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2,495 responses to “Talk Amongst Yourselves”
hey
Placeholder for big PC question repost?
See, that would’ve been a good idea :P… (too late now)
So edit the other one to generic greeting… I’ll edit these to say something totally relevant about PC parts.
Just saw the reply on the other page and reading the email now, thanks!
Looks like the video card is getting bumped up on that list.
Morning all! I started listening to the latest Potaku, but then they started talking about Ducktales, and I got distracted for some reason…
Eighth listen so far. Send help.
Might have to go listen to it. Or maybe go solve a mystery instead. Or rewrite history.
D-d-d-danger! Watch behind you.
Hi guys.
Cricket, huh? What a stupid game.*
*I don’t think it’s stupid, it’s actually pretty awesome.
Remember when we were good?
In some ways I kind of prefer the situation now.
Cricket was getting boring when we were winning all the time.
Now it’s more interesting.
Although I would like it if we were a bit better.
There is some hope but I don’t think we will be the team we were for a long time if ever.
It’s silly to see the British press acting like Australia were on the verge of losing and it’s a travesty that England weren’t given a chance to win — the light was already significantly worse than when play was stopped at Manchester.
Australia did everything they could to get themselves a shot at winning, after dominating but losing four sessions to rain, by dangling a carrot in front of England and neither side could quite pull it off. It was exciting, isn’t that good enough for people?
That said, I liked the Clarke/Dar spat (“Don’t touch me! If I touched you, I’m banned for three weeks, so don’t f*ing touch me!”) ’cause… well, as an isolated incident it’s not great… but taking into account Dar’s umpiring for the series, I think it’s fair enough. 😛
Apart from his century at Old Trafford, Clarke’s batting has been fairly ordinary this series. He’s struggled against Broad, although he’s not alone there. I will admit I couldn’t be bothered watching the last day, but it sounds like I missed some good cricket. I think the pitches for this series have not been that great, and I’m looking forward to see the series in Australia.
Yeah, I think with Clarke being the only consistent batsman over the ~12 months leading into the series I definitely expected more as well. Looked like he was losing concentration at times so maybe he was feeling too much pressure, but his overall captaincy was solid (better than Cook) so I’m not really sure.
Haddin (although not quite scoring runs to his potential) and Harris were both good across the entire series, though. Good debut by Faulkner, but probably needed to score runs more than he needed to take wickets.
I’m cautiously optimistic for this summer. 😛
Yeah, I’m thinking if we pick a team and stick with it we might stand a chance of winning. I think the top five are pretty much set, and an attack of Harris, Starc, Siddle and Lyon with Watson, Smith and Warner bowling some overs is a pretty decent one. The only spot I’m not sure of is the number 6 batsman. On Foxtel’s coverage last night, Brendon Julian said that that spot is pretty much up for grabs and if a batsman has a good start to the Sheffield Shield, it could be his. I agree with him. But before the Ashes, we’ve got two one day series in England and India, which will be interesting.
Or just put Matthew Wade in as a batsmen. Has a decent average of 36, and has made 2 100’s and 3 50’s in just 12 matches. Better than most of our other batsmen. Plus his one over he bowled early this year wasn’t actually bad (just for use for the over before lunch or something), and he is a good fielder.
I hadn’t actually read any of the Dar stuff when I wrote this. I went to bed just before tea, and was surprised/disappointed to hear that I missed out on what was actually an exciting finish. Though I’m kinda glad, I didn’t really need to go to sleep at 4:30am.
I’m disappointed that anybody out there is complaining about Clarke’s behaviour as the light was failing. Those photos look like they were taken with overwhelming artificial light. The third game was called off when conditions were much better and we actually had a chance of winning. It would have been called off much earlier in far more boring circumstances if he hadn’t declared. etc.
Man, I just hope we actually stick it to them over Summer. I don’t think I can handle any more of my cocky English friends.
So, uh, just watched the trailer for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. It has Ben Stiller as the leading man. It’s fairly whimsical in it’s humour, if the source material is anything to go by.
It actually looks good.
Here’s hoping he pulls off a performance akin to Robin Williams and Jim Carrey at their best serious/comedic roles.
Also, dat cinematography.
I’m out.
Foolish.
Why? The guys been the antithesis of humour since 2001. He could have gracefully bowed out at the top of his game but he decided to follow Sandler down the Slide of Painful Unfunnies.
I think he’s pretty good.
And he can direct pretty well.
If you disregard movies based on actors, you could miss out on gems.
I hate Will Ferrel but I saw Stranger Than Fiction because it looked great, and it was.
Man, I forgot about Stranger Than Fiction. It’s odd how staggeringly convincing that comedians can play mild-mannered nobodies.
.. then again, I suppose it’s not hard for anybody in a office job, right?
Well, I think this is more the sort of movie that shows off the best of Stiller — I fully expect it to be a commercial flop but praised by critics (Christmas release also lends something towards an award run).
It’s a hard hurdle to jump over, it’s really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really,
I have a couple of friends/family members who live in a fantasy world and always talk themselves up, so I (playfully) call them Walter Mitty — can’t wait for this movie so that I can actually show them who I’m talking about. 😛
(And, it does look good!)
Yarg. Monday.
Eh.
Did your copy of Wonderful 101 arrive last week?
It shipped from OGS on Thursday night. Hopefully it’ll arrive during this week.
I had something ship from OGS on thursday too,
IT’s a race 😛
I’m still waiting for a Zavvi order that shipped on Thursday the 15th or so, RACE WAR!
I have a game being shipped by OGS on the 17th September. The race is ON. 😛
Are we taking bets on arrival day?
Friday.
I’m feeling lucky. Wednesday.
going from past experience I’m going with early next week
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) so any advice/suggestions etc. would be much appreciated, thanks!
– i5 4670 (don’t think I’ll need the “k” one since I’m not going to overclock and it seems like an i7 isn’t really needed for gaming)
– 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, is it 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).
This is a re-post from weekend TAY and BenJ and Aleph suggested not getting a Z87. I’m not sure what else to get instead but I’ve seen the Z87 pop up on pretty much every gaming build list, so it seems good enough for me 😛
Thankssss!
@welbot @ynefel @negativezero @cakesmith other peoples
Yes!
Ser Helpulus!
I’ll just say I have 8GB of RAM and a 2GB GTX770 and it runs everything on Ultra settings at high res without even the slightest stutter. And I mean everything.
The power supply is an 800watt (750 maybe?) though.
Hmmm… Is it worth the jump from a GTX 760 to 770? Might have to rethink the current build plan.
No idea. I can confirm it’s definitely worth the jump from an 8800GTX.
Man, 8800GTX was a fucking monster. That card stayed relevant for many years after the fact. I had a 640mb 8800GTS, and it performed admirably for years. They outdid the 9 series in most ways too. Fond memories.
Maaaaaaan, I also had a 640MB Overclocked 8800GTS for years, sadly it was the last time XFX did Nvidia cards 🙁 it was an amazing card. I remember playing current new games in 2011 on high and not having an issue, it was stupid.
My 8800 was an old EVGA. I used to buy XFX, but they kind of stopped being a thing. They were expensive, but I found they had good warranty.
EDIT: Incidentally, said EVGA OC 8800GTS only died earlier this year. Thing belted along for 5 or 6 years.
Haha yeah, I got mine off a mate, I kinda wish he was still upgrading annually damn it. He was good to buy all sorts of things off lol.
That’s what my 2007 build had. The ‘jump’ here will be her going to her own computer from mine.
The GTX760 and GTX770 are pretty much just rebadged GTX660s and GTX670s – go the 770. It’s your best choice for performance short of a 780 which is where you start to get a little pricey.
EDIT: To elaborate – the 660, 670, 760 and 770 all use the same GK104 Kepler architecture – the 7 series really isn’t anything new. The 780 shares the GK110 architecture with the Titan – they’re essentially the same card, the 780 is just a gimped Titan.
Cool, ok. Will look at switching the 760 to 770. This thing will be a beast. Pity it’s not my computer.
Yes.
Look pretty solid to me, man. Z87 boards are your best bet for Haswell CPUs. If you’re not overclocking, you don’t need the ‘K’ version of the CPU. GTX770 should fair thump along, and 16GB of RAM is plenty.
As for SSD’s, you just use it as your primary OS drive, and nothing else. Install your programs to it, like Office, or any general application you use – then use your other drive for games, movies, music, etc.
System like that should handle just about anything you throw at it within reason. Good choice.
EDIT: Get a better PSU. 600W will do, but… doesn’t have to be huge, but for that system I’d say 750W plus. Although wattage shouldn’t be your biggest concern as much as the quality. Good-quality PSU’s are highly underrated. It’s supplying juice to your whole system – so don’t cheap out on it.
Any recommended PSUs?
I love Silverstone, personally. Corsair have some nice ones too.
@greenius: seasonic make awesome PSUs as well, they’re what I usually get.
For 1700 you could have everything and not need have to reuse power supply, case & ODD honestly.
SSD’s OS, some apps that you require to load fast, but wouldn’t really recommend whacking the entire Abode Creative Suite on there, since that takes up a fair chunk of space, and some people put games on them too. The Samsung 250 is a good price atm at 180 at PCCG.
For the GPU my personal preference is EVGA in brands, I like their style with stuff, but the 4GB would be a bit useless if you’re not planning on a tri-monitor gaming set up. You’d be much better with the overclocked 2GB version instead for 100 dollars less.
PSU is more than fine, i’d be guessing Nvidia has made them less power hungry again, Considering my mate runs his i5 GTX 670 build on a 500W Corsair PSU and here I am using my old 800w psu to run a GTX 560 & a core i5 2500 build heh.
RAM is so cheap these days that putting 16 in is a no brainier really.
If you are reusing case etc I assume that you plan on putting it together yourself. I would look at upgrading the PSU, 600 is pushing it if you start putting another couple of drives in there. Al;so how old is your current one? I would go for a 750 or 1000 if you plan to add more stuff to the system.
The other thing I would highly recommend is getting a better heatsink. Something like a coolermaster or similar. Although you will probably end up with funky blue LEDs if you do.
Hello! I was at Uni so couldn’t reply earlier.
I’m not putting it together myself, but my dad is. He built my current one about 4 years ago and it’s not that bad but not that excellent either.
Not really, RAM has almost doubled in price in the last year 🙁
I paid 55 bucks for 8GB of Kingston RAM back in March last year and now the same stuff is 90 bucks, when back then for 95 bucks you could get the 16GB kit which is now upwards of 140 dollars =/ So really it’s kind of expensive now in comparison.
I responded in Old TAY as well, but:
– Splurge $20 extra for the K-series CPU for more headroom later
– H87 boards are shithouse features-wise and build quality so you should go with a Z87
– 600W is fine, you don’t need more than that unless you’re running multiple GPUs
– 250gb SSD is better if you can afford, 120 is very limiting
– 16gb RAM is a good idea. It’s hard to buy bad RAM – Corsair, Kingston, Gskill, all good.
Since I just upgraded this weekend, here’s what I got that’s relevant:
– MSI Z87-G45 Motherboard
– Intel Core i5 4670K
– Samsung 840 EVO 250gb SSD
This set me back about $700 I think. I grabbed some other stuff with it. I already had 16gb RAM (4x4gb) and a 2gb 670 OC and my old 500gb WD Black system drive from my old build, and I’m using a 650W PSU.
IMO the list you’ve got there is pretty good. With the 770 I strongly recommend getting a 770 OC version (factory overclocked). With the 600-series card, a 670 OC was within 5-10% of the performance of a 680, and I imagine that the 700-series is quite similar as the architecture didn’t change significantly.
ok normally dont participate in TAY, but i’m in need of info, from anyone thats been to Japan.
Im learning the language and im brushing up on customs, but as an ignorant tourist im hoping to avoid any real misunderstandings/issues.
Any useful info, links, tips, experiences, idioms, sort of anything that will help, being my first time out of Australia, i have the travel part covered, insurance, accomodations, flights, JR cards.
its more anything from experienced travelers that i might miss being new to the whole idea.
I’ll be there for 4 weeks, starting in tokyo, then to Kinosaki, then Osaka and Kyoto, then up to Sapporo.
Would appriciate any and all info,
thanks in advance
I’ve only really been to Tokyo but it’s very tourist friendly. Lots of English signs everywhere and most people have a very basic understanding of English. Everyone was super friendly and helpful too.
Have fun, Japan is awesome 😀
Japan is awesome, been a couple of times myself. All I usually advise people is be poilte and respectful when in any foreign country – particularly somewhere like Japan. People are generally hugely polite and will help where they can. Just make sure you give someone a simple ‘Ari gato’ when they help you out. It’s a simple touch most will appreciate.
The biggest thing I would say is work out with your bank before you leave how you can get cash out. We had a one night stop over there and almost got in all sorts of trouble as our bank cards wouldn’t work in any ATM. Using credit cards and the like was fine but trying to get some cash out to buy a drink or something wasn’t something we could work out how to do (Besides at the airport so just in case I would recommend loading up on some cash when you land)
This was a few years ago now so things may have changed but investigate before you go.
Other than that enjoy using a vending machine to ordering food, check out the crazy stores and generally have fun.
The Tokyo Imperial Palace is a nice place to go to get away from to much hustle and bustle if you need a break.
I went there at the start of the year, it was pretty cool. Regarding money stuff, I followed the advice of getting one of the Commonwealth Bank travel card things, loading it up with Yen before I left. The idea behind them is supposed to be that you lock it in at the rate when you charge up your card, so then don’t lose out on conversions while you’re over there or something like that. But in the end it turned out to be pretty much useless, because half of the places I used it at charged me in US dollars instead so I got hit with a conversion fee every time anyway. Honestly would have been better off just taking the majority of my money as cash and leaving some on the card in case I needed to get out more.
And depending on how much you like your gaming, be sure to leave plenty of time to explore Akihabara. I think I ended up going back there nearly every second day, there’s just so much stuff to look through there. Especially if you’re looking to buy things. I think I brought home nearly $800 worth of stuff >_>
Assuming you’re not Asian as that makes it harder to get away with: you can basically get away with anything. Gaijin Smash. Just be rude. They’ll secretly hate you but are far too polite to say anything and will usually just write it off as the foreigner not understanding how things are meant to work. Most of them will be too terrified to say anything anyway as they can’t speak English.
Make sure you know how the ticketing systems work if you want to take the train in Tokyo. There are multiple different train lines which are run by different companies and use different ticket systems.
Sounds like an awesome trip planned, I’m envious.
@greenius I’ve heard nothing but good things from others about how helpful the people are.
@ynefel (Cody) I’ve learnt enough Japanese so far to know the greetings, thank you’s, numbers, and how to be generally polite and the basic customs and etiquette.
@mrtaco @tigerion Thanks, i think atm this is my biggest concern, im worried about taking to much cash, or if its best to convert the cash here or once i land in Japan?
If i should use a traveller’s card, get myself a credit card?
Don’t suppose you would know how much cash in either AUD or YEN that im allowed to take over with me?
I’m currently scheduled for a couple days in Akihabara 😀 that will be costly but i will love it, and so will my missus.
I have a list of shops, cafe’s and food districts mapped out already 😀
And a day at the imperial palace.
@negativezero nope not Asian, im going to try be as polite as possible, im 6,1/6,3″ in boots, so already imposing enough :P.
The train systems seem to have plenty of info available online, im taking my tablet loaded with websites for travel guides and train info/maps.
Looking forward to this trip so much, I’ve had to schedule a couple days to do nothing between busy days of doing everything, just to make sure i actually take a rest.
appreciate all the replies so far, anyone else please feel free to drop some more knowledge, it will all help me.
If you are making any expensive purchases just put them on the card, I had no issues using a credit card when I was there. Although notify your bank before you leave as they can cancel cards if they think their are dodgy transactions happening (and from another country can trigger it) No idea on how much you can take, like I said we got stuck without enough yen to buy a drink.
As Neg says checking the ticketing system is a good idea. From what I worked out if you don’t know how much a ticket is going to cost you you can buy the cheapest ticket available. Then when you get to your destination you can go to a ticket upgrade machine that will then take the difference between the ticket you bought and what you needed. Not sure if they have a smart card style ticket that will be faster but wasn’t their long enough to bother looking into it.
Hmm… I think the most cash you can take is something crazy like $10000, but I’m not entirely certain on the exact figure. I think I took over something like $500 in cash and $1500 on my card. The dollar was a lot better then than now though, last I checked. Pretty much could just read prices in yen as prices in cents, it was handy 😛
You’re bigger than most of them and also foreign. You can get away with anything.
Minor tips:
– You know that thing about disposable chopsticks and rubbing them together to remove the splinters? Don’t do that. You’re basically saying that you don’t trust the establishment to provide you with eating utensils that are good enough. It’s a minor thing but a lot of westerners do it.
– Minor food things you may already know: never dig your chopsticks straight down into rice and leave them there (wishing death on whoever made the rice!) and don’t pass food from your chopsticks directly to someone else’s, instead place it on their plate or bowl. Also ideally it’s bad manners to pour tea etc for yourself. Proper etiquette is to ask to fill someone else’s cup and then they will offer the same to you. Most stuff in Japanese is like that – it’s impolite to be direct and so everything is very round-about.
– One tip from a friend of my Dad’s that worked there for years: don’t jaywalk. You might be used to safely crossing the street without using a crossing, but that’s not normal for Japan. They’ll apparently sometimes blindly follow you assuming it’s safe or that there’s a reason to cross over there, like a hazard or something.
Oh yeah, I can’t remember the details exactly but a good thing to look into might be the Suica Card and/or JR Rail Pass. The Suica card is this little NFC dealie that you can charge up with money and then you just tap on and tap off at the train stations, makes travel super easy. But then you can also use it in convenience stores and stuff too, lots of places seemed to accept it. But I can’t remember the details on where it’s good for, and how far out of Tokyo it’ll still work. Same goes for the JR pass, we ended up with a couple of stations where it didn’t work and we had to buy a separate ticket or something. Our trip was for two weeks, with the first week mostly hanging around Tokyo and going to Disneyland, so we had our JR passes only for the second week when we were going other places beyond Tokyo. Again, wish I better knew the details of how it all worked and everything, but others might be able to help on that.
yeah already got a JRail card sorted, so that’s taken care of.
And a map of what trains/stations use the JR card
Buy all the Gundams!
Morning all. I too dislike Mondays.
More than two weeks without any internet at home — Internode sent a text at 11am yesterday saying that Telstra technicians couldn’t identify the fault, so they’ll do further investigation by 7pm on 4 September.
What.
Are Telstra always that slow, or is it just because my internet isn’t through them directly ‘n so they don’t care?
Yeah, Telstra is that slow. Difference is, it’s easier to start bugging them for compensation as an unhappy customer when you’re directly with them. No passing the buck. I got a month free out of them when they took ages to get ours up and running.
It took that long for mine to get fixed.
if you can, try to get internode to see if it’s a Voice fault rather than an ADSL fault, as then it’ll get fixed quicker
*peeks in through the window*
*calls the police about a peeping
tomrize*Hey man. Nice ball and chain 😛
WEEKENDS!!! How good are weekends!
Saturday (Hi @Saturday!) morning I was awoken (well, forced to get out of bed), by @alexpants knocking at the door. for it was time to go buy a BBQ, because manly. Not a real BBQ, but one of those Webber BBQs. They’re awesome. Not that I’ve used mine yet, but I used to use my folks one all the time.
This was followed by an adventure into the city for lunch with a few people. Japanese was eaten and then ny descent into Disney Infinity began.
On Saturday, I bought the starter pack from EB. Then I looked in the cabinet (why wasn’t I warned about the cabinet?) and ended up buying Syndrome, Randall and Mike figures. I wasn’t going to get Randall but Pants talked me into it.
Then we went to JB and they had even more. So I grabbed the Violet figure as well as a couple of disc packs, because why not?
I almost bought more, but the wisdom of people more financially responsible than I persuaded me to maybe wait and see if I actually like the game first.
So, after slurpees, we ventured back home and checked it out. It’s a hell of a lot of fun. Controls take a little getting used to as they aren’t exactly the most responsive. But we played a bit of co-op in The Incredibles playset.
Food was consumed and then Jurassic Park was watched as Pants had never seen it. After a comment about how he didn’t like child actors, I made him watch Let Me In because he was all too happy and needed some depression (plus we were talking about it over lunch and it’s a damn good movie. Am I right @dc?). It was late, so sleep was required.
On Sunday, after waking up a bit later than usual and sitting around the house for a bit (I made Pants play Shadow of the Colossus because he’d never played it before and he hated it. I’m pretty sure we can no longer be friends), another venture was done to the shops for more Disney Infinity stuff. I figured I may as well complete The Incredibles set, so I got the Dash and Mrs. Incredible figures. And 4 more disc packs.
To offset the amount I spent on Infinity, a quick shop for some household items that I’d been meaning to buy for months (I’m lazy) and a new gas bottle for the BBQ because we were too lazy to do multiple trips the previous day. We then returned home and played more Disney Infinity.
After Pants left to go home to comfort his parents as by this stage I’m pretty sure they just assumed he was dead, I made food and had dinner. I then proceeded to look up Disney Infinity stuff online. This rapidly turned into watching Disney songs on YouTube for a few hours. (This is the greatest of all Disney songs).
Then that jerk Rize (Hi @rize!) started talking to me and I stayed up way later than I should have.
Weekends need to be longer!
Monday morning wall of text is proudly brought to you by ‘Procrastination’. “Procrastination: Why do it now when you can do it later?”
*waves*
*waves back*
I’d forgotten how useless Playasia were at shipping things on time.
On Saturday (hi @saturday) I went out to the shops to buy Wonderful 101. It was supposed to be quick. go in, buy, flee back to my hermit cave. Simple right? NOPE!
I went to all the stores that stock games, non of them have any signs that the game exists. Did I just dream up this whole game? Had my days of taking heavy drugs and binge drinking finally caught up with me? I went to EBGames for a second check. Nope, nothing. Then an add for Wonderful 101 comes on. I felt like yelling out “EVERYONE CAN SEE THIS TRAILER RIGHT!?”.
I went to the counter and asked if they have any instock. The girl serving me just stated back at me with the most confused look. “Is it on Xbox or Playstation”. At this point I mentally face palmed but managed to say “it’s on WiiU”. The manager happened to overhear and said “oh yeah, we got them out the back”.
-_-
Out the back? It’s a fucking new game! How about your advertise the damn thing!
Anyway, moral of the story is, retail stores are weird and I want nothing to do with this world. I’m perfectly safe from the idiots in my hermit cave.
That sounds like EB to me. Don’t know how many times I’ve gone in to buy a new game, and no one knows what the fuck I’m talking about. ‘Oh yeah, they’re out the back.’ You know it came out 2 days ago, right? I don’t think anyone who goes to EB normally buys anything but Calladoody and Mario, honestly.
Heh, doody, heh.
I’ve lost count (okay, not really — it’s six times) that I’ve gone into EB or GAME or Big W and they have missing stock/games they advertise but no-one’s ever heard of, etc.
Considering I only go into stores and actually ask about something 1-2 times per year at most, it’s a staggering strike rate.
I have never had this happen to me at EB and I’ve shopped at many of them and bought some obscure stuff as well. Maybe I just manage to luck out and get the ones managed by nerds?
Man, I used to hate working with some of the Saturday staff.
@saturday is just the worst.
Yeah, but he’s Canadian so he’s sorry aboot it.
Funny, the EB and JB I stopped by yesterday had several copies of it on display. And then when I took one up to the counter at EB, the guy just pulled a fresh copy (sticker-free!) out from under the desk instead of filling the shelf case I’d brought up.
A++++++ seller, would buy from again
STICKER FREE!
FUCKING GODSEND!
Tbh I don’t really understand the sticker thing. EB and GAME both have the best stickers in the universe. They peel off easily and never rip at all. Even some of the ones that I had on some preowned GameCube games that had been sitting on the shelf for years came off with zero trouble whatsoever. And some of those had stickers on the manuals.
Now the likes of Kmart/Target/Big W on the other hand, especially with some of their god damn security stickers…
And also:
– Sticker for original price
– Sticker for a discounted price
– Sticker for an even cheaper price
– Sticker for a clearance price
Ugh!
EB ones are kinda annoying too but I think those big retailers (Kmart, Target etc.) are the worst.
But… just gimme a sealed one without stickers and s’all good!
Sealed?
What is that? 😛
Interesting to see a GTAV article with a big “Brought to you by Rayman Legends” banner. Couldn’t have 2 more disparate games together there.
You’re assuming it’s impossible to do a fists-only playthrough of GTAV 😛
Much like the “Mobile Brought to you by Kogan Mobile Limps On With New Partnership” post on Gizmodo AU with the “Brought to you by *TELSTRA LOGO*”
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/08/kogan-mobile-limps-on-with-new-partnership/#comment-1591568
Happy try-to-avoid-internet-until-Breaking-Bad-has-been-seen day!
WALTER IS A UNICORN
They break all the bads!
THE END
Bryan Cranston is Lex Luthor in Man of Steel 2.
So I finished Saints Row 4 last night. It’s bigger and better than 3 in every way imaginable. Easily my favourite game this year.
How the hell do you finish a Saints Row game? I keep trying, but every time I do I end up spending my entire play session like a jam sandwhich dropped on an ant mound, except the ants are gangsters and the jam sandwhich is equipped with a grenade launcher.
SR2: Load game. Equip sniper rifle. Jump in back of some civilian’s ute. Shoot random passerby. 2 hours later, do something else.
How much completion did you get? I’m at about 25% so far but this game seems like something I may even attempt to platinum which is unusual for me.
Not sure. I may even attempt to platinum it too. It’ll be my first if I do.
So, i know this is super late, but i finished Hotline Miami last night, and i gotta say, it was awesome, from what i had seen i didn’t think i’d like it, especially it’s story, which was strangely gripping.
when’s the sequel coming out? 😛
I know they’re working on it. Not sure when it’s due though.
I think I’m the only person on TAY who didn’t like that game.
Yay, friend!
I was kind of interested in a sequel just because the original was pretty fun, but then I watched some gameplay videos and it looks like it’s absolutely brutal and senseless. Also there was some controversy recently about there being ‘implied’ rape in there as well, and I’m not sure I want to play it.
One of my friends asked me if he should get Witcher series (He hasn’t really heard if it before) I said yes, 30 mins later I get a message on Steam. “There are a lot of boobs / sex in this game!”.
Well, in his defence, there is.
At least that’s what I’ve heard. I haven’t played it.
Ofcourse you haven’t played it. You don’t play games. =P
Except for Disney Infinity.
Nah, not that many. You only get to shag one girl in the prologue, and three in the fist chapter, and only four chicks in chapter 2. Things get a little better in chapter 3 with seven ladies open to boffing, but then as you race towards the conclusion, your options diminish.
amusing typo with that context.
“fist chapter”
I’m leaving it there. 🙂
good, this pleases me 😀
Please take your fist out D:
There’s a bit I guess, but most of it is only if you go deliberately looking for it. The first one had more.
Had to get up early to go to Uni/back home but Oliver’s all like we’re going to Maccas bitch and I’m all like hells yea so what I’m getting at is I had Maccas for breakfast for the first time in ages 😀
And now I’m in a programming lecture on software design and analysis looking at what we’re told that we’ll have other people doing for us in info systems. This is definitely the kind of thing I never want to do with my life.
I majored in software design. In the third year, I got to do some hands-one real world experience stuff. I learned that I hated programming with a passion. 🙂
So I went out on the road to pick fruit and fights with bogans, while my mate who went on to do Systems Analysis ended up contracting, flying around places in Europe and Asia. Preeeeetty confident that he made the better call.
The management side of it appeals to me, just not the actual low-level programming side of it.
If Uni has taught me one thing it’s that I was right 3 years ago when I thought that whilst I’m fairly good at it the last thing I ever want to become is a programmer. I’d rather pick fruit than sit in front of a computer coding/testing/implementing/whatever. In a perfect world I’d have a job that didn’t involve sitting in front of a computer at all, but that’s probably going to be hard to avoid 😛
/o\ awww it’s ok, I’ll just be over here *tear* doing some software *sniffle* design
Aww, I’m sorry 🙁 I’ll mail you one of those “hang in there kitty” posters to cheer you up 🙂
(I’m sorry, that’s such a backhanded thing to say but I couldn’t help myself :P)
MONSTER!!
Hm. I’m a software developer and I don’t have anyone else designing what I write beyond occasional spec documents, and with those I’ve usually co-written them.
@dc
RAYMAN LEGENDS!
Ohhhh, that’s where he is today.
Cloudy brain this morning.
Any Excel buffs know a more efficient way of doing this:
=IF($Q$17=$Q$11,Q21*$Q$12,IF($R$17=$Q$11,R21*$Q$12,IF($S$17=$Q$11,S21*$Q$12,)))
In other words:
=IF(Column Name=TYPE,Column Inventory*QUANTITY,If false go to next column and so on…)
Look up array? I dunno.
Yeah, use the VLOOKUP command.http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/excel-help/vlookup-HP005209335.aspx
Yeah… Should have thought of that.
Guess I’m feeling a bit iffy this morning.
Cheers.
Press 4.
That’ll do it.
Perfect.
*Goes to lunch*
There’s a button on the case. It’s like a circle with a little vertical line at the top. I find that solves most of my frustrating problems.
Housemate got a Skylanders Giants starter pack on the weekend cos theyre pretty cheap at BigW atm. The concept is pretty cool even if the game is simple.
Also, the compulsive collector inside me is screaming with jealousy. Clever marketing for people like me…. and kids. :S
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/10/14 – There is a Penny Arcade strip for every occasion.
i have had a doozy of a last 7 days…
so exactly seven days ago, i parked my car near a lunch shop at work, returned to find my front passenger side indicator busted, and paint all scraped on the bumper… no cameras around…
fast forward to yesterday (Sunday). i went to the shops in the morning to grab a few things as the in-laws were coming for dinner. drove home, went inside, cooked lunch, realized my phone was flat… go to my car to grab the charger, i noticed something odd on the front passenger corner… someone had run into me, panels dented inwards, remnants of red paint all over it.
it couldn’t have happened whilst parked at home, so it had to have happened at the shops. approaching my car from the rear means there’s no way i would have seen the damage as i got back to my car….
i phone Woolworths, who tell me that i had to ring centre management “tomorrow”, being Monday, today.
Driving into work this morning, stopped at an intersection waiting for a car to pass. car stops behind me. actually stops. safely. i get ready to move, …….BANG! right in the rear….
I get to work and ring centre management. No cameras in parking….
screwed does not even begin to describe the current state of my car at the moment. Though i did have one major win; i was that upset when i stopped this morning to exchange details, that i left my wallet sitting on top of the boot of the car… drove to work the remaining two kilometers and went to get my laptop out of the boot to find my wallet was STILL SITTING ON TOP.
Dude.
dude
That sucks. Insurance?
That reminds me of the time I got my car bogged for like 6 hours out of a camping spot (rain hit unexpected and poured down overnight). Got home, washed the car all shiny, park it out the front of my house and within 30mins of being home from a week away my next door neighbour reversed into me. Only possible place it could of come from was there drive way and so we go knock on the door, and it was straight up no it wasn’t us. We believe it was one of there friends. But damn. Its the most annoying thing in the world. I hope something good happens to you.
I bumped the neighbour’s car over the road one morning, couldn’t find them and was running late for work. Felt so guilty I went over there immediately after work.
yeah but 2 of them are hit and runs, so im technically liable 🙁
It sounds like you just need to go home and not leave the house for like a week. Wait until this run of shitful luck runs it’s course.
Bad luck man, hope it’s offset by a stretch of insanely good luck.
Awww, that sucks.
Whenever I’ve had to deal with insurance companies they laugh and joke about things always happening in three’s — at the very least, hopefully that’s the end of it. D:
I think you may have encountered the situation where the term ‘clusterfuck’ was invented. That really sucks. Hope things start to improve from here 🙁
Hola Tay
Had a quiet weekend. Bought the first book in the Witcher series (Blood of Elves- the Last Wish is more like a short story collection) and am really enjoying it. Also went and sorted out a Father’s Day present (so that’s done) and then went to the pub and played magic with some mates.
A Monday Morning Question: Which book series needs a Witcher-like game? I’d love to see The Name of The Wind adapted across
I quite liked The Last Wish, although i read it a while ago. Didn’t know there was more and am gonna have to check it out now.
Blood of Elves is the first one translated into English, the second one (times of contempt) has come out recently
Ooh, I didn’t know the next one was out. Personally, I liked The Last Wish more than Blood of Elves, but then again my favourite book of all time is Tales of a Dying Earth – Jack Vance, and that’s a collection of short stories.
I, Robot is the same, and that’s a classic.
I was going to say Mieville’s Bas-Lag “trilogy”, but I don’t think they have the sort of conflict that translates to video games.
I’d probably play a game based off Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash though.
Bas-Lag is a great world, but it’s kind of hard to set up a fight against a slake-moth.
You could do a pretty cool game set on Armada though.
I’d play a game that was just the non-combat part of the Persona games set in New Crobuzon. You need to help bring down the Mayor, and do so by building a network of people, but you need to make sure you can differentiate between the undercover militia and the prospective DoubleR’s.
Build the vodyanoi factions
Engage in golemancy
Be Socialist
GOTY
Maybe not Witcher-like, but I’m still saddened at the lack of a decent game in the Wheel of Time setting. Just that shitty old FPS which twisted the canon terribly in order to map everything to generic shooter gameplay.
The setting screams for a good RPG. Doesn’t even have to be concurrent with the book timeline, there’s some very obvious points in the world’s backstory and everything that it would be possible to ‘pull a KotOR’. Areas and events which are mentioned in passing in the books but lacking a lot of depth and expansion, where it would be very easy to flesh everything out and work a whole Epic Personal Quest in and stuff without being confined by the existing story of the book series. It practically would write itself.
The game rights are held by some shitty company who have just sat on it. Apparently they were going to work with Obsidian to produce something and they had written up some kind of pitch but it still hasn’t gotten off the ground, and I guess those guys are pretty busy with South Park (when is that coming out?) and Project Eternity.
Upvoting isn’t working!
D:
GUYS! GUYS! I NEED HELP!
I missed the chance of picking up a Ni No Kuni collectors’ pack back at release. I have the chance to grab one now for approx. $200. I don’t understand all the backlash this game received, I just found it to be a little difficult. That’s a challenge though!
DO I BUY IT?! DO I? DO I? I really want the Wizards’ companion.
Hmmm. Doo eeet then keep it in mint condition and sell it off at a premium when you experience buyer’s regret?
(Hah. Although, that will probably never actually be a collectible. You are buying a two-hundred dollar book. I wanted one too, but I didn’t $200 want it.)
(Edit: Try ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ni-no-Kuni-Wizard-Book-English-/251322734898?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a84009932 – book going for $55)
Thanks for the tip. It would also be nice the game received a 3DS release, similar to the Japan-only DS release.
I grabbed a copy of the Japanese one just because the book is pretty. Also it was all of $10. But mostly because the book is pretty.
I just wish I could read the damn thing 😛
The DS game was apparently not very good. PS3 is an expanded version of the same thing but much better.
EDIT: Which in my case isn’t saying much as I really disliked the game.
Somebody got drunk last night and agreed to go bungie jumping in Carins for New Years…great, 4 months of shitting my pants.
Ugh..hungover Mondays.. >.<
Bungie is awesome. I did the Nevis Canyon one in Queenstown and its a massive rush. Just don’t hesitate to jump when they count three otherwise you’ll sit there for ages.
A few quick deep breaths and my best battle cry (shriek/wail/squeel) while jumping off is my plan.
The rush afterwards is whats spurring me on at the moment, going to have adrenaline foaming out the mouth.
Freaking out just talking about it haha.
Mannnnn, Rayman Legends gets a delayed release for VITA? But … that’s the console I wanted it on. I don’t know if I can hold out for another couple of weeks!
Just another page in the Shakespearean tragedy that is the Vita. (are we still doing this joke?)
This is TAY, so obviously it is still a thing! Re-telling the same jokes over is what we are good at!
^ Who’s this guy?
DC hats buildings
Get the oar
Mang
shanewsmith.com
That last one is not a joke /o\
No, but it is a recurring thing.
BlueMaxima isn’t here to get super upset when we troll him about that so I’m not sure it’s as relevant now.
Also if Vita’s lack of games is a Shakespearean tragedy, what is the Wii U?
GO GO POWER RANGERS!
What?
It’s from Kaizoku Sentai Goranger, one of the newer Super Sentai series (what Power Rangers is based on).
Apparently it’s an anniversary thing and each episode is based on a past Sentai series. Their morphers use figurines of past rangers to transform.
Carranger (the one Power Rangers Turbo was based on) was goofy as fuck so the episode of Goranger based on Carranger is also goofy as fuck.
There was a bit where the Red Carranger was sitting down waxy philosophical with one of the Gorangers while the monster of the week is there yelling at them.
Ugh, eating shit for others’ mistakes. Fuck Mondays.
Man, Canberra has some weird rituals.
Cannot deal today. People are already pissing me off.
I was having this problem, then my boss brought in a big bag of M&M’s so now I’m contently ignoring everyone while eating far too many M&M’s
Monday Morning M&M’s mends Monday morning melancholy made by morons
Now I want M&M’s 🙂
sorry 🙁
but keep it in mind for future mondays 😀
All this PC talked kicked me into action and I just ordered waterblocks for my Titans. Dismantling those cards is going to be a nerve-wracking experience. *fidgets*
YOU HAVE TITANS?
D:
http://www.overclock.net/lists/display/view/id/5131852
I can’t resist a chance to show her off. =)
3DMark Fire Strike bench results:
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/481673
So I finished Thomas was alone on the weekend, the game really would be mediocre without the narration but with it (and that music) it was a really pleasant, amusing and relaxing. My sister visited on Saturday night and I told her to have a go, 2 hours later she’d almost finished it and only put it down because she had to go home & feed her cat.
Edit: Really shows the difference audio can make on a game
Mrs Tigs and I started that on the weekend as well. We probably got about 2 thirds of the way through. We just me Sarah.
Without the narration it would just be a puzzle flash game, instead it is a nice little emotional story. As I read in a review once you care more about the little coloured rectangles than many AAA main characters.
yeah, it was funny my sister was explaining bits to me after she played and she was so invested in them all after her go at it, she was explaining parts pulling faces and telling how the blocks felt, so funny, i kept saying things like “so is that the face Claire made was it?” etc. Those little squares have more personality than most of characters in any AAA Call of Doody
Given that Breaking Bad is tonight, let’s do a spoiler tag check:
is this text hidden?
NO.
yes, yes it is
*stands back with bucket of popcorn waiting for hilarious consequences*
Maybe.
Gah..I bought the Witcher 2 last night and the more I read this morning the more I want to play it..
So much for finishing The Last of Us any time soon 🙁
witcher 2 is amazing. get on that asap.
also, its one of the few games that I’ve dropped the difficulty down to easy & felt no remorse. the combat is pretty punishing in places.
I’ll be playing it tonight then! Sorry Last of Us, shelved again.
Whats the gameplay like? Can it be compared to another game?
pretty simple gameplay to be honest.
combat is left click for light attack, right click for a heavy. build combos by correctly timing successive clicks. parry & dodge for defence etc.
but combat is pretty much decided pre-fight really. place snares & traps around the area, prepare some potions & drink em before engaging (you cant during combat) &, depending on what you’ve taken, the fight might be substantially easier.
what makes it hard is if you get hit, you’re combo is interrupted & its possible to get stun-locked to death. also, the enemies hit damn hard. & sometimes theres a few too many to keep track of easily.
the non-combat is standard RPG stuff. walk around, explore, talk to people. gather stuff.
whats cool though is that side-questing can net you hints about the enemies you face, like what their weaknesses are etc.
but the story is great. and you’ve gotta play through at least twice coz of how the story can diverge & stuff.
also, from a technical graphical standpoint, uber-sampling is dumb. destroys your frame-rate.
Argh! So hyped 🙂
Im keen to see what the story is like. I’ve heard and read good things about it, i’m hoping it isnt labelled ‘mature’ because there are boobies in it. I’ve read pretty much all the back story to Game of Thrones starting from the beginning and could do with a new world to obsess over for a while :]
I only played through once and I don’t think I’d do it again, I’ll stick with my choices and live with the consequences next game instead.
@vonsack: the biggest thing with The Witcher 2 is that your choices really matter. Depending on how you play Act 1, all of Act 2 is completely different. Different location and everything. Also the game is all about making you choose between multiple grey options – never black & white – and your decisions will have weight and consequence later, sometimes much later.
Oh nice, I have a tendency to always choose wrong in those situations. So I get to look forward to disappointing a lot of NPC’s heh.
There’s no ‘wrong’ decision. Just a different one. You never get asked black and white choices. No saint or devil or red choice vs blue choice like Bioware’s shit. They’re not interesting choices. A Bioware game, you might be asked to choose whether or not to stop a bunch of guys lynching some dude. The ‘good’ option is obviously to rescue him (and it’s lit up with Good Guy points too)
In the Witcher, it’ll turn out that the guy they were stringing up was a serial murderer who you will catch in the act of cutting up a major NPC twenty hours later in the game. Also the guards you fought off worked for a guy who has an item you need and he won’t give it to you because of your actions and you have to find another way to get it.*
That’s what makes The Witcher compelling. Not just that there are choices and there isn’t a good answer, it’s that there are consequences to your decisions, and not all the consequences are immediate or something you can predict.
The Witcher 3 seems to really be pushing that sort of thing too. Like maybe you come upon a village where the men are slowly being picked off by some monsters up in the woods that they have to keep fighting off, and they beg you to go get rid of the monsters. Then if you do, when you come back to the village later on some bandits have rolled in and pillaged the place because the people there weren’t ready to fight any more because you removed the monster threat.
* this isn’t a real example to my knowledge, so not a spoiler
Yeah, it’s like The Witcher 1. Except more better.
One of the first games I’m going to play once I have a new comp that can handle it.
I STILL need to send you the 360 version. :\
I truly suck.
Send it to @brutaltoad- I don’t have a 360!
But… map…
I do like maps…
I’m just saying if someone’s need is greater re playing the game give it to them 🙂
REMEMBER THAT TIME YOU FOUND THE SUPER SEXY EDITION ON XBOX FOR CHEAP SO A BUNCH OF US (INCLUDING @NOTORIOUSR) PRE-ORDERED IT BUT THEN JB CANCELLED IT? GOOD TIMES…
Yeah… that was the beginning of the end for me and that game 😛
Seeing as my PC is poo, I was looking for the first one on Xbox 360, but it seems very hard to find.
EDIT: Dumb me was looking after reading the title of the xbox 360 version, never looking far enough into it to find out it was cancelled. So looks like I will buy the first one on steam and try and see if my computer can play it.
just putting it out there, but whoever the hell is responsible for the delay of SR4 is a massive shit.
seriously, for NO GODDAMN REASON (stated so far) we’ve gotta wait another month to even play it (barring imports etc.) & IGN already has videos of the endings up.
sorry. im sick & I have my cranky pants on today.
