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3,295 responses to “Talk Amongst Yourselves”
YO WHAT UP TAY?!
WHAT UP PANTS?!
Legs.
I ASKED YOU FIRST
Alex, my friend. Hope you’re well!
EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE DC!
Then we’ve got lots to bond over. 😛
Actually I’m pretty good, so, umm…
*tumbleweed*
*awkward*
Viva le tour!
ILY @markserrels
Went looking for Ghibli’s new film but found this – Berserk film 2 this Sunday at Dendy! @strange @jimu @gutsoup and @whoeverelsewatchesBerserkinBris! 3pm at Dendy Portside. I’m keen! Jimu, you could time it so you watch film 1 the night before or something!
http://www.dendy.com.au/Movie/Berserk-Golden-Age-Arc-Ii-The-Battle-For-Doldrey
@dc – I know you like meats and cinemas! Get film 1 and see if you like it! Medieval power play and violence! Dark themes, wooOOOooo! Mebe…
I’ll check my diary 😉
This post needs more Sherpa! \o/
Aww, man, it’s my Girlfriends birthday on the weekend, I hafta attend a BBQ that day, i believe @jimu should be coming too. I’ll see what time things are due to wrap up. Oh @dc if you can’t find the first movie I’ve got it and I live near (ish) to you
Your girlfriend won’t mind if you skip her birthday! 😛
Also, thanks man!
Oh, yeah, I’m out @sughly. Already booked in for that!
Nooooo D: I might go alone if noone goes anyway because seeing this at the cinema would be awesoooooome! @strange! You’re my last Berserk fan hope!
Kaze Tachinu is July 20th in Japanese cinemas, probably won’t hit home video for a year or more. It was going to release alongside Takahata’s Kaguya-hime no Monogatari (don’t think this has an official translated title yet) but that film’s been pushed back to later in 2013.
Just FYI since you mentioned it.
But home video doesnt translate to when we get it at our cinemas. I think it was only about 5 months or so that we got Arrietty at our cinemas after Japan.
Yeah, except I expect it’ll take longer this time, because the reason we got Arrietty so fast was that it got licensed quickly by a UK company separate to Buena Vista. No one wanted it as much because it was hard to market – it’s Ghibli but it’s not Takahata or Miyazaki. Even Poppy Hill is easier because Miyazaki Senior wrote it and it’s got that family connection.
The Wind Rises is a new film from Hayao Miyazaki. That means it’s a way bigger deal – he’s got that Oscar and everything after all. It’ll get a big, big push, the same way that Ponyo did. And that will mean you’re waiting a lot longer, I expect. Might be a few subtitled screenings at film festivals I guess.
For reference, Ponyo released July 19th 2008 (The Wind Rises is July 20th). It got an international screening at the Venice Film Festival in September 2008 and had releases in Asia January 2009, then Europe in April 2009 (Spain & France). The English release didn’t happen in cinemas until August 2009 (delayed because they dubbed it). The initial Japanese home video release was in December 2009.
So expect a pretty similar sort of approach this time as well, though they may put a little less into it this time simply because the film looks more mature, aimed at an older audience than Ponyo or Spirited Away were.
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I’ll ask Mr. Strange if I can go. It’ll be almost my birthday so chances are good if I play that card. 😛
Happy almost birthday for this Sunday! 😛
Dear cold,
You have four days to return my voice to me, or Imma come after you with everything I’ve got. We can be reasonable about this. All you have to do is die.
Also, fuck you.
Your pal,
Shane
Who needs a voice when you’ve got a series of published graphic novels? 😀
I think I might turn people off at Oz Comic-Con if I croak and flail at them. I need my suave charm 🙁
Get a helper monkey! May I recommend the Colobus, there’s eight sub-species, don’t you know!
Never heard of them before.
Edit: Also, I would have to get a capuchin, and it would have to be called Ampersand. It’s a comic convention, after all.
That’s probably a reference I don’t understand, so I’ll just nod my head and smile.
*nods head, smiles*
Have you got your booth allocation in Artist’s Alley yet?
But if you did understand, your life would be much improved 😉
Reference.
Don’t think I have my booth allocation yet…
*nervously checks emails*
*refresh*
*refresh*
Y: The Last Man, I will read you some day…
Or see the movie…
Walked out of the cinema, just watched superman.
a couple walks past and the girl says: I didn’t like it. It had too much action and sci-fi.
Wtf. Who goes to see an action sci-fi movie and then complains about it? Trailers clearly showed sci-fi and as fir actiot, what kind of superman movie would it be if he did nothing but talk For two and a half hours?
Superman Returns
*shudder*
Haha! Oh man, terrible terrible movie.
Really? I just didn’t feel strongly about it either way. It was a terribly average flick.
I stayed up that night at uni doing an all nighter, so I was pretty sleep deprived too but I thought it was so damn bland in every way. Haha!
YEah, blande, sure.
Just didn’t invoke much feeling at all.
I’m not a fan of the old movies BTW, even as a kid I found them boring. I actually like the Supergirl movie more and it’s TERRIBLE.
I really liked the Supergirl movie as a kid too, it was pretty bad.
Masters of the Universe movie was awesome as a kid too, only in the eithies could a piece of alien tech be mistaken for a bitchin’ synthesiser
Eh, it’s clearly part of the mating ritual. Just as guys will go to chick flicks to woo a lady, so too will the ladies flock to spandex superhero films to win over their men.
Also, from what I’ve heard:
Even for an action movie, this one was over the top. Collateral damage was insanely high for a Superman film. I haven’t seen it, so can’t comment, but there are a bunch of criticisms being levelled at the film for its implied death toll, and for Superman’s own willingness to kill. ThoughtsKinda spoilers for movie:
Saw this on Saturday, loved it.Implied death toll? Yeah Metropolis got messed up pretty bad, however Superman’s willingness to kill? As far as I remember he only kills one guy, and that’s because this guy is about to kill more innocents and the only way to stop him was to kill. Supes is pretty shaken up by the event also.
Yeah. Though didn’t like that it had to be done. Overall, awesome movie for me.
Don’t know. Doesn’t sound worth it. 2 hours of shit movie for a bit of action? I guess I will never really understand it. Just doesn’t sound worth it.
re: spoiler
I found a couple of other, small frustrations with the film… none of them relating to collateral damage or Superman’s willingness to kill. In fact, the collateral damage fits within the context of the story and part of the movie shows Clark ‘n Jonathan talking about how Supes needs to keep his emotions and powers in check to avoid hurting people or exposing himself. Any killing that may or may not occur isn’t trivial.Saw it with three friends — two of them didn’t like it, and said WWZ was a better film. D:
Not enough sci-fi. If any thing, there needs to be more sci-fi in everything!
MORE SCI-FI IN PERIOD PIECES!!
More scifi in biopics! The Aviator would’ve been even better if Howard Hughes went to space!
With a smartarse robot sidekick 😀
Just to make it more plausible, the robot could be a manifestation of his mental illness!
But it’s sci-fi, the robot was issued to him by the government BECAUSE of his mental illness! 😀
(this thing writes itself) 😛
I’d see that movie!
@dc Have you watched Robot & Frank yet?
It’s sooooooooooooooo good.
Nah, I haven’t watched movies in ages. Will resume my list later. Should I add it under the Jimu section?
It’s Superman. He whisks people away from danger and does not live in an overly futuristic world so maybe she did not expect much action and sci-fi elements and she found it too much to be true to the Superman feel.
Peaceful Tomorrows. Book Depository.
Book Suppository?
GET IT IN YA
Congrats, my friend!
Final Fantasy XIV
(yes, the online one)
So, I tried to “quickly” download it Friday night, I went to bed at about 11.30 and it was still chugging along.
Thank fully, when I got up in the morning it was done, I’ve left things going overnight on PS3 before and PS3s seem to stupid to log back in if the net craps out at some point.
After watching the impressive intro movie that blames the gods for the re-do (and not Square execs after it failed the first time, wait…Do they think they’re gods!!??), I started making my character: a purple haired, dark skinned, cat-lady.
At first I thought it was a tad silly and maybe a little sexist that I could see up my characters skirt to her tighty-whiteys without ever needing to dip the camera below waist height… Then I saw some cat-men out and about and realised they actually wear WAY less clothing. The large amount of cat-men I see wandering about is either odd or the beta isn’t loading cat-men clothing.
I actually had quite a bit of fun playing. Usually wandering about in a generic fantasy land questing over and over again shits me to no end, but for some reason, possibly the music and character designs, I was having a lot of fun.
I saw a midget called Tinyfists Paccapunch and laughed out loud, and I mean out loud.
All you really do is talk to NPCs get a mission, kill some monsters or talk to another NPC. I did this over and over again and over the weekend managed to get my Gladiator up to level 9.
I also met up with NegZero and made a fool of myself thanks to my lacking knowledge of MMO norms.
I also blew hima a kiss and many randoms as they wandered by. You can do that, blow kisses.
a couple of friends and I felt like jumping on a free MMO just to muck around, and ended up on some weird one. basically you could sit on a bench and lean in for a kiss. if the other person leaned in as well, you started making out…
so anyway long story short, we were sitting on benches next to girls and leaning in. got a couple that complied, but things got awkward when the girl sitting next to my friend stood up as he was leaning in, after which my brother sat next to him and leaned in for the make up session…
extremely awkward, yet the reaction and hysterical laughter that ensued was priceless!
Is this real? o_O
obviously there was a lot more to this MMO…. this was just a “feature”
Ohhhhh, I seeeeee.
…and they were also totally men! 😀
BEST! 😀
TURNIP PRICES?!
Oh maaaaaan!
I haven’t played for like 4 days and I had turnips I needed to sell.
SHIT!
How can you not play this everyday I dont understand
Spun rice trip?!
Cuter nip rips?!
Remembered to buy some at 11am. Realised I had 8k bells and didn’t bother 😛
I regret buying too much :P. It’s taken over a third of my storage!
81 :/ You didnt even say yours you dope
91 !
:/
Don’t forget.
Every Friday morning, 9:30 am.
I love you all.
http://youtu.be/WFFVtdEEG_c
Finished The Last of Us last night:
Great game. So many good moments and they nailed the character progression and tension that so many games fuck up. I wanted to take the flamethrower to David the cannibal’s fucking face but having Ellie machete him was good enough, I guess.Joel’s lie at the end was a nice touch. He’s selfish and it wasn’t a “good” ending for anyone, not even Joel who it wasn’t even an ending for, but it fit everything that happened so well.Motherfucking giraffes! Naughty Dog sure does moments well.Towards the end, there gameplay came a lot closer to what I originally loved about it. Stealth with combat as a penalty. Sure I could have blazed through the Fireflies with reckless abandon but I had to take that last opportunity to enjoy the gameplay.The whole Winter section was great, aside from the shootout with David near the start. Standing in a room, shooting the approaching horde is kind of meh compared to the rest of what the game had to offer. Even the final showdown with David was nice. People complained that there was no strategy but I managed to take him down fairly easily by showing myself and then looping behind him.I don’t want a sequel. There are no loose ends I want to tie up and anything new with Joel and Ellie would just feel forced.Winter was my favourite part of the game. I didn’t mind the shootout because it wasn’t something you saw anywhere else in the game. As a one-off moment, it did well. But I really really liked the ‘boss fight’ with David at the end. Are people really saying there was no strategy? You just need to step on the broken plates on the floor and loop around when he goes to investigate.People are apparently quite dumb.Fuck leaving the Fireflies alive. They had a death sentence on them and who am I to deny that?I shot all of the doctors but I just enjoyed the non-shooty bits too much to deal with the Fireflies that way.I spent all weekend playing Rogue Legacy, such an amazing game. There is something magical about having a Paladin with dwarfism and IBS as a Legendary Boss slayer.
Is that the Level-5 JRPG on PS2?
Nah, it’s an indie game made by Cellar Door Games. Basically it’s an RPG 2D-Platformer. It’s really great, so much fun. I just wish it was on 3DS / VITA because I want to play it on the train.
Rogue GALAXY I’m thinking of *facepalm*
So, buy now or wait for it to go on sale in the Steam SUmmer Sales?
Probably wait for the sales that will start in a week or two. =P
I mean, it’s worth the $15 it currently is but cheap games are best games.
Guys. I love you all and don’t want any of you to die so I tell you this from a loving place in my heart.
http://www.breatharian.com/
Seriously you guys, I’m concerned for you. I’m just going to go ahead and book a place for everyone here.
Only a billion dollars for immortality? Bargain.
Even better when you consider the visit to Earth Prime in the 5th Dimension.
What I love most about this website is that it’s clearly been around for about 10 years, and the author probably never really thought it’d still be around at the end of 2012… but had a contingency plan of a ‘grace period on the apocalypse’ ready to go anyway 😀
The FAQ section is amazing.
Wiley: In order to understand why I have chosen these foods you must first know how the human bodies descended into the 3rd dimensional world in first place. This is not our natural home. Being here as long as we have been was not intentional. We didn’t plan to stay here permanently. You could say it was purely by accident that we ended up getting stuck in this 3d world. The Earth, without a doubt, is the most beautiful planet in the Milky Way galaxy and that is why it was “the” vacation spot of the galaxy for millions of years. There was always a constant stream of visitors coming here from Worlds and Galaxies far and wide.
Like all societies, there are always people who want to ‘up the annie’ by increasing the intensity of the sensations a 5d being normally experienced on their visits to Earth, by staying for longer and longer periods of time. It would be like the sensation or high you get by the making the roller you’re riding in go faster and faster.
One of the most exciting things about coming to Earth was eating 3d food. Food was not eaten for nutrition but for the exquisite taste and sensations you would get. Just like today, there were many 3d restaurants, 3d shops, 3d clothes and thousands of 3d things you could buy and take back to your 5d world. This was a most exciting thing to do. Just like the feelings you get when you go on a shopping spree to Las Vegas or similar places.
After million of years of these activities, making their vacation times longer and longer and eating more and more 3d foods, it was like the fad of the time to be “3d” savvy.
At the first part of this “million of years of fun” period every body got rape up in the 3d fads and sensations, we stop noticing the slight discomfort we would normally get when staying too long in this density, it had become less bothersome, someone even came with the brilliant idea to eliminate these “you have over-stayed your time ” symptoms altogether. By brewing up a concoction of 3d foods and herbs, a new miracle drug was manifested to take care of this problem once and for all. The brew was similar to what you know today as ice-cream. The main active ingredients were carbon-based sugars and iron.
This new miracle drug took the galaxy by a storm. Now anyone could come to Earth and stay as long as they wanted to and even eat the 3d foods without any noticeable after-effects. This certainly was the talk of galaxy for a long time, now even more visitors are streaming to the planet, eating more 3d food and staying longer than ever before.
Herein is where the “The Fall” actually began. The after-effects you used to get from eating 3d foods, that you thought you got rid of , are now back to bite you in the butt.
Since I am on the subject of 3d foods I may as well address the question that’s sure come up which is “Why do you ask us not to eat any fruits and vegetables while on the 5 magic words diet? Duh! Do I really need to say more?
The seat of the multi-dimensional mind that controls the physical body is the stomach (you are what you eat)
The body mind itself is the human heart. The dimension that your body will gravitate to or harmonize with is dictated by the directions from the heart. Communication with the heart or body mind is done with Light and Sound. The real blood stream of the physical body is a form of liquid light. The digestive system is designed to extract or digest the Sound and Light frequencies from our words and thoughts and condense them into liquid light. By changing the frequencies of the heart you change the frequencies of this liquid light, which in turn changes the frequencies of the body. When your words and thoughts or foods are 3d based, it is inevitable that the body must follow.
Likewise, when your words and thoughts and foods are 5d based, guess what happens to the body? Now let me ask you a question. Can you tell what words and thoughts and foods are 5d based? Bingo!!!
Would you believe a double-quarter with cheese and diet coke could possibly be 5d based? The frequencies of a substance in dictated by it component part. In other words, the sum total frequencies of all of its parts equal the base frequency of that item.
Since I’m starting to have fun asking the questions for a change, let me ask you few more.
DO YOU KNOW THE BASE FREQUENCY OF THE DOUBLE-QUARTER-POUNDER WITH CHEESE MEAL FROM MCDONALD AND DIET COKE?
DO YOU KNOW THE BASE FREQUENCY OF THE 5 MAGIC WORDS I GAVE YOU?
DO YOU KNOW THE BASE FREQUENCY OF ANY WORDS AND THOUGHTS AND FOODS?
DO YOU THINK , NOW THAT ARE AWARE OF THIS INFORMATION, YOU WOULD, IN YOUR WILDEST DREAMS, EVER THOUGHT IT MIGHT ALL BOIL DOWN TO WHAT YOU SAY AND THINK AND EAT?
“IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, THE WORD WAS WITH GOD, THE WAS GOD’ .or something like that. I’ll get the correct quote in time
“THE BEST WAY TO A MAN’S HEART IS THROUGH THE STOMACH”.
“YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT”
The secret in the diet coke is the “LIQUID LIGHT” Duh!!!!
The type of plastic and quantity of it combined with the diet coke equals the base frequency of its liquid light.
I know that was a long answer, but what can I say?
DO YOU KNOW THE BASE FREQUENCY OF THE DOUBLE-QUARTER-POUNDER WITH CHEESE MEAL FROM MCDONALD AND DIET COKE?
I’m gonna go round asking everyone this question.
Hahahahaha, wow.
“Up the annie”
Also random placement of word “rape”
O_o
They eat better than me though!
Ta!
Sounds like the makings of a meat!
My favourite Breatharian is the one that tried to participate in James Randi’s million dollar challenge.
They had him locked in a hotel room to test how long he could survive on air alone
James Randi busted him breaking back into the room with a bag of MaccasIn a 5D world, McDonald’s is like air. At least in terms of base frequency.
oh my god…. i found my two favourite quotes….
and
Most times I comment in the What Are You Playing article I seem to not play the games I said I would.
That’s why I say board games.
I always play board games.
Boardgames? More like … I don’t know where I’m going with this.
More like cardboard mat and plastic tokens and cards games amirite?
Ohhhhhh, BURN!
Ahhhh, I would, but I worry if I say video games then I won’t play any.
Say “I will spend all weekend working” then you won’t spend anytime working! \o/
I did tell my boss I planned to mow the lawn and it rained all weekend!
Misdirection! Now the Serrels/government/illuminati won’t know what you’ve really been playing.
Anyone want to buy my 3DS XL?
I’ll swap you Xenoblade for it!
NO!
You must admit, it’s a good deal!
Yeah, who needs a Bravely Default machine when they’ve got Xenoblade 😀
I do!!
(Surely it’s an Animal Crossing machine?)
So…it’s Shameless Gaming Month…
Don’t you mean Game Sale Season?
What kind of moron would plan an event like Shameless Gaming Month during the Steam Summer sales?
They didn’t know!
Please don’t blame them.
:`(
Nope. They’re a jerky jerkface mcgee.
Then why do I suddenly feel so much shame? 🙁
It’s also Pikmin 3 month! 😀
Ha ha! This month is THE worst month for that kinda behaviour for me.
My birthday, I usually get a tonne of new games this month.
Also, I either have to visit rellies or they visit me so I GAME LESS!
Day one of having Animal Crossing … I have no idea what I’m doing, I should not be given a seat of power! WHY MUST THESE ANIMALS BE SO TRUSTING!!!
I’ve planted a tree, put a down payment on a house, which was just a potato sack full of teeny tiny bells, an Anteater named Otis moved in and Isabelle is a cutie patootie and I’m kind of worried that she doesn’t have a house.
This, along with the Potaku article from last week, really makes me want to get Animal Crossing.
It’s the first game to make me smile like an idiot because of how cute everything is, especially Isabelle (your assistant) she’s mind numbingly cute
On the surface perhaps. Wait until the dark underbelly of corruption and decay is revealled
See the issue is, I was telling some friends about it and one of them linked me to this fic… Then I had to seriously rethink things
http://lparchive.org/Animal-Crossing/
Here’s an Official Nintendo StreetPass Isabelle hat
http://tinycartridge.com/post/53435633816/this-new-streetpass-hat-im-unsure-if-this-is
!!!!
THE HORROR
Ahahaha! Looks like shes eating your head
More like it looks like she’s been decapitated and you’re wearing her head :/
THE HORROR
She never stops working. Srsly. Never. Never sleeps either it seems…
Exsqueeeeeze me. She totally stopped working on that Summer Solstice day.
Hola Tay
I had a quiet weekend, played a chunk of Borderlands online with a mate. Also finished watching Hannibal, which is a great series.
A Monday Morning Question: What in-game vehicles would you want to do your morning commute in? I’d love the Ragnarok from FF8
The teleporter from HL2. So reliable.
What cat?
Beluga from Beyond Good & Evil! Maybe the Normandy too. Both, I’ll just dock the Beluga down on the lower decks with Cortez and James.
Dark Souls – Gravelord coffin.
Bound to be a conversation-starter!
The Warthog from Halo. The only reason being that it doesn’t follow the laws of physics.
Looks more like a puma
What’s a Puma?
I told you to stop making up animals.
What’s that thing that sucks goats? Chuppathingy?
I like it. It’s got a ring to it.
Chupathingy?
El Chupacabra?
I feel like I’m missing a reference, but I don’t even care. 😛
I think they mean Chuloopa but are spelling his name wrong.
I totally know what’s going on…
Looked it up. We’re both missing references. Ignorance twins! XD
Not a Red vs. Blue fan, eh?
Try this.
I don’t know what that means, so I guess not. 😀
The Ragnarok would be fun, but a Tardis would be wonderfully convenient.
With the TARDIS you’re liable to end up at places other than work though.
Which may be a good thing
Yeah, but you could adventure for a few years, and then just head back to ‘today’ and not be late for work.
Teleporter from a game where it works. I could use the extra hour of sleep.
But then all Star Trek nerds will start debates about whether it’s really you who transports on the other side! D:
Fucked if I care, sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!
http://ravenrepublic.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/2706.jpg
Looks like a Mobile Frame
http://mobileframezero.com/
Spruce Moose! Dont even care that its not a video game…
but yeah prolly Ragnarok ^_^
Oh man, you’ll be able to fly to the Belgium Congo in 17 minutes!
The Ragnarok is the best airship design ever.
Bigfoot!
http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/30281-monster-truck-madness-2-windows-screenshot-bigfoots.jpg
Well, some people down the road were having a party on Saturday night/Sunday morning.
I know this because I could hear their stupid doof-doof at 3am Sunday.
Come Sunday arvo, we find that our mailbox has been pinched.
Bastards.
t(-.-t)
How can you tell someone pinched it? Did it make a dent, or leave fingerprints or something?
It’s broken off at the base of the box, with the post intact.
They probably just pushed it and pulled it until it snapped.
🙁
Sorry man, I probably shouldn’t be making dumb jokes.
Hope your mailbox turns up alive and well, or at least isn’t too costly to replace.
http://au.ign.com/articles/2013/06/28/game-of-thrones-casts-oberyn-the-red-viper
They cast the Red Viper! This guy’s face kinda matches what I had in my head \o/
(Unlike that blonde git tryin’a shag Dany)
I can’t wait until (BOOK 4+ COMMENT)
we get to see the Prince of Dorne tear shit upMy timeline for those books is so mixed up, expected a bunch of that shit last season:-/
After watching I was able to remember what happened when.
Let’s see what I expect next season! 😀
Also, A remake of Jacob’s Ladder is on the cards.
*grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrroan* That movie is still good, what is the point?
I have cousins that range from 15-21 and most of them won’t watch older movies because they’re “lame”. So they can remake movies that seem fresh to the ignorant and will likely get people who love the old ones to watch no matter how cynical they may be about it.
Pretty much this. A remake (or other movie that uses an existing franchise – sequels, adaptations, and etc.) is going to get a big audience, almost no matter what.
*grooooooooooan*
Oh lordy no! So utterly unnecessary, the original is easily one of the best horrors ever made. Flawless, imo. Eh well, kids these days I guess.
@redartifice I hadn’t heard of James Randi before. I’ve watched a few of his videos and trawled through his site and he is now one of my favourite people.
So many lawsuits from people he has discredited and not one has stuck. 😀
Randi’s pretty awesome- his TED talk is very good.
He’s also often on The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe : http://www.theskepticsguide.org/
First learned of him via Penn & Teller. He’s an absolute champ.
Penn and Teller’s Bullshit has some really great eps, and some that are so-so.
Did you ever see the video where they talked about the series? They discussed the things they weren’t happy with and what episodes they didn’t like and tried to explain them. I’m at work atm and can’t spend the time to search on youtube but if anyone knows what I am talking about and can link, that would be super.
This Friday. This Friday. THIS Friday.
Come one, come all, to 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).
MEAT DETAILS:
Date: Friday, 5 July
Time: 7pm
Place: Yoyogi on Swanson St (or meet up somewhere else first and walk to Yoyogi)
(@scree, do we need to book this place or just walk on in?)
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)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
Is OzComicCon a three day dealy?
I think its 2. Saturday and Sunday.
http://www.ozcomiccon.com/
Thanks, man. Now I feel lazy for not looking it up myself. XD
Nope. Saturday/Sunday only. Friday/Monday are travel/(un)packing days.
All signs point to yes!
Awesome. I’ll remind you again tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday!
Ugh, I guess so… 😛
By the way who’s going and what’s the plan? I should probably figure out how I’m going to get there :P.
Is it possible to please grab a lift there? (@inquisitorsz @smurfydog). @negativezero said he didn’t mind giving me a lift back but he’ll be working during the day so can’t give me a lift there.
@shane what are you doing beforehand? Since I’m on holidays and probably super bored we could always organise to meet up earlier or something? Fed Square has always been a usual meeting place and then we’d walk to wherevs. Just make sure everyone has everyone’s number so we can contact each other outside of TAY (sorry @tofu :'( – I blame Scree!)
I think it’s probably wisest if I say the designated meat time is the earliest I’m available. Will be setting up my Oz Comic-Con booth all afternoon, in all likelihood. Also need to locate some sort of lunch and grocery shop for weekend supplies.
No problemo.
Don’t forget the 3DS!
That’s hardly likely; I carry it EVERYWHERE, man. Need those sweet, sweet Streetpasses.
I’m on a sort of unemployment holiday so I can be in the city whenever. And yes we’ll need phone number as I have no idea how you all look like.
Can’t offer you a lift though I’m afraid 🙁
We also use Twitter to contact. Do you know @scree ? It sounded like you know each other outside of TAY :P, she has most of our numbers 😀
I do indeed have a twitterrific account
https://twitter.com/LamingtonCatHit me up if any of you is in the city!
EDIT: Yes I also know @scree so I’ll probably meet up with her first
Should be able to give you a lift I guess. Considering I work on Wellington Rd.
If you don’t mind hanging at my place for a bit before we head out I could pick you up on my way home from work. Bout 5:30pm I guess.
I should be able to make it, with any luck 🙂
Yay I’ll meet the legendary loops!!!!
We can talk about how much GW is screwing up the hobby =P
I know everyone is probably tired of me banging on about car shit, but I bought a new car on the weekend. Like, NEW new. A Barina Spark, and it’s pretty sexy.
The main reason I bring this up is because getting the bloody thing was kind on an emotional rollercoaster. See, our credit history is… not great, though our financial means have come a long way in recent years. There’s no doubt new car finance is affordable for us.
The issue is, we could only secure the finance if we traded in our old car – which we were kiiind of hoping to hang onto to sell cheap to my wife’s dad. The option we faced was either “Trade in your shitty 14 year old Sonata and get the Spark, or drive home in your shitty 14 year old Sonata”.
So, we agreed to the trade. We had to wait until the next day to pick up the car aaaand suddenly the Sonata shit itself. The thing was shaking and rattling like the engine was about to blow up. We were terrified that they would reject the trade and we’d be stuck with a car that was on the verge of dying, or even worse, we wouldn’t even be able to limp into the dealership. We called for roadside assistance and were informed the computer that controls the revs was shot, and it would do that whenever it was idling – not dangerous in and of itself, but the car was lurching horribly and became difficult to drive. We parked it overnight and hoped for the best.
The next morning… nothing. Not an issue. It started without incident, and not a single rattle. I would suggest it was running smoother than it ever had since we had owned it. So, we managed to conclude the trade, secure the finance, and drive home in our all-new baby car.
Looking back I’m not sure why we were that worried since they were going to just part out the old beast anyway, but still… for about 18 hours we thought we had some serious trouble.
I’m glad it worked out, man. Congrats with the new car! 😀
Cheers!
They don’t care if it was running. There’s something about the way they set up the finance that requires a trade in. Not sure if it makes them look better or some tax reasons or whatever. they told me I would need a trade in with my new Commodore and the only other car we had was wifey’s Xtrail which we needed. I purchased a $50 non functioning wreck of a 93 Barina from a tow company and an extra $50 got it towed to the dealer.
They took it no problems and I left with my Commodore.
Yeah, the car was worth shit in trade but they fiddle with the numbers so it looks like your trade in is worth a higher proportion of the value of the car you’re getting, which helps convince the bank that you’re financially committed to the deal.
We were lucky that my gf’s dad gave us a 2012 Barina. Damn this thing is so small and has great handling, it’s a great car to drive. Good luck to any poor passenger wanting to sit behind me though, lol.
I sat in the Barina CDX and it actually has slightly less room for the driver than the Spark because of the centre console. Of course, the passenger needs to keep their arms tucked in to stay out of the way of the driver when they’re putting the car in gear or applying the park break. I wouldn’t call the back roomy but I can sit ok, as long as I don’t mind hugging the seat in front with my knees. We don’t really have passengers – it’s just me and the wife – so the extra doors are more of a novelty than a necessity.
CEO (stream link) is a wrestling themed fighting game tournament. The players have been coming out to theme music and playing in a wrestling ring.
Most of it has been pretty cringeworthy. Justin Wong came in to John Cena’s theme and just kind of wandered up to his seat and unpacked his arcade stick from his backpack.
Then someone came out to the Ducktales theme and the crowd started singling along.
Then Flash Metroid came out to FLASH! SAVIOUR OF THE UNIVERSE!
Get hype, son!
Nobody came out to this?
Not yet. There’s still plenty of time.
And now there’s a sing-along to the Pokemon theme.
YO YO YO ANIMAL CROSSING FRONDS:
On the weekend, Sugs and I found out that you can add things to your catalogue just by having them in your inventory. So when swapping furniture to help others complete sets we can just drop it, let the other person pick it up, then they can drop it again and no one loses anything. That way it’s added to their catalogue and they can buy it. Seems fairer that way since the person who wants it spends the money :D. But of course if you don’t want the piece you can just give it to them 😀
I’m trying to complete the “Green” set http://acwiki3ds.wikispaces.com/Green+Series so help me out :D. Post what you want as well so others can help out!
I really need to trade fossils, they’re taking up so much space >_> @sughly @rize @blaghman @scree others
TURNIP PRICES?!
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Speaking of green things, there’s a green handbag in the image at the bottom of the page from FABSUGAR. Buy it @freya !
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OKI, Pikmin 2 time. WOOOOOOO FUN! (not really, the last underground thing made me rage quit :'( )
I’m keen for fossil trading, so much precious storage space!
The last few times I messaged you, you never responded < / 3
Wan do it now?
tyty
No – thank you!
Pikmin 3: 27 days!
I’ll check turnip prices at lunch and let you know! Also, We need to organise to get some fossil swapping happening tonight, cause I keep getting distracted by other stuff 😛
I haven’t really aimed for a set, but I think I’ll go for whatever the fancy one is called. The stuff is white, usually with gold trim.
Regal! @blaghman is going for that too so he should be able to help out. I’ve got about 4 pieces or so.
Note to self: rob Blaghman
You know that bag costs nearly $1k right? I’ll get it if you pay for it :p
@trjn ! 😛
Posted this on Twitter over the weekend, but you can get 100 Miles Davis pieces on iTunes for $10.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/100-masterpieces/id474638708
That’s insanely good value, esp because the first 5 tracks are the entirety of “Kind of Blue,” which is one of the greatest albums ever
OH MAN! I loooooove Kind of blue! Spesh that first song, oh man, SO good! Argh, gonna listen now XD
I just love that that chord is now known as the “So What” chord.
That’s awesome.
Oh wow! It really pays to browse earlier TAY pages sometimes 😀
Hope you grab it and enjoy 🙂
Anyone see Attack on Titan ep 13? I ruckon…
It was pretty great! Really got the pacing right, felt like the earlier episodes in terms of action and stuff happening. Not just 20 minutes of ‘can we trust Eren!?’. Sooo glad the battle for trost is over now, that was draaaaagging. Was a cool conclusion though, great music and animation. Was cool having that elite explorer unit guy return too, I was pretty interested in seeing his character earlier so will be good to see how his relation goes with Eren. I like that its setting up a situation where Eren is willing to do anything to serve everyone in fighting the titans, but this guys like yeah dude ill kill you but if you step out of line. Which Eren has proved himself capable of doing. GO TO THE BASEMENT NOW PLS ARGH!!nopeDickman.
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New episode? Sweet – Will watch it tonight so can’t discuss 13 yet, but the previous two episodes have seemed so slow.
Did it pick back up again? I find that show immensely frustrating to watch because of the long periods of boring shit where nothing is happening punctuated with flashes of stuff actually worth watching.
But that’s general a Production IG problem. They’re amazing at animation but can’t pace stuff properly and also have a tendency to suck the soul out of everything they do. 🙁
EDIT: Also I find Attack on Titan to be a bit depressing.
SO depressing! Its why I love it ^_^ But yeeaaah… part of my spoiler, which I guess isnt that spoilery, is that it finally picked back up again imo. The last few eps of have been sooo fillery and boring (so yeah, I agree @steve-o_the_deve-o). But I liked this one! But you thought the earlier ones were slow neg, but I loved the pacing of the early stuff actually. I just thought these last few have dragged.
My problem is that I watch too much anime, and have been doing so for so long, that I pick up on tropes a lot more and that removes some of the enjoyment.
I have so many shows on the go that I tend to not have time to follow them all weekly, so I like to have some shows that I watch for a bit to get an idea about, then let finish before going back, or at least watch in 3-4 episode ‘bites’. Often this is a really good way to offset poor pacing but it hasn’t really worked for me with Titan 🙁
I’m trying to finish off some of the stuff that’s actually finished or finishing at the moment because the new anime season starts this week and there’s a whole pile of stuff that I’m interested in checking out, probably one of the most interesting seasons in a long while.
ANIMAL CROSSING REPOST:
On the weekend, Sugs and I found out that you can add things to your catalogue just by having them in your inventory. So when swapping furniture to help others complete sets we can just drop it, let the other person pick it up, then they can drop it again and no one loses anything. That way it’s added to their catalogue and they can buy it. Seems fairer that way since the person who wants it spends the money :D. But of course if you don’t want the piece you can just give it to them 😀
I’m trying to complete the “Green” set http://acwiki3ds.wikispaces.com/Green+Series so help me out :D. Post what you want as well so others can help out!
Also… TURNIP PRICES!? Mine are 91 🙁
Eurgh, needius. This is the third time I’ve seen this.
I think your theory on trading is half correct, I believe it only works for the person who picks up the item in their town , since I was never able to order the regal lamp.
Nope, Greenius picked up/dropped in mine and it worked
Was Greenius in his own town when the trade happended? that’s my point.
No, in mine. I said so distaaaant!
Why can’t I order the regal lamp Greenius gave me than =(
Because it hats you?
It hats me all over =(
FOOL! Why didn’t you tell me? I guess I can give it to you or something :P.
But like @sughly said: I was in his town, he dropped things, I picked them up and immediately dropped them, then I went back to my town and they were there in my catalogue.
Game just hats you I guess… 🙁
Haha, I thought this was Tim Schafer at first http://www.ozgameshop.com/ds-games/ex-display-russell-grants-astrology-game-ds
Who’d buy that? D:
Mrs. Grant.
GAME OF THE HALF-YEAR!
A completely unique concept.
Anyway, I’ve just discovered you can earn interest on your deposits in Animal Crossing, and now I don’t want to withdraw money at all…even to pay off my home loan. Still have so many renovations left to do. >.>
D.C.’s Game of the Half-Year:
The Last of Us
Runner Up: The Night of the Rabbit.
ANIMAL CROSSINGGGggg
Also winner of drug of the year.
Nah, crackcocaine is still my drug of a lifetime 😛
Luigi’s Mansion 2
Mine’s P4G and nobody is suprised!
Wait, was that released this year?
In Australia, yes!
Same with Catherine, I had it on my list for last year but most of the rest of the world had it the year before.
And, HA HA!! Persona 4 Arena is this year too for us, but won’t be on ANYONE’S list.
Dark Souls \o/
2011 just won’t end for ‘ol Shane. 😛
But when did he buy it?
Hint: It definitely wasn’t this year. It might have just been last year, or late 2011.
I gave the gift of DaS(PtDE) to a friend over the weekend (birthday).
Got him to play it and gave him tips/advice/guidance through to the first bonfire in undead burg in the hopes that he wouldn’t prematurely quit due to initial frustration… hopefully he’ll stick with it 😀
The ultimate gift. The ultimate experience.
I dislike how most GOTY awards tend to favour games that just came out. I really think there should be a bit of a break between the release cut off date and deciding what is the best.
Remember all those GOTY awards Skyrim got? Remember how quite a lot of people didn’t love the game as much after they’d worn themselves out on it?
The Last of Us or Company of Heroes 2 could both potentially be my GOTY. They just came out so the lustre hasn’t worn off.
I don’t think so, The Last of Us made me feel something I haven’t felt in games for a while. I’ve loved other games this year, but nothing has given me that specific feeling. (And that’s game of the year worthy for me. :D)
Edit: Though I understand what you mean and would usually agree with you, but The Last of Us was something crazy special for me. Same goes with Night of the Rabbit.
My thinking is that right after finishing a game, it’s a lot harder to step back and think about the whole experience. There were moments of the Last of Us that could have been better. Overall, it was an amazing game but if I get around to finishing (for example) Luigi’s Mansion 2 and decide that I had fun the entire damned time and that it scratched a certain itch just the right way, then it could get the nod instead.
I thought the stealth in The Last of Us completely sucked and there were so many flaws. Still GOTY. >:D I know what you mean, though.
Don’t mind me. Haha! I had a similar feeling after I played Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Boss fights were terrible. Ending felt a bit rushed. I was willing to forgive all these major flaws anyway just because of the immersion and sense of fun I had when playing the game.
I’m not saying that it isn’t a GOTY candidate. Just that right now, literally the day after I finished it, is not the best time to objectively make that call.
I’m amused that my point in doing this was to give due credit to games we’d play a few months ago but all of our choices were mid-June releases, confirming the idea that we give the award to the latest game we played. 😛
To be fair, pretty great games have come out in June. I think they genuinely are the better games of the half year, with the exception seeming to be LuigiM2. Which got a nod anyway.
Sagely Sughly.
No coincidence the next wave of awesome games will be around the holidays too. 😀
I SAID LUIGI’S MANSION 2! WHY YOU IGNORE ME!?
*runs off crying*
I MEANT ON POTAKU I’M SORRY NOBS D:
Not always. I picked Arma 3, and I’ve been playing that for months.
ALLLL our choices? >:-(
Do GOTY awards favor games that just came out, or is it that the really big AAA stuff tends to hit in the period between September and November in order to be out before US thanksgiving sales?
A bit of both but the most recently released AAA game does seem to get a much bigger boost than other games.
I haven’t played many games this year, but it’d be either Tomb Raider or Monaco.
Tomb Raider was pretty great. I almost feel like playing it again already!
Ahh Tomb Raider, where you have the options to use shotguns, pistols and rifles, but you still use the bow and arrow anyways.
Game of the half-year……
Arma 3, and it’s not even finished.
Runners up being Hotline Miami Vita and Company of Heroes 2.
Although I’m still waiting for my WTFHOLYSHITTHISGAMEISAMAZING ala Spec Ops : The Line 2012.
Notable mentions to Bioshock Infinite and Fire Emblem for being pretty okay games.
Babby Making Similator 2013 was a pretty okay game.
I especially liked the part where you planned out a optimal statistical balance for their growth characteristics, and then they just fell out of the sky, just like in real life.
You’re all wrong because it was actually Fire Emblem.
Even though I will always now associate that game with intense foot pain.
As if FE was better than P4G
P4G was last year.
EDIT: Also I finished Fire Emblem and lost interest in P4…
February 22nd 2013 in the PAL!
Pffft, PAL. Who cares about those guys?*
* not Nintendo 🙁
HA!
But yeah, I didn’t get it til this year so counts for me!
Based on that logic I declare Okami the best game this year then.
You forgot the released in PAL part @negativezero
Probably Fire Emblem for me!
Anyone planning on getting Project X Zone this week? also is that poster JB HiFI mentioning standard with all copies?
Dream Team out next week as well =o definitely getting that.
Thats this week!?! Hnnnngh!! Mustnt… buy… more games…
But it looks so good T_T
DREAM TEAM NEXT WEEK!?! omg my poor wallet…
Play the demo, not so great :-/
Man, Project Cross Zone is sort of okay.
I think it relies too much on fanservice from being a crossover game, though.
When I get a grid-based isometric map, I typically expect some sort of strategy to factor into unit positions. This doesn’t seem to be the case. So far it’s just been a case of maximising your damage output, where a good turn based strategy makes you factor your position for both offensive and defensive means.
The combat is pretty, but I don’t think ccomboing and timing isn’t as critical as it was in SRT: Endless Frontier. On the one hand, it’s good because I suck at timing, but on the other, the times where you could pull of a beautiful combo and juggling act in Endless Frontier meant that you were getting better and better. There’s less of a need for you to perform optimally here.
Still. Seeing all these super serious characters do their thing with the elaborate kicks and punches and weapons… and then watching Frank West throw baseball bats and fire extinguishers and crap at the enemies? It’s a bit of fun.
I was bored before the end of the demo :-/
I might hold onto this as reason enough to wait for now. I dont really have the moneys for too many more games, and Pikmin 3 is this month. Then next is Wonderful101 AND Rayman. Have to be smart about what I do and dont buy 🙁
Should play Tomb Raider too, it’s an excellent game. Just cause everyone else has moved on, doesn’t mean you can’t play it. 😀
I knowwwww, but I dunno. I’ve just lost the enthusiasm for it. I’m sure once I start it will click, just got to make myself start one of these days. With school holidays/wimbledon/animal crossing I have less time too nowadays. Will probably make a proper effort after school goes back!
Oh that’s right, Tomb Raider was this year too. I really liked that game a lot despite some narrative flaws and a bit too much combat. I hope they do another game like that. Easily one of my favourite games this year.
Of course it relies on the fanservice element, it’s a crossover game by the Super Robot Wars team.
It’s also the closest we’ll ever get to seeing Valkyria Chronicles 3 and Sakura Taisen games localized 🙁
Ordered it through OGS to save some cash. I knew I had to have it the instant they announced the localization.
Holy crap but are these cinemas packed out. No one here last Monday at the same time.
Wonder what’s different.
Are you seeing Supes?
Ayup.
The rain, I guess?
Drive more people away from the outside and into the inside.
School holidays, perhaps?
Either the school holidays were on last week too, or my son just missed a week of school.
Last week was as well.
Queensland start holidays a week earlier, because raisins.
Holidaze of skool (NSW as well now, which means TRAVELLERS!)
I totally just didn’t read this in old TAY. Nosiree!
I went last night without realising school holidays had started (in NSW) and I drove around for 20 minutes trying to find parking. That’s never happened before — whole bunch of families going to see movies. D:
Now You See Me looks pretty good.
I think I’ll have to see it just for my last chance for more Morgan Freeman.
Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I dunnoooooo…
Spamming LinkedIn makes me feel dirty all over. At least here, I can pretend that my constant linking to my website is a running joke and not at all serious.
Wait, you have a website?
Next thing he’ll be telling us he’s a published writer or something.
Man, so psyched for this new Arcade Fire album. Been listening to this unreleased song on loop for ages. Want an actual studio version, damn it. XD
In the leadup to Suburbs they did shows and showed off their new stuff, might be so lucky once again!
You listened to Trouble will find me..?
D: Not yet, but I will soon. Was only thinking about that last night!
I wasn’t super keen on it initially, but I really like Trouble Will Find Me now. Possibly more than High Violet.
Oh wow, really? That’s pretty high praise. 😀
Yeah, I agree. I’m not sure I’d put it above HV, but it stands shoulder to shoulder for sure.
Oi. You never reported back on Sistrionix.
I listened to it this morning, it’s pretty rad. The songs we’d already heard were easily the best ones on there though.
Yah I wanted to wait for you to listen first! I didnt want to impede on what you might expect from it. I tooootally agree though. It wasnt as, I dunno… hard hitting, I guess, as I wanted it to be, like the singles were. But yeah, overall, I’m still definitely happy with it, and it’s been my go to album since I got it so that says something in itself. Standing to numerous plays, so yeah. I still really like it! But man, Baby I call hell just doesnt get old. That song is so so amazing.
Just giving it a play again now. Love Walk of Shame amongst the new tracks! Reeks of White Stripes, but I love it for that.
edit: Actually, Your Love is really good too. Great closer with Six feet under and whatever the hidden track is called
Wadjet Eye bundle is $8.96 today on GOG. Every single game in that collection is great if you’re into adventures!
Cinema ad for Watch Dogs. Never seen a game ad before a movie before.
Only mentioned PS3 and PS4. Not an Xbox symbol or word in sight.
Nobs and I saw that before World War Z too.
Me and @DC saw it before it was mainstream.
*hipster hair flick*
I saw that, in 3D too, looks great
Ubisoft seems to have some sort of strange commercial partnership with PlayStation, I see no other reason why they would give PS versions of Watch Dogs and Assassins Creed extra content over the years.
GTAIV had cinema ads. I’m sure there have been a few others as well.
I actually don’t think cinema ads are that expensive either. My friend puts one up for his restaurant/karaoke, I don’t know how much it costs but I’m pretty sure it’s nothing dramatic.
I saw one for Soul Calibre 4, they were really pushing the fact that it had Vader and Yoda, pretty sure that was before the SW Clone Wars CG movie
Reply fail.
Uh, hey gutsoup! 😀
I think I saw Assassin’s Creed trailer before something last year… maybe…
I remember seeing one for the last Red Faction game, and I’m pretty sure one of the Batman Arkham games, probably Arkham City as well.
Sony and Microsoft have both been money-hatting publishers for non-mentions. Watch Dogs was at Sony’s press conference so guess who got the money hat?
The number one worst annoyance about taking your kids to see a movie that you really want to see.
“Daddy, I need to go to the toilet.”
>:(
That large popcorn bucket serves more than one purpose y’know.
Buying your kid the large coke is a recipe for disaster.
They make larger diapers don’t they? 😛
It’s all in the preparation. 🙂
Only three weeks or so until PAX North. (Regular PAX too, I guess.)
A little over three until Pikmin.
July’s going to be a great month.
Yes it is 😉
Jimu birthday month! Strange birthday month!
Red birthday month too
Gosssliiiiiiing <3 <3 <3
http://www.examiner.com/article/microsoft-thought-they-owned-donkey-kong
BAH HA HAH!!!
They should’ve been happy with Banjo Kazooie. XD
I’m sure they were, but DK it aint!
Donkey Kong Nuts & Bolts wouldn’t have been crowd pleasing. 😛
(Though I don’t hate that Banjo game. Fun in its own way.)
OOOOOO I dunno. I have equally fond memories of Banjo and DKC. I dont know how we havent got a proper Banjo 3…
Right? I loved Banjo & Kazooie so much. I want new B&K game, a proper B&K game.
Could EASILY have been Microsoft’s answer to Mario.
I didn’t mean which one was the better game (DKC2 obviously), I was more getting at the more recognisable and money-making franchise.
Yeah, just crazy naive on Microsoft’s part, since Donkey Kong and Mario have been in games together. XD
AHAHAHA, yes this pleases me
Thought I’d log back into my website and see if anything had happened in the year since I last posted.
8 people have found it by searching for shameless nudity, the same amount have found it by variations of “assassin’s creed syndrome”.
I’ll take that as a victory. Somehow.
WHY THERE NO SHAMELESS NUDITY ON UR SITE?
Too many complaints.
Booooo :p
OMG PIKMIN 2! @DC @SUGHLY
When I raged quit I thought I’d have to do all the stupid underground levels again but it auto-saved and I just had to do the last 2 levels again :D. WOOO
Although I just discovered 2 more underground areas and I’m all “ugh” because I don’t want to do them 🙁
Challenge mode is like I thought it would be. I’m not sure if it’s randomly generated but it’s those underground levels and you get points depending on how quickly you finish, how much treasure you collect and how many Pikmin survive. They give you specific Pikmin as well so that’s kinda cool :D. Would work well if they had online co-op for it and leaderboards but knowing Nintendo it probably won’t be in Pikmin 3… *sigh*
Does Pikmin 3 even have online? Knowing Nintendo I’m going to assume no… *sigh*
@dc what happens if I get 10,000/10,000? Does the game just end? 🙁
I’ve got no idea, it’s been ages since I’ve played the first two games. XD
I haven’t seen any of those horrible underground areas in the Pikmin 3 videos, so here’s hoping they’re gone and not ever coming back. XD
um, spoilers i guess
what character are you? atm, i think you still have a chunk to go.?Huh? 😛
Olimar and Louie?yeah u still have a bit to go, sorry I’m being vague i don’t wanna spoil stuff
Fair enough mate!
I just didn’t think there’d be more characters in Pikmin 2, thought you might’ve reply failed or something :D. So what happens when I reach 10,000 pokos? I assume it isn’t the end of the game? And don’t worry, Pikmin isn’t something I care too much about spoilers. Although it is fun discovering things on my own so cheers for being vague 😀yeah, you take the 10,000 to your boss then somethig happens, forcing you to return and there is still a lot to doThanks man! I’m just over half way (5.5k or so) and still have a lot to do so I’m worried it’ll be over way too soonyeah i was really surprised on my first playthrough, i got the 10,000 and thought that was it, game over, but don’t worry there is a lot more.@gutsoup
I thought the original Pikmin was over way to soon so this is good news :D. Hopefully it means P3 isn’t short either!OMG Corpse Party 2 is releasing on PC. Someone tell XSeed to get that shit onto Steam immediately.
MorningAfternoon everyone. Hope you all had a decent weekend. I went out to dinner on Saturday with family to celebrate my sister’s birthday, and that was okay. Afterward we stopped off at JB just because and ended up getting some stuff. I grabbed Drive on bluray (hope it’s as good as everyone says it is) as well as some Pokemon movies (because I’m an adult). One of the Pokemon movies even came with a little figure of that 4th musketeer Pokemon.The code for downloading AC3 I got from Might Ape arrived last week, and I spent 15 hours on the weekend downloading it, only to find when I tried to install the game that it hadn’t downloaded one of the files needed, and when I ran the downloaded again in hopes it would just download that single file it wanted to download the full 15gig again, so screw that. I’ve contacted Ubisoft support to see if there’s a way to just download the missing file I need and am waiting to hear back from them.
I really didn’t like the latest Pokemon movie. Dunno what it was, just didn’t click.
I really like the 3D animation and town design in the Latios/Latias movie.
Some of them really do a good job of raising the stakes so it doesn’t just feel like a long episode, I love seeing the difference the big budget of a movie has over the series.
I liked the diamond and pearl movies, and I heard some good stuff about these latest ones, so hopefully I’ll like them.
I remember liking the D&P movies too.
They’ve had their ups and downs but this latest one is the first I’v actively dis-liked :-/
A @dc upvote reminds me, I saw an ad on channel 9 for a show I think was called Revolution. It looked full of post apocalyptic urban decay.
It’s J.J. Abrams produced and from the creator of Supernatural. Haven’t watched, though.
Is it just me, or is J,J, Abrams involved in every remotely sci-fi thing ever nowadays? Not that that’s a bad thing.
It’s a bad thing if he’s not hands on and just an EP, though. You can always tell what he’s actively involved in and what’s just branded with his name. Haha!
Watched the first ep, didn’t do much for me. Does have Giancarlo Esposito in it though.
I started watching as it went to air in the US, and then they split it up mid-season and reduced the number of episodes from 24 to 20 (or something like that) and I could have sworn it was going to be cancelled… and then they renewed it for a second season. Surprising, but good.
It’s not a great show, but interesting concept and setting and has some good moments. I watched it for the same sort of reason I watch Walking Dead — neither is perfect/both have frustrating moments. Glad to hear Nine will be showing it, though.
Hey Kotaku, last night I submitted my first hat to the TF2 workshop. I am pretty excited!
It’s based off of this item from The Binding of Isaac, and while copyright things are frowned upon, I went and asked Edmund McMillen for permission, so maybe it’ll be alright.
Good luck!
KNYTT UNDERGROUND!
@jimu @gutsoup
I’m a few minutes into Chapter 2. I don’t think I like Underground as much as Stories but I assume Jemu is further and can answer some questions:
Are there any usable items? Not like random inventory items that are used for quests but items/permanent power-ups that let you access new areas just like the usual Metroidvanias? So far the only real things I’ve seen are random ability orb things and that robot you can attach to when you’re a ball. In Stories there were items that worked just like Metroidvanias. For example one item would make you double jump, another would give you the ability to glide. I miss them :'(Something happens before chap 3 that will change the way you play (spoiler)I thought it was a clever idea that there are no ability giving items and only those coloured orbs because it makes the game truly open world, you know?
Any puzzle can be solved the first time you see it because you already have all the tools at your disposal.
Normally I wouldn’t be into that sort of thing but the world is so atmospheric that I just enjoy exploring.
The map opens up in chap 3, it becomes totally non-linear.
hey @freezespreston @ynefel and anyone else playing Hotline Miami. Is it good, I’ve seen a lot about it and read reviews and the such. Is it frustrating? I hear it’s tough but is it tough in a “arrgh gonna retry over and over till i get it” or “aaargh now I’m frustrated and have to have a break” ?
I found it “aaargh now I’m frustrated and have to have a break” but I don’t do very well at those sort of games. It is enjoyable in small doses but I can’t sit down and do a serious play session of it. Then again I only ever made it past the first world in SMB so that style of game isn’t one of my favourites
Make what you will of that
, yeah I think I’ll maybe not bother, looked interesting but I don’t need to be frustrated at the moments.
Thanks
You will die and die and die. It’s very random, and you’ll often finally nail a really hard room or something only for a random shot to hit you or a guy to just happen to patrol into the room and shoot you or something. You continue almost instantly though. It’s similar sort of frustration to Trials or Super Meat Boy in that the game is effectively a puzzle game.
Personally I’ve played it on PC and on Vita and I’ve ended up getting stuck on the same area in both games 🙁 But it’s very good. Simple but effective. Interesting story, addictive and fun gameplay, absolutely amazing soundtrack. Totally worth your 10bux or so. Especially since it’s cross buy on PSV and PS3.
I didn’t find it all that tough. It’s more of a puzzle/tactics game than a proper shooter. Just don’t get too frustrated
ifwhen you die and try again. Amazing game, I loved it. Perfect length to play through in one weekend.EDIT: Play it with a controller if possible! Dual thumbsticks worked better than keyboard/mouse for me.
It’s really, really good!
I’d say it’s in the “arrgh gonna retry over and over till i get it” category. Lots of trial and error but you will learn from your mistakes. You WILL die a lot but it’s so fun that you’ll happily try again and again. So it’s tough but not really frustrating.
The only really “aaargh now I’m frustrated and have to have a break” moments was when there’s a cutscene at the start of the checkpoint. It didn’t make me want to take a break but it was incredibly annoying that every single time I died I had to click through the same dialogue. Granted, it’s not long and can probably be clicked through in a 5 seconds or so but since you’re dying so often it just becomes a nuisance.
I played on PC using a keyboard and mouse. Worked fine for me since you’ll want to aim pretty quickly and the mouse can do that. I hear it plays perfectly fine on a controller/Vita as well 😀
I’m really torn, it’s only $11 or something, myabe I’ll just get it. I think the soundtrack will ease my pain by the sound of things.
Aw man, you didn’t get it in the latest humble bundle a few weeks ago?
nah I’ll get it on PS3/Vita, I don’t have a gaming puter these days, i need to invest in one soon
For me it was a retry over and over until I get it. When you die, you can restart and be off and running again in literally two seconds. So I’d die, say ‘SHIT’ and be trying again before I’d even finished saying ‘SHIT’. It is pretty hard, but not unreasonable. Some of it’s luck, the rest persistence. I didn’t use the lock on mechanic at all really, made it a lot more fun. Locking onto enemies took too long anyway. Tearing around like a crazed psychopath murdering everything in sight before they knew what was going was a lot more fun.
