how quiet TAY was!
You did well Greenius, my friend!
A team effort to not distract you from your work!
But mostly a healthy dose of ignoring Needius.GIVE ME ATTENTION PLS
Get a load of this nerd! Solving problems to questions and such.
Good work frond!I slept for 11 hours.
All week I have slept work slept, no time for me.
I feel like a steaming pile of human waste 🙁
Woooo, Brisbane @batguy lunch meat! Meet at 11:30 or so outside the EB Games next to Rocking Horse music. (Just off Queen St mall on the side street, I think that’s Albert St if you want to get technical but I always get panned for these directions. XD) We’ll go get food at around 12.
D=
It’s not too late to quit your job and hang with us instead, think about consequences later! 😀
🙁
🙁
;D
Perstephanie-ling Jnr. feeling any better, @perstephanie? :S
Ahaha, nice work with the link there. I thought you’d tagged some real user. Took me a moment 😛
Not sure I should start responding to that name. I’m wary of setting a precedent.
B’LINDA
I hate that name. I’ve never met anyone called Belinda who was nice.
I know a Belinda and she’s alright!
My first piano teacher was a Belinda that was nice.
(day 3 o_o)
\o/
And also, you guys (@greenius too) need to introduce me to these nice Belindas so I can stop being so prejudiced. 😛
Also should probably work out logistics of Star Trek Into Darkness meat later too.
Oh hey yeah forgot to say I can go now woo! Mums is still here. Thought she was leaving earlier. Apparently not…
Hells yeah! Good to hear, my friend! 😀
Maybe she’ll stay forever! XD
O_O
It’s not looking likely I’ll be going anywhere today. Little guy is not the only one who’s unwell. 🙁
:'(
…
Sorry to hear that, Pretzel lady will be sad. (Us too! Haha!)
Hope you two feel better!
Setting Sail, Coming Home (End Theme) – Bastion OST
I don’t care how many times I listen to that song, I love it so much!
So. Damn. Good.
Idris Elba is the man:
https://soundcloud.com/7-wallace/taking-over-the-world-but-its
Stranger In This Town – Richie Sambora
I have Daft Punk – One More Time in my head, I wasn’t even listening to it
Knowledge of the Adventurer – Hitoshi Sakamoto – Final Fantasy Tactics A2 OST
Hudson – Vampire Weekend.
Saaaaaaaaame
At the Tool concert I saw someone with a Therapy? t-shirt on. Can’t believe I’d forgotten about these guys. Troublegum was one of my favourite ever albums.
So, I played Spec Ops: The Line again last night, picking up from where I left off. Incidentally, I might have stopped playing at absolutely the wrongest possible place, because almost immediately after starting it up again (and after dialling down the difficulty), the whole game changed, and I played through to endgame without even pausing it again. Spoilers abound.
For me, the moment when I realised that I was playing something pretty special was (as I’m sure is the case for a lot of people) the white phosphorus scene. That was handled so incredibly well, and the revelation of what had actually just happened hit me like a truck. It really shook me; my hands started trembling and I felt physically ill. I’ve always loved (in a narrative sense) those revelations that the actions you’ve taken aren’t what you thought they were (Metal Gear Solid, for example), but this took it to a whole new level.At that moment, what I wanted to do more than anything was pause and process. Maybe even take the night off. But I decided not to allow myself any more breathing space than Walker himself had, and refused to pause it until after the epilogue, four hours later.There’s something incredibly clever and meta about the way they handled the “it’s all your fault” ideas. Saying “you could have stopped, and none of this would have happened” was almost a statement directly to me, at least as much as it was to Walker. And some of the text on the loading screens was pretty damn clever too. This is a game that really wants you to think about your actions.All this really drove home the idea that although this is a shooter, it’s an anti-shooter shooter. Deliberately generic gameplay (remember, I noted this specifically two days ago!) that the story actively works to undermine. Fascinating dynamic of connection/disconnection between story and gameplay. Very risky game design, but totally genius. I think it works. Really appealed to me anyway! \o/My choices. I researched these online just before typing this out this morning:
A Man of Patience: Saved the two civilians instead of the CIA chap. This was just before the phosphorus scene, when I thought Walker could still go Paragon.Damned if You Do: I shot the soldier who killed the water thief’s family. Didn’t even think of shooting the snipers :\
Friendly Fire: I shot Riggs when he asked for it.
A Line Crossed: I shot up the civilians who lynched Lugo. Didn’t even think about firing into the air. Was totally roleplaying Walker at this point.
The Road To Glory (endgame): I replayed this chapter to get all endings, but the first time, I shot Konrad’s reflection, and then opened fire on the soldiers who came to rescue Walker. That seems to be the ‘true’ ending (at least for me).
TL;DR: Amazing game. It really kicks off after about four hours (second half of game). Really creative game design and a shooter totally unlike any other I’ve ever played.
Genuinely thought-provoking. Will be following these developers for sure!
My choices. (Ending spoilers.)
A Man of Action, I reasoned that the CIA guy could help us save more civilians in the long run and give Walker a better picture of what he was facing. Things didn’t turn out as planned on that front.
Damned if You Don’t, Walker refused to participate in Konrad’s game and shot at the snipers overhead.
Friendly Fire, I shot Riggs. Wasn’t an easy choice, but he was gone any way and this was the kindest thing Walker could’ve done to him.
A Line Held, I didn’t shoot at the crowd. I shot in the air and the crowd backed off, one of the tensest moments in a game ever. I was roleplaying as Walker too, but figured he was borderline suicidal at this point. He knew he did wrong, attempting to maintain his last grasps of humanity — even if that meant not firing into the crowd and being killed himself. Really horrific scene. :'(
A Farewell to Arms. My version of Walker killed himself, not being able to live with what went down. I tried the other endings, but this one just felt true.
Also, I’m really glad you liked it. Worried that it wouldn’t live up to the hype, after the Greenius incident. 😀
So interesting!
I’m glad I pushed through and finished it last night all in one session. By the time I got to the crowd-shooting scene, I was exhausted and overwhelmed and wrecked (not to Walker’s extent, obviously), but I definitely felt a connection there. I do love that all the decisions feel ‘right’ for the character, no matter what they were (Bioware, take note!) \o/Edit: Greenius incident?
He didn’t like the game as much as he hoped and I felt responsible for hyping it up for months. 😛
I don’t think I could’ve opened fire on the crowd. I felt relief when the game let me shoot in the air and that tactic worked, otherwise I would’ve just had to consider that the end of the game. D: We’re all monsters now.For the first three/four hours of the game, that’s what I thought you’d done too. But now I think that @greenius is just plain wrong.
🙁 Oh man, hope I didn’t kill the game for heaps of other people too. Haha.
Weird thing is I loved the game from start to finish, don’t understand the criticism of the first four hours too. XD
My point was that the first four hours of the game didn’t grab me (because of the game), not that you’d wrecked the game 😛
Edit: I think it’s because
like I said, it seems pretty standard shooter fare. All we have is a desert setting (pretty, of course), a renegade unit of US soldiers, and a small squad of brofisting beefcakes who survive plummets from skyscrapers standing between civilisation and anarchy. Standard shooter mechanics – very standard, in fact (as I realised later, deliberately so). It’s a necessary set-up for what happens next, but it’s kind of a dull one.I felt so bad for Adams and Lugo. Game was really a cautionary tale about thinking for yourself and not blindly following orders for Konrad’s men and Walker’s too.I guess for me, the attention to detail of the setting and the mystery of it was enough to hook me until the story kicked in. I can understand criticism of the gameplay though.Hey, I never said it was bad! I just didn’t like it as much as I thought I would and didn’t think it was SUPER great like everyone said it was. @dc didn’t ruin the game for me 😛
(he did)
And just an extra bit of clarification:
(@shane @dc)
I wouldn’t have bought the game if it wasn’t for D.C. talking the game up :). I still enjoyed it and would have missed it otherwise!
This and The Walking Dead I played in pretty close succession, 2012 was a good year for making you feel things. 😀
Gaming revolution! Revival of adventure games, and reinvigoration of shooters \o/
Oh man.
Spoilers, obviously:
The game becomes a completely different beast in the second half. I marveled at how the whole thing quickly degenerates – the messages on the loading screen change slowly and subtly until at the end they’re basically confronting you. Walker’s character changes – his voice changes, it gets more animalistic and growling, he starts swearing a lot more, and executions become increasingly violent and bloody. I actually started once or twice when he’d roar ‘FUCKIN’ STAY DOWN.’ after killing certain enemies. Very powerful. While Nolan North didn’t exactly bring a new voice to the game, he played it extremely well.The phosphorous scene was pretty powerful. At that point, you’re so convinced these are bad guys you haven’t even considered the fact this might not be the case. You murder the whole lot of them in one of the most painful ways possible, then find out it was a mistake. The burnt mother and child were just the icing on the cake. I remember sitting there going ‘Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit’ out loud.I felt like I went down with Walker. He wasn’t just a character in a game, I made him do these things. I felt directly responsible. One of the other scenes that got me was when the mob lynched Lugo, I didn’t even hesitate – I mowed the fuckers down. I actually felt so angry with them. I also felt responsible for Lugo, I knew he shouldn’t have died because I’d dragged him the whole way. He was the first to object to my actions earlier in the game. Man I was so mad with those civilians. I was amazed at how quickly I went the vengeance path.The other scene that really hit me, but in a different way was the water theft at the aquarium. The entire scene with the shootout inside, and Mogwai’s Glasgow Mega Snake blaring was amazing. It somehow drove home that shit was getting out of hand. The song is so melancholic in a way, yet still powerful enough to drive the action.Man I could go on, but I think I went on enough last year. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen someone attempt such a thing with a video game. Not only did they attempt it, they killed it, in my opinion.
I’ve heard a lot of criticism picking apart story elements and how believable it all was, and I can see where that criticism comes from, a lot of doesn’t make sense. But for some reason I didn’t care, that was secondary to the rest of the game.
ALL of this. Absolutely.
Forgot to mention that I was impressed with how they handled Walker’s degeneration. The standard commands and regular comments changed several times until at the end, when he directed his squad’s shooting, he’d be screaming “I WANT HIM FUCKING DEAD.” (and Adams would go “Yeah, yeah, FINE!” as he became increasingly disenchanted with Walker’s leadership). Mirrored Walker’s physical deterioration too. Powerful stuff, and a really clever twist on the usual gameplay elements that we expect (like squad chatter). There’s so much attention to detail if you look just beneath the surface. The increasingly surreal shootouts like, as you mentioned, the acquarium one, really underpin this brilliantly.I agree also re: believability. It’s definitely a secondary concern, especially when you can’t be sure how much of what you saw was actually real. This morning, I read an interview with the game’s writer that suggested that it could hypothetically be read that the entire game is a hallucination and that Walker died in the chopper crash (the one that repeats later in the game). If that’s the case, then the whole thing can be analysed as (I think) it was meant to be analysed: as an allegory.Yeah. I think trying to be too literal and analytical with it undermines the game, tbh.
I’m stoked you enjoyed it though, it’s one of the most unexpectedly awesome games I’ve played in a very, very long time.
I don’t think I’ve been this impressed with a game design in a long time. Can’t stop turning it over and over in my head. This one is going to stay with me for a long time, I think.
I found that the white phosphorus scene was so poorly concealed for me that I refused to shoot when I saw them running, so the game made the existing shots spread and spread spread so that after about a minute it hit the trench, then screamed “LOOK WHAT YOU’VE DONE!”. Yeah, that wasn’t my decision. Really ruined what could have been great.That’s how White Phosphorus works though. It spreads. You fired the initial shots and doomed those people regardless. You might have stopped when the soldiers started running but that wasn’t enough, you started firing in the first place.Personally I tried to re-play that scene and not use WP and it’s set up to be impossible, which is kind of clever. They say ‘there’s always a choice’ but Walker says ‘there really isn’t’. The choice is not to play the game.Yeah, I know how it works, but it wasn’t really spreading in the game until that point. The biggest issue was that I could see what they were trying to do, and that’s why it ruined it a bit for me. Also, I understand the idea about “choosing to not play the game”, but the simple rebuttal is “What a great idea! Make the game free.”I don’t understand why it has to be free. The game is all about criticizing the way people blindly play shooters and don’t think about the consequences of what they’re doing, and the way that most game characters are mass murderers but we tend to dissociate them from what they do because it’s gameplay and stuff.They want us to pay for the product and then not use it. I understand the message, I just think the delivery style didn’t help much.http://www.humblebundle.com/
Double Fine Humble bundle.
@dc
Wicked! Looks like another chance to back the Double Fine adventure, @dc. It says it comes with bonus stuff – that might include developer diaries…?
Oh man, that’s an excellent bundle! Thanks for the heads up, any one who doesn’t have these games should definitely pick it up. Stacking and Psychonauts in particular are amazing. BROKEN AGE! (Though I might get a boxed retail version now, since I’ve waited so long.)
I’ve got Psychonauts and I only rented Brutal Legend on 360. Think I’ll just pay the $35 since I missed the kickstarter and I want to play Brutal Legend again.
If I already owned Brutal Legend I would probably just pay five bucks for Costume Quest and Stacking, since I only have a passing interest in both. I tried to demo for stacking and it bored me to tears.
Oh really? I loved Stacking. Probably my favourite thing from the studio since Psychonauts. 😀
Maybe it was just the demo but I had to watch this frustratingly slow and bland puppet theatre and then when that was finally over (which felt like about a lifetime) I got to bounce around a train station. Then I had to talk to like 5 people who kept telling me stuff.
I felt like this was too much bullshit for a demo. I know that for most games the demo is jsut the first 30-60 minutes of the game, so you can be like “this is great, I will unlock the full game to continue playing” and there’s plenty of times when this works.
Stacking, however, I wanted to see what the game was like, what kind of gameplay to expect, and it just took too damn long. I quit out of boredom and deleted it without a second thought.
Might not be your thing, I loved the puppet theatre. Made me laugh like an idiot! 😀 Think that about sums up the game too, plenty of talking to people and puppet theatre stuff, alas. (Not a problem for me, but if it doesn’t appeal to you I don’t think it’ll get any better…)
I guess if that IS the full game, then I can adjust. Just as a demo, it felt like it was taking too long to make an impression on me.
Stacking Makes Mrs Tigs ill with the low frame rate, film style visuals 🙁
PSYCHONAUTS!!! \o/
LEVEL UP!
Your Numbers has grown to Level 19!
Seriously though, this linear progression system is underpowered, needs to be changed.
Happy birthday, maybe? I’m going to go with that. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Hope it’s a damn good one!
Don’t worry – levelling starts to get faster once you hit 20 :\
You don’t get as many perks though
Happy borthday babby numbers \o/
Hippie Burt TAY
@shane
Spec Ops was brilliant. The only problem is that I played it on the hardest difficulty and it got ridiculous and borderline impossible near the end which caused me to stop playing for a long time before finally deciding to drop the difficulty (with urging from @dc) and finish the last 15 minutes, but it left a bit of disconnect from the rest of the story. I think I was one of the first here to play it but last to finish it. :S
We actually made the same decisions with the sole exception that I “saved” the CIA agent.Also: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16162864-killing-is-harmless
I may have already bought this book when it was first mentioned on Kotaku, way back when. Will have to investigate! (Edit: whoops, looks like I meant to, but didn’t)
Which bit did you get stuck on? After dialling down to minimal difficulty in Chapter 6, I didn’t really notice any spikes and didn’t die again at all
(except for one QTE, where the soldier you knock down off the zipline talks to you like Adams and then shoots you :P)… [but yeah, am aware that’s easy mode :P]Just before Adams goes. Problem wasn’t me dying, it was Adams dropping out in the open where I couldn’t revive him. I couldn’t progress because the AI kept failing.Freeze said that if I went to a meat, he’d turn the difficulty down. 😀 And that’s why I went to the Movie World meat… (And other reasons. :P)
Actually I remember seeing these discussions 🙂
What’s doin’?
Aww jimjim, y noone talk to you? Is it caus you dont have friends? Huh? HUH!?
TELL ME! Or I’ll take your lunch money.
WHo upvoted this?
The manly upvote fairy.
You? You’re pro bully?
What? Me? God no. I’m not manly enough to be the manly upvote fairy. There’s only one man who can stand tall, and claim that moniker. One man who can drive the unmanly heathens back. One man, who is @dc.
@dc Just made my list
Gonna get him good at lunch (guy’s like 6 foot taller than me, I’m dead!)
But I’m as scrawny as a mofo! A scrawny mofo!
@sughly
Not sure if you ended up backing Lexxy’s Kickstarter, but another stretch goal just got unlocked.
This button.
I did back it finally before XD but I only backed the vanilla book. But yah I get the emails from her and stuff now too, I know about the cat button all too well. Woo cat button!
Woo!
There’s so much extra stuff now. It might make it to the 80k mark for the gold foil on the cover. That’d be rad. She’s doing a really good job with updates, I haven’t backed many Kickstarters, but this one feels way more personal.
Yeah she really is. I’ve noticed with illustrators and comic peoples they are a lot better, I guess it’s all on them and feels more personal to them too. Which makes it even sweeter as a backer! Were all BFF’s! Except the ugly backers, were not friends with them.
Oh, not sure if you know, but there’s a Kickstarter for Anamanaguchi’s new album. It was you that liked them, right?
Yah I seen that. Was probaly going to get the cd tier probaly. But thanks! 😀
I had a dream last night, where I spent about 2 hours faffing about in lines, trying to get into PAX (Rocketman bailed on me at the entrance, so I didn’t even have good company).
This wouldn’t have been a problem if I went to PAX North.
Until I freak out about internet strangers and don’t let you into the venue! 😛
Ahh, but if I got someone to pick the lock, and then I just strolled in, how would you stop me?
I hear @freezespreston is both Batman and a locksmith. He can find a way in.
Honestly, that sounds like what I’m expecting. Including the Rocketman part, that guy’s a dickman.
@dc, stop hacking people’s Kotaku AU accounts. >=(
Not my fault PAX North is a legit thing now. 😀
I had a dream last night that I invented and sang a new song to the tune of “Who Needs the Kwik-e-Mart”.
So after a large chunk of Guild Wars 2 last night with @cakesmith, I think I’m pretty hooked. Having a hell of a lot of fun with it, especially the dynamic events. It really promotes positive experiences with randoms; you run to a specified location, team up and get the job done, then go your separate ways.
Oh, and I’m pretty sure Cake got sick of me saying “…but seriously, there’s a shitload of people around here!”. The population last night was enough to realise that I was in a decent MMO, without being too crowded. This isn’t something I’ve seen in years of various MMOs. It was a nice feeling, cause that game deserves players as much as the players deserve the game.
EDIT: Spelling.
@batguy, going radio silent now. Got to walk to station and train it to city, but I’ve sent you a DM on twitter with my mobile number in case you need it. I don’t ever answer the phone, but I do respond to text messages. Haha! We’ll be meeting at the EB Games just off Queen St next to a music store called Rocking Horse around 11:30ish for lunch at 12ish! 😀
sidevote because you don’t answer the phone
I WILL FINISH THIS BEANBAG TODAY!
That means no minecraft =(
BEANCRAFT
A program where you write up the backstories of characters you would like Sean Bean to play, and how that character ends up dying.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/SeanBeanMar09.jpg
MINEBAG
ACH!! MEIN BAG!!!
Make a Minecraft beanbag! It will just be a cube. \o/
That’s actually not that hard. It’s harder to make it rounded.
Morning guys, so I’m bummed that Ray Harryhausen died today … the man was a visionary that brought monster and special effects to an entirely new level for movies and inspired so many people, but most people don’t even know who he was.
You know what?
How old was he?
Not very young I imagine.
Dood lived a good life.
I’m not bummed he died, glad he did all the good shit 🙂
It’s more that I’m bummed that he did all this amazing stuff for movies and most people wouldn’t know how amazeballs he was
I think older generations did. He just wasn’t doing as much more recently.
He was loved 🙂
Oooo! I’m one of those plebs who hasnt read it, but my word that Ender’s Game trailer is purdy! I will watch this. One ticket for me pls.
Does this trailer not sit well with anyone else?
I don’t know what it is, really.
I think Harrison Ford is one part of it (I like the guy, but I feel like his acting these days is… a lot less good), but it’s something about the whole thing.
It’s a bit perplexing.
I knew something like this was coming
SUGHLY GETS A TASTE OF HIS OWN FILM CRITIQUING!
But seriously, I don’t mean this as a “I have read the book, and this is horrible” thing.
It’s just, you know how you sometimes want to like a game, it plays well enough, it looks neat, but for some reason, you can’t bring yourself to love it? Just sort of that thing.
By all means, if you want to be excite, be excite. My opinion or momentary confusion should not hinder your enjoyment of this in any way.
I’m just hoping that someone else feels the same why so I can understand why it doesn’t sit right with me.
You ate a big bucket of gummi words about half an hour ago, that’s why it doesn’t sit right.
Nah I know, and I’ve been in that seat a few times too (The Road, for one), it’s very rarely a thing where the film looks like what you thought the book looked like in your head. And then that’s not counting all the things they start messing with, each one a punch to the heart.
But yeah it looks purdy and I’m excited :3
It seems to be… slightly thematically off. I mean, it’s been a while since I read the book (I read it in year 6), but a lot of it seems to be… not quite right.
THe narration was indeed a little sloppy but the trailer looked the goods.
I just hope to god they dont make a stupid romantic thing with Ender and Petra, the trailer sort of hints at it and i dont like itSpoiler tags so I don’t kill the mood for the excited people. Also, book spoilers.
I’m with you. Didn’t quite sit right for a few reasons I can put my finger on (and probably a bunch I can’t). The focus of the trailer is on alien attacks, etc. In the book, the ‘camera’ was on Ender pretty much exclusively IIRC.Will it still be a personal story? I’m starting to doubt it.
Also Ender is much older in this movie. I find it hard to believe that he will unwittingly destroy the alien fleet during what he thinks is a game/training session. You could believe a (six?) year old, even an exceptional one, would fall for that, but not an exceptional (twelve?) year old. The title is Ender’s Game after all – it still needs to feel like a game… but in the trailer, they out and out tell him that he’s going to be their best commando, and that he’s not the first, etc. It honestly looks too serious (I know, weird criticism). Where’s the game? 😛
Also, I agree re: Harrison Ford. He’s always been a bland actor – with just deadpan and angry in his bag of tricks (both of those he does quite well). He’s not made for roles with substance, and the role he’s got here should be one with substance, or the movie will suffer for it. Also, IMO his acting has declined rapidly since the turn of the millennium (falcon)
My first thought was that they bumped up their ages because what the kids do to each other would be a bit more… palatable. To the Hollywood audience.Sure, but their young age is such a fundamental part of the book… which means changing it will probably have a pretty profound impact on the rest of the story, right down to the themes. Therefore, trepidation.He was six when he entered Battle School and something like nine or eleven when he was using the Ansible. In Ender’s Shadow, Bean (who is slightly older I think) does work out what is going on because he’s bought in as Ender’s substitute should Ender fail although he’s there under the guise of one of Ender’s underlings, as are several other friends from Battle School.Thematically, this looks very off. Too action orientated, too big in scope. Ender’s story was never big in scope until he realised what he did. Could just be because it’s a trailer. Also, fairly big spoilers right there in the trailer. You see him setting off the Little Doctor with the Ansible. Not obvious but it’s one that people might remember as “I haven’t seen that scene yet” and work things out a little quickly.Getting the feeling that Hollywood kind of missed the point of the book, and decided to do Teens In Space instead? I am. 😛I thought we were all avoiding things that gave ORson Scott Card more money because he gives it to that anti-gay group now?
Oh.
But…
It looks purdy.
I’ll download it. He can write good but he aint gettin’ a cent from me
(I already bought the game Shadow Complex and his Iron Man comics)
Oh, for real? What a dickbag.
I saw you called me a dickman up the page, i was both shocked and amused.
I have no idea why it is so funny.
Yeah, this too. He’s not a good person.
Edit: he’s never gotten a cent from me, because I only bought his books second-hand (and only liked Ender’s Game)
@sughly @bdkiaf
Yeah, there was a big thing in comics a few months back where stores were refusing to stock the issue of Superman he was writing because the owners were either gay/pro-gay/or whatever and eventually the artist pulled out and finally he wasn’t writing it.
Apparently he’s an active member of this group now and they have enough clout to get in politicians ears and make some real anti-gay change.
It was always an issue before knowing he was anti-gay, but now he’s a pro-active anti-gay with power.
Scary shit.
WHoooooaaaaaa… ermagerd ermagerd. This Vampire Weekend cover of Radiohead’s Exit Music is so good! Why didnt anyone tell me this existed!? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BuyflH5fh8
I am going to admit this,
I don’t like radiohead, i don’t get it, its not enjoyable to listen to, it bores me, it feels emotionless. Judge away suggles.
HOWEVER this is pretty rad, that flute (maybe) gives it such a awesome feel. Kind of sounds similar to a Muse song.
I feel the same way about Vampire Weekend. Dianne Young is OK, but their other stuff just bored me.
We should have a “We aren’t hip enough party”
we will invite all the non hip people, blaghs,….
Thats all i got. 😛
:'(
You have mean dreams about me, this is what you get 😛
I have mean dreams about you? YOU WERE THE ONE WHO ABANDONED ME IN A LINE TO VALIDATE MY PASS! YOU’RE THE MONSTER HERE!
*wonders how much ‘other stuff’ Rize listened to*
But no I get why people wouldnt like Vampire Weekend. Radiohead on the other hand…
The entirety one of their previous albums. Not sure if it was the first one or Contra.
My sister is a big fan of them and being stuck in a car with her for hours a couple of months ago meant I had to listen to her music 😛
Fair nuf!
I have no words.
Emotionless..? Wh… did we listen to the same band..? :/
I told you, i don’t get it, i don;t understand it. i have listened to OK computer several times and nothing but me being bored.
This might be Thom Yorke but srs, cannot listen without chills. Emotionless and these guys just cant be used together dood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8uGdz0LwY8&feature=player_detailpage#t=21s
And now 101 songs are going off in my head that I could have linked as well. Something is wrong with your emotion gland rockets.
Okay that was brilliant, i got chills but it doesnt change my mind that OK computer is not my thang.
Kid A is way better anyway, try that.
Whoa. Hold the fuck up. I mean, you’re allowed to have your own opinion, but “emotionless”? Radiohead? Hooooly shit.
Without coming on like a raging fanboy, they honestly have the most touching, moving, emotion packed music/lyrics I’ve ever heard. Without rival, forreals.
I’m not really a fan but they’re not emotionless. Hell, all their songs are full of dreary depression and hate of everything.
Seriously, they need to buy themselves a kitten or a birthday cake or something.
haha, me either, never have,
But I’d have to agree with Freeze, definately not emotionless, my problem is there’s too much emotion, i feel like if i listened to them I’d become depressed.
@cakesmith & @rize
What level are you guys? The game finally downloaded for me last night so I can join you, wether you like it or not. >=(
I hit level 16, think Cakesmith is high 15. We jumped like 5 levels last night doing a heap of events.
What classes are you guys? I’m trying to decide if I should start a new character.
I’m a Norn Guardian and he’s a Norn Elementalist, so there’s plenty of options left 😛
Sweet, I might start a new character. Might try out a Necro.
Oh, what server are you guys on?
My home server is Sea of Sorrows but Rize is on Crystal Desert so we’ve been playing on there.
I like the “guesting” system.
Mmm…crystal dessert.
That’s what I get for typing while on hold and not paying attention haha.
I’m on Crystal Desert and Cake is Sea of Sorrows. I think most TAYbies are divided between the two.
Ultimately it doesn’t matter which one you’re on, cause you can guest into other servers whenever you want.
Oh so part of my big news was announced this morning. I’m going to E3!!!!! I found out about a month ago I think and it’s been killing me. Ubisoft are sending me over as a community abbassador, similar to what they did last year but last year it was only available to EU and US peeps so lucky me i guess. I’ll be attending the Ubi press conference on the 10th of June and I have no idea what else. It should be similar to what their ambassadors did last year and I will get to interview the dev teams of the games that I am fans of… So this means having a chat to the Redlynx guys again so should be cool. Oh and I was talking to a few of them earlier this week and I am dropping major hints I want to see watch dogs so hopefully that happens. 🙂
Anyway, im planning on buying a phone when i land so I can stay online and tweet and what not. Also plan on making a video of my adventures but it sounds like I’ll be pretty busy so not sure how that will work?
Anyway, I’m super mega hyped for this. Proper once in a life time thing and E3 is like the freaking gold medal race at the superbowl (sportsball has one of those right?)
I fly out on 8 June and Wifey and MiniShady will join me on the 12th. We then go to Disneyland for 4 days then up to Santa Barbara for another 4 nights just crusing around the coast (Malibu, Pismo Beach, Santa Monica etc) Yeah, gonna be a crazy few weeks 🙂
AWESOME, man 🙂 That’s so damn cool.
Brace your shit for Disneyland. That place is mindblowing.
Also, E3, I guess…
congrats,man. I am jellllyy!
(don’t forget to pack the Golden Gaytimes!):D
Not sure how that would work for a 14 hour flight.. Perhaps I can pick some up in San Francisco 😉
zing!
Golden Gaytime bridge? Oh, check some hash tags on that and a filter and that is a instagram post for sure lol.
Go punch some of those crazy westbro bastards.
Sooo jelly – congrats, man!! 😀
surely everyone knows you cant make a comment like this and not expect some backlash on a Tech Site!
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/05/how-fast-is-the-nbn-versus-the-coalitions-broadband-plan-this-site-might-help/comment-page-1/#comment-949969
Holy shit. More than eighty downvotes 😀
Of course they know that, which is exactly why they made that comment
Of course, but over eighty downvotes is still pretty damn impressive! 😛
Looking at some of the responses I think down voting it has become more of a game at this point for people.
It’s true. I did it mainly because everyone else already was, and I’m bad at resisting peer pressure.
I stopped reading once i realised it was a bunch of political wind-pissing.
“Oh my party is better than your party”
“Oh yeah, well my party says your party are a bunch of poo-poo faces”
“NUH-UH!”
“YUH-UH!”
“I’m telling them media on you!!”
“ner-ner-ner-ner fart face fart face!”
Thanks @lambomann007 for gifting me Poker Night 2. You’re a rad dude.
He’s the raddest of dude.
You’re welcome. Happy birthday!
IT’S HIS BIRTHDAY!??!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY NUMERS SATAN!!!!!!!!
😀
Fucking renovation. The work that was supposed to be finished today is now going to take the better part of another week to do. A whole extra week without my computer, without access to my writing. And the day off I’d already organised for tomorrow so I could paint the new walls is now just going to be a damned waste.
>:(
Look on the bright side, at least it’s not taking one year longer than they said. #Blaghsrenovationwoes
#HashtagsforHarli
UNI PEOPLES!
I am desperately trying to finish my last assignment which is due tonight, but i’m having trouble finding scholarly articles/journals to reference – the deakin library tool is just RUBBISH.
Anyone got some really good peer-reviewed article sources that don’t require me paying them money for the privilege of reading half a page of data?
Your uni should have subscriptions to all those sources. Is that the tool you say is rubbish? Talk to your uni librarians, they should be able to give you some useful links and logon info!
Yeah that’s why i’m using, but their database which links to those sites isn’t exactly the best in regard to keywords and the such.
I’ll have to see what i can work out on my lunch break
But you should be able to bypass the Deakin database and get directly onto those sites with some logon info. Check with your librarians.
ok mate – thanks 🙂
Mannn i hope they are movie librarians. Mmmm-mmmm
Sorry man no.. but High five from Deakin Alumni 🙂 Thats where I got my MBA from man!
ALUMINATI!!!!
Doesn’t Google have an academic search thingy? Sounds like it might be what you’re after. Maybe?
http://scholar.google.com.au/schhp?hl=en
This person would like to connect with you:
Yesterday 9:07 PMawo_felix13 (awo_felix13)
Dear Beloved, Permit me to inform you of my desire of going in to business relationship with you. I am Felix Wilson the only son of late Mr. Wilson Agodo. My father was a very wealthy cocoa and gold merchant in Khartoum the economic capital of Mali ; my father was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip. my father died on setember 2012 in a private hospital here in Mali before his death he secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he lodge the sum of US$15M United State Dollars (US$15,000,000.00) left in an online bank account in the UBA Bank Ghana with my name as the next of kin , so because of the political problem here now that cost the death of many people since after my father’s death, I escaped to Ghana under the UN Refugee Ship and now in the refugee camp in Ghana. I want to know if you can help me in transferring the money out of Africa for investment purpose under your care since I am ignorant of investment. He also explained to me that it was because of his wealth that he was poisoned by his business associates. That I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice as to invest the money wisely. If you can help me I shall give the online bank account number/PIN CODE and bank website to you so that you can make the transfer of the funds to your local account from the bank internet banking section online. i will offer you 40% and 10% for any expencis incurred then 50% for the business Sir, I am honorably seeking your assistance in the following ways: If you can help I shall give the online bank account details to you so that you can effect the transfer of the funds online to your local account and there after you can arrange for papers to come over to you for my education and you can invest the funds for the future for me before I come of age to do this with you as my daddy. If you wish you help me, You feed me with the following information: 1. Name in full: 2.Passport Copy: 3.Telephone Number: 4.Occupation: you can send me a reply to my email: (felix_awo@yahoo.com) Best Regards, Felix Wilson
Sounds Legit….
Some people have all the luck… remember us when you’re rich.
i just realised i gave you guys his details!!!! must scan my passport before any of you guys get to him!!!
WOAH WOAH WOAH!!!!
Cocoa AND gold merchant!?!?!
HOLY SHIT!! WE FINALLY KNOW WHERE CADBURY GET THEIR OLD GOLD MIXTURE FROM!!!!
GIVE HIM ALL YOUR DETAILS!!! WE’RE GOING TO BE EFFING RICH!!!!
IM SCANNING MY PASSPORT AS WE SPEAK!!!!
WHOA, WHOA, WHOA, WHOA.
you can get internet in refugee camps?
Obviously. I hardly think he sent out the email via carrier pigeon. *rolls eyes dramatically*
He just wants you to be his daddy, man. You’d have to be some kind of monster to deny him that.
“My father was a very wealthy cocoa and gold merchant”
oh my god apparently all the money is in dealing cadbury old gold
I got the better offer I think.
Hear that. Awesome correspondence and relations. Not good or standard or okay. Awesome.
Soo.. Did you ask her for nudes..?
I was going to but she said I couldn’t respond if I was married. Her loss. She misses out on all this. *vague gesture*
Bored Game
You are in a forest. You don’t know how you got here. You certainly don’t remember any kind of journey. You are weaing unfamiliar clothes, and have an unfamiliar satchel over your shoulder.
You can hear a terrifying keening sound from ahead (or it might be terrified screaming, you can’t tell). To the left, bubbling water. To the right, nothing. Behind you, an ominous creaking.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Move (and in which direction?)
2. Open inventory
3. Other
3. Other. Start touching myself out of fear.
Lightning blasts from the sky, obliterating your filthy sinning self instantly. Ironically the only thing that survives is your member, which was safely ensconced in your fist at the time. GAME OVER
Worth it.
1. Move. Up.
You start climbing the nearest tree, hoping to get a better sense of your surroundings. The tree is tall, but you are determined, and your strange clothes seem well-suited to the task. About halfway to the top of the tree, you encounter a large wasp’s nest. There is no activity around it that you can see.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Dislodge nest with your foot.
2. Whack it with a stick.
3. Put your face up against it and try to look inside
4. Ignore it and keep climbing
5. Climb back down
6. Check inventory
7. Other
7. Place wasp’s nest in satchel.
You reach out and touch the wasp’s nest, but the instant your finger makes contact, you hear a psychic shriek in your head, like a million voices cried out suddenly in terror, and were suddenly silenced. Unnerved, you lose your grip on your satchel and it tumbles to the ground far below. You can hear a tinkling sound as its contents break. You decide not to touch the wasp’s nest again; your ears and nose are already bleeding, and a second assault might just finish you off.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Whack it with a stick.
2. Ignore it and keep climbing
3. Climb back down
4. Other
1. Definitely 1. No one makes me bleed my own blood.
You break a hefty club off from a nearby branch and give the nest an almighty whack, fuming with rage. The nest doesn’t quite dislodge on the first strike. You can feel the psychic distress reverberate in the air, but the stick takes the brunt of it, and it doesn’t care. It’s a stick.
You rear back to swing again, but the wasp’s nest suddenly starts to grow exponentially. In seconds it is already five times its original size, and it is growing rapidly. It changes colour slowly from light yellow to dark red, and you become aware of an angry buzzing coming from the also-growing doorway in the hive.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Try touching it now.
2. Whack it again
3. Wait and see what happens next
4. Ignore it and keep climbing
5. Climb back down
6. Other
2..?
@bdkiaf, you whack the nest again and it starts to shrink. Its occupant doesn’t shrink, however, and is painfully crushed by the nest. Its waspy innards leak all over the tree branch you are currently perched on, and it begins to disintegrate. You have only seconds to act.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Climb up
2. Climb down
3. Move laterally
4. Do nothing
Nailed it. 1.
@bdkiaf
1. You reach the top of the tree and, remembering what you were there for in the first place, take a look around. All you can see are more treetops though. The clouds are grey – you can’t even see where the sun is with any certainty. There is dense fog surrounding your position because this game doesn’t render distant locations very efficiently.
Pondering this development thoughtfully, you waste a little too much time, and the tree begins to shudder underneath you. The wasp guts are starting to eat away the trunk. As you realise your precarious position with a growing sense of fear, you realise that – once again – you don’t have much time to act
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Climb down
2. Jump down
3. Move laterally
4. Do nothing
Evidently I actually had quite a bit of time to react.
2, I guess. I haven’t gotten this far doing the sensible thing.
@bdkiaf, I think you’re starting to figure out the underlying rules of this game. In fact, I’m going to give you a special treet and allow you to leave the vicinity with no penalty.
You land safely. You grab your bag and run as the tree topples onto the spot where you were just standing. You heave a big sigh of relief and resume your unending adventure.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Move (and in which direction)
2. Open inventory
3. Other
3. I guess I should grab the satchel I dropped and have a look in it.
@bdkiaf
It’s empty. That smashing sound you heard before must have been a magic item that devoured everything in the bag in a wave of destructive force as it shattered. That’s just conjecture though.
But you notice a flower on the ground. It has wasp guts all over it, but doesn’t appear to be disintegrating at all.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Take flower
2. Leave flower and move (in which direction)
3. Other
2. Open inventory
You open your satchel, and are surprised at its contents. You have never owned anything like these bizarre objects before. You pull them out one by one and take account of them:
* A glass figurine of a serpentine maned creature
* A fruit knife with a crude triangle carved into its handle
* A book written in what seems to be a foreign language: LIVEEH TRESS LEEHT
* A bright orange monacle
* A forked stick
* A hat with a big green scale sticking out of it
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Move (and in which direction?)
2. Use item
3. Equip item
4. Other
@rize
I’d suggest putting the forked stick inside you and then start touching yourself.
second
3. Equip bright orange monocle and big green hat
then
4. Go and look at my reflection in the water nearby.
You equip the green hat and suddenly feel ten feet tall. Looking around, you realise that it’s the truth: the hat has made you taller. Your clothes remain the same size, however, and have split along all the seams. You now look ridiculous.
You put the monacle on, and everything appears orange.
You go left towards the water, or what you assumed was water. You are startled to realise that the burbling sound was not made by a brook or creek, but was instead the lure of a dangerous predatory animal, the likes of which you have never seen before. It sees you approach and regards you with hunger in its eyes. It looks fast; you doubt that you can outrun it, even unencumbered by clothes as you are.
Drat! And you really wanted to see your reflection too.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Run
2. Fight
3. Use item
4. Equip item
5. Try diplomacy
6. Other
4. Equip Knife and Fork, attempt to eat the animal.
“Excuse me!” snaps the animal in righteous indignation. “What the hell do you think you’re trying to do?”
Belatedly, you see the writing desk behind the animal’s bulk, and realise that you are trying to eat a civilised creature. Possibly one more civilised than you yourself.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Apologise hastily
2. Continue trying to eat it
3. Fight
4. Run
5. Use item
6. Other
6. Apologise to Shane for getting caught up in work and missing the rest of the adventure…
Then 2.
@rize
It’s lucky you apologised, because otherwise this would have been a fatal choice 😛
The creature is oddly non-resistant as you carve out a chunk of its flesh and devour it raw. It tastes delicious, and you’re raising your cutlery to hack out another juicy bite when… OOORRRUUUGH, you don’t feel so good. Head swimming, stomach churning, you fall to your hands and knees, too dizzy to stand.
The creature laughs “HAHAHAHA. My flesh is poison to mere mortals. You are now cursed by the Clan of the Clenched Claw. There is only one known way to break the curse.”
“What is it?” you ask through clenched teeth.
“Why would I tell you?” the creature asks. “You tried to eat me.”
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Attempt reason
2. Attempt bargaining
3. Attempt threatening
4. Attempt attacking
5. Get some rest
Wear the hat.
The hat clamps itself permanently onto your head, binding itself to follicle and skin. All attempts to remove the hat will be forever futile. The scale begins to glow and you suddenly start to grow a snout, breathe smokily, and have an inexplicable craving to kidnap maidens.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Panic
2. Accept it
Throw candies on the ground
You are swarmed by small children, who gather up the candies and gobble them up. Their teeth are like razors and they feed indiscriminately. By the time the hordes retreat, you no longer have feet or the lower half of your legs. You slowly and excruciatingly bleed out.
GAME OVER
My blood seeps into the ground and lollipops grow from the soil.
I hand over the reins so that Masha can do some narrating. Apparently.
The game seems to be suffering from the dreaded Snarky-Shane virus. All anti-virus programs are helpless.
That’s it. I’m taking over again. You respawn in a filthy stone dungeon somewhere. You have no clothes other than a pair of boxers for modesty, no equipment, no furniture, no light, no skills. There is a guard outside the door. You need to use the toilet, but you have no toilet
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Talk to guard
2. Cross your legs
3. Let it flow
Let it flow, take off my boxers (what modesty?) and start cleaning the filthy dungeon with them and the urine. The room smells but it is now clean.
@masha2932
Your guard is not impressed, even though he can now see his yellow reflection in the stone walls.
He beats you mercilessly, until you’re completely spent. Then he starts to hit you.
After weeks of torture, the wall of your cell collapses. Sunlight streams in. Your guard is asleep and has heard nothing.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Escape
2. Politely inform your sleeping guard that the wall has collapsed and that you would like a new cell
3. Wait and see what happens
(Reply limit reached on the other comment so I’m replying here)
Escape but not before I re-open one of the wounds I got from my beatings and slowly drip my now infected blood into the guards mouth. He beat me up but now he has some disease. Oh, I also take off all his clothes and wear them. I give him my urine soaked boxers to wear.
I run away but I miss my fluid-bonded guard brother.
@masha2932
Uh yeah, what you said.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Head north
2. Head south
3. Head east
4. Head west
IDDQD
IDKFA
IDCLIP
IDCLEV32
Kill Nazis, go home.
And then have a celebratory touch of yourself.
Okay, everyone, just so you know, in my game, this action means instadeath. Not looking for a quick fix to boredom 😛
Touching myself is a sure way to cure boredom. I don’t understand.
Yes, and I want the game to last a while, so quick fixes to boredom are not appreciated here >:(
ZING
Hear that a lot do you? 😛
My way, we still have time to watch TV \o/
You attempt to enter a number of cheat codes, but you have no keyboard with you, so it looks like a retarded dance. A passerby takes pity on you, and leads you away to a little white bus. The bus takes you to a residential facility, where you meet all manner of nice people who judge you secretly. You never manage to escape and complete your quest. GAME OVER
3. Other. I dance.
You dance a happy dance. It does nothing. You try a slow dance. It does nothing. You try break dancing, and break something. Roll a die to find out what.
I roll a five.
You have broken a branch on the ground. You dust yourself off and consider yourself extremely lucky. You feel bad for the branch. You won’t be dancing again, because guilty feet have got no rhythm.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Nothing
2. Move (and in which direction)
3. Open inventory
4. Other
4. Take the broken branch with me
and
2. Move to investigate the creaking behind me.
The creaking behind you is a tree. A moving tree. It is extraordinarily angry that you have broken one of its offspring in the prime of its childhood. And for what? A dance. It could not be angrier. And now you have picked it up, presumably to desecrate it further…
You can sense the truth: it is going to kill you if you do nothing.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Fight
2. Run
3. Use item
4. Nothing
3. Use item. Which I assume means open inventory?
@alexpants, you reach into your satchel and pull out the first thing you grab. It’s a baby made of jelly. It begins crying at your rough handling of it.
You have no item to get another item. It’s this or nothing. The tree begins to swing its huge main branch down towards you, a fatal blow if it connects.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Drop baby
2. Use baby
3. Attempt to dodge
4. Run
5. Other
I use the jelly baby.
Mostly because I’m interested in seeing HOW I use it.