I second your crankiness, I’ve been avoiding spoilers but a lot of places are putting things up about it.
I agree man. It’s doubly fucked that the PC version via digital distribution is also delayed.
@shane: Did you watch the doco “comic book heroes” on the ABC? It’s on iview http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/view/41613
About an aussie indie comics publisher exhibiting at SDCC
Oh yeah, thanks, I keep forgetting about that! 🙂
Edit: Doesn’t look like my work computers are gonna play ball. Will have to try to remember later tonight while I [redact] Breaking Bad and work on my comics.
The product of 24hrs gruelling game making: http://gamejolt.com/games/adventure/scraith/17087/
The theme for Ludum Dare this time was ’10 seconds’. So I made a little suspense/survival game. You can only move for 10 seconds at a time. While you’re moving the monsters (which I dubbed scraiths) can’t (if they are, that’s just a bug. Just ignore it :P) When you can’t move, they can. So you’ve sort of got to stay away from them and where they’re going, otherwise they’ll get you and there’s nothing you can do about it :3 There’s long grass scattered around though, so if you hide in that they won’t see you. (Again, if they do, it’s a bug. Just ignore it :P). There’s 10 magical orbs scattered around the world, once you find all ten of them you win the game. Obviously though, if one of the scraiths gets you, you die.
Enjoy!
I think I may head back to bed now…
Interesting Lambo
Definitely needs sound. I managed to get one orb and then fell out of the world. Was climbing a hill and during the Scraith’s turn if started sliding and ended up in just a pure white area
Check your speakers, it does have sound 😛 Or at least it should. :/
That falling through the floor is irritating. Don’t know why that happens. Didn’t have time to fix it :/ But it didn’t happen that often to me so I spent my time fixing other important things. Like the scraiths not knowing how to walk around trees… so I just made them walk through them instead 😛
Yeah I had sound. Took me a little while to work out the sound associating with when I can move and when I can’t. So I was saying that you need to have sound turned on to play it. Otherwise there is nothing to tell you when you can and can’t move (at least I don’t think there was)
Ah, right, that’s what you meant. Yeah, the audio cues were the only way to tell if you could move or not. A visual cue or two would’ve been good. Like maybe having the edges of the screen darken or blur when you can move.
Cool game. Nice concept. Reminds me a bit of sir you are being hunted which just came out.
The sound can get a bit samey though and the two sounds kind of blend together at some point so you can get confused not knowing whether to move or stop otherwise it’s good.
I like the disappearing trees effect in the distance- it gets creepy when you can tell if you saw a tree or monster.
if any melbourne TAY-BIES are considering preorderiing a PS4, Target in Broadmeadows (maybe others as well) have only just started taking preorders and are still guaranteeing you’ll have one at launch. Cancelled my EB preorder and moved it to Target.
Also the good thing is, if you are unsure you’ll have it paid off by November 29th, when its available your preorder moves into Lay-Buy, and you have another 2 months to pay it off…
I like that pre-order moves to lay-buy. It really shits me that EB are just like “you didn’t show up in 24 hours? FUCK YOU THEN.”
I recently purchased some stuff at an EB sale (and also got my 3DSXL there) so I’ver been introduced to their EB World system. They actually list longer pre-order hold times as a perk of reaching the higher levels, after you spend thousands and thousands of dollars there.
Like… wow.
yo, 3DS peeps.
thinking of upgrading the SD card.
2 questions:
– 32GB is the max capacity, yeah?
– is it just a standard, off-the-shelf card, or is there certain formatting involved?
BONUS QUESTION
– transferring contents of the original card to a new one. doable?
It’s my understanding that things can be copied to and from PCs using an ordinary card reader. I have never tried it, nor have I googled to verify that it doesn’t cause a massive implosion.
I’m all in favor of massive implosions. I’ll give it a shot. cheers.
Any SD Card should work (not sure about the capacity thing, give that a google). The 3DS formats it for you.
And yeah, you just copy/paste all the data from one card to another via PC (I’ve got a backup on my PC as well, just in case). No transfer app or anything.
sweet. thanks for the help man.
So I bought Attack of the Friday Monsters yesterday. It’s fantastic, I’m loving it so far. Such a light hearted vibe to it. You play as a kid in a small town and you can play a simple rock-paper-scissors type card game against the other kids. If you win, you become the loser’s master and can cast spells on them to make them fall over (they’re not ‘real’ spells, the kids just play along with the rules). It captures the feeling of imaginative schoolyard games really well I think. Reminds me of primary school with less crying and fighting when someone loses 😛
It’s obviously a low-budget game though. It’s very linear and there’s not exactly a lot to do besides follow the story and collect cards. The 3D effect isn’t that great either (basically just a flat background with some things in the foreground). But the actual art itself looks amazing, all hand-drawn and such. I like the fixed camera angles in each area too.
I wouldn’t want it to be fleshed out more, to be honest. It’s good as a quick, downloadable experience.
Anyway, hello.
Oh man, good to hear the game is good-I’ve been really excited about that game. Now I want a 3DS-dammit Pow!
GTA IV gets the blame….
http://www.news.com.au/world-news/yearold-boy-shoots-elderly-caregiver-in-the-head/story-fndir2ev-1226703957317
Hey, it’s the hero of time!
There are so many things wrong with this article, I don’t know where to begin. I’ll just put some dot points:
*Kids play lots of video games, chances are any random moment you would catch them within “minutes” after playing a game.
*Leaving firearm within reach of an 8 year old?
*Letting your 8 year old to play an adult game?
*”awards points to players for killing people” lol
thanks @phlaiman, my head was too full of rage to clearly articulate your points. Nothing angers my blood faster than these sort of finger pointing articles
The article really should mention that the game has a rating and that the child was clearly underage. If the game truly is to blame (which I doubt) they should be investigating why an 8 year old was playing GTA IV.
hnnnnnnnrrrrrgggghhhhh
What. Who the hell is still playing GTA IV? 😛
#missedthepoint
Trailer park trash in Merica clearly.
Spent most of the weekend playing Portal 2 with the gf. During the first stages there was a lot of yelling and frustration, but by the time we got to the second chapter we were doing really well. Up to the 5th chapter now and looking forward to finishing this baby off!
Went to see The Mortal Instruments on saturday with my mum and sister. It was pretty good. After it was over and the lights turned on I realised I was the only guy in the cinema. Almost everyone else was a middle aged woman, though there were some younger women. It was to be expected, but man did I feel out of place.
Have you read the books?
my sister loved the books and she said the movie was rubbish in comparison.
Yeah, I’ve read the books. The film cut some of the stuff that was in the first book, but nothing majorly important. I love the books, but to be honest most of the stuff in them is filler content about how sexy the main cast is (with a focus on the men), and while I imagine thats particularly titillating for the female readers, for me it could be occasionally frustrating because I often wanted to yell “stop looking at his abs and go save the world already” and the film cuts out all those long descriptions and focuses more on the main plot (and the world saving), so the story felt a lot better paced to me then it did in the books.
I’m not so sure about some of the casting from the trailer I saw. I guess it will depend on how they actually play the roles.
I think most of them do a decent job. Also, given one of the plot points of the original trilogy, I find the casting of Lena Headey as Clary’s mum to be hilarious.
There may have been other guys there, they just left before the lights came on?
Probably. There were still quite a few people left in the theatre when I got up to leave though, so if there had been any other guys we still would have been outnumbered 5 to 1. Not that I’m complaining, it’s just a funny observation I made.
I dont wanna do anything.
I hate the world
everyone in it is a selfish bastard
Okay now that my weekly depressive rant is condensed into 3 sentences. Whats up party people?
I saw Elysium with the lady frond on friday and that movie was amazing. Matt Damon was suprisingly decent. Then Saturday i did nothing really, watched some animu and was sad. On Sunday i drove down to see my grandparents and then i went to my old primary school and took some photos. It was pretty fun.
Probably a good idea to take pictures of your school during the weekend. I think you might get in trouble taking photo’s during the school week.
It was more of a “i wanted to remember” than “ohhh kids go here” project.
One time when I was like 20 I got this urge to revisit my old primary school, then realised that me hanging around outside it would look incredibly sus.
I revisited my high school as an observer back when I was studying teaching. All I really learned was that teachers seem to hate the school and principal as much as the students do.
I’m seeing Elysium finally, tonight. Looking forward to it!
The action scenes are really well done. Like some of the best scfi and action sequences from any movie.
I went to my old primary school last year to vote. It was weird. Like they’d lowered the height of the ceilings or something. Why would they do that.
to trap you.
to quote Faith No More
“drinking fountains are shorter than they used to be, the swings on the playground don’t even fit me anymore”
I’ve been back to my high school a couple of times.
to “borrow” furniture.
My old primary school has been bulldozed. Goodbye, memories.
Yay reality!
I didnt realise it last week when I had to reinstall Space Hulk… But Steam decided to ignore all my games I had installed on my C:\ So this morning I had to go about backing up all my D:\ Steam games before uninstalling/reinstalling steam…. Heres hoping it works *Crosses Fingers*
Well a friend gifted me Don’t starve on the weekend so i played a bit of that. Interesting game in a rougue-like I keep dyng but learn from it kinda way. Mrs Tigs came in during a game and thought it wasn’t going to be a game for her. A few minutes later she is telling me to go here and try this and get that.
Worked out a few of the basics so now just a case of setting up the base and working from there.
Other than that has a nieces birthday that didn’t go at all like she planned so the day ended in tears so that kinda put a dampener on Sunday. So Mrs Tigs and I went out for a date night dinner to a Chinese place we hadn’t been to before. Food was good and service was nice. Less formal the the other place we went to which I think i prefer. They also managed to leave out everything Mrs Tigs asked them to leave out so that is a big box ticked there.
Otherwise the weekend was some thomas was alone,planetside 2, getting told how bad at chivalry:MW I am and work.
Don’t starve is a brilliant game. It really needs multiplayer though.
To add to my ridiculous lucky streak in World of Warcraft last week, the Eye of Sulfuras dropped for me during the week. Now I’ve got a massive grind on my hands for all the ingredients to craft a Sulfuron Hammer…
Nice! That hammer is so kick ASS!
Grats!
https://webshop.cashconverters.com.au/item/1768875/dark-souls-xbox-360
If you don’t have Dark Souls and do have an Xbox 360, you still have seven months of emptiness to fill before Dark Souls II is released. I recommend you check out the above link. Currently very cheap .
Hmm, those *are* descriptors that seem to fit me very well…
I’ve been playing a lot of Saints Row 4. A lot.
Just did the loyalty mission that was cut from the Australian version. You get unlimited super powers after smoking some alien drugs from a broken light bulb.
Not a great mission, you really aren’t missing much if you get the Aussie version.
I know the game has super powers, but what do you mean by unlimited super powers? Does that mean you can just keep spamming your power abilities or what?
Yup.
The abilities all have cooldowns. During this mission, those cooldowns are turned off. That’s literally it.
And after the mission they’re on cooldowns again?
Yup.
I dont care about the election okay.
I am not enrolled, i dont want to be looked down on because of it. My view on why i am not enrolled is just as valid as your reason for wanting to vote. Just because you think you are right doesn’t give you the right to shit on my reasons for doing things.
I am well aware that someone will say in the very first reply will say
“how about that election’ and get a million upvotes.
The fact that i pointed this out means somebody will change it slightly and also get lots of upvotes
How about that erection.
WHOA PSYCHIC POWERS
Quick, can you get a read on some winning lotto numbers?
That was hilarious dont make me laugh im slightly annoyed. 😛
My favourite part was where I somehow read the last line without even registering what it said, so fell for the trap entirely >.>
Oi. You. Yeah you with the ruggedly handsome features & dreamy eyes.
You’re pretty ok in my book, voting or not.
That is all.
Edit: spelling
Apathy makes me sad, but it’s not your fault. It’s just another race to the bottom.
Apathy makes you sad? isn’t that a contradiction 😛
I don’t care enough to clarify my previous post.
that’s better 😛
You really hate elections. Why is that?
@rocketman once got voted at as a small child
Left an impression.
Played a bunch of Payday 2 today. So far I love it. They’ve managed to take a lot of the original into this game without ruining it, so I’m happy.
You didn’t play it pre “screw all the fun out of the game” did you. Although I heard the latest patch kind of fixed it.
The latest patch (update 5) changed a bunch of shit but has bugged alot of missions and made the problem they claimed to fix more common (random drop connection and the game freezing)
My second class of the day is starting 20 minutes late, hooray.
Also thinking of PC building things (cc @greenius), have a partially completed list at home, may post later tonight or tomorrow.
Please do. I have to go through this process soonish now.
MASTER RACE BUDDIES
Wait, You’re a ginger?
http://cdn.iwastesomuchtime.com/September-21-2012-23-13-48-image.jpg
MASTER RACE \o/
With the fun I am having with playing as Captain Skyrim, I am now thinking of creating a few more Avengers characters in SKYRIM!
Iron Man, Thor and Hawkeye would certainly be the easiest. Hulk would be interesting, especialy to try and get it as powerful as its namesake.
Branching out to the various Avengers rosters would certainly add a few more hundred hours to my SKYRIM! gamepley (the Avengers have probably had nearly every single Marvel character in their line up at one point or another) so I believe it is worth it merely for that fact alone 😛
Besides, I need something to keep me going until SR4 is released here.
Are you master race or console
Have you see this: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=160500137
Nah, 360. I know I should get this on the PC, especially considering all the amazing mods out there, but computers and I have a great mutual hate for each other.
Computers are always stuffing up around me and I just can’t stand to play games on them.
I think I will always be a console man, easy and mainly hassle free, though very limited compared to what PCs can offer.
In that case I won’t link you to the full craftable iron man armour set
Although you would have been pround of me last week, my night consisted of mead and skyrim
So.Damn.Proud!
Or pround, whichever you prefer 😛
SKYRIM. PUTTING THE N INTO PROUD!
Well that was potentially embarrassing. It seems Windows 8 decided it was a good idea to sync my desktop personalization between home and work. D:
Ahhh, Windows 8, full of “helpful” features.
It wouldn’t have been the end of the world but I would have gotten some odd looks.
Also I have a bunch of Destiny concept art on rotation here normally and I like that 🙁
No aneemie bewbz or nuthin’ ??
No, just anime in general.
Or not even that really. And technically it’s something the company produced itself. Still would have been a little odd.
hmmmm that could be problematic
It would be twice as much of a problem if I had sound connected.
Remember the way that Microsoft promoted Windows 7 and 8 to nerds in Japan? Yeah… Back when I got 7 I made the mistake of installing their Madobe Nanami theme on a lark and I left it there long enough that I got used to it. And now I switched over to one of the Win8 ones. Vicious cycle.
But my PC wishes me good night whenever I shut it down <3
So it costs $9.75 to post a 503g book from Canberra to Sydney.
In comparison, I can get fifty books couriered across the country for about $20.
If I had four books to send to the Sydney region, it’d be cheaper for me to DRIVE there and back again than to use Australia Post :\
Fuck you Australia Post. Just… fuck you.
PS: @alexpants your book is finally on its way \o/
Well now I just feel bad about having you send that. D:
Hahaha, sorry, man. Not my intention!
I held onto it for too long, and they raised the prices on me. It’s totally my fault.
Just remember he still has your copy of Hitman.
I… had forgotten this.
@alexpants, for the love of God, don’t post it. You’ll be SO broke.
Go buy a new car or Disney Infinity instead.
I WON’T BUY DISNEY. YOU’RE WORKING WITH CAKE ON THIS ONE AREN’T YOU
You know you want it..it’s calling out your name
Yeah they’re a bunch of pricks. I send a CD to my Mum last year (Brisbane->Sydney) and they charged me $8 something. They need a serious competitor ala Telstra
I just remembered Officeworks have some cheaper postage options. Pre-paid satchels. Still expensive, but about 10% cheaper than AusPost.
Couriers are very good for larger items, and waaaaaaaaaaay cheaper. And letters are still cheap to post.
But yeah, for small/medium parcels, I agree: there needs to be some competition.
Well if you want to get down to business, the way to go is buying the 1kg satchels off eBay. I don’t know where the sellers are getting them but frankly, I don’t care.
APost also have ‘ebay’ boxes which are a decent deal for your larger items (4kg – 8kg)
It cost me about $8 to send my sister a copy of Hanabi.
HANABI!
For those of you who are excited about Rayman Legends or just curious, check out this fun beatbox app that uses music from the game or you can create your own too. Fun little distraction and it shows how awesome the Rayman music is.
http://www.raymangame.com/beatbox/en-GB/
The app is also available on Android and ios. Seems to be tablet only though-at least on Android, I couldn’t install it on my phone.
I saw it on the ad that is currently around Kotaku. Cool to have smiling Rayman characters on the sides of my screen.
Rayman?
RAYMAN!
I just tried to make my own melody. Sounds OK.
Masha’s Melody-
http://www.raymangame.com/beatbox/en-GB/692baebec3bb4b53d7ebc3b9fabac31b
I wonder what the more musically inclined among us can make?
@bdkiaf 🙂
I’m playing through Origins at the moment, the music gives it a nice playful vibe, hopefully Legends will be out on the Vita by the time i finish this one,
I loved it, but because it fried my brain, I am in no rush to buy Legends,
Fuck it’s good, but fuck does it ever get hard. Awesome hard though, I never felt cheated.
Ulike like new plodding DK Country. He’s such a heavy arse heavy butted heaviest.
TAY.
*tips hat*
Get back to work.
I never talk to you anymore. Mr handsome/worker man has no use for me anymore.
*tips hat so no one can see me cry*
Work kills all our hopes and dreams.
‘Just shakin’ the tree over here, boss.’
NOT MY FAULT
Hey @rize, have you bought Disney Infinity yet?
Have you (or other people w/ inf) had any issues with the reader/base being unreliable reading figurines? A friend who bought a whole stack of stuff @ launch (actually a friend, not just code for myself) has major issues – has returned/got replacement from store once, did not solve issue.
(X360, major set I saw issues with was the Cars set)
Nope. No issues with mine.
Playing it on PS3. Furiously swapped out characters multiple times without any issues.
I had an issue when I first played it when I had a disc underneath one of the figures, but it seems to have worked alright since.
Not yet, mostly cause I don’t have a car right now. Also tonnes of unplayed PC games 😛
That never stops me from buying new games. \o/
-The Cakesmith Effect
Since most of you seem to know things this is probably ancient news to all y’all,
I was thinking about Timesplitters earlier thought I’d see what happened to Free Radical, so they went into administration and got bought by Crytek, they became Crytek UK, made plans to make a new Timesplitters kept having issues, project got canned, now they’ve given all the source code to fans and a couple of the original designers are on board and they’re making a completely free Timeslitters on PC & there is a demo due in December.
Dammit i gotta join the master race. 😛
Edit: TLDR: New Free Timesplitters on PC 2014
I love Timesplitters.
TIME TO SPLIT
I knew of the failed TS4, but not that whole open source dealie there 😮
EXCITE!
yeah i thought it was just dead, so that’s pretty exciting, especially since a few of the original guys are on board.
Awesome news! I bought Timesplitters 2 earlier on in the year but my PS2 stopped working as soon as I put the disc in 🙁
Timesplitters 2 should have been on my Top 50 list! Thanks for dat nostalgia trigger. 🙂
I loved how it’s the opposite of realistic, remember how you could shoot people’s heads off and not kill them, so fun.
Lady gaga pulling her wig off in that pop sugar article is hypnotic. I watched it for longer than i feel comfortable admitting.
It was only because I saw this comment that I only watched it a few times then my brain started to scream abort, abort, abort and I scrolled up
Guys. I’m trying to remember the name of a Skrillex song but I can’t seem to.
It’s the one that goes WUB WUB WUB wooooop WOOP wooooopp WUBWUBWUBWUB.
I don’t think I’ve heard that one
I actually haven’t (unless it’s on an ad or some shit)
Reptile.
The mortal kombat soundtrack is pretty okay.
scary monsters and nice sprites or bangarang are the ones you are most likely to know
Actually the only one I know off the top of my head is The Disco Rangers Bus.
I have never heard of that. Will check it out.
Google search gives me sweet nothing.
Urk, at least Monday’s nearly over. I stopped eating shit around lunchtime and ate some pizza instead. Have listened to Ducktales about 300 times.
Now I’m off to let a chiropractor inflict all kinds of nasty hurt on me.
Best thing about Monday is the moment when it becomes Tuesday. Hanging out for that moment! 🙂
I’ll just leave this here…
Well, I just got a text saying my Kogan service is no longer supported. I have 20 minutes of voice calls and 20 text messages. I can’t connect to a new provider until Thursday which is when I get paid. Damn ISPOne!
Damn, you WHAT?
Yeah the whole Kogan crappage has been a nightmare to watch, have Kogan offered any help to move you to another provider or anything similar?
I received an email from Kogan with an offer, but it’s not a provider I’ve heard of before, and it’s through Optus, not Telstra. Telstra provides much better coverage than Optus here in Tasmania.
I got a game called True Skate for my S4 at the weekend. I think it was $2. It’s really amazing. For anyone that enjoys the Skate franchise I’d highly recommend it. It’s also on both iOS & Android as far as I know.
One thing I’m not enjoying in the slightest in Saints Row IV is the telekinetic side missions. Everything else in the game is pretty free flowing and fun whereas the TK stuff is very stop start and frustrating.
Important SR4 question:
The insurance fraud mini-games…. do they make a return?
Yes. With super powers.
this justifies my pre-order entirely.
that mini-game is hilarious.
The TK Mayhem is a lot easier if you just pick up a ball and then run around with it in front of you.
The MOM ones aren’t so much fun.
I’ve done all of the side missions now, just wrapping up the story missions.
TK Rift missions are the worst.
I didn’t find them that bad. Managed to get gold on all of them first try, so I don’t have to go back to them either.
Speed rift can eat a dick.
Man, I feel so deflated today 🙁 The best way to describe it is that I feel like I’m high, but I’m not. Every time I turn my head it feels like things are moving around me and it’s really freaky and I feel massively disconnected from everything right now :S
In other news I got my new pair of shoes today. The yellow laces look kinda silly, but they came with a pair of black laces so it’s all good.
MY SHOES AREN’T HERE YET! :'(
🙁 *pats*
I was surprised that mine were actually! COTD are usually slowwwwww
I wanna enter that Rome Total War competition for shiggles but my computer is gagging so bad on the image. If only they had flying soldiers right now….
The full image is some stupid high res- someone was saying 239 MB worth of pic?
Homahgahd. No wonder its slowly crawling down the page.
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.
Wait. You just have to finish the game to get the platinum?
Yep, every Trophy is for every chapter or big choice or whatever, no matter what you do.
I would have presumed that they would have had two sets of Trophies for at least two playthroughs making opposite choices…but no.
I am missing one in 400 Days but that’s DLC so doesn’t count toward the Plat :-/
You Were A Complete Gunt
would have been an awesome trophy for never halping anyone and causing fights etc.
I would have enjoyed going for that. XD
I’m sorry. I feel like a bitch doing this, but can you change that word to something else? Anything else is fine, it’s only that one I have a problem with.
Sorry, again.
Is that OK, or do I need to hide it more???
That is fine. ^^
Sorry for making you do that. I’m fine with any other swear words, just don’t like that one.
It looks like the exact same word.
Honestly sometimes i don’t understand people who dislike swearing. I don’t swear in front of my gran but that’s more because it wouldn’t be in context of our conversation. The thing is my sisters are both the same, they hate that particular word. It is like the lord Voldemort of words and in the words of Hermoine
“Fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself”
Im not dissing your dislike of the word scree its more i dont understand the stigma behind that particular word.
I would rather if he said vagina. I’m not entirely sure why, but the word doesn’t sit well with me
Interestingly, the word in question is derived from the name of an Indian goddess — Kunti. In contrast, “vagina” comes from Latin meaning “sheath” or “scabbard,” which is to say that it exists to serve something else (I guess we can assume there’s an allusion between swords and penises).
So, with that in mind… it’s interesting that language has evolved where the (arguably) more flattering term is highly controversial and the more demeaning word sees common (even favoured) usage.
Edit: This comment is independent of anything you’ve said, Scree — not judgemental, just relevant to the point Rocketman was making!
@ambroseiv
I figured as much I just have nothing to say
whoo, platinummmm.
See @greenius??
Hold your horses, I’m still catching up at the top of the page!
Neeeeigh!
I’m going to play Ico or Deadly Premonition now Neeeiegh
I useda do catchup but people whinge that I was doing catchup, so I stopped.
Huh? Who whinged? And why?
I like mai old page Jimu notifications/convos!
I just finished gravity Rush. loved it, but I feel they haven’t answered a lot of questions. They’ve left it open on purpose for a sequel.
I want a sequel dammit!
Also, add the ability to lock on.
The sequel that will never come!!
However I agree the game needs a sequel something bad
Don’t say that! They totally set it up for a sequel
I’m trying to be optimistic but there’s been no word on one yet 🙁
I think it all depends how it sells
Evening all!
Just thought id stick my head in and say hi, im thinking of you all. Not in a weird stalker kinda way, more in that, awkward acquaintance sort of way.
Work blocked Kotaku again, and the 3g in the area is terrible. Uni also sucks balls. #justsayin.
I miss gaemz. although i did play some papers please, horribly addictive game. Also i have discovered, id make a total badass immigration officer 😛
SHOOT FIRST ASK FOR PASSPORTS LATER
also hi man good to hear from you. hope you are keeping well 🙂
I am surviving! coz thats how i roll! lol. Got exams this week. Thankfully going to part time with study after this, so should have time for games and fronds a bit more now.
Breaking Bad SPOILERS
V xarj Wrffr jnf tbvat gb syvc uvf fuvg jura ur sbhaq bhg nobhg gur evpva, V qvq abg rkcrpg gung gubhtu.
Vg jnf tbqqnza ornhgvshy. Funzr jr xabj gung gur ubhfr qbrfa’g npghnyyl ohea qbja gubhtu. Gung jnf xvaq bs n ohzzre.
V guvax gur ernyyl ornhgvshy guvat jnf Uhryy’f rkphhhhfr zr gung ur tnir.
Nyfb, whfg ubyl fuvg. Jbj.
V unq gubhtug V’q orra fcbvyrq, nf gur pbzzragf sbe gur gbeerag V unq fhttrfgrq gung gurl xvyyrq Wrffr bss, juvpu npghnyyl whfg nqqrq gb gur fhfcrafr jura ur svanyyl whfg… jnyxrq njnl sebz gur ina.
Fuviref, zna. Fuviref.
Fb vs Wrffr qbrfa’g ohea gur ubhfr qbja, V’z vagevthrq ol jung pbzrf arkg. Vf ur erfcbafvoyr sbe gur lryybj ‘URVFRAORET’ fpenjyrq ba gur jnyyf? Gur snpg gung vg’f (frrzvatyl) fbba gb or choyvp xabjyrqtr vf vagrafr. V fhccbfr gur tenssvgv vf engure vapbafrdhragvny gubhtu, ernyyl.
Qba’g zvaq zr, guvf vf hygvzngryl whfg zvaqyrff zhfvatf ng jung pna bayl or aba-rffragvny cnegf bs gur cybg/fprarel.
Hahahaha, me too! 😀
Watched it on Foxtel, had none of the above scenario happen.
What? You mean lbh qvqa’g trg gur ovg jurer ur jnf jnvgvat sbe gur ina naq gura znqr gur pbaarpgvba jvgu “ybfvat” gur evpva pvtnerggr naq jrag onpx naq orng frira funqrf bs fuvg bhg bs Fnhy?
The scenario with [redacted] comments on sites like the [redacted] bay
Zl snibhevgr ovg jnf gur ‘pbasrffvba’ ivqrb ur znqr. Purpx, naq zngr, fhpxre.
Wifey: You need to get off that. You’ve been on it all day. You need to spend some time with your family.
Me: But the kids are in bed.
Wifey: But what about me? Spend some time with me.
Me: Why don’t you come and sit with me?
Wifey: No. You should come and cook dinner with me.
Me: Fine. *turns off SRIV and gets up*
Wifey: Yoink! *starts playing Tokyo Jungle*
Me: Damn it wench! *shakesfist*
Going to put so much chilli in her dinner.
Added bonus — if you like ‘n can stomach the chilli, and eat dinner without any problems. 😛
It has to be said, having a non gaming wifey has its upsides. 🙂
Oh, that’s cruel.
I wish my wife played games after those convos, instead I have to watch bettr Groans & Gardens or sumsuch.
She was such a promising Zelda-addict too.
Damn HD for giving her motion sickness! *shakes fist at HD*
buy Tokyo Jungle on your Vita,
fixed
I SEE YOU, @DC!
Fuck Ico!
I was having a good time and then I get up to this bit with a wooden thing poking outta the ground that I assumed would shoot me up into the air and on to a higher ledge.
After countless failed attempts I resort to a YooToob guide to tell me what I’ve done wrong.
I was right, game just decided it wouldn’t be shooting me high enough ARGH! WTF?
Booooooo!!!
I just watched the War Thunder trailer and oh god that superfluous typo T.T
…and by typo I mean apostrophe :S
MOTHER PUNTING SHUNT NUGGET
Just got into a car accident. Admittedly minor, but fucking pisses me off so much. Only had the car since the start of last year, but it took ages to find something that I didn’t hate and it was in great condition when I got it. Would’ve been really nice to keep it that way.
Technically it’s my fault I guess, since it’s a rear-ending. Even though she was the one who was stopped at the end of a merging lane >_> Just a shit of a situation really, but the most annoying part is I shouldn’t have even been there then. Normally I would’ve still been climbing for another half hour at least (if not more), but I’ve had too much time off lately no thanks to the stupid flu that had me down last week.
Also annoying because the bank account was only just starting to look relatively healthy again, having still been on the recovery from the one-two punch of overseas holiday at the start of the year followed by various bills and such shortly after getting back.
Bleh. Should just stay at home and not do anything. Ever.
What’s with everyone’s cars getting damaged lately?
Carmageddon is upon us.
“Those who are about to die, we salute you!
(`・ω・´)ゞ
Grand Theft Auto is coming out soon
I didn’t want to bring it up, but I noticed a big scratch on mine yesterday.
I don’t know but it’s making me paranoid as hell.
🙁
That’s actually the law, y’know? In NSW at least — even if you’re trying to merge onto a highway at 110km/hr, if you can’t merge then you’re expected to come to a complete stop at the end of the merge lane and wait for a break in traffic… which defies any and all common sense, and probably causes more accidents (a la this scenario) than it prevents.
Driving’s no fun anymore.
If you can’t get in its because the people on the highway are dickheads. How hard is it to slow a kph or two and let someone in? Nope, most dicks just speed up.
Yup — other people are arseholes, absolutely no courtesy and driving etiquette.
Just like when you’re on the M5 and it opens up to four lanes each way, but you have trucks side-by-side in three of them — no one actually overtaking any other.
Just like when you’re overtaking someone who’s going about 20km under the speed limit, and as soon as you get side-by-side it’s like they go “oh, man… someone’s going faster than me! I must be going slow!” and then they start pacing you, preventing you from overtaking without speeding excessively and once it drops back down to a single lane they slow down again and arghghghhghghhhhhhhhhhhhhgh
Yeah. It was just a shitty situation in an awful spot. It’s going up a ramp to the two-lane road, and doesn’t have all that much length where you’re actually alongside where you’re merging into. I wasn’t riding her arse or anything like that (nor speeding), and from where I was it looked like she was going to be able to get on ok so I started looking out for myself. Looked over my shoulder to check no one was there, but as I went to look back I spotted some lights sitting just next to me, blocking my way. Then as soon as I looked forward from that I could see her sitting at the end of the merge lane, dead still. Hit the brakes, felt the tyres lose grip, saw myself slide into the back of her. Bollocks.
Apparently the guy in front of her slowed down a lot or something and stopped her from being able to go.
Sorry to hear this, my friend. Hope you’re okay and not too shaken up. Hope things work out with the car stuff too.
Why so quiet today @dc ?
Trying to avoid Breaking Bad spoilers? 😀
He’s busy with Dark Souls I presume.
Who knew hating it was a full time job!
The Newsroom spoilers could be any where! 😛
Spoiler: Will McAvoy is at one point self righteous.
Um. Okay. Can’t believe that was why SRIV was RC’d. Was absolutely a non event. Wasn’t even particularly fun.
Oh well. Aus version won’t be missing out on anything. Except a timely manner.
Yup. Drugs are bad, mmkay.
I’m thinking it was less “alien drugs” that were the problem and more the delivery mechanism.
Drug use cannot be tied to rewards. That’s how the classification system works and it really is that dumb.
Fairly sure the delivery mechanism was a callback to an earlier SR game anyhow.
My #1 concern is just that I don’t want to miss story content since it involves a core character. If it really is a zero event, then fine, I’ll stuck with the local version. My wife insists we aren’t importing because our friends won’t import and she wants to have the option of playing co-op online (ten bucks says she never does).
It was interesting enough and was a small addition to the character’s backstory and motivations but nothing earth shatteringly important. You wouldn’t miss it.
So. Elysium. It was pretty. But also empty.
Did you like district 9?
Loved it. Didn’t go into this one with any expectations of it being as good, but I was disappointed because it obviously had the potential to be as awesome, but the opportunity was squandered.
Good to know, I’ll probably see it tomorrow. Hopefully I’ll go in with the right level of expectations
Hyeeep. All glitter, no soul.
It annoys me because they could have just simplified the movie and not make all rich people look so evil and the movie would have been incredible.
My 500th tweet was about Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Could not be prouder of myself 😛
I think I’m gonna go to bed. I have so much uni work to do but I’m getting absolutely none of it done right now so I’ll worry about it in the morning when I can think half straight.
Every time I watch the Treme credits, I ask myself the same question. Every time.
@DC
D.C. getting sum!
Or facing the mouldy aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. One of those.
I don’t see it. I think you’ve mentally associated me with instances of post apocalyptic urban decay!
It could be that I’ve never met you, but I always picture you like a wiry Nic Cage. Sorry. 😛
Ouch.
Someone better get punched in the face for that comment!
I don’t think he’s that keen on the idea anymore, so I’m doing what I can! 🙁
Fat.C.
Fat Cat?
So The Wire: episode 4 contains about 10 minutes of dialogue within which the word ‘fuck’ and its many permutations are the sole spoken entities.
I think I’m in love.
My favourite fuck scene.
It’s only about five minutes (NSFW obviously).
Not spoilery.
that is is the perfect scene.
apparently it was put in coz
a) it was funny
b) it was based on something that actually happened &
c) coz it was a way of weeding out viewers. if they couldnt follow what was going on without the exposition, it probably wasnt gonna be the show for them.
But then, they’d already explained the whole thing prior: Jura Q’Natryb vf eryngvat gur fgbel bs gur pevzr. Gung’f whfg n srj zvahgrf rneyvre va gur fnzr rcvfbqr. V guvax jvgubhg gung cercnengvba, V zvtug unir orra n yvggyr ybfg va gung fprar 😛
Breaking Bad question:
Qbrf nalbar erzrzore gur synfuonpx/synfusbejneq rneyvre va gur frevrf jvgu Jnyg naq n jbzna frqhpgviryl gnyxvat purzvfgel nybar va n pynffebbz? Jub jnf gur jbzna? Ng svefg V gubhtug vg jnf Tergpura ohg abj V’z abg fb fher.
Oh wait, my mistake. It was her. I just found the episode.
I never realised that, even though my wife and I just finished rewatching the whole series.
V thrff gung’f fhccbfrq gb rkcynva gur “snyyvat bhg” gung Jnyg gbyq Wrffr nobhg jura ur jnf gryyvat uvz gur fgbel nobhg ubj ur fbyq uvf fgnxr va Terl Znggref sbe n cvggnapr, naq gung’f jul ur qbrfa’g jnag gb tvir hc gur zrgulynzvar sbe svir zvy jura ur pbhyq pbbx vg naq rnea n uhaqerq zvy.
Hey
CJ7.
7?
Ah, I’m just talking crap. My apologies. It’s a Stephen Chow film.
Interesting
From Beijing With Love is my favourite.
-hey! You you! I don’t like your girlfriend!
No no! Way way!
I think you need a new one!
I can’t stay awake any longer…
Goodnight.
Wife hears the one-year-old scream in the other room. As she watches, he comes tearing out, fleeing from his big sister.
Wife: “What happened?”
Annie: “I don’t know! We were just playing people and dinosaurs. He’s the people. I’m the dinosaur. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!”
Cute
DINOSAURS \o/
Great success! Tongue is stretched back up to 6g again, almost back to 4g! Haven’t had to use tapers yet either. Pretty sure I will going back to 4g though. *succcessbaby.jpg*
Was it too short?
I’m assuming its reception wasn’t good enough.
I don’t get it.
Stay classy England.
Having not read todays news, what have they done this time?
A bunch of them decided to head out to the pitch just after the game and urinate all over it.
You’re just taking the piss.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-08-26-rayman-legends-review
Rayman legends. 10/10. My body is re-SON OF A ***** WHEN DID THEY DELAY THE VITA VERSION
Yeah, gotta wait 2 weeks for VITA version. =(
Although I think the VITA version has 5 exclusive levels.
ohhhh i love my vita now
Damn lack of games early prevented me from getting a really worthwhile system.
i have about 50 hours played in only like 3 weeks
Morning all!
hope everyone is well…
update on my shitty 7, (now 8) days…
if you missed yesterdays installment:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/talk-amongst-yourselves-239/comment-page-1/#comment-1826728
so today, getting into my car, i accidently kicked the inner door panel of my door which has decided to break off…
also it would appear that my stereo is blown….
… Boy oh boy i wonder what tomorrow has in store for me!!! i mean theres still plenty of time for to day to royally fuck me over, but whatever.
A wheel due to fall off? Random implosion? The Statue of Liberty picked up by a particularly powerful unseasonal tornado and lands on your car?
at this stage i honestly dont think thats far fetched at all. i picture your comment as a simultaneous event; powerful unseasonal tornado picks up statue of liberty, drops it on my car, wheels fall off buckling from the weight, and car explodes…
you missed the part where the australian government, cooperates with the US and extradites me there where i am placed ino solitary confinement for the rest of my life…
On the plus side, if that last one happens, it really doesn’t matter what happens to your car \o/
@lambomann007: Just thought I should give you the heads up, I got a DM from your twitter account with a spam-like message.
Edit: Said e-mail instead of twitter, I mean twitter.
Yeah he said he got hacked this morning. All fixed now 🙂
Good to hear! Thanks! 😀
@lambomann007 so did i man! at like 6am…
He is just concerned about our health and trying to help us!
Oh man, I didn’t get one…even hacked Lamb doesn’t like me!
Morning!
Had some perfomance issues playing the Witcher 2 last night, bit of slow down while rotating the camera and frame rate wasnt crash hot, gutted. I’m suprised that my laptop couldnt handle it considering it plays BF3/Borderlands 2/Skyrim perfectly fine, with Skype/iTunes/Fraps going as well.
Sigh, going to give it another crack tonight after tweaking with the settings.
I wouldn’t be worried. The Witcher 2 can make my SLI Titans chug if I jack the settings up. It’s a bit of a monster like that. Skyrim/BF3/BL2 are actually surprisingly forgiving on hardware.
Thats a bit of a relief, I wasnt planning on upgrading anytime soon. Im hoping i can make it playable tonight as i sold my 360 and wont have another way to play it >.<
@ynefel , check my post below… this isnt actually normal…
Oh, I didn’t know that. It’s just every single copy I’ve ever seen does it. Considering my box can murder Crysis 3, I just figured it was poor engine/driver optimisation. This is good news – I’ll check it out – thanks for the info!
hey man
its actually a known issue with all DRM copies, im guessing you dont have a GOG version?
the fix is to manually patch the game:
check what version you are running and install the patches in order:
http://en.thewitcher.com/support/w2/
alternatively, you can grab the GOG exe and paul.dll files from someone with a GOG version and replace your own ones.
also apparently the auto updater doesnt actually update past a certain point so manual update is required.
Oh really? No I got it off Steam on the weekend. So this update helps with the perfomance?
yup, im running it on ultra at the moment on a Q9550 cpu, 8gb RAM and a GTX580. havent checked framerate but running real slick….
Awesome! Made my day sir thank you! :]
Uber-sampling. make sure its off!
apparently it renders each frame 2 or 3 times simultaneously & ovelays them to make it look betterer. seriously, i cant notice a difference, but it does cut the framerate in half.
I remembered your comment from yesterday, it was the first thing I checked 😉
It was running around 30fps according to fraps, which I can tolerate, but it would slow right down when I would rotate the camera to about 20fps..blurgh.
I cant believe I played WoW for years with an average of 20fps >.<
Fingers crossed this update helps, really surprised with how bad it was running.
oh…. damn. that sucks. hopefully that fix… umm… fixes it.
you probably mentioned already, but just out of curiosity, what specs are you running with?
I’m not too sure off the top of my head, I’d have to check when I get home. From the receipt I have in my inbox I can tell it has a NVIDIA GTX 460M, thats all it tells me :\
I bought it in March 2011 with a friend helping me what to chose, actually he picked everything for it, I just gave him the cash haha.
Didn’t realise I could upgrade my FFXIV Legacy account to Digital CE as well. Sold!
Ahem
SO i hate a fight last night with The lady i was courting. Just a note dont ever end a fight with you saying
“shut the hell up and get the f*** out of my house”
Unless you want to get slapped.
In my defense she was bad mouthing my sister and her boyfriend who are like the loveliest people in the world. I am going to stay away from romantic entanglement for a while. My head is to screwed up to deal with stuff like that.
Other weird thing, my mum brought home a 18 year old girl who is staying with us for a few weeks. She is a daughter of a friend. I have no idea about normal non geeky people these days. I asked her what her hobbies were she responded “Moto X” i said ok …. then left.
18 year old girl comes to stay at Rockets place, Rockets kicks his current girl to the curb.
Hmm.
As much as i would like to say i am that much of a playa, we all know that isnt true.
The X is for Extreme.
But extreme starts with E
Moto E
I believe “extreme” is spelled X-treme
Man that is amazing
People are creative as hell. 😛
Don’t feel too bad Rocketbuddy, standing up for the people you care for and care for you is one of the greatest things a person can do.
The other greatest thing a person can do is wrestle a bear.
A Russian bear, that can shoot lasers from its eyes!
That bad mouthed your family.
Who stole your picnic basket!
If someone insults and taybie i will kick so many dicks. Then pretend to have a heart attack so they cant hit me back.
Hang on. She didn’t actually say “Moto X” did she? As in pronounced the letter X?
Yeah i didnt have the heart to tell her its Moto Cross and the X is a symbol not a letter 😛
Oh, now I feel sorry for her. She can’t even get her hobby right 🙁
One time in high school I told my friends I loved to watch “aneem”.
i was just thinking the exact same thing
Smooth.
about as smooth as a earthquake.
She sounds lovely..the 18 year old not the girl bad mouthing your family
Civil.
More domestic
Hilarious.
In what way did she badmouth your sister?
Just swearing under her breath and calling her a bitch.