Either way, for $10, you can’t go wrong.
Here’s a blast from the past that’s good for a giggle. A community safety announcement and comedy piece all rolled into one. The right and wrong ways to clean your lawnmower. (Plus my inane commentary, from early 2010.) http://shanewsmith.com/blog/2010/01/lauren-goldsworthy/
Ah, G-town.
“The Mount” is an interesting place.
Oh yeah, I started a new game of Dragon Age Origins last night. I’m a prince dwarf, male, with shortly shaved white hair and a mega white beard, Rogue, dual wielder.
See if I get anywhere. I really wanna romance Morrigan, cos that’ll just be funny! 😀
Woo! Rogues!
o/
I always choose rogue! 😀
Mate. Ain’t no choice but mage in origins. Inferno all day.
I just make sure always to have a mage in my party and then micromanage every fight. XD
I’ve done all 3 races all 3 jobs and completed each playthrough.
Rogue is best, followed by the battle-mage or whatever it’s called and plain warrior was a tad boring for my tastes but I did enjoying bedding the male eldf as an old man.
\o Always strike from the shadows!
Dragon Age: Origins has an incredible theme. Holy damn, so good.
That’s a long one to replay considering you always mention the size of your pile.
My favourite playthrough was as a Mage, I was a blood mage with ….(shit was it Arcane or something the one that goes semi transparent), ridiculously powerfull
It’s just so good!
I was having FFXIV withdrals I think and that was the closest I had (the servers are down for the week) 🙁
oh lame, i was planning on playing tonight, booo
oh well P4G or Sonic or Knytt or Symphony of the night or Gravity Rush or…….. damn i got a lot of Vita games to catch up on
P4G stuff
I’m finding it hard to pick what to do with my time, I wanna build up my courage but i wanna save Yukiko but i wanna strenghthen my social links, I think i’ll end up replaying it cause i know I’m missing things. Did you use the “Near” function to see what other people did? It just worsens things for me cause I’ll see options i didn’t know i could do and then i want to do them too, I’m trying to just enjoy it on my first playthrough but i keep wanting to go do research, I’ll just force myself not to. Also sonic is pretty cool I like how they give u options at points like jumping into the water and being a boat or hitting a ramp and turn into a plane. Haven’t played much but it seems pretty good. Also played a bit of Gravity Rush, not sure what to make of it yet, I like the anime like art.Yeah, I tried that near function once, didn’t like it at all, never used it again.
I just wanted to play through and learn as I went.
After you play for a while you get into more of a rythm of when to do things and whatever. I tended to go straight into the dungeon when a new area opened, stay in until I was out of MP and then head out and do socializing until I was bored and then back to dungeoncrawling.
I like that you could do this, meant I never got sick of one or the other.
I don’t think it’s possible to raise all stats on the first playthrough, that’s one of the things that carries over to new game plus.
Yeah, Sonic is so good. I found the tracks to be much fmore fun and excitiing than the last two Mario Karts, the different routes is great. Did you play much of the missions?
Only played the Gravity Rush demo, wasn’t too excited, may pick up if I find it really cheap sometime. I imagine since it’s on plus it’ll be going for a tenner before too long.
yup, in sonic i did some career stuff most were races, one was a drift challenge.I was wondering about things in P4G there is some stuff really early on that said i needed more courage, i thought i must have missed a whole bunch of chances for courage, but from what you said maybe some of these are only possible on a second playthrough, (things like hitting on chicks, he says your “courage” must be at least x level to do that). Hearing you say that will probably help cause i won’t feel like i missed too much, I’ve tended to charge into new areas too, I’m all but what if the fog comes
Yep, that’s it, some stuff there is no way to do on a first playthrough.The fog can’t come while your in there, the danger of fog coming is while your outside, if it rains for 3 or 4 days straight, at the end it will fog and whoever will die.
I tried to get the dungeons finished early and that seemed to work for me.
And despite what others experiences were, I never had to grind for the sake of grinding. I didn’t even do many quests. I just played on and concentrated on rasining links with my core team.
The FFXIV beta is run in phases, so bear in mind there might be weeks at a time where you can’t play.
Yeah, cool. I’ll live.
Wish I could afford to play when it actually gets up and running.
ANIMALCROSSINGTALK:
I finally got a non-fake piece of art 😛 My neighbours are all scum. They keep giving me art as presents and up until now they’d all been fake. Julian has given me two fakes before giving me the real one. Dammit, Julian! You’re a unicorn! You’re meant to make dreams come true! Anyway, my museum is finally getting upgraded today.
MOBILETHINGSTALK:
Even with the amount of hate they get, mobile games are actually pretty entertaining. I’ve been downloading a few of the free ones over the weekend. I actually like the games that make you wait x amount of hours to do something (even though they’re clearly done that way to get you to buy speed-ups). They’re good for checking in with every now and then (and the fact that it’s Jurassic Park branded meant I had to try it regardless :P)
Some iOS apps though are much better than their Android counterparts. It’s pretty obvious where the resources are focused. Just things like Facebook and Twitter run a lot more smoothly (though this may be because my phone is an ancient relic by industry standards). Much more noticeable in things like banking apps (it’s actually an app now! Not a ‘press this button and use our mobile website instead’ thing)
RADIOTALK:
I really like this ‘Koffee’ digital station (can’t get it on standard radio unfortunately). So relaxing to listen to at work! All easy listening music and mellowed-out covers of other songs.
ps. Hi.
Hey!
Also: Someone sent me a work email and they typo’d “fact” as “fart” and it made me giggle for a good 10 minutes.
Museum shop! I love the museum shop <3 2 silver tools so far, plus a glass display cabinet that I can order en mass from catalogue! Woop woop
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/06/30/neil-gaiman-makes-it-sound-like-good-omens-is-back-in-terry-gilliams-hands-again/
FUCK YES!!!
What did everyone think of Man of Steel? I watched a crap cam copy a couple of weeks ago but the film was amazing. I now cannot wait to see it again at the cinemas this week.
Ha. See below.
God damn.
Damn.
Screw the haters. That movie was freaking amazing. Nearly 3 hours and I still wanted more. Thoroughly entertained the entire way through.
Anyone who thinks otherwise is incapable of happiness or fun or just wants too look like a snarky
idiotelitist.Evidently I am either incapable of happiness or fun or I just want to look like a snarky elitist.
I didn’t enjoy it nearly as much as everyone else seems to be.
Yes.
🙁
It’s okay. I still love you.
It’s fun you say? I hat fun.
Never been a Superman fan though and don’t see that changing soon, but Zack Snyder always puts together solid movies. (Atleast visually.) Also, AMY ADAMS.
Did your daughter like the film?
Fun is probably the last word I’d use to describe Man of Steel.
You’d love it.
😛
contemporary urban destruction! 😛
Haha! That’s not the same as urban decay, otherwise I’d be a huge Michael Bay fan. 😛
Ew
I think “polarising” has been the operative term.
I reckon the
neck snapis one of the main reasons.
Considering he had no choice, did it to save people and wasn’t happy about it at all I don’t see the problem. Unless people wanted more neck snapping?The neck snap isn’t the issue I had with the movie. Totally necessary. Other than being way too long, the main issue i had was with General Zod. I didn’t find him remotely threatening. A better villain could have saved that movie for me. Here’s hoping that they cast someone fantastic as Luthor (as if it isn’t going to be Luthor) in the sequel.I have no argument against Zod not being the greatest villain. I do think he wasn’t really the villain though. There seemed to be a theme of desperation and uncertainty to the film and Zod was no more immune to that than Supes or the humans were. He was trying to save his race. In his eyes he was doing the noble and right thing. he wanted to wipe out humanity because he believed they wouldn’t accept them. Supes hiding for 30 years wouldn’t have been a great argument against his thoughts either. I didn’t think it was a battle of good vs evil but a story of a struggle for survival.I’ve read quite a few articles (for and against) how many of the classic Superman themes were misinterpreted or ignored completely.
There was a big issue with:
Pa Kent teaching him to hide and asking him not to save. The big thing that’s been taken as canon is that Pa Kent taught him to be human and help out.That’s one example, I haven’t seen the movie anyways 😛
I read it more as Kent wanted Clark to be a good person but was scared of what would happen to him if people found out.That’s what I’ve been told too, but it goes against putting others first.Again, it can be argued that in a modern world if people found out he would be lynched for it.
I really can’t form an opinion without seeing the movie though…even though my opinion has already been tainted.
On the snapping:
I’m hoping that as was done in the comics when Supes killed (this isn’t a new thing despite what people are insinuating) that they actually properly use that as a major point as to why he doesn’t kill in the next film.
I don’t want him being “haunted” by it or anything like that, but I would like him to make a point that he doesn’t want to kill.Well yeah, he shouldn’t be having teary flashbacks but it should be an important part of forming the Superman we know and love. I just hope they pull it off (they claim thats the point and I think that’s part of the reason Nolan folded on it since he was against it).On destruction:
I’ve read that he lets too much of the city get destroyed in the battle and that its obvious, even though not shown, that many would have died because of the battle. Sims from CA was totally against this because classicly Superman would use hi super speed to save everyone.
I read elsewhere that it mirrors the battle in Marvel Man and that Supers, like MM did, had to concentrate on defeating the villain and let innocents die, because if he faltered and Zod escapes then many more would be killed.
Interestingly, Directorpants is a huge Watchman fan and Moore wrote Marvel Man so that may be an intentional homage.
I think the collateral damage aspect is true but overblown- Zod’s first move would have done a tonne of damage to Metropolis, so by the time they’re fighting it’s largely evacuated.@redartifice Well, I’d best watch it!
The new soundtrack is very epic. Much better than the old ‘march.’ The controversial/hated ending was perfect. It gives the film a good talking point.
Edit:
In fact, immediately after that scene I thought, ‘Superman KILLS.’ Wow, this is a completely different Superman story and I love it.Hey, the Superman theme is a classic.
I haven’t seen it, but don’t be like that. People are entitled to not like stuff 🙁
So I just bought tickets to see it with Ash in an hour. Better be like you say it is *glares suspiciously*
Better than Iron Man 2!
I have a feeling your thoughts on it may be very similar to mine. I could be wrong, I hope I am really, but I doubt it.
Man of Steel was AMAZEBALLS…. probably the first movie ever that ive wanted to go back to the cinemas and watch again…. have convinced myself to save the extra pennies and buy the bluray instead!
So @mawt has been getting all artistic in Skyrim and is tempting me to get back in and play around with some of the mods. I hear there is one that lets you wear a petite lavender men’s cape
Besides checking those out I also managed to compete FTL (on easy) over the weekend. Found the teleporters are really important. Having a bug and a rock leveled up in combat makes a difference. Might start playing on normal again now. Still haven’t managed to unlock any of the other ships. Oh and doors are important
Speaking of @mawt: want to try out roll20?
Very much so.
I wanted to organise something for last weekend, but have been too busy with work to TAY effectively.
Let’s try and do something this week. I’ll post something up tonight so we can pick a day/time.
Any day but Friday is good for me
Tonight isn’t good for me but any other day should be
Haha. Yeah, I grabbed a bunch of graphic and landscape mods and turned Skyrim into a sort of Extreme Nature Photography game. It’s pretty fun, I’m glad you have enjoyed it.
I think Skyrim will be my Shameless Gaming Month game.
Some nice shots in there, you need to start ‘hunting’ deer and rabbits to get nice shots of them 😉
I keep forgetting the code to remove the UI so haven’t taken any shots for a while
There’s a code?!
I’ve been setting ui opacity to 0 for my shots.
I’m starting to get good at archery with the targeting reticule. I might start a whole new Ui-less game. Just focus on “surviving” in the wilderness.
Press ~ tilda to bring up console
type tm
take screenshot
~ tm to bring it back
Press Tilda?
Edit: New link :/
Oh god that broke the internet, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!
Referral DeniedHey @negativezero
Where did you find out the servers were down in FFXIV?
I’ve just been in the forums and can’t find :-s
They only run the beta on weekends. They get taken down during the week for patching, gathering logs and fixing bugs and stuff.
Phase 4 of the beta next month I think they’re going to run them longer than weekends but Phase 4 is basically open beta.
So friday to Sunday night?
I didn’t actually log on til Saturday, hmmmm.
Cool thanks.
So on the weekend I managed to catch up with a friend of mine who’s departing Australia. He also happens to possess an Oculus Rift dev kit. After some drinks & food etc we tried on the Rift. It was playing a roller coaster simulation in some renaissance-fair sort of ground, complete with castle walls, tents, bends around the open gate etc.
I can say right now though that the Rift is definitely NOT FOR PEOPLE WITH LOW TOLERANCE TO VERTIGO. I’m not sure if it was just that the demo is on rails with no start and end (it just loops) so I couldn’t actually stay still & find my focus before getting thrown into another drop & bend or that I just have really low tolerance to its nausea rating. Either way after about 10 seconds I had to take it off or I would’ve hurled right then and there… (I did do it as soon as I got home though, lol)
To me at the moment it still feels a bit gimmicky. It’s providing you with visual feedback (going around the bend etc) but your body is still stationary and the effect is just jarring as all hell. I could not relate to the fact that my vision is sideways but my body is not, I guess maybe that’s why it was nauseating – it’s like the world is being tilted all around you but your body is actually in the 1 position.
Would be interesting to test it with an FPS or something that isn’t on rails and maybe relatively on even ground.
Mirror’s Edge 2. That’s a system seller for the Rift.
It’d get me buying one, anyway.
But it’d be a double-whammy of motion sickness for those who are affected :\
Yep, was not a pleasant rest of the night for me. I played MEd1 and it was nauseating enough, guess I will never use it for MEd2, ha!
Sounds interesting.
I was playing BL2 with a friend of mine on the w’end and even that was giving him vertigo at times, so I don’t want to imgaine what he’d be like strapped into one of these things
yeah I used to get vertigo with FPS, it’s much better now though older FPSes still give me some – like HL1 on a big monitor. It’s relatively manageable though since I can just take a break & look away. Not so with the Rift methinks.
Was he playing or just watching you play. Motion sickness is much more common from people watching than controlling as the world whips left and right when they don’t expect it.
When you are playing you know you are going to glance quickly left and back you you are prepared, they are trying to focus on a detail in the ‘distance’ and suddenly everything blurs.
He was playing on his own screen- main issue was when his char was falling from a great height
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/05/the-oculus-rift-australian-hands-on/
Reminds me of this.
One step closer to my holodeck!
Yep, it’s precisely that (and how come I’ve forgotten about that article? lol). As I’d said I’d love to try it again with a demo where I can actually stop and focus. It would probably feel much different than the one I was thrown into
Yeah, I’ve read that. Some people can go forever, some people a while and some people can only go seconds before feeling sick.
Knowing my low tolerance for 3D, I don’t like my chances 🙁
Yeah BF’s cousins got a devkit as well and while one of them can use it all day, the other one can’t even put it on at all. Makes game developing way harder if you can’t use the platform!
Went and picked up a pile of comics from the library, no super hero stuff today o_O
I find that more and more I worry about art. When I was a kid I would straight up buy a comic just cos I liked the artist. Then as I grew older I became more obsessed with writing.
I still like both, but it seems I really need a good balance of both for something to interest me.
They have comics at the library? I thought it’d be too flimsy to last repeated borrowings?
I don’t think they go out of their way to acquire them, probably purely donated.
No, they have a really big selection, heaps of manga too.
You can fill out a form to request stuff and certain titles get sold when too old and rebought.
http://www.madman.com.au/catalogue/view/21046/legend-of-zelda-manga-box-set
Have them order this, win.
The manga selection is classic, manga just goes for so long.
The superhero stuff is more of a random selection because individual books can stand on their own but they need to have all of a manga for it to make sense.
So an entire section on a shelf will just be one manga 😀
This is a lot of why I held off really getting into collecting manga. So much space. And I get obsessive and have to own everything. 🙁 So I kept myself to only a few and haven’t picked up anything new in years.
I’ve found that apart from a few gems, I lose interest after a while.
I really need to buy all of Akira, the visual story telling and detail of the art blows my fucking mind.
The story isn’t as tight as the movie but it’s still Grade A stuff.
And, Only 6 telephone books!
Not individual issues, trade paperbacks and hard covers.
That would be ridiculous! (although I remember seeing it sometimes as a kid and they put them into special hard plastic cases that didn’t work)
You can borrow the entire Y: The Last Man, Astonishing X-Men, Ex Machina, Promethea, Kabuki and Watchmen from the library! (among others)
Oh, that makes more sense. Don’t mind me, I’m a comic newb. Haha!
I’m working on that, DC. I’m working on that
Have you seen the latest issue of Hawkeye? really interesting visual storytelling
If the library gets it, I will read it.
I’m getting Fantastic Four by Fraction, I’ve been a fan or the artist, Mark Bagley, since I was 10. He was the first artist in a comic I bothered to learn the name of.
Hawkeye I am keen to read, sounds good!
I can’t recommend it enough, only ongoing I am reading atm
I’m on a conference call and it’s getting network weirdness that’s causing horrible digital screams periodically that sound like screeching tires. It’s quite distracting.
Need to figure out what games to play next now that I’ve finished Okami HD. So many options nothing that stands out.
Blue Dragon!
I don’t know if I still have my copy and even if I did I wouldn’t want to go back to the Mistwalker stuff. I haven’t liked any of the Gooch’s games since he left Squenix.
I really wanted to like Blue Dragon too. It was one of the reasons I bought an Xbox. 🙁
The reason I went 360 over PS3, I love it. I literally couldn’t play any other game until I finished Blue dragon and then Lost Odyssey.
So bummed he didn’t do more similar things 🙁
I guess nobody cared though D:
Did you ever play Last Remnant? I guess it wouldn’t be your bag, fairly generic story, I just loved the combat.
I… I think I have a copy? But didn’t play it. I have basically every JRPG on the X360. I was desperate 🙁 I don’t think I actually finished any of them 🙁 In fact thinking about it, the only JRPG I finished during the PS3/360 gen might have been Tales of Graces. I’ll need to check. This terrifies me if it’s true.
(Note: I did *finish* Disgaea 4 in that I got to the end of the story, but didn’t *complete* it and also it’s an SRPG)
Story completion is enough for an RPG.
If you need to do everything then FF7,8,9&10 are the only ones I’ve “completed”
Last Story was just getting good when I lost my save, haven’t done a restart yet :-/
This gen I’ve completed stories of JRPGs: LO, BD, FF13-2 (I was at the end of 13) & various handhelds.
I don’t count handhelds. But I haven’t finished any JRPGs on handheld either.
What the hell is wrong with me? 🙁 I keep buying these things and not finishing them.
Growing up I guess, too little spare time and RPGs require a lot.
That’s why I finish so many handheld games, between standby and train trips I have heaps of time…relatively speaking.
@jimu: in the same period I’ve completed multiple long western games AND played WoW for many years, I don’t think time commitment is the problem.
What might be the problem is that a lot of the 360’s early days when it was getting JRPGs, I was playing better ones on PS2. I know for a fact I finished the Ar Tonelico games on PS2 well after I got a PS3, and probably Tales of the Abyss and FF XII too because I went back to XII a year or two later.
Hey, hey Jemu…
Did you ever play The Last Story? I think I recall you saying you weren’t interested because the combat looked weird.
Honestly, the game was kinda okay, bit disappointing because I was expecting a lot based on past Mistwalker games but… 🙁 (Xenoblade is better!)
If Xenoblade is better, I want no part of it!
Seriously, from what I’ve seen/read it looks like a cover shooter with magic instead of guns and melee attacks.
Not keen, and it’s on Wii, not keen.
I was anticipating that for like a year or more before release and by the time it dropped I had lost all faith. I did order it, ozgame fucked the order an that was the last straw.
I have better games sitting here in my pile.
better games… like Xenoblade? 😀
I was hype when the initial concept art was released, it was all colourful and pretty but the actual game is just brownnn. I wouldn’t say it’s a cover shooter as it’s more slow paced compared to a shooter but it’s weird and I wasn’t too keen on it.
Just derp around on something (MMO, FFXIV?) until Tales of Xillia comes out 😀
Atelier or something?
I’m thinking I really should knock out an Atelier game. Maybe Rorona or Totori. Also I’m thinking I’d like to finish Ys III before Ys IV.
Hello friends.
Finished Gurren Lagann over the weekend, thoughts within.
so i really enjoyed it, more than i thought i would when i started it. The second half really was great, i loved seeing all of the characters grown up, even if Rossiu became a huge dick. also, the final battle was one of the craziest things i’d ever seen, a mech within a mech within a mech within a mech? brilliant. I was a little annoyed at “the love interest has to die to save the world” trope at the end, why couldn’t they let Simon be a little bit happy? i understand he had accepted it before he defeated the anti-spirals, but it still seemed like it didn’t need to happen :(. also, why did boota evolve for 5 minutes, then change back into a pig mole? and finally, i wanna see a series of it thousands of years in the future, and some people meet viral (seeing as he’s immortal), i think it’d be cool. so yeah, i liked it a lot, there’s also another point i wanna make, but it also spoils last of us, so dont hit the next spoiler if you haven’t passed the last of us.LAST OF US AND GURREN LAGANN SPOILERS IN THE NEXT SPOILER TAB
i found it funny that both gurren lagann and last of us posed the same question to the main character, “Save the world or save the girl.” Simon obviously chose the world and joel chose the girl, it was just a little thing i picked up since i just passed the last of us as well :).Was it the girl or himself that Joel chose?whoaMy main issue with Gurren Lagann was that the bit at the very start of the first episode
ended up not happening.The way that everything scales up is amazing. It’s like they crank everything up to 11, then go beyond that because 11 was far too reasonable, and then every few episodes they find a way to amp it up even further.
Apparently one of the design goals with the show was effectively to be a send-up of giant robot anime from different generations. Shouty men, giant robots that combine to other robots to make bigger giant robots, that sort of thing. The first third of the show
up to Kamina’s demiseis very much a callback to 70s and early 80s stuff, then it goes into the more relationship-oriented stuff of the later 80s when the Mecha genre started to displace Super Robots, then into the emo period of the 90s (Evangelion being the huge thing) before going into 00s stuff and then looking toward the future.Have you ever seen GaoGaiGar? While a lot longer and more formulaic it has a lot of the same spirit as G-L. Also one of the most epic opening songs ever.
Also if you liked Gurren Lagann and you haven’t seen them, you should track down Gunbuster and Diebuster / Gunbuster 2. Diebuster especially is a lot of where the visual style and overall feel comes from.
Yeah, i totally got the whole “evolution of mecha” thing they were doing. Especially in the middle, as it got super serious compared to the rest of the show and i was seeing the evangelion influences to the story.
i’ll have to give those other ones a look though.
Gunbuster is an absolute classic. Aim to get fansubs if you can, the official releases had some music cuts because there’s a training montage which had some music they had licensing issues with or something. And I can’t remember because it’s been a long time, but they might have cut one of the opening or ending themes for an instrumental piece as well.
I thought it was a reconstruction of Giant Mecha after Eva blew it to pieces.
Super Robot stuff was blown to pieces well before Evangelion came along. Gundam and Macross changed the focus toward Mecha (i.e. ‘realistic’ mech designs). Which isn’t to say that the genre died out or anything as there are heaps of examples of Super Robot stuff contemporary with it, but the big thing with Gundam was that it sold toys hand over fist.
Also I think that G-L was intended to be a bit of a tribute to Gunbuster in a lot of ways. It ran around the time that Gunbuster hit 20 years old, and Gunbuster was one of their first really influential productions. Mainly it’s a tribute to Getter Robo though, I think. That’s the particular thing they’ve cited as being the biggest influence.
MY DRILL WILL PIERCE THE HEAVENSWHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK WE ARE?!?!?!@greenius Sound familiar at all?
No? 😛
I don’t get it…
Serious? Music in Knytt so wants to be Brian Eno it isn’t funny.
Okay, I thought of Knytt but the video froze after like 30 seconds so I didn’t know if there was more to it or not 😛
Man, everything about Underground is just in the “not as good as Stories” category :'(. I hope they’ll make more though! Surely through PS+ they’d have gained some fans 😀
Apparently I am king of upvotes. Tremble puny non-kings!
Downvoted.
Usurp the King!
That looks an awful lot like not trembling.
Nahhhhhhhh.
Needs to be more specific – I’d say D.C. is the king of giving upvotes, but you’re probably just the king of most upvotes on one comment… or something 😛
LOOK WHAT WE’VE DONE GUYS. All we had to do was not upvote his comment but now we’ve gone ahead and created this ego monster :'(
Oh man! You totally thought that same thought in the SGM article 😀
You’re alright @trjn .
*Trijn
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/07/shameless-gaming-week-one-getting-started/
That Trijn guy is as handsome as he is smart!
I am the King of Non-Kings
#paradox
You truly are the king of kings!
Of non-kings*
The blurst
@jimu @redartifice
From Man of Steel’s IMDB Trivia section.
Zack Snyder proposed that Superman kill General Zod, in order to set up Superman’s classic “never kills” motto. He wanted it to be brutal and jarring, so that it would forever keep in Superman’s mind.Yeah, I think it did that really wellOh yeah, that’s what I was getting at before. :-s
#blabberjimu
Yeah, just pointing out what you were hoping is true. The movie is about 90% drawn from various comic sources and really does care about the source material.
Edit: I should say really cares for source material while doing it’s own thing.
I heard a thing where they looked at the source material and said “It has to serve a purpose- we can’t put it in just for tradition’s sake”http://www.crunchyroll.com/free-iwatobi-swim-club
I’m just going to leave this here to torture everyone… XD
Apparently nerds on the internet are annoyed that Kyoto Animation – a studio that usually makes shows about cute girls being cute – decided to make a show about cute boys getting their shirts off.
So they should (the studio) equality is where it’s at! 😀
Kyoani are easily one of the best studios that works on TV anime but this will probably be the first of their productions I skip. Not that I don’t want them to make it, but it started as an april fools joke. 😐 And it’s just generally not my thing. So many new shows that look interesting this season.
Could you tell me what looks good this season?
i’ve been looking and haven’t really found something that looks worthwhile…
Depends greatly on the sort of things you like.
i know, was just more interested in what others consider to be worth watching.
I’ll make a list when I get home.
bewbs
There’s usually one or two late night boobs shows every season if you really want them. :\
@negativezero THEY COME IN PAIRS???!!! 😛
@jimu: depends if you’re Arnold Schwarzenegger on Mars or not
Follow-up. In case you need a summary sheet:
http://i4.minus.com/ibmLELbCivOxPY.jpg
Stuff I am definitely watching:
– Danganronpa the Animation: I’ve heard really great things about the game this is built off. Mystery stuff tends not to translate well to 24-minute anime eps but we’ll see. Extremely strong cast and pretty good staff involved too.
– Rozen Maiden: this is a remake of the older show of the same name, based off a rebooted version of the manga. I really enjoyed the original way back when it was running so this is a no-brainer. Also expect the resurrection of the 4chan ‘desuuuuu’ meme…)
– Fate/Kaleid Liner: Though it’s a peripherally related spinoff I really like the Type-moon stuff, and this is being done by a really competent staff and everything (Bakatest amongst others) so it should be pretty amusing
– Monogatari Second Season: Highlight of the season and probably the year for me. Absolutely love the -monogatari series (Bakemonogatari etc). They always have amazing art direction through use of color and everything, and also I’ve been a fan of Akio Watanabe’s art for years as well. But the highlight for the show is always the snappy dialogue. Really excited for this one.
– Uchouten Kazoku: The art looks a bit odd, but this is adapted from an award-winning actual novel and the last time PA Works adapted a proper novel we got Another. Not that this looks remotely similar, just that it looks interesting
– The World God Only Knows S3: I enjoyed the first two seasons and this is adapting one of the better arcs of the manga (or so I’m told). Plus Akio Watanabe artwork again.
– Hyperdimension Neptunia: I fully expect this to be an enormous steaming turd, but I really like the artwork in the games and if the actual game part had been less clunky I think I’d probably have enjoyed it, so this one’s on my list based off that shaky logic
– Silver Spoon: It’s running in Fuji TV’s Noitamina block which has previously been home to some really top-end stuff, and I constantly hear people hyping how good the original manga is. Definitely on my list.
– Gatchaman Crowds: OMG it’s a new Gachaman (Battle of the Planets) series from Tatsunoko?! And it’s the same staff that did Tsuritama last year, which I really enjoyed, and Ayakashi & Mononoke previously, both of which are extremely good. This looks a bit more conventional maybe.
There’s quite a few others I’m interested in but I’m not sure about and will probably give a few episodes because there’s often a show or two each season which sounds mildly interesting or conventional but turns out to be extremely entertaining. Genshiken’s new series is on my maybe list for example – I loved the first season, but they really lost me on the second one because it went from being hilarious nerd comedy to an uninteresting romance story and completely lost sight of what was good about the original. But I’m happy to give it another chance.
I can attest to the World god only knows, i read the manga and that arc is really great, gives the show more of a meaning than just “conquering”, excited to see it in animation.
Danganronpa looks fairly interesting, will defs give that a watch.
The idea of hyperdimension neptunia seemed alright, but yeah, the game part of it was fairly bad according to my friends, but i’ll give it a chance
Monotagari – i’ve watched half of Bakemonogatari (the first season), really liked it, but never finished it, been meaning too, this may give me an excuse to finish it.
Also, that image was a huge help.
Thanks a bunch for putting some time into this, i really appreciate it, now i have somewhat knowledge of what i have to look out for now.
i never watched the thing that inspired this anime, so i don’t really get why people liked it.
good for the fans that it happened, but i have a feeling they will be dissapointed..
So this was a bit of a goofy time waster cause I was bored while watching TV, but through a combination of tracing and free hand I’ve drawn Ellie using Illustrator and thought I may as well share. Here it is next to the picture I was copying: http://i.imgur.com/qpukj5Y.jpg
I’m not really happy with the nose or lips, and the chin’s slightly off, but whatever.
Very cool!
I was reading some comment Sughly made on an earlier page and I realised it’s totally September soon.
So far it looks like Pikmin 3 this month, Wonderful 101 and Tales of Xillia in August and Rayman Legends in September (are people still getting this on the Wii U?!) – did I forget anything? …hey did GTAV ever get a date? WOO GAMES!
So who else is in the Xillia club? Gonna need some discussion buddies… @negativezero @jimu @doc_what @strange @beavwa ? and @jordi who probably already finished the Japanese one 😛
probs not at this point
Beyond: Two Souls in October for me too.
I’m getting Rayman Legends on the Wii U to justify having a Wii U, though I suspect Pikmin will do plenty justifying on its own. Might get The Walking Dead 400 Days too.
Also plenty of Kickstarter adventures coming out soon like Broken Age and Asylum.
I had it pre-ordered back in October or something but I kinda don’t want to get it on Wii U just so I have something to play on Wii U 😛 (Wind Waker should be soonish!)
The demo was fun but I really didn’t like how it played on the Wii U with the random touch sections breaking up the pacing (I’m really curious to see how it works on other platforms) and those sections forcing you to look at the crappy touch screen when it looks so good on the TV :'(.
Is TWD400 Season 2 or something else? I haven’t read much about it but I think it’s set between 1 and 2 or something? Is it on PC? I guess I’ll check that out since TWD was awesome 😀
400 Days is DLC for the first season, you need those eps to play this. It’s going to be released on all platforms and is a self-contained-ish story with different characters that’s changed based on various decisions made in the first season.
It’s a bridge between seasons too, not season two. Also released this month.
OOO! 😀
And yes, Broken Age!!!!!! 😀
Even if they don’t sell or show the doco after you can always acquire the password of a friend’s Kickstarter account and watch them.
That’s a no for Xillia from me.
From here on out I’m sticking to purchasing Nintendo + PC games only; that will already give me more than I can hope to play.
Day 1 Xillia
My list of things I know I’m getting:
June:
– Muramasa (Vita)
July:
– Project X Zone (3DS)
– Time & Eternity (PS3)
August:
– Xillia (PS3)
– Dragon’s Crown (PS3 & Vita)
September:
– Ys Celceta (Vita)
October:
– AC4 (PC or PS4, undecided)
– Disgaea D2 (PS3)
– Arkham Origins (Probably PC)
November:
– Watch Dogs (PC or PS4)
Still deciding whether to get a PS4 or stick to PC, waiting to see the actual launch lineup and what gets announced at TGS.
Also this list is possibly a bit out of date as I haven’t updated it in a while. If Bravely Default hits this year it will be a day 1 puchase too. Also IIRC Tecmo said that Atelier Meruru will get a Vita release in August or so, and I’m hoping we get some news about Atelier Escha & Logy too as that looks great.
Hmm… I’ve briefly heard of Disgaea D2 before but it sounds confusing. Seems like a spin-off but plays like the main Disgaea games. Hmm interesting.
I still need to get D3 on Vita and then hold out for some sort of “upgraded” (possibly Vita) D4 version.
Disgaea D2 is a direct sequel to Disgaea, whereas Disgaea 2 was a new world and characters and everything.
I.e. D2 stars Laharl, Etna and Flonne again and stuff.
Oh, cool!
i’ll get xillia, always been a fan of the tales games, so i’ll give it a shot
If it’s almost September, that means… IT’S ALMOST OCTOBER 😀
POKEMON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rayman is Aug 29th. Unless its later for non wiiu? I’m getting wiiu…
HNGH.
I so just backed this.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/5livesstudios/satellite-reign
Decent looking pedigree too.
Pedigree, you say?
http://i99.beon.ru/old-school-california.cowblog.fr/images/pedigree.gif
@redartifice @mythamphetamine @ynefel @tigerion
Presenting… TAYbles & TAYtans
In the interest of giving this a shot, let’s nail down a date/time to do this. I imagine that this will likely take 3 hours (I actually think I’m being generous, but let’s stay optimistic), and I think we need to account for at least 2 time zones (Eastern and Central (is it called that?)).
We have not Friday and not Monday, and I’ll be out Thursday night this week. So we’ve got Tues, Wed, Sat & Sun.
I’m happy to go as late as Midnight, so that would be a latest start of 9:00 AEST/8:30 ACST. Earliest start for me would be 7:30 AEST/7:00 ACST. That’s weekdays, weekends could be just about any time – this Saturday would be particularly good for me.
Lastly, send me an email to matt dot mawt at g mail dot com and I’ll start + invite to a roll20 group that we’ll use for the game.
@redartifice if you’ve got some level 1 characters pre-rolled that’s cool. The Essentials classes don’t actually have a whole lot of choice – most levels are streamlined to give you only one new ability at each level – so if I have to make characters for people it’ll be a case of applying a standard array (probably 16, 16, 12, 12, 10, 8) to a class and jotting down the prepacked skills.
I’m cool with Saturday!
As for characters, I can roll whatever people would like, essentials or otherwise- just let me know!
Way late here, my apologies man! I’m free after 1700 weekdays, and most any time come week’s end. I’m pretty flexible outside of the next month or so mate!
Looks I’m going to Hong Kong again later this year. Fuck yeah. I love that place so much.
ALL THE DUMPLINGS
All the Xiao Long Bao!
You’ll have to visit @puppylicks and check up on him for us.
Hah. He’ll hardly need it. My parents used to live there and it’s an amazing place. He’ll be too busy winning!
I just meant to make sure he isn’t having too much fun 🙂
Haha well how about that.
Party in Lan Kwai?
It’s always a party in Lan Kwai Fong. So many drunk businessmen.
@greenius Do you want a lift there and back for the meat on Friday?
I’ll be going in a little early because I want to visit a couple of shops before the meat, so I’d probably pick you up around 4pm.
I plan to park at Crown. That’s where Galactic Circus is, right? (and I believe there’s cheap parking there – not sure, never done it before)
If you want a lift, all I ask is that you be in charge of navigation please, as I’ve never driven to Crown before. Going into town I’d normally just catch a train.
Thanks, I wouldn’t mind a lift there :). @inquisitorsz said he didn’t mind taking me there but it sounds a bit inconvenient for him so yours might be a bit better. Last time I’ve been driven to Crown was a long time ago too so I’m not sure how much help I can be :P. Unless you mean just reading out directions from Google maps then yeah, I could totally do that!
@negativezero said he didn’t mind taking me back and I think he’s closer to me.
Usually I’d probably drive to the bus stop and take public transport from there but since we’re only meeting at 7pm I assume we’ll finish late and it’ll be pretty late by the time I’d get back (I’m not sure when the buses/trains stop running). It’s also school holidays so all the dodgy folk will come out :D. Sorry to trouble you, fronds!
Cool. I’ll drive you in 🙂
As for navigation, yeah, just reading directions from Google maps is all I want.
I’ll be taking Napoleon Rd to get home = two minute detour to your house, so the offer of a ride home is there if you like.
Thanks! But whatever is easier for you guys (@negativezero)
🙂
Of course I guess the easiest option is to not give me a lift at all but that’s no fun! 😛
they do have cheaper parking. I have friends who park there.
If you’re going in early, I might go in at 6pm
I’ll be going in early. I want to check out Minotaur and a regular bookshop too. You still have my number? Is yours still the same?
Not sure where/when everyone is meeting, but I don’t reckon hanging around outside Yoyogi’s while we wait for everybody is such a great idea. Might be better to meet up somewhere else beforehand then walk up together?
Also, I’m happy to give you a lift home if you like. As I recall, you’re pretty close to town aren’t you? Sort of Moonee Ponds area?
I think it’s probably changed from the number you have. She got a Note a few months ago so it changed.
Ok, thanks.
Pretty much. I live just off ballarat rd on the way to sunshine.
My number has changed but I think I have yours.
OK. SMS me if you want to meet in the city early.
Also, please let me know if you’d like a lift home so I know if I need to bring the Walking Dead DVD with me, or if I can leave it in the car 🙂
Animal Crossing friends!
There’s a new SpotPass item! DOWNLOAD PRICES ARE DOWN
Down down! Turnip prices are down!
D:
Thanks @strange ! You never told me what you wanted though 🙁
I didn’t want anything. Except to snoop around your town and laugh about you with your residents. 😛
D: !
Played a bit of Hotline Miami. I can safely say that the game is as violent as it is manic and I’m loving it.
Deaths are met with either giggles at the ridiculousness or cries of frustration… at the ridiculousness. Enemy AI is not always consistent. Sometimes I could kill a dude without being noticed, other times another guy would shoot me immediately for doing it.
I find the trick is to laugh more. Also my eyes might be bleeding. It’s a very colourful game.
That soundtrack is what brings it all together though.
In any other game I would loathe that soundtrack. And yet, somehow, it works.
It’s because you expect mountains of cocaine just offscreen.
@jimu
Chapter 3 in Underground! This is what Underground should’ve been like from the start :P!
Stories didn’t have much of a story (:P) or NPCs with dialogue and quests, but it was just pure exploration goodness. You’re just dumped in the middle of nowhere and free to explore. Then you unlock items that let you explore more! WOO!
It also had user created levels and omgomgomg …I miss Stories :'(
You should play it! It’s pretty old so I’m 100% sure it’ll run on your “craptop”
http://nifflas.ni2.se/?page=Knytt+Stories
More drawing!
Also, fuck hands.
NSFW.
http://i.imgur.com/OzgTClP.png
Ah well, looks like I’m firmly on your side of the fence on this one @bdkiaf. I thought Supes was rather terrible. I swear to God, no words were uttered from me before I turned to Ash and asked him how he liked it. “Explosions, explosions, and… kissing. That’s all that was”. Which was followed by a 10 minute rant about how he didnt get this bit or that bit, and I agreed on everything. So proud.
I dont get the neck snapping stuff? I see it in hindsight with you guys talking, but Ash asked me when we came out what supes was so upset about, I honestly thought it was maybe caus it was the last of his race or something? Didnt translate well for me there. Was a mess though, why were him and Lane even kissing? Theyd hung out for like, zero minutes, except when she was reporting. Supes was about as charming as a wet fish. Characters continually did non sensical things. Zod guy somehow appears on the ground after the black hole? Because… they needed another fight scene? I dont even know.Why was Zod on the ground? Because he wasn’t on the ship that got sucked into the Phantom Zone. He was on the resurrected scout ship that Superman destroyed and was on the ground already. He just had to helplessly watch his entire race get destroyed in front of him, taking his very reason for existence away. What was he supposed to do? Just slink away into the night?As far as the neck snapping goes Superman doesn’t kill people. It’s his one rule. Zod forced him into a corner where he had no other choice. He was upset because he was forced to betray who he was.I have no real explanation for Lois being such a weak character. She didn’t really serve any purpose except a gopher. I guess there was an undertone of Superman needing her because he never wanted to be hidden but his father ingrained that into him. Lois knowing who he was enabled him to have someone he didn’t have to hide from. But they never really fleshed out that idea so it was just sort of there.Snyder hater!
Oh HAI!
HELLO!
YESSSSS AFTER 2 1/2 MONTHS WE FINALLY HAVE ALL THE INTERNETZ!!!!!!!!
MY LIFE IS COMPLETE
Woohoo!
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Time to play all the DOTA2?
Yep, Steam is updating all the games 😀 Around 20GB of them!
Goodnight, all!
Well, the TeamSpeak server is dead. Thanks Telstra! Just got an email saying that the subscription has ended and when I went to the admin panel to check, there was a notice saying that all of the private game and voice servers are kaput.
Thanks for the notice, jerks 🙁
Ventrilo?
Sticking with TeamSpeak. Probably going to go back to the old provider that FatShady used by the look of things.
They didn’t even bother with a notice to renew or something? That’s just a little bit shit…
I did renew. They’ve just stopped all game and voice server rentals without any notice.
All the emails were billing related and yesterday they took my moneys and then slapped a “cancelled” thing on the server. Yet I just uncancelled it because that happens from time to time.
…wow.
Morning all! Potato salad for breakfast. I got the one with egg and bacon because breakfast. And also because @dc is wrong, and it’s totally the best flavour.
Morning
@dc@shaneI don’t mind bacon, I just hate egg. Otherwise, I approve of your newfound life style choices. 😛
Yeah, probably wise not to badmouth bacon around these parts, no matter your real feelings.
I have an issue with your issue with egg, but I’m not going to do anything about it.
PS: There’s nothing newfound about this lifestyle. I’ve been eating so-called non-breakfast foods for breakfast since I was in high school.
Well, you’re still my nemesis. We established that last year when you said you didn’t care for The Stand. Its been a slow burn since then, but stuff like this only reinforces that a conflict will come someday. Possibly in November. 😛
This friendship started out well, but then degenerated quickly.
Just like The Stand.
😀
The Stand was so bad my first thought was that hack David Cage made it.
Oh yeah, well so’s your face!
I’m having home made pizza for breakfast. Take that breakfast fooooods.
Potato, egg and bacon is the holy trinity. Mayo and spring onions just cement the holiness.
I only just found out about Major Nelson’s podcast…it’s a refreshing and welcomed change from the “This Xbox Life” painfully awkward podcast.
I’m sure this is quite common knowledge to a lot of you…but if I can open just one persons eyes to this, who appreciates it…then my work here is done.
Carry on.
There’s only one podcast guaranteed to “open your eyes”.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/
It truly is the “Eyes Wide Shut” of podcasts.
In every possible comparison.
I’ll let you decide which one’s Tom and which one’s Nicole.
You mean it’s just a remake of Party at Kitty & Stud’s?!
I’ve been taking sleeping pills for the last three days and they do nothing. They’re over hyped. I think I’ve slept worse since I’ve begun taking them. Don’t think I’ll finish that prescription. D:
See, here’s your problem: you’re taking hyped sleeping pills. You should try unhyped sleeping pills – I bet that makes a difference.
Shane W. Smith?
More like Shane W WORDSmith!
You can have that.
Chuck it on a business card, maybe a website banner, whatever you want, really…
Change of name form.
Have you been taking them and doing nothing for the next hour or taking them and then going for a walk?
First night I took them and went straight to bed. Second and third night I waited forty five minutes or so before going to bed doing nothing. Wouldn’t be game going for a walk after taking them in case I woke up in a ditch. XD
Edit: Also read online that they don’t work for a surprising amount of people. :'(
@sughly
Called it.
Again, I kid you not, words of Ash I had no part in: “We couldve just stayed home and watched Ghosbusters.” Pauses for a moment, “but… I guess it’s also pretty fun to make fun of movies”. So so proud.
Yep. That’s your son. No question.
Haha! 😀 You’ve done good, Sughly.
Late to the party, but…..OMG! how good is Ridiculous Fishing!? I don’t think I’ve ever enjoyed an iPhone game as much as this little beauty. 🙂
SO GOOD! Over too quickly though 🙁 (but maybe that’s because I played it a lot during the first couple of days :D)
They’re coming out with new FREE content soonish 😀
Being so damn addictive, I can see why it might be over so quickly. Shame…well, new content (I assume fishing grounds and new species of fish?) sounds great. 🙂
I don’t think anything was specifically mentioned but there was an article on Kotaku last week or so. If I remember correctly it said something like a small update will be released in July and a massive one will be released later in the year that adds something like double the amount of content 😀
All for FREE! 😀
Well…I heartily toast such news. *cheers!*
The Walking Dead 400 Days
From Game Informer.
What’s the deal with the different release dates? Seems a little odd.
Also, I don’t think I have recovered emotionally.
Yeah, especially for something that can be spoiled. I guess PSN/Xbox have their own schedules for updates though.
Might be an two-day exclusive as part of that deal that includes the Vita bundle thingo.
There’s going to be so much spoiler spaced conversation. XD
Oh hells yeah! Three more days!
Will this be on Aus XBLA? Do we know?
I think the seasons been released locally now so I’d assume it’d be. I saw the disc version in JB the other day. Usually we get our XBLA updates at night though on the day of release.
I cannot freaking wait. 😀
Edit: Just checked the AU site, and you can buy the eps there!
Edit: FUUUUUUUUUUUU I’ll be in Melbourne 🙁
So your saying I have 9 days to play The First Season that is sitting on my pile of shame?
Sounds good to me. Finish The Walking Dead and The Last of Us.
Perfect time for its release. I’m still in the mood for some post apocalyptic urban decay after finishing The Last of Us. 😀
I really need to finish ep 5.
but fuck people.
You’ve played up to the end of 4 but not 5? MY GOD, MAN, HOW?
I don’t think my body is ready. I’m still not completely over the last season!
It’s too soon for another emotional, story driven zombie game, too soon.
I’m still going to play it.
I can’t get enough of these kinds of games. BRING IT ON. I WANT TO FEEL THINGS. 😛
PRICES OF THE TURNIP KIND!?
Mine appear to be decreasing :/. 91 yesterday 87 today 🙁
84 🙁
84 D:
Dear @BDKIAF,
it arrived.
thanks heaps!
sincerely,
35
Excellent! I’d been meaning to chase that up with you. I’ll see you there.
New Teamspeak server is up and running. Paid for a whole year in one hit for some reason, so we’re stuck with this choice for a while. Hopefully they don’t go and pull a Telstra and shut down for no raisin.
Email trjnrabbit at the google mail thingy, DM me on Twitter or pester me on Steam to get the new address.
So was watching the video on Gizmodo of Loeb’s record Pike’s Peak effort – holy fucking shitballs. That stuff is insane. People blow me away at times, in good ways. The sheer talent and skill involved is just mind blowing, and these guys make it look so easy. Also, people and cars just right on the edge of the road, literally meters away from this guy doing god knows what speed, throwing it around corners.
Then, I read the comments. Someone correcting the article, someone complaining the video isn’t in HD, someone implying maybe the record was helped by a resurfacing, and someone saying they lost interest after a minute or two.
It’s that whole ‘looks photoshopped’ attitude. Why is the first reaction on the internet to try and discredit something? Fuck off. Shit is cool. Why is it uncool to be excited or impressed by something?
Agreed. Stuff is cool. Optimism is always better than pessimism and internet commenters are crazy. Also, those people on the side of the road seem to be tempting fate at times. So close.
Yeah, for real. The Ken Block gymkhana videos cop shit for the amount of editing that goes into it to make it look like it’s one long run. Who cares? The videos are fucking rad, just enjoy them.
Oh man, those Ken Block vids are fucking awesome. Like an overbudget Hollywood movie, but that’s what they’re meant to be. Fuck that noise, Ken Block is a fucking talented individual.
Hipsters and dickmen.
Ken Block is the real deal. They had the X Games on ESPN over the weekend and he was absolutely destroying the rallycross.
Because people feel insecure about their shitty lives and not being able to do cool shit so they feel a need to tear others down?
Or, y’know, not.
“Tall Poppy Syndrome” is the technical term for it, I believe. And it’s endemic in Australia.
Couldn’t agree more. Loved it. Seriously awesome.
I love this one
This Friday. This Friday. THIS Friday.
Come one, come all, to 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).
MEAT DETAILS:
Date: Friday, 5 July
Time: 7pm
Place: Yoyogi on Swanson St (or meet up somewhere else first and walk to Yoyogi)
(@scree, do we need to book this place or just walk on in?)
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)Walk right in!
Sit riiiight doooown!
Daddy let you mind roll on!
Everybody’s talkin’ bout’ a new way of walkin’
Do you want to looooseeee your miiiiiindddd?
Ill be there!
Can’t make it, but thanks for the offer.
Sorry. 🙁
Hmm I dunno if they accept booking as it is one of those el-cheapo Asian joint. It is quite busy on a Friday though so if we’re gonna have lots of peeps maybe worth it just to call?
I noticed Project X Zone is no longer a preorder option on EB Games site, did it break street? anyone know?
IIRC they take down preorders right before a game releases, and it’s out Thursday so it might just be that preorders are closed.
I preordered Animal Crossing the day before release for mah toy XD but that was in shop
Some 3DS questions.
1. Streetpass Etiquette
If by chance, I sit on the bus next to someone also playing a 3DS, and we both know that we’ve just streetpassed, what’s the proper behaviour?* Ignore and keep playing current game. Check streetpass later.
* Ignore RL person, but check streetpass immediately.
* Smile and nod knowingly. AWKWARD.
* Actually talk to person.
2. Misc Streetpass Info
What’s the effective range of Streetpass? Do I need to be within two metres, five metres, ten metres, or fifty metres? Also, how long do the consoles need to be in range for? If I drive at 80km/h past a car going 80km/h in the opposite direction, will the 3DSes in each car talk to each other?3. E-Shop
Is this game really available on the E-Shop for 3DS? I was so incredibly obsessed with it when it first came out, and I’d LOVE to play it again! I have no wireless until I get home, so can’t check what’s available for what console. How does it all work?1. I’ve never actually seen someone I’ve Streetpassed. I’ve seen others playing 3DS, but never gotten Streetpass when near another person playing. TL:DR – Don’t know. Personally, I’d go for a wink and a subtle lip-licking.
2. I don’t know the exact range, but I don’t think it’d be more than 10-20 metres at most. I also think they need to be in range for at least several seconds in order to negotiate. I don’t think two cars doing 80 in opposite directions would Streetpass properly.
3. Not sure.
Is 1 based on a true story?
Yeah, and what makes it worse is that I’ve set my Mii to say “shanewsmith.com” as a greeting. So I don’t know whether to follow up with a business card, or just run for the hills 😛
Business card. You’ve gotta make it as slick as possible.
They might think he’s hitting on them.
… Is there a problem there?
Whatever sells a book, man. Whatever sells a book.
Mrs. Shane might object. 😀
Whatever. Sells. A. Book.
Yes, but I need to know if he quit out of his game to check his streetpass before I do that! 🙁
1.
I have no idea. I usually just start to cry to myself.2.
I have no idea.3.
Still, no idea.4.
Helping.I forgive you, because Zelda. And first ever Streetpass.
Actually, I think we should get married.
3. Yes. I saw it the other day when I looked through the E-Shop to see if I wanted anything.
*flails uncontrollably*
Watch out for the monkey. He throw things.
Getting to the end of that game was the proudest gaming moment I had as a 9 and/or 10 year old.
I’ll probably only get about 15% of the way through it this time /o\
Edit: Oh man, I really want to get home and start throwing money at my 3DS.
Just keep in mind there’s no account system and if you lose your 3DS or if it breaks, say goodbye to your purchases! I think there is a way to get stuff back but it’s troublesome so just make sure you have a photo of the serial number just in case you lose it or something and they might be able to transfer it like what happened with Batdude
Good advice greenmang!
1.
I heard your suppose to pull out your stylus pens and duel.Maybe I’m just used to seeing the Dark Souls communal approach to etiquette that I assumed all gaming circles (except FPS multiplayers) do the same kind of thing and develop a system of unofficially observed rules.
1. Only when in the company of TAYbies.
‘WE STREETPASSED YES!’
or
‘WHY HAVEN’T WE STREETPASSED’
followed by butt waggling or rubbing the 3DS’ on each other desperately hoping for the green light to come up
@rize apparently I owe you a butt waggle. I had no idea. Etiquette is complicated.
Or “hey it looks like I streetpassed someone else in addition to you while I was driving to this meat”.
Because that happened to me.
The other day I walked past someone on the train who was 3DSing and mine was in my briefcase. We got a streetpass and I felt all smug that I knew who he was but my identity would forever remain a secret. Then I checked out his Animal Crossing house and was like :/
Seriously, it was all furniture and you couldn’t even get in and it was like something out of Se7en.
Also, I think proper etiquette looks something like this: http://isgq.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/handshake.jpg
MANSHAKE
I wish I had a job that required a briefcase.
My briefcase typically contains a notepad and pen (barely used), my kindle, my 3DS/Vita, and sometimes the iPad. It’s not needed for my job but it’s a leather jobby which looks good with a suit (which my job does need).
Where do you keep your shredded newspaper?
SIMPSONS REFERENCE \o/
On the rare occasions I carry a bag to work, it’s the GI Joe messenger bag I won from a comp here on Kotaku AU. It usually contains a notepad, pen, and paperback novel.
I guess I could use a briefcase instead, but then I wouldn’t have a shoulder strap to keep my hands free.
But… its a briefcase!
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hzGJFjjcf4s/TS_hSJFI3iI/AAAAAAAAAG4/GyE5ztE1_-w/s1600/Falling+Down.jpg
Someone hovered around my while I was playing my 3DS and when I looked up he sheepishly explained he wanted a 3DS pass. At which point I looked at my 3DS to see if they’d exchanged info. Once they had, I told him so he could be on his merry way.
It’s 10 metres officially.
I think so. Or maybe it’s Donkey kong jr.
Given the news that Steve Balmer is taking over the reigns of Xbox, I thought I would drop this.
You could say he is passionate at least…
SO MY MOVE IS PRETTY MUCH COMPLETE
moving sucks, i have so many scratches and bruises and ouchies. But its worth it cause my new space is wonderful, should have internet by tonight and all i have to do then is buy a few odds and ends and it will be complete. the 10 minute drive to work this morning was great compared to the 25-40 minute drive i had from the other residence. All in all everything is coming up rocket. also this weekend coming commences filming of my movie. :):):)
Awesome news, man! Good luck with the filming!
Just living by yourself now, man?
nah still with mum but i live in a granny flat underneath the main house. its perfect because i get lonely and want to talk to my sister but i also like being by myself and doing my own thing. i still get really down oftenish so having people near me helps.
Sounds like a good compromise. Congrats on the move! 😀
What kind of movie? o.O
Also – when is the housewarming? I promise* I won’t break any furniture!
*Het jy regtig vertaal
you can come around for a beer anytime dudebro.
hoekom praat jy buitelandse taal?
spaggetti western
Got your theme music right here.
clint eastwood-gorrilliaz is my theme 🙂
Hey, so melting store bought marshmallows and trying to use it as cupcake topping? Terrible, terrible idea.
Thought you guys should know.
you could of used that Fluff stuff thats a marshmallow sandwhich filling?
That tastes awesome with peanut butter 🙂
And apparently as a beard.
Super easy when shaving too.
No razor? Why not a spoon?
Also cupcakes for dinner is delicious but a horrible idea.
But I’m an adult.
@notoriousr and I wrote a thing about next-gen consoles
http://potaku.com/2013/07/02/duel-shock-next-gen/
Get Hype!