@alexpants
You have no good ideas, so you hold the jelly baby aloft, ala Lion King.
The tree starts crying, recognising another proud father, and lets you go on your way. You first help him to bury his broken branch. He gives you a magic leaf to take with you.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Move (and in which direction)
2. Talk to tree some more
3. Use item
4. Other
I ask the tree about the magic leaf. Not gonna take it without knowing what it does, damnit! Also I say some nice things about the branch we just buried.
@alexpants
The tree shrugs. He doesn’t understand your language. He points at the sky, at a distant tree, at the ground, at you, and at his branch’s grave. You have no idea what he’s doing.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Move (and in which direction)
2. Talk to tree some more
3. Use item
4. Other
Pondering how I’d managed to communicate with the tree up to this point, I shrug, wave, and head off in the direction of the keening/screaming. My jelly baby and I sing songs from The Lion King along the way.
You come across a wholesome wench screaming in fear at a giant troll who is trying to club her. But his moves are all fifty years old, and the best he can manage is the Shopping Trolley.
The wench sees you and her heart melts when she sees the baby in your arms, singing happily. The troll takes advantage of her distraction and scoops her up in a meaty paw.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Attack troll
2. Talk to troll
3. Talk to wench
4. Use item
5. Use baby
6. Run away
7. Other
GO BABY, GO.
@alexpants
Your baby is ineffective against the troll. It’s a troll. They don’t have human emotions – have you learned nothing from moderating a website?
But it gives the wench a moment of happiness before she is crushed to an unrecognisable mess by a tide of irrational negative opinion and sexist drivel.
The troll turns to look at you. Suddenly it seems big and scary.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Feed the troll
2. Run
3. Fight
4. Use item
5. Use baby
6. Other
Man that troll suddenly looks big and scary. I elect we run. Baby?
Yeah, let’s run.
@alexpants
You run, forgetting that the only way to deal with a troll is to ignore it completely. It chases after you, lumbering with huge ugly feet and legs that quickly eat up the distance between you. It scoops you up in one hand, pinning your arms to your sides, and takes your baby from you.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Ignore troll
2. Try to save baby
3. Provoke troll
4. Feed troll
5. See what happens
6. Other
Let’s see what happens. Passivity is very effective.
@alexpants
You have made a wise choice.
The troll would never eat your baby, because (as we all know) trolls are, by their nature, jelly people. And cannibalism is bad. So your baby is safe.
You on the other hand… the troll licks its lips and opens wide, ready to devour you whole…
… when a bearded Great Scot emerges from the bushes and fires a gleaming Arrow of Moderation at the troll. The troll flickers out of existence in this realm, but he will be back. Somewhere, sometime, somehow…
“Ur ye okay? aam a doctor.”
“What?” you say.
“Och aye! ‘at is indeed mah nam.”
You suspect he is insane. Though you do owe him your life. He bends over to tie an undone shoelace. Now’s your chance, if you want it.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Kick him and run
2. Run
3. Attack
4. Thank him
5. Pay him
6. Give him the baby
7. Other
7. Other.
“Is that you Doc What?”
@alexpants
You had your chance.
He doesn’t answer your question directly. He stands up from tying his shoelace, and you realise that he has drawn a scalpel and a hypodermic from his sock. He has a mad, mad look in his eye, like a man bereft of his humanity. Maybe he has seen things in this strange world, or had them done to him… or maybe he has always been mad.
You will never know.
He advances towards you, and you take a step back out of reflex. But you trip over a tree root and stumble to the ground. The mad doctor flings himself at you. Blood sprays everywhere. Your blood. As pain overrides your world and your vision starts to recede, the last thing you see is the mad doctor licking your life’s blood from his lips, and drawing his scalpel back to slash at you yet again.
GAME OVER
You know, that was going to be my response. Way to pre-emptively steal it. Jerk.
You can dance WITH me!
This game does not support multiplayer. Might I suggest…
Alright, lets find out out this screaming is. Sprint towards the screaming, forked stick in hand.
FOR GONDOR
You find a strange looking man lying on the ground touching himself. His screams of pleasure are oddly feminine.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Attack
2. Fight
3. Run
4. Watch
5. Talk
6. Use item
7. Other
6. Use Item. Poke him with the stick.
He seems to like it. You get married at the next sunrise.
After a few months of marriage, you start to get bored and look around. Your new husband is a dimwit and doesn’t notice. After a bizarre and sordid series of increasingly torrid affairs, you leave him and oddly enough find yourself right back where you started, only you don’t have a forked stick anymore. You can still see the imprint of his bare ass in the ground, and you feel oddly wistful.
To the north, you can hear nothing. East, you can hear nothing. West, you can hear a burbling sound, like running water. Behind you, the ominous creaking is getting closer…
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Move (and in which direction)
2. Open inventory
3. Other
Go East. There shouldn’t be any Pet Shop Boys there.
You go east. You find an uninhabited copse containing one large wooden treasure chest. It has a weird chain coming out from it that reminds you somehow of a tail. It’s probably locked, but it looks pretty damn tempting to you.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Attempt to open it
2. Whack it with a stick
3. Equip item
4. Use item
5. Keep moving
6. Change direction
7. Other
Inspect to see if weird chain is curled forwards or backwards.
@freezespreston
It curls in every direction. It has no beginning or end that you can see. It is unlike anything you can remember seeing in your past life >:(
You can hear a weird breathing noise, though. Anticipatory…
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Attempt to open it
2. Whack it with a stick
3. Equip item
4. Use item
5. Keep moving
6. Change direction
7. Other
Get behind chest. Knock on the top of it with stick at the ready.
@freezespreston
You whack the chest with your stick. The chest doesn’t react. It seems to radiate darkness, though, and it chills you to your very soul.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Attempt to open it
2. Whack it again
3. Equip item
4. Use item
5. Keep moving
6. Change direction
7. Other
Whack chest with my willy.
@freezespreston
You whack it once again, exactly as before, with your… stick. It doesn’t react.
DANGER!!! YOU AVOID PET SHOP BOYS BUT RUN INTO EAST 17!!!
They assure you everything’ll be alright
Knew I made the right choice.
OPEN THAT INVENTORY, BABY!
You have a number of weird items. One is a baby made of jelly, and it grabs your attention instantly, its particular combination of gelatin and sugar glistening in the dappled forest sunlight. Your mouth waters.
Oh yeah, and you also have an orange monacle, a book you can’t read, and a glass figurine of a maned serpent thing.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Use item
2. Move (and in which direction)
3. Equip item
4. Other
OH YEAH!!
I’M GOING TO EAT THE SHIT OUT OF THAT JELLY BABY!!
I’M SO HUNGRY!!!
You attempt to eat baby shit, but it isn’t what you thought it would be and leaves a bad taste in your mouth. You wonder if you might have been better off just eating the jelly baby. Its crying is starting to get on your nerves. But it’s too late now – you’ve bonded emotionally with it since eating its shit.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Attempt to quieten baby
2. Use item
3. Move (and in which direction)
4. Other
I knew that what happen… damn it…
eat the baby
NOPE.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Attempt to quieten baby
2. Use item
3. Move (and in which direction)
4. Other
damn it… what kind of choose your own adventure is this…
No one likes a noisy baby, so i’ll quieten it.
@chuloopa
After endless hours of fruitless affection that make you want to rip your hair out by the roots and gouge your own eyeballs out, you find that the baby will only quieten down if it’s chewing painfully on one of your fingers.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Accept this pain and permanent handicap to your hand and continue with the quest
2. Accept the noise as a permanent fixture in your life, along with its potential to draw predators
Discard the baby?
@chuloopa
How many times? If I weren’t some game AI, I’d be getting mighty pissed off. You can’t discard the baby, because eating its shit created an indelible emotional bond between the two of you. You are bound together for eternity, like it or not. You love the fucking thing, OKAY!
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Accept the pain
2. Accept the noise
I’m not really feeling that emotional… but i guess i’ll just let the little bastard bite me
@chuloopa
It gnaws your finger off and sighs contentedly. You can see it bobbing around in its jelly belly, and feel vaguely nauseous. You now realise that eating each other is a bad way to start your family life.
You wander on and find yourself at the steps of a great castle. There are no banners, no signs of life.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Attempt to get into the castle
2. Call out
3. Leave
Attempt to get in the castle
@chuloopa
You try to sneak into the castle, but fall into the moat. Your jelly baby laughs and laughs, and you feel a surge of irritation. “You do better!” you snap at it. “You don’t even have any bones.” It starts to cry, and you are forced to feed it a second finger. It bobs around next to the first, making a V sign at you.
Sighing, you ponder your options. But only for a moment. Your little swim in the moat has awakened its inhabitants: huge scaly reptiles with teeth as long as your leg. Dozens of them swarm out of the water and towards you.
Your options are limited. You can run, call for help, fight, or try to get into the castle through a open window in the distance. The wrong choice means death, you know that.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Run
2. Fight
3. Call for help
4. Try for the window
With a baby constantly eating my fingers i dont think i will really care about dying.
I’ll fight them!
@chuloopa
You are victorious. After stomping on one, goomba-style, the rest flee in terror. It turns out they were actually friendly, and were just hoping to say hello and let you into the castle.
A valet from the castle comes out and starts berating you for killing one of their beloved pets and scattering the rest.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Attack valet
2. Run past him into the castle
3. Run away
4. Let him rant
5. Apologise
6. Other
3. Search Area for useful items.
You find nothing useful. And while you are searching, a thief sneaks into your vicinity and steals your satchel. He charges off to the east, and you shout ineffectually after him.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Chase after him
2. Move (and in which direction)
3. Other
1.
You give chase. Encumbered as the thief is by all your worldly possessions, you manage to gain a little ground on him. He looks back over his shoulder and sees you getting closer. You see a flash of something – fear? youth? despair? – in his eyes, but it’s too fleeting a glimpse for you to be sure of what you’ve seen.
The thief hurls your satchel into the air. It catches on a high branch. He continues to run, plunging into a dense thicket.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Climb tree to retrieve bag
2. Throw rocks at bag
3. Chase thief
4. Other
Strange men are always ‘hurling my satchel’.
That’s nice, dear.
You decide to chase the thief, and leave your satchel behind. You are, after all, a little spent from all that hurling.
He gets away, leaving no trace. You attempt to find your way back to your satchel, but get horribly lost and wind up on a cliff overlooking a waterfall, with no clue where you are.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Jump
2. Walk away
3. Climb a tree
4. Attempt to climb down the cliff.
1
You climb the tree. It is an easy climb, and you soon hold your bag aloft. Unfortunately, you have strayed a little too close to a nest of bird-creatures, and they interpret your triumphant gestures as an act of aggression. They swarm you, pecking you painfully and nipping you with teeth as sharp as needles. Holding onto the branch with one hand, and your bag with the other, you can’t even defend yourself.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Drop bag
2. Let go of branch
2
@sernobulus
It’s such a long way down, but by some quirk of fate, you land in a big pile of bird-creature droppings, and it breaks your fall. Also, because you now smell like one of them, the bird-creatures leave you alone and return to their nest.
You are bleeding from several minor wounds, but are otherwise okay. Your bag, however, is empty – the thief must have emptied it of its contents prior to tossing it. Dejected, you ponder your options.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Move (and in which direction)
2. Seek revenge against bird-creatures
3. Find water to get clean
4. Other
Celebrate that you don’t have to deal with the jelly baby?
You guys are fucking weird.
booo
Your words have no effect.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Move (and in which direction)
2. Open inventory
3. Other
I’m not fucking Weird!
I haven’t even kissed her yet!
3. Other: Praise the sun.
You praise the sun. The sun sees this as flirtation and kisses you with fiery passion. You leave a scorch mark on the ground and nothing else.
GAME OVER
Hot.
3. I mentally plan out my entire gameplan….
I jump twice, i duck twice, move left, move right, move left, move right, scream out “B!”, scream out “A!”
then i START executing it.
You execute your game plan. It seems kind of wasteful, given the time it took to formulate it, but it offers no resistance as you chop off its head.
The creaking sound is getting closer to you.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Move (and in which direction)
2. Open inventory
3. Other
MOVE LEFT
You come to a stream. It babbles and burbles. Tiny fish dart in and out between rocks. Sunlight streams through the gaps in the trees and warms your soul. It feels like a peaceful place.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Sit a while
2. Take a drink
3. Catch a fish
4. Move on
5. Use item
6. Other
I just met @batguy
WHO’S JELLY???!!!
BATGIRL?
Not I, I went to sportsball with the dude.
Saw him just the other week, so 😛
I met Batguy before he was cool.
*hipster glasses*
I hear @blaghman identifies himself as some degree of amorphous blob. He could be the jelly person?
Not me! I met him yesterday! 😛
He was braggin about sleepin with you
He was in my bed!
I’m pretty jealous.
Thanks dc, I knew you’d play along 🙂
http://firsthour.net/full-review/how-persona-3-destroyed-my-love-for-japanese-rpgs
Interesting article that I completely disagree with but can totally understand.
Worth mentioning it’s a critique of P3 FES on PS2. If you were thinking of playing P3P on PSP, it’s exempt from many of the criticisms leveled at it in this article.
I love P3P, but haven’t played P3 FES though.
I dunno, dood seems to completely hate the social aspects.
And yeah, in P3P just being able to control every character in the battle is so good!
I’m on the fence about getting FES, I want to, it’s only $10 on PSN US.
Play P3P if you haven’t already, it’s better. I’d probably only buy a physical copy of P3 FES for my collection.
I am playing P3P, started up straight after finishing P4G.
Just happened to be half price on PSN that week 😀
I wanted a physical copy of FES too, but they cost like $30!
Score! I also bought P2 Innocent Sin on PSP, but haven’t ever really gotten around to it. There’s a pretty clear line between P2 IS and P3P, in terms of style and presentation. Far too spoilt on P4G and P3P!
Yeah, P2 just seems like SMT but set in high school from a different view.
I nearly bought it, since all the Persona went on special but I didn’t have the cash on PSN and kinda forgot.
One day I may get it, but I have other shit on my plate.
Quite a few excellent new portable games for me this year 😀
@mrtaco How are your adventures in PC building going?
Quite well, thanks! I got it all together without anything exploding or breaking, and it seems to work. Can’t do anything with it yet though because it has no OS yet. Got an ISO of win7 downloaded last night, just need to see what the go is with getting a key. Then I can… get around to doing something. At some point.
No explosions? How boring! 😛
Seriously though, nice work. If I tried to build a computer I’m sure there would have been blood as I can usually find a way to hurt myself even doing the most harmless of things.
I’m usually pretty similar. I’ve got a scar on the back of my wrist from one time when I kind of forgot to put down a knife before trying to snap a pen tube into shorter pieces…
Man, this is a really long page.
Agreed.
If you know what i mean
Thank you.
Do any TAYbies have any series that they’ve gotten but haven’t watched?
TV/Anime?
Hemlock Grove & Mad Men (thanks to @shane).
Only watched 1.5 seasons of Breaking Bad in almost 2 years.
Mad Men and The Wire.
Yes, I know how good they are.
The Wire for me too.
I’ve owned Patlabor 3 on DVD for over 5 years and never watched it.
I never saw Patlabor 1 or 2 properly so I always meant to get that DVD double pack and watch it first.
Patlabor 3 is great. Much more mature than it’s predecessors. Not that there’s anything wrong with Patlabor one and two! I have all three on DVD and love them like crazy.
What I saw looked awesome, but I managed to miss the start when it played on SBS and I decided to give it a miss that time to watch properly.
A shame I never got around to it :-/
I only remembered the other week when I noticed 3 was sitting on my shelf, I have the edition that came in a slip with Mini-Pato on a second disc (the cute comedy Patlabor)
Been in Season 3 of Battlestar coming up to 3 years now.
I love it, dunno why I haven’t gone back.
Dexter, The Wire (got about halfway through season 3) and Mad Men (also about halfway through season 3).
Tudors
My Little Pony. I’ve got season 1 but I’ve only watched episodes 1 and 2 so far.
The first two episodes aren’t even that good. It doesn’t hit its stride until a few episodes in.
I have an enormous stack of unwatched or unfinished anime that I should really get rid of but I always tell myself I’ll get to it ‘eventually’.
Much like my gaming pile of shame, the list only grows larger over time 🙁
Spoiler alert, if you haven’t read Enders Game then steer clear of the comments section for the related article on the movie.
downvotes for them joiks!
… I don’t know what to get my mum for Mother’s Day… 🙁
How about a hug? Or a day where you do all the housework or cooking or something for her?
Or if you feel you need to spend money maybe a ticket to a cultural event of some kind. Or take her out to lunch and then do something she would think is fun afterwards? Usually Mothers like to have either time off from the family that they can just use to be themselves and/or some special time with the family.
This. I managed to stop worrying about gifts for mother’s day when I realised all I had to do was drive over to mum’s and hang out, have lunch, etc. Or me and my sister would just go halves in taking her out for lunch somewhere. Easy.
A colobus monkey!
Spent the last hour browsing board games online. I know there are a few people around here who play… any recommendations? (looking to go outside the more mainstream pictionary/trivial pursuit/blah titles we would usually play – but still be pretty accessible)
I’m running a Bored Game on Page 9. Want to play again? 🙂
I hear this one is pretty good
http://bit.ly/RBb29Z
Dixit is rad.
This was actually one I had kind mentally-shortlisted-but-forgotten-the-name-of after looking at some online blag ‘top 10’ lists.
Thanks 😀
Haha, I forget its name all the time too. For the most part it’s known as That Game With The Cards With Pictures That You Have To Describe And It’s Kind Of Like Balderdash Or Something.
Going to reply with a going that looked ok… one link per post styles.
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/29368/last-night-on-earth-the-zombie-game
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/28143/race-for-the-galaxy
I like Race For the Galaxy a lot. Heaps of depth, simple mechanics, indirect competition that involves reading your opponents moves, lots of viable strategies. It’s probably at its best with a couple of expansions added.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30549/pandemic
Pandemic is pretty cool. Very hard to win if you play it well though, the game is deliberately (but not unfairly) stacked against you. Especially if you play with @tech_knight. He somehow managed to spread the infections by curing them.
Playing with @alexpants gets similar results.
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/103343/a-game-of-thrones-the-board-game-second-edition
^ I find it unusual the “A Dance with Dragons” expansion is dated 2012, and the “A Feast for Crows” is dated 2013…
Enormously complicated and takes a million hours to play out. Also Fantasy Flight’s games usually have terribly badly written rulebooks where you will be more confused when you finish reading than when you start.
But I guess if you really like the Game of Thrones stuff and want a themed game, it’s not bad.
Playing for too long + badly written rules is probably a deal-breaker (not so much for myself, but others in the group I usually play with). Have you played K2 or ‘The Cave’?
I haven’t played either of them sorry.
What sort of stuff are you looking for? Complexity, number of players, average length…
I probably should’ve mentioned most of this stuff in the initial post :/
I guess… 3-6 players, not too complex (not sure how to quantify complexity) maybe anywhere from half an hour through to 1.5-2 hours?
Buckaroo
Dominion is an amazing deck building game. Works well with two players and scales up to four or five. Good variety of strategies but you need to either pay attention or be drunk (being drunk has been an automatic victory for both @freya and @35)
Pandemic is a co-op game that’s kind of but not exactly the reverse of Plague Inc. Works best with more than two players.
Small World is a tactical game that’s a bit like Risk (occupying territories and the like) but has some nice character, is not dependent on die rolls and the randomness with races and abilities means that every game can play differently.
Ticket to Ride is amazing. Incredibly simple strategy to pick up, fun to play. The Europe board is the best board, just start with that one.
Munchkin is fun in a group of three or four. It’s a card based game that’s very random and is basically all about screwing everyone else over (or teaming up to screw me over, as most games end up being).
Settlers of Catan is a resource gathering game. You get to say “have you got wood for sheep?” a lot. This shows up a lot as a recommended game for people trying to get into European style board games.
This Youtube show is a great introduction to a lot of games and fairly entertaining to boot.
Dominion only goes to four players. If you want more, you need an expansion and they don’t recommend it (they suggest if you have six players and an expansion you should play two 3-player games instead). It also is really annoying when you get people who don’t think about what they’re going to do until their turn, and then spend ages coming up with complicated series of action cards to do next to nothing because they’ve ruined their deck balance by filling it with crap action cards. But it is a very good game and it’s inspired a whole board game subgenre. If you want a silly variation on it you could look at Tanto Cuore, which is a Japanese deck building game where the cards are maids that work in your mansion.
Personally I hate Munchkin. It’s far too random to have much strategy in it, far too reliant on luck. I used to love Catan but about 6 months of playing 2-3 games every lunch hour at work basically laid it all bare: initial placement dictates who wins the majority of the time.
I couldn’t remember if it was four or five :p
And I think it’s just natural to buy all of the expansions once you start playing. We’re well on the road to doing just that. That being said, there is fun to be had with a lot of chain actions. Who doesn’t like Throne Rooming a Thief and then playing another Thief after playing two Villages? Screwing with people is fun.
Totally played this as a kid, and last time I went down to my parents place my mum had bought a brand new copy and we played it and it was quite enjoyable. a) it’s a bit of a memory game that can get really confusing because b) it’s german, and I don’t know what all those german fairy tales are all about.
http://www.gameshop.com.au/enchanted-forest-board-game.html
Ticket to Ride!
Anyone know where I put the thread I need? No? Oh well, guess I’d better actually go look for it again instead of wasting time hanging around the internet. 😛
its in the last place you look.
Not always. I often keep looking for things after I find them, just to annoy people who say this.
@alexpants @bdkiaf @chuloopa @freezespreston @masha2932 @rize @sernobulus (and honourable mentions to @fled @zetrox2k @ynefel) – thanks for participating in my Bored Game. You got me through a tough day today – really appreciate it!
You all WIN! The prize is these words in a spoiler tag. No one else is allowed to click.
these wordsIt cheered me up on an otherwise crummy day.
Fuckingchuloopa ALWAYS wins EVERYTHING!*crosses arms*
So when can I expect delivery of my prize. Words are not cheap you know 🙂
Also, you’re welcome. I had fun playing too.
So, I’m going to hell. Just bought a GTX Titan. Then again, people have their cars, i have my computers. This thing is a fucking monster.
No. YOU’RE the monster. Apparently.
Nice.
Guy not helping, and asking questions that he could probably just google the answer to, possibly planting ideas in your mind asks:
Can you SLI two of them?
Yeah, my friend decided to do it the other week, (Titans in 2-way SLI) which inspired me. You can actually use Titans in 4-way SLI if you’re silly enough. I’m going from two GTX670’s in 2-way SLI, which in itself isn’t a huge upgrade, but I’m selling the 670’s to a friend, and the Titan will handle my new 30″ monitor (when I actually buy it) better than the 670’s.
Four Titans would suck all the power out of the eastern suburbs though.
Not to mention the performance gain going above 2-way SLI on most cards starts to border on a waste of money, but epeen!
Titans are really good at scalability, but yeah, you’re still getting mad losses.
If you really want to, you can SLI 3 of them!
Didn’t you recently SLI a couple of beefy graphics cards? Not judging, just curious why you jump up so soon.
EDIT: I know it mistake, but I still think it good grammar.
A few reasons. A single Titan is better than SLI’d 670’s, but not by a huge measure. But, the Titan is a single GPU and less subject to SLI woes like micro stuttering. Even a single GTX690 suffers from SLI woes, because while a single card, they’re architecturally two 680’s bolted together.
Also, the Titan shines in high resolution/multi monitor scenarios – basically anything above a single display running at 1920×1080. The limitations of two 670’s in SLI will become glaringly apparent above 1920×1080.
So if I was staying at 1920×1080 on a single display, it’d be a minor upgrade, but considering I’ve got buyers for my two 670’s and I’m looking at getting a 29″-30″ monitor, and the Titan will deal with it far better.
EDIT: Also, much lower power consumption, and 6GB of vRAM at my disposal!
2560×1440? Or going even higher (if that is possible for current monitors?).
My single 670 OC runs most stuff pretty decently at 2560×1440, though I’ll often disable some other stuff because I’m CPU-bound and also I get no real value at that res out of Anti-aliasing.
Yeah I’m aiming for 2560×1440, there’s a few nice monitors around that should do it. The 670’s in SLI are amazing, but I want more. They’re blocked, watercooled and overclocked, but the Titan is just a more rounded solution – less limitations I guess.
Can’t use the Titan in my gaming rig yet, because I need to get the waterblock and backplate for it, and can’t afford it till next week. Might just bung it in my server with the i5-3570K and see what it does in the meantime!
Sometimes I wish I had gotten two monitors instead of my 27″ 2560×1440 panel. But then I remember I can eventually get a second one. \o/
This is true! Monitors are far more flexible.
can I ‘ave yer old wun :p
THE WORLDS END TRAILER!!!
EDGAR WRIGHT!!!
SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=103870
NIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Cannot wait!
Coooool!
In order to avert the hype just a tad, I’m going to downvote you and say that this is going to be the blurst movie ever, of all time.
But I don’t mean it@freezespreston is a monster and sent me a text message at the station saying everyone had cancelled for the meat. *shakes fist*
Freeze, a monster? Umpteen-time-Kudos-winner Freeze?
I was as surprised as you, Alex. :'(
He draws a mighty fine goatse.
I’d say it seemed like a good idea at the time but I still think it was a good idea.
“A Good Idea is a Good Idea forever” – David Brent
Meat was good. Sorry for being DC. Hope you guys had fun otherwise.
In all seriousness, you guys are awesome. Best choice I ever made was to go to these meats.
…doofus. 😛
STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS MEAT…
When: Saturday 11th May, 2013
Where: Brisbane! I dunno, movie isn’t showing at Centro Palace, @sughly. That leaves either South Bank Cineplex, Palace Barracks or VMax at the Myer Centre. Any preferences? We WILL need to book tickets and probably soon. (Tomorrow night at the latest I reckon.)
Food: We totally should!
Firstly, who’s going? 😀
Meee
edit: oh ahh… ehhh… ahhh… not Barracks? Barracks isnt that great. VMax I ruckon. Not going to South Bank. Hell. No. No more, pls no more.
Okay, cool. Two night VMAX sessions, one at 6:45 and one at 9:25. Both of these are 3D. There’s two non-VMAX sessions too at 7:30 and 8:45…
Prices: Non-VMAX 17.50, VMAX, 23 (!!!)… (Also $1 for glasses if 3D.)
Not 645. Doubt I’d make that.
Yeah, a bit too early if we’re having dinner too. (I assume we’re having dinner. Oh man, worst meat planner ever. Haha.)
I demand a non-Vmax, non 3D session so that two extra-awesome peoples can see it with you guys. And I’m the First Lady so you all have to do what I say. 😛
Keen. Will coinfirm tomorrox.
Ugh, sometimes Dan, it’s like, just use normal words.
We get it. You’re different.
Jesus.
Your post reads like a letter written to Commander Keen from Jesus.
@welbot, @jimu, @gutsoup, @virus__, @strange, @freezespreston, @sernobulus, @sughly, @lambomann007, @beardymcmuttonchops
Updated plans here!
Apparently I’m seeing this at Chermside on Saturday with friends we haven’t seen for ages. So unless you all want to go to Chermside I won’t be able to make this Meat either. #worstTAYbieever
🙁
:'(
I’m not going to be able to make it either, @dc
Well, I’ll just geek out over Star Trek by myself. And talk about deflector dishes and Cardassians and warp coils and stuff. FUN! 😛
You could come with me to Chermside though….
Looks like we’ll have to take the kids so I’ll be sitting down the front with them while Mr. Strange sits with our friends. I’m not really sure why I ever see movies with other people, to be honest. 😛
You’re taking your son to see it? His mind will be blown! 😀 😀 😀
I’m worried that he won’t sit still and will ruin it for me. 😛
Oh man, MRS works til 730, but doesn’t mean she’ll get straight home depending.
Its poss I *could* make it, but not 100%
Argh!
Would you be more likely to go if it was a later session? 😀
Yes, but anything can happen. They could ask her to work longer or some shit.
So although it is more likely, it is no guarantee
Ber doesn’t want to see it in 3D, so, we’re just gonna head to South Bank Cineplex and see it on Saturday afternoon so we’ve can then join you guys for dinner.
🙁
Aw man, I feel like I’m doing a really horrible job organizing this stuff anyway.
No way man! You’re doing fine. Ber and I just get super bad headaches from 3D is all. We don’t want to derail your plans, so we’ll work around em and still meet you guys for dinner 🙂
Also good I’ve am at sentence structure.
I don’t think 3D was ever decided on so maybe you could just demand one of the 2D showings so you can see it with everyone.
From what I hear Freeze and Sughly both aren’t fans of 3D either.
3D sucks!
Sounds like we need to see this movie in 2D then! 😀
I don’t like demanding things 🙁 But yeah, Ber and I are happy to make alternate arrangements if peeps want to see it in 3D.
I demand stuff all the time! I’ll do it for you. 😀
Haha! I think this is why I’m so bad at organizing meats. I don’t want to tell any one what to do. 🙁
Beardy, we’re seeing a non-3D session at Event CInema at 8:45 it looks like if you guys are keen still. Details below!
Wowww! Pretty amazing use of go pro right there. @dkzeitgeist – you seen this shiz?? http://www.awsm.com/13883/now-this-is-how-you-use-a-go-pro/#.UYmTPi20aok.facebook
Yeah man, that shits amazing!
Holy shit. That was awesome!!
True D.C. stories. I always confuse Ender’s Game with Logan’s Run. That is all.
Also for a big of scifi out of space looking at earth philosophy http://www.upworthy.com/some-strange-things-are-happening-to-astronauts-returning-to-earth
Very cool watch, even if you only see the first few mins.
It’s because if all the alien poon they’re hoarding up there and not sharing like jerks.
Oh wow, that’s all kinds of awesome. Reminds me of going to the Kennedy Space Centre. Crazy inspiring. That aurora shot at 4:08 is mind blowingly beautiful. D:
Edit: Saw Hubble 3D on IMAX. That was amazing too.
Great link Sughly.
Even on mute the footage alone could make me watch the full twenty minutes. Haha!
I had to watch the whole 20 minutes. The overview effect they talked about reminded me of the concept of Yugen a little.
That was great. Thanks Sughly.
I’m happy to be on spaceship earth with all of you 🙂
@jacksonwryan – BASKETBALLS! i.e. no Shane pls
I do like basketballs! I dun go on twitterland much, but I’m pretty sure we follow each other? Mebe? I’m @kramsdesign over there. Ohhh Spurs are your team, hot damn! Yeah I nearly closed the stream at one point, I was like this game is over. Then bam! What a game. Cant believe Ginobili made that three at the end, incredible stuff. Will be very interesting to see the rest as you say 😀
I missed the matches today due to kotaku lunch meats, bur seems like the Knicks took that one pretty decisively, might not be as down and out as you suggested 🙂 They had fire in that first round, I was surprised when you said that (I dont really watch much besides the playoffs, so its all I have to go by :D)
I dont really have a team per se, but I really like okc, I hope they arent struggling :'( But seems like they lost todays so oh noes, come on okc try haaaarder. Durant is such a gentleman, I just him to win erything.
Also, Lakers, lol. Also, pity Rose isnt playing for Chicago. Always liked watching him play. I think it could be a very different Chicago with him there too, but obviously thats not happening.
Let’s go team LeBron!
Lets not
Boo!
Hehe ^_^ But to be honest he is rather awesome. I just want to go back to watching him on Cavaliers :'(
I remember a period a while back where everyone had Hornets gear.
I never understood that. Was it just that their logo was ‘cool’ or what?
Honestly have no idea.
Neither do I
I would’ve been 3 at that time, I think.
#oldmanfreeze 😛
So that makes you what, 5? 6?
Oh, was it only that long ago? I hadn’t noticed that, so I made an educated guess it happened when I was three, cause I got a Hornets basketball then.
Don’t judge me, my brain is frazzled. 😛
I just started following you so it seems like we have never crossed paths over there on twitterville (@jacksonwryan)
As for Game 1 Spurs – GSW made the biggest rookie error and didn’t switch at the end which left Ginobili waaaaaay open. He doesn’t miss those shots, from there, in the playoffs. History has taught me this. So yes, I was very relieved. My love for the spurs is deep (predominantly because I have always loved Gino and I love pull up J’s from TP9), they are just such a good pure basketball side – even when everyone thinks they’re boring.
I go to uni and always watch the games after. (or sometimes catch the last few minutes at work depending) but I usually check the scores unless its the spurs playing. New York looked done at 3qtr time, but they piled on 33 in the last quarter. I have no idea where that came from – I still think the Pacers will win the series overall, especially now they have two home games and can go 3-1 up potentially. If the Knicks get an away win, then it’s on!
I like OKC, or I *did* like them quite a bit until they knocked the Spurs out last year. That was a frustrating series. KD35 is great yeah and very humble – the opposite of westbrook. He deserves a ring at some point (but so does Steve Nash etc and he probably won’t ever get one). Um, what else. Oh yeah, Kendrick Perkins, ew. Seriously though, the Grizz are much stronger than OKC at the moment – might be different if westbrook wasn’t injured but you can tell OKC are hobbling now. They should be 2-0 down, lucky KD35 saved them in Game 1.
Lakers are definitely lol. If Chicago made the championship games it would be interesting to see if Rose would play. I mean, he’s definitely “ok” now from a medical standpoint – he’s just battlnig himself now. Chicago still have a shot at winning over the Heat – they are the Heat’s bogey team (and have been all year). Anyway, I better do some work. Always have lots to say about balls though.
I read it all, even though I have no idea about basketball. It was worth it though.
Upvote is for your last sentence.
Did… did you read all of mine?
Strange?
:'(
edit: How is Hermes getting more upvotes than me when noone else is even talking about this with us WHAT IS GOING ON HERE
I didn’t read your post either, but upvoted because you make adventure games and that’s respectable!
I did indeed.
Understood nothing but I read it. 😀
And upvoted only one *glares*
I upvoted your other one that said “Yay balls!”. What more do you want?! 😛
Ah. Yes. Yes you did.
Carry on then.
Asfor your edit…maybe you should edit a balls joke into your first comment if you want upvotes so bad. 😛
All I ever want from life is upvotes :'(
I didn’t read it, but upvoted because Hermes is a scientist and that’s respectable!
Glad it was worth it! My very infrequent TAY posting better be worth it or why post at all.
That’s a saying I just made up.
I actually just went and researched names and pretended to like NBA. This is all an elaborate ruse to get you back!
Hang time! And stuff.
Do you reckon it would be a bit wonky, Rose waltzing in mid playoffs? Mind you though, he did have to stop basically at the start of last years playoffs right? So… its like leaving one, coming back in another XD
Ew Perkins indeed. big ew. He can go back to Celtics where he belonged. Oh man, such sad news when I saw Nash go to Lakers. I was all nooooooo, now I have a reason to like the Lakers. Then he wasnt playing for whatever reason, injury I’m guessing, and I was all lol yay now I can hate Lakers again, boo Lakers.
Yay balls! Also I will spoiler tag stuff in case you havent watched the games now :3
I would have no problem with Rose waltzing in mid playoffs, as long as he literally waltzed in.
Truth be told, I would have no problem either way but I wanted to share the mental image I got. Yay Baskaball!Not sure if you’ve seen much of the commentary around Rose but for the most part, he is copping it from all sides. So, i think there is a ton of pressure for him to come back and STRAIGHT AWAY provide. I don’t think that’s fair but, that’s what “the people” want.
Hope you enjoy tomorrows games!
Yeah I dont know much about whats being said but I figured as much. I heard the match commentators talking about how hes ready to play but isnt, and I put two and two together. Caus I is smart like!
I’m clearly not welcome here 🙁
Holy shit. This might be the worst song ever. For reference, prior to this Falling in Reverse were a post-hardcore band.
Lol Ronnie Radke.
Hot Problems is still worse.
Such a twat. Only he could make Falling in Reverse worse though.
Bringing up Ronnie Radke is like bringing up Black Veil Brides or Jesse Leach before Howard quit Killswitch Engage All you gotta do is sit back and grab some popcorn.
… and their follow up isn’t much better… :\
….PEDESTOOL!?
Wowwww…
At first I was all: “sounds normal (read: terrible)”
Then I was like: “BAHAHAHAHAHA”
One thing is for certain. Radke doesn’t give a fuck.
So my copy of Soul. Sacrifice. arrived. Forgot I’d ordered it honestly.
suck it :p
Yeah well it sure does suck having to go to reception to pick up a package when you’re on crutches and can’t carry anything!
Ha ha!
Awwwww poor thing
*kiss kiss*
Feel better soon, honey-buns!
Oooooooooo we used to wait…
Did you see the html5 thingy they did for this? You put in the name of where you grew up and they do this google maps stuff, making it look like the dude is running your ‘suburb’. Weird.
Oh wow, nope haven’t seen that. Sounds pretty damn cool/weird though! 😀
Best film studio/production company logo?
Walt Disney Animation!
Always loved Dreamworks too.
FREAKIN’ LOVE THIS! D: Reminds me of the magic of going to the movies when I was a kid. (So damn wanky. Haha.)
Ease up tiger. You had a big day. Perhaps a nap is needed?
Don’t you tell me what to do text message liar. 😛
Am I the only one who misses the old Universal music too? :'(
Edit: Am I the only one who geeks out about this stuff? D: Always used to picture how amazing it would be to have these logos before something I made. 😀
I enjoy old shit like that slightly on a purely sentimental level.
And I prefer not having my eyes assaulted by lazy design.
But, yeah, no, not geeking out, sorry. 🙂
It’s okay, I’ll geek out for the both of us!
*geeks out*
I get sentimental over the warbled sounds of the above when played on VHS where the tape is slightly warped/stretched due to years of use 😀
Now THAT is geek out worthy!
I already know one thing I’m going to hate about the Star Wars sequel trilogy/new movies, and that’s the fact that they won’t have the 20th Century Fox music before it starts >:(
Atleast they’ll have the LucasFilm logo. A logo I genuinely love seeing every time. 😀
That …willl be odd. Good point.
The modern Walt Disney Pictures intro is the best one to see in the cinema!
Oh yeah, I agree. All the studios have done ultra realistic logos for their latest ones and have lost a lot of their charm. Disney’s got the ultra realistic thing as well as the magic too. 😀
Finished Doctor Who season 1 (’05) last night. Pretty cool! Keen to get started on S2 tonight, and wind down after today.
How’s everyone doing?
Hope you’re well, Aleph.
I’m good man, how about yourself?
(RE: July-trip, I may have to push that one back some, as it appears that the other staff managed to confirm dates/apply for leave before me.
What other dates work for you? (And @beardymc @freezespreston @strange
Hi Strange!@jimu? @sughly (@kramsdesign?) @trjndefector @dkzeitgeist @otherbrisTAYbiessorryIcantrecallallofyou))I’m decent!
D.C. will meat come rain or shine. Whenever you’re in town is good for me, man.
That would actually make things easier for me! 😀
I’m only gone during the PAX weekend so anything is good. Also my offer of a place to sleep still stands if you want to save some coin. And if you give me some notice I have what is scientifically known as a metric butt ton of leave saved up so I’ll even take some time off and be Hoke Coleburn to your Daisy Werthan.
Just not October.
Hi Aleph! <3Don’t you mean ROCKtober!?
-blistering solo-
Hmm? It is? Oh…
October, was correct.
DON’T YOU MEAN COCK… WHAT JEREMY!?
NO I WASN’T GONNA GET IT OUT! JESUS!
HOW DO YOU KNOW FOR SURE THAT’S WHAT I WAS GONNA DO!? I COULD HAVE A ROOSTER FOR ALL YOU KNOW, JEREMY!
Im outta here.
Tell Mum Im riding BMX at the quarry.
YES! I’LL BE HOME BY SIX! FUCK, JEREMY!!!
Please don’t tell Mum I swore.
Jeremy, wait! If you promise not to tell her I’ll let you borrow my Bully so you can double Kurt to school on the pegs. Just promise me you won’t tell Mum I swore.
Jeremy!? JEREMY!?
Gold.
I’m not bad.
I didn’t really enjoy that series, thought it really picked up after Eccleston left.
And then again when Catherine Tate became the side-kick.
Still a few good eps though.
The take on reality-tv was amusing! I’d like to see Survivor turn into The Hunger Games/Battle Royale. I’d totally watch that.
That reminds me. I gotta find out if Black Mirror S4 has aired/been filmed yet 😀
I’m on the fence about that sort of thing.
I like it when they drop a message about how fucking stupid we all are and how we should pay attention to the stupid things we let other people do to us.
But at the same time I don’t want that reminder.
I remember when Dr Who was about him practically kidnapping some poor nitwit and taking off across time and space and dealing with problems that had nothing to do with Earth.
Just being whingy though 🙂
Way to show off, future-man.
The rest of us are sitting around like schmucks, waiting for S3.
Orrr I could be misinterpreting my own memories ;P
Beg my pardon!
Still a while to go until you get around to my favourite episodes! KEEP GOING!
I still think The Empty Child is the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen on TV
Are you my mummy?
I actually think the weeping angels are the greatest nightmare fuel I’ve seen on TV.
(I downloaded those episodes specifically, so have seen them, though completely out of context regarding the rest of the storyline.)
I haven’t seen them yet. I’m only halfway through S3.
I really hope someone is working on Tekken Vita right now. Really.
Whats a vita?
Old trollololol image I posted on twitter ages ago: http://i.imgur.com/XQuNf6H.png
Did I say Vita?
I meant I wanted Tekken on a portable 3D handheld but even the Target sale for $25 is too much because bleh
http://ncloud.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/donkey-kong-country-returns-3d-new-eu.html
Awesome!
Dragon’s Crown!
Who’s with me???
http://ncloud.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/dragons-crown-new-gameplay-details.html
Me! (eventually)
PS3 though.
Any cross-play/buy, cross-platform multiplayer features? Is it online?
Online. No cross-platform play. Don’t know if they’re doing cross-buy yet.
Ha ha! we just reversed roles. You gave the short and quick answer and I gave the long overly complicated whinge answer 😀
Don’t get it on PS3 you loser, you’re one of the few people that can actually play with me on Vita.
Japan is getting a pack with both, I’m holding out on my pre-order as long as possible just in case.
But chances are slim :-/
Everyone,s been saying no cross-play but yes cross-save, then the other day Siliconera has an article that casually mentions cross-play. Unsure if it was a typo or I just missed it, seems like more of a big deal to me than just a mention at the bottom on a screenshots article.
I’m hoping for cross-play because of wieners like you >:-(
That’ll be Siliconera buggering up. The game was initially announced with cross-platform multiplayer but when Atlus took it over they realized they had to cut some features to get the game to actually ship, and that was one of them. 🙁
They better fucking patch it, losers
I probably will. Looks interesting. But I’ll be joining @greenius on the PS3.
Everyone get it on PS3 and no one play with Jemu :-)!
I will get it on ps3 too because whats a vita?
Some sad excuse of a portable console without any games
hurr hurr hurrrrr
😛
I hat you all! @freezespreston @sughly
@DC cccccccccccccccccccc did you buy the DF Humble Bundle yet?! 😀
Nope. Will get retail box set if such a thing eventuates!
Docooooooooooooooooooo is so good!
Hopefully I can buy that separately too. The fact that they’re selling the Amnesia Fortnight ones bode well…
That’s true. More money won’t hurt them 🙂
Play SotC yet? 😀
Nah, been out all day and my sister is playing Mass Effect 3 on the HDTV. 😀
Just flip the table in the lounge room and scream “This is unacceptable!” and hope she leaves
“I’m going to destroy this” gaming session 😀
@sughly, @strange: http://collider.com/gravity-teaser-trailer/
Full trailer is released on Thursday!
Also, I wonder when the movie’s set… space shuttles still being in service and all that. (Stop over analysing the 15 seconds of footage, D.C.)
Aw yusssss!
17 minute unbroken opening shot! D:
Alfonso Cuaron’s name makes me want to see it.
Sandra Bullock’s and George Clooney’s makes me not want to.
WAT DO?
I used to hate Clooney, but he’s done awesome stuff lately. Like I said last time though, I’ve had a soft spot for Sandra Bullock since Speed. 😀
I prefer his earlier work. Although The Men Who Stare at Goats was amazeballs.
The Descendants was probably the last thing I saw him in and that was great. Pretty damn good in The Ides of March too!
I was going to say, Ides! IDES! Love that movie, so much.
All Ryan Gosling movie spoilers.
I don’t think I’ve seen a Gosling movie yet where he hasn’t done something shady midway through. XDBlue Valentiiiiiiiiine
Even more conflicting. http://collider.com/ninja-turtles-images-megan-fox/
Everything about this movie sounds terrible but Megan Fox in tight clothing on a trampoline is amazing.
Haha! Too bad about her lack of soul. 😛
Aw man, at first I thought she was doing a stunt and then I see all the aerobics people behind her. D:
Clearly she couldn’t play the best song in the world for Dave Grohl.