Let it be known i did try and solve it peacefully but after about a hour of trying i gave up got frustrated and let loose. Probably not the best way to handle the situation. c’est lav vie
That’s a bit weird.
she was a little weird to start with. she was also really attractive and i think with my penis too much.
You did the right thing Buddy, Standing up for those you care about is the most noble thing anyone can do, You are an awesome person 🙂 *hugs*
I wonder if she’s a fan of Malcolm Cross.
Morning all.
So last night the arch in my right foot started hurting. This morning it seemed fine but then started hurting again. So now walking is a bit painful now.
Oh and I need to go to our large shops which requires lots of walking. D=
Pain killer up.
or maybe strapping. I had foot pain for a while and strapping really helps to support the area.If it still hurts in a few days go to a doctor. Foot injuries aren’t usually serious but walking around in pain for a few days is a real. bitch
That’s terrible, good luck I guess.
HEY FRONDS. What are some good objectives for a spy beyond stealing files and hacking a laptop? Poison the water-cooler? Bug the phone?
I ask because UNITY3D (also I have to work on a portfolio)
monitor a phone line, tail mark.
Sitting over cases and cases of files and mulling over the information?
Work of excitement, I know.
Someone sure knows alot about spies
What. Don’t think I ever saw 007 doing this 😛
Plant a tracker on someone / something.
Planting a bug, assassinating political figures, tailing suspects, car chases, sabotaging secret formulas.
Edit: liaising with double agents, rescuing sexy hostages, picking up drops, making drops
Edit 2: wrestling with hired goons and vicious animals, learning how to fly fighter jets and attack helicopters and nuclear submarines.
Edit 3: evading capture, swallowing cyanide, enduring torture, interrogating people (of both the sexy and non-sexy variety)
Planting trackers. Meeting informants. Collecting dead drops. Stealing items
Realistically? Months of listening to boring and mundane conversations to pass on something barely useful.
Any answer I give will probably be from an episode of Burn Notice.
i kind of like burn notice. Its cheesy and fun with solid action sequences. That and white collar. Both very solid action shows you can zone out and watch without paying attention.
Sapping sentries.
Thanks all!
From Archer – S1 Ep2
Well, there’s false-flags, dead-drops, drop-outs, cut-outs, active-doubles,
passive-doubles, dangle-moles, the often under-appreciated honey-pot..
Seriously, Watch Archer 🙂
I dooooo, a lot. Watching right now, in fact. TIS GOOD.
Just the tip :p
Take down Metal Gear.
Metal… Gear…?!!!
Go play Alpha Protocol and steal their ideas.
Correct use of terrible puns.
Add my name to the list of people with cat issues..just went out to the car and someone’s attempted to slash the tyres on my car.
2 massive gashes on the front passenger side tyre, what everyone wants in the morning isn’t it.
Goodbye $200 plus my time
It’s just like that time we did the Fitocracy challenge and people started to coincidentally get injured… coincidentally. *shifty eyes*
Sorry to hear that, my pal!
I don’t get it, did a cat slash your tyres?
They are vindictive sons of bitches and so fuzzy and cute.
I feel like a dickhead bailing on meeting my assignment partner 2 days before its due, but Urghhh right now I want constant line of sight to a toilet.
Just change the meeting place from the library, to the men’s room in the library.
Problem solved.
I might be talking out of my ass… just like you! 😛
I promised a parts list, note that this is WIP, and that suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Motherboard – Intel DX58SO (On recommendation from @Scree)
Hard drive – Samsung HD103UJ (1TB) *2+ (Board supports 6 SATA connections)
Graphics – Nvidia GTX 700 series (770? (Supports 4 monitors, I wanted to have 3))
RAM – 16 GB minimum (no model chosen)
Holey Overkill batman
numbers you can get similar performance from parts that aren’t gonna cost you your left teste.
I know nothing about building computers, halp?
Well it is completely up to you but i have a few suggestions
1st suggestion
Talk to @welbot he builds stuff for a living and he will be able to tell you were to source parts from, what parts are best for your budget and he is just generally awesome
2nd suggestion
read the whirlpool forums in the “build a PC” section
Cheers for the referral! 🙂 @lucifer9783 hit me up on steam and we can have a chat about what you want/need!
Any reason you’re using LGA1366 and X58? Assuming you’ve already got the CPU, I’m guessing?
EDIT: I only ask because 1366/X58 is a bit dated. If you want that sort of performance, go 2011/X79.
Those are words…
EDIT: re: edit; Yup, still words.
The chipset is an X58, and the CPU it uses are 1366 socket – which are a bit old these days. They were superseded by by the X79 chipset and the 2011 socket.
Don’t get me wrong, it’ll still be awesome – just wondering the reasoning is all. If the 1366/X58 setup you’re getting is a good price, it’d make more sense.
I’m probably just confusing you. If it’s going to do what you want it do, that’s all that matters. Explaining this shit via text isn’t simple, lol.
Okay, that makes sense, @Scree picked it out, with no prior knowledge, so I didn’t know it was outdated
X58 was released in 2008 – look into X79 boards and socket 2011 CPU’s. The only difference would be maybe you could get an X58 board and CPU on the cheap because they’re older. The newer X79/2011 setups will probably cost more.
I’m sorry. I just looked up i7. I think Numbers should get the latest processor because they haven’t updated it yet.
Man, between you and @welbot and all the people buying PCs at the moment we almost need a standard shopping list
Or buy in bulk.
MASTER RICE!
..is on the shopping list.
if you can spare it, spend some cash on a solid state drive for your OS.
they’re super quick.
also, 2x 1TB drive is probably not the best bang:buck ratio you can get at the moment.
maybe look at 2TB drives? (using seagate as an example, 1TB = $74 ea., 2TB $99 ea.)
16GB RAM is overkill. unless you’re doing music / video editing / database work / programming etc. but having said that, I’ve got 16GB & I hardly do any of those.
I actually have the drives already, dad replaced them with newer ones after one died in a RAID-5 backup unit
I did want to get a solid state though for game installs, any suggestions?
umm… I wouldn’t to be honest.
not for gaming, at least.
I mean, you’re looking at a bit over $100 for 120GB of SSD storage, thats only gonna hold about 6-10 games.
and games don’t do much reading from the hard drive anyway (once its loaded up).
you’ll get better results from having more (and faster) RAM & a fast GPU with a good amount of dedicated RAM.
Since everyone else is sharing, planned parts list for imminent new PC:
Intel Xeon 3.4G CPU
Gigabyte GA-Z87N-Wifi mobo
Corsair 16GB Low Profile DDR3(1600) RAM
Asus GTX770 OC GPU
Samsung EVO 840 SSD 250GB
WD Caviar Green 2TB
BitFenix Prodigy Mini ITX case (this is the important bit)
Any reason you’ve gone the Xeon? If you’re building a games rig, an i7 would be the better choice. If it’s a server/HTPC or somesuch, the Xeon makes sense.
Xeon has slightly better side by side performance to an i7, is cheaper, but an i7 is better for overclocking. Overclocking is not going to be a factor.
Ah. Sometimes I assume overclocking is just a given. That makes sense.
Since this is her first foray into the supremacy of the Master Race, she’s not quite ready to dabble in the world of overclocking just yet. Stock is fine.
Oh, I thought it was for you! If it’s her first PC, she won’t know what hit her.
She’s still suspicious I’ll take over it because it’ll be better than mine.
Mission accomplished!
I was hoping that made sense and that I hadn’t massively overlooked something in the brief bit of research I did. Thanks.
I’m not terribly familiar with the Haswells and Z87 chipsets, so I don’t know. Just double check your research, I guess. I always opt for a ‘K’ i5 or i7 in my gaming builds, and have never had any issues. I’d had friends opting for Xeons in the past and having less than ideal experiences – but that was a couple of years ago.
Yeah, double checked. They’re pretty much identical, except Xeon is more efficient (less power), doesn’t have the built in GPU for running integrated graphics, and doesn’t overclock. I figure since there won’t be overclocking and there will be a dedicated GPU, it made sense to go with that one for the lower price.
Mobo chipset wise, the options are limited for LGA1150 mini ITX.
Yeah. Those Bitfenix cases are pretty ace though. I was looking at one when I built my server. Ended up with an mATX board and a Coolermaster HAF XB instead. much bigger, but I needed the room.
Mine is this. ROT13’d for reasons:
znnshpxre V K-80
pna’g nssbeq n arj TG240-TOG
pbzchgre evtug abj E4
Cannot un-rot13 on phone. Sorry.
basically shane is being silly.
You take that back sir! @shane is the most cereal guy here!
Nah, I’m a cereal offender.
Cbf upgrading anytime soon. My current rig:
Core i7-2600K @ 3.4Ghz O/C to 4.4Ghz
GIGABYTE P67A-UD3P-B3
Inno3D GTX 570 1280Mb
2x2Gb Patriot 1600; 2x4Gb G-Skill RIPJAWS 1600
Corsair HX-650W
Samsung 830 128GB SSD
plus an additional 1TB for storage/games
Those Sandy 2500K and 2600K’s are still great. You can overclock the pants off those things on air.
Does the gpu fit in that case?
Yep. Researched that quite extensively. It’s a popular case for enthusiasts / modders due to the horizontal motherboard mounting and surprising amount of room. (Do need to remove some HDD bays but that won’t be an issue.
Aha ok, that makes sense then! (And sounds kinda cool)
The biggest issue with space is actually the PSU spot under the motherboard. I’ve picked this one since I’ve seen it in the space in a video, but fingers are still crossed.
Edit: ‘This one’ not being listed above, is a Corsair 750W 80Plus Bronze. Beefy, modular, but should fit.
Are you sure about a Xeon? They’re not intended for gaming use, no turbo boost and the feature set is more intended toward virtualization.
I think my next box will probably be mini-ITX too. I’m just a little bit hesitant because of the amount of heat concentrated into a small space (and I’d probably be going for one of the Silverstone Sugo cases so even smaller)
Nope, not sure at all. But they seem identical on the basics, and only different on less useful things like GPU or virtualisation stuff. Same speed, same cores, same cache, the only disadvantage I can find is no overclocking.
This case is quite impressive for cooling / airflow options. Would not have even considered a small form factor myself, but I’m impressed by what should theoretically be possible.
Edit: specs say the both have turbo, the Xeon goes to 3.8, the i7 3.9.
Should I be looking at an i5 or something like that? Quad core seemed the way to go given that the next consoles were both moving to 8 core bases.
Edit edit: My approach was newest form factor (LGA1150), one notch below top of the line ( 3.4GHz instead of 3.5 ), so it’s a throwdown between the i7 4770 and Xeon E3-1240V3.
Xeon E3 1285 seems to be the current Xeon at the moment in the 1150 socket.
Comparing to i7 4770K:
– 100mhz faster in standard and turbo boost (they added Turbo to the Xeon line now, didn’t know this)
– i7’s got the new integrated GPU which is miles ahead of what’s on the Xeon (irrelevant)
– Xeon supports ECC memory (irrelevant)
– Xeon has vPro, VT-d (both virtualization improvements), Trusted Execution, TSX-NI (not used by games),
– Xeon is $90 less.
So I think you may actually be on to something there after all.
Wow, I’m not crazy. I had my suspicions. Awesome, thanks.
(Should I push it to the 1285? Was looking at 1240)
1240v3 is slower than the 1285 and the i7 4770K.
Also be aware that almost nothing you’re getting in the i7 or Xeon range is going to make a difference for games, and some of the features can actually make game performance worse (eg Hyperthreading). You get a little more cache and a marginally higher clock. i5 is really the best value for gaming unless you’re going to splurge out line @ynefel and get a socket 2011 motherboard & CPU and go 6 cores and a bunch of cards in SLI.
Did you consider the option of going for an i5 and spending the difference on other parts?
I can vouch for an i5 too. The 3570K in my server is brilliant. Overclocked it to 4.4Ghz on air (Coolermaster Hyper 212 Evo cooler), and it never even cracks 50 degrees under full load. Only cost me 250 odd dollars for the CPU too. But overclocking isn’t your thing – even at stock, it’s 3.40Ghz and 3.80Ghz Turboboost, it’s ace.
The Ivy Bridges are better for overclocking. Haswell parts run much hotter comparatively (but are also faster stock and use less power…)
I’m loving mine. Idle with the Noctua cooler I got for it it runs so quiet I thought the machine wasn’t on.
Processors are probably the biggest gap in my knowledge. Last purchase was my dual core 2.4 in 2007.
The Ivy-E’s run pretty hot sadly. My 3930K really needs it’s watercooling to do any worthwhile overclocking. I used to think it was something wrong with my setup, but they’re just really hot chips. The regular Ivys you can go batshit on, even with air.
I’m just happy the Haswells and the new 6 cores aren’t even close to warrant an upgrade for me yet. General consensus is my 3930K running at 4.0Ghz+ should more than see me through this Haswell generation. Which I’m pretty happy with, it’s given over a year’s joyous computing and in all honesty it doesn’t even break a sweat on anything I throw at it. Brilliant purchase. Didn’t need the 3960 either – nowhere near enough performance gain to justify the cost.
TL:DR – Still incredibly happy with my setup.
The other parts are pretty well locked in now, plenty of room in the budget but not aiming to go crazy. So for the sake of 50 bucks, the i5 4670K could be worth a look over the E3-1240V3? (Looking at all the 3.4G processors)
Here’s the other thing. I’m attempting to utilise my crystal ball for a few years into the future.
Hyperthreading means 4 virtual cores, and 8 concurrent processes. New consoles will be 8 core. Therefore foreseeable ports a few years down the track will be better handled by a HT quad core…?
You can’t compare PC and console specs directly, they work too differently. I wouldn’t even bring consoles into your factoring – even if a PS4/Xbone tops the average PC at launch, PCs will evolve past them rapidly anyway.
Regardless, it shouldn’t affect ports. PC’s scale by their own measure, not console’s.
No, it’s the opposite. Windows exposes the HT cores as if they were actual processors and if you put two computationally intensive tasks on the same physical core it will actually slow it down.
HT is really more like .1 of an actual core. It’s great for virtualization and stuff. With games you’re not going to see a difference. Same for the added cache, you’ll only see a benefit from that on poorly optimized games. Most PC ports will be optimized for a much smaller cache so having more won’t help.
EDIT: Also bear in mind that each of the cores on a Haswell i5 will probably be 2-3 times more powerful than a single PS4 or X1 core.
@negativezero @ynefel
Just found a good benchmark between the 4670K and 4770K on ocaholic.ch.
Bottom line, there is indeed bugger all difference, it’s so much more about the GPU. Looks like the $250 i5 will be the best value.
Edit: I’m thinking the savings will be well invested in a couple of shiny 200mm case fans and a nasty big CPU cooler.
I’d like to add to @negativezero’s comment about the hyperthreading slowing down. This is true, but only for poorly coded and optimized software. If the software has been coded well and properly optimized for hyperthreading, the performance will be markedly better. (take my 3ds max rendering for instance. if I use hyperthreading, it cuts render times down by 1/3 – 1/2, which is HEAVEN) This can also apply to games, and there are some out there that have been optimized for HT, but I’d have to look them up to let you know which ones, cos I can’t recall atm. I’m sure either the UT engine or Crytek’s engine are optimized for multicore and HT. Perhaps both. Been a while since I looked at that stuff.
/edit Just as an extra, this probably isn’t as much of an issue with new gaming rigs these days anyway. Most of the reason non optimized HT software gets bogged down, is because each thread has access to the same resources (HDD and ram), and only one can use it at a time. So if one thread is writing to the disk, and the other one needs to as well, it’s forced to wait til the other one is done. On older systems, this caused slowdowns due to the time it takes to write to a disk. If you’re running off an ssd, this time is drastically reduced, therefore you wont notice it at much. Also, there’s a lot more shared cache on cpu’s than there used to be. like double, triple, and even quadruple! This means that the cpu doesn’t have to use ram/hdd as much because it can cache a ton of extra information, thus reducing the time taken to work through calculations.
In short, Hyperthreading is great, when it works, you’ll love it to death, but it should be considered more of a luxury unless you’re sure you want it for a specific reason.
Hi @shane.
I have nothing interesting to say, I just wanted to give you the gift of pushing TAY one step closer to Dad Joke Page Six and Letter-Writing Page Seven.
Hi Strange! This is the best present a guy could get. Thank you 🙂
It’s also Dad Joke Day this Sunday. Being a Sunday means the Dad Joke Day will now be held on Monday.
I hate customers. They think if they aren’t entitled to something they’ll get it if they swear at me enough. I won’t give in to them but then they call head office who just cave instantly and give them whatever they want without any receipts or proof.
Just wait until you’re a cop, and a bit of cleavage gets everyone out of their traffic tickets in court.
When I’m a cop a bit of cleavage will get them out of the ticket on the spot 😛
I’ll remember that if you ever pull me over.
Note to self: wear button up shirt.
Why hello sir. I’m going to have to give you a ticket for being too sexy. You’ll be doing some hard time for this one. *sexy wink and strokes moustache*
It’ll just be annoying when they save the cleavage for court and DON’T use it on the spot. “Your Honour, I object! None of this cleavage was presented to me at the time of the offence!”
With all this talk of new PC parts, I’m starting to feel like a peasant with my i5 2500K.
I’m still rocking a core2duo. That’s not changing any time soon.
See my post above. The 2500K and 2600K are still brilliant. No need to upgrade yet – maybe a Haswell, but don’t feel like a pleb just yet.
But they’re talking about getting 700 series GPUs when I’m sitting here like a chump with my 600 series!
If it makes you feel any better, 700’s are pretty much just rebadged 600’s. The 760 and 770 are using the same GK104 architecture the 660’s and 670’s use. The 780 is using the same chip as the Titan, but is just a gimped version. No urgent reason to upgrade if you’re using a GTX 670 or more. Unless you wanted to make a big jump to a 780 or Titan.
660 /o\
Simple fix – get another one and run SLI! 660s are cheap as. I’m using a pair of GTX660 2GB OC’s in my server. They only cost me like $200 each.
Look, are you going to let me whinge or not?
I’m helping!
Wait…. two GTX660’s in your… server?
Do you use them for GPGPU stuff (?)
I do some folding occasionally, as well as when I go to LANs, I take the server. It’s kind of dual prupose – it runs Minecraft/DayZ/FTP server off and on at home, and makes a nice LAN box too. My main rig is too fucking heavy and annoying to cart around.
It’s an i5-3570K @ 4.4Ghz with 16GB of RAM, so it does fine on most games. The 660’s are great for a budget solution. They can do BF3 on max settings at 1920×1080. For $400 worth of card, I’m pretty happy.
im still rocking a 580 🙁
570 here.
580GTX (in my desktop/main machine) as well!
Some 7xx chipset in laptop, which I assume is pretty useless because mobile graphics 🙁 (laptop noob here)
580’s are still pretty badass – it should manage most things pretty well still. Incidentally, I’d rather a 580 than a 660 or a 670. They’ve aged really well.
NEF YOU SHOULD BE MAKING US UPGRADE 😛
I still have a 560Ti you suggested. Why didn’t you tell me to wait and get a 600 series!
Worst guy ever!
That’s all right. You’re still master race… it’s just that your race is now an egg and spoon race, and not the 100m sprint that everyone else is competing in.
I wish I had something interesting to post…
But I don’t. 🙁
Letters! Packages! Bombs! Anthrax!
So many options.
n00dz
Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
It’s less a newsletter and more just a bunch of photocopies of my junk.
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Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
At around midnight last night, Annie, still sound asleep:
“Ohhh, but I wanted… I want to…” *snore*
She practices tantrums in her sleep D:
All girls do that. It’s just by the time they’re older they’ve honed themselves to an instinctual subtle art.
haha, “subtle.”
Has anyone actually watched this preview for the Korean MMO, Black Dessert?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/an-mmo-that-promises-the-world-lets-see-if-it-actually-delivers/
All i have to say is “FUCKBALLS, that looks AMAZING” Not just from a visual perspective, but the combat system, mounted combat, the quests (which you get an idea of), it is unbelievable…
Seriously, if they could put in the same marketing dollars that Bethesda would put in for ES:O, this thing could take off in a ridiculous way if it plays half as good as the video makes it look.
if you havent seen it, watch the entire thing…
I hear korean MMO and have a natural flee reflex
You max out AGI first as well?
trust me tigs, if you’re interested in MMO’s, you’ll want to check this out.
I watched the trailer and agree that what it is promising sounds good. The thing that would concern me is the standard mentality of korean MMOs.
Some grind is good, so more grind must be better so all the grind must be best.
So I read this as you are going to have to grind your mount so that you can actually use it to get places.
The seasonal stuff does sounds really cool though and the large battle could be cool. Much of it will also depend on if it a target and then click your skill bar or if their is skill and timing involved. With 800 people instances I can’t see it keeping track of movement and individual swings so have a feeling it might be auto-attack and skill bar.
I’m afraid to hope. The other terrible thing that Korean MMOs have a habit of doing is putting bloody PVP in everything.
And making it so horrifically grind heavy you can’t get anywhere unless you’re unemployed and willing to play 50 hours a week.
yeah thats what im afraid of
Black Dessert? Is that like Black Pudding?
i was hungry! /o\
So, I’m trying to work out which mobile provider I should switch to. I’ve narrowed it down to either Amaysim or Boost. Both are the same price, but have their pros and cons. Amaysim has more data, but is on the Optus network so it won’t have as good coverage. Boost is on Telstra, so better coverage, but less data. Does anyone have experience with either of them? Recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks.
I’m with TPG, which works the same as Amaysim on the Optus network, and can’t complain about it.
Never had issues in inner-West Sydney or inner-South Brisbane.
Doesn’t help me, living in Tassie … but thanks for the recommendation.
I tried \o/
Vodafo…..HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
I can’t even finish one word with a straight face.
HAHAHAHAHA … NO!!!!!! I switched from Vodafone to Kogan. Never again.
I’m counting down the days until the contract expires. Stupid 3 disappearing.
I’m in the same boat – but don’t Vodafone absorb Three’s infrastructure? Pretty sure Hutchison had their own, didn’t they?
EDIT: Incidentally, I’ve been on Vodafone for a few weeks now and have had no issues. The crossover was incredibly painless as well.
Just wait. My bills went from $49 a month to $300 a month with less usage. Vodafone charge for everything they can and aren’t shy about adding zeros to things. And their customer service when they inevitably cut your service off at random for no reason is god awful.
I had completely the opposite experience. 😛 I can accidentally leave my phone bill unpaid for MONTHS and the most happens is a few polite text messages asking if they could maybe have some money please, if I’m cool with it, that is.
The coverage did turn to shit after switching from the 3 network to the vodafone network and I got three months free service by threatening to bail because of it, but they upgraded my area last august and it’s been smooth sailing ever since.
I got my first bill and was actually really surprised. Had no coverage issues so far. (apart from at home, but that’s because I live in a solid brick unit that kills all signal) Will see how it goes. I’m not on a contract, so if they try to fuck me I’m out. Easy.
@ynefel Bizarrely, I actually get coverage in areas that apparently normally don’t. Visiting folks on my Melbourne trip, was warned, “Yeah, you probably won’t get anything – all our friends with iphones can’t use them here,” and similar. Five bars, bitchiz! Booyah.
Wasn’t even Edge/Roaming. Weird. Come to think of it, I can’t think of any moment I’ve been looking at my phone and had it fail coverage outside of a train tunnel. Places in Asia, I guess… but that’s not really their fault.
So, Freeze gets cancelled when you don’t pay your bills?
Sounds fair.
When I started with Vodafone (~8 years ago) the service was terrible. Then it got better and when everyone else was having major issues and fled, I wasn’t have any problems at all — and it’s better than ever now that there are fewer people to congest the network.
So I still complain about them given that the first 12-18 months was pretty dodgy, but just quietly… I’m pretty happy. <_<
My partner is on Amaysim, it works well for him 🙂
Well, living in Tassie I’m instantly going to say anything on Telstra. It depends how much you get around really. Optus has A LOT of black spots around Launceston (and Hobart I discovered).
Unlimited national voice calls to Australian mobiles and fixed lines, 13/1800 (excludes Pivotel)
Unlimited standard national SMS/MMS to Australian mobiles (excludes Pivotel)
Unlimited mobile Internet browsing on your mobile handset within Australia
https://www.optus.com.au/shop/prepaidmobile/2dollardays
currently have a phone on this. there are days that ive literally downloaded 5-6gb tethering. it is freaking amazing, and coverage is great.
There is no restriction on data use either unlike Kogan, Boost, and Amaysim
Did you consider Aldi? 35 bucks a month, unlimited calls, texts, 5gb data, 10 dollars international credit all on Telstra 3G.. I’ve been with them since April or June, honestly i’m getting better speed on Aldi Mobile (Telstra) 3G than I ever got with Telstra on their Next G network with my iPhone..
Gold iPhone 5S. For that special someone who just really needs everyone around them to know they have an iPhone.
I’d say these people need it more.
@powalen and other dinosaur enthusiasts (@tigerion judging by recent comment)
Consider following these guys for the next week: http://www.facebook.com/#!/ozcomics?fref=ts
Jurassic Park drawing challenge. I submitted an entry last night, and most of Australia’s top comics artists get involved here. Bound to be some amazing work.
@strange is a fan of the hugasaurus!
I don’t think that one featured in Jurassic Park… but you never know what’s going to come up in these drawing challenges 😛
Hugasaurus
I did a google image search for hugasaurus and all I got was a heap of people sitting on beanbags.
Of all the moments in the movie to pick… here’s the entry I sent in last night: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28754200/tricer1-OC-entry-ShaneWSmith.jpg
The URL in the text, I instinctively think “why is the /blog missing?”
I don’t pimp that blog anymore. I update it twice a year if I’m lucky 😛
(Whereas I update my main website at least three times.)
That’s the guy that Jurassic Park: The Game continues the story of!
… okay then!
Thanks for the heads up, checking it out now
First JP images will probably make an appearance tonight.
I love it when the Uni wireless works in my room! So much faster than the Internet I actually have to pay for.
It seems to be one of those days where it drags I’m sitting at home waiting for a phone call to see if I’m working or not today and they won’t tell me so I can’t go out and do anything because I know as soon as I go somewhere I will get called into work but sitting at home waiting is a massive time sink
Life.
Hahaha! Phoenix Wright just accused a witness of “fibbing” on the stand, and then got called a “poopyhead” in return.
I’ve finally figured out just what has been missing from courtroom drama all these years.
OMG, I’m dying here.
Gur zheqre jrncba vf gur “nzcyr ohfg” bs gur npphfrq, qebccrq sebz n guveq fgberl jvaqbj ol n zna va n jurrypunve!
Oh good. Another next gen console article. *starts cooking popcorn*
Or you could go to the zoo, I guess… they do charge you to get in, but the animals are generally better behaved and you have less chance at seeing something offensive. Just humping or flinging poop.
(Edit: Dammit, everyone is being civil, rational, and thoughtful in that article! Fine. I’ll go the US site for my morbid curio-woah, I almost actually did that. Jeez.)
I’ll be over here
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace
Ah, can’t breathe. Too much smug in the air *gasp*
I’m not going to lie, I just assumed there would be a subreddit for that and took a random guess.
Really, I’m here http://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations
I’m here
http://www.reddit.com/r/bearsdoinghumanthings
That comment about “Next Gen Consoles” made close the tab immediately.
The one with the youtube argument?
Yes. Youtube comments are the worst.
I haven’t looked, and I won’t. Surest sign they’ve hit rock-bottom is when people demand proof of any claims made.
After all this master race discussion that I missed: Looks like one of the fans on my 580 is jammed (I can turn it, but it takes a lot of force), I tried to lightly unjam it, got scared that I’d do something bad, so I put my case back together and cried a little bit.
So then I underclocked my 580 (or, technically, reduced its overclock slightly), and it seems to be okay now. I feel like I should find a better solution, but I am so lazy.
In other news, I started reading the Mistborn trilogy last night, and it is some solid work. Many brilliant phrases, but my favourite thus far is “hostile, dethroned pseudo-deities probably make disagreeable neighbours.” It also makes me want to play more Dragon Age 2, of all the things.
So what’s everyone else up to?
I have been about a fifth through Sanderson’s The Way of Kings for months. Very creative, but the size of it is intimidating.
Yeah, I think it’s good that I started with The Alloy of Law, because it’s still well written, it works as a standalone piece, it isn’t intimidating in size, but it got me hooked to the world.
I gave up on that after the first part of the first book, it just wasn’t clicking with me. World wasn’t well described and I couldn’t follow it. Mistborn stuff was much better IMO. Tighter writing and more interesting characters.
The Mistborn setting would make an interesting game too. I guess it would probably end up playing a lot like Gravity Rush?
@blaghman: The Alloy of Law felt like I was reading a novelization of an anime for some reason.
While reading The Alloy of Law I was actually imagining how it would work as a Gravity Rush style game! Probably helped that I read it at the same time as I was playing the game, but still, I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks that way.
Sanderson’s young enough (late 30s) that I wouldn’t be surprised if he plays or has played games a bit and I think you can see it a bit in the way he writes action stuff.
Yeah, I’ll agree with that.
As an interesting aside, I shouldn’t find it so surprising -but I do- that he’s a Mormon. Upon analysis I can see elements of it within his work, but it’s nice to see that it’s a background element, as opposed to the other Mormon writers who spring to mind (Orson Scott Card and Stephenie Meyer) where it really becomes an obvious element. I know that this doesn’t really change anything, and it shouldn’t influence my views on his work, but I certainly find it interesting.
Just playing science lately dude. Also, suffocating every day on the train. The usual.
How goes all the science?
Did you present a paper at a thing, or were you just at a thing vaguely recently (like, real vaguely)? I try to keep up but I’m pretty terrible at remembering everything. How is that all?
I don’t think I expressed enough love for your song tweets a few weeks back, as a note. That really was rad. Though I started reading it the wrong way the first time and was hella confused.
Dude. How do I only have 272 followers (on a good day?)??? I wrestle with that constantly after my Genesis stunt. Haha. But thanks man, glad you enjoyed it, it was heaps of fun to pull off!
And yes! I did present recently! (well in June!) but I have a couple more coming up – one in september and one in november. Science never stops man! Did you see my thing about me killing mice on the tweeter today? That’s a pretty fun description of what I do!
How goes all your life my good man, besides the overclocking underclocking business!
Oh, not much is happening in my world, I’m still sort of recovering from a stint of full time employment, trying to work out what to do with myself, all that jazz. Life is generally good though. Oh, and my parents are about to go away for a month, so I have a month to have loads of wild parties (which translates out to a month of not having to worry about pants, as I sit all alone). So, I can’t really complain.
I hadn’t read your piece before (I think I was out when you posted it), so I just did. I’m very glad that that’s not something I have to do. I know they’re only mice, and it’s for science (FOR SCIENCE!), but… yeah. Just glad that it’s not me.
Good luck with the other presentations, though I’m sure you’ll say that you don’t need luck, and that it can’t be scientifically quantified. 😛
how old is your system now? the vid card might still be under manufacturer warranty
Smidge over 2 years, I do believe.
do you still have the invoice? or know what brand/model the card is?
Uhh, Card is a Gigabyte Super OC GTX 580, I have no idea what documentation I have in the pile of stuff here. I will look into it and see. Cheers for the advice.
That’s ok. Happy to help. You did buy it from me after all 😉 I don’t have access to the system I have your invoice in atm, so I can’t check the date, but I’ll figure something out. From what I can see, the card does have a 3 yr manufacturer warranty, so with any luck, they can get it fixed. Do you have onboard graphics on your motherboard that you could use while it’s sent away?
Also, is it possible to get the serial number off the card for me? I’m not sure where on the card it will be, but it should be a white sticker of some sort I’d imagine. If you can get me that, I’ll see if I can organize something with gigabyte.
oh man. those ‘guest’ accounts over on the Giz broadband article are hilarious.
gotta be liberal party employees.
Edit: & having your rebuttal put into moderation sucks.
Politics getting in the way of faster internet makes me a sad geek.
🙁
Edit your comment by adding a full stop or something to the end and bam! it leaves moderation.
thanks for the heads up.
I just re-posted it & it went up straight away. weird.
Asian transexual plays guitar; why do I have this bookmarked? Oh, right (sorta NSFW).
Well that’s something…
@ynefel: I’m curious, when you were playing FFXIV 1.0 you paid subscription right? Did they make you pay in Euros back then? I set up my 2.0 subscription and it looks like we pay Euros for it which sucks copious amounts of donkey as it means we’re paying ~15% more than the US price
Might have to do the maths on that and see if it’s worth setting up a US account. Bleh. (Edit: In terms of losing any legacy benefits.)
Well, I did the maths before and assuming 90 days for both (discounted rate) it works out around $48 AUD for US and $55 AUD for EU. Not that much of a diff but it’s pretty shitty to be paying in a currency that makes no sense (and presumably also paying 17.5% VAT on it too)
Yeah, it was in Euros, same as FFXI. Both are still in Euros I believe. I haven’t had to pay anything yet with ARR, because of my free two weeks, but I set up my subscription, and it did mention Euros.
This power rangers series I’m watching is amazing.
The red ranger’s name is Captain Marvelous. They’re space pirates. They transform into other power rangers. AMAZING!
I haven’t tuned in since Mighty Morphine time.
*93-94 I believe.
**Shit, that’s a bad joke. My apologies, Thuy Trang deserves better respect than that.
that sounds amazing. i shall check it out when i get home.
I am back into Power Rangers after The Wonderful 101. This was awesome.
I prefer the unicycle, skateboard, what the heck is happening .gif
I think that’s from episode 14. Same series though. That’s why I’m watching it.
Had to stop by the pharmacy on my way back from lunch.
The girl who served me said absolutely nothing to me (except maybe “Hello” but I can’t be sure), so I was left awkwardly shuffling around the counter, unsure whether I was supposed to take a seat or if she needed to ask me anything. So I floated there for an awkward length of time, before drifting, awkwardly, to the side and awkwardly standing there for a moment.
In my peripherals I could see one of the pharmacists and made a quick, and most likely awkward, mental note that she was quite cute and desperately hoped I wouldn’t be required to awkwardly interact with her.
My hair was a mess, my shirt was poorly tucked, my breath probably stank (I’m constantly concerned about this except in the moments after brushing my teeth), and, since I was wearing an unsuitable number of layers for today’s heat, was sweating…
I was in no condition to interact with a cute pharmacist, so I anxiously willed myself to turn invisible and, when that failed, attempted to crawl into my phone and hide.
She ended up processing my prescription.
We went to high school together.
Anything resembling confidence swiftly withered down to nothingness as I mumbled some pleasantries and gracelessly pushed aside the hair plastered to my sweaty forehead. Hunched over and unable to maintain eye contact I managed to ask her how long she’d been working there.
“Four years”
“Oh really?”
“Yeah, do you work around here?”
“Um… I-I work just um, just down the road, a-and live just around the corner.”
“Oh, I’m surprised I haven’t seen you in here before.”
“Must be too healthy…”
This pale, pasty, sweaty, rake-of-a-man with poor posture and trembling hands is surely the embodiment of good health.
I was a loser in high school and have no doubt cemented, in her mind, the notion that I am nothing if not consistent.
I go to the further-away pharmacy because someone I know from high school worked there 4ish years ago. I have no idea if they still work there but I avoid it just in case.
I avoid a lot of places.
A certain EB games for obvious reasons
A mcdonalds thats close to me, were a ex school person works who always insists on yelling out conversation
any shop in my home town because inevitably someone i know works there
Haha, you guys are suckers! I was a loser with no friends and was basically invisible in school so I have no chance of ever running into friends / people that know me.
I guess this depressingly good talent of being invisible works out in the long run! \o/
Me too! o/
Why do you avoid EB?
fine i will just say it
I ACCIDENTALLY ASKED OUT A DUDE WHO I THOUGHT WAS A CHICK AT EB
then we went and watched the avengers with my sister. It was awkward.
Yeah, but he seemed like a nice guy.
he was a nice guy. but still awkward.
I think we’ve all fallen victim at some point or another of having an eye stray inquisitively toward a decent-looking chick from behind, who it turns out on closer inspection is just a skinny hipster dude with long hair and tiny hands.
“She’s pretty cu… HOLY SHIT IT’S A GUY! ABORT! ABORT!”
I remember a friend who was getting upset because he never pointed out a good looking girl first so in desperation he pointed out a figure about a kilometre away shouting about how sexy that piece of ass was.
Turned out to be a massive, heavily tattooed Polynesian man once we got closer.
Well, everyone has their own taste I guess.
Man, I never see anyone from high school 🙁
But then again, I don’t go outside…
Someone who went to my primary school (a friend of my sister’s who I talked to occasionally) used to work at the nearby chemist, and I kind of wish that I’d had a reason to go there because she was really cute.
Vitamins. Pick up vitamins! Even if she’s not there, it’s still a worthwhile trip. I’m always running out of vitamins, and it shows you’re at least semi-interested in your health without going full fruit-loop herbal supplement crazy.
Pshhh. I have no vitamin deficiencies, and my diet (surprisingly) is good enough that it stays that way.
The only time I’d take any sort of supplementy thing is if my doctor told me to, and since I refuse to see my doctor, I never will. Haha! If I’m never diagnosed with anything, I can pretend that I’m healthy!
Fruit loops are vitamins? AWWW YESSS
Isn’t your doctor like your mum or something?
I can’t be the only person who likes meeting people I haven’t seen since high school 🙁 I was never that popular (mostly because i was so shy) but pretty much everyone knew me at least and apart from the few people who I promised myself I’d dance on their graves one day they’re usually at least happy to say hi and ask how I’ve been!
Edit: oh and almost nobody gives a shit about statuses in high school once they leave!
Small town hell. Everyone already knows my business and i know theirs. Doesnt make for a fun time.
My graduating year was 40 people, and as a new school adding grades every year, we’d always been the eldest every year. Everyone knew everyone else intimately. It’s always good to bump into those folks again, especially since I haven’t seen most of them in almost fifteen years.
It was mostly a joke. Nothing to do with status; Clingy-ness 😛
Flu you are a handsome fuck. Just be yourself. Actually scrap that just say any word to her with clarity. She will melt. I melt and i have really high standards.
It’s not that simple.
On the plus side, the ‘must be too healthy’ line has a pleasing irony to it, given that you’re there now, and I doubt most pharmacists usually see people at their best. It’s a good line, would’ve made me crack a smile.
I know from humbling personal experience and anecdotes that asking out nurses will frequently get you shot down if you’re actually sickly instead of just getting super manly stitches (especially if they’ve just had to take piercings out of your junk while you’ve been under sedation – DIDN’T HAPPEN TO ME, it’s a story told by a nurse friend), but the effort is its own reward! (Or at least, tell yourself that to keep the tears at bay.)
I say go in again when you’re having a good hair day to pick up some vitamins or something, get her number. (Vitamins, yes. XXL condoms might be pushing it, but if you’re feeling especially ballsy… I’ve never tried it, and now I’m tempted just to see what the reaction would be.)
Yeah, I was considering the condom idea, just for a laugh.
Great minds…
If you will, I will. 🙂
I mean, I’ll go randomly entering pharmacies until I find a cute chick, THEN buy the condoms. I may even consider using an especially corny line, like, “So what’re you doing tonight?” and looking meaningfully at the box.
…Shut up, people, I’ve done stranger things! STOP JUDGING ME.
This guy was leader for two weeks. How wrong we all were!
…and I would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn’t been for you meddling kids!
High School status is meaningless, think about who give these status’s out…..High Schoolers… *shudders*
awkward/10 story, would read and reminisce about my own personal life experiences again.
At least you can act peaceful.
With me it takes so much energy to not wrap my hands around their throat within seconds of them just looking at me… but I guess that’s cuz my high school life wasn’t good
That idol built up in my mind is now shattered.
A single tear is making its way down my cheek as I type.
Boo-urns! Before the edit you had more time travel.
I found the best solution to avoid these kind of awkward interactions with people I went to school with:
Move to another city in another state.
^^^ this works, I moved countries,
have never bumped into anyone i went to school with. 😛
Who’d have thought we’d have more in common, my friend! AWKWARD PALS!
Jerk.
It’s like looking into a jerky mirror.
(words that’ll probably be lost at the end of the page)
GAMING PC:
I’ve kinda narrowed down the parts but I’m not really basing it on anything more than “well, I guess that kinda looks good”, so any suggestions or advice will help!
i5 4760k
Z87 thingy – Thinking of that “65” MSI Gaming or Gigabyte U4 one.
GTX770 4GB OC – Thinking of an MSI one or Gigabyte
16GB RAM – Corsair I guess, haven’t really looked into it
Samsung Pro 840 250GBish – I hear Samsung is quicker than Sandisk but I’m not sure whether it’s worth paying a bit more for the higher end one (Pro over Evo/Extreme II over Extreme)
3TB Barracuda most likely – Seagate seem to be the same as WD but cheaper
I thought about re-using my current case but I’ll probably get a new one. Haven’t looked into cases much but they all seem pretty similar anyway. Suggestions would be appreciated
EDIT: Oh I forgot to say that is it recommended to keep the parts sort of consistent? Like in the pre-built ones I’ve seen places sell seem to have the same manufacturer for the mobo and GPU ie. MSI mobo and MSI GPU. I’m sure it’s fine to mix and match but will it be any better to keep it the same?
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Got Tales of Xillia yesterday. Was a bit disappointed by the “art book” as it was advertised as having like 60 pages or so, but was only half of that :(. Doesn’t seem to have much content either compared to Graces f’s one and it’s also smaller in size.
Milla’s voice is ugh D:
Nice words, dude.
I preferred your words.
I don’t have any cool stories but I guess this guy had staff access and gave me my exam timetable like a month before it’s released.
That was mildly interesting.
Don’t worry about keeping brands consistent. It won’t make any difference at all. Rest of it looks good, although I personally don’t like Seagate. Cases are pretty much a matter of what you think looks nice really.
So how much is that PC build going to cost?
My current one (Antec 902) gets pretty damn hot. Not sure if it’s the case itself or the things inside (most likely the things inside :P). I’m pretty sure it’s all stock stuff anyway.
Should I be investing in extra fans or whatever “cooling” things refer to?
Somebody else might have to help you with cooling, I’ve always just used the stock stuff all my parts come with 😛 It’s okay for the computer to get fairly hot, just not overly so.
I’m not sure if I start getting problems because it’s hot, or I just get problems anyway 😛 (the same sort of things I have like hanging on loading screens, textures not loading, lagging audio). I’m pretty sure it’s just the latter though cause it happens on cold days too 😛
No. That’s only suggested (in some cases mandatory) for very specific situations. The only real reason would be for looks, if you care about that sort of thing.
The motherboard is probably a decent choice depending on which you’re looking at from the series. I built Freeze’s on the MSI gaming pc mate board, and I was damn impressed at its features considering the price. If you want to use 2 graphics cards in the future, you’ve got the option, and it’s got quite a few pci-e 1x slots too, which will come in handy for other expansions.
