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This is where Kotaku readers go to talk about the stuff we’re not already posting about. Think of it as the official unofficial Kotaku community forum.
I’ve promised Mark that not every post I make this week will mention Bubble Bobble. Although having mentioned it, I guess I’m off to a bad start already.
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HEYO!
FIRST!
What’s new, brotato?!
Not much. Woke up. Went to work. WAS FIRST ON TAY!
How’s things, Brotaku?
Upvote for Brotaku.
I got a new phone and a new bed! I’m a new Pants!
I didn’t get any new pants though. Although…
TIME FOR NEW PANTS! Purple pants! For PAX! Although you do run the risk of looking like a geeky Barney the dinosaur…
I could get yellow pants instead!
GREEN PANTS
Hey gang,
Am worried about my 3 year old. I’m concerned she might be depressed and/or autistic and/or gifted. We’re going to be getting her looked at soon (starting today), and obviously it’s too early to be making any of the above claims, but she’s been extremely out of sorts recently (and beyond what I think a normal 3yo mood would account for)… and tbh, none of the above three diagnoses would particularly surprise me (though autism would be the most surprising)
The other day we tried to tell her how great she was, and she just put her head down and mumbled, “No, I’m not great,” and then slumped away and sat in the corner. 🙁 Last night she put herself to bed instead of dinner, and stayed in her room for fourteen hours 🙁
As much as it’s possible with a one-year-old who’s declared war on her, we’re going to try to get her mood up. If it turns out she’s gifted, then this whole thing might be because she’s feeling unstimulated. So, one option (among many) is that we are looking to get her a tablet computer for educational-type games, to keep her occupied and challenged at those times where we can’t be directly interacting with her. This is where TAY comes in – need advice and recommendations, plskthx. <$100 is good, <$50 is better, mostly because it’s all we can afford, and also because we’ll almost certainly need to replace it several times. Recommend to me, please! eBay has a few, but I wouldn’t know what I was looking for.
I know a guy who can get you some tabs for about $50.
Primo stuff, you’ll have a great time.
If her mood doesn’t improve, I’ll be in touch.
My nephew has a Leapfrog pad or something like that – think it was about $130. Seems to keep him occupied, granted he isn’t really gifted – I caught him throwing bread into the ceiling fan the other day.
I still want to do that, physics and shit.
Thanks. We’ve already got one of the really old LeapPad systems, with the cartridges, etc, and she seems to like that. Additional cartridges are hellspensive though! 😛
I dunno man. Last time I took an IQ test it was over 160, but I’ve also caught myself giving the thumbs up to someone over the phone. I’m a really smart idiot.
“Mom… picture-phone.”
Oho! I see what you did there. I dunno how long I can sustain a Simpsons quote back-and-forth, though.
I do this all the time.
There’s actually a huge market for tablets for kids of that age (no, really) in terms of apps and accessories (protective cases, etc.). There’s benefits to whichever you pick, but based on your price requirements I’d be looking at Android devices, particularly older generation ones. iOS devices are great for kids too, but they’re expensive to buy and generally expensive to buy apps (compared with Android).
Thanks, yeah, I’d pretty much already assumed that anything Apple was out of the equation 😛
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/190775612017 Other than being from China, does kick up any red flags? All I know is that it’s pink and that it can access the Google store.
I can’t see anything particularly dodgy (well, dodgy as in if they’re selling you an empty box) for that listing, but you’re certainly getting what you pay for in terms of price.
Before grabbing something like that it might be worth asking around here or at work to see if anyone wants to offload their old tablet before upgrading? Can’t hurt to ask, and you could get lucky.
Thanks man. All good advice 🙂
I might have an old iPhone 4 sitting around somewhere. Maybe. Can’t remember if I already gave it to someone or not.
If it still is here do you want it?
Only if you let me buy it from you.
I think you underestimate how many old phones I have cluttering up the house.
The most sophisticated piece of phone technology in our house is my wife’s iPhone 3GS. Second-most sophisticated is my 10-to-12-year-old Nokia. 😛
I think you underestimate just how damn generous you’re trying to be.
I too have an old iPhone 4 model lying around, so that is available, if wanted.
Thanks, man. Will let you know! 🙂
Hope everything’s okay, my friend!
Me, too, man. Thanks!
Here’s your problem. Everyone knows the only thing normal about 3yos is how abnormal they are.
In all seriousness, I hope she’s okay. The nexus 7 can be picked up for $250ish and is a pretty decent little tablet.
Thanks, man. We were ready for mood swings and tantrums, the cornerstones of 3yo behaviour.
It’s the quiet stuff that I’m worried about. The compulsive apologising, the shattered self-esteem, the lack of interest in almost everything… it’s worrying, and I’m having trouble believing this is ‘normal’.
Obviously I don’t know your daughter well, having only met her once, but from what you’ve said about her in the past and after reading the stories she has written, I’d be seriously surprised if she sat anywhere on the autistic spectrum. If she did it would be towards the “high functioning” side.
I’m not an expert, of course, but my brother’s fiance is an OT specialising in kid’s with behavioural/developmental issues. I’ll ask her what she thinks.
Thanks, man. My wife’s got a certificiate in disability support and has worked with autistic kids for about eight years, and she thinks it could be possible but unlikely… you know, just one of those things that needs to be considered.
I’m honestly more worried about a diagnosis of ‘gifted’ – I don’t really want her life to turn into Malcolm in the Middle 😛
Well then I think it’s safe to disregard my comment.
Hope it all works out groovy.
@freezespreston @izzy
We have sorted out an iPad for my daughter, but my wife has now decided that she would like to upgrade from her iPhone 3. I would therefore be interested in purchasing one of your iPhone 4s from you please, if you are still looking to offload.
If you want to hold onto them because the matter at hand is no longer the welfare of a three-year-old kid, that’s totally fine. But I will add as an addendum that my wife is entirely capable of behaving like a three-year-old at times 😛
Thanks for reading.
Your pal and mine,
Shane
Do you realise how hard it was to find this on a mobile?
No… I’ve never browsed Kotaku on anything other than a computer.
Sorry! 🙁
Double sorry if this post is also hard to find 😛
I’ll see if I can dig up the thing. Also pretty sure it’s just a 4 not a 4S.
Thanks, man.
Regardless of outcome, this book has now been pre-ordered in your name. Enjoy! 😀
(Note: not a substitution of payment for the phone, BTW. Just for being a cool guy.)
Wait what O.O
Apologies for the late reply, but I’m still okay with parting with the old iPhone
Thanks, man. Can you please shoot me an email at shane at shanewsmith.com and we’ll sort something out that everyone’s happy with? Much appreciated. 😀
Hello again, apologies again for the late reply! Yesterday, I got distracted making a pro design in Animal Crossing New leaf, and was out this morning. Anyway, just letting you that I just sent through an email.
Programming! (with data structures)
If there’s one good thing about living on campus it’s that I can get up at 8:30 and still have time to spare. Unlike staying at my friends place and having to get up at 7 this morning 🙁
STACKS! QUEUES! LINKED LISTS!
I KNOW THINGS!
In more upbeat post, am still enjoying Ace Attorney.
Case Four: The trial of
Miles EdgeworthDay One of trial, and Det Gumshoe has just revealed the murder weapon and ballistics information that he forgot to tell me earlier, despite claiming to be on my side with this one. XDI think he’s the worst ally ever. Also, the prosecuting attorney is kind of hilarious. It’s gonna be great watching him lose 😀
Phoenix stressing out in court is so funny – love the exaggerated animations. Hell, I love everything about this game. It’s a great game.
Thanks @scree! 😀
Von Karmaaa! I love Von Karma ^^Me too. He’s brilliant.
No problem! Glad it’s making you happier. I hope your daughter feel better soon
PAX
PAX
GoslingFest ’13
Dan and Rocket ride the little mermaid ride and complete both of their dream’s ’13
sorry had gossling on the brain
Complete both of their drives?
You lost me.
Hey sure, rub it in.
Here’s other things that would also aid in this endeavour:
“Bundaberg Ginger Beer”
“Shapes”
“Picnics”
“Sunshine and warmth”
“Minties”
Why do you miss minties? Do you enjoy breaking your teeth? SADIST
Do people not know how let things sit in their mouth a little to soften up?
I gave someone at work some Cadbury Marvellous Creations with the popping candy in it, and by the time I told them to let it melt in their mouth, they had already chowed down on it and finished it and complained about there being a lack of popping.
“Here you go, Stampy! Eat it slow, it has to last for– you ate it too fast.”
That quote is almost twenty years old. I love that we all know exactly what it is 😀
I don’t get it :'(
If you haven’t seen the classic Simpsons episode “Bart’s Elephant” you need to do this immediately. Actually, it sounds like you need to see it right now anyway, even if it’s not for the first time.
i do that, i dont want chocolate covering my teeth.
Wash that chocolate away with some coke. Then brush your teeth immediately afterwards, so that the coke acts like paint-thinner for your teeth enamel.
Ten years of that and you won’t have to worry about ANYTHING covering your teeth.
(Because you won’t have teeth.)
WISEMAN
Hey man, you have poutine and extremely apologetic people and peanut butter cups and now i’m hungry THANKS BISH
THREE DAYS.
OR FOUR. I CAN’T REALLY COUNT ANYMORE.
ONE TWO PAX PAXPAX MORE PAX ALL THE PAX!
PAAAAAAAAX!
Howdy all.
This past weekend was a blast — My partner @asheleah and I attended AVCON in Adelaide and spent a significant amount of monetary items for little pieces of fandom.
Did anyone else go?
I thought I saw someone talking about it a few days ago, but that might have just been you on Twitter…
😛
Potentially. I was talking about it most of the weekend 😉
Woo! More Adelaide TAY!
@wilbur went, I would have but I’m paxing in lieu. Maybe @benny?
Nope not me, didn’t go. All this weekend drizzle meant I was home sitting at my desktop, watching steam sales update every few hours or so. Not actually playing any games.
I went. It was pretty cool. Lots of costumes. There should have been staff with mop and buckets following Jessica Nigiri to control fan drool.
1-0 up in the Ashes. The next 9 matches in the next 6 months had better not be so close. Not great for stress levels. Dunno what the umpires were smoking all through the match though
they were smoking the ashes of the stumps, that’s why its call the ashes DUH!
amateur 😛
Hello All! I must ask: is there anybody here interested in a spare 3 day pass for pax aus? The person who showed some interest in it hasn’t responded for over a week.
Whoa! If you dont find someone, you could put it as a one day sale on ebay though and be rich. Not that… not that I’m endorsing scalping >_> Just… endorsing being rich.
Nothing wrong with endorsing being rich! Although I’d feel guilty about overpricing it (on the other hand though, Money!)
Then let the market decide! Auction, baby!
Capitalism! Or… something.
Opportunism! 😀
I think @zetrox was after one
Someone help me here D=
@zetrox2k
Thank you Shane =D
dude so many people would be after it , EBAY IT BRO MAKE 600 dollars 😛
Beat you to it, go home rockets I’ll take it from here
I will beat you!
Beat Off!!!
…wait.
I’ll give you five bucks and a Popsicle from the fridge.
Not a chocolate one though. Any other one is fine.
Aww 🙁
Replace chocolate with strawberry and this is pretty much the argument me and Ash have after every dinner.
EWWW Strawberry flavoured anything tastes terrible. Except actually stawberries which are delicious.
omg GO HOME ALREADY ROCKETS!
YOU GO HOME AND FINISH ANNAS QUEST 2 THE LONG WAIT!!!
Correct.
I like Strawberry stuff. But I prefer iced Coffee.
Monster! D:
Hey @Izzy, i am totally interested… how much are you after for it? alternatively, send me an email (Zetrox2k) at the hots dot com, (no brackets!)
@shane @scree thanks for the heads up guys!!!
Hey! I’ll send you an email a little later on, my asking price is $115 (early bird pricing, what I paid for it).
sweet! ill be glad to take it off your hands!
Alright! I’ll email you soon.
@izzy hey not sure if you sent it yet but just thought id let you know i havent received it yet.
Sorry for the late reply! Doing receptionist work today, got a bit busy before lunch. I just sent through a confirmation email now.
I’ll check my emails when I get home from work.
replied and left you my mobile number, just sms me instead as im toolazy to check emails!
Ahhh @zetrox2k can have it. I don’t wanna fight over it.
@miketarno !!
OMG man, you should have sent me an SMS! I missed out on this as I didn’t get a chance to come here. 🙁
Ah well. If anything else comes up, let me know.
Dear TAY
@rize has sagely suggested that I ask around here before lashing out on eBay.
Does anyone have an old tablet computer they’d like to sell me? It’d be for my three-year-old, and would be used for educationalist games and apps. Name your price – I’m anxious and desperate, so use it! 🙂
I think Mum and I paid about $300 for hers. I would suggest going to places that sell them second hand as people tend to trade in things that are no longer the latest thing.
That’s a funny coincidence. Since the weekend I’ve been pretty seriously considering ditching my first-gen 3G ipad, if that’s the kind of thing you’re looking for. It runs fine and isn’t scratched, but it doesn’t support the latest software coming out. (Which is why I’m thinking about getting rid of it.)
I was planning on using it for reading comics on my PAX trip, but after that I’d probably be pretty comfortable with sending it to a good home. Price? Uh… I’m pretty out of touch on what’d be fair. I guess maybe forty bucks or thereabouts (which would cover postage plus a bottle of something decent)? It’s not a proper tablet PC, though, so I’d expect you to get some better offers, and maybe some more thorough searching of ebay could turn up something better.
Dude, this sounds pretty much ideal. Latest software isn’t a concern, as long as we can still pick up some educational type apps for my kid (can it still access the Apple store?).
Are you sure that’s a fair price? Edit: for clarity, I mean that it seems low. 😛
Yeah. When I said I was thinking about getting rid of it, I was only going to offload it on to family who might like it anyway, I don’t have time for dicking around with ebay. I only wanna token charge because I only do charity for family; everything else can muddy who-owes-what. At least a token price is a price you can shake on then you’re done.
Like I said, I wanna keep it for the PAX trip though, so if you get better offers or earlier offers, that’s ideal, but otherwise, my username at gmail is a good place to start for contact details.
Thanks, man. I will let you know either way what happens.
Really appreciated! 🙂
Told you it was worth asking, Shane!
You’re an alright guy, Mr Mind.
You were right, man.
Don’t know why I undershot, asking just for advice. TAY comes through. Always.
There’s not a great deal of good educational games and apps for Android and Apple. And giving a device like that to a 3yo, especially a precocious one runs the risk of accidental purchase of things as well. You should look into ebay for older Leapfrog or VTech stuff that people will sell with a whole bunch of software. We got an old Leappad (The original book kind,before iPads were invented and hence the new Leappad) and a whole bunch of software for it for somewhere between $50 and $80 delivered.
All good advice – thanks! If we go forward, we will be vetting all software carefully and won’t be storing any cc details on the device if we can help it. I’ve already looked up parental controls online, and have a pretty good idea how to prevent in-app purchases and internet access.
We’ve got one of those old Leappads already! 🙂
If you get one of the phones you can switch to airplane mode as a good way if stopping accidental purchase and inappropriate access
That’s way too simple a solution. Things need to be more difficult! Difficult! 😛
With IOS devices, you can disable in app purchases with a 4 digit passcode, or, if you jailbreak it, you can get Cydia tweaks that disable app-store and iap altogether, and can be enabled again by removing the cydia tweaks…. definitely something that would be way too complicated for a child, trust me…
\o/ cheers, buddy!
Yeah, what Zet said. There’s an easy way to enable restrictions to block In-App purchases and there’s settings that’ll ask for a password each time you try to purchase something (which will stop accidental purchases)
My son figured out how to turn that off on my iPod. 😛
like an android/ipad styled tablet? check out the JXD tablets on DX.com .. They are quite good and cheap, just bought the S7100 for my mum which also has Dpad, analogue stick and buttons for the emulation stuff for my mum….
http://dx.com/s/jxd
This is the one i bought my mum…. it is amazeballs…
http://dx.com/p/android-2-2-7-0-lcd-resistance-touch-screen-game-consol-tablet-w-tf-wifi-camera-white-silver-112403
only downside is it runs android 2.2 not 4 but there is another version of this that has 4.2
scrap that, dont buy that one at the moment… only the resistive screen version are available (stylus needed) all the capacitative screen versions (touch) are sold out.
Hey @rocketman – you listen to Big Black Delta? I twittered about them to you. And to @bdkiaf. But I never heard back :'(
Just in case… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjKderJ5KOo
If they are as good as strawberry flavouring i dont want anything to do with them.
But yeah i have heard of them before and i listened to the link. They were pretty okay.
in other news
ARCADE FIRE ALBUM IN OCTOBER
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This was weekend tay news, go home etc
Yesterday news or not, I can still get crazy psyched. WOOOOO!
Hi DC \o/
Hey friend!
Groovy.
I did see your tweet, but I forgot to come back and listen. Same with the song Rocket posted. Ma baaaaad.
Just… One… More… Turn…
Rogue Legacy? It’s having that effect on me. It will be different this time. I’ll actuall… Nope I’m dead again.
I know it’s probably not but relevant.That too , but this one is civ. I lost my life to civ this weekend
Oh gods Civ. I put two hours into a game sat arvo only to quit when Augustus Caesar was being a dick.
I suffer from One-more-turn-itis. It manifests most strongly in Endless Space, Galactic Civilizations 2, Civilization series, Plants vs Zombies 2, and Infinity Blade 2.
Civ V + G&K + BNW is probably the best Civ yet.
I know it well. Althou getting my butt kicked going from prince to king difficulty
With The Last of Us and Beyond Two Souls, if Sony do another Playstation Allstars we could have Ellie versus Jodie in the ultimate match of ‘Not’ Ellen Page versus Real Ellen Page.
Why I’m sending a hoodie to Queensland at a time when winter is petering out is beyond me, but it’s well and truly on its way by now, @strange! Keep an eye on your letterbox for a massive soft parcel.
Eyyyyyy ;D
Ah wait you said parcel not package… ah…. hmmm…
Haha, yeah, I was careful. Sorry 😛
You started with “massive” and “soft”, you may as well have gone all out and included “package” as well. 😛
Also, thanks. I should be receiving another massive soft…package this week as well, containing all the fabric I ordered from the US for your wife’s quilt.
Eyyyyy ;D
It’s hard in the middle \o/
Best I can do, sorry.
It took you all day to come up with that? 😛
…I’m not good at talking about my bitsy pieces. 😛
Shane! Supanova! November! You know Mr. Strange too? That’s awesome! 😀
Yeah, man. I knew both the Stranges before they got together. Crazy long time ago now… like, 8 years or something 🙂
Wouldn’t you like to catch up with them in person? Maybe in November! 😛
I feel like you’re pushing some sort of agenda here… 😛
Reuniting old friends! XD
And new ones <3
D.C. WILL MEET @SHANE!
Hola Tay
Thanks for all the birthday wishes yesterday! Yesterday I had brunch with the family, went to a board game day in the afternoon, then to a pub tea with some friends in the evening.
A monday morning question: Some of my friends gave me a lego minifig as a prelude to a PAX-based present. If you could make a Lego figure of any game character, who would it be? I’d love a figure of Faith from Mirror’s Edge
I don’t know, but it’d be something from Dark Souls for sure. Maybe Artorias or Solaire
Doctor Who
I would be all over a LEGO Tardis.
I’d love Lego figures of the Borderlands vault hunters.
…I was going to say Borderlands 1, but hell, all of them.
…I now want to change my answer
Burt Reynolds.
Solid Snake and the bosses from Metal Gear Solid.
I think you could get some pretty good minifig sets from just about any Final Fantasy game.
Raz from psychonauts. Would work really well with the big head and the little spindly arms
Cube World is mad fun
MAD FUN
played for a few hours last night with faction, blaghs and Nob such a grindy fun but so rewarding, it fels like you really have to earn your gear. 🙂
First thing my boss and I said to each other this morning, in complete unison:
“How much have you spent?”
Good ol’ Steam sales.
Side note: He’s nearly at $200, I think I’m about $25. Not sure which one of us is winning, here.
i spend $2.50
cause i have been wanting hotline miami for a while.
I loaded up my Steam account with $100 just before the sale started, and told myself that would be my limit – I’ve got PAX to attend and would rather buy stuff there.
I (foolishly perhaps) spent a bit on TF2 keys, but damn, I got some cool new hats. And I’ve spent the rest on games already. I grabbed RPG Maker, so that was a large chunk, but I’ve been happy with all my purchases so far.
Of course there’s at least one item in today’s deals that I kinda want, but I’m staying strong. The sale finishes after PAX, so I just need to track my wants and see what I’ve got left on encore day.
Everybody is a winner.
Of course the true test of who is winning is which of you is closer to crafting the steam sale badge
Does @strange have the internet back on yet?
She just posted in Tay, so my guess is yes!
I do now, yes. It was just gone on Saturday. Stoopid iinet and their worst timing ever for their stoopid problems.
Did you need me for something? 🙂
I needed you for craft discussion.
Ooh, is it more of your wife’s awesome crafting? Tell me more!
I seem to have misplaced my glasses.
This presents a problem.
or a excuse to go honka honka some boobs.
…
wat?
Rocketman.
I don’t see a problem.
Bet you can’t either.
Oh man, search around the ground while a Scooby Doo-like ghost creeps up on you!
OMG WORDS AND SHIT!
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(repost from last night)
The PAX Twitter account is answered a lot of questions last night. Here’s a brief summary of some things that was said:
Apparently:
– They said their larger shows take 25-30 minutes to load in but PAX Aus has Photo IDing which will make it a bit longer
– Opens at 10am but you can start lining up at 8am
– It’s an annual thing. PAX Aus next year too! WOO
– All attendees get free swag bags (they didn’t say what was inside)
– Lanyards are given at PAX
– You need to be 18+ (bring ID as it will be checked) for unrated games. If you’re under 18 you can’t view it, even with a parent/guardian
– First come first served queuing for panels and concerts
– Free Wi-Fi
– Theatre capacities – 100, 200, 300, 1,800+ (Wombat is 200, Dropbear is 300, Main Theatre is 1,800+)
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@sernobulus aren’t you coming to Melbourne on Tuesday? ORGANISED SOMETHING YET!?
@negativezero – lift maybe? :D. Depends what Nob plans because if it’s not too late I can just get there myself if you can’t be bothered giving me a lift 😛
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So what’s the plan for PAX? I’m going solo but hope to meet up with TAYbies otherwise I’ll be foreveralone and bored out of my brains waiting in lines and stuff (so much hat for lines). I reckon we should look through the schedule and see what interests us, then we should see who else is going to those things, so we can go to those things together, yeah? Yeah. 😀
And if there’s any group stuff organised we should probably organise that :P. Number exchange? Meet-up points? I know there’s Karaoke but that’s it and I’m still not 100% on its details.
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Just got my Uni results this morning. Was checking TAY on my phone and BAM got the results text. That stupid ban thing makes no sense and apparently I wasn’t in the exempt part, yet here I am with my results. Get your shit together Uni 😛
I passed that unit I thought I’d fail and it’s my first Pass and lowest mark ever :P. Also did a lot worse on a unit I thought I did alright in and did slightly better than I thought in another. Lowest semester average so far but at least I didn’t fail and that shit is over.
One more semester…
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OMG WORDS AND SHIT
Wow, a lot of good news there! Thanks for the heads up!
im just gonna wander around cracking wise and talking to people, i dont really know whats going to be there , nor do i care, its more of a social event then anything.
1800 seems low for the main theatre :/
Might have to line up pretty damn early to get in there for the Ron Gilbert and PA stuff.
Roooonnnnn :'(
Yeah, how about that PAX North, huh? It’s.. Uh.. A thing.. Yeah..
Our keynote speaker also makes adventure games! SUGHLY!
Also Sughly’s not a jerk unlike that Ron Gilbert guy. 😛
HA!
Does he, though? Haven’t seen Anna’s Quest yet 😉
Should have bought Chapter One when it was available. It was all right…
But I’m not convinced the rest of the game exists.
Don’t forget Egress! EGRESS!
I did, it’s on my old laptop, which didn’t exactly play it too well. So I haven’t played it.
Repostius
I’m heading down and staying with some non-taybie friends but I haven’t scheduled anything with them specifically.
I’m happy to number share with taybies for organising meetups and whatevers.
Congrats on passing anyways, my friend!
I’m probably going to camp out with the 3DS at the handheld lounge whenever there’s not presentations to go to. If there’s TAYbies that say specific times and places, I’ll probably materialise around those. Not really planning too hard though, just going to go with the flow.
Yeah, I’m not super interested in any of the big talks or whatever but I might as well check them out if I can since I paid for it and they might actually be really good 😛 😀
Upvote for Passing. \o/
I too will be forever alone at PAX, would be nice to meat up with everyone. I’m only going on the Saturday though.
So many words in that post.
Words and shit!
Dear Needius!
I wont be able to come out on Wednesday because Faction is working all day. (Is it weird that I will be hanging around at his house alone while he works? It’s a little weird isn’t it? .. Yeah, it’s a little weird) Not sure If he’s working Thursday but I doubt he will want to go out anywhere after doing an all day shift.
Ill be there on thursday so the party will be going to his house.
Also blaghs
Okay.jpg
Lift is no problem as long as you don’t mind being on a similar schedule to me.
Also happy to give a lift to anyone in a similar area. My plan is to park at work (don’t tell anyone) in Southbank on all three days, walk over to Flinders St and then train into the showgrounds. I’m in Wantirna South so if there’s anyone else that would like to car pool that’s in a similar area (@smurfydog @inquisitorsz ?) then let me know.
My plan is to mainly hang out in the Board Games areas. There’s a few panels I’m interested in but only a handful I really care about.
Also \o/ for passing a unit you thought you were going to fail! I had a couple of those. Normally was pretty high but for two specific units that were taught in a crazy programming language (Lisp for one, ML for the other) I nearly failed because I couldn’t understand the language and so my assignments and practicals were terrible. Lowest was a 53. Thought I’d failed it.
I’ll have a look at the schedule this week and work out what I want to see. At the moment there’s nothing I 100% want to go to so I’m free to go wherever as long as it’s interesting
Thanks for the thought but I don’t have tickets.
For anyone else reading this… DO NOT DRIVE TO THE SHOWGROUNDS!!!!!! Take public transport. I know it’s crap but it’s better than driving. Trust me, I’ve been to 6 years worth of music festivals there. The train directly to the show grounds is the only good option.
@trjn DUDE you know how to argue pointlessly, just read the massive wall of text with weresmurf. i am impressed. I hate when i have a different opinion to you because i know eventually you’ll say something and ill be like “damn that is a good point’ 😛
Linky?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/07/pro-gamers-are-athletes-says-us-government/
Ah. I’d have gone straight to the “Poker tournament” argument
Not much point if the sticking point is that there has to be a physical barrier to entry.
Like I said in one of the comments, I like arguing :p
I disagree.
You can’t just state a contrary opinion
Yes I can
No you can’t!
I’m sorry, but if you want me to go on arguing you’ll have to pay for another five minutes.
“We’ll have to agree to disagree.”
“NEVER!” *head-explodes*
Of course you can, just because you don’t like that fact, doesn’t mean we can’t 🙂
Imagine what it’s like to date him now. ALL THE POINTLESS ARGUING and then he whinges that I’m grumpy with him :p
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a trap.
You’re a trap.
At least you have stimulating conversations, these are the conversation topics i have with people who aren’t you guys: “police are money grabbing” “how shit are the roads” “no i don’t know about that random anime or book that you think is brilliant but is actually shit”
the last one is mainly with my younger sister who likes a lot of shit things.
NOTE ED sheraan LEGO house isn’t a good song despite mentioning LEGO several times.
Most of our conversations are “ham?” “ham!”
He only mentions the word LEGO once.
I know this ’cause I can radio.
Don’t encourage him.
SHITSTORM for the day…
Great Waves by Dirty Three, featuring Chan Marshall
Because Chan is awesome, and these guys are awesome. Australia represent!
Ah screw it, more Chan! Love this live version of I dont blame you… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRcl_TefEak
Just bought Deadlight on Steam! Post apocalyptic urban decay… for $3!
I’ve been meaning to get into that one day! NOTE COMPARISONS?! 😀
Sounds like a plan. I played the demo on 360 a while back. Loved the art direction, level design and gameplay. Thought the writing was really, really cringe worthy. Haha. But it’s $3! 😀
Such a wonderful game. Was one of my goty contenders
Looks so atmospheric. Can’t wait to play it. Would you recommend using a gamepad?
Pretty sure I played with mouse and keyboard. Not 100% on that. Main reason being that I find it hard to aim accurately with a gamepad.
I ended up grabbing it too. Looked to promising to ignore.
I’ve definitely jumped on the steam sale bandwagon this year.
So far:
Hotline Miami
Just Cause 2
Darksiders 2
Super Meat Boy
Hitman Absolution
Tomb raider
For $42.94.
Still on wishlist:
Civ V
Warhammer
Final Fantasy VII
Bioshock Infinite
Am I doing it right, guise?
Oh wow, Tomb Raider alone is worth $42 so you’ve done good!
There’s no Dark Souls on that list… so, no. You’re not doing it right at all.
But I already have Dark Souls!
You think that’s an excuse, don’t you?
…
Actually, it’s an okay excuse.
But now I don’t understand why you were buying other games…. :S
So he can see how good Dark Souls is compared to them? 😀
I love Dark Souls for what it is and definitely appreciate the time I’ve had with it, but I also kind of found it stressful. I went from Dark Souls to playing Kirbys Epic Yarn with my gf The gods honest horrible truth is, I had more fun playing Kirby. I think the way I play games has changed a bit over time, and now I’m appreciating casual games way more than I used to. I find it really hard for me to go back and sink my teeth back into Dark Souls after this.
Please don’t kill me Shane.
Hahaha, you don’t have to justify yourself to me, man. I’m totally just joking.
Dark Souls might be my all-time fave game, but I don’t expect the world to agree with me!
That said, you are dead to me now.
Just keep in mind Steam doesn’t always have the best prices (due to Australian tax 🙁 ). Other places like GMG and Amazon will have Steam copies for a lot of cheaper since they’re based on UK/US prices. There’s also dodgy key sites but I don’t really bother with them because… they’re dodgy 😛
Steam’s been pretty good on most of the games you bought but just a heads up 😀
http://www.steamprices.com/au/topripoffs
vs
http://www.steamprices.com/au/topsavings
Australia Tax… FIGHT!
Ah yeah, forgot to mention these sites are great for sales. They tell you the lowest it’s been and the best prices at other places
http://isthereanydeal.com/ is good too!
True, it’s very easy to forget GMG. I did pick up my copy from X-Com from there though.
CIV!
I think the last one I played was Civ IV (it was sooo long ago). Damn addicting goodness.
Not enough random indies that you picked up because they were less than the price of a coffee. otherwise you are doing well.
Although as greenmang says watch the convict tax, a 50% off game with convict tax can just be normal price.
But since other people are providing links here is another dangerous one http://www.steamgamesales.com/
Lets you order all games by discount or price
Dear TAY,
We need to organise a time to gather as many TAYbies as we can in the one spot at PAX. A TAYbie extravaganza, if you will.
As the Potaku peeps will be running around a lot I may need to hand out my phone number to some folks.
I will be there!
..Only if TAYbies at PAX whip out their mobile phones and refresh TAY once in a while I may pop up.
I heartily endorse this. Also, it may be me yelling PANTS across a room
Bish has done this before. I didn’t listen…
Bahaha
Also, got a Steam Sale related thing in the CMS I’m working on, I’ll let you know.
I already readed it! Yes, readed.
You are edit good man!
Still needs a little polish, but should be ready tonight
TAY FILM!
http://potaku.com/2013/07/11/tayfilm-2013-second-helping/
ALSO PAX!
Remember Me is on sale, everyone should buy it because it is a pretty okay game!
EDIT: NO PAGE IS SAFE FROM THE STEAM SALE! NOOOOO PAGGGGGGGE!
Combat system in particular is pretty damn fun and the soundtrack is excellent!
Need to finish my 360 copy…
Repost of poorly placed post.
Dear TAY,
We need to organise a time to gather as many TAYbies as we can in the one spot at PAX. A TAYbie extravaganza, if you will.
As the Potaku peeps will be running around a lot I may need to hand out my phone number to some folks.
I think I’m going to miss meeting a lot of people cause I’m only at PAX on Sunday.
Pacific Rim
Great movie. Needed more robot punching and less drama, still good though. Except for the Australian accents. Holy shit. So bad. Like, Tarantino bad.Its like the CG team is showing off.
We could do this giant robot vs alien monster in daytime without rain
FUCK IT RAIN AND NIGHTTIME IT IS
Also movie was brilliant, well done action scenes, terrible drama and script though also
WE ARE OUT OF OPTIONS, NO WE STILL HAVE ONE. DRAWN’S A MEGA SWORDThe sword was rad as fuck though. Seriously, the slo-mo shot of the flying monster getting cut in half. So fucking sick.Yep.
Oh man, and the Kaiju designs? And the Jaeger designs? Guillermo del Toro is just an insanely creative dude.
The sad part is that it was let down so much by the script, like right now its the best action movie i have seen in recent memory. But with a little bit of effort and decent acting it could of been a scfi masterpiece. also 20 minutes of dialogue with no robot fighting was balls.
There was decent acting! Charlie Day was easily the best character!
I don’t remember the actual character’s name, but it might as well be Charlie Day.
Newton.
I saw this last night. Very epic, so much action and I loved it. I was waiting for
a Neon Genesis style twist with perhaps a Jeager actually hiding a Kaiji within but it was not to be. Or at least a prototype Jaeger with a Kaiju brain or something. Even still..The film gets four out five rupees from me.I’ll be honest, I was half expecting you to hate it. 😛
I absolutely loved it. I can’t help but feel the cheesy lines and delivery was a bit deliberate. As I said to Blaghs it seemed slightly self aware.
It does seem like the kind of thing I’d hate, doesn’t it?
I love a good mindless action movie. I put it in the same category as The Expendables movies, which I love. Over the top action and cheesy dialog while being entirely aware of how ridiculous it all is.
dont get cocky kid
Same category as The Expendables?
The wedding is off.
Saw it last night.
Definitely self aware.
Yep
Season two of The Newsroom starts today. Fast tracked on Foxtel tonight as well. Aaron Sorkin’s HBO TV series about the production staff of ACN, a fictitious cable news network!
You’ve never mentioned this show before. It sounds interesting.
Stop tuning out my twice weekly Sorkin posts. 😛
It’s a really good show though with the potential to be great too. Not up to The West Wing level yet, but still pretty damn decent all the same. Some great characters. Funny too. Olivia Munn’s character in particular is awesome.
It’ll never hit West Wing. it has a distinct lack of Sheen.
Just browsing through some old deviatnart favourites for inspiration, saw this Ace Attorney one I love – thought you might like @shane ^^ http://obsessedkitten.deviantart.com/art/Mystic-Maya-278711868
o_O
Awesome!
Morning, everyone.
What up?
The sun?
But seriously, not much. :\
@sughly
Do we know much about American Hustle? The cast looks fantastic and the pictures of fat Christian Bale are enough for me to watch it alone. Doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of information though.
Ohhh no I saw that for the first time in apple trailers, but my flash is all funky and wasnt loading any of them and I was too lazy to look it up elsewhere XD …actually no wait thats something called Out of the furnace, just assumed it was the same since Bale. Er… nope, I officially know nothing about this film then! to the googles…
I am getting so good at useless posts.
edit: Oooooo! David O Rusell back with Brad and Jennifer! With Amy Adams. Oh my! That is indeed a cast. De Niro! First I’ve heard of it though, so whatever you know is more than me :/
Hahaha, I mean Bradley. Sounds like I’m writing a column for a goss magazine…
You see pictures? Did you see fat, balding Christian Bale? Dude is seriously committed to his roles.
This one? http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qLTPLqMUQ4U/UW1Gnr07pVI/AAAAAAAAAE4/dfkGnN-8kNI/s320/amy-adams-christian-bale-american-hustle+%284%29.jpg
Yep, and these.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/02/david-o-russell-american-hustle_n_3536659.html
Renner looks like a 13 year old…
Hahaha! Going from what everyone says, this is what I fully expect @rocketman to look like when I meet him.
Rocketman is older than me. Occasionally I remember that. It’s weird, man.
You haven’t met Rockets? D:
What a blessed life you live, not having met him yet.
Holy crap look at the difference between Renner’s and Bale’s feet. O_o
Zuhair Murad Spills on Kristen Stewart’s Red Carpet Dressing Philosophy! By Krams.
Spec Ops: The Line is on sale for $7.50 on Steam. Amazing game!
Said it on Twitter, but it’s a PS+ title soon I reckon, so you may want to hold off if you can
Knew I had a source… in russian
http://www.ps3trophies.org/news/news-10276-DmC-and-Spec-Ops–The-Line-Coming-to-PAL-PS-Plus-in-August-.html
HOLY SHIT DMC AND NEW LITTLE KINGS STORY!? YES YES YES!!!!
ANYONE WHO DOESN’T HAVE IT BUY IT RIGHT NOW HNGHNRNGHNRHGH
I WAS ABOUT TO POST THIS…
POST THIEF!
TV Updates!
So, after a good month or two of watching Fringe off and on, I finished it yesterday! Very happy with the series. Sad I waited this long, but glad I didn’t have to wait for any episodes, because it had already finished. Amazing series, highly recommended. It finished up very nicely too, I thought. Pretty much exactly what I wanted.
Major spoilers, season ending, etc:
September turned out to be one of my favorite characters. The guy playing him is pretty damned cool. Was amazing to see him post-exile and human again. I never really bonded with Olivia very much, but her safety and well being concerned me only because Peter Bishop is awesome, and I wanted him to be happy. As for Walter Bishop – he’s just great, and I was happy to see him make the sacrifice to take Michael to the future. And he didn’t have to die! Which was even better.Started up Falling Skies almost immediately afterwards, and am about 3 episodes in. Not majorly impressed, but definitely intrigued. I think it has potential.
What about Astro? and Lance Reddick?Vagenda.I lost my shit.Great end to the series. It’s always good when a show gets to finish on its own terms, with all the story arcs resolved.
Was nice getting a final trip to the other universe too.Yeah, Fringe was the best. *wipes away tear*
I watched the first episode on netflix and thought it was x-files crossed with law and order.
It did start off a little like The X-Files-lite, but by the end of the season I thought it was better than The X-Files in every way! Once its own mythology gets going it was truly excellent!
Yeah!
I actually think the pilot was a pretty weak episode.
Edit: Relative to the rest of the season.
By the way, yesterday was also Bastille Day. Suck it, French Royalty.
http://www.explosm.net/comics/209/
OK, so I was going to cast my next Steam vote and considered voting for the zombie survivor one.
NOPE.
Turns out it’s The War Z, with a new name. Seriously:
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/infestation-survivor-stories
I voted for Dead Island: Riptide. Only because it’s a relatively new game with a pretty big discount. Doubt I’d buy it either way. Haha!
Yeah, I voted for it too. You can probably get it cheaper (even after the discount) elsewhere, but eh…I mostly voted to support the publisher/devs.
sneaky fuckers
I clicked one at random. Was unfortunately that one. Oh well.
I voted for it thinking it was some little indie thing.
Crap.
Yeah, I nearly did too, till I looked into it. The main reason I’m telling people about it is so they make make an informed choice and (hopefully, in my opinion) not vote for it.
Same here 🙁 I don’t want to support these guys
Woah, really? I totally voted for that one for the same reason as Freeze 😛
@scree @splicer
FYI guys as I saw you had it on your wishlist
I do? I tend to add stuff without realising ^^;;
Renamed due to copyright claims because of the World War Z film
And to try and leave behind the incredibly negative reputation it got. Hopefully unsuccessfully.
I keep going to go and buy games people are talking about (eg: Deadlight) and instead of Add To Cart it has You Already Own This Game. And I do. Just didn’t know it.
Haha! A good problem to have! 😀
As your friend, I feel compelled to tell you that when it reaches this point, you might just have enough games 😛
LIES!!!!!!
Don’t listen to the heathen, you know you follow the path of light.
I also need to get broken sword to you at some stage
Steam sales are weird, Shane. I own Sleeping Dogs on the Xbox 360 and was tempted to buy it again on the PC, just because it was $6 the other day. XD
If you send me your 360 copy, you don’t have to feel weird about it anymore 😛
#SteamSaleLogic
Haha! I didn’t end up buying it, though. That would’ve been craaaazy. 😀
Yeah. I tried to buy Witcher 2 over the weekend.
I had just bought it recently in the GOG summer sale, mostly to support CDProjekt Red for being awesome since I already have it on 360.
I had convinced myself that I would be more likely to play it on Steam, for reasons, but I was having a hard time trying to find the “add to cart” button.
Turns out I already owned Witcher 2 on Steam. Best.
Wanna know how you can into video games? Just ask me how!
Repost because weekend TAY
With everybody going crazy with sales I figured now is a good time to post. Had a look at the spare games I have keys fro from the bundles I have bought and came up with the list below. So before you spend money on purchasing a game for the sake of it, if it’s below let me know and it’s yours
Darksiders(claimed by weresmurf)Gish
Humble Introversion Bundle (darwinia, multiwinia, uplink)
Bastion(claimed by welbot)Capsized
Cave story +
Wizorb, BIT.TRIP.RUNNER, Gratuitous Space Battles, and Jamestown
Humble Indie Bundle #3(claimed by crazybuy)Frozen Synapse (claimed by Benny)
Broken Sword: Director’s Cut(claimed by freeze)Nightsky
Avadon, Cogs, Snuggle Truck, and Zen Bound 2
Swords & Soldiers
EDGE, Anomaly, and Osmos
Toki Tori(claimed by scree)World Of Goo
Windosill
Windosill is a great little game. I already have it though, but I’m jus sayin – if y’all dont, then y’all should put your hands up. In the air. Like you just dont care. Dude from Amanita Design says he likes it, so there you go.
It was okay!
The Steam Sale madness continues for another week of crazy generosity!
Frozen Synapse, if still available please.
Frondvite sent
Danke!
I’ll take windosill if it’s still available
Greetings amigos, hope errybody enjoyed their weekend.
I watched Goldfinger last night and now have an urge to play No One Lives Forever seeing as how it has gotten a bit of attention lately. Not sure where to get a copy from though..
Also, set up the avermedia game capture HD recorder with my PS3. Worked great 🙂 Manage to get some good gameplay footage of Battlefield 3 (thank you PS+), well more funny than good at my expense, still transitioning from PC to controller.
Played the trial of Dante’s Inferno which lets you play for an hour. I’m glad I played the trial before I bought it, wasn’t impressed.
Started reading A Clash of Kings too.
Annndddd thats about it for my weekend :]
Im sorry i read your handle and was like “snigger it has the word sack in it hehehehehehe”
They let me work on heavy machinery despite my lack of maturity, i should probably tell them not too.
ANYWAY sounds like a nice weekend guy, glad you had fun.
Don’t feel bad, I too snigger at funny words..
rod
XD
Only place to get NOLF is on ebay, it’s in rights limbo- Activision aren’t quite sure if they own it or not.
Ebay it is then! Yeh i read about that on here last week, its a shame, i’m sure it would be quite cheap on steam right meow.
I also watched super troopers on the weekend…
Just noticed Fallout: New Vegas is $3.74 on Steam today. This blows my mind. I played this game for 123 hours on release and someone can get that amount of gameplay for $3.74. XD
Also, so this isn’t just a Steam sales heads up post… PIKMIN 3! 12 DAYS!
PIKMIN
POK(E)MON
Piket Minsters.
http://kramsdesign.com/misc/kotaku/picketmonsters.jpg
Surly Pikachu, I choose you!
Hot damn
Steam-folks – Thinking of picking up Borderlands2. What is the best way to go around the DLC? – If it’s worth getting?
Very much so. The game is amazing as a standalone product, but DLC adds a lot to it.
Get the season pass
Get Gaige and Krieg. Esp Gaige.
only get skins if you want
Creature Slaughter Dome only grab if it’s cheap- doesn’t add much.
I started the Tiny Tina DLC last night. It’s fantastic. Haven’t played any of the others, though.
Pirate one’s OK
Torgue is the funniest
Hammerlock isn’t fantastic
Haven’t yet played TTaoDK but will soon
YES.
The season pass is great value, but above all else Tiny
Racist’sTina’s DLC is mandatory. It’s so incredibly fun and funny. Make sure you finish the main game first, it has plot spoilers.If anyone is interested, the marvel vs capcom 3 finals are on evo right now, it’s super hype.
If I wasn’t at work I’d be watching Evo. Guess I’ll check out the VODs tomorrow night.
Pfft, they arent even athletes who cares
So you know how a few days ago I was talking about how my sister got a Surface, and how I wanted to get my own tablet rather badly too? How I couldn’t decide whether to go with a Surface or to get an Atom tablet? Well MS went and dropped the RRP on the Surface by $180…
So now I’m rather torn. Should I get a 32GB Surface for $380, or I should I get one of these Asus Atom tablets for $480 instead? The main difference (other than the processor) is that the Asus has a 64gb HDD, but doesn’t have a full USB port. I think it has a micro USB. Can you get an adaptor for that so you could plug a usb stick, Xbox controller, keyboard or something in? That could be potentially a deal breaker if you can’t.
Now that I think about it, the only benefit really of having an Atom tablet is being able to run the odd desktop program, which it wouldn’t do that well anyway… Probably not really necessary when I have a laptop that can do that I guess…
UP AND AT THEM
#Helping
Wow, the Simpsons references are on fire today! I love it!
http://dx.com/p/mini-5pin-to-usb-female-otg-data-cable-black-129670
Bear in mind that Surface RT has a lot less apps to select from than an Intel-based Atom tablet. But on the other hand, the Atom processor is an underpowered piece of shit that won’t be able to run most of the normal Intel stuff.
So, weekday TAY:
On the weekend I was hunting for/looking-to-buy some junk that I can put on my work desk. I said a whole thing about not wanting to put Pokemon stuff on my desk because it would pronounce the age difference between myself and the others in the room even more. Despite that… I went and bought a Zekrom figure 😛
So I’ve settled with getting one ornament from everything that I like. Next up: a dinosaur figurine! 😀 (I wanted a Jurassic Park-style Dilophosaurus, but everything I’ve seen is gross :P)
After that… I need to figure out what else I like enough to decorate my desk with… There’s… um… Hm.
…another Pokemon figure?
Needs Reshiram to go with Zekrom. It’s only logical.
(I actually got a Genesect one too but it’s been backordered :P)
I totally read that as ‘backdoored’.
Although a Genesect would be cool. Awesome looking ‘mon, happy I picked him up when he was available.
DINORIDERS!
#AllYourProblemsSolved
Edit: Looking around my space I have a vintage style poster on cardboard backing of the winners of the Tour de france 1903 – 1934, a 2001 TDF victory poster, a 15cm plush marvin, a frog magnet with the phrase ‘I only have eyes for you, a marvin glass and a small red nose day plush dinosaur. Oh and I also have the clap.
Make of that, and how the relates to my suggestion, what you will
It’s past time for them to reissue the Dinoriders toys. 🙁
Well past. I wish I knew what happened to all mine 🙁
LEGO Minifigs!
It’s on my mind-list, but so ‘spensive! D:
Dinosaurs! Perfect for your desk. http://www.drinkstuff.com/products/product.asp?ID=4256#.UeNeHm3Anao
I’m ~10 years younger than most of the people I work with and I don’t care. So my desk has Masterpiece Soundwave and Starscream, a VF-1A Valkyrie from Macross: DYRL in Max’s colors, and the strongest Nendoroid.
@DC
WHY DID YOU UPVOTE BISH SAYING SOMEONE WAS BLESSED NOT TO MEET ME?????
monster
You hugged me twice. That haunts me to this day. 😛
Hugs leave the deepest mental scars.
I am a dangerous hugger. Almost knocked my fiances Grandma over when I tripped attempting a hug. She’s in hospital now.*
*Not related to the hug
I thought you liked my hugs 🙁
I willingly reciprocated your hug!
That should speak volumes!
VOLUMES!
bugger off hermit man you loved it.
That was my second and fourth hug for that entire year. Haha! First was Strange at Movie World, third was Princess Pipster at Hobbit meat. 😀
dude, you need to hug more. You shouldnt have a single digit hug count for the year, i think i have hugged 4 times today.
MORE HUGS
Remind me to hug you Thursday night.
Please don’t. D:
I think I’ve gotten three hugs this year. Strange at the Star Trek meat and Mrs. Freeze after one of the Freeze homestead meats. 😀 Third? Uni friend!
But I fly out the next day. You’re supposed to hug before a trip. It’s good luck.
Even better luck to sneak in a quick squeeze of the buttocks too.
But hugs are great 😛 I’ve been hugged twice in the past 12 hours! (By the same guy, in a totally manly but not really manly at all way :P)
Haha, I’m not used to people touching me. Once at uni while I was working in the multicam studio on camera, someone tried to give me a shoulder massage. They wondered why I was so tense.
…
And that’s why I hate multicam sitcoms.
😛
When I first had a gf it took a while to get used to the whole touching my neck thing. Takes a bit to get used to.
Girlfriends are a bit different, just incidental day-to-day physical contact is jarring. Haha!
Still a physical contact thing. takes trust sometimes.
Fair enough 😛 In music in year 11 we’d start each class by standing in a line and giving the person in front of us a massage. That’s probably my weirdest memory of school.
The weird stories of Tasmania are true, it seems. 😛
Cause they are shit?
That too. 😀
Friends.
Hahaha, it’s like a DC origin story. \o/
I’m on the radio, who wants to request a song?
You know what I want.
You know it’s not gonna happen.
Worst. Radio show. Ever.
Last day before moving on.
Ha, last song before he leaves.
