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Hi all!
FREE McDonald’s regret for breakfast. Wooot!
No one else has upvoted Shanes McDonalds regret comment yet.
Have an upvote
I refuse to upvote it because I still don’t understand this “food regret” thing.
Potentially NSFW…
http://i.imgur.com/tKiMxAH.jpg
I upvoted it, but I also struggle with this concept of “McDonalds regret” or “KFC regret” and so on.
I rarely eat it so it always tastes fatty and greasy and oily when I do, not the most enjoyable, but never any regret. 😐
Eat large servings multiple times a week. Then you’ll get regret 😀
I did the week 1 bacon and egg muffin regret and haven’t been back.
It’s because the other offerings weren’t as good and not all the regret, right?
It’s the first time I’ve regretted free food and didn’t want to repeat that experience.
I’d do it, but in my opinion the thing isn’t worth the price of a coffee. Also, their coffee does one hell of a number on my gut.
You don’t have to buy a coffee. It’s free. It’s worth free. Not worth much more than free, but it’s worth free! 🙂
Huh. The sign I saw in the window of the Fortitude Valley maccas said Monday breakfast was a free roll with a purchase of an espresso or other coffee. :/
Roll? You live in weird place.
They’re running a free promotion over *most* of Australia. Every Monday morning (this is the final Monday in the scheme), a different item.
Week 1: B&E muffin. Week 2: hashbrown. Week 3: OJ. Week 4: Sausage muffin.
Fortitude Valley IS a weird place.
Now that I think about it, if the valley one was no-strings-attached free, they’d have been cleaned out pretty fast.
Only a couple blocks away is a men’s shelter so large it’s basically a major apartment complex, and a very large portion of the city homeless typically sleep in the parks and streets in the Valley.
QLD didn’t get the free free offer, so they came up with their own free with coffee offer.
Mondays.
http://i.imgur.com/j6BuD.gif
I’ve been working since last Monday so I haven’t had the weekend yet 🙁
So you skip Mondayitis! #BrightSide
Hi guys, Went paintballing on Sunday, my legs now feel like jelly.
And now, Uni today.
Mornin’ all.
I had a decent weekend. Got to see one of my cousins for the first time in a while. I made an FMA reference and he got it (though my mother was very confused), so that was rad.
Oh, and I got told the story of how he got robbed and maced by a hooker in Vegas, on his birthday.
Anyone else do anything fun? Or do we all hat fun now? I can never keep up with these trends.
I played Payday 2 last night with some jerks, but then the power went out and I couldn’t play anymore 🙁
Man, those guys you were playing with were massive jerks. The jerkiest of the jerks.
Randoms are pretty hit and miss. Sometimes you get total morons, other times you get a really solid crew and you chain together a dozen runs. It’s always nice when you recognize a name you’ve run with before on the heist search, and you jump in and everyone’s all, “Heeeeey! My man!”
And then you murder hundreds of hard-working, brave police officers with wives and girlfriends, and children who are going to receive the earth-shattering news that their beloved, a key part of their lives is dead. Dead at the hands of selfish, thoughtless men who ended an irreplaceable part of their lives over mere money. You monster.
Please tell me there was blackjack involved?
The perfect birthday.
So far as I’m aware, no. 🙁
Just large amounts of alcohol, and a hilarious misunderstanding (Warwick boys, they’re a special breed).
PAYDAY 2 ATE MY WEEKEND.
When I get home I’m putting the soundtrack on my ipod so I can listen to it at work. Maybe pretend like my office duties are all part of an elaborate heist.
For those who are interested, the Sons of Anarchy Season 6 trailer has got me eleven kinds of hype.
ERMAGERRRRRRDDD cannot wait!!
Daily grind of Monday morning labor \o/
Followed by blood tests /o\
Followed by payday 2 \o/
Followed by sleep \o/
Most likely ruined by man flu /o\
3 out of 5 \o/’s the \o/’s have it
Monday morning should be /o\
So the /o\’s have it.
It’s a draw so the -o- has it which means..-o-
Mondays are pretty horrible, but for me the worst part of the week is Sunday evening, when you realize that it is all coming to an end, and nothing you undertake now can go too long or you’ll be tired for Monday. It is bleak.
Monday you can greet with stern resolve, that ‘one foot in front of the other’ determination to just let’s do this, but Sunday evening? Sunday evening is the quiet before the shelling, the dread of what’s to come.
Hope everyone had a great weekend.
I downloaded the latest in XBL’s freebies over the weekend (Dead Rising 2) and played it all Sunday. What an enjoyable game it is! It’s actually (apart from House of the Dead on original Xbox & CoD Zombies) the first Zombie game I’ve ever spent much time on. I know there are some great ones out there, but they’ve never lured me away from my usual games. The Terror is Reality Online mode is awesome too.
Also got round to playing a decent chunk of Sonic Adventure which I downloaded a while ago (for the Dreamcast nostalgia.) It’s clunky at times, but it’s a damn fine game! Sonic Adventure 2’s gameplay was definitely more polished, but the free roam mode in SA is a joy.
Also, 29 DAYS LEFT.
Mmm. BF3 on Ultra setting is pwetty.
In other news, last night I was reading some reviews of Kick Ass 2 (hype!). It is almost unanimously being reviewed as a good but slightly flawed movie that is fun and well written.
Then I hit this one. http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/kick-ass-2-2013. Is it possible to sound any more bitter?
They say in that review that they didn’t like the first, so I don’t know what they were expecting.
I use this guy for film reviews – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXHsT-3dnKc
I find his views usually match my own.
Side note: advanced screening tomorrow night. Awww yeah!
I started playing Witcher 2 on the weekend. Soooo pretty!
My big problem with the first was that I’d pretty much seen the whole thing from previews / trailers.
Saw World’s End on Sunday, Kick Ass 2 preview came on, so I closed my eyes and blocked my ear.
A couple of weeks ago I thought I’d check out a trailer for Kick-Ass 2 since I haven’t seen anything on it since it was announced. I recall one of the YouTube comments being something like “I feel like I’ve seen the whole movie” and it did feel like that :/
I need to get around to installing BF3… Multiplayer sometime?
Also, I’m keen for Kickass 2. But I’ve been to the movies with alarming regularity recently. I need to take a break for a bit.
I remember reading a newspaper article about a Newfarm couple who were upset and were demanding their money back for a movie ticket because they’d been traumatised and disgusted by the film they were watching. (Book of Eli.)
I say couple, but from the really unfortunate picture it was clearly a ‘trendy’ young woman and by proxy her tag-along, long-suffering, beta male ‘partner’. She was complaining that they (she) had never seen anything so disgusting and unnecessarily violent and crass, and they (she) wanted their money back and some sort of better ratings system in place to warn people about this sort of vile filth. They (she) had been made physically ill by the grotesque depictions, and expected to be compensated for it.
They then went to go and watch Kick-Ass.
Haha! This made me laugh. You’re alright, Transientmind!
Gah, weekends should be 3 days long. I’m not ready for Monday.
If it were up to me, weekends would be 7 days long, and there would definitely be no adverse side effects.
Weekend penalty rates at work \o/
Agreed.
Also, upvote for Railgun avatar! \o/
Bought a full set of tyres (a back tyre blew out sat morning as well 🙁 )
My back is still crap, trying to organise my Remedial Masseur to let me see him. The massage last week has left my back somewhat ordinary
Played and almost won Star Trek: Fleet captains, SNEAKY KLINGON SCUM!!!
How was everyone elses weekend?
I have had such a ridiculous lucky streak on World of Warcraft over the past four days… On Thursday I ran Karazhan on the off-chance that Attuman the Huntsman might drop his Reins of the Fiery Warhorse mount. A mount that has between 0.5% and 1% chance of dropping. I almost shat myself when the mount dropped.
This put me up to 149 mounts, total. One more, and I would get the meta-achievement “We’re Going To Need More Saddles” for collecting 150 mounts. So I bought a Ruby Panther off the auction house for 22,500 gold to get it. Boom. Achievement get.
Then I thought to myself, “Hm, that was really lucky… Maybe I should try for some more. See if my lucky streak holds out.”
I ran Heroic Sethekk Halls next. On the Thursday, no luck. On the Friday, no luck. On Saturday, the rare mount Reins of the Raven Lord dropped. It’s also between 0.5% and 1% drop rate. It’s one of the most sought-after mounts in the entire game. It’s a giant flightless raven that only shares its model with one other mount in the game. When the Raven Lord dropped, my pulse quicked and I shouted with triumph so loudly that Mrs Beardy thought I’d hurt myself.
On Sunday I tried my hand at a bunch of other dungeons that have mounts. I ran Heroic Utgarde Pinnacle, the Stonecore, Vortex Pinnacle, but no dice on any of them.
This morning before work I thought to myself, “Stuff it, I’m going to try for my old nemesis, Rivendare’s Deathcharger”. Rivendare’s Deathcharger is a mount I’ve been coveting since I started playing the game back during The Burning Crusade. Back then, rare mounts were a bigger deal than they are now. Rivendare’s Deathcharger is a Skeletal Warhorse, covered in purple war garb, that leaves a trail of fire behind it when you run about the place. I’ve always played Alliance, and it’s the only way the Alliance can get something that resembles the Undead racial mount, but it’s so much cooler, because it’s so rare.
I’ve run Stratholme, the dungeon that the mount drops from, over 150 times. On my Rogue, before the Achievements & Statistics page was introduced, I actually measured how many times I’d run the dungeon on a piece of paper. It was at 120 when I quickly. I’ve run the dungeon 40 more times on my Rogue since the Achievements & Statistics page was introduced, and 24 times on my Death Knight.
This morning, it dropped. Another mount with a 0.5% – 1% drop rate.
I think I need to go and buy a lottery ticket.
Damn! I love that Raven Lord Mount, so badass!
That’s insane. I tried to get Attumen’s mount and the Raven Lord many, many times. Never got it though. Although I did get the ZG Raptor many years ago, and I also scored the Ashes of Al’ar.
You got the Ashes!? Damn, dude. Why would you ever need another mount? It’s the best mount in the game! I’ve got the ZG raptor, too. My mate and I ran it obsessively when we heard that ZA/ZG were being scrapped and brought back as 5 mans. The week before it was removed, the raptor dropped for me, and the Tiger dropped for him.
Funny part about the Ashes was my two friends farmed TK every week for months and months – I decided to start going with them and it dropped on the second week I started going. I rolled for it and won. I’m pretty sure I pooed a little.
The ZG Tiger or ZA Amani War Bear (the original one before they made it unavailable) are the two best land mounts, imo. Ashes wins flying mounts.
RNG is RNG. Your two friends must have been super choked 🙁
The Tiger and the War Bear were awesome. I think Rivendare’s Deathcharger is my favourite at this stage, just because of how much effort I’ve put into getting it over the years.
Rivendare’s Deathcharger is definitely the original must-have mount. Pretty disgusting luck either way. It’s like grinding for Windseeker Bindings in MC. I never had any luck with that stuff, so pretty much gave up when I got the Ashes.
Frickin’ RNG. I had done the halloween event every day of every year since its inception, and I have never even SEEN the horseman’s mount. Two of my friends got it on their first attempts.
The only remotely low drop rate mount I got while I was playing was the Green Proto-drake that drops from eggs.
Oh good. Someone took a screwdriver to the side of my car. Excellent.
=/ Seriously? That’s shit man.
What’s more chickenshit than fucking with a man’s automobile? I mean, don’t fuck with another man’s vehicle.
What an asshole X(
Whaaa…?! 🙁
Situations like those are where I suddenly, desperately, believe in karma.
This happened to me about two weeks after I got my car (brand new). Still haven’t fixed it 🙁
Aw man. 🙁
Sorry to hear that, my friend!
*Hugs* They will get whats coming, Karma works wonders
That’s fucked up, how bad is it?
I wonder if vandalism is covered by your insurance.
Brisbane peeps, prepare yourselves. Flights have cheapened for November! Am crunching some numbers.
Okay, I just booked it. Now feeling guilt – should have talked it over with wife first, but couldn’t get her on the phone.
Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooop.
i Goldberg.
Sweeeeeeet!
Awww yiss!
Good to hear, my friend!
Start warming up those fists.
No. Meating. Shane.
😛
Don’t say that, man. I just booked the tickets 🙁
WOOOOO!
I mean, uh, play it cool D.C.
I’ll hang out with you… I guess… *sigh*
😀
*training montage*
Cheapened enough to take me with you?
If you pay your way, I will bring you with me! \o/
I’m out.
How cheap are we talking here..? Just out of curiosity..
$119 each way. Qantas Red Sale.
Interesting.. @dc did want to crush my face. We’ll see.
That is cheap but I ain’t got the cash for that, I’m flying to Thailand in feb so saving money for that
Don’t forget you can stay here! The spare/sewing room has my Bonfire and Dark Souls banner in it so you’ll feel right at home.
Thanks! Much appreciated.
I might take you up on that!
Unlike my trips to Adelaide and Melbourne, I’ve had about eight people offer me a place to stay in QLD so far. Now I’m stressed that because I have to say no to seven of them, I’m going to be annoying people. I know that @dc in particular will be crushed if I say I can no longer stay on his couch.
I’ll somehow get over it. XD
Don’t be stressed…nobody else has a Cowboy thrown in to sweeten the deal. 😛
Blame Scree!
\o/
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/gay-wrestler-to-make-his-video-game-debut-in-wwe-2k14/
All you folks who downvoted Weresmurfs comment? He changed his post to make you guys look bad!
What a fucking jerk.
Not cool. That initial comment was straight up ignorant.
Yeah that’s pretty lame.
He does that.
Never noticed it before. Will keep an eye out for it.
I was wondering about that. Didn’t know what to make of it because I thought most of the names involved were respectable.
Wasn’t he just gearing up to come to his first Brisbane meat? Why the hell would he troll the community he seemingly wants to be a part of?
Upvote for informing us. I missed the original comment but editing to take the opposite stance and making others look bad.
Dude…
I feel like maybe I shouldn’t have mentioned any thing and let it slide, but it just riled me up a lot. Haha!
You did the right thing, man.
And now he’s all ‘lol! Joke’s on you guys! I was just trolling!’
Truly hilarious.
So I started playing Witcher 2 again on the weekend (I started a save at the start of this year). I was having trouble with the game so I shifted the difficulty down to easy. I know I shouldn’t have felt bad but I did, for a little while. I then felt even worse because I had missed such a freaking amazing because of my stupid pride. Gah, I’m such an idiot.
Anyway, Witcher 2 is awesome. So very much awesome!
Also, it’s really pretty. So very pretty!
And you got a strange soundtrack to go with it. =P
Haha, it helped with the atmosphere! =P
I’m sure it did. XD
Yeah, the very first thirty seconds of the game, with Geralt locked up in the cell – the lighting and textures and stuff blew me away.
@freezespreston This is one of those games you run on Ultra.
The Witcher 2 is the best western RPG in a long time. I’d change almost nothing about it. Maybe the combat a little because it starts stupidly hard and gets progressively easier as you level up. I also dropped the difficulty to easy. It felt a little… well, easy. But Normal was too hard and time-consuming and it’s a huge game anyway.
Super hyped for TW3.
I really want to play it, but it runs terribly on my computer.
Gives me an incentive to upgrade
Yeah, that’s the thing. I feel easy is too easy but while normal would still be doable it would be way too time consuming.
I’d want to change its UI. As much as, for instance, Skyrim’s UI is super “consolified” I always knew exactly what I was doing in it. In my hours of The Witcher 2 I was never really sure what was going on with the menus.
Oh god, that’s right. The UI is fucking terrible.
I saw some Dragon Age: Inquisition UI stuff on GameInformer on the weekend. Has a very Skyrim-like interface too now.
Hola Tay
I had a busy weekend, went and saw a friend’s new baby, which did baby things, then went and saw The World’s End, which I enjoyed.
Played a bit of Borderlands 2 last night. I still love that game
A Monday Morning Questions: best sf/fantasy/videogam cocktail? I’ve always wanted a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster
Sorry, completely off topic but did you say that you do professional photography?
No, sorry. I have a camera, that’s about it 🙂
Can you take decent photos? I think I remember you expressing interest in taking photos of cosplayers?
I’m a rank amateur, sorry. I did take a couple pictures of cool cosplayers at PAX, (actually got @mrtaco as Manny) but I wouldn’t be comfortable claiming any expertise- I only really bought one for my trip.
I think you should try by helping @scree out, and discover your untapped well of potential. 🙂
I’m only asking because I didn’t really take many photos. I was pretty put off by the person who called me fat. Kind of ruined the whole cosplay for me.
I was going to fix it up a bit and try to get some photos done with it done up better
Someone called you fat? How rude.
Also, now I’ve played the game: Did you have the thimble?
@redartifice I was dressed as a character from Another the anime. I didn’t have enough time to change my Elizabeth costume from E3 2011 footage to Bioshock infinite game 2013
@scree there’s a certain hipster cred in being Elizabeth from the trailer 🙂 Are you going to look at being Rapture Elizabeth?
@redartifice I would like to try different Elizabeths but I have to work on a lot of cosplays
It’s less of a well and more of a puddle.
Mrs Beardy is getting involved in the organisation of a Tumblr convention called Dashcon at the moment, which is super exciting. What’s even more super exciting is that the organisers are going to be flying her over to Chicago in July next year to be there for it. Which means that we’ll be heading overseas for the first time in ages! Whoo! And there’s talk of a Metro 7 booth being a possibility there too…
Oh cool! Amber was talking about this when we got KFC at the Sushi/Aleph meat thingy. It’s actually happening for real now? Awesome! 😀
I like how @mythamphetamine gets second-place in the official Meat title after sushi.
Haha! I went to four meats with the guy, so they can’t all be Aleph meats. XD
Yep! I wonder how much of my ticket I can claim on tax if I tie it into book promotion…
Really can’t my mind up with PAYDAY 2.
I’ve enjoyed playing it but I don’t think I actually like the game. The unlock system is terrible (it’s random at the end of a successful mission with a few level based unlocks thrown in), missions that go wrong turn into a rather boring horde mode (especially if you’re specced out for stealth) and the sound design is terrible.
Seriously, the female hostages get on my nerves because there is one scream that they do that sounds exactly like one from a Dream Theater song. It must be a stock sound file or something. Fucking hate that noise.
I know the scream, and I’ve heard it lord-knows-how-many movies and ads.
I’m loving the game, but agree the unlock system is absolutely terrible. I want to get the mods I need to go and start doing proper full stealth/ninja heists, but after 40 hours, do you think I can get more than one suppressor for a gun I don’t use?
At the moment I’m just grinding guns blazing quick runs to get cards. It’s pretty tiring. But I’m looking at the goal of having full choice on how I want to equip myself weapon wise in the end. Will have a lot more flexibility.
Knocking over a jewellery store in under 2 minutes is about the only consistent way to get a lot of unlocks. Unfortunately, one misplaced guard and it goes loud and the whole thing gets dragged out.
The quickest way is to have shaped charges and do a Very Hard/Overkill Pro Ukrainian job. Charge through the front door, masks on, blow the safes, grab the tiara and scoot. If there’s more than one person, they grab a bag or two of jewelry while someone’s doing the tiara.
Me and a mate can do it in about 45 seconds on average. He usually gets two bags of loot while I do the safe and we get $70k odd and over 15k XP – on overkill, that is. The only trick is, you have to get back to the van before it leaves after the siren is tripped.
Four Stores on Overkill isn’t too bad either. Nowhere near as much XP or cash, but quick cards. Someone blows safes while the other person saws open ATMs, can be done in around 2 minutes.
EDIT: Since the last update though, there’s almost always a metal detector on the jewelry store, so we’ve taken to busting through the front windows. Can buy valuable seconds before the alarm goes off.
Why not just run down the alley to the back and dive through the windows?
Takes longer. We mask up as soon as the level loads so you can start sprinting immediately across the street to the front windows. Going down the side can buy you time with out the alarm going off, but just makes the whole heist take longer. We find that most of the time there’s only ever 2-3 bags of jewelry worth in the store, so no need to go quiet. Two bags total is nice, but risking anything for a third isn’t really worth it.
Usually goes: both of us through front window, we pop cameras on the run, me down to safes, get tiara, and grab a bag on the way out to the van. Me grabbing a bag depends if the tiara is in the first safe or not. If it isn’t in the first safe I usually skip a bag on the way out and run straight to the van. My friend gets two bags while I do all that, as well as yelling at customers.
We actually got the achievement for doing the Ukrainian job in less than 35 seconds too.
Looks like I need to start doing Ukrainian Jobs then. Just need to do it with someone with shaped charges.
You can solo it if you have shaped charges. Charge in, blow safes, grab tiara and go. Easy. Also helps if you just wear the two piece suit as well. You don’t even need armor.
@ynefel I’m not far away from getting the ghost ability to crack safes by hand. That might still be a little slow.
Hell, I could respec my mastermind tree so that I have that already.
@trjn
I initially had half my points in Ghost and half in Tech, but wanted some high level stuff, so ditched Ghost entirely just to hit top end Tech. I’ve since been putting points back into Mastermind. Safe cracking by hand works, but takes longer. The bonus is it’s quiet. Blowing doors off safes gets people’s attention. It’s weird.
Just depends how you want to hit it really.
Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Wonderful 101 and The Bureau are all out this week. Rayman Legends next week. It begins. 😀
Saints Row isn’t.
I’ll just be over here. There’s something in my eye.
:'(
It is on Steam!
Isn’t it pushed to September 20 on Steam?
Last night my Steam said “Unlocks in 1 day, xx hours”
Interesting. I wonder if it’ll be on PSN. Wish Deep Silver would get back to Kotaku with some details.
Steam are NOTORIOUS for not updating adjustments to release dates for non-US releases. Steam might say, “Unlocks in 1 day, XX hours,” but I’ve lost count of the number of times that didn’t mean shit because they either didn’t factor in Aussie/International delays at all, or the international releases got postponed and the site wasn’t updated.
Is that just on Aust Steam? There must be ways around that.
There are ways to beat activation dates on Steam by using VPNs and whatnot. But it’s expressly forbidden, and if you get sprung doing it, you can lose your account. It’s pretty risky.
In this case the less risky thing to do is buy a foreign CD key!
Which is more than a little sad. And also doesn’t help anyone who pre-ordered.
I still wouldn’t chance it, even with a foreign CD key. My Steam account has far too much on it to risk anything just to play a game a little early.
Wonderful 101!
I think I’m most excited for Rayman. I’ve been playing the Challenges App every day for a week in anticipation. XD Bureau? I think I need to see atleast one good review…
Or any review. There’s a very strange quiet around this game.
What kind of game is this new XCom, they keep changing it so I have no idea what the gameplay is like…
It’s a third person game with squad management now I think. More story based than the other XCOM.
It’s a strategic 3rd Person Shooter. Think Mass Effect, but with some sort of Permadeath system. Also, potentially not very good (it’s had its own little development hell).
It look sgood but not sure how it plays and as blaghs said it went through so much dev hell (FPS, 3rd ps, to tactical combat.
Seems like they too a chunk of the new xcom, blended it with a lot of Mass effect team management. Seems like it might play similar to brothers in arms if you ever played that.
still very weary of the bureau,
That’s not how you X-Com! *folds arms* (seriously why they gotta make everything fps like that unclassified in australia Syndicate game, would have done better if they made it more like i dunno maybe like Sydicate)
😛 old man Gutsoup is afraid of change
Edit: sorry if someone already corrected me before the edit. In regards to The Bureau, ok it seems i have no idea what kind of game it is, last i saw it looked like an average fps, still, that’s not how you x-com 😛
Haha! Atleast you got the traditional XCOM game too. I really, really like the weird ’50s government conspiracy tone of this game though. I hope it’s actually good though. XD
yeah i like the time period, I haven’t actually looked into this game since the initial trailers that looked pretty average. I’d like it to be good but don’t really have that much hope.
There’s squad commands and the like now too. Not FPS any more either!
not FPS made me interested again, I don’t mind a good FPS but for a while it was like developers were scared to make anything not FPS, and games that had no business being FPS kept popping up, also FPS (i don’t think i mentioned FPS enough in that paragraph.)
I think I’ll wait and see what folks think of it, been burned too many times by games that looked like they’d be good but just weren’t.
Finally the Wii U is getting some games I’m interested in, gotta sort out this car crap so i can get me one.
Atleast you’ve got a PS4 on the horizon too! 😀
good point, just kinda frustrating, I currently have more money in my account than I’ve ever had but cause i don’t know how much everything is going to cost i can’t spend it. D:
But you raise a good point, PS4 indeed 😀
Check out the new trailers on Steam. They’re pretty cool.
It already began earlier in the month 🙁
Hello friendly people!
Monday morning hilarity. If you have any musical inclination (particularly bass guitar) you will enjoy this little scene – ASLAPPA DA BIASSA – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W3NERMKIBM
I need to watch this movie :O
You do! It’s actually a decently funny rom-com. I had never even heard about it until I just happened to come across it in Video Ezy on Friday night. All weekend my wife was catching me quietly chuckling to myself – “What are you giggling at?” Slappin da bass!”…..
PS. Re-hire John Carpenter’s 1982 The Thing and don’t waste your time with the 2011 prequel.
Wait a Video Ezy! Those exist still?
I know! I’m old school – I like to look at covers and read the backs of things, look them up on Rotten Tomatoes and then purchase a weekly rental for $3 from a shop assistant. Old school. 🙂
Five months to the day until Arcade Fire. (BDO too, I suppose.) Maybe I should start a Facebook style daily countdown. That’s not annoying at all. 😛
http://imgur.com/gKt7uyO,R23ApyO
So many tears. What the fuck is wrong with people?
🙁
That’s so dog. There are no words. And absolutely nothing you can do – which makes it all the more frustrating. I hope the perpetrator falls over and breaks a limb or someone decides to take a shit in their coffee or somesuch.
Happened to our new car the other month. It’s like, “Okay…cool. Thanks. I’m sorry you don’t like it that we have a nice car and you don’t. Please feel free to key it at your leisure.”
Morning all! I’d say GOOD morning but we all know that’s a lie considering its Monday. Anyway, didn’t do a whole lot over the weekend, started assassins creed 3 so I’m ready when black flag drops. Also saved my moolah for this weekend. Why you ask?
Well I’ll tell you! Got a mate’s bucks weekend down at the Gold Coast and well, I’m gonna need all the money I can get. If anyone will be out and about around Surfers Friday and Saturday let us know!
I’m making an achievements list for us all to complete while we’re down there for a bit of fun. Any ideas that I can add? Dares? Can be easy as or pretty difficult but keep in mind we’re a relatively tame bunch so no beating up bouncers or anything.
Not The Face! (for buck)
Groom completes weekend with eyebrows intact
Gold Coast? That’s where I live!
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Ew. Surfers. Achievements there?
1. The Ninja – Avoid the inevitable glassing.
2. Did ya just touch me bro? – Get bashed by an angry Lebanese man and his crew for brushing past him in a busy nightclub.
3. Ew gross – get shot down by a plastic looking pile of makeup in a too small dress even though you didn’t speak or even look at her.
Maybe he should just have a wholesome Hard Rock Cafe/Timezone/Bowling bucks night. XD
Timezone and bowling were already on the cards, completely forgot about Hard Rock! That’ll definitely be our first stop once we’ve awoken from our slumber Saturday
Well to be fair we’ll most likely be spending a majority of our time at broadbeach but there’s some fun things around surfers minus the shirtless-roided douchebags and the usual nightlife crowd cavill attracts
Hi TAY!
So that Pikmin is a pretty cool guy! Eh rescues plants and astronauts and doesn’t afraid of anything.
Oh. My. Goodness.
That just made me feel invincible on a Monday morning.
OH FUCK IT’S BREAKING BAD DAY! I TOTALLY FORGOT!
YEEEESSSSSSSSS!
Best page get.
OH FUCK IT’S THE NEWSROOM DAY! I TOTALLY DIDN’T FORGET! (D.C. remembers all!)
YEEEESSSSSSSSS! 😀
Have spoiler tags been fixed yet?
HE WAS DEAD THE WHOLE TIME
That’s a no.
Fuck.
Now I can’t watch The Newsroom. Thanks for the spoilers >:(
YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!
That flagship in FTL is super hard. I finally summoned up the guts to take it on and I don’t think I even made a dent in it. I still love the game though.
It’s really tough. And it can take one frick of a beating. If you’re looking for advice, you pretty much need to charge straight at it as soon as it appears, or you’ll be too late to stop it.
Yeah, @ontargett – once you’re in a position to take it, any steps you take that AREN’T heading for the flagship are wasted steps. And once you’ve got it on the run, keep after it.
Personally, I go after their weapons systems hard, with everything I’ve got. Reduces the incoming damage, and repeatedly smashing the same room makes it more susceptible to hull breaches, screwing their oxygen and starting fires. People die in that room, and they eventually pull people off other systems just to keep the thing manned and repaired.
(Edit: If you’ve only got laser weapons and they can keep their shields up, you may need to juggle between knocking out shields and knocking out weapons. That’s not ideal. Preferably you want to be piercing shields with missiles and knock out the shields entirely, then use everything else you’ve got on the weapons systems. Maybe keep disruptors on the shields if you have them.)
Having the stealth module helps a LOT for avoiding the super attack.
I played on Easy because I’m a wimp :3
Still pretty challenging on Easy though!
Eughhhh, went to sleep at 4 last night, was woken up at 7:15 and had to be out the door 5 minutes later :l
I have a goal for this week, get to every one of my classes. Last week I got to 1 😛
Hey @blaghman, what date were you having your meat on? If flights are as cheap right now as Shane says, I might be able to go.
The 21st of September? I think that’s when I said. I’m going to say that that’s what I said, and just roll with it.
If Strange goes we’ll have to have a Strange going away meat before she leaves and a Strange homecoming meat when she gets back. MEATS!
You could come with her. Just saying.
I’m planning a Canberra trip for November to coincide with Supanova. 😛
I really want to downvote this, but it made me laugh.
Wait, questions about ‘meats’. Firstly is it a pun of meets but it includes meat? second, do they only happen in Brisbane? Thirdly HOW DO I GET IN
The awesome prices don’t include that date but I did realise I have enough FF points to get me there and back so now I’m just waiting to hear back from my sister if I can impose upon her….
Oops…was just about to book but realised I’d neglected to talk to Mr. Strange about it. Seeing as he’ll have to look after the kids while I’m gone that wasn’t the smartest thing. So I sent him a message along the lines of “I’m going to Canberra the weekend of September 21st? Okay?” 😛
WAS IT OKAY?!
We need answers!
See below…. 😛
Yes, but that’s just saying it’s the date you booked, not whether it’s okay! :O
It’s definitely the date now, because I’ve booked flights. 😛
Hear that, @dc? Time to start planning the “bon voyage” and “welcome home” meats!
@shane, now that you’ve booked your flight for November (woooooo!), I feel like I should tell you that there’s coincidentally Supanova on at that very time! D: Just thought you’d like to know! 😛
Well, that’s a spot of good luck! 😀
You know what? I think you should get a booth! You could sell stuff from that booth! D:
Why are you sadfacing?! That’s a great idea!
XCOM.
Spec Ops : The Line.
Who wants em?
On Steam.
Spec Ops: The Line comes with a D.C. endorsement for what it’s worth! (Not much, probably. :P)
XCOM is pretty damn great too. Just don’t get attached to your squad and name them. :'(
XCOM! Happy for you to give them elsewhere though – I still have many hours left playing Apocalypse.
cool. add me on steam (number30five) & its yours.
I’m at work until 5, so will have to do it tonight. My steam is thisisdickhead.
Could I please have Spec Ops?
Thank you.
@f4ction jumped in on twitter & expressed interest in Spec Ops. fight it out between yourselves!
I would be super keen for either, man. EDIT: both taken – nevermind! Should have refreshed before posting 😉
sorry man. there will be other times!
I’ve got other stuff in the inventory I’m looking to get rid of… Torchlight 1, GTA IV, ShootMania, Ace of Spades & God Mode? anything appeal?
I’d love a copy of GTA IV. Maybe playing it on PC will finally make me fall in love with it?
its yours! add me on steam at some point.
I dont think I ever got far in the story mode. I always get distracted in the multiplayer & just do dumb shit with my mates. thats where the fun is.
What didn’t you like about it? I didn’t like the more serious tone and less stupid fun things to do, but I enjoyed the story and characters.
It was like a playable movie, man!
The cars handled like you were driving a wet bar of soap without wheels.
I took a Taxi everywhere when possible 😀
Those are high-quality things! 35 is a good number/person.
he’s a bit shit actually, but they are both pretty good games.
Ah. Buying redemption, eh? 😉 I’ve been accused of that.
STORYTIME:
When I was working in Spring Hill, we had a pretty kickass popular sandwich shop a block away. These guys loved food and they loved loading on the toppings and they had everything you could think of and it was fresh. So, I was a regular.
One day I’d got back from the chaos of the line and realized that they hadn’t actually taken my money with my order, and when they’d brought my order out, they just handed it over and said goodbye. I’d only realized after getting back to my desk, and it was really close to their closing time. So, with a mild expletive or two, I grabbed my cash and sprinted down the block, and ended up having to hammer on the big roller door because they’d already closed. They were a little puzzled but grateful enough to take the money.
When I got back to my desk, relieved, a coworker studied me intently for a while before she asked quietly, “What on earth terrible things have you done that you have to be so good all the time?”
;_;
A valid question, a valid question indeed………
Well. Can you guys keep a secret?
Orpnhfr V pregnvayl pna. 😉
WHAT!
You killed a guy in Reno, just to watch him die? That’s horrible
And that’s why you’re second in command! A good deputy to Strange, the leader!
mate, I couldn’t buy redemption if I gave cancer-curing puppies to every person on the planet.
Because of the flow-on effect to overpopulation…?
I’m just part of the problem.
Cancer-causing puppies might do the trick.
My mind just served up a mental image/story of some character who is desperately trying to get thrown into prison or otherwise censured/lynched, but can literally do no wrong. Tries to rob a bank and is hailed for exposing vital security flaws. Pushes a nun into traffic and gets a national holiday named after him for his scathing and ironic indictment on the state of society, making everyone really think about how they treat others. @Shane’s cancer-causing puppies would be seen as a euthanasia technique to reduce global overpopulation in the most friendly adorable way possible.
Eight days without internet — going for redartifice’s record!
As if that’s almost consolation for having no Live/PSN/fully-featured Steam/etc. 😐
It’s a dubious honour at best
I’ll send you the internet!
http://img1.etsystatic.com/001/0/7573496/il_fullxfull.403564681_gahb.jpg?ref=l2
When I first moved out of home, we had no net for almost a month because Telstra wouldn’t connect our phone line or some such thing.
It sucked.
We played a lot of Mahjong.
Wife and I went almost six months without internet when we bought our house, because there was no one who could service it. Even now, five years on, our current plan (ADSL-1 through TPG) is literally the only plan available to us. Even Telstra couldn’t provide anything to us.
Pre-apocalyptic urban decay.
ADSL-1? Me too, whoo!
(The annoying part is that I live in a 20 year old suburb, all the farmland and semi-rural areas around us are being subdivided for new housing ‘n they’re getting the best of everything… but the infrastructure where I am is terrible, and no-one wants to invest in it. Bastards.)
My house is ten years old, and in a capital city. I can’t figure out why the infrastructure is so bad.
Another example: my brother bought a pretty new place in a developing suburb. After buying it (it was three years old at that point), they went more than two years without any kind of broadband access because the NBN was coming “soon.”
Proper mahjong, or computer mahjong?
Proper Mahjong.
Taiwanese rules, if you care.
Good man. I’ve played Singapore scoring only, but we usually didn’t keep a direct score.
I didn’t know proper mahjong was so complicated and competitive until my Grandma signed up to join a senior ladies’ mahjong club.
I didn’t even really understand anything beyond the ‘solitaire’ version of mahjong until I watched a few episodes of the mahjong-based anime. Yes. There is an anime all about competitive mahjong. And by extension, maths. I was intrigued and horrified.
Everything I know about Mahjong comes from Killer7.
So like… there’s a bunch of tiles and you do something with them then everyone dies.
There is a special place in hell reserved for whoever it was that trademarked Shanghai Solitaire and caused everyone to start referring to that game as Mahjong when it’s got nothing to do with the actual game.
A special place in hell, but not an especially agonizing one. One of the hell for mildly-depressing annoyances, where people go to for convincing others to say things like, “PIN number.”
There are a lot of people in that hell.
I’ve gone 2 months now with no internet. I moved and they don’t offer any broadband here.
Monday morning got you down
Struggling to get going
Feel like you are living moment to moment
Maybe you need a different way of living to improve your monday
Hilarious. I love how @blaghman is singing so casually and everyone else is losing their shit.
Really?
Because that’s the most animated I’ve ever seen him.
I am pretty sure he is actually a corpse.
So Eb are giving away shiny pokemans over sept/oct.
How does that work? do you just stroll on in, ds in hand, turn on the wifi and get a mystery gift?
and here i was thinking this would be a video of someone obtaining shiny pokemans…
so so wrong.
That’d be too helpful for my liking.
yes
Take your DS in, fire up Pokemon, select ‘Receive gift’ or it’s equivalent, and that’s pretty much it. It scans for gifts, then you receive Pokey-man. Make sure you do it in or very close to the store. Sometimes the range is pretty short on the gift-giving thing.
Mumbo Jumbo Video Game Podcast Episode 6 is up!
Join Dane and Ryan as they chat about Guacamelee, Thomas was alone, Grand Theft Auto Online and Saints Row IV as well as discussions on buying a Wii U, the Origin Humble Bundle and the Dota 2 International.
http://mumbojumbovideogamepodcast.podbean.com/2013/08/18/mumbo-jumbo-podcast-6-the-origin-of-steam/
So I’ve been playing War Thunder on and off for the past week and it’s kind of cool. Getting shot out of the sky by others in superior planes is annoying, but the controls are tight and out-maneuvering someone on your tail to get behind and take them out is really satisfying. I haven’t enjoyed flight in a game this much since playing that Diddy Kong Racing map where you have to snatch dinosaur eggs.
I think some of my favourite kills have been where someone is chasing me, and I fly around things until they crash into something. I don’t get credit or points for it, but it’s totally worth it.
I got my first team kill the other day – Was on the tail of an enemy fighter who was almost dead, just waiting for my machine guns to reload when @pyrean swoops in to steal the kill. My machine guns game back online so I started shooting again even though Pyrean was now in the way and managed to clip his wing.
tl;dr @pyrean is a jerk 😛
A dead jerk
At least he didn’t swoop in and crash right into you, killing you both and letting the enemy escape. I hate it when that happens
http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/game/ps3/the-bureau-xcom-declassified/683770
One thing that The Bureau has going for it is the box art. Love the redacted style. So cool.
It’s super cool, hey?
I’m trying to decide between PS3 and the Steam version.
Steam has sooooooooo much more value if you pre-order (Spec Ops, Xcom Collection inc Enemy Unknown)
But PS3 means I can play it now.
I’m leaning towards Steam, but will probably still get a boxed version just cause I like the box so damn much. Though I need a review for this first. Just one. Maybe from GameInformer. Reassure me!
the very few previews I’ve read have said its sorta like a XCOM / Mass Effect 3 hybrid.
pretty much sold on that description right there.
Does sound pretty damn good!
Maaaaaster raaaaaace
If it helps, the Greenman Gaming price is only $45. Doesn’t work with any other discount codes, but it’s still a pretty damn good price.
Well that’s ridiculous value.
I’m upset, now.
The savings have upset me.
Thanks for reminding me about this. I just pre-ordered it for Mr. Strange. It’s the only upcoming game he’d be interested in that’s going to be released in time for his birthday.
And hey, if it turns out to be crappy…free The Darkness II will come in handy. 😀
Don’t know if it was mentioned yesterday but it was @f4ction’s birthday! Happy 33rd birthday my friend!
Happy birthday for yesterday, F4ction!
Happy birthday @f4ction! Hope it was an awesome day!
Quick somebody bake him a cake so we can hide the files inside it.
No wait, he’s on the other side. Disregard
Happy birthday @f4ction
CELEBRATORY DAY OF BIRTH! GOOD WISHES! MANY GIFTS! THINGS!
It was @f4ction’s birthday yesterday? Oh shit!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Happy Birthday @f4ction!
Happy Birthday @f4ction 🙂
http://www.news.com.au/national-news/if-tony-abbott-wins-you-lose8217-labor8217s-new-blitz/story-fncynjr2-1226699569507
Still not as good as the Abbott Time Warp vid, though.
Arrggh, now I’m all excited about Brisbane.
Where is that con fatigue I had only last month?
We should make tentative plans for a Nov 9th meat. That’s the anniversary of last years Karaoke meat. XD You’ll probably want to hang with comic crowd on some of the other nights, though?
Wed and Thurs nights (6th, 7th) might be better if that suits you at all! I’m usually completely wrecked after a con day.
Also that Thursday most of the day I’ll be free (will set up booth that afternoon, probably).
Think finances will kill a Dream World meat though. Just hanging out is fine by me.
Oh, I was just going by your twitter post. Thought you were only in town for the weekend!
I decided to fly in one day earlier than I would normally have to, and reserve it for TAY shenanigans. Also, cheap flights were on that day.
I’ll be around from afternoon of 6th to morning of 11th, but will be pretty thoroughly booked out after the Thursday night.
Finances kill a Dreamworld meat?
*coughalreadycoveredcough*
I’ll just leave this here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChO9qHDhEc0
Elysium is almost a Mass Effect movie in design!
Except it lacked the two things that made Mass Effect as brilliant as it was: personality, and soul.
I thought it had personality.
Gur jubyr qebvq vagrenpgvba guvat jvgu Znk jura ur fnj uvf cnebyr bssvpre. Nyfb gur qrgnvy bs gur jbeyq znqr vg cerggl havdhr gb zr.
I honestly liked it better than District 9 and I loved District 9. 😀
Having not yet seen Elysium, I thought the thing that made Mass Effect brilliant was the fact that it was an allegory for Star Wars.
Here, have some poetry — OCD
Hmm. That OUYA story. Would the bloke even be entitled to a refund? He didn’t buy a console. He invested in it and the OUYA was more a bonus, not an actual purchase.
Refund, probably not. I was going to post that in the comment section, but decided it wasn’t worth weighing in 🙂
That said, there’s something about legal obligations to provide perks, even if the primary product in the crowdfunding goes belly-up. Not sure what the rule is when the perk is the product itself. :\
Entitled? no. From a PR perspective though, I’d be getting him one pretty damn quick.
I heard the backer early Ouyas were shit compared to the retail version anyway. If he gets one gratis, he’ll possibly be better off.
Edit: Also, wow. Having read the story and looked at the comments, there are a lot of people posting that they’ve had similar/worse experiences in Australia.
Greetings, ladies and gentlemen. *adjusts tie*
How was Canada? 😀 (That was you, I think. Maybe.)
It was me!
Canada was great, but I pretty much only visited a small town there in a fairly out-of-the-way province. Had a great time. 😀
Transit was loooooooooooong… something like 4 hours to SYD + 3 hours wait + 13 hours to LAX + 3 hours wait + 4? 5? hours to TOR + 3 hours wait + 2 hours to SECRET VOLCANO BASE. I guess that’s over 30 hours all up, each way? Hardly slept while travelling though, just watched TV/movies on the media centre thingies they have, or read. Got zero street passes since leaving PER.
Had internet access while there, but not much time to do internetty things – trying to make most of my time there. Anything interesting been going on around here?
OVER AND OUT.
With all their beady little eyes
And flapping heads so full of lies
Greetings sir 🙂
YYAYYYY!!! Remedial Massage on Thursday!!!!
That’ll be a happy ending to a Monday!
Shit.
I mean, not like that, more, like, it’ll relieve pressure.
Oh man.
Ummm, that’s worse, ummm, shit.
Enjoy your inevitable release.
Wanker.
Cum on, man.
Yeah, alright.
And then I got Mad Mex to taunt @markserrels about his diet on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/mad_mex/status/369273166721327107
Today was a good day.
Man, I wish I had the bandwidth to download all the games I’ve gotten recently 🙁 I wanna play Burnout Paradise again! There’s still games from the Deep Silver bundle I need to download.
Adventure games!
Movies are pretty good!
…
*waits*
I miss Sughly. :'(
Me too, man. Me too.
What happened to Sughly?
He’s working on his game! Which is good!
Also, he might be hung over from Saturday still. XD
I finished Syberia (1) just before leaving! I have also downloaded Syberia 2 since getting back!
Also, I spent too long reading stuff about the ‘ReBoot’ CG series yesterday? The day before?
That series was sweet.
Do you know anything about this?
The Raven’s supposed to be excellent.
Here’s the Adventure Gamer review!
http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/24976
It’s a three part series, though. I was thinking of waiting until they were all released.
If you like adventure games though, I recommend The Night of the Rabbit and the Deponia series.
Did you like Syberia?
It was p. cool! I dig the clockwork style of the automatons. I found that I didn’t have the patience for some of the puzzles and used online hints at some points. It’s difficult to justify spending ages being stuck on some puzzle when you have limited time to play and pretty much just want to advance the story 🙁
Reboot was pretty cool but had some issues with inconsistent writing. They didn’t have any actual writers on staff apparently. When they started doing Transformers: Beast Wars (same company) they hired some experienced TV writers and it really shows.
Is anyone planning on getting Disney Infinity?
GameInformer loved it!
http://www.gameinformer.com/games/disney_infinity/b/xbox360/archive/2013/08/18/fun-with-the-toy-box.aspx
Does that mean you’re getting it? Don’t mess with me, @dc…I’ll pat your beard again! 😛
@dc is growing a beard? 🙂
It was more a D.C. didn’t feel like shaving for three weeks kind of thing. XD
That’s how the Shane-beard started too. (Twins.)
You don’t pat a beard, you stroke it in the hope that it doesn’t attack.
I had to shave it off. Someone violated it. 😛
(Also, I was looking like a crazed hermit… more so then usual.)
Nah, this doesn’t interest me. Just saw this when I was frantically refreshing GameInformer for The Bureau review. This better not be another Aliens: Colonial Marines or Star Trek. :'(
But it has all the Pixar stuffs. You love them. How does it not interest you?
Having to buy the toys mostly. Also, I hate fun!
I’m with you there, it’ll cost waaaaay too much if you start collecting the toys, wasn’t it calculated that to get all the Spyro Toys (excluding store exclusives and such) was about $1500, i swear i read that somewhere. If you can afford it go for it, but i can’t invest that much money into 1 game.
and now i see this the the article on Kotaku’s home page, so about $250 just for what’s out at release. O_O
You need to stop getting hype for games. You end up ruining them for everyone.
D:
My instincts about games are usually pretty good. I end up enjoying most of the things I get hyped about, but sometimes… it backfires. Mostly with video game adaptions of beloved movie IPs.
Ugh, it’s going to be The Last Spec Ops all over again…
Everyone looks like a crazed hermit for the first month (sometimes two) of their first True Beard. But one day, it will burst forth in glorious splendour, and you will be a righteous MAN, emerging from the chrysalis of boyish non-bearddom .
Oh man, if only you gave this pep talk two hours ago. Now I look about 14 and can’t go outside for atleast six days until it’ll be presentable again. XD
On the plus side, it’s shown that tragic and woeful beardlessness is good for your career. :/
(This is how we know there is something WRONG with the world.)
My career is being a crazed hermit though! D:
I splite the difference. Got the job, kept the goatee but not the full beard.
Probably, yeah. Everything I’ve seen about it looks like pure fun.
I’ll definitely be getting it but I’m having trouble deciding which console to get it on.
If I get it on Wii or 360 the kids can play it in the family(read: “get the kids out of the way”:P ) room without having to wait for the main room’s TV to be free, but we’re planning on getting “the kids” a WiiU for Christmas so I’m wondering if that version would be a better idea. The WiiU would live in the main loungeroom area so they wouldn’t be able to play as often, but it could become more of a family activity that way.
No way.
That’s a ___________,
ghostriderStrange – the pattern is full.I was keen on it until they announced the blind pick booster packs for power discs *and* different rarities. Then there are the “rare” alt colour/crystal editions of figures that come with in-game boosts that make them better than the standard figures.
It’s “Pay 2 ePeen” – the rarest, most expensive figures and/or retailer exclusive preorder incentives are “best”. Skylanders has issued reskins, etc. but they all function in game the same way as their default hero does.
I have way too many toys already. I think I’ll give it a miss.
Having seen the skylanders rabbit hole through to the bitter, twisted end twice over now, no.
I’m not confident in the details they’ve actually released about it yet. Seems too restrictive with the IP, and the toybox mode is still unproven in my eyes.
Given your inevitable purchase, it looks like the Wii U will be a good ‘value add’ with how the gamepad will be integrated. Aside from that, the main platform consideration should just be that online multi is platform locked. Don’t touch the Wii version with a 10 foot pole, it’s a shadow of the other ones.
That’s about all I’ve worked out, pre-release details are still a little scarce.
Yeah, I read the “How Much Will It Cost” article and I don’t even know what those Power Disc thingies are for. o.O
My daughter’s pretty over Skylanders so we won’t be getting the next one, which is why we can get Infinity instead. It doesn’t have to be super expensive unless you’re an obsessive collector. We waited for sales for almost all of our extra Skylanders purchases, hopefully we’ll be able to do the same with Infinity.
Also, my daughter loves to play around in LBP creating stuff so even if the Toybox mode is not great she’ll still have fun with it. And the potential for entertaining the whole family at once is priceless. 🙂
Big thing I’ve found about this – toybox aside, the ‘game’ consists of a 4-6 hr adventure that comes with each play set – you get 3 of these with the 3 starters, but only figures from that IP are playable in that adventure. Want to play local co-op on am adventure? Starter pack won’t be enough.
If you buy a figure that doesn’t have a themed adventure, or you haven’t bought that play set, that figure will only work in the toy box. Be wary when looking at extras. If there’s already LBP experience/love, all the better.
The toy box will let you submit your creations, and you can download Disney approved submissions that they will be refreshing at a fairly regular rate (unless you’re on Wii, no upload or download there – this also makes me wary of future releases that aren’t already on the disc, there’s a chance they’ll write off the Wii as too hard, or make you buy a newer game. Thus, avoid)
Holy shit.
Hilarious.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6904231/jake-and-amir-rick-roll
I pimp their genius a lot, so if you still haven’t seen any of their stuff, now is as good a time as any, jerk.
Their podcast is pretty great.
It’s good to get a little humour after listening to Zeitgeist.
Hey, are spoiler tags working again?
Let’s see
Answer: No.
Good thing today is only BREAKING BAD DAY.
I’m not entirely sure why I went with caps there but I’m apparently committed to them.
It’s okay. I’m sure everyone here knows about http://WWW.ROT13.COM
Don’t you mean http://WWW.ROT13.COM?
Ordinarily, yes, but Breaking Bad spoilers are at stake 🙂
[Br]EAKING [Ba]D
Was going to try and see Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. All of the tickets for the run in Sydney are sold.
Should have definitely planned this earlier instead of just saying “oh, that’s interesting, should go see it.”
Gurl qvr va gur frdhry, gur yrffre xabja naq qrevingvir “unzyrg”
I upvoted because of your wish to see something so awesome. And then I realised I was potentially upvoting your lack of being able to see something so awesome. Oh well. 😛
maybe you should have planned our anniversary a little earlier, you dork
So Friday night I’m like “I guess I’ll jump into FFXIV and create my character, then maybe some Xillia”.
Then suddenly it was Monday and I had played about 25 hours of FFXIV and 0 hours of Xillia 🙁
This wasn’t you trying to recruit team-members was it? 😛
No but I wish I’d thought of that as it’s clearly a surefire strategy for getting parties.
Admittedly my kittygirl did in fact spend some time in her underwear, but this was because of a lack of actual clothes to wear as she was in the middle of sewing them.
If you kept your starter clothes, you can put them on your fledgeling crafters when they switch classes, so they don’t have to be one of those hobo peasants you see crafting in the nuddy in the crafting hall.
Yeah but that requires effort. Plus the first thing I did was pick up the crafting disciplines that let me make crafting gear so I was fairly quickly clothed in a horrible brown burlap sack thing.
I only had the starter-clothing revelation late in my journey of nudity. But clothes were the first thing I angled for. The joy of pants! Especially ones with focus and stuff on.
Crafting clothes that have bonuses to crafting so you can craft clothes which help you craft better clothes which help you craft better clothes which help you craft better cloth… Aiieeee
Seeing rumors suddenly of a Vita redesign or new model sporting a bigger (6.3″) screen.
If Sony put an SD memory slot in there I would buy it 🙁
EDIT:
EDIT EDIT: Removed because it was a hoax apparently 🙁
Oh man, SD slot would be fantastic. I have so many SD cards just sitting around from various devices over the years…
I honestly don’t know if the bigger screen is a good idea. A good number of games run at sub-native, and while that’s not an issue on the smaller screen, dropping the DPI might make it more obvious.
Then again, I had similar worries about the 3DS XL until I saw one, so it’s probably unfounded.
Aw, you had me excited for a second! I don’t really care for a bigger screen size (it’s plenty big already [insert joke here]) but cheaper (or built-in) memory would be great.
My Monday morning has been hectic. Slept through my alarm, almost missed my lift, didn’t get an opportunity for food till like 10,30 and have sorta important stuff this afternoon which probably isn’t going to go well. YAY MONDAYS!
EDIT: Shoutout to my friend Harry if he sees this!
Lunacy.
Hey Harry!
GET BACK TO WORK, HARRY!
@bdkiaf @others
Would anyone like to Duel Shock about the GTA series before V comes out?
Perhaps. Unless there’s someone more qualified, since the only GTA I’ve actually completed is San Andreas.
I’ll participate if you like. I think I’ve played (and finished) them all!
Edit: actually, no. I haven’t played Liberty City Stories or Vice City Stories.
Edit2: Clarification: still happy to do the thing, though.
Sounds good! DM me your email and I’ll send it through!
shane at shanewsmith dot com!
Shanewsmith.com? Sounds like a spam site…
#lesserEvil
I played and finished all the GTAs since the first, including the psp and ds ones. Also play wih a pretty good community of dudes that make videos of GTA and edit them up really well if you need vids….. #notreallyhelpful 😛
Flick me a link or two on Twitter and I might chuck them in!
I’ve grown up with GTA, which..explains a few things, but I dont know what this “Duel Shock” is..?
It’s an article series I write on Potaku, the latest of which went up yesterday:
http://potaku.com/2013/08/19/duel-shock-the-state-of-nintendo/
@shane and I are a fair way thorugh the GTA one, but I’ll welcome your comments once it’s up
Oh nice! Reading through the Nintendo article now. Looking forward to the GTA one.
@dc – Is this you?
D.C. doesn’t like to talk…
Quest for Glory was RAD. I got into it way too late though – our 286 didn’t have a 3.5″ disk drive to install the game, and the 486 we got next was just WAY too powerful for it. The game ran too fast, making combat almost impossible.
I was a Sierra fanboy in the ’90s, but this was their one series I’ve never played and have no nostalgia attached to it.
It was like the filthy-minded, cursing, drinking cousin of all the other adventure games.
Play cribbage
@fled all the rumours of a ReBoot reboot over the years have left me so hopeful and so disappointed.
IT’S BUCKET ‘O NOTHING! SURPRISE YOUR FRIENDS! AMAZE YOUR FAMILY! ANNOY PERFECT STRANGERS!
I kind of forgot about it since watching it years and years ago… and I don’t think I’ve seen S3 or S4.
@bdkiaf @dkzeitgeist thanks guys, You made me laugh so much, my back started hurting even more.
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow
Double Dragon: Neon
Played the demo with a mate on the weekend, so fun! A lot of little references to the SNES games. It also has a pretty awesome sound track.
I’ve bought this now but have to wait until next weekend to play it again with my friendo :[
i bought this and me and a friend played it to the last boss in one sitting, discovered how overpowered he was, failed to beat him a whole bunch of times, gave up and never played again. A real shame cause i really liked it.
That is a shame. If we get stuck i’m hoping we can go back to previous levels to grind for a bit. I wouldnt mind making it a regular thing.
I intended to go grind but i kinda forgot. 😛
\o/ YES! YES! YES! \o/
No.
My wife grabbed Tokyo Jungle last night and she got obsessed. Last night the was about 360,000th in the leader boards.
She somewhat improved that standing this morning.
Hah, Nice!
Haha! Mrs. Freeze is awesome! 😀
aww man i got so obsessed with that for a while, in my first ever attempt with a pomeranian i got to 84years or so. I really wish that they make a sequel but expand on the idea. I want some kinda From Dust / Tokyo Jungle Hybrid
Karmaflow got an extension to its campaign on IndieGoGo. They get all money, regardless of if it’s completely funded but it’s good they now get the chance for more seeing as it’s only halfway to what they needed.
I hate to be that guy, and while that looks quite cool, would it have killed them to hire someone to proofread their pitch? You’re dealing with a document which will influence tens of thousands of dollars.
They misspelled Guerilla Games in the opening paragraph, for crepe’s sake.
Be honest, Blaghman…you don’t hate to be that guy. People who say they hate to be that guy love being that guy. 😛
Oh, of course I do. It’s a matter of principle.
…
And if I really loved it (rather than just enjoying it) I’d spend all my time correcting everyone, which would probably cause them to stab me.
Haha, I actually suppressed posting a pedantic-jerkface comment in the last ten minutes or so. 😀
Just to clarify – I mean a comment where I am being super pedantic about something somebody else wrote.
And quite frankly, I don’t really care about the game…I just want the soundtrack. 😀
…ok. I’m interested in that.
but… dani filth? wut? i thought he was dead or something. or maybe just irrelevant to music since Damnation & a Day, perhaps?
Yeah…he’s a bit of a weird inclusion. I can only assume they thought he’d be perfect for the lamest badguy of the game. 😛
I personally won’t back anything on IndieGoGo because just about everything there uses their funding model where if they don’t make it to their goal, they still take your money regardless.
:O
I have no words.
!
!
You have four words.
