TAYbies. ASSEMBLE!
Hi everyone! I’m back! I had a big Scottish holiday, I ate porridge, I didn’t eat haggis. I went to castles and stuff. I also went to a zoo. That was awesome.
But what did you guys and girls get up to? I pretty much disconnected from the internet for my whole trip (which was quite cool actually) so I’m so out of the loop.
Oh, and shout out to Beavwa and his fiance who totally joined myself and Ruffleberg at the KFC club. Guys, it was jumpin’. It was the biggest KFC turnout ever! FOUR PEOPLE!
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Dane hosts this week along with Shannon and Ryan to bring you way too much Dota 2 talk as well as The Swapper, Dead Space 3, Mars: War Logs, Just Cause 2 Multiplayer, Trials Evolution Gold, Sleeping Dogs and much more! We also get a chance to chime in our opinions on the Steam Sale and the Phil Fish twitter debacle.
http://mumbojumbovideogamepodcast.podbean.com/2013/07/31/mumbo-jumbo-podcast-5-the-biggest-bunch-of-gankers/
I just glanced over what you read and thought you said you bring way too much dota 2 and talk strippers and I’m like “ok..as you do”
WHO’S THIS GUY? ^^^^^^
Edit: the one in the article, not mumbo-jumbo 😛
I don’t know. He mustn’t be from around here.
Introductions are in order I believe
Needs moar sleep. I blame vidja gaems. Hngh.
So Need for Speed: Most Wanted is actually fucking rad. Who knew?
Also, the opening with Butterflies and Hurricanes is just fantastic.
I played it last night once it updated..I just tried to find all the jack spots to see what cars are in the game
The only thing I’m not a fan of is the DLC cars that are just out in the open. I mean, I get why they’ve done it that way, but it’s just super disappointing driving up to a new car to discover that it’s one of the DLC ones.
Yeah that’s happened to me several times and to unlock them all its something along the lines of $35
Considering it was a free game I’m almost tempted. Dat DB5.
I got stumped with vin diesels beast from Fast and Furious
Holy moley, that opening was amazing.
Criterion, dawg. They’ve got chops.
Also, the sequences before races are super rad. Pure style.
Also also, those crashes. God damn Criterion know how to make a car crash.
Have you seen the Ambush video with the cars floating like balloons?
YES!
Have you seen the pursuit one where the cops turn into a massive wheel?
Not yet- I have seen the one where they spider all over the walls though!
AH WHAT!!!
This game, man. It’s got it’s hooks in deep.
No, that sounds glorious though. The only ambush I’ve done was the one where cars fall from the sky and then you drive off a parking garage just before taking control. Super cool.
Second time I’ve seen that a game opened with that song.
The other one was F1 2005 on PS2.
Hola y bienvenidos a nuestro líder glorioso y hermoso @markserrels. Hope everything got worked out for you.
Although the implied desperation involved in eating KFC says otherwise. My condolences.
You do realise that KFC club is about watching grown men punch each other in the face?
I had no idea people could get so violent over chicken! I mean… it’s not bacon or anything.
rafasdasd my windows be permanently borked, some core files concerning windows update is corrupted and the only way I can fix it is by either getting a clean install of windows or doing a ‘in-place upgrade,’ which requires the install disc. Which I do not have.
so, how ’bout that new doctor who doctor.. guy… actor? I’m just happy we get a older dude, because we need more grumpy doctors. I mean, we know nothing about his character, but I’m pretty sure he’s grumpy.
I think Peter Capaldi is a pretty good choice. Also, he’s the same age as William Hartnell was when he played the Doctor.
for real? Considering the circumstances with the 12th doc that seems fitting.
You should probably edit that into spoiler tags for the people that don’t want to know.
In the words of River Song “…spoilers!~”
What version of windows do you need? i can send you the direct microsoft download link for the iso… its all legit provided you have your own serial…
7, but any physical or mental recollection I have of a serial is long gone by now. I might as well just pirate the thing.
Not even going into safe mode and poking around the registry can find it?
Because most versions of Windows, if not all, had the license key as a value in their registry even until XP. Might still be in 7 and 8.
I don’t know who he is, so I googled him, and my first thought was
Hooray! He’s not all young and hip so we can get rid of companions who end up being all “omg doktor is so sexxxxxyyyyy ;););0”Apparently my entry into local politics is inevitable. Yay?
What are you politically politicising?
I’ve spent a good amount of time near people that are.
What’s your campaign platform? Why should people vote for you? Go play democracy and then come back to me
My answer to all of your questions is “HANABI!”
Board games as an official sport?
You have my vote.
Can’t argue with that platform
I call dibs on first round of nepotism.
If you could arrange for me a staffer job where I get paid to do nothing, that’d be great!
Thanks!
I didn’t know that there were any other sort of staffer jobs available.
Well, I assume someone somewhere at some point has to do work.
Maybe.
That seems unlikely.
Why get into politics if you want to work for a living?
So I asked this yesterday but I’m going to ask again, because who’s lame enough to go on weekend TAY anyway? 😛
Anyone know of any good cheap/free games that have cross platform multiplayer between PC and Mac? Preferably not overly violent ones. My friend and I have gotten a bit bored of Ticket to Ride (actually I think she’s just gotten bored of losing most of the time :P). We’re going to try LotRO sometime, and NegZero suggested Portal 2. We might try playing a LotR themed MUD too, however she’ll probably become horribly addicted to that and it’ll ruin her life 😛
Turns out we both own Civilization IV, so we may give that a try tonight.
Another option would be for us to try playing a board game we both own over Skype 😛
Anyone have any other suggestions?
Sorry I can’t help but OMG Portal 2 is THE best multiplayer (co-op) experience I have had. Cousin and I played it through and loved every single second of that game. GOTY and just an absolute pleasure to play through. Really will test a relationship though 🙂
PS> Also when i started typing this I didnt realise who this was.. WTF is up with your name dude, it has a growth or something?
Yeah, I’ve played a bit of split screen Portal 2 with my brother before. Awesome game that. 😀
As for my name, blaghsy was giving out mutated versions of peoples’ names to people that wished him a happy birthday. I just haven’t gotten around to changing it back yet 😛
Quake 1/2/3?
In addition to that you should grab a console port of Rayman Origins as the co-op there is great. I had a lot of fun playing that Lara Croft & The Guardian of Light game years ago with my sister as well. Has a good balance of everything and you can probably get it for 5 bucks or so now.
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_230_231__12&term=mac#category1=998&os=mac&category2=9&sort_order=ASC&page=1
Trine 2, Monacco & hoard stand out on that list for me
Edit: I also recommend sanctum
Monaco is cross platform I think.
Some guns, but it’s very cartoony and not the focus.
So I had the wise idea of starting Demon’s Souls on the weekend…
Rookie mistake. Even though I finished Dark Souls.
I don’t know what it is about this game. Again and again I tell myself… “That’s it, no more. I’m done with you, you evil game. I’m putting you back in your case and refuse to touch you.” And then 30m later I’m back on it, crawling my way through more misery.
It’s like a really bad relationship that you just can’t get yourself out of.
DEMON’S SOULS \o/
You might dig these.
Don’t you worry Shane, I’m still digesting the great writing you linked me too albeit not replying yet. Going to check it all out tonight!
Hahaha, I’m not worried, man! I already know that most of the self-promotional links I post go unclicked. Part of what keeps it fun, to be honest 😀
Hope you enjoy the stories. I had fun writing them.
I’ve clicked every link you’ve posted for me thus far. 😀
And will read all of this too. So your self-promotion works on at least one person. 😛
PETER CAPALDI
As my Brother posted on fb: ‘Time is a big fucking omnishambles.’ – Suggested 12th doctor catchphrase
As far as people I could never imagine being the Doctor yet somehow are still perfect, they’ve really nailed this.
@bdkiaf
DAMNIT! I had a feeling I might’ve known the person who added me on PSN and I thought it might’ve been you …but I wasn’t sure so I declined :/ (just checked TAYnames now though so I know it was you >_>)
Can you add me again next time? 🙂 sorry buddy! I get a fair few random adds out of nowhere so I thought it was another one of those 😛
All the hat 🙁
:'(
Hat.
Hey hey, what’s your PSN ID? (Maybe DM me on Twitter if you don’t want to publish it here).
B-G-S-
Meanius already posted it below, so it’s too bad if I wanted it a secret, huh?
I presume you know about TAYNames?
Indeed! I’ll check it out. Not sure if I’ll post my details there in case they’re discovered by my ex ‘family associates’ or other such unsavory entities. 😛
Just spam add everyone greenius
I have most people but BDKIAF added me but I didn’t recognise his PSN ID so I accidentally declined it 🙁
Wait… if you checked TAYnames… why don’t you add him?
Did you miss the bit about the hat
And add the rest of us..I feel unloved
But I did!
I typed that up then realised I’m not doing anything so went to the PS3 and added him :P. I initially asked B-G-S- because he’ll probably go on his PS3 before me, I only went on to download a 2GB update :/
Well if you didn’t want that to happen, you shouldn’t have booted up your green bar simulator console.
Dynasty Warriors better not have a massive update or I’ll be sad :'(
I hear the optional Installation takes a while though…
IIRC, patch isn’t that big.
The installer? I started it expecting it to take 20 minutes, so I wandered off and did something else. Yeah it takes a while, but so long as you’re not absolutely busting to play it, it’s fine.
I’m busting to play it.
Good morning TAY :]
Finished watching Death Note and Attack on Titan on the weekend. I’ve never watched an anime just reading the subs before and was pretty impressed by the japanese voice overs for AoT, they know how to scream alright. Recently aquired Full Metal Alchemist too. Only 2 eps deep but I think i’ll enjoy it. Finally getting around to the anime i’ve never seen but always wanted to watch.
Played a bit of Hitman Absolution and NFS: Most Wanted with my buddy. We started Hitman on the easiest setting. It was hilarious walking through levels feeling like a complete badass, emptying entire clips into a single enemy while using point shooting. Good fun ^^ NFS was a pleasent treat too. Always fun speeding around with the po-po hot at your heels until an inevitable collision occurs at top speed, usually resulting in a handover of the controller.
Hope errybody had a good weekend.
You have NFS on PS? you should add some of us for autolog goodness!
Yeh definitely, I know there is a site we can put our gamertag on so we can add each other…but I’ve forgotten the sites name.
My PSN tag is RileyJones-
:]
TAYnames!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgFxIpTLAp-LdDNZbWVTNjhYNGE2bXpFTkxqV3BzM2c&hl=en_US#gid=0
(Google/Bookmark/Favourite)
Thank you sir, my details have now been updated!
I thought Attack on Titan was still ongoing at the moment. Do you mean you caught up? I fell behind in the show ages ago because I was getting frustrated with the uneven pacing, intended to let it finish then watch it all in one go.
Generally speaking I think most of the time, the original JP dialogue fits stuff a lot better than the usual American Anime dub. I used to watch everything dubbed, but out of necessity I swapped over (stuff I wanted to watch – IIRC it was Rurouni Kenshin at the time – was only available subtitled) and I really haven’t looked back.
Oh I’m not too sure now, the folder my friendo gave me said S1 Eps 1-12. Yeh I agree the pacing was uneven at times, you kinda just want things to hurry up and happen (without giving anything away). Still I enjoyed it.
I watched Death Note dubbed and was pretty impressed with the voice overs all round, especially Light’s crazy mans laugh. It was refreshing after watching Hellsing, which I thought sounded pretty bad with the exception of Alacard.
Death Note’s all about the crazy over-acting though. It’s deliberately set up to play out like a greek tragedy, complete with the hubris and everything, so the usual dub style works pretty well (and where it doesn’t, the epic music picks up the slack)
Checked and Attack on Titan is running two cours, so should currently be sitting around ep 17 (anime doesn’t really do ‘seasons’ the same way that US TV does)
I thought it was a little strange leaving it end they way they did at ep 12. Thank you for the heads up.
Greeting:
– Good morning, TAY!
Weekend:
– Finished Pikmin 3
– Helped renovate (ie. destroy) a bathroom
Also: Hola Tayberinos!
I spent a good chunk of my w’end playing NFS: Most Wanted, which is fantastic (once my internet comes back I’ll be able to bask in my autolog terribleness). I also had some friends over Sat night for curries and board games (Cluedo, Ticket to Ride).
Yesterday I went to the pub with some friends, who gave me a late b’day present (ticket to ride expansion) and whom I also borrowed Bioshock Infinite from, which I’ve played about an hour of. I officially suck at the combat.
A monday morning question: What should Peter Capaldi’s doctor catchphrase be?
Quit talking about your board games and tell me more about the curry! What kind did you have?
An Aloo Gobi and a Goan beef curry with Parathas and Lassis.
Mmm very nice, this has made my day so far..well done
Which expansion? I’ll guess Europe.
As for the catchphrase something like “ah’m pure scunnered so ah um” should work
USA 1910
I knew you were holding out on BioShock Infinite (as was I) but you can’t be FREE! 😀
Hi Kotaku,
Didn’t know where else to put this, but in your most recent survey, there are several questions in the tick-all-that-apply category that are broken. For example, ‘how many consoles do you own? Tick all that apply’. I can only tick one.
Just giving you the heads up,
Thanks
Oi, @markserrels or @benwhite! Come Hither!
Well @markserrels did it so *ahem* AUTHORS ASSEMBLE!
I’m assembled! What do you need?
Just stand there awkwardly and don’t make eye contact
THAT’S MY BEST THING \o/
A short story about this horrible problem plaguing the kotaku competition..with fancy pictures because pictures make everything more real
I don’t tend to do short stories, but I know someone who does.
*sniffle* so beautiful
Yeah, I saw that too. Some of the questions aren’t written well either and some also have different columns for answers ie. “How likely or unlikely are you to ____” and you can’t select the same answers under both columns ie. <6 months for Likely AND <6 months for Unlikely :/
What’d y’all do on Friday night?
Me? I brought fun, laughter & intelligent discussion into the living rooms, offices & bedrooms of Australia.
“I’m so fucking glad I didn’t bring a date. My mate is blowing out.
“Wtf” is his constant reaction.” tweeted our very own @Rocketman.
But don’t let that glowing review satiate your curiosity.
LIVEgeist is now available as an audio pod
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2013/08/05/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s03e17-livegeist/
And the archived Livestream is still available at http://tinyurl.com/livegeist
It’s worth it for the final five minutes alone.
Relive the train wreck.
The last part of LIVEgeist is the best thing to have ever happened on Zeitgeist. Ever.
I have a new favourite thing that’s happened on the innernette.
Equally unnecessary.
Malcolm Tucker on Sci-fi
Morning TAY how’s every little thing. Just a recap of my weekend. Saturday I hung out all day with my gf and her friend, started Lego LoTR on Vita as well as ninja gaidan sigma on vita (gotta love PS+)
Sunday I watched Machine Gun Preacher which wasn’t bad as well as underbelly episodes. When I got back to my house I finished the Last of Us and started NFS Most wanted 2.0 which was balls of fun. Hope everyone else’s weekends were good and y’all didn’t party too hard
DREAMWORLD! \o/
Had a pretty good weekend. Standard work stuff Saturday (hi @saturday) morning but then caught up with big brother for lunch. Thought was only going to see him for a hour or 2 but turned out he was staying down for the night. So we stayed down the pub watching the footy and catching up.
As part of teh conversation Pacific rim came up and we decided to see it the next day. So went and saw that on Sunday which was very enjoyable. I went into it not expecting much of story but awesome battles of giant robots fighting giant monsters. It didn’t disappoint. Then briefly saw mum as well before they went off to the footy.
Then went into work and sorted out a few problems that had been annoying me, before risking the salmonella with a 7/11 egg and bacon roll on the way home.
DAMNIT
SHANETIGERIONSHANEhehehe that’s even more amusing, as that also happens to be my brothers name
@shane’s your brother?
Huh, never knew.
It’s always @shane
Took me ages to figure this out.
It really shouldn’t have.
Hi @saturday!
welcome back @markserrels
My son and I are both unwell today so we’re snuggled up under blankets watching Harry Potter movies and eating Shapes. I’ve had worse days. 😀
The only good thing about when kids get sick is when they get snuggly as part of it
Chicken Crimpy?
Barbecue!
If you want an inferior flavour, sure.
Nobody said anything about pizza.
I think we can come to a compromise agreement on the lack of quality of the Pizza flavour.
Incidentally I am eating some Chicken Drumstick right now and somehow had never tried this flavour before.
It’s okay but it’s no Chicken Crimpy. 🙁
I remember trying it once, and thinking the same thing.
At least they’re all miles better than any of the cheese flavours. Especially that one in the light blue box.
@saturday –
This program will let you view your product key for windows & Office, its free and safe:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html
Ill paste links for the windows 7 iso’s below:
This has a list of the official MS download links for the Windows 7 ISO’s
Im guessing you are probably looking for Home Premium with SP1 x64
http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/14709-Windows-7-Digital-River-direct-links-Multiple-Languages-X86-amp-X64/page60
*nods appreciatively*
Morning all,
super fun happy weekend was had. Finally got to see Pacific Rim and man, that’s an awesome tale of father-daughter relationships, having a scruffy white character that isn’t the lead character and instead the movie focuses on Mako … also there’s some stuff with giant robots which was alright. Dunno how they can make a sequel though.
Then I got to play some portal 2 and nearly strangled my housemate and then I got to start watching young justice. Good weekend was had. Still getting used to the fact that it’s ticking back towards spring
Not at all to do with you except that your name reminded me, but the other night I had chinese takeaway for dinner and had a vegetarian noodle dish with tofu in it, when I gave the leftovers to my daughter for lunch the next day she commented on how tasty the “chicken” noodle dish was. 😛
You heartless murderer ^_^
I need to start having a bit more tofu, the first time I’d tried it it was prepared really poorly and it kind of put me off it
A nearby gym in a mall which I sometimes go to has a card shop right across from it. Seeing as it’s pretty much the only hobby shop for some distance around, there’s sometimes traffic between the two places. It’s quite disconcerting seeing a bro finish bench pressing twice his weight then striding over across the hallway to a empty table to play a TCG based off a magical girl anime.
Also needless to say the testosterone levels can fluctuate once in awhile. Or maybe cancel each other out, I dunno.
AlsoImightormightnotbefriendswiththisparticularbro
On the other hand, would you want to mess with someone that has biceps the diameter of a normal man’s thigh that plays magical girl card games? Because I sure wouldn’t. It’s like how venomous animals have bright colors on them.
P.S. I have been dabbling with some of those card games but don’t know anyone locally that plays so haven’t been forced off the deep end yet.
Disconcerting? Naw, that is an amazing thing.
Wooo, lounge get!
Finally, after three weeks of laying on the ground or sitting on uncomfortable dining table chairs, I finally have a lounge to er lounge on.
Finally managed to relax for the first time since moving in, now I might finally be able to game/watch dvds without having to get up every five minutes or roll around until I find a more comfortable spot 😛
I had just a beanbag for about the first four weeks in my place
I just assumed all adults furnished their house out of milk crates and furniture made out of crates.
It was looking to be that way until my manager at work had a couch she was getting rid of.
Once I got all the cat hair off it it was great!
Almost ended up getting a beanbag, but the whole being to damn lazy got in the way.
I just sat on a milk crate with a cushion on it for the first month or so after I moved out from home … It was not the comfiest experience.
Congrats on both your wondrous pageget and loungeget
Woo pageloungeget!
For a while I was using a box of books with a old blanket on top as a chair.
Should have stuck with it, it was most likely more comfortable then the dining chair.
My dining table is still a Bunnings card table.
Once I’ve paid more off the credit card I’ll get something proper
My dining table was owned by about 3 or 4 family members before coming to me.
In fact all of my furniture is either 2 or 3 hand.
Meh, more money for games 🙂
Dishonoured is $15 on Steam today
Well worth it
http://store.steampowered.com/sale/quakecon1
Yeah I jumped in after ‘meh’ing over it on PS3. Was like $22 including all DLC. Hard to pass up, really.
*blink* *stab* *blink*
50% convict tax markup means no for me. Which is a shame as I would pay that much for the game
Same here. Ah well, the bank account salutes you!
*quietly listening to Cranberries at work*
*procrastinating*
*refreshing TAY*
Ugh, Mondays.
So I suddenly got the urge to take on Torchlight 2 again and I’m trying it out with the Synergies Mod collection. Wow so many good changes, including UI enhancements and 3 new classes to play as. I think I’ll be playing this a lot more now :). Oh and your pet can be Claptrap (Which does have a “Silent” version as well for those that just want the robot and not the voice)
I really need to get back on that. Think I put some 20 odd hours into it, but got distracted. Might look into this Synergies mod thing. Is it compatible with existing vanilla characters, or would I have to start again? I haven’t even touched mods for T2 as yet.
Well for this mod I had to start over, I think it’s just anything that’s been changed can impact with changed stats/maybe things were removed/replaced/etc.
Still really worth it though, lots of new additions and small changes to make it that much better.
Edit: And I found it is extremely easy to set up too. All you need to do is go to the Workshop, subscribe to the mods you want, then run Torchlight2 with Mod Editor and you can simply check the boxes of the mods you want to add in and in what order. Synergies tells you clearly in what order to put in the mods (You don’t even need them all but I got them anyway) and it worked 100% fine.
Read up a little more, and saw they have a new class (Necromancer) with two more in the works. I might just try and finish the game with my existing character (level 34 Outlander currently) and maybe start again with a new one and Synergies.
You should see the pets they’ve added in too, like some undead creatures, a few mobs, and claptrap (Which I’m using with my engineer). Also, perhaps a multiplayer run one day? 🙂
Yeah I’ll see how motivated I am after I finish a single player run! All the new content does sounds pretty badass.
Shirley Manson is incredibly attractive.
That is all.
I had no idea who that was.
So i googled.
So many conflicting photos.
I don’t know how i feel. 🙁
YOUR FACE LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE CONFLICTED ALL OVER IT
Should have made a joke about her being garbage.
Get off the stage.
OHHHHHH!! NOW I GET IT!!
She’s the chick from Garbage!
She’s ok in my books then.
nice pick up on the pun, though.
I thought she was super-hot when I was a kid.
I sort of carried that mental image around in my head with me for, oh, I don’t know… the last fifteen to twenty years or so? So it turns out she’s like… almost fifty. That’s kinda sad.
This clip is the greatest thing of today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt_NXdWaDcA
awesome.
HAI EVERYONE! 😀
*Obligatory mystery TAY poster comment*
*licks*
*melts*
So, Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars is a fun game.
Like, really fun.
Some really creative new mechanics too.
#LateToThePartyAGAIN
I really should finish that on PSP
Interesting that it’s a game where you are explicitly a drug dealer didn’t get RC’ed
Don’t the RC criteria specify ‘drug use’ as the no-no?
Benefiting from drugs isn’t quite the same as benefiting from drug use.
Or maybe the fact that you can get busted while dealing is enough of a disincentive to exempt it from RC status…
Maybe that’s the thinking…?
Don’t try to apply logic to the classification guidelines. That just ends poorly for everyone.
Surprising for a PSP title, isn’t it? Or, do you mean DS? It was on DS too, wasn’t it? I should just Google it. But you know. Stuff.
And shit.
DS too. I’m playing on my 3DS.
Picked it up for a cool $15 at EB yesterday.
DS first, actually.
I wish they’d port it to Android, I’d probably re-buy it.
Woo, Chinatown Wars!
I really loved it. Best GTA game I’ve played since 2. A little sad that it takes a few steps back form that, eg you can see all these overhead walkways then you follow them to the entrance only to find a blocked gate… but STILL! It’s rad.
36 hour Sydney visit on the weekend for family stuff. Now can I have a weekend for sleep and Pikmin?
Why didn’t you come play board games with us!
I thought we were Hanabi buddies!
WHAT THE SHITTING FUCK IS HANABI FOR THE LOVE OF GOD TELL ME
FUCKING FIREWORKS DICKMAN.
I don’t know. Board game. I bet the answer you get is “HANABI! \o/”
It’s a co-operative card game where you work with the other players to set off a fireworks display.
You play cards of five different colours in order from one to five. If you play a card out of order, it’s gone.
Oh yes, and you see everyone’s hands except for your own. You have to work together to give people clues so that they can play the right cards at the right time. Except clues are limited and can only be regained by discarding cards and you can only give very specific bits of information as clues.
It is hands down one of my favourite games and we play with a house rule that basically boils down to saying “HANABI!” whenever something happens.
HANABI!
Card game, about fireworks. Won the Spiel des Jahres this year, which means it’s the bees pyjamas
HANABI \o/
Close enough.
It’s a yakuza film. Sort of.
FLOWERS MADE OF FIRE.
Literally.
HANABI!
Family stuff. We shall attend board games one of these days.
If you had told us that you were attending KFC we’d have come along to turn it into KHC.
Barely made it to that (late for that matter) as a last minute thing. Not to mention bad enough planning that put us a little geographically misplaced and a 45 minute walk from the place. I’ve got a bit of work to make up for that one.
Batguy’s weekend roundup! So many things to discuss, no time to post in TAY when they happened!
Dark Souls!
After several months’ hiatus, I finally beat the gargoyles under my sensei’s guidance (that’s Japanese for “brother”, btw), then went on to beat the fabled Capra Demon in relatively few attempts. Yay! Went exploring further on the weekend, ended up in The Deeps. First black phantom invasion scared the hell out of me (he looked hella buff), we circled for a bit then I ran away like a little girl. He chased me and… gave me stuff. Red titanite bits and pieces. Then left. Woo! Then I stumbled across this horrible Gaping Dragon thing. First impression: “What the holy fuck is that thing?!?”. Didn’t matter. Beat it on my first attempt!! My sensei is the best sensei.
DARK SOULS \o/
Very cool that your invader gave you stuff. That doesn’t happen often! 😛
Congrats on the progress! Next up is Blighttown – good luck.
Sensei says Catacombs. No offence, but I trust him more than you.
OK, maybe a little offence.
Well, you can go that way if you want to…
Lbh pna trg gur Evgr bs Xvaqyvat ng yrnfg.
But you’ll still have to come back up to the surface after that and wander down Blighttown way. Ultimately, it’s all a lot of unnecessary backtracking. If you’re at the bottom of the Depths… you probably want to keep going forward.
Edit: ROT13’d because spoiler tags are gone (…?)
Yeah I should maybe be spoilering the names of these things as well? I dunno. I guess I will from now on, just in case.
Doesn’t bother me, man. And I think most folks who play Dark Souls here aren’t too fussed about spoilers. It’s like Animal Crossing in that knowing stuff usually helps the experience along. I’m just being my normal hyper-cautious self, because I’m not sure how much commentary/advice you want me to put out there! 🙂
You’re ahead of me now. Looks like I should go do that exact same fight. Gaping Dragon looks like a pretty rad boss.
The first time I played, I got invaded on the way down to the Depths. There was so much lag that I got backstabbed from the front. I totally didn’t rage quit. Honest. I just turned the PS3 off and haven’t gone back to that save since that happened.
Where’s the butterfly you speak of? Might check that out on the way if you think it’s such a pushover.
Obggbz bs gur Haqrnq Cnevfu, gurer’f n oynpxfzvgu. Chfu cnfg uvz vagb gur sberfg. Rkcyber sberfg (qba’g gnxr fvqr cngu vagb onfva). Ohggresyl vf ng gur gbc bs n ehvarq gbjre va gur sberfg.
It’s out of the way.
You go down the stairs at the bonfire near the Undead Parish. Past the blacksmith and the Titanite Demon to get to the Darkroot gardens. Keep going and there will be a sealed door, there’s a bonfire through a breakable wall right next to it.
From there, go downhill and then in the big foresty bit just stick to the left and then into the crumbling watchtower thing.
There’s the butterfly. Remember to dodge.
EDIT: Can’t spoiler tag 🙁
Animal Crossing
Paid off the entire house. Went to a fireworks show. Now part of some weird all-over house HHA evaluation thingy that I don’t understand. But I did invest several hundred thousand bells in the stalk market again. Because yay turnips!
I have spares of fossils lying around for most of the people with red squares in the spreadsheet, if you want to come visit to grab them.
I loved the Fireworks night! Probably more than I should have 😛 I had fun shooting fireworks at swimming fish and Isabelle. It’s a bit of a shame that you can’t look at the sky and move/interact at the same time though! Would’ve made for some cool screenshots.
I forgot about it because I was too busy doing a jigsaw puzzle (see below). Thankfully it was still going when I remembered at 7:30. Was a little disappointed that the custom designs I gave them only appeared in a weird distorted sphere though 🙁
Soccer
Lost a game 3-1 that we could have won if we knew how to shoot straight. We’re probably going to end the season in third last, but with 3 wins and 4 draws, it’s a damn sight better than previous years. Also, I got pissed off with how ineffectual our shooting was, so I went on a run out of right back, gathered the ball at the half way line, and ran the length of the field to score my first goal of the year. Bah teamwork!
Stream of consciousness FTW BTW.
This was the best post of the recap. Great work @Batguy!
Also we went out to dinner as a team afterwards and got drunk and ate Chinese food. It was a very good night.
Cricket
What the hell, seriously? First two matches of the series, a day or so of lost time would have saved the game for Australia.
This time, we’re finally on top, and the weather comes in the screw up our plans entirely.
Well played England, well played. Masterful deployment of the elements.
Still, nice to see that we don’t completely suck, all of the time.
Jigsaw puzzles
Have you heard of these things? Totally awesome. They’ve taken this radical picture of a sand castle on the beach, chopped it up into 1000 pieces, then you have stick them all back together again. Phwoar!
Yesterday afternoon this happened, so I cracked a puzzle open to pass the time. By evening I had the choice to play games again, but decided that they are totally passé. I was originally planning to go see either The End of the World or World’s End but thought “What, when I have this much excitement right here?” By 1am they’d hit the tea break in the cricket, so I decided it was finally time to put it away for the evening. Otherwise I knew that I’d get no sleep and be a zombie at work all day.
Hmm, I wonder if they have zombie jigsaw puzzles.
This post is totally legit. Jigsaw puzzles are fucking amazing.
What platform are they for? PS3?
Trying to organise a trip to Europe at the end of the year. Think we’ll be flying into Switzerland. We’ll also be heading south to Italy. Any recommendations or general travel \o/?
My recommendation is to have fun.
There are other schools of thought, but I’m pretty confident about this one.
I think we’re going to have to disregard that one.
Fair enough, then. My other recommendation is find a reason to claim it back on tax. This becomes easier if it’s not a fun trip 😛
Edit: I’m not likely to have any useful advice, because I haven’t been overseas since I was 11.
Gastro-Stop.
Booo
Agreed. Saved me from a very unpleasant 7 hour bus ride in Peru.
My opinion is that if you need Gastro-stop, you probably need to get the diarrhoea out of you.
Just not on the bus.
There’s a time and place for it though.
Switzerland and Italy can be combined on a single Rail Pass, if you want to travel around that way. Or there would be a number of tours that operate in the area if you want something a bit more structured. How long are you planning on going away for?
Send me an email if you want me to help put something together for you
#NotDesperateForNewClients
It’ll be about 21 days.
Take Rocketman.
If you want to travel in style, you can go to Zermatt, admire the Matterhorn, and then ski down into Italy.
I assume your bags would follow you via magic, or something.
Additionally, I doubt there’s a lot I can recommend in Italy, I mean, I can recommend most things, but I barely went off the beaten track. Winter’s a pretty good time for visiting as well, since there are way less tourists, so you can actually see a lot of the more popular sites (More space in the Sistine Chapel, you can actually get vaguely close to David, that sort of thing).
If you take a train and time it right make sure you wake up for sunrise over the alps. Incredible experience. Rome is cool but for me not a long term place to visit. A few days and you will be mostly done with any touristy stuff. Find a little bar and order tomato and basil on bread. We had some that was the best bar snack I’ve ever had.
I really enjoyed Florence, a bit slower and more laid back than Rome. The da vinci museum is well worth a visit. Venice is amazing, totally super expensive but was a dream of Mrs Tigs to visit so well worth it. Buy a mask while you are there.
As in bruschetta?
Also be sure to call it “broo-sket-ta” (with oo as in cook), not “broo-shet-ta” 😛
Similar but no balsamic vinegar or onion. Went looking for brushetta but they had this ambrosia instead
Huh, not sure I’ve ever had it with vinegar before. Usually just a bit of garlic and olive oil.
@benwhite @markserrels Our spoiler tags no longer work. When we type “” (sans spaces) they are just automatically edited out of our comments!
Or at least that’s my experience, starting today.
(Edit: looks like it was edited out again despite being spaced out. In those quotes is supposed to be an “s” flanked by pointy brackets)
MULTI POST INCOMING!!!
So, seeing as i scored those 2 vouchers from Slave to Painting, i’ve been thinking that i might try to finally put together a conversion i’ve been thinking of for a while, but never thought i’d be able to do due to huge costs involved.
Basically, i want a defier for my Chaos army.. although, while the official one is cool, there’s just something about it that seems a little ‘meh’ – i think it’s the box body.
See here:
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440212a&prodId=prod1090581
SO
I’ve decided to make mine own by combining a soul grinder:
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440204a&prodId=prod1630087a
With a Arachnarok
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440081a&prodId=prod900159a
Basically, i’d putting the soul grinder torso on the arachnarok’s body, then using the mechanical legs, with a couple of spider legs sprouting from the soul grinders torso.
Then having the standard cannon protruding from the daemon’s chest, with rocket pods on the shoulder.
Detail – then VOILA – my own bad arse defiler.
Thoughts, 40k people???
I think I know what you mean. It always did kind of suit the Chaos thing to me though – they do tend to have really old fashioned gear and outdated tech. Strangely enough the Imperium doesn’t seem to want to supply them these days. It’s almost like they made a crude joke at the Emperor’s last dinner party or somesuch.
Srsly though, that’d make an awesome conversion project. The beauty of Chaos is you have so many options. Want to do something crazy? Go for it! Just pick the Chaos allegiance which suits it best.
Also, I spotted the Forgefiend/Maulerfiend model too – never seen that before, behind on current miniatures. Hot damn that thing looks awesome!
Oh, the defiler DEFINATELY suits the choas thing – especially with many things being built by so many captured forgeworld – i just want something that little bit more bad-arse.
The forgefiend model is AMAZING. Espescially if you love dinobots. Ditto for the helldrake – i seriously love that thing. I was actually thinking of picking up the forgefiend, but it’s only 20pts cheaper, for one less hull point and main guns that only shoot 24″, meaning it would get chewed up by heavy weapons before it can even get a shot off in some cases – whereas the battle cannon on a defiler shoots a whopping 72″, and is also fully kitted to take mofo’s out in CC.
cc @f4ction too – i know you love converting the heck outta things haha
Wat i dId on my weakend BY Alex Pants (21 years old)
I spent most of it at Doc’s place eating junk food and watching films as research for this year’s TAYfilm. Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, that sort of stuff. Also Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, which is a TV show but it’s awesome and we want some of that cheesiness in our film. A plot is forming in our minds! I need to write the script now.
We also did some browsing on Netflix and found something called Attack of the Crab Monsters, or something like that, which was a cheesy 50s film about giant crab monsters eating people on an island. Netflix is really weird, it has all these absurdly obscure films but none of the X-Men movies, for example.
Then on Sunday we went with Cake, Flu and Batgirl to see The World’s End (enjoyable but I dunno, felt like it was missing something) and we found frozen vanilla Coke slushies. We’ve been searching for vanilla Coke slurpees for about a year, so it was exciting, even if they weren’t slurpees which everyone knows are totally superior.
All in all, pretty rad weekend. Hope everyone here is well.
Also @shane re tag on last night’s TAY: hello.
Hello.
Need any script feedback down the track, I’m keen. Let me know!
+1 for Darkplace.
There were a couple of unlockable black-and-white B-movies in Destroy All Humans (at least the Xbox version did). I can’t remember the name, but one of them was about some sort of aliens that had a ray that turned people into skeletons (or… I suppose… got rid of all their non-skeleton bits? :P) There was a scene with a woman swimming in a pool, she goes to climb out via the ladder and gets randomly zapped from off-screen and her skeleton crumples back into the pool.
It was funny because it was so mediocre.
Anyway, the point of this tangent was that one of the unlockable movies was about giant space lobster things 😛
I’m wondering if it’s an age thing (that old chestnut)…
Apart from the end of the film, I thoroughly enjoyed it and it actually really struck a chord with me. The idea of losing one’s youth, the realities of growing up, the deterioration of friendships. It’s messed up and miserable, and Pegg nailed it. There was some serious attention to detail which made it so real regardless of the outrageous plot.
The plot resolution was a bit slapdash, and the final cut-to-credits scene lacked the impact I think it wanted to achieve, but up to that point it was rock solid.
Great action too.
And hilarious.
And Rosamund Pike.
And the rest.
Etc.
I think it’s one that’ll need a rewatch for me. I really don’t think it was bad, but I keep comparing it to the other two films and it doesn’t feel AS good. Which I know might be a bit unfair.
I did read something last night though that I thought was pretty cool:
Each of the bar names is symbolic of what happens when they go there – eg at The Old Familiar they run into the girl (her name escapes me) who they all have some history with.
Yep. Two Headed Dog (Twins). Mermaid (Seduction).
Clever stuff.
There’s heaps of that sort of thing in SotD.
So I came to Kotaku today and thought that I was on the CBA website by mistake…
WOULD YOU LIKE A LOAN? WE CAN GIVE YOU ONE
I know what you mean. I tried to log into Netbank the other day, and used “shane” as the user ID on my first attempt 😛
WOULD YOU LIKE TO CONSENT TO US ASKING IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO INCREASE YOUR CREDIT CARD LIMIT? OTHERWISE YOU MIGHT MISS OUT ON US ASKING IF YOU WANT TO INCREASE YOUR CREDIT CARD LIMIT.
Hey, where’s @dc? Conspicuous by his absence!
Dreamworld IIRC.
Though he’s still got a smartphone and therefore no excuse.
He got a smartphone?
I assume so. Possibly no. I’ve never met the man.
Either way, if he was really committed to TAY, he would have found a way.
TURNS OUT I AM CRAZY AFTER ALL! Wait, no, the other one. Silly.
That thing about Dragon’s Crown’s Sorceress I was looking for wasn’t posted in a Kotaku comment at all, it was something a friend put up elsewhere. And now I have found it again!
http://i.imgur.com/6GihjEU.jpg
Also over the weekend, my Pikmin time went from 17.5 to 28 to 36.5 hours. Oops.
So… Brisbane might yet happen. I’ve received official-like confirmation from the friendly Supanova folks that I can get an artist alley table at the discounted self-published rate. Flights are $125 each way, which isn’t too bad. And I’ve had enough awesome folks (here in TAY and elsewhere) offering up their Brisbane couches to me that I’m relatively confident I can be accommodated for next to nothing.
Just have to discuss with the wife, and then feel inside (and stuff like that) to see if I have the energy to do another con this year…
I’ve heard rumours that you might have some hot company on artist’s alley.
Didn’t know Zeitgeist was going to get a table. That’s awesome news, man!
We’re not sure.
Still trying to figure out exactly what we’d offer.
Apart from moustache rides.
And with that joke and my short temper, I’ve become my Dad.
I had a good run.
-cocks gun-
Seriously, though, what are you talking about?
Stupid ninemsn making me cry at work.
I know, I too am upset at the prospect of Megan Fox having a child.
She should definitely call the kid Star.
hai guise n gals!
Hey meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeht.
My plaque that I stick little tiles to whenever I ship something now has a Windows 8 tile. Which is cool I guess.
Ok, what the hell. I just got a platinum medal for the Scornet on my first go, THEN GOT ONE FOR THE FRIGGEN MIRECLOPS ON THE FIRST GO.
This cannot be.
*nods sagely*
whut?
Pikmin ramblings >.>
@greenius I got an email saying that my parcel from Totally Irreverent is ready for dispatch. Hopefully I’ll get it some time this week as it’s a short trip from Victoria to Tasmania. Fingers crossed anyway.
Did you make an account or check out as a guest?
I made an account. I figured it was worth it, even if I was only buying two t-shirts.
I figured since they’re shutting down I wouldn’t bother :P. Maybe I should’ve!
Sooooo tired. Stupid on call making me wake up way too early.
*starts sleeping on desk*
Oh yay… now I’m told that the CEO is upstairs as well. Now I have to act awake and working for the hour I’m up in the newsroom 🙁
Kill me please.
I also do on call, and feel your pain. One week out of every four, for 7 days, I’m at the mercy of our clientele 24/7.
=(
I’m cool with the whole 24/7 thing, but surely 4:50 am is no-go time for any self resprecting human being… oh wait I just realised whats wrong with that sentence…
Ha, self deprecation!
‘HALP MY THING ISN’T THINGING!’
‘Dude. It’s 3am. Fuck off.’
Said me, never. =(
Hi everyone, hope you’re all good. Finished Borderlands 2 on Friday. That last boss was cool looking, but really easy to take down. Haven’t started any of the DLC yet.
I started played Assassin’s Creed 3, and I’m liking it so far. I really don’t see why everyone hated it so much. I mean, it’s not the massive leap forward in the series like AC2 was to the original AC, but it’s still a fairly solid game. Very pro American so far though, which is sort of disappointing (but expected). I seem to be killing Redcoats by the dozen, often for no other reason than that they are there. Also, maybe it’s just how I’m playing it, but the game seems far less stealthy than previous games. When I was Ezio, I stealthed everywhere and always tried to use my hidden blades to take people down, but as Connor I seem to be getting into far more open conflict.
I liked the world, I didn’t like the mission design. Too many missions felt like they were too constrictive, and more importantly I didn’t find a lot of them fun.
Hey guys! Beardy’s gonna beg. Is anyone from the north side driving to Welbot’s place next Sunday? If so, is it possible that myself and Mrs Beardy could possibly scab a lift?
To everyone playing Pikmin 3, have you seen this? http://cheezburger.com/7712395776
EDIT: Yay! Pageget!
Sure have.