“Farewell, dear listeners. As a final gift to you all, this is Chainsaw Gutsfuck. Enjoy.”
Edit: Satanic Disc-Jockey Subjects Listeners to Aural Sects.
That’s fraking hilarious, I might actually do that.
I won’t 😛I was young when I left home- Bob Dylan.
Any way we can stream it?
Not in the computer, sorry.
We don’t have a license to stream, money and all that jazz.
What’s the station?
5YYY in Whyalla, SA.
107.7 FM
Adelaide TAY! Well.. SATAY more appropriately.
We have more SATAYbies! Yay! Also @banderdash (though he’s OS), @wilbur, @jacksonwryan, @ WHATEVER JAMES MAC USED MY HANDLE IS CALLED THESE DAYS @hyp3rstrike and @ people I’m surely forgetting!
@ash
@lucifer9783 GOD DAMMIT I KNEW I’D FORGET SOMEONE
Although to be fair it is a long complicated handle to remember
@tigerion Tried 3 times, didn’t get it right, so gave up.
You Summoned me?
@banderdash You and Beetlejuice
ROFL. SATAYbies. Mmm Satay.
GOD DAMNIT.
and if you’re lucky (and the weather is just right) you can tune in from Adelaide
Alas, can’t quite get it from Mawson Lakes on my ph.
Serious response:
Sweet Disposition – The Temper Trap
On the playlist.
Bar Room Hero – Dropkick Murphies
OR
Rollercoaster of Love – RHCP
I’ll play the Murphys’ though we dont have Bar Room Hero
Worker’s Song?
Shipping us to Boston
We do have the Peppers though, I’ll play that one later.
M2M – Don’t Say You Love Me.
Wuh? Pokemon The First Movie soundtrack, c’mon guys.
Oh dear… first dubs, then this?
Haha, don’t listen to this guy.
Also Also, whack it up in a spotify playlist when you’re done 🙂
I have never used a spotify, I’m not sure how it works.
It has a web available thingo here: https://play.spotify.com/playlist
Basically, you can make aplaylist like you would in itunes etc then share it.
Army Of Me – Bjork
Only Bjork we’ve got is It’s Oh So Quiet.
How’s that sound?
Pass. 😛
How about some Paul Simon? Anything will do. 🙂
On it. Paul Simon is one of my faves.
Kodachrome, coming soon to a Radio
nearyouOHHHMYGAWD STRANGE! Youre a Bjork fan!? Thats so great XD
How great is she? SO great…
Now my excitement is subsiding I feel like this might be a one off request…
That happens to be my favourite Bjork song but I also am a fan. 🙂
I am totally listening to Bjork now fyi
Whyalla Wipeout.
Is that a song, or are you taking the piss, or what?
It’s a thing Craig Emerson did as a political stunt.
Both.
Google’d it, will watch at home.
Dear Steam,
can I please have Dark Souls for $12.25? I missed out on that exact deal last Friday due to me forgetting my Steam password.
Regards.
Give it time.
No, really.
Morning all!
steam sales ravaging wallet and blah blah blah. Today’s been mostly awesome for me, I got the new video card I ordered on friday afternoon and it’s shiny. I’m a little weirded out that a gtx 650 doesn’t need a four or six pin adapter considering the thing’s as big as my GT9600 that’s been chugging along for 5 damn years.
I got to play a bit of animal crossing this morning and took my first trip to The Island … the place is freaking tiny, but I managed to make about 30,000 bells from all the fish I grabbed. I got back to the mainland to see the only resident I don’t go out of my way to talk to. Dierdre … she’s either overly sarcastic or just really impatient and a bit rude. I’ve had one of my favourite residents say she wanted to move out … I used my mayoral powers and stopped her. NONE SHALL LEAVE KOLUMI VILLAGE!
Tonight I get to meet Edgar Wright and it will be awesome.
The only moderately crappy thing to me was I’ve somehow lost my earbuds, it’s a mild annoyance because they were really comfy panaphonics ones
Ain’t got nothin’ on my Sorny ones.
ME SO SORNY
My fave is Hazel, caus shes always stressin about her monobrow and whether I’m staring at it or not.
I don’t have Hazel.
At the moment I’ve got my original residents
-Snake the rabbit
-Gayle the crocodile
-Violet the gorilla
-Sprinkles the penguin
– Pudge the bear who invites herself into your damn house and then spends several minutes watching you sleep from the foot of the bed
-Vladimir the bear
And then the ones that have moved in
– Olaf the high society ant eater
– Muffy the black sheep who is also a damned night owl
– Dierdre the deer who can go die in a fire
Oh man I have Muffy, and I freakin hate her. With all my heart. Every time I see her I hit her with my net, numerous times. She just. Wont. Leave.
But she’s awesome … she gives me medicine for the numerous bee stings that I get and she didn’t freak out when I started wearing a gas mask to hide my swollen shame face
Don’t care about fighting games but think you could change your mind on the subject?
Watch all of Justin Wong’s matches from Evo 2013’s MVC3 top 8. If that doesn’t get you into fighting games, nothing will. Get hype son.
Oh man that final
so sad justin didn’t win, he really pulled through in the end. 🙁Poor Flocker. Really had to fight hard for that win but killed the hype train that was Justin’s comeback. Great top 8. Mainly, I’m just glad that Chris G didn’t win. Fuck Morrigan.SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST! SOUL FIST!CRAP I FORGOT TO BUY TURNIPS.
*rolling in bells* HAHAHA!! I NEED NO NIPS! *ouch ouch*
It’s not a case of “need”… 😀
Eh, house is nearly paid off, I can get by without them.
I should probably keep an eye out for good prices in my village for others.
Hey all.
… Ok, I have nothing to talk about. Nothing at all.
EXCEPT I GOT A HOT DATE!
… A date.
Dinner with friends.
Dinner alone.
Watching TV alone.
…. I’m just gonna ogle the ladies in the Victoria’s Secret catalogue.
….
Sears catalogue.
golden get!
OH GOD WHY IS THIS A PAGE-GET
All the deeply personal ones are.
Doo doodoo dadoo doodoo dadadadadah
I don’t deserve this kind of treatment!
*bzz*
Hi everyone.
I think I’m coming down with a bit of a cold. Hopefully I’m right by PAX time. Speaking of which, what’s happening with meet ups and stuff for that?
Spent most of the weekend playing Borderlands 2. I liked the first Borderlands, but always thought it was a bit average and could never really get into it as much as everyone else seemed to, but I’m really, really enjoying Borderlands 2. Decided to play as Gaige, and it’s awesome. Getting hundreds of stacks of Anarchy and owning everything, then throwing Death Trap into the mix and owning things even more is hell of a lot of fun. I found a gun that does decent damage, has okay range and the bullets sort of home in on my targets, so the reduced accuracy I have doesn’t mean much, which almost makes things too easy. If I’ve got enough anarchy stacks, I can kill normal things in one shot, two if they’re shielded, and take badasses down in just several shots. Of course that doesn’t mean I always use that weapon. Sometimes it’s just fun to run up and shoot somthing at close range with my shotgun and watch it explode. I’m not unstoppable though, and dying with hundreds of anarchy feels really bad.
Also watched Life of Pi for the first time. I enjoyed it. The CGI was good, but it didn’t really impress me as much so as to live up to how hyped it was. I guess it would have looked a lot better on the big screen. I really enjoyed the story though, except one thing:
Gur vfynaq guvat sryg fhcre bhg bs cynpr. V pbhyq trg na vfynaq funcrq yvxr n crefba, naq V pbhyq trg jngre gheavat gbkvp ng avtug, ohg gur jubyr zrrexng guvat naq gur gbbgu whfg sryg ernyyl fvyyl naq bhg bs cynpr gb gur erfg bs gur svyz, naq V guvax vg jbhyq unir orra orggre jvgubhg gurz (rira vs gurl jrer va gur obbx, juvpu V’z nffhzvat gurl ner nf V’ir arire ernq vg).I’m going to rot13 that spoiler, cause the spoiler button isn’t working for me and last time I tried to enter the tags manually they didn’t work.
Get the Discord skill- reduces Anarchy decay by a heap.
Also, feel free to yell DEATHTRAP, I CHOOSE YOU whenever you deploy him.
If you’re not sick at PAX then expect to be straight after.
PAX Pox“It’s the Pax…”
“They made them, the Reavers”
I’m seriously contemplating wearing at PAX one of those facemasks sick people wear on public transport in Japan. No, really. Can’t really afford to get sick at the moment! Maybe I could tell people I’m cosplaying as… a Japanese commuter? I think I need to work on that line…
spoilers are done with standard html code, with the letter “s” and pointy brackets
Okay, that worked, thanks. I was using the whole word, cause I’m an idiot.
Gaige is OP. ’nuff said.
Have you tried the DLC? If you’ve just started you’re probably underleveled for ’em, heh.
Haven’t tried any of the DLC yet. Figured I’d finish the main game before jumping into them.
Good idea, cause some of it has spoilers.
Gaige is fantastic for Normal difficulty playthrough. Anything harder than that and Anarchy is useless and Deathtrap is only useful if you give him the ability to regen your shield; then he’s useful for about 1 second before he gets anihilated by anything more than a level higher than you.
You can build Gaige as a pretty good support, but that requires other people, and I never get to play with other people.
If you’ve got it on PC, I’ll play with you sometime. Give me a chance to finish the game solo first, but after that I’m up for some group play.
I swear Rogue Legacy is getting harder. Everytime I play there’s more enemies and spikes and goddamned projectiles flying everywhere.
Yup. Eventually you’ll hit a point where you start to question how you kept dying on such easy crap. And then you’ll start NG+…
so proud of myself, steam sale HAS NOT had an impact on my wallet…
I might be crying myself to sleep every night due to all the big sales,
and the cuts on my arm will go away right? RIGHT?
BUT I’M GOING STRONG!
*twitch*
REALLYSTRONG
How was everyone’s weekend?
I know the best way to avoid steam sales.
1. have a shit computer that can’t run anything
2. don’t own a credit card
Numbers when is your birthday?
May 8th
May 3rd, WOOO MAY REPRESENT!
WHY AREN’T YOU MY FRIEND ON STEAM?!? *cries* I thought we had something.
Friiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeend…. i honestly don’t know… I WILL FIX THIS
I FIXED IT…. well by that i mean i accepted your invite, BUT WE’RE GETTING MARRIED NOW…
that’s what it means right?
I think by accepting that invite we’re already married. Pretty sure that’s how Steam works.
Does that make me mrs. Pixel The Ferret Freeze?
It shone, pale as bone
As I stood there alone
And I thought to myself how the moon,
That night, cast its light
On my heart’s true delight,
And the reef where her body was strewn.
@dc I FOUND MY OLD GRIM FANDANGO DISCS!!! w00t
Ah, Rubacava. So damn awesome. I loved the atmosphere of that place, walking around at night. The blimp in the sky. The cat races. The bee strike. The light house. Great game. :’)Want some rye? Course ya do!
That entire game man…
It even taught me balloon tricks!
well, i haven’t gotten past “dead worm” yet, BUT IT’S A START
“My scythe, I like to keep it next to where my heart used to be.”
YOU CAN’T THROW ME OUT, IMMA V.I.P
Does that stand for Very Inibriated Pianist?
oh gods the memories…
Manny and Glottis had some awesome conversations!
“Like eagles! Eagles on pogo sticks!”
I freakin’ love Glottis. Haha!
There was a high-pitched whining noise. Kinda grating, you know? I couldn’t nail it down. It only stopped when I pulled up here.
What was it? The blower?
Nah. It was Manny, screaming like a cat tied to a cruise missile.
just… just perfect :’)
Run you pigeons, it’s Robert Frost!
Hey all, since I got the Kareoke booking on Saturday during PAX, I think I should collect everyone’s contact numbers so I can attempt to organise all the TAYbies for Saturday and Sunday (And to welcome them to Melbourne of course). Please send your TAY handle and number you want me to contact you with to sdcdragonman[at]hotmail[dot]com. I won’t be there Friday though since I’m working, sadly.
I think my contact number is 4.
You got a lovely voice since last we chatted (And womanly now, what the heck happened?), but why do you keep saying “Your call cannot be connected, please check the number and try again” over and over?
I thought it would be funny…
Email sendered
HAHAHAHA! Hotmail. *ignores ones own use of hotmail*
Edit: And sent.
I have a hotmail. I only use it for spam/account emails I never want to see.
i use hotmail. im too lazy to switch
Sydney TAYbies, lemme know next time you want a meat. I can organise Karaoke at discount rates if you dude/ettes are interested.
Can i text you inappropriate pictures of me in the bath?
cause if i cant i dont want your number 😛
and why would you do that…?
flirting is fun.
Bubbles or no bubbles?
If i am having a bath there needs to be enough bubbles for a bubbles hat or there is no point in having a bath.
Yep, those are balls.
Oh Rocketman, I’ve missed your humour.
Trying not to laugh and cry at the same time at work…
You have mine already <3
Might as well mention: if people have any Steam cards that they don’t want, I’m happy to give them a home.
Sure, I’ll send them your way when I get a chance.
Cheers man!
Might as well mention: if people have any
SteamCredit cards that they don’t want, I’m happy to give them a home.fixed that one for you
…sure, I’ll take those too!
Since Cake won’t tell me how to gift them feel free to step in and explain how. I shall rewward you with cards.
I’m tempted to steal them away from him but I’d feel a little guilty 😛
I think you can’t gift them but you can trade them with others. So just click on the downward triangle next to someone’s name in the Chat box and then trade with them. They don’t have to offer anything back so it’s just a one way trade.
WHY FREEZE? WHY?!?!
I tried to contact you on Steam last night but you were offline 🙁
You used to be cool man.*
*Geddit?
?
Cakesmith is being rather tricky with wordplay let me explain
Freeze S preston has the word Freeze in it, Freeze is defined by me as changing a liquid into a solid by the lowering the temperature below the freezing point of the liquid. Now the word cool in his sentence is refering to the temperature and the coloquial use of coo to mean “fun” or “awesome”
…
*shrugs*
Unless they are crusader kings II ones, I’ll take them instead of rise
…oi.
I’m watching you…
I have Uranus. Are you interested in getting your hands on Uranus?
And I’ll take any CK2 ones that Tigs already has.
Steam really need to provide a way to filter your friend list on who doesn’t have your duplicates and which friends have duplicates of cards you don’t have
CC @tigerion, @cakesmith, @redartifice
Got doubles listed on my “trades” box: http://steamcommunity.com/id/Mawt/
I am actually collecting, so no freebies here (yet), but happy to trade.
I’m probably also happy to trade most of my singles as well. Currently I just want to get my Sale badge levelled up to level 5, so if you’ve got sale cards you don’t want, but have some other sets you want to complete, take a look through my card inventory.
Steam inventory: http://steamcommunity.com/id/Mawt/inventory/
Are you after Civ V cards? I have some doubles there and i don’t think I have “the battle” in CK2
I’ve completed the set once already. I think it’s one of the games I want to level up, so I’d by happy to trade CK2 cards for Civ V cards.
I’ll hit you up on Steam when I get home
I still don’t understand this whole trading cards thing.
That’s fine, just pass me your cards and you can stop worrying about it.
I’M SICK OF HEARING THIS MACY GRAY SOUNDING MOFO PASSENGER AND HIS LET HER GO SONG.
Sorry.
why are you sorry? Passenger isn’t a tiny asian man? Unless you are really good at disguises
Sorry.
Whoa, you said the same thing twice, with no edits! Magic!
Sorry.
OooOOOooOOOooo MAGIC!
Not your fault.
Screeius?
I knew one day scree would eventually start biting people and turn them into apologising zombies. I KNEW IT
First TAY, Then Melbourne, THEN… THE WORLD…
…
sorry!
Unplug the Jack cable from his music device and plug it into your phone, the blast his ears with Rammstein at full blast and watch his head explode
you should definitely DU it . CWHATIDID?????
NEIN
Actually, I don’t mind their Rosenrot album.
I know there’s someone here on TAY that likes the guy, but seriously this song is enough to put you off him forever.
FOREVER.
i like him.
i have heard that song at least 300 times, im not a big fan of it anymore. I understand why people wouldn’t like him. I mainly like the music not the singing.
I hadn’t heard the song until just now, but fuck this guy and his stupid fucking voice.
As if steam sales were bad enough for my wallet I figured it would be a good idea to browse ebay. Oh well, at least I now own both Conan movies.
I just watched Skyfall for the second time. Seriously amazing movie. I am really looking forward to the next Bond movie, but it will have a hard job beating Skyfall.
That’s sitting unwatched on my DVR at the moment. Hope it’s as good as people claim!
I fell out of James Bond fandom many years ago, and decided to give Casino Royale a go when it was widely touted as a ‘brand new fresh take on Bond with character development’ etc etc.
I didn’t much like Casino Royale, so stopped watching there.
I realise that makes me dead to about half of you. 😛
I’ve never been a huge Bond fan. I’m a fan of some of the movies, but the characters themselves aren’t enough to get me to watch. This new one looks pretty excellent though as a movie.
Skyfall was wonderful. i really enjoyed it. Great action movie with great story and excellent acting.
God I love Skyfall. Easily my favourite Bond movie. Javier Bardem is just too good.
All this jumping and fighting, it’s exhausting!
It’s so beautifully shot too
I have mixed feelings on Skyfall, in that I liked it, but I don’t think it’s anywhere near as good as people make it out to be. Then again, I liked Die Another Day, and everyone else seems to hate that, so what do I know?
*rocks back and forth, containing himself*
Bites off own tongue to prevent from commenting
Iactuallykindalikedittoo
Skyfall is a good Bond movie but not really a great movie.
If you’re a fan of the series, it’s fantastic. Lots of nods and winks to the past and the tone of it all just kind of works. As a Bond film.
It’s not perfect, but in my opinion it’s the definitive ‘bond’ movie.
Fucking great cinematography, as well.
Bluray is soooo purdyyyyy
I thought that about Casino Royale, and then they made Skyfall! So there you go…
Also Casino Royale is still a bit better, but only a bit. imo.
Nah.
Yeahhh. Eva Green.
Nah.
GREEN! 😀
Agree.
Casino Royale and Skyfall mean that whomever is next to take on the mantle of Bond is going to have a real uphill battle.
Oh man, yeah.
Who do you think it’ll be? Also, who do you want it to be?
I’d love Michael Fassbender as the next Bond.
Edit: Or Tom Hardy. Oh maaan.
I dunno, I think it’d be great if they got another lesser known actor, like they did with Craig at the time. I liked that. No preconceptions. But then again, Fassbender…
Kevin James.
I don’t know if I have a preference.
When they first announced Craig, I was like “nup”, but then watching CR I was like “yup”. I think he’s the closest to they way Bond is written in the books. (After making the same “nup/”yup” flip on Heath Ledger as the Joker, I’ve pretty much decided to stop doing that).
I could definitely see Hardy as a similar Bond to Craig. Not sure whether more of the same is a good thing or a bad thing. I’d probably want to see Fassbender as a silver-tongued villain (is that too close to typecasting though? Can you imagine a remake of GoldenEye with Craig/Hardy as Bond and Fassbender as Trevelyan?
Oh yeah, Fassbender could be a fantastic Bond villain. I’d take that too.
One answer, and one answer alone.
Idris Elba.
I don’t know that I’ve seen anything that indicates he’d make a good Bond. I’m happy to be proven wrong of course. He’s got a hard task beating Fassbender as my top pick though.
Have you seen Luther?
No. I take it I should though?
The wiki link is purple, so it must have come up here before.
@bdkiaf Shows him both British and with serious acting chops.
unless the pattern repeats and we get another Quantum T_T
If Craig’s third film does as well as Skyfall and CR, I think that’ll cement him as the best bond in my eyes.
*fourth. But may as well be his third amirite
Was gonna make a joke out of it, but you completed it by yourself.
I thought he wasn’t going to do anymore?
I think he signed on for two more? Not sure, actually.
Yeah *shrugs*. think he’s got himself at least one more, otherwise there’d be waaaaay more talk about it.
Brilliant film. Kept me guessing what was about to happen next. I had no idea.
Casino Royale and Skyfall are both great, but for different reasons. Very different films, imo. I put Skyfall ahead of Casino Royale, but only just. Skyfall on BD looks fucking incredible. It’s just shot so well. It’s also Daniel Craig’s Bond defined, I think.
Also Javier Bardem is the boss. He was a singularly memorable bad guy, and also channelled old school Bond villains brilliantly.
EDIT: Let us not forget Mads Mikkelssen, who is also fucking awesome.
@sughly @BDKIAF
Sam Mendes and Danial Craig confirmed for next Bond movie. \o/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2361333/Sam-Mendes-confirmed-director-James-Bond-movie-Skyfalls-success.html
Rumours it will be titled “Devil May Care” :/ http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/title-revealed-next-james-bond-movie-233800712.html
should call it “BjB: Bond, James Bond”
Yessss! \o/
Devil Day Care?
So it’s a prequel?
Daddy Day Camp was so abysmal the cast is now sent to hell. Fassbender plays Satan.
oooooomg, Sam Mendes too!? That’s so so incredible. Oh man. Gon die happy now.
October 2015! Arrrrrgh, the wait begins
I’ve read the book. Done well, I think it’ll make for a good movie. If a direct adaptation, the villain’s gonna be a pretty cool guy.
I’d like a adaptation of Carte Blanche, as well. I really liked that one.
So I haven’t been following TAY over the last few weeks. But quick questions, you’re going to PAX Melbourne?
Is there an after party, is anyone going?
official or tay after party?
Either/Or.
I’m guessing I’m unlikely to get to an official one (assuming I need to have pre-registered).
Pre party (Thursday night – bar Robot)
During party (Saturday Night – Karaoke)
Post party (Highly likely, no plans afaik)
We’re going to PAX, we’ve also got Ranbow bar Kareoke happening too. Email your number to sdcdragonman[at]hotmail[dot]com as well as your handle so I know who sent me it, not some guy named Jim 😛
Also, long time no see buddy, seen you a few times around Melbourne 🙂
Which night are you doing Karaoke?
I’ve only got tickets to Sunday for PAX.
Saturday
oh that’s all i am now… some guy named Jim? HUH? 😛
Hey at least I didn’t call you “meatbag” 🙂
I thought that was your nickname for me… I THOUGHT WHAT WE HAD WAS SPECIAL
*runs out the room crying*
Pfft…amateur.
*dives out the window crying*
show off.
*grabs skateboard and does a double-flip before wallriding out of the room… crying*
*crys out the room, crying, to go cry at crysis*
So, I wrote down the songs I played for the TAYlist, but i can’t find them, I may have left them at the station.
I will go there tomorrow, and look again to see if i can find it.
My apologies for bringing this up again but this is getting annoying.
I have no idea how it happened by for the last few days every post I make gets flagged for moderation.
I checked the guidelines and I haven’t broken any to the best of my knowledge so does anyone here know what can set this thing off.
Even this very post had to be edited to get out of moderation.
Ask @benwhite.
Hey, Ben, what’s going on with this guy?
It’s a known issue :(. Just try logging out and logging back in and editing your moderated posts in the mean time.
Wacom Cintiq 12WX, currently on $400 with one hour left, if anyone is interested:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/WACOM-Cintiq-12WX-Graphics-Tablet/171070011938?rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D163%26meid%3D9082659542635161221%26pid%3D100005%26prg%3D1088%26rk%3D3%26sd%3D171073450627%26
@shane
I was thinking about your little girl and I thought rather then buying her an iPad or something, maybe go for a leap pad? They’re specifically designed to be educational and can grow up with the child. They’re also not as expensive.
PsVita like system
http://www.bigw.com.au/toys/leapfrog/mobile-gaming-hardware/bpnBIGW_0000000318248/leapfrog-leapstergs-explorer
The iPad type system
http://www.bigw.com.au/toys/leapfrog/mobile-gaming-hardware/bpnBIGW_0000000288422/leapfrog-leappad-explorer-violet
I’m sure that if you can find it second hand it might be cheaper. Plus Big W has 6 months interest free layby on these items. The reason I thought this would be good for her is that they are all educational in some way and they are designed for kids.
That’s all good and well, but if he gets an iPad then he can steal it from her and play gamez on it himself! gAMEZ!
Thanks scree! We already have one of the old Leap pads, and she likes it. Definitely helped her pick up colours, shapes and numbers! 🙂
Just if you’re worried about having to replace it often and if certain older models aren’t going to support newer things, then I thought this would be a good idea.
I’m reminded of this
Do it Shane, then use it to get out of work.
Anyone interested in doing a Duel Shock?
@dc would love to talk about adventure games and multicam sitcoms.
Nope. It’s all been said. 😛
C’mooooooooon DC. We could talk about the Apocalypse in games?
Sounds hot
But you were my first *girlish blush*
Serious response:
If you ever get desperate I’ll give you an opinion on just about anything.
Edit disclaimer: It may not be one worth reading.
I’ll add you to my list!
Depends what it is about.
I’m open to suggestions on topics!
About Dark Souls?
If you want?
Sure! do you have a topic you’d like to discuss?
everything =D I’m not sure to be honest
Hmm, I’ll have a think and get back to you!
I’m certainly interested, whether I have anything of use to say, is another matter
Dude, if there’s something you think I’m into that you want to talk about, I’m happy to do it. Love talking about writing/stories. Obviously. Other stuff too. Whatever – if you’re keen, shoot me da emailz and I’ll reply!
“Watch A Fighter Pilot Have His Way With A Boeing 787 Dreamliner”
…no thanks.
‘Oh yeah, grab that tail rudder’
There’s just more plane to love.
There used to be more…it’s clearly had work done. I mean, it’s probably mostly plastic at this point.
I wonder if anyone will actually get that…But at least that means it’s light and you can just grab it by the stick and pull it around
Sitting about a foot away from a 55″ TV to play a game because I can’t find my glasses.
Check behind the dresser in the youngest’s room
Check the kitchen cupboard. Top left, I think.
They’re on top of your head!
You don’t wear glasses.
I’m sure there’s a joke there somewhere but it’s gone right over my head.
Wanted to go with cant see it but Rize beat me to that earlier.Wow, TAY really dies out upon hitting 5pm. I’m stuck at work for at least another hour…
i’ll keep you company… i still have 2 hours to go :\
soo…. how’s the kids?
Belligerent and numerous.
hehe oh Hooch… Hooch is crazy
Hooch IS crazy.
The actor killed someone while DUI about 10 years prior…still blows my mind that his character was called “Hooch” (alcohol) 😐wow… that’s just…. wow…
That’s… wow
Really?… but that’s… wow
I believe the term you are looking for is ‘hilarious.’
Don’t need to thank me, just helping out.
YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THINGS?
LET’S TALK ABOUT THINGS.
LIKE THE WEATHER.
IT’S QUITE MILD.
Fuck you, dickman. It’s raining.
I live in the part of Canada where we get rain 366 days a year
Oddly enough we’re right next to the part of Canada who suffered from floods
so yay!
Sounds like heaven.
I prefer rain to the sun, actually. It’s not like we need the sun to live or anything.
Swapsies?
No, with ‘stralia I get both endless rain and oh-god-my-face-is-actually-melting-from-the-sun, so I’ll politely decline.
Often in the same day.
CANBERRA! \o/
I’ll take all the rain I can get. Sun is shit. It kills people. And it’s hot. A crap bastard.
I stumbled across a really old cd the other day, and I just took a look at the contents to see what it was, and it has a ton of my old work on it! like stuff from the 90’s even!
The weirdest gem I found though, was a drawing I threw together in about 5 mins at a lan party, cos I got the shits with everyone asking me what a welbot is.
This is the hilariously terrible end result 😉
http://www.welbot-it.com/stuff/oldbot.jpg
@sughly should get a kick out of seeing this I should imagine! lol
I like your current welbot much better
haha I did give fair warning 😉
It’s a little more vicious than my current avatar, but it was also pretty much as a result of peer pressure from quake 2 DM competitors, so it wasn’t intended to be too friendly 😉
Green! \o/
Hey… that’s my line!
I was doing so well but now I find I’m constantly procrastinating.
Must. Get. Cushions. Finished.
@greenius
Someone who is in my HHA has:
Green wardrobe
Green dresser
Green Chair
Green bed
Green Pantry
Green desk
Green wall.
Want any of these?
I think green bed is the only one I don’t have so I’d like that please. Still after Exotic stuff? @sughly and I have the complete sets EXCEPT for the lamp :'(
the paper lamp?
No, “Exotic Lamp”
I haven’t seen one either
I’ve seen one in one of my HHA houses but they changed the colour so I can’t order it from them :(. Any other sets you after? Sughly has everything.
No idea.
zomg, @strange has all these things I need, but theyre all colour changed and I cant order any T_T Might try and get you to order in doubles for me at some stage strange if thats cool. Collecting minimalist and astro which you had stuff I needed for.
Also collecting rococo and have basically none of it :'(
I gave you my Astro stuff :P. I did get an Astro CD player or something recently though!
Some of my HHA houses have Rococo pieces that I can probably order for you?
@greenius Yesssss! On both things ^^ Getting astro drip fed. Love it so much though! Didnt you say you wanted astro too? I got the cupboard today
I said I might do a space room but I’ve kinda stopped playing/caring about the game so don’t worry about it :D. Still keen on the Green set though!
@cakesmith, a man of many qualities.
Or those cards are far more valuable than I realise and he just ripped me off massively.
A chance for @cakesmith, Captain of TAY, to show his quality…
Except @cakesmith isn’t as charming as David Wenham, so Denethor just keeps on sneering even harder.
Or something. I don’t even know where I was going with that.
New season of The Newsroom looks like it’s shaping up to be awesome. Season premiere was excellent.
Was going to get the extra tracks on Cytus Lambda, but psn won’t accept my card.
🙁
EDIT: Checked this morning, and the payment went through! \o/
Do you have PayPal? I think you can add funds into your PSN wallet using PayPal.
How do you do it?
I haven’t done it myself but try this
http://community.eu.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Network-Technical/PayPal-can-now-be-used-to-add-funds-to-your-PlayStation-Wallet/td-p/17255384
I assume you’re using an Australian PayPal account with the Australian PSN store? I think it has to all match up, so you can’t use your Australian PayPal to add funds into a US PSN account.
Is the voice actor for Mr Torgue the same one as Mr Satan?
MAAAAYBBEEEEEE!!!
EXXXXPPPPLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSIIIIIIIOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ready for the work desk
#nofilter #justwokeup
that is the coolest thing i have ever seen. You sir pow are a hero. So is Mikey riding that T-rex. I would watch that show.
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLE JOCKEY OF DINOSAUR RAAAW
Cowabunga indeed
A.C.TAY!
Looks like I may have fucked up seeing as everyone’s working midweek 😛
If I get my flights when I want them, I’ll be arriving on the evening of the 26th, perhaps a dinner the following night (Saturday) is doable? I’m down for a week, and would love to catch up whenever anyone’s free (my schedule’s really fucking empty, as it turns out :P)
I’d really like to go to Shogun Teppanyaki in Garema Place with you guys, if that cuisine suits everyone? As always, open to suggestions, and I’m sorry to impose like this!
(cc @shane @bdkiaf @blaghman @rize)
We will have to do a Mancave Meat at some point around then. Stay tuned. I’m up for dinner, by the way. Will make it so with the wife and kidlets.
By the way, I’m buying your dinner. Fair trade for a 3DS console 😛
Shane owes Aleph 1 chezburger @ Maccas.
(junior burger)
I don’t know what that is :S
It’s a chezburger sans cheese. You save 20c on the ticketed price of cheeseburgers.
SOLD!
Sounds good. I’m sure I can manage a night of teppanyaki 😀
Watching tv…
It feels so weird not having any sport on at the moment..
:/
Apart from the motogp replay on one…
Just finished Hotline Miami.
That game got a lot easier once I hit the hospital. The biker chapters are odd but rather simple and then that highball bonus chapter was probably the easiest of the lot just by derping around with Don Juan to take out the initial goons to get weapons to take out the rest. I wasn’t fussed about scores but I think I got a mask and weapon after every mission.Also, that music.
Awwww yeah.
I was bopping my head along with all the stuff in the final chapters. Really got me into it.
Was that the one you won off me? I can’t remember who got that one? lol.
New games to give away! WOOT! INCOMING GAMES!
I got it from a Humble Bundle at some point.
I really, really suck at Hotline Miami 😛
Been stuck on Decadence for the longest time.
@dc et al
Started watching Battlestar Galactica. Stopping at the 45 minute mark for sleep. I like it so far. Gonna have to buy more of this show tomorrow 😛
The new series or the old series? The new series is incredible.
Oh yeah. Sorry, the new one. It’s doing a pretty good job of ticking all the boxes so far. Will watch to the end of this mini for sure, see how I go then! 🙂
Oh man, such a good show. Sleep is for the weak, though.
Well, in that case, I’m must be mighty. Kids were up at 4am and wouldn’t settle down again :\
Edit: Imma leave that typo there so you can see just how mighty I am on 3 hr sleeps.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY @POWALEN! \o/
Goooooood morning Vaultdwellers and TAYbies alike! This is your host, Threesmurf!
We’ve got a wonderful lil game to give away today, FALLOUT NEW VEGAS : ULTIMATE EDITION. It’s got ALL the DLC, ALL the patches (so its actually stable… woot!) and ALL the gameplay that… (well hey, it’s a good game once you get into it :P)
I quite enjoyed this one to be honest, sure it’s not the citybound setting that Fallout 3 was, and it’s a little bit barren, but it’s got a better combat system, the characters are a bit more fleshed out, the ammo creation systems not bad and the details a tiny bit better. Also, it’s a direct sequel to Fallout 2, given it’s west coast and has some actual characters from part 2 unlike 3 which was more of a spinoff.
So, chances are some of you probably have this (infact a lot of you probably do) but a lot of you probably don’t… I really do think it’s worth playing through. It’s quite fun.
[please don’t consider this an entry, simply conversing :D]
Final Fantasy VII.
I know it’s been overrun with fanboys and so on, but I just don’t care.
My father pulled a favour with his friend to *give* me a PSX, along with this new fangled game that had only just come out which he couldn’t quite get into. FFVII.
It was gorgeous from the get-go. The atmosphere, the epic sense of struggle. The idea that I was enacting changes to peoples lives, and for the most part, in a positive sense.
I got a gameshark-esque addon for the PSX for Christmas one year, which allowed me to play burnt games, and enter cheat codes of sorts. One other thing it allowed was perusal of the FMV files. Once I’d finished FFVII, I sat down and watched every single FMV (is that even the right acronym? Iunno, you get the drift) in order, and was just in awe of how beautiful they were.
I’ve since purchased and pirated the game many times due to losing it in countless iterations. I’m somewhat apprehensive to play it again, because I *know* that I’m seeing it through some incredibly heavy rose tinting, and I’ve been spoiled by current-gen graphical capabilities, but I just don’t care. The game was a pivotal moment for me, and will forever be cherished.
It was my first step into the Final Fantasy
uni(multi?)‘verse, my first real investment in terms of time, and a story that will not leave me any time soon. I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect gaming experience. Everything about it was right for me at the time, with the added sentimentality of a hand-me-down gift. Amazing.Your turn Were(three?)smurf!
Time you won your own competition! What’s your answer to your own question?
We should have an online athletic competition for it!
Just messin witchu 😛Can we do the 400m Troll?????
The Secret of monkey Island is a game that I have loved ever since playing it.
It would be me and my brother(both age 10 at the time) sitting in front of the computer together trying to work out all these puzzles, Mum would always be somewhere in the background watching with delight as two boys who often fought(as brothers do) were working together to do something.
Also looking back it was a game that helped teach me that other peoples opinions may be right and your own might not be the best plan of attack.
There’s one story that my mum likes to relay about it, and that was that it took us a month to get past unlocking a certain jailcell. She wanted us to get past it, but she also wanted us to work it out for ourselves. She was talking to dad about it, he suggested she play past it and save a different file so she could work out the story. She didnt though, she calmly suggested the next time we were playing it, as if it had just come to her. Clever woman.
In Summary, its a game that helped me grow up abit, and helped to teach me what working together is about.
I love this!
Ok I was asked for mine. Lets get a bit personal.
Anything on the Atari 2600. A little general but theres a reason for that, possibly TANK (I think thats the name).
As a kid the whole family used to crowd around the tv in the early 80s, we were that hokey photo on the box, the family sharing the controller etc. Very happy times. We would play for an hour or two sharing turns. We were Full House, we were Family Ties, we were the best family, we were so close. Some of my best memories are playing that atari and specifically TANK with my family.
I was 6 then and remember it crystal clear. Im 35 now. My older sister is an abusive drug addict who prefers Meth to raising her 3 sons, who my parents and I have raised these last five years since she and her piece of shit bf overdosed infront of them, my brother who lives in the USA now after crossing and ripping off too many locals in Australia (sigh long story, bikies…) thankfully my younger sister and I have a good relationship. Parental one varies week to week.
Its not me whining, Im content with my life, but those atari games sure remind me of a much better, much easier life.
@gingerchris86 wins!
@mythamphetamine if you don’t have either FTL or The Binding of Isaac, I’m offering you one or the other for 2nd place 🙂 the offers there. If you haven’t msged me by midday tomorrow, I’ll take that as a no.
Add me on Steam to collect your prize, the names Weresmurf.
Thanks Weresmurf, but they belong to better homes than I can provide for them!
Mucho gracias, mi amigo!
No worries 🙂 very kind of you 🙂
Thanks matey added 🙂
Just saw 🙂 I’ll send it to you now 🙂
Falling Skies keeps delivering the drama. Just 3 episodes left before season 3 ends. Hopefully the creators have an ending for the whole series just in case it gets cancelled. You never know with TV,
Also I never knew much about Noah Wyle before but he fits the character of Tom Mason(one of the main falling skies characters) perfectly.
i was pleasantly surprised by Falling Skies, my sister kept telling me to watch it for ages, been really enjoying it, never liked Noah Wyle much before this but he does really well.
I just started it the other day after finishing Fringe. Only 6 or 7 episodes into first season, but it’s growing on me. Starts off slowly, but feels like it’s gaining momentum.
Doug Jones is fantastic this season as Cochise, loving the new aliens sooooo much 😀
AW YISS GONNA GET DEM CLUB NINTENDO ELITE AWARDS
LIKE A CALENDAR
OR MAJORA’S MASK OST
AWW YISS GONNA GET ME SOME SHOELACES AND POST-IT NOTES
U JELLZ?
MAD JELLY BRO
MAD JELLY
Lucky you. Our Club Nintendo offers shoelaces and face towels.
Good morning fronds!
It is Nob, live from Gold Coast Airport!
Got some time to kill while I wait for plane boarding time. (Murderer!)
So, how bout that airline food
AmIRightYouKnowImRight!
*crickets*
Hello? is this thing on? and don’t even get me started on TV dinners.
*crickets stop cherping due to awkwardness*
*canned laughter*
*toilet flush*
*WOOOOOO*
hi, you’re looking bored :P, where are you headed? PAX? What’s Gold Coast Airport like? I’ve never been there. I’d imagine it’d be airporty, although Airports seem to be some kind of Bastion for old Arcade cabinets, I’ve only been to about 5 or 6 different ones so I’m generalising but i do usually find at least one or 2 tucked into some little duty free shop, I wonder why that is, maybe all arcade cabinets fly to some isolated “Island of Forgotten Wonders” and the ones that are at the airport are the ones that missed the flight. Brisbane Airport used to have the Simpsons 4 player arcade game that was fun. God speed and safe flights
Gold Coast Airport is actually really good. Easier to get to and to navigate around in. Also, flights are generally cheaper from Gold Coast.
Although that’s probably because its like 1/2 the size of Brisbane airport.
Interesting, are flights much cheaper from there? would it be worth travelling down there to catch a flight, public tpt to the GC can be spensive, might be worth going from Brisbane, probably depends entirely on the ticket price i guess, they vary so much it’s silly, i book flights for people here at work, sometimes they’re like 3 times the price they were the previous week. I wonder why flights vary so much, i understand depending on the origin and final destination it could affect price but sometimes there’s such a tremendous variation one day to the next, they need to regulate it better. (am not informed enough to have made that statement as there’s probably a lot i have no idea about when factoring costs, sorry I’m rambling, I’m ridiculously tired
I’m not talking to you because you didn’t respond to multiple invitations to have dinner at my house. 😛
Yeaahhh! Boo hiss!
(I actually just wanted more houses for my Animal Crossing happy homes)
Happy Birfington day @jimu :D.
Happy Jimu day @Jimu!
BAPPY HIRTHDAY @JIMU
Happy birthday @Jimu.
If I could think of something funny to say it would totally go here!
JIMJIIIIIM!! Happy Birthdaaaaaaaay! ^^
JIMU! Happy birthday \o/
Happy Birthday Emperor @jimu! Hope your day is awesome. 😀
JIMDAY JIMDAY GOTTA PLAY GAEMS ON JIMDAY
Happy birthday @jimu
also hahah gutsoup’s gonna get so much notifications.
ha, that’s ok i haven’t had a notification in like a week. I’ve sorta moved to lurker status because ….. reasons 😛
You were notified numerous times by me…and you still don’t want to meet me. :'(
😛
i did reply to the invite and apologised i wouldn’t make it. I tagged you in the post 🙁 sorry
Happy Birthday @jimu! 😀
Happy birthday @jimu!
Hippo Birdy Two Ewes @jimu
Happy birthday, Jimu! So close to your kids birthday too? Birthday pals!
It sucks, all the attention is on him D:
Haha! My birthday is three days before my mum’s birthday. Does that mean she resents me too? 😛
I blame God *shakes fist*
My boy can do no wrong! 😛
Happii birfudaiii @jimu!!!!!! 😀
Happy day of birthday @jimu!
I swear, if I have to see the trailer for The Heat before one more youtube video…
Adblock!
\o/
Adblock also stops the ‘you must stop and watch this video before you can watch the one you clicked on’ thing too..?
It must, because people are always complaining about ads before YouTube videos but I never get them.
Wha! Im so confused now…
Ah.
Well, no.
Sorry.
:'(
You should watch this. I don’t monetise my videos.
You’ll go and see The Heat?
Gawwwwwwwd no
I caught a bit of it the other day, my Mum was watching it when I went over, and it didn’t look that bad. I laughed at least twice in the 10 minutes I watched.
No. NO. No no no no. NO!
You know you’re allowed to like popular things, right? 😛
Seriously though, Melissa McCarthy is a fantastic comedic actress. I assume that she carries this movie based on what I saw.
NO!!
…yeah she is pretty funny. But Sandra Bullock doing comedy is like the worst combination of anything anywhere and should be killed with a thousand fires. And even then, the trailer at least makes it look like every joke is aimed around the I dont play by rules and dont care vs I’m uptight but will learn lessons about relaxing a bit. Ergh.
Well, yeah, it’s a buddy cop movie. That’s exactly how they work.
@bdkiaf yeah but do we really need another? Do we?
This looks like a pretty good Game
So here’s what I’ve gotten in the Steam Sale so far:
I think I’m doing pretty well 😛
I’m rather tempted to get Organ Trail though…
What’s your Steam ID Lamb-a-rang?
Im daniel12582 ADD MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
DANEEDIUS!
Dishonored is $15 on Steam…
*sigh*
It’s 10 bucks for the ‘muricans. I’m not a fan of our 50% mark-up.
That’s the reason I didn’t get it.
Plus I still day sex:HR to play, which should scratch the same itch
Morning everybody, reposting as PAX is fast approaching. I’m making an attempt at trying to get all the TAYbies phone numbers so I can help in making our gathering happen more smoothly for Saturday and Sunday (I’m working Friday sadly), and for kareoke that’s happening on the Saturday night. Please can you send me your handle and mobile number to sdcdragonman[at]hotmail[dot]com when you can. My plan is either we all meet up at flinders street station so we can hop on the train as a group or we meet up at the entrance to PAX, one of the two 🙂
Guys, Kate Miller-Heidke responded to me calling her “fucking legit.”
This feels weird. Twitter has broken some invisible barrier.
Editing out jerky original comment, and replacing with some vague comment about how amazing her singing voice is.
Nah.
Dammit DC! 😛
STOP STEALING MY LINES!
😀
I know exactly what that feels like… I managed to get into a fair bit of conversation with Clare Bowditch a few years ago, that eventually got me on stage with her. Twitter is a great tool for connecting with people, any people.
Was her response “I know what BDKIAF stands for. -block, delete-“
Nah, she was all “I know what BDKIAF stands for. -wiiiiiink-“
Is my favourite thing about it! Made friends with lots of indie devs for example purely by twitter, and them seeing kramsdesign as a link on my twitters info. Love it.
I’m constantly amazed at how it sort of just… works, sometimes.
We’re all on the same level at some point here, and I think that’s pretty fucking rad.
My phone has decided to brick itself.
Seriously, I left it on (it’s always on) and sitting on the bed. When I came back, it was unresponsive. I assumed the battery was dead although feared the worst when I plugged it in and the little charging symbol didn’t come on. I’ve left it “charging” overnight and it’s still dead.
It upsets me merely because it’s exactly 2 weeks off making 2 years old and I hate the concept of an overly disposable society. (Plus I still have an old apple iPhone 3 lying around somewhere that I’m pretty sure still works…sometimes, unlike this, which isn’t working at all. The “sometimes” is why I replaced the iPhone.)
So. TAY. Suggest to me some amazing magic to fix my phone. Or suggest a new phone to me. I would be buying it outright and so understand that it gets pricey to do that, but I do have savings for this kind of thing to happen (unfortunately).
What model phone is it?
Samsung Galaxy S2.
Noooo thats my phone! Dont tell me that! D:
My friend’s S2 crashes every time she types the letter “d”. She’s a doctor.
Should’ve got a Nokia.
My advice is get a Nokia.
Looks like I’ve become that guy… sorry.Man I really wanted the fancy new Nokia too but this phone unfortunately just hasn’t held out. 🙁
Nokia still make phones? Oh man, I meant one of those decade-old ones that you can drop onto wet concrete from a great height and have them survive.
(Incidentally I tested this while in Melbourne with my Nokia, in front of a dozen people. It survived without taking any damage and they all gasped. Amazing how fast the world has changed that such things as hardy phones aren’t even in living memory :P)
I agree with Shane. Get a Nokia!
I’m fine with being that guy. I love bragging about how awesome my 808 is 😛
Though not a Nokia with Windows. They don’t count, they’re just pretend Nokias.
I think you’re confusing Nokias with houses. And I think houses should have windows. Because Vitamin D.
One trick I could think of is take out the battery for 5 minutes, then try putting it back in, or try that battery in another phone (if a compatible phone is around)… that should at least give you some answer as to where the fault is…
Oh man, SOS’s did the exact same thing.
Boo-urns Galaxy.
Balls.
Was she able to fix it?
Not really.
It’d sometimes work but most of the time it’d freeze after a few minutes. She thought it was because she updated Android, so if you’ve done the same maybe try rolling it back a version?
I can’t even start it up at the moment, so rolling back is a bit optimistic.
Lame-sauce.
She just got the new Xperia and is pretty happy with it.
I’m iPhone all the way, so… get an iPhone?
I recently picked up a HTC One, which I found to be the awesomeness of Android, coupled with the iPhone level of design and build quality… that might sound like an ad for HTC, but seriously, this thing is about as beautiful as an electronic device can be.
At the time, I picked it up for just on $700, but that was almost 3 months ago, so I imagine they’re a bit cheaper than that now.
Anyone traded in games to EB before? I have launch + pre-2007 360 games that I want to offload before the next generation and I’m wondering if they take old games or not?
They might give you like $2 for each game that old, if they even take them. This is only going by my experience
I guess $2 is alright, it’s not like someone is going to buy out of date sports games off me. I’ll most likely be trading them in towards a $13 preowned game.
They will take most if not all games
That’s good to hear, I’ll make a trip to EB in couple of hours to find out.
If they’re that old then it’s probably not worth it.
You’d be better off selling them at the markets, honestly.
I have no experience with markets, care to elaborate on the process?
You rock up at like 5am, pay the $15 or so, set up your table-o-wares and people poke through your belongings and give you coin for it.
In my experience, if you’ve got a tonne of video games and other electronics, you’ll sell almost all of it. People, especially kids, are way more attracted to that kind of stuff over second hand books and jars of preserves.
Not sure how’d you go about finding where there’s a market near you, but I’m sure Greg O. Ogle could hep you out.
Ah I see, I’ve only been to the Queen Victoria Market so that’s the only one I know exists, but I’ve only got 5-7 games to get rid of, I like keeping my games hence why I haven’t traded in before haha
yeah Sughly is right they’ll pretty much take anything, they just give you next to nothing for it. When i was younger and poorer i traded a lot of stuff for not nearly enough money *regret*
As long as they take it for a few dollars, I doubt anyone is going to buy NBA 06 and 2K7 off me lol
Sitting around waiting for @shane’s massive package….
That’s what…
The postman said, that it’d be delivered soon. What did you expect would be here?Something something won’t fit in your slot mumbles incoherently
‘There’s so many slots you won’t know where to begin!’
Hey check it out, this lady said there’s going to be lots of sluts in Vegas!
@Shane
BATTLESTAR
Fun Story: When I lived in a residential college, we used to take over the loungeroom for Battlestar on TV. A friend of mine was dating this girl who was totally not right for him, and at one point she gave him an ultimatum: spend time with her or watch Battlestar and it’d be over.
He took one look at her, looked at the TV… And sat down and watched the TV. Because Battlestar.Whenever I feel like I’m too cynical or grumpy, I just go and read Gizmodo comments. I ain’t got shit on those guys.
Holy shitballs. This periodically enters my head randomly every few months and haunts me for days at a time.
It’s so painful, but so awesome at the same time.
OMG PAX
Last day today to get things prepped. Gotta throw a bit of paint on my boots, re-solder a switch, possibly paint a new set of gloves, go find myself a cigar, book myself a plane ticket, get a bunch of stuff together to throw into a bag… QUICK, WHAT AM I FORGETTING?