Post-apocalyptic urban decay gets a mention, @dc
NotoriousR is awesome. XD
No Soviet Arcologies, though… :'(
Man, are you still going on about that?
Aren’t my Potaku articles enough?
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2lfrkdy8s1qddh1n.gif
Naw, just kidding 😛Also: Even though I’ve got a couple on the go, I’m always keen to begin the next Duel Shock Article. Any volunteers? Feel free to suggest a topic!
I hear that @dc fella can write words good.
Starting the #makedcwriteduelshock twitter campaign as we speak
I don’t really have strong opinions about things. But thanks though. 😀
Dual Shock: Colobus Monkeys
Dual Shock: Post Apocalypic Urban Decay
Dual Shock: Multicam Sitcoms
Haha this is glorious
MP Ed Husic becomes Australia’s first Muslim frontbencher yesterday, sworn in on the Koran – and is subsequently abused online.
Stay classy, Australia.
THE WIRE SEASON 1
Is great.Have watched eight or so episodes by now. Love the slow-burn. Doesn’t feel like filler, like so many slow-burn shows. Quality TV, for sure. Crazy how many cast members I’m seeing from Homicide: LOTS and OZ, though (but of course, the reasons for it are obvious: David Simon is the link to Homicide, and HBO is the link to OZ)From what I hear there’s lots of The Wire cast in Treme too. Should add Treme to your list, it’s got that slow burn too.
Couldn’t get into Treme.
Aw, that’s too bad. :'( Took a while to get going, but I love it.
I’ve got S1 on DVD, will revisit it soon.
Sughly’s still on season one too. You guys can compare notes. NOTES!
Also, I hope you guys catch up so I can talk to you about the final five episode fourth season coming up later this year.
Like all the notes I get to share with you on Mad Men?
In time! 😀
You think it’s slow burn now? There’s stuff being set up now that pays off 3 seasons later.All the pieces matter.
Best fuck scene, or best fuck scene?
Best sentence sans context.
Ahaha, I love that scene, so much
Oh, riiiight. I finally get this. Yes, it was a pretty good scene, though kind of odd 😛
Finally!
If you walk through the gaaardeeeen, you betterrr watch youuuur back… dodedo dooo
You gotta keep the de-vaaaaaaal/ Way down, in the hole
That song gets soooo stuck in my head. But I don’t really like it :\
Jon Seda and Melissa Leo were in Homicide!
(And Jon Seda was in the pilot of Oz!)
Melissa Leo is freakin’ amazing in Treme. So is Khandi Alexander and Lucia Micarelli… and everyone really. XD
Down in the Treme…
DAMNIT, DC. >:(
😀 So upbeat and happy.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Treme-The-Complete-First-Season-DVD-Great-Buy-/141002181401
THERE. I bid.
Hope you’re happy.
WOOOOOO! 😀
…
I hope you like it. D:
@dc, I am totally blaming you if I don’t. And come November… when the gloves come off… something something mumbleincoherently… so there.
Fair enough. XD
For what it’s worth, I love it and if you’re into slow burn kinds of shows this most certainly fits the criteria.
I’m taking 2 weeks leave later in the month, and based on the massive backlog of work I got in my inbox while I was off sick yesterday I am already regretting that decision. I wouldn’t say any of us in this are overworked or anything, but I think we constantly fear that if we’ve ever away for more than a day or two, everything will just spin out of control.
As a result, no one takes leave, we have 3-4 weeks banked up and HR gets in a tizzy about the amount of leave we have banked. Over the next month or so everyone in the team is taking 1-2 weeks just to bring their balances down, which I think is going to equal some kind of shitstorm in mid-August.
Well, at least it’ll keep me busy/employed.
The trading cards for Crusader Kings II as so pretty, I really want them all. Anybody who has any they don’t want are welcome to flick them my way, or happy to trade for any that I do have.
The little one you see if cool but clicking to expand the full image it comes from is awesome. They really put some work into them.
My favourite so far is the sunset invasion (of which I have a spare card) but I’ll see what the others look like
I’ll trade a sunset invasion for the one I have a double of
Done, I’ll try to catch you online once I get home
Only if it’s one you don’t have- I’ve got 3 out of the 4 drops from CK2 and oh god I’m trading pictures online for imaginary internet points WTF is wrong with me
pfft, that exactly the kind of talk I would expect from a level 7
I just want the pretty pictures in this one, the other ones I have are runestone and feast
I have runestone I think
Booooooo-urns
TURNIP PRICES!
z0mg! Mine were 87 but now they’re 119. Maybe they’ll keep increasing throughout the day! Doesn’t seem like they’ll get too high though 🙁
Oh, seems like they only change twice during the day – once when it opens and once at noon.
http://www.thonky.com/animal-crossing-new-leaf/stalk-market/
According to this I now have an increasing pattern so big bux soon! (maybe, hopefully)
Haha! I’ve heard the word turnip more in the past two weeks than in my entire 28 years before Animal Crossing was released.
:D!
And I’ve seen “Colobus” more times than I want to >:(
That’s a good point. XD
Why is TAY so reliable?
Because they ALWAYS turnip.There it is. The cleverest thing I’m going to say all year.Monster.
I yelled at @alexpants until he wrote this article because I’m no good at words. Anyway, I found some interesting stuff this morning:
http://potaku.com/2013/07/02/the-steam-sales-are-coming-were-all-doomed/
GOG sales have been going for a week. I’ve been enabling people to buy adventure games whenever I can! XD
Pfft, Adventure games, as if anyone still plays those.
Dudefist Faceshooter 5 is where it’s at.
Ha, Dudefist Faceshooter 5, I love playing that online and insulting everyone for being better than me, gaming’s golden age 😛
Yes, all those people who i defeat have a sexual orientation other than my own! I will point this out to them.
I am way too amused by this thread. I was just visibly jiggling trying to hold back laughing while my boss was asking me something.
Downvote on behalf of my wallet.
I actually seriously doubt that there will be a lot in the Steam sales I’ll bother with. I picked up so much last year and have steadily gained most of the other stuff I was interested in subsequently, So if I am picking stuff up it’ll be Steam copies of games I already own if they hit $1-2, and maybe an indie game or two.
I’m hoping having blown hundreds of dollars in previous sales my back catalog is mostly complete. There’s a not a huge amount I want anymore.
I hope.
One would think so, but I also know I have over 40 games on my wishlist
Might end up with a bunch of DLC as well
Shhhhhhh.
I so sorry
Also I would remove King Arthur – The Role-playing Wargame, it really isn’t very good
If it’s cheap enough, it doesn’t matter! I was looking at King Arthur 2 though.
Speaking of Steam, everyone should buy Rogue Legacy, awesome game.
I always expect this to be a Star Wars flight simulator. :'(
hey @dc you didn’t have a Gamecube did you? The Rogue Squadron games on that were so much fun.
Nope, no GameCube. For some reason I’m terrible at swimming in games and flying in games (they use the same sort of mechanics…), I don’t think I would be good at it. D:
And 64! RS on 64 was great. Getting gold medals on all those missions, good times…
did you play the cube ones @sughly , they were amazeballs and number 3 came with a 2 player co op version of number 2 . such good games. (I loved the 64 one too, and remember Shadows of the Empire” good old Wompa freeing fun
Greenman gaming is under maintenance. It’s like the sound of the war drums. You know the battle is coming, you just have to wait.
BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES
BRACE THE FOREYARD
DON’T SHOOT TILL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES
They put up a big sale yesterday
Call the bank to put a stop on the credit card… check.
Get a friend to put a random pin on my ATM card… check.
Set PayPal password to a random string of 50 characters that I don’t know… check.
Donate all my coins and spare change to charity… check.
Pack my bags to live in Alaska for the next few weeks to avoid the Steam sale… check!
Just saw a neat thing in a Dota 2 pro game where someone went as Windrunner (my main) and farmed the ancients (tough neutral creeps that you’re not really meant to be able to kill early) instead of going up against a particularly tough set of opponents.
I tried it out. It actually kind of works. Sure it’s slow but I’m used to playing her as support and it was faster gold gain than that at least.
But… DOTA stands for ‘Defence Of The Ancients’, right?
Defence Of The Ancients.
DEFENCE
Not in Dota 2! They got rid of the acronym to avoid some copyright kerfuffles.
So now it’s Do-what-ever-you-want Of The Ancients?
Dfarming of the ancients, apparently.
Destruction…?
Meant to be reply to pupplicks…
Windrunner I find not so great jungling, maybe it’s just my playstyle but she’s fantastic as a babysitter 🙂
Eyyyy, finally a Deap Vally set on youtubes! Glastonbury 2013 cc @bdkiaf
Raaad. They sound great. Could they be any more White Stripes?
Just went to my local EB Games, if anyone’s interested the following games have broke street.
Project X Zone
Time & Eternity (3 Weeks early, what!)
@negativezero might be interested!
I was interested in Time & Eternity when it was first announced (I can’t remember the Japanese name :P) since it had a unique art style. I hear it wasn’t that good though so it just dropped off my radar. Lemme know what you think!
And I totally did the drop thing with Rize last night in my town and he got my regal wall lamp :P. Game just hats you!
Time & Eternity spoilers taken from Wikipedia.
The game begins with a 16 year old girl marrying an 18 year old boy. Huh. Pass.lolol!
At least they weren’t brother and sister.Ages aside, I wonder what the legality of marrying a girl who can magically turn into a completely different girl is…Time & Eternity (@Greenius: tokitowa) got released earlier in Europe, not sure why or how. I ordered the US version from NISA directly (as I do with all their games because I like supporting them as a company) so still waiting for mine to ship. I’ve also heard it’s not that amazing a game, that the ambition was let down by the execution overall. Meh. Still a niche JRPG and I like to buy and never play niche JRPGs…
Interesting that Project X Zone broke steet. It’s probably more of a case of they didn’t set a street date so when the retailers get stock they’re allowed to sell. The game’s pretty niche I think, so I doubt it’ll matter much to the publisher.
You’re probably right about Project X Zone, Nintendo games usually never break street probably something funny about the distribution went on.
Ok, I really want to continue the Last of Us. About 5 hours in. I also really want to play The Walking Dead (10 mins in). However I got Trials Evolution the other week and every time I turn a gaming console on it happens to be my Xbox. Why is it so addicting.
Those kinds of games you just have to force yourself to stop otherwise you never will. Same thing happened with SSX and Rayman Legends Challenges for me. XD
I have that 50,000 online competitors participation challenge SSX had I think it was only obtainable if you had the game within the first two weeks since EA had to encourage an event to make it happen =/
TL;DR?: I’m awesome.
Its hard to play other games, as soon as you start playing something else all your mind thinks of is must be the time on Trials
I noticed Trials tempting me when I turned on the xbox last night. I… may need to start playing again…
Pikmin twoooooo
We all know I’m playing nothing but AC anyways lets be honest here
So jelly of your house. And your Golden tools :/
HMPF
Whoa! @greenius! I see youve gone on a fossil trading bonanza, youre nearly all done! Then all your doubles are belong to us…
Yes! Help me complete itttt <3
@mcgarnical Argh, ALL the upvotes! Hot damn Falling Down’s a great great movie…
I think of that movie pretty often when ordering fast food for some reason, it left an impression.
Hahaha! Same XD Because its so truuuue
Falling down is an amazing movie. Ten points if you can guess the director
Just looked it up, whoa! Didn’t see that coming. Won’t answer obviously, because I cheated. 😛
I know right … it makes me feel conflicted
Schumacher, isnt it? Or however you spell it.
Joel “Batsuit Nipples” Schumacher
I bought it on Blu-Ray recently and have been meaning to watch it again. Such a good one
2 MASK 2 MURDEROUS
Oh Animal Crossing. You’re absolutely breaking me.
I actually laughed while reading this. The TV bit was hilarious.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/07/ghouls-and-the-undead-can-be-cool-too-sometimes/
Weirdest Kotaku post yet. :S
Regular Reddit post repurposed for Kotaku.
Pretty standard for Kotaku US really. Usually they post them a couple of days after they initially went up on Reddit.
Ahh… hmmm…
I believe what you’re looking for is “Ayyy.”
Welp – Just saw some of the entries to the PAX comp on Serrels twitter. I can’t believe they made them in paint – they are amazing.
Also, I don’t think my naked cartoon Steve-O has a chance.
Haha! I went to uni with the guy who did the 6th one on the article currently on the front page. Shane’s met him too. XD You can come to PAX North, Steve-O — tickets are only $500 and there’s plenty left! 😛
That Last of Us one is my favorite but they are all pretty sweet. I’ll just resign myself to watching PAX streams and crying into a pillow.
Yeah, the Last of Us is the best one there. If Serrels is holding off showing some of the even better ones until tomorrow, then HOLY DAMN!
I hope Jimu or Sughly win though. 😀
I wouldn’t be surprised, Sughly wins everything ever.
Nope. These ones are oh so much better than mine. I rushed out a pretty stupid one, not really funny either :'(
🙁
D:
Monster.
I’m boycotting PAX North if I don’t win the PAX Aus competition, now. You’re always forgetting about me so I’m sure you won’t miss me. 😛
But I thought you weren’t entering the competition. D:
Also, I hope Jimu wins cause he doesn’t go to many meats and having a chance to go to the ultimate meat would be awesome. I hope Sughly wins cause he’s a dev and would probably get heaps out of it. But now I hope Strange wins too, because Strange is awesome. (Back in the good books? :D)
@dc Nice try with an excuse. I told you I entered. It was in a reply to one of your comments where you’d yet again missed me out of PAX North discussion. 😛
I thought that was a joke though. 🙁
I feel like a jerk, for what it’s worth! 😛
$500? Jeez, how much Pizza are you ordering for this thing?
There’s a $100 discount if you stop asking questions! 😛
Guys. You guys. Drunk History is a real show now. Guys.
http://www.comedycentral.com/episodes/7n8g8c/drunk-history-drunk-history–washington–d-c–season-1-ep-102
Depending on the outcome of a meeting on Thursday I may soon decide to join the ranks of the old & crusty people that subsist entirely on Ramen noodles.
This may also necessitate a change in personal policy regarding buying ludicrous bullshit and/or new video game consoles.
EDIT: For clarity, I am talking to a Mortgage broker to see if I can afford to buy something.
Hope everything’s okay, man.
It’d be a good thing. Probably. Long-term at least.
Fingers crossed for you, dude. Hope it all works out…
I haven’t actually committed to anything, just finding out about my options mainly.
Oh that sounds positive. And not like “there’s-a-meeting-in-which-I-might-lose-my-job” \o/
Yeah I realized on re-reading that what I said could be interpreted in that way. But no, it’s probably a positive thing.
Super bonus: I won’t need to negotiate with landlords etc about getting a cat. Because I totally want to get a cat when I move out of home 🙁
eeeekkkkk, Good luck
Edit: Or are you planning on buying a house or something like that. First thought was no more work but may be the other side of the coin
I’m talking to a broker about my options. Job is doing pretty well.
Oh man, that’s awesome to hear! Hope it all goes well!
Then you don’t get the eeekkkkk just the good luck
Bah, that m word. Did you know that the word mortgage comes from the French words mort which means ‘dead’ and gauge which means ‘pledge’. Yikes! It literally translates to a death pledge.
In saying that, congrats and I hope it goes through dude. It can sure beat renting!
LEARNING IS FUN!
hey @greenius since @jimu seems to be missing today I’ma bug you.
Persona 4 Golden (I’m not far in so not too much to spoil but still)
Do social link levels carry over into New Game +? I’m just wondering if i should be focusing on raising a couple of people’s links or try and spread myself around a bit, I’m in a sports club and am just wondering cause now i can get a job and join a social club, i really can’t see how I’d do all 3 and still have time to do anything else, (currently trying to get Marie to like me). Why are all the anime ladies so cute, i want to be all of their boyfriends, lolI think how it works is …
When you max a social link you get a “special item” which you need to fuse the most powerful persona in that social link. (So if you max the Magician Social Link you will get the special item which allows you to fuse the most powerful Magician persona).When you start a new game your social links reset but you keep the special item.
Also,
Yukiko. =)Just a note, I haven’t beaten the game yet so I may be way off.
Yukiko indeed, and Marie, and and , well I better get working on my bravery so I can try some bad pick up lines, also why haven’t you finished it? Did you get bored or just no time?Social Ranks do not. The only things that carry over are unlocked Personas (though you still have level requirements to make them), your stat thingies (Smartness, Bravery, etc.), and things unlocked via whatsisface’s store (Deidara?). I think that’s it. As a heads up, I didn’t use a guide or anything, and I still maxed 2/3rds of the Social Links, so it’s not as hard as it may look.thanks guys 😀
Also
Vita Bro FistpumpYou can totally be all their boyfriends. (aka. Nobs and Blaghs covered your questions so I have nothing to add :D)I accidently started
dating Rise (don’t tell @ash) even though I was already dating ChieI felt like a total a-hole when Valentine’s day came around.
should I join a social club and sports club and work? is there plenty of time to max the links and then neglect them if need be?Yeah, go for it! You might discover a new Social Link while doing one of them. If you don’t like it then you can just not do it and focus on others and you won’t know if you’ll like it or not unless you discover them first :D. I mainly worked on Social Links that benefited me (ie. making the people I used in battle stronger) or ones that I thought were interesting.yeah at the moment I’ve been doing things I find interesting, I haven’t actually spent any extra time with Yosuke or Chie and they’re the only ones I have in my party at the moment, they’re not bad characters, everyone else is just more interesting, thanks for all the tips I’m off to join a social club. mmm I like me some jrpgs, interesting sidenote, I barely touched a jrpg before Final Fantasy 7, hired that one night and another game that I can’t even remember what it was now, played FF7 up to the first Scorpion Boss dude got the shits with it, decided I hated it and was complaining about turn based combat, stopped playing and took it back to the video shop the next day. A couple weeks later jimu came over with it telling me how amazing it was and I told him it was shit, we then proceeded to play non stop till we reached Kalm, after about 6 hours of play. I had realized what a horrible mistake I’d made, bought it and sunk 100s of hours into several playthroughs and it’s one of my all time favourites. I now love me some jrpgs and have played a shiteload of em, all thanks to jimu :D. There now you know stuff about me in great and unnecessary detail for no good reason :P.I hear you have Sephiroth hair! Heh
Get Xenoblade from Jimu :). Lost Odyssey is good too.
lol, I wish I had Sephiroth hair :D. I really should check out Xenoblade, I was really excited about it at some point, just really haven’t Wiid for a while I guess. I’m pretty stoked with P4G, the music is crazy fantastic as well, it’s one of them games I play with a goofy grin on my face.
Yeah, P4G is oozing with that whole anime Japanese charm.
Personally I thought Lost Odyssey was my JRPG of this console generation until I played Xenoblade. A fair few others think it’s the best JRPG this generation as well and I believe it’s the highest rated (going of reviews and stuff like Metacritic). Hard to easily describe why I love it so much but I just did. I didn’t know much about it but all the Americans whining that PAL regions got the game when they didn’t made me want it even more and I was pleasantly surprised 🙂
That being said, I know it and P4G are kinda of different generations (PS2 and Vita/handheld generations are different) but I really liked P4G too, possibly even more than Xenoblade – they’re quite different though.
Yeah, do what you wanna do, don’t think it’s a good idea to try and max all, just have fun!
Morning all, story time with an actual story. Presented with no context, because reasons. Fairly warned be ye, It’s fairly long considering it was made in facebook comments, The spoiler tags are just to shorten the post
Enjoy
Our hero walks into a furniture store and stops in his tracks … everything is tiny, he looks around with the universal face of what the fuck before wandering back outside where everything looks normal sized before poking his head through the door. Yep, still tiny. What whovian witchcraft is this? he thinks to himself before curiousity overtakes everything else and he tentatively takes a couple steps into the shop.He looks around but can’t find anyone else in the store, it isn’t till about three rows of tiny ornate coffee tables does he hear it, a faint fluttering sound that our hero mistakes as a busted air conditioner … it takes about a minute before something in the back of his mind registers that something is off about the sound, it’s gradually getting louder. He looks for the source of the sound, getting increasingly more panicked before nothing … absolute silence. Our hero takes another step before seeing a white blur run out from under his legs.
Our hero decides stepping on strange white blurs probably isn’t the smartest decision and tries to readjust his foot, although considering he was halfway through the motion, he basically just jerked his leg up and fell on his face and several of the coffee tables. While he lay there cursing gravity and ticking off the mental checklist of organs that hadn’t been stabbed he heard the rustling noise again and then a “WENK” … from somewhere to the left. What kind of thing goes wenk anyway? Our hero turns to look and sees a white duck wearing a cheap suit just glaring at him before launching into what I’m sure was a long winded and rather angry tirade about why almost stepping on things and then destroying merchandise is a stupid and idiotic thing to do … but to our hero it was just a series of increasingly loud “WENK” sounds while this weird clothed duck flailed his wings about.
Having had enough of the surprisingly vocal foul, our hero attempts to roll out from the wreckage and mutter something of an apology, because that’s the polite thing to do when you accidentally destroy several coffee tables. The duck just glares at our hero as he side steps the wreckage and attempts to move to the door before whizzing in front of our hero and starts WENKing again as it gestures wildly between our hero and the remains of the coffee tables. Our hero looking longingly at the exit decided the best thing to do is leave before this gets any weirder, but this weird suited poultry just keeps going on and on. Time for action our hero thinks as he reaches down and attempts to pick up the now furious duck.
That’s when the screeching began
WENK WENK! WENK WENK!
Like the horns of Hell, the plucky little bastard cried out, pecking at our hero’s knuckles. Stumbling backwards into yet another coffee table, he yelped with a mixture of rage and terror. The duck scrambled away as our hero pulled himself up. This was his chance. He brushed himself off, made a note to remove any large splinters of wood that may or may not be sticking out of him once free and made his move for the door. That’s when the wenking got louder. He turned around and was immediately greeted by… nothing? Yes, there was in fact, nothing out of the ordinary. Well, aside from the debris of the tiny fallen coffee tables, but there would be time to mourn and/or mock their demise later.
WENK!
There, across the room! A flutter of wings! It was planning something. Cautious not to turn his back, yet somehow unable to bring himself to feel his way out of the building, he stared at the spot that the small feathered monster had run to.
WENK!
There it is again, but this time… on the other side of the room. He swore that he hadn’t seen or heard the duck move to that side. What was going on? Was there… Oh God, there was, wasn’t there?
WENK!
WENK!
Two more, this time in the corners nearest to our hero. Caution being damned out the window, he turned and began fumbling with the doors. Why wouldn’t they open, damn it?! He looked at the block letters that said “Pull” and smiled. A simple mistake.
WENK! WENK!
The reflection on the glass made his expression turn grim.
Turning around like a cat who just got hit by a spit-ball, our hero spun to see the mass of ducks descend upon him. There was also some ascension from the ducks still on the floor. In fact, the entire room was aflutter as it turned into a cornucopia of feathered fiendery. Screaming, he shouted out “Deer Jesus!” but his call to the Corvine Creator went unanswered by all but his fiercest and most fowl enemies. As they pecked and pecked, he tried to shake them off, stumbling around. Suddenly, WHOMP! Goddamn it, yet another coffee table! But wait. Suddenly, he was just swinging at air. The ducks had fled as the giant was felled by tiny wooden trechery. Scrambling to his feet yet again, he pulled any noticable shards out of his skin and looked around frantically. They hadn’t had time, nor the interest in hiding. Instead, they scuttled around the entrance.
WENK! WENK! WENK!
Looking to the back of the shop, our hero saw his only option; a back room! Sure, the door was small, but with a bit of a running start, perhaps he could make it through. Assuming no coffee tables struck at his heels. Running to his new sanctuary in the duckness, he heard what could only be described as a holy choir when suddenly, WHOMP! GODDAMN IT! Another coffee table?! No, this time it was a tiny couch. He had an unnatural hate for all couches of the tiny persuasion, though he had blocked out the reasons why. Perhaps something involving a clown when he was little. It wasn’t important.
There was no time to stand and run for the back door, but he was close enough to crawl. Seeing our hero approach the back room, the mandrake armada grouped together and began its bombardment. Screaming like a little girl, our hero crawled as fast as he could, like a creepy baby hopped up on meth. The door opened up easier than expected, allowing him a chance to roll around and shut the door at the last possible second.
WHUMP! WENK! WHUMP! WENK! WHUMP! WENK!
The impact of ducks on the wooden door grew louder and louder. The sound of cracking became evident. That’s when our hero spotted the couch, not far from his very position. He locked the door between whumpwenks and scrambled for the miniature sofa, dragging its surprisingly heavy frame to the door before flipping it over. Wedging it beneath the handle, he took a step back and sighed with relief. The whumpwenks continued and the cracking grew louder, but then, something miraculous happened. He nearly fell into a fetal position as the door splintered from the other side, followed by a frantic series of wenk-less whumps, and moreso when they screeched like the duck-hounds of Hell, but… then they stopped. Was it… was it over? Perhaps they had charged into the door all at once and in a bizarre series of chain reactions, the ducks had gored themselves on eachother’s webbed feet. Or perhaps they simply broke their necks. Whatever the outcome, our hero laughed triumphantly. He had conquered the beasts.
W-wenk…
What?
W-wenk…
Again, our hero heard the low, almost-dead wenk of a duck. It made sense. One or two stragglers was to be expected. After all that, they had to be near-death. Dispatching them would be easy. Still, our hero was cautious in his approach. He slowly moved over to the door as the muffled sound grew ever so louder. He held his ear up to the couch cushions. There was a strange noise from within. What was it? He couldn’t quite put his finger on–
WENK!
The ducks burst from the middle of the cushions. Scrambling back with ducks attacking his face, our hero sent boxes flying before the barrage stopped. Wiping away the blood, our hero’s vision began to focus. He wished it hadn’t. The ducks were pouring in through the couch. Worse, they were in formation.
Wenk. Wenk. Wenk.
They chanted.
Wenk. Wenk. Wenk.
They… chanted?
Wenk. Wenk. Wenk.
They fucking chanted?!
Oh, yes. They chanted…
Wenk. Wenk. Wenk.
And with every chanted wenk, they took one step closer.
Our hero found himself backed into a corner.
Wenk. Wenk. Wenk.
He begged and pleaded for them to stop. What did they want? What the Hell could they possibly want?! They were ducks! They shouldn’t even have employment, let alone run a store! Cleaning duck shit off of furniture must have been a full-time job, not to mention the health and safety concerns. And who was buying their furniture? Midgets?! This made no sense! Just stop the wenking, he pleaded again and again. I’ll pay for the tables! I swear! Then, they stopped. Feet away, they stopped and stared. Our hero reached into his pocket to grab his wallet but found no such thing. He… he couldn’t pay. Oh God, he couldn’t pay. What would he do? Digging as deep as he could, he still couldn’t find his wallet. Instead, he found… a lighter! His palms glistening in sweat, he gripped the lighter as tight as he could and… lit his jacket on fire. How? Tossing his jacket to the ground, the lighter fell out of his hands. As our hero tried to stomp the fire out, he realized what had just happened. So did they.
With angry little eyes made of pure sin, they approached yet again. This was it. There was no way out. There was nothing but… a tiny fire axe. That’s it! Our hero ran over and kicked the glass before grabbing the tiny weapon. The tables had turned. He spun around and began swinging. The ducks wenked as hard and as loud as they could as he swung about. Every so often, he’d get a hit and the floors and walls would be caked in bloody feathers. Somewhere along the line, he stepped on his lighter, sending lighter fluid out amongst the tiles. The ducks tried their damnedest to escape but it was no use. They only had that one way in. Why there was no back entrance was a mystery, but unless he managed to get the axe lodged in his skull, they were cooked like their cousins, the geese, the pompous cunts. But how likely was that to happen? There were no tiny couches in this room, except for the one in front of the door and our hero was on the other side of the CRACK! WHUMP! BLARGSDF! GODDAMN IT ALL AND BACK AGAING! Another coffee table! On the plus side, the axe wasn’t lodged in his skull. Unfortunately, it was… hey, where was it?
The lights flickered as sparks fell on the tiles. The tiles coated in lighter fluid. Well, shit. There was a silence in the room. No more frantic wenking, no more swinging of an axe. Just the sudden realization that fire. No, seriously. Just fire. The room was full of wood, cardboard and dust. The fire spread almost immediately. When the shock passed, our hero crawled as frantically as he could to the couch blocking the door. Ripping it away, he ran back into the showroom. The ducks tried to scramble out, but in their rush, they formed a downy plug of death. As our hero reached the entrance, he turned around and looked back at the manager that had started this all. It was stuck in the middle of the horde. If it weren’t for his mind running entirely on adrenaline at that point, he might have made a joke. Perhaps Duck, Duck, Burn or Your Duck is Goosed, though that last one was used earlier, so that might be cheating.
Turning around, our hero left the empire of tiny furnishings to burn. Pulled back into the feathery mass, the manager disappeared feather-by-feather, until all that stuck out was the tip of its wing. Moments later, that too disappeared as the building burned to the ground.
It was unexplainable. How did a furniture store burn down and leave a bunch of roasted duck in its back room? This was definitely one of those weird ones. As the last of the fire crews packed up, the crowd of onlookers dispersed. Inside the charred remains of the building, lying just on top of the rubble, our hero’s wallet sat, cards exposed. The rubble crumbled bit by bit as a mangled wing emerged from the ashes, grabbing the wallet.
WENK! WENK WENK! It swore furious revenge. WEEEEEENK!
Our hero, back in his home, cracked open a bottle of whiskey. No, two. Maybe even three. He lost count. As he drank each bottle down, he thought to himself that there was a strange smokey taste this time around. He also thought that he would never speak of this again. That night, hammered beyond comprehension, he flopped down into bed and went to sleep.
Wenk.
… the fuck did I just half-read?
well if you read the other half, you’d probably know
… the fuck did I just fully read?
The end result of a miscommunication that would’ve just been forgotten if my day wasn’t completely boring
Random joke
3 builders are are sitting out on a beam at the top of the massive building they are working on. As with blokes sitting around they start telling tall tales to the new guys.
The first builder says “The funny thing about this building is you get really strange air currents around here. What happens is their is a massive build up of pressure that will actually support your weight.”
The new guy is looking very skeptical at this stage
The first guy continues ” No I’m serious, if you jump off here you will get to around the 5th floor before the wind pushes you back up to the top. Hold this”. With that he hands his lunch to the new guy and jumps off the beam.
He plummets towards the ground before he slows and sort of hovers around the 5th floor before he rises back up and scrambles back onto the beam.
The new guy is obviously duly impressed and exclaims “I have to try that, here hold this”. Passing he lunch over he jumps off and plummets straight down to his death.
The 3rd guy turns to the first and says “You’re such a prick superman”
gg wp
What a bunch of wenkers.
………O_o……… whaaaa………….
I regret nothing about posting this story
lol, well you confused the hell outta me, but it was fun 😛
Under the Dome day…
Though not quite as exciting as Mad Men or Game of Thrones day.
…
*moseys off*
or Doctor who day
or Legend of Korra day
or Sherlock Day
or Breaking Bad day
or Louie day
or It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia day
For your amusement, here is Patrick Stewart telling Wil Wheaton to shut up via the internet.
https://twitter.com/SirPatStew/status/351533474349461504
Patrick Stewart – Wesley Crusher! BAM!
Stumbled across this… what the heck is it? http://tay.kotaku.com/
Bizarro-TAY
I really hope that’s a Sealab reference cause if it is…..
let’s be pals 😀Using Bizarro to describe an evil twin or strange alternative universe version predates Sealab significantly – Sealab itself was referencing Bizarro, Superman’s evil twin.
It’s kind of a general-use term now. The other common one would have been if I had said ‘TAY with a beard’ referencing the Star Trek episode where the cast of the Enterprise encounters parallel universe versions of themselves and Spock’s alternative version has a beard. The difference here is that Bizarro-TAY suggests that the alternative TAY is strange and disturbing or just plain evil, whereas TAY with a beard would be pretty awesome.
lol, yeah i know the bizzaro thing predates sealab, it’s just my favourite use of it.
American TAY working more like a traditional forum?
I think they made it like Potaku a while back, community articles and blog posts and the like.
MY NEW RIVALS
Are you going to force their grandfather to call them something vulgar?
It’s TAY for Kotaku US 😛 ?
MYSTERY SOLVED
US Kotaku is weird and foreign.
No doubt full of trolls too :\
SO weird.
I’M SCARED!
whaaaaaa?
DARK SOULS:
I haven’t played for a few months but Steam was all “Trjn is playing Dark Souls” so I was all “imma do that too”.
I stopped playing at the first Bonfire in the Catacombs so I derped around for a bit and killed Pinwheel reallllly easily. Like, I was expecting more but it died in just a few swings :/. Did some more derping and reached Tomb of the Fuckyou so I warped out to get me a Sunlight Maggot and I did.THE END.
Also seeing “Victory Achieved” is the worst thing ever :'(
I killed the Asylum Demon! Progress!
You playing on PC? I downloaded a mod that changed the words back to “You Defeated”.
Link plz
Still on the train but I’ll link it when I get home!
You better or I’ll shake my fist in your general direction.
Didn’t they patch YOU DEFEATED back in?
On the PS3. But it doesn’t appear to have been done for the PC or 360 versions.
I slept in until 12:45pm today.
wow! that’s some serious regen! I got all of 30 mins sleep last night. Sat down to watch some bullshit on tv at 4:30am, and fell asleep. Woke up in a panic thinking I was gonna be way late for work, and it was only 5am. Of course I couldn’t get back to sleep after that freak out. No biggie though. At least I’ve now had some sleep since Friday!
I was going to post asking where you and Jimu and Freeze were, but thought that would make me seem needy.
…
So I didn’t. 😀
Hopefully you got to sleep in for good reasons?
Now it occurs to me that you were all probably having some sort of meat and sleeping in is just a cover!
D:
If I knew them any better, I’d say there was a bit of meat, meat and sleeping involved. 😉
EDIT: In hindsight a noob shouldn’t make these kind of comments. But I won’t delete it. Instead I’ll apologize if anyone got offended. 🙂
Ahahaha, this makes dc’s post take on a whole new meaning XD
Unseemly.
Ugh, Needius.
Waitaminnit…
I went to bed early, woke up on time, son was sick, helped him back to sleep, went back to sleep, woke up late, called in sick ate breakfast, went back to sleep, slept all day at HJ’s for dinner with Dominos pizza chaser.
All in all a very productive day…
I’m sick too 🙁 so’s Mrs, so’s 3 kids. I got vomited on 3 times Sunday by the same kid :S
We all have lung throat and nose things.
Son’s got pretty bad asthma when it’s cold.
I say bad, but when I was a kid I had to stay in hospital for a week at a time. It’s still not nice either way 🙁
Aw, sorry to hear that. Hope things get better for both the families @jimu and @ash. :'(
I downloaded Layton Brothers: Mystery Room. I’m very impressed with the music and the graphics, and an interesting first mystery. Looking forward to the rest of the game.
Can you please explain to me the relationship between Hershel Layton and the titular ‘Layton Brother’s’?
Not sure yet. Only finished the first case. I will find out more as I go on.
O_o @dc
The link claims it’s cute… don’t believe the hype
http://www.digitalspy.com.au/odd/news/a467960/cute-baby-angolan-colobus-monkey-at-the-zoo-picture.html@Trjn @Greenius @WhoeverElseIsPlayiingDarkSoulsOnPC
Here’s the mod that changes all the pop-up text in Dark Souls to the original stuff.
http://darksouls.nexusmods.com/mods/31/?tab=2&navtag=%2Fajax%2Fmodfiles%2F%3Fid%3D31&pUp=1
Hi all! First time I’m posting here, so please be gentle.
Not sure if it’s been mentioned already, but GMG have a pretty decent sale starting: http://www.greenmangaming.com/hot-deals/
New deals every 6 hours and you can use GMG10-PM427-VXLBO for an extra 10% off.
Currently:
Omerta http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/au/en/pc/games/strategy/omerta-city-gangsters/ – $9.99
LoTR:WiN http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/au/en/pc/games/action/the-lord-of-the-rings-war-in-the-north/ – $4.99
Bus Driver http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/au/en/pc/games/simulation/bus-driver/ – $2.49
Rise of the Ravager http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/au/en/pc/games/action/rise-ravager/ – $1.24
Swords and Soldiers http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/au/en/pc/games/action/swords-and-soldiers/ – $2.49
EVE Starter http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/au/en/pc/games/mmos/eve-online-30-day-starter-pack-amarr-bounty-hunter/ $3.99
Welcome to TAY.
First time? Bring out THE OAR!
First timer? That’s a paddlin’
*runs* Can’t we just talk about this guys?
Don’t worry, The Thorny Oar sounds less bad than it is.
Can’t I just bribe you guys with free candy or something instead? I rely on my motorbike to get to work and I’m not sure how I’ll be able to ride after the initiation process. 🙁
Sure. You can bribe us. We’re very open to bribery.
Alright, I’ll give you all an I O U for candy if there’s ever a Kotaku meetup. *Phew! Ass is safe for another day.*
@miketarno I said you can bribe us. I didn’t say it would help your case.
I see now that they’re no way to get out of this. Off to Oxford Street in Sydney to practice I go.
lol think I’m gonna have to watch dazed and confused again tonight now
Are any GMG games Steam redeemable?
Most are, yeah. Stuff like Omerta is. It should say on the page for each game what client it needs.
Oh and GMG is pretty reliable. I’ve used them for a while now with no issues. Well, there was one issue with Wings of Prey which used that YUPlay client. But all their Steam stuff has been flawless. And often they have prices that are much better than Steam itself.
Yeah I’ve used GMG for some obscure stuff, but never for Steam titles. Not part of their 666 deals, but just got War in the North for $5! Can’t complain!
I use them primarily for Steam stuff.
The only things I can say is that the very first time I bought something from them was when Metro missed out on being on sale last year during the Steam sales (back when we had to vote for what we wanted to be discounted), so I bought it from them. They ran out of keys but still sold it so there was a few days wait before I received my key but I didn’t mind waiting. I guess there was a bit of a demand since it came pretty close in the voting but I’ve received future purchases immediately.
I’ve also heard reports of people receiving pre-order keys later than release but that’s never happened to me. Pre-ordered Borderlands 2 and got the key early for pre-load and everything went a-okay.
Just keep in mind not everything is for Steam. Sometimes it’s for their own weird client Capsule (which I’ve never bothered to look at) but it’ll specify on the page whether it needs Steam or not (usually in the “DRM” section)
I’ve used the Capsule client once for Trine. Worked well enough but I ended up just launching Trine from the game’s folder. Besides Steam and Origin (out of necessity) I tend to avoid clients. You’re meant to be able to trade games back through their client but I never bothered.
Oh yeah, forgot about the trading. They sometimes offer “free” games which are all rather terrible ones you’ve never heard of which can just be traded in later for credit. I’ve earned a whopping $2
(@ynefel)
Aside from Steam itself I usually buy from GMG or Amazon. I find their prices to be better anyway.
50c here, 50c there… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRqRfKQs0FI (1:45 mark onwards).
I use the exact same two also. Amazon had some great new releases for $30 odd. The State Library of Florida got a lot of invoices in my name. 😉
Gameholds has decent prices for new releases too. Sometimes cheaper than anywhere else.
Hey Mike, loved your entry for the PAX dealy!
Thanks dude! I hope you got a couple of laughs out of it. 🙂
HEY GUY!
I didn’t enter the PAX competition but if you totally win more MS Paint ones in the future then you might become my new Kotaku Competition nemesis.
*shakes fist at @chuloopa*
More? I’d have to first win one. 😛
Don’t worry, I doubt I’ll enter many more. It might not look like it, but it took a week and a half to make that damn thing. I’m not an artist, so I have more perseverance than talent sometimes.
Still, I always dreamed of having a nemesis, so this could be good!
Oh by the way guy, initiation question:
Xenoblade?
Hell yeah. I’d be all over it like a teenager over his first porn mag… if only my ex didn’t take the Wii when she moved out. 🙁
Did I pass? 😛
hmmm… just
At least you know what it is :P. Go buy another Wii/U ! No excuses.
Ha, fine! I’ll just ‘borrow’ my Wii back from her when she comes from overseas to play it. Are copies easy to get?
I find it amazing how well Wii games hold their prices. New Mario Bros is still almost full price everywhere!
Yeah, first party Nintendo games stay pretty expensive. Xenoblade is somewhat rare (and expensive) locally. It used to be okay to find on the usual UK sites like Ozgameshop but they frequently run out of stock.
eBay is probably your best bet.
Or Jimu
@miketarno
But then Jimu won’t be able to play it :'(
Oh! You mean to say that I can borrow your copy? 😀
First I’d have to wait till I can get my Wii back. Which will take about a month. 🙁
@miketarno
Huh? I wanna sell it, didn’t like the battle system, found it a chore to play.
I’d welcome you, but you already made it onto my Anti-Kudos nomination list for your comment in response to me sleeping in…. 😛
Doh! 😛
I knew I shouldn’t have said that, but it was too darn tempting given D.C.’s comments. Sorry about that. 🙂
New TS server. Contact me or BunBun for details.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-02/ed-husic-subjected-to-anti-muslim-attacks/4793534
The idiocy, it burns.
New page repost: New TeamSpeak server is up. Pester any of the regulars (me, Freya, Blaghs, Techie, Faction, Nobfrond, Scree and so on) for details.
TAYbies talk to each other? Not just talk, but talk talk? I guess next thing we know you’ll all be playing games together.
Weirdos.
lol this guy
TeamSpeak doesn’t imply talking. Right guys? …right? No… just me then?
I usually just sit there and listen to everyone else talking 😛
It’s mainly calling Pyrean a manwhore.
Because he’s a manwhore.
Ep 2 of Under the Dome:
Dialogue still feels oddly stilted, but it seems to be coming into its own as a show and putting some distance between the book. For the most part I like the new characters and story arcs too.Sneaky D.C, watching it before the rest of us. Only hours after the US isn’t fast enough, huh?
I’ve just been on a time travel expedition to the future for a week. How dare you accuse me of such things. Just for that, you’re not getting the souvenir I bought you… tomorrow’s newspaper.
They still have newspapers in the future?
In the post apocalyptic urban decay ruins!
Well played. The same post apocalyptic urban decay ruins where you happened to find a copy of the show? 😉
Geez, obviously all the great pieces of art were preserved in a doomsday bunker. Someone must’ve put this in by mistake. 😛
Must have been hard to spot amongst all that rubble with only one eye I’d imagine. 😉
I thought the manner in which the house burnt down was bloody stupid. Also, I cheered when barbie started punching rapeface.I laughed when the guy set the house on fire. It seemed so incompetent. Haha! I also thought the house looked way smaller on the otuside… almost like they built it for the sole purpose of burning down. 😛I’ve been wondering if I should read the book or not. Would it interfere with my potential enjoyment of the show?
So far I like the book much better and it also kind of takes away from the suspense that they’re trying to build. I feel like I know the solutions to all the mysteries. At the same time, it’s cool seeing the world come alive and all that too. It’s distancing itself from the book more and more as it goes on too and we’re only up to ep two…
So my answer:
I dunno. XD
I keep forgetting to grab this.
By the time I do the whole season will have finished…
It’s only a 13 ep season, so you could wait it out like Game of Thrones.
DC.
Should I watch this?
And Bates Motel?
DC?
Please.
I need you.
It’s nice to be needed. 😛 Just heard your Zeitgeist, sorry about the head injury. Some how I missed piecing the story together on twitter even though I’m sure I upvoted some of the #dansheadinjury tweets. :S
I only watched the pilot for Bates Motel. Was good quality, but not something I wanted to watch on a weekly basis. You should check out the pilot though, because it’s much better than you’d think.
Under the Dome is decent enough, but the dialogue is really stilted. I loved the book though and it seems to be getting better. Once again, watch the pilot. XD
On it, Chief.
We’ll nail this son of a bitch.
Watch Hannibal instead
Noted.
Ahhh… the saxophone at the end of Midnight City. So delightful.
Wow! Freaky. Coincidentally I was listening to the same song (different upload). Great minds think alike. Or they just have a great taste in music!
OH MAN! You are so welcome in here now haha! I love this song, so so much ^_^
That song makes me nostalgic for something I can’t remember or perhaps never did.
Love it.
The saxophone in Lethal Weapon is what you meant, right?
http://youtu.be/y4HNuqu5xRw
Just wondering how long y’all have spent playing Animal Crossing (specifically @sughly 😛 – and @saturday I guess, since he’s had it the longest)
Oh wow, I just checked mine and 74:20 hours (#1 on my 3DS), 97 times played (#3 on my 3DS) and average play time of 45 minutes (#2 on my 3DS) D:
Shieeeeet
I’m also running out of Play Coins :/. Had about 67 when I started playing but haven’t taken the 3DS out since. Guess I’ll shake the damn thing for coins 😛
EDIT: I just “walked” 1072 steps 😀
D: D: D:
Oh, I do leave it on standby for a bit (which probably accounts for 2 hours or so :P) but playing Animal Crossing sure as hell beats studying!
I guess it’s good value. I finished The Last of Us in 18 hours and I considered that a long game. XD
Yeah, the time frame for this game is months since it works in real time. They’ve also added seasonal changes like different bugs and fish to catch depending on the season and different events (Christmas, your birthday etc.)
It’s the type of game where you check on things for a few minutes every day. I know I’m unlikely to play it long-term (I gave up on previous Animal Crossings pretty quickly :P) so whenever I do stuff I think “why? when I’m just going to give up soon” :P. I’m also going to be sad when my town turns to shit (plants die, weeds grow etc. if you don’t manage them).
Who knows what the future will hold for Greenton!
Shake it good!
I haven’t turned mine on for a while either. For some reason it got less use when I stopped catching the train to work as much. No matter, I’ll charge it up tonight and finish off a few titles.
Ah… scared to see mine… how does one check that?
edit: Ahahaha… ahhh… I choose not to share these details XD
I’m not sure theyre too accurate either, since I’ll leave the game turned on next to me on the desk waiting for events to happen. So… not always playing it… >_>
Oh man, so many hours…
I’ll tell you this much though, it’s still only number 2 on the list of time spent playing something. 1 goes to Fire Emblem – 164 hours (!!), number of times played, 427, haha! Must be from all the resets. AC times played is 70.
O_O
A 3DS user who doesn’t know about Activity Log!?
WAHHH :O
(there’s an in-built 3DS “App” called Activity Log that tells you how long you’ve played each title)
EDIT: omg share it man! I do the same! And kinda somewhat play it (ie. derp around) while I’m doing other things like watching TV shows 😀
Ok… but remember, leaving it on, most of the day, not playing… sigh…
142 hours. T_T
(honestly dont think its accurate at all though, like I said, I’ll leave it open and on most of the day without playing)
O_________________O
Was not expecting that much! That explains why you have so much good stuff :O
WHY DID I EVEN SHARE THIS! XD
Noooo srsly, really not accurate. Look at times played – 70 to 90. I just leave it on.
I legitimately played Fallout: New Vegas for 122 hours, so I can’t judge Sughly. XD
And I played CODMW2 for something like 200+ hours (spread over a year or so, so not so bad!), 112 hours in Xenoblade and more recently, 200 hours in Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate in a very short amount of time.
Yeah I was just gonna say this is the game I logged most my time on….ever. I believe it was 24 days. Prob second to that is Halo 3.
I sunk about that much in Fallout 3. When Riptide came out, I finished it within about 30h and the game said I played it for 24. I was lacking some serious sleep after that.
I played Gothic 2 for 150+ :0
Why?
Your son also played it initially too, right?
Ehhh…. not too much though >_>
That’s true! But Sughly eagerly watched from the corner of his eye, waiting for his turn to play… so it kind of counts 😀
Regarding your 3rd EDIT (or whatever :D):
You know FE has a soft-reset, right? :P. START SELECT L/R and straight to the main menu :D. I enjoyed the game but I saw it was such a timesink and didn’t want to play it so much :O. I should really get back to it!
Can’t remember what holds my other records except for most time played which was probably Ocarina of Time at 54 hours or so.
Nooo I didnt know about soft reset oh goddamnit!
I presume everything has a soft reset and get annoyed when it doesn’t
74 hours over 25 play sessions.
(On my list my 2nd game is DQ9, third is Pokemon Black. Eighth is Letter Box, with nearly 24 hours.)
I don’t play DS games on 3DS but I’m surprised at how many hours I’ve got in random crap like Letter Box (28 hours – 4th most played) and Friends List (5 hours) 😛
Black 2 is in my number one spot followedf by DQIX then maybe Platinum…I can’t remember.
Playtime: 65:45 (4th), Played 63times (12th), avg time 1:02 (1st by 2 mins :P)
183 hours logged at 59 times played with a average playtime of 3 hours per day.
Fire Emblem is the one game which has ranked higher in all accounts. :/
Why :/ ? That’s a good thing. Fire Emblem is a vastly better game.
No man should have spent the time I have played fire emblem with.
I think I just finished Proteus. I think I also broke it by walking across the ocean for the entirety of the last season.
Thoughts?
I spent the first two seasons chasing pixel animals to a watery grave and the last two seasons trying to break the game.
It sure is something.
Ocarina of Time \o/
Final Ganon battle is major difficulty spike 🙁How did I beat this when I was a kid? 🙁
In other news, I just bought Link’s Awakening and Donkey Kong on the Virtual Console. Entering the digital age with great reluctance. But nostalgia, as always, wins in the end.
Isn’t there a trick to it?
I don’t remember it being much harder…
I think the problem is instinctively, I’m trying to fight like I would in Dark Souls. Toe-to-toe, shield up, and confident in dodge ability. And I’m just getting my ass kicked. Three quick hits and then death. There is a trick, just gotta remember to use it. 🙂
It’s easy roll under his legs hit his tail than run back in front of him and roll under his legs again, rinse and repeat until dead.Yeah, that works until I get the Master Sword back… and then he gets really fast 😛Gonna try again today!
If you stand right under him he should never be able to hit you, just hug up against him during the entire fight, keeping distance doesn’t help.I’m still stuck on the water temple.
My big brother always did it for me…
@dc It was indeed a joke. I didn’t enter. I’m a monster. 😛
I kinda felt bad seeing D.C. trying to cover his tracks and think of a reason why he didn’t mention you :P. TAY is full of monsters!
I kind of felt bad but I was grinning at the same time, as well. I really am a monster. 😀
Me too for making those horrible jokes. Now I feel bad. 🙁
How can I make it up to you @strange?
By playing Xenoblade! 😀
Haha, looks like I really have no choice now. I’ll be sure to hunt down a copy this week. Maybe EB has one if I can make my way through the thick jungle of sale signs they have.
Hmm, how about by never listening to @greenius. 😛
Noooooo! Now I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place. Can I at least listen to him just this once? Xenoblade looks pretty cool! 😛
Mad respect for you Mikey T!
Strange! >:(
MONSTER
Okay yeah, I admit he might be right just this once….
Strange is cool!
But don’t listen to me… ;D
But you totally had a COLON PEE /jimu 😛
It’s okay D.C., PAX North! It’s a thing.
Colon pee forgives all
Haha, I wondered if you hated me legitimately. D:
Night!
Get back here soldier! The night is still young and full of opportunities to make a fool of yourself online like I am! 😛
I really find it hard to care about my family sometimes. You are told from a early age “family is all important, it’s more important than being successful or being happy or anything. The thing is the only family that makes me happy is my gran/grandad. They actually care about me, make me happy, I don’t have to do anything other then be myself.
My mum and sisters on the other hand are constantly arguing with me to the point where I can’t say anything. I have to make sure not to be sad or I will get yelled at, not be sarcastic and especially not disagree or have any opinion other than theirs. I’m already vunerable right now and I’m still the bad guy. I’m just at my wits end. The worst part is I feel myself gaining a temper that I didn’t have living with my gran. I don’t like what I’m being forced to become.
On top of that I feel you are all drifting away. I once was so close to everyone, now the mere presence of my name means I have to say something stupid or over the top to get anyone to even notice I exsist. I’m more then just a series of stupid stories and adventures, I’m just tired of being the butt of the joke.
Damn dude, that doesn’t sound good. 🙁
I wouldn’t let it get to you. We all have to make our own way through life. Hopefully without having too many people drag us down and intentionally (or unintentionally) make us feel miserable. So stand up to those people and let them know how you feel (in a nice way).
Are you living with your gran now or have you moved with your mom? I’d go back to your gran’s place if that’s a better environment for you.
*hugasaurus*
Stop putting so much pressure on yourself. We don’t need you to have an adventure to relate or an epic post, to be happy you’re around. Have a look at what everyone else is saying: we’re all just hanging around not saying much of importance. Hell, my first post today was”I slept in until 12:45pm.” 😛
As for your family, you can’t choose them but you can choose your extended family (like us), so hopefully that extended family can make you feel grounded enough to deal with your Mum and sisters. It also seems like you might be at that difficult transition point between interacting with your family as a teenager, and interacting with them as adults. Sometimes it can be tricky for parents and older siblings to start realising you actually are an adult as well.
Aw man, sorry to hear that. Regarding the last paragraph it sounds like I played a part in that and I’m sorry if it made you feel like that. But we don’t need you to say something stupid or over the top to notice you exist, we don’t need a series of stupid stories or adventures and I didn’t mean for you to be the butt of any jokes. It just seemed like you were comfortable talking about that stuff so I figured it was something we could talk about.
I haven’t really got to know you personally (since I’m never on TS anymore :P) but we all know you’re a cool dude who’s good at heart. Some of the stuff you’ve done has been seriously kind and just made me happy knowing that there’s still good people out there. I look forward to hanging out with you at PAX!
But I’m not going to lie, I’ll miss hotrossin’ all over the place but if it honestly annoys you then I’ll stop. I know you didn’t really like it initially but I’m a dick and kept saying it :/, sorry brother! <3 ily
Don’t be silly green jerky it’s not you, it’s not anyone. I am anxiety ridden. I love what you say it makes me unbelievably happy. It’s not so much of being the butt of the joke as feeling like I’ve lost touch with people.
I’m going to hotross so hard at PAX.
Haha “green jerky”. Awesome. I’m totally going to steal that one.
Hope you feel better, anxiety brother. You still taking anti-d’s?
I’ve been in a bad place myself for the last couple of months and I feel like I’ve been a little more selfish just trying to get my head around my issues. I feel like I’ve neglected TAY a little. That don’t mean I care for you folks less or any thing. You’re a good guy Rockets and I hope you feel better.
I get really bad anxiety at night, during the day im fine, mostly cause im busy. During the night i am alone with my thoughts. I mean i feel yucky someday’s but it can usually be fixed by cracking a joke or texting a friend. At night i don’t really talk much so im left alone with stupid thoughts of everyone hating me. During the day i laugh at how silly that thought is, you guys love the shit outta me.
Its just hard, loneliness is a bitch.
🙁 I hear that.
Hey Rocketman, sorry if I’ve contributed to this feeling you’ve got. Although I enjoy your wacky adventures as much as the next chap, I’m equally happy to read a quieter post, more mundane stuff. Any post at all will remind us that you exist! 🙂
And for what it’s worth, I basically don’t talk to my parents. They made a choice a long time ago to favour my bro in most matters, and they’re sticking to that game plan. Haven’t written them off and still interact with them occasionally, but there seems to be a mutual understanding that we really don’t have time for each other.
It’s not the same as the situation with your family, obviously, but just wanted to highlight that the ‘ideal Hollywoodised family-first’ mentality isn’t always entirely realistic, and certainly isn’t the only way to go about things.
🙁 You’re one of the best people I know. Your folks must be crazy or your brother must be crazy awesome! XD
He has more in common with them. And also needs more help in his day to day life. Perfect opportunity for them to meddle. I, on the other hand, pushed pretty hard to make independent decisions (including way back when I made the choice to study creative writing at uni instead of something useful like engineering, law or medicine).
I think the fault is mutual, but they don’t seem interested in being involved unless they can control, and I’m not willing to budge there.
Sorry to hear that, man. You’ve got your own awesome family now, though. 🙂
And us! FRIIIIIIIEND!
Oh, I’m long done being upset by it. Got my wife and kids, and an awesome extended circle of fantastic people. Full-time work and writing career – my life is plenty full enough! 🙂
The bit that still feels bad is that my kids don’t get as much time with their grandparents as they should, but we’ve tried and tried to get them involved, and they just aren’t that interested.