Interesting that in a whole load of the screenshots people have replied with, they all seem to have different numbers.
I’m still missing one somewhere…
Woo! Platinum medal on every single mission!
Baw, Pikmin’s over now 🙁
Little King’s Story!
Maybe!
Though I do still have New Super Luigi waiting in the wings.
Is the green case amazing?
Wait, who am I kidding. Of course it’s amazing.
I kinda want it for that but I didn’t really like New Super Mario U and the retail version is a bit too expensive 😛
I was all set to be meh about NSMBU after Wii then NSMB2 (which I didn’t get, because of unenthuse). But then I ended up really really liking it.
And Luigi rocks, so I didn’t want to be missing out on this one. Yes, the green case is amazing 😛 Though annoyingly they don’t seem to have included any kind of instruction manual slip in there. I know they’ve cut back and everything, but still at least SOMETHING other than that useless white information sheet that gets included with everything…
The thing is, I never played NSMB Wii or NSMB 2 and I grew up with 3D Mario so I didn’t have “2D Mario fatigue”. I figured I’d like NSMB U for that reason but the gameplay just felt so dated :(. Mainly the whole checkpointing thing which just annoyed me.
It was also right after playing the Rayman Legends demo which was amazing 😀
Haha, if you put Rayman next to anything then of course it’ll look bad!
Good thing I haven’t cracked them open yet…
I don’t think I can go back to 2D Mario after Origins :P, Legends will make it much harder.
Hey guys, dont forget, MINECRAFT SERVER IS UP AND RUNNING STILL!
198.24.178.178:25602
or
biodome.syndicateofgamers.com:25602
every tay-bie should be whitelisted, if not, post your MC username here!
Just uploaded a video from a show we played a few weeks back. Take a look if it’s your thing.
Powerful stuff.
Upvote for “Powerful stuff.”
Dang son, those are some pipes!
Blergh. My legs are so sore. Going to sleep well tonight.
At least you have the satisfaction of knowing that you didn’t skip legs day.
…But if you need excuses, this guy can tell you how to get away with skipping legs day.
Ok. Firstly, just in case you missed it, Beardy’s post! Lucky last on the page! http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/talk-amongst-yourselves-236/comment-page-2/#comment-1744950
Secondly, I’m thinking bout eating on Sunday. Do people have a preference on whether to eat at my place, or at the restaurant? Depending on how scared people are of new things (people like Sughly ;)) I’m thinking perhaps the restaurant could be a better option, cos they have bbq as well as hot pot. It is $29.80 per person, but all you can eat. I’ll post a link to someone’s blog with photos and stuff if you’re curious.
If everyone is fine with just hot pot, then I’m happy to do it at my place, but it’ll be a bit slower as I only have one pot! Anyway, voice your opinions here and now, cos if we do go the restaurant option, it’ll be best to make a booking. 🙂
@dkzeitgeist, @strange, @dc, @freezespreston, @sughly, @lambomann007, @mythamphetamine, @jimu, @gutsoup, @sernobulus, @virus__, @beardymcmuttonchops! @transientmind
Also, @enduwolf is coming!
Hopefully I got everyone!
http://christinayy.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/little-lamb-hotpot-and-charcoal-bbq.html
My vote is for restaurant. It’ll be less stress on you and your wallet. 🙂
Can’t wait to see Endu again. 😀
Looking forward to seeing you too Strange 🙂
I’m totally happy with either way, no strong opinion. If @strange is right and it’s easier/cheaper for welbot for us to restaurant, I lean that way. But I’m happy to bring along meat and veg for non-pot cooking, though, if some folks aren’t comfy with the restaurant.
Restaurant sounds good to meeeeee,
Restaurant!!!
@shane: I won’t believe you’re coming to Supanova until you’re on a flight. I’ve been hurt too many times before. :'(
Fair enough, man. I think I’m going to be similarly dubious about your offer to crash on your couch, until I land in Brisbane.
In other news, I think I talked the wife out of coming without disqualifying myself or coming off as a jerk. That sounds terrible to put it that way… but it would have been an unaffordable $1000 round trip just for flights.
You should be dubious, man. I don’t have a couch and refuse to give people my address. 😛
You guys can share a bed ! 😀
I started playing Torchlight II again. I can’t remember how online co-op works but if you ever see me playing, feel free to holler and join in if you want :). Currently level 28 or so.
Also @Sernobulus is the worst Torchlight II buddy :'(
@transientmind is awesome…
so you’re saying the rest of us aren’t?
🙁
He’s our new leader! The leader is good, the leader is great, surrender your will as of this date!
NAH.
Although he is pretty cool 😀
But the real question is: Xenoblade? (@transientmind)
Aha. A trick question, I see! Yes, I’ve heard Xenoblade is a system-seller, but in the end I decided to only have REAL gaming machines in my home. 😉
BOOM! Test passed, flying colours, amirite? *finger-guns*
There’ll be flying colours all right, but it’ll be @greenius flying at you in a fit of rage.
GREENIUS SMASH!
Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na Batman … I mean Leader!
I categorically deny fighting crime by night. Even if that was the reason I’ve been giving coworkers for any day I’m exceptionally tired.
That is a much younger and more stupid person’s activity.
*fistbump for mutual appreciation*
Though the credit really belongs with the director, producer, and especially the guys in lighting and sound.
New ep of The Newsroom night! Jump on the bandwagon, there’s room for more!
Falling Skies
True Blood
Dexter
\o/
I have to wait until 11pm when I leave work though.
Oh, thanks! I keep forgetting about Dexter 😛
Hah! A list of all the things I’ve totally been meaning to see, but not got around to.
…Also, Boardwalk Empire, Downton Abbey, anything after season 2 of Breaking Bad, and Game of Thrones season 3. 😛
I really have a lot of work to do.
WHOA! GET ON BREAKING BAD ASAPPPPPP!
I’m currently re-watching it and I’m being reminded of how goddarn amazing it is 😀
Yeah, I really enjoyed the first season but man was it bleak. I hear things sort of go downhill from there. So. I approach with trepidation.
Not sure what to make for tea… Spaghetti bolognaise or pancakes. I’m thinking pancakes.
Make my soup too?
I’m busy making cosplays.
I have no soup ingredients 🙁 (well okay I have a carrot)
Why not spaghetti bolognaise pancakes?
Best of both worlds! \o/
I decided on tea and then dessert 😛
Wait, there’s still more Pikmin to do!
10 Exploration Notes are still left to be found. Including two more numbers for the secret thingo.
…and after a map fly-over, I can only see two in the Tropical Wilds. I know that I’m missing one for the Scornet in Twilight River, but I can’t see it :/ Dammit this is going to take forever… WHY AREN’T THERE ANY GUIDES YET? Stupid slow Americans.
Sometimes I wish all my friends weren’t art students. Then I wouldn’t have to have weird photos and videos taken of me all the time 😛
Haha, I used to have to do that too, whenever my sister had some kind of a photography assignment.
I will never be allowed to forget one fateful afternoon at the wharf 🙁 It involved me, seagulls, throwing chips up in the air, and screams (by me). THANKFULLY we were using a directional mic and it wasn’t pointed at me so it was never recorded, but 2 of my friends will always have that on me 😛
That would be weird if you were nude. Were you nude?
Of course I was!*
(It wasn’t weird, it was just rather embarrassing and my screaming was really girly :P)
*May not have been nude
I’m not necessarily scared of birds but when they come swooping near my head I get kinda worried what the heck would happen if they go beak first and stab me :P. So your screams were somewhat justified methinks.
A bunch of seagulls were going nuts when Masha and I were munching on some burgers at PAX – MY FOOD, DAMNIT! Then Masha was all: “In Africa hawks swoop down and steal chicken from your plate, right infront of you” 😐
Holy shit that would be terrifying 😛 I was just scared I was going to be shat on 😀
Oh yeah, the thought of bird poop ruining my day is scary 🙁
I once had a seagull snatch the chicken fillet out of my subway as I held it, right outside of Imax at Darling Harbour. I looked to my right for a moment, and bam. Gone.
Bastard bird.
is Masha from Africa?
Possible African buddy?
p.s I am from Africa
He is!
@masha2932
No, I’m as Australian as they come- Streuth, mate, chook, garbo, ummmm…..
Ha ha, just kidding though I’m from Kenya
🙂
One of the ones I had to do involved me repeatedly having to jump in the air like Mario off a brick wall. Followed by driving down to the public square across from Bankstown town hall, where I then had to pretend to throw a small keg.
Although neither of those have anything on the self-imposed one, where I conned a friend to come and take pictures of me jumping around a bunch of stuff in a pair of strawberry boxer shorts, all in the name of entering a competition. There was an old man sitting on a bench nearby giving us funny looks the entire time 😛
Ahahaha you win with that last one 😛 My best friend wants to make a short horror film for some competition, so it’ll definitely be interesting if he actually wants me to, y’know, act. Hopefully I’m never asked to do anything in boxers or anything, but eh, I wouldn’t really have a problem with it as long as it isn’t public. Nothing he hasn’t already seen.
😉 ayyyyy
Fine, you can watch too
On my way to completing my first game of 2013.
Oh man, you should have left that reply fail here! Without context it was pretty hilarious.
Haha, no thanks. That was way too WTF for non-context TAY.
Booo-urns
Mad props for actual completions. I finish like… 1% of my games. It must be something weird like… I like preserving the memory of the experience in flux, instead of book-ending it with potentially-disappointing closure.
Admittedly, many things I play are MMOs/other online multi with no ending whatsoever, but still. The percentage is really, really low.
Probably the first things I’ll actually finish this year will be Shadowrun Returns and Bioshock Infinite. [Edit: Ahhh, I forgot Gunpoint. I totally devoured that rapidly.]
(Treacherous memory reminds me: Magical Diary. Oh yes, you finished that.)
Games finished in 2013:
• BioShock
• Catherine
• Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition
• Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
• FTL
• Hotline Miami
• Little Inferno
• McPixel
• Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate
• Ni no Kuni
• Okami HD
• Persona 4: Golden
• Pikmin
• Pikmin 2
• Pokemon White 2
• Proteus
• Rayman Jungle Run
• Ridiculous Fishing
• Sound Shapes
• Super Hexagon
• Super Meat Boy
• Super Metroid
• The Cave
• The Last of Us
• The Walking Dead: 400 Days
• Thomas Was Alone
• To the Moon
• Trine
• Trine 2
• Where’s My Water?
#Flex #ShowOff #MInesBigger #UnemployedUniStudent #TooMuchFreeTime
You forgot one. #Braggius.
He forgot #HashtagsForHarli
Winky Hog don’t go round these parts no more 🙁
Winky hog took me far too long to get. need moar coffee
I would add animal crossing but it never finishes.
Games finished in 2013
Thomas was alone
@sughly: FYI I ended up upping my kickstarter pledge for Little Witch Academia 2 to the $100 tier. Decided that $50 for an actual Douga Cut was worth it once I found out what that actually is – basically the animation process is to make key frames, genga, which are then cleaned up and in-betweeners fill in the rest to create a sequence of douga which are the final lineart for the frame. Traditionally the lines from the douga would be transferred to acetate which would then be colored to make the final animation cel, but I’d imagine in modern stuff the douga gets scanned in and colored on a computer. Initially I thought it was a film cut which isn’t that interesting because stuff’s digital anyway, but an actual douga is real lineart from the animation process so that’s pretty sweet. Will probably aim to get it framed.
Yeah I saw it in the email they sent out. ARRRRRGH it looks so gooood! I’m jealous! Really cant afford to up my tier at the moment though, no moneys T_T
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsDKIxHmbjw
=D Sid is so cute
Mr. Strange has been trying to do the same XCOM mission all evening. It was supposed to be a quick mission and then we’d watch something together. Had I known he would fail it a bazillion times I would have done something instead of just sitting around waiting for him. I am a doofus. I wasted precious gaming time!
But look on the bright side, you gained precious “laughing at him” time!
…and after having otherwise completed the entirety of Pikmin, I just found the fire-proof suit. Go me.
Still got three data files to find in Indigenous Life , and two Secret Notes. And I know two of the IL ones are in the final area.
I keep walking into fire and electricity expecting not to get damaged because I’m too used to having the fire/electric-proof suit from my Pikmin 2 days 😛
@dc @rocketman @greenius Ooooo http://pitchfork.com/news/51508-arcade-fires-new-album-titled-reflektor/
Ooooooh! That’s cool. I like it. Doesn’t really give away the theme of the album like you were talking about yesterday too. Can’t wait to hear it.
Are those format thingies not working for anyone else?
Like bold, italics, underline,
strikethrough, , spoilers etc. ?I know recently clicking on those buttons above the comment box did nothing so I had to manually type them. Seems like the buttons are working now (they add the correct thingy) but when my comments post they just look normal and without formatting :/
odd…
I can see it for this comment except for the spoiler tags and underline. My comments above used spoilers and underlines so that’s probably why I thought they were all borked :/
Huh. I still don’t have the buttons working. When I click them, they make the load thingie for the page spin for a moment, but nothing happens. Except for the little loudspeaker one, that makes a popup where it tells me to put in someone’s name, but after I click OK on that nothing happens.
Gizmodo have taken their porn lady image to new amazing levels
It doesn’t matter how many times I see that picture, I laugh just as hard every time 😛
Scrolled down after reading this comment and wasn’t disappointed 😀
EDIT: aww the car pushed it down and it’s no longer the main picture. The thumbnail makes it hard to see what they added 🙁
All the stuff said in the Mana Bar story has me missing Insert Coins. Any Sydneysiders ever go to that? I loved it.
Man, I’m sooo going to the effort/expense of making home made spaghetti bolognaise again. After getting rave reviews on Twitter in the form of “I really feel like some of that”, and rave reviews in person of “Bitch! You said you were gonna make pancakes!” I shall spend weeks refining my recipe, and it shall henceforth be known as “Uncle Ben’s good ol’ fashioned home made spaghetti bolognaise not from the tin”
In all honesty I’m just glad I’m finding fresh things that are somewhat easy and not too expensive to make after I said a couple of weeks back I wanted to start eating better 😛
It was after the 3rd or 4th car went flying past me that I realised I was sitting at a green light.
@Daydreamius
Found a 64-bit Windows 7 driver for my PlayTV.
Now I can watch TV on my computer again! \o/
Ok, turned out that after the six visible data files I had to find there was just the hidden fire suit and two secret memos that were hiding from me. The last one doesn’t get released until a certain point in the boss battle.
NOW I’m done with Pikmin. Proper 😛 Unless I want to start the game over and do it faster to get a better rank on the scoreboard…
Also now clocked about 40 hours on the thing. Also also, sif page-get.
Games I have completed in 2013 so far: Professor Layton and the Curious Village!
Yay! I did one! Okay, the low-down: solved 82/120 puzzles, spent exactly 10 hours with it, story was a bit average. I give the game about a 6/10. Onward to Pandora’s Box.
oh my god wait until lost/unwound future
yes
yesssssssssssss preciousssssss
Awesome. I wondered which one of the lot is the hidden gem. I have them all but I plan to now play them in order of release. Can’t wait.
I kind of always loved Curious Village most :'(
Crap, don’t say that.
edit: WHELP, I can seem to use spoiler tags, so goodbye comment!
I’ve played all the DS ones and I like em. Some puzzles have stupid solutions, the story can get a bit silly – but dem cutscenes and music! I think gameplay wise they get better with each release.
Agreed. I forgot to mention that, the cutscenes and music are fantastic.
*Gets a phone call*
“Hi, this is _____ from the Lego Store! We’re sorry to say you didn’t get the job.”
K.
*gets another phone call pretty much immediately after*
“Hey, Saturday, It’s your sister! I GOT A JOB AT THE LEGO STORE!”
“Go suck a dick.”
Net result is the same!
ACCESS TO CHEAP LEGO
Hook us up with friends of family deals, ‘kay?
Cheap?
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Oh man, sure, yeah, cheap.
Atleast if Saturday was working there she’d be getting paid and then can use that money on some discounted Lego. Now she can’t do that 🙁
we’re fairly close so the benefits reaped are the same.
But being sisters that automatically means I’m a spiteful bitch.
I’m just surprised you both applied for the same place
we’re both in desperate need of jobs so we keep each other updated. Honestly, if we both got jobs there I wouldn’t see it anything other than a causal mention of “hey, you two are related? ha ha ha, what a coincidence.”
In regards to that sucking dick part, I hope your sister isn’t underage.
@benny
seeing as shes in her 30’s and has a boyfriend, I’m not surprised that she followed up with “WELL FINE, I WILL.”
Having siblings is weird sometimes. One of my brothers and I were at a restaurant and went to the bathroom at different times, but had this conversation in our own closed stalls:
*silence* *ablutions*
“…Is that you?”
*pause*
“No-one can accurately answer ‘No’ to that question!”
“It IS you!”
“Shutupshutup! You know I can’t go when you’re talking to me!”
“I know the sound of your pee.”
“YOU’RE MAKING IT WORSE.”
TAYFolks: The World Ends With You. I own this on DS but haven’t ever gotten around to playing more than about 15 minutes of it so my only lasting impression is that the dual screen battle system was mind-bending.
Should I play it on 3DS or would I be better off buying the iOS release on my iPad and playing it there? It’s on special right now and it looks like the iOS release is an improved version?
If you can get your hands on a DS version, get it. It’s pretty much the only game in existence that validates the DS’s two screens shtick.
As I said, I own it on DS but didn’t play much of it and my impression was that I didn’t like the dual screen stuff very much, found it pretty hard to get my head around.
Saturday don’t read.
Play through just a tad more, and if you don’t think much of the battle system then get the ios version, as the battle system is revamped for one screen. Plus, music remixes. so rad.
Yeah, I really wasn’t a fan of the dual-screen thing either. I played it for a crazy number of hours, but I ended up basically just ignoring the 2nd screen and only making use of combos when things were too tight. …Which wasn’t often.
I haven’t tried the ipad version either, but all reports are that it’s simplified. Don’t have a pad at the moment but will probably get one in a few months and TWEWY will be a definite purchase if I can remember to buy it at the time. 🙂
(So many things clamoring for attention!)
I haven’t touched the iOS version of it, but I spent a stupid amount of time with the DS version. The first couple of hours drag, but after that it really comes into its own. I guess it all depends on whether you want to buy a game that you already own again.
Yep, try and stick to the 2-screen system, you get a knack for it after a while, it’s defs the better version of the game.
In the leadup to Pokemon X & Y, EB Games stores are holding events to download shiny versions of Dialga, Palkia and Giratina! http://content.ebgames.com.au/website/images/documents/PokemonXY/index.htm
I don’t like the events where I have to go places. I prefer the ones where I can stay at home to download them and be all antisocial.
HERMITS UNITE!
o/
Except not, because, you know, hermiting.
Haha! Didn’t you go to PAX and make friends at PAX with strangers? That ain’t the hermit way, my friend!
More than friends…
ayyyyyyyyy ;D
I’m supposed to download new Pokemon to an older version? It’s a pity the event isn’t held after the release.
1. Download shiny legendaries on old cart
2. Buy Pokemon X & Y when they’re released
3. ??????
4. Transfer Pokeymans for fun and profit!
The newest cart I have is Platinum.
Gotcha. Yeah if you don’t have Black/White or Black 2/White 2, it might be worth giving this one a miss.
I’d say they’re less inclined to hand out shiny level 100 Pokemon direct to their two brand new games. The Pokemon series has kind of always been about owning multiple versions, so they’re ensuring that only people with previous games can use them. Makes sense, really.
Evil Sense(tm). It’s like Sense Evil, only more lucrative.
Since I have a 3DS and I’ll obviously be buying Pokemon X&Y, maybe I should get in on this and buy a current pokemon game on payday before the promo starts. Is there any reason to get Black or White or should I just go to Black 2/White 2? I only care a little bit about the lore, since the last game I played was Diamond.
Famitsu rates the original Black and White with perfect scores – 40/40, but not with their sequels.
Are they the same story with different pokemon or is B/W2 an actual continuation of the first?
Continuation, I believe.
Hmm. I might just get the first one then so I’m not coming in halfway, since it seems to have been the better received. And being older I imagine it’s cheaper. I’m not going to make a huge investment, I just figure I might as well grab the freebies since I planned to get X or Y anyway.
Also remember when deciding which one to get, the legendary you receive from the main story is different – White gives you Zekrom, the black legendary dragon-type, and Black gives you Reshiram, the white legendary dragon-type. Might not be a huge issue for you, but I inevitably decide because of these things.
Also, Zekrom is fucking cool.
I was thinking I would get White, not because of the Pokemon I would get, but because I wanted to subvert the trend I had had of preferring the more masculine option. Blue over Red, Silver over Gold, Diamond over Pearl. I felt Black is the more dudelike colour, so I was going to get White just to be different.
With X/Y I’m confused. X is clearly the cooler letter than Y, and I would consider it the more manly, so I should get Y if I continue to follow my new rule. But genetically women are XX and men are XY, so Y is the more masculine, so I should get X.
Frankly I think X will be more popular for the coolness of “X”, so Y will be rarer.
The sequels have better wild Pokemon types available from accross different Pokemon generations, and I personally enjoyed the sequel more. You ca catch wild Riolu in like the 2nd or 3rd area of the game! 😀
I actually enjoyed Black and White a fraction more than Black 2 and White 2. The differences are honestly minor. Probably depends which Pokemon you want more, really.
Arcade Fire tickets tomorrow. Be vigilant.
Edit: For Gold Coast BDO, I should say. 😀
Pretty sure you mean Melbourne BDO. Since you guys are coming to Melbourne.
You and your stories. 😀 (Though if there’s a Melbourne side show for Arcade Fire, I’d be very interested.)
So much hat 🙁
I’m pretty sure spoiler tags (and underline too, I think) aren’t working so be careful peeps!
Luckily Breaking Bad hasn’t started yet 😉
@benwhite
Spoilers: Jesse says “Bitch.”
‘Yo, Mr. White!’
More spoilers: Walt says “JESSEH!”
More spoilers:
Skyler!
*twitch*
Triumphant return of Rot13?
I brought it back for some Dark Souls conversation yesterday. Pretty sure no one read it 😛
It’s nowhere near as convenient as spoiler tags!
New folk might’ve thought you had some sort of fit, though.
(O.o)
(o.O)
Happy birthday to me :]
Happy birthday, man! WOOOO! Hope it’s a good one!
Congratulations on another successful orbit of the star Sol!
Happy birthday @vonsack
Happy birthday.
Happy Birthday Rizzle Jizzle
Heh. Jizz. le.
Happy birthday mate, hope you’re not spending the day at work like I am.
Happy Birthday 🙂
Ooooooooooold.
I’ve been going back through a bunch of old horror movies recently that for some reason or another I haven’t seen over the years. Jaws was the first of these. I’d seen it when I was much, much younger and didn’t really take anything in. I watched that one on Friday night last week and thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s held up really well for a film that’s almost 40 years old. Best of all, it’s still gorram terrifying.
On Monday night I watched the first Hellraiser film. The Hellraiser series was one I never really understood anything about. All I knew was that there was a human pincushion called Pinhead decked out in BDSM gear. I quite enjoyed the film. The practical effects were actually really great. Not quite on par with the practical effects in The Thing, but they were pretty dang impressive. I didn’t really dig on the story all that much. I never understood the appeal of BDSM, especially the more extreme stuff, as I don’t like the thought of inflicting pain on anyone, let alone for my own pleasure. So there was a bit of a disconnect between myself and the basic underpinning drive of Pinhead and friends, but I still enjoyed the film for what it was.
My favourite fact about Jaws is that Spielberg had to fight to not show the shark for the first hour
I wouldve thought you were meant to be more disturbed by pinhead and friends rather than relate to them, no?
I definitely was disturbed by Pinhad and friends. Most of my friends who like the series are fans solely because of the cenobites and their promise of trancsendant pleasures of the flesh. Maybe that’s why I don’t get the appeal of the films.
Listening to the Pikmin 3 OST. So good. Makes me want to replay the game.
I still need to finish Pikmin. I got distracted by Dynasty Warriors.
MONSTER!
Yep, I also get distracted by MONSTER Hunter ;-P
I WANNA PLAY DW ;_;
Sappy D.C. post: The last two days have demonstrated you guys are the best folks ever. So awesome.
*sniffle* so beautiful *drinks some tea*
I take offense at this.
… Also, I’ve no clue what you’re talking about. TAY’s so nice I just take generous acts of kindness as a background thing.
DC attended a meat which was organised completely offline by text message, almost like we were real friends or something.
I was a little harsh on GTAIV and specifically one FUCKING mission in The Lost and Damned where you have to do something that immiediately incurs a 4-star wanted rating in an environment where you are also surrounded by polcie with assault rifles. On top of that, your default vehicle is a motorcycle.
While TLAD seems to have fixed some of the issues we all had with GTAIV’s atrocious checkpoints, hearing the same pieces of dialogue over and over again is mindbendingly annoying. There was one mission where I had to steal a prison bus which moves at the pace of a dying sloth and handles like a cow on rollerskates. Of course I had to steal it from a police station, get a 3-star wanted rating, then somehow escape the cops who are in much faster cars, setting up roadblocks, and have helicopters keeping the heat on me.
I understand games are meant to be challenging, and maybe I have been spoiled by the relatively consequence-free gameplay of Saints Row, but when I am driving a bus around that is on the verge of blowing up for 45 minutes until I finally manage to get the police chasing me hung up on a tricky corner, I do not need to repeatedly hear “I can’t get arrested again!” and “We gotta lose the cops!” cycled every fifteen seconds. BELIEVE ME BUDDY, I KNOW THAT WE HAVE TO LOSE THE COPS.
All in all though, there is something about the world of GTAIV that makes me want to keep playing. I just don’t know if I’m having a good time or not, so it feels weird to be so dedicated to it.
I find it really hard to enjoy GTA 4. I appreciate that the physics engine is an impressive technological feat, but jesus fucking christ does it make playing that game a chore. Touch anything when you’re riding a bike and you’re off flying through the air. Even just walking around feels awful and clunky.
Even with the issues I have with it I keep going back though.
The thing that has really driven me wild is when in one of those missions where I had to elude cops I am NEARLY home free then some car will texture pop into existence and send me flying to my death or set the cops onto me again. Also sometimes I seem to hit bumps in the road that aren’t at all visually represented so I assume they’re physics glitches, that send me hurtling off in a random direction.
My main issue with GTAIV is that I don’t find Liberty City enjoyable to drive in.
You know what is an enjoyable place to drive in? Fairhaven.
I really like Need for Speed: Most Wanted.
It’s fantastic isn’t it 🙂
So great. I bought the DLC last night because $20 on a game I didn’t pay for is pretty good value. The DB5 is disappointingly poo, Vin Diesel’s Dodge Charger from The Fast and the Furious is glorious though. So much power. So much drift.
My internet is still bollocksed, but I’m so keen to get my autolog up and running. Do you have @masha2932’s autolog stuff incoming?
I don’t think Masha has accepted my friend request because he’s the worst. I’ve got @dkzeitgeist showing up though.
Did you have to link it through Origin, or does it pick up PSN friends automatically?
It’s picked up my PSN friends, but it’s possible that’s because I linked my account for Battlefield 3. Not really sure. I imagine since it’s supposed to work cross-platform that it’s through Origin.
I accepted your friend request last night so it should be showing up now. 🙂
Ugh, I didn’t manage to beat your times on some dirt tracks yesterday.
I don’t know how you and Dan are getting some of those times.
I did defeat @dkzeitgeist on one track though- Suck it Dan! 🙂
I have Dan’s, BDKIAF’s and Puppylick’s autolog stuff coming through. I think it just picked people from my friend list because I don’t think I’ve added any of them through autolog.
Once your internet is restored you should see our usernames and avatars pop up in the world on billboards, speed cameras etc. If you want to challenge a friend on a specific track press the easydrive button(left on the d-pad) and choose autolog recommends and it will show you a list of races your friends have done and you can jump into a race from there.
I had some problems yesterday where trying to beat someones time affected my playstyle-I kept restarting etc and I decided to stop that and play the game normally and if I beat someone’s time that’s good, if not I can try again casually and not during the races I’m doing to unlock parts.
I should grab that.
See, that concerns me too. In GTAIV the entire third major island felt entriely superfluous and only made it more of a chore to drive around in. I actually like liberty city for the most part, but when I was recently replying the story as a warmup to starting on the DLC, I twice had Brucie call me to go drinking or whatever while I was on the other side of town, and his place is a pain to get to at the best of times – so both times he gets shitty with me for not getting there “on time”. I think that was my breaking point and I’m really glad they don’t include any of this “cousin you want to see some teetees?” type friendship maintenance in the DLC (well not TLAD anyway, I haven’t started The Ballad of Gay Tony yet).
When they say GTAV is going to be the biggest map yet, I inwardly cringe at the thought of spending a half hour just trying to drive safely from my safehouse to a mission, because if I’m not careful I’ll bump a police car as it swerves into me and have to run away, then when I get to my destination I need a new car because the old one is trashed, then I steal it and some cop three blocks away hears the window break and starts shooting at me with sniper-like accuracy.
One thing I would really like is if they let us permanently save cars like in Saints Row – or even let us buy cars that we can keep permanently like Sleeping Dogs, so when we have a car we want to keep we can always access it, even if it got destroyed or we parked it somewhere and didn’t come back for it.
Playing GTAIV I promptly put sweet sports cars in my parking spaces at my various safehouses, then never drove them again except to move them to my next safehouse, because I didn’t want to lose them. If I can use my good cars without fear, the game would be more enjoyable. I know the game is called Grand Theft auto and all, but sometimes I get sick of constantly jacking cars just to get anywhere.
My main issue with GTAIV is that I don’t find the cars enjoyable to drive in.
Seriously, the driving model in those games is terrible.
I really loved Lost and Damned.
Didn’t hate the rest of the game.
Yeah that’s how I felt.
L&D was great, never finished the main game or Gay Tony.
That damn cell phone…
I am enjoying it, more than I thought I would. I originally just wanted to power through TLAD to get to Gay Tony, which I heard was really good.
I’ve only just become club president, how far in would you say I am and are there any more missions where I am forced to elude high level wanted ratings under unforgiving/impossible circumstances?
Today I need to make myself call up the ACCC or Department of Fair Trading or something or other, and find out where I stand in terms of Nintendo trying to charge me to repair my 3DS after that failed update.
I don’t want to do it though. Talking to people is scary.
Question is will Nintendo give a toss what the ACCC advise you of.
My money’s on no.
Hahaha, basically. Still gotta give it a try anyway, instead of just straight out bending over for them.
Well, some industry ombudsmen have power… Like the telco one, for example. The TIO has the power to investigate consumer complaints and ladle out hefty (like… 5-6 digit hefty) fines. All telcos of a respectable size have a TIO liaison whose job is basically to bend over backwards to make sure the complaint goes away. If it even looks like you have a CHANCE at a reasonable case, they’ll make good.
I have no idea what the equivalent would be for @mrtaco to chase with regards to consumer electronics, but hopefully there’s something… And maybe the ACCC would know which direction to point. Failing that, Fair Trading – I think each state has a Fair Trading department of some sort, try looking them up. Quick google NSW-related search: http://www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/ftw/Consumers/Buying_goods/Electronic_goods.page
I believe you can send them an email, from previous experience. Just don’t expect any resolution this current month.
How old is your 3DS?
Launch unit.
Out of warranty then, so you’re probably SOL. 🙁
Yeah, that’s what they’ve told me. But it’s their software update that bricked it, not any kind of wear and tear or misuse by me, so imo they’re the ones who should be out of pocket. And the consumer law guidelines thing that I read has several parts to it that makes it sound like I should be covered under default warranty or whatever you call it (as opposed to Nintendo’s express warranty), but I’m no lawyer so I don’t know things well enough to stand my ground. Need advice from someone in the know.
If it’s out of warranty, I doubt they’ll help. Unless you can prove the update was faulty, they’ll just assume you interrupted the update and borked it, or something was wrong with the console, thus the update didn’t work. Generally speaking if something’s out of warranty, you won’t get far.
Keep catching myself checking my email every 10 minutes. It’s been 2 days. It’s going to take weeks. I need to stop doing that.
Best of luck to you.
So instead of working on the cosplay today like I should do, I have to go with Mum to outpatients at the hospital. Yay. Spending the whole day sitting around waiting -_-
Is she alright?
Yeah, just a check up
Did you bring your 3DS?
And vita. It’s pretty dang boring
Soooo… I came across this gem last night… Anyone interested?
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/124958/1984-animal-farm
Damn, I have to order it from poland by the looks of it…
All players are equal but some are more equal than others?
Four cards good, two cards better?
not better, Doubleplusgood!
… things.
Lick things?
@bdkiaf enjoyed the set but I’ve seen better camera work in amateur Scheiße porn.
Yeah, right? Canberra. Can’t see shit for half the video.
Hey, HEY TAY!
…sup?
Apparently not much.
Space Crusade (board game) get! Totally complete except for one small token, and in amazing condition. \o/
Man, when I was collecting WH40K miniatures to put in armies, we used to go hunting around for Space Crusade and Space Hulk boxes to cannibalize their miniatures. Where else could you get that many terminators in plastic for so cheap? 😛
http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/features/36450/Ken-West-on-Big-Day-Out-lineup-Pearl-Jam-Blur-Arcade-Fire
Just say yes or no, man. Just say yes or no. :'(
😛
That sounds like a strongly hinted no.
Just be nice to know for sure before BDO tickets tomorrow go on sale, but doesn’t look likely…
It sounds more like Ken saying please buy tickets for my show than anything. If he had outright no’s for the other headliners he wouldve said so in a heartbeat
Yeah, that sounds like the same thing as it always is. No sideshows announced until after BDO goes on sale so they can sell more tickets to the festival shows.
Speaking of Arcade Fire, Sarah Neufeld’s solo project Hero Brother is out this month too!
That moment where you have a tiny freakout at your desk when an email comes through.
I sent the first three chapters of Metro 7 to one of my good friends who just so happens to be an Australian best-selling author. I thought I was nervous when Mrs Beardy was reading Metro 7. When my friend had the chapters I was refreshing my inbox every hour for a WEEK worried that he would send a reply that said, “Uh, this… isn’t very good. Sorry dude.”
But. He just got back to me. He loved it so much that he wants me to use a quotable from him in my Pozible campaign. He used words like “pulse quickening”, “my heart was creeping towards hammering,” and “I do not, under any circumstances, want anyone to die. You bastard.”
Haha! That’s incredibly awesome, Beardy! WOOOO!
Linked this to you on Twitter, but you might find this podcast interesting: http://geeksguideshow.com/2013/03/28/ggg83-hugh-howey/
Hugh Howey self published Wool, which has gone gangbusters. There’s also a discussion after about self publishing in general. cc@shane too.
I’ve saved the link for after my new PC gets built 😀 Thanks dude!
This weeks TAY seems incredibly slow without any reason like PAX or Christmas or wagon circling. What gives? I blame @shane. >:|
It’s only been two days! Also, work is superbusy. 🙁
Greenius has Uni and mobile TAY is lame
🙁
Also, as I catch up, I’m unravelling the mystery…
OOoooOOoOooOooo *spooky music*
My boss brought in home-made cookies for morning tea. And there’s leftovers for afternoon tea. It’s pretty great.
Cookies are a some time food!
Best Cookie Monster thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5X4N2exOsU
Not that I can talk, but what’s the deal with Tom Waits’ voice?
Cigarettes and booze, initially. now it’s more cultivated as his “thing.” If you listen to his earlier stuff like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7UHd7NVegE it’s less rough
Oh wow, that song is actually fantastic.
A large chunk of his output is. Let us know if you need a listening order
It’s pretty great, huh? If you like it, you should probably check out a band called Gay Paris. Check out Ash Wednesday Boudoir Party or The Black Tooth Supper Club for good times.
The last good party don’t stop!
Wash your mouth out! …With cookies.
…And milk. Chocolate milk.
I’m sorry @dc =(
I’m pretty sure taking your mum to the hospital takes precedence over posting on TAY to entertain a crazed hermit who spends too much time here anyway. 😛
A hermit who left us yesterday to go out and socialise?
Worst hermit.
Reading that interview that @dc linked.
Jesus. That would have made me get a ticket for that alone.
Dethklok – Laser Cannon Deth Sentence.
Needs more Thunderhorse. Best song lyrics ever.
EDIT: Gene Hoglan is also a fucking boss. I went to a drum clinic in Melbourne a few years back – despite not playing a musical instrument of any kind. Just to watch the master at work. Was only about 30 people too – the guy’s incredible. They don’t call him ‘The Atomic Clock’ for nothing.
THUNDER.
HORSE.
THUNDER.
HORSE.
Ahaha Dethklok are awesome 😛
Could still happen.
Edit: More likely Soundwave though. AJ has been trying to get them for years.
O_O
This must happen, I almost went overseas a few years ago to go watch them….
now to go get another Coffee, preferably Duncan Hills
PREPARE FOR ULTIMATE FLAVOUR.
Woo, full marks on my web management prac test today! I still can’t stand the fact that we’re using macs, but nevertheless!
And holy shit, I ran into a guy today that lives at the other college up here that looks more identical to my best friend than I do to my identical twin brother :S My head hurts.
You didn’t accidentally hug him and fall asleep on his chest did you. 😛
Edit: Also congrats on the prac!
Ahahahaha noooooo that would’ve been rather awkward if I did go up and hug him 😛
And hey! We were high, he looked comfortable at the time!
How funny was Jaymes Diaz’s interview this morning? He reminded me of a Brick Tamland and William Hung love child. Hilarious.
I don’t know any of those names, so I’ll just nod my head and smile.
*nods head, smiles*
I got you.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013/diaz-and-confused-candidate-misses-the-points-20130806-2rb1v.html
Oh god, I feel so embarrassed for that guy. That seems to trigger the same sort of sympathy cringes I get from Seinfeld or Frasier.
Seriously?
William Hung.
Brick Tamland.
C’mon DC, you know the ‘I love lamp’ guy from Anchorman, and the weird Asian dude that sang Ricky Martin’s ‘She Bangs’ cover?
Anchorman has Steve Carell and Will Farrell in the cast. I will NEVER subject myself to that. EVER.
>:|
It’s on the list.
Oh no it’s not, I’ve got list veto power. 😛
Isn’t that missing the point of the list though?
Also, have I steered you wrong so far?
No.
Watch Anchorman.
I was watching Seeking a Friend for the End of the World last week and turned it off after twenty mintues because I couldn’t stand looking at Steve Carell for so long. 😛
I recorded it the other day. It’s not supposed to be particularly good though.
What about Little Miss Sunshine? There’s no way you don’t like that movie!
Loved Little Miss Sunshine, only because he wasn’t being Steve Carrell-esque. XD
The Way Way Back looks promising too.
Agreed!
Did you see The Descendants? Written by the same guys and is supposed to be excellent. I still haven’t gotten around to watching it.
Oh yeah, I loved The Descendants. That was actually the first list movie I watched this year. So good.
I put a point in favour of @dc trying Anchorman, too.
They mostly make fun of themselves! And there are some truly great lines. Such as: Sex Panther, That escalated quickly, I love lamp, and I’m kind of a big deal.
What if I told you it’s the funniest film ever? It’s not, but watch it anyway. It’s one of the most quotable films ever.
I THINK I WAS IN LOVE ONCE. REALLY? WHAT WAS HER NAME? I DON’T REMEMBER.
I don’t know why I did that, as you haven’t seen the film.
I APPRECIATE THAT REFERENCE.
LET US LAUGH TOGETHER AS FRIENDS.
@dc Hasn’t seen Anchorman.
I know.
And we still talk to him, why?
Self-loathing!
Don’t worry @dc. Anchorman is terrible and not funny.
Us against the world, Beardy. :'(
FUN HATTERS.
Boo hiss!
Actually tempted to change to another account name. I feel like a sham after trimming my beard. I’m not worthy of the title Beardy McMuttonchops.
May I suggest Hellscream? 😀 Don’t make me learn another new name. 😛
It’d be some variation on that.
NoBeardy McNothingchops
Baldy McLadyface.
Hah! I felt similarly ashamed on the weekend, having had a beard trim only the DAY BEFORE. Barber who usually eyeballs it and does a great job while buzzing my head, used a number 2 on the beard to see how it’d go. Answer: TOO SHORT. I lost my cheeks, man!
Starting with a 2? That’s asking for trouble!
Well, that’s how close I get my dome done, so it made a sort of sense… but yeah. TOO CLOSE!
Is mobile TAY/Kotaku not loading properly for anyone else? My phone isn’t loading any stylesheets… Works for every other website though 😛
It won’t load for me properly over 3g, but it loads fine when I turn wifi on. Weird :S
On the plus side… It now loads incredibly smoothly haha
@dc
THE ARSONIST HAS ODDLY SHAPED FEET.
@dc
THE HUMAN TORCH WAS DENIED A BANK LOAN TODAY.
@dc
GREAT ODIN’S RAVEN.
@dc
You’ve got a dirty, whorish mouth.
@dc
BY THE BEARD OF ZEUS.
It would seem I can post two links without moderation for some reason.
Can I do three?
One.
Two.
Three.
\o/
How far can you push it?
After seeing you TAY so much yesterday, I assume you’re always in a theme park queue when you post now. 😀
How do you do the magic words-as-links thing anyway?
Here
Test .
This seems like a lot of effort.
I’ve got my phone set up so I type ahr and it autocorrects to (ahref=)(/a). Just paste in the link and type what I want.
Gonna find my baby, gonna hold her tight, gonna grab some afternoon delight.
@dc
I didn’t know what that song was about for ages :/
The Maeby/Michael and George Michael/Lindsay version in Arrested Development can’t be beat! 😀
Wow, that’s a mouthful. I tried googling it but couldn’t get it up. Looks like it can’t be beat.
Gonna use, oil-based paint, ‘cos the wood is piiiine!
@dc is in a glass cage of emotion!
@dc
You ate a whole wheel of cheese? And you pooped in the refrigerator?
Heck, I’m not even mad. That’s amazing.
