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Morning. Another day, another dollar.
Monday already, well that weekend went fast..
I feel gross. All the chilli and beer from yesterday is coming back to haunt me. And I’ve been called into work in my day off. Again. Sometimes it seems like I’m the only one who will ever cover shifts.
Wait wait. Should have just gone with
Ugh. Mondays.
Morning fronds!
I had an alright weekend, Saturday (hi @saturday) I went to the movies to see Kickass 2 with a friend from school that I haven’t seen in a year. It was nice just sitting down and chatting with him.
On Sunday my brother and his girlfriend came over for dinner. She has been in Egypt for the last 8 months (she returned last week). She went over there to work as a Refugee relocation person. Man, some of the stories I heard really make me glad I live here.
Good to hear she survived, Egypt looks like a very nasty place to be in at the moment. I’m quite concerned about a friend who is going there in January for a holiday =/
Yeah, last day she was there it wasn’t uncommon for someone to randomly open fire on any vehicle on the street. Her driver basically had to ignore all road rules. It was just “get to the airport as fast as possible”, really goddamn terrifying.
Fuck that. Fuck that so much.
Yup, it’s the kind of shit you expect to see in some kind of action movie. I’m staying well away from Egypt for a while because it is soooo screwed up.
Also, her field while she was over there was “human trafficking” so she would try and re-settle people that escaped after being kidnapped and sent to human trafficking camps. Some of the stories she was telling me about was just, horrible.
The world is just fucked up, no other way of saying it .
Reading this makes me very glad that I went to Egypt before all this stuff happened. Christ knows how long it’ll take for the country to recover (and let’s be honest, it wasn’t that great to start with. Military/Police on every corner (often behind blast shields), and on sections of the Nile they pulled out a mounted gun and strapped it to the top of the boat), but it’s such a beautiful, historic, country.
*Walks into work*
Nope
*Walks back out again*
we can do that? O_O
Try it… It’ll work i guarantee it*
*It won’t work
oh it’ll work, just don’t know about coming back after that
Woohoo! No more work!
Permanent solution \o/
Morning everyone. Happy day after father’s day.
I’m so hyped for Dragon Age Inquisition. Playable Qunari \o/ Why can’t it be next year already?
Can’t wait for Saturday – so over all the election crap.
Our politicians and media have been in non-stop election mode since the 2007 election was called. It’d be nice if they took a break after this election but I’m not holding high hopes.
So basically it’ll only stop when the Liberals are back in or Murdoch karks it.
The Courier Mail went from attacking Federal and State Labor to attacking Federal Labor and State Liberal once Newman got in.
I know right, they’re paying me to deal with voters that day, only reason why I can’t wait for Saturday.
I can almost feel the love for the job pouring through the screen
I can’t wait to meet all the oldies who live here who’re going to tell me why Labor is evil and why they’re voting for the National Party..
Ineffective lapdogs are incapable of screwing up. So at least the Nationals have that going for them.
I dunno, our local candidate seems like he is very capable of screwing up, in fact he already has I think. Saying he has 3.3 million dollars ready to go to fix a local road that has gone to shit, that is if we elect him. Considering the road is not a federal or state road, I don’t see how he can give federal money to a local problem that wasn’t caused by natural disaster.
Personally i’d prefer to keep our federal labor member she has done a lot for us in the last 4 years. Unlike our local state member who is a National party member saying he will get us more police he will get us funding for a new high school and on and on it goes. He tried to claim he was responsible for the new Banora Point Pacific Highway upgrade that our Federal member got funded and happened. Apparently the NSW gov’t haven’t come through on their part of the deal and paid up, which was all signed off when Labor was still in control of the state mind you.
The last three elections I’ve gone to a pre-poll voting centre at least a week before and then I just tune out entirely until election night. Manage to avoid the ridiculous crowds ‘n give myself a small break from following all the political garbage.
I’m just going to go mid afternoon while there’s still a sausage sizzle (the real reason anyone goes out to vote) but after the crowds have dissipated.
A dance troupe was actually having a sausage sizzle + bake sale fundraiser across the road from the voting centre when I was there a couple of days ago.
I didn’t know about it beforehand, but it made the whole trip worthwhile.
Just a quick thanks to everyone from last week who dropped some japan info for me.
Appreciate the help.
We want to hear about your Japan adventures!
its not for a few months yet, but you can bet i wont be able to stop talking about it when i get back 😀
in fact i imagine I’ll be planning my second trip there for during the spring 😀
I wanna go back! I barely saw what it had to offer 🙂
Jelly!
Morning.
How is everyone?
My wrist feels a lot better but I’m thinking I should possibly clean up my computer =P
O_o
o_O
O_O
Why do I keep getting these responses?
It makes life really difficult because it’s my right hand. I can’t play games, can’t turn taps, can’t use the computer for too long.
What kind fellow recommended Woodkid a while back? Got around to listening to him recently, love it! It’s like Beirut, if he was epic had lots of church organ and heaps more string. Also @gingerchris86, thanks so much for sending through Spook! I forgot to say so before, sorry! It was pretty cooool, but I dont listen to that kind of thing as much these days. I kind of used to listen to only that kind of stuff for a while, I think its one of those too much of a good thing… things 🙂
Well that was interesting. Wanted to get a Wii U Pro controller. So walked into EB expecting to have a chat with the manager there and surprise! She’s been moved. New manager lady there. Oh well. She can no doubt help me. After 10 minutes of frustrating back and forth it eventuates that she has never heard of the Wii U and kept trying to sell me a Wii one while getting frustrated at me because “it says Wii on the box. Wii U is just an add on.”
Brilliant.
I’d like to reinforce the point that this is a freaking manager of a VIDEOGAMES STORE!
I’d inform EB Games on Twitter that they’ve employed people who do not know their product and are losing them sales!
Also mention the time a store didn’t know what Metal Gear Solid was.
Yeah, that’s a good idea too. I had some bloke at the local EB tell me the other week PC games only pirate and all this other shit, he seemed delusional. I could’ve pirated Saints Row IV, but no I went and bought it from Amazon! That’ll learn him.
But Nintendo said that they didn’t have a naming problem!
I don’t think it’s the naming that’s the issue so much as just generally retarded human beings.
Por que no los dos?
Si, senor! Chupa mis huevos!
That’s pretty much a given for ALL PROBLEMS EVER. So we have to assume it’s a combo of naming + dozy humans. So we just stop adding the ‘dozy humans’ part for efficiency. 🙂
Or just change the WiiU’s name to ‘IT’S NOT A WII YOU DOZY HUMAN’
That’s our EB!
*’he’s such a rascal’ look*
*canned laughter*
Yeah, when I bought Wonderful 101, lady serving me refused to accept that the WiiU existed …
This is something that should not be acceptable. She’ll sell a customer the wrong item. Oh well, if someone brings it back annoyed it’ll be her own fault.
Last time I went in was to preorder my PS4 and I was forced to stand and listen to the manager excitedly tell me for 5+ minutes all about the specs, and that the Xbone and PS4 would be light years ahead of PC. I actually had to do the ‘start-slowly-walking-to-the-exit-as-he’s-talking’ thing. He was still talking while I was at the door. I eventually just said ‘Goodbye’ and left while he was mid sentence.
Send a complaint to the HQ. If you don’t know what a console is, it’s time for a new profession.
Sounds like her resume said she was good with numbers.
It may be worth mentioning I just got out of bed and am sitting at my PC in my underpants.
HOLIDAYS!
Sexy!
I think I’ll go and see Elysium while all the plebs are at work.
In your underpants?
This will ensure I have the theatre to myself. Your logic is sound.
‘The dude in number 7 is in naught but his underpants!’
‘Just leave him. Avoid eye contact – don’t disturb him.’
The sexyness in this theater just got raised by 107%…
Fun Fact — every time I see/hear the word “naught” it reminds me of Garrett Dillahunt singing Donald, Where’s Your Trousers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0irP4w0itdM) in The Sarah Connor Chronicles… even though there’s no obvious link between the two things.
Also, possibly spoilers in that link for anyone who still plans on watching a cancelled, five year old TV series.
Anyway… yes, you should do that. 😀
It makes me think of Reverend Lovejoy.
I have seen it twice now. SO MANY GOOD ACTION SCENES
Anyone have some examples of good open world boundaries? All I can think of right now are having the world on an island, using the sea as the boundary (but having my game I’m about to start working on set on an island doesn’t make too much sense), or having all kinds of impassable terrain (like ridiculously dense forests, cliffs, ravines, etc.) around the edge of the world. Are there any other kinds you can think of? Any notable examples of games that have done open world boundaries particularly well?
cliff face, large holes (quarry maybe), lava
A giant wall is usually an excellent boundary, kept the Mongols out of China according to South Park..
I vaguely remember a game where if you got too close to the boundaries, some monster would start hunting you and there was no way to defeat it. Another option is landmines? Have signs on one side of a map and if the player walks past the boundary for a set length of time they ‘trigger’ a mine?
Minefields are nature’s way of telling North Korea to stay put.
Motocross madness did it right… Huge cliff/wall… if you managed to scale the wall, it launched you like a catapult back into the map to much hilarity
All else fails, go Nordic Mythology and have a giant arse worm that spans the world and eats anyone trying to escape:
http://www.northernpaganism.org/assets/images/BigSnake/BigSnake7.jpg
Mountains, The Abyss, Quicksand, Slowsand, Not their brother Mediumsand because he’s a jerk that squeaks when you walk over him, Poison gasses, river rapids, mine fields, chain link fences.
Internal monologue:
Character: “No, I don’t really want to go that way.”
That’ll never get annoying, by the way.
Another option is to have a bunch of instadeath situations. Your character is injected with a killswitch that’ll stop his heart if he strays more than x km from the map centre because someone is evil. Or the entire map is surrounded by enemy forces who will shoot arrows at you if you approach.
That’ll never get annoying either.
you could make the edge of the map the border to another country with aggressive guards patrolling the border.
No idea if it would work or not, but: radiation a la Stalker?
Miles and miles and miles of boring-ass nothing. And if someone persists with that for the hours of on-foot travel time it takes, just like in real life? Reward them with some ‘The Thirteenth Floor’ edge of the world visible matrix shit. 🙂 Easter Egg hunters will go nuts.
Ahahaha, I like this idea.
Cliffs or something. The point shouldn’t be to stop people leaving though, it should be to put enough stuff in that they don’t want to travel to the end of the map.
Also if you make it big enough you can have the north/south and east/west sides connect to each other. Though that does have the unexpected side effect of making your game world exist on the surface of a torus…
I’ve always enjoyed the illusion method – no matter how far one walks, if they turn around, they haven’t gone more than a few steps.
As long as they don’t walk backwards…
Here are my plans for the day:
1) Wait for Breaking Bad o’clock
2) Download Breaking Bad
3) Watch Breaking Bad
4) Go to chemist, get flu pills, try very hard to not make Breaking Bad references and get put on the meth watchlist thingy (optional)
The worst part about buying pseudoepehdrine cold and flu tablets is you inevitably look like shit when you go and buy them. Then they look at you funny. Once for funsies I went wearing my usual clothes, but with a beanie and no shoes. They still sold them to me, but it took more effort than usual, strangely.
I feel really dodgy when I ask for codral or whatever and they give me the phenylephrine ones, so I have to specify.
“No, I need pseudoephedrine”.
“…we’ll need to see your license for that.”
“Yes, of course. It’s just phenylephrine doesn’t work, you know?”
“…”
“…on my sinuses, I mean.”
“Just wait here a moment.
“Sinuses is the name of my Winnebago… fuck!”
I actually just ask for ‘the good stuff’.
I would definitely only do that if I was trying to make people think I am a drug dealer. Unless it was something unrelated to medication at all, like, I dunno, collectible cards or something.
“Yeah, I need some Magic boosters. No, not that expansion! The good stuff. Yeah, come to papa.”
Same here.
BREAKING BIRD DAY.
Saint francis would like to see you in his office after class
*points finger at self* WHO? ME? I DIDN’T DO IT WE FOUND IT LIKE THAT.
DEXTER DAY TOO
I’m only interested in watching that show to see how it ends, not because I have any interest in what’s happening.
Unless Yvonne Strahovski stops using a body double. Then I might work up a good 30 to 45 seconds of enthusiasm.
What, she uses a body double? Damn it.
Morning everyone!
Weekend summary: A beastly gaming PC was built, not by me, it was all her, I just added a hand or two when needed. I did move my PC back to a desk for the first time in 2.5 years and reclaimed the old G5 / G15 combo. The Wii U is now our YouTube device on the TV.
I got a juicer, juiced several kilos of oranges and planted some herbs in a planter pot.
Started to get on a roll with this weekend stuff by Sunday afternoon, just need more weekend now.
The end.
Bugs killed everything in our herb garden but the rosemary. I’m fairly sure that stuff is unkillable.
Here’s hoping your herb garden goes better.
put some basil in, bugs really like that stuff and usually go for it first so you know you have a problem, kind of like how vineyards have a rose bush at the end of a row of grape vines as an indicator. You can also grow specific plants to get rid of the pests if you know what they are, Thyme is a good broad bug repelant, things like mint deters rodents and flies.
The basil was the first to go but the bugs hit damn hard. I think everything but a bit of mint and the rosemary were unusable after about a week.
Going to have to get around to starting over at some point.
We have a bare, tiled courtyard. I went around a few weeks back and erased all signs of life with bug spray and weed killer.
That’s why I made sure 1 of the 4 plants was rosemary. If we kill that it’s probably a sign we shouldn’t grow anything else.
I had a really nice weekend. I met a girl (dawwwwww)
anyway we went to see a movie and then yesterday we walked her puppy (its so cute) along the beach.
Asides from that i watched the first season of breaking bad after watching 2 episodes and deciding it wasnt for me. I think i can see the appeal but some of the characters just annoy me and any scene with Jesse in it is so much better than the rest. He provides so much comic relief. They have good chemistry on screen (pun intended).
The show dramatically improves in the second season.
EDIT: although the first season is still damned good TV. Most people only say that sort of thing when the first season is ass.
I too, enjoy long walks on the beach.
I just scrolled over the link and saw the word anal.
NOT TODAY STEVO
NOT TODAY
I stopped watching after 2 episodes too!
o/
Can see the appeal. Can see that it’s a slow burn, too.
Just… not right now.
2 episodes is not enough. Not gonna tell you you have to keep watching it, because it’s your free time, not mine, but I will say that you haven’t really had chance to see what makes the show actually good.
NO i saw the whole first season. IM SAYING I LIKED IT
Oh, sorry. completely misread that (obviously).
Although i cant write for shit 😛
Man that was terrible. I meant to say i had previously watched the first two episodes but it didnt stick then this weekend i watched the first season and i liked it.
Which characters were annoying you?
Skyler? Everyone hates season one Skyler. They hate her so much that the much improved post-season one Skyler still gets a lot of hate.
Hank? Don’t worry, he becomes one of the best characters once they show that he’s more than just a brash, big-talking cop.
Walt Jr? Let him eat his pancakes!
Walt? Yeah, you might as well stop watching.
Mainly skyler, I just prefer the non family related stuff. Its so mundane. I realize its needed to show the decent into the darkness but its all so meh.
You’re meant to hate the family stuff.
Walt feels trapped and is trying to break free from it. It’s an anchor. Walt is a failure who could have done some pretty great things but his pride got in the way, so he settled for a dull and boring life.
Now he’s got an excuse to break out because there isn’t really any punishment he fears. We’re meant to cheer for Walt at the moment, so the family life is meant to feel dull and oppressive.
As the show goes on, the dynamic of the family stuff completely changes. It also becomes a lot less mundane.
Smooth operator.
I met a girl on Saturday (well I’ve met her before) and on Sunday asked her out.
So far… No response.
She’s a friend of a friend, and I was assured that she’d likely say yes, so it’s a little bit discomforting.
I hereby invoke the power of HotRoss.
Bestow upon me the mystic forces of attraction and I shall sacrifice my lunch, by means of ingestion, in your honour.
Hope it all goes well, Flu! She might not answer cause you’re a jerk, though. 😛
My hopes lower with each passing hour…
Man, I should have pretended not to be a jerk, but I couldn’t go on living a lie. Jerk becomes me.
Oh, crumbs… I think she said yes.
WOOOO! Play it cool for a while then reveal your jerkiness! You can do it, my friend! 😀
Jerkbro, I got this.
Got a call just before.
“Hello?”
“Hey, those fabrication drawings you sent us? You didn’t send us all the files. I only have a PDF of one drawing, lucky I checked these files before I sent them out even though you should have checked the file”
…
“I will get right on that”
*looks as email I sent*
*sighs to self*
*opens new email*
“Gents,
This file I originally sent you has multiple sheets so if you just scroll down you will see the additional sheets.”
I was tempted to put “How to PDF” as the email subject, didn’t do it in the end though.
One time I sent the architect a set of drawings and he complained about some of them being blank, and I was all mang, if you’re looking at the drawing list (which I knew he was) some of them say “blank” to mean that they are intentionally left blank for now.
And then he asked me if they were supposed to be blank.
You’d be astonished how often I have to remind people that an Excel document can have multiple worksheets. :\
I feel your pain.
I’m aware that Excel can have multiple worksheets but I seldom use Excel for it’s intended purpose. I usually just use it to make lists because resorting the columns etc. is way more convenient than a word document.
So yeah, if you send me a multiple worksheet doc, you are setting me up to look like an idiot. 😛
This happens to me when I send excel files with multiple worksheets.
Cheer up… I’m sure there’s something these people are good at.
Hola Tay
I went back to the parents for the w’end, to do father’s day activities. Introduced my Parents to Ticket To Ride. When my mother won the first game, she let out a loud
CHOO CHOO
She’ll go far.
Also saw my Pop (mother’s father), whom I rarely see. He’s off to Siberia at the end of the year, to go on the trans siberian railway. At the age of 85. More power to him.
A Monday Morning Question: best videogame related train? Could be a train level, a mode of transport, or that cool train in train simulator 2012 GOTY edition. I always loved the train operation in FF VIII
The one in Crysis: Warhead.
I took it as one big troll since in a developer interview just before it released, they were saying people had complained that Crysis was too ‘on rails’.
A whole sequence sitting on top of a train, shooting things. Glorious trolling.
oh, I have another favourite:
Train Sequence in Uncharted 2
Train climbing sequence from Uncharted 2, that part is so damn amazing.
Densha De Go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
……………………….Is pretty terrible
Ticket to Ride on Steam.
CHOO CHOO
I don’t think there’s any correct answer but Goldeneye is there? Getting the RCP90 into your hands and just wrecking entire cars of people, not worrying about stealth. It’s one I. The most cathartic levels of the game.
Definitely the Timber mission in FFVIII.
Transport tycoon
Still one of the greatest sims games to have been created. And it has trains.
Everyone else here is wrong.
The correct answer is The Forever Train.
Macbeth, Lylat Wars.
The train sequence in Uncharted 2 is IMO the pinnacle of technical achievements this console generation. The way the environments change as you make your way along but you never see a repeat. It’s amazing.
I’d love to know where this person lives, since they make it sound like it’s cheaper for them to buy vinyl and digital over CD’s! I honestly can’t justify shelling out 80 dollars for 2 180gsm vinyls when the CD is 20 bucks.. But I can easily see the value in spending 2-3 dollars more on a CD release than a digital release.
I think the OP was implying that not all of their music is vinyl.
As long as you’re not buying new release vinyl, you can get quite a bit from second hand stores/record collector’s fairs for fairly cheap.
I get where you’re coming from.
Sadly all the second hand vinyl I seem to come across was poorly looked after/used on cheap & nasty equipment, it’s pretty sad. Like I had one mate saying this elcheapo record player he got to listen to Smashing Pumpkins on was fine. I didn’t have the heart to tell him his inferior needle will destroy the vinyl, mostly because he wouldn’t listen.
Sorry, man, but this is possibly the most hipster discussion I’ve ever had on TAY.
And I talk with @dc about Arcade fire…
😛
Hahahahahaha.
Wouldn’t it only be hipster if we were saying we only listen to vinyl? Since that’s what the hipster kids seem to do 😛
Now @mythamphetamine that kid listens to vinyl..
Hipster kids still have iPhones. They just listen to them with headphones from the 70s.
Not yet I don’t :'(
The turntable arrived today! \o/
The preamp still hasn’t arrived /o\
Ah 😛 and your BioShock vinyl sometime next week!
Not knowing anything about anything makes me too paranoid to play any of the vinyl things i have. I don’t want to destroy them. They can stay on the shelf and be safe instead.
I see vinyl more as a collectors piece these days than something to play honestly! Considering picture disks are making a comeback makes them a great thing for the music collector!
Morning TAY do I have a story for you!
So basically yesterday I went into my brothers local eb games and started talking to the manager there, after awhile the talk changed to job enquiries and he asked “do you play video games?” My first thought was well yeah..that’s why I’m in a games shop..but I responded with “of course I have been playing games for quite awhile and keep upto date on gaming related news”
His response? “I wouldn’t hire you” upon asking why feeling I would be quite decent for the job he said “if you play video games I wouldn’t hire you..a gamer working at a game shop is just disaster waiting, I don’t want you giving your opinions on games I want you to sell games, that’s why I’d never hire someone who says they play video games”
Someone who plays games working at a game store..that’s insane! like an accountant working at a accounting office!
See @freezespreston’s anecdote upthread for why this is a bad idea.
Crazy, but it’s not just a gaming-related phenomenon — go into an auto store and most people don’t know what they’re selling (the number of times I’ll ring up, see if they have something in stock and then go down to find it’s something totally different, ugh) or a department store where people should know about their department but they have no idea ‘n run to a computer to see where things are… it’s just frustrating/unprofessional and makes me want to avoid the place in future.
Though, it does help explain @freezespreston’s story about the new manager at his EB and how she doesn’t know the first thing about the Wii-U!
Obviously their strategy there is to get people who will push shovelware on unsuspecting kids and parents instead of recommending games that are actually good and will sell regardless.
He’s got a point. Being a gamer who knows what they’re talking about may mean you’re honest with customers about the quality of the products. He wants someone who will sell shitty movie tie-ins and useless peripherals, and your conscience may stop you from doing that.
Yeah i don’t feel like selling my soul to allow someone to walk out with a wii u game for their Wii because the U stands for sharings and is perfect for kids to play together
He doesnt care if you sell half life 2 or the shitty overly expensive shitty games. He just wants you to sell. Which is what i think he means.
Yeah but this guy is also the new manager who took over when the last one left, his first move as new manager was fire 80% of staff and if he needs extra staff borrows from any nearby stores while doing most of the shifts solo himself to keep cost of staff down
I have been to 2 EB job interviews, they basically said the same thing to me, they wouldn’t hire me because i wasn’t a salesman. I said but i have a vast knowledge of your products and can give good accurate detailed descriptions of your products, he handed me a pen and told me to sell it to him, then when i wasn’t any good at selling him the pen he told me “see you’re not a saleman”. I argued the point that if he’d handed me a game i would have told him everything about it and made a better salesman, they weren’t interested. (p.s all my life I’ve been a video game salesman without trying, I’ve convinced a lot of people to buy a lot of games and my friends tell me all the time that i should sell games cause I’m good at pointing out why they’re good). And like many of you I’ve had more than one experience where i know far more about products EB stocks than their so called “Salesman” i find it insulting to be talked down to by someone that doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
TLDR: EB is dumb
Edit: I worked at a JB in the games section and my boss told me i was great at it, it was only a Christmas casual thing though 🙁 so I know i’m capable
It’s retail in general man. I’ve turned my shop into the 21st ranked shop in all of Australia and New Zealand in comparable sales and KPI targets and regularly hit 110-130% of budget yet all I do is get questioned on why didn’t I give the mystery shopper a leaflet or try to sell some engraving or shoe care products on top of the keys and watch band I’ve already unsold.
As retarded as the customers are they have nothing on the upper management of a retail chain.
I guess that’ll always be the problem, they’re interested in sales figures not customer satisfaction.
Jerks
Yeah at my local EB it seems the hiring method is if your 18 or under and know very little (except how amazing COD is) and this is true as I went to purchase tales of Xillia and the guy behind the counter asked me is that game good? I hadn’t even played it yet but he asked and I responded simply with “no, but if it is ill let you know” his response was “sweet but ill tell you which game I know will be game of the year guaranteed, COD ghost, seriously you should preorder it this game will easily outsell any game released this year” true story
Here at EB games we endorse both kinds of games FPS and shoot em ups 😛
So from the retail point of view, best = most sales. He’s probably right with that definition.
Ugh…
But did you get Xillia? Great game, I’m currently playing through it!
Check out Xenoblade man! Best JRPG this generation IMO
Nope, my brother got it but so ill play his when he’s done.
The answer he may want here is “I do not, but I stay informed about them & the happenings in the gaming news world.”
They’re never going to move those copies of Aliens: Colonial Marines or Ride to Hell: Retribution if the salesperson knows how shit they are.
I wouldn’t stop someone from buying it if they wanted to buy it, I’m just saying if someone comes in and actually asks for help looking for a game as a present or something how will the staff be able to help if they have no common knowledge themselves.
Daily store email will tell you what stock to push, don’t worry! 😛
It’s my 10 year old grandsons birthday coming up and I’m looking for a present can you tell me what game would be good for him?…COD he should be right with that
More seriously: an informed salesperson will make more repeat sales. People will resent a salesperson who either doesn’t know the product or who sells them shitty games and makes people feel betrayed.
Sure, you might make a sale once, but repeat customers are best customers. I say this as someone who used to sell video games.
years ago like 2003 or so, my local EB was great, all the guys were gamers the manager was a champ, I was the Gamecube man to them, I’d walk in, they’d tell me what was new on the Cube, I’d tell them which ones i was interested in and they’d all flick through catalogues from competitors and find me the best price match, I pretty much exclusively bought my games from them because I felt like i was being looked after well and enjoyed talking to the guys about games and they had well formed informed opinions about the products i was there to buy. And because they played games themselves they’d make recomendations or warn me about a game i was going to buy etc. Nowadays I avoid all EBs like the plague unless they have some exclusive thing i can’t live without.
TLDR: Another Gutsoup essay on the stupidity of salesman that don’t know their products
The difference may be is that I was working in a store in a country town, so we needed a loyal customer base. If I’d dicked someone over it’d get around and we’d lose a few customers.
In the world of the internet and reviews and just from having friends who play games i think its easy to form a opinion nowadays. Personally i wouldnt go into a EB and ask the sales person their opinion because I can get that info other places. Sure if they want to have a chat about it, im more than happy to discuss it but otherwise, nah
But you’re an informed consumer. It’s the grandmas who come in who need to buy a game for little billy that need expert advice.
Yeah i totally forgot about things like that. But even then even someone who has vaguely heard of games could help pretty easily. In alot of situations people skills and good communication are the only skills you need. I have neither which is why i sit in a backroom tinkering with lasers. 😛
If the customer is happy they will repeat buy and tell people how happy they are it shouldn’t just be country town ebs looking after their customers all of them should be or atleast faking that they care at the least
I know I get defensive over this, but I’ve been part of EB employee interviews as both a interviewee and as an interviewer.
This is going to sound like a mad generalisation but it’s not and it’s nothing against you, just what I’ve observed:
There’s a very fine balance you have to walk when hiring staff. I don’t agree with not hiring gamers straight out, I wouldn’t have worked there if that was the case. But the amount of ‘gamers’ that would apply thinking that because they played games they could do the job was incredibly high. These were people who were customers who we had dealt with and knew they didn’t have the people skills to do the job. I honestly think a lot of them thought we stood around playing games all day, which is not the case. There was stock control to do, promotions to set up/break down, prices changes to be actioned, deliveries to process etc. The kind of stuff that.
Ultimately, it’s easier to teach someone who is not into games, but is a good salesman, the product, than it is to teach someone who knows the product how to make a sale.
That’s not saying I believe in the stereotype that gamers can’t interact with other people. We were very lucky (generally) with the staff that we had at my store. We were all gamers who had sales skills. My manager would used to have gaming nights at his house were we would all rock up and play games together.
It’s just yeah, like I said, a balance you have to find.
But having said that, there are a couple of EBs I avoid in Sydney because the guys are total douchebags, so you may just have one of those guys working there 😛
yup, think you nailed it, must have a concentration of douchebags up this way
last thought on this then i’ll stop posting so Tay doesn’t turn into Gutsoup’s wall of complaint text.
I think i have too much of an opinion about this because game stores used to be like a little safe haven that i’d feel comfortable in, now they’re just an obstacle i try and avoid.
Dude your “walls of texts” are like bricks compared to some of the longer posts in TAY.
Don’t worry about it 🙂
yup, i totally understand this, but from personal experience with the stores around me is that the employees have got no idea what they are selling, I’m sure there are plenty of competant people working for them but I’ve noticed more and more people working in game shops who can’t actually help me. I always research research everything and never rely on sales people, whereas years ago i could go and have a chat about games with the games shop folk.
I agree they need balance, the problem is they’ve overbalanced
Salespeople should be product experts. I don’t think they need to be 100% on day one, but they should learn as much about the product as they can if they expect to sell them. If someone comes in with knowledge and has the right attitude, that’s a plus. Attitude and ethic are more important though- you can teach product knowledge.
I understand that you can’t have one more than the other, however I think in this case it’s just the new manager as the old manager I knew on a first name basis, he knew the work I do (being a handyman i deal with customers and getting their job done for the right price everyday) and said if I ever needed work give him a buzz. This new guy will only hire you if you can sell and if you say you play video games your instantly in the reject pile no matter your qualifications
As I said, not defending him in any way, just that I can get where he’s coming from, even if he has taken it too far.
Yeah I know it’s all good. Just seems to be the norm of late.
I can sort of see where he is coming from. Hiring a self identifying gamer can be dangerous when you get into the opinion territory.
Somebody bad mouthing CoD and the community because they prefer battlefield or RPGs. Getting into long and boring conversations about stuff when somebody says is this any good and they just want a yes or no answer.
That said having a staff member who knows what your product range in would also help
To play devil’s advocate: have you ever gone to a games website and looked at the sort of absolute fucking tripe that spews forth from so many ‘gamers’? I wouldn’t want a lot of them working for me either.
@cakesmith
I’m going to go ahead and book Friday night to Sunday. When do we need transportation from? Hours returned and such?
Ah, well, I can meet you at the airport on Friday night so from whenever your flight gets in to whenever your flight leaves?
Biggest gaming regret:
It would have been back in 1998 if I had to guess, a time when Pokemon had just become all the rage. My parents had taken me to the shops and were about to buy me the Blue version I so eagerly had anticipated. Low and behold, parents being parents, I ended up walking out of the store with Abe’s Odyssey for Game Boy instead, seeing as it was $35 compared to Blue version’s $49.
The horror.
*I ended up with Blue version, just not that day.
Haha, feel like I am lucky having a dad that played the SNES and knew all about games and stuff like that.
Never owning a Nintendo console until the Wii. Feels like I missed out on so many things as a kid.
Not that I disliked growing up with a Playstation, mind.
I grew up with Sega. I have no regrets being better in every way than Nintendorks (thanks @sernobulus for reminding me of the correct terminology :P)
SEGA? MOAR LYK SEE-YA COZ THEY DONT XIST NE MORE
I will admit one thing that Sega players got to enjoy in a far greater amount than Nintendo people:
Blind denial regarding how shit Sega was compared to Nintendo.
Biggest gaming regret AT THE TIME: I had saved up super hard and was so hyped for Road Rash on the gameboy. I got some birthday money, and went to go spend it at Target. But when I got there, I saw that the gameboy now had NBA JAM, which was freakin’ awesome on the megadrive. It was more expensive than Road Rash, but it was there, so I bought it instead.
By the time I’d got home and started playing, I realized I’d made a huge, huge, terrible mistake. I almost wanted to cry. Then my Mum told me that you can probably return it, at Target, so I did, and I bought Road Rash, and I played it til the gameboy died. Happy ending!
Biggest gaming regret: trading in my PS1 collection to be able to afford a PS2. 🙁 I had release copies of FF7-9 🙁
Also the time I bought Lunar: Dragon Song on DS. It is quite possibly the worst game I have ever paid money for.
Noooo! Release copies of FF! Even though you can now pick them up on PSN for like $15 each, some of the physical ones fetch up to $100 on eBay each. PS2 slim is now under $100! Haha, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, I know.
I think I kept FF7.
I have Platinum copies of 7 and 9, and a release copy of 8.
My FF7 is a bitsa.
Bitsa @gutsoup’s original copy and bitsa some random secondhand copy.
I bought FF9 secondhand years after it came out, perfect condition $25.
My mummy boughts me FF8 for my berfday after I kept the video shop copy so long they rang her.
Spending the day looking at houses. Could be interesting.
Yep. Definitely a house.
This one too.
BUILDINGS!
@dc
Shh, @dc will get punchy again and @shane will bear the brunt!
😛
I’m imagining @benj setting up a chair infront of a house, grabbing a box of popcorn and just watching a house for hours.
I heard he has a free floor…
Hah, funny story involving me and the floor fairy last night…
…and !?
Yep, not sharing 😛 it’s not that bad, but I wrote it out and it read like some weird fantasy.
@bjh Welcome to new TAY
That’s the problem with always on. It doesn’t take much to have an activation server sitting there that lets people activate that doesn’t need to maintain a connection. Although as for the costs I’m not sure if those costs are born by MS or the devs. Is the permanent connection to MS servers as part of a windows live equivalent, not a hosted server with the game
I’m curious as to why you have no issue with PC activation but do with console activation. Isn’t it exactly the same thing, Or is this part of the console, I just want to put in a game and play kinda thing.
i thought destiny could still be played completely offline?
although i get the point.
It might be a bit abrupt an introduction as this is the latest in a comment chain.
But I figured I would drag the newbie into old TAY instead of waiting for somebody to find it in old tay (Hi @greenius)
The main thread is about the movement towards always on single player games and how you feel about the industry moving in that direction.
so did i, even pre ordered it but bungie has now confirmed that the single player will require online
at that moment they lost my pre order and my money
with console it is put in and play as well as i play my console to be alone and away from things. i dont enjoy being online while gaming and gaming precedes the internet so why should it be required?
as for the pc activation i mean an offline activation code for disc based games as this allows you to still own your copy, if the activation is online and they take down the server or you just dont want to put up with restrictions there are ways around that , you still have some control
going back to servers for an always online single player or persistent game it is the devs responsibility but they can rent servers from microsoft or sony. so let me ask you this with developers already complaining about costs do you really think the service will last or be free in the future
I’m hoping somewhat optimistically (hahaha) that if the servers ever do shut down, there will be a “last day” patch for games that removes the requirement to connect to a server for authentication.
How else will they capitalise on people’s nostalgia twenty years down the track? 😛
But then you also need some way of acquiring and applying that patch… so if the server holding that goes down before you get to apply it, you’re still screwed.
But wouldn’t the patch be administered by the console manufacturer instead of the dev?
dont know and what if you want it down the track when the console is not supported ? plus this has already occurred with an xbox 360 game called chromehounds it required you to be online and now its worthless no patch was released i know this as i still have the disc
I’m just talking about my optimistic hopes here. Perfectly willing to concede that reality is not nearly as good as my fantasy world.
god dammit i want the fantasy world
@bjh Don’t we all. That’s why we’re gamers. 🙂
@bjh This is probably as good an opening as I’m going to get. I write books! You buy books?
@Shane i had a quick look at your book synopsis sounds good and complex but im currently working with a friend on his novel (i do art and writing) but once complete i may buy your book if it comes to a store near me
@bjh you work in comics? Got any samples I can take a squiz at?
@Shane i have not done a comic in about 4 years, i mainly do one page concepts for my friends novel (plus a little bit o videogame art on the side) im better a concepts and i work with pencil and canvas so my works are not online
The other thing with always online or all-digital stuff is they can lock you into one region completely with no way to ever work around it – just detect your IP is in Australia and always offer you AU-only content and you’re basically fucked without some crazy tunneling or whatever.
As someone that imports 95+% of my games, a good amount of which are often never made available locally, that would kill most of my gaming.
i agree i also import games from asia, europe and the USA they can really screw us over with always online
HAHA YOU AUSTRALIANS AND YOUR SHITTY MONDAYS, I’M IN CANADA AND IT’S SUNDAY SO I DON’T HAVE TO DEAL WITH MONDAYS-
WAIT
SHIT
HEY AT LEAST I DIDN’T GET PAGE-GET
Technically, this week you don’t have to deal with Monday since it’s some crazy made-up public holiday.
So woo.
Funny story.
That holiday is technically supposed to be only in the US.
We stole it because why the fuck not.
That’s ACTs attitude to NSW holidays…and it’s glorious.
Does that mean you get October 7th off?
@rize, answer my questions @rize. @rize! @rize!
This is why we can’t have nice things @rize
Sure do!
@rize
Innnnteresting.
http://www.ebexpo.com.au/ <— just saying
May have derped the tag
@rize
Ugh, now we have to deal with Saturdays as well as Mondays. (hi @saturday!)
hello im just here to ask the same question as last time
is anyone else pissed about developers forcing always online with most of their next gen games?
if so what can we do about it because we need to fight this people
I think it depends what the online functionality is.
If it’s phoning home for no functionality and won’t let you in otherwise, that’s not cool. I think Sim City proved that people don’t like that.
If it’s providing some functionality that would otherwise be missing, I’m fine with that. I don’t mind even single player games having an online component, as long as I feel like it is a complete single player experience.
The problem is is that is there even a single positive to always-online? I’m sure there’s.. one? but ever since the concept was first announced I’ve yet to think of one.
I said this in the next-gen article I did with @notoriousr, but: I would love to see a single player game that used the cloud t render complex stuff. I think you could have incredibly interesting physics stuff using much greater processing power. If you have a stable and fast connection, I reckon there will be some absolutely gorgeous stuff that’s entirely streamed by the end of this generation.
That’s where I see always online and single player.
Stable and fast connection.
There’s your problem. These days I can’t even play a game online without terrible game killing lag.
But that’s a your connection issue, not a everyone issue. That’s why I reckon we’ll see it towards end-of-gen.
The cloud is just a buzzword thing right now.
Maybe it will become a reality but we’re not there yet. We don’t have the connection speed to utilise real-time cloud rendering and I mean that in a global sense.
The cloud is a buzzword for gaming atm.
For enterprise usage it’s there or very close to it.
It’s definitely there for enterprise but the requirements for the two are worlds apart.
In terms of data storage and programs where the only things that matter are input/output (where response times can be >100ms without having a massive impact on usability), cloud based applications are amazing.
The bandwidth isn’t there for anything more complex and I honestly don’t know what sort of server architecture is required or if that’s remotely affordable for entertainment uses.
not really in a global sense as most of the areas i have been to lately in australia struggle with a 0.4mps internet speed, were still on adsl so next to no upload speed and internet is done on per megabite plans so playing online down here cost a lot of money,
this brings me to another point games are a luxury and contrary to popular belief so is the internet what happens if a want to buy a console wich is a one time payment and do not wish to lock into a service bill to play games?
by the way thank you for the discussion if i bring this up any where else im bombarded by hate and stupid arguments its good to see reasonable people on the net
No problem.
I think that there are still significant technical limitations, I just think that there is a lot to gain 🙂
I also think that wanting a console as a complete or near complete experience is fine- I still think that offline singleplayer is a great thing, much like reading a book by yourself is a great way to experience a story. The online requirements should serve the purposes of the game.
the thing is games are a product and services (even though they charge the same as products) that publishers want consumers to buy
now i am a consumer of offline games as products, and if the legitimate publisher is offering a online streamed service for a cost and lets say a pirate site is offering the same thing as an offline product for free, i would go with who ever has the offline product wich it pains me to say is piracy. as i have been a long time paying supporter of the industry but i can not support something that wich im not a consumer of
Demon’s/Dark Souls multiplayer where you can summon other players to help, get invaded by other player for PvP, see bloodstains to get mini-replays of other people’s deaths and get or leave hints on the ground.
You can play offline but you lose a lot from it.
not really ive complete dark souls offline and id not feel as if i lost anything if at all i feel that my experience my have a higher sense of achievement
Would you argue the same for a game like Journey? Journey can be completed solo, but gains so much from multiplayer. I almost cried upon being reunited with my journey mate near the end.
i have purchased it but have yet to play it
im not denying it can do good but im saying it can also do damage
Dude.
Dude
Play Journey!
A person that’s only ever eaten carob might not think they’re missing out until they eat their first bar of chocolate.
i have played it online if thats what you mean
See, the thing is that I don’t think anyone’s arguing that online doesn’t bring some awesome things to the table like bacon to a breakfast, but that those things should be optional, in case you’re, I dunno… vegetarian. Not, “Ohwell, can’t eat meat? I guess you can’t eat at all,” which is what ‘always online’ does.
Online optional, says I. Publishers push it because of social retention/uptake sales shit, and lowering the piracy rate. So they’re getting something out of it. But unless they’re giving the customer something useful in exchange for that, they can go and fuck themselves. Take D3 or Sim City for example. Single-players got nothing of any benefit whatsoever from those Always Online decisions. Instead they got active detriments to their experience.
That was the publisher telling gamers that their needs are more important than us having an enjoyable (or even fucking working) experience.
my point was forcing it upon us im fine with games having online features and some games having always on cloud based gaming but there should be service to those that want to be offline
the thing that gets me with next gen is they have all this new hardware power and instead of trying to use it opt for the cloud route, this also implies devs getting lazy and releasing halve finished games (forza 5)
one thing i believe devs are overlooking is that cloud services are going to cost a considerable amount post launch and considering their cost complaints now i doubt they can sustain it
not only that but dev will have complete control and this could lead to planned obsolescence meaning no more classics like ffvii and no more future gamers discovering our games
I kind of agree with you. An ostensibly single-player game that falls over if a connection isn’t available is a major fail. Dark Souls is a perfect example of always-online done right, with an option to play offline if you really wanted to.
agreed games like the souls games and borderlands i support because i can play offline and the online option is there
I don’t see all games switching to always-online modes though.
I think devs have to provide a fairly significant carrot to keep players on-side.
i hope so
like i said online functionality is fine but offline should be an option most of the time
I think that as long as the functionality and reasoning is explicitly laid out and justified it’s perfectly fine.
agreed
wait a second did two gamers just come to a peaceful solution?
You’ll quickly learn here that despite our online discussions being …robust, we fundamentally like being here and talking with each other.
Just don’t discuss Blade Runner.
@redartifice Yeah, or some MORONS will try and convince you that Deckard is a replicant or some stupid stuff. (HE’S NOT!)