The kind words are much appreciated, though, man! 🙂
Still see your brother?
Yeah, he gave up footy and joined my basketball team a couple of years ago, so I see him about 40 weeks in the year if nothing else.
In terms of seeing him and his fiancé … not often. About as often as parents, really. My kids love them, though.
Hope I’m not prying man. 🙂 Sorry if I am. XD
What? No, man, you’re not prying. No stress! If I didn’t want to share, I wouldn’t share 🙂
Everyone else was showing off their monitors in the Kotaku article and I was totally late to the party. Hence, my battlestation:
http://i.imgur.com/l4Q6W8x.jpg
That’s impressive…ly neat. When I used to have a desktop I could barely find the keyboard and mouse due to all the junk surrounding it.
Unfortunately it’s not a huge desk, so I need all the space I can get. I’m actually pretty neat when it comes to my personal space. Mostly. My car’s a mess though.
Most of my personal spaces are cluttered. It’s probably a reflection of the state of my brain. 😀
http://i.imgur.com/JUeSNjw.jpg
We need to go deeper?
Do you have so many water bottles there in case you need to pee? 😛
Haha I thought someone would ask about that, the Yellow pages keeping my monitor up and/or the dust everywhere.
It’s for when I get thirsty :P… I’m lazy.
“Oh hey, I’m thirsty, I could use some water. I guess I’ll go get som… WAIT! I don’t need to because all the water is next to me. AWE YEAH”
“Oh hey, I’m busting, I should use the bathroom. I guess I’ll get up and… WAIT! I don’t need to because a bottle is next to me. AWE YEAH”
>:P
Ew.
Something just happened to my brain.
Upvote for Evangelion
Dat wallpaper
Whoa, that’s all kinds of awesome. Puts my dual screen setup to shame.
(Just a regular monitor and a laptop side-by-side. XD)
The problem with sleeping until late is you then aren’t tired at your usual bedtime and your whole routine becomes out of whack.
I’m having this problem since I’ve become unemployed, lol. I still work my stuff during the day but there is a haze of just… weirdness accompanying me when it’s not night time.
Before I had kids I used to stay up gaming until at the sun came up and then sleep until like 3pm. I miss that. I had to train myself to not be nocturnal so if I mess with the routine it becomes a little more difficult to get back into it. Being up in daylight is just unnatural. 😛
Hi Blaghman!
This was me in between high-school/uni. The only thing that knocked me off this was the fact I got a job that needed me to start at 6am O_O
I get this issue whenever I have to be up early for stuff. Got an early morning meeting and can’t sleep at all 🙁
I’ve somehow mastered sleeping when I don’t need to.
Oh man, I’m just sitting here refreshing, waiting for you guys to entertain me. Why am I doing that? I’m gonna go catch up on Teen Wolf instead. I have two episodes waiting for me that I haven’t been able to watch because school holidays.
Wish I could say I had something to entertain you with, but I’m a bit brain dead today
There’s a teen wolf show? Wut? Tennis is pretty good strange! Should watch some tennis… s’wat Im doin…
I think it was on channel 7 earlier this year. wasn’t round for long though
It’s up to its third season now. It’s one of those guilty pleasure kind of shows. You know it’s just kind of empty but you can’t help but enjoy it anyway.
YOU COULD’VE BEEN WATCHING MALCOLM SURVIVOR SEASON!
So, I just submitted an entry for dat PAX comp. I can’t MS Paint at all. BUT ILL WISH HARD TONIGHT.
Good luck my friend. After missing out on e3 2012, this would be good. 😀
That’s exactly why I entered man! I thought, CAAAAAAARN. Why not! Your support is always appreciated.
For shameless game month I thought I would (finally) play through the Batman Arkham series. Played through a couple of hours of Arkham Asylum, it’s a pretty cool guy so far.
its batman, of course its amazing look at the other quality batman games they have made each more brilliant than the last. 😛
i actually want to replay both games but im going to have to replace my xbox to do so. Big W is selling them for about $140 so i might pick one up at lunch.
They’ll probably be on sale soon on steam. Summer Sales be approaching.
NO INTERNET FOR A WHILE MEANS NO SUMMER SALES 🙁
One comic book related game I actually like.
It’s pretty much Metroid Prime in thrid person with fists instead of guns. They did good.
Don’t like the sandbox in City, pointless and boring.
Otherwise a decent game.
Paul Dini wrote both games, he’s famous for the 90s toon and does comics too. He’s pretty decent.
I love the cartoon, there are alot of amazing batman related media but the 90’s noir cartoon with subtle amounts of humor a terrific voice cast and some of the best animation in a show ever.
It feels so weird being up this early…
I was up at 445…
i got 4 packs of socks and 3 of underwear from my sister after she got mad that i was wearing hers. Not the underwear, just the socks. Womens socks are actually really similar to male socks, i dont know why they market it to a different group of people.
dissapoint you aint wearin’ her underwear, interest dipped after that.
Also, you didn’t find $10.
I always steal my husband’s socks. I wish he would buy me socks because of this. I feel like I’m missing an opportunity, here. 😛
My wife has size 5 feet, occasionally here socks end up in my drawers. If I’m super tired and try to put them on in the morning it really doesn’t work.
I also got new socks the other day, new socks are rad
http://www.siliconera.com/2013/07/02/gusts-vita-rpg-chronos-materia-reveals-its-setting-and-characters/
This game has awesome character designs. Why’d they go and squash ’em in game?
Poopoo!
Big-head SD style is probably easier to animate and I don’t mind it personally.
The character designs look really familiar. I wonder who the artist is.
The site suggests the illustrator is ‘Non’, but I think they’re talking about Nozomi Ousaka because the site talks about the Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai light novels.
The name they gave didn’t come up in my hurried search :-/
It pretty much looks a lot like Atelier, suprise suprise.
It doesn’t really. Not like the previous two Atelier games at least – Mel Kishida has a very distinctive pastelly style and Hidari’s artwork has a very warm feel to it.
EDIT: Also possibly by vitue of the fact she’s not a man, hidari is vastly better at drawing clothes.
NEW SANDMAN!!!!
http://comicsalliance.com/new-vertigo-sandman-overture-hinterkind-discipline-dead-boy-detectives-fall/
@redartifice
One of the best comics ever. Ever.
But it was (I think) a complete story – as much as I trust Neil himself, it’s gonna be weird going back for more.
agreed, he is a terrific writer, i cant imagine him fucking it up.
Ahhh, It’ll be fine.
I actually went overseas before I finished the last volume or 3 and don’t own it and haven’t read them.
I had the ABSOLUTE editions on target for a while but it never happened.
One day. one day!
Agree. It was such a ride reading Sandman, but I guess this is a prequel? So that might be alright – there’s a bit more room to wiggle.
Also will we finally find out why Delirium was once Delight!? It’s still the biggest Sandman mystery ever!
I thought she changed because we did. Humans I mean.
It was implied at some point that she was involved with someone else, but whatever happened the fallout left her mad.
I’m pretty sure the endless wasn’t tied so much to the change in humans, I mean Destruction left because he didn’t want to deal with the change in humans so…
Played 5 hours of Project X Zone last night, I’ve seen so many cleavage/side boob/panty/ass shots I’m starting to wonder how this only got a PG rating.
Haven’t seen anything extremely tactical yet, but I’m on chapter 10 and apparently theirs 40 chapters + an epilogue so it should be a good 20-25 hours entertainment I guess.
I was looking at the game case at EBGames yesterday. Man, that “all boob” shot, luckily the nipples were covered therefor it’s all good … for some reason.
You mean Morrigan? one of the characters in the game referred to her as a ‘wet dream’ lol
I … uhhh …. okay. I don’t get the ACB sometimes. /o\
There’s not much in the way of tactics as is it careful management of your EXP bar; one slip-up and it could cost you in the later levels since they just throw waves of enemies at you. That being said, how it’s overall designed is actually quite interesting, if not tedious as all hell.
Did you get the limited edition? I’m pretty sure all the the first print is limited edition so I wouldn’t be surprised. 😛
Once you get solo/support lined up on cross exp is pretty much limitless as long as you don’t burn it on revives or special attacks and save it for the higher HP stuff than you’re golden
Only difficulty I have deciding is whether or not I should rush the main objective or kill all the cannon fodder trash for experience and loot chests the latter having considerable risks.
You know about skills, right? they cost EXP and have effects ranging from higher attack range to fixed launch height to heals. Once you factor those in it’s easy to burn through your exp bar. Then again, I play it so that I have to kill everything, and there’s just so many damn monsters to kill, and things inevitably gravitate so that I’m surrounded by mooks and actually need to plan my stuff out more.
Most skills I currently have are garbage, or can be substituted by consumables I guess when I get deeper into the game I can see how it can become a problem.
Also how do I engage in multi battle? I did it once during the prologue by pressing start with those RE characters, but I can’t do it anymore?
Ahaha, most of the multi-attacks are unlocked by levelling up, although I think once you get Chris and Jill back it’s already unlocked. It’s funny because they introduce the mechanic but you can’t use it for like 10 chapters. 😛
Whha? Unless you mean the healing skills, a good chunk of them are always useful. Frank West/Hisen-Ko has a cheap skill that adds +2 range that I spam a lot; I got one or two assist characters have skills that add one more support/solo attack during fights. Ultra-useful, although I can’t say the same for healing and increased exp gained during fights skills.
I like bebs, but they’ll never convince me to buy a game I don’t like.
As long as no one gets drunk and glomps someone it will be fine. But if that happens it’s R-18 material. Sexual violence. 😐
SATURDAY DOES THINGS ON CANADA DAY
??????
I think fire was involved
rail shots of whiskey = good times
This isn’t my cellphone
I might’ve or might’ve not woken up in a park
??????
Oh sweet I can build the cafe in animal crossing
you scare me in a way that makes me want to come take care of you.
Considering you’ve been in worse from what stories I’ve heard about you I’m more concerned for your health. Just trying to live up to my peer’s legacy is all. 😛
Oooooooh Canada,
Our home and native laaaaaaand…
This X 100 people singing loudly in streets.
YEAHH
‘MERICACANADABISH COMPLAINS ABOUT CANADA REGARDING THE CANADA DAY LONG WEEKEND
10PM Saturday. Fireworks. “The hell is that noise?”
10PM Sunday. Fireworks. “Wat, again?”
10PM Monday. Fireworks. “COME ON”
Dude at store asked me if I was going to the gay Pride parade.
“No?” I ask.
But then on Monday I baked these delicious white chocolate and raspberry cupcakes and they were amazing.
“Meanwhile, back at the mansion, Wolverine is laying on his bed in full costume, petting a framed photograph of Cyclops and Jean.”
http://comicsalliance.com/the-x-men-episode-guide-1×05-captive-hearts/
COVERED IN SCORPIONS COVERED IN SCORPIONS COVERED IN SCORP
Man, that reminds me of the super hero shows I grew up with. That weird X-men show that seemed like a spin-off and the weird spider-man show that seemed like a spin-off but OH SHIT IS NEIL PATRICK HARRIS PLAYING SPIDER-MAN
Hahaha, these recaps are so awesome!
Someone will have to do the CA links in my absence
TAY is TOTALLY BLOCKED AT WORK 🙁
That really takes me back, I love it.
How many of the gang are pre-meating this friday?
I’m still thinking of coming along, but i finish work at 5.30 and work just over in altona, so i would be there wayy before 7pm.
I haven’t been around much so i’m totally out of the loop (lawl)
Unless there has been an anit-chuloopa movement since i was last bumming around, in which case i can always sit in the corner crying the most manly tears that my man cards will allow.
Hmm, I will be in the city mid-arvo since I want to go see some camera stuff. If anyone going in early, just message me 🙂
I have no idea how long it will take to set up my Oz Comic-Con booth, so can’t commit to anything, I’m afraid. If I’m free, I’m up for a pre-meat meat.
I’ll probably knock off work at 6 or so so I’ve got an hour to kill (though it’ll take me ~15-20 mins to walk over from Southbank). If you want to meet up beforehand that’s doable.
It’s cute that you still think you have man cards
Pretty sure the smurfy and greenmang are going to be in earlier, they will be at crown around 5pm or something like that
Arrrrrgh! Just saw a Beyond: Two Souls ad on YouTube before a video. This is going to make it ten times harder to avoid spoilers. *shake fist*
Adblocker plus?
So, apparently the protagonist in the upcoming Mad Max will have an “Australian” accent. I really hope it isn’t an American trying to do an Australian accent.
Haha, I find it hilarious that the tweet that announced this specifically used ‘australian accent’ and not ‘australian actor.’ Might as well hire a kiwi to do it, then. 😛
Also, MAD MAD. I dunno if you edited it by the time this gets posted, but I find yelling that name in the middle of a fight hilarious.
Damn someone caught me out, looks like my ninja edits aren’t at the same level as @dc. =P
Sometimes you can catch a D.C. post pre-edit.
It’s a rare and beautiful thing.
Wasn’t Mel Gibson an American doing an Australian accent? XD
Sheel be roight jast puda natha shrimp on tha bah-bee.
Starring Quentin Tarantino as Max Rockatansky.
Haven’t they already hired an actor? He’ll do his best, I’m sure! 😛
I thought it was Tom Hardy — am I imagining things?!
Edit: Unless this is the game, then… good. 😛
Tom Hardy’s in the movie.
And he’s not Max, it’s a prequel with new characters.
JORGE MILLARRRRRRRRR RETURNS TO HIS ROOOOOOOTS!!!
No more friggin’ dancing penguins and awe struck owls, finally…
I reckon they should totally get Russell Crowe. Might not be in their budget, but he’d be perfect.
Surely it can’t be that expensive to completely do his script and hire him for a week to push out lines.
I’m sure Russell Crowes agent will probably take them to the cleaners with the contract though lol
Yeah which sucks, he’d be a great choice. Karl Urban springs to mind as well, but again, probably to expensive.
I know they’re both Kiwis, technically, but largely irrelevant.
I have so much stuff i want to watch that i dont have access to also the fact that most torrented shows now are in MKV format really irks me, not cause the format is bad, its because vlc doesn’t always read them properly and my tv only reads avi files. anyway here is my list i want to know your tv backlog
1. Steins Gate
2. season 5 of adventure time from about episode 12 onwards
3. ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT (still haven’t seen the new stuff)
4. Gravity falls
5. Titans gate (i like gates)
6. Young justice ( i haven’t finished it yet and i enjoyed it sooooo much)
man i like cartoons.
Gravity Falls is so good, but I’m getting impatient with Disney Channel staggering the season out so much. I started watching in November and the same season is still going. I think I might wait until I have a backlog of eps now before watching so I can marathon them. 😀
i have seen 5 episodes best thing about it is Kirsten Schall. She is one of my favourite actresses.
she is brilliant in Flight of the choncords.
Oh yeah, Mabel’s the standout of the show. Fits the voice perfectly. 😀
I miss when everything was .avi 🙁
Also, what’s the deal with Adventure Time? Everyone is mad for it so I feel like I must be missing something because what I saw wasn’t really that great.
As much as I love Adventure Time the first episode was just crap. I didn’t like it at all. It does get better the further the season gets.
The first episode really put me off for a long while, its not until i sat down and watched the entire first season i really started to enjoy it. sure its bizzare but thats not where the brilliance of the show is. the characters are so good. just my opinion though.
I think trjn described it best when he called it a stoner comedy.
Outlandish things happen with little to no warning and its bright and colourful and the characters use words in a funny way eg the main character finn uses the word “mathematical” to describe something awesome.
Having said that, the characters are all beautifully written and the comedy is spot on. Along with that the overarching plot is actually quite interesting. Also singing Im a sucker for a show with amazing singing characters.
I called Adventure Time a stoner comedy?
It’s fine, but Regular Show is way better.
http://youtu.be/7eVi-3bwG0I
Yeah I said it…
i have see it all, already.
its amazing. i can’t pick one over the other, regular show is funnier but i care more about Finn and Jake.
Fair enough.
My issue with Adventure Time is it’s slowly become a parody of itself.
Parody might not be the best word but it’s just so… blegh. We get it, you guys talk weird. Quit making up bullshit words.
That being said there’s some absolutely stand out episodes.
you can tell what it is doing though?
it has a cult following and its trying to make the followers of that cult feel like they have a new thing that only AT fans know. I actually have a problem with alot of fans of random things that are ridiculously one eyed who follow blindly and can never see a fault in any part of “the masterpiece” cough “whovians, and fans of community” cough Both of those shows are guilty of doing similar things. Making catchphrases and hand gestures so that the audeince has a thing to identify themselves as fans.
I actually enjoy Regular Show more, for one thing their music choice is pretty awesome in some episodes.
That is true, they use 80’s rock music alot. one of my fave episodes is where they become a band.
The episode that always comes to my mind is “Weekend at Bensens” where they drink the “Mississippi Queen” cocktail thingie.
http://youtu.be/vmDwkV7qHfg
It’s a very hit and miss show. It’s got a relatively broad scope as a result. I like it for different reasons than Rocketman does (hate the singing and most of the overarching plot). I like it for the individual episodes that tell a simple and charming story in an incredibly stupid world.
Also you do a badass LSP voice.
Shhh, we don’t talk about that anymore…
I don’t miss when everything was AVI as that was a horrible inflexible container format that people managed to shove in things (eg DivX) they really should never have been able to put into it.
Truth. But like Rocketman said, some TVs, mine included, only read avi files.
I’ve never really had problems with MKV files, maybe I’m just lucky.
Mkv’s are awesome mostly because matroska is an awesome word. Also, PS3s do really well dealing with them, especially if you run your media library from a PS3 via a PC to allow transcoding. 360s can do it to, but I had a lot of issues with mine.
I still need to grab season 5 of AT…also, I’m still waiting on them to release previous seasons on DVD or bluray. Last time I checked they had season 1 and a couple of DVDs of random episodes…that was it.
no ps3.
also matroska is a amazing word
see mkv files actually look alot better and are just a better file format, but my tv can’t play them straight from my hard drive, i think i might have to invest in a media laptop.
I have a boatload of anime I copied from Doc’s hard drive that I need to watch. Making incredibly slow progress…
Y’all should be grabbing the MP4’s, now that’s a reliable format!
Lost S5+6
Arrested Development (only just started half way through 1st series, very good)
Breaking Bad (halfway through season 3, it has got a lot better, but still struggling to see how it got renewed for a third season, very slow)
Currently being killed by the Tour De France at the moment, must watch every stage.
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOST!!!
Have you seen it before?
Nope. Had seen first season and then got stuck doing things on nights it was on tv. Loving it even if its trippy as hell now.
You’re dead to me.
Yeah, @brutaltoad, please explain.
We’re not mad, just concerned.
Ok I am enjoying the 3rd season. However the first season nothing happened in my eyes and for half of the second season. It’s good now but was very slow. Felt like I could read a book quicker than anything happening in the show. It takes commitment to push through 8 or 9 hours of slow tv.
SO DEAD! VIVA LA WW!
WOO WIND WAKER!
I haven’t finished AD S4
I need to finish watching Arrow, 9 eps in.
Still haven’t watched ep 10 of GoT
That’s the main list atm.
Steins gate, watch that shit.
as for me?
i have all seasons of game of thrones, still haven’t watched any of it…
Throw away VLC and move to Media Player Classic instead. It sucks less and has zero issues with MKVs.
Also Steins;Gate is pretty good.
EDIT: Also I have an enormous anime backlog. Hundreds of episodes. I have the attention span of a goldfish and I keep on starting new shows without finishing older ones, or getting 2/3 the way through a show and just stopping. Or grabbing stuff I never actually get around to watching.
i like your description being it sucks “less” so it still somewhat sucks but a order of magnitude less. 🙂
I want to watch so much anime but i find it daunting looking a the amazing amount of episodes and just decide to watch reruns of the office instead.
While the numbers of episodes might look big, remember that the vast majority of episodes are only 24 minutes, and of that 1:30 is usually the opening and another 1:30 the ending, plus often a 30-sec next episode preview at the end. So effectively if you watch those once, an episode is 20 minutes. A typical single-cour show at 13 episodes therefore is only 4 hours, which is about what you’d spend watching 4-5 episodes of most prime-time western TV shows that run in an hour timeslot.
Sometimes I think Wednesday-itis is worse than Monday-itis.
I’m pretty sure I’ve brought up the subject of ‘which day is the worst day’ several times in the past, too. :\
Thursday.
Because wednesday is a hump day, right? And after that you’re like “OH MAN, FINALLY THE WEEK CAN END,” but it isn’t, because thursday can often feel like friday, except it isn’t and when it hits you you’re all like “AHHH FUUCKK YOU THURSDAY.”
Trust me, I’m a expert on days.
i love thursdays, it comes from when i was in primary school. On thursdays they had sausage rolls from the bakery. Thursdays were the only day i was allowed to get tuckshop. Somehow this has carried on into adult life.
Friday was my tuckshop day.
4 chicken nuggets for morning tea
1 lasagne for big lunch
1 chocolate milk
Thus my tits.
You’re biased though.
Worst day is any day there’s not a meat on. :'(
😀
There’s a joke that I once upon a time would have made here. I’m still not convinced it’s outlived its usefulness.
Worst day is any day there’s a meat on I can’t get to.
You haven’t been to one since The Hobbit on Boxing Day. What gives, Lambo? 😛
Start barging into people’s houses and workplaces uninvited. If the meat won’t come to you, go to it.
That sounds weird.
Wednesday is BEST day because that’s work-from-home day. So instead of doing nothing in the perpetual downtime at work, I can be doing writing at home! Despite being home, it hasn’t turned into Humpday yet, but I’m always hopeful.
I woke up today thinking it was Monday. Then I realised it was Wednesday which usually means Pretzel Day but I can’t go out so now I’m supersad. Fake-Monday-itis turned into real Wednesday-itis.
Fake-Monday-actually-Wednesday-itis! *shakes fist*
I totally read that as ‘Wednesday-tits’.
Huh?
TURNIP PRICES!?
Mine we’re 119 yesterday arvo but now they’re like 117 or something :/. They were supposed to keep increasing! :'(
(@blaghman)
Mine were like 76 last night so I assume they’re going to be 300 or 50 today. If I check, 50, if I don’t 300 😛
140 something. 147 I think.
Oooo! Please keep checking 😀 <3
Jimu’s work has blocked TAY. :'(
A moment of silence for our fallen comrade.
If it’s any consolation, @jimu… think of how much traffic you were generating for them to take notice!
That’s what happened to @spaghett.
I once got put on performance management because I had a job that theoretically required me to spend very little time at my desk but I was spending a lot of time at my desk as the job evolved from physical file handling to data management. Certain manual tasks were not being performed as effectively as they could have been because I literally did not have the time. I did use the internet a little bit over the course of the day, but not in a fashion that was impacting my work.
I think the catalyst was one of the directors getting in a snit because I walked out to deliver the mail at 4:45pm (which would take me until at least 5pm – my start time was officially 8:30am but I was regularly picking up the mail at 8:15am – they wanted me in the office until 5pm so they could continue to screw me for half an hour of free labour instead of the 15 minutes I was already giving them) and he assumed I was just leaving early (with a giant tub of mail on my shoulder), so he complained to my manager’s manager, who complained to my manager.
Another manager chimed in to allege he had witnessed me standing around outside another building down the street smoking a cigarette at 10:30 in the morning, which is something I had definitely never, ever done – they somehow concluded that I was sneaking out of work to attend job interviews!
Anyway, after a very taxing meeting I then had to complete a timesheet to account for my time throughout the day, and it was heavily implied they’d be watching the network logs because they believed 100% of the inefficiencies were due to me occasionally checking my personal email. :/
fuck eh
D: D: D:
nooooooo, :'(
Just got a work email with the following information:
“Hey, can you please bring some of your multiplayer Wii/Wii U games to the office on Friday? Also, you’ll need a bit of cash for pizza and stuff for lunch.”
So.. Any jobs going there?
Take in MH3U and ignore everybody 😀
Bring a pseudo-multiplayer game like Mario Galaxy1/2
Yeah I’ll kick ass on Mario and you can.. wave the Wii mote around to make me richer…
Hell no. The second player can force Mario to jump, which causes uncountable deaths 😛
New 3DSXL finally arrived.
I’m actually pretty sure it had been just sitting at the Post Office for the last 2+ weeks.
It doesn’t matter, I have it now. New FC is up in TAYNAMES, I’ve added everyone that’s listed there.
Saw on Twitter last night, and we are now confirmed buds!
Is it a UK 3DS XL?
I still have a code for a free Monster Hunter 3 if you register a UK 3DS XL on Club Nintendo UK…
it is UK.
I should probably create a UK Club Nintendo account.
I already have MH3U, so thanks for the offer but I’m good.
How long did it take to add 30 codes? ever since my reformat I’ve been dreading the task.
30? haha!
There were 50 codes!
It took me a while, but I was browsing internet and watching TV and eating dinner, so not sure.
The horror D:
One of the advantages of being an early adopter: gradually adding friends as they pop up 😛
Best advantage!
Broken Age is episodic now. First act is being released in January 2014.
http://www.pixelsforbreakfast.net/2013/07/broken-age-will-be-released-in-acts-starting-january/
Yeah, read that. Not overly concerned, though the nerd backlash is going to go on and on.
In better news, SHADOWRUN RETURNS is out in 3 weeks!
I’m slightly sad I won’t get to play this game in a long stretch like a traditional adventure game, but I’d prefer it to be released at all so it’s all good…
As someone that doesn’t play a lot of Adventure Games I prefer them to be episodic.
Why’s that? Just prefer playing in short bursts?
I just hope it doesn’t mess with the game structurally.
you can play all the episodes seperately without having to save and not forget the story when you get up to the new episode.
I always lose interest in adventure games, if it’s on episodic form I find It keep my interest in the game as the episodes come out. While I could probably just split a full length game into smaller parts and take breaks inbetween, it never word because I always never get back into the game.
I can understand that, I like having a decent sized adventure game ahead of me though. I always get sad when episodic stuff is over too quick. :'(
After putting up Anna’s Quest initially this way and seeing all the feedback people gave me based on that, I would say youre in a minority. But then again, most of those people would be die hard adventure fans, sooo, null and void.
Die hard adventure fans are a surly bunch. XD
Pretty much this.
I trust Tim. I kinda feel sorry for him, in a way. His project became bigger than he imagined with a huge backer response – so he started imagining bigger – but things have quickly gotten out of hand. And then it becomes cyclical:
Crowd-funding can’t be pulled out from under them in the same way that a publisher can pull support if deadlines aren’t met. It might be worse, however, since all we can express is disappointment and Tim doesn’t want to disappoint people. So to make up for slipping deadlines, he starts to promise better, bigger, more polished content, but that costs more money and more time, and so things slip again.
It will be worth the wait. I think I can probably hold out until it’s complete – I have a lot of other KS projects incoming, but I haven’t been following any of them too closely.
Shadowrun soon? Excellent!
Just read the backer update on Kickstarter.
After briefly looking over the article you linked I thought it would be split up into various episodes (more than 2) and backers would just get the first part. Which would’ve been kind of annoying but not too bad since I only paid $15 and got more than my money’s worth with the 2PP documentary.
However, it just seems like they’re splitting it into two parts. Backers will get the first part (through Steam Early Access) and the second part will be added free later on. Everyone else can buy the first part (and get the second part added free later on), or just wait until it’s all released. Which sounds good to me!
To me this is just like having the game delayed further, except we get to play half of it! I’d really hate for it to lose 75% of its content just so it can be released. Let them take their time and hopefully they get enough funding through this (BUY IT D.C.!).
I just hope everything works out for them. Sounds like there’s a lot riding on this project.
I think that’s just for the beta, I think they’re relying on new customers to fund the subsequent episodes. If you’re a backer you should still get the whole thing? (Maybe check the backer update. Haha!)
From the update:
Then we had a strange idea. What if we made some modest cuts in order to finish the first half of the game by January instead of July, and then released that finished, polished half of the game on Steam Early Access? Backers would still have the option of not looking at it, of course, but those who were sick of waiting wouldn’t have to wait any more. They could play the first half of the game in January!We were always planning to release the beta on Steam, but in addition to that we now have Steam Early Access, which is a new opportunity that actually lets you charge money for pre-release content. That means we could actually sell this early access version of the game to the public at large, and use that money to fund the remaining game development. The second part of the game would come in a free update a few months down the road, closer to April-May.
Hmm. Yeah… my immediate reaction was noooo! But, makes sense. Especially on the back of their money woes in the eps. Not sure if I’ll wait or not though… I kind of reckon I’ll wait, but waiting means more chance of things being spoilt :'(
edit: Ahaha! I was all argh how come I found out from tay before double fine even told me!? But then there was an email waiting for me with a new episode :3
Oh god, don’t read the comments >__>
So many people getting angry on the Kickstarter page…
Yeah, I feel a sense of disappointment but it’s not something I’m going to rage over and I can actually understand why they’re doing this. People are still going to get the same game, so they should calm down. 😀
If this is all that 3 million gets us, then how shit would it have been if they’d only made their initial 400k target?
I think they were going to make a pixel art, modest adventure and the problems occurred when their plans got more ambitious.
Boo to you, boo! Jumping the gun on them here, having watched all the doco eps they have good reason for running out of money. 3 million doesnt get you very far when you have the scope they have on this.
That’s the problem though. Originally, they had a much smaller scope and the project might have succeeded at what it was aiming for. Then it blew up and they greatly expanded their plans beyond what their already exploded budget could allow for.
In short, they got a bit excited about what they could do and forgot about what they could actually do.
I don’t like Kickstarter much to begin with and I honestly don’t understand how it could work for larger projects (like this became).
Yeah, that’s the problem. Broken Age wanted to become some big budget AAA title and I just cannot see how that is possible with crowd funding. You need a big company to cover the costs.
Sometimes begin restricted to a budget is a good thing.
Party pooper much? I think its mostly just because Tim is an exciteable guy, and was thinking about pleasing everyone before he was thinking about budgets. Sure, that’s a very flawed approach to game design, but you cant help but love and appreciate him as a designer who’s just got big ideas and loves his fans and the medium.
It’s a point in favour of the more traditional funding setup. The people giving the money hold the people making the product to account.
“Here’s what we can do but it’s going to take $3m” is very different to “we have $3m, what can we do?”
Yeah, I agree. I like that a studio can get carried away with the creative stuff. XD
I like the guy, but part of running a company is knowing your limits, going vastly over budget says to me that he doesn’t know his limits.
It’s a double-edged sword. If you get 500% what you asked for people assume that the project will be 500% bigger and better. If you do that, you might overreach and not provide a great product. but if you don’t try, people accuse you of being a ripping them off – you’re practically obliged to provide stretch goals just to burn up the moeny you don’t need.
That’s what I’m saying. If they can’t deliver the vision they planned for what they actually got funding-wise, then they’d probably also have had the same issue at 400k.
If the scope they had was too big for 3 million dollars worth they shouldn’t have had such a large scope production.
IIRC they said that Stacking and Costume Quest were done on a larger budget…
But like DC said, they had a smaller scope in mind for 400k. Sure it mightve blown out similarly, but it wouldve been relative.
They got more money so increased their scope. Would’ve been much less if they had less money.
I’m just gonna throw it out there, if someone in the real world quoted to do a job for $400k, got given $3 million then turned around and said “nah, we need more then $3 million” they would get laughed at.
It’ll be interesting to see if Obsidian’s Project Eternity has similar issues down the line too. As crazy as it sounds, $3 million isn’t all that much when it comes to AAA game development.
Neither Broken Age nor Project Eternity are AAA games.
They would be considered AAA if they were developed in the ’90s. 😛
Because people still played adventure games then?
😛
And isometric RPGs. What an odd time. XD
Edit: More seriously, I mean the scale of production. Apparently they had the same budget as Grim Fandango and that was definitely a AAA game back in the day. Of course, I know technology changes and so does moneys worth and all that…
Well tech has come a long way since then
http://www.gameranx.com/img/12-Jul/10t.JPG
Not much has changed between a AAA cartoon adventure game though. I mean, they’re not using Unreal 4 and the like. But… I don’t even know what I’m arguing about any more… XD
SOVIET ARCOLOGIES… *runs*
I don’t think it will, Obsidian have been doing it pretty cheaply, only a small team working on it and stuff. Effectively it looked like they budgeted a salary for x number of people working for 18 months, and the more extra they got, the more people could work on it in the studio.
EXACTLY! Obsidian know their limits so the work to it. Unfortunately Tim wants the game to do everything and please everyone which, while is an admirable trait, is not a trait you want from someone in charge.
Every game he’s developed has been delivered later than expected, I believe. He’s a brilliant man but not necessarily an effective project manager
sort of, imagine if it was for a house
The contract tells the people here is a nice 3 bedroom house we can build it for 400k.
the customer is like here is 3 million.
now the people have 3 million to play with for a 400k house they decide to upgrade the doors, put a chandelier in, 4 kitchens. Soon the project is a half finished mess with 4 kitchens and no bedrooms or shower. Now the contractor can’t tear the house down, he has to finish it, so he has to ask the customer for more to finish the mega house.
what im saying is, im terrible at metaphors and dont hire me to build a house, it will have kitchens everywhere.
That’s actually a good metaphor. =P
If a builder quotes 300k to build a house then someone says “okay, I want this house but I want you to add extra. Here is $3million”. The builder can’t turn around and say “oh, by the way I went a little crazy and built 5 swimming pools so now I need more money”. You just can’t so that!
I dunno, the amount of times you see contractors give people a number on Grand Designs, only for such and such problems to happen and it ends up costing the people a tonne more…
Usually those are a result of not understanding how much materials cost or the amount of time it take. Not because the contractor wants to add a golf course on the roof.
Yeah that, or it rains during construction and crews are paid to do nothing, or supplies of something are too low, or they find unexpected costs in preparing the land… its a good metaphor :3
@sughly no more housies metaphors.
What are you doing watching Grand Designs? 😛
its a great metaphor, just i started writing it trying to illustrate the other side of arguement. I ended up convincing myself in the other way. stupid metaphor. 😛
Borderlands 2 has split-screen co-op on Xbox 360, right? Thinking of getting it seeing as it’s only $10 on Games on Demand right now.
Yes.
Yep, does on both consoles
its so nice you and your bro play games together.
Co-op borderlands with siblings is fun
Gheeeeeeyyy
Klassic Krams.
Not sure how facebook linking goes, hopefully this works… pretty accurate Katie Rice comic on Anima Crossing cc @bdkiaf http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=677581208923896&set=a.283693578312663.89382.226459534036068&type=1&relevant_count=1&ref=nf
It took me a long time to realised that Katt was a girl. Seriously ugmo face and she was acting like a guy for ages, then someone called her a “she”…
Ugmo face? HAHAHA! XD
Oi, did you see Maki’s comic is up on Kickstarter now?
I don’t think I’ll back it, it’s not nearly as interesting as Abby’s or Lexxy’s.
Maki’s awesome though.
True. I like the guy a lot. His comic pitch just doesn’t really do it for me.
*Hipster glasses* I was following sci-ence before strip search- he did the cover for George Hrab’s 21812 (http://sci-ence.org/21812/) which I should be getting also this month
Oh nah, didnt see that! But yeah, his pitch was a srs let down. He has a lot of promise, but his style in the comic he pitched, and the slice of life angle, do not care much. I cant help but feel he can draw a lot better than that. I think its his colouring that lets him down the most.
Yeah, it looks really amateur. They had a shot in the episode where it showed them all working at home that looked great though. He had a kind of watercolour look going on, which looked a million times better,
Yeeeep. His stuff at home got me excited. His pitch was very meh. Oh god, Katie’s inked stuff at her place? So amazing… I love that style so so much.
p.s. Lexxy’s book is nearly done, is that right? I’ve been skim reading the updates, thats the vibe I got from it… volume 0, or something? Dont even know what I bought any more XD
Website is meant to be up already actually. I expect there will be an update today at some point.
Edit: http://cloudfactorycomics.com/comic/2013/07/001.html
Eyyyy! Thanks mang!
edit: Ooooo… ominous…
Anima Crossing? Some kind of Final Fantasy X spinoff where you play as that creepy summon with the chained up monster?
Enema Crossing.
😐
Edit: *facepalm* i get jokes…
Just a little something I did last night. Figured I’d share here cos I love you guys
https://twitter.com/theREALwelbot/status/352029589599563776/photo/1
Who does that make the MCP?
if thats a naked picture of the lady you are dating im not looking at it… im at work.
Even better.
I have my doubts that they’ve progressed from a hug to sharing naked photos on Twitter within a week. But I don’t know, maybe that’s how you do it in Queensland. You guys are weird.
i went from not knowing someone, to knowing someone in a day.
also a joke, i make those occasionally,
zip zap zooey.
Your face is a joke.
my hair is. i look like peter brady
‘Knowing’ in the literal or the biblical sense?
I would mark it nsfw if it was 🙂
From the looks of the picture, you’ve already put a mark on it.
But surprise nsfw is the best kind of nsfw.
Speaking of Kickstarters, Sir You Are Being Hunted comes out in Alpha this month, looks cool
p.s. Turnips at 169 (@greenius). Not that great.
Ooo! What were they the past few days? It might be in a pattern.
There’s something like decreasing prices then increases for 3, with the 3rd being the highest.
http://www.thonky.com/animal-crossing-new-leaf/stalk-market/
Prices change twice during the day, once in the morning and once at 12pm so keep lookin’ 😀
I think mine is the ‘random’ pattern. Jumps all over the place. Blaghs put up a link to the different patterns last week.
edit: oh wait there’s the link haha! Blaghs was better though, fyi
Apparently if you push a horse into a ditch it’ll shout obscenities at you and then call your physical appearance into question.
sounds like something my grandad has said.
I can’t help but feel all the negativity towards Double Fine going over budget is a bit null and void. They’ve found ways of dealing with it, which still involve letting people play the game. They’re delivering a game way beyond people’s expectations, and are succeeding at it. So what’s the problem?
i like making fun of people for mistakes to draw the attention away from my hair, i currently look like a wig model. Not even a good wig model.
People don’t understand Project Management.
YES! THIS! I KEEP SAYING THIS AND EVERYONE IS IGNORING ME!
It’s the age old struggle between creative folks and business folks. XD
My view is probably skewed but working for an engineering firm, if a job we quote goes over (or under) 10% of the quoted price, bad stuff happenes.
If you go under does it mean a boobs and bourbon party?
It means your client thinks you were gouging him from the outset or you may not have met the agreed upon scope.
Exactly that.
invite the client to the party, he wont care after a while.
this is why i wont ever own/manage a business.
I would of said “good stuff” if that’s what happens. =P
Exactly. It’s easy to see it from a business perspective, because that’s what it is, and all of us are essentially involved on a business level. But at the same time, he’s only human. I appreciate that human element at the heart of all of this than any critique I might have of them as a business.
Well as head of the company Schafer really should have known better.
Look, I don’t care about the latest development, and I’m happy to support this game, but he really should have written to the constraints he had on him.
Oh yeah, don’t get me wrong. I like the guy and I love the look of the game and am heaps excited about it. However he should know when enough is enough.
From a business perspective, definitely.
But once you’ve got a concept creatively, especially if it’s a good one, it’s pretty much impossible to let go.
Case in point: did some concept art for Pez’s album. Sparked some ideas, and before I knew what was happening, I’d done a 70-page comic for him. It was a bad idea in almost every logical respect, but once it took off, it had to be done that way. Compromise was not an option.
It also didn’t cost more then $3million.
I think picking on the figure is not the best criticism. Sure, he got $3 million, but not all of that is going towards development.
After Kickstarter fees, Paypal fees, and income tax, and the various backer perks are filled, there’s nothing like 3 million left. You’d be lucky to be left with 2 mil. #nitpicking
@redartifice
Yeah that is true, wrong thing for me to say.
its strange at how true that is. i came up with like 14 random scenes for my scripts and i couldn’t let go of them. so much so that i would rather not finish it without them.
i would never ignore you, i replied, I REPLIED :(:((
I mean both the devs and fans.
2014 is just too long away. 😛
It sounded more like to me they were struggling more with time constraints than money constraints, so getting it out earlier by cutting it up is fine by me.
It looks like Shadowrun Returns is using a similar model, but they baked it in from the outset. Basically they’ve built a modular game and the initial release will have a single module with a DLC scenario coming later and then they’ll subsequently expand the world with extra scenarios and stuff.
Shadowrun had the second city originally as a stretch goal, but when they got in the weeds they couldn’t meet it so they changed to the current model.
Looking forward to seeing how the modestly funded Kickstarter adventures do like Broken Sword 5 and Project Fedora. (A 3D game using FMV with actors… for $700,000… Haha!)
Any Sherlock fans here? I’ve started watching “Endeavour” and I think you guys might like it. It’s a prequel series to Inspector Morse, they’re 1.5 hour episodes and they’re 4 episodes per season. I won’t say they’re as good as Sherlock, but they are definitely enjoyable and would rank it #2 for crime tv series.
The best thing is that the protagonists acting is good, but not amazing like Cumberbatches. This means he shouldn’t be stolen to do other things and we’ll keep seeing episodes.
DUDE THANK YOU BEEN LOOKING FOR A SHERLOCK REPLACEMENT FOR SOOO LONG.
cause fuck you elementary.
I know those feels, man. Last week I stumbled upon an episode on channel 7, literally turned it on the second it started. It felt like destiny.
Thanks mate. This sound’s like my kind of show 🙂
http://potaku.com/2013/07/03/grand-theft-auto-v-will-have-mandatory-install-requirements/
Mandatory GTA V disc installments!
Not that it really matters unless you’re me and have a crappy 20GB Xbox 360 and don’t like using flash drives for it that much.
Any 20GB Xbox 360 still chugging along deserves a commendation award.
Mine’s one of the 2010 consoles (after they fixed the heat issues), but still has the 20GB HDD of its predecessor.
I’ve got plenty of space on my PS3 and 360 and I like to install games, I think that’s the PC gamer in me. XD
This Sunday is Bungie Day. I think I will celebrate by digging out and re-playing Marathon 2 and maybe Marathon Infinity or some TCs for it as well.
I’m going to go get my free slurpee from 7/11 oh wait…
Bungie Day is 7/7 anyway. If you knew the tru7h you would already know that.
@dc More people should watch Grand Designs. It’s one of the best shows for understanding the right way to do shit.
Also one of my favourite shows
Just hearing the music makes me want to flee the room. XD
Why?
DO YOU HAT BUILDINGS DC?
DO YOU LIVE IN THE TREES?
Hey, I likes me some buildings. I was all crazy fanboy like looking at the art deco in the Empire State Building… but I don’t like all that drama stuff and contractor stuff and annoying British people stuff and pretentious hosts and lifestyle tv shows. XD
you have been to NYC?
you are the most well travelled hermit ever.
Boo, DC, Boo.
EVERYONE DC HATS BUILDINGS
But Grand Central Station I made my sister stand there looking at stuff for twenty minutes and she yelled at me. Buildings are cool. XD
GET OUTSIDE BUILDING HATER
Fine. *moseys outside*
@dc Eyes on the ground. Don’t look at our buildings.
Aussie seasons with Pete is best.
Haven’t watched, but may try and grab a *TERM THAT CERTAINLY DOESN’T IMPLY I’M OBTAINING IT ILLEGALLY HELLO NSA*
You just made some PRISM guy sad. :'(
Its pretty great. Though sometimes they houses kinda suck at the end and hes all “ahhhh… yeaah this is… great…”
I think he usually outright states when something isn’t to his taste, but he tries to find the positives.
In many ways the clusterfuck episodes are the most interesting
Funniest episode is when this couple built a house wiht kids bedrooms on 2nd story and then they built a ‘basement’ that had big bedrrom, spar room, dance floor and sunken lounge… was so obviosuly a swingers den. It was gross and hilarious!
The dancefloor was epic
Same reason you watch antiques roadshow. That moment where they paid way to much for that fancy shit german teapot. Its such a delightful buzz. it warms my heart.
yes im a monster.
Oh man, there’s nothing better than when they think they’ve got some crazy expensive antique item and it turns out to be absolute garbage. Best.
I really like it as well. Especially that episode where the host was arguing about the design, saying the walls wont be able to stand up and take the weight and then the owner (who was also an engineer) proved it would with a rock and a tiny piece of wood. Host got schooled yo.
Holy shit. I just discovered! Rocky horror is touring next year! *Dies from joy*
dies of horror.
i love the music in rocky horror
the actual show freaks me the fuck out.
or it did as a kid and i refuse to re-watch it.
Same, I like most of the music, hate the actual show. XD
it can be a bit much, I can understand that. but mostly I watch it for the songs, and the fishnets
I saw one starring iOTA as Dr. Frankenfurter a few years back and it was pretty great. I mean, iOTA isn’t Tim Curry great, but it was pretty great.
yeah, I’m hoping that iOTA gets the role again, I’ve been kicking myself for missing that one.
I have no real interest in seeing the stage show, but I’ve seen the film a couple of times at an arthouse cinema that had a regular ‘dress-up-and-sing-along’ night and it’s the one of the best things I’ve ever seen!
Cleaning the shower is an interesting exercise.
Can’t tell if a tile is that colour because of soap scum or the light? Scrub scrub scrub. Oh, it was the light.
you little domestic goddess.
In related news any luck on the job front?
Nope. Just fired off an application for a relatively interesting job that I fit the description of rather neatly. Given my current success of zero interviews so far, I’m not liking my chances but eventually someone will love me.
Hope it all goes well, man!
I’m not enjoying unemployment but I’m still not stressing out about things. Not just yet anyhow.
Having been there for a few months earlier this year, I know how you feel.
Hope something cool comes up soon 🙂
Long term it ain’t too good for the ol’ self-esteem.
not great short term either. at least when you already are a nut/fruit loop.
I’m starting to stress. Look at me as a potential version of you in a few months.
IT COULD HAPPEN.
if it doesnt work out you could always given up and run home like a coward.
I have advice if thats what you want to do.
The advice is : don’t
I think the next stage is begging @markserrels to hire me as the Allure office monkey.
dude maybe if we get enough upvotes for a comment he will have to hire you
So what you’re saying is that @freya and co sabotaged my chances of working for Allure?
She might like you cleaning the shower by day instead. 😛
She is a cyclone
yeah
cyclones are bad Troy
Community Manager! You could be paid to TAY!
Assistant
to theRegional Editoroh gosh i love people who quote the office.
I’m pretty sure if he runs home I will chase after him with a frying pan.
TAY’s slowed down a whole lot this week…
Lot of chatter on twitter though
But.. I don’t use twitter.. 🙁
You should, even if you just add TAYbies and make your account private. You don’t know what you’re missing, man.
Pretty sure I actually have an account already. I just never use it.
So how about stuff?
Needs moar loops
No @jimu makes TAY twice as slow.
And no @dc kills TAY.
Can’t underestimate the impact of a regular posting @shane. He’s probably comic writing right now. >:|
Sorry guys 🙁
Write on, friend. Write on. XD
Ride On. XD
Fixed that for you 🙂
I might have to start moonlighting as a writer
@trjn Team speak isn’t letting me on, is it broken for everyone?
They changed servers yesterday, I think.
Odd, I thought Pyrean would have told you.
I only really saw him for 5 min yesterday ’cause I went to bed soon as I got home from work.
Yes. It is broken. And dead. I’m out but pester someone on Steam for details. I think CJ is on.
I feel like replaying Uncharted, but I know if I do I’ll end up playing all three back-to-back and I don’t really want to do that right now. 😀
I’ve only played the second one. I keep thinking I need to play the other two, but I’ve heard mixed reviews about them.
First one is every bit as good as the second and the third is flawed, but still worth playing.
Why not?
Too time consuming and I know I’ve got plenty of time on my hands, but even so…
I don’t see any problem here 😀
I see it a different way, I see myself getting 80% in than getting annoyed when Uncharted 2&3 game ends up becoming paranormal and the difficulty spikes.
Three had some pretty horrible difficulty spikes, it’s true…
Also for a game that’s really colourful and bright:
(Uncharted 3 location spoilers.)
The Citadel was one of the blandest places in a game evah. XDI’ve never played any of them, no idea why must have been broke at the time, also never played a Bioshock, i felt i needed to remedy this, soI went and bought Uncharted 1 & 2 (in the hideous red essentials cases but the price was right) and Bioshock Ultimate Rapture Edition (1& 2 + all dlc on 1 disc.) for $66, that’s only $16.50 each game. Whoo, now i just need to tear myself away from my Vita so i actually play them.
Oh man, you’ve just got some of the finest games on the PS3, my friend. Congrats! 😀
Oh hey, 163 bells. Increasin’…
The Walking Dead 400 Days should be out either today or sometime real soon on PS3 and PC.
Really looking forward to it.
If someone sees it appear on PSN or Steam, be sure to give the heads up here. 😀
Wait, wasn’t PC a day after PSN?
But that was July 2, so I’m assuming it’d be today time zone wise…
Steam was July 3, not sure if there’s timezone staggering here…
360 version come onnnnnnnnnn
July 5! You doing the whole Amazon credit thing again or buying it locally? 😀
If it gets an Aussie release, it’s not worth the hassle of US-ing it 🙂
Will the DLC be compatible? Not sure if there’d be region issues. Also, I’m just making conversation. Don’t want to stress you out. XD
Damnit D.C.!
@dc and @greenius
I don’t know.
But I presume the DLC will look for a savegame or something, and that’s tied to my AU account, even though it was purchased with my US account.
Just a heads up – I think it requires you to own at least one of the other episodes. Since your previous ones are from the US, it might not work if you plan on buying it locally (since it may think you don’t own it)
SIMCITYMELBFORPM
Day after tomorrow. Be there, or be a jerk.
MEAT DETAILS:
Date: Friday, 5 July
Time: 7pm unless objected to.
Place: Yoyogi on Swanson St
Pre-meat might happen. Arrange details here!
Post-dinner snowball-roll to Federation Square
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 up the wrong end of the alphabet and piking, but retained for complete listism: aidan, beavwa, crazyguy1990, and budgieishere)I will be in the city from around 3-4pm, probably trawling through camera shops so I can finally make a decision (if you are wondering, they are all on the top end of Elizabeth St).
Umm, I guess steam, twitter or otherwise tag me here if you wanna meet up beforehand.
Get a Canon, you won’t regret it. 😉
More of a Nikon person but OK 😛
I played around with both brands and in the end it’s what you feel right with. They’re both excellent. I ended up with the 550D… Just need to go out and use it more!
How about a Pentax!?
I haven’t played around with them to be honest. I just really liked the way the Canon and Nikon cameras worked and felt. The 550D is a little too small for my hand but otherwise it’s a perfect camera. More than enough for what I need.
Not 100% sure at this point, but not likely to be able to make it. Uni has been kicking in in the pants pretty hard. Thank god my wife took my manhood away years ago otherwise it might hurt .
Will let you know if this changes.
I wish I could join you, but I cannot.
And, sorry for the late response…
No worries. Sorry you can’t make it. Next time, eh? 🙂
Still good for the lift @smurfydog ?
@Chuloopa
Guy on my bulletin board at work selling this.
•Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine Tactical Squad (still in box, shrink wrapped) $35
•Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine Command Squad (on sprue, in box) $35
•Warhammer 40,000 Tallarn rough riders (4) $25
•Warhammer Kislev winged lancers (in box, shrink wrapped) $50
•Warhammer Empire militia (20 on sprue, in box) $35
•Warhammer Gnoblars box (on sprue) $30
•Warhamer Big bag of Ogre bits $10
•Also have a couple of Gundam models (1:100 and 1:144 scale unassembled and in box)
Don’t know if cheap or good or whatever. But thought of you anyway. Let me know if you want his deets and I’ll make it happen.
I want the empire militia!
Really. I may be poor at the moment but I will find money for them by the end of the day.
@f4ction, Twitter PM sent.
Thanks for the heads up, buddy.
I’m pretty sure he has that exact ad on gumtree too. lol
Unfortunately i don’t need any of those things as I only have space marine and chaos armies, and i have more than enough tacs and command bits at the mo.
Thanks for the thought though – really appreciate it 🙂
*applies jumper leads to TAY*
CLEAR!
*brushes hands nonchalantly*
My work here is done
*FLATLINE*
Linda Cardellini. You know, I never saw her name anywhere until you sent me Freaks and Geeks. Now it’s everywhere.
She was on ER for five years, I think. She’s awesome.
Also, if you haven’t watched Gravity Falls you should! She’s totally in that too!
Baader-Meinhof phenomenon
The ER theme will forever be in my head now.
Thanks for the nostalgia DC
Any time, science pal. Any time.
DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO
DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO
DUN DA DUN
I just bought a bin and a clothes hamper, i nearly bought a gun to shoot myself. Not because it was boring but because i found myself having a internal debate thinking which bin would be better.
“well this one holds more rubbish”
“but do i want more rubbish in my bin”
“Less trips, but maybe more smell”
“what the fuck are you doing”
picked up nearest bin and walked out, now im sad cause i should of got the bigger one. sigh
im going to be so disappointed after PAX, what am i meant to look forward too?
Hey, a bin is an important purchase, but not as important as bin-liners.
BECAUSE MINE ARE SHITTY AND RIP BEFORE I CAN GET TO THE WHEELIE BIN BECAUSE MY BROTHER BOUGHT THE CHEAP ONES
Ahem.
Live in geelong with me and the fun will never end. Simply never leave after PAX.
Best plan!
You sound like a real adult now, Rockets.
i hate what i have become.
i really want a briefcase now though.
AND WHERE IS MY LATTE
I had a briefcase for a while. They’re awesome! Leather too. Well at least it looked like it. Though I wouldn’t mind one of those aluminum ones that look like you’re carrying something you shouldn’t.
Small bins are the worst man. Doesn’t fit enough rubbish. You should have gotten the bigger one. I can’t believe I’m having this conversation.
Have to agree. Large bins mean less having to take them to the wheelie bin
but what happens if you put food in it. like a apple peal or the end of a tomato? wont it get yucky.
oh god why am i talking about this.
Just take it outside. Or get a compost bin.
PRACTICALITY ISNT MY STRONG SUIT
my strong suit is clubs.
…Hugo?
He he he, my influence grows.
*tents fingers*
Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.
just went on Lifehacker to end this debate you’re doing it wrong, your rubbish goes in the pantry, and you’re putting garbage into your wheelie bin, but then where do you store your clean laundry?
this is all a load of total bullshit 😛But where do I store my bread?
TELL ME @gutsoup I MUST KNOW
@redartifice
Not in the microwave, the tinned goods will squash it
Get a small one that goes on the bench. Food and icky stuff like the bag containing meat go in there. Quick and easy to grab and take out.
Bigger bin for everyday stuff that you only take out occasionally. I got the small bin (and it was the blue one) but wish I had a bigger one.
Oh man, this is why I hate shopping. Especially for things where you are like WHY ARE THERE FIFTY OPTIONS OF WHICH FUCKING BIN OR WASHING POWDER GOD I ONLY NEED ONE
get the blue one. thats usually the best option.
Buy a second bin and put your recyclables into it?
@strange – Did you reply to my Berserk film 2 query? Caus its on at Dendy on Sunday, at, er… 3pm I think it was? gutsoup and jimjim have abandoned me in my time of Berserk friend need… youuuuu are our laaast hoooope… heh, Galaxy Quest. Great film. But srsly, youre my last hope. I want to see Berserk in the cinemarrrrrr!!
Also by the by, film 3 was greaaaat! Really impressed by the trilogy, despite the 3D being a bit fugly in moments. I think the second was my fave personally… and hey will you look at that, its at the cinema this Sunday! How about that…
I did reply.
I said I might be able to do it, have to ask Mr. Strange.
But if I can’t go, you should totally go alone. I don’t understand people who don’t like seeing movies alone.
Oh no I will! I aint missing this! Just… better to have fwends 😀
it pains me so much to not go, but I think I’ll get into trouble if i abandon my girlfriends birthday plans :'(
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I thought we had something…
shhh, no one must know
*wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiink*
is it a bad idea to get my best friend a pink 3ds for his birthday this week, i know he needs one because we always do the pokemon release together. Im debating the hillarity/practicality of it. On one hand he will get a 3ds on the other hand its kind of childish.
Also pink 3ds comes with animal crossing and he is a notorious time waster. its like buying a smoker who is trying to quite a years supply of cigarrettes.
Eh, don’t do it man. Would be funny until you realize he doesn’t take it any where or use it in public, which would defeat the purpose. Haha.