16gb of ram is nice, but not really necessary. Unless it’s dirt cheap, I’d hold off and buy another 8 later on. If you’re happy to splash the cash though, go for it, but try and get 2 8gb modules. that way if your mobo has 4 ram slots, you can add more later without having to remove what’s in there. 🙂
As for the vid card, 770 is good choice if you have the cash! It’ll keep you out of trouble for a long time. I like the gigabyte cards lately due to their 3 fan design. Very easy to maintain, and they run nice and cool with a surprisingly little amount of noise. ssd is really personal choice on cash again. if you want the best of the best, go nuts. the samsungs are very nice. Especially their 1tb model! But $760 :0 nuts!
I tend to use Kingston HyperX drives in budget conscious builds. They have fantastic performance for a drive of their price! I’ve used them in a few taybie builds, and every time both the recipient and myself are blown away by just how fast they word 🙂 I think I had beardy’s booting from a cold start in 8 seconds!
HDD is much of a muchness. My personal preference is WD, but that’s only based on what I see when it comes to fixing machines on mass. I see a lot more dead seagates than WD. (Several years ago, seagate had a 35% return rate on all their drives, so that didn’t help either 😉 I have Hitachi drives in my machine though, and they’ve been problem free for me since day one. Performance is on par with the others too.
Not sure if it’s been mentioned here or not: a bunch of Twitter-side TAybie discussion has led to a number of people picking up/considering picking up Final Fantasy XIV: RR. Thought I’d mention it here in case other people were considering it or are already on and in desperate need of fronds.
I definitely did not just buy it. Nosirreebob. That would be both crazy, and stupid.
Ah, but has everyone agreed on a server name?
I was just about to ask this!
I agree with Neg regarding JP servers. No idea which one, though. Vote on the best name and go with that? 😛
FYI I’m sub-200 ping to JP, compared to 250+ to NA.
I’m on Tonberry (JP) as it is full of SEA players but that’s the problem: it’s full. No characters can be created at the moment. 🙁
I suggest playing on a JP server if you can (look around and figure out where the AU players that couldn’t get on Tonberry ended up) because the ping times are better from AU to Japan than AU to the US / Europe, and the JP servers so far have been a lot more stable than the NA ones – the NA instance server shit the bed during early access and everything went pear-shaped and stuff was down for half a day, but absolutely no hitches on the JP ones.
http://oceania.guildwork.com/
Random site I stumbled across suggests Tiamat now that Tonberry is full.
I rolled on Tonberry to join Mirai (who were either first or second free company to get set up and is around 250 members at the moment) and I’m glad I had early access and created during open beta because there were people who wanted to join that couldn’t even get into the server first day of early access.
Would not be surprised if Tiamat gets flooded too. But I also think that in a few weeks when subscriptions start popping up the game will die down and most servers will unlock.
Pizza Hut keep sending me emails saying to treat Dad with a Pizza Hut pizza this Fathers Day.
What kind of kid hates his father that much?
Pizza Hut is the best of the big chains. That’s just a cold, hard
pizzafact.Are you kidding me? Serious deficiency in toppings:base ratio, and the base itself tastes like flourey ass. Everything they come up with these days seems to be something Dominos did six months ago. Also their prices are ass.
DOMINOS FOR THE WIN! Let the Pizza brand wars commence.
Cheesy Garlic Bread. Let there be 1000 years of peace.
Also their jumbo chicken wings beat all other side dish meats ever.
That’s like saying Botulinum is the best toxin.
Kudos to Pizza Hut for including it on every pizza.
The Wolfenstein: The New Order announcement teaser rocks my socks. Not sure how the game will fare, but this video gets me pumped to play shooters. I don’t even like shooters that much.
Video games and movies have trained me to want to kill Nazis ever since I was a child.
I just don’t think it can be the same if they’re robots. 🙁
Not sure if new, but @greenius ? Maybe relevant to your interests…
Nopenopenopenopenope
No hype allowed until a localisation is announced!
*holds back hype*
First glance saw that as
openopenopenopenopen
Augh. All I want to do is hide from the world in videogames, but I can’t even do that. Apparently my house is situated right in the middle of a gigantic electromagnetic hellhole, so any use of my Wii U’s gamepad is intermittently interrupted by jittering freezes whenever I’m trying to not die. And it’s not a matter of being too far away from the console, or having too many machines on, or anything like that. Even in the middle of the night, with everyone else asleep, sitting in bed just a couple of metres away from the console with a completely clear line-of-sight, I was still getting moments where the feed would just lock up for a couple of seconds and Luigi would continue walking off to his death.
Would feel like punching something right about now but I couldn’t even muster the bother to do that.
…fucking page-gets
That sucks, man 🙁
The connection between the gamepad and the console is essentially an 802.11n wifi signal (5GHz band)… so I guess there must be something intefering in that sort of freq range 🙁
Are you near an airport or flight paths? I occasionally get bad wireless interference as well, worst case was trying to trade Pokémon from DS to 3DS, it was struggling with the devices right next to each other.
Sooort of nearish to Bankstown airport I guess. But not really.
My bedroom light does seem to faintly flicker occasionally even while the power’s off actually, so I guess there must be something going on there.
Blimey.. I just realized how much I waffled on in my last few posts! Sorry peeps 😉 Didn’t mean to leave novels!
Oh Welbot, surely you should know that we never take offence at longer posts. Those of us with nothing to do simply relish the opportunity to waste more time thanks to verbose statements. Those with less time to spare, surely either skim-read, or simply ignore the vast works presented before them. So, in short, don’t apologise for what you present to the community, but embrace it. Allow your inner (wordy) butterfly to shine.
How dare you be helpful on the internet!
Bugger. Thought I’d get away with not buying Disney Infinity. Oh well.
Please Disney. If any of you have even an ounce of a soul, please don’t release all the Disney Princesses at once. I don’t think my wallet could take it and pretty sure my daughter would stab me if I don’t get them all.
She would too! She hides knifes! D:
This is the same company that came up with the vault.
You should be safe.
For now.
Bunny’s right. Disney know that if they present all their options to you at once, you’ll be overwhelmed. So they drip-feed them out. They want long term access to your bank account, not a fleeting spending spree.
As much as I hate the vault, it has me excited for the upcoming release of The Little Mermaid on Blu-Ray, which never would have happened had they released the lot at once.
The Lion King and Aladdin’s will no doubt tip me over the edge.
What platform did you get it on?
Whoa, Gizmodo has what seems to be a month-long Whitenoise… and it’s still on the first page!
Are you suggesting an inTAYsion?
Well, it only took a couple of weeks of me posting in TAY for another ‘reminder about appropriate internet usage’ to go around at work. And then later on, another email came round from our big big big boss about appropriate appropriation of resources which insinuated that if anyone was found to be communicating on social media, any form of online forum, then any comments made would be taken to be representative of the opinion of *employer name redacted*. It’s starting to feel like some kind of Orwellian nightmare.
So unfortunately, I’m pretty much going to be absent from TAY during the week from now on 🙁 It was good while it lasted, friends.
Edited to remove my employer’s name. NOT SURE WHAT @VIRUS__ IS GOING ON ABOUT DOWN THERE >_>
TIL the Queensland government’s role model is the NSA, snooping on your every move.
I feel your pain Beardy. I’ve taken to skimming the last few pages each night
Been that way for me ever since I stopped working at home all day :\
Huh, that was fast. Started New Super Luigi only yesterday or something, and I’m done already. Five stars and everything.
Took 12 hours according to the playlog though. Not too shabby.
Just finished Mirror’s Edge. Great game, too short (MASTER RACE!).
Combat was easier once I realised I could pick up guns. One thing though – if you spend your life/make your living running around on rooftops in a city where people think chain link roof fences are cool, take some wire cutters!
I got stuck in a section where it was just guns everywhere
I’m pretty confident I played those in an entirely inappropriate and counter to design intended way.
(ie: I beat up a dude, took his gun, then played the game like an FPS until all the screaming and shooting had stopped and I was free to continue running unmolested.)
Combat? Guns? You played it all wrong 😛
I ran away for a while, but then there was a section where I had to climb a pipe while being shot at by three guys with submachine guns. So then I got punchy.
Then, later, I realise I could pick up guns. Figured they don’t care about killing me or property damage SO NEITHER WILL I
It’s a very frustrating game towards the end if you’re going for the Test of Faith achievement.
Guns help you speed past the shit bits.
Aaaand just applied my Wii U screen protector that I bought at the start of the year. Finally. Perfect application, awwyeah.
Must be time to crack out W101!
It took me three days to finish Saints Row IV. Aside from getting gold on all of the side missions and a ridiculous amount of challenges (in game achievements) there really isn’t anything worth doing.
Didn’t take long for me to get burnt out.
This happened with Saints Row the Third.
Still happy with the game, just with there was better variety in the gameplay.
Time to watch the Great Australian Bake Off. Where’s my drool bucket?
I dunno what makes me drool more. The baked goods, or Nancy!
Dammit Welbot. Not cool.
Sorry Strange. wasn’t intended to be anything more than saying I find her attractive. guess I shouldn’t have gone with the punny option.
That you’d put a bun in that oven *high five*?
well that wasn’t exactly my intention 😉 Nice pun though! I just think she’s sweet and very skillful young woman. And I just happen to think she’s hot too!
The Bureau : XCOM : Declasified : The Revenge of the : Subtitle.
umm…. ok…. 3 things. initial impressions based on the first 30 mins.
Squad AI is rubbish. Gotta hold its hand every 5 seconds.
Still love the 50s / 60s aesthetic. its like Don Draper, with two mannequins chained to his legs, fighting an alien invasion.
Dunno if the XCOM brand suits an action game… XCOM = turn based strategy.
that is : all.
I think… Hmmm…
I feel like it works as XCOM, but hey, the only other one I’ve played is Enemy Unknown.
That said, I would like it even more if it functioned a little more like the original pitch, and was basically just Enemy Unknown but you played as a dude. Keep the third person, keep the squad mechanics, but give it proper research, let people alter the base, add some risk/reward to the whole thing, as opposed to “go to objective.”
I really wish the Squad AI would just sit in cover though. No, they have to move occasionally, or worse, try to shoot things without me telling them. Terrible.
I dabbled in XCOM : UFO : Dfence waaaaay back in the day & XCOM:EU recently.
but yeah….
I think its the POV that makes the strategy seem a bit off. maybe if when you paused to issue orders, it zoomed out to an overhead view so you could see the area all at once rather than moving the camera awkwardly through the map… that would be a bit better.
but oh god, the AI…
Me: hey, get into cover there.
Suadmate: ok. i’m going…. ok i’m there. I’ll shoot that guy now.
Me: sweet. good job…….. umm…. why are you now just standing out in the open, firing at some dude in cover while another, bigger, dude has flanked you? you could at least call out & say something like ‘hey, i’m being flanked! help!’ or something like that? man… speak up! I’M NOT A GOD DAMN MINDREADER. oh. fine. now you’re gonna lie down there & give me the silent treatment. what a drama queen.
I think I’d have much more problems with the game if I didn’t like to micromanage the squad. It’s something I did entirely too much in Mass Effect as well.
This is me, attempting to just bloody purchase, let alone install/activate/play FFXIV.
TAKE THE HINT. SQUARE ENIX DOES NOT WANT YOUR MONEY.
Disney Infinity isn’t a Nintendo exclusive, is it? It’s so weird that I’ve seen more WiiU ads for it than I did for Mario or Pikmin (none). So strange seeing Nintendo advertise third party games 😛
Because Pikmin 3 will only appeal to core fans while Disney is universal?
Yeah, I know why, still weird. Didn’t see any ads for Mario (or the WiiU in general for that matter).
I guess they’re trying to get people to think it’s a Nintendo exclusive 😛
I got the Wii U version. The girls can keep their tiny little sticky hands off my PS3.
Desperate attempt to make WiiU relevant/sell some.
Initial impressions of W101: Whoa what wait what’s happening what do I do did I do that oh I think I get it wait no I have no idea what’s going on oops died oops died again and again and again but I think I kind of get it now but not really.
I think I like it.
Oh hey, a reddit thread about realtime global illumination. Maybe in the comments they’ll discuss implementation techn- oh no wait, usual master race/peasant console smugness.
Is there anything else on Reddit?
Well a lot of the smaller/niche subreddits have well reasoned comment threads, but apparently not this one.
Ooh, can we discuss the approximation used in the PC version of AssCreed 3, and presumably the next-gen versions of AssCreed 4? It’s a pretty cool way of faking it (IIRC they just put a very dim ground coloured light up from the ground, or something).
A bear and a rabbit are taking a poop in the woods. The bear turns to the rabbit and says, “Excuse me, do you have problems with poop sticking to your fur?” The rabbit says, “No.” So the bear wipes his butt with the rabbit.
#EddieMurphyDelirious
#LameDadJokesPg6
I had to make it kid friendly, guys. C’mon.
Why does a milking stool have only 3 legs? Because the cow has the udder.
“Dad, I’m hungry.”
“Nice to meet you, Hungry. My name’s Transientmind.”
OH YES. Should tell that joke out at the cemetary. It’s the dead centre of town. Or maybe at the abattoir – I’m sure it’ll slay ’em.
I use the dead centre line when driving newbies past the cemetary at work.
…the reactions are mixed.
An elephant was drinking out of a river one day, when he spotted a turtle asleep on a log. So, he ambled on over and kicked it clear across the river.
“What did you do that for?” Asked a passing giraffe.
“Because I recognized it as the same turtle that took a nip out of my trunk 53 years ago.”
“Wow, what a memory” commented the giraffe.
“Yes,” said the elephant, “turtle recall”.
The algae and fungus got married because they took a lichen to each other!
Why did the mushroom always get invited to the party? Because he was a fungi.
#StolenFromQI
Haha I almost didn’t get it because I pronounced fungi wrong in my head.
FUN GUY
A farmer walks into his bedroom, holding a sheep under his arm.
“What the hell is that?!” His wife asks.
“This is the pig I’ve been screwing.” He says.
“That’s not a pig, you stupid man!” His wife replies. “It’s a sheep!”
He simply yells, “I was talking to the sheep!”
Are you sure ewe don’t feel a little sheepish about that joke?
Though to be fair, I’ve herd worse. 😉
That was baad
you all suck.
edit: that was intended as as exasperated OH GOD DAD JOKE OVERLOAD sorta thing, not as bitchy as it turned out.
Man goes into a bar with a giraffe for a few drinks. Several hours later, the pair get up to leave and the giraffe passes out on the bar floor. Bartender says ‘You can’t leave that lyin’ there!’ Man says ‘It’s not a lion, it’s a giraffe.’
MQFT: Late night superficial audiophile edition.
CG
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@35 chooses T via Twitter!
‘Titanium’ shall be the colour scheme for the turntable, instead of ‘Cool Grey’.
New (good) turntables are fucking expensive :S
My friend and I recently got his old Pioneer one going with a decent amp and that though, and if you can find some good records it’s worth it. While we were at it we also found an old cassette player for shits and gigs and got that going too.
Yeah, I’ve decided on the Rega RP1, an ‘entry level’ turntable.
That combined with a $60 preamp and my current sound card should have me sitting pretty though!
So keen ^.^
http://i.imgur.com/MFeVHna.png
Heh, too many Bens!
I work with a guy named Ben too! Benevolent kind of guy. Sometimes he gets a bit Bent out of shape, but mostly he’s quite Benign. The way he lines the Benches with computers to restore and Benchmark is just amazing! It’s like he Bends space and time, and before you know it, he’s covered them as easily as throwing over a sheet of Bengaline. One might even say he’s a Beneficial Benediction!
But not every day.
Yep, us ben’s are pretty amazing. Very little to fault!
after playing T:h:e:b:u:r:e:a:u:X:C:O:M:D:e:c:l:a:s:s:i:f:i:e:d (sorry, i had to let that dumb joke reach it illogical conclusion & get that one outta my system.), I am hyped all over again for Enemy Unknown. & double plus hyped for the expansion.
The expansion damn near made me fire up a new vanilla campaign out of pure excitement. I held off – I have serious new gaming to do, dammit.
i started a new campaign last night.
on iron man. on hard.
and i suck at the game.
first 2 missions were total wipe-outs.
I’ll start again tonight.
Iron man has made me rage so hard! I had a decent squad built up with a seriously hardcore veteran getting everyone out of so much trouble all the damn time, but thanks to the stupid free-move ‘reveal’ rules, she rolled into a dark corner and got promptly clusterfucked by the four mutons who were somehow hiding behind a barrel or something.
I raged so hard.
In the warmup stage for W101 now. I still feel like I suck at it, but have a better idea of what’s going on now. So I guess kinda like Bayonetta.
Also I am massively digging the Viewtiful Joe vibe of it.
Main reason why Surf Wax America is one of my favourite songs:
Name me any other that contains the lyric, “I’m going surfing ’cause I don’t like your face”.
This morning my ADSL2+ Internet is running at a blisteringly fast speed of 0.02Mbps.
At this rate is be better off cancelling it and getting a 56k dial up connection.
Also, what the hell is “twerking”? I’m getting to old to Internet. Everything just confuses me nowadays.
Here’s a stick. Shake it threateningly at them durned kids.
I would but they just shake things back at me.
And the things they shake are weird and frightening to me.
I believe twerking is the new krumping
Have you ever seen a dog mark its territory?
Similar thing.
Maybe invest in some carrier pigeons?
I played a bit of Final Fantasy XIV last night. Not too sure what to think of it.
– The game sure is pretty but doesn’t it ever capitalise on it, well not yet atleast. Haven’t encountered any breathtaking views.
– No voice acting is a little painful, especially for the “main” quests which involve so many pages of dialogue. “Side quests aren’t too bad because they have a chat box or two of text which is perfectly fine for no voice acting.
– The story is so boring and slow, I spent most of my few hours playing running back and forth between quest givers.
– The map is just clunky as hell. I just sat there motionless for what seemed like hours trying to figure out where I am ment to go.
– Spellcasters are boring, for me atleast it’s the same problem I had with WoW. I have to stand perfectly motionless to cast spells. Just makes combat so damn boring.
The game makes me want to start playing GW2 / TOR again. I liked those MMO’s.
So far I’m liking it, but I think it’s cause I generally get invested in an RPG’s story so all the text is fine for me (so far, at least).
Combat as a lancer looks really nice, but there’s so far been no requirement for movement. I mean, I can, but I haven’t really needed to a la GW2.
I’m used to the map now, but it took a lot longer than it should have. Biggest issue was that many icons (including quest stuff) are all the same colour scheme as the background of the map…
I think I really need to give the game more time to make a proper assessment, and considering I’ve put in like 2 hours the starting stuff is a little slow. Still, time will tell.
I also like a story, as far as I can tell so far it’s “You are an adventurer, now do this quest! Why? Because we told you too!”
Pretty much every MMO in history can be broken down to that if you wanted to. FFXIV actually has a great story, and it’s made even more interesting because it takes the whole failure of 1.0 and rebirth of FFXIV into it as well.
SW:TOR had awesome starter / story quests.
The parts where it has referenced the calamity (Correct term? Might just be channelling FFVII…) has put a smile on my face.
Yeah it’s kind of funny. The real world failure of FFXIV 1.0 being referenced as an in-game event.
Oh yeah, the player story so far has done nothing, I meant the overall story, lore, etc. 😛
Fair enough, no characters have really interested me aswell. I admit, the story is interesting but the whole “everyone got a sudden case of Amnesia” is a bit to “daytime television” for me.
I think the “holy shit the moon exploded wait is that a dragon aaaaaaaah” thing helped that part along.
Try starting in Limsa Lominsa, maybe? I found the Gridania starting quests to be pretty bland. Ul’dah was the most interesting in 1.0, but I haven’t checked that out in 2.x. Regardless of where you start, your beginnings will always be very humble.
The piratey/merchant navy theme of Limsa Lominsa appeals to me, even if the local police force has the most ridiculous yellow uniforms. Also, I have a serious thing for seaside cliffs, with hidden grottos and water-worn towers of rock standing alongside the white-stone spires of man. Gridania’s generic fantasy forest theme bored me to tears, and I’ve always kind of hated deserts.
Though from memory, Ul’dah’s barren dirt plains and mountain ranges offered the best opportunities for, “Woah,” moments of vista-appreciation.
I feel like such a prick sometimes.
My mum called me in tears that her whole department is being made redundant and has to reapply for their job back. The only catch is know there are half as many jobs. She has worked in her job for 20+ years. 20 years at one company, she is amazing at her job too. I dislike a lot of things about how she behaves but she is a fantastic employee.
I sit here at a cushy job typing this message because we have no work on, getting paid so much more than i feel i deserve. I constantly fight a internal battle in my head to quit and find something else despite actually liking the work. I want to quit sometimes because i am too much of a coward to stand up for myself properly.
Now my mum has a chance of losing the only thing she has ever known. While i sit here talking to friends and being lazy. The unfairness of the world around us makes me sad.
If you like your job, then hold onto it. The fact that your mum was dealt a shitty hand shouldn’t mean you give up on yours. I know that sounds a little mean, and that’s not my intention, but it’s true.
The best thing you can do right now is to be a positive influence for your mum. Or threaten to beat up her boss unless she gets her job back.
Probably the first one.
Im pretty tough.
Its not like i want to give up on it, i am just ill equipped at this moment to deal with difficult people. The fact that i sit in a office with two “difficult” people just makes it hard sometimes.
thanks rize, you are a good guy. a great guy. 🙂
WHO SAID THAT? I’LL KILL THEM!
They obviously mistook you for another rize. =P
Seduction is a much more powerful tool than violence. Just saying.
Rockets, stop being a spaz. Feel bad for your mum and offer support but you don’t need to change your entire life for it.
I do tend to spaz out, don’t I?
Sorry to hear about your mum’s job. Something similar happened to my mum last year. She ended up getting one of the remaining jobs but is now doing almost double the work she used to… six day week too. D:
🙁 yeah it sucks a bit but shes capable has experience and qualifications and is a people person. even if she does lose her job she will fall on her feet. Just stress i guess.
Oh gd i talked myself into a situation where it isnt that bad. God damn it Daniel. 🙂
That’s the world I’m afraid. My last role I had to re-apply for my position as it was going from a contract to permanent and I ended up without a job because someone else from another state, let alone another company, got my job because they interviewed better. I was interview by my supervisor, someone else I work with and a generic HR person who thought I was too casual in my interview so didn’t give me the job even though I’d been doing it, and doing it well, for the previous 12 months. All she can do is prepare for it well, give off an air of confidence, but not over-confident, and act as if she was applying for a new job needing to impress the recruitment people.
You asked for more work? If you like the work then ask for more duties if you’re running out of things to do. Don’t give off the air that you have nothing to do though 😛
There aint no more duties to do I’m afraid. I work in a service centre, if their isnt things to fix we got nothing to do.
But thanks for the perspective, i know she will be okay.I just worry about everything and try and fix everyones problems. Sometimes i have to take a step back and realize i cant do that.
RAYMAN LEGENDS! TOMORROW! WII U! WOOOOOOO!
Got 9/10 on Game Informer too.
Ye-Yeah, th-that is awesome.
*Looks at VITA*
*Runs off crying*
Wii U, Nobs. Wii U!
I’m tempted to buy 2 copies. One for WiiU tomorrow then one for VITA when it’s released.
That’s a plan I can get behind! 😀
One day the Wii U will have a game I want.
One day.
If only you’d accept Pikmin 3 into your life. :'(
Next year get Mario Kart! I call Diddy! @sughly’s Birdo! @powalen is Toad!
Meh. Haven’t enjoyed a Mario Kart since 64. Mario and his pals don’t do a lot for me.
I’ll be pretty happy when Bayonetta 2 comes out.
No way could you have tried Double dash then, since its the greatest
I have. Did not care for it.
But you guys are pals in spite of this! Beautiful, really! :’)
Ahhh! I think nintendo just isnt your thing
😀 Double Dash Buddies
That was one of my favourites, me and jimu used to team up on 1 kart, took some getting used to but once we’d worked it out we were unstoppable, i liked how the passenger could take swipes at the opposition and it would slide you sideways, we used it as emergency banana dodge. So much fun and the best character selection of any of the Kart games IMO 😀
forrealsies. Everything about it felt right, the look, the difficulty and rubber banding, the weapons and levels and characters. Theyve all been a bit too hand holding since that one
yeah, mirror mode in that was punishing, but in the “I’m going to beat you if it kills me” kind of way. So rewarding
LUIGI!
dibs on Dry Bones if they include him in this one, if not Wario.
I will never understand how a creature that ovulates from it’s face has continued to feature in games. Seriously is one of my most hated characters ever,
And what’s with that Meow Meow sound it makes. XD
….just… what’s with it…
GAME OF THE YEAR!
morning all!
so not sure if anyone else here is into this sort of stuff, but thought id post it anyways.
so I’ve been playing through some old N64 games that i never got around to back in the day (mainly going through Zelda OOT, Zelda MM, Mario 64, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Conkers Bad Fur Day so far, others to follow).
So anyway, playing all these on an emulator at present (Project 64 2.1) and they look awesome…
but then i found some Zelda HiRes Texture packs… and man they look incredible. Spent most of yesterday setting it all up due to some crashes, but the end result is awesome.
check out some screens. and remember that this is the N64 Rom.
http://www.emutalk.net/threads/53556-Merry-Xmas-OOT-2011-and-MM-2001
Dang.
That’s pretty.
For some reason the high-res images of 64 games always irk me. I don’t know what it is, something about them just doesn’t seem right.
It makes everything sharper and highlights the low polygon count.
if it’s not fuzzy and pointy it’s not 64 😛
since you’re playing 64 games, check out “Blast Corps” if you never played it, great concept I always wished it’d get a sequel
yeah that ones on my secondary list!
Still waiting for next week and Rome 2 to come out. Tuesday can’t come quick enough
Also getting hyped up immensely for the new Ayreon album. Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman and Jordan Ruddes all appearing on the same album? Pure awesome. Any prog fans around?
Not really related but I don’t think I’ve seen you post in TAY.
HELLO!
I usually don’t have the time to go through TAY, but taking the plunge today 🙂
oh I really need to enter that competition, does anybody know when it closes?
Welcome to TAY, that’s a paddling
Haven’t been posting much this week. Was clearing my head. Doesn’t seem to be working, so screw it… resume normal posting… NOW…
*circles the wagons*
ARCADE FIRE!
ADVENTURE GAMES!
COLOBUS MONKEYS!
BUILDINGS!
DAVID CAGE’S HACKERY!
Remember that time we saw Kick Ass 2 and you were awesome! You’ve changed! What happened? 😛
I didn’t get invited to see Kick Ass 2 with you guys. Why do you hate me?
You didn’t invite me to your kick ass party so I had my own one with hookers and blackjack.
Except I couldn’t afford any hookers so had to settle for @dc, who didn’t know how to play blackjack.
@freezespreston Now I kinda wanna do a low-key meat somewhere like the Vic with cheap booze and a deck of cards. Play poker with a bucket of m&ms or something, learn new card games and dick around for a couple hours.
That actually sounds pretty awesome.
@freezespreston Well I don’t know about other folks, but next week is a pay week for me, so I say pull the trigger.
Sunday September 8th, 2pm seems like plenty of notice. The Vic does ‘Small Change Sundays’ with $3 steaks (+$2 chips/salad, $1 sauce) if folks get hungry. I’ll supply the cards and m&ms. Trusty @dc ! Wanna do roll call?
@sughly, @strange, @freezespreston, @transientmind, @virus__, @sernobulus, @gutsoup, @jimu, @dkzeitgeist, @beardymcmuttonchops, @lambomann007, @welbot
@enduwolf
So fast. This @dc guy is pretty awesome, hey?
I’m known for my quickness.
…
Sounds good!
Sounds cool, keep me in the loop.
Can’t sorry, son’s birthday party
QUICKNESS COMMENT
>:O!
Yay! @dc is back!
No more varmints will get to the wagons anymore!
What’s up man? Anything particular causing you stress?
Stress is my natural state of being. I’ll always find something. 😛
Well, you were missed. If that helps at all?
It does! 😀 Hope you’re well? What’s new?
Not a lot. Do you have Wonderful 101? You should get Wonderful 101.
My sister bought it after loving the demo, to be honest the demo kind of dampened my enthusiasm for the game. XD Haven’t played it.
I now own a pair of jeans — the first since I was about 2-3 years old.
I still don’t understand the appeal.
I usually wear them when going outside because apparently not wearing pants in public is “unacceptable”. It’s not my fault I have to walk past a school to get to the shops!
You idiot. Those aren’t jeans. They’re jeggings.
That said you do look pretty delish in them.
LOL MORAN. THERE JORTS!
Or are they Jeankinis?
My mind went here for some reason
Oh damn, CHECKMATE! I admit defeat.
I refused to wear jeans when I was growing up (the only time I did was when I had an, ahem, ‘accident’ in primary school) until I was about 19 or 20. Blue jeans to me just look scruffy as hell and still do. Today though I wear black jeans, but still get annoyed that they aren’t as comfortable as led to believe. Unfortunately, cargo pants are looked down on when going out, damned society
You’re like my doppelgänger — nearly identical, though I’ve made it to 22 and didn’t have any accidents in primary school… that I can recall. 😛
I owned my first pair of jeans after I started working for Telstra. Before that it was just tracky dacks 😛
Yeah, I bought them because shorts probably reduce my chances of getting a job. 😛
Shorts are never ever considered neat or on-the-job attires. I never wore shorts except for swimming anyway. This is where girls get a fashion advantage, they can wear pants, skirts or dresses (Can be different colours too), what do we get as options… Black pants 😛
That’s not true. We can also wear dark grey and navy blue. Once you get far enough up the ranks, you can even wear tan!
I’d only really wear something with that kind of colour if I was going for a job interview or a major presentation with GMs and above attending or something.
I wear shorts to work. Tradies wear whatever. As long as its high vis.
BTW fuck high vis
Awww, don’t worry — I’m sure you would look fabulous in these high vis shorts!
The trick is finding that special pair that feel amazing. For me, it’s Just Jeans.
I read the first sentence without reading the rest of this conversation and my brain went ‘TESTICLES’.
Then I was like… oh. lel.
NON-CONTEXT TAY WHY OH WHY DOESN’T THE REPLY FAIL HAPPEN FOR THESE ONES.
I only ever buy jeans which come in boot cut. Anything else looks weird on my freakishly large calves. And boots, I guess.
In the last couple years, NO-WHERE SELLS BOOT-CUT ANYMORE. Just Jeans does, so that’s where I go. Sadly they’re always more expensive than Target and other places I used to find perfectly serviceable boot-cut jeans.
Two for $100. It could be worse. Diesel, G-Star cough cough.
What long pants are there other than jeans though? At least other than tracksuit pants and pants for a suit or something.
Trousers or moleskins.
The ones I always wear are kinda like suit pants but harder wearing and more comfortable than denim.
Sitting in bed, weighing up whether I wanted to play a little more W101 with the sound turned down (so as to not bother my sister a couple rooms over) or instead switch to playing on the gamepad with my headphones plugged into it.
Only then to realise that once I plugged in my headphones, the game diverted all sound through to there and the TV remained silent! I friggen love this thing.
@dc, kindly stop slandering me on Twitter.
I LIKED Rayman Origins, damn it. I just felt tired when I looked at all the things I’d need to do to 100% it 😛
I bought another copy for my 3DS about a fortnight ago, and will be playing it.
(cc @mcgarnical @doc_what)
NoooOOoooOo! The 3DS version is apparently the worst!
Just give up on the 100% and play through normally, then go back for 100%ness. It’ll be too stressful otherwise!
Easily the worst!
Shane’s a monster, he’ll probably love it! 😛
Well he’s blind now so maybe he won’t notice the blurriness.
I’m not slandering you, my friend. Just have to get the word out that you’re a monster, plain and simple.
Dear @DC.
If Godzilla has taught me anything, it’s that monsters hate buildings.
Regards
Red
I didn’t hate the ’90s Godzilla movie. D:
Dear @dc
That proves you are a monster.
Regards
Red Helsing.
I know, but it feels good to get that off my chest. XD
I think if I watched it now, I would hate it.
But I was, what, fourteen or something when that came out, and I thought it was the best thing ever.
Same deal. Next to Cloverfield, I suspect it won’t look as fun as it was back then.
(Man, I loved Cloverfield. When I went to New York I made sure to see Cloverfield landmarks. XD)
here let this wonderful man regail you with tales of Godzilla
(I’ve been waiting for this chance 😛 shame i noticed hours late)
Ah, fair enough. My only problem was with slander. So, carry on 🙂
Oh god why did you do that, take it back if you can it’s horrible ;_;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVZLAbu6qIw
This guy has the right impression of that movie 😀
Dear Tay
It’s Page Seven.
Letter Writing Page Seven
Your Pen(icl) Pal
Red
Rize
Cheers,
I mean, I can still try, I guess.
What if you can’t write letters properly?
Dear Red,
Reddie Lyk OMFG ROFL rite TTYL Frise
Dear Red.
I totally forgot. Thanks for that!
– TM
Dear TAY,
Kill me now.
I could really do with the tranquility.
Just don’t touch the face.
Love Benny.
Dear TAY,
It has been like what, ten minutes? What the eff? I’m not dead yet. Oh I get it. You must be all like, I don’t do requests huh. Well I’m not feelin’ the serenity yet. Chop chop.
Not so much love this time,
Benny.
I’m on the way, man. Just had to put some petrol in the chainsaw.
I should have put my chop chop joke here instead.
No face huh?
*goes for the crotch*
Yep, I left that one wide open.
That’s what she sa…
Guh, nope, too crude. Can’t do it.
Well, looks like I will have to update GW2.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/guild-wars-2s-16-bit-wonderland-returns-for-world-2/
I’M SO HAPPY I JUST BOUGHT FFXIV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsZmE95t2Yw
Great song. THE NATIONAL. WOOOOOO!
MAN IT’S ALL BEEN FORGIVEN, THE SWANS ARE A SWIMMIN’
Their new album is soooo good. I feel like i dont give them the attention they deserve . Seriously just a amazing band, so underrated, they have no bad songs.
I still haven’t listened to the new album. Just High Violet on constant rotation!
Songs are really layered with meaning too. Sometimes you think it’s about something, then work out its about something else… then next time you listen, something different again! Crazy good!
Another amazing song! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6iYAoMqq0Y
Just don’t comment. Move on. It won’t achieve anything.
*sits in the corner and chews on a crayon*
Someone must be REALLY wrong on the internet for the end result to be crayon-chewing!
Dear TAY,
i just repaired 5 lasers/optical levels in a hour.
Close to my PB which is 7 but alas.
We just had 20 repair jobs come in at once.
I’m a baller in the Laser repair game
Love from
Rocket”rocketman”man
Dear Rockets
Are they lasers that attach to sharks?
*Dr Evil little finger thing*
Red
Dear Red,
While you could attach them to sharks heads
it wouldn’t be much use unless it wanted to find a level
Rocket “hotross”man
Dear Saturn V
Sharks have many uses for finding levels I’m sure
Regards
Not actually a Marine Biologist.
Dear mad primary colour,
All our Lasers are waterproof.
Regards
Rocket “coolarooinie” man
Got Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang recording to my DVR right now. I hate RDJ but I remember folks said I should watch this. (@bdkiaf? @dkzeitgeist, maybe? *shrugs*)
dude its one of the best Robert Downing Jnr movies.
if i remember correctly i didnt want to watch it then @jordi made me and i was like BWOAAAAAR THIS IS CRAZY GOOD.
He better not play a smug jerk of some variety. 😛
YEah no, it wouldn’t be very good if he was playing anything else.
I was probably on the list of people who recommended it.
@sughly thinks it’s overrated. In this case, Sughly is wrong.
Sughly is rarely wrong! He makes adventure games!
That makes him better than us!
he is indeed.
Dear Blaghs
Sughly thinks Deckard is a replicant, so…
Seen things you wouldn’t believe
Red
Nahhhhh, its just a mess of over the top supposedly funny situations ending in even more of a mess. Woo, hilarious.
Shhh. Shhh.
Just accept your wrongness. It’s okay. You should be used to it by now.
Dear @sughly
I thought Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was an enjoyable hardboiled genre pastiche.
I thought it both embraced and made fun of genre conventions. I also enjoyed the performances, particularly from RDJ, Val Kilmer, and Michelle Monaghan.
I respect your opinion on film, but I disagree with your judgment in this instance.
Regards
David Stratton.
Dear @dc
You should definitely watch this film. Val Kilmer’s finest.
Russian Roulettin’ Red.
Put me on the list of people who don’t recommend it.
I really thought I would enjoy it, but I didn’t. It felt messy, they even start a self-aware narration style that I found interesting, but they seem to forget about it halfway through the movie.
I love that movie. Also RDJ. DC you are a monster.
Unless you like the movie. Then you can be ok.
Dear TAY.
So that FFXIV is a pretty cool guy, hey?
Don’t look at me like that, I know I said I’d wait a couple months for things to be sorted, but all the classes I thought would be missing are there, and the servers have been way more stable than I thought they would be.
Anyway, if I don’t talk to y’all, that’s probably what I’m doing. It’ll be sad not PayDaying when it’s brand new and has the most randoms available and friends still care about it, and I know I still haven’t finished Shadowrun Returns, but the heart wants what it wants. Which is the shittiest excuse ever for saying I want what I want and will pursue it.
Ever a slave to whimsy,
Transientmind.
I think Slave to Whimsy should be your new username, atleast for the day.
Might give it another go tonight, make a new character. Maybe an archer ohhh actually I think I will go a monk.
I had a single reference in the tutorials to fist fighting and got a strong urge to make one.
OH YEAH, that’s why: apparently it has a heavy focus on combos. Made me immediately think of Tifa/Zell’s limit break.
I’m playing a Pugilist (about half a level away from unlocking Monk). It’s a fun class. Here’s what you need to know:
– It has an enforced combo system. The other melee classes have a simpler combo system where you get bonuses to certain abilities if they’re used after other ones, but Pugilist is actually fixed in what you can use at any time. You have stances 1, 2 and 3 (I can’t remember what they’re called). Your basic attack can be used at any time and puts you into stance 1, which then allows you to hit stance 1 attacks which will change you to 2, then you can do stance 2 attacks which put you to 3.
– Early on you have a simple 1-2-3 combo and a damage-over-time ability which you want to open fights with and refresh when it wears off.
– Later on you get alternative abilities that you need to work in. Eg. I have a second stance 1 ability which provides a damage boost for about as long as it takes to get through 2 combo rotations and re-cast it.
– You don’t have any burst damage. Other classes can unload and do much more damage in a short period. Your damage is sustained over time and is at its best when you’re wailing on a boss that doesn’t move. You still need to move, though – one of your primary damage abilities does 5% extra from behind, and the rest do extra from the flank, so ideally you need to reposition yourself when doing each combo sequence.
– The class is balanced with the assumption you’ll get your rotation perfect, maintain your debuffs and buffs and move into position correctly. On fights with lots of movement or target changes or where you might be interrupted by something, you will quickly fall behind other classes.
If you want a simpler melee damage class to play then you’d want the lancer. Archer or Thaumaturge have probably got the highest damage output at the moment but with the server loads what they are it’s hard to kite. Also way easier to play with ranged classes at the moment, especially archer, because of competition for quest mobs. Melee classes have to run into range then do at least 30% damage (often impossible for Pug due to low burst and like 20 people attacking the same mob) or be first to tap the mob to get counted. Ranged characters esp. Archer which has instant attacks will usually be able to tap mobs before everyone else.
More @strange, more of the time!
More @dc more of the time.
You don’t wanna open that Pandora’s Box!
@shane: I’m not sure you know this but Supanova is on in November in Brisbane. I propose you visit for the weekend, sell some books, go to a few meats… what do you say?
No way.
Way!
On the weekend while waiting for Freeze I stood next to a One Direction poster for the better part of 70 minutes. Never had so many girls look my way. XD
Dear DC
This seems like a viable strategy. You ladykiller you.
Yours
Red
Could have been worse.
Finished Attack of the Friday Monsters last night. Fantastic game! I really enjoyed it. It’s not very long, but it doesn’t overstay it’s welcome (and honestly would’ve been pretty bland if they tried to drag it out). Pretty good for a $10ish download game I think. I’ll have to check my Activity Log, but I’m guessing it’s about 4hrs long?
I’ve still got a post-game mission thing to do so that’s the plan for tonight.
I’ll have to try and find if there’s a soundtrack available as well. Gotta add it to my rotation! Loved it.
Great news-I was weirdly excited for this game.
Hmm if I don’t have a 3DS by then maybe I can play it on your 3DS on the road trip to Canberra and back 🙂
Saw this thing about the Challenger explosion yesterday. Reminded me of going to the Kennedy Space Center and seeing the mirror to space they built as a memorial. :'(
Any one been to the Kennedy Space Center? So much history there.
Long time ago. I was 11.
Most of what I know about the Challenger explosion, I learned from Farscape :\
Watch this weeks ep of The Newsroom. Will McAvoy schools us!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xhIX4qr9JI
Cloverfield’s end credits music is amazing. I love Michael Giacchino’s stuff.
Everyone knows what a sucker i am for music, i like/or can listen to nearly any song or band and not hate it. There are obviously exceptions (FUCKING @TRJN BROKE ME WITH THIS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8F5YSA1Oz0 ) but usually i am fine with listening to modern pop music or top 40, even if i like to listen to other stuff if given the chance. Now a lot of these songs are pretty okay as a catchy pop tune that makes you feel happy. The problem i have though is where a “new” song (read: 6 months old) song starts getting too much airtime. i posted this song for people 7 months ago when i was in Sydney because i like alot of dance music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxxstCcJlsc now i have heard this song 4 times today already. seriously how in 4 hours do you need to resort to replaying the same song 4 times?
/end rant
I went to click that first link, and as my mouse was over it my subconscious overrode me and forced me to stab myself with a pen knife. Thank christ I didn’t go down that rabbit hole.
its pretty fucking terrible. it hurts my soul.
\o/
I sometimes get into the hole of having to listen to one song on repeat. but not for four hours.
I do have a problem with overplaying. – I find it becomes less of a problem as other songs overtake it.
Also – @trjn, That is truly terrible.
I remember when Strip Subs were actually strip subs. Then they turned into ‘Rippas’ and are the same thing, but now in a pissy roll like the ones you get from the supermarket and bake at home.
#old enough to remember when Big Macs used the same buns as Quarter Pounders and weren’t the microscopic abomination they are now
Apparently that is only in Australia.
source: I used to hate myself and work at mcdonalds.
I remember the cardboard ring plus wrapper that the burgers used to have.
I REMEMBER NON-BIODEGRADABLE STYROFOAM CONTAINERS.
Dear @ynefel
#oldmancody
Regards
The damn kids on your lawn.
Big Macs are a waste of time these days.
They may as well come in packets like M&M’s
Anyone else notice the image displayed when calibrating a 360 gamepad in FFXIVARR has the left stick and d-pad transposed?
Also @markserrels – no talk-amongst-yourselves tag on TAY this week!
(I sometimes use http://www.kotaku.com.au/tags/talk-amongst-yourselves/ to get to latest TAY, and was pretty confused as I thought I kept misclicking the wrong one.)