Isn’t paying the server costs etc. ostensibly why we pay a fee for XBL Gold and PSN+? I was pretty sure that for retail Xbone games at least, MS gives developers a chunk of ‘the cloud’ (read: provisions some Windows Azure machines) and they can spin up more in multiple geographic locations constantly to meet demand more accurately than just having a huge bank of servers for it. That was certainly how the Titanfall guys were explaining that.
the fee for xbl and ps+ goes strait to first party the devs still have to pay for the servers
boooooo see above. You are never going to last in TAY if you don’t play the refresh game better than that 😛
don’t buy games that have always online requirement?
& at least on the new consoles, are there any details about always online?
i mean, other than the Xbone’s really confusing ‘always online, no wait, check in once a day, ok fine not online, but screw you we’re taking away the sharing options’ mess.
I’ve not heard of any console game that needs to be always online. In fact, I’m pretty sure Sony have announced that they will not require it (but devs may).
quite a few actually check my other comment on this thread
games of next gen that require on line are
destiny – bungie
the division – ubisoft
the crew – ubisoft
fable legends ms
titanfall ea
thats what i know for now but ubisoft may make all their next gen only games online while ea said most of their games will have offline
me and you are in the same boat i also dont buy games that require online as you would only be renting the until the publisher shuts them down
But isn’t the point of Titanfall and Destiny that they are multiplayer?
I don’t think the Division is a good example, it’s an MMO
titanfall is only multiplayer so i will give that to you(he asked for online console games) but bungie announced singleplayer for destiny then stated it would be always online
the division i believe is ubisofts attempt at a mmo singleplayer hybrid but i have nothing solid so i shall do more research
I should have clarified upthread as well- I haven’t heard of a single player console game that needs to be always online (a la SimCity)
I think Destiny has an always online environment that makes it a pseuso-MMO experience, but you can choose to go it alone if that’s what you want.
i remeber reading an article where bungie announced an actual single player mode the later said it had to be online
ill see if i can find it
Titanfall is multiplayer-only.
Destiny can be played offline if you want but you’re missing out on the best elements of the experience, it’s designed to be drop-in/out PvE multiplayer.
As someone who regularly plays MMOs, I don’t find always-online requirements a problem where appropriate for the game.
Yeah, I’m in the same boat as you. Been a Nintendo guy all my life, so I can’t deal with the idea that a game I’ve bought is no longer playable because some company out there decided that they don’t want to deal with it any more. I can understand and accept it in games such as MMOs where there online IS the game, but for anything else it’s unacceptable.
I’m finding it weird to try and deal with PC gaming. I was going to buy Blood Dragon to break in the new machine I got earlier in the year, but then I found out that it requires Uplay to be able to play it (and was pretty pissed that that fact was nearly impossible to determine from examining the box, sneaky bastards), so I left it on the shelf.
I don’t get the hate for uplay. It’s a extra layer of stuff in there but basically just a launcher that comes up when you start the game.
I could be an issue if the uplay servers are down but i haven’t had an issue. Then again I am the guy who will not by a game for $7.50 if you can get in in the US steam store for $5. So following principles is good, I just don’t get that the issue there is.
It’s one more service to sign up for/get spammed by that doesn’t actually do anything.
Also, Ubisoft is one of the more notorious offenders when it comes to intrusive DRM.
Well there was that whole thing earlier in the year where Ubisoft’s servers were broken into or something, and a whole bunch of account information was compromised. So if anyone was using the same e-mail+password combo on other more important accounts and lost those too, all because of some needless account that had no reason to exist in the first place… that would be extremely shitty. Not to say that that necessarily happened at all, but it could 😛
Part of what irks me is the idea that I’ve gone to the store, I’ve bought this product and brought it home, I have a disc there with all the game data on it… but unless I have an internet connection, it’s completely useless. And then sometimes even if I *do* have an internet connection, it’s still completely useless – I’ve heard plenty of stories where someone has bought a game but have been stuck with just a crappy mobile connection or whatever, then a brand new game has demanded that it first download a multi-gigabyte update before letting you play it. Again anecdotal, but it happens. Some might say “oh, it’s just a one-time activation, after you do that you’re fine”. But I’m only fine for now. If, years down the track, I want to break out that old game again but I don’t have the original computer it was installed to any more, I’ll need to reactivate it again when installing to the new one. But who’s to say that company will still be around then, running that authentication server? I mean just look at THQ – huge publisher, but they’re gone now. Good thing they didn’t have THQplay or anything like that. Also as an aside that didn’t really squeeze into anywhere else above, it just bugs me that I have to install all these extra programs on top of the thing I want to play, and have them running alongside everything else and complaining about updates all the time etc etc.
Tl;dr: Tinfoil hats, all over the place.
I thought I’d load up Blood Dragon for kicks and giggles last week, and spent the first twenty minutes of my time wrangling with authentication servers and account details. 😛 All so what… I can get a nice desktop wallpaper and ubisoft can spy on how I play?
If your medicine is going to taste like shit, it better fucking DO something.
Updated build pic:
http://i.imgur.com/x3wtX1f.jpg
I’m really just cruising this on my week off. I could sit down and smash it in a day but really taking my time to do it right and enjoy it. Stripped the Titans yesterday and fitted the waterblocks today. Just threw it in for a looksie – haven’t run any of the cables or anything yet, but you get the idea.
sexy.
wait. Titans. as in plural? that is beastly.
Nef is the reason people assume that PC gaming is expensive
Yeah two Titans in SLI. It’s a bit bonkers, but I started making good money recently and thought why the fuck not. I’m single and have no kids – I’m making the most of it.
totally. if you’ve got the spare cash, go for it.
you probably wont need to upgrade your vid cards for quite a while, so you might be better off in the long run.
Plus I’m playing on 2560×1440 – so it’s less of a wank. If I was using 1920×1080 – you’d be fine calling me a wanker.
see & I thought my rig was overkill when I got it 2 years ago.
& I’m only running 1920×1080 atm.
*looks appraisingly*
Yep… that’s a computer alright
*puffs bubble pipe*
So at the moment how much has your rig cost you?
Next question.
Can it blend?
That blender might have a bit of trouble with the waterblocks but I’m going to say based on previous experience that yes, it will blend.
Very good, install a blender onto your rig and call it a day as that beasts done
Prediction:
In 2014 the CoD & Battlefield franchises as they exist now will be discontinued.
Instead, they’ll be multiplayer only, monthly subscription.
$20 base package, $30 per month, get all map packs as they’re released.
no more annual release, just an ongoing, incremental thing.
I mean, they’ve been using the same engine the whole of this current gen, so they’ll probably do that again, so theres no need for big updates…
& seriously. who plays CoD for the single player anymore?
I haven’t for a long time. Don’t play CoD at all, and only buy BF for multi. Still haven’t finished BF3 single players, and have poured several hundred hours into multi.
then using this survey sample of one, this would be a sound business model.
Dear Activision & EA,
send all the monies my way for coming up with this brilliant idea.
cheers,
sean.
Edit: actually, as someone who does it mainly for the MP, would you do that? rather than spend $100 up front, then plus however much the map packs are, would you pay a base subscription with no upfront cost?
Honestly, it depends. BF3 as an example – I bought the base game full price at say – $80, Premium (which inlcudes all DLC and other goodies) was about $70, and I bought one or two of the shortcut bundles as well. So I’ve probably dropped close to $200 on it.
Not a fan of a subscription model though – they’d have to actively develop it and add special events and a lot of extra content to justify it. Which being an FPS, would be difficult, compared to say an MMO. MMO expansion are easy.
thats interesting.
you’re ok with paying ~$200 in a few larger installments over a year or so, but the same content for a similar cost released as a subscription doesnt appeal.
theres a good reason i never got into marketing & business: coz consumers are weird like that & I’m shit at selling ideas.
Yeah I fell better outlaying that money immediately and knowing exactly what I’m getting. With BF3 (and BF4) the expansions are planned and even loosely dated right from the get go. It’s not like an MMO either where I don’t know if in 12 months it’s going to have died out and going F2P.
It’d be a hard model to apply to an FPS – quickly, anyway. They’d really have to warm people on to the idea slowly.
BF and COD are already basically subscription models. If you don’t keep up with the latest DLC pack you star struggling to find games.
But the difference is, I can outlay a single purchase – Premium – or an equivalent season pass, and be done. I know that’s all there is. I also don’t have to wonder if the game’s going be abandoned like some unpopular MMO.
@ynefel It does essentially get abandoned once a year, when the new game comes out, and ends up with more cost. This is a far bigger problem with COD than BF, though.
I stopped at Modern Warfare 3. Over it.
for some reason, I cant stand the ones developed by Infinity Ward.
Don’t mind the Treyarch ones. but yeah, bit over it too. Black Ops was good for messing around with a few mates against bots, but the whole proper online thing doesnt appeal, coz I’m pretty shit at them.
Trust me, skill frequently wasn’t a factor when trying to have fun. I got really good at MW2 and would still have games where it was just not pleasant.
CoD4 was the peak of the stories and where I entered the franchise. MW2 was alright, and not as bad as people say. Had a really fun multiplayer. I found MW3 to be a real mess, but the ending was satisfying enough. The multiplayer didn’t hold my interest very long. I didn’t mind World at War but I hated Black Ops and skipped Black Ops 2. I’m skipping Ghosts and getting BF4 with my launch Xbone to try and get back into multiplayer. I tried BF3 but I was pretty terrible at it, so we’ll see how we go.
COD4-2 killed my 360 and I shall never forgive it for that!
I’ve been meaning to go back to COD4 for a while, to see if it is as good as I remember. Unfortunately, I’ve gone full master race* so playing it on 360 is ridiculously unappealing and I’ll be relying almost entirely on auto-aim. Shame that the game has never really dropped in price. Most other titles from around that time can be bought on Steam for a pittance. Not COD.
*Never go full master race.
I’m still 90% Xbox in spirit but most of my gaming has been PC based lately because my wife has been doing a lot of things that tie up the TV. Haven’t lost the knack with the 360 controller though.
I still use it for a lot of games but I was never good at FPS/3PS games to begin with.
The community for COD4 is still going super-strong on PC, though, so it might be the only viable choice.
Do you have any US based friends. They can pick CoD4 up for $5 during sales. Full retail is $20 for them > $50 for us.
I should have mentioned that my interest in doing this goes right up to the point where I have to do anything and then it magically vanishes :p
Well I went cakesmith style. Interest went up to and inclusive of purchasing said game and that’s about it. Everything else seems like too much work
I probably wouldn’t do it that being said I rarely play either of those 2 (my laptop just can’t handle it)
I you seriously thinking that people will pay $360 per year to play CoD?
Will people seriously pay $360 a year to play CoD?
I think anything that has a subscription model is automatically an issue, people will pay and play but with the sub it’s a case of if I don’t play this month I have wasted 30 bucks.
I think it would be more likely they end up as a $30 base game with everything as DLC and cash store. Buy all the hats!
The single player campaign is the reason they can get away with releasing the same multiplayer game on the same engine but charge another $50-$100 bucks for it. It’s a new game.
probably not, but then again, like Nef said, he’s spent about $200 on BF3.
& Black Ops 2 on steam you’re looking at somewhere between $140-$190 depending on how much of the DLC you wanna get.
so maybe not $30 per month…. $15-20, yeah sure. I think people would pay that. I mean…. for the hundreds of hours people put in, thats not unreasonable.
& they wouldnt need to put out the SP campaign that hardly anyone seems to play. its be an ongoing & incremental & evolving game.
the publisher wouldnt lose out coz every year they’d be getting the same money, & consumers wouldnt lose out coz they’d be getting the same (equivalent) product.
I only play the CoD single-player. The multiplayer component never gets installed on my machine. 🙂
I’ve been following and enjoying Call of Duty’s military recreation/fantasy simulations since Medal of Honor was its closest rival.
Thought I should mention this for the people that have backed Star Citizen: They’ve released a pre-alpha demo that lets you check out your hanger and ship.
Also, I keep trying to tell myself that I spent too much money on that game, and yet I still have no regrets. Hell, I almost want to spend another $50 just to get another ship.
I think I have a problem.
The only problem, is you think that you will actually get a game.
I am very dubious on if they will ever actually deliver on it. Hope they will cause it looks amazing but I have my doubts
The zeal I’ve seen for that game in MMO circles is beyond the rational. They have to release something or they won’t get threats, they’ll just straight up get burned alive in their homes. A significant number of otherwise sane people have dropped at least triple digits and sometimes quad on this ephemeral promise, and even if the creators don’t release it, there’ll be a second kickstarter up in no time to plunder the development made so far, and continue it.
They have. The hanger demo 😛
The whole development so far has been amazingly transparent, and right now I can’t see them failing to release on time at all.
Well, they asked for $500k and so far they’re up to $17 million, so they certainly have the money for it.
In a way that makes me even more scared for delivery. The scope of the game would have changed and the timeline for releasing a $500,000 game has long past. Then again I haven’t followed the development closely, but friends who also backed it are quite worried about if they are ever going to get anything.
Their primary concern is that they are already 30 times over what they asked for and are still out there hunting for more funding.
So, is anyone still playing Animal Crossing? I have purchased a thousand turnips and want to make oodles of bells. When and where should I be selling them? Obviously I’m not going to flip them on Monday morning for 72 bells.
I don’t really any more but I can try and remember to keep an eye on turnip prices for you if you like.
EDIT: Just saw Shane’s comment and realised I misread yours. You can sell them in your town, but if you have a friend that gets a great price you can visit their town and sell there. Ultimately gives you a better chance of getting a good price.
The price changes twice each day, once at 12am and once at 12pm. Make sure you sell before the weekend or you lose it all.
Best bet would be to ask on twitter who has the best price and tag in: @sughly, @powalen and @greenius (I think he stil plays it).
I don’t! 😛
It’s entirely random. Often the best option is to visit other towns. @greenius knows many many details.
I guess I will just ask around. I know when the game was new and popular people updated each other on their prices a bunch, but I don’t see that anymore.
Mine is at 88. I bought my first ever load of turnips yesterday.
Mine were 72 this morning, I bought them at 91. Obvously I’m holding out for a better deal.
Haven’t checked this afternoon though, I’ve worked through lunch.
I’m heavily invested in the market myself so you can just give me a shout-out and I’ll answer. This guide is pretty much all you need regarding patterns.
http://www.thonky.com/animal-crossing-new-leaf/stalk-market/
Simply put: Wednesday/Thursday are the two dates to memorize. I’d recommend still reading the guide, however.
I briefly skimmed that guide on my phone last night, I guess I have to hope I get a big spike pattern and a nice big price on Wednesday, or I need to bail out at a loss on Thursday evening to minimise the damage.
I’d say let’s keep each other updated on prices but I don’t have wi-fi access during the day while i’m at work so visiting other towns would be difficult until I get home after 6-7pm.
Hmmmmm yeah your 6-7 is around midnight in my part of town, I’m afraid. I might go night owl soon, but I’m not sure that’ll help. Time restraints aside, I’m on pretty much every day. *shrugs*
But hey, if my saturday (the day, not the guy you’re talking to) prices are high and you’re playing on sunday, I think we could essentially set up a endless cycle of buying/selling.
That’s an interesting point, hopefully it won’t think we’re time travelling and punish us.
Nah, I’ve sold turnips to other Taybie’s towns before without any repercussions, although I’ve never had weekend prices high enough to try that particular exploit.
If that happens, I’ll be interested in participating!
I’ll keep an eye out for good prices for you. My internet availability is very limited during the week though.
“HEY EVERYONE MY TURNIP PRICES WERE 9 BILLION THIS MORNING!”
“It’s over now though”
:'(
Yeah, pretty much what the others said. It actually follows a pattern so it’s best to check it twice during the day if you can (the morning price and after the 12pm price change).
You’ll obviously increase your chances of finding better prices by knowing more people with the game. Unfortunately most people have stopped playing but I believe Shane, Strange, Powalen, Pixel and Sughly are still playing it. Just spam “TURNIP PRICES?!” on TAY/Twitter and maybe some kind TAYfolk who have given up on the game can check it for you!
I believe there’s a few forums like GameFAQs that have a sort of trading section and I think most people are willing to let you sell in their town if they have a good price, just as long as you give them a % cut or “donation”.
A thousand turnips isn’t too much. Wait until you’ve spent MILLIONS on them D:
I just bought all I could carry, with all the money I had handy at the time.
Edit: Reply fail.
or was it a bold statement that you’re taking the conversation in a new direction? having it on your terms?
probably not.
I’m a maverick!
Over the weekend I discovered that I am boss at Monopoly. Two games, both times getting constantly crappy dice rolls and against people that have played the game for years. Won both with EASE.
Monopoly is so much quicker if people don’t use the free parking houserule. That rule smacks of something a loser thought up so he could get back in the game.
Is that the one where you collect all the money paid to the bank?
yup. Surprisingly commonly used.
Yeah someone I was playing with mentioned they do that at their friends house. Sounded bs to me!
People never read the rules when they play Monopoly because they “know” them off by heart. Some “house rules” are so common that people think they’re official rules.
And other rules not used. My parents never taught me the auction rules. They just didn’t exist to me, and it blew my mind when I learned about them.
I played a computer-based version of monopoly a few years back and couldn’t understand what was going on. The game goes SO much faster with the auction rule.
It’s not just faster, that rule breaks the game.
No one plays Monopoly according to the proper rules. Free parking money adds a random chance to everything and causes the game to never end as a result. You should never ‘let someone off’ a rental fee by passing you some card you want or whatever, they pay the fee or they’re out of the game.
Every unsold property goes up for auction if you don’t buy it. By the time everyone’s gone 3-4 rounds of the board, everything should be owned by someone.
Especially given the game started as a critique of capitalism.
http://harpers.org/blog/2012/10/monopoly-is-theft/
You crazy tycoon
Person 4 Golden is such a good game, I’m really distracted today cause i keep thinking about the storyline, I’m up to a really intense bit and had to stop playing in the middle of it so all i can think about is going home and continuing.
For P4Gers that might be interested I’m in November
ur gbbx Ananxb, gur zbafgre.
Cbbe Ananxb. ='(
Where’s @dc?
Probably enjoying Michel Ancel’s latest masterpiece with a bowl of Kettle Chips.
What this guy says! Just finished it, 100% all levels. WOOOOO! Oh man, I’ve got entirely too much time on my hands.
What’s new with you guys? This is usually The Newsroom day but Labor Day holiday in the U.S. ensures it ain’t on. *shakes fist* 😀
Huh. Didn’t you only get that a few days ago?
My life is empty! 😀
\o/ ?
More likely -o-
Wait, is Labour day affecting all Sunday TV shows or just some?
Definitely HBO, not sure about others.
Thanks.
Just checked and some shows I’m watching have unfortunately been affected.
Good thing I have some older shows on reserve.
IT’S OKAY, BREAKING BAD IS UNAFFECTED!
Rainman Legions!
There’s a Rainman Kmart joke in there, but it’s Monday and my brain isn’t active yet.
EDIT: Derped a word.
I don’t know this joke or understand the reference, but I understand Monday derping! \o/
…..
……………….
Oh. I did know the reference!
Monday derping has just gone to the NEXT LEVEL.
\o/
Hey, did you know @rize is still being a jerk and ignoring my question?
What a jerk.
Worse than Hitler.
Shittier than Hitler.
Shitler.
What’s new, my friend? Stuff, I bet! 😀
Don’t forget things! What’s happening with you friend?
RAYMAN LEGENDS! That about sums up my last five days. XD
Haha, phonecall from Nintendo this morning. 9:00, right on the dot.
Too bad I was sleeping at the time 😛
why did nintendo call you ?
Because I sent in my 3DS after their update bricked it. Two months ago >_>
oh i remember that now, i was hoping it was for good reasons 🙁
I am still too scaredycat to talk to them again. Or to call up Fair Trading and talk to them like I intended.
Sometimes I really hate me.
Will this comment help convince you?
Probably not.
Maybe this one?
DO IT BITCHTITS.
Maybe tomorrow.
Maybe.
Story Tiem
Nos plays CSS on jailbreak servers semi-regularly, but since no-one can say nosrepenasnina without sounding like a blithering idiot, he changed his Steam name to John Smith, and to go with it, replaced his avatar with this guy.
What kind of jerk goes online with a hard to pronounce name?
Quiet Trijeen.
Turgen?
I always read it as Trojan. The missing letters AO are for Adults Only… I figure that if I ever become an adult, I’ll see them. It’s quite reassuring.
Wouldn’t that be Trajon?
See, the knowledge that you harken from backwards Queensland is the next step of the translation…
Turgid.
I read it as having a soft J. So kind of like Tryn. Which is more like Trin. I don’t know why my mind converts it to a Y first, I guess it just likes to do things in a roundabout way.
That’s because dangly bit makes y look more like a j, even though the tittle should make the i look like the j.
That or you play LOL.
Ew. I would never stoop to such lows.
TRYNDAHURRRRR!!!
This is how I always read it. Always.
And you would be wrong. On the internet. Always.
Which is unacceptable.
If only there was some kind of image of a Trojan Rabbit that I could call to mind. Such a pity no one has ever made something like that.
..bleach is a good turgen
Is Nos really that hard to pronounce
Is it NOSS or is it NOSE?
*freaks out*
Nøs
The first, like the drink.
Also,
nosrep enasni na
an insane person
But wouldn’t an insane person do it all wrong, like pronouncing “nos” as “tree” or something?
No sit rep for narnia is how I read it..we’ve lost narnia /o\
OH MY GOD
MIND BLOWN!
:O
John Smissu
You leave EB Girl alone, @freezespreston. You monster.
Better stake your claim first, man.
You and your innuendo, Shane. >:|
Uh… okay… 😛
I’ll spell it out for you.
Visit EB, fish it out and flop it onto the counter.
And then make a “Waggle my Wiimote” comment.
I was going to mention attachments for a joystick, or testing the grip… but I decided that I’d gone far enough to traumatise the poor boy as it was 😛
The boy?
I’d be more worried about EB Girl at this point.
I’m sure she meets a hundred sexually starved nerds a day. She can handle herself.
#JealousYetDC?
Wouldn’t you rather claim your steak? 😀
…I hate that even all these years later, my mind still reacts to that phrase with this one.
In a way, they are all EB Girl in potentia.
I plan on. You can have this one.
@redartifice The train from Grim Fandango is pretty great. 😀 Also the train section in Broken Sword 1 too.
PSYCHONAUTS ACTION FIGURES! D: http://www.polygon.com/2013/9/1/4682320/psychonauts-gets-cute-little-figurines-at-pax
Mr. Pokeylope, the turtle! Raz! Dogan! They’re all here! 😀
I still love this thing too! XD
http://amanita-design.net/store/robot-josef.html
That Josef is very cool.
There’s a compartment for inventory! A compartment! D:
My only game plushie is the Creeper I made myself 🙂
WHERE CAN I BUY THEM DC YOU MONSTER! DON’T SHOW ME THAT WITHOUT SAYING WHERE I CAN BUY THEM!!!!!
Soon from the Double Fine online store! 😀
\o/
Oh good, here I was thinking they’d be PAX exclusive.
Currently in a meeting/conference call. There is no need for me to be here so I’m just playing around on my phone. But boy do I wish I went to the bathroom beforehand.
Gas the room
Wet your pants and you’ll probably be asked to leave. Two birds with one stone.
http://bit.ly/1e5M3Yc
Monster.
Also greatest gif post for weeks
Pretty sure that’s what everyone thinks when in a meeting.
Unless they’re heading the meeting.
Nope, even meetings I run I feel that most of the time.
That Hunger Games Popsugar image down the bottom…
“The Hung – CATCH!”
Sounds like Cricket commentary
Sugar articles discussed in TAY are never there went I check
…in one page I’ve gone from visionary future of gaming talk to lame dick jokes.
Never change, Tay, never change.
TAY.
The only place you can discuss serious ethical dilemmas of world problems whilst pointing to your crotch with raised eyebrows.
Clearly you haven’t been to my bedroom.
Yet.
Rize’s bedroom. A serious ethical dilemma on a global scale.
Imma be in Canberra for Blaghmeat.
I’m going to get that on a poster and put it on my door.
Also, WOO!
With a picture of a guy pointing at his crotch with raised eyebrows?
Apparently I’m quite popular with the girls on the weekly pensioner bus.
No context needed there I think.
Were you able to provide them with an item that fits their keyholes perfectly?
*points to crotch with raised eyebrows*
Freeze’s joke really. Give credit to him.
sorry to be the one to point this out, Benny, but if its shaped like this you might wanna go see a doctor.
They have the code. I am the key.
3/10.
Correct response is:
I am the keymaster. Are you the gatekeeper?
hahaha, i thought the exact thing as i read that. I wanna double upvote you 😛
I’m suddenly psyched to see Wolf Creek 2.
You should see Wolf creek: The musical
The far superior production
^ What this guy said
http://www.melbournefringe.com.au/fringe-festival/show/wolf-creek-the-musical/
I’m usually bored stupid by horror movies but that one really disturbed me for some reason.
Laugh yourself stupid instead!
http://www.melbournefringe.com.au/fringe-festival/show/wolf-creek-the-musical/
hey @shane & @whoeverelsewasgettingstufffromogs
Did your OGS stuff arrive yet? I’m still waiting,
Waiting for games is hard, you’d think that after a few decades it’d be easier
Still waiting. Guess customs is having a week off or something.
dammit, I’m impatient, what are you waiting for Beavwa? Mine is SRIV at this rate it’ll actually release in australia before mine arrives.
Wonderful 101, shipped 22 August.
Now that it didn’t arrive in time for the weekend just gone, realistically I probably won’t have much of a chance to play before the 14th. So, eh.
Heh, actually, at this rate it might not be available in Australia by the time it gets here. :p
Got it last night, so hopefully yours isn’t too far off.
sweet, hope you get a chance to play it soon, hopefully mine will be there tonight.
Hahaha, mine is still two weeks from release. I’d be over the moon if it arrived now! 😛
Ladies & Gentlemen, I present to you…. SPORTSBALL : http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/sep/02/qrl-penis-biting-claim
Edit: not all sportsball is that freaking dumb. I make no secret of how much i hate the mentality of Rugby League, and that is just an example of why.
That one made me laugh. Out loud. At work.
Remember this is a guy who was an excellent player and commanded a couple hundred thousand a year salary and gave it up to hang with some bikies.
He’s not exactly the sharpest tool in the drawer.
doesn’t sound too sharp.
NRL needs to weed out the morons involved with it.
get rid of the booze sex drugs thuggery culture & it might be an ok sport.
*tumbleweed on empty field*
probably.
I mean, rugby union doesn’t have the same culture.
proper football (aka soccer) doesn’t.
AFL has its problems, but I don’t think they’re as acute as the NRL.
I’m just bewildered as to how it got so far out of hand….
Yeah, I know not all NRL players are thuggish alcoholic rapists, but its a case where the culture is so synonymous with the game & its players, that it’d be easier to fire them all & start from scratch.
the whole code has an image problem.
Somethingsomething Sydney-based somethingsomethingsomethingelse
Because NOT SUPPORTING SPORT IS UNAUSTRALIAN REAL AUSSIE HEROES
There is a reason the call union a thugs game played by gentleman and league a gentlemans game played by thugs
Some of those morons are the best players out there. At least they are until they derail.
The problem is they lead such consequence free lives. They do anything wrong they get a quick slap on the wrist. Anything more and they just break contract with the club and another club picks them up.
There needs to be actual consequences to their actions. That would make a world of difference.
totally agree.
all this bullshit recently with that AFL club injecting its players with some unknown PED & the NRL club doing something with some other banned substance… all they get is an internal investigation, a fine & a coach loses his job.
seriously, if any non-sporting person did the same thing, that is importing, supplying and administering a controlled substance, then they’d be in gaol.
sick of all this internal policing stuff that goes on in sport.
they need to face the same penalties as anyone else.
The coach got a 12 month suspension. He still has his job.
ASADA will probably put a few 2 year bans on players though.
well…. thats ever dumber.
If it was anyone other than James Hird, he’d have been hung, drawn and quartered.
Being the golden boy of one of the big four clubs has quite a few benefits.
Initially consequence-free. Fifteen years later when their knees are all fucked up and they have no marketable skills and better hope they saved up for retirement for the rest of their lives…
All things considered, I think it would be more accurate to call him “Not the sharpest comb in the flowerpot.”
“not the cuddliest crocodile in the daycare centre”
“Not the sharpest tooth on the penis”
he went for a bit of molar action?
“Whether it is real or imagined, contact can occur and that is a very real risk.”
Watch out for that imagined contact. It’s truly risky.
And that’s the official word from his solicitor.
watch the soccer World cup, plenty of imagined contact in that game, looks painful too,
I prefer idiots trying to exploit the free kick system to idiots trying to give each other aggressive oral sex any day.
ha, yeah I’m not an AFL/NRL/Union watcher or sports in general really but I’ll happily watch soccer and actually look forward to the world cup.
I’d have said the other way is better. At least it’s REAL. 🙂
I feel ill, I want to just go home and sleep until Breaking Bad tonight.
Stupid uni classes, with their stupid back to back Tutorials after Lectures.
Haha, I don’t have university until next week
… which is this week now that sunday’s over.
…..
this just ain’t my day
If you don’t feel well, go home. You won’t retain the information when you feel like crap. Get Rimmy to get you notes.
Oh man. Today marks the anniversary of the first day I wandered into Australia for the better half of a year with only $200 and a pocketful of dreams. And a lesbian’s phone number.
I don’t remember much ’bout it except I was going on at 48 hours without sleep, I hung out with stoners, bought drugs (but I didn’t partake BECAUSE I AM A NICE GUY) broke into a public park among other places because your parks close seriously that’s a thing?, injured myself greviously on a children’s playground..
good times.
I’m not sure if I’m happy that wasn’t a page-get.
It’s okay, you can say if you took drugs. Just talk clearly and into this microph…non-suspicious microphone shaped rock.
EDIT: wait, strikethroughs don’t work aswell?Please
How the hell are we gonna extradite him from Canada on that? At least ask if he sold drugs.
Hahaha, funny story..
Oh, you mean if I sold drugs in AUSTRALIA. Goodness no.
So that interview the other week wasn’t for the LEGO store?
🙁
No, that was a actual interview for the Lego store. Who would lie about that?
I sold drugs afterwards, silly.
On a serious note, only in high school. And just a tiny bit of the marijuana.
Saturday: The Bad Boy of TAY
I’m fucking sorry.
@Saturday: The Bad Boy of TAY who remains hardcore canadian 🙂
I’m serious, with all the shady individuals and backpackers I hung out with my only vice was alcohol.
And participating in underground pit fights.
The pit fights with the snakes or the pit fights with the monkeys?
How you answer this will seriously impact our relationship.
Monkeys with snakes wrapped around their fists as a makeshift cestus.
They don’t.EDIT: No matter how that ended up it would have been right 😀
How odd, I can edit them in but it didn’t work at first. Oh well I probably screwed it up or something to do with the mobile site … most likely they first one.
are you using [s] or [strike]?
I use [del]
That’s craymazing!Jeez Nob. Are you ever not not getting things not incorrect?
Yes! I mean … No?
Yeah I’ll never understand why parks close. I guess you’ve gotta let homeless people know it’s bedtime though!
Breaking Bad is a pretty good show. I like the part where people do things.
GOD DAMMIT! SPOILERS RIGHT UP THE TOP OF THE PAGE! *flips table*
I’m a monster!
You’re a monster!
Everyone’s a monster… on Sesame Street! Except for the humans.
OH DEAR GOD IT’S SATURDAY-SPOILER LEVELS
FOR CLARIFICATION THAT’S PRETTY BAD
Got a tweet favourited by Atari Teenage Riot.
I feel special.
Edit: I know it’s nothing but a advertising thing but shut your whorish mouth.
My mouth is not whorish. It is fine and beautiful.
And will do sexual deeds in exchange for money, which is somewhat whorish.
I don’t do it in exchange for money, I’m just so awesome at it that people feel the need to throw money at me (and I suddenly feel incredibly unclean for having written that).
Somewhat? I would imagine that is exactly what a whore does. What, is a fancy certificate all that’s missing for Dire to become a full-pledged whore? God, it was easier back then.
The Newsroom is a fantastic show and you must watch it all (if not already). Just caught up to date and now im sad because i want more.
I booked my first ever day off work to play a game (GTA) and I am getting giddy thinking about the amazing new games coming up..
Oh, and I got a promotion today that I still don’t know much about but i didn’t even have to interview for it so that was a nice change. Restructures FTW.
Man I miss TAY sometimes. You people are awesome.
I think F4ction wanted to play splinter cell so i am keen but maybe not til late September and by then I have to play Amnseia and GTA so OMFG how will I find the time 🙁
Wow, congratulations on the promotion. \o/
This, your trip to E3 and the Trials university videos doing well means you’ve had a great couple of months. Hopefully you have more.
Aww thanks, you’re awesome too Shady.
THE NEWSROOM. WOOOO!
Everything’s coming up Shady.
That’s why I blame you for the hiatus of The Newsroom. Jerk.
Dude im close to giving it all up for a new ep. Seriously that is captivating tv!
You ever watch The West Wing, Shady? Also Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip! Aaron Sorkin does good TV. 😀
Maybe watch Sportsnight instead of Studio 60.
Aesthetics wise I think Studio 60 has much more in common with Newsroom than West Wing, but I”ll have to take your word on Sportsnight. I haven’t seen it. D: Storywise they tend to cover the same ground as Studio 60 too. (Network vs. integrity, etc.) Also, I loved Studio 60. 😛
So we just applied for a house. It looks like I will be moving in with my friend and his gf, but one of her friends is moving in as well. Another person moving in makes it a lot easier on me I think. We’ll see how it goes I guess. The place isn’t bad apart from the pink/purple bathroom. I guess I should probably tell my parents at some point. Let them know that I’m definitely out for good.
WHHHHHAATTTT
Ah, all is well then. Unless, y’know, you hook up with the friend, then it’s constant social maneuvering to fuck behind each other’s backs and constant paranoia if the other couple has had intercourse on the particular piece of furniture you’re sitting on.
… Not.. that I would know..
“I would shit myself laughing if you two hooked up” was thrown about 😛 One guy I don’t even know (who had my room back at college last year, is gay, and his first question about me was “is he cute?”) made it pretty clear he guarantees it’ll happen.
Would be even more awkward if he hooked up with both of the girls.
Less awkward if he hooked up with all three of them.
You’ve always gotta go making things weird Freeze 😛 I barely know the other girl though. I’m just hoping personalities don’t clash too much.
http://i.imgur.com/sFCNtyF.jpg
Is this your first time sharing a bathroom with a woman?
Because you’re in for a super fun happy discovery if it is.
Most of the people on my floor at college are girls, so I kinda have an idea, but yeah, not in a house situation where there isn’t a cleaner coming round twice a day!
I hope you like hair.
I’m the one that got yelled at a few weeks ago for leaving hair in their shower by her actually 😛
Maybe he does like women with the bush..
OK, the crazy thing about that is that you will find hair everywhere. Even (especially) in places where you know for a FACT they haven’t been (recently). Like, say… wrapped around something very dear to you. And you’ll be all, “How the hell did that get THERE of all places?! Is something happening in my sleep that I really wish I was awake for?”
If a couple moved into my old place, the girl must have thought the guy cheated on her simply because of all the hair @freya left behind.
Hey guys,
so I’ve been talking it over with the missus, and it would appear we have just made a massive decision…
so we are at present seriously considering moving to Japan for a few years; at present, i am wanting to do some homework on potential employment opportunities in that side of the world.
There is obviously the language barrier, but on the same token, i have some decent qualifications behind me, and the missus also has teaching qualifications which im told are highly sought after.
Has anyone been through this kind of thing, or is going through it at the moment? I honestly dont even know where to start in relation to job hunting…
@markserrels lived and taught in Japan for a while, if I’m not mistaken!
If you have a bachelor’s degree, getting a job as an English tutor is fairly easy (you don’t even need that but it helps a lot).
You can also get temp jobs as “foreign executives” where you get to put on a suit and sit in meetings for a few hours!
Suffice to say, I don’t know much about jobs in Japan.
Um, not 100%, but pretty sure when you go over for a job interview you’re supposed to give yourself an enema, apologising to the interviewer constantly while your wife is in the background flashing her panties and staring at the ground mumbling under her breath in an embarrassed tone.
Or so I’ve heard.
You should really stop watching SBS.
It’s mostly doco’s right?
Sounds like The Weatherwoman to me. Or maybe it was The Weatherwoman Returns.
As I said. Documentaries.
o_O
I know that in Taiwan just having any Uni degree automatically doubles your pay if you teach english.
I have several friends who moved over there for work. I don’t think they ever got into the teaching thing but as I understand it, getting a job teaching English is not difficult. Even simple things like doing conversation classes with people is in high demand because it’s increasingly difficult to succeed in business without English.
There’s a significant language barrier. You’d want to get dialed into a local English-speaking community so you have a support line if neither of you speak Japanese. Also you’d want to be open to learning the language. It’s actually a fairly well-structured language but there’s lots of odd grammar. The writing system is the real challenge.
So remember how I think i hurt my wrist mowing?
So my Mum wants me to do more mowing. I can’t bee on the computer for too long as using the mouse causes it to hurt. I don’t have an anti-inflammatory painkillers and the only thing we do have (panadol) doesn’t work.
I keep telling her I can’t do it as it will make my wrist worse and possibly put it out of action for even longer. She doesn’t care, no, the most important thing is getting the lawn mowed. -_- I can’t fucking help that I’m injured.
Tell her you’re moving out and you wish you were never born then run crying to your bedroom and slam the door. Then tie up the phone line for 3 hours.
That’s how girls debate with their mothers right?
Um, I’ve never done that. Usually I just go and have a nap.
Sounds like much less effort. And easier on your wrist \o/
Well, you can still have a nap instead of talking on the phone after you’ve done the crying/door-slamming thing, but just PRETEND to be on the phone, tying it up anyway. HEADGAMES.
So I won this from The Good Guys on Twitter, for a bluetooth speaker, it has amazing clarity and operational distance from the device.. Honestly for an RRP of 100 bucks it would want to.
I think I upset someone on Gizmodo. AWESOME! I guess referencing The Simpsons upsets some people..
Oh politics, you so crazy
I’ve had boo-urns quotes downvoted into oblivion. Although it was around the time of the xbone launch, and the fanboys were pretty downvote-happy at the time.
Just finished Nier yesterday, pretty great JRPG if I must say. Now I have to get the other endings, and most of the achievements.
I also preordered GTA V at EB on Saturday and I realised that the guy forgot to give me a poster. So I went back on Sunday and the store was all boarded up for renovations or something. ;_;
Sidevote.
I love Nier.
Then why sidevote?
You upvote that shit with pride.
GTA V
Clive Palmer has some really good policies – My Brother 1 hour ago.
O_o
So far i’ve heard one I thought was a goodish idea. Abolish all tertiary fees, whilst in theory a brilliant idea giving everyone equal chance at an education without a mountain of HECS debt, also takes more than just saying he will abolish it. He’s all show and no go.
So who exactly is paying for that?
International students.
Charge them 10x as much and they’ll still wanna come here, problem solved right?
It’s worked for every government so far.
He won’t answer that. But unless you earn more than 40k p/a you don’t ever have to pay HECS back afaik.
Just to point out it’s how uni was back in my dad’s day, you didn’t pay out the arse to attend it was free.
You don’t have to pay until a certain threshold now. I’ve had a HECS debt for 6 years and only had to pay any of it this year.
It’s changed again, cool.
The threshold is 50K now! At least it is in NSW.
Ah cool. That was 2011 I was told it was 40k and that was here in NSW!
Clive Palmer: Because South Queensland is shit and the world needs a Titanic II.
I just read his party’s policy documents. It’s terribly written but I love the asylum seeker policy.
Apparently Australians are suffering because of asylum seekers.
Also if they could just hop on a plane for $800 with a valid passport, they wouldn’t pay people smugglers $20,000. So he’s going to let them do that.
We’ll ignore the bit where they don’t have any documentation because they’re fleeing war zones.
Also apparently Japan is getting rich using our resources so we should get rich using our resources instead.
My electorate sucks so much shit. I get a choice between the usual suspects (Red Green and Blue), Palmer’s nutjobs, or the ‘Rise Up Australia’ party who as far as I can tell are basically racists and possibly commies too.
Something something Mondays grumble.
Felt… energised today. Which was weird, because nothing was really out of the ordinary, was still yelled at, because why would anyone want to be responsible for their own identification, right?
But yeah, slight bitch aside, today was just… progressive. I got shit done, which is nice.
Then I get home to find my turntable arrived! Holy crap Auspost, I don’t know why those people say those things about you.
Well, no, I do. You’re a bit shit. A lot shit. But apparently only most of the time. This delivery was bloody quick. Kudos.
And now I need to wait on the preamp to arrive from the USA before I can actually use the damned thing /o\
Oh man the tracking number Aus Post gave me for the stuff I sent you, fucking useless! Still says it’s in my town. Typical!
HAHAHA! There’s the Auspost we all know and love 😛
It will say that after you get it as well I bet! I have not had a tracking number actually work for years lol.
yeah, I don’t usually bother unless it’s coming up on a month with no notifications.
Am super keen to give the soundtrack a spin! Hopefully the preamp arrives first so I’m not being taunted by everything *but* 😛
Haha. I was tempted to pay for express, since it was a few dollars more, but then I realised it wouldn’t be express to you anyway 😛
‘Sup?
Na much. You?
same
Just watchin’ the game, havin’ a bud.
Didn’t know you smoked 😛
True, true.
Check out my link Jimu, and you will know what I was on about. XD
Oh yeah, I knew.
Was trying to be funny 🙁
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http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/09/liberal-candidate-wants-to-shoot-suspects-with-trackers-from-a-sniper-rifle/comment-page-1/#comment-1627333
Jesus. Guy is quoting sources that directly destroy his argument. Da Fuq.
Rule one of the Comments Club.
Don’t join the Comments Club.
Rule two of the Comments Club?
DO NOT join the Comments Club.
But, but some one is WRONG! ON THE INTERNET!
I think you’re finally starting to understand what I’m all about.
I’ve always been about this. At the moment the Facebook Soundwave page, oh god. So many wrong people. They never contest what I have to say when I inform them how incorrect they are 🙁
Worst club evar. I’ll take my risks and tell people they’re wrong!
Rayman Legends statistics:
I’m ranked 21 in the world… for how many times I’ve died in this game. That’s out of 17,000 people who’ve connected their Wii’s to the interwebs. D:
On the bright side I’m ranked 100 for the amount of trophies I have. XD
PRO!