Of course, I hat fun so what would I know. 😛
fun and buildings.
HAT
I never take my 3DS anywhere or use it in public…
Because it’s pink? 😛
The very opposite (blue). I don’t know, I’ve never really used any of my portable gadgets outside the home, except occasionally taking them on holiday. The idea of using one out in public has always felt a bit weird to me, though that’s their intended use.
remember Boktai: The sun is in your hands
that thing forced you outside, it had a sun sensor that told your GBA how much sun it was getting and it charged your weapons, on sunny days your weapons were tough as hell, also had seed planting and the plants required X ammount of sunlight to germinate and grow. good concept, but because it made me go outside i never finished it. I also don’t play portables out of my home much which is sorta funny cause it defeats the point a little i guess.
Mate. I stood up on my bed and put the cartridge right up to the light bulb.
I ain’t going outside!
I was just annoyed that the US version had a “cheat” to increase the bars by holding some buttons but it never worked in the version I had 🙁
I probably wouldn’t do the pink 3DS but if you really want to prank him you could take the 3DS out of the box and put in a pack of colouring pencils (or something like that) then give him the actual 3DS after he opens it.
Patch 1.01 Notes: Corrected Spelling.
nob always comes through with the best plans im gonna do that 🙂
patch 1.02 added a clause about rocketman being the best
patch 1.03 took out clause about rocketman, he is icky.
patch1.04 put the patch back in about rocketman being awesome, he cried and we didnt want to deal with it
Do it, and then once the laughs wear off send him this link:
http://www.gelaskins.com/store/gaming/Nintendo_3DS/
Also, you’re a good friend, Rockets. A 3DS is a crazy good present!
he has been my best friend for 10 years. i show my love with extravagent gifts, he shows his by being the only person he bes himself around. Trust me i am way luckier. He is amazingly like me, just not around anyone else. Its like having a secret rocketman all for myself. I realize how gay this sounds but its nice.
Aww rockets you are so cute.
damn it, i have to stop being vunerable and kind on here. people will mistake me for a nice person and they will be disappointed when they meet me.
Gay? It just sounds like mastu-… y’know, nevermind. 😛
S.H.I.T.S.T.O.R.M….
Holland by Cold Specks
I think I’ve posted this one in tay before, but even so, beautiful song/video/lyrics/voice. Gah!
POST NEW MUSIC I HAVE HEARD THIS BEFORE
I like giants
such a quirky fun song. heard it on the radio yesterday on the way to work and it made me smile, not our usual stuff but still good nevertheless.
Kimya Dawson reminds me of Juno which reminds me I hate Juno.
How can you hate juno. Michael Cera plays his best roll yet
A AWKWARD TEENAGER, he has such a wide range.
Hahaha! Yeah, kinda this
also i dont think that grouplove is your thing but this song has been in my head for days. I really like it.
Oh no ways, I love Grouplove! Well, they are a little hit and miss at times, but they hit hard when they do hit. Tongue Tied is an incredible song. This ones quite good too ^_^
edit: Actually there was a song on the Frankenweenie soundtrack they did too thats great, Underground
Haha, that video was great
I just listened to the Acapella version of Rolling in the deep by Adele. First time I had heard it.
Unlike more acapella their is no backing beat or instrument replacements as I am used to. Just some minor backup singing during the chorus. The rest of it is just her singing solo and carrying the song on the strength of her voice along.
Very impressive
Edit if interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WppvmpLKS-Y
The start of your video clip made me think of the fat boy slim evolution clip and i couldn’t take the song seriously after that.
My thought process whenever I dig up a pitfall seed.
“I win today pitfall seed.”
@greenius
Seems like Julian the cow? idk donated a regal lamp to the store today, so alls good.
You stoned? That post made no sense to me. XD
ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER DO YOU SPEAK IT
Really want to see that film again.
Say what again. I dare you, I double dare you
I kinda understood it 😀
Regal Lamp or Regal Wall Lamp? (I don’t know if there’s two different things but mine was a wall lamp)
Digging up Pitfall Seeds is the worst 🙁
Oh.. yours was a wall lamp? probably explains why I thought I didn’t get it since I already owned a regal wall-lamp prior to the trade =/
Distant you silly billy! 😛
I specifically said “wall lamp” all those times 🙂
Planting them in a circle around the door of a character you don’t like makes up for it, though.
have not thought of that.
Or your kid when you’re mad at her for leaving junk lying around town….
Animal Crossing stuff, probably should of mentioned.
Rogue Legacy people:
Beat the first boss last night in a flurry of button-mashing and swears. It’s starting to become really obvious that I’m great with some classes and beyond useless with others.
What classes are people finding suits them more/they like more than others?
Spellblades are by far my favourite class. Endless supply of mana with empowered spell (double mp cost, doubles spell size and damage).
Anyway, as far as classes go my full list is something like this.
Spellblade>Lich King/Queen>Archmage>Hokage>Splunker>Assassin>Paladin>Barbarian King/Queen
I’m loving the Hokage, but second place is close between the Lich King and Archmage (with the right spells).
Biggest advantage of the hokage is that when things rush you you can 1-hit them before they hit you…like those friggin’ wolves…
i wanna play this game. it sounds cool. COOOOOOOOL
Paladin, the blocking is very very useful
Was watching my nephew play SW Force Unleashed last night and it was great watching him get so excited fighting a boss battle, that I started cheering him on until he was jumping up and down on the spot grinning maniacally as he put the smack down on the boss.
This of course led to me kicking him off 2 minutes later so I could have a go 😛
What is a insanely popular band/musician you like before they became superstars?
I have been hearing Passenger on the radio non stop for months, i bought that album over a year ago when it first came out on itunes.
The worst part, “let her go” isn’t even the best song on the album.
also yes @sughly i like passenger all my music cred is now lost i understand.
I tend to discover bands years after they become popular. :'(
have you heard of the beatles yet?
About two weeks ago, I might’ve spammed TAY with lots of Beatles links. XD
HAHAHAHAhAHA!!!!!!!!!
The who? LINK ME!
TV on the Radio, if you consider them “superstars”
Daft Punk I was into when Discovery was first released, dunno if that counts. Pre- Interstella 5555 anyway.
i know of tv on the radio, so they are at least more well known then others.
I guess Die! Die! Die! haven’t really hit the mainstream yet. I used to have their self-titled album and absolutely played the crap out of their track, ‘Shyness Will Get You Nowhere.’
I remember listening to The Killers when they first landed on Warped Tour randomly and thinking “this song is ridiculous” – It was “Somebody Told Me” – they became mega stars, now I like them. Different kind of situation to what you describe but.
For me it was probably The Presets.
I went and saw them a bunch of time for maybe $10-$12 a ticket before their first album. Suddenly tickets were around $70 – same small venues, but gotta get dem famous $$ now. Kinda disappoint.
A lot of heavier bands that we listened the crap out of in high school back in the mid-to-late 90’s before the radio got a hold of them and ruined them: Korn, Slipknot, Manson, Nine Inch Nails – there’d be a lot more, but they’re the most significant.
That being said, I still love NIN, and thankfully the radio only ever ruined ‘Closer’ which wasn’t much of a loss anyway. Unfortunately, it’s off the Downward Spiral which is basically my favorite NIN and I love EVERY other song off. Without exception. But thanks to the radio, I have to skip that fucking song every time.
Whenever I talked to anyone about NIN, they were always like ‘Ohhhhh I wanna fuck you like an animal! I know them!’
No.
You don’t.
#hisptercody
Mmm probably Bon Iver is one, he took a while to get noticed, and every time I recommended him people made fun of his name 🙁 I never got into them in a big way, but I remember listening to Mumford and Sons because of Marling about a year before they suddenly blew up. I know what you mean about random songs getting a lot of attention though, but still better than getting none. Its pretty sad when you find a great album with tracks you know wouldve been huge, but just didnt seem to get attention, especially since sometimes youre only finding them a year after release too. *sheds a tear for the unrecognised*
Some that come to mind are Gold Motel, Slow Club, Super700 (terrible name, but great band), Promise and the Monster, I dunno – bunch of others. Little Scream.
edit: Oh man, Zola Jesus! Criminal how unrecognised she is in the broader sense. She played in a tiny tiny venue in Brisbane with barely any people, but put on an amazing show.
ZOLA JESUS
i remeber you talking about her a while ago just before midnight city dropped.
I remember liking her alot.
Now i want to listen to M83 again.
There’s a youtubes of her joining him on stage for that song. The people in that audiences are the luckiest sons of bitches, so jelly…
Argh, impossible to not go listen to Hurry up were dreaming in its entirety after that. Such an amazing album. I remember being in France when I was just listening to it, and spending a day driving around Antibes where he grew up, playing it in the car. Good times…
CARRY ON! CARRY ON!
I went to school with the original guitarist from the Temper Trap, does that count?
For me I guess it would be Goyte. used to go see the basics play quite regularly before he started doing solo stuff.
i’ve also made him fetch my coffee when he was working in a cafe
Anamanaguchi, they aren’t superstars, bu tknow everyone knows them *flicks fringe*
I find it rather disturbing when my nephews play an older game on my 360 and my profile, when suddenly an achievement notice will come up.
WTF! How did these children unlock an achievement that I apparantly was unable to?!?
*old man grumble*
There there Hugo, I’m sure they are ones that were added after you stopped playing
I may have to use that line whenever they start cheering over unlocking an achievement that I hadn’t 😛
bwahahahaha not only are they doing it, but they are rubbing it in your face as well
Damn kids with their rock and roll, hoola hoops and pac-men.
*shakes fist at cloud*
That reminds me of: If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music. – Marcus Brigstocke
I want to see the other failed PAX entries! Let’s do this thing!
Oh… imgur is down. Well. I wanted to show you mine but looks like THE INTERNET HAS RUINED THAT IDEA.
Back to these mice.
Ocarina of Time \o/
Well, that was piss easy. I finally figured out the fairy was trolling me by offering help, so this time I didn’t use L-Targeting for the Ganon battle, and it was unbelievably easy. Didn’t even get hit once. Stupid fairy leading me astray. Epic game now beaten. Nostalgic memory completed. Thanks @Blaghman. You are indeed a prince among thieves. Or something.I got up to the Spirit temple and put it aside for a new game… something something… oh, Theatrhythm! Yeah, should go back and finish it off. Then play more theatrhythm. 3ds!! <3
OMG THEATRHYTHM! 😀
How many hours do you have in that? I think it’s my 5th most played at 28 hours.
44 hours ^_^
Oh, so NOW you’re happy about your play time! ;D
You SS’d everything too didn’t you? :D. I think we’re the only ones in that club. I really want more but the DLC is sooo expensive!
Not quite everything, still had a handful. 2 or 3 I believe. I’m gonna be soooo unable to do them now too, will need to warm my way back into it.
Now play the Master Quest.
Does the 3DS version have the master quest on it?
I wouldn’t have suggested it if it didn’t!
Because I wouldn’t have known about it if it didn’t…
yep, and it’s reversed and puzzles are moved about, AWESOME!
unf
Do I need to finish the game first because I don’t remember seeing that option?
(I’ve already finished OoT like six times including the Master Quest on the GameCube disc that came with Wind Waker.)
Edit: Just looked at my box and it says “Once you beat the main game, a new, mirrored version of the challenging Master Quest awaits.”
But if it’s a mirrored version of the (mirrored) Master Quest, isn’t that just a regular version?
It’s a mirrored version of the main quest. Not a mirrored mirrored.
I didn’t think Master Quest was originally mirrored just rearranged.
just checked case and instructions for bonus disk on cube and it doesn’t actually specify
Past me is awesome wingman, accidently swapping phones with hot chick so that sober-enough-current Saturday has to meet her in person to give phone.
Past me also neglected to mention she was a lesbian and shot me down almost instantly the second I attempted to hit on her.
THANKS, PAST ME, YA JERK.
ARe you Canada’s answer to Rocketman?
Homme de fusée in the French parts
No, I’ve enough pressure as it is being the inferior, canadian copy of bish.
Well at least you have a cool lesbian friend now, right?
‘Fraid not. I have a quota for gay friends.
It is 3. Two guys, one girl.
… That would sound hotter if not for the fact that they’re all gay.
… Or.. does that make that even more erotic?
…
Probably not..
I just wanted to make a joke and I realized it didn’t make sense only after posting. XD
Far out of my league as a girl, even twice over as a guy. 😛
Also it impresses me how confident you are with the lady folks. Sometimes I think you might be a little too confident… even so… congrats on the confidence. XD
Play it cool, Saturday. Play it cool.
The trick is to have so little self-confidence that it dips into the negatives and somehow loops around on the chart and ends up being a overabundance of confidence.
I plan to use that the next time I go out. I’ll report back my findings.
Oi. @dc. You told me to go back to twitter and now that I have you won’t even let me see your tweets. What the shit, dickman?
😛It never tells me. I always have to stumble across the friend invites. *shakes fist at twitter*
Thanks for the heads up, pal. 😀
What’s your handle?
BDKIAFau
Followed
<3
Make that 2!
dickman is amazing, dear who came up with it, it is now my go to insult. jUst playful enough so that noone gets offended and just snarky enough to get across the point.
@ynefel
\o/
http://i4.minus.com/iWFFvb2bFQT9i.png
Okay, maybe that’ll work. See if you can find how many references to fastest things in the world I make!
Okay, back to mice.
That’s all kinds of awesome! XD
Incredible.
That’s awesome, well done
I attempted to read but it’s overspeediness resulted in my laptop vibrating at such a high frequency that it phased out of existence.
So, Y’know, there’s that.
Small censor bar
I debated making it huge and then small and the medium. But at the end of the day, I didn’t tell the truth anywhere else in that document!
Why not both?
DARK SOULS!
Just killed the black knight dude at the top of the stairs near the armoured boar. Feels pretty damned good to pull that off. Pyromancy is ridiculously strong. Also killed the boar but he didn’t give me a giant great big sword that I won’t be able to use for a long while. Which the knight did. That’s two massive weapons I can’t use in about an hour’s worth of gameplay. Yay?DARK SOULS!
I was going to play it about an hour ago but then got distracted by PAX competition entries and other stuff.
DARK SOULS \O/
Nice work. That Black Knight is the toughest one in the entire game, I think, based on relativity between your likely soul level/loadout, and his strength.I just spammed fireballs at him until he fell over.THOSE PAX ENTRIES!
O______O
wow.
Yeah, for real. Everything there is better than anything I could ever make.
fuck! I wanted to win D:
It’s very funny to be a frog. You can dive into the water, and cross the rivers! And the oceans! And you can jump all the time, and everywhere…
are you about to break into song?
…yes
Oh okay cool.
Carry on…
http://lego.gizmodo.com/the-new-lego-tower-of-orthanc-is-simply-gigantabulous-652266189
This is actually really impressive. I mean, Lego’s always kinda skimped when it comes to recreating large-scale sets like Helm’s Deep and Hogwarts (because, y’know, we need to tack on another $200 to these sets) but I really, really like this one. I think it’s just because the exterior looks slick.
There’s also the fact that for authenticity you have to buy two of these, but impressive nonetheless.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/07/a-dramatic-reading-of-ridiculous-youtube-comments-reacting-to-e3/
@sughly, @gutsoup
Hahaha! Amazing
ahaaaahahaha, they’re so good
I was bored most of last night so I have decided that i am going to continue sewing until I fix up my adobe suite. Then I can draw and stuff.
Kinda of.
\o/?
http://ncloud.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/chaos-rings-coming-to-playstation.html
Anyone play Chaos Rings on iOS?
I heard it was good and had about a 5mins go, but have never owned an iDevice that supports it.
So, I’m told it was worth the time and money on iThings and it is favourably compared to FF8 a lot.
Any thoughts on whether or not it will be worth my time on Vita/PSP?
Price dependent maybe?
Jimu! He’s back in JRPG form!
A wild Jimjim appears! Ok, ok… deep breath…
*Sughly threw a rockl* – Jimjim is angry!
*Sughly threw a Safari ball* – Darn! The jimjim broke free! The wild jimjim ran!
Ragequit.
HELPIUS!
It’s pretty barebones as a JRPG. I’ve played it for a few hours on iOS and it was a fun substitute for JRPGs for mobiles – but it’s nothing spectacular and would probably be pretty average on other platforms. How much is 800 yen? I think I paid like $6 for it which was reasonable but I would be pretty disappointed if I paid $15+
@rocketman Oh man, forgot Grouplove did this song on the Girls soundtrack too! Everyone’s gonna get high’. Just popped up on my shuffle, so so good… cc@masha2932 – makes me want to watch Girls again XD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V2qgr8WMKM
Loving this new Grouplove song you linked though. Didnt realise they were working on a new album! Yet another 2013 album. This year for music, jeebus. No words.
I like this!
Yeah they have quite a few good tracks. If you like them check out a band called cage the elephant.
Awesome 🙂
Just got back from seeing Man of Steel. It was flawed, but I liked it. Finally a Superman movie with some decent action. Pacing was a bit weird, but I liked how they didn’t get too bogged down in the origin story. The start was very cool and made me wish for a whole movie set on Krypton. Faora was my favourite character.
Yeah, I agree — Sughly doesn’t know what he’s talking about!
😛Ehhh, Blade Runner was better.
No way was Deckard a replicant though.
Spoilerssss. I’m sure some people havent watched it yet…
I haven’t!
I can’t remember if your argument with Wolfie was spoiler tagged or not but I totally read it back then. Was good readin’!
(so I’m not too fussed about Blade Runner spoilers – but others might be, I guess)
It’s the kind of great film that holds up regardless of knowing what happens.
Spoilers! It’s only 30 years old, not everyone’s seen it yet! D:
Edit: Curse you, @sughly 😐
Officially both answers are correct!
I nearly crashed the motorbike on the way home! Was deep in thought when I forgot that the back brake was playing up this morning. A fishtail later and somehow I managed to keep it upright. Gave me a bit of a fright though.
But alas! I’m alive for some TAY! Woo!
D: Glad you’re okay, man.
Stay strong, Winston.
Anything for you, Julia!
Beef, spinach and ricotta stuffed mushrooms are amazing, just saying.
My phone from HN arrived on Monday. Turns out it did actually ship last Thursday, but they didn’t say, and the customer support person I spoke to had no idea about when it was shipped other than “out of stock, ships next week.” I’m not at college to get it though which is really annoying :S
Hopefully they got the order right…
I’d love some. All I had for dinner was a packet of chips! 😛
OMG! What flavour?
I think you and D.C. just became best friends.
Well I was at the Coles in the city at lunch and stumbled across the imported foods section by mistake. There I found a packet of Bluebird chips which I used to have when I lived in NZ for a while. Green Onion flavor. About an entire day’s worth of calories consumed in 5 minutes. :O
And no sheep jokes please.
To add: I haven’t had them for about 15 years. So it was a rather nostalgic food experience.
So because you haven’t had a sheep in 15 years we aren’t allowed to joke about it.
Stoopid statute of limitations rubbish
Well spotted… well spotted! 😀
Those sound pretty good 😛 I might have to look out for them
Oh yes. They’re indeed quite awesome. Sort of similar to the Smith’s cheese and onion ones.
The correct answer to D.C.’s heart would’ve been Salt and Vinegar Kettle Chips 🙂
…but GREEN! 😀 – so I approve.
I think there was a book called “Life’s too Short for Stuffing Mushrooms”. Or something like that. Clearly they were wrong, because that sounds pretty great! 🙂
No.
Ok
@greenius @scree About Friday night’s Shane meat.
Greenius, if you want a lift in, I’ll pick you up at 4pm. Just let me know by tomorrow night please 🙂
Also, I have a non-TAYbie friend who’ll be joining us for the night. (Maybe we’ll have a new TAYbie after she meets some of us?)
I’ll need to meet Ali under the clocks at 6pm.
Scree, if you are coming in early and would like to meet up, then under the clocks at 6 would be ideal.
Just so you both know, the reason I’m going in early is because I want to go to Minotaur and a regular bookshop before the meat. If there’s a general pre-meat happening, I’ll skip Minotaur, but I still need to visit a bookshop.
Edit;
@negativezero, @princesspipster, @budgieishere, @inquisitorsz, @syvraen, @jordi, @splicer, @tofu, @ynefel, @blood_apathy, @notoriousr, @sarcasmfairy, @joshy206, @dire_wolf, @crazyguy_1990, @aidan, @beavwa, @chuloopa, @f4ction, @tech_knight, @klutar, @puppylicks, @pixel_the_ferret_viking, @zetrox2k, @mcgarnical, @tigerion, @velnica, @shaneWhere be this meetup all you cool kids are talking about? I wouldn’t mind tagging along.
Melbourne. Deets are at the top of page 8 but there’s nothing really set yet other than eating yummy Japanese food.
Smurfy – a lift sounds good as long as you and your friend don’t mind me being with you two :P. You still have my address/number? Just Twitter DM me if needed! But I’ll assume you’ll be around 4pm? Just text me 🙂
No probs you hanging with us 😛 And yes, I still have your address/number. 4pm it is then.
Cheers, thanks! 😀
I haven’t talked to Neg but I assume he’s still alright to give me a lift back. Thanks friends!
@miketarno http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/07/talk-amongst-yourselves-231/comment-page-8/#comment-1634474
If you’re in Melbourne, You can meet us under the clocks at 6pm, or at Yoyogi’s restaurant at 7pm. Other meeting points may yet be added.
And by the way, Hi. Nice to meet you 🙂 Welcome to TAY!
Nice to meet you too! I’ll try to make it. It will depend largely on the weather gods as I’m limited with the bike.
I assume by clocks you mean at Flinders?
Shortest time between posting on TAY and willingly going to a meat evah.
Took me well over ten months to work up the courage.
I like to jump into the deep end. You drown quicker this way. 😛
Jugsy was pretty quick too, within a week or so. Man, she spammed so much when she first joined 😀
Whoops, you just let me know when I cross that line too. Until then I’ll just assume I’m imparting everyone with words of wisdom and poetry to rival the greatest writers that have ever lived.
Nah mate, it’s all cool. Jumping in is how you get it done!
When she second joined*
She’d appeared briefly before then, spoke a little, then she disappeared for a while.
Ugh @batgirl
Yes, Flinders St. Station steps.
Sorry, having lived in Melbourne all my life I sometimes forget that not everyone knows what “under the clocks” means. :/
Having lived in Melbourne my whole life I didn’t really know what “under the clocks” was 😛
Never really went to the city though and we just say Flinders or whatever us yougens do
Ugh! Youngius! 😛
LOL I thought you meant the Melbourne Central god-awful clock… Good to know I will be there at Flinders 🙂
By the way if you do go it’s good to be able to contact us. I guess you have and use Twitter so that’s alright.
People usually arrive at different times and we just meet up but I think being at Yoyogis by 7 should be a pretty safe bet – we usually chill at Fed for a while and it sounds like a few of us might be there earlier.
I’ll PM you my digits. Just in case we need to resort to the old school way of communicating.
But phones are scary!
6 o’clock would be fine. I don’t mind going to minotaur and bookstores. I like both.
Also, are you certain you wanted to give me a lift home?
I’m very happy to do so 🙂 And @greenius too.
But Greenius, if you’re other lift-home giver is still an option, you’ll get home quicker from them, because I’ll be taking Ali home to Ringwood before heading out our way.
do you want petrol money?
No, of course not 🙂 It’s only a short hop out of the way, then an easy cruise to the Eastern Fwy to take Ali home to Ringwood.
@greenius: still an option as I have to go 95% of the way there anyway.
Cheers! I’ll probably take you up on it, Smurfy might be sick of me 🙂
By the way, edited tags don’t send notifications 🙂
It sounds like you might end up coordinating the Pre-Meat. Should I direct twit you my numbers? I’ll probably knock off work around 6 and I’m in Southbank so can meet wherever.
If he hasn’t replied yet, I’ll probably be with him so I can pass on numbers or you can just contact me.
So who saw that amazing Li Na and Radwanska match last night! So so good. Who’s going to watch the men’s quarter finals tonight!?
… anyone..?
… 🙁
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/07/talk-amongst-yourselves-231/comment-page-9/#comment-1635521
Prophetic post! D:
Eh well. Thought it was worth a try 🙂
I’d think @powalen because he likes tennis :). I don’t mind watching tennis but I don’t watch TV 🙂
That’s right, he went to the Australian Open earlier this year, right?
Yup!
Hey man, I love me some tennis. Just booked accomodation and flights for the Aus Open in January 😀
Argh! Jealousssss! Was thinking of doing the same since they were advertising membership during wimbledon, but dont know about moneys right now. I did it a couple of Aus opens back, was so so good. Cant wait to do it again!
We got ground passes for the last couple of days this year. It was so great. Happened to walk past the practice courts as Federer was due to practice, so we watched him for a bit. So graceful. Like a gazelle.
We just signed up for memberships, so we get ground passes for the whole thing and guaranteed tickets to the final 4 sessions.
I’d love to go again! Maybe I can make it again next year!
Li Na is my absolute favourite women’s player! Got to see her at the Aus Open 😀 Don’t get to watch much Wimbledon though D:
Yeah shes awesome. Was such a close match though. You see the highlights? Li Na had like, 4 or 5 set points in the first set but Radwanska hung in and won it – only one of the set points Li Na aced her and it was called out. She didnt challenge and it ended up being in they saw later 🙁
I like Radwanska too though, so I’m going for her now.
Has anyone used an international postal forwarding service? I want to buy something off amazon but they won’t ship to Australia. Curious to know if anyone’s used/swear by one of these kinds of services.
@negativezero !
HELPIUS
I used hopshopgo before. Worked like a charm for some motorbike gear and managed to save a pretty penny.
Shipping isn’t that cheap though, so you just need to factor that in. I think they have cheaper rates if you pay with PayPal as they’re owned by PayPal AFAIK.
Not really, but I don’t blame you for asking. I needed some stuff from the UK a couple of years ago didn’t like any of the companies who offered forwarding services — some had really dodgy websites, some had a joining fee, some had an ongoing fee, etc. and I just didn’t trust them with any of my money.
I ended up going with an Australian woman, a lawyer living over in Scotland who set up a mail forwarding [thing] as a side business so that her family and friends could buy things from the UK… and no drama!
I have used forwarding services from both Japan and the US.
From Japan, I highly recommend Tenso, I’ve gotten a couple of things forwarded through them and they’re very easy.
From the US, I used shipito to get Persona 4 Golden’s Limited Edition sent to me. It was a *lot* more complicated. You need to open an account and paypal or similar some money to them to set it up and that gives you some initial credit. They then give you an address to have your shit mailed to. Once it arrives there, they will take a photo of the unopened box and just re-stamp it and forward it to you via courier or other option. No insurance. If you want it insured you have to pay them extra to open the box and take photos of the content. You also need to fill in your own US customs declaration for them to print and attach. Lots of fiddling. Worked okay. Wasn’t cheap though, I probably ended up paying them about $25-30 postage.
Other options to try: Amazon UK, Amazon DE, VideoGamesPlus.ca if it’s game-related (they ship international on everything including a lot of Atlus stuff that you can’t get through Amazon)
@negativezero @ambroseiv @miketarno @greenius
Thanks friends!
Everyone’s gonna get hiiiiigh…
NO! Drugs are bad! My PAX ticket says so!
http://au.tv.yahoo.com/the-mole/video/
Thanks for (not) linking me @Powalen :P! But good it see that it’s streamable :D. I assume it’s worth watching? I’ll check out Ep 1 tomorrow or something 😛
The Book of Unwritten Tales is on special at GMG at the moment. About $4.50 with the extra 10%. It was a pretty fun point/click adventure game with some great humor: http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/au/en/pc/games/adventure/book-unwritten-tales-standard-edition/
Highly recommend it to those that haven’t played it.
You like chips and adventure games? BEST FRIEND!
*high five*
And yes, salt & vinegar chips are the best.
http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/23022
@Sughly makes adventure games!
Mad. I’ll bookmark that. I should also go check out Anna’s Quest.
As someone who tested it, and so didn’t have to pay for it, it was totally worth the money I spent.
Not sure if upvote or downvote…
I did that but also bought a copy because Sughly’s my friend <3
Haven’t played it though 😛
Where’s my HD Trilogy Edition?! 😀
Kermitron bought me a copy because I couldn’t afford it and was complaining about having to wait. So on payday I bought a copy for my Mum. I haven’t finished it because I’m waiting for the rest of it. But at least I played most of it!
Pretty good review too if you don’t mind me saying so: http://www.adventuregamers.com/ratings/view/2386
Haha! Thanks man!
D.C.
You started taking sleeping pills, and a guy who is just like you pops up.
Coincidence?
I think so.
SPOILERS!
I am totally not Mik… I mean D.C. Shit, I need to stop taking this strong stuff…
I’m currently wearing an NERV scarf…
To be honest, when I got it this afternoon, I initially thought it was a barmat.
Either way, I love it.
😀
Read that as Nerf, imagined pics of plastic guns on a scarf…less impressive.
Yay! Eva 1!
“God’s in his heaven, everything’s right with the world.”
” The year’s at the spring,
And day’s at the morn;
Morning’s at seven;
The hill-side’s dew-pearled;
The lark’s on the wing;
The snail’s on the thorn;
God’s in His heaven—
All’s right with the world! ”
— Robert Browning, ‘Pippa Passes’, 1841.
<– pedantic
Unit 01 is the fucking boss, yo. MY WALLPAPER AGREES. I also have a Revoltech Provisional Unit 05 figure which says Provisional Unit 05 was also cool.
Just watched Angel heart.
FUCK YEAHH!!
Ah is that the voodoo film with um, Wrestler guy… and De Niro? If its what I’m thinking of, I loved it!
Yep! If we’re thinking of the same film it’s got De Niro and Mickey Rourke.
Pretty damn good 🙂
DeNiro was great in that! So was Mickey, of course, but Bob’s character was great.
The 80s film or the mid-00s anime that is a parallel universe to City Hunter and Cat’s Eye?
80s
The reviews of comics on this site are as bad as the reviews of games on Comics Alliance.
I don’t know if people realise how disagreeing with WiseEmperorJimu works. It’s just not how it’s done.
not sure what that means.
Ohhhh long johnson.
That’s what she said.
Zing!
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/07/6-radical-infrastructure-schemes-that-almost-changed-nyc-forever/
Cool seeing stuff like this!
Stop feigning building interest DC! We know your true colours now
This is the stupidest running joke ever. Haha!
So…
I did eleven pages of The Game today. That’s, like 3% of the artwork in the whole damn book. In one day.
\o/ doesn’t begin to cover how I feel now.
Way to go, my friend! Wooo!
I’m rewarding myself with some Zelda: Link’s Awakening nostalgia. I’m gonna cut all the grass, catch all the fish, and collect all the seashells!
Are you sure you’re not playing Animal Crossing? 😛
Pretty sure. But just because I only spent $9 😛
Yay! Free copies for everyone!
Rogue Legacy Finished
Total Children: 168
Time Played: 17:43
I think I’m getting close to that number of children, and I have only beaten the first boss.
I am really bad at this game.
Is this like… Fire Emblem babehs?
Not really. When you die you get avenged by your children who can inherit your weapons and castle kinda thing
Watching Mr. Strange play Mass Effect 3 is becoming more and more traumatic.
Everyone’s either dead before the game started or dying right in front of me. D: I saved Wrex in the first game, didn’t lose anyone in ME2 and only Mordin and Thane in ME3 so all this is new stuff for me.Also, I don’t think he’s bothered romancing anyone. What’s the point, then?! 😛
WHAT IS HE DOING GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE RIGHT THERE
I’ll admit, I completely ignored the romance aspect until ME3. I knew of it, and was throughly disinterested in it. For some reason, by the time I got to ME3 I’d grown attached to several characters and it seemed the right thing to do. My Femshep and Liara were totally a thang. I loved both the characters so it seemed the right thing to do. Those two and Mordin were probably my favorites.
My housemates thought it was odd how singularly focused I was on jumping Garrus’ bones on my Femshep playthrough.
THEY WERE WRONG DAMMIT
Garrus is pretty fucking cool though.
Feel Good Hit of the Summer! \o/
Wish I could upvote this more than once!
This was the first QOTSA song I ever heard – so good!
Woo who else is around?
DRUNK KLUTAR
PREPARE FOR PAX GREATNESS
@scree
Uh… hmm… I might no longer need to borrow Chrono Trigger either…
*embarrassed shopping face*
Not owning a copy of Chrono Trigger if you own a DS is a punishable offense. It’s a fantastic version, too.
I almost don’t give a crap if the state of 3DS games is a tragedy to rival the Vita (and I’m not saying it is), because the back catalog of nostalgia is unbelievable.
@mythamphetamine, you might never know just how happy you have made me.
The 3DS’ library, combined with the DS back catalog makes it a pretty freakin’ desireable handheld.
Final Fantasy III is a must buy too.
Glad to hear it Shane! And I’m certainly glad to hear that it’s being put to good use, truly :3
Should I even bother with ace attorney? =P
What if I bring a few games I think you should play?
Hardyhar 😛
Yes, please bother with Ace Attorney. I’ve bought waaaay too many games already 🙂
In terms of other games, don’t worry about that, thanks. I’m pretty confident that the games I have and that I’ve ordered will see me right for a looooooooong time yet!
Ace Attorney should have been your first buys *grumble grumble*
I mean er, good job! Or something… *grumble grumble*
got ghost trick?
I’m worried that answering truthfully might result in you bringing extra games 😛
Okay so I’ll go through my collection tonight and bring a bunch of games that i think everyone should play. We’ll sort through the ones you want to play or not.
http://edge.alluremedia.com.au/m/k/2011/01/Edward-Del-Villar-Oz.jpg
WOO!
That was the winning one right? It beat mine *shakes fist*
(though I see a million an one things I absolutely hate about mine now. Would be great to redo something like this with time)
Show me yours and I’ll show you mine?
http://sughly.deviantart.com/art/Marvel-vs-Capcom-3-193517584
I was such a giddy fanboy.
I didn’t know what to do, a lead editor at BioWare, for some reason, followed me and sent me a DM. Then asked if I would love to come to an after PAX BioWare soiree.
Like WTF!
I am such a massive BW fan, I’m not even sure why they personally asked me. I’d replied to a few things to their on twitter I guess and they remembered?
I’m all like squeeeeeeee they asked me personally to attend.
LET ME COME WITH YOU
I DON’T EVEN KNOW WUT
It’s meant to be like drinks and shit at some place after PAX.
Best ever.
Should say after their panel Friday night for clarity.
Holy… wow, dude, that’s AWESOME 😀
I was seriously like shaking with giddiness from it.
It’s not even a full dev team obviously, but I have been playing BW games since I was 13. This shit is like life goal come true!
Also also
You are in Melb. When, how long?
Usually weekends suck for me with work
Just… for the weekend. And really only free… Friday night.
Fuck. I’m no longer excited for you. I feel bad that you’re going to have to cancel on Bioware.
I totally would.
In all honestly.
BW would be awesome. Meeting someone I “know” even better
Wait, they might be different Fridays.
This only JUST occurred to me. *headdesk*
I am in Melbourne THIS weekend for Oz Comic-Con. Probably will be busy as hell all weekend, but have booked in a big meat with Melbourne TAY folk on Friday evening. See first post on Page 8 of TAY for deets!
Aren’t you here like a week earlier than PAX!?
Yeah, I’m a total idiot. I really am.
I derped up the last sub-thread, so let’s start again.
I’m in Melbourne this coming weekend, and hope you can make it to SIMCITYMELB-FORPM on Friday evening!
Anyone have a clue when The Walking Dead 400 Days is out on Steam? Wasn’t it meant to be yesterday or am I horribly, embarrassingly wrong?
Yesterday American time I think
Doesn’t seem to be out on Steam yet when I go into TWD… *cries*
*overreactive RAAAAAGE TIME*
lol jk I’ll go to sleep now, probably be out tomorrow, if not, the next day. *shrug*
GOODNIGHT TAY!!!!!
I started playing Batman Arkham Asylum for Shameless Gaming Month. I can see why people enjoyed it, it’s a lot of fun. I got past the Scarecrow bit.
@dc I’m enjoying it much more then The Last of Us (that’s not saying much though, kinda like saying I enjoy it more then going to the dentist, but still).
Work? What? You expect me to do work? Are you freaking kidding me? Don’t you know that I’m flying to Melbourne tomorrow for my other career? Oh… you do know? And you don’t care? I still have to do work today? What a weird system.
Edit: Crap. This would be a page-get.
what do you do when you arent making up stories?
I’m a Data Analyst for the Public Service. It’s… as exciting as it sounds 🙂
it sounds like a hoot and a half.
WHAT IS HAPPENING TOMORROW I MIGHT END UP DRUNK BEFOREHAND SO I NEED A CHAPERONE OR A LOST CHILD MEETUP POINT
Yoyogi at 7pm. Some other folks (@greenius can help with details) will be meeting earlier, I think!
YOYOYOYO
I’m not sure what exactly is happening but I’ll be getting a lift with @smurfydog and we’d get there early. Seems like @scree @velnica and @negativezero might be there early too, but as long as you’re at Yoyogi by like 7 or so you’ll be fine. Just Twitter DM/text whatevs if needed 🙂
you never text me. im green with jelly.
You never gave me your number, ya dingbat.
Morning y’all.
What up, home slice?
Muffin. Another long day of slaving away with brief interludes of doing something I enjoy – in the form of coming here. 🙂
Cubeworld was briefly released in alpha version then immediately taken down. thats what happened with indie games that get way hyped.
Hey tiny server would you like to host 400000 people in one session.
EXPLODE
Am I a terrible person (more so then usual) if I have no idea what that game is?
No, you probably spared that server an extra millisecond of agony.
Yay, I’m a hero! Where’s my parade?
*throws confetti in your eyes*
its a voxel (read its made of tiny cubes) rpg game where you can edit your gear.
it looks like prettier version of minecraft with a bigger focus on RPG elements.
it looks fun. you can ride pixelated horsies
But you can ride horsies in Minecraft now.
The Walking Dead 400 Days! I must play this now! WOOOOOO!
Imma spoil the plot right now.
I am the Batman.My tear ducts haven’t had a good workout in a long time!
You didn’t cry in Arkham Asylum when you got to be Batman? You’re dead inside! 😛
Unless I’m emotionally unstable.
*takes newly prescribed anti-depressant*
Downloaded. Now I just have to wait for my pies to finish cooking.
*waits*
Hope you enjoy it, man. Can you do a spoiler-free review when you’re done? Really keen to know stuff about it, but really don’t want to be spoiled #conundrum
I’ll post all the choices I made in spoiler space and general impressions in regular post. 😀
Quick repost from the earlier page. “Batman Arkham Asylum is actually a fun game and I’m enjoying it”.
I got past the bit with Scarecrow.
You are in for a treat.
There are two options
1. also known as THE WRONG WAY
be sneaky and stay away from guards
2. TAKE DOWN EVERYONE
seriously if it moves take it down. or spam batarangs. that works too.
Oh man…screw Scarecrow. Seriously.
(But not literally)
I like how complex the game is, how you can backtrack and find completely new areas that were inaccessible before. Arkham Island is truly a thing of beauty, my friend.
That’s not really complex :D. It’s the usual Metroidvania/Zelda kinda of action/adventure formula!
Complex in level design I mean.
Despite what I’m hearing about the gameplay, I’m tempted to pick up the Deadpool game just for the jokes. Anyone played it?
@freezespreston has
@beardymcmuttonchops too.
And @spaghett.
And @cakesmith.
That’s me!
It’s fun. It’s funny. Gameplay is nothing special, standard light/heavy attacks with teleport and guns thrown in. If you can find it for a decent price it’s worth a look.
$30 on Steam is worth it. Steam sale should be coming soon so you might be able to get it cheaper then if you’re after it on PC.
Don’t know if it’s worth the $70 price tag for consoles.
My publisher just sent me an email saying good luck at the con this weekend, and also that he was very proud of the books!
I replied with the appropriate amount of humility, and mentioned that I was hoping to send him another book by year’s end.
His reply
“Let’s keep the hits coming!”\o/
Edit: THIS should have been my page-get. Damn it. 😛
So. Damn. Proud.
A D.C. meme we haven’t seen in a while!
…probably for reasons, man. REASONS!
Ugh, Memeius
Complains about memes and uses one himself.
Not sure if intentional fry.jpg
Nice, you go rock balls at the con man.
Oh man, do you ever feel super awkward when people compliment your work? I never know what to say when people come up to me after shows. It’s usually something along the lines of “Uh.. Thanks..”
Oh yeah, totally. It is the worst thing. There’s literally nothing you can say that sounds good.
If you’re all “yeah, I think it’s great” you sound like an up-yourself tool.
If you’re all “uh… thanks” you sound like you’re either disagreeing or disrespecting their opinion.
If you’re all *smile and nod* (my preferred option), you’re discouraging further conversation.
If someone comments in more detail on the content of the work, then it’s easier to discuss, because you can be analytical or expository or can share an anecdote about the creative process, which allows you to carry out a conversation without (necessarily) looking like a total wanker.
That doesn’t usually happen, though.
I’m surprised to hear you have problems with the same thing. Because I was led to believe that as a musician, you have an easy go-to: “Wanna f**k?”
The one I get regularly is people calling me or my voice “powerful.” How am I supposed to respond to that?!
The majority of people at our shows are male teenagers, so “Wanna fuck?” isn’t as easy as you might think.
You tell them about the rigid diet and exercise you need to do to keep your voice in tip-top shape.
Something about drinking raw eggs to keep the vocal cords lubricated will make you seem Rocky-level hardcore.
I sure hope your publisher is good looking.
Hmm, he’s all right 🙂
Second-last day at work, things are starting to slow down for me. So with that in mind:
TAY-XT ADVENTURE!
You are standing on a dirt road, the road goes EAST and WEST. A cold wind blows and a large tower looms in the distance.
Command?
Check inventory.
Steal Shanes inventory and clothes after knocking him temporarily unconscious with a branch.
I do not understand “Steal Shanes inventory and clothes after knocking him temporarily unconscious with a branch.”
>Check Inventory
You rummage around in your pockets to find three gold coins, some chewed gum (ew), and a crumpled up note.
You are standing on a dirt road, the road goes EAST and WEST. A cold wind blows and a large tower looms in the distance.
Command?
Drop pants to check wind direction.
I do not understand “Drop pants to check wind direction.”
Try using text-adventure commands 🙂CHECK TYRES
Edit: kidding.
GO WEST
Move WEST
>Go WEST
You are standing on the corner of a dirt road, the road goes EAST and NORTH. The cold wind blows colder now, a large tower looms in the distance.
Command?
READ NOTE
>READ NOTE
You pull out the crumpled note from your pocket, it reads “Find the tower! Find the tower at all costs!”.
Well that’s a wee bit ominous.
Come to think of it, who wrote this note? You sure as heck didn’t.
You are standing on the corner of a dirt road, the road goes EAST and NORTH. The cold wind blows colder now, a large tower looms in the distance.
Command?
> POINT TO THE TOWER
> THROW AWAY REDUNDANT NOTE
> GO NORTH
One command at a time thanks 🙂
GO NORTH
Equip NOTE
>EQUIP NOTE
You hold the note in your hand, ready to notify anyone that crosses your path.
You are standing on the corner of a dirt road, the road goes EAST and NORTH. The cold wind blows colder now, a large tower looms in the distance.
Command?
GO EAST
>GO EAST
You are standing on a dirt road, the road goes EAST and WEST. A cold wind blows and a large tower looms in the distance.
Command?
GO WEST
Shane, you got your booth allocation for Oz Comic Con yet? I want to spam twitters! XD
Never mind, I found it.
Yeah, man! https://twitter.com/Shane_W_Smith/status/352057417514770432
Appreciated! 🙂
Best bro, etc
Edit: too slow!
Morning gents!
So a friend and I decided to have a crack at Sniper Elite V2 yesterday in Co-Op on Xbox Live.. What an absolute piece of crap… The character animations are soo buggy, and the AI is just as bad…
Clear as day head-shots were registering as shoulder hits,only incapacitating the enemy…
in the second level, some enemies legs weren’t even moving… they were gliding on the floor.
Running through the tunnel in the second stage, and 2 enemies literally just materialized out of thin air.
i dont think we’ll be playing that crap again…
I didn’t experience any glitches like that when playing, but I got bored after like the 3rd mission, after the initial excitement of a couple kill cams the game loses its luster.
http://www.gog.com/promo/the_unwritten_saga
Both games for $10.
@miketarno posted a link for this series yesterday too, but I think it was only the first!
Oooh, I don’t yet have the Critter Chronicles. However I might wait till that goes on special by itself. I also need to pick up Chaos on Deponia to see how that story continues.
Chaos on Deponia is better than the first. I love that series. Goodbye Deponia, the final instalment is out later this year too!
I better get Chaos out of the way before the new one comes out then. You can actually get the game engine that was used to make those titles for free.
That’s Visionaire, right?
Have you played Night of the Rabbit yet? I freakin’ loved it. It’s by the same guys too. Wrote up some spoiler free thoughts here!
Yup, Visionaire. I was sketching out some ideas for a game but boy oh boy does it take a lot of effort to create.
I’ll check out your thoughts since I’m keen to grab that game too (eventually once I get through the rest of my pile).
From what I hear the AGS engine’s a bit more accessible, but it’s also not as good. (Can’t do high res and all that.) Gemini Rue and Resonance and all that are made on it though.
But I’ll stop rambling about adventures, before I scare you away. Haha!
Haha, ramble away. I love adventure games. Really glad they’re making a bit of a comeback now since it felt a little dry for a few years.
Are there any good sci-fi ones? I wouldn’t mind something like the Blade Runner game. Might have to load that up this weekend.
Gemini Rue’s pretty great if you haven’t played it. Done in the old pixel art style though. Resonance is the grounded in reality kind of sci-fi. Primordia is pretty good if you like games like Beneath a Steel Sky and the like. (Beneath a Steel Sky is also free on GOG if you haven’t played it.) Fahrenheit!
http://www.kramsdesign.com/games/egress/
@greenius my wife isn’t coming tomorrow night anymore. She has some dinner with friends that she forgot about.
So if you haven’t got a lift sorted we head in straight after work.
Either way, doesn’t bother me.
Hey man! Thanks, but I got a lift sorted out with Smurfydog. We’ll be heading in a bit earlier and it seems like a few others might be too, so we’ve got a pre-meat of sorts happening. Thanks again 🙂
Where will this be? Want to know in case I’m freed up.
PS: Probably won’t have internet access after tonight, so no last minute changes! 😛
I dunno :P. @smurfydog said he wanted to go to Minotaur and a book shop, @scree also expressed interest. You should grab their numbers!
I wouldn’t mind giving out mine but I’ll be useless with city directions 😀
Don’t go into Minotaur. They have invisible machines that teleport the money out of my wallet every time I go in there. I go in with money, and leave with none. Somehow during this kerfuffle, I end up with graphic novels, comics and all sorts of shit.
It’s the weirdest thing.
Fucking Minotaur, man. Every time I’m in Melbourne I spend more there than anywhere else. It’s terrible.
I’ve only been there a few times but have never bought anything :D. I AM IMMUNE
Or poor 😛
I have been into Minotaur multiple times and never purchased a thing.
Because I usually bought all the things on the internet already 🙁
Women!
So we played some 40K roleplay last night…
Is it funny that socially awkward people are still socially awkward when trying to have conversations with imaginary NPCs?
Haha yes, that is pretty funny actually.
Do you guys do it online or in person? I’d love to get in on it some time as I’m hoping to start my own Dark Heresy campaign (and now I want to do Rogue Trader too 🙁 )
In person. Where abouts do you live faction?
We had a hobby night thing going for a while, as motivation to paint warhammer but last few weeks we’ve played boardgames and now started the roleplay
I live in Geelong, Melbourne is no big deal for me. I’ve been making some minis for Inq28/rpg for immersion and so on. Last time I did 40k rpg was back when they didn’t have official rules about 13 years ago.
We are in the far eastern suburbs so might be a far for you to travel.
We usually do it on a Wednesday evening for a few hours.
@sugly @BDKIAF
You know who is awesome
mr Little Jeans
they had this awesome cover of The suburbs by arcade fire
they released some more tunes this year, have you guys heard of them?
Did someone say Arcade Fire? 😀
yes i did,
the suburbs mr little jeans check it out shorty.
I’ve only heard their cover of The Suburbs, which is super rad and @dc would hate.
I’ll check out the new stuff now. Is it Oh Sailor?
yes, and runaways. runaways was released last year but still a fantastic song. always makes me catch feels.
On it. Runaways is good. Catchy little song.
Yup! Runaway is greaaaat! And ah, what was the other single they had… Rescue song! Yeah, great band, keen to hear more!
Ooooo didnt realise they had new tunes… ooooooo….
It was alright but I prefer Arcade Fire’s version :-).
Don’t think D.C. will like it as much either!
I’m liking Runaway though! 😀
You’re right, Greenius. Not a fan! 😀
Technically @bdkiaf said it first, I was just agreeing 🙂
http://www.avclub.com/articles/man-takes-to-twitter-after-writer-foregoes-spoiler,99710/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=LinkPreview:1:Default
Spoiler: Ben Affleck was a ghost in Argo
Hisssssssss bad
Ha! That’s kind of hilarious. Oh man. Can’t believe people like that actually exist. *obligatory ghost joke goes here*
Whoops, forgot the meme-worth catchphrase. MAAAAAAAAAA BAD
Maaaaaaaaaa bad.
PC Master Race talk:
Has anyone used Samsung SSD drives before? I usually use Intel 520 Series 120GB but the recent drop in the AUD has meant they’ve gone up in price ~$40, so I’m looking for an alternative and found the Samsung 840 Pro 120GB for about $30 cheaper.
I’ve been an Intel fan too, but a mate of mine has used the Samsung and has had no issues with it. In the end I’m inclined to think that it’s a case of much of the same muchness really.
MIne is a intel one sorry, the review seems to say that its a good read drive but a much much slower write drive. but im not sure that means too much when compared to a regular HDD.
Not sure. I love the Intel 520’s, I have one in each of my PCs.
Yeah, it’s what I’ve always used because they’ve been a good price. But this one won’t be going in a PC for me so I’m just looking for alternatives because I know stuff like read/write speed won’t be as important to them.
If it’s not for an enthusiast, pretty much any brand with a decent warranty and price should do. Even a fairly low specced SSD would be blazing fast for any layman who’s coming from a standard hard drive.
Yeah. I wasn’t going to put an SSD in it, but I installed Windows on a standard 7200rpm drive and it’s like “how did we used to live with this?” so decided I’d put one in for the OS drive.
It’s more about the reliability. I know Corsair(I think) had a cheaper SSD but the failure rate in them was terrible and as they’re not exactly technically minded to fix PC issues, anything that’s less likely to fail the better haha.
Yeah definitely need it for an OS drive, 7200 drives are unbearable.
Also loud. So very loud.
I have a Samsung 830 series and have no complaints about it at all. Would happily recommend it.
Noted. Cheers man.
*cough* @rize *cough*
My computer at home has a Samsung SSD and I haven’t had a single issue with it. The price was great for it too, but that was about a year ago.
Honestly if you need an SSD and there’s a Samsung one with the right specs and price, grab it.
Alright, enough people have sold me on it.
I guess it’s now a case of getting the 840 or the 840 Pro.
840 Pro is $30 more but has a 5 year warranty and faster random read/write speed. Hmm…is it worth it?
For the extra warranty, I’d say yes. Warranty is awesome.
Hey Guys, just want to give you all a heads up of a new site that might be useful for gamers out there looking to get the best bargains and cheapest prices.
http://www.comparegames.com.au
Enjoy 🙂
IM so excited for PAX meeting all the people i have seen before, meeting techy and greenmang for the first time.
Just as a note i hug.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED
You didn’t hug me when you met me. ='(
He hugged me twice. D:
I must be too hideous to hug. D=
I wouldnt go there, personally. No offence.
Gotta shred some C chords!
That only works for the ladies. =P
i only hug those who dont want hugs.
Bish has been hugged so many times.
And licked.
Pretty sure you haven’t hugged me.
Because each hug leaves deep mental scarring, each hug engraved into my memory, memoryies of trauma.
Me neither… I don’t think 🙁
Sometimes, when people hug me, I get an erection.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED
Aaaaand now PAX North is looking that little bit better
Did it? Did it really? Or are you just lying to yourself?
Ryan Gosling will be there to ease Sughly’s pain.
Yeah, but we have @ynefel’s erection.
One at a time, please.
An Erection is just another way of saying ‘Hey bru, nice to meet you.’
“meat you”
Fixed.
Man, you’re good at this whole joke and pun and wordplay thing — ever considered a career in writing?
That’d be all write.
Only sometimes? 🙁
I think the best part is now, even though they know I’m joking – if someone does decide to hug me, they’ll be wary. It’s unavoidable. And my work here is done.
Wary? Or aroused?
Einhorn is Finkle.
You tried to hug me once. I stared you down until you didn’t.
I GOT MENTIONED!
…I got mentioned D:
I’ll be like, the only person you havent met :'(
We were meant to have Crystal Castles! WE WERE MEANT TO HAVE THEM!
to be fair, i didn’t see them either, ill be in brisbane at some stage gotta play pokemon cards with @jimu
cards?
Do you grope whilst hugging? If so, that’s a bonus.
If so, that’s a boner.
I didn’t get a hug.
I hope that’s because you understand my disgust of hugs.
No one hug me in a social setting, please.
If you’re my girl/boyfriend (hey, it hasn’t happened yet but who am I to say no to love all because I don’t find the act of male to male coitus personally appealing. I can get over that. For love.) I’ll hug you. I’ll hug you on the couch, in the doorway, heck, even on the street.
But if we’re saying hello or goodbye and there’s no romantic connection between us, don’t hug me.
That goes double for people who proclaim themselves “huggers”.
“Oh well too bad, Dan, I’m a hugger, and you are getting hugged!”
No, seriously, I get it. You like to hug people because you think it makes people feel special. Why not just a handshake? Or, like, a limp wristed wave as I avert my eyes because my bus is almost at the stop?
Why are people who proclaim themselves huggers, usually more… rotund? than your average hugger? Did they take when people were politely calling them fat to their face with the thinly veiled phrase “They’re just like a teddy bear” literally and have adopted this persona of the sentient teddy bear, ready to hug all who fall within it’s hug targeting computer?
If you’re truly a “hugger” you’d use the force not the targeting computer.
Don’t hug me, bro.
Just do what I do. Bar up and let people hug you. They stop doing it pretty quick.
I think i was scared i might catch what you had and i didn’t want that.
i wont hug you daniel, i promise.
also
WHo hurt you?
I plan to hug you. Just for a second. Just to see what it feels like.
You’re so getting a limp wristed wave next time we pass
Morning TAYbies,
So I finished my first 2 games for Shameless Gaming Month. Metro: Last Light and The Cave
Fuck Metro: Last Light, fuck the forced combat sections, fuck the ending.
So, I’d spent the game being the equivalent of a homeless russian batman, sneaking all through the god damn metro hiding in the shadows and sitting through the same freaking grab someone and punch them in the face knockout animation for 10 or so hours and what do I get for my troubles?
a forced shootout endgame scenario, a train to the face and a piss poor end cutscene where I sacrifice myself and about half the god damn metro with a convenient detonator rigged to the whole buildingBoy oh boy do all my non violent choices seem validated, also I don’t know why they recast the actor for Arytom to sound like generic fps protagonist #35691
I was not a happy chappy.
The Cave is definitely a Ron Gilbert game and makes a nice introduction to those old school point and click puzzler games with it’s simple puzzles, decent characterisations and the voice of the cave is pure awesome.
I loved The Cave, definitely has Ron’s finger prints all over it.
Finally free of my cast! Nothing like having a hot trainee remove it for you only to find 3 beer bottle caps hiding there. I’d like to think her wrinkled face of disgust was her actually wishing she could have my babehs.
Im 99% sure that she wanted you. lets get some beers and go down to the hospital and find out.
oh wait your engaged and boring now. soon you’ll have kids and be even more boring and have no time for video games or Rocket 🙁
He’s engaged?
…the hell would you do something like that?
probably cause he is a big sap.
SAPS ALL OF YA 😛
TURNIP PRICES!?