I’m kind of a big deal. People know me.
I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.
I love you.
@dc
I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.
Just got the go-ahead to have a two-day week next week. Coming into work on Monday/Tuesday, but then I get a 5 day weekend 😀 Awwwwww yiss!
ALL THE EDITING! Also probably gonna hang out with that Eyelandter who’s bumming around SE QLD at some point.
@dc
Sixty percent of the time, it works every time.
@dc
there were horses and a man on fire and I killed a guy with a trident.
She was Brazilian, or Chinese, or something weird. I met her in the bathroom of a K-Mart and we made out for hours. Then we parted ways, never to see each other again.
@dc
@dc Brian, I’m gonna be honest with you. That smells like pure gasoline.
@dc We need you. Hell, I need you. I’m a mess without you. I miss you so damn much! I miss being with you. I miss being *near* you. I miss your laugh!
Hahaha.
@dc I miss your scent.
@dc What have you done? TAY has now become a front for Anchorman jokes. You’ve created a monster!
Boy, that escalated quickly. I mean, that really got out of hand fast.
Hey, @DC. I’m riding a furry tractor.
All I know is that one day @dc and I are gonna to get married on top of a mountain, and there’s going to be flutes playing and trombones and flowers and garlands of fresh herbs. And we will dance till the sun rises. And then our children will form a family band. And we will tour the countryside and you won’t be invited.
@dc
NEWS TEAM, ASSEMBLE!
Well, at least the TAY discussion has picked up, I guess. @dc
Little Ham ‘n Eggs comin’ at ya, hold on people hope ya got your griddles
*jazz flute*
UHHHH
*more jazz flute*
That’s baby-making music people!
@dc
AAAAQUALUNG.
My God, what is that smell?
IT SMELLS LIKE BIGFOOT’S DICK.
@dc
That’s the smell of desire, m’ lady. @dc
@dc
IT SMELLS LIKE A USED DIAPER FILLED WITH INDIAN FOOD.
edit: curse my memory and it’s inaccurate quotes
Hey @dc, remember when I told you Anchorman’s not the funniest film ever? I lied.
Hey @greenius when is your DW8 due to arrive? I pretty much spent my whole weekend playing it, already slain 65 000 dudes. A dude even said the quote “Do not pursue Lu Bu” (favourite DW quote :D) , I pursued him, it ended badly. Later though they gimped him and let u unlock him. Been pretty fun so far, I like how characters actually feel different now instead of just a texture swap. I’m keen to try some Ambition mode co op,
It’s the only thing I learnt from DW.
‘LU BU HAS ENTERED THE FIELD.’
*runs away sobbing like a little girl*
ha, i was playing for ages wondering when he’d turn up, when the dude said the line I cheered and charged him, was like 2 maybe 3 hits and i was down,
I like DW every now and then, I’d never buy every one or it’d become way too repetative, this is the first one I’ve played this gen so i think it’d been long enough and I’m really enjoying it. Keen to do some co op, that’s why I’m hassling @greenius. I played a little on the weekend with @jimu and it was good fun, but he was at my place and doesn’t own it so i need a buddy to do online with 😀
A few people have played together already! *shakes fist*
@sernobulus @jordi @thecracks @hindenlagen @bluemaxima @bish
eh, I’ve had very little to do with all of them, i don’t think they’d be interested in playing with me, let me know if ur up for it when you get it, although I’d imagine you’d have co op buddies lined up.
Maybe I’ll buy it for my usual co op friend, i do that sometimes when i really wanna play co op and my mate can’t afford it.
*sob*
I should get it by the end of the week, shipped on Mon/Tues last week (I previously ordered Pikmin 3 from Ozgameshop and that came in 8 days). But I’m hoping to get it tomorrow!
I accidentally fought him and died and was mad that half hour hour of playtime leading up to that was for nothing so I quit!
Good times.
Hey guys! I finally have access to mobile TAY an-OH JESUS WHAT HAVE I STUMBLED INTO!?
*slowly backs out door*
Maybe the mobile thing might be the reason this TAY seems slower than usual! Case closed.
Objection!
That was… objectionable!
They’re taking about beads in the office.
Tempted to yell out “BEES!?”.
But I won’t.
@dc
It’s the most beautiful rainbow in the world! Do me on it!
@dc, what do you say if we go out on a date? Have some chicken, maybe some sex… You know, see what happens.
@dc
Brick, are you saying there’s a party in your pants, and that I’m invited?
Still haven’t made the call.
Still too scared to. Heart’s already picking up pace.
It’s easy. Be firm, but don’t be an ass. Make sure you don’t let them go ‘Sorry, can’t help you.’ Push a little.
I can’t do any of those things! ;_;
Like… it seriously couldn’t have happened at a worse time, in terms of confidence, self-esteem, etc. Been running low on it lately, and mulling over my inability to stand up and do this for myself just makes it even worse.
I just want to make Mum do it for me >_>
What are we talking about again?
WHAMMY!
I love the ladies, they rev my engines.
Ok. now that I’ve calmed down after storming out of work today, let’s get down to some business. It looks to be a common theme so far in replies, that the restaurant option might be the better way to go for Sunday.
So, next question is, can I get a holla from everyone who will be attending so I know how many to book for?
So far I believe we have @mythamphetamine, @dkzeitgeist, @strange, @beardymcmuttonchops, @transientmind @sughly @enduwolf and @jimu? Not 100% certain bout jimu, but I THINK he’s in?
So, @gutsoup, @lamboman007, @dc, and anyone else I’ve missed, if you can let me know somehow, that’d be great! If you’ve got me on twitter, and don’t have my new address, hit me up with a DM, and I’ll send you the deets! I think we’ll meet at my place first, and then go from there. I’m thinking 11:30am-12pm for booking? Anyone object to this?
Don’t forget me! I should be coming!
hmm I edited my post about a minute after posting, to include your handle, but it doesn’t seem to have worked. Oh well! Glad you checked in anyway 🙂
I’d like to lock in a lunch, Eddie. Hey, @dc, oh mister keeper-of-the-numbers: can you toss some contact details for coordination to my gmail account? (Is same username as here.)
I’ll send you an e-mail with my phone number!
Keen.
Does this mean I can finally give you Alan Wake? I I THINK IT DOES!
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Is Bertron coming?
She sure is!
Ace.
yes! he’s confirmed for 2 peeps!
i got my dates mixed up and have to go do something that i really would prefer not to on that day. Sorry 🙁 , was looking forward to meeting new people.
thanks for the headsup!
I’ll be there!
I’ll be there dood! And hopefully so will Mrs Beardy! Lock us in for 2!
awesome awesome!! Keep em comin guys! 🙂
I’m still in discussions with the wifey.
She seems interested but won’t give me a straight answer :-/
lawl. wimmin..all the feels bro
@dc I think it’s called yawgging. you just run
He killed Baxter! The man on the motorcycle. I threw a burrito at him.
THE MAN PUNTED BAXTER.
Milk was a bad choice.
Confession: I have not seen Anchorman
*Pretend this is a spoiler open tag*
For Years
*pretend this is a spoiler close tag*
Spoilertag pageget!
missing out!
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/08/treat-uni-classes-like-rock-concerts-to-boost-your-attendance/
Yep, probably not gonna help.
@Greenius
I see how it is. Start Torchlight 2 again when I can’t access TAY. YOU MONSTER!
MATE, YOU DON’T NEED TAY FOR TORCHLIGHT II
Synergies mod! 😀
The Legend Continues. This December.
@dc
This seems like a fitting way to finish I think.
The end.
@welbot I see how it is. Just leave me out. It’s ok. I get it.
awww did i? I thought I missed someone. but you were included in the first post at least!!
Ok, I’m chickening out. No time left to make the call, I’m going climbing.
I will get up early tomorrow morning though, and head to the Fair Trading centre at Parramatta and try talk to someone there. In-person will be slightly less hard than phone, I think.
You really should try and sort it out with Nintendo directly before going the whole fair trading route. Pretty sure that’d be the right thing to do. Fair trading/consumer affairs type stuff should only be for when all else has failed.
Yeah, they won’t do dick until you’ve exhausted all other options.
The bricking happened back at the end of June, I’ve already sent my 3DS down to Nintendo and they’ve assessed it coming out with either charging $35 for the assessment and sending it back to me as-is, or $150 for replacing it. No sign of budging on the matter and then I had a panic attack.
I’m more just looking to find out from some kind of “expert” whether I am actually in the right or not, so that I can properly stand my ground. Then if they still don’t want to budge, escalate things to the point where others have to intervene.
See this is why I don’t make Doctor’s appointments unless I’m out and can do it in person. Phonecalls are terribly difficult to persuade yourself to do, but if you’re already out and about it’s quite easy to just go in and take care of stuff.
This is why I still haven’t made another appointment despite (too much information stuff I won’t go into), suffice it to say I need to go back, but wish I could make my Mum call up and get me an appointment. 😛
Phones are scary things.
Don’t make me buy you things.
Don’t make us buy YOU things.
Hey, Strange and I had a bribery based arrangement/threat. 😛
Meh. I like it when people give me stuffs. 😛
If you’re so good at phonecalls, maybe you should call my doctor for me. I’m sure you have the number seeing as you’re the leader….
We’ve got a new leader, Strange! He’s got confidence too. Make @transientmind do it. 😛
Booking appointments seems like the kind of admin’y type of thing I get my assistant to do… ooh! There’s an idea! I’ll get my assistant to do it. 🙂
Strange can be your assistant! Which works out well!
Haha, totally this.
I need to book myself a physio appointment so I can find out if my finger is screwed/what I need to do to protect it, but… maybe later.
You should call em. Health things aren’t things to put off. I can put my Mum pants on and yell at you a bit if you want.
Got a 50% OFF Triple Town coupon for Steam if anyone wants it… Got it for crafting a badge and got no intention of using it, expires August 13.
Just witnessed the Canadian girl at the pie shop get told to “speak english or go back to your third world country”.
I don’t even know where to start with how amazing that is. Old people are always amazing.
If Canada is third world then civilisation is in a better place than I thought
Maritimes?
Maritimes.
I don’t even …
That’s kind of hilarious. It would be enraging, but if it’s an old person, it’s a little less enraging. Because for some of them, they’re pretty much set, there’s not much hope of changing them with new information. I worked at an aged care centre for a while and holy COW were there some crazy, crazy bigots in there.
It happened to Mrs Beardy a LOT when she was doing call centre work. “SPEAK ENGLISH YA FUCKIN CUNT!”
“MY COUNTRY WAS SPEAKING IT FOR YEARS BEFORE YOURS EVEN EXISTED!” – Mrs Beardy.
Buuuurn! 😀
Streetpass overhaul rolls out today in NA, meaning I get even more sweet sweet streetpasses
fyi, it’s the one where you get streetpasses just by passing anywhere you can connect to a nintendo zone.
OOH SURE, RUB YOUR FANCY PANTS “NINTENDO ZONES” IN OUR FACES BECAUSE WE DON’T HAVE THEM! YOU ARE GETTING US BACK FOR PAX AREN’T YOU?
OH YES NOB I SHALL LORD OVER YOU WITH ABOUT 10-20 MORE STEETPASSES PER MONTH, NOTHING COMPARED TO YOUR PALTRY 200+ PASSES YOU GUYS PROBABLY GOT
“200+”
Ha.
Cute.
I’M NOT RUBBING ANYONE’S PANTS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH
@strange @ontargett – Got my shirt today :-). Good quality, would’ve bought more but yeah, they shut down and it’s not really my kind of thing :P. I’ll probably never wear it :/ (next meat maybe!)
Also, I saw some posts in Page 5 but… what? @dc tags errywhere?
Care to explain @dc ? Please @dc ?
Leave me out of this.
I’m so confused o_o
Sorry @dc. I honestly had no idea it would come to this. Are we still Gattaca buddies?
You’re all on my list now, but Gattaca earns you some respect.
I feel like Adam Sandler when he makes amends to the guy he bullied in school.
@DC’s list
1. Gooky, actually known as @mrtaco.
2. Sydney Opera House (BUILDINGS SHOULD NOT LOOK LIKE SAILS)
3. Spencer Street Station in Melbourne (A BUILDING IN MELBOURNE! TWICE AS BAD)
4. Multiplayer
5. @Shane (HE KNOWS WHY)
6. Those who hate David Cage
7. FREEZE!!!
8. ANCHORMAN, ITS CAST AND TAY-BASED FANS
I’m double qualified!
I ATE A BIG RED CANDLE
Because @dc is so wise. He’s like a miniature Buddha, covered in hair.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I get it now.
Carry on (my wayward son).
I am home! Now I have to decipher the pattern.
That makes you sound like an FBI agent hunting a serial killer, or some sort of UFO nut.
If they could write patterns in plain English,
Yeah, that’d be great.
That’s my favourite post of the week. 😀
I think I have made a terrible mistake
Headphone shopping is haaarrrrdddd. I’ve been looking for months and still can’t find anything I want. Dick Smith have the UE 9000 headphones for half price ($250), but I dunno if I trust them to be as good and reasonably priced (on sale) as they were before Logitech did all the Ultimate Ears rebranding and that. They’ve done an everybody else and gone for “fashion statement”. My Triple Fi’s are amazing, but I really think I’d have to try the new line before trusting them.
If you want great wireless headphones…
http://www.jbhifi.com.au/portable/mp3-players/head-phones/sennheiser/sennheiser-rs220-wireless-headphones-sku-308608/
I had the 180’s and they were fantastic. These are way better than those.
Wayyyy out of my price range 😛
I’d like a wireless pair, but they’d have to allow me to plug in a 3.5mm cord as well. (Like the UE9000’s)
We tried some amazing ones at Pax. I cannot remember the name though so I guess it’s not much help =(
I’ve taken to buying headphones as cheap as I possibly can while still maintaining quality, because the fact of the matter is that it doesn’t matter if they were $20 or $200, they are going to break sometime inside the first year.
Wait. That’s earbuds, not headphones, like you might use with a mic at your PC. I like Creative’s stuff for that.
My earphones (UE Triple fi 10’s) have lasted over 2 years now, but I think I need to replace the cable since the left ear cuts out occasionally if you move the cord around at all. A genuine cable is around $50, which is more than most people spend on the actual bits that go in/on the ear!
I’m okay with spending hundreds providing it’s actually worth it. As far as value for money goes, I honestly don’t think you could beat my Creative Aurvana Live headphones, but I want something a bit more comfortable and I may as well get something better in the process!
One thing you should know about me, I take my audio very seriously 😛
Frunt!
You are! >:|
Hey Jimu!
Yorp.
JAR JAR BINKS KILLED JESUS
NFS:Most Wanted time, add me on PSN ColdCamV
Friend request sent 🙂
GreenCOD
Add me! (I’m lazy and probably won’t be using the PS3 any time soon)
Don’t forget about TAYnames!
It looks like XSEED is teasing a release of Senran Kagura. Probably the Vita release because they don’t do 3DS.
It seems they didn’t quite understand when people were telling them they wanted more tits
Still haven’t gotten around to playing with tits. Always meant to, but yeah. Just never quite got there.
I’ve dabbled but never gotten far.
EDIT: I genuinely didn’t get your double entendre the first time I read this. Sadly if I was to interpret it the other way it would be even sadder and as such I will not edit my statement.
I’ll leave it up to you to infer which one is which.
On a more serious note, apparently the Vita Senran Kagura is fairly reasonable, boob fetish aside. I’ve seen it described as a combination of Dynasty Warriors and Power Stone and that sounds like a winning combo.
The Toads in Luigi’s Mansion 2 are SO cute. Oh my god. Best character.
Pretty great game too! The only thing I don’t like is that you can’t save/quit during a mission. Every portable game should have save-anywhere I think.
Or at least a quick save 😛
Checkpoints are non-existent too and there’s no second chance unless you find the bone thingy :(. Would hate to die right at the end of a long level…
Hit the Home button, close the lid. Every game has quick-save!
That’s true 😛
But I mean in general, not just 3DS games!
That’s not a save, that’s a suspended state and it’s different. A proper quick save you could turn the game off (or have your battery run out 🙁 ) and still pick up where you left off.
The game’s lack of a good checkpointing system is a far bigger issue though. It absolutely ruined the game for me when I lost half an hour’s progress due to a boss fight where I couldn’t figure out what the game wanted me to do.
Yeah that’s exactly what happened with me 😛 Stupid boss ghosts!
So rocketman update
AHEM
1)I talked to my boss today to see if i can get some unpaid time off next year. I am going to go to europe from March to July at this stage.
2) Rocketlass broke up with me, she was pretty cool about it and what she said made sense. It had only really been 2 weeks so im not super heartbroken.
3) I have to travel 5 hours away this tomorrow for work. I am staying at a pub in the middle of nowhere.
4)DEPRESSION PART 2 the revenge of feelings, So Saturday i had a feeling of euphoria, like the happiest I have ever felt. This made me worried because i am aware of the roller coaster of emotions i have been on. On Sunday afternoon i crashed. HARD. Nothing new just anxiety attack in a petrol station. I know there is no cure for this shit but im starting to get annoyed at how fragile my mental state is.
I’m sorry to hear about your troubles, my friend.
That’s awesome news about your trip, though. Will give you something to look forward to! Promise of adventure and all that stuff.
The worst thing about anxiety attacks is that there’s absolutely nothing that can be done if I feel one coming on. I just have to remove myself from whatever stressful/uncomfortable situation I’m in and wait for it to pass. Brohugs, Rocketbuddy. Anxiety is the worst.
While there is no cure there are ways to cope.
Are you seeing someone about it? You better or I will fly up there and kick your arse.
…
Or I’ll pay Nob to do because money and flying and scared.
If it makes you feels better I used to have them at work, university, train stations, bus stops and shopping centres.
GAH! Why do I torture myself with cosplay? And why don’t I ever give myself enough time? And why do I keep making mistakes ;_;
Slowly getting there. But seriously, Fuck you Burda and your stupid patterns.
FUCK YOU BURDA!
I’ve always been tempted to give it a shot, but even if I could get over the ABSOLUTE PARALYSIS of choosing a character, it looks like so much work. And money.
Although maybe I’ll try playing Booker DeWitt at the next PAX or something. That couldn’t be too hard, right? …Right? . o O (Wrong, I know.)
Hm, Booker DeWitt… Vest, pants, shirt. You could probably buy these if you’re not confident with pattern reading. Otherwise stick to anything that says easy.
See, in my mind, all the embroidery has to be right. And I’d probably need a wig to get the hair right – when long, mine isn’t thick enough, and there’s no way I’d tolerate growing it that long anyway, just to colour it and put product in it.
Pants, shirt, boots should be pretty easy. Vest always looks pretty felt’y on the pics I’ve seen. Would probably go a custom either beaten-to-shit suede jobby, or – in some pics – it looks almost like leather on some sides, which would involve some very creative op-shopping and sewing. Either way, the embroidery’s pretty distinctive. Ammo pouches, fairly easy, though that bandolier type is one I haven’t seen real commonly. Could possibly need to stitch up a custom leather one from scraps. Right colour scrap of blue, tied in that distinctive way to bandage the right hand, some brown/red food dye should do a convincing enough job.
Don’t really feel the need for a firearm or skyhook prop, but they’re available if required. Any steampunk-themed shotgun would likely do the job.
And to complete the job, would need to blast myself with a combination of dirt and grease, maybe roll around a bit to get good and rumpled. All the Booker DeWitt cosplayers I’ve seen look too damn clean and unruffled. I’d wanna angle for something closer to the box art. Given that forearms are on display, a couple months workout focusing on that.
The beard… the beard would have to go. 🙁
Yeah. that is the hard part.
You can get the embroidery done at an Embroidery place or else do what I do. I use fabric paint. Until I can actually afford an okay embroidery machine that allows me to do my own stuff rather then the pre-determined crap, I use fabric paint or else print screening.
I also try to get details as close to the person I am cosplaying.
Don’t forget Gold Coast BDO tickets are on sale tomorrow. Just a reminder, whether you end up going or not. (cc. @sughly, @rocketman, etc.) If a side show’s announced I’ll most likely end up selling these and going to that instead but either way… I will be seeing Arcade Fire.
http://www.bigdayout.com/gc/tickets/
Festival C!
I had my first listen of Ghost Brothers of Darkland County tonight. What a fantastic album. The sooper dooper delucks edition I picked up on Sunday came with a copy of the stage play, a CD version which is half musical/half radioplay, a CD with JUST the songs (without the radioplay stuff between) and a DVD which I’ve yet to watch.
Stephen King, John Mellencamp and T Bone Burnett. The blend of blues and roots and American gothic horror is strange and beautiful. My personal favourite so far is My Name Is Joe, which is told from the perspective of one of the main characters back when he was a child.
Obligatory ‘I’m not dead yet’ post.
Dynasty Warriors 8 is a pretty cool guy. Not that Lu Bu fellow, though.
My first ever parent-teacher interviews tomorrow – forced social contact… *buries head*
That is all.
I have heard it might be wisest not to pursue him.
That is correct. Because he will fuck your shit up. And that’s the politest way I can think of describing it.
Until you grind and grind and grind like a crazy person to get him back. Like a crazy person.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I have a gun,
Get in the van.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Most poems rhyme,
That one doesn’t.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Poems are hard
Bacon.
Roses are red,
Violets aren’t blue,
Violets are violet,
My life is a lie.
Roses are Red,
Violets are Blu,
Hats are pretty cool.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Lambo you’ve changed.
What happened to you?
The L gets dropped,
Swapped with an R.
Rambomann’s back
He’s gone too far.
Van full of hostages,
All taken away.
Where will they go?
How long will they stay?
They come to a stop,
Not a single sound.
Panic and fear set in,
Will they ever be found?
Footsteps approaching,
The end is near,
bom bom bom
What’s that they hear?
I’m the cat with
the bass and drum
going ’round
like bom bom bom
“Please make it stop!”
They begged him to no end.
“Fine” he said.
“Now it’s time for Hi Friend!”
hi friend hi friend
hi friend hi friend
hi friend hi friend
hi friend hi friend
Hahahahahaha I can’t upvote this comment enough :’D
Sure you can! You have another account 🙂
EDIT: Haha you actually bothered!
Greedy
Roses are red, violets are PURPLE. Or at the very least, ‘violet’ – it’s a colour, you know! And come to mention it, roses come in all sorts of damn colours, they are not just red! GRaaaaaaaah!
*spontaneous rage-fit on the carpet*
Everyone talking about Dynasty Warriors makes me want to pull out DW: Gundam 3 (Giant Robots are cooler than dead Chinese dudes) but I only own it for 360 🙁
Nope.
Chinese dudes are cooler.
I hope they put these hackable toilets in Watch Dogs 😛 http://www.neowin.net/news/luxury-toilet-allows-anyone-with-an-android-device-to-control-it
There’s something oddly satisfying about shaving one’s own head.
THIS IS A PAGE GET? YOU FRIGGEN KIDDING ME?
Originally typed “kissing” by mistake. Kind of wanted to leave it in.
Hey gook whats up
Not much, just talking to myself. You?
Yeah, same. Oh, and tripping the flood alarm apparently.
lol, @mrtaco , that looks like one of my threads 😛
I find that term offensive :'(
(not really)
Damn gooks, always makin’ trouble for me.
I want to shave my head again but it’s cold and shaving it will only make me colder
🙁
Do you even beard? Beard shaving is terrible.
Hahaha Asians with beards.
Good one Cracks!
Not even a goatee?
That’s all I could grow until my twenties
I can grow a mo, there’s some chin hairs but the rest is patchy 😛
Ehhh you’ve reminded me I should probably shave tonight
You grow that patchy beard like a real man(child).
I can grow a full beard thankyou very much 😛
You’re just jealous of my 3 glorious hairs.
I actually wish I couldn’t grow one because it annoys the shit out of me 😛
I’ll need to shave in the morning. Stupid employment…
I’ve tried it a couple of times. I found the growing to be more of a pain, particularly the first three and a half weeks.
Though the shaving part was sort of fun. It kind of came off in a layer, almost like shearing a sheep of its wool. Couldn’t throw it out over a table though. At least, not without it all separating and making a horrible mess everywhere.
I do both..followed by wearing a ski mask to keep my face warm till it gets used to the breeze.
That’s what the beanie’s for!
I bought a green beanie once but it fit my head weird so I never wore it.
THE END
That’s a terrible story. Rewrite it with a happy ending.
…and then Tacs finished Xenoblade and loved it
THE END
I bought a beanie while I was in Melbourne. It immediately added ‘shady’ points to my character sheet. Beard incompatibility combo, I think.
Oh and on behalf of @dc :
Did you do it over the sink, Max Payne style?
Part of it. Mostly over the bathtub though, it makes for a better catchment area.
Also I don’t know anything about anything Max Payne does other than slow down time and carry an uncomfortable look on his face.
Ah, that good old constipayneted look. All the head-shaving references are from MP3, of course, a game in which there is nary a constipated person to be found!
No constipation?
I hope they released it as a budget title.
I really resent the fact that this amazing girl I know lives about 3 hours drive away from me >:(
I met her earlier this year at a youth mini-camp at my church. However I’m horrible at guessing people’s ages and thought she was older than me at the time…I also thought her friend (who I met first) was about 16, but she turned out to be only 14…
Anyway, we started chatting over Facebook after that. Turns out we had a lot in common and she was heaps of fun to talk to. And she’s super competitive…we have a rather intense ongoing rivalry on Fitocracy…. I do long distance running and she does ‘proper’ workouts with weights and stuff. We’re pretty evenly matched though. I also bought her a copy of Ticket to Ride and we’ve been playing that a lot…we sort of have an intense rivalry with that too 😛 (We’re pretty equal on there too). Yes, this is the Mac owning friend I was talking about earlier.
When I was down at PAX, I bought a The Hobbit board game for her (because she’s a massive LoR fan), posted it to her with a handwritten letter (my handwriting isn’t as bad as I thought it was actually), which she got this week and absolutely loved (she didn’t have a clue I had gotten it for her :3).
Well, I ended up telling her today that I had a crush on her, which I managed to do without making things awkward \o/ Mind you, I also said I barely knew her enough to be anything other than a friend right now… But she told me she thoroughly enjoys my company and getting to know me too. 😀 Which brings me back to my first point. I wish I didn’t live so far away from her. I’d love to hang out with her more often. Only been able to do it once since I met her 🙁 I’ve started learning how to drive though, so once I’m a bit more experienced I’ll start driving down there for church every other week. Sure would be a good way to get the hours up 🙂
I enjoyed this heartwarming tale.
I didn’t.
(I did :’) )
The part of me that’s envious didn’t 😛
But it did.
Edit: *Envius
Ooooooooooooooh Lambo is the sexy older man 🙂
It’s always good to make new friends.
Distance is no obstacle if you’re willing to make it work. My wife and I were on literal opposite points on the globe for the first few years of our relationship, when we were both in High School. But we found ways to make it work. If you can survive the ups and downs of a long-distance relationship, you’re a couple who can survive anything.
Also, just noticed something funny. Same age difference as between me and my wife. But we met online 2 years younger – she was 12 and I was 14. We didn’t start the online dating thing until we were 16 and 14.
Apparently a 2 year age difference is rather common for couples. And you would’ve been 4 years younger when you met, I’m 18 and she’s 16. (it’s her friend who’s 14. I may not have been entirely clear there, but it was about midnight and I was tired when I wrote that :P)
Yeah, I met my wife when she was 18 and I was 20.
Oddly, there’s still a two year age gap between us. I would have thought time would bring us closer, but there you have it.
My wife’s birthday is the month after mine, so when we first started dating right after I turned 21 she was 18, then three weeks later she was 19.
2 years, 1 month ahead here. So for a month of the year she gets to feel younger with a ‘3 year gap’ between us.
2 years and 5 months for me, I was 20 when I met her and she was 18 then I had my birthday in may and so I was 21 dating an 18yr old
The percentage difference is getting smaller, though! 🙂
That’s weird. For me it seemed like a five year gap was super common in couples. My friend and her boyfriend, me and her sister, my parents… others I forget now since it was forever ago. Yay nostalgia.
…well that makes the 3hr drive seem less significant 😛 When I get faster broadband (hopefully by the end of this month) we’ll start chatting over Skype 🙂 My internet’s barely fast enough for even just voice chat these days :/
Well done buddy 🙂
Distance can mean nothing if you’re passionate enough about your relationship to make it happen. My girlfriend is currently living in Portugal (She lived in Greece and moved there to study), met her online and been in a long distance relationship with her for over 4 and a half years now. I got to meet her for the first time last year, and it was the only time that I remember in my life that I was really legitimately happy, because a girl like her is worth all the trouble. 🙂
I second this, the girl I’m married to we long distances it for a year before getting back together… Trust me, 3hours is nothing 😉
Try a full 24 hours including 2 flights and a several hour train ride (From Lisbon to Porto, where she lived) 🙂
yup exactly!
But so worth all the hassle!
I regret nothing that i have achieved,
I reckon the time spent apart has strengthened a lot of our relationship because only being online “Forced” us to talk… a lot… like all day… about everything… safe to say by the time we got back together we pretty much knew everything about each other and what to expect, so there’s been no “bad” surprises when moving in together or got married.
She almost tackled me to the ground when we met at the airport, and we cuddled every time we stopped walking, while holding hands while we were. She is adorable :). The way she looked into my eyes and smiled was just so soothing too, much better than over a webcam.
Did it feel a lot different to you? Being in the same room as her for the first time after so long of talking to each other through a computer screen? It was a bit weird for me, being not so social, I’m not even used to having company at my place so it was really hard to break out of the habit while I was there.
Yeah we were a bit quiet at first, but it didn’t take long to warm up to each other…
Being over webcam was hard though, hardest thing i ever had to do… when i saw a chance to come back to australia to be with her i didn’t have to consider it for long before i made my decision
For us it wasn’t easy, especially when she had tons of studying she needed to do so most of the time I didn’t want to distract her. She even said to me once I seem “cold” in person, which wasn’t good to hear :(. I kinda never noticed myself. The last few days of me being there were the worst feeling though, she was holding back tears so hard and kept pleading with me not to go, and I was so sad the whole way back and even for a few weeks after getting home, hence why the write-up took so long to make. 🙁
Young love and board games. I can get behind this.
Three hours really isn’t that big of a problem. Freya and I made things work while living in different states and having to work around her work schedule to be able to see each other. Definitely worth giving it a shot, if only to play more board games.
Ninty Direct tomorrow! 12am I think?
@powalen
Unless it’s an english-language localised Monster Hunter 4 announce, I’m not interested.
What if it’s Bravely Default: Flying Fairy?
Huh? HUH!!!???
Hope they talk about the next WiiU/3DS update!
I’ll have to watch it on the weekend though D:
You’ve changed.
Waking up at 6am, no more Directs :'(
early morning TAY comment before I turn the computer off I left on all night and go to the works…the meat works, I will be your Fillet O’ Fish 😉
Oh Jimu.
I know you wanna do it. You know I wanna do it too. Out here on the dancefloor! And we can make sandwiches!
Arcade Fire ticket day!
…
And the rest of BDO too… I suppose. 😛
Good luck man. I hope you get one 🙂
Me too, man. Enthusiastic, but BDO kind of frightens me too so I’ll be okay if I can’t as well. 😀 (I really want to see Arcade Fire though. Sideshow. SIDE SHOW. SIIIIIIDE SHOW.)
There’s usually enough room around the headliners on the main stage to not feel cramped. You can either get right up in the thick of the pit or hang back. Not sure what the venue is like for BDO, but Soundwave always has seats overlooking the main stage and heaps of people mulling about between stages.
They go on sale in about 10 minutes! They let you fill out your details now though.
(cc. @sughly, @rocketman, etc.)
Good luck, man! Hope it goes well.
Got ticket. WOOOO!
BDO?
They should rename it BO after all the sweating!
#Fantastic
#Dantastic
It’s like you don’t even try anymore.
So tired, I blame @tech_knight and @greenius for making me play Torchlight 2 until 1:00am
Sorryius!
How dare you get me re interested in a game that I am having fun in!
Monsterius. =P
Reach 31 so we can playyyy
I’m level 13! That’s close enough right? I have a 3 and a 1 in my level.
If you weren’t prepared to lose sleep, you never should’ve been a gamer! 😛
I fired it back up last night too, got to level 37 and finished Act III. I’d put 20 odd hours into it previously, but got distracted. Brilliant game. Going to finish my vanilla playthrough, then probably start a new game with Synergies and a Necromancer or something.
We should play!
I just reached Act III but I’m only level 31 or so which is like 5-8 levels underlevelled so I’m struggling :P. The level difference keeps increasing :/
How many can you have in a party at once for multi? Any idea? Maybe we could do a highest-difficulty run with all of us, as hilarity ensues 😛
4 I think? But I saw a mod that allows 8.
I kinda wanna do what @ynefel is doing and beat the main game first then derp around with mods. I don’t tihnk there’s any way to play with mods using older characters :'(
I’m doing the same, and I think I’m getting close to the end with my lvl 52 outlander, not sure though
Whoa! I’ve got a long way to go then 🙂
I thought you had an Engineer? Robots and whatnot 😛
I did, but Elite mode was proving to be too difficult from level 1, rather than playing the same thing again from the start I decided to try a new class.
I’m using an engineer with lots of bots on the modded one though, and with the mod my pet is also Claptrap, so even more robots! 🙂
I stayed up playing Divinity: Dragon Commander because it only came out last night. Napped for a few hours while I waited for it to install, then was up until… well. Until I went to work.
I haven’t done that since Endless Space came out.
So cooking frozen sausage rolls in a microwave turned out to be less than optimal.
Who knew?
Haha! Microwave destroys all foods and makes them soggy. D:
Edible?
Still counts.
Less crumbs!
Only just.
The pastie not so much.
Protip: nuke in the microwave then throw in the oven for 5 mins or so to dry them back out.
D.C.’ll be seeing Arcade Fire one way or another. WOOOOOOOOOO! 😀
So, uh, what’s new with you guys? Stuff?
Not much. A friend was all “ARCADE FIRE WOOO!” and I was all “MORE LIKE AR-GAY-DE FIRE AMIRITE?” and he was all “YOU’RE ON THE LIST!”
You’re on the list!
I like to imagine that @dc has list and then he has a book that just has @freeze with millions of exclamation marks.
Also…
Friend? :’)
😀
Doofus.
Edit: Just in case it’s not clear already, I consider @dc to be a friend, as I do most of you. Not sure that’s been made entirely clear with all the distracting socialising going on around here! 😛
Yeah, I consider you a friend too. Except there’s always that little doubt at the back of my head that you’ll hate me when we meet in person, but right now it’s all good. Doesn’t keep me awake at night or any thing. *takes sleeping pill* 😛
Ah, see, your problem is that you’re operating from a default assumption of success and imagining failure. You need to assume failure, and regard anything other than complete vilification a successful day 😛
Gotta beat that optimism out of you! 😛
This D.C./Shane meet is going to be all kinds of awkward. 😀
Hahaha, that’s the spirit! 😀
I’m still worrying about the impression I made on Transientmind actually. D:
…unless you mean you’re worried you left too good of an impression!
If it’s at Supanova, maybe I’ll remember to buy a ticket in time and be there as well!
(Also, stop worrying about impressions! I had fun meeting everyone. I’m just not naturally effervescent, and have been accused of wearing SeriousFace all the time, so it’s probably hard to tell.)
ZING!
…
That sounds like you are going to murder someone and steal their tickets.
That’s crazy talk.
…
*shifty eyes*
Atleast wait until after the @welbot meat.
Man, that’s looking like it’s going to be the biggest group at a Brisbane gathering for a while! Which is weird for Sunday lunch time dealy. Haha!
@welbot is the true hero of meats
what can I say. I am the granddaddy of Brisbane meats! Perhaps my first 2 big meats were just that awesome ya’ll can’t resist! :p
Or the first one I hosted at least! Still wish I could have it at that house though. So much better than where I am now. At least the place I’m in now is better than the place I was in for the pizza meat though!
Dear Humble Bundle,
Why are you such a dick?
You know i’m trying not to spend any money at the moment, so you go ahead and add 3 cool games to your bundle.
You’re a real unit, you know that, yes?
On the other side… It could all be mine for as little as $5us….
Waiting for my lunch break.. you may now win – VILE TEMPTRESS!!!!
Sincerely,
2 Loopz
HI EVERYONE?!
How are we all???
NEW NEWS: Looks like there is going to be an all new 40k game released next month that will be MUCH more accessible to everyone. It’s called Inquisition and you’ll only need 5-10 models to play!!!
PREPARE THY WALLETS!
Interesting on the W40K news, I might take it on if I only need 10 models max to play 🙂 I’ll look more into it later today hopefully
Speaking of 40K. We need Dawn of War 3 to be a thing. Apparently Relic confirmed it was a thing before THQ went the Hindenburg – I hope it still is.
I’m still waiting for my Dawn of War Planetside 2 crossover to become a reality one day, then I’d never play anything else again :P.
If Dawn of War 3 is coming, I hope they go a bit back to base building from Dawn of War 1, rather than squad management only like 2 did (Which was alright but you never had to worry about resource management that much for buildings, research, etc. I mean seriously, why not both? 🙂
I agree. DoW2 evoked a massive ‘WHAT THE FUCKING SHIT IS THIS?!?!?’ from me at first, but it did grow on me over time. Although I sorely missed base building – Dawn of War was far superior in several ways. I found vanilla DoW2 to be a little bland, but Chaos Rising and Retribution were fantastic.
I hope they can keep the good parts of Dawn of War 2, but just bring back the base building from Dawn of War.
I understood not needing base building in DoW2’s campaign, as back in DoW1 you were just building the same things over and over again then moving out with mega army, only to lose mega army again in the next mission (Seriously we were chasing Chaos and YOU ALL LEFT ME ALONE WITH SERVITORS AGAIN?! WHY?). Plus I think it gave it a more intense experience. You only had a very finite number of space marines, use them well. In Multi though, it was all just one HQ building that had everything…
Just take SPAYCE MAUREEN and plonk it down in a planetside framework. You already have seize ground concept for poccing. Damn you techie, now I really want this game
These thoughts came after SPAYCE MAUREEEN! I blame that game being too good 🙂
I had thought that it would be cool as a large world multiplayer battlefield came but was thinking fixed matches more like a chivalry, TF2 or CoD kinda deal. Play a map and somebody wins, restart on new area.
I hadn’t linked it in with planetside 2 style game.
Well the scale of Planetside 2 would allow for more than 2 sides to fight over a whole world, hell even a sector. Wouldn’t you love to see Space Marines vs Chaos vs Orks vs Eldar vs Tyranids vs Tau vs Necrons vs Dark Eldar, in a third person setting with vehicles you can purchase and use (Or in Tyranids case, evolve into)? 🙂
5-10 models is still 5-10 models too much for me because they goddamn expensive!
No more expensive than gaming.
I game on a budget, tell me where you get your models from and ill suss it
Is this Inquisition game just going to be official Inq28?
apparently, from the rumors, they have taken inspiration from this in conjunction with other games.
It will have both dice and cards.
All this Arcade Fire talk is making my man-parts itchy.
Crabs.
Haha! Don’t worry, man. Now I’ve got tickets I’ll stop talking about it so much. Atleast until the new album arrives in October. Also, can’t be any more annoying than Anchorman page five. >:|
Now, now – don’t be like that. It was a bit of fun.
If any thing, it sured up my resolve that I’m never going to watch that movie. 😛
You don’t even need to now! You’ve read pretty much the whole movie.
Now all he needs is two tickets to the gun show.
I love scotch. Scotchy scotch scotch. Here it goes down, down into my belly.
When proper retail games from one region get digital-only releases on 3DS I am saddened. Because buying US digital-only stuff is an absolute pain in the ass, plus Ninendo’s back-end is from 1997.
Hur hur.
‘Back-end.’
They have a pretty big one given what titanic assholes they are.
Zing!
Seriously though, I still don’t know why Nintendo doesn’t have a proper account system. I’ve mentioned it many times over, but it still blows me away how such a big company can be so far behind the times.
Good old stubborn ‘We’re doing it our way despite how obviously retarded it is, fuck you guys’ Nintendo.
Supposedly they’re going to do something about that before the end of the year. I’ll believe it when I see it.
Good news! It’d be awesome if they do. I’d so spend a ton more money on Nintendo’s online services if they did. Hopefully they’ll provide a way to migrate purchases to a new account system. Although they’d have to, surely.
It’s Nintendo we’re talking about. They probably won’t 😛
NO, BADIUS. OPTIMISM IS KEY.
Speak of the devil, guess what’s rumoured for tonight’s Nintendo Direct?
Incidentally, I bought TitS and Dragon’s Crown last night. I blame you.
Want to make a joke about paying for boobs… but I’m classier than that.
Classhole.
Dragon’s Crown AND Tits? Kinda redundant, amirite?
#lol #comedy #wizard
PS3? Vita?
I want to get Dragon’s Crown on PS3 but everyone seems to go Vita and I need buddies :/
(jerks)
Yeah, Vita. Don’t really use my PS3 at all.
N’aww 🙁
I got it on both! We can be PS3 buddies.
I won’t be buying it for a while.
My copy’s probably at least a week away and I won’t get to it until I’ve finished Xillia and I’ll be juggling FFXIV too, so by the time I get to it you might have it.
I’ve got Pikmin 3, DW8 and Xillia :P. Then Rayman, KH and GTA
Which game? Ace Attorney?
I’m going to assume it’s Ninja Titties since he posted about it before 😛
Senran Kagura.
They decided to release the 3DS version (generally considered to be not very good) instead of the Vita version (which is apparently vastly superior). And they’re doing it digital-only, so effectively threw all my hype under a bus because I won’t be able to buy it. 🙁 Setting aside my issues with Nintendo’s shitty shitty shitty eStore and the way they tie everything to your console (which means if my US system goes kaput or gets stolen I’m completely SOL because I don’t live there) just getting credit for digital purchases is an enormous pain and extremely expensive because Nintendo only make $20 vouchers and most of the games are $30 or $50.
