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3,477 responses to “Talk Amongst Yourselves”
Morning all.
hello
Greetings
I just palyed a demo for a game called Rogue Legacy, it’s awesome.
If anyone’s interested I found some info on it. Looks interesting.
http://www.cellardoorgames.com/roguelegacyfaq.html
Interesting, might have a look at it tonight on steam.
MO’NIN!
murnun
moomoo
BaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaLAMB
http://img.bhs4.com/E7/D/E7D505E66FF75D1CC615A16C8E27EA96622EAEF2_large.jpghttp://www.themushroomkingdom.net/images/j-e/mk64_moo_moo_farm_us.jpg
I can hear the music…
duhr nur nurnurnur nur nurnur, duhr nur nurnur nur nur nurnur, dunur dun nur durnur nuhnuh nur nur nurnur dun durnur nur nur nur nurnunurrrrrrr, boomboomboomthat’s funny, i couldn’t remember the music but reading that actually reminded me how it goes,
OUTTATHEWAYCOWS!
HAVE Y’ALL SEEN COMEDY BANG! BANG! !?!?!
It’s amazing.
I’ve recovered from my head injury, fyi.
Head injury, that explains a lot… I hear a lot of you mutter.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/
Head injury? That explai…….oh…
We weren’t muttering.
Are you sure your head’s okay?
http://youtu.be/1u_8Qg1npAM?t=40s
@greenius Prolly buying Knytt underground tonight. Will demo it forst, since I can. But pretty much looks like it is Metroid.
It even has morphball. Even Guacamelee had the brains to make morphball a chicken…
I like the look of those backgrounds. What about the art didn’t you like?
I looked it up and found myself at metacritic and the only thing anyone complains about is the art.
The lowest score of the first screen claims there’s nothing wrong but the art, then gives it a low score. HA!
hey @jimu , will u be checking JB after work or on some sort of lunch break, I might be able to get to Brookside after work at like 4:30.
I’ll wander over at lunch, we have 3 JBs in the city.
ooh, keep an eye out for MK9 as well, wouldn’t mind playing that again. @jimu 😛
That’s definetly about…maybe…
I’ve finished Knytt Stories and only played about an hour of Knytt Underground so I haven’t really unlocked any powers/items yet but I assume the gameplay would be the same as Stories (Metroidvania :D)
What I don’t like about the art is how damn ugly the characters look. They look like really basic drawings and pretty amateurish. I just missed out simple everything looked in Stories. It was all really clean and simple pixel art. I don’t mind the background itself in Underground but some of the plants and other things don’t really blend well. They kind of stand out. But the main thing is the characters, gosh darn they’re hideous… :/
I’m already taking it personal that you don’t like the art in a game I haven’t played 😛
Last night as I was getting off of the plane from Melbourne to Sydney, I got a text from my friend saying “Watch. The. Replay !!!”
Now to watch some sportsball, I love being able to torrent things after missing them.
Back in my day, we had to program our VCRs and guess when the sportsball event was going to start and finish, because TV Guides sure didn`t help.
That’s because you didn’t utilise the futuristic power of GCODE!
Actually, now I think on it I don’t think I could ever get it to work. And when it did you would be missing half the show.
I like that GCODE made the undoubtedly safe assumption that shows never started late or went overtime.
Hahaha, fucking GCODE. I remember how it was a big deal when they built a goddamn barcode scanner into remote controls.
That’s some true 90s shit right there.
I still do that…
TV Guide is as accurate as Nostradamus.
Fine… I’ll go do some work then.
Heh he yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah, “work”Well it appears that Talk Amongst Jimu is in full swing. 😛
Hey! you’re ruining it!
OTHER PEOPLE!!!
PS3 works in Canada!
:C )
Catherine or Yakuza Dead Souls «question mark»
I remember buying Dead Souls out of a sense of
surely it can
t be that badso I
m curious to try it.Edit: augh stupid laptop converted to european keyboard and now it is inserting all sorts of symbols
oh my god what have i done what the hell are those am i the only one seeing this help
Nope I-I see it. *runs away*
‘code tags’?
EDIT – I think you did something funny with your apostrophes
nope, I’m seeing it too. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE BISH?
:p
Did you burn half of you face while trying to get it to work?
Unfortunately not.
Worst weekend ever.
The disguise is failing!
BISH IS A ROBOT!
RUUUUUUNNNAAH!
Oh my god, you’re bending TAY’s code to your will!
HE’S THE ONE!!
Catherine ((smiley face))
Weird, my copy of Yakuza: Dead Souls literally arrived only 20 minutes ago. Only cost me 5 bucks, so if it sucks I wouldn’t have lost much (except for my time).
Also got New Play Control Pikmin. I’ll have a crack at it a bit later. This will be my first time playing Pikmin, so you guys got any tips?
@greenius and @sughly recently played it, they may be able to pass some tips.
I WANT FI’ DOLLAH DEAD SOULS *crying*
Lol, it was one of the daily deals on mightyape a while ago. The cheapest I can find it now is $20 at ozgameshop
http://www.ozgameshop.com/search/Yakuza
or $17.64 at play-asia (apparently a time limited deal, but I couldn’t find an expiry date).
http://www.play-asia.com/Yakuza_Dead_Souls/paOS-13-71-bp-49-en-70-4err.html
cheers 😉
Pikmin is good fun!
Some of these tips might not make sense since you haven’t played it yet.
– There’s 30 ship parts and 30 days so there’s a bit of a time limit. So you’d want to try to at least get 1 part a day but it’s pretty easy to get 2 or more in some areas. Initially I was stressing out about this but there’s plenty of time to get things done – so don’t panic too much!
– Plan if you can and try to remember where parts are and what you need to do to get them (ie. build a bridge, open this gate, kill a boss etc.). All these things will take a certain amount of time and might want to do some multitasking to be efficient
– Don’t be afraid to restart if things are going wrong. I’ve made some pretty stupid mistakes where half my Pikmin population just died instantly because I was careless. It would’ve taken a whole day to regain the population so I just restarted to save time.
– Use the right colour Pikmin for the pellets. So use Red Pikmin to bring Red pellets to their ship because if the colours match up you’ll get more Pikmin out of it. This might not make sense if you haven’t played the game but for example a Red “1” pellet will spawn 2 red Pikmin if bought to a red ship but only 1 yellow/blue if bought to their ship
– Not so much a Pikmin tip but since there’s 3 save slots feel free to use the other ones as backups – just in case!
It might sound complicated but it’s pretty easy! You can probably get through easily without stressing too much or worrying about multitasking if you’re not trying to complete it quickly. The whole game is fairly short and I finished it in about 3 days.
Hopefully that didn’t scare you away from the game :P. Just ask if you have any questions 😀
Yeah what green said. A tip I would say is whenever a new area opens up, just walk around, check it out and scope out what you might like to start doing, and then restart the day without saving once youve done that. It’ll save you from having to make your plans as you go, and will save you time.
You mean cheat.
Cool thanks for the tips @Greenius and @Sughly. I’ll let you know how I get on.
I say Catherine but that’s because I aint played Yakuza and I really wanna.
(I always thought it was a Japanese GTA for so long.
One day I realised and haven’t done anything about it.
Nice pink letters, btw.
Catherine, It’s easy.
😛Assembled a desk.
I hate flat pack furniture.
But we have a desk.
Nice Haiku
I originally wrote it in short, sharp sentences to try to convey my barely constrained rage. When I realised I nearly had a haiku I only had to remove one work to make it fit.
Sometimes I feel like a lumberjack and woodworks…man after having assembled IKEA furniture.
However, that may be because I live in Canada and so everything I do ends up involving lumberjacking.
You’re okay.
But I’m not sure about that whole sleeping all night and working all day thing…
I feel like if I could drop a few hundred on some proper tools and lumber I could make some pretty badass furniture in my garage.
And that would be easier than assembling a flat pack from Ikea.
You’re the Nick Fury of furniture.
Upvote for Marvel Comics reference, didn’t actually understand the joke.
Spiderman!
You’d get 100 upvotes for that guy…if possible.
*Thwip*
Started packing up the apartment this weekend. The place looks like it has been ransacked now, and we have an apartment inspection this morning. Man the landlord if going to be in for a treat 🙂
http://tinyurl.com/lmyeeea
Replace each piece of crap in that photo with a half-filled box, and thats my apartment
Who wants a TAYlist? Make your requests here.
Sharp Dressed Man – ZZTop
Cause every girl is crazy about a sharp dressed man.
Replace with La Grange, and you win.
Gimme all your lovin, gimme all your hugs and kisses too.
I can do that.
This morning’s playlist has consisted of Kanye West, Chvrches and The National. So one of those.
Or old faithful. You know the one I’m talking about.
Oh, BDKIAF. 😛
Classic Chainsaw Gutsfuck!
Stairway to Heaven – Led Zeppelin
On the list.
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies – Faith No More
Happy birthday….. fucker!
Can’t play that one, sorry.
Station won’t play metal before 6 PM.
Also, swearing, has there been a radio edit?
Metal?
Sure, OK.
Sorry?
Oh, just, it’s hardly metal. I dunno, maybe in a really broad sense?
Hard-rock maybe? It’s Faith No More, not Fantomas.
I edited my earlier comment, the track also has swearing.
Re: Metal. That’s my opinion too, but i’m saying that from the point of view of the consumer, to someone who doesn’t listen to metal at all, that song would be too “violent” for the audience that normally listens to the station
Oh yeah. Kewl.
I doubt there was a radio edit, don’t think it was a single?
Evidence and Ricochet were the singles I think…maybe others. Can’t remember.
Oo oo. this one too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HJ08bbSrHQ&feature=c4-overview&list=UULoKOqxJq1oUZ42xqoE4kIA
um… okay.
+100 to you good sir!
Dobie Gray – Drift Away
Certainly
Something by Nick Cave
Red Right Hand.
That Barossa ad has been giving it a lot of play of late. Maybe something like Tupelo or Stagger Lee
Why must it be so cold only to have my hot water unit break completely? WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME, VISHNU?
1. Have a shower and wake up in the year 3013.
2. Get a time machine and bring us the latest 3013 gaming goodness.
3.
4. Profit?
By then Global warming will have you wishing for a cold shower
If it’s real…
He heeeeANIMAL CROSSING:
http://i.imgur.com/jWzOnD0.jpg (via Beardy)
List of fish and bugs that will go away at the end of June! Get in quick! Most will return by September but I doubt many of us will still be playing it regularly by then 😛
Also… TURNIP PRICES!?
Thank you very much, ive been sitting there worrying i’ll miss some, only need the lady bug and violin beetle.
dammit… might have to play at work just to get the lady bug, working 8-5 ruins that for me.
Could always change the system time! May negatively affect other things though (I know turnips will rot) 🙁
I’ve used the town charter to get mr resseti back 😛 so cant really do that.
My tunip prices are at an all time low atm, 25bells each 🙁
Its also raining every bloody day atm, so cant catch beetles too well.
Yeouch! 25!!!
Are you using the island? Even if it’s raining I think beetles still pop up. If not at least rain makes the rare fish more common (sharks).
If you’ve got buddies with the game you’ve got more chances of getting good Turnip prices. A fair few of us on TAY play it.
Yeah, im making about 90-110k a day from the island, but i’ve not seen a ladybug on it yet, that being said, i’ve only been at night, so that could be my issue.
Would be a good idea to get some town codes, i havent seen bell prices above 150 in my town yet.
Does it work teh same way as the old version? have to both be on at the same time?
Not sure how it worked in older ones but in this they have to be online before you can visit each other.
I think Ladybugs are Town only though but yeah, gotta be there 8-5! Just plant lots of flowers and hope for the best. Good luck!
Hola Tay
Hope you’re all well. I had a quiet weekend- went over to my Grandfather’s house Friday for his birthday (84!) then spent Saturday doing family things. Yesterday, I finished Tomb Raider, which I thought was great.
A Monday Morning question, Apropos of nothing: Which IP is screaming “MAKE A GAME NOW!” i’d love to see a decent stealth-em-up adaptation of The Phantom
Along that line of thought. The Shadow. Because who knows what evil lurks in the heart of men? The Shadow knows.
And not that terrible brawler that came out based on the movie. Neither of them really got what made the radio show so damned entertaining.
Batman’s conceptual dad 😀
Plus, he needs to have a massive nose to properly be The Shadow
Full party style RPG of Wizard of Oz.
It should travel through all 20 books or whatever.
Can be a JRPG or more like Dragon Age Origins, I don’t mind.
Me reading a handful of Phantom comics as a kid is the closet I came to being “into” comics, so I still have a fondness for the concept today. I even liked that awful Billy Zane movie.
I don’t know if it would really work as a video game, or that there’s enough to distinguish a Phantom game from something like, say, Far Cry 3.
You could do flashbacks to earlier phantoms- suddenly you’re on a pirate ship!
A fight against the Singh pirates across 400 years…
Game of Thrones US TV viewers – 5.5 million
Big Bang Theory US TV viewers – 20 million
/o\
GoT is on cable though, so that’s not an apple-for-apple comparison.
Now I start looking at additional numbers HBO only has 28.7 million subscribers in the US.
Really thought it would have been more than that.
Even Breaking Bad’s highest- ever US ratings are only 3 million.
AMC has always been the red-headed step child of premium channels. Mad Men, Breaking Bad and the Walking Dead upped the viewership but it still lags behind.
The gap between 3 to 5.5 million in the US market isn’t large.
It took AMC years to get to that point.
Bazooper?
Organ Trail is amazing.
Protip: don’t name your characters after @Pyrean and @batgirl. Between the two of them they’ve ruined 150oz of food, a tire, and a muffler. By sitting on them.
Oh, and @shiggyninty and @shane just got bitten in two successive stops. Get it together you two!
Is that the directors cut version that came with humble bundle?
Yup!
FUCK YOU IM TRYING AS HARD AS I CAN
So I’m playing Company of Heroes 2, apparently. I re-installed the BETA and I’ve got single-player access?
Hrm. I was wondering how that worked – it says it’s not releasing till around midnight tonight, yet I still only have the Company of Heroes 2 beta on my list. Was itching to install the full game. Might have to install the beta and see!
Daw, not the whole campaign 🙁
Watched “Warm Bodies” last night. Was much more entertaining than i expected. Interesting take on Zombocalypse.
Zombocalypse?
I enjoyed it quite a bit. Quite a different and decent take on the zompocalypse, and a good little allegory on mental illness as well 🙂
I’d heard very little about it before watching, was pleasantly surprised, it had some real laugh out loud moments, I’m suitably impressed
ANIMAL CROSSING!
Still trying to work out if it’s an Easter egg or just coincidence that it rains all the time in my village.
(My town tune is the Song of Storms)
It’s always friggin raining at mine too but I’ve got the Jurassic Park Theme.
I’ve switched my tune through a number of ocarina songs, but I don’t think I’ve tried the song of storms yet. Might give it a shot and find out.
I do have it as my notifications tone for my phone. Unfortunately there’s been no spontaneous downpours in Canberra recently.
I’ve got Duelling Banjos as mine.
Sodomy is rampant.
BAHHAHAHA i just complained about it allways raining in my town in a comment above, and i too have the song of storms lol!!!.
brb changing to Sarias song.
Does anyone remember this?
I did work experience where my job for 2 days was to record individual stories from the cd and cut them to fit the slot for the radio station.
I just went on Wiki and read about many of the books in the Oz series.
Maaan, what a mess. “Continuity? What’s that?”
Welp. I’ve handed in the form to salary sacrifice for my new laptop *Fingers Crossed*
*Waits Patiently*
…
…
….
GIVE ME A LAPTOP ALREADY!!!!School holidays. Taking my eldest to see Epic. Only request she made? “Can we see it without those silly glasses? I really really don’t like them.”
As a glasses wearing man, I agree.
Oh man. Wearing glasses under 3D glasses is legitimately the worst.
ARTHUR AND THE MINIMOYS!
Just got out of bed. Was so damn comfortable and warm that I decided to lie there doing nothing for a few hours, fully awake. 😀
I miss those times 🙁
Jimu! Hope you’re well!
Not bad, you?
Not bad. Gots me my first doctor’s appointment in seventeen years booked for Friday. Hope they give me some drugs. DRUUUUUGS. 😀
I managed to drive-by streetpass someone while driving to Mr & Mrs Tigs’ house yesterday.
Drive-by page-get too
How was the meat?
Moist and juicy. Roast turkey is awesome
I’ve had that happen on the Monash once or twice too. Not in backed up traffic either.
Hotline Miami 2
http://youtu.be/jXJJwq635rM
NSFW: GORE (as if you needed a warning, it’s Hotline bloody Miami)
I finished The Last of Us late last night/early morning. My thoughts on the ending follow, so obviously huge mega spoilers. Also, be warned, it contains both an ample amount of uncharacteristic swearing and also reads a bit weird since I actually wrote it shortly after finishing the game (so, 3 in the morning). I blame a combination of tiredness and my emotions being all over the place.
Fuck. I mean, just wow. I am overwhelmed here. That was just perfection. Totally not what I expected, and totally the greatest thing ever. I went into this game expecting the worst from the ending. I was expecting a either a bittersweet ending with heavy amounts of bitter, or a downright downer ending. I was expecting a sudden shock ending. I was expecting lack of closure. I mean, it’s a story driven zombie game, there’s no way that’s ending well. Joel and/or Ellie will die. From the moment I started playing, I kept on expecting it to happen. Not right at the start of course, but as the game drew on I was just thinking, right, now it will happen, or now it will happen. Ellie will get shot in the head; Joel will be bitten. Something, anything. Joel’s bleeding out on the floor, helpless, and Ellie gets beat to death with a pipe; that’s the ending. Or Joel’s off sick and Ellie dies stuck in that shack with Dave. I thought if they didn’t show it, they’d at least imply a downer ending. Zombie streaming in, no way to escape, then the credits roll.–
By the time I got to the last level my heart was in a vice and as I played through I had a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. There was just so much foreshadowing about one of or both the character’s deaths. Then the revelation about what they’d have to do to Ellie came and I thought, here we go. That very last leg of the game I was on the edge of my seat. Screw that, I’d fallen off my seat, I was sitting on the floor. He won’t make it in time, or he’ll make it but then accept she needs to die. He’ll get shot and killed on the way out and then they’ll operate on her anyway. When it shows them both in the car together I was just begging the game to stop. This is good, no further. They’re both alive, now just end it. When they started doing the flashback shots to Joel’s confrontation with Marlene I thought that maybe Joel had been shot, and he was just hallucinating rescuing Ellie as he lay dying. Even then, I was still begging for the game to finish because I didn’t think my poor heart could take much more. Then came the hike through the woods. One of the most serene, simple things I have ever done in a video game, and I was shitting myself the whole time. Marlene’s predictions will come true, a swarm of Clickers will jump them, or some bandits will shoot Joel and Ellie will end up getting raped and murdered. Then they climb the hill, Joel lies to her, Ellie accepts it and the credits roll and relief just flooded through me.
–
The whole game I was debating whether or not to let myself become attached to these characters. If they’re just going to die, why bother, right? But I did want to care about them. So many times while I was playing I wished I knew the ending just so I could make up my mind, or have some peace of mind. If I knew they both would live, I could sit back and enjoy the ride without worry. If I knew they were going to die, well, in a way I could do the same thing. Can’t fight fate, may as well just enjoy the journey. I am so glad though that I didn’t know the ending because that was some fucking gripping stuff. My knees felt weak as the credits began to roll, and when they ended I actually clapped a few times.
–
Some might see the ending as evil, depressing, what have you. I say, screw humanity, screw a cure, Joel and Ellie are alive, and that’s all I care about. What Joel did was terrible, but I love him for it, and I love him for lying about it. It was a bittersweet ending, but it’s the sort I’m perfectly happy with. More than happy with. So many video games of late end with the protagonist dying to save the world/universe/whatever, and those always leave me feeling so down. Yeah, the world’s saved, but the person or people I really care about are dead. I’m glad this game was the opposite. Fuck you, world, Joel and Ellie live.
Question:
Did you hesitate with the doctors?I did. I only shot the one with the scalpel. (In the leg, but not sure it counted.) The other two backed away.Well, I tried to just keep walking forward first, to see whether or not he’d stab me or a cutscene of Joel disarming him would play or something, then I just shot him in the head. I left the other two doctors alive though.I shot him in the head before he even finished talking and swiftly followed up with the other two. I seriously doubt Joel would have left them alive.Probably. I was just super focused on getting to Ellie and pretty much ignored them.I thought he wouldn’t hesitate with the soldiers or the people in command, but would allow any one who stood down to live. I just reasoned he was there for Ellie and wanted out as soon as possible.He killed Marlene because he didn’t want her coming after them, so arguably that could extend to killing off the doctors who knew about the potential for a cure and how to opporate on Ellie since they too may come after her in the future.That’s true, though I figured Marlene knew a lot more about Joel and his brother. Where he’d go and the like. You make an excellent point though.I shot all three, with El Diablo, no regrets.First the Nurse closest to the Doc, then him, then the coweringpuddle of pissnurse in the corner@gutsoup
What am I doing if I find Sonic or Kombat?
You wan’t me to grab or inform?
Send me a text, gonna go grab some lunch before my empty stomach devours my organs.
Spirited Away meat! Friday! 8:45 pm with dinner before at probably 6:00pm. We’ll probably need to book tickets in advance and all that too. WOOOOO!
@sughly, @strange, @freezespreston, @jimu, @gutsoup, @beardymcmuttonchops, @welbot, @dkzeitgeist, @lambomann007, @sernobulus, @virus__
I’m a maybe for dinner and a no for the film.
I’ll give you a concrete answer a little closer.
No problem! Thanks buddy!
Not keen since I saw that one at the cinema (and own the DVD and have watched it a million and 1 times) but will prolly try and make another session for a different Ghibli.
Would anyone be keen on attending a day session with my son and me?
D.C. ain’t good with kids. Haha!
Here are the times for all the English dubs though:
My Neighbour Totoro
29th June at midday. Saturday? You best believe it!
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
6th July at midday. Saturday? You know it!
From Up on Poppy Hill
13th July at midday. Saturday.
Arrietty
20th July at midday. Also a Saturday.
Kiki’s Delivery Service
July 27th at midday. That’s a Saturday.
Hmmmmmm, We watched most of them A LOT.
Maybeee Laputa, tryin’a remember if it’s the type my son would sit through…
Actually, I watched Arriety in Mandarin with no subs, so that’s an option.
#jimuThinksByTypingCommentsInTAY
You missed Ponyo. That was last weekend. :'(
Seen it a billion times…in Mandarin.
SOn was obsessed with it for a while there and Totoro & Kiki too.
Count me in!
Still have to confirm with Ber.
I’m not sure if I’ll be able to make it this week. Short pay this week due to public holiday (damn being casual employee)
Alright. Ber isn’t coming, I won’t be coming to the movie, but I’ll be there for dinner 🙂
This is why I’m going to be in an insufferably good mood today.
YAY SPORTSBALL!
Just so you know, the Lions were 52 points down going into the last quarter.
Sportsball \o/
YAY SPORTSBALL!
38 down at 3 quarter time I believe. Kicked those couple right before 3 quater time. Amazing finish.
Yeah, they were 52 points down at the worst point.
Still brilliant.
Those are the best wins
Also the reason you never leave a match early, wonder how many lions supports left at 50 points down
Many. The Lions have a habit of fading away, particularly when they’re already behind.
I doubt there will be many leavers in future games.
Fuck you.
I mean it in the nicest possible way, though. 🙂
Also, our back line was bloody woeful.
The fact that we only scored one goal in the final quarter didn’t help, either. 🙁
You had the rub of the green for most of the game though. It was only when the whistle got put away that we managed to make our resurgence (that and Stevie J’s horribly kick into an umpire that resulted in a Lions goal).
Did everyone here who played Fez finish the game or get put off by the maze like structure? 😀 Was having heaps and heaps of fun before I started getting lost. XD
Who is Pax people?
Asking for contest.
The alliance?
I meant who’s going to pax
you aren’t, you’ll be at pax north
Everyone who’s not D.C., Sughly, Strange, Dan!, Beardy and Jimu!
🙁
You’re going. >:|
To Pax?
No, not so much… :\
And my axe!
Forget it, I can’t art anyway
I think that’s the point of making us use MS Paint, so everyone’s art is a little shit.
Mine entry was awesomely bad and after thinking it over I should have done a better job of the writing part or at least included a link to something I’ve writen.
/o\
I am going to lose 🙁
Also, as demonstrated above, I included spelling mistakes :-/
Loda, Admiral Bulldog , s4, EGM and Akke?
I’ll be there.
Does that mean we’re going to meet? Oh man, I’m very aroused.
Prepare your best sex face.
http://www.reactionface.info/sites/default/files/images/1310650820313.jpg
I am PAXing
PAXing for all three days and taking the week off before it as well.
Pretty much everybody who was at boardgames on the weekend is
Me, Mrs Tigs, negativeZero, Beavwa, Pip, trjn, freya, techie
*raises hand*
Hey @gutsoup
Dunno if you saw my text but no luck, JB charge $49 for Sonic and MK Vita aint released in Aus.
http://www.ozgameshop.com/playstation-vita-games/sonic-and-all-stars-racing-transformed-game-ps-vita
http://www.ozgameshop.com/playstation-vita-games/mortal-kombat-game-ps-vita–
thanks, will probly track down Sonic this afternoon.
Have so many games to play on Vita, it’s all lies and slander that there’s nothing on it, whoop
I play it a lot and I still have some to play and more to buy.
But yeah, if your thing is shooters then no, not really.
I like 90% of genres, as long as the game is decent
I’d like more if I better eye-hand co-ordination.
I just can’t keep up with some shit and there’s more than a few developers that need to review their meaning of “easy”
HELLO!
*doesn’t log back in for another 4 days*
Who is this etc…
Ahem, it’s “Who’s this guy?”
*Doesn’t log back in for another 4 days*
@shane
I can’t remember if it’s been mentioned or not but you should totally press and hold START and SELECT while booting up a DS game on the 3DS. This changes the resolution of the screens and makes them smaller (to original DS levels) but makes the image much clearer and better 😀
http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/3ds/en_na/gs_first_time.jsp?menu=using%20game%20cards&submenu=ctr-gs-ds-original-resolution
Found text was small to headache making degrees. Would be nice on XL though 😉
Also, @shane, just checked my local Target and all they have for cheap is Street Fighter IV & Steel Diver, bith $15. 🙂
Thanks man. Appreciate you looking!
Happy birthday to Mrs. Shane!
Haven’t had a problem yet, but will keep this in mind for non-Scribblenauts games \o/
Thanks
I play them like that, the hazyness doesn’t bother me. 🙂
http://au.ign.com/videos/2013/06/21/unboxing-muramasa-rebirths-special-edition-on-ps-vita
Phew! Glad I didn’t bother, the price jump was too much for me! cc @negativezero
when’s that due out?
Have a sudden interest in future Vita products 😛
Two days from now in the US IIRC.
25th in the US, have’nt heard squat about a PAL release and there is 4 DLC packs planned.
I have it ordered 😀 (So will prolly arrive mid-July :P)
@gutsoup just keep in mind DLC stuff is a bit hard with Vita since you can only have one account per a memory card at any given time. It sounds like you’re on a PAL PSN account so if you do import Muramasa from the US you’ll probably run into some problems.
That’s what I was sayin’
(I bet he understood me, I bet you 100 madeupDollars :P)
I did, totally. I went with the aus account cause i have ps+ stuff, plus i get discounts from + so that’s a plus
Can’t watch videos.
What did the special lithograph thing end up being?
Just a pic I’ve seen before in google searches, quite small. I think the draw to lithographs is the quality of the print and paper.
That’s disappointing, they said that the lithograph was a brand new piece of artwork. 🙁
Maybe it is, I’m sure I’ve seen it before though.
Could just be alarmingly similar.
Wow… doesn’t look like much 😛
What was the price difference?
For us after shipping: Double.
Over there not so much…actually, I think Playsia ended up getting it and it wasn’t quite double.
Still $60-$80 wasn’t worth it for my tastes.
Slow day on TAY. :'( D.C.’s feelin’ restless.
Tell me about WWZ! 😀
Wind Waker Zero? They’re doing a prequel?!
You heard it here first!
And an ocarina of Time Interquel.
The time between OoT & MM.
It’s kinda like Chrono Cross with the parralell worlds! WOOOOooooOOOOooOOoOoOoOoo!!!
Technically Ocarina of Time is the prequel to Wind Waker. Though there are events in that gap that aren’t covered in a game…
Yeah, I know. But that’s so long after.
MM was a direct sequel! And it was Time Travel in a parrallel universe. AWESOME!
@dc @sernobulus How was World War Z?
Feel free to spoil it, I have no doubt I’ll have guessed the end any way.
#JadedOldManjimu
It was pretty generic. Wasn’t bad, but wasn’t particularly good either. Felt a bit soulless and you got an impression that someone who wrote the screenplay missed the point of the book. (Not that I read the book myself, just lots of times that plot points were introduced and dismissed minutes later. You got the feeling it was something important that would span chapters in the novel.) Some of the action set pieces were pretty damn great though. Was probably a bad idea seeing this only days after finishing the exceptional The Last of Us. 😀
They say there was money troubles and no end to the script so they payed Lindelof to fudge it.
Book doesn’t have a central hero apaz, so you know, had to change it up a fair bit and really only borrowed the concept…loosely. :-/
I would’ve preferred watching a mockumentary type thing then what we ended up getting. Fake news footage and the like. Fly on the wall documentary stuff. One thing they did well was the global scale of the story. Felt really different from the small band of survivor stuff we usually get in zombie movies.
Oh yeah, Money troubles came in at the end, so the option not to be what it was trying to be was impossible.
Apparently DiCaprio’s production company was in a bidding war against Pitt’s Plan B. Can’t help but wonder what Leo would’ve done. 😀
Inception with ZOMBIES!
(That makes no logical sense but a man can dream)
And a good dream it is. XD
Good family movie, not a great zombie movie …
And the 3D seemed a bit pointless too. Didn’t really utilize it all that much…
Thanks for seeing it with me though. You’re awesome. 😀
When does 3D have a point?
When has it ever added something that really changed the whole dynamic of a film?
I like 3D when it gives the sets a sense of depth. Feels like you’re in the room with these people. Most director’s don’t use this kind of 3D though. :'(
What does?
I seriously haven’t seen a movie where the 3D added anything 🙁
I thought Avatar and Titanic 3D used it really well. Prometheus too. Stuff like being on the bridge and seeing the holographic map displayed in front of your eyes like a real hologram. 😀
Ah yeah, I never got to see them in 3D.
I actually totally missed the hype for Avatar and chose to see it in 2D (was around my wife’s pregnancy).
If I’d have known I would have chosen 3D. Still, that world was fully realised in 2D and I enjoyed it for what it was.
I still haven’t seen Titanic.
I watched Frankenweenie for the first time about a week ago, it was great,
all those feelings it makes you feel :'( 😀 :/ 🙂I saw Alice in Wonderland (the new one) in 3D and it was really impressive, worked well with the CG, was at dendy and they had those fancy battery operated 3D glasses that adjust throughout the movie, and it was really impressive all the sets looked like little dioramas, i dunno if it was the glasses or the movie but the 3D seemed to have a huuuge depth to it, like at the mad hatters thing the table filled with teapots and stuff looked awesome, everything popped right out. everything else I’ve seen in 3D was more distracting than anything.
Keep meaning to watch that, but then I remember Burton directed and my enthusiasm deflates.
I can’t remember when I becamse so Anti-Burton. :-/
I agree, Jimu. I’m pretty anti-Burton myself. So much so that I didn’t see Frankenweenie. A movie that was by all accounts awesome. :'(
@dc Frankenweenie? Never heard of it!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1142977/
blame Charlie and the Chocolate factory, that’s when i lost Burton enthusiasm
Ha! I actually thought that was OK. Nowhere near as good as WIlder but as if it ever would have been.
Really liked the flashbacks to his Dentist dad.
I also like Planet of the Apes.
Come with meeeeee and you’ll beeeee… in a world of pure imagination…
Average zombie-family movie!
Look who came crawling back!
Starting now
So the zombie families were’nt powerful? 😛
You want a great family zombie movie? PARANORMAN! (Wait, you were at that meat too. We sat next to each other. XD)
Ending* spoilers
The massive zombie ball accumulated so many zombies that it created its own gravity and floated off into space where it became Planet of the Zombies (coming Summer 2014)* May not have actually happened in the movie
Ys Update
Playing on Very Easy, enemise just fall over, my sword slices through them like butter and they drop more health than damage they inflict.
Bosses though, they require some skill. I actually die (ON VERY EASY?) and I am now stuck on a boss because he has about 5x my health and knocks off more than double what I can. Also, he has moves, I have a fireball and 2 different jump attacks.
Still seems fun so far, @negativezero
Thanks for the GIFT 😉
My spelling is exceptionally bad today, enjoy!
Boss fights in the Napishtim-derived Ys are hard. This was actually something I preferred about Ys I & II over the rest. The Ys I & II bosses are all about learning patterns and tricks to deal with stuff, but Felghana, Origins, etc have a decent component of reflexes and timing added as well.
The feeling of victory when you beat them is amazing though. I guess it probably scratches the same sort of itches that Dark Souls etc. does, based off the way people talk about that.
If you’re finding a boss super tough then you may have missed a powerup (eg one boss basically needs the charged fireball to beat it IIRC and it’s possible to get to the boss without having that ability) or you might just be under-leveled and need to grind a little, maybe get some extra cash to gear up.
I reckon I missed a new sword or armour cos I found a new shield in that dungeon and I know there were 2 or 3 paths I missed.
I can head back to town and upgrade the new shield if needed too, I have a heap of that upgrading stuff.
It’s hard to gauge because the difference between normals and bosses is a huge leap.
I had the fireball for that last boss, impossible to hit without it.
Which boss are you on? I’ve played I think 3-4 hours of Felghana (started straight into it after beating Ys I&II over a weekend because those games absolutely hooked me) so I’ve done I think the first 3 bosses, maybe 4?
One of them was a 1:1 boss fight with another dude that was identical to one in Origins which I’d also done, one was a statue that you needed to fireball while dodging its attacks, and then I think there was one other that I did.EDIT: Also it’s not cheating IMO to watch strategy videos for boss fights on youtube… sometimes there’s a non-obvious trick, eg one boss in Origins is a giant centipede with armor along is body and once you kill a segment it starts spamming stuff everywhere so the trick is to
crack all its armor first, then stand on it and kill each segment one by one.It is:
Chester (?) Bro of the girl tyou save at the start. White haired knight that has turned on the community and thinks he’s top shit now.I get him almost dead but I’m not so great with the dodging and he takes me out.
He looks like Adol but with white hair.
Yeah, there’s a similar fight in Origins, on Yunica’s path she has to fight a really similar guy and it took me a few goes. I think I did that fight first go in Felghana but only just barely. Try hunting around for some extra gear or something I think. Or even just get an extra level. I haven’t played any further than that pointActually I think I didn’t quite explain the difference between Ys I&II bosses properly. In those games the bosses always have a pattern. They’ll do a sequence of attacks, or they’ll move in a certain way in response to you, or something like that and there’s a trick to fighting them each time that you can learn and basically get to the point you can beat them without taking much damage at all.
Felghana, Origins etc. have bosses where the fighting is much more reactive. Boss has a pile of different moves they can do and there’s no pattern to them, you need to learn the appropriate way to counter each one instead. So eg there might be a boss that sends waves of energy toward you that you need to either jump over or not jump over depending on their height, and there’s no fixed pattern. Or one attack might be dangerous to you but leave the boss open for a period afterward so you need to kite them for a bit, dodge at the right moment then swing in and hit them a few times before clearing back out again. That sort of stuff. It’s more dynamic and much harder because you need to learn all their tells and cues as well as the appropriate way to deal with it.
Oh also: how about that music? 😛 Falcom’s games especially Ys have some of the best music in the RPG business IMO.
Pretty rad, I was a little dissapointed at first cos it was just doing the generic stuff but then when I left town it went cock-rockin’ – hair metalin’.
Great stuff!
Most of the music is actually from the original Ys III from the PC-88/PC-98 in the late 80s, they’ve just re-arranged it. So that’s the reason for the style.
Wow. Epic is a fantastic movie. Really enjoyed that.
Fern Gully 2?
THat was Avatar, this must be 3?
WAIT! Arthur & the Invisibles!! This must be 4!!
Upvote for minimoys
I loved the concept but it felt like that whole movie was in fast forward.
Everything was there but I couldn’t feels the feels becaus eit never gave me time to breathe.
Prolly awesome if I was still a kid though!
i really liked it, I found the pace fast but enjoyable. Then the exact opposite in the sequels. Dragged 1 movie out into 2 different movies, not to mention the movie two just ends near enough in the middle of a scene and tells you to go out and buy the next movie.
It’s hollywood version of horrible DLC
Just like Back to the Future 2 😛
(Man, I love BttF2)
I’ve got a soft spot for BttF3 as well. 😀 I love the OST in particular.
@dc
BttF2 is the last one I saw, 3 is the only one I saw at the movies.
I really, really love how much of the set-up pays off in the third film.
(Marty doesn’t crash because he has grown as a person. Marty uses the Clint Eastwood defence because he saw it in the film in part 2. etc.)
Also, I love how 2 actually finishes only seconds after 1. Imagine how confused I was jumping straight from 1 to 3 without realising it wasn’t 2!
(I could read it, thought I was misreading it, wouldn’t listen to my Grandma, she took me anyway :D)
Oh cool, looked good.
OK for an almost 3 year old, you reckon?
Should be. Might be a little scary in parts but nothing scarring.
Finished my exams! Holidays! Yay! Probably going to watch Tintin at some stage. Other than that, hardcore r and r is on the cards.
TINTIN!
Every time we’re in Comic Etc in the city, I tell Sughly that Tintin would make a good adventure game. Every time. 😀
Enjoy your holidays, my friend.
I agree with you that Tintin would make a good adventure game. Picked up the series for $28 at one of my local bookstores. Have good memories of both the books and the tv series. I’m up to The Secret of The Unicorn and Red Rackham’s Treasure, so Professor Calculus soon.
Have you seen the Spielberg movie or is that what you’re planning to watch?
I saw Spielberg’s movie, didn’t mind it. Been watching the animation that you linked to.
I really liked Spielberg’s movie too. Had some pacing problems in the last act, but still thought it was excellent. Looking forward to seeing Peter Jackson’s sequel!
I thought it was really dedicated to the source material and that’s where the pacing problems came from.
I loved how it was just a sequence of ongoing trouble that kept escalating.
That down hill chase was so ridiculous it was INCREDIBLE 😀
That’s not me having a go at the Tintin comic btw, it’s a problem I see in all serialized stories.
There’s a HUGE leadup and it usually finishes in one or two installments.
I think Joss Whedon avoided this problem by having the final part of his Astonishing X-Men run finish up in an extra sized issue.
Also,
Spider-Man.The whole series for $28? That’s an amazing buy.
I used to collect them when I was a kid but I’m missing I think 3 of them, plus the bulk are in paperback but two of them (Red Sea Sharks, Prisoners of the Sun) are in hardcover and Red Sea Sharks is also in awful condition where it’s falling apart. At some point I want to plug the holes and have a complete set but I don’t know if ones being printed now still look like the ones I was getting in the 80s / early 90s.
Actually Prisoners of the Sun is very likely the oldest thing I own.
Tv series, not books unfortunately. Still saved $17.
Oooh.
I don’t think I ever saw the TV series. I think I’d moved on from the books by the time the TV series was a thing.
Fairly short run, I think. Only covered the books and nothing new.
The cartoon?
It was pretty awesome.
JERK!
*shakes fists of jealousy*
I finish on Friday 🙂
Meanwhile in Canada
nothing.
nothing happened in canada.
One time you guys made a band called Arcade Fire. You did good. Thanks Saturday.
And they birthed the greatest Metal muso evr birthed!
http://gunshyassassin.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Devin+Townsend+devin_having_fun.jpg
COD METAL KING!!!
http://youtu.be/_W4hGm28KH8
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Fun fact: the only war the US ever lost was against Canada. The Canadians , along with the British, invaded and burnt the White House down.
Don’t fuck with Canadians, man. They’ve got a lot of pent-up, deep-seeded rage.
Was it your birthday on the weekend, Jimu? If so, happy birthday! If not, uh, look behind you a three headed monkey!
No, why?
Next month.
Oh, was it because Guts asked?
Yeah! *shakes fist at gutsoup*
Thanks for ruining the surprise party we’ve been planning! 🙁
Greenius Goes to Brisbane: A Taybie Adventure
Who wants to fund that Kickstarter?
Also:
Greenius Does Brisbane: A TAY Porno 😛 😛 😛
Boo Brookside reckon no copies. Might have to order online and wait *sobs* I’m impatient
EB’s website is shockin’
I’m always hunting down things that were sold weeks ago.
You’d think they’d have a system that updated at midnight or something.
The “CALL before you rock up” clause is lazy.
haha, confusing the masses
Mission Acomplished 😛
Welcome to the OC, bitch!
Sitting here repairing a Windows installation when I could be playing Organ Crossing, or Animal Trail, or something.
Oregon Crossing.
Tom Nook loans you the money for your wagon. You have to kill animals and gather enough food to survive but also spend enough time gathering stuff to sell for money when you get to the other end to pay him off. People don’t join your caravan, you start out with a full town’s worth but they keep dying of dysentery or starvation and you lose their valuable skills if they die so you have to choose who gets food & medicine.
Also known as Surgeon Simulator 2013
I really need to play that again. It had a big update that added the heavy and medic from TF2… 😀
@sughly
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1203079854/2013-the-last-halloween
$3,200 – Abbie will tell you her deepest darkest secret.
Partially incredulous that that would be worth it, partially want to find out what it is, but mostly amazed that that level has 1 backer already.
And that’s all they get. No previous reward tiers included. Just the secret. I really hope it’s something completely inconsequential, like “Sometimes I dress my cat up in a frilly dress and we have a tea party.” or “Sometimes I throw out my hot dog because I put too much mustard on it.”
Yeah I saw Lexxy tweet this, but I dunnooooo… the PA guys didnt seem to thrilled with it, which was a bit of a turnoff 🙁 You backing it?
I did, I quite liked Abby’s stuff in the competition, and from what we saw I was pretty well sold. Like I said after the finale, it has a very Jhonen Vasquez vibe, which I love. Anyway, it’ll all be available online, there’s no physical book, so if you’re not really sold just wait and see it when it comes out. It’s not like it won’t be backed, it’s already well past that.
Making a roast for dinner. Never made a roast before. Hope I don’t get food poisoned. D:
Roasts are great because it’s near impossible to mess up. I’m fairly certain you’ll be fine.
We’ll see, BDKIAF. We’ll see. >:|
just give everything a stab before eatin’s
The food, not your guests.
D.C. having guests over? HAHAHA.
You’re okay, Pow. You’re okay.
You’re eating proper food?
Who are you and what did you do with the real @dc?!
It’s like there is some @strange influence over him
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor OVERCLOCKED update:
I played this game a bit on DS, there is very little value added to a 3DS port. The extra levels/demons will be nice though.
Can’t complain about the voice work, pretty standard stuff. (OH HAI ADACHI & RISE!)
Got the ability to fuse demons and “crack” new abilities theis morning, much more interesting now.
Everyone picks on my second fairy 🙁 She is criminally underlevelled because of this!
I love how ludicrously long VG titles can be 😀
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
Excellent title. 😀
Street Fighter EX plus Alpha…..DASH (was that it? The PSone version?
I don’t think the EX series got a console release but the Alpha series did :p
Super Street Fighter II
: Hyper Fighting was a real thing though (the
is pronounced “dash”).EDIT: So that’s how you force [code] formatting into a post without using the [code] tags.
Eh?
EX was on PSone, they did 3 of them!
SKULLOMANIA! is my favourite non-Street Fighter Street Fighter character.
yup, they were on console, Meadi was kind enough to brutally thrash me at them over and over when i lived with him.
Fair enough. I only ever saw the arcade cabinets. Then again, EX was the red-headed stepchild of the Street Fighter family.
In Atlus defence, they don’t name every game Shin Megami Tensei. That’s something we do in the West :-/
It is pretty obvious they all share mechanics and Megami Tensei, Shin Megami Tensei, Persona and Devil Survivor and pretty obviously different series.
Obviously
Yep, the Japanese Persona and Devil Survivor releases don’t have the Shin Megami Tensei name in Japan. The first Persona game sort of calls out its heritage (It was ‘Megami Ibunroku Persona’) but they should really be considered different game series with some shared ideas.
The Devil Summoner series is titled Shin Megami Tensei though.
Summoner? Were those the two on PS2 I never played.
That’s be a nice HD collection (HINT HINT ATLUS!)
There’s four in the series. Original (Saturn & PSP), Soul Hackers (Recently got a 3DS remake), and then the two Raidou Kuzunoha games on PS2. I was always kind of interested in the Raidou ones because the setting itself is interesting (Taisho-era Japan)
Oh right, I didn’t realise the Staurn one was part of thee PS2 ones, cool.
Not as ludicrously long as hardcore band/song/album names.
I met her at a quarter to three, outside Myer in the City perform Anti-Christ? Nah, I’m just misunderstood. My Mum think’s I’m cool, so don’t even worry about it from their debut album Duffman
I think that Japan has cornered the market on long titles for stuff with some of their Light Novel stuff.
Do people still play war of the roses
A) In general
b) Taybie specific
I keep saying that we should organise an event, and then do nothing about it 😛
Are servers still populated. Saw it on sale and was about to buy but my wallet didn’t quite hold enough. I’ve been playing chivalry and if the WotR servers are empty not much point in buying another one.
But if there is active play and potential for tay-date then I might refill it
If I get on tonight I’ll let you know what the servers look like.
According to Steams top 100 games stats:
Chivialry has 1,067 players currently, 2,294 peak today
WotR has 1,128 players currently, 1,534 peak today.
Thanks
No worries!
Just looked it up to see if I’d be able to use a gampad (cause I game on my couch, PC is in lounge room).
Steam has a 75% off sale, so I’m buying it, probably have a go tonight!
@dc should read Astonishing X-Men by Joss Whedon.
I hear his Runaways arc is pretty good too.
It’s not bad. It’s no Astonishing X-Men though.
Only non-TV/movie thing of Whedon’s I’ve read was his Buffy: Season Eight stuff…
Did you like that? The art looked REEEALY average for my tastes.
Think he got carried away with the whole we don’t have budget limitations so we can do any thing stuff. Didn’t feel grounded. I hear he toned it down for season nine, but I haven’t read…
I didn’t care for it. Actually, didn’t much care for his second half of the X-Men arc, or his Runaways arc either. I liked the first 12 issues of Astonishing X-Men but the only Whedon comic I love is Fray.
Fray! There’s a comic I always wanted to read. The weapon from season seven is from Fray too, right?
@dc
Yep. I don’t think it’s aged especially well, but it’s still a decent comic. Kicks the crap out of just about all Buffy, anyways.
You and I disagree on Buffy though. I find seasons two to five some of the finest TV ever written.
What didn’t you like about the second half of X-Men?
Fray was above average. I enjoyed my time but wasn’t blown away.
@dc, Season 4 of Buffy was terrible, but I will concede that 2, 3, and 5 were quite good, and the highlights of the show! 🙂
Season four of Buffy is awesome. *folds arms stubbornly*
Even if it’s just for Hush and Restless. XD
Poor Kitty 🙁
D:
It’s not a spoiler, it’s a Joss Whedon story :p Whoever the main character is will suffer some sort of emotional torment and anyone they’re close to has a pretty good chance of dying.
It was my first Joss, so totally amazingly unexpected.
Also had a crush on Kitty since I was 8, sooooo… (Excalibur)
I’d seen his stuff before, but never really got hooked by anything.
Now I like that and Firefly.
Jimu will be watching Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.? 😀
Of course. Dunno how much once it gets going, maybe I’ll weekly it like Doc Who. Who knows…
You, I like you!
Portable Fun Times
I set up my Vita so i can remotely access my ps3, our PC is set up as a media server for my ps3, through the Vita i can remotely turn on and access everthing on my ps3 and stream movies/ shows from our PC, anywhere i can connect to the interwebs.
PC stream to PS3 streamed to Vita, Hooray (I’m sure i could link the vita directly to the PC but that spoils the pointless fun)
The future is now!
Wow! I wish I knew hoe to do such things. You should come over and set up my modem(tangent)
This actually works on PS3? It sounded like Sony were going to push this hard as a Vita / PS4 connectivity feature.
yep, runs fine, all easy to set up except the media server bit, that was a bitch, i followed step by step guides but i kept finding complications, got there in the end, so usefull, i only store games on my ps3 no need to fill up the HDD with movies etc.
Every time I scroll to the bottom of the page I get a face full of doughnut boobs.
Aint life grand
Amazeboobs?
I didn’t want to bring it up, but I’m glad I’m not the only one who sees boobs in those doughnuts.
Where is everyone today? Usually we have around 900 posts on Monday. I genuinely worry that I’ve upset people or made people not want to post. D:
You have. Everyone isn’t here because you’ve offended them. It’s entirely your fault.
No colon pee. This is for serious. Full cereal.
Seriously dude, relax. No one here hates you. Chill. I fully expect your comment to be edited out at some point.Mainly column B but not cuz of you or TAYbies, sorry but I don’t want to sour everyone’s mood especially on a Monday so I stay quiet
Aw, you should post Tech. Happy to listen if you want to talk. Even if you use D.C.’s patented emo spoiler space!
*bop*
Slow days happen dc, no need to work yourself into a quivering mess of anxiety. All it takes is a few people out and remember it is exam time. Pretty sure greenmang has posted yet this week, (so there is 150 of your 900 post) but that will because he is flat out studying, not because of anything you did.
Hell he even turned down a roast turkey dinner to study, make of that what you will.
tldr: Doofus
Obviously I am a driving force of TAY, and my wife’s birthday is to blame.
*shakes fist at family*
Selfish, selfish, selfish
We’re jealous of your roast.
My house is smelling pretty good right about now, it’s true. 😀
Not me! PORK BELLY TONIGHT *dances a smug jig*
You upset me by excluding me from PAX North so I’m not posting anymore.
Nah, I’m just not much in the mood for talking. Too many things to do. In real life as well as Animal Crossing. 😛
I’m reading and upvoting though.
I can only assume it’s because I have semi-frequent access to TAY in the office today 😛
I don’t TAY anymore during the days and can only jump on Twitter on breaks. I don’t hat you @dc <3
Around midday I was thinking things were moving pretty slowly… then I remembered when the comment system was terrible ‘n nesting was totally broken and no-one knew what was going on, then when TAY first broke 1000 comments, etc. — milestones from a couple of years ago.
It made me feel bored and old. 😐
I’ve been away from the computer most of the day.
Played some piano this morning, started learning Some Nights by Fun and Kyle Landry’s cover of A Whole New World from Aladdin, which has been fun because I’ve never heard the song before, nor seen the film. The cover gets pretty mental towards the end though, judging by the sheet music.
And I also hooked my old laptop up to the CRT TV and played some Mario 64 on an emulator. Almost like playing the real thing! Except with an Xbox controller…
Applying Econometrics.
Is that like Applied Sciences from Batman? You must have so much fun!
“fun” and Applied Econometrics in the same sentence? HA!
(the content itself is alright but the teachers are fucking annoying and can’t run a unit…)
I couldnt be arsed reading to see if it was said, but school holidays started this week. Hence why I’m not on as much at least.
Your story checks out. 😛
That explains about ten posts, where’s the 890 others! D:
Ok Just got an email saying that Payroll are processing my request and will come back to me 😀
*excitements*
Just read a write-up by Eurogamer on Destiny and they finally put into words what it is that’s really grabbed me visually about the game’s art direction.
The game looks like 60s/70s Science Fiction film concept art. The sort of stuff that Ralph McQuarrie used to do, and that Star Wars helped make him famous for. That really lived-in look, where things are rusted and asymmetrical and everything feels like it has age and weight to it.
Futuristic urban decay!
More serious response:
I love that lived in style of scifi too. Gives realistic texture to the world.
It’s what visually set Star Wars apart from basically everything else in SF up to that point. Other SF stuff was always very clean and sterile. Lots of white areas (eg 2001), chrome and other polished metals etc.
Then McQuarrie came along and made things dirty and asymmetric and with exposed mechanical bits and gave things the feeling that they were real, having been actually put together from parts that were on hand and stuff. It’s kind of lost a bit in the actual films (the Death Star areas for example deliberately have that clean, sterile and polished look you’d see in other films), I’m talking about his concept art.
I like a good combination. I loved in Firefly how Ariel and the ‘civilized’ worlds had that glass and metal sheen to them and the frontier was all rustic and makeshift.
Not really urban even. Though I guess the demo sequence they ran through at the Sony E3 conference was a bit?
Also it’s supposed to be set after basically humanity gets all but wiped out and there’s only one city remaining under the protection of some benevolent alien spheroid thing, so I guess you could argue the E3 demo was Futuristic Post-apocalyptic Urban Decay?
The premise intrigues me. Liked the e3 demo too, reminded me of serious Borderlands.
You say that, but I look at these screenshots and I feel it is trying to look lived in and still looks sterile :-/
http://ncloud.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/bungies-destiny-29-new-screenshots.html
Got any better ones?
These are so shiny.
What the hell kind of definition of sterile are you using?
Also, I’m actually talking about the concept art for the game as much as the game itself.
eg:
http://www.bungie.net/en-us/Destiny#page=media&panel=images&gallery=images-Wallpapers
Like a hospital.
I can see what their aiming for but it gets the same feel as a Dream Cast game if you know what I mean. Early days yet, sure they’ll sort it out! 🙂
(The concept art does a better job)
Are you trolling or something?
No.
Honest opinion. The dirty looks really man-made to me.
When I say “like a Dream cast” I don’t mean on a technical level, I mean it looks very much like it was crafted by hand.
I think it’ll look better when it gets released. I don’t know how else to explain that the dirt looks clean.
TAYlist for the 24th of June 2013
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by confusing Supertramp and Blondie last weekTalking Heads – Psycho Killer (Request from a listener)
Kelis – Milkshake (Clearly better than yours)
Savage Garden – Break Me Shake Me (Anyway you want me?)
Paul Kelly – To Her Door
Taio Cruz ft. Ludacris – Break Your Heart
Robbie Williams – Angel
Led Zeppelin – Stairway To Heaven (this one goes out to you @nomad)
Cee Lo Green – F U (Radio edit, because radio)
Dobie Gray – Drift Away (Nice choice, @steve-o_the_deve-o)
Paul Simon – Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard
Amy Meredith – Lying
Ed Sheeran – Lego House (I like it, maybe not playing it to death helped)
Woo Talking Heads! and Paul Simon!
whoop, home time, TLOU or Vita, that is the question….