218 at mine. Imma wait a bit as the prices change at 12pm, maybe it’ll be higher? 😀
___
@sughly ! I remember seeing that picture :D. Very nice! Now here’s mine:
(I didn’t enter :P)
79 :/
(you suck)
Anyone, just let know if you want to sell! @blaghman
Pretty low though. Personally I’m holding out until after 12pm
Pretty tempting already, considering how low everyones been all week. Though we all know someone will spike to 600 as soon as we all sell 🙁
I have a feeling it’ll be like 300 after 12pm and we’ll sell but then tomorrow morning it’ll be 400+ somewhere else :'(
Hey @miketarno – if youre after sci-fi adventures, I hear this Egress game is pretty ok! So good I even used a pic from it for my avatar :3
Thanks for the support, guuuuys
Except the crater puzzle.
Yeah true, except that.
i nearly went to the phone book and found his phone number and called him just to call him a dickman for making that puzzle.
^^
@miketarno, if you like adventures in sci-fi, I hear that The Lesser Evil is an OK guy!
TAY let us both down @sughly.
I totally linked Egress up there. BAH!
Roger. I shall also check out @sughly’s Egress.
Did I see in an earlier post you are Melbourne folk, and might be at the meet-up tomorrow (or am I hallucinating)? I will have copies of The Lesser Evil with me! \o/
No hallucinations here, I’m keen to attend. Just weather bound that’s all, so hopefully it’ll stay clear tomorrow.
Nice one BOM! “Local hail possible.” >:(
Hail?! FFS Melbourne! 😛
I’m gonna be walking between my hotel and the con venue all afternoon, lugging books n stuff. I don’t want it to be HAILING!
They did say possible. Perhaps the soothsayers at BOM will be wrong:
http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/melbourne.shtml?ref=hdr
It said local hail. You’re not a local so you don’t get any \o/
Phew!
Hey Taybies! Is that right, like babies? but on Tay? (I don’t normally wander in to this massive conversation).
I’ve got some Steam games I don’t want, probably picked up in a sale or a bundle or something, but they’ve been sitting in my inventory and nobody is playing them! That’s like torture for a game or something.
So if anybody doesn’t have and wants any of these games, let me know!
Torchlight
Saints Row 3 The Full Package
Portal 2
Double Fine Bundle (Costume Quest, Iron Brigade, Psychonauts and Stacking).
You can add me as a steam friend: http://steamcommunity.com/id/eggheart and I’ll gift it across.
Also, a code for 1 month of xbox live gold to anybody who wants it: BBXTD-V6C48-F3QDW-HVK78-GFBVB
If you grab it let me know please, and be warned, they’ll start charging you by the month once it expires unless you manually toggle that off. Apparently on the 15th you get Assassins Creed 2 for free though, though it probably only lasts while you have gold.
So. Damn. Kind. You’re awesome, man!
Nice giveaway, dude!
Taybie is the correct terminology. But I liken it more to rabies than babies.
Greetings and salutations
Since you don’t wander down the dark twisted paths of tay very often I’ll let you know what is happening. This is the part when everybody tells you what a great guy you are and that it is very generous of you to give those away.
They will also not take anything that you have on offer. Welcome to TAY
haha yeah it seems that way, no takers yet! I guess everybody has already picked them up in a sale?Man, games are so cheap these days that you can’t give them away.
Saints Row 3 is really good! Double Fine Bundle needs a home! If you don’t adopt these games they will have to be put down… and we don’t have some nice painless injection to give them either, it’s manual strangulation all the way.
Somebody really should take that bundle, so many good games in it.
I really need to offer up my unclaimed bundle games at some stage. I went through just my humble bundle purchases the other day and found 8 games that I hadn’t registered that I didn’t own.
But so many others that I have keys for but already own.
Although @lucifer9783 is interested in stacking so he should get on to that
This is pretty amazing, but I’m concerned for the person who goes to that much trouble for… no apparent reason. >_>
That poor dog looks so sad and confused 🙁
I still don’t understand why people feel the need to do these sorts of things to their animals. I mean it’s not cruelty or anything, but every time you see a dog or a cat jammed into a costume or being forced to do something dumb, they look so wretchedly miserable.
That pug does not look excited.
Holy fudgeballs, I’m excited to see Peaceful Tomorrows. It’s sitting in a box at my hotel, waiting for me. Feel unbelievably jittery and a bit anxious.
Following up from the discussion we had yesterday about Tim Schafer and the creative impulse: http://potaku.com/2013/07/04/red-rants-double-fine-the-triple-constraint-and-the-whole-tim-fandango/
Why does today feel crummy?
🙁
cause its thursday.
Because you didn’t wear a bib at breakfast.
Get out.
All of my hat.
TOMORROW!
SIMCITYMELBFORPM (Shane In Melbourne for Conversation and Intimacy with TAYbies (YES, Melbourne) and an Elegant, Litigious Bonanza and Farewell Our Respected Puppylicks Meat)
MEAT DETAILS:
Date: Friday, 5 July
Time: 7pm unless objected to.
Place: Yoyogi on Swanson St
Pre-meat might happen. There is talk of Minotaur from as early as 3-4pm.
Post-dinner snowball-roll to Federation Square to bask in the forecasted hail.
YOU ARE TAGGED: @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, @miketarno (welcome!), (and untagged because they’re piking, but retained for complete listism: aidan, beavwa, crazyguy1990, and budgieishere, syvraen)Hmmmm, so that’s what those 3 red dots of light on my chest were.
Pity predator 2 in the city was such a bad movie.
Red dots actually makes me think of Wreck-it Ralph these days rather than predator
I think it was the “3 red dots” that did it for me. As in the predator’s triangle thing
I think Minotaur will be more like 5-6 since Smurfy is only coming around at 4pm
@velnica will be around earlier, IIRC.
I will be indeed! Aiming for around 3-4pm mark. Seek me in the camera stores atop Elizabeth St.
I’ll go there after work first then, meet you guys there
I’m not 100% certain on details but just contact me if needed 🙂
@velnica too
how may I obtain your phone number? lol
I can Twitter DM it. But I guess you’ve got @scree’s number and she might be in early as well. I’m terrible with city directions :P. Just Twitter DM me if you need it/need to contact us.
Hmm I have to check if the number I have is her old one. I used to live near her house so we never really called XD Yeah twit me your number so I am not lost 🙂
Chibi has my new number, so you can grab it from her.
The Walking Dead 400 Days is every bit as good as the core series. So damn compelling already. 😀
Back to it.
The release of this game is actually making me reconsider spending the weekend in Melbourne.
That’s ok, I’ll play it tonight and tell you all about it tomorrow.
#Helping
I’mBatman
DUDE, SPOILER TAGS!!
I uninstalled Walking Dead after I’d finished it a couple of times… but now I’m sitting through a 4gb download on terribru internet before I can play the DLC. :'(
I’m going to have to start saving lots of cashes 🙁
Probably what you expected to hear, but those numbers get awful big, awful fast
Yeah 🙁 Sucks because I think if I move out and start renting, I’d never be able to afford the initial deposit. So I think I’m living with my Mum for a while longer unless something changes dramatically.
My actual borrowing power is way higher than I thought, the issue is savings. Luckily I now have a target.
Work it out and siphon it out as soon as you are paid. Don’t make the mistake of saying ‘whatever is left over’ goes into the savings as you will get a lot less. If it never sits in your account you can’t spend it and actual mindset is you don’t have that money, rather than I should save that money
Yep. That’s what I’m going to be setting up as of next pay. Will probably also throw aside most of my tax return and my bonus when I get them. Also hoping the USD continues to rise because the shares I have gain in value relative to that.
Also need to start seeing what areas I’m spending too much because I know they exist. Maybe also sell some stuff.
Mumbo Jumbo Podcast Ep 3 is up!
http://mumbojumbovideogamepodcast.podbean.com/2013/07/03/mumbo-jumbo-podcast-3-error/
We talk post E3 stuff, classification reviews and not much else…
Feel free to tell me if posting this in here is not appropriate.
Inappropriate.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/
Please, we cannot allow shameless plugs in here
*reads pageget, sughly and shane’s posts, anything by @dkzeitgeist, assorted Potakuers*
Huh, maybe we can
I won’t stand for such blatant self-promotion.
The lead singers voice is really powerful.
-doe eyes-
Uh.. Thanks..
*shakes head sadly*
Wait! Shit!
Uhh..
You ever see Rocky? My life is basically that training montage, but with screaming as well as all that shit.
Edit: Wanna fuck?
Hey man, it’s not always plugs from me.
Didn’t you see me talk about hugs?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/07/talk-amongst-yourselves-231/comment-page-10/#comment-1637216
THERE YOU ARE!!!
I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR YOU EVERYWHERE!
I’ll listen to this this arvo while I’m doing shit stuff for jerks.
Excited!
Thanks man! It’s encouraging to hear that someone listens to them and enjoys them. Was the exact reaponse I was hoping for with the ‘appropriateness’ too. 😛
Totally inappropriate.
By the way, I listened to your first ep when it went up, and liked it! I missed the second one somehow.
I prefer the Coco Jumbo podcast myself.
Can’t decide on whether to play FF7 or FF9. Easy choice for most but FF9 was the first of the series I had an honest to god dig at trying to complete. Made it up to the final boss but was defeated again and again until gave up. It’s something that’s been nagging at me over the years, unfinished business.
Yet FF7 is iconic, a must complete before I become worm food.
First world problems, eh?
If you haven’t completed FF7, do it first. It’s not getting any better as it gets older, and it is a classic. If you’ve finished FF7 at any point though, please do FF9 first. FF9 is my second favorite FF, behind FF6. It’s just so different to the others – in terms of story, characters, setting, etc. It’s like a cool fairy tale. Not the hardest of all of them, but it needs to be experienced.
Those were my same thoughts about FF7, I watched the opening last night trying to put myself in the mindset of ‘these were the best graphics at the time’. I’ve played FF7 but never made it past the first disc (from memory the group had returned to Red XIII’s home).
I’ve heard a lot of good things about FF6, many people consider it their favourite. But I think i’ll take your advice and complete 7 before 9…then maybe 6.
Go for FF8. 7 used to be my favourite for sooo long, but now I’m starting to think more and more about my time with 8.
NINE! NINE! NEIN! Do eeet, NIIIIINE!
I love IX. So much.
9 HAS VIVI
7 DOESN’T
9 WINS.
Wait a minute..
VI VI in Roman Numerals is 6 6.
66 divided by 9 is 7.3333
FF7…. 7 – 7.33333
Half Life 3 confirmed..
9 is great, i vote 9
If you’ve never finished either or only finished FF9; FF7 first, because it’s got so many tremendously dated or straight-up bad things, but is a gaming touchstone.
If you’ve finished FF7 but not FF9, obvs FF9, though it takes a long time to get moving IMO (I’ve tried to start it again recently and lost interest 🙁 ).
If you’ve finished both before, then go with what your heart tells you*
* it’s telling you to play FF8.
Good News : I’ve paid for the new laptop.
Bad News – I have to wait 5 days for the cheque to clear before picking up the laptop.
has anyone had this experience with JB Hifi before?
Most people don’t like cheques anymore. They’re just a nuisance dammit.
The worst part is that I’d mentioned I’d be paying by cheque 5 times, and then all of a sudden yesterday They say oh it’ll take 5 days to clear. you’ll need to pay for it now and pick it up next thursday…
Which means I now have to take 2 hours out of my day next week to go pick up my laptop from Parramatta. 🙁
Does someone want to come to my house so I can watch them play through The Last of Us? So many GOTY votes and yet I just cannot stand the game at all.
Maybe I should face the inevitable truth that I am a grumpy old man that hats fun.
How do you Hat fun? what sort of hat does fun wear?
I imagine it would be very colourful and bright.
You’re just a terrible person.
The blurst.
We weren’t even testing for that.
If you really can’t enjoy it but want some of the experience, you could just watch through the cutscenes like a movie, or cutscenes plus gameplay: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=last+of+us+movie&oq=last+of+us+movie
I think I have asked this before, but what is your general take on stealth games? TLoU looks amazing to me but I suspect I’m going to have the exact reaction as you when I get it and try and play it, because I am very impatient and hate stealth games and especially hate instantly failing if I make a mistake and having to do a whole sequence again.
Moviemaking has peaked.
http://io9.com/the-sharknado-trailer-is-the-greatest-thing-youll-see-662404733
Trailer?! HELLS YES
“This content is unavailable.”
Most honest trailer ever. Kind of disappointing, though
TAY-XT ADVENTURE!
Continued from page 10
>GO WEST
You are standing on the corner of a dirt road, the road goes EAST and NORTH. The cold wind blows colder now, a large tower looms in the distance.
Command?
GO EAST
(where are the random encounters? I’m grinding for one!)
>GO EAST
You are standing on a dirt road, the road goes EAST and WEST. A cold wind blows and a large tower looms in the distance.
Random encounter!
A man with a twisty moustache jumps out of the bushes and says “This is not a JRPG mate, there are no random encounters …except this one, but no more after this one. For reals.” before vanishing into a cloud of smoke.
Command?
LOOK AT TOWER
(please hint what direction it lies in)
GO WEST
Life is peaceful there.
STAY AT THE YMCA
BUT… BUT… I’M AFRAID OF WATER!
I’ll do two at once.
>GO WEST (Live is peaceful there)
You are standing on the corner of a dirt road, the road goes EAST and NORTH. The cold wind blows colder now, a large tower looms in the distance. You are also humming a Pet Shop Boys tune to yourself, catchy.
>LOOK AT TOWER
You look north to the tower, it is tall, dark and handsome.
Command?
NOLAN NORTH, please.
GO KANYE WEST
CLINT EASTWOOD
>GO NOLAN NORTH
You take a step North and bump into the tower right away. Turns out it wasn’t that big, you were just really, really close to it.
You are at a dead end, There is a road that leads south and a moderate-sized tower in front of you. The air is chilling now.
Command?
>BURN NOTE
(hope program understands that I mean for warmth)
I don’t understand command ‘BURN’
CHEW GUM
>CHEW GUM
You chew the gum and pick out a piece of lint from your teeth, a wave of regret with a subtle hint of spearmint washes over you.
Did I solve a puzzle? Chew gum to get lint? AWESOME 😀
> TAKE LINT
> ENTER TOWER
>TAKE LINT
You put the link in your pocket
>ENTER TOWER
The door is closed
Duh. *smacks forehead… apparently with closed door*
OPEN DOOR.
>OPEN DOOR
The door is open
ENTER TOWER
(Edit: am leaving in fifteen minutes. Are we near endgame? :P)
We are now!
>ENTER TOWER
You enter the tower, stumble over to the loungeroom and collapse on to the couch. Before you pass out you tell yourself that next time you go out you’ll drink less pints, and you’ll catch a bloody cab home.
TEH EDN
\o/
The weirdest thing has just happened…..
So I got my first PAX 3 Day Pass from @splicer who couldnt make it. Yet i was looking for another one for the wifey…
A guy from WA responded to my gumtree ad over the past weekend, and we agreed that id transfer him $100, and another $70 when i received the pass. The pass he sold me was a 3 Day Pass with a BYOC tag to take my own computer… i was never going to use the BYOC but it didnt matter as i was getting a 3 day pass, and i had offered TAY-folk to trade with their 3 day pass if they wanted to take their PC’s.
so anyway, today i just received mail at work. The envelope had no return address or sender details, and specifically had my company name and my IRL name. inside, i found 3 x Passes… One for Fri/Sat/Sun. The enveloped originated from Sydney and thats all i know….
WTF?
Basically this doesnt appear to be the 3day byoc pass im waiting for, so i have no idea where this came from…
This is awesome. Keep us apprised of further details as they emerge! 😀
Edit: Any chance the guy who ripped you off finally made good?
Yeah, that’s what I thought. Maybe it was from that guy who originally ripped you off?
nah, hes in queensland. plus hed still be a ticket short!
Welcome to TAY!
It wasn’t me, I just assume someone here did it.Oh, man. This. It’s probably this.
ALRIGHT, WHO DID IT? SOMEONE NEEDS TO GET HUGGED FOR BEING SUCH A COOL GUY
Its what i first thought. fuck everyone for being nice.
That would take a long time …
Ugh, Bragulus
I mean, even if I last a minute that still is a long time, not accounting for breaks inbetween.
CONCIDENCE?
Actually, yeah, and a far-stretched one at that. But hey, that’s crazy awesome to hear. TAY’s a fucking nice place, eh?
making a shameless gaming list…
i have too many rpg’s too beat…
this is gonna be a while…
also, does anyone know a good program/android app to put my list on?
Pen and paper
where do i download this
also, i feel sufficiently stupid now xDhttp://www.downloadmoreram.com/
howlongtobeat.com
I always had intentions to make a website for tracking this but still haven’t gotten around to it as I am terrible at commitment.
(I actually have a domain for it even)
@sughly lolol they dropped to 169… DAMNIT! :'(
Lunch time!
I’ll come back with turnip prices.
@sughly @blaghman
Turnips are 500+ at our handsome friend Rize’s town! He won’t be able to open his gates until 6pm or so but he told me to spread da word.
I speak for everybody who cares about turnips when I say FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUU-
EDIT: Goddamnit mine’s at 419 I missed my chance to be Mr. Popular
OH GOD! Were all gonna be rich! RICH I TELL YOU!
Did you tip Rize? 😀
ok, if someone from TAY has sent me these ticks, own up!
i honestly thought i was going to struggle to get a second set, let alone a third? i need to man-hug someone!!!!
hey we have women here too. just for that im taking all your tickets.
…but he’s a man so his hugs will be man-hugs 😛
see @rocketman ?? @greenius gets it!
The Walking Dead 400 Days:
Decision spoilers. Don’t click unless you’ve played.
The order I played: Vince, Bonnie, Russell, Wyatt and Shel.
Vince: I shot Danny’s foot. This was going to be tough either way and mostly came down to a judgement call based on their crimes. Felt terrible about this, but either way it was going to make me feel bad.
Bonnie: Was honest with Leland. Holy damn, this whole chapter made me feel like a monster.
Russell: I left Nate. I would’ve liked a way to intervene but there didn’t seem to be any.
Wyatt: He got out of the car. I played Rock, Paper, Scissors for it, but it was something he had volunteered to do earlier. His pal was way too jittery and Wyatt seemed to have the more level head. I attempted to drag the cop back to the car. He left without me. :'(
Shel: Left in the RV.
Vince, Shel and Bonnie left with Tavia.
I usually don’t like to replay these things, but I know they’re shaping key decisions in the next game so possibly might see what some of the other outcomes are.
Really, really great. Can’t wait for season two.
How long did it take you to finish?
Around two hours I think.
So tempting to click… but I won’t.
Do you think, given what you just played, that
these characters will be the main playable ones in Season Two? No Clementine?Don’t click, man. Also not answering any of your questions about it.
All I’ll say is:
Things are compelling even without the dynamics of the first season.First season wasn’t an accident. Telltale know what they’re doing.
\o/!
Ahh, good ol’ Walking Dead talk, amirite? I’ve completed the game as of a hour or two ago.
In order- Bonnie, Vince, Shel, Wyatt, Russell. Bonnie’s story: standard ‘lie for the greater good or not.’ I liked that it tied in with Shel’s story. Direct cause-and-effect with her decision at the end. Vince’s story: Standard lesser of two evils decision. Was that Lee’s cop car passing by in the beginning? Killed Danny, and for some reason this made vince more trusting in the end since the other dude abandoned him? weird. Shel’s story: “Morals vs survival.” Like Bonnie’s story, it was easy to see how staying could’ve made her and her sister cold-hearted. Wyatt’s story: Guilt? I like in the end he actually atones for his actions, or at least feels guilt for it. Russell: Again, morals vs. survival? This one was the most tense as I thought he could’ve died (for realsies) at any time. Interesting dynamic with the other guy. Also, I saw doug’s dead body. Neat.As for the ending
Staying: Bonnie, Vince, Wyatt. Interesting that the young’uns are the ones to stay at the camp. I like the offer of a settlement was met with much skepticism, and that the main character offered to be their hostage just to get them there.Nothing too complex, but still decent fare by Walking Dead standards. Goood stuff.
I loved the structure too, how clues from one episode would have an impact on the other. Like if I played Wyatt’s chapter first and saw the guy chasing me in the car, I would’ve played Russell’s differently…Edit:
Do you think these guys will be playable characters in season two or just the ensemble your new character will be surrounded by? Either way, really cool way to do it…The connections.. are fairly obvious, actually. ‘Cept for one actual connection to the main series (barring the other one which is more of a easter egg)
Shel’s group, the original ones who hung out in the gas station? They’re the cancer survivors who stole the boat in the last chapter. The asshats.As for your second statement
Playable? Bit of a far stretch, I’m afraid. I’m confident that we’ll meet everybody in some form or another, though. Lee’s adventures didn’t really focus around a large settlement, so that’s some new territory perfect for a second season.GAMES FINISHED THIS YEAR:
The Walking Dead
Dark Souls \o/
Spec Ops: The Line
Max Payne 1
Max Payne 2
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (3DS)
Honestly, this list is going to be damn hard to improve upon with further additions.
Here’s mine.
— The Last of Us
— Tomb Raider
— BioShock Infinite
— Zombi U
— The Cave
— The Night of the Rabbit
— A New Beginning
— The Blackwell Bundle
— Ico
— Shadow of the Colossus
— To the Moon
— Dear Esther
— Remember Me
— Ni No Kuni
— The Walking Dead 400 Days
Got Beyond: Two Souls, Pikmin 3 and The Walking Dead Season Two coming up as well. 😀
Great year for games.
Wow, you have been busy.
Far Cry 3
Thomas was Alone
Dishonored
Tomb Raider
I think that’s it.
You’ve been busy.
I can’t remember completing anything this year.
I also completed The Cave.
I did play a heap of Borderlands, Monaco and Crusader Kings in there too
Rogue Legacy
Luigi’s Mansion 2
Remember Me
Bioshock Infinite
DmC
I think that’s about it.
EDIT: Added DmC (thanks for reminding me @distantdrop
You’ve actually finished Rogue Legacy? I get about halfway through a push to a boss and get distracted, then end up wiping out most of the monsters for more levels 😛
Pretty sure all I’ve finished is Hotline Miami this year. I’m finding myself less and less burdened by the urge to ‘finish’ games these days though. Playing a lot more multiplayer and MMO stuff – the shit you don’t finish. BF3, Arma 3, CoH/CoH2, Wargame, Homeworld 2, DayZ, Zoombies – all multi. Plus EVE, which doesn’t count, obviously.
As I get older, I keep finding myself with games that have lengthy campaign or co-op, and I just can’t be fucked anymore. I’d rather play a game that doesn’t have a discernible ending with friends. Not sure why that is. I always played multi/MMO – mixed evenly with single/co-op stuff. But somehow that’s changed.
You slacker, I’m sure EVE is super easy to finish
It’s true. I’m clearly not very good at it.
– Assassin’s Creed Revelations
– Last of Us
– Fable 3
– Metal Gear Solid 3 (3DS ver.)
– Walking Dead (now including 400 days)
– To the Moon
– Black Mesa (Half-life 1 remake)
– Bioshock Infinite
– Tomb Raider
– Dishonored
– Misc. Visual Novels
– Saint’s Row 3
– XCom
The ones I remember, anyway.
• Catherine
• FTL
• Hotline Miami
• Little Inferno
• Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate
• Ni no Kuni
• Okami HD
• Persona 4: Golden
• Pikmin
• Pokemon White 2
• Proteus
• Rayman Jungle Run
• Ridiculous Fishing
• Sound Shapes
• Super Hexagon
• Super Meat Boy
• Super Metroid
• The Cave
• Thomas Was Alone
• To the Moon
Games finished this year:
– I dunno. A few?
I’ll probably miss some but-
DmC
The Last of Us
Ni No Kuni
Tomb Raider
Uncharted 2
StarCraft 2 HOTS campaign
Dead or Alive 5 story
Bioshock Infinite
List is a little short, I either stop/started a lot or have bad memory.
– Assassin’s Creed 3
– Tomb Raider
– Ys
– Ys II
– Bioshock Infinite
– Okami HD
– Fire Emblem Awakening
– Dead or Alive 5
Also I feel like there were 1-2 more
Offspring Fling
Monster Loves You!
FTL: Faster Than Light
7 Wonders: Ancient Alien Makeover
The Adventures of Shuggy
Overlord II
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
Containment: The Zombie Puzzler
Spec Ops: The Line
Hopefully a few more to be added this month
I would just like to point out that I gave you
1/3rd of those, as such, I am your best friend now, and you should organise a meat for me.
Actually, you only gave me 4/5 of The Walking Dead. So, you fall just short of the honorary meat requirement.
I was looking at prices for games coming out soon that I was interested in and stumbled across this:
http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/game/ps3/final-fantasy-x-x-2-hd-remaster/686414
JB have a pre-order price of $50 which seems pretty good to me since EB have it at $100 and I expect it to be around that from usual import sites. Nowhere else really has prices yet except Amazon US which have it for $40 (so it’ll be $50ish anyway with shipping) and it seems like the type of game JB will bump up the price for.
Thought it’d let y’all know in case you were interested…
Zavvi also had a cover for Wind Waker HD that had a gold box. It’s a mock-up but that would be pretty cool if true 😀
Pikmin friends! I forgot I had a $5 off Ozgameshop voucher so I’ll probably import it. Try not to make the wait too dreadful with all your hype and discussion 😛
ERGH…
i hate pre-ordering things before an official set release date is out… but… that price…
I think the Wii U blue is probably more fitting for a game like wind waker.
I still wondering if they have any special editions planned, track history would show that they would, but I have my doubts =(
Track history? There’s been barely anything for Zelda games except for SS 😛
I mean track history for Zelda games with special editions, SS, Ocarina of Time 3D
Now that I think about it their hasn’t been that many.
I know what you meant and is what I said lol. OoT3D was EB exclusive (as in they made their own special edition). Nintendo rarely do the extra stuff.
GAMES STARTED THIS YEAR BUT NOT FINISHED
(In honour of shameless gaming)
* Catherine
* Max Payne 3
* Super Scribblenauts
* Portal 2 (co-op)
* Monkey Island SE
— Fez (At a point where it’s become too maze like. Great game though.)
— The Whispered World (Intend to get back to this one later… maybe…)
— Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Sadly I think my purchases but haven’t started this year is bigger than my games started this year but not finished list.
Where has my drive gone.
Hopefully it’s still in your computer.
Just Cause 2
Alpha Complex
Quantum Conundrum
Company of Heroes
MGS and MGS 4 (replays)
– Persona 4 Golden (at last boss … I think)
– The Last of Us (I don’t plant to finish this or play it ever again)
– DKCR:3D (At last world/zone)
– Batman Arkham Asylum (currently playing it).
– Fire Emblem (I don’t think I will ever finish it).
– Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (Probably going to finish it when I’m done with Batman AA & AC)
Finish Fire Emberum! So good…
BUT I NEED TO MAXIMISE ALL THE BABBIES & SKILLS!!! SWEET SWEET SKILLS!
The only baby you need is ‘Nah’
GO NAH BURN ALL THE THINGS
I regret over hyping The Last of Us for you. It sounds like my reaction to Dark Souls. XD
Yeah.. That one is hardly your fault. The entire gaming community hyped that game.
But Nobs singled me out when saying the TAY marketing machine convinced him to get it…
So. Much. Guilt. 😛
You know what? You’re right. It’s your fault I bought it too. Even though I started it before you did, it’s your fault.
Even if it wasn’t hyped, the combat and stealth are probably the worst I have ever experienced in game. I wouldn’t have liked it at all, hype or not.
Yeah, for sure. I don’t see how it got 9s and 10s when the gameplay is so horrible. Sure, the story might be fantastic, but since it’s a game I feel like the gameplay should weigh pretty heavily on the score.
I loved the gameplay except for the stealth, but broken stealth should automatically make it not a 10/10 game, I agree.
I still have little to no interest in playing it.
It’s far from the game the review scores may lead you to believe.
Yeah, I’m sure it’s great – but the sheer enormity of the hype leading up to it’s release convinced me objectivity may be hard to come across. Wasn’t just the degree of hype either, people were foaming at the mouth 18 months ago. Went for a long time.
I loved Fire Emblem Awakening, but never got around to finishing it. It actually started to get too easy, and bebbeh making really doesn’t interest me in the slightest. Kind of sad the difficulty seemed to go down as it went along.
Went back to Tactics Ogre LUCT (PSP) and Final Fantasy Tactics (PSP) and instantly felt better.
Interested in selling The Last of Us?
You can have it if you want man.
How much you want for it?
Nothing really, The enjoyment I get from giving the game to someone is more then ill ever get from actually playing the game. (So I should really be paying you. =P)
Psst, make him promise to lend it to me when he’s done.
Man, you’re awesome!
DM me your address on the twitters or I can DM you my email if you don’t feel comfortable using the twitters.
Oh yeah, Red, that reminds me. Send me your address too. I still have Witcher 2+map for you.
Good guy Nob 😀
GTA 4
Deadpool
XCOM
Far Cry 3
Tomb Raider
Luigi’s Mansion 2
Quantum Conundrum
The Last of Us
Ni No Kuni
MH3U
I’m sure there are more than that.
– Ys: The Oath in Felghana
– Hotline Miami
– Luigi’s Mansion 2
– Monster Hunter 3
– Rhythm Thief
– Radiant Historia
– Soul Sacrifice
– Atelier Rorona
– Dark Souls
I feel like there’s a whole lot more I’m forgetting about too. And quite a few that I’ve picked up and not yet played at all.
My plan at the moment is to play Ys and Atelier games until Muramasa arrives, finish that, then go back to whatever I was on previously.
Keep your eyes on the GMG sale too – most of it’s trash, but picked a few things up. Some of it’s not very clearly stated either, so dig around. So far I picked up:
LOTR War in the North – $5
Sanctum 2 and Season Pass – $14
Lost Planet Extreme Condition Colonies – $5 (Already played it within an inch of it’s life, but a classic)
Civilization V Brave New World – $27 (Not part of the sale, but $20 cheaper than what Steam’s asking)
EDIT: Civ V BNW was $27, not $25.
Cheers, big ears!
Yeah, I was surprised – it looks like it’s just Sanctum for sale initially, but it’s the Sanctum GAMES.
I had it on my Steam wishlist waiting for the Steam sale. Between Sanctum 2 and Civ V BNW, that’s two off the list already.
Oh, and the offers change every 6 hours, so keep on your toes.
I jumped on and thought I missed it cause it wasn’t listed, but yeah, searched for the game and it’s 50% off…
The sale idea kinda confusing cause it’s only really advertising the 6 games every 6 hours thing, not “oh, and everything is on sale too”.
Oh good, it’s not just me.
On the topic of Lost Planet, I really wish more people bought 2. It was a good bit of fun, especially in co op. I can’t say it’s worth the $30 GMG has it for these days, though.
I’m still undecided on FF: Realm Reborn. I kinda wanna play it but I still dislike the mandatory subscription model.
I feel the same way though it’s mainly that I’m not sure I can justify the subscription. I really liked what I played in the beta until I finished the initial city quests and got sent out into the other cities and stuff, because the story quests then require you to group up and run dungeons with people. Which is fine I guess, except that I was a DPS class so that means massive queues once they put the dungeon finder in, and also the game actively discourages alts (want to try a new class? Just level it up) so in a year or two everyone will be at top level and not running those dungeons any more.
So mainly I’m only interested in playing if I know other people that are playing that I can group with regularly, or if I can find a decent guild. Or both.
Most console based MMORPG’s are short lived in terms of community strength, I doubt you’ll be paying for subscription for long.
FFXIV is PC-based, and you may say that but FFXI is still subscription-based right now and the game’s a decade old. Squenix want FFXIV to be a money-maker like XI was (XI is the most profitable FF game)
I think that’s what they want, but it’ll never get there. The market is totally different these days, and FFXIV could never hope to have even half the depth or complexity FFXI does. Don’t get me wrong, I love FFXIV, and am super excited for the re-release, but it’s a ‘WoWified’ version of FFXIV, so more people will play it.
Oh absolutely, But FFXI is what they’re chasing after.
Man if they could just remake FFXI, but make it less clunky and shitful, like retain all the systems and game design, but just make it……. nicer. FFXI has NOT aged well.
Redesign FFXI to not have all that terrible bullshit that games have evolved past in the last ten years and keeping in mind the way that modern MMOs work => FFXIV 2.0
http://www.vooks.net/pokemon-x-y-special-edition-3ds-xl-looks-amazing/
Cara mia…
That is quite purdy
Is it easy enough to transfer everything from one 3DS to another? Including inbuilt stuff like Streetpass plaza progress etc.
If not, I’ll never be interested in a special edition 3DSXL because I already have one and don’t want to lose a lot of my stuff…
OKAY, TAY.
I DON’T KNOW IF MELBOURNE HAS INTERNET, SO I’LL SAY BYE NOW.
IF I DON’T GET RUN OVER BY A TRAM, OR SMASHED BY HAIL THE SIZE OF AN ALSATIAN, OR COMMIT HARI-KARI FOR UNFORESEEN REASONS, I WILL SEE YOU ON MONDAY!
*Alsatian.
Good thing I’m not a writer, huh? :\
Have a good weekend, man. Say hi to Matt and Caitlin for me!
Will do!
Have you considered saying hi to them yourself some time perhaps? 😛
Alsation?
THIS DUDE ISN’T REALLY A WRITER GET HIM!
What? I think you’ve misspelled that word slightly 😛
Editing the past I see.
You and the building hater.
@greenius and whoever else was going to watch The Mole, I just watched it.
So most likely the mole is in one of the groups who left the luggage. That they lost money for leaving their bags behind is something the mole would have known beforehand so I’m going for whoever suggested it first. Big smirky guy who first suggested it to his team and then cried on the ropes is too obviously trying to make everyone think he’s the mole so he’s out, which leaves the guy who convinced the three girls on his team to leave everything. He has my suspicion for now. The mole would try and be close to last on the ropes so they can lose any money that was built up so I’m interested to see when his turn is.I haven’t watched it yet but I’ll bookmark this!
I think it’s just us and @powalen in the mole club 😛 (needs a new name :D)
Molars? 😛
I concur! 😀
So I was going to stop at Chadstone on the way home after work to buy some new shoes. I decided to check out the DC website directly (I love my DC shoes) and realised I could buy two pairs of shoes I wanted for about $150, with free delivery. Hot damn! Savings!
I also don’t have to go into one of those sporty shops with sporty people and look at the three pairs of skate shoes on display while everyone buys their running shoes. \o/
Shoe shopping is the worst. I wear Nikes, so I have to go to Foot Locker and they’re all “Look how hip and cool and fit and attractive I am!” and I’m all “Ugh, get away from me.”
Yeah I go to Foot Locker and they’re all super happy and energetic.
I’M HERE FOR SKATE SHOES. ODDS ARE I DON’T SHARE YOUR ENTHUSIASM FOR RUNNING AND BEING FIT AND ATTRACTIVE AND SHIT. SELL ME THE GODDAMN SHOES. NO, I DON’T CARE IF ROYAL BLUE IS ‘IN’, I LIKE THESE FUCKING SHOES BECAUSE I LIKE THEM. NOT BECAUSE YOU TOLD ME TO.
I’m such a people person.
“Are they black with a big tick on the side? Do they fit? Fucking sold, get out of my face.”
Oh man, and jeans!?
Fucking people, man…
And then they insist on you jumping through all these hoops and measuring everything and oh have you tried this other brand? and stuff.
And you have to repeatedly say “I just want some fucking Nikes in the size I have been wearing for the last five or more years” before they listen.
Last few times I’ve picked up shoes I’ve gone to Rebel I think. Already know the model and size I want. Grab the shoebox, take it to the counter. If anyone approaches me to ‘help’ I’m like nope. Or if I’m feeling generous I say “I can find it myself but you can stick your commission sticker on it if you want” as a way to bribe them into pissing off.
If I come in wearing a pair of the shoes I’m holding it should be pretty obvious I know what I came for.
Hah. I bought one of my Razer mice from Harvey Norman once – only because it was $15 cheaper than everywhere else. But I walked in, dodged 3 sales assistants who offered to help, knowing what I was after. Walked straight to where the mice were, grabbed my Naga Epic and started leaving. Yet another sales assistant comes up and ask if he can help, and I was just about to get shitty, but I said no, I got what I came for. Then he asked if he could put his sales/commission sticker on it, and I almost said no, but then I thought he’s just trying to make a wage, so I let him.
TL:DR – I avoid shops with sales assistants like the fucking plague.
Chances are you know your shoe size so why would you not shop online? Even with the current dollar situation it would surprise me if it wasn’t cheaper to get them delivered from the US than to buy from Footlocker.
I assume the jumping jimmy sales pitch doesn’t mix too well with you.
If anything it makes me feel uncomfortable and a lot less likely to go back to the offending establishment.
I NEED SEASON 2 OF THE WALKING DEAD GAME NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! >_________>
Forgot how good The Walking Dead was and this just makes me want more 😀
Choice discussion (The Walking Dead: 400 Days spoilers!):
Seems weird that the percentages are so rounded, 70, 50, 75, 25, 75 :P.
What order did everyone play them in? I did a sort of “W” shape so I went Vince, Wyatt, Shel, Russell and Bonnie.
Shot off Justin’s foot because I figured Danny would be better to help Vince. Would’ve preferred to stay but I guess I just drove off unwillingly :/. Left Nate. Told the truth to Leland and left in the RV. Bonnie’s campaign annoyed me because at the end it forces you to kill Dee. I didn’t do anything originally but then I got the “game over – you died” screen 🙁
Things I forgot to mention:
Wyatt stayed in the car. Played RPS and I won. Everyone but Vince went with Tavia.Season 2 discussion:
I wonder how they’ll going to do it? At least this points to them not using the original cast again (specifically Clem) – which is good. I wouldn’t mind if they stuck with these guys but the choices I made… hmm… Seems like the big one will be who went with Tavia and I don’t really want that affecting my game :P. I kinda wished there was more to each person’s story as I was really getting into it!Thoughts:
It’s good! Definitely worth playing if you’re a fan of the first season. I’d say it’s fine on its own but those who have it – have the first season anyway (since it’s DLC) so I don’t see why anyone would play on its own! Lasted about 1 and a half hours if anyone’s wondering.
Repost from previous page:
The Walking Dead 400 Days:
Decision spoilers. Don’t click unless you’ve played.
The order I played: Vince, Bonnie, Russell, Wyatt and Shel.
Vince: I shot Danny’s foot. This was going to be tough either way and mostly came down to a judgement call based on their crimes. Felt terrible about this, but either way it was going to make me feel bad.
Bonnie: Was honest with Leland. Holy damn, this whole chapter made me feel like a monster.
Russell: I left Nate. I would’ve liked a way to intervene but there didn’t seem to be any.
Wyatt: He got out of the car. I played Rock, Paper, Scissors for it, but it was something he had volunteered to do earlier. His pal was way too jittery and Wyatt seemed to have the more level head. I attempted to drag the cop back to the car. He left without me. :'(
Shel: Left in the RV.
Vince, Shel and Bonnie left with Tavia.
I usually don’t like to replay these things, but I know they’re shaping key decisions in the next game so possibly might see what some of the other outcomes are.
Really, really great. Can’t wait for season two.
Haha just read it before which made me think of other things I forgot to mention (see edit)
Yeah, a lot of it felt like setup and I want to know what happens next. Haha!The first episode made me feel all shitty and depressed for a day or so afterward and I haven’t gone back to it since then.
Vague season one in entirety spoilers:
First ep is pretty mild compared with things to come. D:Maybe wait until you’re in a better mindset, cause it’s worth playing for sure but I know exactly what you mean about the feelings. XD
This was 7 months ago over the Christmas break and honestly I doubt I’ll ever play the rest. Way too stressful. I want to actually enjoy the games I play 🙁
Same reason I didn’t care for Dark Souls. XD
That’s why I haven’t quite finished it yet.
It’s going to be tough waiting a month between episodes next season. I liked the fact I could play season one back-to-back.
We could always wait until the end but… OH GOD THE SPOILERS
We’ll have to play them ASAP because of Salami 🙁
That’s why I’m not a fan of episodic gaming, all the waiting.
I was going to make an episode three joke here, but it’s just too easy.
?
Sorry, Half Life 2, Episode 3.
Oh… I thought you were going to make a TWD episode 3 joke and I couldn’t think of any 😛
I keep forgetting HL2 episodes is a thing 😀
I thought so but I didn’t mind waiting (a bit less than) a month between ep 4 and 5 last time. It’ll have all the discussions of last time, plus speculation between eps! Should be fun! 😀
Ha ha! Imma get the SUPERIOR Vita version and stuff. :p
@dc it’s quiet! Say stuff!
I’ve oddly got nothing to say.
*moseys off*
😀
Did your parents tell you that if you have nothing nice to say then don’t say anything at all?
Why do you hate us D.C?
First buildings, then people.
🙁
You know I’m just poking fun right?I know, but my irrational crazy mind is concerned you guys think I’m a walking joke. I know this is all in my head though. Don’t feel bad and don’t change how you treat me. 🙂 Not feeling the best lately and I hate how its impacting how I act around you folks.I certainly don’t think you’re a joke. I may continue to make DC hats buildings comments though, because it’s delightfully absurd 😛 . Do tell me to cut it out if it’s getting to youI’m not Deece, but hi Greenius.
Take your stupid monkey back! T_T
God no, she was my least favourite villager.
I had a nice patch of flowers going on and she puts her land right ontop of half of them killing my hybrids and blocking the rest. Thanks Shari…
She built her house right next to mine, when I wanted to be all alone.
This thread is amazing. I’m doing all I can to get this stupid sheep out of my town, so ugly.
If some stupid sheep ends up in my town…
*shakes fist*
Cheri the ugly Care Bear left my town recently. Maybe someone will get her 😮
(I can’t wait until someone gets Gloria >:D)
Frank Zappa gives Steve Via a propper talking-to !
$70 to see Russell Howard, $200+ for travel & accommodation :l
I really want to go, but paying 3x as much just to get there and back really takes a bite out of my enthusiasm 🙁
I came home and everyone’s gone… Katie and the kids have left me.
Fuck 🙁
They’ll be back next week.Know dat feeling. I just left my job.
But I’ll be back at it tomorrow.Aw, too bad you don’t have access to The Walking Dead tonight. Alone in a house, lights off… atmosphere a-plenty!
Quiet, you.
Edit: Just realised: I’ll be back before they are! \o/
New material pls.
So fitting that it’s independence day and i got my license 🙂
Congrats, buddy!
Ah, cats…
I see Nobs getting Walking Dead achievements on Steam. I hope he likes it. I couldn’t bare for him to hate another game I like. XD
Just because I didn’t like The Last of Us doesn’t mean I hat all games =(
Yes it does.
>:(
#EmoDC post:
Today is day six of being on anti-d’s, so far I just feel really sleepy. Not sure if they’ve kicked in yet. I hope they haven’t because if this is as good as it gets then it ain’t good enough. XDExpect it to take a couple of weeks.Hope it works out for you 🙂
They take a week or two to kick in. In the meantime, eat some proper food.Seriously.
I cannot stress enough how much better you feel when your diet mostly consists of unprocessed foods. The crap they put in almost every packaged food messes with the human mind and body in the worst way. And if that’s almost all you’re eating…yikes.
Plus, the feeling of buying a trolley full of vegetables and fresh stuff at the supermarket is great
Yes, I second this. EAT YOUR VEGETABLES DC
So are you just going to be known as C. from now on?
Also, good luck man. Hope you feel better.
I dunno if they work the same as what I take for my migraines, but I would imagine it’s similar neurologically. It could take a while to settle in as it’s pretty much re-wiring your brain.
Just an addition, it took my stuff a couple of months to have any noticeable effects. It might not take that long for whatever you have, but don’t give up hope yet 🙂
Thanks for the advice. You guys are awesome.
http://www.siliconera.com/2013/07/04/final-fantasy-vii-arrives-on-steam-with-character-builder-and-cloud-saves/
So this happened. Everyone can go ahead and gift me multiple copes. K, thanks.
I just bought that so hard.
I’d be pretty hard too if I just bought it. 😀
You will want to fix up the sound though – it’s horrible in the re-release for some reason.
Soo, The Walking Dead: 400 Days:
I bought it this morning, but then I found out I don’t have TWD installed. Then I remembered I uninstalled it a while ago because I needed to free up some space and I wasn’t planning on playing it again anytime soon (this was before 400 Days was announced). So I wasn’t able to play. Plus I think I’ve lost my save game files too. I can’t remember if I had it installed before or after I reinstalled Windows earlier this year. I hope I haven’t lost them, don’t really want to have to play through all of them again before I can play 400 Days :/
if you use steam cloud, your save games should come down next time you install it I think
Oh, does The Walking Dead use that? I’d forgotten about Steam cloud. 😀
I’m not certain with The Walking Dead, but it seems to work with most games I play. I had to uninstall steam a while back cos it wouldn’t load, and I lost all my games, but when I re-installed, they all seemed to have my saves.
I was in the exact same boat as @lambomann007 and after several hours of redownloading (ugh), Walking Dead and 400 Days were there with all my saves!
I don’t think it uses cloud. A friend lost his TWD (got a new computer) but couldn’t get his saves because it didn’t use the cloud or something 🙁
I’m not sure how many choices from S1 carry over to 400 days but I didn’t notice many (I won’t say anything)
I just checked the properties of mine, and it has the steam cloud enabled for my walking dead. I assume that means it works?
I think all games show that option but not all of them use it. Who knows 😛
@lambomann007 – download it and tell us! 😀
I heard choices carry into 400 and then 2, sooo…
But i don’t think 400 itself changes that much. Only vaguely know because reasons.
Wonder if there’s somewhere you can download previous similar saves…
The Walking Dead: 400 Days Spoilers.
Vince: I shot Justin’s foot off. The guy was a total ass hole and Danny seemed really sorry, but I’m not sure if that was all an act …Bonnie: Was honest with Leland. Oh man, I … I just, yeah … I’m a monster
Russell: Stood up to Nate and left him, such a jerkface.
Wyatt: Played Rock Paper Scissors and lost, went out and tried to help the cop but he left without me.
Shel: At first I let the guy go then I stole the RV and left, seemed like the right thing to do.
Oh man, in the end it was completely split into gender. All the guys stayed and all the women went with Tavia. I wonder if it’s possible to have everyone stay/go?
So good.
What’s your instinct on Tavia? Think she’s going to be good for the group? She seemed sincere enough… though this is The Walking Dead. XDI don’t know, who risk’s their life to try and find random people so they can “Help”? I didn’t really trust her.Wyatt and Russell stayed behind in my version, yet I want to see more of their story. It’ll be interesting to see what happens. I wonder if Omid/Christa have made it to wherever this place is.
I could really sympathize with Bonnie. She was so sorry. D: I thought about reloading and seeing if that scene would play out differently, but at the same time it seemed completely in her character to accidentally do something like that. :'(
Completely didn’t recognize those boat stealing folks at first. XD
Yeah, I know. When it got mentioned in Shel’s story I was all “HOLD ON A SEC!”Also, I hope that Season 2 splits it up into 2 different stories. I really want to play everyone’s story.
I was hoping at the end there’d be a date for the season two premiere. :'( So cruel to give you a taste of things to come with no hint when that’ll be. XDOMG WTF ARE YOU SHITTING ME!?
JB now have the pre-order at $60 :/
@grandmasterb-funk
I knew that would happen 😀 ha! Oh well, I’ll import it, I guess :). Hopefully it’s still around $40-50
D:
I SHOULD HAVE PRE-ORDERED IT
I SHOULD HAVE
DAMMIT
Wuts this?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/07/talk-amongst-yourselves-231/comment-page-11/#comment-1637946
I knew the price would change. I just KNEW IT 😛
Also, I pre-ordered Pikmin 3 for $48 (used a $5 off voucher) at Ozgameshop 😀 WOO! At least they didn’t change the price 😛
Dude, its $9
It’s a matter of principle!
That’s 20% of the price!
Nah, price aside it was just one of those things I had a hunch on that the price would change in a few hours – I’m just surpised that it did, is all.
Annie: Mummy, why do birds poo white?
Mummy: I actually don’t know, honey. Maybe… I know they eat seeds and grains and things, maybe that just makes them white.
Annie: I think that it’s because they’re flying, and they eat clouds.
http://shanewsmith.com/anniestories/
The thing I miss most about being a child is that sort of thing being a perfectly feasible explanation.
J: It’s a moo point
R: A what?
J: A moo point. It’s like a cows opinion, it doesn’t matter.
– Joey Tribbiani, 2000
Hahaha, love that show.
Cube World is back up and running. Go to http://www.picroma.com/buycubeworld to get it!
Oh…and hi guys! Remember me? 😛
Bioshock Infinite Spoilers:
Matt Lees (Guy who makes those amazing ‘Abridged’ conference videos) does a really really good job at breaking down Bioshock Infinite:
https://twitter.com/Jam_sponge/status/352722819471261697
Whilst I don’t agree with all his points, his points on Columbia being a ‘museum’ is the biggest thing that annoyed me about the game. It had so much potential to be a living breathing world that slowly descends into chaos, but it felt too ‘dead’ and too much like Rapture in the clouds.
I liked it purely for the Doctor Who reference.
Also I agree with the rest, but still.The Witcher 2 has finally finished downloading!
LET SHAMELESS GAMING BEGIN!
Oh wait, hang on, Walking Dead DLC is nearly done downloading. You’ve waited for a while Witcher 2, you can wait a few days more.
I think the Witcher 2 is also $10 on Xbox or something. Someone go look into that…
But Xbox version has no bokeh and PC version does so yeah……
GOSH, I WAS JUST TRYING TO HELP THOSE PEOPLE WHO DON’T HAVE MAGICAL BOKEH MACHINES
*runs away crying*
He’s like the worst guy ever.
Nope, that will always be @mcgarnical.
THROW AWAY ANY FALSE BOXES THAT DO NOT HAVE BOKEH AND ACQUIRE NEW COMPUTATERS THAT DO
Hehe. Get back here. That’s an awesome deal for $10.
That said, some of the changes they made to the graphics for the 360 version were improvements, in my opinion.
http://i.imgur.com/KiayM22.gif
Examples?
It’s mostly a colour thing, and I prefer the lighter implementation of DoF, even if it lacks some of the effects of the PC version.
For example, this: http://images.eurogamer.net/2012/articles//a/1/4/7/5/1/4/2/PC_lighting2.png
Compared to this: http://images.eurogamer.net/2012/articles//a/1/4/7/5/1/4/2/360_lighting2.png
Oh yeah, that definitely looks better. Also the amount of bloom in the PC version is way too much. It’s basically hemorrhaging colour everywhere.
So after buying FFVII for like $16 on Steam, it’s on GMG for $12.
Sigh.
@jimu
I bought it on sale on the Square site about… 4 days ago? It was advertised at $4, then they wanted $7.50 — I only bought it because The Last Remnants was $3 and I thought it was silly to only spend $3.
$15+ on Steam is too expensive. 🙁
Doh. For the price that @ambroseiv got it, I’d probably have bought my 6th copy. Never quite finished it on the PSP (via the PS1 games collection), even though that was one of the best versions simply because the small screen made it look great albeit its age.
XCOM Third Person Shooter looks kinda neat! Cautiously optimistic:
http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/quick-look-ex-the-bureau-xcom-declassified/2300-7643/
Yeah, I’m secretly looking forward to this. I say secretly because all my friends will denounce me for saying so.
Yeah, I was interested waaaaaaaay back when they first announced it — possibly pleased at the hysteria early on (’cause I’m not entirely sure last year’s X-COM would have come about exactly as it did if people weren’t hysterical), but I don’t really subscribe to the idea that a game/series needs to be defined by its genre.
Whether or not they succeed, I like when people try new things. D:
I was talking to a guy who’s sad about it, ‘cos it used to be 2K Aus’s baby, but then they shifted it to Marin, and now most of those guys are unemployed. 🙁
Really would love to know the full story of the development of this game. Who worked on it and for how long, and what different major iterations it went from (fps to what it is now).
Yeah, I’ve been considering talking to this guy, seeing if I can get more info, but given my complete lack of history writing anything decent, I doubt I could get anywhere.
Apparently the people he’s working with are trying to get the Micro Forte (I think it was) name for themselves (since a lot of them are ex-employees), but it’s hard to say whether they will, given it does technically still exist, even if nothing’s come out of it since Big World.
NOTTY PICTURE CHANGE. I’M SCARED.
I CHANGED IT FROM JOEL TO JOEL WITH SOME BLOOD ON HIS FACE
GET THE HINT, JOEL GREENIUS?
Eleanor Put Your Boots On — Franz Ferdinand
Freakin’ love this song.
Walk Away — Franz Ferdinand
Pretty amazing song too. That album was pretty damn great.
They has a new album out soon ya know? Playing Harvest too. Good album though *nods*
WELL, FAIR THEE WELL, FAIR THEE WELL, FAIR THEE WELL
and that album was one of the first albums i remember buying, great album
Day … 5 of animal crossing.
My nights have been filled with nothing but manual labour ensuring that my village of 8 is not overrun by weeds or scorpions. The only food available are the peaches that seem plentiful in the area. The villagers now approve of me taking the office of mayor and I should be able to start adding additions to the town shortly. I have managed to fashion a crude hoodie with Mabel’s help and I think I am getting the hang of the whole thing.
Scorpions..? :O
Day Whatever I’m up to in Animal Crossing:
I want to build Stonehenge.
Stonehenge..? :O
Also is there any advantage to this club 101? Apart from the jokes during the afternoon? Night time seems a bit… useless? Its so empty haha, kind of depressing being there…
Ohhhhh its club lol, ha, just got that… ahhh dear…
Old man Sughly!
A dog will come DJ on certain days – I dunno which ones though (someone tell me :P)
KK Slider! Apparently hes like popular amongst regular AC folk. Hes on th cover, he must be important. I found out
on Saturdays you can request songs and take them home to keep and play FOREVER AND EVER. Which is good because I have a stereo with zero songs on my song list :/Speaking of KK… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E413-Oi_j5A
OMG you can dance hahaha! I just realised the use of this place.
Kazumi Totaka (the person K.K. Slider is based on) is a great composer.
just thought i’d mention that.
carry on.
I know who KK is but I knew you didn’t – so I didn’t say his name 😀
Ohhh Ithought you meant you didnt know what dogs come! Heh. Yeah, I think hes there all nights. Just, Saturdays is when he does requests? He was there tonight anyway, unless it was just for the opening.
Mine opened a few days ago but I’m currently nodding my head to the music. This is the best.
This game sounds sinister, like it’s mentally conditioning a generation of TAYbies. D:
I’ve stopped building public works. There’s only so many street lamps you can build before the celebrations become a bit stale…
That made me laugh.
That’s the idea 😀
6am?!
…you’ve changed
I actually only built my first lamp post recently. I was like really, guys, we dont need to celebrate this one. A fountain, maybe. Not this. Go home guys.
I had boring stuff and then someone asked me to build a tower so I did but it’s 798000 bells so now I’m stuck until I pay it off and everyone keeps coming up with better things to build but I can’t because I haven’t had time to fish and catch bugs and I’m broke. Grr.
Whatttttt how do you guys unlock all these cool things!? I’ve got benches and boring shit :/
Still no Police Station either! :'(. Wanted one for sooo long
I got popo! It kinda sucks though. I want a 700k tower, what is this!?! Apart from the popo, all I get is lame suggestions. ‘Hey, you know what we should build Sugs?’ I’m like whoa… this is it… edge of my seat… ‘A balloon archway! Right! I’ll go tell Belle bout it…’ No, dont. Dont worry about doing that, because I will never build you a goddamn balloon archway you stupid stupid horseman.
But free items!
From balloon archways? Wut?
@sughly
“I got popo! It kinda sucks though”
@greenius OOOooooooohhhhh! ^_^
@sughly I’ve been shaking trees every day hoping for items 🙁
Open your town up tomorrow night, I have cash to burn!
You got me prematurely excited, I thought you were implying you could steal the tower proposal and build it in your own town. I was all yessss tower for me! I dont even know what it looks like but I want it
Yeah man, you just press “Y” on them, and you pick up the person’s stuff, and you can bring it to your town!
Also on the topic of AC, I got bamboo! Anyone want bamboo?
YES.