That’s not April! That’s not April! Nope nope nope do not like nope
She’s not even wearing yellow. WTF!
no .gif 🙁
STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS MEAT
Brisbane, Saturday 11th May. Event Cinema Myer Centre. 8:45pm. (Non-3D session.) Tickets are $17.50
Dinner before at 6:45, maybe? What’s the earliest you can make it Freeze?
Don’t really know any food places in Brisbane, any suggestions?
These plans can be changed, just throwing it out there! Also, we’ll need to book tickets and there’s seat allocation stuff to worry about too, so sooner we work this out the better. 😀 Hope I’m not annoying you guys. 🙂
@jimu, @gutsoup, @beardymcmuttonchops, @freezespreston, @sughly, @strange, @welbot, @lambomann007, @virus__, @sernobulus, @dkzeitgeist. (I know some of you guys have confirmed you can’t make it, but will keep you tagged just in case!)
Can’t book for me :-/
I’ll just see if I can wing it.
(It’ll be me a& all my friends in the front row)
Not like we can talk during the movie anyway, so wouldn’t ruin the movie if we weren’t all sitting together and we could ramble about it afterwards. I’m sure it won’t sell out completely. 😀
Sounds good deecee! If we get solid numbers I can book us all together and you can pay me back on Sat.
@dc is SHOUTING!
If only I could. Haha!
Thanks Sughly. That’s so damn awesome of you! You sure, though?
So who’s confirmed? Post here or respond by tomorrow night at the latest! 😀
Both myself and Mrs Freeze. Will try for 645 but can’t make any promises.
No problem, man. 😀
Confirmed for Ber and I. I can send you moneys as soon as it’s booked if you like Sughly. Or before. Just email me your deets.
Don’t know any places to eat, but while walking to Mary St for Korean BBQ at the Freeze/Sughly bday meat we passed this place.
Maybe it was because I was so damn hungry but didn’t look too bad. Don’t see any where about booking reservations or any thing though.
Any one know any places? 😀
GYG is good for what it is, but it’s still fast food version of Mexican.
I see! Didn’t know it was fast food. Haha! Might not be the best for something like this then… :'(
That said I have about $100 of free food there that I will never use.
Nice! How’d you get that? 😀
Did a bunch of work for the Broadbeach one off the record and got given them.
@sughly @doc_what @strange @freezespreston and all the FF7 or LBP fans I can’t remember the tags of:
http://ncloud.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/final-fantasy-vii-remade-in.html
On second thought, too long and slow…gonna go watch the Dr
Some people just have way too much
free timecreativity and talent.You were right the first time
That’s one sexy quote.
I commend thee for your presentation.
DAMNIT D.C.! >:(. NO. EDITING!
I have lots of hoodies now since it’s hoodie season! I’m wearing one now!
Didn’t you hear? I’m bringing SexyBack. (YEAH!)
Drunk C!
Other states? @Cakesmith’s got your back here.
… I’m seeing a complete lack of Victoria here. I feel something must be done
I concur!
…but am too lazy to organise it
and also don’t know my way around the city
Makings of a meat? 😀 NOW MEAT! >:|
… yes sir
Huzzah! I have found out what has been making my throat feel like I swallowed a angry wasps nest since monday. apparently I’ve scratched part of my throat and it’s gotten a little inflamed and there’s a pretty decent blister. Seeing as it wasn’t bad enough to warrant drugs, the doctor said the best thing was just the stay inside and not talk.
Anyone up for a yodelling contest?
Hope you feel better soon, my friend!
Stay inside and not talk?
That’s like the two things I’m best at!
Mure gaemz!
My boogers used to be too soft so they’d drip down the back of my throat and I’d have a constant throat infection.
I had to use this, like, nasal spray? Which, if you’ve never used nasal spray before, is really unusual and gets to be kind of a sick thrill. I started jonesing for that weird feeling of a backwards sneeze.
Dan Crowd, got addicted to nasal spray for soft boogers.
I’m glad I read this comment.
Ha Ha!
Mr Sweet was really cute
But next week:
Neil Gaiman, Warwick Davis & Cyber Men, wooooooooooooooooooooooooo!Doctor Who?
:p
He really was! I liked that episode too.
http://ncloud.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/shuhei-yoshida-promises-ps3-ico-hd.html
May have to get it soon if this actually happens! 😀
Oh wow, that’d be all kinds of cool and well suited for the game. As great as the HD release looks, I think it’d look much better on a smaller screen!
It’s more a case of me being able to play while the TV is in use by others.
Also, yes, small screens not too far/not too close are easier on my old man eyes.
Post is from September though, maybe they’re coinciding the patch release with The Last Guardian. 😛
Yeeeeeeep, same day as Final Fantasy Versus 13 & Shenmue 3.
Oh and not forgetting Zone of the Enders HD for Vita.
:O
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2012/09/05/ps-vita-remote-play-now-live-for-god-of-war-collection-and-icoshadow-of-the-colossus/
ALREADY RELEASED!
Well, well, well.
Thank you, sir 😀
To tell the truth, I’m unsure why a Sony exclusive HD remaster wasn’t ported to Vita as well.
Does Shadow run shit way too big for a Vita? I dunno.
I’ve got MGS HD on Vita, looks and plays great 😀
Start a War – The National is amazing.
I really liked that. Thanks D.C. 🙂
I’m going to take this as a Last Song Played Game cue; Dinah Moe Humm – Frank Zappa
You’re welcome 😉
REDACTED!
Found stuff 😀
Depends what sort of music you like? I could suggest heaps of stuff that’s good, but doesn’t mean you’ll like it.
Everything! 😛
Get ‘Daisies Of The Galaxy’ by Eels.
Also The Beatles – Rubber Soul.
So Far Away – Carole King
Brothers in Arms – Dire Straits
The Whitlams – Eternal Nightcap
The Stars (Are Out Tonight) – David Bowie
M Ward – Let’s Dance from the excellent album “Transfiguration Of Vincent”
Wouldn’t It Be Nice – She & Him (M Ward’s the him!)
Oh man, I’m gonna stop before Serrels IP bans me again. 😛
A little She & Him never goes astray! 🙂
What?!? You can get IP banned just for posting? Oops.. 0_o
Ah man, Daisies of the galaxy. So good.
Get American IV: The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash. 😀
Great album!
Do this, and also get American III – Solitary Man by Johnny Cash 😀
(It’s better than DC’s one ;P )
And then get all the original songs from both albums and see what you like 😉
Also, get American VI: Ain’t No Grave too. XD
Great album!
Edit: I also love Cash’s version of Solitary Man. So. Damn. Good. In fact my ‘signature’ on Adventure Gamers is “Right or wrong, weak or strong.” 😀
@dc – You reckon we should just keep recommending stuff anyways?
He wants new music. 😛 After you fall in love with Cash’s ‘new’ stuff, there’s the other stuff too. Also watch Walk the Line! 😀
Edit: Only just saw the edit. :'(
@dc May I recommend an album to you based on some of what I’ve seen you like?
Hmmm? I’ll take that as a yes. 🙂
The Cowboy Junkies – The Trinity Session
Haha! Much obliged! 😀
I really hope you give it a listen some time.
I think you’ll like it 🙂
I hope that edit means you went back and found all the things I’ve ever said I listened to. Because I only listen to good music. 😀
You spelt scary wrong!
Just kidding B’lyndah! I listen to some pretty scary stuff myself 🙂Oh god. I jokingly made that spelling up but there’s legitimately someone called “Balyndah” (which is just as bad)Is anyone else super anal (organised :P) with their music?
For digital stuff, everything’s gotta be labelled properly and ALBUM COVERS! I. Must. Have. Them!
With the way I listen to music I often stumble across some hidden gems I didn’t know I had while on Shuffle :D.
I recently found Spinning in Daffodils – Them Crooked Vultures and It’s Not Your Fault – Athlete *hipster hair flick*
I am.
I made my own genre structure, so that there wasn;\’t a billion different genres on my iPod.
Rock
Electronic
Metal
Game
Orchestral
World
Film
There’s no inbetweens. I decide what fits where according to my taste
Some person: I wish I could experience these games TAYbies are always raving about.
Me: Which games are you referring to?
Some person: You know the Souls’ games and the team Ico games.
Me: I see. Why don’t you just buy them?
Some person: Money is tight at the moment. No new games for a while.
Me: WELL NOT TO WORRY KID! SONY’S GOT YOUR BACK!
Some person: Really? How?
Me: Ico and shadow of the colossus HD collection and Demon’s Souls will be free for PS+ members.
Some person: Wow, free! That’s awesome.
Me: Yes, free*
Some person: Thanks dude. Now I can join the discussions. Woo
We both jump up and high-five.
*Existing Playstation Plus subscription is required. And a PS3 too, Other than that it’s you know free but you only have access to it until your subscription lapses.
Well sir or madam are you like ‘some person’ above? Then be prepared to download those three awesome games in June.
I already own or have access to all of those games so my hard drive will be taking a break next month.
You should write copy for Sterling Cooper!
Awww. Thanks 🙂
You gotta specify which region, bumasha!
I assume this is US?
It’s for Australian/European PS+ members. The US already got Demon’s Souls some months back.
Went to the PS Blog and couldn’t find anything about it 😛
EDIT: found it now! I was looking for the usual “Your PS+ content for ____” but didn’t realise it was hidden in a sale post.
I already have both though :'(, but good news for those who don’t!
It was announced in the Knights and witches sale article.http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2013/05/08/knights-and-witches-sale-starts-on-ps-store-today/
I’m surprised they announced it this early. The EU team do their announcements early but this is too early. May is barely at the halfway mark 🙂
I’m some person, but unfortunately I have neither the PS3, nor the PS+ subscription required to partake in the aforementioned extravaganza
🙁
Oh no 🙁
DEMON’S. SOULS. \o/
Whatta game.Ico!
Also good.Catherine
GotYBlood Dragon just made a C.H.U.D reference.
This game just continues to make me fall in love.
Haha, cannabalistic humanoid underground dwellers! I only ever saw trailers to this at the beginning of Friday the 13th sequels on vhs.
Went and saw David Strassman Live tonight, I was almost pissing myself with laughter.
Also, thanks to @crazyguy1990 for Saints Row 3!
You’re welcome!
Have fun blowing shit up and beating people with a giant dildo-bat! \o/
Is he the puppet one?
Yes he has The Bear called Ted E Bear.
Fuck
XD
See he is making DC laugh he must be hillarious
Sleep time. Remember, if you plan on Star Trek meating to let us know by tomorrow night at the latest. Peace out, home slices!
Peace out D.C. 🙂
I felt like having a cold fizzy drink before going to bed… only to find that there isn’t anything fizzy… 🙁
Couldn’t find one, so I’ve decided to leave you for the evening with some brilliance instead:
Hey guys!
Is Tropico any good?
If so, you can get it as part of the new indie gala bundle.
http://www.indiegala.com/
Thoughts?
Tropico 3 was absolutely amazing. I bought 4 in a Steam sale and haven’t actually played it yet, but 3 was great. Good gameplay, good humour, and I found the difficulty options to be perfect for me.
My sister loves the Tropico games.
Is… is that a positive or a negative… I… can’t quite seem to work it out..
My sister loves most of the games I do, just haven’t played this one myself but the fact she likes it probably bodes well. Atleast for the latest release. (Earlier ones might be dated.)
Oh look, the sun is up. How nice
Time to go back into the office after an all nighter.
D: Aw man, doesn’t sound fun!
Having lunch now
First break I’ve had since about 4pm yesterday
I’ve been trying to back up my laptop and I’m still getting I/O errors. 🙁 The back up goes 1/4 of the way and then just stops and the error message comes up.
The external drive is new so I’m guessing it’s my laptop that’s the problem. I just want all my files to be stored somewhere safely before this laptop eventually breaks down. Is there another way I can do this?
Also, it should be possible to return the new HDD right? It’s not broken(at least I think it’s not) but if I can’t use it then why keep it? Maybe I can use it to store movies and TV shows. Although buying a drive that needed to be plugged-in to a power source kind of ruins a laptops mobility 🙂
Copy paste?
EDIT: what OS are you using on your laptop?
Windows 7
Hey gang, how’s it hanging? Looks like it’ll be a quiet day here at work, so I’m currently planning (if that’s the right word for it) my next foray into Bored Games. Hope you enjoy and/or tolerate it! \o/
Shane! Hope renovation stuff is going better!
Thanks man, I have no idea 😛
I don’t think anything’s gonna get done today. We’ll see tomorrow if the builder can fit us in :\
You gonna participate in the next round of Bored Games? It’ll be all kinds of fun/diverting!
Nah, but I won’t object if you guys do. Looked like you guys had fun yesterday, though.
After Star Trek details are worked out I might mosey off to start SotC. Haha!
I’M NOT PLAYING YOUR STUPID GAME YOU STUPID MAN
Play it or I’ll make you an unflattering NPC
Same goes for you @dc
My last adventure ended quite brutally…
You were the only late-game player to perish. Everyone else just stopped before I could end their games. Edit: that makes you special or something
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2013/05/07/the-wolf-among-us-preview-telltale-is-back-again-to-torment-with-tough-choices.aspx
Holy damn, this looks like it could be Telltale’s best game yet! Really impressed with the art direction and hope The Walking Dead season two looks just as good.
If the whole game could look like that first picture that’d be super. It doesn’t, but I wish it did.
You never know! Some of those images look pretty 3D! That style would look amazing.
(But yeah, it probably won’t :P)
D.C. doesn’t want to be annoying, but we probably should finalize Star Trek Into Darkness meat. (Session time and cinema listed above at the top of page.) If you can attend, tell me. Also if you know any food places, also tell me. Also if I’m being annoying, tell me. :S
I’m only annoyed only because I can’t attend.
Edit: I know some decent food places, but they’re all in Canberra.
Man, too bad you don’t live nearby. You’d fit in with the group nicely, I think. (And probably appreciate the adventures to the comic stores. XD)
Nah, you guys socialise way too much! 😛
Who’s decided definitely? List out the names, and give anyone else a chance to add their names. If they dont, we’ll just book for those who have. Done.
Definitely confirmed: Sughly, Freeze, Mrs. Freeze, Nobs, Beardy, Mrs. Beardy and D.C.
Maybe, but don’t book tickets: Jimu.
There’s tonnes of good eats in the City/Valley.
Wagaya in Chinatown is rad Japanese where you order off computers. No awkward “Uhhh number 62 please, oh you don’t use the numbers? Umm the ah-jee-esh-ee-toe-foo? Just that one, -points at that one-” It’s always busy so you’ll need to book.
Vespa at New Farm, near the Powerhouse does amazing pizzas. It’s a bit of a ways but if you jump a glider you can get there easily from the city.
Kodoya in Elizabeth St Arcade is a little hole in the wall Japanese place that’s crazy cheap and craxy good. Not sure if it’s open on Saturday nights but I’m pretty sure it is.
Beach House in the Myer Centre is good pub food with live music on a Saturday night. Might be busy but at 6ish I’d say you’d have a pretty easy time getting a table.
You can also head to West End via glider where there’s even more insanely good food.
I’m still not sure if I’ll make it, will confirm today.
If you haven’t heard from me by 1300, text me and I’ll let you know.
Thanks Dan! 😀
No prob, maaaaaaaaaaan.
I’m out for Saturday sorry guys, two movies in the same amount of weeks is how you let Satan in.
Check out Golden BBQ in the Valley, everyone order 5 Treasures.
I’m going! Do I need to book my own tickets? or are we doing it as a group thing?
Woooo! Thanks, man! I think we’re doing the group ticket thing! 😀
Played a bit of GW2 with @techknight @blaghman & @rize last night. Such an awesome game, still trying to figure out how to build my Necro though.
@tech_knight
Ugh, Helpius
Probably didn’t help that you had 3 nutcases rushing you through everything 😛
One more level and you have access to traits, so you can figure it out then! If the Necro is anything like GW1 then the awesome stuff comes from being a summoner or disable/debuff (so, condition duration).
Yeh I was thinking either a minon master or a condition Necro.
(Again, drawing from my GW1 Necro) I found that condition Necro was more enjoyable because it was more direct combat. Playing as a summoner was fine, but the majority of what I was doing was minion buffs and debuffs on them and for them. Switching over to debilitating enemies directly was much more fun for me, though it could have just been the change of pace.
Been debating getting back on to GW2, but I keep avoiding it for some reason. I got an Asura Thief to about 35, but got bored, and then I got an Asura Necro to 10 or 15 and got bored again. It’s an awesome game, I just can’t figure out why it keeps losing me.
Come play with us some time! The worst that happens is that you choose not to play, so you might as well give it a shot.
The level everyone’s aiming for at the moment is 15ish, so it won’t take long if you want to make a new character, or you can do what Blaghs is and use the scale down feature and cry when you realise your character is weak all over again.
Might look into it! My Asura Necro is around 15ish…. I think. And that’s the one I want to level. I’ve been speccing it for condition damage as well, seems fun.
There’s not much structure to it, we just kinda end up on TeamSpeak and then GW2. I’ll give you a shout on Steam the next time people are jumping on.
Poo, another Necro, That just will not do. Who want to help me level another character from scratch? (@rize)
I mean I could bring my thief along, I’d be happy to put leveling time into either. My thief being 30+ doesn’t matter though, right? It just levels it down to suit the area? It’s been a while, I forget. Would it be a waste of time on the XP front?
It’s definitely slower, on the exp front, particularly if you’ve already cleared the area, and so don’t get all the bonuses from quests and what not, but I got about half a level last night, and that was just while derping around.
Yeah… if my fricken screen didn’t keep going black every 5 minutes I would’ve kept playing. And by screen going black, I can still see my GW2 cursor, which doesn’t point to a driver crash… I got no bloody idea how to fix it, it’s not like it struggles to play it at all either. I have great framerates on my 1620×1080 res…
Hey guys.
Just thought i might introduce myself; I’m Ben, i live in Brisbane, work full time as an IT techy.
I like FPS, RPG, Adventure and sim racing games; although i haven’t played much in the last year.
Favourite tv: Top Gear, Walking Dead, Community, Breaking Bad, Homeland, How I Met Your Mother, Big Bang Theory, IT Crowd.
Favourite games: Mass Effect, Halo, Forza 4, Crysis Trilogy, Uncharted Trilogy, Battlefield 3, Portal, The Elder Scrolls series.
So the last game i actually finished the story/campaign of is Diablo 3 which was like a year ago now. I’ve been trying to get back into gaming the last few months but it just isn’t happening, any suggestions guys? I still haven’t finished Mass Effect 3 and i’ve had it for over a year now, and loved Mass Effect 1 and 2. Just can’t seem to really get into anything.
Double appointment for my son and I at the Doctor’s. Yay. Except not because the appointment for my son is for his 4yo immunisations and I don’t think they let you get those done when the kid is still getting over a cold. That’s what I get for being too organised for once. 😛
Just steal the needles and Jab him at home. Kids love needles. No need to waste another appointment. 😛
Rocketmans mum did it for him and look how he turned out!
DUde what i tell you not here is under secret oath not to tell. I will cry.
Hey @dc – watched the first ep of Treme last night. Was good! Looking forward to the rest of it now. Reaaaaally has a Wire vibe about it. Its basically the Wire, but replacing drug dealers with musicians XD
YES! First person I know who’s watched the show apart from me! I’ll warn you that it’s a bit slow burn, will take a little while to get going, but once it does you’ll be hooked. 😀
Same as The wire 🙂 It’s ok, I know what to expect from David Simon by now
😀 Excellent. Whenever you want to talk plot points, you know where to find me! Also, you haven’t met Lucia Micarelli’s character yet. She’s awesome. 😀
Well you havent met Omar or Stringer Bell yet either so I guess we’re even
Lucia Micarelli plays the violin. *folds arms stubbornly* 😛
Does that mean D.C. will like The Wire?
hint hint
I’m sure I’ll like The Wire, half the cast is in Treme and the writers too. Just haven’t gotten around to it. 😛
And it has a bit of Game of Thrones in it (Finger of little)
I refuse to watch it because it’s apparently pronounced Tre-may. But the e isn’t accented. So they can get fucked, it’s Treem.
Really?
Pretentious sons of bitches.
Haha, it’s French I think. Oldest suburb in New Orleans. The ‘e’ is accented in the opening credits, though. I just don’t know how to do it…
Edit: Oh wait, just checked. It totally isn’t accented in the credits. Haha!
Damn Americans. The French would never miss an accent. Thanks Obama.
Morning fronds, how’s things?
Mini story time
http://imgur.com/TVjze8M
I walked into the offices this morning and saw all these looming over my desk and everyone smiling. That should’ve been alarm numbers one and two. The people in the office are devious bastards and they never rearrange stuff unless something’s going to happen and they almost never smile like that. But I was still in zombie mode so it didn’t register straight away … hell I didn’t notice they’d moved all my desk friends for about five minutes. Once it does sink in that something’s up, I try not to let them notice and start getting up to hide or get to cover. Like some kind of crack squad of highly uncoordinated ninjas they cut off the end or the desks so I can’t escape and then my team lead and the accountant bring out a decent sized box and say that they just got a shipment of stress balls to hand out at job fairs and stuff and that seeing as I am “The sarcastic one” in the office and I generally laugh at them whenever they do something stupid, they decided it would be a good team bonding exercise to test out the stress balls. What followed was them trying to pelt a box of stress balls at me … it was like facing a regiment of drunk 5 year olds and I was trying not to laugh at them taking aim and then throwing the ball and having it miss me by a few metres. Everyone had fun and then got back to the soul crushing job of work.
I’ve now been told that the CEO is wanting to plan a trip to this restaurant that’s full of trampolines and stuff, because why not.
STORY TIME ENDS NOW!
Really?
They threw balls at you?
I would of got pissed.
This coming from a dude who got tied up to a roof .
Glad you are a better sport than me.
Well, they can’t throw for shit and I do tend to be a sarcastic bastard to them, so I kind of deserved it. Plus how many people get to say they’ve been pelted with 20 peoples balls at the same time?
Yeah well I work at home and can trampoline whenever so there!
well boo-urns to you
…. I want to be in your office…
This office only has posters of motorcycles.
My office is just grey and depressing … but I guess that’s what you get for working in the government sector.
Yup. But you gets the monay. Then the power. Then the women.
Actually, I’m still waiting on the power :\
Not sure if sarcasm because I get paid something like 15% less then someone that does the same thing as me in the private sector
I’m not sure either. I wouldn’t mind more money, but feel grossly overpaid for my workload, which enables me to spend 85% of my day on TAY 😛
I want a job like yours :'(
My office is mostly white walls and grey carpet. It’s not unpleasant. If I get sick of the decor I can go into an unoccupied meeting room or cublible, press my head to the glass, and look at the tiny people scurrying around 29 stories below, and wonder how it would feel if the glass suddenly gave way and all those tiny people suddenly rushed up to meet me.
The offices are kind of bland, just three corridors of computers and then the other side of the office has the ceo’s office, the reception and a few little meeting rooms. But we do have a pretty awesome balcony that gets used for drinks/barbeques every now and then.
The people I work with are what make it awesome, everyone’s that special brand of crazy although I think I still weird them out sometimes.
@freezespreston better lift your game man! The next generation is bringing their A game. http://i.imgur.com/fRTxS.jpg You got the skillz to pay the billz?
Hehe, thats pretty funny actually
Reminds me of this http://feelafraidcomic.com/57.php
It should give me paws for thought but I know when I’m licked. Stop hounding me.
Doggone it, I wanted to make a pun. Guess I gotta suck it pup, I got boned.
I feel like there should be a Canmeat again at some point.
Star Trek Into Darkness Ruin Shane’s Date Night with Wife Meat!
Isn’t he quite capable of achieving that by himself?
See yesterday’s post about having time for TV after. Always a slam dunk.
This. I have so much shit I want to give away, but it would cost way too much to post 😛
Are you treating us like human garbage disposal bins?
Toilets.
Well that’s even worse!
Simple deal: you host it once your renovations are out of the way, ask people to bring food/drink/whatever to significantly drop the cost on yourself, my finacee can come over and babysit (happily; I’m really not imposing anything on her), and the minimum price of entry is to take something you want to get rid of.
I… quite like this idea. Will bring it up with the wife!
Keep in mind that as it’s at your house you can’t run off after 15 minutes…
We’ll see.
Oh man, I’m going to enter so many times with all the
crapfantastic games I want to get rid of!Think you might have misread. The price of entry is taking things away with you afterwards 😛
NOOOOOOOO!!!!
My Grandma does this. You can’t say no to Grandma so I always come home with all her old stuff.
Conclusion: Shane is a Grandma.
People say no to me all the time. The big jerks.
Dat married life.
Time to drive back up to Sydney then!
Loving Mad Men season 5 so far. Have seen the double-length premiere and the next ep.
Has Don always disliked Harry or is that a new thing? Kind of hilarious watching Harry suck up to Don, and Don just flat out says “No” to him :D. Oh, and Harry said all those dirty things about Megan. What’s gonna happen if/when that comes out?Lane is a dirty, dirty man. I guess he behaves the same as all the other chaps, but it’s worse watching him do it, because he’s British, and he doesn’t have a charming smile (he’s got a really perverted leer instead) 😛Thought Peggy was totally going to hire someone mediocre instead of the eccentric high-energy nervous Jewish boy. But as my wife astutely pointed out, it’s about time for Peggy to indulge in some work-based romance. This will be her husband. That’s the guess we’re putting out there.Betty had a cancer scare. She seemed like a real character for about ten minutes. Unsure how I feel about that. I much prefer just hating her selfish childish guts 😛 Love that she still turns to Don for support though.But the winning plot element for me so far is the Campbell/Roger showdown. It’s hilarious – they’re pretty much going head-on at each other, and it’s still only early days. Can’t wait to see where this one goes!She doesn’t know him at all!I remember watching that and thinking, I sure hope Don doesn’t crush this nice girls spirit. Haha.Last night my wife was throwing away one of her crappy old eyeliner pencils since she has been on a make-up buying spree and has way better ones, so I did what any responsible, mature, thirty year old man would do and drew a huge veiny cock on my arm.
Just noticed that despite my shower this morning, it’s still there.
So that’s been my morning.
Looks like your attempts were… in vein…
It was a poor attempt at artery?
I’m 32, and strangely, the humour of drawing dicks on things has not diminished for me either.
#30SomethingBoysClub
ROFL
What are your favourite/the most memorable dairy/margarine aussie ads? So yogurts, milks, cheese, spreads. Not ice cream which gets its own category.
Compiling a list at work and I think I got the hardest category 😛
This is a fun one: http://youtu.be/MJjUAXIK6pQ
The only thing I can think of is the “Bega is famous for Bega” one 😛
I-I-I-I-I-I-IIIIIIII’m a Canberra Milk kid!
No.
The only one that has ever stuck in my mind were the
ShaneFabio I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter ones. Don’t think they were Australian though.The most memorable cheese ad that springs to mind is the Coon one where some bearded git goes around singing an improvised version of “I’ve been Everywhere, Man” using names of Australian towns that have the word “Coon” in them somewhere.
It probably wasn’t that song and I feel like I’m probably supposed to know who the bearded guy is, but it’s been like 20 years so cut me some slack.
I totally prefer Coon cheese though.
Peter Russel Clarke
NSFW
If this is counting yoghurt, how has noone said the “It’s French for mm yum” one yet! Also “da-ni-no!”
It does include yogurt. We had Petit Filou ads with the “french for yum” slogan
Petit Filou in a tube! 😀
Yogo? Cos that had a sweet claymation ad in the late 90s
With the gorilla and the snake?
Yeah
“ah, my luuunch!”
I vaguely remember this ad for butter (may not have been a specific brand, may have been butter in general) with a mother and daughter discussing how butter was made, or what was in it, I forget which. The mother gets a jar or something and puts milk and salt (?) in, shakes it up and tells the daughter that’s pretty much it. The whole ad has this whole tone about how amazingly pure and wonderful butter is.
Then the daughter looks at the mother and says something like ‘What’s in margarine?’ The mother looks at her and with this condascending look says ‘I don’t know, you’ll have to ask your father – he’s the chemist.’
It was all like OHHHHHH SNAP MARGARINE SICK BURN.
Don’t know why I remember it. Maybe because I was bought up on margarine and butter annoys me because it tastes funny and is a bastard to spread. Always thought it was kind of odd paying out margarine.
Hahah! That’s awesome! I need to find that!
It’s definitely a thing – can’t remember how old it was, but don’t imagine it would be more than 10-15 years ago. Don’t hold me to that though.
“Come on Billy…. kicks ze ball like I tot you!” pretty sure they were advertising yoghurt of some sort…
It was actually ‘Felipe’ not Billy.
I have a friend who used to play a fair amount of soccer and copped huge amounts of crap because of that ad (you can probably guess what his name is)
I don’t know if they ever ran them here, but there were a few ads they had in New Zealand… the series of ads for Mainland cheese with the old grandpa talking about how good things take time, and the butter vs margarine ad which involved a kid going for a late night snack and opening the fridge to encounter an extremely ugly man in drag named ‘marge’ inside said fridge. Those were okay.
Yesterday, @Chuloopa became a reluctant parent to a screaming jelly baby that happily devoured his fingers, @AlexPants learned the perils of break dancing and had random encounters with an angry tree, a massive troll, and a Hollowed Doc_What (Great Scot!), @Ynefel was sent to an insane asylum for attempting to access God Mode, @Masha2932 shunned modesty and became fluid brothers with a guard that beat him, @Freezespreston played with himself and then devoted hours to whacking his willy against a locked chest, @BDKIAF climbed a tree and squashed a wasp whose guts melt away everything except a tiny flower, @SerNobulus fell out of a tree into an oddly placed pile of bird plop, @Fled got burned to a crisp by the passion of a celestial body, @Zetrox2k brutally murdered an incorporeal concept, and @Rize attempted to eat the local wildlife (without first asking permission) and was cursed for the effort.
It’s all par for the course in Shane’s Bored Games.
Anything can happen, no one is safe, nothing is sacred.
Today, I’m upping the ante (read: lowering the sanity requirement).
Proudly presenting… Shane’s EXTREMELY Bored Game – All Day Long Edition.
(No two adventures the same! Guaranteed.*)
PROLOGUE
Cold. That’s the first thing you notice. The feel of cold metal against your cheek. Consciousness returns in reluctant tendrils; it takes you a while to realise that you are prone on the ground. Your eyes struggle open, and you force yourself up onto hands and knees.
You don’t know who you are, or where you are. You have no memories of anything prior to awakening, except for some odd twinges: flashes of pain, bright lights, odd voices. Nothing substantial enough to build a narrative around… yet.
You are in an unfamiliar room, all decked out in metal. Odd pipes and wires criss-cross the walls. Tiny LEDs blink on and off at irregular intervals. A single fluorescent strip lights the room; your shadow beneath you is dark as pitch, and seems to be wavering before your eyes. You realise that you yourself are trembling, weakened and dizzy.
And cold. You realise abruptly that your only covering is a thin sheet. You instinctively draw it tightly around yourself, but it does little to ward off the goosebumps, nor the near-painful degree of shrinkage.
There are other sheets, you realise. You reach out to take one, but drop it in horror when you realise it was covering a body. A dead body. Long-dead, by the look of things. You look around the room one more time, the horrific truth slowly settling in.
You have awoken in a morgue
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Take more sheets for warmth.
2. Look for other survivors
3. Explore room
4. Examine corpse
5. Other
*not a real guaranteeI wouldn’t be a heavy metal fan if i didn’t examine the corpse.
EXAMINE THE CORPSE! \m/
You hold your breath, and lean over the corpse you uncovered. It’s a woman by the looks of things, and she has been dead at least a year. A gunshot wound above her left breast is probably the cause of death, but you aren’t the one who conducted the autopsy that left a huge scar down the centre of her torso, so you can’t say for sure.
The dead woman doesn’t move. You stare at her for a while longer, but recoil once your lungs start begging again for air. She had no clothes, no possessions to loot.
1 unit of time has passed.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Take more sheets for warmth.
2. Look for other survivors
3. Explore room
4. Other
It’s pretty cold.. but i like pointy nipples. I think i’ll explore the room while i touch them and giggle at their pointyness.
You play with your nipples as you explore the room. You uncover a number of interesting items, but nothing so interesting as cold nipples, so you leave them alone. During your distracted wandering you trip over one of the bodies laid out on the floor. Did it grunt, or was that you?
The door at the end of the room is locked, and seems to be the only way in or out.
1 unit of time has passed.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Take more sheets for warmth.
2. Look for other survivors
3. Other
Take sheets for for warmth. Put one sheet over my head and rip out eye holes so if any dead bodies suddenly start to rise, they’ll think i’m a ghost and be scared away.
You take sheets for warmth, and anger the dead, just like everyone else has. Five or six zombies surround you. None of them are fooled by your silly ghost gambit. You’re in big trouble… but at least your nipples aren’t distracting you anymore.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Fight
2. Run
3. Attempt to hide
4. Outwit them (and how)
5. Do nothing
6. Play dead
Outwit them
I yell and point over the nearest zombies shoulder “OH MY GOD!! LOOK! IT’S KIM KARDASHIAN! MANN SHE HAS A LOT OF JUICY LOOKING FLESH ON HER!”
@chuloopa
Your Kardashian gambit also fails. Zombies aren’t hungry for plastic.
They have shambled closer now. If you fail to overcome them this turn, you will die. You know that somehow.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Fight
2. Run
3. Attempt to hide
4. Do nothing
5. Play dead
Mannn i hope these are old-school slow and shambling zombies.
RUN!
@chuloopa
You run, but there is nowhere to run to. You are now backed into a corner with a number of slowly shambling zombies descending upon you.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Fight
2. Nothing
3. Play dead
4. Other
Eff it… I put up my dukes and start humming “You’re the best around” from The Karate Kids.
FIGHT!
@chuloopa
You fight, and emerge victorious. One of the zombies does manage to bite your arm, though.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Wrap a sheet around it
2. Chop the arm off
3. Ignore it, it’s fine
4. Other
Damn it.. not another limb.
Quickly cut the arm off and suture the wound
@chuloopa
You have nothing to cut the arm off with, so you start biting it. After a little while, you realise that the only pain is coming from your own bite marks, so you stop. Maybe these zombie bites aren’t infectious. You wish you’d thought of this before you mangled your arm and had to taste your own blood.
Embarrassed beyond words, you try the door to the morgue and find it suddenly unlocked. You leave the morgue and emerge into some sort of central office.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Look around
2. Leave as quickly as possible
3. Other
Hmmm.. so i’ve partially mangled my arm after a sudden run in with zombies.
I think i’ve earned a break.
look around
@chuloopa
You have earned a break. You break your leg while looking around.
You find all sorts of reall yinteresting things, but alas, you have to cannibalise them all to make a splint for your leg.
You leave the morgue and find a tiny puppy on the ground. It wags its tail at you eagerly. You can’t tell if it’s happy or hungry.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Pat puppy
2. Talk to puppy
3. Ignore puppy
4. Fight puppy
5. Run away
6. Other
Ohhhh FFS… you’ve really got it in for me…
FIne.
I’ll talk to the puppy!
@chuloopa
The puppy licks your face. Your mood instantly improves. He licks your injured leg and it heals magically. You let him loose at your arm and it feels better than it ever has. If there was any lingering effect from the zombie bite, it will now be long gone.
The dog will be a useful companion, if you can convince him to come with you
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Pat dog
2. Feed dog rotting zombie corpse
3. Play with dog
4. Other
Pat dog and THEN play with him!
GOOD BOY!
@chuloopa
Your attempts at beastiality frighten the dog away. You might be able to get it back if you promise to never attempt to play with it again.
DO YOU PROMISE?
5. Sheet toga.
A very sensible move. You weave the sheet into a toga, freeing both your hands for action. Your shoulders are cold, though.
1 unit of time has passed.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Take more sheets for warmth.
2. Look for other survivors
3. Explore room
4. Examine corpse
5. Other
1. 5. Sheet cloak. Sheet handwraps. Sheet footwraps.
You take more sheets for warmth and start folding them into increasingly intricate items of clothing. By the time you’re finished, you look completely ridiculous, but you feel a lot warmer.
Unfortunately, your actions have disturbed one of the corpses, and it sits up and starts glaring at you, furious that you have disturbed its rest and stolen its sheet.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Fight
2. Run
3. Attempt to hide
4. Outwit it (and how)
5. Do nothing
6. Play dead
Rad.
1, I guess. Are there things around to use? I feel like sheet fashion may have been a poor use of time.
It is too late to look for items. You fight with your sheet-wrapped hands, and emerge victorious. Zombies are easy foes – they can barely move and can’t think at all. Not to mention their rotting flesh that is easy to destroy with a good bolo punch. You are forced to discard your hand-sheets after the fight though.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Explore room
2. Stomp remaining corpses
3. Other
Sheet fashion turns out to have been a fantastic use of time!
2 followed by 1. Maybe restore my handwraps if there are sheets available, they were handy. Pun.
You stomp all the corpses, but have run out of sheets. You are also forced to discard your snazzy folded footwear because gore makes them too heavy to lift.
It’s not all bad news, though. You feel experience flooding into you like a torrent of energy, and it explodes off you in waves as you level up. The morgue door bursts magically off its hinges, and you are able to progress.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Explore morgue
2. Leave and go left
3. Leave and go right
4. Other
Double rad.
1, I suppose.
@bdkiaf
You are wasting time. You have levelled beyond this introductory level. You are pushed forward by invisible forces into the corridor outside the morgue.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Go left
2. Go right
3. Other
3. Question the existence of a higher power. Some kind of guiding force. Consider founding a new religion to worship this new God.
Then go left.
You question the gamekeeper and he takes offence at your tone. He places a huge monster in your path for no good reason. It is fast and strong, and cannot be evaded.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Fight
2. Attempt trickery
3. Attempt flattery
4. Use item
5. Other
Abandon thoughts of a new religion for now. Then 3. Compliment the monster’s well sculpted abs and glutes (wut?)
@bdkiaf
The monster doesn’t understand your words, and bites your left hand off.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Fight
2. Attempt trickery
3. Use item
4. Other
4. Remove sheet toga and pose.
@bdkiaf
The monster recoils in horror, and then runs away as fast as it can. You feel simultaneously relieved and annoyed. Your hand grows back magically, and you spare a grateful thought for the higher powers of the game.
You leave the morgue and emerge into a world gone mad. Building hang upside down from the clouds, and people swim through the air. Fish walk on the water, and the air is made of fire.
A nice looking mermaid bounces over to you and speaks some random gibberish to you. You get the impression she wants you to follow her.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Go with her.
2. Take a moment to get your bearing
3. Other
I assume I’m still naked? Rad.
1.
@bdkiaf
As you may not have suspected, you were hallucinating badly. One of the side effects from growing a hand back, rapidly. You would have known this if you had consulted with anyone else who had experienced such a phenomenon.
You fall off a cliff, and land in a big river. You splash around helplessly, looking for the mermaid desperately. You have to save her from drowning. Then you remember that she has gills – she should be saving you. So you let yourself go limp and sink under the water. Waiting for sweet, sexy mouth-to-mouth.
You wake up to reality at the last possible moment, as your lungs are bursting with the need for air.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Head for the surface
2. Swim deeper
3. Hold out hope for sexytime mermaid rescue
4. Other
There should be a support group for rapid hand recovery.
Fuck it. 2.
You swim deeper, and your lungs explode in your chest. Interestingly, it doesn’t kill you and actually makes swimming rather easier. So you continue down, down, ever down, until you reach the sandy bottom of the river. The undercurrent sweeps you along, but you manage to retrieve a great deal of random treasure from the ground as you float past:
* A broken bottle
* Seven of those tab things from cans of drink
* A wishbone
* Two empty wallets
* A set of rusted car keys
* $10 in 20c pieces
You hold this delicious booty in your hands as you’re carried along. Then all of a sudden you’re falling – you’ve been swept off a waterfall! Your items scatter, and as you fall, you can only grab two of them.
WHAT DO YOU GRAB?
Falling in super slow-mo apparently.
Broken bottle and $10.
@bdkiaf
Very wise. Money and a weapon can carry a man far in life. In your case, they carry you into the air and to safety perched in a tree. You find yourself in a giant nest, nestled in amongst some giant eggs. The biggest bird you’ve ever seen flaps to a halt in front of you and proceeds to try to force a worm the size of a boa constrictor down your throat.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Run
2. Eat
3. Stab
4. Other
2 😉
@bdkiaf
It tastes gross and wriggles grotesquely as you take a juicy bite out of its side. The bird beats you over the head with it, and tries to make you take the whole thing in one mouthful. You start to gag, and sick up all over its feet. It squawks angrily, and picks you up in its beak. You have a single moment to wonder whether you are about to become food yourself before it tosses you over the edge of the nest. You plummet thousands and thousands of metres, clutching your only possessions closely this time. The ground rushes up at you at alarming speed.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Close your eyes
2. Use item
3. Do nothing
4. Attempt to fly
5. Other
3. I will accept whatever fate the glorious gamemaker has planned for me.
@bdkiaf
Dammit. Should never have given that option.
Ummm…..
Hmm…
The ground seems to retreat away from you temporarily while possible solutions to your dilemma whirl through your mind.
Stay tuned. Here’s some nice music to tide you over.
Hrrrrrrm
Okay.
The bird was feeling guilty about having thrown you and swoops down to..You discover that having no lungs has caused you to sprout compensatory wings…Fuck it.
You land hand on the ground, but don’t die. Because that’s how it works. You are immediately surrounded by spearpoints. Apparently you have faceplanted into a sacred ritual of a primitive tribe, and have squashed their sacrifice before the offering could be made.
You’re in big trouble.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Use item
2. Apologise
3. Fight
4. Run
5. See what happens
6. Other
Rad.
1. Offer my $10 in coins as compensation.
They will accept your money, but only if you can defeat their greatest warrior in combat, with weapons of your choice. You can fight unarmed, with your broken beer bottle, or with their spears.
WHAT IS YOUR CHOICE?
1. Bottle
2. Spear
3. Fists
Fists. Generations will tell stories of these fists.
DAMNIT SHANE I HAVE THINGS TO DO TODAY DON’T DO THIS T-
I take all of the sheets for warmth. They’re dead so, whatever.
You start gathering the sheets together and drape them over your shoulders. Five is enough; you’d take more, but they are unwieldy and heavy, and hinder your movement as it is. You are unnerved by the accusatory stares in the eyes of your now-naked victims.
You almost don’t notice a slight movement out of the corner of your eye. The body you moved to retrieve the fifth sheet sits up, and turns its rotting head towards you.
You have disturbed the dead, and the dead are not pleased.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Fight
2. Run
3. Attempt to hide
4. Outwit it (and how)
5. Do nothing
6. Play dead
4. Outwit it.
I quickly throw the sheets over my head.
‘Oooooh….I am your spirit, unable to leave this earthly realm while my body is still in motion…ooooooohh…’
Flail arms around a bit for eerie ghost movement.
Your gambit fails. Your assailant starts to bite you through the sheets. Thankfully there are five of them, and its jaws are not that strong (being dead and all). You shriek like a little girl and throw the sheets off. The zombie flails on the ground, helpless, under the weight of the sheets. But the noise has awakened others. Three or four more zombies arise, and turn towards you in unison.
Your back is against the locked morgue door, and you are naked and unarmed. What do you do?
1. Fight
2. Attempt to hide
3. Outwit them (and how)
4. Do nothing
5. Play dead
I’m gonna fight them with my bare hands!
You win the fight. Their bones are brittle and their flesh rotting and weak. They move really slowly and unsteadily and have next to no capacity for thought. You smash all the zombies effortlessly. One of them drops a big key out of its shattered stomach.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Use key to open morgue door
2. Stomp remaining corpses
3. Explore room
4. Take sheets again
5. Other
STOMP THE CORPSES!
@alexpants
A sensible precaution. You stomp on all the corpses, but your foot slips on the last one and you fall over, clutching some part of yourself in sudden agony. Roll a die to find out which part.
3!
@alexpants
You have broken off one of your eyelashes. It flutters into the air, and lodges in the ceiling light. The light explodes, leaving a massive gap in the ceiling. You can use that to escape, if you choose.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Escape through ceiling
2. Other
Well that was convenient. 2. Other – search the room for anything interesting.
@alexpants
Everything that might have once been useful is now sodden to uselessness by all the corpse gore you created. Even your sheets.
You climb out through the hole in the ceiling and emerge into a bowling alley. There are no people, but each alley has pins set up, ready to go.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Bowl
2. Get some shoes from behind the counter
3. Grab a hot dog from the snack bar
4. Play air hockey
5. Other
Fine, I’ll bite.
5. Other: Look out the window!
What kind of morgue has a window?!
This one, obviously!
The morgue has no windows, but you spend an inordinate amount of time figuring that out, and then staring at your reflection in a bedpan instead.
1 unit of time has passed.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Take more sheets for warmth.
2. Look for other survivors
3. Explore room
4. Examine corpse
5. Other
Aw, I thought this was like improv-writing… Some old morgues have windows! (Warning: Don’t google image “morgue” ;_;)
5. All this window-searching and death has made me hungry. Find something to eat.
You find no food, but the search has made you desperate, and so you start to eat the fingernails of the nearest corpse. This involuntarily and amateurish manicure angers the corpse, and its hand begins to flail while in your mouth.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Panic
2. Bite down hard
3. Let go
4. Continue to bite its nails
(There goes my plan of choosing “Other” forever!)