And a face.
Liar.
We’ll have to devise a way of communicating through blinking then!
*blinks*
!
What did you call me? That’s so mean!
I just called you Nob! 😛
…
???
More words, what has you so excited?
I think someone fell down a well.
Was it Timmy? I’ve told that little prick to quit playing around on the well. Next time I’m leaving him down there.
Next time?
I’ve already dropped an anvil down there…
Because there’s limited nightlife in Canberra, some folks feel compelled to make their own fun.
What the fork?!
I think every guy just instinctively shielded themselves upon reading that headline. D:
It’s that he did it for sexual gratification that does my head in. Though maybe when you’re seventy, you have to resort to some pretty extreme tactics to get any kind of feeling going. Artificial hardness, etc, etc. Are you still reading this? You should probably stop. Next set of comments will probably be culinary-related.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urethral_sounding
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sounding
It’s a thing.
O_O
A friend and I went through trying to outgross eachother with the worst sounding pics…
A massive bullet did me in…
Hm. K. I think it’s time for this story. Back when I was going to school in Hervey Bay, a couple of dudes transferred into the school at the same time I did. They came from Hervey Bay high. They told me a story, and I have no idea whether it’s true or not.
If you’re squeamish, don’t read any further.
Before science class onee day, one of their old classmates decided to stick a thermometer in his doodle to check the temperature. He flopped it out, sure that he’d have enough time to do what needed to be done before the teacher showed up. But the teacher turned up early, and as he frantically tried to hide himself, the thermometer shattered.
O_o
o_O
O_O
solution
Haha, solution in a science class. Oh wait, you were talking about something else.
#FindingPunsWhereTheyMightNotExist
Well, if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate
#Chemistrydemonstratorjokesareworsethandadjokes
There’s a relevant video link here but even I can’t watch it so not gonna subject people.
If you’ve seen the video you know what in talking about.
I’ve seen clips of folks who don’t just jam stuff in there like actual full-sized HB pencils and crap, but actually go as far as SPLITTING. Yes. SPLITTING.
i saw an episode of cops once where a dude shelved a syringe while the cops were pulling them over, then while standing there looking all uncomfortable one of the cops noticed the needle’s cap lying on the ground next to the guy, he literally turned white as a ghost and they called an ambulance. i laughed soooo hard
Upvote for use of “doodle”
SOUNDING!
THAT’S IT!
I was trying to remember the name for it at lunch.
Well this TAY section just took a turn for the weird….
Welcome to TAY! 😛
Yay!. I would like to thank the academy…….
its a bit sad, but I hadn’t noticed.
Hahahaha, it’s so true. This is just a perfectly normal day.
Happens all the time. People are interesting.
nothing like a bit of a friday phallus forking.
At first I was like ok, that’s a little weird but I’ve heard of that “sounding” stuff mentioned above before so I guess it kind of makes sense. But then:
WHAT.
It was pushed too far in?
Yeah but it’s like… reaching a finger into your mouth to pick something out of your teeth, then accidentally swallowing your fist :/
Hey @dc, I was thinking about an old adventure game earlier today and I have NO IDEA what it was called. I know it had the word ‘Dream’ in the title. My mind wants to say Dreamscape, but I think that’s wrong.
It was an old 2D pixel art first person adventure game where everything was slightly creepy. I remember a monster under a sewer lid, and some puzzle involving balloons… It was on an old Shareware CD from back in the day. Any ideas?
Also, did you play any of the Penumbra games? I’ve heard they’re scary, but pretty good nonetheless.
I think you’re thinking of Dare to Dream?
I think that’s it!
I haven’t played any of those games! D:
Was going to be all smug and say Dreamweb and then *nod* all knowingly until I got to your second paragraph. XD
I played a bit of the first penumbra game.
Certainly scary but when it started going with too much of the spiders I stopped playing
ugh spiders
They’re by the Amnesia people, right?
Yep, same developers
Imagine Amnesia on the Oculus Rift…
I feel panicky just thinking about it.
My son just put a little metal pin ( like the ones you use to put shelves into a cupboard with) into his undies, attached a magnet(hilariously, it was bone-shaped) to the outside of his undies and told me “I’ve got a MAGNET PENIS!”.
I have a photo but I can’t exactly put it on the internet anywhere. 😛
That one goes into the Saving for your 18th pile
Devious.
If you haven’t enrolled him in any gifted children classes now is the time to do it – He is clearly performing an experiment on the effects of magnetism and the human anatomy.
He’ll fit right in at TAY.
Making @shane’s patented hashbrown melt jaffle/toastie/toasted sandwich/dealy…
Royalty cheque in the mail, right?
I thought this was the main reason you were headed to Brisbane?
Hey TAY,
So I got back last monday from a month long vacation to Europe (London, Liverpool, Amsterdam, Paris, 5 or 6 places in Italy) and it was fantastic. I cannot believe how much jet lag kicked my ass. My sleep has been erratic at best and my energy levels have been low at most. So this week is like a real week back now, with the need to get back into the swing of real life, and to find a job. Also been trying to find a gym to get back into shape after 4 months not doing anything thanks to a torn ACL.
I haven’t gamed at all in the past 5 weeks, and went to update Garrys mod to play some TTT for the first time in forever but my internet has been running slow as hell and took forever. I need to finish the Last of Us. Also cannot wait for GTA V.
Really energy levels are slow, I don’t know wether to play video games, read a book, or force myself into the cold of Melbourne and try and start running. Did apply for 5 or so jobs today, with a bunch of phone calls to make tomorrow to look for work. So hopefully something comes of that.
Anyway thats my life update, hows yours going?
Arghh so much jealousy! Of the trip, that is…not the injury or the not gaming and stuff.
Was lucky that I got off crutches after the knee reconstruction 2 weeks before Europe and that the walking around actually helped so much with the rehab of the knee. I would suggest to you if you have any plans to go to Europe that you should go to Cinque Terre in Italy. Freaking amazing.
I’ve had plans to go to Europe for the past 4 years but we always do something different instead. At this point I just choose to believe Europe is a myth. It just doesn’t exist. 😛
I had no plans to go, but then my girlfriends dad moved over to live in Italy for a year, so we kind of made plans to visit him. Plus not having a job, but having money set aside really helped with the timing of it all.
I head over to Europe in a few weeks (London, Amsterdam, Paris, Munich, Rome, Venice etc) – Any recommendations and/or customs to watch out for?
Aside from the ones guarding the borders…
When in Rome, do as the Roman’s do!
Heeeeeeey cousin, want to go see beeeeg American teeties?
Your lucky, I reckon September October would be the best time to go. It was too hot for July and early August. Our first 3 weeks every day was over 30 degrees, mostly around 35. I flew into London, they were the most strict on customs, and questioned why I was holidaying when unemployed and get very suss on you. Do all the touristy stuff as thats great to see, I would suggest going to Soho for an eat and drink, lots of places to eat and really well priced. Amsterdam had decent customs, do a red light district tour, its worth learning about how it all works and if your keen go see a sex show, I found it very funny and thats what 95% of people go for the humour of it all. If you go to the heineken factory and do like a beer, pay the extra for the rooftop terrace, you get a burger and beer, and they let you keep drinking until you leave. Also see Anne Frank House, its a real eyeopener. Italy has like 0 customs when coming from somewhere else in the EU and same for Paris from Italy. I have customs stamps only from London and the Netherlands. If you like Moulan Rouge was quite the spectacle, expensive but a good night out. Paris is beautiful, just enjoy the city. Make sure you drink the water from the fountains in rome (they have little tap fountains everywhere) It is the best water I have ever drank out of a tap and ice cold. Seriously just get lost in venice, its the best way to see the city, just walk down streets and take turns, you either hit dead ends or end up coming to something that is easy enough to follow back to your hotel or a meeting spot. In Italy just ignore the people that try and sell you roses and stuff, don’t even give them eye contact and they just walk on. Be careful of pickpockets, and be very wary of the old ladies that come up to you and talk in italian. We didn’t see them often but they are also pickpockets that try and get you while you watch the black men literally walking behind people like shadows waiting for the right moment to strike. I didn’t find it as bad as people said about pickpockets, but just stay aware, keep handbags at the front and don’t look out of it (some people walk around so stupidly and are very easy targets). Favourite things from my trip were Cinque Terre, Getting lost in venice, Trevi Fountain, Eiffel Tower and a cruise down the River Thames. Hopefully thats not going to get you lost on anything. If you have any questions just ask.
Welcome back, my friend! Your adventures sound pretty awesome!
Good luck on the job front!
@shane make sure you sell a quilt-sized amount of books at Supanova so you’ll have space to take your quilt home with you. I’ll try my best to make sure it’s done in time. 😀
If you need another copy of the photo of me on the bear skin rug in front of the fire for the pattern, just let me know.
I.. I do..
I am also making a quilt
*shifty eyes*
I’ll need to sell a quilt-sized amount + whatever I have couriered up there in advance… but if there’s any way to plan for that kind of success, I’d like to think I’ll be up in that 🙂
Breaking Bad is a cool show. I like the bit where people did things. (gif from latest episode, mildly spoilerific but just a side thing).
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GET HYPE SON
Between work and social interactions i am getting exhausted. Not physically but emotionally. I get angry at work due to stupid office politics and i get worried at home because people around me seem to be feeling shit. It gets pretty hard to deal with.
Trying to relax this weekend i went on a reading binge and read 150 chapters of Naruto I just finished the part where you find out who the masked man is (for the second time)
I am hooked now but my god this is getting sloppy.
The heroes of the story are basically fighting immortal, undead of limitless power.
You say “sloppy” but I think you mean “hilarious”.
The escalation of power in Naruto is just wonderful. Struggling to beat something? Train for 2 months, and then you can SMASH ITS FACE IN. Rinse. And. Repeat.
Sounds like DBZ xD
The very first Naruto victory is when he makes 500 kage bunshins to defeat the guy with the shuriken.
that was the villians advantage, he had a big shuriken and he nearly killed Iruka. Seriously how weak is Iruka sensei?
Iruka is heaps strong, he just – he… he was tired. Okay? He’d spent all day chasing Naruto.
DON’T JUDGE HIM.
Via @35’s link:
Beautiful.
Amazing
MONTAGE!
MONTAGE!
coz its been a while
The one and only @strange, people 😛
Aw no, I accidentally read all that sounding stuff again D:
even the most horrific junk-in-your-junk story becomes hilarious when gizoogled.
I be a gangsta yo, but y’all knew dat n’ mah game is bein a cold-ass lil crazed hermit though! D:
I think I might start saying that instead.
We should gizoogle everything before we rot13 it.
I like this idea, and have also decide I’m looking at all political sites via it as well
the more formal or iconic the text being giz’d is, the better the results.
try any speech by the queen, or Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream…” speech.
Shakespeare is the best
HE clearly rides hard fo’ a phat pie (and a cold-ass lil cheese platter, n’ a pizzy) yo, but it be lookin like Prime Minista Kevin Rudd may have enjoyed all dem too nuff up in recent weeks.
Da stress of tha loomin erection can now been peeped up in his jowels n’ double chin as he models a gangbangin’ fuller-faced look, n’ accordin ta one Brisbane nutritionist dat schmoooove muthafucka has “packed on tha weight”.
I tried looking at some political news and general news sites with it, but given that half of what they say is fucking incomprehensible gibberish at the best of times, gizoogling only turned it into brain-damaged-parrot-with-tourettes speech.
Also, I was accidentally exposed to ‘real world’ news, which – as it usually does – made me very, very angry. The news has that effect on me. The key to my calm, serene demeanor is not being exposed to the clusterfuck that is the rest of the world.
I went to the supermarket today and thought I’d look for something nice for lunch. Something ran through my tired-as-fuck brain when I got to the instant mash section and thought “mmm, that sounds good.” I’m now trying to figure out what part of “instant” and “mash” could possibly sound good.
I wanna go to bed so bad, but I have work that I need to get done today 🙁
‘instant.’ having stuff IMMEDIATELY is always good when it comes to foods.
‘mash’ …not so much.
Clearly you misread as “instant @masha2932” and you thought “whoa, that sounds awesome”.
It’s science.
Ha ha, awesome comment. Thanks Fled.
Too bad I don’t come in a can 🙂
when you are hungry, the strangest options sound good.
I blame my entire relationship on this.
Home time whoo !
BREAKING BAD TIME SOON!
Just over two hours until it airs. HYPE.
HYDROGEN
YTTRIUM
PELOPIUM (don’t care if it’s cheating)
Realization: I can’t come home and play more FFXIV tonight 🙁
I wonder how long I’ll stay addicted to it.
Bugger it. Watching The Newsroom.
😀
Sorkin likes Reddit or at least the same sources that Reddit likes.
I wouldn’t be surprised. Back in The West Wing days Josh picked fights with people on a TelevisionWithoutPity-like site, inspired by Sorkin doing the same. 😀
Aaron Sorkin should not be allowed on the internet. It never goes well for him.
You would think he’d have a better understanding of trolls too. XD
Commute home listening to Payday 2 soundtrack. Try not to commit crimes en route.
I thought Watch Dogs was a launch game for PS4/XBone?
So did everyone. Not sure why that article says 2014 :/
All the coughing over the last few days is killing my stomach muscles. So so sore.
Killer abs, bro.
*fistbumpsplosion*
ISPone sucks. I have to find a new mobile provider now and no-one offers as good a value as Kogan did. What a pita.
I’m happy with TPG but that’s only because nothing has gone wrong yet.
(Hopefully) getting a second monitor tomorrow. Can’t wait, I need one desperately!
So I need glasses for driving. I don’t need anything too strong and I still have 20/20 vision without them. I know that if I get some glasses I want them to be purple. I am probably more excited then I should be.
I blame Persona 4.
First Shane and now you are excited about glasses? What gives! Glasses are terrible. TERRIBLE! 😛
Yeah, but I don’t really need them. It’s only for the mild astigmatism in my eyes.
Thought I better add the mild
Glasses are the best, shut your god damn whore mouth!
Glasses make everyone sexy. EVERYONE. *Starts crying because I’m still hideous*
You shut YOUR whore mouth! *nods* 😛
Except hipsters.
If they don’t have glass in them, or the glass is just a window, then they don’t count, and the person should be burned.
Haha, once on the train I saw a girl wearing these white glasses and I’m 90% certain that they didn’t have lenses.
Really wish I’d walked up and just tried to poke her in the eye.
That’d be the gentlemanly thing to do…
A gentleman would at least buy her a drink before trying to give her a poke 😛
This isn’t really related, but you’ve reminded me of the fact that I’m bad person.
Okay, so my glasses frames are made from Spring Steel, so if you bend them, they bounce back into shape immediately. One time on the bus this kid who was probably about three or four was looking at me, so I pull off my glasses, start bending them around a lot, and have them pop back into shape. He looks at me amazed for a sec, then reaches up and grabs his mother’s glasses (off her face), and is about to start bending them when she snatches them back, and ask what he’s doing. I sort of just slinked down into the seat and started giggling… Poor confused mother, and poor yelled at child.
I’ve come around. Now glasses are sexy but annoying 😀
Mine press against my skull and leave indents behind my ears and on my nose. There’s nothing sexy about it. 😛
Can’t you modify their shape a little? You’re doing it wrong if they’re uncomfortable.
Don’t want to have to go back to get someone to adjust them. That’s social interaction.
Just use a screwdriver and a pair of pliers. It’s what I’ve done.
It’s because you need new ones. Doofus. 😛
Monster.
You’re the one with the monstrous sized head that’s too big for the glasses!
Nah but seriously, I ordered some glasses last year based on a really old pair (so the measurements were the same). I thought it was just the weird design but it turns out they were pretty small and didn’t fit me properly. The new ones I have now fit much better!
No, I do have a big head. My mum used to tell me that. :'(
Big head for big brains! 😀
But big heads need big glasses! Or correctly adjusted ones…
or… get Lasik! How about contacts? 😀
Glasses can make people look pretty cool and intellectual. Especially if they’re only worn infrequently and then you them wearing it for a change, and it’s all like… different. Had a couple GFs who hated their glasses for some reason, but looked hot as hell when adding them and focusing on something.
Like these?
That’s goggles
And yet they’re still stylish beyond all belief.
https://maximumeyewear.com/productfolder/burning-man-goggles/color-lens-eliminater-goggles/purple-lens-eliminator-goggle.jpg
Now THAT’S how you drive with STYLE. Prescription driving goggles? Boss. As.
NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRD!
Yeah, you called? What’s up? Make it quick, I have video gaming and anime-watching to do!
…
Wrong number.
Still fuming about my car. Lowlifes.
Is Payday 2 any good if you don’t really have anyone to play it with? Or is it completely geared for co-op with no real reward for playing solo?
Completely geared for co-op.
I see lots of folks playing it on Steam. Transientmind in particular!
Remember that time I saw you online and you were all “AGH I FORGOT TO SIGN OUT”, then moseyed off?
Good times.
Then you said I was a jerk of some variety here. Good times.
WRONG.
I said: “Noooooooo” *goblin emoticon*
Then I think I said “you’re the worst” on TAY 😀
We’ll play GTA multi one day… and Mario Kart!
I call Diddy!
@ynefel and @coldcamv have been smashing it so much harder than me. Saw another thread before and they were talking about smashing out <1min runs of one of the serious harder jobs, repeatedly for farming mods. That's a level of advanced I go nowhere near, I just love getting into a good, protracted gun battle with desperate scrabbling for ammo and downed people and repairing drills and stuff.
Kind of embracing the whole 'clusterfuck' feel. Also, my 308 rifle 1-2 shots most enemies, so there's something satisfying about that.
Edited tags don’t give notifications!
You should know that, second-in-command!
Actually, I didn’t know, but now I do! 🙂
But ask yourself… could you have left it there? Willingly disrepected a man with Saxton Hale as his usericon? I think not! For surely you are a PATRIOT, good sir!
Ooooh! So that’s who it is.
There’s a few “what the heck is that?” gravatars. Like what kind of fool uses a GREEN SQUARE? pfft.
Haha I’m not that good at it I’m only level 14, I just play as whoever else is playing, usually hanging back if their doing a stealth run as I role as an enforcer so as soon as shit hits the fan I’m the one kicking the doors down and laying suppression on police. @ynefel has me beat haha
I really wanted to spec stealth and do all that cool shit, but I had to resign myself to the fact that shit inevitably goes south, and I’m just plain better at headshots than I am at sneaking. 🙁
Yeah I’m the same then I realised i just prefer coving people while they get shit done so long as I get paid
Solo is arse. Don’t do it. (Well. It’s not a bad way to learn layouts of maps and stuff. But the bots can’t carry bags or complete objectives and sometimes run off and get themselves killed in absurd locations you can’t get to.)
The experience with randoms isn’t too bad. It’s just such a mixed bag. I’ve had a couple really good chained runs lately, so I’m on a high for it at the moment, but I’ve just gotta hold on to that and let it ride out what are undoubtedly going to be a string of failures and disappointments. 🙂
So I just watched the first half of the BSG Pilot/Miniseries thingy.
Given I already know more or less how it ends (A friend gave me a summary of its terrible, terrible ending):
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In non spoiler territory: The Rough Zoom is as cool here as it was in Firefly, but I feel like their over-reliance on CG has come back to bite them in the arse with age (I’m sure it looked great 10 years ago :/). At least, it seems to have aged worse in that regard than Firefly has, but maybe my brain is just making stuff up. I like their explanation of “this ship was designed to fight complex enemies, so we went simple” to explain away the design of stuff. I’ll give them points for that.
We watched this only a few weeks ago. Pretty impressed by it overall, enough to keep watching. One day.
If you need to borrow the DVDs, we’ve got em.
I bought Season 1 the other day, forgetting that there was this before it, so I should be right for a while. I think I’m going to have the same issue my friend who, uhh, recommended it has. That is, there is no middle ground. The things in it are either really good or really bad (In his words “I don’t like the show, but I don’t exactly hate it. It was never bad enough for me to stop watching it, but it was very close at times.”).
Blergh. The endings not terrible. Same with Lost. Aspects maybe, but not the whole thing. 😛
Now, I’ll admit, I’ve only heard about it from his rather negative mouth. But nah, that ending is awful.
I remember watching the series finale and saying that it was incredible. I stand by that.
The entire last season was pretty damn great too!
Then again, I’m one of the four people who liked Lost the entire way through. The others are @dkzeitgeist, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse.
Hey, uh if you want SRIV uncensored, you might want to check this link, on steam, not on browser, cause the browser is US.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/238302/
Um…
@freezespreston’s a cop.
Its legal!, I swear!
For everyone without a beard…
Also – For Kate Miller Heidke fans
I noticed that there was at least one comment that our BrisTAYbies boasted an impressive collection of beards, at the recent Welbot-hosted meat.
I am lacking a beard but a couple of my mates have epic beards, so epic they get pulled onto the stage with the beards nearly every time we go to a show. The Beards are champs, we had drinks with them at Woodford. Really nice dudes
Finished watching this week’s Breaking Bad. The internet is safe to browse again!
…until next week 😛
It’s not safe for me. I’m only up to Season 3 Episode 6!
GET WATCHIN’
I was going to watch more today, but I can’t find the disc. I swear I put it somewhere smrt.
Sorry, You let it roll underneath your bed, so I Ated it
Discs? Legal?
Wahhhh?
*shifty eyes*
Dem 1080P Blu-Rays. Ohh yeah, put it inside me.
Or… inside your blue-ray player. c.c Why would you want that inside you? You can’t play blue-ray!
…Wait.
Can you?
Let’s just say that this old dog knows a few new tricks.
@blaghman
Later: “Hey TAY. Logging in from hospital. Nothing serious, but I have blu-ray shards in me. Not saying where. Blame Blags, he gave me ideas. PS, pls fix TAY to be mobile-friendly.”
Must be a Canberra thing – you’re not related to that 70 year old guy, are you?
Get on it Blaghman
I’ve watched The Newsroom too. The internet is safe to browse again as well until someone else starts watching…
Wait a minute! Trjn! This changes everything. D:
I’m nearly up to date.
I’ve seen a few Twitter people discuss it in the past! POTENTIAL BUDDIES!
That Aidan guy. >:|
I still haven’t watched last week’s ep.
That said, Newsroom isn’t as plot reliant as BrBa or GoT, as the plot on The Newsroom is often fairly silly.
True enough, same can be said for The West Wing. It’s how they tell the stories and character moments and all that. (There are big moments from time-to-time too though, which can be spoiled.)
Happy Birthday @f4ction !
😛
Breaking Bad:
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Nyfb, Qrna Abeevf naq Orgfl Oenaqg ner xvyyvat vg. Tbbq rc sbe Naan Thaa gbb.
Yes.
Especially on that last bit.
Ubisoft Australia just confirmed to Serrels on Twitter that Next Gen Watch Dogs is 2013.
PC !
Masta Rayce
(Slappain Da Baissse)
In this case, Master Race is pretty awesome. We get the rad version on current-gen release.
Unlike AC4, where we get delayed to the next gen console release. Nice consistency there, Ubisoft.
It’s okay. It’s AC4 😛
By that time all the terrible bugs in AC will have been fixed
Santa has nine reindeer.
Sloane’s still my favourite character.
The Sloan from Entourage is pretty!
#Irrelevant
This one’s Olivia Munn. Olivia Munn is awesome AND underrated.
Spoilers for latest ep of The Newsroom:
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I really disliked her on everything before this. She was terrible on the Daily Show.
Just too damned forced.
Turns out that she just needed a good writer.
I agree! Was stunned how good she was last season!
One day I will upload the painting I did at manifest. One day.
I didn’t draw it, just colour it.
Will that day be today?
It could be, but most likely not.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/20130819_224543.jpg
Needs a background
Nice! 😀
Green hair would’ve been better though 🙂
But Korra is from the water village =( Plus I wanted to make it blue to purple
@dc @sughly @bdkiaf
Any of you guys listen to Woodkid? Seems like the kind of thing you guys would like.
ALSO @BLAGHMAN WHY WOULD YOU HAVE A CAN’D MEAT ON THE WEEKEND GTA V COMES OUT AND THE WEEKEND I AM GOING CAMPING YOU ARE THE WORST AND SO ARE YOU ROCKSTAR
That’s right, Blaghman is as terrible as Rockstar.
Oh man, is that that weekend? Oh well, I was gonna get it on PC anyway. *Starts crying*
Edit: Also, it’s part of my evil plan to never have to give you a cupcake.
I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE…..ance cupcake.
More of a compliment 😛
I’ll be camping too (in GTA)!
http://thatsthejoke.net/
But we’re not supposed to compliment Blaghman D:
THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS.
You’re supposed to just pity me from a distance.
Downloading Crysis 2: Maximum Edition. Let’s see how it looks on The Beast!
ALL THE BOKEH AND VARIABLE PENUMBRA SOFT SHADOWS
Man, that Bokeh was fantastic.
As a side note, apparently the Zone of the Enders HD patch has added Bokeh DoF to the game, which I think is fantastic.
So, what you’re saying is that I should play my copy now?
It only updates the second game, apparently, but yeah, better now than before.
*runs to ozgameshop*
Make sure to grab the high def pack – it didn’t come standard. 😛 (Unless they’ve changed something.)
Make sure to grab these!
You want both the DX11 and High-Res pack.
http://www.mycrysis.com/dx11
Despite the flak it copped for being linear, I still really enjoyed it.
This is a surprisingly interesting comparison: http://funnie.st/309/p0rnstars-without-makeup/?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=MU-L&utm_campaign=Jazi&epic=mu
As the name suggests, it’s SFW pictures of Porn Stars, comparing them with and without make up. Nothing too surprising, let’s be honest, but I think it’s an interesting comparison.
Some of them were genuinely prettier without. …But sadly not all, shooting down some of my theories on hawtness and make-up. 😛
I found this via my sister (which is why I’m assuming this aggregate website stole it from somewhere else that I’m too lazy to find), and her comment was “I note that they also only show cleavage in the make-up shots…” Which, while only mostly true, may have an effect on perceived hotness.
I’m uncomfortable with how many of those names I recognise.
Number5 is awesome. Deliberately messed up hair and a scaryface face. 😀
Playing the first Resistance game on PS3.
It’s…pretty terrible. Amazing how far the consoles have actually come considering its the same hardware.
I played like, 2 minutes of that game at a friend’s house. As weird as it sounds, it irked me to no end how the top of the tank seemed to sort of just float over the bottom of it. They felt more connected in Halo:CE, and that was a whole generation prior!
Everything looks too..uh, clean I would guess is the word. It’s all high res but weirdly empty looking. The animations are gorram terrible and when they die they contort into weird angles and stick up oddly from the ground.
Look on the bright side, at least it’s better than the other console’s exclusive launch shooter.
i know this is a really late reply but i played the first uncharted recently and was shocked at how bland it looked, your “clean” description is pretty accurate, it really is surprising how far this gen has gone, the gradual improvement is deceptive. But yeah 1st Uncharted looks weird like the people in charge of texture mapping went home with the job half done
You only have to compare Halo 3 to Halo 4 to see some pretty absurd improvements.
I’ve said for a while now that the one good thing about devs designing for consoles, and the console generation WAY outstaying it’s welcome is that it’s taught devs to be smarter about texture compression, memory storage, and all the other cheats and tricks they’ve used to squeeze more out of less.
What’s going to be good about this next generation is if they can maintain that tight discipline, while having the freedom and lifted restrictions that come with access to more powerful hardware. Bringing super tight optimization game to the new hardware would be like mastering your martial form with training weights on, then taking them off. Hoping they don’t get sloppy with all the newfound freedom.
it’s pretty impressive what they can produce at the tail end of a console’s life, I remember being totally blown away by God of War 1 & 2 on the PS2, they squeezed absolutely everything outta that machine for those games.
The really crazy thing is that I remember being somewhat impressed by it, at the time.
When Resistance 3 came out and I was interested in it, I thought I’d go back and play the first two games to get myself caught up.
I did not succeed.
I enjoyed the first two in the series but was let down with what I thought was a really lazy and cliche ending…so much so that I traded in all three in the series.
Why am I still awake?
*sigh*
Too much meth.
Never get high off of your own supply…
Not that I have any ,nor have ever tried meth…
Killzone 2 (yes I went and got a bunch of really old games I never played) is much better than Resistance. Nice weighty feel to it and looks pretty good for its age. I’m so used to iron sights in games I keep meleeing thin air everytime I try to shoot. Kind of annoying. But that’s more my shortfall.
I have no idea what’s going on besides shoot those bad guys and hoo-ah.
The weightiness of the controls was fantastic, I really liked it. I was a bit disappointed that they removed it in KZ3. It made for a much slower paced and somewhat more strategic way to run down a corridor and shoot people in the face.
See I didn’t really notice much of a difference in the way KZ3 played. Maybe because there was a big time gap between my KZ2 and KZ3 playthroughs – but I didn’t notice anything.
\o/
I love KZ2 and KZ3. When I tell people that, they usually respond with ‘it feels/plays like shit’. The controls were one of the main reasons I enjoyed the games so much, and Killzone Shadowfall is one of the two reasons I’m getting a PS4. The other being MGS5.
It was so satisfying to vault a barrier, and actually feel like you were climbing over a barrier, not effortlessly gliding over it. The aiming dynamics are very similar. The guns felt meaty and solid to move and point it at things – again, it didn’t feel like you were pointing a feather duster at something.
Interestingly, I think I enjoyed KZ2 a fraction more than KZ3, but for me it was mostly the story and setting. I am greatly excited for Killzone Mercenary on Vita as well. Looks like it could be a really solid FPS for Vita.
EDIT: Resistance is terrible, and I never understood the love people have for it. I think a measure of it was Playstation fans getting excited about their own FPS game, in much the same fashion as Halo for Xbox. I still think the first couple of Halos were massively overrated.
upvote for Halo being overrated
Downvote for upvoting Halo being overrated >:(
I can deal with that 😛
BREAKING BAD SEASON FOUR: Finished strong. I really enjoyed the endgame over episodes 10-13, a great culmination of events. Minus points for; a slow first half, too little of Saul and an irksome Skyler. 8/10.
I thought Season 4 is when Skyler got less annoying and more interesting. Granted, I haven’t seen S4 for about a year so I forget the details.
I personally don’t understand the universal dislike that Skylar gets. She and Hank are the only two sane people in the entire show.
I don’t mind her as much as others seem to. I doubt it’s possible for her to be anyone’s favourite character, and the actress herself is kind of inconsistent from time to time, but I think she’s an all right character!
Gonna rot13 it to be safe.
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V guvax gur npgerff cynlvat urer qbrf n svar wbo, be bgurejvfr fur jbhyqa’g naabl zr fb onqyl.
Gamescom this week! I’m hoping MS and Sony announce the launch dates of their consoles, plus a list of games which will actually be available on day one. Hoping to get Forza, Need for Speed Rivals and LEGO Marvel Superheroes (because playable Lego Stan Lee!) when I get my Xbox One. Maybe Battlefield 4 too.
http://www.ibtimes.com/sony-ps4-release-date-be-revealed-tuesday-gamescom-1390237
GET HYPE
August 21st! Surprise bitches!
Riots in the streets. Angry gamers demand launch delays to allow them to arrange time off from work. Xbone fans demand Microsoft sues Sony for letting PS4 fanboys have nice things earlier, and forcing them into a PS4 purchase they didn’t want. Microsoft announces August 25th launch, apologizes profusely over twitter. Game devs puzzled: “Uh… But we haven’t finished any of the games yet. Has anyone? Heh. Pfft. I mean not including indies. REAL games.” Game dev sacked over community condemnation.
I think the XBone would go more like this: Microsoft refuse to release console early, claiming it will ruin the product. *one day later* Microsoft backflip, say they will release the console early.
I am hoping this as well. At the moment have an Xbone preordered with Watch Dogs. Then probably one of NBA 2k14 or Dead Rising for now.
Then tossing up about getting either of the following around Launch/Christmas.
Battlefield 4 or COD Ghosts
Forza or Need for Speed
Anyone notice that they keep taking down reviews for the new xcom
i.e. the harsh review that Destructoid gave it? Probably a review embargo, not “allowed” to post reviews yet.
(I think it was 4.5/10 – which seems… unusual, unless a game is broken and unplayable ’cause I’m not sure people give <5/10 based on poor story/characters/etc. alone)
Edit: Though the review was done by Jim Sterling, so bound to be controversial 😀
Yeah I agree I don’t really trust Jim Sterlings reviews, people who have pirated it or got it early are giving 7-8.5 also the MTV one was taken down hopefully will see some reviews tomorrow
yeah………… i did.
just found a reference to the Destructoid review….. 4.5/10 🙁
well….. shit.
@dc.
He’ll find a new game of the year somewhere to replace it, I’m sure.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/ubisofts-child-of-light-is-a-sidescroller-with-turn-based-battles/
Jim Sterling reviews things in a strange way – will often give ridiculous scores (high and low) based on a game’s execution and focus, if it’s not linear and highly polished (no matter how amazing the story/characters/gameplay/etc. might be) and doing exactly what it says on the box, nothing more or less, then he’ll score it down.
Which I think is why he gave COD: MW3 a 9.5/10 and The Witcher 2 a 6/10.
So, take it with a grain of salt 😛
salt has been ingested.
though its the only review I’ve heard about so far, so the lack of ‘official’ pre-release reviews is still a tad concerning.
Yeah, most review embargoes come with the caveat, “Unless you wanna [redacted] our [redacted] – you can publish that [redacted] early, sure.”
Sir, You Are Being Hunted is on Steam! \o/
Also, Hate Plus! \o/
Got my email from Humble. EXCITE
So the new guy at work in the partition across from me is dropping his guts on a regular basis and it’s fucking terrible. You never hear anything, but every 30 minutes or so, like clockwork, I’m assaulted with this god awful stench that hangs around for 5-10 minutes. Whilst kind of amusing at first, after a couple of weeks – it’s getting ridiculous.
I’m not far off standing up and asking him to go and see a doctor or do something about his diet.
Just start leaving some corks on his desk.
My inner child just wants to go over there, stand at his desk, and blatantly drop the dirtiest sounding fart I can muster, and depart without saying a word.
Mount a fan to the top of the partition, blowing in his direction. Bring a gas mask to work. Get can of air freshener and spray it every 30 minutes or so like clockwork. Make gagging sounds.
You’ll never survive in an office environment if you can’t master passive-aggressive behaviour.
It’s true! I used to be a master, but I left the office world for many years and have forgotten how!
Light a candle behind the chair.
So the new Nine Inch Nails track is poppy as fuck
yeah, i think he’s too happy these days, good for him but not so good for his music, I don’t dislike the new track i was just a little dissapointed. Also i hear they’re rumoured for Soundwave, the lineup is announced on friday
People who play Animal Crossing New Leaf @shane I’m looking at you! Add my girlfriends friend code 2638-0334-1733 it’s our share 3ds till we get another one but she wants friends on Animal Crossing so everybody add away!
Hoping @dc will tag the neccessary people in \o/
I think I’ve reached over 300-400 hours of AC at this point.
and yet my villagers still won’t suggest building a zen garden, the
fuckers.Don’t use that word D=
Replace it immediately, please.
Was it the naughty “C” word?
I CANT believe it!
Thank you!
@powalen @scree @alexpants @strange @greenius @doc_what @shiggyninty @saturday and others.
DAMN IT SHANE
It’s not @saturday yet so he’s gotta wait a few more days..why can’t it be @saturday already 🙁
Hi @saturday!
My 3DS is dead atm, I need to charge it.
You’ll need to add friend codes as well, don’t forget.
http://tinyurl.com/taynames
I haven’t forgetten ill do it after work haha
Remember to add us too! Just go to TAYnames and add people then get them to add you back. I’ll add later today if I remember.
@notoriousr
I hadn’t heard of Woodkid before, just listened to Iron. I dig it, really cool sound. Will listen further for sure.
“Iron” was one of the songs used in… Assassin’s Creed 3(?) trailers – that’s how I found out about Woodkid. Welcome to the club.
Edit 2: Nothin’ to see here 😐
Oh? I sort of stopped paying attention to AC after I couldn’t get into Revelations, so I guess I missed it. Cool stuff though, kind of folk pop on a grand scale.
‘Iron’ was used in the very pretty trailer for AC: Revelations. (The third part of the second part of the quadrilogy. c.c) It was a pretty cool clip, and Woodkid’s itunes blew up after its release.
The (IMO) less-impressive ‘run boy run’ track by Woodkid was also later used in the Dying Light trailer, which feels like a bit of a ‘me too’ moment, trying to copy what was successful with AC:R.
Whoever chooses music for Assassin’s Creed trailer stuff has some pretty good taste. Picked some great stuff over the years.
If the games were as consistently good as the trailers… man.
Yeah, I was pretty impressed with the choice of ‘Revolution’ for AC3, too.
Original AC had a trailer with an Unkle track and AC4’s E3 trailer used ‘Brennisteinn’ by Sigur Ros which is an amazing piece. I recall AssBros having something decent as well.
Run boy run is pretty good.
Just listened to a few songs. notbadobama.tff
My wife is hating it though.
So, in regards to the “EA humble bundle games being sold on eBay” Mark Serrels posted. This was the third comment in the article.
-_-
I get it!
It’s because Mass Effect 3 cupcakes right????
If it’s anything to do with EA, and it’s on the internet – just don’t even look. It’s almost as bad as mentioning Anita Sarkeesian. Idiot commentary ensues.
There could be a headline about EA ending world poverty and curing cancer with a free single treatment and people would still complain about EA still being evil.
I’m surprised more people aren’t blaming Cairo on them at the moment (not sure if I want to test that theory).
Flow-on effect to overpopulation.
Also, they’re just trying to increase their consumer base, the fucking arsehats.
Next you’ll be suggesting they’re a business trying to make money. Fucking hippy.
Story checks out.
People were pissed at EA because they didn’t get the ME3 ending they were ‘promised’. Instead, their final choice ‘meant nothing’ and they only got to choose between three dramatically different results for the future of humanity and galactic civilization (but only the one result for Shepard, which is evidently all they really gave a shit about. Screw the fate of the galaxy, I want my Shep to ride off into the sunset and make weird alien hybrid babies! “Space emperor Shepard, it’s your birthday! The Krogan baked you a cake!”).
Egyptians were pissed because they didn’t get the government they were promised. Instead, their choice for president tried to sneak in a change to the constitution (without referendum) to turn the country into an Islamic state. (Like anyone’s surprised. That particular agenda isn’t an especially well-kept secret.)
THE PARALLELS ARE UNDENIABLE.
DID YOU JUST CONFIRM HALF LIFE 3?
EA cancelled Half Life 3
I don’t even know what it means. Do EA divert charity proceeds for personal profit? Seems kind of like they’ve done the opposite to me 😛
best cold remedies!? SUGGESTIONS!?!
Edit: other than thermal energy.
bad jokes are best jokes.
Vicks in bowl boiling water. Lean over bowl, and drape towel over head.
By the time you’re done, I guarantee you won’t be complaining of a cold anymore.
oh hell yeah. used to do that when i had a cold as a kid. though i used euacyptus oil rather than vicks… damn effective.
might run out & grab some eucalypt oil tonight.
Mind transference into a healthy body.
Time. Sorry dude.
BUT I DON’T HAVE TIME!
nah, I know what you mean, man. i was just sorta hoping that there had been some miracle ‘hide-the-symptoms’ discovery in the last 20 minutes.
also, GTA IV. Steam me & its yours.
I had a mate who swore black and blue that overloading on garlic fixed him every time. I tried it once, and I think it helped, but I couldn’t ingest enough garlic or garlic infused products to be certain.
i’ve heard that before actually. never tried it though.
hmm….. I’ll O/D on garlic tomorrow & report back.
I’ve found tea to be good to helping ease the uncomfortableness whenever I get a cold.
Tea is good for all purposes.
Lemon Ginger Tea is good for colds, so are cold and flu tablets that have pseudoephadrine,
knocking out your workmates and sleeping on the desk works too
Affirmative on the pseudo. Shit works wonders. You almost always draw funny looks going into the chemist and specifically asking for the ‘good stuff’, but the non-pseudo stuff is a joke. it does absolutely nothing.
If a chemist gives you a funny look, you just tell them you’re not especially interested in fucking placebos. Any pharmacist who earned their degree through a knowledge of chemistry instead of daddy’s donations or giving the professors [EXPLICIT] will know exactly what you’re talking about and agree.
Well. There are a few apologists who cling desperately to ‘studies’ which show ‘some, limited effectiveness!’ in order to technically refute your sardonic claim of placebo status, but even then they know they’re splitting hairs and what they really mean is that they’re just so relieved and glad that they don’t get broken into so much anymore, because it’s really depressing that the thieves always caused more dollars worth of damage than whatever they actually stole, and being out of business for a few days while the cops do their thing and the contractors fix up the windows is really depressing, and it bumps up the premiums, every time, and eventually the insurance companies stop taking your calls…
And this is how you know they are weak.
Pseudoephadrine makes me feel absolutely terrible. Like my hands are balloons and my brain is on another planet. Also it doesn’t work in actually alleviating cold symptoms very well.
Tea made from lemon and a little bit of ginger.
Doesn’t heal, but clears sinuses and tastes alright.
Leave town with an orange…
..and pretend you’re laughing at it.
If you’re going to do the old folk remedy, go straight to whiskey.
Have you tried sacrificing your first-born to Cthulu?
Bucketloads of water. The best cure, I’ve found!
Stay close to a toilet.
My boss told me that I should drink a few glasses of straight scotch, then put heaps of clothes on and sweat it out overnight. Uncomfortable sleep but gets rid of it. Never tried it, instead just took multiple sickies.
Heh. Possibly because your body gets so distracted dealing with all that toxin that it’s too busy to manifest the other symptoms.
(Er, reasoning below:)
Funny thing about antibodies: There’s been some research going on into the effectiveness of antibiotics. Thing I was reading suggested that the actual process internally might be different than what we’ve deduced so far.
I say deduced, because no-one actually knows how they really work, because we’ve only been able to study what they do in a tube, and not what they do in the body. We’ve pieced the rest together from observation. But a few folks are taking a closer look at what symptoms actually mean in terms of what’s happening in the body, and there’s a theory that many symptoms are side-effects of how the antibodies are fighting and what they’re fighting, and what the waste byproduct does to surrounding cells.
There was an example given from a WW2 clinic, where a case of smallpox spread through the clinic, infecting most of the patients. Patients who were in there for other diseases, such as mumps, measels, and similar, all had their original symptoms disappear while the body fought off the smallpox. Vaccines were applied quickly enough to reduce the severity of the disease, but once the smallpox had run its course, the original symptoms returned, suggesting that the original diseases were still doing there thing inside the body, but the symptoms were instead the result of combat in the body – combat that wasn’t taking place because the antibodies were tied up with a much bigger smallpox problem.
The fact that symptoms are a sign of fighting, and not damage by the foreign bacteria is an interesting line of thought that could have some implications for antibacterial research.
Fresh mint, fresh ginger
Chop up finely and put into a tea ball
make tea
drink
Repeat (can use the same loaded ball multiple times)
I forgot to tell you guys that I’m finally getting my Maiden In Black tattoo tomorrow. Had a great chat with the artist on Saturday and can’t wait to see what he comes up with. So excited!
He estimated it would take around four hours and the funny thing is I’m not nervous about the actual tattooing part at all, just the sitting down for that long. 😛
Wow. Can’t wait to see it! 😀
Where are you going? Who’s the artist?
I need to go book some more tattoos..
http://www.sacredskin.com.au/page/Raymond/default.asp
I didn’t have an artist in mind but I knew I wanted to go to Sacred Skin because they were the most recommended by everyone I’d spoken to and I’ve been following them on Facebook for a while.
I went in and showed them a reference picture and they recommended that guy. He makes me nervous because he’s pretty, though. 😛
Those guys are amazing. Good choice. I’ve met Swirly a few times through friends as well. They’re all very talented individuals, you won’t be disappointed.
If all goes well tomorrow I’m seriously considering making an appointment right then for same time next year, and just leave it up to the artist what to do.
You should work with them on the design. Let them know what you’re after, give them some samples and ideas and let them come up with a design. See how you feel about what they come up with and take it from there. Most will be happier helping you get what you want – a joint effort. If you like what they come up with right away, easy!
Yep, looks like you’ll be alright. He looks to be a very talented artist.
Edit: Weird. Their piercer is the guy who used to work at the place I get mine done.
I should go get my last one finished.
I suggest taking a book or a phone/tablet with internet access. Easier to ignore the sensation and helps stave off boredom. The good artists will chat with you a lot as well.
And for everything that is holy don’t even think of using analgesic cream beforehand. It works for all of 30mins at most then turns hypersensitive making everything much much worse.
It’s on my my right forearm so it will be difficult to do anything while he works. Might take a nap….
Where on your body are you getting the tattoo? Hopefully you have both hands free and you can play a handheld or listen to music or a podcast if the tattoo is on your arm.
Face!
Now that would be strange 🙂
Yeah, I’m thinking music might be the thing. I remember my first tattoo being annoying so I can only imagine how annoying it will be for four hours straight.
It’s my combined Easter/Mother’s Day/Birthday/Anniversary present so I need to somehow enjoy the experience. 😀
Do you have a link to the reference material you showed the guy? 😀
If you want to see my reference material…play Demon’s Souls. 😛
I didn’t want to see it any way. 😛
Did you really not Google Maiden in Black when I created that handle to gift Dark Souls to you? For shame.
No, I just assumed it was Strange and went straight to MightyApe to buy Ni No Kuni. It could’ve been yours, Shane. 😛
@dc, good thing it wasn’t. PS3 has filled out its pre-need, and is in hospice care.
@dc Do you know that for some reason Shane even tried to lie to me about that? He went out of his way to DM me on Twitter asking if I knew who it was, and pretending to be mad at them. I can never trust him now. 🙁
@strange: He was the one to give me your address too! D:
@strange @dc, oh man, I forgot about all that subterfuge. Sorry!
Though to be fair, I didn’t know the address was for a present. Let alone an expensive one like that.
It wasn’t subterfuge…it was bald-faced lying. Unnecessarily so, too. It was weird. And the fact that I used to trust you so much means that because of that DM conversation, to this day I don’t quite believe it was you who gave him the game. 😛
What a monster! D:
🙁
Four hours for a tattoo feels like forever. I’ve had a couple of four and five hour sessions now, it’s not too bad as far as pain, it just drags on because you can’t really move or do anything.
I’d be worried more about awkward silences. I’m being too silent. The tattoo artist will think I’m a jerk and half ass my tattoo. D:
Or he’ll be happy you’re not so chatty you’re distracting him, and do an awesome job….
Animal Crossing
Scorpions…. why did it have to be… oh, wait, wrong reference. But they’re aggressive little fucks. Stung twice in my own town 🙁
I joined the island multiplayer club for 50 medals, and did tours with randoms for a couple of hours last night. Realised that although it was addictive, I wasn’t actually enjoying myself. There’s only so many games of hide and seek you can play. The mechanics are solid, and the game is fun in bursts, but I’m struggling to find the patience for ‘more of the same’.
Wondering how much longer I’ll be playing. Think I’m going to keep going a little while longer to get my first public project up and maybe see what the construction on Main Street is all about, but the shine is starting to wear off the apple a little bit.
Also, someone from @powalen’s town defected to Messar. Sucks to be either of you.
STEAL ALL THE ISLAND FRUITS AND FLOWERS
CATCH ALL THE BEETLES AND SHARKS
Yup. This is the point of the island. It’s a money-making machine, @shane. Go at night and fill up the take-home box with just sharks and the more expensive bugs. Instant windfall.
300,000ish bells for half an hour to an hours work ain’t too shabby!
Then invest in stalk market
speaking of which TURNIP PRICES?!
‘atta boy!
Yep, I’m on top of this. First thing I do when I open a new area is grind it for loot 😛
No, forget the games and their areas…just the main island is all you need.
Yep, yep, already done quite a few laps of the main island! Not too many sharks or rare insects, but some.
The rare/valuable insects only spawn on palm trees!
I TOLD YOU TO PACE YOURSELF!
I don’t think this is a burn-out thing.
It’s my usual pattern of playing games: I play hard, trying to get as much as I can out of the experience, but take note of the point where repetition sets in (most games have this at about the story’s midpoint). From there, it’s really only a matter of time until I give up on it, or slog through to endgame.
Once the ROI of time starts to diminish, the clock starts ticking. Sad, but that’s my mind for you. 😛
Animal Crossing is not like other games. I thought you being a Souls fan would understand some games are different and not to approach everything the same way. Doofus. 😛
I played the Souls games with the same mindset. But it never really got stale because there were always different objectives to chase, and a huge variety of locations and enemies and gear.
Though, to be fair, I was kind of flagging a little by the time I got to Seath and Gwyn at the end of the game… even though I’d spaced 80 hours of gameplay over about 18 months! 😛
If I wasn’t an achievement whore in Dark Souls, I probably wouldn’t have bothered with NG+ or NG++
And that’s my all time favourite game.
And now for some pop psychology! \o/
Broken mind.
I think in some sense, I still feel a little guilty about playing games in my leisure time, and that (despite everything) I can’t help but see gaming as a waste of time that could be put to far more productive use.
In games with strong forward momentum, I’m able to substitute progress for true productivity in my mind, but that’s got a lifespan as outlined above. Games that require grinding annoy me, even if they are desperately fun (like Animal Crossing), and I get annoyed at myself every time I enjoy the grind.
I’ve always got writing that needs doing, and house/family stuff too, and not enough time for any of that after working all week.
Stupid brain. Stupid Shane.
I think “grinding” is the wrong word. There’s no urgency in Animal Crossing, so there’s no need to ‘grind’. I just do what I want and then turn it off. Some days that’s bug catching on the island, or redecorating the house or planting trees or whatever.
Set the Beautiful Town ordinance and you don’t even have to worry about your town going to hell if you don’t play for a while!
Okay, here’s the thing. I get that feeling too. I have to stop myself feeling guilty any time I game. The thing is though, it’s stress relief. If you don’t game(or do whatever you do for fun), you can’t be a great parent, and you can’t do a great job with anything else you need to do. Because you have to take care of yourself first and foremost to be able to adequately take of others. It’s like recharging your batteries so you can then go full speed ahead on everything else in your life.
Wait… who!? Derwin? If so: ahahah! >:D I hated him 😛
A rather shitty and kinda related anecdote-
*gets out of house*
*tarantula to my left*
*shift left, pull out net*
And that’s how Saturday got a tarantula.
Haha, the other night I picked up my 3DS after putting it aside to go put the kids to bed…
“Holy crap, what the hell is that?!!!” A tarantula was coming at me. Thankfully I already had my net out so I got him before he got me.
There are killer spiders in Animal Crossing? D:
Never playing that again. D:
I played it hard for maybe 10 hours until I realised it’s basically just an OCD game where you collect all the things. And that’s it.
Whoever runs the Mad Mex Twitter account is a god damn legend.
ALL I WANT IS SOME VEGEMITE AND BUTTER ON WHITE BREAD!
God dammit all the cafes around here only do sourdough or Turkish. You ever have vegemite on sourdough? IT SUCKS ASS!
No, because Vegemite would be a waste of good sourdough. And I’m all about the Vegemite. But it ain’t worthy of sourdough.
But Sourdough is……..sour!
At least you can’t accuse them of false advertising
Ad man away 🙂
AD MAN!
Sourdough and Vegemite are both amazing. Just not on the same plate.
Truth.
Vegemite is only amazing in that it’s amazing anyone can ingest the horrid stuff and survive, let alone ever knowing what it is to taste actual food again. Or the touch of a lover.
guess what i just had for breakfast 😉
@dc so that Deponia guy is pretty amazing!
Humour is spot on, puzzles are pretty old-school and fantastic… haven’t gotten far (only played about an hour so far) but it’s damn amazing…
Also Hi TAY! *waves*
I’m back, and damn tired :\
*waves*
MASHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA *Flails arms*
How is ya mang?
I’m good, can’t complain.
I’m a bit tired too but nothing a few hours of sleep can’t solve. I might follow your lead and maybe play some games as well *flails arms back*
12 ANGRY MEN
I will be playing gaemz later today… right now i’m stuck at work :\
Sequel is even better and the third game is out later this year. WOOOOO!
ALL THE ADVENTURES \o/
I really am enjoying it, and it’s very old-school, including art style and animation… fantastic
You might like The Night of the Rabbit too!
http://potaku.com/2013/06/05/review-the-night-of-the-rabbit/
I like Rufus too in Deponia. He’s such a jerk. 😀
Deponia’s art style kind of reminded me of a HD version of where LucasArts’ SCUMM games would’ve gone if they kept making them.
Actually remind me a lot of The Curse of Monkey Island… Which i only played the demo of, but still love… because Murray…
Murray is awesome.
Murray: “…and the forces of darkness will applaud me as I STRIDE through the gates of hell carrying your head on a pike!”
Guybrush: “Stride?”
Murray: “Alright then, ROLL! ROLL through the gates of hell…”
You haven’t played CMI? Oh man, I honestly think you’d love it! Also Manny Calavera cameos in it! 😀
\o/
I played most monkey island games, just not that one for some reason…
I do love Murray though… Because Murray is brilliant…
You like Full Throttle, my friend?
@dc… Mark Hamill… That is all 😛
I played it, but don’t remember it much because in 1995 Pixel did not talk english good 😛
Seriously impressive you can speak English so well now. I mean it, man. I think I’d struggle so badly with a second language. D:
@dc a combination of learning it from year 4 and a crapton of Video Games (Funny story – LBA2 taught me a lot of the english i know today, it was very effective)
Has gotten me to where i am today… so really it wasn’t that much work XD…
How was Rize’s wedding?
Funny story. Rize added me as a friend on Facebook just after his wedding, presumably so he wouldn’t be obliged to invite me, and immediately afterwards updated his profile pic to a wedding photo, presumably just to rub it in my face.
Hey… that’s not a funny story at all. It’s a mean story.
Red Converses… that is all
’twas bloody good… there was alcohol and @rize in a Bridal Dress so really good 😛
Nah seriously it was awesome, i’ll leave him to tell the details but safe to say it was pretty amazing
But he’s on his honeymoon. I think he should’ve made updating TAY a priority first, but that’s just me. 😛
Reckon.
I was about to notify Sughly just to tell him to get back to work, but that would be cruel.
Deponia is pretty good, though!
Haha! I’m pretty sure @sughly IS working, that’s why he ain’t here! I miss the guy! :'(
😀
@sughly is the worst. How dare he leave us to work on his game.
Just for that I’m only going to buy Anna’s Quest two times instead of three! >:|
I don’t know if I will even be able to play it since I don’t have a Windows PC. Why does @sughly hat me so much?
Social engineering at its finest.
Love you guys! 😛
Well its probably going to be on android and apple devices too, so suck it, youre buying it
Does that mean I’ll have to get a 4th or 5th copy? :O
Needs more Symbian release.
PSA: If you have a Wii U, Mighty Ape is having a 24 hour deal on some Wii U games.
Oh, great prices! Though all the games that I’d get I’ve got on other consoles. :'(
BLOPS 2 for $22 would be pretty tempting if I still had a Wii U.
I’m a little surprised they didn’t come here and tell us themselves. Guess they got scared off after last time.
I think I missed that…?
I literally thought the exact same thing, practically worded the same way.
ARE WE TWINS?!
(probably not)
I don’t think anyone would ever see us next to each other and think “Yep, definitely twins.”
Something something DeVito something Schwarzenegger
Did they? I tend to crosspost stuff from Mighty Ape to Twitter because they always have crazy prices/sales going on.
https://www.kotaku.com.au/user/mightyapeaustralia/comments/kotaku/
Wow, I totally did miss that.
So there’s an advertising ban in TAY now? shanewsmithdotmumblemumble
Yeah, you’d better keep your shameless whoring out of here.
Yeeeeeeesh. That’s not cool. I get their daily deals email, so if I see anything super cheap I usually crosspost it. But if it’s not welcome in TAY, I’ll keep it to Twitter! 😀
Eh, I think it’s different when you’re doing it. You’re just alerting us to sweet deals, they’re essentially trying to advertise without paying for it.
Honestly, I think TAYbies passing on bargains to each other is fine. I certainly appreciate @greenius’ tireless scouring of the internet for mondo deals. It means we’ve identified a good price for a particular product that we think our friends here will be interested in.
I think a business advertising a sale with ‘thousands’ of non-specific games is a different matter.
No, keep posting any good deals. It’s good to have you back in TAY Beardy 🙂
D’AWW MASHAAAAAA
It’s welcome here since it’s a talking point. I may have been a little harsh, but seeing them coming directly here to blatantly advertise for more sales is worse than junk mail in my eyes.
I’m sure you’ve got your opinions and answers already but yeah, it’s completely fine man :). Don’t stop! I probably wouldn’t have seen the deal if you didn’t post it (…actually I would’ve but that’s not the point :P!). The problem I had with them posting that was that it was straight up advertising.
We all share little deals here all the time but it’s not like we enter TAY just to promote something (and for nothing else). I feel like if they at least attempted to be a part of the community rather than just going straight to the point it would’ve been a bit better. Even something as small as a “Hello, I thought you TAY folk might like to know about our …” would’ve been a bit better :P.
Even @shane is Shane first and ShaNewsMithmumbemumble second! (I think… :P)
It was reported and the comment disappeared but now it shows up again. Does that mean the mods are alright with it? D:
Mods, you cray cray.
Stock clearance in preparation for dropping the system entirely?
That’s what I thought too 🙁
The EB on Queen St has rearranged the store. Wii U section has moved from the front to a tiny shelf on the back wall. They’ve replaced the old Wii U section with promo for XBone!
Pokemon MMO, Nintendo. Get on it.
No. NO.
NO NO NO NO NO.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/06/16
I’ve had a much more productive than usual morning. Got myself out of bed at 8:30, started and finished a prac test for web management (I fell asleep trying to do it last night), and I’ve got a date with my programming assignment partner at 11 to start the assignment we probably should’ve started 2 weeks ago.
So is this a date or a date date?