Meeeeeeee
I planted the seed I got today, but I should have more tomorrow…
@rize
3DS question on last page:
Yeah! I bought a 3DS XL this(?) year and transferred the contents of my original 3DS to it. All the StreetPass data, Ambassador games, purchases etc. transferred fine and it was super easy to do. Just make sure they’re connected and charging because you don’t want them to lose power while doing the transfer (mine nearly did D:).
The only thing worth noting is that it completely deletes the contents of the receiving console, and resets the one that sent stuff back to factory settings. So when I transferred my 3DS stuff to my XL, the XL got completely wiped first, everything got transferred and then the 3DS got factory reset. It’s a straight transfer and you don’t end up with two consoles having identical content.
The thing about the deletion of the receiving console is what happens with pre-installed games. Since NIntendo make silly decisions *sigh* most newer consoles and special edition ones come with pre-installed software. So I’m pretty sure if you ever want to transfer anything to it, you’re going to lose that software – thus, any system transfers are out of the question :'(. Which was kind of annoying because some of those newer special edition XLs look nice but I don’t want to buy them because of pre-installed software >:(
…jesus. Transfers wiping preinstall software seems like a huge oversight. Thanks for the info, though!
I’m still not 100% sure on losing pre-installed stuff but it makes sense if the console gets wiped 😛
Bartoli’s serve is so amazing haha! So operatic. I AM SERVING NOW! Hehe. Ahhhh noone else is watching who am I kidding…
Oh Blaghs by the way, youre an idiot. I left two fossils for you and you just left. Left them there on the ground. We all stood around talking about how much of an idiot you are, before I just abandoned them.
I looked around quickly, and I couldn’t see them.
To be fair, Rize buried them.
Ahh, that’s what those were. I wasn’t sure…
Also, I had dinner, so I had to leave.
Food is pretty good.
HAHAHA! Oh man. Just googled Shari… even that pose is mocking. Oh man, I feel for you @greenius… http://animalcrossing.wikia.com/wiki/Shari
T_____________T
hahahahah
@sughly What the shit has happened at Wimbledon? Radwanska is the only woman left I recognise.
Nah Bartoli is quite good, but yeah she is lesser known. Yeah this Wimbledon’s been cray cray! Big names dropping erywhere. A bunch dropped out with injuries in the first few days, was weird.
Sif we’re not looking at a Djokovic v Murray final.
Yeeep. Murray had to fight for it though! You see that scoreline? Too bad it was on so late 🙁
Yaaaay Radwanska’s on! Love watching her, her style is great. Crazy how she makes those squating shots, almost sits on the ground then nails a shot down the line. Also she is purdy :3
Oh and this Lisicki girl playing Rad, shes amazing. Shes the one that ousted Williams, and she ousted Stosur. I’ve seen her round before but shes killing it. This will be a good match…
Lisicki took the first set! Whaaat?!
Man, I really like Lisicki. I’d be stoked to see her win, she’s so happy to be through to the final.
Also, 60 winners for the match, when she gets onto a ball she crushes it.
Nooo I didnt stay in tay and you were watching it toooo!! Dammit :'(
I know that I’m terrible at saving, but just for now, it’s nice to have stupid amounts of money. https://twitter.com/Blaghman/status/352777708096323585/photo/1
Tom Nook is going to corner you in a dark alley soon.
Whoooaaaaa…. I have 2.7. Thats ridiculous! Did you just inject all your turnip winnings from one week to the other? I spent all mine on house extensions XD
I earned ~ 2.6 million from my first lot of Turnips, and still had ~ 1.2 million to spend on Turnips by the time the weekend came around. And since Turnips were only 92 Bells in my town, I bought a lot of them.
Yeah I only had 400k to spend and did the same. Each house extension is like 600k for me now 🙁
Right? So expensive. But, I have a maxed second story, and my side room will be size 2 tomorrow!
Got all rooms, I think 3 are one away from max. Hence I have no ‘nips money.
House so niceeee.
Do y’all Island it up for mo mo?
Yuppers. Bugs n sharks yo.
Jesus! How much did you tip @rize ? 😛
I dropped some fossils for him and Sughly to squabble over, and I gave him 4 stacks of Perfect Cherries. So, all things considered, not very much.
Hahaha! I typed out ‘who are the fossils for’ twice before it was all “oh look, someones coming!”, then “oh look, someones leaving!”. Stupid slow typing and fast running blaghs…
Actually, that was about 110k for the 4 stacks… 😀
Blaghs was out of there like a bullet. Didnt even take his fossils. Or tell us who the fossils were for that he dropped.
I made a decent amount (less than half of what Blaghs did) and still gave him 300k :P. Good guy Greenius.
It’s raining pretty heavily at the moment…
So much for a good night’s sleep.
:/
That’s when I get my best nights sleep!! Rain is the beeeeest, I want it to rain forever.
I was going to upvote because rainy nights are best sleep nights but then you said you wanted it to rain forever. That’s silly Sughly. You’re silly.
Pffft, well someones not invited to my birthday party. Totally wrote that as a line for Anna’s Quest as well not half an hour ago haha. Its one of my fave lines now 😀
SPOOOOOILERS. 😛
Also, I agree. Rainy nights are the best for sleeping and even if you don’t sleep, there’s atmosphere just listening to the rain.
I disagree with this so much I went to the trouble of downvoting it!
Sorry😛I got downvoted for making fun of Beyonce. I don’t know what to think anymore
Finished my first game for Shameless Gaming.
The Walking Dead.
I need puppies and sunshine ASAP.
So, how about dem feels? AMIRIGHT!?
I’ve got none left.
400 Days will make you feel better.
…
Maybe…
…
No.
I wanted to crawl into a hole and die after playing Bonnie’s story.Hahaha! Me too, man. Me too.
A day full of losses at DoTA… I’m sad now, time to cry myself off to sleep 🙁
Don’t worry, you get use to the losses, I would know.
Haha-ha-ha … Ha
*quitely sobs to self*
Whenever I lose too much I just play a game as Keeper of the Light, buy a blink dagger and teleport my entire team onto a hill for a party. Always makes me happy 😀
OMG.
http://gematsu.com/2013/07/tales-of-symphonia-chronicles-has-dual-audio
Namco finally got the message! Day one for me. It was anyway but this seals the deal.
This makes me very happy
I got TWD 400 Days, and I realised, when I got Chapter 5, something happened with STEAM and it wiped my save file then synced so I didn’t have a saved game 🙁 So, yesterday I started again, I’ve been playing this time as a ‘different’ Lee. Last time
I told a few lies here and there Kenny ended up hating me, Clem wasn’t that trusting of me it seemed, I burned my bridges with people and in the end only two of us went to search for her. This time has been different. I’m playing Lee as a straightshooter, an honest man who’s ashamed of what he did but owns up to it, a responsible person. It’s amazing how the story dynamics change between the characters, whole entire scenes, I thought it would only be tiny little bits but this game is just impressing me all over again.Anyone else had this happen in the game and been as impressed with the outcome as I am?
I only played through once, and was lucky to not have a save corruption. I played Lee as i thought he was, an honest man, who knew what he’d done wrong, and was pushed to the limit. Now he’s trying to make it up to himself by making sure Clem survives this new world.Seriously, some of the choices and general interactions affect the story so much. People complain that it basically ends the same regardless of your choices, which really pisses me off because they’re missing what matters.
They’ll play Gunshoot Bigsplode VII and never complain about how linear it is, but give them great writing and dynamic character interaction and they bitch and moan about how nothing they do matters.
So yeah, I was impressed. It’s really amazing how one or two little things can change it. I lost my save after episode 2 because my PC died and I had done something to make Kenny mistrust me (I think I chose Shaun over Duck at Hershel’s farm), so he occasionally made comments about how we sometimes don’t see eye to eye. The second time, I backed him 100% and he backed me 100%.
For fun I started a third playthrough where I went against him at every opportunity and he turned cold as ice, especially at the end of the 4th episode.
Indeed, the overall outcome, the skeleton, is unchangeable, I don’t care, the tale will be told, it’s the journey to the end of the tale the counts and how the roads that weave in and out of it change and diverge.
I left the putener on overnight! :-O
After all that rain we had last week, the water managed to somehow drip down into my bathroom and run down the door. The door proceeded to absorb a lot of this water, expand, and now doesn’t fit in its own door frame. Now you can’t shut it when you poop.
Ps. Hello!
NANA-NANA-NANA-NANA
LEADER! FISHING!BATMANG!I caught Harley Quinn last night, still really enjoying the game.
Like a pokemans?
Exactly like that!
Such a good game. I feel like playing it again. Are you enjoying all the Riddler Challenges and the like? 😀
I’m more playing it just for the game. Not really worrying about the Riddler Challengers. Although I do like to search areas for the trophies.
I wasn’t a fan of the fighting challenges in the main menu, but loved the in-game stuff.
I hear the lead singer has a really powerful voice
Past few days at work summarised:
*looks at work on Chrome*
*smiles proudly*
*looks at work on Firefox*
*smiles proudly*
*looks at work on Safari*
*smiles proudly*
*looks at work on iPad*
*obamanotbad.jpg*
*looks at work on Opera*
*smiles proudly*
*looks at work on Chrome Android*
*obamanotbad.jpg*
*looks at work on IE10*
*smiles proudly*
*looks at work on IE9*
*lip quivers*
*looks at work on IE8*
*single tear*
*looks at work on IE7*
*breaks down sobbing*
http://www.adventuregamers.com/news/view/24868
This sounds like it could be okay. 😀
Ooo… looks gorgeous! Not sure about the look of the gameplay though. Even the animation looks a little clunky, though I suppose it’s early days.
Yeah, I agree and those past games they’ve done have been hit and miss, alas. Here’s hoping this is good though, like you say certainly looks pretty.
Morning guys. I just wanted to crap on about Man of Steel again. Upon second viewing last night, I really found myself thinking about the relationship I have with my own father, and also the relationship I am going to have with my own son, in future. I found the scenes involving Kevin Costner and Russell Crowe to be quite powerful as such.
Mind you, I took my father along last night and he did not enjoy it as much as I did. He prefers Superman Returns. Oh God.
Holy fucking shit. Just got the estimate for my tax refund….. and it’s…. quite a lot more than I was expecting. Like, a lot more. \o/ Debt free Cody incoming!
Ahhhh I’m going to be losing money on mine. Putting it off til later in the year, losing money can wait.
I approve of this logic.
I’m hoping this will be the first year in a while that I don’t lose money.
Fingers crossed! Money is pretty good.
I was meant to get $6K last year. Forget to process my HECS debt. I ended up getting $300…
Youch. Yeah, I’m paying about an extra $4,200/year for HECS. It’ll be nice to see that money going into my account again in the new future. Considering I didn’t wind up getting a degree for my troubles, it kind of stings to be still paying it back.
I remember the time I worked out that my HECS debt was finally gone. Good times
Hi five for paying far, far too much tax!
o/
Ditto. I get an offset because my wife is a dependent spouse who is unable to work for health reasons – but the past few years my taxes have gotten screwed so I wind up OWING taxes which eats into the offset. This year I get a return AND the offset, so we’re in good shape. Assuming of course the estimate is correct it’ll put us nicely ahead for awhile, and this if the first year there hasn’t been something we’ve needed to do with the money when it arrives, like something to fix or whatever.
I also estimate that I will be out of HECS debt in < 2 months, so I should hopefully be able to tell my employer to stop deducting the extra taxes effective in September and the extra money back in my pocket will minimise the impact of our brand new car repayments.
Maybe that’s a bit TMI regarding my personal finances, but I’m kind of excited.
\o/
All good man, it’s a pretty top feeling. Share that shit with whoever will listen.
I’m just blown away because I was hoping to get enough to just cover my rego and a car service, which I do mid July every year. My tax return is usually used solely for that. Turns out I’m getting enough to cover what I wanted, as well enough to pay my credit card off and still have play money left over.
Super stoked.
\o/
We bought our car at an EOFY sale so the registration is June 29. We shouldn’t have any issues paying it, but if I’d had a choice I would certainly prefer to pay it after tax time than right before it. Still, the car was such a good deal it would have been a mistake to wait and miss out. We’d be stuck with a 14 year old car that was rapidly circling the drain.
Yeah the old car would just end up costing you more than the mild inconvenience of rego being due right before tax time.
http://www.gog.com/
Last day of the GOG sale. So much great stuff including the Daedalic bundle with Chaos on Deponia. (@miketarno)
http://www.gog.com/promo/wadjet_eye_selection
Wadjet Eye Bundle for $8.96 with Primordia, Resonance, Gemini Rue and The Blackwell Games!
Witcher 2 is also $6 for PC!
Lots of cool stuff.
Should also say, all the bundles from the sale are on sale right now, so if there’s any thing you missed…
Yoink! I think I’ll grab Chaos by itself as I have the first already. Though the other games in the bundle look enticing. But my pile of shame!
Also http://www.gog.com/gamecard/machinarium_collectors_edition
That was a really fun adventure.
The puzzles warped my mind, but I loved the visual story telling and the art direction.
Machinarium is amazingggg! Sooooo much better than Botanicula, dont you reckon @strange?
I LOVED Machinarium. It was such a heart warming and cute adventure with a unique and awesome art style.
…no. You are weird. 😛
Wow! Only $3.74!!!
http://www.gog.com/gamecard/back_to_the_future_the_game
$3.74 too expensive! 😛
(That’s my least favourite Telltale game by far.)
Tales of Monkey Island and Sam & Max: Season Three are pretty great though!
Damn. I just got it. But for the price of a coffee, surely it can’t be that bad.
Also after buying the games I noticed that it already included some for free in the library. I never played Beneath A Steel Sky, so hooray to that! http://www.gog.com/gamecard/beneath_a_steel_sky
Nah, Back to the Future isn’t really that bad and definitely worth that price.
(only because you haven’t played Jurassic Park)
If I haven’t played it, it doesn’t exist. 😛
Was it really that bad?
It’s a really good game. It isn’t a point and click adventure but it has an interesting story that could very easily have been picked up and used for one of the films.
A lot of people don’t like the QTE gameplay but I didn’t mind it, then again I know what I was getting when I went into it. I think the big issue was people bought it thinking it was going to be point and click but got QTE instead
I know next to nothing about that game except Powalen keeps telling people to play it (specifically D.C.) and no one does 😛
Finally getting around to getting a NSW drivers license. Turns out that I don’t have adequate proof of address.
Luckily, they will let you have someone that’s known you for 12 months vouch for you. That counts as proof of address.
That could prove difficult for hermits :p
I had that issue with ACT. They would take bills as proof of residence, but only certain bills…
Pretty much every bill that I pay is online and doesn’t send statements. My bank statement only has initials, so they won’t accept it.
They wouldn’t take my Internet bill, even as a physical copy. No idea why, and they didn’t know either.
Haven’t I technically been aware of your existence since around 2007?
I also happen to live with someone who’s known me for that long :p
Although I met her in real life about the same time that I did with you. It’s just a lot easier to get her signature on a piece of paper. You know, with the whole shared living arrangement thing we’ve got going on.
Last day at work today, my to-do list has dried up and I’ve been given official orders to leave the office at 4 and head straight to the pub.
So yeah, this is me at my desk all day now.
Finally saw the latest Double Fine ep. My thoughts of Tim being a flawed but amazing game director has just multiplied by a million. So much love for him, screw any and all comments about him being bad business wise. I think he’s such a one in a million designer, as a backer I’m more than happy for them to do things as they’re doing. And goddamn, the game just looks better and better. Some of the stuff they showed, just downright amazing.
I love the guy and I have no issue with the Broken Age delays, the guy is a designer first and businessman second. I say give the man and his team the time they need to make the game they want to make.
Tempted to back now just as a show of support for these guys! (Just wanted to buy it on release originally…)
Hey, any money will help them!
Also you are actually him, I’ve seen photographic proof. So there’s that.
Actually I have a photo of me with the man, so yes we both have been at the same place at the same time 🙂
Also he said he liked my moustache 😀!!! Jellyyyyy…
Which is awesome. He’s still got that old school, created in a garage attitude that I really miss. Games (albeit being awesome) have become rather commercial as a whole.
*thinks of his indie games collection and smiles*
http://potaku.com/2013/07/04/red-rants-double-fine-the-triple-constraint-and-the-whole-tim-fandango/
Tim Schafer is a great creative. He’s a shitty project manager.
Well he’s credited as the Director/Writer for Broken Age. So I’m not sure if the project management is up to him.
If he’s the director, it’s ultimately his responsibility.
Don’t get me wrong- I love Schafer and his games, I just don’t think he’s the best one to manage their execution.
Yeah, this is a very good point. The people in the doco that have always talked about scope and scale and budget have never been Tim.
I think a lot of people weighing in on this havent actually seen the doco, and dont necessarily have the insight into how theyre operating, and how the production has gone. I admire the way Double Fine runs after watching it, actually. They are very respectful of the product, to the point where they are doing whatever they can to support Tim and make the best game they can, and make moves to support the production, rather than limiting the game to support their business. I would say theyve been very conscious of scope the whole way along, but have stretched themselves to make it the best it can be.
Ooo, new Volcano Choir track! Is pretty dang great! A Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) side project, fyi https://soundcloud.com/jagjaguwar/volcano-choir-byegone-official
Guys, your parents are totally keeping it spicy.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2013/07/05/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s03e13-uncle-ben-aunt-beru/
LISTEN, SUBSCRIBE, TELL CHOOO FREEEENZZZZ!!!
That friggin’ picture…and text, really.
…why are you two not getting paid for this show yet?
Would come under the same laws that prohibit giving money to Al Qaida.
“Go to Stamps Dot Com, and enter the promo code ‘Zeitgeist’”
Done! You guys sound pretty awesome.
We look even more awesome.
You should creep our photos then like the page, right?
It’s only being polite.
Be polite, Mike.
Don’t be a dick like everyone else around here.
They’re all kinda wankers.
But don’t tell them I said that.
If they ever found out, Mike, and stopped hanging around me, I don’t know what I’d do.
Probably just end it all, you know?
But I’d take you with me.
https://www.facebook.com/DanKarlsZeitgeist
Well, now that you put it that way and I seem to somehow have inadvertently gotten myself involved in a one-sided suicide pact, I guess I have to listen to this thing every week. And like your Facebook page and add you to Twitah.
Besides, I need to get to know you guys before you become too damn popular and start to forget about us ‘little people’.
Forget about who?
Haha, that took less time than I thought it would! As a refresher:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/07/talk-amongst-yourselves-231/comment-page-13/#comment-1639999
And now I’ve created an infinite loop. The universe will implode on itself and all life as we know it will cease to exist. Tell my wife I…
By Talos I hat end of/beginning of financial year.
I am a librarian, not a bloody accountant 🙁
I swear, when being made responsible for the handling of hundreds of thousands of dollars… well lets just say that I feel like I have jumped into a waist deep hole of freezing water.
Wait… is the Mole a daily thing? D:
@strange @powalen
I’ve noticed there’s already 3 episodes up. I guess I’ll try to keep up, it’s not like I have anything better to do :D. I just hope they don’t remove older episodes before I get a chance to view them.
I watched a bit of it. Everyone is so irritating :/ Also, never really watched this show propers before… but it just seems like everyone is trolling each other so everyone guesses wrong? So trolly…
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
http://www.gog.com/promo/kain_and_raziel_saga
So I got the art guy in Animal Crossing today, and a quick search turned this up – a guide to spotting fakes. Saved me – painting I ended up getting was my last choice XD http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/06/guide_how_to_spot_fake_paintings_and_statues_in_animal_crossing_new_leaf
So Final Fantasy VII is on Steam. It took about 20 minutes for me to buy it, and I ended up playing it for like 2 hours last night. Pretty sure I’ve just taken another giant step backwards for my Shameless Gaming… 😛
Confession time: I have only played about 15 minutes worth of VII (I didn’t even get out of the city). This might be the chance I need to right my wrongs…
…Or I could put another 100 hours into VIII…
I’ve also only played Xenoblade for roughly the same amount of time. I guess I’ve got a start on my Shameless Gaming list then.
DID SOMEONE SAY XENOBLADE!?
$16 on Steam, if you’re keen. The graphics are a little nicer than the original (with the option to make it look exactly like the original).
It’s also $12 on GMG for a Steam key. Didn’t realise until 5 minutes after I bought it off Steam for $16.
Craaaaap. Ah well, at least it’s not too much of a difference.
Yeah won’t make me lose any sleep, but if someone else is going to buy it, hit up GMG!
They have Greenman’s stamp of approval!
If FFVII takes priority over any modern game, there’s nothing even remotely wrong with that.
Unless its over FFIX 😀
:D!
How would that hold up for somebody who has never played a final fantasy game before?
has been a series i have always looked at and heard a lot about but I’ve never actually played them. Well maybe some of FFIII or something on snes.
Will it be enjoyable without nostalgia feels?
I only really played it a few years ago and it held up fine without nostalgia. Although I am a fan of JRPGs and have played other FF games before but I think VII was one of those games that got people into JRPGs so you should be fine.
Feel free to look up a guide though if you’re stuck. A lot of older world map JRPGs have a habit of not telling you where to go or what to do so you could be wandering around aimlessly for hours.
I suspect that FF7 holds up less well than 8 or 9, especially because the art direction and actual game content in the game is all over the place in terms of consistency, where 8 and 9 are a lot more cohesive.
7 still had my favorite combat system. The Materia system just worked so well I reckon.
If I had to pick between all the FF game systems I’d pick the Materia one as the best, but FFX’s Sphere Grid was also pretty cool.
FF8’s is by far the worst 🙁
I really like 8’s, but it is stupidly exploitable, and so poorly explained.
It’s a cool system but it’s got heaps of flaws and it’s very easy to game. Plus it’s pointless because the enemies level relative to you 🙁
JOSS WHEDON MAKE THIS HAPPEN:
http://i.imgur.com/1DcJrti.jpg
Now I understand why Batman wears a mask — he has freakishly large eyes with tiny pupils.
Also, could you imagine the lawsuit if it was in a movie, not just a cheap knock-off toy? 😛
Thye should do a deal like they did for Who Framed Roger Rabbit- Batman has to have exactly as much screen time as Iron Man.
What’s with his lower limbs too. D:
He does look a little weak at the knees.
I’ts almost like his lower legs are appropriated from the Black Widow figure mold.
MOLARS:
@powalen @strange @sughly
Just finished episode 1 and yeah, so much trolly! 😀
But yeah, everyone is kind of annoying me. I’ve never watched the show before and don’t know how it works but ugh :P. I’ll keep watching though! Seems interesting enough 🙂 (keep the discussions happening pls)http://au.tv.yahoo.com/the-mole/video/
I think the other videos are spoilers though :/ which is kind of silly putting the end result next to the episodes >_>
@freezespreston
Where you been, man? I miss you!
Your pal,
D.C.
Last night he was on Facebook complaining about a magician. So I suspect something magical and bad has happened to him.
He better just be immersed in Night of the Rabbit. 😀
I think this might be the answer
“magical” and “bad” in the same sentence? D:
Confirmed: Freeze is Harry Potter.
Weighing up if I should start Arkham Asylum again this weekend. @sernobulus’ playthrough is reminding me how damn great it is. At the same time, Arkham Origins is only three or so months away!
Best time too replay it man, get all the hype for
OrangesOrigins! \o/Exactly! The only bad thing about replaying previous games before the next one rolls out is that you might get fatigued and sick of it – but luckily the Arkham games are awesome and aren’t too long 😀
I feel compelled to do all the Riddler Challenges though which can add a considerable amount of time to the games. XD
You moving onto Arkham City next? 😀
Ofcouse, unless them game pulls some really stupid crap and makes me want to punch my monitor, I am hyped for Arkham City.
Arkham City is great, especially the Clickers.
😛
Nah, it’s just as good as the first. It does things differently with the hub world, but otherwise it’s more of the same in a good way. It’ll just be a preference thing which one you like better.
Also after playing The Walking Dead, I kind of feel like marathoning through that entire season again. (Though I’d prefer a new season, not knowing what was ahead and all that.)
Play Jurassic Park.
Actually, i’m really anticipating Telltale’s Fables game.
Oh yeah, The Wolf Among Us looks pretty excellent. Art direction is nicer than Walking Dead too.
I really liked the visual style of The Walking Dead. Just because a game is grim in tone doesn’t mean it has to be Grey and Brown, and I thought the facial animations conveyed emotion really well
Oh yeah, I like the look they were going for, it’s just technical implementation of it. I love colourful post apocalyptic worlds, don’t get me wrong. I would really like for them to upgrade the Telltale Tool one of these days. XD
Edit: Art direction was probably the wrong word to use, but yeah, I for one welcome the triumphant return of colour.
It’s certainly a refinement
Hey Melbourne peeps!
I’m gonna be heading down to Melbourne around Tuesday on PAX week, anyone wanna do a show nob some stuff to do / see around in Melbourne meat?
Before or after PAX?
Tuesday before, I’m gonna hang around Melbourne for a week (work advised I should take a couple of weeks off because I have too much leave =P)
Nice, well I’ll be unemployed after today so a catch-up sounds good 🙂
\o/ … ?
If you’re in the CBD I could be up for something after work
Can we go to music stores and play C chords?
I assumed that was a definite. =P
Show the man some Melbourne Sherpa.
Sherpa Sherpa!
As it turns out I have that whole week off \o/ So maybe. It depends on what else I’m doing as I have some stuff to catch up on (eg whinging at my health insurance until they give me some money back to cover the stuff I had to pay for when I broke my toes earlier in the year, getting my eyes re-tested and new glasses made etc.)
Hey PAXTAYs!
Who is keen to meet up in Melbourne the Thursday (the 18th) before PAX?
My bro @danmazkin and I wanna set up a meet for all the fun nerdy internet people we know online to gather and drink beverages and talk about dem vidyagaems. We’re thinking of Bar Robot in the CBD but that could change.
WHO’S KEEN?
Eww, who would even be in Melbourne before PAX starts? (I may be able to come)
because our coffee is superior 🙂
I get in Thursday evening, so it may be tricky for me. Also, @scree was doing something at some point.
I think @scree’s meat thingie was on Saturday night, unless there’s something else.
Yeah the karaoke is on Saturday night. So it’s after pax dinner. Because food WILL be expensive at pax.
Whereabouts you staying?
Great Southern Hotel
Yeah easy that’s walking distance, if you feel like coming down feel free 🙂
I google mapped it- looks pretty close so I probably will!
Clearly Techy isn’t invited.
The bar has a lot of robots on the shelves, if Techy comes they might capture him and hang him on their wall.
But yes he should come for sure 🙂
They can try… but then they might get plasma burns, they’ve been warned
I will be heading down on the 18th (due in at about 2:30 iirc).
I’m staying with a bunch of non-TAY friends, and really not sure what – if anything – is planned at the moment. Sign me up for a tentative yes.
Tentative yes for me as well. I haven’t been to bar robot in years
Keen as a commander!
(@sernobulus too I guess!)
Just depends where and when :). I’m a bit far out of the city so transport gets annoying at night but I could definitely do afternoon stuff. I don’t drink so I need some non-drinking buddies too 😛
Sure I’d be up for that
OKAY!
People are keen!
Everybody who is interested be at Bar Robot (http://www.robotsushi.com/) at 7:30/8pm on Thursday the 18th so we can hang out and talk about how pumped we all are for PAX.
ALL WELCOME!
@Scree
Now that I have lured you here. What did you think of Walking Dead 400 Days? Also, what choices did you make (use spoilers tags)
All the wrong ones D=
Vince
I chose to save DannyShel
I killed the intruder and then stephanieBonnie
I told the truthWyatt
I tried to save the copRussell
I stood up to Nate and walked away.Overall
Vince and Shell decided to stay behind whereas Bonnie, Russel and Wyatt went to the camp.Whoa, your Shel killed everyone. XDSuch a cool game.
MONSTERHUNTERGOOD JOB!Their are right choices?
=P
There* 😛
lol I resisted the first one but after the second I couldn’t hold myself back D:
I should really give up on my phones autocorrect. When it fucks up everyone just assumes you’re stupid (well, more so then usual).
I was so keen on playing this last night but I have to replay episode 4 and 5 because my progress for those two sections just vanished. Kinda killed it for me…
Words. Radio stations in GTA IV and such.
Someone’s gotta keep up the self-promotion if Shane isn’t around. 😛
http://shanewsmith.com
I always read that as Sha News Mith.
WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN.
OH YEAH! I thought of something earlier this morning but then forgot it …BUT THEN I REMEMBERED IT AGAIN!
Does anyone from Melbourne have @Shane ‘s number? :P. I figured we could Tweet him if needed but then I remembered he doesn’t have a smart phone and might not have internet access :P. I’m sure he’ll be fine but it might be easier if we can contact each other – just in case!
In unrelated news every time a villager said they’d leave the time I’d be like NA STAY – just so I can keep the original gang together. The people who have said it were probably my least favourite anyway but one of them said it for like the 4th time so I was like whatevs fine, just leave.
I figured one of you suckers could get them but then I realised I’d probably end up with YOUR REJECTS >__>
;_;
sent.
Heh, I’ve always entered TAYbie contacts as “First name (TAY handle)” I think Shane is the first where I don’t have to do that 😛
I think the only real name I used was Nobs, only because I didn’t want there to be a ‘Nobs’ contact listed in my phone. XD
NooBHeadshoT?
Shane Shane?
Nope. Fuck it.
Aw, I was half reading that when the page refreshed 😛
Looks like somebody put their grumpy pants on this morning 😛
Just very tired of people poo-pooing stuff on the internet as a go-to response is all. I shouldn’t let it get to me, but sometimes I do.
See below
The guy sounds like a prat.
Of course I could port a game across to another system and add all these other features. I am a programming god, once i did a tiny prototype with free software so that proves it isn’t hard. I could get in done in a week.
And even though they released it a a quarter the price of a new game I’m still going to complain about it being too expensive
Yes. That’s what shat me. Okay, if you feel $16 for a re-release of a 16 year old game is unfair, that’s fine. Totally cool. Say you’re not cool with it, I don’t care.
But someone implying the reason the price is unfair is because adding these features ‘isn’t hard’ is what annoyed me. For someone like Squenix, it probably took one of their juniors a day to throw it all together, but that’s not the point. Could YOU have done it? No. You couldn’t have. Can you optimise FFVII? Can you add cloud saves and achievements to FFVII specifically on Steam? No. Someone else could, and I was happy to give them money for it.
As for the price, it being in top seller place on Steam since hours after it’s release implies most people are fine with it. I jumped at the prospect of it being a part of my Steam library, with achievements, Cloud (titter) saves and optimisation.
Today’s S.H.I.T.S.T.O.R.M., since I’m on the topic of Justin Vernon,
Daphne by Lia Ices (featuring JVernon)
Once again, violins, just for you @dc. There @rocketman – new song. You listened to Lia? Grown Unknown, amazing amazing album.
WOOOOO! Violins. One day you’re gonna say there’s violins and there won’t be and all trust will be broken. But that’s not today. Really cool song, like it straight away…
Second half the song is all kinds of awesome too. Might’ve started swaying in my chair. Haha!
Haha! Glad you liked it ^_^ It’s a really nice album, very melodic, and original. She’s got an amazing voice.
Think I’ve played this song over 50 times. So good. Especially the second half. D:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/07/this-is-my-completely-personal-top-50-video-games-of-all-time
For some reason I’m having heaps of fun reading peoples lists. WOOOOOOOO!
Same. I think it’s one of the best articles/comments section I’ve read since joining Kotaku. So much nostalgia om nom nom .
Was good fun coming up with the list. Annoying when there was games that you though were awesome but you couldn’t remember the names.
Plus the facepalm situation when you start looking at other people’s list and realise that you totally forgot the star wars games existed
My list leans heavily to PC and adventure games on PC. XD
*Shock horror*
Looking back at my list as a whole, it seems I was a PSX kinda guy. Sorry, no N64 love.
So I did the maths – 5 weeks and 2 days til Breaking Bad returns ^_^ SO NEAR
Shit’s about to get real.
Yo, Mr White!
Random new pokemon in X/Y announcement.
A ghost sword with a hand that unsheathes itself in battle. Ghost/Steel because FUCK YEAR.oooh, sounds cool. Link?
I hope it evolves into a “haunted”/animated suit of armour.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUYEfV4Q6xg Skip to 3:50. No actual audio for now, and there’s french subtitles, which honestly shouldn’t urk anybody but I’m west coast canadian and automatically I have some dislike for the french.
The damn french.
alright, that looks awesome.
I want one.
oh, new thought:
new pokemon similar to Rotom. This one inhabits different items in haunted house: sword – physical attack based, suit of armour – defense based, etc..I know a lot of people aren’t fans of the inanimate object brought to life Pokemon, but I think some of them are pretty cool, like this new sword guy.I wanna see it team up with a Golurk. That would be bad-ASS
Golurk’s a pretty cool guy. So is this new one!
Ghost/Steel types FTW 🙂
Lifehacker article – Is it bad to have sex with your cousin?
http://tinyurl.com/m5s6zs5
I wanna click it out of morbid curiosity, but I’m terrified of how that of link in my browsing history will influence the targeted ads I see online.
Oh, my link is safe.
EDIT: Probably should have made it slightly more obvious that that link was not the article… 😛
Date your cousin now at sexycousinmatchmaker.com?
Why did I read that in Roman from GTA 4’s voice?
COUSIN
BOWLING
BEEEG AMERICAN TEETEES
It’s Friday and we’re only at 14 pages? What happened?
@jimu had TAY blocked
@shane spent a few days at Melbourne
@freezespreston decided to become a wizard
School holidays too, I suppose. All the uni folk mosied off except for the hardcore, dedicated ones. 😀
I actually asked for more work I’ve been so bored…
🙁 You’re missed here, man.
Just finished making a firetruck out of old boxes and sticky tape for a friends 21st. It makes sense in context.
And now I’ve been tasked with making a pyramid out of plastic cups. I feel I shouldn’t be having as much fun as I am doing this.
Volvo firetruck?
Time to leave work.
FOR EVAR!
Holy crap
Congrats, Puppylicks! Not long until Hong Kong now! 😀
Oh craaaap, I havent sent the gaaaaame crap crap… is it too late to send? What if I express post?
(as in, too late to that address. Should I send it to a different one or anything?)
Ooooooh, right. I was supposed to send you that address which was his work address. D:
Oh man, sorry ’bout that.
People are going to PAX? Could hitch a ride with one of the Brisbane folks? Be handed in person at a pre-PAX meat or something? :S
Afternoon all!
So I’ve just bought a Minecraft server (currently paid for 6 months) as several of us are wanting to jump back into it following the 1.6.1 update.
Just have to set some really basic rules:
1. so following previous server experience, i think the best thing to do is keep the server whitelisted, to avoid random outsiders from destroying peoples buildings. THIS MEANS PEOPLE NEED A LEGITIMATE ACCOUNT TO JOIN, AS ONLINE MODE WILL BE ENABLED.
2. ALL TAY FOLK ARE WELCOME, as well as any friends of TAY. Simply send me an email with usernames at (myusername)(at)(hotmail)dotcom.
3. Server will be in SURVIVAL MODE ONLY. No one else will have access to creative mode. SORRY GUYS :/ If anyone wants to pitch in for a creative server let me know.
4. Will need a couple of admins, so let me know on email if you are interested…
5. Current server player limit is set at 23 but will be raised when needed. Server can comfortably accommodate 128 players.
6. Don’t be a dick, Don’t be a dick, Don’t be a dick.
Server will be online sometime tonight, so anyone that sends me an email, will be receiving the server details tonight!
Sweet! (As you said) I’ve been pretty interested in getting back into Minecraft. Is the server just vanilla game mode? Or will you be running mods?
just vanilla, but running on craftbukkit. will only add mods if majority of people want them, and as long as they dont interfere with anything anyone is doing.. trying to keep it simple 😀
What’s Craftbukkit?
woa you never heard of craftbukkit? its a much more advanced version of the minecraft server. better performance, much much more configurable, and allows for plugins/mods that can affect practically anything in the game.
i should also add, that EVERY SINGLE SERIOUS SERVER out ther runs on craftbukkit… its essential.
Oh jesus, for the longest time I thought your actual email was myusername@hotmail.com. Saturday’s a smart dude.
Lol you are kidding me right?!?
I’m interested. I had a nice little homestead on the Potaku server before interest died off, so I’d like to keep it going. It’s just not as interesting to me to play when I’m by myself anymore.
Also agree in keeping it survival only! One thing that annoyed me a little bit was all the cool shit that was built in creative before someone abused it and that privilege was taken away from everyone!
Send me an email!
Sent!
OoooOOOooo! Interesting…
Oh man, Sonic All-Star racing is for free this weekend on steam.
andLeft4deadthat’salwayscool
Sonic is amazeingballzacs!
Some guy keeps saying this constantly!
Some guy must be smert
Finally got my cyan Lumia phone! I’ve wanted a cyan coloured Nokia ever since I first saw the N9 😛
o/
High five!
Where’d you manage to score it from?
Harvey Norman. They managed to pull through with the delivery part of it at least, but their customer service is still non-existant 😛
Did I miss Kudos? I forgot to send my email before I left. It said:
“Sir Serrels,
I have no Kudos noms this week, just Anti-Kudos.
@miketarno
He knows why. 😛
-Strange.”
Hasn’t been any kudos post shown on the front page. :\
Yeah, no posts between 4:30 and 6:00pm. Weird.
I approve of the anti-kudos! Will I get a mention as the ‘community nemesis’?
I just want to win something this week. Anything!
Kudos seems to have been forgotten this week. Next week I’ll anti-nominate you again and say it’s for being my nemesis. Good enough?
Perfect. Though @greenius might have dibs on being the nemesis.
Worst case scenario, you could just kindly remind me and I could make another inappropriate comment next week. 😛
You won my friendship <3
I feel so much better now. 😀
Why can’t I stop laughing?!
I’m not very good at this TAY thing. I haven’t posted all week! D:
Hiya!
o/
\o
hi
Oh man, least I didnt page get with mine :/
I mean hi!
Hey Jimu! What’s new, my friend?
went to bed about 10 mins after making last nights comments :-/
Alright… really, I’ve seen my share of jokes about crushes and whatnot, but did anyone else happen to see the Fritzl Dungeon term thrown around in the comments of behind the scenes of Good Game article? http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/07/behind-the-scenes-of-good-game/
Looking it up, Fritzl was a girl who was kept imprisoned and physically and sexually abused. Seriously? I dunno… what the heck… I mean, am I insane here? Or is this extremely disturbing and not the slightest bit funny? It erks me even more that he has three people laughing in agreement. I feel like a bit of an old man but that’s just really not right.
Yeah…you’re insane, but that’s OK, me too.
Oh, and I agree, sounds like it’s in bad taste and I won’t watch the vid cos I’m tired.
Video isnt even associated with the comment anyway. Its just that… the only thought this guy can give in relation to a behind the scenes video, is to say he’d be up for kidnapping and abusing one of the hosts? Just, wut?
And the chances of an Australian host reading about her show on an Australian website is extremely high too. I imagine she’d feel incredibly creeped out reading that. (I know I do.)
I thought the same thing. Wanted to comment, but didn’t want to start any fights. 🙁
There’s usually a Good Game thread up and running on /v/ whenever there’s an episode on – stay innocent in your naivety of what goes on in those.
On a slightly different note, I’m disturbed by the number of people for whom GG is a go-to source of reviews. Bajo has always been to wacky for me, Hex is no better. Both of them are just such “casuals”. I feel really bad for not liking them for that reason, as though I’m some kind of “serious, hardcore gamer that only plays hardcore games that casuals just wouldn’t understand”. The fact is, I’ve seen them give high scoring reviews to bad games, even praising the weakest/baddest/broken mechanics as selling points.
I used to console myself by thinking that they had to keep up a certain rating for games. Then there was a podcast (Gamespot, I think) about 2 years back (it had Bajo and Serrels as guests on it). It was a fantastic podcast, and Bajo gained some respect from me when he pointed out that, because it’s the ABC, they can’t get any kind of kickback – even free copies to give away to viewers as prizes. He lost that respect a few minutes later when I realised that meant he was actually giving high scores to bad games because he thought they were actually good.
Now I feel like a grump. 🙁
I feel like I need to get off your lawn, now…. 😛
I watched for the first time this week. Their review was for The Swapper. That game looked good, but the actual show reminded me of producing multi-cam ‘magazine’ segments at uni. Kind of stilted and forced, something that seems inherent of the genre. I find the same when watching Electric Playground from Canada too. Set looked cool though. Haha!
Edit: Blergh. That sounds pretentious and stupid. D:
Yeah, that was uncalled for and gross. I totally put the ‘Report’ button to good use.
I’m more surprised that someone would need to look up Fritzl.
I just finished The Walking Dead: 400 Days.
I am a monster.
In unrelated news, I think a I found a video of Pixel in his younger days.
The Walking Dead 400 Days spoilers:
Who went with Tavia? What choices did you make? Did you feel like a monster during the Bonnie chapter in particular? XDIn reverse order: Yes. Bad ones, so far as I can recall. Vince and Shel stayed behind, because they’re monsters, the other peeps went.I also feel bad because I left whatsisface behind when I had the car as Wyatt, and because I didn’t just shoot whatsisface when I was Russell.Oh man, I got out of the car as Wyatt and was left behind. Uncool, friend. Uncool. 😛Seems like we’re the only ones who drove off? I stayed in the car and it didn’t seem like I had a choice to wait so I (unwillingly) drove off :'(. Felt so bad for mai buddyMONSTERNOT MY FAULT I’M SUPERIOR AT ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORSBought my son a Despicable Me Fart Gun today. ALL the giggles. 😀
fart gun?! Video plz! would love to see what the hell you’re talking about!
I’m pretty sure getting this http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/GEp7dUk7Qxk/maxresdefault.jpg printed on a mousepad and addressing it to a friend makes me the most awesome friend ever. (probably NSFW, although I think this is better than the definitely NSFW version)
The worst bit is that i expected the music to be awful, but it’s surprisingly pretty good 🙁
MOLETALK: @greenius (For future reference: who else is watching? So I can tag them)
I’ve read bits and pieces of your Mole talk, but didn’t see any major discussions (not that there’s really much to discuss at this point). No elimination spoilers or anything unless you guys have watched it this week.
Anyway, I don’t remember the contestants being this annoying last time 😛 especially the two young guys, the bald guy and the asian guy. Hooooly crap they’ve got egos. They’re all so arrogant. Everyone else was decent enough/not as annoying by comparison 😛
So it looks like 3 episodes each week (kinda technically one episode spread over three). Luckily I get home in time to watch it of a night so I don’t have to catch up!
Also: plan for the weekend: sit on my arse.
I’ll also play Walking Dead DLC! I got Virtues Last Reward in the mail today too so maybe start that as well! Going to save most of it for the train though 😀
Hope you all had a good week!
My week was spent laughing at my mother, and doing boring things. Overall, it gets a 7/10.
On the video game review scale.
Me. I’m watching. I’ve only seen the first episode though.
Us, Strange and @sughly maybe(?)
So much annoyingness! But I like the concept. It’s kinda annoying how they put “____ elimination interview” all over the page though :/
What do you mean? Like they spoil who gets eliminated? (Haven’t seen the Plus7 thingo)
Yes! 🙁
Just started watching Free!
EDIT: It’s a gender-swapped K-ON! set in a swim club…. with fan service.
Man of Steel.
Haha, it left an impressions! 😀
Haha, yeah I loved it.
Ahahaha! Indeed. Impressions.
Anyone interested in From Up On
PoopyPoppy Hill with english dub?Yes! I’ve been waiting for the dub to watch it. Is it finally out?
Haha, I thought there would be at least one. There is a copy on kat.ph uploaded by some random newbie that goes by the name of fbzbenny.
Please see below.
http://www.palacecinemas.com.au/movies/popupmangafromuponpoppyhillfamilyversiondubbed/
Dubbed version is showing in Brisbane not this weekend, but next.
http://www.palacecinemas.com.au/movies/popupmangafromuponpoppyhilljapaneselanguageenglishsubtitles/
Japanese with sub version is showing on July 27 in Brisbane too.
Even though it’s out on DVD? That’s a bit odd.
They’re having some sort of anime festival on Friday nights for the next month or so… I saw Spirited Away last week for the first time. Was amazing.
Once again: I’m so jealous 😛
The Reel Anime one that we have here in Adelaide is in September. I would have thought it was part of the 2012 schedule. Maybe it was and I missed it?
*Haha, oh crap, it was.
Reel Anime is in Bris too, I think its Australia wide. Well, in all the major cities anyhoo
Don’t go into Poppy Hill expecting Spirited Away, you’ll be disappointed. Poppy Hill’s a mono no aware film like Only Yesterday and Whisper of the Heart. I enjoyed it a lot but it’s representative of the other sorts of films Ghibli makes, rather than Miyazaki Senior’s usual style.
You should watch Whisper of the Heart, DC! 😀 Such a good one! But like Neg said, it’s very different from Spirited Away.
I didn’t know that type of movie had its own genre, though! Makes sense I suppose.
Super common style of film / TV / novel in Japan. Often in English it’s described as ‘slice of life’ but that kind of misses the point.
Yeah the screenings are digital, they probably originate from the home release
Faster Poopy alternative incoming shortly. If you know what I mean.
Afternoon all!
So I’ve just bought a Minecraft server (currently paid for 6 months) as several of us are wanting to jump back into it following the 1.6.1 update.
Just have to set some really basic rules:
1. so following previous server experience, i think the best thing to do is keep the server whitelisted, to avoid random outsiders from destroying peoples buildings. THIS MEANS PEOPLE NEED A LEGITIMATE ACCOUNT TO JOIN, AS ONLINE MODE WILL BE ENABLED.
2. ALL TAY FOLK ARE WELCOME, as well as any friends of TAY. Simply send me an email with usernames at (myusername)(at)(hotmail)dotcom.
3. Server will be in SURVIVAL MODE ONLY. No one else will have access to creative mode. SORRY GUYS :/ If anyone wants to pitch in for a creative server let me know.
4. Will need a couple of admins, so let me know on email if you are interested…
5. Current server player limit is set at 23 but will be raised when needed. Server can comfortably accommodate 128 players.
6. Don’t be a dick, Don’t be a dick, Don’t be a dick.
Server will be online sometime tonight, so anyone that sends me an email, will be receiving the server details tonight!
UPDATE: All emails have been sent to those who have emailed me!
also, i have whitelisted everyone who has their usernames on TAYNAMES. for any new ones, send me an email!
Server details:
Use either:
biodome.syndicateofgamers.com:25602
or
198.24.178.178:25602
OH GOD, I actually just figured out what your email actually is cc@saturday XD
edit: Should I still send you an emails if you whitelisted me..?
… Oh damn it Sughly, for a second I thought you figured out MY E-mail. Granted, it’s not that hard to figure out, but thanks for the second misunderstanding guy
No need man just let me know it works!
So… Danganronpa: the Animation…
Hmmm, the premise is definitely interesting, and I’m enjoying the characters so far, but I’ll have to wait til episode 2 until I can give a clear view about it.
I honestly can’t see it being any longer than 12-13 episodes for the entire series, or there’d be too much filler.
From the looks of things in the preview, there seems to be only one death. I’m not sure if that will change over the course of the series, however.Those character designs are awesome, i’m still scared by the fighter girl?/Guy?
but yeah, it reminds me a bit of Mirrai Nikki (future diary), and the zero escape series (999 and virutes last reward) which is a good thing. i love me a good mystery thriller anime, so i’ll stick to it this season.
from the ending credits, it flashed up with “Remaining survivors: 15” which has me to believe a lot more death is in store.Yeah, the fighter is, believe it or not, a chick.
i’m glad, that makes the character 100 times funnier
It’s a 13 episode show. I have heard the game’s really good as well.
Been watching Les Revenants (The Returned). It’s kind of creepifying and awesome.
Also, I’d heard about it but thought I had no chance of getting Mr. Strange to watch it because he usually hates subtitled stuff, especially European but he put the first episode on a few weeks ago without telling me what it was, just saying “We’re going to watch something now and I’m not going to tell you what it is but you have to like it.” Like he thought I wasn’t going to like it or something. 😛
What’s the show about? I could Google it I guess, but now that I’m a TAY newbie, I prefer to get your opinion.
Basically it’s about some people who have come back to life after being dead for years.
Zombie vampires?
What’s everyone playing?
It’s time for moi to download Chaos on Deponia @dc. But what to do in the meantime? It’s like a 6 jiggabite download.
EDIT: Actually only 4.8.
Animal Crossing, of course!
Do I even have you as a 3ds friend..?
Yes! How could you forget!? ;_;
Ah, but of course. Alas I do not have it. *takes the walk of shame*
OMG BRO! I’m guessing you didn’t bring your 3DS? Bring your 3DS next time.
Animal Crossing when I wake up, Pikmin 2 in the mornings, PC stuff in arvo (lately it’s been Dark Souls, BioShock and TWD: 400 days) more AC spread throughout the day and Luigi’s Mansion at night.
That’s the plan that I’ve kinda half stuck too.
Such a great game. Starts a bit slower than the first I find, but once it gets going it’s better in almost every way. Enjoy my friend!
Wooo Del Potro with set 2! Set a piece! Love me an underdog 😀
Are you there @bdkiaf..?
I love an underdog, but I like Djokovic too much to see him lose.
Also, I really don’t want Murray to win, so Djokovic has to make the final.
Haha! BUT, if Del Potro can oust Djoko, no reason he cant oust Murray. Hes playing the best I can remember seeing him. Such a close match! Loving it…
True. I think Lisicki is fulfilling my underdog needs at Wimbledon though.
Such a great match. Hope this goes 5 sets honestly.
The Walking Dead:
I just let Ben fall to his death in The Walking Dead after voting to kick him out… last time I helped him and voted to keep him.I don’t think I’ve ever felt like this much of a horrible person before from a game :'( ”””’
What game is that spoiler for?
“I just let [removed] in The Walking Dead”
The Walking Dead by Telltale.
Might want to label it before the spoiler 😛
Fair nuff, I’ll drop the name of the game first…
Not picking on you or anything but just saying how it’s generally done, and I would’ve gave a fair heads up to anyone else :).
Even though you mentioned the game within the spoiler tag, it was after the spoiler so it’s kind of hard for someone to see what it is, without seeing the spoiler first. You did clear it up in your reply to Powalen but since that’s after your spoiler post someone might’ve clicked on it already. Most people have a habit of clicking on unlabelled spoiler tags willy nilly since those are mostly joke ones.
_____
Regarding your Walking Dead ep 4(?) spoiler:
MONSTER! Although I’m in the “dropped Ben club” 😛I just finished 400 Days. Kept telling myself ‘Gotta go to bed soon’ at 2am when I finished ep5 then I just tore through 400 Days. *LOVED* it. Absolutely fantastic.
Don’t read this if you haven’t finished 400 Days yet.
Loving what the group seems to be, great personalities for each of the characters, also love the fact we’ve got a great range of cultures in there again. Also loving the fact it’s pretty easy to see how Clem may fit into the storyline now… they’re going to a community where I’m theorising Clem, Omid and Christa will probably be. Hopefully.
It’s nearly 4, just finished 400 Days and really, should be in bed. Night all!!!!
SOOOO KEEN FOR SEASON 2!!
I’m having trouble staying awake…
You’re obviously not watching the tennis then. Great match.
I honestly can’t see Djokovic losing this match, so it’s kinda “eh” for me.
Obviously you havent been watching then… its neck and neck
OMG… those break point saves…
If Del Potro was playing anyone but Djokovic I’d be on his side for sure. I just like Djokovic too much!
Haha! How did Del Potro lose that poiiiiint T_T
Shhiiiiiite. Argh. Nah I’m a big Djoko fan too, just happy to see Del Potro doing so well again, its been a while. I’m not going to be down if Djoko wins, but still gunning for DP
Yeah, right? He had that point the whole way.
Edit: He’s in trouble after that.
Yeah big climb for Del Potro now :'(
I’ll be surprised if Djokovic doesn’t close this next set out pretty quickly.
He’s holding… not exactly going quickly…
Oh heeeeeey… was just double checking Berserk at Dendy and noticed they have an advanced screening of Only God Forgives next wednesday night at 6.30. Ey? Eyyyy? Ey ey ey? Eyyyyyyyy? @dc? Eyyyyyyyyyyyyy?? http://www.dendy.com.au/Movie/Only-God-Forgives
It’s not Club Dendy only there? The advanced screening here is.
D:
You’ll just have to wait until PAX North.
Unless I just bought a membership :3
They have a special going – 1/2 price til Aug 31. I got 2 years for $12! Woop woop.
my cinema in perth is showing berserk the day i leave for melbourne 🙁
THE THINGS I DO FOR YOU GUYS
It looks like its screening all over Aus at the exact same time… for some reason…
it’s on at 2:30… i’ll miss it…
If only you were in Brisbane with meeee!
Oh man, I would but I don’t wanna join no Club Dendy’s. Haha. Otherwise, I definitely would. :'(
DEFINITELY.
I can invite a guest on my membership though. And if others are keen, they only need one membership between two. But yeah, might be easier to organise a night for everyone on its proper release.
If you wanna see it, I’d be happy to and pay you back and all that, then again like you say might be easier going the next week. You’ve got your membership dealy now though. I think Dan was keen to see it during PAX North too. (Which would be Friday 19th.) Let me know either way. Keen to see this movie and always keen to hang out. Haha!
Meat write-up:
Shane has a beard \o/
(part 2 coming soon)
Find out on the next episode of The Adventures of Greenius!
…Only 800 Microsoft Points.
Part 2:
I met Dave Grohl!
(part 3 coming later)
Oh man, yes! Mike totally looks like Dave Grohl!
Now I feel like changing my name. 😐
Blame Greenius. He totaly planted the idea in my head, Dave. 😛
Part 2
It’s all @scree’s faultThat was actually going to be part 3 😛
Then I decided to make it “Scree gave Shane all the games” but then I didn’t say it at all until now kinda sorta.
TRUE STORY!
Just before I go to bed, I decided to practice an Anime style with my drawings:
http://i.imgur.com/YQ4yQZt.jpg
Unfortunately, I still can’t draw hands. 🙁
Skirt’s not nearly short enough to be anime style 😛
It’s meant to be a kimono.
Baka! Hentai!Instructions! 🙂
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/185/6/a/Hand_Tutorial_by_QTStartheHedgehog.jpg
\o/
Thank you!
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpdmjp7xrW1qgdxoz.gif
Upvote for feelgood film of forever and ever
NAH. PONYO SUCKS AND YOU SUCK!
…is what all the wrong people say
PONYO 😀 <3
Totally going to play it while working tomorrow now ^_^ Love that bluray so so much
Reminds me of this one I saw a while ago:
http://i.imgur.com/Gazuk.jpg
Not helpful at all but it shows how damn complicated hands are :P. Crazy – just go with stumps 😀
The sooner you do start breaking things down into shapes and skeletons and understanding it though, Especially hands, the sooner they’ll improve.
@beavwa: I have your books and if you ever want to see them alive again you will need to come to the courtyard area outside McDonalds near crown at some point next week.
Dangit, that break was enough I think 🙁 cc@bdkiaf
Yup. This one’s over. I’m concerned that Djokovic doesn’t really look to be on top form though. Final should be interesting.
..Spoke too soon.
Its true, this isnt Djoko at his best. Theres moments of it there. ‘magine if he broke agaaaaiin cmoooooon XD
Nooo it was in T_T
He got a bit too challenge happy and psyched himself out I think. Should have called it.
120mph on the run! Whaaaat?!
Holy shit. OMG. No words. This match is incredible.
What is even happening?! Del Potro is on fire!
I’m having a small heart attack over here. I think he basically was like eff this, and just gave it everything he had. Wondering if he can go well in the fifth tho…
Noooo, break point. So close! Not as close at 2 match points I guess, that shiz must be haunting Djoko
Somethings gotta give soon…
Yep. Looks like Del Potro might be finished. He’s exhausted.
Nooo hang in there DP…
Ahhh shit. What a match, goddamn.
Yeah, that was so good. What a great match. I’m certainly a Del Potro fan after that.
No way am I watching Murray’s match after that. Bed for suuure.