1. Panic, naturally.
You panic and start shrieking like a little girl. The zombie recoils in shock and bumps against a cabinet, which promptly falls onto it, crushing its head. You are left holding its dismembered arm, and wondering what the hell is going on.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Continue your feast
2. Save arm for later
3. Drop arm
4. Other
OTHER!
Keep the arm, check the morgue’s doors for a way out.
You discover, purely by accident, that the ring finger of the dismembered arm is a perfect fit for the odd-shaped keyhole in the morgue door. You open the door and emerge into a darkened corridor. As you watch, a tumbleweed bounces slowly past. You get the message: the place is deserted.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Go left
2. Go right
3. Go back into the morgue.
Edit: 4. Other
OTHER!
Attempt to follow the faint sound of a small bird chirping.
@powalen
Your hallucinations notwithstanding, you actually do manage to find a bird… in the hospital corridor…? Okay. Let’s go with it.
It has a broken wing and chirps pathetically at you. You feel hungry and sympathetic all at once.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Eat the bird
2. Save the bird
3. Leave the bird
4. Flip the bird
5. Other
No more! It’s too real! Poor little birdie!
(Okay, more!) Though I’m not creative enough to choose Other every time. I was a bit ambitious 😛
2. Save the bird! (and name him Cheekie)
ps. “Flip the bird” hahahahah!
@powalen
Your new friend Cheekie likes you very much. He perches on your shoulder and nuzzles your neck. Then he spends a bit of time grooming your hair. You reciprocate… carefully. Then he flies away (because he was just pretending to have a broken wing. He just wanted sympathy and friendship) and brings you back a big juicy BBQ’d steak. You ask no questions, and tuck right in.
Fully replenished, you leave the morgue and look around. Cheekie wants to go right, into the nearby copse of trees. You see a nice looking stream off to the left that for some reason makes you think there might be sexy fun times at its end.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Go left
2. Go right
3. Go straight
4. Other
Haha What a convenient turn of events!
I’ll blindly follow Cheekie to the right. He’s done me no wrong so far!
@powalen
Little did you suspect that Cheekie was fattening you up to be eaten by his family. And probably a good thing, too, because that’s not the truth.
A short distance into the forest, you come across a cave. You can hear a growling sound from within. You also sense, somehow, distress. Cheekie wants you to go inside.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Go inside.
2. Walk away
3. Call out a greeting
4. Other
4. Other: Start to get suspicious of Cheekie… Send him in first. I follow 2 steps behind him.
@powalen
Because Cheekie went in first, he gets sexy time from seductively growling occupants, not you. He was trying to help you after all.
Dejected, you walk away, leaving him to his sexy, sexy fate.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Go left
2. Go right
3. Go straight
4. Other
Haha Dammit Cheekie! I should never have doubted you!
4. Go straight… back to the morgue exit and follow that stream from earlier.
@powalen
You get lost. You walk and walk and walk, and eventually wind up at the foot of an ancient looking temple. It seems deserted, and a good place to rest your weary feet. You miss Cheekie, but he’s in a much better place. A much, much better place.
Once you’re inside the temple, a heavy stone slab slides over the entrance, trapping you. A cobra the size of a semi-trailer lunges towards you, clearly seeing its next meal in you. You have only seconds to act.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Fight
2. Dodge
3. Use item
4. Attempt diplomacy
5. Other
3. Use Item! Throw zombie arm! (that I think I’m still carrying :P)
“Fetch!”
@powalen
Your strategy is super effective (and is the only one that would have saved your life). The cobra darts after the arm and promptly chokes on it. You feast on roast snake that night and have a good night’s sleep. In the morning, you find a huge scale embedded in your arm, and realise you’re on the right path.
In the morning, you begin work on the remaining conditions for victory for this game. You need a 4×2 piece of plywood, six long thin metal tubes about 3 metres long, a tuft of orange grass, a bottle of Yagermeister backwashed into by Elvis Presley, and a bowl of ice cream.
WHICH ONE DO YOU WANT TO GO AFTER FIRST?
Hm… the morgue had metal pipes… and that cave monster might have just been a drunk, amorous Elvis…
Let’s go search the forest for a bowl of ice cream!
@POWALEN
In the forest, you meet a small badger with a monacle and top hat who insists that you get out of his way. He seems to be in a big hurry and is carrying a large spoon.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Talk to him
2. Stalk him
3. Walk with him
4. Balk at him
5. Other
“Hah, he thinks he’s people!”
3. Talk to him. Tell him to give me everything I need. No questions asked.
He says “NO!” and whacks you with the spoon. He hits surprisingly hard for a little guy.
“WHY YOU LITTLE…” you say, and you try to grab him, but he is too quick and darts away.
He might yet be your only chance to get some ice cream.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Follow him angrily
2. Follow him apologetically
3. Attempt stealth
4. Go in another direction
5. Use item
6. Other
5. Use Item! [YOU HAVE NO ITEMS]
Uh… then…
1. Follow him in a huff.
3.
The room has a number of intriguing medical supplies. In a brief rummage, you uncover the following:
A scalpel
A drill
Several spare sheets
A hospital gown
Some of those little metal kidney-shaped trays
A number of medical reports
A computer mouse with a frayed cord
You have no pockets, and only one free hand (unless you drop your sheet). You can only carry one (or two, if you drop your sheet) items.
The door at the end of the room is locked, and is the only way in or out.
1 unit of time has passed.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Take item
2. Drop sheet and take 2 items
3. Take sheets for warmth
4. Examine corpse
5. Other
5. Read medical reports and try to find out information about me and/or information on where I am
The details of the medical reports are incomprehensible to you. But several key words stand out:
paranormal
pandemic
quarantine
This is enough for you to piece together a few tidbits of information. You eye the corpses in the room warily, as if expecting one of them to leap up paranormally. You are going to tread very carefully from now on.
You put the reports back down – there is no point keeping them.
2 units of time have passed.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Take item
2. Drop sheet and take 2 items
3. Take sheets for warmth
4. Examine corpse
5. Look for a way out of quarantine
6. Other
6. put on medical gown and use spare sheets to keep warm (if it is needed).
You get dressed, and are pleased to discover the gown has a secret pocket sewn into it. You TAKE ALL THE ITEMS \o/
You have everything – you don’t need sheet now. 😛
1 unit of time has passed.
[5 units of time have passed in total. Threshold crossed.]
As you tuck the very last item into your pocket and retrieve a pair of glasses that were hidden underneath one of the kidney bowls, the door opens. A man with a very large gun strides in and points it directly at you.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Nothing
2. Put hands up
3. Talk
4. Fight
5. Use item
6. Other
3. Talk
@sernobulus
“Hello!” you start. “What…?”
“I’m not interested in talk!” he snaps. Then he waves his gun around a little bit, and ponders. “Well, okay. Maybe a little bit.”
He then proceeds to introduce himself as Frank, and begins to regail you with his life story. He was born Franklin Bartholomew Wilfred Baxter Smithson, one of eleven children, on the fourteenth of July, in the year nineteen-seventy-three (AD, of course). The other ten children were named June Mary Heather Baxter Smithson, Rochelle Danielle Baxter Smithson, George Baxter Baxter Smithson, Norman Emerson Baxter Smithson, Daniel Yolo Baxter Smithson, William Terrence Baxter Smithson, Larry Harold Baxter Smithson, Baxter Baxter Baxter Smithson, Quinn Jeffrey Baxter Waltson, Peter Errol Baxter Smithson, and Fred Baxter Waltson Smithson. And they all grew up together on a farm in the middle of Tennessee, in the United States of America. They stayed there, tending the animals until Frank was eight and June was six and Rochelle was eleven and George was seven-and-a-bit, and Norman was nine, and Daniel and William were ten-and-a-half, and Larry was four and Baxter was fourteen, and Quinn, Peter and Fred were all two. Then they moved on a steamship to the port of Darwin, a journey that took three months, and had them residing in a shipping container for the next twelve years, because none of them had realised they’d finally docked…
You can tell he’s going to go on for a long time. He looks very wistful.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Interrupt him
2. Accuse him of lying
3. Attack him
4. Run away
5. Attempt to steal his gun
6. Other
@Shane I’m not waiting for this lunatic to finish. 6. While he is distracted stab him in the arm with the scalpel and steal his gun.
@sernobulus,
You reach into your pocket and your hand closes around the handle of the scalpel. As he launches into another interminable anecdote, you lunge at him with your scalpel. Distracted, he brings the gun around belatedly. It’ll be a close call.
Roll a die.
@shane
4!
@sernobulus, he shoots you in the heart. You stab him in the eye.
He dies. You don’t.
You look at yourself in amazement, the truth of the situation slamming home. Finally. You’re… one of them.
You take his gun.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Quarantine yourself
2. Shoot yourself
3. Leave morgue
4. Other
@shane
4. Using my superior intellect (in comparison) to the other zombie things start training a zombie army and try to take over the world.
@sernobulus, there are no zombies within the vicinity. Your plan to build an army fails. Your superior intellect does take you to Vegas, however, where you are able to count cards with unerring accuracy. You win ten million dollars, and blow all but twenty dollars on hookers and cocaine.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Catch a taxi
2. Gamble some more
3. Return to master plans for world domination
4. Other
4. Start an anti-discrimination group for zombies and call it “Bodies Rallying Against Indignant treatment of Nonhumans”
@shane
See above.
@sernobulus, your plans backfire when no zombies join your organisation, and no humans want to donate. In addition, they begin to suspect the truth of you, and rally around your house with pitchforks and torches one evening.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Fight them
2. Bite them
3. Kite them
4. Slight them
5. Other
5. Write them …
a sternly worded letter proving my innocence.
@sernobulus
Your letter (you chose *random letter* “G”) enrages them and they burn your mansion down around your ears. You run for your undead life, an angry mob right on your heels.
You want to weep. You just wanted to do something good for your downtrodden bretheren. They don’t have to be rotting on street corners – society put them there. With enough community support, they could be given regular food and entered into proper rehabilitation programs. But society is not yet progressive enough. You have learned that the hard way.
Running from the mob, you have two choices. To your left, a high cliff. In front of you and to the right lies a massive dense forest.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Run into forest
2. Dive off cliff
3. Other
2. There is no room in this world for me or my downtrodden brethren.
@sernobulus
You land roughly on the jagged rocky ground far below, but are not dead. Remember: you can’t die. But you have proven all the suspicions of the townspeople far above.
Status update: From now on, you will be shunned from society, chased and bullied everywhere you go. Life as you knew it is over. Certainly won’t be any more hookers or cocaine.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Walk north
2. Walk south
3. Other
1. Maybe I can find some nice zombie hookers …
Everyone knows you gotta go down south to get zombie hookers. You find nothing up north except for freezing winds and polar bears. Until you go for a swim in Arctic waters, and find an underwater civilisation.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Explore
2. Go somewhere else
3. Other
3. Bite a polar bear and turn it into my faithful companion and name him “Steve”
@sernobulus
Steve finds you a zombie hooker and you get married and have many zombie babbehs, and populate the underwater civilisation that you found. You are TRAPPED FOREVER.
VICTORY CONDITIONS MET…?
4. Examine Corpse.
You peel back the sheet a little further and examine the corpse you uncovered. It is unremarkable, except for its age. It has clearly been here for a long time. You thought morgues typically dealt with the dead in a speedy and efficient fashion. You are staring into its dead eyes for so long that you almost miss it when it blinks suddenly.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Return sheet quickly
2. Panic
3. Stomp on its head
4. See what happens next
5. Other
5. look around the room for anything i can use as a weapon
You find a scalpel in a drawer, but as your back is turned, the zombie has crawled up behind you and taken a big wet bite out of your ass.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Stab zombie
2. Panic
3. Other
3. Stab zombie in brain, and consider cutting off the part of my ass surrounding the bite…
You stab the zombie. It re-dies. Your ass is throbbing, but there’s no way to cut it off.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Panic
2. Ignore it
3. Look for a cure
4. Let one rip
5. Other
4. Let one rip and hope the gas cures it.if not look for a cure…
@zetrox2k it does better than that. The wall of the morgue explodes, and a huge rainbow path appears, leading from the wind origin into the far distance. Mesmerised, you follow the path, and find a big sack of golden nuggets.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Eat nuggets
2. Take nuggets
3. Leave nuggets
4. Other
Take corpses for warmth2.
You call out “Hello? Can anyone hear me?”
A number of the sheets start to shift, and people rise to their feet. Dead people. Rotting flesh and hungry eyes turn towards you in unison. You are surrounded and unarmed by what appear to be hostile zombies.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Fight
2. Run
3. Attempt to hide
4. Do nothing
5. Attempt to outwit them
6. Other
Equip knife and fork5. Attempt to outwit them by using the sheets to disguise myself as a very convincing cabbage.
Your gambit succeeds! Zombies are total carnivores. They start to eat each other and in no time at all, they are all re-dead, and the floor slick with unconsumed blood and gore.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Explore room
2. Other
1. Explore room. It’s time to shed my comfortable foliage and look for some pants, and probably a weapon.
You find no pants, but you find the following items:
A key
A scalpel
A clipboard
A pen
You have only two hands, and one of them is holding up your sheet. Choose which you will take
1. Take one item
2. Drop sheet and take two items
3. Take nothing and do something else
4. Other
4. Use the scalpel to cut the clip from the clipboard, then use to clip to hold my sheet together, freeing my hands. Take the key and the pen.
@rize
That’s some real Monkey Island shit right there. This game’s AI isn’t usually that clever. But we’ll pay it this time.
Your scalpel breaks. You take the other items. The key appears to fit in the morgue door.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Leave morgue
2. Other
@shane
Leave morgue, hiding the pen in folds of my sheets.
@rize
You leave the morgue. It is empty, and you find yourself eventually in a carpark. There are three cars around: a red ute, a yellow mini, and a three-wheeled blue car that tickles a spark of nostalgia in you for some reason.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Steal a car (and which one)
2. Leave them alone and walk
3. Other
@shane
Lament that the mini isn’t more of an ugly greeny-yellow colour, then steal it and drive past the 3-wheeled blue car, knocking it over in the process.
@rize
As you drive along, a rotting green apple falls from a tree, and turns your car the exact colour you wanted. Cheering, you drive on, still wondering whether a clipped toga is acceptable wear for life in the everyday world.
Evidentally not, because you get pulled over by a police officer. Obviously you have no ID or licence.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Attack police officer
2. Bluff
3. Attempt seduction
4. Run
5. Drive
6. Use item
7. Other
3. Use pen concealed in sheet/toga as makeup, attempt seducation. If/when police officer removes pants, steal and wear them.
*Rolls die*
*blinks*
*rolls again*
Amazing. This actually worked.
You are now wearing the pants of a police officer. The half-naked cop is all over you now. He is very handsy.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Accept it.
2. Reject it.
3. Handcuff him.
4. Run.
5. Fight.
6. Other
@shane
Handcuff him, tell HIM to accept it, then while he’s weeping (or moaning) steal his car and drive off into the sunset.
@rize
Your lover calls out your name as you depart, but you heartlessly ignore him. You drive into the setting sun. The sun is quite hot and burns your cop car to a molten glob of useless metal. You manage to escape though.
To your left, a cursed temple. To your right, a cursed ocean. To the front, a cursed monster. And behind you, an unscalable wall.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Move (and in which direction)
2. Use item
3. Other
@shane
Pull the scales off the monster and put them on the wall, making it scaly-able.
Throw the temple in the ocean to determine if two curses make a …right, or something.
5. Other – Dance with corpse for warmth
You dance to stay warm. At first you waltz, then tango, then slow shuffle. Then you break dance… and promptly break something. Roll a die to find out what.
*rolls a D6* … i got a 4
You break THE WALL and are able to escape the morgue. sunshine streams through the gap you made and you emerge, grateful and naked, into it, letting it bathe you in its delicious warmth.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Go back into morgue
2. Go left
3. Go right
4. Go straight
5. Other
I knew that one jazzercise class would pay off!
Let’s stick with what got me here in the first place.
Other – grab brick to hide my junk
You grab some debris to cover your junk and start wandering aimlessly. In no time at all, you come to a cliff overlooking a waterfall. Feel like a swim?
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW? (Note, most of these will involve dropping a brick [snigger])
1. Drink water
2. Examine more closely
3. Jump
4. Climb down
5. Other
… Who builds a giant freezer this close to a cliff?
I mean that’s just poor planning … unless
Other – Return to morgue, drag corpse to waterfall and ride it over edge
@tofu
Your plan works perfectly. Some people see you and zombie surfing becomes an extreme sport and Olympic event. You become mega-rich and famous, and have many supermodel wives. Then you blow all your money on drugs and faberge eggs, and your wives leave you penniless and destitute in the gutter.
Several years later, you awaken in a drunken stupor on a snowy Christmas Eve in New York City. You have a bowl in your hand and are begging for money, but no one is stopping for you tonight.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Sing a happy song
2. Shout abuse
3. Fight someone
4. Go back to sleep
5. Other
@shane … I just realised that tag was worthless because you get the notification anyways.
So after years of making show angels in mountains of cocaine, which I don’t remember any of, mind you … I awaken to having to interact with NPC’s? what the shit, narrator. Is this a game for you?!?
I sing a happy song
@tofu
You start singing Christmas carols and people start throwing rocks at you. One of the rocks breaks open and reveals a shiny magic jewel. You reach out and touch it, and suddenly everybody looks afraid of you. Looks like you’ve got a brand new adventure ahead of you.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Investigate further
2. Attack people
3. Insult people
4. Start formulating evil plans
5. Use your powers for good (whatever they are)
6. Other
… Am I in some alternate New York where people just leave convenient piles of rocks around beggers? Or is this some new fandangled fashion trend the younglings created? Can rock’s just crack open like that? Was it actually a dirt clod? … I’m thinking it was a dirt clod.
Other – Eat dirt encrusted magic gem
@tofu
Sure, why not?
When you eat the gem, it shoots rainbows into all your limbs and radiates power though every cell in your body. You are now super-strong and utterly invincible.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
[Open question]
Sweet!
My first act as a super powered hobo is to wander away from the crowd to find an old sheet I can use as a cape … it just feels right. After searching the several minutes I give up and drape a tea towel over my shoulders. I end up on the main street, beaming at people as I walk by in my snazzy new cape, I don’t notice a small step in the footpath and start to fall. I reach out to grab something to stop my fall … I have grabbed a baby wearing an “I love to be alive” bib and not knowing my own strength I have accidentally crushed it in front of a crowd of onlookers, even worse, it did nothing to arrest my fall and I whack my nose into the concrete … I instinctively say oww before getting up and noticing the now screaming crowd of civilians.
@tofu
How the mighty have fallen 🙁
Your superpowers wear off (thank God). You are pursued by a crazed mob of furious people, who shout words like “babykiller” after you.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Correct their grammar
2. Run for your life
3. Attempt to reason
4. Try to reinvent zombie surfing to regain their trust
5. Other
… falling puns? honestly Narrator, I don’t think you understand the gravity of this situation.
Other – round a corner and PRETEND I’M A BIG SCARY EXPLOSION! … people run away from those
EDIT: @shane … did my notification get lost in the sea of others? I must know whether my gambit has worked!
@tofu
Sorry, dude, I was just blown away. 😛
Your gambit worked. People… think you’re an explosion. They flee in terror, leaving you alone. A small frog jumps onto your shoulder and whispers something into your ear about your true destiny. It says you need to cross the Sea of Endless Diamond to the Great Plain of Razors, and through The Mountains of Goresplash to the Pit of Carcasses. And there you will rescue the beautiful princess from the amorous attentions of the Impotent Demon.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Do as the frog says.
2. Other
… what is this? A Text based Pun and Click Adventure
Other – Stare in horror at the talking frog, because we all know frogs go *claps* la dee da dee da, la dee da dee da, la dee da dee da … they don’t tell you about mystical quests.
6. Type ‘POWER OVERWHELMING’ and kick the shit out of all the corpses.
They are all dead, and their bowels have stopped working. Your efforts prove fruitless.
1 unit of time has passed.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Take more sheets for warmth.
2. Look for other survivors
3. Explore room
4. Examine corpse
5. Other
6. Look for more video game cheats that may work in Shane’s stupid, stupid, stupid game. Because Shane is a stupid
beautifulman.You input ESCAPEMORGUEAWESOMESHANE and you blast into the stratosphere, bathed in a warm and sensual halo of pure reflected glory.
Eventually, you land next to an apartment building. The street is deserted.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Explore
2. Attempt to enter apartment building
3. Other
5. Ask Shane for a TL;DR version because lots of words scare me
😛
I’m fairly certain this ends with me ruling the asylum I was sent to followed shortly after by me assembling an army of unhinged loonies and raiding all the villages between here and Alice Springs for tin foil to protect our thought from overmind who is secretly attempting to harvest our bodies for sherbert and instill in us a need for the correct usage of punctuation.
Shane says no.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
Ask again with a cherry on top.
I hate cherries.
GAME OVER
Too bad. You will eat those damn cherries, seeds AND stems too.
GAME OVER SHANE.
Fine. Then I poop seeds and a giant cherry tree grows from them. You want to climb the tree.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Climb the tree
2. Be a jerkius
Sit in the corner with all my friends :’-(
:pWhen the zombies awaken, they welcome you as one of their own. After some time with them, you turn, but you’re much happier for it.
VICTORY CONDITIONS MET
5. Sleep
YOU WIN THE GAME
EPILOGUE
And then when you wake up, more stuff happens. Superman appears to you and asks for your help to defeat Lex Luthor, who has apparently thwarted him with some Kryptonite mouthwash.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Say yes
2. Say no
3. Steal his cape
4. Other
Say yes after confirming that Batman didn’t need help
He doesn’t. You climb onto Superman’s back and ride him like a pony. After about twenty minutes you realise that he still hasn’t started flying.
“What gives?” you ask him.
“I’m… not really Superman,” he says. “Superman is a fictional character.”
And just then, the zombies in the morgue all wake up and eat him.
WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?
1. Avenge fake-Superman’s death
2. Run
3. Other
3. Take his cape
The scraps of memories – the flashes of pain, bright lights and odd voices (was that screaming? my screaming? I…cannot remember) are flushed from my mind as I try to come to terms with where I am. How did I get here?
I look around – I’m not sure why, but I expect there to be a bonfire somewhere nearby.
I notice a shine – a faint glitter eminating from the nearby corpse.
My instinct is to go over to the corpse and examine what the object may be.
4. Examine corpse
The corpse is a zombie, and it awakens as you approach it.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Fight
2. Flee
3. Friend!
4. F**k
5. Other
So many options, so little time. I sure hope this is a slow zombie, not a fast zombie.
Maybe something in my inventory? I don’t even know what’s in there.
Fight? At the moment I’m wielding a sheet, which I don’t think will be particularly effective.
Flee? It’s @fled, not flee. Only one letter off!
Friend!? I’m sure the zombie would love to pick my brain on a few topics of interest for a while.
F**k? Now we’re talking. Apparently I discovered a fork somewhere nearby, and now have a weapon… it’s no spork, but I guess it’ll have to do.
Other? Not this time.
2. I’m gonna get flee, I’m gonna get flee, I’m gonna get flee,
ride into the sunNOT THIS TIME.@bdkiaf, @sughly: New Bowie video. Be warned, it’s labelled explicit. D:
Pretty damn disturbing. The last 15 seconds makes me laugh. XD
I meant to link and watch that yesterday, but forgot. I may have to hold off on this one until home time.
Yeah saw this yesterday geez man get with the times. I dunno, I dont care much for this kind of video, even if it does have Gary and Marion
Dear Coffee,
I freakin’ love you!
I want to have your caffeinated babies
Love always,
Loops
How to sing.
Didn’t click.
Is step one “Be Blaghman”
If not, then it’s obviously fake and happy
Hey Beardy, we’re going to a non-3D session of Star Trek on Sat. That change any thing? Let me know, group booking probably happening later tonight. Otherwise will keep you posted about dinner!
Already replied to Sughly about bookingses!
Oh sweet! Thanks man!
You did?
edit: Ah wait yep there it is 😀
http://collider.com/under-the-dome-trailer/
First full trailer for Brian K. Vaughan’s adaption of Under the Dome. Not the behind-the-scenes dealy from last time. Nice use of All Along the Watchtower, even if BSG claimed that song already. (And had a better Bear McCreary version too. :P)
looks OK, how much will he actually write?
Not sure, but he’s lead writer I think and is creatively in charge of the whole dealy, so here’s hoping lots. 😀
Coooool. Maybe. Will definitely watch! 😀
Day 4.
@strange
More like “Gay 4 Strange”
Lol.
This is so obviously a cry for attention, Dan. Why don’t you speak your mind, tell us how you really feel. Like these guys:
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/
I should clarify that that’s a joke.
Everyone knows Strange is a lady and ladies can’t be gay.
wot abart lezbens?
Gravity poster looks awesome! (Just in time for trailer, that’s supposed to be out later today!)
Does look awesome! I still cringe a bit seeing Sandra Bullock’s name 🙁
I guess she isnt bad, just does a lot of bad films. I’m really not sure shes been in a single film I liked. And liking Speed as a tween doesnt count 😛
Totally counts! Haha! You’re right, though. Honestly can’t think of any thing she’s done since Speed that I’ve liked. D:
I somehow read that just as “Gravity looks awesome” … yes, it certainly has some pull to it
It’s quite attractive.
I’m going to play SotC and there’s not a damn thing any of you guys can do about it! >:|
I’m going to call my industry contacts, and get them to cause a blackout at your house.
*BAM* If I wasn’t lazy, had contacts that could do that, and really cared about ruining your day, I could totally have stopped you.
You are a inspiration to us all.
You know I work at a power company…
YAY
Oh wow, game seems pretty great. There seems to be a lot more ‘control’ to this guy than Ico and that’s made some of the controls feel a little bit clunky, but definitely easy to get over. The story and world’s already got me hooked, though. Going to save this for a bit later.
First thing I did was invert the controls too. XD I keep trying to steer the horse like Red Dead.
When you finish, get SotN & play that 😀
He’ll hate it.
No he won’t.
He complimented the map.
he will enjoy exploring the world
@dc
Ross’s Car Trips part 1
Emilia: “Hey, How do cranes get made?”
Me: “well i imagine they assemble them on the ground and then get another crane to attach all the parts when they are done.
Emilia: “How did they make that crane that put them together”
Me: “same way i guess”
Emilia: ” Well that’s stupid how far back does this shit go, how did they make the first crane? I don’t buy that shit, there must be some sort of Crane god that made the first crane”
Me: “What does this crane good look like”
Emilia: Obviously its a fucking large bird that lifted the first crane into the air like its some sort of massive baby”
Me: “you are a knob”
I guess we know that my stupidity and creativity run in the family, Emilia is my sister BTW, she is suppose to be super clever but i have my doubts. 😛
CRANE GOD!!!
ALL HAIL THEE!!
…who the hell is Ross?
A friend of mine, he is really handsome and smart and talented.
And hot, I hear.
Ho Trossssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
I think he’s related to Ho Tross.
I for one welcome our new crane overlords.
CRANES FOR THE CRANE GOD!
O, glorious crane god, you are erect for us in times of need.
…
All stand for the next hymn.
ENBEEAAA! @jacksonwryan
Bulls/Heat
Yeah no surprise they came back like this. What a blowout. Actually this is just ridiculous now…Can I say it now?
I’m going to say it now.
Let’s go team LeBron!
Man, I wish I was at home so I could watch all this.
Haha, yeah you may say it
You can say it, but know that all respect will be lost.
Just kidding, I think LeBron is pretty damn good. Just want the Bulls to win because, it’s the Bulls man!
Hullo. I am working away at uni. I saw the Bulls result. Laughable – but that’s what they’ve been like all season. Up and Down. I think Game 3 could be a lot closer (I didn’t watch the game so no idea what happened, maybe LeBron came alive?)
Either way, the important game is on now. I am sneakily watching it at uni on the work computers. I don’t know if the IT department will kick me off or fine me or something? What can they do?!
San An are in trouble, man. Curry and Thompson are in some sort of form, shooting over and going through anybody. It’s exciting basketball though, I don’t mind losing to a team like that
…. I really hate losing.
So Brisbane, come over here, I’d like to have a word with you.
Streetpasses. What’s going on, huh? You’ve been holding out on the rest of Australia, haven’t you?
In one day in the Brisbane CDB, I picked up 21 streetpass hits. And then another two on the way to the airport at 6 this morning, just for good measure. To put that in perspective, that’s more than I collected in 3 weeks in San Francisco!
You’ve got some kind of 3DS racket going on up there, I can tell. I’m on to you…
PS: hi Brisbane peeps! @dc can fill in the @names for me 🙂
On hearing this news @bish moved to Brisbane.
I HEARD SOMETHING ABOUT STREETPASSES SO I CAME HERE HELLO
Are you serious!? I’m lucky to get two a day in the city.
I saw the proof!
I saw the sign.
http://youtu.be/9TnMdKAplpk
I got 3 while I was sleeping in the botanical gardens. True story.
Also, nice try buddy. We are most definitely on to you.
You gotta walk around…
You callin’ me lazy!?
I’ll fucking kill you!
knifeknife
HAI!
You must be in some parallel universe Brisbane.
Oooh! Open world survival horror! http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=4qTtVMM3uqQ
I’ll probably never buy it because I’m too much of a wimp, but that bit of gameplay looked pretty cool!
Yeah! Wimp buddies! \o/
ARGH
Don’t sneak up on me like that!
*gets startled the the loud “ARGH” @powalen yell and runs away*
Oh wow! That looked really awesome… right up until the crappy white figure thing jumped out. What a lame looking threat.
The survival part looks amazing, part of me was hoping it’d be the Jurassic Park island from Trespasser, though. XD
Parents of Reddit, what is the creepiest thing your young child has ever said to you?
There is some serious nightmare fuel in here…
“We were having roast chicken for dinner. Son (3) has lightbulb moment. Holds up chicken skin. “When we say ‘chicken skin’, is this really the skin of the chicken? Like my skin?” Next day after some Sonday nappage we play cars. I see a fresh scar on his foot. Straight line with a little dry blood. Ask the little sir about it: “I cut myself. I took a knife because I wanted to see what my meat looks like under my skin but it hurt a little so I stopped. I still don’t know.” Good thing he didn’t want to see his sister’s flesh!”
“I died in a car crash”
–my 3 year old brother to our mum as she was strapping him into the car. It freaked her out a bit.
NEW BETWEEN TWO FERNS!!!
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/67a61e3024/between-two-ferns-with-zach-galifianakis-james-franco?playlist=featured_videos
Amazing.
Oh yes! I love these…
Man seriously, one of the guys at my work must be completely retarded. He stresses over his financial woes several times each week, sometimes almost breaking down into tears. You feel bad for the guy, but then you start to look at it from a more realistic perspective;
– Every day he gets at lest 3-6 eBay packages delivered to work. Mostly Blu-Ray box sets. Im not over exaggerating here folks. These are literal numbers.
– He needs a new phone right? for him and his girlfriend. So he put 2 x Samsung Galaxy S3’s on laybuy at BigW and is planning to pick them up today.. I asked him how much? $648… he said he is going to cancel the lay-buy today, grab his money and pick them up from dicksmith which has them for $569.
Im looking at that price tag and im thinking this guys nuts…. ido a quick search, and find Kogan, has the 4G LTE Galaxy S3 for $379…. THATS ALMOST $200 PER PHONE!!!! with the same warranty! his response? “They’ll take a week to get here, i want them now….”
so in my head im thinking you douche…. youve been saving up for them for 4 months, and you cant wait an extra week so you can save yourself $400.
mind you him and his girlfriend both work, and his bills average at about $290 per week and that includes Gas, Electricity, Rent, Phone and Internet… i can assure you he makes a lot more than that.
He buys XBOX 1 games… about 5 a month… thats right, original xbox one games for $40 per game plus $10 delivery from a guy in the UK…. because he “trusts him”… I DONT PAY $50 FOR NEW XBOX 360, PS3, or PC GAMES!!! his reason for not getting a 360 or ps3 is because games are too expensive…. REALLY?
I hope im not being too judgemental on others and how they run their finances, but if i had to choose between buying myself BluRays, games, and paying my bills and putting food on the table, its a no brainer….
i just cant get over that though… he cant wait a week to save $400…. that would cover his gas and electricity for 3 months, phone and internet for 1 month, and he’ll still have change for a large Pizza for dinner tonight.
I totally understand that. I look at the way other people spend money and wonder how they get by :\
It’s reasonable to think that. He’s just not good with his money and seems like he’s not going to change or take advice :/
I’ve had a few roomates like that over the years we had to kick out.
One guy dissapeared for a few weeks and didn’t pay rent and came back with a new guitar and no rent money.
And plenty whoo just buy more shit on the way to paying bills and then don’t have enough when they get there.
One chick actually took everyone’s rent money one week and spent it on CDs or something and didn’t say anything until we figured it out.
Seriously stupid.
oh man that is all kinds of low…
That’s the thing, some of these people were intelligent and just didn’t understand what they had done.
Even my best mate since second grade went weeks without paying the rent once, we got kicked out, I was black-listed for years and had a really hard time finding places to live.
We’re still friends, he didn’t mean any harm, was just too shit to look after himself.
I used to work with a guy who constantly complained about having no money, but had a nice new car, a huge entertainment system, always had nice clothes, etc. Turns out he was not only dipping his fingers in the till, he was also dealing weed on the side.
o_0
So to fix my GW2 woes, I apparently have to set my graphics to “Best Performance” after looking at some forums to stop my screen going to black (Not actually a crash cuz I can still see the GW2 mouse cursor and Alt-F4 closing is immediate, meaning there’s no system struggle)… strange since I run the game at high settings and still get high FPS and no problems then suddenly out of nowhere my picture disappears. I’ve tried full screen and borderless windowed mode, with high and medium graphics settings, still the same problem, and the timing is just completely random too.
How do Ati cards go with GW2? Am I no chance at all with my current setup?
Just check the details of their recommended specs on the GW2 website and then search for that card, do a comparison on your own card specs and see how you go.
Oh man! Aggro’s Cartoon Connection:
NSFW
Dude! Yes!
I had the GameBoy game “Aggro Soar”
It was awesome.
He had to fight some wizard who could summon dinosaurs and in some levels you got to ride a skateboard.
It didn’t have a save thing or passwords so you had to finish it one sitting.
Rad game.
I had that game!
That sounds like the most 90s game ever.
Radical.
Gnarly!
It’s like how you remember cartoons from around that time and realise that they really were no appropriate for when you were that age.
Oh, Nickelodeon.
I can’t remember the name of it, but Channell Nine used to have a cartoon show on in the afternoons that showed all the Warner Bros cartoons (Looney Tunes etc).
I didn’t notice because I was too young, but my mum was surprised by the short skirts and massive cleavage the host used to have, apparently she was always leaning forward too and making it worse/better.
It was called “What’s up Doc?”
Remember the Super Saturday Show? I was on that once!
…and the name suddenly makes so much more sense.
I don’t, what cartoons did it play?
Super Saturday Show was on channel 7. had agro and a couple of other people hosting. Used to play stuff like smurfs and he-man and stuff
prolly did watch it then
Guys let’s talk about stuff since I’m really bored in this lectureeeee.
STUFF you may wish to answer:
1. Best game you’ve played recently?
2. 2013 game you’re looking forward to the most?
3. Next new release you’re buying?
4. Currently released game you want the most? (because you were waiting for a price drop etc.)
5. Game you’re most keen about more information?
____
1. Persona 4: Golden, Fire Emblem and Luigi’s Mansion 2 since I haven’t really played much else.
2. There’s nothing I’m super excited for (like the hype I get for 3D Zelda games, seriously I lose my shit for them) but there’s stuff I’m pretty interested in like Xillia, GTAV, 3DS Zelda, Bravely Default, Pokemon, Broken Age (and more I’m forgetting)
3. Animal Crossing, or DKCR 3DS so I can take advantage of the 3DS promotion. I’ve got The Last of Us pre-ordered but no idea when that comes out :P. Xillia is pre-ordered too
4. Some indie stuff like Monaco and Antichamber and big releases like Tomb Raider and BioShock Infinite. There’s also a few games coming out that I’ll wait for a price-drop in like Beyond: Two Souls
5. Zelda Wii U! XenUblade! The Last Guardian!
BOREDNESSSSSS
Feel free to ask your own questions 🙂
-P4G
-The Last of Us
-Does P4A count since while it’s not supposed to be out until tomorrow, apparently it’s being sold anyway? If not, probably The Last of Us.
-Good Question (Fyah Emblumm or Weegee’s Mansion 2, probably).
GTA 5.
Ahhh! I forgot about Persona 4: Golden D:
I’m not feeling The Last of Us hype for some reason. Haven’t really looked into it much and I’ve already got a pre-order (tempted to cancel it) but I dunno…
I nearly bought P4A just for the story but realised I didn’t really play fighters too much so I’ll wait for it to be cheap since the story mode is relatively short
I was waiting for a WeeGee’s price drop but bought it anyway (not sure why!) and it was more expensive than it was at launch… I M SMRT
The more I hear about The Last of Us the less I care.
Still want to play, but it doesn’t seem to be quite what I thought it was going to be :-/
Judging from trailers and the first few bits of “gameplay” it looks REALLY scripted and feels like it’ll be full of set pieces like Uncharted 3poopshit. I think my pre-order is like $95 for the art book version but I don’t think I’ll feel good about paying that much for what seems like a short game that I might not enjoy as much (still pissed I paid like $60 for Uncharted 3crapdisappointment 🙁 )
P4G
Bravely default Flying Fairy
P4A
Fire Emblem
Shin Megami tensei IV
What 3DS promotion?
Oh yeah, I still don’t know too much about SMTIV but I’m keen for it. Seems like a standard 3D JRPG, which means random battles? (D:). I do prefer my JRPG battles to be in third person though but 1st person can work well but I just like seeing my characters!
UK currently have one where you register (Club Nintendo) 3 games and get 1 free. The list is solid and has stuff like Castlevania, Monster Hunter, Luigi’s Mansion, Fire Emblem, DKCR, Animal Crossing. So it’s basically FREE ANIMAL CROSSING!
Vooks tweeted a pic that might’ve hinted it coming to Australia but at the moment it’s still UK/Europe only.
Battles is same as P4G, generic blobra on map (I think it has a diff look though) and you must initate the attack or suffer a loss of turns.
yeah battles are 1st person (boo) but just about everything else is 3rd (like old DQ) so Im ok.
But if we live here, how will we get our free UK game?
Well Australia doesn’t have the promotion but I believe you can just create and register Club Nintendo UK codes and you’ll be emailed the code for the free game which you can either redeem in the Australian or UK eShop.
That’s what I did when they had a similar promotion for Kid Icarus NES 3D remake. Registered my UK codes and got a code which worked fine in our eShop.
You get a full 3DS game? I hope it’s a small one. I was looking at getting Boobs of Princess and decided against it because I’d need a new SD card. :-/
You get one of the games in the list (Boob Princess isn’t there).
ie. register Castlevania, Monster Hunter, Luigi’s Mansion, Fire Emblem, DKCR, Animal Crossing (and 2 more – Pokemon something and LEGO City Undercover) and get one of them for free.
Yeah I know, Boobs was an example of the size, too big for my card.
I don’t want to own four of those games anyway. Just two.
I take back that Fire Emblem (although it still counts so I dont) but Deadly Premonition Director’s cut!
I been waiting so long and now I have to leave it even longer because I know I won’t play it straight away and the money is better spent on handheld games that I will play. 🙂
1.) ICO!
2.) Beyond: Two Souls/Broken Age. Either one, I’d be happy with!
3.) The Last of Us or Remember Me, whatever is released first.
4.) Nothing at the moment.
5.) Dragon Age 3.
OMG forgot Broken Age!
Sooooo keen for that :D. It might spark my love for Adventure Games!
I just get so happy and inspired watching the doco, makes me want to make games and do creative stuff!
Same!
Wait
WORK ON YOUR GAME >:(
Dragon Age 3 is this year? WOw!
Haha! Probably not, but still looking forward to seeing what they took away from the second game’s fallout. XD
– Shane’s bored game. Or Lollipop Chainsaw, the combat’s simple enough to handle drunk and the writing for the game is amazeballs.
– GTA V … I just want to get back into a GTA game and San Andreas was my favourite world
– I haven’t really looked into what’s coming out soon, so I shall leave this for now.
– Dead space 3 … this isn’t so much that I’m waiting for a price drop, but I want to play through the co-op with my housemate and I’m waiting for him to be able to afford it
– Bayonetta 2, I really want to see whether it’s being designed around using the Wii U tablet dealy or just the pro controller. I think it could be a decent stress test for the system and I want to hear fan boys bitch and moan about how much better it would be on other consoles before they go out buy it anyway.
Once again, more things I forgot! I really liked Bayonetta. I wasn’t particularly good at it, I didn’t really play it that much, hell, I’ve only finished it once but it just seemed really polished and was a great game.
I’m not really fussed about Bayonetta 2 being on the Wii U since I have one (and thus, won’t miss out). I don’t think it’ll really take advantage of the Wii U’s “features” but will probably just do the standard “HUD on gamepad, shortcuts on gamepad, off-screen play”.
1. Poker Night at the Inventory / Catherine
2. The Last of Us
3. As above
4. Tomb Raider / Bioshock Infinite
5. Nothing at the moment
1. Soul Sacrifice (I’d say P4G, but I have already played P4 on PS2)
2. Battlefield 4
3. Not sure, there’s not much I can recall I’m itching for, but Metro Last Light seems likely.
4. I’m too impatient to wait for price drops.
5. GOD EATER 2
1. Hasn’t been one good enough.
2. South Park: Stick of Truth
3. See #2.
4. There isn’t one.
5. None.
1. Best game you’ve played recently?
The only games I’ve played “recently” are CiV, Minecraft, and Bioshock Infinite. I guess since CiV and Minecraft are a couple of years old they don’t count, so Bioshock Infinite probably wins it by default. And it was pretty good too, so…
2. 2013 game you’re looking forward to the most?
Watch_Dogs, since it looks like Destiny won’t be out til next year. I’ve been a bit unhype for new games lately. I let Hitman, Tomb Raider and Dead Space 3 compeltely slip by and I don’t really care.
3. Next new release you’re buying?
Watch_Dogs, probably, unless the new Suda 51 game comes out first.
4. Currently released game you want the most? (because you were waiting for a price drop etc.)
Hmm. Tomb Raider I guess. Of the games that have come out recently that I didn’t bother to pick up, Tomb Raider is the one I still have the most interest in.
5. Game you’re most keen about more information?
Destiny. Jesus Bungie, how long you gonna keep us in the dark? 🙁
1. Fire Emblem
2. At the moment probably Tales of Xillia but there’s been hardly anything announced for the second half of the year since there’s the new consoles launching
3. According to The Plan it will be Persona 4 Arena but technically I already paid for that, they just haven’t shipped yet, so the one after that is Muramasa.
4. Waiting for clearance sales on Wii U so I can buy one :V
5. ‘X’. Also want more on Destiny.
How come you’re waiting to buy a Wii U? Thought there wasn’t anything you were vaguely interested in?
I think you’ve talked about getting one eventually but just wondering what games you’re interested in! 😀
X.
EDIT: Also possibly whatever the secret project that Retro are working on is
X?
‘X’ is the working title for the Xenoblade-ish Wii U game
1. Best game you’ve played recently?
X-com, Dark Souls both unforgiving in different ways
2. 2013 game you’re looking forward to the most?
Metro: Last light
3. Next new release you’re buying?
Metro: Last light
4. Currently released game you want the most? (because you were waiting for a price drop etc.)
A few things but probably blood dragon
5. Game you’re most keen about more information?
Beyond good and evil 2
This’ll be my last spam-like post on the matter. Haha! (Maybe. :P)
*cough* Bavarian Beer Cafe *cough*
Upvote caus I like the place, but maybe too pricey?
Mebbe. But it’s damn good food and giant beers.
Isn’t a schnitzel about $20-25? Is that over budget for some?
I do like giant beers
I may be able make it. Will have to see how I’m going financially tomorrow, but I might be able to pull off dinner. Not fussed on seeing the movie, but would be nice to catch up with you all.
I have a few places I can suggest for food too. Raku in West End (Really good ramen and stuff, cheap too) and near the elizabeth st arcade, there’s a korean place called Gaya (or it used to be called that.. not sure if still is).
I don’t really care where we end up eating, as long as it’s not Thai.
Oh, and @dkzeitgeist, that Raku place is where Ajisen moved and changed to!
Woh!
Its not that impressive
trolololol
Just got through this reddit convo with The National guyses. Some really interesting stuff there! http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1dxls5/we_are_bryce_aaron_and_matt_of_the_national_ama/
Thanks for the heads up!
Related my little anecdote about swapping a 920 for a TV on Tell Us Damnit. Downvotes start. Urge to start trolling rising.