It was a ” sit together in the computer lab not talking trying to figure out how to do the assignment” date. Very romantic.
I have a habit of referring to any meet up as a date 😛
Sounds lovely, don’t put out on the first date.. Your better than that make them work for it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfzuGrgGDBo
:’)
Life’s a Happy Song…
I hear Brett McKenzie has written 6 or 7 songs for the new Muppet movie!
He’s also working on a Labyrinth-style musical with puppets!
Bret.
oh man, after watching the muppet movie, i said to my friend who’s a huge flight of the conchords fan as well (we saw them together a few years ago, they ruled), “those songs sounded like flight of the conchord songs” and he agreed, without both of us realising Brett wrote them.
i only found out when i was working (at a cinema) and saw brett’s name in the credits, i lost my shit.
He won and Oscar, man. An Oscar! 😀
and he deserved it, funnily enough i’ve been listening to the soundtrack recently, those songs are the best.
I like Life’s a Happy Song (Finale) the best. So damn uplifting.
http://collider.com/bret-mckenzie-austenland-the-muppets-sequel-interview/
So apparently the PS Vita has now outsold the Xbox 360 in Japan. 😛
nice
Is it really worth risking your entire steam library just to play a game a little earlier?
For me? No.
EDIT: Seriously, if I lost my Steam account I would probably quit gaming.
OH GOD… If i lost my steam account… DON’T EVER SAY THAT!… EVER!
This. The death of my 400 odd games would extinguish my life force.
Office farts by coworkers seem to be slowly doing this 🙂
ALL OF THOSE GAMES I NEVER EVEN INSTALLED D:
If I lost my Steam account, I’d be giving some very serious, serious thought to less-than-legal means of restitution.
…Officer. c.c
Spelunky on Vita next week \o/
Same day as FFXIV /o\
The more I think about it, the more @shane’s a monster! D:
Yeah, that’s why you’ve got a punch waiting for me, right?
I can’t punch you. Who knows what horrible, monster-like retaliation you’d have planned!
That or your monster face would break my girlish wrist with the first strike!
The first season of Dexter was amazing, because it made me recognise the threads of myself that I share in common with sociopathy. There’s still a few question marks there.
I’m sure glad you ain’t crashing on my couch now. XD
Have you done the psychopath test?
http://personality-testing.info/tests/LSRP.php
That one?
This one: http://www.hare.org/scales/pclr.html
i think i’m doing it wrong….. I can’t find the test…. I feel dumb,
You score for primary psychopathy was higher than 57.99% of people who have taken this test.
You score for secondary psychopathy was higher than 88.6% of people who have taken this test.
You score for primary psychopathy was higher than 72.84% of people who have taken this test.
You score for secondary psychopathy was higher than 81.09% of people who have taken this test.
I’m not entirely sure what that means. The questions did seem a little simple though.
D:
One of the points they make in that podcast is that a psychopath test should only be administered by a psychologist.
Wait, what? But I’m normal, dammit! NORMAL, YOU FUCKERS.
(Edit: I gave a lot of neutral answers. I strongly suspect a lot of people don’t go for ‘depends on the circumstances’ kinds of responses and maybe apply unshakeable, inflexible moral rules across all of their life… which explains freak-outs when circumstances cause them to breach their code.)
@redartifice
Are you implying a self administered test on the Internet is unreliable?
You score for primary psychopathy (2.4) was higher than 62.34% of people who have taken this test.
You score for secondary psychopathy (2) was higher than 24.72% of people who have taken this test.
You score for primary psychopathy was higher than 75.61% of people who have taken this test.
You score for secondary psychopathy was higher than 12.67% of people who have taken this test.
According to the graph I don’t even factor into the coloured area
better late than never. @dc @redartifice
While answering the questions i thought, yup, I’ll score low, thought i was giving nice answers.
You score for primary psychopathy was higher than 62.34% of people who have taken this test.
You score for secondary psychopathy was higher than 90.6% of people who have taken this test.
90% lies i tell you lies
No percent? Ok.
Nope. Not sure I want to, either. I suspect blissful ignorance is the best course of action.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/436/the-psychopath-test
It’s an interesting test. This ep of TAL talks about how it was created, what it’s used for , and how it really shouldn’t be used.
In terms of retaliation, I’ve already got the most horrible punishment planned.
A hug.
D: D: D:
Strange touched my beard the other day. I had to shave it off. I can’t imagine what I’d do if someone hugged me. 😛
CUT OFF MY ARMS… ALL THE ARMS *runs away screaming*
COME ‘ERE DC!
I promise I won’t fall asleep on you 😛
I for one can’t wait for him to arrive in QLD.
Where’s the effigy gone?
Needed room and no more need for it.
His limbless, mutilated corpse will make a suitable replacement.
How on earth did you test more normal on the psycho test than I did? You’re one cunning manipulator!
The lower you scored on the test the more likely you are to be a liar and therefore a psychopath.
According to steam, Divekick is out tomorrow on PC, for a fighting game that is just two buttons, it looks great, it has serious potential for competitive play, even if it’s taking the piss out of the fgc.
i assume its coming out on PS3/Vita whenever the PSN store updates (thursdays right?).
Just saw that “Sir, you’re being hunted” is out on steam… looks pretty damn interesting
I’ve got my two dogs on my lap.
One is using the other as a pillow, and he doesn’t mind.
(You’ve got to be shitting me…)
this is worthy of a page get
@scree i think i saw you at Highpoint yesterday…
I didn’t want to scream “HI SCREE” across the mall in case it wasn’t you… so i didn’t…
True story
So this one time I saw @alexpants at Macquarie Center and yelled out “Pants!”
Nothing.
“Paants!”
No reaction.
“PANTS!”
And then he walked into Woolworths.
Then he tweeted 5 minutes later saying he pretty much heard me but ignored me
Good times.
tl;dr yelling out handles in public is good fun
One time this guy kept yelling out ‘Steve-O!’ at me – I ignored him at the time because I’m not accustomed to being called out by your handle.
I’m not popular enough for people to yell at me…
ANONYMITY \o/
I’ve yelled out peoples’ names to a few friends in public, and it always really startles them. Something about the volume/severity, or whatever.
Either that or my friends are just like this guy:
http://youtu.be/knohDiCp9fg
That poor bloke, I feel so sorry for him
>.>
Over the years I’ve had lots of online friends refuse to call out to me when they happen to see me just because they couldn’t remember my real name and didn’t want to yell out “Gook!” for some reason.
Should’ve yelled it. I was at highpoint Yesterday so it was probably me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFaBwZDywLk
The Muppets (2011) ending spoilers. I love this. :’)
THE MUPPETS \o/
I love everything about this movie…
dammit dc, now i have to watch the muppets today…
Somebody thought of that
And someone believed it
Look what it’s done so far…
That’s classic Muppets. Rainbow Connection is a song they did in the 80s! 😛
Terrific song.
…
I feel like I’m missing a joke, but isn’t that common knowledge? 😛
Sorry, I thought you were crediting it to the 2011 movie. There wasn’t actually a joke, but if you give me a second to run this thing down to the end, I should come up with something gold.
Eh, just ignore me.
Haha! You so crazy! XD
If I’m a man that makes me a muppet of a man!
Every thing is perfect,
It’s falling into place,
I can’t seem to wipe this smile off my face!
Just got sent an email for a new pdf sewing pattern for a skirt. A skirt for little girls called “Sew Flirty”. Yeah…no.
Pun tastic
Japanese guys will love it.
Out to give The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing a go. Haven’t heard a thing about it from anyone or anywhere.
Godspeed, coalmine canary. Your sacrifice conveniences us all.
I have heard of it, and what I’ve heard of it has been extremely positive. It was described as basically a really well done Diablo 2 clone.
A fish swam into a wall.
“Dam,” he said.
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Russian dolls are full of themselves.
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What do you call a donkey with a million eyes and a million legs.
A monster.
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Welcome to beautiful, sixy page 6, everyone!
None of the guys understood why Dave attracted the ladies so often.
I mean, all he did was sit there, licking his eyebrows…
Oh man…time to escape. See you on page 7. Wait no, that’s letters…hurry up and get to page 8!
I’d prefer you stay and Shane tells puns somewhere else. 😛
Dear Strange
You cannot escape letter writing page seven.
Also, Did you hear the one about the unstamped letter?
You wouldn’t get it.
Yours in philately
Ritin’ Red.
Why did the book editor get in trouble? – She made un-author-eyes-ed changes!
Where should a novelist never live? – In a one-story house!
My cartography job is really going to put me on the map.
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My friend was fired from his job at Main Roads for stealing. Have to say, saw it coming; last time I was at his place, all the signs were there.
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The comedian stopped at the fabric store on his way to a comedy gig. He was looking for new material.
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Some people take beautiful pictures and cut them into pieces. It’s puzzling, to me.
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When the dalmatian ran away, he was spotted two blocks from home.
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The painter was hospitalized due to too many strokes.
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I once new a guy who had fish and chips every day for a year. His stomach took a battering.
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Two coin collectors got together for old dimes sake.
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I got a small ticket for speeding. It’s fine with me.
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I knew a girl who had a taser – man was she stunning.
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I’m in to Hobbit references. They put a Smaug look on my face.
A programmer buys a boat so he can head out to C.
The local barber was almost involved in a car accident. It was a close shave.
Temptation is growing to play WoW or an MMO again….I need a righteous smack across the face!
FFXIV is in open beta. The crafting is really satisfying, you should try it. 🙂
#helping
It’s not any more. Beta is over.
Release is next week \o/
…
…
/o\
Ohh that explains why I couldnt find it!
oops, my bad! I gave it a miss, but the email was lingering in my box, telling me to get in there. 🙂
See, I went looking for that on PSN last night but couldnt find a trace of it >.<
Wasn’t on PSN, you had to get a code from Squenix to download it and needed an account and stuff.
Early access this weekend, releases on the 27th. If you played 1.0 you get 2 weeks free. Also it’s pretty cheap – $30 for the game & a month’s subscription if you’re new.
And it’s also fairly good so far. Though I haven’t done any high-end content or anything. I clocked a lot of time over Open Beta, more than I had in previous betas (because this time progress carries over).
Ah, that also explains it.
I might keep an ear out and see how it travels in the first few months after release.
Just get it out of your system. The trick is to get a free 7 day pass, that’s usually plenty to remind me why I don’t play anymore.
I did that last year, logged on, had a look at new talents…I was so out of the loop I decided to fly around Org for a bit then bailed. But i’ve been missing the questing and leveling of lowbie areas oddly enough.
I’ve just re-subbed, and I’m really enjoying it.
What are you playing at the moment? PvP/ PvE – end game content?
I’m playing end-game stuff on my DK. Just LFR at this stage. My guild has never had the skill to raid themselves. And I don’t have the motivation to raid myself outside of LFR. I’m also levelling a Shammy, getting ready to make a killing off of JC when the next patch hits.
I’m also a massive mount collector. Check out my post on Page 1 of this TAY to read about my super lucky streak!
Haha yes I read about that, congratz on the mounts thats crazy lucky! I was pretty happy getting Baron Rivedares sword back in the day, as well as Valor leggings in the same run (SCORE).
Never saw his mount drop…not once…and I was running Stratholme when it was originally 10 man.
But for me WoW is like an ex girlfriend I keep going back to, I know I shouldnt be doing it, I know that I could be spending my time better (like singleplayer stories that actually conclude) but everynow and then feel like having a bit of fun.
*rasp**disengage**parachute cloak***wheeeeeeeeeee!*
I think that the story in Mists of Pandaria is actually really good. The war between the Horde and the Alliance is brought back to the forefront. And it’s going to conclude Garrosh’s storyline that began way back in the Burning Crusade.
Hmm, I might start a 7 day trial this weekend, I always like the lore in Warcraft. I’m a bit rusty about Garrosh’s story but from memory he’s a bad dude. I spent most of my WoW days on Alliance so i’m a bit more familiar with their ranks.
I thought they brought back Alliance vs Horder in Cata? Have they done much with Battlegrounds or is it more or less the same as a few years back? Wouldnt mind a bit of world PvP..the inner troll in me wants to escape.
Garrosh in a nutshell:
Son of Grom Hellscream. First appearance in WoW is in The Burning Crusade. Thrall sees something in him while he visits Nagrand. Thrall takes him under his wing to see him grow into a an Orc that could lead the Horde, because Thrall doesn’t want to do it forever.
In Wrath of the Lich King, Garrosh helps Thrall launch an invasion on Northrend. Garrosh has gotten a bit of a taste for power, and sees Thrall’s attitude towards the Alliance as a weakness. Garrosh does everything in his power, while not going completely against Thrall’s wishes, to antagonise the Alliance. He even mocks the Alliance openly during the events of the Argent Tournament, which was meant to be a friendly competition to bolster morale for both sides. During this time, the Forsaken attack both the Horde and the Alliance, making Garrosh want to eject them from the Horde.
In Cataclysm, Garrosh becomes warchief of the Horde. Thrall steps down from his position as Warchief and joins the Earthen Ring, who want to put Azeroth back together after Deathwing tore it asunder. During this time, Garrosh grasped for every piece of power he could. He turned Orgimmar into a fortress and a war machine. Before Mists of Pandaria the Darkspear Trolls rebelled against Garrosh, and Vol’jin left his position as advisor to the Warchief. Garrosh killed Cairne Bloodhoof, and his son vowed vengeance on Garrosh. The Blood Elves alligned with the Forsaken, and they’re taking a big step back from Garrosh. So the only people on Garrosh’s side are the Orcs (some of them) and the Goblins who just go where the money is.
Garrosh has now located the Heart of Y’shaarj, one of the old gods, and is wielding its power to bring the True Horde back to power. And he’ll kill anyone who opposes him and impale their bodies on the spikes of Orgrimmar.
Righteous…
http://www.thefilmpilgrim.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Point-Break.jpg
Keanu’s face says it all.
I actually watched Point Break last weekend, coinkydink :]
https://vine.co/v/hOXjhME1Yib
Looks beautiful. GAME OF THE YEAR.
Rayman’s smooth-as-fuck engine with equally as slick visuals?
SIGN ME THE FUCK UP
Edit due to things being edited 😛
Pretty excited that it’s based on FF VI, anything that is taking inspiration from it should hopefully be great, and that rayman engine is gorgeous.
When Ubisoft do any thing artistic it’s usually pretty damn incredible. I, for one, can’t wait! D:
Sorry for editing it. 😛
what edit
nothing happened
nothing
But, but uPlay… 🙁
Buy it on a console then?
But, still… uPlay…
uPlay is the hard, tongue/mouth-edge-slicing plastic-wrapper edge on the delicious icy-pole of otherwise good games.
I’d call it the innards of a cyanide pill, but to each their own.
Man, this sounds pretty good. Looking forward to the “official announcement”!
So it would appear we’re a bunch of psychopaths judging by those scores.
Either that or the majority of people taking that test are fundamentally dishonest, self-unaware, or uncompromising in their imagined principles without truly understanding their potential for self-serving hypocrisy. 🙂
Yes. It is the REST of the world who is wrong.
Think I’ve figured out why you got the score you did 😛
You passed the police psych test though. You’re our better!
We have seen the Ubermensch, and it is Freeze.
@gutsoup the test isn’t available there because it’s administered by a psychologist. THat’s the one that’s used though.
Gutsoup’s a pretty cool guy. Who should attend more meats! *folds arms stubbornly*
Don’t be too hasty. We haven’t seen his scores yet.
I’ve met him twice now, if he was going to kill me he would’ve done it by now!
Third time’s the charm… maybe you should stop inviting him to meats. 😛
I would but I seem to have developed “Chicken Wuss” syndrome *folds arms nervously*
Last weekend I was so nervous about talking to my friends I made sure to swap seats with Strange so I’d be left out of conversations. XD We all get scared, man. Just bring Jimu along and you can talk about old times. OLD TIMES. 😛
I read this a a reply to dc’s comment above
how are people posting scores then? *remains in a confused state and begins attacking team mates*
Freeze found another test.
aaaaaaah, i see, derp. I kept looking at the one you linked cause it seemed better 😛
One the must be administered by a train psychologist seemed better than a pick an option internet test.
Don’t both with the test, you are clearly crazy
Song for the day, One of my favourite Peter Gabriel Tracks, particularly of the ones he worked with Kate Bush on…
His cover of Arcade Fire’s My Body is a Cage is pretty damn great, but not as good as the original!
Yeah Scratch my back was amazing, there was supposed to be a follow up album to it…
HOLY CRAP DC LOOK AT WHO’s DOING THE SONG I LINKED
http://petergabriel.com/media/article/2854/and-ill-scratch-yours/
Hells yeah! @sughly might be interested in this too! (I miss Sughly! XD)
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2013/07/listen-to-arcade-fire-cover-peter-gabriels-games-w.html
40 second preview 🙂
(I miss Sughly too!!!!)
I wanna be… your sledgehammer!
*wink*
@shane: All my monster references and busting chops is all jokes. JOKES. Hope you don’t take them personally. You’re awesome, sociopath or not!
Way to appease the sociopath, dc.
What? Surely not… I could have sworn you were dead serious.
It’s annoying how annoyed I am at a random in the SRIV thread.
I should not care this much.
Oh man, that’s my alarm wake up. I feel like I should be getting out of bed when I hear this song now.
…were you not out of bed? Are you bed-taying?
No, I am out of bed but it’s forever associated with getting out of bed now. XD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzpndHtdl9A
edit: realising it looks like i’m taking the piss out of you, i’m not, this video just always makes me laugh when i get angry over games, and seemed appropiate. 🙂
I have http://xkcd.com/386/ printed and put up on my wall at both work and home.
Too much time spent in TAY, around sane, rational psychopaths who share your damage.
“I’m not putting my lips on that.”
Good, all-purpose advice for both adventurous boys and inquisitive young ladies.
Just had someone from Medibank call me up to discuss changes to my health insurance. This might be important I thought so I entertained her. As soon as I confirmed my identity she just tried to sell me life insurance.
Got to have a laugh at least, I played 4435225875 which is as close to Funky Town as I think I can get in phone beeps.
Here’s the thing – if someone ever calls me and asks for personal information (to ‘confirm identity’), I tell them where to stick it and ask them to confirm THEIR identity. Basic security practice, how can you trust the call is actually from them?
“Please tell me who you are, where you’re calling from, and provide me with contact details I can use to verify your identity and a reference number to confirm the case you’re contacting me about.”
(ie: Don’t call me, I’ll call you.)
My partner for my programming assignment is one of those “I’ll do all the work” types :S
Always better than the ‘I won’t see you until the day before deadline and won’t tell you if I’m actually doing any thing’ types.
Yeah, that’s true 😛
so you “programmed” him to do work… 100% success!!!
I may have been one of those types too 🙁
In my defense, both of the times it mattered, I did most of the work because it was something that took me only an hour or so at the most.
Looks like Saints Row 4 will be available on the US PS Store.
Guess I’ll do the same as I did for The Walking Dead.
The Walking Dead on PSN was particularly stupid, because you could see it on the AU PS Store for weeks after it was released. The links just didn’t go anywhere.
ha, there’s a simple fix. TBH i hadn’t even thought of that. Oh well mine’s paid for so i’ll just wait for delivery
Wait?
Weight?
-touches finger to lip, whispers-
Wait.
http://youtu.be/H9nPf7w7pDI?t=3m13s
Nah.
Nah.
Nah.
Nah.
This looks like a weird backwards reply chain.
Nah.
I wondered if you’d add four ” “s to it.
You did.
All weekend, all morning, I have been listening to Roadgeek, the music project by Timtimfed, or also known as Michael Shanks from Doomsday Arcade, if anyone here frequents Escapist.
Holy shit guys. It’s fantastic. He deserves so much more recognition.
He wrote, directed, filmed and edited a music video about cats murderously rising up against humanity to one of his (catchy as shit) songs. Worth a listen and a watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoKGqtJ5aFs
There’s a handwritten sign taped to the traffic lights here offering free under 12’s private cheer leading lessons. Call John.
Sounds legit.
you should call.
in an official capacity.
as a cop.
IT’S A TARP
Run away!
http://gifs.gifbin.com/082011/1312825609_kansas_city_royals_tarp_rolling_fail.gif
That is amazing. Two things stood out to me: That guy’s running like it’s a fucking steamroller chasing after him, and the people pushing that tarp roll aren’t stopping for shit – least of all some dickhead who was silly enough to get in the tarp’s way.
YOU CAN’T STOP THE TARP ROLL
NOBODY CAN STOP THE TARP ROLL
I don’t know if it’s been linked yet, but this popped up on YouTube overnight
So cool. Bad Robot. WOOOO!
This is also apparently a thing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJrYE7TLJq4
HAHA! Ah, Hollywood you crazy bastards!
Hold onto your nuts!
Holy shit, could this even be real? Surely nut. SURELY nut.
I felt it belonged on page 6.
I think @freezespreston would appreciate this!
Had my first proper go at Space Hulk (PC) as well. It’s awesome. So many shit reviews on the internet citing poor graphics and gameplay. IT’S AN ADAPTATION OF THE BOARD GAME YOU SHIT EATING TITFACE. Thus far, it’s a pretty much perfect adaptation of the board game. Brutal as shit too, just like mum used to make.
My only complaint – and it’s not really a complaint – is that it could have benefited massively from Steam Workshop integration.
Rock Paper Shotgun were down on it because it wasn’t board game like enough.
There are times when I honestly despair for our species as a whole.
My framerates tank more the longer my game goes for in space hulk. Still it’s intense gameplay since your terminators can die so easily against an onslaught of genestealers.
I’ll keep an eye out. I haven’t played for more than 30 or so mins at a time, so haven’t seen that issue yet. I know it’s been patched 2 or 3 times already, so they’re keen to get it right. Thus far it’s everything I would have wanted out of a Space Hulk PC game.
It’s pretty full on, knowing that your humongous Termies can drop dead from a single hit. Really forces you to watch your flanks and corners. Tense stuff – just like the board game.
It happened to me during the final tutorial mission, I think I was getting 12-15FPS when I had about 8-9 Genestealers on the board surrounding me (I even lost a guy cuz he missed a point blank range shot in overwatch mode, seriously you call yourself a space marine if you missed THAT? He isn’t that small :P), wasn’t great and impacted my ability to use the board a fair bit. Not game breaking but just something to watch out for. What were the patches for? Hopefully optimisation, then my worries get put to rest 🙂
Not sure what the patches were for, might have to find some notes.
That sounds a lot like a memory / resource leak to me.
I get that quite a few people who never played the board game might be disappointed with Space Hulk. I know if kid me was looking for a rip-roaring AAA modern-day bullet-spewing, space marine adventure set in the claustrophobic bowels of dark and derelicts relics of an empire past, then kid me probably would’ve been disappointed.
But old man me, looking for a PC video-game adaptation of the board game, for nostalgia purposes? That me is pretty happy with it and waiting on payday to buy a copy for little brother, so we can re-live the 90s.
I SWEAR THIS GUY EATS SHIT. LIKE, LITERALLY EATS HUMAN SHIT. JUST SO HE CAN FART SHIT. IN AND AROUND MY WORKSPACE. ALL FADES TO BROWN, NOT BLACK. THE AIR IS TURNING BEIGE. OR OFF WHITE. I SEE SHIT WITH MY WAKING EYES.
You need to start imbibing bean curry or something. Start a flatulence arms race.
Oh this is going to be a thing. Brb, buying copious amounts of Dynamite Hot Stagg Chilli. That stuff turns me filthy.
‘Flatulence arms race.’
Hah.
I love it.
You can one day outfart Michael Moore!
Next time walk past him, sniff the air and do the following..
(O.o)
(o.O)
(O.O)…..”smells like semen..”
You score for primary psychopathy was higher than 3.19% of people who have taken this test.
You score for secondary psychopathy was higher than 12.67% of people who have taken this test.
Sad day when D.C.’s the socially well adjusted one. D:
You score for primary psychopathy was higher than 50.45% of people who have taken this test.
You score for secondary psychopathy was higher than 74.89% of people who have taken this test.
I have… no idea what the results mean 😛
I did tend to answer extremes when in reality I should’ve been more subtle…
nice and easy going dc
much to my own concern mine were 60ish% and 90% O_o
A few dark, dark TAYbies scored in the 70s and 80s. Deviants.
This song is amazing.
Strangely intrigued by Might and Magic X Legacy. Didn’t know it was a thing until Steam showed it up. Apparently it’s a throwback to the old Might and Magic games – like Legend of Grimrock. Most intriguing…..
Grimrock was more of a throwback to Eye of the Beholder or Ultima Underworld than Might and Magic though.
Personally I never got into M&M, but was a big fan of the early Heroes of Might & Magic games. That series has gone to shit since then 🙁
The only HOMM game I hated was 4, the rest were pretty okay. VI was kinda horrible though, I had lots of bugs in that game, up to the point where I literally can’t progress my campaign anymore cuz of bugs. The game itself is really enjoyable, it’s just gorram unstable!
I always kind of wished that someone would make a HOMM board game. It feels like it’d transfer quite well.
Dear @gutsoup @other crazy people
You score for primary psychopathy was higher than 35.37% of people who have taken this test.
You score for secondary psychopathy was higher than 44.28% of people who have taken this test.
Regards
Surrounded by Crazies
Dear Red,
What up?
Your pal,
D.C.
Dear @dc
Not much, work work work.
I’m supervising a group of uni students that are doing a project for us!
Yours in Gaben,
Role modelling Red.
hey that’s not too bad, you seem well adjusted 😛
You score for primary psychopathy was higher than % of people who have taken this test.
You score for secondary psychopathy was higher than 83.97% of people who have taken this test.
😐
Dear Crazyguy
You Crazy.
Backing away slowly
Red.
Red?
Rum?
Anyone want a spare Mirror’s Edge Steam Key?
Only have an Origin key, but i’ll be happy to give it to you?
lol thanks pix, i have both an origin and steam one, i have an extra steam one if anyone wants it 🙂
riiiight, i can good read okay! (i may be very tired and only have read the post)
I’M JUST TRYING TO BE NICE!!!! 😛
Dear friends,
Did you know that http://www.matthewjhellscream.com is a thing now? If you’re looking for EXCLUSIVE Metro 7 news, it’s your one-stop shop.
Yours,
Beardy.
Dear Beardy
When can I get it into my hot little hands?
Yours
READArtifice
Dear Red,
I would feel very uncomfortable asking for a single cent from anyone until I’m 100% happy with it. I want to launch the Pozible campaign very soon, but I’ve still got another edit to finish, then my copy editor will have her way with it, and depending on what happens there I will probably have more editing to do. All I can say is Soon.
Sincerely,
– Beardy.
Dear Beardy
Something Something bigger tease than Deep Silver.
Regards
Literate Hyperbolic
Dear friends,
For all your unofficial Metro 7 news, unsubstantiated rumours and wild speculations about the man himself visit http://www.therealtruthaboutbeardy.com
Today’s biggest story – Beardy looked at a website with news about Matt Dillion and Thora Birch. Could this be the start of a vicious love triangle ending in tradegy? We’re going to say yes!
Yours in confidence
The Truth Trumpet
Dear Freeze,
You’re not a cop yet. It’s currently illegal for you to be tracking my internet usage. Just wait until you get your badge.
But Thora Birch does get my motor running.
Yours,
A fan of American Beauty
Dear Sicko
She was underage in that scene.
Regards
Moral Guardian.
Dear Red,
She wasn’t IRL. I can quite easily distinguish fiction from reality.
Your pal,
Beardy
Dear Beardy
Sorry, that came off a little harsh, and failed the rule of comedy: Be Funny.
My deepest apologies
Downvote deserving Red.
Dear Downvote deserving Red,
That rule has never stopped me before. Keep on truckin, rebel.
Unfailingly unfunny
Freezeapopaludpos.
Dear Editor,
My esteemed fellow commentors remind me of a story.
While watching the St. Trinian’s movie my then-girlfriend (a ‘former’ lesbian) and I were very uncomfortable and squirmed a bit in the car a bit until I got home and checked the cast list on imdb. I turned to her and said, “That chick was born a couple years after us, she’s totally legal,” and the gf and I both exhaled happy sighs of relief.
Not being a monster is a good feeling, but for a time we were worried that we were monsters. I feel much better for getting that off my chest.
Yours sincerely,
Not a Monster or Deviant. (Mostly. My Cousin Is Unreasonably Hot.)
Dear N.A.M.O.D.
Introduce us to said cousin so we can judge your depravity and…other things.
Regards
Oh Gods That Was Creepy On My Part
Dear Freezy Gillespie
That website has been taken out. I think Beardy got to it.
We’re through the looking glass here people
Hiding under the bed
Redacted.
Dear Redacted
He can’t hide the truth. Stay tuned for a new site where we will post shocking evidence of a half eaten cheese burger we found in his garbage.
Anorexia or a development of a fatal beef allergy? See the evidence and decide for yourself!
Blowing that whistle
Lady Justice
matthewjhellscream.com, gotcha!
Well, must be getting better. Instead of waking up multiple times throughout the ungodly portions of the morning then having to get up some time between 8 and 9 because I’m painfully hungry, I’m now sleeping through to the early afternoon again.
Still feel like absolute crap though.
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… Wait, this isn’t morse code page 7?
Also here’s a translation. Also, y’know, has the beeps, but you don’t listen to morse code, that’s not how it works
-.. . .- .-. / … .- – ..- .-. -.. .- -.– / -.. — – -….- -.. — – -….- -.. .- … …. -….- -. — .-.-.- / -.– — ..- .-. … / .—- —.. –… ….. .-.-.-
tc;dd (Too cryptic, didn’t decrypt) 😉
(I kid. Orientation is awesome, everyone wants you in their clubs and is going to pelt you with discount cards and stuff. And you don’t have to DO anything! Bask in the
unwarrantedtemporary popularity!)REDRUM
NOT PENNY’S BOAT
PAUL IS DEAD
YVAN EHT NOIJ
TO WIN THE GAME, YOU MUST KILL ME, JOHN ROMERO
Shpx lbh, Fngheqnl.
Yrnfg gnxr zr bhg ba n qngr svefg
And if anything goes wrong, I can just drink myself to happiness, something which most freshmen cannot do! IT’S PERFECT!
You’re like one of those weird older students, right?
Weirdo.
Dear @beardymcmuttonchops @shane @other writery scifi people
http://imgur.com/a/jt6KJ
A nice gallery of SF battle scenes
Regards
Doing less work than he should be
Dear Red,
Thanks for that.
I really liked this one. Looks heaps like I pictured The Lesser Evil’s final battle.
http://i.imgur.com/Wk6GzJ0.jpg
Sincerely,
Shane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzVDypBBty4
A good song!
http://youtu.be/bLmcl1AOfWk?t=1h20m10s
A better song!
So – who’s going to give me a nice intimate massage?
Any takers?
Dear Gingerchris.
When I was a child, my mother and some of her friends trained me to give foot massages. Not quite a teenager, whenever the friends came over, it was feet up, and rubbing ladyfeet as strong as my child hands could. In reward, I would be granted extra video-gaming time on the NES or PC.
My services were quite in-demand, so now the request for footrubs triggers a Pavlovian response in me to rub old lady feet for videogames and praise. At a gathering, last year, I performed the service for people who made quite distressingly enthusiastic and satisfied noises. That may have undone all the reward-based positive associations, but to this day when footrubs are mentioned, I subconsciously stand ready.
Yours sincerely,
Only Slightly Traumatized.
This is why you’re not leader any more.
Dear Transientmind
I hear Marcellus Wallace threw Tony Rockyhorror out of a window after Tony gave Marcellus’ wife a foot massage.
You should be careful
Doesn’t look like a bitch
Red.
Dear Tranientmind,
I dont like getting people to massage my feet, as I know how sweaty they get,
So thank you for the offer, but I couldnt do that to you,
Many Thanks,
Gingerchris
When I was older, I picked up the technique of the shoulder/neck-rub.
At that stage, I was doing it as a super-secret and cunning ploy to get my hands on girlflesh. I am given to understand that this tightly-kept secret was somehow leaked to the greater female population… and that they are OK with it.
I’m wearing that really nice underwear you got me right now
it’s leopard print
it’s EROTIC
EROTIC
EROTIC
-wait, you mean massage, not message! disregard this then.
This works too :p
Dear TAY,
How are you? I am well. Haven’t been very active recently, just a sporadic post here and there and the odd upvote.
Finally (hopefully) got my plumbing fixed, had the sewer line from my house to the street replaced with poly, the old one was prone to leakage & tree roots.
My next stage is to dog proof the yard by straightening the back gates and running chicken wire to cover the gap between ground and house. Then I’ll get a puppy!
Direct from Nomad’s car to your PC.
Dear Nomad
You’re sounding awfully established for a nomad. Time for a name change?
Regards
Red
Red,
I appreciate your concern for my name, while I do live in a house, I am not yet house trained so must leave the premises quite frequently. When this changes you’ll be the first to know.
Yours in establishment,
Nomad.
Looks like Dota 2 players are going to have to listen to a new announcer soon.
There is no choice about it.
Glados is the only announcer.
A link was hidden in the latest Dota 2 blog post.
It appears as a link
but I cannot click it
I shall have to submit myself to drink because of this
It was gonna happen, no doubt about it
Finished Assassin’s Creed 3 last night. It was okay.
Hmmm, spoiler tags are still broken. To the rot13 machine!
Fb gur tnzr raqrq ba n cerggl qrcerffvat abgr. V jnf bxnl jvgu Pbaabe’f rcvybthr fghss orvat n ovg ovggrefjrrg, ohg V ernyyl qvqa’g yvxr gur raqvat gurl tnir Qrfzbaq. 5 oybbql tnzrf (rira vs V arire qvq svavfu gur svefg bar) naq guvf vf ubj gurl raq vg? Hovfbsg ernyyl arrqf gb trg vgf fghss gbtrgure jura vg pbzrf gb gur frpgvbaf frg va gur cerfrag qnl, orpnhfr vg’f sryg nyy bire gur cynpr jvgu gur ynfg srj tnzrf. Ubarfgyl, V guvax gurl whfg arrq gb frg n jubyr tnzr va gur cerfrag gb trg guvatf ba genpx naq znxvat frafr.
Nyfb, Yhpl’f qrngu unf gb or bar bs gur cbberfg unaqyrq ivqrb tnzr qrnguf V’ir rire frra. Oebgureubbq raqrq ba n terng pyvssunatre, gura Eriryngvbaf fbeg bs unaqjnirq vg jvgu n “bu lrnu, fur’q qrnq”, naq gung jnf vg. Gura lbh trg vagb NP3 naq gurer’f fhqqrayl zragvba bs ure frpergyl orvat n Grzcyne jub jnf cynaavat ba orgenlvat gurz nyy, gung Qrfzbaq jnf fubja n ivfvba bs nyy gung naq gung’f jul ur xvyyrq ure. Jung? V qba’g erpnyy nal bs gung orvat zragvbarq va Eriryngvbaf, juvpu jnf ernyyl gur cynpr nyy gung fubhyq unir orra qrnyg jvgu. Gur vqrn gung fur jnf n qbhoyr ntrag naq gung’f jul fur qvrq vfa’g n onq bar, ohg vgf rkrphgvba naq gur snpg gung gurl fcernq vg bhg bire gjb tnzrf (guerr vs lbh pbhag Oebgureubbq) juvyr ng gur fnzr gvzr abg ernyyl rkcybevat vg va nal qrgnvy vf vaperqvoyl naablvat.
rot13.com
So zbqrea fghss: fuvg. Byqra gvzrf: abg fuvg.
Par for the course when it comes to AC.
V hfrq gb ybir gur Qrfzbaq fghss gur orfg. Ungrq NP3 pbzcyrgryl gubhtu.
Spoiler tags aren’t working, so I suggest encrypting the spoilery parts with http://www.rot13.com. 🙂
(Beaten to it by the ever-vigilant sentinel of TAY, @DC. OF COURSE.)
Be Vigilant!
Mental image of propaganda posters.
That event you were complaining about? Apparently it was dealt with in DLC. SO not cool, Ubi. >:|
Watched Elysium today. I really enjoyed it. For anyone who hasn’t seen it yet, it is definitely worth watching.
I’m surprised that the violent, indiscernible bad guy was played by the same actor who played the toddling, nervous wreck of a worker we followed in District 9. I forget the names for both roles. 😛
Also, um, I dunno if that’s just me, but that accent the guy made, was that.. off-putting for anybody else?
Wikus van der Merwe was the main dude in District 9, i remember cause I’m from the country they made it in and it’s a common last name.
#pointlesslybuttingin
Kruger in Elysium!
do they pronounce it Kroo – ger
or the South African way that sounds more like Kree – ear
Hmmm, mostly American characters who actually speak his name, so they say Kroo-ger.
Um, isn’t that his natural accent given he’s from South Africa?
Seemed a bit exaggerated though. Gutsoup doesn’t sound like that and even stronger accents I’ve heard haven’t been that strong. I wonder if it’s like the Australians in Pacific Rim. XD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1tAYFAiHXM
Seems it’s a little exaggerated.
It’s a cool accent though. 😀
no one does a good SA accent, just like no one does good aussie ones, watching people try to do the SA accent is like listening to those great aussie accents in the Dead Island games 😛
also, i don’t have the accent. I sorta forced myself to lose it cause people were jerks to me.
I actually had some dudes tell me that because i was from South Africa i was racist and they wanted to bash me (and they didn’t see the irony of telling someone that they are racist because of where they come from). All my relatives overseas laugh at me now cause i sound Australian to them 😛
Jerks are jerks. 🙁
Wiser words have never been spoken.
As good as District 9?
I liked it more!
For one, lot less robot suits with giant guns.
So, no.
I don’t think it holds a candle to District 9. I was actually a bit disappointed with Elysium.
Dear TAY
I love letter writing page seven.
May it forever be a thing
Red.
SOVIET ARCOLOGIES!
Dear DC
No.
Regards
Your comrade.
It’s even better than page 6. It’s amazing.
You are! >:|
It might seem narcissistic to upvote you, but I’m just doing it for the exclamation mark and angry face.
Edit: To whom it may concern,
The Bureau : XCOM Declassified reviews are starting to drop. Not looking great…
Gamespot – 6/10
Escapist – 6/10
Games Radar – 6/10
IGN – 5.5/10
I am disappoint.
Edit: Sincerely, 35
:'(
Rayman Legends next week though! That should help ease the pain!
I’ll still play it coz some reviews say the mechanics suck, but the world is good, while others are saying the opposite…
anyway… next game i’m keen on is BLACKLIST!
I saw an email from ozgameshop earlier today, to say they’d sent out my copy of Blacklist.
I didn’t remember pre-ordering and couldn’t understand why I would have pre-ordered it given that I haven’t been following Splinter Cell news since… 2010? I would probably still play it at some stage, but the series has changed a lot and the enthusiasm isn’t there.
Then I saw that I’d pre-ordered the Ultimatum edition and it all made sense — curse my fondness for cheap, game-inspired timepieces.
So: whoo, Blacklist!
Dear DC
Don’t forget, Saints Row IV this w….oh.
Disappointed
Red.
YEAH SAINT’S ROW IV GONNA PLAY THAT ALL WEEK-
Oh, shit, right, Australia, um, uh
….
Dear Saturday
I hope some sort of land mammal attacks you.
Regards
Red
WONDERFUL 101!!
RAYMAN LEGENDS. >:|
WONDER.FUL.ONE.OH.ONE!
>=(
WONDERFUL RAYMAN LEGENDS >:|
WONDERFUL RAYMAN 101 LEGENDS! >=(
THE WONDERFUL RAYMAN 101 LEGENDS
…
Compromise?
ARCADE FIRE!
4/5 on Joystiq. Interesting.
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/08/20/the-bureau-xcom-declassified-review/
ignore the outliers (destructoid & joystiq) & it seems a pretty average 6/10
but the funny thing is, they cant seem to agree on whats wrong with it. story/world/art or gameplay…
I was kinda keen on it, but I’ll probably pass now. I think I’ll pick up Blacklist if I can’t manage to get SR4 this week.
haha, instincts may have been right on this one, but in saying that I have thoroughly enjoyed several games that reviewed poorly. I’ll just wait for it to go cheap, then think about it again 😛
60% is not a bad score, though. 60% gets you edumacational qualifications….
Get home and there is about 10 20 year old girls in bikinis playing touch football on the culdesac my house is on.
Hmmm. Hmmm.
Maybe you time traveled into some ’90s beer commercial! D:
Sounds like you need to do some “gardening” out the front.
Start washing the car. Ask if they would like to help.
Life is just a series of special moments – joys and disappointments – strung together. You can’t see the future, and you can’t re-live past.
Up until they invented camera-phones anyway.
So… we’re having a Meat at yours in, let’s say 10 minutes?
*regrets not going to a Freeze meat yet and thus not knowing the address :P*
Dear TAY.
You may already know my position on Steam and its place within the arsenal of the Master Race.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/origin-now-lets-you-return-ea-game-downloads-for-full-refunds
How… what… I don’t even…
I can’t be wrong. I’m always right. ESPECIALLY when I’m wrong.
Sincerely,
Doesn’t Even Know What’s Real Anymore.
Dear transientmind
Is this the real life, or is this just fantasy?
Bismillah
Reddy Mercury
Dear Reddy
I am the real thing
Oohmowmamowmow
BDKIAF
Dear BDKIAF
I thought Coca Cola was the real thing.
Caffeinated,
Reddy
Dear writer friends,
Is anyone gearing up to do NaNoWriMo this year?
Regards,
Hellscream.
ps. http://www.matthewjhellscream.com
Dear Beardy McHelen’sChops,
I am considering it. Then again, I’ve said that for the last two years as well, so the outlook isn’t great.
Trulies,
Blaggles.
Dear Inspiring one
I am also considering it again this year
I have the plot outline I created for NaNoWriMo last year that I didn’t do any work on
If time permits I will work on it
Yours in wordlessness
Tigerion
Home time !!
Time for Coffee, headphones and Person 4 Golden, tonight will be a good night. 😀
Any night with Persona 4 is a good night!
@bdkiaf
Yeah, so Iron was used in the AC:R trailer and Run Boy Run was in the dyling light trailer. Both are pretty good, but other songs you may like:
The Great Escape <– Really good
I love you <– Really good
Baltimore Fireflies
Mr. Strange won tickets to see Elysium. Lucky I didn’t see it with you guys on Saturday night. 😀
:'( about not going to see the movie with us.
😀 about getting to see the movie any way.
@coldcamv added your 3DS friend code. Y’all better add me back or I’ll be annoyed when you’re stuck in the grey pending friend void.
@kermitron
(and anyone else who isn’t already my 3DS buddy) what’s your code?
Although I can’t think of any multi 3DS games coming out soonish except for maybe Pokemon :D. TRADE ALL THE THINGS!
__
The Big Mac picture at the bottom of the page is making me hungry. I had one of those “mighty” meals yesterday. Medium Big Mac meal with an apple pie and cheeseburger. Not bad and I only had a mild level of regret.
My code is… unknown >.>
*caresses his working 3DSs*
😛
Was there ever an update on your 3DS? Bring it up with the ACCC? STUFF? THINGS? Hope it all worked out though :O
Nah, I ain’t done shit.
I’m really really not good at getting things done. I can’t even remember what stopped me getting around to it last week, then this week I’ve just been too sick to even try and deal with people at all. Finally got another call back from Nintendo yesterday, but I missed it due to my phone being on silent so that I could sleep.
Dear Greenius
My girlfriend will most likely add you when she gets home as I am currently working, the days get colder as the nights get longer one day this wolf wishes to howl at a faceless moon.
Sincerely
The wolf who’s being abstract
G’Day TAY,
How we all hanging? Saw that my tax return had come through today, so I went down to EB, paid off my PS4 pre-order, and pre-ordered Disney Infinity. As I was walking home, I heard that it’s supposedly broken Street Date or something. Ahh, the trials and tribulations of my life.
I also got a hair cut today, my first proper one since 2009. I’ve come to the realisation that if I dropped twenty kilos so I was overweight, rather than obese, then I could cosplay at every convention as “GenericMan” the most average nerd of them all.
With Regards,
Blaghs.
Dear the Blaghsiest of Blaghs
To truly be GenericNerd you would need to grow a magnificent* Neckbeard.
Regards
Red
*There’s nothing magnificent about Neckbeards.
Wait. Who were you again?
Short hair, has (had?) a job, up at reasonable hours?
What the…
http://i.imgur.com/hj8Ik9L.png
So I am meant to be cleaning my room. This is the second day I ended up sleeping instead.
My room is so cold ;_; And messy
If you’re asleep you can’t notice the mess! \o/
Mum can though. =P
I will get around to it. I’m just trying to think of a place to put my ps2
Mums are silly. Getting all uppity about that three-year layer of dust and complaining about it all the time, as if they were the ones that have to sleep next to it.
Sympathy upvote.
I keep planning on cleaning the family house, but people hoard so much garbage that it’s just… argh. It’ll take at least a couple of days, I’ll be all sneezy and sore and stuff from moving 50 million things and all the dust… just so much work. D:
Some dude named CylongLogicBomb felt the need to downvote nearly every single comment in the Saints Row IV warehouse boxes article.
Doling out the internet justice like a pro.
Dear Gooky
I spotted that, I think he was just taking out his frustration at having a silly handle.
Manny Calavera’s Mate,
Red.
Abuse of the voting system! Some people need to tone it down!
Five separate accounts that upvote every comment in a thread.
THEN EVERYONE WILL THINK THEY HAVE TO READ EVERY SINGLE COMMENT MUAHAHAHAHA!
Dear Manly Upvote Fairy
Is this what you command?
Your humble follower
Red
Not the manliest of letters.
P.S: There’s beena couple of pissy people around, Lichbane didn’t like it when I made a crack about GTA V not being on PC.
Or pointing out that your current console isn’t about to vanish. Sometimes I forget what it’s like out in the wilds of the article comments.
Dear BDKIAF
Lets make camp here in relative safety.
The Happiest of Campers
Red
They’re my favourite. The ones who clearly have a problem and you can just tell that they’re fuming over on their side of the screen. But there’s no real reason for it at all, usually not even any kind of explanation because they otherwise stay silent.
That name sounds familiar. I know a couple utter [REDACTED] like mypetmonkey or whatever his name is have on occasion actually gone back through, like… a hundred comments of my history, completely unrelated to the topic we’ve been arguing about, and downvoted them.
Just because it’s me and they disliked what I had to say on a particular subject so badly that they felt anything else I might have said on any topic was worth criticism as well.
That takes a special kind of [REDACTED]. Perhaps not realizing I could see what they were doing? Who knows.
(Edit: Oh wow, he hit me on that thread, too… and I thought I was being totally neutral. Wow.
Re-edit: And every other sane, reasonable, calm response in that thread. What the F, guy? Boring troll is boring/difficult to understand?)
Gamescom is tomorrow :O
PS4 HYPE
This last hour at work has taught me one thing: it’s quite difficult to make a competent paper aeroplane out of a post-it note.
You can make a paper crane though
Or “Heavy Rain” bird!
Isn’t that a paper crane with folded wings?
A lot more simple. It barely resembles a bird 😛
Dream logic. The bird doesn’t need to make sense.
Quantic Dream! WOOOOO!
…
Carry on.
So I completely filled up my games cabinet. Over 250 games.
Now where do I put them?
Microwave!
And throw out all this bread? I don’t think so!
I just love we’re getting mileage out of this almost a year later
It’s my favourite of all the TAY running jokes.
It’s my second favourite behind @dc hating buildings 🙂
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/09/make-the-most-of-your-microwave/
I still like to read the comments from time-to-time. XD
Dammit DC, I can’t stop laughing.
I feel sorry for poor Alex.
In another games cabinet.
Which gets put into a games cabinet cabinet!
Do not have one. =<
Some assembly required.
And/or conjuring.
In my games cabinet!
Really? You could invest in a bigger games cabinet? I’ve got a shoddy 1.8m high shelf unit from Sam’s Warehouse that set us back about $50. Got just over 200 games in it and plenty of space left for all the collectors items and books in it.
Well…I’ve…Got a lot of stuff stored everywhere. over 250 games in one cabinet, possibly another 200 in two bedside drawers. Collectors editions under my bed, some above the cupboards and others stuck in my Mum’s glory box*.
*not a euphemism. My grandad I never met made Mum a giant wooden chest and filled it with things for her so she would have everything she needed when she left home.
Yo!
Well said!
Wow.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/08/theres-a-wacky-news-animation-for-the-australian-election-now/
May be the most batshit insane coverage of the election I’ve seen.
Agreed.
…And also the most insightful coverage I’ve seen. c.c Through an outside perspective, eh?
(Edit: Not that it would be hard to top local coverage for pretty much any quality.)
Hey @freezespreston!
Sup.
Jacqueline Large Nipples.
😀
I’d go with like, mammaries, or breasts, or something. Nipples is typically more specific than tits as a term.
Nah.
What’s going on @dc
Not much, Cam. Not much. How are you, my new friend?
I’m good thanks, I think this case of man flu is finally dying down. What’s new?
Not a whole lot. In fact, uh, nothing. *moseys off*
back to circling the wagons then *circles the wagons*
I’ve watched last nights ep of The Newsroom three times now!
How are you, @strange?
I’m okay, DeeCee. Just had a nice dinner of harissa-crusted lamb with sauteed garlic kale and israeli couscous.
I don’t know most of those words, but I liked it when you called me DeeCee!
All you need to know is those are words for tasty stuffs. 😀
Chilli meat, spinach and rice.
Sort of.
mmm sounds goodly to me! Glad to hear you’re ok too! Though I barely know what’s going on round here this week :\
Had to play host to an upper level manager type person from our head office in Adelaide today.
Will again on Thursday too. As much as it sucks though, it will be good to demonstrate to them first hand, the bullshit we have to go through, so hopefully things could improve as a result!
I feel out of the loop with everything else though! BLargh!
Hope everyone is kickass!
*hugs*
Hope this day finds you well, @sernobulus?
It sure does, how goes you frond?
Pretty well, my pal. Pretty well. Under the Dome is on soon and I enjoy criticizing it for some reason every week… and Linda’s raspy voice.
Also…
RAYMAN LEGENDS. >:|
WONDERFUL 101! >=(
ARCADE FIRE!
WONDERFUL RAYMAN LEGENDS! >:|
Which one’s Linda?
The one with the raspy voice! 😀 😀 😀
I think she’s the police woman?
Ah, yes. Thanks Mr. Wolf.
She’s a replicant!
How’s life in the parking garage treating you?
Good, gets a little cold however I have found others who have been doomed to the same fate as I. Soon I will have an army!
Plus the acoustics must be good for random mutterings, I imagine?
The loud mutterings do scare away nar-do-wells of our new, superiour society
The narwhals? You’ve got the insanity of a manatee!
Dexter got interesting again!
The Division has been confirmed for PC! \o/
Crysis 2 at ultra! 😀
That’s my default state!
Haha! That post works with the edit too. XD
I lol’d.
Aw. 3am? But I have to work tomorrow. Looks like I’ll be catching up late again.
When e3 was on I had crazy insomnia and the only good part of that was I could live stream this stuff. Now that I’ve mastered the ability to fall asleep again I think I’m just going to watch stream tomorrow. :'(
WHAT IF THERE’S BEYOND GOOD & EVIL 2 NEWS!?
(there won’t be)
It’ll keep. (I didn’t play Beyond Good & Evil until 2009. Others have been waiting way longer.)
@greenius: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqOB9G6DNnc
I was thinking it would be either: You’re Not Alone, Sprawl II (Acoustic) or the whole Coachella set.
…close enough! 😀
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBUIQ7IVbHU
Favourite Arcade Fire song. (Though that changes by the day!)
What’s your least favourite? ;D
7 Kettles. I skip it whenever I listen to that album.
Haha, I didn’t expect an answer. Thought you’d do a whole “None. I love them all! :D” kind of thing 😀
Nah, there’s songs on all the albums I don’t like. Haha!
You heard it here first, folks!
Arcade Fire songs that D.C. doesn’t like!
*the crowd gasps*
EDIT: What other Arcade Fire songs don’t you really like?
(Shane :P)
Too many questions. >:|
@greenius
Buildings
Fun
How’s things, @shane? Told your wife about booking plane tickets yet? 😀
Yeah, I pretended I hadn’t bought the tickets yet, and got her
permissionapprovalpermission.Oh god. There’s uPlay on my nice new PC 🙁
What have you done? D:
I get all my Ubisoft games on consoles now because I don’t want to deal with uPlay. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that’s exactly what Ubisoft wanted me to do. :S
But… but… what about shooters like Far Cry 3, and Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon? Where the deadly precision of the mouse and keyboard is required?
Never liked Far Cry! D:
Also, don’t play many FPS in general. Last one was probably Borderlands in September!
BioShock Infinite.
I know what you mean about control precision though!
lol. so do I though :\ I’m a sucker for heroes of might and magic, and as a result, I have no choice. Better than not being able to play though!
Good times!
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/01/whitenoise-gizmodo-community-talkback-81/
oh wow http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/01/whitenoise-gizmodo-community-talkback-81/comment-page-1/#comment-661038
Never really liked the idea of a TAYvasion to be honest 😛
So… spoiler tags still work… but we just can’t add them into our comments. Another piece of the puzzle.
Also, GOOD TIMES \o/
Of course. Detective Greenius figured this out ages ago!
@pixel_the_ferret_viking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uacFK83xWS4
you… you i like!
Bleh, so antsy and scattered today. About 90% sure I’ve annoyed a lot of people today, both online and off. Can’t seem to settle in and just enjoy a game either. Can’t sleep so that’s out too.
#emoDCpost
Freeze is awesome. Hope you feel better, my friend!
Sorry to hear, man 🙁
For what it’s worth, you’re one of the best folks I know, and have never actually managed to annoy me.
Anything I can do to help, man? Let me know!
I largely make my support known by the subtle, almost silent upvote.
@dc for mentor.
Alrighty then I got the 3DS all set up and TAY names up so let me know who adds me so I can add you guys back my 3DS friend code is 2638-0334-1733
Go TAYBIES!
dun!
For a second I forgot it was a shared 3DS and wondered who that girl was 😀
Haha yeah its in my girlfriends name whos playing it now
Under the Dome thoughts:
1: 1 qnl gb tb gb Jbaqreynaq, shpx bss. V qba’g pner. Trg bss zl GI lbh naablvat yvggyr jngreznex.
2: Gurl orggre abg znxr gung clpub whavbe bhg gb or n ureb, pnhfr gung’f whfg shyy bs hasbeghangr vzcyvpngvbaf.
3: Vg srryf jnl gbb yngr gb vagebqhpr n arj punenpgre, rfcrpvnyyl bar jub’f abg n erfvqrag bs Purfgref Zvyy. Fb fur whfg unccrarq gb or va gbja jura gur qbzr pnzr qbja naq unf orra uvqvat bhg gur jubyr gvzr? Gung’f n cbbe rkcynangvba sbe ure fhqqra nccrnenapr.
V jnf guvaxvat guvf ynql vf n znavsrfgngvba bs gur Qbzr, yvxr gur barf frra va gur cerivbhf jrrxf.
V gubhtug gung, ohg abar bs gur cerivbhf ivfvbaf unir vagrenpgrq jvgu gur punenpgref gb gur yriry fur unf.
Also, you’ve read the book, right? Without going into spoilers, how closely is the show following the events in the book?
Nyjnlf n svefg gvzr!
Gets further and further from the book the longer it goes and also wasn’t 100% loyal in the first place. Lots of the stuff on the show is new for me as well!
I have a feeling they’re going to try and draw it out for as many seasons as they can, which means making a bunch of crap up that wasn’t in the book.
Yeah, this, unfortunately. There’s no way they’re getting out of that dome in less than 3 seasons 😛
Already so different from the book that it’ll be an entirely different story, I wager. Unrecognizable by then.
Man, rot13 is terrible to try and translate on my phone. When are spoiler tags coming back? D:
I hope Sony announces their full launch lineup and it has some surprises in it.
Because right now they have 0 launch games I’m interested in and Microsoft actually has 1.
So far I’m interested in Watch Dogs, The Witness and inFamous: Second Son if they’re launch titles. I’m hoping we’ll see something from Naughty Dog now that enough time has passed since The Last of Us was released (and they’ve got two teams…), but don’t expect it to be any thing close to a launch game.
I think Second Son’s coming out next year.
Aw, man. I wanted to climb the Seattle Space Needle and reminisce about Dark Angel! 😀
I want to like Watch Dogs but I fear it’ll be a turd to actually play. I hate Open World games.
Also I have a decent PC and intend to upgrade it this month. Need exclusives to justify a new console, not multi-plat stuff that will be as good if not better on PC.
If Destiny ends up on PC as well as PS4 and Xbone I will lose my main current reason to get a PS4 at all.
Peggle 2!!!!!!!!
The game I care the most about that’s been confirmed as Xbox One exclusive? Forza. And I don’t even like car games. I just like the Burnout series. And Forza…
Xbox One’s best looking game for me is Below, by the Swords and Sworcery team. (Timed exclusive, so it’ll keep.) Also Quantum Break looks awesome and I like Remedy’s obsession with making TV show-like games and the promise of FMV!
For me it’s Crimson Dragon.
Because it’s basically a new Panzer Dragoon. And Panzer Dragoon is fucking rad.
EDIT: Wouldn’t buy a system for it though. Panzer Dragoon Orta was one of the reasons I bought an Xbox, but it wasn’t the only reason.
You know Under the Dome ain’t interesting me when I start wondering where I can buy a lumberjack shirt like Dale Barbara’s wearing because it’s greeeeeeen!
Also, I stand by my comment that the dog is the best actor on the show and I’m not convinced it’s not a stray who walked on set and wouldn’t leave and they had to write storylines around it.
I think most of the actors in that show are just random people who wandered onto the set. It would certainly explain a lot.
Greeeeeeeen!
The best actors on the show are the various Microsoft products. They’re always consistent and on message!
Last night I had a Zinger burger with Supercharger sauce instead of mayo. Mmm delish.
Regretted it this morning though.