Dragon Age 3 is my most anticipated game for 2014. Those screenshots on that Kotaku article on the weekend look stunning!
Yeah, I felt bad for it when they first started showing it because it was around the same time as The Witcher 3, and I felt like it would pale in comparison. But looking at what they’ve done, it seems to be getting better and better.
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18yqnkpstamxsjpg/original.jpg
So damn pretty! D:
I still feel like it suffers from “generic fantasy” syndrome in terms of looks. At least The Witcher is “Generic Fantasy with beards.”
Actually, it’s mostly the character models I hate. They look like The Sims, which is just weird.
That was the main problem I had with Dragon Age in its entirety. Everything was so damn generic and when they try to impart a grand scale by listing a bunch if names I’ve never heard of made up of random syllables my eyes glaze over.
The only really interesting thing they had was the Qunari but DA2 made them basically Barbarians with a Feudal Japanese honour code. The games fun and the characters and story are well written but the world is so damn boringly beige.
Nah.
So tell me what makes the Dragon Age world stand out from every other fantasy world in existence?
Look behind you! A three headed monkey!
What do you mean by world? The lore in the game is probably the best I have ever read / seen in any game. If you mean purely by a visual aspect then yes, it is really bland.
@dc admit it. They just took a checklist of every fantasy trope and just ran through ticking them off.
I do like the games. Even liked 2 even if it had exactly one dungeon.
@freezespreston
Hey man, comeon the game had “Inside Cave” dungeon and “Lower City / Poor District” dungeon. That’s a whole 2 dungeons for a multiple hour RPG!
@sernobulus I consider lore to be part of the story since it stems from it. Just the actual world – settings, races, creatures magics and what not.
Ahh yeah, then yes. As much as I adored the game I gotta say. It is soooooo bland in that department.
Nothing at all. It’s basically Bioware doing a Baldur’s Gate game without licensing Forgotten Realms from whoever the fuck has that license now.
I keep thinking of Game of Thrones/Song of Ice and Fire whenever I see that sword.
I just want to explore that desert. See what’s around the corner! 😀
More desert.
If Dragon Age 2 taught me anything, it’s a wall. Between you and that hill over there? A wall. See that Dragon? He’s pretty cool. Sorry, there’s a wall.
Also the desert looks the same as the other desert and despite the fact it’s been ten years, every vendor is in the same position as they were, selling the same items for the same amounts. And no one has aged.
Also nothing you do the entire game will matter at all because you’ll be railroaded into the exact same situations for the sake of plot convenience because they created these elaborate boring boss fights to go between the monotony of respawning waves of the same dude over and over again, and by fuck you’re going to experience every one of those bosses.
In retrospect we should have seen Mass Effect 3’s ending fiasco coming.
You’ve fooled me twice Bioware. You’re going to have to really have something special to make me trust again.
@negativezero
I was actually surprised by people’s reactions to the ME 3 ending. I expected it to be pretty much exactly what it was. Why was anyone surprised? Bioware are god awful at endings.
@blaghman I think they did ME2’s ending well, as it was a culmination of choices made throughout the entire game, but sadly they don’t seem to like doing endings that way.
@dire_wolf
Except fuck you if you decide to do main story missions without doing all the available side missions first, because you’re either gonna lose someone, or lose some crew members. What’s that, those missions really aren’t signposted that well? Hahahahaha.
I wasn’t actually that upset at ME3’s ending – the journey was what mattered – I was upset at the way they handled it.
I’m no stranger to endings like that. It felt like a Gainax ending. Like someone in Bioware’s writing division had a late-night marathon session of Evangelion and Gunbuster back to back then sat down to write the final part of the game.
The main issue was the feeling that nothing you did in all the games made any different. I also really, really didn’t like the way they codfied all your decisions so this was the ‘good’ choice and the other was the ‘evil’ choice and you had to make all of them to get achievements and unlock the best ending and stuff. That’s bullshit. You can’t roleplay that. You can’t make interesting decisions if the game is actively minmaxing the decisions for you. I actively cannot go back and replay it as a Renegade because it would require screwing over all my favourite characters from that universe. My renegade Shepard might be a bit of a bitch at times, but that’s not what I see her doing. And yet if I don’t choose to go all the way into the red zone, I’ll fuck it up. The game requires you to be consistent. May as well just take away the conversations and turn them into pre-defined cutscenes, because for gameplay reasons it’s not like I can choose anything else.
Bioware’s core issue is they have an illusion of choice. When you see the man behind the curtain, the illusion all breaks down. DA2 was really bad at this and I think it was one of the things that really turned people off. Like when that character toward the end suddenly becomes the second last boss out of nowhere (being vague because spoiler, but you should know what I mean) or when you get quests that are story important. I got one and I got the option to tell the guy to fuck right off. Chose that. Game’s like “well if you change your mind…” and then gives me the quest anyway.
That’s what I appreciate about The Witcher. No other RPG of that scope really comes close to giving you consequences for your actions, and giving you choices where none of the options are obviously good or bad but all will have major repercussions. The entire second act of TW2 is different depending on one choice you make in the first act. Different plot, characters and location.
Admittedly the change that DA:O made to take away an overall good-or-evil morality meter in favor of having companions opinions of you affected by what you choose to do was a step in the right direction, but it’s quite severely undermined by the way you can do whatever and then just give the people who got upset gifts to make them happy with you again. And then DA2 basically made it into a series of Dating Sim-style flags to unlock their pants. 😐
I dunno, Bioware’s stuff just feels so mechanical and soulless. Their writing and characters are great, I like their stories, but the gameplay mechanics they layer over the top take all that away.
http://images.vg247.com/current//2013/06/the_witcher_3_wild_hunt_3.jpg
Impressive, but DA:I lets you play as either gender in one of four races, while TW3 lets you play as Geralt. For that reason alone, no matter what else TW3 has, DA:I’s already won in my book.
On a sidenote, I both enjoy and find it amusing that the two series have become such big rivals among fans for no other reason than releasing their second and third games in the same year. It makes sense that fantasy RPGs are compared, and I’ve seen it done with other games (Skyrim, Dragons Dogma etc) but I’ve never seen two fantasy RPG series compared against each other as much as these two.
It’s not just that. It’s that Bioware’s drek gets all the interest and all the sales despite The Witcher games being far better. Also they’re both ‘dark’ fantasy games which purport to have decisions and consequences and stuff. That was kind of true for DA:O but CDPR do it so much better.
I like The Witcher games, but I don’t know if I can agree they do things far better. The original Witcher was full of poor design choices, poor story pacing and choices/consequences that won’t all that interesting. The Witcher is also a series where the “darkness” and “maturity” was more often than not just throwing a bunch of sex and bare breasts at things. Now it does have some depths in terms of things like the Scoia’tael, but more often than not it comes off as a series writen by a goth/metalhead teenager.
Having said all that, I’ve yet to finish either Witcher games. I got about 25 hours into the original, and about 7 hours into The Witcher 2 (I keep meaning to go back to it), but also, it took me about 8 months and rerolling three different characters to finally get through DA:O, and I was never gripped by the story and setting at the time (though it’s since grown on me, and DA2 is probably one of the reasons for that).
Anyway, both settings and series have good and bads about them, but I think you’re overselling The Witcher and underselling DA a bit.
So you’re making judgements about whether there’s good writing or consequences to your actions without finishing either game to see those consequences? :\
DA:O was a good game. I liked it. I thought the combat was utter shit, though. Do some stuff then wait until the end of the combat because you can’t do any more except auto-attack :\. It was also really, really poorly paced. Takes forever to do anything because you’ve got to trudge through 90 million floors of boring dungeon fighting mooks everywhere. But it mostly felt like a not-quite-as-good Baldur’s Gate 2. I’d have liked a bit more substance to the characters and stuff but it’s overall okay.
DA2 is just… not. Want to talk about questionable design decisions?
@negativezero at least for the first game, I think I gave it a decent amount of play to talk about it. After being told how indepth the choices and consequences in the game were and how grey the choices were, I didn’t see any of that in my time playing. A lot of the choices were simple good/evil choices (give the woman to an angry mob, or defend her for example) and there seemed to be very few consequences, at least none I could care about (so I helped some guy and now a random person I’d never met before is dead? Big whoop). I also read through the story before jumping into The Witcher 2, so I know how all the choices play out, and I can’t say I was overly impressed. There were decent enough, don’t get me wrong, but they weren’t what I was led to expect from all people have said about the game, and they took far too long to get to. When you don’t get to the best part of your game until 50 hours or so in, there’s a problem with your game.
DA:O had shit combat. DA2 had shit combat. The Witcher had shit combat. The Witcher 2 had average combat. DA:I’s looking like it’ll have good combat.
DA2 did make some bad design decisions, but many of those came because they were given limited development time, not because of poor ideas. Not that that forgives, but its a better explanation than any other.
Gameplay aside, in terms of characters and story, DA2 was much better paced than The Witcher, and I found it more enjoyable.
I’d say the ‘darker’ or more ‘adult’ parts of the Witcher weren’t from the unashamed hunger for boobs, but from the fact that people are people, in it. They are flawed, selfish, will lie to you without even being the main villain, and occasionally capable of generosity… which will not go unpunished. It’s a world you can’t just skate through knowing that everything will turn out if you just choose the blue options, where sometimes there ARE no ‘right’ options and things are going to turn to shit because of human (even when non-human) nature.
See, this is weird to me. Fixing the character as one thing means tighter reign over the story and how the world perceives that character, effectively (and counter-intuitively) opening up more options for depth due to a tighter focus. (You only have X development time, and if you can code fifty reactions to one person or ten reactions to five people, the former is deeper.)
The key difference I see is people going for self-insertion when they make varied characters, rather than riding along and influencing a character who doesn’t necessarily match their ideology and trying to relate to him or her.
Have you seen the gameplay videos from PAX? It looks amazing.
Nah, I’m technically on a media blackout… I just couldn’t resist looking at those screenshots. XD
I was on a media blackout for ME and the last two DA games, but not for this one. I’m just way too hyped for it.
The Witcher 3 is crying in a corner. It wants you to love it but the shiny committe-made Bioware bullshit has your eye instead 🙁
Welcome to the D.C. downvote club!
The voice of negativity no matter the topic.
I’m not being negative (at least not here), just saying that The Witcher 3 looks fucking amazing and is actually coming off two previous games that were also fucking amazing and give every reason to be extremely confident in the quality of the final act.
Unlike Bioware. I was so excited for DA2 that I bought the collector’s edition. Digital, from EA. I had Origin on my PC before it was even Origin. 🙁 And for that… thing. So disappointing. All the disappointment. Legitimately the worst game Bioware ever made.
I don’t know if I’d call the original Witcher great. It was good, and probably on the same level as DA2 (though they were very, very different games).
I think the averageness of DA2 has made me more excited for DA:I, because BioWare have fully acknowledged they made mistakes with DA2, and seem to be doing everything they can to make up for them. The receptions DA2, TOR and ME3’s ending got seem to have resulted in BioWare trying harder, and that’s a win for gamers.
No way in hell was The Witcher anywhere near as bad as DA2. >:(
But that combat system…
As an example of a poorly designed system, when you travel between the city and the swamp you have to:
1: Talk to the raft driver (pilot? Captain?) and ask him to to go across.
2: Get taken out of the coversation and have to select ok in a prompt to pay the gold to cross.
3: Select the dialogue option to confirm you want to cross.
All this time you’re listening to the same dialogue you’ve already heard playing over and over again, and even if you mash spacebar to skip through it there’s enough there that it normally takes about 6 – 10 seconds to skip through it all, and that’s for each section. Point is it’s a bunch of needless clicking and takes about three times as long as it should, and you’ll find yourself going through it again and again and again as you often have to go between the two locations.
Now if you compare it to other RPGs, even ones that came before it, normally it would simply be:
1: Talk to the raft dude, select option to go across (pay 5 gold).
And then the cutscene would play and you’d cross.
There’s a lot of little things like that raft issue throughout the entire game that makes it feel rather tedious and unpolished.
@dire_wolf: those engine problems are Bioware’s fault! They built that entire game on the original Neverwinter Nights engine. Also what you’re describing there sounds like the sort of thing you run into in heaps of other RPGs – Bioware’s included.
I never found the game that clunky either. Maybe because I never got around to playing it properly until the Director’s Cut release?
@negativezero older RPGs to be sure, but not more recent ones. I think that was the biggest issue I had with The Witcher: it was a 2007 game (though I also didn’t play till the directors cut, and I don’t know when that was released) that felt like a last gen early 2000s game.
When I play older games for the first time I try and look at them for what they were when they were made, and I don’t think The Witcher was up to par for other games that were releasing around the same time. Basically, I expected more from a 2007 game.
@dire_wolf: a 2007 game that was the first release by a small, indie studio in Poland that at the time employed only a handful of people, and using a licensed engine from a game from 2002 that looked and played like this and which they spent years retooling huge portions of to add all sorts of details. Shit like every person having a daily schedule where they eat and sleep and go to work and everything, or the way everyone huddles under rooftops to get out of the rain. And on a decent machine the game looked and ran amazing.
If anything they were guilty of having a vision which was much larger than their technology allowed. Which is why Witcher 2 is such a big step up in just about everything (and still one of the best looking RPGs on the PC)
Whoa! :O
It sounds like DA3 is going to be more like DA1 than 2 so that’s a good thing, I guess! (I’ve barely played them :P)
DA:O has been on the pile for a very long time! :'(
Keep on believing, man! It’s not a franchise for me any longer, but I’m not gonna derail your excitement! Some very pretty artwork for sure! 🙂
Sounds like this one might have been more appropriate for @shane:
But he might get the joy of rediscovering Dragon Age. Faithfully.
Now you’re just using this as an excuse to play some music.
My eldest in the bath p[laying with some toy boats shouting “STOP THE BOATS! STOP THE BOATS!”
Had to have one of those serious parent talks with her. She won’t tell me where she heard it.
Thanks
ObamaAbbott.When they stop the boats!
Did some groceries. Bought a pristine, blemish-free bright red capsicum. Cut it open while I was cooking dinner. Entirety of the inside was mold.
Hahahahaha.
I opened a mandarin the other day to find that it had mould underneath the skin.
There’s no freshness like Coles freshness.
Considering both chilli’s & capsicum have an anti mould aspect to them in the white pith, this is rather interesting. Though usually the more humid/ hot the climate they’re grown in the more effective this is. Also it attributes to their spice factor.
Curtis Stone sucked its soul out.
Hahahahah oh my god
So I went to pre order GTA V for PS3 today, y’know that bundle with the fancy blimp and other cool stuff.. Well apparently EB Games have sold out of it Australia wide. So that’s a kick to the testicles. I guess JB gets my moolah now. Also what’s the deal with console games being anywhere from 10-40 bucks more at release than PC games?!
PC gamers are all filthy pirates so the only way to trick them into being honest is to pretend that they’re getting a good deal.
And then they activate the game on Steam…
I got told I was a dirty PC pirate last week. i’d sooner mod chip/hack a console to pirate games than pirate on PC honestly…
I have chipped and/or hacked systems before to get around region locks but I don’t think I’ve pirated a software that I could buy in years. Decided it wasn’t really ethical to do it when I make a living writing software.
That’s fair 😛
I had a chipped PlayStation back in the day, it was a glorious thing.
I do like Cards Against humanity
I like big butts and I can not lie.
That was a lot of fun, the other night.
Just got this in the mail finally (there was a fuck-up with their shipping company, it was touch and go for a bit). It’s super cute. Also has really nice elaborate packaging which I wasn’t expecting at all. They usually have very standard packaging. I don’t want to open this, it’s so nice. 🙁
Holy shit that’s adorable.
Anyway, I thought 90% of them were still in their boxes anyway. Why should this one be different? 😛
It’s true but I’ve been thinking of getting some of them out at some point since I’ve got a little spare space at the moment.
It’s a really clever design. They’ve been doing it for a few years now – they have people send in their Snow Miku designs and then community vote for the best one. 2012’s Snow Miku was in a cute fluffy coat and mittens. This one’s designed to look like an ichigo daifuku, thus the red serving plate and stuff, but also with the daifuku hood and the white kimono it looks like a traditional Japanese wedding dress.
2014’s design is some kind of mage or something:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8556/8747048061_e2c7a869f3_z.jpg
I am addicted to these things. One day I will be found dead, buried beneath the boxes and they will auction off the collection and it will be worth millions. \o/
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@freezespreston about the appeal of Dragon Age. It’s true, DA is a pretty standard fantasy setting, but it does twist some things around and incorporate several ideas that when put together do result in an interesting world, such as:
The elves, which are sort of a fallen version of your common fantasy elf. You’ve got the largely racist elves living in the forests and wishing to reclaim past glories, and the rest of the elves who have been reduced to servants living in slums. For a race that people are used to seeing in a position of power and dominance, it’s interesting to see them in the opposite.
The whole mage thing, which is basically just X-Men but in a fantasy setting, and that’s a surprisingly uncommon situation. I’ve read/seen/played a lot of fantasy in my life, and very, very few stories deal with the fact that mages are so much more powerful than normal people and could hold a threat to them, so it’s refreshing to see a fantasy setting that goes into that. Plus the whole liberty vs security debate is pretty interesting on its own, even without fantasy elements added to it.
The Qunari, while you can make comparisons to real world cultures, are hard to do a direct analogy to any one culture, or even multiple cultures, and as such they’ve got a certain appeal of the unknown and truly alien about them. In terms of just video games, they’re also a something I don’t think we’ve seen a lot of.
There’s also the depth of the characters and the story (yeah, Wardens vs ancient evil is pretty cliche, but there’s some good political and religious stuff in DA:O, and DA2 more so). It’s sort of like Game of Thrones; that’s a pretty generic fantasy world as well, but the quality of the character writing and plot development makes it a story worth experiencing (I’d even extend that analogy to DA’s biggest rival: The Witcher series).
Note: I’m not saying you’re wrong or anything, this was meant more as an explanation for why some people like the setting, and I’m sure some people like it for reasons I haven’t listed and you’re more than welcome to disagree with what I’ve said.
Sorry, sorry, “largely racist elves living in the forests and wishing to reclaim past glories.”
Oh yes, good work Bioware. So original. What’s next, the Dwarves are Jewish? 😛
Greatly diminished elves. Other settings that have a similar setup tend to still have the elves in a great deal of power (think Rivendale in LOTR). The Dalish in Dragon Age are more like gypsies.
Dwarves are dwarves. You can get away with messing around with other races (dragons, elves, orcs for example), but you do not mess with dwarves.
Yeah they’re like the Elves in The Witcher. 😛
True enough. I was just pointing out that it’s not something a lot of settings do.
I had previously never seen Dwarves described as being so internally cut-throat as in the Dragon Age worldview though. It was definitely an interesting take.
Elves as the downtrodden servitor race is just about as common as Elves as the superior asshole race.
Since you mentioned it, actually A Song of Ice and Fire was one of Bioware’s stated influences on the Dragon Age setting. They also cited other ‘dark’ fantasy settings like the Black Company books by Glen Cook, I believe (if they didn’t, then they should have because it’s quite obvious).
Not as downtrodden as DA’s elves. As I said above, most of the “downtrodden” elves in a lot of fantasy still live in shining cities, have their immortality and walk around in glowing gold armour. The fact that they’re numbers are diminished and that the humans (or orcs or dwarves or whatever) have spread across the world doesn’t change the fact that they’re still doing pretty well for themselves.
Yeah, there are lots of examples. The details vary.
I guess it comes down to what you’ve read/seen/played. As I alluded, I’ve immersed myself in fantasy since I was a young child, and pretty much all the elves I’ve seen have been doing pretty well for themselves, so DA’s elves were something very different to me (and were the one thing about the setting that immediately grabbed me. Darkspawn and demons and the like? Who cares. Playing as an elven slave, now that’s cool), but if the fantasy you’ve dealt with was full of slave elves I can see why it wouldn’t be that much interesting in DA.
There is a lot of fantasy out there, so I guess everything’s been done once, and twice, and at least a dozen more times after that.
So elves are Asians?
Oh wow, election coverag-
Zzzzzz….
Seriously, can’t it be the 8th of September already? :\
Hey hayfever.
Go away.
Yeah, the weather’s warming up but srzly, hayfever is DaWorst.
*rubs itchy hayfever eye*
Hope you feel better, my friend!
Nayfever? 🙂
TAYfever?
DID YOU CALL NINTENDO!?
NO.
WHOA! BREAKING BAD!
Jub jbhyq unir thrffrq Wrffr grnzvat hc jvgu Unax? V ybirq gung ghea bs riragf. Trggvat n ovg gverq bs yvfgravat gb Jnygre qrsraqvat uvzfrys jvgu sbeprq yvrf. Vg ernyyl qentf bhg gur rcvfbqrf. Zl snibhevgr punenpgref ner fgvyy Zvxr naq Fnhy. Naq Unax gbb, jul abg.
V’z abg pbaivaprq nalguvat bs npghny fhofgnapr unccrarq va guvf rcvfbqr. Abg ernyyl. Ohg, vg’f cbffvoyr n shgher rc zvtug uvatr ba fbzrguvat fznyy gung unccrarq gbavtug.
HOLY SHIT I JUST REALISED SHANE IN ROT13 IS FUNAR!
But what about the “Le”? I thought it was an anagram of funeral?
Oh yeah… uhh
[Breaking Bad Discussion]
Le Funar! Geez, we covered that when we talked Six Feet Under. 😛
But I said Le Funar!
But unrottified it’s Yr Shane
YR?!
YR!?!!!!!!!
We were watching Six Feet Under and I thought it sounded like funeral which would be appropriate for that show. #OriginStories
It’s the masculine singular of the French language. Pronounced ‘lay’.
Hahaha, oh yeah, I’d forgotten about that.
Ome!
DON’T MAKE ME THINK GODDAMMIT! I just want to enjoy the episodes, haha.
Good point though.
Abj V’z gelvat gb pbaarpg gur qbgf, jvgu gur tnfbyvar pnecrg naq gur bar lrne synfu-sbejneq naq nyy. Uzzz. Nyy V sberfrr vf qrngu sbe Jnyg, hasbeghangryl. Pnapre cerinvyvat, be tbbq gevhzcuvat bire rivy. Jvgu gung zragnyvgl V thrff vg’f Unax bire Jnyg gura.
Ohg jung vf Wrffr’f raqtnzr?
V’z abg pbaivaprq. V qba’g guvax Unax vf tbvat gb jva NALGUVAT. Cebonoyl Wrffr arvgure. V’z guvaxvat Zhghnyyl Nffherq Qrfgehpgvba. Be, zber yvxryl, Jnyg rfpncrf pevzvany chavfuzrag, ohg ybfrf nyy gur guvatf ur bapr uryq qrne.
Spoilers for The Shield
(yvxr Ivp Znpxrl va Gur Fuvryq).
V pnyyrq gur snagnfgvp unax naq wrffr gnt grnz nf zl cersreerq raqvat fbzrgvzr qhevat frnfba sbhe. Ab vqrn jung wrffr’f raqtnzr vf gubhtu. Ur fnvq ur’f tbvat gb uvg jnyg jurer ur ernyyl yvirf. Gurer’f bayl gjb bcgvbaf gurer: uvf cevqr (juvpu qbrfa’g ernyyl unir nal ybtvpny jnl gb cynl bhg gung v pna guvax bs) naq uvf snzvyl (juvpu cebonoyl zrnaf rkcbfvat jnyg choyvpyl).
Ooo, some really good points there. I must have missed that when you stated that earlier. I could never have seen that coming, let alone way back in season four.
It was at a Brisbane meat.
Kevin Rudd did a pretty good job in that Q&A session, though I was only half watching.
Shame it’s not going to matter because the morons are going to vote him out because that’s what the newspapers and mainstream TV tell them to do.
Shame it’s not going to matter because the morons are going to vote him out because that’s what Murdoch tells them to do.
Fixed it for you =D
If Tomorrow Never Dies taught me any thing, it’s that Bond will intervene… at some point…
If The Day After Tomorrow taught me anything it’s that it’s possible to outrun climate change.
I like to think that I’m choosing the lesser of the two idiots. When one goes out and talks about suppositories and tells his political opponent to shut up, questions need to asked.
I’m not so sure. You see it in the media all the time (for obviously biased reasons) how Abbott’s going to win in a landslide, but if you actually go out and talk to people, he doesn’t seem to have all that much support.
Though yeah, he’ll probably win. Then he’ll burn down the NBN to scare the boat people off or whatever it is he’s planning.
WE NEED A DICTATORSHIP! Then again, who’s to say we don’t already have one?
God dammit I’m drunk-texting TAY again.
If he wins, it will just prove that Murdoch actually runs Australia.
Try talking to some people over 40. All they can think of is “national debt!” because a countries finances are exactly like your household budget with more zeros. LNP is playing up that angle rather successfully.
When I wanna know how an election’s going to go (thanks to copious quantities of alcohol/boredom/morbid curiosity/the mistaken belief that I don’t hate humanity enough today), I go check out the odds the bookies are giving.
They won’t say they support Abbott but ask them what they think of Labor.
The Coalition isn’t being voted in this Saturday, Labor is being kicked out. Yay for the power of saying “no” for 6 years!
Exactly this — it’s extremely rare that someone is voted in as a result of outstanding policies or sheer potential, and much more common that someone has overstayed their welcome and people see no other option but to vote against them
See NSW and Queensland Labor in the last few years — Barry and Campbell have hardly done anything to encourage (let alone impress) people, but people were tired of Labor.
BREAKING BAD QUIZ TIME!
Q. Who came first, tough-look Walter White or Max Payne (3) ?
A. It depends on who was more excited.
Oh shit, page-get.
and after that one, wifey says it’s bed time for Benny.
Goodnight, everyone.
NO! How can you all sleep?
Outrageous.
Simple. I was told to go to bed.
Wait, that works?
I gotta try this out.
Geez, had a mad second-wind climbing tonight. Started getting tired fairly early on and figured I’d end up out early again, but then it went away and just kept on powering through. Was there for ages too – didn’t get out of there til after nearly four and a half hours. Must’ve been going a bit slow though, because I only got through about the same amount as usual.
Also there was a girl that kept saying things to me after I pointed out something to help her with a thing she was struggling on. Stupid strangers, insisting on making me try and say things. And/or tricking me into not being invisible for a moment.
That was probably an Indicator of Interest. Go for a number-get next time! (If they’re cute.)
What on earth am I going to do with a number?
Also I totally thought I colon-P’d that end part somewhere. Guess it must’ve fallen off somewhere along the way to posting. Now it seems far more serious and weird than it was meant to 😛
Heh. Also, usually you, y’know… call numbers. To set up dates. Unless you’re taken… That tends to diminish their use significantly. Maybe joking mention of having received a cute girl’s number to the significant other, “Isn’t that funny! Nice to know I’m still desirable,” to fuel the flames of jealous passion.
Voluntarily talk on a phone? To actively pursue social interaction?
You’re crazy.
Well, the chicks are all about SMS these days, which is probably better because you can be as aloof and infuriatingly/alluringly cryptic and distant as you like. They hate/love that.
That does sound more like my kind of thing. But I still say you’re crazy.
Crazy gets results. 🙂
(Edit: Disclaimer: FAILURE is a result, too. But at least if you cast a wider net, you’ll catch more fish. Rejection’s part of the whole package, it’s nothin’.)
Sext
@greenius I think I’m too old to be anywhere near that term.
Wait wait wait. We’re getting way ahead of ourselves here.
First, we wait until maybe a month down the track so that several meetings have occurred and there is a greater pool of actions and events to analyse. THEN we can start panicking about whether anything has to happen or not. And avoid doing it.
…
Let’s go drinking. 🙂
Love it when you can last for 4+ hours.
(Hurr)
Haven’t had a climb in about a month. Need to organise some friend’s and get back on the wall.
OHhhh yeesss Bravely Default’s english port is based on the enhanced version WITH DUAL AUDIO
Mighty No. 5 got funded already, and with a month or so of donating left there’s gonna be some sweet sweet stretch goals
Wait… Sequel?
Wait is it a sequel? I thought “For the sequel” was just an enhanced edition of the original.
Hmm, right, fixed.
I would personally kinda hope they limit the stretch goals.
I think that’s a trap many Kickstarters have fallen into – they get a way bigger response than they budgeted for, and rather than adding that money to the pool as what is essentially early revenue, they think they have to account for it all with extras, like it’s somehow dishonest to make money.
Then, when they’ve blown their original deadline out with all those crazy stretch goals and hiring new people and getting extra licences, and development runs long because they want a quality product (and development ALWAYS runs long if you let it), then suddenly they’re out of money and have to release unfinished because they spent all the money.
It’s probably one of the major reasons that Publishers still exist – tight reins on people who are really technical/design people, not business/money people.
Considering Inafune’s team is composed with people with ample experience I’d like to think the chances of them pulling a Double Fine are slim. The stretch goals are actually quite hefty to get to as well, although I’m not sure that’s a good thing or not.
Morning all, I thought I’d take some time from my holiday to alert all Melbournites that I will be in you, or your city if you prefer, from Thursday to Saturday. At this stage I am thinking of being at the mana bar from about 4 to 6 and then going somewhere for dinner – Anyone who would like to join me is welcome – so yes its a GingerchrisMEAT!
Anyone who has better suggestions please let me know
Is Mana bar open still?
You should all sit outside the National Gallery of Victoria and sip lattes.
That’s what Melbournians like to do right?
They usually sit on milk crates. =P
It’s too cold for that.
I think you take the milk out first. 😛
Milk crates provided by the cafe, which are designer crates that cost more than your average Ikea living room set. But they LOOK authentic and are uncomfortable enough to be authentic.
Unfortunately I am otherwise engaged on Thursday but might be free Friday or Saturday.
We have these Wiggle themed nappies we got the other day. Back of them have the phrase “5th Wiggle in the making” on them. Oversight or not so subtle jab at the temporary guy they had and his abilities?
No, the 5th wiggle is being made inside the kid wearing the nappy.
Creepy.
I was trying to say the Wiggles are kind of shit. But I guess you could read that in other ways 😛
They’re not exactly my kind of music.
Hi @strange !
Hi @zap! 😀
Donkey Kong Country Returns on the 3DS.
Good game, but goddamn…. its got some difficulty spikes.
get through most of the stages in a world easily enough, one or two lose a few lives to…
but… HOLY. SHIT. those bonus levels unlocked by getting all the KONG letters in a world…! just how are they part of the same game?! so damn difficult. & from what I’ve heard, you’ve gotta beat em all to unlock the final world… 🙁
still…. fun game when I’m not raging at it.
The Golden Temples or whatevers? Yeah, they are hard. They don’t have any save points in the levels, so you have to do the whole thing in one go.
When I played it on Wii, I beat the game and had already got KONG for one or two worlds. I beat the first of the secret temples after a long slog and that was it. I was pretty happy to say that I had completed the game, because I was not going to do all those levels.
the 3ds version has a 9th world that is unlocked by beating all the temples…… I dunno if I’m gonna bother doing that…
Starting to really get into FFXIV. I tried out grouping via the Duty Finder (read: Dungeon finder) last night and, other than tanks being useless, it’s been a lot of fun.
Hah, duty. I updated GW2 last night. There seems to be noone playing or noone in the area I’m in at the moment.
Mike Fahey tells me FFXIV is a disaster.
Yeeaaaaaah…Can’t say anything nice about that article, so I won’t say anything.
Sensationalist shite.
Most things are a disaster or worthy of pisstaking on Kotaku US. Something being good or fun is nowhere near as interesting to write about as things that suck, or just aren’t ‘cool’.
I really have to sit down and get into it solid. Been too distracted building my new PC and stuff. Mostly I just need to burn through all the quests with my lv50 Black Mage. Which I’ve been doing, but it still takes a while. Sucks I have to do it ALL over again, but at the same time I don’t see how they could’ve done it any other way.
Just trying to find all the dungeon quest chains to unlock them in duty finder at the moment.
I’m currently a level 18 Lancer, so I think I have a ways to go before catching up to you…especially cause I’m going for Dragoon 😛
I feel like I should be levelling another job, but then again – I think, why should I? It’s pretty easy to just blitz these quests on a lvl50, and I think you only have to do it once per toon. I’ll smash out all the quests I can and unlock all the dungeons, etc, then maybe start working on Conjurer.
Got a second toon I’m going to do Gladiator/Pugilist on. I know I could do them all on one toon, but it’s nice to mix it up.
I really wanna have alts so I have different races available. It’s nice to be able to play everything on one toon, but every so often a Lallafel or …giant..man……person…walks past and it makes me wish I could swap race at will 😛
I have two kitty people. Lady-kitty for my black mage, and man-kitty for proposed tank/deeps. It’s weird – I couldn’t play a Lalafell, even for a joke, Elves look kind of funny to me, and as for humans? I don’t play a high fantasy MMO to play a human.
I always have a penchant for ‘dirty’ races, like Undead or Orcs in WoW. There aren’t any in FFXIV, sadly.
I’m a man-cat. I have the same issue with playing as a human, and the “elves” look odd (not bad, just not for me). I do have a Lalafell on Tiamat (JP) and normally don’t play what I see as the joke races, but don’t mind it for some reason…
In WoW my main race was Blood Elf, and not sure if you noticed or not but the Cat-folk in FFXIV hold themselves in a very similar way.
Yeah they do, now that you mention it. I had a Blood Elf in WoW, but eventually race changed it to Undead.
I’ve noticed that. It’s really good posture. Shoulders back, chest out, hip tilted. Next time you see a truly stunning woman in the city streets, just check to see if she’s got better posture than most other folks.
Elves have tiny heads and enormous shoulders. They’re like the Goombas from the Super Mario Bros film.
I never even THOUGHT about playing a roegadyn (giant people) until I met that Lord Protector dude in Ul’dah for the main story, the General in charge of the Flames. That dude was boss. I’d totally play a (somewhat whiter) version of that guy for my tank. (Added bonus: easy to click on for healers who are having trouble getting the name-bar in UI cluster-spam.)
Is he actually a Roegadyn or is he a Hyur Highlander? I’m not entirely sure.
My highest class is now a conjurer healer, because after getting to that point in the story questing where you need to complete a dungeon to continue, I spent five hours in the duty finder and when I finally got a group, the captain’s quarters key was bugged so no-one could pick it up.
I re-rolled healer and did duty-grinding to 15 again… INSTA-QUEUE-POP.
And yes. There are many, many useless tanks. (Like, hey guy… when you start fighting all those mobs, maybe try to land a hit or two on every available enemy so that when I do finally dare to cast a heal on you, I don’t immediately pull aggro on three of the fuckers.)
And when you do get a good tank, they can very easily be sabotaged by useless DPS. It’s not at all like WoW where tanks get a button to stick mobs to them like glue forever and ever. A rogue DPSer targeting the wrong mob will get aggro. And the archers will usually then freak out and run around like headless chickens while the tank is chasing them trying to get close enough to get the mob off them… And the pugilists or reavers will stand there going toe-to-toe with the mob they pulled instead of focusing on the mob the tank’s been focusing on instead.
Hilarious watching people learn these things, it’s all so old that it’s hard to be angry or frustrated anymore. Kind of like a parent when their infant shits themselves. Yep. That’s what babies/noobs do.
On the plus side, by the time you get to the later dungeons, people have been forced to have done at least the prerequisite dungeons, so you at least know they know some of the more basic mechanics and have quite possibly already been yelled at a few times.
It’s rare to actually get bad DPS. Usually it’s just that they start too fast or are not sure which mob to target. Most helpful thing the tank can do is mark targets or call out a kill order.
I’ve started holding off until the tank’s made a couple of hits before engaging so I’m sure I’m on the right one.
But I also want to start tanking and/or healing instead of running as DPS. Tanking’s pretty fun in the game provided you don’t have a group of morons.
EDIT: Speaking of bad tanks, I really like the ones that try and body-pull all the time. 😐
I don’t mind if they body pull a linked pack without grabbing the second pack and save their ranged threat thingey for pulling threat off rogue mobs going after heals/DPS. You’re definitely right on their need to get a few solid hits in before people should start blasting, though. I don’t know much about the other classes skills yet, but I’ve seen some thamaturges and archers firing what look like the magical equivalent of nuclear weapons/Sydney NYE fireworks as their opener, presumably because that’s what they’re used to doing solo, and it means they start the recast timer as soon as possible… but the result is always, always, always a fucking Benny Hill chase scenario that makes me groan, and you wonder why they don’t learn.
Archers and Thaurmaturges have insane burst. Especially Archers, they can just unload like crazy. Thaurmaturge needs a couple of fireballs to get the Astral Fire buff up before they really hit hard.
Meanwhile I’m playing a Pugilist / Monk and I have no burst at all, but really solid sustained DPS. 🙁 Basically have to hit 4 abilities to set myself up with DoTs and buffs before the damage starts happening. Which is why swapping targets and stuff is a pain – the class is balanced so that if you don’t hit everything just right, you’re not competitive.
I still like playing as it though. With all the buffs up you hit crazy fast, I think with every buff up I’m sitting at about a 1.5 sec GCD down from 2.5 sec.
That need to get started up makes grinding quest mobs and doing FATEs in high-population areas really hard though. You need to do 30% damage to a mob or tag it yourself to get counted, and in the time it takes me to do 30% to a mob without buffs up, most ranged classes can do 60-70% 🙁 Also I have to get into range. Though at least at 35 I picked up a badass Monk ability that basically lets me charge in from 30 feet or so.
That’s basically the only way to get groups and like everything else, the quality of other players really varies. I’ve had some fantastic tanks and some awful ones.
The worst are the Arcanists who insist on using their tanking pet and/or refuse to disable their DPS pet’s knockback, and the Archers who immediately unload on a target before the tank can pick it up then run around making it harder for the tank to pick up, or the idiots that try and DPS a different mob to the tank then when they pull aggro attempt to tank themselves.
Luckily early on the instanced content is pretty easy. The first instance that I found difficult was Thousand Maws of Toto-rak, but I think in that case the tank wasn’t very good. Sunken Temple is extremely difficult but it feels like it’s because it’s over-tuned and also was a really bad fit for my class (Monk) because of all the constant moving around and swapping targets.
tempted to start another whitenoise invasion.
but no, that would probably annoy them.
I’ve done my bit. Now I’m out. 🙂
@dc
How good is Legends?!
Pretty damn, my friend. Pretty damn.
Can someone please try using spoiler tags and see if it works for them? Both with the button and manually adding aren’t working for me, in original posts or editing. Glad I discovered this on a joke and not a spoiler…
They’ve been not working for about three weeks. Ever since Breaking Bad started up again, actually.
Edit: #TinfoilHatTime
Thanks for the heads up!
I’m getting a copy of Wind Waker (GC) for $5 from a guy at work on Thursday. This might make me plug my Wii back in. Maybe. Or I’ll just give it away. Either way, it’s a Zelda game for $5. I’m getting it just so I can say I did 😛
Play it!
htu. fgrnygu frpgvba.
Now look what you’ve done @sernobulus. He’s having a seizure. Or speaking in tongues.
Quick. You put him into the recovery position and I’ll throw holy water at him.
To be fair, the original joke was pretty bad
I’ll just poke him with a stick.
KILL IT WITH FIRE
The WInd Waker HD trailer made me think about getting a Wii U for a while.
DO IT!
WE CAN DISCUSS ZELDA!
ZELDA IS MY PRINCE OF PERSIA!
WIND WAKER!
Set sail for adventure!
Anyone else have the problem with preordering via EB’s website where you can’t seem to select ‘store pick-up’ on 95% of items anymore? Can only choose delivery. I used to do it frequently for certain things with nice preorders, but hasn’t worked for months. Every time I talk to EB about it, they’re completely unhelpful.
Yeah, I noticed that the other day.
This doesn’t help you at all.
But at least you’re not alone?
Yes. We’re still men. Men is what we are.
*awkward hug*
Yeah, I’ve noticed it too. I really liked the store pick-up option cause it’s easier for me to get to an EB to get a parcel than miss it and have to go stand in line at the post office for 45 minutes.
Yeah I just liked it for going to my local EB on my lunchbreak to pick up a new title with preorder shinies. I don’t want delivery because half the time it doesn’t get to you until 2 days after release, and I WANT AN OOMPA LOOMPA NOOOOWWWWW DADDY.
Two movie quotes in the one thread. It’s a pity it’s not a longer one to sustain that roll.
Next game I’ll play will probably be DmC! Looking forward to it. Loved Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. (One of my favourite games on the 360 in fact!)
What? You’re going to play a game I love?
Are you feeling okay?
We like lots of the same games. Spec Ops, Sleeping Dogs, The Night of the Rabbit. What gives, Freeze? What gives?
I really enjoyed DmC. Don’t listen to the rabid teenage Devil May Cry fans that decry it as the antichrist. It was a lot of fun, brilliant soundtrack and stylish as hell. New Dante is far cooler than old Dante.
Think it might help that I’ve never played any other DmC game, so have no expectations at all!
I played one or two of the others, forget which. It’s just funny because old Dante’s fans are usually anime-obsessed 16 year olds who regard him as the most awesome video game character that ever lived. His reinvention ignited some rather vicious backlash, which was quite funny to watch.
New Dante is a cocky, arrogant bastard just like the old one – but he’s more human. Noisia and Combichrist for the soundtrack was brilliant. Suits the game perfectly.
I love all the DMC games and DmC sits comfortably with the rest of them. Just now Dante has some character and depth instead of being a bipedal penis.
Thank you! Old Dante grated on me pretty badly. They retained his attitude with the new Dante, but he’s actually more than a walking one-liner now.
It also helped that his one-liners were actually good in DmC.
I would have liked DmC far more if my version hadn’t had mad sound-sync issues (Initially I assumed that the way everything was derping about was just its edgy music, before I realised that they weren’t trying to be quite that edgy). I know I could just reinstall it, but I’d need to download it all again, and I am way too lazy for that.
Otherwise, I enjoyed it, even if I am terrible at it. Mean to finish it one day. But I never will.
I gots me the PS3 version!
Wait, wait, give me a minute, I’ve got this.
…
Enjoy your 30fps, console peasant.
Oh, I will. I will. >:|
I bet you’ll enjoy the game not slowing down to 5fps while everything stutters wildly with sound playing 3 seconds after it should.
Plebeian.
I probably wouldn’t notice. When I saw The Matrix the sound in the cinema was extra slow for the first ten minutes and everyone thought that’s how it was supposed to be. XD
Yeah, as I said, it took me a good while to realise that hey, my game was actually bugged, rather than it just having some weird stylistic choices.
*master-race-five*
Great game. awesome soundtrack. Also it’s easy to pull off combos but there’s a complexity to them as well. As someone who is not the best at combo heavy games it was always easy to make cool looking moves.