I really don’t get why 920 fans are so insanely sensitive about the thing. Even the slightest negative about them sends them into an explosive foaming fit.
Because theyre filled with so much regret
All I want out of a phone is the ability to take pictures and a stable internet browser, I don’t give a damn about all this rivalry stuff people are obsessed with. 😀
DC, Selfie-holic.
:S
@dc duckface
Apple fans are the same, as are Android ones. People refuse to believe that anything they support isn’t the greatest thing ever. How dare anyone suggest that their personal choice of item is not the correct one?
I have an iPhone, that makes me superior to all of those Android jerks who think that they’re better than me.
It’s just a phone. Next time I upgrade, it’ll probably be an Android but I don’t particularly care.
Youre so right. But dont you ever talk shit about androids again you goddamn apple fanboy.
Don’t ever try and rationalise phone fandom. It’s worse than pretty much any other form of brand/product fandom I can think of. All parties have guilty users involved. Apple, Android, WP, whatever. Which isn’t to say all phone users are fanboys, but all camps have their fair share. There’s also a disconcerting amount of hipsterdom too, depending which phone is ‘popular’.
Apple fanboys are just Apple fanboys, no explanation needed. Android fanboys are too cool for Apple, yet touchy because Android is so popular now, ‘I’m an Android user’ is not something you can proudly proclaim as unique or special. WP fanboys are suffering ‘the little train that could’ syndrome and tetchy anytime someone points out something that their platform of choice is lacking. They’re also still in the hipster stage because WP is finally a viable alternative to Apple and Android, yet still not in widespread usage, so they’re precious and unique flowers that are so non conformist.
To be fair, your original comment did come off as a bit trolly. You didn’t really explain why you didn’t like the phone, just implied that it was absolutely terrible with no redeeming features.
Did I? Or did I just say I didn’t like it? You don’t have to justify every single dot point of why you didn’t. People only demand that so they have something to pick apart so they can prove you wrong.
To play the devil’s advocate, your first comment was a bit trollish, even if it was unintentional.
Because it read like “The phone you think is great is s**t, and I’m not giving any reason why”, which is a bit provocative. Did you really expect to not cop any flack over it?
But that guy is being over the top though.
I has 920. I can see why it is not the best thing to transition to from iPhone. I was too lazy to type a decent comment for that though.
Also, it’s the modern console wars mentality – the fanboys only have one, so must blindly believe their choice to be the best. Or something like that.
It’s because they can’t understand how you can fit the TV in your pocket let alone make phone calls on it.
The logistics are difficult but its all worth it when you can play big screen Angry Birds on the bus.
I’ve got nothing of any use to say
You and me both, friend. Hope you’re well!
I’m much better now my assignments are done! 😀
Aodhsiaonqwlk;nsdfio;n!!!
That’s disgusting. You should be ashamed of yourself.
I do but im not telling any of you.
We kill the batman?
Let’s all take a moment out of our lives and remember the good things in life…
Like home arcade cabinets, and thin-crust meat-lovers pizza… With extra sauce…
By extra sauce, you mean sriracha, right? Right?
Bored Games
I think I got my first Serrels Upvote today.
Which was promptly cancelled out by a downvote. Ah, well.
One man’s downvote cannot compare to the majesty of a Serrels upvote.
Imagine a @markserrels downvote!
They happen, you just never hear of it cause the people that get them spiral into oblivion seconds after.
They really should make a Serrels’ Upvote worth 10 or more.
@markserrels @benwhite
Serrels downvote deletes the comment?
Now that’d be hilarious
“Hey! Listen!
Your comment has been downvoted to oblivion by a moderator, please don’t be a dickman next time :)”
Go make a Youtube video about it.
@markserrels
Could we put this in?
Obviously sans everything after the comma.
ie
I really, really love this series of comments and it’s given me some interesting ideas. 🙂
@freezespreston – It seems from now you will have list under weaknesses ‘ability to use a Lumia 920’. That shit’s important man,
Yeah, make sure the police know about this. Could be a deal-breaker once you’re in if you haven’t been upfront about it.
I’ve already reported to the CDC. The government knows of my condition. I have to be monitored now.
More DOTA in my Inventory….
Really, Steam?
HOW AM I STILL DODGING ALL THIS?! I haven’t gotten one yet…
Oooh, Techy. That was a rookie mistake right there.
HEY EVERYONE, I CAN THINK OF A PLACE TO SEND SPARE DOTA COPIES!
Why you think I don’t play DOTA? I hate the game anyway 😛
No,no.
He meant ATOD.
It’s a far better game.
AotA expansion you mean.
While AotA is the correct reversal of DotA, ATOD is actually a thing where you pick the other team’s heroes.
I don’t know what this means. I was talking about Dark Souls /o\
@Shane DotA = Defense of the Ancients.
AotA = Attack of the Ancients.
Geddit?
No. I’m still not sure where Artorias of the Abyss fits into this… 😛
Man, ATOD is pretty awesome.
Sounds like a dodgy knock-off…
Attack of the Defence – A game where and the primary objective can least most the greatest, and one player always a good. Team up to ensure happy victory!
It could work.
No it’s just a DOTA-style game where you play as a turret… it was pretty boring in the beta, I hope they improved on the gameplay
Haha, I can imagine a copy of DOTA called “Attack The Other Dude”
(Everyone) Attack the One Dude.
Where is everyone? Who is noone entertaining me
Hannah Hunt is fantastic. Might be my favourite on the album at the moment.
Worship you is my fave 🙂
Yeah actually this song has lasted the test of many repeats better than others, for sure.
BORED GAMES IS STILL GOING. YOU HAVEN’T PARTICIPATED, SO I FEEL NO SYMPATHY.
YOU STOPPED DOING IT FOR ME, I’M SO SAD
I DON’T RESPOND TO TL;DR. I have nothing to be sorry for. 😛
BUT YOU DID RESPOND! YOU JUST DIDN’T SAY ANY MORE AFTER THAT 😛
(which was understandable)
YOU WIN THIS TIME, SHAZZ
Have responded. Last chance >:(
Then I am the winner.
I got hurt by a mean comment so I’m retreating.
What have you got against mean comments?
ELABORATE.
Mean comments are perfect and you’re an idiot for thinking otherwise.
I find them pretty average.
NO >:(
Entertainment!
Hehe, weee! Took long enough to start spinning it
There was a whole bunch of naked people wearing sheets a few pages back. You must have missed them on your way in.
They werent naked then were they.
They were before we stripped a bunch of zombies, thus transferring the nudity.
Wut
It’s OK, I got away from the zombies by dressing up as a cabbage and driving off in Mr Bean’s car.
The magic of BORED GAMES 😀
Just found out parental controls had been enabled on my WoW account without my permission. The only possible explanation is that I was hacked, but my computer’s clean so…
I’ve changed my password just in case though. Unfortunately, disabling parental controls is anothre issue. Blizzard’s decided to make it as long and complicated as they possibly can. I’ve had to open a ticket with their customer support (estimated answer time: 24 – 48 hours) explaining everying and providing ID, only I’m not sure if my ID will work to disable the parental controls since I set the account up seven years ago using my mum’s email address and I can’t remember if it’s her name or mine that’s on the account (I’m pretty sure it’s mine, but you never know).
I’m hoping the issue will be dealt with quick, but I’ve had terrible, terrible experience with Blizzard’s customer service in the past so I feel that hope is in vain. I’m not even really playing the game at the moment, it’s just that if I ever do want to go back to it I’d like to have my account waiting for me with no restrictions placed upon it.
The Battle.net authenticator is also your friend. It’s a free download on iOS and Android, and just adds a layer of security. I mean even if you haven’t been hacked, it’s a great idea. The only trick is to remember to remove the authenticator from your phone if you’re planning to wipe or reset it, I’ve done that more than once. =0
I’ve had problems with them in the past too, particularly with Diablo 3…but I’ve heard of plenty of people who have apparently had hassle-free experiences, so here’s hoping that’s what you get!
It’s a divine intervention. As a famous man would have said, God came down from heaven, and locked your motherfuckin’ account. Don’t fuckin’ blow this shit off.
It was Divine Intervention? That’s good, it only lasts 1 min.
Dat gay article… it’s like an upvote orgy in there.
Best of all, people are being generally civil.
Mannn… is this bizaro world or something?
I guess everyone’s just sick of Patricia trying to find everything she encounters offensive.
Mannnn.. we were sick of that before it was mainstream…
It is a pretty damn tenuous thread for her to cling to in such a wordy article.
I don’t know what she is like as a person, but i absolutely hate most of her articles.
I’m just sick of her negative outlook. It feels like she doesn’t actually play games to enjoy them, but instead plays them just looking for things to be offended by.
I know exactly what you mean. I’m really so over it. I seriously can’t work out how she still has a job…
…Then again, Kotaku US are probably too afraid to fire here lest she fire abuse at them saying they are being sexist or racist or something like that
I don’t regret reading the comments!
It’s an amazing feeling, isn’t it?
Almost.. spooky..
@greenius
urg, I only want 2 of those games and am in no rush to buy Fire Emblem :-/
Then please give me the codes :D. I only have Luigi’s Mansion (bought Fire Emblem locally), with your DKCR and if I can scab another code off somewhere I’ll have free gaem and we’ll be best friends 🙂 <3
Yeah, I prolly will. But you owe me a handy :p
I will love you forever and you will love me handys
Oh maaaaaaaaaaaaan
Does anyone live near a Dick Smith that;s selling these $20 Pokemons?
Arrrgh!!!
$20 POKEMONS?!?!
WHAT?!?!?!
Dick Smiths has all the latest ones BW& BW@ for $20, I am stuck near a bunch of empty stores!
Except for Chermside which I can’t get to!!!
Pokemon: Bwand and Pokemon: Bwat?
Don’t be that guy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wanna_Be_the_Guy
Strathpine doesn’t have them? Strathpine never has any thing good. Haha!
I just checked the Dick Smith I stare at all day.
They don’t sell games anymore.
Oh. Except Skylanders. A whole wall of Skylanders.
Fuck skylanders
Dick’s bait and switch. Remember their big game ‘sale’ a little while back?
My local was stocked up, pity they opened an hour early and sold to all their friends.
I’ll see if I go to the shops tonight, Slim Jim.
Kinda like how I “checked” for those Wii component cables for @freezespreston
They’re working awesome.
cheers
I’m already geeking out.
Uni friend saw Star Trek Into Darkness last night and loved it, btw! 😀
…
Long Way There – Little River Band
Ya Hey – Vampire Weekend.
I’ll be going to see it tonight. Pretty keen.
Listened to a song from them yesterday. It was good.
I tried to get you to listen to them ages ago but you were all “Too happy! Haha!”
New album, not so much with the happy.
Depression for all! 😛
The new album from Emotallica.
Here’s a nice, upbeat song!
Haha, ahhh… On ira, by Zaz. Ok so I have no idea what she’s singing but my god her voice is all raspy and beautiful and probably after a few more listens she will make my marriage list, we will see.
Renegades of Funk- Rage Against the Machine
Is that the one that goes “narrr narrr narr narr narr” or the one that goes “narr narr narrrrr narr narr narrrr”?
Keeping with the Star Trek theme, one of the band members was totally in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Shepherd_(Star_Trek:_Voyager)
Wow. That’s really cool, I had no idea. Tom Morello’s a great guitarist too.
The Dirty Glass – Dropkick Murphys.
I’m worried about taking the kids to see it. I’m going to show them the first one tomorrow night and see how they go.
Last song: ‘Custer’s Last Stand’ – Civil War
Yeah, it’s hard to get a sense of the ‘darkness’ from the trailer. Tough choice to make as a parent too, but if it’s any thing like the first it should be fine…
Star Trek (2009) spoiler:
… ‘cept for the thing about Kirk’s dad dying at the start and all that. Might be upsetting to a kid?I wont lie, it was hard for me to see Jennifer Morrison die. That was too hard for me :'(She didn’t die, did she? I thought she had Kirk in the shuttle pod while evacuating? Maybe… You thinking of Winona Ryder? She was Spock’s mum!
…
Is what I’d say if I was a weird hard core Trek fan… but I’m not… *cough*
Ohhh okie doke! I thought they were like she has babeh! And launched the babeh safely away while everyone died. Or something. Clearly I remembered wrong. Wait… Jennifer could be in the film on Sat..? 😀Old lady version of her! 😀@just @sughly’s type 😉
Isn’t Kirk’s dad Thor?
Chris Hemsworth, yes!
Should’ve been played by Sean Bean 😛*Thinks about a lot of Sean Bean’s roles and realise barely any of them live up to the stereotype everyone is attempting to stick on him*he still dies a lot more than most of his pedigree(so Chumpy, you can carve it)
I think we’re all missing what the important part of that scene was
Picard.
I was thinking about the logistics of that the other night for a little too long. Man, people in high school were right. I am a nerd. 😛
The amount I think about Ryan Gosling maybe what they said about me in high school is true as well.
In joke! In joke! Hey guys I’m part of this joke, I’m laughing but noone else can hahaha!
I never get to be part of in jokes, I like this
I dun get it.
You’re welcome, Sughly. Enjoy.Easy, tiger.
Nabucco: Chorus of the hebrew slaves – London Philharmonic
Ohhhhh fuuuccccck… despite only following respectable artists on deviantart, I think one of them just gave away a major major game of thrones spoiler in some fanart.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
Aw man, sorry to hear that. 🙁 Was it OnTargett? 😛 (I kid, I kid.)
That sucks. 🙁
I was like oh that looks like so and so… and that looks like so and so’s head…
Oh… oh wait…
Shit.
COULD STILL BE FANFICTION KIND OF THING I CAN STILL HOPE
Need to get drunk and forget that spoiler while you still can! 😀
Haha, quick! Brain damage!
Might increase your enjoyment of Michael Bay movies too. 😀
I wish I could upvote this more than once
There’s a place that sells giant German beers that could help.
Cough.
Cough.
Let’s go there! (Saw your original post Sughly and that’s alright. For now. XD One last hurrah! :P)
Sorry, I think maybe originally it sounded a little harsh in some way I didnt mean 🙁
Nah, didn’t think that at all. If any thing, seemed like you were looking out for me which is cool!
:’)
Unless you weren’t! D:
Should’ve read the books 😛
Totally bought the first book! But… but its so big :'(
That’s what she didn’t say
about TyrionLinkme.
I closed it as soon as I realised what it was. No idea what it was called or who even did it now XD
I wouldn’t worry, it was very likely not a real event from the series. People do tend to artify some really weird stuff.
Yeah, theres a chance, but the people I follow dont tend to do that. Theyre basically all established illustrators that use da for fun, and when theyve done shows and stuff they basically never do it for fanfic style stuff. Sniff :'(
My son was pretty cool about having needles poke holes in him. Braver than I was. 😛
Needles is a rather unsettling name for a doctor.
I wouldn’t trust him
Your son is already more a man than I already… though being a robot it may not count 😛
@rize @bdkiaf @fled @tofu @powalen @alexpants @chuloopa @zetrox2k @ynefel @tigerion (and @greenius I guess)
Thanks for the games today, fellas. It was… not sure fun is the right word… but it was surely an experience or something like it.
I might come back later and finish up those unfinished games. If not, though, please assume that your characters have perished in desperately unfair and painful ways. KTHXBAI
I didn’t expect it to go on this long! You did good haha
Well, I can’t speak for the others. But my game was freaking awesome
It was perfect timing for me. I had an incredibly boring and useless day lined up, and you made it a lot more bearable!
*looks at list of names*
Oh, I’m sorry I made such terriible / boring decisions. ='(
I forgot mine because I was busy!
But I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who tried the ghost thing with the sheets.
I heard video games are kind of neat.
http://youtu.be/IRsPheErBj8
I kno rite?
Guild Wars 2, gorgeous looking game!
Any of you guys interested in running dungeons? I think you can do them at level 30 and beyond… hopefully via guesting, too. I think a new one opens up each 10 levels.
@Rize @cakesmith
Only level 16 with my charr atm, got a while to go… a very long while considering the technical issues I got with the game currently.
What sort of issues? D:
I’m not a huge fan of just grouping with randoms – they seem to mostly be just running for gear/items so try to ffwd story/etc. I’ve ahrdly done any dungeon stuff, so want to read/listen to that stuff.
Hopefully also you guys would be more tolerant of me inevitably making noob mistakes? 😀
Right? :D…
Guys? D:
Hey my Charr has a flamethrower, trust me you’ll be fine… I don’t light my allies on fire… often 😀
I mentioned my issue in a previous page, basically out of nowhere my screen turns black and I can see my GW2 mouse cursor but that’s it. The only way I can get past it is to Alt+F4 and relogin again. It gets really annoying since it can range from 20 minutes of play to 5 minutes of play then without warning it just goes into a black screen and the sound/music fades out like it’s loading a new map. I’m on an nVidia GTX 580 and no issues with framerates on the graphics settings
Whoa, that sucks!
Has it always happened in GW2?
Do you run in fullscreen or full-window-with-no-decorations mode?
Feel free to reply telling me to look on prev. pages if it has been talked about pretty extensively already 😉
I tried Windowed, borderless window, full screen, lowered graphics settings (Which made it run even better), it hasn’t been talked about extensively on here but the guys on TS know how frustrating it is for me. Basically CTRL+Enter doesn’t do anything either. Looking online it’s saying to change the settings into “Best-performance” mode… which is a sad sad thing to see cuz I love admiring the graphics style of this game, I don’t want to turn it down, I’ve had no graphics problems in any other game and there aren’t any logs of the drivers failing either, so no issues with temperature.
Edit: Fixed wording
Ping @tech_knight.
Our thread is too large and so I’m replying to this one instead.
Interestingly, I’ve also got a 580gtx – but no blackscreen issues.
I’ll try to catch you on ts sometime if you want to work together to try to find some subtle difference between our setups?
(not sure if it matters, but: i7 2700k, 16GB ram, win 7 64bit prof… not sure on nv drivers, but can check when I’m home)
Have these issues happened for you in GW2 since launch?
Sounds like a graphics driver crash to me.
I have a level 31 warrior, and @blaghman has a level 60 ele so we would probably need 1 more.
I’ve got a level 56 Thief, but I think I’m on a different server to you guys, unless they’ve implemented that cross server stuff they were talking about months ago.
Yeah, cross server stuff has been implemented. It’s pretty awesome!
80 ranger here, SoS
Bunch of nerds.
You heard wrong. Video games are sexist, homophobic, racist violence simulators.
…You’ve read one too many Patricia articles… you might want to stop
Sexist.
Your face is sexist.
Going to assume you accidentally dropped an ‘e’ from that last word.
Hey I prefer being Robros not Romos… 😛
Homophobe.
Ye Olde Sexiste?
Are they those things kids play?
Nintendent kids, maybe.
They’re no board games though.
They sure are swell 😀
http://www.adventuregamers.com/screenshots/view/17066/35816
Telltale have made a pretty game. It’s a freakin’ miracle! XD
Damnit. I’ve been trying to tell people this.
It’s pretty hard to believe, though. Can’t blame the scepticism. 😛
I dont really like, acturally. I like the colour scheme, and the bold shadowing and stuff, but it still looks like its plastered onto ugly models. I am too hard to please sometimes I think.
I can understand it, though. Lots of 2D artists I know take issue with 3D stuff like this!
2D is the best D 😀
Compared to this, though — Fables looks stunning. 😀
I mean in general, I’m generalising. generally
I just had a proper look, those Fables 3D graphics do an excellent job of representing 2D American comic art.
Really good.
Dunno what @sughly’s whingin about
No I just… I’m just a bit of a 2D purist, I guess. I think if youre doing the comic book look, do good 2D. I dont personally get the approach to have a 2D look plastered onto 3D, thats just weird to me. Its a personal preference, I know it.
I think it’s easier to do 3D for some reason.
That’s the impression I get from what developers say in interviews.
You know, stuff like the backgrounds in Final Fantasy on PSX & Resi 2 still had to have a wireframe 3D thingy built under the art so the characters would walk in the correct places.
Of course, if you do full 2D then it would be different, there just isn’t a huge market for it 🙁
If I had my way, sprites would still be king!
@jimu yeah exactly. Moneeeey. Erything should be 2D. ERYTHING. I think the companies that do purely 2D though have actually quite comfortably proven there’s a market for it.
I think the technical term is jealous. 😛
Ey oh ey oh ey!
Fox picked up Almost Human, the new show from the Fringe show runners:
http://tvline.com/2013/05/08/fox-new-series-fall-2013-tv-shows-jj-abrams-almost-human/
Great cast… premise that could go either way. Haha!
Based on the Fringe connection, I’m excited though.
Urrrrgh.
Who am I kidding, the premise is terrible but it might not actually be in implementation. XD When I hear the term buddy cop, I never want to watch it. 😀
One’s a human, the other’s a robot. They get up to wacky hijinks due to compatibility errors and they fight crime!
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/6/12/ so basically this?
Reminded me of I, Robot (2004), but that’s classier. 😛
Edit: Oh man, remember the product placement in that movie? “Hey, my vintage 2004 converse shoes arrived. WOOOOO!”
The fact I remember the brand all these years later upsets me how successful that was. 🙁
I said this on the last page, but this time I’m for real:
Star Trek Into Darkness meat. Saturday, 8:45pm at Event CInema Myer Centre. (Non-3D session.) Dinner before hand at 6:45ish probably at the Bavarian Beer place.
Bookings will be made soonish, so last chance. 😀
Would probably need to book the Bavarian. It gets pretty busy.
As busy as a photo of teenage you with coloured hair?
HA!
IM OUT!!!
No. Teenage me didn’t get very busy at all. The freaky hair didn’t even help any.
Saw you can make reservations on the website. Every one going to see the movie going to the dinner? I know welbot sounded keen on the dinner, but not the movie. Planning meats is hard. 🙁 Haha, this just might be the worst planned meat evah. XD
Just book for everyone who should be coming and if they don’t its not really an issue.
[Edited: Crisis averted, thanks Freeze. :D]
Also, for people actually going to movie so far:
Sughly, Freeze, Mrs. Freeze, Nobs, Beardy, Mrs. Beardy and D.C.
Just did it. Stop stressing.
Aw man, so damn awesome. Thank you.
Oh, the Bavarian is a nice place. It was the go-to place for dinner at Sydney meats for the better part of a year.
I forgot today is Survivor day but then I remembered.
THE END.
*shrugs*Second worst spoiler I’ve read this week.
*shrugs*What was the worst?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/npgpf1i76k6efzr/huge_game_of_thrones_spoiler.jpgI’m not clicking that!
I should have included a second link to force it through moderation ;D
I clicked on it.
Dayum that’s huge…
This isn’t a Survivor spoiler, is it? 😛
(Label your spoilers, DC!)
It could be about a lot of things, Pow. Jurassic Park game included. 😛
What? You didn’t find $10???!!! D:
Manly tears are shedding :’)
Watching Warrior?
…
If not, why aren’t you watching Warrior? >:|
@sughly @powalen @strange @phoenix @dc
Good ep!
Ep spoilahs:
:'( many tears were shed, of happiness and sadness! Felt so bad for Brenda (at the end) and for her and Dawn after the challenge (although Dawn cries a bit much :P). Finale is gonna be interesting! Overall it’s been a pretty good season! I have a feeling the next season will be a dud though 😛
I’m still 100% Team Cochran but I don’t think he’ll win since he’s too much of a threat and will probably get voted out. I’m guessing the final 3 will definitely consist of Sherri (who will get NO votes) and I don’t know who else 😛
Yep yep yep. Faaaark, I couldnt decide at the beginning of the ep if I was going more for Brenda or Cochrane actually, and before the vote I was sure it was Brenda. Well, guess it has to be Cochrane now! The one thing that can be taken from that downer of a vote was that she wouldve gunned for Cochrane next, and that HAS to be Cochranes answer at the jury, IF he makes it there. They will gun on him for sure to be off, because he can win it with words. Erik and Sherri will agree with Dawn on that, but then again they will agree with Cochrane that Dawn is likeable. OOOOOOO whats gon happen!! Oh and yeah Eddie but who cares amirite.Yeah, I was really going for Brenda too but was still in Team Cochran! :P. I think Cockys more of a threat since he’s actually done stuff and Dawn didn’t do that much as well as betrayed some people (so less likely to win compared to him). I have a feeling Eddie COULD go to the finals just as a “dud” (lol Sherri) but he may get a few votes since he didn’t really backstab anyone but hopefully the jury is smart enough to realise he didn’t do jack either…@shane – I ain’t climbing no poopy ass tree.
So obviously 2.
#NoContext
#UselessHashtagsOutsideofTwitter
HEY PEOPLE you should totally play dota with me tonight.
What’s that? You don’t have dota? S’cool, I’ll hook you up bro!
It’s a trap!
I’m pretty sure that Aleph doesn’t hide the fact he’s a guy…
“ladythefirst”
http://ncloud.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/dragons-crown-vita-box-art.html
Ha HA! All the boobs are hidden from view. K-Mart friendly 😀
http://ncloud.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/dragons-crown-6-new-character-arts.html
These are awesome, WARNING bewbz
Countdown to resumption of Kotaku / Kamitani ‘sexism’ debate…
I read ‘Kamitani’ as ‘Katamari’.
I need to practice reading.
Katamari Damacy as drawn by George Kamitani would be amazing.
One big boob, rolling around collecting thighs
Scrhiererer is such an idiot…
I didn’t bother reading it all but didn’t Kamitani (I assume he’s the character designer) apologise profusely only to be targeted again by that idiot? He probably felt horrible for no reason :/
You just hate him because he hated Xenoblade. 😛
That was the turning point!
Yeah he tried to vaguely justify his being a douche and the better man out of the pair was pretty evident.
Also he thinks that Xenoblade is crap and The Last Story was better than it. So he’s clearly insane as well.
Kamitani didn’t apologise, Kamitani insinuated he was gay.
And obvious joke. Innernet was in an uproar cos now not only is Kamitani a sexist pig, he is now a homophobe.
Good times.
I meant apologise for the light hearted homosexual joke 😛
ah
My leg is itching like crazy but taking it out of this boot thing to scratch it will take ages. 🙁
Anyone know why a PC would be hanging at the “Starting Windows” screen? Computer won’t start up.
Try booting into safe mode (mash F8 while its booting and select safe mode with networking). If it boots its probably a driver issue
Sounds like it is starting up!
How do people feel about Ichi-Ban Boshi for dinner when @freezespreston is in town? It’s been a while since we’ve been there.
Tree of Life’s depressing. 🙁
Edit: But decent, a little too artsy though…
Yeah the very beginning and end are too artsy for sure, but the vast bulk of it between is incredible.
Think it’s safe to say Jessica Chastain is one of the best actresses working in Hollywood these days. Holy damn, she was good. Also felt ‘true’ and close to home some how. Universal experience of childhood and all that, maybe. Good movie.
Yeah thats exactly it right, the experience of childhood. Captured incredibly well. You can feel everything that boys going through, almost because you feel like youve lived it too (even if in detail you havent quite :P)
And its a pretty profound effect taking that insight into this boys life, and seeing him as an adult looking back at that photo. Malick man, he knows how to portray elements of life that cant be spoken about, its kind of really special I think.And as artsy as it was, I’m still glad Hollywood lets a director like Malick make something like this. Might not be perfect, but it’s worth making for sure!
I did like that scene with the dinosaurs too. The nature verse grace thing. It’s very rare you see an ‘artistic’ kind of take on dinosaurs and all that instead of chasing/eating people. XDYeah, I was more forgiving of the beginning than the end. I get what he wanted with the beginning. The end is just wank really. I can forgive him for making the rest amazing.
It was an extremely evolutionary film though, a lot of the cast didnt even know that was the film that they made – was completely different from the original script. Christopher Plummer shot scenes for it and even went to the premiere, only to find he was completely cut. I imagine the beginning wouldnt have been there, for instance, and I believe there was another ending shot. Who knows with Malick 😛
I read that Sean Penn didn’t care for the movie too.
Probably for said reasons (doesnt really matter though, the Cannes panel disagreed with him :P)
@sughly: Would be interested to read the original screenplay. XD
@dc I think if I remember correctly there was lots of dialogue scenes taken out? And a lot of what was kept in was improv stuff. So I can understand the change in the edit suite from that perspective.
Very heavy movie. Can’t say it was comfortable viewing, but that doesn’t mean it was bad. Far from it.
@dc I just wanted to have the last reply
Okay!
Hey guys, @masha2932 and I were discussing this on twitter earlier, but -as I have mentioned multiple times before- The Lion King musical will be running in Sydney from December until early March, and I was looking for a show of hands of who’d be interested in seeing it.
Tickets run between about $60 at the very back, to $170 odd, so there’s probably a good price we can all agree upon somewhere in there. We’d probably also need to designate someone to book the tickets and stuff, but ehhh, whatever.
So yes. Musical. Super Manly. Really, really, fantastic. Who wants to go, and when would work best for you?
I wanna goooooo!
Myself and wifey would probably be interested in making the trip for that.
Is this like, the proverbial wife? Aka, me?
Are you flying me away for a romantic weekend..?
You should go and see The Lion King instead of reliving the food poisoning adventure of last year!
…maybe.
I saw it on Broadway and West End happily, make sure to catch it if you haven’t seen it. You can even use the ‘childhood nostalgia’ excuse for explaining why you’re going to a musical, if that makes you unsettled. 😛
And where the journey may lead you,
Let this prayer be your guiiiiide.
I love how the movie score is interwoven with the new songs. Feels like it belongs in the original The Lion King. Shadowland is awesome.
My love will always be “He lives in you (Reprise)”.
In your reflection… he lives in yoooooooou!
Totally listening to the OST now. Haha!
I’m listening to some French woman sing about god knows what, probably cleaning the kitchen or something. Sounds amazing though.
Mad Men s5 spoilers:
Megan Draper?God no
Me me me!!!
Also CJ expressed interest about going on twitter.
So with freeze, mrs freeze, greenius, blaghs, cj and me, that’s 6 people so far. Woooo
I’m happy with any price. Even $170 is OK if I start putting aside a few dollars every week before then. You’ve been to the theatre before so what are the best spots? I’m guessing the middle like a cinema? Or are the seats different there?
Also, if you don’t mind, I think you should book the tickets 🙂 You’ve done this before after all 🙂
NB:
Oh yeah, I was supposed to post about this but I forgot. Thanks or should I say, Asante sana squash banana 🙂
Don’t sit on the aisle if you don’t want to be interacted with, that’s all I’ll say. 😛
Umm, it has two tiers to the seating, the most expensive are at the front of the upper level, with the cheapest at the back, the ones on the lower level are all the same price, I believe (about $130, assuming my quick glance at the website earlier was accurate). I’m normally a fan of the lower level, and it’s pretty good in the Capitol, but the upper gives you a better view of stuff. I dunno, wherever you sit, it’s great. Oh, and yeah, middle is best, but the sides aren’t as bad as in a cinema, given the depth of the stage.
I’m interested but it’s a bit far out to commit to it.
Why the hell hasn’t Deus Ex: HR had a sequel announced yet? 🙁
Because it didn’t meet sales expectations
Nah, I dunnoActually it exceeded them significantly.
Because they’re busy with Thief reboot.
Thief sucks dicks and they should stop being dickmen and making that and get back to work on a good game.
What did I just watch?? http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/9/4314876/microsoft-asia-windows-8-videos-swap-watermelons-for-features
Thought you guys would wanna know, Since Sonic Allstars Racing Transformed is so popular “round these parts, I finally unlocked Ages.
He is a VMU, he makes VMU noises and DreamCast menu noises and when something good happens in a race he says SEEEGAAA.
Also, he drives the car from Daytona, the plane from Afterburner and his boat is a modded dreamCast controller.
He is so cool.
😀
I HAVE WAITED SO LONG FOR SOMEONE TO MENTION DAYTONA, JUST SO I CAN POST THIS.
PREPARE FOR AN ARCADE NOSTALGIA OVERDOSE
TIME EXTENSION is basically all I remember about Daytona
I can’t watch that vid at work but you do know Daytona is on PSN & Xbux LIVE riiight?
A reminder of everything Sega used to be 🙁
Just cos they aint a super power house, doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the good stuff 🙂
Who would win in a race between the Road Runner and Speedy Gonzales?
Speedy
Sonic.
He’s the fastest thing alive.
Wile E. Coyote riding a big red rocket.
But he’d most probably go off-course and crash into something before exploding to death.
Weightloss update: Had a good week this week, lost 2.6 kilos. Now I’ve got to try and get my History assignment done. 2500 words and due next Thursday. Eep!
Wooo! Congrats and good luck with the assignment!
My weightloss update: My belly appears to be a little bigger. I am doing this wrong.
I think I’m in your boat.
A big sturdy well built boat it would have to be.
Rub a dub dub
Kinky.
I just realised this is the second suggestive reply I’ve given you in less than 5 minutes.
It’s okay. My animal magnetism is a cross I have to bear.
And you look so good carrying it too
After now having 70,000,000,000,000 dollars(Damn AAA MMO Expansions are overpowered) I think I can now retire from Game Dev Tycoon.
I don’t really think the game is worth $10 though.
Also yah! Persona 4 Arena today.
or two weeks for us penny-pinchers!
@dkzeitgeist Yaaaay, so glad someone got my pulp fiction reference!
Are you talking about your divine intervention on a whiles back?
Yah 😀
Totally rewatched the scene for accuracy even
(because I suck balls at remembering quotes properly)
Sister just got home from Star Trek Into Darkness, said it was better than first.
*geeks out more*
Probably going to be worse I reckon
Trying to balance your expectations here*shakes fist*
Also, no one else seems to want to do the Star Trek meat dealy. Probably safe to book tickets now if you’re still keen to do that. (No one expects you too, though. Don’t feel pressured or any thing man!) We can all coordinate to book at the same time if that’s better for you too! Sughly, Freeze, Mrs. Freeze, Nobs, Beardy, Mrs. Beardy and D.C.
So what time were you guys planning the dinner? My Saturday plans may have fallen through so I could possibly join you guys for that.
Nope too late theres no more space sorry, all the chairs are being used up now
I’ll just have to sit on your lap, then. 😛
!!!
Freeze got reservations, not sure on exact time and numbers! Stay tuned!
Movie tickets aren’t booked yet either. Can you make that now? 😀
I’ll book it in the morning after one more final call 🙂
You awesome! Thanks man!
Jesus crapclapping … BLIND!!!!
I got a new torch and it’s got a telescopic lens and I was trying to find out why it wouldn’t turn on andthen it did and sweet merciless babies it was like staring into the sun if it was covered in other angry suns … and then I managed to trip down some stairs and went head first into the stacks of bricks along the fence
I have no idea what youre talking about
OOOOHHH wait wait, like torch with batteries and lights and stuff.
Right.
So not like tomb raider style torches.
Because this is real life.
Gotcha.
Sughly, I’m worried that you think I sit there wondering why my fire stick isn’t working before lighting it up and then just burying my face in it
I’d be lying if I said I didn’t actually picture this happening
… so would I
D:
…
You okay? TAYing from the Emergency Room?
I’m fine … still at home, slightly grazed noggin, but that’s about it. I really like this torch. Although the permanent metal match thing I ordered with it didn’t ship … so that’s annoying
What sort of torch?
well, I thought it would be a crappy mini flashlight considering it only cost 5ish bucks … but the thing’s a decent 300 lumens mini flashlight with a focusable lens that takes a single AA batery. Apparently the run time’s about 2 hours from a new battery, but it’ll just be living with my first aid kit and other stuff in my cupboard. so I’m not really that worried
upvote for angry suns
There is a game jam at school over the weekend. I kind of want to do it/feel like I should. But my head totally isn’t in the game at all, I haven’t been able to get any work done all week and don’t particularly feel like gathering supplies to take in tomorrow in preparation for it. Also would probably be good to spend the weekend setting up the new computer instead. But… ugh.
I wanna go back to last week and try again.
Well now I feel bad for luring you further and further down the TAY rabbithole. 😛
Maybe tomorrow you’ll feel better/different and be able to get in the right headspace.
YEP, DEFS ALL YOUR FAULT
Well today was mostly due to having a late night last night. Oh hey I was planning on trying to get to bed at 11 tonight… so much for that! Stupid sister putting on Dexter. Twice.
Will have to draw you into the next Bored Game, whenever it happens. I’ll try to remember to tag you specifically 😛
JOIN USSSSSSS
Next movie on list: Safety Not Guaranteed. Hope it will off-set the depressingness of Tree of Life.
I’m watching that tomorrow.
Yaaaay! Great great movie. You will love Mark Duplass as much as I do afterwards (maybe, I think this promise fell through with @dkzeitgeist and now I just dont know anymore, I just dont know)
And if you do fall in love with him, go watch the amazing Your Sister’s Sister, which is amazing, and has him being loveable and funny as usual
Hahaha I nearly typed My sisters keeper, far out dont watch that pls dont
Him? You didn’t fall in love with the girl? Haha!
Also I totally remember you and @dkzeitgeist talking about this before we saw Regular Show on Dec 8. Dan theorized that he was a robot! XDAlready was in love with her from Parks and Rec 😀
This movie was shot incredibly well too. Liked the colours and lighting, which is an odd observation, I admit.
Holy damn, amazing movie!
Oh man, best night of movies.
I just watched Safety Not Guaranteed. I’m not sure quite what I was expecting, but it was a really interesting movie. Aubrey Plaza is awesome, the whole cast was great, and the ending was pretty much perfect.
Really cool.
I was hoping his time travel stuff would turn out to be legit, but at the same time it was such a well constructed movie that even if it wasn’t it would’ve still been great. 😀HOLY SHIT! STOP THE INTERNET!
National album leaked. Dling now. Ohmygodohmygodohmygod…
Yo, ho, yo, ho a pirate’s life for Sughly!
Well, we both know were buying it. It will be bought. Why not enjoy earlyyyyy.
Is what a pirate would say. Which isnt me.
I prefer to make judgemental comments and then stream them on YouTube like a hypocrite. [Insert judgemental comment here.>:|]
😀
Judgemental comment.
Renovation work deadline has apparently been pushed back more than a week :\
Unable to live without my writing, I have set my desk and computer up in our entry hall. You can no longer access our front door. But at least I’m writing.
Edit: kind of terrifying how much I feel like a junkie who’s just had a fix.
… and my manic behaviour the last couple of days (*looks at pages 9,12 of TAY*)… sorry!
I respect your discipline, my friend. I admire you! *awkward*
Is it still discipline if it’s a compulsion?
You wouldn’t call an alcoholic disciplined for heading to the bar every day 😛
Healthier than my self-destructive compulsions! Haha!
😀
I’ve got enough of those, too 😛
But that’s because he’s reducing his brain capacity, pretty sure you’re doing the opposite.
That’s fucking awesome, dood. Dedication! 😀
Really bummed that Jurassic Park 4 was shelved today, especially since Colin “Safety Not Guaranteed” Trevorrow was set to direct. :'(
I’m bummed that nobody has offered me six million dollars to do absolutely nothing. :'(
I’m sure writer/director types would prefer to earn their money and not have their work wasted. :'( (Then again, they could kickstart their next project with that. :P)
Oh, I’m not commenting on writer/director types here, I just really wish someone would hand me six million dollars, and say “Go, son!” in a thick Aussie accent.
I’d also be confused as all hell, but pshh, whatever.
If that happens, can you fly me over so we can play P4G in the same room?
(Wouldn’t do anything smarter like play P4A together or nuthin’)
You know, if you didn’t pay attention like me, you never would have known and wouldn’t have been dissapointed.
That is before some guy goes and blurts it out all over the TAYs.
:p
Good night, folks. Really weird day but finished better than it started because of movies.
More movies, more of the time!
V/H/S.
Watched it last night on youtube.
I quite liked that! Some of hit was a bit hit and miss, but a lot was good. I thought.
Pretty much.
Type 56 10/31/98 and Amatuer night were pretty awesome.
Second Honeymoon was terrible and felt pointless.
Was that the one about the couple making a home video together and being in their hotel room and stuff? I didnt mind that so much, since I thought the payoff was kind of nerve wracking a bit. It was a bit pointless though, but yeah, nerve wracking too. If that makes sense XD
Not really sure what the ones were you mentioned, but I thought the camera in the glasses one was so so good. Oh man and the guys trying to find the halloween party, that was great.
Yep. Also:
Camera in glasses = Amateur Night
Halloween Party = 10/31/98
Video tapes with dead man = Type 56
Ah I see, I see. Well, we agree then! Good. Fine. Whatever.
Does anyone have access to the Australian Financial Review? I urgently need some data from it for an assignment due tomorrow but can’t get access to it within a reasonable time (Uni library apparently has it but it’ll take me 2.5 hours to get there and back).
I need to check out the UBS Bond Index for May 2nd 2013 (or around that time, May 3rd etc.) and apparently only the Australian Financial Review has it :/
Currently I just made up a value and well… that’s not good at all 😛
I’ve got some access through work. Just gonna paste whatever I can find, hope whatever it is is contained in here somehow. I searched for “UBS AND bond AND index”
Full Title: FED:Aust bonds almost level after mixed dataSource: AAP Financial News
Circulation: Not Available
Date: Wed 01 May 2013
Time: 00:00:00
Keywords: UBS (1), Bond (6), Index (1)
SYDNEY, May 1 AAP – Australian bond futures prices finished near steady after mixed data pulled the market in opposite directions.
UBS interest rate strategist Matthew Johnson said Australian bond futures sold off towards the end of the overnight session, after the release of data showing a rise in US consumer sentiment in April.
However when the local session started, investors focused on Australian manufacturing data in the absence of any other market-moving news.
The Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) Performance of Manufacturing Index (PMI) showed the manufacturing sector in April recorded its largest slowdown since May 2009.
“The Australian PMI is about the lowest it’s been since the GFC (global financial crisis).
“The manufacturing sector is continuing to suffer a structural decline, Mr Johnson said.
“So that means the economy could be slowing down, which means the RBA can cut rates so bonds can rally.”
At 1630 AEST on Wednesday, the June 10-year bond futures contract was trading at 96.900 (implying a yield of 3.100 per cent), down from 96.910 (3.090 per cent) on Tuesday.
The June three-year bond futures contract was at 97.430 (2.570 per cent), down from 97.450 (2.550 per cent).
Mr Johnson said the outlook was positive for bond markets over the next few days.
The policy-making committee of the US Federal Reserve meets on Wednesday night and the European Central Bank (ECB) meets on Thursday night.
The US is expected maintain it economic stimulus program of buying government bonds from banks to encourage them to lend.
The ECB is expected to cut its interest rate or, at least, signal there will be a reduction in June.
“Inflation is low in Europe and they’re in recession, so now is the time to ease,” Mr Johnson said.
“So all those things on the horizon are broadly bond supportive.”
BANKS ENTER BUBBLE ZONE: ANALYSTSSource: Australian Financial Review
Date: 02-May-13
Time: 00:42:00
Australian bank shares have entered a risky great bubble territory similar to the peak of the internet stock boom that ended in a crash last decade, leading fund managers and the country’s top-rated bank analyst have warned.
As share prices of the big banks surge to record highs, Emilio Gonzalez, chief executive of BT Investment Management, majority owned by Westpac Banking Corp, said his 25 years’ experience in markets suggested soaring asset prices generally led to a correction.
“That happened in 1999-2000 with the internet boom and I’m seeing similar symptoms [among banks] which throws up a few red flags,” he said. “Banks are a leveraged play on the economy and that shouldn’t be forgotten, so hopefully as people chase those yields they have a diversified portfolio.”
Running with the rally
The alarm follows ANZ Banking Group’s 10 per cent rise in half-year profit to $3.2 billion and presages an expected record result for Westpac on Friday.
Mr Gonzalez said professional investors were aware of the risks but were scared of missing out on the bank share rally, while warning that retail investors generally came “late to the party”.
In a research note titled Welcome to the great bank bubble of 2013 sent on Wednesday, UBS analyst Jonathan Mott said banks were low growth companies, heavily exposed to a housing market downturn and unemployment.
“As with all asset bubbles, they can go higher and for longer than many expect,” Mr Mott said. “As Chuck Prince [former chief executive of Citigroup] famously said ‘As long as the music is playing, you’ve got to get up and dance’. All we can say is buyer beware.”
It was “fundamentally flawed” for investors chasing yield to compare dividends from more risky bank stocks to lower rates on much safer term deposits and government bonds, he said.
The share prices of Australia’s banks have reached a record high at an average of 14.9 times earnings, despite subdued demand for lending.
The market capitalisation of Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Westpac have surpassed $100 billion and the big four are ranked among the world’s top-11 by market capitalisation.
Quantitative easing by central banks around the world, where their bond buying has pushed global interest rates down, have led investors to select alternative assets offering higher yields.
Combined with falling term-deposit rates and the tax advantage of franking credits in Australia, investors have jumped into banks because of their track record of producing excellent earnings, high dividends, sound management and prudent regulatory structure. Bad debts remain benign, housing markets stable and the unemployment rate of 5.6 per cent is relatively low although edging up slowly.