I have only truly experienced chilli regret once in my life. It was like crapping lava. Sichuan regret is the worst regret. Was probably worth it though.
Brothers: A tale of two sons looks amazing. Just like the kind of game I’ve been looking for. Can’t wait for the PC release!
The demo on the 360 was pretty damn great and Adventure Gamers gave it a really strong review. (Even though I wouldn’t consider it an adventure game in the slightest. XD) It’s weird how your hands adjust to the controls extremely quick. Will be one better played with a gamepad even on the PC I think.
I can’t think of a single PC game I don’t play with the controller 😛 I’m really interested to see how the controls work.
Oh man, you’ll make a powerful enemy of @transientmind! :O
You control one brother with the left stick and triggers and the other with the right stick and triggers.
I HAVE AWOKEN AND MY FURY IS RIGHTeouhhhh it’s way too late to be angry about the heathens. No matter how many you devour or burn to a crisp, they keep popping up.
Someone think of an appropriate punishment for @benj and his heresy, and I’ll be back in the morning to sear the remains with holy flame or something. *yaaaaawn*
Seepie mastwer wace. *thud*
His punishment? He will have to endure all PC games with a controller! D:
Poor bastard.
Or have to play point and click adventure games with a controller. D: D: D:
*phew* Thank god I don’t play point and click adventure games then 😛
Oh man, you’ll make a powerful enemy of @DC! :O
Oooo! Shoe sale!
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/113978
😛
True story: I saw this deal while I was in bed, derping around the internet but since I needed new shoez anyway, I got out of bed to investigate further :P. Seems like they’re doing free returns and whatnot which makes me less scared about messing up and choosing the wrong shoe size 😀
I have:
1.) Black, generic pair of Nikes.
2.) Pair of Converse shoes that look like clown shoes on me.
That’s enough. >:|
I have work boots.
Fancy shoes that I never wear.
Crocodile slippers that I saw a spider in 2 years ago and which I’ve been unwilling to go near since.
That spider is absolutely still there.
You should get some sick green kicks!
What’s a kick? #OldManDC
https://www.google.com.au/search?um=1&hl=en&biw=1920&bih=955&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=sick+kicks&oq=sick+kicks&gs_l=img.3..0l4j0i5l3j0i10i24j0i24l2.23721.25413.0.25935.14.11.2.0.0.0.239.1125.7j2j2.11.0….0…1c.1.25.img..5.9.388.9FIPPSNL4K4
D:
I hate shoes like that. Haha!
I do like green, though. *strokes patchy chin stubble*
http://images.sneakernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/nike-air-force-1-lucky-green-white-avaialble-2.jpg
I bought these in Japan!
They don’t get much use now a days but one day I shall use them regularly again!
Too green for my liking. I prefer dark, olive kind of greens for stuff like shoes. Haha.
@dc yeah, I bought a super green jacket (@miketarno knows which one) in Japan too. Kind of felt like buying green stuff 😀
Sick kicks… for the ladies
1. Work shoes
2. Steel toed shoes for work
3. Cons, Camo
4. Sneakers, for Gym
5. Old Boots, for head kicking
6. Hiking Boots
7. Summer casual shoes
8. Moccassins.
I don’t consider myself a shoe person, I just seem to have accumulated.
Hear, hear, for minimalism.
I have a pair of good, clean, polished dress shoes for when there is absolutely no alternative and no escape.
A pair of expensive but robust sneakers for jogging and gym.
Three pairs of interchangeable magnum tactical boots (in case any of them wear down too much) for absolutely everything else. Heavy, but comfortable. Flexible and sturdy enough to run in, but also hardened toes (not steel-cap) for protective… reasons. US 12s, they get the job done and are my favourite boot ever. (I really need to renew my security licence so I can continue to get the industry discount.)
I have:
1) a pair of black hushpuppies I wear for work, the only shoes I have that cost more than $30 because I need to wear them 5 days a week.
2 & 3) a pair of black sneakers and a pair of white loafers that I alternate depending on occasion (I feel the white are slightly nicer/more formal). I lump these together because they were obtained in a 2 for 1 sale at Payless.
4) a pair of Havianas thongs, because Havianas, while more expensive, last about 300 times longer than cheap thongs from k-mart.
Tempting, but I have no use for shoes like that.
But it’s such a bargain…
You, D.C. and I can wear them for our jobs next year!
Right guys?
JOBS!
EMPLOYMENT!
US!
You keep telling yourself that, kid.
http://www.catchoftheday.com.au/event/26034/product/globe-men-s-panther-shoes-black-denim-206402
I wanna get these, but looking at my shoes, one is a size 11 and fits properly, the other is a size 9 and still fits properly. I think they’re both US sizes. The 9’s are definitely shorter anyway 😛 I have no idea which size to get.
BUY BOTH!
But, but then one won’t fit!!
The pair of 9’s are cheap Kmart canvas ripoffs that got worn once because I didn’t want to get my good shoes dirty and they’re more similar is style to these, so I’m thinking size 9 is probably the best bet.
Oh yeah I just remembered I have another pair of shoes that are size 11 and they’re way too big! This is confusing!
INORITE!?
A simple “hey man, what size are your vans?”
“US 11”
“thanks :)”
solved the case! I definitely want size 9 then. Those things are way too big on me.
Now to pick the design, colour and size D:
Why are we talking about shoes?
How ’bout that local sports team game!
Nah.
Hold your tongue.
@dc when did you become a pi?
When he became round.
He needed it to check his area.
Saw Kick Ass 2 last night. I enjoyed it. If you liked the first one you’ll most likely enjoy this one as well.
Is it as good as the first one? No. I know a lot of people have had issues with Matthew Vaughn not directing this one and I think some of that is relevant. There are some moments in the movie that just left me thinking “if they had a more skilled director, that would’ve been so much more awesome”.
The movie does some bold things. Minor spoilers I guess, I don’t think it’s rot13 worthy, I think everyone will agree that Hit Girl is the best thing about the first movie, so the fact they pretty much removed “Hit Girl” and focused on “Mindy” was ballsy. But it worked. Chloe Grace Moretz just owns that role. I actually quite enjoyed the whole ‘Mean Girls’ aspect of the movie.
It was good to see McLovin play a darker role as well. There’s one scene with Jorah from Game of Thrones that he plays so well. A real “shit just got real” moment.
Jim Carey is pretty good. When he’s on screen it’s very much all eyes on him. That could be just the fact that it’s Jim Carey in another movie.
The movie also seems to have more “comedic” moments. The first movie had some, but they were more subtle. This is very more “LOOK HUMOUR!”
SPOILERS!
V jnf vagrerfgrq gb frr ubj gurl jbhyq oevat gur zbivr va yvar jvgu gur pbzvpf sbe Xvpx Nff naq Xngvr. Vg’f unaqyrq cerggl jryy va n engure njxjneq fprar orgjrra Xvpx Nff, Uvg Tvey naq Xngvr naq nsgre gung fur’f abg frra ntnva. V qvq jbaqre vs guvf jnf n perngvir qrpvfvba be znlor n fpurqhyr ceboyrz jvgu gur npgerff.
The action scenes are pretty well done. There’s nothing that matches the Big Daddy warehouse or Hit Girl rescue/corridor scenes from the first movie though. The use of shaky cam is annoying as hell, but that could just be personal preference. The thing is, there are a couple of action scenes that don’t use shaky cam (Hit Girl rescuing Kick Ass in the van, not a spoiler, it’s in the trailer and SPOILER Uvg Tvey svtugvat Zbgure Ehffvn) and they’re the best ones in the movie. It shows that the director knows how to film action so just….why?
A few of the more grim moments from the comic have been removed and understandably so. They’re very self aware about it though.
Changes from the comic (spoilers for movie and Kick Ass 2 comic):
Gur Zbgureshpxre xvyyvat Pbybavny Fgnef naq Fgevcrf naq gur qbt vf punatrq. Fgnef naq Fgevcrf fgvyy trgf xvyyrq ohg gurl ersrerapr gur pbzvp:
Zbgure Ehffvn: “Jnag zr gb xvyy gur qbt?”
Gur Zbgureshpxre: “Wrfhf Puevfg, V’z abg gung rivy”
Gur Zbgureshpxre qbrfa’g tb nsgre Xngvr nalzber qhr gb gur rneyvre zragvbarq punatr. Vafgrnq ur tbrf nsgre Avtug Ovgpu juvpu V srry jbexf orggre va gur zbivrf snibhe. Gur Zbgureshpxre qvfpbiref ure nqqerff jura xvyyvat Fgnef naq Fgevcrf, naq gurer vf n ybbx ba uvf snpr bs “bu fuvg, jung unir V qbar?” nf Gur Zbgureshpxre jbexf vg bhg. Vg nqqf zber qrcgu gb gur punenpgre. Ur qbrf fgvyy encr ure gubhtu, nyorvg bss-fperra naq jvgu n ovg bs uhzbhe guebja va orsber unaq.
Gurl pbzcyrgryl erzbirq Zbgure Ehffvn xvyyvat gur puvyqera va gur fgerrg naq gung vf svar ol zr. Va gur pbzvp, gung nccrnerq gb or Znex Zvyyne tbvat sbe fubpx inyhr orpnhfr vg’f Znex Zvyyne naq vg’f jung crbcyr rkcrpg.
Gur raqvat vf punatrq sebz Gvzrf Fdhner gb Gur Zbgureshpxref uvqrbhg. V nffhzr guvf jnf yrff bs n “perngvir punatr” naq zber bs n “ohqtrg erdhverzrag”.
Overall, it’s a pretty damn good movie. It has some flaws (can shaky cam just please go away?) but I highly recommend checking it out if you enjoyed the first movie.
8/10
A-
4/5 Bishes (popcorn is still awful, but it was free)
17/12 Shiggy Dick Punches
EDIT: Added ROT13 discussion points.
Finally got my new Joystick yesterday \o/
Played War Thunder all afternoon \o/
It has dramatically changed how awesome that game is!
i went from being able to maybe get 1 or 2 kills per match, yesterday i topped the charts with 8 \o/
SO GOOD
I’ve tried playing War Thunder with an Xbox controller. I think I’ll have to adjust the roll sensitivity, but other than that I’ll stick with it for now. I think I will find the keyboard controls too clunky even if mouseaim would be way easier. I manage a lot of hits but I seem to get very few kills. The only confirmed kills I have gotten have been when I’ve collided with another guy and we’ve knocked each others’ wings off.
If I stick with it more than a few weeks I might invest in a DLC pack, if only because I would like some more golden eagles to unlock decals and camo with. Do you ever earn golden eagles from playing or do they have to be bought?
On rare occasions you get maybe 10 at a time?
But you have to grind a shit ton to get there…
In the beginning it’s very difficult to score kills, mainly because your guns do bugger-all damage…
But once you unlock something like the Hurricane or Hurricane MKII and whack some armor piercing rounds in it… People will fall out of the sky a lot more!
War Thunder! \o/
My username is SteveOTheDeveO if anyones up for a game.
I am that keen to find work, I have so many things to buy, a new bicycle, xbox one preorder, pc parts. Wish I was a millionaire.
Decided to play some Trouble in Terrorist Town last night, enjoyed it, but not as much as I remember. May get back into the Last of Us or start Thomas was Alone.
Also Titanfall looks awesome and I cannot wait to play it, plus I need GTA V to come out now.
What area are you in?
Is there any talk of whether we can play games we’ve bought on the psn on the ps4 when it comes out?
At the moment the answer is no. The PS4 is not backwards compatible. Sony claim they are working on a way to do it using Gaikai, but we’ll have to wait and see how that works out.
Keep your PS3 for now 🙂
1 million PS4’s preordered? Impressive if true although I expect the figure to be somewhat played with.
If they give us the launch lineup it might be 1,000,001.
I’m just gonna leave this here
http://au.ign.com/wikis/playstation-4/PlayStation_4_Launch_Titles
Watch Dogs and Kill Zone! WOOOO!
You’re a good sort.
I try 🙂 Dont let the gingerness fool you 😛
Hmmm… Two big blips on my radar there are The Witness and Transistor.
Witness looks amazing!
Rounding to the nearest 1 million, not counting 0.
Everything is great,
everything is grand,
I’ve got the whole wide world in the palm of my hand.
ALL.FREAKING.DAY…
DAMN YOU @dc FOR GETTING IT STUCK IN MY HEAD
You’re welcome! 😀
it’s just such a bubbly and positive song…
IT’S TOO EARLY TO BE THIS HAPPY (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
#oldandgrumpy
Maybe Man or Muppet would suit your mood better? 😀
lol…. i am a Muppet of a man afterall XD
I’m a very manly muppet!
Moar like manly upvote fairy?
Amirite!?
*ba dum tish*
*crickets since there’s no one here in this previous page*
Not the manliest of punchlines.
Sorry I’m late! I was making a coffee!
http://i.imgur.com/HGjaBEg.jpg
Yaa da poppin’ corn is…
*throws popcorn in the air*
3D!
Da corn is poppin’ in yoor face inna…
*throws popcorn in face
3-D!
Bork bork bork bork!
And people say learning my national anthem is hard
So I am a little lost because I am suddenly not working my arse off. I’m struggling to find things to do. =/
GAEMS!
You could start thinking about creative ways to store your excess games! \o/
I was thinking of buying a bookcase. I just am not quite sure where to put it
Guys, I’m going to need some help being strong today. Disney Infinity is calling to me with its sweet plastic crack siren song.
The stupid thing is, I don’t even know what the game plays like. I have no idea what the whole shebang is about, but I still want it so, so bad.
DOOOOO EEEEEET
#doingitright
Buy it and let us know what it plays like.
#Helping
#HashtagsforHarli
Buy me a copy with all the figurines and then I can tell you if you should buy it or not! =P
Does anyone know whether you can use the Infinity portal/figure base etc with different consoles? I know it’s coming to PC at some point, but I’m afraid my resolve might weaken as the day progresses.
Oh man, do yourself a favour and buy a new car instead. It’ll cost about the same, and you’ll get way more mileage out of the car.
We really have no need for a car :/ We haven’t owned one for about 4 years.
Spend the money on various meats. MORE MEATS, MORE OF THE TIME.
I keep saying that you can come round any time and watch movies/play games at our place man! That goes for all of y’all!
HOW DO YOU LIVE
I’ve lived within two streets of my place of work for the last 7 years. We’re also right next to a bus/train station. 😀
Pay down your house, then! My point still stands. Disney Infinity will bleed you dry!
Buy a Colobus Monkey!
And rob it of its freedom in the wild?
D:
It wouldn’t be a pet. It’d still have its freedom!
I have yet to work out the point of the figures.
Anyone who may be interested, Guild Wars 2 is having a free weekend!
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/register-today-for-the-guild-wars-2-free-trial-on-august-23-25/
So is War Thunder… oh wait… IT’S FREE ALL THE TIME \o/
#Helping
#HashtagsforHarli
Something, something, something, micro transactions, something, something
something something planes vs squishy people something something
I’m pretty sure your country got in trouble for doing that last time
what? strapping wings to squishy people? WE DIDN’T HAVE THE FUNDS FOR ANYTHING ELSE.
I MEAN LOOK AT OUR AIRFORCE TODAY!
http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Humor/Lowcostweapon.jpg
The skies are blue when it’s me and you and you and you!
NO!
*wet-newpaper smack*
So Sir, You Are Being Hunted is a pretty cool guy. Didn’t get to play that much, but loving what I did play. Fantastic idea, and it’s well executed. Love the whole English moors type deal with shotgun wielding robots trying to hunt you down.
Still trying to figure out all the things, being alpha they don’t tell you much – but I’ve already had several experiences of running away from robots and hiding in fields. Good fun.
How is that a @dc reply?
I’m… lost.
FUCK YOU TAY
I appreciated the notification though and it gave purpose to the comment thread! 😛
Kick Ass 2. Good.
Shoddy public transport. Bad.
That is all.
Review good,
nice, short, easy to remember
After I put so much effort into mine.
YOU’RE THE WORST PIXEL! SO MUCH HAT!
Block of text = PIXEL NOT READ GOOD KAY? 😛
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0NnqcxhMms
😀
Jason Segel’s talent is wasted on How I Met Your Mother.
Agreed. He seems to be phoning it in these days too on the show.
Have you seen This Is The End? Segel has a great scene where he pays out how stupid the show is.
#Confession – I stll love HIMYM even though it’s so stoopid >_<
I have, Surprisingly good movie actually. Apparently about half of the movie was improvised, which is rad as hell. I read that the Milky Way scene all came from Jonah’s line asking for a bite and they just rolled with it.
Him and Neil Patrick Harris are the only redeeming features of that show
I don’t mind Neil Patrick Harris as an actor, but I’ve always hated his character on that show.
I always found him hilarious when Barny was just a 1-dimensional character, over the top comic relief… after they expanded on him as a character… meh!
He was great in Freaks and Geeks, and pretty good in the Muppet movie! He’s got writing chops, too! \o/
Wait is TAY not a new article every day? Is it just reposted? I’m confused
Nope! There’s a new one every Monday morning. They just seem to post a fresh link to it every day. I’m not sure how that part works.
INTERNET MAGIC.
Ah. I am enlightened. Thank you
So, I cancelled my Saints Row preorder and bought Disney Infinity yesterday. As well as a pack of extra figures and a power disk pack. It only really dawned on me after playing the opening scene the immense scope this game has. Disney are effectively printing money with this thing. They already have assets in the game for the classic animated films, as well as all of their Pixar films.
As for the actual game, I’ve only messed about in toy box for about 30-40 minutes. It’s fun and controls well, I can see myself spending a whole lot of time and even more money on this.
Edit: OH FUCK I JUST REMEMBERED DISNEY OWN STAR WARS NOW!
This post is relevant to my interests.
Just saw your post. If you can hold off until tomorrow, I’m looking to sink a few hours into it tonight so I’ll have a better idea.
At the moment though, and it’s probably not what you want to hear, if you’re a Disney fan I definitely recommend it.
This is not the sort of game that people hold off on. This is a pure, unadulterated OMGIMUSTHAVETHEMALLANDIMUSTHAVETHEMNOW product.
Except the Cars ones.
Fuck Cars.
Cars isn’t that bad!
No, you’re right, it’s not. It’s just so damn average.
The Disney fanboy in me appreciates it for this alone:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carsland
@dc That’s cool. Wasn’t there when I was there, and doesn’t look like it replaced anything that was, so we cool.
Replaced a parking lot and no one likes parking lots!
@dc
But they’re supposed to Pave Paradise to put up a parking lot. It doesn’t work the other way around!
Cars was particularly ‘meh’, wasn’t it? I didn’t hate it, but it didn’t do a lot for me either.
Cars is one of my favourite Pixar movies! Have’t seen the second one, but Mrs Beardy and I watched the first one so much the DVD doesn’t work anymore 😛
Oh. Well then go ahead and buy the Cars ones.
I think you are the only other person on TAY who likes that film
I really enjoyed the 2nd one as well, it is different and more focus on Mater rather than Lightning. If you liked the original it would be worth a look.
Oh thank God. I hated that movie, and I thought I was the only person ever.
No thanks!
SOLD!
I’d love an update as well. What figures did you buy, accessories etc
How is the main game compared to the toy box?
I’m thinking of getting it one day too.
@blaghman @strange your opinions when you get your copies will be appreciated too. 🙂
I bought the starter kit and the sidekick pack. So I have:
Sully
Jack Sparrow
Mr. Incredible
Mike Wazowski
Barbossa
Elastigirl
I’ll have a play of the playsets tonight and let you know how they go tomorrow. From what I’ve read though, they’re really good.
I am also curious about this (without any personal intent to buy)
Our copy will most likely wait for Christmas.
Morning all, its my day off but I went to work anyway.
But why.
Cause I decided it was a good idea to be the one to let the machine service guy in at 7am.
That’s a good reason. Unlike the time I got better from a couple days of manflu and fever dreams, and didn’t realize I’d lost more days to the dread illness than I thought I had, and turned up to work on a Saturday.
I thought the streets were awful quiet…
@strange conversation topics to help make the four hour tattoo not be awkward and silent:
— Colobus Monkeys are good, there are eight sub species!
The artist plays in a couple of bands. Just casually mention you know a band who would love to come and play in Brisbane 😉
Sorry, DeeCee…no Colobus Monkey talk. Otherwise when you get your tattoo you’ll have nothing to talk about because Colobus Monkeys will have been done before. 😛
It’s from 4-8pm so most likely I’ll just rest as much as I can, without talking because I’ve had a busy day. Already been out and back home on the bus once today.
Signs of tiredness indicated by a sudden urge to listen to blues. SRV time. *kicks back*
Listen to Lloyd Spiegel’s albumn Tangled brew if you don’t know it.
Quality
I am a fledgling in blues, but am doing my best to learn. I will investigate! Thanks!
Another Melbourne favourite is Jimi Hocking. Ex- guitarist for the screaming jets who now does blues. Also has a blues mandolin album which is all kinda interesting. Check him out as well
Noted – that’s Jimi the Human, yeah? I’ve heard of him.
That’s him
We go see him fairly regularly. Voodoo Child on the mandolin has to be heard to understand the awesome
http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/xc1qpq/dragon-age-iii–inquisition-gc-2013–a-world-unveiled–stream-
Holy damn, Dragon Age: Inquisition looks incredible! D:
hesitantSQUEEEEEEEEEEEE
The watering hole and the critters and the dragon and the desert. D: D: D:
So cool. I stopped after that because of my media blackout.
THE WIRE
SEASON 5, EPISODE 2
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Wow. O_O
Qb lbh abj frr jul V gubhtug vg fgenatr lbh jrer pnyyvat gur raq bs F4 bcgvzvfgvp?
bx. gung jnf gur bayl ceboyrz v unq jvgu gur jver. V xabj zpahygl vf n gebhoyrq pbc, ohg gur jub snxr frevny-xvyyre fho cybg v sbhaq gb or chfuvat vg. abobql, abg rira zpahygl, jbhyq frevbhfyl pbafvqre gung n tbbq vqrn.
bgure guna gung, lrnu. tbqqnza oevyyvnag fubj.
I actually really like it. Doesn’t feel too weird to me.
I feel all burnt out, i cant listen to good music at work, i cant make jokes, i cant do so many things. The one thing i can do is eat food that is bad for me so now im getting bigger. Old work was bad for a lot of reasons but i could still joke around and smile and listen to music to take my mind off things. Now i seem just stuck looking at a bunch of negatives.
Sigh
Is that to say they make you listen to bad music? Or just won’t let you pop on headphones or something?
Its bad radio and i cant really put on headphones. Just the type of office i work in i am afraid.
I know how you feel, but I am unemployed, and I have too much spare time that I end up doing nothing. I then just sit around doing nothing all day, and its not fun at all. I have played stuff all games, read stuff all of a clash of kings, listened to no music, and just sit in bed procrastinating on my laptop. Its the worst. I hope it gets better for you.
I was unemployed for a while this year and i know what you are going through. A creative project of some sort can do wonders for your morale. Just finishing something makes all the difference in the world. 🙂
Yeah, just got to find a project first. Thanks for the advice, been thinking of some way to get me out of this rut since I got back from my holiday 10 days ago.
This is me basically every day I’m not at uni. It sucks.
Don’t worry, Rocket, you could never make jokes.
I’ve been at work since 6:30am – someone prop me up please?
We can prop each other… i started that time as well -_-
I came in because the people in the control room called on call panicking, and wouldnt wait for helpdesk to come in. in work 2.5hours early. yay for being on call and being woken up at 0545 🙁
*leans on pixel*
Prop yourself up, ill send photos. 😛
What sort of photo’s?
Photos of being “propped” up.
Morning all, I watched Pain and Gain last night, for what it was..it wasnt bad. I liked The Rocks character in it as well as Mark Whalberg. I feel Mark is hitting his pinnacle now and actually doing really good work that I enjoy watching. Fuck Michael Bay.
I was kinda surprised to see Bay’s name pop up at the end like that.
Did you find the movie to be intensely uncomfortable? I mean, I enjoyed it and everything, it had its comedic moments and all that, but… yeah.
Yeah just a tad, theres a few scenes where im kinda like..hmm ok dont know if I really wanna watch anymore but genuinely it had some good parts.
The Rock was amazing. Whalberg and Tony Shalhoub were pretty good too, but The Rock made it so much better than I expected.
(I believe that comes down to the fact that I was seeing the movie with a friend who is about 3/4 of the way to actually being that character. Scary, but hilarious)
Unkle’s ‘Psyence Fiction’ is a fucking great album.
yes. yes it is.
I love War Stories, never looked much into their other stuff./
Check Psyence Fiction out – it is as kids say today ‘the tits’.
I like war stories too. the instrumental 2nd disc that came with the ltd. ed. of war stories is pretty great.
but psyence fiction is an amazing album.
dont really like any of their other stuff.
It is, but I find myself preferring Never, Never Land over it.
Saw Elysium last night. It was good, but I still like District 9 better. More importantly I ate a whole mega-size tub of popcorn to myself. Even today my tongue feels like it is going to fall off after so much salt.
Bananas.
Potasium cures all.
Even a small thing of popcorn makes my mouth feel terrible for a day or two afterwards. I also spend the rest of the day probing and poking at my teeth with my tongue, fingernails and toothpicks, desperate to get out those fucking corn kernel flakes. Tiny little shards of nothingness that wedge into uncomfortable places and mock me for having been weak enough to eat popcorn.
Epic Dad Troll: http://io9.com/how-to-completely-traumatize-your-child-after-watching-1171460115
*cough*
Woo, Ubisofts “The Division” is now comming to PC.
I got that mixed up with The Order: 1886…
Woooooooooo
Any word on when?
nah, it was just a tweet
Guys. Disney own Marvel too. Guys. Infinity is going to send me broke.
If i hold out long enough maybe they will end up getting recalled because the toys are made of asbestos. Cause otherwise i might cry and the money i will spend.
I’m going to Disney World in November.
Limited edition figurines at Disney parks?
No brainer.
Fuck. Probably. Fuck.
Damn, went to Disneyland Paris at the start of the month, went too soon. Better plan a trip to the states.
So. Damn. Jealous. :'(
Be sure to see the manatees at EPCOT. It’s hypnotic, man.
Dude.
I looked up the map the other day.
I honestly had no idea there were that many parks.
Holy. Shit.
Hollywood Studios was my favourite!
It’s cool buddy. I have less money than you, so it’ll send me broke faster. :/
You picking yours up today? Try not to look in the cabinet behind the counter.
Playing Saboteur again, I think I have 100% twice before, but this is one game that I can keep coming back to and still mange to enjoy almost as much as the first time.
I am trying to remeber, was this game poorly reviewed, or was it just didn’t get much notice?
I find it fascinating that they only made this one game, while Assassin’s Creed has 101 sequels.
Oh, also SKYRIM!… hasn’t been played much recently. I think I may have actually hit my limit for this game…
I am digusted at myself… I think I may have to go home and start a new character.
Got some pretty bad reviews, but lots of good word of mouth.
Did you try a Captain Skyrim character yet? Just shield and fist, surprisingly fun.
Shields are for pussies.
Damn, I forgot all about that, right, tonight I create Captain SKYRIM!
Captain Skyrim sounds amazing…
Loved The Saboteur – sunk about 50 hours into that one! 🙂
Good soundtrack! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waAs3gtzUYM
Ha ha, we posted the same song 🙂
The game used a lot of classic music really well.
Whenever it played on the radio as you were driving through Paris it felt pretty iconic.
Loved that game. The music and art style is fantastic.
Got the platinum trophy(100%) in it too.
Just letting go of the controller and watching the main character light a cigarette in aNazi occupied part of town was great. Also climbing the Eiffel tower.
Loved the game’s use of Nina Simone’s feeling good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4DE06z5I2s
I kinda like this past masha that not only played games, but 100%’d them!
Ha ha, hopefully he makes a return one day 🙂
Just to be different to everyone else in this comment chain: I found The Saboteur incredibly mediocre.
That said, if I owned it on PC now I’d probably play it more. The poor old days of console games, laid to the wayside immediately as newer ones turn up.
There were some fiddly mechanic bits that put me off about the saboteur, but I LOVED the aesthetic. If anything, I was always vaguely regretful about liberating an area because it meant fewer cool colour-corrected places to fight in.
He’s a nazi! D:
I’m part of the BEST master race. The race which has spent its entire life being trained to kill nazis.
…So much so that when I actually saw a neo-nazi a year ago or so, in the stairwell of my apartment building (loud and proud, t-shirt, tattoos, everything), I instinctively pondered what the best murder approach would be. Before, y’know… remembering that murder is wrong. Even if it’s a nazi.
Gamescom sure was a letdown 🙁
That’s our Neg!
-theme song-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04FkiBbRmIQ
😛
Out of interest, what was the expectation that you feel let down from?
NO RANDOM JAPANESE GAME THAT NO ONE HAS HEARD OF EXCEPT JAPANESE PEOPLE WILL BE RELEASED IN THE WEST.
Sorry neg, but you do seem to only enjoy JRPG games and dislike a lot of other western franchises.
That’s a bit harsh, everyone has games they like and to be honest the most interesting thing that I have heard from gamecom was that a bunch of indie games are headed to vita.
It was mainly a joke. I cant talk i fanboy like crazy over pokemons.
And I’ve got point and click adventure games!
You hide it well. I never knew.
I try! Might surprise you that I love Arcade Fire too! 😛
Pika pika. (Translates to “52 days to go”)
Rai!
Didn’t read like a joke to me.
That’s completely true and the massive stack of non-Japanese games I have must have been by accident. Maybe I have an evil twin or something that is responsible for enjoying all of those. 😐
I was kind of expecting we’d see something new in the launch windows for one of the consoles that was a bit more substantial than Yet Another Manshooter Coming Out On That Platform Along With Everything Else.
I want them to actually sell me on one of these consoles. Justify to me why I should sink that money into their platform instead of just upgrading my PC and playing all the same games there.
Admittedly I’m possibly a bit atypical in that I don’t give two shits about Call of Duty or FIFA and that seems to be what they expect every gamer they give a shit about to be interested in.
EDIT: I think it doesn’t help the way that stuff is reported. Like at E3 there was clearly a paid media blitz around Titanfall and that game looks and sounds like something I’d go out of my way to avoid rather than play.
Honestly? I can’t really blame JRPG devs for not having a titanfall level promo budget- it’s a pretty niche genre.
It’s Dudebro Shooters and FIFA which will get PS4 the install base first.
Who said anything about JRPGs?
Sorry, conflated a couple of posts.
I do think that the early push will be the big shooters and dudebro games, and the more niche experiences will rattle out a bit later- the Journeys, the LittleBigPlanets, the specific genres.
Yeah but I’d like to see some of those sorts of games actually announced.
The only thing so far that I’d be hyped enough to actually get a system for is Destiny (because unlike what @rocketman might tell you, I have played every game that Bungie ever released and owned everything from Minotaur onward and am a massive fan of their work), The Witcher 3 (because unlike what @rocketman might tell you, I am a huge fan of well-made western RPGs i.e. not made by Bethesda) and Dragon Age 3. All of those are multi-platform and two out of three of them are sequels to games I played on PC and where I will want to carry over my PC saves.
Sony (and MS to a lesser extent) has announced a huge pile of games that look good and they’re things I’d be happy to buy if I owned their platform, stuff like Galac-Z and Transistor and stuff, but most of them are going to be on platforms I already own as well.
The only reason that Japanese stuff always comes up for me when I talk about new console stuff is that you can’t get those games anywhere else. Take a look at Steam right now. The only actual JRPG there is the PC port of FF7. If you widen the net to include some action RPGs and stuff you can grab The Last Remnant and some of the Ys games. I like those sorts of games in addition to the other types of games I like, and they’re the ones that really drive my console purchasing decisions because I can’t get them anywhere else. The other console stuff comes along for the ride because it really doesn’t matter where I play them but I prefer to have one ‘primary’ games system.
There’s just nothing compelling for me in either console lineup. I’m sure it’ll come but I was really expecting gamescom would have some interesting exclusives announced. I don’t care if they’ll be a year or two down the track, just knowing they’re coming is what I care about. I don’t want to have another situation where I’m completely disappointed in the utter lack of worthwhile games on a system like when I bought into the hype and got a 3DS. 😐
The passive aggression is strong with this one.
im sorry if my comment hurt your feelings neg, i didnt mean it as anything more than a joke.
I love some niche games like certain obscurer JRPGs, etc and I’m excited as hell for stuff like Titanfall. I’m probably a minority as well, but there was plenty at Gamescom that makes me happy.
Just presenting another view is all.
Am I missing some stuff then? What’s making you excited?
Not much is new, but BF4, Titanfall, Minecraft on PS, a pile of awesome indie titles for Vita, Borderlands 2 (but mostly just to see how well it’d work on the Vita) GT6, Dead Rising 3 (but Xbone exclusive? =/) Vita price drops, which could help boost it’s prospects.
Nothing earth shattering, but enough for me to smile and get excited about.
I have detected most of the excitement around the Vita news. And as I believe you own a Vita, are you interested in much of what was announced? (I glazed over the details since I have yet to own a Vita, and JB have jacked the price back up to 350 in order for them to be able to advertise the price drop (to their regular price every time I’ve recently looked) as a big deal.
What did they announce? I saw a price drop (I already own a Vita, useless to me) and I saw a bunch of indie games that I’m not remotely interested in (aside from Hotline Miami 2 which I was interested in until they decided it would be a good idea to have rape as a plot point – no thank you).
The most substantial thing seems to be Minecraft but I find that game incredibly uninteresting. I don’t like pure sandboxes, need a structure (this is also why I don’t like GTA – I’m task-oriented and I don’t want to spend all my gaming time just fucking around)
I like my Vita a lot but there was nothing at Gamescom that made me excited.
Apparently they have a bunch of other stuff for Vita they didn’t announce yet. Fucked if I know why not.
http://www.polygon.com/2013/8/20/4640826/tequila-works-rime-shown-at-gamescom
Oh wow, this looks so damn pretty! Deadlight’s writing was terrible so here’s hoping that’s improved here, but the art direction is amazing!
I listened to an interview with these guys just before Deadlight had come out. They sound like really good guys and I was a bit disappointed that their game wasn’t received that well. Great to see like they might pull this around.
Deadlight was all kinds of fun with a cool art direction too, but sabotaged by the writing and voice acting, alas. Still worth playing for the atmosphere!
It was ok, the slingshot was kinda a waste of time in the end. Use it during the RAT areas and then never again.
There was nothing wrong with the writing in deadlight, i still love that game
New housemate works at EBGames. Going to be hassling her for discounts constantly!
@greenius
SHE HADN’T EVEN HEARD OF XENOBLADE! You believe that bs?!
You live with EB girl!? :O
Edit: Oh wait, EB girl liked JRPGs. 😛
She mainly likes FPS’ and zombie games. She isn’t in to JRPG’s or even RPG’s at all.
Trying not be a grumpy, judgmental bastardo….
When, exactly, did “zombie” become a genre of video games? This is why we can’t have nice things!
BTW last night I came home to her and my gf playing Nintendoland. By the end of the night she was finally convinced that Wii U is awesome.
Be careful those EB girls are good at disguises.
Is she not turtley enough for the turtle club?
I had to explain to an EB staffer what Metal Gear Solid was once.
I am not surprised.
!
Red wins an internet.
Great, how do I redeem it for cash?
Fill in your bank details, date of birth, driver’s licence, mother’s maiden name, and I’ll get it sorted for you.
Send it to Jesus, care of The Pentagon.
Reminds me of when I went to collect my preorder of Crysis, the big PC release for the master race to benchmark a new standard, since at the time no hardware existed to run its best settings. They asked me what console I’d ordered it for.
Girls can’t be real employees.
Tell her she’s dead to me!
Been playing Rayman Legends Challenges App on just the Wii U controller lately and it’s an incredibly cool idea but man, this needs a HD PS Vita-like screen.
You know what else you can play on the WiiU controller?
WONDERFUL 101! >=(
😀
My sister is buying the new Splinter Cell and is really tempted to get it on the Wii U. Why’d they have to strip the coop out of it though. :S
Nice! Never really been a fan of the Splinter Cell games, so I will probably not be getting this one. =P
EDIT: Don’t waste your money on Splinter Cell, save it for Wonderful 101. =P
@masha2932 Nina Simone is amazing
MASHAAAAAAA
Yes she is. ‘I put a spell on you’ is used a lot in TV shows but it’s still great.
Haven’t listened to a lot of her stuff though but I will now 🙂
Look for “Sinnerman” and “Wild is the Wind”
Her version of Mr Bojangles is pretty good too
Wow, I know these songs-hearing them in movies etc but I never knew who sang them. Thanks.
Hi guys!!
STILL no stable internet connection at home. Been trying to work off a dongle (tee-hee) but it is almost as good as useless. Le sigh. Apparently the phone line has been built over, so we need to get a contractor out to dig it up and connect it – so we’re just waiting to hear back from them, which is taking it’s sweet-arse time.. All i want to do is download gaemz to play and do assignments!!
Also, i’m going to be switching over to telstra for my mobile – i’m just getting no reception at home with vodaphone – so it’s going to be a fair bit more expensive… but HTC One!
ALSO – how are you all?!?! I miss the shenanigans!
If you need help working your dongle – holla.
Poor loops, his dongle just isn’t up to the task /o\
So, I finally started playing Dishonored last week and now I’m hooked.
Doing a full-stealth/clean-hands playthrough first, which is probably a bit silly, but I’m having a blast. A very slow, very patient blast.
good game.
i wanted to do a pacifist run, but the difficulty ramps up too damn quick.
yvxr 3 zvffvbaf va & lbh’ir tbg ulcre-njner gryrcbegvat rarzvrf nsgre lbh.
didnt have the patience to keep going pacifist…
good luck though.
edit: still no spoiler tags, eh? sorry.
The secret to the pacifist run through is to mash quick save all the time. Jumping? Quicksave. Just killed a dude? Quicksave. Thinking about how you’re going to approach this area, and you haven’t moved for three minutes? Quicksave for the fourteenth time. Completely spotted by a guy with no chance of getting away unnoticed? Quicksave.
Quicksave?
I don’t see that button on my controller.
Oh god, you… you poor, poor boy.
*sniffles* God damn you consoles! Have you no heart? LOOK AT WHAT YOU HAVE WROUGHT!
Why will no-one think of the children?
PS: Mastah race.
I’m content.
I’m only on the second mission (or whatever the Golden Cat one is), so it’s not too tricky, but I like picking up all the shiny things so I put myself in unnecessary danger fairly regularly.
Make sure you stash and bodies off the floor- The rats can get to them
I initially didn’t realise you could blink while carrying a body, so would freak out when I couldn’t find a bin or accessible ledge.
I like to imagine the confused reactions when the guards suddenly wake up on a third story ledge
Yeah, I laid a guy out on the roof of the Golden Cat and pondered how badly sunburned he would be when he came to.
Previously I was avoiding takedowns unless absolutely necessary, but I might be more relaxed now.
Eventually you work out which things you can “wing” better than others.
I love when you’re struggling to figure out a covert path through a room, then just go “screw it” and casually step out into the open, completely exposed, yet completely unseen, and move past all the guards to the next hiding spot in one smooth (or even completely clumsy) manoeuvre on your first try.
It’s both graceful and antigraceful.
Actually you can hide in plain sight like that much better in dishonored than in some other games.
Oh man, something we both like? 😀 This changes everything… Jerk…
I like it less now.
This makes me like it even more!
Seriously though…
…
It’s awesome.
Such a beautiful world too.
Mhmm
I really should get back into this game, I was doing a somewhat stealthy run, which is so very much not me, so I think that is what turned me off it.
I should just go with my nature, if it moves KILL IT, if it doesn’t move KILL IT ANYWAY just to make sure.
On my run of the main story I played super silent, and tried to avoid killing anyone. Ended up with like, spotted twice, and 2 kills. On my playthrough of Knife of Dunwall, I killed basically everyone (unless I’d overheard a conversation and they sounded nice), except for the main targets, because their fates were worse than death.
I really like how you play games one by one.
I’ve wanted Dishonored for a while now but I haven’t found a cheap enough version. Soon.
Oh, I was listening to a podcast and they were talking about the DLC-it sounds cool. Check it out when you’re done with the main game. The DLC introduces some new characters and mechanics too.
EDIT: corrected a spelling mistake.
It can be frustrating. XCOM took months and months to complete.
I’ve neglected my Vita and left MGS3 unfinished for a while, but might have the patience to finish after Dishonored.
Yeah, heard the DLC is good.
Disney Infinity get. I also picked up Syndrome extra, but that’s about it.
Keep in mind that you can only play coop in playsets with characters from that playset. So if you got Syndrome and the starter kit you’ll be able to play coop in The Incredibles’ playset and toybox mode, but not POTC or MU.
UGH DISNEY YOU ARE GOING TO OWN MY SOUL
If you guys buy the blind booster packs we should have TAY swaps if we get doubles. Like a big TAY playground. 🙂
You guys are making me tempted.
Which console did you buy it on? Good thing exploring people’s toy sets is cross platform-unfortunately we can’t play together though, that would be nice.
I went PS3.
I didn’t know that. That’s super rad.That is the greatest part of the thing for me. So you don’t have to worry about which will sell more or who is going to produce the best UGC.
Hate to be the negative one, but the way I read it is that multi is same platform only, and ‘other people’s toy sets’ is an approved set as moderated and released by Disney. No sharing with friends. You share with Disney, they pick what they want to release. (Unless you’re on Wii. No online for the Wii peasants)
Xbox for me!
Wii U (Yes, I did it just to be different).
So. The PS4. I am assuming that the bracketed money figure in that article is conversion to Australian pricing. Funny how if it is, that that’s not the correct Australian pricing.
YEAH VITA PRICE DROP AND MEMORY CARD DROPS AS WELL-
who the fuck am I kidding the memory cards still cost too fucking much
Been waiting for the card price drop for ages…
Here, A 16gb is now 39.99 compared to what was 59.99, which is.. tempting.
Now it’s only triple the cost of a microSD instead of quadruple!
\o/
So now I only need a personal loan for a 32gb card instead of a mortgage?
It’s more car mortgage than a house mortgage.
But what’s more important is that both models of the Vita drop to 199.99. That’s real good stuff right there.
It would be if I didn’t buy one at launch.
Man, Mark of the Ninja DLC was only one level long sadly. It was a good level but a little dissapointing for $5. But if your into Developer commentary then you’ll prolly get more out of it. (unless I missed something and it is longer)
In the new Game Informer, I just saw my first glimpse of Morrigan as she’ll appear in Dragon Age: Inquisition. The article seems to imply that they’re fixing all of the shortfalls of DA2, and the multiplayer will be similar to what we’ve seen in Mass Effect 3…. And the game is being optimised as a PC game first and foremost…
Dangerous levels of hype already.
http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/xc1qpq/dragon-age-iii–inquisition-gc-2013–a-world-unveiled–stream-
Did you see this? Looks so damn great!
Not yet! Can’t watch ’til I get home tonight!
I like what I see!
Except for the “Fall 2014” part.
That’s a while away.
You know who I haven’t seen in TAY for a while?
@miketarno
DAVE GROHL COME BACK
I see him all the time in the main site though. And on Twitter.
Hope someone’s not getting the best, the best, the best, the best of him.
Hello @miketarno We’ve waited here for you..Everlong
A little bit of resolve is what he needs now!
How I miss you @dc!
All My Life I’ve been Back and Forth. But These Days I’ve been at Home, Walking a Line, Still, I’m Normal and it’s just A Matter of Time until I Come Back to TAY. 😛
I’ve just been busy with work and other silly projects. So sorry about my absence. 🙁
HE TALKED TO ME THE OTHER DAY!
*swoon*
long shot, but would anyone in sydney be interested in adopting a stray kitty?
Oooo my gf would kill me if I said I wasn’t interested. Do you know what sort of breed and age?
Melbourne Pony fans unite!
PonyConAu is scheduled for the 1st and 2nd of Feburary 2014 at the Arrow on Swanston.
The creators are asking for people to pre-order their tickets.
http://www.ponyconau.com
Jospeh Pony’s a monster!
Here, have the internet I won before from @ynefel
You deserve it more
It really should go to whoever deserves it. I leave it in retardedface’s capable hands.
He puts the infant back into infantry
And that upvote and chuckle just doomed me to eternal damnation.
Really? PonyCon is a thing?
I mean comeon, i love Pinkie Pie as much as the next guy, but an entire convention…
that’s… that’s just… pfffffft NEEEEEEEEEERDS…
…
*runs off to buy tickets*
There was a pretty good pickie Pie at Manifest. She even had a basket full of cupcakes
My buddy told me he heard that Assassin’s Creed 3 was coming free to PS+ next month. Has anyone seen any news about PS+ next month? My work internets quite strict >.< (i'm surprised I have access to Kotaku tbh).
It’s in the email Playstation sent around today, so yep.
Hooray!
Do you mind sharing the other titles too? :]
They haven’t announced yet
From the email:
Thanks mate.
Ninja’d.
I’m totally a ninja
Yes it is.
They will also be announcing the rest of September’s free games later this week.
This is for Europe right? US PS+ is usually different (I have both)
Not too sure which region it was for, sorry amigo.
EU
On the PS Blog they said they’d have the full September announcement by the end of the week. But it seems like they did confirm ACIII early!
That’s awesome, I’ve tempted buying AC3 so many times.
Here’s hoping that Lollypop Chainsaw or Zone of Enders is announced too (not bloody likely).
I’d love Lollipop Chainsaw! Seems short so not really the type of gave I wanted to buy which makes it perfect for PS+. I’d rather not ZoE since I bought that recently during a PSN sale 😀
As for AC3, I thought it was pretty average but for “free” it’s still not bad. Pretty looking game!
I’ve wanted to own ZoE for a while, the second is one of my buddys favourite games. Have you played either of them?
Yeh I’ve seen some of AC3 at a mates house, looked alright but from the sounds of things its a massive time sponge with the huge tutorial/prelogue/whatever. Not to mention all the side activities to do, though I’ve heard they can be quite fun. But I’ve lost a lot of hype for the AC series, I loved the second, Brotherhood was okay but by Revelations I was over it.
Nah, never played either and still haven’t played the HD collection I picked up a couple of months ago (which is why I kind hope it’s not on PS+ :D)
I’ve already finished AC3 on PC 🙁
As have I, what a waste of our time :'( 😛
You’re US PS+ anyway, as far as I know AC3 is PAL.
I have PS+ on both my US and AU accounts.
Oh, I didn’t know that 😛
Carry on… 😀
Man, Minecraft on Vita could work really well. Twin sticks and more than enough grunt to handle it. Color me excited.
Allow connection with PC servers and I will be interested.
Would be awesome, but can pretty much guarantee it’d never happen.
Why not? Sony aren’t dicks about cross-platform like MS are and I can think of two quite high profile examples of cross-platform Console/Handheld and PC online games: FFXIV (PS3/PS4/PC) and Phantasy Star Online 2 (PSV/PC).
Additionally it’s Minecraft. Sony will have had to make a lot of concessions to Mojang to get the game in the first place since it looked like MS had sewed it up as a console exclusive.
Don’t think cross platform has existed for any other version of MC, like PC, Xbox, Android, iOS, etc. They all only work with the same ecosystem. Don’t see why they’d start with PlayStation. Brands being dicks or not is irrelevant, true cross platform (different brands – PC, Xbox, PS, etc) is incredibly rare.
Not saying it wouldn’t be pants-shittingly awesome, just that I doubt very much it’d occur.
EDIT: PSO2 is not really high profile, and they’re MMO’s – so not the greatest comparison.
Also, Raichu is the best Pokemon ever.
wrong!
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Trubbish_%28Pok%C3%A9mon%29
edit – whooops, meant http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Alakazam
No.
STOP POISONING ME TRUBBISH YOU PIECE OF SHIT.
I’m convinced that some days the artists working on Pokemon come in and just can’t be bothered.
What’s wrong with a polarbear cub with snot hanging out it’s nose?
Or an icecream cone which increase in amount of icecream when it evolves?
Managed to score one of these from PCCG for $19 as well. Pretty stoked.
http://www.razerzone.com/au-en/licensed-and-team-peripherals/starcraft-ii-razer-messenger-bag/
My ROG bag I’m using now is too big for my new Ultrabook, this will work perfectly. Zerg ftw.
So, I’m checking out this Syndrome figure, and there’s an online activation code in here…
Does that mean that I’ll have access to all of my Disney Infinity characters on the PC version without the need to use the portal/platform thing? And does this mean the PC version is just a client you can download? THESE QUESTIONS CANNOT WAIT ANOTHER 3 HOURS AND 41 MINUTES UNTIL I LEAVE YE OLDE WORKE!
Ok, er, apparently, yes, the codes DO unlock stuff in the PC version, which isn’t out yet. So yeah.
There is. It just looks like it might not be a retail thing? More an online client like Minecraft? http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/disney-infinity
As far as I can tell you can edit your toybox on PC and iPad. That’s how it reads on the Infinity website, anyway.
Looks like it judging by the website. I didn’t register mine, though the website seems to say registering them unlocks content for the PC online game and iPad game.
I’m Wanda 😛
Hi Wanda!
I Wanda go home and play Disney Infinity.
*ba dum tish*
😛 http://youtu.be/QqXaYoU4piE
Hi Wanda!
You don’t much look like a fish to me.
Are you a fish?
*inserts chip in nostril*
Hi Wanda 🙂
Hi blue tree. im rocketman, im meant to hit you with a oar of thorns to welcome you but my arms are sore.
(been on KotakAU for years (but haven’t been here for months), change my online handle every couple of years when I get bored too + lost my previous Kotaku post history when I had to “let my Telstra Bigpond account go” (“thxultra” > “hyperthx” > “hyperx64”)
What did you say has been happening with oars and thorns? I have a barbed-wire-canoe if that helps or anything 😛
Hiya all anyways 🙂
The Oar of Thorns must live on!!!
The Oar of Thorns is eternal.
Creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
Do you have a horse named Agro?
No. But I can sit on my own lap 😛
I’m hungry.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/talk-amongst-yourselves-237/comment-page-15/#comment-1792480
Hey, Kotaku. I know Gamescom is on and stuff, but… stop updating so damn much. I’m trying to get shit done today and have meetings and stuff.
Meetings. Meats. Meats happening now. Meats happening without DC. D:
So that’s where Sughly and Strange and Freeze are. :'(
Meetings at work are not worthy of the ‘meats’ designation.
Dragon’s Crown is a cool guy, but after 10 odd hours, I’m starting to lose enthusiasm. Starting to feel a little repetitive and grindy. Debating powering through it, but struggling.
I’ve just been playing it in short bursts, 2-3 ‘adventures’ max per session. Seems to work better that way.
Yeah I’ve been doing it 1 hour odd bursts, but I’m still starting to struggle. One of my biggest issues is that being a sidescroller, when you have 3 team mates and it gets hectic, you can’t make out a thing. It’s chaos. You can barely tell where you are you start mashing buttons – then 20 seconds later you realise you’ve been disarmed and have been punching things – but you couldn’t see.
Also leveling and getting better gear doesn’t feel tangible enough. Higher levelled dungeons get easier, but it still just feels like you’re doing the same thing over and over.
But 10 hours later, I really should just knuckle down and finish it.
My big thing is that I’m finding it really hard to tell where I am on the Z axis relative to enemies. I’m playing as the elf and her bow is pretty powerful but it hits in a straight line and I’m forever missing dudes because they’re slightly further back or forward from where I am.
Ok, I totally don’t get the whole master race thing. PC gaming seems to be filled with so many pieces of awful – you have to accept this piece of DRM and have an account for that online service and run this piece of additional software and god help you if you don’t happen to be connected to the internet, then not to mention the gigantic updates that are apparently mandatory and stop you from playing if you don’t have them… gross.
Being able to come home from the shop with a game, put it in the machine and just play it seems like far greater a benefit than anything else PC gaming could possibly offer.
PC gaming is shit. I’m predominantly a PC gamer these days, but I hate all the shit you have to put up with just to play a bloody game. I’ll never understand why people like it.
I don’t put up with any shit to play games.
Install on Steam, play. Maybe tweak a few settings at first if need be.
The convenience of Steam is 90% of the reason why PC gaming is pretty rad.
Pretty much this, though sometimes i miss my sizable cardboard boxes filled with goodies when i purchase through steam…
Best thing about buying games in the 90’s \o/
and i know, i know, collectors editions etc… but it used to be the norm!
I have 400 games installed that just work. No discs, no manual signing in. I turn my PC on, Steam autoruns. No different to firing up your PS or 360 that signs in to PSN/XBL.
I don’t need discs or anything. I click ‘Play’, and I play. Also, them modern games on max settings at 2560×1440 look pretty fucking spectacular.
Steam is my biggest problem with PC gaming.
What about it bugs you?
Some people like tweaking all the stuff under the hood.
I have a car back home. I drive it around. It does the job.
But maybe someone else wants to pop open the bonnet with a can of WD-40 and all the good expensive engine oils and various degreasing tools. Yeah, they’ll have to get their hands dirty, but they can deal with it. The car will still take them places. But the engine will purr just the way they like it, and when it does, they’ll smile satisfied at what they’ve tuned up.
http://i.imgur.com/LT1Fi3N.png
That’s more like gaming on Linux than on PC though.
This used to be the case, but these days console games more often than not have Day 1 patches. So the differences between PCs and Consoles are lessening. Not advocating “Master Racism” though, just making an observation.
But dloading a patch, automatically, isn’t really much of a burden. It can take a while if it’s a big one, but it’s still pretty harmless.
Same can be said for PC, majority of modern PC games will automatically update themselves if given permission (which is usually set automatically)
True. I just don’t see it as an issue on either platform, esp if you have Steam- the days where you had to track down and install patches yourself are long gone.
Oh, for sure. And I hate it. I’d heard all the stories from the PS3 owners about updates and such, never got hit by anything like that myself since I’ve never bothered to connect my 360 to the home network, but now even the Wii U’s got Nintendo starting to head in that direction… it’s very disappointing.
At least if it gets to the point where I just have to give up on gaming, I’ve got a sizable backlog that should last me a good while 😛
Ummm, You didn’t play much PS3 did you? Them installs were painful, not to mention having to update your console every so often. As far as updates / downloading goes consoles aren’t far off from PC.
Inversely I would say why would you console game? This coming generation is “lets play catchup to PC gaming”. If you ignore console exclusives, why not just buy a PC?
Well I’ve always been a Nintendo guy, so… no. No I did not 😛
Plenty of reasons for consoling. The standardised hardware means that any game released for it is guaranteed to work, no mystery bugs coming up for your configuration. PCs just seem expensive to me, $200-$500 for a new machine that’ll last you the next half a dozen years til the next one comes out feels more manageable. Not to mention that I just prefer playing games with controllers, I’ve never really liked keyboard and/or mouse control for anything. Then of course there’s the games themselves, I find console games (though probably more specifically the ones on Nintendo consoles) to cater to my tastes far better than any other platform around.
If you are after Nintendo games then I can see console being a bigger thing. But for PS and xbox they have very few exclusives that aren’t available on PC. Then again some of my favourite games have been little indie ones and many of them are PC exclusive so it goes both ways
Not just Nintendo games though. Most of my favourite games on the Wii and the DS aren’t made or even published by Nintendo. It’s just the kind of games that people want to make for their machines, they don’t seem to have as much like that on the “other ones”.
Ever since consoles went online, “guaranteed to work” is not the case. So many games are released buggy and patched later or in some cases never fixed at all.
Actually this was the case even back in the cartridge days. FF6 for example has a crashing bug in a lot of versions if you use one character’s ability, and I think it was one of the TMNT games where there was a jump that was literally too wide for you to ever be able to complete it so the game was impossible to finish.
Controller support works out of the box with Windows 7 and basically every decent PC game nowadays will support controller input, often to the detriment of Mouse & Keyboard.
If I have a choice to play a game on a console, I’ll take it 9 time out of 10.
I like sitting on my comfy couch with a controller in hand.
I really want to see how the ecosystem builds with the next gen.
With PC gaming, you don’t even have to go to the shop
Hermit Style! \o/
Exactly, it’s no fun at all! You don’t get to stalk your prey, then strike when the price is right. Nor do you then get to mount your trophy on your shelf afterwards.
I don’t know about you but I like playing games.
As if you’d by games at Australian retail prices anyway.
*As if you’d buy games for full retail price
I always buy my games from the shops. There’s always sales and bargains to be had, usually ends up similar to or cheaper than importing.
I very rarely find this to be the case unless the game is extremely old and has hit a bargain bin in JB or something.
For me it’s a mixture of customization, versatility and ease-of-use. I like having more options to tweak the performance of a game (and mods are usually easier to access). I like that I can do different things on it at the same time (talking in teamspeak to the guys whilst playing a game whilst downloading a movie). Most people will probably say that I’m crazy for this, but I prefer a keyboard and mouse to a controller. Sure it’s not optimal in a lot of games but I’ve been using the combo for so long my muscle memory just feels more natural when aiming with a mouse.
tl;dr It’s mostly personal preference.
But if you are PC gaming you tend to not even get off the chair to go to the shop \o/
I’m 50/50
I like my Consoles and i like my PC. They all have pros and cons…
Really depends what i’m in the mood for.
MASTAH RACE!!!!111eleven
OK, I totally don’t get the whole console thing. Its DRM has a far greater impact than Steam DRM. Steam? Authenticate once and you’re good to go. Console? You have to have your disc in the drive. AND anytime you want to change between games, you have to go get a different disc! On PC, I just double-click the other game!
I don’t get the thing about accounts for online services. That’s not a PC thing, that’s an online thing and because PC is such a superior platform for more complex games and control systems, that’s where it’s typically found a home. But as consoles move into the bright new digital future and get into more online-only services, they’re also going to have to have accounts.
Gigantic updates are also not a PC-only thing, but thankfully on platforms like Steam you can turn them off.
With my internet, the time it takes me to download and play a new game with no messing about is probably about the same or even quicker than leaving the house and purchasing something (plus transit costs) from a store. And that’s not including imports, where a CD key is delivered instantly instead of having to wait on shipping deliveries.