Your PAX pass..?
SHIT
TACOS
Book a plane ticket??
Well I’m sure not going to walk from Sydney to Melbourne.
Not this time, at least.
But you could paint your boots with the dust of the road, and skip the whole painting step now. So in that sense, it’ll save you a bunch of time.
UNDERWEAR
3DS
CARNATION
No 3DS. It’s still sitting at NAL, bricked 🙁
🙁
On the plus side, you now have a +5 to your chance of actually seeing something at PAX 😛
Haha, yeah. I’m honestly a little relieved to be stuck without it. Even though at the same time I can’t stand the thought to be missing out on all those StreetPasses. But at least I don’t have to spend the whole day churning through them all. But then ALL THOSE STREETPASSES.
Focus on the good thing. The hundreds of dollars you’ve spent to get in, and the cool shit you get to see with NO DISTRACTIONS!
Pro-tip for next PAX: if you were going to PAX for Streetpasses, you could just stand outside the main entrance with your 3DS for free! \o/
VITA/3DS
@jimu
Happy Birthday! (I think)
It’s Birthday Central around here lately!
Happy Birthday Jimu!
Oh man, so I haven’t visited TAY in a hell of a long time… How is everyone? Also, who’s attending PAX? I’m flying into Tullamarine around 8am Thursday morning.
myself, the wifey and thanks to @izzy , my best mate also!
Hey man, long time no… read!
Most of TAY will be at PAX. Shit’s gonna be huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge.
Not me, though. I won’t be there.
You’re letting the team down Shane, why are you letting the team down?
It’s what I do, man. It’s what I do.
yei! just got an email from myself offering me a 180pk of viagra for $178!!! THE SAVINGS!!!! \o/
That’s less than a dollar a boner. VALUE
if i act now, i get a second pack for free!!!
TWO BONERS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE!!!!! \o/
Boner time!
That’s some stiff competition to my regular supplier. They’d be hard up to match that price.
…what am I saying? I mean, I don’t know dick about Viagra. I’d better bone up before I make any more of a knob of myself.
I’m gonna need you to PM me for a…business proposal…
Morning all,
Last night was fun. I went to see Shaun of the Dead with my housemate and it was awesome seeing a 35mm print of it in a packed theatre with all likeminded peeps. Many a laugh was had. After the movie there was a Q&A and the director/writer, Edgar Wright which is enough to make me fangirl because he’s awesome … but after about 15 minutes, Nick Frost came out and everyone went nuts and then once he started taking questions, there was a blonde thing that appeared from the side of the stage and nobody knew what to do … it was Simon Pegg. More applause and fun questions.
If was a good night and I think I’ve just found a new thing to do.
Awwww, luckyyyy
I would’ve sacrificed my first born to had been there 😐 ( I don’t have kids )
<——– All the Jellys
How’d you get into that?
I was on the mailing list for the theatre it was on and I was scrolling through their upcoming shows and saw shaun of the dead, decided to look into it more and saw they were doing a q&a with Edgar Wright afterwards … simple reason, I got lucky
Wow, you are a lucky man, I’m all the Jellys whilst being very happy for you. nice one.
*takes off to go sign up to all the mailing lists ever*
well, the company that put it on is called popcorntaxi
So that should make it easier
Just finished Pikmin 2 with all the treasures 😀
@dc @gutsoup @sughly (and other Pikmin friends!) did you struggle with the caves? Some of them are such bullshit :/. SO MANY RESETS!
I really hope they do Pikmin 3 well. I finished Pikmin in about 10 hours, same with Pikmin 2 but going for 100% bumped it up to 22 hours or so. The time limit in Pikmin made the game really short and really limits the amount of things you can do and I’m worried 3 will do the same 🙁
Pikmin 3 hype! 😀
PS. Y U NO PLAY PIKMIN 2 SUGS?!
Apparently Pikmin 3 is 12ish hours. I don’t think that was a 100% run though (and I only read this from one guy :P)
I absolutely hated the caves, I know it extended playtime but i don’t think it added much except frustration. If they include them in 3 i hope they make them more fun and less annoying. Other than that though i thought everthing else was awesome.
I hope there’s no caves at all. Give me the hand crafted level design any day. 😀
yup I’m with you, I’d prefer they weren’t there at all but I’m imagining they will make a return, also due to the stupid “real world” I’ll probably have to wait a few months to get 3 now.
:'(
i know right 🙁 .
I’m being forced into getting my licence and buying a car or I’ll lose my job,
Don’t know why driving terrifies me but it does, must be all those years of playing Mario Kart and Burnout games, I’ll scare the instructor by asking things like, what is brakes? where’s the drift button?
Why aren’t there any item boxes? How do i start crash mode?
I seriously think I will damage people or property if i get a licence. on the plus side if i’m not totally shite i can lift people places, after they sign some kind of waiver
Driving scares me too. D:
You have to get your licence and buy a car to keep a job you already have? How does that work?
it’s actually about the 5th job that’s done it to me, i just abandon ship before they force me usually. Originally it was a safety thing cause i worked in the bush in teams of 2 so if someone got injured the other could drive (I worked for 4 companies like that, really they should never have hired me but i have really good knowledge in the field). Currently I’m working in a place that would take me about 2 hours travel on public transport each way but I’ve been getting a lift with someone that lives near me but they’re about to move so I lose my lift 🙁 and I’m not up for 4 hours a day of walking / public transport).
Oh i might also mention that the first time i got behind the wheel of a car i ploughed into a tree, luckily it wasn’t very big so i knocked it down and damaged the underside of the car. I’ve been driving since then but I’m pretty much a nervous wreck.
I wouldn’t care if they were optional but we were forced to do them and ugh! 🙁
Caus animal crossing T_T
WORST CO-PLAYWHATEVER BUDDY!
Deus Ex: Human Revolution is $3.74 on Steam! The complete edition is $5.24. (There’s a separate Director’s Cut coming out soon probably for full retail, just so you know. Might be worth waiting if you want the fixed boss fights.)
DC, I own this game on 360, and haven’t played it yet. Will this additional fixed-boss content be made available to me, or will I have to purchase it again? I am too lazy to look this up for myself, even though it would have taken less time than writing out this question. Thanks for your time. Sincerely, your pal and mine, Shane.
Pretty sure it won’t be DLC, you’ll have to buy the Director’s Cut separately. The good news is the core game is still pretty freakin’ amazing and well worth playing even with the screwy boss fights.
Yeah, yeah, it’s on my to-do list. 😛
I actually played the first level and a bit way back when, and decided to go for a stealth playthrough. Then lost a shiteload of progress because I forgot to save. Damn these modern games. 😛
I appreciated the fact you were responsible for saving and it didn’t check point. I like saving on my own terms, damn it. 😛
Yeah, I know. It’s a good thing. I’m just terrible at it these days. After sinking nearly 80 hours into Dark Souls and a further 40 into Demon’s Souls, which save every 1.5 seconds whether you want it to or not…
Haha! Oh yeah, good point. I’ve always been conditioned to save often from cruel, cruel adventure games! XD
I really need to replay that- such a great game, and a great soundtrack too!
The secret is out. JK Rowling is writing under pseudonyms.
Don’t tell anyone, but she wrote this book. Shhh, it’s a secret. Don’t let your journalist friends know. She doesn’t want to make a fuss, and she definitely doesn’t want the extra sales her name would bring.
In all seriousness, if Robert Galbraith is actually a real person, his agent is a goddamned genius. (I choose to believe he is, no matter what JK says, until someone shows me a photograph proving that he doesn’t exist)
I don’t understand why anyone cares. Haven’t authors always written under pseudonyms? I don’t think this is a major issue.
It’s not an issue. I’m just trying to spin it in a humorous way to drive sales for my book \o/
In terms of wider society, I think it’s being widely recognised as a publicity stunt to garner favourable reviews for a ‘first-time writer’ and then drive mad sales by ‘leaking’ the author’s name ‘accidentally’.
Oh no, I wasn’t targeting that at your post, just generally. It’s really strange that this is being treated as a big deal.
Also the whole pseudonym thing is used from time-to-time to escape the expectations of the fan base.
I guarantee you that’s what happened here. Can you imagine the immense pressure that would come with being J.K. Rowling?
Edit: Writing this book would have been the first time in a very long time she would have been free to create without that pressure and expectation.
Stephen King/Richard Bachman too, I guess!
Oh yeah. I was going to post this in the morning but I guess I forgot 😀
Final Fantasy VII is $8.40 on GMG using a 30% off code
GMG30-LY2G6-UKDYY
@phlaiman – I think it was on your sale wishlist? 😀
Lemme have your babius, Greenius.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1435699754/cellar-darling-anna-murphys-first-solo-album
I’m having trouble deciding which tier to go with. Do I want to keep it simple with a postcard or t-shirt, or get a personalised painting or cover song? Hmmmm…..
Also, just so you guys are aware, if this by any chance looks in danger of not being funded then I’ll be demanding everyone back it. 😛
The personalised stuff is super cheap for Kickstarter rewards! I’d be backing at one of the higher levels for sure.
Yeah, I’m thinking a painting would decorate my sewing room nicely.
If by any chance people check this out, don’t watch the video, it’s silly. But definitely check out the songs, they’re pretty great. (Oh, and they’re not metal. 😛 )
I listened to one and it sounded great. And you know how mellow most of my music tastes are!
I think even @sughly would like some of her stuff and we all know how difficult he is to please! 😛
So Lovelornia wasn’t what I thought it was going to be at all. Really cool stuff.
Welp, I’m outta here…
Guys
GUYS
Crusader Kings 2 is one of the Flash Sales! DO IT!
Is this the one with the GoT mod?
Yep!
No.
@redartifice @lucifer9783 @strange @bdkiaf @freezespreston @benny
TAY-only TAYlist for Monday’s suggestions.
Added my own pick for a Dropkick Murphy’s song as well as Shipping up to Boston.
hope this link works: http://spoti.fi/16Fq2Jd/
Link’s a little broke, but the one from your twitter worked, which is weird
This should work https://play.spotify.com/user/1255130935/playlist/02BK3vUVEkJo6ZuQkG5ia8?play=true&utm_source=open.spotify.com&utm_medium=open
No Spotify at work. It’s not blocked, it just never connects 🙁
But Rdio works fine for some reason.
Interesting choice.
Wrote a thing over on Potaku about how Valve is very, very clever:
http://potaku.com/2013/07/16/red-rants-a-round-of-capitalist-applause-for-valve/
The Red rants about capitalism.
Way to break out from stereotypes.
😛shh, they haven’t suspected I’m on the inside trying to bring the system down yetGreat article.
Thanks!
Awesome stuff.
Weird coincidence. Psychology of Video Games put up a post on this very subject last night. Yours is more thorough and better written, though.
So you win.
Just in case you thought it was a competition.
If you didn’t… then I guess you didn’t win, but that would only be because there was no competition to win.
Saw that, it’s just hit the Kotaku main page too. I’d go there and link it, but that’s a bit too egotistical even for me
Perhaps I was on to something 🙂
KOTAKU AND POTAKU ARE IN DIRECT COMPETITION WITH EACH OTHER!
EVERYBODY PICK A SIDE. NO FRATERNISING.
Mark will come back and we’ll be sitting in opposing pillow forts with nerf guns
Pfft, ego. You can’t be worried about that stuff. Just get in there and start telling people how good
your articleThe Lesser Evil is.While we’re on the Potaku Pimping Train, I wanted to bring this to TAY’s attention. It’s a short series of articles by someone who to my knowledge has no connection to TAY. (I am so sorry if you’re actually reading this and I’m completely wrong in fact now I’m completely terrified you are a TAYbie and I’ve just never known all this time) It’s all about trying to profit of trading cards on Steam and particularly with the sale on now it’s an interesting experiment.
Now back to sorting Animal Crossing screenshots.
Why Pants, didn’t you know? The identity of your mystery poster is…
…actually, it might be funny to keep it secret a while longer.Tune in for the dramatic conclusion…NEXT WEEK!
…year.
Oh man, Deadlight is heaps of fun, but the writing is worse than terrible. Haha!
My game pad is all screwy with it. It says to press X but I have to press B and have to hold the stick down to climb up ladders. There doesn’t seem to be a way to change it either.
No other game does that. Just Deadlight. Everything else works flawlessly.
That’s odd. I’m just using keyboard/mouse. Works all right.
Stuff that. Hate using a keyboard and mouse for anything. So uncomfortable. Much prefer kicking back with my feet up on the desk, leaning into the chair with a controller in my hands.
Yeah, this game seems like it’d be better with a controller dealy, but it won’t work on my laptop alas.
I’m finding that with Hotline Miami. Might have to pick up a gamepad at PAX
How confusing is Hotline Miami with moose & key pad?
Tonnes is the answer.
Got through the first two chapters OK, but I was starting to get a WASD claw and couldn’t do the twitchy parts well. Also, the moose kept headbutting me because it wanted to go outside.
Good game though
It works amazingly well with the Vita. Even much better than the PS3 version.
Right?
Love it on Vita.
But the music sounds amazing through my speakers on PS3.
Dark Souls 2 news for this week:
http://www.vg247.com/2013/07/04/dark-souls-2-accessible-my-bleeding-aunt/
Interesting run through of hands-on experience.
Also, other Dark Souls 2 news this week suggests that
there will be a greater focus upon exploration, with no mandate to do things in a certain order (like ringing the bells, obtaining the Lordvessel, etc in Dark Souls). Will be interested to see if/how this affects the lore/story!Bajo hands on:
http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2013/06/24/3788351.htm
Oh cool. Didn’t know the little summoned guys from the Mirror Knight are going to be human summons. The Old Monk was one of my favourite bosses because of that. Never knew what to expect.
Yeah… I was too late to the Demon’s Souls party to be involved with that. I guess no one was around when I reached that stage, so just got a summoned NPC to fight 😛
It could get annoying. They’d usually be waiting to the side of the door to get a backstab as you walked in. You had to be holding back and block as you went through to avoid it.
Ugh. I prefer the bow-politely-then-charge-etiquette of Dark Souls
Re: second spoiler, this is the link
Hey Shane!
Hey man, what’s the good word?
Dark Souls?
That’s two words, but I’ll pay it because you said what you thought I wanted to hear 🙂
People keep confusing accessible with easy. They just mean they’ll be making the systems a little less esoteric and much more clear on how they work.
Yep. I think it’s just about cleared up in everyone’s mind now… but the distinction still gets mentioned in every article about the game, as if it was some sort of mistake or trauma that we can’t let go 😛
The way he’s using the word accessible suggests otherwise.
True… I think I’m gonna stop making sweeping statements about what people know. I always overestimate them.
Well, at least you and I know the truth of the matter.
No thank you.
Dead to me.
To be honest, I’m surprised this is what did it.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com
What’s this? Never heard of it…
Lucky.
My Bamboo seems to be on it’s last legs…
🙁
Good thing it’s a renewable resource, then.
Silly, bamboo has stalks, not legs.
I have walked over 4 kilometres today. Not bad for a couch potato.
Nice work, man.
But I do feel that potatoes are unfairly maligned as lazy. This video proves otherwise.
Also with a small piece of copper and zinc (was it zinc i think my memory fails me) and a couple of wires you can power a small lightbulb, definately not a lazy root 😛
Speaking as a lazy root myself, I feel I should speak out on behalf of potatoes 😀
Bear McCreary is writing the score for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D….
This is good news. 😀
Ooooooo. That’s exciting. I’m very keen for this series.
Me too. The S.H.I.E.L.D. non-superheroes stuff was my favourite part of Avengers.
Mate. Tom Hiddleston is the best part of The Avengers.
Or Hulk.
Or Hulk smashing Loki. ‘Puny God!!!!!’
Or Robert Downey Jr.
Hell, even Cap had some great moments
That Joss Whedon does alright.
i was shocked at how much i didn’t hate Cap’n ‘merica , I even enjoyed the Cap’n ‘merica movie O_o
Fun Fact;
Noticed that Tony Stark is eating in pretty much every scene he is out of the suit, even offering it to the other actors as well?
That was entirely unscripted, RDJ was hiding food at random spots in the sets, the crew tried to find it all, but they just gave up in the end and let him do whatever
Gotta love it when customers come up and throw some shoes on the counter and tell you that you’re going to redo the heels and soles for $20 in 15 mins then leave before you can even start to explain its $60 and will take at least an hour.
Then they get upset when they return and start carrying on about calling your boss and having your job.
Ergh, people. Hermit job for life yo! *goes back to animal crossing* *will probably be out of a job soon*
Just jokinnnnn, I’ve been doing a super hard animation all day… but its still nowhere near completion :'(I just remembered that when I was at the Gallery of Modern Art seeing their ‘Quilts’ exhibition on Saturday one of the quilts had a few Trollfaces on it. It was made in the 1800’s.
Back when they had bridges instead of the internet
I traded in my games for a preowned Nier, which was basically in new condition, been looking for that game for ages. Plus I got $2.50 gift card! Score! Better not spend it all at once.
Woot! Don’t rush through the game. Take your time with it, and don’t get put off by how slow it seems at the start 😛
Will do! I do love my JRPGs 😀
I gave in, i spend $10 on steam \o/
Got my self Fallout 3 and New Vegas… why? because Fallout.
How is everyones day? I was busy, but it’s now quitened down, so that nice… only 4 hours to go \o/
OPTIMISM \o/
…
\o/
So apparently our “video and board games themed ball party” is on this Saturday. I have no idea what to go as, and don’t exactly have much time to do anything :S
I think I’ll put a piece of cardboard around my head and go as a Guess Who character.
Whack on a Hoodie and say you’re a Hunter from L4D, Before the infection
Go as yourself, say you’re your character from Second Life.
This animation is haaaaaaardddddd!! Why’d I have to go and add a… (only slight spoiler)
dragon that can fly… to the game T_T
That must be hard to animate! D:
Believe it. Thinking I might just go easy on the bokeh, I dunno… gotta lower the workload somewhere.
Needs more Tesselating Internal Trigonometry Space and Automatic Surface Scattering.
T_T
SHITSTORM is…
Postcards from Italy by Beirut
Dont imagine this will be many peoples cups of teas, but I love it. Especially the change up at around 2:02, then the big trumpet (trombone?) bit that kicks in at 2:54. Covered by Flo and the Mo, so, you know… she likes it!
Ah yes, page get! Now you have to listen, muahaha
Just listened to it. Amazing song. Also looked at the wikipedia page for the album, the vocalist plays a lot of instruments. It’s actually a flugelhorn that kicks in at 2:54. Thanks for recommending it.
Yah he’s a super talented lad! Works with a lot of artists on their albums too, always hear him popping up as a backing vocalist here and there ^^ Glad you liked it!
Flugelhorn! XD Sounds pretty good though
I dun like it. Soz.Thats cool man. Thats cool. *slowly slides a whetstone down the edge of a knife*
Speaking of Joss Whedon, not much talk in here on his new film, Much ado about nothing. To be fair it looks a bit weird, but, I dunno… could be good? I thought y’all were like Whedon fanboys! Shakespeare not good enough huh? HUH!?
Hehe, shakesphere. Was that it? Dont even remember, ye jokes of old
I was considering seeing that on the weekend actually. Decided that Pacific Rim probably needed a big screen more than Much Ado About Nothing though.
True story.
Did you go VMax?
Just regular Dendy cinema. Would be a great movie to see at IMAX though. We don’t have any of that fancy stuff in Canberra.
After seeing it at VMax I can confirm its pretty amazeballs especially sitting further forward and getting them towering over you.
No explosions.
Actually, I’ll prob wait til it’s on DVD.
Avengers was okay, I’m probably the only one here that thinks that. Firefly was his best. Dude looks like a fat version of Ron Howard.
OH GAWD! That Discovery shirt on the right… http://www.theyetee.com/
But Olimar should be smaller than them D:
But… that’s the joke. Its a joke Greenius. Like… its playing with your expectations. Ya geddit? Ya dont geddit…
But… stating the obvious is also a joke Sughly. Ya geddit? 😀
…nah, dont geddit
Ya dont geddit…
??? Totomin ???
Want…..
All the wants
Man i suck at steam sal-ing…. I can never make up my mind wether or not to buy something and the moment i convince myself its already gone..
so because of my indecisiveness ive missed Borderlands 2, season pass, and extra characters, KOTOR2, and Natural Selection.
If they weren’t a daily deal they’ll usually come back as a flash/community voted one.
BL2 was both a daily deal and flash sale…. Kotor 2 flash only, same as Natural selection… TBH i probably should just play what ive got… i have SOOOOooooo many unplayed games, i havent even finished BL1…. maybe i should do that then look out for the BL2 GOTY Edition…
3 words:
Encore sale!
DW, most of the popular ones will be back. We still got a long way to go.
I don’t. Wifey said if I don’t cut it out she’ll cut something else out.
A percentage of savings so you can buy more games?
like… getting nails done? so there’s more money to spend on games?
Today is a truly terrible day. I’m totally whining at the moment but seriously, it sucks. 🙁
No leftovers in the fridge?
Well now it’s even worse.
Just sigh and look skywiiiiissse
But it’s hailing outside right now. That sounds painful.
Breaking Bad is just around the cornerrr, woop woop! Celebrate with this great scene, season 4 ep 3 (spoilersss) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1JVxqpg-Rs
Oh gaaaawwwwddd! I’ve never been more keen for anything ever. Goslingfest ’13 ain’t got shit on this.
Ahaha, torturing myself by watching more in the recommended section.
Walt under the floor finding out that Skyler has given the savings to Ted when he’s in the middle of organising their run from Gus, argh!Too good. His “I am the danger” speech is my favourite.Season 4 is like, the most perfect thing ever.
Oh man, I am so, so, so keen for this… I’ve even gone back and rewatched the entire series via Netflix over the past 3 months to prepare myself.
I considered it! I’ve seen it through twice now, could go a third. Actually, thoughts on where you reckon the finale is heading?
I’ve thought for a while now that Jesse is going to die somehow, and it will be for Walt, protecting him in some way. Caus it would just be super ironic, after all the stuff Walt has done to him. I think Walt will get out ok in the end, to be honest. I cant see the show being like “bad guys dont win!” in the end, theyll let him ‘win’ I ruckon. But whats the go with the gun in the truuuunk!!?! Excite!No way is Walt making it out alive. Not a chance. That’s as far as my speculation goes though.Yeah I suppose thinking on it thats true. The show ends when Walt ends, really. Otherwise there’s always something else that can happen.I kinda thought the teaser from the start of s5 could be Walt coming back to rescue JesseI assumed that he was coming back for his family, but yeah, that could be too obvious. You may be right. Regardless, Walt’s going to die. That’s happening.Oooo! Thats kinda interesting. Whenever I start trying to predict things with others I realise how many ways this can go still. So exciiiitiiiing!
And then the finale will come around and we’ll realise that Vince Gilligan is far more creative than any of us.
I’m kind of ashamed to say, but for some reason I watched the full episode of Pepper Pig that @shane linked earlier. If I was Daddy-Pig, I would be laying the smack-down on Mr.Potato, after he basically called him fat…
…Where is my life heading?
North QLD versions of kids tv is pretty much always end with alcoholism or physical confrontation.
And warnings about dead people.
SPACE MAUREEN
http://raygunbrown.com/only-in-death-does-duty-end-the-unexpected-success-of-warhammer-40000-space-marine/2013/7/16/only-in-death-does-duty-end-the-making-of-warhammer-40000-space-marine
@chuloopa
Such an enjoyable game
Mann this was a delight to read 😀
Bloody awesome.
So you’ve dipped your toes into the tabletop world now? How exciting!
Brilliant article. While I sometimes find Raygun’s stuff a little long and dry, this felt really familiar (I loved the game, and have played the tabletop game for several years previously) so it was a lot easier to read.
HAY GUYS.
Soooooo, Ber and I are going to be housesitting for my parents in October. For about four nights. We’re going to have a fire pit, a spa to use, a downstairs bar/pool room and plenty of places for people to crash. Not much in the way of gaming facilities there, but we’ve got diverse interests, right!?
We’ll probably have it on a Friday/Saturday night – whatever everyone would prefer. The house is also in Scarborough and there’s a really nice Italian restaurant called the Rustic Olive that we can either order out or eat in at.
Is this… are you inviting us to a swingers party..?
Well I WASN’T… But now that you mention it…
If its not I’ll be disappointed. Be a great opportunity to go Kramming Krams.
That made me feel unclean typing that.(o.o)
(o.o )
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Nnnnngh…. hmmm… :'(
Bring out the gimp?
Tee hee. Never gets old.
Nope, never does 🙂
Awww I don’t have either of those 🙁 FAIL
Even more fail is the fact that I sleep in a queen size bed, all by myself, and yet I still stick to “my side” of the bed
…hyup 🙁
You doofus’. Whenever I get the bed to myself I always sleep diagonally. It’s awesome.
Things Pow finds funny #254:
When someone typos ‘good’ as ‘goog’. “Goog morning”, “Googbye”
‘Tis a funny word, goog.
Hmm… Goog point.
Incoming.
…outgoing?
It was just a joke regarding someone here mentioning that around 5pm TAY goes dead,
It totally does though!
I’m around 1/2hr behind everyone else, and used to be hella active on TAY during the workday. The last hour of my workday was easily the least entertaining due to everyone having begun their commute home in other reaches of the country 😛
I just bought a second base set of Android: Netrunner. This game is pretty neat.
For those that don’t know, it’s a living card game. Which is basically the same as a collectible/trading card game except that instead of spending shitloads of money on booster packs and trading and whatever, you just buy all of the cards for a relatively small price. Still not a tiny price but a much better price. Not only that, you don’t need to buy all of the cards because the data packs that the cards come in are all known quantities.
Want to get card X? Buy one copy of data pack Y and you’ll have the three copies you need for your deck.
I’m so glad this model of gaming exists. Magic: the Gathering would make many people poor.
Anyhow, people should play this so that I can play against people other than Freya. Not that I don’t want to play with her but playing with more people is clearly more good.
Why did you not explain this to me sooner!?
Also, thank you for not explaining this to me sooner, I’m glad to still have spending money for PAX.
I’ll introduce you to the game next time you’re over.
One base set should be enough to get started. Two is for people who have already tinkered a bit and decided they needed extra copies of the cards there are only one or two of in the base set (instead of a full play set of three).
Two is also good if you have two people and thus want to make four decks.
There are two sides in the game, so every player has to have two decks. It’s easier to explain in person, or you can read the review on Eurogamer that I can’t be bothered finding.
Cool cool cool.
We can show you at PAX
Morning all.
Dunno if anyone’s a huge borderlands fan and isn’t going to PAX on the saturday, but Gearbox is putting on a retrospective and a talk about the future of the franchise at ACMI in melbourne on saturday night.
Tickets are $20, it starts at 7PM and then the devs will be around for a few drinks and what not
http://tickets.acmi.net.au/single/psDetail.aspx?psn=5306
But karaoke D=
… I never saw confirmation of karaoke for times on saturday. Would anyone be doing things after karaoke? I’d still like to hang out with TAYbies
Karaoke is 7pm onwards. Alcohol stops at 12:30. Normal drinks continue.
You can come and go as you please, but please spend $30, and make sure that you leave what you spend ^^
SO people… here’s the latest Steam giveaway from moi, the HitSmurf…
We here at Weresmurf Central have got a copy of Hitman: Absolution or Deus Ex Revolution to give away.
You get to choose one or the other though, not both…. maybe you’ll get the boobyprize! (Big Mothertruckers mwahahahaha! I’m not that cruel…)
Finally answer the question of wether its masturbation or gay sex if you have sex with yourself.
Go back to Tokyo 1979 and attend Judas Priest’s concert there.
Then come back via a few short jumps ahead through time and grab some old Nintendo goodies to bring home.
Go to maccas and get a couple of mcdoubles and an apple pie
*living in the moment*
Kill Hitler
Thanks for all the birthday well wishes, you magnificent bastards.
Sorry, been busy with visiting family, they go away soon though 😀
Oh. Happy Birthday!
Did you get cool stuff?
Money, which is the most useful really.
Now I can afford all the gaemz! 😀
Xillia? 😀
Ha ha ha! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
FF HDs, Pokemon X or Y and I can’t remember what else.
Handheld stuff mostly, for the train in the morning.
Oh yeah, Bravely Default and Megaten IV whenever they bother announcing them.
WOO! You a KH fan? I pre-ordered both that and FF HD since there’s a free limited art book 😛
I was, once, kinda lost interest over time.
I really like the original content at the beginning and end of the games but would rather watch a Disney flick than replay it.
I enjoyed 1 & 2 quite a bit back in the day. Still own 1.
Is the sorta thing I’ll get from a bargain bin.
I want the FF artbook, but will only be buying the Vita versions, fuck Squeenix for not having the brains to do some kind of collector’s pack containing either both Vita games and the artbook or also the PS3 version. I mean really.
Amen brudda!
This so much. If there was a pack with the Vita games and the PS3 version all together I’d buy it, but because they’re separate I probably won’t touch any of them.
Hippo Biffday in case you missed my earlier wishes!
Heh http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/07/what-if-superheroes-hosted-a-super-drunk-party/
Quite good. 😀
Makes me wanna get drunk.
PAX!
So uh, do people actually have a plan of what they’re going to do at PAX? 😛
I kinda just bought tickets and yeah, not really sure what to do or what there is to do :D. I had a look at the schedule for the panels and stuff but there’s nothing I’m super interested in – although there’s a few I wouldn’t mind seeing (Gilbert, Xbone, Borderlands etc.). Are those other tournaments just for viewing or can anyone join? (Omegathon, Mario Kart etc.)
Hopefully there’s a lot of other little things going on that are interesting and hopefully we can make a massive TAYgroup so I’m not all alone :'( *single Indian tear*
😀
I was just going to kind of turn up and tag along with whoever wants to let me. Nothing I particularly want to see but interested in it all.
I think anyone can compete in the tournaments but I think there’s some kind of preregistration dealy you have to do. Not sure of the specifics.
You’re just going on Saturday, right?
If I recall you said something about being in Melbourne a bit before/after PAX, any other plans? I’m sure there’ll be pre/post PAX plans 😀
Fly in midday Friday, wander around Melbourne aimlessly for a few hours, meeting up with my brother for dinner (haven’t seen him in a year).
Saturday turning up at PAX seeing what Taybies want to put up with me for the day, then karaoke at night.
Sunday probably sleep in until midday then fly out in the afternoon.
I’m the best at this planning thing.
Oh, and I think @sernobulus wants to meet up in the city tomorrow if anyone’s keen?
It’ll probably take me 2ish hours to get to the city so let me know what time if you want to do something. I’m still kind of a “maybe” because it’ll be pretty boring with just me since I don’t really know the city, and if you’re only going to be there for a couple of hours then I probably won’t go since it’ll take me a while to get there and back 😛
(@negativezero @tech_knight)
I need to meet up with people before hand so I can give them rupee cushions
Must see
Gilbert Keynote
PA Welcome panel
MC Frontalot
The Megas
Really want to see and/or intrigued
Some panels about table top gaming, D&D
Was going to check out the Pitch Your Game Idea, but now I think I’ll keep the idea I was going to pitch to myself
Will probably checkout Omegathon at some stage
Buying all the things
I think Saturday is the day with the least/no panels that I really want to see, so I’ll probably be running some D&D games myself on that day. I should probably double check the schedule to make sure. And I should probably do that tonight, since it’s basically PAX already.
I was just planning to wonder around, seeing stuff, and try and meet up with some taybies somehow so I’m not all alone the entire time.
Only God Forgives!
@tofu
Are you going to PAX? If you still remember, and haven’t changed your mind about DMC HD then you could probably hand it over then :D. Thanks again!
Indeedy I am. I’ll be there on friday and most of saturday. I’ll make sure to bring the game with me
I wrote out my intended schedule last week on TAY.
Friday 10:30AM -> 11:30AM Main, Ron Gilbert *****
Friday 11:30AM -> 12:30PM Wombat, Anime ***
Friday 2:30PM -> 3:30PM Wombat, Innovation **
Friday 4:30PM -> 5:30PM Dropbear, Bioware *****
Friday 6:00PM -> 7:00PM Main, Xbox One ***
Friday 10:00PM -> 11:00PM Wombat, Minecraft movie **
Saturday 1:30PM -> 2:30PM Dropbear, Borderlands ****
Saturday 2:30PM -> 3:30PM Main, Xbox One ***
Saturday 6:30PM -> 7:30PM Skippy, Indie Board Games ***
Saturday 7:30PM -> 11:30PM Concerts *
Saturday 10:00PM -> 11:00PM Wombat, Board Game Documentary **
Sunday 12:30PM -> 1:30PM Main, Xbox One ***
Sunday 2:00PM -> 3:00PM Skippy, Writing for Tabletop Games **
Sunday 4:30PM -> 5:30PM Dropbear, Jeff Cannata *****
More *s = More interested. Anything *** or below is skipable if there’s something better to do. Also I only intend to attend one of the Xbox One events and I don’t care which.
Welp, friday is going to be the big day for me.
First up is Ron Gilbert
Then probably check out the gaming and anime corssover talk
Then the Roosterteeth panel
Then pretty much nothing till 6 with the xbone
Then the IRL shooter thing at 8
The IGN AU Pubcast at 9 with drinks afterwards
… huh, there’s less than I thought.
Saturday there’s not much until 12:30 with the TImtamfeed panel and then the borderlands one at 1:30 … then I’ll probably just be bumming around with my housemate until the animal crossing panel and the sound design panel.
Then into the city for another borderlands retrospective and hopefully catch the tail end of karaoke if I’m not too pooped
Hmm. Do I vote for Farming Simulator or Euro Truck Simulator?
Rollercoaster Tycoon
#Helping
I voted for Euro Truck Simulator BUT APPARENTLY MY OPINION DOESN’T MATTER ANYWAY.
*cries*
I reckon the farming would be more fun
Thanks for the gift Greenius, but I can’t accept. Hope you don’t mind if I decline. You’re awesome, my friend.
(Also, please no one gift me any thing. Too bad there’s no way to opt out on Steam. 🙁 Won’t be accepting any thing, but thanks for the thoughts. :D)
NO, YOU WILL ACCEPT THAT 50 CENT GAME.
EDIT: It’s a point and click adventure ;D
Lemme guess – Time, Gentlemen Please?
Ha! Was gonna gift D.C.’s unwanted gift to you but you already have it 😛
Great game!
@dc !!!
I’m not sure if Sughly is being serious or not (says he hasn’t played it on Steam) but I’ve played it for 20 mins and it’s pretty good so far, lots of classic adventure game references 😀
Ahaha! I am serious. I just played it by… other means before getting it on steam ^^
You realise that everyone is going to gift you things now right?
Exactly! He could’ve just quietly accepted the gift 😀 …but now he’s fallen into my trap!
Now everyone will buy gifts, he’ll reject them all and everyone will have spare gifts. And who will they give it to?
Greenius(I kid, I kid)
Then I’ll just have to unfriend everyone on Steam. 😛
But how will we ever play Borderlands 2 again!? :'(
But what if it’s a troll-gift?
I can understand turning down say, Bioshock Infinite or something relatively pricey, but Secret Of The Magic Crystals? Boy, you better accept or so help me…
Pretty sure the rules state that you can’t decline a troll-gift.
But the game I gifted has an 84 on Metacritic and Eurogamer gave it a 9! :O
It’s also a point and click adventure. So D.C. would’ve loved it… BUT, ALL THE HAT!
(still a semi-troll gift though since it cost 50 cents :P)
I searched it on Steam, started giggling, then scrolled down a bit and saw that one of my friends already owns it…
Which game? I didn’t mention the game I gifted D.C. but Secret of the Magic Crystals was last year’s gift craze. I think like 30 or so of us have it :P. Some crazy mofos actually FINISHED that game O_O
Oh, yeah the horse game 😛
Hahah I just remembered how we’d jokingly talk about it and @zetrox2k genuinely thought it was a good game and bought it himself ;D
ULTIMATE TROLL!
I WAS JUST A WEE-YOUNG TAY-LASS I WAS!!!!
YOU PEOPLE ALL TOOK ADVANTAGE OF ME!!!! /o\
Pretty sure Beavwa was the only one to actually finish it. I didn’t even get my first Magic Crystal. So disappointing.
Wait, there was actually something about crystals in that game? Holy shit!
Yeah, it was in the opening movie and everything!
Pssh, it’s like you didn’t even play it!
So instead of accepting the gift you’d prefer to decline and waste people’s time, money and effort?
That’s cold man.
Aw, but I’ve made it clear gifts make me uncomfortable in the past. I don’t want to waste any one’s time or money. Why waste money on someone who feels uncomfortable getting gifts when you can gift it to someone who’ll appreciate it more? I don’t mean to sound ungrateful and I probably sound like a jerk, but please, no gifts.
BECAUSE WE DON’T GIFT GAMES TO MAKE OTHER PEOPLE HAPPY!
I GIFTED A $10 GAME TO CAKESMITH IN RESPONSE TO HIM GIFTING ME A $2 THING. I DIDN’T DO THIS FOR HIM, I DID IT SO THAT HE’D FEEL BAD, AND SO CONVERSELY, I’D FEEL GOOD!
Exactly. @dc it’s not about you, it’s about whoever is gifting you stuff. They’re doing it to make themselves feel good and they don’t expect anything in return. Except for you to accept the gift. So just give in, already.
No. For reasons. 😛
Stubbornness is not a good enough reason…. 😛
It’s ‘free’. I sold trading cards for it, you never know man, you might’ve actually liked it 😀
Jerkius. 😛
Thank you again, Greenius. The thought was appreciated. You so kind. 🙂
:'(
Just shut up and take his cheapass game. Doofus. Don’t make me get my son to chase you…. 😛
So does anyone want a totally awesome secret mystery game? 😀
D: Monster!
Just to let those who’ve entered know, the winner of my latest give-away will be declared at 9pm. Decide on the game you want Taybies incase your name is selected!!!
You know, I have to admit, all this giving feels really warm and squishy on the insides 🙂
Wait no, thats the ebola…
Given up on Muramasa. I just can’t beat the demon cave I have to get to get the last sword I need to be able to forge the Oboro Muramasa and get the true endings 🙁
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/running
Good god. It’s like he’s reading my mind. (except the fat kid thing. I didn’t get fat until adulthood.)
Wow that was a super long one. Also I totally lost it on the Vanity page, thinking about all the things I see around me at the climbing gym.
You climb?
Yeah. Just once a week at an indoor place, been going for about three and a half years now. My sister got into it and eventually started dragging me along, but they kept getting injured and had schedule changes and stuff so now I just go on my own and stick to the bouldering wall.
Seem to have done something to my left ring finger though. It’s kinda sore :/
Groovy.
I started going weekly a little over a year ago (I think), until my usual climbing partner moved to the other side of town. Try and go as often as possible, but there are too many weeks when I don’t, so progress is slow. Plus the boulder wall at my local is really small, so doesn’t seem worth it.
Recently mounted a hangboard over my door, so at least I’ve got a way to work on my finger strength.
Climbing partners are the worst 😛 I used to have some of my own friends that wanted to come along, but they lost interest pretty quickly.
The place I go to is pretty much across the other side of town, about a 40min drive away. I do have another place that’s literally five minutes from my house, but I hate their routes and find their bouldering wall really hard to read. Not to mention they only change the routes every few months or so, which sucks. Other place puts up a new section weekly.
LOVED the last page. I don’t run, but can totally relate to it.
FREEEEEEZE YOU’RE A BLOODY CHAMP!
thank you so much for Farcry 3 Blood Dragon, you’re completely awesome!
Hi guys.
I haven’t been able to be here as much as I’d like lately because I haven’t been home. I’ve had to take time off work and semi-move into the folks’ place for a couple of weeks because of reasons.
Family stuff I don’t want to go into here.Sadly, this also means I won’t be able to take part in any of the pre/post PAX gatherings either.
Sorry PAX peoples, I was really looking forward to meeting you all 🙁 @scree Hope you all have a smurfy time this weekend.
I don’t understand the mention. Why?
Maybe because you were organising the Karaoke and he wanted to apologise to you.
🙂
What Masha said 🙂
Oh, that’s okay. Stuff like this can’t be helped. I just hope you get it all sorted.
Sorry to hear that man. I hope everything’s alright.
Proteus. Perfect way to de-stress 🙂
*hugasaurus*
Aw, hope everything’s okay, my friend. I’m sorry about PAX and hope the family stuff works out too.
Hope everything’s okay man 🙂
Ugh. Family are the best and worst thing ever. Hope you’re okay and will be sad I missed you.
Thanks guys. I’m OK, just stuff…
*Hugs* hope it gets better soon
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1435699754/cellar-darling-anna-murphys-first-solo-album
Did I go for the personalised painting tier? You bet I did! Thanks for the enablement, @bdkiaf! 😀
Best decision.
Yeezus, eat your damned heart out.
I appear to be on a huge Saul Williams binge lately. Haven’t actually listened to him for ages, not since The Inevitable Rise And Liberation Of NiggyTardust was released.
If you like hiphop/spoken word, give it a shot. This particular link (hell, album) was done in collaboration with Trent Reznor, to give you an idea of the sounds you can expect.
The dude’s worked with Serj Tankian, Zack de la Rocha and a slew of others. I may or may not be gushing far harder than I should right now.
That album actually provided inspiration for the title of this piece, originally written… uhh, probably ’08? Iunno, it was a while ago, I’ve not written in a long, long time.
I initially entitled it The Demise And Crucifixion Of Libby Forest, though I think it feels more finished with the subject nameless.
Anyways, yeah, there’s my Saul Williams tangent for you all 😛
And in saying I’ve not written in a long time, apparently my last addition was two months ago :S
Go figure…
I found my glasses! \o/
I left them at the Chinese restaurant I was at Sunday night.
I thought I told you already…
You. Don’t. Wear. Glasses.
But it’s the perfect disguise… SUPERMAN GETS AWAY WITH IT!!!
I think the unfortunate part for us all here is @freezespreston suggested something we’ve all asked at one question or another… an ethical question we’d dare cross if we could…
Well. Maybe not. 😛
But sorry due to popular demand and hilarity, I’ve gotta go with Uncle Freezes comment lol.
@freezespreston wins!
Which would you prefer to win and which would you prefer to give to @mawt as I’m gonna be nice and say his suggestion gets the runner up prize as it gave me some lols 🙂
Also, I got some lols from ‘living in the moment and particularly like Judas Priest… so as Oprah says… @benj @mrtaco
EVERYBODY WIIIIIIINS…. well, they can decide between FTL and The Binding of Isaac, as I’ve got those two left to give away 🙂
FIGHT PEOPLE! FIGHT FOR YOUR PRIZES LIKE PUPPIES AFTER A SOCK! MWAHAHAH!
It’s okay, I already has FTL & Isaac 🙂
I just can’t seem to GIVE away these two damn games lol
Awww, puppies!
Can I have FTL if Mr. Taco doesn’t want it?
Kind of feels wrong asking for it but, eh, why not try.
Sure why not. @mrtaco gets first dibs tho, if he doesn’t have it you can.
But… YOUR QUESTION…
Complete this phrase…
“*BLANK*, that escalated quickly, I mean, that really got out of hand fast.”
The blank is what people get wrong all the time 😉
Answer 1. Fuck?
Many couples are afraid to communicate about their sexual needs and get things wrong 🙂
Answer 2: Well
How many stories do you hear about people falling down wells? A lot. People should get wells right 🙂
Don’t you love homonyms 🙂
I DO love homonyms, I’m completely ok with their lifestyle!
Haha, that’s cool. I just so happened to buy FTL the other week (and get rather addicted >_>), and pretty sure I already have Isaac from a Humble Bundle.
I just answered the question because it was there, I don’t even have Steam 😛
Is the blank supposed to be “huh”, but the mistaken word is “well”?
You……………dont……………have……………steam………………………
WHYDONTYOUHAVESTEAM?
Because I’m a little bit crazy. By which I mean paranoid.
By which I mean crazy.
Its not paranoia when you know theyre out to get you…
and by that I mean NSA and Prism…
and by that I mean I dont mean that at all and I never typed that at all and I never ever ever did anything bad at all in my life and I don’t know WHY we’re talking about this AND WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE AND WHY WOULD YOU TELL SUCH BLATANT LIES DAMN YOU!
Thanks a lot Gooky.
If you don’t have me on steam @weresmurf just add me ‘masha2932’
Thanks to you as well for all your gift giving.
🙂
I don’t have Steam either \o/
Freedom five!
Boy.
It’s yours if you want it, msg me on Steam, names Weresmurf.
Ha ha, I just saw this as I finished my post above. Friend invite sent 🙂
Haha. Oh man. That’s 2 and I’m not even really playing for the games.
I guess Hitman is the only one I don’t have.
Ok but now we wanna know the answer to your question… and did you cuddle. lol
I have all the games!
Sorry, I should have clarified alongside my entry.
You can give the prize on to whomever is next on the list.
lol no prob. We’ll find someone… somewhere… out there in gameland to give these to…
The trek begins…
I would happily take Deus Ex if nobody else wants it 😛
Okies add me and msg me. Noones gonna take the Binding of Isaac? Really? Noone?
Jeez. O_o poor Isaac.
Such an awesome game 😀
I know! Yet it cannot find a home 🙁
Haven’t heard back from the guy yet who won Fallout New Vegas complete edition either yet… if I havent by tomorrow night it goes back up for grabs.
This will mark the end of the Weresmurfs Steam Summer Sale giveaways! They shall return in the Winter giveaways!
But it’s Winter now so they’re Winter giveaways! :O
American winter giveaways! Steam Winter Giveaways! Why I oughta….
🙁
Why do smurfs laugh when they run?
Because the grass tickles their balls.
What?
If you don’t wish to elaborate I will emote in solidarity
🙁
He’s sad because his emoticon doesn’t have a nose like yours does.
Always nose!!
Except when you’re chowing down on some super oily drumsticks
All the 🙁
I just feel like crap at the moment.
I hope you feel better and soon you’ll go from
🙁 to 🙁 to 🙂 to 🙂 and finally \o/
Trust me, I’m a smiley doctor.
It’s true! I used to be all :), 😉 and 🙁 but now I sometimes add the nose for that extra smugness look 🙂
If you choke a smurf, what colour does it turn?
Purple.
I can attest to this…
Etrian Odyssey IV for PAL 3DS on August 30 \o/
I already own it though thanks to @batguy and I’ve been playing it today and it’s pretty addictive. Made the mistake of taking it into the toilet with me while dropping a deuce (which is IMO why portable game systems were invented in the first place) and I think I was sitting in there for an hour 🙁
Wow. Just wow. There’s some serious hate out there. Someone in the US is selling anti-muslim bullets.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/22/pork-laced-bullets-designed-to-send-muslims-straight-to-hell_n_3480150.html
Can someone smack these guys with a Quran already? Jesus christ, what is wrong with people?
These people need a hug.
I don’t even…
There are no words
http://www.sillyjackass.com/assets/god%20bless%20america-%20except%20idaho-%20fuckk%20idaho.jpg
Surely… Ummm…
Surely the use of these would require the belief that Muslims will enter paradise if they follow whatever rules they have. Is there really a target market of small minded, paranoid people who accept that hey, maybe the Muslims are right about religion?
Or am I overthinking this?
I thought this as well, but ended up concluding that they must think these bullets will act as some sort of deterrent.
I’m not sure they were designed as a deterrent whatsoever.
More “I’m going to simultaneously disgrace your body and religion”. What a slap in the face :S
I based it entirely on this part of Freeze’s quote:
“That should give would-be martyrs something to think about before they launch an attack.”
But I agree with you, of course. Something like this is pretty much a disgrace in every way.
Pretty sure a martyr won’t much care about a bullet, and I’m fairly certain that if (god/allah/[religious figurehead goes here] forgive me) I were armed and carrying pork-infused ammunition, the likelihood of me announcing such prior to pulling the trigger is slim to none.
But, I hope I’m never in that situation, for any number of reasons that need no explanation.
This is sheer stupidity and should never have occurred in the first place 🙁
Here’s their website. I’ll let you come to your own conclusion.
http://www.jihawg.com/
Racism masked as patriotism is still racism.
I understand that Islam is a religion, though the point still stands. This is vile thinking, and these people are contemptible. It’s sick.
‘Made in the USA for your protection against hate.’
nathanfillionhasnowords.gif
Funniest part?
Muslims don’t believe you’ll go to hell if you eat pork. It’s discouraged, but if the choice is Pork or starve, generations of muslim scholars say: Eat the damn pork.
So the deterrent value is precisely dick.
America is certainly fighting for peace, aren’t they?
Um, at least they advocate defensive-only usage for guns.
So ammunition is a deterrent? How the fuck will anyone know the bullets are ‘porked’ except the guy holding the gun? Wouldn’t the gun be a big enough deterrent even sans bullets? Doesn’t make sense. Trying to justify racism and xenophobia is funny. Backwards shitfuck rednecks. People like that are the problem, not extremist minorities or religion as a whole.
I wonder if the bamboo problem is with the pen instead of the tablet…
Hmm….
Re-installed the drivers.
Seems to have fixed it.
Annoying to have to constantly re-install drivers every time it happens, though. :\
Bed time.
Goodnight.
The European Speedster Assembly is on! I know what I’m doing tonight 😀
Also, SGDQ is on this weekend I believe. PAX ain’t got nothin’ on my plans to watch a livestream of people at a convention…
uhh…
yeah.
So I decided to play Atelier Rorona. I’m not regretting this yet. Yet.