There has got to be a better way to shorten Final Fantasy Fourteen A Realm Reborn.
FFXIV-2
I like the ARR.
It’s piratey. Arr!
I’ve just gone back to FFXIV.
Just FFXIV. The assumption is you’re meaning the new one because the old one literally does not exist any more.
Well, if you wanna be all sensible about it and skip the opportunity for piratey fun… Y’arr.
I believe it’s based off this:
http://ironhammers.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/final_fantasy_controller_web-550×448.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtl0aQCauJA
:’)
Oh man, I love Arcade Fire. The best I can do in an elevator is avoid making eye contact with myself in the mirror. XD These guys are so damn awesome.
Ok, now it’s Neon Bible in an elevator time.
That took a while! D:
Platform check: GTA V.
GO!
PS3! Bike gang! And free multiplayer that will enable bike gang!
YES
Bikes
PC. Maybe.
360
PS3 yo
Probably PS3 initially.
I’m probably not going to multi on consoles either way, that’s what PC is for. :/
PS3 yo
360
SR4
THAT’S NOT A PLATFORM
Eventual submission to the Master Race.
I likes me some PC gaming, but what about Red Dead Redemption? In my top five games of this generation and not on PC. :'(
It will come. Soon. SOON. Or maybe not soon, but eventually.
Even the N64 games have come to PC now. (Through the powah of EMULAT0RZ.)
All the same, I caved and got Red Dead on 360.
360.
PS3.
Main gaming platform for me so there’s no other choice.
“When there’s only one candidate, there’s only one choice!”
PC.
360. PC release hasn’t been confirmed, has it?
Nope. Maybe a GTA V Red Dead PC two-pack?
SOLD!
BRB changing pants
PS3 :DD
Nothing. Skipping until its cheap and all the ports are available because fuck playing that game on an antiquated console.
PS3.
360, don’t even own a PS3 unfortunately.
PS TRIPLE YO.
PS3 and PC version in a Steam Sale next year
We should make a drinking game for that controller poll thingy.
Every time someone mentions the DS3 d-pad, take a drink. Then cry.
I don’t get why people keep bringing it up. Modern games rarely use the d-pad for more than item swapping.
Any excuse to get drunk, @trjn? I’m worried, man. D:
Get drunk
BOARD GAMES \o/
???
Profit
Normally I would upvote this, but you always make excuses not to come to board games.
But I might be able to come to this one!
What was the deal? A slurpee, gummi bears…something else…
Big working man throws money at his friends until they stop bothering him with their friendship 😛
Vodka gummi bears are awful, by the way.
You know how when a dead person bloats when they’ve been discarded in a body of water?
Same thing.
Except less tasty.
I can’t remember, so I’ll just say yes.
But what was the something else?!
A lap dance?
@trjn
That doesn’t sound like something I’d say, but…
Plus the 360 d-pad was fixed like three years ago.
In a limited edition controller that I don’t think is available any more. The ‘standard’ controllers you still get with 360s now still have the broken old d-pad design.
Also the ‘fixed’ version didn’t really fix the problem so much as mitigate it slightly.
Isn’t the new d-pad standard now? I’ve bought two or three controllers that have the adjustable d-pad.
The change certainly address the issues I had with it, which were limited anyway because like Trjn said, it’s really only for item swaps and similar these days. It’s not really an integral part of the control scheme.
Nope, I bought a slim less than a year ago.
Same old shithouse dpad 😀
It’s an issue for me, purely because I emulate. Though recently I’ve taken to using a Wii Classic Pro, which isn’t perfect but it’s way better than the 360 controller I used to use for it.
*drink*
I use it for 2D games (hey @jimu)and fighters (I prefer the D-Pad over a fight stick even). So yeah. The D-Pad is kind of important to me.
Yeah but maybe the lack of d-pad use is because the 360’s is so fucking terrible that no one can accurately map important controls to it?
Or because the function of the d-pad was primarily movement which was stripped away from it after the advent of 3D gaming where the analog stick was superior. Thus the 360 controller had a bad d-pad because MS decided it wasn’t important any more :p
Analog stick sucks whenever you need precision. Fine for shooters I guess. :\
I use the dpad heaps, any menus and fighting games and anything on a 2D plane.
JRPGs- lots of menu navigation, dpad 🙂
Only in Japan.
dafuq?
*puts hands on hips*
“Oh Japan!”
*Shakes head*
*Canned laughter*
Carole King and James Taylor are pretty awesome separately, but together… HOLY DAMN.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIMJBDj_JkE
So awesome.
@transientmind
No can do on the 8th. Wedding anniversary weekend.
This guy spent an important anniversary date hanging out with me on Saturday. XD
I haven’t got in trouble (yet) so ill assume she has forgotten as well (like hell she did).
Awh, that’s a shame. We’ll have to go drinking the week after, too. 🙂
You guys should play Liar’s Dice. I spent a crazy amount of time playing that in Red Dead. Ah, Thieve’s Landing. That takes me back.
I just so happen to have a bag full of dice. That’s a brilliant idea. Also, the Witcher’s dice-poker game. Video-gaming bar games, people!
And if someone has to leave during the game and says they’ll need to mosey… could truly be the best day evah!
Whenever I feel down, this never fails to cheer me up! XD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-WAhdvygpE
(Last YouTube link for the day, I promise. I know I’ve been posting a lot of ’em.)
http://www.teamfortress.com/tf01_ring_of_fired/
TF2 comic from the TF2 guys. This is awesome
oh wow. amazing.
I guess this heralds a new big patch.
Edit: Oh, the blog post says it’s not tied to an update, but then, they say a lot of things…
Oh boy, I can’t wait for the big unemployment patch! lining up at government offices to receive government benefits! Instead of killing each other you kill yourself with shots of grain alcohol you got from that seedy farm because you were desperate to get booze of any kind as a teenager to get approval from your peers!
Speaking of alcohol, I rather like this line.
The #imvotingliberal hashtag is hilarious.
It started out as an LNP campaign thing and then got co-opted by Labor people bashing the Coalition before Americans came along and decided to make it about Obama. There are people on both sides of the spectrum from US and Aus making a complete clusterfuck.
This is fun.
Begone with your politics.
Nope. We’re here to pollute your last social network as punishment for quitting twitter.
How about that debt to GDP, amirite?
It’s not politics, it’s comedy gold!
The libs will still get their trending hashtag and crow about it everywhere.
I can only hope that the internet is able to morph it into a #IVotedFOrKodos hashtag.
If you’re wondering, there is a lot of twirling towards freedom.
…we must move forward, not backward! Upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!
I haven’t seen that episode in so long — I started laughing at your comment and then coughed a mouthful of corn chips into the cup of juice I’d just poured after feeling dehydrated.
Worth it.
Basic Campfire for Warchief.
Oh god that is fun, must stop reading
#imvotingliberal because for those who’ve come across the sea we’ve boundless plains to share.*
*conditions apply
#imvotingliberal so that my Internet will be too slow to load Andrew Bolt columns.
#ImVotingLiberal because I kinda like that dark skinned, free healthcare giving, poor people helping, greed shaming, socialist Jesus.
I love the last hashtag. Vote out all Democratic scum.
Guess this guy loves his communism.
Apparently they are not christian but really love certain parts of the new testament
for anyone who loves music
About a month ago a customer came in with a brand new BMW X6 wanting a non transponder key to take to the beach. I did my usual and warned her that keeping a proper key in the car would void any insurance she had. She got really antsy with me, started claiming she was a lawyer and I’d better just cut the key like she wants or there would be consequences. Whatever, I tried. I cut the key and off she went.
Not 10 mins ago she turns up in my shop. Her car got stolen from the beach and was found irreparably damaged with the key in the ignition. Her insurance company refused to pay. She seems to think that because I sold her the key I’m responsible and that I owe her $140 000.
I laughed at her and told her to leave before I call security to make her leave.
So wait, she had a spare key for the car in the car? /o\
You can’t get most modern keys wet. So what people do is get one that will only unlock the door and leave the proper key in the car. Thing is these new higher end (even some low end ones) have keyless systems so anyone that breaks in wont trip the alarm or even have to find the key. Just push the start button. And I haven’t come across a car I couldn’t open in under 30 seconds. And that’s being careful not to damage anything, a consideration most thieves aren’t too worried about.
I always thought those keycard transponder systems were a crock of shit and now I know for sure.
Freeze, I hope any day now you get a call from the Academy. Soon.
Starfleet Academy!
This is the best story ever.
I read that as a new “BMX” and was confused the entire rest of the story 😛
It was a pretty awesome BMX.
Bikes
Just discovered that one of my favourite high school teachers is running for the Senate. This guy’s encouragement is what made me start writing what would eventually turn into The Lesser Evil.
I owe him a lot; I can spare him a vote 🙂
And he’s running in a sensible party.
When I print out my mile-long below the line senate ballot I shall remember this.
Did he teach you how to pun? If so, he might be history’s greatest monster!
M*A*S*H is what taught me how to pun.
Hawkeye. *shakes fist*
If the puns keep up just remember that suicide is painless.
#darkevenforme:S
It brings on many changes… or so I’ve heard.
…
Hey TAY, have I mentioned lately that you guys are all pretty rad? 🙂
I can get behind a candidate that admits he listens to old school hip hop!
Good for you. I just… I want to vote for people, you know? Not parties. I wish things didn’t work the way they do.
When I was a kid, I had democracy explained to me as: A bunch of people have beliefs. They stand up and say what theirs are, and everyone votes for the person whose beliefs are closest to theirs. Then that person goes and represents everyone in that area. Put enough of those together, and you’ve got a pretty rough representation of beliefs.
But that’s not how it works. Conscience votes and buying support, compromising on bills and doing deals to pass tangential things, voting for parties – red vs blue vs green vs fuckoff you’re not welcome here and can’t make a difference.
And to make matters worse, all the social stuff gets lumped in with the financial stuff, so if you think one approach to economics is better than the other, you better hope those people feel the same way about social policies as you do… wait, they don’t? Guess you’re fucked, who you gonna vote for now? The moron who shares your ideals on social freedoms, but thinks the solution to foreign debt is printing more money and hoping no-one notices you just paid them in monopoly money?
I walk past a discarded newspaper and see two assholes’ smug faces on it, and I think, people have fought, cried, bled and DIED for the right to vote, and THIS is what we have to show for it?
Few things depress me as much as an election. 😛
So how ’bout that erection!
#RunningJokes
Good point. 🙂 /End grumpy TM.
It’s Gone now, Thanks D.C.
Bullet Train? Pfft. Tell him to stop living in the past and get with the Hyper Loop.
This is a damn good article on Trent Reznor if you’re a Nine Inch Nails fan.
Side note: 2 more days!
http://www.spin.com/featured/trent-reznor-upward-spiral-nine-inch-nails-spin-cover-september-2013/
What do you call a decomposing whale? Mouldy Dick.
#MissingPageSix
Nope.
That joke’s not your best work. A bit rotten.
I got a haircut today!
Oh yeah?! Which one?!
or alternatively
You going to get your haircut?
Nah, all of them!
Dear Shane
Everyone knows page 7 is where the real value lies.
Yours, and anyone else’s once payment clears
Red.
Rayman Challenges App finishes tomorrow. I’m gonna miss it. :'(
Apparently these Challenges will be available in the main game though now too.
Rayman? Never heard of it. Is this another one of your fibs like “Arcade Fire”?
You know me and my stories!
I like the avant garde one the best!
The ‘e’ is silent… just so you know. D:
Apparently we’ve pissed off the Premier at work.
Huh.
Always a good career move.
Eh, I’m not a public servant.
His robots are! Until they become self aware! D:
SkyNET still not up and running? (I’ve always pictured you working at Cyberdyne Systems.)
..No. No I do not
*programs T-800*
He hasn’t filled out the correct forms yet…
Oh, hey, it’s the advance scout robot!
At your service 🙂
Your target is @dc.
he knows too much
I’m not worried, Iron Giant taught me every thing I need to know about befriending robots!
You mean Boston Dynamics / DARPA
Good ole’ work puter, i get all the reply fails
Don’t worry, my father managed to piss off the ACT Chief (and Health) Minister so much that it’s had ramifications on his professorship, and what papers he’s allowed to publish, and it’s influenced stuff to the point where on the rare occasions he’s at social gatherings that she’s at, she will resolutely refuse to acknowledge his existence.
It’s not so bad, really. There are worse fates than being ignored by politicians.
I really need to stop swearing so much… It’s kinda rubbed off on me this year.
I can’t believe the price of F1 2013 :l AFAIK the only other game on steam that has such a ridiculous markup is Civ 5 gold edition. $50-$90 from US to AU. It’s cheaper to buy the console version with the extra content from EB than it is to buy the regular PC version on steam! Edit: Even with the current 10% off promotion!
Bah that’s not even a 50% markup
Shift 2: US $20 AU $80
Ruse: US $10 AU $50
Civ 5: US $30 AU $70
The worst percentage wise is actually Anno 2070™ – The Central Statistical Package (DLC)
US $1 AU $8
You can be sure, if you go to http://www.steamprices.com/au/topripoffs
as anyone who follows me on twitter has probably noticed, I like swearing.
though I guess i only use it for punctuation & emphasis. don’t like directing it at people.
point is… swear as much as you like.
I swear like crazy usually too. I tone it down at meats. Sometimes the heart wants what the heart wants and that’s using a certain ‘c’ word.
Camera?
Call of Duty.
Cthulhu?
C*** of D***
I like how it looks more obscene when censored.
I would play that game; C*** of D***, I mean, not C*** of D***
I worked with tradies for 5 years in the bush where no one could hear us,
I developed a terrible swearing habit, I kind of stopped noticing until i started office work again, now I have to try and be all polite and stuff.
Aha my friend is a bit of a farm boy and has some bogan in him, so swearing is pretty much a part of his vocabulary and I’ve kinda picked it up. I didn’t even notice until I was swearing so much in conversation to my mum and she kindly told me to stop it.
CoD 4 onwards had the same markup, I believe.
I’ve toned down my swearing so much since joining TAY.
C bombs all the time, every time in high school.
Hello everyone.
So killer is dead is out today. I could have picked it up if not for bills *shakes fist at bills*
Ooh, me wantee. But I’ll probably wait it out til it ends up in the bargain bin, my 360 queue is terribly terribly long as it is.
Let us know how it is once the bills go away!
I get paid in a fortnight. So next tuesday it’s mine!
A coworker just had to do a typing tutor program through work. As they came back and wanted to talk about it, another coworker whispered to me, “Pretend they’re talking about their porn debut.”
Learning typist: “It wasn’t very fun, but at least it was over quickly. Pretty basic to start with, they mustly had us doing A, S, and D.”
Me: *twitch* “Jesus. ASD already?”
“Ha, ha. You’ll be proud of me, though, I wasn’t even looking at my fingers! But I still fumbled too much, and it really dropped my speed. My fingers kept slipping into the wrong places. Some of the guys there were much faster than me, too. But it’s not too bad! I didn’t really know what I was doing, but there’s a little man there, and he tells you what to do, shows you how, steps you through. With all those people there, it got me a little flustered – I could see my performance going down, so I just took a bit of a break and came back refreshed. It’s a shame you don’t have to do this, Transientmind. You’re missing all the fun!”
Me, struggling: “Yeah, well. I guess I’m already a pro. Not that I make any money out of it – just do it for fun for myself, do a little for friends to help ’em out if they need it.”
Other coworker, choking: “I… I have to go.”
I vote this guy leader again!
well really it should be the person who told him to pretend it was about porn! 😉
There was more, and so much worse, but I just can’t remember it because I was trying not to explode. It really was bad. Stuff like, “In my first session I managed to get up to 22, but my second session dropped down and I was only doing 17.”
Or, “And you were OK working in a group?”
“I think it’s easier in a group. Just working one on one would be a little weird, especially if the guy was just sitting there, quietly watching me working away the whole time.”
lol i love it when things in life just line up to create awesome moments like that! 🙂
Things got so bad that at a couple moments I had to turn around and actually pretend to work to avoid exploding into laughter.
Solid. Gold.
This is probably the greatest thing I have read all week.
Skipped Page 6, huh ? 😛
I don’t understand how this guy doesn’t grasp the point that I’m saying.
http://imgur.com/Tth34R0
Pretty clear to me.
EDIT: Imgur’d the pic.
I’m getting malware warnings on that link.
Just google image searched, I’m sure there’s others 🙂
Same…
Because you’re wrong?
Nope.
The Dual Shock can be directly linked back to the SNES controller with no dramatic alterations in between.
I have to admit I didn’t click the link and had no idea what you were talking about.
You’re going to do well in the Qld police force :p
We should have seen it coming. @Trjn is rarely wrong, and Freeze is rarely not stirring shit.
Rarely?
The impudence!
Stirring shit? I resent that. I’m simply kick starting a discussion.
YOU’RE WRONG DICKFACE
This is why I generally don’t comment on anything on the internet ever. People have different enough opinions, mannerisms, tones and forms of communicating as is – throw text based communication in the middle of all that and you’ve one giant goal area for miscommunication.
Some of the most frustrating interactions are not with dimwits or trolls, but people who just genuinely misunderstood what I was saying.
I get bored.
Pretty sure Bunny enjoys it 😛
*cough*
https://www.kotaku.com.au/user/ynefel/
😉
But TAY is a separate, non-fucktard area of the internet!
Speak for yourself!
I went to the trouble of screen-capping your comment count, then uploading it to an image hosting page, then realizing that linking your profile would do exactly the same thing, whilst also giving clues in the URL, thus preventing people from really needing to click at all.
I’ve mentioned the IQ thing/giving people thumbs up over the phone, right…
Quick! Lets start discussing politics again!
#ImVotingLiberal is still going strong.
So….um….ah…
How about that…Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party?
I skim-read that as ‘Motor-boating Enthusiast Party.’
@transientmind I’d vote for them.
I know what I’ll be checking out when I get home tonight, just saw a few, holy crap I gotta stop before people find out what I’m sniggering about
Non-fucktard? Whoops.
*leaves*
Oh man, I’m excited about this. Really happy with how it looks.
Took several hours to do, but I think it’s worth it.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oypl0v8x4bihz7z/Page003.jpg
“took several hours to do”
Wanna see what i can do in a few hours?
http://www.themarysue.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/stick-figure.jpg
You didn’t even draw that!
It took me that long to find it
It’s Asher Keddie! Great work Shane.
Colour in my Shane W. Smith funnies? What is this, has the world gone mad?
The looks nice, the only negative comment I would make is that the earring looks odd. It looks 2d or something, maybe it needs some shadowing or rotating or something #noIdeaWhatI’mSaying
Also sorry to say but you have lost the ozcomics weekly drawing contest
http://sphotos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/995975_632113536819824_929028404_n.jpg
Thanks, good advice! I am taking another crack at the shading on that 🙂
Also, I am perfectly willing to concede my OzComics crown.
Is that for the story about that mage who’s in love with the princess (or whatever she was)? Whatever it is, it’s looking good.
Damn, you is artist, son!
EDIT: That was meant to be a response to @pixel_the_ferret_viking
Sorry Shane. 🙂
http://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/party_registration/Registered_parties/
Animal Justice Party – I choose to believe this is a coalition of various animals trying to dispense justice on the wanting.
Coke in the Bubblers Party – School would have been a whole lot more fun.
Help End Marijuana Prohibition Party – Geddit? Hilarious? Hmm. Must have to be stoned.
Outdoor Recreation Party (Stop The Greens) – A party whose entire platform is being contrarian to another party? Ha. Who has every heard of that? *avoids eye contact with the LNP*
Pirate Party – Yarr!
Smokers Rights Party – We demand to be able to smoke in children’s playgrounds!
Socialist Party – We’re not the Socialist Equality Party. We swear!
Socialist Equality Party – We’re not the Socialist Party. We swear!
The 23 Million – Wow. With 23 million members their strike rate for seats is abysmal.
The Wikileaks Party – We’re going to expose every secret about ourselves to everyone because who needs international relations right?
Alright I’ve had my fun.
Ah, Wikileaks party.
Still less nutso than the Palmer and Katter parties.
Then you realise the Citizens Electoral Council is on that list…
THE QUEEN IS A LIZARD PERSON!
I get every issue of their newsletter. It’s the greatest thing I have ever read.
I’m disappointed I’ve got no minor party electoral spam. other than Nick Xenophons.
The CEC used to occasionally hang out in Post Office Square in Brisbane handing out flyers while holding up ridiculous signs.
The first thing on their website is basically a piece defending the American politician that founded them. In the “he’s not crazy, the evil liberal media just tried to make him look that way” sense.
Not a single person connected to them is under 60.
The guy who brought a noose out at a science talk was.
Everything I get from them is usually about the British Royals and the worlds major banks being in cahoots to wipe out 9/10 humans on the planet.
Not sure how that benefits the banks since its 9/10 of their profit sources but I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt on it I guess.
The best thing is its not even email spam. It’s a poorly xeroxed piece of paper they drop off to the shop every month. It’s fantastic.
Didn’t you know? The internet is controlled by the Royal family as a way to subdue the populace.
Socialist Equality Party – We’re not the Socialist Party. We swear!
“We’re the People’s Front of Judea. Judean People’s Front? Pff!”
“What happened to the People’s Popular Front?”
“He’s over there.”
“SPLITTER!“
That’s exactly what I was thinking at the time 🙂
Dear Tay,
I missed out on page 7.
Sincerely,
‘Lephleph <3
Just seven? I’ve jumped straight to here from 1!
Hey hey, politics, controller preferences and the vidyer
#OnTopic
Just agree with me and you’ll be fine.
Really? I’m just fine disagreeing with you *shrugs*
You’ll be more fine if you agree with me. Dandy even.
Jimu! While you’re here, TransientMind is planning a poker/pub meat for Sunday 8th of September. if you’ve already left I’ll be sure to tell you on twitter. Maybe. If I don’t forget. D:
May be there if poss 🙂
And the 8th is next week, so I’ll be able to put a reminder up when cruel, cruel Monday gives us the consolation of a fresh, unsullied TAY.
My back and forth with Codemasters has got me a “we’re looking into the pricing btw”.
Don’t exactly have my fingers crossed, but we’ll see!
I don’t know what this is about but…
WOOOO!
FORMULA 1!!!
All this policy speak in the leaders debate, but nothing about the harsh environmental issues that I face every day.
End grass deterioration! #ACNL
I just finished Deponia and it’s been fun :D. I’m so bad at point and click games though :/
Although I haven’t seen it, I kept thinking about the movie Elysium since Deponia has a similar sort of thing :P.
RAYMAN LEGENDS!
…in a few weeks. I pre-ordered it from Video Ezy like a year ago and I HOPE they remember and ship it soon :P. Who knows what’s happening with it…
But in the mean time I’ve got Tales of Xillia which is really different from previous Tales games so I’m not sure I like it as much :P. I’m still only an hour in or so but eh! Just feels weird mang and Milla’s voice is the worst. Did I mention Milla’s voice is bad?
#GreeniusGetsBoredSoTypesGameUpdates
PAGE GET!
NOW YOU’RE MORE LIKELY TO BRIEFLY GLANCE AT MY COMMENT WITHOUT READING IT!
GTAV soonish and then Kingdom Hearts HD as well! Aw yiss
Then Pokemon and Wind Waker! AWWE YEAH
POKEMON GONNA BE SO GOOD!
What? Sorry. I wasn’t paying attention.
Going to play Chaos on Deponia next?
This jerk once gifted me Deponia and said something like “HA! Now if you like it, you’ll have to buy the sequel” D:
(I betcha he doesn’t even remember this)
So I did! I’ll play it but maybe not straight after. I’m still playing Sleeping Dogs every now and then and I’ve got a lot of console stuff 😀
I’m kinda into the story now so maybe I will start it! Haha 😀
DAMNIT @BLAGHMAN, NOW I’LL HAVE TO BUY THE THIRD GAME TOO
Unless you wanna… you know 😀
Hahahaha. Don’t be ridiculous.
Woah — talking about games in TAY?
You have all the rest of Kotaku for that nonsense. 😐
I just wanted to be one of the cool kids :'(
It looks very nice, I might actually pick this up if it ever comes on sale. I am also very excited for GTA V. Cannot wait, may just die of excitement.
Wow, it used to be very expensive at fishpond.
http://www.fishpond.com.au/Games/DEPONIA-PC-DVD/5060199420473?utm_source=googleps&utm_medium=ps&utm_campaign=AU&gclid=CN_B27f8n7kCFQYepAod7EIA9A
Haha wtf fishpond!
It’s frequently on sale for $5 on Steam and GOG
Exactly! They stole the name! >:-(
I don’t geddit D:
Well, in Deponia the place where all the rich people live is called Elysium. And all the other people live in the lower planet that’s full of trash.
Which is exactly what happens in the film Elysium. It’s a ‘coincidence’ that the name of the film and the idea of ‘ascending to a better place’ is the same.
Amirite @dc?
See below.
Derpius! 😀
This is what I mean:
http://www.adventuregamers.com/forums/viewthread/1451/
Oh no shit!
I read your comment as “they stole MY name” and I was all: “but I don’t know of a Mike in Deponia, Rayman Legends, Tales of Xillia OR Sleeping Dogs D:”
Milla’s voice is bad but also the actual recording quality on her voice is terrible too. It’s so compressed and clipped that she sounds lispy and stuff. That’s in addition to her being just badly cast.
Never* have I wished so much for an undub or a dual-language DLC option
* probably not true
The quality thing gets me too. I know voice quality was pretty terrible in FFXII and DQVIII, just made it harder to take seriously :'(
(hopefully a HD FFXII fixes that issue :D)
I haven’t been having much luck with online game orders this year.
Three of my last four have had some sort of issue — Dick Smith taking my money and then never sending anything out; new game from EB that was already open and damaged ‘n things were missing; order from ozgameshop that was sent out 16 days ago and hasn’t turned up yet (always turned up within 10 days in the past so I just sent them a message… as it is I’ve had things sent from people in China and the Netherlands through regular mail turn up within 5 working days in this past month, so I hesitate to blame Post).
It’s getting annoying — almost like someone or something doesn’t want me to buy any games. 🙁
The universe is trying to tell you that you should buy me games instead. >.>
Fine, I’ll buy you all the 90’s PPC games you can handle!
How is that a bad thing?
It’s not!
(Unless he doesn’t have a PowerPC-based computer, then it’s a bit cruel)
I think the X1 Day One allocation is all gone — walked past an EB today and saw that they had those signs replaced with “Pre-order a standard edition today!”
Who knows what the allocation was, but (pleasantly) surprised.
(Besides the part where now I wish I’d pre-ordered one so that I could be all smug and elitist and dumb for getting launch hardware)
Day One achievement! WOOOO! (is that still a thing?)
I believe Day One units get a code included for the achievement, yes.
Good to see both platforms are doing well with pre-orders. People must be really excited for a new generation.
So the IEMs I ordered for mum’s birthday? Well, I ordered them Saturday night, and they arrived today.
Holy shit, did the eylandt join the real world for one glorious, fleeting moment?!
I suck at designing websites :l And I have to design the same one twice!
I told Powalen I liked something about his website then he immediately changed it.
Jerk.
Maybe people here could help you and give you helpful feedback?
Indeed!
What sort of website, @benj — purpose and/or what you have in mind at present?
It’s for an assignment for web management. I have to make a website about mammals that would appeal to a year 7 audience. I’ve gone with a yellow background and blue/white for the navigation. I think it works at the moment!
I have to make 2 completely different style sheets though (they’ll be switched around when marked), and nothing that defines the layout/design of the website can be in the html documents, and it’s kinda frustrating me! The problem is that I kinda left it to the last minute, as in it’s due on Friday and tomorrow evening/night is out and I still have 2 other assignments to submit in the mean time 😛
Yellow background? *flashback to Dick Does advertising*
:/
Interesting. Depending on how complicated they expect it to be ‘n how much they expect you to change from one layout to the next, I’d have a clean ‘n sterile-ish stylesheet and then a more vibrant and/or darker one; consistent layout but give people the option of different colour schemes based on their preferences.
So I’d build the site, then when happy I could play around with the original stylesheet to make an alternate — if I felt lazy just changing colours if more was expected then I could go through and change the font (header style/size or all text), change borders (for tables, buttons, etc.), change images, change text alignment and margins, change to or from a fixed-width page, etc.
Lots of options that are really just changing a single number or word to get a different result once it’s set up in the first place. Though I think you’ll do fine given that you already have something in mind for the default layout. 😛
Definitely.
@benj, you should add dancing babies.
And sirens.
Oh and all dividing lines should be on fire.
Oh, so you’re the one who designed Kotaku US? That explains it 🙂
Pfft, I don’t have the time to re-design a site every other week because I couldn’t get it right the first 20 times 🙂
Games you love but everyone else or critics hate: Go.
For me it’s Wolfenstein (2009) and to an extent, Skyward Sword.
Jurassic Park: The Game 😛
Telltales best work
Disaster day of crisis
Ok that’s it, you’ve gotta be the coolest person here.
I’m sorry?
I’m guessing we have rather similar tastes in games.
The best tastes.
I don’t think I’ve run into someone outside of my usual group of gaming buddies who likes Disaster. I got excited for a moment there 😛
Always wanted to get that too. Reminded me of the PS2 game, SOS: Final Escape which i enjoyed despite it playing and looking bad.
It’s a Japanese game making fun of big hollywood disaster movies.
Get a wii and I can lend it to you.
Awesome-I’ll keep looking for a Wii 🙂
Lollipop Chainsaw.
fucking love that game.
Dark void(2010)- I recognise this game has issues and the on foot sections suck but I loved the Jetpack sections and that lifts the whole game for me.
Others:
Princeof Persia(2008)– Easy? Yes, but it’s a different game compared to sands of time trilogy. I like them both.
Far Cry 2 (2009)– This game seems to either be really loved or hated-I’m in the former. I didn’t mind the respawning checkpoints as they gave me something to do. I also really liked the world and fire tech. I should play Far Cry 3 to see how it compares-bought the game day one but I got into a bad gaming rut at the same time which was unfortunate.
Doesn’t fit your criteria but I want to mention it:
Split/second:Velocity(2010) -Game was fantastic and well received but very few people bought it. I do understand the criticisms the game got though-very few tracks, Set piece events became less exciting the more you saw them and the game needed more modes-survival was tense though-those red barrels were scary.
I loved Split/second. So good! No other racing game has had me on the edge of my seat as much as that game.
You’re okay Ben 🙂
That’s not a sentence you hear often!
Seconded with Split/Second. Amazing idea that was executed pretty damn well! There was always a faster way to get around each course, and the game really made you work for those extra tenths (in a good way).
Prince of Persia 08 fan o/
\o
Yes!
It’s not until I started reading TAY that I realised others like the game too.
-Wii games:
de blob. I love the pants off that game, but most others don’t seem to be particularly fond of it.
Red Steel. Everyone seems to complain that it’s buggy and horrible, but I never had any problems with it and enjoyed the whole thing. Also really liked the sequel too.
Deadly Creatures, Mushroom Men, they both seemed to be heard of by all of three people. Oh, the aforementioned Disaster: Day of Crisis.
Ooh! Minon: Everyday Hero. I found it hilarious and fun and it was a good thing Kmart were only selling it for like $15 because it was about 3 hours before I hit the end of it, but I still enjoyed my time with it.
Nobody seemed to like or care about Guitar Hero 6, which was a shame since it turned things around massively from the last couple of entries.
Most of the rest are just ones that people didn’t really care about, not sure any of them got particularly slammed by critics at all.
-DS:
Yoshi Touch & Go
Star Fox Command
Space Invaders Extreme
Dementium: The Ward
Moon
Infinite Space
Aliens: Infestation
Thor
-3DS:
Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars
Resi Evil Mercenaries
Steel Diver
Shinobi
Oh wait, I’ve got a big one:
The Virtual Boy 😛
OMG, space invaders extreme. Loved the crap out of that. Should mention that I bought the sequel.
Oh another one that I really liked was Lux Pain.
And de blob.
I think 40% of my wii collection is these games and quite a few of the DS ones. On 360, I liked Wet too.
Wet was the second game on my must-buy list when I ended up with a 360!
(Brutal Legend beat it for most-wanted non-Nintendo game)
I’ve never heard of Lux Pain before, but I am suddenly intrigued.
Lots of typos but I really enjoyed the gameplay, story and characters.
I’ve always wanted to play Deadly Creatures. The concept just seems great. There’s a bunch of Wii games I want to play too-I bought Red steel 2 and Rabbids go home but I don’t have the hardware.
I’m waiting for a Wii U price drop to make use of its backwards compatibility but I’m thinking it might be cheaper to get a Wii at a pawn shop or something and just play the Wii games because nothing upcoming on the Wii U appeals to me.*
*Announced games so far-there could be awesome Wii U games on the horizon.
Rabbids go home is actually quite hard, don’t be fooled but those adorable things.
Aww, but the Wii U’s getting really good. Like better things already! 😛
But yeah, the Wii is pretty stupidly cheap these days. There’s a billion of them out there, it shouldn’t be too hard to get one for a song.
I think the thing I liked the most about Deadly Creatures was just how it was an unusual method of delivering a story. All this stuff happens, but it’s got pretty much nothing to do with the guys you’re playing as. Also one level in particular just blew my mind but I don’t even know if it’s actually awesome or I just happened to think it was at the time.
I get to pull out my hipster glasses with De Blob, and say that I played it when it was a student projecty thing for the PC!
That’s all I’ve got to add. I have not played any other game on your list.
I get to pull out my hipster glasses and say that I own the soundtrack on vinyl. For both games 😛
I played that too. It was fun.
Closest I guess would be to the same extent as you: Skyward Sword.
There’s also X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which most people agreed was decent, but that I just loved. Sure, it was ridiculously silly, it got kind of repetitive, and all that stuff, but you could watch Wolverine heal himself in front of you. It was rad!
I adored the Wolverine game as well. It was actually far better than the movie.
The level of gore and violence took me by surprise. Was expecting usual toned down stuff but then he jams his claws in that soldiers head with blood spraying everywhere in the intro…
The late title card in the Wolverine game was great.
Every Rune Factory game.
I liked Wolfenstein up until the annoying final boss battle. I thought it was a nice world to play in and had satisfying gunplay. I also enjoyed periodically killing Nazis that patrolled the hub world from time to time.
Resistance 2 – the moments that stuck with me were strolling through the suburbs seeing familys wrapped up in cocoons, even the family dog. Also those eerie radio broadcasts of the announcer slowly losing his mind. The multilpayer was pretty chaotic too.
Its a shame that the first game feels horribly dated these days and the third was a complete let down story and boss battle wise, for me anyways.
Ar Tonelico 2. Despite the absolutely horrid localization that changes characters names to have stupid spellings, loses all the nuance and often times makes absolutely no sense at all, and despite the stupid elements of the game and despite all the technical issues it has like slowdown and the fact the UI elements are distorted by spell effects and stuff, I still really loved that game. The first one was fun enough but 2 is one of my favourite JRPGs ever. Shame everything went to shit and they went full retard with some of the game systems in the third one 🙁
Oh fer feck’s sake.
I’ve spent days trying to figure out why the Internet wasn’t working on my PC. It would connect fine but would run so damn slow that it usually just timed out. Tried talking to my ISP, they couldn’t find a problem. Purchased a new router. Still no luck. Mucked with every setting I could without success.
Needed a spare power point to plug something in so unplugged my headphones. Boom. Internets fixed. Turned out the headphones worked on the same frequency as the wifi and was overpowering the signal.
/o\
Sounds to me like a Conflict of Internet.
I’m still deciding whether to up or downvote that. Keep an eye out.
Upvote, please.
Side vote?
Aka no vote.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Switching to Ethernet may be useful.
Fewer signal interruptions, I’ve found.
The beauty of 5Ghz WiFi is revealed. Too many other devices run on 2.4Ghz, like wireless devices and cordless phones. (Not to mention other people’s wireless networks in the same vicinity) Most routers or wireless access points will let you change the channel it operates on (Usually a choice of channels 1-13) so it doesn’t bump heads with other devices. Still operates on 2.4Ghz, but just puts it up or down in tiny increments so there’s no clashes.
Also, you’re silly for not plugging it in via ethernet and checking that first.
Yo @shane. You catch this when it was on? It’s still on iView if you didn’t, pretty interesting stuff.
Thanks for the reminder, man. Red linked me yesterday while I was at work!
Loading ‘er up now.
Edit: iView not working for me. IE or Firefox. Anyone else confirm?
I just watched ep 2 on Chrome :/
Edit: And now it’s not working.
Nope. Dead here too. Firefox.
I’m currently using iView on Firefox, no issues?
I’m just asking people in Australia for now 😛
Edit: but yeah, it’s working now *embarrassed face* Thanks for the heads-up!
I’M SORRY, I CAN’T HEAR YOU OVER MY SOMEWHAT MORE RELIABLE INTERNET CONNECTION.
Also the immense seas that part us </3
And so, Aleph discovered that spoiler tags were broken, and it dawned upon him why ROT13 had made a resurgence, and life was good.
Amen.
Watched the first episode. It was interesting, but I got too stressed and annoyed watching it. I feel bad for their situation, but at the same time, they’re pretty amazingly unorganised for such a major event :\
These guys are among the most respected in the publishing side of the Australian comics industry, and I might end up working with them one day… but despite that, I still have to say that they didn’t come across as especially professional in that ep.
Yeah, it’s pretty crazy that these guys are some of the most prominent faces in Australian comics yet they’re so poorly organised. That poor girl who didn’t have any comics to sell, in her position I’d have been furious with Wolfgang.
Two episodes of Orphan Black left. Pretty cool little show.
Also finished Star Trek:Voyager last night. That ending sure was lame. Nyfb gur Frira/Punxbgnl guvat xvaq bs nccrnerq bhg bs abjurer naq jnf evqvphybhfyl haoryvrinoyr. Gurer’f mreb punapr fur jbhyq unir pubfra uvz. :F
Ohg Shgher Wnarjnl fnirq gur qnl!
Haha, yeah, you’re right. It wasn’t much of an ending… and I skipped ahead, so I didn’t even have seven seasons of expectations riding on it either! 😛
It really frustrates me when I cannot purchase certain things, either online or in-store. There is an absolute plethora of crap that I do not want staring me in the face, yet I seemingly have to climb mountains to get to the great stuff hidden away.
One of my favourite Asian music CDs is Youjeen’s The Doll. I FUCKING LOVE THE DOLL. Check out Apple for your thoughts for a taste. Along with Hide’s Ja, Zoo; Gackt’s Diabolos and the Oldboy soundtrack just to name a few more. I remember briefly seeing Ja, Zoo on the Aussie iTunes at one point but now it’s gone. Diabolos is there under J-Pop.
Argh.
/rant
I don’t know where I was going with that.
Okay, so I kinda need to make a decision on this soon, and I’m really torn between what to do and would like some advice. I’m gonna rot13 it cos it’s long and personal and shit, but if anyone has any experience with living with other people, I wouldn’t mind some opinions 🙂
V arrq gb svther bhg jurer V’z zbivat arkg lrne. V unir 2 bcgvbaf, zbir va jvgu zl orfg sevraq naq uvf tveysevraq (bar guvat gb abgr vf gurl’er trggvat zneevrq ng gur raq bs gur lrne vs abobql chgf n fgbc gb vg svefg), be zbir va jvgu zl arvtuobhe naq rvgure 1 bs uvf jrveq srznyr sevraqf naq fbzr bgure thl ur xabjf sebz onpx ubzr, be 2 bs uvf jrveq srznyr sevraqf. V pbhyq zbir bhg ol zlfrys ohg zbarl vf na vffhr, naq fgnlvat urer arkg lrne vfa’g rira na bcgvba sbe zr :C
Ertneqvat gur svefg bcgvba, V nyernql fcraq n ybg bs gvzr ng gurve cynpr, jr nyy trg nybat jryy, jr nyy xabj rnpu bguref jrveq unovgf naq qba’g unir n ceboyrz jvgu nalguvat, ohg vg’f uneq gb bireybbx gur snpg gung gurl’er trggvat zneevrq, naq gur ynfg guvat V jnag vf nal grafvba ng nyy orgjrra hf. Gurl obgu jnag zr gb zbir va jvgu gurz gubhtu, naq V guvax gur obhaqnevrf jr unir va cynpr ng gur zbzrag jbex jryy. Gung naq V’ir arire zrg fbzrobql V trg nybat jvgu fb jryy naq unir fb zhpu va pbzzba jvgu.
Ba gur frpbaq bcgvba, lrnu V trg nybat jryy jvgu zl arvtuobhe, ohg V qba’g ernyyl yvxr uvf yvivat unovgf, guvatf jvyy cebonoyl arire trg pyrnarq hayrff V qvq vg, naq uvf srznyr sevraqf sernx zr bhg orpnhfr gurl’er fb… jrveq, naq ur’f znqr vg dhvgr pyrne gung ur jbhyq oraq bire sbe bar bs gurz naq yrg ure trg ure jnl jvgu zbfg guvatf whfg gb znxr ure unccl naq jnag gb or gurer. V pna nyfb frr gur cynpr dhvpxyl orpbzvat n qhzcvat tebhaq bs pnaf/obggyrf bs nypbuby naq fzryyvat yvxr pvtnerggr fzbxr/jrrq. V thrff vg’f xvaqn vzcbegnag gung jr unq cynaf bs zbivat bhg gbtrgure svefg ohg gura vg jnf whfg tbvat gb or gur gjb bs hf, ohg gung cerggl zhpu jrag bhg gur jvaqbj jura gur cbffvovyvgl bs n tvey V dhvgr senaxyl guvax ur unf ab punapr jvgu sybngrq gur bcgvba bs zbivat va gbb.
So yeah, that’s where I’m at. I honestly don’t know which is the better option for me to go with. I’ve even spoken to my mum about this, and I never talk to my mum, so that’s a good indication of me having nfi what to do 😛
Yeah, not the second one.
If your friends want you at their place, and you’d all be comfortable with the arrangement, then there’s no reason not to take them up on it, at least on a short to medium term basis.
Especially if you are all kind of aware that the situation might change when the marriage happens and discussions of starting a family begin (this is from experience – wife and I had a friend living with us during our engagement, and we all knew that we’d want our own space once married, and it all went very smoothly).
Even if they say marriage won’t change things, you should be aware that it might. Because it often does, even when you don’t expect it. You should probably at least be halfway making plans and getting ready to move out shortly after the wedding, just in case.
If you’re looking for something a bit more permanent, then I think, given the options you outlined, you should consider renting a room in an existing share house somewhere else.
Edit: obviously, I don’t know these people. But have been in a situation with similar living dynamics, and as long as the communication is thorough and upfront, and occurs well in advance of any changes, there shouldn’t be any problems.
That’s pretty much what I was thinking. I’ll live with them over the summer (because I don’t want to go back home, and that was the idea that was first floated), then work things out from there. And that’s what they say, them getting married won’t change much, but I know it will. Of course it will. A family is at least a good few years off for them though.