XSeed’s reasoning for going with it is that the backstory for some of the characters is only in the 3DS game so they didn’t want to release the Vita game first. Seems like a shitty excuse to me, I mean how many people own both a 3DS and a Vita that are going to buy a niche game? Especially if you release the shit one first.
Personally I really hate the 3DS screen, even the XL. I can’t see it properly and it gives me eyestrain and vertigo to play with it for more than about 45 minutes. If it comes out in Europe I might buy it though. Otherwise going to pass. And that saddens me so much.
P.S. not buying Ace Attorney either, because digital.
So after all the fun* of reading the pattern last night. I ended up skipping dinner. Man I am so hungry now.
*not fun
When are they making a movie version of The Pattern starting Jason Statham?
Edit: now I think on it you spent all night staring at the pattern so it would probably star Ryan Gosling.
Is Jason Statham playing Scree? Because I’d watch that.
My brain just did all the wrong things with that sentence.
The Stath is on top..
Form.
It’s times like these I wish I knew how to photoshop.
It was more like, trying to decipher the pattern. They could make things easier by using plain language.
My Nan gave me a bunch of old Burda magazines. The instructions are all in German. D:
Well, I feel a bit better now.
I TOLD YOU TO EAT SOMETHING LAST NIGHT!
>=(
I didn’t. I’m sorry Nob. We didn’t really have anything in the house
Should have had cereal, it’s better then nothing!
Something I do every now and then is pick up an eight dollar tray of like… a bajillion thin BBQ sausages from coles. I section them off into fours, then wrap them up in freezer paper and alfoil, so that any given day or night if I’ve completely forgotten to plan a meal or re-stock the pantry, there’s always sausages.
When all else fails, have pancakes. You can’t go wrong there 🙂
Freedom Fighters was such an excellent game. I loved the cause and effect of it, destroying a helipad in one area to make another area easier. Makes me sad there’s no sequel. Squad commands were awesome too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Fighters_(video_game)
Answer your phone, Deeceeeeeee!
That’s odd. D: Phone is sitting right in front of me and I didn’t hear it. Old man DC.
RESPONDED. But I feel like a jerk now based on that response. D:
Doofus. 😛
Also the Freedom Fighters soundtrack was frickin’ awesome.
Jesper Kyd’s the John Williams of games! 😀
So I’m having trouble with sorting this top 25 film list thingo, it just goes up and down. I changed my mind and have now picked my TWO favourite films! Drum roll…
Gattaca! Takes first place as my favourite film.
Leon: The Professional! My favourite action film takes second place.
Yes, there were a couple of oldies up for consideration, namely Casablanca and Seven Samurai but I rewatched Gattaca and The Professional again this week (and a few others) and that helped me cement my decision. So in summary, those are pretty much my top four.
You should watch Intouchables!
Untouchables was average. Will look into Intouchables.
Completely different.
Intouchables is an amazing. beautiful and touching story that’s based on a real one and it’s all done very well. It’s absolutely hilarious as well and one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen.
Pulp Fiction.
Makes my top 25.
Good.
I don’t think I could do a top 25, I’d end up forgetting things.
Godfather part 2.
Definitely. Better than the first IMO. But yeah, Godfather 1 as best Empire film of all time? I never understood that.
Dr Strangelove.
One I have not seen.
Top movie thoughts, going for four:
-Akira and Aliens vie for my top spot, and have done for many years.
-Fight Club still blows me away. Amazing performances from Norton, and especially Pitt. It’s also shot amazingly well. The only movie I can recall I’ve ever had to truly watch twice to fully understand.
-Weirdly enough (only because it’s a recent film), Inglourious Basterds makes my top list. Christoph Waltz and Brad Pitt are fantastic. I’ve watched it many times and it hasn’t gotten old yet.
Man, Christoph Waltz as Hans Landa is one of my favourite performances ever. I just can’t imagine anyone else playing that role as well as he did.
I wouldn’t mind seeing Christoph play the villain in the next Bond film actually.
I have to restrain from gushing. The guy’s a genius. Hans Landa was fucking terrifying but so amazingly cool at the same time. His interrogation of Monsieur LaPadite at the beginning of the film is just masterful.
EDIT: YES to the Bond idea. Javier Bardem was also an amazing choice for Skyfall.
Woah, my dad was over last night and I showed him the start to that film as he’s been meaning to see the film for a while. That’s one fucking weird coincidence. Christoph Waltz is an acting genius who knows three languages and was pretty much the driving force behind Django Unchained.
He’s brilliant in Django as well. Leonardo DiCaprio gets a special mention for Calvin Candie. It’s amazing how I could never take Leo seriously in his younger heart throb Titanic/Romeo and juliet days, but he’s actually a pretty decent actor.
Leo’s been on a roll in the last few years. If it weren’t for Christoph Waltz he’d have an Oscar for his performance in Django.
I mean, a lot of credit for that has to go to Tarantino too, the guy is a master at writing dialog. But man, what a scene to make your first appearance in a major film.
You need a list like my ex-wife.
She never went up and down.
The only thing that went up and down was her weight!
https://s3.amazonaws.com/webassets.ticketmob.com/LS/images/comedians/Rodney-Dangerfield.jpg
What list thingy?
No movie list is complete without True Lies.
35 TALKS RANDOM SHIT FOR A BIT (In dot-point form, no less!):
– Hi guys. How’s stuff?
– I gots me a 3ds recently. its pretty rad. Ocarina of Time is still one of the best games ever. Monster Hunter is a pretty cool thing too. Also, Fire Emblem Awakening. I dig that. What other games do I need to get?
– Edit #2 : MAJORA’S MASK 3D PLEASE. NOW. THANK YOU, NINTENDO.
– was up past my bedtime last night scribbling down ideas for a new game mechanic. Bearing in mind, i was half asleep when I did this, here’s what I’ve got:
A game sorta like Dark Souls. You level up & stuff, but when your character dies, they respawn back at their checkpoint / bonfire / ice cream stand / whatever, but as the enemy who killed them. you gain their stats, gear, skills & lose all your own.
your original body is out there in place of the guy that killed you. if you find & defeat them, you can either reclaim your body, or sacrifice it for cash.
the idea being that each enemy can only level up past their base level to a certain point, the little guys, quite a bit past their base level, where as the bigger guys cant level up at all.
so to progress, you’ve gotta die. but strategically… you’ve gotta decide how and when & by what you’re gonna bite it. do you let a big guy kill you to get past a difficult spot & not be able to level up after it, or do you let a mid-range guy get you so the next part is a bit more difficult, but after leveling up a bit, you’ll have an easier time in the long run…?
– I have nothing else interesting to add.
Edit: So them spoiler tags, eh?
Edit #3 : 3DS code for anyone who cares. https://twitter.com/number30five/status/363218395501559808/photo/1
Luigi’s Mansion 2. Fun. Not Animal Crossing. Now that the hype has died off it’s really quite average.
Animal crossing never really appealed to me to be honest. But I’ll look into LM2. cheers.
Animal Crossing is the type of game to play for a few minutes here and there. It actual “gameplay” part of it is really barebones but it’s still fun if you’ve got the time.
I knew I was only going to play it for a bit before giving up but I don’t regret anything 🙂
+1 to WeeGees. 3D Land is good too. MK7 is my favourite Mario Kart but it’s still the same old formula, nothing special.
I enjoyed Kid Icarus and Theatrhythm but they’re not for everyone. RE:R is good too but that’s on other stuff now so I probably wouldn’t bother.
You might also want to look into some eShop stuff like Pushmo/Pullblox, Picross, and some of those Level-5 Guild-01 games. There’s also Virtual Console stuff like the GB Zelda’s which are amazeballs.
I saw Oracle of Ages/Seasons on the eShop! Man, I spent so much time playing those games on my GBC. So good.
I never actually played them, but will grab them at some stage. They seem pretty highly regarded.
Seasons is more action based whereas Ages is more puzzles.
Just get Crimson Shroud, the other Guild-01 games aren’t worth half what Nintendo’s charging for them.
Oh! Well you already own my current GOTY Fire Emblem, so… Animal Crossing! And PullBlox.
EDIT: Well I for one am still enjoying Animal Crossing every day! 😀
Spoiler tags ?
yeah…. I tried spoilering the game idea to make it less wall-o-texty, but it’s not working apparently…
Are you secretly Molydeux?
no. but I like things I havent seen before & I aint gonna get that from EA.
If you like the “Mario & Luigi” / “Paper Mario” RPG’s then get Mario & Luigi: Dream Team.
If you like the “Mario & Luigi” / “Paper Mario” RPG’s then don’t get Paper Mario Sticker Star 😛
3DS recommendation:
Resident Evil Revelations – can’t recommend it enough. Great game full stop, and channels older Resident Evil games perfectly. Circle Pad Pro recommended.
thanks man. I’ll look into it when / if i get a Circle Pad Pro.
No 3D Majora. Ever >:[
Sup?
Kung Fu’d with any triads yet? Hope Hong Kong is treating you well?
None yet, but soon…
Ah! Still in the training/origin story part of your adventure!
Bloody tutorial levels 😛
There need to be better tutorials. I’m pretty sure the God of War tutorial was like… slaying a million undead pirates on a boat that was being attacked by a hydra, followed by killing the hydra, followed by a threesome as an afterthought.
That’s MY kinda tutorial.
Sup dog. I mean pup.
Nihao.
POWALEN REVIEWS… Streetpass Games!
Man these games are so much better than the standard Streetpass Quest. I think it’s definitely worth the price if you are getting streetpasses semi-regularly.
StreetPass Squad
This one is probably my favourite of the bunch. It’s a side-scrolling shoot-em-up where the people you streetpass are used as both your weapons and your hit points (get hit, lose a weapon, lose a life). Weapon type depends on the Mii’s shirt colour and level (how many times you’ve passed each other). I haven’t got very far because I keep replaying the first level due to the amazing music 😛
StreetPass Garden
A nice relaxing game! It’s kinda like Animal Crossing in a way. You are a gardener and the aim is to grow different types of plants. Streetpassed people come by your house to water your currently-growing plant and show you one of theirs. If the flowers are compatible they can pollinate each other to create cross-breeds and such. Once your plant is grown you can harvest seeds and grow something new. Oddly fun!
StreetPass Battle
Probably my least favourite, but still not bad. It’s esentially a game of rock-paper-scissors. You run a kingdom with an army, streetpassed people can add troops to your army or challenge you to battle. The aim is to conquer all the countries by battling them. Three unit types, rock-paper-scissors mechanics, etc. Pretty simple.
StreetPass Mansion
Luigi’s Mansion rip-off! …Not really. But the theme is similar. It’s kinda like a dungeon crawler where you create your own dungeon. Streetpassed people give you tetris-block-like corridors and you piece them together to try and find the stairs to the next level. Not bad, not amazing. There’s some battle mechanics in here too similar to Streetpass Quest but in real-time.
AND THAT’S IT. I’m really enjoying them. Apparently the games have been pretty profitable too so hopefully we’ll see some updates or new games in the future!
Oh and the best thing is that you can play all five games (including the standard Streetpass Quest) with a single group of Streetpasses (the Miis don’t get dismissed after you play one of the games).
My day so far:
DING!
I got an email! *anticipatory :D*
….
Go fuck yourself Groupon.
Maybe they were offering ‘one free entry to the Police Academy’ or the Police Academy movies on Blu-Ray!
Are you sure that’s not an undercover email?
DAY GETS BETTER
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/a-dark-souls-veteran-breaks-down-whats-new-in-dark-souls-ii/
I’m at work and can’t watch the video /o\
WHY MUST YOU TORTURE ME SO?
Whoops. The thing about your day getting better… that was a false alarm. SORRY.
Nobs posted the link below, so it would have gotten worse for you anyway…
Anyone got any ideas for a nice fancy restaurant in sydney? I got my Tax return and want to take Anton out for dinner, because I dont have the chance to often. Anyone know of any fancy restaurants? He Eats everything, I eat mostly everything.
Mickey D’s!
Gastro Park in the Cross is pretty cool. Might not have a dinner-for-two atmosphere though.
Thanks man
if ever I’m trying to impress someone, I tend to use this site. http://www.eatability.com.au/au/sydney/
Thanks for the tip, I find it a bit hard to discern what’s actually good or not though, Hence why I ask people, That and I’m feeling lazy today. 🙂
So many. So, so many. And you’ve given me such a narrow cuisine to work with.. 😛
There are plenty of places that people will always recommend: Billy Kwong’s, Spice Temple, Spitfire, Aqua, etc..
I’m actually going to suggest Libertine; it’s French-Vietnamese cuisine and it’s pretty amazing.
+1 for Spice Temple. I had one dish there called “Tingling” something or other. It’s so spicy it makes your lips numb.
Thanks Man, That helps alot 🙂
Glass is excellent but expensive. ARIA is alright but extremely pricey because of the location (overlooking the harbour/opera house). Flying Fish in Pyrmont is great as long as you’re ok with seafood (and even if you’re not, just get the yellowfin tuna because oh my god). Chinta Ria (aka Temple of Love) is a Malaysian place at the more affordable end of the spectrum. Great location on Cockle Bay wharf and nice casual atmosphere. It’s one of those places where you share rather than ordering your own meal but 3 plates should be more than enough for two people, depending on whether you explore the entrees.
Ooh The malaysian place sounds awesome, Thankies 🙂
Charter a private jet and fly him to Brisbane to eat at Lure or Restaurant Two. THAT’LL impress him!
Sorry but they is no way I can do this comment without sound like a fan-boy so here we go:
ERMIGAHD DARK SOULS 2 LOOKS SO FREAKING AMAZING! SO GOOD, IT LOOKS LIKE DARK SOULS BUT ON SUPER STERIOIDS OF AWESOMENESS WITH NO SHRINKAGE IN THE UNMENTIONABLES!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/a-dark-souls-veteran-breaks-down-whats-new-in-dark-souls-ii/
*gush*
Sploosh
Is it Saturday yet?
Why don’t we ask @saturday?
@saturday where are you?
Hi @Saturday!
Edit: that’s meant to be MY joke, you clever jerks 😛
Hi @saturday! Have you seen Anchorman?
Wow, this burrito is delicious, but it is filling.
Scotchy scotch scotch.
DAMN IT
NOBBENNYREDSHANEwait no that’s right SHANEDid Tales of Xillia break street? I got a text from EB just now saying it’s out and I can come pick up my copy (I opted for in-store because whenever I’ve purchased online through them it comes 2-3 days late). Am I the only one that preordered?
It’s on the EB twitter
Looks like it has, I’ll probably take a look at my lunch break.
Fuck. I’m already at work and my local store isn’t open late on Wednesday nights so I won’t be able to get it until tomorrow 🙁
*twitch*
Ding! Email!
…
You’re a bad man @shane.
I was trying to make you feel better, man, better! /o\
I do appreciate how frustrating it is to wait for progress on an important professional development, though. Here are all my coping strategies: http://shanewsmith.com/blog/2011/07/what-to-do-after/
Edit: Disclaimer: these are all ineffective strategies.
Hahaha I was considering this but figured I wouldn’t be that much of a jerk
Someone had to step up.
“London Calling” is one of the greatest albums of all time.
Dear @transientmind
Thought you might like to know that, at least in part due to the various (letter-tracing) apps we’ve installed for our 3 y.o on her new iPad (for the benefit of TAY, said hardware was provided by this note’s addressee), she can now write her name. Also, her mood on the whole is much better.
Also, yesterday she wrote the word “Daddy” – it was almost the greatest thing ever.
Thanks again, man. Congrats on your rise to the throne of BrisTAYgas.
You should put Memrise on there
Then she’ll be able to write her name in Russian.
Learning languages while you’re young is probably the best time. What with, y’know… learning your native language for the first time already, they’re kind of in the groove for it.
It’s true- children learn languages differently to adults
When I have kids I’m gonna encourage them to be bilingual
That’s awesome man. 🙂 I love when old devices can get a fresh lease on life, and it sounds like it’s having the desired effect. Definitely better use than me tapping away on the thing in plants vs zombies every couple weeks when heading to bed.
This is why @transientmind is leader!
Gotta catch ’em all!
That promo that EB have going later this month with the free LVL100 shiny Dialga, Palkia and Giratina? I worked out how to get them over wireless pretty painlessly last night on my version of Platinum. If anyone else is interested, google PokEdit.
My other page-get had WAY more upvotes. Disappointing.
How’d you use latinum, thought it was a gen 5 promotion??
There is an option to select your game version on the site.
EB Games. I ordered a game online over the weekend and it turned up at 10.30 this morning — disappointment.
The box that went through Post was fine, but when I opened it and got the game out… no plastic wrap, case was cracked and won’t shut properly, DLC and online registration codes were missing, discs were scratched and scuffed.
I fired off an email to EB customer service and they were very apologetic ‘n have said once they check the stock/let them know, I can wander into one of my two local stores and exchange it for a new copy later today.
So that makes it two hours from discovery to resolution and (while it doesn’t really explain how that sort of thing happens in the first place) I can’t really complain about that — props to EB customer service.
First and second posts on the page are about EB.
If they had any decency they’d sponsor TAY and give us all free stuff.
Except my post relates to boycotting EB.
Bad publicity is still publicity — I’d never heard of Peter Dowling before this week (Hah)
And as long as no-one tells EB, they’ll be totally unaware. 😛
They’d be a DICK not to.
It might help them to SMITH a good reputation
So much better than the customer service for those bunch of Dick’s.
Yeah, I had a preorder issue with them once, and they sorted it out quick-smart and took the blame even though it turned out to be be half my fault.
The only real issue that EB has is charging too much for games. Other than that they’re a very pleasant company to purchase from and their shit works reliably and their customer support is generally excellent.
Yeah, I really like the guys at the nearest EB to me. Or did, the last time I saw who was there. Some seem to have moved on. I haven’t been there in an age. Because 1) console games – and I pay tribute mostly to TEH MASTAH RAEC, 2) horrific pricing.
Had something about half as bad happen to be while ordering online at JB HiFi, it was two new games one of them have a massive hole/cracked case at the top and the other had so much shelf wear it looked like a embossed cover.
Oh shit, Stephest Colbchella 013 is today!
Dear Sony,
Please start making 64GB Vita memory cards immediately. Having to constantly pick and choose what goes on my 32GB because it’s constantly full is really starting to depress me.
Man, that’ll be the day.
It’ll be perfect except for the $200 price tag attached. 😛
Honestly, the cost of the Vita memory cards doesn’t really bother me. If it cost me $200 for a 64GB card for my Vita, I’d go buy one right now.
Oh I’m speaking in NA terms, in aus prices a 64 GB will cost a arm, a leg, and that small child down the street, the one wearing the red shirt.
Well the 32GB seems to cost around AU$110 without doing any research, as in, just picking a shop like EB and walking in and buying one. I’d hope a 64GB wouldn’t be much more than $200. Although hey, convict tax and all. Maybe it’s my youthful optimism?
huh, really? It’s normally $90 here so that doesn’t seem that bad of a markup.
Yeah, I paid about $110 for mine, I think – that was a couple of months back, from an EB as I couldn’t be arsed doing research to save 10 or 20 dollars. Not so terrible pricing after all. Surprising.
The price bothers me a lot.
Which would explain my 4GB card.
Can you buy another 32 GB and switch between them?
I could, but would involve swapping memory cards, and I don’t want to do that. My entire library is digital, so i don’t have to carry anything with me but the Vita. I’d like to have it all on one memory card and not have to swap. Ever. Yes, I’m lazy. =)
I loathe proprietary accessories.
Most console accessories are proprietary. I agree, the Vita memory cards are the best example of unnecessarily proprietary and overpriced accessories, but it’s far from the only example.
True. I wasn’t very specific, charging cables can be an annoyance but proprietary memory cards are a joke. I’m very pro-flash memory. It just hasn’t taken off yet because of its high price and low capacity. BUT THE SPEED! THE SPEED!
*Jeremy Clarkson voice* THE SPEED!
This.
Actually I’d love 128 but would settle for 64.
128GB would be all I’d ever need, but I honestly think we’d be tickling $400 or more if they did exist. I could make do with a 64GB I think. I’d have more than enough to content to fill it, but at least could have all the games I want installed. Right now, my 32GB is a mishmash of games from PSV, PSX and PSP. Not even close to having all the games I want on there. Only what I’m likely to play.
I’m still rocking a 16gb and it’s frustrating. I basically use the PC content manager to have everything on my PC and when I want a specific thing I copy it from PC to Vita, but the wireless copy is super unreliable and just stops mid-copy all the time 🙁
Yeah I usually just download them direct to the Vita, or copy them off my PS3. I just keep hitting my limit on the card and going ‘BUT THERE’S LIKE 5 MORE GAMES I WANT ON THERE!’ then I spend 10 minutes agonising over what to delete to make room. I hate it.
Sorry to perpetuate a cliché but.. I would prefer more games before a bigger SD.
I’ve got so many games I can’t fit them all on the card. Even the Vita games alone would be too much for my 32GB. There’s plenty of games on the Vita. I certainly think it could do with a lot more, because gaems – but I’m not experiencing a shortage.
Greetings and salutations, Team TAY,
A few of you might remember I asked for some purchasing advice on the PS Vita and the 3DS. Well, I went with the Vita and I’m REALLY enjoying it. Played through Miami Hotline (so good!) and now I’m trying my hand with MGS3 Snake Eater HD.
Now, this is a MGS game I haven’t played and missed out on during the transition from PS2 to PS3 etc. I loved the previous MGS games and thought I was actually quite good at them. But something has changed….
The cracks started to show when I tried MGS4 a year ago. I couldn’t get into it. In the past I reveled in the style of gameplay, but here in MGS4 I found the tech needing to be employed overwhelming and my patience for slowly stealthing my way through a level, non-existent. I gave up on it. Not believing the series has lost its luster on me, I have struck out with Snake Eater and once again I feel like I’m on the cusp of abandoning it. I love the wacky story line and the characters/bosses, but the gameplay is simply frustrating me. Firstly the Vita version gives you NO tutorial and so I have had to dig around online, which proves difficult since the other versions are all mixed in and it’s hard to find clear directions using all the fancy touch screen combat moves etc. I’m sure it’s all there, but I just want to play the game, not spend all my time researching it. Also, unless I’m missing something (which is highly likely) the CQC sucks…or I suck. Sucks.
Anyway…..that’s enough of my rant. But if any of your guys (who love this game) have any hot tips regarding this game and can dangle a carrot before to entice me to keep playing, I’m all ears/eyes.
Serrels loved MGS3. I found it good, but forgettable in comparison to others in the series.
MGS3 is one of those games I think if you missed it when it was new, it’s increasingly difficult to get into or appreciate as time goes on. MGS has always been rather quirky in many ways, particularly with controls/camera stuff. At least MGS3HD has the Subsistence controls – the original MGS3 had no concept of free look.
yeah, the gameplay well got stale after the original snake eater, if not just because it made everybody realize how slow and tedious it is. By MGS4, well, I imagine a lot of people shared your opinion.
I’m afraid I can’t offer any suggestions, but luckily Ground Zeroes/Phantom Pain looks like they’ve actually revamped the gameplay so stealth is quicker, so there’s that.
Played Portable Ops on PSP and thoroughly enjoyed it. Even enjoyed the multiplayer, which I was terrible at.
Played MGS2 on Vita, thought it was daft and found it a chore to get through.
Played MGS3 on Vita, didn’t get very far before stopping. Intend to finish it, but not looking forward to it.
Have high hopes for MGS4… for some reason.
Portable Ops and Portable Ops+ were great. Controls took some getting used to, but considering the limiation of the PSP’s controls, they made it work. Short, quick fire missions and recruiting/scanning for new soldiers with WiFi was a lot of fun too.
The story of MGS3 is still one of my all-time favourite game stories. The ending gets me in tears every damn time.
The game, I could take or leave, though it has awesome bits. The story… man, that story!
Well due to some annoyances with OGS shopping cart and my rushing due to limited stock I accidentally got a bunch of boardgames shipped to my home address rather than my office. Hopefully it will be ok with either Mrs Tigs or myself home when they arrive,
On the plus side, boardgames \o/
RELIC?!?!?!
Unfortunately not.
When I have a few more games and can start getting ones that only I or only Mrs Tigs will like then I’ll get that. But for the moment it is only games we both want. Although we have started trying to work out how to organise our wishlist, so hopefully I can get that up the list.
So wish I manged to play that at PAX but just didn’t happen.
BOARDGAMES \o/
ಠ_ಠ
Sorry, wrong person, I mis-send texts all the time. Don’t show that picture to anybody in law enforcement, though-
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Oops, I did it again
Does anyone else think EB isnt really trying with the pokemon X+Y preorder bonus?
I preordered Black2/White2 from them and all I got were two crappy ‘commemorative’ coins. That X/Y preorder bonus is pretty crummy too.
I’ve preordered X/Y from PlayAsia because US 3DS. No preorder bonuses at all. =(
I guess its kinda like when you get a console ‘bonus’ which is, they chuck in some crap that no one ever buys for 10 bucks on top of the console price. But cos it’s a ‘deal’ you have to take it.
If it wasnt for region lock I’d probly go to play asia too. Theyve never let me down.
Yeah I had some issues getting a faulty JP 3DS returned some time ago, but they’ve been exemplary in every other department.
They never have with Pokemon, really 😛 (though I haven’t seen what they’re doing for XY yet)
Probably because they don’t really need incentives to get people to preorder a Pokemon game.
They should cos my pre-orders from them always come late.
Without some kind of decent compensation, imagine the rampaging hordes of disappointed Pokemon fans circling EB….. murder and entitlement in their eyes.
At least it’s not a clock. In a can.
What even is the pre-order bonus?
I mean, the only time a “pre-order bonus” was the incentive I needed to go from “I won’t buy this game” to “I will buy this game AND pay for it in advance” was the 3 free games (Spec Ops, BioShock 1 and XCOM) that came with preordering BioShock Infinite through GMG. It would have cost me more to buy those three games individually than it was for the preorder, which is a good thing, since the bonus games ended up being better than the main product.
Anyway, I’ve already pre-ordered X & Y since I was going to get them anyway, so getting a preorder bonus is literally just a bonus at this stage. Also, I got $10 off the price of each of them as my “local” EB shutdown and they were giving $10 off preorders if I went to one of the other nearby stores.
I was happy to pay the $130 to preorder that ACIII statue that came with a dodgy free game.
That was a pretty dodgy game.
Now THAT’S a pre-order bonus. I’d pre-order for $10 off.
Its a plastic looking pokeball which, from the picture, holds 3ds cartridges. I guess if you really hate 3ds cases it might be ok…. but isnt that why digital distribution was invented?
Im kinda in a similar mindset as you with pre-orders. The bonus gives me incentive to buy something at release rather than being my regular stinge self and waiting for a price drop. But i need to learn that pictures often look better than what you actually get (and if this is the case with x+y….. that pokeball *pulls collar*).
But at the same time… if its free and makes no difference because you were preordering anyway… it can just get thrown out as clutter later, no harm done.
oh yeah, I did see that.
I won’t be using them, since I’ve got a kind of carry case/sleeve for my 3DS with room for a few extra carts. Also, I only keep 2-3 games in rotation at any one time, otherwise they go back in their box and on the shelf – so I know where to find them when I do want to play them.
So to answer your original question, it does seem like someone (EB?? Nintendo??) aren’t really trying with this bonus. The commemorative coins were a heck of a lot better; pins would be the best, they’d be very collectable/tradeable/sellable.
They do have the capacity for good pre-order bonuses though! The Ocarina you got with Ocarina of Time 3D was actually pretty decent for a freebie. I was expecting it to be a lot cheaper-looking than it ended up being 😛 (Granted, I never actually use the thing, but still…)
The Ni No Kuni Wizard edition was the best preorder game/gift eva.
That’s not a bonus though :P. The bonus for pre-ordering was a couple of familiars as DLC.
You sure?
I’m pretty sure the Ocarina came in its own edition (made by EB), not as a pre-order bonus 😛
HI TAY
IM AT WORK
BYE TAY
(This is all I’m gonna talk about for ages I’m sorry)
HI ALEX
GET BACK TO WORK!
So no more incessant Potaku updates? I am all the sadface.
I’ve just gotta settle into a new routine is all
Wow that was quick! Didn’t you only get the job confirmation yesterday? 😛
Interviewed on Friday, confirmation Monday, training today!
CEO on Friday.
Aren’t we all at work here?
Cripes that animated gif from Elysium is irritating. What’s with KUS and their obsession with shitty animated gifs?
Hey! You take that back! It’s called Journalism, and they’re damn good at it!
Or Yournalism. It might be a soft J.
Is that how you say that? I’ve only seen that word written.
More like yearnalism.
As they yearn to be taken seriously.
#Dantastic
Solid hashtag.
What is that, Dutch or Swedish or something?
Today is so very meh.
*Sends a hug*
and a sneaky grope
does that help?
Gahhh! Spoiler tag, Why you not work?
Works for me.
Okay no it doesn’t.
It did somewhat.
FFFFFKKKKKYYYYYYYEEEEEEEAAAAAAHH
Listening to Smooth McGroove all day is great, getting pounded at work and should be stressed/ annoyed, but thanks to Smooth McGroove in my ear it is impossible to be anything but happy.
*continues to bop along with goofy grin on my face whilst co workers stare miserably into their computer screens*
I wish i got pounded at work…..
sorry 😛
EDIT: why spoilers no work…
lol, don’t apologise, i almost changed the wording of that, but thought someone would jump on the opportunity so i kept it, well done sir.
I approve of Smooth McGroove.
I foolishly was unaware, but i have now rectified this and listened to all 45 songs :D. So good
Need for Speed: Most Wanted peeps.
I’ll likely be playing most of tonight if you guys wanted to get some multiplayer happening. Just be like “Hey, let’s play some multiplayer.” and I’ll be all “Yeah, alright.”
@redartifice @greenius @dkzeitgeist @masha2932 @anyoneelsewhohasit
Edit: Payday also.
Spirit is willing, Broadband Connectivity will probably still be weak.
If that changes, keen
If I’m on, it’s on.
Ya dig?
Yeah dawg.
Yeah.
hey dude, wanna be ps3 pals? i have all the + games and many many more. 😛
I have not friended a single Taybie on any of my devices excpet for Jimu , but i knew him before.
Where do i find Tay names so i can add my stuff (where is taynames? so i don’t have to hassle people all the time)
Fo sho.
http://tinyurl.com/taynames
EDIT: Scooped. Add me! It’s red_artifice
or not….
Wot?
Cool. I’m working until 11pm today but if you guys are still going I’ll join in.
LET’S DO THIS! (unless I forget)
Yeah, alright.
I’ve haven’t played MW yet, can I just jump straight into multi or will there be mandatory tutorial stuff first?
I also just saw the Payday edit. Depends on numbers I guess?
I dunno. The game seems to start more or less immediately. I haven’t tried multi yet though.
Different playable races confirmed for Dragon Age Inquisition (they were originally only going to let you be human) \o/
Combat’s going to be more like DA:O, with a heavy focus on tactics /o\
You win one, you lose one.
I thought DA:O combat > DAII Combat, but that’s probably a taste thing.
Agreed. I still haven’t finished DAII because I vastly preferred the combat in DA:O.
I just generally don’t like either tactical combat, or RNG combat (dice roll, your attack hits, dice roll, your attack misses type of thing).
Man, you’d hate D&D then
My views on a superior combat system would be skewed seeing as I grew up playing RPG’s. ahhh, back in the good old days.
I also preferred the combat in DA:O. Much more tactical compared to the “spam mouse button” tactic that got me through DA2.
It would be cool if they let you be a Qunari, but I have a feeling there is no chance of that happening.
Eh. The Qunari were super interesting in Origins but they screwed it all up with 2 by actually revealing more and they couldn’t come up with much more than Japanese Barbarians.
Human, elf and dwarf are in, no word on Kossith yet. I think it would be cool, but it would require a bunch of new lore to do well.
What’s with the Gizmodo article on how glorious the future of 3DTV is having comments disabled? Are they afraid everyone is just going to laugh or something?
Articles with comments disabled tend to be ads. Looking at the article, it appears to be a Samsung ad.
Really? Because Samsung isn’t mentioned in the article at all and the image is from a stock image site.
If you click on the image, it does redirect you to a Samsung site. It might not be a Samsung ad, but that’s the best explanation I can think of given the evidence. Every article I’ve seen in the past that hasn’t let you comment has been an ad. The other explanation is that Gizmodo is just trying something different. I know tech blogs tend to attract a lot of trolls, and maybe they’re just sick of having to deal with commenters.
Just met @mythamphetamine ! Nice dood! Looking forward to seeing everyone again on Sunday!
Something something Arcade Fire something.
DC! My brother! Where have you been?
Another day, another Aleph hang out! 😀
Hope you’re well, man?
Oh man, I miss all the hang-outs. Stoopid work. Not bad, I’ve been circling the wagons in your absence.
Any coyotes or Indians?
There’s the welbot meat. That’ll make four meats in seven days for ‘ol D.C.! Two for you ain’t bad either!
A couple of varmints but they weren’t no trouble.
Oh, while I’m at work. I see.
Monsters. Every last one of you. I’m starting my own list.
Can I be on it?
Also, you gave Aleph access to your car, so you totally facilitated this meat. (Unless he stole your car without asking then… uh… you should probably do something about that Groote Eylandt shifty eyed guy.)
It was a test that you all failed.
We all passed the beep test, though. So that’s something.
You gave him your car? Freeze for president.
I think that car is cursed. Every time Freeze drives into Brisbane he loses it and scours the streets for half hour trying to find it. Today Aleph did the same. Might be sentient like that Christine car from that Stephen King book. D:
Misery?
@effluvium-boy No no. Misery is once I find my way down to Canberra.
He did indeed! And I can ease the mind of @freezespreston a bit by saying it looked to be unscathed when he arrived at my place! 😉
Infact, he added some speed holes to make the car go faster!
Unpopular opinion: I do not care for Arcade Fire.
Unpopular opinion that’s not really an opinion: I have never listened to Arcade Fire.
It may not appear so, but I think that’s secretly the majority opinion here.
I don’t hate them. They’re pretty inoffensive and forgettable though.
I’m certain that the seven million Arcade Fire references are all from Rocketman, Sughly, Greenius and myself. XD
You got to remember though that taste is a subjective thing and all that. It’s the same with Anchorman. You might not be able to fathom why it doesn’t appeal to me, but I could say the same about Arcade Fire and you. Doesn’t make us any less right or wrong. Just enjoy different things is all.
Oi, I make Arcade Fire references too.
The Suburbs <<< London Calling though.
Hey now, I’m not saying that you’re wrong in liking them, I’m saying that I’m pretty sure the majority of people here don’t. Which would make not liking them the popular opinion, rather than unpopular.
Again, not saying you’re wrong for liking them. Not liking Anchorman is another matter entirely.
That was also about Freeze’s inoffensive and forgettable comment. 😀
I know what you mean though!
I talk about them alot though and I’m getting an impression this is increasingly annoying to people so I’ll tone it down. (Except for the week of the new album release and the week of the concert. :D)
No. Don’t be an idiot. Be excited about things. Get hype. Express how much you enjoy things. Fuck what other people think. It’s better than the dreary cynicism that surrounds gaming, that’s for sure.
Just because I find them boring and safe doesn’t mean anything. Just means I’m not a fan and put them in a category of Kings of Leon and Coldplay for myself.
I know my taste in music is nowhere near what you like but that’s how taste works. Everyone’s different.
I thought getting really, really excited and enthusiastic about things which totally don’t warrant it is basically what Kotaku is about. 🙂
I can fathom. It’s because it has Will Ferrel in it, isn’t it?
That’s my reason 😛
Then there’s the matter of Steve Carrel and the perfect storm of them being together on film. 😛
Owwww I may have just given myself a blood blister whilst being too totes hardcore on bass, so I did the manly thing and put a band-aid on it cos that’s obviously gonna fix it
bass player, eh? what do you play?
Edit: that is to say, what sort of bass do you play? the bass part was pretty straightforward.
A shit one I found on Deals Direct whilst I’m saving up for a good one 😛 Nothing really wrong with it, but I want to buy some better strings for it.
This made me want to see if there was such thing as a “triple bass”.
At first I was met with pictures of drums, but then adding the word “guitar” to the mix just gave me pictures of those guitars that are like… triple guitars.
I picked up my guitar for the first time in about 6 years yesterday. I now have blisters on the tips of 3 fingers.
The tip of my fingers turned into rocks when I was playing regularly. Then I stopped and they got all weak and I get boo boos easily :'(
I haven’t played a guitar seriously since year 10, but I don’t remember ever getting blisters from playing it 😛
I’m left handed but play the bass right handed (i dun geddit, I can’t play guitar for shit right handed), so at least I didn’t get a boo boo on my doing everything hand!
Then you didn’t play it enough.
Or didn’t have manly metal strings \m/
I’m going to be productive today.
Doesn’t do anything productive.
I’m going to be productive tomorrow.
And so the vicious cycle continues.
try reverse psychology?
“I’m gonna sit around & do absolutely nothing productive.”
if the reverse psychology thing doesn’t work, at the very least, you’ll feel like you fulfilled your aims for the day.
I do that. then I procrasinate for ages, but once I start I have trouble stopping.
This was me on saturday night, “I’m going to sort the board game cupboards” at 12am
My partner went to bed and my housemate had to force me to go to bed…
This is my entire year so far.
That sounds oddly familiar, can’t quite figure out why.
I did that until I didn’t do it anymore. I like it better being productive 😀
Unless I’ve missed someone, or assumed one too many, so far we’ve got 15 people for Sunday! All booked for now for Sunday at 12pm! Meet at my place prior I guess, and then just follow me to the place (not very far.) Anyone who doesn’t have my address and needs it, let me know and I’ll get it to you somehow, or grab it off another TAYbie who knows! 🙂
Swoit!
Does anyone know why my laptop would suddenly stop detecting any wireless networks? My phone is fine, so its not the modem/router. Any ideas?
Only thing I’d suggest is making sure your laptop wireless switch isn’t off. Some have a physical switch to turn wireless/bluetooth off and on, others have a Fn+F1-F12 function to turn wireless stuff off and on.
Yeah its on the F12 button for me. It has a little orange light on it. When I go into the HP wireless assistant, it says that the receiver is off but if I click to turn it on, nothing happens
Mrs Beardy, myself, Aleph and a couple of my IRL co-workers are checking out The World’s End on Friday night. 6:40pm sessions at Chermside Event Cinemas. I’ve already booked our three tickets, and figured I’d let everyone else know if anyone else is keen to come 🙂 At the moment we’ve got four seats booked out right in the middle of that session.
No interest @dc?
Nah, not really my kind of movie and I’ve already had 3 meats this week. XD
Thanks for the invite though. Hope you guys enjoy it!
Download NFS Most Wanted. 4.5GB. Okay. Installed, started, update…2GB. W. T. F?
Yep. Dunno why PSN stuff doesn’t come pre-patched.
Train pulls in to the station, kinda taking me by surprise so I close up my DS and hop out. Rain’s come out of nowhere, so I have to get out my umbrella. Normally I’d stick my DS into my pocket, but I now have a “modern” phone so it’s too big to stick in the little sub-pocket on the right like I used to use, so now my left pocket is occupied instead. Then when trying to close the umbrella and get into the car, it slips and opens up, makes me drop my DS onto the footpath and now it has a bashed corner.
Everything is stupid.
Oh man I did that recently with mine 🙁 It’s the WORST! But instead of having a legit excuse like you, it just slipped out from under my beard when I was sitting down on the loo. My L button didn’t work, so I bought another one. This one’s red! It goes faster!
I have too much of a sentimental attachment to my stuff. It’s all special because it’s the one I got on launch day and it’s mine etc etc. Though I would kind of like to replace my black 3DS with a red one… though that purple one looks tooooootally sweet. Got to see one IRL recently and it’s even better. Though an orange one would be best.
Still, this was my Phat. When I say bashed-in corner, it’s pretty minor cosmetic damage which you can’t even really see that well because the paint’s worn off on that corner anyway. Tough bastard of a thing it is.
Get fat man pockets. I can fit my 3DS and my phone (Nexus 4) in my pocket next to each other.
Eww, I don’t want my phone scratching up my 3DS 😛
Also I’m not sure even fatman pockets would suffice for a DS Phat + 808 Pureview. That’s a whole lotta chunk for one pocket.
They don’t scratch one another, their edges touch, and that’s it. And I think you’re underestimating the power of fat man pants. Seriously, I could store a kitchen sink in these things.
I admit my experience with fat man pants is minimal 😛
Also I was totally picturing one on top of the other, not side by side. That is slightly maybe better. Maybe.
Don’t get me wrong, I only do it occasionally, and I feel a little weird doing it, but it’s a viable option.
man that sucks. 🙁 Hate it when gadgets get dinged!
Does anyone want the EB Game preorder bonus Fire Emblem art book? I’ve got one that I don’t really want. If you’re in Brissie I can give it to you Sunday!
Ooh, kind of maybe sort of want yes.
But I don’t even have the game, so I’d feel bad about swiping it from someone who might want it more/be more worthy 😛
Exactly what I was thinking.
But I think nob may want it more
Good thing I’d only feel bad about taking it from someone who might want it more 😎
Thanks for letting me know @scree. I’ll have a chat to Nob. And by chat I mean send him a message on Twitter. Who talks using heir voice these days? Psh.
Talking on the internet is for chumps!
Yeah man, only nerds do that.
And there are no nerds here.
*flex*
DO YOU LIKE TALES OF VESPERIA?
Anyway decided to put this out there, as I’ve already offered it.
They’re making an official Repede plush toy (roughly 40cm tall) – it’s being released in December but you can preorder now. The thing is it’s Japan only, I’m already getting one and I have Japan connections so I was going to offer to purchase more for others.
The item page is here: http://lalabitmarket.channel.or.jp/p/124592/
I’m already getting one for @beavwa but let me know if you’re interested too.