But side note: the character that gives you your assignments and stuff in the game is named Esty Dee. Bet she got teased at school a lot. 🙁
This is my third time attempting to play Atelier Rorona and for some reason this time I’m actually kind of enjoying it. I decided to stop being so hung up on getting everything on one playthrough and I’m playing it a more relaxed way. Hope that doesn’t come back to bite me in the end but I doubt it will – probably will miss out on the True ending though. I’ve basically done first assignment with a month left so I can go out exploring a bit more, make some requested stuff and get some cash. I think this might be as far as I played roughly the first time I tried it. Hopefully I can finish it and still enjoy the process, because everything I hear is that all the subsequent Atelier games are better.
THEY CALLED ME MR. GLASS.
Is that cos they saw right through you, or because you’re fragile and easily broken?
Easily broken. In the film, anyways.
I just watched Unbreakable for like the tenth time. Slow, but still a great film. Before that a mate was over and I treated him to The Pick of Destiny. Wuh? C’mon guys. That film like JUST missed out on Oscar glory. Only just. Or not.
POWWWWWWWWWERSLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE!
Yeah, I dig Unbreakable.
I know people knock Shyamalan, but when he hits the mark he hits it well.
Signs is one of my favourite movies of all-time.
I love the part when Joaquin is in the closet watching TV and he sees the home video footage of the creature on the news.
“I DO NOT NEEEEEEED…..A MICROPHONE!”
Your training begins tomorrow.. at the crack of noon.
Dear @dc
Yesterday I bought the following DVDs, all pretty much on your say-so.
– Alias Season 5 ($7)
– Battlestar Galactica Season 2 ($7)
– Battlestar Galactica SEason 3 ($12)
– Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Part 1 ($4)
– Battlestar Galactica – The Plan ($4)
– Fringe Season 1 ($10)
If they suck, I’m blaming you.
Just FYI.
Your pal and mine,
Shane
#LetterWritingPage7
Dear Shane,
By appending a hashtag to a letter, you’ve created some kind of monstrosity.
All my hat,
NotoriousR
Dear NotoriousR,
Your point is well received. Time to change things up, and include them in the body of the letter instead.
#HashtagForHarli#HashtagForNotty
Your pal and mine,
Shane
Dear Shane,
Well shit.
Kind Regards,
NotoriousR
Fringe is awesome, and if you don’t like it, you’re a shit person.
It’s OK. 9/10
But seriously, yes. I’ve only watched the first season and it’s pretty good.
Just waiting for season 5 to get released and I’ll get the whole collection.
Oh man, that’s awesome! I really hope you like it. If you don’t I suspect there’s something wrong with you. 😛 Enjoy, my friend! Fringe takes a little while to get going, but Alias and BSG basically hit the ground running.
We watched ep S01E02 of Alias last night, and I spent the whole time ragging on the many, many details that didn’t make any kind of logical sense. Still weirdly enjoyed it, though… but not sure if I’ll last 100 more eps 😛
…
:'(
You finish the BSG mini-series?
Still 45 minutes in. Was going to watch more last night… but didn’t because I got caught up in artwork until 1:30am. Enjoyed what I saw so far – the quality of the production is pretty clear.
Plan to keep going… as evidenced by all the purchases 😀
Alias seems like a good show so far, but it’s doggedly determined to not respect my intelligence 😛
You don’t want to watch TV with me. It’s pretty painful 😛
Not going to read, but if you don’t like Alias I’m not sure you’ll like Fringe. D:
Like I said, I still enjoyed it. It might end up being a leave-your-brain-at-the-door guilty pleasure 🙂
Aw, I feel bad now. Stop listening to my recommendations. You’ll hate them all.
@dc, it’s okay man. I got Alias on my wife’s say-so, not yours.
BSG seems to be good so far, so you’re ahead on that one. Treme looks interesting, as does Fringe. Not to mention, you knocked it out of the park with Freaks and Geeks! \o/
You’re doing all right recommendation-wise! 🙂
PS: If I don’t like them, I spent, what, about thirty bucks in total. Hardly gonna break the bank there. I appreciate the recommendations – I’m checking out stuff I probably wouldn’t have touched otherwise… and that’s ALWAYS a good thing.
Dear Shane
Other than Alias, I endorse all of that.
So Say We All,
Red.
Spent $66 before breakfast today. Got the level 3 Summer Getaway Steam Badge. I need help, guys. Help me…. please…
Way to go, man. You’re awesome.
Helping?
Dear @beardymcmuttonchops ,
Following on Shane’s train of thought: Well done! $66 is impressive! Now aim higher and spend $100!
Kind Regards,
NotoriousR
I really shouldn’t have.. but i’ve just purchased all the DLC for Dawn Of War 2 because 75% off… le sigh..
NO MORE, STEAM!! YOU WILL TEMPT ME NOT!! I HAVE NO MORE FUNDS TO GIVE YOU!!
ALSO!
I’m in a painting comp.
If you have a facebook account i’d GREATLY appreciate you following the link below and hitting like. If you don’t have facebook but have twitter, do the same but hit the share button!
If YOU DO have Facebook, also hit the share button – i need all the help i can get.
Needless to say I won’t win the best painted category, but i’m trying to with the popularity contest of “Most Likes”
http://www.slavetopainting.com.au/gallery/Troy%20Cleary.jpg.aspx
FOR THE EMPRAH!!!!
Aww, look! Loops thinks he has a say in the matter!
So @shane’s massive soft package was harder than expected….
#PackageClub
I was contemplating whether or not to add “it came today” but I thought that was taking it a bit far. 😛
#boysclub
#ifyoucantbeatemjoinem
That gave me all kinds of wrong imagery.
That’s as soft as it gets.
…
On a more serious note, thanks! The little man stole the book as soon as it was unwrapped, exclaiming “It looks like some kind of comic!”.
You totally don’t have to thank me. You paid for it after all!
Also, your son is cool. Might have said that before 🙂
QUEENSLANDER!!!!!
Dude, I know people here are free to speak honestly but calling someone a Queenslander is just harsh.
YOU’RE COMING TO BE HONORARY VICTORIANS.
Well, those that aren’t Victorians already. Because Victorians are fucking cool.
Also, I got a little email from Anna Murphy this morning saying “Thanks” and stuff. What a nice touch. 🙂
I am so much looking forward to ‘Cellar Darling’, if the songs so far are anything to go by, it should be all kinds of awesome. 😀
Yeah, does become a problem with the bigger ones, they cant keep it personal any more. I got an email regarding a bigger one recently and was really impressed, until she thanked her mum in an update for dealing with all the emails for her T_T
Getting married in a month. I should probably stop spending all my money on the Steam sale and start being financially responsible.
HAHAHAHAHAHANO.Nah, start out as you mean to go on: poor from buying games.
I support this. 🙂
Yep. She needs to know what she’s in for before she commits. 😀
WHY AREN’T WE INVITED TO THE WEDDING
You didn’t get one of these invitations? Awkward.
We’ll do a fake wedding on Saturday night so people can be involved, though I’m not sure if my other half will be available so I’ll need a stand-in.
…what are you doing Saturday?
Oh Rize, I thought you’d never ask.
You had better get used to playing games with a vacuum cleaner noise as the soundtrack.
#DysonSucks
Already got noise cancelling headphones 😀
People do that? They vacuum while someone’s trying to play games? That’s…a bit rude. It’s like vacuuming while someone’s trying to watch a movie. Not cool.
Can I like, move in with you or something?
I promise to never vacuum, ever.
PAX North! Session times for Cineplex, Barracks and Event Cinemas are up now!
I forgot this was the weekend we have our guest from Sweden staying so I’m unsure how possible it will be for me to attend any PAX North activities, now.
D: Monster! You guilt tripped me when I forgot! XD
For what it’s worth I think people want to do the PAX North thing tomorrow instead.
Why not ALL the days! PAX North, all day, erry day!
When is PAX Middle? 😀
Is @sughly still organising this?
I need to wash the disgusting taste of Man of Steel out of my mouth ASAP.
Resist urge to make Kevin-Smith-esque joke…
Fuck it. Refer to Mallrats.
Ah yeah I’ll have a look at times, gimme a minute
edit: Barracks at 7.30 thursday is the most ideal I ruckon. Bam, there it is. Write it in your calanders and shit
Aight.
Will be there.
We grabbing tickets/food before hand?
Just thinking on that… could pre purchase tickets today just to make sure? If y’all want me to? And I get definite numbers? @freezespreston @dc, I think you guys are the only ones now right?
And also probs cant get there til least like, 7, so I’ll have to drive straight there and no time for foods myself
Cool.
Let me know if you’re gonna grab tickets and how you want me to get you cash.
He flies in tomorrow night and is staying until Wednesday night. The weekend would have been more possible but I don’t want anything changed for me because it’s only a slim possibility I could make it anyway.
Reply fail. Was meant to be a reply to @dc. :S
Bring him along 😀
He’s a giant bearded Swede. @dc would probably be well intimidated. 😛
He’d have to go to PAX North, to keep balance with the other PAX. We’ll have a
giantbeardedSwede at regular PAX.(@pixel_the_ferret_viking)
Isn’t Pixel Danish?
Mmm… Danish…
Nah, I think he’s Norweigen.
Finnish.
You first.
Nice guys Finnish last.
Blergh. Sorry about this emo stuff.
Sidevote dude! Maybe Intouchables will make you feel again :’D. Such an awesome movie and a beautiful, touching story :’)Never going to watch that movie. Sounds way too confronting for my liking.
Wut? It’s not confronting, it’s beautiful! Feel good stuff. Even more feel good that its a true story. So many feel goods.
Hope you feel better soon, man. Wish there was some way I could help. For what it’s worth, I think about it often.
Thanks man. It’ll be fine. 🙂
I don’t know what this said, but if it makes you feel any better I would totally date you.
That’s totally what the post was about! 😀
@dc – see this? Pretty exciiitiiiing… http://pitchfork.com/news/51545-james-murphy-talks-new-arcade-fire-album/ cc@rocketman
Oh man, I’m so damn psyched. Can’t wait to hear it. I’ll be buying a physical copy on day one. DAY ONE.
“No strong feelings about anything”
Dual Shock: Arcade Fire.
Would it be too late for me to ask what dual shock is..? 🙁
@redartifice
SHUSH dont tell him I dont know :'(
http://potaku.com/2013/01/14/duel-shock-adventure-games-and-episodic-releases/
Oh man, you wrote one and you didn’t know? How embarrassing.
Ahaha, oops. No I remember this, just didnt remember what it was called ^_^v
@jimu – New Goldfrapp songgg! Sounding pretty greaaaat… those strings that kick in at like 2:30 are amazing. Really excited about this one, that preview video she put out before was so good http://pitchfork.com/news/51531-watch-goldfrapp-drew/
ummmm also, video is NSFW
WHHHUUUUUUUUTTT NEW GOLDFRAPP???????????????????????????
*brain explodes*
*goes and listens with exploded brain hanging out*
I didnt even get into her until a few months back, can you believe it? Somehow missed 5 albums of amazingness. Love her in a big way now. Teaser vid showcasing bits of the new album is heeeeere http://pitchfork.com/news/50991-goldfrapp-announce-new-lp-tales-of-us/
OMG it sounds like she’s going back to the felt mountain sound, I absolutely adored that album!
Really? I got more of a Seventh Tree vibe 😀
Just had a listen to both, I definitely get more of a Felt mountain vibe.
Paps I need to listen to Felt Mountain some more…
Now I am extremely happy I’m seeing her in November
Arrrgh Harvest right? Damn you! Haha, naaaaah thats super cool, you’ll have to fill me in on how amazing she really is afterwards 😀
Between her and Massive attack it will be amazing. Saw MA last time they were here and that was crazy… the only thing that could make that event perfect is either Lamb or Roisin Murphy(moloko)
Ohhhh yeahhh, Roisin is great! I like you! Primitive is such an amazing song, especially this live version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMfZ2fKsgMM (ergh, replaced with better quality, but still has the same sound glitch 3 quarters through. Ear hurting T_T)
edit: also, havent listened to Lamb before, but youtubing now. This is quite cool! This song I’ve got on, Wise enough, kind of got a bit of a Massive attack vibe about it actually, so I can see the connection in taste ^^ Where would you suggest I begin album wise?
Best Kept Secrets is a good Best off Compilation, but album wise – 5 is amazing, as is Lamb, and What sound
Check out Elsiane as well, if you like portishead and massive attack you should like her – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Occ6AdCyLy0
mmm Primitive, one of my favourites of hers. That version is very kool 😀
Bottoms!
Pretty much the only reason I linked, I dont even like Goldfrapp.
GOLDFRAPPWATYESGIMME
HEAR YE HEAR YE, PAX NORTH PEOPLE
Only God Forgives, 7.30pm at Palace Barracks. Be there, or be Goslingless and without purpose in life.
We having dinner before or something? Thanks Sughly!
@dkzeitgeist, @strange, @freezespreston
Just sayin above that a) I can buy tickets for all today if everyone is solid on going, and b) I cant get there til 7, so I cant make it for foods myself, y’all can organise that if you wish. Pretty decent food places outside Barracks though, a pretty good burger and pizza place I’d recommend if eating
I can eat.
Not sure what time I’ll finish but I can meet you at the Barracks any time after 6? I think there’s a few places for chow there, right?
You guys sure Friday or Saturday wouldn’t be easier? Sounds like Sughly will be rushed!
…dc… shush
But if we can’t all hang out and just sit silently in a cinema and then leave afterwards, what’s the point hanging out? Haha!
Because we get to see Only God Forgives?
Haha, oh man, you’re all going to hate me after weeks of PAX North stuff, but I might pass on Only God Forgives. To be honest, I mostly just wanted to hang out with you guys. (But I’m sure there’ll be other, better opportunities soon enough.) Hope you guys like it! 😀
But its only me thats getting there at 7, and even then its still 30 minutes before the film starts. And there’s always time to talk about it after. No need to cancel 🙁
You know I was planning in being there by 6 and wanted to have dinner but I understand you just put up with me and couldn’t stand being with me without Sughly.
No no. I’m alright. It’s just allergys.
Trying to find an excuse to leave me out.
Typical @dc hat.
Current plan is Airport > Hotel > Cinema > Gosling.
Except I don’t know where the cinema is in Melbourne 🙁
Barracks? where’s that? I’m gonna take a random stab and say Kelvin Grove/Milton? where the army barracks was?
Kinda close to there, maybe technically it is Milton? I dunno… but its on that Latrobe terrace or whatever its called, that loopy street near Roma st station.
Hahaha that is the dumbest explanation, fuck. Whatever
Where Hog’s Breath is?
…er… I think I saw Hog’s Breath near there?
…I dont know where hogs breath is >_>
sort of across the road from cassablanca’s on caxton st?
Yes! Right across from caxton! 😀 I know that much! At the end of caxton is basically where Barracks is
yer that’s where hog’s breath is. I went there with littlejj once for lunch or dinner. I’d say I might be keen on dinner there if anyone else is interested. I think you get free parking under there for a couple of hours if memory serves me correctly.
@welbot – should post this on the current page! Dan and freeze might be keen
WOOO!
Hugo has upgraded from cave to a unit. It even has electricity and indoor plumbing, will the wonders of the modern world never cease?!?
I am looking forward to getting furniture at some stage in the future, it does seem very empty at the moment… well except for all the swords, clubs and cardboard boxes that is.
Double WOOO, unit get page get!
oh and SKYRIM!
Well done.
Cheers.
1. Make a chair out of the swords.
2. Wear a box as a hat.
3. Declare yourself king of the unit.
This must be done, OH YES, THIS MUST BE DONE!!!
I then should see if I can hire Peter Dinklage to slap me.
Are you going to call yourself Hugo the Modern Hungarian Barbarian now?
Nah, I think I will just cover the walls with some of my favourite cave paintings and there are some trees in front of my balcony so who needs indoor plumbing?!
Would you say that you’re cradled in love??
Has anyone else here played much of Dead Space 3?
I was playing some co op with @cakesmith a few days ago and…well, to put it simply, it was kinda shit. I know it got a bit of poor reception for being not like DS1, but I didn’t play 1 or 2 so it’s not that (for me, at least). Did anyone here like it? If so, what specifically did you like? I feel like I’m missing something with the game…
I played all three and honestly didn’t care for any of them.
Played 1 and 2, was waiting on 3 to come down in price, so no i haven’t played it… so i don’t even know why i’m replying, i mean it’s a bit redundant being that you were asking if anybody else had played it and had input and i don’t, so i don’t know why-
OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH SHINY
*runs off*
I got it for free from the whole SimCity thing 😛
Don’t get me wrong, i loooooooved DS1… DS2 was aight, but a bit meh, which really discouraged me about 3, so i am not surprised to find out that it’s crap…
But then again, what can beat 2 guys with retro-lancers storming like champs?
DIG!
GRIND!
BOOM!
Do you think it’s the aspect of being a survival horror game with a friend over a mic that’s killing the experience for you though or is it something else? I ask cuz lots of people were worried about this while it was still in development.
Honestly I was carrying on like I normally do which didn’t help much, but there’s very little survival horror feel to it and my biggest issue was that the gameplay was kinda generic.
It’s alright, the game is definitely geared towards co-op with some of the waves of enemies. There’s no real scares, as enemy encounters are normally pretty easily telegraphed beforehand. You’ll never run out of ammo and some of the weapon combos are so very OP it makes me almost feel bad for the bullet sponges you’re facing off against.
I couldn’t tell you much about the actual story of the game, but the co-op only missions are where it’s at. Especially if you’re playing as Carver, random psycosis is a bit unsettling the first few times. Think the level of batshit insane Isaac was in the second game. Other than that it’s gears of war with less varied enemies, a few obligatory space sections and puzzles that my whiskey addled brain could handle on the first try.
The game doesn’t really do anything memorable, but it’s still worth a single playthrough for the co-op stuff
And then there’s the elevator raves….
We really need to record that and chuck some music over the top…
Ser Nob! I love you, thank you for Mark
ofthe Ninja!Geez you guys are awesomely generous and stuff!
I LOVE YOU TAY!
/sabby comment
Amazing game that pretty much went under my radar 😀
ARCADE FIRE COACHELLA 2011 REPORT: Still awesome after 55th listen, commence play through 56.
First time I watched that I only knew about three of the songs. Now every time a new song starts I get psyched. They’re all amazing.
Here’s the opening credits for The Newsroom season one. I loved this. So iconic, the way the music builds and the sense of history with imagery…
Here’s the new season two opening. I love the imagery, but I can’t help think it’s lost some of the charm from the first season — especially the music. Still great though. I do like how it tracks a news story from happening to breaking on air. It’s also more modern.
The more I watch, the more I like.
My point is you should watch this show, one of the best dramas on the air at the moment. Up there with Mad Men and Game of Thrones. Also, The Bridge is pretty excellent. Diane Kruger plays an autistic police detective. Really, really interesting character. I think you guys would like this show!
How good is Frontline???
“Written by Steven Moffat”
So, good ideas, but a bunch of story inconsistencies?
Stop trying to change the subject.
Have any of you guys played Killing Floor? its quite fun!
Edit… last years CHristmas update gave me nightmares, santa was impossible to kill!
It is pretty awesome. I remember playing it once while I was talking to some friends on skype and after several waves, I hadn’t been able to make it to the store in time, So I’d just barricaded myself in a room with two doors and no windows and just spent the next 20 minutes frantically running between the two of them making sure they were welded shut … it wasn’t the most heroic way to die. But damn if I didn’t make it frustrating for the buggers
LOL LOL LOL…… should have pulled out your knife and duked it out!!!!
Yeah I’ve played a bit. Think I have bit over a dozen hours in game.
Was last year’s update the moon base one? Yeah that was hard. If you are interested in a game let me know, haven’t done much co-op and only with pubs
sure thing man, as soon as the internet is connected at my new place… could be up to another week…. ive stocked up on games in the meantime though…. been downloading them at work…
Yeah man!
I used to have issues getting it to work online so I’ve only played LAN but it’s great fun.
is it sorted now? wouldnt mind jumping on as soon as my internuts are connected!
Not sure.
I’ll have to wait until my DL quota resets before I grab it again, but I’m keen to give it a try.
Yep. Think I’ve put about 160 hours into it, but stopped because it’s hard to play higher difficulties with randoms. Too many survival styles and working together is hard.
when my connection is up and running….
WE ARE HAVING A KILLING FLOOR BRO-DOWN!!!
@rize @dkzeitgeist @tigerion @tofu @lucifer9783Probably worth mentioning: I have it on PC.
i didnt think it was out on anything else?
It’s on PS3 as well.
IT IS!?
Edit: I think you’ve been misinformed, a quick check with Greg O. Ogle says “Nah, dawg.”
Are you thinking of Pay Day?
………………….
…maybe.
I lost track of which game we were talking about 😛
I’m there*
* providing I’m not doing anything else at the timeSoooo… me, @freezespreston, @dkzeitgeist, and @dc. 4 tickets right? Right.
edit: Just an fyi guys – Palace Barracks is $18.50 a ticket for adults. Pretty pricey. You guys ok with that?
Nah, I think I’ll pass, my friend. Thanks though. 🙂
Uh.. You realise Ryan Gosling is in this movie, right? Just making sure, because if you did know then there’s no way you could pass.
Edit: Is this what you want?
Award for most appropriate gif goes to you
Stop being EmoDC and come have dinner with myself and @dkzeitgeist and see the movie with us and @sughly.
You know if you don’t you’ll have all the regrets.
Nah, not really feeling it man. You guys enjoy it though!
Not at this exact moment you’re not but do you really want to inflict that on yourself later?
Plus we all want you there.
Doofus.
There’ll be other opportunities to hang out real soon. It’s all good, man. 🙂
EMO DC CUT IT OUT OR YOU ARE IN FOR ANOTHER HUG REAL SOON.
YOU LOVE GOSSLING AND TAYBIES AND I AM ASSUMING YOU LIKE FOOD. GO HAVE A GOOD TIME
Yep, I’m in.
$18.50 a tik? Just makin sure…
For Gosling/Refn team up?
Bargain.
PAX MEAT
What the plan?
Let’s get this filled in: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgFxIpTLAp-LdDNZbWVTNjhYNGE2bXpFTkxqV3BzM2c&hl=en_US#gid=6
what info do you need?
When, where, how, why.
WHEN: somepoint on Friday … or saturday … or sunday
WHERE: outside
HOW: Hopefully in person, although you could probably send along a proxy if you really wanted to.
WHY: Because bearded men from the internet asked to meet you, and none can refuse a bearded man
That could be like the motto of the weekend. “PAX MEAT – Let’s get this filled in”
@gingerchris86 Bringing this in here because I’m gonna forget to keep visiting that convo! This lass, Elsiane, this is great! You’re on fire with recommendations 😀
Glad you like… I love my chill downtempo electro fusion stuff as well as my heavier stuff… I love most music 🙂
List of Bands you might already know of – my favourites (not including the heavy stuff/prog rock)
M83
New Order/Joy Division
IAMX
Placebo,
Patrick Wolf
The Smiths,
Hot Chip,
The Jezabels
Stars (Seriously amazing Canadian Band)
Metric
The XX
Styrofoam (similar to postal Service)
Plushgun (ditto)
Extended Cut
So I was asked by my boss today ‘If i was to buy one handheld game machine, right now, what would it be?’Saying I already own a 3ds was the wrong answer because she has a roundabout way of asking what i think would be the best one… for her (what I like for me was irrelevant -_- ). But she said she wanted puzzle games, ‘games that work your brain. Not these ones that you just shoot your way through.’ So my question for you, Taybies, is….
Director’s Cut
In your opinion(s), what is the best handheld console?
And Also, what is the best handheld console for someone who wants to stretch their brain by inundating themselves with puzzle type games?
3DS XL all day.
The 3DS because of its huge back catalogue if you include DS and you should. There are some great games to be picked up.
For puzzle games? Definitely the 3DS.
That said I’m loving my Vita far more than I ever thought I would.
Yeah, but is that because on a scale of 1 to 10 of enjoyment, 1 is like, infinite times more than 0?
#VitaHasNoGaems
Depends what games they want, ultimately. Same as with any other console. Both 3DS and Vita are great systems with very different strengths. 3DS has a sizeable library of games now with some real gems in there, as well as DS backwards compatibility. Although the Vita is a far superior piece of hardware in terms of specs and performance, but with a different approach to the 3DS and a very different library and types of games. Vita is PSP backwards compatible, but only digitally of course. UMDs are useless with a Vita.
I own both and it honestly depends on my mood. If I had to choose, I’d keep the Vita, purely because of my digital PSP library, and I feel the Vita games offer me more longevity and enjoyment. I find many 3DS games to be a little gimmicky and short lived. But as I said, personal taste is everything. I’d put games first, tbh. Decide from there.
Do you want Mario, Zelda, Layton, etc? 3DS. Do you want stuff like P4G, Soul Sacrifice, Dynasty Warriors, etc? Vita.
Said she wants puzzle games dude
Which doesn’t mean I can’t offer my objective thoughts on both choices. But thanks for clearing that up.
Based on the puzzle requirement, definitely the 3DS. Huge selection.
Also, 3DS/XL is awesome.
Not even 3DS.
DS, ftw.
Picross and Picross 3D, man. All you need.
But 3ds has 2 more picross games for digital download! I know this because I have them and love them so ^^
Yeah, 3DS.
It has the DS and eShop games that were mentioned (Picross) and also Pushmo/Pullblox and the sequel Crashmo/Fallblox which is a fun 1st party puzzler made by the guys who did Fire Emblem.
Get her a Rubik’s Cube.
Edit: @wilbur
Solid life advice.
Wether it be your daughter, girlfriend, wife or mum. BITCHES LOVE PUZZLES
I… I love puzzles… does that make me a bitch?
Yes.
Its my birthday this Saturday for PAX,
we are singing that night, if you dont come i assume you all hate me and ill cry and sulk and sing Taylor Swift with @blaghman and @scree
PS i dont know the deets because im just following scree.
hahahaha, its also my wifey’s birthday shes also going to be there!
DAMN IT I WANT ALL THE ATTENTION 😛
Your wife is Rocketman?
Is it really your birthday?
Oh man, guess who’s getting serenaded.
It’s you.YEp 20th July is the day i left the uterus
how old rockets?
22
But but but…; I dont hate you , I’m just stuck looking after the house while my housemate is away. *sends you big premature birthday manhugs*
A LIKELY STORY CHRISTOPHER
only my mother calls me Christopher, usually when I’m in trouble… Are you my mother???? Am… Am I in trouble??? WHAT DID I DO!!!!????
I shall be there. I will sing Gay Bar to you and we will be happy.
I WANT TO SPEND ALL YOUR MONEY…
I’VE GOT SOMETHING TO PUT IN YOU
were going to shout him his first five drinks, then inevitably, the rest are on him!
OMG! HOTROSSSSSSSSSSS
Payday 2 sounds pretty interesting. Although most of the footage I’ve seen has been of the run-n-gun variety…
Yeah, all the interviews talk of all these cool ideas but the trailers haven’t really shown any of it.
The first is a bit basic but is still fun.
I want to see how the Ghost and Mastermind classes operate.
I assume they’ll have a class trailer or something eventually.
The first one was fantastic. Played the absolute pants off it. Co-op bank heists are as fun as they sound.
Never played the first one. Flew under my radar.
I disregarded it for a while, assuming being a $15-$20 odd dollar game it’d be a budget FPS turd. Was actually pretty great. Was really surprised. If Payday 2 is even only just as good as Payday, I’ll be happy.
Yeah, after the fun of the first Payday I’ll be getting Payday 2.
I agree with the trailers stuff, but I think it’s sorta the same concept as the first game in that they want you to figure out each mission as you play them so they’re trying to avoid showing too much.
Greetings. Does anyone know anyone that has any PAX tickets they’re looking at selling?
Mikey T!
Yo. I missed out on the tickets on the other page. Looks like no PAX for moi. 🙁
You can circle the wagons here on TAY with you ‘ol pal D.C.? 😀
You should still go to the post-PAX meats, man!
Yeah, I’ll have to do that. Still, I really did want to go, but not enough to pay the insane prices you see on eBay I suppose.
Damn you old Mike from a few months ago. Y U no buy tickets?! >:(
*shakes fist*
If it’ll make you feel better, it’s an annual thing and will be on again next year.
?
Confirmed on the PAX Aus twitter feed last weekend!
https://twitter.com/PAXAus/status/356351448575000577
@dc Oh.
Sweet! Probably not in Melbs next year though, but still cool.
Mike, there was a guy i was trying to get a ticket from in melbourne, but he wanted to meet up at melbourne uni, and i was tied at work, i can give you his number? he was asking $170 for the 3 day pass. I know he still had it yesterday!
Yes! Let me know what his number is and I’ll certainly be interested.
send me an email and ill send it right now
zetrox2k at the hotties dot com
Done! Thanks champ. I’ll see how I go.
I got it. 😉
Because it’s getting so close and no one can make plans, I made plans!
PAX MEAT!
WHEN: Saturday 20th – 12:00
WHERE: Outside PAX (seeing as that’s where people will be I guess, although we can move to the CBD)
WHAT: An Old Joke
HOW: However you want
IF: Anyone has a problem with this, please speak now of forever hold your peace/shut your face.
DONE!
Please tag any PAX attendees below so everyone sees this.
Sounds like a thing. I imagine I will be there!
Changed to Saturday!
Fuck that.
OK, fine.
May not be able to do it. I think I’m flying out at about 2 on Sunday.
What time/Day is better for you?
I was just going to see who wanted to meat up on Saturday throughout the day at PAX. My plans are pretty much non existent.
Swap Sunday for Saturday? That cool?
how are we to get you drunk and have you shout ALL THE DRINKS?!?!?
I’ll be at karaoke 😀
\o/
@ynefel will be in attendance.
WE CAN COMPLAIN ABOUT THINGS/PEOPLE/PLACES TOGETHER!
\o/ SO MANY ASSHOLES TO COMPLAIN ABOUT
Changed to Saturday
Oh. Well.
You’ll be there on Saturday, right??
Yeah I can make it, got a 3 day pass, so pick and choose! Won’t be there on Friday though, working that day and still on call till Friday morning. Means Friday night is get home from work and pass out time. Should be fresh as a daisy Saturday though.
I’ll be PAXing on Sunday so depending on what exactly is happening I may or may not be involved.
Swapped to Saturday. Is that better?
Probably? I should actually figure out what my plans are…
Don’t change anything on account of me. If it’s on Saturday then I’ll sort myself out.
Saturday I can do 😀
Lucky @Saturday
😉
Alan Wake + American Nightmare $4 on steam atm. I had zero intention of getting this until now.
I FORGOT TO BOOK FLIGHTS< FUCK
I BOOKED BUT I DIDNT PAY OR IT GLITCHED OR SOMETHING
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
Aw man, hope it all works out Rockets.
i can get flights easily enough i guess just might be a bit more pricey.
They’ve discovered flight up there?
http://imgur.com/0uUEjjc
But you are Rocketman. You don’t need to pay for a flight.
http://api.ning.com/files/3-zQ7giV3NXz2AjWwHMPSRte0Y2Wb1EoNrSNo3T5S3qP9CsX0L*-NPSVK0P-NbRHVHq4ivEnwQzkUToaDo3exj*l98bo7Hd8/king_of_the_rocket_man_poster_01.jpg
Fuck.
At least you figured it out now and not at the airport.
I did that to my Dad once. Booked his flights online, somehow booked them for completely the wrong day, and neither of us realised until he got there. Cost him many, many hundreds to buy them on the spot 🙁
Bummer…
I MANAGED TO GET A FLIGHT THANK GOSH AND NOT THAT BAD OF A PRICE I WORRIED FOR NOTHING
OMG YES
Well this isn’t exactly what I wanted to read the day before I’m meant to fly out…
ITS FINE I FOUND FLIGHTS CAKEFROND AND IF I COULDNT I WOULD OF AIRBAGGED THE TICKETS FROM WORK AND THEY WOULD OF GOT THERE THE NEXT DAY
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcj0xrDRMm1rw5rky.gif
EDIT: When are you flying in?
2.30 to the melbourne airport. then taking a bus to FActions house.
Tomorrow I presume? Is bus the best way to Factions? It’s been a while since I’ve done Melbourne public transport but I always though trains were the best way to get to Geelong.
Found a airport shuttle that goes about 700m from factions house.
I had a dream last night that Sarah Connor and Cameron from the Sarah Connor Chronicles got into a crazy awesome fight. It was awesome. Crazy awesome.
*erotic dream
right? right?
I’ll just leave now.
I wish I had a dream about Sarah Connor.
Maybe that happens in Only God Forgives? Better come just to make sure…
Nah, man. Really not feeling it. I love going to meets and hanging out with you guys and my instincts are telling me to sit this one out. Hope you guys like it though.
I 100% guarantee that you’ll regret this decision.
It’s your decision though.
What instincts! Argh!
Now, I’m still catching up on TAY and you might’ve changed your mind but those same instincts told you never to go to any meats :). I was feeling a bit out of it this morning and almost thought about not going to meet Nob and Beavwa today but I’m glad I did. Good fun and dat burger was yummo
Breaking Bad is back soon.
Bryan Cranston appreciation post.
http://i.imgur.com/EAemkvu.gif
Hahahaha, awesome 🙂
And hooray for Breaking Bad! Wicked keen for that ending.
Did anyone catch the Mythbusters crossover on Monday? We got it before America \o/
It wasn’t a great ep, but hey.
Yeah, I wasn’t super thrilled with it. Dissolving pigs is gross though.
Also, Vince Gilligan is a funny guy.
Oh my.
@thecracks gave me deadlight on steam
so uh
response A) Thanks man, I really appreciate the gift.
response B) Fuck you
Your choice, I don’t want to make presumptions and offend.
I find jokes that refer to Western Australia living in the past normally go down real well with him.
He loves them!
Man, those jokes are old…
So they’re perfectly suitable for Western Australians!
Oooh, mercy!
I’ll probably understand that joke in a couple of years.
^_^
just a suggestion but seeing as theres all these mini meats, why not use Twitter and make up a hashtag like #taypax that everyone can use?
You can’t just make up hashtags.
#CheeseGang
Cuz not all of us use twitter 😛
WHAT KIND OF TECH KNIGHT ARE YOU?!?!?!?!?
One that doesn’t use twitter 🙂
I hate trying to use the UTAS computing schools VPN :l I’m not installing Cisco security crap on my computer. Thankfully the VPN software is stupid and it’s easy to get around it.
All those acronyms in one sentence make me upset.
As upset as I was that I saw Man of Steel?
Close.
Use a VM for all your remote access stuff. Super easy! Like a toolbox you can open at will with all the goodies in it. Then you don’t have install any crap natively on your system. I set my lappy up like that for work. Keeps it all separate.
BUT CISCO IS AMAZING!
I’m so happy that most of my work network isn’t Cisco…Cisco is literally the worst 😛
Citrix is worse. We call it ‘shitdicks’ in the office.
We don’t call it anything, we barely acknowledge it exists…
Ten days until Pikmin 3. So close.
:D! PIK PIK PIKMINNNNN
Finally got around to downloading Little Inferno from the last Humble Bundle. Really fun little game that satisfies my inner pyro. Um … I mean my not at all pyro tendencies. Phew, I think I got them fooled.
Well, 3 tickets bought for OGF. @dc, its not allocated seating so you’ll be free to join us if you change your mind. Which you should definitely do. Caus theres no reason to not go. Because we love you.
And from what I’ve heard about you DC, you love violence presented almost erotically.
HALLO TABIES!
Anyone going to PAX (or just in Melbourne for whatever reason) should know that my bro @DanMazkin and I are planning a pre-PAX meetup at Bar Robot in the Melbourne CBD tomorrow night. Nothing official or anything, just thought it would be a great chance to see a lot of awesome online people and talk about dem vidyagaems.
Starts at 8pm or so, all welcome, see you there!
For address and food/drinks menu check out the linky:
http://www.robotsushi.com/
Are there pre-drinks for the drinks?
Imma be around Melbourne from well before 8pm.
a bunch of taybies will be in GEELONG at factions house. DRINK UP BOIIII
But I’m in the city.. 🙁
COME WATCH BABY GOOSE WITH ME!
LETS SEE WHAT HAPPENS IF ROCKETMAN NAVIGATES THROUGH A MASSIVE CITY .
A: Nothing good.
Yeah 8pm is too late for me since I got work on Friday, sorry human 🙁
I’ll probably be there. @greenius: do you want a ride in?
Oops, only just saw this – but I texted you anyway 😛
Thanks though!
I found flights to melbourne- Thank gosh
However super anxiety is starting to set in early, its been too long since my last travel experience and i have forgotten that it is really easy and im worried that im gonna get stuck at the airport and reenact that movie that Tom Hanks is in.
OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD
Forrest Gump?
Big?
Toy Story?
APOLLO 13 idiots.
And here I thought you were talking about Cars. Did you know he was Woody Car?
Or Cast Away, he starts on a plane there.
Or Catch Me If You Can….
Ahhhhhh, @rocketman is going to impersonate a pilot and fly the plane himself. Or hunt fake pilots. Your pick.
Philadelphia. *nods*
#latetotheparty
D:
Go to the big city and get AIDS.
Or did I do Melbourne all wrong? 🙁
That’s why you didn’t have fun at Oz Comic Con?
Caus everyone has AIDS
AIDS AIDS AIDS
Splash!
#evenlater
The Dig
Oh fruck, I forgot ScribbleTaku! BRB
Yeah, but Tom Hanks gets to hang out with Benny Golson in the end, and everything works out for everyone… except the old Indian dude who gets deported.
So there’s nothing to worry about.
I AM THE OLD INDIAN DUDE.
Well then have fun in Italy.
I’m really pissed off at myself at the moment. Despite my best efforts, I find that I keep sleeping throughout most of the day, which worries me that either I’ll sleep through PAX, or I’ll be super tired and completely out of it during PAX.
Speaking of which, how’s everyone meeting up for PAX? Are people going to meet up and queue together to get in, are they going to try and meet once inside or what?
I am just gonna shout out
“CAKE!”
“PANTS”
and wait for a response.
But I’m taking the super special media entryway so YOU’LL NEVER FIND ME
Nor will you find me in my purple and yellow shirts that read POTAKU roaming around the building.
I’m just going to randomly respond with “ROCKETMAN” from within a crowd of people because reasons
Hi, TAY!
I bought a new tablet!
\o/
what’d ya get?
Bamboo Manga.
E-E-E-E-Ecstacy
Cool interactive picture of Brisbane
http://www.lensaloft.com.au/Interactive_tour/BrisbaneDusk/Brisbane.html
Whooaaa, thats rad! And vomit enducing
yeah, when you first move it it’s like virtual vertigo, pretty sweet though.
@shane: Will that song ever not remind me of Six Feet Under whenever it plays? You know the one. 😀
Never. I hear it from time to time.
ALWAYS reminds me.
Best use of music in a show ever. Probably.
Bought a nice jacket yesterday.
We went to Myer and the French dude there was very helpful (and we couldn’t work out if he was flirting with me or just appraising me). The problem was that the jacket that I liked didn’t sit on my shoulders properly.
So we went to the nearby Polifix store to see if they had anything similar. They had the exact same jacket in the exact same size for $40 less. We told the sales lady person about how when I tried it on before it didn’t fit and she told me to put it on to show her.
It fit perfectly.
She was incredibly confused and must have thought we were crazy. We were also confused.
Then I spent more than $10.
I have met you and i gotta say i don’t understand all this male interest you get, sure you are in decent shape and have a OKAY face but when compared to myself you arent anything special. Why don’t more men flirt with me???
INB4: Cause you flirt with them first.
It’s because I’m fabulous.
*FINGER SNAPS*
I can tip off my man friends going to pax if you want *calls gay mafia* :p
Please do. I would like to see this.
Wooo jackets!
I got two of them yesterday. They look pretty snazzy. So snazzy that I’m able to ignore my loathing of long sleeves to wear them. 😛
I don’t understand this loathing of long sleeves. I like to cover my scrawny arms. It’s the best part of winter. You crazy!
But we already know I’m crazy! /o\
Although I found something I hate more than long sleeves. 3/4 sleeves. Soo irritating those. I dislike stuff touching my lower arms. Worse when it only half covers them.
3/4 hate is fair.
Long sleeve loathing is not though.
FREAK!
Clothing can be difficult I have tried shirts before that don’t fit me at all and then I get told ooh this will fit you perfectly and it fits amazingly well…
I just don’t get fashion. Sometimes I feel like I should dress better but then there’s effort involved.
Agreed so much Agreed. Too much effort in dressing nicely
Band/Geeky shirt and jeans is me normally, except for at work
ENCORE!!!! ENCORE! I HEAR YOU SAY! ENCORE!
Well ok maybe you didn’t but oh well.
THE IMPERIAL SMURFICUS HAS MORE TO GIVE AWAY!
I went and bought the DAWN OF WAR 2 combo pack for myself, I already owned DoW2 but not the add ons, this has oddly left me with a surplus copy of DAWN OF WAR 2.
This leaves us in a pickle…
Oh and if you want this Binding of Isaac copy? Whoever WANTS it can have it ffs.
Dunno if it’s my favourite but the thing that keeps coming to mind is the Alien Weapons from District 9
I guess I’ll spoiler tag for those who haven’t seen it (if that’s you why haven’t you seen it? Huh, Why?)
Edit: I don’t think my puter can run it, just wanted to join the subject 😛
I loved how they seemed to liquify people before they exploded into a fountain of Gutsoup 😀M41A Pulse Rifle.
End.
By the way, I already own all DoW2 games, just had to contribute.
:O such an awesome weapon…. the sound of it and everything. I shoulda thought harder before answering 😛
easy… The BFG from quake…. only iD had the balls to name a weapon Big Fucking Gun….
also its quite a badass.
Anyone who doesn’t answer Cerebral Bore is a scrub.
Oh crap this is getting difficult… ok Entries DIDNT close at 6.30 due to the long line at Pizza Capers. Entries will now close at 9pm!!!
Just realised I’m probably going to meet @bdkiaf in a day or two.
Is it weird that I have a boner?
If the boner lasts more than 24 hours consult a doctor
Or a prostitute dressed up like a doctor
or BDKIAF dressed up like a doctor
whichever’s the easiest option.
Or @bdkiaf dressed up like a prostitute.
Not sure if that’d be easier, but hey.
I was worried I’d be the only one erect.
Everyone is going to be staring at your crotches when you two are near each other.
I probably will.
I don’t have a boner as yet, but mine is poised like a methed up ninja monkey – ready to strike at a moment’s notice. It will be sudden, violent, and I’m not entirely convinced the crotch of my pants is strong enough to stand up to the impact.
O_O
Bought a ticket to Game of Thrones: In Conversation with George R.R. Martin and Peter Dinklage
at the Sydney Opera house today 😀
Hyped.
no
Mega-Hyped.
Heres the link if anyones interested. Mind you i think my work computer might mess with it so dont yell at me if it doesnt work 🙁
http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/priority/game_of_thrones_in_conversation.aspx?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=GoTpriority17Jul&utm_content=version_A
Until he kills you…
Haven’t you heard?
George Martin KILLS EVERYONE!
I’m expecting he’ll get 60% of the way through it and then go off and pursue some side projects when he realises he doesn’t know how to finish up.
Tears of Lys secretly placed in the beverages.
GODDAMIT, all the non-ripoff tickets are sold out…
Its not until November my friend, i’m not sure how strict the ticket policy is but you may be able to run the risk of getting one from gumtree/ebay.
So, as you may have noticed, I’ve been rather absent from TAY as of late. Would someone be able to do a quick round up of all the PAX talk/plans for me please? (@greenius? @dc? #helpiuses) All I can recall off the top of my head is that there’s a karaoke meat on the Saturday night, and Tech Knight wants us to email our phone numbers to him so we can keep in contact easily. And there’s the pre-pax meat puppylicks suggested at the top of the page. Anything I’m missing?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/07/talk-amongst-yourselves-233/comment-page-8/#comment-1674037
Awesome! Thanks for that! 😀
Boom! Thanks for the link. Was looking for it!
Any time, Mikey T. Any time.
@saturday sums it up best here.
I HELPED! 😛
@miketarno – mike, i messaged the guy, he said he lives in Bentleigh…. if you can make it down to pick it up today he said its all yours… Ill email this message to you in case you’re not checking TAY!
Oh man, you’re so awesome Zetrox! Hope Mikey T sees this message!
only doing what anyone else would do for me man!
i emailed him as well so hopefully he see it!!
someone tweet him too!
I sent him a tweet!
Cheers guys! Got it, along with an SMS from @greenius. 😛
I feel so well informed. 😀
Alas I’m nowhere near Bentleigh and can’t get there either. There’s a small chance that a friend of mine might not go on Sunday so I can buy her ticket. The guy didn’t reply to my SMS so am waiting for his response still.
Otherwise something might pop up, who knows. The previous post on the other page was ace. I wish I jumped at it quicker!
he replied to my sms though ?!?!? 🙂 🙂 @sernobulus is our last hope!
i can almost picture him in blue tights and red cape……… #disturbed.
… I live in bentleigh and I can pick up things if needed
Thanks dude.
Alright, I’ll give this guy a call first since he didn’t reply to my message to sort out what the deal is exactly. This is getting all so complicated!
It makes it easier if you think of it as a crazy spy kind of deal
@izzy – HUGE THANK YOU FOR THE PAX TICKET!!! IT ALL WORKED OUT GREAT!!!
got my ticket at about 1pm but was too busy to post earlier!
you rock! \o/
Hey, and a thanks to you again for being so quick with payment and organizing the courier. I would’ve replied earlier to this, but I had a language lesson in the city, that and my phone really dislikes loading TAY.
Hope you enjoyed the extra excessive graph paper and smiley face \o/
That terrible song on the radio with the lyrics
“NOW ILL DO IT ACCAPELLA. OH OH OH OH OH OH ect ect”
is fucking annoying and stuck in my head. Stupid pop music
You know what isn’t stupid this cool song by grizzly bear
now childish gambino version
Okay so i don’t like a tonne of rap, what i am a fan of is wit and well written lyrics, the puns and wittiness in this are quite frankly outstanding. Plus donald glover is my boy.
Gambino is a mastermind.
I have heard he fornicates with the opposite sex to make the day go quickly.
Verily.
Fuck a bitch to pass the time?
That’s what I don’t like about most of Gambino’s stuff. It’s punchline rap where a lot of it is simply “I’m awesome and have lots of sex”.
A few songs are like that
RE: freaks and geeks and the longest text message
but a lot aren’t
those ones arent very good.
Camp is better in that regard.
Still a few like that, but mostly not.
also, this remix – which might actually be better than the original http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEic4ZG2OKo
My radio is singing me the story of a girl who cried a river and drowned the whole world.
While we are on the subject of music
This song by avvicci is everything that is wrong with current music trends
all he did was combine electro and folk music
its basically him vs mumford and sons
Oh man, duck that song. Duck it so hard. For some reason the pop station has been playing on the radio this week, so I’ve had to hear it like six times a day, and it’s balls.
@miketarno CANT MAKE IT TO BENTLEIGH, CAN ANYONE HELP HIM OUT?!?!?!?!?
Nob is in Melbourne and he is from Beenleigh. Does that help?
@sernobulus ?
I think you’ve misunderstood.
@freezespreston isn’t actually being remotely helpful here.
Haha. All good guys, $170 was pushing the piggy bank too much anyway and I doubt the dude is willing to sell it at cost price.
I’ve learned my lesson! There’s always next year. 🙂
sorry man i tried!!!! /o\
if it helps im willing to chip in $20 for you!
Thanks man. Unfortunately the guy isn’t replying to my SMS so can’t really go anywhere from here. If he does, I’ll let you guys know what’s happening. Thanks all for the support!
Call him tell himi gave you hisvr number… he doesnt know me but just say a dude mentioned to you already id be messaging!!!
Alright, update. Dude replied and he wants $200. That’ll break my piggy bank way too much so I’ll give it a miss. I’ll see how my friend goes with the Sunday ticket, otherwise I’ll see y’all next year!
Thanks everyone for your help!
This guy gets it
@miketarno
Exact sms convo…
Me: Hi Mate do you still have the ticket? if you do i know someone who will want to grab it straight away… Sorry it didnt work out with me bud, but ive been moving houses and my friend hasnt been responding to my calls and i was unable to make it down.
Him: If he comes to me today i live in Bentleigh, then its all his.
also
@lucifer9387@lucifer9837@WTF?!?!?!? , accept the damn steam gift or i will keep sending it!@dc tag please!!!
@lucifer9783
@lucifer9783
Pssst, there’s an @ mention column in TAYnames!
I hadn’t been that excited for SR IV, I figured, it’s been banned, GTA V comes soon after…
Just watched the last two trailers. WANT.
I’m honestly more hype for Saints Row than GTA. Saints Row the Third was the most fun I’d had in a game for a long time and GTAIV was a dreary slog for half of it.
Couldn’t agree more.
Well, I could. But I’m busy.
I want GTA multiplayer in Saints Row. GOTY.
B-Funk is in Melbourne!
Why oh why did I choose a 630am flight tomorrow…
Why oh why did I decide to go via Sydney?
I actually have an answer here, and that’s because it’s half the price.
I’m driving down via Wagga. 8 hours in the car! \o/
Amazingly dreary drive…
you’ll have fun…
…
-_-
PAX!
PAX PAX PAX!
Is the hype making you feel better?
Because Pax
PAX talk. PAX talk everywhere!
So let’s all have a drink!
*sips on my glass of water*
SimpsonsReferenceWeek
yes it depresses me
PAX SUX #jealous
Just preordered Asymmetry by Karnivool from iTunes. Probably my favourite Aussie band. Looking forward to hearing it on Friday.
If you go and see them on tour make sure you catch Northlane too.
Unfortunately they’re not coming to Tassie. How can it be a national tour if they don’t go to Tassie?
Man, I know that feeling. Canberra gets skipped all the time.
At least there you have the option of land travel to Sydney 😛
Pshh, you guys have the option of Ferry to Melbourne.