Australia is also leveraged to the fastest growing region in the world, Asia.
So far, investors have been handsomely rewarded. The bank share index is up more than 50 per cent since the bull market began last June, and 27 per cent since January.
Better to be risk averse
But veteran fund manager Peter Morgan said Australian bank shares were expensive and he did not own any.
“Like any bubble it’s difficult to pick the timing of the popping occurring,” Mr Morgan said. “This manipulation of fixed interest markets by central banks is like standing in front of a train.
“The train’s getting faster and faster and it’s going to come off the rails.”
Mr Mott and his UBS colleague Chris Williams have recommended clients sell Commonwealth Bank and ANZ since early this year, in the face of rising share prices. They acknowledge the banks are good companies. “They are profitable, resilient, well capitalised, well managed, shareholder focused and have a very strong industry and regulatory structure,” they say in a note.
“However, following the significant leveraging of the Australian and New Zealand households over the last thirty years, they are now low growth and remain heavily exposed to housing, funding markets and unemployment risk.”
“We are conscious of the bull case for Aussie banks and all ‘yield’ stocks: further Quantitative Easing; rate cuts; falling TD rates; asset allocation flows into equities; the ‘least worst investment’; value of franking credits.
“However, bank dividends are a result of significant leverage; they are not annuities comparable to TDs [term deposits].
On the upside
Not all investors are so bearish.
Leyland Asset Management portfoio manager Alex Leyland, said the Australian banking sector was one of the strongest in the world. “I don’t think they are as risky as a lot of people would believe. Banks are geared just because of the nature of what they do. I don’t necessarily believe we are experiencing a bubble. Saying it is a bubble would indicate a fall of 30 to 40 per cent.”
Platypus Asset Management portfolio manager Prasad Patkar said it didn’t feel like a bubble, yet. “It doesn’t look like they have entered nose-bleed levels just yet. They would look very pricey if the bad debt cycle were to come back in the immediate future. But the current environment is relatively benign where funding costs are stable, bad debts aren’t rising and loan growth is in the low signal digits.”
Also, is this it?
http://au.finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=IAF.AX#symbol=iaf.ax;range=1y;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;
@shane – oops! forgot to mention I think I found it.
Spent an hour or so after posting trying to find it so I was too tired to remember to delete this :P. Thanks though!
Jerk
ily2
This post is pretty amazing. http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/depression-part-two.html
Awww that was great. Did you read that first part she did a whiles back too? It’s pretty amazing how she can articulate it all so well.
Yeah, saw that. Really articulate and relateable. Puts into words something that I always figured was unquantifiable.
@shane – im sorry i didnt finish the game again yesterday! i get these moments at time where i get completely swmped with work…. for what its worth i would have applied the nuggets to my arse see if it cures my zombie bite… at least im trying new things 🙂
Priorities! I punish people who delay decisions, so that gambit would have failed, and one of your legs and your willy would have dropped off. Just so you know.
NOT MY WILLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PS..I liked the part where i blew up the wall with my ass.. definitely my kind of power.. \o/
http://www.siliconera.com/2013/05/09/pre-order-dragons-crown-for-a-64-page-art-book-in-north-america/
It’s happened! Oh yes! Oh yes!!!
@ash @greenius @sughly @negativezero
I of course won’t be getting it if it’s too pricy.
You don’t need to get porn magazines anymore, a lot of naked lady images can be found on the Internet. =P
Don’t I know it 😉
A wild Friday appears!
jimu throws lazy-ball half-arsedley
Snorlax had the right idea.
True story: @gutsoup named his Snorlax Jim
Story Verified. ‘Tis true
Animal Crossing New Leaf looks pretty friggin good.
But I’m holding out for Fantasy Life.
Animal crossiiiinngggggg! Then you can visit me jimjim, visiiiit meeeeeeee
Are you getting Fantasy Life too?
@dc. @dc. Get this album. @dc. Get it.
Also in case you didnt see, they linked a video to Sea of Love in the reddit thingy. Studio recording of it is even better than the Fallon one (somehow!) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIWmRbHDhGw
I’d like to man, but can’t. CAN’T. 😛
@fled
My main in GW2 is about 18 at the moment, but once I hit 30 I’ll be keen as hell to group up!
My eldest was sitting in the back of the car amusing herself by singing How Deep Is Your Love. Where the hell she picked that up I have no idea.
It’s them “video games” that the kids are taking about. They learn these bad songs from their Playbox U and NintenStations.
I subscribe to the idea that Pac-Man is the cause of Dubstep.
Wasn’t that more the origin if techno itself
Dark rooms, munching pills, listening to repetitive music
I was thinking more along the lines of onomatopoeic similarities between “WAKA-WAKA-WAKA-WAKA” and “WUBBA-WUBBA-WUBBA-WUBBA”
First it’s the Ninplaybox, then the Bee Gees and then your a pregnant teen shooting heroin and draino into your genitals.
Story of my life
:pIs draino into the genitals a thing?
I hope its a thing or i am dying for no reason at all.
Dying because you injected draino into your genitals?
Yes
Utterly unsuitable for young minds. I grew up with the Bee Gees music, and it warped my perceptions pretty badly. Better get her some Gutfucking Chainsaw or whatever it is to balance things out, before it’s too late!
I have Mayhems entire library on my phone so chances are she probably has heard it.
Ah yep, yeah I have quite often played music in the car without thinking too much about it until Ash asks something/ sings some of it back. Then I’m like woops, bit of irreparable damage there woops.
I’ll stop worrying then. Good to hear it’s under control!
Shane’s been standing outside the wrong window with his boom box.
Story of my life man. Also, I have no idea what you’re talking about… :\
In The Breakfast Club there’s a scene with a guy standing outside his love interests house with a boom box playing music. I was implying that you were trying to do this for Freeze… because you’re a BeeGee’s fan…
Or something…
DC. Tells. Jokes.
Oh good, for a moment I thought you were trying to imply I had designs on the five year old :\
#ShaneGetsJokes
That was probably my poor joke telling skills. D:
Practice makes perfect my friend!
I listened to oldies stations nearly everyday of my childhood. I look back at it as something my mum did right.
Dark Souls miniupdate!
Only had a couple of hours yesterday, wasn’t able to get summoned, but took down Sif. Was surprisingly easy, Just tanked him the entire time, blocking all his hits, then getting a hit or two back at his underbelly. Upgraded the Effigy shield to +10 and forged the Greatshield of Artorias. Unfortunately for the time being i have to run without the Black iron helm so that I’m not “fat rolling”. Not sure if i should take on Four Kings or Seath next. Or I could attempt the most painful boss I’ve met so far, the Stray demon at Undead Asylum!Stray Demon is actually kind of easy once you know his pattern. Go naked, no armour, so you have speed! Stay behind him and hit his back leg or tail with a fast bleed weapon (Bandit’s Knife is great, Priscilla’s Knife probably equally good). Bleed takes about 10-15% of his health every time it builds up. Roll back out of range whenever he lifts his club above his head, because that red mist stuff hurts. When he floats up in the air, retreat, and run back around him to his back once he lands. Five minute battle, should take no damage.Might try that strategy when I get home, I’m just worried about his magic damage.
\o/
They’re doing server maintenance at the moment so summoning could be a problem. With enough heavy armour and VIT you don’t need to roll. You just take the hits and shrug them off. It’s my favourite build style. In regards to Stray Demon, just keep circling him and try to stay behind him. He’ll keep attempting his downwards AoE stab but its really short range. Just jog up and hit him a few times, keep circling. He’s actually incredibly easy once you get it down.The Stray Demon battle is still my favourite boss battle in Dark Souls, I think. There’s something pretty thrilling about charging in completely underdefended at a low level, knowing that one hit means death, and emerging victorious \o/Fatrolling FTW!I’ve only got 13 VIT, been putting all my skill points into END, STR and DEX. Which wouldn’t matter except for his magic AoE attacks hurt as I have low magic defence.
Me too, dude. I hit SL 95 recently, still only got 13 VIT. Feels kind of hardcore playing that way.
SL87 myself, I don’t feel too hardcore cause I’m constantly using shields that have 100% physical dam reduction. Have END up at 40 so my stamina is at max.
I actually beat stray demon on my shield character. Lightning +5 grass-crest and lots of rolling~~If you’re on the PC version, check out DsFix (for graphics and DirectX injection) and DsCFix (for fixing the terri-bad summon times with GFWL friends~~)
Nah Xbox player man.
Based on this mornings conversations, I can safely assume that today is Friday. Good Morning!
Dont believe the lies
Its Tuesday and it’s a terrible morning
Aaaaah man. Sad face. You guys mask your days well, kudos!
Don’t believe the truth
Too deep.
I missed an night sleep so I have not idea what day it was. I mean is
Star Trek Into Darkness Brisbane meat…
Last chance…
Can’t you all fly here. I mean if i am going to fall asleep in the movie i want other people to make sure i don’t get mugaped (mug/raped)
Fly down to Brisbane, invite your lady friend! Nothing says romantic like watching a Star Trek movie with a bunch of strangers / nerds! \o/
Hey hey, speak for yourself!
You are the lady frond in this scenario.
Step one; cut hole in bottom of popcorn cup …
I am pretty sure that
a) that would make me seem creepy
b) i would be having to much fun with sughly and ignore her
and most importantly
c) i met this girl 4 days ago
We go further back ergo I deserve more attention
HOTROSS! HOTROSS!
I thought the last chance was the last chance!
Good point Pow lets ignore DC 😛
Yes, Marvel is doing it waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better 😀
NO BATMAN IS BETTER
EVERYONE IN BRIS I AM BUYING TICKETS IN ABOUT 15 MINUTES IF YOU WANT TO COME TELL ME AND I WILL BUY YOUR TICKET, OTHERWISE DONT COME CRYING TO ME LATER ABOUT SOLD OUT SESSIONS AND NOT BEING ABLE TO SHARE POPCORN AND A SPECIAL KISS WITH ME
Needs more caps, also bold
And emoticons. May I suggest:
>:|
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah :’-o
Thanks for doing this too, man. You’re freakin’ awesome!
I need help with numbers here again though XD
Sughly, Freeze, Mrs. Freeze, Nobs, Beardy, Mrs. Beardy and D.C.
BUT, Strange’s plans fell through and she possibly might go. I might text her to see if she can make it! I’ll be right back! 😀
I want to make a decent playlist that i can play in the car when my sister is with me to avoid
“oh i don’t know this ist sounds weird can i change it to something I know”
Then she changes it to the Taylor Swift album in my car.
I mean i like the Taylor Swift album ( JUDGE NOT FRONDS) but i need something new.
So ideas for music playlist. Anything you can reccomend really and no @dc i wont put arcade fire on there because according to her
“Its boring”
All I’m hearing is I like Taylor Swift more than Radiohead, and for that you should be sent to the sun
In all srsness though, The National are actually a pretty widely loved band. Heck, my mum even asked who they were when I put them on.
Taylor Swift has a song with a goat in it. DOES RADIOHEAD.
Kind of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTxB_q0TaSc
What about Sarah Neufeld’s Hero Brother. No connection to Arcade Fire at all. *shifty eyes*
Three CDs and you claim you have nothing to listen to.
I see how it is.
I have listened to them like 40 times, i drove to sydney and back with the.
Do you not follow the “Driver’s Choice” rule? If not you are a silly person.
Say what you will but when that shit kicks in after “Laying on the cold hard ground” I reach nirvana.
Friggin siiiiiiiiick!!!
I got your back Rocketbro.
The Black Keys and Foster the People got pretty popular on the last albums, might be worth chucking them on. Gotye maybe. Mumford and Sons, except I hate them. Muse, Bluejuice, Matt Corby, Birds of Tokyo.
http://collider.com/the-maze-runner-concept-art/
This sounds awesome! D:
Also, where’s my Gravity trailer internet? *shakes fist*
Where indeed
Actually that totally looks like a place in SotC
Concept art reminded me of Ico, aesthetically. That’s what caught my eye. XD
http://collider.com/michael-shannon-jeff-nichols-sci-fi-movie/
This might interest you too, Sughly — being a Take Shelter fan and all that.
OoooOOOoo!
You’re so right Sughly!!
Shadow of the colossus spoilers
It looks like the trenches in the entrance to the 14th colossi (Cenobia). The lion looking one. That was a really great battle as you lead the creature around the stage leaping from structure to structure.Thats the one 😀
So apparently we’ve had like 30 Samsung Chromebooks dropped off at the office as a gift from Samsung for us to test. Gunna see if I can nab one so I can try it out.
I can help too!
Mistaken for Strangers – The National (Probably my favourite song from Boxer at the moment!)
S.C.A.R.E.C.R.O.W – My Chemical Romance
Heavenfaced – The National :3
(just get eeeeeet, its so goooood)
The House Carpenter – Jeff Lang
In the words of Lang :
Big Machine – Ryan Miller and Mark Duplass
Wait wut? Mark Duplass sings? Wut?
He does in Safety Not Guaranteed.
Yeah but thats a film scene. Is this just that song?
Holy damn, that was an unexpectedly good song.http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/safety-not-guaranteed-soundtrack-features-gusters-ryan-miller-mark-duplass-hearts-on-fire-20120604
A simple yes would have sufficed XD
Midnight Oil – Read About It
The House Carpenter – Jeff Lang
@35’s description sold me. I wasn’t disappointed.
Some Chords – Deadmau5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEQMkzjcLEA
Me and Julio down by the schoolyard- Paul Simon.
@fled
I just attempted to play GW2 on “Best Performance” mode last night. Oh god it looked so ugly (Like running through different coloured clay landscapes), but the game did run without problems and crazy smoothness in the framerate, so I’m going to be experimenting with the settings, tweaking it little by little per day, see where it kicks the bucket and find the “Maximum settings my PC supports”. In answer to your question, yeah I’ve been having this issue since I bought it near launch. Lots of people were reporting about it, but the black screen happened in different points for them too, like in character creation, or when moving to new areas, etc.
@negativezero
I first thought it was a driver failure, but usually when the drivers fail, either the screen turns off with a “No Signal Detected” Error from my monitor, or my system would freeze up and try to recover, neither happens here, I can Alt+F4 and it immediately closes no problem. I’ll check the logs again next time it happens and confirm that, but I don’t remember seeing any sort of error in the Event Viewer regarding my graphics driver, and I’ve had them before, where I get a pop up in windows saying it’s failed and successfully recovered. Windows 7 is good that way.
My suggestion would be to try getting the res up to full, if it isn’t already. Every other graphics setting is nice, but res gives an increase in graphics AND the increase in functionality.
It is at full already, so all good on THAT working at least… I couldn’t imagine being stuck on 640×400… and I don’t ever want to be think about it 🙂
Yeah, I can suffer low graphics if I have to, but low res as a requirement means an upgrade has to happen fast.
Want to worsen your vision painfully? Why stare into the sun when you have crappy resolutions on your video games! 😛
I’m happy however, I didn’t get a black screen crash this time around, which proves that a solution IS possible to enjoy the game with you guys with no immersion breaking bugs
*Clears Throat*
GET OVER IT, YOU THINK THAT’S BAD, I HAVE TO LIVE WITH IT!!!!!!!!!!
Also, I’m sorry for your struggles.
Not for much longer, you’re at a point where you can earn the money you need to upgrade to something better pretty soon if you’re not there already 🙂
Running latest DirectX? It could be a DirectX crash if it’s not drivers. Rare but not impossible.
Also are you running it thru steam or something? Might have one of those in-game overlay things being inserted and that can cause instabilities…
Nope, it’s not running through Steam, I can’t remember what version of DirectX I’ve got installed, I’ll check that out tonight and let you know.
From DxDiag it’s DirectX11 currently installed
@sughly, @strange: Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity trailer! http://collider.com/gravity-trailer/
Yes. Yes yes yes yes yes yes.
What a ripoff of Egress, srsly. I actually initially planned to have a shot of the main character hurtling away from the spacecraft when the alien jumps on his helmet at the start, with the spacecraft appearing further away each time it spins into view. True story. Alfonso is an idea thief.
Hope they change the moon puzzle. That made no sense. 😛
Spoilers.
Bah, if people havent played it by now they never will 😀
ARRRGH! Still haven’t seen the trailer yet. Something’s wrong with my internet today and it’s still loading. *shakes fist*
HOLY DAMN, ONE TICKET PLEASE! 😀 LOOKS SO DAMN GOOD.
ARRRRRGH. MUST SEE THIS MOVIE.
Stop tempting me with your evil trailer links, DC! 😛
I don’t like trailers either, but I must see this one. Must. Haha!
Its a good trailer, doesnt give hardly anything away but gives you a sense of what to expect
Oh yeah, it’s definitely not like that Halle Berry trailer we saw before Pines where they ruined the entire thing. D:
Hooooooly shiiiiit.
Much, much better than that dodgy teaser trailer, huh?
Mmhmm.
Wheel of Time #14 get. Will probably finish #9 this afternoon. On the home straight! Then I can put this series behind me.
I’m considering picking up the last 3 to go alongside the rest that I read years ago. Not going to re-read the entire series, I’m sure I’ll work out what’s going on by part way through book 12.
I tried to do that with Book 9 many years ago. Unmitigated disaster. This time, reading all the way through, it’s much smoother.
I know everyone is sick of this but I dont give a hoot. I have Event cinema booking screen open for the 8:45 session in the Myer centre for Sat night. How many tickets am I buying @dc?
Sughly, Freeze, Mrs. Freeze, Nobs, Beardy, Mrs. Beardy and D.C.
Edit: Just texted Strange, she said she might make the dinner but not the movie.
7 adult tickets. Going once, going twice…
two and a half….
(holding out for @strange now)
No ticket for me! That would require scary late-night public transportation home. 😛
Nope, because I’m driving you home. So I’m getting your ticket then?
@strange? *pokes*
Just texted her with a heads up. 😀
Edit: Silence. I hope she hasn’t fallen down a well! D:
@dc, falling down a well would definitely be a strange (hi @strange!) thing to do.
I fell down the Survivor well. It turned out to be full of the chocolate milk my son spilled everywhere. 😛
And wow, thanks for the offer but I don’t even know if I’m allowed to do the dinner, let alone the movie.
@strange: Maybe we can change your mind if you come to the dinner, just probably won’t be able to sit with us but it wouldn’t sell out I don’t think. There’d be a couple of seats scattered about the cinema? 😀
Who wants an OzGameShop Voucher for $5 off?
Ive tried this business before, it doesnt work – only works for your login :'(
(Otherwise, me)
It’s a reclaimed points voucher, does that help?
Edit: Yeah, It’s just for me, that sucks.
XD
You could always buy someone a game they want, and get them to reimburse you. #WorkAroundsArePrettyMuchMyJob
I thought you said something very different involving the word arounds was your job there :/
#ReachAroundsSometimesFeelLikeMyJob
Or you can just go ahead and say it
Ya know, I’m a bit surprised I didn’t see @shane pimping his latest Potaku article yesterday. What happened to you, Shane?!
Although maybe he did and I missed it in which case oops.
HI PEOPLE.
Was looking forward to reading that one too, instead we get Dark Souls posts. XD
Edit: Excellent article, Shane!
*Low, menacing growl*
Coming up next, Sexism in Dark Souls.
Oh man, that post didn’t sound funny like I intended. D:
I thought it was funny. Calm down.
Edit: Also, glad you liked it! \o/
Oh cool, that went up. Awesome.
Everyone: http://potaku.com/2013/05/09/sexism-in-gaming-yes-but-whats-to-be-done/
PS: I was busy with Bored Games, if you must know.
*sniffle* nobody checks the site unless I tell them to? D:
I usually do, but I WAS BUSY YESTERDAY >:(
Alright, I’ll let you live this time.
Survivor spoilers! @greenius @sughly @strange
Awww. I was going for Brenda, too!Also, why the hell did Eddie vote for Eric? haha Obviously he didn’t discuss votes with anybody beforehand. I’m actually kinda worried that Eddie might take this game out at the moment. If he can make it to the finals, he’s basically got 3 confirmed votes in Reynold, Malcolm and possibly Andrea. Brenda might vote for him too seeing as her alliance backstabbed her (and seemed to shake her up pretty badly). I hope it doesn’t happen! GO ERIC! YOU CAN WIN IT!
EDIT: So the final episodes are on TV this Monday night? I’ll have to make sure I remember to watch it 😛
Youre not genuinely going for that airhead are you..? But oh man you make me scared about Eddie. God, they really do need to get rid of him dont they? I still dont understand why they got Brenda now. It makes sense for Cochrane but noone else. Because Eddie is a big physical threat right, why not get him while they could and deal with Brenda next time? EXCEPT that Cochrane may have made the case that Brenda has been pretty dominant in the challenges, probably more so than Eddie actually. Hmmm. Yes Sughly, good point. Go Cochrane!Yeah exactly. Brenda was as much a physical threat as Eddie towards the end (thinking about it now, Eddie has never really been a HUGE immunity winner. He mostly rode on Reynolds coattails :P). They always push Eddie back to get rid of someone else “while they can” with the intent to vote him out next time, but then the same thing happens again and he’s getting a free ride towards the finals! I can see Sherri in the finals too (barring anything major happening) but can’t see her winning at the moment.And yes I am genuinely going for Eric! haha He oddly reminds me of myself, somehow… 😛
I like Eric. If Cochrane gets voted off(which anybody who is smart should want to do) I’m totally going for Eric. And then Eddie because that would be hilarious. 😛@freezespreston Did you still want to do something Monday/Tuesday night next week?
He’s married.
Hey man, a guy can dream!
Here’s what you do to improve your chances. Post him something provocative, and somewhere that his wife can’t help but see.
Result: Freeze becomes available! \o/
You’ve given this a lot of thought! 😀
… no I haven’t.
*shifty look*
If there are any fans of 90’s FPS’ then you would love that Devolver Digital and Flying Wild Hog has just announced a new Shadow Warrior.
http://www.gamefront.com/devolver-digital-flying-wild-hog-shadow-warrior/
http://shadowwarrior.com/
Wow, the nostalgia, first a new Rise of the Triad and now a new Wolfenstein and a new Shadow Warrior, this is turning out to be a good year for the people stuck in the 90’s.
“sticky ball like you”
cautiously optimistic, shadow warrior was good fun. But Duke Nukem Forever has made me a bit hesitant, I was all super fanboy crazy when DNF came out, i bought the mega spensive collectors edition that came with terrible bonuses, it said it came with poker chips and i was all whoohoo, then when i opened the packaging they literally meant chips 2 chips, sigh and a tiny pack of cards that didn’t even have art on them, just a plain shitty deck. Then i played the game
Duke Nukem Forever Spoilers (playing the game actually spoils the experience)
first 2 levels were fantastic, they were building up to something great, first boss you fight is the last boss from Duke 3D so i thought, whoa if that’s the first enemy what’s the last boss going to be like, then after playing through a dismall campaign i discover that the final boss is, oh look at that same as the first boss but in a new environment, biggest dissapointment in recent years, WHY DUKE I LOVED YOU! Air hockey mini game was the best part of the campaign.@luke
wha?
Where?
All I remember for Shadow Warrior was the advertising line ‘WHO WANTS SOME WANG’. I’d love a new Blood game as well, on the topic of 90’s/3D Realms FPS games. Blood II was brilliant.
Even in the face of Duke Nukem Forever falling flat, I could be inclined to get excited about a new Shadow Warrior.
“Row, row, row your boat… oops, I think my dinghy hanging out.”
I loved that game. Best moment was the elaborate Monty Python Killer Rabbit secret area.
@freezespreston – were you after a vanilla original version of bioshock 2 on ps3 still? Or did I recall incorrectly? Because I saw one in an EB near me, preowned for $13, and can grab it if you like
@dkzeitgeist Is it Zeitgeist day today?
Podbeans being a real shit, dawg.
Can’t get on to post the episode due to “Maintenance”. So we’re just waiting on it to come back so we can publish it.
Hold tight.
IT JUST CAME BACK!
Publishing now.
Will pimp like a c**t soon.
Awesome, I will pimp like a carrot also.
Close.
I’m somewhat troubled as to how said pimping act could be performed, and more scared to actually ask “how?”.
I guess I’ll just go listen to http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/
Good advice. Listening now!
Booooooored
Sleeeeeeeepy
Huuuuuungry
Wooooooooooooooooorking.
Think I win this who-suffers-most contest
But I’m boooooooored because I’m wooooorking
Well I’m programming a flaming football!
Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick.
With two sick kids at home to take care of.
Still wanna talk about who wins at suffering? 😛
I’m siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick too, have been going on two weeks now.
Great now I’m huuuungry too.
Why isn’t it luuuuuunch yet?
IT’S THAT THYME AGAIN! HAVE YOU HERBED THIS WEEKS EPISODE!?
Bad moods + gang affiliation.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2013/05/10/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s03e05-the-brand/
LISTEN, SUBSCRIBE, TELL YOUR PALS!!!
I’ll parsley.
Unfortunate.
You mightn’t bay leaf it, but I was just being a dill.
\o/ 😀
Keep these episodes cumin!
Also, you guys are nuts.
But I’m sure you mint well.
So let’s not make a big dill out of this.
Man, I always struggle pronouncing “Cumin”.
I’ve heard people pronounce it like a tradie at the tail end of coitus, ie “Cummin”
And I’ve heard the more acceptable, at least to my delicate sensibilities, “Queue-men” which written like that looks super suggestive.
Where does this queue start?
Queue-men is the correct pronunciation.
I don’t understand how you guys chinese five spice all these puns.
That’s a thing that people do right?
Just gotta think of words that have other word cinnamon build a post around it.
Watched the trailer for the worlds end today. So excited i wanted to hug someone. Finally the 3rd movie to send off shaun of the dead and hot fuzz.!
I’ll hug you.
But if I were you I’d wanna know what I’m in for before I commit.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/
I loved Shaun of the Dead & Hot Fuzz. Must resist watching trailer …
Resist?! Why?!
I don’t like watching movie trailers. I’m weird like that.
I agree, though there’s some I can’t avoid like Gravity. Movie trailers spoil almost everything these days and this Worlds End trailer is no different, alas.
Thats fair enough. This was an unavoidable gravity trailer for me. My best friend and I have been waiting for this movie for years 🙂
We I haven’t received any communication from High lord Serrels so I’ll just post it here and see if anybody is interested
I have a physical copy of bioshock infinite for xbox 360 and I am looking to trade for a PC version. I don’t need a physical copy so can trade for a code by email if you wanted
Anybody interested please let me know
Survivor! @sughly @powalen @greenius @phoenix
Dawn is a whingy, vile cow. Her reaction to Brenda choosing the others was so selfish. Obviously Brenda was feeling terrible, she didn’t need to endure that angry ,bitter rant as well. I have no idea why you guys like her so much. She’s backstabbed pretty much everyone in the game and not even for her own game, just going along with whatever someone else said. The one thing she did say was that after Brenda rescued her teeth for her she wouldn’t write her name down. And then she even smiled when it was revealed Brenda was going. She has no grace or honour and is simply awful.I feel bad for Brenda, but she should have known it was either her or him as they were the only two threats left. Speaking of threats, I’m not sure why people thought Eddie was the bigger threat of the remaining fans. Sheri is way more of a threat in immunity challenges, especially willpower ones as they tend to be this late in the game. I’d be way more likely to want to keep Eddie around than Sheri.Oh. Oops. Sorry, I hadn’t seen Pow’s thing before I posted.
HEY GUYS! STRANGE HAS SEEN POW’S THING!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/
I refuse to talk to people who only use us to pimp their thing. 😛
Will you talk to me strange?
please mum
Please talk to me.
I’ll show myself out.
Yeah thats a fair call on Dawn. She peeved me off too this ep, and the Brenda thing Id forgotten about. I obviously remembered Brenda helping her, but forgot about Dawn saying she was closer to her and wouldnt vote her off. Hmmm. Yeah Dawn has just become a mess, Im over the Dawn train. I love her ideals though, I think thats whats likeable about her – is that shes really kind of going insane on behalf of her family, it means SO damn much to her to support her family with the money. But yeah, doesnt excuse her really. I felt terrible for Brenda. I wish she wouldv been more aware, as you say. Its a shame. She really should have been more aware. Poor girl :'( Such a great ep for her, makin me tear up with her dad and erything, and nearly wins immunity too, only to go. GAH. More I think about it, more upset I get for herBored and annoyed and bored.
Also date numero 2 with lady.
It will probably go badly, After i have told my cemetary story i am nothing.
God why do i start with that story its the best i got.
I’m sure she’s yet to enjoy the tale of how you asked another fine young gentleman to accompany you places.
Or the one were you slept on a couch you vomited on.
And simultaneously mooned a bunch of people as they entered the house.
Or the one how i murder a friend in Canada for recounting all the stupid shit i do.
I haven’t heard that one!
Do tell!
You know, I haven’t heard from Saturday in a while…
My friend lets call him BOsh
was a really lovely and caring dude, to everyone but me, i did talk to him quite often and o considered him a really close frined, one i could tell all my secrets to. Than Bosh moved away and started being all snarky and mean to me, despite me being plesant and trying to cope with change. He started being mean for no reason. Which bothered me quite a bit considering i have self esteem issues at the best of times. I ignored it and joked around and tried to let it blow over. but he persisted until i could not take the teasing anymore and poisoned a sausage roll he was eating. Bosh was never heard from again. People didn’t assume murder either because they always assumed he died from food related causes.
I don’t know this friend of yours, but it sounds like you’re a good friend to him, letting him die doing the thing he loved doing.
“BOsh” LOL!
While that story is very good, your other stories are also pretty impressive.
PSST! You don’t need to tell ladies stories to keep them entertained. Why not try something else like letting HER talk?
What would you know, you never dated any girls before.
i know frey frey, i was attempting humor, i know how conversation works.
ALSO BUNNY SAID YOU GOT ME COMICS
You both are my favourite people now.
🙂
I see how it is :'(
You dissed me and tore away my music cred. It hurts bro.
what music cred?
You need to send me your address!
NOT CREEPY AT ALL BUT I WILL
Two and three quarters…
Still havent booked the tickets because whats goin on with you @strange!! Youre allowed, there I give you permission, now can I get this ticket for you?
Oh man best way to get attention! ERYONE! I am buying tickets for me, dc, freeze, mrs freeze, beardy, mrs beardy, and nobs. Potential ticket for strange. Finger is hovering over the purchase button…
@strange: You should remind Mr. Strange about the time he went on the cruise and you were stuck looking after the kids when the storms hit and were without power for days! XD
Don’t buy one for me. It’s too up in the air. I don’t know how to see movies with other people, anyway. I always sit by myself down the front. 😛
“I don’t know how to see movies with other people”
WHat? you have kids surely you have gone to the movies with them.
yeah but she leaves them and goes and sits down the front by herself
:pOr leaves them in the car with the window wound down slightly.
…
D:
Not at the movies, that old Aussie favourite is saved exclusively for the casino
:pYes but I have to bribe them with junkfood to make them sit still. 😛
I sense a recurvise loop here
I am also a front-sitting person. Depending on the cinema size and layout, usually 4 odd rows from the front.
I’ve only sat at the front of a cinema once and that was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in 1990. I was five. I didn’t know any better. 😛
I had to to it for TMNT the CG one cos I got there too late and that was the only seat left.
my poor neckThat was a surprisingly decent movie though!
Yeah, I loved it. That
Raph VS Leo fight scene was really well done, not just the excellent animation for the fight itself but the whole emotional build up to it.You could really understand where they both stood.
So good.
That’s kind of the direction I like Turtles going in. The brother stuff. Was the best part of the original movie too. Where’s my dark non-Megan Fox TMNT. :'(
@dc Megan Fox could be in it and it could still be good anyway (I doubt it) But I’ve enjoyed movies with her before.
She is a shitcunt but she doesn’t take down entire movies.
@dc PS: It’s in the original comics ;-P
@jimu @dc This is 40, she was great in that. Didnt involve much acting though, to be fair
@sughly
Wait, I thought this is 40 was one of those Freaky Friday body swap movies (I wasn’t really paying it much attention)
Is it a good film?
@jimu This is 40 is an Apatow film. Very very good.
Yes. The fourth row from the front, right in the centre. Perfection.
Nah ;D
Well on the bright side, if you decide you can make it, I doubt that anyone will actually buy the front row seats so youll be ok 😀
Also you are utterly insane
I prefer the term “strange”. 😛
I miss free time 🙁
me too, and i don’t even have a kid
I been reading about all the Megami Tensei’s on Wikid-peedia.
Interesting how that series started out as an adaptation back in the 80s and now it’s a monster.
It did monster “catching” before Pokemons.
Awesome 😀
I have played the game that apparently inspired pokemon, i have to say in comparision to pokemon, its really rubbish.
You mean this one? Or another monster hunting game?
I thought oldmate’s real life bug hunting antics as a child inspired pokemon the same way Shiggy’s adventuring off the beaten path as a kiddly-wink inspired Zelda.
I can’t remember the name but it was pretty horrible a friend who is obsessed with pokemon showed me.
I see.
Modern Megami Tensei games seems awesome. Persona 4 Golden is …dare I say it…better than Pokemon /o\
Jimmy jimmy jimmy i never thought this day would come.
Yeah, but Persona is Persona, it’s not Megami Tensei. The actual Megami Tensei games play wholly differently, as do the Devil Survivor series and the Devil Summoner series AFAIK.
Still under the same branding though.
Yeah because they all have the same concept of summoning demons to fight for you. The Persona games play entirely differently (and in fact P3 and P4 play very differently to the original Persona games too)
Fuck off, they don’t play “wholly” differently at all.
Persona is more similar to Megami Tensei than Peokemon is too Megami Tensei and Pokemon and Megami Tensei are similar.
If anything Persona is the natural eveloution of Megami Tensei whereas a proper Megami Tensei is more of a throwback.
Jimmy stop shouting. you are scaring the kids.
I am the kids.
@rocketman FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Show me some video from a Megami Tensei game where you are deciding which of your classmates to hang out after school with so you can develop their social links.
The whole focus and theme of Persona is completely different. The time management element is just simply not there. They’re primarily dungeon crawlers.
I do agree that Persona is a natural evolution though. And also way way way more appealing to me. And I should probably get back to playing P4, I just haven’t felt very motivated. I think I’m worried I’ll get addicted to it and the game is huge. Also I get stressed out about making the ‘right’ decisions for stuff.
Nothing new to play until Muramasa anyway unless I dip into my backlog.
@negativezero
Then they aren’t “wholly” different.
Mario is WHOLLY different, Farcry is WHOLLY different.
You know the social link stuff is an evolution of the demon bargaining thing that was present in the very first Megami Tensei.
Sure, that part of the game is wholly different but overall the games do not play wholly differently.
They are still RPGs with dungeon crawlng and demon fusing as an important mechanic.
@jimu: of course they’re not completely different, they’re all RPGs with Dungeon Crawling elements and demon summoning. But Persona is not Megami Tensei in gameplay. They’re different. The same way that Tales isn’t Star Ocean isn’t FF isn’t Dragon Quest. If Megami Tensei is mainline FF, then Devil Survivor is FF Tactics and Persona is… 4 Heroes of Light or something, I dunno.
@negativezero
I get it. I get what your saying. I just don’t agree with how you say it.
“wholly” means Wholly, but I argue that it is only in part.
Pretty sure Dragon Quest V did it too. Perhaps before SMT?
Naaah, Megami Tensei was ’87!
“the Gay joke in FarCry 3: Blood Dragon is harmelss…or is it?
GO AND GET FUCKED!!!
People are shit, not you people, but most other people are shit.
How about we stop worrying about political correctness and what is or isn’t offensive and we just treat everyone nicely. Preschoolers learn this stuff.
I’m more pissed of at all the sensationalism that Kotaku US passes of as articles now.
News is by right a sensationalist thing. You want peoples attention, you want to draw them in. But yeah i shake my head and wonder sometimes, they are the laughing stock of nearly every other gaming site. If you want to post cosplay pics or reposts from 4chan and reddit that is fine but at least include some writing to justify the inclusion onto the site.
Sure, but that is a troll article all the way I bet.
That’s what happens when you get paid based of click through rates
yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
I wish to take back everything I’ve ever upvoted and put all those upvotes towards this comment.
I didn’t click because I wasn’t sure if I’d be spoilerised. Although I understand it’s a Hernandez article? I am not fond of her. I think she does more damage than help to the causes she takes up.
I didn’t click either, I just saw it on the side bar under most viewed articles, which means her sensationalist headline is working
*siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh*
The sole redeeming factor of the article is pretty much every single comment in response to it was a variation of ‘what the shitting fuck Patricia’.
Speakingof sensationalism, I just noticed on the Gizmodo sidebar something like “100000 people have downloaded 3D-printed gun plans”. And I wondered how much of that was due to them posting an article about it. Just because something like that exists does not mean you have to go and draw widespread attention to it. 🙁
Did you ever see Newswipe the show by Charlie Brooker?
They did a good bit on all the school massacres and it shows clips of the expert telling them not to do so many news articles on it cos the kids just want attention and they were giving it to them so it would inspire other kids to do the same.
Then it shows how the news programs just keep going on and on about it for weeks after 🙁
I guarantee 99,975 of those people don’t even have 3D printers and wouldn’t print the gun even if they did. They’re doing it because they CAN, and because they want to futureproof themselves while the information is still out there. You just know sooner or later some government or another will crack down on it and it’ll be illegal to download or something.
Fox are crazy. Every year I remember them thinking about cancelling this show and now they want to bring it back. :S http://collider.com/24-limited-series-fox-kiefer-sutherland/
http://gtoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/fox_animal_099.jpg
http://www.hadleycycles.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/fox-racing-grey-image-31000.jpg
http://www.google.com.au/imgres?safe=active&sa=X&rls=com.microsoft:en-au:IE-SearchBox&biw=1170&bih=749&tbm=isch&tbnid=fsvbBK1qeV1w-M:&imgrefurl=http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/megan-fox/images/19750318/title/megan-fox-wallpaper-wallpaper&docid=p8EKep-y7-zc5M&imgurl=http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/19700000/Megan-Fox-Wallpaper-megan-fox-19750318-1024-768.jpg&w=1024&h=768&ei=mV2MUcjMMsjqiAew3oCQDQ&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=203&page=3&tbnh=137&tbnw=170&start=50&ndsp=30&ved=1t:429,r:51,s:0,i:240&tx=115&ty=76
that’s the face she pulls after clubbing baby sealshttp://tinyurl.com/
I wont remember that
I didn’t before, why would I now?TOE FINGERS
?
Megan Fox. She has toe fingers. Her fingers are actually toes. It’s a weird genetic anomaly.
Wha? Ewwww
I can’t find anything about the toe fingers on Wiki but it does say her fave comic artist is Michael Turner and that is worse
:p
@jimu: Brachydactyly Type D. Also known as “potter’s thumb”, “clubbed thumb”, “murderer’s thumb”. Basically thumb looks like a big toe. Can never unsee it once you know about it.
I think he is meant to be yelling Fox, but it sounds like something else…
You know what’s coming back soon? Arrested Development! 😀
Is this a good place for ussss?? Cinema Brisbane goers… http://kramsdesign.com/misc/cinemar.jpg
EDIT: Too bad if you dont like it caus that shiz is BOOKED
@dc – get excite
This is your best drawing yet!
thanks man, took me like 5 minutes, whatever
elitist pig!
Did someone say something? I doubt it would be towards me because there are only plebs in here and I dont communicate with plebs
Let them eat cake
Did you watch Coupling?
Did you ever see the episode where
the walking penis-man can’t see the ugly woman, it’s as if she just doesn’t even exist in his world?So funny, well done, Moffat, well done.
Ah… nope
Show does sound familiar though. I think someone recommended it to me. You, mayhaps?
If I didn’t, I am now 😀
Hey you know the new national album is up for download?
http://newalbumreleases.net/54767/the-national-trouble-will-find-me-2013/
Been listening to it since last night on repeat 😀
(also that site is amazing for getting leaks, despite its bad bad name XD)
I’ll pray for you pirates. If I prayed. Now, I gots to go mosey off and get my episodes…
Ha ha!
Looks like someone tried to draw Swamp Thing’s face
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fheKaInNeNY/TfvJTdT9s_I/AAAAAAAAABA/ZAMzuYycbSE/s1600/SwampThingPostBig.jpg
Not really jimjim
really danedane
I even left you reference.
Looks good, man. Thanks for doing this!
Edit: WOOOOOOOO!
No couple seats? :O
harsh
Kekeke http://kramsdesign.com/misc/kotaku/whatstrangesees.jpg
Are they your thighs? Will you be pressing your thinghs up against @strange face?
That’s not cool, dood.
(thinghs…that sounds even worse) D:
Looks like she’s fixated on Quinto/Pine’s chests. D: Their face is up there, Strange. >:|
Chests? There’s better/lower things to fixate on. 😛
Aw man, stop objectifying Star Trek. 😀
Uhhh… do you by any chance remember the Original Series, and the soft filter they put on every time they featured a female character 😛
@strange is exhibiting perfectly normal Star Trek behaviour
And the outfits that fit both males and females like second skins….
I remember
Kirk <3 <3 <3
Hey, Seven of Nine only wore that for dermal regeneration… or… uh… something. 😛
What is happening to my PG rated thread!
TAY happened.
.. wut
This took me way too long to figure out haha
Like the moon puzzle!
Aw man, I’m busting chops today for no reason. :'(
Its ok, you can pay out my puzzles, I’m cool with that…
As soon as you make a puzzle >:(
Okay…
Uh, there’s a key on the other side of the door. All you’ve got in your inventory is a pencil and a piece of paper. WHAT DO YOU DO! 😛
Also, sorry man. That sounded jerky. Wasn’t meant to be that way. I liked the puzzle, but kept on trying to apply 3D logic to a 2D world. Hope I didn’t offend you. 🙁 I liked Egress enough to play three times back-to-back for what it’s worth!Open the door and take the key.
What. You never said the door was locked!And that’s the puzzle. Over coming adversity and believing in yourself. *credits roll*
And here I was thinking that you should probably stop busting chops. I stand corrected 😀
*standing ovation*
*post credit scene, cue five minutes of QTEs*
Anyways, I feel kind of terrible now. Sorry again, Sughly. *moseys off*Oh man. Sorry 🙁
Now I feel terrible. I don’t think anyone was taking offence at anything you said, and thought the same would apply to me
Well if everyone else is sorry, then I’m sorry too
Fuck no! HA AH AH AHAHAHAHAHA!!You dolt, course I didnt take offense.
For what its worth, I think its a crap puzzle 😀
Phew, felt all kinds of bad. Haha. Sorry again. Not crap puzzle either.
It kinda is XD
My favourite is still…
the dialogue tree at the end. One of these days I’ll scan the paper that I used to plan it all out.Was thinking about how to make that moon puzzle work in 2D with 3D logic, you’d probably need to patch into an orbiting satellite and get a birds eye view of the site from space with moons in the fore ground… maybe… *shrugs* Good. Puzzle. Though. >:|
Also liked how the entire game was effectively one big puzzle, gauging reactions and temperament!
I assume this is an Anna’s Quest puzzle?
I wanna playyyy
Ehhh no, its my other FREE game that everyone except you has played. Thanks man, thanks a lot.
@sughly – Still waiting for the Ultimate Kramified Trilogy Box Set Edition with bonus Egress
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll put my photoshop skills to a lesser purpose and get back to making my game
STOP FUCKING ABOUT AND WORK ON YOUR GA…..
Oh, right.
I expect hourly updates. Move along.
Obviously created by somebody who has never sat in the Perfection Seat.
Can someone with artskills please draw me a picture of the screen far away and obstructed by a billion people’s heads as opposed to the screen in Sughly’s top picture zoomed in only as far as to fill the field of vision?
Edit: Seriously though, how is watching a bunch of other people watching the movie better than just watching the movie without anyone/thing in the way?
It’s called ‘back of the bus’ syndrome. It’s where all the cool kids sit. Only nerds sit up the front, where the cinemagoing is far, far superior.
No monsters can sneak up on you if you’re at the back.
You people are the only monsters up the back.
D:
As someone who can’t sleep if they notice the cupboard door is open this is now something that will terrify me every time I go to the movies.
Don’t worry Strange! Cinemae have monster insurance!
(‘Cinemae’ isn’t the plural of ‘cinema’, but it should be because it sounds fancy)
Actually, no. I take it back. Yes, those front seats are the worst. Nobody should ever sit there, you should all sit up the back where it’s obviously superior. Yes. Please don’t try out the Perfection Seat, you will hate it….
Comfort. Those front seats hurt my neck real bad.
Poor bub!
Stadium seating is the best thing to happen to movies. Can sit elevated above the screen, right in the centre without any heads blocking the way. Front is a throwback to the dark ages of cinema where tall people blocked your view and if you were tall you stressed about blocking other peoples view. XD
A lot of cinemas have booster seats available too ;D
Soul Sacrifice is fucking ace. It scratches my MH and God Eater itches all at once.
The art style is horrific, which I know is the whole point, kudos to them for pulling it off, but ewww.