TLOU, Vita has no games.
Should I @mention Blue? Probably not.lies, i have 9 games on my Vita i wanna play
It’s a joke, but seriously, very few games.
I still own more games that I’d actually play on Vita than I do on 3DS though. Plus way more in development or not yet localized (the 3DS currently has like 2 games I’m actually anticipating)
To be fair, this joke was conceived very early in the Vita’s life.
Also, everyone was taking the piss.
It’s not a funny joke any more.
It stopped being funny a long time ago but I feel like it’s a little unfair to pick on poor Mr. Numero here. Others have been beating that rotting dead horse a lot longer and more often than him!
I don’t mind “the joke” as long as people don’t genuinely believe it. The Vita has games.
…just less than the 3DS 😛
nope, you hat us!
😛hey, no worries, wasn’t offended, I’m happy with my Vita so 😛 to everyone 😀
The Last of Us! Exceptional game. 😀
I probably played about 5 hours straight on release and haven’t played at all since then. I seriously have no drive to go back to it. I’m fairly sure I was enjoying it while I was playing too, so I’m not sure why I don’t want to keep playing.
Beardy said something similar last week. Had only played three hours despite loving it.
I really want to complete it, but (gameplay, no real spoilers)
Forced combat sections can eat a dick. The gunplay is so clunky and horrible, the exact same reason I never got into Uncharted. Everything in between is fantastic, but when it comes to shooting things I can’t stand it.Edit:
Oh, and insta-kill clickers? Fuck that noise. Insanely frustrating.First upgrade I got was the ability to counter clicker attacks with shiv. Made life easier. 😀Yup, completely agree.
Those shootin’ comments are really puttin’ me off.
I gave up on Uncharted reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeal early.
I hated Uncharted’s shooting. More so than anything else I’ve played. And it relied on it so heavily that I’ve only ever played a couple of hours of the first game. It’s not as vital in TLoU, but it’s still there and occasionally forced.
I loved Uncharteds shooting. (Didn’t need that much shooting, but the mechanics itself were fine for me.) *shrugs* 😀
@dc I died so often I just gave up because it wasn’t fun :-/
Seemed like a promising series too.
:'( One thing about The Last of Us is the combat itself is often really frantic. Shot gun is your friend, powerful and something that can get rid of enemies in one shot as they rush you. Otherwise I mostly used fist fighting and stealth… (I think the stealth was pretty screwy in this game though. Far more than the shooting mechanics. :D)
just use the shotgun, or sneak 😛
Sneak is broken and I still don’t have a shotgun.
As the game develops you’ll find you have more options too. The ability to create traps to lure enemies into as well as more flexibility how you approach encounters.I hope something clicks and you like it, Nobs. :'(
@dc
I’m sure the game does open up later but the early game is just painful. Also I lost a lot of respect for the game when it forced combat (against zombies) on me. I know combat is unavoidable but at least let me use the broken stealth mechanics.Some incredible Source FilmMaker posing, set to two TF2 commentators’ discussion
http://youtu.be/vF9ybyWw-eM
Was hoping to get closer to the end of The Last of Us today. That’s not happening. Feel shitty.
Still happy about the sportsball but my body is rejecting the notion of doing anything.
Played an hour or so of Trials Evolution today. Why did it take me so long to get to this? Also what can you do to stop addiction of wanting to beat every single level with Gold.
I believe the only cure is to beat every level with gold.
Only then will those feelings pass and you will move on to the symptoms of beating friends times to get to the top of the leader board
My strategy is to get so angry with the game that you rage quit, unfortunately this cure only lasts for about 5 mins.
lol Gold
Platinum, baby! 😀
Try to find as many people as possible. What kept me going through that game was finding the person JUST above me in the leaderboards and then DESTROYING THEIR TIMES. I slowly worked my way up until I was in the top 5 out of a fair number of friends!
It gets less fun when you can no longer DESTROY THEIR TIMES, but it’s okay because I’m still better than Mark Serrels <3 (I hat u Batguy, Sughly, Shady)
^_^
Glad there was mention of me being better. I can move on from this thread now.
Ugh, so busy today. I actually had to work. *shudders*
Get out of here, workman!
Who is th… wait I already said that.
The days go so quickly! Last thing I remember was playing Animal Crossing on my train to work… now suddenly I’m about to leave work and play Animal Crossing on the way home.
Every day is an Animal Crossing sandwich!
Beat kind of non-edible sandwich.
@powalen
Saw this on Popsugar article thingy at the bottom of the page
http://www.popsugar.com.au/Meet-Mole-Culture-Clash-Australia-2013-Contestants-30858866
If you can find a place to watch it online, or if it’s easily and regularly available to YARGH! then I’ll be on board for watching it :D. Reality TV club commence!
OH SHIT! This got me thinking about when Survivor will return and apparently the cast list leaked a while ago.
@sughly @powalen (again) @strange @phoenix
Seems to be what I thought it would be (family related stuff) and looking through the cast now…
Since it’s on channel 7 you can watch it on their website. Or on your PS3.
http://au.tv.yahoo.com/plus7/
Sweet.
You just gotta remind me when MOLEY MOLE starts and airs (@powalen)
Reality TV is the worst thing ever invented
(worse than the holocaust)
u bad
Worse than the holocaust?
Sounds like someone hasnt watched Survivor…
Seen it, loathed it.
I really don’t get drawn in by reality TV at all.
Humanity at it’s worst? there’s a reason I love Super Hero comics so much
I hope there’s a way to watch it online, I might not be home in time to catch it! D:
It’s on channel 7 though, right? It’ll probably be on Plus7 (the catch-up thingo)!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/06/talk-amongst-yourselves-230/comment-page-3/#comment-1604441
😛
http://ncloud.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/free-to-play-tekken-revolution-coming.html
Errrr, do IT!
SPORTSBALL
I got my tickets for the MLB season opener! HARD HITTING FAST PACED HIGH SCOR- (maybe not but you know)
I am so excited, my inner sports nerd is going squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
END SPORTSBALL
late to the party, but @dc: Astonishing is fantastic.
If you don’t like Cyclops, you will after reading it.
Is he the laser beam eye guy from the movies?
yep
http://images.wikia.com/disney/images/6/64/Gazerbeam's_Body.jpg
Fuck yeah, I forget how much Whedon and Morrison evolved Cyclops.
VIDEO GAMES!
What games do you plan to finish sometime soon? Not necessarily all in Shameless Gaming Month, but within the next few months?
I’ve started and want to finish:
– Fire Emblem
– Luigi’s Mansion 2
– Second Dark Souls playthrough (I want to play and finish the DLC content)
– BioShock
I want to start and finish:
– Pikmin 2
And after watching a whole bunch of Double Fine stuff recently due to Massive Chalice I hope to start and finish:
– Trenched
– Costume Quest
– Stacking (played it before but never finished)
– Psychonauts (played it before but never finished)
– Maybe Brutal Legend again!
– Also XCOM which was mentioned a lot in the videos I saw (thanks for the reminder BENJI!)
New games I’ll probably buy that’ll go against the whole Shameless Gaming thing:
– Pikmin 3
Ideally out of that short list I’d definitely like to get finish Fire Emblem, Luigi’s Mansion, Pikmin 2, Psychonauts and XCOM.
I’m also keen on picking up BioShock Infinite, Tomb Raider, Monaco and a few other things if they go cheap.
VIDEO GAMES!
Fez, maybe. Otherwise I’ve finished everything I’ve wanted to finish for now. D:
Looking forward to Pikmin 3 for sure!
I did install The Last Express yesterday, but present day D.C. agrees with past D.C. — not a huge fan of the rotoscope animation technique. (Despite how pretty it looks when not animated.)
Always wanted to finish it but took a bit of a break which turned into me never playing it again. I fear going back to it now because I’ll know absolutely nothing 😛
Did you only play it for the first time the other day?
Yeah and it says I’m about 75% through. Lots of loose ends in almost all the areas and the maze confuses me. XD
How come you never played it before? I figured it’ll be the type of game you’d like 😀 (exploration!)
Didcha get it on Xbox or PC? I’m interested in getting it again on PC (since I never play Xbox anymore :P) so I’m wondering how it is on PC.
Got it on the GOG sale for $4 last week. I liked the demo on the Xbox, but I don’t like buying games on XBLA or PSN any more. 😀 Keyboard controls feel a bit clunky, so I prefer the controller. Works awesome.
Looking into:
Knytt Underground
Want to finish:
P3P
Coming Soon:
Dragon’s Crown
Muramasa Rebirth
On the pile:
P4A
ME2&3
Fallout New Vegas DLC
Dead Space 2 (Near the end)
Ni Ni Kuni (UGH!)
Tales of Vesperia
Tales of Graces
Tales of the Abyss
Cave Story 3D
Denpa Men
DOOM 3 BFG
Various DS JRPGs
Currently Playing:
Devil Survivor OVERCLOCKED
Ys Felghana Somethingsomething
DKCR3D
Being an RPG fan is hard on the piles 😛
Sure is 🙁
I should get back to Ys again so I can discuss with you now that you’re playing it.
Seems like more of a “want to finish eventually” rather than in the next month or so 😛
I few of those games I want to beat eventually too. I bought Graces at US launch but never played it. Saw that UK got a better edition so bought that too and sold off my unplayed US copy. Still haven’t played it! I kinda want to but at the same time there’s no motivation 😛
I’m more excited for Xillia so I’ll probably play that first 😀
Oh, for sure. Games on the Pile I’m either doing a little at a time or will get to when I do.
P3P was top priority but it seems way more repetitive than P4G, i think that’s just my feeling rather than actual truth if you know what I mean.
I just realised I have Witcher 2 and Star Ocean sitting on the shelf too /o\
And Xenoblade…
mustn’t forget Xenoblade!
Even NegativeZero thinks it’s the best console JRPG this generation 😀
*headdesk*
I will try it again…one day
I’M GETTING MIXED MESSAGES HERE
You never finished Ni No Kuni? :'(
Yeah, funny thing that. Was super hyped at launch and so excited when I started playing.
That world just totally sucked me in. Unfortunately life got in the way, as it tends to do for me, and when I came back it just wasn’t working anymore.
I think a major problem is, I played Persona 4G which has a really well done, well balanced combat system and manages to fully realise a world without all the grandeur.
Coming back to Ni No, that combat system is kinda halfway between action and turn=based and not as good as either and it really tries hard to sell me the world but comes short when compared to P4G.
I intend to go back, last effort was a bit disappointing. I need to get Persona out of my system I think 🙂
That’s not a funny thing. That’s a sad thing. :'(
I plan to finally finish Tomb Raider soon. Also start and finish XCOM 😛
OH YEAH! That’s also on my list. I kinda gave up on it but they talked about it a lot in the Massive Chalice videos (inspired by XCOM)
Just finished Tomb Raider. Fan Friggin Tastic game!
I have a spreadsheet
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8NKHYOdjqwWYUJxUFVpN2pfSWs/edit
I ain’t got no persimmon (permission)
This probably means something…
It means you need permission from the owner of that spreadsheet to view it and because I don’t have it I can’t see anything except a
You are signed in as [my email], but you don’t have permission to access this item. You can request access from the owner or choose a different account. Learn more
😀
okay, that helps
fixed
That’s a tiny list!
I’m right at the end of Okami HD (assuming I don’t go back and spend the hours necessary to get the stray beads I missed, which I probably won’t because it involves doing those FUCKING DIGGING MINIGAMES and also you get the last bead from the end boss which kind of invalidates the need to get all the beads) so I’ll probably be finishing that at some point.
Side note: I’d forgotten how fucking creepy the final area is. The goblin monster things with the masks look like they’ve been transplanted straight out of Where The Wild Things Are and it’s serious childhood trauma stuff. 🙁
I kind of re-started FFXIII but it was clicking for me even less than last time, I might go back to it. Otherwise I’ve been eyeing off the Atelier games I keep buying and never playing so might give one of them a proper go. Plus Muramasa Rebirth is this week so when my copy arrives I’ll be playing that theoretically.
Also once I manage to find some stress-free gaming time I might get back to Persona 4.
Bioshock
Borderlands 2
Tropico 4
I should probably put xcom on the list but think I’ll just end up slaughtering all the taybies again
XCOM was far too stressful, especially after giving them TAY names. :'(
No need to stress dc, you are doing well so far.
I was doing fine when I first played but took a week break or so. Named someone Powalen and they freaked out and half my people died (they never died before) so I never played the game again.
Good going Powalen…
I think next time I’ll start a new game and just go with boring default names 😛
I enjoy the stories that come out of playing taybies. Although when I get a bunch of grunts in they don’t get a TAY name until the level once. Otherwise they are still just meatshields
My list of games i wanna play through is so floppin long it hurts.
Plus i’m forever accumulating new things and wanting to replay old things. LIFE’S SO HARD!
If you’re feelin all TL;DR avoid THE LIST
Assassins Creed 3 (i wanna get this done b4 black flag :S)Dishonored
Dragons Age Origins
Fallout New Vegas
LA Noire
Skyrim
Star Ocean the international one on ps3 (is what im working through now)
Tales of Graces
Mario Bros U
Zelda Skyward Sword
Valkyrie Profile on DS (workin through that too… right near the end)
SMT Devil Survivor 1+2
Dragon Quest 6+9
FF four Heroes of light
Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals
Bowsers Inside Story
SMT devil Summoner
SMT P3
SMT Lucifers Call
Suikoden V
*Takes a few deep breaths*
Plus i needa get bioshock infinite, far cry 3 and a 3ds cos i am itching for fire emblem (which ill probly finish 3 times before a lot of the games listed above)
PHEW.
Skip LA Noire get on DA:O asap.
I have all the DS Dragon Quests on my list, I’ve started them all….
yeah i heard LA Noire was nothing special but it came with my ps3.
I’m the same with the DQs, just gets a little grindy then its hard to figure where i was meant to go.
Oh maaan, I read a guide for VI and I still am lost
My copy of LA Noire came with my PS3 as well! I really tried to give it a go and like it but it’s rather terrible in so many ways.
Seems like you did post your entire list (which is relatively small compared to a lot of us here!) rather than what you’d like to finish sometime soon. I find an easy way to reduce the list is to just play stuff. If you’re not having fun just take it off the list, give it away, sell it. Don’t force yourself to finish stuff for the sake of it if you’re not having fun 😀 (ugh LA Noire)
and Xenoblade
Nah, this is all for sometime soon. I have high hopes and a lot of coffee for the next few weeks!
My steam collection is atrocious(ly delicious).
For the record, I loved LA Noire!
XENOBLADE!
Have you started Graces yet? If you hold out we can be buds and play through it together some time 😀
Oh and since holidays are coming up I’m Commander Keen for some MH3U G-rank!
@platinum-urchin @thecracks @hindenlagen
yeah thats in the mail…. my god. LIST.KEEPS.GROWING.
nah i played a tiny bit to see how it is, but will restart when i play it properly. I’m down for any incentive.
My last exam is on Thursday morning then I’m gaming as long and hard as I’m allowed.
\o/ I just got to HR7 over the weekend. Slowly chugging along.
I’ll polish off my Metal Gear replay, but I’m actually pretty good on my (PS3) pile of shame atm.
PC I may finally finish the Walking Dead, and the Witcher.
That said, tomorrow (INTERNET FINALLY) I’ll be pulling down XCOM and maybe something else
Internet \o/
Have you been stockpiling those Vita games? 🙂
Have started 🙂
Just got back to the college. My room is FREEZING.
Played a lot of Animal Crossing over the weekend. There’s so many improvements in this one! I kinda didn’t really keep up on everything new in it, so there’s been a few surprises.
Also, my phone’s probably going to give its last hurrah in the next few days 🙁 It won’t stay turned on! Still have no idea what to replace it with :S
I’m surprised someone hasn’t said “should’ve bought a Nokia”
It’s looking like I’m going to buy a Nokia 😛
Ugh.
Black Bass and Sea Bass.
UGH
1 point victories in Ticket to Ride are the best :3
Not for the person who lost by 1 point 🙁
Eh, she’ll have her chance to gloat tomorrow when she’s over 1000 points ahead of me on Fitocracy again…
I’m not doing another 20km run to catch up this time though. My knees still ache from that.
Just lookin at the time/length/score you got for that run made me hurt. It was amazing though.
http://www.zombiesrungame.com/freezespreston
Not bad for someone with a semi healed ankle. Happy with that for a start.
@whoevergivesatoss
…. am I reading that right? 22km!?
It’s slightly less impressive when you realise I was on a bike.
Ankle hasn’t completely healed yet so I still hobble a bit when I run. But I’d rather be doing something than nothing.
Its impressive either way. It just had more potential to be frightening and more zombie-like if it was a run.
WOOOOO! Way to go, Freeze. That’s awesome!
I can’t be the only person who’s having issues with the intensity of The Last Of Us. I seriously can’t play for more than two or three hours at a time because I get so freaking tense and wound up.
I could play as long as I wanted, but yeah, I was pretty tense during the whole thing.
It’s weird. I felt the tension, but it didn’t really wind me up or make me feel anxious. Same when I saw Evil Dead. Saw Freeze jumping and all that, I just sat stoically. Haha.
You know what’s going to suck for the next 11 months? No Monday night post-Game of Thrones discussion on TAY 🙁 Lucky Breaking Bad and Under The Dome are happening soon!
Under the Dome. WOOOOOO! There’s Newsroom for me next month too.
Hmm. Looks like I’m going to stick with Windows Phone and just get a cheap Lumia 520. Mainly because of the Nokia apps. I want the cyan coloured one though, and I don’t think Telstra have that one 🙁
Don’t those ones have the changeable backplates? Or is that the other ones? I can’t keep track of them all /o\
I wish I had a cyan 920, like really badly. Seriously considering buying a cyan shell off ebay and changing it myself.
I think it’s the 820 that has the changeable backplates.
I love the cyan coloured lumias but they make them so much harder to get than the standard black! The white one looks pretty nice as well.
@bdkiaf @rize @shane
Was this thing on tomorrow? Is that when I said?
I think that’s when I said. I’m on top of things. Would you prefer early or late lunch? Let’s get this organizzled.
Yup. Any time after 12 is fine by me.
Is there a location locked down at this stage? I’ll be a maybe all the way up to the moment it happens!
Somewhere in Woden. I was thinking of ripping off the Brisbane TAYbies style, and saying “meet at the EB.”
Edit: Also, you should come for Streetpass hits.
Edit2: And stuff. You can get stuff if you come along.
Yeah, I can probably make it at like 12:30 or 1 or something. Whichever, I’ll sort it out from my end.
Alright, so long as there are no other issues, I’ll say 1 o’clock at the EB.
Radical.
Attention those staying at my place for PAX!
Please email me at s.kaylerthomson@gmail.com so I know who exactly is staying here.
So far as I can remember (these people don’t need to email me!) –
Blaghman
Rocketman
Nobfrond
Mashaa
?
Are we allowed to stay there if we already live in Melbourne but can’t get home (or can’t be bothered leaving) at a reasonable time on some nights? I don’t want to miss out on PAX activitiessss because I live in whoop whoop.
Are you driving? I guess if you are then you can’t have more than 5 😛
It’s more of a back up “crash the night” if needed :P. Cheerio
I like that you don’t like the idea of missing things because you live in whoop whoop, but you’re more than happy to try and weasel your way into a place in GEELONG. 😛
It’s more like I’d have to make my way back by myself (or most likely grab a lift with Mr. -0) but at least there’s plenty of people going back to Geelong 😛
just crash at the hotel i’m staying at, i’m sure they’ll be cool with that.
i don’t think they would be.Aren’t you with your friends?
Scary Perth people D:
i actually meant the hotel people, as in they’d be pissed if we suddenly had 4 people hahaha
my friends are cool guys, i don’t think they’d care if you stayed, but yeah, the whole hotel getting angry thing…
That’s fine. We’ll figure something out for travel closer to the date anyway!
Thanks frond! If you need the space – it’s cool I can just go home, but I just don’t want to miss out on cool fun after-PAX stuff or rely on others for lifts back (like if they want to leave early then I’d have to leave too) :D. Just checking my options at the moment!
Ugh, Needius.
😛
Don’t forget that I live less than ten mins away from you now, will be driving in and out (at least to Southbank, then probably public transport to showgrounds) and have already offered you a lift… 🙂
Awesome! Plans are being made \o/
A few weeks to PAX. Wooo
grkfdgfddfhgfdhfgdhfdhfgd IT’S SO COLD
@dc
This took all of 15-20 mins to cook with very few ingredients or prep needed.
I really need to teach you how to cook one of these days.
First problem. Pretty sure I don’t have a frying pan. And if I do, I’ve never used it. XD
Dude, get frypan or a wok. Then you can do this:
http://instagram.com/p/ap_ivqib5U/
or this:
http://instagram.com/p/YM_XFgib0t/
or this:
http://instagram.com/p/W_lqQSCbyy/
All dead simple!
That looks like it probably tastes better than it looks 😛
@dc – hope your roast is good.
I made “roast for one”* three nights last week because I’m to lazy to cook, and it’s been so cold here at night.
*”Roast for one” is my own invention, where instead of roasting a big hunk of meat, I do everything the same, but substitute a small piece of meat. One night was a lamb shank, another night was a chicken maryland, and the third night was a t-bone steak.
When it’s done, I just turn the oven off and nuke some greens on the plate I’m going to eat off. I also line the roasting pan with foil, so the only washing up is my plate and cutlery 😀
Actually it was one of the best meals I’ve had in a long time. Did something naughty and had three bowls.
Now I feel sick and guilty.
Roast was okay, but definitely not worth the time it took to cook, alas.
Yeah, it needs some time in the oven, but you only need to spend 2 – 5 minutes doing any actual cooking yourself. It’s not instant gratification, but to me a roast is one of the best meals you’ll have for 2 minutes actual work.
I didn’t make gravy or any roast potato, so I don’t think it counts as a real roast. 😀
I never do gravy either. But spuds are a must. That’s most of my 2 minutes prep time – cutting up some veges.
I hope you give it another shot one day.
And mushrooms are a must! They soak up all the meat juice *drooldrooldrool*
Stoner.
I do something similar, though typically use rib-eye. Lightly oil, stuff with whole cloves, and wrap in foil.
Serve it on a bed of mashed taters with a balsamic reduction and bang, you’ve got a hearty meal for one.
Man, I’d never really paid much attention until now, but boy is it hard to find user reviews for tablets that aren’t riddled with fanboyism 😛 I didn’t think it could get any worse than the Nintendo/Sony/MS flamewars, but it totally did.
But yes, I’m thinking I might get a tablet because I don’t get to use my desktop much during the week and my laptop is on it’s last legs. I’m oddly drawn to the iPad Mini but $_$
Ah well, I’ll figure it out eventually.
Mum has a samsung galaxy tab 2. That seems pretty good.
Best thing is to try before you buy I think
Buy before I try? OK!
I’ve got an iPad. Serves me well for what I want to use a tablet for. (Portable internet and music.)
And Rayman Run DC! Rayman Run!
I just have 4 land of the dead levels left before I can finally complete this game 100% One day 🙂
Hahaha, what rock have you been living under for the last 3 years? The fanboys needed something to keep them occupied while they were waiting for the next gen to come out 😛
Also, you should totally get a Lenovo Thinkpad Helix. Who cares if the top of the line one costs about $3000 in aus? It’ll keep you going for a while 😛
More seriously, you should probably wait until later this year to get a new tablet/laptop/what have you. The new Intel processors are apparently a significant upgrade over the current ones for tablets. A lot more powerful, capable of actually playing games, and better battery life, more in line with what ARM processors have (10+ hours) but way, way more powerful from what I’ve heard. I know they’re going to be for Windows 8 tablets, but I think they’ll be in android tablets too. Not sure about that though.
Says the guy who hasn’t seen Dragon Ball Z… 😛
I was looking at smaller-sized tablets a while back because I don’t really like my iPad’s form factor much, and at the time it seemed like the decision was basically Nexus 7 or iPad Mini. I was also leaning toward the iPad Mini but I’m hesitant when they still have a lower-res screen and iPad 2 parts inside. Thinking I’ll wait for the next refresh and re-evaluate.
It’s so hard considering buying Apple stuff because you know there’s always going to be a better upgrade just a few months away!
Might duck into JB at lunch tomorrow and see what they’ve got.
To be fair, by this point you should have that worry with every make of tablets and phones.
It’s usually a year between Apple refreshes.
I love my Nexus 7.
Ever considered Kindle Fire?
(@powalen too)
My dad has a Kindle Fire, Kindle Fire HD, iPad and Galaxy Note. They all seem alright and he seems to be pleased enough with them.
I don’t really want an Android tablet though.
There’s that 8-inch Acer Windows 8 tablet that just came out? I’m seriously considering getting one of those. Although I’ll probably wait for that Lenovo one (The Mix 8 I think it was called) to come out. They usually make pretty good quality products.
I have a Surface RT. I don’t want a Windows tablet either, I’m sticking to my iPad until I replace it with the next-gen mini.
iPad mini is seriously under spec for the money. Wait for the next version.
Probably not helping, but I got a tablet a few weeks ago.
I’m not interested in apps, (I already have an iPhone for that) I just wanted one for internet on the couch or watching movies in bed so I really couldn’t justify spending big money.
I went for one of those generic 7″ Android tablets from the supermarket for $99. It runs vanilla Android 4.2, does everything I need and it’s as light as an ebook reader, so it’s easy to hold in one hand.
The only negative for me is the screen resolution, but for $99 and for my modest needs I can live with it. If I could justify spending more than double, I’d go for a Nexus 7.
Yeah it seems to be a toss up between Nexus, Galaxy Note and iPad Mini from what I’ve read. I’ll look into them all. It would be nice to finally have an iDevice for iOS apps but it depends on what they’re like in-person!
The Note comes with a stylus for all your drawing needs! 😛
I have no idea if the deal is going on there but my dad bought one last week because The Good Guys had a deal where you also get a $100 Good Guys voucher and a Popcorn machine (worth around $100). Notbad!
I’d recommend the nexus 7. You’ve seen and used mine so you have an idea about how it looks and feels 🙂
It’s great at what it does and it’s affordable. Affordable enough that even if new tablet models release later this year, and you’re tempted by them, it doesn’t feel like a waste. You can get one from $200-$250. There’s even a 3G version for $250-$270 so you can browse TAY on your way home and not use up your phone’s battery.
One thing I also like about it is the simplicity and openness just allows you to copy and paste movies/music and watch/listen to them as you wish. I’d recommend the MX player app for movies and TV. Also cheap humble bundle games 🙂
I have a Nexus 7 and an iPad Mini. Both are actually pretty great. The iPad has a better screen and the iOS store is better but you obviously pay a premium for that. It’s all based on what you’re looking for I suppose.
@benj According to the Nokia website you can change the back on the 520: http://www.nokia.com/global/products/phone/lumia520/
So you should be able to get a cyan cover off ebay or somewhere.
Didn’t notice that, awesome! Thanks man 🙂
@jimu: The lithograph with the Muramasa LE is definitely a new image that I’ve never seen before. A little bummed that it’s Kisuke and Torahime though, but I guess that Momohime is in all the other images that they’ve done as promos for the game.
Oh yeah, I meant to say, I think I jumped the gun on that call.
Not as great as I would have hoped. 🙁
I’m happy to own (or soon own) a special George Kamitani art print.
EDIT: Especially one that is from Muramasa and not Dragon’s Crown. I like Dragon’s Crown’s look but I don’t think I’d want artwork from it.
I replied to this and Kotaku logged me out when I hit submit o_O
Was someting about preferring DC’s art (Hi @dc) but still loving Muramasa’s and wanting a print but knowing it will just get packed away somewheres and I think this re-reply has actually turned out to be longer than the original reply, but that’s OK because now I can write a sentance which is too long for it’s own good. He he oooooh
Oh god… Kapp’n just farted and talked about his poop deck.
#nocontext
Yeah I got that one once. I was like, “did he?”
Knytt Underground is amazeballs.
Turn the lights off, use headphones and BAM!
Those odd photo backgrounds are some wicked surreal stuff and the Boards of cANADA STYLE MUSIC/NOISE IS SO GOOOOOOOOD
(Capsfail)
I notice you didn’t mention the character designs 🙂
Fairly average, yes. Not as bad as I was led to believe. Or maybe you softened the blow?
They certainly aren’t taking away from the game in any way.
Yeah, they don’t take away from the game but they’re just fugs 😛
They seem out of place to me.
They match the humour and writing style quite well I think. It’s a good contrast to the seriously serious dark world.
There was a lounge in Prince’s house that made a fart squeak whenever you sat on it. It made me laugh.
Speaking of my favourite frog neighbour Prince, his new greeting is “Hello my baby!” It also makes me laugh.
What does your best friend Gloria call you?
I don’t know, I don’t talk to her.
Or when you’re traveling with someone of the opposite sex, he gets really creepy interested.
YOU AND YOUR LADY FRIEND HATE ME T_T
The Last Boy Scout is on GO!
Great film.
Satan Clause!
Watched a bit of Attack On Titan for the first time…
O.O
WTF?!
it gets more WTF, seriously, it’s one of the most depressing animes ever, i love it!
OH GOD FINALLY! I came on asking about it and noone seemed to be watching it yet. Except negzero, who didnt like it, but what does he like amirite!
You up to date with eps? I ruckonnnnn…
They have been boring as hell the last 3 eps. Soooo much filler! Geebus! 3 eps of really nothing. Right until then though it had me so hooked. Hope the filler stuff will be over soon and it will up the pace again!Negzero hates everything xD
Yeah, the Trost battle is going way too long, and do you think it would have been much better if the main character had actually died? like, when that happened, i thought that it was the gutsiest move in a show i’ve ever seen, and i thought it would then focus on Mikasa and Amin (or whatever their names were). then the special titan shows up, and i knew it was him… but then i thought maybe he is stuck as a titan forever, which is equally tragic as him dying. but noooooooo, he can transform into titan mode like a power ranger… they really missed out on what i would think would be a really great plot device… sigh… one day i’ll make my own anime…also, i’ve read ahead of the anime in the manga, it gets more interesting… and more depressing…EDIT: also this is a perfect time to plug the wallpaper i made for myself while waiting for the Xbone conference 🙂 http://i.imgur.com/1ZCpi3b.jpg
Oooo! (on the read the manga bit). Yeah I totes agree, I also thought…
that it was gutsy move and that Mikasa would be the main. I thought that was an amazing move! But yeah… I dunno, I was still sold on it when he transformed to protect them from being shot at in that inquisition, that was kind of cool and creepy. But from the next ep on, MY GOD SO MUCH FILLER. I’m not as down on the transforming thing, I think there’s some super interesting stuff going on with his dad that I’m looking forward to finding more about. GO TO THE DAMN BASEMENT ALREADY!!i’m not against the transforming thing, it’s very interesting, it’s just i think they missed out on something cool to do. and yes, he needs to go to that fucking basement.Oh, yeah, Hey Sughly, I meant to mention that I watched the first… seven episodes? I’m enjoying it, though based on what I’ve heard about it, it gets rather dumb.
Thoughts:
I’m kind of in 2 minds with the art style. When the thick lines work, they look amazing, but some of the time they really, really, don’t.Wow, characters dying like this, what is this, Game of Thrones?Hahaha! I knowwww! So good though ^_^ Yeah I agree on the art style thing, it can be a bit jarring. I’m in two minds about it as well, totes agree.
That said though oh man that intro, gets me excited every time 😀 cc@grandmasterb-funk
that intro is so hype.
Whyyyy?! Harvey Norman of all places have the cyan Lumia 520 in stock for cheaper than Telstra sell the boring black one for, but I don’t know if anybody remembers the last time I ordered online fron HN and the ensuring argument with Luke(?) from Giz.
I honestly don’t know if I could ever bring myself to buying from HN. I feel disgusting just thinking about it.
Erm… eBay?
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Brand-New-Nokia-Lumia-610-Phone-Windows-Mango-8GB-5MP-WiFi-GPS-3G-Unlocked-Cyan-/380638843167
Completely different phones.
*sigh*
Sorry, it’s been a rough day…
…
Can’t help you there.
Again, sorry.
🙁
I remember that 😐
If you can get the phone you want and it’s cheaper, I reckon it’s worth giving HN another chance.
Never thought I’d say that 😛I still haven’t figured out how I’m an entitled twat for wanting a full refund in a reasonable time frame :l
Edit: But yeah, I might just be able to get to the only HN around here with it in stock on Wednesday, so I’ll see how I go.
Yeah, me neither.
Luke hit the ground at Giz with a pretty short temper, but he’s mellowed a lot in the last few months, which is quite a feat given that he cops a lot of shit he really doesn’t deserve (and some he does).
To be honest, neither of you came out of that one looking too good. Stupid internet, obfuscating communication again!The problem was that the conversation had kinda moved on from people demanding that they get given the tablet, to the issue of their crappy (almost non-existent) customer service, and Luke didn’t really follow.
I know, but that was many months ago. Luke got it wrong.
I’m not defending him, but surely it’s time to move on and forget about it?
Same with HN. If it saves you money and you get the colour you want, then maybe give them another shot? (Again – I can’t believe I’m saying that! :P)
Shit, sorry. That was just… how this conversation was flowing and I just went with it. I didn’t mean to seem like I was still holding on to it.
Lambo hasn’t seen Aladdin or heard the song A Whole New World? How did this not get commented about on page 3. Next time I feel bad for not seeing an obscure cult movie, I’ll think of this… At least I’ve seen Aladdin. 😛
I haven’t seen it either 🙁
I did complete the Sega game several times if that counts for something? (I even completed with 5 lives once. You only start with 3 so I’m pretty happy with that.)
D:
I guess I haven’t seen Beauty and the Beast. No one’s perfect. 😛
Ahem… I guess I’m pretty far from perfect. I haven’t seen that one either.
You guys!
I’m not angry, really, I’m not.
Just… disappointed.
YOU MONSTER.
You probably don’t get that reference 😛
He hasn’t seen Dragonball Z either :'(
I’m pretty sure 99% of the Dragonball Z I’ve seen is in the abridged format. Better than Lambo, but still.
Well at least I’ve seen half an episode of Pokemon. That kind of makes up for it a bit, right?
…
What is wrong with kids these days? 😛
I know!
(is only like 1 year older than Lambo)
Pokemon? The age is a moot point because IT STILL PLAYS ON BOTH FOXTEL AND FREE TO AIR TV.
Half an episode?
Doing it WRONG 😛
I think he hasn’t seen Simpsons either.
*headfloor*
Today marks the seven year anniversary of my first date with my wife. They say you get itchy feet after seven years – it’s so true.
I’ve totally fallen for
…my 3DS! \o/ I fucking love this thing. Thanks again @mythamphetamine!Turnip prices?
That game sounds way too weird for me. Also, about $45 outside my self-imposed budget for a handheld game 😛
I’ve only played Super Scribblenauts so far (not even played any 3DS games yet :P)
Have you talked to Neg about the MH code? I think that promotion ends at the end of June. Free game!
Helpius! \o/
I forgot.
@negativezero, are you still offering MH3 by any chance? 😀
I do but you need to also register the 3DS with a UK club Nintendo code – if you don’t have that then the extra code won’t work.
I… don’t know what this is. I’ll investigate when I get home! 🙂
Inside new Nintendo consoles and games will be a card with a code on it that looks like http://cdn02.nintendo-europe.com/media/images/03_teaser_module_1_square/other_3/club_nintendo_3/TM_ProductCode_TM_middle.png (for UK)
You can sign up for Club Nintendo (in this case you need to make a Club Nintendo UK account) and input codes for stars/points. You can then redeem those stars/points for “cool” rewards. Japan, US and UK all get some pretty cool items like Mario Kart trophies, full game soundtracks, downloadable games and other cool Nintendo stuff. Whereas Club Nintendo Australia only has stupid shit like shoelaces, post-it notes and a deck of cards… WHOOPIE! (on the rare occasion we’ve had limited edition stuff – Gold Wii Nuchuck, SNES Wii Controller)
Sometimes they’ll use those Club Nintendo registration codes for other promotions like this Monster Hunter one and one where if you registered Ocarina of Time 3D’s Club Nintendo code by a certain date, you got a full physical SOUND TRACK FOR FREE! (one of the better promotions Nintendo Australia had :D)
So basically you need to look in the box of the 3DS and hope Aleph kept the code in and didn’t use it. Then go to Club Nintendo UK’s site (just Google it), make an account and enter the code. Then ask Neg for more instructions about the MH promo because I’m not sure on the deets.
@greenius
TL;DR
Too long, did read? 😀
Thanks!
TURNIP PRICES?!
http://24.media.tumblr.com/f4ab20dd7962b19e391790fb00269c9a/tumblr_mn2mhaECDH1s94i96o1_500.jpg
Titan That Eats Me Can’t Be Never This Cute
Some rather rad fanart I saw the other day http://sughly.deviantart.com/art/Sasha-374839850
Good Morning good fellows.
My buttocks are bruised and tender.
What what. Chin up lads.
What what in the butt
*cough* @jimu @welbot @strange @batguy @shiggyninty @fatshady @harli (sorry if I missed anyone)
Just found out about the post tracking feature! Sorry for not replying to your posts earlier and disappearing for month-long periods and being super rude!
With this new found power, I shall be able to converse! CONVERSE I SAY!
Too many exclamation marks.
Not enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ENDU IS BACK
HI
HEY ENDU!! I met you one time, remember that? REMEMBER!? I do…
I do remember, Sughly. How could I forget? I was amazed as I really expected you to not have a nose…
w00t! just in time too! I’m going to be organizing a meat at my place soon! Vidya games and hot pot!
Sounds good man, I’d love to come. Just give me some notice this time, eh!
well there’s no set date yet, except that it looks like it’ll be a sunday, as that seems to suit most people. If you can lock down a sunday, let me know, and we’ll settle on a date!
Sundays are good!
Welcome back Endu!
Come one, come all, to Shane In Melbourne for Conversation and Intimacy with TAYbies (YES, Melbourne) and an Elegant, Litigious Bonanza (SIMCITYMELB).
It’s also a @puppylicks farewell meat! So doubly important you intend. Especially @puppylicks, because it wouldn’t be much of a farewell meat without him…)
So we’ll call it the Shane In Melbourne for Conversation and Intimacy with TAYbies (YES, Melbourne) and an Elegant, Litigious Bonanza and Farewell Our Respected Puppylicks Meat (SIMCITYMELB-FOR-PM).
Shane will be gracing Melbourne with his presence for a weekend, and will bring books (@zetrox2k and @smurfydog, I haven’t forgotten you want books!), fun and his ebullient personality (note: in this list, only books are guaranteed). And if you can get there, you can join in.
MEAT DETAILS:
Date: Friday, 5 July
Time: 7pm unless objected to.
Place: Yoyogi on Swanson St (or meet up somewhere else first and walk to Yoyogi)
So many details!
Proposed plan:
1. Meet at Yoyogi on Swanson St at around 7pm (too early/too late for anyone?) and eat dinner.
2. After dinner, migrate to Galactic Circus (whatever that is), and enjoy ensuing shenanigans.
3. After that, chill (literally) on the lawn chairs at Federation Square until frozen solid. Serve with alcoholic beverage of choice.
4. Come and visit @Shane at his Oz Comic-Con table on Saturday and/or Sunday and give him all your money.
Tagging these folks (FYI and comments): @negativezero, @princesspipster, budgieishere, @inquisitorsz, @syvraen, @jordi, @splicer, @tofu, @ynefel, @blood_apathy, @notoriousr, @sarcasmfairy, @joshy206, @dire_wolf, @crazyguy1990, aidan, beavwa, @chuloopa, @f4ction, @tech_knight, @klutar, @puppylicks, @scree, @pixel_the_ferret_viking, @greenius, @zetrox2k, @mcgarnical, @smurfydog, @tigerion, @velnica, @shane (untagged because they’re piking, but retained for complete listism: aidan, beavwa and budgieishere)Will be re-posted at irregular intervals until the day in question.
Edit: If that’s not enough incentive, it looks like Peaceful Tomorrows will be out in time for that weekend (though only just), and you guys might well be the first ones who have a chance to obtain said book.
Edit 2: We need to remind PIXEL by email, because he shuns TAY. This is here so I don’t forget (I may still forget).
jacob(dottithingy)didriksen(weirdawithatrunk)gmail(dottithingy)com
No.
You guys! Kristen Stewart got a tattoo exclamation mark.
So excite.
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¡¡¡
What was that noise!?
I hope she got it somewhere on her front, so whenever MGS fans see her coming they freak out and hide.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/06/watching-this-video-will-make-you-happy-with-1990-nostalgia/
So much awesome from just one year.
Wow! That video goes about 11 mins longer than I expected!
Stop the propagation of fuckery!
Let’s neuter all the stupid people.
And people who put pineapple on pizza.
Nope.
(But happy to neuter the other stupids.)
Wait, so we neuter everyone? Because you are stupid if you don’t put pineapple on pizza.
I don’t think we can be friends any more.
I want my body oil back.
IT’S SWEET FRUIT. HOW THE FUCK DOES IT BELONG ON A SAVORY TYPE FOOD LIKE PIZZA.
YOU SIR, ARE BAD.
Actually, you’ll find that to cut down the acidity of tomato-based dishes/sauces, you use sweet ingredients. Sometimes just plain sugar.
So yeah, tomato and sugary stuff? Works. Works real well. It’s an established thing.
You are dead to me.
Excellent point rebuttal.
The alternative for cutting acidity would be to, well, dilute the mix with water.
If Pizza Soup is a culinary item you enjoy, I can can respect that, as each person’s palette is different.
WHAT IS PIZZA SOUP??
It sounds amazing.
… but how can something so wrong
feeltaste so right?AMBROSE IV
BLAGHSIE MADE A STORY ABOUT YOU BEING DEAD.
im glad to see you aren’t
Hi
Hello, and thank you, Rocketman!
I don’t blame Blagh — it all started with @chuloopa blowing me up in his story waaaaaaay back when. 🙁
At least I think I blew upI was a planet 😀But still, dammit Blagh!omg pineapple on pizza is the best, what is this!
Animal Crossing Stuff!
Apparently the Nook’s store on my main Street is closing for renovations. Does this mean the store is geting upgraded?
Or maybe someone finally got wise and broke his legs for once, so now he’s too afraid to run his business.
Oh crap, I haven’t payed off my latest loan …
Also, that’s not how it works. Nooks runs the town, I just assume he is doing some kind of drug trade that day,
he is breaking issabelle’s legs for not giving him enough business.
Getting new solid gold shark tank pool bar installed.
Yep. It can be upgraded a few times after set conditions are met 😀
I haven’t seen the upgraded version but if it’s anything like other games they’ll sell more items and more types. Also…
CATALOGUE! Re-buy everything piece of furniture, clothing etc. you’ve ever had.
Saaaaame. Excitedddd! 😀
stupid telstra
no offense @techknight
seriously, i called up because i wanted to get a internet connection in the house before i get there so i can show up and everything is good to go
telstra: “no worries it will be set up by the weekend, oh wait, apparently there is a line problem in the area we can fix it july 11th”
Me “thats a long time for a simple issue, shouldn’t it be asy to fix such a thing, i have some technical experience running cable, maybe i can fix it”
Telstra: “don’t touch the wiring in the house, its bad only telstra certifitied techs can do that”
Me: “thats not true, you just said that to make me not touch it”
Telstra: “im sorry sir july 11th a tech will be there HANGS UP”
i dont even want to go through telstra, mum apparently wants to transfer our exsisting plan so she doesn’t get stung the charges to opt out early”
If it’s a line problem in the area you probably couldn’t fix it inside the house.
Also assuming ADSL, in cases like this it’s often better to set up with Telstra then cancel / churn to someone else, because if there’s line faults then Telstra will fix them but fob off their competition.
they never gave me the details but i asked the neighbours yesterday and they have telstra internet that works fine. my only conclusion is that the wiring either to or in the house needs replacing. in most cases its just cat-5 cable. its not exactly rocket science, which i am also a expert in. 😛
Rocket-science just got a whole new meaning! 😀
I also have had bad experiences with Australian-based customer support lately.
And speaking of Telstra, I saw this last night —
If it happens to be the same as mine, which I believe is pretty common, its just the wiring in the box outside the house. I watched the dude do it when he came, he just took the wires that are sitting there, which apparently direct the phone lines, and was like yeah this connection is for your unit and just connected said wire to said unit. Was like… I had to wait 2 weeks for that? Relly?
Morning folks, I was wondering if anyone had seen this petition at Change.org to get an Australian actor to voice Mr. Rockatansky in Mad Max. What do we think? Is this pointless? Are there more important things we should be showing our slacktivism for? Will Avalanche care? Have we talked about this before and shut up Rebus?
http://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/avalanche-studios-hire-an-australian-actor-to-portray-max-in-the-mad-max-videogame-2
Hello guy from Community Kudos, welcome to TAY!
greetius
i really like the term slacktivism, because its the exact type of activist i am. i only care about it if i can fix it by typing. if i can’t then i dont really care.
Totally signed it. It’s Mad Max, fochrissakes. It’s like remaking Crocodile Dundee with an American playing Mick Dundee.
Or a JRPG with American voice acting………Oh…
or a jrpg with British voice acting. no wait, i want British voice cast in everything.
Feel bad about the guy who’s gonna be put out of work. I wonder how many kids he has.
None, he’s sterile and from a rich family. He doesn’t need to work, he just does it for something to do. Also, his girlfriend likes to hunt whale.
So.. in other words, whenever his girlfriend is on a whaling vessel, this job is all he has. Oh man. 🙁
😛He also has a 40 year old bottle of Scotch, a box of tissues and the depraved kind of porn where nobody ever smiles, or enjoys the act.
Alone he sits on his stupidly expensive leather chair, wondering how his life filled with so many things can be so empty. He downs the 8th glass of scotch for the night. He puts his hand to his head and feels the pulsing of his brain. He is so empty, nothing but a pulse and a skin. Tears start to fall down his unshaven face without his consent. He is alone, he has always been alone and he always will be.
http://www.gamedynamo.com/images/galleries/photo/1359/top-10-hammy-video-games-dracula-castlevania-symphony-of-the-night.jpg
So being sterile means the only way he can leave a legacy is to voice this game.
And you want to take that away.
Monster.
Already signed.
A true cause I can get behind.
Yeah, save the whales, end world poverty, cancer research… all total dead ends. This is where it’s at.
Man, fuck whales.
http://i.imgur.com/CG5YP.png
What if it was to ditch Kiefer and bring back Hayter?
How much whale sex would be involved then?
Hayter’s already coming back. Your argument is invalid on its face.
Also, I personally wouldn’t get up in arms about it. As much as I love the MGS series, I never finished 3, and haven’t played 4 or Peace Walker yet (Though I have watched longplays of 3 and 4).
So I was just reading Vooks…
… and even though $60 for a physical copy seems a ridiculous reference point, I wish all downloaded copies of games were half price. It would help offset the hassle of tying up my internet for hours on end and eating into not-very-generous bandwidth caps — surprising to see Nintendo doing it though, usually I’m more than ready to bitch about their extremely rigid pricing.
I always prefer yo buy instore for that exact reason.
MY bandwidth means that if i decide to download a game during the afternoon-evening when my family is home, i am tying up the entire connection for several hours. I would rather pay a little more, get the game to put on my shelf and not tie up all the connection.
“he starts bragging about how much success he’s having with his psychic rehabilitation. Wolverine responds to this in the most amazing way possible, by growling “I’ll penetrate his recesses!””
Read More: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2013/06/24/the-x-men-episode-guide-1×04-deadly-reunions/#ixzz2XBGDkJdP
Hey, terrible fan fictions are my domain. Back off.
Fanfic… slashfic… the borders are blurring here…
Needed to include this image, it makes the quote — http://www.blogcdn.com/www.comicsalliance.com/media/2013/06/cyclopswolverinepat.gif
My ‘putener skills failed me 🙁
I have no idea why, but @rowan keeps downvoting *everything* I put up, no matter what it is? Whats your problem @rowan?
Is he a member of the No Homers club?
Well it does say no homerS…
Did I kick your puppy this morning or something dude?
Maybe he saw posters for the new Smurfs movie and he’s taking it out on you? 🙁
If that’s the case I completely understand… truly a crime against humanity that movie…
Hahaha. Actually I didn’t mind that movie!
I have little kids, and when you put yourself in ‘kid brain’, you can enjoy stuff you’d never choose to watch.
I also really like Despicable Me, Kung Fu Panda and How to Train a Dragon.
I had a bigger reply lined up, but then realised that I’m being a negative douche, so I scrubbed it.
You said some stuff I didn’t like. I tried to let you know you were wrong, and you got angry and accused me of being aggressive, etc, etc. So everytime I see you, I downvote you.
But I don’t want any negativity in my life, so I’m going to say sorry. And I’m going to stop doing it.
Sorry. I was being a douche.
Carry on Weresmurf. Go forth and prosper.
*hugs* It’s all good. I just went to sizzler and saw Monsters University. It was awesome. Have some cheesy toast!!!
Awwwww.
You’re alright man. You’re alright.
TAY! long time no SKYRIM!
Actually, have started playing Oblivion again, one thing I really missed when playing SKYRIM!, not being able to create your own spells, very goodly.
Also, I couldn’t stands it any longer, so I broke and ended up creating a US account on my 360 and bought State of Decay.
Wow, this game might just be my new SKYRIM!
Having an absolute blast with it, this is a true zombie survival game, this is THE zombie game I have been (un)dying* to play all my life.
*sorry, couldn’t resist.
Work is bloody insane, however I might actually be able to post more tomorrow, I have this two minute break to write this as my bosses grab coffee, but I may actually have most of the day to myself tomorrow… seems almost like a dream.
Also bought a copy of Luigi’s mansion 2, but haven’t had a chance to play it yet, but it looks like I have my bus trip home entertainment booked now.
Skyrim need multiplayer bad… need multiplayer co-op BAD…
http://forums.skyrim-online.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=15
Ta 🙂 will have to give it a go, always amazes me Bethesda never even put in co-op…
It’s weird, because it seems made for it. But I’ve also heard many people complain they don’t want it because they think it would ‘dilute’ the experience or somesuch.
Water would dilute my cola, the options always there, but rather than destroy my experience, I choose not to add water.
Options, they’re great! 😉
It’s quite easy really, some games just simply double up the enemies when a co-op partner joins, or make the enemies harder. *shrug* Oh well.
Yeah, I’m all for it. Shouldn’t be hard to implement at all. If Oblivion/Skyrim had co-op multi, I’d be all over it.
He @trjn are you reading any of the Nu DCU stuff?
Any gems?
I’m only reading Batwoman as it Hard Covers and mainly for the art.
Is it always hard when you read Batwoman?
http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/14/145293/2801154-batwoman1.jpg
Take a look. What do you think?
And if that isn’t enough
You are the quote master.
When Rucka was writing, this was handled quite well.
Since he left it’s been more of a monster of the week type deal. All that stuff isn’t as much at the front as it once was. To be fair though, they’re doing a good job setting up her world within Batman’s.
I was skimming over the New 52 after you mentioned it to see if any looked interesting (because god, I’m so bored) and it just fit with the tone of the comments so well 😛
Oh, in that case:
All New X-Men
Saga – Brian K Vaughn
Fantastic Four – Matt Fraction
Haven’t touched it.
Not keen on the idea or just not interested or haven’t had a chance?
I don’t read that many comics.
CAUSE YOU ARE A MONSTER.
you have time, frey frey has comics, read dem. 😛
aquaman, batwoman are pretty boss.
batwoman is the best out of all new 52 stuff.
I’ve never had a problem with Aquaman so I found the way Johns keeps apologising for him and trying to make him seem tough or funny was grating.
It was too self-aware in all the wrong ways.
Snyder’s Batman was alright, but it was just alright. I feel like everyone goes on about it because it’s one of the least shit Nu DCU titles and not because it’s actually really good.
i just like the art, the first story arc was pretty cool, mainly cause owls are cool.
I liked the art in the first few Aqua Mans, that dood’s quite good.
Whatsisname that does Batman…I’m up and down. SOme of it I love, some not so much.
I have this hate’hate relationship with Spawn and he drew Spawn for ages.
He is good though.
But that’s all you need sometimes, man. Cool art and a cool concept and you can sit through the same old adventures again.
http://au.ign.com/articles/2013/06/24/william-fichtner-confirmed-as-shredder-in-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles
Shredder’s a cracker 🙁
Personally I find this great news. Fitchner is great at playing bad guys. And he has an awesome scenery chewing style that could really work in this movies favour.
I lost all my respect for this film long ago.
Honestly, though, for a reboot, I don’t have a problem with details changing (like making Shredder not be Japanese) as long as there’s a decent narrative decision to back it up.
Honestly, that’s better casting than anything else they’ve done so far. At least he’s going to be the same species he’s meant to be. Unlike the titular turtles, who are neither mutant nor turtles.
I’ve got no issues with that. The man knows how to act, and hopefully they picked him because he’ll do the role well. It’s better than picking a Japanese-looking actor because of looks.
Bad. I still live in constant terror of a live action Akira film. Especially one with white folks playing the main characters.
I had a dream about this movie the other night and it turned out to be brilliant and I thought… I’ll never judge Megan Fox again. Then I woke up and started judging her.
http://au.ign.com/articles/2013/06/24/muramasa-rebirth-review
YES!
(cc @negativezero They didn’t even bother with an American dub!)
Why would they bother? It doesn’t need one and the Wii version never had one 😛
Why do they ever bother?
It’s a ystery that will never be solved.
(because peeps are lazy to read subs)
For some games it’s okay but for others like this and Yakuza that are set in Japan with Japanese people, it just doesn’t make sense :D. I usually play with dubs if they’re good enough. But if a game is only gets localised in Jap audio only then I’m not too fussed! I don’t see why they can’t pop in original Jap audio for those who want it in dubbed versions now a days though (especially for JRPGs – Final Fantasy, Tales of)
Yeah, since games are on BD now, dual audio should be standard.
I am fine playing MGS in English, it’s set in America etc, makes sense.
I can kind of forgive it in most Final Fantasys because they are Fantasys. Stuff like Persona, Onimusha etc, where they go to great lengths to localise the culture into English, it seems odd, you know?
I am generally too impatient to let them finish speaking anyway.
I’m constantly trying to skip through dialogue after I’ve read the subs.
I’m always saying the wrong thing in Mass Effect and just going with it.
Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. Onimusha and Persona are very Japanese-y and set in Japan too so it just feels odd. Although it worked pretty well in Persona it just felt weird when they talked about Japanese culture and other little aspects (like the food and stuff). Could always pretend they’re Americans in a boarding school or something 😀
I’m also getting kinda tired of the same-y Americano voice actors all the time. Xenoblade and The Last Story were a nice change with British accents. At least most medieval and Western fantasy stuff have British/European accents 😀
It’s funny, I really like how Atlus US support the same crew for voice acting, it’s like, they knowthey’ll do at least a half-decent job.
Buuuut, it can be really distracting when I spend more time recognising them than just listening to their performance.
I feel like Atlus are ashamed a lot of their games come from Japan and want to cover it up. But then they turn around and hire crappy anime dub actors to do their voice work.
Xenoblade’s localization leaves a huge amount to be desired. I was playing it with the JP dialogue and there were many times when what was being said by characters was different. No story-level changes but there’s details that are completely lost, like the way that Reyn and Riki talk to each other.
It comes down to your opinion on how stuff should be localized. Should it just be a translation, or should it also try and make everything feel like it should were it originally written in English?
I get annoyed with Okami as well. That game’s way too heavily localized, eg Waka talking with a French accent, changing a lot of the enemy names to remove the Japanese element, changing the names of some locations and characters because they’re long (eg ‘Kusa’ village in the localization is actually Kusanagi village, the character Oki in the Ainu area at the end’s actual name is Okikurumi according to the katakana they use in some of the images and other stuff). I can read enough Japanese on the signs and on the paintings and stuff they show that I would notice that there were bits changed and found that quite jarring.
It was actually something that the previous localization went back and forth over a fair bit in the reviews. Lots of people complained it wasn’t dubbed. The argument then was that dubbing it would lose all its flavour.
This time the actual translation quality is supposed to be a lot better so hopefully the story will make sense now!
@greenius Turnips at 200. Doesnt seem that great after some of last weeks prices though… so tempting when its already nearly doubling my money XD
They’re like 80 again for me :'(
Best I’ve gotten is 69.
Was tempted due to being juvenile.
94 last night for me. Maybe I need to come visit later in the week if they keep going up.
OMG IT WAS TODAY! I KNEW I WAS RIGHT
😀
@blaghman, @rize, @bdkiaf, what’s the plan, gents? Is there one?
EB Woden, 1 o’clock. See you there.
Edit: To add to this, the food court will be an absolute nightmare at this time, I’d recommend maybe going to one of the cafes in the plaza, but I’ll leave that to you guys.
Is it a requirement that we be square?
EDIT: I agree
It’d be appreciated. I know it’s short notice, but do what you can.
Under the Dome day. I can’t wait. Not going to watch straight away though.
like a excitable kid on xmas
Ep 1 today?
Wow, didn’t realise it was so soon!!
You know it!
Well, yeah, now I do 😛
And knowing is half the battle, Jimu! Well done on your battle, seems to be progressing nicely! 😀
So this is basically Simpsons: The Movie: The TV series, right???
Or the seven hundred other domed city books/movies out there. 😛
And it’ll be almost as good as Street Fighter The Movie: The Game 😀
How long we have waited for a Simpsons TV series… I guess this will have to do.
Also, this joke really really annoys me. Haha. I imagine it riles up Stephen King even more.
Edit: But that’s my problem, will just ignore it from now on. 🙂
He probably shouldn’t have stolen the idea then 😉
This reads like Stephen King is pretending to be internet anonymous on some random account to say how bad that joke is just to stop people from making stupid jokes about his work.
DC is Stephen King????
Twist to be directed and written by the same people who did the Sixth Sense.
By which I mean Bruce Willis.
This also explains DC’s avoidance of his first few Meat invites.
Stephen King was panicking and trying to set up some sort of actor to play the role of the user “DC” just so that his elaborate and time consuming plan wouldn’t be foiled.
M KNIGHT SHAMALAMADINGDONG
Steam has gone and been stupid and now Aussies and Kiwi’s can’t access CoH2 (unless you’ve been in game for the last hour or so and haven’t left). Valve/Steam haven’t commented on the issue so it looks like our release is delayed 😐
Which is really annoying as I was playing it this morning but now they’ve re-locked it.
ITS LIKE SIM CITY ALL OVER AGAIN
It’s odd, because I remember the release date being the 26th of June on Steam. I checked on the weekend and saw it had changed to the 24th. I’d say that was likely a mistake from the sounds of things.
Nope, Relic have declared it a ‘successful launch’ for Australia. We are supposed to be able to play it today.
Still odd that the release date change forward by two days only recently, and suddenly it isn’t working. Might be part of the mix up.
It’s just Steam messing up, the game was always supposed to have launched here by now.
Yeahhhh, was all excite to play CoH2 tonight, but then halfway through downloading I noticed the “pre-load” button, and realised today is not tomorrow, even though tomorrow is today in Aus.
Boo.
So I was finally convinced to watch True Blood the other week, and I’m about halfway through S5. Having a serious love/hate relationship with the show, tbh. So many things annoy the crap out of me about it, but I feel like I should just keep going since I’ve gone this far. There’s some enjoyable parts, but it’s about 70/30 hate/love at this point.
Disappointing, because after not being interested in the latest TV shows at all, I’ve been spoilt by amazing shows like GoT, Walking Dead, Breaking Bad and Fringe. Really only started watching TV shows this year. But everyone I know raved about True Blood, and I’m not feeling it.
What did others think of True Blood?
My girlfriend watches it, personally I think it’s pretty awful. Terrible acting and ridiculous plot. Fantastic opening theme though, one of my favourites.
Also: “Beel.” “Sookeh.”
Opening credits genuinely creeps me out. Use to look away from some of the disturbing imagery. Loved the atmosphere it created though.
lol @ Sookeh.
I kinda wanna make this the new Wrex/Shepard.
Beel.
Sookeh.
Beel!
Yeah I saw a fair bit through having a partner watch it. I didnt care much for it, it looks basically like porn for women.
So disappointing after Six Feet Under. :'(
i watched the first season, then the accents started to irk me. Then the plot started to irk me and finally i ended up hating all the characters. There are some enjoyable parts but mostly not fun to watch.
Yeah I’m finding myself enjoying some minor parts and characters, but being annoyed by pretty much everything else.
they went over board with the whole
“interesting characters have flaws”
yes its good to make characters flawed, no its not good to make them so flawed no one will like them ever.
Loved the atmosphere of the first two seasons. Season three quickly established itself as a show that was structured around showing guys with their shirts off continuously, so I stopped watching. XD
Hey, one positive about the show: plenty of gender equality regarding shirts.
But the interesting stories of the first couple of seasons seemed to disappear in the third when they decided all nudity, all of the time. 😛
I’m fairly certain they just decided to embrace the things that were making the show popular. Story wasn’t the top of that list.
The first three seasons were pretty great, after that it still watchable but a little out there. The accents irk me but I got used to it over time. I think a lot of the reason I got into it was because it’s something I can watch with my lady person without wanting to shoot myself in the face (thank you Grey’s Anatomy).
If you’re up to S5 then:
you’re past the point where everything started getting weird, like the explanation of Sooki, etc?Left the spoiler intentionally vague just in case. Nearly asked you something before realising it happens at the end of S5 😛
The first few seasons of Grey’s Anatomy was great television. I know this is something guy’s aren’t supposed to say, but I really liked the show. Strong characters. Interesting medical cases. Cool sense of serialized story telling. It’s crap now, but when it was good it was actually good.
That’s exceptionally subjective, but to each his own.
I don’t think there’s an issue with a guy, specifically, liking the show, though.
Yeah past that part. Just finished
that fucking useless side story about Terry and his USMC buddy from Iraq running from a fucking fire demon that the Iraqi lady they killed cursed them with.I mean, what the fuck was that?
It felt like a huge amount of padding to me. Honestly, a lot of the side stuff in season 5 just seemed confused and lacking direction. That one specifically had the crappiest resolution too…it was just “Ok, we’re done with this story now. Bang.”Yeah it’s my biggest gripe, apart from characters I want to punch in the junk. They just pad so many of the stories out for like half a season or more to the point it gets frustrating.
Watched to the end of either season 2, or 3, then I gave up.
oblig
Watch THE WIRE
/oblig
That reminds me. I should keep watching The Wire. Wife wants to watch Nurse Jackie instead (which is also a decent show).
Not relatively speaking though ^_^
The man speaks only truth.
I liked the first few seasons but the more it deviates from the books, the stupider it gets. Which is funny because the books themselves are pretty stupid. 😛
I prefer Vampire Diaries anyway. And I think my new favourite show like that is Teen Wolf.
Have you watched Vikings? It’s probably the show closest to being able to stand up with those shows you mentioned. I’ve seen the first few episodes and there’s some good stuff there so far.
I watched the first ep of that, looked interesting.
Vampire Diaries kept switching between great and terrible for me so I just kinda stopped watching it. Ladyfriend loves it still, though.
Just looked up Vikings, cause I hadn’t heard of it. It looks potentially amazing…might grab the first ep tonight.
Thanks Strange!
I’ve got a pile of episodes from the first season (not sure if it’s complete or not) and am meaning to get around to it. I figure I’ll get up to speed on True Blood (not much to go), then finish off Fringe (got just under two seasons left?) Then I’ll get onto it, methinks. Housemate has watched it and reckons it’s great.
Gave it a chance, but couldn’t make it further than the first 3 episodes. I liked the premise but it was boring.
Just listened to Black Sabbath’s new album 13. Awesome stuff, reminds me of Paranoid, although I don’t think any of the songs from 13 will be as iconic as Paranoid, War Pigs or Iron Man.
thought exactly the same, solid album, however not going to be my go too sabbath album. still a nice way to relive the past in a new way.
Hey, a Gravity Falls ep I haven’t seen! The Land Before Swine! XD
What’s with the messed up schedule of this show. One new episode, six weeks of repeats. One new episode, six weeks of repeats. *shakes fist*
that sounds pretty consistent.
also i happy cause you reminded me i have only seen 5 episodes of that show
i also need to catch up on adventure time
thats my tv for the next week sorted. thanks DC
Animal Crossing New Leaf stuff
I’ve been farming bells like a madman to renovate my house and do public projects everyday since release, it’s getting to the point where I get upset at myself for not reacting fast enough to a shark nibble when the realization sets in that I lost 15k bells due to it.
I think I need some time away from this game lol.
Ha, I did the same last night with beetles. Ugh there’s 8,000 down the drain …and another 10,000.
Turnips are easy money, especially if you know like 20+ people who have the game. I wonder where you could find those people? 🙂
My internet has been down for almost two weeks anyways, I can only access it at work, so I can’t really use TAYNAMES until sometimes early July =(
I’ll keep that in mind though.
… Whale Sharks are worth 15k???
GOTTA CATCH EM ALL
I think their 13k, more if your town has a wealthy inclination, I think sharks and saw sharks are 15k, coelacanths are 15k, Sun Sharks are 4500 , not sure how much hammerheads are, also recently found out that marlin is like 10k, which is upsetting since I sold some to that girl at tortimer island.
Freakin sunfish. Biggest shark shadow disappointment.
Also keep in mind those bugs are a goldmine. Atlas ones are like, 8k? And elephant beetles and goliath beetles are also like 4 or 5k I think. Then you get the smaller ones which are like 1 or 2. Definitely worth catching them just as much as sharks on the island.
And some of the diving stuff too. Pearl oysters and crabs and stuff.
I only found out about diving today. never tried it in game yet, I’ve obviously gave the wet suit a try but didn’t dive, not sure how well it works in unison with fishing/bug catching if it scares the fish.
O relly? I did a bit during the day and caught a lot of lame stuff. Did you go at night?
Yeah, I do most of that stuff on the island at night.
Which reminds me, do you have a diving suit yet? I bought a spare one in case anyone wants one. I also have a Cabana Bookshelf to give away.
Its ok, I got me one. NO THANKS TO YOU! 😛
I got a bright pink one for Pip. Haven’t found any non-pink ones for me yet…
@beavwa This one is green. You want?
Yes please. What would you like for it? I have … A reasonable selection of balloon items. And 8 varieties of fruit.
Rainbow is 10k
Elephant, Atlas, Goliath, Cyclo are 8k
I think there’s also Herc and Giant at 10k but they’re less common.
Hate it when you take your eyes off the trees to look for sharks, and you get that glimpse of an Atlas flying away :'(
Or when I’m casually walking and you hear them fly away JUST as they come into sight 🙁
I used to catch so many sharks but these days I’m seeing next to none :/
Rainbow? you mean that river trout? only ever caught that once
I’ve been doing a very small amount of bug catching since I usually run around the bay bashing the water with a bug net scaring fish until sharks spawn.
Rainbow Stag, somewhat common Island and Town bug 😀
I guess I’ve yet to catch a Atlas and Rainbow Stag than, maybe I should try implement bugs more often in my cycle.
The ones called “Shark” are 15k.
HOW THE FERK DO YOU CATCH SHARKS!?!?
I react almost instantly and they always get away.
Go by sound, if you look at the nibble animation you usually miss it, just be fast and train yourself to react to the sound, it becomes second nature eventually.
You need to be hitting it basically the microsecond they lunge. It’s the same as a regular fish, but far less forgiving with reaction speed.
Yeah, what Distant said.
As soon as you hear the sound, reel em in (just like any other fish). Sometimes I’ll close my eyes and it makes it easier just going by sounds 😀
There’s also Silver/Gold Fishing Rods you can get which make fish bite longer.
I just tell myself it was one of those cheap ocean sunfish when a finned shadow gets away. 😛
“Was probably a Sea Bass, move along”
I like you’re way of thinking =)
Sea Bass. Not you again!
I’m starting to agree with that description.
Was just playing The Last of Us and kept thinking “okay, I’ll take a break in a moment” for quite a while.
It took me catastrophically screwing up an encounter for me to actually take a break.
I admire your restraint not to just play in two sessions. 😀
I’m almost tempted to blitz through the second half of the game so that it’s one less game to worry about and I can play some COH2 before Shameless Gaming Month.
Oh shit, that’s nearly here…
Yup.
@dc, I think we’ve got all the Under the Dome Simpsons jokes out of the way now.
Pretty sure we can move on now to appreciating Under The Dome’s otherwise totally original elements, such as its many spider-pigs.
If Tom Hanks shows up in Under the Dome I’ll be mega impressed.
His Cameo was one of the best gags in the Simpsons Movie
This is Tom Hanks saying if you see me in person, please, leave me be.
Blergh. I’ll see you guys tomorrow.
what? did you have a bad social interaction???
Thought he made it fairly clear he didn’t like the Simpsons comparisons to his new thang and then there was 100 more.
Perhaps he stepped away to breathe?
Don’t worry, I’ll watch it!
Ohhh wait, hope this isnt to do with popsugars link down the bottom. Caus Mad Men spoilersss. Just letting you know in case its not too late. AVOID!
@dc, if I remember I’ll [redact] Under The Dome tonight and watch it tomorrow. A King/Vaughan crossover! There’s pretty much nothing that can improve upon that recipe. I’m excited! \o/
Edit: replyfailopus
Edit 2: And you’ve gone. Well, I just nailed this post.
Edit 3: because I felt bad.
It’s on on Channel 10 tonight. I’ve given my TiVo orders to season-pass it. And I’m not telling Mr. Strange about it so I don’t have to wait for him before I can watch it. 😛
I also kind of feel like we need to encourage the free-to-air channels to do more properly fast-tracked stuff. So I’m not going to redact it.
Everyone always uses the excuse that they don’t want to wait so they redact stuff, so I get a bit frustrated when people still want to redact stuff even though they could watch it on TV sooner than they could probably redact it.
Edit: And why is everyone teasing DC by continuously referencing the Simpsons thing? I know people are joking but I feel bad for DC that he more than anyone gets jokes he’s kind of the butt of run right into the ground and out the other side, especially when he’s more sensitive to that kind of thing than most. :S
I’m probably just gonna watch it on channel 10
How quaint! watching TV on TV!
I agree with you, and would totally be FTAing it, except for two things (which aren’t good excuses, I know, but they are valid):
1. We will be at a concert tonight
2. And have no recording device
If they do a catch-up repeat at a time I can manage, I will skip the redacting (and accept some blue acting instead)
Also, I was unaware that the Simpsons thing was aimed at anyone.
@dc, No offence intended. That said, I stand by my comment that Tom Hanks appearing on Under the Dome would be awesome.
Apparently (Show Easter Egg spoiler)
There’s a scene in the first episode where the characters are watching the Simpsons Movie.Since everyone’s talking about it, I hope there’s a good explanation as to why they don’t just simply tunnel under the dome.
No, I’m sure both King and Vaughn will have completely overlooked that.
Good explanation, not just a explanation.
fair enuff 😉
My guess is that it goes deeeeeeeeeep underground. Time will tell! \o/
Really should read that book. It’s on my shelf.
Shovel drought maybe? 😛
It’s really more a sphere than a dome but then you can’t be under it and the title would sound stupid.
I’m making this up as I go.Maybe theyre all replicants that are afraid of digging?
Maybe the dome’s a replicant?
I hat Animal Crossing cos @sughly went away
@sughly isn’t here anymore 🙁
I thought he was away parenting? Isn’t it school holidays or something?
Little bit of that, little bit of what jimjim said. Ash is actually with his mum today >_>
Also I would be lying if I said I wasnt tempted to see what Ash’s shops were selling…
😀
(I am happy coz I am missed)
Not by me.
Feelings mutual. Dickman.
So’s your face, jerkface.
boys boys you are both equally hated.
Rocketmum.
DAAANIEL! When I first saaaaw you, I knew that youuuu had, a flaaaame in your heart!
Love me some Bat for lashes ^_^
I heard a interview with her a few months ago and i wanted to marry her. she seems so amazing and funny and down to earth.
Sooo… is there anyone to talk to bout Mad Men s6 finale? No? Its ok Ill go ahead and disciss it with myself :'(
Sooo that last shot, holy shit. So amazing. What a beautiful way to bring all those elements to a close. I’m in two minds about Megan potentially leaving Don…. its hard seeing her getting crushed by Don’s selfishness, but then again, I like her in the show :'( I really like what happened with Don this ep though. He is really becoming vulnerable and becoming increasingly aware of it. Alcoholism, losing his daughters respect, losing his position. I love how he was able to feel for whathisname, peggy’s boss, and even refer to his secretary as sweetheart – nawwww! Was a nice little piece of recognition. Also that shot of Peggy in Don’s office, YES! She’s becoming a hardened husk of a working layday, gon be taking over that shiz soon. She’s kind of becoming hardened as Don is becoming softer, which is a really nice contrast. Cant wait to see where all the things that happened here go to in s7!! 😀It would seem not.
It’s okay. I agree with all the points I brought up, and think that I am pretty clever. Good interpretation Sughly! Thanks Sughly… you wanna go play some AC Sughly? Yeah… yeah, I do…
If you think he’s so great why don’t you marry him?
cause gay marriage isn’t allowed here. also two sughly’s in the one house might blow the world up. PRETENTIOUS BOMB
Never seen it.
So Layton beat Wawrinka!? What is this! What nonsense has befallen tennis? Ergh, someone beat Hewitt and get him out of my Wimbledon please.
ill take him out, with extreme predjudice.
I’d prefer Hewitt over Tomic any day.
Lesser of two evils though.
I feel like Nadal losing is a bigger deal. I like me some Wawrinka, but god he can play like shit sometimes.
WAIT WHAT! WHAAAAT! What is happening!? WHO IS DARCIS!?
Right, I take it you hadn’t heard Nadal was out then.
Nooope, I just assumed he won! Just watched the highlights – I figured it was maybe Nadal out of play, but wow, Darcis looked liked he played one hell of a match! Wow. Hope he doesnt just fumble at the next hurdle, always good to see a new name give everyone a run. Far out…
I wish he’d just suck it up and retire. Guy makes a decent commentator, but hasn’t played good tennis for years. The longer he sticks around flounders, the bigger a douche he looks.
Well, he just won a match apparently, so he’s obviously still able to compete.
Not sure if sarcasm or not.
The ability to compete would imply doing more than winning one match on occasion.
Wawrinka is an amazingly good player. Tis not a win to take lightly, Shane is quite right.
Skimming TAY, thought you were talking about Professor Layton. Then realized you meant tennis. But I could still see Layton playing Tennis…
Specially at Wimbledon, the gentleman’s tournament!
@bdkiaf @rize @blaghman
On my way now. I’ll be the one awkwardly standing around with a 3DS, hoping not to make an idiot of myself by failing to recognise someone. \o/
I’ll come and prod you with a 3DS. That’ll be the code.
Aw dicks. I didn’t bring mine. How will I make myself known?
Wait, I’ve got it!
“Beel!”
SOOKEH.
Oh right, didn’t see this until I got back. Now it all makes sense.
…awkward.
At least it still kind of made sense. Even if I hadn’t recognised you, guy brandishing a 3DS is a pretty good “Hey you! Yes, you” signal.
That CoH 2 post is taking a beating.
Guess people like free stuff
Sure do!
I actually had to give it for the Battle of Smolensk question and look it up 😛
I’ve been looking them all up, but trying to embellish a little
What else is happening?
Page get *shakes head*
Well this guy got a page-get. Besides that, not much.
Life’s a happy song!
Cool
I realised and posted:
THIS IS THE WRONG PAGE
But Allure was all n’aw stfu.
POTAKU GOES TO THE ARCADE
Hey TAY. Busy weekend. Busy week. Fun though. SO MUCH TO DO!
BEEL?
SOOKEH!
You know what you get if you mix the two words together?
BOKEH.
ERRUK!
Wow, that’s a quickly ballooning comment thread.
And somehow the twitch chat for it was simply F4ction and I telling Serrels how to play.
So weird seeing Twitch chat being the bastion of sanity.
YET YOU BOTH NEVER HELPED ME
I HAD TO FIGURE OUT MASS MOTORCYCLES AND JEEP STRAT ALL BY MYSELF!!!!
He was struggling with left click/right click and cover :p
he does know how computer games work right?
I think he understands the concept, if not the execution.
I’d have jumped in there, but it would have required more attention than refreshing every 5 min.
Yeah that was dificult to keep my concentration
They were pretty much geared to googling. I tried to value-add as much as I could.
I have the game, so didn’t see the point competing with hundreds of others over another copy.
Heh congrats? 😛
I won a copy anyhow. Weird how that works :p
Are you calling me fat?
That hurts man. I’m trying my best.
well try putting that piece of cake down then. 😛
You’ll get this cake out of my cold dead fingers.
i wont have to wait long for the heart attack though.
i finish work at 2:45 today
it is dragging out soooo much.
then i get to go and watch a crappy real estate video and try and move the metric shittonne of books my sister owns. She backed them but couldn’t lift them. So i am lifting them. Seriously books are the most fucked things to move.
fun day today.
Did you move back to Ayr?
TOWNSVILLE
thats where i work now.
Is it good?
Don’t think I’ve been. Maybe the train station at night.
Lucky you leaving early… I’m staying an extra 2 hours tonight 🙁
my leaving still means more work, just unpaid box moving.
http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=212
Hahaha!
Trying not to laugh in serious office is serious business
I watched The Last Picture Show on Foxtel last night, a surprisingly graphic movie for the 70s, were they trying to show a theme on this movie? because I never picked up on it, it just seemed like a strange movie.
Cybill Shepard was gorgeous in her youth imo.
Ooooo I didnt know about this one, just watched the trailer, looks great! Yeah that gurl, she was bitchin. I tells ya, there was a class of ladies in cinema back then…*looks off to nowhere in particular*
If anyone is interested this is the QLD police fitness requirements.
http://www.policerecruit.qld.gov.au/Resources/policerecruit/documents/APSAD%20Overview%20December%202012.pdf
fuck everything about the beep test. i did it in highschool and my gosh it wasnt fun.
Only thing I have any concern about. I’ve never liked the thing.
Have you done your own beep tests to practice? I’m sure theirs some recordings for it on youtube or sportings stores.
Ayup. I was right on the level I needed to be but then I broke my ankle and haven’t really walked for a month so pretty sure it’s dropped by now.
I’ve always wondered about the fitness requirements for cops. I figure they’d have to be pretty fit, but I’ve seen quite a few cops who were on the larger size of things, though I guess you can still carry weight and be super fit.
you can also do your test 15 years ago and never have to do it again.
I’m might try and organise that then.
I think many states had a crackdown on police fitness a few years back? I think they made some changes somewhere regarding fitness requirements, even for existing officers. Could be wrong…. but I remember something about it.
Ha. So apparently it’s harder to pass the fitness test to be a cop, than it is to pass those in Defence.
http://www.defencejobs.gov.au/fitness/
I mean, hell, I could almost get into the Air Force.
Come back @DC
TAY is dead without YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUuuuuuuuuu
monkeys
Dooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooobywa
NO I don’t have anything of value to add D:
Since when has that been a requirement for posting on TAY?
Amish Jetpacks.
The glory of their windswept beards shall not be contained.
Trite is our bread and butter.
Doc and I go on a quest to become axe murderers in Animal Crossing.
This was probably that moment where I went ‘I love this game’.
I’m just contenting myself sending threatening letters to the residents.
They’re always so happy to be told they’re going to be buried alive.
Haha, so true. One was all “hey look at this!”, and it said something like “You better send me a goddamn present back with all the effort it took to type this out”. Then he was all “isnt that great!” And I was like no you never sent me a present.
The most appropriate response I’ve gotten from a death threat letter was ‘you’ve given me a lot to think about, Pants’.
Hilarious article.
The girl in that picture for Fabsugar at the bottom of page looks like she’s trying really hard to poop.
Anyone with kids? That’s totally a poop face. You know what I’m talking about.
She’s been replaced by Skateboard P for me :-/
Dude that’s Pharrell Williams
THERE WAS TOTALLY A LADY WITH HNGH POOP FACE!
Honest!
*despondent*
… Julia Gillard?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1874550/
That doctor must get laid all the time.
Steak and Mushroom pie with potato, peas and gravy.
So hard to go wrong.
Today’s S.H.I.T.S.T.O.R.M., in honour of recent discussions (and by discussions I mean me blurting about it and rocketman replying with intentions of marriage):
All Your Gold by Bat For Lashes
Caus she’s dang awesome, and this is still a dang funky song.
i would take all of her gold if you know what i mean.
I mean intercourse.
The Last of Us was glitching out on me so very hard.
Spoilers for the section at the lower part of the Hotel.
I died the first time starting the generator to the bloater. So the next time I tried exploring the area before starting it. See if there was anything I could do. For some reason, some runners would spawn in (no idea where from) and come right at me. Melee did not work on them at all and if I got grabbed, that was it, I was dead. I tried restarting and went to the generator. When I started it, a runner came up and grabbed me. I couldn’t fend it off and the models weren’t lining up (so my death animation was Joel having his face eaten off by nothing). This happened multiple times. Eventually I got it all to work, started the generator, killed the bloater and used the key card but god damn that was ridiculous. The game glitched up so damned hard.Thanks for the meat, @rize @blaghman @bdkiaf. Had fun, short though it was!
A streetpass makes a meat of any length TOTALLY WORTH IT.
Well, I didn’t get one from you. >:(
Really interesting interview about, among other things, Mirror’s Edge 2
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/416002/interviews/interview-eas-patrick-sderlund/
I feel a tad reassured.
Really interesting interview, but I’m actually the opposite of reassured:
I just want to run away 🙁
I read that as they wanted people to run away but people weren’t understanding. So they want to make it more clear in the next one they want people to runaway.
So I don’t think you should be sad about that, they’re on the same page as you.
Hmmm, if you read it that way, then it magically becomes really good news.
I can live with that 😀
Turnips at mine are 385. I’m selling! (cc @greenius)
Who the fuck is paying that much for turnips? They don’t even eat them! Something is seriously wrong with the perceived value of items in AC. I traded a fish for a vacuum cleaner yesterday!
zomgggg… just turned approx 400k into 1.4 million
I’m convinced there’s something up.. Maybe the turnips are stuffed with heroin? And you’re an unwitting drug mule. That money you make is going to go to the Nooks anyway, so it makes sense that it’d be them running the show.
Oh god, do I go to Sughly’s, or do I wait and hope for a better deal?
Oh god, oh god, oh god. PRESSURE!
Best I heard of last week was 450. Its really not that much of a difference, I’d go for it if I were you! I’m on now if you want me to open the gates.
Do you know what your previous prices were? There’s a chance that Turnips could be worth more tomorrow or Thursday, though I assume that yours are following the “Random” pattern.
(http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/997811-animal-crossing-new-leaf/66403542)
Edit: Screw it, this is the best deal I’m likely to get. OPEN YOUR GATES!
Yeah I think mines random. Previously it was like, 120? Last week it was bouncing all over the place.
I had 485 last week, Batguy had 600
600!?! :O
Yeah mateee
@batguy came to my town and sold his. Went back to his town and checked the prices and they were 600 there 😛
lolol, that suuuucks. Hmm. Hope we dont have later-in-the-week-price-regret
I figured I can always buy and sell more next week (and the week after that!) so as long as I’m making a decent profit (3x as much!) I’m happey 😀 (I’m sure the prices will go above 385, especially since there’s like 20 of us – but I was playing it safe)
I will be looking to sell tonight if you still have good prices and are willing to have me visit.
OH! You lovely man, you!
I was all sad you never told me but it looks like you edited me in. Edited tags don’t give notifications! 😀
Man it is so sad that the only people i talk to socially who aren’t from TAY are my best friend of 10 years and my little sister and her friends.
my social life has really taken a nose dive.
Social whatnow?
And? I think the issue here is the idea that TAY friends are somehow different to other friends. Which is stupid, we’re just friends who happened to meet on the internet. Still friends.
Sometimes, we can be friends who take baths together.
Soon, my love.
Also, bar the occasional disappointment, TAY friends are more likely to get me Streetpass hits.
I’M SORRY FOR BEING SUCH AN OVERWHELMING DISAPPOINTMENT BLAGHMAN!
It’s alright, you’re forgiven.
But only just.
If it’s any consolation, @rize was also a disappointment Streetpass-wise, even though he had his 3DS with him.
Also, @blaghman did 2 damage to a ghost and then ran away in Streetpass quest. Real helpful man, thanks. He did bring a puzzle piece, though, so I guess it’s not all bad.
Wait, it didn’t streetpass you? Awww…crap.
Yeah, despite blaming you for not giving me a piece, that was actually Shane, and I didn’t get you either. I’m super disappoint.
But I have a green light…
I can’t check who I streetpassed yet. Also, this means no Animal Crossing streetpass either…
What. You mean you didn’t need that single piece of starry sky from SMG2?
Haha, such a streetpass newbie *ruffles hair*, it’s cute ^_^
I’m kind of super intimidated by how deep this system seems to go, and how obsessive you need to be to mine it properly. It’s genius design.
I think my brain is broken. I read that as “I’m sorry for being such an overwhelming ‘Disappointment Blaghman’! “
BAM!
Take that pre conceived notions of societal ties.
Am I turning you on yet?When are you not?Someone was playing the Crusader Kings 2 Game of Thrones mod and forgot to turn off the Aztec DLC.
Tullys and Lannisters: Aztec pawns: http://www.reddit.com/r/CrusaderKings/comments/1gyt7m/anyone_else_survive_a_sunset_invasion_of_westeros/
God damn it I should have just bought it while it was on sale…
Morning TAYbies, following three days of me being bedridden and missing an awesome themed party, an awesome board games night with tigs and other melbourne taybies and a day of work where everything basically went to shit and I got thrown in the deep end this morning I haven’t been able to check up on my favourite internet based communitay.
How’s things? How’s everyone’s family? Is World War Z a decent zombie movie? Who shot Mr Burns? Is anyone else kind of hype for PAX or PAX North (It’s a thing)? Is anyone else waiting for “I know that voice” to come out? Can people recommend any decent 3ds games?
Super Scribblenauts is fun! I can’t comment on any other DS/3DS games yet.
Mark Serrels loathed WWZ for what that’s worth, but I can’t comment on that either.
I’ve heard good things about scribblenauts. It shall be added to my list of things to get with my tax return if I can’t buy it beforehand
I imagine I’ll be done with my copy soon. Stay tuned.
Serrels loved it.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/06/off-topic-the-worst-movie-youve-ever-seen/
3DS games:
Weegee’s Mansion 2
Super Mario 3D Land
Resident Evil Revelations
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate
Metal Gear Solid 3D
Animal Crossing New Leaf
Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance
All added to my list with the exception of MGS and Kingdom Hearts because I’m not really a fan of them. DOes revelations work well enough with the single thumbpad or should I end up getting one of those circle pad pro things with the second thumbpad?
Needs a Circle Pad Pro, definitely. Works OK without it, but much better with it.
EDIT: Also, the CPP is only like $20-30 anyway. Definitely a must buy. I find they have rubbish battery life, but you won’t use it for every game.
Check out any Targets. They’ve had a lot of good games at really god prices (RE:R, Kid Icarus, Zelda, Star Fox for $14). It works well enough without it but it feels better with the CPP.
If you have an original 3DS, Dick Smith and other places are selling the CPP for only $5
Fire Emblem, Animal Crossing! Two greatest games evarrrr
Reznor’s a dad!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesitation_Marks
Just found out what the album title means and my eyes rolled back, down and out of my bottom.
C’mon Trent, thought we were past this?
Also, Page get ahoy!
I’m fairly certain that Trent runs solely on angst at this point.
Trengst.
Trent Reznangst.
Judging by how jacked he is, I think it’s probably mainly protein shakes.
He’s an angsty teen.
Still?
I thought Year Zero was a step into adulthood.
@bdkiaf
AT least the music’s good. May have to ignore lyrics :-/
Hahaha, yeahhhh… pretty terrible name
D:
D:Its true. Admit it. Search your heart, you know it to be true!
Huh? I agree, I started the whining here.
Doesn’t mean I don’t feel D: about it.
Year Zero was political, which just made it seem like he was a grown up and had moved on from “The girls hurt my feelings so I’m gonna cut myself”.
That shit was fine when he was a self-destructive drug addict. Now he;s a husband, father and successful muso. How am I supposed to take that shit seriously when it’s obviously not true?
I fucking love The Downward Spiral, one of my all time favourite records. I like everything about it.
Trying to relive that time and getting the same painter to do the new cover seems really false to me.
Still, bright side, more awesome music 🙂 I liked the new track, eager to hear more.
Ghosts was great at having a dark atmospheric tone without being fueled by angst. The Slip was a good transition from that to something that was still very NIN (although distinct from the Pretty Hate Machine/Downward Spiral years).
He could just be piling on the fake angst because that’s what people pay for.
Me? I want Ghosts V-IX.
Yeah, huge Slip fan.
@beavwa I don’t need anything for it. When will your town be open so I can drop it off?
Nothing at all? Anything you want me to watch for that you want in future?
I’ll probably be home 5.30 or 6ish, I’ll open the gates for the rest of the night then.
Nope. I’m good.
I’ll check your town out after dinner or something, then. 🙂
I was all hey Scree you can have all my exotic furniture for free, and she was like what do you want and I was all nah, free mang. Then I realised I was getting heaps of exotic furniture and made a dedicated asian room now, and havent told scree. Sorry scree :'(
I don’t even know what furniture I want. It’s all so ugly when it’s mismatched!
I dunno, kinda like mah bachelor pad in the main room. My extension rooms look lame though caus theyre too small :/
I was going Regal, because being a classy motherfucker is rad, but now I have 2 of some other set, and I’m tempted to try and get it instead, because it’s all black and silver, and those are basically my colours.
That’s sleek. I like that too. I’m collecting sleek, mod and minimalist stuff as well as all the weird things I can find. Someone even gave me a kitchen sink today.\o/
I have a sink next to a kitchen corner!
But they don’t line up. :/
Do you have a Regal Lamp? I’m selling one in my Flea Market. I always put everything there at 666 bells and I’ve managed to convince animals to buy crappy tshirts and wallpaper for 666, as well as letting them have expensive furniture for that price. Balance. 😛
Ooh, no, I don’t. TO THE STRANGE MOBILE!
Or something.
Do you want a Sleek Dresser in return? Or, I have a custom coloured couch, that is definitely not hideous!
I won’t be on until later but no I don’t want a sleek dresser or anything…except 666 bells. Because that’s my flea market rule. 😛
Err. I mean….
@blaghman
And I won’t be on until later, my 3DS is back on charge.
That’s cool, there’s no hurry, I just appreciate the offer.
That sounds oddly familiar…
@sughly
Oh man, I’ll never live that down, will I? Maybe I won’t stand Blaghs up because I like him better than you…. 😛
D’:
@blaghman – is that the modern checkered coloured one? Although Regal is pretty cool too!
@strange
@sughly
EVERYONE
– With the catalogue we should be able to complete each other’s set much more easily if we can just re-order items again 😀
I like how on Tay it’s even a struggle to give away pretend stuff with zero inherent value.
I found the secret isn’t to ask or offer, but to force it upon others.
Haha, I think Nooks closed down the visitation rights caus Blaghs was draining our economy dry with all his turnips XD
Yes.
That’s.. that’s what happened. <.<
>.>
I didnt realise it was you! I thought some random joined in, so I made it open for bf’s only now heh. I’ll open it to all once blaghs is done.
WHAT.
I NEVER IMPLIED THAT IT WAS ME
SHIFTY EYES MEAN NOTHING MAN
I’M JUST THINKING OF A TENNIS MATCH. PING PONG GAME. VERY FAST GAME OF CHESS. A snappy David Mamet play.
http://www.fishpond.com.au/Books/Art2-D2s-Guide-to-Folding-and-Doodling-Tom-Angleberger/9781419709593?utm_source=email&utm_medium=books&utm_campaign=Books_gentues_Junew4_AU
HA HA HA!
@bdkiaf new Deap Vally track! Apparently its a bonus track from the album, and only up for free download for a limited time – https://www.twitmusic.com/deapvally/songs/drought
OoooOooooOoOOOoooOoooOo.
Will listen at home.
I love how all your new fave bands mispell their names.
It’s like Korn all over again 😀
Which was like the Beatles all over again 😛
The Beatles are very highly respected.
I can’t tease Sughly by meantioning them.
Also, Beatles has meaning: BEAT. What did the K and backwards R mean in Korn?
I think at this point everybody in TAY that plays AC has a nicer town than me.
Well, richer anyway. I got aqueducts, and man-made rivers and lakes, bitches. /desperateselfpandering
Man made rivers? Tell me more…
They don’t flow, and they don’t have Fish in them, so they are super disappointing.
Oh :/
they look pretty. *shrugs*
aha! No I’m not judging you, you just had me prematurely excited XD
… I would totally use some of those paths too. Those are rad. Was bookmarking some yesterday in the leadup to mah qr machine! I started late, didnt know you had to talk to whatsherface ^_^
I use custom patterns like these and lay them on the ground.
http://pathmagic.tumblr.com/tagged/nl
I certainly don’t. I haven’t even bothered to complete my first development. Got fishing to do.
I have a tent.
Also a hole to poop in.
Good mail week so far.
Yesterday my Wintersun hoodie arrived, along with the Civil War(old Sabaton guys’ new band) album and a bunch of stuff for Mr. Strange. And then today my Rhapsody Of Fire live CD arrived.
I’m still waiting on 3 patterns and some thread so there’s a good chance I’ll get great mail every day this week. 😀
Pfft, that’s nothing. Yesterday my mum sent my a cupboard in an envelope.
Wait, are we not talking about Animal Crossing?
I’m still waiting on my Dillinger Escape Plan album preorder…
Thinking I may actually [redacted], because this is *well* beyond a fucking joke :S
Found out what the warfarin does.
Scratched myself with a pair of scissors. Didn’t think much of it. Looked down a few minutes later when it started feeling wet and you would have sworn I just cut half my hand off.
So much blood. It’s all over the bench and floor :S
Don’t worry, just scoop all that blood into a bag then mix into a drink and regain all that blood
Trust me, I’m not a doctor.
I spent 4 hours this morning at a Practice, and I can attest that this is completely accurate.
I put a dab of super glue on it and it fixed it.
My grandmother had and Uncle has Von Willebrands.
They have this all the damn time
Had no idea what that was. Have now learned something.
They didn’t explain to you what Warfarin is/does?
That’s… kinda shady, actually :S
But yeah, don’t break your skin, ‘cos that shit ain’t gonna stop bleeding any time soon.
Oh, I knew what it actually did but never really experienced it until then.
Blood is weird. Always looks like a lot more than it actually is. Warfarin makes it more like water so even a relatively small amount will spread a long way. Make sure your INR isn’t getting too high though because you’ll be at risk of bleeding a lot from tiny little cuts like that one, which sucks because you may not notice til you’ve lost a LOT of blood.
It took almost a month to get it to 2.0. They’ve got me taking 12mg a night. Need to go in and check my INR twice a week.
FROM NOW ON I WILL BE KNOWN AS DREAMCASTER.
Okay.
Mmkay.
(cc @Effluvium-boy)
ALL HAIL DREAM CASTER
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD
LUTEFISK FOR THE LUTEFISK GOD
*DREAMCASTER – NO SPACE
MAY YOU NEVER MAKE THAT MISTAKE AGAIN OR I WILL SMITE YOUR SEGA BASHING SELF
bah
I get Red Artifice all the damn time, so you can cope.
Also, what has Sega done for me lately?
Don’t worry. I know it’s Retardedface.
More like what hasn’t Sega done for us lately?
By which I am referring to Valkyria Chronicles and Phantasy Star Online 2’s non-localizations. >:(
YOU’RE RIGHT. SEGA HAVE BEEN A NO SHOW FOR SOME TIME NOW. ALL THIS WILL CHANGE WHEN THEY RELEASE THE DREAMCAST 2 ALONG WITH CHU CHU ROCKET: CURIOSITY, SONIC ADVENTURE: RETURN TO CHAOS AND CRAZY TAXI: INTER GALACTIC CABBY.
Dreamcast 2 already happened, it was called Xbox.
I don’t remember removable memory cards on XBOX?! AM I MISSING SOMETHING?
EDIT: THAT YOU CAN PLAY ON
But.. The Xbox did have removable memory cards. Didn’t it..?
@bdkiaf — Yup! They plugged into the controllers.
SEE ABOVE
Hell no!
Hell yes. I was actually talking with @beavwa about this earlier. Microsoft decided to make the Xbox because of their experience working on WinCE for Dreamcast. The Xbox ‘Duke’ controller has almost the exact same layout and everything as the Dreamcast controller right down to the memory card slot in it – only difference was some minor streamlining and the addition of a second analog stick which was necessary for FPS to work (Quake 3 etc on DC controlled like arse because of the lack of the second stick).
It had follow-ups to a whole bunch of DC-only or Best-on-Dreamcast games, including several from Sega Smilebit who were at the time the peak of Sega’s studios. Dead or Alive 3, Jet Set Radio, Shenmue 2, Panzer Dragoon Orta (PDO was originally a DC game, they shifted it to Xbox last minute) , Gunvalkyrie, IIRC Virtua Tennis was on it… basically all the stuff they’d been doing for Dreamcast or would have done for Dreamcast shifted to Xbox, except where it went multi-platform.
AND SHENMUE 3 THROUGH 10!!!
Is that because you put everyone to sleep?
I’D PUT YOU TO SLEEP, BUT I FEAR YOU MAY JUST BE TOO CRAZY FOR ME.
Who were you before?
jackunit13
No, you’re greenius
Oh god, that Smash Bros video Patricia posted is just all kinds of awful. I’m kind of curious what the US comments are like, though I can probably guess.
Compared to what she usually posts?
Surprised she didn’t have anything to say about Peaches costume.
They’re not as savage as you’d expect.
I’d guess that the majority are about breasts. Some about how horrible the video and song are. Perhaps some calling Patricia a hypocrite.
How’d I do?
in a nutshell: meh.
Unless videos are specifically ’bout boobs and gender, youtube links with fan content are pretty mild.
Still a crappy article, mind.
I see you dc!
Unfortunately I think everybody does
PUT ON SOME CLOTHES DC JEEZ
Speak for yourself.
What? Oh, c’mon man, I live in Canada, it’s cold and you have to expect some shrinkage.
You and your stories. 😛
Yo, finally back from my E3, Disneyland, Santa Barbra trip and back at work today. FML does not come close.
If I get a chance I want to write something up for Mark to post about the whole Ubisoft Ambassador thingy as it was really interesting. Amazing trip and felt very much like a VIP. Front row seats at the Ubi press conference, meeting with the CEO (and Aisha Tyler!!!!) heaps of time to check out games, swag, close door press conferences, I had dinner with the Redlynx team, interviewed their creative director in my first ever interview that really didn’t go all that well.. but was fun all the same.
Played Beyond two souls (LOVE EP in that), hands on with xbone and ps4 controllers, saw both consoles (confirmed with MS rep that external power brick is STILL THERE, smaller, but they still need one!!!) PS4 is super nice design wise, size and style.
I got access to the Mighty Quest for Epic loot closed Beta and shared a few codes around, really loving that.. and a bunch of stuff. Really sorry I have not been around here and US internet was rubbish.. but I’m back now. Don’t want to spammy up TAY but if anyone has any questions about the trip or anything you are curious about, how it all works etc.. just ask.
New Trials games FTW. Imagine your fav developer announces TWO new games on a stage as big as Ubi press conf, then imagine you go back to their hotel, chat to them about both new games while watching the Sony press conf, then go out to dinner with them.. their CEO, Creative Director, Marketing Manager and Community Dev and Me.. a fan from AUS. Technically I’m a paid contractor so maybe my fan status does not count any more, but to me it was a dream come true, exclusive access, no bullshit and really great bunch of guys. Oh, and in my interview I think I asked a question that has not been asked before and got an answer that seems to confirm a new feature that they have not announced yet!!! Once the July class of Uni of Trials is out, you may get to see it 🙂
Really looking forward to catching up with people at PAX. If there is a meat on let me know and if someone could assist with a ride/lift that’d be awesome. 🙂
If I have spare swag, I may share it with some TAYbies at PAX also. 🙂 Not much but why not, just the free crap I picked up while wandering around.. 🙂
Aisha Tyler!!!!
I am Very Jealous!
Welcome Back 🙂
Did you refuse to shake her hand and tell her you were scared of her Truckosaurus hands?
Beat me to it 🙁
No Didney Worl mention, huh? Understandable, after E3 I would imagine Disneyland feels a lot less magical and a whole more holy-shit-a-drink-should-not-cost-this-much.
After all that I don’t think you get to say FML anymore 😛
Welcome back buddy 😀
Also, I believe @scree is the one organising a karaoke meat on the Saturday night. It will probably featuer a drunk @freezespreston singing Gay Bar if previous karaoke meats are any indication.
If it’s as messy as that first karaoke meat, you won’t be allowed back.
Good evening, ladies and gents!
@sughly, @strange, @freezespreston, @jimu, @gutsoup, @beardymcmuttonchops, @welbot, @dkzeitgeist, @lambomann007, @sernobulus, @virus__
I don’t know how many of you will be coming to the dinner on Friday, but, I just wanted to know whether any of you would like a copy of Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition for 360? I just picked up a copy for PS3 and @cakesmith’s donated copy needs a new home.
Also, Dan? I still have to give you Alan Wake! And @strange, I need to give you A Dance With Dragons!
I’ll be there but I have my PS3 copy already.
Oh yeah!
I’m still not sure if I’ll be there but I’ll let you know!
WHEEEEEEEEEE!!!
I won’t be there! 😀
I don’t think I’ll be there 🙁 But I have it on 360 already.
Oh man, I read halfway through Dance with Dragons but I stopped because I got a bit bored and a bit annoyed at GRRM for convoluting the storyline even more instead of less. After I watched the tv series I now feel inspired to tackle this again! Starting from page 1 though.
I had similar feelings. I just wanted to get through it purely because it was such hard going.
Spirited Away! 8:45! Dinner before at 6pm!
Aww,… so cool. My first painting for AC museum was my favourite from the Louvre when I visited – Liberty leading the people. So cool :’D
Aha wait, I was thinking of The raft of the Medusa actually. Moment ruined. Nice painting anyway, I guess
My first was a fake.
And the second.
.. and the third.
This was actually randomly given to me by a villager!
Butch sold me a painting and it turned out to be fake. Stupid Butch and his con face…
But then I bought 2 legits from Redd. Good ol Redd!
Butch?
Sundance Kid!
Art, the Louvre, AC
So wasn’t thinking of the crossing of animals
Congrats to @trjn and @F4ction for winning copies of CoH2 after helping out Mark! 😛
On a related note, I have conflicted feelings when I see totally random people who don’t really post win Kotaku competitions, as seems to be the case with the other 12 names.
On the one hand, I hope it promotes Kotaku and expands the community. On the other, I don’t really see those names ever again and would kind of prefer people who make Kotaku a [thing] win, like people who visit TAY and frequent other articles.
Am I being unfair? 😐
I didn’t enter the competition/submit any answers, so not an observation made out of jealousy — honest! <_<A general rule with comments sections is that 90% of people don’t even bother. 9% might post occasionally and 1% actually comment regularly. I don’t see why commenting regularly should entitle us to prizes.
Community Kudos seems to particularly favour those of us that comment a lot.
Just because we don’t know who they are doesn’t mean they aren’t eligible and just because we spend a lot of time here doesn’t mean that we’re more entitled.
We’ve got a great little community here but it doesn’t need to be insular.
Doesn’t need to be insular?! Let’s see how you feel about that after the dome comes down!
I shall rally the masses around me and rule as their emperor.
You’re too awkward for that.
Looks like the position of queen just opened up.
Looks like you’ll be a homeless, cold emperor.
Being a hobo emperor is still better than being a hobo peasant. Imagine how awesome the hobo gloves would be. And my beard would be magnificent!
Part of me says you’re being ridiculous and another part is agreeing with you completely. That said there’s a bunch of people who don’t post on Tay but are pretty frequent outside of it. A lot of them are jackasses though.
I think it should go to the ones with the best entries, regardless if they post regularly or not. I do enjoy looking out for winners I recognise though and I always feel happy if a TAYbie wins 😀 (except Chuloopa *shakes fists of jealousy*)
It is/was a good way for Kotaku community to grow and it’s really grown since I first started browsing back in 2009 or so. You’d hope competition winners will stick around but it seems like that rarely happens. When I saw some small sites with competitions I thought would be easy to win because of a lack of entries, I damn well took advantage of it! I first discovered those sites because of their competitions but kept browsing them regularly as a sort of “thanks”.
Although way back when they introduced Community Kudos (known as Kotaku Community Service), I did kind of feel like regular posters should get the goods before people who’d just join to win then never be seen again. But that’s mainly because I was being greedy and wanted my share of the pie 😛
With Community Kudos since the same regular posters (TAYbies) win it might seem like a bit of an “insiders” club so it’s good to have competitions with winners all across the board. And even with CK it’s good to have a non TAYbie/regular get nominated and win because they usually stick around 😀
As someone who has posted regularly since the Wildgoose days, I am offended that I am considered “totally random who do[esn’t] really post” 🙁 Unless I’m misreading, which I am! WOOOOOO.
I worked too hard today.
Who are you again?
@sughly
did you say you had some exotic items? Could I please get them?
… http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/06/talk-amongst-yourselves-230/comment-page-7/#comment-1608861
I think you may be out of luck.
Ah it’s alright. I’ll keep searching or swap to something else
^_^v
Oh oh! I have an Exotic Bed and Bureau
If the catalogue works like I think it does we’ll swapsies 😀
I was just discussing the possiblity of this with my kid haha! He got a sweet sweet top hat that I desire, swapsies are in order!
By the way what was your town’s theme? (same with @doc_what – what was yours?)
Also that picnic table is the worst! Can’t even sit on it or place things on it :'( what a let down!
@Jimu and anyone else that’s interested Yakuza: Dead Souls is on sale at mightyape for 10 bucks. Not sure how long the price will last, so get in quick.
http://www.mightyape.com.au/product/PS3/Yakuza-Dead-Souls/18975452/
Edit: apparently it ends at 9pm tomorrow night.
Thanks but I’m on PS3 lockdown. No new games til I knock a few more off the pile 😀
Fair enough.
Giving blood. Apparently I have nice veins.
Wait, is that a pick-up line?
Check them for fangs.
Better to be safe than sorry.
Wouldn’t that violate the masquerade?
Pfft, vampires aren’t real.
It’s probably a junkie with vein envy.It is, coming from doctors, nurses and phlebotomists.
Going back to give again in 3 weeks…
@trjn is killing it with upvotes 😛
Wonder if it’ll be the most upvoted thing?
I’m fairly sure this is the most downvoted thing 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 and one of the replies is probably the most upvoted
lol triple digits…
Ha. Dire Wolf just downvoted it a few minutes ago. Not entirely sure why I find that so amusing.
I just wanted to do my part.
I wanted to, and probably wanted to whenever it was first posted but I was too lazy to log into Gizmodo. But then I was all n’aww I gotta be a part of history and logged in and did it anyway 😛
I’d like to thank my minions, without whom this couldn’t have happened. Well done underlings.
All credit to me!
It’s political….*bile*
Ghibli fans: http://collider.com/the-wind-rises-japanese-teaser-trailer/
So USPS updated their order tracker a while ago, I checked it tonight.
I preordered The Dillinger Escape Plan’s new album, which released a month or so ago.
USPS claims that my purchase has been delivered.
There’s only one teeny-tiny little issue.
I DON’T LIVE IN FRANCE, YOU FUCKS >:(Blergh. Sorry for being all weird this morning. Has been a rough couple of weeks and I was in a bad mood. Didn’t mean to take it out on you guys.
Oh man, your kind of “taking it out on you guys” is supermild!
You’re all “Eek! I’m running away. Take THAT!” whereas if I’m taking stuff out on people I’m all yelly and grumpy at people and stay to inflict my bad mood on everyone. 😛
Internalise, internalise, internalise.
Seems to work for me.
The wrath of Strange truly is a terrifying thing to behold D:
😛
So behind in all my shows. Have four Mad Mens, four Arrested Developments, two Top of the Lakes, one Gravity Falls and one Under the Dome. Only reason I’ve finished Game of Thrones is because I forced myself to after all the ep 9 spoilers. D:
Mad Men
No spoilers here!Arrested Development
Or here!Top of the Lakes
Here either!Gravity Falls
Weird stuff happens.Under the Dome
WEEEEEEEBLESSED HOME BROADBAND
*updates EVERYTHING on Steam*
@mawt D&D sometime?
Oh, yep.
So, invites. Going by “first in” rules, I think we’ll try with a party of: @ynefel, @redartifice, @tigerion, @mythamphetamine.
I want to streamline as much of the character creation process as possible, so I think it would be best if I offer up a list of character templates and let you pick a race to play as.
Any 4e veterans (might just be Red in this group?) I think could probably role up a character themelves if they’d prefer – but keep to PHB1 or Fallen Lands Essentials.