The price of it is 8,190 yen which is close to $100 so this isn’t going to be a bargain.
I’m going to make my Teddy from persona 4 plush ride Repede.
I would (Repede is the best animal mascot character in all of Tales. He’s a dog that smokes a fucking pipe and cuts people) but I am currently saving money toward buying a place I can put all the expensive crap I buy from Japan into 🙁
Send me an email: beavwa at gmail.
Bank details and number you want to appear there. I can do 100 now and clean up the difference once shipping and stuff is worked out?
@powalen
Spoiler tags be broke. But I’m 100% sure no one else cares 😛
The Mole Ep 10 (last week’s one with the smoke signals):
Everyone is the worst.
😛
I CARE
WHY DO YOU HATE ME @STRANGE
I know right.
I quite enjoyed last nights episode though! (Must be ep 11?)
Yeah. Seems like the Streaming thing has decided to lag behind now and they only uploaded episode 10 (last week’s episode) today. I had to pirate it and I’ll pirate 11 I guess 😛
Guys. I don’t know if this is news to everyone, but it’s news to me.
So.
Waffle Taco.
I need to go to a Taco Bell, and buy like, 17 of these (at a mere 89 cents a pop!), and then wallow in sadness.
@mrwaffle
What have they done to us??
They’ve made you even more deliciously artery clogging.
It looks like they took a waffle, spread a thick layer of cold diarrhea and then topped it with scrambled eggs and folded it in half?
CORRECT!
This can’t be a real thing, right?
It looks infected.
So RPG Maker VX is currently on sale for 66% off on steam, my question is is it worth it?
How desperate are you to make a generic 16-bit JRPG with a terrible combat system (unless you’re willing to get your hands dirty and script up something that’s actually decent)
How willing are you to pony up a whole bunch of extra cash to get new sprites etc. so your game doesn’t end up looking like a million others, or make your own content?
There’s some amazing stuff that’s been made in RPG Maker. To The Moon and Corpse Party are both good commercial examples. There was also the Zeboyd stuff, especially Charles Barkley Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden IIRC. You’d have no chance I’d imagine of making something like Corpse Party (the reason that game works so amazingly well aside from the custom artwork everywhere is that it’s fully, professionally voiced) but if you’ve got a good story to tell it’s worth it, especially if adding your own created resources is an option.
As long as your expectations are at the right level it’s a good suite. Way too steeply priced at normal cost though, but with the 66% off it might be worth a go.
(Personally I wouldn’t, but that’s because I’m a programmer and I’d rather spend time making my own engine from scratch because especially the default combat system isn’t what I’d design)
So, sounds like if you want a PS4 at launch and you haven’t preordered you need to do so now.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-08-07-playstation-4-pre-orders-no-longer-guaranteed-for-uk-launch
Amazon UK:
“Please note – due to high demand, orders placed for the PlayStation 4 console from 6th August may be received after release date. We will ship orders as soon as we receive sufficient inventory.”
If Amazon UK and ShopTo have both exhausted their launch allocations then the big local retailers will hit similar levels pretty soon too.
@masha2932 linked me to some “report” that there might be a Vita/PS4 combo for $500 (in the US). I’m sure Sony aren’t entirely stupid so a Vita/PS4 combo is probably inevitable but $500 seems a bit cheap. $550 maybe.
No way, they’ll sell out 100% of their initial console allocation and can’t afford to have some stuck into more expensive SKUs.
If that happens it’ll be a bundle deal but not an actual packaged SKU.
Makes intuitive sense to me! They’ve probably got a shitload of old vitas from last financial year that they’ve written off as a loss, and if packaging it with a PS4 means a bonus $50+ profit, why wouldn’t you?
Because it means retailers have to have two different SKUs and take orders on both. It’s not something you do at launch. Maybe 6 months down the track.
Jb Hi-Fi at Knox in Melbourne had a sign set up saying if you preordered now, you will be put on a list for the chance to buy a console just after launch due to high demand however its not guaranteed you will get one straight away if you preorder. Or something along those lines.
Yeah I bet they’ve been saying that since day 1 though.
@nomad is awesome. Tomb Raider arrived in good nick today. Thanks, man. Much appreciated! Gonna play it tonight instead of writing! 😀
Anna’s Quest >:|… ohDaily Page >:|
I’ve already done twelve pages today. Sixteen if you count the ones I did before going to bed at 1am this morning 😛
Depends. Those four, should you have done them (the day before*) yesterday? 😛
Edit: Totally lost my bearings and was just stumbling around TAY. Scary!
Lemme know what you think of it man!
http://www.nintendo.co.uk/Misc-/Nintendo-Direct/Latest-Nintendo-Direct/Nintendo-Direct-698557.html
Who’s joining me? !
Anyone?
No?
🙁
These things are always so incredibly disappointing to the point where I dunno if it’s worth watching them anymore :/
Haha, good one.
Not if Iwata’s doing it again. He’s an OK CEO but as a spokesperson speaking in english he’s soporific and they need to get someone else to do the English directs. Reggie or someone.
…so somehow I now have it running on my gamepad. I don’t know why.
@sughly
September 18th 🙁
So long away…
#SurvivorBros
>:(
Strike 2 already this evening….
WHY DO YOU HATE ME STRANGE X2?!
Because you think I’m “no one” and that I’m not worthy to be a SurvivorBro.
*sobs uncontrollably as she throws away everything green in sight*
More like it seemed like you didn’t like the season we made you watch and you didn’t go back and watch Malcolm’s first season like you said you would :'(. So much Survivor hate!
Because you said Malcolm, season, and something about making someone do something
@STRANGE
THAT SHOW WE BOTH WATCH IS COOL!
JUST LIKE YOU.
<3
(Smoooth)
I really miss being able to a) have powerful speakers, and b) play my music loudly through said speakers 🙁
Hopefully people can start giving me a bit of clarity about plans on moving out soon.
I just watched Dredd through a 7.2 system at loud volume.
#rubbingitin
#dreddisamazing
#jealous
Oh man, Dredd’s such an excellent movie. Really cool setting.
Dredd is fantastic – Karl Urban did a great job. Even kept that sour look on his face for the entire film. Also, Lena Headey is fucking cool.
THINGS:
– I’m terrible at NFS: MW. I only JUST realised there was Nitro and Boost after I had done a bunch of races. There’s not much of a tutorial or anything :/
– They made me make an Origin ID and Greenius was taken :'(
– I’m back into Super Hexagon and I still can’t beat Hyper Hexagonest (one day…)
@DC
Treme – season 1, ep 9
All I’ll say before spoiler tags return is this:
🙁
And that I didn’t see it coming until this ep, but in hindsight it’s something that’s been building and foreshadowed for a while.
Great show.
Oh yeah, man. I know what you mean. You’ve got one ep left, right?
Yep. Checked the running time and it’s 80 minutes long. It’s possible we might have to do it over two nights…
We’ll talk in rot13 after! 😀 (About the season in whole and last nights development too.)
I’m really looking forward to it, man 🙂
Tomb Raider first impressions.
There’s lots to like about this game, but I’m getting hung up on little things. Have played for around an hour. Will continue tomorrow.
What are you getting hung up on? Gameplay elements or narrative issues?
Edit: And if I’d read just slightly further down I would’ve seen your comment about the game!
Some of each, to be honest. The QTEs were pretty frequent in the opening sequence, but seem to have calmed down now. The acting is terrible, but I can forgive that.
But like I said below, I think I’m using these as excuses because of the violence against women thing.
Yep, can’t even get this Nintendo Direct to load. Seriously, why the fuck does nobody use Youtube to do live streams? It’s the ONLY platform that’s reliable!
At least it’s not Twitch. That’s the biggest piece of horse shit on the internet.
I’ve been waiting to say this, but I never got around to it.
Watamote is fething awesome!
I’ll leave the link below, if anyone is interested:
http://www.crunchyroll.com/watamote-no-matter-how-i-look-at-it-its-you-guys-fault-im-not-popular
HOLY SHIT!
OMGOMGOGMOGMOGMOMGOMGOMGOMOGMOGMOGMOMGOMG
AOMGOMGOMGOMASODMAWNDUQB3EP9Q2TG
BOMBS DROPPED ALL OVER MY FACE
LAYTON VS ACE ATTORNEY CONFIRMED MOFOS!
Also Wonderful 101 Direct coming Friday (I assume Saturday 12am then)
@powalen @sughly
I like Wonderful 101 too. :'(
Haha thought about tagging you but you don’t really watch Directs!
Good point. I watched the e3 one, though. And made fun of the cavernous ballroom. Haha!
Testicular cancer is no joke.
I hear there’s also some way to free Animal Crossing or something…?
Sounded very similar to the free Monster Hunter a while ago. Person A has bought and registered AC, person B buys 3DS and can redeem a code from person A for AC. No word on Australia being included though (much like Monster Hunter)
Yeah, person B has to register a UK XL though. I’d assume eShop titles automatically count towards being registered (so my AC might count) but we’ll see.
You… you know that game was absolutely panned in Japan right? Worst Layton AND worst Ace Attorney at the same time…
Kotaku US loved it. Not sure that’s a ringing endorsement, but there you have it 🙂
Kotaku US liked Time & Eternity too and that game is an absolute turd filled with regret.
Bed. Night.
:0
Layton Vs. Ace Attorney’s announced for translation, huh? Both for europe and NA, and early 2014.
That’s neat. I’m kinda excited for that.
Looks pretty excellent! 😀
I haven’t played either of those games.
I played a demo for Phoenix Wright and wasn’t too psyched, but that trailer currently on the Kotaku front page makes me psyched about this. If only I had a 3DS. XD
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/professor-layton-vs-phoenix-wright-is-coming-to-the-us-in-2014/
Noooooooooo D:
http://www.polygon.com/game/brothers-a-tale-of-two-sons/4453
This looks pretty excellent!
Sounds awesome!
What console/s is it on?
I think Windows, 360 and PS3 but all the pre-release reviews seem to be from the 360 version!
Really love the art style for The Bureau: XCOM Declassified and the fact I won’t be naming the people after TAYbies means there’s a good chance I’ll actually finish the game!
On a related note: Don’t name any game characters after me until you’ve finished the game already. Having a Transientmind character would be cheating, making the game unsatisfyingly easy. 🙂
Sometimes I wonder. Then I promptly stop wondering, and go back to not wondering.
Deep.
Okay, I’ve done some soul-searching overnight, and I’ve decided that Tomb Raider makes me feel uncomfortable. And it’s because Lara is a girl, and I am a sexist.
I think I brought this up in TAY a while ago, but having played the game first-hand, I realise that I am deeply uncomfortable with the idea of violence against women. Seeing Lara stumble around in pain, get impaled, crushed, lit on fire, drowned, whatever… it leaves me with a deep sense of unease that I just wouldn’t get if it was, for example, Nathan Drake.
Direct case in point, actually, from Uncharted 2 (ROT13’d for your spoiler-free convenience): Gur bcravat frpgvba bs Hapunegrq 2 unf n onqyl jbhaqrq Qenxr fghzoyvat nebhaq va gur fabj, naq nyy V sryg jnf gur grafr rkpvgrzrag gung V zvtug unir tbggra juvyr jngpuvat na npgvba zbivr, be jungrire. Fbzr flzcngul, creuncf, ohg ertneqyrff vg jnf abguvat yvxr guvf.
Maybe the framing, direction, music, of the games are differently structured to elicit different feelings… or maybe it’s all in my head and I’m a monster. That might also say something about how I subconsciously feel about the ‘disposable’ nature of the male body… I don’t know.
I know this game was marketed with the line “You want to protect Lara.” It’s not quite true in my case – I don’t especially want to protect her (mainly because I know that the game script has more control over her fate than I do). I’m just fighting the impulse to switch the game off, despite the fact that it’s (mostly) a really solid game. I’m looking for excuses to dislike the game, to justify the switch-off, instead of looking for reasons to continue.
Boring gender-relations stuff:
I know it flies in the face of the feminist arguments that say that men shouldn’t patronise women by holding the door open for them, etc, but I’ve never gotten on board with those arguments anyway. I’m much more in favour of gender equivalency than gender equality. I don’t know what that says about me, but I’m mostly pretty comfortable with this perspective.
Thoughts, discussions, name-calling?
I definitely felt there was a difference between Drake and Lara too, but I don’t think to the same extent as you. I empathized with her, but this was her adventure and I wanted to press on to see what happened next. The story made me uncomfortable at times and some of the situations that she was in, but not to the point that I wanted to stop playing.
…
Maybe you’re a monster? Maybe I’m the monster? Maybe we’re all monsters now! D:
There’s definitely a difference. Drake’s pain and peril was almost always played for humour, Indiana-Jones style. None of that in Tomb Raider, obviously.
To be honest I didn’t really care about Lara. I just couldn’t really like her as a character that which is why I lost interest in the game 1/2 through. That and I didn’t care much for the story
I haven’t played enough to form a decision yet, but I don’t care about her as a character yet. Just as a woman.
Honestly she is a mass murderer, she doesn’t need protecting. If anything I need protecting from her.
She did go from “Oh my god I killed someone” to “I will bathe in the blood of your children” in about 7 seconds.
Yup, that part just puzzled me and I think that’s where I just started not liking it.
Here’s me thinking they were going to have some kind of big moral dilemma about mudering scared, trapped people just doing what they think the need to do to survive.
Nope, here is some more people to murder. It’s okay, no-one is going to judge you.
This is the kind of thing that started people bleating about ludonarrative dissonance. You have a cutscene where you agonise over the blood on your hands, but then immediately kill fifty more guys by putting arrows in their faces and oh well, whatevs.
Same thing in Far Cry 3. You start off as a wimply teenager but from the moment you kill your first guy you’re an unstoppable and remorseless killing machine.
“Well, you needn’t worry. The second is-”
“Yes. Considerably.”
Some ‘truth in television’ there. Once you’ve killed, a certain mental barrier is broken down, and it becomes much easier (mentally/emotionally) to kill again. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ItGetsEasier)
I dunno from the speed with which it accelerates there, but I’m guessing a stressful survival situation might do the job.
To be honest this was the most interesting I’ve ever found Lara Croft, I thought she was a product of a bygone era of gaming and had outstayed her welcome, but this game gave her character and personality and struggle. She wasn’t just this perfect character. Also liked how the world was more open than Uncharted too, that sense of exploration and taking your time to look around.
TL;DR @shane thinks women are weak simpering idiots who should stay in the kitchen and have no place in adventuring.
😛
Shhh, I was trying to disguise that opinion!
I haven’t played TR all that much, but from what I saw, the violence against Lara is a helluva lot more graphic and particular than say, Drake getting shot or falling off a cliff, or something equally generic. I’m also fairly certain TR was designed specifically to challenge people in such ways. Doesn’t make what you said any less true, but I think the games are very different, not just because of gender.
As a 32yo man, I was bought up with some slightly old fashioned values regarding women – not necessarily negative ones, but things like opening a door for a lady, or watching your swearbotting when in the presence of women, paying for dinner when on a date, etc. These were respectful things once upon a time. They’re also dated by today’s standards. I mean by definition, these things are sexist, but I think for men of our age these things might impact on us. A need to look out for, or protect. I think it’s based on old chivalrous values.
The games themselves are definitely different. Every time Drake fell off a cliff, the game was at least partially tailored to elicit laughter from its audience. For obvious reasons, there’s none of that diffusing humour in Tomb Raider (that I’ve noticed).
How much have you played? Because she gets a lot more capable after a bit. I felt the same early on but once it gets going that started to go away for me.
I’m not sure that’s the problem. I don’t doubt her capabilities, even now at this early point in the game. I think I will get desensitised to it if I keep playing – just not sure that’s what I want to do :\
What I mean is that she stops getting impaled on shit as often. Unless you fuck up.
But yeah, I understand what you mean and I found it a bit gratuitous at times too. However I felt that it generally fit with the tone of the game and the general story they were telling. Not so much her depopulating the entire island – the constant combat is actually what got to me more.
But I really liked the game overall and apparently you don’t. Don’t force yourself but you really should give it some time, at least let it take the training wheels off.
I think it’s because Lara Crift (in this new game) is designed from the ground up as a victim who has circumstances thrust upon her and is forced to survive the harshest extremes, where Nathan Drake never seems to be suffering or struggling, and more or less made trouble for himself by embarking on treasure hunts.
That kind of reversed treatment of Lara vs. Nathan is probably sexist on the part of the developers, but they’ve attempted to justify it by making this an origin story. The capable adventurer Lara didn’t spring from nowhere. She had to face and overcome advertisty to become that person.
One would hope the themes and action of future instalments in the frnachise will be rather lighter in tone.
While I think there’s more at play than just the ‘violence against women’ angle, there’s certainly some good reasons for having a different reaction purely on that basis.
Men have ALWAYS been the disposable sex. Throughout the ages, since the dawn of civilization, wars have been fought by men, armies have been comprised of men, violent criminals and the agents who pursue them have been men, and even today, the most dangerous, risky work is undertaken by men. When the US hit their milestone of 3,000 deaths in Iraq, 62 were women, 2938 were men. There’s a Denis Dutton/Baumeister essay (http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm – worth a read) which notes that the US Dept of Labor statistics show 93% of workplace deaths were men. It is not because men are 93% more careless, it is because – just like there are few women in the video-game industry – there are fewer women in the very high risk industries. Yet we don’t see Kotaku or otherwise equality-minded blogs calling for a greater female presence in the workplace death ratio.
This is a cultural norm.
‘Women and children first’ has been the creed for thousands of years. Deciding overnight one or two generations ago to reverse that is NOT going to be immediately successful.
And there are physiological differences between men and women. All things being equal, training and exceptions aside, your average woman is not as strong as your average man. And even when you defy the averages and find a woman of equivalent weight/height to a man, the man is still better physically wired for physical strength. These are facts we have studied and know as truths. We’ve internalized them for millenia, so your underdog instinct could also be kicking in.
Have you read The Myth of Male Power? The prose is a bit too angry for my taste, but the arguments in it are really solid.
Edit: I should add that I submitted an article to Potaku earlier this morning that actually touched on some of your ideas… though not as well-structured 😛
Haven’t read, will give it a look-see.
Additional thoughts/extrapolations:
Was thinking about the point you mentioned. People conflate equivalence and equality a LOT.
Victims of assault go through self-blame as a coping mechanism, especially if they’ve received training. I’d suggest that while it’s understood that they go through this because partly as a way of reasserting some imaginary, retroactive control over the situation (lack of control is often cited as being scarier than the physical injury), I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s partly because they’ve been brought up on the myth that ‘equal’ means ‘same’.
If you’ve ever been to a good self-defense course for women, it’ll have the fathers, brothers, partners and friends of actual victims who do not hold back during training, just to show just how great the disparity is or can be, what kind of unfair advantage they’re up against. And even though these men know and are determined to provide training that is actually useful to help save a life, and not just an academic ‘feelgood’ exercise, it still takes a heavy psychological toll, confronting being responsible for even simulated feelings of powerlessness.
The workplace death thing, though? That’s your real indicator. If you have even the slightest hesitation to demand equal representation in workplace deaths (as a percentage, not a numerical increase – no-one’s saying more people should die, only which demographics are represented in the fatal accidents), then you have a hang-up, and you believe in preferential treatment for one gender over another. …You monster.
It’s up to you whether you consider that to be a good thing or a bad thing. Me? I decided a long time ago that the modern elements of chivalry (from ‘holding the door for women first’ sort of level, through to, “Oi. Asshole. Men are fair game, but you never hit a woman,”) are harmless enough that it’s not worth fighting the cognitive dissonance from ingrained conditioning to uphold some theoretical ideal of ultra-equality.
Whoa, missed this one this morning.
And looks like there’s already been extensive discussion covering this in depth (especially by transientmind), so yeah.
Let me just add – welcome to the biggest factor against putting women in front line combat roles. It’s not the women or their capabilities, it’s how men react (and it’s biologically hardwired) to the female casualties. (Don’t take this as an argument against it either, I have no problem with them being there if they’re physically capable, but it is a factor that has to be considered by military psychologists and a lot of people a lot smarter than me)
Best I can offer, have you seen the movie G.I. Jane? It might be fictional Hollywood bullshit but I still think it’s worthwhile viewing.
@sughly: Tried [redacted] The Killing but all the [redacted] were too slow. :'( *shakes fist*
Wut..? XD
Ok, so I bought a 3DS last night, and picked up New Leaf and Spirit tracks (DS) as I never finished that before the mic on my DS Lite busted.
What other ones should I be looking at? I’ve read through a few top 10 lists (here included) and didn’t really see much that took my fancy (I’m going to pickup Mario 3D Land, and definitely the new Zelda when it comes out) so any recommendations would be awesome!
@greenius I finally got the t-shirts I ordered from Totally Irreverent. They are really nice t-shirts, and I kind of wish I’d been able to order more.
So Dragon’s Crown is a cool guy. It’s like someone took my favorite side scrolling beat ’em up ever – Knights of the Round, and added RPG elements, more controls and sexy-as-hell graphics. Only played an hour or two so far, but really digging it.
Is that out?
I have a US account and bought it off PS Store, so not sure about here.
October for Aus/NZ, No European date as far as I know. Out in the US.
According to Kotaku that makes you a dirty misogynistic monster who likes to ogle and or/grope defenseless well-endowed peasants or something. 😐
Funniest part is, apart from the huge norks on the sorceress, I haven’t even noticed any of the other stuff. Whatevs. It’s a good game that’s channelling my arcade side-scrolling beat-em-up childhood all over again. Thoroughly enjoying myself, misogynistic groping or not.
I haven’t played it at all yet (in post somewhere) but it seems like it’s basically just Kamitani’s exaggerated art style + throwbacks to stupid 80s D&D tropes. Chainmail bikinis and rescuing poorly dressed women from dungeons and stuff.
Yeah I keep coming back to Knights of the Round meets D&D. Only done an hour or so, but I hear it’s a good 20 hours worth of playtime.
When I get it and can tear myself away from Xillia and FFXIV maybe we can multi
Would anyone like… a (physical) copy of Little Big Planet + network code for PS Vita?
I picked up a digital copy when buying a memory card ‘n so the case is just sitting on my table, taunting and teasing me with its uselessness and redundancy.
Free things? *ears perk up, eyes widen* 😛
While I do have (and have finished) LBP 1 and 2, I’m not a HUGE fan so I wouldn’t want to take it away from someone else who might really want it (I’m thinking @scree maybe?). I was thinking of just beating the campaign once so I could always pass it on to someone else though! (or borrow it from another person)
Thanks anyway 😀
Never played it ^^;;
D’awww. Everyone here is overly generous — I’ll keep you in mind in case no-one else wants it. 😛
Pretty sure you’re the overly generous one, giving away things! 😀
I’m not one to watch Offspring, but if I was I’d be pretty pissed that both PopSugar (on the bottom of this page) and News.com.au have spoiled major plot developments in headlines on the front pages! :S
Yeah, I’ve noticed that too. It’s pretty damn lazy journalism.
As sensitive as we are to game spoilers, we have to admit that by and large and in most cases, spoilers for games are treated with far greater care in journalism than other media.
I’ve never watched it, but I know the characters and basic premise — last night happened to be the first episode I sat down and followed (because no-one would let me watch Arrow ;-; ) and two things stood out:
1) How very deep and emotional. For dedicated fans of the show, I bet they hate the writers. 😛
2) Twitter and online media outlets and live TV shows after Offspring went to air… totally ruined it for anyone who hadn’t seen it yet. Especially SA/WA where people really couldn’t watch it any faster, and the response was largely “get over it, I just saved you from watching an hour of TV!”
Thoughtless.
So stupid. We live in an age of DVRs and internet streaming.
Can you even stream Offspring from anywhere?
Ten’s website!
Cool. Next question: DO people stream it from Ten’s website?
My girlfriend has watched it using Ten’s website a couple of times. Only if she misses the episode when it airs though.
So, yes?
YOU HAVE A GIRLFRIEND?!?!?!
My Mum does.
It is pretty shitty. I think a lot of it is an extension of the ‘First!’ mentality. Like knowing this stuff before anyone else makes you cool or something. Like the people that download and watch GoT on a Monday and race online by mid afternoon to make some inherently spolierific ‘ERMAHGHERD!’ comment as fast as humanly possible. They’d know 95% of people wouldn’t have seen it yet. But somehow having seen it first and commenting online secures your awesomeness. Like you’re ‘in the know’ or something. Some people just can’t hold that shit in.
If anything, I get a bigger kick out of not saying a word and watching someone walk into an episode or a ERMAGHERD moment without having been spoilt.
The Herald Sun partially spoiled it before the episode even ran, calling it a “Teaser”. No that’s just pathetic that you decided to frack up a viewer’s experience cuz they know something’s going to happen.
So Luigi’s Mansion 2 is pretty good right? The wife is interested and I figure that will be our next 3DS purchase since the Animal Crossing hype seems to have died down.
I enjoyed it. It’s a pretty decently sized game too. Lots of character and a lot of fun to boot.
I hear the co-op is good. I’ve personally only got Pokémon X/Y on the radar as the next 3DS game both of us will be playing.
Yeah man! It’s just pure fun.
Some bad design issues here and there though (no mid-level saving/checkpoints >:( ) but the pros outweigh the cons
It’s my GOTY so far. =P
I would suggest against playing it for long periods of time though. The levels are perfectly designed for small bite sized sessions. I played maybe 2 – 3 levels on my commute time.
Yeah, levels are around 10-30 minutes long. I would do one a day or something like that.
I really need to get back into it :/
I must be playing it wrong because a level took me like 50 minutes yesterday 😛 I explore too much…
I explore what I can but yeah, I just don’t want to die after 50 minutes and have to do it ALL again :/
So then don’t die 😛
I’m going to assume you haven’t played it :P. There’s some bullshit areas in the game 😛
Pfft, I made sure to beat it before my 3DS croaked. All gems, all boos, etc 😛 Terror Tower thing was pretty cool too actually, if a little crazy hard to do solo.
😛 hmpf!
I’ve never actually died at the end of a long level but I’d be pissed if I did!
Yeah, that’s the idea. If there’s nothing to lose by dying, then it poses no threat so there’s no need to avoid it ;D
So Cosplay is on track. I am amazed that I am managing to pull this off.
See! and you were stressing about it. I told you that you would get it done!
Still am. Won’t stop until done
Somehow when scrolling past, this appeared to me as “won’t stop until I die”.
Well, that’s the other scenario.
I’m enjoying Pikmin 3.
Bosses have been really fun so far and I love how the gameplay is a mixture of 1 and 2’s but more refined and better. There’s a bit of a time limit but it’s a nice balance between the two games, there’s plenty of Fruit scattered around the level and NO CAVE CRAP!
I still miss some features though but none of them were that important, and the negatives I have with the game are only minor complaints as well.
PIKMIN 4 WITHIN A REASONABLE TIME PLSPLSPLS
Shut yo face, caves were rad.
I still can’t get over how cool off-screen play is.
I didn’t like the caves at all, didn’t have that care and precision of environments designed by an artists hand. Really not a fan of randomly generated stuff.
Pikmin 3 was incredible. Really feel like replaying it already. 😀
I’ll be taking requests for my show from now until 12:00 (SA time, 12:30 on posts)
Gimmie your best songs that you want me to play.
Wannabe – Spice Girls
I think I all 90’s popped out, I played Hanson last week…
You know what happens to radio stations that don’t give the fans what they want?
okay… i’ll play it…
*sigh*
Shit, Freeze. You could have at least picked Viva Forever. Or 2 Become 1.
I always think of a good one like two hours after you go to air.
Lets go some Nick Cave. Either The Ship Song or (one I’m sure will be there) Where the Wild Roses Grow
Sure thing, pretty sure I’ve heard Wild Roses before on the station.
What time do I need to tune in to catch the playlist?
12 Noon, SA time
Chainsaw Gutsfuck.
Or Muse. I dunno what song. Supermassive Black Hole because it happens to be playing right now.
Sure I’ll play it, sound good, from what I heard
..Chainsaw Gutsfuck?
Yes…
No.
We don’t have Supermassive Black Hole, but we do have other Muse songs, got a second choice?
Anything is good, just pick one. Plug In Baby would probably be my second choice though.
Anything from Pearl Jam.
In the spirit of BDO fever.
Kick out the Jams – MC5
Edit: or if you dont want the coarse language, the Jeff Buckley version.
3 seconds before swearing… Okay…
I’ll look for a radio edit…
try the Jeff Buckley version from Live À L’Olympia. pretty sure that ones ok, language-wise.
Soundgarden – Fell On Black Days
Okay, I’ll see if we’ve got it.
Got a decent Soundgarden library so answer is probably yes.
Such an amazing song.
Smoke on the water – Deep purple
Easy, what a classic.
Ooh, another one:
Fleetwood Mac – Tusk
Fleetwood Mac is normally a yes, so yes.
The Eagles – Hotel california
Or else
America – Horse with no name
WhyNotBoth.jpg
Give A Little – Hanson
Nope.avi
In Whyalla? I’m guessing nothing.
Pretty close to the mark, since our main “competition” is a commercial station in Pt. Augusta that nearly everyone listens to.
Ah, Port Augusta.
At least it’s not Pirie.
Does anyone have a copy of Professor Layton 5: Miracle Mask (3DS) I could borrow/buy?
I’ve been waiting for a price drop for ages but that doesn’t seem to be happening any time soon. We can swapsies if you want! Or if anyone has a copy they no longer want I can buy it off you? 🙂
Thanks!
I have also been waiting for a price drop =P
You buy it and lend it to me?
Thanks Scree <3
Do you also have Dream Team and Paper Mario 3DS? You do? Wow thanks again Scree <3!
😛
I have none of those things.
You shall acquire them ! <3
Haha, price drop. I’m pretty sure even Curious Village is still at full price most places.
I’ve never seen Curious Village cheaper than $25. Though Pandora’s Box is $14 at Target right now .
Curious Village wasn’t easy to find. EB informed me that it is discontinued? Apparently 2008 games are so old now.
5 Years is old…
Only in video games…
It was reissued last year. I picked up copies of everything in one hit.
Ah, that explains the cover variants.
Do you have a US 3DS?
Nope, PAL 🙁
Talking about Advance Wars, someone said they should make a new one. Which got me thinking about Battalion Wars. Which got me thinking about Pikmin 3’s strategy/automation stuff and holy shit I need Battalion Wars 3 for Wii U so bad right now.
Advance Wars: Awakening, where you get to pair up tanks to create baby tanks.
…I need this in my life
Instead of Advance Wars they should just make a new Fire Emblem game (same people)
Nooooooo that’s like saying we don’t need Metroid because we have Mario, or F-Zero because Mario Kart.
@bdkiaf (also cc @dc) I think your gf at the moment is the exception- other than iview I don’t think the Australian streaming landscape is anywhere near being something that the commercial networks take seriously
Oh, absolutely. I wasn’t suggesting that watching anything via Ten’s catch-up service is common practice. The only other time I know anyone has used any of the commercial networks’ streaming services is when @greenius was watching The Mole.
Thanks for reminding me to watch last night’s ep! 😛
Seems like the streaming thing has decided to lag behind now. They used to upload the eps as soon as they aired but they only uploaded last week’s episode today. I had to pirate it and I’ll have to pirate this week’s episode :/
Yeah, I agree. Just that not everyone’s going to be watching episodes when it airs live so people should show some restraint spoiling it is all.
Oh if only I had time to list why the Maccas breakfast this morning was a terrible idea.
Speaking of McDonalds, I had one of these fine items the other day!
Could it have been worse than that?
I. Uh. Wut.
Will you “miss it when it’s gone”?
Nowhere near as much as the magnificence of the KFC Double Down.
The Double Down is the magnum opus of junk food.
You’ll have plenty of time when you’re on the toilet thanks to that breakfast.
One point in the pros column.
Already took care of that matter.
*colon.
“Pro: High in fibre”
Not enough hashbrowns?
Also: Here is last week’s TAYList, in convenient Spotify form:
http://t.co/cTJjzocO5B
eekk that was harder than it should have been
Thanks
Seriously considering this: http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/game/ps3/batman-arkham-origins-collector-s-edition/682944
Well then. Guess I’m buying that.
That staue is awesome. Plus, I’m cautiously optimistic re Arkham Origins
I’m pretty hype. The Arkham games are two of my favourites. Plus the multiplayer sounds rad as hell.
Multiplayer?
Clearly I haven’t been paying attention.
Edit: A spies vs mercs kind of thing?
Sort of. More spies v mercs v mercs. Except the spies are Batman and Robin.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/its-thugs-vs-thugs-vs-batman-in-arkham-origins-three-team-multiplayer/
Intriguing.
I’m more looking forward to the portable one.
Metroidvania game by three ex-Retro guys? Sign me up!
Oh man, can’t wait to play that game in general. Ah, Christmas in Gotham. 😀
No PC collector editions. =(
I was thinking the same.
I’m sure you can get someone planning to get the console game to upgrade to the collector’s edition and send you the extra crap.
At least it’s the same release date this time? So slightly less PC hat.
My wallet slowly emerges from hiding
Wow what? I don’t really buy figurines and whatnot but that seems really cheap for something as awesome as that!
OGS sold pre-orders for the Arkham City one for <$100. And that had the cool B&W statue and all…
I meant good local price :). Games are usually $80-90 and most of the standard “DLC and Steelbook” editions are a bit more. I thought it would’ve been like $130-50 or something 😛
That’s not coming out on new platforms is it? Just the old and busted consoles + PC?
Re: John Carmac & Occulus rift Article…
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/john-carmack-has-a-new-job-but-still-involved-with-id-in-some-way/
This is obviously Bethesda’s way of avoiding a public outcry; there isnt a chance in the world that this isnt going to have a significant impact on his contribution to ID, and I’d probably give it till Doom 4 ships before his involvement is non-existent.
As shattered as I am that he is getting out of games development, I’m incredibly excited about VR Technology, specifically the rift. I’m certain his contribution to the project will push it leaps and bounds ahead.
After getting my hands on it a couple of times at PAX, Its breathtaking to witness the level of immersion it provides. The only let down was the resolution on the Rift as it was only an early Dev unit with a relatively low resolution… Ill be snagging one of those babies the moment they have a retail release.
I got a chance to play Mirrors Edge on the Rift. It was really cool, it definitely suits certain types of games though.
definitely true… I mean i could picture playing something like Portal, or dear esther, skyrim.
Flight sims / Space sims are going to be great with the rift.
Would love to play an updated version of starlancer with rift support
If Skyrim on the Rift was as good as it’s reported to be with certain ‘coded for it’ game patches (eg: HL2), I would probably never leave the house.
So we’re having this Asia-Pacific zone forum at work that’s being held in Australia for the first time, and it means that not only have we got some bigshots from head office in the US filtering in, but also a bunch of people people from the offices in Japan and Singapore.
Something that baffles me whenever people come in from overseas is just how much people fawn over them. I get we want to make them feel welcome and at the same time looking good to management and networking in general is positive for your image and can help your career (something my boss occasionally reminds me of because I don’t go out of my way to do it), but would someone really come in and feel more welcome because everyone rushes over to bask in their awesomeness as soon as they walk in? Is anyone so shallow that the office needs to drop everything to pay attention to them? Wouldn’t the fact that everyone is so easily distracted by their presence that they can’t possibly keep working reflect negatively on those people?
Sometimes I feel like I’m really not suited to working in an office. There’s some things I just don’t “get”. I do really enjoy my job, but I think I’m just far too antisocial for the environment.
Technical positions are generally lower-paid than managerial positions. The former is usually the work of introverts, the latter the work for extroverts. It’s sucky! For us introverts.
TV needs more of this.
Actually I’d be happy if TV was nothing but.
Oh man, I remember that. So great.
Hell, they all seem to be on YouTube. Gonna marathon!
So investigating using an Aldi Mobile SIM for something at work temporarily for testing, and I went to the website.
https://www.aldimobile.com.au/
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON WITH THAT WOMAN’S HEAD.
Nothing. She likes green. She’s alright.
The real question is whether you get decent 4G on a sauce bottle, because I have some concerns.
I bought a bottle of that, but it turned out that it took nano sims and I only had a micro. :'(
Takes a fair shake?
Regressed jaw.
I believe she’s suffering a mild stroke which has paralised half her face and in her panic she’s mistakingly grabbed a condiment to contact emergency services.
ahahah I remember thinking the exact same thing during my mobile plan research
Just realised that I haven’t done this in a while…
BOARD GAMES!
DARK SOULS \o/
If I can stop playing Dota for long enough, I’m going to head down to The Depths and see what this Gaping Dragon fellow is like.
Is he friendly?
I’ve never died to him. Other folks seem to hate him.
Do you want some specific advice? 🙂
My plan is to kill him dead. We’ll see how well I can execute that plan before worrying about advice.
I take back what I said yesterday about Demon’s Souls. I GIVE UP!
I mean come on. Laser beams that you can’t really avoid while walking on a 20cm wide ledge? WTF? >:(
*shakes fist*
Ah I remember that bit. GOTTA GO FAST, Sonic-style. Or use a bow and never get near them.
Alas I have no bow. 🙁
I’m a sword/magic kinda guy. Well I do have a bow but never used it. :O
Ticket to Ride!
CHOO CHOO!
EDIT: Reply fail. moving it down thread.
CHOO CHOO
mor liek bored games.
Xenoblade!
Bought Titanium Wars Yesterday, watched people play it on Tuesday. SOOO GOOOOD
I have power grid, chrononauts, libertalia, smash up and 7 wonders: leaders on the way
HANABI!
I hat you @redartifice. Hat you so much. My resolve to never again blow my money on collectors editions was going so well. So very very well.
I’ve been good dammit, I deserve this one.
EDIT: Did it. Damn my impulse control. I need a Snow-Crash style Tattoo
Dammit. So did I.
Last night playing Dota 2, I went into the jungle as Batrider.
There were three camps of golems. They’re magic immune. Batrider pretty much only does magic damage. :/
I also got to play with a celebrity! #HiHarli #HastagsForHarli
Shane tells me I’m terrible at haggling.
I’ll give you $10 for that skill.
I can come at $11.
Thats not how it works.
Shane – You’re the worst at haggling, Alex!
Alex – No, I’m the best there ever was!
Shane – No, you’re pretty bad.
Alex – OK, i’m not the best, but i’m pretty good.
Shane – sub-par
Alex – Above average
Shane – Meh
Alex – Meh
/scene
To be fair, it was a pretty bad haggle 😛
i haggled the guy at cash converters 2 weeks ago down to $5 for a copy of Diablo 3 PC from the asking price of $19… I asked to look at it and noticed it was still completely sealed (they didnt realise this. He said the lowest he could go was $15… after a convincing argument about all the reasons i could end up getting ripped off, he agreed to do it for $5 if i wave my right to return it if it doesnt work.
Activated first shot!
God i just had the most awesome idea….
Imagine a Rollercoaster Tycoon 4… You build the coaster, then you slap on the Occulus Rift Headset and Test it out in first person….
*nerdgasm*
and puke everywhere!
Screw the Oculus. That’s where 3D printing could come into its own.
One of the demo videos is a rollercoaster
Apparently one of the worst for motion sickness as you are being ‘thrown around’ on the roller coaster without anything happening to your body
Brain is DO NOT LIEK!
I think there’s actually someone making something like this. Or at least there was a rollercoaster-building game that was working on integrating Rift support.
@lucifer9783 do you actually announce the TAYlist as “internet requests?”
hell no, usually as a “request from a friend”
Why don’t you let us have multiple accounts on a Vita Sony……… WHY!!!
Really hasn’t bothered me till now, I want Dragon’s Crown 🙁 I know i can do the annoying swap account thing but that would require a second memory card and they are spensive.
Also spelled Sony Vita wrong before as “Soy Vita” sounds like a healthy snack.
So ‘spensive…
It’s the #1 most irritating thing about the system. Or maybe #2 behind the proprietary memory.
I would buy so many JP PSP games if I could use two accounts easily 🙁
Really hope they don’t fuck it all up with the PS4 and go with a one account thing or lock all accounts to a single region.
O_O oh dam, that hadn’t even occurred to me, I really hope they don’t. It worked so well on ps3, I like how any game bought on any profiles can be played by any accounts on that system, I’d just buy stuff from my American account but play them on my Gutsoup account
If they did it my AU account would go bye-bye and I’d have to import a US system. No way am I getting locked to PAL again.
At least the games probably won’t be region locked maybe (despite what they say, Sony are not as definite on this as people think)
Picked up Resident Evil 6 for $15. It’s got to offer even a small amount of entertainment to make it worth $15 right? Guys? Right?
I got it for free and it was even hard to justify for that 😛
(pretend spoiler tag)
It’s not THAT bad
I bought RPG maker last night because it was $24ish. Gonna make all the JRPG’s! \o/
I watched a friend play it for a bit a couple of months ago. One of the boss fights seemed really cool at least. Not $15 cool, but maybe a dollar or two cool 😛
Mrs. Freeze is a Resident Evil fan, right?
I played it, and while it was far from true to the original games, or even amazing as a stand alone game, it was OK in my books. It wasn’t anywhere near as terrible as people made it out to be. Certainly not worth a $70 odd new title, but for say $30 or less, definitely.
Resident Evil is a tough one to get objective opinions on. Mostly due to RE4 and RE5 being so divided amongst fans, as well as RE6 being the furthest departure from the original RE1-RE3.
I think as long as your expectations are at the right level it shouldn’t be too bad.
http://www.gameinformer.com/games/the_legend_of_zelda_the_wind_waker_hd/b/wii_u/archive/2013/08/07/this-is-the-legend-of-zelda-the-wind-waker-hd-39-s-lovely-box-art.aspx
So beautiful.
We’re going to compare so many notes!
o/
\o
Holy mackerel that’s pretty!
Any info on whether they’re updating the music or leaving it the same ala Ocarina of Time 3D?
I love the box art, but I think they should rework the “HD” box. Spoils it I think.