YESSSSS!!! Yesyesyes
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/07/03/technology-one-gigabit-internet.html
Bison YES. YES.gif
Entire reason I will vote for Labour and not Liberal. NBN is where the future is and doing it now saves us money in the future. I need to be able to stream, nba, nfl, mlb, nhl, plus a few movies all at the same time, how else can one live?
http://www.twitter.com/JoelGreenius/status/353118069889040384
Shane’s got a beard! Craaaazy. Suits him though.
Link the other one that has product placement!
http://www.twitter.com/JoelGreenius/status/353118224897953792
Hahaha! Oh man, that was Shane all night!
Dude’s got the skills to pay the bills. No question!
Who ended up meeting? What’s MikeTarno like? XD
@miketarno is pretty cool guy. Except when he totally ditched us for his “real friends” pffft
Me
Smurfy
Velnica
Scree
Mike (who didn’t stay for dinner)
Techie
Smurfy’s friend Ali
Neg
Tigs
Mrs. Tigs
Inquis
Tofu
Jordi
SHANE!
A good group!
It’s missing @dc
Mike Tarno is totally Dave Grohl, except really nice 🙂
The feeling is mutual! 😀 *virtual group hug*
Suits him, you look good @shane!
http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/mywf18/pokemon-x—pokemon-y-global-launch-details
On a somewhat related note:
http://www.destructoid.com/these-blue-and-gold-pokemon-x-y-3ds-xls-are-beautiful-257584.phtml
Jesus christ, these special editions get better with every iteration.
I’m not keen, I prefer the bird and it’s either sharing the front with the deer or hidden away at the back, also the colour schemes don’t appeal :-/
#OldManjimu
Just watched The Avengers. I liked it for the most part. Liked the stuff at S.H.I.E.L.D. the most, so looking forward to TV series. WOOOO!
It sounds like we were equally impressed by the movie. I thought it was alright I guess, but not the most amazing film ever made that it seemed to get labelled as.
Yeah, definitely. I liked the down time the most, weirdly. The character moments and all that.
When it went into action mode it kind of lost me.
It was the best Avengers film ever made…
Like I said before, Dark Knight is a better film, Avengers is a better adaptation. 🙂
Liked the Whedon speak though. Mostly.
I liked the whole thing, very little wrong with it. I just think Nolan is the superior director/writer is all 😀
Season 2 of twentysomething on iView! 😀
I really wish all the stations would band together to make something as good as iView. It’d be amazing. Wil never happen though 😛
Also: the Walking Dead DLC is less than 2hrs long, right? Trying to decide if I want to save it for after dinner or just play it now…
Yeah, it took about two hours for me but I played intentionally slow. Most people have completed it in 90 mins.
Iview would be great if it was higher than 360p. That really kills it for me.
Just signed up for the new Xbox Live beta thingy, where they scrap Microsoft Points and deal in real money instead.
Not sure if I should spend my 1050 MS Points on stuff, or hope for a better than equal exchange rate once the update kicks in. 😐
Hitman still appears to be on sale. I’d be spending my MS dosh on whatever is left of their current sale.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1706620/
This sounds amazing. I must see this movie. 😀
http://collider.com/snowpiercer-trailer-images-featurettes/
Trailers, featurettes and the like here. (I’m not going to watch, premise and cast alone has my attention. :D)
I’m pretty intrigued, but the trailer is very actiony. Was kind of hoping for more suspense, but yeah looks cool.
Doesn’t seem to be a local release yet, but makings of a meat!
Have you watched Symbol yet?
Nah, most of the movies you recommended sounded too weird for my liking. Haha!
it’s not anywhere near as weird as ghibli movies! Just as awesome though!
You might as well watch Big Man Japan too! It’s got the same actor in it (comedian) and it’s just mind blowing AWESOME JAPAN!
Oh maaaan, what a match @bdkiaf. What a match.
http://www.polygon.com/2013/7/5/4496946/miyamoto-explains-why-he-brought-wind-waker-back-to-wii-u
Oh man, October’s going to be a great month of gaming with this and Beyond: Two Souls. 😀
When he started talking about length I got hyped for something about putting in the cut dungeons. Still hopiiiiiing…
It’s all new for me, but it’d be cool if there was new stuff for everyone else too.
From what I hear some Triforce quest needs fixing too?Was it a fairly long game?
Yeah, it’s a pretty decent length for that type of game. I’d say 15-25 (maybe?) to complete the main game. You can add plenty of hours since there’s lots of little extras and stuff which can take a while, especially if you’re playing without a guide!
There wasn’t any “play time count” in the game so that’s just an estimate. Seems pretty fair though based on past Zelda games.
Regarding what @sughly said, as far as I know there’s no cut dungeons and probably won’t even have a hard mode or anything extra added :'(. I think they said they’d tweak the pacing of the Triforce quest because it was implemented pretty poorly in the original :(.
I really wish they do add new stuff but it’s unlikely because Nintendo :/. It’ll be pretty easy to fit it in since there’s plenty of Islands and they can just pop some in here and there.
Oh man, looking forward to sailing the boat from island to island, exploring…
Hyping up length never ends well for anyone.
Also, PIKMIN 3 in 21 days! D:
And a little something, you may not have heard of this one, it’s pretty niche: Pokemon 😛
Sounds lame.
Have my iPod on random while cleaning. Great to hear some early Sepultura followed by some J-pop.
Herro.
Freeze! Hey man, hope you’re well! How’s the wizard thing working out for you?
Wut
The general consensus was that you became a wizard. We read between lines and connected dots!
More that a very close family friend has been diagnosed with advanced melanoma and has been given 3 months at most. I haven’t really been in the mood to be merry and didn’t really want to be a downer here.
Aw man, I’m so sorry to hear that. That’s truly horrible. 🙁
Yeah I’m sorry man 🙁
Awww – fuck life!
LAME JOKE REDACTED
EDIT: FUCK, I just saw the negative news a few posts down below. I’m sorry to hear that, Freeze.
Windows Phone 8 is great. So glad I decided to stick with WP.
The Lumia 520 is pretty damn good too. The call quality is miles ahead of my Mozart and the battery’s pretty good too. My only complaint is that the capacitive buttons at the bottom aren’t backlit
This is like lambo’s dream post.
I find the capacitive touch buttons at the bottom of my 920 to be really irritating. They’re right up against the bottom of the screen itself so I’m forever bumping them when I hit UI elements at the bottom edge.
Also the fact that the back button isn’t a proper back button irritates the shit out of me. No way to go back properly in IE. Go forward through a few links, tab out to a different app (eg check a text), tab back in and the history is gone and ‘back’ takes you back to the other app instead. Sucks.
That back button is what made me give up entirely on the 920.
Weird that such a minor thing made me swear off an entire OS.
Yeah, the back button is the one thing that really annoys me about WP.
Crap. The wife is back, now I have to go do stuff.
Like go see Man of Steel again? 😀
I wish. Grocery shopping actually.
PIKMIN 2 FINISHED!
Paid off the debt in 20 days and took about 10 and a half hours. Lemme guess @sughly, you haven’t been playing it? :'( 😛
And thanks for the heads up @gutsoup – I look forward to doing the extra stuff 😀
They didn’t really utilise the whole two character thing at all and there’s really only 2 times where you’ll need to split up :/. I’m usually not a fan of the whole “multiple character puzzle solving” type of gameplay but we’ll see how it works in Pikmin 3. They also barely used the purple Pikmin in Pikmin 2 but hopefully all the types are used a lot in P3 😀
OMG P3 HYPE!
(underground parts still suck)
So much crossing of animals to do though! And then wimbledon, and work, and game of thrones reading…
Don’t forget to go to Club LOL tonight! 😀
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Hey so I saw the Ace Attorney movie last night! Any of y’all seen it? I loved all the references, they were great! And mostly the characters were really well cast, especially Maya and Larry. And Phoenix, actually. Was awesome seeing Dee Vasquez in there! But as a standalone movie it would be pretty messy and nonsensical, you’d have to have played the games to get any appreciation out of it I think. And the pacing was pretty terrible towards the end 😐
agreed, i loved it, but that’s because it was super faithful to the games… maybe a little too faithful to them to the point it excluded outside viewers.
i loved all of the cast, they all played the characters very well.
Heh, I think the phoenix cast in the movie is also the voice actor for regular phoenix for JP Dual Destinies. And it manages to be actually quite faithful, if not, y’know trimmed.
Music was also great.
Oh thats cool if he is the voice actor too! No I really liked him a lot actually. Oh man, the music! So good. I loved the stressed Phoenix moments XD so good. I think my fave bit was
Larry winning at the start though and having some cleaning lady throw confetti at his face.Started catching up with Mad Men, one ep down and three to go… later…
Oh man, 6×11 Mad Men:
So damn uncomfortable on just about every front. Haha!6×12 was goooooooood.
Time to watch season finale… then sleep…
I dont even remember what happened in each ep any moooore! 🙁
Wow, Walking Dead 400 Days was great! I think I enjoyed some bits of it more than the original season.
Walking Dead DLC Spoilers! Don’t read unless you’ve played it in full! (Season 1 too!)
I just really enjoy that style of story telling. All the intertwining stories and short character focused chapters. They managed to pack a lot of backstory into such short scenes without actually saying anything directly, which was great.I played in the order: Vince, Wyatt, Bonnie, Russell, Shel. I think Bonnie’s was my favourite. All the characters in that chapter were great. The part where Bonnie accidentally clubs Dee was the most D:-worthy part for me. A microsecond before I clicked-to-hit I was like NO, WAIT! but my finger was already pressed D: Dammit, brain!
It’ll be interesting to see if progress in this DLC will carry over to Season 2, as well. The ending (with the “who went with Tavia” thing) kinda made it look that way.
I’ll have to Ctrl+F my way through TAY to try and find other peoples discussions.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/07/talk-amongst-yourselves-231/comment-page-12/#comment-1638341 — Greenius and D.C. talk The Walking Dead
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/07/talk-amongst-yourselves-231/comment-page-12/#comment-1638812 — Nobulus and D.C. talk The Walking Dead
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/07/talk-amongst-yourselves-231/comment-page-11/#comment-1637893 — Saturday and D.C. talk The Walking Dead
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/07/talk-amongst-yourselves-231/comment-page-14/#comment-1640173 — Scree, Nobulus, Greenius and D.C. talk The Walking Dead
D.C. loves his note comparing! 😀
And circling the wagons!
Thanks Deece! (Though I’d kinda already found them by the time I saw you’d collected them for me haha)
Haha! That’s okay, weekend TAY is slow, I’m sure it’ll help someone else down the line. XD
Oops, forgot some stuff: (More spoilers for Walking Dead DLC!)
My choices were:– Vince shot Danny (I didn’t even think it would kill him, to be honest 😛 I just kinda thought “hey, it was your idea…”.
– Wyatt got out of the car and tried to help the cop.
– Russell left Nate
– Bonnie was honest to Leland
– Shel left in the RV (Seems to be a common occurrence in this universe… :P)
Everybody went with Tavia.
Everybody? Wow, you’re the first person I’ve seen who’s managed to recruit them all. Here’s hoping it works out for these guys. XD Wyatt got out of the car and Russ left Nate, but those two stayed behind for me. Odd!I think the recruiting bit had more to do with what you said as Tavia rather than what the characters did in their chapters. At least, they all seemed to react pretty positively to her in my version. My Tavia has a silver tongue 😛Ooooh, good point. Didn’t think of that. Still weighing up whether I want to replay some stuff or let the decisions stand as is. In some ways I’m thinking I should leave it and see how it plays out.What were the choice % like?
Mine were completely rounded so it felt odd/broken :/ (75% 25% 50% etc.)
I played early on release day and it was like that for me too, I figured it’s just because so few people had actually played.
But to have them all like that? D:
Seems broken!
I know for one of the main episodes I had 50% for everything because I disconnected or something during it 😛
I had one at 70%, which looked so odd.
ANIMALCROSSINGTALK:
My museum was upgraded earlier this week and I’ve already filled my Gyroid exhibit room D: My Nintendo exhibit is filling up, too (there’s too many big items D:). My third room is a clock exhibit. So much ticking! Haven’t opened the fourth room yet because I haven’t decided what I want in it. I’ve seen you can get flower pots at some stage so I’m thinking about putting up a flower exhibit.
It’s a very exciting town, mine. Known for it’s famous… clock museum…
:/
(I like it though)
EDIT: Ugh, I’m so stupid. You don’t need to buy flower pots you just place them inside like furniture and the pot gets magically created. Duh! 😛 Flower exhibit, here I come!
My museum exhibits
Shrine to Shigeru
Shine to Reggie
Shrine to Iwata
Shrine to Reggie #2
Heh, I was just about to mention the flower thing 😛
@sughly and I are going to have:
Exhibit 1-4:
Turnips everywhere
I’m gunning to make so much money that I dont have to worry about moneys for a whiles
http://www.siliconera.com/2013/07/05/steinsgate-is-coming-to-the-west/
STEINS;GATE ENGLISH RELEASE BABY
YEAH.
I HAVE NO IDEA WHO ELSE COULD BE EXCITED BY THIS.
CAPS LOCK ANYWAY.
Excited. They’ve been hinting at it for ages. Trouble is that JAST are slow as hell releasing anything. Eg It took them like 2 years to get Saya no Uta out and there was a complete fan translation available that they started with. :\
not sure if this was correct or not, but didn’t they hire the guys who were making a fan translation of steins gate? or was that rumour false?
Wouldn’t be surprised.
A translator in the article’s comments has commented that translation and editing is done; they overhauled the fan translation. Just bugs and QC to work through.
So much damn hype.
Yeah but this is the same basic state that Saya no Uta was in when JAST signed their deal with Nitroplus. Though I think that some of the issue there was that they decided to start with Demonbane instead. But Saya was basically done for ages.
FUCK
YEAH
Oh shit! That’s awesome! I hope robotics;notes gets translated as well 😀
I’m keen to check it out!
400 Days Question: isnt i meant to be free DLC for those who own Season 1 ?
from what i’ve been hearing on twitter, others were under that impression, but it seems that’s not the case.
I think it’s free if you bought it on Telltale’s own store.
aha! that certainly makes sense
And included on Vita (when it drops) 😀
Gonna watch some ‘Arry Potterre with the boy 😀
My fitness assessment date is on the 3rd of August. I have 28 days to get fit enough and I hadn’t exercised properly for a month. So in preparation I used chalk to mark out 2 lines 20m apart on the road out front, downloaded the beep test to my phone and started doing the test. I need a minimum 8>6 to even be considered.
Thursday night I ran a 5>1. Panic started to set in. I can’t do this. I have no time and a long way to go. What the fuck am I going to do. Panicpanicpanicflailingarms.
Friday night I hit 6>3. Start feeling a bit better. That’s an improvement. I can possibly do this. Determination sets in.
Tonight not 10mins ago I ran 8>0. Suddenly I’m not looking at the minimum anymore and thinking I could possibly hit an “A” level of 9>8.
Maybe I’m just getting cocky and hubris will overtake me but the main concern of not even making the minimum is not such an issue anymore. All I can do is train myself every night and stick to a simple diet of chicken, fish and steamed veges. It’s going to be less than fun for a while but the end goal is more than worth it I feel.
If nothing else comes from all your efforts (and I wish you all the best of course), you’ve at least convinced me to stick to my guns when I say “who would be a fucking cop”.
I don’t envy you at all dood! Especially with the recent events in your life!
I’m sure if you keep your eye on the prize, you can do it though!
I’ll admit that there’s probably more reasons not to join than there is.
Wooo! Congrats, man. Progress. Haha, you must look crazy to your neighbours though… XD
(Though if they give you trouble, you can arrest them when you’re a cop. :D)
Ahhh, nice Sat night. How you lovely lovely people doin? Have some nice relaxing Radiohead bside https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGD8B7vRbyM
I’ve been listening to K.K. Jongera, live. I now finally have a song to play on my Sleek Stereo in my house!
Go (virtual) Clubbing, dude! You get a free song 😀
Totally did, got the same one as strange! A villager has k.k. adventure, I want to get that ooooone. Sounds like zelda :3
Arghh me hearties.. what be thy new TeamSpeak deets? i know the pass just need the addy!
I’ve sent an email with the details to what is hopefully the right address.
Oh heyhey, stumbled across another hand drawing guide. Cant remember crazyguy’s handle properly though T_T http://qinni.deviantart.com/art/Hand-Tutorial-2-298739215?q=favby%3Asughly%2F3916548&qo=359
Same person has a good eye tutorial too http://qinni.deviantart.com/art/Semi-realistic-anime-Eye-Tutorial-and-References-305714842?q=favby%3Asughly%2F3916548&qo=360
@crazyguy1990
!
I wanted to show the difference that a skeleton can make but I didn’t want to be too pretentious about it.
Breaking into blocks though is also a pretty common way of doing it, particularly in animation. I like to use blocks myself, but def need to think more about the skeleton when doing more realistic
Well i use a skeleton, then the blocks especially for difficult parts like hands and feet.
My problem area is faces. I am *absolutely* terrible at faces
Yeah I find it hard to get out of the rut I got into with copying certain face styles as a kid. Tend to want to draw brow/cheekbone, then eyes/nose/mouth like I would in the early days, rather than think about the angles and proper geometry of everything. Hard rut to escape, I’m working on it though.
All my faces just look the same D= I don’t really know how to get out of it. It’s really hard. So I understand completely.
Its truuuue! Same with me T_T I end up having to tweak and tweak and tweak until I get them looking different. I’ve gone for extreme face shapes now, which works for cartoony, but doing stuff with slightly more realism ends up with very samey looking faces. If you discover a secret lemme know T_T
Hey @jimu uuuuuu
Have you ever seen Venture Bros? You’d really like it with all the superhero/comic stuff that’s in it 😀
I feel like I’m missing a huge chunk of references and jokes because of it 😛
There’s a lot of it. The creators don’t care if you get it or not. They just cram every episode with as many references, tropes and inversions that they can.
I saw a bit, wasn’t in the mood. Pretty sure @gutsoup has all the DVDs, which is who’s house in which I saw it.
I have to much on my list to try new stuff 😛
RE MINECRAFT SERVER:
Server is up and fully operational!!! Had a minor lag issue sorted, turned out to be related to latest dev build of craftbukkit, so i have temporarily turned off craftbukkit till a stable build is released.
Eyyy! I’ll jump in soonish, mebe tomorroooo
ANNA’S QUEST >:|
Orrr…. OR… a tower to the sky made of glass.
*penis
Lisickiiiiiii, gogogo
srsly, if that commentator calls her Boomboom one more time…
cc@bdkiaf..? *poke poke*
My tennis friend..? :'(
Noooo Lipsicki, cmon Lipsicki…
Nawww… poo bag.
From Up On
PoopyPoppy Hill made me cry, god dammit...and it had to be a page get, of course.
Have you seen Only Yesterday or Whisper of the Heart? They’re quite similar films, if you liked Poppy Hill you’d probably like those too. I suspect that the upcoming The Wind Rises may be a bit along the same lines as well.
Considering it was only his second film after Earthsea (which I enjoyed but it’s not up to the par of the other Ghibli work) I was really happy how well it turned out. I guess this time the film wasn’t as rushed and he had more support from his father and it made a big difference. But also the subject matter fit him better I think.
I really liked the setting they had. The juxtaposition of the really old and traditional Japanese stuff with the modernity imported from America after WW2. The realization that all those traditional things are disappearing as they’re being replaced by the new as the country rapidly modernizes I think really adds to the whole feel of the film as well.
Forgot how good Superman: Doomsday is.
I usually prefer Marvel over DC but the DCAU stuff is usually a lot better than Marvel’s offerings.
Jeph Loeb took over Marvel’s TV shit and I had high hopes he’d do well.
All he’s done is a Spider-Man cartoon for younger kids and I guess he set up SHIELD, which is good.
(Jeph Loeb writes comics, but you may know his work on the classic 80s flicks Teen Wolf and Commando…also he worked on Heroes…which is soso at best)
Anyway, my point is, yes, DC do better toons)
He does the series more than the movies doesn’t he? I tend to like the movies better.
Huh? No Loeb wrote and produced both 80s classics.
Commando was SUPPOSED to be about an ex-commando turned pacifist that is forced back into the fold to save his daughter and the Arnie got hired and they forgot the whole pacifist thing.
He works more in TV now though, well almost exclusively thanks to becoming Marvel’s TV guy after the Disney buyout.
He’s done some great comics(and some dumb ones)!
I meant as far as the Marvel stuff went like Planet Hulk, Hulk Vs, Ultimate Avengers and such.
Oh, I think so…
If it’s anything like the awesome two-parter The Dark Knight Returns, I may have to check it out.
Two new Tales games (sort of) on PS3 in English in 2014! Tales of Xillia 2 confirmed for localization and we already knew that the HD-ified Tales of Symphonia and Dawn of the New World package was coming.
Yay.
Now if we’d just get Tales of Hearts R and Tales of Innocence R on Vita it’d be perfect.
I thought Symphonia HD was Wii U, no?
Nope, PS3. Dawn of the New World was originally on Wii so you could theoretically play that on Wii U as well, assuming you hate yourself.
Also if you didn’t see the earlier news, it’ll be dual language as well.
I’m thinking given that Symphonia’s JP release is October, we should see the US/EU one in February or March. It should be fairly quick turn-around on the localization, since the games were both already translated. They’ll need to translate the extra material added to Symphonia (since they’re porting the expanded PS2 version not the original Gamecube one) and they may decide to re-dub the game since the extra material would need voice work and the skits weren’t dubbed (Vesperia was the first to have dubbed skits). Since they changed the dub actors in Dawn of the New World that might also mean a re-dub from scratch. But even so, that sort of stuff shouldn’t necessitate a 2-year localization period like with a new Tales game. And if Xillia 2 is also 2014 you’d think they’d be aiming for August – September again with it and you wouldn’t want the two games competing directly.
Too much Tales in too shorter timeframe for me.
I’m a fan, but I’m not that big a fan. It hurts all the more because I love the art and they seem to be doing those sweet art books in Day 1 versions, but I really have to do the smart thing and not buy day one.
I’ve bought 3 Tales games since everyone introduced me on Twitter (I played Gutsoups’s Symphia a bit back in the day) and I haven’t finished one.
Whoaaaa you’re only a recent fan? :O
I remember seeing a review of Symphonia on XPLAY and it looked cool – but didn’t think about it for a while until I saw that all the praise it got from people online. Decided to track it down but by then it was pretty hard to find so I was pretty stoked when I randomly came across Eternia on PSP one day (which apparently has become rareish too). Been playing the games ever since 😀 (2006 or so)
Yeah, not big on the action style fighting.
I remember borrowing Symphonia and Baten Kaitos from @gutsoup and finishing Kaitos but not Symphonia.
Tales would be close to perfect if it was turn-based, but that just me though.
I actually like the battle system because it’s a nice change. It does get pretty repetitive towards the mid-end though but I find it has enough to make dungeon grinding fun :D. I would’ve thought you’d like it more since you’re into fighters.
Didya know the people who did Baten did Xenoblade 🙂 ?
Yes.
It’s probably because I like fighters that I don’t enjoy it. The type of fighters I like anyway, Tekken and Street Fighter.
Not that I don’t enjoy it, but yeah, gets a tad repetitive.
You know the other thing, I really like the preperation that goes into RPGs, like if you fuck up your equipment or materia or whatever, you’ve lost the fight before you began.
I like that you can make the fights piss easy because you know what you’re doing and you just have to then use what you prepared in the battle. Don’t get that so much in Tales. It’s a different beast.
First one I played was Phantasia on SNES using the DeJap translation, emulated on PC. I think around 2001? It was well before I played Symphonia at least, I got my Gamecube entirely for that game.
Hey y’all (or at least whoever is still awake at 2:30am).
GMG have Remember Me for $26 if you use the GMG20-XLQ7U-EMMBV code. I reckon it’ll drop to $20 soon enough, but this seemed like a nice bargain worthy of posting.
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/au/en/pc/games/action/remember-me/
EDIT: This is part of the 666 deal, which means it’ll expire in a few hours.
There’s gonna be a kickstarter for Little Witch Academia 2. Wallets at the ready, fronds.
omgomgomg!! YESSS! Was totally hoping for this! Have not enjoyed an anime as much as this one for a long long time! 😀 😀
EDIT: FALSE ALARM. IT’S ON FRIDAY. XD
Wut wut wuuuuut!!
Feeling good celebration of being alive during non-nighttime!
@sughly: Caught up with Mad Men. What a damn good season. I’m glad I waited to watch these eps, though. Would’ve been ruined if I was in the wrong mindset. Season six spoilers!
Liked Peggy sitting in Don’s chair and tilting sideways. XDAnyways, enjoy Berserk 2! 😀
Yaaay! Man… if I was less lazy I would go find my comments, I had good ones I swears T_T I wrote a big big paragraph. There was so much I loved about those last few! Mebe I will look later…
Haha, nah man, if any one should look for them it’s me. But I’m also lazy too. It’s a predicament. XD
I’ll attempt to regurgitate them… also later XD
And I’ll give more than one sentence thoughts… also later too. 😀
— Really liked the Sally/Don stuff. Don was the most upset I’ve ever seen him. I felt bad for him. He did something incredibly bad, holy damn, not cool. Really shouldn’t have lied to Sally though. Both knew what was going on and that was a make or break moment for their relationship. Don symbolically closing the door afterwards. And then him sleeping in her bed in the next episode. Liked how this arc drove the last few episodes and that final shot where Don was honest with his kids for the first time.
— That Hershey’s meeting was pretty damn good. Classic Don giving an incredible, crowd pleasing pitch and then all that honesty about his real childhood. Ted became a bit of a jerk across the season and I liked how Don could probably see himself in the guy and intervened to make sure him and Peggy didn’t eventuate. (Even if it’s at the expense of Megan.)
— Poor Megan. Ever since she was introduced I worried that Don was killing her spirit, but it looks like it’s happening for real.
— Liked how Joan tried to prove herself and how it backfired. You got to see all the sides to her competitive friendship with Peggy too. I liked how Peggy had her back though.
— That Bob stuff was a bit uncomfortable. Didn’t have a read on the character throughout most of the season and now I’m even more unsure. I felt bad for the guy after the scene with Pete where he left the room and the smile went from his face for the first time, but then the following episodes took any sympathy for the guy away. Especially the whole Joan thing. Remember earlier in the season when he took her to the hospital and everyone was questioning his motives… :S
— I like the sense of continuity between seasons. I liked how the Peggy/Pete baby stuff was brought up again with the scene with Pete’s mother. Poor Peggy, that was pretty damn uncomfortable. Pete talking about his father’s plane crash. Also seeing Glenn/Sally’s friendship is always interesting too. I think Sally needs to treat Betty better though. Haha.
— Kenny was shot in the face. He’s basically the only nice character on the show. I was hoping he wouldn’t die. Haha!
— The last scene with Don being put on leave and the elevator stuff with his replacement seemed to be a long time coming. Don’s made so many bad calls this season that it seems he’s not untouchable after all.
— You might disagree with me, but one of my criticisms this season is with the intertwining historic events with the drama. It’s usually done a lot more effortlessly in past seasons but it felt a bit forced this time around. I don’t know why.
— Don drowning at the party temporarily… holy damn!
— Season seven’s the last season. Aw, man. I’m gonna miss it. :'(
Oh God, I cant follow that up! I will come back to this later haha
Haha! Helps that I saw it last night! XD
5th point from the bottom
WHAT O_O
Mad Men spoilers!
Hunting accident. Ken was shot in the face and had to wear an eye patch for the rest of the season. There were pirate jokes.He’s LA Noire guy, right? I have a “Ken Cosgrove” in my head. He’s either him or his friend with the glasses. Kinda big guy? Ahhhh I forgot everyone and everything!@greenius: You’re right, it’s L.A. Noire guy! The other guy is Harry Crane!Mad Men spoilers:
And there’s one more guy I’m thinking of. He was a bartender in LA Noire as well I think – kinda chubby guy – pretty sure he gets fired in MM and just disappears for ages. What’s his name again? 😀Had to look it up, it’s been a while. Haha! Paul Kinsey apparently.Do you watch it green? Y u spoiling it for yourself!?!
He used to watch but stopped liking it a few seasons ago. :'(
@greenius monster!
Alright, me and @greenius dun got ripped off. 107 and 109 per turnip respectively. Halp ussss! We need some cheaper nips…
@strange! @saturday! @powalen! @rize! @bdkiaf! I call upon you for nips!
Can’t help ya until tomorrow, but my turnip prices right now are at a hefty 46 bells per turnip, which is no help to you guys at all.
Haha, I thought you were saying thats what they cost to buy. I was all whaaaaat! And then immediately relieved 😀
I’ve got nips! *lifts up shirt* Ahhhm dead sexeh!
Mine aren’t much better @ 100 per nip
dun worrie guise we fine good price alreadi <3
omg turnips erywhere D:
What was McG’s price again? Mine is 94….
93.
Lucky for you guys. I imagine when buying millions of bells worth that 1 bell may have made a difference. 😀
1 bell isn’t too bad! Only equals a few hundred turnips extra. I accidentally ate 200 turnips T_T (18k worth but it could’ve been 100k T_T)
It was the saddest thing you ever ate. Crying while those tasty tasty nips went down the hatch
And yet your AC character is all smug and smiling.
>:'(
@greenius Damn was that nip manlady hard to find sometimes though! Hiding in the bamboo, trying to keep her precious nips away from us…
INORITE!? I ran all over town looking for her :'(
I did enjoy our back and forth runningness though 😀 (except you’re so Slowly!)
@greenius I was trying not to crush his flowers! Unlike someone…
Also I kept putting in the wrong amount of nips ^_^
“Slow” in the sense of taking forever to buy turnips :P. I ran but didn’t crush anything because I’m swift like a (swift animal) !
You should buy what you can just afford or buy what fills your inventory 😀
@greenius I was trying to do that! I just… kept getting it wrong ^_^
Persona 5 domain has been registered
HYPE TRAIN GO
What is this Persona 5 you speak of? Tell me more.
Is this a serious question?
Cos Persona 4 Golden is only the greatest game released (in PAL) this year!!!
I don’t have a Vita. 🙁
(Yet!)
well, if you dig the old JRPG, then when you do get one, make sure to guy P4G! 😀
So, so good, so good.
So….good.
So good.
Roger! Yeah I dig those RPGs. I still need to finish FFVII on the PSP. That actually works really well on the small screen and doesn’t make it look as outdated.
Totally agree, I grabbed VII, VIII & IX during a PSN sale, the FMVs looked shockin’.
Everything looks so much nicer on a small screen 😀
I might actually charge up the PSP tonight and use it on commutes this week if it rains. Doubt I’ll remember what bit I was on though. 🙁
Cytus Lambda… it’s headphone heaven.
If you’ve played Technika, you’ll know what to expect.
Also, it’s free on the PlayStation Store.
You can find it under PlayStation Mobile.
One more thing, Geelong 11 straight wins over the Hawks! 😀
Boo! 🙁
@powalen
Wrong is out in the wild. I’ve prepared my cutlass and drunk all the rum ready to get the booty.
After watching Rubber I’m kind of keen to see this.
Oh yeah? Cool! Will have to set sail and see if I can dig up a copy to watch next weekend!
@dc
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/109463
? 😀
No idea if it’s good or not but do itttttt!
Pfffft. Piano is last year, Greenius. Violin is where it’s at. 😛
NISA announced Danganronpa (puzzle adventure game that seems like a blend of Ace Attorney and 999) and Demon Gaze (dungeon crawler) for Vita for 2014, and Aksys picked up Holy Sorcery Story (roguelike where you’re searching for the ultimate Curry).
\o/
You had me at blend of Ace Attorney and 999
Anime adaption just started and now I’m thinking maybe I don’t want to watch it in case it ruins the game for me the way the Persona 4 anime did.
Oooo yeah… good point… I was thinking of trying the anime out, now I’m not so sure
How did the P4 anime ruin P4 for you? Because it was crapper or because of spoilers??
(Cos it is waaaaaaaaaaay crapper)
I thought it was okay. More that it spoiled the whole story. Don’t feel much need to play the game because I already knew all the main story beats, plus I find it fairly stressful to play because of the time planning element. Makes if feel like I’m always doing things sub-optimally 🙁
I think the trick is too not try to play optimally, at least the first time.
There’s no reason to raise social links of everyone anyway unless you really care about fusing demons at a higher level. You can always just level them up anyway.
Personally, I just targeted party members because it also expands their abilities which normal leveling can’t do.
I realize that.
It doesn’t make the game any less stressful for me to play to be told to play it crappy.
But it isn’t crappy, the only reason to do all Links is for a platinum.
Really, just getting a few extra levels on a demon fusion means shit.
It can’t ruin your game or anything.
What Jimu said. I just focused on S Links that helped me out directly (ie. the people I used in battle) or the ones I found interesting. Then I just made Personas in the area I had a high S Link for.
Heh!
I ignored s-links during fusion and went for demons with “better” abilities.
Like, I always made a lightning demon and a healing demon
I did that too BUT with S Links 😀
The first Danganronpa, but still excellent news. Be ballin’ if good sales lead to the second one coming overseas as well.
It’s the expanded Vita port of the first Danganronpa though. They were doing 1&2 in a pack in Japan but I assume they’re spreading it over two releases in English 🙁
Don’t frown, a game is better than no game!!! 😀 😀 😀
woo! My hosting is working again! Stoopid dns didn’t save properly and couldn’t propagate.
Anyway, to celebrate, I’m gonna show you my entry for the PAX comp.
http://welbot-it.com/stuff/ZOOM_ZOOM_ZOOM.jpg
was the first think that sprang to mind when I read it. I know it’s terrible, but I wanted to make sure it looked like it was done in paint, so it was by design. If anything, @sughly will least get a kick out of it 😉
PLAGIARISM!
hahaha I think this safely falls in to the category of comedic imitation and parody 😉 Thanks though! Couldn’t have done it without you 😉
Winking at me will not stop court proceedings
Would you prefer a kiss?
…no.
*phew*
Only got one ep of Arrested Development left in my stockpile of episodes.
TAKE TO THE SEA
I love nachos and tacos but I can’t take the heat of jalapenos. Pity they freaking put it in everything including the mild stuff
This post made me hungry. :'(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carne_asada_fries
Possibly better than Poutine.
Kinda looks like poop on chips
SON YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT IT IS HEAVENLY TASTING
Yeahitdoes
I gave the nachos to my dog (there are jalapenos in the guacamole too) but he was kind of eating and then stopping to lick his lips. I figured that this was because it may have been too hot for him so he got two small bowls of low-fat milk.
Gon get some mean dog wind later…
He’s pretty good on that part
Low-fat milk doesn’t work. It’s actually the fat that reduces the heat. Your poor puppy. 😛
Scree’s a monster! D:
I can’t give him full fat as the lactose is more present. But it helped me so it should help him. He has a higher tolerance to hot things then I do though.
Final Fantasy VII is on Steam!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/39140/
Errrrrgh…. so not feeling Berserk at the cinema alone today :'( Cant help feeling like its a missed opportunity, but just not up for nigel cinema time.
Aw, seeing movies by yourself isn’t bad. You should go! This might sound a little sad, but for a few years the only time I saw a movie at the cinema is if I went by myself and once the lights turn off it doesn’t really matter if you’re with pals or not. It’s always good having people to talk to about the movie after, but it’s better seeing a movie than nothing at all!
Yeah man once it goes dark nobody can you see crying out of loneliness*
*No seriously I’ve seen movies by myself as well like DC, it’s perfectly fine
No its not that I’m against seeing movies by myself, I’ve done it too, just saying I’m not feeling it. And would probably go if it meant seeing people too, but not motivated enough to do it just for something to do by myself, ya’ know?
It’s okay – we’ve got the day to organise our turnips.
PS. I need to grab the Kimono and other furniture off you some time! I’m sure you’d love to get rid of the space 😀
OH! And I saw an exotic lamp in the StreetPass model houses but they customised it so I couldn’t order it :'( (I do have a gnarly samurai suit and ninja sword though!)
Oooo, ninja suit! 😀
Also I got a minimalist lamp in my shop today, looks so gooood!! Also my shop is closing tomorrow for the reno’s, exciiiiite! Dont tell me anything about it, want a surprise 😀
Also I realised I completely misread what you said and mashed two things into one incorrect one, but whatevs
No one asked me 🙁
Aww maaaaaaaaaaaan. 🙁
Everybody who has club lol in AC
If you’re visiting friends at their club on a saturday when KK’s doing his requests thing, do you also get a chance to get music?
Didnt try… but then again, Greenius suggested we just let each other borrow then give back tracks, and we can get them from the catalogue.
Yeah, Strange and I tested it out and she said she could order the song I gave her.
Wat song did you get? I got the same as Strange, sooo, I have nothing to offer you :'(
“Groovy”
I got Milonga (Hell if I know what that is) BTW.
My club’s open right now, so if you guys want to try, I’m down for it.
Neh, only thing I’m doing next time I open the game is sorting out my turnip dilemma. Turnips erywhere…
*101
And you say the building joke was old
Well so’s your face. 😛
Building joke? I must’ve had that eternal sunshined…
Edit: I admit, I was fishing for @greenius to tell me to get some new material. Instead he upvoted. *shakes fist* Maybe next time. >:D
I’d say twice is well under the limit 😛
I regret accepting a toasted sandwich thingy. Now everything I eat is stuck between bread, piles of butter and melted cheese. Sooo good, but sooo unhealthy.
I’m torn between what to do today… Reformat my computer, play Alan Wake, or play Rollercoaster Tycoon 2?
I am attempting to root my galaxy s2 (instead of seeing anime at the cinemar T_T), and have no idea what I’m doing and its taking a lot longer than I have the patience for. And the washing machine keeps beeping at me to tell me its ready to hang out but I really dont want to do that, that sounds boring to me.
p.s. dont play Alan Wake.
I think I rooted my Chinese Android tablet ages ago. Can’t remember what to do but I know it frustrated me to no end.
Oh and the only sensible option is to play RCT2. One of the best games ever.
Roller coaster to nowhere! I remember 12 year old me and a friend got a scheme going where people could come into the park free but had to pay to leave, or something. Was pretty great.
Sooo much fun! Hopefully 19 year old me can be just as creative as 10/11 year old me!
19! Youre such a babeh! I’m 9 years older than you :'( Old man Sughly…
19 and a half
*strokes facial hair*
So olddddd
Wow, From Up on Poppy Hill was fantastic! The music was phenomenal! Really, really enjoyed it.
(thanks @benny!)
———–
Now, back to Animal Crossing. Hoping to get my town a perfect rating status today so I can work towards getting a gold watering can in a fortnight. My flowers are growing out of control. It takes like half an hour just to water them all!
Yeah I culled all the flowers bar the hybridding ones caus of this reason, was so over watering them. Nearly went for the auto water ordinance, but I enjoy my late night stuff too much ^_^ Dont know if I have the stamina for gold watering just yet… might just get clean ordinance for the fortnight it takes to get it. Theres an ideaaaaa…
I actually enjoy the watering. It just feels stupid watering a massive flowerbed one flower at a time 😛
Or ask Powalen to make more characters and get spares so he can share it with us <3? 😀
🙂 ?
I’m buying trees and flowers every day but it’s still going to take like 15 days before I get the Silver Can/Gold Axe :'(
You’re welcome.
Oh man, screw the watering can, if you get your town to perfect status you can renovate your town hall.
I slept all day and miss @gutsoup’s mrs bbq D:
(I got the trash out in the street in time for the pickup though)
You’ve just made her list, Jimu! D:
But Persona 5 news (maybe)?
I just read @saturday’s comment
Is there any news other than a domain name??
Just a domain name. Seems likely they’d be gearing up for an announcement soon though. If it’s a PS3 game they’ve now got a fairly limited window to get it out there.
Also with their parent company having gone bankrupt, releasing some Persona 5 news would probably help them get sold, assuming the plan is for Index Corp to get bought out by some other company.
Really hope it’s PS3. They can always do a PS4 one after.
Was PS3 out when P4 dropped?
yes, it was.
I been playing Dissidia Duodecim again. Pretty awesome.
@dc
Finished Night of the Rabbit.
The game started to fall apart near the end. Misplaced and missing dialogue lines, weird graphical glitches and frame rates stuttering around. And the face off with Zaroff I have no idea what the hell I did. Just clicked around once or twice and he fell over. Almost seems like they ran out of time and just threw what they already had haphazardly and pushed it out.Did seem a lot buggier towards the end, I agree. I liked the puzzle with Zaroff. I think you fluked the solution before you solved it proper in your head. XD Lots of cool sequel potential too with the other Marquis de Hoto. I hope you liked it man! 😀Considering it was one of 3 games I’ve finished this year I’d say so. It was interesting that they kept the story focused just on what concerned Jerry with hints of the bigger issues out there (world beyond Mousewood, the Lizards organisation). Looking at the Marquis at the end, third person cover based brawler/shooter with zombies?Haha! Definitely! Loved the little hints too, like the missing pharmacist and the critter that goes looking for them. Also all that stuff with the Crows, I thought for sure they’d be the main bad guys in the end…Less buggier than Deponia, I found. Chaos on Deponia crashes during the end cutscene every time for me. Had to watch the ending on YouTube.
I was keen to play Deponia then it crashed in the main menu :P. Never tried again!
D: Monster!
Monster! x2 😛
How’s Chaos treating you? Did you end up playing Blade Runner?
Chaos is going well. I’m really enjoying the humor in this one. The first was great, but I reckon this takes it up a notch. @greenius needs to play it!
I didn’t end up doing Blade Runner because Remember Me and Darkness II went on special. So I wasted time on those, plus house chores.
But what if it crashes like the first did!
:O
First worked alright for me. This one is going well so far. Darkness II has an issue where the HUD is squished horizontally. But I couldn’t find a fix so I’m just playing as is.
Remember Me wouldn’t work at all. It kept crashing when I started the game. 100% of the time. I then found a fix by changing some PhysX files.
I am so much more forgiving on movies than I am games. Watched Dolan’s Cadillac the other night. Besides Christian Slater being the hammiest ham that ever hammed it had nothing redeemable about it. Yet I still watched it and wouldn’t call my time wasted.
On the other hand I can recognise Animal Crossing as a well made game but I wish nothing more than I had purchased a physical copy so I could return it to get my money back. Most Nintendo games hold little interest for me regardless how well they’re made, they just seem to be wasting my time.
I have no idea why that is. Maybe I just value a story above anything else.
I know it’s incredibly unfair to judge a game just on what I’ve read here, but nothing about Animal Crossing sounds appealing to me at all. I like Nintendo too, so might just be an acquired taste.
I prefer stories too and a well realized world.
Like Mario?
Dunno if the story thing is it really, because you like stuff like Bayonetta and Blood Dragon which are over the top and dont really have a story either, and I love story driven games too. I think its essentially just styles of gameplay, and Animal Crossing is a pretty specific style that not everyone will like.
Bayonetta had a story. It was convoluted and weird as hell but it was still a story.
Yeahhhh I knowwww, but you know what I mean. It’s a self aware kind of convoluted, it knows its silly and over the top. It’s like saying someone doesnt like story driven films because they like dumbed down action flicks, know wha’imsayin?
@sughly, didn’t watch the match last night, had an early night in preparation for tonight. Will you be joining me?
Also, watched Drive again tonight. God damn that’s a good movie. Reeeeaaal Huuuumaaaan being!
Edit: Wimbledon page 18 goooo!
Drive was good. Pines was good. Only God Forgives? Find out sooooooon.
I’m going to go out on a limb here:
Good.We shall see! PAX North! (Though I think Sughly wanted to see it earlier, but I propose a Pacific Rim meat for this week and then Only God Forgives for next week. MEEEEEEATS.)
I used to watch a lot of movies but stopped a few years ago. Now I can go months without seeing a movie :/
The point of that little story is that I still haven’t seen Drive but I think I’ll watch it tomorrow 😀
Someone (Sughly then D.C.?) linked a muppets picture of it that looked kinda interesting/spoilery so I’ll check it out. Can’t say I knew much about the story before but now I’m intrigued – got this Hotline Miami violence vibe going on.
I linked the No Country one caus I figured some ppl wouldnt have seen Drive yet. Then someone else linked the Drive one. I blame someone else.
Hey, you know what’s a good movie? No Country For Old Men.
Call it.
Absolutely freakin adore No Country. We were all spoilled rotten getting that and There will be blood at the same time, was like cinema christmas!
Has @dc watched those? He should. Fantastic movies.
Pretty sure he has
Gooood. Good.
I totes watched last night, didnt you see my lonely posts calling for you? :'(
Was hard seeing Lisicki just losing it on court. She was in tears during a service game at one point. It was bittersweet too – she started crying because everyone started doing this big cheer to boost her, and I think she was kind of moved by it 🙁 Argh and then there was a shot of her watching Bartoli celebrating, and she just looked so crushed. Arrrgh so sad :'(
I may have missed an “I” in there. I didn’t watch the match. I’m here tonight though! Let’s go Novak!
Woop woop!
The Book of Unwritten Tales any good? What about the Critter thing (@dc)
Any other PC indie point and clicks that are really, really good? 🙂 (which ones are your favourite?)
Fate of Atlantis.
I haven’t played Unwritten Tales, but I know @miketarno and @sughly have!
Anna’s Quest! Deponia! Chaos on Deponia! The Night of the Rabbit! Primordia! Resonance! Gemini Rue! The Blackwell Bundle! The Whispered World! (I wasn’t a fan of this one specifically, but many are.) Scratches! There’s lots of great adventures coming up soon with Kickstarter as well.
I loved The Night of the Rabbit!
Top 5? 🙂
To help you make the list I’ll keep it to recentish PC indie ones. I could only imagine how long the list would be if I asked for any adventure game 😀
Since you already own ’em, I suggest the Deponia games first!
But what else? 😀
I remember you and McGarnical(?) talking about Primordia once. I saw it for really cheap a while ago but didn’t buy it but now I should’ve!
That’s the thing, I loved it but it also taps into nostalgia of Revolution games like Beneath a Steel Sky. It’s a solid story with good puzzles, but it’s a little hard to separate it from the nostalgia for me to recommend it to a casual adventure gamer. Same with Resonance and Gemini Rue, both are amazing games in their own right but the pixel art thing might be a deal breaker for some people.
Scratches was pretty great and if you like that, Asylum is out later this year from the same guy!
I think it might be a little safer to recommend the Daedalic games first. There’s always tutorials. They’re HD and extremely pretty and their puzzles are pretty traditional. Deponia, Chaos on Deponia and The Night of the Rabbit…
You just reminded me I have Resonance and Gemini Rue sitting there unplayed. I should rectify that situation.
There’s also stuff like Machinarium and Botanicula. I struggled a bit with Machinarium’s puzzles, but I loved the art direction and visual story telling. Botanicula is a little different and not very adventure-like at all. Still fun though.
@dc, I think I’m about halfway(?) through Machinarium. The puzzle difficulty seems to be pretty uneven with some dead simple ones with some needing some ridiculously obtuse solution.
Yeah, I always say Myst kind of puzzles, like those ones based on pure logic instead of traditional adventure game inventory stuff. I always struggle a bit with those ones, alas. :'(
Played it on the iPad though. Might try again soon on PC.
Gemini Rueee! Love that game! Resonance is a pretty cool guy too, but Gemini Rue is so delectable. Though it does get a little hammy near the end… but thats ok!
I don’t mind pixel art – I just like things with their own sort of artistic style, ya know? Scratches is scaryyyy D:
Gemini Rue isn’t very puzzle-like, but it’s got a great story and this cool Blade Runner-like atmosphere. Resonance plays like an old school Sierra game. You swap between four characters and there’s a really unique way to solve puzzles using short and long term memory.
I love a good story 😀
Since I’m replying here – I kinda felt like playing Botanicula and was about to play it :D. Not sure why I stopped!
To tell you the truth, I haven’t played a whole lot of Botanicula either. It’s a game I play for five minutes and think is cool, but then I save it for when I feel like playing it. Haha!
Deponia, do Deponia! They’re very light-hearted and similar in humor and presentation to the Lucas Arts games (specifically Monkey Island).
Resonance was great. Admittedly I never finished it as I had too many other games to complete, but while I played it I thought it was a neat concept.
Machinarium was really good. I had a blast with that game and I liked that it was relatively short so I felt more motivated to finish it. It also had a great hint system.
Seconded on Night of the Rabbit. Great game.
Also Armikrog. It got funded with a stretch goal of a Wii U release being net as well. \o/
Had a look at Night of the Rabbit the other day – I really like the art style but was disappointed you don’t play a rabbit :(. It’s from the Deponia people, right? I’ll keep my eye on it.
Yeah it’s by the same dudes. Just play Deponia. 😛
I tried, but it crashed 🙂
Rayman Origins on PS3: Resounding Meh.
Rayman Origins on PSV: Hopelessly Addicted.
It’s the same damned game but somehow it just works so much better on a handheld.
Really? I find it so damn beautiful on a HDTV. Can’t imagine it looking better on a handheld, but @Jimu seems to love it there too. 😀
You underestimate the quality of the Vita’s screen. The hardware really is impressive.
That’s true, never seen a Vita screen. Judging the quality based on the Wii U controller which is not pretty. Haha!
Eww!
Vita screen is pretty. I’d say it’s like a standard smart phone screen (which is also something you haven’t really looked at much either… :P) ummm… like a TV but smaller?
I’ve got an iPad. WOOOO. (Though even that I wouldn’t say is pretty like a HDTV. :P)
I think it depends on which kinda of blind you get.
I prefer smaller hi res screens to look at that big screens. I think that partly comes from being short sighted.
Also, I always used smaller TVs growing up because graphics looked sharper on a smaller screen.
It was only when text became too small to see that I “upgraded”, I actually find big screens exhausting at times.
Also also, yeah, Vita’s screen you have to see to understand, and really sit down somewhere comfortable for a while and soak it in. I wasn’t too impressed at the shops or playing a friends.
Also also also, I just wanted to say “Also also also” 😛
OH! A real Also also also: I tend to want tio play movie like games on my PS3. Stuff like Rayman I like on the handheld.
🙂
Sony do beautiful portable screens. The PSP’s was always beautiful and from what I’ve seen of the PSV it’s way better. My Sony phone’s screen is so much better than my husband’s iPhone screen it’s not even funny.
I earned 2 Steam trading cards for Don’t Starve. I managed to sell one for 50c.
I SHALL QUIT MY JOB AND PLAY GAMES AND EARN CARDS AND SELL THEM FOR A LIVING
I still have no idea wtf is up with Steam Trading Cards. But hey, if people want to buy them, more power to them!
Shinji Mikami on The Evil Within
So keen for this game. Coming on PS4 as well.
I’m looking forward to Murdered: Soul Suspect. Not really related to that at all, but reminded me of it for some reason. Adventure Gamers is covering it saying it’s a bit like L.A. Noire combined with Heavy Rain. That’s something that appeals to me. 😀
Did you like LA Noire?
I thought they fuggered it up 🙁
Can’t wait for @shane write-up when he gets back! Hopefully everything went well 😀
Haha! Me too, I hope he had a good time and is psyched for Supanova in Brisbane for November. XD
Are you going to meet him? 🙂
I dunno. The prospect is pretty terrifying. Haha.
NO MEATING SHANE >:(
WRONG! D.C. uses the >:| face!
(he corrected me on it :'( )
@dc did you ever watch the “final thoughts” sort of episode of Amnesia Fortnight? I remember telling you about it but you were in a funk and didn’t feel like it. I just discovered there’s playthrough videos of it too with some of the team doing commentary 😀
WOO!
The other day I was thinking that if they do, do Black Lake – Levi would be working on Broken Age so it might not happen for a while :'(. They did talk about a “secret game” in some of the Massive Chalice videos but I’ll just assume that’s a cancelled project or something…
EDIT: Now I can finally see the end of White Birch 😛
I also have spare Steam keys for the Double Fine Amnesia Fortnight game prototypes if anyone is keen (and Brazen)…
Aw man, never ended up watching that. Feeling a bit better about stuff lately though. Black Lake was definitely my favourite. The idea of White Birch appealed to me so much, but the demo didn’t do any thing for me. Haha!
But it’s okay because now you’ve played the real Ico! 😀
And it was awesome. Loved that game so damn much.
Aw man, I’m all sleepy now. Took a sleeping pill an hour ago not expecting TAY to pick up. *shakes fist* I’ll see you guys tomorrow. You’re all awesome. Awesome I tells ya. I’m serious about this Pacific Rim meat for next Friday too, if any one’s interested. Let me know. I’ll repost about it tomorrow.
Good night, folks!
Aww, but I was just about to ask whether you actually played all the prototypes or not 😀
There’s a Pacific Rim meat? Man, first that jerk @sughly leaves me out of a Berserk meat and now this.
I think I’m going to need to buy a rack or a stand so I can have somewhere to put all this hat.
You wouldve watched Berserk with me!?! NOOOOOO!!! I didnt go because I didnt feel like being a nigel D:
Totally would have but I didn’t know anything about it 🙁
:'( :'(
I’m going to bed too! Work on the morrow *vomits*
You slept all day though. You are sloth man!
Sick, been sick all year, sucks.
Hi @miketarno AKA Guy I Haven’t Met AKA Guy With A Truly Magnificent First Name.
Um. Hi. Do you like stuff?
He likes FFVII! o/
Need we say more. 😛
He wants to play Xenoblade!
Haha, why thank you uncle! I like all sorts of stuff, particularly gaming of course. 😛
*F1 chat*
Holy crap Mark Webber actually had a good start for once!
…Well that was too good to be true. Wheel fell off in the pits and hit the camera man.
NOOOOO! I missed it.
Great, now he’s 21st. >:(
He was out for a bit, but somehow he’s back in the race!
Yeah but way behind. Bah. I’m still not over the front-end changes they made to those cars. That reminds me, I still have a model of the McLaren Honda MP4/4 to make. Even comes with a Senna model!
*runs to the TV* I keep missing the races.
I watched some SBK today. I personally reckon it’s more fun than MotoGP. More crashes for starters. Better classes. And they use bikes that resemble the street models much closer.
I still can’t believe how they screwed up the front-end of the 2011 GSX-R 600/750s.
You. You like motor sports. I like you
I haven’t watched a lot of bike stuff, but the stuff I have seen can get pretty intense!
I’m not a hardcore fanatic, but I do follow some. I also sunk way more hours into racing games than I’d like to admit. Here’s looking at you Forza…
And NFS and F1 and Dirt and…
Sooo many hours in Forza. All worth it.
Sucks that none of my friends are interested in realistic racing games 😛
Webber looks to be back in it too! Safety car’s worked well for him.
Just watched Harry Potter 2 with the boy, he was so scared by the basilisk he actually got up and left the room.
He was watching from the kitchen so I brought him back in and hugged him while giving an extra positive commentary.
He really liked the flying car and wouldn’t shut up about it after it left 😀
I remember watching that in the cinemas with my parents and a friend and we felt like there’s snakes all over the ground D:
i remember seeing it at the cinemas and being a smarmy little shit that ruined all the good bits for my family because i had read them already.
Ugh! 😛
Glad I didn’t see it with you!
So the Fan Translation of Valkyria Chronicles 3 is progressing nicely. Everything except for the added missions in the expanded version and the DLC is translated, they’re doing clean-up, grammar fixes and alignment and stuff now. Might be out by the end of the year.
I’ll have to dust off my PSP!
ohhh this interesting. I thought the TDF might be over but maybe not
@sughly Let’s gooooo!
hey ho, let’s go
These rallies are keraaaazy… cmoooon Djoko…
Yesss… now break back. Go on, I dare you.
This match is shaping up to be a great one. Insane rallies. Djokovic still isn’t on top form though.
Yeeep. This match has a ways to go yet tho I think…
As the years go on watching Murray though, hes groaning and whinging expressions annoy me more and more >:(
Yaaaay woo up a break! Woop woop!
Crap.
Maaaan. He can’t win 🙁
I’m not having a good time, Sughly!
Me neither! 🙁 Serrels is on twitter it seems…
HEYOOOO!! I likey…
This is better! Unforced errors were killing Novak, looks like Murray is starting to get the same.
How much can change in half an hour T_T
Press conference should consist of a simple declaration – “YOU CAN CALL ME MURRAY!”
I just needed to post that somewhere where it might actually be appreciated 😛 Oh hey, given the title image this might actually be appropriate.
*appreciated* 😀