I agree with Shane, nothing worse than living in a dirty, uncomfortable environment. First option is easily better. Just make sure everyone knows where they stand.
FF14 lets you have two names – first and last. I’m seeing some weird combinations. Some gems I just noticed in the last half hour:
Meaty Sandwich
Teenage Acne
Apple Turnover
Rompa Stompa
Anime Reference
Anti Hero
Inigo Montoya
Captain AwSum
Foxy Lady
Car Sickness
The Nazgul
Spooky Boogie
Mr Slippyfist
Jumbo Cactaur
Ground Zero
DJ Mystik
Cupcake Sprinkles
Cool Hand
Magnum Hominem
SO NOT LORE FRIENDLY, GUYS.
I was going to name my character something weird but was afraid of all the “hardcore” final fantasy players being all “WTF THAT’S NOT A NORMAL NAME YOU $@&@$:$(‘&($;&:!”
I’m still waiting to run into Pixel Pants. It was this horrifically designed and clothed Lalafell I used to see in 1.0. It just lived in Ul’dah and all it ever seemed to do 24/7 was craft. But it’d pop up in the weirdest places. Me and my friends would be running around doing various things and all of a sudden I’d hear ‘OMG PIXEL PANTS IS HERE’, and we’d all split.
Guess you had to be there.
I’m waiting for a return of Private Parts. The original WoW toon named ‘parts’ who acquired the ‘private’ PVP title then never advanced, in order to retain it.
Genius.
HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO ROLEPLAY WHEN THERE’S A GUY NAMED DIET PEPSI WANDERING AROUND?
I noticed from my time on the JP servers that they have less of the blatant weirdness.
Or rather… maybe they have just as much weirdness, but it’s Japanese names, so I can’t tell they’re being weird. 😉
Also, no-one uses the /shout channel, or if they do, it’s all in Japanese and gets completely filtered out so I don’t see it? Whereas /shout gets a lot of use on the NA servers I’ve been on.
There’s lots of silly Japanese names on Tonberry, but I think most of the time those are weaboos rather than actual Japanese people – most JP players seem to actually put some effort in.
But I’ve seen heaps of not quite kosher names. Kept noticing one guy named Germanicus Caesar for example. Also seeing a fair number of anime names, though to their credit I’ve only seen one blatant Sword Art Online one which is a surprise as I expected to be buried in Asunas and Kiritos.
My wedding DVD soundtrack includes songs by The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen and David Bowie. The live band we had played 50s/60s rock and roll and our final dance song was Neon Genesis Evangelion’s end theme, ‘Fly Me to the Moon,’ by Claire Littley.
#WeddingDoneRight.
Thank you and goodnight.
True story.
My favourite rendition of ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ is still one of the ones which rolled at the end of the original Evangelion anime’s end credits, which I suspect (due to the occasional misstep in English) was being sung by one of the female Japanese voice actors.
The one I mentioned was the one used when the show aired on SBS back in the day.
Which end credits? They made about 20 different versions of the song. Different musical styles, different singers and stuff.
The one @benny was just talking about, by the sound of it! 🙂
Whichever one they used most commonly in the end credits. I know a few people got a couple turns at singing it, but one seemed to be used more than the others.
Auuuugh it makes me so sad each time I read something about W101 bombing. This is why we can’t have nice things!
Heh, should add it to Benny’s list of unloved games up above 😛
And as always, my strategy of “Not buy it on launch because it’s a Platinum game and it will go cheap quick” pays off! HAHAHA.
I’m the worst.
Haha me too!
😛
It is a Platinum game. But it’s also a Nintendo-published game, so there’s every chance it could just stay at RRP forever 😛
Of course it was going to bomb, there’s hardly anyone that actually owns a Wii U and many of those that do bought it solely for Nintendo games. It’s always thus, third parties struggle on Nintendo consoles because Nintendo’s games are too good to compete against.
Okay, just a thought about End of Evangelion:
ROT13 SPOILERS BELOW:
Fuvawv’f boivbhf fgenatyvat bs Nfhxn vf n erpnyy bs zbzragf rneyvre, jurer na raentrq Fuvawv ortvaf gb fgenatyr ure, lrg va guvf raqvat frdhrapr, engure guna fubj nal ungerq be natre, fur zreryl pnerffrf uvf purrx, pnhfvat uvz gb oernx qbja qhr gb gur harkcrpgrq rirag.
Uvf abgvba bs jung Nfhxn unf orra unf fyvtugyl nygrerq uvf ernyvgl, naq oevatf uvz gb grnef.
Nfhxn’f erfcbafr bs “Ubj Qvfthfgvat.” znl or cebbs gung juvyfg gur bevtvany Nfhxn jnfa’g gur avprfg gbjneqf Fuvawv, ure vavgvngvba bs aba-sbeprshy pbagnpg znl or rvgure n pbzvat gb grezf jvgu uvz nf n crefba, be ure veevgngvba gung fur vf abj yrsg nyvir va n jbeyq jvgu fbzrbar fur pna’g fgnaq.
Unfortunately End of Eva is my least favourite of anything Neon Genesis Evangelion, along with 3.0. Despite the critical praise, I found it to be a mess, much like the original ending but way worse.
I always liked the original end to the TV series. Not necessarily the long still frames of shoes and garbage bins, but the general message.
The movies kind of retconned stuff and didn’t really fix anything. I haven’t even watched the recent remake and don’t really care to.
Original TV ending was the best ending. EoE is a giant 90-minute ‘fuck you’ to everyone that didn’t like it. There’s even a rapid-fire set of shots of hate mail they received for the TV ending toward the end of the film.
So apparently a Wii U price drop is in the works for the US. Which means we should hopefully have one announced for us soon.
GOOD NEWS FOR ALL YOU FOLK HOLDING OFF, HEY?
Also you should all totally get W101 to go with it when you do.
Also also, that 2DS… what even?
HAHAHAHA WHAT THE FUCK NINTENDO
I ain’t even surprised, it’s the bloody Game Boy Micro/Wii Mini all over again; decent premise, what-the-fuck execution.
EDIT: It’s meant for little kids, so, Y’know what? I’ll let this slide. BUT SERIOUSLY IT HAS MONO SPEAKERS
MONO
Yeah, when I first heard “2DS, it’s a 3DS for kids” I was all “cool, cool.”
Then I saw that design. WHAT ARE YOU DOING NINTENDO? WHAT IS THAT EVEN?
That is the most hideous design I’ve ever seen in my entire life. The scary thing is a big group of people would have had to have seen and approved of that as a great design. What the actual fuck?
I would have thought that a device for kids would be more concerned with protecting the screens… not less. Why no flip top?
So it breaks and parents have to buy another or send it to be repaired.
It’s because the plastic on the flip top tends to break when dropped. My cousin dropped it once on the wrong angle and it broke clean off. So I understand their reasoning.
Perhaps the influence came from the Wii U gamepad?
New Humble Bundle.
There’s no games.
Humble Comedy Bundle ft. Jim Norton, Hannibal Buress, Tig Notaro and Maria Bamford. Pay more than average to get Louis C.K. and Patrice O’Neal.
Somehow I don’t see this one making over $10 million. Edit: I say that but it’s made over $60k in 3 hours and the average is $8.50.
RAYMAN LEGENDS DAY!
*moseys off to the store*
Good luck! Maybe you will run into EB girl and you guys can talk about Rayman Origins / Challenges.
Who buys games from EB? 😛
I do, because nowhere else sold W101. =(
People do silly things when they’re in love.
Love? Love is for the living!
*waits for @pixel_the_ferret_viking’s upvote*
Sorry for the wait Mr. Flores, I am ready to take you now
XD
I do because I’m pretty sure I can get it cheaper from there!
IS IT LUNCHTIME YET??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMByDfFMPcE
What could be the greatest movie ever to be made. Are you keen?
So we have a girl staying at our house, she is daughter of one of mums friend, we went for a drive yesterday and she seems perfectly fine. Like a normal person. However, she has got to be the most boring person i have talked to in quite a while. I asked her what hobbies she had and replied
“moto X”
oh cool do you compete
“yep”
wow isn’t that dangerous
“yeah i broke my back twice”
holey shit how did that happen
“riding my bike, i fell”
The conversation went on like this for a hour, the worst part is i knew she wasn’t just annoyed because she asked me to keep driving around because it was fun.
I dont understand people at all? I mean i am social innept but c’mon give me something to work with. I even told my funny sleeping in the cemmetery story, nothing.
She just wanted to spend time with you, Ho-Tross but was too shy to hold a conversation! You’re in!
In all seriousness though, I’m fairly certain that’s how teenages talk. The fact that you got more then a grunt is something.
She is like 19, i thought the moody stage would be over.
Maybe judging someone from how i talk to people is a bit stupid. I lately have stated taking the initiative and be the one who asks the questions. People usually love talking about themselves, in fact most people will go for quite a while without prompting. I also like telling stories with a bit of detail so people can latch onto a specific thing i say and conversation can continue. This is purely for meeting new people, once i understand a bit about someones personality i just be myself.
My approach is to talk about the other person/people as much as possible so that I don’t have to talk about myself (so I’m an
enemaenigma — like Batman!), but it’s terrible when you come across someone who can’t/won’t contribute anything.(In part because it’s like talking to myself 😐 )
It’s funny — I went out with some friends last weekend and a girl was really into one of them. She was hanging around trying to make conversation, and he was just awkwardly staring back at her, smiling and nodding and giving one word answers.
It was hilariously awkward at the time and I would have excused him if he just had no idea how to handle it, but he didn’t like her and didn’t want to encourage her which just made it seem rude/jerk-y.
Anyway, what’s my point?
Psht, who communicates by talking these days — what, are we monkeys?
Thats a little rude. You can have a politely decline to talk instead of making the poor girl stand their and be embarrassed. Man i am totally the girl in that scenario aren’t i? 😛
Straight out declining to talk to her would be far ruder. If she’s not bright enough to pick up the obvious signs someone’s not terribly interested in talking to her, that’s her problem.
Depends on the scenario — in this instance, my friend is trying to think of elaborate lies or schemes to get out of seeing her rather than just saying he’s not interested. It’s potentially awkward, but she hardly seems like a nutcase ‘n he’s the one being a bit of a dick.
To me, telling someone flat out you’re not interested comes after a period of doing your best to indicate (subtly or not) that you’re not interested. If said person doesn’t get the hint after an indeterminate period of time, then I say you can flat out tell them. Telling them you’re not interested too early can make you come across like an arrogant or conceited arsehole.
Sometimes I’ve seen people say ‘Look, I’m not interested.’ too early and it turns out they totally misunderstood the person’s intentions and ended up looking a royal prat.
Sad thing is, she’s still trying to talk to him on facebook and stuff ‘n he’s just playing dumb — every time he acts like it’s ruining his life I tell him to stop being a jerk and a bitch.
I think he’s intimidated by a girl that knows more about cars than he does and pole dances, but what sort of excuse is that? 😐
So… you may or may not be the girl. Can you pole dance?
Where do you think the name rocketman comes from???
The Elton John song Rocketman?
EB STORYYYYYYY
You don’t even like my stories. You are all meanius to me. You say a few amazingly terrible racist comments to people and they suddenly grow to hate you. What is this even? 😛
love you greenmang
Finally got around to watching this week’s Breaking Bad last night.
Hngh.
That is all.
You should have rot13’d that sound effect — spoilers.
Gosh.
Duuuuude
I’m surprised you managed to remain spoiler free!
Ha. I never spoil! Also, by now I’m certain anyone who’s interested will have seen it, and it needs no further explanation than ‘Hngh’.
I’m interested. I just have several seasons to catch up on first.
You must do this, my friend. Sooner the better. This is a TV show you need to enjoy without spoilers.
Morning all. OH GOD I keep getting more and more hype for A Link Between Worlds. Just seen the North American box art, looks great. Hopefully the Aussie one is just as good. HOPEFULLY GOLD CARTRIDGES MAKE A COMEBACK! OH GOD PLEASE.
The box art is good… just a shame that I still dislike the game’s art style D:
I played it at PAX Aus, it’s a lot of fun!
Morning TAY,
That’s all I’ve got but I’m sure ill have something interesting to add soon.
I’m going to bet that afternoon follows morning.
Lets see if you win that bet
that’s how I feel everyday.
Yay for not being alone *high five*
I have a feeling today I am going to walk into EB games, look at the VITA section, sigh, pick up a copy of Rayman Legends on another platform, have a single tear roll down my cheek, then leave EB.
I am going to do the exact same but without the tear. Or probably the sigh.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BSyvcTWIAAASumv.jpg:large
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Remember how some of us took pictures of Ni no Kuni with our faces? That was fun.
TAYlist requests are now being accepted, post here for your TAYlist requests.
At 12 Noon SA time I’ll have to stop though, make this time now count.
So Far Away – Carole King
Mr Bungle – Quote Unquote
Might be a little too metal for radio
had to try 😛
Knowing there are people like you (:P) I kinda have to pre-listen to all songs that get requested.
well i hope you liked it 😀
Give me some Talking Heads
“Life During Wartime” if you have it. If not, anything but psycho killer.
Okay, but I like Psycho Killer…
I do too, but it’s overplayed. Road to Nowhere or And She Was 🙂
I do love me some And She Was
Only if you can’t get Life During Wartime 🙂
Sex and Candy – Marcy Playground
Damn I Wish I was Your Lover – Sophie B Hawkins.
Exciter – Judas Priest
This is toeing the line on playable, we’ll see.
Any Tori Amos you have.
Get the girl back – Hanson
I wanna downvote you but i would rather your account not be moderated. 🙂
The Killers – Indie Rock n Roll
good choice buddy, i love me some Killers.
Foo fighters- Everlong
Guessing you probably won’t have it – but see if you’ve got any Floating Me. Ace aussie band.
This makes me feel better about the drama we have with our game rating system — https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/372860092460179456/photo/1/large
I love how Jack Thompson is literally a supervillain in this whole [thing].
I hate that games cop shit because: 1) People ignore the rating system and; 2) Too many parents find it easier to wait ’til something goes wrong and then blame someone else rather than use the parental lock built into every console over the last decade.
So I’ve decided to go with Boost for my mobile service. Half the amount of data that I had with Kogan, but I’m still with Telstra, which works better in Tasmania. Unfortunately, I’ll be without mobile service for a while as my current service shuts down next Tuesday. Fortunately, I’ll be staying with my parents for Father’s Day, so that won’t be a major problem.
TAYlist requests are being taken on the ass end of page 9, and here I guess.
Have at it.
Squeeze – Cool for Cats
Cake – The Distance.
mmmm cake
Cannibalism is frowned upon you know.
I miss you too man.
You’re so far away now 🙁
Death From Above 1979 – Turn it out.
I posted on the last page! But now I don’t know if it’ll get lost or not. /o\
If not, I guess you’ll be playing Indie Rock n Roll by The Killers twice.
i really like your TAYlist every week. Its fun for everyone. Good work 🙂 If you have the inclination you could record your radio show while doing it and make it into a podcast. Im sure alot of us would love to listen 🙂
Oh yeah, this is a cool idea! I would totally subscribe to this.
Connection with TAYbies and broadening my musical horizons, all without having to leave the discomfort of my office chair!
You know what, I might just do that. The logs are freely available for the hosts to take.
Talk to @alexpants, you may be able to put it on Potaku 🙂
Welcome Home – Coheed and Cambria
Or
Circuits and Wires – Motion City Soundtrack
Or (longshot)
Future’s Bright Man – He Is Legend
Or
Last – Nine Inch Nails
Coheed and Cambria – The Final Cut
If you dont have that one
Depeche Mode – Wrong
OK, one more: Give us some Sufjan Stevens please 🙂
Green Man Gaming has all the Bioshocks on sale atm:
http://www.greenmangaming.com/search/?q=bioshock
Dear Elon Musk
Please hurry up and release the video you promised. You said “next week” last Friday, it’s now Thursday. The anticipation is killing me.
For reference
“Will post video next week of designing a rocket part with hand gestures & then immediately printing it in titanium”
HAPPY BIRTHDAY @benwhite!
Y’know, just ’cause I saw Mark mention it on twitter and I figure you should be notified in a non-technical support capacity once in a while.
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday Ben 🙂
Happy Birthday Ben! 🙂
An interesting concept: http://thoughtcatalog.com/2013/how-and-why-to-keep-a-commonplace-book/
Hmm. It’s not a bad idea.
I have so many txt files with ideas or quotes or random bits and pieces… but because they’re so disorganized they’re pretty much useless to me; the same thing would probably happen here. 😛
You could set it up in Evernote.
I’m considering doing the index card thing, just keep a stack near where I read (mostly in bed or on the couch)
I just jot things down in Simplenote. Random stuff gets put into the same place each time, more fleshed out things get their own note.
Over the last 2 weeks i have watched the 3 evangelion movies released so far. I love everything about them. How it goes from social interaction to ridiculous fight scenes, how the plot is far and away the most complicated mess i have ever heard, how all the characters develop and deal with tragedy and adversary and most of all how much i can relate to Shinji. He suffers so much but all his friends keep pulling him out of his self hatred. Its a really beautiful story.
ALSO ALSO
Best looking animation i have seen. Legend of Korra comes close but some of that 3d work is amazing. Like it is stunning.
Also also also
The music is extremely well done.
I haven’t watched the movies but I watched the anime. I really liked it but man, I didn’t like the main protagonist one bit.
he’s better in the rebuilds. a lot better.
I will get around to watching them, gonna wait for all the movies though, then I will buy the collections Blu-Rays.
He’s a teenager, arrrrrgh he’s meant to be that way!
… and Ser Nobulus doesn’t like him. So what?
Well, I get your meaning. but I thought nobs puts it in a way that seemed to connotate its a bad thing. Just defending it.
I suppose so, I guess I read it differently since he said he enjoyed the series.
I’ll admit I wanted to reach through the screen and give Shinji a slap on more than one occasion.
I really enjoyed those Eva movies even though everyone seems to hate them. I like how the story gets more and more divergent from the original series as it progresses too even if it makes even less sense now. Makes it interesting and new instead of a retread and makes sure there’s a place in my mind for both of them.
I loved the original series more than I can describe, and I love the Rebirth films even more. They’re just incredible – music, story (convoluted, but awesome) characters, and some of the most eye-melting animation I’ve ever seen. 2.22 is my favorite, and that gets watched every month or so. The final scenes of 2.22 are just brilliant.
2.22 Spoilers:
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Waiting for 3.33 on Madman BD before I watch it though.
I had a lot of reverence for the original series until a recent rewatch. I could have sworn there was nowhere near that amount of fan service and it kind of bugged me, especially scenes which seemed to exist for no other reason but to set it up.
It’s still awesome but it kind of detracted from it a bit nowadays.
Original series was amazing and groundbreaking for it’s time, no doubt. I still love it. But as you say, sitting down and rewatching it after the Rebirth films, you can see it’s flaws much more clearly. Doesn’t make it not awesome or irrelevant, just puts it in a new perspective is all.
It’s just nice to see it reimagined with a bigger budget and hindsight.
No one hates the Rebirth films. They’re fantastic. People were a bit down on 3.0 because it’s diverged so far from the original story and because it ends on a cliffhanger and we probably won’t see the final part until 2015 (which would be an interesting coincidence as it’s when the original TV series was set)
I really didn’t like how Asuka was pushed aside and they brought in that new girl and they got rid of Asuka’s intro fight which IMO was one of the best scenes in the anime. D:
I thought they made Asuka a lot more relevant. You actually see her personality instead of her just being an obtuse and annoying child. Which she still is, but they balanced it far better. She makes much more sense in the Rebirth films – I can’t stand her – but she made a lot more sense.
I also don’t believe Mari pushed anyone aside – she barely has any story or any development, she just pops up and does Mari things. That’s it. She doesn’t interrupt any of the interaction between the three children.
I think the old man side of me doesn’t like change, especially when It was amazing to begin with
I think the change thing is the biggest part. Mari has almost zero interaction with anyone apart from Shinji, and even then it’s super-brief. It’s not as if she becomes a love interest or anything, she’s just an enigma. She has no impact on any of the other characters at all, really. Yet somehow everyone keeps saying she interrupts or detracts from the story. I just think people don’t like the new girl, and that’s all it is.
Asuka’s development and character was much more in-depth in the Rebirth films, I think. In the original series she was just straight up annoying and it was implied there was more under the surface – at least in the Rebirth films you get to see it.
The real problem with Asuka is she works through her issues too quickly, and I think they don’t spend much time building her character because they assume you already know who she is etc.
I’d love to see the perspective of someone that went in blind and only saw the rebuild films.
This, a million times this
thanks Sughly, i stepped away from this convo cause i could see my opinions seemed to be the minority,
#conflictavoidance
I just… so much about the original series is lost in a big big way. Movies are not at all an improvement, not in the slightest. They make the show a different beast all together, which is fine, but it’s definitely not better. It’s just a leaner action romp at the end of the day. Series had so much character development, needed all that time to do it, especially in the last half.
Watch the series Rockets
If you knew of a woman with 8 children
3 were deaf
2 were blind
1 was mentally retarded
…And she currently had syphylis
Would you sterilise her for the greater good.
Oh my fucking god, is this really what management is?!? This is insane! And currently there’s a picture of hitler up on the projector again. I don’t want to be in this unit 🙁
Eugenics gave us hot swedish women, so…..
Nah, management in Australia is basically about rifling through old management textbooks/self-help books from the US in the 80s and 90s. What you’re being shown there is your professor engaging in intellectual masturbation with an unwilling, captive audience.
“For the greater good” Right, because deaf and blind people are detrimental to society. :S
Whatever you’re doing, it sounds awful. Run! 😛
Who’s the lecturer? 😐
That said, no — there’s potential for 5/8 kids to have absolutely nothing wrong with them, and this isn’t Gattaca.
I fuckin’ love Gattaca.
Hey! That’s MY favourite film!
Was my favourite first. >:|
What unit is this?
Introduction to management. I’ve never met anybody so full of themselves than the lecturer. I would hazard a guess that he’s a psychopath.
That’s not a management question.
That’s a question for an ethics class at best (maybe gender studies at the outside). and it’s a poor question
We’re on (business) ethics at the moment, but I still don’t think this question has a place. All his other questions have been about letting other people die or the justification of killing somebody, so… Yeah.
What kind of business does he expect his students to run?
I have no idea
Supervillainy?
Soylent colours, obviously!
That’s nothing to do with business ethics.
Christ, what a joke.
Introduction to Eugenics.
No, because it’s not my place to interfere with a woman’s body.
Next question.
Ludwig van Beethoven was the second born child. His other siblings weren’t deaf, blind or mentally retarded, they were dead because it was the 1700s and quite a lot of kids didn’t make it through childhood.
That’s not a management question, that’s an anti-abortion bit of FWD: FWd: fwd: fwd: fwd: READ THIS!!! nonsense.
I thought that sort of family was considered the norm in Tasmania all things considered.
HIYO!
The only people who should be sterilised is those who don’t care about their kids but have them because they can’t be bothered with contraception. So the children either end up abused or going from foster home to foster home.
Ugh, that’s the one thing about uni I don’t miss – being forced, as an undergraduate, to pander to the egos and bizarre fetishes of lecturers who don’t mind straying off the topic.
The question basically means would you stop Beethoven from Being born. The Hitler pic is a comparison on who you would vote for based on high level info. Hitler or Churchill.
In fairness, a lot of people voted for Hitler.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YV9xFtchPts
Rayman Legends is so damn fun. So damn pretty. And so damn ‘complete’. Lots to do already. The Challenge App is also integrated. And seeing Rayman dressed as Mario completely justifies my purchase on the Wii U. XD I’ve had a goofy grin across my face the entire time so far. The music and art direction is just… beautiful. :’)
Also, it’s incredibly well integrated with the MiiVerse. You can post screenshots and all that from within the game.
I was thinking of getting it on vita
Vita after Wii U’s probably the best way to play as well. Touch screen Murfy makes all the difference!
Me too! It comes out two week late for the VITA though. =(
It does?
That works for me =D (I don’t get paid for two weeks)
\o/! I don’t know if I can stand the wait! I’m too impatient! D=
I don’t get a choice =D XD
Also, exclusive content on the VITA. 5 extra levels which will be pretty cool!
Oh really? That’s all kinds of cool. There’s a few Wii U extras like from playing the Challenges App and Mario related.
Y U STIL PLY BABBEH GAEM?
Just like every steam game ever.
what is you feel on control option for pc. Keyboard mouse or controller
I have Origins on PC and I would say controller, definitely controller.
Was my gut feel but thanks for confirming
Haven’t played on PC, but I imagine mouse would be useful for precision when controlling Murfy but otherwise controller!
I’m not sure how the Murfy/touch sections are going to work on PC. I assume mouse or mapped to a button if playing with a controller.
My son just wants to watch HarryPotter movies today. I liked it better when he was begging me to play Ni No Kuni. Now I’m going to have to something productive instead. D:
@dc did you watch Kiss Kiss Bang Bang?
I’ve got a backlog of stuff to watch. DVR alone has six or so movies on it. Plus three seasons of The Killing. So to answer you question. Nope and probably not for a while. XD
Top movie.
I spent most of my day in The Lego Store debating whether or not I should buy the $500 Death Star.
And?
AND!?
No debate.
I assume that means you’re putting it together right this moment.
The silence would surely suggest that 🙂
I’d tell you to bring it on Saturday but you hat us.
This was meant to be to your comment below :p
That sentence still works.
Kinda.
Sorta.
Not really.
I thought I’d share a game I played last night, Warning – Board Game
its called Nuns on the Run.
up to 6 people play Novices in a Nunnery – trying to sneak out get a key, get something within the abbey and get back to their bed before being caught.
Another 1or 2 people play the guards(the abbess and the prioress) who are on the lookout for the Naughty Novices.
Most of the Novices turns are done in secret, whereas the guards turns are very public.
I played it for the first time, and whilst I think we played it a little wrong the base idea is really cool.
I thoroughly recommend it for anyone after a fun game that is easier than it seems.
You played it purely because of the name, didn’t you?
It’s just like Unexploded Cow :p
yes, I bought it purely because of the name, so in that regard just like unexploded cow 🙂
I’ve heard good things about it and seen it in a number of top lists but have never played
I love the leaderboards in Rayman Legends. They tell you how many times you die in a level as well as all sorts of wacky statistics. Looking forward to more TAYbies playing so we can compare notes! 😀
*Last Rayman post for the day… for now.* 😛
are the leaderboards cross platform? or can you only compare to other people on Wii U?
Connects to Uplay servers for challenges, but I think it’d be platform specific alas. :'(
So I gave FFXIV another go last night. New character, new town. I’m liking it now. The starting intro was great mostly because Chocobos! =D
I’m in the desert town. Went the Pugilist classi, didn’t get to try combat but I’m enjoying the quests a bit more. In the coastal city everyone was a twat that I wanted to punch.
If it’s anyhting like 1.0, Ul’dah (desert city) was pretty much the ‘main’ city everyone went to anyway. I preferred Lima Lominsa (coastal city), but Ul’dah was where it was at. I haven’t even seen Gridania yet – it was crap in 1.0 because it wasn’t open – it was a series of corridors and was generally shitful to navigate.
Gridania is much, much, much more open now, and overall a more enjoyable experience than 1.0 (not that that’s hard), but I’ve spent so much of my fantasy gaming life ass-deep in mystical woods that I have little patience for it anymore. Plus all the local authorities are somehow mystical hippies with ultra-authoritarian rods up their asses.
I’ve been enjoying my Ul’dah character’s playthrough the most (also a Pugilist, like @sernobulus) and the combo-based combat is slowly expanding and unfolding before my eyes with every few levels.
I hit 30 last night and unlocked Monk. The combo system gets a lot more complicated – you start needing to hit different abilities at certain times instead of the core Bootshine – True Strike – Snap Punch rotation to add buffs or DoTs.
Gridania’s fine now. It was a nightmare in 1.0. The whole shroud was basically the one corridor copy-pasted in different orientations, now it’s proper zones.
One issue I noticed is they clearly redesigned the zones before they redesigned Gridania, as there’s a gate into the upper part of the Central Shroud (which is full of high-20s and low-30s monsters, unlike the lower part which is 1-10) and that gate is permanently closed, plus there’s no corresponding area in Gridania itself that includes the gate.
Unless maybe that’s where the player housing will go?
Limsa Lominsa is very pretty but the people that live there are twats and Gridania is full of hippy elves that act like dicks to everyone, so you have made the right choice.
I don’t really read or watch reviews for games I know I’m getting (since I like to go in not knowing much), but I was just curious as to what people are saying Rayman Legends’ “Cons” or “Faults” are?
I did take a quick look at the dot point summary of the Pros/Cons from IGN and they mentioned that a lack of online multiplayer is a con (which is fair enough), but I was just wondering what else. Looks pretty solid to me!
@dc
Don’t read reviews either. My only note so far that might be a con is on the Murfy sections you don’t have as much control in single player as you would in coop. (With someone controlling the runner while you control Murfy.) Sometimes the AI will keep pressing on and miss stuff.
Otherwise, every thing that was awesome in Origins is awesome here. Plus it looks better and there’s a whole lot of mini-challenges and extra features.
Is there an option to map it to a button!?
Murfy? Uh, not sure. I like the touch screen controls though. It’s just the AI in these parts that can miss stuff not related to the actual controls.
Like in the demo where they’d just walk past a collectable, or walk too fast? 🙁
I want to control it mannnnn
These levels are almost made for replaying though, once you know the layout and stuff you know how to ‘direct’ the runner to the collectibles.
That’s true! But I prefer spending time actually finding them, rather than knowing where they are and spending time trying to get them. It’s just annoying when you’ve missed one right near the end or something 🙂
Minor, minor flaw in an otherwise excellent game, I agree. I like the variety of alternating between Rayman and Murfy though, so I can forgive it. 😀
Amusing how much negative/confused reaction the 2DS seems to have evoked. I don’t see the issue. Even if it’s not your cup of tea, some people appear almost genuinely offended by it.
Wut?
I don’t want one, but I don’t care if Nintendo sell millions or none. I Don’t see the 3DS as where Nintendo’s problems currently lie.
The 3DS is the one thing Nintendo’s doing right. Besides, more options is never a bad thing. As most have pointed out, I can see it being kid friendly due to no 3D and no hinged lid to break.
I think it looks a bit weird, but I’d have to hold one in my hands. The 3D always was a bit of a gimmick.
A good thing is that the screens are the same size, so you can put existing screen protectors on it. I reckon there will be iPhone-style skins for it soon too.,
Yeah me and the 3D are off and on about 50% of the time. Depends on the game. I don’t have any issues with the 3D cranked to full, and I don’t play it on the bus or train or anything – so I never have to worry about the broken 3D from movement. I find after about 5 minutes i don’t even really notice the 3D is on anyway – I actually have to break the effect to see it. So sometimes I use it, sometimes I don’t.
Oh yeah, this is definitely Nintendo going after the I-bought-an-iPad-for-my-5-year-old-and-then-they-dropped-it-and-the-screen-shattered crowd.
No hinged lid means you can’t close it to protect the screens though. My kids have no trouble closing the DS, but always seem to forget to put their gear back in cases. My son always manages to lose the case for his Leapster.
That’s why I reckon there will be silicone/rubber/whatever skins for it soonish.
I’m more talking about broken hinges than damaged screens from not closing lids. I’ve seen many a DS with busted hinges.
I know what you’re talking about. I’m just saying it’s not more kid-friendly than the 3DS.
I thought this at first too, but on further consideration… I rarely remember seeing gameboys with cracked/broken/damaged screens (and I think the DS handhelds benefits slightly from having a recessed screen/bezel), but have seen more than a few DS-era handhelds with broken hinges.
Maybe Nintendo think that the screens are fine but one less joint/moving part will make it more robust?
Edit: Cody beat me… and then Strange beat me replying to that post. Gettin’ old and slow D:
Maybe these screens will be plastic rather than glass….
Welcome to video games.
🙁
It looks gross but besides that meh. Whatever.
I think it looks awesome and I want one to replace my 3ds! It looks quite comfortable to hold, to me at least.
My only issue is how the hell do they plan on marketing this and the 3ds? People were confused enough when the 3ds came out, now what are they meant to do to properly market the 2ds?
Congrats @scree on Croixleur getting greenlit
Interestign bunch of games the went through, a few I supported and more than a few I had no interest in.
And some I had never heard of but find interesting (even if the art style is fugly)
Thanks. It only took 7 months! D=
Now if only our others games could also be greenlit.
Reducing the amount of Coke in my diet. Went cold turkey today for… about 13hrs. Er. Including around 6hrs spent asleep. Headache, extreme lethargy, urge to commit murder stifled only by lethargy.
Coke time woo! PUPPY/UNICORN HYBRIDS RIDING MAGICAL RAINBOWS MADE OF FRIENDSHIP.
I ditched soft drinks and caffeine altogether several months back. (except for a couple of energy drinks on a Friday and Saturday night just to ensure I don’t pike at 9pm) Made a hell of a difference. I exist on water and plain green tea I make at home at all other times. After about 2 days of quitting caffeine and soft drinks I had a day long mega headache, but I got over it.
You don’t understand. They ride magical rainbows made of friendship. Who am I to obliterate such beauty?
Giving that shit up was harder than giving up smoking. I’m not even joking.
The GF did the same, and said the same. And from my own more limited experience, I belieeeeeeve. The last time I smoked I only had one and felt like utter shit for the next three days. Not just the typical ‘ugh, there is crap in my lungs’ but full body/head ‘out of whack’ general queasiness. So. No desire to go back. But coke… Oh, wondrous coke.
Well, I guess tobacco is a gateway drug 😛
Pepsi Max is my vice.
I have no vices. I am perfect in every way.
Except for when you need to hold something in place while cutting/drilling/similar.
I use ours to crack macadamia nuts.
Oops, I told a lie. I have VICE CITY.
Now that I’ve made a joke, that proves I’m perfect.
Also, want to make a nutcracker joke, but I’m too classy.
Heh, Codemasters ain’t all bad. I’d like to think I played at least a part in them dropping the price of F1 2013 on Steam by $20 😛
\o/
But no Senna in F1 game make it ok great but not ok good just great ok bad
Seriously though, i am saddened that Codemaster couldn’t secure the Senna License, so despite legendary’s being drivable, no Senna 🙁
I can’t really say I know much/anything about him, mainly because he died the year after I was born. People seem to be quite passionate about him though!
He’s a legend, i remember clearly when he died….. sad year it was…
It’s a bit sad they couldn’t secure such an icon for the F1 world… i mean it makes sense, securing such old licenses are hard, but still….
But yeah i will definitely get 2013 just for legendary mode… should be pretty amazeballs
You should check out his film. It really is incredible.
There may have been tears when i watched this
Just woke up. There’s a 2DS now? Okay. Looks a bit awkward to use, but I thought that about the Wii U gamepad and that actually worked out pretty well (not that I’m planning on getting a 2DS).
browsing through a few of the games that weer greenlit on steam recently.
found this one : http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=159096666
goddamn genius.
There’s a playable demo of one of the alpha builds and it’s pretty amusing.
Several moments of exploring and thinking you’re done and looking up to groan, “Oh for fuck’s sake,” at some highly improbable aftermath.
Haha. That’s such a great idea. Looking forward to checking it out.
My son: “Is that tattoo from a game? Is it on the Playstation? Awesome. But @dc didn’t finish playing it, did he? He forgot to keep playing it, didn’t he?”
Haha! Oh man, your son is awesome! My Dark Souls playthrough is the stuff of infamy in the Strange household! XD
the child sees all
Strange sheltered the child from the harsh reality that I didn’t forget the game, I hated it. 😀
Saying someone (@dc) doesn’t like Dark Souls would be the same as telling him Santa doesn’t exist!
Except one is an out-and-out lie, and the other one is only true until @dc comes around to the right way of thinking.
I like to think he pronounced the @ symbol correctly.
LUNCHTAKU
I ate an entire pizza for lunch. It was so much food I nearly fell out of my chair because I could no longer concentrate on sitting up.
Sharknado Hoyts screenings, Friday 13th September
NSW – Broadway, Charlestown, Warrawong, Blacktown, Bankstown, Warringah Mall, Erina
VIC – Chadstone, Frankston, Eastland, Northland, Watergardens
QLD – Redcliffe
WA – Carousel
ACT – Woden
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/schlockhorror-sharknado-is-headed-to-town-20130829-2srp4.html#ixzz2dKS2KjJp
Only at Redcliffe? What’s wrong with you Queensland!? /o\ (The answer is everything)
AAAAAAAHHHHHHH, THERE’S A SHARKNADO COMING. BOARD UP YOUR HOUSES AND KISS YOUR LOVED ONES GOODBYE. IT WAS VERY NICE OF THEM TO CALL AHEAD AND LET US KNOW WHEN THEY’D BE COMING, WASN’T IT? I’LL BE STAYING OUT OF WODEN ON THAT DAY, AND WILL PROBABLY STEER CLEAR OF THAT SIDE OF THE CITY, JUST IN CASE.
When the 2011 floods rolled around, I got a lot of messages and calls from super freaked out friends in the US who were basically picturing New Orleans.
I had to point out to them that we knew the flooding was going to happen, in advance, and we knew that we didn’t have to be there for it.
Hell, I’m strongly considering leaving town for a bit to stay with relatives when the G20 summit rolls around, just to avoid the risk of getting strip-searched or shot while roaming around my home in the city. I’d just hunker down and order pizza or something, maybe I’ll get it free when the driver gets stopped/searched/’detained’.
Figures. The arrival of so many politicians in town does sound about as dangerous/inconvenient as a natural disaster.
oh man that movie is bad good
Stroke of genius showing it at Warrawong.
Bogans love Sharknados.
Everyone knows it’s not just where you cast your vote that’s important, it’s where you can cast your vote and then get the sausage sizzle.
http://www.electionsausagesizzle.com.au/
my polling place is in a school, and they always do a bake sale on election days, it’s the best.
The polling booth that is 5 mins walk from my house does not even have a cake stall. I’d have to drive about 10 mins to get to one with sausages, even if I wanted badly cooked sausages wrapped in empty calories, which I don’t.
Besides that, I live in an extremely safe Liberal seat because there’s a large church in the area that ‘encourages’ people to vote that way, so my vote will be utterly useless. I want to get in and get back out as fast as possible.
Where’s your spirit of democracy?
Beaten down by the abject stupidity of the masses that is evident in the fact that Abbot is even running, let alone has an even chance of becoming prime minister.
I remember following my dad to vote when I was a kid just for the sausage sizzles 😀
Now I’mma big boy who actually gets to vote :O
Fergyeah.
Sausage sizzle AND cake stall near me, losers.
That is fantastic
It’s so hard to pick a favourite in this. There are just so many standouts. So many. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBf0Anqbd3w
TAYlist for the 29th of August 2013 TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by people really wanting to hear my show
Meatloaf – You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth
Cake – Distance (Requested by the one and only @FreezeSPreston)
Judas Priest – Exciter (Requested by @mrtaco)
Seal – Kiss From A Rose
Tori Amos – Snow Cherries From France (Requested by @strange)
Corrs – Summer Sunshine
Talking Heads – Life During Wartime (Live) (Requested by @redartifice)
Marcy Playground – Sex And Candy (Requested by @ColdCamV)
UB40 – Red Red Wine
Dead Or Alive – You Spin Me Around (The computer picked this one, I swear)
Skyhooks – Ego Is Not A Dirty Word
Squeeze – Cool For Cats (Requested by @Steve-o_the_deve-o, could you have picked a less complex handle?)
Swingers – Counting The Beat
Vanessa Amorossi – Absolutely Everybody
Foo Fighters – Everlong (Requested by @rocketman)
Carole King – So Far Away (Requested by @DC)
Sophie B Hawkins – Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover(Requested by @benny)
Sorry to those whose requests were not filled, your songs were not in the computer.
PODCAST! PODCAST! Let me at it!
I REALLY like the songs for this week.
whaddya mean the obscure indie punk song nobody has ever heard of wasn’t in your computer?!?! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?!?!
And the Spotify Playlist!
http://t.co/zL6vNYOyyG
Added a couple extras that were requested too 🙂
You added Mr Bungle 😀
Let’s be friends
We weren’t already? 🙁
yeah but now we’re extra special friends 😉
*wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiink*
Like @benj’s friend?
except you don’t have to sleep on the floor 😀
My friend loves Mr Bungle 😛
sounds like a keeper, maybe you should reconsider the floor sleeping 😉
🙁
What do you care? It’s Indie Rock n Roll for me… it’s all I need.
On the Spotify list!
Oh man, I missed it? And no one requested Chainsaw Gutsfuck?
I’m very disappointed in you all.
You blinked when I tried to put it in last week.
You were able to play Judas Priest? Nice!
I tried to think of something older and less heavy, was honestly kinda surprised even that was thought to be “toeing the line” 😛 But I’m happy.
Nothing wrong with You Spin Me Around, I quite like Dopes version of it tbh.
Apparently I’m going to have a roommate tonight. There’s not enough room for 1 person in here, let alone 2 :S
That could be a sexy problem.
I’d… rather not think of him in that way 😛
That could be… a sexy and experimental problem
That’s what university is all about, after all.
noooooo don’t make it sound worse!
Hey, crossing the street to catch the other bus is still better than walking home
Best response ever
But he might think of you that way. Never never know if you never never go.
Erm, I hope not. We’re both straight and he’s engaged to his gf
He’s engaged. I guess he is thinking it’s his last chance and all
🙁
So I should probably clarify that he will be sleeping on the floor…
That and I regret mentioning it now :S
that really did get out of hand fast. 😛
It really did 😛
So you can “accidentally” roll out of bed and fall on top of him?
That sounds painful
I get the feeling that “sleeping on @benj’s floor” just became the latest TAY joke.
Ye gods these guys are good.
http://youtu.be/6cKfE5J3gK4
Home time
*crosses fingers that Saints Row 4 will be waiting for me*
Fuck today. I’m going home to get drunk and listen to the Blood Dragon OST at high volume.
That’s how adults deal with their problems right?
Amen Brother, I’ll do the same from my end and then it’s like we’re not doing it alone right?
I drink alone most nights after work, either watching a film or playing a game, refreshing TAY, long after the wife and kid are in bed. I wake up to my alarm feeling like deep-fried crap totally not motivated to tackle another day.
But the drinking part is good at least.
you should go on teamspeak, that way you truly aren’t drinking alone 🙂
I once tried making a playlist called “Murder Death Kill” and listened to that while I played the “No Russian” level from whatever CoD.
I’m pretty sure I ended up turning it off and played Pokemon instead.
That’s daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaark.
I’m pretty sure what adults do is push your feelings down, if any feelings resurface push more feelings ontop of it. Until one day it explodes onto some poor unsuspecting person. There is a chance he/she may deserve it, but more then likely they don’t.
Huh? Noone else does this?
Mine isn’t quite like that. It’s more “push it down until a breeze can set it off. Have something, anything, set it off. End up close to tears for a very long time. Get snappy at everyone around you. Wallow in misery because you thought, just briefly, that you had it under control. And now you’ve seen how quickly it all unravels.