I miss the old days of gold Zelda game boxes and cartridges.
one of my Biggest tade in regrets is OOT and Majora’s Mask gold carts, curse past broke Gutsoup …. curse him
*caresses his gold carts*
mMMMMmmmmmm
*Gold Carts*
is that what the cool kids call it now a days?
we just used to call them testies
No, they’re my Golden Jewels
Just don’t forget to blow the carts before playing
Good Man, I have way too many trade in regrets, stupid being poor and lusting for shiny things.
There’s a non-gold Majora?
I didn’t even know until a couple of years ago that there was such thing as a non-gold OoT. Did they even exist down here, or just in other PAL regions?
Still don’t like the way they’ve removed the shadowing. Soft gradients where there used to be hard lines. Less stylized. Makes them look more like Plasticine and less like a cartoon.
Hngh politics. *engage news boycott*
This is probably my favourite 5 minutes of TV this year 😛 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb9mslFnWMo
I don’t think it’s humanly possible for Stephen Colbert to be a disappointment. My favourite bit would probably be the Matt Damon booth!
Oh wow, I love all those actors!
So not only does the Wii U not get the collectors edition of Arkham Origins but it doesn’t get multiplayer either?
Why the hell would you buy the Wii U version over others? Why is Nintendo allowing neutered versions of games into a perfectly able console? It’s like they want it to fail.
The alternative is the realisation the Wii U might just be another console not good for much apart from in house titles like Mario or Zelda.
I don’t think “allow” is part of the equation.
Surely they have some form of say in what goes on their machine?
Only in terms of “we will sell you a license to publish on Wii U”
Not editorial. Hell, even in the “Nintendo Seal of Quality” days they didn’t do that.
I just figured there’d be some conditions on a licence to protect Nintendo’s interests in some way.
You would think so but, Rayman Legends.
Nintendo’s interests are to have games published on the console, and for licensees to pay them money when that happens. That’s it.
Now, nintendo could have paid WB to put MP in it, but they didn’t. WB’s calculation is that $ more sales from MP < $ cost to program MP on Wii U.
Also Also, if nintendo went to WB and said “put MP in or you don’t get to publish it on Wii U,” WB would say “go fuck yourself, it’s too expensive” and Nintendo would miss out on a) license fees and b) having Batman as a system seller in any way at all.
I doubt that Batman is a system seller. Anyone that bought a Wii U to play Batman would have to be fucking insane even assuming the features were the same.
Oh, I agree, it’s not. But a lack of Batman is a system-bypasser.
Would you buy a console where you can’t play the sequel to one of the best games of this generation?
No, because I can play it on the system I already played the previous two games on.
Didn’t you hear? They have enough capital to continue failing for another 80 years, so who cares!
*scrolls to bottom of page and Popsugar picture of shirtless man posing appears just as coworker arrives at my desk*
Did the coworker give you a knowing wink and smile over his shoulder while leaving?
So… are you free after work?
Sorry if anyone was trying to log onto my MC server last night. My computer restarted itself. It’s back up now.
YOU MONSTER!
I can never forgive you … unless you collect lots and lots of dirt blocks for me. =P
Define Lots…
I’m guessing 27 going of the Disk World rules.
It’s still going! Might have to drop in at some point.
I may have misplaced the address. How do I connect again?
Oh man, Dota 2 international, so good.
dont wanna go to uni… so many great games…
SNACKTAKU
Half-wheel of brie cheese
Add half an avocado
Spread them between two slices of bread.
Repeat steps 1 to 3 for desired number of sandwiches.
Consume fresh
Revel in creamy taste, despair at massive stomachache
Overall, 9/10 bishes.
Edit: hooboy, I had two sandwiches, and they took me 45 minutes to get through.
Half a wheel per sandwich? O_o.
Originally I put 1/4 on instead, but it seemed dwarfed by the half avocado on each sandwich. Rather than reduce the amount of avocado, which would be CRAZY TALK, I elected for the only sensible option.
I know bacon is played the fuck out, but that would be totally boss with some bacon in there.
Oh man. That’s a real missed opportunity.
Pancetta is also good
I’m starting to wonder if there’s a single movie in 2013 that Amy Adams isn’t in…
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/08/spike-jonzes-her-trailer-what-happens-if-you-fall-in-love-with-siri/
@dc must be happy 🙂
Guess who’s doing the soundtrack for that one.
Shaping up to be @dc’s favourite movie of all time.
Haha! Sughly and I have already had this discussion on Twitter. Does look pretty damn great though.
Reading news.com.au is so entertaining for all the wrong reasons.
Article about Abbots daughters (for some reason) full of pictures of the Abbot family all smiles and happy poses. One photo of Rudd holding his screaming upset infant granddaughter at arms length.
Unbiased facts, yessiree.
It’s like a train wreck you just can’t help but look at, despite knowing full well you shouldn’t.
It’s going to be an amazing election
This is why we can’t have nice things.
:/
You almost want to vote for her enough to see what she does next.
Almost.
Why is it Queensland somehow seems to champion production of these types of people? I mean, I know they exist the world over, but especially in politics – it’s always Queensland that has the real nuffies.
The heat maybe? Don’t know. Usually they’re from North Queensland so ask @rocketman.
I suspect they’re the same sort of people that @rocketman used to work with 🙁
I’m voting Laboral.
So I just looked at the teams of the Dota 2 international and I dont know why but I was quite shocked I couldnt find a single Australian player. Don’t know why I feel bothered by that I just figured we would have atleast 1 player in there.
Has anyone played Of Orcs And Men? I picked it up with RE6 and it seems to have reviewed decently but I can’t recall anyone ever mentioning it.
I haven’t, but I was eyeing it off a while back. Looks fun. Report findings, plox.
Imma just leave this here. http://www.vg247.com/2013/07/23/dark-souls-2-mirror-knight-boss-footage-leaks/
Looks pretty cool.
Stop posting Dark Souls II videos while I’m at work you bad bad man.
Not looking! Spoilers will ruin the supprise!
Well. My brain went out the door, Now 3 hours of work left until I can follow it
I don’t think my brain came with me to work today 🙁
TAYlist for the 8th of August 2013 TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by a desire to start speedrunning games
Nick Cave – Where The Wild Roses Grow (Requested by @redartifice)
Michael Bolton – Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay (This one was a request from Ginger, the DJ who’s on the air before me)
Pearl Jam – Daughter (For @benny, who wanted some PJ)
Alex Lloyd – Black The Sun (which was immediately followed by a song from Cher Lloyd, no relation)
Soundgarden – Live To Rise (Sorry to @ynefel, didn’t have Fall On Black Days)
Deep Purple – Smoke on The Water (Requested by @tigerion)
Hoodoo Gurus – Bittersweet
Fleetwood Mac – Tusk (Another request by @redartifice)
Hanson – Give A Little (Really, @trjn?)
Spice Girls – Wannabe (Don’t you start, @freezespreston)
Meatloaf – You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth
Crowded House – Fall At Your Feet
America – A Horse With No Name (Requested by @Scree)
The Eagles – Hotel California (Another request from @Scree)
Muse – Plug In Baby (@BDKIAF)
Apologies to @35, we don’t have Kick Out The Jams in the computer.
The film clip has Weird Al in it.
Also, it’s a good song. Have some taste.
This is a good list.
Edit: Mostly.
oh well. I’ll just start my own radio show! with blackjack & kei$ha
geddit?
That Bolton sitting on the dock is… inferior to the original
I don’t care, I did like the original better though.
There were two songs, neither were the original, I picked one.
If you wannabe my lover
Ya gotta get with my friends!
\o/
If only my ex-girlfriends said that to me. They wouldn’t be my exes.
I see what you did there @benny
@benwhite, spoilers are broken, halp
@bdkiaf @dkzeitgeist @redartifice @freezespreston @coldcamv @vonsack (whoever else)
NFS:MW tonight?
If TELSTRA HAVE FIXED MY FRIGGIN PHONE LINE
If I’m on, it’s on.
Ya dig?
Heck yes.
I should be on around 8ish :]
I would but I’m babysitting tonight which sucks 🙁
Got held up at dinner last night mate, woman and their hour long showers..
Still keen to jump on NFS/payday.
@dc omg you’re the worst! 😛
You know it!
*Disclamier*
Ok i know it’s juvenile but I don’t care, if you don’t like stoopid things don’t read this.
I was playing Dynasty Warriors 8 and started a level called
“The Battle of Shiting”, being how the games are usually historically accurate I looked it up and sure enough there is a place in China called “Shiting”
I was laughing the whole time during the battle Imagining running up to an officer and Battling over who could lay the largest log.
P.S I would have spoilerised this to avoid offending the offendables but they’re not working so I’ll include the obligatory 😛
Don’t hate me cause I’m amused by dumb shit
Your story made me giggle a little so we are probably going to hell together.
There are many places in the world that have amusing names but I was not aware of Shiting.
I used to work in logistics and had a note book I that I filled about 20 pages of funny Australian named towns. Imagine telling people your address, “oh yes I’d like that mailed to Shiting please”
I’m still laughing 😛
Battle of shiting, if I boost my gauge i will lay the largest log and send 50 small army people flying!
it’s Dynasty Warriors………. so 150 small army dudes 😛
Haha and one general who can’t get through the 150 small army dudes to even touch that log of greatness
*age of empires 2 voice*
RAIDING PARTY
Best voice over ever!
Do not pursue Lu Poo.
oh man, that is great, made me laugh so hard 😀
while it does read funny to native english speakers, it’s actually pronounced more like Shurting. I totally get the lols though 😉
yeah, I figured it would be pronounced totally different and realized it would only be funny to some, hence the juvenile dumb disclaimer 😛
hey, even I lol’d when I first read it 😉 Just thought I’d let people know in case they wanted to know how it really sounds 🙂
Hell, I still laugh at Lo Wang!
What about Dong Tuna?
When I got up to that battle, I called my brother and father into the room to look at the name of the battle. It was hilarious.
😀 Glad other found this funny. Lo Wang, Dong Tuna, He Man, so many amusing names
Taylist 8/8/13 on Spotify!
http://t.co/ccebGsZ7zO
No Bittersweet, though I did get Kick Out The Jams
@redartifice does it again!
@lucifer9783 is the one to thank, I just spotify search quickly 🙂
@GREENIUS WANTS ME TO PLAY TORCHLIGHT 2 WITH HIM
IS IT A TARP?
IT MUST BE A TARP
OH! I SEE HOW IS @GREENIUS
OR SHOULD I SAY
@HatsNobSoMuchThatHeNeverWantsToPlayAGameWithHimEspeciallyTheGameTorchligh2
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT @GuyWhoGreeniusKeptAskingToPlayTorchlight2WithButAlwaysSaidAllNahImDoneWithThatGameAndIHateYouBecauseImSerHatulusAndITakeForeverToReachLevel31BecauseIKeepHatingAllTheCharactersIMakeBecauseImSerHatulus
Maybe he just didn’t want to play with you? He is Ser Hatulus after all.
No, we originally played as co-op buddies and then we both stopped.
Mental image of Admiral Ackbar in builder’s overalls…
http://www.scifilists.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/its-a-tarp-719413.jpg
sometimes the internet has the best things, 😀
I think the worst thing about the election is that people actually want to talk about politics with me. I hate talking about politics. I hate arguing, and I seriously couldn’t care less :l
Benefit of being a resident, not a citizen = no mandatory voting \o/
There was a song at the end of Wednesday Night Fever (it’s a pretty shit show, but it has its moments) last night arguing about whether to draw a dick or a vagina in the box on the ballot paper. It’s got me seriously considering my options now 😛
loool, that is a tough choice
I believe we go for a mixture of both vagenis
reminds me of the South Park where the kids are given the choice between a Turd Sandwich or a Giant Douchebag as their school mascot.
“I’d rather not talk about politics, thanks.”
Sorted.
It works sometimes (not that exact language, too formal for me), but then there’s the people who are really into it, as in they get off on it into it who won’t take that for an answer and think it’s necessary to educate me on my rights and civil duties and god knows what else, and I’m too nice of a person to just tell somebody to fuck off and walk away after we’ve been having a decent conversation up to that point 🙁
Yeah, today I was dealing with one of those people.
Look up the name of an independent in your electorate. Say, “Oh, I’m voting for ‘blah’” Watch as they back away from you.
@ynefel: are you still intending to play FFXIV for a bit and stuff? They’ve got one of those Letters from the Producer things tonight about 10om and expectation is they’ll announce phase 4 beta starts tomorrow.
I probably won’t play until Xillia is done with but will log in early to create my character.
Is tales of Xillia any good?
I fucking well hope so because I’ve been anticipating it for months. It’s on the passenger seat of my car and I be playing it tonight.
did you buckle it in? what am i asking, of course you buckled it in, i mean what if you had an accident?
It could have gone through the front windscreen and gotten seriously injured!!!
I haven’t actually driven with it in the car yet. I’m still at work. Yes I know it’s 7:10PM 🙁
This comment makes me feel uncomfortable. =/
Not my intention, have edited.
You didn’t have to edit it. It was just all i could contribute to the conversation
It was a dumb and immature way to phrase it regardless.
Sorry. I shouldn’t have said anything. I feel bad about it.
@scree: shouldn’t ever be afraid to say that sort of thing IMO.
@negativezero
As long as you’re not offended or angry with me
@scree: not at all. I’d never want anyone in TAY to feel uncomfortable about a stupid joke I’d written.
@negativezero
I’m sorry, but thank you. It didn’t make me feel that uncomfortable but I appreciate it.
Yeah I’m planning to hit up FFXIV, but likely continue skipping beta – will jump back in once it releases proper. I had a poke around for an hour or two in phase 2, but that’s been it. Will be nice to get my lv50 Black Mage going again, and see what cool shit Legacy gets me.
Oh right, not playing a new toon. My old character will probably reappear somewhere if they bring her over, but I’ll probably create a new one that looks similar since I think I only got to about 10-15 in Thaurmaturge.
Yeah I’ll definitely make a new toon – have to play from the beginning again, but keen to dig up the Black Mage too. Not sure what other class I’d play though, I’ll sort it out closer to the day.
Well phase 4 progress will carry over to main game so you might want to get in and create something to reserve your name at least.
Looks like Phase 4 is from the 16th so got some extra time. Probably not worth bothering though since it’s capped to level 20. Also early access is only for the weekend before release 🙁
Yeah, not really fussed about getting in and starting early or reserving a name. My main’s first name is Ynefel, so I’m square. Any other characters I’m willing to improvise. I like specific kinds of names, but I’m not overly particular – I’m reasonably flexible if something is taken.
Cosplay has halted today due to creating the emblem. I have to paint it on the jacket because embroidery machines are expensive.
Directly on the jacket? I don’t really remember it that well but to give it a more emblem-ish look and avoid costly mistakes might it be better to paint it on a scrap of fabric then attach that to the jacket?
I was originally going to do that, but this will take less time.
I haven’t used zig-zag stitches much and with not much time I can’t make mistakes. It’s actually easier for me to do it this way.
Does this one need boning?
No, thank goodness
I think I have bad gas… 🙁
(That had to be a page-get, didn’t it?
🙁 x 2
If you talk about your most miserable or embarrassing thing, it will always end up a page get.
It’s true. Freeze got the last page get with a shameful Resident Evil purchase 😛
Um…I paid $250 for RE6. But it was a major collectors edition. And I enjoyed the game. I played it with Either Gorzy or Pyrean.
I was just kidding. I’ve never played an RE game.
I paid $150 for Duke Nukem Forever.
I you love something set it free 🙂
If it comes home, set it on fire.
Unless it’s a tiger.
When it burns you need to get it checked
Is it nap time yet?
It’s always nap time somewhere.
TAYbies… what’s the one game that you’ve bought that you never thought you’d purchase?
Postal. And then Postal 2.
Can we keep it between us? 🙁
Postal, yes.
Postal 2, no.
Sorry.
XCOM Enemy Unknown. I despise turn based games. I hate all strategy games (except Warcraft 2,3,FT[and I only played those with cheats])
I love XCOM. Not enough to finish it mind you (but that’s mainly because of time issues. PUT IT ON VITA ALREADY)
VITA XCOM IS THE STUFF LOUD DREAMS ARE MADE OF!!!
Tornado Outbreak on PS3- I haven’t played it yet though.
Flower- sixaxis controls put me off in most games but I enjoyed Flower.
I kind of want to buy Linger in Shadows even though it’s not a ‘game’ -more of an interactive clip.
I really liked Flow and Flower. They’re some of my most-played games on the PS3, because I can hand them to pretty much anyone. Even visiting parents.
“Here’s a controller. Swoosh it around or press a button to go faster. Enjoy.”
Just one? 😛
First to come to mind is Animal Crossing Wii. Ended up picking it up just because I saw it going for stupidly cheap and I’m an idiot. Same goes for a bunch of uDraw games (they were $4 each and I’d just picked up the tablet for $14, because I have a thing for weird peripherals, so figured I should get some software to go with it).
Oh, OoT3D. Had zero interest in it, but EB’s ocarina pack was kind of cool and I had an opportunity to get it at a reduced price, so I jumped on that.
Hey there’s another one. Once Upon A Monster, just because Double Fine and it was $5 😛 I have a real problem with “bargains”.
Yeah I find myself buying the weird peripherals too. I have a PS2 eye camera with a bunch of games.
I also bought the PS3 Wonderbook peripheral for DIGGS NIGHTCRAWLER!!! I know it will be awesome when I eventually play it 🙂
I’m a gigantic fan of the e-reader. ~2002 was the pinnacle of gaming imo 😛
Wait…
Did it come out and YOU HAVEN’T PLAYED IT!?
C’mon Mash! You were so excited for it 😛
Soon. Maybe after NFS 🙂
But what happened to BLOPS2, The Walking Dead, Journey and The Last of Us? 🙂
Ugh. You know too much 🙂
Actually, I guess you could interpret that a different way – I never thought I’d get to own a US copy of Jack Bros, but I got lucky. Same goes for Waterworld. Doubt I’ll ever get the boxes for them though, at least not without shelling out an unreasonable amount of cash 😛
All games released after 2010 because I am honestly surprised that I haven’t gotten myself killed yet.
What do you mean “that doesn’t count”? Your face doesn’t count. Yeah. I said it.
I’m bending the rules and making it an entire console – the PS3.
I was always a Nintendo fanboy growing up, and when I finally admitted the Wii’s shortcomings in 2008, I bought a 360 for all the multiplatform releases, as it was better on paper at the time for whatever arbitrary requirements I came up with. Especially since Master Race, so why would I need all the consoles?
Never thought I’d end up with a PS3 as well, let alone it being my go-to machine for the ‘pure’ console experience. Journey may have cemented its place in my heart, but I can also thank it for Demons / Dark Souls, RDR, Heavy Rain off the top of my head.
The Professor Layton series.
Singstar ABBA.
Medal of Honor (2010)
For the $3 I paid for it, I felt like I got good value from it
One game? I have made MANY dubious purchases!
I like to trot out ‘Magical Diary’ whenever it comes to completely un-manly things I own. It’s basically a dating sim from the perspective of a young girl going to anime-style howarts. So… yeah.
Then there’s ‘Fairy Solitaire’, which… well. Is basically a string of actually pretty fun solitaire puzzles strung together with some weepy teen poetry style story about a very sensitive young man who goes on a quest to try and figure out why all the fairies are crying.
Finally… ‘Zen of Sudoku’. I never thought I’d pay for a Sudoku app, but my god. I’ve actually sunk more hours into that thing than into most MMOs. It has nice art and the puzzles are solid, and the ambient sound for the (perhaps too easy) medium puzzles is a wind-and-rain sound effect with some wooden wind-chimes, which is something I have on several occasions left playing over stereo speakers while I go to sleep.
I don’t understand this question. I’ve never purchased something I didn’t intend to purchase?
I have regretted purchasing things later on but that’s a whole different thing.
@dc, ready to talk Treme season 1, man! 😀
@dc, ready to talk Pikmin 3, man! 😀
@dc ready to talk about things, man! 😀
And that’s Pikmin 3 finished :). Kinda accidentally finished it and didn’t realise I was fighting the last boss until I nearly killed it 😛
Stats at completion:
42 Fruit
Day 28 – 9:17
700 Total Pikmin
344 Dead (RIP! – Probably lost around 150 at the last few days when I kind of just gave up trying to be careful :P)
Around 8 hours played.
Discuss Pikmin with me friendssss! What were your stats?
___
EDIT: But still no Dynasty Warriors 8 :'(
Thankfully I’m into Need For Speed: Most Wanted now :D. It’s getting really good now that I know what the heck I’m doing, I almost gave up on it :P… We need more multi sessions!
I’ve also found a Torchlight II buddy! (YOU’VE BEEN REPLACED NOB)
I keep neglecting my 3DS and thus Luigi’s Mansion 2 :P. I’ll beat you one day!
I think I finally figured out what that mystery time on the final stats screen – it’s the time of (in-game) day you finish, not how long you played. I finished one super fast the other day, so ended up with like 7:50, then it all clicked 😛
Let’s see what I got…
Oh hey, 28 days too 😛 Actual game time was something like 12 hours though
35 fruit, 694 Pikmin, 335 dead. Man, quit copying me.
Game’s not over yet though – mission mode ahoy!
Yeah, that makes sense actually. I’m pretty sure it said 7 hours when I reset the game so I assume it’s actually around 7:30-8 hours played (I AM THE PIKMIN MASTER). I’m sure collecting all the fruit will add 10 hours or so and I might as well try out Mission mode – it has leaderboards, right? You gotta add me (Greenius) so we can compare scores! (aka SO I CAN BEAT YOU)
Dude I already beat you. I’m 100% done with the game.
You never had your car 😎
Re: Most Wanted. How the shit does Masha have all of the cars already? I think I have half. Maybe. If that.
I assume your times will start showing up on races then?
Masha must’ve played a lot! I’m not sure whether @dkzeitgeist had the game before or just played a lot but he has some mad times :O
My times should start showing up now but I’m still working my way up so unless you’re going back to a lot of the earlier races you probably won’t see my times.
I don’t know if I’m just terrible but I’m always restarting races a few times :/. I HATE crashing right near the end then losing, or being first right near the end only to have someone come out of nowhere and overtake me at the end :'(
Masha bought it at release 🙂
Only started playing the game this past week though.
I should fix my problem of buying games around launch and not playing them.
Working on it 🙂
Keep at it kiddo!
I play games the Max Power way.
RIGHT!?
I was bombin’ around Downtown and everytime I rolled up on a new whip, friggin’ Masha’s already got it.
Ugh, your times are too good though.
My autolog list is just defeat hombre over and over again.
I should download The Zeitgeist late as a ‘punishment’ 🙂
I hope your Dynasty Warriors comes soon, I’ve nearly maxed out my main character and have worked out the weapon tempering system. You can make some ridiculously OP weapons, I made a ridiculous one last night that made Chaos difficulty seem like easy, before that it was actually rather challenging. Also can you please link me to Taynames or tell me how to find it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgFxIpTLAp-LdDNZbWVTNjhYNGE2bXpFTkxqV3BzM2c&hl=en_US
Bookmark/Favourite/Google TAYnames 🙂
Which character are you using? I hope my favs are easily unlocked or are already unlocked (Gan Ning!)
if you play Ambition mode you’ll unlock everyone easily, i unlocked the last couple last night. (you can unlock people in story mode, there are a couple with special requirements like “don’t save officer X” and you’ll unlock a what if level that’ll have the new character in it. Or in ambition mode they’re easy and you don’t have to do anything out of the ordinary, just kill them. I’m using Taisi Ci, with Lu Bu as my bodyguard in ambition mode, with my powerfull weapons nothing stands a chance 😛
Check this chick out!
“Sign in to confirm your age”
Pah.
D:
Haha, when I saw the Thai language I knew what to expect.
That’s a little disturbing
I washed my doona cover today and half the colour’s gone out of it… I think I did it wrong.
Add to that I’m getting massive electric shocks off the thing :S
Weaponise it!
I’m honestly contemplating whether or not to build a HTPC over the weekend…
I already have the blu-ray drive in my pc, which I can move over, and I’d just need a mobo with optical and HDMI inputs, and I’d be all set! 😀
Do it.
I just have to pick up a case and power supply, and a motherboard, and then it’s all ready! \o/
I’ll do it over the weekend, screw it! 🙂
Small Form Factor? You can get crazy good Mini-ITX boards and cases now. Could probably build a fairly reasonable gaming rig in that form factor even.
Many of the Mini-ITX boards you can get with stuff like an AMD APU built on. Prefect for a HTPC -CPU and GPU covered, all you need to do is put some RAM in. Failing that, Micro ATX boards have some brilliant options too. I’m using one of the Gigabyte Sniper Micro ATX boards in my server, and they’re fantastic.
I dunno, I had an ITX build with an AMD APU and the processor itself was absolutely shithouse. If playing back a file using hardware acceleration (i.e. not any the anime I was getting because every encoder went batshit retarded and started doing everything in Hi10P) then it could do decent bitrate 1080p and simple things like booting windows or loading XBMC took an age due to how underpowered the system was, and software decoding of even 720p in Hi10P h264 was completely off the table, especially with subtitles. Maybe things have improved since then, I haven’t turned the machine on in a year or two and I’m sure the newer APUs are slightly less shit.
But building a new HTPC it’d be much better to get one of the proper AMD APUs rather than the on-board ones. If the goal is just playing back movies on a TV using Plex or XBMC or something and your stuff’s standard encoding then a cheapo media player like a Roku or one of those Android based things or even a Raspberry Pi or similar would be just as capable.
The AMD APU’s are pretty average for a desktop PC, but for a HTPC I’ve seen most do 1080p playback just fine. If you haven’t used one in a while, I’d suggest your info might be a bit dated.
I use a DLink Boxee Box with Boxee+Hacks firmware at home which does great and plays back anything I throw at it. But that only works because I don’t need a PC. If you wanted BD disc playback, etc, a PC is the only option. But each to their own, just my thoughts.
My info’s not dated, it’s based off actual real experience with an actual real AMD APU, an E-350. The hardware itself is dated. It definitely was a piece of shit that couldn’t even do 720p h264 decoding in software 🙁
SPOILER TAGS DO NOT WORK FOR ME SO UH SPOILERS HERE DON’T READ IF YOU’RE ON A POKEMON MEDIA BLACKOUT
The newest Pokemon news is.. odd. Getting all Digimon up in here!
SERIOUSLY
GUYS
SPOILERS
I AM DOING THIS ELABORATELY BECAUSE I’M TOO LAZY FOR ROT13 PLUS FORMATTING AND ALL THAT JAZZ, I’M SORRY GREENIUS BUT QUITE FRANKLY I ALWAYS FAIL AT SPOILERS
Some pokemon now have “Mega” forms, like the odd shot-off we saw of Mewtwo. So far we got MegaBlaziken, MegaLucario, MegaAbsol
MetalMegaMawille, and MegaAmpharos. Picture can be found here.I… am ok with this. Why the hell not. It shakes things up a bit, though I imagine it’s going to piss off the digimon fans.
Use rot13, those spoiler warnings are easily overlooked 😛
Regarding stuff: The first two look sickkkkkkkkkkkk (last two, not so much)
ROT13
Vg’f terng vs gurl’er ybbxvat gb znxr zber Cbxézba pbzcrgvgviryl ivnoyr. Nzcul, Znjvyr naq Nofby nyy arrq n obbfg, ohg Yhpnevb naq (Fcrrq Obbfg) Oynmvxra ner nyernql fgebat rabhtu, naq Zrjgjb vf n gbc gvre yrtraqnel.
FRIDAY!
PAPERS PLEASE!
I JUST BOUGHT IT! YAY!
This is why you’re a cool guy, Blaghs.
http://geektyrant.com/news/2013/7/24/leonardo-dicaprio-turns-down-star-wars-for-robotech
I’ve decided not to read the article and just base my response entirely on the url/headline, but I feel that this is a better decision for Leo.
The next Star Wars movies will probably suck but a Robotech movie has a good chance of being better than people expect.
That pretty much covers the content of the article. Also, they suggest that Leo was already committed to Robotech when Star Wars came knocking and rave about how cool it is that a Robotech movie is coming.
Well yeah, it’s certainly the first I’ve heard of it, and that’s pretty cool.
Honestly, I think you’ve got that backwards. The next Star Wars movies have a good chance of being better than people expect. Of course, people will hate them just because they aren’t the original trilogy, but I can almost guarantee that they won’t be bad movies.
You’re a bit more confident than me. I give them a 50/50 chance. Pretty much no matter what, though, they’ll kick the crap out of the prequel trilogy 🙂
I just prefer optimism. Plus, it’s in good hands. Michael Arndt is a great writer, J. J. Abrams has his issues occasionally, but he’s pretty well suited to direct. Plus, it’s as removed from Lucas’ meddling hands as it has ever been.
Without Lucas at the helm, drunk on special effects technology and horrific dialog, it’s got a pretty good chance in my books.
I think that they will be better than people expect because expectations aren’t high. They won’t be terrible movies but what people want is the originals, and that’s because the charm and style somehow set Star Wars apart from generic pew pew sci-fi in ways I can’t properly articulate.
The prequels aren’t that bad, but they were pretty light on substance and there’s just nothing memorable about them. They were less of a picaresque epic and more of a mish-mash of stuff that seemed cool and would sell a lot of toys.
Robotech on the other hand is a concept that’s going to probably seem fresh and new to most people and they’re not going to know what to expect from it.
Of course, neither is going to get Leo his Oscar.
See, I think I might be just too young to have the nostalgic attachment to the original trilogy. I mean, I own them, and I enjoy them, but if asked to give examples of quality film-making I wouldn’t put them on the list.
I find the original trilogy and the prequels similar in a lot of ways. Both have pretty average acting on a lot of fronts, some utterly terrible dialog – but the original trilogy benefits from sentimentality and rose colored glasses. The prequels don’t. They had their predecessor’s legacy to live up to – and let’s face it – what could possibly manage that? I love the original trilogy, they’re so much fun – they’re classics. But they’re not exactly examples of amazing film making.
The prequel trilogy just suffered from technology overload. I think Lucas now had all the tools available to realise his vision, but he just went a little overboard on the effects and some other things. I honestly think the original trilogy would have been much the same, it’s just they didn’t have the technology to do it.
My hope is the next movies will balance it all out.
The originals were so iconic because they borrowed their plot and structure from classic myth (and Japanese cinema too). The characters follow the tropes, paths and structure of the Hero’s Journey closely, which is pretty much the building blocks for a satisfying story.
To be fair, the original trilogy pushed the boundaries of what was possible technologically, too, but there was more of an investment in the story (and other writers such as L Kasdan contributing to it).
The prequels had all the same issues of acting and dialogue that the originals did, but the structure fell down so badly. There was no hero’s journey, and the plotting was such a damn mess that they just seem so much worse.
Like I said, I can’t properly articulate it. There’s a lot of reasons why they’re not really great movies, but for some reason they just kind of work. Maybe it’s just because we saw the movie from the point of view of the underequipped rebels and Lucas’ inexperience as a director resonated with that somehow. I’m not a film expert. I admit I am influenced by having first seen them when I was a kid and growing up with them, but I never really became a Star Wars fan until I was in my late teens – I was more a Trekkie kid.
Posted above about the Hero’s Journey, and the original Star Wars’ ties to classic myth. Gave the movies a structure and a soul that, despite not being really great in a lot of ways, pretty much forced them to become popular and satisfying movie experiences.
I think it’s been said before but one of the real problems with the prequels, and The Phantom Menace in particular, is that there’s no hero. There’s no one protagonist you can connect with. Obi-Wan is the closest you get, but that’s only really during the duel with Darth Maul, and really only after Qui-Gon is killed.
Otherwise, it’s just a bunch of guys doing stuff.
@kermitron, exactly so. I nearly added that into my post, but decided not to get into ragging on TPM, because once I start, it’s pretty hard to stop me 😛
The story and structure of The Phantom Menace is an absolute nightmare from any film-making perspective. Sold a lot of toys, though! 🙂
The reason why the original trilogy worked is that the films had to work around so many visual and technical limitations, coming up with creative ways to do things that were amazing at the time. The prequel trilogy they just threw everything on a computer. Literally they had no practical limits on what they could or couldn’t put into the film any more.
IMO this is the reason why eg. the old model-based effect sequences for the Battle of Yavin in Ep IV is so much more exciting and engaging than all the crazy space battle shit in the prequels despite the much higher fidelity and more things going on and everything.
(Also probably helped that the space action sequences in the original trilogy were blocked out using cuts from dogfights in old WW2 films)
One of the best things my parents did for me was sit me down with the first Star Wars on VHS, which they’d taped off the TV, when I was about seven.
I watched the other two films the very next day, and – because I hadn’t been exposed to any of it before – got to have that magical OMG “Qnegu Inqre vf Yhxr’f SNGURE???!!!” moment that folks in 1980 would have gotten!
From that point on, obsessed with Star Wars, though that began to waver in 1999, 2002 and collapsed in 2005 for no particular reason 😛
I can look at them objectively, and note their many flaws, but there’s a kind of magic in those original films that, I think, isn’t just nostalgia.
I’m far more dubious of a live action movie based off anime. At least we know Star Wars can work.
The fact that Robotech even still exists makes me sad.
Fucking Harmony Gold. They’re the reason we can’t have nice things. Like all the rest of Macross. Assholes.
This is acceptable.
Next, Macross Hollywood-style. Either the best trainwreck or the best trainwreck.
“It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Disney and Lucasfilm have been going after big name actors to star in J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: Episode VII. We recently learned that Ryan Gosling and Zac Efron are being considered for parts, but they aren’t the only ones the studio has sought.”
CONFIRMED: next Star Wars is going to be a musical D:
You put the “D” on the wrong side of the “:” there, Lambo.
In all honesty, DiCaprio seems to have a pretty good eye for films in terms of getting himself involved with stuff that will be good for him and his career. I’d imagine that if he turned down a Star Wars part then it wouldn’t have been a good part.
EDIT: Also probably doesn’t help that all the top-shelf actors involved with the prequel trilogy have gone around talking about how utterly fucking terrible it was to work on a Star Wars film.
Morning all.
Where the hell is @dc
In a glass cage of emotion.
I bet he found a more “hip” and “in your face” bunch of Internet friends. D=
A whale’s vagina.
o.O
Anchorman reference.
I repeat, “o.O”
What a dork.
I remember at some point in my childhood learning that a whale penis is called a “dork”. I don’t think I’ve ever actually checked up on the veracity of it though.
I’ll just sit here and pretend I’m clever.
We need to discuss things with him!
Shane! Hope you’re well, my friend?
All good, man, thanks! You? Why you go AWOL?
Also, have replied in extensive ROT13 to Treme post. \o/
Awesome post, man. I feel like my response doesn’t do it justice. As for decrease in TAY posting, I feel like I don’t have much to contribute at the moment. XD
I enjoyed the discussion! Find it really interesting that we responded to different parts of the episode! It gives me a new appreciation for the show – that it’s not built around ‘obvious’ moments, but rather a big melting pot of events that viewers will each respond to in different ways! 🙂
After the revelations last week, the only gentlemanly thing to do was unrepress some memories.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2013/08/09/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s03e18-common-scents/
LISTEN, TELL YOUR FRIENDS, SUBSCRIBE!!!
Good ep this week, guys!
And the promo art is hilarious.
Karl knocked it out of the park this week, I think.
@shane
http://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes
I never reddit before.
You win.
http://www.nintendo.co.uk/Misc-/Nintendo-Direct/Latest-Nintendo-Direct/Nintendo-Direct-698557.html
Wonderful 101 Direct tonight! Who’s watching? 😀
Me!
Him!
Not sure if want. Spoilers abound!
Having a chat with one of the girls at EB here (my day is really slow and boring today) and she was having a moan about having to wait until next year for her PS4. Seems all preorders from about a week ago onwards won’t be received on launch day and will be delayed a month or two. Sold out of the initial shipment.
Luckily I ordered mine just after E3.
I actually find this as good news. If the new consoles are hard to get around launch date it means I won’t impulse buy one. =P
As long as they’re back in stock by August 2014, I’ll be happy 🙂
What’s then? Dark Souls III? 😛
Anniversary. My wife’s present to me.
Edit: also, Dark Souls II will only just be out by then! 😛
Man, I’m glad you posted saying you ordered yours then. I ordered mine as soon as I saw that post.
I’m happy to wait and see. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard rumblings of console shortages months before release, and honestly believe it’s just a ploy to sell more preorders. I’ve never actually encountered a console with shortages at release before.
Plus a PS4 at release is only going to be for the dedicated – average joes won’t be interested immediately. Having trouble believing they won’t be able to supply enough to cover launch and the initial month or two before restock arrives.
There is a Penny Arcade strip for every situation.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/02/12 – We Accept Paypal and Most Major Credit Cards
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/03/09 – Karma sucks.
(Short version: Jack Tretton said he’d pay a bounty on any PS3s people could find on store shelves, for launch. But then ‘that was a joke’. Because there were lots. A month later, though… not so much.)
If they’re sold out a month after launch, I’d probably be less surprised – but I’m doubting launch consoles will be in short supply.
Wouldn’t be surprised if launch shortages were artificial.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_mentality – News reports: “PS4 released! Sold out already!”
Pleb thinks: “Sold out?! It must be amazing! I should get one!”
JENNIFER GOVERNMENT!
Those who know what I’m talking about will appreciate this.
Those who don’t need to read that book immediately. Quit your job to do so if that’s your only option.
Now, now, we haven’t seen anyone shot at a console launch to give them streed cred.
Yet.
I see this conspiracy theory floated all the time and it’s just blatantly not true. If the system is selling out completely, then the company is losing sales by not meeting demand. Especially in a situation like we’re heading into this November, where Sony and MS will both have systems which are almost identical and able to play 90% of the same games. If Joe Public goes after a PS4 and they’re sold out, there’s a good chance he’ll buy a Xbone instead.
PS4 will be supply constrained. They’ve been saying this since they announced the system. Japan isn’t even getting it until 2014 so they have enough units to supply the US and Europe launches.
Wow, so they are actually having shortages, i thought it was all a marketing ploy, luckily mine was piad for long ago. 😀
D: I should probably hurry up and pre-order my Xbox One then.
…
…
Oh wait, it’s not going to have that problem… 😛
I applied to be an internal beta tester!
I got turned down. 🙁 I think because I said on the form that I don’t play my 360 much. Of course that’s because the thing’s eight years old and hasn’t had a new exclusive since Halo 4 and my PC is a vastly superior platform for anything non-exclusive.
“Having a chat with one of the girls at EB here”
It all suddenly becomes clear why @dc isn’t about. Still adding exclamation marks after Freeze’s name
He’s gone out to buy some more pens 😛
I like that rather than re-ordering the list, he simply adds more exclamation marks, underlines the names, and so forth.
I choose to imagine that he’s bolded my name on at least six different occasions, as well as fourteen underlines, and twenty-six exclamation marks. I can scarcely imagine what Freeze’s name must look like by this point.
He just has a separate book for @freezespreston.
He’s actually gone out looking for a stationary store that sells a Death Note.
I was tempted to preorder just simply to get one at midnight and then not set up for a few days because Im lazy like that, but I can say I was there for the midnight launch
Yep, that’s what I was saying yesterday – preorders sold out in the UK too, Amazon no longer guaranteeing delivery.
It’s going to be the PS2 all over again.
Glory to Arstotzka!
Here are my papers
Cause no trouble.
Good morning.
I hope everyone is having a good morning. At least I finished painting the emblem.
I should probably mention that this is the first time I’ve ever had to make a costume in 2 weeks. I’m surprised it seems to be going swimmingly.
I will probably eat my words, thursday next week.
No, eat food. It’s much more nutritious.
It would probably go faster if you were lazy like me instead of a perfectionist like you. But then it wouldn’t be as amazing.
I’m sorry?
NO APOLOGISING, EVER.
Don’t stop, never give up. Hold your head high and reach the top.
God damn it.
Let the world see what you have got. Bring it all back to you.
Dunno if it works, or how reliable they are, but Gamefly has Civ V for $6 for the next fwe hours
http://www.gamefly.com/download-games/
EDIT: Apparently it’s US/Canada/Mexico, but I’m sure there’s a way around that.
TREME Season One Spoilers:
@shane, not all that detailed… but some thoughts…
— Bu zna, V ybirq gur Gbav/YnQbaan nep. Nyy frnfba gung unq orra guvf vaperqvoyl pbby fgbel orgjrra gur gjb naq gura gung fprar ng Qnvzb’f shareny jurer YnQbaan yrg tbrf bs ure gebhoyrf. Orfg zbzrag bs gur ragver fubj sbe zr.
So damn good. Here’s my favourite moment. (Spoilers!)
YnQbaan’f ernpgvba naq Gbav ybbxvat ba jvgu ybgf ba ure zvaq.
— Ybirq gur fghss jvgu Fbaal naq Naavr nf jryy. Fbaal’f n fperj hc naq V srry onq sbe uvz ohg ng gur fnzr gvzr, ur gerngrq Naavr greevoyl.
— Wrnarggr vf cbffvoyl zl snibevgr punenpgre ba gur fubj.
— Gung synfuonpx gb orsber gur fgbez jnf cerggl qnza cbjreshy.
— Ubyl qnza, gung Pervtu fghss. Yvxr lbh fnvq, znxrf frafr va uvaqfvtug ohg pnzr nf n fhecevfr. V yvxrq gur avpr gbhpu ubj ur rawblrq uvf snzvyl naq fgerrg zhfvp naq nyy gung. Sryg ubeevoyr sbe Gbav gubhtu. Fgvyy guvax fur fubhyq’ir tvira uvz n frpbaq yvar.
It’s hard to pinpoint a favourite character. I have a soft spot for Antoine, because I like the actor, and what he did on The Wire. Also, reliable comic relief as often as not. Gur ehaavat tnt jurer ur artbgvngrf jvgu gnkv qeviref whfg qbrfa’g fgbc orvat shaal!