Not mentioned, but relevant: throw in the added superiority PC has over consoles in terms of graphics and precision controls, community mods, and broader range of titles, plus its multifunctionality (tell me, when was the last time you hooked a PC up to your console, because the console had all the media centre functionality that you needed to leech from?). When you consider that, and having to endure a less ergonomically-friendly couch for extended duration gaming sessions, and the beauty of a PC screen that you can have fill more of your total vision due to its close proximity, I can’t see what kind of benefit people can draw from consoles compared to all that PCs have to offer.
I have a too-big problem with the whole authentication thing though. It kind of stems from all my old consoles from when I was a kid – I still have them now, and they all still work fine. You get any old game, plug it into any old console and it works. It doesn’t matter that Nintendo abandoned the Virtual Boy to the point where it doesn’t even want to acknowledge its existence, everything that’s out there still works regardless. I don’t feel right about the idea that the things I’ve paid money for are somehow bound to an outside entity that I have no control over, and access could one day be revoked out of nowhere. Especially the whole single-point-of-failure thing, like where people get locked out of their Steam account for whatever reason and what, all of that stuff is just gone?
Online accounts, they just irk me fullstop these days. I have too many as it is, and I hate having to create new ones. Think up a new username try and decide which e-mail address it should get tied to, try and think up a password for it. Hope that nothing important is tied to it in case of the inevitable security breach. Bleh. I’d be nice to just pull the plug on it all.
As an aside, the whole “the disc has to be *in* the drive??” thing is a total non-issue to me, I just don’t understand it. Makes about as much sense as complaining that you have to get up and get food from the fridge/pantry to eat it, instead of it just suddenly materialising in your face 😛
The rest seems to come down to personal circumstance more than anything. Apparently you’ve got great internet, I’ve got great access to shops which is way faster than a download of anything measurable in gigabytes. Then also for me personally, I’d rather buy a physical product to add to the shelf than pay for something that doesn’t exist. They just don’t seem to hold any value for me that way – for some reason I keep buying the main Humble Bundles, but I’ve hardly touched any of them. I forget the damn things are even there.
Everyone goes on about graphical superiority of PCs over consoles, but… I really don’t seem to care? I don’t think I’ve seen anything that’s made me salivate because it’s pumping out a bajillion triangles a frame at 120fps and blah blah blah. Especially if it’s uninteresting to play. Most of the things that catch my attention tend to have a simpler but more stylised look. For me, controller + lounge is waaaaay way more comfortable than desk chair + keyboard + mouse. And no, I’ve never hooked up anything to anything for media centre functionality, because I’ve never had any need for any kind of media centre functionality 😛 If anything, PCs have just been a general-purpose tool that also happen to be able to play games if you want. Whereas consoles are machines that are designed for playing games.
‘Whereas consoles are machines that are designed for playing games.’
Not as true as it once was, and I can build a PC that’s just as, if not more purpose-built for gaming than any console you care to name. That’s the beauty of a PC – it can be whatever you want it to be.
As for online accounts/signing in – I have one sign in for all my games, excluding MMO’s of course – and that’s Steam. It runs when my PC turns on and signs in automatically. Your console does exactly the same thing. It’s no different.
Ignoring the stuff about online accounts, which is pretty inane because you’re going to get prompted to make them on every platform, the graphics do matter.
Not because the game is shinier but because the performance is smoother.
Running at a consistent 60fps makes a world of difference over having potential dips down to sub 10fps (considering most consoles run at 30fps). Drops in framerate can make the controls feel sluggish and unresponsive and just generally suck.
Dark Souls has a terrible PC port. No effort was made to take advantage of the platform yet it is still the preferred version of the game. Why? No slowdown.
The owning a physical thing is a personal preference. I used to be like that but with an iPhone and a Kindle, all of my music and books are in digital form anyhow. Having access to anything I want to read or listen to within easy reach is fantastic. Being able to do that with games is equally revolutionary and you just don’t appreciate how great it is until you try it. I pirated DS titles that I owned simply so that I could swap between them quickly on my R4. Convenience is a helluva drug.
EDIT: I should mention that I literally have shelves full of board games, books, games and DVDs. Having one form doesn’t stop you from getting the other but I can guarantee that I go with the lazier option 9 times out of 10.
Yeah, I remember wiping my feet on Nintendo’s couch.
I liked the idea of “all my games on one cart” when I landed a friend’s unwanted M3 Real, but ultimately I found it not all that useful at all. Firstly the cart chews through more power than a normal cart, plus there’s basically no time at all where I need to have every game on me at once. I have a pouch for my DS which has 6 slots in the front for game carts, and I can’t think of any time when I’ve needed to have more than seven games with me. Usually even half would be plenty. And that is including times when I’d be seeing friends and playing multiplayer stuff.
OK, I’ll bite! 🙂
The difference between discs and a steam library is that your steam library is far more portable – put it on as many PCs as you want, in any country! No carry-on luggage required. I can have access to my 600+ games as long as I have the internet. Try carrying around 600 discs to sample from, while travelling/moving. (Disadvantage: Portability of only a handful of games, or lending to friends. But who does that? Really?)
Your Steam library won’t ever get scratched or damaged, and your account system has the receipt for it, whereas your old heat-activated receipt tucked into the DVD case of your physical games have probably all faded. You’ll never buy disc protection for your Steam games like you might for your physical games. Disc 3 of 4 isn’t ever going to go missing. You’re never going to have an empty case with the wrong disc in it, which you can’t find and can’t remember whether you lent it to someone.
The Steam library can’t be as easily stolen as your physical library can, and if you do ‘lose’ it somehow through hacking, you can put in a support ticket to get it replaced without having to pay monthly premiums on home and contents insurance, like you would to cover your physical game collection. And even then, your insurance will vary on whether they’re actually able to get you like-for-like replacements, especially for older, rarer games.
The impact of moving discs into the console is indeed pitifully negligible, but the fact remains that even though it’s negligible, disc-swapping is still MORE effort, more time-consuming, and more visible impact on your life than Steam’s authentication. Steam DRM is less than negligible.
Hmm… well, I’m probably nearing 600 games at the moment, and they’re currently taking up most of the space in a bookshelf. Though a lot of that space is the boxes, so if I were to reduce it to just the games then I could easily fit them in a suitcase. Not that I’d ever need to sample from 600 games, all I’d ever need was the latest I was looking forward to playing through, then a couple of multiplayer ones and maybe some old unfinished ones, depending on the situation. And considering that most of the places I end up playing games don’t have internet (ie frequent gaming meetups with friends at a community hall), my physical collection is far more portable. And yeah… I do lend to friends. Really 😛
I take care of my stuff. My games don’t get scratched or damaged. I’d never buy disc protection because that shit’s a scam. I’ve only had three things stop working – my NES, which has trouble with the push-down slot thing. A design flaw. Then the aforementioned Virtual Boy, which again had a design flaw where ribbon cables were only glued on, and the glue separates over time. But I’ve since solder-fixed that. Then most recently, my 3DS which got bricked via a failed update. Always the hardware, never the software. Actually, funnily enough the only game of mine that’s gone missing is a PC game – Tiberian Sun’s Firestom expansion. I have the cardboard box for it, but the CD and its case have gone missing. I have a feeling I may have lent it to a friend in high school, but can’t for the life of me remember if that was the case and he just didn’t give it back. All my console games though, they’re all still here 😛
I totally don’t know or understand stuff about insurance because that’s like adult stuff that lololol I’m not mature enough to comprehend. But the thought of being robbed does indeed terrify me. I’ve always fantasised about some kind of fire-proof safety lockdown bunker thing that could keep it all safe from those who shouldn’t be touching it, but it’d sure cost a pretty penny I’d imagine.
With a games collection that size, you may even want to sit down sometime and see how much it’s all worth. Getting your shit stolen without insurance would be pretty devastating. Replacing six hundred games at even something as cheap as $30 each would set you back around EIGHTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS.
Jesus. Roll that one around in your head. $18,000.
(…Mental note, must look into Steam library. And/or look at total non-sale replacement cost.)
Insurance and all those other ‘adult stuff’ things (like private health insurance, car insurance, etc) aren’t actually all that complex once you dig into them. There are still traps, just like anything, but you’re basically gambling or buying a discount card.
Like, health insurance – you pay a certain amount to be ‘covered’. Minimum of let’s say… $500 a year or so. In exchange for that, your insurance company will pay for the majority (but not all) of the bare minimum hospital costs you had covered under that plan. You can pay more per year to include things like dental costs or elective (non-life-saving) surgeries. But all you’re buying is a discount card. You can reduce the amount that you pay over the year if you opt in to paying more of the total cost when it comes up – an ‘excess’, they call it. And if you do ever have to cash in for whatever reason, the odds are good they’ll increase the amount you have to pay per year, in future. Because you’re a bad risk and they need to make their money back.
It’s all a bit of a scam and ripoff and intentionally, cleverly calculated to minimize the amount the company has to pay out. It’s just a gambling safety fallback, that you pay for. That you pay a fair bit for. But if you get your $18,000 game library stolen, it’ll have probably been worth paying for home-and-contents insurance. …Probably. Not guaranteed.
…jesus
I don’t actually know how accurate that figure is (I only remember it getting near 500 or something a while ago, and know that it’s grown a fair bit since then so it’s a lot of guesswork) but even then factoring in hardware and such it’s probably quite a ridiculously huge number in terms of value. Holy shit have I really spent that much on games?? Oh god there’s even a pinball machine in there to bump up the price. How the hell did I even do that, I’ve hardly ever had employment.
I think you just broke my brain.
I’m’a get back to you with the dollar value of my Steam collection. c.c
Edit: I lol’d. http://steamdb.info/calculator/ – the ‘calculate’ button is labelled: “Get disappointed in your life.”
Result edit:
* *Worth:* $7786.62 (US region prices, not Australian.)
* *Games owned:* 826 (this must include paid DLC and free games/SDKs that don’t show up on the profile.)
* *Hours spent:* 4,559.5h (Profile created NINE YEARS ago.)
Meh, this thing is broken/inaccurate. It says I’ve only spent 0hrs on Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. No, I’ve lost MONTHS to that hotness in Steam.
@transientmind
That’s a steam issue then cos it lists you as 0 hours. Did you play heaps of it when it wasn’t on steam and then buy it on steam later?
hmmmmm less money, more time (Although there is 2 of us)
* *Worth:* $5616.01
* *Games owned:* 667
* *Hours spent:* 6,091.1h
241 games, just under $1000, just over 1500 hours. I feel kind of… normal
It helps a whole lot more if you’re an enthusiast, to be honest. I’ve been playing with PC’s since I was a child, and have been building/upgrading/repairing them professionally for over 10 years. I get a massive kick out of building my system exactly how I want it – and I can tweak each and every part to do precisely what I want it to. It’s also hugely satisfying playing certain titles with graphics set to levels that would make a console sit in the corner and cut itself. Add to that mouse and keyboard, and it’s easy to see why many people prefer it.
I’m not saying it’s better either – it’s just where I’m at right now. I went without a PC for about 4 years not too long ago, because I got tired of having to play the upgrade game. Both money and time consumption wore me out. Also working on PC’s all day ensured when I got home the last thing I wanted to do was sit in front of one again.
The simplicity of buying a console, a game, taking it home and just having it work is nigh-on impossible to beat for most. The PS3 and 360 being as aged as they are hasn’t helped the argument for some either. Most games on both 360/PS3/PC look absolutely fucking terrible on console compared to what you can do with any self respecting PC these days. You don’t even have to spend a lot to thrash a console either – but that’s due to the console’s exceedingly long life cycle more than anything.
The next gen will even the playing field a little again – the decision to go console will make much more sense again. For cost and simplicity reasons alone.
My main gaming rig at home would eat a PS4 or Xbone for breakfast – but for the amount of money I’ve thrown at it, I should fucking hope so. For most people, the console will be king again with next gen. Bang for buck will be unbeatable compared to PC. That is, until it’s hardware starts to show it’s age after 3 odd years.
Modern hardware is moving at such a pace that consoles will be rendered outdated even faster than the last generation.
TL:DR – Consoles are infinitely simpler and cheaper, PC’s are far more complex and expensive. At the end of the day it depends what you want and how much you’re willing to spend. Both choices offer differing experiences and that’s what determines which is best – you.
I’m not even really confident about the ‘cheaper’ option. I think that probably comes down to how many games you buy and play and how much dicking around with international shipping you’re prepared to put up with. With the advent of Steam (or piracy, if you’re nasty), PC is the clear price-winner for your continuous running costs, after your initial hardware purchases.
If you’re only playing one game a month or something, then sure, maybe console wins? For the first year, anyway. But it doesn’t take very long at all for the price benefits of PC gaming to start making a noticable difference to your library size. Console gaming is more expensive to me, now that hardware is a non-issue.
(I actually own both the current gen consoles – 360 AND PS3. I occasionally play some games on them. But the experience is so much better on PC, that it would have to be a very compelling exclusive to drag me away from my comfy ergonomic chair and heaphones to the couch, for a diminished, low-rez, low-precision-control experience.)
Sometimes I forget you can build a fairly capable gaming desktop for $1000-$1500. It also does a million other things as well as games.
I used to have both a PS3 and 360 for years, but ended up selling the 360 as I couldn’t justify owning two current consoles. Didn’t have enough time to play one, let alone two. These days the PS3 has been moved to the loungeroom and doesn’t do anything but play BD’s. Everything else happens on my PC, or my 3DS/Vita.
The cost of games on PC is pretty hard to dispute, especially with Steam and Steam sales. Half the time I drop $50 and end up with several new games, many of them relatively new. You can’t do that on a console, and certainly not on a console digitally.
Hell, most people have a PC of some description. It doesn’t cost much to slap in a decent graphics card and some more RAM to be able to run most games rather well.
The other thing that people don’t factor into the console experience is the price of the TV
I have a shitty old TV and to switch over to console gaming that is probably another grand I would have to spend.
Which then come into the if you don’t count the TV then you just need to count the decent GPU and some RAM as you already have a PC for accessing internet.
I have my consoles hooked up to my monitor. I played the Last of Us in the same chair that I use to play Dota 2.
Not sure if this is an argument in favour of PC monitor superiority, or an unnatural-in-the-sight-of-man-beast-and-god perversion, sullying the purity of a monitor with the taint of consoleness…
Last of Us. I’m gonna go with ‘cool’.
Monitor superiority. It’s actually a very common thing for people to just have consoles at desks these days.
My couch is pretty damned amazing and yet I chose to be at my desk.
It used to be that console hardware would significantly leapfrog most PC hardware though, and you were getting a box that due to its closed nature would output graphics at a level you’d need a very high-end rig to compete with.
Not sure that’s the case this generation at all. I’m sure they’ll have an advantage at release, but I don’t think it’ll last. Additionally the PC market at the start of the current generation was very different. Steam didn’t really exist, controller support on PC was ropey and inconsistent, PC ports in general were shitty and at the time everyone was all “PC IS DYING”.
Well most of the DRM stuff that you need to accept comes from the console world and is part of the ports. Why I need and xbox live account to play games on my PC I’ll never know.
The amount of messing about you need to do is really blown out of proportion, it is rare that I need to do anything other than download and run the game. depending on the game it is just as quick to buy the game online and wait for it to download as it is to go out, buy from a store and come back. Then you can still have a requirement to download a patch anyway. As for games not working , editing ini files, blah blah blah it is really rare that is needed these days. And with high def patches and a decent rig you can get a much much prettier looking game. (At least until next gen consoles are released)
As far as specific genres go there is no way I would ever play some of them with a controller. RTS and FPS spring to mind. That said a controller is the best way to play some games but you can just plug one into the PC.
Then you have the modding community and with things like steam workshop it just gets better and better. When you have 250,000 new levels for something like portal 2 the replayablity is stupidly high.
Then there is the price. Take the EA bundle as the extreme example of that.
This is very important. When you throw in mods into a game, it’s gameplay can be enhanced so fucking greatly. Minecraft with mods? You’ll never go back without at least one or two of em. We would only have a billion hats instead of 2 billion in Team Fortress (And, y’know, there is a staggering amount of fan-made content if we’re talking about valve games and the ones supported by workshop) And Bethesda games become works of art.
Modding is an enormous advantage that can’t be overlooked. Watch 10 year old games still having new life breathed into them like Homeworld 2. A passionate modding community is a beautiful thing.
I can’t imagine going back to vanilla Skyrim.
God help you if it’s vanilla unpatched Skyrim on PS3 too.
The arguments here seem to be mostly pro-PC with an acknowledgement for margin of error that lies within personal preference, but you are a cool Gooky and the master race respects your love of games.
*gamer-solidarity-five*
Video games kick ass.
Well, I doubt anyone here tried to reply on their PS3.
It’s quite possible on Wii U.
And the PS3 but not many people bother.
The point is that most people own a PC and if you own a PC, getting into PC gaming isn’t that difficult.
My point is that it felt strangely dirty the first time I bought something on Steam with the Wii U. And kind of exciting.
Every bad thing you describe there has slowly been happening to consoles over the last few years. We’re not so different these days.
In that regard, I get pissed off that it’s ‘acceptable’ these days for console games to have performance problems / crashing.
Yeah, it’s shameful. I really don’t like the look of where things are headed… but there isn’t really much to do about it but sit tight and see what happens.
I guess that’s where a lot of the XBox One backlash was based – not liking where these aspects were heading. Interesting times we live in.
I think it doesn’t matter what machine you play your game on. As long as you enjoy the game. I never give consoles or PC a high priority unless there is a specific reason to do so.
These reasons include collectors editions, simulator sickness and me being pissed at Microsoft still.
I don’t understand console wars either
Console Wars: http://thoseguys.tv/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/consolewars11.jpg
Console wars are no different to people backing different sporting teams, I don’t think. There’s some people who are absolute fanatics for one particular team, others who despise anything another team does, those who don’t really care about most of it and just want to see some sport get played, and everything inbetween.
I just bring this up as a console guy who’s been looking into the PC side of things lately, and it all just seems full of inconvenience.
Maybe as someone from the outside looking in, it seems inconvenient but as someone who’s been doing it for a while, I’m really struggling to see where you get that idea.
I’ll agree on the Tribal thing. That’s why I yell ‘Master race!’ so cheerfully, and use evocative adjectives to describe the horrors and impurities the console heretics have inflicted on the sanctity of the PC platform, but in reality, I only care about the stupid console-considerations in game design which affect PC ports negatively (console limitations DO affect game design – see, save points, disappearing bodies, view-limiting fog, reduced level sizes, default textures being shitty and having to be augmented by downloaded texture packs, ‘do not turn off console while icon shows’, limited save slots, lack of file renaming, limited graphics options, poor mapping to KB&M, etc).
But I still own consoles and occasionally use them without considering myself a race traitor.
It’s all hyperbole and comedic/dramatic effect.
It’s the same reason I was chanting “USA! USA! USA!” when Team Liquid (and occasionally the Alliance) had a good game in The International. It’s not serious tribalism.
When controls become limited because they forget that a keyboard has more buttons than a controller it really ticks me off, a.k.a Mass Effect 2 and 3 using so many things bound to ONE button (spacebar) and you couldn’t split them up in the menu. So many times I got killed cuz I rolled to the side instead of taking cover. Same button I can’t help that, really makes higher difficulties just frustrating cuz the game’s controls themselves work against you at that point
Downvote for being a race traitor 😉
Man, so much work. Good thing there’s nothing important going on in the gaming world this week. Right?
How’s the ad-watching?
I’ve seen Kyle Sandilands’ face more times in the past week than I ever have before in my life and it’s terrible.
But the pay is nice.
Money good!
Kyle Sandilands’ face is almost as punchable as Wyatt Roy’s voice.
Sitting here thinking that because I need to get going soon to catch the first of the two buses that will get to me to the tattoo place on time I should probably put some make-up on or something. Then I have to yell at myself “It’s not a date or anything, you don’t need to look pretty YOU DOOFUS!”. 😛
…All the same. Do it for yourself. I know when I’m kitted up in my Hugo Boss and looking all sharp lines and suave, with some cologne so I stink pretty, I feel like a million bucks.
Tattoo guy is probably doing this right now to impress Strange!
I hope not…most colognes make me sneeze violently. 😛
I’d prefer to stink like sweat than wear cologne. XD
Hello, Qantas? I’d like to cancel my flights to Brisbane please. I don’t want to go anymore.
Hey man, deodorant is acceptable to me though. Just not cologne. 😛
“nice suit”
“That ain’t no suit, that’s mah tats!”
If you dont mind me askin, what tattoo?
and if i missed a previous convo…. im sorry 😛
im not even going to click on this. i know what it is.
that url will be etched into my subconscious soon.
EDIT: i caved. i was wrong. not mr ed at all. I am surprised and pleased.
The thought did cross my mind, though. So vigilance was smart!
I’m getting the Maiden In Black from Demon’s Souls on my forearm. I’m so excited I couldn’t even sleep last night. Feel like a little kid at Christmas. 😀
that sounds pretty awesome.
self drawn, done by the tattoo artist, or a picture from the interwebs?
Done by the artist based on info and pictures I gave him from the artbooks and the internet. I’m not even entirely sure what he’s come up with, yet.
I’m sure it’ll be great. tattoo artists are pretty amazing, plus its a great concept to work with.
Let strength be granted, so the world might be mended.
So the world might be mended.
Shoot for comfy, not sexy. You’re going to sit there and be abused for several hours – that’s what I’d go for.
Yup. I’m wearing my comfiest pants and a t-shirt.
Hope it goes awesomely, my friend! Can’t wait to see the tattoo!
STRANGE’S TATTOO UNVEILING GATHERING!
I feel an occasion like that could set a precedent for sharing.
Wanna see my tattoo?
Only if it’s in a PG timeslot!
I can maybe guarantee ‘slot’ could be possibly maybe be involved.
Ambiguous!
D: I feel like this might be innuendo and if so you’re a monster.
In-your-endo
#Scrubs
Also, after reading the Kotaku review of The Bureau: XCOM Declassified I’m feeling better about my purchase of this for Mr. Strange’s birthday. Sounds like he’ll have a lot of fun with it. Phew!
Plus the box art is pretty!
Plus how classy are those 1950s vests!
Just threw up into my mouth mid sentence while talking to a customer. And not a little bit but a whole mouthful.
Classy.
Weird thing is I didn’t and don’t feel sick or anything. Just happened randomly.
D: Did they make you spell something weirdly again!
Yeah, I’ve had that happen once or twice. (Not a whole mouthful, that sounds terrible – just a little bit, sometimes only the hint/taste of it, not even actual solid.) Also when not sick. Don’t get it.
Bodies are weird. (See: Appendix. Organ whose sole purpose in your body is to randomly kill you.)
Appendix….cursed little thing it is.
I once ate seafood at a Chinese take-out joint. Woke up at 3am feeling like my stomach wanted to turn itself inside out. I thought it was food poisoning and from the pain decided i was going to burn down the take-out joint then and there.
Turns out it was my appendix rupturing, morphines a hell of a drug :]
I’ve got an hour of work to kill hence my pointless story..
Just makes me think of the lady from Borderlands 2 – is it Patricia? When she talks about throwing up on people when they talk to her. Or was that the nose bleed story? I forget. She’s funny.
Isn’t that @rocketman?
Haha! Oh man, it was always great to stumble upon one of her audio recordings.
I still remember in Borderlands 1 where you come across her logs and can hear her starting to go crazy from being on Pandora too long.
Maaan that game has some great humour!
Still love the Borderland Proposal video… claptrap is fantastic! 😛
Yell ‘STARCRAFT BREAK’. Close study. Immediately feel happier. Open SC2. Begins patching. Bad sign.
I really need to get back into that game.
It’s weird that I’m at the point where Dota is more approachable.
I dont really find competitive online games overly approachable. Angry communities and my questionable skills make me mad. I’m just a sucker for punishment.
Learning the basics of Dota is easy. Right click creeps to farm them. Once you’ve farmed enough creeps, start farming enemy heroes.
The basics of a build in Starcraft is a slightly more difficult thing. I don’t think I could do a three gate expand anymore. Would probably have to invest a few hours into bot games just to get the very basics of the game down again. That annoys me.
yeah part of the reason i dont really improve is that i’m too lazy to learn specifics.
haven’t played dota, but if lol is anything to go by, more accessible=more arseholes. sadly.
There are definitely assholes.
There are also non-assholes, so that’s nice.
CANNON RUSH
PYLONS!
Everytime I load up Dark Souls and it starts patching I have a minor freak out. Some of their patches have quite dramatically altered the game.
Dark Souls! \o/
Bacon cookbook.
1: Put bacon in pan.
2: Cook bacon.
3: ?????
4: Profit.
Clearly you missed the words “bacon fudge” and “Bourbon Bacon Vanilla Ice Cream”
????? = Bacon pornography.
https://soundcloud.com/jamesflamestar/baconweave
So that’s a thing.
It sure is, my friend. It sure is!
Taught me everything I know about preparing bacon.
A song for TAYbies, by TAYbies.
There’s a behind the scenes clip somewhere too, right? @doc_what?
There’s footage of it in here. I think there’s another video though.
SURE IS!
http://youtu.be/Dku2UKJwfWU
Thanks man! Hope you’re well!
I’m getting better. Finished my meds yesterday so fingers crossed I keep getting better.
Bacon weaves are some of the basic building blocks behind the more elaborate constructs prepared by the Epic Meal Time crew.
I have so much willpower.
Go down to EB, get my copy of of Disney Infinity, guy is like “So, do you want to buy anything else” and I sort of start raving and frothing at the mouth while telling him to throw it all at me.
In the end I got the Villain pack, and an extra power disc thingy. Was very tempted to get the Violet figure as well since I had a totally-not-creepy-because-she’s-a-cartoon-character-crush on her when I was younger. Definitely not creepy.
I TOLD YOU NOT TO LOOK IN THE CABINET!
I’M SURE WE’VE ESTABLISHED BY NOW THAT I’M NOT VERY GOOD AT LISTENING!
I’m way more tempted than I should be to go back and get the villains pack too. I don’t even need it! I want it though.
Right? I have no use for these extra packs, I don’t have any friends, who am I going to play with? AND YET I NEED THEM.
This game has it’s claws deep in your soul already. Your inner child is being bribed with candy as we speak.
I ran over an Agrabah guard as Sulley driving a car from Autopia last night.
Everything about that sentence appeals to me.
WHAT?
SAY WHAT AGAIN.
SAY WHAT ONE MORE GOD DAMN TIME.
DO THEY SPEAK ENGLISH IN WHAT?
THEY SPEAK ENGLISH IN WHAT?
HUH?
You guys are actually making me want to buy this god forsaken money pitt.
it’s terrible, I’ve been restraining and reviews/word of mouth keeps grabbing my interest. We can try stay strong together. But when it comes to games I’m weak, they better not have any appealing bundles soon 😛
Fight the Power
Need to get all “Fox and the Grapes” up in this.
yup, I didn’t want it anyway, it’s not ripe yet, who wants s̶our ̶g̶ ̶r̶ ̶a̶ ̶p̶ ̶e̶ ̶s̶ ̶ ̶infinity anyway
Edit: That’s one failed strikethrough 😛
My name is not Buddy! And it’s not Incrediboy, either. That ship has sailed. All I wanted was to help you. I only wanted to help, and what do you say to me?
I want it.
I TOTALLY had a crush on Linka from Captain Planet when I was younger. So too did Wheeler I guess.
Stories like this make me so happy I don’t have children and am not really interested in Disney stuff.
Imagine the carnage if these were transformers or something though 🙁
Between the marvel, the star wars and the lucas arts stuff I could be in trouble. That’s without going into the Indy and associated lucas film stuff.
Oh god, just realised that they now own Willow. I might be tempted if they release a Madmartigan figure
While it’s true they own those properties I don’t know that we’ll see them in Infinity as they’re not associated with ‘Disney’.
Though if the game takes off maybe they’ll do a Marvel Infinity and a Star Wars Infinity D:
If they included Lucasarts stuff like a Guybrush figure or a Purple Tentacle or something I’d probably have to buy it. 🙁
I can see them staying away from marvel but then again the kiddified cartoon versions could sell well. I can also see them releasing clone wars figures. Wait for the first wave to die down then hit them with the start wars. Not sure if they would want to split then into different games though, having them together means that parents need to buy them all
Although the idea of Wreck-it Ralph flying a tie-fighter to defeat Zerg is appealing
Now you’ve done it.
DOES. MARSELLUS. WALLACE. LOOK. LIKE A BITCH?
Eh, I made my Pulp Fiction joke this week
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/talk-amongst-yourselves-238/comment-page-7/#comment-1805291
Well. Now you’ve gone and just ruined my fun. Thanks.
*single tear down cheek*
Check out the big brain on Red. You’re a smart motherfucker.
Get it straight buster – I’m not here to say please, I’m here to tell you what to do and if self-preservation is an instinct you possess you’d better fucking do it and do it quick.
Who’s motorcycle is this?
Zed’s Dead, baby.
it’s not a motorcycle…… It’s a Chopper
http://imgur.com/mIiCGMy
I know people are saying its just spin by Sony but couldn’t this hurt sales at this point? If it said hurry, stocks low I’d be more s sceptical but this is more a too bad you’ve missed out.
Aw man, my sister pre-ordered hers from Big W. Hope they get it on launch. D:
I think it’s probably genuine. They had to push back the Japanese release to have enough stock for Europe and the US. Retailers have a certain amount of launch stock allocated and if they’ve sold it all, they can’t guarantee launch day release.
If I could still get one at release I’d probably go order one as a birthday present to myself. I turn 30 two days after release 🙁
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/this-cool-ps4-game-looks-like-wind-waker-had-a-baby-with-ico/
I know I posted the Polygon link with the screenshot before, but this one’s got video! D: So pretty. Who needs The Last Guardian. (I do, but even so!) Thanks @sughly for the heads up on twitter!
This, Below and The Witness are easily my most anticipated next gen games at the moment and they’re all indie arcade dealies!
I cancelled my 2 year old The Last Guardian pre-order today!
I wasn’t really hyped on Titanfall when it was first announced. I thought it looked neat, but it didn’t grab me like it did everyone else. After watching that new gameplay footage though, I think I’m hyped for it.
I enjoyed the trailer for Fable Legends (especially that rogue), but I’m a bit disappointed as it doesn’t sound like a proper Fable game, what with you playing as pre-set character and all. It sounds like a whimsical dungeon crawler rather than an RPG to be honest, which isn’t a bad thing, but I really want a new, proper Fable game. Fable 3 cut a lot of stuff from the series that I really liked, but I still enjoyed it, and the first two games were brilliant, and now I think it’s time for a Fable 4.
DA:I is sounding better and better all the time (not that I wasn’t already mega hyped for it). I do hope the ability to send minions/agents out is a little more indepth than blindly clicking through menus like you do when sending assassin’s out in the AC games though, but I suspect it will be a similar system.
Thing I liked about Fable: Legends is that it looked like it is set when there are still heroes in the world. I loved the time period of Fable 1, a world full of heroes. Rather then the “you are the last “true” hero.” period that Fable 2 was set in.
Dragon Age looks exceptional. The Fable trailer got me psyched, but after Fable 3 I’ve learned to be cautious on this front. XD
Fable 2 to Fable 3 was a downhill but the games after Fable 3 where; “a jump off a cliff into a dark abyss eventually leading to the centre of the earth”. I know they weren’t core series games but, my god they looked terrible.
If Titanvil wasn’t a multiplayer-only game I’d be interested. Competitive deathmatch shooters are not my thing regardless of how many bells and whistles and stompy robots you add.
Yeah, same. Can’t hype for something I know I won’t ever play.
Whew, didn’t expect that whole master race thing to blow out like it did. Though I guess I should have 😛
There’s just no place in the world for the man with the tinfoil hat. Except the Humble Store. That place is nice – I give them the money, they give me the game, we both part ways and that’s the end of that. As it should be.
http://www.gog.com
Yeah but accounts.
Only so you can get your stuff again later. You just download a DRM-free .exe installer from their site, you don’t even have to use their download manager.
You submit yourself to similar or worse DRM when you play on a console.
Not on any of the consoles I had before Wii U.
Did you d’load games on any consoles before the Wii U?
Oh wait, 3DS came before the Wii U. For which I only grabbed the freebies (ambassador games, etc).
I won a copy of Mega Man 9 on my Wii, but I never played it because I just didn’t register it as something that I had. Something that was there for me to play. I don’t believe in digital.
I still buy triple-A titles on disc for PS3, I don’t want to d’load them.
The thing that really changed my mind re digital games was PS+
One of my classmates is a major Sony fanboy, so I hear about all the PS+ stuff from him. It does sound pretty cool for what it is. I don’t think it’d sway me though, considering how I tend to leave my freebies unplayed as it is 😛
Do you have a PSN account?
I don’t have a PSNything (chortle chortle).
Just a house full of Nintendos. And a 360 that wound up here from some competition along the line.
Ah. Guess you’re not joining me and @bdkiaf and @dc and @greenius’ bike gang then 🙁
Defs not. I don’t even like GTA 😛
Well, not strictly true. I loved GTA2, as well as Chinatown Wars. But they aren’t really what most people think of/mean when you say “GTA”.
*hopes he’s remembered right about what the bike gang thing was*
PC games aren’t region locked and so unless the only system you owned before Wii U was a PS3, you’re wrong.
Unless it’s GFWL 😛
GFWL is everything that is wrong with PC gaming.
And it’s going away \o/
Wait, GFWL is going away? Where’d you read that?
I heard someone mention something about that the other day too, actually. Surprised it didn’t come up on Kotaku at all.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/08/20/it-liiiiiiiiives-gfwl-perma-closing-next-july/
If it makes you feel any better, I found the transition from consoles to PC quite easy. Steam even has big picture mode which mimics console settings.
It makes me feel crazier. Everyone can handle it but me.
It’s like facebook all over again.
It’s confronting when you haven’t done it.
Like underwear shopping, apparently. 🙂
@markserrels
Nice hat.
*Goes back to sitting on the couch, watching terrestrial television and occasionally playing PS3, like a chump*
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/08/20/dear-esther-developer-39-s-next-game-coming-to-ps4.aspx
Oooooh! Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, The Chinese Room’s follow up to Dear Esther is going to be on PS4! I hear this game is played in real time and you experience the last hour of the world before the apocalypse and can follow different characters in different directions. As soon as the hours up the game ends…
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/this-story-begins-with-the-end-of-the-world-heres-the-trailer-for-for-everybodys-gone-to-the-rapt/
Here’s the trailer!
Will it be another Walking Simulator?
Apparently it’ll be more interactive. You can interact with objects and the like. Still expect it to be more like Gone Home than The Last of Us, though.
Also it’s on CryEngine 3 so should look purdy!
Well that’s a comparison that means nothing to me: I have not played either game.
So is it a proper adventure game this time? Something like Myst or Riven maybe but without the puzzles? I loved the atmosphere in those games and Dear Esther always reminded me a bit of Riven especially, but it felt kind of aimless.
I think you’re still mostly an observer to events, rather than an active participant but you can influence how things go down. (That sounds vague, but this all I really know about the game.)
Their next project Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs is an actual interactive game though, so maybe that’ll influence how they design this. (Not that Dear Esther wasn’t a game… uh… you know what I mean. XD)
Which, from the videos, will scare the poo out of you. Like actual poo, coming out of you. Scared right out.
Sounds like a cool concept!
Agreed! 😀
REMEMBER HOW YOU SAID YOU GOT THE HIGH SCORE FOR MOST TIME LOOKED AT THINGS OR SOMETHING AND I KINDA BELIEVED YOU FOR A SECOND?! PROBABLY NOT, BUT IT HAPPENED AND YOU’RE THE WORST, TROLLALEN.
So the Eve guys Oculus Rift space combat game EVR which everyone has been saying was the best thing on the Rift is being turned into an actual full game.
Fuck new consoles. I want a Rift. 🙁
Oooh. Makes sense, given the reaction the demo got.
Wish they’d release it though, I wanna check it out.
I hope they are ready for retail before Christmas. Pretty sure Mrs Tigs hasn’t bought me anything yet. So hype for the rift since PAX
I didn’t even try the Rift (too busy playing all the board games) and I know I want one.
Trying it was one of the things I had to do when I was there. Just had to see if it was going to be good or interesting in theory but didn’t really work.
Also making sure I wasn’t one of the people who would suffer horribly from motion sickness using it before I spent the money.
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/08/20/fox-news-shepard-smith-investigates-oreo-cookie-conspiracy/
Hard hitting invesitgative journalism.
That man gets paid “$7 million to $8 million a year.”
Incredible.
Man, I need to stop what I’m doing and move into the TV Moron business, it obviously pays much better.
Is it weird that I hate playing competitive shooters online but like MMOs? I feel like it’s contradictory
Nah, I don’t like versus play, but quite like co-op and interaction.
I dislike competitive FPS’ and Vehicle Warfare kind of games yet play MOBA’s so … yes it probably is a little weird.
I don’t have twitch reflexes, so online shooters are not fun for me
I’m more than happy to play games like Assassins Creed online where it’s less necessary.
I kind of feel the same yet most MMO play requires a pretty decent level of coordination and reflexes as well. Maybe it’s more muscle memory stuff.
I think it’s more that shooters make me feel more disoriented online. I can never keep track of what’s going on all the time.
In Starcraft 2, for example, I’m OK.
Do you actively participate (and enjoy, heh) PVP in MMOs?
Nope, really don’t like it.
I guess it’s not that contradictory.
Wut.
link?
Daniel, apparently.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/sony-takes-another-shot-at-microsofts-xbox-one/
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/sony-takes-another-shot-at-microsofts-xbox-one/comment-page-1/#comment-1808637
For anyone who may be interested, apparently if you sign up for PSN+ before Sept 20 you will get an extra 90 days for free.
The deal apparently stacks if you have an existing subscription as well (ie: if you have 6 months left and purchase the deal, your sub will last 21 months etc)
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/114019
Dun wanna!
Somewhere @strange is regaling a tattoo artist with tales of the Colobus Monkey as we speak!
And swooning over how pretty her artist is
Who’s wearing Hugo Boss and cologne!
There was almost zero conversation. It was awesome. 😀
Man, Amazon’s setup for purchasing US PSN codes is slick.
Er.. Not that I’ve used it. Of course not.
Thanks for reminding me. I need to go not use that too.
I heard it was pretty handy.
From a friend.
If I was using it – which of course I am not – then I would be buying credit for the stuff that just went on sale for Vita.
My friend never used Amazon for digital goods before. Does he need a credit card to buy the download code? Also do you get the code instantly?
My friend preemptively thanks you.
I believe my friend had to use a US postal address when ordering, though his Australian debit card had no issues when purchasing. He got the code immediately via the website.
http://games.on.net/2013/08/sitrep-you-are-either-a-snake-or-a-splinter/
Discuss.
Totally possibly to like neither though.
Well, yeah…
I s’pose.
Splinter Cell never felt right to me – but that being said, I’ve only ever played one of the first ones…. on Xbox, I think? I don’t need that much stealth in my life and find MGS scratches all the itches in just the right way.
I have been tempted to check out SC Conviction when that was released, and Blacklist looks like a cool dude.
Chaos Theory is one of my favourite games ever.
My issue with Conviction is that it was clearly designed to play a very specific way (melee dude, execute group, repeat), with a lot of very designed decisions around you playing like that. I was awful at that, so what usually happened was a lot of shooting things wildly. While it probably wasn’t all that different, Double Agent (the only other one I’ve played) always felt like I could do stuff however I wanted. So I was a pacifist. Unless I wanted to throw a guy off a building, in which case I became super violent.
Still, I like both games, they’re a lot of fun, if rather ridiculously silly.
Or you could freak out, scream like a child, and run away to hide somewhere dark, taking pot-shots at peoples’ skulls.
Like I… may or may not have done.
The problem with these is, IMO, it should be “It’s impossible to like both equally at the same time”.
So it’s more like a scale than a switch.
When it comes to stealth I prefer stuff like Hitman, where you can hide in plain sight or Dishonored with a more stylized world and the like.
but MGS has cardboard boxes you can hide in 😀 .
I am terrible at stealth games though so my opinion probably doesn’t have much weight in the matter, I even enjoyed the stealth in The Last of Us so what do I know :P.
Also I really enjoyed the stealth in Far Cry 3, that game is tremendously fun & has a wingsuit!!!!!
WiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnngggggSuuuuuuuuuuuiiiiiiiiiiiit!!!
*jumps of chair & deploys wingsuit*
The game also has a cardboard slip that @jimu loves!
U mean ICO? I remember when I lived with him I used to gaze upon it whilst eating a huge bowl of jelly 😛
Metal gear Solid 4!
I got it in the slip, well late and pissy cheap!!!
A @greenius never forgets……..a good deal
I traded that in, like a fool *hangs head*
I recall seeing a “Jimu” around Kotaku but when I joined TAY he wasn’t posting regularly. Then all of a sudden some “Jimu” guy comes back to TAY expressing his love for slip cases and how badly (so very badly) he wanted the MGS4 Slip Case 😀
And Deus Ex! DEUS EX! A game where you can screw up the stealth and still salvage the mission!
you know I just realized I haven’t played Hitman, Deus Ex or Dishonoured.
I’m a monster 🙁
Edit: I own Deus Ex & Hitman from PS+ . I’m like a Mega Monster . Guh, I saw your post further down about ICO & Shadow of the Colossus & it reminded me I haven’t played them either, that is a shamefull pile indeed
*runs*
Double Edit: I have ICO & Shadow from PS+ too, aaah. That actually makes me feel like a bad person
Don’t worry, my friend. I only played Ico/SotC for the first time three months ago! 😀
Deus Ex and Dishonored are great games. I love the abilities in Dishonored, and I really love the setting and themes of DX:HR. Both fantastic games that really encourage a variety of approaches.
Haven’t played Hitman. Actually, @alexpants was gonna send me a copy. Hey Alex!
I’ve enjoy stealthy stuff more and more & I think it’s because you can approach things differently these days, I found a lot of older stealthy games were too much about memorizing guards paths and running the perfect route and I’m too impatient. So from what you’ve said I really should give em a go. I always liked the look of lots of stealthy games & recognized that they introduced a lot of good mechanics but was just bad at them, I think it’s a personality clash
The best stealth games are a) fair and b) give you a toolbox to play with. One of my current favourites is actually Monaco.
That’s why I really enjoyed Far Cry, you could approach it any way you wanted with a nice selection of weapons and abilities. I need a Dragon Ball Hyperbolic time chamber to catch up on games,
At least now you can wait for Deus Ex Director’s Cut! 😀
Improved Boss fights!!!
Sam fisher is cooler than Snake. He seems to hit people more. And harder. I loved all the krav maga stuff in Conviction.
Fisher.
I like a big ol’ Solid Snake
Bluemaxima’s first Kotaku comment since May is him getting upset about people not liking the Vita.
Glorious.
Edit:
you know, I was once told that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, and I tend to agree in cases like my previous comment.
So i’m gonna drop all pretense of wit & just say it. That dude is a pain & I actively avoid all articles that mention the vita just so I don’t run the risk of encountering his obsessive crap.
He’s now revised it and is advising people who downvoted that he has.
I used to enjoy baiting him.
Then I realised it was just too easy and decided ignoring him was better for everyone’s sanity.
I’d tell him to go marry it if I wasn’t so suspicious that he already has.
All his rampant fandom aside – I’m waiting for him to realise that liking something doesn’t require every person on the planet to feel the same, or you aggressively defending it from people who don’t.
That might take a while.
Indeed.
MASTER RACE!
You mean there are people who don’t like Xenoblade?
Xenoblade? sounds kinda lame…
That’s m’boy!
Steam’s down, somethings going on…
Nvm, it was for saints row IV
Gurd-dehm murricans. 🙁
HOLY SHIT. IT MUST BE HALF LIFE 3
(HAHAHA LIKE HELL IT IS. THAT GAME WILL NEVER EXIST.)
Dammit, I thought it was…
@transientmind you’ve only had two women after you once or twice? boy you need to come and take some lessons from me. i have 7-10 women fighting over me at least 3 times a day. I take home all of them of course. I can teach you not to be so amateurish anymore. come to my beachside mansion and we’ll talk about what we can do.
I keep saying Gordon Brown when I mean Gordon Ramsay.
I’d be annoyed about the mistake if I didn’t find it genuinely amusing each time. I think my subconscious is now determined to keep getting it wrong.
They should have named it the Super Nintendo 2.
I like him, I remember a time when I was like that.
Still do it sometimes.Spider-Man is awesome! 😀
http://www.polygon.com/2013/8/21/4643070/fumito-ueda-discusses-ico-shadow-of-the-colossus-and-the-still-in
OMG.
Two more Studio Ghibli blurays in Japan in December (previously they announced Pom Poko).
The Cat Returns and Princess Mononoke \o/
EDIT: @sughly @doc_what
SOLD!
Is it wrong I first read that as porn poko?
Well the Tanuki do have enormous testicles…
Does that mean we may be getting Mononoke on Blu-ray here sometime?!
WOOOO!!! \o/ (Hopefully)
Don’t expect it until mid 2014 at the earliest I think. Theres IIRC quite a few JP releases Madman hasn’t brought over yet.
With the three they’re releasing the only gaps will be Ocean Waves (which they may skip since it was made for TV not theatrical release), the two new films (presumably they’ll be released next year) and Spirited Away.
Spirited Away will be the last one they release in the collection, guaranteed.
Best news about the Mononoke BD is that they’ve got re-translated subs. The previous ‘official’ subs were dubtitles 🙁
oooh, they sound pretty great, i may need to aquire some of these even though i own the old dvds, then perhaps a giveaway of the old ones 😀
This is what I’ve been doing. The JP releases are pretty much definitive. Well, except for the newest films in which case I guess you could argue there are ‘better’ releases in that the JP releases of Ponyo, Arrietty and Poppy Hill are sub-only (because when they were released, there was no dub). But I wouldn’t want to watch those films dubbed anyway.
But for the older films where all the materials have been out for a while, the JP Blurays are absolutely the best ones. Shitloads of subtitle and audio options (Porco Rosso has the French dub as well as JP and English for example – French version is amazingly good) and untouched video. The transfer is basically direct off the film masters without any major editing in it, so eg Nausicaa and Laputa both have very obvious film grain. The international releases of those had a run-in with a smoothing algorithm which removed the grain, making the picture ‘clearer’ but losing fine detail 🙁
Plus the JP releases have fucking sweet packaging. Cardboard cases, super minimal – one solid color with the Japanese logo and some key visual image in a white silhouette. They look amazing together.
I’ve been looking at two pairs of shoes for a while and trying to decide which colour to get…
#Manly
Anything but green!
Dark Khaki?! Maron!?
I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT THOSE COLOURS ARE
Crysis 2 sure is purty. I have a hard time imagining the next gen games putting out anything better than what already exists in the likes of Crysis and Battlefield, except when it comes to human faces, which are miles behind environmental graphics.
Same quality or slightly better but faster, better lighting, fewer smoke-and-mirrors perspective/artifact-limiting tricks, and smoother. Bigger battles! MOAR CORPSES! Or, uhm… sparkles and sprinkles and stuff, if that’s what you’re playing. I dunno why I jumped to assume corpses would be involved. What kind of monster wants that?
*adjust collar nervously*
Ahh yes, Crysis 2, the pinnacle of graphics technology.
Paying out Crysis 2 aside, the biggest difference you’re likely to notice is in terms of particles and other dynamic features. While there’s still a million and one things we need to improve in terms of environmental and character details, increasing the detail on them increases the work load significantly, and costs along with it. Adding a rad trail of sparks may use a lot of processing power, but once you’ve set it up you can use it a thousand times in vastly different situations for a relatively small man-hour cost.
Honestly, what I’d like the most is better lighting, and shadows, which is another relatively cheap problem in terms of man hours.
Oh, and you say that stuff about next gen, but Killzone Shadow Fall seems to be somewhere close to parity with Crysis 2 in terms of graphics, and that’s a launch game. Launch games are almost universally hideous.
That’s…quite an alarming amount of vitriol for a pretty minor thing.
And there’s your mistake. You read the comments. 😛
And dem PC Master Race people. They can certainly be something.
MOAR POLYGONS! MOOOOOOAR!
Actually in that article they’re complaining about too many polygons.
MOOOOOAR!
*froths at the mouth*
MAAASTERRR RRAAAAAAAACE!
*collapses in heart attack*
My eldest drew a bear.
=|
On the refrigerator or have you already burnt it? 😛
I’ve got my graduation ceremony tomorrow, and the only part I’m looking forward to is wearing the funny shaped hat.
Congrats, my friend! 😀
Thanks! 😀
Congrats! Don’t forget to check the tassel on your hat before walking away with it! Mine looked more like a dreadlock 😛
haha will do, dreadlocks don’t look good on me!
What colour are they making you wear? My uni was black and… pink. D:
Pink!? D:
It says cranberry on my receipt.
Manly as fuck.
Mine were royal blue and teal. Complimentary! 😛
Word of warning. Bring a phone because it’s boring as fuck.
I sat next to friends and talked the whole time. XD
As I hear, I’ll be sitting next to a friend so hopefully I’ll stay sane.
http://www.gog.com/game/the_night_of_the_rabbit
The Night of the Rabbit is currently 50% off on GOG! @pixel_the_ferret_viking
Also I wrote some thoughts up here if you’re not convinced!
http://potaku.com/2013/06/05/review-the-night-of-the-rabbit/
Should also say that this is currently competing with Pikmin 3 and The Last of Us for GOTY for me!
And if you need more convincing, listen to how beautiful the OST sounds! D:
THE NIGHT OF THE RABBIT! 😀 😀 😀
I’m sure the prettiness is enough to convince people 😀
I’m interested but I kind of want it on Steam (gotta increase dat Steam e-peen) and I’ll probably wait for a further price drop since I still haven’t played Deponia 😀 (I’m still sad it crashed when I first tried to play it :P)
My steam epeen is… girthy. But you can always be bigger.
(Edit: At this point, I’m not sure if it’s a point of shame or pride. I’m gonna go with pride, for the sake of my ego.)
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/08/the-kids-and-adults-inside-of-us-cant-wait-for-this-imagineering-doc/
I love the Disney Imagineers! 😀
So Mirror’s Edge seems like a pretty cool guy. Kinda hard to tell where I’m meant to go though, I feel like I more just end up picking whatever direction is in my view and running that way, hoping I don’t end up cornered or something.
Really sick of trying to keyboard and mouse though. Gotta find me a wireless 360 adapter.
Edit: Wait, I just remembered I have a Hydra. Maybe I could try and use that instead…
EBay. 15 bucks, works better than the official ones.
Follow the red markers. The red markers will lead the way. Crazy good art direction, huh?
SO MUCH COLOUR AND BRIGHTNESS IN YO FACE THAT IT’S HARD TO SEE
Woo!
Yeah, but that only works so long as I can see the red markers 😛
Yes indeed, the whole thing looks damn cool. Can’t wait to try it out in the Rift.
Also, ‘Still Alive’ track makes me happysigh.
And such clean, beautiful art. I wanna run across rooftops! Except I really don’t.
Oh yeah, the box said something about a music CD with that on it. No sign of it inside though.
Oh well.
Oh man, I love this song. So damn good.
omgggg been on a random Family Feud clipfest recently. This is the best thing ever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqDGK_UjfFI
“What’s something a burglar would not want to see when he breaks into a house?”
Oh wow I’ve been watching clips for over an hour 😀
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-5YIgMVH24
“Name something that has white balls”
Fuck you.
I went to sleep at 12:30 because of this.
You sent me down the rabbit hole.
NAKED GRANDMA
My arm is on fire. I feel like a great big crybaby for saying so, but complaining makes me feel better. 😛
At least it looks so damn awesome!
Like a bonfire in dark souls?
You defeated…the pain of a tattoo 🙂
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-do-we-swear
Give yourself a treat and turn the air blue. It relieves pain. 🙂
Stupid idea born of having recently finished AC3: an AC game that flips things around and the animus bits are set in the future, where you play as your descendant. AC games are typically about using the animus to look into your past, find where your ancestor hid something and then going to dig it up, but in this one during the present day sections you’d be the one hiding things to help out your descendant on their quest in the future.
Like in Crono Trigger when you go into the past, find a chest, infuse it with power, then retrieve the item in the future after it has had a chance to percolate!
….WATCH DAWGS
Playing as a descendant doesn’t really fit with the fictional technology of the animus.
But it fits with the themes of the game and the abilities of the first civ.
Yeah, I suppose so. Hmm…
I hope I don’t regret it but I ordered some parts to upgrade my PC.
awww no love for teh welbots 🙁
jk 😉 you must be psyched! what’d ya get?
I’d totally get stuff through you if you were in my state. 🙁
Upgrading my old i5 750 so new CPU & Motherboard – grabbed a 4670K and a MSI Z87-G45. Will add my existing RAM and GPU (670 OC) and should theoretically see a big difference as I think I was getting CPU bound on a lot of stuff recently. Came very close to getting an all-in-one watercooler since my case has all the internal mountings and everything for a 240mm radiator, but did some sleuthing and the Haswell chips don’t seem to overclock that well anyway, plus noise is an issue with my rig so I decided to get one of the Noctua coolers instead, and put the difference toward a SSD. My current machine I actually built with a SSD originally, but it never worked correctly (random read errors) and it was too small so I ended up replacing it with a 7200 rpm mechanical. That thing is also noisy so the addition of a decent capacity modern SSD should help there too.
Big question for me now is Windows 7 or Windows 8 or the Windows Blue beta. I can have any of them (MSDN \o/). I’m kind of leaning Blue, since why not if I’m installing 8 anyway, but I’m hearing some compatibility woes and I’m always a little scared about running a beta OS at home.
8.1 hits on October 18! Sounds like they’ve reeled in a lot of the bullshit, so I’d go with 8 for sure. I did the same for Freeze and Beardy. Had there not been mention of the changes yet, I might have erred on the side of caution and stuck with 7, but 8 is actually quite good. It’s really quick and once you use it for a day or two, you get used to no start menu etc.
Sounds like you made some good choices with the hardware too! cpu is same as what I put in to Freeze’s build I think (can’t recall if it was the K or not), and he’s had no complaints so far 🙂
670 should also keep you going for a while. I wouldn’t bother going up from that for a vid card til the next gen hits!
I tweeted before that I can get 1tb ssd’s now! :0 CRAZY!
I’ve been using 8 at work since I think mid 2011 because we needed to test our new versions with it especially on WinRT, and on my actual machines since the end of 2012 so I’m used to it. It was pretty ropey for a while, heaps of work went into performance on it which is why it runs better than 7 on same hardware.
I really should probably use it since I technically helped make it.
I love watching this :’). Makes me wanna tear up every time!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7knUFWY2P44
@powalen @masha2932
…@blaghman 😛
>:(
… oh wow
I tried to Google a long haired buff dude as a new “Blaghman doppleganger” but I couldn’t find anything. So I just gave up and typed “Blaghman” and pictures of naked women popped up errywhere. Apparently there’s a show called Blachman where men judge naked women.
Yeah, I remember hearing about that show a few months ago.
My name is ruined forever.
Ruined, or made better?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/the-most-mean-spirited-anime-i-have-ever-watched/comment-page-1/#comment-1811771
So, I kinda get what the author of the article is saying, but he misses the point that it is intended to draw sympathy from the viewer towards the main character. You find yourself rooting for her, and hoping that it’ll all end well.
I kind of enjoyed the first ep with the morbid fascination of watching a train crash.
I think the laughs to be had are the same kind that a parent has when they watch their infant toddle along, fall over for no reason, and start crying. A sort of exasperated, “Oh dear. You poor thing. You really are gumby. You know it’s not that bad though, right?”
It’s not as horrible as a train crash, but it still has the same morbid attractiveness. I’d compare it to… a hit and run, or perhaps a tumble off a mountain bike down a steep hill.
Personally am completely with him. Can’t stand the show and don’t understand how anyone finds it funny.
So, I dreamt last night that I bought Disney Infinity … shit
Well, that’s good. Now it’s out of your system and you can get on with your life \o/
I’m still excited for the game but my excitement levels have subsided. I thought about it a bit and I realised that I’m not the biggest creator of user generated content which seems to be the best parts of Infinity. I usually just mess with such features for a while then ignore them. Disney Infinity’s toy box does look easy to use though compared to Little Big Planet for example.
The main games in the playsets which would be my main source of gameplay seem OK but kind of boring and really simple-granted this is only from videos on YouTube and maybe the game plays better.
I’ve moved my purchasing intent from this week to maybe a holiday purchase. I’ll wait for more TAY opinions as well since I like a lot of DIsney stuff and the figurines would be nice to display and just play with.
Man, I sure am glad I didn’t download Saints Row 4 from the US PS store last night, this work day would just be awful if that were the case. Which it isn’t, of course.
how much is it on the US store?
$59.99USD
Woo 4 day weekend with the house to myself…I will probably starve..but all the gaems will be mine!
More likely then not ill just hit the gym abit and play PayDay 2 or something, maybe eat a salad
Sa.. Lad..?
mmhm I heard from a wizard that injesting such a thing will keep cthulu from attacking me
It doesn’t stop him/it from attacking, only from critting.
If that’s the case it’s not worth risking my life!
The Wire is fucking awesome. Only four eps to go… ever.
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Oh man. That final episode where it’s revealed nothing ever happened and it was all just pre school kids playing cops and robbers in the back yard who had been abducted by aliens and were dreaming in the matrix.
Ah, cool. I guess there’s no need to keep watching then. Four hours, saved \o/
*Wastes eight hours at work.*
DOWN IN THE TREME!
We’re about halfway through season 2.
Kids aren’t sleeping well recently, so it’s hard to find time to watch it with the wife.
Gather the family around the ‘ol tv to enjoy the wholesomeness of Treme!
*May not be wholesome. 😛
Oh man. The finale of that where they all say screw it and open up a transsexual rave club instead.
Good news @shane. You don’t have to watch Treme any more either!