4e breaks classes into roles similar to WoW.
Defender – Tanks, soaking up damage and trying to draw as much focus off the rest of the group.
Leader – Healers, providing healing and respite to the party.
Striker – Although all classes have damaging abilities, the strikers specialise in it – usually focused on single targets.
Controller – Controllers manipulate the battlefield, sometimes through the ability to set up Area of Effect damage, or through debuffing enemy units.
An effective party should have one of each. I think it would be better for you to pick a role that you think you want to play, rather than picking a class by name and finding out you need to be filling a role that you’d rather not be playing.
So I’ll let you work that out amongst yourselves.
I’ll Rogue (striker) if I can, but if I need to play anything else I can. I’ll roll my own. Level 1?
By the sounds of it, I’d like to try a Controller if that’s fine with all others involved!
Complete noob, though more than willing to learn 🙂
I am also noob, and if Striker and Controller roles are taken, I would be pleased to Defend my fellow TAYbie.
By noob, I mean never actually played a game of D&D.
*adds kick me sign to nef’s back*
I’ll take on healing duties by the look of things. Does that make me in charge bwahahahhahaa the power
@blaghman
http://www.thonky.com/animal-crossing-new-leaf/paintings-works-of-art/
Oh man, this guys Grim Fandango tattoo is awesome! 😀
http://www.adventuregamers.com/forums/viewthread/2108
DC is back! \o/
私の美しい友人こんにちは。私はあなたの顔に触れることはできますか
#inappropriate
😀
Appropriate for such an exquisite beauty.
Ooo… I dunno… looks a bit wonky XD I like the design, just the execution isnt quite right.
Not finished yet, though. He’s going to have Meche and Glottis too, that should centre Manny a little…
Glottis <3
Nah not so much that as some of the line work. Lines on the teeth too thick, that line defining the side of his skull is too wobbly and thick in places.
Oh yeah, I see what you mean. Sughly the artist! 😀
Under the Dome
Won me over when that guy called college “another lame-ass pyramid scheme” — it’s like they know exactly what I wanted to hear! 😛–
(I don’t care if it’s three minutes in, that’s not too soon for a judgement!)
I found a photo that I’d forgotten taking from the Brisbane meat!
http://imgur.com/gallery/sG8qP
I’m not quite sure how to respond. 😛
Accept it, embrace it, and look forward to more photos like it soon!
So it looks like I won’t be able to take leave until August at the earliest now, debating whether I want 2 or 3 weeks, we’ll see. Reckon you’d be up for a meat around then?Yup!This must’ve been when I was still hiding outside for forty five minutes before hand. 😀
Which you won’t do next time, right? 😀
Actually, I reckon I might do it, because well, y’know, I’d like to meet you while sober at least once 😛
http://imgur.com/gallery/TwkFo
http://i.imgur.com/yRTnKuy.gif
Damn it, imgur…
http://imgur.com/gallery/NRjyc
Spongebob is NOT a contraceptive.
Is mayonnaise a contraceptive?
http://imgur.com/gallery/vPVMj
http://imgur.com/gallery/ombL6
The worst realisation.
http://i.imgur.com/5dRIDJz.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/isFAtIN.gif
@dc
Watch Under the Dome?
I did. Some of the dialogue was… uh… not good. Haha! Lots of differences from the book too, but that’s to be expected. Weirdly all the locations look exactly like they did in my head when I read the novel. I find that disturbing. XD Liked it enough to keep watching for now!Beardy’s not a fan of it from his Facebook. Few other posts I’ve seen haven’t been exactly positive.Some of my favourite characters from the book have been written out of this too. :'(Not a fan yet. I’m on the fence. But I’m sticking with it.
I haven’t read the book, which is weird, as I love Stephen King. I think it will be worth watching for a few more episodes yet. I did pick what would happen to the Sheriff though.I’m not going to be too critical to the changes from the book either, because I suspect all this might work in the bigger picture. Long term arcs and the like. Once it distances itself from the novel a bit too…
Only read if you’ve read the book. (@beardymcmuttonchops)
They wrote Rusty out extremely quick, considering he’s one of the leads of the novel! D:I know!! 🙁
I was like… “What!? RUSTY!? WHAT ARE YOU DOING OUT THERE!?”haven’t read it, but the TV series seems OK.that said, Hank is supposed to be the good guy! He can’t be the baddie!
W. G. SNUFFY WALDEN’S THE COMPOSER.
I love that guy. His work on The West Wing and The Stand mini-series was awesome!
It seemed decent enough.
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/6295/y6y.png
What is this imageshack heresy?
Some say that hundreds of years ago, imageshack thumbnails and links plagued VBulletin and Invision Power Board forums the world over. I’m too young to have seen it with my own eyes, but I’ve heard many first hand stories.
Forgot how good a movie Easy A is.
I keep meaning to watch and always forget :-/
Mrs Tigs is a little sick so was going to bed early.
She started watching it. She didn’t get to bed until late
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/06/breaking-saints-row-iv-has-been-refused-classification/comment-page-1/#comment-1610453
It upsets me just how horrible people can be on this site 🙁
Upsetting? Sure. 🙁
Surprising? Not a bit. :/
Read that, decided to downvote and move on.
Some people need to get some perspective.
Out of curiosity what comment is that referring to? Mobile site just takes me to the top of the page.
The comment is a reply to Ben J who said he agreed with the anti-consorship sentiment, but objected to the first sentence in this comment.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/06/breaking-saints-row-iv-has-been-refused-classification/comment-page-1/#comment-1609655
I probably shouldn’t have gotten in the way of somebody so riled up :S
I’d like to think that hopefully he doesn’t always call people book burning dogs just for having a different opinion 😛
I’d like to think he same 🙂
I’m not confident :/
Censorship is an emotional issue, and I can see why some people get riled up, but surely we can still keep it civil:?
Missing the big attraction on the page. Trjn’s comment has SEVENTY upvotes.
Morning edit: Now EIGHTY O_O
Saw that. It is pretty bloody impressive 😛
Yesterday was a productive day for me.
Get a job.
@beavwa: thought I’d point this out since Pip was interested in getting Dixit for her class work: OzGameShop have Dixit 2 (aka Dixit Quest) and 3 on special.
http://www.ozgameshop.com/stores/toys-20-off/refine-search/Dixit
That’s the base price I think, you can get an extra 20% off with the SAVE-TWENTY code.
Note that these are the expansions so it’s just another 80 or so picture cards, but it seemed like that was a lot of what Pip was interested in and it’s not as if you couldn’t play the game without the scoring board and tokens – just use paper. OGS also have the original game and Dixit Odyssey available, both are full games with scoring stuff and everything.
Awesome. Thanks for the heads up!
@weresmurf
You’re an alright dude in my books but you do have a habit of pushing things slightly too far sometimes.
Always 🙂 when someone wants to do the ‘I r serious person, turning this into somber serious thread’ moment, I’ll definitely do my bit to lighten the mood 🙂
Going to bed now.
Night.
JonTron is leaving Game Grumps 🙁
And here‘s 4chan’s prediction of what’s going to happen.
(Note, link is to imgur, not to 4chan!)
As much as it sucks to not be earning money today, I’m kind of lucky that school holidays have come around at the same time I got a rather nasty cold. For the first time in ages, I didn’t have to wake up at sparrow fart to get to work on time, and that’s awesome, cos I feel kinda shit. Hopefully I’ll be over most of it by the time work comes around tomorrow.
YES.
Peaceful Tomorrows Volume One will meet me in Melbourne, and I’ll be selling it at Oz Comic-Con as hoped!
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/aeternoblade-3ds-need-help-for-psvita-wiiu-ps3?browse_v=old_no_dropdown
Good morning, everyone fund the above game, K, thanks.
No thanks.
– Indiegogo passes on the money you pledge regardless of whether they make the goal
– Their English is bad and I see no mention of them getting a native speaker to look at their work
– You can’t just say you’re going to release for PS3 / PSV, that requires someone from Sony to give the nod, access to a dev kit etc. and they don’t seem to have that.
In the event they get the game out I would be interested in buying it.
Thank you for that news about Indie-gogo.
(I prolly wouldn’t have backe them anyway since I haven’t ever backed a thing yet)
It’s Steveothedevo’s b’day today! Happy B’day sire!
Happy birthday Steveo!
Hyeppi Burthdaye!!!
Happy Birthday @steve-o_the_deve-o
Happy Bday Steveo!
Happy birthday, friend!
In other news, Kate Miller-Heidke has an absolutely incredible singing voice, but her setlist was… kind of disappointing. Sadly.
Also, does anyone else dislike when the performer feels the need to introduce each song with a little story about what it means, or where it came from? I do.
I think it totally demystifies the whole thing, and (almost) never actually improves the experience of the song.
Music, writing, fast food, legislation, sausages – all very nice things, but you never want to see how any of them get made.
It’s interesting to find out the origins of songs at times, but only when I go looking for it. The option for my interpretation or guessings of where it came from to remain unhindered should be a thing.
Depending.
Every song? No thankyou.
A few, like Ben Folds introducing Brick? That’s fine.
No banter like the time I saw Cog? Get rightly effed.
I agree. Some few songs actually have a legitimately interesting genesis. And Brick is a really well-layered song anyway.
But introducing a pretty surfacey song by saying “This is from a true story that happened to a friend of mine…” or “This one is about a sleaze I met in Melbourne.”
…it’s just not that interesting.
Depends on the artist I guess. I’m always keen to find out why a things a thing. If their not as good at talking as they are at performing I could imagine it ruining the experience.
Yes, you’re right – it’s definitely a factor. Some artists are not good at adlibbing, and yet they don’t practice their banter the way they practice their music, and they just end up floundering on stage in between songs. Even Ben Folds does this sometimes 🙂
Depends on the story and the song. I don’t mind it but then again I don’t hear a lot of the lyrics so generally most songs are always a mystery to me
It’s the 26th and still no email from Playsia saying they’ve posted my Muramasa!
It’s on PSN for less money but I want the cart!
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!!!
FWIW Amazon haven’t shipped my copy yet. Also Play-Asia usually gets stock 3-5 days after the US release for US games, has to be shipped from the US to Hong Kong.
Patience, Jimu. Waiting is the price you pay for going physical, sadly. Also, PlayAsia can be a little lax in posting by release date, I’ve found.
I’ve got Knytt and Overclocked to keep me company, I was just worried there was some kind of fuck up :-/
Nah, NegZer is right. They usually get their products on release from overseas, have to wait to receive it and then ship it to you.
Ah cool, I’ve purchased from them before but never pre-ordered.
The wait for Dragon’s Crown is going to be excrutiating…but I “need” that art book.
OK, that was odd, had to confirm payment even though I did so a month or two back.
Is this a thing Playsia do?
Anyone had this experience?
I just cleaned out your bank account, sorry.Yeah, I have bought from a few overseas places that require confirmation once a preorder is ready to ship — which I don’t mind, it’s better than when someone takes the money up front and you’re down $50-100 for several months.
I bet, when it’s ready to go, they’ll want further confirmation and I’ll be asleep and precious minutes will be wasted 😛
I buy some camera stuff from New York, from (Hasidic) Jews who don’t work Friday/Saturday, and once I missed the confirmation ‘n had to wait all weekend for my thing to be shipped. :'(
OUCH!
Saints Row IV rant incoming, spoilerized if you’re sick of hearing about .
Bloody hell, I look at all the people losing their minds online about SRIV getting banned and all I see is an ugly, ugly mess. If you are okay with the ban you are supporting censorship and the Classification board controlling adult media, and if you are against the ban you are pro-rape. Everybody is yelling and carrying on when we have so few actual details to base all this on. Why can’t people just calm down, wait until all the details are out and we know exactly what the Classification Board means by ‘implied sexual violence’ and then make a judgement call on it then?Rant done. Here’s a puppy.
I had no idea I was pro-rape.
This is an eye opener for me…
Implied sexual violence is what got it RCed. It could be that the Saints start selling Tentacle Grape, it could be a comment about rape, it could be much more sinister. It’s all speculative until someone confirms exactly what pushed it over the line but knowing Saints Row it was definitely tongue in cheek.
Did you just give a serious answer to my silly joke?
I can assure you, I am not pro-rape.
I just wanted to say Tentacle Grape.
Fair call.
Sure you’re not.
I’m going to be watching you.
ಠ_ಠ
Watching me rape you?
(hopefully it isn’t in too bad taste, my rape joke, since it’s surely obvious I wouldn’t rape freeze. I apologize if I’ve offended.)
(That @sughly though, RAWRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrr)
I’m more offended by the fact that you wouldn’t rape me. I’m starting to question what’s wrong with me.
Too tall
Not Sughly enough. Not enough of this *gestures to himself*
;D
Isn’t there a vegetable called rape?
I was going to look it up to link it here but I don’t want to risk googling rape while at work.
Canola oil is what you’re thinking of.
Made from the seeds of the rape plant. Should be called rapeseed oil but for some reason, canola is more marketable.
Boom, that’s the one. What an unfortunate name for a plant.
If I wanted rapeseed in my food, I’d be rude to the cashier at McDonald’s.
Ordering no onions would work best 😉
#lifetips
That was my thought. It’s Saints Row. Thought provoking and serious it is not.
Rational thought and debate on the internet? Tune out dude, nothing good will come of it. I saw a few of the comments on one of the Kotaku articles last night and promptly aborted.
Whatever happens, I plan to get a regular version of the game (legally), not an Australian copy.
Arma 3 goes beta, and CoH2 release yesterday, and I’m cursed with a busy night on call. Couldn’t set down a long enough period to enjoy either of them. Kept getting interrupted. =(
Queenslander!
NRL has said it’s going to crack down and severely punish people that start fights. Paul Gallen has responded saying he can’t guarantee he won’t start one.
And they wonder why some people question their intelligence.
I hope everyone runs in, even the guys on the bench. Then when they’re all sent off we can see a game with the real legends — the trainers, Andrew Johns + Brad Fitler vs. Gordon Tallis + Alfie. 😀
Last night I discovered that I should never again play a Volus character in Mass Effect 3. I was laughing so hard I nearly passed out…
Also, more people should play ME3 multi.
Haha, that was an amazing match. The game involved everyone dieing in a firefight and @rize in the corner losing his shit over how funny the volus looked. In his defence the volus class is goddamn hilarious looking.
C’MON LUMPY GET IN THERE AND SAVE THE DAY!
*fat-rolls*
I have to finish ME2 first. Is getting a little repetitive (my second playthrough cos I lost my saves).
Those flying tank missions from the free DLC are awesome though.
And I really enjoyed
Driving a hovercar through Coruscant in Lair of the Shadow Broker.I may have asked this before, but is there any more car chases? Maybe in 3?
Shootshoot starts to grind after a while. I could talktalk all day though 😀
No more car chases, sadly. 🙁
Damn, it really helped mix things up.
I don’t get it, I’m a fan of the Mako in ME1 too, I liked just driving around random planets and having an explore. Way better than scanning.
Is ME3 just lots of shooting?
You can always choose a class that doesn’t focus on shooting, like an engineer or adept (or the mixed abilities classes).
Oh, I do. I can make a shield that explodes.
ME2 doesn’t really lend itself to that since the cooldown metre is on everything, it’s odd.
Yeah, pretty much all combat. It’s still ok, it works well enough, but nothing as interesting as Lair of the Shadow Broker. Granted, I haven’t played the DLC yet (I plan to, I swear).
Did you go into ‘Biotic God’ mode?
Man, people hate on adding Multi to games, but ME3’s multiplayer was great fun
A lot of people I know that have the game labelled it as “tacked on multi” and didn’t try it (happened with Brotherhood too, though that’s less awesome than ME3 multi).
Unfortunately I don’t have the Volus adept, but I have the other two. Their names are Lumpy and Stumpy. I should start thinking of a name for the adept…
It was great because each of the races really felt different and fresh, it was a good motivation to keep playing as you wanted to try out all the races and classes.
Also I loved using the Krogan Sentinel so much.
When in doubt, headbutt everything.
I think ME’s multi was labelled as ‘tacked on’ simply because ME wasn’t the sort of game that you’d think deserved multi. It’s a story-heavy sci-fi RPG.
But I had a lot of fun with ME3’s multi, I started playing it just to get my galactic readiness up, then realised it was actually really well executed, and fun to play. Put many hours into it by the end.
in all seriousness, ebay needs to seriously consider putting a block to stop sellers from selling tickets at anything above RRP +10%. Seriously, people are paying 300-400 for pax tickets. I honestly dont like my chances….
Then how would scalpers pay the bills?
They could get real jobs.
What’s with all the serious answers today?
Fine. They could get real jobs selling cheap products at inflated prices
at EB Games😛
I think they do for certain things. I know in QLD it’s actually illegal to sell tickets at certain venues (sporting venues maybe, can’t remember exactly) for more than 10 or 15% of their original value. You try to buy it for more and it throws all sorts of warnings at you about it and makes it really difficult.
some guy last week sold 15 tickets….. what, him and his 14 mates couldnt make it?!?
I remember buying some Foo Fighter tickets an age ago. They made you put down your name on the tickets and for each person the tickets were for. At the gate if your I’d wasn’t the same as the ticket you couldn’t get in. They’d refund cancellations up to a few days before.
Don’t see why that can’t be done for all events.
Someone sell Muramasa Rebirth to me. I hadn’t paid much attention to it until Jimu mentioned it – then watched a trailer or two. I’m vaguely interested, but kind of on the fence. It looks like fun, but just a fast paced platformey-slasher type deal? Everyone seems to be going kind of bonkers about it. Interested as to why – it’s up on US PSN today for for $35.
@scree is also massive fan, I keep meaning to pick it up.
Have you played any of Vannillawares other stuff?
Such as Odin Sphere?
I actually haven’t played Muramasa yet, it’s the excellent art that sucker-punches me.
But also, it’s a light RPG with mild Metroidvania and just looks awesome.
2 playable characters with 2 seperate stories, lots of hidden shit to collect.
IGN has a really good review up atm.(Backtracking is it’s only fault apparently)
Nah haven’t played Odin Sphere either. I am interested in Muramasa Rebirth though. Might just do some more reading up. Thanks for the input!
I’m not going to sell it and I’m not going to turn you away from it – I’ll just tell you what I know.
I’ve finished the Wii version and haven’t read much about the Vita version but I hear they fixed a few things (in the Wii version you had to press UP to jump which was kind of stupid but I think they fixed it in the Vita version) and added some new content through DLC. So I guess it’s the definitive version.
Honestly, it’s fun but not THAT great. It’s pretty much a fast paced platformey-slasher type like you described which is fairly light on the platforming. There’s small interconnected areas with platforms and enemies. There’s not much exploration either (like a Metroidvania) and the only new things you’ll get are swords which let you open up the next area or open up smaller, optional areas. There’s lots of boring backtracking too which is either walking from one side of a map to another, with some platforms, or that AND you have to fight respawning enemies.
Combat is pretty button mashy and gets pretty repetitive but still remains fun. There’s two characters with two different stories but they pretty much play the same.
The main draw for me was the art style and music. Absolutely beautiful! I know I was only interested in the game because of Vanillaware. Everything just looks and sounds so cool and even though combat is repetitive it all looks great. The whole Japanese mythology thing is pretty cool and enemies and bosses look sweet.
Worth getting? I had fun with it so I’d say yes but it’s not SUPER AMAZING. Repetitive combat and backtracking is lame. Got plenty of style but the gameplay isn’t anything special.
Helpius. Love your work, princess.
This sounds like what I was thinking – I might give it a miss. I think I needed someone to say ‘HOLYSHITTINGFUCKBALLSORSM’ before I jumped in. Might wait till it goes on special or somesuch.
Thanks!
No problemo!
It’s an action platformer, completely 2D with amazing artwork. Two protagonists that have inter-twining stories in a feudal Japan setting. Aksys re-translated the game from scratch (the original translation on Wii was poor). Japanese dialogue only, no dub.
Personally I think the only 2D game I’ve seen that is as pretty – aside from other Vanillaware games – is Rayman Origins.
It is a great game. I loved the story.
It is a hack and slash platformer with an intriguing story involving various interesting characters. It is the sort of game that is very easy to pick up but hard to master. Also, depending on the side “quests” you do, you can get 1 of 3 different endings for each for the two protagonists.
Some fo the quests are like defeat 5 different enemies in a row. Get 100 hit combo.
Doing these allows you to get more of the 205 swords that are available in the game. Each one has it’s own special move.
It all depends on what interests you most in games.
@mawt before you get too enthusiastic rolling characters, let me check my archives. I’ve probably got a whole bunch of lvl 1 chars sitting around
I preordered a PS4 yesterday and I feel happy with my decision.
Morning all. Big W has a massive toy sale this week and as a result I caved and bought an Xbox 360 for $138. Yes, I am 7 years late to the party, I know.
What is the most essential, Xbox-exclusive game I should pick up first?
Mass Effect.
There are a few other exclusives, and some really good ones, but start with Mass Effect.
RPG: Lost Odyssey
RPG/shooter: Mass EffectFPS: Halo series
Third-person shooter: Gears of WarOpen world mayhem: Crackdown
Apparently, I flubbed this list pretty bad, so just go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_exclusives_(seventh_generation)#Xbox_360
Not exclusive.
Mass Effect 1 is exclusive, isn’t it? Or am I behind the times…?
Mass Effect was PC/360.
EDIT: So was Gears 1, actually.
http://us.playstation.com/games/mass-effect-ps3.html
Well, how about that.
Although I believe the only way you can get ME1 on PS3 is via the ME Trilogy though. Can’t buy it separately to my knowledge – correct me if I’m wrong. It didn’t release on PS3 originally, only ME2 and ME3 did.
It’s on PSN now
Not as a physical product but you can buy it on its own on the PSN as that’s what I did.
I was in jb hi fi on the weekend and there is a box set you can buy with all three :/
ME1 is on PSN
Halo, besides that? I have no idea.
I still hold Gears of War 2 as one of my favorite 360 games.
Lost Odyssey was pretty great if not a little meandering at times.
siiiiiidevoooooooooooooooooteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
C’mon, you have to admit the story forgot where it was going a few times throughout.
Not for me, I was fully engrossed.
Love that game!
I rate it so high because of the flashbacks though, they were really well written imho.
The main story was generic as all get out, but I didn’t mind.
Short stories <3
Gears of War trilogy. Try to play them co-op with someone. They’re good dumb fun.
Halo (Reach or Anniversary are probably the best starting points).
Lost Odyssey if you like JRPGs.
All the good XBLA games are now out on PC, so the exclusive list for 360 is kind of paltry.
Is everything on PC now? WOW!
Super Meat Boy, Braid, Limbo, Trials, Fez, Spelunky (other stuff I’m probably forgetting)
So yes, practically all the good ones are on other platforms/PC now (except for Shadow Complex)
Perfect Dark?
I only mentioned ones I’ve played/knew about :). Forgot about it!
No, I mean: Is it on PC now?
I’m legitimatley asking, I have no idea. 😀
Oh thought you meant it in a “you forgot to mention Perfect Dark” kind of way. I still think that XBLA version is Xbox only – haven’t really been following it.
Forza is a pretty cool guy.
Lost Odyssey
Blue Dragon
The Last Remnant
Tales of Vesperia
Witcher 2 (exclusive for consoles)
Downloadables:
Shadow Complex (This is a must, Metroid clone with GI Joes)
Perfect Dark Live (A great port of Perfect Dark from 64 with hi res blocky N64 graphics, original sounds)
Dust: An Elysium Tale (Haven’t played but want!) (Console exclusive)
Guardian Heroes
EDIT: for pendantius
Oh man, Shadow Complex is fantastic.
Dust is on PC now.
Console exclusive like Witcher 2 😉
The Xbox doesn’t really have any essential exclusives, it just depends on what genres you like.
Halo is great, Gears of War is fun too (I prefer Halo), Forza is good if you like racing sims (not really my thing but I did enjoy what I played of Forza 3) and if you like JRPGs there’s Lost Odyssey, Tales of Vesperia and Blue Dragon.
Fable is an OKAY series, definitely not essential though.
There’s lots of XBLA stuff but most of it has gone to other platforms. All that I can think of that’s left and is exclusive is Shadow Complex (Metroidvania type of game – really good!)
Microsoft really doesn’t have that many exclusive IPs 😛
I would argue that Shadow Complex, Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey are essential.
Not if you don’t like JRPGs or Metoidvanias!
I’d say Halos are the most essential since you think Halo -> Xbox and it’s all they’ve really got 😛
Well, if you don’t…you should 😛
BTW, Knytt is going well, I only play it at home with headphones for that sweet sweet atmos, so progress is slow.
I’ve got to Chap 3 and have explored most of the bottom of the map.
Do quest items only appear after you take the quest?
I’m know I visited the place I just picked up some items from but am unsure if I actually stood where the items sit.
Err, like I said I’ve barely played it 😛
Oh wut?
I remembered that backwards. For some reason I though you said you quickly knocked it over :-s
(Prolly said it abrt another game on the list)
I’ve said numerous times I’ve only played it for about an hour 😛
I said I beat Knytt Stories though (the indie PC game)
@greenius That’s prolly what I was (not) thinking of.
Halo Reach
Forza 4
Gears of War
Crackdown
and then raid the XBLA marketplace:
Ikaruga
Virtua On
Braid
and such and such
Hey, benny.
What about original Xbox games?
Did you own an original Xbox?
I didn’t so I grabbed stuff like KotOR1&2 and Jade Empire.
These are on PC as well though.
I have no idea what the people suggesting Lost Odyssey as a good RPG are thinking, if you want a JRPG for the system it should be Tales of Vesperia.
Booo
Thanks for the suggestions. Anyone played Fusion Frenzy 2? I absolutely loved the first one on the original Xbox.
Edit: My mistake, it’s actually Fuzion with a z.
Has anyone seen anything specific about how Steam will be handling the Saints Row 4 stuff? Especially regarding existing preorders and refunds.
If it’s anything like Left 4 Dead 2, when they resubmit it, if it gets through you will just get a copy of the AU version.
If it’s still RC’d I would imagine Valve being Valve they would give you a refund…to your Steam Wallet.
@jimu
Vita stuff
Rayman is sweet, I’ve done the first 2 worlds and gotten 2 teeth, is there a point to the different characters, I know they have different attacks and stats (maybe) but is there anything else? I’ve only been Rayman so far.Second, OGS only have regular versions of Sonic & All Stars, they have no stock of their “Special Edition” gonna keep trying to find a copy of the “Limited Edition” locally for now, so i get the extra tracks and karts
Hmmmm, as far as I know characters are all the same. The animations look different but they actually play exactly the same. Maybe not, I couldn’t see a difference.
Check how much the DLC costs, you only get Mecha Sonic and Outrun Bay. Mecha Sonic is Playable in all modes but Outrun Bay is not included in Cups or the challenge mode. The challnege mode is what makes that game imho. It’s really just an improved clone of modern mario kart but the challenges are amazing.
I guess the other draw to owning the limited edition would be the shiny case, it’s pretty sweet.
i found a second hand copy at North Lakes when i was buying my Vita but i wasn’t sure if the limited edition stuff was included on the cart or if it was dlc and if it has a network pass or not (could cost me more than $23 to buy online pass plus dlc), was $23 and i went to grab it but the clerk couldn’t find the cartridge so i left it.
It’s DLC, there’s a code on a slip in the box.
I guess it’s worth checking dates too, I remember seeing copies of DA:O that come with the Shale DLC that was out of date.
You may have to end up paying for it anyway.
Gonna check Taigum and Toombul if no good will probably go for OGS copy or consider preowned if the dlc isn’t too much.
How quirky is Rayman’s music, i keep getting it in my head. next month i get Ninja Gaiden and Unit 13 from ps+ whoo.
Ninja Gaiden I wanna check out eventually. It’s well respected and I have an Onimusha sized whole in my Vita collection.
Also, the returned the blood and kept all the extras from the special special editions, so Vita version seems to be th eway to go.
Did you download the DoA demo? I still can’t understand the controls (because it’s not Tekken :P) but, maaaaaaaaaan, that is a nice package (insert bewb kokes here).
OH! Harada said if Tekken Free to Play gets enough downloads on PSN he will make a Vita version. So download it on US PSN now! 😀
wow, will get from my US account i just read we won’t see it on aus psn until September, maybe later, whaaa? it’s a download FFS
The DoA demo? Wow! That’s slooooooooooooooooooooooooooow
both by the look of it, Tekken & DOA, laaaaaaaaaym
I specified US PSN for Tekken, that’s only a week or two old though.
This guy’s mentioning places I know! D:
I may have even been to places you’ve been O_o
@trjn 87th upvoter!!
This is just getting silly.
You know you want to reach triple digits 😀
I really want to see what happens then. I’m thinking combustion of some sort.
Semi tempted to downvote just for contrariness, but the comment was le mot juste.
Not a single downvote either D:
And yes @shane I believe it’s the most upvoted. I think it was previously 56 or so (at least that’s the highest I’ve seen). I know the most downvoted is about 105 😛
Somebody email Donald and he may get one 😛
…?
89 upvotes so far on this comment.
90. You’re welcome.
91. Why not?
98!
So close to 100 now.
I just pushed it to 99
And Nova pushed it over the edge.
I may have slightly cheated by turning someone’s downvote into an upvote when she forgot to log off of my laptop last night …
And I thought I’d join in on the fun and it’s now 100. Nothing happened.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/06/breaking-saints-row-iv-has-been-refused-classification/#comment-1609457
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/06/breaking-saints-row-iv-has-been-refused-classification/comment-page-1/#comment-1609457
Uh, yeah. What they said.
100 \o/
You’re welcome 🙂
Anyone umming and arring about whether or not to set up a US account so they can get State of Decay now instead of later… DO IT!
I am absolutely loving this game. I don’t think I have enjoyed a game as much since SKYRIM!
If you are thinking of getting now, do it. If you plan on getting it later, totally worth the wait.
It just feels like the perfect survival game. One moment you are feeling very confident, plenty of supplies and weapons, then 2 minutes later you are quickly scrambling around for anything that might help stave of death just that little bit longer.
Definitely gets the Hugo Hug of approval.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/06/state-of-decay-still-en-route-to-pc-although-who-knows-when/
I’d rather play it now, but having the option of playing on PC means I’ll wait. Sounds like a hell of a lot of fun, though!
Most absolutely, positively yes.
Plus with talk of a new sandbox mode coming, things are just gonna get better.
Now if they eventually put co-op into it, game of the year right there.
Looks like it might have been RCed in Australia so this might be the only way to get it.
*shriek of horror*
Ahem, ur i mean
*very manly bellow of rage*
Totally worth doing as it’s not that hard, hey if I can anyone can, plus all those indie games we can’t get also look rather tempting.
Company of Heroes 2 needs an SLI profile. Hurry up, Nvidia! My second GPU is twiddling it’s thumbs! Game looks fucking amazing on high settings, too.
It recommended that I play on basically the lowest settings. I bumped them up to medium and got a near identical performance test. The auto detect must be terrible.
Yeah I think the auto detect is a little conservative. It just sucks that it doesn’t have an SLI profile at the moment, because max setings at 2560, it actually starts to lag on my machine – even with a Titan. It’s surprisingly demanding. But Titan number 2 is just sitting around twiddling it’s thumbs.
Game is very, very pretty.
YOU ARE PLAYING SINGLE PLAYER
how dare you.
i thought we would all play together in a massive derp quest.
Everyone knows that the single player doesn’t count in RTS games.
Anyone know of any physical stores that are selling the new Transformers Kre-o little figures thingies?
Was going to grab a few of these for my nephews today, but I am not sure if they are out at any stores like Target, Kmart or such.
The LEGO-like ones? I bought mine from my local Big W. Just check their website to confirm if they’re available in your suburb.
Thanks Masha, tried a few websites but couldn’t find anything. May just try looking in a Big W store since you got some there.
‘for my nephews’
Suuuuuuure.
ANIMAL CROSSING:
If anyone’s town is selling normal/Silver axes can you holler? 😀
Can’t check till lunch time, but I’ve had an axe for sale every day since the shop opened.
!!! They break so you should’ve been buying spare/backups. I’ve gone through 3 already 😛
Silver Axe on the Island is rarer though so I’d like to buy one of those if anyone’s Island has them.
I know they break, but I’m in no rush to cut any trees down 😛
I went crazy and planted so many fruits in the first few days (not knowing how useless they’d become now that I’ve unlocked the Island :P). So much chopping…
I think you get silver when youve bought 50 bags of seed from whatsherface… or so Ive read
Pretty sure Leif is a dude :P. 50 bags of Seeds is for Silver Watering Can, 50 tree sprouts for Gold Axe I think.
OOHHHHH! Wait wait, silver axe is at the museum shop.
Nope, Silver Axe is on the Island 😛
Silver Fishing Rod and Bug Net are Museum shop though 😀
So Fox News finally got their Sodomy Gun.
Sounds like the title of a Marilyn Manson track 😛
Man, Get Your Gunn was probably his best track ever.
I remember having Cake & Sodomy stuck in my head and not being the slightest bit annoyed.
I can’t remember, cos it’s been too long, but I prolly prefer something from Anti-Christ Superstar.
(Could be wrong)
Yeah overall, Antichrist was his best album, not argument there.
seeing Manson at Soundwave was sad, he had a pot belly and was outta his mind, couldn’t hold a note, kept cutting out while singing, think he’d been partying too hard or something. Wish i didn’t go to it, I’ve been to a few of his concerts that were awesome and would like to remember that, instead my memories of him are not good ones.
He’s a visual artist now! :-s
Oh man, @virus__ and myself were right up the front for that. Was a terrible show. From where we were, everytime he walked off stage you could see his assistant desperately pushing him back on. Poor girl.
Was so bad. First time seeing him and had wanted to for years and he was the let down I was expecting. Supposedly at Download later that he was the same and won’t probably be put back on the bill, but with Rob Zombie in December he was great I was informed =/ Ugh, I think Manson just hates festivals.
What a cockbag!
Last time I ever saw him was at one of the Big Day Outs in early 2000’s – think it was around the time of Mechanical Animals? Good performance, but he acted like a fuckwad on stage and quit playing early. That was the year someone chucked a bottle of water and hit one of his bandmates (think it was Twiggy) he stopped playing and demanded the crowd beat the shit out of the guy that threw the bottle, then he cut the show early.
He’s a talented musician, even without the shock factor – but I think I’ll stick to the studio stuff.
As an adult I should be free to forcefully penetrate someone’s anus.
That’s the argument here. As much as I love Saints Row, and you all know I do, I’m really not going to miss this weapon.
If it was in the game, I’d probably use it once and go ick no thanks.
I’m not fussed about this loss. As much as the civil libertarian in me says “CENSORSHIP???!!!” I can’t really muster any outrage here.
This is exactly what I did with the dildo in SR3.
‘haha I’m beating people up with a giant dildo…okay i’m done with this now’
Apparently I lose my ability to capitalise when quoting myself.
If it wasn’t an OP melee weapon, I probably wouldn’t have used it much. But it was. Very OP.
I just liked running around with it. There was something hilariously wrong with the obscene way it flopped around when you held it. Someone spent way too much time working on that one aspect of it.
Imagine the research they had to do on that.
They’ve used a replica one on Hey Ash Whatcha Playin’?
Yeah, I probably would have giggled a bit, used it on one or two more guys and then never touched it again.
Also: Saints Row 3 is one of the only games I’ve got the Platinum trophy for!
Are you gonna miss this weapon!?
-grabs crotch, winces, tries to keep straight face as tears well up in eyes, waits for you to turn away, slowly tip toes to the bathroom, feels for any strange lumps, breathes a sigh of relief, adjusts pants, returns to the bar-
Every day.
Yeah. I know developers shouldn’t water down their games in fear of what the mainstream conservative media will say, but seriously? An anal probe weapon? I’d feel deeply uncomfortable using this weapon in-game. Won’t make a difference to me whether it stays or goes.
Regardless of censorship issues, you’ve got to wonder about developers who even think about putting something like that in a game and what it says about them and what they think of their audience.
Exactly. Not only is it a silver platter to Fox News, it’s definitely saying something about the maturity of ‘mature’ content, and about boundary-pushing just for the sake of pushing boundaries.
Just got them a heap of free advertising though 😉
True, but if other people react to it the way I kind of am, I don’t think it will necessarily bag them more sales.
Bingo. Anal probe or not, everyone knows about SR4 now. They did the same thing with the giant dildos they produced in real life for SR3. And remember they got stolen or something? I don’t see the problem with the anal probe, personally. I’d use it for tehlolz on occasion. I still don’t see why it should be removed or RC’d, though.
https://twitter.com/atomstrawberry/status/349517570682011649
I’d buy that for a dollar. What better game to set the bar with than SR4?
I don’t think it says anything about the developers or what they think of their audience.
They were riding the wave of crazy and got carried away.
Happens all the time.
S’how I was conceived.
BEEL!
SNOOKI!
doinitrite?
SNOOKEH!*
I’LL GET YOU NEXT TIME GADGET!
Blaghman’s AC town has a Bill. I giggled.
The next 2 Animal Crossing people who ask me to adjust their catch phrases are in for a surprise.
Curious to see what people thought of the show Chuck.
It finished a year or so ago, but I have started re-watching it and find it to be the perfect show when brain dead after a bad day at work.
Plus, you gotta love the Weinerlicious outfit 😛
I loved most of Chuck. I haven’t actually seen the final few episodes though because the last season was annoying the hell out of me.
From what I can remember, I enjoyed seasons 1-3 the most and I very much agree in regards to the last season, definitely took a very crappy turn there.
Couldn’t agree more. I loved the first 4 seasons. The 5th just ruined the experience for me a little.
Opening song is good. Original premise is good. The cast is actually quite excellent. Got good guest roles like Timothy Dalton and Scott Bakula in the later seasons. Drags on too long but what show doesn’t these days?
No one is willing to let shows just finish anymore. I love how Battlestar Galactica had a definite end after 4 seasons and didn’t continue.
They really should have not worried about trying to milk it with Caprica as was proved.
GOTTA EARN THEM COLD HARD
BELLSCASHAlternatively:
yeah but the end to battlestar was fucking terrible
not spoiling it was just flat out yucky.
True, but the entire series was just so relentlessly depressing that it was a relief when it was over.
I loved 4 seasons. i friend spoiled the 5th and i was like nope i like these characters too much to ruin them. I actually watched it all very recently. The music is amazing they use a great selection of songs .Also the whole chuck and sarah situation made me happy. they are a great tv couple. Also goes without saying yvonne stahovski is amzingingly beautiful. even if they do over sexualize her.
oversexualize? in chuck, or.. mass effect, because god knows there she caused mass er-
You know I’m just gonna stop myself there.
I liked it. It kind of got a bit silly towards the end, I’m kind of glad they ended it when they did.
The first two seasons are the best, but it’s worth seeing through to the end.
About to go out because it’s PRETZEL DAY!
Don’t worry…I’ll eat one for each of you. 😀
Pretzel Day sounds like it would be the best public holiday.
Did anyone else experience some odd glitches in The Last of Us?
Aside from the bit where I had completely ineffective melee, I just had another bit where a duder jumped through a window and then was hovering in a Jesus pose until I whacked him.
I haven’t seen any issues like that but I’m only 5 hours in. I just had a battle in the school vs. my first
bloater.Not a one the entire way through.
I’ve had several. It’s been rather annoying too.
This comment?
I got flashbacks to Bill & Ted and then you topped it off with a Soundgarden flashback
No glitches, crashed on me for the first time last night though, just walking along then frozen :/.
Also i think Joel may be a vampire, I’ve looked in 3 mirrors now and haven’t cast a reflection, but right at the start Sarah was casting reflections on windows o_0
Spoilers 😛
Spoiled the secret that he’s a wompyr?
*walks into TAY with blank expression, sits down*
Have a virtual beer on me, pal. You look troubled.
Hiya @DC! How are you?
*makes unintelligible grunting noise*
You?
Eh, work.
Going to see MAN OF STEEL tonight though!
AMY ADAMS
RICHARD SCHIFF
With or without patented West Wing beard?
Trailers say beardy.
He was beardless in Ray I think
And Jurassic Park: The Lost World. Almost unrecognisable.
Also: Toby was my favourite character on The West Wing.
Toby and Josh.
I like everyone in The West Wing. CJ. Bartlett. Leo. Mary McCormack.
Dang straight. Michael Shannon too. Looked a bit poop in At the Movies’ review though. Speaking of AA, you seen Doubt? Sooo goooood.
No, I haven’t. Looked good, but the whole Catholic thing creeps me out so I avoid it whenever possible. 😀
I’m not really a Supes fan. Will avoid Man of Steel too I think.
Have an anal probe before it disappears.
blank? how the hell did you manage to get rid of your face?
*draws smiley face*
that’s better.
Trjn’s comment hit 100 upvotes.
Pack up, we’re done here in Kotaku AU.
*bows*
Thank you, thank you. I’m here all week. Tip your travel agents 🙂
Making garlic bread for breakfast/lunch.
Also, should probably lock down this Spirited Away dealy meat today.
…
Later.
Yah I’m gon go suss out this arranged seat stuff…
They went straight to credit card details when I tried. D:
Yeah maybe not allocated seating? It says for the credit card page ‘once you click purchase you’ll be charged it cannot be reversed’, so I dont imagine theres another page after that for seating choices. So… yeah. Guess we should book anyway? I’m happy to if we have concrete numbers.
Not sure if you guys have considered this, but maybe call the cinema and find out? 😛
Pssh, yeah, what, and TALK to people? Dont think so.
Aw, you don’t have to Sughly. You did it last time.
@sughly, @freezespreston, @sernobulus, @virus__, @strange, @lambomann007, @welbot, @beardymcmuttonchops, @dkzeitgeist, @gutsoup, @jimu.
Who’s definitely going?
Meh its fine, as long as I get mah moneys back
You so awesome. :’)
Won’t be going sorry 🙁
Nope, seen it at cinemas. May try to make another flim if poss.
I’m not going. I can’t make it to Friday meats.
What’s this about? Just saw this notification, so uh.. What’s going on, am I meant to be doing something some day or something?
Spirited Away, the Studio Ghibli movie is playing in Japanese with English subtitles at the Palace Centro on Friday night. A group of us are going and having dinner before hand, if you can make it you’re more than welcome!
Ah right, nah can’t make it sorry.
I’m not going to go to the mewvie, but I’m totes down with munchies.
I could honestly eat garlic bread for every meal
*bread makes you fat Scott Pilgrim joke here move along folks*
But seriously I love garlic bread.
Ahaha, had an interesting Ace Attorney convo with Ash this morning. He started playing it yesterday, and was saying he was loving it. So I tell him ‘A friend of mine said it was lame’, and he said ‘yeah, the start one is kind of lame’. And then he thinks for a moment and says ‘but it gets better later. Like, the best bit is when you have those moments where you’re like oooooh I dont know what to do!’. I nodded proudly.
You’ve done well with the wee one.
Now I think on it Piper would have just told me that its just my friend that was lame.
I think I’d like this friend of Sughly’s. I’d tell them how I didn’t think the game was lame, but weirdly sexist.
😛
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa
You actually played the demo, DC?!
Also, screwed up how the judge lets a witness give their testimony seventeen completely different times, but busts Phoenix’s chops when he makes a mistake.
Judge guy is odd in general. Awfully clueless about everything, really.
But yeeaahh life on the defense bench ain’t easy in the AA world. Whips, coffee thrown at you, exorcisms, etc.
Its all part of the chaaaaarm! ^_^
how is it sexist?
There is an odd sexist air to quite a few Japanese games.
I think it’s because they are made by men that women laugh at.
TITS EVERYWHERE
I guess D.C. isn’t used to watching anime and stuff so he’s not used to it since it’s typically in a lot of Japanese things
Cleavage or bare?
Cos most american women in TV have their tits hanging out too, Japan just doesn’t bother pretending.
GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
its looking like my laptop wont happen till late next week
I WANT IT NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
I present to you.. TAYwall!
http://www.yourworldoftext.com/TAYwall
Yeah, my firewall did not like that.
Started watching the Death Note anime last night after finishing Hellsing. I think im going to like this.
Between watching Death Note/Hellsing and reading game of thrones ive been having the strangest dreams 😐
Australian politics irritates me so much. Why does this Rudd thing need to drag on for years and years and years.
Because the media are scared of having to write about policy.
Because news.com.au needs something to keep their reader base happy 😛
The public don’t like Gillard but the party are okay with her, then it’s the reverse for Rudd and no-one within Labor can bring themselves to work with him — they’re in a lose-lose situation and so will just keep sailing straight into the iceberg (Gillard) instead of trying to jump it with a ramp and skateboard (Rudd).
But man, yeah. So annoying that people won’t stop talking about it. Soooooooooo annoying. >:|
Not you, DC — I meant everyone else! D:I would pay good money to watch KRudd jump an iceberg on a skateboard…
edit: NOPE
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I’ll post it again when it’s not at the top of the page 😛
Be proud of your page gets.
Too much swearing for a page get
Good call, I prefer limited swearing in my TAY
He could’ve not sworn in the first place 😛
I get a little angry when I’m hungry.
And I swear when I’m angry.
But then I ate Milo cereal so I’m not angry anymore
BEN J HUNGRY!
BEN J ANGRY!
BEN J SMASH!
Metal Gear!
!
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/06/25/kojima-seeking-studio-to-remake-metal-gear-solid-again/
just remove ‘solid’ from the title and rework it so there’s a fuckton more ‘solid’ lore in the background, and it’ll be perfect.
.. I realize the wording I just used might be confusing, so let me clarify. Fuck MGS, remake the first and second Metal Gear and inject even more delicious Kojima-branded insanity for which we love the ‘solid’ series so well.
Fuck MGS?
YOU TAKE THAT BACK THIS INSTANT
boss slapping ocelot.gif
MGS is damn near perfect, and it got a remake- twin snakes. Flawed, but a remake nonetheless.
DAMN, got my example wrong. Still, though, MGS is fine on it’s own and doesn’t need a remake. Grey Fox Vs. Solid Snake in a minefield is all sorts of epic still.
I’d be happy with a Metal Gear remake, but I’d like a HD MGS too.
Don’t see the need, original plays well.
MG&MG2 on the other hand…
Nice to see Just Add Water interested, they should bloody well hurry up with my Munch’s Oddyssey HD Vita port!
Under the Dome radio station set had Arcade Fire poster in background. You’re okay, small town radio station set…
I spotted that!
DJ should just play all Arcade Fire, all the time. It’d sooth a troubled town.
Will it though? What if the residents fall in love with them but they can NEVER see them live.
!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All the kids in the town would just be like,
Rococo ROCOCO rococo rococo. ROCOCO!
Then they’ll be in the same boat as me. :'(
😛
@redartifice: Well played. XD
Creepy backwoods hick town likes Arcade Fire?
No surprises there.
I like to think the radio stations a bastion for enlightened civilization. 😛
Have you listened to the radio lately ???
I mean that specific radio station. 😛
Did anyone ever get new Dragon’s Dogma Dark Something Something?
Out of all the games I missed on my PS3 for the past 9 months, that is what keeps coming back to pique my interest.
@35 !
I picked it up, need to get into it though. =P
I want too but the pile grows.
They have cream for that.
Zing!
Where were you when I made an actual piles joke and had to link @sughly to the Wikipedia page so he understood?
Hah, sad I missed that one.
I got it, played it for a few hours, can’t come up with any reasons why I shouldn’t play it more.
Helping?
Dark Arisen is pretty good. Adds quite a bit of post-game stuff.
If you like the base game & want a bit more content, id recommend it.
Ughhh leaving to go home soon :S Hopefully Sunday gets here quickly. On the plus side I get to see my dogs and some of my friends who moved to Melbourne 😀
(PS This isn’t what I posted above. That was an angry rant about uni and unions :P)
Aw man
I was at uni when the whole Voluntary Student Unionism thing was happenning. What a mess.
I’m annoyed because the union is meant to benefit students (somehow… All I’ve seen are almost weekly gay rights parades and strikes), and now they want to ban the release of exam results until they’re happy.
How on earth did a union get the authority to ban students results from being released in the first place?!
Uni students tend to forget they’re still pretty much teenagers and giving them any power is a dumb idea.
Gay rights stuff is an important activity for student unions.
I got an email a couple of weeks ago saying our results have been banned…
….
……
Lameee
Universities are the worst, and the student unions are the second worsterest thing. 😐
No, sweatshops are the worst.
Heh… VSU, the law changed while I was at uni.
Cue the unions cutting everything saying they ‘didn’t have the money’ even though the law wasn’t taking effect until the following financial year…
Can’t skip over Friday. Friday is my first Ghibli movie. Friday is hanging with pals.
FRIIIIIDAY.
Friday is going to pathology and getting a heap of blood taken from me and then most likely getting drunk that night 😛
…Or not. It wasn’t the greatest idea I’ve ever had last time.
Hope all is well, BenJ!
Haha yeah I’m fine (for now). Thanks though 🙂
Regular blood tests have just become a fact of life for me
AWW what? You might get drunk? Goddamit, DC, you should have told me this earlier 🙁
Haha! Probably shouldn’t and probably won’t.
DC might be getting drunk…. I need to re evaluate some things and see if i can make it to the meat 😛
@greenius:
This is the first day that creepy sloth isn’t selling an axe. Sorry!
Sloths aren’t creepy. You take that back! >:|
They’re cool!
Colobus Monkeys on the other hand…
Yeah, I hate the fucking things.
They’re all rapists.
Word of the day.Sloths are awesome, have you seen the pygmy three toed sloth they found in like 2003? they are great
http://www.google.com.au/imgres?q=pygmy+sloth&sa=X&hl=en&qscrl=1&rlz=1T4HPND_enAU310AU314&noj=1&tbm=isch&tbnid=ZsfvjBw5pv0yjM:&imgrefurl=http://zoopeeps.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/&docid=TNGMjaM7ktHwtM&imgurl=http://zoopeeps.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/sloth.jpg&w=500&h=348&ei=hFjKUZ2BDsWekQWJloAw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=2&vpy=-54&dur=1047&hovh=187&hovw=269&tx=121&ty=133&page=2&tbnh=131&tbnw=188&start=5&ndsp=8&ved=1t:429,r:5,s:0,i:101&biw=666&bih=268
Edit: Sorry bout monster link, i dunno how to make em all pretty and hidden 😛
replace [ ] with < >
[a href=”www.google.com”] TEXT [/a]
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Oh yeah, how do you remember that? What’s the meaning behind it all?
No idea… I asked in TAY once and then just remembered it 😛
test
http://nookipedia.com/w/images/d/d4/Lazy.png
Also, best name for an Animal Crossing website?
No problemo, he sold me one today but knowing all the trees I’m going to have to chop down it’ll likely break soon :P. Thanks!
And since we’re already discussing Animal Crossing… TURNIP PRICES!? Mine are at 70 😛 *phew*
I get kinda scared to check them after I’ve sold them just in case the prices have jumped up but it still helps out others 😀
Back down to 202 🙂
Also I have an axe at my creepy sloth shop
He’s not creepy, he’s cool!
If it’s a spare I wouldn’t mind having it please :D. I also tried out the catalogue this morning. Ordered something and turned off the game. When I turned it back on I received it in the mail (so it’s not like a day wait or anything :D)! We can swapsies furnitureee (I have two Exotic pieces)
Mine are at 80 and it’s floppin’ bull spit, man.
I bought these stinkin’ things for 109 and the highest I’ve had is 80.
Friggin’ jag weed, selling me dodgy merchandise.
Mateee they were 385 at Sug’s last night! I’ll keep checking mine daily and I hope everyone else does so we can all profit <3
Someone’s invented a William Gibson Lorem Ipsum generator.
gang face forwards girl crypto- sentient car paranoid crypto- saturation point. fetishism rifle DIY tanto numinous face forwards otaku narrative film. dead office hacker film decay math- tattoo rebar futurity. assassin katana knife hacker table bridge physical rifle tank-traps.
http://loremgibson.com/
La-li-lu-le-lo
Who are the Patriots?
That just made me want a Mel Gibson version full of Jewish slurs and the word sugar tits.
Just saw a few copies of Limbo: Special Edition for $15 each at my local JB.
Remember someone saying they wanted it?
One day I’ll play that game. One day.
Me too, dc, me too.
(I did play the demo)
Me too!
I think its $9 at mine. Save $6!
I’m waiting on the next Steam sale! $3!
Is your local EB the same as my local EB or are you talking about the city? 😀
JB, in the City.
Watching ‘Odd Thomas’ with Anton Yelchin. Apparently from a series of novels by Dean Koontz. Low budget, Willem Dafoe stars as well. Yelchin sees the dead and ‘does something about it’ helping them get revenge for their murders. Then what seem to be Reapers start appearing in town. Pretty damn impressive to be honest. B grade for sure, but well worth the watch with some pizza 😀 😀 😀 it’s one of those ‘pulp cinema’ kinda movies that guarantees a good time. Doesn’t even require the brain to be in neutral, just in ‘fun’. 🙂
Wait, is Deadpool out already?
Don’t do it!
Why not?
I’m a hipster Deadpool fan, I liked Deadpool before it was cool. So Deadpool is no longer cool.
So since he’s no longer cool its okay for me to like him ironically.
No, people may get the wrong idea.
I’m serious with the first two comments. Game is getting reviewed poorly, they say it’s funny though, so if that’s enough I would still rather you didn’t buy it.
I really am a hipster DP fan. I really liked him at the end of the 90s, after Liefeld was gone but before he became so popular.
I’m just sour because there was quite a lot of depth to him before, now he’s just Bugs Bunny.
Which again, if it’s your thing, go ahead. But, maaaaaaaaan, I miss the old Deadpool 🙁
Meh, they rewrite characters so damn often I’ve stopped caring about it. As long as they have a few core stuff then I’m not too fussed.
I wish they did rewrite him, I don’t like the direction he was taken in :-/
HipsterJimu
Hey! If you find one comic book fan that isn’t a hipster in some way I will reward you….with some old comics.
Nah I know the feels. I grew up with 90’s Wolverine and the X-Men. I got all touchy about Wolvie for a bit, when he got all popular because of Hugh Jackman. Then I was all like, well – more people like an awesome character, so whatever.
Yeah, but Wolverine is handled with a real respect. There have been heaps of really well written Wolverine adventures since his invention. There’s been a truckload od shit too, of course.
Deadpool has just become a gag rather than an interesting story with a funny protagonist.
Can I just jump in here and say that the Frank Miller / Chris Claremont 4-part miniseries Wolverine is amazing! Also any story when he was pencilled by Leinil Francis Yu, eg. Not Dead Yet.
Apparently so. That came up quickly. I reckon I’ll grab it for a bit of fun to balance out The Last of Us.
My lotto ticket from last night won!