Re: Creigh: Gurer jrer n ybg bs cbjreshy zbzragf va gurer, nyy unaqyrq ol Zryvffn Yrb nznmvatyl. Gur bar gung V guvax gurl cnegvphyneyl anvyrq jnf gur fprar jurer fur svaqf uvf jnyyrg naq abgr va gur tybir pbzcnegzrag. Gurer jnf fbzrguvat fb vaperqvoyl enj nobhg gung fprar, fb erny, hafhyyvrq ol birenpgrq ulfgrevpf, naq lrg gur rzbgvba jnf fb cnycnoyr naq fgebat. Fbzr bs gur orfg npgvat V’ir rire frra va gung fprar nybar.
V haqrefgnaq jul fur qvqa’g tvir uvz gur frpbaq yvar sbe uvf shareny. Vs V jrer ure, V jbhyq or fb qrfcrengryl znq ng uvz gbb. “Lbh pna’g qnapr sbe fbzrbar jub dhvg.” Vs Pervtu sryg gung uvf yvsr jnfa’g jbegu pryroengvat, jul fubhyq nalbar ryfr? Vg’f n gbhtu qrpvfvba, ohg hygvzngryl, V guvax, gbgnyyl sbetvinoyr.
Flashback: Gung synfuonpx gb orsber gur fgbez jnf cerggl terng, ohg Zef Funar naq V jrer gnyxvat nobhg vg, naq jr qrpvqrq gung vg zvtug unir jbexrq orggre vs rnpu punenpgre’f cneg jnf fubja ng n qvssrerag cbvag va gur rcvfbqr (sbe rknzcyr, Wrnarggr’f fprar fubhyq unir gnxra cynpr qhevat ure “qnl” jvgu Qnivf, naq gur fprar jurer Pervtugba znxrf uvf snzvyl ynhtu pbhyq unir unccrarq ng nal cbvag qhevat gur rcvfbqr). Vg jbhyq unir znqr rnpu vaqvivqhny cerfrag-qnl fgbel zber cbvtanag (guvax Bhg bs Tnf, Sversyl rcvfbqr sbe gur xvaq bs guvat V zrna).
Misc: V’z hapyrne ba jurgure Qnivf naq Naavr ner n pbhcyr abj. Vs fb, gurl obgu zbirq ba cerggl dhvpx! V’z bxnl jvgu vg, gubhtu.
Jeanette: V yvxrq gung Wrnarggr yrsg Arj Beyrnaf naljnl. Jurer Qnivf fnj zntvp va gur rirelqnl, fur whfg fnj guvatf fur pbhyq svaq va nal pvgl (gerrf, fnaqjvpurf, rgp). Rira va n fubj gung vf, ng yrnfg va cneg, n ybir yrggre gb Arj Beyrnaf, V ybir gung gurl npxabjyrqtr gung vg’f abg guvf zntvpny aveinan gung znxrf rirelbar unccl qrfcvgr gurve fuvggl fvghngvba.
V nyfb yvxrq gur fprar va gur nvecbeg jurer fur jnf jnvgvat gb obneq, naq gur Puvrs’f fba pnzr naq fng qbja arne ure. Gura gurer jnf whfg rabhtu bs n cnhfr gb znxr lbh jbaqre vs gurl jrer tbvat gb ybpx rlrf be… ab, jnvg, fbzr ovt sng ynql jvgu n ynetr gbqqyre pbzrf naq fvgf qbja orgjrra gurz. V gubhtug gung jnf xvaq bs fhogyr, naq oevyyvnag. Lrg nabgure erzvaqre gung guvf vf n erny fubj gung jba’g eryl ba pbagevinapr naq pbvapvqrapr gb chfu gur fgbel sbejneq. Ernyyl yvxr gung nf n zvffvba fgngrzrag.
Completely agree with the structure of that flashback and Out of Gas from Firefly is probably the perfect example. I didn’t mind it as an epilogue though…
Melissa Leo! Holy damn, how good is she. (So damn good.)
Awesome post, man. I agree with you on all fronts.
Season two is my favorite so far and there’s plenty of great stuff coming up!
We’ll (probably) start it tonight! 😀
Holy crap. Had no idea that Clarke Peters (Albert in Treme) is the same actor who plays Lester Freamon in The Wire. He looks so different!
The first episode of Treme I was like LESTER WAT ARE YOU DOIN NO
I did not recognise him, even though I’m watching The Wire in tandem with Treme! /o\
I think Jeanette was in Deadwood too!
Haven’t seen Deadwood, but yep, she was. Mrs Shane looked her up yesterday, trying to ascertain whether she was in Coyote Ugly (she wasn’t)
WHERE’S MY PIKMIN DISCUSSION OMG D.C. I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS 🙁
Pikmin are amusing. I like the new type. So much charm. The end. 😀
:'( wurst.
Sydney Taybies, also non-Sydney Taybies who will be in Sydney next weekend:
It’s my birthday next Saturday (17th August), so how about we go out for drinks?
Current plan is for Angry Chicken at ~6:00 for some foodstuffs, then head on to Mojo’s for refreshing beverages.
I dig.
I feel bad at laughing about this, but I have to share.
My sister has decided that she needs to lose weight rapidly. Why, you ask?
Because a student in year 10 asked her if she was pregnant.
I know I shouldn’t laugh at this, particularly given I’m fatter and less fit than my sister, but it’s just too wonderful.
Feeling guilty about laughing? Don’t worry, I know how to make you stop laughing!
I read it as “I know I shouldn’t laugh at this, particularly given I’m the father“.
ಠ_ಠ
Right. Well.
Time to wipe my memory of this incident.
*Cocks Shotgun*
#Helping
You know how she could lose that weight rapidly?
Give birth
I thought one of my year 12 teachers was pregnant, due to the fact her tummy was getting chubbier, but I’m so glad I didn’t say anything like that 😛
Back pain of the last couple days has actually worsened and spread to the point where breathing is a trigger. Took extra painkillers which have new active ingredient in them to make me drowsy (which took me be surprise), but sweating from pain is a novel experience.
I’m betting on myself to last the entire day because MANLY (also, I have Stuff To Do(tm) and it’s Friday anyway, Jesus, be a man). But the temptation to pussy out is powerful.
Aw man, hope you feel better.
Oh man, back in year 12 I had a coupla days with back pain, worsening when I breathed. When I was starting to get better I mentioned it to my Bio teacher, and she was like “how much does it hurt if you breathe in really deeply?” So I tried breathing in really deeply so I could give her an answer, and I almost fell out of my chair from pain.
What you have sounds much worse though.
I recommend Ketamine. That’ll solve your problems.
Wow! Heh, I don’t think it’s ‘fall out of chair’ grade, only gets eye-watering sharp when making certain movements.
The baseline’s about as tolerable as when you get a stitch while running, although also more widespread – you can usually ignore that and power through because you know it’ll be gone in ten minutes or so, but this ain’t going away, which makes it something of an endurance run.
So. …really looking forward to clocking out to lie in bed and hit those painkillers good and proper. 🙂
Back pain sucks hard. I’ve battled with it for almost a decade now. Worst it’s ever been was when it hurt so bad my chest hurt. Felt like I’d been smashed in my breast bone with a battering ram. Morphine makes it tolerable. Thankfully I don’t get that bad too often these days, but I still have to be a bit careful in how I move.
Went to the doc this morning, don’t have to go back for five months now. WOOOOOO! She took my blood pressure and said it was much, much better than six weeks back too.
Awesome! Nice work man!
Your arteries are starting to recover from the potato chip diet! \o/
Next thing you know, you’ll be inside buildings!
Also, this’ll sound weird but I remember a few weeks ago people gave their thoughts on prescription meds both pro and con, but I think these things are a God send. If you ever feel they might help you, I most certainly give another endorsement in the pro category. 😀
I’m glad you’re having a positive experience, but I felt this post contained insufficient amounts of Arcade Fire 😛
But don’t you see, that’s what the doctor prescribed. Arcade Fire, all the time. 😀
Story checks out.
@dc: pinging off chops wit da disco bikkies.
I for one, could not live without mine. Or rather, I could, but it would be a shitty way to live. For many years, I was convinced that pretty much all prescription meds (with the exception of some pain meds) were just placebos. I think it was only brought on by years of taking to shit try and solve issues and having no luck though. After my last neurologist though, I’m happy to say that I too think they are a god send. Prior to what he gave me, the only meds that ever seemed to do anything for me were opiates. Now my migraines have reduced in frequency from a couple a week, to a couple a month! You have no idea what kind of difference that makes to your life until you experience it for yourself!
Never has such a crap movie got me talking about it after seeing it. I’ve talked about where it went crap, characters who I don’t care about taking up screen time. So many changes myself and others would make ourselves, like chopping up the film and playing it out in a different order, giving it a better ending. With a twist. Shortening the length, because even though not really long at 140 minutes, it felt slow and dragged on. Ugh, it was a mess.
I am talking about, of course, The Place Beyond the Pines.
Crap movie? I thought it was heavy handed at times, but otherwise excellent and compelling and well realized. It’s okay though, cause you like Gattaca…
Yes, some very heavy themes were evident and it could have been good, but it all fell apart IMO when Yhxr qvrf va gur svefg npg. I just didn’t care for any of the characters after that.
We used to use rot13.com to hide spoilers before the spoiler tags. I think you should use that here!
Oh yeah, forgetsies. Just a minute.
Oh man. Oh man. You’re wrong.
@sughly
You tagged me for this? You trying to make me upset bdkiaf? Why you hate me so much??
I will elect to go with a sigh of disapproval over a 3,000 word reply
I’d believe it. Haven’t seen it but the more I see of Gosling the more I dislike him. He’s just so lifeless and wooden. I can’t help but feel Only God Forgives would have been much better without him. Yet everyone goes all gooey about him. I don’t get it. He’s a one note actor whose schtick got old after seeing it once.
Believe it or not, Gosling is great in this film.
The Place Beyond the Pines and The Ides of March are pretty damn great! Guys got charisma, but I don’t understand the whole… man crush thing others have. Good actor though.
Alright. I’ll check out Pines tonight. I was going to give it a miss but if you guys say so.
Freeeeze… how many Gosling films have you seen? You seem to pigeonhole him for the Refn films, he’s not always like that
He wasn’t very good in Gangster Squad either.
*sigh of disapproval*
@shane scribbletaku. now. go.
Thanks, man. Already have done! Was clicking refresh from 11:58! 😛
I’m pretty confident about it today.
Gattaca OST. So good.
Violins, my friend. Violins!
This soundtrack. This. So much.
Anyone else got their self-esteem tied up in upvotes, or is it just me? Seeing my comments being greenlit around the place just makes me feel happy.
I barely notice ^^;;
I upvoted you anyway.
Oh that post is just asking to be downvoted >:3
Nothing with being chuffed about upvotes. It’s only if people don’t vote at all and you get antsy that there might be an issue. Alternatively, if anyone downvotes you, then they’re most likely just stupid and in dire need of a swift kick in the shin.
Whenever I see a little negative 1 below a comment that was merely a different opinion from that held by the downvoter, I like to restore balance.
I saw that the other day
@strange >:(
That wasn’t a difference of opinion though, just pure Strange hatred ;_;
Downvoting for disagreeing is a bit wrong. Downvoting for someone being an ass is perfectly acceptable.
:3
yes
But not @trjn levels though. He really loves that post.
I find it funny how much it blew up but otherwise I’m not that fussed.
Hell, after being put into comment limbo because of “low community score”, I actually have a few problems with the system.
Like I said, I really doubt voting has to do with anything! 😛
(unless you have more info now?)
Nope. No reply on Twitter so I didn’t email him.
My sister bought a new gaming computer for herself and totally gave me her old computer. A computer that is capable of playing BioShock Infinite and Tomb Raider almost maxed out. D: Oh man, my laptop was on its last legs too. So happy. 😀
4k porn?
*4K horse porn
Still happy, @dc?
I don’t understand what’s going on! D:
I’m guessing the horse didn’t either.
Gold
Awesome dude,
I’m gonna be looking into getting a gaming PC too, been too long since I’ve had a half decent puter.
hmm, i seem to be reply failing a lot, stupid work putenerer
So nice to have something that doesn’t take ten minutes to start as well. Installing The Witcher 2 right now. I have no interest in this game apart from the fact my laptop couldn’t run it. XD (And it was $6 in a GOG sale. Don’t judge me.)
I’m not judging you, I wish I could run Witcher 2 pretty.
Thw Witcher 2 is still a system killer even now. Crank that bad boy up and watch your PC cry. It’s crazy.
Just like Crysis. Nothing like killing new PC self-esteem like a 2007 game not working properly.
Crazy thing is, my system does better with Crysis 3 on maximum settings than it does The Witcher 2 on maximum settings.
New comp is on my “before 2014” list
Send dc ALL the steam gifts
>:|
from one angle it looks like a person with a v mohawk and the other side looks like a moustached villain, so either way you’ll take a gift yes>?
If you do, he’ll just post about it on TAY saying “thanks but no thanks” and then everyone will be like “NO! YOU WILL TAKE THAT GIFTS” and then it’ll all repeat again 😛
Dragon’s Crown \o/
I have two copies of the US preorder art book and it’s a proper actual artbook instead of the usual shit they bundle in with games. Softcover, roughly twice the size of a DVD case (so not A4 but not a DVD-case sized booklet), magazine bound, probably around 60 pages, all color. Probably the best artbook pack-in I’ve gotten with a game since the original Witcher collector’s edition. \o/
Saw the cool The Last of Us art book at Comic Etc on Wednesday in the city. So damn good. No wonder @notoriousR loves the damn thing. D:
He did say it was “the best thing ever” ! 😀
Oh man, I thought there couldn’t possibly be more concept art that wasn’t already unlockable on the menus. I was wrong. Wrong, I tells ya.
If you’re keen most art books are usually $33ish on Bookdepository or $25 at Amazon. So you’ll save a bit more at Amazon if you buy lots of stuff because shipping is killer!
One day, Greenius. One day. Right now I’ll just slack jaw gawk at them from a-far. 😀
I got myself one at PAX. So purty.
http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/videos/arcade-fire-score-spike-jonzes-new-film-her-20130807
Arcade Fire and Amy Adams in one movie? @dc will have to take spare pants with him to see it.
You guys talk about Arcade Fire too much. Geeeez. 😛
Movie looks incredibly good too. Any one seen “The Box” by Donnie Darko director? Arcade Fire people composed that movies score too. Was pretty decent!
Edit: Where the Wild Things Are trailer was actually the first time I heard of the band. 😀 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNJPSc_4RCI
ME TOO!
hmm, my earphones just shocked me and made my neck twitch involentarily, what an unpleasant feeling, nothing like an electric current straight to the brain. I’mma unplug them and go over here now
Edit: I was listening to Alice in Chains featuring Maynard James Keenan so it was probably overloaded by the awesomeness
D:
What were they connected to? :S
work puter, it’s a hunk of crap, seriously looks like it was pulled outta the 90’s it’s innards are a little more recent but still a hunk of crap
Chinatown Wars – The Wicked Glitch of the East
Huang comes out of his safehouse and sees a Korean gang drug van crusing past. No worries, he thinks, I might steal that.
So he hops in from the passenger side. Passenger is forcibly evicted, and starts firing upon the van. But the van’s driver isn’t pushed out. Huang (apparently) is quite content to just sit there in the passenger seat and go for a joyride. He can’t hop out, he can’t fire a gun, he can’t do anything except sit back and let the van’s driver take him on a leisurely circular cruise of a two block radius, around and around and around.
It slowly dawns on Huang that he has been kidnapped.
Eventually, he discovers that he can toss molotovs – it is literally the only action he can perform right now. In desperation, he throws one out the window at a cop car, attempting to end this horribly incapacitating kidnapping. The cops come after the van in force, but the van driver doesn’t notice them, and continues his slow journey through the streets. Eventually, the cops cause enough mayhem to bring about a traffic jam, haul Huang to safety… and then arrest him.
NFS:MW PEEPS:
Does everyone else restart events a few times or am I just terrible? 😛
I’m always crashing into things because I don’t know the course but after a few times I know the heck I’m supposed to go so I’m not AS terrible 😀
Multi again sometime soon? :D. I’m not sure what the max player count is but it seems like one of those things where “the more the merrier”, so c’mon down and let’s have some fun!
I only restart if it’s a massive bollocks up with no chance to rectify it.
Yeah, same. But does that happen often?
I’m always messing up, but luckily most events can be saved if you stuff up towards the start. The worst ones are RIGHT near the end :(. I had a cop overtake me and drop road spikes literally infront of the finish line in a Most Wanted race :/
Actually, I don’t think I have you on PSN. I’m GreenCOD (I assume you’re RedArtifice?)
red_artifice
Might take me a day or two to accept, as INTERNODE HASN’T FIXED MY INTERNET YET
Wow. I had something similar happen-a cop dropped spike strips halfway into a race and thanks to a lot of nitrous use I luckily managed to win. I was so happy and kind of blind from all the sparks 🙂
Yep. I’m awful the first few times few a track usually. The corners just come up too quick to react properly.
Phew, thought I was the only one :P. When we did multi you and hombre had some perfect runs.
Dan is a fucking machine, man. I don’t think I’ve beaten his time on any events and I’m using the Bugatti Veyron.
I need to use the DB5 for multi events so I can unlock Vin Diesel’s Dodge Charger from the Fast and the Furious. Too bad the DB5 is awful.
He’s a beast.
A danimal.
(I tried my best)
Fun Fact:
When I bought a pair of Pioneer DJ turntables for $100 off my stoner of an older brother, my DJ name was gonna Be DJ Danimal or DnA.
Saaaaaaame.
I always miss corners because other than the mini map, turns are kinda hard to figure out.
I think playing Burnout paradise made this seem easier since it should really be called “Burnout Paradise 2”
Seriously did any of you play Burnout Paradise? I know that it’s because Criterion made it but the game is basically the same with new cars and map, everything the menus, the easy drive things, the way you start an event, it’s just missing the crash function. Not a complaint, just wish we got another Burnout instead cause the Crash mode makes it 100% more fun
Yeah, I agree. I’m not fond of the whole cop pursuit stuff and I liked how Burnout had an emphasis on takedowns and crashes, rather than JUST racing.
I platinumed Burnout Paradise, loved Revenge and 3 🙂
Funny, I didn’t like the Burnouts 3 and beyond because of their focus on takedowns and such 😛
1 and 2 are still best. Though while 2 added to what 1 started, it also took away a lot of what I liked about 1. I’d love to have some kind of hybrid of the two.
I started at 3 so that was what Burnout was about for me. Good times playing crash mode with friends 😀
Burnout was the game I got with my PS2. So good
It was one of the games I got with my GameCube. So good.
Paradise was my first Platinum 😀 . Platinum Pals
I haven’t platinumed anything in ages, i really should, i have about 5 that I’m really close to but can never be bothered 😛
I’m about 5 hours away from the Dark Souls Plat. One trophy.
I kind of lost the drive.
I hate it when you only have 1 left, especially when they’ll actually take a while, I have 1 in Red Dead (it’s the one for get 8 people to join your posse, just never happened, I’ve been in full parties but they weren’t made by me, so not a hard one to get just hard to organize 7 other people all at once). The other is Resi 5 (All I have to do is beat the on rails boss battle against the cave troll looking guy on professional difficulty, but the A.I partner is just not good enough, if I could use my own weapons i’d be fine, again just haven’t organized a co op buddy, it’d be so much easier with a reliable partner). Just lost the will to do them after a while
Haha. That RE5 one is the exact one I have left. We should sort that out one day.
oh man, seriously impossible with A.I support. We should totally do that some time
I loved getting the Burnout Paradise platinum. So good. Unfortunately the DLC released and now I have the platinum but a percentage of 66%
Yup, same here, it cost like $60 (just for The Island DLC not including car packs) so I never got it and by the time it got cheap I’d forgotten about it
I think Burnout Paradise is better than NFS:MW. They are both good games but I prefer the former. The stunt system, DJ atomica, the map etc.
What I like about Fairhaven compared to Paradise city though is its verticality. There seems to be more buildings I can enter and jump off.
One major thing this game is missing on PS3 is the ability to play your own custom soundtrack. Paradise had it.
I’m still loving NFS:MW though. The game has got me out of my gaming funk . I think I’ve missed a good open world racer. Contemplating buying the DLC actually. I want to unlock the airport and mess around there.
The original Most Wanted on PS2/XBOX/360 is still the better most wanted in my mind though. I enjoyed the game’s sillyness and ‘attitude’
Yeah I’ve only just started NFS (probably shoulda played more before making opinions) , I think I like Burnout more, but it is fun nonetheless,
You can play your own custom soundtrack! I did it by accident the first time I played it. It’s in the options, under audio.
Really? Awesome. Thanks.
Sorry Criterion 🙂
Once you unlock the strong chassis you can just crash into the wall on corners- that’s what I do 🙂
My major problems are from random traffic and cop cars in races where you have to maintain a certain top speed. Ugh
Corners are good for me because the AI on the Most Wanted racers slows down on corners allowing me to catch up. 🙂
cops are annoying, they should be easier to lose 😛
I played some Xillia last night. Not very far in. Impressions:
– I started on Milla and ditched her after about 3 fights because I absolutely hate playing caster-type characters in Tales games, plus the whole tap to do one thing, tap a bit longer to do a completely different thing. Hate. If she’s going to just be throwing fireballs around and stuff why does she need a sword? 🙁
– It’s very pretty for what it is. That starting town especially.
– The voice acting is pretty fucking shonky. Especially Milla. She sounds like she’s about 50 and also a robot. It was going to be hard for anyone doing the role (her Japanese VA is extremely good) but she doesn’t have any presence at all and her voice sounds straight up wrong for the character. Jude seems to be reasonable (at least a step up from Assbell) and Alvin is okay but doesn’t really feel like he nails the role. Supporting characters sound terrible again. They need to stop using shitty US anime dub actors for everything – they didn’t do that back when they were dubbing Symphonia, Abyss and Vesperia and all of those have got vastly better dubs.
– Once again also, the skit voice acting is light years ahead of the cutscenes. I don’t know why this happens. It’s really odd. Maybe they re-time the skits but the cutscene movements are timed against Japanese and that’s why everything sounds so stilted and awkward?
– The sound seems oddly hollow. Not enough music? Not sure what it is. May be an issue with my setup.
– Milla’s design is tripping me out. I don’t know if it’s her clothes or actually the model but her proportions look way wrong, like a stiff breeze would snap her in half at the waist.
– Really unsure about the combat system. I don’t think I like having TP and an action count limiter simultaneously. You end up with the worst parts of both without the benefits of either. But it’s okay. Don’t really get the link system yet, can’t get the timing right and I suspect it hasn’t explained everything.
– I’ve earned titles for characters but can’t equip them? May have missed this. May not have unlocked it.
– No cooking system at all? You just buy shit from a store and unlock new items by giving them feathers and shit? Is this even a Tales game? 🙁 Whole store system feels like they broke into Squenix’s offices during FFXIII’s development and stole their ideas. 😐
– Progression system seems okay. Basically FFX’s sphere grid. I think I liked Graces’ idea of linking it to titles more though. I presume you unlock new sets of stuff as the game progresses.
– I hope to fuck that Jude isn’t the main healer for the game.
– Was there preorder bonus DLC for Australia? I preordered the game months ago but didn’t get any DLC stuff when I picked up, dunno if I should complain to EB or not. I know that the US got stuff in their LE and there was preorder costumes for Europe…
Not loving it yet. It’s not bad though. Story hasn’t grabbed me at all yet, but I’m okay with a slow start. Not feeling disappointed or anything, I’m only like 3 hours in so it hasn’t finished telling me how to play yet or introduced the rest of the characters.
I didn’t read it all because I like going in knowing nothing but I saw a few clips the other day and omg Milla sounds SO BAD. Lispy lisp lisp and like an old robotic woman as you put it as well.
Ugh.
It was always going to be a hard ask to get someone to do a dub for a character voiced by Miyuki Sawashiro but it’s like they didn’t even try to find someone that could pull of the same tone. Watch some clips of the JP game – she should sound like a princess or a wealthy snob who is used to everyone doing what she tells them to do. She has presence. The dub actress does not, she sounds like someone’s mum reading the list of ingredients off the back of a can of soup.
I miss the Wonder Chef. So silly with the hiding.
On a more serious note, I haven’t seen any DLC listed with our Day 1 editions. Can’t remember if the back of the box said anything.
Edit: According to wikipedia sourcing Namco announcements, there should have been 2 DLC costumes with preorder of the Europe Day 1 Edition, and in general with the US Limited Edition. Remember, we are only part of Europe when it’s convenient, and it’s probably well out of the hands of the retailers. Might not hurt to ask if you can source the announcement and it’s definitely a European edition.
Cooking and collecting recipes and having different people cook stuff with different ingredients and then having skits about how crazy it was to put bananas in curry and stuff was the best 🙁 Graces neutered cooking and now Xillia’s replaced it with bog-standard shop-bought consumables 🙁
Damn. Cooking was one of those JRPG side quirks I appreciated. Also edited previous comment.
Hey all, anyone in here a uni student/unemployed and live in sydney and have a drivers licence?
Let me know via a reply. I’m in the very early stages of discussions about something freaking cool and I may need some help. I am promising nothing, but would be good to see if there is anyone around just so I can keep your name for later.
Obviously I’d talk more when I know more but just getting a few things lined up right now.
Cheers,
I am all of those things!
send me an e-mail to fatshadylive [at] gmail [dot] com and once I know more I will advise. Thanks.
I have those qualifications but lack a car.
do you have a licence?
Yup!
A manual one at that, although I’ve only driven manual once since getting my license and it was a little awkward.
I did own a car in Brisbane, sold it when I moved.
I could loan you my baby if needed 🙂
Thanks for the offer but I don’t think it’s necessary.
hey dude. send me an e-mail to fatshadylive [at] gmail [dot] com and once I know more I will advise. Car is not required.
Heh. This was in today’s paper and made me laugh.
http://imgur.com/sFi9Ylo
Saw him on the news last night. First thought: “Didn’t we just finally get rid of you?” Seriously.. if he ever becomes PM at any stage, I’ll probably defect.
A long article about a longitudinal study that spanned 72 years. Incredibly interesting.
What Makes Us Happy?
And immediately after reading that, I saw this article, and I really want to play that game.
Shane really wants a game called The novelist. Egotistical much.
Saw that one come up on greenlight a while ago, very interesting premise.
I know, I know, it’s gonna be pretty easy to pretend this game is about me and my life. It even seems to ask the same kinds of questions that I routinely kick around the dusty ol’ attic.
Preorder The Bureau from EB and get a copy of The Darkness 2 for free.
Why don’t more preorder bonuses include free games? That said I like the current trend of awesome looking statues.
The Bureau looks so damn good! When’s the release date?
23rd August
Oh man, I think that’s Rayman Legend’s week too. It begins.
W101 as well I think!
Most of my anticipated games for the rest of the year are for the Wii U! Crazy!
October 5th!
Oh man, the same week as Beyond: Two Souls! D:
Ha, I should’ve refreshed 😛
I should’ve looked up here before posting below! 😛
It’s worth mentioning twice.
SPLINTER CELL
SAINTS ROW
BEYOND: TWO SOULS
(Wait, I think that’s October something.)
Never been a fan of Splinter Cell. I liked Conviction sort of, though…
Chaos Theory is my favourite
Also W101 week!
2slow
No u!
Steam is getting close to having both the 1st DLC, Spec Ops: The line and the XCOM collection (including the 2012 version)
That’s a pretty decent pre-order bonus
Isn’t the game like $90 on AUS Steam anyway though? :(. Kind of kills it, but those bonuses are great.
$72 suckahhhhhhhhhhh!!!
Also, Xcom: Enemy Unknown is still like $50.
THE FLOPPING SAVINGS JOEL!!!
THE SAVINGSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS -line goes dead-
A REAL NAME HAS BEEN SPOKEN ON THE INTERNET!
*melts*
http://youtu.be/n2ZpsbGr7s8?t=6s
It’s fun till I manage to upset someone.
I wonder if I’m the first or second Dan. This’ll keep me awake at night, Mikey. D:
You’re older. Does that help?
I’ll never tell. There’s only one way to find out.
There’s a Clint? :O
Don’t forget my pal Jakey D!
Haha, you think Shane is my real name. That’s cute.
It’s Ome! LeFunar! Or Nighthawk!
I knew it.
It’s DeShawn, right?
Alphonse right? RIGHT?
D:
Not cool. 🙁
Freeze is not cool.
Punny.
Hi Strange!
Sorry. Figured there was nothing identifying there unless you already knew. Not trying to upset anyone.
@freezespreston Yeah, I’m sorry too. I kind of had a knee-jerk reaction.
Am I one of the Michaels you’ve mentioned, or are there actually 3 Michaels?
EDIT: Whoops, grammar error.
Well I know of two Michaels so I guess you’re a third 😛
WAS I MENTIONED?!
Does anyone here know your real name?
@bdkiaf Probably, it’s pretty well known that I was dating Brad Pitt before that bitch Angelina stole him. Not that I’m bitter or at all crazy.
Man, that seems like a good offer. I’ve been interested in the game since it was announced. I was even excited about the FPS version.
I own the darkness 2 though so I might wait until the game is cheaper and I also want to see what DLC they will release
Was passed on this gem of a link from a mate of mine! I’m sure @notoriousr will looooooooooooove it!
http://www.itsartmag.com/features/the-last-of-us-3d-models/
How could you not love goodies like this!
http://www.itsartmag.com/features/itsart/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/last-of-us18.jpg
I saw the Zbrush thread, it’s incredible!
yeah i recall linking something from it ages ago.. unless it was from uncharted.. I see so much stuff. Head gets messy sometimes!
Also, there’s rigging stuff here and other goodies. dunno if you’re interested in that stuff or not, but there’s some nice info buried in there if you want to know 🙂
Australian Open tickets bought!
SPORTSBALL HYPE.
My credit card is less thrilled.
DOTA HYPE!!!!!
TEAM LIQUID JUST BEAT LGD.CHINA IN A BEST OF ONE THANKS TO SOME MASSIVE BALLS AND FANTASTIC LATCHES FROM BULBA!!!!!
BRB GOING TO BUY EVERYTHING FROM THEIR ONLINE STORE RIGHT NOW*
TEAM LIQUID HWAITING!!!
*Okay, not everything. Maybe a hoodie and a mousepad.
Is this golf we’re talking about?
Oh man, golf with Dota heroes would be amazing.
Wha-What?!
Oh man, I think I will have to watch the replay of this one.
You really have to.
Also, board games tomorrow at 2pm. Don’t know if you saw the tweets.
Yes.
I’ve got an appointment at 12:00, I think it’s only going to be about 30 minutes, so I should be there on time.
Most excellent. Freya’s working until 1 and might be late but we’re sticking with 2pm anyhow. Just because we can.
DUDE TRJN THAT GAME!!
THAT GAME!!
USA USA USA USA USA
FREEDOM HOOKS AND LIBERTY COGS!!
THAT ROSHAN FIGHT TURNAROUND!!
best game of the TI3 so far, awesome stuff
BULBA FUCKING HYPE
http://i.imgur.com/GDozrYK.jpg
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/08/pretend-to-be-your-own-receptionist-to-make-your-business-seem-larger/
But does my receptionist know where to store my bread?
Holy shit. That’s an awful idea. Easily worse than storing your bread in the microwave.
First comment:
I lol’d.
So despite having an overabundance of games to play and next to no time to play them, I’m still super-tempted to go out and buy Tales Of Xillia. I need to write down and sign a message to myself along the lines of “I will not buy any new games until I’ve finished at least one I already own.”
I’m doing that with books atm. I’m not allowed to start a new book until I’ve finished two I’m currently reading.
Add me to that message too and we can all sign it.
🙂
I’m hoping to clear at least 80% of my PS3 backlog before I get a PS4. I think I have the next year and a half covered 🙂
i reaaaally wanna get tales of xillia, however my family is in the proccess of selling our house, so i’ve had to pack up all my stuff, so no PS3 for a while 🙁
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2) Guvf vf ernyyl n pbagvahngvba bs gur nobir, ohg gurer ner n ybg bs Cbxrzba gung unir whfg orra cbbeyl “fgng”-rq. V guvax gung, va cneg, guvf vf orpnhfr Tnzrsernx qvqa’g gnxr gur pbzcrgvgvir angher bs gur tnzr vagb nppbhag sbe fhpu n ybat gvzr. Ohg engure guna fvzcyl “ergpba” fgngf, jryy nalguvat, orgjrra Trarengvbaf gurl unir orra unccl gb fvzcyl perngr arj Cbxrzba gung ner whfg n fyvtugyl orggre irefvba bs gur byqre, “jrnxre” Cbxrzba. Oynmvxra naq Vasreancr ner n terng rknzcyr, obgu Sver/Svtugvat fgnegref jurer Oynmvxra unf uvtu culfvpny nggnpx naq fcrrq, Vasreancr unf whfg fyvtugyl uvture culfvpny nggnpx naq fcrrq. Gurer ner n srj fhogyr qvssreraprf orgjrra gurve zbir cbbyf, ohg ntnva Vasreancr unf whfg fyvtugyl orggre bcgvbaf. V qba’g jnag gb frr ZrtnRibyhgvbaf tvira bhg yvxr n pehgpu gb Cbxrzba va pnfrf jurer Tnzrsernx pnzr ol naq yvgrenyyl perngrq cbjre-perrc ercynprzragf.
Jbeqf \b/
Thanks for spoilerising! 😀
Better job than me at spoilers, but that’s not saying much.
Anyway, I’ve nothing to say about core mechanics, but..
Ribyhgvba va gur zvqqyr bs n onggyr? Gung’f fbzrguvat sebz gur fubj gung V’z fher bgure crbcyr yvxr zr unir jnagrq sbe n ybat gvzr.
Well that was weird 😛 My neighbour came up to me a bit earlier and was like “I got shocked by my earphones today.”
Turns out you’re not alone @gutsoup! Unless you are my neighbour… And going to Uni is a cover for going to work…
How is everyone lately getting shocked by earphones/mobiles/keyboards/sex toys/whatever? I’ve never experienced anything beyond static shock from my car.
My car door zapped me right in the nipple yesterday. 🙁
Kinky.
What was your nipple doing in close proximity to your car?
0.o
It was the top of the car door as I was getting out. 😛
I’ve been getting electric shocks from everything I touch after dealing with my friggen doona cover last night 🙁 The first one was so big there were some sparks and I yelled “FUCK!” in the laundry.
He was walking under power lines and had them connected to his phone though. He said he could hear static and then he could feel tingling around his neck/shoulders :S Hopefully it’s not potentially unsafe to be using that phone. (I have the same one)
How long have Allure profiles had spots to put in steam/twitter/etc. info?! I discovered this quite by accident today! Very cool! Few more options, and we wouldn’t really need TAYnames anymore!
I think since very shortly after we were able to make profiles and link emails. Maybe not day one, but it’s been there for awhile.
weird. I swear I’ve been to my profile page in the past month or two and didn’t see any of the extra options!
Just got a phone call from my mother. My youngest has been diagnosed with a heart murmur. Have to wait a month to find out if it’s innocent or pathologic.
Not something I wanted to hear. 🙁
Oh man, I hope it’s all ok 🙁
Sorry to hear this, man. Hope all is well.
That’s horrible. I hope it turns out to be nothing really serious. =(
Bummer dude…
*hugasaurus* Hope it ends up being okay.
I send my regards.
Hope everything turns out okay.
🙁
*hugs*
I hope everything turns out to be okay.
I knew someone who had a hole in her heart. She lives a full life, so hopefully it’s nothing too serious.
Yeah, my brother totally has this too and all is well.
I’m sorry to hear that man, I hope everything is ok. Always here if you wanna talk.
damn dood 🙁 Stressful time for sure. Hope it’s nothing permanent :\
*brohug*
Sorry to hear, man. Our 3 y.o has recently been diagnosed with that too 🙁
*brohug* 🙁
Glad this day is nearly over…
I need a cliche.
It’s all a dream.
Sorry, all I can offer is an upvote. 🙂
Gadzooks! I’m on it like flies on shit! Stay tuned, and let’s get the ball rolling! Spread the word, cos I’m the real McCoy, and I’m bringin’ my A game. All in a day’s work! Times they are a changin’ though. Minute by minute, the end draws near. Don’t get your knickers in a twist. Almost time to blow that popsicle stand. You could sit there twiddling your thumbs, but time flies when you’re having fun, so with any luck, soon, it’ll all be said and done. So let’s get this party started and go out guns blazin! I’ve got the cure for what ails ya! Keep your head in the game, your eye on the prize, and before you know it, it’s quittin time, and you’ll be off like a prom dress! It’s getting hot in here, so don’t fan the flames, cos I’m on fire! I guess I better stop drop and roll! Last ditch effort, cos I’m almost outta gas and this is getting long in the tooth. I’ve done my best, but you can’t win em all, it’s just the luck of the draw, but if all goes well, this will be a winning combination, and this will see you through to the end!
I’m sad… (because Dynasty Warriors still isn’t here :P)
But some NFS:MW multi should help 😀
HELP ME GUISE
Shall we say 8:30ish? I dunno!? THINGS!
TAG FEST PAGE GET!
@bdkiaf @dkzeitgeist @redartifice @masha2932 @vonsack @gutsoup @coldcamv @freezespreston
My brain did not enjoy attempting to parse that sentence at all. Nor was it successful 😛
I’m at the pub the watching the bunnies lose 🙁 If I get home sober enough I’m down.
Getting dynasty warriors also :]
Yeah that last try was game over. They seemed a chance midway through the second half too.
Wasn’t too confident tonight, haven’t been too convincing.
Without GI and Sutton they are struggling.
Not a good look for the run to the finals.
Especially with Manly, Roosters and Melbourne all in the mix.
All three of those sides have the experience when it comes to finals footie.
Any friendos down to play tonight?
Post in new TAY, man!
Twitter me when you guys are keen for multi!
I don’t check the ol’ Kotaku much of an evening.
I Tweeted this morning ;_;
I’ve finished the game now so I’m up for multi shenanigans whenever.
I just bought a copy of Dragon’s Crown off of eBay, with the artbook! \o/
Also, there’s a bulk box of Snickers… I think it can wait.
I think you should of gone with the snickers, that’s a wasted opportunity.
There’s a fair few left.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/New-Sealed-MARS-SNICKERS-Bar-48-x-53g-BULK-Box-Pack-Milk-Chocolate-Wholesale-/321159012706?pt=AU_Food&hash=item4ac691a162
WAIT!
HOW DID I MISS THAT PROFFESSOR LAYTON VS ACE ATTORNEY WAS GETTING A WESTERN RELASE?!?!?
OH MY GOD I AM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW.
THIS IS THE CORRECT LEVEL OF HYPE! 😀
TWO PHOENIX WRIGHT GAMES IN THE SPACE OF A YEAR!?!?!?
NO ONE CAN COMPREHEND THE HYPE I’M FEELING!
I had no intentions of picking up a launch X1 or PS4 — I was thinking of holding onto the 360 as my main console, then maybe getting a PS4 next year if there’s some nice Vita crossover stuff and a few sales.
The X1 is fine, I have fewer issues with it than many, but (funnily) I lost interest when they dropped all the digital content stuff (I thought it was the only real point of difference between console generations) and when the MS marketing department imploded. Bad impression and what-not, plus there isn’t much appeal at launch and I could do better by keeping the money.
And the little things they’re doing (like adding a headset) are just making me more wary, ’cause… I dunno — I would prefer for them to do something bold rather than just play catch-up and try to please impossible-to-please consumers.
… but now the thrill-seeker ‘n adrenaline junky in me is saying “Psst! Hey! Hey you! Yeah, you… you know what you should do? Go on, get an X1 — take a risk, what’s the worst that can happen? Psht, PS4 will be fine, you can get that anytime!”
I wonder if this was Microsoft’s plan all along (lol), like when politicians jockey for underdog status. Urgh.
/conflicted rambling
I feel like I’ve developed an irrational hatred towards the Xbone. I never really had any issues with their online stuff (since I’m a PC gamer, I’m used to it, though I didn’t really like it in a console [weird, I know]), and while I didn’t like their media approach, I can forgive a company for sucking at PR. Yet still, I have no interest in the Xbone, and I’ve pre-ordered a PS4. I don’t quite understand what my brain is doing.
That pretty much makes me Bizarro Blaghs.
Was that ever not the case?
Guys. The Way Way Back is seriously incredible. Possibly my favourite film this year.
@dc @sughly Go see it.
Trailer looked amazing. Sughly and I were talking about this on Wednesday too. Definitely want to see this.
Yeah I heard the same from a friend. Oooo excited!
It’s too boring around here. As in at home, not you guys. Stupid Friday nights.
I wonder what Ganon’s up to.
It’s also pretty boring here.
I blame Pez.
Smashing some nachos probably
The experience of watching a DOTA stream.
Pretty much =D
hey guys, are there new TS deets? shoot me an email! (myusername)@hotmail.com
sent an email your way.
We have a TeamSpeak now? Since when
Forever, actually.
YOU JUST AIN’T COOL ENOUGHwe don’t talk about it too much. If you want the deets I’m sure one of the regulars will be happy to send info your way.Maybe.
I’m not a regular.
Hm. Senran Kagura confirmed for Europe as well as the US. And it looks like Europe will get a proper retail release where US is digital only. But it’ll be 2014. Once again my US 3DS fails to give any real bonus except earlier access.
Victory for palfolk!
Downside is it’s being handled by Zen United, the dickholes who took next to a year to release Persona 4 Arena and who have [i]never[/i] shipped a game on time. 🙁
That’s ok, I probably wasn’t going to end up trying to get it for ages anyway 😛
I still don’t see the problem. Better late than neverrrrr 😀 😀 😀
Even if you end up waiting for an extra 6-9 months beyond the initial 6 month wait because those guys are incompetent?
Yeah, too many games come out too fast for me to keep on top of.
I’m just looking into Skyrim now for instance. I was happy to wait til the complete version was available, same as I did for New Vegas.
Burda patterns are not written in English.