This makes me interested. I do not typically fare especially well with the more complex combo-move games, preferring simplicity and good timing. (These are my excuses for low mental agility and aging reflexes.)
I agree. When a game gets it right though like Arkham Asylum and Sleeping Dogs, it’s all kinds of fun though!
Try it. There are demos on all platforms and see if you like it.
Or you could play Wonderful 101! =D
Maybe one day.
Why do you hat all the things that I love? D=
I have my reasons! 😛
Like being a monster?
Reasons, man?
The soundtrack and level design are off the charts.
DmC is really good.
Also they clearly capitalized the D and C in there because they made the game for you specifically.
It’s working. Played the first chapter and love it!
Interview with director of new Tex Murphy game! WOOOO! Modern day FMV!
http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/25126
(No one cares, but me. Even Sughly hasn’t played this series. XD)
I liked the original! One of the first games that my parents were actually interested in by the box. (Not so much the game itself.)
I wonder if the re-make will have a custom option to put scanlines in all the video… for that retro feel.
You play Pandora Directive? Easily one of my favorite adventures ever! I’m looking forward to seeing how they integrate the FMV characters into the 3D exploration sections. First few games used sprites, but I can’t imagine that looking as good in HD. XD
Also you like Tex Murphy? You should be leader!
Oh man, Pandora Directive… shit, that should be on my bucket list, I never picked it up.
I’ll have to throw that on my self-notes somewhere, go back looking for all the classic 90s FMV games (which were little better than interactive movies) and play all the ones I was too poor to get at the time.
http://www.gog.com/game/tex_murphy_the_pandora_directive
You should play this too, @sughly. Actually I’ll play the new Kickstarter one and let you know if that’s a good place to start!
Hey guys, sorry i didnt get a chance to respond last nightr…
Re: Japan
@trjn – I have a bachelors degree in Communication Studies majoring in digital animation other than that, i have a cert III in Digital production and multimedia, an advanced diploma of Digital animation, and a cert III in telecommunications. I think i have an idea of what type of work i could get, but no idea on where to look,or how to apply…
@freezespreston – o_0
@jimu – I’ve been considering teaching, but my fear is that it wont be a full time gig, and ill need to know that i have some form of stability. i dont want to end up broke and peniless in a foreign country! The double pay would be awesome if it applies!
@negativezero – We are definitely open to learning the language… I’ve been wanting to do that for years to be honest, same as the missus.
I know that feeling.
… that’s, uh, all I’m going to contribute about this matter.
Read that as “penisless” and I was wondering about the Australia Stories you wouldn’t tell me.
When did I ever specify I was a man?
I AM A INDEPENDANT
BLACKWOMAN WHO DON’T NEED NO MENYou forgot the “strong” the “mmmmHHHHHMMMMMMM”s and the sassy finger snapping *snap snappity snap*
I’ve been trying to self-learn Japanese for years now and it’s not really working. You’d have a big leg up because of the immersion aspect, but if you’re serious about it you really should go to some classes before you get there. It’s a completely different language in every way and you need to have some reference points to get started.
Also if you find good classes somewhere let me know, I’ve been looking for a decent language school for a while. Decided if I really want to learn the language I’m going to need some formal tutoring because otherwise my knowledge is really uneven, eg I don’t understand some basic grammar but know correct stroke order for obscure kanji.
After playing Rayman I’m looking forward to my next platformer fix! Probably will be Donkey Kong Tropical @freezespreston or Super Mario 3D! (Which I’m still crazy psyched about, even if there’s weird Dharma and Greg-like guy dressed in cat suit.)
Maybe you should give Mario Bros U another shot 😛
I can’t stand that game. I quit after five minutes. Easily my least favourite Mario game and the soulless graphics too make me sad.
If only more of it had had the creativity of the Van Gogh stages.
Instead they just rushed a game out with half its assets from the previous game. :/
Why do you hurt me DC
I want a game with Mario’s physics and Rayman’s aesthetic. 2D Mario could use a graphical shake up and Rayman’s physics are really not the best in comparison 😛
Weird, I can’t stand the Mario physics. You and I are very different people! 😛
How dare you have a different opinion to me on the internet
Pssst I agree with you!
🙂
Play New Super Luigi U instead!
My sister in law confused Bruno Mars’ current trash hit with Daft Punk’s Get Lucky. That’s exactly how stupid tweens are these days. I told her I like Get Lucky and she says, ‘OH, that’s the one by Bruno Mars!’ and I’m like, ‘Err no, it’s the one by robots.’
=/ I don’t understand how you can confuse brilliance with shit.
To be fair? I can see how she can mix them up, and I fucking love french house with a passion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPvuNsRccVw to compare.
a single bass riff* does not make for a stellar comparison, though.
*any lyrical terms I say has a good chance of being complete bullshit
Thats a tuba Saturday, a Tuba riff. Just stick to pianos and math buddy.
And I’m shit at both so my life is now essentially useless. All I have is my innate knowledge of no less than twenty types of martial arts.
You are my anime tester too 🙂
love you buddy.
Let me counter-attack your video with my video.
Thanks to @benj I believe he directed me to this one.
I love that video 😛
Despite the upvote, I’m not really a fan of Random Access Memories. Shhh.
Yeah, RAM was actually kinda polarizing. People expected funk, but they didn’t expect 60’s funk. 😛
It was awesome for fans of 60’s funk with amazing vocals and catchy riffs aka me 😀
I was horrified and suspicious when I discovered that I actually liked Britney Spears’ ‘Blackout’ album. I had a serious crisis of conscience over that, until – after much soul-searched and repeated plays of the album while playing Zen of Sudoku – I realized that I liked it because the music had been outright stealing bits and pieces from Massive Attack, Underworld, and some other cool artists I loved in the 90s.
I felt better about myself then. Creative rationalization is da bomb.
I think I know what you mean. I absolutely love David Bowie and Queens, ‘Under Pressure.’
Thanks a fucking lot for ruining it forever, Vanilla Ice.
what? Vanilla Ice didn’t cover Under Pressure-
*one youtube search later*
OOHHHHHH GOOOODDD I NEEVVERR REALLIIIZZEED
Sorry to spoil your day.
Tbh, I really loved this mashup of the two:
Noone tell @dc but I liked Devil may Cry: Devil may Cry. If he found out I liked it he would hat it.
Remember the time I loved The Last of Us and you didn’t and it broke my heart. Also, you didn’t put out on the World War Z man date. Enemies! 😛
Don’t forget Ni No Kuni. =P
DMC was great, not as good as DMC 3, but still good
Infinitely better than 4.
Oh man, how good does Mario Kart 8 look? I call Diddy!
It was a’ight. To be honest after playing a bit of it I don’t expect too much, but at least it’ll look shinier than ever.
I do like shiny!
koopa trooper is my pick.
A worthy choice, my friend. A worthy choice! No one pick Birdo, that’s @sughly’s! 😛
well… not that it means anything. dont have a WiiU.
but in all other MK games, I pick the turtle.
What are your thoughts on Dead Koopa Trooper/Dry Bones.
havent actually played a game where he / she / it was playable.
but zombies are always pretty cool.
he’s mine 😛
No stealing Dry Bones O_O
Toad!
Wa-ha-ha-hooo!
*crazed monkey screech*
No.
Stahp.
how do you even powerslide on hovercarts when you are hovering off the ground so can’t screech across the track it makes no sense
Where was this opinion when F-zero came out? 😛
i was italics complaining back in 1990 too, thank you very much
You have forward momentum, you turn your vehicle faster than its momentum allows for it to continue in a user directed manner, and so since your vehicle is travelling in a direction that is not the same as where you’re pointing it, the ESC kicks in and corrects its movements.
Wait…
http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/2013/08/20/4521/
My thoughts on the matter.
Watched Oblivion last night. Not completely terrible and a decent twist! Tom Cruise is..well…Tom Cruise. Which is consistently serviceable. Overall, I liked it and it was a hell of a lot better than Elysium!
Had some nice scifi designs! I approved!
the ‘twist’ was a bit to obvious.
whoever made Oblivion is probably a big fan of Moon.
Melissa Leo’s in Oblivion! So weird after seeing her in Treme for three seasons!
I haven’t seen Treme. How is it?
So damn good. @shane, back me up!
Treme is awesome. In fact, I was writing a post about it when @dc tagged me.
There’s absolutely no other show like it. The pacing, the mood, the music, the vibe of the show is all totally its own. I can’t explain it and do it any kind of justice, but it has such a strong sense of place and of itself that you can’t help but be absorbed into it.
o/
This is why I likes you, Shane.
Also, in case you didn’t know… Supanova is on in November! You should come!
No way, man. I like my nose unflattened.
Okay, it is now on my radar
I didn’t see it entirely coming.
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Use http://www.rot13.com/ for spoilers!
V jrag vagb Boyvivba guvaxvat bs Zbba (gunaxf gb gur Qnivq naq Znetnerg erivrj) fb gur fvzvynevgvrf jrer irel boivbhf. V qvfphffrq vg jvgu n sevraq, naq jr nterrq gung vg jnf onfvpnyyl gur “Ubyyljbbqvsvrq” irefvba bs Zbba.
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yeah, the visual design & cinematography of it was brilliant.
I went in to Oblivion not knowing anything about it, but I picked up a Moon-ish vibe pretty quickly.
& yeah, I agree that it was pretty much a big-budget moon with action slapped on.
I … Wha … I …?
*faints*
I loved Elysium. It’s aesthetic was Mass Effect: The Movie. Also that robot parole officer reminded me of the Johnny Cab from Total Recall.
I loved the look of Elysium. First thing I said to my gf was “at least it was amazing to look at!”. She pointed out my hypocrisy because I attack Avatar for the same reason.
I love Avatar too. I think I’m easily pleased when it comes to scifi spectacle. XD
Have you read it yet?
I’m waiting for the audio book! 😛
Oh, we are so going to come to blows in Brisbane >:[
My favourite thing about Oblivion was the art direction and cinematography. The story didn’t try to be too ambitious either, so we got some really good pacing out of it, not the typical Hollywood fare at all.
I dunno that I’d go as far as ‘better than Elysium’. Different. A more intimate tale, at any rate.
I liked Oblivion too. Second half was where it picked up.
PC VS CONSOLE ON POTAKU THIS THURSDAY
Anyone want to come on? We’re doing another mock courtroom drama!
How is everyone? I miss it here 🙁
@transientmind should! He’s awesome, can talk to people AND has an unseemly love for PC!
Nice!
Honestly though I have no idea what this theeng is… I’m game to volunteer for things where required, but I like to know what I’m signing up for.
What is do?
We’re Potaku. The official unofficial Kotaku Podcast. We’re looking for people to hop on Skype and record our season finale with us 🙂
dude, you’re doing shameless self promotion wrong.
@transientmind go here http://www.potaku.com & read all the articles.
also, @transientmind… then go here http://www.potaku.podbean.com/ and listen to all the sexy voices of the kotaku people talking about games & general nonsense.
Edit: then spam those links to everyone you know & tell them how great that site is..
Well, I’m game to join in. Lemme know what I have to do!
MASTER RRRAAAAACE! RAAAAR! *hardware smash*
Objection!
If you need some audio to cut between segments I suggest using @blaghman screaming various PC things like “BOKEH!”
@dc TREME \o/
Still watching. Nearly finished season 2.
What was probably my favourite moment in the entire series to date.
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Oh man, there’s some even better stuff coming up ahead. Looking forward to linking you one of my favourite moments of the series so far but will wait until you’ve finished the season. Such a beautiful and understated show.
The understated nature of it is its true genius, I think. We’ve discussed this before, I believe, but the potency of the show as a whole is buoyed by its refusal to rely (too much) on ‘big’ melodramatic moments.
And Lucia Micarelli.
It’s true. She’s pretty mesmerising.
Morning ladies and gents!
I’m alive!!
ALIVE!!!
How is everyone?!
Well things could be better on this end – 6 weeks have past since moving in to point cook and we STILL have no phone line, meaning no internet, meaning i am having to use cafe wifi to try and get ANY uni work done..
Also in the next 2 weeks my work will be going insolvent and i’ll be losing my job, with not many others available in the field i need with me yet to graduate… le sigh..
BUT as ever, i’m keeping a chipper attitude! YOU CAN DO IT LOOPS!!!
What’s news, peeps?!
PAGE GIT!
Oh man, sorry to hear. Are you getting any kind of redundancy pay? You should* be eligible.
*I don’t actually know your employment circumstances in enough detail to qualify that ‘should’
I’m not 100% sure. I should be, but at the same time i read somewhere that it doesn’t apply if the business employs less that 15 people.. so i’ll have to call and find out.. thankfully i also have a lot of holiday pay accrued… but still, so sucky.
Ah yep, if it’s less than 15 people, it becomes difficult.
http://www.fairwork.gov.au/resources/fact-sheets/conditions-of-employment/pages/termination-of-employment-fact-sheet.aspx#redundancy
Son of a….. *le sigh*
Sorry to hear about your job, my friend. 🙁
Cheers buddy 🙂
Upvote for the attitude and enthusiasm, but sorry about the internet and job and stuff. 🙁
haha thanks mate. What else can i do.. i mean it’s not like i’m getting married in november or anything…
what?
i am???
PANIC STATIONS, PEOPLE!
😛
aw man that sucks… i lost my job 3 months before my wedding as well in 2009… went through hell first 18 months… i feel for you bro… what sort of field you in?
Sales and marketing.. but i want to drop the sales part haha
what product/service area?
That sucks loops, i hope you can find your feet quickly buddy. Hugssssssssssssssssss
ROCKET HUGS ARE THE BEST HUGS AND I ENDORSE THEM LIKE THE CORPORATE WHORE THAT I AM!
ALSO, CAPS. I ENDORSE CAPS.
THEY ARE PRETTY GREAT
YOU GET A HUG, YOU GET A HUG
EVERYONE GETS A HUG
except @dkzeitgeist cause fuck that guy
That’s… more than a hug 😛
We could just tell him that they’re at the end of his legs.
I need a new, all-purpose ringtone for my phone — any ideas and/or suggestions?
You should follow my 60-ish year old Boss and have Katy Perry’s Last Friday Night as your ringtone!
Otherwise, the Doctor Who theme. I am definitely not suggesting it because it was my ringtone for four years.
Flash – Queen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9EYPI3jwek
around the one minute mark should do you some good.
I counter with this: https://soundcloud.com/pomdeterrific/pomdeter-call-me-a-hole
My alarm to wake up to is Goriliaz “feel good inc” i have it because there is no better start to the day then a monkey laughing maniacally.
I believe I need to do this now.
I have Akuma vs Ryu’s song from Street Fighter IV. Really makes you ready to take over the world.
The sound of a ringing phone. It’s all kinds of retro, and there’s no mistaking it. It’s inoffensive, and good for all occasions! \o/
And then he can plug this in for added effect!
The 56k dial-up modem sound is pretty all-purpose.
It totally confuses everyone around me that hears it.
http://xkcd.com/1241/
if you’re gonna for a annoying ringtone, go all the way.
Haha, that’s brilliant.
Crazy Frog.
i got a warning when i worked at JB because when i received the shipment of Crazy Frog the game i said “nope” and hid it under my bench for 2 weeks.
Worth it
Edit: I just remembered the convo yesterday about working at games shops and i said my personal taste probably wouldn’t affect me at work, I just realised it would, well maybe they were wise not to hire me.
Codec noise from MGS. sounds enough like a ring tone but nerds will get it.
I had the MGS alert sound as a message tone, everytime it went off it nearly gave my dad’s, girlfriend’s mother a heart attack..I had to change it 🙁
i used to have Liu Kang’s Bicycle kick as mine, it was very startling and amusing, got so many strange looks, people would often ask why i had a turkey gobbling as my tone.
*holds kick for 5 seconds*
Ayulathayalaloololago
Whatever it is you should do it on an old Nokia or something then record and use the sound of that.
Rome II day, I’m excited!
It doesn’t get a delayed release in AUS right?
It unlocks at 5 pm.
Oh, reminder to BrisTAYbies: This Sunday the 8th. 2pm. Low-key drinks and probably cards at the Victory hotel in the city, out in the beer garden. I’m bringing a bucket of m&ms for bargaining chips, and a few decks of cards and some dice. Wanna try playing video-game cardgames for realsies. (Also: $3 steaks. Booyah.)
@beardymcmuttonchops @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @sernobulus @strange @sughly @welbot @weresmurf
DC, who am I missing? And yes, Freeze is going on a weekend with SOUTHERNERS, but he’s with us in spirit.
$3 steaks what the hell is that magic, i want $3 steak.
How are $3 steaks even economically possible?
Loss leader to make people buy beer.
My best guess: it takes about half an hour to an hour to serve the steak. Meaning: three or four beers can be imbibed during the wait!
Ah, McDonalds old tricks
Because you need to buy a drink as well. And the assumption is you’ll buy a couple more.
@lambomann007, @enduwolf, @virus__
@jimu, @gutsoup
$3 steaks??!!
Sald or chips are $2 extra, so it’s essentially a $5 meal. Oh, and sauce is $1 extra (mushroom/pepper, I think?) and given that the steak is $3, I have a sneaking suspicion sauce may be a good idea.
If it’s anything like the Fox, yeah, sauce is a very good idea.
The Fox in Bris WAS best for $1.50 BBQ wings. They stopped that a while ago though, dunno what they’re good for now. I think Wednesday is all-you-can-eat pizza night or something.
They did cheap steaks at one point. They were those thin ones you get at Woolies.
Possibly inna bun.
Based on public transport patronage, I think they do some kind of ‘geeks night’ on Fridays, which is basically a bunch of early-20s attractive hipsters wearing the most stylish dark slacks, white shirts, thick glasses, and suspenders/vests they can find. Because that’s what geeks wear.
*DISDAIN*
I may be there. Not sure yet. Problems with babysitters have rendered our anniversary plans implausible so not entirely sure what we’re doing at the moment. Keep me in the loop.
I hear DC likes kids. He could babysit.
I’d offer or try to help find someone, but I don’t know anyone worthy enough who’s available, and I’m doing things this weekend.
Ohhhhh Sundays arent good for me :'(
Sads. For the next meats I’ll shop around for something that does interesting/cheap on Saturdays. Gotta be SOMEWHERE central’ish that does.
I can’t promise I’ll try.
But I’ll try to try.
No dice gentle-men and -women, it’s my son’s birthday party AND YOU’RE NOT INVITED BECAUSE YOU’RE NOT TWO YEARS OLD
Last I checked the Victory hotel had burned down. Guess I’ve been out of town for a few years.
Ohyeah, it’s been rebuilt for a while now. 🙂
I’d love to come for $3 steak, but I dun think I’ll be able to afford it. I have to save a bit o money cos my friend’s coming up from melbourne the week after, and it’s a non-pay week for me :\ If anything changes though, I’ll let someone know!
Been there, man. Still not as comfy as I’m used to from unexpected overseas trip, myself. Next time!
hehe yeah that can be a killer. It’s not actually the steak that would break the bank, but getting in there. Whether I drive or bus it, it’s gonna cost me at least $20 :\ I may be able to do it, but depends on when I get paid for my school stuff. At least with my other job, I know that I get paid every two weeks.. the school stuff is just kinda random :\ Makes it hard to budget!
Can I bring handhelds?
I think there will be a couple people there who would be very disappointed if they didn’t get to streetpass/visit Animal Crossing houses or whatever weird kinky shit it is you crazy handheld heathens do with each other.
I don’t even own Animal Crossing, they will be 50% dissapointed XD
Tarnation, I will be interstate 🙁
I posted this last year sometime, but it still blows me away how good it is. Behind the scenes of Aladdin.
I SAW THIS THE FIRST TIME and yes its amazing. now i wanna watch Aladdin tonight.
I’ve got a great idea, let’s do a group solo Aladdin watching tonight! Best plan!
I WOULD LOVE THAT, singing ‘a whole new world’ duet with you would be amazing.
alas Lady friend is coming over.
its been literally 4 days since i met her and im already that guy who ditches his friends. Fuck im terrible. 😛
2 days since you made a comment along the lines of Brothers before… Hothers? 😛
‘I am going to stay away from romantic entanglement for a while.’
– Rocketman, August 2013.
Rocket’s dated more ladies in the past few months than I have in a life time. XD
He’s got a bit of an advantage, though…
He leaves the house.
IM A LIAR A DIRTY LIAR.
i also said that because i in no way thought i would ever find anyone ever again 😛
legit question: whats the population of where you live? cos seriously… how have you not run out of young women to date by now?
Don’t think he ever said the word ‘young’, did he?
The Tangled one is also excellent.
Oh, I love this! Aladdin is such a damn good film
Wrote a poem for my friend’s birthday.
She’s probably around 25, or something.
Ah, Salina… So young in looks and youthful vigour,
Spritely and relaxed,
With lustrous locks and lissom figure,
So sad you’ve now been taxed,
By time! Its wretched toll’s been paid,
And now you’re old and frail,
With withered bones, and hair all frayed,
You’re long in tooth and nail,
Soon you’ll find it hard to chew,
You’ll eat food through a straw!
Your eyes will lose their sparkling hue,
And, into your skull, withdraw…
But! Regardless of the grief and gloom,
One’s old age might bestow,
Not all is lost, a brightness looms,
You will be glad to know,
For, from within, your beauty gleams,
And, though you’re an old fart,
You’re filled with laughter, joy, and dreams!
Eternally young at heart.
Happy Birthday.
Dear Hallmark, take note. Hire this man, and I will buy all the cards.
Jerk. 😛
Bravo!
Now pull her hair and push her face into the cake when she blows out the candles.
You’re a real fuck, you know?
That’s what his meat era obsessed friend hopes, atleast!
Beef era.
Get it right.
You don’t have to be a jerk about it, jerk. 😛
Oh, D.C., but I do…
Yeah…
Hate to be that guy, but such a great ode deserves correct spelling:
Your eyes, not you’re eyes.
Well… shit.
Refreshing myself on electronic theory i learnt in highschool. I remember why i love this stuff so much. Its so complex and filled with endless questions.
wat kind of nerd willingly learns about electronics, nerd
I would rather read a book at work and get paid for it then do it at home and not.
Hi TAY
Writing a presentation on Harvard Referencing.
All part of my fun-filled life of adventure.
You have to reference things within the presentation, right?
So I hope you’re using a non-Harvard method there.
Thought about it but there’s always some pedant in the audience.
But… your presentation will show that you’re familiar with the Harvard system, and the references will show that you’re not a one-trick pony, and went the extra mile in researching the competition too! 🙂
Some of this audience are probably not academically educated enough to get that sort of joke.
I’m no saying it’s a dumb audience, but many of them aren’t uni educated so really aren’t familiar enough with the process for that to even be funny. They just want to know which specific hoop to jump through
JUST for their benefit, include a note either in parentheses after the Bibliography/reference heading or the line immediately under in small text, “Yes, this is referencing. Good for you on spotting it, have an imaginary cookie.”
Unconventional, but at least it looks like you planned it in advance when someone thinks they’ve caught you out and you don’t look defensive for pointing it out but can instead be pleased that someone has spotted your ridiculous joke. 🙂
I have comprehensively referenced it throughout 🙂
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/09/quick-qa-why-she-thinks-gamers-can-improve-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-1855721
….whaaaaat?
No, really.
I read that too, and figured he misread the question and is trying to quantify his life by (poorly) gamifying each particular element of it.
Bobby Lee anyone? He was pretty hilarious as the Korean Mad Scientist.
Morning all,
Miniature story from work. In an average day I get to spend 8 – 10 hours running the helpdesk, about 90% of that time is people having issues activating/disabling their accounts, resetting passwords and removing email alerts.
The bosses just rolled out a new system specifically for me that automates all of these things. Enter someone’s name or email select the client they’re from and I get buttons that update their accounts and an automated response taken from my normal list that I use.
WOO! now I get to be lazier, spend more time on the internet and I still get paid the same. I think my first lazy purchase will be Aliens – Colonial Marines
Hey that’s a good work story! What the hell.
Oh right, repost of a reminder.
Canberra people: @shane, @bdkiaf, @rize, whoever I’ve forgotten.
Sydney (and surrounding areas) people: @35, @alexpants, @anonymous_pessimist, @batgirl, @batguy, @cakesmith, @cj, @doc_what, @effluvium-boy, @fatshadylive, @freya, @gingerchris86, @gorzilla, @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian, @masha2932, @kermitron, @mawt, @mrtaco, @powalen, @pyrean, @ruffleberg, @trjn, (I’ve probably missed some people, and I’m sure some of the people here have zero interest, so if you want me to not tag you in the future, please give me a heads up. Harli and Shiggy removed because they hat me)
Other people: @strange, @novacascade, @rocketman (who may or may not be coming but I assume is refusing to tell me because he hats me, and not any other logical reason, @ambroseiv because I forgot to tag him last time and I’m pretty sure he falls into the “vaguely Sydneyish” group, @freezespreston who I only remembered to tag at the last second.
*Cough*
Canberra Meat! Usual stuff! The 21st of September (But Blaghs, isn’t that GTA V weekend? It… Uhhh… Shut up. Don’t judge my lack of foresight!)!
Other words!
Jelly Shots!
Disney Infinity!
See one of Australia’s six Wii U’s, and wonder why anyone would buy one!
Singstar!
Probably LittleBigPlanet because there’s always LittleBigPlanet.
Notice that Blaghs has disappeared for 3 hours to cry in his room!
Food & Alcohol!
A disturbing and saddening lack of @bish.
For those people who don’t know, A BlaghCanberra Meat is a party at my house that starts at some time, and ends some time later. You’re most welcome to crash on my floor (in fact, I endorse it), though after last year’s event, bringing some form of bedding like thing may prove useful. I dunno.
For those who want to know where I live, send an email to blaghman(at)gmail(dot)com.
For those thinking of driving down, do you maybe want to post something here so that people can work out car-pooling? That might be helpful. I dunno, my job isn’t to organise, my job is to let Bish organi- Oh. *Runs off crying*
For those noticing that there’s a pattern in these last few paragraphs, good work, I didn’t until just now. I’m a little slow sometimes.
What about those who want to know where you live but aren’t coming to the BlaghCanberra Meat? Can they email you?
Asking for a friend.
you wont ever find it even with a address, fuck canberra streets.
Blaghman’s house is easy to find. It’s just a stupid number of right turns… just enough that you think the universe might have warped a little to accommodate all the turns, but not quite so many as to confirm it for sure.
You’d better come. Or send my Hitman game down with someone. Either way.
Wanting to see you? Don’t see how that factors in.
Oh god I still have those damn things
That’s okay. It’s a good tactic, holding onto them until they lose all their monetary value. A disincentive for the recipients to up and sell them! 😛
BUT…. WHAT TIME….. !!!
Tips for staying at Glahman’s:
1. Holy crap the basement is cold so you best bring a snuggie, yo.
2. Avoid sleeping on the chairs. Your back will not thank you in the morning.
#. Fuck Rocketman, seriously that guy is the pits and will ruin everyone’s fun/ make you clean up his sick.
But just one at a time, because Blagh’s house isn’t zoned for orgies.
3. If any @dc tendencies come over you, and you need to run away from people for a bit, the kitchen is a nice, safe place.
4. Be prepared for an awkward random appearance by Blaghman’s sister.
The snuggies do nothing!
I think i was colder with a snuggie then without.
I cant make it. got tickets to a show on the 21st…
I’ll spend the whole night at the Annandale weeping, knowing that I’m missing out.
That’s alright. I’ll remove you from the list.
And let out a single solitary tear at your absence.
Also if someone could check the backyard for me, that’d be great.
I “accidentally” dropped some Shapes out back a long time ago, and with any luck, they sprouted and have now grown into a Shapes tree.
They were either the Peri Peri or Pepper Steak Roadies. Since they were discontinued, this tree could be the only source of the best Roadies flavours left.
Whaaaat, they got rid of Roadies? I’ve been trying to cut down on snacks so I haven’t bought any for awhile but Roadies were ace and constantly sold out. Why would they stop making them?
I’m sure the Salt and Vinegar and Cheddar ones are still around…
At least I hope they are.
Those are bullshit flavours. Pepper Steak or GTFO.
If I go, I will check.
I’m flying into Sydney and renting a car to drive into Canberra. Its less than half the cost then direct flights to Canberra.
@cakesmith will be accompanying me unless he is setting me up for a date dump. Anyone else who would like to join is welcome to the fun.
Said Smither of Cakes is trying to get me to join you, but I can’t commit until a bit closer to the day.
What if I said “please”?
Just commit already.
Freeze is coming to Canberra! \o/
… I’ll be hiding somewhere safe.
I’ll make it there one day, I hope, but not this time.
If it had been the election weekend, though, I’d have been there for sure to try and avoid all the hullaballoo.
Ha! Yep, come to Canberra to avoid the election! \o/
Alright, you’re off the list.
Forever.
Not that that really matters because this list will stop being used after this meat is done…
I’ll be there!
I’ll be either driving or not.
I’m leaning towards coming. Because if there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s traveling to other capital cities to meet strangers from the internet.
Huzzah!
I promise that only 3 kidneys have been stolen in the history of Canberra Meats!
If he had three of them then obviously he was a freak that deserved to be cut to pieces.
…y’know. For science >_>
Hey, Sportsball, you’re not doing much to improve your image since yesterday.
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/sep/03/afl-st-kilda-dwarf-fire-mad-monday
today’s story, features an AFL player trying to set a dwarf on fire.
Inspired by [nothing in particular – certain pop culture book reference]?
spoilers!3!!!
maybe. haven’t gotten up to that part of the books yet.
D:
Brain freeze. Sorry.
oh, I just thought your were joking.
im not overly fussed with GoT spoilers to be honest. bit over the series.
Hey! Don’t blame @freezespreston! He didn’t do anything!
we’re all guilty of something.
Freeze probably more than most.
Well then…
That sucks.
Classy.
Heard that on the drive to work this morning. I thought it was a really shit attempt at a joke until they started giving details.
Quick poll: should the person responsible face criminal charges, or should we just light him on fire and see how he feels?
I think both. Why not both?
*throws @shane in the air like a little mexican girl*
Yes.
You forget that State and Federal laws don’t apply to football players.
So… burning, then?
Sounds like the subject of a Monty Python sketch.
The heart wants KFC for lunch but the brain and digestive tract are screaming no.
solution: heart gets KFC, brain & digestive tract go get a salad & they all meet up in the food court later.
Every time I walk past KFC I think, “OH GOD THAT SMELLS GOOD,” and immediately want KFC. And every now and then I forget the last time I had KFC, and I go buy some. Then I swear to never buy KFC ever ever ever again.
This cycle lasts around three months or so. FYI: KFC does 9 pieces of chicken for $9.95 Tuesdays.
KFC regret is a thing, but less so than Maccas regret. Maccas regret is king and occurs with minutes of finishing your ‘food’. KFC takes longer – but man, dirty KFC breakfast/lunch after a big night is priceless.
theres a tradition amongst my mates.
New years day, after a big night, wake up feeling less than great.
first thing is a trip to KFC for lunch.
2 reasons: its great hangover food & if you start your year with KFC and a hangover, it can only get better from there.
Did this one year when they had the blow up cricket fielders. Me and a mate polished a family feast, man did I feel terrible. It was a great year though from then on.
To be honest usually don’t get maccas regret and if I do it’s usually minimal. However I always get KFC regret and vow to never touch KFC again.
I’m with @sernobulus, no real maccas regret for me. But one thing I massively get, and I think trumps all others, is Hungry Jacks regret. I still think they are indeed better burgers than the others (although maccas’ serious lamb burger was incredible)… but afterwards it just feels like I’m carrying a brick in my gut and I vow never to Hungry Jacks again. Until several months down the track where it happens again.
I’ve never had KFC regret in my life. *folds arms stubbornly*
Wait until you hit 30. 🙂
(Edit: Your body will start punishing you for ANYTHING remotely fun.)
I’ve spent my first 28 years preparing my body to thrive on unhealthy foods. It’s that or a punch in the chest. 😛
…you’re 28?
#OldManDC
For some reason I always thought you were younger than me…
@rize That becomes the default assumption for everyone when you’re married 😛
A girl once said that I became emotionally stunted and didn’t progress beyond sixteen for what it’s worth. 😛
Forever young, I wanna be forever young….
1985 is quite possibly the only good year for someone to have been born in.
nothing good ever came out of the 80’s.
Edit: for the record, much like every other person here, I was born in ’85. And with the exception of The Smiths & @shane, I stand by my statement.
It’s almost as good as 1984. Almost.
Is anyone else 84 or am I it?
@freezespreston, you’re 84?
Also, 1984 was quite a good book. Seminal, in case you want to make a joke 😛
I prefer 1986, personally.
@35, you could not be more wrong. Have you ever seen Indiana Jones or Die Hard? That’s all I’m gonna say.
Semenal.
Clearly you haven’t checked out how great 1987 is.
My sister was born in 1985, therefore you’re wrong.
I’m 37 and still have never had KFC Regret.
We get it about once a fortnight, too.
First thought, “I want your body,” sounds… quite wrong.
OK, revise: “I want your intestines.” OK, that’s… not helping.
Strange, we should have a KFC meat!
*hi5* I’ve never had KFC regret, cos KFC is amazing 😛
I’ve started getting Maccas regret recently though. Sooo much regret after an angus mac burger yesterday 🙁
Give it a year young ‘un.
Freeze, you’re still 29. Stop acting like your 30. GEEZ. 😛
@freezespreston: Played the first mission and really, really like DmC. Combat is so damn fun.
One thing I don’t like though is you get scored on how long it takes to do the missions. I like to take in the sights and sounds. Don’t punish me for that game. *runs off crying*
I don’t think you’re expected to hit the time target on your first run, the SSS objectives in DMC games have always been ludicrously high to promote replaying and speed runs.
I always hate when a game tries to rush you through an area for the exact same reason.
I usually take my time first playthrough, play on easy, explore and experiment and search for collectibles. Subsequent plays are put up to Hard to Dante Must Die/Heaven and Hell and hammering away trying to get the perfect runs.
It’s how the games are designed.
Take your time, ignore the score.
If you want to get better scores the game allows you to go back and replay any single level or mission and change any parameters like difficulty, amulets etc.
Writing about the game reminds me that I really need to buy myself a copy to own. I originally borrowed it from a coworker.
Buy it on PSN so leechius
Wait… it might be on PS+! :O
Oh yeah, once you get the extra weapons, rocking back and forth through the triggers to change up the weapons is almost zen inducing once you get the hang of it. They did that really well.
Oh man, my back just below my left shoulder is so sore. Not sure what I did to it 🙁
I have a suspicion that you didn’t do anything to it 😛
…
Man, that floor must be seeing a lot of action.
My back feels better now after I had a whinge and then got it cracked and rubbed 🙂
Board games this weekend went alright. Pants may have shown up but my night was cut short when I decided that lying in bed, dying was a better use of my time. The others made robot porn.
This weekend we might have to try again with less dying. I know that @freya plans to get drunk and watch the election. I’m sure getting drunk and playing board games can be done around that. Maybe meat up for lunch and have something like Korean BBQ beforehand, just because.
Something something BOARD GAMES!
HOW THE HELL WAS THAT A REPLY?!?!
REPLY FAIL.
Tsk.
hush you. you’re sick. hallucinating. you didnt see that.
The correct nomenclature is delirious.
Getting drunk before watching an election is probably the only way to do so without being incarcerated for violence. At least if you get drunk enough that you’re too physically incapacitated to do anything more than destroy your own property or injure yourself.
You watch the first ten minutes until you can figure out what the, “Oh god help me we can’t have dead air,” life-line phrase is, or the most ‘popular’ political-scoring talking point is, then take a shot every time you hear the desperately unimaginative fuckers use either one.
You missed the bit where I invited other people to join in, didn’t you?
Someone says “stop the boats”, “boat people” or “asylum seekers” – Have a drink
You laugh at the noddies behind someone giving a speech – Finish your drink
Someone takes a “firm stance” on something – One shot
Someone fumbles a word into an inappropriate word- Two shots
A discussion happens based around policies and not people – Thee shots
Someone says something sensible – Five shots
I am going to get so wasted on single drinks.
Yeah, finish your drink on boat people mentions is a bit dangerous.
“Have a drink”, not “finish”.
Marriage has changed you. You used to be cool.
You take that back! I was never cool!
Maybe a drink should be invented for the night, called the Asylum Seeker?
The basic principal would be any alcohol in an overflowing glass that gets handed off to someone else to the North of you.
SPONTANEOUS & POORLY THOUGHT OUT DRINKING GAME IDEA:
you have a toy boat. you’ve gotta had it off to someone in a surreptitious way.
if you get caught, *drink* if you succeed *they drink*
then once an hour everyone gets together & decides to give the boat to someone not involved with the game & forces them to *DRINK*
Nah, they don’t discuss policy on election night. That’s a preelection thing.
I just like drinking every time Andrew Green looks frustrated or explains things.
It wasn’t all robot porn. It was like a robot drama theatre.
Drunken election watching sounds fun.
Finding it interesting no one is predicting a minority government again. It was only a very tiny handful of independents who caused it last time and with the number of “personalities” involved this time I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if it happened again.
Tony Abbott trying to deal with minority parties would be interesting.
Abbott outright stated that if they cant form a majority government, he wasnt gonna negotiate with independents to form a minority one.
I dont believe a word of it though. he’ll sell his arse to become PM.
Oh gods
Imagine if Labor get in on a minority ticket again. Imagine the degree of unhinging from Tony.
Spectacular meltdown.
oh he’d lose his shit. & it would be glorious.
also, technically, isn’t forming a Lib / Nat coalition govt. pretty much a minority government?
shush, don’t point out the holes in the plan…
I wont tell Tony if you wont.
You heard it here first-Tony Abbott hates minorities!
@redartifice I think immigrants, homosexuals & single parents have know this for a while.
Not at all! The Lib/Nat Coalition has paperwork and is official and stuff. Labor working with the Independents is denying the people of Australia true democracy.
Isn’t that the politician way of just saying “nuh-uh!”
It’s the political way of saying “it’s okay because we’re doing it.”
Wasn’t the last one a national record for invalid/non-voting, put down to massive disillusionment with the options on offer? I’d honestly be surprised if we don’t see a repeat of that.
It was. Over 1.1 million informal votes IIRC.
Edit: above 5%
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-08-22/figures-show-5pc-of-votes-were-informal/953096
How the hell do you not take that as some kind of fairly dramatic warning sign, the 1 in 20 people are so sick of your shit that they’re opting out? Pretty confident if it got up to 3mil we’d only be another couple million away from armed revolt.
An Australian armed revolt. I can’t imaging how that would go.
“We’re hanging all thes c***s because they’re wankers.”
“So now whadda we do?”
“Best put someone else in. Who’s gonna do it though?”
*silence*
“I will!”
“Too eager, that makes you a wanker too. ‘ang’im!”
“How about that guy?”
“Nah, I don’t like him, he’s a bit shit.”
“Great, so anyone who wants to do it will be a wanker, so we’ll have to tell someone to do it… and we shouldn’t put in someone we don’t like… how are we gonna find someone we like?”
“How about Farnsey or Barnesy?”
“Noice! One can be government the other can be opposition and they can swap every term or two.”
“Fair enough.”
dude, stop quoting the constitution at us.
I can’t wait for this election to be over. Saturday is going to be the longest day ever.
As someone who does tend to talk politics a fair bit, I can only apologise & sincerely regret that spoiler tags are not working at the moment.
I enjoy talking politics, I just want the election to be over. I am involved and on election day I’ll be getting up at 6am and won’t be finishing until around midnight. Then I’ll have to get back up on Sunday morning for more things to do.
Political apathy kind of irks me. People have fought and died for the right to vote and still are in places. And it’s all well and good to sit there and moan about your vote not doing any good so why bother but if you just throw it away it won’t do any good at all. You’ve got a chance to have a say in the future of the country and your own life so use it.
Sorry. Not directed at you @phlaiman. Just a mini rant in general.
I’m not sure how I feel about people not voting but I really like this perspective.
You’re right, people have fought and died for this very opportunity. Even if you don’t entirely agree with either major candidate, you should still be supporting whichever is a better party, even if it is a celebration of democracy and what it has achieved for countries.
That. That’s probably the part that makes me the maddest about elections. People have shed blood, sweat, and tears. Tears are worse than blood, because it means that struggle has broken people.
And this is what we have to show for it. This is what we get to choose. Purely by being who they are in the positions they have, the candidates are disrespecting everyone who has ever passionately striven for that right to vote.
And they think that’s acceptable. They sit there trading barbs, jeers and sneers and acting like fucking monkeys in a zoo flinging shit at each other in some of the most expensive and important seats in the country, and they think that’s something they deserve to be doing.
I don’t have apathy. I have indignant frustration and a healthy helping of anger.
I remember a while ago when Kim Beazley was actually relevant, he did a very candid interview where he told a reporter (and I paraphrase): ‘We don’t all hang up the politics at the end of the day and consider the other guys ‘alright but misguided’. We’re not going to have a beer with those guys. We can’t stand them. We’re not friends. We think their ideas about how to run the country are either wrong at best, and at worst, outright damaging to the nation, and because we’re passionate about that, we get mad about that, and that’s what fuels the behaviour you see.”
And I could almost respect that, if it were fucking true. You see the policy shifts, and the desperate, “How do we change our policies to appeal to the most people, so we can cling to power?” bullshit and you realize it’s not about standing up for what you believe and hoping that you represent more people than someone who believes something else, or convincing more people about why they should believe what you believe.
It’s about keeping that cushy job and delivering on promises to those private concerns who are going to keep you in lucrative contracting gigs when you’re done.
And that’s what people fought and died for. I don’t know why more people don’t get angry about this.
Cannot upvote enough or harder.
Anger is good. Anger shows passion. Anger drives you to do something. It’s apathy and deliberate ignorance that shits me.
I don’t blame anyone who actively investigated their options, compared notes with history, got seriously angry, decided to do something about it… then realized there is nothing you can do about it and fell into despair from that.
Choosing the lesser evil and knowing they’re smirking all the way to the bank, hoping they’ll deign to spit on your shoes on their way? Feels dirty. Petulantly throwing your vote away on impossible odds for an independent? Petulance doesn’t sit right with some folks either, and I can respect that. Consciously performing an invalid vote, knowing that it will be recorded, paying your fine, and hoping that your social protest will be recognized as a different kind of voice? Still petulant, but what other social protest do you have?
Giving the whole thing a miss because queues are shitty and you’d rather be catching a movie, playing video games or spanking it? Donkey voting because who cares, really? Voting the way your Dad did without ever bothering to examine the candidates? I have less time for that. I still get where they’re coming from, but I’d prefer they be angry enough to be petty and spiteful or wear the shame and resentment of participating a lesser evil.