$22.35You could buy lunch with change for a treat afterwards with that kinda dosh!
So I got this today, from Kat! Wasn’t expecting it to be personally addressed to me or even signed!
For those who didn’t see on Facebook or Twitter, it’s Corey Taylor’s new book and it’s signed by the man himself! So awesome.
Who
😛Hi Virus
That is pretty cool, Kat seems awesome but I guess I’m telling you what you already know
Yeah, you don’t need to tell me that haha. I also got these along with the book, limited edition hard cover of Metal Hammer, Slipknot edition, Download 2013 shirt and a special edition Iowa Slipknot shirt 😀
Spam email:
Subject : excrement ! She wants to meet!
Uhm, sure.
Und jetzt ist es Zeit, die Brille anzuziehen.
I’m praying in their excitement, they’ve misspelled ‘excitement’, and there’s not some crazy foreign lady that wants to poop on me. I mean cool, if that’s your thing, I’m not here to judge – but me? I’ll pass.
LOLOLOLOL
http://www.cracked.com/article_17270_100-unintentionally-hilarious-spam-subject-lines.html
(some NSFW concepts in there)
“Hey girl how are things i once was a postman”
Going to try that one this evening.
I’m at work and I’m suppressing laughter so much my cheeks and my jaw hurt.
‘I can’t really decode what they’re saying here but- OH MY GOD THE NAZIS HAVE BATARANGS’
HNGH
Oh my god.
DONGBOAT
Make it stop, please.
There are real tears running down my face.
Teacher walks in: “What’s so funny?”
Struggled to avoid screaming “DONGBOATS!” in fits of laughter.
http://au.ign.com/articles/2013/05/07/counterspy-announced-for-playstation-3-ps-vita
This sounds awesome!
Very interesting concept, certainly worth keeping an eye on
When I read Flashback I got a little bit excited 😀
http://variety.com/2013/tv/news/starz-greenlights-outlander-from-battlestar-galactica-exec-producer-1200501683/
I always get excited about new Ron D. Moore series and they always get cancelled in the first season. :'( Still looking forward to his Syfy Channel mini-series Helix as well.
Just came back from Wiki and it’s sounding a bit too romance oriented for my tastes.
Will be checking it out though.
Yeah, I thought the same thing. If the writing’s good, I don’t mind a little romance. Haha! (Of course, I’d prefer science fiction and time travel. XD)
You might like Helix, though. Scifi series set in a secret Antarctic research station. Rumours that it’s loosely based on Moore’s script for a sequel to The Thing that was never shot.
If it’s a mini-series, will it end?
I would like it to.
Syfy’s calling it a series proper now, I think it started as a mini-series though so I imagine the first season will stand on its own.
HNGH!
Can I “see” it tonight *wiiiiiiiiink*
The Newsroom is back next month. Really looking forward to season two.
What are you guys watching now that Mad Men/Game of Thrones/etc have finished?
Comedy Bang! Bang! and Louie.
They’re both amazing.
Get on it, Dan.
If I recall D.C. hates stand up comedians and would most definitely hate the material Louis CK has 😛 (although there’s that routine involving a gorilla…)
But yeah, HOW GOOD IS LOUIE/LOUIS CK! Last time I checked he’s skipping 2013 but that’s already, you rest up buddy and focus on making it great rather than churning out season after season <3
Yeah, I hate stand up comedians. XD
Louie is filmed like a drama though except there’s stand up routines all over the place (usually at the start and end of episodes). It’s relevant to what’s in the episode though so it fits well but if you don’t like CK or stand up, I don’t know how you’ll feel about it 😛
It does have the DAN! and @Masha2932 seal of approval though!
Man, Louie is filled with so many beautiful moments.
One ep he’ll be talking about fingering gorillas and the next will be a beautifully shot and amazing!
@dc I know this probably isn’t selling the show to you but your film buddies with similar tastes as you enjoy it 😀
Yeah, no doubt most of the time it’s kind of crass (but hilariously and truthfully so), but then all of a sudden you get these human moments out of nowhere, in all these unexpected places. It’s why I think people are off the point when they call him negative or a pessimist, completely gives him the wrong framing. I think he’s a realist, which sometimes shows the bad for what it is, and the good for what it is too. Oh man, the stuff with Parker Posey in the latest season? Incredible.
I’ll tell my brother you said that
Tell your brother that one of your coloured bros thinks he was funny!
Unfortunate.
Comedy Bang! Bang! you would absolutely despise.
Comedians improvising an entire talk show format show… ?
It’s amazing.
The host was one of the writers on Mr Show. If you know what that is.
Because you should check that out as well, as it’s also brilliant.
…
I don’t get it.
The Venture Bros.
*checks list*
– Conan
– Futurama. I didn’t even know it started up again until I saw it on my YARGH site. First ep back was the same quality as other CC eps – pretty okay
Acquired but haven’t seen:
– Community S4
– Venture Bros (sorry Freeze :P)
– Gravity Falls 3 eps or so behind
– Adventure Time – got about a season to catch up on
Waiting on:
– Whose Line
– Dexter
– Breaking Bad !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
– It’s Always Sunny
– Archer
– South Park
Oh, that reminds me. I’m a whole season behind Boardwalk Empire! D:
Oh! You just reminded me I was interested in that and Homeland!
Oh, you reminded me… Greenius is pretty cool!
I hear he’s a bit shit.
get on that @dc , then talk to me about it :D, i only have 1 other friend (presumptuos statement that we are fronds) who watches it, I really love Boardwalk Empire, that last season is really good. Chalky White is my favourite
We’re totally friends! :’) I’ve met you twice. TWICE! Practically best friends. 😀
I remember thinking after season two ended that the show was gonna be crazy different, saw the season premiere and thought it was at its creative best… then got distracted. XD Got them all [redacted] in HD ready to go…
ooh, I’m excited by the thought of you watching it, I think it’s my favourite season so far. I might be biased since it’s the freshest in my memory.
was tempted to post a link to Angelo Janotti’s Friends again, but i spared you, this time
*wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiink*
I like it, but find it super average and never have a desire to watch.
I dunno why i like it so much, i was compeled to find out what happened next all the time. I think i just have a thing for the era, probation and gangstars and such
That’s what I like about it, the era and Steve Buscemi…of course.
But it just has never really sucked me in :-/
I’ll get back to it one day.
How many seasons of Always Sunny have there been?
I think I stopped at 3 or 4(?)
Fuck it’s good.
Last thing I remember is their story about why their pub should be added to the Heritage Trail.
Classic lines like “It’s the 1800s, woman have no rights!”Like 8 or something 😛
Does the usual TV show thing where it starts to decrease in quality but it started to pick up again!
Sheeet! Got some catching up to do 😀
Even a declined Always Sunny would shit all over most other shows. Man, it’s good!
Emperor Jimu is gaining some mad respect!
Survivir still sux 36 crazy dix
Get out of my house.
The venture Brothers,
Falling Skies (it’s ok, not great but ok, cool aliens and stuff, i get a feeling their budget won’t allow for what they want, they keep starting a huge battle then cutting to the end of it and being all like “phew we did it” Spielberg is exec producer too)
ER guy’s in that show, right? I know AMC have some scifi shows with a bigger budget coming out soon. WOOOOO!
yeah i wasn’t keen on Noah Wylie in the begining, but he surprised me, he does alright, decent storyline, human race fighting back from almost extinction,maybe watch the pilot see if it grabs u, there is a hint of Post Apocalyptic Urban Decay in there, just a little
John Carter was one of my favourite characters on ER. 😀
“You set the tone, Carter!”
hey i didn’t even realise, isn’t John Carter the name of that crazy sci fi disney movie.
You know it! I made many a joke about ER finally getting a movie! 😛
Crazy awesome you mean?
yeah, really enjoyed it, that dog thing was awesome
Another Venture Bro! \o/
I keep trying to tell people that its the smartest and deepest show on TV but no one believes me.
:O
Yeah a mate put me onto it a few years ago, it’s so good, i like the continuing story aspect, they’ve had some great little twists and surprises
Movies!
A shitton of bad anime. Season ends next week though, so new stuff is about to start.
WHAT THE HELL, CHANNEL ELEVEN? WHAT THE HELL?!
Ever since they started channel Eleven, I’d put the TV on for JAG at 1pm ‘n then MacGyver at 2pm — not really watching it closely, just background noise and some sort of distraction. Then they took MacGyver off rotation and put on Star Trek Voyager — less 80’s fashion, but it was still okay. A habit that (sort of) generated productivity.–
Today, I turn the TV on and listen to the JAG theme. All is well. I have no idea what happened in the episode, but credits started rolling and I looked up expecting to see Star Trek. Nope.
–
Judging Amy.
–
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. What is going on, my whole world is falling apart! :'(
I hate that show so damn bad. The lead character. Her daughter. The holier than thou grand mother. Poor Ambrose. :'(
Quick switch to One, at least you will get some sport
hahahhahahaha sport on one, that’s funnyI’m a bit annoyed with what they did with Voyager. Back when they were showing it on Friday nights, they left off on a cliffhanger. Then they started showing it during the day, with yesterday being the last episode they showed before they put on different shows today, and they left off on the exact same cliffhanger as before.
Yup, I actually watched it yesterday — that’s part of why I was waiting for it to start.
(That I’ve seen all of JAG/MacGyver/Voyager/etc. dozens of times before doesn’t matter, it’s still irritating)
You youngin’… back when it was on Channel Nine it was treated like crap. They aired about one episode a month at midnight. 😛
I think everyone does that with scifi series 😛
Stargate was treated terribly by Seven, Star Trek on Nine, BSG on Ten — there are dozens more examples, but now that they’re all easier to buy/stream/redacted I’ve stopped associating them with certain networks, but I can’t think of one that wasn’t treated like crap. Jerks! 😛
Part of me expects 10 to cancel Under the Dome after just one episode.
Did they end up showing all of The Americans?
They’re still showing it, Monday nights.
That’s surprising! XD
It’s not a sci-fi (or is it? I haven’t been watching) so I imagine it’s pretty safe.
Not scifi, but still a high concept serialized series. I expected it to last an episode.
I imagine the success of Homeland has helped keep it around.
I think it took them a couple of years to get through the only season of SaaB.
Man I miss that series, my first firefly experience.
Space Above & Beyond?
Yep
That show had so much potential. Even what was there is great.
Fox cancelled it after the first season, he first and sadly not the last time that happened to something I really wanted to see more of.
I love the whole concept of AI and the fact a single line of code caused so much carnage.
I liked the idea that there was a space show that wasn’t like the bridge crew of the Enterprise. Different people doing different things. Never actually watched, though. I know it was by writers who were on the staff of The X-Files back in the first few years.
Add it to the list 😉
Much more militaristic than the bridge shows, more SG1 than star trek. Went into a whole bunch of stuff and had good history. What rights to artificially gestated humans have, AI that have a minor code change that sent them rogue. First contact with a hostile alien species, corporate greed and political maneuvering.
And that’s without getting into the characters themselves.
Theme music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8m5wvhkEGY
I like the music! 😀
The Newsroom opening credits are every bit as good as The West Wings. *folds arms stubbornly* Thomas Newman’s theme is awesome.
You wouldn’t believe it, but Olivia Munn is incredible in that show. That stand out of the cast!
Also, Jim’s a pretty cool character. You should watch. Underrated, if a little preachy show.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/aaron-sorkin-hbo-drama-newsroom-570176
Excellent feature on Sorkin’s writing process and season two of The Newsroom here. He’s open with spoilers for unaired eps though. Be warned. Really cool insight.
To sum it up…
NEWSROOM. WOOOOOOOOOO!
Nothing tops the West Wing’s end theme.
So inappropraite 50% of the time. XD
W G Snuffy Walden’s music is generally excellent, it’s true. 😀
His music for The Stand was amazing.
I’m a bit torn on Saints Row 4’s refused classification. I can fully see why they’d do it, and I sort of agree with them doing it. Rape being played for laughs isn’t really a good thing. On the other hand, SR3 had quite a bit of sexual violence as well, and that passed classification. I guess in a way you could take it as the classification board themselves maturing.
I’m a bit wary though of what this could mean for future games. I’d hate to see games getting refused classification because they feature rape. I don’t agree with rape being used for comedy or erotica, but if it’s used in a serious way during a story given game, I’m perfectly okay with that. I guess all I can do is hope that the context of any sexual violence is taking into account when classifying games, and they don’t just ignore any context and say, well, it’s got rape, it’s on the RC list.
I subscribe to NegZer’s theory SR4’s RC was political. They’re just making an example and setting the bar.
EDIT : They had to make an example and prove the floodgates weren’t open, and what better scapegoat than SR4? Keeps all the conservatives at bay, proving R18+ isn’t a permit for sex, violence and debauchery, right?
I’m finding it hard to believe that the removal of what amounts to a handheld anal rape device needs such justification.
Yeah I promised myself I wouldn’t go too far into this as a debate – too much room for misunderstanding, and too many widely differing opinions.
But context is everything. As well as accepting any functional adult can decide for themselves whether they want a part of this or not. Hence the R18+ rating in the first place. I’m an adult, and it’s my right to choose. I won’t have some invisible nanny tell me what I can and can’t play. If you don’t like it, either don’t play the game, or gods forbid – don’t use the item in question. (Not you specifically, by the way – broad statement here.)
That’s all I have to say.
VIDJA GAEMS!
Yeah, I dunno. I don’t really want to be a part of this debate either, honestly. I just feel like the fact that it’s a Saints Row game and it’s supposed to be ridiculous and humorous shouldn’t exclude it from the guidelines every other game has to follow. Interactive sexual violence isn’t covered under an R18+ rating, hence the RC.
I say this as an enormous fan of Saints Row.
VIDJA GAMES!
Edit: That said, I don’t really care enough about this issue. I just find it odd how many people are adamantly defending their right to have that weapon. Perhaps save the outrage for when it truly matters.
I’ve likely got a thing going up on Potaku at some point, but basically my thoughts are: There are times to pick your battles over censorship. i don’t see this as one of them.
Makes sense, though I’d hope that isn’t why they did it.
It’s not just rape, it’s the context of it.
Serious stories *should* be safe.
I think this is the case. I don’t think this is a gratuitous RC by any stretch.
Yeah… it’s not something that will be too missed and I think the drug thing alone has enough precedent for it to be refused pending adjustment/resubmission, but I disagree with how they’ve singled out one joke in poor taste in a sea of tv shows and games and movies with comparable jokes and humour.
It leaves me with the impression that they’re judging the game on its ridiculous and crass jokes, rather than drawing any sort of line in the sand. Really, Chris Jager over at Lifehacker sums up most of my thoughts —
I’m not convinced they singled out the anal probe for the right reasons.
Edit: Though, I enjoyed debating that with redartifice who wasn’t all hysterical ‘n stuff in the other thread. 😛
It takes a lot of work to get me hysterical 🙂
YOUR A POOPOO FACE!
I HAT YOU
@freezespreston
lol Dean’s dick touching fantasies
#nocontext
I’ve forgotten so much stuff, this might need a re-watch!
Dr Henry Killenger and his Magic Murder Bag.
Say. My. Name.
http://www.chud.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/breaking-bad-season-5-part-2-poster.jpg
Potential spoilers? *shrug*
Walter’s turning into someone I really don’t like anymore, but damn, you have to respect the man. I wouldn’t fuck with him.Can’t wait for this.
For real, so damn excited. I fully expect the coming episodes to be some of the best TV ever made.
Yep. They’ve also said don’t expect it to end the way you’re expecting but it WILL end in a satisfying way and it will be a truly definitive end for Walter White… O_O
I’ve had so many damn theories about where it’s going. None of them help. At all.
I need this in my life.
The *ONLY* theory I had that turned out to be true, which I changed my mind on, was Ted Benecke not being dead. Initially I thought he was, then he wasn’t lol. I think he’s going to be the downfall of Skylar and Walter White though believe it or not and not the drugs lol.Let’s chuck that in some spoiler tags, aye?
Spoilers, maybe? Not for me, but for people who haven’t watched it all.
I’m halfway though season 2…
*sigh* Sure, let’s also get a clear set of rules then on when it is and when it is not ok to talk about a shows plot and events then? Im not being anal here but it does seem a little ridiculous. It’s what, over a year now. So it’d be appreciated. Spoilers inside a few months I understand but if I’m gonna be told ‘OH Spoilers for Superman 2 details!’ then there’s no way I’m adding those tags ffs.
@weresmurf I don’t really want to have this discussion again. If it’s a spoiler, put it in spoiler tags. End of guidelines.
@weresmurf
If it’s a spoiler, put a spoiler tag on it. Just because you’ve seen it or think spoilers aren’t a big deal doesn’t mean everyone else feels the same.
Yeah, if we were talking about Aliens from the ’80s and talking plot points, I’d still put it in spoiler space…
Literally takes a second.
People who want to read can read, people who don’t want to be spoiled don’t have to be spoiled. Everyone’s happy. 😀
I’m hoping Walt goes out Scarface style on a pile of his blue sky crystal..
Careful, might wanna put spoiler tags in there… O_o
I don’t think it’s a spoiler 😛 I’m just wanting Scarface references haha. I can’t even think how it would end.
Nah.
No no, I’ve personally never seen Scarface, let’s not be hypocritical here.
@weresmurf
Okay.
The evolution of the character over the series is amazing.
I think Bryan Cranston’s been ruined for life, judging by his recent AMA on reddit.
Just like my ex-wife.
http://tokesignals.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/P_Rodney_Dangerfield_1.jpeg
Oh boy.
http://www.cracked.com/article_20497_5-great-movies-with-mind-blowing-symbolism-you-didnt-notice.html?wa_user1=3&wa_user2=Movies+%26+TV&wa_user3=article&wa_user4=companion
Interesting and amusing article. SFW too
No shit XD
I had no idea old mate was gay (never even crossed my mind what sexuality he was)
I’ve always taken X-Men as a blanket metaphor for all racism, classism and anti-gay…whatever you can think of really. So I had no idea they were getting so specific with the gay thing, which is cool.
And whatsy…The Dude, I saw that once along time ago and I would imagine I was verrrry stoned (as was common at the time) so that whole thing went right over my head.
Also, I didn’t pick Inception as specifically just movies, I was looking at it as a metaphor for all art, You know?
Yeah, I agree. Inception, way too specific.
Just read a news story about a girl who’s breast implants burst because she was lying face down on her bed playing Real Racing 3 on her phone for 4 hours and the constant pressure caused them to pop. o_o
Yeah, I read that. Surely implants are usually stronger?
That seems odd.
Too bad she wasn’t playing that one game by OMGPOP.
Because that could have been hilarious.
An example of how subversive Venture Brothers is.
There’s a character named Captain Sunshine. He’s what you’d get if you rolled Superman, Batman and a pedophile together.
He’s voiced by Kevin Conroy.
So I guess I should stop procrastinating and keep on with this website I am building..
What’s the website for?
*enables procrastination* 😀
Friends photography work, about 15,000 images to display of bands and general life photography haha…
That’s a lot of images…
Flickr’s broken, then?
Nope, we’re using flickr as the host for the images and a bit of software called JuiceBox by simple viewer (the mob behind the galleries in adobe bridge) for the actual galleries! It’s pretty handy, and it’s real easy to set up. Most galleries have around 300 images heh. But it’s relatively easy.
Dang.
Yeah at first I had no idea how the hell to host that many images, but this seemed like the best, use Flickr to host the actual images then have a gallery point to Flickr, brilliant idea. Especially now that you get a terrabyte of free hosting on Flickr.
@weresmurf
This will be the plot for Man of Steel 2:
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2013/06/23/i-love-ya-but-youre-strange-that-time-lois-lane-tried-to-nail-supermans-dad/Not really.
:O ooer that’ll make for an interesting plot lol!
Today’s bonus for me
http://imgur.com/ObXgmuL
Upvote for Persona 4 Golden
He’s just made Jimu so damn happy. :’)
No no. He’ll sidevote me as he didn’t want me supporting Deadpool.
But the disc is a pancake. How could I resist?
You have a Vita?
As of last week.
Grats then =P
I got one on sunday with P4G
do i get gratulated?Upvoted for reasons too complicated to explain.
Sure why not! Grats =P
http://i.imgur.com/TUp5gOv.jpg ?
You are now a Purseowner!
Awesome, so I ring up the mob who do this medical test thing for Aldi and those who make the arrangements are in a meeting.. God damn it!
Aldi need medical tests? Seriously?
Most retailers want it these days, Coles, JB HiFi, Woolworths.. and they all want federal police checks..
WHAT!?
That is insane!
In this day & age of the law suit sadly I expect it.
Probably insurance-mandated. For worker’s comp. Employees who lift heavy boxes, etc.
Yeah and to prove I don;t have pre existing injuries that shit. Eh.
MEDICAL TEST!?
For an ALDI job!?
I smell some very Boys from Brazil esque fumes coming off this…
I know right?! Given that one person at my local store looks about the same diameter of a rear tyre of a John Deere tractor.. Not sure why it’s even necessary.
Ha.
What? That’s crazy!
Wait, people are supprised that State of Decay was RCed in Australia?
The ACB has clearly stated that if a game (1) has game related to real life (I.E share the same name as real life drugs) and (2) rewards the player for using said drugs then a game will be RCed.
While I don’t agree with it they have clearly set out guidelines and the game broke the guidelines.
Didn’t Fallout 3 fall under the same RC back in 2007/08? They then changed morphine to stimpaks etc.. and all was good and made it so drugs weren’t a reward per se..
Yep.
Yeah
All that’s gonna happen is the game’s developers will change the drug names to some imaginary drug thus allowing it through. People seem to be losing their shit over it though for some reason
Because book burning scum dog censorship.
It’s an indie game. They’re more likely to go “well fuck Australia then” and simply not release it here.
Think they have already announced they will do what they can to get it released here
Hopefully they will have it sorted by the time it comes to PC release
http://www.gog.com/gamecard/fahrenheit_indigo_prophecy
Fahrenheit! $3!
Nah.
Haha! Truth be told, I loved that game. I can see it’s flawed, but it’s brilliant. *folds arms stubbornly*
whoop home time, got 3% of TLOU left then onto P4G huzzah
The Last of Us.
So. Damn. Good.
It was okay.
SO. DAMN. GOOD. >:|
Save the best for last I see. 😉
*shakes fist*
Posted this on twitter, but I got XCOM off PS+ last night and am looking for recruits to face the Alien scum. any volunteers?
Yeah, alright.
I started out doing that, then killed Sughly and Shane in my first mission. Left them as the names they came as after that.
Don’t name them. It’ll only make things more stressful. If any thing, call them Soldierbot #13932. You’ll thank me later. 😛
The only other ones I’ve named since were Jane and John Fist. John died in his first mission while Jane watched.
:'(
I haven’t gone too good for other people so I need a chance to redeem myself.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=103684384
Only played a few missions on my version, let’s see if I survive longer in yours 😛
*Salute*
If you need more, I am always ready!
To die horribly.
Apparently I’m Jesus and shoot @mythamphetamine in the head (@rize)
So if that’s the type of recruit you’re looking for SIGN ME UP!
Sir, I nominate myself for teamkilling duties, SIR!
The Last of Us is finally here. Going to enjoy the next 3 hours or so of uninterrupted gaming. I hope it is as good as the reviews show. Haven’t played the PS3 in a few months so will be interesting to see how the the small controller will feel in my hand for so many hours.
Then after that will watch the end of season 4 of lost.
shit is freaking crazy/hard to keep up withHave fun, my friend. I loved The Last of Us and Lost, so a good few hours of entertainment for you! 😀
Loving it so far.
Just got outside, the ladders are clearly not structured to OH& S standards. Pretty much flat right up against a wall. Looks beautiful though.Also loving Lost so far. Fantastic show. Season 4 has gone to a entire new side of crazy though.
Lost:
If you like the crazy, there’s plenty more to come. 😀DC knows what’s up!
Pretzel Day Fail.
By the time I got to the pretzel people the guy in front of me was buying the last three. D:
That poor guy, which hospital is he in?
http://youtu.be/q7zLLoT8ygU
Also this
http://youtu.be/kB0JKTplrEo
🙁 What was the contingency plan?
There was none. There is no substitute for pretzels. 🙁
…
D:
🙁
I will buy some pretzels when I go out for pizza tonight, Strange, and eat them on your behalf!
Lady comes in, wants the name Karina engraved on a bracelet. I ask her to write it down. She whinges and carries on about how it’s just Karina and any idiot could spell it. After a bit of argument she writes it down.
I’m curious as to how many idiots there are here. How would you guys say it was spelled? Hint: Not K A R I N A.
Careenah?
G E T O U T O F M Y S T O R E A N D D O N ‘ T C O M E B A C K
Regional spellings might be different though…
Quereenah
Korinah
C’r33na?
If it’s not spelt Karina, I’m going to guess it’s Charena or something similar.
Qareenah. Obviously. Idiot.
Carina would have been my guess.
Man, why complain about something like that though. I’d like to know that the person engraving something expensive is taking the time to double check… even if the spelling is obvious.
The Voight-Kampff test as applied to bogans.
I always spell out my name if its important. If I don’t they are guaranteed to write my name down with the female spelling.
J Y I E S E Y I E?
DAN! Was closest.
K H O U R Y I N I A.
Turns out you’re all idiots.
-shoots self-
That’s an awfully large bracelet.
Turns out we’re all NOT idiots:
\o/
Hahahaha, wow.
Hey, it’s that guy who was mentioned below!
Crisis averted: Mr. Strange bought me some pretzels on his way home. I now have 3 pretzels. Best husband.
Oh man, Kevin Rudd. Never have I seen someone so narcissistic…
… his stupid grin when he started talking about all the people in the party who’ve wanted him to take over for a long time and just… ugh. I can’t stand him. 😐
He must have seen your request and he’s doing this for you, @negativezero 😛What happened?
Someone was taking around a petition for another leadership ballot, and about one third of the Labor members signed it ‘n so Gillard has said it’s on, 7pm.
Rudd went out and did a press conference after her, talking about all the support he’s had from the party and all the support he’s had from the public and acting like it’s up to him to save the world, and that he would retire if he didn’t win the party leadership.
Funny thing with that is, he’s already entitled to his pension, if he doesn’t win this leadership challenge he’ll never win, and if he doesn’t win then Labor have still lost the next election — he doesn’t want to spend the next 10 years in opposition so he’s going to retire and look for a UN job? Awww, how considerate of him. (I don’t like politicians who are all dramatic and hysterical ‘n then retire when they don’t get their way — which means I don’t like most politicians 😛 )TONIGHT! 7PM!
IN THE STEEEEEEL CAAAAAAAGE!
JULIA “THE JUGGERNAUT” GILLARD VS KEVIN “RUTHLESS” RUDD
LOSER LEAVES THE
WWEALP!WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY
Doesn’t have the same ring as SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAYBah, Steel Cage matches nowadays are BS.
Barbed Wire Match!
\o/
What request of mine?
Running for PM and getting sweet air are completely different though.
This might be my favourite thing I’ve read all day.
One could lead to the other though. At least in my eyes.
The thing is that I can actually mentally picture him doing it.
In a suit.
With that little sarcastic smile the whole time.
aww man, i know I’m late to the party here but this thread is f*%#ing hilarious, i’m with BDKIAF, best thing I’ve read today
I’ve briefly met K-dawg.
He was an alright guy.
His security guards didn’t tackle me, for which I am immensely thankful.
I don’t have very useful opinions when it comes to politics.
Haha.
@blaghman
I’ve met Rudd as well, and he was okay. Didn’t make a bad impression, but seemed to be lapping up the attention in the midst of the Kevin ’07 craze.
John Howard’s the only other PM I’ve met — he came to the official opening of my school waaaaaaay back when, went out of his way to come over to me ‘n a group of friends and say hello and shake hands. Also okay. One of my
friendsacquaintances actually asked his security “what would happen if I tried to take your gun” and the guy said (completely deadpan) “you don’t want to do that.”Good times.
Yeah, when I talked to him it was interesting, it was night 2 of my School’s production of Grease, which his son was doing… sound on (I think, might have been lighting). And before the show, dressed up in our silly clothes, slathered in stage makeup, with slicked hair, and while looking ridiculous (I’m, uhh, middle row, far right? I guess. Back then I was Mr. Never Smile), I went up and talked to him. He wasn’t too bad.
Oh, and I was also talking in a really bad 50s style (American) accent.
When he’s doing press things he comes off as a smarmy prick (which is a reasonable assessment), and while I admire some conviction in your work, he takes his work waywayway too seriously, to the point where working around him can be extremely challenging.
He did… Grease Lighting? 😛
Where’s your greaser jacket? 🙁
I was chorus, we didn’t get the jackets.
…you should’ve been lead!
Hahahahaha. You’re a funny guy, Greenmang.
My previous partner dropped his chicken sandwich at his feet.
Pretty sure she’s still traumatised.
A PMs job is not to fit the other party it is to run the country to the best of your ability
All he is saying is if I’m made PM I’ll focus on short term strategies to stay in power. My vision for the country is that I will run it for the next 4 years and maybe 4 after that.
How inspiring
To be fair, it’s pretty hard to campaign against a party that has no actual policies beyond “fuck those other guys”.
“You don’t like our idea? Show us a better one then” would be the best course of action.
But yes, endlessly debating only your own policy isn’t a viable strategy
Every time they ask that they get a condescending “We won’t tell until we’ve fully researched it” answer.
The whole thing’s stupid. Julia hasn’t really done anything wrong, yet everyone hates her. I blame the media for the whole debacle. They’ve been out to get her for a while and take every opportunity they can to stir shit up.
Yeah, the media is fucking atrocious. My mother actually switched from listening to the “Classic Hits” station in Canberra to listening to Triple J, because the vitriol they were spewing about Gillard was that bad.
Right.
Got home, got naked, got wet, getting drunk.
I think I can brave social media once more, emotions numbed.
Also, how’s everyone else?
So you are currently on the internet while drunk, naked and saturated? Business as usual?
Getting drunk.
Almost business as usual, yeah.
I would have gone for the reverse order but each to their own.
Er, replyfailopus evidently doesn’t like aleph.
I geddit.
I think you’re overestimating my sexual prowess.
…or my ability to swim fully clothed. Either way.
I just have a poor sense of direction and very bad luck
@shane! Where you been? Whenever Shane’s not on TAY, all the other TAYbies should be asking: “Where’s Shane?”…
No one asks that.
Shane needs to be louder, angrier and have access to a time machine!
He had to go, his planet needed him.
*sadface*
I’m around man. I ate a lot of fast food today.
#NotPageSixButIWantADownvote
Right. Non-politics stuff:
Canberra folks
@rize @bdkiaf @shane @blaghman
Thinking of taking an extra week off in August, reckon we could organise a couple of get-togethers? What times/dates are best for you?
Brisbane folks
@Imnotgoingtofuckitupagainthistimeandforgetsomeone
Thinking 2 weeks. Likely after the week in Canberra. Any preferred dates/times/locations for meats and such?
Yes.
Agreed!
Affirmative.
Man, if it was in September I could totally host a big meat while you were here. But it’s not. Because you’re a disappointment.
Such a disappointment.
We could probably organise something(s). I’m hoping for something(s) involving large amounts of food, but that’s a personal thing.
Compulsory meats include a dinner at Ramas in Philip, and Lunch/dinner at Shogun Teppanyaki in Garema place followed by chilli-hot-chocolate at Koko Black and gold-class at Dendy.
Also coffee at Cafe Essen.
I’ll skip the Gold Class at Dendy, that shit ain’t worth it.
Otherwise though, we’re good.
I’ve never done gold class, so I figured “why not?” though completely understand your view.
I think I’m back in town around the 25th of August, so I’ll probably miss a lot of it 😛
You are dead to me.
Yeah! \o/
I think I’ve found an accurate representation of comment articles that aren’t TAY:
http://25.media.tumblr.com/70a37eb6d03f766b12f8aa7a9518ba08/tumblr_mn6t0pBii61s2gu1ko1_500.gif
o_O
That looks vaguely familiar to me.
(the show it’s from, not the situation)
Eden of the East.
@jimu: Amazon still haven’t shipped my Muramasa and now I’m getting worried because they’re showing 2-4 weeks to ship if you buy through Amazon directly. I hope they didn’t sell out of preorders for the LE 🙁
UGH!
http://www.couriermail.com.au/technology/ban-of-saints-row-iv-was-justified-say-gamers/story-fniho2hn-1226670111172
So many bug suicides in Animal Crossing…
So, so many…
eh?
Bugs get scared. Run away from me. Towards the water… AND DROWN.
My favourite was when I was doing a bug-catching mini-game on the Island and it was all “Cool, you caught a _____, now release it!” and I was standing behind the river, so it immediately got released to its death :'(
Last of Us update
Playing on hard, brutally difficult. Up to the part with a ton of clickers about 2 hours in. Trying to kill them with shivs or molotovs but am struggling, have died like 12 times. Going to keep going on hard. Love the difficulty of it. Love the set up of the story so far.The subway bit? Sneak past them.Yeah that part. I tried sneaking, but got caught a couple of times, walking around corners and just getting jumped or Tess setting them off.Pretty sure it’s a glitch but maybe not, if you stay in listen mode you can walk right in front of them and they don’t notice you. Kinda makes everything a bit of a joke though so fairly sure it’s a glitch.Same thing happens if you tippy-toe in crouch, clickers simply can’t hear you, I don’t think it’s a glitch, more like a immersion breaking development oversight.Spoilers for later in the game:
When you play as Ellie, it doesn’t work, so I’m leaning towards it being a glitch. Ellie’s half Joel’s size, there’s no reason she should make more noise than him.Sorry forgot about the mill**ignoreSo much crouching in that game argg, hopefully you’re ready for 13 hours of crouching.
Awesome game though.
@dc – was there an answer to the cinema booking query? Anyone putting their hands up as definites?
Everyone who replied said no. No one replied saying yes. :'(
I keep saying I am but no one ever listens to me. :'(
I think yesterday Nob said he was keen too. Last I heard from Strange she said she’d like to go, but I don’t know for certain.
Maybe wont do a big group booking then and everyone can do their own? I’ll go ahead and get mine anyways I think, then maybe just get yours and @freezespreston’s and @sernobulus’ too if these are the definites? Is that 2 for you freeze?
Nah. Just me this time.
You awesome, Sughly.
What cinema booking query? Is this for Friday night? How much are the tickets?
Tickets are $10 with a $1 online booking fee for Friday’s Spirited Away dealy.
Fahrenheit is awesome. The ending is screwy. But there’s a brilliant game in there. I won’t stand by Fahrenheit bashing any longer! 😛
http://www.gog.com/gamecard/fahrenheit_indigo_prophecy
Cage is a hack.
Cage is an auteur!
Is that the french word for hack?
>:|
Gaming is better off with people like David Cage in it.
Them fightin’ words? 😛
He couldn’t make a movie that didn’t result in everyone laughing at him so he decided to move to gaming where he shits in everyone’s coffee and tells them its cream.
Blergh. I’d argue that being able to make multimillion dollar games isn’t easier than making films and TV. Also choosing video games over films isn’t some sort of concession that he’s not good enough. If you don’t like his games, don’t play them.
Heavy Rain is in the top five games of this generation for me.
There’s a reply down there that I missed on this one which I’m alerting you here to look down there.
I may just be busting your chops and don’t really have much of an opinion one way or another on him.Don’t mind me. I’m riled up about every thing this week. You can punch me in the face on Friday if you want.
@dc Why on earth would I want to do that?
Cause D.C.’s a jerk. :S
@dc Pretty sure given the previous discussion you’re the one who should be punching me in the face since I’m the jerk in this (and most) instance.
Yeah, but you’re one of my best friends. I shouldn’t let myself get riled up over something stupid. 🙁
Twist — @dc is David Cage
DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNN
Upvote for truth.
Eh, shouldnt care what I or anyone else thinks anyways. To each their own! But srsly, ppl tend to put too much energy into whether people agree with them or not, including myself.
Good point. I just mean I’m gonna be a little more vocal in my like of the game instead of thinking how good it is without speaking up when the game is dissed. 😀 Don’t mean to change opinions or any thing. 🙂
There’s a hash tag of #Ruddmentum.
Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos.
Comment on Facebook: (spoilers for Arrested Development S4):
For some reason this is making me think of the scene in the new Arrested Development when Michael votes himself out of the dorm…We’re back in 2010. Time travel works!
Falling in love with Venture Bros again, the first ep of the latest season was great 😀
It was kind of in a “oh, I like it but I just watch it because I can” stage for a while
So Kevin’s back in. I don’t agree with what they’ve done to Julia, but I guess it gives the party a chance against Tony.
They’ve done exactly what they did to Rudd, though.
Let’s all disband this politic thing and just become fortified post apocalyptic town ships! 😀
I’ll start stockpiling supplies and go find a young girl I can raise as my own.
No, you’re from Melbourne, right? That makes you a rival township. >:|
You just want Urban Decay.
Yeah, I don’t think it matters, they’re completely boned, either way.
Unless Tony really ballses things up.
I’m going to vote for the life giving generator. May you power our townships for generations to come!
It really scares me that Tony has even a shadow of a chance, let alone being the favourite.
Based on what I know of him, this means that firstly: Men have no problem with women being in the kitchen all the time, reproducing when they demand, servient to their man, and cleaning things up.
Secondly: This has already happened, and so women, who by all rights should laugh or cry the moment this man appears on TV, are too busy being in the kitchen to give a shit.
Thirdly: Apparently everyone hates Asylum Seekers. Because man, we have a massive illegal immigrant problem. Even though the two issues are actually unrelated, since seeking asylum is not illegal, you fuckwads.
Fourth: Religion. Fuck yeah.
Fifth: Insanity. Fuck yeah.
Sixth: I think you get the drift.
Seventh: But seriously, how stupid are we, the people? Let’s support the guy who wants to give more money to the rich, and less to the poor. Who wants to screw over what is easily the best thing Labor have done (The NBN). Who wants to get rid of completely redundant Public Service Jobs. Wait, no, that one’s actually a good idea, probably, unless you happen to be in the Public Service (and it would undoubtedly be implemented terribly). Ergh. Sometimes, being a left wing hippy is hard.
No, you’re absolutely right.
It makes perfect sense in my mind, and I just don’t understand how others see it so very differently. Unfortunately, that’s par for the course for any human, regardless of the issue at hand, though I digress.
The fact that Libs seem to have favour implies that the majority of the population, well, you know, favour the Liberal Party.
I think it may be an extension of the “lesser evil” vote. We don’t like X, so we vote for Y.
Unfortunately unless you’re aware of what both are offering, you’re basing judgement on hearsay and gossip alone, which is not the way to go about making an informed decision, and that strikes fear within my core.
Did someone say…?
So Labor is guaranteed a win then? 😛
Gillard’s gone. All Hail Rudd.
:S
There’s one 😀 though.
Conroy stepped down.
God I disliked that man.
Apparently his staff loved him, and he was always very committed to what he proposed (even if that commitment came from being slightly cray-cray thanks to religious pressure).
Oh, and he was very polite in person, when buying things off you at a bakery.
…
Canberrans have very specific stories.
When he wasn’t trying to turn 1984 into a documentary he seemed like he was kind of okay. But yeah, not sad to see him go.
Honestly,with the events of today, both major political parties can go fuck themselves.
Rudd is new PM,huh?
Eh.
Let’s never speak of this politics thing again.
You know what’s awesome? Video games!
Who do you think would win in a fist fight: Michael Ancel or David Cage?
I don’t know either of those names.
Rayman Vs. Ethan Mars!
Jade Vs. Madison!
Globox Vs. Jayden!
Ancel. KING FUCKING KONG
Ancel, no question.
That’s true, he fights dirty. Like teasing us about Beyond Good & Evil 2 that never comes. Psychological mind games. :'( Cage could fool him with red herrings though.
I reckon Cage would sit on him and fart and it would be all over.
Ancel actually makes games.
Leave DC alone.
Kevin 07!NO POLITICALSTAY ;_; I’ve got manflu ;_; Somebody listen to me whine. There was so many sniffling sick people on the train this week… It was inevitable I would be struck down…
:'( We can’t risk you spreading it to the rest of the fortified township. Let’s exile Pow!
(Hope you feel better, my friend.)
No exile.
Put him in the bubble.
Don’t worry, I’ve spent my last few days surrounded by sick people, I assume that I’ve built up an immunity.
So I’ll euthanise Pow myself.
don’t cry for me, I’m already dead
This how you feel? http://imgur.com/aeVo4Th
Be still, my beating heart.
A less attractive version of that, yes.
I have also caught the plague or something. 🙁 Right in the busiest week of the last 3 months too 🙁
NON POLITICS DISCUSSION:
I saw a cheap Violin online and tried to buy it but I couldn’t. Then it sold out.
Violin seems like a cool thing to play 🙁
Saxophone is higher up on the “instruments I wish to acquire” list though.
THE END.
I’d love to learn the violin. I wonder how tough it’d be.
I’d say it’ll be harder than most of the usual string instruments since there’s no frets (like on a guitar) or defined notes (like on a piano) so you have to make sure you’re pressing on the right place on the string otherwise the pitch will be off.
Find us a cheap violin deal and we’ll be bros 😀
Don’t fret the small stuff!
Blergh.
Hitting the right note isn’t really that hard if you take it slow and carefully.
Hitting the right note, while also using the bow properly? That’s an impossible mission.
I hear 2014 game of the year contender Anna’s Quest has two violins!
Did that Krams guy ever publicly announce who the publishers are or is it still all secret? 🙁
Yes, he did.
Pay attention, Greenmang.
YOU’RE A LIAR
@greenius
In this case I am not lying, I assure you.
Then why don’t you tell me if it has already been publicly announced :P. Last I heard it was some pretty big publisher and D.C. (secretly) knew who :O
I did some Googling and found some random site which seems to think it’s PlatinumGames/Konami which seems very, very wrong. It also had links to YARGH it which made me sad but I clicked on the piratebay one only to thankfully see it had been removed 😀
@greenius
Because annoying you is fun! 😛
YOU LIED ABOUT YOUR NOT LYING!
I TRUSTED YOU.
YOU HAVE TOYED WITH MY EMOTIONS!
Actually, I’m really not sure if he announced it publicly, or if he just announced it and I know about it. So now I’m being facetious to both annoy you, and cover my arse.
Ugh, this guy.
😛
Hitting the note implies playing it properly at whatever tempo is needed 😛
Hey man, there’s two ways to learn things. We can take it slow, or do it one hand at a time.
…
That really only works for Piano, Harp, Organ, and other things like that, doesn’t it?
Also you need to be fairly good with vibrato if you want to play it well.
On the upside, ability with one of those sorts of instruments transfers at least partially to the other. My Dad used to play the cello and at one point when my sister was learning violin he basically just picked it up and started playing it semi-competently despite having never played one before.
I want a harp.
I would never be able to play it, or anything.
But I would have a friggin’ harp.
Here’s your harp:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Tama-Starclassic-Bubinga-Elite-Quilted-Mocha-Burst-Drum-Shell-Kit-JAPANESE-MADE-/271219539196?pt=AU_Musical_Instruments_Instruments&hash=item3f25f1bcfc&_uhb=1
Pretty sure this is the only one I can afford.
Weird looking harp
Sorry, found one:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Wacom-Cintiq-12WX-Pen-Display-/130933791651
lol what a babby harp.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Wacom-Cintiq-24HD-Touch-24-HD-Graphics-Interactive-Pen-Display-Tablet-DTH-2400-/251176009820?pt=AU_Input_Peripherals&hash=item3a7b41c05c&_uhb=1
Saxophone is pretty great. I should really pick it up again :S
Only worth it if you do it for this song.
This was the first song I learned to play, followed by the Pink Panther theme, and Mack The Knife 😀
Once you’ve done that, you need to do this.
Not enough Fragrance of Dark Coffee or Take Five
Fragrance of dark coffee is the shit
Not gonna lie, I’m so fucking happy that wasn’t around when I was playing sax.
I did get a few Kenny G references though, which I wasn’t entirely happy about either 😛
I learned Sax for a year when I was 12, but my parents chose to rent one from school, rather than buy me one.
Problem was, there were no alto saxes available to rent, so I was stuck with a tenor.
Too big and heavy and needed more lung power than 12yo me could muster 🙁
Switched to guitar instead.
Several years later, my brother decided he wanted to learn the violin. Word was sent out and some ancient violin that has been in the family forever was sent from my great-Aunt in Queensland. My brother hated learning violin, but I mucked around with it quite a lot inbetween guitar practice and I got the hang of it pretty good after a couple of years. (just playing my own stuff, not any actual songs etc)
You, me and D.C. can all be violin bros!
Oh man, I was lucky I had an alto.
I got to try my hand at a baritone once… I couldn’t even get a note out of the damned thing o.0
@greenius #violinBros4life 😀
To be honest though, I’m not sure we would share the same taste in violin.
I like Shostakovich’s and Bartók strings, and even more contemporary stuff like Michael Nyman, but I really, really love the dirty “rock’n’roll chaos” violin style of The Dirty Three.
@mythamphetamine Makes me cry just imagining a 12yo me trying to get a peep out of a baritone sax. 😛
(cc. @mythamphetamine)
My sister started learning Sax by stealing my father’s Alto. She then got a Tenor as a Birthday present, and later a Bari. I think she likes the Sax. It’s just an inkling I get.
@smurfydog
Yay, Shostakovich! One of the few twentieth century composers that I know of!
God OK you win, I’m at 18 minutes…
Should play the flute, much more manly an instrument 🙂
I always loved the sound of the oboe, but playing it is so stupidly hard. I got one note out of one and it gave me a headache. Double reed is a killer
Oh man, bad Oboe players are nearly as bad as beginner strings.
But nothing is as bad as beginner strings.
The note I got sounded pretty good, but I just didnt have the lung power to keep going.
Oboe is easyyyy
I’ve never really played woodwind or brass instruments before but I was able to play the oboe almost immediately and easily. They made me play it in year 7 when music was compulsory but I swapped out half way through to double bass (which was my first preference!)
Oh and one of my friends was the only guy who did flute in my year level. He was surrounded by good looking girls but that would’ve happened anyway 😛
*bows down* We are not worthy
Thats crazy talk greenman. I dont know how you did it.
I used to play sax in high school.
I play violin.
That is all :p
I’d be more interested in politics if Kevin Rudd takes off his face mask and starts chanting
SONTAR HA! SONTAR HA! SONTAR HA! SONTAR HA! SONTAR HA!
I’d settle for
KALI MA SHAKTI DE! KALI MA SHAKTI DE! KALI MA SHAKTI DE! KALI MA SHAKTI DE!
Oh god and then Julia comes up behind him and WHAM sneak-attack judo chop to the neck-plug, rendering our now former ex-Prime Minister inoperable and then Garrett dances like a maniac across the screen while it all fades out Scooby-Doo style and then we all wake up like nothing ever happened.
That’d be great.
Don’t be stupid, Garrett is the Master. Or Varys.
I’m not quite sure where this is going.
http://i.imgur.com/v2IBs.gif
And then Tony Abbott breaks out of his own body, leaving it as a husk, and standing as this:
http://www.ggkthx.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/titan05-premux.mkv_snapshot_18.53_2013.05.04_16.02.51.jpg
NIGHTMARE FUEL
Also, A Storm of Swords Spoilers:
Obviously the Red Wedding was great/terrible for obvious reasons, but I’m incredibly excited to see how the Viper/Mountain fight plays out in the show. Here’s an incredible comic of said scene:
http://mccomseycomix.wordpress.com/2013/06/26/the-red-viper-vs-the-mountain-that-rides-a-12-page-comic/
Gregor hasn’t featured all that much in the show has he? I’m struggling to remember him in the series.He has popped up here and there. He was there for the joust, where whatsisface died, then he and the Hound fought. And umm, was that him fighting at the start of Season 2, maybe? There was a tourney thing, and I think it had him. Maybe. But yeah, he’s barely there.He was perfect in S1 as an angry madman who nearly beheaded his horse in S1, then he was recast into some lame guy in S2 who was way too calm.Maybe he’ll be recast again 😀Well done guy, well done 😀
Why is it that dogs always seem comfortable when they’re rolled over on their backs on your lap?
You must never have laid across someone’s lap. If you had, you’d understand.
NSFW disclaimer:
Unless there’s a stiffy… then it’s not so comfortable.My dog is most comfortable resting his chin on something
so i am very happy, my friend managed to get me tickets to Roosterteeth’s official PAX after party, so i will get to get drunk with Burnie, Gus and Jack!
apparently the tickets sold out in 5 minutes, i’m glad my friend was fast enough.
I am guessing no karaoke meat then. It’s fine though so have fun ^^
Apparently we’re not cool enough for him 🙁
GREAT
NOW I FEEL TERRIBLE
THANKS GREENIUS, ITS ALL YOUR FAULT NOW.
It’s always his fault!
RIDICULOUS FISHING NEW CONTENT ANNOUNCED!!!!
WAIT WHAT
I SHOULD PLAY THAT GAME MORE
YOU’RE ALRIGHT, ALRIGHTIUS
Upvote for “Alrightius”.
That was the same night right? 🙁
the thing is, if you guys are still out later that night, i could still stop by!
also, i’m gonna be in melbourne for a week, surely some sort of meat could be organised 🙁
EDIT: unless… when was the karoake meant to start? i could come to the start and head off to the RT party afterwards… it starts at 8, i could get there late i dont mind.
Groovyyyy.
There’s a few other TAYbies staying in Melbourne longer (I can’t remember who :P) but we should totally find out and organise lots of activities so Greenius doesn’t get bored… I mean so we can meet the interstaters!
well, i know very little about the “coolest” and “most hip” places in melbourne, i assumed you guys would help me. 😛
I meant “we” as in TAY (ie. everyone but one :D)
I nominate @shane though
Oz Comic-Con is the cool place to be! Heed my words.
I hear Supanova in Brisbane in November will be pretty cool. 😀 I’ll even stop by your booth!
@dc, I was hoping you would house me, feed me and set up my booth for me. But I’ll settle for a visit.
Do you like Japanese food? Because we’ll probably end up at Yoyogi’s.
Yeah Japanese is great!
You’re talking to people who spend their spare time talking to each other on an internet forum, asking if they know the ‘cool’ and ‘hip places…
TAY is the coolest place I know.
Karaoke meet is on the Saturday so maybe. I’m not sure
ahhh, well when you know for sure tell me, i still wanna go to it 🙂
The meet is on Saturday night, I’m not sure how long everyone is staying, as long as you spend $30 on food and drinks.
Deadpool is making me giggle like an idiot. The Platinum trophy is called “Ok you can sell the game now.”
Nolan Norths voice is real annoying though. Not sure why. He did a good job in Hulk Vs Wolverine but here it’s just grating.
he was good in Marvel vs capcom too…
i honestly thought it was a different voice actor.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/270927108819?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
Hnnngggg….
Just went on a walk, it’s all spooky and post apocalyptic out in the streets in the suburbs. No cars. No people. No sound. Everyone’s watching football it seems. I liked it. 😀
Then I started singing The Suburbs by Arcade Fire.
Night walks are the best! Especially when you see some shady looking character and think to yourself “Uh-oh! Better look out for danger here!” then you realise you’re the one in the hoodie and he’s probably thinking the same thing 😛
I strategically cross the street when I see other shifty looking people.
Walked for about 90 minutes tonight. D:
And only made it fifty metres down the road. 😛
I can get a bass guitar for $65 + shipping from deals direct… I’m not sure if it’ll be so shit it’s not worth getting 😛
But I want one and it’s cheap and I guess it makes sound.
If it doesn’t work, you can still take it on stage to smash it in front of a crowd, and it won’t be a huge loss.
Hey! I was looking at a violin there 😛
A bass guitar is also on my list of things to get but I’m not going to go cheapy for it. Cheap instruments are always terrible :P. I thought you already had and played bass? (or were you just using a friend’s?)
Yeah that was my friends 😛 I play it more than him though haha.
I’m thinking of asking my parents for a good one for my birthday or something.
Do itttt! 😀
Or just take your friends, he won’t know ;D
He moved out a few weeks ago, it might be hard to sneak it out the door 😛
Spoiler free review of MAN OF STEEL: With my recent fopars it will be all in spoiler tags just incase.
My father took me to see my first Superman movie. I was a young boy of seven years of age, we drove our old Kingswood to the drive-in in Canberra, where a double screening of Superman 1 and 2 was taking place. I was introduced to the world of the Man of Steel. My imagination soared like never before. Before this I’d seen comics possibly, but never clicked. Like all kids, I’d possibly even seen the old 70’s cartoons, but when Christopher Reeve flew on screen, my heart, my body and my mind, went with him. As a child, I knew as the tagline said, hell, I believed a man could fly. My father told me years later, that watching the wonder on my face, letting me believe a man was really flying rather than telling me it was wirework, was a heartwarming experience for him, sharing something special.The Superman sequels came and went, their quality diminishing with each consecutive one, eventually, we got to Superman Returns, a quasi sequel to Superman II. Not a BAD movie as per se, just a boring one. It felt redundant, confused, like it was holding onto the past and was afraid to let go. Brandon Routh himself was rather splendid but everything about the movie screamed ‘Been there done that’. It was inconsistent, it was… not needed.
So this brings us to tonight. My piece of history. I took my own son to see MAN OF STEEL, the new Superman for the new generation.
It is not a perfect movie, but it is a magnificent one all the same. A movie that sets up the new DC universe. The acting varies from good (supporting cast at the Daily Planet) to absolutely brilliant (Kevin Costner, Russel Crowe and Michael Shannon as Pa Kent, Jor El and Zod respectively.) Lois Lane herself, Amy Adams is possibly the best performance of Lois. Margot Kidder I thought was good, Kate Bosworth was woefully miscast but Amy Adams hits all the right notes, she’s strong, confident and actually has fairly decent chemistry with Henry Cavills Superman/Clark Kent which can be built upon easily.
When it showed Krypton? I never wanted to leave it honestly. It was just… fantastic. Hell, I want a backstory movie of Zod and Jor Els history now. It’s that damn good.
Things have been made of certain comments, like in the trailer, Clark says ‘What was I meant to do, let them die?’ Pa Kent then says ‘I don’t know? Maybe?’ watch the scene if you’re familiar with this and have reservations about that, it plays out logically, there’s *far* more to it than that, FAR, more. It’s great.
Henry Cavill is damn good as Superman, he’s new to it, this is a Superman getting to know his place in the world, even getting to know his powers still. He’s still new to it all. But whereas Reeve presented us with the square jawed Superman who was perfect in every way, Cavill presents us with a Superman who knows he is an alien, knows the human race has yet to accept him, knows he has to be careful or they will reject and fear him… he knows they can accept him but he has to tread lightly. The contrast here between Superman and Zod is great, one seeks to rule and decimate, one seeks to integrate and be accepted.