Can I borrow your time machine, please? I’ve got some lotto draws to rig.
I’ll return it to you last week. You won’t even miss it!
Freeze is on the Treme writing staff!
So after still not having played The Walking Dead, I grabbed it off the US PS Store last night for Vita, and sat down to play the first episode. I’ve already finished the first episode on PC, but will now sit down and play the rest. Seems like it works better for me on a portable I can sit down and get comfy with like a TV show, instead of sitting at my PC and playing it.
Enjoy man. Ep3 is where it’s at.
Yeah. Ep1 was a good setup, Ep2 was interesting but predictable. Ep3 is where you really start to feel and understand the situation you’re in. Ep 4 and 5 just ratchet up the tension to maximum.
I saw Jimu’s playing it on the Vita too!
So pretty happy being unemployed, means I don’t have the funds to purchase Disney Infinity and the money pit that it is. However, I would like to know if payday 2 is deserving of a $44 investment, on either Ps3 or Xbox. My PC isn’t a part of the mastah race
Awesome game, as long as you have friends to play with or are happy playing with randoms. Does not work solo at all – AI is pretty retarded.
http://www.gog.com/game/the_night_of_the_rabbit
Night of the Rabbit still 50% off!
Also Polygon posted their review for the Flashback remake.
http://www.polygon.com/game/flashback/12112
:'(
I’d skip it regardless. My memories of playing Flashback on my Amiga as a child do not need tainting. I resolved a long time ago to leave formative classics in my memories.
Exactly my thoughts. Same goes for Ducktales.
Except DuckTales is getting reviewed really well and people are loving it.
Except Polygon.
I know, but even when I look back at the gameplay on the NES it was all kinds of simplistic. Also, associated with six year old D.C. memories. Don’t want to override that with new impressions.
Not saying they’re bad. Just don’t want to ruin nostalgia.
I never owned an NES, I only played the shit out of Duck Tales at a friend’s place. I want to buy it just to own it – plus my childhood memories are more vague than most fans’ probably are, so there’s less to possibly ruin.
You put so much stock into Polygons reviews yet they’re always the outlier review on games everyone else enjoys. Why do you keep letting them disappoint you?
Probably because they hat fun like @dc hats fun.
I never let them disappoint me. I wasn’t planning on getting this anyway and I just thought you folks would be interested. 😛 Polygon does lots of cool editorials and features though. Plus Tracey Lien writes for them. 😀 GameInformer is pretty much the only reviews I trust and even then, I’ll always go with my gut feeling on it before someone elses.
I can’t trust GameInformer because it sits on counters at EB. Something about that always seems to discredit it for me.
It sounds like the only major complaint is the controls and glitchiness. Something I hope they can patch up. *crosses fingers
http://www.polygon.com/2013/8/21/4641332/opinion-how-the-unlikeliest-fan-found-himself-in-gone-home
Cool opinion piece about Gone Home, don’t read unless you’ve played the game!
Morning all, I had a better night last night, only got woken up at 12:30am and back asleep by two, at least I started work at 9 this morning 🙂
Just saw a channel 9 reporter accosting Stephen Dank in his front yard (“sports scientist” who’s under scrutiny for the AFL drug scandal) saying:
“Are these drugs dangerous? Would you inject your kids with these drugs? Would you? I said would you inject your kids with these drugs? Fine, I’ll take that as a no.”
I don’t care about the AFL/Essendon/Dank, but what made that reporter think that was a good line of questioning — in what scenario would kids be injected with performance enhancing substances in the same way that professional athletes might be? He may as well have said “Would you let a rabid dog bite your children? Would you?” because it’s about as relevant.
Damn sensationalist media. 😐
My life seems to be in a much happier place ever since I stopped watching commercial tv.
I agree, watched Ten News for the first time in a long time last night while playing Rayman on the Wii U controller and it angered up the blood!
Sure it wasn’t Rayman?
Rayman is fun. Only a monster wouldn’t like Rayman.
Monster.
Honestly, sometimes I just watch it so I have something to be annoyed about ‘n criticique.
Not this morning, but sometimes.
That’s why I watch Under the Dome. XD
I haven’t watched ‘TV’ – free to air, pay TV – for about 5 years now. Don’t miss it in the slightest. My TV time consists of BD/DVD or digital downloads of TV shows, and nothing else.
So good.
I don’t watch any Pay TV either. But I don’t mind ABC/SBS at times.
The ABC iView idea is pretty awesome too. Just stream TV shows you want.
Depends how old his kids are. If they’re in their late teens or twenties, it’s a semi-valid line of sensationalist questioning.
By and large, I agree with you, though, and cannot stand commercial “news”
You need a tv show, a la Seinfeld or Louie. Seriously.
That would be a mad ego stroke. I don’t think I’m ready for it.
You should try watching the Project sometime.
Mmm, sensationalism. I mostly manage to avoid commercial media. The only ‘TV’ I watch isn’t ever actually on the TV, it’s media files of shows I want to see like Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad.
The odd occasion where a friend or relative or workplace inflicts typical media on me? It makes me very angry. Well. Usually. This morning at the cafe downstairs, I caught a glimpse of the front page of the Courier Mail, which was a full-page picture of a politician, and the text, “DOES THIS GUY EVER SHUT UP?” That made me laugh more than be angry. (No, he’s a politician. They’re ALL blowhards.)
I’m sure there’s a story there, but I’m even more sure that I don’t care.
http://www.gameinformer.com/games/deus_ex_human_revolution__directors_cut/b/wii_u/archive/2013/08/21/take-a-guided-tour-of-deus-ex-human-revolution-directors-cut-on-wii-u.aspx
GameInformer previews Deus Ex Director’s Cut new boss fights!
Never beat Deus Ex due to the boss fights. This re-release is relevant to my interests.
Here’s hoping they’ll patch the Director’s Cut stuff in as DLC.
nope, they’ve stated that because the Directors Cut improvements were made by the the company doing the port, and not the original team, they’re gonna be exclusive to the Wii U version.& that sucks.
^ALSO IGNORE THAT^ I WAS WRONG THERE TOO. SORRY AGAIN.
I’ll happily buy director’s cut DLC that fixes the boss fights. The boss fights are what’s keeping me from doing a second and third playthrough, because apart from those fights the game was great.
Me too. I get excited about replaying the game and think about the atmosphere and the world and detail. Then I remember the boss fights and put off the replay.
I’m just pissed that the improvements are only gonna be on the Wii U…^IGNORE THAT^ I WAS WRONG. SORRY.
They’re releasing the Director’s Cut on the other consoles too. Just have to buy the game again… D:
I thought they announced it for all platforms at E3?
Edit: http://au.gamespot.com//news/deus-ex-human-revolution-directors-cut-coming-to-360-ps3-and-pc-6409843?
Deus Ex as it was with borked boss fights is in my top ten games of all time. Seriously.
If they fixed the boss fights well enough, and maybe tossed in a few other improvements, I may require a change of underpants.
Sounds so wanky, but that game captivated me from start to finish. The world was so beautiful and well realized, the gameplay was so fun… the attention to detail on stuff like the architecture. Was the Tomb Raider Legends engine but looked so much better just through a strong art direction.
That game captivated me until the first boss fight. At which point the game could get fucked. I don’t care how good it is outside of that, if it decides that my stealth skills are useless for a boss fight it can eat a bag of dicks.
It’s shitty on principle, but trust me – you’ve robbed yourself of something by not just playing over with a different path. That being said though, once the director’s cut drops – you can try again!
And I will. I loved everything I had played until that point. I just hated the feeling that the decisions I had made were pointless.
The outsourced boss fights were such a weird thing. I’d never heard of that being a thing until DX:HR. Made it all the more silly because they were so poorly designed and out of sync with the rest of the game. Surely someone playtested it before release and went ‘Man, these boss fights are fucked.’ And they decided to just release it anyway.
There’s no way in hell someone missed that. Was such a huge stain on an otherwise stellar title.
It’s not wanky at all. The story, the art direction and OMG THAT FUCKING SOUNDTRACK were just brilliant. It all came together remarkably well. It was such a full and well realised universe, and the game actually played really well to boot.
I loved the city hubs too. Just going off to explore these huge areas.
See, I actually found the city areas were one of the more disappointing aspects. The hubs were actually deceptively small.
I think it felt bigger for me because of how slow I went looking at everything. Too bad they cut the Montreal hub.
I was more sad that they dropped the Upper Hengsha areas than Montreal. While it would have been cool, I can’t see it being that different to Detroit. The glimpses you get of the top part of Hengsha seemed really interesting. All white and sterile and full of parks and Mirrors Edge-ish. Would have made an interesting contrast.
On the other hand it probably would have clashed with their aesthetic and with the whole dirty cyberpunk thing.
@negativezero: That’s a good point. I remember looking out the window of the Upper Hengsha with awe. Would love to have explored there!
Yeah I wished the hubs were bigger and had more side stuff. That was one of the only things I missed from the original game, that sense that you could explore and find things and play the game entirely differently as a result.
DXHR has easily got one of if not the best soundtrack of the generation. Such an amazing game. Needs a proper sequel. Really, really needs it. Not that iOS shit. 🙁
I was the same until the freighter.
After that, it took a massive nose dive.
Adam Jensen (as played by Transientmind): Shameless voyeur of other peoples’ email inboxes.
Must look in ever drawer. XD
OK, that brings me to a strong objection I had to DE:HR.
The way exp was doled out, you could be super sneaky and clever and copy down everyone’s passwords and login details from scraps of paper you had to hunt high and low for, or buried within peoples’ emails, but then you went and hacked the fucking password anyway because it was worth more exp to do that than input your hard-won knowledge.
(Edit: “Well done. You’ve found the master key to all the doors in the building, I hope this will prove of use to y–woaohwoahwoah, what’re you pointing that gun at me for?”
“JESUS FUCK, get that shit away from me! I won’t get any lockpicking exp!”)
/Endrant.
Started up a new game in SKYRIM! with the character Captain Skyrim.
This has actually turned out more fun then I thought it would be, as most playthroughs involved large two handed weapons, I never really upgraded the shield skill, and it certainly requires new tactics when only using a shield.
I do regret they no longer have a unarmed skill, still once I upgrade the heavy armour skill at least my gauntlets will help in the skull crushing.
That sounds fun. A new playthough of Skyrim is on my to-do list but I’m so time poor when it comes to gaming these days that realistically if I do go back in I’ll just load up my old save and finish the DLC – I bought all of it and my wife finished it all, but I haven’t touched it yet. 🙁
Told you it was fun! That gauntlet skill is absolutely vital to do any kind of damage later.
It would be awesome to play through that again, but then i’d never beat other games. At least i got the platinum trophy for it too :D. I had a sword and shield character and had a lot of fun with the shield skills, there’s that one that sends enemies flying if you charge through em, i think i used shield skills more than my main weapon, just charge through a room full of guys, send em all flying then pick em off while they get up all bewildered.
One week until Rayman Legends! 😀 😀 😀
I’m so psyched but since playing Origins on Vita, I can’t decide which version I want.
I mean, it was why I bought my WiiU at launch but the Vita is just so perfect for this kind of game.
I can’t decide!!!
Definitely the Wii U for me. Plus Murfy will control better here than other consoles. (With the exception of Vita. I think that’s one area where Vita will be the best version! A nice, sharp screen to look at instead of the Wii U controller!)
Even if I had a Vita, I’d still go Wii U though. Just seeing the crisp, beautiful animation on a HDTV in 1080p. XD
Except you’ll spend a lot of time looking down at the gamepad >:(
(plz also add optional button controls Ubisoft D:)
Yeah that’s one of the “Pros” in the WiiU column.
Plus local multi with ol’ SOS.
Inorite!?
Wii U is the last thing I want it on but I’ve already paid off a pre-order so ugh :/
I haven’t turned mine on in months.
Just like my ex-wife.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/webassets.ticketmob.com/LS/images/comedians/Rodney-Dangerfield.jpg
Not a Pikmin fan? Pikmin’s amazing, Dan. Amazing!
I’ve never gotten in to Pikmin.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m keen to play it but it’s too expensive for me to take a gamble on.
The main reason I haven’t sold it is because, like the Wii, we’ll eventually get an amazing new Mario & Zelda.
Plus Windwaker HD looks incredible. Im pretty psyched to finally play it.
Oh yeah! I’ve never played Wind Waker before either, so can’t wait!
such a good game, you are in for a treat,
My girlfriend still hates it because I played it too much according to her and it was boring watching me sail everywhere.
Oh man, I think the sailing around looks like the best damn part. So relaxing.
Your girlfriend doesn’t ‘get’ you like I do, @gutsoup. 😛
Also @dkzeitgeist, I think you’d love Pikmin but I can understand your reasonings. Wouldn’t hold my breath on a price cut for that game either considering Mario Galaxy is still full retail. XD
I kind of regret giving up on that game. But seriously, that sbeprq fgrnygu section did me in 🙁
I get no respect, no respect!
*hands redartifice 1 respect*
Here you can have this, I stole it from a guy since I didn’t have any of my own. I won’t use it 😛
Vita. No question. It just works so damn well on it. I didn’t care in the slightest about the game on PS3 and its sitting on the shelf nearly unplayed. The Vita version I’ve sunk a heap of time into.
Makes the decision real easy.
I played the shit out of the PS3 version and the Vita version.
And you’re so right about it just working so much better on a handheld. I think it’s my GameBoy mentality.
That’s why DKCR on 3DS is so much better for me than the Wii version.
Vitas are glorious, Gotten so much enjoyment outta mine already.
This would be the case for me too if the co-op in the game wasn’t so fun.
The Vita version of Rayman Origins is brilliant. It’s such a perfect game for handheld like the Vita. It looks amazing (dat OLED) and plays so well.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/sonys-melancholy-downloadable-ps3-exclusive-rain-finally-has-a-proper-release-date-the-first-of-oc/
Can’t wait to play this.
I can’t wait for them to release it because Fumito Ueda says that the reason that The Last Guardian hasn’t been finished yet is that all of Japan Studio is working on that and a few other games instead. 🙁
I find some Vines entertaining, but really haven’t taken an interest in them/Twitter or anything related.
After seeing this (file size, quality, audio) I have decided that I can’t wait ’til we get rid of gif and Vine-like snippets of ‘stuff’ are used everywhere instead.
I love the music in the background. 😀
Unfortunately, like everything in social media, Vines are primarily used to feed the egos of “hilarious” teenagers.
http://imgur.com/m31Pj7B
Morning amigos.
Is anybody a fan of the Pixeljunk series? I’ve been curious to see the hype behind them for a while but don’t know a great deal about them. Or are they one of those things that cant be explained, you just have to jump in for the experience.
Happy Thursday :]
I really enjoyed pixeljunk monsters, it’s a nice solid tower defence game. Beyond that i only played the demo to “Eden” and i did not care for it, I’d suggest checking for demos first, one of my friends was obsessed with Eden and would yell at me that i was an idiot for not absolutely loving it, so there must be something there.
#doIactuallyeversayanythinghelpfullorusefullorinteresting?
Actually trying the demo’s is a good idea!
Eden was completely un-fun at release because it has a time limit. Without that it’d be a pretty chill game but the time limit makes it stressful 🙁
I believe they patched that out but I have never gone back to it.
didn’t know it was patched out, might be worth having another crack at it.
ADVENTURE GAMES:
https://groupees.com/bm9
https://groupees.com/bamm
The Whispered World and Scratches are in these bundles (as well as some other games I’ve never heard of :P). They have the Sughly seal of approval! (and Scratches has the D.C. one!)
@pixel_the_ferret_viking might be interested? 😀
Scratches is incredibly awesome and atmospheric. Visually it’s a bit rough these days, but won’t be long until you’re immersed in the mystery. Plus the dev’s new game Asylum is out in October!
Nikpol any good?
What about Angelina Weaver? Seems similar to the sherlock holmes games.
Do you know anything about either of them?
Haven’t played either! D:
Adventure games? More like BORED games, amirite?
Nah.
Thanks @bdkiaf. This is the next best thing behind “Literary Hitler”
I need to investigate some of the indie point & click adventure games. My sister’s a massive fan of the old Lucasarts ones and similar and I’d love to get her some newer stuff to try.
Deponia, Chaos on Deponia and The Night of the Rabbit are good starts for LucasArts-like ones. Then there’s the Wadjet Eye ones like Gemini Rue, Primordia and Resonance for Sierra-like ones.
Thanks, that’s quite helpful. I’ll see about grabbing Deponia for her.
DEPONIA \o/ i’ve been playing this… it’s quite amazing
Disney Infinity thoughts!
So yesterday I picked up:
– Starter Pack
– Syndrome Solo figure
– Cars Play Set/Character set with Lightning McQueen and the lady car from the second movie I haven’t seen who is apparently Mater’s girlfriend
Mrs Beardy and I played co-op in the Cars play set first, which is set in Radiator Springs. It was so awesome just being able to drive around the Cars world. It’s like the magic of Disney and Pixar condensed down into an interactive experience. It’s so good, but I reckon it’d have limited appeal to those who aren’t into Disney. We played about an hour’s worth. Did some races, collected some customisation bits and pieces, unlocked some toys for the Toy Box, and collected a few Disney Infinity emblems.
My one recommendation is this: play through your Play Sets before jumping into Toy Box mode if you really want to be able to have fun and experiment.
Disney Infinity emblems are the thing you need to go for. You can get them by playing through Play Sets and by completing Feats in the Toy Box. Feats are kind of like achievements. Each Infinity Emblem you get lets you roll for a random bit of equipment from the Infinity Vault. This can be a piece of location (for example, I got a sweet mountain with a tower on it) or props to do things in the world, like a fan which blows you upwards, or a boost chevron that shoots you across the world.
There’s plenty of stuff unlocked to play with at first, but unlocking stuff from your Play Sets gives you so many more options & the Infinity Emblems give you heaps of random stuff to experiment with.
If you love Disney/Pixar and creating things, you’ll love Disney Infinity.
I tried to activate the PC codes online last night, but the PC version doesn’t launch until October. The iPad version is coming in September apparently. But until then, I’ll be playing on Ecksbawks.
Also, I really have to resist picking up more toys. Especially the Lone Ranger set. I’m super tempted to try and make a Red Dead Redemption-esque map :/
I hadn’t considered that possibility..
I think I’ll wait for Toy Story to do that, hopefully Woody gets a bunch of western style stuff.
I want Toy Story stuff so I can finally fulfil my dream of playing through the opening to Toy Story 2.
If the Toy Story stuff doesn’t let you do that, what the hell is the point of it?
They also need to let you do the Toy Story 3 opening.
The Toy Story 3 game lets you.
And it’s a pretty good game, too.
From what I can tell, Infinity took a lot of things directly from it.
Well, it’s the same devs, yeah? I always get confused when I see them because they share the “Avalanche” part of their name with the Just Cause guys.
Yeppers.
If you can find a copy for cheap, which I think is pretty easy, definitely give it a whirl.
Lots of fun.
Lone Ranger + Toy Story = super fun Western Style adventures!
Would it be wrong to want to make a Dark Tower themed world, with the Can Ka No Rey and all?
The sheer amount of figures/playsets they could release for Disney Infinity is mind boggling. Especially when you consider that they own Marvel and Star Wars.
Sounds like fun! One of the advantages of being so damn poor is I don’t have to worry about getting addicted to stuff like this. XD
I was so tempted to get the Disneyland Kinect game just because of my love of the parks. XD
Haha woo!
I didn’t know much about Disney Infinity was wasn’t very interested. I’m not really interested in the concept of Skylanders which just seems like it’s a game but the figures are just different playable characters.
But man… after this write up :O
Seems like Disney Infinity is the same sort of thing but you get to play in all those iconic worlds AND make your own levels. DAYUMN!
Thank god for poorness!
i know right, I had convinced myself that i wouldn’t get interested but damn it looks fun.
I kind of want to buy the Incredibles figures, just caus they look cool
Same here. Re-downloading the movie to console myself.
Might buy Infinity over Xmas…maybe
hi Sughly, hope progress is going well.
Do you still want people for voices?
Thanks for the thoughts!
Mrs phlaiman and I are definitely keen on this and looking forward to some co-op adventures. The hefty pricing is making us a little hesitant though, as we are currently saving up for this: http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/10236_Ewok_Village
Still waiting for my copy to arrive in the mail. I bought a couple of Power Disc packs today, and the folder thing to put them in, got a couple of “rare” orange ones, Hanging out to play it.
Appreciate the tips, thanks.
Question – what do the figures do besides unlock the in-game character? Do they level up? Do you customise skills? I read something about random loot spins, is that a level up thing? Is there a level cap?
My characters are only level 2 or so. I haven’t seen any kind of talent-tree-esque things at this stage, but Syndrome didn’t have his Zero Point Energy power unlocked when I played as him at first. So I think there is some progression, but I haven’t played enough to really grasp that just yet.
The random loot spins are in the Toy Box. They’re random items/tools/locations you can unlock that are not tied to a certain playset. That’s an Infinity Emblem thing, and you get those from completing quests etc, not levelling up (as far as I know so far).
How many hours do they or you suggest that they get out of each play set/co-op characters.
About 4-5 if you want to complete every challenge and collect every collectable.
Sorry to bring back the LoL spam of yore but I was browsing streams this morning and came across this guy. The guy has a serious condition in which he has little use of his limbs, and thus plays games with his cheek and a pen in his mouth.
Some may say that there are people with similar or worse conditions achieving greater things – but I’m still pretty astounded at how he has persevered and adapted to continue doing something he is obviously passionate about.
i bet he is better than me too 🙂
And he plays better than I can
Happy Splinter Cell day folks!
What console you getting it on? Or you master racing it?
360 (same as Conviction) I have bought it but it is locked in a cupboard until Father’s Day 🙁 At which point I will spend the entire Sunday getting around Spies vs Mercs (Face Off from Conviction is as tense as a two-player game gets, so I’m interested to see what it’s like expanded)
BTW Target has it on special for $60 this week (JB price matched them for me!)
I got it on PS3!
Whoa, that Prison Break guy is gay? Who knew!
Looking forward to Stoker. He wrote that movie! (@sughly hated it. :D)
Does it matter?
That Sughly hated the movie? Yes.
That Prison Break guy is gay? No.
Dave and Margeret liked it, fyi
Sughy reviews have more weight than Dave and Margret. 😛
Haha, thanks man. Nice to know I have a second career plan if this one falls through
Oh you’ll keep making adventure games. >:|
Whether you want to or not. 😛
To be fair, I put almost no weight in David and Margaret’s reviews. David’s a pompous twat.
I don’t even know who these people are. Haha!
Eyyy, David’s a living legend! He has some outdated notions of certain things for sure, but he’s seen more films and met more people in the industry than almost anyone, he does know what hes talking about
@sughly I don’t mean to discount the fact that he’s an important figure in Australian film, but his views on films are particularly antiquated, which is only going to get more and more obvious as cinema continues to evolve.
David might have an air of pomposity about him, but he’s a totally groovy dude.
Yeah I get your meaning @bdkiaf… I think sometimes he is, but he does often come out with more modern ways of thinking on film, I dont think hes completely set in ways of old. Just… mostly is.
@sughly If I’m honest, I may slightly regret calling him a pompous twat. That’s excessive. But, I dunno, I don’t match up well with his opinions I suppose. I mean, the guy is in his 70s. How much is he going to have in common with me at 22?
Also, I’ve missed this.
Dont remind me he’s old! With this recent break they took and the trialling of the other two replacements… it will be a sad day when they inevitably step down. I’ve watched almost every ep for years now :'(
@sughly I think it’s coming, and very soon. You could be the next David. I’ll be Margaret.
Get back to work.
It doesn’t really matter in any real sense, except now I can tell all my female friends that want to get into his pants.
That said though, if they ever did meet him they’d probably still try.
Which one? Dracula, or Chris Redfield?
The guy from the ‘Go Fish’ episode of Buffy. She broke his nose! XD
I’ve never watched Buffy! /o\
D:
That’s all I did in high school. Watched Buffy. (And Star Trek.)
It hasn’t aged well, Angel is generally better but you kind of have to have watched Buffy to really “get” the characters.
People have shows that defines their high school experience and that’s Buffy for me. Was the right age and in the right place.
I didn’t watch it until I was about 22, my girlfriend introduced me to it. I’d seen the original movie and didn’t really get what all the fuss was about. I do love it, but not as much as I probably would if I had seen it earlier. Kind of like how I love Rocky Horror, but if you introduce it to someone in their 20s now, they think it’s rubbish.
I was in my late 20s when I first really sat down and watched the full series of Buffy and Angel (in chronological order), instead of simply catching an episode here and there on TV as a teen.
Same story: insistence by the GF of the time. I really enjoyed it, even as an adult. Some of the darker Angel stuff really struck home to me.
It came out when I was in my early 20s. I flat out refused to watch a TV series with such a stupid title (I’m bad that way in that I love Star Trek so it took me ages to come around on Babylon 5 because my brain only has room so one kind of science fiction at a time!)
A friend at the time had been sourcing tapes of Trek from the US so we could keep up with the latest DS9 and Voyager eps, and he snuck on a few eps of Buffy.
The first episode I saw (months before it aired here too) was Becoming, Part II. The second season finale that ended with that Sarah McLachlan song.
Despite not having any context for the characters or what was going on, I “got” that episode – it was a tragedy, pure and simple and it blew me away. I felt the writing was on par with shows like Picket Fences and the X Files which were big at the time and immediately I had to see more.
My recommendation – if you’re new to the show – watch that episode first – it worked on me, I own all of them on DVD nowadays as a testament!
I think you might have missed your chance. It’s a much more impactful show if you watch it when you’re young and impressionable.
Chris Redfield.
Wow, I had no idea, Good to see him stand up about Russia though 🙂
He’s pretty cute too IMHO
Yeah, even I have to admit he’s a good looking dude.
the blue power ranger was also gay.
he was harassed & bullied by the rest of the cast & crew because of this.
moral of the story? the power rangers are dicks.
also, so is anyone who harasses anyone else based on their sexual orientation. or for any other reason, for that matter. yeah. jerks.
Seriously? The other rangers were hassling their co-worker for being gay? The other guys knew that they were getting paid money to wear spandex costums and playact battles against bad costumes in what was basically a 22-minute toy commercial, right?
I mean, of all the environments to criticise your co-worker’s sexual preference…
Particularly in the acting industry where you could easily land a role doing something/someone you wouldnt normally
Tommy (Green/White Ranger) was apparently the worst offender. Dude’s a hardcore Christian that now competes in MMA and has his own clothing line Jesus Didn’t Tap.
Jesus did tap. That’s the whole point of the religion.
What an asshole.
Mental image of Jesus tapdancing.
He knew
I’ve been sick all week, and along with that I have been having some intesely terrifying fever dreams. Nothing specific, just general terror and waking up in a bed drenched with cold sweat.
This morning I was woken up around 4am to a rumbling/screeching noise and a flickering orange light that caused me to believe my dryer was on fire, situated as it is on the balcony outside my bedroom window; I often load it right before going to bed and let it run through the night).
Turns out it was a garbage truck picking up all the discarded furniture and other detritus left on the street due to it being council cleanup week.
Was playing chivalry last night. There is just something special about kicking an Agatha man at arms into a fiery pit of doom.
I played a little bit of that. Don’t think I’ve ever sucked so much in a game in my life.
It takes a while to get used to the combat but is rewarding once you do
Although generally you will get into a good duel with somebody right up until you get a crossbow bolt through the chest.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/youtube-reacts-hilariously-to-video-of-geek-women/
@sughly, @gutsoup
Watch out for the monkey, he throw things.
That’s a man’s game. A manly man’s game!
Brilliant.
Love the voice acting in the positivity one. XD
Colobus?
Oh man, I love dramatic readings of comments. It might well be the best thing about Youtube.
And dooooowwn the rabbit hole we go…
The Donkey Kong one is amazing. 😀
Watching now. Amazing, indeed!
ha, they are always so good,
What was with the guys going on about fishing, that was hilarious.
“Omg, I’m just like you, stay strong”
That made me laugh. So damn good. 😀
I love the ones that read the spelling errors phonetically. They crack me up.
Most of the rest are too disturbing to be pure amusement, though they are funny if you try not to think about the real person behind them! 😛
Would I be wrong in assuming that if someone uses the terms PS Troll, Xfag or such that anything they have to say is pretty much invalid?
thats right nintenqueer
So’s your face..uh…bOUYA toucher….
….
That was terrible.
Segay.
Nintendork flows better.
shut up vitard
Fatari.
No-one has used wiitard yet? Baffling.
(Edit: Source: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/07/09 )
I’m a PlayStallion.
No @lucifer9783 Taylist today?
OK, I’ll take requests, for a Spotify playlist. No Hanson.
My Body is a Cage — Peter Gabriel cover!
Not on Spotify- put “book of love” from the same album on there
Also a good song cause it reminds me of Scrubs.
The Arcade Fire version would’ve worked too. XD
Eh, I had to go Magnetic Fields.
In fact I chucked another Magnetic Fields track on there for fun
IS THIS MY CHANCE?!
CHAINSAW GUTSFUCK.
…Which track?
Don’t really include that. That’s just an awful idea.
The Mother We Share – Chvrches
I wub your music taste.
I know, Rocketman. I know.
Crystal Castles feat Robert smith- Not in love
On the list!
Tragic Symphony by err. . . nosnaH
Nosnah? sounds Indian.
It’s an Oklahoman native word.
I’m not happy with Oklahomans, they shoot Australian baseballers for fun.
Can we really judge bands by the area that they’re from?
We don’t assume all Russian bands wear denim or that all German bands are fantastic brewers.
Yes. Yes we can.
I’ve found a Tragic Symhpny by someone called The London Symphony Orchestra.
I assume it’s a cover.
McLusky – Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues.
Done
El Fusilado – Chumbawamba
No luck
Yeah, pretty sure the only Chumbawamba Spotify has is Tubthumping, which is reasonable given it’s the only song of theirs that anyone knows.
It actually has a fair bit, just not that track
Colour me surprised.
Which I assume is some sort of purpley-green.
No, that’s Octarine.
Are you saying that magic doesn’t surprise you?
that song…. can’t take it.
Jimu had a room mate who owned the single and liked to play it on repeat. I am traumatised
Sledgehammer – Peter Gabriel.
Yup
Good Vibrations – Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.
eww, but done.
Puscifer – The Mission
Cause Mila Jovovich’s voice is as sexy as the woman. 😀
I’m noticing a pattern with their album names.
huh? they’re silly and rude?
Pretty much
saw them live last year and was really impressed, didn’t think it would be as awesome as it was but damn was it good, the female vocalist is ridiculous, there are a couple of really deep strange sounds that i always presumed were Maynard but nope, all her. Amazing
Looks like he’s been moved to Mondays.
http://www.5yyy.com.au/programs.html
He used to be on mondays- how old is that schedule?
According to Facebook just over a month?
last couple of weeks he’s been on thursday.
New Order – Crystal
Added!
@greenius: http://tvline.com/2013/08/21/survivor-blood-vs-water-cast-twists/
@sughly
And you cannot forget @strange ! 😀 <3
@powalen @phoenix @masha2932 … @dc ! 😀
O_o
Naked and Afraid is where it’s at-show seems to have ended though 🙂
Excite 🙂
AHHHH that subbing idea is amazing! Will add so much more to think about when voting for people. ARGGHHH SURVIRORRRRR
C’mon @dc join in for this season? 😀
I would, but… you know… I’m not going to because I don’t wanna. 😛
An acceptable reason but we’ll compare notes so much that you’ll be mad jelly.
And I’ll continue to compare notes about The Newsroom with myself and you guys will continue to be jelly. 😛
I’m prepared to continue to share notes about The Newsroom, as long as you can cope with them mostly being “it’s not as good as the West Wing”
Acceptable, as long as you don’t mind me constantly saying: “SOVIET ARCOLOGIES”
Also, agreed. It’s not as good as The West Wing but it’s still pretty damn great and Sorkin-esque and I love it. *folds arms stubbornly*
I had a dream I met Allison Janney the other night. I’ve been having weird dreams lately. D:
Are you guys watching the NBC show Siberia? It starts off as a reality show, something goes wrong and then it becomes a survival drama. (It’s all fiction, but filmed like Survivor.)
That sounds pretty cool.
Hmm, I might check out an episode or two, sounds interesting.
Kind of like these weird survivor-like shows. Naked and Afraid for example is kind of like survivor but more about the survival. Two contestants go to an area completely naked and have to survive for 21days. Each episode is a different man and woman.
Oh what? I actually thought it was like a dating show with naked people 😛
I like Survival shows (Survivorman is good) so I might check it out. I assume they’re professionals 😛
Dating show? What? Ha ha ha.
Yeah, they are trained experts and there’s no nudity in the show. They blur all the private parts. Try an episode, it’s kind of cool. There are only 7 episodes in total so it should be easy to get them all.
Really, really interesting article about my day job, and possibly yours too.
http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
Only read the intro so far, since I’m doing my bullshit job, but I’ll definitely give it a read.
I’ve often pondered how bullshit some jobs are and how my job, and the company I work for, came to exist.
I’ve been formulating this sort of social theory over the last year or so. Interesting to see it put into a well written piece by someone a lot smarter and far more qualified than me to pass comment on the matter.
I’ve thought something along these lines since being exposed to Yes Minister, which states outright that there are huge groups of people whose sole job is to make work for each other (though, am aware it’s *technically* fiction). But yes, seeing it put down in terms like this is quite refreshing and enlightening.
Theories like these can be explored through robust discussion.
Problem is, it’s also a challenge to The Unquestioned Belief About The Way The World Works. So most people just look at me like I’m crazy and change topic. It’s quite a difficult conversation to actually have with sane, rationally minded people in my experience.
People in my life mostly think I’m just whining when I say my job feels meaningless.
Man… I really need to find something I enjoy and find work involving that something.
I think I’ve been working too much, how did i not know (until now) that there was a new Suda 51 game on the horizon “Killer is Dead”
I have failed myself 😛
and it looks super rad.
I’ma go get educated about it 😀
I’m hoping that I can pick it up cheap at some point. I’ve always wanted to like Suda’s games but something about them never clicks for me.
Same for Platinum’s stuff – just don’t like their games. Which is odd because they’re basically Clover and they made Okami and that’s one of my favourite games.
So. As you all know I was tattooed last night. Here’s a pic if you missed it last night: https://twitter.com/Strangist/status/370136009704366080/photo/1
I’m pretty damned happy with it. It looks great from all angles and no matter which way I turn my arm.
As soon as I walked into the room where the work is done I knew it was going to be fine because the walls the were painted green ( Hi @greenius! ) so it was obviously an awesome room.
He worked methodically from my wrist up so I’m glad I was able to sit for all of it or I would have been wandering around looking pretty silly until I could get it finished. 😛
There was a point about an hour in where I started to feel clammy and queasy, kind of like motion sickness but thankfully I was able to get through it. At the point where I was just about to let the guy know, it just went away and for the rest of it (about 2 more hours) I was fine.
It wraps all the way around the inside of my forearm and goes from my wrist all the way up to the crook of my elbow and those bits were where it got pretty painful. Where my wrist meets my hand, and right in the crook of my elbow were pretty bad, but even they were nothing compared to lower inside part of my forearm. Youch! Worth it, though. 😀
The guy was pretty quiet, which was good. And I didn’t really want to distract him when he was concentrating so we mostly sat in (non-awkward, @dc…not all silence is awkward:P )silence. There were three other guys being tattooed too and the room was mostly silent except for the music they were playing. But as it got later one of the tattooists (who was behind a screen and didn’t know a female was in the room) started up a conversation about whether they would fuck certain gross celebrities or not. This went back and forth for a while. He was kind of embarrassed when he finally noticed I was there. 😛
Looks amazing, my friend. As I said on twitter last night — the design stands on its own even not knowing what it is. One of the best tattoos I’ve honestly ever seen.
Looks great! 🙂
WaxEyes Blind Lady design is amazing.
Demon’s Souls \o/
I prefer to think of it as a Dreamfall April Ryan. It works both ways! XD
The elusive @strange downvote! 😀
(but between you and me, based on that stream I saw you playing, it kind of does look like her! :P)
Strange downvotes me often! XD
Me too! 😛
As someone who generally doesn’t like tattoos (does that call my taste into question? 😛 ), that tattoo looks amazing.
Also painful, but mostly amazing. 😀
I dont like the idea for me, doesnt mean we cant appreciate the art on other people. 🙂
Which celebrities?
Oh, Rockets. 😛
Is it snookie?
cause i wouldnt hit that with a 10 foot pole.
Quite frankly if i had a ten footer i could get any girl 😛
Daniel Craig?
D:
:'(
You probably wouldn’t be able to finish your tattoo any way, while taking blood thinners!
Yours isn’t just the bottom half of a lady, which mine would have been….
What’d your husband and kids think? 😀
My husband is frustrating. He’s never enthusiastic about anything. So when I took the wrap off and showed him he just matter-of-factly said “Cool.” From him, I think that’s high praise though. 😀
My son saw it this morning and told me it looked pretty awesome. My daughter also liked it and isn’t embarrassed to be seen with it on me. So I’m not sure if that’s a win or not. 😛
Listen to your son, Strange. He’s a cool kid who likes Star Trek. Pretty awesome is right!
Woah. That’s really good.
I think it looks amazing 🙂
Very nice. I’d be well stoked with that. Nice to see someone getting quality work done – I’ve lost count of how many tattoos I see on the internet and they’re just awful. But people have no idea because they don’t know better.
I actually don’t have any tattoos myself, but my ex who is also my housemate is a piercer so I’ve got to spend a lot of time looking at awesome tattoos and talking to some very cool artists. The downside is now I have an eye for quality, you realise just how many god-awful tattoos there are out there.
Extra points for Maiden in Black – great subject for a tattoo, and I bet there aren’t many out there.
EDIT: I have plans for a tattoo, but when I do it’ll be a full backpiece of one of Horiyoshi’s 100 Demons. Trouble is, that’ll be a 20+ hour project and several thousand dollars. I’ll get there one day.
Soft. I’ve already spent that many hours and dollars.
Full back piece is a hell of a place to start though. I’m not interested in getting any other tattoos anywhere else either. This would be a very personal statement. I’d be getting the amazing Adam Kitamoto from Ten-Ten Tattoo to do it as well. They’re like 10 minutes down the road from my place.
Just looked that guy up.
Amazing.
He’s disgustingly talented. Someone like that I know could give me what I wanted.
Yakuzawesome
http://www.ten-ten.com.au/art.html
AMAZING!
http://www.ten-ten.com.au/tattoo1.html
To be honest, it’s not perfect and I see a few things not the greatest about it, but I don’t care because it’s all mine, and it’s also better than I was expecting it to be.
I was initially worried because I’ve seen Inkmaster(reality elimination show about tattooists, almost all of whom I would never ever let touch me. 😛 ) and when I first started watching I’d look at some of the tattoos and think they were cool…and then find out from the judges they were terrible but by the end of the second season I found myself picking everything to pieces almost as bad as the judges. And I’ve also taken some classes on Design in order to train my quilting and sewing eye. So I didn’t really want to turn that newly critical eye to my own tattoo. But when he was talking about what he’d do, before he started, I was put at ease by the fact that the way he was explaining stuff meant he knew what he was doing.
I hope I still know you when you finally get yours done. I’d love to see it!
I’d be proud to have a tattoo like that, Strange! 😀
Rad.
Having a half-finished tattoo is the worst. I had just the outline of my half-sleeve for months. It sucks.
Also, yeah, the inside of the wrist where all the tendons (maybe? Iunno) are is just awful.
The armpit and soft part of the neck also suck.
When my wife was getting her most recent tattoo done I was sitting in the waiting area and chatting with a guy who was there getting something touched up. He showed me this half finished tattoo on his chest/stomach region that was an awesome tribute to his parents. Outlines were done but he needed probably another 4-6 hours on shading and colouring. He said straight up that he was putting it off because it just hurt too much – and this is a guy that has something like 120+ hours of work done so far.
Yeah, not gonna lie…that bit kind of felt like he was slitting my wrists.
HI AWESOME TATTOO LADY!
Lydia Lydia o have you met Lydia…?
Looks amazing. Can’t believe you had it all done in one sitting!
Conversations in tattoo parlours are hit and miss. When my wife went to have her first one done the guys were watching Jerry Springer. when I went to the same place a week later, they were discussing Star Trek.
I said this already on Facey, but I stand by my comments. That looks fucking awesome.
Okey Dokey
The Taylist, 22nd August
Ritual Union – Little Dragon (because I wanted to)
The Book of Love – Peter Gabriel (suggested indirectly by @dc)
The Mother we share – CHVRCHES (suggested by @bdkiaf)
Not in Love (feat Robert Smith) – Crystal Castles (suggested by @rocketman)
Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues – Mclusky (suggested by @35)
You Must be Out of Your Mind – The Magnetic Fields
Sledgehammer – Peter Gabriel (suggested by @shane)
Good Vibrations – Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch (suggested by @freezespreston)
The Mission “M is for Milla” mix – Puscifer (suggested by @gutsoup)
Spiegel im Spiegel – Arvo Part
Cornflake Girl – Tori Amos (It’s her Birthday!)
Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, “Tragic” – London Symphony Orchestra (suggested by @trjn)
Thats a good list, I just missed out 🙂
Also:
Crystal – New Order (suggested by @gingerchris86)
@bdkiaf That Chvrches track is pretty cool, might have to check them out
THEY HAVE 2 EPS AND ALBUM OUT LATER YEAR. THEY ARE AWESOME.
I just signed up to spotify to listen to your list. 😀
@dc
http://imdb.com/title/tt0251031/
Soooo, that Disney Infinity looks cool.
Anyone get it yet? Any good?
Beardy wrote up some detailed thoughts on the previous page!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/talk-amongst-yourselves-238/comment-page-13/#comment-1812962
Ah, thanks!
Any time, my non-meat attending friend! 😛
Lambo. Doesn’t. Meat. #VegetarianPride
I’m just kidding, I’ll make it to one again one of these days.
The Hobbit Meat 2, 26 December!
Probably not, I’m already making plans to see it with a certain someone else :3
Melbourne TAYbies, huh. You’re worse than the treacherous @trjn. 😛
@dc :'(
@dc I’m not treacherous. Well, I am but there was probably a point to this reply.
He’s just scared you’ll steal his special lady friend away from him with your dashingly handsomeness
Unfortunately, under decree 81736, we are no longer allowed to discuss that game, as it has been deemed a class six threat to wallets across the board. If you would like to set up a personal Infinity related enquiry, you can find forms in sub-office 14C, though they require the signature of the surgeon general, for some reason.
Time to quit your job, man! 🙂
I’m well ahead of you on that. 😛
I’m okay. I adore the movies but have zero interest in that game.
My early access code for FFXIV *finally* arrived. i was getting worried.
Now to see if the new PC parts I ordered arrive before the weekend.
Still not sure how that works for Legacy account holders. I’m not rebuying the game because I already own it – I’m guessing all I need to do is resubcribe when it launches. Surely existing/Legacy account holders get early access?
You would think so but no, we don’t. Early access requires you to preorder.
Having a 1.0 account gets you two weeks free. If you were an actual legacy 1.0 player you also get discounted subscription fees IIRC
Yeah that was what I understood. Lifetime subscription discounts. Guess it doesn’t matter too much about a week’s early access.
It’s not even a week, it’s 24th through to launch on the 27th so just this weekend.
Oh Deponia, you so crazy!
The first time I tried to play it, it crashed in the main menu when I tried to start a New Game. The second and third time it crashes Steam when I try to open it.
:/
Maybe it deems you unworthy ever since the time you said you weren’t buying Scratches because of the metacritic score. 😛
It was mainly because I don’t like scarey gaems and it was like $5 or something :3
But I bought it anyway because it’s $1 now 😛
*don’t like scary games, bough amnesia*
#thingsPixeldo
I got it in a bundle and tried playing it once but chickened out 😀
I’ll play it properly one day…
I clocked an entirety of 11minutes in that game… reckon 3 of those at least is navigating menues and loading times…
\o/ NERVES OF STEEL
17 minutes for me
\o/
Get Scratches! We’ll Scratch things together.
\o/ sounds like a plan! 😛
Amnesia is my goal though! i normally don’t mind *some* horror games (played F.E.A.R, Dead Space, Resident Evil, Silent Hill etc) but something about Amnesia just freaks the fudgeknuckle out of me
@pixel_the_ferret_viking I think it’s because in all the ones you mentioned, you have a gun to hide behind.
Having a roommate who plays Amnesia is awesome. I had one for a while. Silly person would play it at night.
Oh, the mayhem. Just gently pushing their door open from out of sight was high value entertainment.
Monster!
Welcome to Magicka!
But THAT’S the game! it’s an adventure game… you point at the game, you click, you crash… you then use your knowledge to solve the puzzle on how to get it running, and once it’s running, YOU WIN \o/…
The real challenge is believing in yourself!
I got stuck as I got to that minecart bit and did something the wrong order and couldn’t fix it.
Is that the one with the train tracks switching. There’s a bug that makes that unwinnable to some people. You can skip it though!
You can? Oh well, I’ll get back to it one day!
(I’ve said a thousand times)
Do you guys like being GENEROUS to CHARITIES?!
DO you like it when CHARITIES give you a chance to win stuff that is awesome for donating?!
Do you love Warhammer 40,000, but don’t want to spend the stupid amounts of money required on it.
Well you need to visit the Nova Open Foundation page!
Gove to charity for a chance to win a FULL dark angels army. Or perhaps a Necron army.. or perhaps Warmachine is more your thing???
Go on.. you know you want to..
http://novaopenfoundation.org/?tcp_product=redemption-of-the-fallen-army-raffle-ticket
@f4ction @tech_knight @ynefle @freezespreston @tigerion @steveothedevo @whoeverelsemaycare
Hehe Ynefle !
@ynefel
@Steve-o_the_deve-o (I think)
thanks, buddy 🙂
What would i do without you?
Wait for @dc to add them 😀
Ynefle = @ynefel in Yuffie cosplay?
Done. That’s a pretty sweet looking army, even if it is the Emo Angels.
CRAWLING IN MY ROBES!
APOTHACARY CURE MY WOUNDS!
\m/ Best Army!
Also, emo marines are Blood Angels. They even have the longish hair.
Did you see the Necron lot too?
Maaaan I want those Necrons!
Anyone seen any good live shows lately? I now have tickets to Miss Marple, Merchant of Venice and David Sedaris.
I saw Potted Potter a while ago and that was fantastic but don’t think it’s running any more.
Also Ross Noble.
Ross Noble is the greatest.
Ooh I’ve always wanted to see Ross Noble
The Fringe Award winning Wolf Creek the Musical! Starring 2013 Raw Comedy winner Demi Lardner and guy-who-looks-related-to-redartifice Angus Hodge!
http://www.melbournefringe.com.au/fringe-festival/show/wolf-creek-the-musical/
Our office is moving into the city tomorrow. Boo-urns. It means I’m going to have to commute into the city daily now instead of walking across a field and crossing the road. Benefits: 10 minute walk to the station, 10 minute walk to the office in the morning, and the same in the afternoon. That’s 40 minutes of walking a day I never got where I’m working at the moment, and that’s going to be a good thing.
The only bad thing about where we’re living is that it’s only about 10-15 minutes out of the city by bus or train, so it’s barely long enough to get into a book or a game. Other than that, I’m the only person in my section of the office today, it’s slow as fuck, and I’m trying to stave off the boredom. My desk is packed. I pretty much just need to seal the box and I’m good to go. Not sure what I’m going to do tomorrow. There likely won’t even be a computer on my desk for half the day :/
Bring some notes for your book, and write longhand. #protip
Two words:
Office hockey.
I hear you. I used to live 15 minutes train ride from the city and it’s just long enough to want to do something but not enough time to get into it. Ah, the society we are nowadays.
Hope you like the change. It’s quiet at my work too, everyone delayed their Ekka holiday until today and tomorrow, there will literally be 4 out of about 60 people here tomorrow but i have to be here. I told my boss I’m going to bring my Vita in and bludge, their response “yeah why not, no one will be here anyway”
That’s all I needed, tomorrow is Vita at work day for me, whooop
Haha nice!
I was expecting a boring slow day that dragged on,
This changes everything 😀
…and TAY? 😀
there’s always TAY 😛
Adding olives to a salad increases tastiness by 200%.
Fruit salad?
Fruit Salad is not a proper salad.
But even if it was, it is already so tasty that adding olives simply causes the tastiness to overflow and wrap back around.
Well now I’ll have to give this a go.
boooooooo olives suck!
source: an italian who was forced to eat olives as a child, even though he hated them.
Salad, nachos, pizza. Nearly everything is better with olives.
They’re like bacon.
Pasta sauce.
Cheese’n’crackers.
Olives.
I don’t care if it makes me less manly, whenever my brother and I make vodka martinis (we have them EXTRA dry), we usually have at least three olives each.
Oh right, reminder.
Canberra people: @shane, @bdkiaf, @rize, whoever I’ve forgotten.
Sydney (and surrounding areas) people: @35, @alexpants, @anonymous_pessimist, @batgirl, @batguy, @cakesmith, @cj, @doc_what, @effluvium-boy, @fatshadylive, @freya, @gingerchris86, @gorzilla, @harli, @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian, @masha2932, @kermitron, @mawt, @mrtaco, @powalen, @pyrean, @ruffleberg, @shiggyninty, @trjn, (I’ve probably missed some people, and I’m sure some of the people here have zero interest, so if you want me to not tag you in the future, please give me a heads up)
Other people: @strange, gonna invite @novacascade because he’s nearby but doesn’t really fall under “surrounding Sydney”, uhhh, @rocketman because it will annoy him, I dunno. If you’re not here, don’t take offence, you’re invited. Unless I don’t like you. You know who you are. I’m glaring at your name right now. But in a different window.
*Cough*
Canberra Meat! Usual stuff! The 21st of September (But Blaghs, isn’t that GTA V weekend? It… Uhhh… Shut up. Don’t judge my lack of foresight!)!
Other words!
Disney Infinity!
See one of Australia’s six Wii U’s, and wonder why anyone would buy one!
Singstar!
Probably LittleBigPlanet because there’s always LittleBigPlanet.
Notice that Blaghs has disappeared for 3 hours to cry in his room!
Food & Alcohol!
A disturbing and saddening lack of @bish.
I’ll (maybe) be there for sure!
You can bring unwanted games and leave them behind!
That’s the plan: drop and run.
I miss Bish.
I miss you.
i miss him too.
I’m not cleaning up your spew.
pussy
At least I can handle my drink, brah.
At least i have cool friends who can handle me when i get drunk. O wait you have that too. damn it.
I wouldn’t worry i don’t get drunk much anymore, too many bad experiences. 😛 I am such a lightweight
If we can get some car pooling going, I am in.
I’ve heard carpooling is pretty cool
http://www.webwombat.com.au/entertainment/humour/images/carpool.jpg
Bring your snorkels. It’s a long time to hold your breath.
Sounds good. If there’s a Sydney group driving down I’m happy to pay my share of the fuel costs and tag along.
I’ll be there! I’ll probably bring my sister, too to make it even more awkward. \o/
boobs?
Don’t talk about your Aunt like that, son….
Hahahah i wanna let you meet my real mum so you can tell each other how terrible i am.
😛
In person tattoo reveal! \o/
I am considering going and it’s all your fault.
I am gonna try and make it because i enjoy your company.
I will get back to you. I am not opposed to a trip to Canberra, but it will depend on other commitments and whether my wife is ok with me taking the car for the weekend, which probably means this is a no.
But I am exploring the possibility.
My names not there.
Excuse me, I need to go to the toilet. No no. It’s just something in my eye.
Sorry, who are you again?
Oh I see, ignore me! THIS ISN’T TEAMSPEAK BLAGHSY!
Is someone speaking? I thought I heard something. Must have just been rats.
Sounds good.
Married men? Not welcome.
This is during Tokyo Game Show, meaning I’ll be overseas for work. I’m sorry @blaghman, looks like I’ll be missing out on the funs!
That’s okay, I understand that you just hate me. 😛 Have fun at TGS!
She doesn’t hate you.
She’s just such a big shot that whatever you have planned is beneath. Be glad you were deemed worthy of a reply at all.
There wasn’t Little Big Planet last time you liar!
ps. I will be there. Probably end up driving again.
Thanks for the lift Powalen!
Nice guy Pow, gonna pick me up aswell!
Just put a laptop with Teamspeak on the kitchen counter and it’ll be like I’m actually there!
Blaghman just reminded me, I’ll be in Melbourne, um… next week? Maybe the week after? I dunno.
Like, arriving some time between 31/08 and 03/09.
Spending about a week bumming around hotel rooms, looking at graffiti, drinking coffee (I guess. That’s what people do in Melbourne, right?), and… stuff.
You forgot smugly talking about why Melbourne is better than every other city then move to the Gold Coast as quickly as you can, only to complain about how much better Melbourne is.
WRONG. Don’t drink the coffee, spit it out and complain you can get much better from a hole in the wall café hidden at the back of a little known laneway no-one else has heard of.
I also play a game while walking through the city called “avoid the broken glass bottles”, on weekends and mondays it’s like hard mode
Sounds like a good trip to me
COFFEE LET’S GET COFFEE FLU
Oh that’s interesting, I’m in melbourne 5/9-7/9
Huge coincidence, I’m going to be in Melbourne 31/8 – 3/9 AND 5/9 – 7/9!
@negativezero, @princesspipster, @budgieishere, @inquisitorsz, @syvraen, @jordi, @splicer, @tofu, @ynefel, @blood_apathy, @notoriousr, @sarcasmfairy, @joshy206, @dire_wolf, @crazyguy1990, @aidan, @beavwa, @chuloopa, @f4ction, @tech_knight, @klutar, @scree, @pixel_the_ferret_viking, @greenius, @zetrox2k, @mcgarnical, @smurfydog, @tigerion, @velnica
@miketarno !
Mikey T
Just doing a @dc and leaving some people out… just so others can feel useful too. *shifty eyes*
Bitch pa-lease. I taught D.C. the tagging ways.
You’re an asshole! Almost as big of an asshole as I am for not loitering around here recently…
Biggest asshole.
Yes , Hi, I’m still alive….
Good to hear! How are things, man?
Yeah good I guess.
Work is still boring (applied to a few new places recently).
Was skiing in NZ last week, that was cool. (see what I did there?)
Other than that, just the usual daily grind.
The rest of my 40K army arrived from the UK before I left for NZ so I’ll try sit down and finish painting everything now.
A few games sitting on the “hurry up and play me” pile, and with GTA5, Splinter Cell and Watch Dogs on the horizon, things are looking very busy.
Other than that…. not much.
Icy what you did.
Ugh.
Are we all aware that Politifacts launched a site in Australia?! About damn time
http://www.politifact.com.au
No S in the URL.
DAMMIT
Thanks for the heads up phlaiman
hehe this site is awesome.
They don’t apply the same standards to both sides, so I don’t see the point in paying attention to them.
ABC is running their own fact checker which is somewhat better.
bah, was hoping they actually did, haven’t check the site while at work
Which way do the lean?
The Coalition gets a much easier ride.
I wouldn’t say that. According to the people pages, Abbott has had a harder time than Rudd on there.
There was some stuff early in the campaign where both sides made claims based on similar arguments (basically that the maths for the funding was done on the back of an envelope and hasn’t been shown to anyone). The Coalition one was mostly true because we hadn’t seen the numbers, the Labor one was mostly false because we hadn’t seen the numbers.
My memory might be a little off but it was early enough in the life of the site for me to lose interest in them.
EDIT: Anyhow, Abbott has said that you can’t trust anything he says that isn’t a prepared remark. Of course he gets caught lying more :p
Ah ok, well I wouldn’t judge them too harshly yet, it site looks pretty young at the moment. I think it will be a good tracking tool to go into the next election cycle.
The truth-o-meter had Abbott with 44% False/Mostly False and Rudd at 44%. I think I misread their totals earlier, but either way pretty neck and neck.
The best ones are the outlying crazies, like the Christian Democrat Party, Bob Katter, Mike Holt.
Fruit salad is the best salad.
@effluvium-boy
@negativezero
Yummeee yummeeee
GET OUT. >:(
I am eating salad right now, with fruit salad soon to follow.
Sorry I’m late, meeting.
http://i.imgur.com/6Q3k7qB.jpg
Not feeling 100% so I called in sick at the radio station, @redartifice was taking requests for a spotify list.
Sorry that there won’t be a TAYlist this week.
Pearl Jam – Given to Fly
Haha, just kidding. I hope you feel better soon.
Hope you feel better!
Spotify link is near top of page
You know, I was going to write up another reply in that SR4 article, but I think I’ll go and bash my head against a brick wall instead.
Probably be safer for your brain that way.
I saw the guy comparing it to race.
whaaaaaaaaat.
Yep, that’s the one. I just can’t justify the time it would take to reply to that comment. It’s really not worth it.
downvote and drive on.
Ugh, just had a look. Don’t bother.
I really want to go in there and say “I have the right to watch videos of a kitten enduring beastiality, and it’s the Nanny state’s fault that I can’t.”
I feel like that might be taking it a little too far though, and it is rather, well, straw man.
Just read the first chapter where Asha Greyjoy is introduced,
Man…what a woman! Poor Theon nearly love-at-first-sighting his sneaky sister.
Psst: http://www.rot13.com
(I’ve read the books, so don’t mind, but some here haven’t yet! :))
Unfortunately for me works internet script wont allow me to use spoilers (or see voters). Still, point taken :] – I didnt think what I mentioned was damaging to the story >.<
Like I said, I don’t think so either, but there are folks who are more touchy about spoilers than I am. Also, if that had been a Breaking Bad spoiler… *deadpan threatening glare* 😛
Spoiler: Walt is bald.
Actual spoiler:
npghnyyl ur’f abg :C
I’ll go back to my hovel. I wouldn’t dare ^.^
That’s different though. Spoiler tags seem to be broken throughout the Allure sites.
Rot13 just changes the letters so it goes from this
to
Ebg13 whfg punatrf gur yrggref fb vg tbrf sebz guvf
Ohh I see, I did not know.