@35 Don’t feed the troll!
BUT TAKING THE PISS OUTTA IDIOTS IS FUNNY.
yeah. sorry. I know I shoudn’t.
thinking of trolls…. i wonder what happened to ‘name’?
do you remember when the person whose female genitalia were somewhat earthen claimed to be studying an online community after months of puerile lame trolling?
Ah, fun times
i do indeed recall. that was the most bizarre excuse. at least they haven’t come back.
Yeah, I think it was when we started asking for the name of their university so we could put in an ethics complaint.
That was so unbelievably weird I actually believed it, because why would you bother making that up? 😛
Because you’re fishing for reactions.
I just looked that up.
Oh boy, the psuedointellectual wankery is amazing.
Wasn’t much “intellectual” going on there
Lots of psuedo though. Lots.
Perhaps auditioning for the band spiderbait?
http://24.media.tumblr.com/c43488a6894084d8ac1f3b0621243dd6/tumblr_ms825axWhR1ry46hlo1_500.gif
ಠ_ಠ
…Fine. Upvote.
save it for page 6, man.
Just went to open up Rayman Origins. When suddenly, BARCODES!
You know those chunky square security ones with the coiled metal beneath the surface? Like the ones you find stuck to that random blank page in a book, making them never fully close properly but impossible to remove without tearing the thing due to turbo adhesive. The fuckers at GAME put one of those on the pop-up part of the Rayman Collector’s box. But they didn’t just stick it on there. Oh, no. They stuck it inside the pop-up part, and then wrapped it around the edge so that a quarter of it was also stuck to the front. Sneaky, evil bastards. Couldn’t remove it without some damage, but thankfully it was only to the inside of the thing where it can’t really be seen.
Also I always feel weird about opening up sealed games.
That is some bullshit right there!
I once received some clothes as a present and they still had those massive honking plastic stud security things that you need the special machine within the store to remove. I took it into the store to see if they could remove them for me and they refused because I didn’t have a receipt.
Filthy thiefalen
Fun fact: I’ve yet to pay for any of the new Raymans.
I won Origins at Mana Bar, Legends from Ubisoft and Origins Vita was free on PS+.
They’re also some of my favourite games of all time, up there with MGS.
At first I read it as “yet to play”, and then thought it was odd when I got to the part where they’re your favourites. But then I remembered how much I loved Origins despite not having played it yet, only having tried the demo at EBX 2011, and thought nothing more of it.
If you truly loved it you would’ve played it by now!
If you love something, let it sit on the shelf. If it still has appeal when you finally get around to it, it was meant to be. If not, then at least it’s a bit late to have buyer’s remorse.
is it just me, or when you notice you’ve lost a follower on twitter do you wonder
a) what did i do to offend someone to the point that they have blocked me, and then
b) and why did it take so long?
Edit: and then c) check that the important people are still there & upon seeing that they are, carry on with being a jerk on the internet.
I lost 350 followers in a week. It nearly destroyed me.
you either deleted an account, or damn… you must’ve made a serous effort to offend so many people at once.
I have 41. Total. Ever. But I seem to be getting a new one every day! That’s kind of nice, which I didn’t expect. OH GOD WHAT’S HAPPENING TO ME I’M BECOMING A TWIT
FYI one who tweets is a ‘twat’
That’s EVEN WORSE! No… no. This is fair and appropriate. This is purely the next step on my self-aware shame spiral that began when I cleaned my watch’s wrist-band today. I AM FILTHY.
I think @freezespreston knows what I’m talking about.
People think shoes are the gross thing I have to work with but those people have never had to remove half a centimetre of an old lady’s dead skin and filth off a watch to open it up.
I’ve lost 2 in the past couple of days. Devastated 🙁 Then again I haven’t tweeted in a while anyway.
I don’t monitor the number close enough
Same. Apparently I have 168. For all I know, that’s just the default number of random Twitter bots you get following you when you sign up.
Just mention bieber playing starcraft on his ipad versus one direction and you’ll get some more
#teamfollowback
Yeah, same. Ignorance is bliss!
This last stretch of the work day is where I am super not-motivated.
@35 told me to order groceries online.
I did.
Turns out that when you don’t have to worry about carrying the groceries, it makes buying a lot of extra things that you should have in your pantry just in case so much easier. I should probably do this more often and just go down to the supermarket for smaller purchases. I like this system.
Given how close I live to the supermarket, I really couldn’t justify it.
If I was sick I would though.
You can actually do the ordering online, then head out for in-store pickup. Saves some dollars, I suspect, but I haven’t checked. Delivery to my place is like… $7 for an order under $100 or something.
Good way to avoid impulse purchases anyway.
I live within walking distance or a short bus ride. The problem is that carrying more than a few groceries onto the bus or walking home with them is a little cumbersome.
This way I can do bigger orders while being lazy. I like the lazy bit.
I’m now imagining you getting in an online bidding war with someone over a box of shapes.
Bastard’s using some kind of e-snipe last-minute outbidding plugin! This is an outrage and must be stopped! Now I can’t eat! Literally taking food from the mouth of a babe! (I have no child, I am the babe. *pose*)
The babe with the power?
What power?
Power of Voodoo
and now in imagining @trjn and @bish getting in a bidding war for a pack of shapes.
One side only wants to win because he can.
The other would pick up the computer throw it outside and set the remains of said computer on fire if he has too live without shapes for much longer.
That’s not fair. I’d also want to win because Shapes are delicious.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=urMPzowV2L0
What the actual fuck?
@redartifice @35 @trjn
Oh gods.
I saw that earlier.
Bloody idiots.
Damn those asylum seekers and their cars clogging up our roads.
If it wasn’t for Labor’s reckless spending giving every boat person a free new car we wouldn’t be in this mess.
She’s a fucking idiot.
But she has sex appeal, apparently. According to Abbott, at least.
Young Libs.
Young Libs are usually worse than that.
You only think the rest are worse because she has sex appeal.
I think you are over estimating the rest.
The Young Libs in the ACT kicked out the successful, competent, actually-cares-about-the-ACT-as-much-as-I-don’t-care-for-him Senate candidate, and replaced him with the guy who had a hissy fit after losing the local election. Their stupidity knows no bounds.
As far as I was aware, the Young Libs don’t actually have any real power. The various factions is more of a driving force of internal politics.
Ok, clarification: Gary Humphries lost the pre-selection ballot to Zed Seselja thanks largely to the influence of both young(er) Liberals, and The Young Liberals.
The point here is that nobody over the age of 35 actually likes Seselja (generalisation, but shh). He’s a twat.
And Humphries is a good representative for the area and it was probably mostly him that meant they kept that Senate seat for so long. It’s highly likely the Greens will pick it up now.
Young Libs. Yes.
So my wrist is starting to heal up but now I have come down with Mum’s cold.
Best week.
🙁
How’s the cosplay going?
I was going to start on Nob’s nut the wrist stopped me.
bugger. still, healing good.
Yeah, but it’s frustrating
I can imagine- healing always is.
I had surgery a few years ago that meant I couldn’t sit in a chair for more than a half hour at a time for about two moths. that was incredibly frustrating.
Wouldn’t be bad if it were my left hand,
*tries to ignore “Nob’s nut”*
*fails*
Don’t worry. The wrist stopped her.
=( It was meant to be but. It’s kind of hard to type with a sore wrist.
More seriously, more cosplay? Whatcha making? 😀
It’s for Pax next year.
I have several cosplays that need to be made, so no dawdling.
But whatcha makinggggg
Something from dark souls for Nob, Killer is dead for Gorzy, Um, a uni friend wants something from an anime I can’t remember the name of and possibly Cardcaptor Sakura’s red dress or chibi moon’s outfit.
@scree, ooh cool, a Dark Souls costume? What is it?? 🙂
@shane
Smough!
@shane
something with a sun
@shane
http://darksoulswiki.wikispaces.com/Solaire+of+Astora
If I’m going to cosplay a character from the Dark Souls universe it may aswell be the best character in the game. \o/
Don’t ever believe an atom.
They make up everything
#dadjokepage6
Ever see those ads where a washing powder can magically remove blood stains?
I think that if you’ve got blood on your clothes, laundry is the least of your problems.
Yeah, but when those problems are done and everything is resolved, you still have to come home and realize your wardrobe is now short a shirt or something and you have to go buy another one. That’s when you’re grateful for hearing about something to reduce your new, pressing, annoying problem. 🙂
(Well. You would be grateful… until you try it. Seriously. Those ads are bullshit. Nothing gets blood out. Not out of white, anyway.)
MQFT!
Yes?
No?
Maybe.
I don’t know.
Can you repeat the question?
You’re not the boss of me now.
That’s our Blaghman!
*canned laughter*
I prefer fresh laughter thank you very much.
Yes, assuming boolean or.
Well it was whether to cancel Rayman Legends or not but I decided to wait it out… 😛
Even though I placed my pre-order in October, I’m pretty sure the place I got it from just don’t exist/don’t remember :/
All Melbourne pals, forgot to mention meat is Friday. Still checking on mana bar openness
Who’s attending?
I’m not sure but there was some talk about it on previous pages.
@gingerchris86 I’ll be busy with assignments so I won’t be there but have fun! We shall discuss Billy Talent another time 🙂
I could have bought Saints Row IV today. The uncensored New Zealand version. Unfortunately they only had console versions, so I passed 🙁
But if you’re in Brisbane and can’t wait until next week for your console version, go ask a game retailer at Chermside that isn’t EB Games and they’ll sort you out.
@trjn I got 7 wonders!
only had time for one game, but yeah it was pretty fun!
i came a draw 1st 😀
Huzzah!
That’s multiple people buying good games and I get to claim credit for it.
Random trjn credit claim
Tabletop and Shut Up & Sit Down both push ridiculous numbers of games with their recommendations.
I’ve managed to push an number of games with my recommendations. I’m basically Wil Wheaton.
We talking 7 wonders on PC or actual tabletop version
Well I was talking up the real, physical version at PAX so I’d hope that.
Good news, @greenius. Already 100%’d the first world =D
This game is rad. Kinda wanna blast through it so I can get to Legends already.
I didn’t really like the mosquito sections (I have a feeling it’ll be the same with Murfy), while they were fun on their own I kinda feel like they break up the pacing 🙁
Music is the bestest in water levels!
*starts whistling*
I despise the mozzie sections. They’re long, and dull, and I am awful at them so I don’t get enough lums to get the electoon thingies.
I would’ve just preferred pure platforming and kept that (and I assume Murfy) separate or in “Challenge Mode” type of things.
I’m calling it.
Watamote is officially the best anime I’ve watched this year.
That ain’t how you spell monogatari.
In all honesty though it’s certainly one of the most interesting manga/anime to come out in a while.
Upvote for actual best show.
dont tell richard whatshisface (the anime guy for kotaku).
i believe he called it “disgusting”.
i found it pretty funny.
Pretty sure that guy doesn’t like anything at all.
he has a tendency to jump to conclusions…
Yeah, but he’s a dick.
I find it pretty horrible as well, personally. Don’t understand why people find it funny to laugh at a nerd’s extreme social issues.
McDonaldsssss McDonaldsssss
Kentucky Fried Chicken
and a Pizza Hut!
I just sang along with the accompanying dance moves.
So yeah, for my ethics unit we had to do a presentation on an ethical issue. Each week it’s something different. Last week was sweat shops and this week it was fast food (which my group did).
We put in a clip from Super Size Me (the one where the children didn’t know who Jesus was but knew Ronald McDonald) and I figured I’ve seen bits and pieces of Super Size Me but never seen the whole thing – so I’m watching it now 😀
…except all it’s done is make me want to eat fast food, despite already having McDonalds yesterday and eating other food right now 😛
mmm
I even caved and grabbed some soft drink while being tempted by it. Water is pretty boring!
BREAKING NEWS!
I think I’ll cut down on my fast fooding. Definitely need less than a few times a week 😛
Man, we jumped into the deep end with ethics. Killing people! Sterilising women with retarded kids!
Well it’s more just the business side of ethics 😛
Not just ethics in general.
Your unit sounds swell! 😛
Oh, this was the business ethics part of management : P
Uh…
Tasmania! 😛
Who was the Charlie Hunman fan here?
Sons of Anarchy guy? Shane or Virus most likely!
Now the 50 Shades of Grey guy.
I know 🙁
But maybe he can be one of those actors that does commercial projects to pay the billz, but passion projects that get his A-game.
The gf read me some sections of that book. (Because we used to write porn.)
It was… horrible. It made me want to go try and spend the money to get some of our old stuff back and find a way to market it to bored housewives.
It can be made entertaining. In fact, 50 Shades has provided me my most favourite Youtube clip in existence.
You wrote porn? o_O
That’s why he’s the leader!
Collaboratively. Purely literary, not like scripts for video or whatever.
There’s good writing out there, and 50 shades of grey is not it.
You have to stay in shape. My mother started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She’s 97 now and we have no idea where she is.
I’m in shape. Round is a shape.
The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, “You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.”
That joke bugs me simply because the flamethrowers are incredibly effective against bunkers and fortified positions.
Dat scene from Saving Private Ryan.
More dad jokes!
A seven year old and a four year old are upstairs in their bedroom. The seven year old says, ‘You know what? I thinks it’s about time we started swearing.’ The four year old nods his head in approval. ‘When we go downstairs for breakfast you’re gonna swear first, then I’ll swear after you, okay?’ ‘Okay,’ the four year old agrees.
The mother walks into the kitchen and asks the four year old what he wants to eat. ‘AH SHIT MUM, I GUESS I’LL HAVE SOME COCO POPS!’
WHACK! The four year old goes flying from his chair, across the kitchen floor, then gets up and goes running upstairs crying his eyes out. The mother turns to the seven year old and with a stern voice she asks, ‘And what do you want for breakfast young man?’
‘Err I don’t know,’ he mumbles, ‘but you can bet your fuckin’ arse it won’t be Coco Pops.’
Dear maths, I am not a therapist and don’t know where your X is!
*dad joke*
Question: What are you favourite (say, top 5?10?) game trailers from this gen? And it’s not allowed to be a list of the GTA V trailers. I’d say:
Most recent GTA V trailer
Blur’s Old republic trailers (they count as one, shut up)
AC2 announcement trailer
Transistor announcement trailer (dat music!)
Uncharted 3 Launch trailer
Mass Effect 2 launch trailer
LEX LUTHOR
Mirrors Edge announcement trailer
I’m sure I’m forgetting things, so shut up
Upvoting for LEX LUTHOR!
Ghosts of the Past (Starcraft 2)
I agree with you on the ME2 launch trailer.
And the most recent GTA V one.
I can’t think of more that stand out to me right now, but I’m sure I’ll think of them.
Edit: It’s close enough to counting, so the Wrath of the Lich King trailer (which is just the cinematic, but shh).
And that first Fallout 3 trailer. I was so hyped after seeing that.
Upvoting for upvoting LEX LUTHOR!
I dunno about the “best” or “top ___” but I thought the Dead Island one was pretty good as well as umm… oh god I had something else in mind but completely forgot what it was…
Human Revolution had some awesome ones too.
YES!!!!!! THANKS @TRJN!
It was the Gears one I had in mind!
____
And it technically doesn’t count but I love Twilight Princess’ E3 announcement trailer mainly because I didn’t expect it to look like that and everyone got so damn excited.
Human Revolution has some GREAT ONES. The trailers were better than the game.
Boooooooo
Human Revolution was great.
Haha, I think I’m like the only one that enjoyed the boss fights.
Gears – Mad World.
Street Fighter 4’s announcement trailer (which is part of the attract mode in game)
Yay for mad world! That was really really really good. The BF:Bad Company parody of it was also funny.
The Street Fighter X Tekken cinematic trailer’s were pretty damn cool, too bad the game wasn’t as good as the trailers 🙁
None, because I haven’t really bothered with trailers since the GameCube days.
Oh wait – the Mega Man reveal for Smash had me nice and megahype.
Does The Wii Fit Trainer in Smash Bros reveal video count as a trailer? 😛
Oh actually, the Wonderful 101 trailer from the last Nintendo Direct was fantastic. And one of the Ace Attorney 5 trailers was great too.
Can’t think of any more…
The Last of Us Spike 2011 VGA trailer. So damn good.
I can’t think of 5 trailers now but I really liked this Mad Riders trailer http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ftzRcxNkVlM
Other than the ones you mentioned?
Cyberpunk 2077 teaser.
Prey 2 trailer. Even though it’s looking like that WON’T be this gen. Still, Rusty Cage, man!
The Sleeping Dogs live action trailer with ‘Sleepwalking’ in the background sold me the game.
Dishonored – What shall we do with a drunken whaler?
All the Bioshock teaser/cinematic trailers. (Especially the 2 teaser.)
Hitman trailers. Blood Money for a more serious take (I’m giving you this number), the nuns one for nutso kickassery.
Halo trailers. 3 got me so hard when they play that chord… you know the one. The ‘Believe’ TV ads, the cinematic, ‘Do you think there’s life out there?’ (Ohyeah, Covenant platoon – you have a Master Chief incoming at high speed, barrelling right into you), the finish the fight reveal… (Also others like Halo Wars trailer. Ohyeah, SPARTANS. Shit = Real. And ODST? So brilliant in its quiet. The CG one that is, with the rookie being guided by the administrator AI. The live action training one was kickass too.)
Borderlands trailers with Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked (sort of the intro as well if you prefer) and the ‘No Heaven’ trailer.
All the Assassin’s Creed cinematic/music trailers. (Especially Revelations for Woodkid’s Iron, and AC3’s ‘revolution’ from I forget who.)
Skyrim. …But there is one they fear. In their tongue, he is ‘Dovahkiin’… Dragonborn! FUS ROH DA!
Ace Combat 6. I left that one on my 360 even after buying the game.
Assassin’s Creed’s trailers always have great music. Original game had an awesome trailer with UNKLE’s ‘Lonely Soul’ which was great, and AC4 uses ‘Brennisteinn’ by Sigur Ros.
There was this little guy sitting in a bar drinking, minding his own business, when all of a sudden this great big bloke comes in and- Whack!- knocks him clean off the bar stool and onto the floor.
The idiot says, “That was a karate chop from Korea.”
The little guys starts thinking “Geez,” but he gets back up on the stool and starts drinking again, when all of a sudden-Whack!- the big bloke knocks him down again, saying, “That was a judo chop from Japan”.
So the little guy has had enough of this… He gets up, brushes himself off, and quietly leaves.
The little guy is gone for an hour or so. When he returns, without saying a word, he walks up behind the big idiot and -BANG!!- bangs the big bloke off the stool, knocking him out cold.
The little guy turns to the bartender and says, “When he comes to, tell him that’s a crowbar from Bunnings”.
You gotta problem? Go to bunnings, get some wood and build a bridge
If the Silver Surfer and Iron Man teamed up, they’d be alloys.
Anyone know any jokes about sodium?
Na
What did the bartender say when oxygen, hydrogen, sulfur, sodium, and phosphorous walked into his bar?
OH SNaP!
Haha those chem ones are educational!
K.
A U!
Wanna hear a joke about gold?
A guy rear-ended a car at a set of lights. He gets out to exchange details, when out of the car in front, a dwarf comes storming out proclaiming “I’m not happy!”
To which the guy responds…. “Oh ok. Which one are you then?”
Must be Grumpy.
Well known sayings completed by children:
1. Better to be safe than… PUNCH A FIFTH GRADER
2. Strike while the… BUG IS CLOSE
3. You can lead a horse to water but… HOW?
4. Don’t bite the hand that… LOOKS DIRTY
5. A miss is as good as a… MISTER
6. You can’t teach an old dog new… MATHS
7. If you lie down with dogs, you’ll… STINK IN THE MORNING
8. Love all, trust… ME
9. A penny saved is… NOT MUCH
10. Two’s company, three’s… THE MUSKETEERS
11. None are so blind as… STEVIE WONDER
12. Children should be seen and not… SPANKED OR GROUNDED
13. You get out of something what you… SEE ON THE BOX
14. When the blind leadeth the blind… GET OUT OF THE WAY
15. Better late than… PREGNANT
Okay that last one was me.
Last one is you..?
Congratulations. When’s it due?
AH! *wakes from nightmare*
My back hurts again, I need it rubbed again.
Watched Django Unchained earlier, I liked it.
Got the house we looked at yesterday, that’s a good thing.
2/10.
Not enough praise for Django.
http://imgace.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/im-on-a-horse..jpg
The mask bit was amazing. One of the best things I’ve seen in a non-comedy 😀
I find it funny how certain great films can sometimes slip past you unnoticed due to little or no marketing. Clint Eastwood’s Changeling is one such film. A great film. I would have missed it were it not for something so trivial. I hadn’t even heard of it really. Sad thing is, I like to think of myself as a bit of a Clint Eastwood fan – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is my favourite western. Obviously I’m not a die hard fan. That aside, great film, it features a bit of fiction mixed with a bit of fact and is very fascinating. Recommended.
Don’t be discouraged by Jolie, it’s like her only good film. Yes, Salt was crap.
Jolie’s an excellent actress who makes poor decisions when it comes to the roles she chooses. Plenty of great stuff though. Girl, Interrupted for one. The Bone Collector too.
Salt wasn’t crap. Salt has got nothing on crap. Pouring crap into your player is a glorious alternative to putting Salt into it.
I’m too tired to decipher that.
Salt was a terrible movie.
I… didn’t hate it. It was a dumb action movies, but they can be alright some times…
*Thinks about going to see White House Down* XD
You forget who you’re speaking to. Dumb action movies are my thing. I think White House Down looks great (I think Olympus Has Fallen may prove to be superior though).
I think we can all agree that movies are pretty great!
Aha, I agree.
Something something Salt the earth.
You seen Gran Torino? I loved that. I thought Changeling was a bit dry. He’s a damn good director, though.
Changeling was very gut-wrenching. So too was Gran Torino. I enjoyed both.
Two worlds of Rayman Origins down and god damn am I getting sick of headphones.
Also the 360 controller seems to be making my right middle finger extremely sore.
Watching Breaking Bad, cos its floor Fairys favourite show or something.
My thoughts: gritty, and omg the length of the opening credits pisses me off to no end.
Ugh Bens.
I like HBO-style long opening credits. Sets the mood and tone and is part of the experience! 😀
I don’t mind long opening sequences, just them popping up for like 5 minutes at the bottom of the screen over the show 😛
*might make sense now
Oooooooh! I thought you meant you didn’t like the 5 second “Breaking Bad” logo opening credits 😛
But isn’t it cool how the letters are elements!? :O
Oh, it’s one of those shows with a title card? Pfffft! Worst show evah!
Sometimes I like the shows with longer openings but when you’re on a show binge it’s sometimes better to have a quick opening that goes straight into it.
When you walk through the garden, you better watch your back…
I feel sad that I never liked any of the versions of that song. Always fast-forwarded them.
You can’t fast forward through them! I insist on watching Game of Thrones and The West Wing openings every time. Sometimes I’ll rewind them and watch them multiple times. I’m a TV nerd. 😀
Down in the Treme to your liking?
@dc, I feel bad whenever I have to fast forward through opening credits. The only ones that I’ve fast forwarded to date are The Wire (“if you walk through the garden…” that greenius mentioned) and Nurse Jackie.
I love the Treme opening. It’s one of my faves ever. Will never be skipping that one!
I liked about 3/5 😛
HBO credits kick the crap out of all other credits. They’re just amazing.
Thomas Newman who did the Six Feet Under theme song composed The Newsroom’s too, just so you know. WATCH IT. 😛 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5TxEix6mdU
How come no one told me that Jack McCoy was in this show? How come, DC? How come?
Because he’s better here! I would’ve told you that Charlie Skinner is on Law & Order instead. 😛
Also, he’s allowed to swear on HBO. The first time you hear him say “Fuck” will leave a goofy grin planted across your face! 😀
More @strange, more of the time!
@dc, you might be glad to know that I’ve picked up Tomb Raider again, and am feeling a little like printing a retraction of my Potaku article. I think I stopped at the exact point where it stopped being difficult to stomach 😛
Maybe you just hate women!
You monster! Why do you want to see her suffer? :'(
😛
In all seriousness, I’m glad you like it. In any other year it could totally be a Game of the Year contender. (But this is a year of The Last of Us, Pikmin 3, Rayman Legends and The Night of the Rabbit. XD)
Maybe I’m just a wildly inconsistent and unpredictable person.
I don’t recall ever saying that I liked it, though.
(I do quite like it, though)
*remembers Shane’s psychopath test results, backs away slowly*
How’s thing going on the Rayman Origins front. Still a monster there too? 😛
I never said I disliked it. A retry is on my to-do list!
D.C. sees the world in black and white. There’s no shades of grey. D:
Reply fail!
You forgot Wonderful 101.
Just like everyone else ;_;
I haven’t played it. Can’t be my game of the year if I haven’t played it. That’s what they do in Russia. 😛
I did it for Rayman!
Waker Wind!
Wind Wanker!
@shane: Supanova! Brisbane! November! Strange/Mr Strange Browncoat catchup!
NOPE.
If it’ll seal the deal, you won’t have to meat me!
Good to hear, man. I’ll think on it.
Just watched the documentary “Man on Wire.” it’s on iview.
Moved me to tears. Brilliant.
Sounds cool! Never heard of it before!
Really good. won the oscar a couple years back
hello there
im here to ask recommendations on any good sci fi tv shows?
You managed a page-get, well done.
The first rule of page-gets is you do not edit page-gets.
The second rule of page-gets is you do not edit page-gets.
XD
Not even to edit in dismay/joy over the page-get? I think I may have broken that one a couple of times >.>
Haha, you can always reply. It was more of a Fight Club reference, really.
Please don’t kick me out, boss. I’ll never do it again!
Dear @bjh
Many people here are fans of Fringe.
Yours,
Red Universe dweller
so am i
FARSCAPE!
Also Firefly.
I also hear good things about Battlestar Galactica, but can’t vouch for that personally yet.
Dear Shane
When do we see the Lesser Evil TV series?
Yours
Has his DVR programmed
Dear Red,
Tell all your friends about the book, and get them to tell their friends, and HBO might come a-knockin’. By then, DVRs will be obsolete, but I appreciate the sentiment nonetheless.
Sincerely,
In The Slow Lane
farscape and firefly are great
but you have to watch battlestar galactica
Falling Skies is really good.
I was hoping someone would mention that, great show
Delete that and start again, missed the sci fi aspect
SG1, SG: Atlantis, Bab5 an dif you want something different go for time trax
Oh and Red Dwarf totally counts as sci fi right?
And SG Universe >_>
Unfortunately SGU got cancelled just as it was actually starting to get good. 🙁
im still angry at that
Universe. The enterprise of the SG franchise
I am not nerd enough to understand that 😛
Well personally I think Enterprise sucked because it was uninteresting and screwed up a bunch of established lore, but I think what Tigerion was going for was just that it was a huge format change from it’s predecessors and that turned a lot of established fans away.
I think he was being more literal, actually. Stranded on a ship a long way from home 😛
Dear Tay
It’s letter writing page seven. Now I’m going to be busy for large chunks of tomorrow, but by the time I log on I expect to see lots of…correspondence
Yours carried by horseback to a trading post then loaded onto the mail train,
Red.
Dear Red,
Hopefully these letters find you well and give you your correspondence fix.
Will try and do better if your not satisfied
Yours truly,
Mad about town as the town stole his hat.
I just realised that I’ve had a few drinks every night since Thursday… Should probably cut down on that a bit, not good for me.
Dear Tay
That would be Saint’s Row IV completed. Highly recommended. Thoroughly enjoyed that game. Some excellent stand out moments.
Considering putting in the effort of Platinum,
Freeze.
Dear Freeze,
My phone sometimes likes to post the first line.
Also, how would you rate the co-op opportunities? Would they be an enhancement or just a novelty that quickly wears off.
Yours in posting two words and then having to edit in the rest of the letter instead of line feeds,
Beavwa
Dear Beavwa,
I have no idea. The only other person who had it on PS3 was that jerk @bdkiaf who doesn’t seem to love us anymore. What did we do? Did we not show enough affection? Too much? We’re we not here enough? Was it because we wouldn’t do that thing you kept asking? Because we keep telling you we’re not that kind of forum.
Anyway, I didn’t feel like I missed out without co-op and it felt like a pretty complete game.
Submitting a request to change my name to Nigel No-Friends,
Freeze.
Dear Distant Uncle Freeze,
How much was your copy of Saints Row IV? Did you enjoy it on PS3 and is it worth the money or should I wait for a sale?
Yours truly,
Undecided thrift shopper
ColdCam
Dear Frozen Camera the Fifth
I purchased it from the US PSN for US$59.99. Considering I’ve paid more for games that have given me less than half what SRIV has I consider it to be a fantastic investment worth every cent.*
Taking over the virtual world through the power of dubstep,
Freeze.
Dear Beavwa
Having played the previous Saints Row games with a co op buddy I can reassure you that whilst co op is merely a novelty for the franchise it enhances the experience tenfold if you have a good person to play with. I am currently awaiting my copy from far abroad and am growing impatient, however I would be more than happy to accompany you on your journey through virtual Steelpoint provided we have compatible copies on the same system (ps3 for me).
Impatiently waiting
Gutsoup
Dear Gutsoup,
I have had mixed, buggy experiences with SR3 on PC in the past. I will eventually be getting SR4 on PC, probably on sale. The current consideration is whether I pick up two copies on that day so I may convince the missus to join in some super powered shenanigans.
With regrets to our missed connection over platform differences,
Beavwa
So even though MSN “shut down” months ago, it’s still been working for me and I’ve still been using it because old habits etc. Tonight, someone signed in that I haven’t talked to since mid-2011 apparently dug out their old iPod, then decided to try booting up eBuddy for shits and giggles. Only had a brief chat, but long enough for her to get my number back in her phone/give me her new one. Mildly concerned about where this is heading, if anywhere. Circumstances a few years back were… interesting, to say the least 😛
Sext.
I’ve heard that if they don’t reply straight away it’s because they require photos from multiple angles, the more the merrier
@mrtaco – If you’re going to follow through on @greenius ‘s suggestion, I would suggest: lighting is important. Not too powerful a light, nor too dim, but a directed one in a dark place for good drop-shadows. Angle high, and sometimes to the side. Context is important – while close-ups are sometimes demanded, keep them sparse. (Of course, the smaller the object, the closer you should get.) If you’re in possession of at least two abs, show them. Try to get the shadows to show that pelvic line as well, that’s always popular.
#makingitupasIgo
That’s your solution to everything.
I’ll just sext Xenoblade, that’ll make it all better.
Dear gooky,
Prepare for midnight drunk texts asking about “the good old days”
What can be seen can’t be unseen.
ColdCam
If you’ve never heard of it (probably everyone falls under that category), you should watch Hollywood Burn. It’s amazing. Would’ve been better high I’m thinking though 😛 It’s a movie about piracy and elvis made completely of clips from heaps of movies. It’s great.
Today will be interesting. Had to cancel going home for a few days (:D) cos I have more important stuff to deal with down here, and I’ve gotta spend the evening with the other girl moving in to get to know her and that and discuss co-existing with each other (She has a list of questions :S)
Bring your own list of questions like:
Do you like Xenoblade?
If the answer is yes, wife her.
@Benj If the answer is, “Xenoblade? I haven’t heard them, are they anything like Underworld/A Perfect Circle/Disturbed/Five Finger Death Punch/Kidneythieves/other awesome bands I like,” you should also wife her.
…and then enlighten her!
Good idea T-Mindzy!
Oh man, the Kidney Thieves! I heard those guys play once when I was up at Brisbane a few years ago and my friends took us to Rosie’s. They were so awesome!
Actually, I was thinking of Kidneythieves, the US group who got a few songs on the Queen of the Dead soundtrack and (more importantly) did the soundtrack for Deus Ex 2, Invisible War. Not the local group, The Kidney Thieves, who used to play out of the Globe in the Valley a lot. I mean, they were good too, but yeah… they probably could’ve picked a better name. :>
Aw. I retract my excitement then 😛
they were forced to change their name to “Voodo Love Machine” due to the american band trying to sue them.
Man, so not classy. I thought relative obscurity, languishing in ‘uncultured’ Australia would be punishment enough!
Dear transient,
If she likes all of the above she can live in the house..if she is willing to pay the bills! Muahahaha
Yours chillingly, the guy who’s gonna make a rock band called Kidney Death Punched My Baby
ColdCam
Seriously though, ‘she has a list of questions’ makes me ruh-roh.
Don’t go into depth with your responses, and don’t give placating answers to try and make her happy. Set the tone – you are the Big Dog here; she is moving into your space, not setting rules for you like a trained puppy.
You don’t have to be a dick about it, just smiling and aloof and don’t accept unreasonable/absurd/illogical requests. “That really doesn’t work for me, so no,” is an OK thing to say if you’ve been reasonable on everything sensible.
Also, chores are a big deal. I strongly recommend offering to do a handful of them, such as daily garbage, weekly bathroom clean, and stick to it for a month or two instead of some rotating roster of ‘who’s doing this today’, which people will do damn near anything to get out of ‘their day’ and let things pile up for the next person’s turn at it. I say give it a couple months and be open to the option of swapping in case someone thinks their allocation of the work isn’t fair.
Edit: Man. Sharehouses come with so many tricks and traps. I’ll try to think of some others that caught me by surprise. Quick things off the top of my head:
* Agreed-upon ‘lights out’ time at which point loud music/video shouldn’t be played, to prevent others sleeping.
* ‘Moan test’ to see how thin the walls are for sex-noise and bed-rocking (it’s a good ice-breaker, you can have fun with it). When you all realize exactly what the others can hear, there’ll be a bit more discretion with your romps.
* Cooking: Discuss if there’ll be communal cooking with everyone putting in and someone rostered for cooking duties, or if it’s every-man-for-himself, buy your own groceries. There are pros and cons to each. If people are going to label their foods, make sure it’s suggested initially as a good thing and not a petty thing about suspicion and distrust. “Hey, can you guys label your food so I don’t accidentally confuse it with stuff I thought I’ve bought and eat it? I think that’ll really help me out.”
FOOD LABELING PRO-TIP: Buy a few sheets of adhesive stickers in different colours, everyone gets a different colour. People can get lazy about labelling if they have to go and try and find where a working pen is then realize there’s condensation on the thing so it doesn’t work, etc.
* Policy on bringing people home. Some people get exceptionally pissed off at not having advance notice of a stranger being in their private space. Which I can sort of understand, I guess… But discuss it. Find out where people stand.
Also, discuss what time you both get up in the morning and when you have showers. Worst thing ever when you both need to get to work at the same time.
It might just be her first sharehouse or rental experience, so she’s trying to be prepared and avoid surprises.
Or she might be a neurotic control freak.
I think asking her to do a moan test might be abit confronting but I get what your talking about, also no metal framed beds that squeak like crazy
Well. Probably not one-on-one with the new girl, but with ALL the housemates. Less weird that way.
Group moan session? That sounds like the beginning of some perverted sex thing
Has everyone else covered off on this stuff before? Have you sharehoused before, and I’m just saying stuff you already know? If no to those, I’d even recommend everyone else post tips. 🙂
I’ve never lived anywhere but home before, so I don’t know any of it and find it fascinating to read. But also terrifying. Mostly terrifying.
If you decide to sharehouse, I recommend not living with friends.
…At least, not if you want to keep them as friends. It changes the relationship. Sometimes for the better, but that would probably be the exception.
Heh, it’s come up a few times with a group of friends that have had an ongoing group skype chat for the last few years or so, the idea of “skypehouse”. As cool an idea as it otherwise seems, I know that several of us would drive each other nuts within moments. One of the guys though, I reckon it could work with.
I find the idea of living with strangers weird. One of the aforementioned group, he lives in a sharehouse. We visited there once while down in Melbourne, and it was just kind of… creepy. There were all these other people in the house, but we didn’t even hear any of them, let alone see them. I don’t think my friend even knew half of their names. And there was a cat living there that didn’t belong to anyone.
Kind of reminds me of He Died with a Felafel in his Hand. Anyone sharehousing for the first time should watch that movie. It’s uh… somewhat unrealistic, but amusing.
That’s my biggest worry. You guys probably have a good idea of how well me and my best friend get along and I don’t wanna ruin anything or create any tension between us. We get along fine living together at the moment though.
Nope, never shared a house before 😛 thanks for the advice! It’s going to be me, my best friend and his gf, and one of her best friends. I can’t exactly tell her what to do, but neither can she. I’ve been living with the other two since Thursday and have probably spent more of the past 3 months than not at their place anyway, and honestly we’ve pretty much worked everything out without having to even say anything. It’s just the other girl seems keen for more structure, so that’ll have to be worked out.
The list of questions could be a good thing. If she has had a bad housemate previously then knowing how you do things and if it will work is a positive. i would say from my experience of zero that the questions are fine, answer them honestly and tell her how it is. You shouldn’t have to change anything you are doing if she moves in. It is up to her to decide if she wants to move into the current environment not ask if the environment can be changed to suit her.
You just better hope she doesn’t ask what the rule is when somebody is sleeping on your floor.
Sony is demoing its own Occulus-type thing at the TGS.
As in not the HMZ thing?
Yup. Think a Sony-branded Occulus that has the advantage of Sony’s hardware legacy and experts.
TGS is the current deadline, and they’ve been working on it for five years apparently.
I read that as “demanding” and was just geez, settle down, Sony.
As people on my Steam friend list probably already know, I’ve been playing a bit of Borderlands 2 lately. I’ve knocked over the main story for True Vault Hunter Mode so I decided to give the DLC a go.
First up is Sir Hammerlock DLC, I don’t understand why people didn’t like this. I’m enjoying it a heap. Story is fairly interesting, main big bad guy has made me laugh a few time and most of the side quests have been pretty okay. Add in completely new enemies and I mean new enemies, not just re-skins and you have a pretty solid DLC pack.
The biggest pain I have had is that the new maps are way too big and poorly designed. Invisible walls everywhere and the new vehicle is weak and slow as hell. A few more waypoint areas would have done so much for the maps.
Is it still fun to solo?
Unless you want to co-op with me whenever I get around to it ;D?
What level? My Krieg is level 55ish.
I finished Scarlett and got up to the last boss in Torgue’s but it was too hard to solo. Probably did about 70% of the quests for it.
I haven’t played since Hammerlock and Tina came out so I still have my Axton at 50
Nice, I think I have a Zer0 and a Mechromancer at level 50.
Should have bought a Nokia? I guess Microsoft finally listened to @lambomann007
Also I hope Nestle release a special edition Kit Kat chocolate in the shape of the Android mascot.
i bought a Nokia \o/
*Nokia-five*
Unless it’s a Lumia. Ew.
aw… well i still have my E65 somewhere XD… but I LIKE MY 920!!!
[/Symbian fanboyism] 😛
Symbian was good… right until it wasn’t 😛
They just stuck with the same thing for too long i think and it became a bit clunky… I liked my E65, but HATED my N95
My only kinda “proper” Symbian experience (as in not the earlier versions of it or whatever) was when I got my 808 at the start of the year, and I’ve absolutely loved it from the moment I got it. Can’t for the life of me understand what people’s problem with it is, it works great for me and seems to do just about everything you could possibly want it to, straight out of the box. And then more.
To be fair, i only tried the old Symbian system, not the new fancy touch screen one so i can’t really compare… but yeah i initially liked the old version, because it was so good at the time… but then newer and flashier OS’ came about and then it proved to be… average
Maaan, I always wanted an N95 when I was younger. Mostly because of the games it could play. And how the screen slid down to reveal the media keys. Revolutionary!
That was a nice novelty, but i never used the opposite slide thingy… the phone was just too big and chunky in my opinion, and i actually changed back to the E65 pretty quickly because it could do pretty much the same stuff but was a more manageable size…
Well I would have been 12 at the time, so I was easily impressed 😛
“I was 12 at the time”
aaaand suddenly Pixel feels very old 😛
When i was 12, the 3310 was the coolest thing you could get! IT HAD PREDICTIVE TEXT!
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
“When i was 12, the 3310 was the coolest thing you could get! IT HAD PREDICTIVE TEXT!”
aaaand suddenly Tigs feels very old 😛
When I was 12 car phones were still a thing
Do you remember ice-cream Kit Kats? They were great.
Never had them before. Do they still sell them? That sounds great.
Dear Tay,
Bupkis.
Good-day,
Pre-coffee Pixel
Dear Pixel
You can function pre coffee??? You sir are a greater man than I.
Yours Perpetually wired on caffeine
Gutsoup
DearGutsoup,
It’samazingwhatyoucantypebyfaceplantingyourkeyboard!
YoursTruly,
Post-CoffeePixel!!!!
Dear Pixel
I tried keyboard faceplanting, the results were less than spectacular, I think you have a particular talent for it and should devise a method of earning money through said skill.
Now heading to coffee machine for 3rd cup,
Gutsoup
Dear Gutsoup
jyhuvyfguyfdsasdfyuerokplnvbdsrfpewihubhjfv mihebfsubfjkl
did it work?
Pixel the caffeine-crashing viking
Dear Pixel
Upon inspection the area directly around me and finding no riches I have concluded that you must have to face plant the keyboard harder, keep trying I know you can do it.
Giving out great advise
Gutsoup
I’ve been tempted to buy an S4 ever since Freya got one. I’m going to be within walking distance of the Samsung shop today… it might be hard to resist.
Get a job.
I got a job interview, that’s basically the same thing, right?
Sort of. Forget the S4, consider the HTC One instead.
I didn’t like the shape, even though I know that most people tend to say the HTC One has better hardware and none of the Samsung nonsense.
I really disliked the HTC One’s appearance, but apparently the speaker is better in it, if that makes a difference.
Also, it seems to be becoming easier and easier to strip away carrier/manufacturer crapware on phones nowadays (without rooting).
The speakers are better on the One, the camera is better on the S4. Maybe the processor or battery life is marginally better on the One but it weighs more due to the aluminium body (could be a positive or negative depending on who you ask).
There doesn’t seem to be a distinct reason to say one phone is better than the other, so a simple aesthetic choice of “I prefer how it feels to hold this one” seems like a good as reason as any.
Between the S4 and the HTC One it really is a matter of personal preference. They’re both good handsets so you can’t really go wrong.
Anyone can get one of those, Lindsay.
*cough*Lumia 1020*cough* 😛
Also, is it just me, or does the Lumia 925 look extremely ugly?