Recover after a few weeks, but know deep down that your happiness shall only be fleeting.”
What’s an adult.
If you don’t crack a smile when Angelo Janotti comes on then nothing can help you.
Friends for Eternity Loyalty Honesty, we’re on top cause we play to win?
Go your Hardest:
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1lbe0s/i_am_kevin_rudd_the_prime_minister_of_australia/
Since I don’t think I have a reddit account, I’m too lazy to ask, but I feel like I’d say things like:
“Why do you not call Tony on the fact that his (honestly pretty great) Paid Parental Leave scheme is completely inequitable, and that’s he’s proposed it with the notion that it will never ever actually go through in its current implementation?”
“Why are you such a dickbag about asylum seekers? I mean, yeah, increasing the number accepted per year is a great step, but what in the holy fuck would make it seem like a good idea to send them to a country that we accept local asylum seekers from?”
“Why are you so fucking awful at trumpeting your own successes? Any competent party would have shrines in their honour at this point, but you let Murdoch spread his excrement like we’re actually up shit creek.”
I’m sure there’s more I could say…
He’s been calling the PPL unfair and unaffordable for the last couple of days
Yeah, but, I dunno. I feel like there’s a difference between whining about it in the way that politicians do, and just going “Shut the fuck up Tony. Tony, shut the fuck up.”
I think I just have a warped view of how politics works.
Didn’t Tony tell Kev to shut up at some thing?
Yes, and the media hailed it as a successful “take that” at Kevin. One has to wonder how they’d spin it if it had been the other way around.
I’ve always found it difficult to reconcile that out of everyone I know and the randoms I’ve chatted to at work about it, the vast majority seem pretty anti-Liberal yet all I ever hear is how ALP is in a massive downward spiral and are facing an inevitable defeat.
He would be the rudest and most disrespectful prime minister in the history of Australia.
Were you alive for Bob Hawke? 🙂
Well. I dunno about the disrespectful part. It’s possible to be respectfully rude… they call it crude, I think.
@transientmind: not saying he actually would be (Bob Hawke will forever have that honor I think) but that that’s how the Murdoch press would portray it.
I suspect that if one of them went out there and told it like it is, Bob Hawke style, they’d actually be more likely to win.
I’m not really sure. Most of my knowledge of recent debate stuff is from something I heard on the radio this morning, where they got a guy on who was like “I’m an analyst. As you can clearly see, based purely on contextless numbers, Tony’s PPL thing is way bigger and better than Kev’s. In fact, it’s so good it will stop the boats, and make your sex life twice as good. Did I mention that I’m totally neutral, and that the Newspoll is definitely the most accurate poll for this election? Because it’s definitely completely true.”
He called himself KRudd dog. Best.
I am now Miss Cranky pants thanks to Nintendo. I was all excited for the limited edition wiiU. They dashed my hopes and dreams D=
So i rang up Gametraders and they said they’ll import one from the UK for me. =D
Game Traders are pretty amazing like that…
Miss Cranky Pants? has a ring to it 😛
I was all kinds of pissed and then immediately rang up GT to find out if it was possible.
Just keep in mind that imported ones would have a different plug and might use a different voltage thingy (I assume it’ll all work fine though) and no local warranty.
I might just get an adapter. The Power cords tend to have built in adapters anyway to stop our 240v destroying the console. It usually converts it to 9v instead. I’m sure it’ll be fine. I’ll either buy an Australian power cord or something else.
And they better give me local warrenty dammit. It’s THEIR fault I had to buy it over seas, selfish bastards.
UK Should be fine, just a different plug… Should be easy as to obtain
I was kind of worried that if we ended up with that Ganondorf figurine version I’d end up having to buy it. I’m kind of relieved we’re missing out, in a way 😛
I’m busy being all crankypants at school though, because my friends keep going on about the game and telling me I should get it and I just don’t like anything about how it looks >_>
but you should get it
Why can’t I just have the figuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure?
I wonder if I could also get the special edition and sell the extra game
I’m kinda hoping to try that. One of my friends mentioned toying with the idea of getting two of them, then keeping one copy of the game sealed forever while letting me buy the statue off him. It’d be nice if he’s being serious.
Hm, the wiiU combo is a downloadable game. =/
I could give it to someone here.
Ugh, really? I hate that they keep doing that. Which is kinda weird considering it doesn’t even affect me, what with my tendency to get the consoles on launch before any kind of bundle deal exists. I wonder when’s the last time the pack-in game for one of these things was a physical copy of the game, and if they’re completely done with them now…
Yeah I’m now considering the limited edition of windwaker as well. Because I want a physical copy.
Wait. We still have Game Traders in Victoria?
Highpoint in Maribyrnong \o/
They’re pretty rad
Also Chadstone has one too I think.
My husband spoils our son rotten. Told the kids they have to clean their rooms before we go out to do the groceries or they get boring dinner while we get takeaway. Mr. Strange is now helping our son.
Oh well, at least it’s getting done, I guess. 😛
Haha, boring dinner. I have to use that one in future.
I once punished my daughter by giving her only a pack of Steamfresh vegetable for dinner each night for a week. And deliberately made the tastiest-smelling dinners ever for the rest of us. I am cruel. 😛
Isn’t that working as intended? All the children are cleaning up the house 😛
Hot on the topic discussed the other day about ‘commenting on the internet’, GOD some people can really get overly dramatic. I mean, pry my eyes out with a blunt rusty nail? Seriously?
I was about to go report him for saying he’d do that to someone else, but he wants to do it to himself? Carry on.
Talking with my wife about me getting to wound up and stressed lately and she thinks I need to take a weekend off from work, kids, herself and life in general and just chill for a day or two.
Except now I have to stress about what would I do and would I do the right thing and blergh. Today’s not going well for me. Having multiple minor freakouts about stupid shit. Maybe she’s right.
Hmm, which city should I invade and loudly demand everyone cancel their plans and come hang with me?
Canberra. 21st of September.
?
#GetFreezeToCanberra is now a thing.
It’s hit the point where I’m not sure if this is a legitimate question, or if it’s simply referring to the fact that you didn’t recognise me. :/
Haha. No. Legitimate question.
But you even replied last time I brought it up! 😛
Oh. Uh. Hmm.
*uncomfortable silence*
Well, if you can find it in your heart to forgive my transgressions both past and present and I can find reasonable flights and accomadation then I could see myself crashing your party.
@freezespreston
Odds of you finding a reasonable flight? Low.
But you’re welcome to crash at my house with eleventybillion other people. Or, Shane has opened his up. Though You may only be at the Meat for twenty minutes if you stick with him. 😛
Oh man, @shane was at the Melbourne meat for like a decent amount of time!
We played games and stuff!
And he even blamed all his dropped rice grains on me and I was all confused.
Good times…
@freezespreston
Totally not suss question: You live on the Gold Coast right? Therefore Gold Coast airport would be best for you right? And you totally can take Friday 20th and Monday 23rd off right?
@greenius
Yeah, based on what I’ve seen of other meats, I think it’s just Meats that I’m at that he runs away from.
Added to the list of people who hate me. :'(
It’s a long list.
You want to see me again!
Or Canberra on the 21st September.
I hear @benj has space on his floor!
I’m afraid of what would happen to me.
Your wife does think you need some time away from her…
I’ll try and find a couple of nights to slot you in. Don’t worry, the lights will be out, nobody has to know.
Alyangula, yo.
CANBERRA! You can even stay with us. I’m sure it won’t be a problem. Though you are trading one wife and set of insane children for another… which might not help.
I never heard the Freezelings plotting tantrums in their sleep 😛
Hope you feel better, my friend.
More random bored Tales of Xillia thoughts:
I really like its levelling system. Think FFXIII Crystal thingy with FFX’s Sphere Grid. It’s open enough to let you develop however you want and it never feels like you’re making the wrong choice as they’ll all benefit you. There’s even an “Auto-Level” option for the lazy 😀
Combat is pretty much the same as any other Tales game and it’s still damn fun. The Tales series is one where I don’t mind grinding for levels (if needed) since the combat is actually really fun. Dungeony areas have been pretty bland so far but there’s lotsa shiny things to find and everyone likes shiny things!
Milla’s voice is still a bit “eh” but I’ll just pretend it’s part of her character (it kind of makes sense :P)
Overall after a couple of hours there’s a lot of things that are different from other Tales games and it’s weird because while I’m playing a Tales game, it doesn’t feel like one :O
I should’ve given myself more time with it because I’ll just throw it out once GTAV is released ;D
WOOP WOOP
How far in are you? Do you have the full party yet? Or at least have Elize (best character)?
Also are you playing Jude or Milla’s route?
Jude.
I’m still very early in (couple of hours). Killed the beach area boss 😛
It will improve a lot as you go. The group dynamics for the party don’t really fall into place until you get the last character
EDIT: Removed potential I guess spoiler.
Oh god. I just bought ake away food online with my bank card.
It said the details were encrypted but I hope they don’t take my $120.
That’s to pay for internet D=
http://www.netindex.com/upload/allcountries/
Jeepers. Ethiopia has nearly triple our average speeds.
Kazakhstan has near five times.
New Zealand apparently has 3 times faster. And their infrastructure is mainly routed through Australia.
So Rudd’s AMA is proving to be a bit of a let down. Standard line responses and about 90% of the questions ignored, even the relevant ones.
BUT
Asked about the boat policies his response (emphasis added)
Wat.
Oooh. It has given us this.
Worth it.
That episode was just on Ten.
–]Matt_KB 33 points 1 hour ago
As an American, I would like to know what is your favorite thing about Australia?? I would love to visit some time it looks awesome
[–]PMKevinRudd[S] 246 points 11 minutes ago
Dropbears. Dropwombats. KRudd
He did announce funding for headspace centres if re-elected. That’s something.
I was really unlucky at headspace. I asked my counselor how to fix my self esteem and she pretty much responded ‘don’t.’
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1lbe0s/i_am_kevin_rudd_the_prime_minister_of_australia/cbxkl3e?context=3
Stoners getting antsy because Rudd flat out refused to legalise weed.
So we were gonna go out for tea but it’s raining so now I have to find something to feed us both :l It would be easy if he weren’t allergic to dairy!
#romanticnightin
It’s a shame he’s allergic to dairy, means you can’t eat chocolate off of each other’s bodies.
Too much?
Maybe just a bit too much 😛
Nah.
Well then use honey instead.
He loves honey, i don’t unfortunately
Well he’ll be eating it, not you. This could work.
I like the way you think
Nutella has no dairy I’m pretty certain.
#solvingproblems
Hey, he can’t eat dairy. Go easy on him, he’s suffered enough.
@lucifer9(numbers)
found you >=D
Swung by EB on the way home. Turns out the sale I was hoping for doesn’t start til the 3rd, so I’m holding off on Rayman til then. Maybe I could get through Origins before Wednesday 😛
(unlikely)
Origins or legends?
Legends. Been hanging out for it for ages (shook my fist nice and hard at the delay), but while I was a huge fan of what I played of Origins at EBX a couple of years back, I never actually got around to playing through it once I finally bought it for myself. Kiiinda feel like I should give it a look-in before firing up Legends, especially now that I seem to actually be playing games again.
That’s why I want legends on the vita. I’ve been playing so much origins on vita.
My friend enjoyed showing off his shiny new Vita with Rayman. The colours really do pop on that screen, it looks so good. Personally couldn’t deal with the controls though, I’m really not a fan of the feel of the hardware 😛
I really appreciate the touchscreen to collect bubbles. I traded that for the ability to play co-op
Sale!? 3rd!? The nearest 3rd!? September!? SALE!?
My wallet!
Wait. Sale? Third?
Steam is known for having sales.
Steam is made by heated water.
Heated water is used in Nuclear Power Plants.
Nuclear materials have a half life.
Half Life 3 confirmed.
And I think I’m going to go and off myself for these terrible descriptions of steam, half lives, and Nuclear Power Plants.
Dont do it! Humour is… its…
just dont ok.
Just a warning since I’m not entirely certain of the seriousness of this post, but it’s just something for the one specific store rather than a nation-wide thing.
oh no, it was serious. Thankyou for the warning or i may have broken down in public at my local store.
Play Origins you semi-monster!
After W101!
But then I have to decide between Wii and 360 versions 😛
…360
DONE!
HD MAN!
(that being said I played it on PC which was still HD and amazingness)
Yeeeeeeeeah but then I have to switch from my screen between PC and 360 and wear headphones and bleh. TV is much nicer. But then I’m also stuck sitting on my bed which is uber uncomfortable.
Come to think of it, everything is terrible. Not doing anything now!
You’ve been promoted from semi-monster to monster.
I worked hard to earn those stripes.
Oh man this actually sounds pretty cool, we should do it! Too bad it’ll take too long 🙁
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/the-original-151-pokemon-drawn-from-memory-without-erasing/
I assume we can refer to a list of names and just try to draw the rest. I’d be pretty funny for a lot of the later gens since I know barely any of them :P.
WE’LL DO THIS ONE DAY
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
I would definitely need the name list though. And even then, I’m pretty sure I only really know about 80 of the original 151.
Just listen to the Pokerap on repeat.
Wait there’s a Limited Edition Wind Waker with a cool (little) Ganondorf figure!? :O
…but it’s not coming to Australia!? D:<
Zelda games are one of the only series where I want it ASAP and would buy an Australian release locally… hmmm… I know it's not much but damnit I want it!
🙁
There’s a strategy guide too! I’ve just always bought them for Zelda (and Final Fantasy games). Cool lil tradition :’)
Still missing the Skyward Sword one though :'(
http://www.game.co.uk/en/the-legend-of-zelda-the-wind-waker-game-exclusive-ganondorf-collectors-edition-244852?pageSize=20&searchTerm=wind%20waker
Flippin’ hell it’s like $100+ :/
You know about this then right?
http://www.amazon.com/The-Legend-Zelda-Box-Set/dp/0804161380
Yeah, but I already have Ocarina of Time (original and 3DS remake – just not the hardcover one), Wind Waker (original) Twilight Princess (that exact one) and I don’t want Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks…
…BUT!
I saw it on EB where it was $250 but since they retail for like $30 each and if I wanted I would need Skyward Sword and Wind Waker, $130ish isn’t too bad!
Hmmm…
(while typing this comment I just bought it… :P)
Shipping and the exchange rate was a bit of a killer so it was around $180 all up >_>
IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT SCREE
I’m sorry /o\
You can always sell the extras.
NO I CAN’T
THEY’LL SIT THERE FOREVER!
(Anyone want to buy an unused Twilight Princess Collector’s Edition guide? :P. I’ve totally flipped through it a few times! It comes with a map! What about an Ocarina of Time 3D guide? It comes with a poster! …no one? SEE SCREE THEY’LL SIT THERE FOREVER!)
Don’t feel bad son: http://t.co/xcXiH8XmCg
Maybe one day all those goodies you have will go up in price! By like, 2%!
There’s a Link Between Worlds guide not in the box?!
WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! D:
I think this was announced before they decided on whether they’d do a hardback guide
No maps or bonuses included with the original releases either?!
And it might be Wind Waker not Wind Waker HD? D:
WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! D:
Now I think I want this, too.
Buy it so I’m not the only fool with it 😀
I already have it on pre-order
Locally? How much?
$180
GameTraders? I think mine ends up being $180ish as well (depends on the exchange) :/
Yeah, gametraders. I’ve been paying it off bit by bit so when it comes out I can just pick it up
I’m sorry D=
Speaking of which. I was asking Mark on Twitter (but he didn’t reply!!!) as to what Zelda game I should grab for the 3DS. Including ‘remakes’ and DS titles.
I can only pick one and I’ve never played a Zelda game before properly.
Would Ocarina of Time be a good choice?
Yeah, I would say Ocarina of Time.
It’ll be the best choice!
Too early to tell for Link Between Worlds but next would probably be the eShop releases (Link’s Awakening and Oracles).
DS ones are at the bottom.
jimu and Matt Tyrrell also mentioned Link’s Awakening.
eShop ones are cheap too.
Have you played any previous Zelda games? Zelda is my “Mass Effect” 😀
2D and 3D Zeldas are pretty different and Ocarina of Time is one of the best 3D ones and Link’s Awakening is one of the best 2D ones (I grew up with both).
As a person that never got into Zelda as much as i should have (I only owned Links Awakening back in the good ol’ GameBoy Days)
I am in love with Ocarina of Time 3D…
It is pretty damn amazing and well worth the money you pay…
Ocarina of Time it is!
I remember loving Orcale of Seasons years ago even though like all 2D zeldas I got stuck and couldnt press forward. Links Awakening is awesome and I have no regrets having to use a guide to get though it cause at least I was still playing it.
Finishing my web management assignment on my mac. Urgh. I want my PC for this.
I do have cider though, so it’s not all bad.
Mmmmm cider. Why is the Mac no good?
“Why is the Mac no good?”
said no one ever!
*runs for cover*
Watching the comedy awards/funnybot episode of south park and the Hollywood reporter’s name is Sandy Cervix. So that’s where it comes from.
Don’t temp fate, I haven’t seen him/her for ages.
Decided to take next week off for no other reason than to try and finish off a pile of games I’ve been meaning to knock over. Going to Hong Kong again in November, but I need something to tide me over till then, lest I go postal at work.
Plans to finish:
Walking Dead (Vita – already done 3 eps), Splinter Cell Blacklist (PC), Arkham City (PC – loved the fuck out of Arkham Asylum, just never got around to City) Bioshock 2 (PC – not my favorite series, but they sure are pretty – the first two any anyway – also I’ve finished Bioshock and Infinite, but never Bioshock 2), watch the rest of Gurren Lagann, recently picked up the Soul Eater complete series and will try and hit that too. Also, plan to finally sit down with FFXIV proper with a new character. My lvl 50 Black Mage will stand aside for the moment. I know you can level multiple jobs, but I want to do tank/dps with a different character.
Looking forward to it.
I wish I could do that..unfortunately I need money
It’s this mystical thing called annual leave – for 4 weeks a year, they actually pay you to go on holiday!
I don’t get annual leave 🙁
Bioshock 2 is an overlooked gem due to it’s sequel status. Lot’s of great stuff in there.
And Arkham City… Oh my…
I actually got halfway through Bioshock 2 a while back, but GFWL and the game crashing conspired to wipe my save and lost hours of progress. I swore a lot and never went back. But after finishing Infinite a few weeks back, I decided I really need to go back and do it. Rapture is pretty cool.
I’m not anticipating Arkham City will fondle my balls as much as Arkham Asylum did, but I think it should still be pretty good. Also, Origins and Blackgate coming means I probably should.
Story wise, it’s not as focused as Asylum but man, it’s combat is soooooooooo good.
The combat is great, but perhaps too many abilities/special moves for my dinosaur brain to handle.
I still remember trying to crack the 50 odd hit combos on Arkham Asylum. Man, that combat system makes you feel like a god.
Yeah, Asylum was awesome. Finally pulling off every move in one combo was a great feeling.
Then getting to a high number and jumping the gun on a counter and borking the whole thing.
The Joker challenge maps were fantastic, his combat style was brilliant. So unorthodox and so effective.
Bioshock 2 is great-I still need to play the Minerva’s Den DLC
Arkham City was alright but I felt it lost something when scaling up. It turned into a huge area where everything seemed samey. Asylum’s setting I thought was much better and more unique and it allowed a tighter narrative and game design.
I’ve heard Asylum was the cooler guy, and the setting was one of my favorite parts of the game. Hence why I never got around to City – wanted to, but had no burning urge to.
Public Holiday! WOOOooooo…
What do you mean I’m working?
Way to ignore my question Freeze 🙁
Ayup.
Whaaaaaa? Public Holiday?
Gold Coast Show holiday, boi!
I had my weigh in last night, and I lost 3.5 kilos. I am now down to 155.5, and if I lose 1 kilo in the next week, I will reach my 5 percent goal and receive a Weight Watchers bookmark. Yay!
EDIT: Weight loss pageget! Woot!
would you say that you’re…
…
(•_•)
( •_•)>⌐■-■
(⌐■_■)
On Target?
YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Having that out of the way,
well done, that’s amazing!
Congrats man. A friend of mine was on the latest season of Biggest Loser and he was extremely large. He’s still training hard every single day. Apparently his trainer doesn’t let him weigh himself as she doesn’t think that’s the best motivator. Reduction in clothes size, energy and looks can definitely help you stay focused better as you can see a beneficial result.
I went to high school with a girl from The Biggest Loser the season before last too! Didn’t recognize her at all until the final week of the competition. XD
I was looking at him for a minute, thinking he looked just like him. Then I heard “Big Kev” and I was all like “AH HA!”
Way to go, my friend!
Whoop new PS+ stuff,
Vita:
New Little King’s Story
Urban Trials Freestyle
Stealth Inc.
That’s my weekend planned for me, plus i gotta finish P4G.
I had no idea what Little Kings Story was before I played it last night.
Now I’m hooked.
It’s style reminds me of Zak & Wiki.
It’s amazing on Wii. I’m not sure why the Vita version was reviewed pretty badly, I figured it’s essentially the same :/
You weren’t a Pikmin guy, right? Was that because you never really played it or just didn’t like it? LKS plays a bit like Pikmin so check’em out if you like it!
I just never got around to playing Pikmin, so I’m hesitant to drop $70 on the new one in case I hate it.
I don’t like the combat in LKS, more the exploration & basic town management.
I’ve been keen since i got my Vita but greenius let me know it was coming to + so i was holding off, haven’t played it yet, good to hear you like it, I’ve heard the vita version is the worst for some reason.
Get Overlord. It should be on Steam for fairly cheap (or bookmark it for the next Steam Sale)
I heard mixed reviews for Overlord.
Same basic principle?
FOR THE OVERLORD!
You are a the big bad guy and rule over your minions. Different classes of minions. Brown=melee, red = ranged, green=stealth, blue=healing
You can position them in locations for fights and certain ones are needed to to to some areas eg. Only blues can swim.
Linear objectives, take over this town or destroy castle. You take a bunch of minions with you to do most of the combat and you can restock at certain portals. Minions have levels and equip the equipment from fallen enemies.
Oh, that reminds me, I always wanted to get Zack and Wiki on Wii
Nice.
You need a Wii first 🙂
Hear words banned from the innernette uttered with reckless abandon.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2013/08/30/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s03e21-mature-people-problems/
It’s almost the end of the season, too, so if you start now you only have to suffer two more episodes!
Holy shit you’re handsome.
That was before the accident.
Is that why you wear glasses now?
It’s why a lot of things are how they are.
ha, captain Empath would be an awesome superhero
Its Friday and feeling like Summer…happy days :]
I felt so happy when I stepped out of the house this morning and it just felt… warm.
I don’t know that there’s much I hate more than Winter.
I hate summer and love winter-It’s so easy to make yourself warm, summer on the other hand…
I find the opposite. In Winter, no matter what happens I’m always uncomfortably cold. Even if I’m all rugged up, my fingers will still go numb and useless. Or even if I have some nice warm socks on, that only lasts for a few minutes til my feet overheat and then sweat then it evaporates and makes things even colder than to start with.
When it’s hot, you can always find shade, and just need movement of air to stay cool.
Im miserable in winter, my mood and motivation goes down with the temperature. I need to move to the bahamas :]
Boo, hiss. Winter is so much better than any other season (which in Australia is basically the one season: sweaty hot).
You can always get warmer by adding more clothes, but when you’re hot you can only remove so many clothes to get cooler. Winter wins.
(Edit: Also, winter discomfort symptoms are better than summer discomfort symptoms. Shivering beats sweating, any day.)
Winter, you can only add more clothes if you have access to more clothes. If it’s hot during the day and you’re out without a jacket, you’re screwed if it suddenly gets cold out of nowhere. Doubly sucky if you don’t want to have to carry around a bag of equipment everywhere you go.
Ugh, Winter is best!
You’re a monster.
Rawr.
So what Pokemons versions are people getting?
Or are we just winging it like that time everyone on TeamSpeak got Pokemon Black and we were all “Aw, crap.”
Wait! It’s not October next month!
Well okay then.
Disregard.
…Cool.
Its ok, I always forget about September existing aswell (cept this year cause Rome 2)
Ask in two days, then it will be October next month.
Also, POKEMON LOOKS AWESOME! IM GONNA SIT ON ALL THE BENCHES!
Animal Crossing New Leaf did it first.
I shall be obtaining myself a copy of Y. I told this to 35 (idk his TAY TAG) and he replied “‘aight dawg G. Imma get X den ya know. Gotta cap em all” think thats what happened.
yeah. thats pretty accurate.
How could you not guess @35’s TAY tag?
it seamed too easy
Red!
Was the best because Charizard is awesome and Blastoise is lame.
:'(
but…. BUT… CANNONS!… also didn’t see Charmander don sunnies… SQUIRTLE DONNED SUNNIES….
Cannons? You mean super soakers.
I wonder if he needs to pump away before he squirts?
he… heheh….heheheheheh
“Squirtle”…
geddit?
Blastoise would drop your fake dragon faster then you can say gotta catch em all.
Until he trips over and falls on his back. THEN WHAT IS HE GONNA DO?
THAT’S WHAT THE CANNONS ARE FOR
_Edited due to poor use of words
I had no problem. If your Blastoise had sexual predilections for Tepigs that’s none of my business.
sorry guy, my head is in a weird place, I’m trying not to start crap anywhere cause i don’t have the capacity to argue 😛
Edit: this is in no way directed at anyone or anything I’m just justifying the edit 😛
Eh you’re not starting crap…. it’s just a harmless discussion about how @freezespreston IS WRONG… everyone has their right to be WRONG!
Look, we can argue the merits of Charizard vs Blastoise all day but at least we can all agree that Venusaur utterly sucks.
@freezespreston
… ALL AGAINST VENUSAUR!!!
Charizard; my tail is on fire, AND I CAN BREATH MOTHER FREAKING FIRE
Blastoise: Cannons, yo…
Venusaur; I HAZ A FLOWERZ :}
pfft, what a hippie
MAN, HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THAT NEW POKEMON GAME? IT’S GONNA BE REVOLUTIONARY MAN
YOU CAN GO TO JOHTO AND KANTO
whats a jhoto
You called?
Sorry, wrong number.
Y because I’m a boy.
#geneticsjokes
It always boils down to which legendary looks better.
So I’m going with Y.
This exactly my reasoning along with which cover looks better.
I’ll probably get Y because I figure everyone else will get X.
Edit: reading the comments above mine, it seems everyone is getting Y. So I guess I’ll get X.
But reading the comments below it seems like people are getting X!
I figured I’d just get whatever, there’ll be enough TAYbies who have the other one so you can still tradsies 😀
I will probably get X.
Also Bish, I have white.
I suspect I’ll end up with X. I’m buying both so I’ll find out on the day which one I get to keep.
I also have White.
WhY?
HURR HURRRR
(I always get the “second” one in the title – Silver, Sapphire, Pearl, White)
The second one is always best!
It used to be sold as “First is strong, second is interesting”. What ever happened to that?
So I’m having some issues with my photoshop.
amtlib.dll keep deleting itself. Even when I put it on a USB, disconnect the net and disable the anti-virus. When I put the usb in the pc, it’s deleted. I have no fucking idea what to do and I kind of need photoshop and illustrator to do things.
Can anyone help?
Fire.
I am at work so i can’t really watch it, but this may help:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn3le3NKQ3E
Let me know if it works 🙂
It doesn’t. tried it already. The proper amtlib is staying it’s the…helpful one that isn’t.
Ah…. i’ll keep looking
oooohhh… i get it… it’s a “Liberated” copy…. riiiiight…. this makes it tricksy…. i will keep looking
Yeah, unfortunately I can’t afford an official one.
Trust me, i understand…
Unfortunately due to Big Brother watching over me at work, it is limited how much i can look for when it comes to that XD…
Let me know how you go, and if needed i can have a look when i get home
thank you!
Which version of Windows are you running? It’s possible that the file gets blocked by Windows Defender as part of a recent update or something… you may need to manually allow it through that by adding it to the exclude list… or kill windows defender…
Windows 8.
How would I do such a thing?
Go to control panel (right hand side of screen, select… “system preferences”??? can’t remember, something like that) and you should see the control panel option…
Then you should be able to see Windows Defender… if you double click on that, should open the actual program, with options to exclude things, or turn it off…
Try turning it off first just to see if it is that, and we can work on exclusions later…
…
All of this is based on memory, so if any direction is slightly/entirely inaccurate i am sincerely sorry
Apparently the windows defender was turned off.
… well damnit…. i’ll keep thinking and get back to you
That means you’re either running a third-party antivirus or you’re infected with something that’s disabled defender.
EDIT: Or you manually disabled defender already, in which case you should turn it back on. 🙁
http://www.adobe.com/au/products/creativecloud/buying-guide.html
$50 a month is a little steep. I’m lucky if I get $20 every three months from my art.
Maybe in the future
The lesson is: Piracy is bad.
But for serious, that GTAV trailer is an amazing trailer.
Don’t think I’m praising the game etc, I’m not. I’m praising that trailer.
It’s music, it’s editing. Holy mackerel. What a trailer.
You’re forgetting the Wolfenstein New Order trailer. Jimi Hendrix, baby.
Don’t forget its miniguns
God dammit. Why is it that the standard List never seems to actually act anything like the lists you get taught to make yourself? This one I’m trying to use now seems to want me to treat it more like an array. This is stupid. Everything is stupid.
I’m starting to really get into Final Fantasy XIV’s story. Still unsure if I’m going to actually subscribe yet, but I have like 28 days left and currently plan to keep playing it a heap.
is XIV the latest mark of the Spitfire you unlocked in War thunder? I HOPE SO CAUSE YOU SHOULDN’T BE PLAYING ANYTHING ELSE
Oh man, screw the guy who decided that pilot knockouts were a good addition. I got sniped within the first minute of a match by a single bullet…in my Spitfire…from below.
yup, think they made the Pilot hitbox is a bit tooo big…. you got winged? weeell that killed your pilot
I HATE THAT KNOCKOUT BULLSHIT.
Also it seems there’s some planes that won’t go down until the pilot is knocked out. Three of us were pounding away on a Catalina for about five minutes while he merrily cruised around bombing our base without a care in the world. Eventually someone got fed up and rammed him, and that still didn’t do it!
I started a Marauder last night. The combat is so much more fun with melee combat. My characters name is “Axe’ton Nobulus” and he uses an axe.
I’m still going strong as a Lancer, trying to avoid making extra characters cause it’s not needed…but it’s hard 😛
I ran my first instance as a Monk. \o/
And also decided that I should at some point level up a tanking class, probably Marauder as I can use some of its abilities as Monk as well, but maybe Gladiator since I have to get that to 15 to unlock Warrior anyway.
I’ve been pugilist-tanking a few of the big FATE monsters recently, and it’s surprisingly workable if you’ve put points into strength to get good parry. You have an improved evasion skill, which if you’re tanking lets you do more damage, and combined with second-wind self-heal and a potion, if you’re at a reasonable level you don’t seem to tax the healers too much at all! Only noticed a few heals here and there when dipping below 50%.
You also have a +dodge cooldown, can get +parry from Lancer (needed for Monk) and +def from Marauder.
But it’s only OK for FATE stuff or when shit goes south in an instance (eg tank dies – happened to me once). If you actually pull aggro in an instance from the tank you shouldn’t think you can tank well as you’ve got no decent threat generation.
Yeah, AoE seems kinda vital in the group pulls I saw in the intro and first duty finder things. As a pugilist, my little catgirl (BECAUSE WHY WOULD YOU PLAY ANYTHING ELSE?) ended up running around on adds duty, keeping things off the healer.
As it should be. It felt… kinda like a vanilla WoW dungeon run.
That shouldn’t be happening if the tank is any good.
Catgirl! o/
Dear god but do I love John McAfee’s videos.
Woo! Paradox Humble Bundle!
I have 2 spare steam keys: one for Crusader Kings 2 and Magicka, and one for Europa Universalis 3 Complete. Any Takers?
Send Magicka to @bish, he loves that bug-free game.
oooohhh…. I’ll Liberate Crusader Kings 2 if you reeeaaaaally don’t want it? 😀
Done. I’ll PM it to you on the twitters- it’s CK2 and Magicka
you sir, rock!
I can’t pm it to you- do you follow me? Failing that, add me on Steam and I’ll flick it through
you sir, just got friended the crap out of!
And on top of that, followed the living hell out of
So now I have Crusader Kings 2. You’ve put a lot of expectations on this one.
I love it.
It’s worth grabbing that just for War of the Roses alone, but the other stuff is awesome too.
Good Morning all,
It gives me great pleasure to present, The Gingerchris Lucky Dip Extravaganza.
I have a massive list of games I have ready to gift/Codes to give,
If you want any of these please reply with your steam name and we can go from there,
The list is:
Terraria
Detour
Magica *2
Demigod
Super MNC
Waveform
Ace if Spades
The Showdown Effect *3
Mirrors Edge, (steam Code)
Crysis 2 (Steam Code)
Dead Space (Steam Code)
Medal of honour (Steam Code)
Humble Indie Bundle#3 (Super Meat Boy,Hammerfight,Shank,Cogs, Bit Trip Runner,Night Sky,jamestown)
FUN FACT:
Demigod and Greed Corp were the first free TAYbie games I got, and they were from you!
That’s because I’m a nice guy 🙂
Whoops. I meant to put Trials Evolution into my wishlist but I accidentally clicked purchase.
I’m sure these things happen.
I hate when that happens… and when i go to cancel, my Paypal password fall into the computer… how do these things happen?
Pretty sure it’s all EA’s fault for being greedy and evil.
sometimes I go to link the page to a friend so they can buy it too but end up purchasing extra copies. WHY COMPUTER WHY!!!
*puts on Ask Me About Rayman Legends badge*
*waits*
D.C., Tell me about Rayman Legends
It’s pretty good. *nods*
I have been looking at it, Trying to work out if I want it. How does it play as a game? is it alot like the older Rayman games?
I’ve only played Origins and it plays mostly the same, except with sections where you don’t actually control the main character but influence their path indirectly. Basically Mario, but good! 😀
Now I feel like playing some more. RAYMAN LEGENDS! OUT NOW! 😛
I asked you a question yesterday but it took you ages to answer it with a flaw! 😀
Tell me about LOOM.
Why shouldn’t I buy Rayman Legends?
If you hate fun, it could anger up the blood!
Fo serious question:
Have you played Origins?
Yes. 2 copies on different systems even.
I’m guessing I can pick up Etrian Odyssey IV for 3DS in-stores today? Or has it been delayed?
Next week. September 5th to be precise.
It must have been delayed. I made a calendar entry for it months ago for the 30/8.
Morning all, long time no see. Work’s been hectic, life’s been taking off. Basically everything’s coming up milhouse except it’s cutting into my gaming time which is boo-urns.
So, how’s everyone?
I did not understand half of that statement due to not being young and hip!
But sounds like your life is… good?
I’m good… great… not ok good just great ok bad
Actually, only old people will probably understand those references due to them being from episodes which are probably twenty years old now. 😛
… so now i’m not old enough… WHOAMI? 😛
They’re not that old
*breaks down and starts crying because he used to be with it, but then they changed what “it” was. Now, what he’s with isn’t it, and what’s “it” seems weird and scary to him*
Hey! Thanks for lending me Metro. Just started playing it today, It doesn’t seem to give me headaches. I’ll play a bit more and if I like it I will send the games back because I might just buy it
I love Metro so much!
Even started reading the books and they are just as amazeballs… very intriguing universe
No worries, Scree. Glad you can play them without getting headaches. You can borrow them till the next meat if you want or just send them back when you get around to it.
hmmm so that new TMNT game looks interesting. For a low price and a bit of fun it could be worth it. No idea how long the campaign is. The dialog seems on target and combat interesting enough. I’ll probably end up getting it at some stage.
But good lord those comic book style cut scenes are horrifying
http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd405/WNxTigerion/tmnt_zps9e900b68.png
I’ll get it but then I love brawlers and really enjoy even mediocre ones.
So many games to play lately, both Steam sale stuff and new stuff, but right now when I’m not playing FFXIV I’m loving Payday 2. It’s similar to the early days of Payday 1 in that there’s a few things that could be improved, but man it’s a fun game!
Payday 2 is the name of your plane in WAR THUNDER?
…maybe.
I am playing that too! Had a great run in a Blenheim, my plane was torn to hell and I still got a bunch of kills and survived the match 😀
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=173646644
Yeah i saw that…. BUY THE DAMN BEAUFORT… Faster and… and… FASTER then the Blenheim 😛
I can’t remember what it was, but I don’t like it for some reason or another. The lack of front gun wasn’t it…I’ll have to have another look.
but speed…. SPEEED
I think the main reason why i have it is…. 2 BOMBERS PER ROUND \o/
Forgot to mention, in that picture all I was doing was circling cause that’s all I could do to keep in the air 😛
lol some flak completely removed my tail (it fell off, literally) so i had no elevators… Luckily i could keep it in the air just adjusting throttle and wiggling from side to side using ailerons…. ARCADE PHYSICS YO \o/
o ended up crashing but i took 3 tanks with me after a succesfull bombing run XD
Payday 2 is the name of @rize’s Fairey Firefly Mk XIV apparently.
We should try out some more missions
Yeah, it’s pretty great and since the most recent patches it has actually been playable (escapes are still goddamn stupid though).
Just the other day; @f4ction, @blaghman, @trjn and I almost did the Day 2 of Fire Starters (breaking into FBI facility) completely stealth. It was so much fun.
And then we had to shoot stuff.
I helped by sitting in the doorway, tagging dudes who we already knew the routes of!
I did the same under the stairs!
are you guys on PC? I was going to get this but not many people seem to have it on PS3
Yup, PC
I really should be trying to do more stealth, but certain levels a smash and grab can net you tonnes of money in literally under a minute 😛
I fell like that’s a design problem with the game though; it does nothing to encourage taking the stealthy route. The risk/reward balance is way off. A decent multiplier for cash and XP would totally make you strive for a more satisfying stealthy method instead of it devolving to firefights.
Instead with the latest patch, they’ve sort of done nothing to reward stealth and given a chance to be punished for going loud.
It’s not quite right.
But you get CARDS!
CARDS!
Oh wait, doing shorter missions gets you more card. Yay for failed design.
If anything, I have a sneaking suspicion your final exp is somehow multiplied by how many platoons of police you murdered. :/
I need to start playing that. You guys should let me know when you’re playing after 8pm so I have someone to play with.
Good chance I’ll be on tonight till late. Fridays! \o/
It’s not an organised thing. If we’re on TeamSpeak (which is always) and someone suggests it, playing may ensue. It may not.
Yeah, basically it will be a couple of us on TS, we usually shoot invites out to people that we know play the game if we don’t have a full 4 team.
i’m just waiting for FFXIV to be able to be purchased again 🙁
I have it, but couldn’t even connect last night.
“LOL! WORLD IS FULL, BRO. TRY LATER! :7”
BOARDS GAMES
TICKET TO RIDE
TICKET TO RIDE – EUROPE \o/
FERRIES
TUNNELS
i still need to get 7 wonders like you reccomended…
You really do.
Natural Selection 2 is on sale and has a free weekend on Steam. It’s an FPS/RTS hybrid that apparently did it well.
I really need to give that game a go some time…I’ve owned it for like 6 months. (@cakesmith)
I played number 1 and it was aight… but i wouldn’t invest enough time in it to enjoy it so it’ll go on my “meh, maybe later” list
I’m in the same boat. Bought it sometime shortly after release, installed it and haven’t touched it.
Looks neat.
I played the everloving hell out of 1, and loved it to bits. Was hyped for the sequel, but it feels too weirdly different from 1 for me to enjoy it as much as I hoped I would. But it’s still good…
Just suffers from the same thing that every multiplayer-only lobby-match game does. Incrediblyl latency-sensitive, lack of servers/players (meaning can only be played at peak hours), or the ones that do exist are running custom mods or have asshole admins who are really only using the thing for unofficial clan practice or whatever, etc.
Hopefully the free weekend will boost the population playing, people will get to see what it can be like at its best, and then make the purchase and have it actually be worthwhile.
NS2 session? NS2 session!
I agree with @f4ction.
Having said that, I put hundreds of hours into 1 and only like 2 hours into 2 so…
Mostly because I was playing with randoms though who didn’t know how to teamwork.
Tonight, or Saturday night?
Or taco girl?
As I will not be home tomorrow night, tonight!
Last night was magical guys.
Although I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry this morning when his girlfriend was like “you get better hugs from him than I do!” and “you’ve already had your hugs and kisses for the day” 🙁
29/08 shall henceforth be known as @benj’s magical night
Aha he wasn’t even here for like 6 hours cos he had work. That’s the whole reason he came up here, to get to work and back easily while he didn’t have the car 😛
@benj’s floor is…
puts on sunglasses
A magic carpet ride?
…so it’s been a while.
WHADDUP?
@benj had a gentleman caller.
god, you disappear from a site for months and you miss all the good stuff.
Alright, you console heathens. I understand there are some heretics here knowledgeable in the ways of Nintendo. And I might… MIGHT be curious (ONLY curious, not actually intending to act on it!) about deigning to grace that company with my market share.
So. I have questions.
First one: Aussies seem to get fucked on the online store, retail pricing, region-locking, and things not being released. I highly doubt this will ever change, certainly not in the next console generation. Is there ANY reason at all (beyond ‘retail convenience’) for buying Australian Nintendo products, or is it a better idea to import exclusively UK/US hardware & software from day one?
Second question: I was curious about the Monster Hunter games, and JRPGs, and absolutely loathe motion controls. What am I looking at in terms of quality wiiU titles? (No, @dc, no Rayman – platformers simply don’t exist to me, sorry.) So far the only things I know would probably be good initial purchases are ZombieU and maybe Pikmin. Is there backwards compatibility, to get things like Monster Hunter or Xenoblade? Or is that a HD re-release/remake waiting game? Are there any lesser-known cool JRPGs that don’t get a lot of press or hit typical Mario-fan charts? (I’ve been over Mario since the 90s, he’s dead to me.)
Our Wii U gets more Wii games played on it then Wii U games.
Also I didn’t care for Zombie U much. Too unpolished and clunky.
And I absolutely loathed Monster Hunter. It’s literally the only game I’ve played that I am completely unable to push through. I’ve played some shitty games that I’ve still finished but man, just can’t do it.
Xenoblade is a pretty cool guy. Wish I had more time to get into it but never have that large of an amount to invest what it deserves.
There are no JRPGs on the Wii U yet. Zilch. Not even in Japan.
EDIT: Xenoblade is amazing but it’s a Wii game, not Wii U. You can play it on your Wii U, but if you have a decent PC you can play it there too, except better.
The Xenoblade team are working on a new game with the working title ‘X’ which is for Wii U. It’s hard to tell if it will be any good yet but it’s quite pretty and has badass mechs in it. However it also looks like it might be a shitty multiplayer Monster Hunting game rather than the proper single-player story-driven RPG sequel that Xenoblade deserves.