There are super hero movies and there are SUPER hero movies. This is the latter. The way the heroes move, the speed at which they go, the way in which collateral damage happens around them, not bothering them, yet destroying EVERYTHING in their path… I was watching this thinking ‘Even the Hulk would be taking a beating right now…’ DC has definitely made a new kind of Superhero movie. One that just made Marvel look at it and say ‘Shit, we’ve got to up our game for Avengers 2 in a BIG way…’
The last 30 minutes are mindblowing, seriously, the level of action, it’s fantastic. Highly recommend Man of Steel, it’s not a perfect movie as per se, but its a magnificent place to start Superman off at and it’s possibly the best thing DC has done in years, INCLUDING the Batman movies.
And when it was all over, when the story of the man with two fathers, seeking his place in the world was over, my son and I walked out towards our car, knowing we’d just seen our first Superman movie together and he said thanks to me, thanks for taking him to see the best movie he’d ever seen 🙂
Almost made me cry when he said that 🙂
:’)
I try.
You just made me lol a lot 🙂
Awesome you got to share that with your kid though. Amy Adams as Lois Lane sounds like perfect casting too.
She is, she’s absolutely great. I was really happy with her casting. Shes strong, shes smart, shes confident, and you can BELIEVE anything she does in it. Unlike Bosworth.
I hated Kate Bosworth’s Lois Lane. So bland. :'(
Oh and dude, you owe me my money and time back for GREEN LANTERN
I’m looking forward to taking my eldest to see this. She loved Spider-Man when I took her to see that, even if she got a bit scared of Lizard Man but she is begging me to take her to Man of Steel.
I’m happy to oblige.
There’s nothing in this a kid cannot watch and cannot love. That’s what I especially loved about it. The violence, is all comic book all the time. No gore, No onscreen graphic ‘death’ with blood or anything, its true ‘Superman’. Kids were loving it in the audience, you could outright see it.
I haven’t seen it, but doesn’t he snap Zod’s neck at the end?Tell the kids it’s a special kind of cuddle and they worked out their differences.He had a sore neck and Supes fixed it. Now he’s sleeping because he feels better.Warning: There’s potential movie ruining spoilers in here in response to Jimus question. DO NOT click if you don’t want to have the movie ruined. I know there’s spoiler tags there but this is an extra level of warning as these are pretty sensitive details. You’ve been warned.
MAJOR Spoiler DO NOT read if you dont want the movie ruinedMAJOR SPOILER
MAJOR SPOILER
OK you’ve been warned: Yes he does. But how it’s presented makes sense. Superman is put in a position where it’s do it or let people die. He’s got Zod in a headlock in a trainstation, Zod is using his heat vision to attack people, remember, Zod is actually a better fighter than Superman, Zod is a warrior, Superman warns him not to, pleads with him, Zod tells him it’s either him or them, there’s a movie length reason as to why Superman must choose either Zod or the people. Superman makes his choice and kills Zod. When it comes down to it, Zod is an equal to Superman, not sub-powered, Superman protects those weaker than him, but those equal to him and more powerful he has no responsibility to, Zod makes his choice, it’s not as if Superman takes any pleasure in it, he’s absolutely torn by his actions and regrets it the moment it happens.
I meant more from a violence standpoint, like did it look horrible or did it cut away quickly or something?I’ve read quite a few articles on why or why not regarding Supes as a killer. 😉
I more meant like, at what age do you think it’s appropriate for kids to watch?
My son’s only just three and I didn’t like the sound of it for him 🙂
It doesn’t really cut away, but you don’t see it graphically. You just sort of hear the ‘CRUK’ as it happens then he drops Zod. It’s a total family movie. There’s no gore, there’s no inherent disastrous unmanageable violence for kids, everything is totally comicbook. I would say the violence isn’t as bad as The Dark Knight, in that The Joker did some pretty terrible stuff, but this movie doesn’t touch that. There’s a stabbing or two from Zod but you *never* see the blade go in, just the look on someones face. Kids were having a ball in the cinema, it’s a true family movie.I just can’t get over how well the action was done. It’s all done with a handheld camera, but at no point do you ever lose track of what’s happening. Brilliant.Absolutely, it was easy to keep your eyes on, everything was centered and magnificently done. Truly what I’d term the first ‘super’ super hero movie. Marvels done a great job so far, but this felt like the truly ultimate Superhero.Ok, So I’m looking forward to the Shane meat next week. It’ll be great to finally meet some more Melbourne TAYfolk. And @shane too I guess 😛
But at this point I also have a clear callendar for the entire PAX weekend, although I won’t be at PAX. So far I know about Scree’s karaoke meat, but if there’s anything else planned, I’m up for it at this stage 🙂
#PAXmeathanger-on
I’m looking forward to it too, man!
I’m looking forward to meeting Shane too, even though I worry we’ll sit in deafening awkward silence.
Edit: Just talked myself out of it. No. Meeting. Shane. >:|
Nah, comfortable introvert bubble silence. I won’t judge if you don’t.
Shane didn’t invite me to his party but I’ll still probably meet him! Gotta meet him now before he’s all famous and too good to be friends with us 🙁
It’s all right. I’m happy to slum it for a while longer. I already said I’m coming to Melbourne 😛
Fair warning though, Shane’s a bit of a monster.
Have you still not been to a proper meat since original Tigs boardgames and Mountain adventures? :O
Those are indeed my only two meats. 😐
@blaghman @sughly
oh god whattttttt
WHY IS THE MUSEUM THING SO INCONSISTENT >_>
Blaghman said he didn’t know what his own legend/key was, so Sugs suggested that it probably meant:
white = you have it, green = spare, red = need
But the numbers for Blagh’s didn’t really make sense so I suggested that the numbers should change (decrease by 1) since in Blagh’s 1 for white implies you have one (when you don’t – the museum has it!).
And then Sughly does his own numbers >_> ugh <_<
Decided on something consistent dudessss!
Anyways… since we’re the only ones doing it I wanted to trade fossils 😀
@blaghman I just traded 3 with Sugs and so I’ve got 3 to trade with you (none of which you have).
WOO FUN! 😀
I don geddit…
Blaghman made a spreadsheet in TAYnames for spare fossils (so we can trade) but each one of us used our own numbering/colour system so it’s all inconsistent 🙁
Pretty sure me and blaghs are the same, just you thats different
Nah you’ve got white spaces with and without numbers.
It’s official, I’m loving Deadpool. Some great moments and I’m only on the first level.
I have a weakness for brawlers though. But this one I’ve laughed quite a number of times so far.
There’s almost zero story here. Everytime another character tries to explain what’s going on Deadpool just cuts them off with some random joke.
It’s kind of hilarious how it seems to work.
How are the brawler mechanics? I really enjoyed the combat in Remember Me which got the brawler mechanics down really well.
A lot better than I was expecting. Standard light/heavy combos but the guns are a lot more damaging than usual and can be mixed into the combos. Can also be aimed manually for headshots. Teleport instead of a dodge but can only be used 3 times successively then have to wait a few seconds.
http://www.gog.com/gamecard/fez
@greenius,, PC version of Fez is 50% off today. You mentioned the other day that you were looking at buying it again!
Thanks, but I realised it was kind of silly buying something I already had so I’ll probably just replay it on Xbox, or buy it when it’s in an indie bundle or something. I don’t think the PC version added anything (straight port) so I wouldn’t be missing out on anything and that’s more money towards KFC! 😀 😛
Holy cow, I don’t remember the last time I felt this focused. Got 13 (THIRTEEN) pages of comic art done today. Could be my most productive day ever. Feel stupidly euphoric now. 😀
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WENT TO APPLY 3DS UPDATE
ERROR OCCURRED, POWER OFF SYSTEM AND TRY AGAIN
OK, TURN IT OFF AND ON AGAIN
WHY WON’T YOU TURN ON
WHY ARE YOU A BRICK
FUCKING FUCK
Wow, that’s … shit. Was this the most recent update?
Could’ve been. I hadn’t done the last update yet, because it always came up while I was in the middle of something.
Oh man 🙁
Boo-urns…
Gather round all ye Akira Toriyama fans:
http://comicsalliance.com/dragonball-creator-akira-toriyama-returns-with-new-manga-in-shonen-jump/
@doc_what @alexpants
AW YIS!
OH MAN!
Okay, EBGames, you don’t particularly like me and I don’t particularly like you. But if you can just stay in business until March 2014, we’ll both be happy.
#DarkSoulsIIAnticipation
Everyone, spend all your money at EBGames, mkay?
Why do you need EB games for that?
Because Uncy Freeze placed the order in my name at my local EB, like the generous lunatic he is.
Is it not next gen?
Nope \o/
http://www.oxm.co.uk/56978/next-gen-dark-souls-2-was-discussed-from-software-admits-but-would-have-delayed-release/
Animal Crossing people:
I have like 14 fossils I don’t need that I want to trade for fossils I need. At some point I’ll figure out what I need, and write a list of what I have to trade.
If only there was some sort of publicly available spreadsheet for this… 😀 (Blaghsie made a page in TAYnames the other day)
Too bad it’s all inconsistent and that makes me sad :'(. The way I did it was:
White = You have the fossil in the museum
Green = You have # amount spare to trade (ie. Green 1 = one spare, Green 2 = two spare)
Red = You need
…yep, that’ll do it. Cheers!
I’ve just started getting fossils I already donated, so I’ll start stashing them.
Did anyone else get the special edition of The Last of Us? I haven’t looked at it properly until last night because it had spoilery concept art, it’s actually really nice, the fabric sleave thingy has a nice print on it, the concept art book is really pretty, Finally finished it last night so
The Last of Us Spoilers including ending spoilers,
Loved it, was great, i enjoyed it more and more the further i got, Winter was my favourite season, so brutal. I really enjoyed combat by the end, you get so much at your disposal that shooting was always my last option, smoke bombs are my favourite thing, hurl a smoke bomb at a dude, run up bludgeon him to death then flee and watch as the smoke clears and his buddies all freak out when they realise there’s a dead dude right there. Another thing worth mentioning, GIRAFFES, that bit was so freaking beautiful, i spent about 5 minutes just staring at that scene. So that ending, kinda didn’t like how it all wrapped up, didn’t like that they forced you to kill that poor doctor in the end, felt like the whole point was to get Ellie to the fireflies to make a cure, not wipe out humanity.Ayup, you can drop that by my house asap 😛
yeah, i gotta grab LBP from you too, i got a Joel sackboy outfit to try on,
Actually, will I see you Sunday anyway? Is that this Sunday?
The Mrs tells me things while I am actually asleep. I wake up in the middle of sentences and have no idea what I spoke of the following day.
huh? has Jess sent out invites or something? She never tells me stuff, I’m meant to invite you today to some kind of birthday thing, but i don’t even know what we’re doing
Arsebook
aha, pretty sure it’s not this weekend but the next one, i can give you your birthday present then too, unless you do something around your bday then i’ll bring it then.
Sounds like we may be having a BBQ at a park near Chermside.
Depending on weather.
If not, my place, I guess.
http://au.ign.com/articles/2013/06/26/state-of-decay-refused-classification-in-australia
🙁
@jimu I started P4G last night, not far in at all
that intro was crazy, i think i may have had a seizure from all the flashy kaleidescope craziness. Seems pretty cool so far, I almost texted you last night but decided I’d leave dadjim alone, I laughed so hard and accidentally spat on my Vita when that dude that crashes his bike at the start runs into the table and yells “Critical hit to the nads!”. I’m only on the second day but i plan on playing a chunk tonight, how much do choices impact on things? I got courage for standing up to the teacher, i’m guessing there’ll be all kind of effects from ur choices, like who you have a better relationship with etc,I think I’m really going to enjoy it, i was grinning at my Vita 90% of the time i was playing it, i like the anime visuals and the Jpop soundtrack is awesome so far, haven’t really seen what combat is like yet, except that first fight in the dream fog land
The combat is so good in P4G 😀 I’ve only played the original but choices don’t usually affect anything than just adding to your stats. Near the end of the game there are choices that do matter which will affect whether you get the bad ending or not though.
yay personas!
Now link that photo of your toy collection again! 😀
They’re figures not toys dammit 😛
Whatevs, vidyer games are toys too!
but vidya gaems are a mature pastime for mature people like myself. It couldn’t possibly be categorised as a toy. Are you the classification board or something? 🙂
Man, I like fun stuff.
Super heroes and games and shit.
I like deep experiences too. Toys can be deep.
Stuff affects stuff, if I were you, I’d do what I did and just play.
You can do new game + and if you plan to platinum (I do, one day and I hear you’re into that sorta thing) you’ll be doing new game + anyway.
Mostly the way it works is, raising stats makes it so you can say certain things in convos, convos raise social links, social links with team members raise their stats and abilities, social links with others and team memebers raises the levels of demons you create.
It all feeds back into itself, it’s a fucking excellent system.
But just play and enjoy it, that’s the real draw of this game.
My game of the year!
More info:
It all boils down to the typical JRPG dungeon stuff and combat. All the social things affect the dungeon things.
Stuff like Courage, Knowledge etc. are your basic stats, and certain things will be locked off until you can level them up to a certain level. For example you might need level 4 Knowledge to take up a job as a tutor, or level 5 Courage to talk to a certain girl. These will all affect the dungeon side of the game.
But don’t worry too much about these things though! Just play the game as you would normally and you can easily max out those personal stats and most Social Links. If you try to max out every Social Link there’s going to be a lot of planning and you’d likely have to follow a guide. Not too fun for a first playthrough IMO!
Less Info:
ha, thanks folks, for some reason my posts are rnadomly not showing up, Only some, when i hit submit it sends to page 1 of TAY and when i reload the recent page my post isn’t there, it’s not saying they’ve gone for moderation either,
That usually happens if you’re commenting too quickly or there’s a duplicate comment. The banner at the top will be red and let you know though.
It also sometimes happens if the spam filter thinks it’s spam 😛
I can’t see that red banner on my “awesome” browser
same, my browser is the gay, even when i try log in i have to go to this weird page instead of the little pop up box. stupid work puter.
I’m really distracted at work cause i wanna play persona.
Hey hey – sorry I keep on about this folks but kinda keen to lock down these Spirited Away tickets. This is it. The definitive youre in or youre out (of my group booking). Tickets are $10. I am so far buying 3 for me, @dc, and @freezespreston. Who else wants in? I will buy them midday, so say it now or forever be… not part of the group booking.
@sernobulus? @strange? @howdoesbearded’snamegoagain?
@beardymcmuttonchops !
If only there was some sort of @ handle list on TAYnames…
Pfft.. What idiot would waste their time putting that together?
I hear he’s Alrightius
Overratius.
Oh, I see how this works. I say I’m definetly not coming and you don’t invite me, huh?
That’s how it’s going to be is it?
Good.
Fine.
It is
What time is the movie / dinner?
Dinner at around 6ish and movie starts at 8:45.
I guess I’m not invited. *slowly walks off into sunset*
Thanks Sughly! 🙂
Still no yesses here…. @sernobulus? @strange? @beardymcmuttonchops? In for group booking? Out? Making it soon…
If it’s not too late…yes I’m in.
It’s probably too late though. Or it’s not too late but you’re going to pretend it is, due to the wetsuit thing. 😛
Ahaha! Totally isnt! Was coming in to do last checks now 😀 So I’m buying tickets for you, me, freeze, and dc. Anyone else, have to get your own tix sorry.
edit: 4 tickets booked! Woop woop! cc @strange @dc @freezespreston
I’m out for the movie, in for the dinner!
I didn’t go to the island once yesterday, even to check the shop. I got so caught up in playing ME3 last night…
http://www.gamefront.com/four-gameplay-videos-showcase-dark-souls-2s-character-classes/
DARK SOULS 2 CHARACTER CLASS VIDS *flail*
Dual-wielding looks awesome. And the BACKSTAB ANIMATIONS! Sorcery seems underpowered, which is shame for NOOBS. Seems to be a lessened focus on shields. Hope turtling and/or caution is still a viable strategy.This actually answers some questions that some folks have been throwing around. Mostly re: character customisation, etc. Looks like we’re not playing as [insert known character in existing lore here], which is what I assumed, and this is fine by me!This is for everyone, but specifically cc’ing:
@freezespreston because he ordered DS2 for me
@sernobulus because avatar
@strange because she yelled at me last time I didn’t tag her in Dark Souls-related stuff 😛
HNNNNGH.
I have to wait until tonight to watch.
Now I just want to go home.
Thanks
ObamaShane.Anytime, man.
Hmm, if only you had some sort of injury you could use as an excuse…
Provoke a customer. That’s it. That’s the solution.
http://www.onlysp.com/new-dark-souls-ii-gameplay-videos/
Can you not access that site? There’s a few others. Will link them.
They only go for about a minute each.
Warrior:
Sorcerer:
Temple Knight
Dual Swordsman:
It’s more at work on a phone and can’t use sound.
Stuff like this you have to watch right.
I watched it at work, furtively keeping one ear out for manager’s footsteps. That added to the tension of the vids. I think that was doing it right.
Edit: and your phone doesn’t do sound? How do you have conversations with people?
I keep hearing there’s less focus on shields and this scares me. I feel nekkid without my shield!
@bdkiaf Wowwwww, Zola put out one of the songs from this Versions album. This has just made me a million times more excited for this. Such a great rendition! http://pitchfork.com/news/51318-listen-zola-jesus-avalanche-slow/
Also, new MGMT in September. Yet another album to add to the amazing year for musics.
Also cc @rocketman caus he will get angry at me for not including him in musics. Also @dc caus violins.
Oh, that’s so great. That album is going to be really cool. Vessel now please.
Argh, I knowwwww… you just got me temporarily excited, but its not on the tracklist alas :'(
:'(
Wasted opportunity I reckon, would looooove to see a softer rendition of that song. Eh well.
They had me at the violins. :’)
Where’s my cheap violin deal!?
Borderlands 2 PC people: Tiny Tina’s (A RACIST! RAAWR!) expansion is out. I’m thinking we should get some groups together and play through it.
Remember that time we took hours to kill those OP bosses?
Good times…
And yes, I’m keen to play! I’ve only done like half of BADASSwhatever quests (stuck on the last boss) and haven’t played MOUSTACHEGUYANIMALTHING or TINYTINARACISTTHING either.
Oh man, those bosses were jerks. Hell of a lot of fun, though it did cost quite a few million dollars in attempts 😛
I assume we don’t have to finish the previous DLC to play this one. I’ve only played the first DLC, so I’ve totally got my money’s worth from that season pass 😛
Yeah, I assume we can just select it from the teleporter thingy.
reminds me of when i used to play an MMO called Shaiya… whenever we did the UT boss raid (first transformation Mage, second a big ass dragon) the two transformations used to take about 4.5 hours… good times, at 3am……..
These hours were actually divided up into many, many, MANY attempts. The fights aren’t lengthy, they’re just very difficult. Like, “Hey players, guess what? INSTAKILL EVERYTHING.”
I’m keen on PS3
I may still need to actually finish the main game on PS3..
Dude.
DUDE
Dude. The guy I was playing with stopped playing, and Borderlands 2 doesn’t function that well as a single player game. I don’t think I had a whole lot of game left, though I don’t really remember where I was up to.
Well if you need someone to run with you through the last chunk, let me know. About what level were you at?
Yes.
I can’t remember, it’s been a while. I think I was around the mission where
you’re going to kill the guy who is Jack’s double or something? That might not even be a thing, like I said, it’s been a while.Ah, that’s probably just under two thirds in. add me on PSN if you haven’t (red_artifice) and hit me up if you want to playI own all the extra content thanks to having a season pass but I still haven’t even finished the game 🙁
you have a loose wallet.
I got the season pass before the game was out when they had a pricing error on steam. It cost me like $15. I assumed at the time the main game wouldn’t be such a long, repetitive slog – I’ve probably sunk twice as much into BL2 as I did in BL1 and I still haven’t finished it and the game really started to lose my interest because I’m basically killing the exact same guys over and over in massive quantities in the exact same way.
Sounds like hell, FPS too right?
Borderlands 1/2 is great. Neg just hates things 😛
No, it’s a shooter in which you farm for more guns.
Totally not to my tastes.
So 2 games RC’d in 2 days? Shit I thought we’d be done with this. Not sure what I’m going to do about Saints 4, but last night I obtained State of Decay with my US XBL account. Still don’t feel like we should be going through this.
Saints 4 will come out with an adjustment I don’t think anyone’s really going to miss.
I’d say if the drug renames happen in Decay it will still be the same game too.
And if you call them ‘painkillers’, does it really make a big difference from ‘morphine’ or ‘vicodin’ (or whatever the problem name is)? Max Payne says no.
Fallout 3!
yeah, a lot of it has to do with the fact that they use real drug names… another potential issue might be the drug brewing lab… not sure how realistic it might be… may need to be toned down too.
Yeah, Drug Labs are a real problem over here.
I can see where they’re coming from.
I guess they could make it all magic candy or something. I dunno.
The whole noise and animation thing may prove to be problematic.
Why did I capitalise Drug Labs?
Reminds me of Vyker’s Labs from Abe now :-/
If, to create the drugs, you have to gather a list of ingredients that are the actual ingredients of said drug they’re probably using that as the basis for the issue. Can’t say I agree with the RC, but if that is the case then it makes it partially understandable
The guidelines are a bit silly, but it is explicitly stated that drug use can’t be directly linked to reward. Not sure what the deal is with the Saints Row drugs, since they aren’t real, but I don’t think the drugs are the main cause for RC.
but i wont be able to chase civilians around with an anal probe…. 🙁
Part of the problem was to do with a drug that gave you superpowers. I assume they won’t remove the core function of it, but it still confuses me when so many previous games have gone through an MA rating with obviously real drugs that have fake names, but a fake drug with a fake name is an issue? Both situations the drugs have given a direct positive result, so what’s the actual concern?
Then again, if I were to start listing inconsistencies in Australian ratings I’m pretty sure we’d be here forever 😛
1997. Metal Gear Solid. Diazepam. Need I say more.
But no one played video games back then, so no one cared.
What the fuck is Metal Gear Solid anyway?
I know you’re joking, but I can’t let that kind of question slide without a downvote and a >:(
But…. I love you.
EDIT: I went to an EB once and had to explain to not one, but two staff what Metal Gear Solid was when I was querying about a copy of MGS3 for PS2, I believe.
Those staff should be fired.
Or at least sat down with a copy of the GREATEST GAME
…wow.
Metal Gear Solid is the game that dragged me kicking and screaming into what was then current-gen technology. I played the 2000 PC remake about a year before MGS2 came out, and haven’t looked back since!
@shane
MGS was the first game I got on my PSX. I was a year or two(?) late to the PSX party, having been a Nintendo boy for my entire life, but the N64 lost me when I saw MGS and FF7 on PSX. Sold my N64, bought a PSX, MGS and a guidebook – then sat down and played that game inside out and loved every moment of it.
The more I see this, the more I read it as Metal Gear Solid: Diazepam.
That would be a wicked game. Much better subtitle than Revengeance.
REVANGANANG!
Would the fact that that was in context and that real soldiers do it be a factor with that?
morning guys!
had a good news day yesterday! as most peeps are aware, i got screwed out of $260 and two pax tickets by a bastard of a friend, who has seemingly disappeared into thin air… so ive been browsing ebay for two tickets, discovered that amongst all the thieving scalping bastards, i found someone who legitimately couldnt go!
negotiated and bought one 3 day pass!!! anyway, after a couple of ebay messages back and forth it turns our to be @Splicerkid (<– did i get that tag right)
So thumbs up to Splicer, i now have one of two tickets, but i still need one more for the missus, and we are all set.. \o/
also, WHO HAS SEEN THE NEW SUPERMAN MOVIE?
Spoiler:
I loved the fact that the movie started off at the roots of the destruction of planet Krypton, absolutely loved the backstory there… also loved the fact that Lois actually has a personality this time round and isnt a constant damzel in distress!Non spoilery Review:
It was AWESOME!!!!!
Sidevote
cool you got them but boourns that @splicer isn’t going to make it
I saw it! I thought it was great that the Kryptonians were fast and powerful but not invincible. That smallville fight was super coolim almost itching to see it again!
YOYOYOYO
PSN is having a sale on PSone games at the moment! Ends on July 10th!
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2013/06/26/psone-sale-starts-today-what-are-your-favourite-playstationmemories/
Some pretty decent titles and I picked up Spyro: Trilogy, RE: 1-3 and MGS.
Played Spyro as a kid but never finished them, haven’t played RE1-3 before so that’ll be interesting 😀 and finished MGS before but had a naughty copy 🙂
ooh, tomb raiders.
Damnit Greenius I was just writing about this on Potaku!
What’s the ‘-ius’ term I should use here to express my disappointment?
Damnius.
AlexPantsnotasgoodasGreeniusius
Ugh, AlexPantsnotasgoodasGreeniusius.
Scoopedius.
Huh, I had no idea Warhawk was a PS1 title.
Aw, man. I’d go nuts on that if it were US. 🙁
Oooo! Might have to look into this…
oooooh, Symphony of the Night, *reaches for wallet*
Edit: DARK METAMORPHOSIS!!!!!!!!
Jelly
Will hold out for same sale in the US shop
that’s going straight onto my Vita, man overwhelmed by vita games, I tracked a limited edition sonic down, will get it off Nicole tomorrow, I put tekken 1 on my vita too, they gave it to me for free with Tekken Tag 2. Oh also i downloaded Tekken Revolution but it keeps having errors during the install :(.
Ohrrr, I haven’t had the chance to try an install yet. Will have a go soon and get back to you :-/
I really want a Vita Tekken, Rev will be nice if they port, but I was hoping for something like what they did for 3DS.
yeah I’m keen on a Tekken for it too, but not TTT2 cause the boss in that made me almost regret buying the game, until i learned endings could be unlocked other ways. Hated those bosses so much, sapped the fun right outta the game
Was the same with the boss in 6. That giant white thing? That was dumb. I remember cheap shit happening over and over again. Even with characters I am good with I was having a ahrd time!
i Didn’t have nearly as much trouble with 6, I remember buying TTT2, rushing home excitedly, played arcade mode got to the boss and couldn’t beat it for like 45 minutes, i got so frustrated and angry with it that when i finally beat it I was seriously thinking about taking it back, didn’t go back to it for a few days. I mean challenging is something but when a boss just spams unblockable shit at you it’s just beyond a joke, actually upset me a bit cause of how much i was looking forward to it.
The more I stew over the dead 3DS, the more pissed I’m getting. I don’t like the prospect of calling up Nintendo and getting told that there’s sweet fuck-all that I can do about it, and that they won’t do anything about it either. I don’t want to buy a new 3DS, and I don’t want to lose all my system data. I mean fair enough if it was my own fuckup, I could cop that on the chin. But this? No way. Also makes me even angrier how hard they come down on homebrew and mods etc, when that’s the only way I could have possibly backed up and saved all my data in case of something like this happening. If they provided the means, then there wouldn’t be any need for it.
Ugh, really need to get my mind on something else. As it stands all there is is another shitty Unity prototype that I don’t want to do because the idea isn’t even good at all and the other programmer in our group is off as well as two of our artists so we’re basically down to half the group and why can’t I just go to sleep and wake up yesterday before anything shit happened.
Be so much easier if they had a proper account system like MS or Sony. I still refuse to believe it’s difficult to implement – they either can’t be assed, or it’s just not important to them. Was a little more acceptable when all they had was $5-$10 titles on DSiWare, but now they sell full blown 3DS titles, they really should have done it from day one.
I still think they’re able to magically transfer purchases from one lost/dead console to another, as long as you can prove its yours (receipts, picture of the serial number). @batguy did it when he lost his 3DS so maybe he might be able to help out.
Maybe there’s a fix or Ninty can fix it if it’s under warranty? I haven’t really heard of 3DS consoles bricking.
Anyways good luck with it Taco, it’s always shit when stuff breaks 🙁
Biggest concern with bricking is it’s very difficult for the customer to prove they weren’t doing anything wrong and they followed the procedure correctly, which generally means the whole thing will be stupid and difficult to get sorted.
Still, @mrtaco, it’s definitely worth talking to them about it. It won’t get fixed if you don’t try, and you might get lucky and have a quick resolution!
I want this so I can buy Code of Princess with confidence!
and a boner 😛It’s really not worth it. Especially when you have Dragon’s Crown around the corner.
There’s always more room for Brawlers with RPG elements, Neg, there’s always more room. 😀
Except when they’re pretty shitty.
Like Code of Princess.
nah
Given that you phyiscally have the 3DS, you’re definitely fine getting any purchases restored. My problem was that I didn’t have the original serial number.
You’ll find that a fair amount of the system data is stored on the SD card, too. e.g. I got an error the other day when I took out the SD card and tried to do some streetpass stuff.
So give them a call and say what has happened. Stress that you really want them to save the data if at all possible. And if they can’t, well, you’re just going to have to accept that you can’t do any more and it’s out of your control. You’re just going to have to accept that your Gameboy is at the bottom of the ocean. Or something.
Or I can head down to Melbourne a little earlier before PAX and head to their HQ, then kick and scream til I feel better or get kicked out.
Aw, fuck. I bet this isn’t gonna get resolved before then. ALL THAT POTENTIAL STREETPASS, LOST!
Although on the other hand, it’ll mean I’m not constantly fiddling around with the damn thing all day long and can just concentrate on the event itself. Hmm. Though on the flipside, I did only really have puzzles to get through so it’s easier than it could have been.
Oh man, I hadn’t even considered how many 3DSes will be at PAX. Nintendo are there. What if Miyamoto is there? What if I get a Miyamoto streetpass? This is too exciting.
Edit: That probably didn’t help. Sorry.
Edit 2: AND THEN I COULD VISIT HIS HOUSE IN ANIMAL CROSSING! OH GAAAWWDDD!!!
Imagine getting a proper Streetpass from Iwata, Miyamoto and Reggie.
Oh man. Anyone want to take my 3DS with them to PAX?
I’ll take it.
I would, but I’ll be too busy clearing all my passes to do the same with yours 😛
Why is this so exciting? It’s not even a real thing!
The only TAYbie who went to E3 and had this opportunity was @fatshadylive – and he doesn’t even have a 3DS. What bullshit!
i should have taken a bag full of taybie 3DSs lol
They all probably have iPhones with them instead :V
DONGBOAT
Full of sea men?
Sorry. Truly, I am.
Sorry about the sea men?
Just promise you didn’t get any on the curtains this time.
The manager of this entire section is in my pod asking why we can’t have office chair racing anymore and telling us about TV shows he watches.
Heh.
Why is he asking you? Does he need your permission to hold a race?
Well I am CEO
I have some mild food allergies. Certain foods can give me stomach cramps, others some throat tightening. That’s fine, the list of stuff I can’t eat is short. But there’s one food that is a gamble for me to eat, because I only react sometimes: avocados. Apparently, this is a pollen thing, and it depends entirely upon what they were grown near.
I can’t give up avocados. In fact, I just ate a whole one, spread over three sandwiches. If I never return, you know why. But it was a good life.
Worth it. Avocados are the tits.
Avocados are fuckin’ weird man.
Mate. You’re missing out. Dat monounsaturated fat.
When they’re the tits, yes, I imagine so.
If avocados were tits, I might be more interested. But then they’d be weird, lumpy green tits.
notsureif.jpg
Pfft, you clearly don’t have the stones to enjoy avocado.
Avocados, however, totally have stones.
WORDPLAY
Add one letter, and you’d find out right quick which is mightier.
@shane
I’m ashamed to say I had to think for about 5 seconds, but I got there.
\o/
SMRT
*walks into TAY with blank expression on face, sits down*
…
*again*
*draws Brad Muir “:D” on face*
What’s doin’?
Not much. You?
Nah, lookin at games I want. Sobbing over no PSone sale on US PSN.
Hoping that there’s a PSone sale on US PSN in future.
Reinforcing my hopes by reminding myself that the Final Fantasy sale happened in US later than Au.
etc.
I think there’s times the US got sales (specifically FF sales) before the UK.
hey @dc I finished TLOU
The Last of Us Spoilers (ending is mentioned too, so stay away if u haven’t beaten it :P)
My favourite season was winter, so harsh and I really liked playing as Ellie.Giraffes bit was amazing, i spent ages just staring at it. Had no complaints about combat, in fact was really enjoying it by the end, smoke bombs are my friend :D.
What did you think of the ending? I was a little annoyed by it.
I beat it last night….oh you mean TLoU…
Is this the part where I make a fuss and inquire about your well-being?
Nope! This is the part where I read posts and give upvotes!
And you act like a cunt.
Whoa settle down there, chief.
That was awesome! 😀 😀
BAM! 😀
!
…that’s a bit much.
Unnecessary.
ILY.
I knew you’d get it.
*TAY falls over*
I love that Flu’s like the Fonz of TAY. He arrives at just the right moment, belts the jukebox with an ‘Eyyyyyy!’ at just the right time. TAY stops in awe.
@sughly: The animation for Memoria looks a little smoother than Chains of Satinav! WOOOO! http://www.adventuregamers.com/videos/view/24813
Haha! See I dunno, I still havent even played enough of Satinav to get a feel for the animation. I have to admit I liked what I saw, but admittedly it wasnt much.
Brad Dourif is cool.
That is all.
*googles*
Oh, that guy? Yeah, he’s pretty cool.
Weird, but cool. He’ll always be the voice of Chucky, and the creepy scientist from Alien Resurrection.
Wormtongue!
Not sure how I left that one out, but yes! He does those creepy roles so well.
It’s probably not a good sign when you walk out of an exam feeling worse than you felt as you walked in… It’s done now I guess.
There’s colobus monkeys in the new Futurama episode.
UGH.
Futurama is still a thing? Is the new season any good?
Pretty average :/
So pretty standard eh?
Sooooo…
llamas?
WINAMP!
Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKqKrH0O9yg
Poor llama
Better off than some of the llamas I saw in Bolivia.
They were off to be sacrificed.
They’re alright I guess.
@jimu , Nicole should be picking me up Sonic tonight, had a look on psn the “limited edition” stuff is only $3.65 so I’ll probly get the standard for $28 and buy the dlc, whoo, Viva la Vita
That’s all lovely, but what about llamas?
they’re alrigth but they’re no Alpacas
Llamas don’t even have fur on their cheeks, I don’t know how they expect us to take them seriously.
I wanna see a LLama with mutton chops 😀
Still don’t know if i could take em seriously
Llamas are big fans of Sonic Racing.
And obviuosly, being Llamas, they choose the Vita because they’re out and about quite a bit.
Plus they don’t need any games because they have no thumbs 😉
http://www.hdwallpapers.in/walls/why_so_serious-wide.jpg
http://library.thinkquest.org/17467/gfx/shakespeare.gif
but there’s soo many gaymes
… are creepy.
Ducks.
Family of ducks riding a llama
…give you lots of bells and customise your furniture!
Nah mate, they’re alpacas!
Same thing..?
@strange, I haven’t sent that hoodie off yet… because…
uh…
Oh! I need to confirm your address. Yep, that’s it. Can you please confirm your address for me via one of the usual communication channels.
Now I can relax for another fortnight of pure forgetfulness.
I just assumed you were holding it to ransom until your wife got a quilt she was happy with. 😛
I’ll try and remember to send address details later.
No, total forgetfulness. If you haven’t changed address, I’ve still got your deets too.
Pretty sure I haven’t moved. Probably haven’t even moved from this spot on the couch. 😛
Is that you Play Asia?
I wrote a thing about Saints Row IV over on Potaku: http://potaku.com/2013/06/27/on-saints-row-iv-and-classification/
Did not.
Totes did.
Prove it.
It’s got my name on it
Then I made this:
http://tinyurl.com/as5mtsy
EDIT: Just finished the article. Good read!
That’s some good work there!
Thanks, I do what I can.
…I’m going to go eat something before I start blathering on again.
Cheers man!
Can’t decide what to have for lunch. Probably something I can eat with one hand so I can play AC.
Oh yeah, Nookling Junction is getting upgraded today! \o/
Pizza!
http://i933.photobucket.com/albums/ad177/xybertoys/gv%2095/WC33.jpg
Ha. Unfortunately true.
http://imgur.com/sg0sdX4
hahahahhahahaa GOLD GOLD GOLD
http://www.siliconera.com/2013/06/26/chronos-materia-lets-players-rewind-time-to-change-the-future/
Sounds like a mash-up game.
I’m keen as punch!
So, @blaghman has very kindly lent me Ocarina of Time for the 3DS. This is a seriously good remake of it. Taps into all the nostalgia of the late 90s without making me compromise on the ‘ooh isn’t that shiny’ factor.
And it’s super addictive/engrossing too. I nearly missed my bus stop this morning, and I definitely took a little too much time off at lunch. Woohoo! 😀
And it’s the first time I’ve used the 3D on the device, and it’s got me all kinds of impressed. Teckmology, eh?
Thanks Blaghs!
Edit: In honour of page-get, check out new sheet in TAYNAMES for lending and borrowing games!
I like 3DS games that make good use of 3D. Some over do it and it can be a distraction rather than an enhancement. Games like OoT and Animal Crossing are perfect examples of how to use it. As much as I enjoyed KingdomHearts DDD, that’s not a good example. Far too busy.
Yeah, I gotta admit AC has actually had me turning the 3D back on now and again. Normally I don’t bother with it.
Really? I’ve been thinking that Animal Crossing has some of the ‘worst’ 3D (worst as in it doesn’t add anything, not worst as in bad :P)
I think it’s pretty barebones too but at least it’s not bad. I thought Fire Emblem was pretty basic too except for those animated cutscenes which were awesomeamazingness 😀
The use of it in Fire Emblem I quite liked, personally speaking. I dont think anyone can deny the cutscenes at least looked downright amazing in 3d.
I can! Cos they hurt! *shakes fist at 3D cloud*
*3D Cloud shakes his giant fist back*
http://tinyurl.com/od5enyx
He looks angry *ducks and covers*
Gurl, you didn’t even play Fire Emblem.
Does it have magic 3D that won’t hurt my eyes and make me feel queasy or both?
Cos that’ll be a first.
(I played the demo)
@gutsoup has already threatened to buy it for my birthday.
Yeah that’s true – Fire Emblem was another great example. Not overbearing, just very nicely done.
So you escaped the vicious Avocados?
Yeah, for some reason Aldi avocados have a lower reaction rate than those purchased elsewhere! 🙂
Or are you talking about some new feature in the game? 😛
There is no 3D – it’s the avocados melting his brain.
Oh man, I LOVE 3DS. 😀
Mario 3D Land….DO IT!
That’s the only game that has used 3D as a mechanic.
I still turned it off (3D makes me uncomfortable) and used trial and error instead though.
It’s on the TayNames Game Lending Wishlist! \o/
You’ll soon realise which games use the 3D well and which don’t. I generally play with 3D on for the first time but once I’ve seen most stuff, off it goes! I played through the whole OoT with 3D on but played Master Quest with it off, for example.
Super Mario 3D Land, Pushmo, Resident Evil: Revelations and Luigi’s Mansion 2 are other games that use 3D well 😀 and for 3D Land it actually helps with gameplay.
Super Scribblenauts wasn’t very good with it. Didn’t matter how far I moved the slider, it stayed resolutely in 2D 😛
Trane!
Thinking about giving TAYLend another go. An editable community spreadsheet ala TAYNAMES that we can use to share games amongst each other without having to give them up for keeps.
For my part, I’m more than happy to be lending games out to folks, titles that I wouldn’t part with on a permanent basis. Is this something that anyone else would be interested in, or do you all have waaaaay too much money? 😛
Who runs TAYnames? Is it @greenius? One of the Potaku chaps? How is it set up? Google docs, or…?EDIT: New sheet in TAYNAMES. Add your games! \o/
EDIT #2: Now with wishlist, too!
Thought it was @doc_what
I’m always happy for swapsies. Problem is, I take too long to finish stuff these days :-/
Yep, it’s (Google) Doc What.
I wouldn’t mind a TAYlend as there’s plenty of games I want to play but don’t necessarily want to own cause I’m unlikely to ever play them again. We’re not all shipping wizards though but I’d be keen for in-person swapsies.
Check out the spreadsheet, then. I have already made accommodations for non-postal folks! 🙂
And yeah, play-but-not-own is the name of the game, here. Plenty of games in that category for me. Also, try-before-you-buy.
Does anybody want to TAYLend a ps3 and Ni No Kuni? 😛
Put it on the list, you never know 😛
BF3 on PSN Plus Wednesday!!! 🙂
I’ll prob grab that, so the world can witness my terribleness.
That’s win! BF3 has a pretty awesome single player campaign. Lots of baysplosions and epicness.
Just remember it’ll be almost useless for multi without the DLC though – that’s pretty much all people play nowadays. Back to Karkand, Close Quarters, Armored Kill, Aftermath and Endgame. If they have a cheap deal on BF3 Premium it’d be a good deal. BF3 Premium is pretty much a season pass, gets you all the DLC, except for unlock packs, of course.
Multi is awesome, I still play it every other day.
Many games have that problem these days; if you don’t grab the DLC you’re left behind. It’s basically a subscription fee… 🙁
Side note: Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer DLC is free. Just sayin’.
Yeah it’s something I’ve noticed PS+ tends to do lately. Some of the free games they give you are ones that have a bunch of DLC to go with. Not really a complaint, but can be annoying.
Particularly crappy with something like BF3, because errone’s basically playing Endgame at the moment.
Still – free game! Awesome single player campaign!
Man…that aircraft section…
you can buy BF3 new with all the DLC for cheaper than the psn is charging for it, that’s what i did, it was like $70 for all the DLC but you can find BF3 + all DLC for $50
PSN is charging me nothing 🙂
yeah, but like cody pointed out, there’s an absolute shit tonne of DLC like 10gb worth or so, heaps of new maps/ vehicles / modes / weapons etc. if you like what you get for free, they’re worth checking out, some of the best maps were DLC ones,
We could do a couple TAY games
I would say that while it is on PS+ there will be much more activity on the non premium stuff
Everytime I’ve attempted to play a BF game I walk two steps from the spawn point then get a sniper round through the head.
I’m not even exaggerating. Every single time.
that’s me in CoD
but in Battlefield I am the prick killing everyone.
I’m always keen for Battlefield and I’m a beast at it, only game I’ll confidently say I’m really good at online.
High ranking due to constantly shooting @freezespreston in the head.
I just made an audible choking laugh noise from this.
Thank fuck no-one’s in the office yet! \o/
Pfft, PAYDAY THE HEIST MUTHER FLUBBERS!!!
@shane
I can lend those 4 DS games if you want. I just would like it if you don’t save over my files (anyone else’s is fine)
He only has a 3DS…
haha. I can lend first ace attorney, the two legend of Zeldas and Chrono trigger.
Happy now, Rize? =P
Also my game saves are the topmost or the newest.
Is your partner pregnant? Because you’re on fire with dad jokes today.
…uh oh.
Oh. Uh.. Congratulations? \o/?
He’s dad to us now.
Thanks, that’s awesome of you to offer! You’ll be at the SIMCITY-MELB meat next Friday, right?
I will be actually. I’ll give them to you then. I don’t mind leanding all of them to you at once as I’m not playing them.
But I am a collector =P I trust you to give them back eventually.
Oh, totally. I’m a reliable and responsible person. Your save games are sacrosanct to me, and I’ll return them in top condition, as I finish them!
Scout’s honour (although, I don’t know who Scout is, or why people are always invoking his honour)
Thanks! 😀
Scout is a girl.
I thought you were supposed to be a writer?
😛
No, I don’t think I’m supposed to be.
But I am anyway.Shit just got literary
Bringing that Harper Lee shit, mothafuckaaaa!
What i might do, before I give them to you is to delete an extra save files so you don’t end up with one that has like all three used up.
Oh and Ace attorney only has one save, so of course I don’t mind you saving over that one. =P
Wait, if you want to keep your AA save, that’s cool. I can just borrow the others!
Nah it’s fine. I don’t mind. I completed it and that’s all that matters.
I also have tomb raider but it’s on PS3.
(and @scree)
Since AA is in “episodes/cases”, I think you’re able to just choose an earlier case and begin from there. All you’ll lose is the mid-case progress.
I think all a completed game file has – is just all the cases unlocked from the start and the ability to fast forward through text (to make replaying easier, I guess). So it’s probably even better to have a completed save on the cart rather than a brand new save file.
@redartifice So GMG had a Crusader Kings sale and I might have bought it for $10.
If this isn’t amazing I’m going to come after you, and probably not really do anything. Might complain a little, but that’d be it.
You’ll be head of a medieval eugenics program in no time
I should’ve bought Crusader Kings 2 when it was on special on Steam the other day. =(
I had that regret too, and then by sheer coincidence I was on GMG the next day and there it was for $10. I wonder how much they make purely from people who missed Steam sales…
When was that? I just checked Green Man, and Crusader Kings is $10, But CK2 is still $40. Poop.
I thought it was yesterdays arvo/evening, but I think it might have actually been at like 1am last night.
Also, I just double checked that I actually bought 2 and not 1 😛
All good. I got it anyway!
Fun game. I’m awful at it and have never won a single battle though.
Oh god I started CK2 the other day. Started up, selected my guy and they was gah what do I do. I really had no idea at all. Spent 10 minutes clicking on stuff before I started time to see what happened.
So now i have married the daughter of a foreign king who owns the neighbouring land, started plotting to kill her brother and heir to that state. Went to war against my king without siding with the group fighting for control. So they have now attacked me as well. Can’t work out if it’s possible to join a faction once a civil war starts.
Oh well at least as of today I can be productive in game and earn trading cards, even if i don’t actually achieve anything ingame.
You can’t join a faction during a civil war from memory- your assets are tied up to your liege. I used this to great advantage in one of my games by sowing dissent in my neighbour’s kingdom, waiting for the civil war then swooping in.
Also breaking a seige doesn’t really work the way I expect.
Just comes down to an open army V army without taking any account of the defending garrison. So my little relief army went splat
Can be useful if it gets them under the number they need to successfully siege- I suggest investing in the “siege technology” tech if you’re having trouble
I’ve played about 20 minutes in total so not so much having trouble as having no idea what is going on
Devon Townsend tickets went on sale today 🙁
WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED
really hope they don’t sell out.
I was actually going to post about that last night when I got the email but didn’t think anyone would be too interested.
I love Devin, but yeah…doubt I’ll be going…
I’m dissapointed in you
😛I’ve been tempted, but I’ve seen Devy like 3 or 4 times in the last few years. Same with Meshuggah and Lamb of God. Not that it’s a bad thing, but not so urgent to go and see them again.
Devy’s live shows are fucking fantastic, if you haven’t seen him already. The guy’s supremely talented (you know that already) as well as funny as hell. He’s also got a lot of positive energy these days since he’s gotten older – less rage and angst filled Devy. (DTP as opposed to Strappers, etc) Again, not that old Devy was bad, but it’s awesome to see him on stage and having so much fun it’s tangible.
Last time he finished the show with about 50 people up on stage with him singing along like crazy.
yup, seen him many many times now, but i’ll never miss the oportunity to go again, he is the nicest dude ever too, went to 2 signings for them and both times afterwards he just strolled around getting pictures taken and having a chat.
You’re in a shopping mall, stomach cramping like crazy, bowels screaming for release. You do an odd waddling jog to the toilets, slam through the cubicle door and oh Jesus sweet lord relief. Messy liquid spray everywhere relief. You spend a minute to recover and reach for the toilet paper to start the arduous task of cleaning up the satanic mess you’ve left.
There’s none left.
What do you do?
Hide in cubicle, use phone to TAY, wait five minutes for TAY to give advice, and then do the opposite of what they say.
The one thing I WOULDN’T do is lick it up.
*maniacal laugh* *maniacal laugh* *maniacal laugh*So going by the other suggestions you’d just pull your pants up and continue shopping, enduring in stoic silence.
… after licking it all up. Yes.
Sacrifice my undies for the wipe. Go home commando, but at least with a clean arse.
cry. You can cry for help if you want, whatever makes you feel better
Search pockets
You find your phone and your grandfathers antique gold pocket watch.
Ooh, I know this one. Discover the watch has remarkable time travel capabilities, and travel back in time ten minutes to select a different cubicle.
@beavwa turns the watch crown 3 times and wishes for a different cubicle.
He then gets disappointed as all he seems to have achieved is changing the time on the watch.
Then he didn’t do what I said. FAIL.
Flush toilet until water runs clear. Then sit a little deeper and flush several more times. Wait out drip dry time by playing games on phone.
This sounds like a more…”mature”…version of Shane’s boredom games. Therefore:
Use toilet’s flush as makeshift bidet
It wasn’t but seems to have turned into that.
You press the flush and a weird groaning noise emanates from the bowl. To your horror the “water” (now mostly foulness) starts rising rapidly.
mug the next toilet patron for their shirt ?
Yell out for paper?
Waddle out of the stall with your pants around your ankles and inform your fellow toileteering man ‘You done poopie like a big boy.’ Best performed with the most self-impressed look on your face you can manage.
Hodor! *smiles*
http://www.blogcdn.com/wow.joystiq.com/media/2012/04/hodorbran1lsp-13039152501.jpg
That’s a cool photo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIyPkSwtQLw I’m gonna say NSFW just in case!
Teamspeak sure is going off these days.
Then turn it back on.
Jeez. Do I have to think of everything?
@ynefel Ck2 $20 through paradox, activates on steam http://www.paradoxplaza.com/games/crusader-kings-ii#buy_game-tab
Sold! Thanks man! Got me a nice Steam key ‘n all.
Also also: @tigerion @bdkiaf @ynefel @rize if I worked out how to stream, would you be keen to see a let’s play on the CK2 basics?
Oh my god yes. I have almost no idea what I’m doing in that game.
I’ll have a look tonight. Anyone recommend a hardware free streaming solution?
Yeah I’d give it a whirl. Won’t be watching tonight though, last night on call. Any night from tomorrow night onwards works for me.
Might set it up on the weekend
I am now looking at all the DLC with all the ‘wtfs’. Most of it looks cosmetic though, thankfully. Portraits, music, etc. Have to sift out which ones are actually game content.
Old Gods, Sunset Invasion and the Republic? It seems to imply four expansions though.
Sword of Islam
Legacy of Rome
Sunset Invasion
The Republic
The Old Gods
I’ve never played The Republic (I have it, but not played yet), Sunset Invasion is a minor one that changes the late game, 1st two are def worth it, and I’m loving The Old Gods atm (VIKINGS)
other than Sword and Legacy, I’d wait for a sale for anything else. All the others are cosmetic or minor.
Also Also: All the mechanics for these are in the latest patch, it’s just you won’t be able to utilise them. Like, Muslim rulers will work like Muslim rulers, but you won’t be able to play as one that’s mechanically different without the DLC. Means you can play MP though. You can also turn the DLC on and off on startup- I don’t need Aztecs invading my game each time
I must admit, the Aztecs invading Westeros thread on Reddit made me giggle a bit.
Oh man, that smashed them 🙂
Today’s lesson – don’t fuck with the Aztecs.
Me too. Like I said I literally sat there for 10 minutes before I even started time.
I have a feeling my line is going to die out quite quickly
Damn it news.com.au. 10 things Kevin Rudd will do differently to Julia Gillard:
Really? I mean, really? Is this something you needed to report on? Is this something that voters actually care about (it probably is, and that’s sad). Gah, DC’s suggestion on living in post apocalyptic townships is sounding better and better.
Some sweet games coming out this year 😀
You can live in the township as long as you bring a normal family and leave your crazy liberal ideas at the gate.
I’ll go live in the other rival township where you are only allowed in if you have far left crazy liberal ideals. Cos everybody knows that post apocalyptic townships are all committed to a single ideal that the township is built around
what always bugged me about Rudd was whenever he’d talk about new policies or whatever it was always “this will benefit working families” that’s his favourite damn saying “working families”, so what about working couples or working single folk, not everyone wants to live a “normal” life.
Edit: FFS reply PHAIL
It’s ruddspeak for “Aussie Battlers.” Everyone thinks they’re an aussie battler.
Mate. I work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for more money than I need to survive. I’m an aussie battler.
My favourite is when The Australian portrayed a household in Adelaide that earned in excess of 250k as a “struggling working family.”
Mind boggled.
Well, yeah, it’s a struggle to work when you have to take so many holidays to spend all that excess income.
I just don’t know how we’ll keep up with payments on the beach house AND put the kids through that swanky private school.
TONY HALP
I need to stop reading stuff about FFXV as I am starting to feel excited and we know how that ends up 🙁
NO! BAD NEG. NO HYPE ALLOWED.
Lately I’ve found myself going in knowing nothing with either low/no expectations set. Haven’t really been disappointed and have been pleasantly surprised 😀
I couldn’t care less. I’m fucking excited – and why wouldn’t you be? It’s first new real FF we’ve had since FFXIII, and before that, FFXII.
Get fucking hype. It’s better getting hype and being disappointed than spending the entire leading up to it being pessimistic. That shit takes energy.
I’d argue that being neutral is better than those two though. But then again being hype and having your expectations met AND exceeded is the best 😀
You guard too much, let go once in a while why dontcha?
No, Jimu, I’m hype for plenty of games. It’s just that I’m interested in so many things that it seems like I’m guarding too much 🙂
suuuurrrrrrrrrrrre, that’s why you have all those hype related rules 😛
I was hype for Animal Crossing and I’m enjoying it 😀
Man, I’m gonna have to get mum to take me back to Hobart 🙁 I feel like I’m dying here. All my skin problems and allergies completely went when I moved down there, and within 24 hours of being back here I’m an absolute wreck :S
I know mum loves her bandaid solution of “take a couple of telfast”, but no, I shouldn’t have to devour boxes of them to get through 4 days.
@jimu: haven’t gotten confirmation yet but my Muramasa CE status on Amazon’s page changed to ‘Shipping Now’ \o/
Now the race is on to see if I can get it before Play-Asia ship your copy 😛
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!!! 😛
It’s not exactly The Moon (sorry @dc) but I’ve had this on high repeat all week.
I liked their cover of Jonathan Coulton’s “The Future Soon”, but I think this is even more gooder!
@blaghman @sughly @rize @beavwa (others)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgFxIpTLAp-LdDNZbWVTNjhYNGE2bXpFTkxqV3BzM2c&hl=en_US#gid=8
Animal Crossing fossil swapsies! 😀
Blags – Sugs changed the format of his to match mine so I just changed yours too and added a legend.
Good enough! Not that the numbers you have actually matter, since you can order more via the Nooklings.
Last time I checked the catalogue, fossils, gyroids, Nintendo stuff and other items like that can’t be re-ordered.
EDIT: Just checked then, Yep… Blaghs you cray cray.
Oh. I just saw them in the catalogue, and assumed I could order them.