Yeah but for me at least just getting to the ferry is the same length as the trip from Canberra to Sydney 😛 (A lot less for ontargett in launceston though)
BUT YOU GET TO GO ON A FERRY!
@blaghman But it’s so friggen boring after you’ve already done it once!
Oh man, all this PAX talk is getting me excited for you guys!
OMG EVERYONE
WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY
OMGOMGOMGOMOGMOMGOMG
*waits for it to download*
OMG
O_O
TO ISOHUNT!
I HAD THE DATE SAVED AND A REMINDER SET MONTHS AGO
!!!!
😀
Er, don’t get your hopes up. It’s good stuff, yes, but the content is fairly short (there were so many commercial breaks when I watched it) and there’s a lot of topical stuff going on.
But sideways scene? That shit’s goooood.
Expectations are pretty low already but it’s more Whose Line/improv with people I like, so it’s better than no Whose Line! 🙂
What’s hapnin?
Anyone buy Elder Scrolls Ultemite Edition (or whatevs) from Ozgame?
I’m worried I won’t get the cardboard slip since they didn’t send it with Doom 3 BFG (hard to complain cos I spent about $10 after vouchers etc).
Jimu! Hope you’re well, my friend!
Nope, nasty head cold and back at work tomorrow.
UGH!
*shakes fist*
More slip cases 😀
Haha turnips are 27 bells…
BADDDDDD
I… I think I just spent four hours playing Etrian Odyssey again. Don’t know where the time went. Game is amazingly addictive given its simplicity.
The only bad thing about going to PAX that I can think of is that my Fitocracy arch nemesis is going to be about 4000 points or so ahead of me by the time I get back. Going to have to run 10km once a day for about week to catch up to her again…
One of these days we’re going to try doing each other’s workouts. Which we’ll both fail miserably (and humorously) at I predict, because she’s not good at long distance running and I’ve never really done ‘proper’ workouts before with weights and stuff 😛
Take a pedometer and measure how far you walk around PAX. I bet it’s further than you think. Has to be worth something
I think you mean, take a 3DS =D
I was rather tempted to get one of those just for PAX…
You and @masha2932 should form a club 😀
The Men Who Don’t Collect Streetpasses.
ENTRIES FOR THE DAWN OF WAR II COMPETITION WILL STAY OPEN TIL 9PM TONIGHT!!!!!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/07/talk-amongst-yourselves-233/comment-page-9/#comment-1674669
Yay. Killed the Castle boss in Rogue Legacy.
1/4 of the way there.
WAT.
I guess I understand the mechanics of the castle boss. Haven’t actually *seen* any of the others yet.
The difficulty level is… steep.
I got to level 50, 6 hours and god knows how many children (Probably close to 100, lots of rushed and stupid deaths) before I did.
I’m level 65, from memory. I don’t dare count how many children…
Don’t worry, it tells you how many when you finish it.
Wait until you hit NG+!
Finished Bioshock Infinite.
*scratches head and frowns for a bit*
Yep. That was my reaction.
@dc, I know you’re at dinner and movies, but wanted to let you know that Treme is a winner. Pilot was mesmerising. Another show with a truly unique and distinctive feel. Thoroughly enjoyed. Mrs Shane thought so too. Thanks for the recommend! 😀
Is that why he won’t come tomorrow? Because he has other friends tonight?
I was pretty sure he just hatted me. In fact I was certain.
Oh, is that tomorrow? I didn’t read that carefully, I guess 😛
Freeze is one of my best pals! BEST PALS!
You’re just saying that cause you made me sad about Alias earlier. 😛
Yep, and I made Mrs Shane say it too. 😛
I just assumed that Mrs. Shane’s dialogue was a lie. Are you even married, Shane? Is that a lie too! 😛
We have added New Orleans to our bucket list of cities to visit, just on the strength of that one episode. You can figure out for yourself whether or not this is a lie.
Hint:
It’s not a lie.Pfffft, Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers should’ve put the city on your list. >:| Really, really glad you like this though. I know it’s an acquired taste show and RedArtifice didn’t like it despite loving The Wire so it was hard to know if you’d like it.
If you’re liking the show already, that bodes well. It’s slow, but so damn good and compelling. Some great stuff ahead. Now catch up before the final season so we can talk about it later this year. 😀 (You too, @sughly.)
Oki doke.
Down in the Treme…
Did people here hear about this? http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/jul/12/helicopter-powered-man-bicycle-prize
It’s pretty damn cool.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, everyone should have heard of this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790736/#lb-vi1741202969
I did and I don’t even know where I ended up clicking through to it. No one else I was talking to at the time seemed particularly interested at all. Lamewads.
Also I think I saw a trailer for the below the last time I went to the movies. Looks awesome.
My Dad was who told me about the Helicopter thing…
I guess it’s good to see that nerdiness runs in the family…
It really just goes to show how little supposed physical impossibilities really mean. I genuinely believe that anything is possible given enough time, technology and creativity. Anyone who says otherwise is just wrong. And that video is proof.
I know this is a very late response but, HOLYSHITTHAT’SCOOL!!!
It looks like magic because of the super slow revoltions of the blades, totally want one
reminded me of this thing, which i also want
Just ran the absolute minimum for the police beep test.
Not what I’m happy with but I’m happy I can do that at least. Now to chase the B grade.
Way to go, my friend!
You’re only in it to feed your ego by shouting your pseudonym at crooks, aren’t you?
Awesome stuff man! Reading about your progress here is excellent 😀Blergh, the Deadlight mouse/keyboard controls are starting to irritate me. Slow to react and randomly scattered over keyboard. When I get taken out I have to do entire sections again only to screw up again because of the controls. I reckon it’d be much better with a controller.
Oooo Steam foil card… D:
Not sure what do…
What does that mean?
They’re rare. Worth more, can craft foil badges, which are better than normal badges, or something.
Weird. I’m not certain I like this whole collecting card/badge dealy stuff. Haha.
Yeah, I don’t care for the actual collecting part, I just sell them or whatever 😛
But instead of 20 cents it’s worth at least…
$1.50!
I’m RICH! $_$
Aaaaaand entries are closed and judged!
@zetrox2k wins for going retro and bringing out (literally) the Big guns!
Who can honestly go past the BFG? The Cerebral bore is a great weapon, the Aliens Pulse Rifle is great, but so many of us just loved the BFG…. plus the cheat code for infinite ammo made it the gun of choice after a while…
So, as per usual, just msg me on steam, Username Weresmurf, and I’ll give you your game!
Oh and…
What’s this?
Another game giveaway just came up!
STAY TUNED!
Just bought Surgeon Simulator. I AM THE GREETEST DOKTAR
Dear Squenix:
Drakengard 3 english translation please 🙁
PS+ August Update!
So that leaked Russian image was somewhat “wrong” and we didn’t get DmC and Little King’s Story, which were two games I was actually really excited to get :(. We still got Spec Ops though! – but I’ve already finished it on PC so it doesn’t interest me on PS+.
I assume they probably decided to change the line-up since the other months in the image were spot on. Which is kind of silly IMO since most people would’ve expected what was being offered, to be offered so those games probably lost some sales, and will probably continue to do so while we patently wait for them to pop up.
Now I regret not leeching a copy of DmC off Cakeschmicht this morning 😉
*unsubtly adds it back to his Steam wishlist* (I’m the worst)
Instead we get:
PS3
– NFS: Most Wanted: AWESOME! I love Burnout and I’ve been waiting for this to drop in price for a while. I kind of forgot it existed 😛
– Mafia II: eh
– Spec Ops: awesome game but I’ve already got it
Vita
– LEGO: Lord of the Rings: eh? I hear the LEGO games are fun but I’ve never played them
– When Vikings Attack!: don’t know too much about it so eh 😛
Still, that’s 4 new games :D! PS+ <3
Mafia 2’s not bad. It’s got terrible checkpoints and not much sandbox stuff to do in the open world, but the story and production values are pretty damn good.
ALSO SPEC OPS! WOOOOOO!
SOMEONE RUINED THE GAME FOR ME!
I really enjoyed Mafia II, but it had a couple of really brutal difficulty spikes, and very little incentive to do anything but the main story missions.
Had some great licensed music too.
Like Let It Snow when Vito came home from the war. Also, this scene is incredibly good. 😀Mafia II is supposed to be alright.
Lego games are usually pretty fun for what they are.
When Vikings Attack! looks like it could get pretty hectic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3f8fh9o3CQ
LEGOOOOO!!!!! Lego Lord of the Rings is pretty rad. Probably one of the best in the series, I’d say. So definitely get that.
How have you never played a Lego game before???
OOOH!
I want Spec Ops and NFS! I almost bought NFS like 2 weeks ago!
I’m not sure what Most Wanted’s multi is like, but Burnout Paradise’s was awesome :D. I hear the autolog thing works better with more people so it’s good that we all have it now 😀 and now we’ve got Payday and NFS: MW as PS3 co-op/multi games!
Hooraaayyy.
Defs downloading NFS and Mafia II, might as well download Spec Ops so I can use my hard copy as trade in ^^
thanks for the update!
@shane: Have you finished Mad Men yet? Also, you seem to be alternating shows a lot. Are you just going to sample a few and stick to one or watch lots at once this time around? 😀
Hahaha, man, I have no idea! 🙂
We usually have two shows on the go at any one time – one longer-format drama, and one short, easy comedy. We haven’t had a comedy in rotation for a while, though.
Still gotta get back into Mad Men S6. It’s tough without subtitles, though (we are so used to watching programs with subtitles on DVD)… we might end up waiting for the DVD release, and just suck up the cost.
At the moment, we’ve got:
Mr and Mrs Shane together:
Alias – status unknown. May/may not continue.
Treme – begun, loved, will continue.
BSG – to begin (though I have vetted the first 45 minutes for us).
Mad Men S6 – begun, unfinished.
Fringe – not yet begun, will wait until slot opens up in rotation
Nurse Jackie – season 1 finished, might purchase further seasons
House Husbands – season 1 finished, might purchase next season
Sons of Anarchy – awaiting new season in Sept, may rewatch most recent season
Mr Shane
The Wire – watching on my own (when I have time).
And that doesn’t include any of the stuff I want to re-watch! 😛
A good list of shows! I recommend The Americans and The Newsroom too, if you want to be overwhelmed with shows some more. XD
Thanks, man. I’m going to pretend I didn’t hear that until about eight months from now 😀
Also, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is an underrated Sorkin show too. SOOOORKIN!
Eh, the best work Sorkin’s done post West Wing is The Social Network.
Enlightened for comedy/drama- HBO show which was unfortunately cancelled after 2 seasons. Great show.
You didn’t think my list was long enough, huh? 😛
I recommended a comedy which you said you have none in rotation at the moment. 🙂 Short too; 25-30min an episode
I can vouch for BSG for you. Mrs Freeze and I were watching 4 or 5 eps a night every night at one point.
So … my third trip to Tortimers creepy abandoned island. 200,000 bells worth of insects and an octopus that I decided to make my pet. I shall call him Paul
I’m calling already. Another win for Queensland. 🙁Also, Gravity Rush is a pretty cool guy.
You say that but QLD is falling apart a bit at the moment. Only minutes to go. 2 points.
Christ this is stressful.
Yeah, but time is running out. 🙁
For NSW.
I’m QLD born and bred.HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Streaker!
Ruined the game for NSW.
Queenslander!
Eight in a row!
FINALLY BOOKED MY PLANE TICKET. FOR TOMORROW MORNING.
I am a paragon of organisational skills.
People from TAY are really disorganised.
Today I go to Gorzillas house stole me Pyreans 3 Day Pass to PAX of which Ill prolly only get to use on Sunday anyway, and I also made of with Rocketmangs chair.
Best break and enter ever.
I got my Dad his birthday present for next week!
It’s the entire Hogan’s Heroes collection on DVD. Hopefully he’ll enjoy it.I know NUTHINK! NUTHINK!
Ooooh does it have Bob Cranes home video sex tapes as well????? I’m guessing not… that’d be Hogans Pornos…
Ok everybody here we go, the final final Encore of the SMURF SUMMER SALES.
Who’s a bad Orc then? WHO’S a bad Orc then?
We’ve got a very special copy of ORCS MUST DIE 2 to give away, this copy include ALL the DLC for Orcs Must Die that’s currently available. You heard it, ORCS MUST DIE 2 plus ALL DLC. Not a bad deal. I must say, this is probably one of the best ‘smaller’ games I’ve picked up on Steam in the last few years, my little guy and I play this from time to time and never cease to have fun with it! It plays brilliantly with mouse and Keyboard OR controller, it’s got great cartoon graphics and its a massively fun tower defence style game (well, entrance defence…)
SO with that rambling out of the way… your mission, should you choose to accept it.
The ORCS ARE COMING! THE ORCS ARE COMING!
You’re going to have to tell me the coolest possible whacked out trap you could ever build from fictional, non fictional, existant, non existant, parts that will defend your house from the raging Orcs!!!!! It’s gotta be in by 5pm tomorrow.
This is the final one guys, so lets get everyone thinking eh?
I only need one part:
Kevin McCallister
Here you go!
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02134/Macaulay_2134207b.jpg
Christ man, put that away!
It’s already working!
HIRE THIS MAN AT ONCE.
Can’t argue with results eh?
Instead of watching the State of Origin this evening (apparently I missed out on a streaker? LAME!) or actually playing a game tonight, I decided to work on my Backloggery of games.
The site takes all games you own, and has you rank them in terms of completion, along with platform, region, thoughts and ratings. All kinds of fun metrics, actually.
So the ranks of completion are as follows:
Unfinished* (unplayed)
Unfinished
Beaten
Complete (all achievements/sidequests)
Master (performances generally considered outside the scope of the game. Think restricted runs etc.)
Of the 265 games I’ve listed, I’ve completed 6, beaten 27 and started 68.
Oh… oh god…
I’ve made some really good progress on BioShock tonight :D. Usually I’ll only play for 40 mins or so before my computer just explodes and the game gets virtually unplayable (so I just give up and don’t play it for months) but it worked fine tonight and I managed to play for a decent amount of time.
I thought this game was supposed to be short! I’m at 8ish hours and still going strong :D. Earlier tonight I just assumed I was near the end and thought I’d just play it through until completion but apparently there’s more!
The game’s a bit dated though but it would’ve been amazing to play back at launch :(. I rented it back then but didn’t get too far and I’ve been waiting to borrow it from a friend ever since (never got around to it, I guess…). But I FINALLY got my own copy on PC last year and I’ve been slowly playing it ever since.
Tomorrow shall be BioShock day.
I reiterate my organisational status.
Just finished packing my bags. 5kg backpack, and a 21kg suitcase. Yep, definitely just going away for a weekend trip.
What on earth are you taking with you? I’m a woman and I’m taking a little wheelie carryon and a small handbag.
Two costumes, both of which are rather bulky :p
Dear Mark Cerny,
You remember that ‘terrifying’ (at the time) T Rex demo that was on the PS1? If you would make a HD version for PS4, that’d be rad, if only for the nostalgia factor.
Kind regards,
NotoriousR
I was never spooked by the T Rex, but that freaking Manta Ray? NOPENOPENOPE
D:
So Lifehacker has an article “the five dumbest science ‘facts’ believed by Australians” and now I really really want to know who is called for all these polls because I…just…what?
The article is here. The only question that I would probably have derped on would have been the earth revolving around the sun one, and that only probably because instinctively I would have been like “a day! Wait, 365.25 and a bit days.”
Although to be fair the last question isn’t really a “science question”.
Someone once tried to explain to me that it was a coincidence that it took a year to complete one revolution of the sun. Very nearly Picardfacepalmed.
Also, comment thread. Why did I read? Whyyyyyyy?
WIth that one, I figured a lot of people were just confusing the Earth’s orbit around the Sun with how long it takes the Earth to rotate.
That water one would probably have tripped me up.
The general public’s understanding of evolution is quite poor- it tends to default back to “survival of the fittest,” which is incorrect (or at least grossly simplified)
I knew it was low but could very well have said around 5%
As for survival of the fittest that is how I was taught evolution
“Survival o f the fittest” implies that every species nowadays is a peak creature, a perfectly honed “fit” animal.
Better but still wrong is “survival of the fittest, the not too unfit, the lucky, and the adequate”
I prefer survival of the most adaptive to the environment. Start with that, lead with Darwin’s finches and work from there.
The core of the problem is that they don’t understand what ‘fitness’ actually means in that context. The assumption is that it moves toward a ‘better’, usually more complex solution, but that’s not the case. There are many examples of situations where being less ‘fit’ makes the organism more likely to pass on its genes. Sickle-cell anemia for example is a terrible thing to have, but gives people immunity to the symptoms of Malaria.
The other thing is that a lot of people conflate evolution (the method by which life gains diversity) with abiogenesis (the origin of life itself). They’re not the same thing, and evolution works regardless of where life itself came from, it doesn’t care.
@freya: To me, the worrying things in that study were the people who think humans and dinosaurs coexisted, and the fact that the 35-44 age bracket seem to be absolute morons.
I just miss that bracket \o/
Once we’re in it maybe the average will go up.
Without a doubt 😉
I’m in it! Although I wasn’t educated here. Maybe that makes a difference.
The only question I’d have had trouble with was the fresh water one. I honestly had no idea but I’d have guessed less than 3% because, well, because of all the fucking ocean I suppose.
I’m not even remotely surprised by those results.
why was i curious? That is just awfull, and the comments ….. nearly speechless….
PAX TOMORROW!!! \o/
Who’s going what days?!
Plans?!
All three days! About to get on the plane.
If you’re there Friday and see Manny Calavera, or Saturday and see a Luigi stomping around in big red boots and a backpack, come say hi :p
Saturday!
I already DM’ed you mah phone number.
Still haven’t had one single sexy voice mail or sext. Gotta admit to a bit of disappointment.
I’ll get onto that
ALL DAYS! NO PLANS! HAM!
All the days!!
Not a plan at all!!
Organisation \o/
Psst! Saturday – 12pm – Lunch! Pass it on!
Oh, oh, oh! Keep me posted on Twitah!
WE CAN BE PLAN-LESS BUDDIES!
I know!
No days.
Yes.
ALL THE DAYS!
I GET TO MEET LAMBO?!?!
ALL THE LIKES!
Saturday and Sunday, Saturday night kareoke in the CBD 🙂
I think there’s also Saturday lunch plans? (@doc_what ?)
@tech_knight Yeah, the Sunday plans were changed to Saturday because quite a few people couldn’t make it on Sunday.
Understood, thanks for the heads up
TECHY! 😀
Battle brother! Nice to hear from you again young chap. How you been?
Is PAX on!?
Man, you guys sure have been keeping this a secret!
On teh Saturdays!
The plan is to work out the the plan tonight at Bar robot
Now that it is written down it is a real PLN
Let me know how it goes – i’m keen to hang with you guys again 🙂
Psst! Saturday – 12pm – Lunch! Pass it on!
Also Karaoke on Saturday night!
Psst, what’s the plan for lunch?
DO I NEED TO THINK OF EVERYTHING!?
I was hoping a Melbourne TAYbie would have a plan. If not… I guess we eat at PAX.
WE CAN HAVE A PICNIC!
This actually could be an option. BYO lunch, not sure if we will have access to the grandstands but ducking out and having lunch could work
HEY HEY HEY!
You’re smarter than the av-eh-rage TAYbie!
Morning TAY!
Nightmare of a night – the kids. Urgh. Who would have kids. Have had a grand total of 12 hours sleep in the last three nights. Benchmark for normalcy is 15 hours. I miss those three hours.
Watched The Wire last night. Now four eps into season two and
the band is getting back together. The taskforce is being set up right now… except McNulty. Oh man, he’s really screwed himself. I love how he trolls the department though – it’s so damn amusing, because he doesn’t seem to care how bad he self-destructs, as long as he manages to annoy Rawls while doing it 😛You had kids? What’s wrong with you?
The fuck did I do?
Love this show.
Really want to go back and watch Homicide: LotS with fresh eyes. These guys make unique, quality TV.
McNultys personal journey is pretty interesting, throughout the whole series.
He’s an incredibly compelling character.
GunPoint! The game looks amazing and is on sale ($6) for the next two hours! However if you are considering a purchase buy it from the developers own site: http://www.gunpointgame.com/. I think he will get a bigger cut and you get a steam key and no-drm version as well!
Oh and obligatory: QUEENSLANDER! SPORTSBALL!
Free wheeling balls near the end too!
Extra, free, TAY-only hint for yesterday’s ScribbleTaku (because I feel guilty, or something): It’s a Nintendo developed Wii title.
The Dig!
Also, feeling guilt? In ScribbleTaku? Rookie move.
I didn’t say what it was I felt guilty about…
$12.50 for Dark Souls Prepare To Die Edition!
If you haven’t got it yet why haven’t you?
@benny was it?
Thank you.
$6 on Amazon 😛
Cheers for the tip Freeze picked it up
You I like.
O yeah, my wish granted. Dark Souls, I shall meet you tonight.
Make sure you get graphic mods, and a controller. Keyboard/mouse is apparently unworkable.
360 controller, no probs.
Perfect. Enjoy the best game ever made. 😀
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/11/09/dark-souls-mods/
Awesome D.C.! All my work already done for me!
Here’s my PAX schedule. Bolded entries are stuff I really, really want to see, others I could probably just duck in quickly or leave early or end up skipping altogether.
Friday
10:30 – 11:30 Main Ron Gilbert Keynote
11:30 – 12:30 Main Penny Arcade Q & A
*12:00 – 13:00 Dropbear RPG Gaming – Beyond the Tabletop
*13:00 – 14:00 Wombat Beyond Dungeons & Dragons
*14:30 – 15:30 Wombat Games Can Be Anything
19:00 – 21:00 Tabletop Pathfinder Society
20:30 – 23:00 Main Friday Concerts
Saturday
*10:30 – 12:00 Main Penny Arcade Make a Strip
*11:00 – 13:00 Tabletop ArcanaCon presents Tabletop Roleplaying Games
*11:00 – 13:00 Tabletop Pathfinder Society
18:30 – 19:30 Skippy Making Your Own Tabletop Game
19:30 – 23:30 Main Saturday Night Concerts
Sunday
*11:30 – 12:30 Wombat Is There Such A Thing As a Fake Geek?
12:00 – 13:00 Dropbear Pitch Your Game Idea
*13:00 – 14:00 Wombat Are Videogame Reviews Failing To Change With the Times?
14:00 – 15:00 Skippy Writing for Tabletop Roleplaying Games
17:30 – 18:30 Main Omegathon Finals + Closing Ceremony
I was thinking that I’d just be hanging out in the Tabletop area on Saturday for people interested in playing some D&D; of course Nintendo decided to hold their Pokémon tournament on the Saturday. I’d like to take part, but deep down I know I cannot win (don’t have a team prepared that I’m confident enough in – especially not up against either bulky Fighters or Rain teams, which will probably be the two most prevalent choices).
Here’s mine!
Friday-Sunday: …eat?
@sughly’s Fri-Sun.
ANNA’S. QUEST.
No food. No sleep. Just work. >:|
____
Fixed it for you 😀
….nahhhh.
Just take part in the comp. There might be prizes for just participating 🙂
Here’s mine
Now – infinity & beyond – be amazing (ie, keep on keeping on)
Sunday – wash undies.
Nothing worse than putting off washing so long that you go to take a shower and realise youre on your last pair, and need to wear them for the third day straight. Right..? Right…
Hand to my heart, I’ve never bought new undies.
I usually make them work until Christmas/Birthdays when my Mum is in town.
The first undies I bought for myself were FUBU. Got them from TK Maxx in Hammersmith.
They served me well.
Oh, looking at the responses… I’ve overplanned, haven’t I?
Nahhh, just being replied to by envious non pax peoples
I’d love to play D&D at some point!
I am keen to attend one of the learn to play warhammer events. Mrs Tigs not so much.
I have a number of events each day listed but on the phone app so not easily transferrable here.
Friday
10:30 – 11:30 Main Ron Gilbert Keynote
11:30 – 12:30 Main Penny Arcade Q & A
1:30 – 2:30 Thugs and magicians
2:30 Games can be anything
6pm Xbone
7pm Penny arcade on parenting
8:30pm Aussie Indie showcase
Saturday
*10:30 – 12:00 Main Penny Arcade Make a Strip
11:30 Geek parenting
12pm – Crafting a game series for otaku
2:30 childs play panel
4pm – Why so serious
5pm – What’s that sound
5:30 Gamer rage
6:30 – making your won tabletop game
8:30 – The ultimate industry quiz
9pm – Fallout fan film
10pm – Screening Going cardboard doco
Sunday
videogames are good for you
3pm – Super retro game trivia
I’ll also probably try for the QR code merch thingy so if you do see any of the codes about let me know 😛
You know what movie was great?
Dracula: Dead and Loving It.
I miss Leslie Nielsen.
You know what movies gonna be great? Damn straight you know.
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!
Ash making the ‘I dont have my lunchbox’ gesture as he gets out the car.
Fuck parenthood. Just, fuck it.
On a happier note! Developer I’m working for totally sent me a screenshot of their newest game theyre developing – they snuck my character Ted into it! Argh! So happyyy, looks awesome ^_^
HAHAHAHAHA!!!
There’s a gesture!?
Amazing.
Yeeaaa, it wouldnt make sense to anyone else, its him eating an invisible sandwich with a look of fear on his face. I’ve seen it enough times to know what it means though.
WHICH DEVELOPER!?
DEETS.
TELL USSSSSSS (ME)
#Needius
Nahhhh! Ergh, really would love to though. Cant wait til its officially announced!
You don’t know?
I’m starting to suspect that even @sughly doesn’t know 😛
Ahaha! Nahhh, all the Queenslanders totally know. Move to QLD and I’ll tell you
Will you tell me if I visit in November?
Probably will be announced by then haha! But ah, yeah, sure. If it makes you feel special. Caus you are special Shane. Not sure where Im going with this…
Little White Bus special
I don’t know /o\
@sughly
http://open.spotify.com/track/43YGzmnmoZUc14duqj7bNM
I dont have spotify installed at the moment T_T wut is it? I need to knowww
Wicked game, made awesome
Waaait, I didnt know spotify had a web player now! Woop woop listening now…
Wicked game, made awesome look up wicked game mimi page
Alright settle petal I’m listening! ^^
Ayup, pretty nice! Very smooth like. Chillaxing, one might say. Except they wouldnt, only I would dare to.
Sorry my phone decided to post things half baked this morning. its fun like that.
But Now I’m at work so the pc will be good, right?…. Right????
also I’ll find your email later and send you something awesome to download, you probably wont find it online, but a group that was around for 6 months a few years ago, acouple of aus Idol dropouts and two queensland producers doing an australian trip hop album, I’ll send it later…
😀
dbe(dot)krams(at)gmail
DRAGON BALLLLLLL E!
Morning TAY,
Hope everyone’s mornings are going well.
So I have a hospital appointment today after having an X-ray and blood test on Monday. It’s always worrying going into the hospital for some reason it just always seems to be bad news when I go so abit worrying, specially when urology is involved :\
Other than that my mornings gone well and picked up Dark Souls now I just need a 360 controller.
:/ hopefully the news is good!
Do you have a PS3 controller? You can easily use that as a PC controller with a program called MotionJoy. I’ve been using that instead of a 360 controller since I don’t have a wired one, or a wireless receiver.
I’ve got a PS3 so if that works ill give that a shot, better then forking out money I don’t have at the moment for a controller (still waiting to get my tax back)
Don’t use MotionJoy, it’s full of spyware.
For Dual Shock 3 on PC, use this:
http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-XInput-Wrapper-for-DS3-and-Play-com-USB-Dual-DS2-Controller
hope everything goes well man, i know exactly where you’re coming from…. i avoid doctors/hospitals like the plague.
Imagine if you had a sex-ray. but.
Like, it’s a ray gun, that changes peoples sexes.
You could rob tonnes of banks.
Wasnt that the plot of Place beyond the pines? Or was that just Gosling robbing with sexiness.
Gosling.
-faints-
Everytime I see that movie name, Place beyond the Pines, I instantly think it’s a horror movie then I remember it has Ryan gosling in it and I’m terrified of his sex rays
Don’t be scared, just go with it.
-whispers- Just go with it…
“sex-ray” makes me think of the gun in Orgasmo.
ozgameshop are doing a pretty sweet deal on the controller: $45.99, free postage. If shopping around, remember that you need the PC one with receiver.
I hate hospitals. Spent the majority of my life aged 3-6 in them and they make me nervous even when I’m just visiting someone. Hope it works out for you.
As for controllers I use the Logitech wireless one. Same one Steam have on their Big Picture stuff. I quite like it. Comfortable, nice weight and works pretty flawlessly with almost every game (Deadlight is all screwy for some reason. Buttons are all over the place.) Only drawback I could see someone having is its the PS3 stick layout but I see that as a feature as its what I’m used to.
Got mine for about $50.
My brother uses the same so I will check that out as well, he swears by it that it’s a good controller so I got no reason to go against that.
Thanks guys means alot, ill let ya know what happens after I wait in line with probably 20 other people for over an hour hopefully to get good news (damn you box hill and your long doctors lines)
Good luck with hospital stuffs. Hope it all works out well. I’d hug you but I don’t really know you yet. 😛
Don’t worry Strange ill be around, just write it out as an IOU
Good luck, man. I too have a urologist appointment in a couple of weeks. We can be junk buddies!
Hahaha! Sounds good to me why go it alone when you have a junk buddy
Hope everything goes well!
morning boys and gals!
Need some quick opinions on:
Ace of Spades
and
War of the Roses
Now march forth and TYPE!
ANOTHER NIGHT ANOTHER PLACE ANOTHER GIRL ANOTHER RACE ANOTHER AKHHFJKJB JAHDFOIHR GHIHONVND
WE ARE THE ROAD CREW!!!
aw gawd……
I was gonna put “The Ace of Spades” lyrics here but you seem to have referenced Motorhead for me 😀
Why are we only just now Steam fronds?
lazius :/
or you rejected me last time…. in which case im now hurt 🙁
I prefer chivalry to war of the roses. Although to be fair I have played much more Chiv than WoR. I find the learning curve much higher on WoR and seems like you really need to invest the time to be competitive. I think it would be more fun with a bunch of friends rather than pubs
Ace of spaces is a card which means you are looking at card and boardgames so you should ask trjn
I too have been eyeing ace of spades, so anyone’s input on the game would be much appreciated
isnt ace of spades the class based game where teams build their fortifications minecraft style and then attack?
I have Ace f Spades but haven’t played much. It seems like it could be good fun, nothing ground breaking.
War of the Roses – Yes. Just be aware you need to learn the game, and it will take time. Hella fun, though.
@greenius @coldcamv – http://dx.com/p/designer-s-pc-wireless-gaming-receiver-for-xbox-360-controller-black-129239
Free Shipping
Freak hitting.
Don’t do it.
It’s not PC.
Console-exclusive eh? Oh well 😛
But using a PS3 controller (my preferred controller :D) is free!
Wooohooo, getting closer to 100 likes on Facebook! Tell your friends, and family – get everyone on the official Shane W Smith Hype Train. Random giveaway once 100 likes are reached!
http://www.facebook.com/#!/ShaneWSmith.Author
Finished reading both of your books this week, thumbs up from me, great read 🙂
Edit: Those were great sketches. One irk I got with the books is that one or two separate pages in the books were blurry, not sure why. The test wasn’t unreadable but it was uncomfortable for the eyes to get through those pages. Thankfully they were rare but random occurances
Thanks man, really glad you liked them! Made my day just then 😀
Edit: Let’s be honest, though Robot-Steve-Holts made those books readable.
Just outlines how feeble humans can be, then those robots can start their own takeover Muahahaha! 😛Stay tuned for sequel. 🙂
That weekend was the first time I saw the book, and I noticed those blurry pages too… after I got back home. Publisher is investigating as I shake my fist impotently at the uncaring sky.
Haha, just watching this National concert. Nice little Game of thrones moment when rains of castamere is yelled out as a request https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9YpzevT9Y9w#t=573s
@shane YOU BASTARD!
… I’m sorry…? 🙁
Edit: Now I’m going back through everything I’ve said and done and thought to figure out what (else) I flubbed up.
Edit 2: Okay, now officially anxious 😛
Edit 3: I’M SORRY, MAN!
Edit 4: *refresh refresh refresh*
Edit 5: *calls hospital to see if Mrs Zetrox is okay*
I bet it was about you dissing Alias yesterday. 😛
/o\
Actually, if that’s all it is, I can live with it. I’m more worried that @zetrox2k came on an impromptu visit to Canberra, and I accidentally ran over his wife without noticing, and drove away without helping or even saying hello. Or, you know, something equally bad.
http://www.polygon.com/2013/7/17/4532578/beyond-good-and-evil-2-was-too-big-for-current-consoles
PC? :'(
Haha! I just like the fact it stills exists, even if Ancel is making excuses. 😛
(Though the stuff about freedom of choosing your space ship and flying away is appealing. :D)
oh man, *bounces around with excitment* I hope they use the same people for the music, I still get music from that in my head regularly, there was just so many great things about it, loved the Hovercraft spaceship combo.
and the huge aerial battle at the end made my jaw drop, came outta nowhere and was awesome, i loved how you seemed so overwhelmed at first then the reinforcements arrived, so many great moments, and those songs during the races *love* 😀*adds BioShock to the completed game list* 😀
hmmm… what’s next…
What’s on your uncompleted list?
A lot of things :). If something suggested is high up on my list then I’ll consider it.
PAX!
I’m sorry, but I can’t attend PAX North :'(
Hey… I thought PAX North was all about Goslingfest? What else were you planning on doing? 😀
Woooooo congrats
I still planning to have that done by the end of SGM
This is some of my favourite game music ever. Listening to it out of context, I can’t really figure out why, but it’s so damn perfect in the game and makes me grin like a complete idiot whenever
it plays while Phoenix demolishes someone’s lies.SO GOOD!
In subsequent games some of the themes are remixed so while they’re still new, they’re still awesome!
There’s a George RR Martin and Peter Dinklage Q&A in Sydney Opera House in September. I think it’s only pre-sale atm. Prices range from $60 to $500. Currently only $300 and $500 tix are available, but you do get to have a photo with them. Damn I am conflicted.
Ok a repost as it’s all ending today ladies and gents!
What madness is this?
You fixed it after I’d posted 🙁
I was fiddling around with the quote tags lol. It looks horrendous at one stage! It’s all fixed though. Did I miss something???
Guys. Like @shane’s page if you haven’t yet.
I think he’s about to give away an old rusted out train.
That name again is Mr Plow
I have literally just spent the last twenty minutes figuring out how to produce a couple of little rusted out trains for the giveaway. I think I can do it, but it will take a horrendously long time and be quite expensive. There must be something wrong with me.
@shane RE the bastard comment…
you mentioned the shane w smith hype train and linked it to lil ol rust bukkit… i happened to be on the phone with a customer and taking a sip of my coffee whilst clicking through.
the result is coffee sprayed all over my laptop, desk and phone…..
IVE SPENT THE LAST 20 MINUTES CLEANING IT!!!
That monster! D:
Stop being so funny @shane
And I just called the hospital to check on Mrs Zetrox! Glad to hear that it wasn’t her I ran down.
Sorry man, didn’t mean to cause your computer issues.
At least it was coffee though, loaded with natural hype.
Is Dead Island Riptide worth getting on pc? I really loved part 1, I see Riptide on sale, may have to wait a little while but it’s intriguing me. Is it?
Slightly cheaper ($24) on OGS for a Steam key via email:
http://www.ozgameshop.com/pc-games/dead-island-riptide-game-code-by-email-pc
I haven’t played either game, but the reviews I checked out said “more of the same.”
So if you liked the first one, you’ll probably like this one.
#NotReallyHelping
Actually that kinda does help. Anotherwords it sucks single player but multiplayer it’ll likely be a blast 🙂
yeah, nothing really new added, some of the new mods are interesting, they don’t add much to the skill trees either, But I loved the first one and had a great time with Riptide. Up till the point that my HDD died 🙁
No idea what to vote for on Steam. All 3 choices are for optional purchases for F2P games.
Do you have to vote?
It’s all about the cards shane, it’s all about the cards
I just went with the one that had the biggest discount and I know at least 1 friend plays that game
Exactly, if I don’t know what to vote for then I just vote for whatever because cards 😀
That reminds me, I have a bunch of summer doubles I need to finish trading away. I can’t remember exactly what they were, and I have no idea if you can trade them via the mobile app.
Vote with your heart.
Is Steam still a thing?
whats steam?
U-Play, Ba-by
Apparently.
Have you heard of PAX?
Is that some kind of poor man’s Keanupalooza?
You mean GoslingFest13, right?
Eh?
Is that some Mickey Mouse nonsense?
You and Disney, man… You’re nuts. We all know you only hang out at Disneyland to try and bump into famous screenwriters.
when in doubt, vote for the worst game. (warframe)
Warframe wasn’t bad before they changed the majority of it to be as generic as possible.
I have a real objection to the idea that you can only get the best gear with real money & not the in-game currency. thats why its the worst.
also, I really didnt think it was that fun.
That was one of the greatest things about playing APB reloaded; you could pay to win but ultimately skill was still the most important thing. Beating someone who paid $35 for a gun (no, I’m not kidding) with the free starter rifle was a great feeling 😀
I finished Deadlight. Horrible, horrible writing. Fun platforming and cool art direction.
What’s the plan for the afternoon, man?
*refreshes TAY*
That’s my plan too! \o/
Morning all. To PAX goers – how are all of you getting there? Also, might someone allow me to tag along with them, please? \o/
I’m catching a train into the city, then I don’t know, a tram or something. I still have to look up metro times and stuff.
I might do that. The No. 57 tram seems to part from Flinders St/Elizabeth St every 8 minutes or so
There should be dedicated showgrounds trains running from southern cross and flinders st pretty regularly.
I could’ve sworn I read somewhere that they weren’t running those trains for PAX, but I’ll definitely be taking it if there is.
http://www.metrotrains.com.au/category/extra-services-category/pax-gaming-convention
Thank you for the link! 😀
Repost on the next page please @dc oh keeper of the sacred useful information and nice helper of people…
I’m driving, like a big boy. It’s only a 30 minute drive from my place.
I hope parking won’t be too expensive for you
If it’s like the other conventions, it should be $10 D:
Training it because I live in Melbourne! \o/
That’s partially what I’ll do \o/
*circles the wagons*
Slow TAY is a glimpse of the weekend ahead, I think. D:
I’ll take care of you, sweetcheeks.
…
D:
The trick is not to clench.
P.S. You’re the jerk. 😛
NO YOU!
@transientmind email sent. Check your spam!
Also, enjoy PAX. Keep that iPad safe 😛
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/07/michel-ancel-sure-is-saying-some-stuff-about-beyond-good-evil-2/
More Beyond Good & Evil 2 stuff. All of this sounds incredible! 😀
(Minor end of the game spoilers for the original too. Be vigilant!)
Thanks for the spoiler warning.
Sometimes not knowing is half the battle 😛
SERIOUS MORAL QUESTION TIME:
If Wolverine got his head cut off… and was kept seperate from his body…. would his body heal a new head or his head heal a new body…. would we end up with TWO WOLVERINES??????
I’m pretty sure you can’t cut his head off due to the adamantium coating his spine?
What happened when the Hulk ripped him in half? Did they have to join his two halves together for him to heal, or did he just grow a new pair of legs?
Oooooh we must research this 😀
To the … laboratory?
To the lavatory!!!!!!
Wait…what?
I think there are certain body parts that cannot repair/regenerate themselves, ie. whole limbs?
But on a similar note, I always pictured Wolverine getting HIV with his bloodied, retracting knives.
His healing factor negates all disease!
Yeah, I guess I accepted that.
Those top 50 games of all-times lists we did a while back. If those were the only games you could ever play again and have no new games, would you be satisfied? 😀
You could not cut Wolverine’s head off, because adamantium bone structure. ONE WOLVIE!
Also, intended for @weresmurf. Nice one Cody, you fucking mongo.
No worries, dickman.
HAH but if one had an adamantium sword they could 😛 and Wolverine has had his arm cut off before in the future version of himself from the old series of the future wars with Apocalypse where Cyclops has one eye 😛
Holy shit comics are dumb.
The Xmen ones got super-retarded back in the late 80s early 90s indeed. It’s why both marvel and dc ended up having to reboot various lines at some point in the 2000s, due to a whole clusterfuck of continuiity for both of them.
Y’all should read my comics. Books that have a deep and serious connection to proper literature, and that openly acknowledge the impossibility of there being two of anyone.
There ARE two of me… ones right here.
The others here! Whatup guy!
There was a period in the comics where he didn’t have the adamantium any more though. Can’t recall if it ever got stuck back on but Magneto basically ripped it out of him.
I think the reason that no one wants to answer this question is that they think you’re trolling them on PAX-Eve, which is all about new games 😀
Nice trolling, BTW.
And a legitimately tough question.
Aw, wasn’t trolling intentionally. D:
Was thinking about it for real the other day. So many diverse, great, long games on my list but uncertain if that’d be enough! 😀
If you want my answer, I’d not be happy with just the 50. I’m always on the lookout for fresh stories and innovative mechanics. I’m talking older games I haven’t yet played as much as I am new games coming out in the future.
I can’t assume that my list contains the best 50 games ever made; just my favourites of the ones I’ve played so far.
Agreed! The fact The Last of Us was only three weeks old when I put it on the list shows that the next favourites always around the corner… or something.
I’m going to have to make room for Ace Attorney on my list, I think.
But I never would have discovered it if I was keeping to the pure nostalgia of my top 50.
No
I like new games and even the best games get stale after a while. Potentially if no other games were ever released I could create a list of 50 to only play, but with new shiny games coming out I couldn’t stick to that list.
http://www.destructoid.com/wii-u-delay-brought-way-more-content-to-rayman-legends-258241.phtml
@Jimu linked this on twitter. New stuff sounds amazing. They talk about how Murfy works on the 360, but this pretty much convinced me that I’ll still get the Wii U version.
ooo! I’ve been holding out to see how they do it on other platforms but I’ve also been too lazy to cancel my existing pre-order so I’ll get it on Wii U anyway 😀
And that’s still my main concern… absolutely kills the pace on the Wii U version :/ UGH
I really liked the Murfy sections of the game, I just hope it’s balanced enough that it’ll always be a pleasant surprise when you get to use the character, but he never overstays his welcome.
I think it worked well in the challenge sections (from the app) but in the demo it really felt like it was just plopped in the middle of a ‘normal’ level. I really hope they add the option to map it to a button in the Wii U version. If they’ve already developed it for the other platforms the I don’t see why not! 😀
*throws things*
In such a bad mood right now.
What’s up, man?
Not paid what I was expecting…. They are in the process of trying to change the pay system for on call but havent officially notified anyone. Hence I am expecting more than what has been paid.. but I was expecting the new rate to be more than it actually was…
TL:DR – Not paid what I wanted now cranky because of it…
Sorry to hear, man. Hope it shakes out in your favour, and that you’re not being ripped off.
I say call a strike! But a peaceful strike..like the ones where you sit down and read TAY all day
Was about to complain about the disappointing lack of Streetpasses in Sydney airport. Then I realised my 3DS was off instead of in sleep mode.
WHO’S THE DISAPPOINTMENT NOW NOVA!?
Its me 🙁The Silence!!! IT IS BROKEN!!!!
Also happy PAX Aus eve everyone 🙂
I am breaking radio silence for this special event, that and well, i actually have spare time at work for a super special rare event! How is everyone? who am i going to get to meet this weekend?
Probably someone, maybe. I think.
At some stage. Probably.
I guess? At least, I believe so.
I like that we live like 5 mins away from each other but have never met 😛
WILL THAT CHANGE!?
Possibly, i mean, i know for a fact that i have more than likely walked past your place on more than one occasion.
My house specifically or the court?
CREEPIUS ! D:
Well i have been past your court. i have no idea which house yours is. I am too scared to go in the court incase it does look like i have my creep on.
Hey so apparently there’s a taybies meat tonight at a bar of some sort? I’m on my phone so I’m having difficulty finding the details 🙁
Bar Robot, I think?
Bar Robot, 12 Bligh Pl, Melbourne. It’s off Flinders Lane, (not Flinders St, Flinders Lane is a smaller street that runs between Flinders St and Collins St) between Queen St and Elizabeth St.
EDIT: at 8pm.
Had the perfect pic for the @shane hype train
http://imgur.com/lTFjfjS
Much too big 😛
That’s what…
the reason is it came off the rails, I’m sure. #TakeThatGrammarIt’s from a train graveyard in Bolivia 🙂
I kind of hate the fact that I’m still not comfortable with publicly being a gamer. You’d think after 30 years of being one I’d be fine with it and wouldn’t be worried.
*grumblegrumble*
You and me both.
That Dark Souls post on Facebook today might well have been the first overtly gamery post I’ve even shared up there.
I was reading through that gaming tattoo article and realised that I couldn’t bring myself to get one even though its who I am and would be more meaningful. Instead I get random tigers and dragons that don’t mean a whole lot besides I like them. I’d like to get the Darksign on my other arm but I’m too worried about having to explain what it is to people.
Don’t explain! People think my Tool Undertow ribcage tattoo is a scroll. I just let them.
The Darksign would be an awesome tattoo!
Also, as it’s now past my birthday I can claim my Mother’s Day/Easter/Birthday present of a tattoo and I’ll be making an appointment as soon as I can for my Maiden In Black. If people ask what it is and I can’t be bothered explaining I can just say it’s a maiden in black. 😛
You should totally also get a Solaire tattoo because Knights are cool and you won’t necessarily have to explain the gaming connection….
It’s understandable, considering that it’s still frowned upon by many.
I happily and proudly wear my various gaming shirts, along with my SC2 Zerg hoodie in public, whilst playing my 3DS or Vita. I couldn’t care less what people think, and feel genuinely sorry for people that do.
Don’t mean that to sound condascending to you either, I just made peace a very long time ago. It’s who I am, and it’s not going to change any time soon. I’m 32 and have been a gamer since I was 5 or 6.
Let go man. It’s what you are. Of course you have to make some allowances, just make sure it’s not too much.
I think it might stem from working in a trade most of my life and never having any friends into it. Seriously, you guys are the first time I have.
I do remember at the Movie World meat when we were talking about games while having lunch being really happy that I didn’t have to contain my enthusiasm for games. 😀 Also, I have friends who are into games and then I start rambling crazily about them before realizing they’re not into them as much as me… and I look crazy. 😛
Yeah your environment and peers certainly makes it more difficult. I’ve always worked in IT, etc – except for a couple of years fibreglassing and spraypainting. Most of my friends were geeks of varying degrees growing up. Was probably easier for me.
Do whatever makes you comfortable. You’ll know if you’re being true to yourself. You’re the only one that will.
EDIT: Also worth mentioning I’m single – I’ve had partners in the past that haven’t always tried to change me, but have at the very least tried to minimise my gamerness. My last partner was particularly understanding of my gaming habits, but even she encouraged certain changes. Not necessarily bad, but still changes.
My wife is pretty good she understands it’s what I love and is fine with me spending ridiculous amounts of money on it. She even attempts to get involved on occasion. She just wants me to not get so involved I neglect her and the kids which is in no way unreasonable or wrong.
Mrs. Freeze is incredibly awesome. She’s an honorary TAYbie. It’s always great seeing her at the meats.
There are allowances that must be made, especially when you have a wife and kids. I guess it’s another reason it’s easier for me – I’m single and don’t want kids ever. Mostly because I’m selfish and I like my own time too much.
It’s pretty special to have someone who understands you though. That’s a pretty big life win.
My wife is largely the same. She doesn’t really get gaming, but she supports it and hasn’t judged or labelled it beyond “no strong interest for me”. She’s happy to listen to me tell her the bits I think she’d dig (and actually got into games like Mario Kart and The Walking Dead). I think we married good women, Mr Freeze.
Where as at the moment I’m missing out on sleep because we are coming home late and I’m ready for bed and she asks “Do we have time for Ys”
As she stated a number of times this week “I’s all @negativeZero’s fault” So thanks for that, we are enjoying it so far (just got the 1st book). Although she wasn’t too sure when I loaded up a ‘boobie game’ to play with her
Mrs Tigs is awesome too! \o/
Sorta the same for me as well. Sure, I had friends that played games but just the sort of general ones (FIFA, CoD etc.) and I’d never actually go into a full discussion with them 😛
That’s why I like my TAY discussions/note comparisons so much <3
What do you mean publicly? Talking to strangers about it?
I know the feeling. For me, it was very much to do with being told by everyone to stop playing games while I was growing up (“go outside and play!” etc.) so it felt like it wasn’t something you’re supposed to do. Took me years to shake it off.
I’m a bit mixed on this issue. On one hand, I’m not really ashamed of being a gamer, but on the other I don’t really enjoy publicly advertising it, reasons being that A: I’ve had people have a go at me in the past for it, and B: I’ve had fellow gamers try and start conversations with me, and my social awkwardness and anxiety has made such interactions less than enjoyable (though I imagine I’d be a bit better at it now).
Because FOX News has created a perception in the non-gaming world that gamers are either basement-dwelling mouthbreathers or psychotic mass-murderers in training.
There’s literally no room for gaming to be a hobby in this discourse – it’s assumed to be an all-consuming obsession, leaving no room for other interests or personality.
Not publicly identifying as a gamer in this kind of hostile environment is just a survival instinct 🙂
I HAVE AN UMBRELLA STICKER ON MY CAR!
Admittedly 98% of road users wouldn’t have a clue what it is. So probably doesn’t count.
They probably just think you’re catholic.
http://cnnreligion.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/t1larg-popa-afp-gi.jpg?w=640
THE POPE IS AN UMBRELLA AGENT?!?!?!?
Not surprised. Something something Catholic Church evil something.