I don’t think I’ll ever get into any of these Monster Hunter type games. I understand the appeal, just don’t think it’s my thing. :-/
Oh, I meant to ask. Did you buy another Vita or did you just have it sitting around gathering dust?
I thought you said you sold yours?
Yeah I sold mine back in… January, I think. Ended up getting another one last week. I’d been tempted by P4G and Soul Sacrifice since I sold my other one, but as soon as I heard Binding of Isaac Rebirth was getting a Vita port, I went and got a new one that day.
The upside is because my Vita library is entirely digital, I haven’t lost any games. No need to rebuy anything but the console.
EDIT : I fucking love Binding of Isaac and Edmund McMillen.
Did you get Guacamelee?
It’s cross-buy with PS3, so good on Vita, I say!
Haven’t got it yet, but I’ll check it out when I get paid. Was also surprised to see Ragnarok Odyssey up on the PS Store too.
IIRC every retail Vita game is also on PS Store same week. It’s one of the requirements Sony made for Vita retail stuff.
Yeah I knew about that, just wasn’t aware of Ragnarok Odyssey being available in anything but Asian/Japanese versions. I got my Asian copy of RO in Hong Kong last year. Just surprising is all, didn’t think it’d get localised.
Oooh. Yeah, GungHo owns Aksys now so they had them do the translation.
It’s soooooo good.
I played it for a few days after its Australian release, I think I’m a 30/30, the amount of grinding for levels and equipment can be exhausting though so I haven’t played it for a week.
Dunno when I’ll get back into gear.
Yeah I’m not smashing it, I’m hitting in dribs and drabs. Think I’m about 6/15 at the moment. Digging it though.
Can you play Multi cross-region? I.e. AU and US copies together? I assume that you can because it’s Sony and they’re not fucking stupid, but the 3DS has taught me you can’t assume logic applies to handhelds.
I need to take bee to JB tonight and drop hints about that game, i think. 😛
SUUUUUUUUUUUPPPP!!
So a few weeks time i’ll be done with exams for another trimester.
Hence the question for Victorian taybies:
Anyone still up for a 40K meat????
I supply the models and rules, you supply the you!
Only if you are supplying the you as well as the models
Maybe loops is the model … The nude model. O_O
Sign me up
BINGO!
Ugh, who would even go to that!
*Single tear rolls down cheek as I wish I lived in Victoria.*Maybe I’ll bring a couple of my BB minis for luck
Or fixed dice.
I have never played 40k but I might be up for it. It depends when and where though. Probably couldn’t if it’s in the next couple of weeks or so as I can’t stand for extended periods and have limited mobility due to being on crutches 🙁
What did you do to yourself?
You didn’t see this earlier? I dropped a bookshelf on my foot on Saturday. Broke three toes, big toe in two places. 🙁
Ouch. Hope it heals fast and you feel better.
Ouch.
No been a week from hell at work so haven’t been on TAY much at all. Did a 40 hr shift Web/Thur
What’s the recovery time?
5-6 weeks 🙁
OUCH!!!
Holy shiz!!!
Well i don’t think uni wraps up for at least 3 weeks – so you should be good.
I was thinking of hosting at my place in g-town, but if we could work out a central location for ease of access for everyone that would be fine too
YEAH! 😀
\o/
Perhaps!
Geelong though? 😛
Actually it depends when because I’ll be busy until June 28th :/ (week 9 – out of 12 just ended today then I have exams…)
Repost in abbreviated form
Anybody interested in trading my copy of bioshock infinite xbox 360 for a PC version (physical or code by email)
If so let me know
I have a copy of Bioshock on 360
#helping
Thanks for your help Jimu
Talk it up for me to make people want it so they will buy me a copy on PC
#nowYouAreHelping
Hey TAYbies
Don’t you know @tigerion is an awesome dood?
Someone gift him Bioshock Infinityyyyyz on da Pee See.
YO!
I was actually saying talk the game up, not me. But thanks *blush*
If it helps, I can talk the game down. I hasnt finished it yet though :3
I never played. Got bored playing the first one.
Good art and concept though 😀
Gah, too much work today. Didn’t even get a lunch break.
Think I’ve bowled it over now. Going through the backlog of Zeitgeist is a decent way to see out the working week. Feeling good.
Haha, totally didnt do any work on that break lol
I’ve got 1 hour and 45 minutes to kill before i knock off work.
SOMEONE ENTERTAIN ME 🙂
cc @shane ? 😛
Already on it, man \o/
Appreciate the thought though 😀
Knock knock
Who’s there?
Annie
Annie who?
Annieone you like! \o/What’s a pirate’s favourite letter?
ARRRRRRRKnock, knock.
Who’s there?
Interrupting squawking parrot.
Interrupting squawking parr-
SQUAWKKKKKKKKKKKK!Why did the girl smear peanut butter on the road?
To go with the traffic jam!Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Nobody.
Nobody who?
Haha i enjoyed the final joke in particular.
The others were a necessary evil for the set-up.
Well played.
So you could say they were… The Lesser Evil?
Upvote for the last one
Wanna hear some authentic pirate shanties?
Once my old man spoke to good King Triton,
And asked, why all this senseless fightin’?
Why can’t us men express emotion?
Now I’ve got a friend in the ocean.
***
Oh there’s a monkey in my pocket,
And he’s stealing all my change,
His stare is blank and glassy,
I suspect that he’s deranged.
***
Plunder, plunder how I wonder,
How you got so dog gone pretty?
Home of sailors, pirates and tailors,
It’s Puerto Pollo, our capital city!
***
I’m hooked on you baby,
But the seas keep us apart,
And there ain’t no eye patch big enough,
To cover up my broken heart.
Here. This’ll kill some time \o/
http://www.textjournal.com.au/oct07/smith.htm
She was only a whiskey-maker, but he loved her still.
What did the green grape say to the purple grape?
Breathe, you idiot! BREATHE!What did Batman say to Robin before they got in the car?
“Get in the car.”What did one ocean say to the other ocean?
Nothing. They just waved.What do you call a frog with a million legs and a million eyes?
A monster.How do you make a tissue dance?
Put a little boogie in itWhat did the leper tell the prostitute?
“Keep the tip!”Oh man, that last one… I’m still laughing.
Brilliant.
Chuloopa approved
EW!
this ones coming out at the pub tonight….53 minutes!
Used this at the pub Friday night, got a lot of laughs and cringes.
Hahaha, awesome 😀
What’s E.T. short for?
Because he only has little legs.I’ve got the heart of a lion
and a lifetime ban from the zooThe past, the present and the future walked into a bar.
It was tense.Why did the cyclops close his school?
He had only one pupil.What’s red, and bad for your teeth?
A brick.A man walked into a bar.
But it’s not funny because he’s an alcoholic and it’s destroying his family.I’m very disappointed no one linked my genius here.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/
What the hell @shane!?
Strange Ghibli news: They announced that the main character in The Wind Rises, the next Miyazaki film, will be voiced by Hideaki Anno. Some of you may know him as the nutbag that directed Evangelion.
Very odd.
Haha, thats amazing. They are kinda like the yin and yang of anime right? So kinda makes sense. Miyazaki will be so excited about the film, and Anno will be all fuck it its going to fail we’re all going to die, and everything will balance out.
I think Anno is a lot more balanced now. Also they’ve had a working relationship for a while, Anno was one of the animators who worked on Nausicaa.
Way to ruin my joke
never let the truth get in the way of a good yarn
Conversation with self that just happened
“hmmm i need to get the step dad something for his birthday”
“oh, tool! bitc…er… everyone loves tools!”
*looks at bunnings catalog*
“Oh shit… tools are stupid expensive… i’ll just get him Game Of Thrones instead…”
“Lowest prices are just the beginning”
Don’t believe their lies!
“…because everyone loves boobs!”
Yeah.
But it’s more because winter is coming..
Woohoo! QUITTING TIME! See you next week! Or … you know… later tonight. WHATEV
You bastard….
Fly to melbourne and play 40k! 😛
Considering how obsessed I was with Rayman Legends Challenges last week, I haven’t even touched the Wii U this week. D:
touch me
What an odd thing to say.
Not for loops its not
Haha neither have I (for games at least). I think if more people were competing I would’ve stuck with it for longer. Don’t really care much about the Rayman app anymore.
I think that’s exactly it, when there’s no friends participating the fun is kind of lost. 🙁
And now’s my cue to get ALL THE HIGH SCORES
…nah
It’s a hollow victory defeating Pow, when Pow doesn’t compete. 😛
GET A JOB AND A 3DS AND MARIO KART AND YOU CAN RACE HIM IN REALLLL TIMEEEEE
SART is better!
SART?
What else?
Sonic Allstars Racing Transformed.
@jimu I figured as I hit Submit 😛
But I wouldn’t know how good that is since I don’t have it 🙂 (offer still stands that if you buy it for me I’ll be your online buddy! Cheapius)
Stop asking. I’m already giving you the Dk code
@jimu YES! Official confirmation <3
Love youuuuu!
“If you laughed at this, you’re too easily entertained” – actual comment on a facebook pic (from one of those pages that posts funny pics).
Is being too easily entertained supposed to be a bad thing?
How easily entertained are we talkin’ here?
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/
I guess there are exceptions to the rule.
😛
@powalen @strange
(@sughly @phoenix)
SURVIVORRRRR:
I don’t find Erik that bad. Pretty gnarly dude but he still didn’t really do much but I guess once Cochran is gone I’m team Erik :). Dawn was whinging and crying a lot and I totally forgot about her deal with Brenda (well not so much a deal but just saying she wouldn’t vote for her). NOT COOL, DAWN. Still like her to some extent though unlike Balyndah 😛
Sugs did you actually shed manly tears during Brenda and her dad? I did :’)
Totes did.
It was one of the more honest and heartfelt family member moments, because it meant something we could understand and see in her (in that its obvious she had been playing a lot more of a humble game than last time), so when she was thanking him for the advice it was just :’)Hey why am I in brackets..? Dickman.
Because Powalen and Strange did discussion comment thingies and instead of replying to either of them I just tagged erryone
Oops! Forgot @dc
…
*shrugs*
Lol… Cochran…
hehe…
He’s a stud.
When Salt n Pepa were writing about shoop, shoopadooping, they had Cochrane in mind
Even if he was only like 14 at that time
I don’t understand your old man jokes.
Old man.
I don’t understand Sughly’s old man jokes either and he’s three months younger than me.
But… but Salt n Pepa… they make you wanna shoop? Shoop adoop?
*backs away slowly*
I get it that reference
#CapAm
Dawn is awful.If you call me by that abomination of an already abominable name again you might end up needing teeth like Dawn’s. 😛😀
Perstephanie it is then!
Safety Not Guaranteed:
Since OnTargett mentioned it this morning, I’ve had the album version on repeat.Ah thats too bad, I’ve had National on repeat (trololol)
Just get it already
I’m Afraid of Everyone though. (Especially the FBI. :P)
Your pirating logic is flawed and you know it!
So’s your face! >:|
OooooOOoooooo D.C. is sassy!
Haha! Nah, back in my uni days a friend and I used to say that about everything… it was our version of ‘that’s what she said’… XD
Did D.C. make a joke? 😀
HELL YES! For my 3000th post I present
http://25.media.tumblr.com/4ffb17ab1399b0ce25833ce4eef49ae7/tumblr_mmknvwKkRm1sqym4go1_1280.jpg
(@Strange @freezespreston & @shane)
I can now die happy.
\o/ Praise the Sun!
That looks pretty awesome. 😀
Totally not jelly.
Totally jelly.Spent all day getting audited by the regional manager. Weeeee!
Was it that dog from the picture welbot posted?
Nope. Lucky it wasn’t. He’s the CEO.
Every time I see another article for that new game Remember Me it makes me think of this:
I laugh at this waaaaaay too much BTW.
Since I’m bored… (as usual hurrr hurr ;P)
Here’s a list of uneventful things that happened to me today:
– Spent hours in the early morning trying to find some stupid number for an assignment due today (Friday). Enlisted the help of Aidan who tried but couldn’t find it. I found it in the end but forgot to say I found it and Shane tried looking too. What nice chaps.– Went over to a friend’s house to work on said assignment for a few hours (lameeeeee)
– Regretted saying I’d go in to Uni to hand it in for us since it wastes around 2 and a half hours
– Didn’t eat breakfast or lunch (it was around 2:15pm) so I was pretty hungee. Some jerk who sat behind me on the bus was eating delicious smelling food…
– Thought I’d miss my 2nd bus so stayed on the one I was on (which still gets to my Uni but just takes longer and costs more). Then I see my 2nd bus still there and it left later than usual so I could’ve taken it… ughhh
– Made up for sadness by playing some Fire Emblem
– Bus crashed into something, a car maybe? Who knows…
– Wanted Tempura Prawn Sushi from this place I discovered yesterday but got there only to find out they sold out. I was pretty sad so I asked if they had more and they mumbled some answer which I assumed was a “no” so I bought some other rolls instead only to see the man put more Tempura Prawns in D:. Walked out and was all “aww hell naw, I went all the way for this so I’m getting my damn prawns” and asked if I could swap them which was easily done
– Walked back to the bus back with sushi in hand (inside the takeaway container) when weird bus driver guy tried to talk to me… “No eating” okay sir., just carrying it “I’m not sure how you eat that stuff, there’s no flavour” depends where you buy it from “ahh, maybe you can give me one of yours?” uhhh “just kidding 😀 hurr hurr hurr” :/, then he goes up to an international student (it’s the University Bus) and looks at him texting only to say “don’t worry I can’t read any of it” :\
– The public bus home was around school time so ugh school kids (thankfully not that many and none too annoying). Turned out I sat next to my high school friend’s younger brothers, They love their weird iPad games…
– Caught up on TAY
– Tried downloading Deoxys for Pogeymongs and it didn’t work for some reason (Wi-Fi connection was all weird) but then it did and I have it and I will never play the game again or use it. But it’s mine.
– Wrote this
– Wondered why anyone would read this
Pokefriends: remember to download Deoxys! I just did it.
Fuck!
Thanks, dood. I had completely forgotten!
I figured people would! You told me about it too 😀
“- Bus crashed into something, a car maybe? Who knows…”How is that uneventful?!
Hehehe
Well more “hit” than a full on crash or somethingI have a NAS at home and it’s working pretty well. But my backup NAS died a while back, so currently my precious datas are not backed up anywhere. This is obviously a bad thing.
So I need to fix that.
Additionally my current NAS is mainly used as a Plex server. Trouble is that it’s not powerful enough to be able to transcode my crappy anime so I’m limited to watching Plex stuff on my desktop or laptop, which means carting my lappy through to the TV and stuff.
Also, my current desktop CPU is aging, but more modern CPUs aren’t compatible with the motherboard I have (socket differences) so I need to upgrade that at some point too.
Currently I’m weighing up my options:
1. Buy second off-the-shelf NAS for backups, continue business as usual. Upside: easy. Downside: doesn’t fix the streaming issue. Still have to upgrade my desktop
2. Build brand new machine to act as a home server, move Plex to this, use NAS as backup. Upside: fixes streaming issue, new hardware will last longer. Downside: most expensive option, my server would have a better CPU than my desktop. Still have to upgrade the desktop.
3. Upgrade existing desktop. Migrate old desktop into a spare case, convert to file server. NAS as backup. Upside: fixes streaming issue. Downside: probably just as expensive, my server would be running hardware that’s several years old and has been run very hard.
Don’t know what to do. 🙁
4. Throw it all out. Buy NASA’s server array when they upgrade next.
What is a NAS…? Really
Network Attached Storage.
Basically an enormous hard drive or bank of drives with a low-powered machine capable of simple administration etc. In my case mine runs a 9tb RAID and runs a few things in the background for me eg BitTorrent, Plex Media Server, Firefly and a couple of other things. It works really well aside from the fact the CPU is a single-core Atom and it can’t handle transcoding HD video.
Why would you *need* such a thing?
I run a dated craptop…
Because I have a fucking ton of terrible anime and pirated My Little Pony episodes and I want to access it all from anywhere in my house using any device.
It actually started out as a backup…
heh,
I have a 500GB external HDD
FWIW I’m using 4tb of that 9tb RAID. And 99% of that is video. I outgrew portable HDDs long ago.
dood, speak laymen. I’m an office shit kicker, I dunno all these computerms. 🙂
@jimu: I am using 4 terabytes of the 9 terabytes of space (which is arranged in a Redundant Array of Independent Disks i.e. 4 3 terabyte drives, one for redundancy) and the vast majority of my data is video files. I have long since outgrown portable hard drives.
I am thee wurst at remembering Kom Kudos.
I assume you meant the best by that because wurst of any kind is the bomb diggity.
nope
Jeez. Man. Dude.
I can’t keep up with these mixed signals.
I love/hat you/s
Kiss/slice
Set a reminder in your phone, bro.
I just about always have my phone set to silent for either work or boy sleeping and I miss the vibrate.
It’s fine for calls, I just ring them back, and messages I just get them later. Reminders don’t work :-/
Yeah but it’ll just be like messages. You’ll see the reminder and you might not see it the moment it arrives but if you see it later you can be reminded and nom!
Remember, you have like a week to do it 🙂
NO!
:phttp://imgur.com/ilPP0MU
BWS were selling this for $7. Not sure if a good idea or not.
It was a great idea!
http://imgur.com/gallery/stSNn
Haha, yah Serrels posted that on the book of faces. I even got a like from him for my comment :3
Facebook. My nemesis.
But you can get likes! From Serrels!
Aw, it’s just my nemesis because I’m out of the loop without it. Self-inflicted nemesis. 😀
But we’re not officially friends unless Facebook says we are! 😛
That’s too bad, I thought we had something special. :'(
Feeling nostalgic tonight so I’m going to go download AOE2 HD, I wonder if I’ll be able to play maps from AOKHeavenGames, if so I can play the prologue I made ten years ago =)
Just had crazy memories of MSN Gaming Zone, good old 56K days.. hopefully we never have to go back.
YESSS!! Game of Thrones fanart spoiler was not a spoiler yesssss! I stumbled across it again today…
Her description of the picture is what she wished a character would do to another character XDNow you can call off the assassin? 😀
Edit: It’s almost a reply, sughly-style.
Scottie Young doing Tetsuoooo!! :O http://skottieyoung.deviantart.com/art/Akira-Sketch-370615006
Deecee – gimme that list of yours! Text of wall that shiz, I need inspiration for something to watch
Tunks mang!
Any time!
Alas it did not help in finding a mum-safe movie :'(
🙁 Safety Not Guaranteed?
My mum dropped by earlier and I told her about the film and she seemed to like the premise. All mum’s have the same taste in movies, I assume. What about Curious Case of Benjamin Button!
Life of Pi!
Maybe some Darabont! Shawshank! Green Mile! Mist!
Panic Room!
Man how good is Panic Room? SO GOOD.
Shes seen it though.
@sughly: Pan’s Labyrinth! Silver Linings Playbook! Life of Pi! A.I. Artificial Intelligence! Minority Report!
Aw man, sounds like she hates all movies and everything they stand for. Did she disown you when you went to film school? 😛
No she’d think Safety is stupid. And she hates horror, so no Mist. Seen Shawshank. Would think Benjamin Button is stupid.
(Wonders why DC doesn’t just save it with the formatting already done :P)
I have my reasons.
How about that movie I lent you? 😛
Ahahaha! Yeah actually I did find that and put it aside after the move, but alas I’m after something my mum will like too which drastically reduces the playing field
But it has Gary Oldman and Tim Roth in it. Mums love them!
And Shakespeare. Everyone loves Shakespeare don’t they?
*Shakesphere…
😛
Avant Gaurdeee*
Perstephanie!
BALY-
Neeeeooohhhh
Rubber.
*points to above reply to Strange*
I found a French film to watch you guys are no help
So that’s where you get it from.
12 Angry Men!
@powalen liked it!
As far as I know it’s one of three movies he’s seen, the others being Jurassic Park and Rubber.
Jurassic Park 2 and 3!
The Avengers!
How did you know I’d seen the Avengers? haha
They don’t call him Stalkius for nothing!
Knew you’d ask! 😛 I just remember that we both acquired and saw it around the same time (same day I think :P). We probably discussed it!
I mean I don’t have really good memory and I totally have multiple notebooks, lists and Excel spreadsheets documenting each and every detail on every single one of you!
@dc It was actually a lot better than I was expecting.
It’s like 7th or something on imdb’s top 250!
EDIT: 6th actually! 😀
The Dark Knight is too high at 7 IMO, also Return of the King at 9? Really? :/
Thats because its user based, and majority of people are idiots. Havent I taught you anything greenius!?
What’s the go with Dwayne Johnson lately? He dropped off the radar for a while and now he seems to be in 75% of the movies coming out.
It’s because he is awesome.
An indisputable fact.
@dc and everyone
Still on down time at work
They are going to combine forces with my shrink to work on something that will improve my performance, although I believe in the last two months I’ve done a great job of that anyway
Point is, I miss you guys!
Spaghett! Hope you’re well otherwise! How goes Sam?
I am, so is Sam 😀
Hi guy.
Plus side is they are trying to help instead of just firing your ass. 😀
It is awesome 😀
@powalen: http://www.blastr.com/2013-5-8/little-known-sci-fi-fact-lucas-wanted-indiana-jones-2-be-dinosaur-movie
Call me crazy, but I don’t hate that idea. Just like I didn’t hate the Crystal Skull premise.
Edit: I’ll explain, Raiders was based on pulp stuff from the ’40s and Crystal Skull fits in with that perfectly. Dinosaurs and lost lands do too. It probably wouldn’t work now after the sequels have followed Raiders lead and set up the world, but directly after Raiders without any of the other sequels it wouldn’t have been a huge departure… Crystal Skull was all script problem and not premise problem. XD (In my opinion.)
Introducing aliens was goddamned stupid no matter what way you look at it.
I disagree! 😀 Although I can see why fans wouldn’t like it. Maybe they should’ve done a pulpy Indy like movie that wasn’t actually Indy. XD
Indy has always been about history, religion and mysticism.
Not cold war politics and spacemen.
And fortune and glory!
I like to imagine there was an acid tongued and amazingly stinging zinger there before the edit.
Post went into instamoderation and I edited without making any changes and it posted… D.C. ain’t quick witted. 😛
I could’ve accepted it if they did it well. I could have accepted that Indy was about the paranormal events of his time, whatever that time period happened to be.
But they didn’t do it well and the movie was a complete debacle. Aliens or no.
I agree with you there, they messed it up but the idea wasn’t bad. 😀
I don’t understand what made the old films any better, same with Star Wars.
They were all just dumb action adventure movies that borrowed heavily from other sources.
100% agreed.
It was also about Nazis, which I believ is War politics much the same way the cold war is?
Not really. Ever heard of the Thule Society? Rumoured to be necromancers and warlocks. The Nazis loved the occult. It was never about politics. It was never about one country wanting superiority about another. It falls into the history and mysticism thing.
Now that I think on it, Fate of Atlantis more or less nailed what made a good Indy story.
They should have just made Fate of Atlantis as the fourth film.
It fits because all those old Aztec religious pictures showed spcemen flying space ships. All it’s really doing is having Indy discover that religious beliefs are real.
How are aliens any dumber than a Crusader that’s been kept alive by that magic cup?
Or Indian voodoo guys that can chant your heart outta your chest?
All the ideas are equally ridiculous. I can’t see how aliens stands out.
I agree, there’s nothing about Crystal Skull that doesn’t fit.
It’s just another Indy movie.
I’ve never even seen an Indiana Jones movie, so 😛
:'( Aw man, that’ll make @thecracks cry.
I’m fucking bawling right now.
At least it’s better than having only seen Crystal Skull 😛
That’s BAD
Almost like someone not seeing Star Wars!
I saw the original trilogy for the first time in 2004, after playing KotOR. 😀
Surely that was before film school? :O
That was first year of uni!
I was like 11 and in primary school 😀
Old Man D.C.
MONSTER!
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNSSSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hunter!
Do people still play it? 😛
I’m playing local multi with @hindenlagen this afternoon ^_^
G-rank yet?! :O
G-rank as of last night!
Finalllllly I have buddies to play with!
Except I don’t really play anymore 😛
Let me know when you do HR7 key quests or Advanced Quests for HR6/7!
EARPHONES! EARBUDS!
Do yours break? Have you lost them?
I always see people saying such and such broke after ___ long but I still don’t get how people always say theirs break :/. I’ve used at least 3 pairs regularly (moved onto another when I got a better pair) and none of them have lost, broken or damaged. I’ve been on my cheapo $5 pair of Logitech Ultimate Ears 200’s for agessss.
@batguy’s broke in Brisbane on Wednesday. True story… 😛
Well, not broke, lost the rubber bit on the end. I was able to replace it with a different (and less comfortable) sized one out of the packet.
But this is actually already a warranty replaced set. I find that that no matter how careful you are, if you use them every day, then bumping around in pockets ends up damaging the socket connecter, and catching on things damages the ear pieces.
I use mine nearly every day (when I go to Uni) and they’re fine!
But I keep them in a little case so I guess they aren’t getting damaged as much.
Mine break, but after a few years use.
It’s usually the cord right near one of the ends because it get bent in some way.
A few years is understandable but I always see people complaining about having them break after a few weeks/months :/
… I just bought a Thrustmaster HOTAS Joystick off of eBay, and pre-ordered Heaven’s Lost Property: The Angeloid of Clockwork on Blu-ray on a whim.
\o/
If there ever was something that sounded like a sex toy…
HOTAS: Hands On Throttle And Stick
…actually, that makes it sound even more like a sex toy. XD
Is that the movie or one of the TV series?
It’s the movie.
@dc, you ALWAYS leave off Children. Of. Men >:(
I mean, congrats on Kudos! Overdue and deserved \o/
CHILDREN OF MENScrawwwwwwwwwwwwww
I leave off Children of Men because I saw it before the list existed! Same goes for No Country For Old Men!
I promote Gravity any chance I get though. Have you seen the trailer? 😀
Edit: All my posts are being instamoderated tonight. D: Also, thanks man!
That’s what happens when you lay positivity on Crystal Skull.
I might’ve even gone to the British Museum before the premiere and slack jaw gawked at the real Crystal Skull. I’ve got pictures. Haha!
Crystal Skull is no better or worse than any other Indy movie.
Good thing editting gets out of insta-mod 😛
Yep, saw it. No idea what it’s about, but it looks INTENSE
Added Children of Men to your part of the list. Next time I post it, it’ll be there. 😛
Three year old called me into her room, suddenly awake. She’d fallen out of bed. But instead of crying about it, she wanted to call me in to laugh with her 😛
Best kid.
Totally kinda not really related but I always enjoyed the story my friend told me when he heard his baby sister crying once, he ran to her room and she’d pee’d on the floor and he slipped over in it.
So the $7 magnum of cider was a TERRIBLE idea.
No joke, it is literally the worst drink of anything I have ever tried.
Blergh.
Shocked.
I just realized you’re being facetious.
Elaborate.
Hi guys! Hope you are well.
I had a good day today. I went to my brother’s place to pick up their car which has child seat fitted so I could surprise my nephew by picking him up from kinder. Whilst there, my sister in law apologised that my birthday present had been ordered online, but hadn’t arrived yet. (My birthday was on Monday, but I never make a big deal about it)
When I got to kinder, my nephew was thrilled to see me and straight away wished me happy birthday. So sweet! The next thing he said had me in stitches – “Mum forgot your present” 😀
I then had a couple of hours with my nephew before meeting my parents, brothers and their wives for dinner. Time with my nephew is always good fun. He was ‘Superman the gourmet chef’ today, with occasional visits from a hungry dinosaur and Captain Feathersword 🙂
Off to dinner, where my other sister in law tells me she is so sorry, but the present she ordered online for me hadn’t arrived yet 😀 But, she had printed out the cover and review of the book she had ordered and giftwrapped those for me. Then, deciding that wasn’t good enough, she borrowed the book from her school library so she could show me. So sweet 🙂
Dinner with family was a good end to a good day.
Happy birthday for Monday, my friend! Sounds like a good day!
Thanks mate!
It’s always fun to hang out with ‘Superman the gourmet chef’ 🙂
Oh man, D.C. you’d really love Luigi’s Mansion 2!
Just played a really fun boss battle that had puzzle solving elements!
DC hats fun.
One day, I’ll get a 3DS and that’ll be a good day. 😛
damn straight!
@shane @bdkiaf @rize
What in gods name is that terrifying monstrosity they’re calling a SkyWhale?
I don’t even know, but the general consensus I’m hearing is that if it gets too low to the ground a lot of people are going to attempt to milk it.
o.0
French movie was great… then it got ok… then it ended ok. Stay tuned for more Sughly reviews!
French movie was Tell no one. I kind of recommend it. Kind of dont.
I am under the impression that French films consist mostly of black-and-white shots of post-coital cigarette smoking, or drunks in berets.
Don’t forget the chocolate bread for breakfast!
Haha, thats so true. Theyre obsessed with chocolate for breakfast. Weird, weird people.
German movie started good enough… then it got ok… then it ended ok. Don’t bother waiting for more Smurfy reviews.
German movie was “Good Bye Lenin!” I saw it in the cinema when it came out 10 years ago, and my memory of it is better than tonight’s re-viewing, but that may be because I had just visited Berlin the year before. I still kind of recommend it though.
As German movies go, it’s pretty good, but “Run, Lola, Run” is better.
So Unity is weird. I mean, there’s a bunch of stuff there and I hardly had to do anything for it to appear. But also anything I think I should be doing, I apparently can’t. Slightly less stressful I guess, more time to stuff around. Still don’t like it though.
Oh maaaaaaaaaaaan, these look bad.
I prefer the PSN version running on a little screen :-/
http://ncloud.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/final-fantasy-vii-new-pc-screenshots.html
Beanbag is finished.
http://t.co/zWE9ZXD6yr
The zip was a massive pain in the arse because I couldn’t get a 1 metre zip, but rather an 80 cm chunky zip that doesn’t like to be sewn.
STAR TREK DAY. STAR TREK DAY. STAR TREK DAY. STAR TREK DAY.
WOOOOOOO!
Okay, so I’m pretty damn psyched. Looking forward to this dinner too, what time you make the reservation for, Freeze? 😀
Where are we eatin’?
Bavarian Bier on Eagle Street Pier, I think it’s called!
STAR TREK! WOOOOOOO!
Niiiiice. I’ve heard very good things about that place.
I’ve heard they’ve got giant beer. The rest is a mystery. 😀
They also have giant pretzels!
!!!
Maybe that’ll seal the deal with Strange attending. Haha!
Oh god. The pretzels. Giant soft ones served with a bowl of butter. *drool*
Oh and massive wads of pork belly perfectly cooked covered in this amazing crackle.
D.C. will probably still eat a pack a chips instead…
Got my eye on the cheap potato wedges. XD
There is no way you’re just getting wedges from a place with such awesome food. You can have wedges any day. Don’t force me to order for you! 😛
There are other cheapish things that are nice you could get,anyway. But if you were ever going to have a little indulgence in food, moneywise. Tonight would be the time.
You able to make it tonight, Strange? 😀
7:00.
I booked for 9 just in case.
Awesome! Thank you, man!
So just gonna put this out there, but anyone who doesn’t bring their 3DS to the Star Trek meat tonight is a loser.
Half the audience will probably be nerds, so it’s probably a good idea. XD
I wasn’t going to but now I have to.
Nerrrd! 😛
http://collider.com/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-reboot-images/
These pictures are slightly more reassuring than the trampoline ones. XD
D.C. page get king!
Now, I’m sure this comment has been made before, and I apologize in advance for my.. lack of tact and gracious behaviour which we normally staunchly uphold here in-
April O’Neil was spankworthy back then and quite frankly having Megan Fox play her pretty much feels like it’s gone full circle.
also this is my first post in TAY in like 15 pages wooooo
Bah, I’d prefer an Ellen Page/Aubrey Plaza type! 😛
Amanda Righetti!
Noooooo, no no no. I would say… lemme think… has to be someone taller, someone with gusto, but not overtly. Aubrey is too smartass, and Ellen is too… Ellen. Oh, Amy Adams, she’d be great. Maybe even Emily Blunt maybe? They at least have a softer edge to them.
I was thinking Amy Adams, but think she’s not ‘tough’ enough. Hmmm… XD
Nah she could do tough. Didnt you see The Master? She was tough as nails.
Haven’t seen The Master, wanted to though. It’s on the list, Sughly. It’s on the list.
For some reason even though April was never like that in the cartoon, I would go with a quirky, outsider unconventional Pulitzer Prize winning type. Maybe Carey Mulligan with glasses on. 😛
Oh yeah, no thats a great angle for it! Man that sounds amazing, I want that April now. Sure as hell beats the broad with boobs angle.
@sughly: Elizabeth Olsen or Jennifer Lawrence!
@dc I think youre going off track again XD
Haha! With glasses on, though. 😛
Oh, I’ve got my idea for a dark, gritty TMNT with investigative reporter April ‘Carey Mulligan’ O’Niell, but you’ve got to think mainstream too. 😀
BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD.
Oh yeaaaa, BDH!! BDH for sho
The last lot were arousing, not assuring.
Is that guy helping April with the package the new Metro-sexual Casey Jones?
What a S.N.A.G.!
D:
…
That would be the nail in the coffin. Haha.
Oh man, this movie looks like it could be awesome!
Under the Dome, indie movie version. XD
Oh yeah that does look quite good. Beautifully shot!
Oooo… Only God Forgives is in the main competition at Cannes! That’s rather interesting. Wonder how it will stack up…
Ah shit its up against the writer director of A Separation, haha. Ahhh well. We’ll see.
I’m so damn excited for that movie. Keeeeen.
I haven’t seen A Separation, but after looking it up I feel like I really need to.
Should start a list, my friend. 😛
Yeah really amazing film
@jimu: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Joss Whedon’s new Marvel show got picked up to series today! First time in a long while that I haven’t been excited about the prospect of a new Whedon TV series. I know it’ll be good creatively, but that whole Avengers angle doesn’t really appeal to me.
http://collider.com/marvels-agents-of-shield-series-order/
Avengers angle?
S.H.E.I.L.D. is a thing that exists independent of the Avengers. There’s no way any of them can appear on the show (munny).
What exactly turns you off?
I always thought it would just be a police drama with laser guns and other James Bond shit.
Emphasis on the character drama though.
I meant the Avengers ‘universe’, not necessarily the Avengers team. I dunno. Just a lot of the Marvel stuff outside of Spider-Man, I can’t really get into. Though you’re right, I think it’s gonna be its own thing too. I do like character drama though.
Oh man, if it was Cops of Gotham PD, I’d be psyched. XD
Avengers Universe? Don’t do that, man. It’s the Marvel Universe.
And that’s all part of the fun, I am so happy that Marvel is managing to pull off what the comics have always done and create a living breathing universe where something that happens over that side can have consequences on something over this side.
Probably this will all come to an end a lot sooner than the comics so that it doesn’t become a jumbled mess of ongoing continuity that only die-hard fans like me revel in.
You know that both Wolverine and Spider-Man both appear in 5+ comics a month and we’re expected to believe ALL OF IT happened?
So good 🙂
You know in Spidey’s first ongoing comic the first thing he did was try and sign up with the Fantastic Four cos he needed cash and he did this by breaking in to try and impress them (he was 15), then they said they aint hiring and they are a not for profit organisation and he called them jerks and left.
So good 🙂
That’s a comic you need to read,
Gotham Central
By Ed Brubaker & Greg Rucka, it’s pretty much a police procedural/drama set in Gotham and shows how hard it is for an average human to be dealing with shit like the Joker or whoever.
They even hate Batman cos they always have to clean up after him. It’s soooo good.
Not that I see setting being a major factor in why a show would be good :-/
I think it’s just the tone of the world, really. I like the darkness of Gotham over the light, over-the-top comic-feel of Marvel stuff, though obviously that’s generalizing a bit. Truth is I haven’t read much of either DC or Marvels stuff. So impressions are probably all screwy. Haha! 😛 Just something I’ve taken away from the movie adaptions though. XD
Generaly Marvel is a bit more realistic (comapred) Batman is the main DC hero that is dark.
(that’s not to say there isn’t others).
The difference used to be that Marvel was heros set in the real world with real human troubles (Spidey is poor and a teenager, Cap Am is old and out of time, Thing is a monster etc)
And DC heros used to be all best buds whereas Marvel heroes fought each other (Thing VS Human Torch)
But over the years they’ve become more and more similar.
Personally I just follow creators now, and the majority of creators I like happen to be at Marvel (or independant of the big two)
My point is, SHIELD can be whatever Whedon wants it to be, and Im sure that will change from episode to episode.
Good point about creators and Whedon’s one of the best damn creators out there on the TV front.
@dc Whedon is a rare talent, I think.
He’s done one of the best, most accessible X-men comics I have ever read. That’s saying something cos X-men is one of the hardest comics to follow.
He writes and directs and apparently he’s done musicals.
I was never a fan of Buffy (I watched on occasion) but I really feel he does great stuff.
FIIIIIIREFLY too. 😀
@dc I do like Firefly and I appreciate that it was ended do soon otherwise it would have diluted (in my eyes) and I wouldn’t like it as much.
Bad thing = good
Oh man, that sounds awesome!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham_Central
That sounds incredibly cool. Instead of rebooting Batman straight away after the Nolan movies, they should do something like this set against the backdrop of Gotham, where Batman’s not the star!
Any one want to meet central in Queen St or something tonight then mosey to food place together or just meet there you reckon? Let me know, because I’ll be passing through from Central Station either way! 😀 STAR TREK! WOOOOOOOO!
Edit: Though I guess folks driving in would find it easier to park away from the city. *shrugs*
Edit 2: Will probably be raining too. :\ Haha!
Yah I’ll be parking on the other side of the river probably, caus I’m a cheap bastard
cheap = smart & not lazy
I def can’t make it. Sick again 🙁
Just gonna stay home & watch movies on the laptop 🙂
Aw man, sorry to hear that. 🙁 Hope you feel better too!
Better bring a hoodie!
If it’s raining I doubt I’ll make it in tonight. But my bus gets in to Eagle St. at 6:50ish so if I do make it, I won’t be early.
Hope you can make it!
At this point in time it’s basically all depending on two things: the weather and how I feel. I’ve actually got a killer headache right now and I’m still getting over being sick earlier in the week so if it’s rainy it won’t be smart for me to go out in it.
Weather seems to be clearing up now, so hopefully your headache follows suit!
Looks like I’m going, thanks to Welbot. But I’m only going if I can sit next to you to make sure you eat something awesome. 😛
Aw, if I have to… XD
Would’ve totally wanted to sit next to you anyways. 😛Even at the front of the cinema?
Hells no. Haha.
OooOOOOOoo!!
Quiet you. >:|
Guys!
I have a giftable copy of Anomaly 2 to give away because I preordered the game before 11bit came out and said what it was, totally worth it in the long run 😀
http://collider.com/arrested-development-netflix-movie-jason-bateman-michael-cera/
Cool Arrested Development interview with cast. Really minor spoilers about new season too.
This morning I woke up to see blood on the side of my pillow.
I think a nasal capillary had burst.
Not the best way to start the day, but after some nasal spray and some vitamin c tablets, it’s getting better. 🙂
Kids playing soccer is still the cutest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Seeing them start to develop skills and ideas of strategically playing makes it even cuter. Inside I am constantly squeeing.
You should squee for real, then the other parents will never try to talk to you again. XD
I miss soccer as a kid.
It got progressively uglier as I grew up 🙁 But it was still a great game.
Its still fun as an adult, just to let you know 😀
Oh funk yeah.
sorry, i think i didnt articulate my appreciation very well. It’s a lot of fun, I think i meant as it gets older the game changes… i think.
i don’t even know. jeez that first reply was a bit jaded huh…..
Wooo sportsball \o/
I’ve never played/watched soccer in my life. XD
It’s fun 😀
What did Freeze tell you last night, DC hats fun. 😛
So true >:|
No Dark Souls, no Survivor!
In unrelated (and distracting) news, Humiliation by The National is delicious for my eardrums.
Yarrrg-a-ahem… i don’t know what happened there.
Sorrow’s a good song too. I’m not missing out on any thing…
:'(
not missing out, looking forward to!
This new Ghost in the Shell anime that’s in the works looks so amazingly disappointing. Ultra-generic art directed by a guy who has previously directed some boring stuff, written by a guy who’s only credits were extremely boring and/or bad anime, without decent music and to add insult to injury, they’ve changed all the casting from the people they used in the movies and the films.
I’ll be stunned if it’s not the most generic, mediocre and disappointing reboot of a great franchise in years.
Meanwhile Richard Eisenhower or whatever his name is will proclaim it the SMARTEST ANIME HE HAS EVER SEEN or some such rubbish because I think the guy’s never watched anything good before. #elitist
is that the one thats supposed to be set before stand alone complex? (sorry if thats spoiler worthy, just yell and ill edit)
Yes, it’s supposed to be an origin story or something. There’s a new trailer out and it just looks mediocre. Nothing remotely interesting or special about it.
Which I guess is how you could describe most of Production I.G.’s anime work I guess.
I think they had a trailer at the end of the Stand Alone Complex complete collection.
It didnt look too bad then, but maybe not on the same level.
Was that released just recently? Because Arise was only first announced at the start of this year and the first trailer literally only just came out.
First trailer. It’s in Moon language only though:
ill try and hunt it down and get back to you. its on a dvd i own im sure of it.
think it was nameless at the time but it was a definite prequel/ origin thingo.
GitS SAC is mediocre at best, I dunno what everyone is on about. It’s not…bad. But…
i thought that initially cos it confused the legs off me. Once i wrapped my head around everything it got better. I have a fetish for psychological stuffs.
It confused you? I’m pretty sure I understood it all, I was watching it, just never felt the need to keep watching it. Didn’t do it for me :-/
I think the films just set the bar too high for me.
yeah. I was relatively late to the party with ghost in the shell. plus i watched things in the wrong order, e.g. SAC 1st.
a lot of the central concepts confundled me for a while.
That would help though, if I saw that first I wouldn’t be bored by it.
I agree, it has some great episodes and some shit ones.
However 2nd Gig is far more consistent and way better. Especially toward the end.
The big thing though for me is the music. The TV stuff is some of Yoko Kanno’s best work, and Kenji Kawai’s work on the movies is amazing (the juxtaposition of taiko drums & shinto chants with the futuristic technology is very distinctive IMO). For this they got the guy who’s only previous credits were Appleseed Ex Machina, and as far as I recall that had crappy electronic stuff and most of it was by other artists anyway. 🙁
Fuck I hated Appleseed Ex Machina, I saw it in the cinema…so shit.
I love Masamune Shirow but ebven the manga isn’t the best in the world.
Nothing can ever come close to the two films in my eyes. Oshii kills!
Just watched Prometheus again. Even better the second time. I can’t see where any of the complaints came from AT ALL.
I agree. I loved it the first time and loved it even more the second time when I was more relaxed and not worried about will I like it or not. Not perfect, but no where near as bad as people say.
I reckon it is perfect (or as close as you get) I have no problem with any of it.
Is it unbelievable? Yes, so was Alien.
My biggest prob is how actiony it gets at the end, but I see that as a problem of the times. Every big movie is too actiony now.
The horror elements freakk me the fuck out. The characters are great. The effects are superb. I like how it works as a stand alone and a prequel.
Its so good.
I liked the whole expedition feel of it. No space marines, just an optimistic mission of exploration. Also the hard science feel of the ship and the surrounds was amazing. One of the prettiest movies I’ve seen in a long time. I thought there were some pacing issues with the characters/story but really loved it anyway.
Yeah, I loved those too.
What was wrong with the pacing? I liked the slow-burn, world building stuff and then the shit is on, when she
is in having the op there is a zombie attack, so much shit just goes down as the mission goes to shit. LOve it! 😀In some ways it felt like all the characters had more to the story that we weren’t being let in on. Seemed like they could’ve been fleshed out a bit better. I’d happily sit through a longer movie for more hard science and character development, but at the same time I guess that lends itself to more of the mystery… glimpses of stuff that’s not really elaborated on…
Also from time-to-time characters made stupid decisions, like Charlize Theron running forwards instead of sideways when the ship was coming down and that line she said to her father. XDBut you’re preaching to the choir, man. I liked it a whole lot. 😀
Loved the score too.
Yeah, I like the ambiguity and the mystery
I agree that the film has a lot going for it, but I can also definitely see where the complaints come from. All in all, a good film.
Just not great 🙂
Agreed!
Disagreed 🙂
I really like the movie, but the narrative and events that happen in it don’t make a single lick of sense.
Wha?
Red Letter Media asks the questions we were all thinking.
well, I know the answer to most of those questions, that was pretty funny though.
Bravely Default!
http://ncloud.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/bravely-default-new-ringabel-and-more.html
http://ncloud.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/bravely-default-new-screenshots-and.html
Love the art in that game so much. Nintendo needs to hurry up and give us some dates though.
Moseying off to city now. See you guys later. Text if you need to contact me for whatever reason. Also don’t think @sernobulus has been told of dinner plan details yet. Bavarian Bier Café at Eagle Pier at 7pm!