It mostly acts as sort of a checklist so you know which ones you have. I assume you play a lot but you’re never on, is your Best Friend thing turned off? We can swapsies if you want? 😀
I’m not playing that much atm. Just had an hour and a half on buses this morning, so I got to derp about.
Spares are on there, currently running through the haves/needs.
EDIT: Tempted to swap whites with reds, would make this so much easier to fill for me 😛
I’m keen to swapsies :D. Tweet me when you’re free.
So i just found out that for the winter costume of Another you have to make 2/3’s of the summer outfit anyway. =P
Winter is coming…
It’s just funny that I have to make most of the summer uniform to make the winter one.
They do look really similar, like the same thing with arms.
Pretty much it’s just a long sleeve shirt, same vest, same skirt and a blazer.
I managed to score five albums for $10.
And the most insane thing just happened.
I just heard “Regular John” by Queens of the Stone Age, and I wondered why it sounded so familiar…
Then I realized it had been on the Destruction Derby Arenas trailer.
I’d always wondered what song it had been this whole time.
Consider my mind blown.
I was listening to that song earlier today too!
:O
I saw something scary on an older page of TAY.
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lf4nb6ctUM1qck6o1.gif
Was it this?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/06/talk-amongst-yourselves-230/comment-page-12/#comment-1615140
If so, I’m sorry.
No, what I saw was on page 13 :P. Although your thing is quite nightmarefuelish
http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/im-sorry.gif
You don’t look sincere 😛
I’ve finally started watching Gurren Lagann after various people recommending it. i’m a huge fan of FLCL, and loved Gainax’s animation for Medaka Box, so i knew what i was in for.
I’m about halfway through it.
So, the start was iffy, the story seemed to be fairly… stupid… it took me a few episodes to realise that it’s doing it on purpose (or at least i think it is) as a sort of parody of giant mecha anime’s. still, it wasn’t bad, but not great… i was mostly just watching it for the awesome animation, i love gainax animation. Kamina however grew on me, and when yoko kissed him, i knew that was his death sentence. part of me thought that the show wouldn’t have him die, but it was neccessary, as after they did the show really became awesome. that point in the show breaks it from its semi-parody formula, and gives it a bit more maturity. Now i actually feel for Yoko and Simon as characters, and even joke-y characters like Viral actually some more 3-dimensional. overall, i’m excited to continue it, as i hope it continues to impress me.😀
I liked the hot springs episode. Shit was hilarious.
I watched the first episode at SMASH many years ago (in 2009), and I was like “This is stupid, I’m not going to watch this show.” And so I haven’t.it does get better, it just takes a while, too long for some.
I liked it from the get-go and thought it got worse towards the end 😛 (worse in the sense that it just wasn’t AS good, still good though!)
oh no, i liked it from the start (see gainax animation love), it just wasn’t up to the expectations i was told until
Kamina diesBison YES.YES.gif
It provides a healthy dose of HOT-BLOODED GIANT ROBOT DRILL-PIERCING GALAXY-‘SPLODIN “OH NO SIMON WE’RE SURROUNDED IT’S USE-” “MORE FUCKING DRILLS” EVERYTHING-EXPLODES Machismo that anime needs every season.
But yeah, I think general consensus is that the show gets better during it’s second half.
Because I haven’t done enough CK2 stuff today: http://i.imgur.com/WFtanxW.png
@negativezero
I don’t have a working Club Nintendo code, so won’t be able to get the MH3 offer. Thanks anyway, man. Much appreciated! 🙂
http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2008/04/clubnintendo2.jpg
Does it look like one of these? If so that’s an Australian one and won’t work for the UK Club Nintendo. Instead of registering it for the Australian Club Nintendo, I recommend waiting until there’s a promotion or something. The UK and US had promotions earlier this year where you register an XL and get a free game.
That’s what I’m doing with my code. Still no promotion though… 🙁
No, doesn’t look like that, but it’s an Australian one, because it wants me to get on the AU club and register it. Does that mean I’m out of luck? 😛
Thanks for the advice, man!
Yep. Could always try it out on the UK one but I doubt it’ll work since it says to register on the Australian one.
I just checked mine and it’s similar to the one I linked but has a red cover. The main point is that the Australian ones are sort of long paper folded over while UK ones are like this:
http://cdn02.nintendo-europe.com/media/images/03_teaser_module_1_square/other_3/club_nintendo_3/TM_ProductCode_TM_middle.png
Sort of a glossy square with a scratchy code.
Pity, MH3U is an awesome game :'(.
Oh and I also recommend playing some demos from the eShop. The MH3U demo is rather terrible (you’re thrown in the deep end with absolutely no explanation) but there’s plenty of demos for other games that are still fun and… FREE 😀
Aw man, The Mole is on at 7:30 on Tuesday. I won’t be home in time to watch it D: Hopefully Plus7 puts it up quickly.
Also: (Sportsball warning) The big names are dropping like flies at Wimbledon! If this keeps up the final will be very different.
Holler and link us when they’re uploaded on Plus7! 😀
I might actually buy the Luigi DLC for NSMBU now that I know it’s $30 on the eShop. Would’ve preferred it to be closer to $20, but at least they actually priced the download version less than the retail (didn’t think they would honestly :P)
$60 is killer :/
Green is so pretty though…
http://imgur.com/J05OqOv
…More drawing…
*slinks away*
Did you use a skeleton first?
The reason I ask is because everything is easier once you use a skeleton, you can then add skin and it will be anatomically correct. After that add the clothing and you’ll have a better idea of how it will sit.
Yeah @scree is right. Pros draw a stick figure then work on the muscles then clothes.
You gotta draw the shit you can’t see first then erase it or it’ll look wrong.
Unless you come up with a cartoony style.
@jimu — I invested in two of the comics you mentioned, Batwoman (0-4) and Saga (vol.1), just to see what they’re like without wasting too much time or money.
Good recommendations so far! Art for Batwoman is ungh and I had no idea what to expect from Saga but the whole first story arc is ungh.
Only one problem.
Why is Kate’s skin so pale? I get that she’s a ranga, but too grey and pale! D:All in all though
Ungh/10 — would check out more jimu suggestions in future.Edit: Page-get? Undo! Undo! D:
Re: Saga
I hope Ungh means ‘good’, or you and I can no longer be internet acquaintances.
I believe it’s supposed to be accompanied by a face like this.
Don’t worry, it means better than good — Saga’s only surpassed in frame-for-frame fulfillment ‘n satisfaction by The Lesser Evil (just to make sure our internet acquaintanceship is safe).
Haha, purely for the effort, the acquaintance is safe, but I’m now doubting your sanity and/or sincerity 😛
Just a tiny bit of exaggeration, but not insincere 😛
I was hoping you had success but didn’t like the art style and wasn’t really planning on checking it out. I ended up buying book one early-ish last year… out of prolonged exposure, I guess (curse all the promotion on Kotaku!), and enjoyed it — even though I’ve been too lazy to get book two, definitely think of it more like belated recognition rather than anything sarcastic or disingenuous. 😛Fair comments. Glad overall that you liked it!
(Having read it at all puts you ahead of the curve, and would have been enough to get you in my good books, even if you hated it! :P)
I don’t really like the art style either. Don’t tell anyone.Subsequent work uses similar techniques, but tries to find a more comic-y aesthetic. I’m getting there slowly! You can probably tell I’m a writer first, artist about eighth 🙂This Batwoman 0-4 you got, is it written by Greg Rucka?
If it’s not, hunt down the Greg Rucka story, still has art by JH Williams III and sets up the whole thing quite well. Everything will make a lot more sense after.
Saga is the best comic being produced by the Americans at this time. So good.
All New X-Men is impressing me quite a lot too. Bendis has hit the nail on the head with this series.
Also, when Immonen son pencils it is amazing. That guy knows drawin’s
She is so pale to make the art look awesome, stop asking questions and enjoy!Damn, Russell Howard isn’t coming to Hobart 🙁 (as expected pretty much)
Which means I’ll no doubt be going to Melbourne to see him! Only 11 months to wait!
STOP THE PRESS! THE SINGAPORE VROOM VROOM MEAT HAS CHANGED TO MELBOURNE VROOM VROOM MEAT.
loljk no racing.
I’m going to assume nobody on here either knows of or is a fan of Russell Howard to want to go 😛 He’s my favourite comedian so that probably equates to he’s nobody elses favourite comedian!
RUSSELL HOWARD MEAT WOOO!
I know a Russell Peters 😛
I throw my support behind a Russell Howard meat 😛
Plodding along through The Last of Us and Company of Heroes 2. Can’t seem to play either game for a long period of time.
Can someone that has finished the game tell me how much I have left to go in The Last of Us?
I just got to the dam after the season changed to fall.Halfwayish. Little over.
Dang. Was hoping I was a bit closer to the 3/4 mark. Oh well.
He’s Halfway there!
WOO-OO
LIVING ON A PRAYER
Sorry reply fail.
Woohoo! I just got home from my last class for Auslan Level 2. Glad to say I passed \o/
Edit; Passing was almost guaranteed, because I used the @greenius method of study this semester. That is – no study at all until last week, and I didn’t start to prepare my presentation until last night (and only finished it in my lunch break today)
All right! Nice work, man!
Thanks 🙂
BEST METHOD!
Finished Okami HD \o/
They took out the epilogue! /o\
EDIT: ending spoilers for Okami
I distinctly remember at the end of the PS2 version there was a shot of Issun sitting on the lap of Amaterasu in her true form i.e. as a girl instead of a wolf. Wasn’t there at the end of HD 🙁 Also disappointed they couldn’t license Reset. Glad they kept the end credits video in but disappointed that they scrubbed out the Clover Studios logo 🙁Also Atlus’ parent company is bankrupt 🙁 I hope this doesn’t mean some shitty company will sweep in and buy out all of Atlus’ IPs and make a crappy Persona 5 🙁
Surely if there’s a new parent company it will be business as usual?
When Disney bought Marvel changes were more on the marketing side as far as I could tell. They just let Marvel get on with what they were doing before.
Oh, and Joe Quesada started wearing Mickey Mouse Tshirts.
It would depend a lot on who would end up buying them. If it was a company like Tecmo or Crapcom or Konami or something then it’d end up badly for the sort of niche stuff they make I think. Also if Nintendo bought them it’d suck completely.
One possibility I’ve seen mooted though is GungHo. They’re flush with cash right now and would probably be able to afford it, plus Atlus would fit nicely with their portfolio – they also own Grasshopper Manufacture, plus they’ve been making moves toward setting up a localization team in the US for some of their stuff, and picking up Atlus USA would fit that nicely. Most likely GungHo would leave them to it as well.
It’s Midnight! (Or a few minutes after…)
Goodnight, all.
I just beat The last of us.
Wow, i haven’t left a game being so conflicted. even though the right thing was to let ellie die, joel’s actions still felt justified. i myself started making excuses, “but who knows if they’ll be able tomake a vaccine?” “Maybe it’s a genetic immunity, ellie needs to live to pass it on.” all in all, i fucking loved that game from start to finish, if they make a sequel (and they surely will), i hope ellie and joel are at least mentioned in it if they go for different main character(s). Also, while i’m at it, playing as Ellie was my favourite part of the game.Also, this is me right now
I’m still having feels from it almost a week later.
Sore thumbs? 😛
The flawed ending was such a breath of fresh air as opposed to Uncharted’s cliché endings, I also love it how they change the title screen after you finish the game for maximum feels, great game.Last of Us Spoilers
i was really conflicted at the end, i spent about 5 minutes trying to figure a way of getting Ellie without brutally murdering the poor doctor, anyway I’ve talked about TLOU ending 3 times now and had 0 replies so I’ll be brief, Winter was the best, being Ellie was amazing, Giraffes bit was Jaw drop worthy. Glad you enjoyed itIn light of recent events in Australian politics, I present to you Gil Scott Heron, who would like to remind you that when it happens The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Peace out ,,\/,
It’s 2am on a Thursday night.
Whoops.
Damn Mass Effect 3 multi. =P
Got outbid on the wacom intuos I was looking at…
At least it saved me some money.
is there a particular reason why you wanted an intuos? I have an old graphire here I use once in a blue moon that I could probably send you if you want.
Thanks for the offer, but I was after the intuos for the buttons and different pens and nibs.
Sorry if my writing isn’t the best.
I’m sure Shane is frothing at the mouth over the horrendous slaughter of the English language I’ve just committed.
*gags, collapses*
cool cool. well offer still stands if you change your mind 🙂
Morning all!
Writing! Wasting time! Working! Oz Comic-Con SIMCITY-MELB meat! Zeitgeist day! Zelda 3DS is awesome!
All right, I’m out. See you tomorrow.
Zelda 3DS is awesome, here’s hoping the Majoras Mask 3D rumors are true as well. =)
Wat. Rumours! Love those.
Confession: I have never played MM. Couldn’t get a hold of a copy back in N64 days. I would love to play it.
Do you have a Wii? you could just spend 15 bucks and play a e-shop version, Majoras Mask was probably the most dark Zelda games around it’s definitely a unique game.
… uh, somewhere. Maybe…? I sure used to have one, and I don’t recall actually chucking it in the bin.
Still got a working 64? I’ve got the game around here somewhere.
On another note, can I send you money for books for SIMCITY-MELB and have them left with a friendly Melbourne TAYbie volunteer?
Hahaha, haven’t had a 64 for at least 10 years. I wish. 🙂
And re: books, yes we can do that, and the money can wait until you have the books. Did you have a specific volunteer in mind, or will anyone do?
Whoever … volunteers … I guess.
30 big ones for omnibus and peaceful tomorrows?
Yes, please! How do you want them signed?
If you want to sort this out via email: shane at shanewsmith.com !
In blood.
Or in English. Your pick.
@shane: I wanted to grab copies as well, but I’ll be there. I can pass Beavwa’s copies on as we work in very close proximity.
Done deal! \o/
Thanks.
Shit son, MM is rad!
A bit more complicated than OoT as the whole time mechanic is crazy but it’s my second favourite 3D Zelda behind OoT 😀
Rumours from Shigero’s mouth should be pretty solid.
But, he never said definetly, just that he hasn’t forgotten :-/
Hey @greenius I got my Last of Us Art Book.
AND ITS BASICALLY THE BEST ART BOOK EVER
Not really. It’s an excellent artbook (which you should get (after you play the game because spoilers)), but the UC2 and HL2 artbooks are my favourite ones.
That’s our Notty!
*audience laughter*
*sitcom music*
http://data.whicdn.com/images/23178357/homer-bush_large.gif
Ha! “Homer-bush_large” Thought that would be NSFW!!! 😀
*He’s not Greenius
And not victorious
He’s not famous
But he is Notorious!
Sha-lalalaRRRR*
Shhh, it’s a secret.
Don’t tell anyone.344 pages?
Aw man, that’s like this many *holds up fingers*
Also, a somewhat hilarious stat: I have 5 books out now, and they have cumulatively sold a grand total of 8 copies through Amazon. Ever. Considering they rule the world, maybe I should be directing people more than I currently do 😛
Where’s my copy with the signed nudes and stuff?
Big box en route to Melbourne. It should get there about the same time I do (next Friday). I’ll scribble my name and draw dicks all over the first copy I take out of the box, and I’ll post it up your way.
This is acceptable.
All the shapes and shadows and angles on the cover… ungh.
I know, right? I have no idea who is designing my book covers (I don’t think they ever get cred on the inside pages) but they are doing a bloody ungh of a job!
http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2013/06/25-1/new-poster-for-shinji-aramakis-captain-harlock-cg-film?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+crunchyroll%2Fanimenews+%28Latest+in+Anime+News+by+Crunchyroll%21%29
Looks kewl
Tekken Revolution
Finally installed it last night. The only reasoned I greabbed it in the first place is because Harada said he’d port it to Vita if it got enough downloads. I’m super keen for some train Tekken and I don’t like the look of 3D for some reason, probably partially because the size of my 3DS is a bit small for fightin’s.
So yeah, had a go last night. Was really fun. Even though I spent far too long in waiting rooms trying to find matches to join, when I did it was barely laggy at all. I think this is because there’s no customisation at all. Bit sad not seeing people dressed in silly hats punching me in the face but the upside, getting in a fight and having it move along mostly lag free was great!
It’s a free to play set up, I presume you can go on PSN and buy various upgrades and whatever. Seems you can earn new characters and stat upgrades just by playing though. That reminded me of spending hours in Tekken 2 trying to unlock all the characters and Kazuya’s purple suit.
The downside with free to play is that to participate in matches you need some form of in game currency. I don’t get how that works, if I wait I earn them and if I do a good job in a fight I earn them.
The problem is with Ranked Matches, if you wanna participate in a Ranked Match you need to have a certain coin. So there isn’t a lot of people in Ranked Matches. I spent ages waiting for a match and when it didn’t happen and I logged off, I’d still spent my coin :-/
Still an otherwise great free game, I had a lot of fun.
Downside is, I think it’s onliune only (even though it has an Arcade Mode) so if it was ported to Vita, I couldn’t play on the train.
@gutsoup @doc_what @TekkenFans
Also, I seem to have been winning most of the time, when I lost it was against Lili. Her quicknes is the answer to Jack 6’s beat down fists.
wait, what I read they have Ogre and Jinpachi as non playable bosses, is Arcade mode vs. A.I? Or is it that you have to be online just to play?
I think i have to redownload mine, it keeps corrupting during the install. :/
Yeah, Jinpachi was sub and True Ogre (name just Ogre) was end boss.
COuldn’t log in without internet, that may have just been the first time though, I’ll check some time.
oh yeah P4G stuff
I’m glad i didn’t research this at all, just took your word that it’s good, i went into it really not knowing what to expect, at the start it’s all happy and Yay high school, then goes all creepy and sinster, then is all like “Persona” and some big ass mech thing appears. It’s been good not knowing what’s coming, I’m about to go try save Yukiko, that bit with her Shadow (i’m assuming it was her shadow) showing off her bewbs and talking about getting all the boys was hell funny. keen to go home & play more. Oh also Nicole did get Sonic Limited editiion for me whoo, I’ll give that a crack tonight,Maybe we can race each other!
Also, yes, P4G will get funnier and sadder and all the feels.
I haven’t been so emotionally involved in a game since I can’t remember…
So good.
I say it all the time but…SO GOOD!
I only just got round to downloading Crazy Taxi from XBLA (mainly because my gf asked if I had it and as she doesn’t game, I thought YES, this may be the chance to get her engine revving for gaming – long shot I know.)
It costs 800 Gamer Points :O. I got Sonic Adventure the other day and it only cost 150. Outrageous.
On this note, are there any other favourite old school non-Xbox games that people have purchased and play regularly? I’d imagine Street Fighter 2 is an obvious one.
Perfect Dark
Ahh yes not a bad idea. Does it support online multiplayer?! If only they had the original Goldeneye and even better…set up for Xbox Live. I’d quit my job.
Yep, it’s got online multi, hard to get a game though (in my experience)
I might be up for it one time, providing my free month card hasn”t run out.
I used to long for Goldeneye 64 too, then I found a copy on 64.
Played it, still great.
But realised Perfect Dark is actually the better package. It has better multi-player options, includes the guns and maps from Goldeneye (not all but most) and just plays better all-round.
You could argue that Goldeneye has the better single player but I think I actually prefer how much more refined PD is.
It’s really great! 😀
gamertag: Jimu Hsien or JimuHsien or Jimu_Hsien ….just check TAYnames 😛
Maybe, but you can’t beat nostalgia…
I feel just as nostalgic for PD though…
It’s like choosing between Resident Evil 2 or 3. 2 is better.
Personal choice obviously.
If you do want to multi, hit me up here or on twitter.
I barely turn on the 360 these days. 🙂
Sonic Adventure 2 =P
It supports online for all of the multi too, so you can do online co-op and everything else like counter-op etc.
It’s one of the best ports I’ve seen.
Morning all.
Bought The Cave on special last week for my girlfriend to play, really good game with some great messages in there.
One line really stood out to me (paraphrasing because I can’t find the lines online):
“Attaining the object your heart desires most is not as hard is people make it out to be, but attaining what you want will change you, and that’s the hard part.”
I enjoyed it, need to finish my second playthrough
If you / she like(s) the cave, might be worth picking up Deathspank (just the first one, don’t bother with the other two). Or I could be late to that party if you already have it.
@dkzeitgeist, you left the swastika on. Deliberately, I hope? 😛
Context? No, why would I.
Does that really need any more context than “@dkzeitgeist”?
http://tinyurl.com/7lynojn
Come one, come all, to Shane In Melbourne for Conversation and Intimacy with TAYbies (YES, Melbourne) and an Elegant, Litigious Bonanza (SIMCITYMELB).
It’s also a @puppylicks farewell meat! So doubly important you intend. Especially @puppylicks, because it wouldn’t be much of a farewell meat without him…)
So we’ll call it the Shane In Melbourne for Conversation and Intimacy with TAYbies (YES, Melbourne) and an Elegant, Litigious Bonanza and Farewell Our Respected Puppylicks Meat (SIMCITYMELB-FOR-PM).
Shane will be gracing Melbourne with his presence for a weekend, and will bring books (@zetrox2k and @smurfydog, I haven’t forgotten you want books!), fun and his ebullient personality (note: in this list, only books are guaranteed). And if you can get there, you can join in.
MEAT DETAILS:
Date: Friday, 5 July
Time: 7pm unless objected to.
Place: Yoyogi on Swanson St (or meet up somewhere else first and walk to Yoyogi)
So many details!
Proposed plan:
1. Meet at Yoyogi on Swanson St at around 7pm (too early/too late for anyone?) and eat dinner.
2. After dinner, migrate to Galactic Circus (whatever that is), and enjoy ensuing shenanigans.
3. After that, chill (literally) on the lawn chairs at Federation Square until frozen solid. Serve with alcoholic beverage of choice.
4. Come and visit @Shane at his Oz Comic-Con table on Saturday and/or Sunday and give him all your money.
Tagging these folks (FYI and comments): @negativezero, @princesspipster, budgieishere, @inquisitorsz, @syvraen, @jordi, @splicer, @tofu, @ynefel, @blood_apathy, @notoriousr, @sarcasmfairy, @joshy206, @dire_wolf, @crazyguy1990, aidan, beavwa, @chuloopa, @f4ction, @tech_knight, @klutar, @puppylicks, @scree, @pixel_the_ferret_viking, @greenius, @zetrox2k, @mcgarnical, @smurfydog, @tigerion, @velnica, @shane (untagged because they’re piking, but retained for complete listism: aidan, beavwa and budgieishere)Will be re-posted at irregular intervals until the day in question.
Edit: If that’s not enough incentive, it looks like Peaceful Tomorrows will be out in time for that weekend (though only just), and you guys might well be the first ones who have a chance to obtain said book.
Edit 2: We need to remind PIXEL by email, because he shuns TAY. This is here so I don’t forget (I may still forget).
jacob(dottithingy)didriksen(weirdawithatrunk)gmail(dottithingy)com
Edit 3: Can someone claim some books on @Beavwa’s behalf, please?
Might need to add a disclaimer that my attendance is a maybe as I have work farewell drinks on that night, but if I can get away from that then I’ll be there.
Although if any MelbTAYs wanna come to the Belgian Beer garden on the 13th I will definitely be there 😛
And then there’s PAX, I can drink with all of you at PAX 🙂
It’s the FINAL COUNTDOWN!!!
Hear about my brush with cold, steely death on an all new Dan & Karl’s Zeitgeist!
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2013/06/28/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s03e12-dansheadinjury/
LISTEN, SUBSCRIBE, BURN IT TO A CD AND TAKE IT TO A CD BURNING PARTY (A Christian one)
Special shout out to our very own @shane for this weeks episode art.
http://au.ign.com/articles/2013/06/27/just-add-water-pitches-for-metal-gear-solid-remake
Where’s my Munch’s Oddysey Vita?
Also, best comments section EVAH!
http://au.ign.com/articles/2013/06/27/exclusive-images-from-curse-of-chucky
As I said, Brad Dourif is cool. Also cool his daughter is in the film as well.
TAY’s pretty slow today. What’s happened???
Where’s @dc?
Isn’t he going to the doctor’s today?
@DC WE MISS YOU
Yes @dc, COME BAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!
DRUGS AND LUNCH AND MOVIES!
Needs more cowbell.
Someone said “Friday” and half of TAY was cooked in a skillet before the chef realised his mistake.
I don’t get it
Joke ruining explanation:
Someone said “Friday”, chef heard “Fry TAY”.The chef’s mistake, though, was using a skillet, because it didn’t produce good results.*squints eyes*
…
I still don’t get it …
Okay. *deep breath*
Someone said “Friday.” It was just one of those words that happens to come up naturally in conversation around this time of the week. There’s nothing particularly important about the word other than the sound of it.There was a chef standing around. He wasn’t very good at listening because he had lots of hair in his ears. The ear bit is not really an important detail, but it’s definitely important that he isn’t a great listener, because he misheard this part of the conversation as “Fry TAY.”
Choosing to interpret this as an instruction/recipe, he started gathering up TAYbies and cooking them in lots of oil. Half of TAY was cooked (i.e. dead and unable to post on TAY, causing a slowdown such as the one Jimu is complaining about) before he realised that he’d made a huge mistake…
It wasn’t that funny to start with, and now has received way too much attention to ever be funny again. *huff*
Wait, who said “Friday?”
*FLAIL*
Nobody actually said Friday. It’s a joke!
A humorous and fictional response to Jimu’s question “What happened?”
Edit: getting the feeling that this banter might actually end up being funnier than the joke itself, Muppets-style.
@shane
noone said “Friday”? I’m so confused.
Was this chef a professional? Did he have his own restraunt?
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxvd86okBz1qj373v.png
@shane
Why was the chef standing around? Did someone steal all his seats?
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FufBNkoYI_E/UNB8DxfAnwI/AAAAAAAAA_M/WeDNLTv2l8U/s320/9y9uk.gif
Ugh, Ser Trollulus!
FriTay.
*shrugs*
end of financial year for me, I’m in accounts so busy time for us,
Sorry I was too busy on reddit.
Edit that was a reply fail to @jimu
Are you back now? All is forgiven if you are 🙂
Sort of
Coffee!!!!!
Can’t today hurry up and be over already?
hey i hope I’m not annoying you. I’m trying to help you with your drawings. I know what it’s like to want help
Nah, it’s okay.
You’re the furthest from rage-inducing anyone could be.
🙂
I’ve had people get shitty because I didn’t just praise their work but critiqued it. I don’t want others to get annoyed over the same thing.
And I don’t want to annoy you to keep harping on about a skeleton but it seriously helped me. My people and clothes used to look awkward and flat until I started using them.
I want coffee but it’s raining.
Morning!
I did some sewing last night because I wasn’t pleased with Nova’s cosplay.
Everyone on teamspeak had to listen to an interesting array of noises and cursing.
I still have a bit more to do until I’ll be happy with it D=
@scree, professional pin cushion. \o/?
My fore finger and thumb are still sore, but at least that section is done.
Morning.
You see this?
https://www.facebook.com/PAXAUS/posts/605259482842029
eh, that would require getting out of bed before 9am.
I won’t be able to go, as being on public transport in cosplay with no guard is terrifying.
Oh to answer your question, no I did not see it.
@shane
I watched those Dark Souls 2 videos you posted yesterday. How freaking amazing and smooth does the combat look? (AMAZING IS THE ANSWER HERE). Every time I see a Dark Souls 2 video / info i get so much hype. I think it’s reaching critical levels!
(cc: @freezespreston @strange)
AMAZING is the right answer.
It just looks so damn great.
Edit: Nine months to go. /o\
Are you waiting for a game or giving birth?
I’ll let you know when it happens.
Yeah those uncut videos were great for getting an uninterrupted feel for how the game plays.
Looks and plays like Dark Souls, I’m happy with that 🙂
uhhh test post to see if I’m being moderated for everything…
Also while I’m here, is there a way to improve Chrome spell check? It’s truly awful. The suggestions for corrections are terrible.
EDIT: yep I’m being moderated. =(
That moderation thing happens randomly, editing your comments seems to counter it.
Eventually it goes away by itself.
Zen Pinball 2 on PS Vita… So damn good.
*drool*
ok peeps, you all need to go put your serious/professional hats on and apply for this – http://www.classification.gov.au/News/Pages/26June2013-Classificationresearchcallforvolunteersforresearch.aspx . The Australian Classification Board is asking for “community members (eighteen years and over), to be included on a register of people who can be called on, to participate in research groups about a range of media classification matters.”
If enough of us apply, the best and brightest from amongst our ranks might make it through and have a positive impact on the censorship regime in this country.
Get to it.
If I’m not allowed to do jury duty, would I have a chance at applying for this?
lol.
/serious hat – prob. i imagine it’d be in your own post-work time, and as long as your 18 you can apply. that’s the way i read it anyway.
As a serious response (not a joke), I am not allowed to do jury duty as I am not considered to be representative of a member of the community. I see that potentially being an issue here too.
how does that work, if you don’t mind me asking? military/spooks/prison/non-citizen? or are we talking more extra-terrestrial/molepeople ?
Military. A lot of the training could be classed as a form of brainwashing, so you’re trained to think certain ways. But hey, no jury duty for life!
Interesting… how come if you don’t mind me asking too?
The hearing thing or the murders *backs away slowly*
“Are you a parent?”
“How old are your children?”
I wonder if they want a specific type of person here :p
I HAVE CHILDREN! OR CHILD! MAYBE CHILDREN I DONT KNOW ONLY AWARE OF ONE! They must want people like me…
their definition of “reasonably minded community member” is very specific and excludes the majority of *actual* reasonably minded community members (several high court judges have elaborated on this legal definition too).
Got to that question and contemplated lying… 😛
I’d say there’s a fair bit of weight on that question
Done!
I wonder if my company would consider this volunteer work. We get special leave for that.
Morning all,
Kogan’s warranty process is interesting for sd cards. I ordered a 32gb one a few weeks ago and it keeps coming up as corrupted and unable to format, I got in touch with Kogan and rather than send it in they just want me to cut it up and send them a picture and they’ll send me a new one … I’d like to think that’s their policy on everything. TV’s on the fritz and is still under warranty, cleave that thing in twain and send us a picture … we get a kick out of it.
Gamey time!
I played a bit of Resident Evil 4 last night and came to the realisation that I got more of a sense of accomplishment from making my inventory all nice and ordered than when I shot a ganado in the knee and roundhouse kicked him into a cavern and the dynamite he dropped murdered about six others. Also I managed to run out of ammo at one point because I stupidly thought I could get ammo from the merchant
With that sense of accomplishment, you’re obviously cut out for a career in logistics management.
arghhh one more PAX ticket to go…. i really cant affordd to spend more than $220 but dodgy scalper keep inflating bidding prices… you look at bidding history and its the same people that took the tickets from $0.01 to $255….
Have you tried asking pax if they will have on the day tickets?
from memory they already clarified that there will be no tickets sold on the day 🙁
Ah crap. I wish i could help, but I’ve only got my own
ALL RIGHT!
Start posting comments you lot!
I just did some work and it’s sickening!!!
Comment
For crying out loud! HE SAID “comments” NOT “comment”!
FLIPS TABLE AND STORMS OFF
Hey, Jimu!
o/
Hey!
\o
I tried posting one. Expect it in 3-5 working days.
I’m too busy eating my lunch.
…no.
3 upvotes and 3 downvotes….that kinda cancels this little excercise out 😛
I had KFC for lunch and am now in the early stages of KFC regret.
Also, I am off call, after the busiest week on call I’ve had since I started.
I want to go home and play video games, but just know that come 8pm, I’m going to be struggling to stay awake.
I think I will have KFC too.
I had KFC for dinner last night and leftovers for lunch. Still no regret!
KFC regret is a thing!
McDonalds, moreso.
*screeches wildly* http://astortheatreblog.wordpress.com/2013/06/28/youve-got-red-on-you/
Edgar Wright will be in melbourne for a one off showing of shaun of the dead and a Q and A afterwards, tickets are $28 each
Wow.
Nothing ever happens in Sydney. 😐
Cosplay working time!
No more procrastinating!
HEY GUYS. What’s the go with dinner tonight before Spirited Away? Ber is going to tag along after her ice-skating partner bailed on her.
Love, Beardy.
ask @sughly
@dc seems to be busy today
Now I’ve done it. Imagine a proper Vita port of Valkyria Chronicles 3.
Wee would come out.
Then, would come God Eater 2, PSO2, MH4, FF Type-0, and I’d die in a screaming pool of my own juices.
I have this waking dream where I travel to a desert planet and people call me Mua’deeb (check spelling)
And also that someone ports everything possible to Vita.
Dear @dc,
New show from the Fringe guys.
http://au.ign.com/articles/2013/06/27/fringes-jh-wyman-on-re-teaming-with-jj-abrams-for-foxs-almost-human
Sincerely,
35
Premise sounds terrible, trailer looked awesome.
I took my 3DS for a walk at lunchtime, and headed into EB. Two streetpasses. This is too addictive.
Also, I bought Phantom Hourglass. @scree, I no longer need to borrow this game 😛 Thanks though.
“Whatcha doing?”
“Walking my Gameboy”
Once at high school during school assembly a teacher got Gameboy confused with Playboy. Hilarity ensued. 😀
Remember that search engine called Hotbot?
Ha ha, highschool teachers!
I don’t care how many handhelds nintendo has done since, I still call a DS a Gameboy.
Edit: Also, Hi @DC! How are you?
I call my PSP and Vita Sony Gameboys.
Helps old people understand.
I’m okay, Red. And you? 😀
I am also well, but I’m ready for the weekend.
OH SHIT! I just remembered things.
Definitely 100% buy Link’s Awakening and Oracle of Ages/Seasons on the 3DS eShop if you’ve never played them before. Some of the best 2D Zelda games and miles ahead of those DS ones.
That’s okay, I will still lend you the other three.
People going to see Spirited Away tonight, wanna meet at Fortitude Valley station at around 6pm and decide somewhere to eat then? Let me know!
He’s back! In pig form! 😀
DC! How went the appt today? Did you get any tasty, tasty drugs?
I did!
Zoloft?
Nah, anti-depressant though. Sleeping pills too. (That prescription was optional. Not sure I’ll use ’em.)
Update me on how it all goes (if you’re comfortable too, of course).
I didn’t like what they did to me so I stopped taking them.
Will do! If I start acting not like myself in a bad way, tell me. XD
Will do!
I did a DM thingy on Twitter for you. You probably missed it though, you seem to (conveniently?) miss all my communications to you these days. 😛
Aw man, I still feel bad about that e-mail. I haven’t checked regularly since upgrading from MSN to Skype. MSN used to tell me when I had new e-mails without having to look for them. XD
Sure, blame the spams and scams coming through the portal… 😛
Does Heavy Rain Director’s Cut come with the DLC?
Or is it just move compatible?
I’m pretty sure they patched the normal versions to be move compatible. :-/
I don’t know, but apparently the DLC is not so much anyway.
@doc_what raved about it on Potaku, said it had replay value but was short.
The Taxidermist?
The Taxidermist was amazing. better than the full game even though you could finish the chapter easily under an hour
So tense, though it kind of ruins the surprise that Madison’s a journalist. Something that wasn’t a surprise in the actual game because this demo was spoiled at e3 and the like. I loved it though. 😀And it had so much replay value.
I loved finding new places to hide and new ways to escape to get each different ending.I read the platinum version of the game is supposed to have the DLC, but to tell you the truth as good as The Taxidermist is, it’s not necessary playing. I think you can get the Move version patch for any version of the game for free…
It sucks, I found it in the original case for $20, did the good thing and bought it for a mat’s birthday.
Now I can never find it that cheap! D:
Just get the red border Essentials version. 😀
http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/game/ps3/heavy-rain-essentials/677981
2 for $40.
2 for 40, I have the worst luck with those. Probably because I already own most of what I want to.
Prolly will borrow it off the guy I gave it to.
I’m not even sure I’ll like it enough.
You’ll like it… or else. >:|
😛
I think I’ll definetly enjoy a playthrough. Not sure if owning it will be needed though.
Hey… wasn’t Journey in that 2 for 40 thing? Wasn’t some green guy interested in buying it but needed a buddy to buy the other game?
Huh?
A while ago someone mentioned they picked up the Journey Collection in a JB 2 for $40 and I said I would be interested but can’t think of another game to get as well.
You upvoted and/or replied.
And you said above you’d be interested in buying Heavy Rain but you didn’t have another game you were interested in.
So I referenced the situation and we can help each other out if needed, but it seems like Shane hooked you up with a copy 😀
Given that my PS3 is a medium-intensity breath away from death, I will probably never play my copy. It’s the Collector’s Ed with the origami paper. I would consider selling it.
Edit: No DLC that I’m aware of, though.
How many copies of The Lesser Evil will it cost? 😛
I get between $1-2 per copy sold. So you’d need to buy about 10-15 copies. Hope that’s all right! 😛
Oh, if you don’t want to keep it (as per above comment) I’m happy to lend it to you if you just want to play through once. Let me know!
Hmmmm, so you want $20 for it or $30?
Maybe I will borrow and then decide, if OK.
Let me hmmmmm a little more.
That’s okay. I’d rather lend than sell, because I can’t entirely shun my hoarding inner beast 😛
Don’t even think about folding that origami paper. It’s a collectible. 😛
I bought it second-hand. I don’t know if it’s been folded already. I should check…?
Wait… it’s a PIECE OF SQUARE PAPER. HOW COULD THAT BE COLLECTIBLE! 😛
Haha! Because it walks you through the origami as the game installs. That makes it special, Shane. Special.
http://portasite.com/wp-content/uploads/1963_fleer_davis.JPG
Dood, your talking to a comic book guy.
I have heaps of stuff still in the ORIGINAL PACKAGING!!!
I folded mine! \o/
Monster! D:
Good god, man!
But the game told me to! Who are you to defy David Cage?!
It was a test. You failed, @bdkiaf. :'( You were suppose to resist the temptation. It was supposed to make you feel things. 😛
Ooooo. Very sneaky, Mr Cage. Very sneaky.
If you fold it and your Playstation Eye (or whatever it’s called) sees you do it, you become a suspect earler in the story 😛I have the Heavy Rain move edition and it has the DLC, soundtrack, dynamic theme and making of videos.
I haven’t played it yet though /o\
Monster! D: x2
Hmmm, interesting, cheers.
Surprise, surprise 🙂
HAY GUISE!
Limbo and Sine Mora are half price on XBLA this week.
The More You Know!
*flies away on shooting star*
One day I’ll play Limbo. One day.
It’s cross buy on PS3! Limbo on the Vita!!!
I bought Knytt Underground instead, it’s so fackin’ gooood!
You done good Jimu.
mad props to you for mentioning the genre
Genre or game? 🙂
Well, If memory serves. @gutsoup mentioned the game was free on PLUS and then you told me the genre, no?
@jimu ah yeah, true!
Sine Mora is pretty darned cool.
http://www.arrakis.co.uk/jpg/dune4a.jpg
its a sad day when you realise that your PC, which was once considered stupidly OP is having trouble running new games.
I think I might be in the market for a new graphics card……….
Also, uh, I’m sorry for calling you that word Cody. You didn’t deserve that. What you said was pretty jerky, but my response took that jerkiness to a whole new level.
not really relevant to anything, certainly not commenting on your comment, but your multiple uses of the word jerk got me thinking….
Where & why have i heard the term circle-jerk before?
Because its thoroughly gross?
Ain’t nothing gross about a group of bros helping each other out.
Ew. 🙁What are you? Anti-gay or something?
The nerve *shakes fist*
I think I called Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo loyalty a circlejerk in comments a couple of weeks ago — I, along with many others, also call anything/everything on reddit a circlejerk.
As Sughly said, it is pretty gross.
it sure isn’t a phrase you’d throw around in polite company.
but I remember hearing it in some film some time or something.
I dunno. I think weird shit sometimes.
Oh yeah, very common term. It’s in TV and movies all the time.
Now let’s forget our troubles with a big bowl of strawberry ice cream!
Aha, thought you were going for alcohol there. But yes, ice cream, sure… *swigs from a non distinct flask*
Is there no greater disappointment than waiting 2 days for a hairdresser to open, only for it to be a shoe shop? So sad right now guys, so sad…
Can’t say that’s ever happened to me.
Then you havent lived!
I didn’t care which one it was. I was still disappointed though, all the shoes were pink. D:
On closer inspection one pair of pink shoes was Jester Shoes so it was all okay then.
Mine were sooooo lame. SO lame. So sad. Least the club is in the works for opening now, gon get mah dance on! Or, something.
Daeth of a loved one?
(was gonna say child then I thought about “our history” so I changed it last minute :D)
I had sad hairdresser news this week too.
The (unbelievably gorgeous) woman who normally cuts my hair is going to be off for at least 4 weeks after surgery on both wrists for carpal tunnel syndrome 🙁
#getwellsoonNiky
lolol that hashtag
Kicks opens first and then Shampoodle after 10 days. HAVE FUN WAITING
ARGH! ANOTHER 10!?! D:
Just popping in to say Hello. I’m off again because I haven’t finished Last of Us and don’t want the game spoiled. See you next week!
People have been pretty good with spoiler space and all that, but I respect the vigilance…
As Beneath a Steel Sky taught me…
BE VIGILANT.
No one’s talking about that game anymore. Last week’s news (or in my case, next year’s news \o/)
I haven’t even started yet but I’ve managed to stay unspoilerisated. \o/
Also, hello.
WAIT WAIT! ZOMBIES! And, and… someone dies, and… and red wedding, and… dammit he’s gone.
LoU has a Red Wedding too?
So much lost repek right now
Not sure if serious…
Thanks for the confidence.
No not serious.
I’m hapy that LoU has a Red Wedding.
Spoiler tages, man
peeps be makin’ use of them 😀Hey, dad.
http://memberfiles.freewebs.com/42/57/68375742/photos/undefined/vlcsnap-2012-07-08-20h43m06s204.png
@sughly Seen the Harvest Festival lineup?
Neutral Milk Hotel!!!!
I was totally surprised about Desaparecidos though. & Massive Attack. Gonna be goooood.
Yah yah! I do quite enjoy NMH, and Massive Attack for that matter, but dont know Desaparecidos ^_^ Not entirely sure I will goooo…
Desaparecidos is another one of Conor Oberst’s (Bright Eyes) bands. hard rock political / anti-consumerist protest songs. so damn good. so damn angry.
Also The Drones! & The Eels!
not as excited about Franz Ferdinand though….
I’m definitely going 😀
Ooooo, Oberst! I see I see… that is cool! I’ll have to have a listen…
Oh wow! That looks so good!
Excited for M.Ward, Primus, Eels, BRMC, and hesitantly, Massive Attack.
(Massive Attack really depends on who they have singing and what material they do)
hell yeah.
Neutral Milk Hotel, The Drones & Desaparecidos are what have got me riding the Hype Horse.
also, theres a rumor that Bon Iver might be on the 2nd announcement…. if thats true….. SO MUCH AWESOME 😀
Oh man, I had a kebab and bowl of (hot) chips for lunch and three snickers chocolate bar dealies.
GOOD EATING.
FUCK YEAH!!!
http://www.adventuregamers.com/news/view/24838
This any good?
LAYTON HAS A SON!?
He must’ve liked Luke better. :'(
WHERE THE SHIT DID LUKE GO?!
Whoa wait what is this!?! I’d never heard of it! Looks… very Phoenix Wrightish… more AA than Layton…
But ergh, iOS devices T_T
Seemed to appear out of nowhere! I’ll get the demo later tonight after SPIRITED AWAAAAAAY!
But… but… its AA. Play AA!
I ain’t got no drinking problem.
And if you did, I’m sure you’d take AA seriously and not just play it *serious nod*
You only get out what you put in.
EXACTLY *turns and looks at @sughly dissapointed*
Been out in Japan for a while. I remember being interested in it but forgot it existed and didn’t think it would come out in the West 😀
I’M HELPING
whew, without elaborating. I will just say, TFIF
homeward bound to more games than i could possibly hope to finish 😀
Pssst, dinner. The Valley. Spirited Away. TONIGHT. I hear Jimu might be there…
That’s a lie, but you only seem to go to Jimu related gatherings. 😛I will be *wiiiiiink*
I regret giving Harvey Norman another chance… I should’ve known better.
Oh bum 🙁
Oh damn! I’m sorry dude 🙁
More Last of Us. This time just after the start of Winter:
I’m liking the switch to using Ellie but the game has gone a long way away from combat as a punishment and is now doing the very standard “we need to do something, time for a gunfight!” Very disappointed in that.After experiencing Pittsburg you only find this a problem now?As the game has gone on, it seems to be a lot more frequent. If it happens occasionally, that’s okay. When it happens in the middle of a bit where you’re chasing Ellie on horseback, that’s a lot less okay.I’ve been invited to the FFXIV Realm Reborn beta on PS3.
Those who’ve been following this MMO: Is it worth a crack?
@Negativezero plays it I think?
I’ve dabbled in the beta for PC, but waiting for the final release before I really play it. I was fine with the old FFXIV, but they’ve definitely made Reborn something new. Looks good to me, but I only played an hour or two of phase 2, didn’t want to ruin it early.
@redartifice: this is how I feel as well. I played it a bit and I enjoy it quite a lot, but I’m not wanting to sink too much time in because it’ll be reset and I’ll have to start over anyway, don’t want to have to re-do all that stuff.
So instead I’ve been trying out different classes and stuff.
@negativezero @ynefel
How’d you get that?
I WANT THAT! *crys*
iunno, just turned up in an email. You want?
Only if you’re really not interested.
It’s free right?
My problem with this sorta thing is they’re subscription based and I don’t have enough spare time to get my monies worth.
FF is my bag!
It’s the beta, so free. PM me your email on twitter and I’ll fwd it to you
a google thank yous
jelly :O
I think I have a PS3 beta code I haven’t cashed in because I was already in the alpha and they sent me an extra beta code. If you’d like you can try it, see if it works.
Oh nice @gutsoup and I can hold hands! 😀
hey @negativezero , if you still have that code I’ll Gladly take it 😀 I’m pretty hype for it
Edit: Derp, I should have checked my e-mail, they had sent me one
HELP!
Stuck at work. Torrents don’t work. Audition 6 doesn’t work on the Surface due to the last firmware update breaking it. I now need Audition 5.5 to edit this damn podcast on the train and I need it within the next 30 minutes.
Any ideas?
Can’t you download it from the Adobe website if it’s registered to your account? Assuming you did purchase and register it of course.
yes. Lets assume that’s not a possibility…
Right. I see the website is down for me too. My mistake.
Edit: Could you use another piece of free software? Like Audacity?
I could, but I’ve never used Audacity to edit a podcast. Worried that by the time I have the hang of it, I’ll be home. Instead I sucked it up and tethered the iPhone to the Surface. I’ll just use (sacrafice?) my 3G data allowance.
You wanna Revolt togethe rsome time?
Like log in at the same time or whatevs?
Going to mosey off to city. Unfortunately won’t have twitter/internet access. I’ll be around Fortitude Valley station at around 6pm though. Wanna meet there? Otherwise someone text me the location of where we’re gonna be. XD
enjoy!
Oh, I will. >:|
Uh oh! @greenius is free and reading my replies. D:
TAYbies and Gentlemen, I have a huge problem….
So, About 2 months ago I was told that I was going to PAX. Today I have been told I am not… BUT, if I can get my own way there and back and can find somewhere to stay, then they WILL give me a 3 day pass and I can go and do the stuff I had planned.
So, while this sucks, I place myself at the mercy of the TAYbies who may either be living down there or driving down from Sydney…
I have organised a lift home Sunday night so that is covered (unless I have an alternative arrangement). What I need is:
If anyone is driving down from Sydney and wants another contributor to petrol money on the way down only, let me know. I have plans down in Goulburn on the Thursday morning (18th) but I am free from lunch time onwards. I am doing hot laps in a V8 Supercar…
Also, feel bad for asking this but honestly after taking the family to the US last week! I am totally broke.. if anyone has a couch or carpet I can sleep on (again, happy to chip in for food or whatever) for 3 or so nights let me know.
I really want to go down there and have some video stuff I really want to get done but I don’t think wifey will be too happy if I shell out for flights and accomodation.
If not I can organise something else, but thought I would ask you guys first. Also free Trials lessons for the lucky winner of my company 🙂
Let me know below if anyone has anything and hit me up on twitter (@FatShadyLive) as I may not check in here too often.
Hope you don’t mind me asking this and not looking for handouts, just trying to find a more cost effective way to get down there.
Thanks in advance 🙂
Alternatively if there are Sydney people who want a lift maybe I could drive? I suspect it’s too late notice and everyone has already got their stuff sorted.. but anything is appreciated right now.
SadShady
Nah dude id never ask for that. But seriously thanks guys. I bought a one way ticket for $100 will stay at F4ctions place and scored a lift home. Im all sorted.
Hi Fatshady,
If you need a cash injection, I’ll chip in a $20 to get you where you need to be. Sure others will do the same.
+1. Just lemme know where to send it.
Reply fail above
@ynefel
As a connoisseur of fast food, I find KFC regret to be more than McDonalds regret.
Hungry Jacks regret is a bit mixed but I’d rank it sometimes better than KFC and sometimes worse. There’s barely any Red Rooster, or Subway regret though.
I rate Maccas regret highest, closely followed by KFC.
I agree with Angry Jocks though – it’s in the midrange. I also never get Red Rooter or Subway regret!
I guess the regret is directly correlated to how much is consumed.
This shit should be studied or something. Help fund my research, people! nom nom nom
“This shit should be studied” is actually trhe method you would use to study it! 🙂
I don’t want to partake in this research anymore 😛
Get a job at lifehacker
ZING!
KFC has given me food poisoning 4 times.
MxDonalds once.
Therefore, KFC is poisonous and should not be sold.
Me too… But its like fry in the Slurm episode of Futurama…
What your definition of food poisoning? a lot of misconceptions I feel around that word.
It’s not food poisoning unless you literally die.
#ManlyMan
“I got electrocuted on a electric fence”
“How are you here talking to me than?”
Food poisoning ranges from everything to an upset stomach/squirts to a hospital visit.
I DID MY RESPONSIBLE SERVING OF FOOD. I R EDUCATED-KNOW.
If caused by contaminated food. Gotta clarify that shit.
This guy.
Hey man, don’t piss about when it comes to poop.
In this case it’s stomach cramps and diarrhea within the hour of eating the food. No other food was eaten. Pretty much the stomach cramps are the main signifier as it’s your body trying to dispose of the food quickly.
KFC is sooo much tastier though!
I get no real KFC regret.
I get bad Maccas regret everytime and HJs regret most of the time.
I only get PIzza regret by eating too much, kinda like Sizzler regret.
Last few times I had Red Rooster it was REAL BAD.
Tastes nice, but cant do it anymore 🙁
I just remembered, I have been sick from Subway, they gave me sauce from the meatball tin instead of fresh sauce from the bottle and I felt like crap.
Also, bad chicken,
WOOO PIKMIN 2
@SUGHLY
Haha! How much didju play? I only got up to… ah… that bit where you go underground, near the high ground above the spaceship. In the first area. Ya know whamean?
edit: Wait wait… I think the last thing was actually the rolling boss underground. Easy peasy boss. Yaknowwhamean?
I got the Duracell battery 😛
Now I know what you meant 😀
I lost like 70 dudes on roll-y boss because I didn’t think it’ll roll and I forgot I had pepper spray :'(
Going out for tea tonight with some friends who moved to Melbourne in February 😀
From all the photos and that I’ve seen the Melbourne Uni residential colleges look a lot better than the UTAS ones :S (Although they’re over double the price…)
Chillin’. Vidja gaems. Music. Chocolate. Heater. Friend-bird on my shoulder.
I am content.
Evening, TAY.
Bought Needless: Complete Collection, as well as a new set of headphones.
Also, some dude was busking on the corner, so I bought his EP for $10.
Needless is pretty crazy.
Uh oh! @jimu is free and reading my replies. D:
Hey @negativezero @ynefel
Are you guys in this FF14 Beta?
I got all the codes and such from good ol’ Red and now it’s updating the big shit. Dunno how long it will take. Ages I guess.
Yes I am, I haven’t logged in this week though.
I have it, what servers are you guys on?
Yeah I am, but on PC though. Probably not going to play the Beta anymore until final is released though. I played the beta in phase 2 for an hour or two, but didn’t want to ruin it. Liked what I saw, and that was enough for me.
Incidentally, I was also fine with the old FFXIV.
@negativezero @grandmasterb-funk
Does PS3 cross over with PC?
What server should I join?
Who wants to help me?
Maybe tomorrow night, looks like it will take another 2 hrs to finish download and I am already shleeeeepi
just gonna pick randomly nooooow!
@negativezero
playsia just sent out my Muramasa today THE RACE IS OOON!
Also, I read on Destructoid a suggestion that Sony could buy Atlus. Thoughts??
As long as they’re not dead I’m happy and the series I really like (Persona) is on Sony platforms anyway.
The only thing I’d be concerned about is how that’ll affect games in development for other platforms D: (SMTIV that crossover thing etc.)
Everything that’s been given a date was set in stone, problems may arise for Euro versions of Megaten games.
Just hoping whatever happens the creators are given the same or more freedom under a new overlord atm.
Oh, I forgot that’s nearly out in the US :P. Just thought it was still in development or something since it’s not near for us :'(
Soul Hackers is out now in the US, Megaten IV is July 16.
Atlus US were still negotiating their release in Europe, they claim to be business as usual, which may work out for us. Who knows what’ll happen though :-/
Sony buying Atlus seems far-fetched. Though it’d mean a fuckton of good Vita exclusives I guess. Regardless, I can’t see it happening. Microsoft is an outside chance. Nintendo is plausible but they don’t usually buy third parties. Tecmo Koei is a possibility but I’m not sure they have enough to absorb all of Index. Capcom is unlikely. Squenix would be plausible if they had more money. Konami might.
My bet is still on GungHo.
I don’t know if this is the result of Apple or JB HiFi, but the in-store displays are really good at selling iPads over other brands. In JB the iPads were all packed full of apps of all types while the rest of the tablets just had basic stuff. Really sold the experience not just the product.
So yeah, long story short I own an iPad mini now 😛 I can probably claim it on tax too because I can use it for testing for work ;D
Now: TO THE WEEKEND 😀 I’ve got to go clothes shopping again because last weekend was a bust /o\
What sorta things you after? Apparently Target has a sort of “buy one, get another for $1” deal going on so you can save on some knitwear and fleece stuff.
EDIT: and since you’re at Target you can finally get Pikmin 2 and join the shenanigans! (maybe? :D)
Everything, pretty much 😛 I’m taking @dc ‘s suggestion and heading to the DFO. Not leaving until I have everything I need!