So in the lead up to FFXIV I purchased a digital copy of the game so that I could get the preorder items and early access. It seems though that because I had a 1.0 account already, I can’t actually redeem the game code itself. I assumed I’d be able to claim it to get a free month’s access but no dice.
Which theoretically means I have an unused PAL standard edition Windows copy of the game. Theoretically at least – I can’t verify the code works as I can’t enter it due to already having an active working account. Or it’s possible my preorder code activated the game itself already, but I doubt that.
Anyone want this? They’re adding new servers today which should alleviate most of the strain. You can’t buy new digital copies at the moment.
Someone cool should take this offer. It’s a great game for a Final Fantasy fan.
Feels more like a ‘real’ final fantasy game than FF13 did. 😛
I’ve been playing it like one and pleasantly surprised. The first time you get shoved into party-based dungeoning was certainly an adjustment, but not an unpleasant one.
Ill take it if it’s not taken already, was looking at playing it but don’t want to she’ll $40 at jb while digital copies are down
Yeah, people shouldn’t buy from JB anyway. Use a GMG voucher or something – $30 for digital base, can reduce it down to $20-25 depending on your vouchers. (Greenman does sort of insist that you download the game through their Capsule client, but don’t do that. Just activate the game on the squenix site, then follow the links to download the client from the official site.)
Yeah but at the moment they are all up as “out of stock” while Squenix work on their servers so only copies available are in shop copies
Oh yeah, no I’d probably wait. Especially since the whole server chaos still has to die down. You can probably get in pretty easily in the Australian afternoons now, just not on a Monday (US weekend), and not at all on the weekend. (US Friday night onward).
You’re not missing much by not getting in early. All the server-firsts are long since done, and you stand a better chance of joining friends on servers they’re playing on because while each server has a certain capacity, they don’t have that capacity when all the players are only in the starting zone. So they’ve locked down some servers and are unlocking them when enough people progress high enough that they’re populating the higher level areas, so newcomers don’t crash the server. Pretty smart, but frustrating.
Well @negativezero was offering a free copy so if he didn’t want it I was putting my hand up. Also no promises I won’t crash the server but ill try not to
Email me. atomicstrawberry (at) gmail (dot) com. Or twitter DM or something.
Sent ya a twitter DM
Just realised it won’t actually send the twitter DM if we aren’t following each other..damn twitter!
Fixed. 🙂
The Palmer United Party have a candidate named McAnally.
It’s nearly too much for the immature side of me to bear.
Are you trying to imply that there’s a non-immature side of you?
It’s less of a side and more a small corner. Nook or cranny even.
McAnally brought a McChicken from McDonalds 2 days later it came full Circle
It would be funnier if they were a member of the Sex Party.
Working with a person who’s shit at their job really drags down my whole attempt at not punching him in the face for being lazy and useless.
You should have some military training and then shoot him in the face!
o_O
\o/
FYI i used to work at that place, and there’s a guy that always says something like that, so it’s an internal joke at this stage, not build up aggression 😛
IT’S NOT A JOKE, PIXEL’S GONE MAD.
MAAAAAAAAAAAD!
http://global3.memecdn.com/machine-gun-dog_o_1549065.jpg
FTFY
http://i.imgur.com/eBwp0hG.jpg
@cakesmith i thought that was our secret!!!
@rize had to be warned.
@cakesmith you’ve changed man… you’ve changed! 😛
Bahahaha!
Amazingly, it’s not him…haven’t had to deal with him in ages 😀
Is it the womanizer then? i still don’t understand how you guys haven’t been sued for secual harassment yet because of him
Nah, it’s the guy who started the same time as him.
Think Shan crossed with Richard.
… *shudders*… no… it’s not true… THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE!…
I have the sneaking suspicion that one of the things they drill into you in the military is that while civilians are basically livestock, they are livestock which are more valuable than you are, and you are not allowed to let them come to harm, and ESPECIALLY not cause them harm.
More to the point, they don’t teach you to shoot people in the face. Always aim for center of mass.
I’m sorry rize, ill try harder.
*shakes fist*
There’s a Patricia Hernandez article on the front page about dickwolves. I normally defend her but that’s a link I’m simply never going to click. Ever.
Anyone going into the comments there should probably wear hazmat suits and then bathe in acid when they leave, just to make sure you didn’t get anything on you.
Bloody thing’ll sit on the ‘Most Viewed’ tab for the next fucking two months anyway, now. Dammit.
The Most Commented tab clears out anything older than about a week old. Maybe use that one.
Don’t forget to scoop out your eyeballs, they’ve been contaminated if you enter the comments section.
I was going to comment but forced myself to close the window and never return.
Just stay quiet and keep away. Forget it exists. And repeat.
I nearly gave in too.
At this point it’s becoming obvious that either a) PA is incredibly stupid regarding PR, or the much more likely b) PA can use the dickwolves stuff to stir up a shitload of free publicity whenever they want.
Also, I don’t think I’ll read that article, let alone the comments.
Hanlon’s Razor: never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained with stupidty.
That’d make sense if getting more publicity could be attributed to malice, though regardless of their intent it still makes Mike look like a giant dick…wolf.
Oops, I first’d it.
I read it before any comments were up..I was lucky
I normally don’t defend Patricia Hernandez unless the article has it’s own merits. In this case I’m on her side.
Dear TAY.
I hope you are well. I am well, and there is little to report.
On the way back up to work this morning after picking up a late ‘breakfast’, I shared an elevator with a gentleman who looked rather harried. He glanced up at me and smiled wearily, sighing as he pushed his floor’s button.
With hot coffee and hash browns in hand, I grinned back and commiserated warmly, “Another day in paradise.” It was meant to be part-sarcastic, part-positive thinking… But I caught a glance of myself in the elevator’s mirror, and for a brief moment something reminded me of myself ten years ago.
I compared that flash of memory to the present – looking good, enjoying the flavour of the coffee, the smell of the hash browns, and realized that actually… it wasn’t so many years ago covered in sweat and dirt, aching all over, living week by week on an undependable income, that this WAS my idea of paradise.
So I’m feeling quite cheerful and optimistic about today, and very motivated to get some serious work done.
I hope the day works out well for you too, TAY.
– Transientmind
Dear Transient,
This story made me smile, I wish to one day reach my own paradise, until then I keep working pushing the grain that little further. It’s a hard life for us but we do alright.
That little worker ant that didn’t get stepped on.
ColdCam
Dear TAY
*glassy eyes*
Benny.
My day is much better now I have some decent pain killers for my back! Glad to hear your day is going well 🙂
Its a shame about the situation at the Nuclear plant in Japan. But their solution to the problem is pretty fucking genius. Like really really clever. Pump coolant through underground pipes to freeze the soil and stop the water from moving.
The other thing is, i truly believe Nuclear energy is the only way to move forward in terms of energy production. Until fusion is figured out properly nuclear energy needs to be invested in. Its a shame that the older reactors fail and sway public opinion so much.
Fallout did it
I wouldn’t so much say the plant “fails”, it is more the people running the equipment/plant make it fail due to human error.
Or just shit luck, too.
The guys running the Fukushima plant shouldn’t be allowed to run anything (from a reactor to a lemonade stand) ever again — it should never have ended up anywhere near as bad as it was; handled so poorly and they bullshitted their way through the situation so much that it’s just unbelievable.
post-failure sure, they messed up & handled it really badly & should be held accountable for lying about the situation.
but thats just spin.
I dunno the answer to this, but how old was the Fukushima plant? & how much of what happened could’ve been prevented?
Oh, absolutely. Freak accident in the first place, the tsunami and earthquake killed… 20,000-ish people in itself?
That said — it’s a 40-odd year old reactor that used a superseded/less-safe means of cooling, that had received numerous reports in the 90’s and early 00’s saying that they should improve their emergency generators because they were in an area at risk of high earthquake activity and that the protective seawall should also be raised to mitigate the tsunami risk.
Now, I don’t think doing either of those two things would have saved the reactor because of the magnitude of the earthquake + tsunami (with 10-12 metre waves, worse than I think anyone would have realistically expected) but the fact they had decades to implement safety recommendations and didn’t… just helps establish a culture of laziness and incompetence — which was furthered by the lack of planning, preparedness, equipment, refusal to accept assistance from other countries, lack of communication, lying, etc. when things went wrong.
It really didn’t stand a chance against the earthquake and tsunami, but the reactor disaster shouldn’t have been anything near the scale that it became. My one real gripe with reactors is that the people running them need to know what they’re doing, and it’s a disgrace that the Fukushima guys didn’t.
The plant was built in the 1960s and if it hadn’t been fucked over by the largest earthquake ever recorded in Japan it would have been decommissioned by now. Those old-style reactors are unstable and there are much safer modern designs.
…or in this case, earthquakes & tsunamis.
As someone who
wastedspent three years studying medical radiation physics, I concur.The fear mongering over nuclear power is one of the more annoying types of fear mongering and, assuming it wasn’t built by the lowest tender from some a company based in some undeveloped country, I wouldn’t have any real concern living in the same suburb as a reactor.
They can put one in Sydney Harbour — make it all pretty alongside the bridge and Opera House!
My issue is that even in a first world country it’s going to be made by the lowest bidding contractor, and if there’s even the tiniest chance of it going wrong (which let’s face it, there will always be an infinitessimally small chance) I feel like we need to evaluate carefully (and yes, I’m not a fear mongering idiot, I know that Nuclear Power is safer (in the sense of least fatalities) than any other major energy generation thing).
Still better than coal. Actually, if they built it in Inner Sydney and something did go wrong, there wouldn’t be that much of import lost anyway.
This. So much this. People don’t seem to realise Fukoshima was hit by the biggest damn freak earthquake that no one thought possible in the area, Chernobyl was due to the high quality if Soviet safety standards and Three Mile Island was because of
boat peoplepoor design and training. Plus modern technology has so far advanced over those ancient old plants that they are completely different beasts these days.Dear Rocketman
The major issue with switching to a primarily nuclear powered energy society is that their isn’t the required uranium reserves to support it. There is only around a 200 year supply for what we are currently producing.
Since nuclear power currently creates around 14% of the worlds power if you ramped this up to 100% then you only have around 30 years of economically accessible reserves. Even factoring in new reserves and mining technology it would set us up for another limited power reserves.
My view is it is better to spend the money on research and production of solar as at least then we know that the energy source will not run out.
From a green wonderland
Tigs
Rather, put more into researching Thorium reactors. They’re inherently much safer and there’s a lot more Thorium in the ground than Uranium. The only reason they went for Uranium and Plutonium originally is that there’s more money in it for the power companies – the fuel requires enrichment, so the companies that make the reactors can then provide the operators with the enriched fuels at a premium. Also you can make bombs with those elements.
Also, Thor > Uranus.
I can find no fault with your logic.
I don’t know much about thorium reactors and any waste products they produce. The waste from existing reactors and the scarce resource supply is the main reason I don’t support nuclear as a viable power solution.
Thorium reactors are breeder type reactors. Thorium captures a neutron and becomes Th-233, then beta decays to Proactinium, then again to Uranium, then follows the usual Uranium decay cycle. The cycle is apparently much cleaner than Uranium, the only byproducts are fission decay materials and there’s less toxicity in them compared to Uranium or Plutonium (mainly because less Plutonium is produced). It also doesn’t require enrichment like Uranium (because only one isotope occurs naturally and it is fissile), and it’s 3-4 times more abundant. It’s also got better nuclear properties.
The biggest issue as I understand it is that you need a neutron source to make the whole chain work, which means you’re probably going to use some enriched uranium as the starter for the cycle.
First day back at work today after having had to leave early monday and had tuesday off… I feel very blergh!
I don’t want to turn TAY into a moan-fest so i won’t get into it too much, but has anyone here dealt with, or known anyone dealing with Panic Disorder?
If so, know any good ways to improve on it?
Ooh! Ooh! Me, me!
Wait, is panic disorder and anxiety the same thing? I get confused…
Just checked, they are pretty much the same thing.
First question, do they know what triggers the attacks?
I am not entirely sure, it’s been diagnosed as Panic Disorder so far… I am not entirely sure of there’s a difference… all i know is that my wife has had random episodes, we don’t yet know a trigger for this… it’s been coldsweats, uncontrollable shaking, crying, basically hysteria… she can’t explain why they happen… we are going to a psychologist but there’s a bit of a wait, she’s been unable to work and barely sleeps… i was just wondering if there’s anything she or i can do to alleviate some of the symptoms for her
Hm, that makes it really difficult. Can she tell when one is going to come on?
Some advice for you, don’t say relax, or breathe. Rather you can get her to try progressive relaxation technique. I would suggest setting aside a time for you to do it together, as it will make her feel less stupid.
Progressive relaxation technique:
Starting with the feet muscles, inhale and tense the muscles in the toes. When you exhale, relax. Note the difference between the tense feelings and the relaxed feeling.
Move to tensing the feet by bending them up (only as far as they will go, don’t break them!). After that, move onto tensing the calf muscles, then thighs. Back is tensed by trying to push the stomach up. Chest simply by inhaling. Shoulders by pushing them back. Neck is different, you have to roll it clockwise while inhaling and then inhale while going anti clockwise. Stop while exhaling. Face is by scrunching it up.
The purpose of this is to stop the patient from being like a coiled spring, ready to bounce at any moment. It can sometimes be the cause of panic attacks and is called a general anxiety disorder (from what I was told). Do loud noises set her off?
This should help.
http://www.painmanagement.org.au/progressive-muscle-relaxation
I was taught to start at the feet, but it doesn’t really matter where you start or finish.
She can tell when one is coming… but we’re still not sure what she get’s anxious about… I suspect that it has something to do with work or the idea of leaving the house… not sure why this has suddenly occured as she has been fine in the past, and according to her nothing has happened…
I’ll certainly try this technique with her, thank you so much for that….
If you don’t mind me asking, did you go to a psychologist for this? was there a long waiting list? we have to wait till early october before her appointment and i was just wondering if we could try somewhere else that might have less of a wait
I was admitted into Orygen, which is a specialist clinic for under-25’s with mental issues. I was 20-21 at the times. Unfortunately, this is the problem. Unless there is a place with a short waiting list, you pretty much have to wait.
It’s really tricky not knowing what is causing it, otherwise you could look up some Cognitive behavioral therapy. That’s what they used on me.
http://www.helpguide.org/mental/anxiety_therapy.htm
Just do the progressive relaxation everyday. Don’t skip it. It really does help. Also, by doing it with her, you make sure she does do it.
I will give you my mobile number later, in case you want more info.
Thanks Scree, it’s really awesome of you to share this information, it’s not an easy thing to go through (i can imagine)…
I’ll give these things a try and we’ll see what happens in the next few days… hopefully we can get her to a good enough level to return to work, otherwise i fear that she’ll have difficulty keeping a job
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
I would also suggest telling the work place and letting employees that she works with a lot to know what happens. It might make it easier on her if she does have one at work. Also, you should remind her that it is only a panic attack (when she is having one) yes it feels awful, but she won’t die. Her co-workers know that it is a medical condition and they won’t judge her and if they do, that says more about them then her.
Firs thing I would check is any and all medication the individual is on via a doctor, if not done already. There’s a few common medications that can exacerbate those sorts of issues.
Yup been checked.. blood has been checked as wall for chemical imbalances and she checks out… nothing has really changed in the past few weeks so we’re both left wondering how the hell this has happened…
It annoys her to no end, because she wants to return to work, but doesn’t want to have an episode when she’s out and about… i dunno, it’s weird and none of us has dealt with something like this before, so we’re not entirely sure how to handle it…
Welp, sounds like you guys are going through exactly the same crap that we did, albeit a different medical issue. Best thing for you personally to do is be supportive, especially regarding any lifestyle changes she has to make.
Unless she has to go vegan. Screw that noise.
no. NO VEGAN 😛
I am being as supportive as i can, the difficult thing for me (oh poor me wah wah) is that i dunno how much i should/can push, or if i should just encourage the behaviour so that she never gets motivated to move out of the house…
The doctor could only tell us to be careful, because stressing her too much can do long lasting damage, but at the same time, so can not doing enough…
Its… difficult 😛
It is. The simplest thing to do right now is to behave as you did beforehand (obviously being more cautious in stressful situations), because the unfortunate truth is you won’t know what to do without experience, and the biggest issue will be that some stressful situations can’t and shouldn’t be avoided. You both still have to live life, after all 😛
Alternate answer: when anything goes wrong, just repeat the following: “It’s fiiine, you’re fine, we’re fine, it’s fine, it’sfineit’sfineit’sfineit’sfine.”
Can i curl up into a little ball and just repeat that rocking back and forth… that’ll work right? RIGHT?
Dear Tay,
A simple question today..Killzone Mercenary, who’s getting it and what do people think of it?
That undecided guy in the corner
ColdCam
I’ve never played a Killzone game.
The new PS4 one looks spiffy though. Gonna look at so many things!
So, uh, I went to uni today, finally get the usual classes rolling. Saw a guy I know there, everything seemed well. All in all, I think I’ll like taking business courses.
EXCEPT IT WAS A FUCKING POLITICS CLASS AND I SOMEHOW DIDN’T FUCKING NOTICE FOR 20 MINUTES
Jesus, I always play it close posting at the near-end of pages. That’s gonna bite me in the back one day.
“bite me in the back”
rawr *winks*
I was going to say “bite me in the ass” but I avoided it specifically to avoid this.
But, uh, that didn’t work out too well, eh?
*Pixel bringing maturity down everywhere since 1988* \o/
There are ass men, and then there are.. back.. men..
…
… I… like hair?
… Oh, you mean on her head!
Right?
RIGHT?!
… yup definitely!
THOSE ELLIPSES ARE NOT COMFORTING
Oh Saturday?
Oh Canada!
EB Man: ‘So are you getting Titanfall?’
Me: ‘Yeah, I’ve already preordered it on PC.’
EB Man: ‘Oh man you should totally have gotten it for Xbox One, it’s going to be way better than the PC version!’
Me: ‘Yeah? Cool. Bye.’
You made a huge mistake, there.
Where was the giant bitch-slap at the end of the conversation?
My brain just kind of sighed and decided to leave proceedings there.
He has to try and sell an XBone to people, surely that’s punishment enough?
While you are here, please preorder an Xbox One. Please?
For the EB / retail definition of ‘better’ (sells more copies), he’s probably right.
I hope you muttered something about filthy peasants as you walked away.
I personally would’ve stood there for a moment and arched a single eyebrow. Look at them like trying to see a magic eye picture or spot the invisible alien riding on their face.
Just stand in absolute silence… until they awkwardly tried to fill it. Then just walk away, frowning slightly, blinking and shaking your head as if to clear it, very concerned at the state of the world.
For many PCs, that’s probably going to be true.
He doesn’t know that your rig is more expensive than his car.
It might end up being the best version, depending on how the PC community takes to it.
Assuming there will be no cross platform multiplayer it could end up as a dead game very fast
Also – reminder that the shiny Pokemon are at EB at the moment, it’s shiny Dialga right now, until…. the 12th? I think. They have a new one every two weeks, with Palkia and Giratina coming up next. Not sure if in that order though.
Pretty sure it’s that order. Got my first shiny on Friday. Level 100!
Working from home today. Played Tomb Raider instead of working, and missed an email from my manager. No regrets. 😛
Dude, you work for the government. I’m pretty sure everyone “missed” that email.
Well it’s easy to miss when there’s no managers in the government
Dear @freezespreston,
I still love you, baby.
Eternally yours,
BDKIAF
Dear @freezespreston,
You floozy. I’m sure you two will be happy together, and I am happily happy for your happy little happy world.
Totally not bitter at all
Tigs
Whoo, new Boardwalk Empire on monday 😀
D: Oh man, I still have season three to watch. MARATHON!
Quick, do it, then immediately get on TAY and discuss it with me,
I have 1 friend that watches it and that’s about it, most people seem to have given up on it but I’m more engrossed than ever.
I loved the season three premiere and thought it was going to be an amazing season, then I got distracted. D: D: D:
i really enjoyed the season and have been super hyped for this season, can’t wait.
So I have to watch the last 4 or so episodes of last season by Monday. Challenge accepted. Love the show, but stopped watching those episodes due to time restraint and then stupid shit like Lost, The Newsroom, etc all got in the way and ended up pushing it to the back of the mind.
Pokemon people!
Question!
havent played a pokemon game since Blue / Red. Definitely gonna be getting X / Y.
Is it worth picking up Black / White in the meantime?
I liked black/white mainly because it felt more like Blue/Red to me… Some of the pokemon in it as a disaster, I’M LOOKING AT YOU TRUBBISH! but overall a very enjoyable game… if you can find it cheap, why the hell not… it’ll scratch the pokemon itch if you got one.
For some reason I liked the story of B/W better than B2/W2. As well as I liked the way the legendaries worked too – B2/W2 and the Kyurem fusion thing was a bit dicky.
Never tried B2/W2… i dunno, i felt content with what happened in B/W and found no reason to revisit it XD…
Picked up a cheap copy of SoulSilver and moving my way through that now, as i was never on that bandwagon when it rolled through… Quite enjoying it, but i feel like there’s too much stuff going on
I still need to finish the second half of Heartgold – up to the 3rd or 4th gym in Kanto, but it’s a tough slog. I’ll get there one day. I finished up Black 2 and White 2 a few weeks back.
thanks Pixel & @ynefel I’ll be checking out some local video game emporiums for a copy of B/W this afternoon!
I’d get Black or White. Black 2/White 2 were great, but for some reason I preferred Black/White.
Definitely worth it.
I think the story in Black and White was more interesting than the one in B2/W2.
Ha! Yeah I just commented to that effect above. I felt that Pokemon doesn’t suit sequels well.
B2W2 were great in terms of actual content, but yeah I agree it really could’ve used a bit more love in the story department. So many missed opportunities!
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The story felt a little hollow. But the game itself was pretty decent – I just didn’t feel like it was better than B/W. Was pretty much more of the same with a crappier story and a crappier legendary to get at the end. Black/White Kyurem is crap. Whereas Zekrom is a permanent part of my party these days, because he’s badass.
There’s a story in Pokemon games?
If you had’ve asked a month or two ago I’d would’ve said yes! Black/White were fantastic. But I think it’s too close to release now, probably won’t be able to finish it in time. I say just wait!
Yeah, you should. There’s been a LOT added to Pokemon since Red/Blue, and Black/White marked the point where the game was going under a major rehaul (Well, somewhat, but we’d have to get to specifics.) If anything, Black/White’ll familiarize you with Modern Pokemon.
Get Black/White 2, though. Motherfucking world championship (Fight every gym leader/elite 4 member ever. Good stuff.)
I really liked Black and White. Because they make you use all the new Pokemon instead of a mix of new and old, it feels pretty fresh. I liked most of the new Pokemon as well, which probably helps (though I know not everybody did)
And no sewer.
You can have a free copy of Heart Gold with Pedo(lol)meter.
DM me your address on Twitter.
Trying to figure something out about voting in the election – I don’t have to vote at my local centre, do I? I’m going to a mate’s place on Friday for a couple of days (he’s about 45 mins away) and won’t be near my local voting place. Basically – can I vote in another suburb or electorate?
If it’s another electorate, I don’t think so — they’ll only have ballot papers relevant to the area you’re in… but you can always vote now? They have pre-poll voting for people who won’t be home on the day of the election.
Yeah I might have to check the early vote option. Considering I’m on holidays might be even easier.
I’ve voted in other electorates. moved from the NSW central coast to Sydney & didnt bother updating my enrolment details until a few weeks back.
I’ve voted in State (and 99% sure federal) elections at polling stations outside my enrolled electorate.
yeah. absentee vote.
just tell em your electorate & show your address & they’ll sort you out.
Nice. I was pretty sure that was the case, just wanted someone to confirm it. Sounds like an early vote or just voting in another area is the way to go. Thanks!
yeah, pretty sure (like 99%) that you can vote at any polling station in the state you’re enrolled in.
check the http://www.AEC.gov.au site to make sure though. dont wanna see you get fined for not voing.
Yeah I’m looking at early voting centres now. Most appear to be open tomorrow. Might go do that, then I know for sure it’s done. Better than rocking up to my mate’s local voting centre on Saturday and finding I have to drive all the way home just to vote.
I thought an absent vote was outside of your home state? Or am I mixing it up, and it’s any other electorate within your home state? Bah, too bureaucratic. 😛
from the AEC site:
“Absent vote
An absent vote is a vote cast by an elector out of their home division but still within their home state or territory on election day.”
so I guess that as long as you’re voting in the same state that you’re enrolled in, you’ll be ok.
For federal elections you can, just rock up and say I’m from blah blah electorate and they will give you the specific form. Can also be helpful for jumping queues as there are absentee lines that are always shorter
You can’t do the same thing with council election (Not sure about state) so don’t get caught out on that. Most places will also have pre-polling centres so you can vote during the week as well
This song has a nasty habit of not getting old.
http://youtu.be/wKrDXLHkEUk
Yay QOTSA
Sitting down for a big FFXIV slog today, met with 10 hour maintenance. FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
The bright side for Australians: It ends at 8pm tonight, our time!
But I’m on holidays! That’s an entire day I could be wrapping up that stupid main quest chain! Hngh! Oh well. I guess there’s plenty else to play. I could also just continue on my PC, which is almost done. I’m hungry too. Aight. I’m good.
Or you could do what I do when I’m feeling ESPECIALLY DETERMINED:
Keep the game open (windowed, borderless for fast alt-tabbing), and have something running over the top of it. Videos, comics, whatever. Every couple minutes, jump back and try to login. When you fail, hop back out, keep doing fun things.
Eventually it works.
I’m actually sitting here at my desk TAYing on my second monitor, listening to Queens of the Stone Age and tinkering with Killzone Mercenary. This will pass a little time until I decide to go put a movie on and finish plumbing my PC.
I wonder how long before the Americans start bitching and moaning about it happening at their peak times like we’re used to.
WoW’s maintenance times used to be OK – they were at like 8 or 10pm on a Tuesday night, I actually didn’t mind that terribly. Was basically a night off when I was raiding full time.
My group used to use Tuesday nights as an early quick-and-dirty, “See if we can beat the sticking point before reset,” or, “Has anyone not done their weekly raid?” day. Alts and pugs, alts and pugs. Some days you just wanna eat filth.
You’ve already got a level 50 toon though don’t you? Or do Legacy doods still start over from scratch?
Anyway, the maintenance today is to add new severs and split the dungeon finder over multiple clusters – basically the way that WoW Battlegroups (used to?) work for Dungeon Finder. Right now every NA/EU and every JP server can talk to each other and so it’s slooow and also unstable, the instance servers have shit the bed several times over the last week.
Yeah but even with a level 50 toon, I still have to do the main quest (hell, ALL quests) line all over again because it’s all different now. I still have to go and do the quest lines to unlock dungeons in duty finder, join a Grand Company, etc. Just finished the Ifrit/GC quests last night.
I have to do everything the same as everyone else, it’s just I’m level 50 right off the bat. it’s the only difference.
Oh. Well that sucks I guess. I ran into the opposite issue – I’ve been mainlining the quest only, skipping sidequests and doing every FATE I see, and once I got to the Coerthas Central Highlands the leveling slowed down heaps and the main quest line accelerates faster, so I was like 36 and the next quest in the chain required 37, so grinded to 37, did like 2 things and then required 38 to continue, got that (took ages) and then 2-3 quests later it’s requiring 39.
Problem is I suspect they’ll nerf FATE experience soon because I don’t think they intend you to be able to level so easily with them, and levequest experience is shitty so when I level alternate classes I wanted to have an abundance of sidequests. May need to just bite the bullet.
Other issue is that CCH had hundreds of people doing the FATEs so it’s impossible to get much experience from a lot of them because comparitively it’s impossible to contribute that much.
Yeah I heard someone saying that farming FATEs can net ridiculous amounts of XP in certain scenarios and levels.
There’s a lot of people in the starting area around Gridania just racing from one FATE to the next, nothing else, so I guess it must work for them.
I also hope they do something that stops this from happening because all these people with mounts getting there first means the players actually starting in Gridania miss all the FATEs…
Just do all the quests, it’s faster for your first character. If you see a FATE start nearby it’s worth going over – they’re a nice bonus – but don’t go out of your way for them. Levequests and just normal questing are faster for low levels.
A lot of folks have been getting around the contribution thing by forming FATE-farming groups. I dunno what the deal is there, but apparently you must get some increased contribution based on what your group members do, not just yourself, meaning you don’t have to worry about finding an untargeted mob and hoping you can do 30%/most damage to it, and healing counts for more or something.
But like @negativezero said, if it’s your first character there are so many quests you can pick up to stay on top of exp/levelling rates appropriate to the main story quest. It’s only when you’re on your second or third class that shit starts to dry up and you need to grind FATEs, dungeons, and leves. Definitely save up your leves, it’s easy to blow them way too early on what is really shitty exp in the scheme of things.
Dungeons give shitty xp for the time investment 🙁
I leveled from 25-30 mainly in the South Shroud doing FATEs. Average quest gave about 5k. Assuming you contributed well, average FATE would give about the same. There are two FATEs in that zone however which net you a whole lot more. One of them involves a bunch of dudes raiding a honey store or something, gave about 12k, the other one is a 3-FATE chain which culminates in a fight against a boss. That also gave about 12k.
CCH has at least one similar FATE. If you can get top contribution ranking it’ll give 20k. There’s a similar one in the Costa Del Sol region too I think.
You really need to join a grinding group for them to get the most of it (in a group, your contribution is the group’s contribution, so much easier to get high rankings and more XP).
FATEs also give heaps of company seals. CCH stuff give around 200 each. I’ve already gotten myself to Sergeant Second Class and grabbed 3 bits of gear and a Chocobo along the way. Couple more ranks and I’ll unlock the level 50 gear.
go buy a physical copy of FFXIV yesterday, can’t get onto same server as friends, decide to wait till morning when traffic in european servers willl be less busy… maintenance 🙁
Boooo. Although this maintenance should help alleviate some of the bigger issues people have had, so it’s for the best!
yeah, but i have work at 6 tonight 🙁
hopefully it finishes early so i can quickly sneak into phoenix 😛 (i live in WA, so maintenance finishes at 6 over here.)
Ugh, slight dilemma at work:
Person I work directly with (who I outrank on experience and time with the company) constantly does shit like arrive late, leave early, generally slow at simple work…I really wanna talk to my boss about it but there’s that stupid shitty block of guilt built up about “telling on” other people from when I was a kid. More specifically, I’d have to work with him after the fact…
If it’s directly impacting your own workload, complain that it’s directly impacting your own workload. “Look, I don’t care what other people do, whether they’re skivving off or whatever, but this is now affecting MY work, and that I DO care about.”
Best way. Chances are the boss already knows that he’s coming in late and skiving off – bosses are good at that.
Whining because someone else gets away with coming in 10 minutes late when you’re always on time just looks like sour grapes (even though, yeah, you should be there on time, jerk), but if that’s ten minutes of work that actually affects you, then I don’t see why you can’t mention that.
I did it… Main tipping point was when he came in stoned to work, but i still did it… just do it, get it over and done with, it’ll work out better that way
If your boss is a decent sort, what you say to him should remain confidential.
Demonstrate a little diplomacy and it should all be groovy.
Just add his name to your enemies list and glare at him from time-to-time.
Measuring how hard he works can be difficult, but for easily quantifiable shit like arriving late, leaving early, not doing work/doing work late – go for it. The trick is to make sure this has been occurring for long enough there’s a chance your boss might have noticed already. Also – don’t rant. Make a few simple, valid points and leave it at that. Maybe jot down some dot points to keep you on track and to the point before you do.
@doc_what had a similar problem yesterday.
I think his solution involved getting Batman to leave them a note suggesting they get their shit together.
I cant think of a better way of resolving this.
or, if you prefer, just take them aside & make your concerns known. & ask em to make more of an effort to not be a jerk.
Cheers for the advice…I can’t see talking directly to the guy helping cause he doesn’t seem to understand things like “going to lunch at 3:30 and not coming back to work when you finish it” are in fact a bad thing.
Might just have to chat with my boss and say “hypothetically, if X happened, what should I do?”
Personally and professionally I don’t recommend direct confrontation, especially if you are ‘technically’ at-level with each other or in different business units, and not the same direct-reporting team. It can very easily be seen by an unreasonable person (and sometimes reasonable people) as being a busybody or interfering out of your place, and the person can get all defensive without feeling like having to justify themselves because ‘You’re not the boss of me’. (Childish, but yes – people in the workplace can remain childish well into retirement.)
When the boss does it, the employee DOES have some explaining to do, it IS the bosses’ job to pursue it, and it is appropriate for the employee to justify/explain, or shape-up and improve. That’s all proper procedure and if your boss is doing their job right, you won’t be mentioned at all.
A good boss knows they’re the one responsible, and will frame it in terms of, “I can see here that,” or “I’ve noticed that…” A weak or well-meaning but mildly inept boss who really just wishes people would like them and that they didn’t have to do this unpleasant business will say, “It has come to my attention,” or “I have been told.”
(Edit: Bonus points, depending on how political and catty your workplace is – if you go in with a non-aggressive attitude to the boss, suggesting that you are being impacted and you’d like to know if there’s a reason, if the person causing you the problem is Protected From On High, you will probably get advance warning of it, instead of pissing them off and suffering their righteous vengeance. It’s utterly foul, but that kind of shit does happen. You can either work around it, or go higher to industrial relations, but man things get ugly from there.
Extra: A casual, “I’d rather my name not come up,” is a useful thing to say early. Some bosses are asshole 6th amendment, ‘the right to face your accuser’ types, and will want to make a dog and pony show of the process, out of pure resentment that they are now being asked to do their job and deal with this crap.)
It’s because I’m leaving soon goddamnit
I like DmC’s characters, story and gameplay but the world feels pretty empty, like they’re just arenas for battles instead of for exploring and the like. Still really like this game though.
I like Virgil. He’s a twat but an interesting twat.
The emptiness felt somewhat deliberate, you do spend most of the game in an alternate dimension after all :p
I just liked looking at all the post apocalyptic urban decay in Enslaved, is all. XD
I might have a thing for twisted landscapes.
The level design itself is really damn cool, just feels like you can look but you can’t touch.
Enslaved was damn pretty.
Pretty damn!
hey dc have you played Gone Home? You like to look at things right?
I looked at all those things already. XD Good game! You like it?
I haven’t played, saw a review for it and it made me think of you 😛
He like to point and click the things too
Not too sure if it’s been mentioned yet but EB Games are selling PS Vita WiFi + 3G for $199 (online only).
Grab a bargain!
Great deal, but online only? I thought the price drop was official this week in Australia? Are they seriously still going to gouge people for it in store? 🙁
Yeah for now it seems like online only or you can pick up the vita + killzone mercenary for $269 in store which isn’t too bad
Repasted from incorrect article I posted it in. Huurrrerrderrrp.
Good news – Killzone Mercenary is pretty fucking good so far. Pending finishing it and really checking out multiplayer, this feels like the FPS we were always promised would eventually happen on the Vita. Incidentally, I didn’t think Black Ops Declassified was as wretched as people made it out be – it had it’s issues, but Killzone Mercenary feels really tidy and is a better game thus far.
Build update:
http://i.imgur.com/89ZV7Tc.jpg
Just need to run the last two bits of tubing from the second Titan to the reservoir, and reservoir to the 240mm rad on the front. Almost there! (Reservoir is at the front left underneath, pipes will be coming up the left side)
Also, apologies if anyone interprets this as bragging, because it’s not – I’m actually super stoked about how this is turning out, regardless of what specs are in there. It’s looking neat as fuck, and pretty much exactly what I imagined when I decided to transplant it all into this new case and redo the cooling loop. Very proud of it.
A thing of beauty!
now I wanna build a new PC……..
Dont think I can justify it though…
Yeah it is, you terrific bastard.
Looking very schmick Nef. Feel free to brag away, anybody who got that would be
That’s the cleanest everyday use PC I’ve ever seen.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/09/why-microsoft-bought-nokia-and-what-it-means-for-you/
Christ, Ballmer terrifies me.
Woohoo! Turnips 459! Made a net profit of over 300,000 bells!
Anyone got turnips to sell? My commission is low.
… TURNIP PRICES… i should like totes visit your village to sell XD
Just let me know, man. I’ll try to accommodate you!
Party at Shane’s!
(This is your afternoon price right? :P)
Yep. Post midday prices for all \o/
OPEN YOUR DOORS AND GET FLOODED BY TAY PEOPLE… as soon as i get home XD
I might not be around, but I’ll leave it on and my gates open. Will trust you not to wreck my town.
i just want your money, YOUR MONEY!!! 😛
Bring presents 😛
Instructions unclear. Covered in blood. Send backup.
Pix to Mex, Pix to Mex –
I’m going in…
…
*snigger*
@kermitron ? 🙂
MINE WERE 62 THIS MORNING WTF.
I don’t have my 3DS on me so I’ll check when I get home and hit up your town. Can you DM me your friend code over the tweetars?
http://tinyurl.com/taynames
Ah! I’ve already added you but you seem to be only “provisionally registered”. Also your town isn’t showing up in the list of places I can visit. 🙁
*Meanwhile turnips in my town are selling for 63 bells. 🙁
Ah, I need your friend code too! Update TAYNAMEs or DM me! 😀Friend! Town’s open!
Done! I think. I’ll show up as mstickle since the 3DS is registered to my wife. 🙂
Done. Come visit anytime. I won’t be playing, but my town is open for exploring.
Neato.
I wasn’t able to stick around while you were busy but if you seriously want a commission let me know. 😛
@kermitron, not fussed about commission, man. Just glad you did better than 62 per turnip 😛
Incidentally, how’d you get all those different fruits and the bamboo? My town has nothing but cherries and cedars.
@kermitron, I took them from powalen and scree’s town, and from the island, and planted them in my own town.
I’ve tried doing that but it doesn’t let me planet outside fruits. I guess there must be some kind of trick to it I haven’t figured out yet.
@kermitron, there’s no trick to it.
Dig a hole with your shovel, then select the fruit in your inventory and click bury.
If that doesn’t work, I’ve got no ideas.
Yeah, I’m an idiot. The first thing I tried this morning after admitting I couldn’t figure it out was to try selecting the fruit next to a hole I’d just dug.
I think when I’d tried that before I must not have been facing the hole properly or something.
On the off chance there’s anyone on TAY from Bendigo, on the 20th, Cheese Excursion (who I’m playing trumpet for) are playing at the Newmarket. I haven’t played a gig with them since before my eldest son was born (nearly 3 years now), so I’m super excited.
Get on down if you’re in town!
(Sorry if band plugs are frowned upon/not allowed on TAY)
http://www.shanewsmith.com
http://www.kramsdesign.com/
http://www.powalen.com
Best site!
That is a wonderful website.
Hey, that falls outside the TAY prohibition on band plugs by virtue of it being a book.
https://www.facebook.com/HarleyQuinnHC
I suspect TAYbies like knowing what other TAYbies are up to. 🙂
Sweet.
Hope the gig goes smoothly.
Bonus points for the band name!
Man, cheese is awesome…right @alexpants?
Like a knife to the heart, Rize.
*delicious knife.
Also, if you come to Canberra on the 21st I’ll stop being horrible to you.
Or, if he doesn’t we can put cheese in everything!
Cheese slushie.
Cheese Jelly Vodka Shots.
With chocolate topping?
Like a cheese to the stomach
I’m nowhere near there, sadly, but enjoy! 🙂
Band promotion? In my TAY? Unacceptable!
http://www.facebook.com/HarleyQuinnHC
Scary music! D:
I’m in the paper, DC! How scary can it be?
Hitler was in the paper too! 😛
Oh god this is gold!
Ahaha!
D.Comedian!
It can also be seventeen different shades of sexy.
So Hesitation Marks is a pretty damned cool guy. I find I require a different mindset to enjoy post-The Fragile Trent, because at it’s core the music is so different now. I don’t enjoy it more or less, it’s just…. different. With Teeth took some time to resonate, but it did eventually. Hesitation marks is growing on me with each listen as well.
I’m no fan of NIN, but can appreciate that some people like it…but…god that’s an awful title.
Your face is awful.
Have seen it. Can confirm.
That was a mirror. I just told you it was me so you’d be less lonely.
That explains why I thought you’d put on so much weight…
…wait a second…awww 🙁
I would feel bad for upvoting this
But then you remember what your country did to the Jews?
@cakesmith
Nope, just that i’m going to upvoting hell anyway, SO I UPVOTED IT
Yeah, I’ve been listening to it at work today pretty much on repeat.
I think musically, it fits between ‘The Downward Spiral’ and ‘The Fragile’. More synths etc. I do miss the more “bandy” feeling that the likes of ‘Year Zero’ and ‘The Slip’ had.
Thematically, it’s something new. It’s rather upbeat (for NIN). People have complained it’s not as angry as earlier NIN, but I like it. You can listen back to all of the albums and you can see where Trent was at that stage of his life. It’s a fascinating character study.
Currently my favourite track would have to be Various Methods of Escape.
I have no idea what ANYTHING you just said means. 🙂 It wouldn’t take many adjustments to turn it into one of those spam-robot dealies!
8/10. Great weirdness, a bit too coherent – could actually tell it was about music.
I am a huge NIN fan. I’ve loved every album so far even the remix ones, but I’m finding it very difficult to enjoy Hesitation Marks, I really want to love it but the more i hear the more i pick at it, the music is so horribly simple. Gah, makes me sad cause i know the dude is capable of so much more.
Am I imagining things or did the “Total War: Rome II” Kotaku review appear just long enough for me to read, and comment, then get yanked???
What article?
http://tinyurl.com/m9fayyu
It looks like he’s eating a giant hand.
I saw it there 5 minutes ago and it’s gone now…
Yep, same here.
Wasn’t a very good review. 99% of it was just bullet points for what was good and what was bad and gave a rating of “Not Yet”.
Well based on this https://www.kotaku.com.au/user/wizz-fizz/comments/kotaku/ you certainly did comment on it
Ah HAH!
Proof, the conspiracy of the mysteriously missing K-Review continues!
Im picking it was the Colonel, with the Delete Key, in the Data Centre
Review is still on the US site so I’ll keep my cynical thoughts to myself….for now.
Why would you do that to yourself?
That’s the blurst. I still have a notification I can’t clear because I commented on an article that got pulled and then someone replied… then it was removed.
I can’t visit the thread to clear the notification and the reply doesn’t even show up in my history anymore, but I still have that goddamn 1 next to my name all the time. 🙁
That would be so damn annoying
Hopefully it gets returned as the same article not a new one with the same content, otherwise it will be there forever
This was months ago when Kotaku US did their Xbone predictions pre-E3. they pulled the article the day after the Microsoft conference. I have long since given up hope of it being fixed.