“Pin lining right siders together with facing matching shoulder seams. Stitch, beginning and ending about 10cm above hem edges. Clip lining at back neck edge.
Press seam allowances onto lining. Pin lining inside jacket with wrong sides facing.”
um, yes, this is English. Understand it, I do not.
lol I’ll give it a go.
Pin the lining to the fabric, and pin the right side of the garment together, so the shoulder seam matches up. Stitch the seam, leaving about 10 cm above the hem edges at both ends unstitched.
Trim the lining back at the edge of the neck area? Either that, or it means trim the lining back from the edges of the fabric (so you can fold the overhanging fabric and Iron the seam allowance in to the lining (I’m assuming this is using the kind of sticking lining my mum used to use for stuff)
Pin the lining to the rest of the jacket inside. (I’m guessing by wrong sides facing, they mean the outside of the garment is folded together, so it’s effectively inside out)
Nice! And “clip lining at back neck edge” would refer to making little clips into the seam allowance where it curves at the back of the neck.
haha good to know I got most of it at least! Reckon I did alright considering I couldn’t see the pattern, and I haven’t seen my mum sew anything in over a decade!
…I understand it. Need a hand?
The only part I don’t really get is the pin lining inside jacket with wrong sides facing.
The other thing that confuses me is that in the next instruction it says Lay extra length of lining down. Sew lining on at front facings. Sew facings on at hem. But the previous instructions already told me to stitch the facings already. Should I have already stitched the neck before or after trimming? Do I leave the hem loose so I can turn it right side out, or do I leave the sleeves that way.
I just want to be sure, if you get what I mean.
Oh man, I am the worst. I offered to help and then got distracted watching American Horror Story and then went to bed. /o\
So yeah, I hope you’ve figured it out without me. If not, you might need to show me what you’re making and the pictures that go along with the instructions because the words by themselves with no context are indeed a bit confusing.
It’s alright I ended up watching a tutorial and following that. It wasn’t what the instructions were asking for, but it works so I don’t mind.
Nice work. If it works, it doesn’t really matter how you ended up there. 🙂
I’m feeling kind of bummed that I got excited for Xillia. Really not feeling it much 🙁 It’s thrown away so many staples of the series (no titles, no cooking, no overworld, progression system and shop system pulled straight out of FFXIII) that if it didn’t kind of have a Tales-style combat system (albeit an awkward one) it barely even feels like it’s a proper part of the series 🙁
EDIT: So just after I typed that, I got a map…
I suspect I’d feel way better about this game if the dub weren’t so slipshod. Jude and Alvin are great but Milla is terrible and I just got Elize in my party and her dub ruins her character and manages to make Teepo the most annoying thing ever 🙁
Hoping that she grows into the role a la Sophie’s actress in Graces. Or maybe I’ll get used to it.
Phew! Looks like I dodged a bullet!
Chin-up, Dragon’s Crown in a week or two 😀
My copy already arrived actually.
Xillia is still not terrible, it’s just not anywhere near what I was hoping it’d be, Plus I see heaps of potential there which seems a bit wasted.
Was that a positive comment? 😮
Mine will take ages I’m guessing 🙁
Burned out on P3P & Chaos Rings, woulda been nice to get DC already.
Trying to play 3DS on the train is hard, screen just doesn’t stand upp to the morning sun. Can’t wait til the season changes & the sun is at a higher angle again.
So what you’re saying is… Get hype for Symphonia HD?!?
Yes! That’s actually going to be dual language audio too. Plus all the extra content they added to the PS2 version.
I was wondering whether they would add voices for skits. Seems unlikely but if they did it’ll be amazing.
Well they were voiced in the Japanese version so the dub might not have it but the original should.
Vesperia onward (including Symphonia: Dawn of the New World) has voiced skits. The dub is way, way better in skits than in the cutscenes for all the games too.
@negativezero – yeah I meant whether they would add dubbing to the skits. Seems like a lot of work though which seems unlikely but it would be great if they did it though. It’s hard to go back to undubbed skits after playing later titles (I play dubbed)
Today has been nice 🙂
Oliver and I had a man-date at an awesome dumpling restaurant in the city, but I’m pretty sure the owner thought we were an actual couple 😛 (everybody else does anyways, we probably sorta are)
Then some twitchy guy came up to us and said “hey boys, I’m going to be blunt with you, do you happen to have any weed?” Apparently we look quite dodgy! Technically we didn’t have any right there and then!
We got back to his and his girlfriends place and they bought me a fold out bed! Although his gf is currently passed out on it…
Then we drank beer and whiskey whilst (still) watching South Park.
Good day 😀
That twitchy weed guy was most likely an undercover cop on his first day! You guys did well!
If they come up blunt it’s too suss to trust them.
Morning TAY, how was everybody’s sleep? It’s Saturday and I have no idea what to do today so I feel like today is going to be very boring. What’s everyone else upto today?
Hey Cam! What’s new? I slept well. Went to sleep at 8:30pm and woke up at 8:00am. Not too shabby. Been getting up too early for the past week so it was good to sleep in. I’m doing that thing where I’m looking at all the games I can play today and being indecisive about all of them. XD
Finish off whatever Zeldas you have in preparation for Wind Waker! 😀
That’d just make me not want to play the new one. 😛
Or get you excited for it. never know til you tryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Haha! Wind Waker looks so appealing to me because of how different it looks to the other games, though. Also sailing the high seas my friend!
(Also accidentally typed Wind Wanker at first and that make me laugh. XD)
I thought it was called Wind Maker the first time and had a good laugh.
Yeah, the art style in that just kills the others & sailing is ace!
What other Zeldas do you own though?
Twilight Princess is the only one I own. (Found it incredibly bland.) Played some the SNES and NES ones though.
@dc
The fact that you find TP bland makes me sad. I loved that game. Still my favourite Zelda.
Zelda in general just doesn’t really appeal to me, similar to Mark’s article.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/5-incredibly-popular-video-games-i-just-dont-get/
@blaghman
I do to, seemed like it was trying to be Ocarina too much, I didn’t get very far at all. Wolf mechanic was totally confusing.
@dc
Yeah, agreed, Top for me are Majora’s Mask, Wind Waker & Link’s Awakening.
I enjoy Ocarina of Time a lot and had fun with Minish Cap, Four Swords & Link to the Past.
Never managed to finish either Oracle games even though I was having fun and find the NES ones too hard.
I missed out on the n64 and GC and this will sound like blasphemy but Ocarina looks too dated for me to go back to. (Was never a fan of n64 era 3D. :D)
@DC even the new 3DS version?
Funny thing is, Ocarina is the prototype for every 3D Zelda game that has come since, they’ve deviated here and there but nevr *that* much.
No 3DS, but even those screenshots looked kind of ugly. XD
Don’t punch me too much in the face! 😛
@dc Either way, think you’ll love WW since it’s the most immersive in my opinion, excellent animation and visuals, a world that lives and breathes with a soundtrack that transports you away.
You will prolly enjoy just sailing around, sucking in the sights and sounds and exploring all the little islands.
There’s a lot of complaints about the endgame fetch-quest and personally (and I remember @doc_what agreeing) the world and sailing was just so much fun that I didn’t even realise I was on a fetch quest.
@dc
No face punches…just a swift kick in the balls 😛
Art style aside, Wind Waker is still a Zelda game! All the core mechanics are there and if it makes you feel better, Twilight Princess is my least favourite 3D Zelda (Wind Waker is about 3rd or 4th)
I think it’s like @jimu says though, this one seems different in how varied and alive the world seems. That alone makes the setting a lot more interesting to me! 😀
Going to get a boat and sail around for hours looking at stuff.
I reckon @dc style of meandering about enjoying a world will be well suited to WW more than any other game
Oh man gonna face punch you so much!
I still gotta finish Twilight Princess… so that I can start Skyward Sword >_>
At least I have zero interest in WWHD 😛
DARK.
SOULS.
\o/
…
No. 😛
Yeah that sounds like probably what I’m gonna do, however because im at my gf’s dads place im limited to whatever is currently installed on my laptop as the internet is too slow to download anything new.
I hate Saturdays. It’s the only morning that I wake up and my wife’s in bed with me but I have to get up and go to work.
Just wait till you join the force and your working both saturday and sunday at different times so its nearly impossible to make plans for the weekend.
guests, I am hiding in the study like all the best hosts…
Haha! That’s the hermit way!
Classic hermit
I’m doing a bit of tidying up before the meat tomorrow. Also building a new PC for @beardymcmuttonchops . I probably should go shopping too, but not sure if I could be bothered. Got all of about 30mins sleep last night.
@dc what’s your fav chip flavour?
Salt & Vinegar
Are you not doing the restaurant anymore???
yeah still doing it. just figured I’d have some snacks in case people stick around playing games and get peckish!
Haha! You don’t need to get chips. 😀
hahaha well I was gonna grab some snacks anyway, so I figured I’d check with the chip champ for suggestions 😉 I’ll be grabbing some crackers and cheese and some sweets. I can’t host a meat and not do it with style! I’ve got a reputation to uphold!
Played the Wonderful 101 demo just now.
It is really fun and very … difficult. I hope that what I played isn’t the tutorial because the game doesn’t explain what to do on it really. I mean, it has something in the corner of the screen but when you have a giant robot and 2 giant tanks shooting in your direction you really don’t have a chance to read it.
There’s a demo? D:
Well the guy was saying that it’s like the first playthrough is when you learn the game, and the second is the one where you actually play it…
http://www.siliconera.com/2013/08/09/no-that-isnt-pikachu-its-a-brand-new-pokemon-in-pokemon-xy/
The laziest Pokemon design ever 🙁
Someone needs to photoshop John Cusack holding it up.
This reference is lingering at the back of my mind…but I’m drawing a blank 🙁
http://imgur.com/GpWDGme
Oh yeah, silly me *facepalm*
Can you imagine being the guy who came up with Ditto and managed to sell the idea?
“oh my god i’m so hung over stop asking me questions about pokemon ideas, here if you want something, i’m drawing something right now here take it”
“…This is a blob drawn in purple marker.”
“go away and just let me sleep”
At least it didn’t look like a mini version of another Pokemon…Oh wait…Muk.
HAHAHAH! So baddddd
Played the demo for Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons on the 360. So fun and lots of charm. Reminds me of that section of Ni No Kuni where you had to control Oliver and Esther with different analog sticks though.
Sounds way more involved though. Looks spectacular, getting good hype from those that have played.
Is it 360/PC only or will there be a late release for Ps3, do you know?
I’m keen either way.
According to Adventure Gamers:
Surprising how quick your mind gets used to the controls though!
I read it gets a lot trickier later on but is all part of the fun 😀
http://www.gamecritics.com/brad-gallaway/brothers-a-tale-of-two-sons-review
Got the Wonderful 101 demo! Thanks for the heads up, @sernobulus. Also considering my Wii U only connects to the internet 25% of the time, that downloaded crazy quick! D:
I have come to the conclusion that I am not very good at The Wonderful 101. Like, really not very good.
I agree with Nobs, they really need to ease you into the gameplay. Great production values though and seems fun.
Does anyone remember if I can use my Ozgameshop points voucher to Preorder?
I’m pretty sure I can but not feeling confident for some reason :-/
As in, can you use the coupon to get discounts on pre-orders? Yeah, I used a $5 off on a pre-order for Pikmin 3 :). That’s what makes them good as most places don’t let you use discounts on pre-orders.
I Just joined. Hi everyone! Is there a handbook to the secret club that is Kotaku forum/thingies? So many things I don’t understand.
Hey friend! Welcome aboard!
Who wants to teach ’em the secret shake?
mine’s Lime Thick Shake
Did spoilers get axed???
It’s broken and Ben’s been curiously silent about it. Triumphant return of rot13.com though!
What’s rot13.com?
Cipher dealy that we used to use to hide spoilers! 😀
no idea. Carry on
Znlor tbvat gb ebg13 qbg pbz zvtug rkcynva vg n ovg orggre :C
@greenius
Yep, solid advice. Now I understand.
Xenoblade?
No!
(what are you doin here?)
What’re you doing here @dc !?
Where’s @dc ???
@dc !?
@dc – DuckTales next week!
Haha! I’ll be listening to hopefully an orchestral version of The Moon theme on YouTube. Think I’ll skip the game though and preserve the nostalgic memories. 😀
Yeah, the NES version is still very playable for me 😀
So many memories of throwing the controller when I was 6 for various reasons. XD
Some even while playing a game?
Sometimes. >:|
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2013/08/09/exclusive-dragon-age-inquisition-screens.aspx
Holy damn, Dragon Age 3 looks amazing! D:
I’m gonna be a plebe and get it on PS3 (or 360 if saves carry) XD
I’d love to play on the PC, but that depends if my PC will be able to play it.
Going to be fun either way, I reckon. The art direction looks way more interesting than the second game too. Looks like its going to be fun to explore again!
Ahhh, the art direction was one of the high points of two for me.
I always found the character models in Origins looked really action figurey and woman had horrible man-hands.
2 did a better job with varying colour choices but obviously the lack of change got boring real quick (I look, the same pile of boxes broken in the exact same place as the last, oh look the same configuration of stalagmites, oh look…)
But yeah, those screenshots look better than both.
http://media1.gameinformer.com/imagefeed/featured/electronic-arts2013/dragonageinquisition/firstscreens/daionlinescreen1_W.jpg
I want to explore that tower in the distance! 😀
Pretty sure they won’t screw this one up either 😀
The fact it’s been in development for so long already is reassuring. The second one was rushed in 18 months. There was enough awesome stuff in that game too that makes me think it would’ve been great with the polish of the first game. (And actual different locations to go to. :D)
I kinda think (hope) that when Bioware got sold to EA and EA started making ridiculous demands, they just went ahead and followed them in the hopes that it would teach EA that Bioware style games shouldn’t be rushed and the fans could see.
So now EA sit back and let them create good shit instead of fast shit.
That’s my dream anyway.
Sudden realisation I don’t know where my Origins and DA2 saves are.
Nuts.
I hate to be that guy, but these screenshots don’t look very good to me. The Witcher 2 looks better than this and the shots of Witcher 3 are miles better. That said, The Witcher 2’s still easily one of the best looking games out there.
Witcher 2 sux dix!
Are you some kind of necromancer?
Also he possibly would suck dix in the right situation but he usually prefers the ladies.
http://collider.com/d23-pixar-panel-recap-inside-out-finding-dory/
All these original Pixar IPs sound great. 😀
Hi refresh buddy 🙂 !
uryyb terravhf ubj ner lbh gbqnl, qvq QJ8 neevir?
https://twitter.com/JoelGreenius/status/365701104664715266
bu shpx
It has to come by Wednesday next week or I’ll be super sad (I have 4 day weekends so it’ll be perfect for that 🙁 )
Oh, if Dragon’s Boobs comes by Tuesday, I’ll be over the moon!
Greenius! Still like green?
Who said I ever liked it in the first place?
MINDS BLOWN.
D: D: D:
I like blue. Maybe I should change my name to Benny Blue. On second thought, no. It’s too similar to Betty Blue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkVt1s_ZFbw
Now I’m watching the HD Wind Waker trailer on loop. The music is so good. 😀
Yeah, that’s the track that plays out at sea, so adventure inspiring! 😀
Also, this is a gem:
Monkey Island-esque. Always a good thing!
Reminds me of Mysterious Cities of Gold
I’m glad you linked Dragon Roost 😀
Just used my $10 Ozgame voucher to Pre-order Soul Hackers.
Damn this expiry date thing on player points!
That last shiny even Pokemon (Giratina) comes out on the day before I fly to Taiwan.
Gonna be a busy day trying to fit that in!
When you flying to Taiwan? I feel like this is the first time you mentioned this. 😀
I go bi-annually now (used to be annually) gotta visit the in-laws and eat some ji-pai
Prolly is the first time I’ve mentioned, I guess, but it’s always on the cards.
Oh cool, that’s awesome!
But Giratinaaaaaaaa!!! 😛
Get it now!
Just not the same.
I used it for a while, but the thrill of *REAL* event pokemon is spectacularrrr!
Speaking of real event, how does one … event … once one has entered the establishment without drawing too much attention to one’s self?
@beavwa I hear standing outside the store and leaning against the side is a way to go 😛
I believe @powalen did that? ;D
@beavwa @greenius It doesn’t work! It just makes you look even weirder!
Just line up the process first before going in. Turn on game, go to mystery gift menu, etc. Then when you walk in you can quickly snap it open, press a button, wait a few seconds and run away!
@beavwa I just take a seat outside EB and whip it out, start playing with it, hope nobody notices until I’m satisfied.
I’m going to do that thing I do every week end where I end up watching six episodes of The West Wing back-to-back. XD Catch you on the flipside, home slices!
Okay, so I’m starting to fall behind on the cosplay now ^^;;
I blame burda and my inability to understand their patterns.
George Takei being awesome as usual.
http://laughingsquid.com/george-takei-responds-to-teenage-traditional-marriage-fans-with-humorous-signs/
Those are great *wink*
George Takei is brilliant. I love these older guys that just plain tell it like it is.
I’ve seen these before, but always happy to see them again 😀
I just started watching A Touch of Cloth.
Jeebuss, so funny!
http://m.totalfilm.com/news/harrison-ford-talks-indiana-jones-5
Please. No. Just no. If there is a god please don’t.
On the other hand:
http://www.totalfilm.com/news/harrison-ford-joins-the-expendables-3
I’m just going to say there is no God, and it will happen.
:'(
Probably.
@dc @shane
http://totalfilm.com/news/first-official-teaser-trailer-for-muppets-most-wanted
@sughly
http://m.totalfilm.com/news/rumour-warner-keen-on-josh-brolin-or-ryan-gosling-to-play-new-batman
I’m going to say Brolin would be a fantastic choice. The man has presence.
Yeah I think Brolin’s more suited, definitely. Thatd be cool actually! I like the idea of that, more I think about it
Man, Brolin would be such a rad Batman. Keen.
Is that two link thing still working?
http://www.google.com.au
http://www.google.com.au
No way D:
feels weird, man…
Keen for both 😀
Harrison Ford ALWAYS talks Indy 5.
I don’t think this talk will amount to much now that Lucas has sold off Lucasfilm. *fingers crossed*
I wouldn’t mind seeing Spielberg collaborate with someone who’s not George Lucas on an Indy 5. Hey, I’d be happy to read Frank Darabont’s rejected Indy 4 script too. (They could remake it! :P)
Possibly. But the fact remains that Harrison is too damn old to be a convincing stuntman. I’m concerned that any attempt to produce an action scene is going to be (out of necessity) CGI’d up the wazoo just like Indy 4.
I would support, if another movie had to be made, one of the following:
1) A younger Ford lookalike playing a 30s/40s era Indy
2) A Young Indiana Jones-esque prequel film with a much younger actor
I don’t see it being worth watching any other way, tbh.
The whole Mutt thing had great potential. Implemented dodgily though.
Agreed.
It could have been a decent handover for a whole new series of movies, but they fucked the dog badly.
Hehehe, mutt… dog. I didn’t even see that until I’d finished typing.
I think if anything it’d be more likely with Disney in control.
But it’s also likely that someone not George Lucas would write and direct it.
Finally home!
Now to catch up on all the Nintendo Direct trailers and such that I missed before going back to no-Internet for another week D:
hahahahah Oh, that Shibata. He’s starting to get as wacky as Iwata with his costume changes mid-Direct. I’m impressed with how well he pulled off the Phoenix Wright hairstyle though haha
And WOW! The Wonderful 101 looks a lot deeper than I first assumed. That trailer was fantastic too!
Definitely on my to-buy list now! (It was on there previously, but more because there’s not much else on the WiiU rather than actually being hyped for it :P)
I didn’t bother with that direct ;D. Was too caught up in NFS:MW and I like going in knowing nothing. Imma buy it anyway!
Woo, yet another Saturday where I repeatedly fall asleep immediately after waking, and don’t get up til nearly 3pm.
Also just found out that we’re supposed to be going out or something tonight, yet this is the first I’ve heard of it. Good thing I don’t have a social life :/
So..I just went out and brought MtG cards..decided to go with a red/green combo starter deck and just kinda pray for things to go smoothly. Step 2 look for a local card shop and hopefully start playing a few hands.
Which city are you in again? Some other TAYbies got into M:TG at PAX.
Melbourne, the home of PAX..atleast for this year and most likely next year.
Pikmin was getting a bit stressful, so I stopped playing and decided to do my tax return instead.
Where abouts are you? (with your tax return :P)
Day 4 (medical expenses)
I failed to build the bridge in time twice and decided to take a break.
Try not to worry too much about the time limit, there’s plenty of time to do stuff and it’s more forgiving than the first game!
Wow, Dead Set was reeeally fuckin’ good.
8 and a half hours into Xillia and I’m enjoying it a bit more. Still think it’s flawed and the plot so far hasn’t really grabbed me, but it’s not bad.
Surprisingly theirs a good games card shop about 10 minutes from mine who do regular magic games. Will most likely check it out on Monday and hopefully pick up the game. As well as check out the other things they have.
Just finished re-watching Breaking Bad.
😀 SO HYPE!
Thing is, I have Uni from Monday arvo to evening and my internet gets slow around then, so I’ll probably have to wait until Tuesday arvo to watch new eps :'( (woe is me)
Oh god.. People will try to discuss it without knowing about broken spoiler tags D:
:O
That is my fear. Think I’ll have to remember to stay completely away from the internet Monday/Tuesday because the usual TAY safe haven is no longer safe.
In the meantime I need to convince Mr. Strange we need to marathon through the rest of the second season and onto the others. I really should have just watched it without him.
Aw man you should’ve done it! Sughly posted the recap trailer about 3 weeks ago and I was determined to re-watch everything since I forgot most of the things in that trailer. I just finished then! No regrets 😀
HYYYYYYPE.
Man, that spoiler tag thing is really going to suck. And Ben has been curiously silent about it..
What time is this meat tomorrow?
4:50 at the George street cinemas!
the lunch is booked for 12, but feel free to rock up anytime after 10. hopefully I’ll be decent by then
Looking forward to it
Hey man, really sorry for the short notice, but don’t think I can make it today. Not feeling all that great and might sprawl out on the couch and watch Aaron Sorkin shows instead. Once again, sorry for the short notice and the reservation thing. I feel like a jerk! :S Hope the rest of you guys have a damn good time. You’re the best people evah!
D:
Did you really not go? Jerk!
(Pretend spoilertags)
I didn’t go either….
(/pretend spoilertags)
We all missed you guys!
So much talk of “mega evolutions”… It’s mighty tempting to break my Pokemon no-new-info policy. But I won’t 😛
The worst thing though is that my mind is assuming the worst D:
Aw, I thought this Animal Crossing Plaza thing on the WiiU was going to be a reskin of the WaraWara Plaza thing on the WiiU Menu Screen. Turns out its a separate app 😛
At least @dc can now get a taste of the Animal Crossing experience for free! ;D
ps. The only villager from my game featured in this Plaza is Gloria. Ugh. That’s okay though because Anchovy is here! 😀
*refresh*
Ughhhh need to do 3 assignments for management by Monday :S 1 quiz, 1 700 word analysis of an academic journal in relation to social relations, and an assignment about feelings of failure (which I need somebody close to me to do as well).
Today was interesting. Those days that you know you’ll most likely never forget? Today was definitely one of them 😛 It was weird, and one of the gayest things ever, but it was hilarious!
So… much… Torchlight 2. IT’S GOT ME HALP.
lol it helped me through a few months of sleepless nights 😉 I have a lvl 100+ character :0
I put about 20 odd hours in and got distracted somewhere near the end of act 2. Left it for a few months, then picked it back up again with Greenius and smashed it yesterday. Now I’m well into act 1 on NG+, and my Outlander is level 55 odd.
anyone still playing sim city?
Nope 😛
Went out for my cousin’s birthday tonight. After dinner he took us to this little Cuban bar place he knew – and it was awesome! Like, the only reason I had trouble hearing what people were saying was because of all the other people talking, not because of some sound system trying to outdo a jet engine. And the bathrooms were the kind of place where you felt like you could sit down without laying out toilet paper first. And they had a piano. Not in the bathrooms though.
Also later in the night we had a bit of trouble with a drink order that kind of fell between the cracks. After the waitress came back with them and apologised and all that, my sister’s boyfriend made some comment about her being super touchy-feely. Then my sister jumped on board, saying she saw it too. And her boyfriend can be pretty oblivious to stuff – as he said, “I’m stupid and even I saw it, so it must have been obvious!”. Somehow, I have absolutely no recollection of being touched at all. This is why I’m single 😛
whoa!
Man, whenever I get touched by a girl it’s always from girls already in a relationship and it’s really weird. It’s happened with like 3 different taken girls :l Seriously once this girl that I kinda-sorta-not even facebook friends know through my best friend just grabbed me and kissed me while her boyfriend wasn’t there.
Would love it if a single girl ever did that 😛 And that is why I’m single, because I’m hopeless at first moves!
Hahaha, you’re just the ultimate forbidden fruit apparently?
Apparently so 😛
What’s your secret? Haha because I’m the opposite, when I’m single I have no one really touching me but when I’m taken they all come out of the wood works.
It’s not just you. I’ve had the same thing many times. ‘She was totally hitting on you!’ Uhhh… wut?
Even if I did notice, it’s like a feel rude or like some sort of wanker assuming they might’ve been interested in me that way.
Heyyy, the Pokemon World Championships are in my part of Canada today and tommorow
Might as well check it out.
There’s some sort of food festival this weekend here!
This pleases me.
Speaking of food, I tried out the Pierogi Platter favour of Lays Chips.
It tastes like the nightmares I had when I was a small child.
Really? I thought it tasted like nothing.
I know Perogies aren’t the most super flavourful thing out there, but yeah, pretty sure Original flavour was at least three times more flavourful than Perogies.
For me it was sour cream and bacon gone bad. It had flavour, but it sure as hell wasn’t delicious.
Morning, Weekend TAY.
Morning, Weekend Crazyguy1990.
Well, after scoffing at the pokeball that comes with a pre-ordering X+Y… I pre-ordered it.
I was talking to a guy at work about pokemon and got overwhelmed with the fever, ran home and pre-ordered like never before. Even got the turbo postage! (normally im too stingy)
Yeah, I caved and just ordered at my local EB yesterday since it’s going to be a Saturday launch.
Celtic beat Liverpool 1-0!
\o/
Nothing better than my most loved SPL team beating my most hated EPL team. 😀
It’s at the top of the page!
NEW REFRESH MATERIAL!
Nothing like being woken up by your friend telling you to get around to his place in half an hour on a Sunday morning.
It’ll take more than that, why didn’t you send me a message last night or something? Aw crap, I gotta fill up my car first. Ugh.
Nothing like waking your friend up because he keeps making noises and it’s annoying 😛 He fell back asleep and omg he can’t be comfortable how he’s sleeping right now.
MISSION MODE IS PRETTY COOL
SURE IS
YOU CAN TELL BY OUR CRUISE-CONTROL *FISTFIVE*
It looks like Sega are still the front-runners toward buying Index Corp (who owns Atlus). Sega’s a good fit for Atlus Japan – they already handle distribution for the company and when they’ve appeared at TGS previously it’s been in Sega’s booth. Plus acquiring Atlus would give them a solid RPG developer which is something they don’t really have any more.
I wonder what will happen to Atlus USA if that goes through though? Sega’s been buying lots of companies recently and have seemed to be happy enough to leave them alone to do what they do well without interference, so I’d hope that would extend to them. In addition, surely that would mean Atlus would have much stronger cases for getting access to Sega’s unlocalized stuff? Yakuza, Valkyria etc.
On the other hand I wonder what it’d mean for their deal with NISA, who is handling PAL releases of Atlus games now. Maybe better turn-around times and less waiting for us? I also wonder whether Atlus would still be able to license some of the stuff it would have previously gone after, since it some of it is originally developed by companies that are ostensibly Sega Japan’s competitors…
Academic journals are stupid
And it never ceases to amaze me how easy it is to pirate software on mac!
Referencing is even stupider (Greenius, 2013).
Reference list
Greenius, G. G. (2013). Referencing sucks. Retrieved from http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/talk-amongst-yourselves-236/comment-page-16/
That’s why you use software to help! When I was doing my honours year at University we did everything in LaTeX which has a thing where you basically enter the books you have into a database, and when you cite stuff you just be like /cite(Green2013) and it’d fill in the citation properly and add it to the References section at the end of the doc automatically and properly formatted.
The formatting part is easy, finding stuff to reference is the hard part 😛
Why find stuff when you can make it up?
“Fuck Literature.” – Ernest Hemingway
“Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961,” pg 113
(Yes, this would be far more relevant if you were an arts student doing an English thing, but shh)
Haha I actually find referencing pretty easy 😛 We’re meant to use Endnote but I find it quicker just typing it out myself.
They’re not all stupid.
I’m watching this for some reason:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SWcK6Spd1s
Guest starring… @Blaghman !
Never really watched speed runs before but @Trjn was all “THEY’RE SPEED RUNNING ZELDA” so I watched that and it was pretty cool!
Finished Pikmin 3. Pretty cool guy.
Let’s see. Day 26. What I assume is 09:37 game time. 35 of 66 fruit.
And… *cough*432 Pikmin lost*cough* (With another 307 hanging around)
60 of those were the second last boss fight, and like 150 from the final one. So bad.
@mrtaco worked out it’s the in-game time (like 9:37am).
I had Day 28 with 9 hours played. 42/66 fruit, 700 Pikmin – 344 lost but I also lost a bunch towards the end where I just gave up caring :P.
I finished getting all the fruit this morning and Mission Mode is actually pretty cool!
Yeah, once I started fighting the last dude I was just like “Ahh, balls to caring” and so I just started throwing Pikmin wildly. >.>
You guys are crazy, I finished at day 50. I got all the items though and had nothing left to do. 😀
I got all fruit at day 32 or so!
P1km1nm4st3r
I had to take in the post apocalyptic urban decay/littering.
Got all data entries?
I wanna know what the dealio is with that secret number thingie.
Nah, can’t be bothered with that. If there were multiple save slots I would but since there’s only one, if I ever want to replay it, it’ll be erased anyway 😛
Arma 3 goes final in a month. *fidget*
Also, Space Hulk and Payday 2 this week. \o/
So i should buy it now before the price goes upto $60 for release?
If you’re planning to buy it, best do it before release.
Big thanks to everyone who attended the meat! Was so great seeing you all again!
Awesome to meet @transientmind too! Even though we didn’t have much of a chance to chat, still seems like a stand up fellow! Fits nicely in with the dynamics of the group 🙂
Still can’t get over how much he looks like my old teacher/workmate though! They could totally be brothers! Hopefully next time we’ll have a few more of the OG TAYbie crowd in attendance!
So great seeing @enduwolf after so many years too!! 🙂 Definitely need to make that happen again soon! 🙂
Transientmind is awesome, huh? Hope you guys all had a good time!
Yeah he’s a pretty layed back kind of guy 🙂 I reckon he’ll get along nicely with everyone! 🙂
I think he’s basically met everyone now too!
He’s met more people than you, now. 😛
That’s a quality you want in a leader! 😀
Such a good day. Thanks for organizing it man, and thanks again for building this beast of a PC!
Very welcome sire! On both counts! 🙂
Thanks for hosting, Welbot! Was a great day, good to meet the new crowd. And to see you and DAN! again.
@beardymcmuttonchops I sent you a steam invite. Anyone have @transientmind on steam? Looking forward to playing WoT with you guys and Diablo with @sernobulus
Mine is a very, very, very old Steam id, which is bound to an email address which no longer exists, and which can’t be changed to a proper username! If you wanna tee up all the tanks and steam and diablo etc, addresses chuck me a mail at my gmail. (Is the same as my username.)
Watched so many episodes of The West Wing today. Damn Sorkin, you got skills to pay the bills!
This is about the third or forth time I’ve watched the show and it’s still awesome.
That’s what you did instead of hanging out with awesome people and eating awesome foods? Doofus. Endu isn’t that scary, you know! 😛
I had vegemite sandwiches for lunch…. 🙁
Haha! I even said in that post I’d be watching Sorkin shows! XD
Truth be told, I changed my prescription a couple of weeks back and I hit that feel like a ‘zombie’ for a week phase again. Wouldn’t have been good company. Also was feeling uneasy about the large group number. D.C. doesn’t do well with large groups. Also, Endu. SCARY! 😛 Why’d you not go? :'(
Edit: Also the photo Freeze posted confirmed I probably wouldn’t have eaten any thing because cooking stuff is too technical for my liking. 😀
@enduwolf is pretty much one of the raddest dudes ever. He’s super nice, I have heaps of common with him, and he has an awesome smelly candle sample pack in the back of his car.
Jeez Beardy, you’re totally ruining my rep. I knew I should have driven away before you got that monster PC out of the boot.
P.S. You and Nobby (@sernobulus) hit me up on Steam for those D&D 3.5 soft copies if you’re keen, I have a fair few of them
D.C does fine in large groups. I’ve seen it with my own eyes! And someone would have cooked your food for you. You shouldn’t have psyched yourself out of it, you’d have been fine.
I didn’t go because I’m sick. I had a real reason. So there. 😛
Hope you feel better, my friend.
Wait, did D.C not go to the meat today!?
AND TAY WAS QUIET!? WHAT HAPPENED TO CIRCLING THE WAGONS, MAN!?
Same reason I didn’t socialize in real life. Felt like a zombie.
Hey man, zombies love to socialise! It’s why they’re always in big groups.
My zombie type prefers to watch Aaron Sorkin shows without blinking for six hours. 😀
I finally got around to Sleeping Dogs! It’s been on the pile since late last year 😛
I initially wasn’t interested in it based on a trailer I saw which was just the opening chase scene… which just isn’t very good :P. But I’m glad I was wrong and everyone praised it so it’s been high up on the pile ever since!
Ugh, PC “master race” D: I forgot how annoying it was to mess around with settings and whatnot to get everything working fine. I’m not sure whether it’s my crappy PC or it’s supposed to be like that but everyone’s face textures aren’t that great and they look like clay 😀
I like how they’ve got an “AutoLog” sort of competition thing going on. I immediately saw the “Clean Drive” thingy and went for it. I think I’m at the top of the friend leaderboards already ;D *flex*
The game looks awesome at night when it’s raining!
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I got all the fruit in Pikmin 3 today and had a crack at Mission Mode. Not bad, not bad! I like how it’s separate levels and it’s good that they included a Boss Rush.
___
Thought I finished Luigi’s Mansion 2 today. But I didn’t. Sneaky game…
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I got 53 seconds in Hyper Hexagonest :'(. So close yet so far…
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Dynasty Warriors 8… *rocks back and forth*
Oh yeah, loved that autolog in Sleeping Dogs. Specifically added TAYbies on the 360 so I could compare notes/stats. How cool is the city too? Really feels like a foreign place instead of another version of New York!
Oh yeah! It’s good to be out of the usual places. I’m not fond of the whole English (half terrible Asian accent, half American accent) and bits of Cantonese thing but I guess they need it to make it work :P. I prefer games set in other cities to be in their native language (if it fits) like in the Yakuza series. Set in Japan with Japanese people that speak Japanese 😀
I kind of agree, I reckon this game would have been amazing with yellow subtitles like in movies. Make it feel authentic. 😀
Yeah but that’s a pretty accurate representation of the languages you hear in Hong Kong. Mainly a mixture of English and Cantonese. Possibly there should be a bit more British accents in there, if anything.
Sleeping Dogs is an excellent game.
So how was everyone else’s weekend? 😀
Watched twelve episodes of The West Wing over two days. WOOOOOO!
Thinking of rewatching season one of The Newsroom. 😀
I watched 5 seasons of Breaking Bad in less than 3 weeks! 😀
But that’s like 10 ep seasons, though. Still pretty damn impressive. 😀
Yeah, it ain’t no Survivor fest when I watched like 6 hours a day for a couple of weeks 😀
Down in the Treme…
Still watching. Still really good. More people should watch this show. @dc was right, it is awesome. There’s nothing else quite like it.
Season two! Same deal, we’ll compare notes at the end of the season. Lots of good stuff happens this year. (Hopefully my post will have more content than the much hyped season one post. :P) I really like the huge ensemble though, really balances the characters well. I like how sometimes you don’t see characters for three episodes instead of trying to force everyone into every story. 😀
So glad you like it, my pal! 😀
Got Adaption waiting on the DVR…
*glares at @bdkiaf*
Better be good. 😛
Adaptation?
We can watch it together and compare notes!
Should be good! Started watching Garden State yesterday and turned it off after twenty minutes. That was enough Zach Braff.
It is. Don’t worry. I’m still 100% on recommendations.
I don’t know man, @lucifer9783 doesn’t seem to like Chainsaw Gutsfuck 😛
@shane: Congrats on finishing The Game. You in edit mode now or thinking about next project?
Thanks, man! Felt good to get it done. The end of this one will mark the end of all the ‘long-term’ projects I’ve had on the go. I started The Lesser Evil in 1999, Peaceful Tomorrows in 2002, and The Game in 2004. Bowling them over puts some long-standing loose ends to bed, and frees me up to try some new stuff.
@alexpants is in edit mode for me. I’m working on a 40-ish page short story to accompany it, and then I have a bunch of little stuff to do. Tax, submissions to publishers for some other work that’s just been sitting around here, etc.
Next big project will be probably be this one. The longhand first draft of the novel has been sitting on my shelf for about 12 months now!
Man, this weeks Childrens Hospital and NTSF:SD:SUV are great. NTSF has gotten so much more ridiculous. It’s become very self aware that it has the chick from Dr Who in it now. And Childrens Hospital doesn’t even try to disguise the fact that it’s so amazingly shit 😛 They had one guy playing Madonna, Rhianna (just singing “touch me everywhere” over and over again), Louie CK, a supermodel (that was hilarious) and some other gay guy. It was amazing!
This whole weekend has been amazing to be honest. I was kinda weirded out at 5am when Oliver said “no Ben you can’t have a kiss”, but apparently I missed the context of the joke cos I was half asleep and had my eyes closed… Which was good, cos for the rest of the night I was wondering what I did or said to warrant that in the first place :S (#jokesgonewrong)
Oh and I should probably start my assignments now. Kinda pushing it thin I think…
Edit: OH AND AQUA TEEN SHOW SHOW STARTS TONIGHT!!
So the debate…
My verdict is, I don’t give a shit.
I don’t even know what you’re talking about.
That’s how much I care.
😀
I guess the good thing about being too sick to do the lunch Meat today meant that just now when Craftsy sent me an email with a super-special price for a class I’ve been wanting (Free Motion Fillers Vol 2, going to be very handy for when I finish all these quilt-tops I’m working on), I had enough money to buy it. 😀
Huh… so it turns out I completely missed two suit upgrades in Pikmin 3 😀
They’re kind of pointless though 😛
Speaking of suit upgrades…
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Allzzz-Onesie-Allinone-adult-Pyjamas-Onepiece-PJs-Onesie-/271256278800
No deal.
Yeah, I managed to miss the fire one. Also only found the dodge whistle while cleaning up the rest of the fruit, and only got it shortly before finishing so I never even used the thing.
I missed the fire and electric one. I looked it up online but I probably won’t bother to get them 😛
I had the dodge whistle but forgot it existed and never used it… oops! 😀
So I’m now past 20 hours in Xillia and really enjoying it. It started out really ropey but once you assemble the full party, the whole dynamic comes together. I think the order that you gather everyone up works against it, in the end. I still feel like there’s a few things that are a bit half-done (really don’t like the shop leveling system) and the dub is still kind of bad (actually Milla is bad – the rest of them are fine) once the plot actually got moving it’s started to get pretty decent. So I guess I forgot the number 1 rule about Tales games: slow burn. First 5-10 hours are always crap.
Side note: Jude is rapidly becoming one of my favourite Tales protagonists. Not whiny or childish or irritatingly naive, actually capable and intelligent and uses his brain to think his way through stuff. Plus he’s pretty decent in combat, possibly slightly OP.
Hmmm…the old man’s gone to bed and I’m wide awake. I’d do a MQFT here but there’s probably not enough people around to answer so I’d end up having to decide for myself what to do, anyway.
Think I’ll start with some learning new stuffs and see how I go after that. Really don’t want to waste this rare alone time though, so I need to try and remember how to be a decisive person. 😛
I pick L!
The answer is P
Just finished Luigi’s Mansion 2.
Flawed at times but still fun! @dc you’d really appreciate all the exploring and sight-seeing! The flaws come from some really primitive and stupid game design choices, namely terrible checkpoints (which are non-existent). The actual gameplay is pretty basic too and can get annoying at times but to me it was all the little things that made it awesome. Stuff like Luigi whistling along to the music, interacting with all the little things throughout the mansions and getting the collectables which I swear I explored every nook and cranny of the mansion but still couldn’t get them all.
This makes it the 4th game I’ve finished in these past 4 days, the others being Pikmin 3, Need for Speed: Most Wanted and Torchlight II.
It’s all your fault Dynasty Warriors. You made me go back and complete my older games… ugh! (please arrive tomorrow <3)
Shame August wasn’t shameless gaming month. You’d be nailing it.
Shane August!
So Sanity have this deal where if you buy 4 Blu-rays for $50, you can purchase a Blu-ray player for $99.
It’s a Panasonic DMP-BDT230GN, to be exact.
The only downside about the player is a lack of coaxial audio input. Optical/HDMI only, I’m afraid. 🙁
Goodbye this weeks TAY, see you tomorrow with a fresh new TAY and a brand new midday game! Woo
Turned out my friend wanted me to come hang with him at some street festival thing near his place today. Got to see another school friend I haven’t seen in years to, it was a good catchup. Then at his place afterwards I think I met Joe Tripodi. He complimented my piano playing.
Afterwards went and saw Pain and Gain. That was an uncomfortable movie. Kind of funny, but also kind of awful. Good, though.
And just now getting home, found out that mum had opened the mead they brought back from SA. Time to try some.
Yup, sure tastes like mead. Yummy.