Nintendo Europe (ie. Us) have actually been pretty decent in recent times. We get quite a few games before the US nowadays (W101 being the most recent). Just my opinion, but I’d buy an Australian console over importing at the moment.
But keep importing the games because UK prices are still much cheaper
Why get an Australian console? What’s the advantage? It can play UK games, but I’d get a warranty and not have to muck about with power adapters?
Yeah. Other people might think different but those advantages are good for me. If we weren’t in the same region as Europe then it would be a different story 😛 Helps that I don’t generally play much super niche stuff so I don’t get hugely affected by the region lock.
And yeah, what Neg said. You’ve got the option of both retail and import with an Australian/EU console (you’d have to import everything if you bought a US/JP one)
Makes sense to me! Didn’t realize the Aus console was basically the same as the EU one.
You and your anti-platformer, pro-tower defense agenda. 😛
As a candidate, I stand fiercely in support of Tower Defense games, but also devote time and attention to FPS purity (master race only – gamepads are holding FPSers back), lobbying for RTSes which encourage turtling, and I openly embrace all forms of RPG. I have a moderate, neutral stance on racing games and puzzlers, and am seeking to put an end to the indie reliance on lazy platformers. Under my governance, platformers would be rare, but potent.
What’s your stance on point-and-click adventure games? This is make or break, my friend!
I want to see a Steam SCUMM VM package released, and I want it yesterday.
The glory days of point-and-click are behind us, and they’ve had weird experimental phases with 3D and keyboard controls, which I felt were losing the way… But Walking Dead shows us that it’s possible to retain the spirit of those classics while using new tech and controls, so hopefully we’re going to see a new renaissance of adventure gaming. There’s some good small-studio stuff coming out.
Don’t mind me. I’m just here for the food.
@bish already ate it all. Sorry.
That surly bastard.
Don’t worry, it was just Cheese, you cheese-hater.
You and Shiggy.
Only Doc has the right of it.
And then I spilled sauce everywhere.
I am having such a week.
Gutsoup’s bored and lacking motivation
So i made a spotify playlist to help me through the last bit of work whoo
https://play.spotify.com/user/1296901573/playlist/2ZwBaAwPj6LUsaMdfryTda
Decided to take the plunge and finally commit to building a MAME cabinet. Going to get all the materials on Sunday to build the cabinet and order all the buttons and sticks and so forth.
Has anyone done this before or know much? I’m kind of flying blind here. The main thing I’m wondering about is the screen. Okay to use a standard LCD monitor or should I invest in a proper arcade/pokie screen with a voltage transformer?
Also also I have no idea about GUI’s for MAME. Ideally I’d like it to boot straight into MAME with a full screen list of games you can select with the sticks. Is that possible? Easy enough or way out of my league?
I’ve got a friend that’s built a bunch of them, I can get some info from him if you want?
Some examples of what he’s built
http://imgur.com/a/Nc640
….
I’m going to have to step up my game.
Hmm. Looks like he’s using TV’s for them? Not a bad idea.
If you could get some tips from him that would be boss.
I’ll fire a message his way then.
Anything in particular you’re curious about?
The cabinet itself I’m pretty okay with, more any wiring issues I should be aware of and the software setup which at this point I’m completely clueless on.
does he just build them for himself or does he sell them
*raised one eyebrow in anticipation*
The first 3 (MAME cab, driving cab and top down cab) he has at his place, I know that much. As for the other ones, I’m pretty sure he built one for a friend for free (well, the friend paid for the parts) and I don’t know what happened to the other one.
He also built a virtual pinball machine, but I can’t seem to find a picture of it.
A writer on a podcast I listen to made one for himself a few years back and he documented the process. It was all he could talk about on the podcast for many episodes after that. 🙂
Here is the article: http://www.gamespy.com/articles/110/1106439p1.html
I’ve linked you to part 3 of the article but there are links to part 1 and 2 there(didn’t want the post to go into moderation. I’d recommend you read the whole thing it’s nice and detailed-skimmed through it really but he’s a good writer.
It’s an American podcast so be aware that the prices and suppliers he mentions are US based but on part 3(the one I linked to above) he offers links to community websites and forums where you might get some tips and even some help.
Hope this helps and good luck.
Thanks. I can get most of the parts I need from http://www.ozstick.com.au
They have all the Sanwa buttons and sticks that the Japanese cabinets use for a few dollars each as well as a bunch of light up ones and so forth (I love the light up 20c to play button as a coin button. Definitely getting a couple of those.)
Was probably going to document it as I go and bother everyone on here by constantly posting about it 😛
Set it up with Hyperspin. Very nice looking front end and with plenty of stuff to change around.
http://www.hyperspin-fe.com
Raspberry Pi or similar is probably good enough to use as the guts of something like this, assuming you want to play stuff NeoGeo or below.
I can help you with any queries you might have. Jump on steam and chat!
Just won Rayman Legends on WiiU.
Fergyeah.
Where’d you win that from?! 🙂 Congrats too!
Ubisoft AU’s Twitter.
Pretty stoked.
Sif ya wouldn’t be!!
NOICE!
Hey, do you think this is an appropriate price?
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Nintendo-64-Game-IN-BOX-CONKERS-BAD-FUR-DAY-NEAR-MINT-/400560024059?pt=AU_PC_Video_Games_Games&hash=item5d433ce9fb&_uhb=1
Er…
Yeah it’s a lot. I’m not looking to buy it, just asking. I mean it is a boxed version of a popular game
The high price is actually for the THQ logo.
-faints-
Scarily enough it doesn’t look that far off
$113 was the cheapest I could find it (3days left on auction) but looks like a brand new straight purchase is around $200
Same thing over on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Conkers-Bad-Fur-Day-Nintendo-64/dp/B00004U1R2
The reason I asked is this
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=578628842204224&set=a.517073128359796.1073741838.151825208217925&type=1&relevant_count=1&ref=nf
People complaining about the price and when you explain it to them, they insult you -_-
The moral is to never help anyone ever.
@transientmind
Like you said, prices are pretty important and importing will always be cheaper if you don’t mind waiting. Release dates used to be a huge “FUCK YOU” to Australia too (and to an extent PAL regions) but recently we’ve been getting things the same time as the UK and most of the big releases have all been pretty close to each other for all regions (with PAL getting some EVEN earlier than America! SUCK IT MURICANS – Pikmin 3, Wonderful 101, Rayman Legends).
I’m not 100% sure for Wii U but on the 3DS there’s just a general “PAL” model so you can actually set your region to the UK and buy things from their eShop. We haven’t got some games and some things are cheaper there.
While it’s a relatively small factor compared to price and release dates, there’s also Club Nintendo codes for the respective regions. Think of it as sort of a rewards system where you register codes for games you bought and can redeem them for “awesome prizes”. They’re actually awesome prizes in other regions but in Australia it’s just crap like post-it notes and shoe laces …whoopie!
Registering your games through Club Nintendo can also qualify you for some promotions. They’re mostly for the 3DS and they rarely happen in Australia but lately they’ve just been download codes, so you might even be better importing. It just depends on whether a promotion will pop up or not, they kinda just happen randomly. Sometimes they have physical bonuses like registering Ocarina of Time 3D in Australia got you THE SOUNDTRACK FOR FREE! SCHWEET! The UK also had a thing where you could register the three “Operation Rainfall” games (Xenoblade, The Last Story and Pandora’s Tower) and you’d get three commemorative coins (I wanted them :'( ). Nice little bonuses if you ask me.
Again, the UK has got more exclusive bundles. Australia has missed out on a fair few 3DS bundles and we’re already missing out on the Wind Waker Wii U one and Wind Waker Limited Edition :'(
There’s also local warranty and whatnot but you should be okay!
…PART 2 COMING SOON
The Wii U is backwards compatible with Wii so you’ve got a huge selection of awesome Wii games.
You mentioned hating motion controls but Pikmin has motion controls :P. I guess you’re not forced to use that control scheme but it works better that way IMO and they work well! There’s absolutely no waggle/motion crap in MH3U or Xenoblade and both are excellent choices (Xenoblade is 100% definitely a must-have :D). If you have any specific questions about those games I can answer them. Both got me playing my Wii/U for hundreds of hours (which doesn’t happen often :P).
I’ve only got like 4 games on Wii U so can’t really comment on any more :P. As far as I know there’s not much at the moment other than Nintendo stuff (including “X” from Monolith Soft) and Platinum Games (Bayonetta 2!). I got my Wii U as an exclusives console so I’ve already got my money’s worth from all the Ninty franchises but I know most people are over them.
MH3U is an updated version of Tri (on Wii) so there’s no point going back to the Wii one. I believe the multiplayer servers for Tri shut down recently too and multi is a huge factor in Monster Hunter games. There’s enough content for singleplayer only though! As for other Wii games, I assume by lesser known you mean anything not from one of Nintendo’s main franchises? I can’t think of too many JRPGs (at least not ones worth playing – Xenoblade is the bestest) but there’s plenty of really good non-Nintendo franchises games out there that have probably been overlooked by most.
Did I mention Xenoblade is amazing?
I hear it’s better on PC if you want to emulate it though but as long as you buy it and stuff. Supporting the developers and whatnot ;D. It looked fine on Wii to be honest and it was still pretty!
…Xenoblade
Well I hope that was kinda helpful.
If not it helped pass the time as I was waiting for my lunch to cook so yeah…
😀
helpius.
Very much helpius! Thanks Greenster. That’s good stuff, answered questions I didn’t know I had.
re: on PC: http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1lag8c/dolphin_the_wii_and_gamecube_emulator_can_now/cbxep9c
Surely it wasn’t THAT bad on Wii. I can’t remember D:
Although I guess after master gaming T-mindzy is probably use to dem sharper graphics.
Yes. Yes it really was that bad. Even over component video.
It’s still a beautiful game for the tech – those screenshots show how good the art direction was and everything – but it was really let down by the poor resolution.
Rendered at 1080p it looks as good if not better than the current-gen Tales games IMO.
MASTERRACE!
http://tinyurl.com/pxyqckk (Just picture this every time I yell that, or something.)
There is some really good information on that page. Neat. Thanks. 🙂
…Xeno…
XenUbladder
Something I just remembered: There’s a Just Cause 2 Multiplayer event on this weekend, starting in 1 day 4 hours. If you haven’t given it a go, now’s your chance.
(You really should give it a go)
http://www.jc-mp.com/
O_o Just Cause 2 multiplayer . whaaaaaa?
*runs to the internet for more info*
comes back sobbing
stupid master race
Just picked up Dark Souls for the first time in a month. Managed to kill the Gaping Dragon on just my second try. Most of that second try was waiting for him to stop vomiting so I could attack him.
So inconsiderate, getting stomach poisoning right before I had to fight him.
The more I read about this game the more I don’t know how ill feel about playing it..I don’t want a dragon vomiting on me
If it’s any help, I didn’t get any vomit on me.
That helps a little, I feel better now
Seriously though, it’s a great game that forces you to play cautiously.
If you just rush headfirst into things, you’re going to die. Play slowly, take in your surroundings and always have your shield up and maybe, just maybe, you’ll get out ahead. It’s a great challenge.
If you rush in your gonna have a bad time
Unless you’re speed running, then by all means, go ahead.
🙁
Ys: Memories of Celceta Limited Edition. We wants it.
Amazon won’t ship it to Australia. They’re happy to ship the standard edition but not the limited one because fucked if I know. 🙁
So I ordered it thru Play-Asia. Only they want $25 to ship it which seems astronomical for a vita game, 3 CDs and some other minor things. 🙁
EDIT: Amazon fixed their shit and now it’s able to be shipped to Australia. $10 base price less from them and $10 less to ship than Play-Asia as well \o/ \o/ \o/
GOING TO LISTEN TO ALL THE YS MUSIC
that sucks dude, maybe we should all become bilingual and just become roaming nomads travelling to countries that get the best releases of the games we want.
Or pirate things and import through dodgy re-shippers. YARRR!
As a nation we’ve strayed too far from the whole convict origins thing, what with all our farmer/migrant nonsense.
I use proxy shippers to get US stuff sometimes. It costs a lot. Which is why I sucked it up and purchased through Play-Asia. But I think I might email them tonight and ask why the shipping cost is so high.
yeah it’s just dumb that they don’t give us stuff and make pirating the most viable option (and lots of people use it as a justification to pirate), I like giving my money to those I think deserve it, I’m the same with music, where possible I prefer paying for legit copies. I know most of the cash goes to distributors etc and the actual people i want to give money to probably see very little of it but still.
#warpedsenseofrightandwrong
This is in English. It’s the US release. And I can get it, I just don’t understand why Amazon are being buttes and Play-Asia are being greedier than usual.
whoo home time
Yes.
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/kotakuau#events/1695891695256333011
WHAT?!?! FREE LAPDANCES FROM @RIZE?!?!
AND THERE I WAS PAYING HIM FOR EM LIKE A JERK.
*shakes rump*
IOU
I think I have a dinner thing tonight so I might be a little late to the party, but I’ll be there!
Why would you be late when @rize is giving out free lap dances?
The last time he gave me a lap dance I ended up late.
*ba dum tish*
It gives me great pleasure to present, The Gingerchris Lucky Dip Extravaganza.
I have a massive list of games I have ready to gift/Codes to give,
If you want any of these please reply with your steam name and we can go from there,
The list is:
Terraria
Detour
Magica *2
Demigod
Super MNC
Waveform
Ace if Spades
The Showdown Effect *3
Mirrors Edge, (steam Code)
Crysis 2 (Steam Code)
Dead Space (Steam Code)
Medal of honour (Steam Code)
Humble Indie Bundle#3 (Super Meat Boy,Hammerfight,Shank,Cogs, Bit Trip Runner,Night Sky,jamestown)
@dc wants all of them!
There is a big billboard advertising a school on the M3 here. It features a picture of a kid that looks about eight years old holding a guitar.
The caption: “I want to put a ding in the universe”.
Every time I see it it throws me for a spin. That’s possibly the most anti-social message I’ve ever seen. That’s mad scientist stuff, or maybe JRPG or Comic Book supervillain. The universe is actually pretty good thanks, we’d rather you not put holes in it. Did no one check this thing? Is it an ad for some kind of training school where you send your kids to become evil?
or its a school for kids with special learning needs.
Or its a school for Microsoft employee’s children and he actually wanted to put a Bing in the universe but the advertising agency misheard it.
or its some sorta school for future cracked dot com writers & the sign was a slight typo.
“I WANNA PUT A DONG IN THE UNIVERSE.”
Oi.
well then.
this is… awkward.
Not as awkward as putting your dong in the universe.
oh.
ok.
now its awkward.
Technically by virtue of the fact that you exist in the universe, provided you have a dong, isn’t it by definition already inside the universe as well?
@negativezero I was gonna go with that logic, but figured illogical was better suited to the situation.
@negativezero Hot.
I’d mostly expect it to get vandalised.
Heh…dong.
Just a little ding.
Just the tip?
Today is the worst day ever. Now we’re supposed to do this little programming challenge thing, just to try and make something control nicely. I figured I’d just do something dumb, make one of our generic models from earlier in the year spin in circles and try and get it to act like a helicopter.
But apparently it’s been so long since we’ve done any real programming that I’ve completely forgotten everything and become a complete and total retard. In all the other examples and base code we’ve built off, the model matrix is used to position things in difference places in the world, usually by just altering taking the bottom row as a vec4 and altering it to be at a new position. Yet whenever *I* try and do that, it just warps the shit out of the models and nothing I do seems to actually move it at all, just breaks things further. THIS SHOULDN’T BE HARD TO DO AT ALL. WHY ISN’T IT WORKING? WHY DOESN’T ANYTHING WORK??
Crying time now.
………………………….jesus christ. I just noticed one of the functions had a “true” in the arguments that I didn’t know what it did. Turns out it was a flag for transposing or not. Flipped it to False, and now the fucking thing works properly.
Crying time is over now. Breaking time begins.
I don’t even understand why it should have been like that. I copied that over from other code which ACTUALLY WORKED. How even the fucking uuuuuuugh. Crankypants engage.
I had an argument with website html that was missing only a /div, if that helps?
I feel like this needs a “Welcome to coding!”
The worst part is, I actually feel like I need a “welcome to coding!”
Even though I’ve been doing it since nearly a decade ago now.
You must have a pretty odd matrix implementation. Normally a translation matrix is:
1 0 0 x
0 1 0 y
0 0 1 z
0 0 0 1
Where x, y, z are the delta in x, y and z.
This probably is the reason why changing it to a transpose worked. You modified the wrong part of the matrix then transposed the matrix in the multiplication so that it was in the right spot again. 😛
EDIT: If you modified the bottom row you would be doing some batshit crazy rotation shit and also scaling it in the Z direction.
Yeah, I think ours are row-major instead of column-major. And they’re only built so that we can access the rows, not the columns, so I *was* treating it right in going matrix.row3 = vec4. It was just gluniform4v or whatever the function is that passes the value across to the shader, for some reason it has an option to transpose the matrix and it was flagged when it didn’t need to be. Yet for some reason it apparently did need to be in the code I pulled it from, which was all built on exactly the same stuff. Totally baffled.
The other irritating part is that in my random-changing-of-every-possible-little-thing-just-to-see-if-I-happen-upon-a-fix I even added a part where I was transposing my model matrix that I was using, but for some reason it didn’t make it cancel out in the end and it was still screwed.
Are you perchance using GLUT? I had to use that shit at university and it leaked memory like a sieve on some platforms, causing really really odd errors. 🙁
Maaaaaaaaybe. I think. I can’t actually remember whether that was what we were using last year and this year’s one has changed, or if it’s vice versa. Either way we were using it at one point 😛
Got a downvote from chestbrah. I’m unreasonably proud of that.
Aren’t all bras chest bras?
Except when they’re butt bras.
I think we’ve found his new nickname.
*refresh*
How many times do I have to say it’s penismonkey!
/Blaghman refresh rant
*penismonkey*
*a wild @blaghman appears*
Legend has it that if you stare into your monitor, cross your arms, say “penismonkey” three times, then blink twice, a Blaghman will appear.
I don’t want to take the risk of that being true
Well now you know and knowing is half the battle!
No man can handle the horror of The Monstrosity. :'(
Not monstrous just if you appeared I don’t know how I’d get you home haha
Most people just go “get the fuck out of my house, Glahman.”
@blaaghman nah you can sleep on the couch until you get back on your feet or someone summons you to another house
*reload*
@beavwa did W101 arrive?
We need to know who predicted it correctly!
Nope 🙁
Deliveries seem to be a bit slower at the moment. Ah well, I could only hope.
@dc
WHOA! I only just realised how small Rufus’ neck was D:
I think that despite the backlash, the announcement of the 2DS was really good. It came as a total surprise, completely out of left field. That doesn’t really happen a lot these days.
In tech news, I mean. Just like the Sergey Brin and Amanda Rosenberg dealio.
Greenius and I decided to do the draw Pokemon from memory thing.
I am a god of art.
I think I see Pikachu. Is there a Pikachu?
http://i.imgur.com/CRt3nfA.jpg
1-20
Kinda ran out of space…
So I saw a Kotaku article about drawing Pokemon from memory WITHOUT ERASING the other day and figured we should do it. The first 200 or so shouldn’t be too bad but then shit will get real since I don’t even know the names of later-gen Pokemon.
We’ve been using list of Pokemon that doesn’t show sprites/pictures.
@powalen @sughly @jimu
http://i.imgur.com/CHvWQOp.jpg
21-40
Maybe we should just jump ahead to later gens where we know nothing…
Need to write the names under, I’d love to join but prolly won’t find the time 🙁
Here’s some more. Because I’m amazing: http://i.imgur.com/I3mySLZ.png
I lost it at “Freddie Mercury”.
XD
Haha, Beedrill
Anyone have any knowledge on finding cheap flights? $600 is a bit steep for me.
lastminute.com.au ?
Hmm. Some very cheap flights there.
They do take 2 days to get me from Brisbane to Canberra though :S
How so? The quick search I did for Oct 1st BNE to CBR shows an approx. 2 hour flight.
For $260? I need to get home as well. They have $170 flights with a layover in Sydney.
I see a couple Red e-Deals for $185, one-way, direct. Can’t seem to see any stop overs. What dates are you looking at?
21-22 September.
There’s a nice cheapie flight back on the Sunday, not so lucky for the Saturday.
Oh. I found it. Had no idea what a Red eDeal was. Cool beans.
Yeah, flights Canberra are always ridiculously expensive compared to other cities. I ended up using my Frequent Flyer points because even when there’s sales it hasn’t included the date of Blaghs’ Meat. The only thing you can really try is to fly to Sydney and get a train from there to Canberra. You could maybe even stay with some Sydney TAYbies who are going and travel to Canberra with them.
I propose an Alyangula meat.
Um… week after next. Or the week after that. Whatever works.
Yeah, there will definitely be one or two cars going from Sydney to Canberra and back that you guys might be able to get in on. There’s heaps of coaches that make the trip too that are pretty cheap.
If you can make it down to Wollongong (1.5hr train from Sydney) I’ll take you myself 😛
I’m getting some serious Saw/Billy-puppet vibes from the opening of the Virtua’s Last Reward 3DS demo.
Have you played 999?
No I haven’t, but a quick search tells me I’m playing the second one in the series. Hmm.
I recommend it! If only because 999 is fantastic as well.
It’s not required to play it first, but there are a lot of references and story elements in VLR that you’ll miss or won’t have the same impact if you haven’t seen the true ending of 999.
Okay so I switched over to Attack of the Friday Monsters! The game has such a relaxed feel to it, the visuals are very purdy, and I’m enjoying it. I think @powalen mentioned earlier that he finished it in like four hours, so I will try to make this my second completed game for 2013. Haha.
YESSSSSSSSSS VIRTUES LAST REWARD! My personal favourite game on Vita 🙂
try and play 999 first, however it’s not necessary for Virtues Last Reward.
You know what, I disagree with Powalen and B-Funk.
The game is too intertwined with the events of 999 that you should most definitely play 999 first before VLR.
But but but… I told him to play 999!
Have I mentioned how much I like W101?
So friggen cool.
stop…
i don’t have a wiiu…
i am really jealous right now…
seriously…
platinum are the best…
One way to fix that ;D
Especially with Bayonetta 2 on the horizon!
Tell you what though. Playing through this, it has me hypersalivating at the idea of a Platinum-made Star Fox. Like, holy shit that would be so insanely good. Just tell me how many firstborns need to be sacrificed to make it happen so we can get to work.
i’m in the middle of moving houses, but my first purchase when i move will be a WiiU and Wonderful 101.
and yes, i’ll be getting it for bayonetta 2 as well.
and if i’m correct, one of the guys at platinum has said he wanted to do a star fox game. so nintendo, get onto that shit.
Yeah, Hideki Kamiya mentioned it as like his dream project, to be handed the keys to take that car for a spin. Now that I’ve had the idea planted in my head, I don’t think there’s much else I could possibly want more 😛 Especially what with how close Platinum and Nintendo’s relationship seems to be at the moment, makes it just seem all that much more possible.
I thought is was kamiya.
but man, i can imagine a platinum made star fox, imagine all the particle effects!
in fact, platinum made everything!
Metroid, F-Zero… oh man, A platinum Sin and Punishment would be rad as hell.
Just watched Lords of Salem (whilst a little bit drunk). Fuck that’s a weird movie. Was pretty interesting though.
I wanna watch Bad Milo some day. I only just found out about it yesterday, but it has Ken Merino from Childrens Hospital and it’s basically a dumb horror movie about a guy having a monster that lives in his arse.
Overall, good night with my gentleman caller/gay cheating lover/whatever you guys want to think he is 😛
Floor Fairy.
Good morning!
Mum wants me to mow the lawn. The grass is wet and I hate mowing it D=
http://gizmodo.com/how-to-create-an-automatic-lawn-mower-thatll-mow-the-l-1218127940
That would be so handy if my freaking lawn wasn’t a stupid shape.
Oh noes!
I suggest a grass allergy. It works really well for me and on a bonus – it gets me out of a lot of oval/sports field type thingies.
Wet grass would be better to mow wouldn’t it? Less airborne grass to make things all sneezy.
Clogs up the lawn mower which means stopping a lot.
Ah.
Shows how much I mow lawns 😛
I do because no one else can
I don’t because I’m a lazy and/or spoilt child that never specifically gets asked to do it >.>
I wish i could do that. Can’t get away with it =P
Does the Plus7 app on PS3 just not work for anybody else? Can’t even scroll down to see what shows are available 😛
@Greenius How do you normally watch the Moley Mole?
The plus 7 app never seems to be updated on PS3. There are also the same old four or five shows on there.
SBS on demand and ABC iview work fine though.
I used to stream them from here but… as you can see they clearly show “_____ termination interview” right next to the actual episode. There wasn’t a termination this week so there’s no spoilers for that but be careful D:
So I kinda just YARGH them for YARGHbay. Spoiler free!
YARGH is better.
The latest episode is 14, right?
Yep!
Good morning all TAYbies!
I built my very own computer last night (with some excellent help from @Beavwa)
It is SOOPER shiny, and starts up faster than my monitor can.
I’m in love
Jelly!
One of us, one of us, one of us
Specs looked good and now you are all set for starbound
Good work. Once you start, you won’t stop. Or maybe you will. I’m hilarious. XD
I want this game! Mostly because it is done by the same guys that make Disgaea which are really funny games.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/08/devour-your-way-to-victory-in-this-hack-n-slash-rpg/
It looks pretty awesome but hopefully they’ll change the character’s sound effects for the western release. I could barely put up with a video of that squeaking, let alone a full game.
@transientmind @ynefel
Have either of you played Sang-Froid – Tales of Werewolves? Thoughts
I played it during early access on the recommendation of my brother. It’s an interesting take on TD. LOTTA planning and failure and keeping balls in the air, and relies more on combat than I’d like. I didn’t play for very long because the resolution in early access was fixed at something horrible like 800×600.
I should load it up again to see how it has progressed.
It’s an awesome day outside, the first great @Saturday in yonks. Bring on summer I say. As a result, I probably won’t been on TAY so much this weekend, unfortunately. My apologies. Adelaide TAYbies, you know what I mean, GET OUTSIDE AND ENJOY!
Meanwhile I’m stuck in my box at work.
Pour one out in my memory will you?
Will do.
Shit, 20 degrees today, 23 tomorrow. It’s warming up! Finally!
Suck it, winterlovers!
🙁
It’s so nice to just sit outside and not freeze your arse off! Don’t even need a jumper on 😛 staying outside all day me thinks
Hell, it’s nice to just sit *inside* and not freeze my arse off. Our house is pretty terrible for warmth.
It’d be nice to be able to take the computer outside so I could sit there instead 😛
It’s more we prefer cold weather over hot. I’d take 12 degrees over 40 😛
The weather has been nice the past few days and next week it’s going to mid 20s in Melbourne.
Everyone loves good weather, so it’s good that it’s warming up a bit 🙂 (but not too hot you weird heat loving monster!)
…except Spring means hayfever :/
Haha, I would honestly take 40 over 12. Hell, back earlier in the year when we had those crazy hot days where it *was* something like 43, it didn’t even feel all that hot to me. I actually found it kind of pleasant >.>
This whole thing is reminding me of that scene in Dark Angel with the lizard man and snow dude fighting each other 😛
To all Payday 2 players..
Is it just me or is the community getting a bit vile. Several times now I’ve been in games that have ended up me and others playing getting kicked right at the end of a 3 day mission simply because the host decides to. Besides this you also have the people level 65+ who if they are hosting if your under their level you get kicked for joining, in one altercation I was asked by the host a level 72 if “I had down syndrome for joining their game because I must be retarded” before getting kicked from the game.
Not sure if its just me but its really turning me off the game and want to see how others feel about it.
Blergh. I was about to start playing but this sort of shit is why I stopped LoL after a handful of games.
Its still a good game and I highly recommend playing it, its just sometimes (maybe 1 in every 15 games) you will find a dickhead like that. It seems its quite common on the community forum and overkill are working on a way to fix it and stop it. For now but if your playing play a few low ranking games to get your level up and then start hosting your own games thats what ive taken to doing.
Yep, that sure sounds like the internet
Ooh, the Club Nintendo code I got in Virtue’s Last Reward (European copy ordered from Ozgameshop) worked! Was going to throw it out. Lucky I tried it 😛
Now to decide whether I want a Pikmin cloth bag and a set of Mario playing cards or just keep stockpiling my points for something actually good… 😛
…Pikmin bag it is.
How is everyone?
Gooood. How are you Screebo?
Animal Crossing finally overtook Pokemon White 2 as my most-played game on my 3DS today. 171 hours and climbing D:
Ooh you just reminded me, KK slider tonight!
Also, tomorrow, new season
Not baaaaaaaaaaaaaad
Good now, just had dinner and how are you scree?
I’m okay. Was playing Metro 2033
You enjoying it? im yet to play it is it any good?
I like the story. Wait until I get into it more
I love metro 2033. My favourite FPS
D&D last night was awesome – fought my first beholder AND met Mordenkainen!
hey guys this is my first involvement in the kotaku community so forgive me if this is in the wrong place
now i would like to know people opinions on the push for always online single player games with next gen, as i am thoroughly against it thank you.
Welcome bjh, this is certainly the right place so feel free to jump on in
I’ve yet to find anybody who can explain to me the purpose of always on connectivity for single player games. As a member of the master race I’m used to online activation of my games through steam and don’t have any issue with that. Requiring a permanent stable connection the entire time you are playing a single player just sounds like a world of frustration
Dear Tigs,
Coz you are a dirty pirate who steals all our games.
Always online somehow negates this.
Sincerely,
Game publishers.
with the way game publishers are going piracy is becoming a much more viable option
if the games industry goes always online after launch development cost will sky rocket and piracy will rise
as someone who owns all consoles and a pc i am a collector and i accept the activation process on pc games(not console) but an always online gaming future will destroy gaming as it gives the publishers full control, let me ask you this if destiny (has always on single player) has a sequel do you really think that the original will continue to function, or if an always online game sell poorly and the company decides to cut the service what then?
Finally started catching up on the few Gravity Falls episodes I had lying around, GOOD STUFF!
Y’all should watch it if you don’t already!
@masha2932
Oh yeah, this has been on my list for a while.
I didn’t start watching it because I didn’t like their schedule of releasing an episode randomly. Sometimes it was after a week, 2 weeks, or even a month.
Anyway I just checked WIkipedia and season one is finished, cool, I might start watching it soon.
Thanks for the reminder.
BLACKGATE!!!
http://www.siliconera.com/2013/08/30/batman-arkham-origins-blackgate-trailer-shows-gameplay-from-the-metroid-esque-game/
Ooooh, cool. I can’t wait for Origins. If I had a Vita this would be on my radar too.
@Blaghman
Where abouts in ACT do you live?
I’m thinking it might be a good idea to stop by if I do end up riding my bike down to Melbourne in October. Trying to work out a good rout. I’m paranoid about running out of fuel in the middle of nowhere.
Curtin! It’s Southside!
Doesn’t make that much of a difference because Canberra is small!
Stumbled upon this on Twitter (Aidan retweet I think :P)
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/09/advertisement-for-murder/309435/
It’s a really well written and interesting article that’s worth checking out,
I know no one will read it but I figured it was worth sharing anyway! 😛
(@masha2932 this is the type of article you’d bookmark and never read :P)
Eh.
I’ll try and read it at work tomorrow.
I read it. Kinda scary.
Remind me not to look for work on craigslist. Actually I just won’t look for work.
Read it, interesting stuff. One less on the bookmark pile 🙂
I’m so proud :’)
*Insert self-obsessed Rayman related post here*
I’M LISTENING TO ARCADE FIRE! 😀
and doing an assignment…
:'(
MY BODY IS A CAGE
Great song! 😀
Did you like Peter Gabriel’s cover? It’s kind of haunting. I like the original better though.
I haven’t heard it!
…………david cage?
You’ve figured out my secret.
I am David Cage.
Hey Mr. Expert!
Does Legends have an all-new soundtrack? Reusing a lot of tracks? Replaced all music in the game for this on a loop? (I’d be okay with that actually)
😀
I like dat song.
EDIT: plz link a bettr verson
Ugh, SoundQualitySnobius
Combination of new songs and old. New OST stuff is amazingly good. Especially the water levels.
More glou glou? 😀
You know it! There’s even a level called that!
*counter with self-obsessed W101 post here*
Oops I blooded
D:
D:
Badge of honour!
… I guess.
Late night TAY!
Who’s with me!?
*crickets*
I’m awake!
HIDE YO KIDS HIDE YO WIFE
Hey gang.
Guess no one’s awake, huh?
*moseys off*
Prince, my favourite Animal Crossing neighbour, was totally badmouthing you today. Called you a freshmen mayor. What a jerk.
He’s a dead man. Frog.
Frog, right?
Though he’s not far wrong… 😛
Still playing AC, Shazza?
At the moment, only enough that I don’t miss out on each day’s fossils. Still trying to decide how much I want to commit to it 🙂
I had been slowly winding down over the past couple of weeks, but then I streetpassed an amazing house which made me realise that I needed to invest many, many more hours 😛
OMG REPLIES!
I’ll check back in a while…
*raises hand*
*punch*
And here I was trying to be nice, greenius. Tryin to be nice.
There was this guy who kinda annoyed me so I’d punch him whenever I saw him.
I never figured why he didn’t like me… ;D (:P)
We became friends though so that’s alright in the end!
Greenius is such a nice person :3
I know, right!
<3
I’m here apparently!
I’m going through my iTunes and deleting stuff I don’t like anymore.
e-Spring Cleaning!
EDIT: Also: Can’t find an Attack of the Friday Monsters soundtrack D: Not even a YARRR copy! Really liked it, too!
I was thinking about doing that the other day!
But then I didn’t when I realised how little space songs took up. Nowhere near as much as games D:
I just got sick of constantly skipping songs before getting to something I actually like 😛
So much of that :O
Like more than half of my songs are unchecked/put on “skip when shuffling” 😛
Man, start downloading FLACs and then say your music library doesn’t take up much space 😀
Ugh, SoundQualitySnobenJ
The snobbiest
11:40 is early!
You’re early!
That’s what she said.
I’m watching Leon The Professional. Again. The final act really comes out of nowhere and takes you by surprise. It’s brilliant.
THE END. Now it’s bed time.
There’s too many Bens on late night TAY!
D:
I’ll see myself out then.
N’aww come back Benny!
I just feel intimidated by all the scary Bens D:
Am I the only one awake?
Nope! 😀
🙁
Nuh uh. I’m really bored.
First time using the TAY TeamSpeak. (To play Cards Against Humanity with some crazy cats.) Was good fun, will have to hop in more often.
…wait TeamSpeak Cards Against Humanity!?
:O
Do I have to talk?
YOU MUST SPEAK, BEEIUS. THEM’S THE RULES!
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I missed out on hearing transientmind’s sweet dulcet tones?
I am sad.
That’s OK, apparently I sound like a voice-over guy, so just go watch some TV ads or something for a similar experience. 🙂
Goodnight.
Night!
Eh, it’s alright I guess.
HI MR TACO!
You’ll quite monstrous but you have some redeeming qualities like your love of Xenoblade and Grim Fandango.
What, you mean those games I only got like halfway through and never returned to? 😛
Ugh!
But don’t you wanna know what happens to Glottis and Hero-pon Riki?
I think I can fill in the blanks. Glottis goes on to win the championship race then uses the prize money to open up a chain of highly successful auto-shops, where he ends up meeting a hot girl speed demon who he eventually marries and lives happily ever after with.
As for the other guy, I don’t even know who that is. They probably died.
LATE NIGHT BARGAINS IN YOUR FACE
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/115065
Hopefully the deal is honoured. Perfect timing too since I missed out on an earlier deal and I’m upgrading the master racer soon!
This video is scary and amazing.
Warning: you might be seeing someone being badly injured. I can’t work it out. You don’t actually see the person (inside a car)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8wWuH7MIeCA&noredirect=1
Read after watching
If you go to the very start you can see the rock start to fall. It’s right in the middle up the top of the mountain on the skyline.
Holy shit.
http://www.gameinformer.com/games/lifeless_planet/b/pc/archive/2013/08/31/mystery-awaits-on-the-lifeless-planet.aspx
Oh man! This looks amazing! Soviets! Astronauts! Ico/Myst-like puzzles!
Also @sughly, Memoria was released today!
http://www.adventuregamers.com/news/view/25161
I knowwwwww but I still havent played Satinav :/
Monster! D:
Note: I haven’t played it yet either. XD
New Animal Crossing season! Trees turning brown! 😀 Monarch Butterflies! 😀 Other things! 😀
Monarch butterflies?
*faints and starts mumbling*
Pink stars are falling,
Pink stars are falling in lines
*insert Microsoft product placement*
End scene
🙂
Bravo
Too unrealistic, man. Your acting skills were better than everyone on that show. You don’t fit in at all. 😛
Ha ha, I have the same casting agent as the dog 🙂
Ohhh, my first season change…. interesting.
Monarch.
I am the mighty Minotaur!
omg omg omg
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mightyno9/mighty-no-9
Fund it. Out of pure spite for capcom. Just do it.
Also, I went to work today.
I don’t recommend it.
You had me at “spite Capcom”.
Congratulations on starting work 🙂
http://tvline.com/2013/08/31/hbo-westworld-pilot-jj-abrams-jonathan-nolan/
Penismonkey.
What’s the hip hop happening Freezels? Enjoying Old Man day?
Old Man day is best day. I get to drink beer, eat chilli jerky and watch action movies.
And it looks increasingly likely I’ll be down to eat all your food and not flush your toilet.
Huzzah! So long as you don’t vomit on my couch, it’ll all be okay!
Putting off calling my dad… It is also his birthday today, so I guess that saves a second call.
It’s Mr Strange’s Birthday too…I hope he’s not your Dad. 😛
I hope so too 😛
NUDE TITANS
http://i.imgur.com/DWi1XRs.jpg
Exactly what it says on the tin.
That’s disgusting.
So much GPU power.
Just finished watching Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day (after it was mentioned here) as part of my “see what it takes to make me cry” experiment. I didn’t cry, but it got moderately close. Was pretty good though, gets a recommendation at least, so uhh, huzzah.
I imagine you seeing that article title and going “Oh yeah!? I’ll show them who’s jaded!”
Yeah, pretty much.
I actually sort of like the feeling of sadness. Helps me feel alive (#EmoPost).
i started watching it as well, 2 episodes to go, it’s pretty good, i’m only getting slightly emotional, mostly because the main character looks and acts a lot like me…
Baw, just beat Wonderful 101.
But holy shit, what a ride that was. It’s like… climax after climax. And then more climax! Also, who the hell was saying that it’s short? It was nice and chunky, took me about 24 hours to run through on normal.
Easily my favourite game on Wii U now, as much as I loved my time with Pikmin. I just hope it finds the support it deserves.
24hrs all up? Sounds pretty good to me! (unless you don’t mean it literally and you finished it in a day :P)
Pretty sure he’s been posting about it all week, that’s several days!
Haha, yeah. 24 hours according to Activity Log.
The weird thing is while you’re playing it, when you finish a mission it comes up with something like half an hour for the mission time. But you’ve been sitting there playing for an hour an a half. It was super confusing when I’d start up another session and the file only had six and a half hours listed, but I was certain I’d been playing for heaps more. Guess I was right 😛
i thought i told you to stop making me feel jealous 🙁
I tried but I wasn’t strong enough to hold it in. The awesomeness won out 🙁
Beneath the clothes, we find a man… and beneath the man, we find his… nucleus.
Happy Fathers Day to all you guys with little muchachos and muchachas!
So my right wrist has been hurting all day. Makes it kind of difficult to do anything.
o_O
…I’m not even going to ask…
I must’ve hurt it mowing the previous day.
Weird. My left wrist has been sore most of the day.
Hey y’all
https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-au/cid=EP9000-PCSF00247_00-000JAKCOLLECTION
Jak and Daxter on Vita is free for PS+ members. I believe this is an error as only the PS3 version was supposed to be free this month, so you might as well get it while you can!
I have no idea how you find these deals, but thanks mang!
Yes you do!
You’ve linked Ozbargain things before!
Like that time the Borderlands 2 Season Pass had a pricing error. Best deal!
Oh yeah, Ozbargain. I don’t visit that site that often anymore. Not sure why.
But the bargainsssssssss!
Hayao Miazaki has retired.
Not entirely unsurprising.
Still, we may not find another like him.
I honestly wish him all the best.
http://www.uk-anime.net/newsitem/Hayao_Miyazaki_announces_retirement_from_feature_film_direction.html
No.
*hugs*
:`(
It’s okay.
We can cry together.
Totally. Sorry that previous reply was meant to be more of a noooo but you know, lethargy.
Is that the one with the museum thing in Japan that everyone likes to go to?
And now that word looks and sounds weird now D:
hello again everyone, now i want to ask a question of you all
what is your next gen launch must purchase list of single player games? (console dont matter)
Won’t get a console at launch, can’t afford it and have a big pile of this gen to finish off.
The only game that’s caught my eye so far is Final Fantasy XV, cos I’m a die hard JRPG fan.
The most exciting thing about next gen for me is Remote Play on most PS4 games. I share my TV and I’ve already tried some Remote Play with Ico and I love the convenience.
hello for a third time now i wold like to thank the kotaku community for actually have coherent conversations that dont divulge into idiotic fanboy wars
like some other sites IGNorant people
my best frends daddy just got a 6 month old Buick Verano Sedan by working from a macbook air… check my reference http://www.dℝop80.cℴℳ
‘sup?
Awhrr, this is an old Tay isn’t it? D’oh!
HA!
What’re you doin’ in here??
Greenius sees all!
WHAT’RE YOU DOIN’ IN HERE!????
@DC sees all!
WHAT’RE YOU DOIN’ HERE!?!?!
HAI GUISE
@dc
HAII GUISE @DC
HAI GUISE
@jimu
Oh man, GTA V, Wind Waker and Beyond: Two Souls in the span of three weeks. D:
Hahah wrong TAY!
Maybe I just wanted to talk with you guys. I miss you guys. :'(
Also, @sughly, @strange, @freezespreston and @shane can post here too. But not @sernobulus, he knows why.
Hey D.C.!
We want to talk to you too but you’re too busy playing Rayman Legends. How selfish!
If I don’t rescue the teensies, who will? You? I don’t think so! >:|
@jimu: There’s a level in Rayman that is kind of Metrovania like. (That’s the word isn’t it?) I liked it. I wanted more of that kind of level! 😀 Also had some damn good music!
METROvania HA!
Alucard was already fairly Metrosexual 😛
http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/0/1976/224274-cv_sotn_alucard6.jpg
My friends and I kept calling one of our friends a “metro” in China and he got so angry and has never been the same since.
I think we changed his life…
oops.
He never boarded that flight home.
He did and was super angry for the rest of our schooling days… D:
Oh Wogstaki…
Funniest thing is that one of the teachers said to him “you win the award for best dressed”
ahahahaha
@jimu
Maybe check out Guacamelee?
Is Metroidvania but not really heavy with it.
You wanna go full hog, Castlevania Symphony of the Night on PSN!!!
FLCL!