That is so annoying
Maybe @benwhite can work some magic
God damned market focused targeting trying to gain as wide market as possible and watering down what made them awesome. Why can’t they be who they are and not sellouts.
…
God damned exclusionists not making stuff for me. They should change it so it is for everybody instead of what they want.
…
*headdesk*
…
*headdesk**headdesk*
…..
*headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk*
I’m out.
What is this?
I don’t understand what Freeze is referring to in his posts a lot these days 😛
He really has gone for the lowest common denominator recently so those of us who understood the charm of the older style lose out again
Charm? I think you have me confused with someone else.
Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t saying that you had any charm. Just that there was a charm to your email style, in the same way there is a charm to the laughter on the short bus
People are why we can’t have nice things.
Someone hug this guy!
…
I don’t want to. Hugging is weird.
/o\
*mental hug*?
C’mere, you.
Thanks Obama.
Screw this task, I’m going to lunch.
GLHF
Remember to go back to work at a reasonable time!
Guy comes to my desk right after lunch “So, I sent an email to your department just before lunch and wanting to know where it’s at now”. I don’t even….
Honesty. “I too had lunch, so as a result I haven’t even looked at it. Stay tuned.”
Or you could do what MY HERO does: http://youtu.be/IDAtAqXcRlo
I don’t even do what he was asking for anyway and told him to check with the person who does. I did mention “You should probably give her some time to look at it, considering she’s had no time to do so yet”.
Over-achieving newbies annoy me.
Haha, that video is awesome.
With the ‘Reality TV’ clip he won my heart. Greg is my icon. My role model. My HERO. (Edit: Especially Star Wars vs Sports. I’ve had to do the, “And you’re walking away…” line before.)
@sernobulus
Reminds me of The Website Is Down
junk folder.
That’s where it belongs!
@dc Jeff Daniels just tweeted “It’s official. #Newsroom coming back for a Season 3.”
excellent.
Hells yeah! Great news!
Wii U Rayman Legends get! Even came in a nice shiny sealed copy, too. Strange for EB.
Also the sales guy was like…fresh out of the EB factory. Even before I was served, heard him talking to the lady and her kid before me about trading in his DS Lite while it’s still working/before it breaks to get maximum trade value out of it. Afterwards I just scoffed to him “come on man, it’s a Nintendo. They don’t break” (as much as it pained me to say it :P). Then all while I’m trying to just buy the game he keeps asking if there’s anything else etc. Goes on to ask me if I’m going to EBX, I let fly with my spiel about getting into the last two for free and still feeling like I paid too much. He countered with things like oh you’ll get to try the two new consoles. I’m a Nintendo guy, I don’t care about the others. Oh then you’ll get to try out Wind Waker HD! Man, I have that game already. And it looks way better on the GameCube than it does now. Oh, then you’ll love this *turns screen to show me that box set of Zelda game guides*. Tried to deflect that too, with a whole what do I need game guides for. Eventually he gave up and the transaction continued. Oh, do you want a $5 game guarantee? Nah, it’ll be fine. And will there be anything else? Anything at all. Nah just that. Thanks. See ya.
I mean, good on the guy for trying I guess. But geez.
i have a regular EB i go to, and the same guy goes through this routine with me every time, even though he (sadly) recognises me as it’s a small store.
the last time i went i just said, “look, it’s me, you know i’m gonna say no about this stuff” he just said “yeah, but it’s worth a shot, i’ll get you next time”. -_-
I can’t tell if that’s impressively optimistic or depressingly routine.
Vote 1, @strange for EB
Lower prices and staff that know all the console
Endorsed by kotaku for the strange for EB party australia
Because if there’s a mystery shopper in store who reports you didn’t go through the speil you’ll get warnings/fired.
I forgot how pointless recruitment places are. Just had an interview that I’m sure will turn into nothing more than the occasional email and a call in 24 months wondering if I’ve found any work :/
the only use I ever got out of a recruitment place was a bunch of free clothes for a job i found myself after about 2 months of zero results from them, maybe hit them up for something like that and get something outta them.
I’m not going to lean on these guys at all.
If they offer me something worthwhile, I’ll take it. If they give good resume advice, I’ll use it (actually, that’s probably the only thing I think I’ll really get out of this, they pointed out some flaws in my resume).
Do they even count as a necessary evil?
I’ve had good results with a couple places, but you have to find out where they’re getting the bulk of their income from.
If they get it from government bonuses for placing long-term unemployed, then yeah, you might be out of luck (unless you’re long-term unemployed – but I’d be skeptical about the kind of work they’ll be able to get you). If they get it from their cut of contracts they place people into, then you’ll probably have much more success. Try asking the recruiters what kind of clients they usually deal with. You really wanna be looking at government, banks, insurers, any other REALLY BIG companies.
I don’t know how readily they’re supposed to divulge that, but I guess it helps if you’ve built up a good rapport when you interview with them.
Probably a better idea if you have a specific company or industry in mind is to find someone who works IN that industry and get a contact off them. I’ve had a few friends get work that way, and the time I spent with the big T in Brisbane was that kind of scenario as well.
Cute story, actually…
I got a recruiter’s number from a chick who was doing work for a charity, one of those folks who stand on the street and try to strike up a conversation with you to try convince you to subscribe to a charity.
I HAD to stop and talk to her. I was just watching her standing there on George street, waving at people who weren’t even acknowledging her existence – eyes forward, walk straight. She was visibly desperate/resigned to goofing around, just saying things like, “Hello! Hi! Anyone! No need to even stop, just eye contact!” She wasn’t even getting that. I walked up and laughed, “That bad, huh?” and struck up a conversation. I mentioned that I was just killing time on a day off, looking for a new job because I was sick of my old one, she asked what I did, I told her telecoms and IT shit, and she gave me this guy’s number.
(I really feel for those folks. I don’t approve of that method of roping people in, pressuring them like that, ambushing when they just wanna get to their train or whatever without getting guilted – but the reps cop a lot of shit as well, especially the pretty girls who have unappealing dudes trying to hit on them, but mostly the not being treated like a human being. Even now I at least make eye contact and wish them good luck while I’m shaking my head on the way past. Hell, a couple weeks ago one girl was exceptionally keen to try and talk to me, standing right in my way, and I laughed and apologized that I know they don’t get much ‘realtalk’ time, but I really was late, and as I started to continue on, she said, “I mostly just wanted to tell you, you have really amazing eyes!” That was nice, so I gave her a wink. …Then told the GF to make her jealous. It’s healthy, no really.)
Anyway. So I have this random number from a stranger for this guy, who apparently deals with Telstra. So I give the guy a call, he likes my voice, asks for a copy of my resume, says it looks good but he’s just finished a recruitment session, can I come meet for coffee at Starbucks and we’ll chat. We meet, we chat, he confesses he only wanted to get me there to make sure I wasn’t a slovenly, drug-addled loon, and yeah, I’m hired.
I hand in my two weeks notice, call my brother to tell him I’m moving cities and I need to crash at his place til I find an apartment, and boom. New job.
I’d suggest that’s fairly rare, but it also tells me that you can find work in the weirdest places, not just Seek. And it comes around from talking to people. Just think of all those ‘coincidence’ stories about games being developed from people talking to each other in cafes at GCD or in elevators.
@trjn: one other thing to keep in mind is that a lot of places have openings they don’t advertise. I got my previous job straight out of university by sending my resume to every company I could think of in Melbourne that might have had an opening somewhere. Got many non-replies, several ‘we’ve destroyed your unsolicited resume’ and many ‘we outsource our IT work’ but I also got several interviews and a job offer out of it, for a position they hadn’t advertised anywhere but had been trying to fill for ages.
Haha, I always ALWAYS seem to get caught by those street charity people. Then always go through the same conversations, talking about how I’m a student, doing a games programming course, “oh that’s interesting!”, brief smalltalk about it, sometimes a comment on my game-related t-shirt if I happen to have one that day, then the part where I say that I don’t work/can’t afford to give money to anyone but myself, then I wish them luck on their quest as I continue on. Actually, I just got stopped by one this morning. Seems to most often happen when on the way to/from an EB…
haha, mad respect- face-to-face fundraising was one of the gigs I had in Australia. Now I make sure to give props to the ones I encounter nowadays- considering there’s a whole lot less people here in Canada, I would imagine the job is a lot more.. boring.
but to be honest landing that particular job requires.. minimal effort. If I can land it, anybody can. 😛
Lotta the folks I encounter doing it are in the country on a working holiday or backpacking. Getting dehumanized and avoided for a living has got to be a tough gig.
(Edit: Fine line to walk though between wasting someone’s potential sign-up time when you know you’re not buying anything, versus giving them some human interaction.)
yep, 90% travellers like me. Turnover rates are insane.
Dehumanized and avoided? Yeah, that sounds like a sales gig. 😛
As a qualified electrician the only job they have tried to interview me for (after applying for sparkie jobs) was as a building inspector. I thought yeah that might be alright, said yes, did some research before the interview and found out that you need to do a course or uni to become a proper qualified building inspector. I rang them and asked if the company would put me through a course and about needing to be qualified and they said “I dont know”. Cancelled the interview as it was on the other side of the city and was no point going for no outcome.
What kind of work you looking for? I get fat stacks if I refer a friend and they get hired and make it through probation. Of course the only position open right now is underwriting centre manager which you’re unlikely to be qualified for, but I can always keep an eye open.
General office support stuff. I’m fine with insurance but not underwriting, never underwriting.
I’ll let you know if any suitable non-underwriting jobs come up. It seems that’s where all the turnover is at the moment. 😛
How odd.
Woo! Romans!
@chuloopa
Ya bird brain, what the hell man?
I know, right?
Bird is the word?
Oh hell yes, Damian Lewis would be great as the next James Bond.
Why the heck is everyone trying to replace Daniel Craig suddenly? 🙁 I thought he was signed on for several more films.
Yeah Daniel Craig has signed on for two more films, but his face looks like a pig’s arse.
He’s the best Bond they’ve had since Connery, in the best films they’ve done since Connery. >:(
He has!
No-one’s talking about firing Craig — I think Lewis just made an off-the-cuff remark about wanting to do something like that when Craig’s finished up.
It wasn’t perfect, but I watched Life out of devotion for Damian Lewis.
And while I’m not quite devoted enough to keep following Homeland (okay, I can just never keep track of when it’s on), he would be brilliant as James Bond.
I didn’t mind season 1 of Life. It started off really strong, and kind of meh’d quickly, though.
Couldn’t get into Homeland at all, but he was my favourite in Band of Brothers.
Seriously so good in Band of Brothers. One reason I watched Homeland.
For some reason I imagine him as the reinvented Bond who served in 2001’s Afghanistan instead of serving in the Cold War.
Y’know, I don’t really like Seth Rogen. I don’t dislike him, but there’s nothing about him that draws me to any of his movies. But, I do like Rose Byrne and it just so happens that she’s in an upcoming movie with Seth Rogen — Neighbours.
There’s a red band trailer (borderline NSFW, looks a bit Hangover-esque in outrageous antics and swearing and implied sex acts) that was just put up on youtube a couple of days ago, and it looks unsophisticated-but-hilarious — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a96ELbUeHA
I really want to install a car airbag in someone’s office chair.
I don’t like Seth Rogen, or his movies generally, but that looks fun.
EVERYTHING IS BROKEN *throws confetti*
FUCK.
– ME *dances in Confetti*
…
wait what are we condemning/celebrating?
Who cares, break out the mead!
Judging by previous comments with you and Cakesmith…
something about the Jews?
MONSTER!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!
Sounds to me like (to Quote Captain Murphy) “a throat needs slitting and we don’t know where to lay the blade”
Shop phone starts ringing, I answer and Clive Palmer starts screaming at me about the revolution.
Whenever I hear Clive Palmer, I always seem to think either Clive Owen or Clive James first.
Whenever I hear Clive Palmer, I think McAnally.
VIVA LA REVOLUTION!
So behind the times. They decided to call it the Wii instead.
My Clive Palmer DVD arrived in the mail this week.
“Enabled GMM and IGMP snooping on the WLC to allow communication within each VLAN”
…IT really does have a tonne of acronyms.
Yes.
‘Have you tried turning it off and on again’ is all you need to remember.
@transientmind — re: your story about the girl trying to get people to donate to charities
There was a guy set up at a shopping center earlier this year, trying to talk to people about signing up for classes with Evocca College, and he had these big cardboard stands advertising free iPads for everyone who joins.
I had a backpack and was walking from the train station, through the shopping center on my way to class and he walked in front and started talking at me — I didn’t absorb what he said but I knew it had no relevance to me whatsoever, so I said “Sorry, but I’m not interested.”
He immediately retorts with “No you’re not. If you were really sorry, you would have stopped to talk” in a smug-ish, asshole-ish, frustrated-that-he’s-not-getting-anywhere kind of way.
I won’t pretend it was entirely justified, I just don’t like people who do that and I launched into a tirade along the lines of: “Okay, I’m not sorry. I was just trying to be polite; you’re the one who should be sorry for trying to guilt people over the fact you’re bad at your job. I’m clearly already on my way to class at [university name], but here you are trying to talk me into joining your Mickey Mouse college — and trying to lure in any old idiot with the promise of a free iPad, who are you kidding! It lacks substance and you’re an ass, is it any surprise no-one wants to talk?”
He definitely had something to say back, but I didn’t want to risk being shown up after my semi-impressive rant so I zoned out again and walked off to class — even though I was like ‘Yeah, take that!’ for the rest of the day, I really, really, really hate that sort of shit and I think I would prefer to talk to the cute ‘n polite girls like you somehow manage. Share them next time. 😛
TL;DR — It’s not important. 😀
One of those guys trying to save some kind of animal and was super aggressive, like blocking me so I had to talk to him. I stopped and said:
“Sorry im not interested” and kept walking
He said (loudly) “So you don’t care about animals dieing over in “country X”.
I turned around and replied “I guess not, bye!”.
Ahhhh, that was a good day.
I
When I used to smoke and people would try to convince me to donate to their charity by saying “it’s equivalent to giving up one pack a firtnight” or something, I’d take a deep drag with a look on my face like I was really thinking about it, then slowly exhale with a satisfied sigh and say “nah.”
Now that I’ve quit smoking those people have no easy way to open a conversation with me. I don’t even bother saying no, I just keep walking. I used to feel compelled to stop if they made eye contact with me, but nope. I keep walking, even turning my head to maintain the contact until I pass them.
A couple of times I have almost snapped at old ladies sitting outside Woolies trying to collect donations for cancer charities — only if they’re super-aggressive, while at other times I’ll buy those cancer raffle ticket things they have without anyone trying the hard sell.
My family’s never been well-off by any stretch of the imagination and if I have money to spare it’s usually at the expense of something else so, while I can appreciate that they’re trying to do something decent, I hate the people who try to compel you to do something and act like you’re scum if you don’t — so damn entitled.
Yeah. When your job is shit and you’re frustrated about it and the way you’re treated, there are ways to go about expressing that. Your dude did it the asshole way. The chick I spoke to did it in the ‘desperately attempting to be cheerful’ way. I got a lot more sympathy for the latter.
You don’t get sympathy by being a dick. Pretty universal, that.
I try to avoid snapping at people who are frustrated like that, because I’ve been there… and I’m normally a pretty relaxed and patient guy… but I remember a couple years back I got stopped by a woman in the valley who was asking for a couple bucks and when I said I didn’t have any, she grumbled sullenly at me, “Ah, don’t lie.”
I was in a pretty bad place at the time because I’d made some seriously idiotic decisions and been a bit screwed on finances and was actually completely broke. I still had my credit card so I wasn’t starving, but that was only making things worse. So this woman wants four bucks I don’t have, and for a brief minute I snapped.
“I beg your fucking pardon. Are you calling me a LIAR? I’m broke, on plastic, making things worse, and you DARE to call me a LIAR because you think you deserve my fucking money?”
I stopped immediately when I realized that she was suddenly looking scared – like, genuinely fearful that I might be violent – and that she was actually quite small, and I’m about six foot, and yelling, and I felt like the biggest shit-heel in the whole damn universe for quite a while.
Any other day, any other person, she’d probably have been right.
My favourite moment with a charity person (after they’d sort of accidentally(?) implied that I was fat (which while totally accurate was also slightly hilarious)) was when they asked me if I knew what the main problem facing the third world was, and I was like “lack of access to clean water.” And she was like “N- Uhh,” and then phrased it back at me slightly differently as if that somehow made me less right.
On the opposite end of this story, I once had somebody unnecessarily go on a long rant after I asked about donating (I was Canadian as hell during my time in Australia, so I’m pretty sure I wasn’t a dick.) He went on and on, and so I felt kinda obligated to respond to his vigour with equal dickishness. After his long-winded speech (I should’ve bailed the second he showed disinterest, but I unwisely? listened for the whole time) I simply said
“So, would you like to donate to ‘charity Y’ instead of ‘X’ sir?”
Needless to say, he lost it and I had to get help from a few passers-by to get him to leave.
….
I was uh, aggressively Canadian.
Aggressively Canadian is gold.
Also, an excellent band name.
I scream and run with my fingers in my ears.
Everytime.
Next DC meats are in the valley or at Central station! Bring your mobile phone cameras people.
EVERYTHING IS NOT AS BROKEN ANYMORE *pops party popper*
RAID controller fell over on the main database. FUN TIMES!
Pfft, who needs RAID anyway? MICROSOFT SUPPORT DYNAMIC VOLUMES THAT’S GOOD ENOUGH RIGHT???
#goodatIT
6 hard drives in RAID 0, what could go wrong? 😀
You shouldn’t be playing WoW at work.
How else will he get the LEWTZ?
Need some help regarding a good ADSL2 Modem Router. Currently have a D-Link 2740B and it has this problem where it just drops out and resets itself all the time. If anyone has any suggestions that would be great.
*mossies off to watch 2 or 3 episodes to catch up on The Newsroom*
Don’t go Belkin. They’re freaking awful.
Also are you @dc?
Nope, I am behind on The Newsroom. @dc would be up to date is my guess.
You know it! o/
I wouldn’t say they are awful. I mean Gesink is his usual self but Mollema is having a good year. Lesser results but Slagter is having a break out year. Ster ZLM Toer with Boom plus 3 stages and you can’t discount Bos
Yes.
Billion. Always go Billion, and you can’t go wrong — I think they actually released some updated models earlier this year, but my 4.5 year old 7800N is still going strong!
… if only I could use it, because Telstra still haven’t fixed my phone/adsl line…
Enter the first unpowered loop test. Where I sit and leave nothing but the pump running purified water through the loop for several hours and pray nothing leaks.
Question for those married or with long term partners:
Do you keep your wages separate or pool them into one account to share?
Edit: So it seems I’m in the vast majority (ie Lonely Lenny territory) with just having a single joint account and a savings account we’ve purposely made as hard as possible to access.
Honestly depends on trust levels. Ideal solution would be to pool because DAMN DEM BUCKS ADD UP but doing that AND having a side account for personal/emergency use (with the other person’s permission, of course) seems to work out well.
….
I know a couple. I’m pretty sure I’ve achieved “adopted asian kid” status with them. So uh, since I’m not the direct source take with a grain of salt. Different circumstances and all that jazz.
I have a long term girlfriend, and why we don’t pool together at the moment we have discussed what will happen when we get engaged which will be pool a percentage into an account to share and then also keep some personal money. That way she doesn’t yell at my stupid stuff spending (video game spending, bear grylls machette to go camping with, bicycle stuff and shoe fetish) and I don’t yell at her for buying clothes she wears once. I think it will be a good system.
Percentage of wage so that she or I don’t have to try and match each others inputs into the future mortgage or bills.
Separate accounts
Gives the freedom to buy gifts and stuff without people looking at the account and asking what this is. Payment of stuff just gets divided, Mrs Tigs will pay those bills, I’ll pay rent. All money is treated as our money and whoever can pay whatever.
This is the same as me.
Comes down to how Salty and I operate. We respect each other’s privacy.
Except when pooing.
I don’t have wages. They will be separate if that changes.
Partly because combining is effort. Also I don’t trust you not to fritter away my money on board games. I can do that myself.
Until recently, separate.
Going to have a joint account to use to pay all bills to make it easier to track where we’re up to with each one etc. Everything else is separate, for mostly the same reason as Tigs.
My wife doesn’t work but I basically just pay the bills and keep enough for groceries. I send the rest to her, which is supposed to be 50% savings and 50% her “allowance” for doing stuff. We’re not saving so much these days since most of what we were trying to save now goes on the car payment, but since we were only really trying to save for a car anyway it kind of balances out. Since we can instantly transfer money to where it’s needed (we’re both with NAB) it’s not really important where it is – she just holds onto it because I’m more in charge of the day-to-day expenses like grocery shopping.
When we were both working we split the bills, shared the cost of groceries, and pooled our savings in a joint account.
Married two years now, wife and I have had separate accounts since. Two accounts are better than one and it kinda makes sorting easier. We also like to brag about who has the bigger bank balance. She’s in dental and I’m in IT – she kicks my arse every time. There’s no hard feelings about money as we split bills accordingly.
Same as Tigs, should have refreshed.
:'(
Separate accounts, separate rooms, separate houses. My daily activities keep me pretty busy so she doesn’t get out much. I give her an allowance so she can renovate or whatever she wants to do.
We’re talking about Animal Crossing, right?
Couples and Animal Crossing make for odd, odd, odd, odd, odd, odd times.
Like.. twice the normal extortion in a relationship! THAT’S LIKE THREE TIMES THE EXTORTION!
Separate accounts but I buy it upgrades every few years.
We’re talking about computers right? 🙁
My parents go for the “Shared account” and “Wife account” strategy.
This was the answer I was expecting to be most common. 😛
We have a joint.
I was uncomfortable at first but fuck I’m richer now!
I didn’t know drug dealing was so profitable.
Depends on the scale you do it really.
Totally pooled.
My brother’s going home today, he found out that I’m moving out in a couple of months, I tell him not to tell my parents before I get a chance to call them later tonight. His response? “Why?”
Fuck he’s a dick.
He doesn’t even like Xenoblade or Okami.
Dick.
Based off that he may not even be human.
Ben J’s evil robot twin brother!
OMG
I’ll swap my Xenobladder for a Okami.
Seriously didn’t know Okami was Zelda-like at all until very recently!
Have you not played Okami? :O
I’ve played it when it came out but only finished it this year. It’s fun and has some minor problems but it’s still solid 😀
‘Minor problems’ like that godforsaken fucking fishing minigame. Or the stupid stupid thing where you have to guide the daft wanker through the maze on a time limit.
EDIT: Also the FUCKING BLOCKHEADS.
The last one is so horrendously hard that when I replayed recently I had to cheat by recording a video of the presses AND EVEN THEN it took 4 goes.
I was going to say “problems” but thought you might react and say it didn’t have problems.
Did not expect it to go the other way lol
But I didn’t mind those things too much, it’s just that it definitely felt a bit dated. And some other “minor problems” I were referring too were just gameplay things. I would’ve liked more Zelda-y gameplay, bigger dungeons and puzzles and whatnot.
They are blemishes on an otherwise nearly perfect game.
EDIT: Also the game’s already too long, especially the way it drags at the end with the bosses. I was happy enough without them adding bigger dungeons.
The puzzling is more in figuring out how to use the brush powers.
Also it has some of the best moments ever. Like the first time you make one of the trees bloom and there’s that stunning explosion of life and color through the world (looks amazing on PS3). Or the Kamiki Festival fireworks. Or that moment during the final boss when the music starts…
I was pretty bummed they removed the epilogue from the HD release though. At least I’m pretty sure they did. I distinctly remember the PS2 version closing with a shot of Amaterasu as a girl instead of a wolf. Maybe my aging brain made that up.
But the biggest thing with Okami is that playing the HD version, the game does not feel remotely dated at all. All they really did was up the resolution and maybe add some extra particles here and there. And despite that the game feels fresh. Very few PS2-era games have dated that well. Though I guess it was originally released in 2006 so technically it’s inside the ‘current’ era.
I hear people mentioning these things so much, yet have absolutely no memory of them at all. Even though I know I played the thing through to the end.
Repressed memories.
You mean you haven’t played it?
Wish PSN let you gift games because I would gift you Okami HD so hard.
It was free on PS+ at one point too.
Okami HD > Okami PS2 >>>>>>>>>> Okami Wii btw
I had the complete wrong impression of it.
If Id’a known I woulda got it back on PS2.
Now the pile is big and I have to hold off (really want this Stella Deus, but alas…)
You’d think Sony and MS would get on top of that gifting thing, so many lost $$$$
confession time.
i never beat okami, i got kinda bored with it…
Some people are genuinely poorly socialized.
You might actually need to explain to him, “Because while it doesn’t make much sense, it will be important to them to hear it from me so they don’t feel like they’ve been left out of the loop or like I consider other people more important to share the information with than them. And we do things which don’t make sense because we care about their feelings.” Then get an, “Ohhh. OK, I guess,” for your troubles.
(Script from my life.)
Oh hey what? There’s a Pokemon X Y Direct tonight at 9pm
Hmmm…
To watch or not to watch…
@powalen do you break your media blackout with Directs? 😛
FUCK THAT SHIT
…
I’ll start making the coffee..
What time here??
9pm
Hope I’m still up!
I’ve been doing so well! Not ruining my blackout now! No matter how much you peer pressure me!
I figured you wouldn’t but you made an exception for E3 and other Directs!
Reasonable time tooooooooo
Did anybody watch the video posted here http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/09/hilarious-vine-compilation-will-be-the-best-eight-mins-of-your-day/
Am I the only one reminded of @chuloopa at the 4 minute mark?
Just purchased The Bureau and Diablo 3 on PS3.
Come at me bro’s.
YOU’RE MASTERRACING WRONG!
Looking at videos of the console D3 makes me wish the PC version had gamepad support.
*throws punch*
I’ve actually thought about picking D3 up for PS3. Reckon it’d work really well on console – the idea never bothered me. I actually played Diablo on PSX originally before I had a PC.
D3 has 4 player local co-op right?
because that actually sounds like a ton of fun.
You could argue for consoles on Potaku…
*wink wink*
*nudge nudge*
*push off cliff*
*look of mild panic*
It’s cool man. You need an alibi, and you need the body to disappear? I know a guy who knows a guy. You’re going to be OK.
…There’ll be some costs, though. How much money can you borrow? Whatever you can get legally, you’ll need a bit more, but that’s OK, I know a guy who can help with that, too.
RACE-TRAITOR! Well, actually, no, D3 is pretty fucking shitty on the PC, the console version looks like a vast improvement. THE ONLY TIME THIS WILL EVER HAPPEN, I SWEAR IT BY GRABTHAR’S HAMMER.
For some reason Ashley Wood’s art used on Metal Gear articles offends me even though he did a reeally ggod job.
He was just a total wangdoodle IRL.
Also, Yoji Shinkawa kicks the shit outta Wood so why would you choose Wood, really?
I’m glad I never get to meet these people. I love Ashley Woods’ work, and don’t have the faintest idea about him as a person.
That’s the thing though, MOST comic creators are these mild mannered nerds who worked their arses off to get there.
The Woods, Millars and Liefelds are few and far between.
Makes it stand out more, you know?
Even though it has origins as a male name, whenever someone’s called “Ashley” I always expect to see a girl.
I wonder how long before Bruce or Barry become predominantly girl names.
Went to high school with a Shannon.
Guys!!! Tosh.0 and Brickleberry are back! 😀
*crickets*
I think I was the only other person here that watched Tosh and I stopped so you’re on your own kiddo :'(
Oh.
Oh, joy :S
Only got onto Brickleberry. Very funny.
Tosh.0 on the other hand is not overly great. Only so much of it you can watch.
When and where?!
Salespeople are a strange lot.
Sales manager comes over and says he has been talking all day and has had enough. Arrange to go out for a drink. He looks up.
Oh a staff member is still here, I better go have a chat.
I thought you had too much talking already
Anyone else pre-order the Wind Waker HD LE from GAME UK, or thinking of getting it?
Reckon we’ll able to get a refund for the VAT?
EDIT: And anyone interested in buying a copy of Wind Waker HD? I’ll most likely buy the local release to play it ASAP because I goddamn love Zelda and I’ve always had the local Australian releases for the main ones since Ocarina of Time. It’s tradition, man.
(@beavwa)
Gametraders is looking into it for me.
Let us know how it goes. You’re getting the Zelda books from them too, aren’t you? Are they importing them? Because it says “EB Exclusive” on the EB site.
Probably. They have quite a few distributors that get stuff from the UK.
I’m just gonna buy it on launch day at JB Hifi and then walk past sales guy who does a double take when he realizes someone is buying something for the Wii U! D:
I’ll probably go JB too only because I really want a sealed non shitty copy. Seriously man. Box gotta be pristine!
Best thing about importing games: No horrible garish OFLC rating in the middle of the artwork.
It’s part of the charm!
i remember when i bought Virtues Last Reward on Vita at a JB’s, the poor girl at the counter had no idea what to do with it.
Nah, I’m getting the GC version tomorrow for $5.
*hipster hair flick*
OGS and Dungeon Crawl couldn’t say if they could get them, so I took the first direct path that popped up. Gonna be ‘spensive.
Oh hey, Video Ezy shipped my copy of Rayman Legends!
@dc
WOO!
Haha! Oh man, I thought I talked about Rayman too much and its confirmed when you’re the go to guy for updating about purchases. Shiggy on Twitter yesterday too. What game will I be crazy obsessed with next? Who can say? (Pssst, it’s Beyond: Two Souls!)
WIND WAKER >:(
Three days before Beyond: Two Souls. It’ll have to wait until I finish. QUANTIC DREAM IS MY SPACE MAUREEN!
ZELDA IS MY ZELDA!
I’m assuming Wind Waker can’t be finished in three days if I take my time too, right? Don’t wanna rush it!
The world record is 4ish hours! It can be done! 😛
But don’t rush it. You can still play them both :). Zelda works well when not played for like 12 hours a day. Otherwise you’ll finish it too quickly :'( *looks at Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword*
I was too hype, man…
I only play one game at a time! >:|
Bravely Default is my FINAL FANTASY
BRAVELY DEFAULT HYPE!
Although I know nothing about it other than it looks pretty. It’ll probably turn out average but whatevs, I’m buying it for prettiness.
Like Ni no Kuni – I got it for prettiness but it was ugh
Too pretty for your liking? Dangerous levels of prettiness?
Pretty
…average gameplay 🙁
But I didn’t hate it. Just didn’t love it.
IT LOOKED PRETTY THOUGH SO THAT WAS OKAY <3
Spiritual sequel to FF 4 Heroes of Light
It’s pretty and it’s a turn-based FF-style JRPG with pre-rendered scenes a la PS1-era FF. And it has an awesome soundtrack.
Oh, and I wouldn’t say “talk too much” it’s just that pretty much no one else talked about it 😛
@sughly would’ve talked about it. I miss Sughly. :'(
I’m talking about Origins now… that’s close enough, right? >.>
Shiggy told me your scores on the leaderboards are driving him insane.
Haha! Wait until Batguy starts playing properly. He used to kill everyone on the Challenges App! XD
Also Shiggy has a job and a girlfriend and outdoor stuff to do. If he wants those scores he’ll need to go full hermit! 😛
I’m semi-hermit.
>:)
Watch out, kiddo!
Pffft, Rayman Legends? That game was so two days ago. 😛
I like the term ‘outdoor stuff’.
BEYOND: TWO SOULS! NEXT MONTH! WOOOOOOO!
Ellen Page and David Cage together at last! Who could take issue to that? 😛
Also just noticed it’s rated R! Whoa!
http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/game/ps3/beyond-two-souls-special-edition/684572
I think I might need to get this Special Edition, especially if the OST is as good as Heavy Rain!
Extra playable scene too!
That’s tempting!
I like that cover!
I should re-play Heavy Rain :D. I got the special edition for that too! (I think it was a UK exclusive)
I don’t mind the regular cover too, though I’m guessing the other cover will be on the box inside the steel case dealy. This one is much more iconic and movie poster-like though.
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
If loving them is wrong. I don’t wanna be right.
She’s Kitty Pryde!
http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/k/ki/kitty_pryde.gif
She’s also a part time lover AND a full time friend!
IT’S POKEMONTH NEXT MONTH, FIRST TIME WORLDWIDE* RELEASE
*’cept for shitty poor Countries, fuck them!
Oh shit I forgot about that!
WOOO
Oh man, GTA V, Wind Waker and Beyond: Two Souls in the span of three weeks. D:
See, I KNEW you were going to post it again but then Kotaku said the whole “your posting comments too quickly”
Would’ve worked better if I posted it before you :'(
It’s okay. I won’t be playing any of them! 😛
D: This must be what @sernobulus feels like when I won’t play Wonderful 101. 😛
I die a little inside.
Actually I died a long time ago, about the same time you said you didn’t like Dark Souls >=[
Oh yeah, you Dark Souls people. No matter how much I like you folk, there’s a divide between us that can never be crossed! :'(
Don’t worry I hatted The Last of Us so now we are even.
…
FOR NOW!
If you don’t like post apocalyptic urban decay, I don’t think you can join my post apocalypse TAY militia. You’ll have to join @transientmind’s…
That could work, we could have a buddy cop TV show set in the apocalypse.
@Transientmind can be the good cop and I can be comic relief.
Wait… I have to have my own, I can’t join yours?
@transientmind: If you joined mine then I’d have to make you leader and then it wouldn’t really be mine any more. Geez. Besides, I’m sure you’ve got better things to do like fortifying the generator instead of my militia who’s main policy is to go on expeditions to the ruins of civilization to take in the sights and sounds as nature takes hold once more!
@transientmind
I would have also accepted this:
Hm. That generator does need fortifying. And we have survivor/recruitment drives/hunting/scalping/raiding parties to go out on. (Multi-purpose!)
And yes, @sernobulus that video works, too.
PLAY IT
Nah!
MONSTER
WHAT!?
NOT EVEN WIND WAKER?!
HAVE YOU PLAYED THE ORIGINAL!?
HAVE YOU!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Globviously
I like that time you played Xenoblade.
😀
Bikes
Oh man, GTA V, Wind Waker and Beyond: Two Souls in the span of three weeks. D:
Oh man, GTA V, Wind Waker and Beyond: Two Souls in the span of three weeks. D:
Oh man, GTA V, Wind Waker and Beyond: Two Souls in the span of three weeks. D:
Guys, I think I broke D.C.
“I was broken long before, my friend! :D”
/talklikeD.C.
“Broken’s my default setting. 😀 😀 😀 :'(”
/talklikeD.C.
Someone replaced @dc with a JRPG NPC.
Oh man, nothing of interest for three weeks D:
I am lost.
/talklikeD.C.
Watch out for the smoke monster! He throw things!
Do you see towels? If you see towels then you’re probably in the linen closet again.
Oh man, GTA V, Wind Waker and Beyond: Two Souls in the span of three weeks. D:
Oh man, GTA V, Wind Waker and Beyond: Two Souls in the span of three weeks. D: not to mention Disgea D2 too much awesome overload!!
You can’t just make up games.
Wiffleball bat paddy whack edition
Ohhh, Disgaea D2. I will have to get that! I’m still waiting for The Witch and the Hundred Knights!
That makes too of us on that one
Ha ha, I like this: http://dontbeafuckingidiot.herokuapp.com/ (nsfw language).
As someone who dislikes both parties equally… for every issue that the LNP fail on, Labor fail on another — not gonna win whoever comes out on top in the election.
And this:
Holy shit. If there’s one group worse than the LNP on a per-policy basis, it’s the Greens.
(Yes, it is lonely to hate everyone 😛 )
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8aCH4QeglEo/ULQDLz5jCkI/AAAAAAAAWbI/2c0_zL-4ZlA/s400/cover_l.jpg
Pageget?
Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame
Don’t worry! A Persona page-get is always a worthy page-get!
Before you post anything, ALWAYS think about what would happen if it were a page get.
f4ction once posted about his brother sending him a video of a girl pooping in a grocery store.
One of the more memorable page-gets 😛
Words to live by.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BUh4zWQ9fs
This track reminds me of Die Nasty Warriors
Oh maaaaaaan. Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD is out next week. All the games come out this month.
\o/ – for games
/o\ – for loss of money
Final Score = -o-
Pshh, if life has taught me anything, it’s that money is totally useless, and we’re all better off without it.
Some people say the same thing about the Colobus Monkey. They’re wrong.
You know D.C., if there’s something I’ve always admired about you, it’s your ability to stick to your guns, and to remain steadfast in a belief, no matter what relation it has with the truth.
This page needs more @strange, more of the time! >:|
Where has @strange been? I haven’t seen her on TAY or the Twitters! D=
Probably hanging out with @sughly. :'(
I bet they’re talking about adventure games and listening to Arcade Fire right now.
…
I don’t even care.
*lip quiver*
Man,That reminds me of this one time. These guys called @dc and @freezespreston lied about what movie they were going to see so this loser called @sernobulus wouldn’t join them.
We also had Mexican food too when we told others we were getting Red Rooster! True story!
*Not a true story. Except for the Mexican food.
She did a MQFT and then the convo went into dates and sex changes…
… boysclub
Not if we get sex changes.
Which TAYbies shocking replicant truth will be revealed! (The clues were all there!)
She bought up the sex change! :O
He*
Maybe Strange’s tattoo has become sentient and she’s locked in a battle of wits to retain control of the arm before it takes over!
The real @strange would’ve told us what that MQFT was for but now no one will ever know! :'(
What’s this Maiden in Black like? Think she’ll still give us hugasauruses?
@dc, The Maiden In Black is the nicest person in the game.
… girl…boyclub?
What’s the password?
Oh man, GTA V, Wind Waker and Beyond: Two Souls in the span of three weeks. D:
Good observation, my friend.
I’m kind of tempted to buy Rayman Legends on WiiU tomorrow because I don’t want an incomplete version of a game. D=
I enable this decision!
WAIT FOR VITA!
It’s missing the Invasion levels. The Invasion levels are fun. Do you hat fun?
I HAT FUN!
Yes
Carry on then! I recommend Assassin’s Creed 3 too! You’ll be VERY happy together. 😛
Almost @dc levels of hat for fun have I.
Imma suck it up and buy the sucky one
After a price drop
It’ll still be damn fun and you’ll still have plenty of levels (with Rayman Origins ones too) and the Challenges App. Just an unnecessary cut for the game.
Did they ever explain why the Vita version got neutered? Can’t think of a reason why they’d cut levels…
DLC.
Yeah, I actually thought they were getting a couple of exclusive levels (does it still have them?)
I bet Globox is involved somehow. He’s such a lovable screw up.
Lack of time apparently, they’re patching them in (for free) later.
Oh man, GTA V, Wind Waker and Beyond: Two Souls in the span of three weeks. D:
Okay, I don’t even get the joke. How about a jingle?
♪♫ I once knew a girl named Violetta
whose boyfriend warned me to forget her
Of course I didn’t listen and then we started kissin’
She only wanted to use my Atari joystick so I let her ♪♫
♪♫ When I called her to break it all off
I caved and we instead telephony-jerked-off…
Okay this poem just got out of hand. And it doesn’t have a happy ending. For the boyfriend.
I think what I was trying to say is: Don’t ruin other couples’ relationships for hand jobbies and phone sex? Yup, that was it.
Ugh.
I find it weird that I can so closely sympathise with this. Although at least I managed not to ruin anyone else’s relationship with any of that. Just my own 😛
Hmm… reading over this again, it makes things sound a whole lot worse than they were >_>
Your situation or mine? Trust me, mine was pretty bad.
Mine. It just kind of feels like horrible wording, but I can’t think how else I would’ve put it.
Yours doesn’t have telephony-jerk off or hand jobby. Your wording is fine.
Haha. There may have been hints of those in amongst it all though…
So, I was going to post this yesterday but time got the better of me.
Today marks my second day on prac as a teacher. I’ve been teaching Maths at a school in Brisbane (not allowed to put it on here, incase some of the students go on here, you know how it is), and I’ve found this is definitely my calling. IT was ok to work in but not my thing all up. Maths and English are definitely where my calling lays.
I absolutely adore the profession. Dealing with the teens has been challenging just in these two days, observing them, teaching them (done two lessons so far) and I have no illusions it’ll get far worse at some point, far worse, but I’m prepared for that. Many people put down Highschool teachers ‘Why would you want to?’ etc. I guess I can’t answer that for anyone else, other than ‘I want to because it’s what I want to do.’
Either way I’m having a blast so far and think it’s fantastic. Can’t wait to finish my course and start it full time.
I’m guilty of doing the whole “oh god why would you willingly do that?” bit when teaching comes up. But to me it’s not really meant to be a put-down, in fact rather the opposite. I think it’s admirable that you’re so willing to put yourself on the front line where the rest of us fear to tread 😛
I completely understand. I say the same thing to police officers. I think it takes a very special person to be a cop these days, a VERY special person indeed. A tolerant person who’s much better than I am. I couldn’t do it that’s for sure. I’ll just handle the criminals of today, they can handle them after I’m done with them. lol
What happened to your avatar?
Hmmm great question!?
Do you teach history.
Sit down, shut up and watch me play this game could work 😉
http://www.nintendo.co.uk/Misc-/Nintendo-Direct/Latest-Nintendo-Direct/Nintendo-Direct-698557.html
Ya know, I probably won’t watch this now :P. I skipped the W101 one because I like going in not knowing much 😀
Going to watch it @dc ? It’ll be fun because you’ll know nothing and be confused :D!
Like I keep saying they’ve got nothing to teach me, I’ve got nothing to teach them. POOOOKEMON.
Plus I already gots me best friends in a world we must defend… you guys…
Prepare for trouble.
I know it’s my destiny!
Believe in the heart of the cards!
Samurai Pizza Cats!
I was trying to recall the lyrics to the opening theme for Biker Mice From Mars, then realised there weren’t any.
Instead, just imagine the sick riffs flowing from an electric guitar, wah pedal and all.
Nope.
Never seen it.
#babby
@DC, that’s coming out on DVD soon, I believe! MASSIVE NOSTALGIA INJECTION!
Who do you call when you want some pepperoni?!
So the past week we’ve been trying out Lite’n’Easy Dinners. Ordered a weeks worth and they turned up on our door last Wednesday.
Some of them have been really nice (Chicken Dijon) and some kind of horrible (Roghan(sic) Josh). By far the best thing has been the zero dishes and easy preparation. Ordered another weeks worth that turned up today as well as a bunch of lunch bowls for me to take to work.
So far the experience has been slightly above average. Whole new range to try so will report back to the
zeromore than expected of you who give a toss.Snacktaku write-up! It’s been a while!