I’m the same. I love games and that, but I don’t like showing it to the general public. Even with my friends we keep the game talk to a minimum unless we’re sitting there playing one.
It was kinda made worse last semester by being in my games class and seeing what the people who were comfortable showing it were like… (I hope to god that doesn’t seem rude or horrible, but unfortunately it’s true.)
It’s weird, considering there’s very little I’m uncomfortable with, and gaming is nowhere near as questionable as some things.
I can’t stand noisy, obnoxious nerds that are so in your face it’s actually annoying. There’s a difference between being comfortable with what you are and being a maladjusted, loud and irritating person.
NEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!
I know the feeling but I am getting over it. Having taybies around and knowing that other normal well adjusted people like gaming helps. Also I suppose a lot of being part of TAY helped me find myself in a manner of speaking. Plus the fact it is becoming more wide spread helps, I was listen to people have a conversation about community voting for the steam sale on my tram last night.
FOURTH CASE OF ACE ATTORNEY CLEARED.
I think this was probably my favourite case so far. Though I was trying to make Day-Three leaps of logic in Day One and Two, and the judge was just getting annoyed with me. I figured it out early, and I think if I’d been there instead of Phoenix, I could have gotten a “not guilty” verdict on day two, and had it stick 😀Great game. Awesome game. I loved every minute of it.
Bonus case will be started on the way home tonight!
Man, oh man, when you one day reach the last case in T&T.
One day.
Ah yes! the epic one! Godspeed…
Love the case youre bout to start. SO MUCH,
Interesting…
Have started. Still investigating. I WANNA GO TO COURT ALREADY *tantrum*Im thinking of buying a PS Vita souly for Persona 4..
Am I crazy or well it be worth it amigos?
Somewhere my pal @jimu would want me to enable you to buy it! 😀
Just stay away from Chie!
Probably both. \o/
Also, PS4 compatibility will be a reason to keep it into the future. Investment! Mebbe…?
I got it just with P4G. I’ve played about 5 mins of it because PS+ keeps throwing awesome games at me.
I did that last year.
No regrets.
Apparently the Persona 4: Golden machine also plays other games? :O?! (you’ll get tons of Vita games with PS+!)
I consider the Vita as the Persona 4 machine, if you have the money, do eettt 😀
Edit: Greenius beat me to the joke 🙁
I’m known for my quickness!
😛
New material!
No it’s not.
If you haven’t played it before then yes. Especially if you have a PS+ subscription to get some of the other great games. It’s an excellent system.
SOLD
I shall buy it for Persona and then reap the benefits of PS+
Thank you friends!
If you have the money for both a good-sized memory and PS+, it is well worth the investment.
Seriously, only if you can invest in both the memory and +. That memory card price is pretty much the only deal-breaker, and with all dem free games you need to go high or bust.
Do you know how much a decent sized memory card costs?
PS+ is definitely worth the investment. I dont feel so silly having a 500gb hard drive on my Ps3 now that there are free games constantly coming out :]
Have you had PS+ before? Hopefully it’s a yes and hopefully you’ve purchased the Vita games while they were free!
They’ve already offered most of the main Vita games I was interested and everything that has been offered, hasn’t returned so unfortunately you’ve missed out on a lot of good titles. Remember, even if you don’t have a Vita you can still get the games through PS+ and stockpile them for when you do! (same for PS3). Just a heads up because I know a few people here who didn’t think about it but are now stockpiling 😀
As for memory cards you’ll want as big as possible so 32GB, which is $100+ in Australia. Ouch! $80 is a pretty standard import price though and I got mine from Super UFO. I don’t know anyone else who bought from them recently but they were fine when I used them in November or so. There’s been a few random sales/clearances and 32GB ones have been around $80 in Australia but it’s a rare occurrence.
Yeh I’ve had it for a year or so however i’ve only just recently been interested in getting a Vita. Unfortunately for me I’ve missed out on past titles and nooooooo i didnt know about stockpiling :'( Thanks for bringing that up though!
But honestly there haven’t been too many Vita titles that have caught my attention other than Persona. I’d be happy to take suggestions of titles to look out for!
I previously owned a PSP but traded it in to get my friends PS3 cheaper, do you know if they take the same cards? Otherwise an $80/$100 card it is :]
Memory card? Nah, they’re proprietary memory cards for the Vita (which is why the price is so high). I don’t even think there’s third party ones.
As for Vita games I don’t know what you like but if you go to Metacritic and look at the highest rated ones, a lot of them have been on IGC; Velocity Ultra (I believe it’s still on until July 31st) Rayman Origins, Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack, Sine Mora, Mortal Kombat, Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward, Lumines: Electronic Symphony, Gravity Rush (still on with Uncharted until November or so as they’re the “main 2 games”), MGS: HD Collection etc.
Thanks Greenius, much appreciated advice.
I only have a 16gb (because there were no 32gbs at launch here 🙁 ) and I manage by running the content manager software on my PC and transferring all my games to it except the ones I’m actively playing.
I’ve thought about getting a 32gb many times but I don’t think it’d fix my issues much. I need a 64gb.
I say get it, I did and love it! Just make sure you have PS+ for awesome other games
It’s a good start, just make sure you go US account for all the goods!
Haha @tofu’s comment in the BG&E2 article is gold
woo! validation for doing things! the best reward possible
God, sitting here at my desk is soooo
boringAWESOME.I haven’t sent a work-related email since Tuesday morning. 😛I have sent many, many emails.I’m just bored because I hate my jobI love everything about my job, and am here only to share my joy with the less fortunate people who don’t have my job.Sincerely,
ShanePod PersonWell, you’re in a good mood this afternoon Shane.
In unrealted news.
http://twitterthecomic.tumblr.com/post/38253797793/classic-tweet-by-pisscop
i went there. it was awesome. we should all go immediately
(O.o)
(o.O)
Hooray for me getting around to adding an avatar!
Hooray! I don’t know if it’s just me, but I always am wary of people (who aren’t Flu) that don’t have Gravatars. 😀 Well done!
I’d be wary of me, I cheat when i’m the banker.
NOREGRETS!
Ah, back in the day no avatar just = Pez 😛
ONWARD, TO ADVENTURE!
come i will show you adventure
enjoy your journey towards ‘pax’ all you
delicious humansdelicious humanswe will not speak again
but we may be conversing soon using the almighty hiveminduntil you returnAlrighty I’m back from the place people dread..THE HOSPITAL..
I got good news and not so good news..so that’s kinda medium I guess.
The bad news is I got diagnosed with cancer.
The good news is my body is fighting it and because I’m young (22) I have a high chance of killing it and not having to worry. However now I have to go to the hospital twice a month..that’s the worst part.
Hope y’all are having a good day and @shane hopefully hasn’t been eaten by the pod people
I’m sorry to hear about your troubles my friend, all the best though!
Thanks D.C it means alot.
Oh wow dude :(. Hopefully it’s like you said and your youngness fights it off relatively easily.
Best of luck. Cancer sucks.
I’m only going by what the doctor said, but it sounds good to me. If not there’s always kemo.
Thanks Greenius 🙂
Hope everything goes well for you, mate.
Cheers Crazyguy, hopefully it should I’m hopeful.
Downvote for cancer. Bad news – but good news on the good odds! Much good juju your way, friend. Keep us updated and feel free to vent any thoughts at your leisure.
Ill keep that in mind Cody, gotta love that good juju haha
Sounds like it’s a relatively positive prognosis.
I suggesting a large amount of gaming can be part of the treatment.
Already on it Rize, Shameless gaming month come at me!
Okay fine, twist my arm…I’ll hug you.
*hugasaurus rex*
Haha thanks Strange. Who doesn’t like a good hugging
@dan, @dc to name a couple
Good luck, in situations like that all you can do is go off what the doctors tell you.
Just means @dan and @dc need them the most haha.
Yeah at the moment I’m just tryna keep a level head
Sends many good vibes and manly hugs. I know people who have been through it, not fun. But good luck, and if bad days hit you have friends for support here 🙂
Thanks gingerchris, means alot. Having the TAY community behind you makes it easier
Sorry, man. Your news sucks. I’ll be sending you all the good vibes I can muster, as often as I can.
Cheers Shane it means alot likewise ill be sending the good vibes back your way and everyone’s way whenever I can.
@ColdCamV that sucks dude, really fucking sucks 🙁
@Shane ‘s one of us now. One… of… us. Too late for him.
You’re young, which goes very much in your favor, all my best wishes buddy, if theres anything anyone in TAY can do for you, you know we’re all here 🙂
I’m also glad you’re being positive about it… I’m not a doctor by any means, but I’m sure they’ve told you a positive attitude really helps in these situations. You’ll kick its ass man.
Cheers Weresmurf, yeah I’m grateful for everyone at TAY being here.
Yeah so I’ve been told the doctors have said high chance like 70% chance that my body will kick it’s ass so for a non doctor your prognosis is on the money haha.
Wow it’s nearly been a year since my first meat/Batman meat 🙂
And no, I didn’t go all D.C. and look through pages of TAY :D, I remember getting my license the day before the meat and I got a letter saying it’s nearly been a year and I get to move onto…
GREEN P plates! \o/
GREEN!
I’m soooo glad here it’s just 1 year with the P plates up 😛 Then there’s the P2’s but the only difference between that and a full license is the colour of the license.
Never move to the ACT. Our full licences are like a brownish yellow…
Since moving to the NT, I’ve accumulated 4 separate licences. Pretty sure that’s not right, or something.
Wooooo! Way to go and congrats again on your favourite colour and good taste!
Didn’t you come to a meat before the Batmang meat? Could have sworn you did…
Nope.
Dunno what to doooo, in the horrible dilemma of having too many plans for the weekend, made within half an hour of each other after completely forgetting about the video game themed ball thing on Satuday :S
Apply a priorities ranking.
If it works, attend the one you first responded to.
If you need another ranking system, how about sex > relations > friends.
Sexual relations with friends?
Is that that new Zynga game?
I’d buy it.
Havin’ lots of sex with my friends.
IT’S FUCKING DAVE GROHL ON DRUMS Y’ALL.
WHO KEEPS TALKING TO ME ON STEA… oh it’s in the video 😛
Wha? I haven’t added you to Steam yet!
Add me then …and gift me all the games <3
😛
If its the first system, I’ll get to spend the weekend with my best friend whom I love and miss dearly since we’ve gone a whole 3 days so far without seeing each other (tragic, I know, but it’s almost a record :P)
If we apply the second ranking system then yes, definitely the ball!
I might try making those 2 options both work. We’ll see.
Good luck!
Anyone here play The Secret World? Thoughts? I’ve installed it today, going to start it tonight 🙂
I’ve put like an hour into it. No fault of the game, I haven’t been in the mood to give it a proper go (and then got distracted by a shitload of other games…).
If you end up liking it I might try to get into it so there’s the option of grouping with a not-random.
I think @ynefel and @35 have it too?
Obligatory “@cakesmith has it”.
Yeah I crammed about 200 hours into it when it first came out. Was subscription back then, but I enjoyed it. Was playing with a mate who went off it, but I dug it. I enjoyed the settings and mechanics were pretty decent.
McGarnical returns! Sorry, I haven’t played The Secret World.
Ragnar Tornquist was the lead on that game. His The Longest Journey/Dreamfall was pretty amazing. This is also the only MMO that looks interesting to me. 😀 I haven’t played though.
I believe Alex Garland was involved in soe of the writing too? I believe…
I’ve played it a bit. It’s a decent enough game. Very different from most MMOs.
It feels remarkably similar to the only other MMO I’ve played (The Old Republic) just in terms of – run around overly large spaces and press buttons – but after a couple of hours it’s starting to show its uniqueness to me. I’m enjoying it. I’m really glad it’s not subscription
I purchased it, got thru character creation to the point where I had to come up with a real world name and they all sounded shit to me because the setting is supposed to be real world and stuff so I can’t come up with something dumb or use the name of a delicious food or beverage like I would in a fantasy game. So I cancelled, uninstalled and never played it. 🙁
Saturday Lunch Meat at 12pm too.
GOSH.
Geez, I had to put it in a second post for the link. *shakes fist* 😛
That is all.
You could still get a ticket for the movie yaknow…
🙂
Not really feeling it tonight, my friend. Hope you guys like it though. Let me know if it’s list worthy! 😀
They’re Gosling fangirls, of course they’ll love it 😀
Uh oh getting stormy at the moment. Crazy wind all day and now thunder and rain.
GOTTA CHARGE UP THE 3DS NOW!
Dat Melbourne whether -__-
I guess its better that it happens now then during PAX.
what do you mean, its Melbourne, of course it’ll rain at PAX.
Imagine a blackout :O
And a murder mystery! D:
Who framed Trjn Rabbit?
People will flock to the TapleTop section XD
Everything will be quiet except the sound of people playing on their handhelds and the glow of a thousand streetpass hits.
Spooky green lights! D:
haha yeah who am I kidding
@shane’s spent too much time on his new gravatar. 😀
I think he’s used it before 😀
It’s literally a 20 second job in Paint. @greenius, I did it today during work hours.
I swear to god you’ve done a similar thing before for Halloween or something maybe? :/
I had a “Nighthawk” one that was black background, red eye mask 🙂
And a Santa Claus one that was red hat, white pom pom 🙂
You mean… Nighthawk was you? D: Was this common knowledge? 😛
I was an impostor Nighthawk. The real one is still at large, I believe.
Ah, a decoy! That Nighthawk is skilled in covert intrigue!
Ah, I knew it! And here I was thinking I had gone crazy 🙂
Have fun, all those meating tonight! Stay safe and hold on to your butts
They may also want to attempt to stay dry, which is no easy task with the weather outside my window right now.
Man, doctors don’t like to be subtle, do they? Got a letter in the mail telling me to come in(even though I’ve got an appointment for next week)because of “abnormal test results”. In bold letters and everything. 😛
The good news though is that at least it means we’re finally getting closer to figuring out what’s wrong with me.
But yeah, after that scary letter I treated myself to some new online sewing/quilting classes to make myself feel better. \o/
Oh man! Hope all is well, my friend! *hugasaurus*
Your Swedish house guest in town yet? Did they like the beer? 😀
Mr. Strange will be picking him up from the airport at 8-ish. I’ve never met him before so I’m starting to get super nervous.
Also are you seriously not doing this movie tonight, even though you guys have been talking about it for months upon months? Wasn’t that the only PAXNorth thing planned? 😛
:S
How does Mr. Strange know the guy? From the Metal Cruise dealy?
Yup. I’ve seen him around on the Cruises but never actually met him even though Mr. Strange has.
STOP AVOIDING THE QUESTION
Yeah, it is odd that they’d send a letter like that, but i wouldn’t be to worried about the world abnormal, I have found it just means “we dont know what the hell is going on so want to prod you a bit more”
I think I’m more relieved than worried. I’d rather they found something abnormal so we can figure out how to proceed than the usual result of no results. I need to know there’s a reason for what’s going on with my stoopid body. 😀
I get that everytime I have a blood test. I get Hepatitis A ghosting on every result even though further tests are 100% negative. So every blood test turns into a 3 day pain in the ass.
Bloody doctors.
I had to have a genetic thingy done and they told me the results take about 2 weeks and to give them a call then. Had the test on the Friday and then on the Monday the doctor calls me with the results.
I was all eeekk, results of a 2 week test in 1 business day can’t be good. So he starts giving me the results, this one came back negative. Well that’s good. I kept waiting for the but which never came.
just for some reason the test results came back quicker than expected so he figured he would give me a call. Sheesh
Abnormal….Strange… I see a correlation.
Hope everything will be fine!
*Hugaraptordactyl*
*Hugceratops*
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=michaelceratops&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&authuser=0&ei=75bnUfTALIjwiQfPvID4DA&biw=1920&bih=955&sei=8pbnUfKtEIqvkgWGuoHQAQ
D:
If it was something really abnormal, as in an oh-god-you-might-have-the-T-virus abnormal, they wouldn’t mail you, they’d ring you and tell you to get your ass down there right away.
I’d imagine what you’re going to be told is ‘some of these values on your tests are outside the normal range so here’s a referral to go get some other tests done’.
“they’d ring you and tell you to get your ass down there right away.”
Scariest day of my life. If they’d just told me my white blood cell count was ridiculously high instead of making my come to the doctors I could’ve just said “no, it’s my medication, not leukemia.” and leave it at that :l
You know it’s gonna be
“M’am, according to these results you’re over five thousand years old. But that… that can’t be right? I mean you look so young”
And then no one will hear from that doctor again.
And your secret will be safe.
But for how long?
Hope everything’s ok. I mean obviously it’s not, but I hope it’s not too severe 🙂 *all the hugs*
The waiting game for STI tests are the worst.
All this week I’ve been trying to remember what I forgot to bring down with me when I went back home late last week. Just turned on my speakers, said to myself “these are so shit” as I do every time, then remembered I’ve forgotten to bring my good speakers down with my twice now :l
I saw a deal for a free $10 iTunes card a couple of weeks ago but when I tried getting it, it said it expired.
A card just randomly turned up in the mail 😀 WOO!
I should buy all the Where’s My Water levels <3. I love that game! Even though I stopped playing the game months ago, I gotta show my support! :D. Feel free to suggest other stuff too if you want! Keep in mind I’ve only got an iPhone 4S though so no fancy pants iPad stuff 🙁
Speaking of iOS things… is anyone else playing Plants vs. Zombies 2? It’s the same old fun but the freemium and IAP stuff are pretty lame. I prefer the freemium type of model where things can be unlocked quicker but it’s not exactly impossible to do without paying. There’s some of that in PvZ2 but it seems like some of the plants can ONLY be purchased for like $3 or so :/. No thanks.
Lucky 😛 I added it to my cart then it said it was out of stock so I couldn’t continue 😛
Umm… You should get Robot Unicorn Attack heavy metal version
Haha Scoopon? I added to cart, added my details and at the end it said it sold out. Never got a confirmation email or anything so who knows what happened 😛
Yeah 😛 What usually happens is that I see it on my phone then rush to the computer and it’s over!
See a comment green from upvotes.
Upvote without reading it.
Move on.
One of my work contacts in China has a photo in her email signature now.
… She’s pretty cute.
tell her “wo xiang ni mei li de nu ren!”
Or: “How about you and I start our own beef era?”
lol translation of what I wrote is “I think you are a beautiful lady”
Holy crap, Chris Bosh DOES look like a dinosaur! :O
Genetic throwback? lol
The sim on my phone stopped working for some reason, and since it was only a crappy pre-paid thing I used it as an excuse to get a new phone, so I now have a Galaxy S4. This is the first proper smartphone I’ve ever had (I don’t count the pre-paid one cause it sort of sucked).
Making the jump from a dumb phone to a smart phone is amazing. IT’S LIKE A COMPUTER IN MY HANDS!
Well I guess I might as well mosey on down to Bar Techie and see what is going on
:[
*sigh*
What’s up buddy? ]:
I honestly have no idea.
aww dood! *hugs* hope it’s nothing too bad :\
http://totallyirreverent.com.au/tees/
$10 Tees with free shipping since they’re apparently closing down. I’ve never bought from them before but other people are saying they’re fine.
It’s the type of geek/game/nerd culture shirts a lot of TAYbies like wearing :D. Not my type of thing but for $10 some of those Adventure Time shirts are pretty tempting! (I’m totally eyeing that green one)
Totally bought this
http://totallyirreverent.com.au/product/2132/adventure-time-lazing-around-tee/
(I’ll probably never wear it :P)
Thanks mate. Got the Tom Baker 50th Anniversary t -shirt and the Avengers names one. $20 for 2 t-shirts? Instabuy.
http://totallyirreverent.com.au/product/1636/super-mario-costume/
I need this by Saturday! Then I can totally run off with Princess Peach or something (if we’re still following McGarnical’s ranking system :P)
WARDROBE REFRESH INCOMING
*click*
Or… uhh, maybe not.
There was only a few I was somewhat interested in 😛
But as if you wouldn’t want a t-shirt of Finn and Jake just sitting on some grass.
Adventure Time just isn’t me, man :3
Had a look. No Dark Souls. Closed window.
I’d probably wear the Ninja Turtles shirts. Just not in public. Haha!
$50 down. Got a few to practice handsewing on, plus that awesome green Adventure Time one for my daughter,and a Star Trek one for Mr. Strange or if he doesn’t want it, I’ll make it little for my son.
I’m not sure whether to thank you or hit you with my empty wallet though, Greenman….
THE WALLET! HIT HIM WITH THE WALLET!
:'(
That means Strange Jr. and I now have the same shirt :O
I lost 2 kilos this week. I think the walking I’m doing is helping me. I also bought a $20 Steam wallet card so I can finally participate in the Steam Summer Sales. Bought the DLC for Jamestown to start with as it’s only $1.01 and I like Jamestown a lot.
Woooo! Way to go, my friend!
yay for weightloss!
I didn’t even notice for the longest time, but I’ve lost 20kg since my Mrs left me!
So from the short time I’ve played Deus Ex HR tonight (I’ll play it more later!) I think it’s pretty cool so far. It’s one of those games that I’ve wanted for ages but never really wanted to pay for, if anybody can understand that 😛
In other news, I have a 2 hour gap tomorrow between classes and nothing to fill it with :S Might go for a walk to Battery Point or something and have a look at houses if the weather’s good. I want to move out. Badly.
Nope, can’t understand that :P. I have games which are sorta in that category too but they rarely drop in price. As if you wouldn’t bite for $20, $12, $8, $3 😛 (DX:HR dropped in price really quickly!) – although I guess FREE is the cheapest 😀
Monster Hunter on 3DS definitely falls into that category for me 😛 It’s more not wanting to pay for the circle pad thingy though. It might drop in price in like… 2 years time.
Do you have the original 3DS? Pretty sure Dick Smith and Target have been selling CPPs for like $3 for agessss (probably sold out now though :P)
Yeah I’ve got the original one. The price drop was more in reference to the game though 😛 Just don’t see the value in paying for something I already paid heaps for on the Wii, even though I want it!
If I recall you didn’t play the Wii one much? Same deal with me – I only played the Wii one for about 10 hours but there’s so much new content in Ultimate it’s crazy. I spent 200 hours on it and could go for hundreds more (I just need buddies… :P)
Yeah, I played it for like 13 hours I think 😛
Just watched Skyfall. I liked it, though I’m not the biggest Bond fan. This will sound like a weird thing to compliment, but the sets were lit incredibly and it was shot nicely. Haha!
Any non-PAXers have any thing interesting planned for the weekend? Starting any new games? Seeing any movies? What’s new? 😀
Episode 2 of Treme! WOOOO
Great show, really digging it!
Oh man, expect to get some songs stuck in your head as you watch that show. I’m not much of a jazz fan, but you can’t say they don’t have catchy hooks. 😀
It’s not my chosen style either, but I’m really enjoying it in the context of the show. Not an aesthetic appreciation for the music, but an appreciation nonetheless.
Maybe a cultural appreciation, but that sounds kind of ethnocentric.
Yeah, gives ‘texture’ to that world and all that. A lot of the musicians and chefs you’ll see in that show are real people playing themselves. 😀
I saw that in the credits, and was blown away. At the same time, though, I wasn’t really surprised because the show feels incredibly authentic, and the setting is so vibrant and rich. More than can be achieved just with a sound stage and extras! 🙂
Agreed, you can tell it’s all shot on location. City has a look to it like no where else in the US. (Probably the whole French influence. Can’t fake New Orleans though!)
Not a Bond fan.
Not a jazz fan.
Pretty sure you said you’re not a fan of comedy…
You probably don’t even like pizza or something outrageous.
I’m sorry, but we’d be a terrible couple. You’re a great guy, but… It’s just not going to work.
No beef eras for us? :'(
We’ll see.
Circling the wagons with your fine self, sir!
Friiiiiiiend!
I was just about to ask “what about you?” and then headdesked…
Uhh, anyway, how about a Pacific Rim (that’s the giant robots, yeah?) Meat while I’m in town?
Would it still be in cinemas then? Also, that might be too long to wait. Haha! 😀
What dates are you here?
I arrive on the 4th August (Sunday) just before 1PM, and then I leave again on the 18th (Sunday) at 2PM!
Also, I have nil knowledge of approximate runtimes for films these days. I thought they were always at the cinema for a month or more?
Planning on going to see Pacific Rim on Saturday, keep playing Little Inferno and watching the cricket.
Oh man, really want to see Pacific Rim too and I think it’s the type of spectacle movie worth seeing in the cinema!
Oh it definitely is. It’s a visually *beautiful* movie. Not just the Kaiju vs Jaeger fights, but seeing the *world* as it is. You see Hong Kong in it and how its changed due to Kaijus (not a spoiler) and how society has been impacted etc. How people have adapted, its the little details that make you believe its a living breathing world, and Pacific Rim really does. Definitely see it, you won’t be sorry.
Sounds awesome! 😀 Did you see in 3D?
Nah, my little boy can’t see 3D movies, his eye problem and all that. We went to the drive in to watch it. I’ve heard the 3D in it is actually superb for the battles (which make up the entire last HOUR of the movie nearly, its a truly epic smackdown after smackdown situation).
These aren’t plot spoilers but, you know, just incase…
But in amongst all the action, it’s got a lot of heart. Don’t believe those who say its ‘dumb’, theres a good comicbook plot, theres decent characters, no worse than DC or Marvel movies and even some real emotion from stars like Idris Elba and the Japanese lady, it’s just that damn good. I mean the script isn’t *great* as such but the actors elevate it. Oh but prepare yourself for two of the worst fake aussie accents *ever*Umm probably getting drunk
(probably not what you were going for, but oh well :P)
Hey, that’s a perfectly valid lifestyle choice. Drink on, my friend! 😀
Far better than water, man!
People drown in water.
I hear fish have sex in it, too :S
Babysitting so no not really, however might go rollerblading and when the younguns are asleep gonna watch some Burn Notice.
PIKMIN WATCH 2013: 9 DAYS!
I SHOULD PLAY IT AT PAX AND MAKE YOU JEALOUS. EXCEPT IT PROBABLY WON’T WORK SINCE IT’LL BE OUT IN LIKE 8-6 DAYS
And I know they’ll have to wrestle the control away from you. You can’t just play Pikmin for five minutes or so on the show floor with hundreds of people watching you… judging you… 😛
So, in the middle of PAX madness I got to play a little animal crossing. I was on the way down to the island and my resident fitness buff/ninja enthusiast, Snake the rabbit wandered up to me on the beach and after a little small talk he mentioned how he felt like an outcast in the town and nothing he was doing was making him happier. He’s a really awesome guy and I had a brief thought where I wanted to say no, he couldn’t leave and that the town wouldn’t be the same without him … but that wasn’t the right thing to do. He’ll be moving out on the 23rd and I’ll be sad to see him go. Is there anyway I can organise a town celebration as a going away party for him?
This game sounds too heavy for my liking. :'(
“Don’t you put that evil on me Ricky Bobby! Don’t you put that on us!”
So, Dragon’s Dogma is a pretty cool guy. I’m having fun. Especially because I’ve just been able to create my pawn,too. Took me forever but oh was it fun. 😀
I have a copy coming in the mail. We can exchange pawns 🙂
You’ll have to play the game first 😛
I’m using @bish’s pawn at the moment. It’s kind of cool how you can do that. 😀
\o/
I hope she’s serving you well!
I don’t quite remember what she is, but she was supposed to be a Mage with area control abilities. Unfortunately, the AI doesn’t quite handle that strategy very well.
She might need a bit of management, but by golly, she’ll try her darndest!
(Also Dragons Dogma was a pretty great game)
Bought a weeks worth of healthy breakfast foods. Was all proud of myself. Then I ate a large pack of maltesers for lunch. XD
oh @dc!
It’s the thought that counts, right?
Upvote!
*reads the rest*
UPVOTE RETRACTED.
@jimu-style side vote? I can live with that!
@mrtaco wins the latest and final giveaway! Unfortunately YOU ALL LOSE as he suggested Macauley Culkin as his protector and saviour against the Orcs… so now we’ll all be guarded by THIS GUY:
http://www.celebitchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/FFN_Culkin_Macaulay_EXC_NYC_021112_8760800.jpg
Be afraid… be VERY afraid.
@mrtaco I’ll send it your way on Steam after you msg me, I can’t remember who you are on it lol
So. Damn. Kind.
So. Damn. Scary D:
I AM BEATLESThe reason you can’t remember who I am on it is because I’m not on it :p
I pass the prize on to the runner-up! Or you know, whoever.
Macaulay (what a stupid name, I mean really) Culkin is winnar!
I don’t think there was a runner up???
@dire_wolf did you want it then?
I wonder how much cash has been funneled into the Steam Sales?
I spend more on games in the sale than I do for the rest of the year combined, I’m sure…
I’ve only spent $4 this year! 😀
D:
I’m at the point where I own everything I think I’m remotely interested in…
Hopefully the time I invested in this Backloggery thing will motivate me to actually finish some of them.
BUT I’ve spent considerably less than last sale, which is *wonderful*!
Don’t feel too bad about spending a lot though. You’re getting awesome value with games I probably paid full retail for three weeks back. 😀
Truedat, truedat.
I bought The Cave, and tried to give it a go but it kinda broke on me, I think.
It’s funny seeing how certain things react to trying to display at larger resolutions o.0
*looks around* Not sayin’.
Well, ladies and gents, that wraps up Weresmurfs Steam Giveaways for this Steam sale, they’ll randomly come and go from now on, to be honest I got a great feeling from doing it 🙂 but the next big giveaway will be on the next big Steam Sale. Thanks to everyone who participated, thanks to everyone who commented and thanks to everyone in TAY in general for being so awesome. Oh and I made loads of new mates on Steam 😀 Thanks all!!!
A personal apology for inflicting Macauley Culkin on TAY… noone should ever do that… ever…
@dc This weekend I’m going toy shopping! My desk is going to have so much crap on it come next week.
Was the dinosaur/ninja turtle one-two punch crowd pleasing? 😀
I haven’t taken it in yet! I figure if I bring in a whole bunch at once the focus will be on the group rather than getting questions about each individual piece 😛 #OverThinkingIt
You mean you don’t want multiple conversations with multiple people for each individual item? 😀
The only way to avoid it is to call an all-staff meeting at your desk. Explain it once to everyone and be done with it.
Of course, this approach has its own problems 😛
If I bring in a bunch at once I can play it off like “oh yeah, I just found these lying around. I didn’t meticulously pick them out over the past week or anything!”
And they’ll never know. Unless I accidentally give my boss the receipts with the mail like I did with my lunch receipt the other day.
Holy. Shit.
Just looking at some figures for taz time. I spent almost $6500 this fin. year on 3D models. That’s about 12% of my post-tax salary. O_o
Time to deactivate Paypal for a while, methinks. That’s mental. Library of resources has gotta be big enough by now.
You could’ve spent that money on Supanova/November/Dreamworld trip! Instead you’re living your dream and making comics! YOU SO CRAZY! 😛
I didn’t need to spend this much. Got caught up in the 3D model equivalent of Steam Sales and compulsive limited-time-offer purchasing /o\
You talking 3d models as in 3dsmax models or poser or the likes?
Poser models, mostly from http://www.daz3d.com
You making a movie, or it just for cover art kind of stuff? I could probably hook you up with a bit of stuff if you want. Dunno what you’re after, but if you let me know, I can see what I have.
Very generous offer, man. Thank you! 🙂
I use the models in my comic art. This trailer should give you a flavour of my style. Working mainly in sci-fi and fantasy at the moment, but have a pretty diverse library of models and ambitions to work in a number of different genres.
What kind of stuff do you have?
I’ve got all kinds of stuff, from simple shit like chairs, to machines, people, whatever really. It’s a bit random, cos I have stuff spread over many drives, and they’re not all plugged in. I might have to check up on poser requirements though. Been at least a decade since I touched it 😉
If there’s anything in particular you want, that you can’t find, let me know, and I might be able to make it for you if I have time
Being that you’re a proper published writer are you able to get some kind of tax break for them?
I’m suddenly envisioning @shane in the accountant’s office :
‘I’m a writer! Honest!’ *nodding emphatically*
Yeah, it’s a tax deduction, but I can only claim it against writing income. Which means that I’m declaring expenses of about $8000 against an income of $200. It’s registered as an official loss for future years.
I might get some shut eye. Got a doctor’s appointment early tomorrow morning. *shakes fist*
Catch you on the flipside, home slices!
Good luck, brother! Keep us updated <3
Hope all is well man! 🙂
Yeah, what Sir. Greenius said.
TAX RETURN GET
BILLS PAID
CREDIT CARD PAID OFF IN FULL
CAR SERVICE BOOKED
MONEY LEFT OVER
LIFE IS GOOD.
LEFTOVER MONEY USED TO BUY POWALEN A PRESENT
LIFE IS BETTER
(for me)
POW DID NOT BUY RESHIRAM DESPITE ‘NEF’S SAGE LIKE ADVICE
REWARD VOID
Damn, you beat me to it! Was gonna say extra cash, pay some off my credit card for me! 😉
I forgot to mention I got a Mordin Solus figure for my birthday and today I put him on my sewing desk. He looks lonely though…guess I’ll have to buy Garrus and Wrex to keep him company. What a shame. 😀
No! Mordin is all anyone ever needs!
Okay, except Garrus. Garrus is a super fucking alien boss.
Don’t get Wrex though. Wrex is a tool.
OUT.
GET OUT.
DO NOT RETURN.
FEAR NOT THE TRUTH YOUNG NOTORIOUSAUR!
I SPEAK WISDOM!
THE GENOPHAGE WILL SAVE US!
DEATH TO THE KROGAN!
Xeno
bladephobe.FEEL MY HAT
Is that…. felt?
D: Gotta say, I’m with the Notoriousaur on this one. Wrex is made of awesome. Anyone who thinks otherwise is obviously a dickman, dickman.
@powalen @strange (@sughly do you even watch this anymore!?)
THE MOLE:
(Up to Ep 7 discussion)
Hmmm last time I thought Aisha but now I’m thinking more Erin now. I’ve just got this whole “it’s not going to be a racial minority” (Hillal, Seble, Alex, Aisha?), “it’s not going to be a fairly young person” (Mozzie, Sam, Aisha etc.) and “I think it’s going to be a woman” assumptions going on :P. Ally seems shifty as but I think she’s too annoying and emotional to be The Mole. I’d think the Mole would want to gain people’s trust and get on their good side :P. Still not really sure on who it is but I’m still thinking it’s definitely not Hillal, Alex and Sam. Too much of the focus has been on them and it just seems a bit obvious to have them as The Mole 😛I complexity agree with that last point. Especially Alex and Sam. They spend waaaay too long showing them its shifty looks and saying Mole-like stuff to the camera. It’ll be someone you don’t expect. I’m still thinking Erin or Ally at the moment.Nah 😀
It’s okay, you’re still my Survivor bro <3
Only God Forgives aka: Ryan Gosling Stares Moodily At Stuff.
Meh. It was okay I guess. Too much stuff that didn’t need to be there. Wasted a lot of film when it took 6 mins to do what should have taken 1.
When I left Sughly and DAN! seemed busy trying to convince themselves they liked it. 😛
Ryan Gosling even has sex by staring moodily at itGood thing you put that sticky out tongue there! Thats why I dont like talking about films like straight afterwaaaards, I’m hopeless at articulating myself 🙁 There was definitely stuff I wasnt sure about coming out, but the more I talk about it the more I like it.
HAHAHA!
Well I’ve run into a problem. Friday looks to be my shopping day this semester. Only problem is it’s been so long that I’ve had to buy food for myself that I’ve forgotten what I usually eat 😛 All the food mum’s bought me or I’ve had cooked for me is too expensive!
Mi Goreng/Shin Ramyun. Problem solved.
I have sooo many packets of mi goreng. And I’m sooooo glad I haven’t had to touch it in a couple of months 😛 But yes, it will probably still end up being a part of my diet!
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/321159012706?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
I must get one of these!
Minimum. 😀
Sharing is caring 🙂
They’re 92c a bar at Woolworths atm, just go there 😛
Yeah, but how often do you get a chance to buy a box of them?
😀
True 😛
We have an awesome candy shop not far from me. Can buy all kinds of stuff in bulk like that. 1kg bags of Chico’s and all kinds of Allens lollies. Boxes of choc bars.. lollipops bigger than your head!
It just took me 2 hours to drive home from Brisbane. Roadworks every couple of kilometres with massive traffic jams constantly.
On the plus side I have made the decision that Combichrist’s Noise Collection Vol. 1 is one of my favouritest albums ever.
Combichrist is great! If you like that sound, you may like Funker Vogt or similar too.
Roadworks, mmm… not so much :S
Also, 2 hours from Brisbane? Where the hell *are* you?!
2 hours is over double the time it usually takes. Usually only 45mins to an hour. Which is why I was complaining.
Sounds like you need to install a little red button.
Listened to a few Funker Vogt. Not too bad although I suspect iPhone speakers aren’t ideal for that type of music to be properly heard.
Oh hellll naw.
Actually, iPhone speakers aren’t ideal for any type of music 😛
Just spent the last two hours dealing with a very sudden and incredibly pervasive bit of malware. “System Care Antivirus” popped up without warning on my computer, and locked everything down.
Took ages to fix. 🙁
if you think theres any trace of it left, run Combofix.. that thing is incredible….
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/combofix/
Thanks, man. I followed this guide, and running some additional scans now. All seems clear now, thank god.
So this is what it’s come to…
Infections are never pleasant man :SGo see your Dr!
Ah, damn it.
If Siddle’s foot had been a few millimeters back, we’d have our 5th wicket. 🙁
You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket!
@freezespreston There may be hope for me in the force yet! http://metro.co.uk/2013/06/13/cannabis-factory-discovered-after-police-open-car-windows-to-escape-officers-farts-3839436/
4:30am. Haven’t slept 🙁 Why is it that I always get insomnia when I’m already tired and need to get up early the next day? 🙁
😛 – I was going to reply to the text at 4am but figured you wouldn’t be up
*refresh*
*refresh*
*gets out of the shower feeling refreshed*
*turns on air wick fresh room needs a refresh*
So nervous about today.
Morning TAY community,
How was everybody’s sleep? If anybody did sleep with the hype train finally pulling into Station PAX. But if your not going to PAX, like me, then maybe you slept like the baby who keeps coming up for Ehat you missed while you were sleeping.
All in all what’s everyone’s plans today and remember..be happy, be safe..beware the weather.
Why not Doodberg?
http://t.co/r5gdcYnjPY
I hope @negativezero hasn’t slept in or forgot 😛
D: Neggggg?
Good Morning TAY, I’m packed and ready to go for Pax. Actually managed to wake up early and get a decent nights sleep too!
As I scroll through today’s sales on steam It makes me wonder..does TAY have a steam group? Also is infestation any good?
There’s a Kotaku AU group but a TAY group sounds good as well
Infestation is The War Z rereleased under a different name.
So no. No it isn’t.
Thank you again Uncle Freeze, I’m glad I don’t buy it now haha.
Currently sitting on zero community kudos nominations (email: mynameallasoneword at mynameallasoneword dot com) for what that’s worth.
Although I could always give it to Bub and Bob. Those little guys are awesome.
I nominate everyone for being so awesome!
…that’s allowed, right?
A lot of people gifted steam games – why the giftees no nomming them!?
This. All this.
Though if they’ve been emailing Mark, I might forgive them.
I thought noms weren’t running while Mark was away. I’d assume most people thought the same.
Yep, that was my understanding.
Weresmurf has done a few giveaways that I’ve seen. I nom him for general awesomeness.
Your wise words of wisdom are wise!
Awwwwww ta 🙂
What are these mystic community kudos you speak off magician!
Noms dispatched.
So many people are at PAX today… and I’m sitting here restoring virtual machines. Jelly 🙁
well, I’m just sitting here reading about you sitting there restoring virtual machines. For some reason I’m even more jelly
And I’m just sitting here reading about you sitting there reading about other people restoring virtual machines.
Livin’ the dreamEqually jellyAnd I’m just standing in bunnings reading about you sitting there reading about someone else sitting there reading about other people restoring virtual machines. I am a bowl of jelly.
I am sitting here reading about jelly.
Now I want jelly.
I haven’t had jelly in a long time… yeah I want some too now 😛
Could be worse!
You could literally be half a world away!
You’re reasonably close to San Diego Comic Con, though. Same continent, at least 😛
I wish…
Alright, gon way in on my Only God Forgives thoughts, caus freeze was a bit dismissive and I think it’s worth more than that. It’s really not an easily accessible film by any means, but it’s really rich with content. I walked out of it feeling really unsure about a lot of things myself, but knowing there was something about it that I loved. Me and my brother ended up sharing bits we got from it for ages last night, which was great. The more we talked about it, the more I started to understand what I liked it for.
Again, really didnt want to discuss it straight afterwards because its not a film you can easily digest and understand completely straight up on first viewing, and I dont think you can really have an appreciation for it until you work through it, or even have a second viewing. If you’re keen to try something you’re probably not used to, and can give you hours of discussion, I recommend it. If you want another Drive and aren’t open minded to seeing something that isnt easy to watch and takes a lot of effort to work through, I wouldnt suggest you see it. It’s honestly not going to be everyone’s thing, but it also shouldnt be dismissed as a bad film by any means.
@dkzeitgeist – really keen to see it a second time after all my discussing last night. I reckon there’d be so so much more to gain from a second viewing
See I’m the opposite. The more I think on it the more I’m convinced it was an incoherent mess that was pretending to be far more than it was. One note characters with zero development and nearly zero reason or logic to their actions. Goslings character was seemingly made up as they went with no real consistency.
Revenge flicks are usually my favourite genre and this was probably almost one of the worst I’ve seen.
Not that it’s a bad thing that you liked it. Just I thought it was pretty terrible. Refn has done far far better work with Valhalla Rising and Drive.
Yeah, but I’d say that’s why I made the arthouse connection last night, because the characters aren’t motivated the same way they might be in a traditional sense. The motivations are psychological, and that psychology is told through all the motifs and themes and metaphors etc. When you consider the relationship between Gosling and his mother, there’s a tonne of motivational elements behind what happened. Like, just caus they arent explicitly talking about what they are doing and why they are doing it, doesnt mean there arent motivations there.
But yeah, as you say, obviously just a difference of opinion which is natural. I feel pretty bad for you coming all the way out for something you didnt enjoy :/
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t regret seeing it. Very few movies I actively wish I didn’t see.
It was a well shot and very nice looking movie. I just found it a bit empty and soulless.
I actually kind of like that we have such different opinions on movies. It’s nice to have some counterpoint to my thinking. It can make me realise things I may have missed or reinforce what I think.I still can’t justify exactly why I liked it.
The art house connection definitely makes sense, and I think I liked it so much because it’s been a while since I’ve seen a movie with such an amazing use of imagery. (Side note, this is another reason why I love Breaking Bad)
It did at times feel self indulgent, but never to the point where it became a problem.
I’m gonna see it again too.
Man, people are frustrating.
Makes me glad that when I grow up, I’m going to be a robot.
Why wait? 🙂
the Borg starts here
The Borg are too insecure, they just have to forcefully make humans join them or destroy them, kinda like the Reapers. I’m all about free will and choice, as my code states 🙂
I have found it very odd to be living somewhere without a lounge.
I have held of buying one because I can get a free set, with recliners, in 2 weeks time.
The downside is that for the moment I am either sitting on kitchen/dining table chairs, or lying on the floor.
Just can’t seem to relax without a lounge.
The upside is, when lying on the ground, all I have to do is roll over a couple of times to change dvds or games \o/ -o- /o\ -o- \o/
I can relate to this experience.
I lived in my first apartment for like 6 months sans lounge. It was pretty shit.
Same, we had bean bags.
I never want another bean bag.
HOLY SHIT!
WE’RE THE FIRST PODCAST TO RELEASE A #PAXAU SPECIAL!!!
We definitely don’t discuss Luke Skywalker’s attempted suicide, Princess Leia’s rebound & man boobs VS lady boobs.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2013/07/19/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s03e15-paxau-special/
LISTEN FOR ALL THE #PAXAU NEWS YOU’LL NEED!!!
My favourite part was the bit about PAX
Am I the only one getting this at like, 12kb a second?
That’s poo.
Have you tried DLing it?
Podbean’s started getting a bit buggy.
Yeah thats what I mean – it was taking forever to buffer so I did download instead, and its dling at 12k per sec. Its ok, its getting there… slow an steady…
Maybe we’re finally popular?
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Worked for me.
#EarlyBirdWormEntendre
Two days in, and I think my tablet has decided to harakiri.
:`(
Feelin’ blue?
I’ve got the cure.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2013/07/19/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s03e15-paxau-special/
Was it ebay’d, or from a store? Caus… there must be warranty on that
Store bought.
It seems to have fixed itself now, though. 🙂
It had lost all pressure sensitivity in photoshop, and it wouldn’t enable the eraser in artrage.
But, re-installing the drivers seems to have fixed it.
PAX, I AM IN YOU!
You dirty bastard!..how does it feel
Hot n sweaty!!!
…no really!!!
No PAX for me, so I guess the Steam sales continue!
Just got to pax, in line near train station
Listening to Karnivool’s new album Asymmetry. Really good so far. Very different from Sound Awake, but I like it.
PAX ATTEND!!! in the main theatre for Ron Gilbert… Oh yeeeaaaah…
That’s the second biggest adventure game key note speaker I’ve ever seen!
You were at PAX?! :O
So many TAYbies errywhere
At the airport. Prepare yourself Melbourne. A Freeze is coming.
Great… more frost on my car 😛
My wee-wee totally just moved.
On the off chance anyone at pax sees this im standing near the tank if anyone wants to meet or something. Im wearing cargo pants and a black hoody. Also carrying a guide book.
I’m still in line.
I’m wearing black jeans and a black button-up shirt, plus black rimmed glasses and longish hair.
I’m wearing blue jeans, a blue top, glasses, and headphones… But I’m not at PAX.
Expect to hear this joke a lot this weekend. :\
Oh, I’m not at PAX either.
Well played.
I’m just looking out the window in my jeans, jeans shirt and jeans jacket
FINALLY Got in!!
You’re clearly not talking about my ex wife.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/webassets.ticketmob.com/LS/images/comedians/Rodney-Dangerfield.jpg
Hope this day finds you well?
How’d you appointment go, dude? All well?
Yeah, man. Went well enough. Doctor thinks I should keep at anti-d’s for another week and if I’m still feeling like I’m feeling, we’ll work something else out. Which means another trip to the doctors next Friday. WOOOOO! 😛 Blood test came back fine though. 😀How are you, my friend? What’s new?
Nothing really.
It’s pouring rain in Canberra, and fuckheads here at work have stolen all my food from the fridge, so I’m probably going hungry today. TAY is quiet (too quiet *shifty eyes*), work is even quieter, I made the mistake of looking up my Amazon sales figures (big blow to self-esteem), and I’m trying to figure out how I’m going to fill the next five hours without some sort of Postal-esque rampage…
Mood is all right, though, so that’s something! \o/
Aw man, I hope your day gets better. If it’ll help, I’ll be here on TAY come rain or shine, my friend. Rain or shine. XD Maybe go on a puzzle solving Portal-esque rampage instead? We can coop if you want to?
@alexkidman, this man for Kudos please. Kthnx
:O
Shane said a bad word!
Sorry man. Fuckheads just make me mad, that’s all.
Why’d they steal your food? Same people who stole your cutlery? What’d they steal? Any thing good?
It’s weird, man. A lot of people are getting stuff nicked.
So far – apparently all after hours – they’ve taken:
* My filthy cutlery (including a broken fork), but left my MP3 player, which was also on the desk, and also left my plate
* Half a packet of grated cheese (mine)
* 2/3 loaf of bread from the freezer (mine)
* A banana
* They opened a packet of biscuits in my team’s area and took some, but left the rest
Very odd behaviour.
I suspect diabetics are squatting in the office. No one believes me though 🙁
@shane: You should set a trap. Spike pit?
A quick and painless solution, mines?
@shane >:D
Ill watch the news tonight if that happens “man goes ballistc over stolen work supplies, kills 5 with broken fork..more at 6 on today tonight”
D.C.’s DAY ONE PAX WRITE-UP:
Went to the store. Bought a new shirt. A winter jacket dealy too. I saw kittens at the pet store.
…
*moseys off*
What kind of shirt?
Also, any dogs?
Long sleeve, button up shirt. It’s my thing.
There were four dogs. Pretty damn cute too.
More on this story as it breaks!
How unique.
Four dogs, yet you chose to mention the kittens? Man, we are like chalk and cheese.
Edge of my seat.
The dogs were sitting there doing nothing like they were doped up. The cats were pouncing and biting each others tails and soaring through the air majestically. They know how to please a crowd!
This is sad. Knowing pet stores the dogs were probably all despondent from being cooped up and stuff.
🙁 Yeah, I always feel bad for the critters, yet I’m still one of those people who slack jaw gawk at them every time. D:
D: You were supposed to take me with you! PAX North is the worst.
Don’t worry, @sughly’s key note address will make it all better.
…
What kind of winter jacket?
Actually it’s more of a jumper dealy. Wool and stripey. Haha!
WOOO
Currently *sitting down near Plants Vs Zombies 2, drinking water. Got many Streetpass hits for Theatrhythm FF.
Suiting down? Don’t get arrested! D:
*SITTING! Oh God :O finally a victim of the autocorrect
hahahaha
Oh god I left Theatrythm at home!
That’s it. Trips cancelled.
I only brought Animal Crossing new leaf & Fire Emblem: Awakening
I think you get street pass stuff for all the games though regardless of actually having the game… amirite? I think thats the case
Oh yeah of course, just can’t play them 🙁
Oh, remember the nice things I said about my wife yesterday, about how she respects gaming and supports my hobby?
I take it all back.
Yesterday she publicly referred to Streetpasses as Nerdpasses.