I just assumed a lot of people drank on TAY.
Hahaha, we’re all having fits.
What makes you think we don’t?
The lack of drunken sing-a-longs for one..
We save those for meats!
I try not to let my drinking get in the way of a good master rant. Race. *hic* Shit.
In my experience drinking helps a good rant :]
No we let our cats on our keyboards too much 😛
Haha that was my second guess!
Turns out a wired 360 controller is REEEEAAALLLY hard to find in a retail shop.
I got one from EB no troubles.
They’re all out of stock locally.
Unless I want a pink or purple Afterglow one.
Why wouldn’t you want a purple one?
Uh, because there’s a pink one, obviously.
..do you not?
Every JB I’ve been to has them.
Shall I procure you one?
Perhaps send it down wrapped in a ham bag (unwashed of course)
Do they still make the USB dongle that lets you use wireless 360 controllers with a PC? Because those were cheaper and IMO better.
My wireless Xbox controller is pretty dodgy. The battery pack keeps disconnecting and you need to push it in a bit to turn it back on.
http://dx.com/p/pc-wireless-gaming-receiver-for-xbox-360-controller-black-188982
Wired controller ftw
just about every JB has ’em in stock
Are you sentient radio interference?
affirmative.
i work at JB
with the rest of the “sentient radio interface(s)”.
Back in the hospital again, these monthly check ups whenever I go in it’s like whys this guy here
Hope it all goes well today, my friend!
More like, ‘why are YOU here to notice that I’m here again, huh?’
I have a hankering to donate a bunch of games to a kid’s charity or children’s ward or something but I don’t know where to start. the children’s wards I’ve contacted around Melbourne don’t seem to want ’em, are there any Melbourne based organisations that give games and junk to kids?
No idea but I would think that contacting either childs play or starlight foundation would be a good start
http://childsplaycharity.org/
yeh, i’ve looked into child’s play because i already donate but i don’t think they have anything going in melbs (i may have missed something though). totally didn’t think of starlight though.
A great initiative, dude!
I can’t help with specifics, unfortunately, but it’s a really nice idea.
If worse comes to worst, you can sell them and donate the proceeds.
From what I’ve seen, some charities are antsy about accepting electronics and games, because they a) can’t test them b) don’t want to be held liable for fire-causing failures c) don’t want to give untested game to child and see child’s face when said game locks up and/or crashes
yeh but i figured children’s wards had consoles anyways, i just wanted to chuck them a bunch of software for them ’cause i imagine the only games they may have they got with the machines. i considered the money thing but i’d prefer they had games…because games.
I’m young at heart.
It’s black, though.
Oh boy, is it black.
I’ll email you where to send them.
Internet, repeat after me:
Ridiculous. No e.
Ridonkulous.
That’s just redeculous
Definately.
Difenetily
Here, here! I’m always weary of making spelling mistakes in case people judge me.
Defiantly.
What the. Who spells ridiculous with an e?
That’s insan.
Unless, unless, bear with me here. Unless we’re talking about you.
You’re pretty Rediculous. Right? Because, because you’re Red. Yeah?
Retardedface
Better red than dead
That’s rediculous, no one spells ridiculous like that.
That shit cray.
What’s wrong with ridiculouse? He gives you the hilarious itch you just have to scratch.
Thumbs up! 😀
re:diculous
Redicco
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/environment/animals/turtle-hitches-ride-on-crocodile-20130822-2sd4r.html
http://www.polygon.com/2013/8/21/4645608/murdered-soul-suspect-trailer-focuses-on-a-witness
This game looks so cool. Like a weird L.A. Noire/Heavy Rain mixture. (I know, that combination might sound terrible to some other people… but to me… AWESOME! :D)
Some incisive political commentary in the SRIV comments: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/aie-apologises-for-saints-row-iv-delay-offer-free-dlc-in-return/comment-page-1/#comment-1814321
while that was a dumb comment, i think i want to try and make my character in saints row look like Kevin Rudd now…
Gotta zip!
*punches four cars and flies away*
sick day today, so i decided to snuggle up and watch Hot Fuzz, after seeing The World’s End a week ago and realising i hadn’t watched Hot Fuzz in ages.
damn that movie is good, now to further my Edgar Wright experience, i have to watch Scott Pilgrim, which i really liked, even though i know a few people who hated it.
Scott Pilgrim is simply awesome. So many gaming references.
Star Wars lego on catch of the day
http://www.catchoftheday.com.au/event/26278?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=wall%20post&utm_campaign=22082013_Lego
Bit out of my budget, but have fun.
I want all of the Star Wars ones! Who needs money, right?
No Super Star Destroyer. No deal. That thing is a three thousand piece puzzle.
Millenium Falcon HERE I COME! 😀
What a piece of junk!
She’ll make point five past light speed.
is that the same huge falccon one that was like $700 a few years ago?
Don’t think so, this is a newer variant
mm thought it might be too good to be true 😉 I might have actually starved myself for a week to get one otherwise!
No, it’s not the ultimate collector’s series version. That thing’s enormous – it’s to scale with the minifigs.
This one is probably 1/3 the size. Cockpit only seats one figure and it’s basically just a seat and a lever. It’s pretty big and pretty cool (I have it) but it’s not even remotely close to the UCS version.
it’s pretty cool all the same! It’d probably look nice next to my walking LEGO AT-AT!
Just wanted a general consensus – do articles like these read like advertising or am I just being overly cynical?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/not-all-new-skylanders-split-in-half-some-are-sabertooth-turtles/#comment-1815020
A lot of Fahey’s stuff does. Not sure if that’s his role or just the way he writes.
The problem as well is the subject matter – this is a game that plays like advertising.
That video you see? You get that in the game at one point when you find a hidden collectible, to tell you how awesome this character is and that you should be compelled to buy it if you don’t already have it.
D:
Oh man, I hate when you walk past someone on the street and you think they might’ve said hi but you’re not certain and you’ve walked past them and then you pretend not to have heard and feel like a jerk.
This is why I don’t like going outside. :S
It’s only weird if you know them!
What’s weirder is if they say hi or wave but you’re not sure if it’s at you, but you say it back anyway only to realise it wasn’t and things get awkssss
Situations like that are one of the reasons that I tend to ignore people unless they look straight at me, and are like “Sean/Blaghs, blah blah words words blah blah blah.” Otherwise I just assume they’re talking to someone else. Which is awkward when there’s only me and one other person, but shh.
It’s even more awkward when they say “Hi Freeze!” and you just sit there all “who were you again?”
Embarrassing.
It’s weird being on the other side of the “funny-awkward” situation for once. A good weird though. I probably shouldn’t get used to it.
I hate when I get waved at by some cute girl then only AFTER waving back realising she was actually waving to her friends behind me. :S
Oh man, it’s good to know robots have these problems too.
IT CONFUSED MY PROTOCOLS OKAY?! 😛 lol
NO Sleeping Dogs, BAD Sleeping Dogs!
Stop crashing and randomly loading all over the place, stop not having audio and don’t completely fail to load and then skip cutscenes too :'(
I don’t get it mannn… my PC seems like it can run things but I have the same sort of issues in all the games I’ve played. I swear it’s a harddrive issue but I have no fricken clue. I’ve bought this up a few times in TAY but ugh.
Games hang on loading screens, textures and things don’t load properly or take forever to load, audio doesn’t work at times, or just lags, I’m no computer expert but they kinda sound like harddrive problems? Also constant buffering while watching things in VLC.
Last time someone suggested I run a WD thing to see if there was anything wrong with my WD drive and it said there was but an attempt to repair it would delete some (unspecified) data. It’s a WD Green which is the only HD I’m using and it doesn’t seem like a good one to have the OS on. My graphics card should be more than capable of handling the things I’m running on Low-Medium settings and I believe I have 6GB of RAM and i7 mobo thingy-ma-bob.
:'( ideas please? Thoughts?
Also:
If I were to get a new computer or upgrade stuff (ie. harddrive). How does one go about re-installing Windows 7 and Microsoft Office on it? Don’t they have a “one computer only” policy? I don’t want to upgrade only to find out I have to buy those again :/
I thought most of them have like a 3 computer thingy?
you aren’t supposed to, but you can use the licence again. Just don’t use it on 2 machines at once. If windows bitches when you try to activate it, you can call microsoft, and tell them your motherboard was replaced, and they’ll fix it. Worst case, you’ll need to send them a photo of the original install disk and the cd-key sticker.
As for re-installing, just pop the cd in and if you have a new hdd with no data on it, the computer will automatically boot from the cd and give you nice easy prompts from there.
If you have more than one drive, only plug in the one you want windows on until it’s finished installing. That way you’ll eliminate any confusion and not have to worry about overwriting any of your stuff 🙂
Retail versions of 7 can be transferred to a few new PCs before activation fails. OEM/System Builder is single config.
Thanks :)! If you don’t mind, I have some more questions 😛
What about Microsoft Office? I’m sure I’ve got both discs/codes lying around for Windows and Office, so I can just re-use them as long as it’s only on one computer at a time?
At the moment I only have one HDD. Since I think my problems might be related to it, if I were to get a new one and use the older one as additional storage, what would be the best way to go about it? This is what I thought of but I’m sure there might be other possibilities:
– Take out the current one and put in the new one, then newly install Windows (and everything else). Then put in the older one and delete what’s necessary. What does this do about the default C drive and whatnot? If I were to only install Windows on the new HDD, would I still need to re-install everything else if it’s already in the older drive?
– Leave the current one in and put in a new one. Copy everything from the old one into the new one (I think WD has a program for this?), then format the older drive. Will this confuse the computer? What will this option also do about the C drives and whatnot?
I kind of want to avoid a “clean install” and losing everything and needing to re-download and re-install it all again. But a problem I have with both of these is that if I’m wrong and there’s not an issue with my current HDD and it’s a virus or something (I use Microsoft Security Essentials and they don’t detect anything), will that completely ruin the new one? Or will formatting it make it go back to normal?
Hah, sorry for all the questions :P. Next time you need something from my area of expertise, I’ll be sure to help out! (Xenoblade). Thanks man (and to any one else), appreciate it! 😀
The first option is by far the best. You’ll end up with a computer that’s super zippy, and if you look after it, should stay that way for a long time 😉
there is a way to “repair” windows, by using the ‘In place upgrade’ option instead of ‘custom’ during the installation process, but the downside is, any oddities you have with the system on the software side of things, will carry over in to the new system. It does sound like a pain in the ass to re-install everything, but it’s nowhere near as bad as it used to be 😉
As for office, you should be ok to just install it on the new system if you’re not using it on the old one.
This *could* be a Hard Drive problem but it doesn’t really sound like it. Does it happen all the time or only when the machine is under load? How much free space do you have?
To me it sounds more like something’s eating your CPU or memory. Do you have a lot of stuff running in the background perhaps?
Green drives aren’t a good idea for system volumes but they’re not so slow that you’d get issues like you’re describing unless DMA was somehow turned off or something and you’d have to manually do that.
Also if the drive was bad enough to cause slowdown you’d be getting heaps of actual failures. Corrupt files, random crashes, system won’t boot, BSOD and so on. Not just running like arse.
The buffering when watching stuff happens most of the time. Sometimes it runs fine though. The issues with games only really happen on specific games. They frequently happened in Borderlands 2, Mark of the Ninja, Far Cry 3, Assassin’s Creed III, Dishonored, Saint’s Row 3, Sleeping Dogs and the list goes on. So most big “demanding” titles. But it has also happened pretty frequently in stuff like Mark of the Ninja, which I wouldn’t think was very demanding. Had similar issues in Torchlight II but the last few times I played it, it’s been perfectly fine.
I usually have around 200GB free (1TB HDD)
I don’t believe I have a lot of things running in the background. No hidden icons or processes. I’m not really sure how to check but right now when I’m just really running Steam and Chrome, in Task Manager the CPU usage usally shows 0-4% and Physical Memory is around 28%.
This computer is a few years old and I’ll say it has been alright in the first few years but I didn’t really do much other than browse and watch things on it.
What’s DMA?
As for actual failures I can’t say I’m getting that much. The computer and things will often freeze for a bit and sometimes programsy crash. I can’t say I see a lot of corrupt files. The computer itself will very rarely completely freeze or crash/BSOD, it’s mostly just programs (Microsoft Word has a habit of freezing constantly)
Hmm. Got some swordfish to try tonight. Never had it.
Going to coat it in some coconut, lemon myrtle and garlic to pan fry it. See how it goes.
*shudder* Sea food. Am I right @strange and @sughly! o/
I’m right. *nods*
That’s ok. More for the rest of us!
You can have it! 😛
I already did!
Beauty of the seafood diet.
You’re so wrong.
Seafood is amazin’
I won’t stand by your sea food praising any longer! >:|
But mayo goes pretty well with most seafoods.
Don’t think you haven’t made the list, Freeze. Because you have. You have.
I don’t like most fish, but I love calamari, prawns, that sort of stuff. So seafood is alright by me.
That @welbot guy is pretty awesome!
Did he get you sorted?
It was more of a check to see what the problem was, rather than a solution.
Seems like it’ll probably be a HDD issue like I suspected D:
Totally full after an amazing meal of a stuffed baked potato, apple crumble and a can of Pepsi Max. The potato and apple crumble were provided by my awesome Dad who is a brilliant cook. On slightly bad news, I put on 600 grams this week, but if I work at it, I can take that plus a bit extra off.
That meal sounds amazing, my friend!
It was amazing. I won’t need to eat for the rest of the night.
Steam, stop telling me a game isn’t released yet when it’s sitting in front of me! D:
What game?
The Bureau!
So you bought it? :O 😀
Nope! My sister LOVES xcom but hates Steam so adds all Steam games she buys to my account. I like this arrangement! XD
Switched on the PS3 for the first time since I finished The Last of Us. FRIEND REQUESTS! WOOOOOOO! You’re friended, @gutsoup. Whether you like it or not! 😛
I sent the request so. I like it 😀
http://www.gog.com/promo/witcher_franchise_promo_220813
Both Witcher games for $7.48!
@freezespreston, from what I hear the second game looks pretty damn spiffy!
Damnit @dc!
Crusader! Resonance! The Night of the Rabbit! To the Moon! Theme Hospital!
This is why we’re pals. 😀 Also, cause you’re cool but mostly games! 😛
You should try out this one.
https://secure.gog.com/game/bioforge
So I had a delicious pasta bake for dinner tonight, with some baguette to be that extra little bit fancy now laying down and trying to figure out what game I should play, any suggestions?
THE NIGHT OF THE RABBIT! 😀
Hope today went well!
Everything went sweet all clear for another month \o/
Xenoblade!
Dynasty Warriors 8!
Why you gotta name games I don’t have haha
To make you want to get them!
This is true..grrr I have no monies
Everybody talking about delicious dinners! I had party pies because I realised I’d lost my debit card at some point in the last three days and didn’t have any money to go to the supermarket on the way home! 😛
One man party! WOOP WOOP!
The saddest party on the block \o/
… /o\
Why did it take me 30 years to try swordfish? :O
God. Damn. Delicious.
And now enjoy the heavy metals as they seep into your body.
\m/
Ha!
\m/
It’s one of my favourites – very meaty, and you can cook it like a steak.
@beardymcmuttonchops @35 @shiggyninty @fatshadylive @doc_what And any other bearded friends:
My skin underneath my beard is starting to get itchy and dry, any of you have this problem? Any solutions?
Shave
You just made all their lists D:
No! That’s the easy way out!
Strange touched my beard and I had to shave it off. :'(
😛
FEEL THE DOWNVOTES POW
Do you wash it?
I feel weird asking that.
I do! Which helps, only for the 24 hours after. I don’t exactly want to wash it every day though, pretty sure that’s not good.
Then it could be what you’re using to wash it. I know if I use the conditioner I use for my hair it doesn’t bother me.
I wash mine every morning. I’ve never had a problem with dry skin.
Just go straight for conditioner instead of always shampoo. Try to keep shampoo pretty limited. And even then, something a hippie might use. (Organic natural blahblah crap.)
For me it gets itchier and itchier as it grows. Took about three and a half weeks for it to get long enough for that not to be a thing any more. But after that, I my problem went to just having aches and pains all over my face, and the stupid beard was in the way of being able to do anything about it.
A wise man indeed.
Last time I had itchy beard was when I started growing it, then it was gone, but now it’s come back with a revengeance.
You didn’t… trim it too short, did you? I had a trim right before my first meat and buzzed it down to a 2, which was WAY too short, but it didn’t start itching thankfully.
Ooh. Hm. When I was growing my beard and suffering the itches, something that really helped was a moisturizer. A hypoallergenic antibacterial thing from the chemist that didn’t have any additional perfuming stuff, just the basic materials.
The gog.com copy of the Witcher 2 comes with a Triss Playboy shoot.
Was that necessary?
She had student loans to repay!
Not sure I’m comfortable buying a game and getting porn along with it.
True enough, I felt uncomfortable enough with the covers in Mafia 2.
Yeah, I like that large elements of The Witcher are genuinely adult, and then it throws in things like that, which I guess would best be described as “adult”.
The Witcher is a series that thinks adult = gratuitous nudity. It’s not really a way of thinking I can get behind.
@transientmind: You should get a twitter account! Even if you make it private and just follow TAY related folks!
@gutsoup: You should get a twitter account! Even if you make it private and just follow TAY related folks!
Does @dc have a twitter account?
Nope.
…
Maybe.
Well if you don’t, you should get a twitter account! Even if you make it private and just follow TAY related folks!
(I wants to follow in a non-stalker way :P)
Oh he has a twitter account.
I remember this because of “THE SAGA OF THAT ONE TIME D.C. BLOCKED ME ON TWITTER!”
Monster.
@danfortheages
I told him to get one, I even got @jimu to relay my messages but gutsoup was all “NAH I’M SEPHIROTH AND I’M TOO COOL FOR YOU FOOLS”
yeah jimu keeps telling me to as well. I’ll have to look into it Old man Gutsoup don’t know how to twit 😛
Glurk. Social media? I don’t have a twitter for the same reason I don’t have a facebook.
Do people post on there more than they do on TAY? Because I can barely keep up with TAY… Sell this to me, DC!
It’s basically just an extension of TAY, sometimes meats are planned there!
Hrm. Where would I find a list of all the names to follow?
http://www.tinyurl.com/taynames
http://media1.gameinformer.com/imagefeed/screenshots/MadMax/mmsub.jpg
😀 😀 😀
http://www.gameinformer.com/games/mad_max/b/xboxone/archive/2013/08/21/mad-maxs-open-world-wasteland-feels-familiar.aspx
My brother just gifted me Payday 2.
He’s alright.
He could be better but he’s trying atleast
Okay, so in like ten days I just managed to knock off all seasons of Breaking Bad! Up to and including the current episode. How’s that for a marathon!
I might just add that was in between working full-time, spending time with my wife and kid, and sleeping very little.
Yes I am fucking exhausted.
Those of you trying to do the math, I have done it for you. 56 (episodes to date) multiplied by 47 (minutes an episode on average) divided by 10 (nights spent watching) divided again by 60 (minutes) gives me an average of 4.39 hours spent watching per night.
4.39 / (47/60) approx = 5.60
That’s roughly five and a half episodes, or half a season per night. Just under.
Yes, yes. I know that 4.39 / (47/60) can also be written as 60/47 x 4.39
I’m collecting 5th weapons and unlocking Hypotheticals (extra stages) in Dynasty Warriors 8. Since most of this stuff requires replaying levels, it kind of lost some of its magic and while it’s still fun, it does make me keen for new games 😀
Luckily Tales of Xillia should come soonish! I’m in a JRPG kind of mood! 😀
I started Deponia today and it’s pretty awesome! It’s been a while since I’ve played a proper point-and-click and I’m soooo baddd. Click all the things! I’m looking forward to playing more 😀
Sleeping Dogs is getting fun too now that I’ve come across guns. The melee combat was fun but really repetitive so at least guns should mix things up a bit! Pity about all the PC problems though :'(, I can usually only play for 30 mins or so before something messes up and it’s kind of affecting my enjoyment of the game :'(
Total score:
😀 😀 😀
:'( :'(
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🙂
@gutsoup – were you the one wondering about Little King’s Story on PS+ a couple of weeks ago?
…well it’s coming! 😀 😀 😀 😀
@sernobulus I know you were kind of interested too! Although I hear the Vita one isn’t as good as the Wii version :/ (wait, do you even have PS+? :P)
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Full list:
AC3 (PS3)
Jak Trilogy (PS3)
Stealth Inc (both)
Urban Trial Freestyle (Vita)
New Little King’s Story (Vita)
Ugh, Helpius.
ah sweet, have also had my eye on stealth inc.
I better finish some games, i have way too many half done at the moment but p4g keeps stealing my game time.
Thanks for posting mate. I know a buddy who is going to do backflips over the Jak trilogy.
Have you been unlocking new moves by finding statues in sleepy dogs? Because the hand to hand combat is much better once you’ve unlocked some extra stuff like the leg & arm breakers and things
Yeah, I have about 6 or so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loFiUVtKCX4
Uh.
Um.
Hmm.
*double facepalm*
NEKKID GAM-MA!
The way he shouts that is amazing. The other contestants reaction is amazing. The hosts reaction is amazing. I think this is my new favourite youtube video.
I think this YouTube comment sums up 90% of Steve Harvey’s Family Feud clips.
“His disappointment in society pleases me”
That.is.AMAZING!
You mean spider doesn’t start with a W?
Baw, Mirror’s Edge is over already.
That game was way too short. On the upside, new Mirror’s Edge is coming!
Shiny new disappointment??
Sportball!!!
Steve Smith reaches 100 with a six.
Australia are currently 384-5.
I hate how this happens, we lose and everyone who has played like shit in the first 4 games do really well in the 5th so you cannot drop them for the next series. I think Matthew Wade needs to be in the side even as just a batsmen he averages more than Hughes, Smith, Watson, Khawaja and just under Rogers. Plus he is only 25 years old.
The….. WIRE
Only one episode to go.
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Interesting, apparently in the Wind Waker Remake you can play the entire game in First Person perspective (excluding cutscenes I assume). I won’t use that but nonetheless, interesting.
Ew.
Also, a “Normal” or “Hero Mode” will be selectable at the start. In Hero Mode Link takes double damage and can’t find health in breakable containers.
That’s just not right, if they give me first person view they better give me an AK-47 and make it online so i can shoot dudebros, chestbump my team mates and abuse everyone that’s better than me. 😛
But seriously that’s an odd thing to add, if i remember right you could switch to first person view but not move (my memory sux so this might be hella wrong)
Yeah, basically all they’ve done is allow you to move in First Person.
Skywaker
That’s kinda cool. With OoT, weren’t they playing around with making it first-person in the first place?
Prepare to throw up everytime you do a spin attack.
Oh man, those super spin attacks D:
Awesome. Payday 2 on the PC lets me use the gamepad to play it. \o/
@transientmind
Bad. #missingthepoint
Let me know when your on and ill play a few rounds with ya
Will do. Pretty sure you’re on my list.
And thanks to that perversion of decency, that affront to common sense, you’re on MY list!
(@dc)
…I kid. We should rob banks sometime.
P4G People
@greenius @blaghman @scree @other folk who might care
I played the part where you go to the beach & nearly choked to death laughing
Xnawv: “jung? vg’f lbhe onfvp oynpx” ebsy. Jura ur nfxrq zr gb trg uvz fbzrguvat gb pbire uvf whax v gbyq uvz gb hfr n frn furyy naq uvf erfcbafr “ab,….. gung’f gbb frkl”
I’m scared of finishing the game cause i’m getting attached to all the characters, did not expect to enjoy it as much as i have,
Oh god, that moment. I couldn’t stop laughing. So good.
I was literally gasping for air by the end, it just keeps escalating.
Oh man, so funny. I also liked the bit at the concert jurer lbh nyy fgntr qvir, naq rirelbar zbirf bhg bs gur jnl. Naq Xnawv’f yvxr “V qvqa’g xabj vg jnf cbffvoyr gb fgnaq ba lbhe snpr.” Such a good game.
have you played any of the earlier games? This is my first persona and they keep having specials on the others, very tempting
Nah, Persona 4’s the only one I’ve played. I’m tempted to pick up a copy of 3, but I don’t like the compromises I’d have to make between P and FES.
Persona 1 & the two halves of Persona 2 are very different games. Much harder, much closer to their Shin Megami Tensei roots.
Persona 3 was basically a complete re-thinking of Persona so it’s different. It has most of the things you’d like from P4 – character focused, social links and stuff. The difference is that you’re climbing up a single dungeon with like a hundred floors. The combat’s not as good as you have no control over your teammates, but they patched P4’s combat back into it for P3 Portable.
The tone in P3 is a whole lot darker. You’ve got an urban setting rather than semi-rural, the protagonist is more emo and it doesn’t have the bright yellow colors and stuff – the color palette is blacks and blues.
Basically, after Persona 3 was a massive success, Atlus spent a year or so gathering player feedback and re-playing the game internally and taking stock of everything they did right and everything people didn’t like, and then made Persona 4 by iterating on the same engine but enhancing the elements that worked and removing anything that didn’t. So Persona 4 is a better game.
The biggest draw if you want to play P3 though is that the PSP version has the option to play the game as a female protagonist instead of a male one, and the whole dynamic of the social links and everything changes as a result in quite interesting ways.
EDIT: When I say Persona 3 is ‘darker’: In Persona 4 when the characters are getting their combat face on, they put on a pair of swanky glasses while inside the yellow bizzaro-world and yell to make their personas come out.
In Persona 3, they put a gun to their head and pull the trigger.
aha, thanks man that’s a lot of info. I think I’ll probably pick them up cheap, I’m sure I’ll like it. The onlyl other Shin Megami i’ve played was devil survivor and i really enjoyed that too, even if it was brutally difficult at times.
Just grab P3P & P3Fes
Thats what I dooded.
i reccomend playing Persona 3 Portable, probably the best version of persona 3, especially if you are coming from playing 4 as they fix the combat to make it pretty much exactly the same as 4, and playing as a girl main character changes the game quite a bit, so it’s almost two games in one.
and as neg said, it’s much darker than 4, but it still has all of the charm that 4 has as well.
Persona 3 is good, but the characters are not on the same level as Persona 4. There’s little to no comedy with P3
thanks, good to know, I’m already thinking about what i want to do in New Game + but I have so many other games to beat.
I know right!
I was sad when I finished the game cause it kinda felt like I’d never see these characters again :'(. I was tempted to pick up Arena just for the story but it’s not the same!
really well written, all the characters have such great personalities, even the ones you don’t like still have so much to them.
Like Chie!
@jimu
(I’m kidding, she’s okay :D)
ha, she is my least favourite of the possible romances, i think of her as a younger sister.
The notion of dating Chie.
ha, i like how pleased with himself he looks
Because of this comment I assumed the picture would be of @jimu ‘s face in a state of pure euphoria
I hat u
Also Soundwave lineup gets announced today 😀 at about 1:30pm
Woo!
Kylesa!
Rumors are there will be a japanese stage…that would be cool.
AJ said that wasn’t happening, though he said they had a bunch of Japanese artists on the lineup. I’ll find the tweet for you.
Edit: https://twitter.com/iamnotshouting/status/370172426803347457
I demand the Black Mages attend 😛
Maximum the Hormone were supposed to play a couple of years ago, but they pulled out because one of the band members was sick. I’d kill to see them live. Hopefully they come out and do a sideshow.
Maximum the Hormone aren’t playing 🙁
They were this year, but have conflicting dates in Japan. Dir En Grey confirmed though.
=(
One day. Maybe next time I’m in Japan I’ll try and time it with some local shows.
You guys. Saints Row 4. Holy shit. Holy shit.
It’s everything I could have ever asked for. The opening is somehow more insane than the one in 3.
why was i dumb and not think of doing what you did. Damn snail mail
I’m enjoying it considerably more than I did SR3.
I feel like they’ve honed in to my weakness with the whole “super powers” thing.
SR3 is one of my favourite games ever, I absolutely adored it. Somehow I’m already enjoying 4 more.
Oh man, and the references. So many references.
If you were inclined to find out how to obtain it from the US PSN so you can make sure never to do it, how would one go about that?
Hypothetically, I’d purchase US PSN codes from Amazon using a US postal address and then redeem them on a separate PSN account I’d have set up with a US address.
Hypothetically.
*Gutsoup was Alone*
All the other workers had the day off but he still had to go to work.
*pulls PS Vita out of pocket and continues playing Thomas was Alone*
There we can keep eachother company 😀
Thomas and gutsoup are not alone, actually I’m at work but I have nothing to do except stand around and watch the electrician move a power point
Labour is hard
I hate those days where there’s nothing to do, makes the time drag on and on. I normally wouldn’t game at work but there really is nothing happening here today at all.
Yeah I wish I brought my 3DS or vita, worst mistake when this electricians done I’m going home haha
I read that as “watch the electrician move a power plant” and thought that would be awesome.
One electrician moving a power plant would be fair awesome
Guys!
Wonderful 101 tomorrow!
GETHYPE!
I got my “it’s been shipped” email last night. Hopefully will be playing next weekend.
So my levels in PayDay 2 are slowly rising I’m now level 30 and sticking with my enforcer load out, I just wish they had an m60 variant just so I could spray as an enforcer. Hopefully with new updates they will @ynefel how are you enjoying the game?
Still loving it, but taken a break for a couple of days after throwing 50 odd hours into it since release. I’m at level 65, and still grinding cards to get the mods I want. Got a couple of weapons I want pimped out, then I’m just going to focus on multi day jobs and Pro/Overkill heists.
I’m tryna smash through multiday jobs but I swear the most annoying thing happened last night was doing the mission Firestarter with 3 others, did all the missions upto the last day midway through the last part the host kicks me from the game.
That is a serious and glaring issue with the host/client setup they have. I think that’s actually why you get money and exp on the first and second days of 3-day missions, now. In beta, you didn’t.
The biggest issue I have with the game is the utterly ridiculous way they distribute weapon mods. It took me 40 hours of playing to get the suppressor I needed for my main weapon. I understand they want to make them harder to get – gives you a reason to keep playing, and the easiest way is using RNG type stuff. But it’s still fucking frustrating.
What spec do you run? Ghost/mastermind?
Full technician for all drill upgrades, shaped charges and top tier armor skill, and about halfway up mastermind. 2 points in enforcer just for the faster bag carrying skill.
Ahh ok nice, I’ve gone all enforcer so far with a few points in ghost for extra cash on loot and less fall damage
Yeah that would shit me if you didn’t only to the last day it’s just kinda annoying because you don’t get any cards either which is more annoying
Massive thanks to CLEO for this weeks episode!
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2013/08/23/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s03e20-would-you-rather-sponsored-by-cleo/
LISTEN, SUB, TELL YOUR GRAM GRAM!
4 minutes in, already getting weird looks for laughing. Well done old bean.
It’s not a comedy.
http://deadhomersociety.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/notacomedy.png
I dunno man, have you looked in the mirror lately?
That’s all I’ve got. My morning coffee has done nothing.
You radio announcer voice is so good that I I wanted to fracture your cheekbone
Ugh, Hungry Jacks breakfast regret.
Damn you $2 muffins.
Can’t argue with that price, though.
Muffin(s) – plural.
There’s your problem.
Well, I only had 1.
And a hash brown.
THEN WHAT’S YOUR PROBLEM. SACK UP, MUFFIN MAN.
If he sacks up, won’t he be the muffin top man?
Go home, you’re drunk.
My computer at home has I think died (HDD)
Well, bugger. At least I ahve my music and my photos from OS intact, the rest of the data I don’t care about.
Find out my 17 year old cat is getting put down today first thing in the morning at work. Right before I have to go out to site to do an important training session. Way to fuck up my focus. =/
🙁 Sorry to hear that, my friend. Poor critter. Hope you’re okay!
Yeah I’ll be fine. He’s old – 17 is a fucking good haul for a cat, but I’m more bummed immediately I had to find out before I have to go out to site and talk to clients. Freaky to think I got him when I was 15. It feels like a lifetime ago.
EDIT: Forgot to say thank you, by the way.
Awh damn. Sad day.
I’m sorry to hear that man, that sucks. I hope your alright bud
As long as the cat had a good life, that’s all that matters
That’s my mode of thinking. I’m grateful for 17 years of companionship, and it’s time for him to leave – it’s for the best, but it’s also having to say goodbye. Which is a little selfish, but that’s what happens when you get attached to a person or a pet.
It’s sad. I cried so much when my first dog died. But I found taking solace in the enjoyment they had in their life helps.
Sorry to hear 🙁
Send that to Ynefel. I’m okay with it, it was 6 years ago
Sorry to hear, man. Hope the good memories sustain you!
*hugasaurus rex*
I know I say that to people often enough that it probably sounds insincere by now but I really have no other way to express sympathy that doesn’t sound like an empty platitude. So yeah, if I was in your vicinity I’d totally give you a gigantic squashy hug right now. It would be awkward because we haven’t actually met, but yeah I’d do it anyway.
Thanks. =)
So i think I might be sick.
Just a cold, but still, I feel pretty crap.
I’ve got the cure for what ails you.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2013/08/23/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s03e20-would-you-rather-sponsored-by-cleo/
But lemon tea
But Zeitgeist is the audio equivalent of Lemon Party.
Butt-lemon.
booooo-urns – hope it doesn’t hit you too hard
Me either. Mum relys on me to get her stuff
Did you somehow get sick from me through the internet?
i should really wear a mask when i’m on here :O
So annoyingly close to being better again. The hypersensitive skin, the dizziness, the bad hearing, the sore back… all of it gone. Just this stupid cough and the headachy pain it brings are hanging around.
The worst is when you get really sick, get over it but the cough hangs around for months.
Thanks to Freeze and Greenius linking to videos, I spent hours last night watching youtube videos of funny gameshow moments, mostly from Family Feud. The set ups are pretty obvious, but the way everyone reacts to them is hilarious.
Steve’s reactions are amazing.
I hope nobody comes to the door. I’m expecting a few deliveries but I’m wearing my hoodie inside-out so it doesn’t get its fleecy fluff stuck to my arm. I hope they just shove them in the letterbox or leave them at the door. It’s gonna be bad enough when my husband comes home and starts laughing at me, let alone strangers. 😛
If anyone sees just say It’s the new fashion, everyone’s doing it you probably just haven’t heard of it gosh!
Also, be sure to have your pockets pulled out. Back to the Future taught me it’s how all the cool people dress in our time.
Hahaha…the scary thing is, the way”fashion” is going these days, it’d be entirely believable.
There’s a joke here about being overdressed for the postman but I can’t figure out how to word it.
I’ve answered the door in a frilly pink apron before.
And by george did I wear it well.
WEAR YOUR HOODIE WITH PRIDE
Wear another hoodie on top of it, the right way around.
This is why you’re my hero.
Isn’t that better than sexy revealing night gown thingy?
Rapture Records?
Also, do you have a long-sleeve T-shirt or something you can wear under the hoodie?
Yes. And no.
My ex-wife used to talk about the mailman just shoving them in her mail…
You know what.
No.
Not this time.
Her mailbox.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/webassets.ticketmob.com/LS/images/comedians/Rodney-Dangerfield.jpg
No Respect, No Respect!
hahah lucky I didn’t just pop in on my way home from work!
Yeah, that’s probably never a great idea. If I’m not going anywhere I never usually even bother getting dressed in the mornings. 😀
ahahaha all good. I would always call before I dropped in anyway. I’m never one to show up unannounced!
Driving past your place reminded me of the bread you made last time I was there though! I had to stop at woolies and buy some cheese and bacon rolls to satisfy my craving!
I need to do another Lunch Meat here. 😀
🙂 sounds good! Or we can go to Garden City and have some Chicken Curry from Hanaichi!
I’m sure @sughly would be down with that! I could pick you up on my way.
mm now I want chicken curry! @sughly wanna go get some this weekend or soemthing?
Ill be in for that fo shizzle, but not this weekend, got shit goin down both days
fair enough. wanna queue it up for next saturday or sunday? (Next friday is out for me as I have some energex people coming to my house after I finish work)
I picked up Splinter Cell Blacklist yesterday.
It’s kinda weird.
I think it’s mostly kinda weird because of the realisation that it has been so long since I’ve played that type of game. Then I tried to think about what I meant by that “type” of game.
I replayed MGS 2 & 3 earlier this year, so surely I don’t mean stealth games.
I play Counter-Strike and TF2, so surely I don’t mean shooters.
I play games like Skyrim and BioShock: Infinte, so surely I don’t mean AAA “blockbuster” type games.
Anyway, there’s just something about it, and it’s cool because whatever it is it feels like something I haven’t done in a long time and I’m enjoying it.
Controls are a little off; just the sensitivity of the control sticks, but that may just be the Wii-U controller. I actually found the sticks on the GamePad better than the Pro Controller, but didn’t actually enjoy having to use the touch screen.
The game’s tutorial was weird, but I had got the hang of things by the end of the first mission.
So far 7/10.
What’s the new Fisher like?
I haven’t played all the Splinter Cells, so I’m struggling to recall Original Fisher.
This one definitely doesn’t sound like Ironside, but he uses guns and has a stealth suit so I guess that’s the same.
No Ironside makes a sad Pixel..
..
🙁
..
see that? that’s a sadface
Splinter Cell plays a very specific way- if Blacklist plays anything close to Chaos Theory I’ll be a happy camper when I eventually pick it up.
Posting this here since I don’t know where else to ask.
Does anybody know what’s going on with the PS Vita price cut? Went into EB yesterday to buy one – still $350. Checked the EB and JB websites today – still $350. When does the price cut take effect? What’s the point of announcing it if it’s not immediate? Surely nobody’s going to buy one now until the price drops?
Was it announced for Australia? I didn’t check the article because I already have one.
September 1st I think it’s in effect
They gotta give the various stores time to change their pricing, and that includes the small and second-hand places that might not be on the Sony mailing list 🙂
I’d say to hold out for a bit. It’s been $200 with a (decent) game at JB in the past and that was before the price drop. It can only go cheaper from there!
Well I went into EB last week to buy one for $250, but the sale had ended the day before. So I’m happy enough to pay $270 assuming the memory cards get a bit of a price drop, too, so the total of console + memory card works out about the same as it would have been if I’d got it in the sale last week. I’m planning on going on holidays in a month or so and I’d like to have a Vita to take with me.
Already got plenty of games ready to go thanks to PS+ and PS3/Vita cross-buys. Just need the machine to play them on.
The cut comes in in a week or two
Yeah, the PS+ games are more than enough for Vita (except you NEED Persona 4: Golden!)
But since PS+ is all digital you’ll need a bigger memory card which are still expensive (even after the price drop) :/
Yeah, but I can just have a few games on there at a time. It’s not going to get such heavy usage that I need to have my entire collection on there at once or anything. I’ll get the 8Gb card + 10 games or whatever that bundle is, and then maybe order a bigger card later.
Yeah, good point :P. I think @notoriousr is doing the same with a 4GB and he’s only playing one game at a time, or whatever fits on it.
Whereas I have a bunch of unplayed stuff just sitting there 😛
me too, I’ve got like 18 games on my vita and have finished none of them, but i have started about 10 of them.
I will be purchasing Everybody’s Golf on the weekend though.. on sale on PSN at the moment for about $10. No PlayStation console is complete without an Everybody’s Golf game 😛 Which is why I’m a little concerned about the PS4… I haven’t heard if they’re even making one for it.
September 2 I believe, and I’m in much the same boat – $270 for the 3G model with Soul Sacrifice sounds reasonable.
Maybe it’s time for me to take advantage of the PS+ offer and finally get it.
If you don’t have PS+, now’s a good time to get it with the current deal they’re offering. I just renewed mine last night to take advantage of it.
Very, very good value for money. Next month we get Assassin’s Creed 3. I don’t know if that’s just coincidence, or a deliberate middle finger towards MS’s offering of AC2 😛
Should I look at being a resident of another location for ps+ account purposes?
Well, from what I can see, we actually seem to get BETTER content on the AU PS+ subscription than they get on the US one. So I reckon you’re pretty safe going with the AU version.
Yeah, what @braaains said. It seems like PAL get better games compared to the US but in the end most of the bigger titles will appear on both anyway. $50 is the standard price for US rather than $70 for us but I know at least two TAYbies who have subs to both of them at the same time :P. I wouldn’t recommend that as the differences aren’t that big.
Just keep in mind the whole one account per a Vita at a time thing. If you want to use your Australian account on Vita then you might as well get the Australian PS+. However in general most people like to use US accounts since things are cheaper on their store, so if that’s the case then you should go for US PS+.
First impression of The Bureau, I like the atmosphere. The ’60s conspiracy theory feel. Haven’t gotten very far yet.
3DS peeps!
Has Nintendo released some official information about which games are coming to the VC on 3DS? Any SNES games planned? I would pay a considerable sum of money to relive my childhood on my handheld.
Nintendo has a certified license to print money with their SNES library, but they hat money and people having fun.
If they were still getting a taste from the ridiculously overpriced second-hand market for old consoles and games, I would understand… but they aren’t. I just want to play Secret of Mana!
I would pay for Crono Trigger again.
(Edit: Even though it already got its own release on the 3DS… The things I am out of touch with due to only having a DS.)
Thankfully, Chrono Trigger isn’t so bad, as I have it on DS and digital PSOne classic. But holy damn – Mario, Zelda, Super Metroid, Secret of Mana/Evermore just to name a few.
Link to the Past is a must. Surely. Given that the sequel is making its way to 3DS. Surely. SURELY… :\
It’s got a DS release. I have the DS version at home. You can get it for about ~$25 from eBay.
If they bought out even a quarter of their SNES library, I’d be flinging money at them. I still don’t understand why they don’t do it. NES/GB/GBA/DSiWare games are great, but the SNES is where it’s at. They know that too. So why don’t they make them available?
Because they know that if they re-release their old games, most of their customer base won’t buy any more new games.
Well that’s OK, they don’t have to bother developing any. MUCH easier to port an old game than spend money developing a new one! 🙂
I was so excite when I saw Super Mario Brothers 3.
Then I was sad when I saw it was Wii/U only.
Why.
Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
To try and get more than five people to buy a WiiU this year?
They haven’t even confirmed Gameboy Advance games yet, don’t hold your breath 😛
I’ve learned (the hard way) not to hold my breath where any games are concerned!
Luckily I have a few because ambassador, but c’mon Ninty. It’s a gold mine and you’re just sitting on it.
Yeah I have a few GBA ones too, then I remembered it’s because of the Ambassador deal. Are they not even available for purchase on the eshop yet?
I’m not actually sure. I thought there was, but I can’t remember. I’ve just got the 10 freebie ambassador GBA titles.
In regards to this, just how awesome is it that we can discuss the possibility of SNES games returning to current gen handhelds?! Replaying awesome twenty year old games again!
AND I CAN’T EVEN UPGRADE TO PS4 ON RELEASE AND PLAY PS3/PSN GAMES ON IT.
My son’s new favourite movie is The Librarian: Quest For The Spear. It was fun the first time,but the 100th? D:
Is that the one with Dr. Carter from ER?
Yep. The first in a series of movies about The Librarian.
So many books to stack, so little time.
that guy is alright, he fights aliens good in a Post Apocalyptic Decaying Urban environment.
You set the tone, Carter!
TIDY! NEAT-O!
Nice one Ollie my boy!
nice, Iliked the Fairy area, was colourfull and fun
I kind of hated that place. REALLY hated it. Haha!
ha, some of those little fairy dudes were annoying but overall i didn’t mind them, plus it had really weird lore (whatever you wanna call it) with where the fairies come from and stuff.
Apparently Ben Affleck will be Batman in the Man of Steel sequel
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ben-affleck-is-batman-man-612907
That’s not a terrible idea.
I like Ben Affleck!
I prefer the Josh Brolin rumour. I guess it’s an age discrepancy.
I don’t know who I wanted, but I don’t think it was Ben Affleck.
I’m not sure how I feel about this yet.
The half face mask will definitely improve his acting ability
Have you seen Argo?
No, but I have definitely considered it. Freshest in my mind is Paycheck
He’s really good in it, and really well directed too.
Brilliant.
John Woo films rock my socks. Except for MI:2.
Appleseed Ex Machina was pretty Wooey, i kept saying to my girlfriend “you can really see the Woo”
Hyep, it’s official.
I like the guy, needs to have more top/serious roles. Liked him in argo.
I guess Josh Brolin as Batman was never going to work as he’s better suited to a Dark Knight Returns sort of film, and that was kind of already done with Dark Knight Rises. Kind of.
Terrible decision: FFXIV early access starts 5pm tomorrow night. Do I want to risk everything by rebuilding my machine with my new parts that arrived today, or stick with the old but working configuration?
(Or rather: am I confident I can get this shit working by Saturday evening)
Do it. Then you can break it in at a good start.
What’s the worst that could happen?
play it on ps3 with me and Jimu 😛
Nah, have fun whatever you decide.
Are you guys actually getting it?
Dunno about Jimu but I”m pretty keen, i just seriously never go anywhere so i haven’t ordered it or anything
I wonder if you can get it digitally. Probably not.
If you do decide to play, at this point I’ll probably be playing on the Tonberry (JP) server. It’s in an Asian datacenter so the ping times are better for Australia than the US or EU servers, and Tonberry has somehow emerged as the de facto South East Asia / Australasia server. Guild I’m in is getting close to the member cap now too.
does this have cross platform servers? like can you play on the pc with us on ps3? I haven’t looked into this game enough.
Upgrade for sure.
What’s the alternative? Never install your new components? 😛
You’ve got tonight AND tomorrow to upgrade. Should be plenty of time. Biggest thing will be an OS install, if you’ve got a new drive for that then it takes a lot of the risk out since it’s easy to revert. (Of course, this is also the path that has led to the 7 HDDs that reside in my PC despite only 2 being plugged in)
I’ve got some crufty old drives in my machine still as well. At least one is dead.
I grabbed an SSD so it’ll be a clean install with a new drive. Getting drivers and shit is going to be the tricky bit.
(Also picking between Win8 release and Win8.1 beta)
So worst case, 4pm tomorrow whack old hardware and old drive back in, business as usual?
More like 2pm to get things all back together again.
I’ll probably aim to do the work tonight.
WOOOOO! Transientmind is on twitter. Your turn, @gutsoup. >:|
linky?
I’ll let him post it, just in case he doesn’t want to share. XD
Inconvenient.
What’s the handle? It’s not transientmind
nvm found it by looking through DC’s follow list 😛
It’s so not, someone else already took that. It’s @transient_mind – I put it on the TAYNAMES drive thingey that @dc just linked me. There’s a LOT of stuff in that thing! Very impressive!
(Edit: Also, I just started following the damn near 50 names I recognize from here. So, yeah… that probably won’t get spammy. Right? …Right? Twitter is one of those things you only really check once a day, right?)
FOLLOWED!
Also, you followed me, which is your tacit approval to be bombarded with daily spam.
Stalker :p
http://www.shanewsmith.com
You don’t recognize me?! I found and added you!
I totally added you already! There must be some delay or something… or it needed to wait for peoples’ permissions, I dunno.
(Edit: LOOK AT WHAT YOU HAVE WROUGHT, @dc. I’m hurting peoples’ feelings everywhere!)
lol must be delayed or something. I don’t have mine set to private or anything. All good though! Feelings not hurt! I was merely poking fun!
ok I’ll see, it’s already on my phone cause it’s one of them smart dealies so it shouldn’t be hard
ok i did it, can you link me TAYnames? please
#Gutsoup
http://tinyurl.com/taynames
thanks mate, such helpful folk round these parts.
Hi everyone, guess what, I’m not dead!! \o/
Work has been crazy busy the last few weeks but I don’t care anymore because I’m on holidays for to weeks from this afternoon. I’m getting away from the cold and the rain and the wind of Orange and heading off on a South Pacific cruise. Can’t wait!!
In other news @blaghman, sign me up for Canberra Meat 4.0 (is it 4? I’ve lost count). Won’t be the same without @bish laying catatonic on the lounge with a combination of Chilli death sauce overload and lactose intolerancy. Maybe @alexpants can substitute?
Other than MSY, where is a good site to look at computer component prices? Thinking about self-building to a degree
http://www.cplonline.com.au/
and
PC Case Gear
are good sites… didn’t put 2 links in my comment because moderation limbo *shudder*
Cheers. Still daydreaming and working out a budget- plans are accelerated because my laptop died last night 🙁
you can do it easy enough for under $1000… if you want future proof more like $1200 – $1500…
My computer cost $1200 at the time, with expensive case and stuffs and it still runs everything on max
$1200 is about what I’m targeting.
You can build a decent rig for that, will definitely keep you going for a fair few years… maybe throw some money at it in a few years for a new video card or something but you’ll be fine
http://www.moderationlimbo.com
http://www.isgoneforsomereason.com
http://www.isntthatweird.com ?
I always buy through PC Case Gear personally.
My other ‘reliable vendors’ being CPL and Umart, don’t appear to have a presence in S.A.
I’ve never ordered parts online to be delivered so can’t really help on what could be good for that. (If you just want prices, well, there’s my 2, CPL being the easiest for me to get to, so I go with them if the price seems good enough)
http://www.scorptec.com.au is also quite good
I saw a Gameboy at my local second-hand place. Classic brick of a thing. Instant nostalgic feelings.
Game Boy:
$69.95
Tetris was the only game they were selling
$14.95
Some comparison prices from the same store:
Wii : $54.95
DS console: $74.95
Max Payne 3 (360): $14.95
Demon’s Souls (PS3): $18.95
Nostalgia is EXPENSIVE. But seriously, would anyone here consider dropping $70 on a Game Boy?
No, I’ve already got one.
It’s covered in Pokemon stickers.
Yeah, but if you didn’t have one, what’s your upper price limit?
Sure. If it came in its box with all the papers and stuff, great condition, with like a couple of games also boxed up nicely.
It looked like it was in decent nick, but I don’t think there was a box and definitely no games.
Actually, I think I scored a Gold GB Pocket with packed-in Donkey Kong Land foooooor… possibly $25? Plus shipping. Whatever it was, it was less than $50. Got a boxed Micro for $50, felt ok about that.
If anyone here is willing to pay $70, let me know. I suddenly have one for sale.
@mrtaco
Haha, no box, no manuals, no games. No batteries either. Pretty good condition though. BARGAIN!
I remember seeing Gametraders up here selling NESs and SNESs for $150-200.
Yeah, that’s the general going price for snes and nes. Top down nes’ go for more as they don’t need repairing as often and they’re also rather rare.
Whaa? I payed $20 for an original game boy last year.
I paid $25 for a gameboy advance boxed in great condition.
Ooohhhh.
Red Alert 3 and Populous added to EA bundle.
There goes the theory of Dead Space 2 being added.
Never played a Red Alert title, so I’m actually looking forward to giving it a shot.
Red Alert 3 is not bad…
It’s not great either…
Actually RA3 make it ok great but not ok good just great ok bad.
Wolf?
No wolf in wolf game
WHAT THE HELL EA? HOW DARE U AS GAEMS? I BET THEY ADED IT TO MAKE MONEY! WORST CMPNY EVAR
Okay what the hell, i brought in a second set of headphones to try in my work puter cause my other pair kept shocking me, must be the pc cause these new ones just buzzed and shocked me like 3 times in quick succession and caused a sharp pain in my temple, but i wanna listen to music, not receive electroshock therapy
Are you sure you’re using the headphone port? 😛
It’s a company conspiracy to keep you…
(•_•)
( •_•)>⌐■-■
(⌐■_■)
Energised
YEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
That really shouldn’t be happening in a headphone jack… something’s not insulated properly.
Is it actual shock from the PC or static?
i don’t believe it’s static cause it’s pretty powerfull, actually made my neck twitch. Starts with a feint buzzing that gets louder then ZAP!
And yes i agree, that is not a thing that should be able to occur, it’s only a headphone jack
Maybe you’re just getting old and that’s what hip and popular music does to you now.
Square.
I guess you’re regretting getting your skull chrome-plated?
Install twitter for first time ever.
Add 47 TAYbies.
OK, so I guess I’ll just check this thing once a day, see what’s what.
Go do workstuff for half an hour.
Check phone out of curiosity.
JESUS TAPDANCING CHRIST. WHAT THE HELL, GUYS?
It begins!
Aaaand close twitter app again…
that’s how it’s done 😛
You added 47 Taybies?
*checks twitter account*
No no. It’s cool. I’m okay. I uh. I have to go. My wife’s calling me and you know how it is.
*sob*
I added you!
You forgot me.
Dangit! *digs back into TAYlist*
Ooh. Fortunately, a bunch of ones I missed are now showing up on ‘You might also want to follow:’ suggestions. Handy.
ADDED! 🙂
Twitter is essentially TurboTAY
Funnily enough, this is why I haven’t become obsessed with twitter — way too much to follow, so why bother? 😛
It’s the same principle as TAY : read/join in on what’s happening now, stuff too far down the feed is forgotten 😛
Yeah, it’s my TAY outside of TAY?
TAY refresh game too slow? Head over to Twitter!
Twitter refresh game too slow?
Sleep.
😛
Too slow? Bloody hell. Kids these days…
Meanwhile in Canada
nothing.
nothing is happening.
ever.
Blame Canada!
I’m too lazy to bitch about my home country. I’m sure a foreigner can do it with much more vigour, so @bish can handle any complaints on my behalf.
EDIT: Emancipation Declaration? I don’t listen to hip-hop.
I had an awesome time in Canada while I was there!
You have the pleasure of not living here like me and bish are. 😛
Awww…
🙁
So it’s like Walhalla, then?
The most exciting part of my day today was listening to Australian radio.
… Don’t believe it, how can you listen to the radio when there’s no electricity?
Prepare to be amazed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_radio
Ben Affleck as Batman in Superman?
Eeeeeewwwwwwww.
So many other actors out there who could be absolutely perfect too. :'(
Oh. So this has already been discussed in previous page?
Dicks.
u mean Batman? *scratches head*
Edit * think i missed a joke somewhere)
Ben Affleck as the hulk?
Strange choice, but I’ll take it.
EDIT: I meant Ben Affleck literally plays the hulk and not bruce banner. Bruce Banner is still Mark Ruffalo. When Mark Ruffalo is angry, he transforms into Ben Affleck.
What are you talking about? You look like a crazy man.
Man, I thought he was a A-list actor. Why he went into porn is beyond me.
Man. Things to put on my list of Alternate Universe Me goals. Become an A-list actor, then do a deal to go into porn. It would blow everyone’s… minds. And hopefully start a trend. C’moooon Emma Stone. Be cool like Alternate Universe Me.
(Edit: …WORK WITH Alternate Universe Me.)
I like Ben Affleck. Unsure about him as Batman, but I’ll remain cautiously optimistic.
for real?! He sucked balls last time he was a super hero… mind you, he has more in common with batman.. Batman has a tool belt, and Affleck is.. well.. a tool!
I’ve set my clock for 1.15 and the Soundwave lineup hasn’t been announced yet. What gives?
I read 1:30 on their site, quick adjust it again
Their twitter account says 1.16. I reset my clock, but it’s still not working.
I want to go for a 16km run today, but my mum won’t let me because she thinks my broken foot needs more time to heal 🙁
#LamboWorldProblems 😛
That’s, uh, probably wise.
You broke your foot?
It’s Lambo, always assume some part of him is bruised and/or broken. It just saves time.
Is waiting for the foot to heel the sole reason she won’t let you? You better toe the line, or it might turn into a longer impediment than it already has been.
Metatarsal.
Does anyone here brew their own beer? Is it difficult? Time consuming? What’s the chance of me making beer that tastes exactly like imported Heineken with my first batch?
Yes
No
Yes
None whatsoever.
I was kidding with that last sentence. I absolutely love imported Heineken though. Do you personally use purchased concentrates or your own recipe?
I’ve usually purchased the mix. Home recipes are messy and difficult to get right.
Also, if you want a bit better end result and a more hassle free experience http://www.ubrewit.com.au/ are a pretty good option. Used them once or twice and it has worked out pretty well.
Me, no. Eh. Yes and no (much time needed, not that much hands on). 0.
No.
I don’t know.
I don’t know.
Probably not great.
And the winner for Least Helpful But Most Amusing Comment goes to…
And what is the DEAL with Q-tips? They’re not Q’s and they’re not tips!
That’s the second biggest q-tip i’ve ever seen
FYI, it’s better to know people who brew their own beer than actually brew it yourself.
SOUNDWAVE LINEUP!!!!!!!
GREEN DAY
AVENGED SEVENFOLD
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS (W/ CHESTER BENNINGTON)
ALICE IN CHAINS
ROB ZOMBIE
MEGADETH
PLACEBO
AFI
KORN
ALTERBRIDGE
TRIVIUM
DOWN
DEVILDRIVER
NEWSTED
BIFFY CLYRO
ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT
ASKING ALEXANDRIA
CLUTCH
ALKALINE TRIO
BARONESS
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH
AUGUST BURNS RED
TESTAMENT
LIVING COLOUR
LETLIVE
MOTIONLESS IN WHITE
GWAR
BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
MUSHROOMHEAD
FINCH
PULLED APART BY HORSES
ILL NINO
NANCY VANDAL
BOWLING FOR SOUP
TRASH TALK
SKINDRED
VOLBEAT
AMON AMARTH
TERROR
WHITECHAPEL
TESSERACT
THE STORY SO FAR
10 YEARS
HARDCORE SUPERSTAR
WALKING PAPERS
COLISEUM
YOUR DEMISE
HEAVEN’S BASEMENT
REAL FRIENDS
when i heard STP i got Hype then i heard who is singing for them, now I”m sad
Alice in Chains : Megahype 😀
Saw Linkin Park last year at Soundwave, Chester Bennington is legit. No need to be sad.
This. I didn’t even want to see them but damn if I didn’t have a great time watching them.
Cause opinions about music can lead to the worst arguements I’ll just say I do not care for Linkin Park at all and leave it at that.