Still a nightmarish experience. 😛
I heard an interesting tidbit of info from a local store about the computer/tablet sections in JB HiFi stores…. they’re not actually JB HiFi. Microsoft/Samsung/Apple actually rent floor space and provide their own staff to service them. JB HiFi staff only process the sales.
They’re essentially their own store within the store, but no customer actually know about this.
That’d probably explain it then!
@greenius I actually don’t have any spare game funds at the moment. The last of my allocated cash went on DC & MR.
So no 2two4fortys til next month :-/
my finger just went ahead and hit the 2 key even though I decided against it!
I don’t really have any either 😀 I was just wasting time and typing comments.
Waste waste waste
Will prolly borrow Tomb Raider and LoU from Guts in the coming weeks then try and organise to borrow HR when I’ve knocked them over. Between all that and my pile, I really shouldn’t anyway :-/
#adult
http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/bo01b6/the-final-bosman-fighting-the-future
This is another great vid, but if you don’t have the time or whatever AT LEAST watch the last 1 mins, please.
@sughly
I’ve basically had the new Sigur Ros album on repeat all day today, except when I was playing Hotline Miami on my Vita.
Hotline Miami is creepy. Loving it so far, but there’s something really disturbing about it. Not the violence, but the whole animal people talking to you etc, and questioning your sanity.
Works ace on Vita though, doesn’t it?
psssst they’re just masks 😛
The whole violence and killing thing is more disturbing for me.
I know they’re just masks, but it’s still creepy. Especially the horse mask, Don Juan – which I love though, because opening doors and killing people with them is handy as shit.
Pretty great right! Kveikur and Brennisteinn are such huge songs.
Yeah, I was really surprised. I’d kind of fallen off them a bit because it was getting a bit mild and picturesque all the time, then they come out with an album that sounds like they’ve been listening to Doom metal or something.
Is Gravity Rush worth the money?
Yes.
Playstation Plus is worth your money. And then you’ll have it too.
Is it still up for Vita? I know the main PS3 games swapped over.
Fairly certain it is along with Golden Abyss still, but they rotate a third game in every few months. This month in the US it’s Virtue’s Last Reward. I don’t pay attention to PAL PS+ for Vita so don’t know what it is there.
Ah, in PAL it’s similar to PS3 where you’ve got main games (on PS3 it was inFamous 2, LBP2 and Motorstorm) and about 4 others that swap out. So on Vita there’s 2 main games (Uncharted and Gravity) and about 3 others swap out on a monthly basis. While the main PS3 games lasted a year I recall them saying the main Vita ones would only stay for a few months.
(@crazyguy1990)
US works the same, it’s just that the fourth game at the moment is God Eater for PSP.
Hey hey hey hey hey @jimu
I think I’ll play and finish Knytt now 😀
Stories or Underground?
I’m plugging away at underground but I like to just wander and try and solve the puzzles.
I think I gave up on one and wandered off because tired. Can’t remember if I went back. Map is well handy.
Underground. Some aspects are annoying me (cbf going into detail since I’m on my phone) but I’d love to see what he could do with a bigger budget!
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Wacom-Intuos4-Medium-9-x-6-Pen-Tablet-USB-Drawing-Board-Model-PTK-640-/300926050806?pt=AU_Input_Peripherals&hash=item46109721f6&_uhb=1#shId
O.O
It’s in Prahan…. 😀
I don’t know if I can afford it, though… 🙁
Sure you can! It could be in your hands by Monday!
I know!
But I don’t think I can afford it.
:`(
Well it’s $100 cheaper than when I bought mine 🙂
Nearly $200 cheaper than mine XD I have the exact one! Couldnt recommend it enough either @crazyguy1990
Cannot believe how empty the middle of a city can be on a Friday night…
Probably because everything is shut.
I know that feeling.
Even the regular pubs were completely empty. I’ve been out a few times on a Friday here before and it’s never been that dead.
Saw this really cool movie by some obscure Ghibli studio you should check out. It’s called Spirited Away, man. These guys are gonna be big!
*shakes head*
Now you need to see the others. All 18 of them. 19 in July.
EDIT: 16-18 depending on how pedantic you are (Ocean Waves wasn’t a feature film, Nausicaa was made before they were Ghibli)
Do they ever show new Ghibli films in Japanese (with subtitles) in cinemas? And older ones I guess
We should organise some meats! I would be keen to check em out 😀
Sometimes they do. Not the big cinemas though, you have to go to one of the arty cinemas.
Hate to say I told you so ;D
Lies
I don’t recall that. 😛
Methinks it’s time for bed.
Night.
Stuff that’s happened to Saturday
In AC: Got Club LoL, Museum Shop, got silver fishing rod, among other things.
Went to Job Fair. Convention hall meant for 200 twice packed. (and a whopping 5000 people over the day. I never even knew there were that many people in Canada!) Among 10 retailers sent out, I’m getting the most success with The Disney Store. Hurrah?
Yesterday ordered a pizza at one in the morning due to the peer pressure. Delivery guy naturally thought I was stoned and I tried in vain to convince him otherwise. Sometimes a guy just gets the late-night munchies.
Text a few days back
“Dude I think my place is gonna be hit by a flood”
Saturdays response: “That’s nice.”
“Indubitably, my dear chap.”
Would be so good if shops were open here at 1 in the morning, we get 7-11s etc but nothing else.
I used to work nights, ate my unfair share of 7-11 sandwiches.
So… Does anybody here with Animal Crossing want to do me a favour and check their turnip prices? 😛 Mine have been steadily decreasing ever since Monday and are sitting at 54Bells at the moment D:
If anybody has prices over 107Bells and can open their town today so I can at least get my money back, that would be great!
By the way, if anybody wants to visit my Dream Town, my Dream address is 7400-2212-6657 😀 (is there a collection of these somewhere?)
Yeah, on those Animal Crossing wiki portal sites theirs a list and people rate them.
Oh really? Cool! I more meant a list of the TAYbies dream addresses though.
Could always make a TAYnames sheet/column!
I’ve tried it out and figured the Japanese would have better towns (since it’s been out longer). Went to one of their towns and picked up a whole bunch of stuff only to find out nothing but patterns carry over 🙁
There’s not much worth doing in dream towns and I guess we can always visit each other’s towns for real 😀
Mine are at 40 Bells, so I doubt I can help.
All I did this morning was dig fossils and find the money rock and gem rock :X didn’t think to check my prices.
Now I’m at work , if you haven’t found anyone I can check in the afternoon.
Mine are 116 at the moment. Tweet me if you want to join at some point and I’ll open my gates!
If you’re still around this afternoon I’ll take you up on that! Thanks!
Yeah mines only 87 :/
Morning guys! So it appears I may have gotten my second PAX ticket. I say may as I had listed a gumtree ad to which someone from WA responded last night. We agreed that I transfer an initial amount to his account and the remainder when the ticket arrives. The guy sounded legitimate so I hope I don’t get screwed over another hundred bucks.
So hopefully, if all goes smoothly I will have this ticket by registered post next week. Here’s the plus. This is a BYOC (bring your own computer) pass, but I have no intention of BYOC.
If someone missed out on a BYOC pass and only got a 3 day pass, I am happy to swap my pass with them so they can enjoy the privilege! Let me know! Otherwise ill just be going up and wasting the bloc opportunity!
I have already transferred the $100 to his bank account so it’s his turn to post the ticket on Monday!
http://ncloud.blogspot.com.au/2011/05/witcher-2-playboy-pictures.html
AH HAH HAH!! The Witcher Playboy shoot, NSFW!!! HE heee…
Sadly I don’t think that’s fake.. I remember seeing that before.
Yeah, pretty sure I read about it and forgot.
he heh so funny.
Final Fantasy XIV Update
Left it download over night because my connection was spotty, managed to finish \o/
This morning I managed to create a Cat-Lady Warrior on the Gilgamesh server.
Special thanks to @redartifice for the code.
Unfortunately my son demanded to watch Cars 2 again, so I will do some housework or something :-/
Cars 2? :'(
It totally misses the point of the first film.
For some reason it has spy cars.
Michael Caine is a spy called Finn McMissile.
My son loves it.
Haha! Poor Jimu! It’s the most lucrative of all the Pixar IPs for little kids though for some reason. Must be something about it that adults don’t understand. 😀
Edit: Though I liked the first movie.
The town stuff atleast. Wasn’t a fan of the racing stuff at the start and finish.Yeah man, I’m the same, the town stuff and the message about enjoying the little things in life was awesome!
2 has none of that.
I think my son just likes the look of the cars, he likes cars and cartoons so it’s the perfect match
http://media.thethousands.com.au/media_versions/2013/02/09/11/58/25/972/3tout393PerfectMatch.jpg
I should say, I like the racing stuff as it shows the polar opposite of the town, y’know? Does it’s job well.
Speaking of Pixar, this is reassuring:
http://collider.com/pixar-sequels-every-other-year/
Maybe they should make less films and just raise the quality?
I wouldn’t care if it was a sequel or not, so long as it’s good.
Yeah, that’s true. They had an incredible run with Ratatouille, Wall-E and Up! on the original movie front, but I loved Toy Story 3 too, so the idea of a sequel isn’t necessarily bad.
What class? Gladiator? I’ll create a character on the same server.
Yeah the first option, @gutsoup is the marauder(?) the axe guy.
Right, because the starting class dictates your starting area as well. 🙂
Will prolly jump in tonight, dunno how long the tutorial takes though…
Not that long. My character name is Mao Angora – Jumped on as a Pugilist. Let me know when you jump on and I will join up with you.
Hey, I’ll DM my mobile number on twitter.
You on Skype?
Not on skype and my headset broke as well 🙁 Also I have a really bad headcold at the moment so I’d end up coughing and spluttering everywhere if I was talking to you 🙁
The biggest thing is that you should do all the quests you get given around town before going to the field, and should hold off handing in the ‘main’ quest until you’ve done all the other ones you have available, because you’ll get another one at level 4 and then you should have enough to follow and keep you going without feeling like you need to grind.
The other trick is that once you do the first quest for your class, you get a monster hunt book, which basically tells you to go kill a bunch of mobs. Do it, it gives great XP.
Also also, feel free to attack other people’s tagged monsters if you’re on a quest and need to kill them. If you do at least 30% damage to the monster you’ll get whatever the quest drop was from it too, plus the same amount of XP, and it doesn’t take away from what the original person gets.
tagged?
Most MMORPGs, the first person to attack a mob ‘tags’ it, so that regardless of who kills it, they get the loot etc.
Congrats to @wilbur for winning the Fitocracy challenge!
Congrats @wilbur!
Also, good work to everyone else who participated.
I feel bad, I have 2 days worth of stuff that I never logged, and I spent this week with a cold, and I had a night cramp on Tuesday, so I couldn’t do anything, but even if I had done everything properly, and I didn’t have excuses, I would probably have come fourth at best.
So disappoint.
I just stopped running after two weeks. So. Damn. Lazy. 😛
I did walk for about an hour every night, but that seems like cheating… for some reason.
I was great in week one and two. Week three I petered out a little, Week four had a slight resurgence that I half failed at logging, and Week five was godawful. That said, I lost ~7 kilo’s, which while not exactly stellar, is better than nothing.
Congrats, man. That’s awesome!
@dc@blaghman
Thanks guys 🙂 It was fun (as much as exercise can be). Probly gonna stick at it too.
You can start a new challenge too, if you want! 😀
Haha yeah. maybe when its warmer. I don’t think cold is very motivating 😛
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/06/final-fantasy-viis-train-graveyard-has-never-looked-so-beautiful/
Urban decay! So damn pretty!
You’d enjoy the first few hours of FFVII after that the world opens up and theres a lot less of your urban decay.
Also, I put a DC style comment on there 😉
http://www.gog.com/gamecard/leisure_suit_larry_reloaded
Kickstarted LSL game was released this week. Not really interested in this to be honest.
I looked up some JRPGs that wanted kickstarting, they suuuuurrrrcked.
Lots of great adventures on the horizon. Asylum. Broken Age. Project Fedora, Broken Sword 5… WOOOOO!
I for some reason had Leisure Suit Larry-Love for Sail as a game growing up, I don’t think my parents knew what type of game it was when they got it =/
Can’t say I’m interested either in the kick starter as well.
I had all the LSL games too as a kid and I think @sughly did as well. Ignorant parents. XD
Ahaha! Yeah, we even got my friend’s dad to come down and help us with the LSL1 age restriction questions. He didnt even query us on that, he was just happy to feel wanted I think XD
Interesting, what types of questions were they?
American politics, history and news stuff from the ’80s and earlier.
So were they just questions that popped up at the start/installation or something and you had to type the response?
Cool! 😀
Yeah, had to answer them to get into the game every time. XD Taught me some stuff about history randomly guessing answers. Haha!
Ohhh… actually, those backgrounds turned out way way better than I thought! That being said, characters look rubbish :/ I’ll pass too
Still can’t believe the guy who scored Journey did the OST for this. XD
Well, a jobs a job!
Maybe he really likes the saxophone too!
#EmoDC post:
Took meds for the first time this morning. Feeling conflicted, like I’m a failure for not being able to deal with my problems myself. At the same time, I know I can stop if they don’t work for me. Was feeling pretty good last night and that was before I took them, but… I dunno. D: Just don’t want it to change my core personality and all that.I am looking forward to marathoning Mad Men soon with a nice, clear mind. 😀
The Meds shouldn’t change who you are, D.C.. You’re a nice guy, who’s a little socially awkward, but who loves the company of other people. You constantly undervalue yourself, and you fret too much. Those last two might change. But the first three shouldn’t. How you feel might change, but who you are is far more solid than that.Unless they put you on a massive dose of testosterone, in which case you’ll become a douchey alpha male type. And then I would stop associating with you.Thanks man. You so kind. :’)
GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAArnaut Climate Change Review.I’m sure the doc told you, but dont expect anything to be different til maybe like 2 weeks in.Yeah, was pleasantly surprised. I was expecting 6 to 8 weeks or something. D:Looking at the concept art for The Last of Us, it’s amazing how these have translated to the game. There was a time when concept art was ten times prettier than any in game graphics, but now they can recreate it in engine and that’s awesome. (Only difference in The Last of Us is just brush strokes and all that kind of stuff.)
Did you see the stuff about how they created it? Rather than just dumping everything into a few layers, each scene element got its own layer, so when the 3D artists got the concepts, they could remove elements and tailor everything themselves, so they’d know exactly what the concept artists wanted something to look like, in different situations.
That’s all kind of awesome, the type of attention to detail that’s what made the game so damn special. 😀
Apparently the art book is the best thing ever.
I saw. 😀 There’s probably over 100 pieces of unlockable HD concept art on the main menu alone too.
OooooOOo! In-game unlockables 😀
I love how Naughty Dog compartmentalizes it by chapter too, so you can ‘relive’ the game and see all the art in chronological order.
Seeing Spirited Away last night reminded me how awesome Joe Hisaishi’s music is… really iconic and memorable. I liked this from Ni No Kuni too, full range of feelings in just one song. XD (Spoilers for the game too.)
@bdkiaf Deap Vally out on itunes todaayyyyyy!! I got an email my copy is in the mail, so… I felt ok about seven sea-ing in the meantime :3 Reporting back with thoughts later!
Hey guys. Happy Birthday to me.
Happy birthday, man! Hope it’s a good one! Get any good games? 😀
Ill probably buy Mass Effect Trilogy.STarcraft 2 and Heart of The Swarm. Also got Civilisation V.
Oh man, the Mass Effect trilogy is so damn awesome. Sounds like the makings of a good day.
Yeah. except for the fact that I’ll be up against the best team in soccer today. Last time, they beat us 9-nil.
Happy Birthday “me”!
hurr hurr
Happy b-day, mate!
Happy birthday!
Hippo Biffday fo shizzle! Always good when they fall on a weekend 🙂
Ty all
Ill probably buy Mass Effect Trilogy,Starcraft 2 and Heart of The Swarm. Also got Civilization V.
http://collider.com/captain-planet-and-the-planeteers-movie/
Stephen King wrote a cool letter about the changes of the Under the Dome TV series compared with his novel. There’s major spoilers for the book, so only open if you’ve read it!
http://www.stephenking.com/promo/utd_on_tv/letter.html
Be careful, though. He also posts spoilers about Salem’s Lot and Song of Susannah.
Anybody want to buy a 3DS XL off me?
How much? I’m not interested but I know some people here might be interested in upgrading from their 3DS if the price is right 🙂
(@jimu)
I can’t 3DS was a gift from the Mrs.
Pass onto son? XL for Mr. Jimu? 😀
All the Pokemon trades?
currently in negotiations for when it is appropriate for him to own one.
She says 9…
D: I started gaming when I was six and I turned out normal…
*takes newly prescribed anti-depressant*
XD
Hmmmm, me too and I’ve been on anti-ds too.
Real world just aint good enough!
To be completely honest though, gaming is escapism and it’s helped me through some tough times. Stories have inspired me. Places have captured my imagination. I truly think gaming has made my life better and not worse. 😀
I started gaming when I was two and I turned out normal…
About $150
ahh missed this post before replying :0 nm.. 150’s pretty tempting.. I couldn’t do it immediately, but if you’ve still got it in a few weeks I might be keen!
I should have it whenever, unless someone else buys it…
I want an xl, but I’m on a pretty tight budget. How much you hoping for?
Spirited Away spoiler:
During this scene of Spirited Away I forgot to read the subtitles because I was transfixed with watching No Face eat. XDI don’t remember that :'(. I think I need to re-watch it!
So what Ghibli film is next for ol’ D.C.?
Sughly said he was keen to see From Up on Poppy Hill next month, so maybe that.
Poppy Hill is a good solid, enjoyable film but it’s nowhere near the par of Spirited Away, just so you know. You have a whole pile of amazing films ahead of you.
I’m keen to see them all. If I could afford it, I’d see them all on the big screen too. XD
Most memorable scene for me is
the train ride sequence, especially the part where Chihiro approaches the station and everything’s underwater so it’s reflecting the sky and it looks like she’s walking on air.Oh man, the animation is beautiful. When the train passed that house on an island… lots of cool touches of detail. Also liked the animation of all the little critters, the ones with the coal especially. Expressive. 😀pretty awesome animation! 😀
So pretty looking. Got jealous I couldn’t draw like that. I’d make so many adventure games that no one would play. 😛
TALK AMONGST D.C.! hehehehe
LOOK D.C., DISCUSSION OPPORTUNITY!
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OMG GUYS! OMGOMOGMOGMOGOGM PIKMIN 2 IS SO MUCH FUN!!! @sughly
There’s no time limit, right? I lost like 70 Pikmin in one battle but it didn’t matter because I could use the other days to grow more without the pressure of running out of time :D. I can’t remember where you said you’re up to last time Sugs – because when you asked I only played for 20 minutes and had no idea what you were talking about :P. But I just played for about 2 hours more and I’ve got purple and white Pikmin now! Woo!
I considered NOT buying Pikmin 3 at launch but it’s so much fun playing the others so I might not be able to resist :D. My only real complaint with the Pikmin games is that it’s over wayyy too quickly and I hope Pikmin 3 isn’t short :(.
TAYbies, are you buying it locally or importing? I usually import (because cheaper) but lately I’ve been impatient when waiting, and it’s all your fault! All the discussions make waiting hard 🙁 (although I’ve still held out on BioShock Infinite, Tomb Raider and The Last of Us :D).
@powalen – get this game!
@beavwa – still planning to play 1 and 2, or have you given up? 😛
Pikmin 3’s a day one purchase for me. Sight unseen, reviews or no reviews. I’ll be playing it, damn it. 😀 There’s no time limit in the second game, though I preferred the first…
I’ll be getting it from JB, I think.
What about the first game did you like more? I’m still fairly early in P2 so it’s hard for me to say but I thought the first game was pretty straight forward until later on. It only started to get a bit more complicated (gameplay wise) towards the last few levels/parts when they introduced the Pikmin changing flower and you had to change mid-platform to get certain parts. It was just over way too soon 🙁
I think I like getting parts more though. There’s just so many pieces of treasure that it kind of loses that whole “special” factor since there’s so many of them.
Didn’t care for the randomly generated ‘cave’ areas of the sequel. The level design of the first game just felt like care and attention to detail was taken by a human hand here. So much better. Also, as frustrating as it could be the ticking clock added something to the game. 😀
I only got purples, didnt get white yet. I think the last thing I did was the rolling boss? In an underground area? I’m with deecee though, 3 is a day for sure. Game cannot come soon enough!
Where’d you get up to the last time you played? (further than getting white Pikmin?)
You guys haven’t finished the second before? I thought you guys were just doing a replay. 😀
I thought I hadn’t even played it but there was a 19 minute save file on the Wii so I guess I did 😛
I never owned it on Cube (I had Pikmin though but never finished it)
I only played for the first time when the New Play Control versions were released here. So damn good. I honestly would say it’s my favourite Nintendo IP out of everything they’ve done.
I’ll ask after Wind Waker 😉
Even if Wind Wakers the best Nintendo game I ever played, the fact I don’t care for the rest of the Zeldas would make it not the best. 😛 (For me. Haha!)
But you’ll be so inspired by WW’s awesomeness that you’ll go out and play every other Zelda out there! 😀 (or not)
Don’t play the WW “sequel” (Phantom Hourglass) 😛 *shudder*
That’s a DS game though, right? If I had a DS there’d be so many adventure games I’d play before Zelda. 😀
!!!!!!! I just found a Kotaku user called “Greenman” (exc3pt h3 h4s numb3rs for l3tt3rs)
D:
…but that’s me :'(
You’re literate though. 😀
Yessssss yes yes yes!! Berserk film 3 bluray rips out and fansubbed! Yesssssss… so happyyyy ^_^
Is that all of them then? Or is there gonna be a 4th??
I… dont think so, at this point its just the three… I believe…
edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berserk_films I dunno, from what I can tell this will be the end of the Golden Age Arc trilogy, but not sure if there are plans to do any more afterwards. Here’s hoping! I think it’s safe to watch these three as a trilogy alone though. DO IT! Oh god, so excited for this third one…
HELLO!
Hi..?
So appaz my Chap III is the R18 version with the M15 ending added o_O
Haha I think that was the description of mine too
I’m pretty sure I saw some suggestions that they were intending to do more if the Golden Age films did well, and I think they’ve done well.
Still bummed at the lack of Susumu Hirasawa though. His music was really important to the feel of the original series IMO (and IIRC he was specifically requested by the manga author when they did the initial adaption)
Gah. Had such a good time last night but today has been one set back followed by another fuck around with a chaser of just everything going to shit.
Really feel like just going home and burying myself in the bed in complete darkness for a week or so.
Aw man, I’m sorry to hear that. Was great seeing you last night. Hope your day improves. :'(
🙁
*awkward manly hug*
Just ask, and I’ll touch your wee-wee.
Zelda and I might have a troubled history, but I love this!
This is pretty damn great too.
Did you ever play Skyward Sword? If I recall Twilight Princess was the only Zelda you played but you didn’t like it too much?
Twilight Princess was my first Zelda since the SNES, but I played lots of those early ones.
Never played Skyward Sword.
I liked Skyward Sword but reactions were mixed towards motion controls (I didn’t mind them!)
Reckon you’ll check out the other 3D Zeldas if you like Wind Waker?
Nope! I think the thing that appeals to me is how different it seems from the rest of them. (Also the art direction, so purdy.)
@sughly @blaghman @rize @scree
Let’s trade fossils! 😀
Also can someone do that thing where the cell is always displayed when you scroll? Like in the main TAYnames the TAY handles are always displayed so who know which rows belong to what name. It’ll be good to do that to the Fossil page so we know which column is for each name (I couldn’t figure out how to do it 🙁 )
I want a Brundlefly fossil.
Should organise to swap fossils some time today.
Also, I fixed the first column. All you need to do is mark it as frozen.
Thanks! How do I do that (for future reference)?
Select the part you want to change, click on the view menu, then choose “Freeze rows” or “freeze columns”.
Sookeh.
No, it’s spelt ‘Bokeh’
VERTEX SHADED PIXEL SCROLL FILTERING
SOFT SHADOWING HORIZON BASED AMBIENT OCCLUSION
THATS MORE LIKE IT
Weekend!
This sinking feeling that i choked like a slapper on my psych exam has really put a damper on my holidays… I really want to know my grade…
On a lighter note, anyone seen Man of Steel? (I’ve seen it but want to know what others thought.)
Based on the fitocracy challenge he posted above this reply
It might be my giant traps impeding my brain but, i dont understand.
P.s. I dont have giant traps… i’m just making a terrible fitocracy related joke to lighten the doofyness that is me not understanding :S
EDIT: IT CLICKED. far out… no wonder i choked on the exam….
@beardymcmuttonchops, @redartifice and @weresmurf have all seen it!
Hope everything goes well with the exam thing.
🙁 I did pretty bad on my last exam too and I think my Uni has banned results… :/
But it’s okay, because holidays mean G-rank hunting? 😀
They sure do, even through the tears in my eyes!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgFxIpTLAp-LdDNZbWVTNjhYNGE2bXpFTkxqV3BzM2c&hl=en_US#gid=0
Add us!
I believe it’s just @platinum-urchin @thecracks @hindenlagen and I at G-rank. I’m on holidays so I’m free whenevs, so y’all let me know what works for you. I’m keen to FINALLY reach HR8+ and the completionist in me also wants to complete all the leftover Advanced and other quests in HR6+
WOO!
Yeah i got your name off there and sent you a friendy doo-dad.
I capped my internet ( ;_; ) so on Monday ill start periodically checkin who’s online and squealing for your company via TAY 😛
Got Twitter? Might be easier there since it sends notifications (our handles are on TAYnames too)
Nah twitter scares me. It took me long enough to get facebook.
Its great
. There are changes of a slight nature to the superman mythos but nothing deal breaking. Id go as far as saying some make him a more interesting character.I thought superman (Henry Cavill) himself saved it a little (pecs like melons!). The relationship development was a bit confusing, and the dad basically committing suicide for a dog irked me, but I see how those events are necessary for the story.CGI was pretty amazing, but i felt it came at a narrative price.
Indeed. John Kents death was stupid. It should have been the heart attack to show superman even he cant beat death. That could have been easily done by him stopping Clark running him to a hospital etc.and had a twofold effect. No public powers yet AND the fact that no matter how powerful he is, he cannot beat death. The death scene truly irked me. Screw the dog. Its not more important than your families safety. A poorly thought out moment in an otherwise great film. And yeah that suit was 100% Cavill lol. No padding.
I really enjoyed it!
Found my copy of Spirited Away.
It’s rated R. Restricted for 17 years and younger for Sexual Content, Language and Some Violence.
Wut.
That’s from the alternate scene where No Face goes on a sexual romp throughout the bathhouse.
Incredibly interesting speech by Mark Cerny about his path to being the PS4’s architect and their approach to developing the PS4. Watch it!
Some things I learned last night
Launceston sucks and I’ve been incredibly depressed/bitter/sad while I’ve been here. Basically the only thing that’s different than it was 6 months ago is that the signage for the Thai “hands on relief” massage palour has become more prominent. Oh and there’s more empty buildings.
Melbourne sounds great, and the residential colleges there sound so much more fun and eventful than the ones down here (although still over twice the price). My friend was always a fairly play it safe kind of guy, and he’s telling me how he’s getting sick of getting kicked out of pubs for being too drunk 😛 He’s changed and loosened up heaps since he moved there. I’m glad he got out of here to enjoy life a bit more.
KFC seems to be a favourite of Uni students in and around Melbourne 😛 Apparently they’re quite prominent.
And 7/11s. 7/11s everywhere.
KFC at both ends of my bus line 😀
Is that a euphemism?
I’m jealous of your abundance of KFC’s 🙁
You won’t be jealous of all the regret…
I’ve had KFC 5 times since Wednesday, no regret 😀
…you are not human!
I’m an enthusiast 😛
masochist*
Went to supanova today, but didn’t want to spend money, as i have PAX coming up…
i almost did it as well… till i saw a copy of Yoshitaka Amano’s Artbook for Final Fantasy… it was $100…
but guys, i really needed it… i love his art so much… so its okay, i bought it… it doesn’t count towards my “don’t spend money” rule…
Remember how we pre-ordered his art books and Book Depository cancelled our orders?
That sucked :'(
yeah… sadly this isn’t the same super deluxe version that we ordered, this is just the 3 books in a very nice slipcase… it’s still beautiful though, dammit Amano you and your skills…
That’s not a frivolous purchase, that’s a thing of immense beauty.
Animal Crossing friends:
http://acwiki3ds.wikispaces.com/Green+Series
Please help me complete this set! I’ve never seen any pieces for it except for the wall and floor (which I have). With the catalog you can easily re-order (most) items so I’m happy to trade/swap/give other pieces of sets you need!
@scree I know you’re after Exotic stuff which I have some pieces for.
I have more random parts of sets I can give away so just let me know what you need people. Otherwise I’ll just sell them for barely any bells 😛
Thxxxxx
I’ve kept an eye open for green pieces for you. I haven’t found any as yet, but I will keep looking.
Thanks! You still keen on Exotic stuff?
…yes please.
I got access to the green wall clock and wardrobe, how do I give them to you?
I’ve got old you as a friend but I need your new friend code (or have you updated it in TAYnames?) then we’ll just organise a time and visit each other and swapsies :D. Are you after anything?
Yeah the new code is on TAYNAMES, I have the wall clock on me, the wardrobe needs to be ordered unsure how long that takes, I’ll take any red/yellow/green feng shui furniture.
See reply to Blaghs below about catalogue times.
I’ve had a few pieces of feng shui furniture but I’m not sure which. If you have anything specific in mind I can see if I can re-order it.
Any Red/Green/Yellow lamps would be ideal, apart from that i’m not to picky.
I have a Robo-lamp (green) and Regal Wall Lamp (yellow) 😀
http://www.thonky.com/animal-crossing-new-leaf/feng-shui-guide/
If you find anything else you want I can see if I have it.
Just added you.
That’s fine
I think you might be wrong about the ordering system, I’ve reloaded twice and no mail.
@distantdrop
Hmm that’s odd. I ordered an accessory (Bandage) to try it out and then saved and quit. I don’t think I even restarted the 3DS and just reloaded and it was there. Maybe it’s different for furniture?
@greenius
I did it with a piece of furniture, and it worked more or less like that (there was a ~ half hour gap in playing, but still).
@blaghman @distantdrop
hmm… apparently mail gets delivered at 9am and 5pm. Blaghs and I must’ve ordered and reloaded around those times.
I have a Green chair.
I’m kind of going for Regal and Sleek (White and Gold, Black and Silver), though since Strange is also getting Sleek stuff (I think), it’s more of a secondary concern. So if you see any Regal, I will take it off your hands.
I have a regal chair, dresser, vanity and wall lamp and just a sleek chair.
I’m also keen to trade fossils 😀
I tried out the catalogue earlier in the week and you receive the items the next time you turn on the game (so it’s not like a day wait thing) so I can give parts to both of you if needed 😀
Fair enough, are you looking for anything that isn’t part of the green set? If you want I might be able to give things to whatsisface, and get him to dye them green.
I saw that but never investigated further, how does it work? Do you just pay him and he changes the base colour?
I’m trying to go for set bonuses, rather than just colour and the green set looks good in both design and colour.
Umm, you give it to him, he’s like “I can change part x” and then he’s like “I can change it into one of these colours.” Then he takes your money, some colours require the gemmy things as well, and he’ll work on it for half an hour or something, and then you can get it back off him.
I played Animal Crossing for 4 seconds last night. I didn’t care for it. 😛
I might’ve trolled Sughly and Strange in person. XDTroll.C. ! But it’s not the type of game you can just hop right into. You gotta start new at a fresh new town 😀
Was the worst (and only) game I’ve ever played on the 3DS.
…
😀
Also the best (and only) game.Also, Saturday wants modern sets and modern wood sets.
Coolio, I have stuff from both! Tell him his axe broke already and I’m still on the lookout for more 😛
If I find any pieces, they’re yours 🙂
Watching Batman Begins on TV.
Holy shit Joffery is in this movie.
I was all like KILL HIM BATMAN WE KNOW WHAT HE GROWS UP TO BE THROW HIM OFF THE ROOF
forreals? Whos he?
That kid who lives in the Narrows, I think. Batman gives him the Batarang dealy because he says his friends won’t believe.
Don’t read the comments in case there’s GoT spoilers.
lolol! Police hand to the face.
Watching Mr. Strange play Mass Effect 3. (Spoilers in the tag, not just a joke or something)
Last night he got Eve killed and tonight he killed Kaidan. I had no idea either of those things could happen. I knew it was possible that Tali would kill herself, but not these deaths. Man, I wonder who else he’s gonna get killed?! 😛Also, it’s very disconcerting to hear FemShep’s voice come out of his ugly Shep’s face.
I miss my FemShep. She took shit from no one. Renegade all the way, baby.
I miss mine, too. She wasn’t renegade or paragon, just kind of no-nonsense, doing whatever fit the situation. And she had a strong, attractive face and red hair which helped me shape her personality. My husband’s is ugly and annoyingly Paragon…she makes me want to hit her. 😛
Yeah mine was about 80% Ren, 20% Para. She had time for the right people.
I’ve seen people play full Paragon runs and they make me feel ill. No one’s that nice.
EDIT: Mine was a spiffy redhead as well. Growl.
I know what you mean. I haven’t finished the third game with my ManShep because he was pure Paragon and so holier-than-thou.
I played full paragon male Shep, I didn’t find it off-putting. I thought that’s what made Shep special. Optimist, natural born leader who could show compassion even to his enemies — that’s how I played it, at least. Calm in the face of stupid decisions made by others. The thing that set him apart and made him the right person for the mission was the ability to put aside differences, etc. 😀
I reasoned that he had seen enough horribleness on Mindoir and Elysium allowing him to feel responsible for others. The weight of the mission on his shoulders.Also, renegade Shep’s a jerk. 😛
I did find myself making the occasional renegade call in ME3, though.
Oh wow, after reading that… paragon Shep does sound a bit wanky. Haha! 😛
Nice guys are total jerks
Also, how’s he getting so many people killed if he’s playing paragon? XDI would guess because he plays with one eye on his laptop so he gets easily distracted and misses Paragon interrupts. 😛I really don’t know though. It’s difficult because he’s had to start a new character to play it on PS3 because he didn’t want to play it in the bedroom(where the working 360 is) so he has no carried-over stats.Aw, that’s too bad. Half the fun of Mass Effect is feeling like the character is your own. When the third game came out and it had that face glitch, I refused to play until they patched it. I didn’t want to remake my Shep! :'(
I didn’t play until they patched it, either. Even after the patch it was different enough to be jarring and make me feel like my Shep was a stranger at times. I think it was worse for me because I’d only just finished ME2 for a second time in anticipation of the third game.
I’m just happy he’s playing the game at all, though. I strongly suspect if ME3 hadn’t been a free PS+ game he’d never have played it. D:
You get the extended ending patch?
So… Under the Dome ep 1 was surprisingly good, actually. Just finished watching it on tv (will it always show on Saturday nights or is this an encore?). It was better than I expected. It sounded like a stupider idea on paper than it actually ended up being.
The only thing I didn’t like was:
That psycho dude. Hooooly crap if he isn’t the angstiest angst that ever angst. Some girl doesn’t return his “I love you” and he goes full on crazy in an instant hahaAlso: why did no one try digging under the dome? 😛 With all the farms around you’d think someone would’ve picked up a shovel.
In the book the Dome is really a sphere I think, goes all the way around.
It’s hard to imagine the show’s Dome being a sphere when
you clearly saw it just slam down into the ground on the show. Although I guess if you think of it as the Dome appearing from the top and growing downwards that would be okay. It really did seem to be like a wall suddenly slamming down though.Yeah, I agree. Imagery is pretty misleading. I think they just wanted CGI spectacle. XD
If I’m remembering it properly in the book it just appeared and didn’t crash down. 😀Might be changed for the series too!
Just wondering, is anyone here playing STARMADE? Minecraft in space, with ships, combat, mining etc? We’ve been playing it here lately and its AWESOME.
So far Im building a model of the Tigers Claw from Wing Commander… its ENORMOUS so far! lol
Anyone?
Formula D is a lot more fun than it deserves to be. Who knew that rolling dice to simulate taking a minivan around a tight corner in a high gear would be so much fun. MAN MODE!
So after losing Peter Dolving, Anders Bjorler and Per Moller Jensen, The Haunted have been trying to rejig their lineup. They’ve managed to get Marco Aro back on vocals, and even got Adrian Erlandsson back on drums! The third is a new guy, Ola Englund, who I’m not familiar with, but regardless, they’ve gotten two previous members back from when I dug The Haunted the most. Keen to see where they go from here.
One of my most enduring favorite bands and has been since high school. Glad to see they’re not going to waste away.
\m/ \o/ \m/
@greenius
I got the Green Wardrobe and Wallclock, got time for a meet and swap today?
Yup! I’m free whenever but let’s say 11am?
I’m about to type up something below so have a look. Was there anything in particular you wanted?
11 am sounds fine
If you didn’t already know there’s a “Best Friend” system which is sort of a friend’s list. When both people add each other as Best Friends they can send each other messages when they’re both online and the other person gets notifications when you sign on. It makes it much easier to organise stuff but it’s just so inconveniently implemented :/. It should be like this for all 3DS friends…
Since Nintendo are silly, you can only add each other as best friends you’re visiting the other person. Just click the green symbol at the bottom left corner of the touch screen and click on the person’s name to add as a best friend. Then click on the yellow heart symbol at the top of the touch screen and turn the notification/message system to ON.
I figured it’s easier to tell you here rather than in-game :P. It’ll make organising swaps and stuff much easier!
I’ll open my gates now. Join when ready.
ANIMAL CROSSING FRIENDS:
WOOO! @sughly and I just discovered something awesome.
You can just drop items and the other person can pick it up so it’s in their inventory, and they can drop it again for you. This way items are immediately added into their catalogue and you don’t lose anything.
So when exchanging furniture we can just temporarily lend/drop the relevant pieces for the other person and no one loses anything 😀
And don’t forget you can buy furniture from Streetpass display houses, as well. I’ve bought a couple of cool things this way. (Thanks for the boots, @beardymcmuttonchops! )
But those would require StreetPasses and StreetPasses require going outside D:
Really? How do you buy the things from Streetpasses? I have heaps of cool stuff in my town but can’t figure out how to buy any of it!
When you’re checking out the houses in your HH area, the touchscreen will have something like a “Buy Furniture” button which when you press it will list all the things in the room you’re in. Just select what you want to buy and it will then be mailed to you like when you buy something from the Nook kids’ Catalogue. Special items like stuff from the Fortune Cookies can’t be bought, though.
I think you just go north to that HHA display place and you should be able to buy things from the houses displayed there.
@sughly: http://news.revolt.tv/exclusive-arcade-fire-release-date-revealed/
Woooo!
Oh God! 😀
Hey weekend TAY! What’s up?
Ps I think there should be a kotaku app for phones, b/c my phone browser just isn’t cutting it.
Ash! Hope you’re well. What’s new?
Well between these two posts one of my kids have started chucking up, so I guess it was just a quick visit to TAY today 😛
Until next time then! XD
(Hope your kids all right.)
Everyone should buy Rogue Legacy. It is amazing and difficult.
What about Rouge Legacy? Continually darker shades of red…
According the the PS Store Hotline Miami is rated MA15+ for Strong Sexual Violence.
Not sure what to make of that in terms of classification guidelines.
Back to Hobart soon! Sure, the college will be pretty much abandoned, but it means I won’t be here!
Dear TAY,
Was thinking about how intimidating it is to go to a meat for the first time. Reminded me of this.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/10/talk-amongst-yourselves-192/comment-page-21/#comment-849363
Oh man, I’ve been to so many meats now and consider you guys to be some of my closest pals.
Frightened lurkers? If Strange ever pressures you to go to a meat, you totally should!
Your pal, D.C.
You guys are awesome. :’)
*insert reminiscing here to get rid of those crickets chirping*
I was playing Pikmin 2 and having a lot of fun and then a boulder spitting caterpillar thing killed like 80% of my Pikmin right near the end of one of those dungeon thingies…
*rage quit*
(irrelevant to meats but I’m helping to stop those damn crickets!)
Thanks man, they were driving me crazy.
…
More crazy.
Those randomly generated dungeons suck. :'(
Yeah, I’m not really liking them either :'(
Always better being on the surface. Seeing the plants and streams and oversized stuff that gives an awesome sense of scale. Those dungeons are just padding. I hope they’re not in Pikmin 3.
PIKMIN 3… LESS THAN A MONTH AWAY!
What’s challenge mode like? It says I unlocked it from the main menu but I haven’t tried it yet.
I actually wouldn’t mind some sort of randomly generated dungeons as an optional thing to pick from the main menu (ala a “Challenge mode”), but it kind of breaks up the pace in Pikmin 2 🙁
@greenius: Never played challenge mode, but I think it’s splitscreen multiplayer where you compete for objects.
Also, really like this unreleased Arcade Fire song.
My first meat was just before Xmas 2011, barely 2 months after joining TAY. If I remember right Doc Shiggy Pez Bish Harli Dawdle and a few others were there. It was a good night. I was introduced to the wonders of Galaxy World and Animal Kaiser.
Not long after that I went to a Canberra meat. Road trip with Pez Bish and Freyr, too much Maccas and one of the funniest weekends of my life. I’m so glad I found this amazing bunch of people
Was awesome meeting you in February too, man! 😀
Seems like such a long time ago…
Been reading old TAY. My posts seem a lot more guarded. Haha!
http://i.imgur.com/Cx0FdMZ.gif
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/on-mulled-wine-scarves-and-approaching-30/story-fneuzufi-1226671999042
Read this for some reason. (I’m bored. Refresh game is slow. What do you want from me? :P) Sounds like he’s just a hipster. Weird how he writes like this is somehow inevitable for everyone…
Also, why am I still going to that website? Seems to get worse by the day. :S
Mulled wine, eww :S
Also, I have no idea why I keep going back to news.com.au either 😛 It’s a shocking site, but I can’t help myself!
What games you playing D.C.? What’s next?
What TV shows you watching D.C.? What’s next?
😀
There’s some brief discussion for ya!
Playing nothing at the moment, next up is probably Pikmin 3 if I don’t replay something between then and now. (I probably will. Don’t know what though.)
All my shows have finished. I’m watching Under the Dome though and The Newsroom is back soon. I aim to marathon Mad Men next week.
What about you, my friend? 😀
Pikmin 2, BioShock, Animal Crossing and Knytt Underground! With SGM coming up I hope to finish Fire Emblem, Luigi’s Mansion and Dark Souls DLC soonish too! 😀
I’ve got my usual weekly things like Conan and Futurama. Dexter starts soons! (tomorrow?) and I’m re-watching Venture Bros 😀
@jimu: http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2013/06/28/blending-realism-and-fantasy-insight-into-smt-ivs-character-design.aspx
I been playing FF14, the online one.
Hoo, I’m a hald naked cat lady, I thought it was kinda sexist that you could see up my skirt and then I saw the Catmen wandering around town in nothing but speedos!
Yay equality!!!
2013 Summer Anime Chart:
https://i.minus.com/ibzppF4KzcDr3n.jpg
Gatchamaaaan! Woop woop!
I’m interested in Free! and Danganronpa.
Oooo yeah, Dragonropa sounds rad! Might see how that one goes. Not so sure about swimming drama though… how come that one?
edit: ARGH! MOVIES! GHIBLI! And new GitS! ^_^
This one looks rather rad too – Short Peace http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16SkY6t59ag
I dunno, I just really like the look of it.
Will Kaze Tachinu be shown here or will we have to wait until Disney dubs it before the Japanese print can be shown?
It might get shown here, Arrietty was. We can hope! Actually I think I did see it at a cinemas coming soon section…
That’d be awesome!
I didnt see it in the coming soon for any cinema :'( We can still hope!
@sughly: Guess I’ve got a backlog of Ghibli to catch up on anyways.
@dc Ponyoooooo!!
I think I might only watch the next Monogatari season, and maybe Danganronpa.
Watching Charlottes Web with the kids.
That bittersweet ending.
I just reassure myself that its not Watership Down. Not sure I want to subject the girls to that kind of emotional scarring yet.
Watership Down was Strange’s first movie if I’m not mistaken and she turned out fine! 😀
BRIIIIIIGHT EYES, BURNING LIKE FIIIIIRE.
D: Her parents are monsters.
It was one of the first books I remember reading.D.C. you’ve been quiet for like 4 hours! What were you doing instead? 😛
I went for two walks in the rain. Consumed one bowl of chips. Three Pepsis. Read two TAYs from December in entirety.
Oooh! Was it that time you were circling the wagons? 😀
It was! And when I was posting that annoying thing at the end of the page that we had moved onto the next page. Idiot DC. 😛 And talking about Deponia/Chaos on Deponia with Saturday. And when Shane was drunk for an entire week.
Edit: What were you doing? 😛
Nothing. Same old, same old.
So why re-read over December? Picked it randomly?
Was reading meat write-ups. 😀
Oh man, that was AGES ago 😛
December. No wonder you can’t remember. 😀
Going for walk number three! Be back later!
You enjoy yourself, kiddo. Try not to scare too many fellow nightwalkers.
No one else walks when it’s raining. That’s why I especially like walking in the rain. It’s my suburb, no one else. >:|
YOU OWN DAT CHITT! RARGH!!!
Plus the lights are reflected on the road. Just like in Sleeping Dogs. Real life stole that from Sleeping Dogs! FACT.
Yeah, but sleeping dogs stole it from Escape from New York!
Wait a second, isn’t a night walker a…
DC. GETS. JOKES.
I don’t know what you were thinking of but there wasn’t a reference or joke – just something I said to describe shifty looking people walking around at night 😀
Mmmm had a date with Rury! First time in over a year! It was amazing! Went heaps better than I expected it to, and I even got a hug! ♥
Such an awesome weekend!
Congrats, my friend! A hug? Nicely played, player!
thanks man 🙂 It’s a pretty big step for a Japanese woman! We’ve been on 6 or 7 dates before, but this is the first time personal space was breached! eeeeeeeee!
Failure of the reply kind.
So… Do you like…stuff?
Stuff is awesome!
Can’t get enough of the wonderful stuff. 🙂
Replyfailopus ?
He linked to a Professor named Rury that he was implying welbot was dating. 😀
Take it from our drummer Puff, being good, it gets you STUFF!
Decided to be my usual mature self and take everything personally in this thread:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/06/the-remarkable-short-stories-of-lost-odyssey/
😛
You know your weekend hasn’t been so great when the highlight was farting for the first time without honestly being frightened you’ll shit your pants.
Hotline Miami is pretty sweet. Works well on the Vita too.
I’ve been playing it all weekend. Finished it today, trying yo get all the masks and a 12x multiplier too.
I only just started this afternoon. Still trying to figure out the finer details, my styles still pretty clumsy. That soundtrack is pretty punchy with some decent headphones.
Also, holy glorious steaming Mexican wangrods Homeworld 2 is still an amazeballs game. The community that still exists for a 10 year old game is astounding.
I have it, but I’ve barely touched it….
🙁
Hasn’t aged well, but with the help of stuff like the Complex Enhanced mod, it remains awesome. It fixes a lot of the textures, and adds a crapload of stuff to the game. It’s all in good taste too. Nothing too outlandish, just Homeworld 2, only better.
One of my many secret shames (#386, IIRC) is that I stopped playing Homeworld 1 two-thirds of the way through it, and jumped straight to Homeworld 2, then I stopped playing that halfway through.
Still love the games though, they’re rad.
Least you’ve played them and understand their radness.
So rad.
Always admired the screenshots in PC Powerplay but never actually got a chance to play ’em. :'(
Play them now! I played them relatively recently (2008. Wait. That’s not recent at all. OH GOD I’M SO OLD), and they held up really well. First one is a bit crap graphically (and the second is no longer stellar), and their UI’s are a bit cluttered, but they’re still really solid.
Haha! You think you’re old? Freeze and I were talking with Nobs on Friday and he wasn’t in high school when we graduated high school. D:
Sierra made those games, right? (Or at least published them?)
I do believe they published them, yeah. Made by Relic (Company of Heroes, Dawn of War, etc.).
That’s why I admired the screenshots so much, I think. I was a Sierra fanboy. Haha!
I know that I’m not that old, I really do, but deep down, I know that I’m super old.
My brain essentially refuses to admit the existence of anyone born between about 1999, and 2010. I just don’t understand them. 2010 to now is fine, because they’re babbies, 90s are fine, because they’re just people a few years younger than me. But in between? No, no, that’s not how this works.
@scree
Uh, due to events mostly within my own control, I no longer need to borrow Spirit Tracks either. Thanks!
Everyone hated that game but I really enjoyed it.
Rather naively approaching it with a “It’s Zelda, how bad can it be?” attitude. Hope to be pleasantly surprised! \o/
If you’d just bought Animal Crossing as your first game, you may have saved yourself some money because you’d be too busy playing to shop for more games, and you wouldn’t want any others for a while, anyway. 😛
Love the theory, but it doesn’t work that way, I’m afraid. I’ve got OoT in my hot little hands right now, and I still can’t stop compulsively building the ultimate collection. Besides, I’m really not sure it’s my kind of game 🙂
Oh well, I look forward to the inevitable Shane’s Big Giveaway: 3DS edition. 😛
Shane’s a complicated guy! 😀
NOW you get it! 🙂
There’s a town with animals and you do stuff.
Strangeeee, I have a feeling you have lotsa furniture sets and can help me complete my green one 😀
(also going for Exotic and musical instruments – regal is pretty nice too though and I know you have that too :D)
By the way Shane, I’ve decided that you now own what was previously my copy of OoT. So uhh, yeah. Have fun with that, because it functionally changes nothing.
What? No, man, that’s too generous. Much appreciated, though, but it was just a loan. A LOAN!
(I think I’ve figured out why TAYLEND never took off)
NOPE. You own it now, sucker.
I GIVE IT TO YOU WITH A WARNING. THAT GAME IS HAUNTED! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Bah! It was mould spores that killed those scientists, you can’t prove it was the game!
GAH! Fine. But I won’t accept it with grace. Expect a copy of Peaceful Tomorrows on your door… at some point.
Also, thanks. Really. I love this game so damn much – it will have a good home here.
I’m just glad it has a good home. Better than it sitting on my shelf for all eternity.
That’s how I feel about my books! \o/
THE GIVER BECOMES THE GIVEE! *runs off cackling at the karmic justice dispensed this day*
Alright. ^^
I like spirit tracks until the end boss. I’m sure other people will be fine with it, but I would always lose.
For those who missed it on Twitter, I went to a friend’s 22nd today, and this was the cake. So rad.
It was also rather worrying, because it seems like all of my High School friends seem to be in at least vaguely successful relationships. Whereas I seem to be emotionally stunted. Weird.
I’m still less cray-cray than most of them though, which really says a lot.
Was the cake bigger on the inside? (I’m sure someone made that joke. :P)
Masha made a “more calories on the inside” joke, but most of the calories were on the outside (Apparently around 2 kilograms of Icing Sugar went into that icing), and there were jokes at the party in that theme, but I still chuckle a little at them, because I’m an adult.
Story 2:
My parents went skiing over the weekend. On Saturday my Dad sent my Mum off to a lesson (as she has started skiing again recently, after not doing it for years). By the time he went to pick her up, she had torn the Medial Collateral Ligament in her left knee. This is kind of interesting, as something like ten years ago, my father tore his Lateral Collateral Ligament in one of his knees.
This does lead to a worrying trend though, as since my sister sprained her back while skiing back in ’08, this means that I’m the only person in my immediate family who hasn’t badly injured themselves while skiing. And as the person who has probably skied the most in the family, this means that it probably won’t be long until I get my own injury.
How Mildly Interesting!D: Avoid the snow at all costs. (I’ve never actually seen real life snow and I haven’t had a skiing injury. Coincidence? I think not!) Hope your mum is okay. Sounds painful. D:
She’s probably as high as a kite, but she seems to be taking it really well. Her biggest concern was finding work clothes that could go over the enormous leg brace she has. Apparently it also hasn’t turned her off skiing completely, which is a Christmas miracle.
And Deece, while I haven’t gone skiing for almost 2 years now, you could never get me to stop. I love the snow. I have crashed into innumerable different things, in innumerable different ways, and I’ve never managed to properly hurt myself, so I can only assume that I’m actually a wizard.
While I do enjoy your stories, they ain’t no HOTROSS (@rocketman) stories 😀I wish my stories could be HoTross stories. But I’m also sort of glad that they aren’t.My mum started skiing years ago after going along on a church ski camp as a “Youth Group Mum” with my baby brother. Hurt her back pretty badly on her third or fourth season. She still has problems 6 years later.
Dad doesn’t ski, so his back is fine, but he still can’t extend his left arm fully after hurting his elbow while roller skating with me at youth group over 20 years ago.
Now I think of it, Mum also hurt her back ice skating with us at youth group too. :/
I guess Youth Group should be left to the youth? 😛
I want to watch Formula 1, but the Kmart ad with that really annoying womping song or whatever they decided to call it is making it really hard :S
There’s a page 18 joke in there somewhere. Good thing we’ve left page 18 behind 😛
It’s really, really hard.
So hard it hurts.
Am I doing it right? 😛 (That’s another page 18 joke in itself)
Vettel is out of the race!Definitely one of the most interesting races in a while! I’m impressed with Daniel Riccardo this week.
Clearly you’re doing it wrong 😛
Surely it’s all about the Tour de France this week. 😉
And next week 😉
And probably the week after 😛
Pfft, I’ll take the broom brooms any day!
http://www.breatharian.com/
There truly are some weird people out there.
I’m sorry, I couldn’t read what was on the site without laughing.
XD
Gather your minions oh wise leader and show us the way!
Bow down to the mighty bunghole!
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111118231616/beavisandbutthead/images/8/8d/CORNHOLIO_NEED_HIS_TP.jpg
I need TP for my bunghole!
I really like the sideways landscape bleeding into the nethers. Excellent site design! 😀
My reaction when I finally get a game that I’ve been waiting for ages to come out:
http://i.imgur.com/wYjAACk.gif
And finally, something to enjoy this evening:
Goodnight, TAY!
http://seemikedraw.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/tumblr_mir6hnu0eu1rrtc28o1_500.gif
MORNING ALL. Just hanging out for a new TAY. Hook it to my veins!
Shh! TAY vein-hooking happens in the back streets.
Sorry man, I’m new here in AmsTAYdam.
Avoid the red-downvote district
🙂
It’s 8:36!
*cries*
I’m freakin’ out, man. I”M FREAKIN’ OUT!!!
Holy crap but are these cinemas packed out. No one here last Monday at the same time.