#DivorceCourt
That monster! If you feel like you need to get away, clear your head… Supanova in November. There’ll be streetpasses! XD
Supanova… in November, you say… why is this the first I’m hearing of it!
Want a daily reminder/peer pressuring?
Is that beyond the daily mention I’m getting now? Because that’s kind of sufficient 😛
SUPANOVA! NOVEMBER!
Ohhhhh yeaaaah! Def going now. So many streetpasses!
SUPANOVA/MEET-AND-GREET-SHANE/KARAOKE MEAT! 😀
NNNNNNEEEEERRRRRDDDDD!!!!!
Got any more nerd passes nerd?
It should have been obvious she didn’t support your gaming hobby when she made you a mancave so you could hide it away and nobody would have to know you’re a gamer. 😛
My girlfriend doesn’t mind my gaming but I can never take my 3DS out..ever..EVER! the moment I reach for it when we are on a train I just get death stared like “what are you doing? We in public!”
Greetings from the media room at PAX! We caught up with Harli for a while!
Bye now!
My write-up was better. There were kittens!
Did you guys get in early? I saw your photo of the Xbox One. It’s all in the cloud, baby!
I’m hooked on you baby,
But the seas keep us apart,
And there ain’t no eye patch big enough,
To cover up my broken heart.
***
Once my old man spoke to good King Triton,
And asked why all this senseless fightin’?
Why can’t us men express emotion?
Now I’ve got a friend in the ocean!
Plunder, plunder how I wonder,
How you got so dog gone pretty,
Home of sailors, pirates and tailors,
It’s Puerto Pollo our capital city.
***
Oh there’s a monkey in my pocket,
And he’s stealing all my change,
His stare is blank and glassy,
I suspect that he’s deranged.
@dc did you see this? Link was on Facebook, maybe other places too:
http://potaku.com/2013/07/19/pax-australia-pikmin-3-preview/
@shiggyninty and @alexpants got to play it at PAX.
That’s so damn cool. I’m on a media blackout though. I want to know nothing about this. 😀
Thanks for the heads up though!
Do you want to know whether or not they liked it? Or total blackout?
It’s Pikmin! Of course they liked it! 😀
It’s now a third person cover shooter.
Now with grittier zombies.
Post apocalyptic urban decay! WOOOOOO!
No. No.
It’s set in a alien world made completely of brown. Now urban anything. No apocalypse. Just generic brown canyons.
That’s pretty gritty! I approve!
Just bought Pokémon Gen 1 & Gen 5 gym badges. So pretty…
And now I’m playing the Waiting-in-line-for-the-ATM game \o/
WARNING
Blatant self promotion ahead.
Mumbo Jumbo Podcast Episode 4 is up! Three new guests help us decipher Pacific Rim, Gunpoint, Firefall and much more! http://mumbojumbovideogamepodcast.podbean.com
; )
http://www.shanewsmith.com/
http://danclarke.net/
Every day’s a school day! \o/
Psssst, don’t use real names, Mike. *shakes fist* 😛
http://www.michaelwinters.com
http://www.benjackson.com
NOOO I’m a scam! 🙁 (first time I’ve ever thought about looking actually :P)
ha, i just looked at me, I’m apparantly the CEO, visionary and president of Mogul Development, sweet
Stupid flight delays.
You didn’t get that hug for good luck last night either. D:
It’s all your fault.
PAX, PAX, PAX.
Bah, I really wish I was at San Diego Comic Con. I have a feeling those things are on a whole nother level from the events I’ve done so far.
#NoPAXesPage16 (but we’re allowed to have one)
All the TV show panels too. So good. Would like to go to PaleyFest too
I would but I’ll be at PAX.
If this plane ever arrives. >:|
I sure hope you’re not already in the air and having doubts about your plane arriving.
Haha. That would be somewhat terrible.
My flight was supposed to depart at 10:50. Still not here yet. They keep delaying it by 10 mins over and over again.
Next you’ll be complaining it arrived prematurely.
I would love to be at comic con. South Park game, Childrens Hospital and Brickleberry. Sooo jealous.
Nother is actually a real word. You learn something new everyday.
So I’ve had a whopping four driving lessons (two with family/friends, two with an instructor) and I’m testing to get my Ps next Tuesday. My instructor rates my chances at 90%, with that 10% being if the tester thinks I was driving too fast or something – so I’ll be super careful to keep it five under since you can’t see the speedo in my car from the passenger seat.
The funny part is is that as much as my wife is sick of doing all the driving, she’s not going to let me take the car out solo because a) she thinks I’m more likely to wreck it than her (debatable); and b) she doesn’t want to be stuck at home with no access to a car if I were to take it somewhere.
We were considering road-tripping to Melbourne next year for a certain expo we’re not talking about on page 16 according to Shane, but I think we might want to hire a V6. I love our little Spark but I’m not sure about taking a small car with a small engine on such a marathon.
Just keep calm and focus and you’ll be right, my driving instructor said I was nowhere near ready to go for my P’s and I got a job interview for a place I needed I drive too, next day went for my P’s against my instructors decision and got em first try.
You just gotta be focused, calm and confident. We all rooting for ya
Cheers! I have no anxiety about it, though I don’t think my wife understands that. She keeps telling me it’s ok to fail even though she passed first try. She says she doesn’t want to put any pressure on me to pass but if I didn’t know better I’d think she had no confidence in me!
Good luck! Just stay calm :). When I took my test it was over so quickly because I was super chill and didn’t even realise how long it was. In Vic a driving instructor can sit in the passenger seat but the person actually marking the test sits at the back (so they can clearly see the speedo)
As for PAX they said it’ll be a yearly thing but they never said it’ll be in Melbourne again (I don’t think it will be).
Why couldn’t the cat eat its dinner?
Because it didn’t have a face.
@ColdCamV: Since you’re new here, what games do you like? What do you watch on TV? 😀
It’s hard to really point out main games I like haha, I’m the kinda guy who enjoys giving every game a shot atleast once. Lately I’ve been playing alot of FPS’s and RPGs, I have a fondness for turn based strat games (even though I suck at them)
As for tv shows I’ve been so busy for tv but I do try to watch burn notice, white collar and basically any anime or cartoon haha. Also I do love watching documentaries talking about war and the like, like the show Close Quarter Battle such a good show.
RPGs, probably my second favourite genre. (Adventure games are my favourite!) I like action/adventures too, like The Last of Us and Uncharted.
Cartoons, eh? You watch Gravity Falls? It’s pretty excellent! 😀
I’m probably one of the few to yet play the last of us haha but it’s on my wish list.
I haven’t seen gravity falls but if you deem it excellent ill definitely check it out.
Xenoblade?
Only game I need to pick up on the Wii and ill be happy, unfortunately out wii(a gift from my girlfriends mother) got taken back by her mum because she didn’t want us leaving it at my girlfriends dads house. So ill probably try and play it at my brothers.
You’re alright.
I’ll wear that like a badge of honor!
Shane-safe post:
Looking forward to meeting certain GAYbies at MAX tomorrow.
What the hell are you talking about? 😛
Mate. So many Golden Gaytimes were had thanks to @masha2932 ! What a champ
Did you meet anyone? I didn’t see ya
I was trying to find the elusive Potaku guys, after seeing them (Doc, Pants and Shiggy) once. I hung around for a few minutes, but they looked like they were interviewing someone and wandered off with the guy so I figured I’d meet them at this lunchtime thing. But I missed the lunchtime thing because I was stuck in a queue (shock horror) at the MTG stand. So I was wandering around trying to spot them again, but I couldn’t. Also, 3G access on my phone was useless, so I couldn’t check TAY. =( I ended up bailing at 6pm on the first train because I was so goddamn tired anyway.
I did manage to StreetPass Freeze, Faction and Blaghs though. So I was close at some point. =(
Ah yeah, I can’t access the internet on my phone at PAX :/. Txting/calling sometimes works but all that makes meeting up hard.
I’ll be wearing green and will most likely be with masha (tall black guy), so keep a look out if you want! 🙂
New strider game.
Made from guys who made Silent Hill Homecoming.
Yay?
Homecoming wasn’t a bad game, but it wasn’t a good Silent Hill game.
Of course, I don’t know what Strider is, so…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strider_(arcade_game)
Most commonly seen these days in Marvel Vs. Capcom.
@strange, @shane: Did you guys see the Serenity premiere on the Gold Coast?
Nope! I went to a midnight screening here in Canberra. Won a lucky door prize.
Didn’t get to see any of the pre-release screenings they put on.
I thought that would’ve been a Browncoat definite meat!
I went to a pre-release screening on the Central Coast. Close enough? 😛
So cool. Was Whedon at any of these or just the Gold Coast one?
Most of the Browncoat meetings happened loooong after the movie disappeared from cinemas. My first one was Jan 2006, more than four months after the movie’s release 😛
What’d you guys do for meats? Just dinners and the like?
We used to make whole weekends out of them. Cocktail parties, meals out, museums, exhibitions, shopping, wandering around… there was a great one in Brisbane a few years back where there were about fifteen interstaters (including myself) and we basically took over an entire floor of a hotel for a weekend.
Haha! That sounds pretty damn cool. Maybe you could relive the magic in November? 😛
I’ll stop, man. I know this is probably annoying, even if it’s meant jokingly. 🙂You don’t have to stop. It’s funny and doesn’t bother me.
Then it won’t. >:|
Fancy pants.
I’m finding it way too hard to get up at 8am to be at uni at 9 🙁 I’ve rolled over and gone back to sleep twice now. Last semester I had one class in the morning, now they all are! (Except for 1 in 20 minutes)
Having the afternoons free would be good though, right?
I’m the kind of guy who always shows up too early for things. Better early than late. 😀
I thought that’d be good at first, but I’m finding I have absolutely nothing to fill the afternoons with anyway 😛
More TAY posting, more of the time!
http://www.gameinformer.com/games/shadowrun_returns/b/pc/archive/2013/07/18/shadowrun-returns-launch-trailer-shows-off-classes-in-action.aspx
Oh man, this looks incredible!
This TAY meetup tomorrow – may I join, please?
Do you use twitter, Izzy? Lots of impromptu meats seem to be happening through there. You can add your details and find others on TAYnames if you do! http://tinyurl.com/taynames
@doc_what’s in charge of the lunch time thing tomorrow, @scree’s in charge of the night thing!
I’m not on twitter currently, might have to sign up
I wanna add myself to the TAYnames. How does I do? Just add a new entry at the bottom?
Just go to ‘n’ and click on a name, go to the insert bar at the top and add a row either above or below!
yep that’s pretty much it. It should save it automatically
Thanks fronds!
PAX TAY reminds me of Christmas TAY. So. Damn. Lonesome. :'(
😀
You should come over. The little guy woke up all snuffly so I couldn’t take him out for lunch like I promised. I’m waiting on pizza to be delivered. By the time you got here it would be cold though. 😛
Haha! Cold pizza sounds pretty good, though Shane would be all alone here descending into his Portal-esque rage!
It’s all good, man. Don’t let me stop you. I might actually get some work to do this afternoon! 🙂
Haha! Actually it’s an epic journey to Strange’s house. She lives about 75 minutes away from me on public transport. I’m too lazy to undergo such an expedition. XD
Even for pizza and strange company? Does not compute :\
Plus Strange said there’s scary Swedish metal fans staying there right now. D:
I did not!
He’s a gentle giant. And he’s out for the day,anyway.
At least you’re not on PAXized TAY Teamspeak
I just sing “all by myself” continuously for a good few hours
It’ll just be me and you this weekend, Deece.
Aaaall byyy ourseeeEelvvves
Oh I see how it is.
I was going to make more of an effort to say Hi and stuff, but no, apparently it’s just you two?
I know when I’m not wanted,
There room for a threesome on this beast?
I mean… and I?
Room for a forth..at this rate we can start a small basketball team.
Well then talk more.
When Boy was a puppy, I would put on episodes of Zeitgeist while we were at work so it sounded like someone was in the house.
You’re kinda like a dachshund puppy. Except you can understand the awful things we say.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com
Was catching up on last couple of weeks. My brother walked in mid ‘blowjobs or cheese’ convo, and I was like hey, this is that guy you met last night
By the way, think you meant Queen of the Damned dearie, not Princess.
I, like, full love movies aye!
Haha! Your brother was there? Oh man, I would’ve been scared and not talked the entire night. Extra strength hermit mode. D:
No one talked at all.
Not even the actors in the movie.
It was Winding-Refn, after all.
SMT IV’s interface is really nice.
what are you going to get with that sweet, sweet free $30 credit (assuming you’ve registered SMT & FE in Club Nintendo?)
Probably gloat about it to our non NA 3DS owner friends?
I’m not really mad for the eShop. Mostly just bought old GB Zelda titles because they rocked.
Maybe pick up that FE DLC you recommended a while back though.
What are you going to do? Any suggestions?
Harmoknight!
Phoenix Wright, brah. Only digital release that I’ll get for the 3ds, and I’m guessing it’ll be the same for a lot of people.
Unfortunately, for me this is kinda moot considering I don’t have SMT. Cutting back on expenses these days because, y’know, living’s expensive, man.
I don’t know what that is.
@ynefel @bdkiaf It’s everywhere!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/99086010@N05/9319427770/
*nod of approval*
GREEN!
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Hey guys, does anyone have @alexkidman’s email to send Noms through to?
At the top of page 15 he told us how to contact him! 😀
NOM’D. Thanks @dc!
Wewt, get to go to my best friends house today, so I can definitely make the ball work now!
Although, “we have brownies” was an interesting way to invite me over…What kind of brownies would be my first question
Either way, a good time lies ahead.
Unless they have nuts.
Yeah, you should have asked if they had nuts.
Good to see the spoiler tag worked… 😛
Dairy free brownies!
Edit: wait, it did work, my phone just hates me
What they lack in dairy they make up for in other stuff?
Yus 😛
Disappointment. What they lack in dairy, they make up for in disappointment 🙂
That’s the secret ingredient right there.
Especially if it’s going to make the ball work, nahmsayin?
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com
This song has been stuck in my head for a week. D:
This song will help.
Oh man, I was going to rewatch The Muppets the other day before remembering the actual movie isn’t all that great, just the music. XD
Bagging out the Muppet movie at around 8:45 mark 😀
For anyone not at PAX and rattling around Brisbane, do you like Terry Pratchett? There’s a Hogswatch in July happening tomorrow! Ber and I are going to get down there around lunch time: http://www.artstheatre.com.au/?p=theatre/whatson&show=hogswatch
Haha, I’m not really a Pratchett fan. Unless you mean Rhianna Pratchett she Tomb Raidered and MIrrors Edged it good. 😀 I did play the adventure game Discworld Noir, though. Can’t say the humour appealed to me but it was pretty solid otherwise. 😀
Do we have any kind of specific thread for people who are looking to trade Steam trading cards? If not, I’ve got plenty of spare Steam Summer Getaway cards I’d be willing to trade for any of the Borderlands 2, Alan Wake or Torchlight 2 sets!
I reckon we could probably do a sheet in TAYnames? I don’t care for the cards but it seemed to work well for Animal Crossing and the like – or alternatively you can just hover over your name on the top left of Steam -> View your Badges and click on any one of them to show in-detailed progress on which of your friends have completed the badge, and which cards they currently have.
Hello Melbourne. I’m in you but you’re so cold.
@dc you shouldn’t be scared of @sughly’s brother. He looks exactly like Sughly only taller and fatter. He also seemed like a decent guy.
What’s his stance on adventure games?
Hope Mrs. Freeze and you have an awesome trip, man! Say hi to Greenius for me!
WOOO, THAT’S ME! 😀
Ahaha, thats very kind of you but I am totes fatter than Alex
Where are all the pax people !?
Miranda!
And Reaver space. Don’t forget the Reavers. 😛
*nerd high five*
… Am I talking to Miranda now?
at work, I’ll be there tomorrow 😛
Couldn’t you do two things at once what kind of a robot are you?!? We may have to consider trading you in for scrap metal…
I’ll be there tomorrow hnnggg
@thecracks
Thanks a bunch, mate! 😀
He’s quite a guy!
Next year we should have some sort of… PAX North, where we all hang out while others go to the proper PAX. It could be a thing!
Where would PAX north be held?
North! 😀
Boo! should be held in Tasmania to mess with people’s sense of compass direction 😀
That’s just what @benj and @ontargett want us to do! We can’t let them win! D:
PAX central, ontop of Uluru..it’s ingenious.
I wonder how many people would actually come down here if PAX was held here 😛
I know lots of people flew down for Game On a few years back. Still don’t know why they chose Launceston for that :S
PAX North is a myth. 🙁
That’s what they said about the Colobus, but now there’s eight difference sub-species!
Yeah it was last night ya dope
🙁 Hope you guys don’t think any less of me for cancelling.
Course we dont think less of you! Just, dont be a dope
Ya dope!
Jeeeeez!
I thought PAX North was going to be a thing this year 😛
You and your stories, Beardy. You and your stories. 😛
I’m told they’re pretty okay! 😀
Wait, how far north?
The Great White North!
D.C.!
Remember they never said PAX would be in Melbourne again :D. Could actually be in Brisbane next time!
http://lifestyle.ninemsn.com.au/viralvideo/329888/duck-snores-like-an-adorable-yellow-freight-train.glance
Awww… 🙂
Also, it’s raining. 🙁
The downsides of Victoria.
Not raining yet here in Doncaster, but it feels like it’s about to!
Edit: it just started pouring down…dammit @crazyguy1990 you did a rain dance didn’t you
#reusingjokes
Hi all, I’m feeling a little frustrated (so please excuse/ignore this mini rant).
Although I enjoyed my time at Pax today, I was at the tram’s final stop when I saw a bag, which had somebody’s pax purchases (including a t-shirt, earrings), left behind. Whilst leaving the tram, I inquired to a guy standing next to it to see if it was his. By the time I found that it wasn’t his and decided to return to the tram to talk to the driver, the tram was taking off. Nor was there any official at the stop. I would have taken the bag (purely to know that the contents were safe), but this guy insisted he would hand it to an official when they came back. He also seemed to insinuate that me taking it would be stealing, although he also seemed more interested in asking me out to a meal or so (I should be flattered, but I was not interested at all). In the end, I had to run to catch my train (and get away from this guy, who at this point was asking where I lived and my number), and trust that this guy would do the right thing by handing in the bag (he didn’t seem think it had much value).
Sorry for the rant, I just feel frustrated with myself that I didn’t act differently.
No biggie. You had the right intentions.
Cruel Intentions maybe.
Not giving a stranger your home address? That’s well cruel!
P.S. We should watch Cruel Intentions.
Proper.
You’ve done nothing wrong. The fact you care enough to give a damn in the first place and carry this on your shoulders shows you had no wrong intentions. Plus getting away from creepy guy was probably a good thing.
@effluvium-boy @dc
thanks you two. It was a frustrating moment that spoiled what was otherwise a pretty good day (and filled with many purchases).
Did you see Ron Gilbert and BioWare? 😀
No, I was stuck outside in line for that 🙁 And I think Bioware is on stage now.
I really didn’t plan this day too well
Sounds like a decent day all the same!
BioWare started at 4:30 and we checked at 3:30 and it was apparently full (had enough people lining up already). People started lining up at 3 :/. The thing is the theatre only fits like 300 and they expected like 50,000 at PAX so… pretty bad planning and all panels would be almost impossible to get into unless you line up at a crazy time :/
Atleast you cared enough to ask, most people would of said “it’s none of my business” while others would eye it off on the hopes of just taking it and walking off. You shouldn’t feel frustrated by it and just know “hey atleast I cared to ask I’m better then those drones on the tram” 😀
thanks @coldcamv. On a slightly amusing side, the guy seemed to keep switching his story between “I’m waiting for a friend at the tram stop, so I can take care of it” and “let’s go out to eat together to talk about it”.
That would be a good pick up line “lets go get food and discuss this bag that isn’t mine and isn’t yours but we can discuss it over some subway while I wait for my friend, you keen?”
You know what’ll cheer you up?
Say it with me, gang!
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=627781
DATING SIM WITH NAMCO CHARACTERS SET IN HIGH SCHOOL MADE BY CREATOR OF HOMESTUCK
I hope this ain’t a troll cause this is just amazing.
Odd page get, but better than my last one.
Your last one was THE BEST, what are you on about.
Edit: There’s no meat tonight, that was last night. Forgot to edit that out. D:
@shane
http://imgur.com/6HG4HLS
In the kids section? 😀
They always hide the good stuff in the kids section, top shelf
I guess the kids need to learn about Homicide: Life on the Street eventually.
“See kids, Cookie monster was stealing Elmo’s flour so he capped him with his Tec-9. Now what did we learn?” “Dont steal Elmo’s flour”
Good purchase, man. Have you seen the show before?
OH SO tempted to buy Dead Island Game of the Year, $4.99. Steam you have me by the nuts, yet again.
I feel I need more steam friends, after looking at my list and seeing half the people havn’t even been on in the past..68 days.
I’m FreezeSPreston on it (oddly enough). Feel free to add me but I won’t be back home until Sunday night.
Will do Freeze, anyone can feel free to add me (ColdCamV) basically any game you see that name in theirs a 70% chance its me..the other 30% chance it could be a robot clone sent to disrupt the balance!
Hey man, I’m synthetiquette on Steam!
Check out TAYnames (too lazy to get a link now, sorry! :P) and I’m sure most people will accept if they have a vague idea of who you are.
I’m Greenius on there. I expect Steam gifts <3
Man, I didn’t think an a humongous deal of Titanfall initially, but some of those gameplay videos. Dang.
Will be PC’ing the shit out of that game. Something about it is reminding me of Killzone. Looks ace either way.
the view?
I’m sorry if anyone has posted this before but i’m sure to a lot of you its worth posting again.
Some juicy tidbits about GTA V revealed in the Japanese Famitsu magazine, i’ll keep it spoilers if anyone wants to be kept in the dark about GTA V.
http://cheezburger.com/766728473
You can customize your dog (collar, other accessories, etc)Your dog’s name is Chop
You can lose your dog
Over 15 types of wild animals can be found throughout the world
Each character has a specific walking animation for individual realism
Overall animations have a been a focus of improvement for Rockstar
There is a dedicated underwater mission that Michael and Trevor go to via jet-skis together
Some of it’s already known but it’s something.
For those who’ve come across the seas, we’ve boundless plains to share.
…unless you’re seeking asylum, in which case I guess you’re fucked :'(
DEYTUKERJERBS!
Any pax goers chilling at the big top waiting for the indie showcase?
Thanks everyone for the noms for kudos 🙂 but a silly question I guess, am I meant to send an address to Mark Serrels or something? O_o
Nah just nude photos
Yeah you do, mebe send them to Kidman? And he’ll pass it on?lol no worries thanks
Yep, but be prepared to wait a looong time to see any reward.
Josephine isn’t the fastest of turtles…
Hahahaha no worries. I once sent away to Ebay for a copy of the original Halflife (pre-Steam). It arrived 3 years later (post steam) I kid you not.
Obviously Im patient :O
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Oh wait, you’re serious.
Send him whatever you like 😛
Congrats on the win. Well deserved!
He sent me an email asking for my email address 🙂
I got my prize from Tracey and she has crazy-neat handwriting.
I think Tracey was good for Mark. 😀
I’m going to be a teacher… my handwriting looks like chickenscrawl… thank god for the computer age!
I’ve got crazy neat hand writing. I’ve been holding a pen wrong my entire life, but it’s what I’m used to and is incredibly painful to write for extended periods. D:
Congrats dood! A well worthy winner 🙂
Wait there’s *actually* prizes for kudos? I figured it was just a rhetorical thing, hence my not mentioning my address to Mark o.0
Also well done sir, well deserved!
What should I do, draw or sleep?
Oh, who am I kidding, I can’t draw. ;_;
I KNOW! Draw yourself sleeping!!!
Or have a dream about drawing 😀
Blergh. Feeling sad reading all these PAX tweets. :'( Is 8:15pm too early to go to bed? Haha!
Mrs Shane just went to bed. So I’m gonna say… yes, it’s pretty early 😛
Is she sad about reading all the PAX tweets too? 😛
Devastated. But she thinks it’s Serenity-related.
We just watched Treme episode three. Gonna have to track down season 2 DVD, methinks 😀
First episode where the cast of characters has stood out above the city atmosphere as the draw card. Not a bad thing either. It’s a great show, for many reasons. It’s slowly hooking us.
Season two is so damn incredible and season three is just as good. How good is Melissa Leo’s character. Also you meet Sonny/Annie yet? Lucia Micarelli sure knows how to play a violin good. I also like LaDonna and Jeanette. Amazing casting here. Such a great show.
They’re all so compelling, and for different reasons. So far, there hasn’t been a single dud character. I’m so enthralled by all their stories.
Loved learning
that Antoine Batiste’s lauded fame at least partly only exists in his head. And that Davis is being a jerk to his neighbours because he is fiercely protective of the cultural heritage of the neighbourhood he lives in. That federal emergency funding actually makes the bureaucracy impenetrable and corrupt. And the guy the Chief discovered under the boat… and then, they sang the Red Indian song at the memorial (the same song performed earlier in a more polished [and less authentic, I realise later] performance in a studio). And the Katrina tour bus that crashed the memorial. You really get this feeling of brotherhood and community, but then the show reminds you that it’s not an all-encompassing love for fellow man. That there is still an ‘us’ and a ‘them’.There’s a lot of complexity to this narrative. I actually can’t wait to watch it through for a second time. I think that’ll be the key viewing 😀
I like how well realized it all feels. That sense of struggle and finding happiness in the face of it, rebuilding and the like. Sounds so wanky to say, but it’s really really compelling stuff that might not be apparent if you just see a commercial or random five minutes. I’ve got three seasons of story plot points I want to discuss, but that’ll have to wait. Don’t want to spoil any of it. 😀
Honestly, I have NO idea how you would even go about advertising this show. I don’t know how they pitched it – I would really like to know that, actually. It’s not a show with an obvious hook (other than “Hurricane Katrina, the aftermath, with music!”)
I think he just had The Wire street cred. I read that Aaron Sorkin was on a list of people HBO wanted to work with no matter what the story was, I imagine it’d be similar with David Simon.
Fair enough too. Man, what a dream ride that’d be, to have to kind of rep.
@shane: I like the faith that HBO has in show creators too. Treme has never rated really well, yet it got three full seasons. They realize they can’t justify a full fourth season, but still give Simon a five episode order to finish the storylines. I think they learned a thing or two after cancelling Deadwood without closure. 😀
There’s something really interesting about the economics of a cable show. Where most of the money comes from subscriptions and home media, rather than advertising.
You don’t need a ratings monster in order to do well, you need a quality show that will bring in a long-term loyal audience and contribute to the overall reputation of the network as a quality programmer. Even if folks miss Treme on the TV, they’ll pick up the DVD one day, and then subscribe to HBO later, hoping to see their next ‘hit’ as it happens. 😀
And that’s all kinds of awesome! 😀
I totally agree. TV has never been better.
Which is lucky, because by and large, movies have never been worse 😛
Shane, you’re seriously the only person I’ve been able to have Treme conversations with. I literally know no one else who watches it. (Sughly’s seen the pilot though! :D)
Me neither, man (except for Mrs Shane, I guess). I’d never even heard of it until you started spreading the word about HBO theme music you were digging 😀
Oh man, if you’re any thing like me you’ll hear an awesome song from an episode and go on iTunes to buy it only to *shake fist* at the fact that HBO doesn’t sell tracks from the OST individually. :'( I bought the theme song though. Haha!
I think Apple is the devil and iTunes is its pitchfork*, so I think I might avoid that particular temptation 😛
*I will stipulate that this is a gross exaggeration made primarily for comedic valueI know what you mean. I feel like I’m missing out on the party of the year 😛
Don’t feel sad.
Honestly, most people I talked too didn’t think PAX itself was anything too special. It’s all about hanging out with peeps and you can hang out with people whenever! (GET A JOB AND ALL THE INTERSTATE MEAT TRIPS! :D)
WOO D.C. COMES TO MELBOURNE MEAT!
Soo … PAX was kind of horrible for me. Nothing that really interested me, I’d missed most of the talks I wanted to see because I was queued up for other talks, all the collectables I saw were overpriced, even by con standards.
I can’t justify having to trudge through all that again for another 200 street pass hits, so I’ve sold my 3 day pass. @greenius are you going to be heading in on public transport again? if so, what time do you think you’d be getting into the city so I can come in and give you this ps3 game
grumpy tofu away!!!!
*wanders off to bed*
🙁
Sorry to hear, man. You could always sit outside the venue with your 3DS playing Mii Plaza all day tomorrow! Hundreds of nerdpasses to be had! 😀
Aw, sorry to hear that man :(. I guess for me PAX itself wasn’t that special but it was great putting faces to so many names of friends I’ve seen online and I spent most of my day wandering around between TAYbies :D.
I’m not sure on what time I’d be at the station but it’s probably safer to just hold it off until another time. No real rush to play it at the moment but I am keen on playing them eventually. Thanks again! Hopefully you sold the 3 day pass for a profit 😀
How am I meant to see TAYbies tomorrow when I don’t know what they look like? Unless everyone’s faces are actually their avatars :O
Haha, there’s always that awkward first meat where you have to approach strangers and hope for the best. It’s a rite of passage. XD
Oh god, I’m gonna die from awkwardness D: Everyone that I come in contact with will think I’m crazy >__
😀
My first meet I got people to come to me first. @trjn picked me up at a train station and then delivered me to the other TAYbies. XD
That must have been a bit freaky! Getting in to a car with a stranger, who’s taking you to a ‘party’
Haha! Well it was to Movie World. And he offered me candy! FREE CANDY! 😛
(Also @freya was there, so it was all good. :D)
You got in his car AND ate his candy?! You got balls! 😉
My candy is amazing.
Then you’ll fit right in with this lot.
Make a sign saying “TAYBIES!” and hold it up on the air like you’re some airport limo driver, that’ll help in us spotting you 🙂
Dun have the time to do that, too lazy 😛 I’ll just guess until I find someone
You can’t get a piece of A4 paper, a thick texta and write a big TAYBIES on it? 😛
What about all you guys just write NIGHTFLARER on paper instead 😀
The Potaku guys are in purple Potaku shirts.
Ah yeah, I should be able to spot Doc and Shiggy’s beards 😀
If not Potaku, then certainly baconstrips & baconstrips!
Reckon you’ll be alright if you didn’t find anyone and were by yourself? I planned on just asking people where they were on Twitter etc. but my phone could not connect to the internet at all so that plan was thrown out the window :P. Phone numbers would be your best bet I reckon or just heading over to the board game tables and asking everyone if they’re TAYbies 😛
Well if I can’t find anyone, there’s the meat Doc planned for lunchtime, I should be fine by myself for a couple of hours.
What happened today was there were groups of people just walking around. If we found other TAYbies they usually tagged along and we’d just sorta do our own thing and see (and collect) others along the way. Safe areas to find people would be the boardgame building – either at the tables or on the beanbags in the handheld area. There was always people there in fairly big groups 😀
Except you kinda don’t know what anyone looks like >_>
TWITTER PHOTOS from SIMCITY-MELB. Where are they!
I TWEETED TWO PICS OF YOU! D.C. HAS LINKED THEM MULTIPLE TIMES.
WHAT A CREEP!
Sleeeep. Thanks for talking, folks. You guys are awesome. Slow TAY is still good TAY!
Night, man! Thanks for the chat.
Gonna catch up on TAY now but did you ever update us on doctor visit!? Hope all was well! 🙂
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/07/talk-amongst-yourselves-233/comment-page-15/#comment-1680550
Thanks but I already read it before I saw this comment 🙂
Was PAX North canned or did nobody invite me??
Last night. DC tried to cancel it.
BASTARDS!
So I just finished The Last of Us.
Wow. Really.
After being a little less than impressed by SUPERMAN UNBOUND (It was ok but not great) I’m watching THE FLASHPOINT PARADOX from DC, their new animated movie. It’s BRILLIANT!!!! Anyone who likes animated superhero movies should check it out! It’s *great*.
Basic setup? Spoiler free but spoilertagged none the less: The Flash ends up somehow in an alternate universe (isn’t that always the go) where the Batman doesn’t seem to be who he was before… he fights with guns, doesn’t care if he kills and has limited care for life? Superman doesn’t seem to be around… Wonderwoman and Aquaman are slowly taking over the world as a united force and what the hells up with Hal Jordan?Where can I find this simply for the batman with guns part?
Torrented it for now honestly, but we’re buying this on bluray for sure.
Oh and it really hasn’t let up yet. The action is hard*core*. People die. *lots* of people. Graphically for a pg cartoon too.
Ill get it tomorrow hopefully, cheers for the recommendation weresmurf.
Yeah, Superman Unbound was pretty meh.
Still far better than All Star Superman.
Up to the final 10 minutes of this one and WOW its fantastic!!!!!!
Awwww, I liked All Star…
(Wicked comic too!)
You should read Flashpoint… the comic!
So just got home after deciding to get fit and signing up for the gym. Come home and my girlfriends waiting there with a bag and tells me she brought me a suprise while she was out shopping…first reaction was uhoh what did she buy!? She brought me The Last of Us, WOO so now I have that to give a run through, CANT WAIT!
So awesome, my friend! Also way to go on the fitness thing!
The fitness was also her idea…I think she just wants to run on a treadmill but doesn’t want to buy one haha
Howls Moving Castle is such a good movie.
You know what, I might watch it.
That’s what I’m doing! 😀
So these are mid-movie comments?
@sughly just turned in his grave!
Turnip head!
You are
Howl’s Spoilers:
…a beautiful charming prince? Why thank you! :3Like John Farnham, I just don’t know when to stop…
I was really touched (not that way!) and appreciated the nomination and winning Community Kudos by all of you, it was a very kind gesture. You’re all awesome 🙂
So here we go.
Spider-Man
That’s my serious answer, I’d also prolly be black costume Spidey cos I’m a bit of a prick.
Can you have one for Monaco where the winning conditions are just:
“Be Greenius”
😀
I kid, I kid. 🙂
FUN FACT: I’ve won a (TAY giveaway) competition before by just “being Greenius”.
You’d be so pissed if I did and they were the conditions… and you lost… lol
Actually I’d be glad because some champ named Weresmurf is doing super awesome giveaways and someone still wins! 😀
I would be The Cold One..an evil villain with the power to freeze things at will.
@freezespreston
You were right, Easy A is gooooooooooooooooooooooooood.
“That’s alright, Huck, I like steering”
Ooooh might have to check it out 😀 ta!
Teen romantic comedy thing, self-aware humour plus really solid adult cast.
Sandman did a really good job as a funny teacher.
Plus Gwen Stacy…
Check out Detention, a movie about a serial killer, time travelling bears and all the troubles of being a teen in highschool. Quite a fun, surreal movie!
Also check out DETENTION OF THE DEAD, a zombie movie I found to be quite charming and fun!
K
Just finished watching it, really good movie. Wavered a little here and there but really picked itself up with a good ending.
Loved the use of the John Hughes style ending with ‘Dont You forget about me’… however hated how it cut to a modern version :\But that being said, thoroughly enjoyed it, thanks for the tipoff!Ha ha!
I already forgot the modern version, that was for the kids in the audience, surely.
Yeah, good ol Breakfast Club
I enjoyed Easy A more than I thought I would. I thought it was a more.. american pie kind of stupidity. Was pleasantly surprised!
Yeah, I laughed at American Pie, but the quality of this was overall better methinks.
The Scarlet Letter redone with Emma Stone is amazing.
Also Emma Stone is amazing.
She’s like, Lindsay Lohan only not coked up to the eyeballs, and she’s kinda got that gravelly voice thing going on. It works.
I’m not fond of the lisp 😛
Lisp, I didn’t notice.
Australia 5/86 at the moment…
This isn’t looking good. :\
PAAAAAAAX!
Holy crap I am sore. And tired. And sore.
Soooooo many photo requests. Also compliments on the outfit. Felt good :p
Now to do it all again tomorrow. Or today, according to my clock.
Aw shit, I forgot what you went as 😛
I kinda remember “Luigi with red boots” but I can’t remember if that’s today or yesterday 😀
Manny Calavera yesterday, Luigi today. Probably nothing tomorrow, I don’t even know if I’ll be able to walk.
Never saw a Manny 🙁
Saw lots of WeeGees throughout both days though!
Aww. If you saw my Weegee, you would’ve known it. It was unique :p
I’d like to think a hug that lasts like 20-30 seconds with our arms wrapped tightly around each other is still classified as a manly bro hug, or having conversations whilst hugging is still manly, but I don’t think most people would think the same way 😛
It depends..was their the manly pats on the back or was it all close hugging?
A couple to end with after rubbing each others backs.
I’m honestly not sure why we started hugging so… closely. His girlfriend doesn’t have a problem with it though, and we both seem to prefer it so there’s no real point restricting ourselves.
Nothing wrong with a man hug, only time their not good is when your sad because then all the emotions swell up, and you start crying and no body wants that haha.
How much dryhump was there??
😛None 😛 haha
I am dissapoint 🙁
ALEPH WNET OT SOME GGIRLS HOUSE TO DRINK AND WATCH SPORTSBLAL BECAUSER SPORTSBALL AND IT AAS AFL NOT NRL AND MAN I THOUGHT NRL WAS CONFISUGIN BUT SRSLY WTF ARE THEY DOIN LIKE REALLY THAT GAME IS A MESS HOW ARE YO UMEANTY TO KNOW WHATS HAPPENEING SRSLY.
ALSO I MAY HAVE ANHD SOME DRINKS WOOO
..IT hand to be a fukcng pageget too, didnt it.
PEOTIPA
Dont get gammered and start reading web md and wikipediaa whilet rying to self diagnose.
pretty sure i have aid s and cancers and gonna die tomorrow.
PROTIP
Here’s a protip! Drink a few glasses of water before bed 😉
Here’s another protip! Use protection 😉
Always do sir! Doesn’t do much in the way of sobering up, though it certainly helps with the morning after 🙂
WOOOO 😀
Happy birthday @rocketman!
OMG MILDROSS
LOOK AT HOW OLD HE IS
Happy birthday @rocketman!
HE MUST BE LIKE, 13 NOW RIGHT?
Hippy Baffday Rocketbuddy 😀
Happy birthday Rockets! Hope it’s a good one!
HAPPY BEEDAAAAY @rocketman!! This one’s for you
Hyippi Burdaye RoockitMahn @rocketman
It’s the Rocketman’s birthday?!
Happy Birthday @rocketman!
Happy birthday, @rocketman! Until your next one.
I think it’s gonna be a long, long time…
Happy Birthday @rocketman
*refresh*
You’re not allowed to play the refresh game! You’re already playing the Have Fun At PAX Without Powalen game!
YOU CAN’T PLAY TWO THINGS
My feet hurt from all the standing :'(
GOOD
;_;
Go back to bed, you two
But he’s in Melbourne.
No buts! Now go sit on your bed and think about what you’ve done.
So’s his bed.
I swear I hate my internal clock sometimes, it’s like “oh it’s the weekend no sleep in for you!” Wake up at 6 and can’t get back to sleep 🙁
Anyway how was everyone else’s sleep?
Not bad after 2 nights of headcold hell, I still have the headcold but managed to sleep most of the night without waking up HUZZAH \o/
D: Hope you feel better.
AWW my noms didn’t get counted 🙁
I nommed @redartifice for gifting me a copy of Crusader Kings 2 for when I join the master race in the coming months. I also nommed @dc and @rocketman for being wonderful human beings.
I had noms for The Cracks and Blaghman too! Majestic motherfuckers gifted me awesome goodies! (Fez and Bastion!)
D: What did I do? You’re awesome, Beardy!
*circles the wagons*
*gets paint ready*
Duck, duck, duck, GOOSE! *runs*
SMT IV’s voice acting is quite good too.
BASTARD! ( I think we get it November, EB has a date but who knows if they know what I want to know or not)
It’s good so far, but not OMG BRILLIANT like I had with SMT 3 Nocturne. Early days yet though.
Nocturne, was looking at checking that out but gave up because of massive backlog.
Needs a handheld port, and I know that’s good business cos if I buy one copy then Atlus parent company will be saved 😛
It looks like a great place for me to start since it’s handheld and looks graphically impressive.
For all the times I go on about gameplay over graphics, sometimes a shitty looking game can really leave a bad taste in my mouth (I should prolly play them instead of eating them *shrugs*)
To the shops I go! *zoom*
Hey! You! I am replying to you about another post in this post because I dont know why. I… didnt really like the last half of Howl’s that much, too much sappy romance! But, to be fair, I only saw it once and that was when it came out, and I was a younger more romantically blunt Sughly, so I should watch it again and see if my opinion’s changed.
In short, we should have a Ghibli fight.
But it had Batman!
…it did? I really do need to watch it again
Kristen Bail?
I watched it in Mandarin, so I got no Billy Crystal.
OOOHHHHHH Errggggggghhhh, dub? Really Popo?
Wait that wasnt even powow that said it haha. Ah…. whatever.
Dub’s better anyway ;P
ಠ_ಠ
TAY!
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view2/2054482/single-tumbleweed-o.gif
😐
Saturday morning tumbleweed..just one of those days
I finished the two stories in Muramasa Rebirth and now there’s post-game! WOOOO!!! \o/
I’ll prolly give it a bit of a break though, maybe.
You should have everything you need except maybe the levels to be able to get both of the second endings. You need to equip the two swords unlocked at the end of the first story on each of them (Descent into Misery & Threads of Fate IIRC) and then go back and re-enter the final boss fight. It’ll be a different fight and once you beat those you’ll get another ending for each character.
The ‘true’ ending you have to forge the Oboro Muramasa (108th sword) and to do that you have to beat all the white Caves of Evil bar the level 92 one to unlock the prerequisite swords. I’m stuck on the last one of them 🙁 Just can’t beat it.
Yeah, game straight up told me what to do after I beat the second story. I’m way underlevelled to equip those swords.
I can go in where the other character did now so I can beat the other bosses, that should get me up. But a break I will have.
Is there a way to get more of those awesome health refill items?
I used a bunch and they were just randomly found in levels.
The recipes I have don’t create awesome stuff unless they eat it straight away, which is no good in a fight.
Didn’t see any shops with them either (I think one item was a peach or something that restored 2000 health and a bunch of spirit).
Some of the recipes create consumables. Rice balls, baked yams, trout and fried squid.
This time next week I’ll be playing Pikmin 3. 😀 😀 😀
This time next week I’ll be quietly robbing your house while you’re distracted by Pikmin 3!
Saaaaaaaame. Will be the first game to pry me away from Animal Crossing
You sussed out prices yet? I noticed in Big W’s catalogue its like, 68? I think? Actually I dont really remember… but I was pleasantly surprised it wasnt closer to 100 anyway!
Oh, I haven’t even looked into prices. I was just going to mosey to JB Hifi on launch day without investigating. Haha! Just saw it’s $79 at JB. Looks like Big W’s the place to go for Pikmin goodness. (Though it says $74 on their website.) Turned the Wii U on this morning for the first time in weeks in preparation. Moseyed around the dashboard for a little while before realizing there’s nothing to do on this console yet. 😀
You can’t say you didn’t get value out of Animal Crossing though. You bought it the day after I bought The Last of Us and I finished that weeks and weeks ago.
Yeah did a quick look around, seems like Big W is the way to go. Arrrrgh, I might not bring it up as much as you but I feel the pikmin excitement coming on too. So so excited 😀 I’m just as excited for the first proper WiiU title to come out that I’ve been properly anticipating too! The first of many to come this year…
Yeah, it’s been a crazy long time coming too but it’s also awesome that it’s the start of something big for the Wii U. Pikmin games are extremely relaxing weirdly too, I find. I don’t know why. I think the Wii U has the most games I’m most excited to play for the rest of the year, which sounds like crazy talk if you asked me earlier this year. Wonderful 101, Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, Mario 3D, Wind Waker! 😀
Yep, for sure. Was just talking about this with my brother, such an exciting line up, all within this year too ^^ It’s exciting not just to get games that were so excited for too but just to finally get some proper use out of the console. Like, I still pick up the controller and love the feel of it, and get excited about new Nintendo… but just that there is currently no new Nintendo to play :'(
Until now!
With the PS3, I think it’s just Beyond: Two Souls I’m excited for. Multiplatform there’s Rayman Legends (which I’ll get on the Wii U), GTAV and Arkham Origins. Then the kickstarter adventures. Really can’t wait for Asylum, Goodbye Deponia and Tex Murphy: Tesla Effect!
How longs your brother in town for?
Just left :'(
@sughly: Aw, that’s too bad. Maybe I’ll meet your sister if she ever makes her triumphant return. XD
How is it you don’t buy everything from ozgameshop?
I’ve never used ’em. Plus my hype levels sometimes get so high that I’ll pay a little extra to have it on launch day. XD
A little? Sometimes they’re almost half price!
Pokemon’s the only game I get locally (apart from specials and discounts) because I can’t wait and Big Ws seem to drop the price even lower than Ozgame on day one!
I think from memory ozgame is 55 for pikmin. Prefer to pay another 13 to have it day one to be honest, waited too long already!
There’s no better feeling than picking a game up from the shelf that you’ve been wanting for years and then moseying to the counter.
So so true
DIGGS NIGHTCRAWLER 🙂
Haha, Sughly and I saw that last time we went to JB in the city and still had no idea what it was. A move game? *scratches head*
The birth of my son
Seeing him solve a puzzle by himself
His first words
A hug from my wife
Deep tissue massage
There’s a few things…off the top of my head.
😛@jimu:
I don’t have a kid.
I don’t have a wife.
This is all I’ve got, man! 😛
Nothing stopping you from getting a DEEP TISSUE MASSAGE
I’ve never got one but I imagine I’d feel great for a day@jimu: I’m not particularly fond of people touching me, let alone strangers. XD
same, I’m just speaking shit cos I have nothing better to do 😛
Oh yeah, I got Ni No Kuni locally because I NEEDED that book!
$48 from Ozgameshop.
I don’t mind the extra wait since I just played Pikmin 1 AND 2 in June/July.
PS. YOU’R THE WORST CO-OP-PLAY-THING BUDDY! :'(
Dont ever forget youre equally as bad
Hey new friends! Totally posting this from PAX of my own free will and not because Greenius, Mashaa, and Mike Tarno made me 😛
Woooooooooooooo \o/ \o/
Le winner of the Deadlight competition ladies, gentlemen and the dearly ‘living impaired’ who wander among us seeking out our flesh?
@coldcamv ! Because Frozone totally rocks 😀 Screw Iceman, Frozones totally where it’s at!!!
Add me on Steam to get your prize, names Weresmurf. Well done!
WOOOOO! Still. So. Damn. Kind. It’s a good game too if you can excuse the terrible writing. (It’s the most generic zombie story evah with the worst dialogue evah.) Lucky the gameplay is extremely fun and the level design is crazy awesome. Well worth playing!
Absolutely, it gives TWD Survival Instinct a run for its money in voice overs and plot, but the level design is great. Love how the walkers walk up from the background to grab you too!
Really nails the atmosphere too. Ambient details and the like. I noticed the names in the credits all seemed Spanish or something, I suspect a lot of the dodginess is not writing in their native language…
Woo, thank you @weresmurf, however I can’t accept because I already own the game (which I must say is a really good game) I just wanted to throw out a superhero name haha. So I would like to gratefully hand over the prize to whoever was the second choice 🙂
However I will still add you on steam if that’s still available XD
No prob 🙂
@jimu you’re the runner up, you want to claim your prize?
Wait, what?
What game?
Deadlight dude 🙂
Does anyone else want it?
I have a bad habit of getting nowhere in PC games. :-/
@Jimu: … ‘sup?
Just played a little FFVII on the crapper, you?
Not a whole lot, man. Not a whole lot. 😀
Yeah, tryina stay inside and keep warm so I can go to work Monday feeling better.
Was friggin’ windy before, you see that?
I heard rain, but I didn’t look out the window. *shakes fist* Hope you feel better soon.
Yeah, it rained for a bit and now the sun’s out again. BAH!
I boughted toys!
What’d you get?
More dinosaurs and LEGO… 😛
There’s a severe lack of other interesting toys!
I didn’t know they sold LEGO minifigures in blind bags though. I bought two of them hoping to get something cool… I got a painter and a biker 😛 Out of all the possible cool options, I got the two plainest!
I’d probably go to Comic Etc or something and buy a cool video game related statue. 😀
None of those shops around here sadly. My options are limited to Kmart, Big Dub, etc D:
Maybe I’ll go for a day trip into the city tomorrow! (Though making my work commute on a weekend doesn’t sound too desirable haha)
You could pretend to go on a meat only to realize all the Sydney folks are in Melbourne.
…
YOU COULD ROB THE SYDNEY FOLKS. I’m sure Shiggy’s got plenty of Nintendo stuff! 😀
It’s funny… I remember as a kid thinking the small <$20 sets of LEGO were utterly useless. Why would anybody buy LEGO that only had one or two minifigs and one car or something?
Now I think they’re the best LEGO sets 😛
I still don’t get it D:
So what makes them so good? (genuine question – or at least what makes them good for you?)
I haven’t played with LEGO in years (like well over 10 years) but those big sets and models would be fun to build. Still don’t get the dealio with the smaller ones though 😀
Oh man, slow TAY and PAX weekend would be an ideal time to start a new game, but there’s nothing I can decide on playing. D: What’s everyone currently playing?
Animal Crossing and Virtue’s Last Reward!
You’d like 999/VLR, DC! Adventure game puzzles!
Yeah, I’d definitely investigate those games if I had a DS, Hotel Dusk too!
I didn’t really get into Hotel Dusk enough to finish it. It had a really cool art style and such, but it got a bit TOO adventure-game-logicy for me haha
I have a game going on everything I own PS3-The last of us, PC-Deus Ex Human Revolution, 3DS-Fire Emblem, Vita-Virtues Last Reward and Persona 4 Golden.