NO POST MEAT REGRETS “Sorry for being D.C.” CRAP >:|!
Ugh, coming up with a name for a game character is the worst! I’m starting a new file in Fire Emblem on Hard/Classic (with a female avatar this time) and can’t come up with one.
These Generate-Character-Name websites are terrible. What kind of name is “Ingegerd” 😛
Powalen♀ it is!
(not really :P)
Powaleina
Perstephanie? 😛
-NDAH
😛
I just used the default name it gave me (Robin) and that was fine.
I’m always Jimu
@sughly: I think you were asking me if Rhythm Thief is any good.
Answer is yes. Imagine you took Professor Layton, replaced Layton with a thief kid and Luke with a dog, then replaced the logic puzzles with Rhythm games straight out of Rhythm Heaven, and then added a Jazz band. One of the main composers is a Sonic Team veteran that worked on Sonic 2, Space Channel 5, Samba de Amigo etc and you can hear that in the music (actually apparently there’s some rhythm sections which are direct references to Space Channel 5 but I haven’t hit them yet).
Did you play the demo of it at all? It sounded like something I should be interested in, but when I gave the demo a try I found it rather disappointing.
Didn’t play the demo.
Ooo! This sounds pretty delightful! Thanks neg ^_^
Dear game developers:
If you’re going to have a voice language selection option, then let me choose the language before you make me play the game. I paid extra to preorder so I could get this and you want me to sit through an entire level with absolutely dire voice acting before you’ll deign to let me change it? Fuck. You.
Soul Sacrifice goes on the pile and will not be played. I’m not subjecting myself to a game so badly designed that they can’t even implement something this basic, especially when I already am pretty sure I won’t like the game. (Before anyone asks, I forgot I had it preordered and didn’t cancel in time)
Hey gang,
Had a very “man” day today. Took my daughter to her first weekend sport in the morning, and then assembled a large sandpit and even larger trampoline today, followed by a BBQ dinner.
My reward: learning that the previously-planned-to-be-shared-study renovation is now going to be a total MAN CAVE, with computer, big TV and all my consoles.
MAN DAY IS BEST DAY.
…except for the blisters. They’re ouchy.
Ooops\o/ Man-caves are best.
My loungeroom is a man-cave. It’s even better now I’ve ruled it a toy-free zone and a place of peace,
G’night.
I watched Prometheus, Alien and Alien 3 today.
One of those is amazing, one is pretty good, and the other I havent seen in ages and cant make a call. WHICH IS WHICH!?
Haha, that ain’t tough to whittle down…
Though if Alien Resurrection was on the list, I’d be forced to admit a dark secret… that I love that movie…
Me too, although if my wife allows me today I will reconfirm
Ditto. Resurrection buddies!
Well, Prometheus & Alien are both amazing.
Alien 3 was a lot less worse than I remembered. I think I watched the version with all the cut bits added in last time. The original is OK.
So we did a double cinema marathon today, a lengthy rundown on both and I promise, no movie parts shall be spoiled…
We saw EVIL DEAD and STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS
Both movies get a solid 9/10 from me. Neithers perfect but both are excessively fun, excessively great good times in their own ways!
Spoiler free (well, one tiny insignificant spoiler which I’ve masked) pro’s and cons:
Evil Dead:
Con: You’ve been here before with Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn
Pro: Not with THESE DEMONS you haven’t. These aren’t the Demons Ash fought off. Those ones did NOTHING compared to the sheer hell these ones put the poor people in this movie through.
Pro: There’s no ‘poor pretty 18 year olds’ in this movie. Each person seems ‘real’ and seems believable. Inface, I could swear 2 of them were based on people I hang out with. I may have to splash Holywater on them in future when we’re together again…
Con: A little TOO much gore? If you can’t stand gore. This movies not for you. The previous Evil Deads for all intents and purposes were not gory. Not compared to this. Not at all. Most had quick cutaways, you rarely ever saw the actual cut, the actual hack, the actual slice. In this? You see EVERYTHING. EVERY BIT. Not ONE cut away.
Pro: All the effects are practical except for two minor, VERY minor scenes which have no impact on the movie and both are
drops of blood falling, but they had to hit such specific targets, you can forgive them.Pro: The cast is distinct. All have PERSONALITIES. All of them. None seem ‘cookie cutter’ except maybe the blonde. But she’s meant to be. The movie spends the first 30 minutes actually setting up the characters. Something rarely done. Wise move.
PRO: BIG PRO: The movie is legitimately scary. There’s jump scares, there’s gore scares, there’s lingering fear, there’s an overwhelming sense of dread. This movie removes the sense of hope you have and just BEATS YOUR HOPE INTO THE GROUND. A seriously fantastic time was had by my friends and myself watching this. Even one friend who generally does not like horrors loved it, saying ‘It wasn’t like the normal studio horror movies’. Because it wasn’t a studio horror movie, it was made to be like old horror movies and it WAS. This isn’t slick, glossy horror.
This is down, dirty, grubby horror. The movie looks nice but there’s no glossy overly slick CGI going on. All the gore effects are prosthetic and it looks *AMAZING* Seriously, this movie should be an oscar contender next year for what they achieved, but you just know there’s no chance of THAT happening.
Now, onto STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS
The best idea with the JJ’verse is to understand you’re watching ‘what could have happened IF’, keep those rules in mind for the first (11th?) STAR TREK, INTO DARKNESS and further JJ’verse sequels and you’ll have a ball.
I can’t talk about Benedict Cumberbatch without spoiling the movie really. So lets talk about his performance in an overarching sense. His performance is amazing. He takes his character and owns it completely. He’s sinister, he’s like a Cobra, hypnotising you with his eyes, convincing you everything is peaceful, everything is fine then striking when you least expect it. Easily, to me, one of the best villain performances in a Star Trek movie, but when has Cumberbatch NOT given his all? Absolutely fantastic performance.
The plot: I enjoyed it! Highly fun. That’s all I’m saying 🙂 Not the most original out there of course, but still, when you remember the dire pieces of garbage that were Star Trek The Motion Picture, Star Trek 5 (3 was ok, not great but ok), Star Trek Insurrection and Nemesis (UGH), Into Darkness is a bloody grand masterpiece in comparison.
The crew: They’re all there! They ALL get something to do this time! Some more than others, but it felt more ‘complete’ than the first Abrams Trek movie. If that movie was about the new cast ‘becoming the characters’ this is about them ‘having their first adventure without the weight of the first film on their shoulders’ where they had to prove they ‘could be’ Kirk, Sulu, Uhura, Scotty, Chekov and Spock etc.
The Kirk and Spock Bro’mance: Yep. Not since Scrubs was there a Bro’mance quite like this. Many times I wanted to shout EEEEEEAGLLLLLLE and see if ANYONE got it.
The Enterprise: Yep, still looks like a bloody Mac Store.
The Lens Flares: I think I’m blind. I’m touch typing this shit there were so many.
Star Wars: Really, you can tell Star Wars is in good hands with these Star Trek movies. That’s a statement and a half… lol
Anyhow, REALLY highly recommend both films. That’s IF you can find a cinema playing Evil Dead. Sony has dumped EVIL DEAD into a limited release in Australia. Good luck!
If you CANT find a cinema playing STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS then you live on Tatooine.
Pretty sure it’s called Groote Eylandt, man.
Tatooine was at least the central plot in a movie, I think. Dunno, someone told me it did.
I didnt relly like that Cumberpatch guy that much actually
Star Trek Into Darkness major spoilers:
Last chance. Pivotal plot points here.
A lot of the coolness of the movie depended on seeing this. Scenes playing out differently and things happening out of order. In the original movie it was Spock who was behind the glass, Kirk who saw his friend die and scream Khaaaaaaaaan!Indeed, and it’s true. I think that its a duality of the Abramsverse is that it’s a homage series, which works FOR and AGAINST it in equal measure. This is why, as much as I love his movies, I am actually hoping at some point, it ‘realigns’ with the original timeline at some point, though I doubt it.But I think you guys miss something key here, which is not everyone watching this is an ongoing fan of the series. As a standalone film it doesnt stack up very well imo. Having no idea who this character is or how he was portrayed before, purely as this film’s villian, I didnt really like it. Too overacted. imo 🙂
I’d agree with you there on that it doesn’t stand as well on its own.
I think as a standalone movie it stands up fairly well but it has the benefit that as a movie where people know the ‘secret’ behind it, it has the duality where it then excels beyond that and becomes something even more. That being said, I’d still rank it about the 5th best of the Trek movies.
TWOK
STIV
ST First Contact
Star Trek 09
Star Trek Into Darkness
Which one was JJ’s first Star Trek? I think that was really amazing, I’m a fan of that one for sure
That’s honestly my favourite Trek movie too. The others tend to feel like two parter episodes of the series, just with really high production values. J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek (2009) and this one too have an epic, sprawling feel to them. Much more cinematic and structured like a movie and all that. (Into Darkness had a lot more fan service than the first, but I can see how that would be alienating.)
ST09 (Star Trek 2009) was JJ’s first.
The Wrath of Khan I think is the single best Star Trek movie because it’s so layered, has so much character to it and is so emotionally driven, plus when Spock dies at the end of The Wrath of Khan, it’s a truly emotionally driven scene which is 100% earnt and in no way cheap. (30+ year old movie, spoilers don’t count lol).
Star Trek IV I think was the second best personally because it was just so much fun. Seeing them in the modern day, the conservation message was nice, the interaction, the fish out of water storyline, the fact Shatner stowed his ego for the movie was great and Nimoy was a wonderful director for it.
First Contact: I loved this movie so much, the Borg were a true threat, before they were reduced to a joke in Voyager. Datas role in the movie was fantastic before he was again, reduced to a joke in Nemesis as B9.
ST09: I think this was a little better than Into Darkness but only because it had the ‘wow’ factor that Into Darkness lacked personally.
Into Darkness: See above in my other part.
I loved him, loved the fact (Don’t click on this if you don’t want something spoiled, I’m warning you. Seriously.)
didn’t copy Montelbans performance at all. People also have to keep in mind that it’s not Wrath of Khan that’s being copied here, but more SPACE SEED from the original series. Khan has no reason to hate Kirk at this point, so he’s a more relaxed, devious mind. In TWOK, he was a more furious, hell bent, mad Khan with a singular motivation, Kill Kirk, destroy Kirk. In STID, (I still say that sounds like a venereal disease…) I found he was more like the Khan in Space Seed and the Khan from the old days we heard about, where he was a plotting, nihilisitic, super intelligent man hell bent on wiping everyone out. I do look forward to the impending Klingon war though. I loved the look of the Klingon warriors and thought how they designed the bald Klingon with the piercings was pretty cool and finally differed from the ‘mongolian’ look of the DS9/TNG look of the Klingons significantly.Just remember, SEVERELY heavy spoilers if you click. Its up to you. Don’t blame me.
Do you watch Sherlock? He’s quite good in that.
Nah, I kinda want to though. Kinda… dont too. Eryone says its good, I should give it a go.
Only 3 eps a season and you can skip the second cos it’s always filler.
That’s 4 eps to watch and you’ll have seen it all (so far)
I’d say don’t skip the 2nd ep though, given it’s only 3 movies per season, there’s no reason to skip that at all. They’re all great and very much worth watching. You’re doing yourself a disservice skipping any of them.
Really, thats all it is? Are the eps like movie length then or something? Ohhhh no wait, its British thats right, they have their short seasons there dont they. Huh. Yeah I’ll give it a go
The eps are all 2 hour long movies. They’re truly fantastic. The quality of them is so high it’s outstandingly good. There’s 6 out so far and season 3 starts roughly end of this year early next year I think? It’s filming right now. They really are recommended viewing.
He was great in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy!
Oh thats true, I forgot he was in that XD
Hi TAY.
I’m off for two weeks to sunny Japan.
It’s going to be pretty good.
Have a great time.
Visit Shibuya because it was in The World Ends With You!
According to Tokyo jungle there are lions and dinosaurs there. Stay safe 🙂
According to Anime there’s tentacle rape there! BE EXTRA CAREFUL!
Bring me back a plush Squirtle, I will pay you 😀 ….pleeease?
TAYbies are good kind people.
Yes *goes back to tying up nuns on the railroads in red dead redemption*
IN MY MIND I’M GOING TO CAROLINA,
CAN’T YOU SEE THE SUNSHINE,
CAN”T YOU JUST FEEL THE MOONSHINE,
AIN’T IT LIKE A FRIEND OF MINE
TO HIT ME FROM BEHIND
OH, I’M GOING TO CAROLINA IN MY MIND
I was in love with the place, in my mind, in my mind. I made a lot of mistakes, in my mind, in my mind.
Is what I thought you were singing at first glace 😛
On the bus home last night, the driver turned his James Taylor music up loud and everyone listened quietly. It was an amusing moment. XD
Crap in a hat … I accidentally clicked one a link at top of my browser and lost about a week’s worth of grinding on Candy Box. faskdhjanbckvoKJHDSXb! fuck
On the plus side, the housemates and I were cleaning out the shed and we found a pool table, I am currently house champion with 4 wins and no losses
I need to be prevented from using the internet.
I have been reading about a Japanese trading card game, Weiss Schwartz, and it sounds really good and I am seriously considering taking the plunge and buying some cards. Which terrifies me. I’ve been down this road before. I’m a reformed M:TG addict. I have still got tens of thousands of Star Wars CCG cards. I played L5R, I played the Wheel of Time card game, I played the Lord of the Rings TCG… I thought I was past this 🙁
(Biggest issue is that no one else I know plays most TCGs so I have to buy and build multiple decks that are balanced against each other and then hope someone will come to my house and get tricked into playing sometimes)
I tried Vanguard and got some free cards (I gave them to GT because I didn’t want them).
I couldn’t really keep up with the rules and stuff ^^;;
Most of those anime-related trading card games aren’t very good. Basically just wallet size contests. But I hear that Weiss Schwartz is fairly well balanced and pretty simple. Very tempted 🙁
https://twitter.com/BlueMaxima/status/333246962889523200 I’ll just leave this here as it amuses me greatly.
Hah, burned.
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!
I’m waiting for Mum to wake up so I can give her the present I bought her.
As someone who is clearly a mother, I accept your well wishes!
Omg this is sooo good! Made me smile 🙂
Inb4welcometolastweek
Tears. I have laughter tears. Mum’s visiting and came up to see what I was laughing about, you entertained her too.
Did you see the short follow up where they went on The Tonight Show?
Happy times 😀
NO! LINK!
Haha yeah I decided not to be lazy and found it. So good XD
Felt dirty watching Jay Leno, though. XD
Same 😀
Team CoCo <3
ha! Pretty funny!
Broke my glasses last night. D:
I wear glasses to play games and watch movies and tv. Everything is different now. XD
D:
Doh! That sucks man.
So good to see everyone last night though!
Good seeing you too, man!
🙁 Easily fixable breakage?
Maybe. Haha. Will investigate this week. 😀
Favourite shot from Star Trek Into Darkness last night:
When the Enterprise plummeted into the clouds, then bounced back up. That was a thing of beauty right there. In fact all of the scenes when it was out of control and tumbling were amazing. Sense of momentum, weight and ‘gravity’ that you don’t often feel in CGI. Reminded me of the practical effects they used to use in the series.Anyways, sincerely hope I didn’t ruin the movie for anyone. Wasn’t feeling the best last night.
Was awesome seeing you guys though. Sughly and Freeze and Strange and Nob and Mrs. Freeze and welbot and Berkid and Beardy! (I sure hope I didn’t miss anyone. XD)
I SWEAR TO GOD, DC
WHAT DID GREENIUS SAY
I was going to quote myself but thought it was redundant (like this comment).
True story.
12/10 would listen to again.
So long as I didn’t need to actually listen to it.
Srsly dude. Shush it. Need to understand there’s nothing bad about you and you’re a pleasure to be with already. Dont want to see any self deprecating stuff any more.
I think I’m going to take a different stance and just roll with it sarcastically.
Yeah, D.C. you’re right. You’ve always been right and everyone was totally 100% lying when they said you were wrong and they totally hate you and they all totally legitimately think you’re the worst person ever, like literary Hitler(tm) [(c)BDKIAF] levels of badness, like Shane and Blaghman levels of monstrosity multiplied by 2000, and while you think they all agree to keep hanging out with you because they like you they actually don’t. Think for a second D.C., why would anyone want to continue hanging out with someone they liked? That’s such a silly thought D.C.! Everyone loves spending time with people they hate in their spare time. And all those kudos noms and wins? Totally rigged, man. Cause we all know the worst people ever win them, and even two in a row. Gosh, “Community Kudos”? More like “Person we all really hateudos”, amirite? And all those gifts, offers of gifts and general kindness you received? Totally not out of kindness and friendship, but spite. Sort of like revengeance cupcakes, in a kind of “IN YOUR FACE D.C., YOU’RE SO TERRIBLE SO TAKE ALL THESE NICE THINGS BECAUSE WE REWARD TERRIBLE PEOPLE”. All those common interests you have with people? ALL LIES. You know what’s the absolute worst thing ever? When people talk about games on a gaming site. Seriously D.C., who wants to read about GAMES ON A GAME SITE. Control your excitement! It’s not like people also share that same level of excitement and wish to discuss it too, nosiree, definitely not! Especially not on a gaming site which is… ALSO dedicated to the “nerd” culture. Star Trek fan? Oh buddy, bad news, please leave to the exit on your right because this site isn’t for you!
You win D.C., you saw through all our lies and when we told you, you were wrong you told us WE were wrong! And how wrong we are.
😛
Actually… since I haven’t met you, maybe everyone WAS lying and you are the worst person ever who aggressively bumps into people on the street, steals candy from a baby then pushes over their pram, and kicks kittens.
And Italics totally equal sarcasm. Just like CAPS = YELLING
Okay, too harsh or not? I don’t know. But c’mon D.C. you’re one of the best people here who pretty much everyone legitimately likes. You have nothing to be sorry for, ashamed of or apologise for (unless you really are a person shuving, candy stealing, pram pushing, kitty kickin’ type of guy) and we tell you this time and time again because you doubt yourself for no reason! Sure enough if you were a terrible person you have something to regret but judging by what EVERYONE who’s met you thinks, that’s not the case. So as we agreed on, when you’re being silly… SHUT THE FUCK UP! and chillax, play some SotC, compare note with us, talk about your Star Trek hype and eat that pack of chips you had your eyes on since the morning.Unless you stood up and tried to start ca conversation with a stranger in the theater who misunderstood, got angry and attacked one of the other TAybies…I really can’t see how you could’ve possibly ruined the movie for anyone
…
…
So you ruined it for Freeze too?
Pepperidge farm remembers what D.C. wrote before the edit. >:)I dunno what happened…
That was a great shot. Most of the CGI in that film was really great. Didn’t even seem like CGI.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/parents-need-game-ratings-they-can-trust/story-e6frfhqf-1226639949611
I. . . I think I just had an aneurysm. . . it sounds as though Susie O’Brien and Elizabeth Handsley either don’t realise, or don’t want people to know, that different regions have different classification organisations with different classification categories. . .
i tapped out when they mentioned doom as if it is a game that causes controversy now…
oh and let’s not forget the
Do these people do any research or fact checking before they spout off this fear mongering. . .
http://www.thecomedychannel.com.au/shows/the-colbert-report/video.html?playlist=2069957822001#1736785308001
I’m watching old Star Trek today, and it’s nowhere near as bad as most people make it out to be.
Watch First Contact! Second best Trek movie! 😀
Plus it has the best score Jerry Goldsmith’s ever done. So damn good. (Though I love Giacchino’s take on Trek music!)
Star Trek Into Darkness theme! So good!
First Contact:
“Perhaps today IS a good day to die.”
Best line in the movie. 😀
I think it’s more the emvbarrasment of realising you took it 100% serious growing up.
@dc, currently in the process of, uh, acquiring the entire original series and every movie of Star Trek.
I haven’t seen most of the original series or non-Next Generation movies! :O Was never a fan of the original stuff before the Abrams reboot. 😀
Edit: I mean Kirk and Spock and all that. Watched Next Generation, Voyager, Deep Space Nine and Enterprise though.
Oh dood, 60s Trek is best Treak, grew up on that stuff!
http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/24244
I remember the first time I played this game I thought it was ultra-realistic and it was like watching a movie. XD
Haha yeah. I still like the grittiness of it, but its not without big problems. The biggest for me is how it starts off being really anal about paperwork and stuff, and by the end youre just chucking shit together with bubblegum and using makeshift weapons.
I liked that scene with the reporter trying to interview him and he basically sexually harasses her. D: (Atleast it sure looked that way. Haha.)
New Doctor Who was pretty cool! Neil Gaiman does not disappoint!
I liked the whole Doctor vs Doctor angle that happened. I also loved the cheesy bits where they were in that weird in between and it was a black room with orange and blue lights bit. Yeah. I am good at words. I thought the ending was a bit odd though. Also still not as good as the Doctor’s Wife.I also saw the trailer for next weeks finale. I want to get excited, but I imagine more questions will be asked instead of answered.
It is taking all of my willpower not to click these. Soon my precious, soon.
Moffat Reckons they really will tell you the Doctor’s name.He could just be saying that though,
I have been burned too many times by Moffat to trust what he says.I’m used to it, they say something I’ve usually forgotten by the time I experience whateverI may just be jaded though…
I generally enjoy what Moffat is doing even if it hasn’t reached the highs of what the last guy did (Catherine Tate)
I feel he drags it out way too long, so I’m expecting 0 answers about Clara and 0 answers about the Doctors name in the finale, but raise 10382469 new questions.Yeah, he needs to stop hogging all the answers for his episodes and let the other writers have some reveals and development through the course of the series.Was it Russell T. Davis? I remember one of the readings at uni was about him!
That’s him
Not as good a writer as Moffat imho but a better head writer
I honestly haven’t watched DW in some time, so my contribution to this conversation will be minimal at best.
I like his new outfit.Fucking A, man. I also love the new opening titles!
Man, that episode was great. It did lack the fantastic hook of The Doctor’s Wife (seriously, how had nobody thought to do that before), but:
I think it did a good job re-energising the Cybermen. I felt like, in the Tennant days, that they were basically just crap Daleks. While the fact that their voices are resembling Daleks more and more with every passing line does diminish them a little, I think they can now stand out as their own threat. I also liked the super cheesy “in his head” stuff, oh, and the line at the end. Definitely my favourite episode of the season. And in case you’re reading this, Jimu, Catherine Tate was the worst companion.Also:
I kinda wish they were more subtle with the Emperor. That was like, super obvious. Super Duper obvious. The only thing I didn’t forsee in about the last 20 minutes was that they were warped up to the ship, rather than just escaping on the Tardis.Tate was my favourite, I dislike her by herself and she was so dislikable but by the end I felt very, very sorry for her.Excellent job, was so sad.
Every other companion’s boring arse story can go die in a fire, hers was the best.
Also, she did a really good impression of Tennant in the season finale, I was impressed (which is her thing outside of who but normally her thing sucks)
I must also mention (contains Game of Thrones Book/Season 1 spoilers)
your problem with whether or not you can see things coming …it’s a problem I have with everything so I never bring it up, it’s rare that Im ever suprised by big reveals :-/(Not bragging or someshit, just dissapoint. Game of Thrones is great cos BAM! Dead Ned
Actually didn’t pick up on the Emperor bit, mainly because I spent 10 minutes trying to eventually figure out that he was Professor Flitwick. They definitely made the Cybermen more of a threat. In other series I always was just yelling RUN THEY ARE WALKING RUN YOU IDIOTS YOU DESERVE YOU DEATH IF YOU’RE THAT STUPID.Not only did Warwick Davis play Professor Flitwick, and the guy who looked like Professor Flitwick who was at the school but who may or may not have been Professor Flitwick, but he also played Griphook. I swear, every time they wanted a vaguely short character, they were just like “MAKE WARWICK DAVIS DO IT” (I think he also appeared in the background of a scene in movie… 5? as a different character).And on an actually Doctor Who related note, I find it interesting that they made the big group of Cybermen move much more independently than they used to (they were stepping way out of time, and unevenly, and stuff (maybe “less uniformly” would be a better term)). Not sure if it was because they were lazy, or their extras sucked, or if there’s more implications there.GRIPHOOK! YES! The only thing I can remember off the top of my head is he was in that skit with Liam Nesson/Ricky Gervais/Wheatley about Liam Neeson becoming a comedian.Also stepping out of time is a good term. (I used to do cadets, I got used to them yelling GET IN TIME/STEP).
In today’s instalment of Mildly Annoying we have:
– Lately I’ve had dry and calloused fingers so my laptop fingerprint recognition log-in thing didn’t work properly.
– I was keen to watch an episode of QI titled “Green” only to be surprised when they start blabbering on about Geometry instead. Episode must’ve be mislabelled.
– I’m having a lot of those “I’m not sure what game to play” moments lately, so I just don’t play anything.
TUNE IN NEXT TIME!
You actually use that finger print dealy? I always found my computer ran terrible until I deleted the software for that stuff. Haha!
Ive got it, so much easier than typing 😀
No idea how it works on a computer but my laptop came with it and there’s a little slot for it next to the trackpad thingy. I figured I’d give it a shot and it’s worked well ever since 🙂
I hate the old “I’m not sure what game to play” moments I do that far too often, or waste half an hour before I just play what I played last time :-/
http://www.siliconera.com/2013/05/11/square-enix-is-hosting-vagrant-story-art-exhibit/
Jelly
Start a War — The National
Mos Def- Mathematics
Paul Kelly – How To Make Gravy
Sounds like a useful skill to know. Is it like Shiggy’s bacon song? 😀
Kinda, only with more onions 😉
(I always tear up a little when I hear it – in a manly way of course)
Shadows – Trials Evolution Gold Edition Soundtrack
Dry the Rain – The Beta Band
You like the pokeymans? Let’s talk about the pokeymans. (X&Y Spoilers)
Avatar customization (to some degree.) Pokemon potentially usable as mounts. There’s a goat, a bird, lizard, a fucking awesome panda. Rumour mill has it (take with grain of salt) that the starters will end up Fire/Psychic, Grass/Fighting, and Water/Dark. Also from said mill is dual-type attacks. Also, there will be a building where you can actually check EVs and improve them via mini-games.Looking good, pokeymans. Looking good.
Hey bloke, hide this in spoilers for Powalen, he’s trying to media black-out for this game.
how can dual type attacks even be possible?Saturday is the worst with spoilahs 😛
Even now it’s not clear what’s in the spoilers. “Rumoured features in X/Y” or something vague to say what it’s about.
He’s truly a monster!
I try, and I fail.
Eh, just another day of my life.
Oh! I think the ride on Pokemans will just be an evolution of surf, cut etc.Many thanks for the spoiler warning, dudebro.
Again, rumour, so dismiss as such until actual confirmation. And honestly, I’d like to tell ya how the concept of a dual-type attack could work, but, well, it’s complicated as all fuck thinking about how that could work, huh? Or at least too convoluted to think about properly. It’d really change up the game dynamic if this was the case, though. And I hope the mounting thing isn’t a HM move- while it’d make no difference to which pokemon it’d be usable on, HMs are a major problem pokemon needs to fix; most are useless and a pain in the ass to use (ergo the usage of ‘HM slaves.’) I’m hoping it’s simply for looks like pokemon trailing you in HG/SS. And that needs to come back as well.I wish HMs became how they were in the first gen, usable in battle and actually constantly helpful in the field like Zelda items or Samus weapons
I always thought about the idea of having a “HM” slot outside of the 4 main attack moves just so it can be used in the field. It would never happen though as it gets rid of their use in battle but I just liked the idea of being able to have a HM and being able to use it without sacrificing a move :/
It depends, nothing wrong with Surf, remains strong and reliable.
Perhaps if they scaled with level?
Like when you first teach it at a low level it is the equivilant of moves at that time but by the end of the game it is as decently strong as an average move at the end.
So it isn’t a waste.
I love Surf and Fly :D, always have em.
I’m talking more about things like Cut and stuff (and even Flash). They COULD make them TMs (just can’t overwrite them if you’re using it) but they might lead to some weird gameplay glitches and stuff. It’s not too bad having to teach something Flash temporarily then replace it with a previous TM but it’s kind of tedious :/
Scale idea is a good idea though but I doubt they’d have it :(. Or maybe a slot for a non-battle Pokemon (so you can’t use it in battles but you can use its HM/TMs)? Items that serve the same purpose? I dunno, it’s just annoying the way it is 😛
I’ve never had a big problem with it.
I usually just spread it out among the team. It’s the games that have 4 different water HMs that irk me.
@jimu surf dive waterfall !
ughhh
@greenius What was it in Soul Silver? Surf, waterfall, Whirlpool? UGH!
HM Mount! Ewww.OooOOoo!
I want that panda! :3IT’S LIKE MY NEW FAVOURITE THING NOW!!
squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I reckon being a film composer would be one of the best damn jobs ever. MORE VIOLIN. >:|
I disagree, too much pressure 😛
Rich person self composing stuff! 😀
Racist.
Yeah, I hate non-greens.
Hey gang,
Even more man points today. Moved three tonnes of sand today (or one tonne three times, to be more accurate) and I’m now sore all over.
Erghmegawd
‘sup Shane!
I just told you.
How was the meat? Did you ruin another one? 😛
You better believe I did!
Was going to edit that post, but figured people would know I mean ‘hey!’ and totally wouldn’t post one of those ‘don’t you read’ kind of replies… 😛
When will the man cave dealy be finished?
No idea. Time will tell. Contractors and sub-contractors and sub-sub-contractors… I don’t want to think about it. Time will tell! 🙂
It was horrible. So bad I decided I couldn’t take it anymore and invited him down in a fortnight. Take that!
Be warned, I’ll probably ruin that one too. XD
I was bein pretty serious about the non self deprecating thing
I can’t help it, man. 🙁
@masha2932
Catching up on Bob’s Burgers and the last few eps have been awesome 😀 (S3E19-21)
I’m glad the show hasn’t “peaked” yet and started to decline, s3 has been pretty decent so far!
Some shows stay good their entire run! SIX FEET UNDER! 😀
Tell me why it’s good, friend! I’m looking for a new show to watch once I’m done with QI
(actually I just remembered I can watch the first 13 seasons of Survivor again :D)
Like my own personal trip to a psychiatrist without paying a thing! 😛
Really dark, well written family drama. Interesting characters. Confronting stuff.
You know what’s dark and awesome? Breaking Bad! The Wire!
Yeah, but that’s crime and drugs and people being horrible to each other. Six Feet Under is dark in tone, but not that kind of dark. I’m certain those other shows are great though.
Period piece.
A couple of my friends dressed up as “periods” for my school’s year 12 Halloween party. Tampons and pads everywhere and red all over their body – teachers weren’t too happy 😀
Classy group of pals you had.
Wait there’s a series 3!?! Ohhhhemgee, I know what I’m watching tonight
Treme? >:|
Hehehe.
Nah.
Oh man, I’m the TV show hipster now… recommending obscure shows no one watches. 😛
Mmmm lots of people I know have seen Treme, and I am watching it, just when mum leaves is all. Which apparently is a while from now.
Haha! Poor Sughly. :'(
Yep. 21 episodes already aired.
What have you been doing?
I dont know. I just dont know.
Watching Treme?
XD
Survivor! 😀
22*
Yeah great show. Ep.22 -the museum one- was great.
New episode tomorrow. Wooo 🙂
@dc
http://avclub.com/articles/william-fichtner-to-costar-in-possibly-jump-on-tra,97596/
William Fitchner cast in Ninja Turtles. Possibly as the Shredder. Suddenly my interest is piqued.
AV Club! I totally forgot that site existed. Haha! That’s some cool casting, but wasn’t Shredder supposed to be Japanese? Some rivalry with Splinter’s owner that I can’t remember. Definitely would do a damn good job, though. (Any one watch Invasion? He played the sheriff in that show. Was awesome!)
Yeah the dude who was splinter trained at the same place as shredder, when he was human obv, and at least in the comic I had splinter goes to bow down before their master and shredder puts a knife in his clothes to make him unable to bow XD
And then they kick splinter out for being disrespectful. I had a an audio tape with the comic, that moment was great He’s like “Kick the bum out”
Oh man, I can only remember the ‘origin story’ from the TMNT (1990) movie where he was literally a pet rat of some guy transformed by mutagen too… or something?
That’s how the 80’s cartoon played it as well.
This is Bay we’re talking about so we’re probably lucky Shredder isn’t a sassy jive talking parrot.
Argh shit, you know I’d actually made myself forget it was Bay making it. Screw this movie.
It’s okay. Bay isn’t directing. Jonathan Liebesman is. He also did Battle: LA and Wrath of the Titans, so it’s in… hands.
I like stupid scifi action movies and Battle: LA was the stupidest action movie I’ve ever seen. XD
I did enjoy Battleship as much as I knew I shouldn’t be.
Loved invasion. Sad that it was cancelled, I really wanted to know more.
Would’ve stood on its own perfectly too, but they just had to have that last cliffhanger. XD
What was the cliffhanger again?
I remember a bunch of people were being pushed into the water by the military and the main guy was going to rescue his family.They managed to get away from that and Larkin was shot in the stomach, I think. Russel decides the only thing to do is to get the aliens to save her and the baby and carries her into the water.I remember now. Thanks,
Inspired by last night’s Bavarian Bier Cafe meal, tonight I cooked roast pork with awesome crackling, sauerkraut, and quick-pickled red cabbage with apple for my Mum and Nan for Mother’s Day dinner. Was pretty damn tasty. 😀
Oh man, that was good eating last night!
Happy Mother’s Day! (Since I think you’re the only mother who posts on TAY. XD)
Thanks! Did you end up doing anything special for/with your Mum?
I sent her an e-mail! Best son evah! 😀
Oh dear. 😛
Looks like I’m going to drag @freya to the Bavarian Bier Cafe in Sydney sometime soon.
It’s no Brisbane Bavarian with Brisbane people, I can tell you that
Definitely go for the beer, at least. We had something unpronouncable that was on special last night and it was pretty awesome.
Pretty sure all the beers were unpronounceable. So many accents.
That waitress was pretty good too. She remembered something I said to her twenty minutes earlier. 😀 (I assume she had a tonne of other tables too.)
Too many words.
Caramel beer!
I’ve been to the Bavarian and Belgian bier cafes in Brisbane as well as the German Club near the Gabba. The beer is the point but the meats are also worth the trip.
I passed the Belgian Bier Café on the way to Eagle Pier. Looked pretty damn fancy.
I love the German Club. I also went to the Bavarian Grill Haus up in Mt. Tamborine that had the best sauerkraut I’ve ever eaten.
We werent there, null and void
@DC Resurrection wasn’t nearly as good as I remembered.
Too actiony for my tastes and quite a bit of gore porn.
Really love the concept of cloning Ripley and having her be partial Alien but thought the Queen with the womb and then the hybrid baby was taking it too far in the other direction.
If the Queen had a womb, why did it even lay eggs in the first place?
Apparently Whedon’s first script was bring back Newt as the clone not Ripley then the studio changed it’s brain so there were re-writes. Would explain that horrible line out of Ripley’s mouth at the start saying her “MUMMY” told her there are no monsters. Such a Newt line, really.Whedon’s script is awesome. Lots of it was changed or reinterpreted by Director, alas. :'(
Edit: Too bad Whedon didn’t have the street cred he has now and be the director!
He wants to do Alien on Earth but Weaver isn’t keen on the Earth thing but is open to other ideas set in space (so says Wiki) Which I kinda understand, Alien has always been space movies.
I’m all for an Earth movie. I think there’s plenty of interesting ways of telling that story. (Though probably better to follow Prometheus’ line of story telling too instead, unrelated but connected stories. Ripley probably doesn’t need another movie.)
I’m much more interested in the story Prometheus wants to tell than another ALien movie.
The style of hollywood films just can’t do it justice anymore, there always has to be some explosions (worst part of Prometheus)
New Order:
1. Alien/Prometheus
2. Alien 3/Alien 2/ Resurrection
New Order:
1. Joy Division
2. New Order
You’d rank Aliens between 3 and Resurrection? I’d say Aliens is my favourite with Alien a really close second then Prometheus.
Between? It’s ranked equally at number 2.
Aliens is kinda my least fave cos everyone loves it so much. It’s just so dumb. Those marines piss me off. Ripley Bishop and Newt are good.
And I don’t actually hate it. It’s just the blind love everyone has for it.
3 is a bit too boring, 2 is a bit too dumb and 4 is a bit lackluster overall. So they come second.
And the other guy that survives? He’s so boring I always get a suprise at the end of 2 and the start of 3.I just forget he even exists.
Disagree with Aliens!
I loved the whole space marines angle and putting Ripley completely out of her element. Civilian amongst these jar head types. Also the time jump and grief for her daughter with the Newt relationship was cool. New found mistrust of androids after the incident with Ash in the first movie too. Also liked the Hadley’s Hope colony.I really need to rewatch the first movie, I think. 😀
I think we can both agree though, excellent series with good movies no matter how you rank ’em.
The Betty crew is almost a prototype of Firefly and Serenity, though. I really liked that aspect and the weird bond between Call and Ripley. “I’m a stranger here myself!” Also, totally loved the score! Not shot particularly well, though. (Which is odd, since they got an artsy French director to do it. XD)
I wouldn’t mind a Ripley/Call fugitive kind of movie, unrelated to Xenomorphs and the like. That ships long sailed, though.
Actually after thinking about it Ripley/Call’s weird dynamic is almost a warped version of the protective Ripley/Newt dynamic. Which was about the daughter she lost and all that too. It’s a rich tapestry. Haha! (Mixed with Bishop street cred too, I guess.)Yeah, think the director just phoned it in, apparently he needed a translator…sooo, lost in translation maybe?
I even thought that relationship got a bit too much by the end. I dunno, didn’t rub me the right way after watching Prometheus & Alien.
That’s a good point. Not sure how I’d feel about it after watching Prometheus and Alien immediately before it. Haha!
Bit of a let down 🙁
I was totally gonna say how much was the Betty Proto-Firefly and forgot 😀It’s funny seeing new work from old writers/directors and seeing them try and rework an old idea.Plenty of stuff in Avatar was straight outta Aliens (The corporate sleezebag and the mechs)
I really liked the flooded kitchen scene though. That was pretty iconic!Fuck yeah
being stuck underwater scare the shit outta me. I’ve had plenty of nightmares of that. Also plenty of nice ones where I realise I can breathe.I had really bad Asthma growing up, death from suffocation scares the shit outta me!
🙁
I’m not a huge fan of water myself, so the prospect of having to hold your breath and swim an unknown distance is freakin’ terrifying… much worse than an alien being down there too. 😛 Liked the lab/flame thrower scene too.Yep, most emotional scene in the movie and the most horrifying
Pointless words to help me waste time:
Time to do another all nighter for an assignment due tomorrow, except this time I have no idea what to do and it’s my hardest and worst subject this semester 😀 (it’s the same one I thought I failed the first assignment for but just barely passed). This unit is going to ruin my average :'(Speaking of hard subjects, I just remembered something a friend told me yesterday. He was saying someone in his Uni course said something like Chemical Engineering was his hardest subject so far at Uni, so my friend asked him what he got and he said “100” :/ :\ :/ :\ whatta dick! But to get 100 in something, especially at a top course in a top Uni, must be insane… damn smart people!
Beep boop beep boop procrastinating procrastinating beep boop beep boop. I dunno, I stick like a post-it note in the bottom right corner of my monitor so the time is covered and I don’t get distracted as easily :P. It worked well last time!
I know no one cares but this is helping me procrastinate :D. The last time I did this (Tuesday) I realised how well I was going in my assignment and how much work I actually did in such a short amount of time. I think I do get a little loopy though because I was derping around and doing weird shit I don’t usually do like dance like an idiot, just to waste more time 😛
Still haven’t started this one yet and don’t really want to but I guess with the pressure of knowing it HAS to be done by tomorrow, motivates me to work harder 🙂
Hear that kids! Leave everything to the last minute and you’ll do well!*
*don’t do that
I find myself talking about such pointless shit lately (or more so :P). I’m going to do a D.C. and hope that no one is annoyed too much! I try to balance out my pointless posts with game stuff, maybe a little mention here and there so it’s justified ;). SNEAKY! I’ve also not subtly asked for gaems and stuff so I hope no one minds :D, I’m just kidding around most of the time because I don’t actually expect anything and it would be wrong for me to. Ya’ll got your own games to buy! So I decided to town down the beggingness but I’m totally going to try my hardest to snag those Club Nintendo codes for a free gaem. I have one for each region and I think Jimu said he wouldn’t mind giving me one, so I just need ONE more for the UK region and free Animal Crossing! :D.
Games are fun! It’s weird but I like having something to look forward too, like a game release or even a new episode of a TV show I like on a weekly basis. Makes time go by quicker I guess 🙂
I’ve killed a good amount of time with this so thanks! Doubt many people read it but I don’t blame you, I’m selfishius so didn’t really intend for too many people to read it, I just like typing words sometimes! Well I guess I better put some sort of “reward” for anyone who legitimately (or skipped to) the end… umm…
*fist bump*
You earned it, champ! 😀
GET TO WORK, ya bum.
Are you going to say hello at 4:45am? 😀
On Twitter? Sure, if I remember.
Oh noes, I’m getting sleepy D:
And not gonna lie, Miley Cyrus looks aiight in that top 100 pic.
Had a crack at Thomas Was Alone tonight. Do not like. It falls into the same pattern Quantum Conundrum did. Solve a puzzle. Good. Now spend the next half an hour solving the same puzzle with minute variations over and over again.
Nope, thanks, was just looking at that thinking the minimal graphics bored my comic lovin’ eyes :-/
The annoying thing with Conundrum was the divide between solving a puzzle in your head and actually implementing it using the games screwiness. (Miss a jump, try again. Miss a jump, try again. Haha.) The beauty of Portal is once the idea clicks in your head the game doesn’t get in your way…
Yeah, the gameplay, which mostly consists of stacking (at least early on) isn’t that great but I liked the “story” enough to stick around. Just the whole idea of shapes with names is so stupidly awesome 😀
The puzzles were all super easy, it’s the narration/music/charm that made me love it so much.
Agree! But the music did get really repetitive for me 😛
You said you don’t usually play something again straight away but I finished it with the commentary and it’s really good! Luckily you can just hear the commentary then skip ahead to the next level, rather than doing it all again 🙂
This is true but the “puzzles” started to feel more like a grind after a bit. Put me off it. I think I’d rather watch a LP of it rather than actually play it.
Those are exactly my thoughts.
@dc
http://www.avclub.com/articles/heres-the-guy-playing-splinter-in-the-ninja-turtle,96526/
Again, not Japanese! What gives?! 😀
Aw man, now I’m convinced that @jimu is right. Wil Arnett’s totally going to be Casey Jones. D:
Will Arnett is Vernon, Aprils cameraman. http://nerdreactor.com/2013/05/09/logo-for-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-revealed-plus-will-arnett-is-playing-vernon-fenwick/
Hey, I remember him from the cartoon! That’s pretty cool actually. Oh man, so many mixed emotions. 😀
The director. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0509448/
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:'(
If we don’t expect this to be a bitter and brutal rape of our most precious childhood memories, we will likely be hurt by this film. Gotta get in that mindset.
Watching the cartoon again was a bitter and brutal rape of my childhood memories.
Somebody doing a new take on an IP is just that, a new take, it can never touch my childhood memories because it’s a new thing.
Even though they’ve denied it, I still hope Rocksteady aren’t working on the next Batman because they’re working on TMNT game instead. I’d love that! Plus, Rocksteady… the name of the studio is perfect. XD
Nice!
Who’s Baxter?
If memory serves me correctly, I believe he was the scientist who invented the Mousers and made them for Shredder.
That’s him. He eventually turned himself in to a fly
Ozgameshop has 10% off of board games and their prices are considerably below Australian retail prices. Ticket to Ride Europe is around $40 after this discount. CHOO CHOO!
@Freya and I probably going to be broke incredibly soon because of this but it is totally worth it.
By the way, Takenoko is an amazingly pretty and well designed board game that people should have because the pieces are just so damned nice. Also there’s a panda and it’s represented by a little panda token.
It’s so cool you both seem equally obsessed with board games! 😀
We’re trying to infect other people. I’m fairly sure @alexpants is under our spell.
It lets me indulge in my hoarding whilst making him happy!
The voices in Fire Emblem are kind of annoying.
Huh
Hmm
Wha
Right
Ha
Hmm
Uh
Eh
Sounds like a riveting conversation.
Huh.
Hmm
… Right
Boardgames? More like awesome games.
You’re almost as bad at this as I am.
Your face is almost as bad at this as you are.
Pretty sure I’m supposed to make a quip here.
Goodnight TAY.
See you in new TAY.
Well I’m 100% sure I’m going to fail this :/
I just do not understand this unit :'(
You can do it frond! You just need to believe in the heart of the cards!
I’ll retrun in 10 mins when there is a new TAY
Anyone ever notice that a common theme for the meats that i attend is that they’re totally awesome?
Weird.