I saw Alice in Chains at Soundwave 2009. William Duvall is a pretty good replacement for Layne Staley. I picked Megadeth to be on the lineup. Testament and Living Colour will be awesome to see, even if I only really know one song by each. Hoping there’s not too many clashes.
I have very conservative music tastes, and even I know that’s a pretty good list.
Another year of soundwave, another bunch of bands i don’t like 🙂
that’s offence to you guys, just soundwave really isn’t catering to my tastes in music.
I’ve heard of exactly ONE of those bands \o/
Also why is a pokemon playing at soundwave?
Wow… I might just be up for that… Now to convince Anton that he should come with me to a metal festival… anyone got a sack and a baseball bat?
and still another 20 bands to be announced including a third headline act which could very likely be Iron Maiden!
Shame Megadeth are headlining the Metal stage and that will put them on the same time as Green Day, oh well. I can’t really tolerate Daves whiny voice for extended periods anyway hahaha.
Soundwave line-up is out. Nothing for me personally except Alice in Chains. BDO seems the better choice IMO.
I think you need a lie down. You seem to be delirious.
But Pearl Jam.
Yeah but that’s like, one band. I mean who the heck are Arcade Fire even and does anyone even care? Has anyone even heard of them.
But they’re hipster, of course you haven’t heard of them.
@dc is updating The List right now…
Ok, I think Soundwave 2014 will be worth going to. There are plenty of bands in the lineup that I want to see. Now I’ve got to work out whether I can afford to go.
*reads newest patricia article*
…
oh my.
I know you said nothing was happening in Canada but are you really that bored?
I’ve fallen into depths unbeknownst to all but the most depraved.
Also related is that I’ve started drinking, so regret comes pretty easily to me now.
The… microtransaction one…?
Actually, uh, no. I just checked Kotaku NA.
Let’s just hope Kotaku AU doesn’t get it. It’s.. something. It’s not a original piece, but it easily leads to a dark pit of what the internet’s all about.
What the fuck is that article doing on Kotaku?
Okay, yep, just saw it. Guh.
I guess I should count myself lucky I have no idea how to access the US site from the Mobile AU page!
us.kotaku.com
Sharing the pain.
I can’t even browse to Kotaku NA any more, it redirects me to AU.
I am okay with this.
Same as me.
The more they reveal about that game to more it seems like a tarted up F2P iPhone app.
But everyone loves QTE’s and microtransactions right?
Seriously did the game designers sit down and say “okay what does everyone love about games.” Then did the complete opposite of it?
Admittedly, it sounds like the micros are only in multi. It could have been worse.
Pay to win! \o/
I don’t think enjoyment is the idea – microtransactions make a metric fuckton of money, and with little effort.
Eagerly awaiting announcement of zombie mode.
The body building one?
Hyep. At face value it’s just.. it’s still pretty bad, but read the thread itself and it quickly goes downhill. Indiscernible bro-talk of the highest degree and then apparently 4ch and reddit gets involved.
Okay, world, it’s you or me. There’s no way we can both exist in harmony anymore.
*cocks shotgun*
It’s a very odd thing to post about on a gaming site, and I don’t like the implications on why it was posted to Kotaku.
It’s not as informative as the in-depth look in the world of furries, that much I can (sadly) say.
Urk… having three burgers and two small fries for lunch at McD’s was probably a mistake
:S
Good effort.
yes! terrible mistake! you should have given them to me!!
Don’t worry, it’s McDonalds – give it an hour and you’ll be starving again. I don’t know how their food does it, but you can stuff yourself to the point of feeling ill, and then be hungry again shortly after.
By being greasy as fuck and sliding effortlessly straight through you is how it does it.
I thought that was chinese food!
Their food is all refined carbs and fat. It’s like throwing a gallon of gasoline onto a fire. Lots of heat and flames but doesn’t last very long.
Which burgers?
The $2 ones. Two McDoubles and a ChickenNMayo.
Hey Shane, quick question, did you ever end up with a copy of To the Moon? I find it hard to keep track of these things.
I… I’m not sure. I don’t think I did, in the end.
Oh yeah, I’m waiting for a console release. That’s the one.
CHROME KEEPS POINTING ME TO KOTAKU US AND I DON’T KNOW HOW TO FIX IT D:
Edit: Fixed it. Everyone relax.
Move to the US. Then it’s your local Kotaku.
HAHAHAHAHAHA WELCOME TO MY WORLD
Stop using Chrome. YouAreWelcome.jpg
I should switch back to IE, right?
#OldManShane
Netscape Navigator!
So I finally properly started Ni No Kuni. It hasn’t really grabbed me yet but I put the audio language on English so I could entertain my son with it…and now he won’t let me stop playing. Seriously, the whole time I’m typing this he’s asking me crossly “Why aren’t you playing your game? Play your game!”.
As long as it entertains at least one of the Family Strange, I’m happy. XD
haha, sounds like he should be the one playing it 😛
Ni No Kuni spoilers!
Ubj qb V jnea Fgenatr gung guvf fprar zvtug or vanccebcevngr sbe puvyqera jvgubhg fcbvyvat gur tnzr? Q:
Personally I don’t see that as a big issue 😛
hmm, I’d be a bad parent. I don’t see the problem 😛
Can you hear the problem, though? XD
I really wanted to like that game so much. Got the collector’s edition and everything 🙁
it’s a pretty great collectors edition at least, Drippy sits next to my Plush Totoro 😀
How’s the Wizards’ manual? I really wanted the Collectors’ edition just for that.
I like my Wizard’s companion, i actually used it several times throughout the game (you can look in the book in game but the novelty of actual book was fun).
I agree with neg the combat system was pretty shoddy, but i didn’t hate it
It’s not a great collector’s edition. It’s crushing disappointment. Drippy’s at the bottom of a box somewhere if I didn’t throw him away (didn’t want it in the first place) and I don’t know where the book is.
I have absolutely no idea why everyone raves about the game. It plays terribly, even if I careda bout it the plot doesn’t make sense, the localization is terrible, the characters are utterly bland and uninteresting, the music is annoying, the animated cutscenes have terrible video and audio quality and the whole production doesn’t remotely capture the feeling I associate with Ghibli.
But I’d have put up with most of those issues if the actual moment to moment gameplay wasn’t so absolutely terrible. Hate the combat so much, it’s probably the worst JRPG combat system I’ve encountered this generation. I’d rather play Hyperdimension Neptunia. 😐
If you can find these collector’s edition items, I will happily pay cash to take them off your hands.
I’ll think about it (and see if I still have them). At some point I should probably give the game another go, it’s possible I wasn’t in a good headspace when it came out (it was right when I was moving house)
Otherwise, my offer aside, last I checked the book by itself was going for about $120 on eBay / Amazon. Could be worse now.
I’d be willing to go as high as 100 for book and plush. You could get more if you sold them online. Especially if you could re-compile the entire CE.
Hope the game clicks with you when you get back to it though. It’s by no means a perfect game, but it ticks the right JRPG boxes for me.
Tidy!
Neat-o!
I’M A REAL BOY!
At the start I did have to make sure my son knew gung ol farnxvat bhg juvyr uvf zbgure jnf nfyrrc Byvire jnf orvat fhcreanhtugl and he was not under any circumstances to be copied,though. 😛
A teaching moment!
This is the gift that keeps on giving! 😛
haha, that’s pretty funny, I think you should just give like 90% of games the *don’t try this at home* disclaimer.
God, the English dub for that killed me.
Yeah, it’s kind of annoying. But it would have been even more annoying to have to read all the subtitles to my 4 year old.
Yeah, it makes sense.
I preferred it!
He likes Xenoblade too!
He BETTER like Xenoblade too D:<
@strange: How’s your tattoo looking? Healing nicely? They’re supposed to lighten a bit after a couple of days, right?
They do. They get to a point where you panic and think “Oh god I’m going to have to go and get this redone” then it darkens up a bit again.
You can see more detail too, right? Strange’s tattoo is awesome already, can’t wait to see what it looks like when it’s healed and ‘settled’…
It’s looking fine still. No scabs forming yet. That’s the part I’m scared of. I compulsively pick at scabs. It’s an unconscious thing, so I’ll have to make sure my hands are always occupied or tie up my left hand so I don’t wreck it.
Whole forearm still feels tight, but I woke today with more mobility, it’s almost properly usable again. Thank goodness. I’m terrible at doing stuff left-handed!
I knew a kid who would eat his scabs.
Yeah… that’s right…
“Knew” a kid…
Hey @shane!
Hey @dc, what’s up? How have you spent your day so far?
Not much. Weighing up if I want to go to the movies all hermit like by myself sometime this weekend. 😀 How ’bout you, my friend?
work 🙁
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO SEEEEEEE?!?!
A movie! Keep up, geez!
I will meet you at the cinema and I will punch you right in the face.
In the face, D.C.
The face.
Then I can crush your face in retaliation. That’ll work out nicely!
It’s a date.
What are we seeing at what time?
Any thing at any time! Now You See Me, maybe? The Way, Way Back, maybe? I dunno! ANY THING. 😀
Grown Ups 2?
More seriously, I’m pretty keen to see Kick Ass 2.
I haven’t seen the first! D:
Dude! Acquire and watch immediately. Is an excellent movie.
It’s on the list. Maybe. Haha!
Suppose I could just stay home and play The Bureau.
When there’s no meats planned on the horizon I get anxious. XD
I second freeze, it’s great I loved it and when I heard there was a sequel I didn’t really care, then I watched a trailer, now I really wanna see it
Haha.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/sony-exec-falls-asleep-listening-to-david-cage-talk/
@dc @negativezero
just watched it
To be fair, it was at gamescom and that’s like 8-9 hours behind Japan time, so his body was probably telling him it was the middle of the night.
Also listening to David Cage drone on about whatever bullshit he’s up to now “OH WE CAN ADD EMOTIONS LOOK AT MY TECHNOLOGY EMOTIONS FROM TECHNOLOGY GRAPHICS MAKE EMOTIONS I WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN A FILMMAKER INSTEAD BUT I’M GOING TO MAKE THE MOST EMOTIONAL DRAGON’S LAIR EVER” blah blah blah would probably send me to sleep as well.
Emotions
If you say ’emotion’ three times at a press conference, David Cage appears.
Beetlejuice
Betelgeuse?
Pretty sure he fainted from excitement, like those Beatlemania ladies.
Also, maybe he’s having some sort of… Quantic Dream…
WORD PLAY! o/
Le mot juste, dc.
Speak American or go back to your own country, Red.
😛
Ни в коем случае, товарищ.
Avant garde.
That was the straw that broke the camels back, Greenius.
*mental breakdown*
My work here is done.
*dusts hands off and moseys into sunset*
You are certainly fond of making mischief, aren’t you Freeze? “Hmmm….I’ll just leave this here, tag a couple of people on opposite sides, sit back and eat popcorn.” 😛
It’s buttered.You need a fair and balanced view on these things.As usual, Sean O’Neal at the AV club has the best commentary on Batffleck:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/ben-affleck-is-the-batman-you-deserve-right-now-ap,101999/
Also, the film should totally be called The Dark Knight Looks Wicked Pissed Off Tonight, I’d Definitely Give Him Some Space, Charlene.
http://www.popsugar.com.au/Shirtless-Kit-Harrington-Pompeii-Teaser-31227151
Always good to see a man with inappropriate “armour” for once. I’m all for equality. 😀
He knows nothing… about armour.
Inappropriate?
You can see his areola.
And it’s squished between those two belts.
Gonna get some serious chafe if he does any distance running.
Perhaps he’s lubed the belt?
Ya gotta lube the belt!
You don’t lube the belt!?
I’ve never lubed the belt!
YOU’VE NEVER LUBED THE BELT!?
I can’t believe it, he’s never lubed the belt!
Oh God! I didn’t lube the belt! I didn’t know you’re supposed to lube the belt! What do I do!? Do I call her!? Oh what’s the point? She’ll think I’m a schmuck ’cause I didn’t lube the belt…
http://youtu.be/gyZDZCGQJf8
He lives in Pompeii, I don’t see what he needs to run away from!
It just covers one manboob and one arm. And not even the manboob his heart is under. So about how much coverage females usually get in games and stuff.
And yes, I’m aware that it’s close to being historically accurate but I’m 99.99% certain the costume designers didn’t care too much. 😛
Fair enough.
You could imagine them going through all the possible armour that gladiators wore
No, No, can’t see abs, no, HELLO MAMA!!!!
He doesn’t need armour with steel abs like that.
Spent a lot of today reading up in the history of whaling.
It’s kind of depressing.
Careful you don’t blow a hole in your head.
There.
It’s done.
Now no one can make puns anymore.
I upvoted that and then downvoted so I could upvote again. And then I felt bad so I removed it altogether. 😛
I imagine he’s too much of a blubbering mess for that.
We’re whalers on the moon, we carry a harpoon. But there ain’t no whales so we tell tall tales and sing out whaling tune.
@ynefel: regarding FFXIV, it seems like Legacy people (i.e. people that paid an actual 1.0 subscription for more than 3 months) *do* get Early Access. Dirty plebes who only played 1.0 for a bit and then cancelled (like me) don’t. Just FYI.
Wonder how that works. Should be some info on my Squenix Account Management page, I’d assume. Will investigate! Fanx!
I checked my Squenix account management, and there’s no option to subscribe or anything. I just have an active Legacy account, and that’s it. Code registration is disabled and all. I read somewhere I can ‘just login’ when it’s live. Might be the free week or two access after launch? Hope so.
When’s it actually go live? Is it tonight or tomorrow?
Tomorrow at 5pm Eastern Australia time.
You can use the Beta 4 client if you grabbed that.
Download the installer here:
http://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/playersdownload/eu/
It will grab the rest automagically and should probably maybe let you in apparently. Otherwise you’re going to be waiting until some time on Tuesday for the actual release.
Downloading it now – thanks!
RAYMAN LEGENDS CHALLENGES APP TIME!
WOOOOO!
*moseys off*
DEPONIA TIME!
WOOO!
I SOLVED A PUZZLE, D.C.!
So. Damn. Proud.
Work for another two hours time!
Noooo! Who’s going to circle the wagons while you are gone? WE ARE DOOOOOOOMED!
So today is my last day in my current position before starting 6 months higher duties on Monday. Couple that with having Saints Row 4 waiting at home and the result is me being the least motivated to work I have ever been.
Only an hour and a half to go.. Woo..
I’m getting a new work computer, so I’m pretty much sitting at our break table and waiting. Just send us home dammit!
Sigh. What could have been.
eh. Daredevil>>Jonah Hex.
I still haven’t been able to bring myself to watch Jonah Hex. It just looks like it’d be B-grade awful. Not in a good way, either.
It doesn’t even get that good.
I’d forgotten about that movie. I prefer to remember him in stuff like No Country For Old Men and True Grit.
No Country for Old Men is fantastic. Also ‘cos Javier Bardem. Great film.
You know what they need to do?
Give Batman to Brolin and the Directors chair to Affleck.
I’m still happy for Affleck Batman
That said, him directing would be great
Edit: Apparently Affleck was approached to direct Justice League and play batman a while back:
http://batman-news.com/2013/02/07/warner-bros-didnt-just-want-ben-affleck-to-direct-justice-league-they-wanted-him-to-be-batman/
I thought the same thing, but had a lengthy discussion with my female housemate who said Josh Brolin is perfect in every way – except he’s not ‘pretty’ enough. For the whole millionaire playboy side of things. I thought about it and actually kind of agree. He’d make a brilliant Batman, but don’t know about Bruce Wayne.
For the Bruce Wayne/Batman they seem to be shooting for, Brolin would have been perfect. From what I’ve seen, they wanted an older, more experienced Batman in comparison to the young Clark/Supes.
Not that it matters, because Zack Snyder is still directing.
I’m suddenly envisioning Jeff Bridges Batman.
Yes.
Gods no.
Old grizzled batman? Peter Weller.
They’re borrowing from the Dark Knight Returns for this one which is an old grizzled Batman who just doesn’t give a shit.
Although they say that but they seem to be throwing everything except Batman and Superman in one story out.
Hope everyone has a damn good weekend! Catch you on the flipside, home slices!
Come rain or shine, the refresh game will be played on the weekend!
Play the twitter game! now with @transientmind and @gutsoup!
Peer pressure works! Who’ll have a twitter account next? It might be you! *points ominously*
Why would you point at me? I already have one. Oh god, have you blocked me again? I CAN’T TAKE THE REJECTION!
I have one but I don’t know what I’m doing with it 😛
NEVAR!
No preemptive congratulations for @benaffleck for winning kudos this week?
Preemptive congratulations? That’s for people like Shane. I’ll be here well into the night in real time! 😛
Maybe…
*moseys off*
Oh the irony 🙂
disappointed no one has claimed that gag acc yet
So my daughter’s computer appears to have a virus that makes the most visited pages tab on Firefox appear full of explicit google searches. Not ideal. But the anti-virus isn’t picking it up. Any tips?
And yes, I’m pretty sure these are not her searches. 😛
Hmm.
Does she use Bing?
Ha.
What anti-virus do you use?
Look for every erase history / cache button you can find, also there might be some sort of reset option. Worst case, uninstall and reinstall without retaining settings.
Ask @negativezero.
First bet is to throw Combofix at it:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/combofix/
I can vouch for it, I used to use it in a professional environment for years. It’s brutal as hell, but can dig out some of the worst stuff you can find. It’s not a virus scanner per se, but has a list of things it knows are no good, and digs them out. Rootkits, the lot. Not guaranteed to get everything, but if it doesn’t try Malwarebytes Antimalware:
(See below post – double link mod-hell)
I’d suggest throwing your virus scanner at it as well, but guessing if you’ve got one, it didn’t help much. If it escapes Combofix and Malwarebytes, it’s going to be a doozy to get rid of. unfortunately browser hijackers (which it sounds like this is) are sometimes the worst to get rid of.
If it makes you feel any better, I did virus removal professionally for about 5 years.
http://www.malwarebytes.org/
Yeah, already tried Malwarebytes. I’ll give Combofix a go. Thanks!
Could also try MSRT:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/pc-security/malware-removal.aspx
But it doesn’t fix everything and what you’re describing could be a lot of things. Is it just that there’s porn links in the history? Because that could be caused by someone actually going there and that’s possibly more likely than a virus (and if that’s all it is, then you can just wipe the history). Whereas if you’re getting actual porn popups while browsing, that’s more likely to be something malicious.
The last 100 things in the history is the same google search for the same explicit word. There’s a bunch of others like it. And sometimes when you start Firefox it randomly brings up YouTube and Jenna Marbles…
The “searches” in the history were definitely not made by anyone, and they actually look different in the history than the actual searches my daughter did for things like “Janeway” and “castles”.
Which anti-virus?
EDIT: Check for any extensions in Firefox and disable them if they’re not something you expect to see (eg Flash)
Farewell, Ickis.
I’ll miss you, buddy.
:'(
Named after Arrrgh Real Monsters?
Yup! I was 15 at the time and loved the show. Also, he was a Devon Rex – so as kittens they tend to have gigantic ears. Seemed the only reasonable thing to call him.
Haha! More than appropriate!
Thinking of you and your family, man. Is a tough thing to go through.
Epic name. 🙂
*brohug*
New Dead Letter Circus album is pretty fucking boss. Very impressed..
What up? Freeze, Mrs. Freeze and I are going to see Now You See Me tomorrow night at South Bank Cineplex. That’s August 24. (There’s two sessions, 6:40 and 9:25. We haven’t narrowed that down yet. I’m assuming later is better for Freeze!) Potential for dinner before hand! Any one eager to join us are more than welcome! Tickets are fairly cheap here too. http://www.cineplex.com.au/pricing.php
@sughly, @welbot, @jimu, @gutsoup, @strange, @beardymcmuttonchops, @virus__, @sernobulus, @transientmind, @dkzeitgeist, @enduwolf, @lambomann007, @freezespreston
Dinner afterwards. So you don’t have to stress about being on time for the movie.
Feel really, really bad that Sughly and Aleph missed the movie. Like I need to repay them or something. D: It’s plagued my mind all week. I’m sorry guys.
Wait, huh? Didn’t they choose to stay and get drunk?
There’s no need for apologies. It was their choice. Doofus.
I even sent you message telling you they bailed. It was never about missing it, it was about choosing a different kind of fun. I was there, remember. It was not at all your fault or anything about you.
They didn’t make it because they didn’t want to. They decided to stay and drink. Hardly your fault.
If anything you should blame @dkzeitgeist.
I feel like I maybe gave the impression I abandoned them when I went to meet Jimu. D:
Did you want to go to the early session with dinner after? I know you work on Saturdays and probably don’t wanna rush though. Let me know what’s best for you!
My schedule…
*checks schedule*
Is completely open until January 19th. XD
That’s apt.
Stop apologising, Four Times Kudos Winner!
I just don’t want people to hate me. Haha!
That’s (nearly) impossible dude and no one will hate you for that!
Sorry, can’t make it.
I can’t commit sorry man. I’ve been feeling really unwell yesterday and today, I don’t know whether I’ll be up for the movies tomorrow.
That’s okay, man. Hope you feel better. It’s not allocated seating or any thing, so if you feel up to it just let me know sometime tomorrow!
Thanks for the invite man but I’ve got D&D tonight. Which I totally didn’t leave prep for until this morning.
I’m all tied up today. Hope you guys have fun though. 🙂
Seriously, if you’d like to invite me to something USE TWITTER.
I am only reading this now and it’s the 26th.
🙁
So the new Payday 2 patch has pretty much fucked it. It’s just ridiculously hard to do anything or get anywhere now. It’s not even cleverly done. They’ve just buffed enemies, nerfed players and made heists take longer, for fuck all reward. Not happy.
Basically they have catered to all the people that are level 100 and said “screw you” to everyone that is lower level.
They didn’t want people getting to level 100 yet. They’ve tried to stop people grinding out Ukranian Job and Nightclub by making all missions longer.
Yup. I wasn’t happy with the game before now they’ve just shoved a shitty horde mode onto most heists. Yay.
I mean I’m all for fixing what basically amounted to exploits (and I was happily using, because it was the most effective way to get gear and levels) – but c’mon, use your imagination. There was fuck all incentive to do 3 day jobs, because all you get is 1 card, and now there’s no reason to do 1 day jobs because they tacked on a stupid ‘escape’ level to the end, and the same amount of money and xp.
Also the buffing of enemies and nerfing of players is pretty fucking weak too. How about some type of scaling or changing the way XP and mod/mask drops work? Playing for 40 hours just to get the one suppressor I needed was a bit fucked as well. Pretty disappointed, to be honest. I have no desire to play the game in it’s current state,
Grinding out the quick missions wasn’t an exploit, it was efficient gaming.
Gamers tend to just go with the most efficient way of playing a game. It’s a real problem for developers because they tend to want people to do other things. It doesn’t happen.
The reason the quick grinding thing was the most efficient was because the unlock system in PAYDAY 2 was – and still is – shit. Complete a heist, get a card and that card might be something useful. Obviously the only way to get things was to get as many cards as possible to mitigate the sheer randomness of it all and the most efficient way to get more cards was to grind out the early missions.
The fact that experience on longer missions was balls only added to that.
Instead of fixing the problem: the cards, they went and made it harder for people to do the efficient way. They did at least patch up the experience gain so that there was a reason to do the longer missions but as long as they still rely on those cards for the vast majority of meaningful upgrades, people will still go for whatever is the easiest way to get more cards.
In short, the game has a huge gaping flaw and instead of addressing the flaw, they addressed the solution people found.
It’s pretty messed, they also removed the trick in framing frame where you trade the paintings for bags of cash, you get locked in the train till they’re all traded
Tried to buy a US PSN card from Amazon and got this
Is that usual or am I headed for Guantanamo?
@bdkiaf?
Huh, I had read that happens sometimes, though everyone seems to get the email with the code after a little while. Did you just buy the code rather than the actual card? This one?
That’s the one. It’s all good. Popped up in my email about 10 minutes ago. Definitely didn’t use it to buy Saints Row IV.
It’s for a friend. In the US. You don’t know him.
I definitely haven’t just used the White House as my billing address to buy Saints Row 4 and then play it on Steam.
When I first did it, it took about 4 hours to verify, was the strangest thing.
Since then, all has been fine.
Oh look, you posted this on the 23rd…woooops.
Something weird has happened. I’ve fallen in love with the Wii U. I love the fact I can play Rayman in another room. I love the fact I can connect headphones to the controller directly. I love MiiVerse and the main screen. There’s a whole lot of flaws, but it’s something special. Here’s hoping the potential is met!
WHY DON’T YOU MARRY IT THEN!?
I expect so much discussions when Wind Waker comes out!
Day #12: Sailed my boat and looked at 1,300 textures!
Are you still going to stick with it even if you don’t like the gameplay? (like Ni no Kuni)
Maaaaaybe. It’s so pretty I think it’d be hard to stop playing!
HD SNOT KID
HD TINGLE
D:
KOOLOO-LIMPAH
*throws confetti*
The only weird thing is that it took you this long to fall in love with it.
It was Pikmin, man. Gave me quality time with the thing. XD
You remind me of myself once upon a time. Then I realised all that potential was for nought, and it’s destined to be just another in-house Nintendo game machine.
But man, when it reaches the lofty heights of the Vita, and has three whole games, it’s gonna be rad!
At least it’ll have more than three IP’s to sell the whole system.
On a related note, I hope they fix up remote play for PS4, cos on PS3, while playable, is a bit shit.
I’M BATMAN.
Congrats on Argo and the Oscar win! How’s progress going on The Stand?
Why is everyone so mad about you being Batman?
has it hurt your feelings?
MY PROPHECY HAS COME TRUE
someoneholdmei’mscared
PULL YOUR BEST RETARDEDFACE AND PRAY FOR DELIVERANCE
HELP ME BATMANGS
Question: What does Matt Damon smell like?
My coat tails.
Genius.
?
Whenever I get a new, atmospheric game like The Last of Us or The Bureau my neighbour decides to play country music real loud for three hours. I don’t understand why. D:
Country Music actually almost works for them “down south” games like LoU & Walkin’ Dead.
Dear @blaghman,
Thank you for To The Moon. Damn you for making me install Steam on my computer. I think that puts us back to even.
You’re an awesome jerk
Sincerely,
Shane
It begins x2
Great game!
No, no, nothing begins. Ever.
The latter term is right. The jury’s still out on the former.
I don’t think they’ll ever be back.
Because I murdered them.
I’m going to play a 0 Intelligence character in New Vegas, just for kicks.
Can you have 0? I thought the min was 1
Whatever the minimum is, I’M DOING IT! 😀
Low int, max luck. Forrest Gump run!
I called mine Big Dumb Jim and he was a machine! He was like Rembrandt with a Super Sledge. Actually, more like Van Gough because he had a serious drug problem
Thought to myself: maybe I’ll buy Last of Us tomorrow instead of Wonderful 101.
Last of Us is still more expensive…
You are a monster
…
MONSTER!
I’m confused! Which game do you want me to buy, Nob!? Which!?
Not the one that D.C. recommended and ruined for him!
I for one, loved LoU.
Just played some more Demon’s Souls. And progressed. Slow and steady wins the race? 😛
Also, my husband accidentally called my tattoo the Lady Of Pain today. Now I’m thinking she might be a good addition. 😀 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_of_Pain
From March 2013.
The first public reading of one of my books. Not in a café, nor a bookstore. And not to fans, critics, nor the wine-sniffing cultural elite.
https://twitter.com/Shane_W_Smith/status/370875027274477568
Gee, how drunk was your photographer? Just look at all that blur 😛
Worms Revolution is pretty okay.
my friend bought me a copy not long ago! we should hook up for a game sometime!
Is yours on PS3?
oh… no.. mine’s on steam. PC
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified seems decent enough so far, but it feels like it’s from the early ’00s, Max Payne 1 and 2 era. I like the music in particular and the colours of the level design. The squad commands are kind of cool as well. Feels a bit clunky though.
Glory glory to South Sydney!
For once neither of us old folks are sleepy yet so we’re going to watch the first episode of Heroes Of Cosplay. Should be interesting.
US PS Store has a section called Day 1 PS4.
Includes Knack, Killzone, Driveclub, Watchdogs, Warframe, Battlefield 4 and Contrast.
Having a US PSN account is great; you save a lot.
So how did you go with the code? Did Amazon send it? Also how easy was the setup-you just need a fake address right?
Fuck Argo, that was shit. And fuck you Ben Affleck, you’re Daredevil not Batman. I want Josh Brolin as DKR Batman.
Forgive me, I’m drunk. But there’s some truth in there somewhere.
Love, Benny. xxx
Those were kisses. I don’t know why. Don’t ask.
On second thought, I don’t really mind. I loved Man of Steel and Nolan’s trilogy. I’m happy. Please forgive the previous, unnecessary cursing. Ugh, tomorrow’s going to be a bad morning.
Can we keep the kisses?
They’re yours.
x
Nope, not for the top of the page.
Awww…
How about the bottom?
Would be happier with it on the bottom. Involves cops and abuse and shit.
All I can imagine is a cop being abused by someone throwing feces at them. :\
Did they think you were a drug addict?
*stares into distance*
Haha they didn’t end up coming, but no nothing to do with me/us or anything 😛 We’re just looking after a friend who’s a bit traumatised at the moment. I think everything’s okay though.
Aw man, now we have to hear this story. Hope all is well.
Did you accidentally touch a police officer? I did that once and apologised and he tried to arrest me for assault however his partner said it was an accident and told me to leave but not before I was given a $140 fine for “attempted assault of a police officer”
D: You so crazy, Cam.
Not my fault I got bumped into them
PC seems to be working pretty well so far. Got to sort some hard drives out – one of them died months ago but was still in the machine – but after that should be good.
Got FFXIV redownloading now. 🙂
I’ve always been curious about the FF MMO’s but not game enough to try them.
Have you played them before now?
I played FFXI a little but never got into it, it was very hardcore. FFXIV 1.0 was a steamy turd at release, I played but gave up a week or so in. The reboot version is pretty good, plays like a proper MMO and is beautiful.
I second @negativezero ‘s opinion on FFXIV. I played the steaming turd version and the new, beautiful, proper MMO version. It is as he says. It is something I can recommend.
OMG, How have I never heard of this before?
http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/eve-valkyrie-is-coming-in-2014-and-may-be-the-first-true-killer-app-for-the
This may well be what gets to me to buy and oculus rift. Though I would be more keen if it wasn’t multiplayer only. With such a niche title I’d be worried the player base would evaporate.
Also the music at the end makes me want to re sub to EVE online. Not sure if this is a good or a bad thing.
I’ve never played EVE; not to say it hasn’t crossed my mind. But – while Valkyrie isn’t really about EVE, so that doesn’t seem to matter. That game looks BADASS, a word I don’t use often, but I have been playing a fair bit of Borderlands 2 lately 😛
I too now have more than a passing interest in the RIft.
P.S. Why you no tanks?
NOTHING’S MORE BADASS
THAN TREATING A WOMAN WITH RESPECT
How about
TREATING EVERYONE WITH RESPECT
Why’s this one woman gotta have all the respect?
THAT SENTENCE HAD TOO MANY SYLLABLES! APOLOGIZE!
Woo! Saints Row IV!
I feel like I need to buy the local release when it comes for some reason. Like a dirty pirate. 🙁
A long shower will wash all that dirt away..however you will need to scrub for awhile
I hurt my face last night from scrubbing too hard. I don’t think I’ve ever felt less manly.
Scrub less hard I use a shower glove
THIS NORMALLY ISN’T A PROBLEM FOR ME.
But I was getting sick and tired of the constant stream of dead skin, so I was like “I’m gonna show my face who’s boss!” It sort of worked. My skin right now is rad, but it also stings…
Dont step outside..a light breeze will make you cry in agony!
And moisturize dammit!
Moisturize? What do you think I am, smart? Hahaha. So silly.
Hey @freezespreston, what session you want to go to tonight? 6:40 with dinner after the movie or 9:25 with dinner before movie?
I’m seeing Kick Ass tomorrow!
I didn’t really like the first Kick Ass to be honest but I go to the movies so rarely with friends that I can’t be too choose-y 😛
We’re seeing Now You See Me! My sister said it was pretty great!
I’ll be at home, watching it in HD on my comfy couch! :p
Psssst, @freezespreston! Haha! Don’t mind either way, just want to plan the train I catch. XD
http://collider.com/the-stand-movie-scott-cooper-ben-affleck/
I was sort of looking forward to seeing Affleck’s take on The Stand after Argo and The Town, but atleast it’s still happening! Crazy Heart was supposed to be all kinds of awesome too.
Man, ozgameshop has The Wonderful 101 for $30 cheaper than retail and the major stores don’t even have it in their catalogues. Guess that’s what happens with niche new IP titles 😛
IMPORT!!!
…ALEN!
is that PAL though? I thought WiiU was region locked?
Ozgameshop sell games that work in Australia (so PAL or region free ones). Since Wii U is region locked it’ll be the UK PAL version.
All this time i’ve been needlessly overspending.
Who am i kidding. There’s been like 3 WiiU games so far 😛
Funnily enough, all of which I got from them!
While not necessary the three games worth having, I did get New Super Mario Bros U ($54ish?), Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate ($58ish?) and Pikmin 3 ($48) from them (my only Wii U games other than Nintendo Land :P)
They don’t always have the best prices but it’ll definitely be cheaper than buying it locally (Aus Tax :P). They do have $X off codes though which are where the savings come from 😀
http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/612775452582095475/3E867ADA3C4EAA4B53DCFA4E6DFA6107F2212247/
The lighting in The Bureau is pretty damn great. So much atmosphere. This is flawed for sure, but I’m having fun.
Yeah, definitely flawed, but I’m enjoying it. Except for the bit where I put it on the hardest difficulty, and it is rather punishing.
JUST GOT ME A NEW SLOW COOKER
GONNA COOK ALLL THE THINGS
SLOWLY
casserole dinner is a winner!
BioWare feature on creating party members! http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2013/08/23/creating-dragon-age-party-members.aspx
Holy shit, I’m possibly enjoying The Bureau more than SR4. It’s rough, but.. it’s all I wanted from Mass Effect.
One of my favourite things about L.A. Noire is in this game. He picks up his hat after it falls off in battle. XD
Wait, you get to have sex with Garrus in The Bureau?
Good to read some positive impressions about the game.
Went to the shops to have a squiz at the games. Saw Wonderful 101 in JB, $80. “Nope, I’ll import this one. I still want something though, maybe Last of Us… $90 -__-”
Then I went to Kmart and Target, no Wonderful 101’s OR Last of Us’ on the shelves at all. Then I thought “why not one of the earlier games I missed! Ah, here’s Tomb Raider, Far Cry 3, Bioshock Infinite and Sleeping Dogs! Actually… I already own Sleeping Dogs on Steam… Actually I own a lot of stuff on Steam…”
Walked out, got home, started downloading Sleeping Dogs. Estimated time: 1day, 4hrs D:
I’ll just play Animal Crossing.
WE CAN BE SLEEPING DOGS BUDDIES!
Download cancelled
;_;
Animal Crossing is the only game worth playing! Come visit me! I miss you!
I really must insist you download Sleeping Dogs proper. Its well worth it.
So the GTAV radio soundtrack has been spoiled; list is here.
As expected, good stuff, diverse, but that’s to be expected as it’s about 20-30 hours worth of songs (list is still being worked on.)
Based solely on their classic rock station, Vice City’s soundtrack was better.
I had my back cracked yesterday. That was an interesting feeling. It came after “Ben, lay down! I wanna try something on you!”
We’ve been playing Disney Infinity since last night. It’s strangely fun for what it is. It’s nice and easy going which I like. I’d never buy it myself because fuck spending all that money, but it’s fun! I wanna go and get Ni No Kuni whilst I have a ps3 available to me to play 😛
I saw it’s like $25 on PSN at the moment!
I don’t wanna buy things on other people’s ps3’s 😛
Wow. Brisbane’s newspaper has just given up all pretence of being even handed with political coverage. 31 articles about how much of a failure Rudd is including a photo of him in front of a picture of Hitler and Mussolini, calling it “appropriate”. One article on Abbott, calling him a “true Australian hero”.
The media has already decided the election. They decided it back when Gillard was still PM.
That is all I know about the election
Just a heads up, Freeze and I are going to the 9:25 session for Now You See Me, but are getting dinner before. Folks who wanna join can totally join. That is all. Just text me if you wanna.
Can I come?
@powalen
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/114373
Oooooooooh
You know what? I might actually go have a look!
Bust.
They are having a 50% off sale though. I picked up Bioshock Infinite from a “Top 5” shelf thinking maybe I’ll buy that instead, then looked at the sale banner again and noticed in small print “excludes ‘top 5’ games” -__-
Did Wonderful 101 even come out today? 😛 I’ve been to 4 shops and the only place that had a copy was JB. Nobody is talking about it either. Niche of all niche titles.
Eb games was playing a gameplay trailer on one of their tvs when you walk in the store..no copies on the shelves but so either it’s so good it sold out or it’s so niche they under stocked
Kotaku’s front page has a Danganronpa review linked and the header image is a spoiler 🙁
I got stuck in a game and had to use a guide D:
I feel dirty.
:'(
One time whilst I was playing Spyro 3, I forgot how to do Sheila’s stomp. 🙁
@greenius
It’s a shirt.
Called Joel.
And it’s green.
http://www.insertcoinclothing.com/shirts/joel.html
You had me at shirt.
“As grizzled as Joel is, he certainly looks every inch the hero”
Aw man, that’s my kind of shirt! I can’t afford that though. Haha!
I’d wear it to every meat. 😀
So went out today and did a massive shop for food. I try to eat healthy and all the healthy food is damn expensive! But either way gonna make hamburgers tonight so that’s yum. Other than that no new news so umm…good Thai!
No. I don’t want your number.
No. I don’t want to give you mine.
No. I don’t want to meet you nowhere.
No. Don’t want none of your time.
Bit harsh. @dc just wanted to see a movie with you!
D:
…
:'(
I’m typing this in a Totoro kigurumi….
I’m not joking.
Also, anyone want a Crunchyroll gift pass?
Maybe I should jump back into Worms….
*refresh*
That’s what I’m doing
It’s one of those nights isn’t it, I saw you were on RPG maker earlier how’s it going?
Fake perspective really messes with my head. REALLY messes with it.
I couldn’t do it haha
I pretty much had to place stuff, think it looks off, place it again, still looks off, compromise and decide the first placement was better.
Either way I’m sure the finished product will look amazing and I for one would love to play it
My god, how often do I have to tell you people? It’s Penismonkey. It’s such an elegant term, why would anyone not use it?
*penismonkey*
Hey man, what’s up? Anything interesting happening in your corner of the globe?
Not really, having a very lazy night watching White Chicks with the missus, how bout you?
Yeah, nothing’s really happening here, which should be evident on the next page. >.>
I haven’t checked the other page I’m too busy penismonkeying on this page
So I’ve started referring to my brother’s 9-week-old foetus as ‘the fishmonkey’, because it’s all weird and in a goopy soup and it’s got a tail and whatnot.
Man, biology is ugly.
I’m going to be such a great uncle.
Feed it with a spoon and hopefully it will grow legs and fingers
Hey, good with computer Hive Mind:
In the last 2 days my GPU has sort of just… shut down on me twice. I think it’s causing my computer to bluescreen (after a bit of no screen it starts doing that “repeatedly play a tiny sample of sound” thing), but since my monitor can’t detect it any more, I’m not entirely sure (and I’m too lazy to check the event log thingy/have forgotten where it is). Upon reboot its temperature was only 73ish degrees, and it’s done this while playing Darksiders 2 and The Bureau, which are hardly super graphically taxing, so uhh, any suggestions (My card’s a GTX 580, in case that helps)?
While I’m here: This is pretty brilliant.
But it’s related to politics, so most people probably won’t care.
Also, I bought The Legend of Korra Book One Blu-Ray today, according to Amazon I should expect it around the 20th of September, which gives me just enough time to completely forget that I bought it, and then be amazed at its arrival when I’m confused about the events of the first two episodes of Book Two!
Hey Blaghs, it’s late at night, shouldn’t you go to sleep?
That’s a good point me. I really, really should. But I won’t. Because fuck you, that’s why.
That’s not very nice.
Yeah? Well you’re not very nice. Ya jerk.
Ouch, right in the feelings.
CAN’T WE ALL JUST BE FRIENDS
Hey Pow, I’m friendly to everyone who’s not a jerk. Unfortunately, some people (and by some people I mean Blaghsy) are simply terrible, terrible people, and so they should be treated with all the disdain you can muster.
Man, imagine if you could mustard disdain. Would it be delicious?
Disdain and cracked mustard seed..roast that shit!
Clicking the links.
” Sandwich thrown at FORMER Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard
Related videos: Sexy Penny with glasses – The Big Bang Theory”
:I
It’s related you’ll see why
I found this link amusing. If only for the basic summary, “Every three years, a bunch of politicians get together and everyone kind of yells at each other and says the same three words for ages. Then elections are held and whoever wins a seat is rounded up into a big paddock we generally refer to as ‘Canberra’. Then they continue to yell at each other,” which basically sums up everything you need to know about politics, ever.
Have you tried punching it?
What sort of stupid question is that? Of course I’ve tried punching it. What sort of rube do you take me for?
Get the hammer?
open the case and check how much dust is in the fans/on top of the heat sink.
(Both cpu and gpu). It’ll likely be your cpu, but could be a combo of both.
If you get a soft brush, or an air compressor, get as much dust out as you can, and try again.
In addition to what @welbot said, make sure you’re running latest drivers.
Also are you running XP still? Vista onward, a GPU lock-up shouldn’t take the system with it unless things are going pretty wrong.
I’m running 7, pretty certain I’m on the latest stable drivers, too. Will check for dust, my machine’s not in the most accessible spot though so it will have to wait a few days. Cheers for the help Neg & @welbot.
Latest stable for Nvidia cards is 3 months old. if you’re hitting issues running something more recent than when the stable released, it’s worth trying latest beta drivers as they usually incorporate fixes.
Doesn’t sound like a driver issue to me though. If the GPU drivers crash in Vista/7/8 then it can’t take the system with it.
Kick Ass 2 is an awesome movie!
I thought you were going to see Now you see me?
or so it would seem!
It’s magic!
D=
I wanted to see that.
D.C. hats you and changed the plans when he found out you weren’t going!
Exactly, they knew I wouldn’t want to go and see “Now you see me”.
It’s okay, I’m not crying. I’ve just got something in my eye.
why are you carrying around a bag of cut up onions
Why are your eyes sweating?
Should have come along then.
There was Mexican food as well! D.C. got all flustered when talking to pretty girl at counter! D:
hook in bro!
Nooooo.
Katie decided to show up in my Animal Crossing town today. Normally I’d be okay with this, but because she is here, Joan isn’t. Where am I meant to buy turnips now!?
This is the worst Christmas ever.
Just take Katie to another town and Joan should appear.
@novacascade
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Happy birthday, Hard Rock Cafe/Time Zone/Surfers Paradise meat pal!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY NOVA! Book yourself a round-the-world trip!
Shane’s paying!
Happy Birthday Xenofriend!
Need a new wireless router. Only electronics store nearby is Dick Smith.
*shudder* I need a shower
$150 later I get home, get it out of the packet and it has bits rattling around inside the router.
Brilliant.
It’s a feature.
That’s just the scorpions.
Thats the rattling of empty souls inside the router
I so need one, because my router keeps dropping out and forgetting its settings. Its rather annoying. However with Dick Smith being the only real option I have been putting it off for months.
Coincidentally, I managed to pick one up this afternoon.
What up, home slices?
I’ve been drawing terribly!
And now I have to go talk to rellies.
D: You poor bastard!
It got worse, it was followed up by digging holes in the front yard. :/
To bury the relatives in? D:
No, as part of “THE SAGA OF BLAGHSIES RENOVATIONS THAT NEVER END” my parents ordered a bunch of roses (26 to be precise) and we needed to dig the holes for them before they leave on their US trip. Which means that I need to plant the blighters once they actually turn up!
Drawing!?
WE COULD’VE HAD A DRAWN-OFF!
Drawing.
It’s super duper derp. I was kind of almost happy with it in sketch form, but it got progressively worse as I worked on it.
Haha I love it! Is it a Pokefusion thingy of Magikarp and Pidgeot?
Yup!
Hey DC!
Mum’s birthday, so I tried to get her to play videogames, naturally.
Turns out Gone Home (well, perhaps it’s more the first-person-ness of it) isn’t the ideal starting point for vidyagaemz4n00bz. I figured that with a low/nil skill requirement, she could go at her own pace etc, but it lacked enough direction to keep her going, along with slight motion-sickness.
Booo!
So now I’m playing Kentucky Route Zero, which is pretty fantastic thus far.
How about you mate?
Aleph! Enjoying being home? Kentucky Route Zero looks amazing! I’m going to wait until all the eps are released though.
Loving the return to familiar settings, though the allure of friends is already calling once more 😀
Thanks so much for catching up while I was there, and sorry once again about my last night :S
Oh right, KR:Z
The art direction? Amazing. Like… I don’t know. I’m not an artist. I can’t do that fancy stuff, but the way the lighting works, and how it’s all brought together is just awesome 😀
Not much short bread yourself?
The Bureau and plenty of it!
Is it worth the money they are asking for it? Or better to wait for discounts?
Definitely wait until it’s cheaper, but definitely not a 5/10 game like some suggested!
I’ll wait for the Christmas steam sale
My copy was like, $45, and I think it’s definitely worth that.
Really like the music in The Bureau and the colours. THE COLOURS.
Whee, just got home 😛 Was invited out to the city with my cousin last night, thankfully the flu had subsided enough to go out and not be constantly coughing and hacking all night. Ended up having to crash at their hotel room, but then couldn’t sleep at all. I was just lying there for hours, til eventually my other cousin showed up. Then I kinda had to get up for a 4am Maccas run, still couldn’t sleep after I got back. Or if I did, I’d be awake again within an hour. Weird.
The best part was that being in the city today meant I could pop down to Galeries EB on the way home, and use the last day of their sale to pick up Wonderful 101 for $64. Woo!
Kick Ass 2 was alright. Not terrible, not amazing.
By the way, did you guys know that you can get $10 Greater Union/Event movie tickets if you’re a Telstra customer? Because I didn’t know until today and you totally can.
Huh, I thought that was an Optus thing. Also I remember hearing that it was when you order them through their website or something, and it turned out that you don’t even have to be an Optus customer, you can just instead add a thing to the URL and it works.
Never actually tried it myself though since whenever I end up going to Event it’s something organised by others and I only find out about it after it’s all been sorted.
Just rode 45km on my mountain bike, 2nd ride after my knee reconstruction. Safe to say I am exhausted.
That sounds brutal, toad.
Saints Row IV is pretty awesome. I found a suit that is nothing but oil. So now I have a naked 160kg oiled up bearded man charging around the city.
All games should have this option.
Your inner child?
Tell me, how does it make you feel?
I’d say the nudity shows a desire to escape the trappings of life-setting yourself free as it were. The lubricating effect of the oil reinforces this desire, allowing you to slide through life.
That will be $500-the receptionist will advise you on any payment plans.
FFXIV down for maintenance for 3 hours and I can’t play and don’t know what to do.
Chop up all the furniture and make a bonfire out of the lounge! \o/
@blaghman
http://imgur.com/4oz7UQ7
That was an okay waste of 10 minutes or so 😛
A wild MAGEOT!
Where’s my Master ball?!
Season 1-5 of The Wire [REDACTED].
@shane, this had better be good 😛
Worst case scenario, I’ve got 5 seasons of a questionable TV show to work through 😀
DOWN IN THE TREME!
…
It’s pretty damn awesome!
Personally I prefer Breaking Bad, but The Wire is up there as one of my favourites! Sort of has a “Game of Thrones” vibe going on where there’s lots of characters that you’ll be interested in.
Having never watched Game Of Thrones, I can safely say that I’ll be absolutely disinterested in every single character shown.
OMAR.
It’s brilliant. If you don’t like it, you’re wrong.
PS: I loved it from the very, very first scene. If that doesn’t immediately grab you, keep watching anyway, but you probably won’t love it in the same way I did.
GAMING PC HELP PLEASE
I’m not too sure about the parts and technical mumbo jumbo but I’ve got a list of things that I’ve seen mentioned in a lot of places for decent gaming builds around my budget (1700ish). Any advice/suggestions etc. would be appreciated, thanks!
– i5 4670 (don’t think I’ll need the “k” one since I’m not going to overclock but it seems like an i7 isn’t really needed for gaming and I’ve seen that i5 one mentioned a lot)
– Z87 something (there seems to be a lot of “Z87” ones, but I’m not sure which one, or which brand specifically. Maybe MSI Gaming? I’ve seen Asrock Extreme4 mentioned as a cheap one as well but I’m willing to spend a bit more if it’s going tot make a difference)
– WD Blue/Seagate Barracuda (seems sufficient enough)
– Samsung 840 or a Sandisk Extreme (probably 120ish or 250GB, worth getting the 250 one? What do people put on their SSDs? I’m definitely thinking the OS at least but not sure what else)
– GTX770 4GB (not sure which manufacturer though but I’ll probably stick with one of the usual ones)
– 16GB RAM (not sure which manufacturer though, Corsair and G.Skill seem to pop up a lot. I think 8GB is fine for just gaming but I guess it doesn’t hurt to have more… :P)
I’ll most likely just use my current case, CD drive and power supply as well as other general things (monitor, mouse, keyboard, speakers). I think my current power supply is 600W, would that be enough?
Currently I’m only using one monitor but I plan to use two in the future. I’d probably only ever game on one at a time (no two screen dealio).
I’ll re-post this because it’ll be seen by about 10 people, read by about 2 and maybe get a reply or vote 😛
Thankssss
Don’t bother with a z87 mb if you’re not planning to tinker. Waste of money. And spending more on a mb isn’t going to make the slightest bit of difference to the computer 😛
I’m not sure if a 600w psu will be enough for the gpu. Might have to google that one.
Haha, like I said I don’t know notin’! I just saw the Z87 in a bunch of pre-built computers and lists around the web.
CPU certainly doesn’t need the ‘K’ unless overclocking, though if you’ve got the slightest inkling that you might in the future, $20 or whatever the difference is won’t hurt. I bought the 2500K, and I’ve not been inclined to OC it as yet.
You could save a bit on your mobo, the Z87 is designed for the ‘enthusiast’ class, I suppose. If you’re going to build it and let sleeping giants lie, go with a cheaper/’lesser’ board, you won’t even know the difference, and certainly won’t miss the features.
My latest HDD is a Barracuda 3TB, and I’ve not had any issues with it. It seems to be either that or the WD Blue/Red for midrange budgets these days, otherwise there’s always the WD Caviar Black. That said, I’ve also got a Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB internally which has been going strong for 2 years now. Not entirely familiar with expected lifetimes of HDDs these days…
SSD is primarily used for OS, and in terms of other software (games etc), anything with notoriously long load times will benefit from being stored on it too. This will be determined by available space of course, though a 120GB would be plenty for your OS and a few games. I’ve got a 60GB, and it’s squeezed for space. If I could go back again, a 120GB would be *perfect*.
That GPU is a beast, though I have some reservations about the PSU, possibly consider investing in something a little beefier? I’m going on a hunch here and haven’t looked at specs, but worst-case-scenario, you can always buy bigger, leaving yourself further room for upgrades without having to worry about power requirements.
With the RAM, 8GB is plenty for gaming these days, and outside of futureproofing etc, you wouldn’t likely need much more. Went with 16GB personally, though there’s no way I use that much at any given moment. I think I may have actually read somewhere [citation needed] that more/excess RAM can have a (albeit slight/barely noticeable) detrimental effect in some way? I’d need clarification on that though.
Dual monitors are an absolute boon to productivity. The increased screen real-estate is instantly noticeable, and you’ll never look back. As for gaming, I can’t think of a single game that would benefit from a dual-screen setup, as no matter which way you have it configured, you’re dealing with two bezels right in the centre of the viewing area. 3 screens is a good bet for racing games in particular, though it’s definitely treading into the realm of diminishing returns, and you’re probably better suited to a larger (perhaps a 1440P, or if you’re feeling tricky, a 4K?) screen for media/games consumption with a standard 1080P 23-27″ to the side in all honesty.
As for setting up multi-screen display, I’m not that familiar with NVidia Surround, though I believe it is somewhat simpler to use than AMD’s Eyefinity when creating groups of 3 or more monitors (AMD requires the use of DisplayPort screens/adapters for the third+ screen, whereas NVidia does not) which could potentially mitigate costs if you’re looking to go that route, too.
Emailed ye, because screw trying to write out a parts list on my phone.
You want a 250gb SSD, anything smaller is a struggle to work with. Can probably get away with a green drive for files but the small price difference might not be worth the slower speed.
600W is fine for this config.
Going to disagree with other people on the ‘don’t get Z87’ thing. The H87 boards are all pretty shit in terms of features and performance. Also bear in mind the diff between the standard and the ‘K’ CPU is only like $15-20 and picking one will give you much more headroom for later.
Have a look at this:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=600246
Hey @dc (and other venture gamers), do you get stuck often and do you usually refer to a guide or just keep at it? 😛
I’ve been stuck in Deponia a few times and I always try things out but I hate that feeling of just wandering around in circles not making progress in games, so I just usually give up and refer to a guide D:
I’m DaWorst at adventure games 😀
No walkthroughs. I only go to walkthroughs on games I’m not really invested in like A New Beginning and am just playing for the story. If I’m stuck for 8 hours on one puzzle I might think about getting a little hint. http://www.uhs-hints.com/ is your friend! 😀
As for how often I get stuck, sometimes it depends on the game and also the mindset you’re in. I remember I struggled heaps with Deponia, but not the sequel. If I remember correctly, @sughly struggled with the sequel but not the first game.
Phew, luckily it doesn’t have Deponia or I could’ve used it! 😛
I find the character hints to be lacking but at least spacebar helps! Did you use that? Pixel hunting D:
Only as a last resort if I was stuck for ages. Haha!
There’s really no right way to play it though. The more adventures you play the better you’ll get at puzzle solving too.
Yeah, I need some adventure game logic!
D.C. I TOOK NOTES ON A POST-IT NOTE AND EVERYTHING!
AND I GOT STUCK AND PICKED UP MY PHONE TO REFER TO A GUIDE BUT THEN SOMETHING CLICKED AND I FIGURED OUT A PUZZLE AND IT FELT GOOD
WOOO!
Did you get the minecart bug @dc ? Apparently I did but then it just worked after I tried it again
*shrug*
Yeah, I had to skip the puzzle. :'(
I did the “Set Off” thing and it played the cutscene but put me back at the normal spot on top of the station. So I just clicked “Set Off” again, the cutscene played and then it worked 😐
Weird…
It’s a great feeling when you finally puzzle something out after you’ve been stuck for ages. Back in the pre-guide days of my childhood, it didn’t seem like a big deal to be stuck somewhere for days. Nowadays, if I can’t crack a puzzle in five minutes, I start to lose patience. I don’t know whether it’s because I’m annoyed with myself, or because I feel like I don’t have time to ‘waste’ on not making progress… but I’m much more inclined to seek out a guide if one is available.
If I’m commuting with the 3DS, though, I try to tough it out, and it’s usually a great feeling if I break through the obstacle!
By leaving this lone comment here I am to achieve the final post of this weeks TAY, to which I contributed greatly as always.
Good work, man.
Sorry, I might have just stolen your thunder 😛
Nope.
You misunderstand, TAYbies never sleep, old TAYs never die. 😛
There’s always a time travelling expedition around the corner!
I’m so bored… 🙁
I wish I knew how to get streaming working via my WDTV Media Player.
Usually, I’d play stuff off of the hard drive, but for some reason, it won’t play some of the files.
Okay, so my WDTV Player is on the network, but I can’t the unit to recognize the source.
HI EVERYBODY!
Hi Dr. Nick.
Curse you @shane and @lambomann007
Woohoo! Sunday night TAY, if there’s anyone still here, you will be the first folks (along with Sunday night Facebook and Twitter folks) to see page 1 of Triumviratus, and the only people to get access to a high-res version.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/to325b1f7kqjjbc/Page001.jpg
Ooooo.
Ominous.
Again I shall attempt to claim final comment for the week! First TAY then… the world!
Good luck, man! 😀
I won, its now “next week”
Touche. Nicely played
Hip hop hooray a new TAY starts today
Wait for it.
Discovered the beauty of Car Boot sales on the weekend, so many cheap retro games! Almost picked up a mega drive, but thought ‘maybe next time’. 🙂
jelly
I finished the Walkin’ Dead on Vita this today cos I was home sick.
I enjoyed it, platinummed it too, my first. I feel like I just cheated :-/
Anyway, good times, good game, dunno if it were Game O Da Yeer or nuthin’ but certainly worth the price of admission.
Will be happy to play a sequel and the Fables game too.
Hey friend-o!
I hope by now you’ve figured out this is old TAY 😀
If not, here’s a friendly heads up!
That FFX HD is looking pretty nifty aye? I’m not sure I like the new music they showed but I didn’t even know they were changing it, so that’s cool I guess!
Yeah, seconds after posting I had a lightbulb.
I haven’t been following FFX, all I wanna know is prices and release dates for the Vita versions and I aint heard nuffin’.
I don’t like the idea of changing the music at all, own all the soundtracks and and pretty keen on how they already sound. If they were just re-mastering with newer techniques I wouldn’t mind but it actually sounds like they will be remixing. Not cool.
I’m one of the few people who noticed the difference between soundtracks on Starfox 64s and the new voice work,
It kills me, there’s really no point, waste of time and money imho.
Zelda 3D did it best, just update the visuals, stop at that.
Perfect Dark Arcade is also really well done and apparently they had to rebuild from almost scratch. Those are good HD versions.
I’ll still get em, just…bleh!
Yeah, I prefer the original track (the new trailer showed some battle scenes) but eh! I’m just happy because it’s one of my favourite (and first) Final Fantasies!
Exceedingly light almost spoiler free review of Saints Row the 4th… no plot points discussed.
Use rot13.com to decipher.
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