And still I just lay in bed reading the news and TAY.
Oh man, you can’t play a game like Deus Ex and The Last of Us at the same time. They demand your full attention. *shakes fist* You monster! 😛
They’re some of my two favourite games this generation, though.
I know I know that’s why I want to finish deus ex before the last of us consumes me haha.
Final Fantasy VII
Cos I’m so dedicated to knocking over that pile :-s
I was going for a WR speedrun of Etax 2013, but it appears I broke it :S
Unpacking my Lord of the Rings LEGO set…
Godammit I lost The Precious down the back of my desk already!
Dive in after it, Smeagol.
WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE
Aww, I was expecting this:
Haha, so was I!
Haha! Does that conclude your toy buying or is this only the start?
Perhaps! Perhaps not!
About to head out shopping, has anyone tried Project X Zone yet for 3DS and is it any good?
There’s a demo out if you want to try before you buy!
@bish @distantdrop have discussed it before!
It’s kind of boring, gameplay wise, in my opinion.
Too easy, not enough strategy.
It’s a bit weird graphically, like they tried to normalise everyone into one art style, which messes up a few characters looks, but the 2D attack animations are really well done, like Endless Frontier, if you ever played that.
Yeah I played Endless frontier, I got sucked in by the Super Robot War/Tensei title hoping it was like the others, so I was abit taken back by Endless Frontiers gameplay the first time.
So it’s… sort of like Endless Frontier’s gameplay. You try chain together your attacks and juggle the enemy, but there’s not so much reward in doing so. In Endless Frontier, you were rewarded with greater chance to crit, this game it’s just so that they dont get a chance to reset their shields, if they even have them. Combo count doesn’t seem to mean much here. Still, again, combat is pretty.
The rest of the combat is moving around on tile-based maps. But defensive positioning means very little, and offensive positioning only adds a little bit of a bonus.
Can see why people would like it, and some of the character interactions are neat, but the gameplay isn’t deep enough for my liking.
Hmm, I downloaded the demo so will check that out and if I like it ill buy it if I can find it under $50 haha
Have you got a Wiimote to play Pikmin 3, @dc? Or are you going to be slumming it with the gamepad? ;D
I’ve got Wiimotes! Will decide how I play the game when I’ve got it though. 😀
Wiimote will win you over to the dark side! I’m sure of it! 😀
(Are they Motion Plus ones? If so then I’m sure they will!)
I’ve got the motion plus dealy that came with Wii Sports Resort. At the same time, touch screen stuff could be cool? (Though I haven’t been reading up on the pros and cons of either.)
I didn’t think there was any touch screen stuff. The game pad and pro controller control the same way as far as I’ve heard!
I think you might be right about the Wiimote. It worked so well in the New Game Control versions of the originals. Precise and all that.
It’s so handy to be able to run and throw Pikmin at the same time! 😀 No free camera control with the Wiimote though (just press-a-button-to-centre-camera thing)
I’ll definitely be trying both ways first though! Hype!
HYPE!
http://www.polygon.com/2013/7/19/4538836/dragon-age-inquisition-dev-tweaking-dialogue-choice-system
WOOOOOO!
Good to hear, next gen though yeah? Won’t be playin’ for a while… :-/
Q2 2014 probably, but it’s being released on current gen consoles too I think.
OooOOOooOoOoOhhh, maybe I will play it sooner then 🙂
Going to see Pacific Rim tonight. Only in 2D, but looking forward to it.
Sounds good! Hope you like it. Still looking forward to seeing this!
So today, over Steam my son and I were discussing what he wanted to dress up as for Halloween. I then told him he’s going to Supanova in November as his birthday present!
He’s overjoyed 😀 He said to me straight away ‘DR WHO!’ I said which one, he said ‘The ONLY one. David Tennant!’
*sniffle* I’m so proud I’m raising a 9 year old geek. I was thinking of going as Tom Baker but can’t find a decent overcoat…
Recent update:
Got a GREAT idea from a mate. He suggested I go as THE MASTER!!!!!! My son and I can have duels! I’ve just ordered Sonic Screwdrivers both of the David Tennant and Master variety off Ebay, got him a pinstriped grey suit and picking him up some tennis shoes this week 😀 Making sure his costume is all set to go before we even look at mine. Just wanna make this go off without a hitch for him. My suit should be simple, black slacks, black sports coat, black shirt, black tie, grey hair, great and black goatee… and sonic screwdriver! 😀
Brisbane Supanova? @shane might have a booth there! 😛
Awesome then @shane shall meet me!!!
Two things.
1. You’ve teached him wrong about best Drs
and
B: You live in Brisbane? Why you no meat??
*SLAP* DAVID TENNANT *IS* THE BEST DOCTOR.
Then comes Tom Baker.
Matt Smith comes a severely close third.
As for meeting, I dunno, never really seen any brisbane meetups happening lol
Really?
Well, they didn’t bother inviting me Thursday.
I blame @sughly >:-O
If I end up having birthday dinner & drinks I’ll remember to invite you!
This all depends on my health/availability though :-/
We have them fairly often but haven’t tagged you because we had no idea you were one of us!
One of ussssss one of ussssss
Did you just call Chuck Taylor Cons: Tennis Shoes? D:
Im not going for 100 percent authenticity here, we just need some cons looking shoes 😛 12 bucks at target apparently lol
I seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
So PAX was kind of disappointing. Half the size of Supernova with twice as many people. Not much to see or do either.
Did get to try out an Oculus and have a go at Saints Row IV.
Cannot fathom how I’d want to spend 3 days there.
Damn, I don’t even like Supanova as much these days :-/
Ohhh… that sucks :/ Kind of helps take the edge off thr jealousy. Then again, isnt karaoke tonight..? Jealousy returning…
Yeah you didn’t miss much. There’s really not much here at all. A good third of the expo hall is LoL and World of Tanks.
I think I’d just have liked to see Ron Gilbert and BioWare and that’s only day one. :'(
Unless you waited like 2 hours before, there’s no chance 😛
I managed to actually see something today but it was a mess to get in (I guess I’ll do a separate post for it)
Yeah, for me it was all about meeting the peeps 😀
I’m sure Freeze will report back that karaoke was pretty radical.
‘Twas.
I’m hearing from lots of people they chose a really bad place to host PAX, that there were much better places in Sydney they could’ve held it with twice to three times the floor space. Pity :\
This is true. They needed probably almost triple the exhibitors than they had. The theatre stuff we didn’t even attempt as everyone was complaining about hours long wait only to be told its full because they’re not clearing them between panels.
Hopefully it’ll grow bigger for next year!
THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID!!! 😀 😀 😀
*BAM*
I actually preferred SupaNova back when it was about a third of the size.
It’s a quality over quantity thing for me.
Also, I’m a jaded dried up old cunt and prefer the good old days or something.
#oldManjimu
#etc
I’ve never ever been to Supanova, so I get to share my first time there with my son. We’re going as the Doctor and The Master. We have an agreement that he takes his nanas mobile phone with 10 dollars credit in it to call me if he gets lost and I have my phone of course. We have appropriate Sonic screwdrivers! We also have the agreement that during the course of the con, I will be about five meters away and he must start asking people ‘Have you seen the Master???’ then run at me flashing the screwdriver. At some point I will lay down dead and he will scream “NOOOOOOO!” lol.
Also, if we find someone dressed as a tardis, he’s going to say they’re ‘bigger on the inside’ lol
You are making the most of a good thing thar 😀
Yeah, sooo over it 😛
Rudely awakened jimu isn’t very fun…sorry guise…
Jimu’s always fun. *waits for Jimu to do something fun*
😀
*coughs up phlegm*
D.C.’s PAX WRITE-UP — DAY TWO:
I left the house once today. I arrived home thirty minutes later. I watched an episode of The West Wing. (Edward James Olmos was in it!)
jimu’s PAX North Write up day 3:
Stayed home all day, went outside to bring in dry clothes, got a head spin and sat down.
Played Final Fanytasy VII, recruited Yuffie before Junon so I can see her antics on the ship and at Costa Del Sol.
F
“Fanytasy”
That just cracked me up, sounds as suss as all fuck! XD
The cave before Junon is an awesome place to grind mobs to get everyone the kills they need to upgrade their limit break levels too, there’s one room where every fight has 5-6 enemies (the IIRC Matra Magic enemy skill will usually wipe them all in one go), and the room over from that has one dragon enemy that you can manipulate into doing a fire breath attack which is good for building the limit gauge to perform the 1st break for each character enough times to unlock the second one. Just make sure you take a stack of hypers in (minor accuracy penalty for double limit increase) and you’ll be set. Only annoying limits to level are Aerith’s as she has a couple that remove all status effects (removes hyper) or that cause you to become invincible (stops the limit gauge increasing).
Kind of trivializes the game to do it though. Like, once you’ve done the grinding basically every boss until around the point you get to Wutai is able to be one-shot by Cloud’s Meteorain limit break. But it’s very useful because you can unlock all the level 4 limits straight away when you unlock them, though honestly in Red XIII and Yufie’s cases their L4s are worse than their L3s (many hits is better than one big hit).
yeah, nah. I just play on wait & it’s easy enough.
Haven’t left home yet today, but about to walk to the supermarket.
Did some vacuuming.
Washed some dishes.
Cleaned the bathroom.
Accidentally cooked up some rotten eggs.
Played some XCOM.
Ben J’s PAX South write up – Day two
Rudely awoken at 11:30 to go to a cat breeders house to look at $700 cats. Got given life lessons by the cat lady (old people love giving me and my best friend life lessons for some reason)
Had a pie from Banjos for lunch (is Banjos a national chain?)
Got back, played Bit Trip Runner
Watching TV.
ColdCam’s PAX Write up – Day 2
Woke up and made bacon and eggs, ate bacon and eggs, returned to bed for 4 hours, went shopping, now babysitting cousins.
Can’t believe I’ve played Animal Crossing at least once every day for the past month. 111hrs so far!
I played The Last of Us for two awesome days. 😀
Yah same, still yet to drop a day of play. Love it.
I noticed you didn’t post your play-time 🙂
Morning fronds, what’s the turnip prices in your towns and can I come sell some? because mine’s 66 bells each and it’s pretty terrible
Not that great in mine. Just 104 Bells. You’re welcome to come if you want, though. I don’t think I have you as a 3DS friend however…
I’m ok with that. I think you just need to add me and then I can creep around your town
Ah! Ok, gates are open! You can come if you promise not to run on my grass! 😉
Oh no! The connection failed! D: If you need to you can come and try again!
http://www.twitter.com/Sir_Mashaa/status/358504080928284672
XD
I really really really hate the iiNet guy’s face right now.
Smirking little cockshite.
Could be worse, he could be the Youi guy!
He hates you too.
Pretty confident I could take him.
My money’s on jimu, guy looks like a twig
Ugh, fuck this tablet.
Probably the third or fourth time I’ve had to re-install the fucking drivers.
🙁
Well I was going to go to the supermarket, but the rodent episode of Life of Mammals is on.
Rodents are the business
Mice idea!
So going to the ball thingy tonight didn’t happen 😛 Oh wells.
And I can’t for the life of me get Binding of Issac to work on my mac :S It won’t recognize any keyboard input!
Random musings: It’s good to have Aaron Sorkin back on TV. I love the way he writes characters. THE NEWSROOOOOOOM!
Random musings #2: Watching an episode of The West Wing is dangerous. I always feel like rewatching the entire thing after seeing one ep, doesn’t matter which one. 😀
comics is better than TV.
There, I said it.
Enemies forever.
😛Random musings #3: Jimu’s wrong 😛
Yeah, I know, we won’t really be enemies forever 😛
Hrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmhhhhhhnnnnnnnngnggggggg….. sorry, man, think I have to disagree on that one.
Really? Huh.
You would probably still favour comics, but have you really watched many series?
Not as many as you lot.
I prefer film over TV too. Although there’s been a step up in TV in recent years and a step down in film(generally).
I still still think great comics and great film are better than great TV.
You never get little artsy things on TV (I know it happens, but usually it’s a short FILM anyways).
It’s the business that stops it, someone can put together a short film or comic at low cost, how can you do that with TV?
Yeah… I would largely agree with film, in that I think filmmakers are aware they only have so and so minutes to tell what they want to tell. But then I think there’s also advantages to having a longer form, like Breaking Bad for example could never ever tell the same story in 2-3 hours, just couldnt. Actually come to think of it, Evangelion is a good example – the series is far better than the films, even when youre just looking at the first film were it doesnt deviate, just because you have more time to create setting, slowly build on characters, etc. Ya know? Pros and cons for both… I dunno, at the end of the day I prefer film, but not an easy distinction.
Oh and also the indie angle, ehhh well there’s web series and stuff, which get the same backing as indie films can. They are there, just not as prominent, obviously.
And a great book is better than great TV
And a great game!
Wewt, just bought Trials Evolution on Steam!
Only I can’t play it yet cos it’s PC only and I only have my mac right now 🙁
Dual Boot, son!
Time to let the Mo-Mo-Mo-Mo-Monday nights roll
Tell me if it’s good
It’s good.
OMFG OMFG OMFG SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT!!!!!
http://tinyurl.com/n35ov7jI wish I never had that spoiled for me..once it’s seen it can’t be unseen
I had seen that before, but never from that angle!
Captain Ron is an awesome family movie
I have a man-crush on Kurt Russell!
Karaoke meat! http://www.twitter.com/FreezeSPreston/status/358533526938869760
“It’s like a highschool disco” D:
I never went to any of mine 😛
You lucky, lucky bastard.
I remember commandeering the bottle of Old Spice my father had.
I remember setting my hair with a 3-inch thick protective layer of gel.
I remember standing around awkwardly before being escorted from the premises because I reeked of alcohol (Old Spice, egads!)
TIL Old Spice smells like alcoholism and sadness.
Also that school dances were never that good anyway 😛
I’m going to sleep. #OldManDC
nighty niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight
Goodnight, sweet prince
Night DC make sure batman watches over you.
Now 90 minutes into Battlestar, and watching it with Mrs Shane.
She reacted very strongly to the dead baby scene in the opening 15 minutes. I reassured her that all the babies would soon be dead, but that didn’t help anything. :\Digging this show. Not perfect, but it’s quite meticulous, and well-layered, and we’re very keen to pick it up again tomorrow.
I do like it but I take massive, years long breaks between random points.
It’s odd, I like it, but I can’t be bothered.
Gaius is bestist.
Pacific Rim is all kinds of awesome. Neon Genesis Evangelion meets Godzilla meets Independence Day with a little bit of Portal thrown in. After Stacker Pentecost’s line about cancelling the apocalypse I imagined Ellen McLain’s voice saying ‘And then there will be cake.’
I definitely enjoyed it, but it had plenty of flaws.
Del Toro’s world creation was awesome as always. The history, jaeger/kaiju design, general vibe…
Plus the action and visual were awesome.
Wolverine is on channel Ten stabbin’ doods 😀
Indeed he is.
Woo! Nightcrawler!
Gutted I missed the opening scene.
Was so lucky, turned the TV on, on the off chance something might be playing and Nightcrawler steps out.
Such lucky timing.
The ads, though, they make me very angry. They say the same shit about “compelling new must-see drama”s that they said 20 years ago and ads for stuff just infuriates me.
No wonder I’m such an avid pirate. Arrrr
Thinking you’ll be fine, then standing up is the worst thing you can do :S
That should be thinking you are fine 😛
It’s 10pm and I am well and truly bored, whats everyone else upto?
Just rewatched Whisper of the Heart!
Haven’t watched that in so long haha
Watching Top Gear and giggling like an idiot 😀
Which episode ya watching?
Just finished S20E02, on to E03 now 😀
NICE! I really gotta catch up on top gear episodes haha
X2 on Ten.
Pacing the house like a mad something during ads.
If your tv can..pause the tv..go do something else for 30 minutes, come back and you can just fast forward the ads..no more pacing.
Ha ha! Nope.
I got a TV with great picture quality at the lowest price possible.
You can pause the picture, but things go on without you 🙂
Going home after the Karaoke meat 🙂
Songs were sung or shouted. Your choice.
How was it masha?
I completely forgot about Attack of the Friday Monsters! (skip to 0:55 for the trailer). I remember thinking it looked pretty schmick!
There’s too many games and not enough time /o\
I dunnooooooo… I think the backgrounds and whatnot look great, but it looks like the game as a game might be a bit… dull
Wow, this night will not be repeated in a loooong time.
Just returned from karaoke with taybies and it makes me question… Why don’t I do this more often?? YOU GUYS ROCK! @scree @rize @blaghman @techknight etcetc you all awesome and I’m proud to call you friends… And never had bohemian rhapsody been showed as much justice as it has tonight
Wherever there is an event with singing TAYbies, Bohemian Rhapsody will be played.
This man speaks the truth, must be one of the official song of tay by now XD
Amen.
IT’S THAT GUY WHO’S NEVER AT THINGS
Hey peeps.
Since today was my last day at PAX, I thought I’d do a very quick write up to let all those who couldn’t attend know what it was like. The good, the bad and the ugly. I’m sure there’s lots I forgot to include below, but this is a personal summary of the last two days of the expo.
The Good
PAX felt like you got the opportunity to meet 10,000 friends that you never knew you had. Everyone and by that I mean, everyone that I bumped into was extremely friendly, helpful and cheerful. I can’t think of a single exception to this, save but perhaps @greenius because as everyone on here knows, he’s just a natural born monster! 😛
(All jokes aside, for those who didn’t get the obvious sarcasm that was accentuated by the :P, @greenius is actually an awesome dude).
There was a fair bit to see and lots of people to meet. I lost count of how many TAY people I ended up meeting. And you’re all damn fantastic.
The hot dogs were delicious. Whoever thought of putting cheese inside the actual dog is a fucking genius. I tip my hat to them. If you’re reading this and haven’t tried one yet, do yourself a favor and indulge on one. It’ll make the $120 you spent on the ticket well worth it. Plus the $10 these things set you back. But let me tell you; there’s hot dogs, there’s sex and then there’s cheese filled hot dogs. Judas, I could go for one right now.
While I didn’t personally get a chance to try it out, everyone that did really enjoyed the Oculus. Rightfully so because it’s a great piece of technology. A few of the dudes tried it out and thoroughly enjoyed it.
A bunch of us had fun with the Johann Sebastian Joust game. And by fun, I mean lots of fun.
The indie booths were pretty cool. I personally enjoyed visiting them and checking out what the Australian indie scene is doing. It would have been nice to have more international ones too, instead of some of the big players that took way too much space (see below).
@klutar and I got completely smashed with the guys from BioWare on Friday night and as a result we both spent all of Saturday with hang overs the size of Greece’s debt. But these are experiences you only get the chance to have once in a lifetime, so it was well worth it. A few of the other TAY guys were coincidentally there too, so it was great to meet them for the first time.
Some of the cosplay was incredible. My favorite was probably the Geth one. Those who saw it know exactly what I’m talking about. That was the shit! Absolutely insanely made.
My StreetPasses grew by about 4,000% over the weekend.
The Bad
There was a relative lack of swag. Based on what I read online before going, I along with everyone assumed there was a bit more stuff that was going to be given away. The only real thing we ended up with was a deck (or in some cases a couple of decks) of Magic cards. That’s not a big complaint, but I think we can all agree that free swag is awesome and the more the better. Most of us also missed out on the PA XP Cube because we were too slow to guess the silly phrase, on the count of not being able to find some of their QR codes.
I did get a pair of steampunk glasses from the Magic booth after exchanging my date of birth, what I had for breakfast and my mother’s maiden name for them. @masha2932 missed out on a pair, so I ended up giving them to him because he’s such a nice guy. No really, he is.
About half the floor space was taken by League of Legends and World of Tanks. Which if you ask me is bullshit, because they could have used some of that space for other booths. SONY wasn’t there and Microsoft was limited to the presentation they did (which apparently was good, and I say apparently because you need to read The Ugly first). They also had a tiny space dedicated to a glass enclosure that was empty 99% of the time and housed the
VCRXbox One on a single occasion that I walked past it.The prices of goodies were a bit high, but I guess that’s expected at these events. Also expected because, well, we live in Australia.
The Ugly
Now to the ugly bits. And I’m not talking about the weather which was a bigger prick than Kim Jong-il and Stalin’s love child would have been. Melbourne really did deliver the bad weather it’s so infamous for. Especially today.
But the worst part must be the queues. People had to line up for an hour, sometimes even a couple just to get a seat to watch an event. I was in line for well over an hour today, only to be told at the door that there was no room. They finally agreed to let @masha2932 and I in, but I ended up giving my spot to a cosplay dude that was a much bigger Borderlands fan than I was.
And this was consistent across the last couple of days. In fact, I didn’t end up getting to go to a single event. Partially due to my own fault because I gave up on trying after a few failed attempts, but mainly because they just didn’t cater for enough people. They really need to think this through next time. Making people wait in line for a couple of hours, in the cold on a rainy day and then not even being able to cater for everyone is a bit silly.
Overall
It was a great experience that I recommend to anyone for next year. Sure it wasn’t perfect, but it’s something that everyone should try at least once in their lifetime.
I’m really glad I went and thanks TAYbies for making it so good!
Heh, I was actually writing something too but just deleted it and refreshed 😀
It seemed like most of things I was saying were just overly negative and even though they were absolute bollocks, I still had fun at PAX (mainly because of the people!)
Fo shiz, the people were awesome. I’m glad I went.
There’s stuff I want to say but can’t be bothered saying now 😛 (I guess I’ll do it Monday?)
But a random Kotaku lurker totally recognised all the TAYbies’ names we were mentioning and we peer pressured him to join TAY. He did a TAY post but it seems to still be in moderation (and I can’t remember his full handle :P)
@dc you’ve got time to check back on previous pages :D. It was around 12-1:30pm on Saturday!
WOOOO NEW PEOPLE!
One of us! One of us!
Doesn’t appear to be there.
Yeah, it was still in moderation when I caught up on TAY last night and didn’t see it.
DEAR LURKER,
Try posting and editing the post.
Legends tell of a moderation loophole, but I can’t say whether the legends are true.
Kind regards,
Effluvium Boy
I think he is called @johnasurus
I think so anyway 🙂
That did not work 🙁
@johnurus maybe?
I give up. It will come up
I know there wasn’t a H in “john”, it was just “jon”. I can’t remember the rest though 😛
With a name like that, he must want a hug from @strange! 😀
So… I’m getting better at drawing breasts.
Now to get better with every other part of the body. 🙂
I think one of the more important things to get right when drawing chickens is the feathers 😉
I thought it was their beak?
It’s the cock.
Hahaha! This made me laugh for some reason. I just pictured you drawing breasts for hours and hours and hours in a dark room. XD
That’s what you gotta do…PRACTICE
(preferably with the lights on)
PAX PART TWOOOOOOOO
Yesterday was sore? HA! Nothing on the pain I gave myself today. Still can’t feel my pinkie toes. There was one TAYbie that recognised me from my description and came up and said hi – I think he said he was @mort? But I felt bad because I couldn’t recognise it.
Been loving it so far, way better than EBX (lol) or Supernova. Though that said, there’s been disappointingly less cosplay than I thought there’d be. Hardly had reason to take pictures at all. Did miss a few good ones today though due to being occupied with lunch. Tomorrow should easier to check things out, going in normal mode.
Friends tried to go out for a few drinks tonight, but the place below us and one place recommended by a native were loud and shit, and the other recommendation pulled the “too many guys” trick. Ended up wandering for about an hour just trying to find somewhere else but they all seemed to be hiding.
@mawt
Why didn’t you come to karaoke?
I couldn’t remember your handle, but your description of cosplay as Manny on Friday and Luigi in red boots on Saturday was pretty specific.
Both costumes were amazing.
Cheers <3
I can confirm that @jordi is as awesome IRL as I suspected.
She’s pretty groovy.
Did she take you to Pho places?
I’m sad there was no Pho action but next time I’ll take them there Phour times to be sure
Everyone else was lame then? I suspected as much of @bdkiaf…
Haha! You and BDKIAF are best music and movie pals!
:'(
Of course she’s amazing!!!
Ugh PAX 😛
I’m sure PAX has the same reaction to you!
Now you’re just rubbing it in!
If you were in Melb, I’d totally give you my ticket 😛
We don’t need your PAX we’re all having fun circling the wagons. CIRCLING THE WAGONS.
…
*circles the wagons*
Awesome write-up, @miketarno. Even though most of you guys are all at PAX together, you should still totally do write-ups tomorrow for Karaoke and the like. It’d be appreciated. 😀
@rize and @bdkiaf almost got arrested for jaywalking.
o.0
Badasses
I should have warned people that Melbourne is a little anal when it comes to that abhorrent criminal activity called jaywalking.
Worth keeping in mind that you can legally cross the road without a green man if you do two things:
– Cross in a straight line only.
– Cross at least 20m away from lights.
…wow. I totally jaywalked behind a police car when I was in Melbourne two weeks ago.
Had no idea I was living life dangerously. 😛
Most cops won’t care, but every now and then they get deployed in force specifically to target jaywalking
Thanks my man. Sorry you couldn’t be there with us. 🙁
Hey I just want to apologise to everyone who went tot he karaoke meat last night. I was not in a good headspace right before we were entering, which is why I disappeared for a while. I knew some people were concerned and I was having a rather large panic attack. Luckily with the help of the taybies, I was able to recover. However when I left it actually became more severe. I didn’t sleep well and I haven’t been able to eat really, and I wasn’t going to go to day 3 of pax. Again, it was because of taybies that I decided to go due to the fact that I didn’t want them to worry about me.
Once again, I’m sorry and I will be okay.
Aw scree, I’m really sorry to hear this. 🙁 Hope you feel better soon!
I’ll be alright. Just gotta get back to being normal again
You and me both, scree. You and me both.
No need to apologise
You should have some ice cream.
Ice cream helps everything!
Also your pillows are fantastic.
For once, not a euphemism.
Soooo was tempted to say the same. But then I was like nah thats in poor taste since she’s upset. In short, youre a dickman.
I like to think that the best way to try get back into the rhythm of normality is to do the things you would normally do.
Which is my excuse for carrying on like regular business because I am emotionally stunted and don’t know how to interact with people.
Now @sughly’s the dickman
#businessasusual
Hope your alright scree, If you ever need to talk about it there will always be someone there to listen 🙂
Keep on truckin’
Sorry to hear scree. 🙁
Your cosplay was so awesome!
Aww, I hope you feel better.
You were cool and it was nice meeting you.
Its okay scree! Doing my costume and getting ready stressed me out a bit too. For a few days I was getting nausea all morning for no reason. Many of us can hang out another time anyway!
Apparently I have spent the last 5 hours putting the wrong stats into my SMT IV character.
Aw yeahhhhhhhh.
#YOLO
What can I say, I like to live dangerously.
BASTARD!
I wanna be putting the wrong stats into MY Megaten 4 guy >:-O
@greenius – I’m assuming you have a million houses in your HHA thing now? Feel free to, you know, go find all the astro/rococo/robo/classic/minimalist/sleek/bonsai stuff you can. Kthnxbai
:/
Pretty sure everyone would have 25 or whatever the max is
25, a million, same same
Rococo rococo rococo rococo!
RO-COCO!
dunnnnnnnnnnnnn duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh dunanananananana….
I’ve recently been getting ads for “Wartune” that advertises scantily clad women and the phrase “MALE GAMERS ONLY”.
I’m not one to prattle on about this whole supposed sexism in gaming thing, but that marketing strategy seems awfully exclusive and divisive.
Who thinks that’s a good idea?
Evony might have been all “Let’s show boobs even though our game doesn’t have boobs”, but at least they weren’t all “NO GIRLS CLUB (they have cooties)” about it.
But… they do have cooties :S
I liked “Once your INSIDE your friends won’t be seeing you for a while”
Classy 😉
Curse you steam, I find myself looking through your catagories looking for cheap games, some I might not even want to play but they are discounted…JUST GIVE ME ARMA 3 discounted geez
I bought 3 copies of this 50 cent game because it was 50 cents 😛
Did anyone post this yet? I awoke to the sounds of angels singing, findout out Unicorns existed and fairies dancing in my garden. I swear it must have happened, the planets aligned and ALL IS GOOD IN THE WORLD because:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BPpOTSXCUAASZHm.jpg:large
This was announced at Comicon as officially happening in 2015 thanks to Man of Steel going gangbusters at the boxoffice.
Just Cause 2 is $3 on Steam.
And no, I won’t be gifting anyone a copy.
just ’cause
hehe I think I already have it from several sales ago. I still haven’t really started to properly play it yet :\
Ughhhh I still feel so weird
Give me liberty or give me wi-fi!
Which one would you TAYbies choose?
I’d go with liberty. Then you can just use someone elses wifi 😉
You can’t have both.
That’s not in the spirit of liberty!
I always thought this was a dictatorship.
Oh well. :\
I’m taking some unneeded xbox stuff off to EB later today, wish me luck!
https://twitter.com/MrMcGarnical/status/358771837305495553
I reckon you’d get a better deal at JB.
I reckon you’re right. But JB don’t take consoles, and I’m thinking with the extra you get for store credit rather than money, and any bonuses they give for having a big pile of games at once, I might do OK. If the deal for the games seems bad I’ll go check out JB.
Ah.
I always thought you could trade in consoles as well at JB.
My bad.
oooo EB are selling 3ds this weekend with a free digital game for $175 or something! You’ll probably get enough out of that to buy it if you don’t already have one!
I have a 3DS, I want a ps3!
320GB for $238.
Should be less after the trade-in.
ahhh ic. I’d sell you one of mine, but my mum’s using my spare as a dvd player atm
hahaha First time I saw city hunter was on tv in Shanghai. Had no idea what it was called though. Love the ChunLi bit!
So I was looking in k mart today and I stumbled into where they were selling magic cards and my first thought was..the only reason I don’t buy these is I have no one to play with..that and i have no idea how to play haha
it’s very easy to play. It looks daunting at first, but it’s really just building a pool of mana, and then using that to bring creatures in or cast spells
I watched a stream about it once…it scared me haha
It’s easy enough for noobs to pick up, but with time you will begin to understand how spells can be used, and you develop decks to maximize your strategic efficiency
I will give it a shot when I actually have people to play with haha.
D.C.’s PAX WRITE-UP – DAY 3:
I watched six episodes of The West Wing. I haven’t left the house.
Ben J’s PAX write up – day 3
Slept
Thought about sleeping
At least you didn’t have to line up for an hour to watch that!
I did subject myself to commercial breaks even though I’ve got the DVD boxsets of the show in another room. XD
ColdCam’s PAX Day 3 – I went to DFO brought a singlet came home.
Went rock climbing with friends.
Had dinner with parents.
Back home. Sorry Melbourne but I won’t miss you.
Screw you too! 😛
Did Mrs. Freeze enjoy PAX?
Poor girl was too sick to enjoy anything.
Aw, that’s too bad. 🙁
Bummer dude…
I’m not very good with money…
Plus I bought my first manga… Should warning signs be going off?
Pretty good day though. Don’t often go to Sydney for non-work, non-meat related stuff.
Haha! Oh man, you sure your desk won’t be too cluttered? XD
I only plan on taking three or four pieces in haha
The rest is… unavoidable overflow 😛
Maybe you can rotate them in and out of your desk collection, like an exhibit at the Smithsonian. 😀
What manga did you get?
Pokemon… 😛
I’ve never really read manga before. I saw Volume 1 in the shop today and figured I might as well try it. If I don’t like it I just won’t buy any more! S-M-R-T!
Oh nice, I was gonna pick up Bleach but I gotdizzy tryna read from right to left instead of left to right.
Now that I know I can buy these locally for less than it costs to buy online… I don’t know what’s going to happen. (They’re pretty awesome for $15 though!)
Your pokemans, I like them
Hope everyone travelling back from PAX have a good trip home. I missed you guys here. :'(
The wagons are safe!
D.C Circled those wagons everyday
No bandits or coyotes!
COYOTE! D:
*chases coyote with stick*
…
It was a dog. 🙁
DOG! Protect the rations!
Gonna paint our wagon,
Gonna paint it good,
We ain’t braggin’,
We’re gonna coat the wood!
Did your hear the one about the knob polisher?
I’m sorry DC. I have lots of pictures that I need to upload though!
Nothing to feel sorry about, just hope you guys all had an excellent weekend. Even if it wasn’t perfect. 🙂
When I have time I will give you images and perhaps a write up if I remember
Looking forward to it.
I will probably do it tomorrow though, hope that’s okay.
Of course.
Bet you didn’t miss me though…
Can’t believe I wasted the afternoon trying to figure out how to mux the .ass file onto an .mkv when I could have just used MKVmerge and saved myself a shit-load of time.
🙁
If anyone’s interested, I was muxing the subtitles for Summer Wars.
Heh, .ass
Heh
Can someone link me the page to put TAY names down on so I can chuck my deets up there if thats all classy with you guys.
http://www.tinyurl.com/taynames
Sorry if this is strange but did you join recently? Your name seems unfamiliar to me
Cam and TAY go way back! Atleast four or five days now! 😀
It feels like it was only yesterday…four days ago…memories.
Just making sure. I haven’t been on for a week.
He assisted in circling the wagons. That makes him an old guard type now!
If I weren’t so busy/sick I could have helped!
It’s all good, I expect to hear “who are you?” Quite abit for awhile haha. Also I hope you feel better soon.
Yeah I’ll be fine. Just haven’t had a panic attack that severe in a while so it threw me
Not to worry Cam, I just joined recently too and everyone has been super welcoming. 🙂
As much as I thought PAX was a bit meh it was great meeting a bunch of the Taybies I hadn’t and the ones I already had but hadn’t seen for a while.
Made the whole trip worth it.
Based on twitter that’s the thing I’ve been most jealous of. All the meats!
Nothing I heard about the actual PAX event made me jealous 😛 Just the people!
The Ron Gilbert keynote sounded great!
Oh yeah!
(Whoever that is :P)
It would have been. @greenius and I rocked up too late though thanks to a delayed train. By the time we got to PAX and then waited in line for ages to get into the actual expo, it was too late. 🙁
Also, @puppylicks tweeted a photo of a hotdog wrapped in a pretzel. That looked pretty great! XD
http://www.twitter.com/PuppyLicks/status/358150784329871360
What the!? haha
It’s a brave new world for pretzels and hotdogs!
You mean those hot dogs that had cheese inside the meat? OMG, they were amazing!
I searched these out based on (I think) @greenius’ recommendation. I think it may have been the best hotdog of my life.
Nope, it was all Tarno :), he LOVES dem weenies
Ah. In that case it’s him I have to thank for the burnt roof of my mouth :p
Awww. 🙂
One day I will speak loudly enough for you to hear me the first time. 🙂
Haha. It wasn’t you. I ask everyone to repeat themselves. My hearing is terrible.
It was even worse at karaoke
That venue looked pretty damn huge. When we did karaoke in Brisbane it was just this little booth with couches against the walls.
We even had an anti-social section for non-singers. =P
Fancy. Trjn, Nobs and I just sat silently close to the door last time. Haha! Wasn’t so much the anti-social section but the sober people section. XD
Same thing.
He was in the anti-social section again =P
Wasn’t anti social, we were conversing XD… Was an amazing night though… Sorry I disappointed you @scree for the lack of horned helmet
It’s fine and I didn’t see you in the anti-social section.
That’s because I was so unsocial no one even noticed me in the anti-social section XD… Seriously though, great meeting you and everything else… With permission I might even tag along again sometime
Really? You seemed plenty social to me. And of course you’re allowed along next time
i’m having trouble distinguishing “plenty social” from “complete moron”… but i guess i could have come off as both… @rize tends to get me in trouble :P…
Hope i didn’t come off like too much of an idiot 😛
You were fine. As long as you had fun, it’s fine.
As long as you enjoyed yourself in the end.
Certainly did. Was great meeting you.
Sorry i couldn’t remember who you were. So many new faces to remember names to
Was an honour to meet the master of bad fanfict
Next Telltale franchise should be Battlestar Galactica. Discuss.
I’d play that! I’m glad you’re liking the series! 😀
I didn’t say that…
but I am. Just finished the mini. Some niggly issues with the last thirty min, but overall really quite keen to see where it goes.You said it yesterday, though. I read that post! >:|
It’s honestly my favourite scifi series by far and a definite in my top 5 shows of all-time.
The mini-series was pretty damn great, but the series is even better!
Stop talking it up. 😛
It’s got some super terrible episodes and really falls apart near the end but it’s still pretty good.
Why would you lie? It was great the entire way through. There’s no bad episodes. It’s a perfect series! YOU MONSTER! 😛 (Then again, I loved Caprica too. Most people hated that. XD)
Edit: Although it’s probably safer to adjust your expectations, Shane. It’s a series like Lost. There’s certain plot points that you’re either going to love or hate.
There’s one especially terrible episode that I always remember
with boring old Lee and the black market. Pretty much any Lee-centric episode, actually.. But I really just don’t want to do for Shane and Battlestar what you did with Greenius and Spec Ops. 😛I loved what I saw of Caprica…but it was only two or three episodes.
Oh yeah, that was a terrible, terrible episode. I must’ve repressed that. Now that I think of it, the movie The Plan was pretty terrible too and completely unneccessary. Sorry about Spec Ops, Greenius. :'( On the plus side, Shane loved Spec Ops. 😀
@dc I remember it especially because I watched it with someone who’d never seen the show before. Needless to say, they then thought I was nuts for liking the show. 😛
Oh man! That’s unfortunate! D:
Ugh, he ruined everything!
Already there, man. There were bits of the pilot I disliked 😛
Well there’s bits of your face I dislike. >:|
😛
@dc You do realise that the next time he looks in the mirror he’s going to be thinking”Hmmm…I wonder which are the bits DC dislikes? Was it this bit? I bet it’s this bit.” 😛
And then he’ll think twice about having his own opinions about shows I like.
😀
Hahaha! Evil @dc is adorable. 😀
@dc, fair call, man. Fair call 😛
Really hate Lee’s high-pitched voice. I just giggle whenever he tries to interrupt someone, or come across as anything but prissy… which is so not how the character is written XD Also, not sure about Starbuck… pretty sure that the pilots in general are just plain going to irritate me. 😛Whoops, did it again. Opinions 😛
Next Telltale franchise should be Battle Royale.
With cheese.
But seriously, it would be pretty great if done to the standard of The Walking Dead! Especially if they give it a proper branching story based on your choices!
You mean that book based on the hunger games movie? Sure 😉
Retort: Telltale should grow a spine and make their own IP. Discuss.
o/
You’d hate this Sughly, but I read they were interested in doing something like Mad Men!
Eurgh. I dont doubt they are.
Yeah!
(as long as it’s good)
Hm… I’m torn on that idea actually! On one hand I love new IPs… On the other I really like their adaptations…
WHY NOT BOTH
Yeah, I’d be up for playing that. Like what they’re doing now, though.
Before The Walking Dead, I would’ve said Telltale should make none of the games. NONE. 😛
I went to PAX with all the money and left with almost all of it. There really wasn’t much to buy. Little disappointed with that. I saved for ages.
This is what I ended up leaving with. Although the box of Magic cards were free at the door so not sure if it counts.
Oh and Scree’s rupee cushions but didn’t think they counted as PAX purchases since it was more just at PAX rather than from.
I was hoping that picture would be a collection of TAYbies’ locks of hair.
I’m not sharing that. It’s all mine.
He has some of my wig hair as well as my actual hair =D
Oh so my cushions aren’t good enough to be considered swag?! So mean! =P
Yeah I was really disappointed that there wasn’t many stalls. No artist ally either.
My youngest claimed one as soon as we saw her and she’s sleeping with it right now.
As long as you’re all happy with them
Upvote for Catherine ^^ but yea, the apparent lack of exhibitors sucks balls, I wouldv been expecting to buy up a storm too
Indie games were awesome as all hell though
I was nearly theeeere! But then I got contracted. True story.
Pfft, Egress still counts.
Oh… you didn’t buy Homicide? I am all the confused, then. What were you showing me before? 😛
Oh it was just the entire series in a neat metal filing cabinet case, drawer pulled out with the discs in files. I didn’t buy it as it was $240 but just thought it was pretty cool and you might have appreciated it.
Oh yeah… thanks for thinking of me, then! It’s a very cool set – I very nearly bought that many years ago. But I already owned seasons 1-6, so it seemed kind of wasteful. Ended up being a reasonably smart decision, I think 😛
Speaking of money, what’s with @greenius giving everyone money? Is he a dealer? :O
;D
There were free Magic cards? Dammit, why didn’t I get any? A friend asked me to keep an eye out for Magic stuff, I didn’t end up getting anything.
Australia currently 2-34.
We’ll definitely be down 2-0 in the series by tomorrow. 🙁
SPORTS… crocket if I’m not mistaken? I thought a saw a guy got the puck in the basket with the paddle to score a point right?
Anyone with an e-reader, tablet or smartphone should buy this. Just sayin, is all.
https://www.shoplocket.com/products/hFRvt-the-lesser-evil-omnibus
pimpin your wares 😛
Shameless self-pimping is my one and only skill.
Im interested but is there a way to preview this shameless self pimping
Oh man, I really suck at the self-pimping. Maybe I truly have no skills after all 😛
Book trailer and synopsis can be found here: http://shanewsmith.com/published-works/the-lesser-evil/
Your self-pimping has paid off, your book is on my “To Read” list, which has been empty since I finished The Walking Dead Compendium 2
Hope you enjoy it, dude! 🙂
but this does not beat my collectors edition of the Lesser Evil volume 2 with typo, signed by the author in purple pencil
Nothing could ever beat that, but it would complement it nicely.
#Shameless
well that’s it, you sold me sir, i shall pick this up pronto
The hashtag is #SGMonth :p
But where’s the dot code? How do I scan it in?
I don’t have an e-reader, smartphone or tablet. Is this a reference to some newfangled teckmology thing I know nothing about? 😛
Not that newfangled, 2002 is pretty old now.
All righty, then. It’s possible I’m just a moron 😛
Nah, I’m just being a stupid smartarse with a fetish for gaming peripherals :p
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_e-Reader
…so PAX
Lots of things can be said, however, I cannot be bothered typing said things 😛
So tired >_>
I don’t really care about PAX write-ups, but I care about meat write-ups!
Well yes, they’re the same thing since I was with lotsa TAYbies the whole time 🙂
YOU JELLY?
Nah, PAX North was pretty good. According to Sughly, Dan and Freeze! 😀
Apparently it was bad since the main organiser didn’t show up. What a jerk.
He was just cosplaying the Infiltrator character from Mass Effect the whole time… with the cloak permanently engaged.
I thought i felt a… stirring
I just like meat..mmm what i wouldnt give for a taco
PAX Verdict: it was okay. Atmosphere was great despite the shit weather. Fairly well organized too, though not perfect. Board games area was fantastic but if you weren’t into those, then there was a serious lack of stuff to really do as the expo hall had next to nothing. Very disappointed that Sony and MS didn’t have any proper booth space – I wanted to at least feel the new controllers 🙁
They needed to put up an extra tent to use as a big auditorium, not have Microsoft hogging the main stage (we didn’t need the same event 3 times) and maybe have a big screen up somewhere and show the main stage’s stuff elsewhere as well for people who couldn’t get in. The real draw for the event was the panels, but the theaters were just too small. If there had been six or seven theaters all seating 300 and all with panels simultaneously, that’d also probably have fixed the problem. Too many people meant queuing 2+ hours early. Saturday was by far the worst day in terms of crowds, Friday was bad. Sunday felt like a lot of people had stayed away and by the afternoon it was getting empty.
Got a chance to try out a whole bunch of board games, got some new purchases lined up now. Epic four hour game of Eclipse this morning with @trjn, @tigerion and a non-TAY friend of mine definitely convinced me to buy a copy of that when I can, and the game of Power Grid on Friday with Mr and Mrs @tigerion and @beavwa (complete with the lights in the area slowly going off one by one as the power went out as our game hit its climax!) really impressed me with the elegance of the game’s mechanics so might need that too. Really impressed by Hanabi as well, think I’ll be grabbing that ASAP.
Also made the mistake of letting the guys at the Bushiroad booth teach me to play Weiss Schwarz which is going to suck more out of my wallet, though thankfully I came to my senses before I ended up buying a box of boosters (and then checked online – can import 2 boxes from Japan for the price they wanted for one box).
Finally caught a panel this afternoon with @masha2932. Only one I got to, but I’m not worried because it was pretty enjoyable. Also was great meeting all the TAYbies I met, though I’m socially awkward at times and didn’t introduce myself to everyone so I didn’t get a chance to put names to all the faces 🙁
Overall: B+. Will go again in Melbourne but I hope it improves some of the areas it was deficient in.
Just to let you know there was another large shed that Pax wanted to use for panels but Master chef was hogging it.
Also, they are aware of these problems, but please post them on the pax Aus website. (This is coming from the info person, she told me)
That would probably make the difference. Also would have probably made the PC area feel more included rather than being tacked on at the side as well.
HANABI!
Wish there was a JRPG thing or something like that…
Yeah I was surprised at the utter lack of Japanese presence at all. I think the closest it got was Bushiroad’s card stuff 🙁
It’s so cold…
3a m this morning was worse, that was the time I was walking to the car to go home from babysitting
Trailer for new Terry Gilliam! cc@jimu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqstYTuvbcs
Looks like a pretty darn amazing ride, as per usual
Whoa.
Awesome.
YES!
Weekend TAY! Sorry, I wasn’t a part of it. Will definitely be back tomorrow though!
God dammit psyche… this always happens to me, go to a meat, have an amazing time, get home, start over-analysing things;
Did people like me?
Did i come off as an idiot?
During that thing when this person said this, what did he mean by that? etc.etc.
DRIVES ME BONKERS!
So i would like to apologies to everyone that i didn’t say hi to, i know @f4ction is one of them (still love ya buddy!)
God damn self doubt…
Why am i writing this?
Well at least i feel comfortable enough at TAY to trust you’ll be honest and can talk things through with me
Am i the only one this happens to?
#selfpity and stuff
I believe I alluded to the same thing but blamed it on being a nerd a few posts up.
We don’t bother reading into things. We’re all too busy worrying about that ourselves until we get comfortable and then we’re too busy having fun.
You were great.
Ha ha, although we didn’t officially say hi until you were about to leave 🙂
I feel like that all the time.
What works best for me is to always assume the worst.
Understandably, this way of thinking might not be the best for you.
I bet you were the worst one there. By a long way. And they talked about you after you left.
In all seriousness, though, you’re all right. And @dc knows all about post-meat self-doubt. Me too, actually. As do, I suspect, most of us.
Thanks guys, that does actually help… i’m glad i’m not the only one that feels like that XD, I JUST WANT EVERYONE TO LOVE ME! IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK? 😛
ah well, carry on, i’ll try to be better 😛
I used to do that after every social thing. I know DC does it all the time, and to a lesser(evil) extent, Shane. The thing with TAYbies though is that they’re all good people so if you can remember that, it should all be fine.
I like you, we can be friends. <3
Any non-PAX AU people or people who somehow didn’t get a card who play League of Legends want my promo codes for three free character skins? I don’t play any more (barely ever did) and so these have no value for me but if someone else wants them I’d be happy to pass them your way.
Just going to mention that Freya and I have a good chunk of those codes as well if people want them.
It’s Arcade Sonna, Riot Graves and Full Metal Rammus.
Alrighty, finally added my deets to the taynames list (thanks to @scree for linking me the page)
Now I believe all i had to do was put my name on the list and that was it, so if someone just wants to go and check to make sure i’ve done it right that would be greatly appreciated haha.
Today… I finally bought a PS3.
And it’s GLORIOUS.
Didn’t buy any games but I’m downloading loads of great games I have access to since I’ve been a PS Plus member for six months.
also, I kind of largely bought it so I could have Netflix on my tv and … wow … it’s amazing
How good is that green bar!?
Summer Wars, I’m sorry for dismissing you as a rip-off of the first half of the Digimon movie.
You’re much, much better than that.
MY NIGGA
(digimon resemblance was totally there though)
Because I thought it was booked and stuff, with set numbers or something. Also thought my guys were going to end up somewhere rather than nowhere. Wish I had now.
Dammit, stupid mobile browser worked fine with replies before. Was meant to be in reply to @scree, asking on the last page why I didn’t karaoke.
There was plenty of room. It fit up to 40 people. But we had about that and it was still roomy.
Aw. I’ll have to be sure to crash the party some other time.
Be sure you do
Mobile fail.
M-M-M-M-M-M-MULTIFAIL!!!
The site cuts off on the right on my phone too. Have to view it in landscape mode.
I have this thing where if I use the mobile version of the site, I have this floating menu that just sits over the top of everything, and follows the page as I scroll making it useless. Thankfully Opera Mini makes the desktop one usable (outside of occasional link failures).
My legs are having 2nd day pains from too much awful dancing at karaoke.
Thanks for a great night y’all. Sorry if I didn’t get to say hi to everyone due to songs and everyone who sang were amazing. Especially Eye of the Tiger
Also Johann Sebastien Joust WAS AMAZING. I can’t stop thinking about it
Porn face is a makin’ me laff!!! 😀 😀 😀
Breaking News…
The Classification Board has announced that they will be reviewing the classification for Saints Row IV on the 29th of July.
http://www.classification.gov.au/News/Pages/22July2013-Classificationreviewannounced-for-thecomputergameSaintsRowIV.aspx
Well I finally made it back into sydney about two hours ago now. When I get up in the morning Ill do a proper right ol write up I will. Including special DLC adventures I had today by myself. Cause sad lonely and lost in melbourne.
Slowly getting over the debilitating Pax Pox. *cough* Was I missed?
Johann Sebastian Joust! Keep your eyes on Potaku for @masha2932 VS @miketarno!
FIGHT!