*tosses*
My old boss went on that, he said they were pretty good and saved him and his bitch of a wife having to cook every night. They were working 24/7 so made sense. They looked alright honestly.
That was unexpectedly hostile sentence in an otherwise tame paragraph. Haha!
Virus’ boss has tourettes.
I assumed he was talking about Bruce Springsteen!
I’d pay to see that show!
My boss was awesome, he was an old school teacher of mine, great bloke. But his wife who was also the company accountant hated me and got rid of me.. So yeah..
I give a toss. And I’m sure the wife would love a few nights off. Report away.
After I had my son I went on Lite n Easy breakfasts and lunches. It was a lifesaver because I was in no state to think about what to eat, and all I had to do was heat a few things in the microwave. I stopped after a few months though because it all kind of tasted the same and my palate was super-bored.
I tried their stuff for several months. The breakfasts and lunches are generally good (though I got frustrated with them constantly giving a can of tuna as a ‘snack’ when I can’t stand tuna) but I found their dinners to be bland and that was one of the main reasons I stopped. Doesn’t help that Peas and I cannot peacefully coexist, and 2/3 of their meals have them.
I ended up settling onto about 10-12 of their meals and getting sick of the lack of variety.
A guy my friend works with has developed a thing. Like, built it from scratch.
An Occulus Rift, in a room full of PS3 eye cameras, with a toy gun.
He’s built a full a fully immersive zombie FPS tech demo. It looks pretty rad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nsBVb2hoik
EDIT: CAUTION – VIDEO CONTAINS NOISES.
Pretty cool except for the loud gunshots that came out of nowhere and scared me 😛
sorry green man.
That video highlights how easy it is for the shambling undead to sneak up on you and chomp you, in the dark.
Unfortunately I haven’t been able to game much lately. Apologies, guys. It’s why my recent posts have been shithouse. I really want to get into and finish Wolfenstein 2009 but I’ve just been hectic with TAFE assignments and my work days are flat out as usual. Then when I do have some spare time, I spend it with the wife and kid. @alexpants thought he was depressed when he was unemployed, HA! That’s hilarious. I enjoyed his coming of age article today and I’m curious to see what his big write up is going to be tomorrow.
http://potaku.com/2013/09/03/and-then-i-got-a-job-finding-time-to-game-and-valuing-free-time/
Here’s the post for those who missed it!
Thanks, DC.
I was feeling pretty grim there for a while. Not really sure why funny.
Ah Alex, I didn’t intend to dis your depression, I meant to dis your abundance of free time. As in, I could do with some myself.
And I believe it’s spelled diss not dis. Dumb arse.
Ah. All good then 😛
Your problem here is, you’re not fitting enough gaming in at TAFE. When I went to TAFE, we use to have Battlefield Vietnam & Quake III LAN’s all the time. It was glorious.
Being unemployed is depressing. No matter what jobs I apply for I get knocked back, going on 3 & a half years now. It’s shit.
Haha that sounds brilliant, but I wouldn’t actually get anything done if that was the deal at TAFE currently. Yeah look guys I understand unemployment is hard, but seriously! Enjoy the time you have because before you know it, once you get into the shit swing of things (aka employment) the years will flash before your very eyes! Your dreams get dumbed down and everything you want to do for yourself becomes priority negative. Live it up. The world’s a big place, and it only gets bigger the older you get and the more you realise you’re never going to see every cool little bit there is.
OKAY! That sounded depressing, my apologies! All I’m trying to say is that priorities are going to change. That’s all.
Yes, I am alive. I’ve just been implementing a new set of rules for the little guy which has been taking time to adjust to as well as playing lots of Ni No Kuni at his request. ( Ni No Rot13 Sidenote: Ur jnf qrinfgngrq jura bhe bevtvany Snzvyvne, Fzvgrl zrgnzbecubfrq vagb uvf svany sbez. Ur pevrq naq fnvq ur qbrfa’g jnag uvz gb fgnl gung jnl. 🙁 ) And all this hanging out with him during the day has left no time for sewing so I’ve been doing that in the evenings. Tonight I finished sewing together the first third of the nine-patches for Mrs. @shane’s quilt so I should be completely finished the top this week, just leaving the back and of course the actual quilting to go. \o/
P.S. I love you guys.
P.P.S. Apparently I fail at replying, as well. 😛
It wasn’t a reply fail, rather this deserved a post all of it’s own 🙂
WHAT WAS THE MQFT
;_;
Too mundane to tell you, especially after all this build-up. It will just be a disappointment.
You not saying is more disappointing! ;D
Oh man, new Breaking Bad, Sons of Anarchy and GTA V in the span of three weeks D:
and Dexter and Homeland..
And Boardwalk Empire!
Ah fuck, already?! Totally forgot /o\
Apparently The Town is on ch. 9 tonight — everyone should watch it! D:
YOU CANT TELL ME WHAT TO DO. I’M 87% SURE YOU’RE NOT MY REAL DAD.
WHAT?
DO YOU THINK YOU CAN TALK TO THE PERSON WHO HAS A 13% CHANCE OF BEING YOUR FATHER LIKE THAT? YOU’RE GROUNDED, MISTER — GET TO YOUR ROOM AND WATCH NOTHING BUT THE TOWN!
Water loop test successful. PC is up and running in all it’s glory. 360mm of rads isn’t huge for what I’ve got, so I have to crank the fans up, but PC noise doesn’t bother me. Overclocked my Titans with +140Mhz on GPU and +500Mhz on memory straight off the bat, and they refuse to crack 50 degrees under a full Unigine Valley benchmark at 2560×1440. Can probably go even further, I’m pretty sure.
Previously, they’d bounce off the 80 degree temp. limit at stock settings.
I’d say mission accomplished.
Can I have a play?
I’ll be your best friend…
So you have two Titans huh.
Politics politics I’ll save it for Saturday (hi @saturday!)
Additionally, thanks to @freezespreston for voicing what I was unable to articulate…
I think I caught a case of the dumbs off this guy.
“fun” yes if you consider having a length of garden hose inserted into your anus and then a length of rusty barbed wire inserted into said garden hose then having the garden hose removed, then yeah it’ll be barrels of fun or should be boats of fun?
God, what life support for a rectum that one is.
Started watching Defiance this week. Some of it’s superlame but overall I’m enjoying it a lot.
I’m really forgiving with my beloved scifi genre, but I couldn’t get past the terrible CGI. XD
You should watch Warehouse 13 😀
(I’m re watching the first season currently because I never saw the subsequent 3 or 4)
I love Warehouse 13. It’s so sad it’s ending but at least they got to plan to finish it off instead of just ending abruptly.
It’s Sci-Fi from the past!
You’re not forgiving, you’re harsh! You sound like one of those PC Master Race doofuses or people who only care about graphics in their games. The CGI isn’t that bad.
Diablo 3 feels very right on a console.
@redartifice: Man on Wire was so damn good. Lots of feels. Haha!
Feel inspired.
Walk between the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House without a safety net! 😀
So my brother tells me that because I have chosen not to vote liberal I have no mind of my own and I am incapable of making my own decisions. He was quite insistently coarse and insulting about it too.
Sometimes I miss the guy but he’s usually pretty good at reminding me why I’m glad he lives 5000km away.
Hah. I have a friend who does exactly the same thing, and an uncle who acts the same over Labor — steadfast loyalty to any one party always astounds me.
I’ve voted LNP previously, last State Election and when I was 18 when Howard was running things. It made sense at the time.
It’s all trivial, bro. Fuggedaboudit.
I just go by lesser of two evils, personally.
ME TOO!
Just finished Call of Juarez: Bound in blood.
Very enjoyable and hit the western vibe correctly. Difficulty was about right for me, died a few times but nothing that got me stuck on an area. Story was interesting without dragging on and besides a few minor things the gameplay was fun.
Think I’ll have to look at getting the new one now.
So, I’ve got a bit of an issue. I always have a ‘1’ on my username indicating I have a message. Why? Ages back, I THINK it was Hernandez or Amini or someone did a story on someone who tattooed their genital area with a triforce.
Before I could check the message I had on the story, the link was disabled, removing my ability to check the msg. So now I have a permanent ‘1’ in the corner. It’s a tiny bit irritating now after a while believe it or not (especially to someone like me with a minor touch of ocd).
Tried lodging a ticket and nothing’s been done about it… not the highest level priority obviously. Anyone else got any ideas?
I never did get to click that link, and always wondered what it was…
I’ve had that exact problem since an E3 predictions article that was pulled the day after E3 started. I’ve emailed @benwhite about it and never gotten a response.
Wacom have now placed their bamboo tablets under the “Intuos” name.
http://www.wacom.com/fr/en/creative/intuos-pro-m
🙁
I kinda like the new look, looks less cheap and plastic-y (fluro green and black didn’t really look “professional”)
Guys, I know TAY has become whinge-TAY as of lately and I’m not helping with this next post.
I think I’m in denial about being depressed. @alexpants’ reply alerted me to the fact, which was clearly a big FUCK YOU BENNY DEPRESSION IS A SERIOUS THING sort of statement and I’m not offended by any means. He’s right. Which leads me to believe that I’m not taking depression seriously, and possibly my own.
I’ve worked full time for just over ten years now with the only time taken off being a week for my wedding in 2011 and a week for the birth of my kid in March this year. I am fatigued to the bone, and I may have previously mentioned that every morning with the sound of my alarm I ask myself, ‘Is today the day I pull a sickie?’ EVERY. FUCKING. DAY. Now I don’t hate my job, I just find time to be so precious lately that a 8-5 hour work day is 8 hours I could be spending with my wife and kid. Gaming is minimal, free time is minimal, my posts are dumb and fairly blatantly smart-arsed, I’m clearly losing the drive to power on.
I need advice on survival and rejuvenation *and I will be cutting back on my posts because I believe I am offending TAYbies.
Beyondblue is a good place to start if you’re seeking help with depression.
They also created a website for guys who are having trouble with depression and anxiety, to name a few.
Check it out:
http://www.mantherapy.org.au/
Should watch the Penny Arcade PAX prime Q&A 2, too. Surprising number of folks getting up to thank the boys for talking about their own issues and that it’s OK to actively go and deal with them.
(Edit: I also ain’t been offended by anything, but I’m quite possibly abnormally mellow.)
Dude keep posting! It’s Talk Amongst Yourselves and sometimes people talk about unfortunate experiences. It helps to type things out and people will be happy to offer advice and help. I think you know the difference between whining and a reasonable complaint.
That being said, if it feels like you’re offending people or posting too much negative stuff maybe put a disclaimer at the start of any ‘negative’ posts.
I’ll admit there have been a lot of people on TAY having some bad experiences lately and it’s unfortunate but if you look at the post you’ll see that there are many replies too-people are happy to help and also discuss their experiences with similar problems. E.g. look at your post, you’ve posted around midnight when TAY is really quiet but 2 (3 counting me) people were happy to give you some advice.
In summary, it’s about balance in the long run. Post about your negative experiences but also remember to share your happy moments.
About your problem, I think you need to TALK with all involved parties.
1. TALK to your wife, like sit her down and discuss this. How does she feel about the time you spend with her and your child? Could this be internalised on your part? Maybe, but ask her about it and come up with a solution.
2. TALK to your boss. Can you start work earlier and get out earlier to have more time at home in the evenings? Ask for some time off and take a holiday-you sound overworked- and consider your future.
3. TALK to a medical professional. Go for a session or two with a doctor or therapist and discuss this.
4. TALK to yourself. A bit of soul searching can be very useful and we often know what we really want with a bit of digging.
I hope all goes well man. 🙂
Are you self-employed? If not, you really should be taking some recreational leave (actually you should be doing that anyway)! If you’ve been working for ten years, you should have around 40 weeks of leave built up. The ultimate rejuvenation is time off from work.
Also, don’t stop posting, man. I think everyone here has probably, at some point, posted something they thought annoyed other people (@dc, for example, posts something that makes him feel that way on a daily basis).
With regards to dealing with depression, I’d be a hypocrite if I offered any advice, because I’ve been sitting on my own for more than 12 months now. Might also add that when kids are little, the stress is unbelievable. Things get easier to deal with on that front, promise!
Sorry about that. It wasn’t my intention to come across that harshly there.
But don’t try to cut yourself off of TAY. I wasn’t offended by what you said, just confused, but more generally I think cutting yourself off from what can essentially be a support group is a really bad idea when tackling this kind of issue. I know that having a constant group of people like this has been really helpful for myself and others in the past. Talking really helps. Don’t cut yourself from that!
NO, PEOPLE MUST SEE.
I saw.
Tonight went okay. Girl seems nice, although Oliver and I didn’t like the fact that the 2 girls wanted us to share my/his expensive audio/video stuff. That’s for us, not communal use. Shits expensive.
Other than that, apparently I’ve gotta mention my sickness to her so she understands, and our bromance was made quite clear to her 😛
Excellent. Ze page-get is good.
So the list wasn’t a crazy thing?
Nah, the most personal it got was telling me to make sure the toilet seat was put down, which I always do anyway. I brought up more personal things about myself with her, so it’s fine.
There were a few questions about sharing stuff, but as far as Oliver and I are concerned, if we paid for it and want to use it, it’s not being shared. Well okay, us two established months ago the “what’s mine is yours” policy, but that doesn’t extend to anyone else 😛 Was kinda annoyed at all the “can I have one of your tv’s?” questions though. Kinda felt like she was being a bit entitled there.
Gah, TAY swallowed my long reply. 🙁 Here’s a cut-down version (sorry for the brusque tone).
From my experience, a general rule of thumb for share housing is that stuff that isn’t accessible to all people should be kept out of common areas, and kept in bedrooms instead. It sucks if your gear is expensive, but think about it from her perspective. This is going to be her house, the only place she lives, and there’s nothing worse than living somewhere with the feeling that you’re not welcome in half the house (chairs you can’t sit on, stuff you can’t touch). Much better to just keep stuff out of her sight IMO, or just suck it up and share it.
I don’t mind sharing my stuff, just not the stuff she wants me to share. I wasn’t the one who brought up the fact that I own that stuff, so I was kinda thrown in a corner on it 😛 But yeah, it’s all staying in my room.
Well, in that case, you’re right: it’s weird she asked. Is there a ‘house’ TV out in the living room or anything?
Yeah, we’re all putting in for a decently sized one. I find it odd that the biggest talking point last night was TV. My mind was elsewhere for most of the discussion.
TV’s important, man. Really important. It’s really the only thing that matters with a new housemate
Fun story to illustrate the point: when my girlfriend (now wife) and I first got our own lease, we got someone to move into one of the spare rooms. He seemed nice enough, and said he’d be driving home to Sydney every weekend, so we’d still get the house to ourselves quite a bit. Sounded good, so we moved him in.
Two nights later, he’s up past midnight banging a tamborine and chanting, lighting incense, and leaving gluggy rice cooker mess all over the kitchen counter and floor. He slept on a mattress on the floor, despite us repeatedly reminding him our lease forbade that. Moving him out was hard, and we actually had to lie flat-out to the person who took him in next… who, as it turned out, was a cop. /o\
But if we’d asked him about his TV interests, we would have been forewarned about SO MANY THINGS.
@shane — I loved that story just for the fact I got to the end and was like “wait, what do TV interests have to do with anything?” 😀
Just the toilet seat, or the lid too?
I totally don’t understand the “keep the toilet seat down” thing, particularly when it’s a toilet that only has a seat and no lid. Keeping the lid down I can understand, and do all the time.
Some girls forget to check before they sit down and fall in. 😛
I know that came up in a movie or something once but I thought it was just dumb made-up comedy stuff. That actually happens? Seriously?
I hereby proclaim that the toilet seat should be left up in case I forget to check and then end up just peeing all over the toilet instead of in it.
did you not see that southpark episode? IT’S A SERIOUS PROBLEM MANG!
I think I missed that one. I only got into South Park fairly late, and haven’t really watched it since Monday nights on SBS used to be awesome 😛
Ahahaha that came up 😛
Do how many girls are moving in? 1 or 2? And leave that expensive stuff in your room I wouldn’t take it out at a share house, too many friends of mine who live/lived in share houses lost their stuff if it wasn’t in their room either by house mates or friends of said house mates
DECKER. DECKER, THE GAME WAS DECKER. Ahhahahahahahaha. FINALLY.
http://www10.caro.net/dsi/decker/
That’s been bugging me for days.
I played the hell out of that thing at various stages, because the game fit on a floppy disk and could be run FROM the disk. Played it so much and couldn’t even remember it’s name til it finally came to me as I was dozing off.
*downloads*
Jesus, I’m not suicidal guys. Just burned out. I wanted to know of any cool holiday hangouts or what-not. Some where to take the family. Rejuvenate. Cheap tropical islands or something. Sheesh.
PS. Thanks for the help, I appreciate the responses.
@crazyguy1990 @transientmind
http://www.experienceclubmed.com.au/resorts/bali/
Bear in mind it’s an all inclusive resort so the price you pay that’s listed there is it. All food, drinks, activities and lessons for them as well as all your alcohol is included in that price. Don’t pay a cent more once you’re there. We went to the Lindeman Island one for our honeymoon while it was still open and it was one of the most relaxing and best times of our lives.
‘All inclusive’ sounds relaxing in and of itself, even if it was just a hotel room in a casino or something.
I’ve never taken a real holiday in my adult life.
I think I might now. That looks excellent.
Fiji, can get cheap tickets, and then just go stay on an Island for a week. I suggest Mantaray Island. They have snorkelling right off the beach, and every day beat a drum for you to go swimming with the Manta Rays when they are in the area. Its pretty awesome.
I’m not sure if we watched 40 minutes of Weird Al polka songs, then a Weird Al concert on YouTube because it was an amazing idea, or because we were bored. I’m going with amazing idea, cos it was pretty great.
Pokemon X&Y
Qebhtug Punevmneq? Fb BC.
Ohg V’z zber hcfrg gung Qebhtug ba Punevmneq naq Guvpx Sng ba Irahfnhe onfvpnyyl eraqre Oynfgbvfr hfryrff ntnvafg rvgure bs gurz.
Nyy V’ir urneq/frra vf jung gur zrtn ribyhgvbaf ybbx yvxr. Unir gurl erirnyrq glcrf / fxvyyf? Jung’f n “Qebhtug Punenmneq”
It appears I’ve rambled a bit. Also, I’ve explained some terms but not others – let me know if I should clarify anything further.
Gur novyvgl “Qebhtug” pnhfrf gur ‘Fhaal Qnl’ jrngure rssrpg gb fgneg. Gur fha rssrpg sebz gur zbir Fhaal Qnl ynfgf sbe – ng zbfg – 5 gheaf naq arrqf gb or erserfurq. Gur fha rssrpg sebz Qebhtug qbrf abg rkcver, naq jvyy bayl tb njnl vs n arj jrngure rssrpg vf oebhtug va be na novyvgl/zbir gung erzbirf jrngure vf hfrq.
Fb gur Qebhtug novyvgl serrf hc n zbir fybg sebz lbhe cnegl, gung’f nyernql n cbjreshy orarsvg. Fha nyfb vapernfrf gur qnzntr bs sver nggnpxf naq erqhprf gur qnzntr bs jngre nggnpxf.
Gur ernyvgl vf vg Qebhtug qbrfa’g npghnyyl oernx Punevmneq; vg jba’g trg onaarq sebz Gbheanzrag cynl. V guvax vg jvyy chg Punevmneq vagb gbc gvre cynl. Pheeragyl gur bayl gjb Cbxrzba jvgu Qebhtug ner Tebhqba naq Avargnvyf. Fvapr Tebhqba vf n yrtraqnel Cbxrzba, gung zrnaf Avargnvyf vf gur bayl bar nyybjrq va erthyne gbheanzrag cynl. Punevmneq vf n fgebatre Cbxrzba sbe oevatvat Qebhtug gb n grnz naq V guvax vg’f n yvggyr zber irefngvyr guna Avargnvyf.
Gurer ner fbzr cerggl fbyvq pbhagref. Sver/Sylvat Cbxrzba yvxr Punevmneq ner 4k jrnx gb Ebpx, fb frggvat hc Fgrnygu Ebpx jvyy qrny n ybg bs qnzntr vs vg fjvgpurf va. Gur gevpx vf trggvat vg gb fjvgpu bhg – na novyvgl yvxr Qebhtug graqf gb chfu gung Cbxrzba gb gung fgneg bs lbhe cnegl. Lbh pbhyq pbhagre jvgu n Synfu Sver Urngena. Synfu Sver nofbeof naq Sver nggnpxf guvf fubhyq sbepr n fjvgpu naq tvir lbh n serr ghea gb frg hc Fgrnygu Ebpxf.
Thanks for rotting! Appreciate it! (@sernobulus too!)
For anyone interested in picking up Rayman Legends on VITA.
http://www.polygon.com/2013/9/4/4694792/rayman-legends-vita-patch-missing-levels
Apparently Ubi will be patching in all the missing levels at a later date (don’t worry it’s a free patch). No date has been announced but I’m hoping for release date of the EU/AUS version.
I have been playing around with the Rayman Legends Beatbox thing since last night ‘n watching all the pre-release stuff on youtube, and maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.
Totally should have pre-ordered Legends rather than GTA V. 😐
I finished the “Sir Hammerlock” DLC last night. I would say it is a pretty good DLC, the ending had me laughing which is a good thing. Next I’m going to go to the “Mr Torgue” DLC
So you won’t be playing l4d2 with us?
okay. =(
To be honest, I’m not a huge fan of the LFD franchises.
*GASP*
*THUD!*
Im not either.
*Theatrically Faints*
I’ve never played it!
OH ROMEO, ROMEO, WHEREFORE ART THOU ROMEO?
*starts wailing*
I’ve never even played a Valve game 😮
@mrtaco YOU GUYS ARE KILLING ME HERE! 😛
That makes two of us, haven’t played any of them
@mrtaco, wow, really? Not even Portal?
I think Portal is the only one I’ve played, but at least I’ve played one! \o/
Well I’ve played StillAliveDS. It’s kind of a 2D Portal? 😛
Originally it was just because I never had a computer that could play games from any later than like…. 2003 or something. At some stage I did buy Orange Box for 360 when it was going kinda cheap, and even grabbed Portal 2 for it, but I’m yet to get around to playing either of them.
@mrtaco THEN WHAT ARE YOU STILL DOING HERE? GO PLAY PORTAL 2 AND DON’T COME BACK TILL IT’S FINISHED… consider it homework 😛
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
Nah, it’s Rayman time now. Otherwise, next in queue is Chronicles of Riddick I think.
Also if I played one of them, then I’d no longer be able to say that I’ve never played a Valve game D:
I loved the first one, but not the second one.
Mostly it was because I got a censored version, but I still don’t like the characters as much as the original four either, and they somehow managed to make swinging a katana feel shitty, so boooo.
Katana feels good with censorship off…
Look up Left 4 uncut
Little thing that unlocks the gore.
VAC doesn’t care about it,
you can still play with other people that are not using it
???
Profit
Plus L4D2 has all the L4D levels anyway with original characters and all
@pixel_the_ferret_viking I have been VERY concerned about the VAC thing. I have over 600 games in my Steam collection, I never go anywhere fucking NEAR anything that might cause me to lose that.
L4D2?!?
Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?
I haven’t started any of the BL2 DLC yet. I keep meaning to get around to it, then don’t. At the very least I want to play Tiny Tina’s thing.
Microsoft have a Commodore entered into Bathurst this year.
Also the midget who got set on fire sent St Kilda’s boss an email asking for his outfit to be replaced and got one back stating “if you had actually entertained us we would”.
Jeez footballers are a great bunch.
O_o
It was already outrageous when the player got fined $3000, and that was his punishment — so…
1) Football player sets a man on fire
2) Treat it like a joke and refuse to pay for damage
3) ???3) Punish the player by fining him one week of income, so that the club can recoup expenses
4) Profit!
I think a lot of the negative stuff gets blown out of proportion because they are in the public spotlight. Not this, this is a actual dick move and a lot of people need to be punished but AFL and NRL have a fair greater positive impact on our community then a lot of people give it credit for.
Nah, sport keeps the kids out of the libraries and museums. Monstrous.
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3qptsn/
NSFW
I don’t think its blown out of proportion. footballers get away with stuff that would land anyone else in prison.
using the example above, that’s unprovoked assault. probably get way more than a $3000 fine in real life if you weren’t a footballer.
I’m just sick of all this crap being sorted out by ‘internal investigations’
WE HAVE A GODDAMN POLICE FORCE FOR A REASON. LET THEM DO THEIR GODDAMN JOB.
Man sets another man on fire, they get reported to the cops, not to their manager who has an interest in making the crime disappear quickly & quietly.
also, I think the reason you only hear so much negative stuff about sportsball players is because they only do horrible shit off the field (sometimes on the field as well.)
granted, not all sportsball people are thugs & morons & alcoholics. but the ones who are are tarring the ok ones with that same brush.
the governing bodies of NRL & AFL in particular need to institute a no-tolerance policy toward behaviour like that. & not one that results in a fine. one that results in losing their contract permanently, being banned from playing professionally for life & being reported to the police to face the legal consequences for their actions.
you are probably right, i just have a lot of respect for certain sports people and i dont like to hear them all grouped together and egged because some of their stupid counterparts do fucking dumb shit.
totally. theres some good eggs there.
but their good stuff is nowhere near enough to overtake the horrible shit their colleagues do in the media.
I think you are over rating our judicial system. We are notorious for letting people off with the smallest punishments possible.
I do agree, when I heard the story I said immediately who ever it is should be sacked, nothing less. Then let the cops deal with him. As a big football fan I think we have to start treating these reckless and stupid acts harshly. Like why did Andrew Krakouer play AFL the year after being in prison for Assualt. To me he should of been banned from the game. Ben cousins gets kicked out the league for a year for being on drugs (yet never testing positive) and Krakouer gets signed onto a team only 14 months after being released.
point is, these guys are ignoring the legal system & instead taking upon themselves to judge guilt & decide penalties. that shit just wont fly.
if this guy went before a judge & was fined $3000 then fine, the process has been followed & thats that. but these guys are acting like they’re above the law.
Seems St Kilda don’t like being left out in the news anymore..
God that whole affair sounds more and more like a Monty Python sketch. I can imagine John Cleese delivering that exact line.
will it occasionally die for no reason, and you’ll have to pull over to the side of the road, close all the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue?
is the oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights replaced by a single “General Protection Fault” warning light?
Will you have to push the “start” button to turn it off?
Hey be glad it’s not apple doing this. They have to replace the car the moment one thing goes wrong 😛
On the otherhand it would be so tightly locked down it would practically drive itself… not very fast and not very well, but it would cruise over the finish line
Plus the Pit Crew would be known as “Apple Genius’”
Well that’d be good but it comes automatic by default, if you want a manual gearbox it’ll be overpriced to just buy and more to pay to have it installed for you.
Good luck using that radio cuz you’ll be stuck with iTunes and how often would the internet connection work in your car 😛
Plus they’d probably pay someone like Nissan to build the internals of the car, and then sue the shit out of them when the Nissan car looks a lot like theirs
@shane
I was in you-….-r village last night…
I borrowed some fruit, did mah viking thing, and sold some turnips…
Hope this was OK…
regards
Me
I looked around to find the commission you would have left for me. 10% of profits.
But found nothing. Please explain.
Also, I am rounding up my villagers to launch an attack for stealing our precious fruit. They’re not really into it yet, but I’ll get them there.
oh i hid a present… somewhere… *wiiiink* 😛
Will send profits attained with carrier-tortoise… ETA 15 years
Expect pitfall seeds all around my train station when you decide to invade XD
Viking thing?
*looks up Vikings*
Rape….and….pillage….
I’m so sorry @shane. How long until your village recovers if at all?
It gets better. While Pixel was visiting, I was rooted to the spot 😛
He did not move or say a word… as they say, ‘Silence is not a no!’
Melbourne Meetup Update – Looks like mana bar will be open tomorrow, Waiting on final confirmation from Mana bar themselves.
So far thinking of Just sitting at mana bar from about 4 ish then dinner wherever. Anton and I are at this stage thinking of going out afterwards. Anyone who wishes to join us is of course welcome, but we will probably be looking at going to a gay bar or two. I understand that this isn’t everyones cup of tea.
If you want to catch up at another time, we are going to be in Melbourne from this afternoon to Saturday around 2/3pm so please feel free to email me at djdimsim at googles mail thingy dot com. and we can try work out other stuff, no promises though 🙂
Have fun christopher.
Have been so far, wineries in Rutherglen, chocolate factory in cobram, and beautiful weather 🙂 very relaxed 🙂
Rutherglen Region is awesome!
We stayed 2 nights in Milawa next to the Brown Brothers Winery, absolutely amazing area and so quaint!
Yeah its a very pretty area and the wine is bloody fantastic!
My favourite is Chambers – its tasting area is a Tin Shed, and you pour your own, and its half the price of most wineries in the region, 🙂
I GOTS ME A FLAGON OF TOKAY For $35!!!
Ha! Classic 🙂
This place is a little out of town in Richmond but have heard good things about it http://www.dtshotel.com.au/
Otherwise heading down the chapel street area is probably the way to go
I’m not going to be able to make it. 🙁 Have to head off early today and there’s a ton of bigwigs down next week from the US so won’t get much work done, Friday’s my last day to get my shit working. 🙁
Hi everyone. Nearly Friday!!!! Just spotted something interesting on Ubisofts’ UPlay, ‘Pre-order Battlefield 4 and get Far Cry 3 for Free!’.
Is it just me that hasn’t seen this kind of thing before? I have never seen EA and Ubisoft collaborate like this. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against anything here, just found it odd.
Has anyone else noticed this???
ITS NOT NEARLY FRIDAY ENOUGH.
umm… i think EA got some sorta distribution deal with Ubi to sell Ubi games through Origin. so yeah…. sorta makes sense to a degree.
but granted that no matter where you get FC3, you’re still gonna have to use that horrible uPlay thing, I dont think it’ll make much of a difference.
I really don’t mind UPlay at all. Or Origin for that matter. I like using my rewards and the like in UPlay. The only one I truly dislike (don’t hate me) is Steam. I prefer the current PSN Store to Steam. Every download I do on Steam takes an easy 3-5 times as long than on anything else. To be fair though, with games like FC3 & AC:III, I don’t really play much multiplayer. Same went for my first encounter with UPlay with Driver: San Francisco, and my most recent Ubi game, Splinter Cell: Black List. So I’m sure organizing online games with your friends on UPlay makes it very different.
Boo! Hiss! Steamlover’s downvote!
*makes cats-paw scratching gestures* Hisssssss
Godammit @35, why you cancel out my downvote? 🙂
I said in advance, ‘don’t hate me’. You have breached the terms and conditions of forum etiquette on posts and responses. You may be given lenience if you immediately retract/edit your response. The punishment for your poorly thought out response you may ask? Well, I’m in a good mood, so I’ll let it slip this time. If I was mad, I would bestow upon you an X Box One!
coz I dont like judging people just coz they like something I dont, or vice versa.
except in cases like genocide. IF YOU DONT LIKE GENOCIDE, YOU GET ALL THE DOWNVOTES.
Also, seriously… I’d like to think that its obvious that was a joke, but just to make it clear….
THAT WAS A JOKE. IF YOU LIKE GENOCIDE, YOU’RE A FREAKING JERK & I DISLIKE YOU TO AN EXTREME DEGREE.
I preordered BF4 for my Xbone but I already had Far Cry 3, so bleh.
We still need 2 peeps to come on the show and debate that consoles are best.
What about Fat Shady? He’s a pretty big XBOX guy. @notoriousr also gets HYPE over sony stuff
Clearly no one in TAY cares enough about the console/PC war because we are so mature. Hit up the regular comments sections! 😛
except, you know… PC IS BETTER.
WIIU REPRESENT
#DSFANBOY
#TOTALLYNOTCONFUSED
It’s not that no-one cares, it’s that we’re all mature, intelligent, perceptive, and attractive enough to know that PC is the superior platform. So we don’t bother arguing about it, and just get down to the business of gaming on our marvelous PCs (Edit: and occasionally consoles/handhelds).
I would do it but I still don’t have internet!
I fixed my Internets!
Unfortunately it was my headset that was causing the interference so I need to get a wired one.
I’m a Nintendo guy through and through, but I don’t like talking.
I was all \o/ then I was /o\
You could always type into one of those programs that reads out your words. That might be kind of funny actually.
Could be the Steven Hawking of Potaku XD
Oh wait, it requires actual talking? Like, speaking?
I just meant as in saying large amounts of stuff that’s supposed to make sense. Actual speaking is even worse 😛
Try getting mildly inebriated first, it might help. (Alcohol is a depressant, sure, but it also relaxes inhibitions.)
My enunciation is terrible enough when sober.
Last time I did that it was a fiasco.
The problem is that we all know PC is better.
This weeek is tooo loooooooong
ergh.
If that’s intentional, this is the most brilliant joke I’ve seen.
Im just having the best week
Yesterday we finally picked up the new dog, he is a German Shepard named Appollo. I was watching tv and he wanted to come in, i let him and he jumped straight onto my lap like a cat. Then we watched anime. It was awesome.
I hope he is a puppy, a full size german shepard on your lap could be potential dangerous to blood supply on legs and reproduction.
yeah no he is full grown. its still adorable
How old is he? I have a softspot for German Shepards 😛
hes 4 🙂
Awesome! did you adopt him from a home or something?
Yeah he was bred as a show dog but he wasnt tall enough and the owner didnt want him (dickheads) anyway. He is so loving and pretty.
That’s amazing, well big congrats! I’m sure you’ll share many happy moments… seriously, dogs are amazing!
I used to have a neighbour across the road that owned three german shepards, and from what I experienced, the bigger the german shepard, they gentler they can be. They are really adorable too
See the robot even loves dogs. you should get a puppy techy. dogs are rad.
Already planning on one when I actually have a home, not an apartment
Bigger dogs are bigger sooks… it is awesome!
That’s why i prefer big dogs over small dogs… please they’re a perfect heat pillow in winter XD
Splicer’s husky was a perfect example of that. Such a huge husky yet so darn gentle :). Huskies have such amazing fur too, I could cuddle with one forever 🙂
You should meet my dog.
@dc @sughly @mythamphetamine
iiiii… don’t know how to reply to that 0.o
I have a staffy that is a brick of muscle that can and has torn a leg off a solid wood outdoor table that seems to communicate in whines and cuddles.
These guys know what I’m talking about.
loool fair enough, i thought for a minute it was crude innuendo XD…
Staffy’s a awesome too! ALL DOGS ARE AWESOME \o/
Just don’t take him to the haunted side of the kitchen
Haha. We still haven’t figured that our.
The bathroom and the laundry are bizarrely off-limits.
I’ve never heard a dog whinge like that before 😛
Nawwww, best dog
DUUUUUTCH!
Dogs are awesome! Mine is the biggest snuggle buddy… She might weigh 30KG, but by god she’s a lapdog 😛
Upvote for German Shepard, we have 2 Mine is called Kratos his 1st birthday is on Sunday, he already weighs 35kgs and is a massive sook. Unreasonably strong for his size and he can chew through anything, hoses, planks, metal flower pots, he pretty much ate the pump to our water tank (there’s an engine left but no case or hoses or anything)
#proudDad
@pixel_the_ferret_viking (I included you cause you might be interested, probably not but still, I try not to post about them much.)
POST ALL THE DOGS \o/
@dogshowandtell
My dog is called Laika and is a Boxer/Labrador mix…
She’s a goofy sook, who weighs close to 30kg and is 1.5 years old… we got her when she was only 10 weeks, back then she weighed 6.5kg…
She loves chewing and digging, though we have nearly gotten over the digging in the garden thing \o/
Woke up this morning with a mild headache, showered, got ready for work, drank half a cup of coffee, and them promptly threw it all up. Felt shitty since. Really wish this wouldn’t happen on weekdays though. Being classed as a casual employee, means I get no sick days, so no pay for me today 🙁 Today is full of suck
Aww, that sucks – get welsoonbot 🙁
Cheers man. I’m sure I’ll be ok soon! Starting to feel hungry which is a good sign, but I wanna make sure I’ve stopped throwing up so I don’t waste any food!
Right? On Sunday an ex-NRL guy, playing in the Queensland lower grades got in trouble for biting another player on the penis during a brawl. It’s like St Kilda heard about that and had to outdo it by setting someone on fire.
Urgh. Reply fail — @35
Wut.
Those Taiwanese news animators even made a video of it!
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/anthony-watts-denies-penis-biting-allegation-as-queensland-rugby-league-monitors-investigation-20130902-2t0c2.html
Yeah, it hasn’t been a good week for sportsball. But it’s hard to find a week that is, these days.
There was a Manly player who got let off yesterday from assaulting a police officer because his lawyer argued he was remorseful.
And the Ben Barba thing — (allegedly) punches his ex-girlfriend, so she goes to the club to make a complaint instead of the police; when she hears that he would be punished for the complaint and it would become public knowledge she refuses to make it ‘official’
I think the Bulldogs probably handled it better than most clubs by taking him out of the team for the best part of 2 months and forcing him to seek help, but since when does a domestic incident start/stop with a player’s employer rather than police? People are silly.
Apoplectic shutdown.
Reboot the transient mind in safe mode.
Delete knowledge of event, add information filter to prevent re-absorption.
Reboot normally.
Once when I was on a shoot, we all had to sleep in a tiny farmhouse because apparently Gin Gin is the only place in QLD with a school that would let us shoot.
Anyway, there was one bed, a couch and the floor between 4 guys. Two guys were brothers so they decided to share the bed because of everyone’s unspoken fear of touching dicks in the night.
We got back from a hard day of pushing cars down ravines, filming couples dry humping and hair extension made mullets and were all just chilling out before we went to sleep.
One of the props on this particular film was a giant novelty condom, the joke being that the female in the aforementioned dry humping scene would produce this massive contraceptive and the male would feel grossly inadequate and then the audience would yuk ’til they plotzed.
So “boys being boys” we were blowing up the giant condom and pretending it was our dicks and humping walls and generally being shit heads.
The two brothers are in the same bed at this point and the younger of the two gets his hands on silly franger. He proceeds to blow it up and hold it on his crotch like he has a giant erection. We all laugh.
Then.
His older brother leans over and bites down on the end of the inflated wang and, with a tiger like growl, wrenches it off his younger brothers crotch while staring seductively into his eyes.
I have never seen fun brought to a grinding halt faster than that night.
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2013/09/04/big-in-japan-sale-save-on-tales-of-graces-f-resident-evil-ragnarok-more/
PSN sale!
I picked up Vagrant Story for $5. I’ve never played it before but it seems like a classic 😀
Zone of Enders HD Collecton is like $11 too. Not badddd
Don’t set your expectations too high. It’s a brilliant game but has dated horribly.
Just like a date with me!
*adjusts expectations for November*
ZING!
@mcgarnical seemed to like it!
it’s an awesome game with the best not possible in real life hair dos ever
Vagrant Story is awesome, and a really underrated game. No idea how well it’s aged, but based on graphics alone I’d say “terribly”.
Novel mechanics, interesting characters and setting, appealing art direction, terrible graphics – even at the time it was made.
except for the hair, that was like an architechtural masterpiece by itself
ZoE2 is better, hold out for that. Dingo > Leo.
Oh I mean the HD collection is $11!
Bargain!
(It was previously on sale for $20ish a few months back and I bought it then but still haven’t played it – I haven’t played the originals either D:)
Well… yeah, it’s probably worth getting then. 🙂
(STILL INFERIOR TO ZOE2. Sadly, they’ve shelved plans to HDify that one so far. My heart… it breaks.)
I’m confused o_O
But ZoE2 is in HD?
ZoE2 is a PS2 game. :/ Needs to be prettied up! Unless something happened I didn’t know about and they did re-release it HD…? TO THE INTERNET!
Oh. My. GOD. The HD collection includes both 1 AND 2! I didn’t realize. I DIDN’T REALIZE! BuyitnowohgodbuyitnowIhavetogethometobuyitnow…
(Edit: Turns out the one I thought they were talking about delaying is actually ZoE3! ZoE2 is just called ZoE in Japan, hence confusion.)
Derp
😀
Sorely tempted to go and pick up D3 on PS3 today.
No RMAH and the ability to dung out on my couch are what’s selling it for me.
I think I’ll be doing the same. I never picked it up on PC.
I got excited because I thought someone was talking about a Disgaea game
…
I’m gonna go back to the corner.
Disgaea D2 is out locally at the end of the month! HYPE \o/
It’s a completely different game on PS3. I spent more time last night on it than I have in a year with the PC.
Being able to Stomp Bash Bash Dodgeroll Hammer of the Gods in a couple of seconds is a game changer.
And offline single/co-op. It’s everything I wanted in the PC version, and I’m seriously tempted.
I completely ignored the RMAH and I feel better for it.
Still play it occasionally.
I’m actually tempted to get it for PS3 as well to be honest since it does seem to be built much better this time around.
I wanted to experience it but they way Blizz did it for PC was just such a downer for me.
Been thinking about getting Wind Waker HD. I wonder if-THANK YOU FOR PURCHASING THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: THE WIND WAKER HD COLLECTOR’S EDITION.
Whoops.
I tried to buy it with my debit card and my bank was all “Suspcious activity!”. So they had to SMS me a code, unfortunately they have my old mobile number. To change my mobile number I have to log into my I Internet banking however I haven’t logged into my internet banking in a while so I forgot my personal internet number thingie. So now I have to go to the actual physical bank to get a new number.
I think the world is trying to send me a message.
“Nothing worth getting is easy?”
PayPal?
I don’t think you can pay by PayPal on the GAME website. Unless there was some kind of option I missed.
Way too many places don’t accept PayPal. 🙁
And yet you know if you don’t do it you’ll be filled with hours and hours of regret.
Well, maybe an hour.
Then you’ll go preorder a regular copy.
I got that error with my CC so then I used PayPal…
It won’t let me! I go to the Payment page and it only lists Credit Cards no Paypal option. ;_;
You bought for me?
^.^
Thanks mang, you’re the bestest
Go sit in the corner.
Is that where you’ve put it?
*sits in the corner*
but… but where’s the game? :_;
Haven’t seen @lucifer9783 today so:
TAYLIST 05/09/2013
Put your requests here and I’ll whack them up in a spotify playlist!
Stereo – The Watchmen
FALLOUT PLAYLIST TIMEZ \o/:
The Ink Spots – I don’t want to set the world on fire
Keep your heart broken – The Rasmus
Chainsaw Gutsfuck.
Also,
I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor – Arctic Monkeys
Stalingrad – Red Tape
Queens of the Stone Age – Smooth Sailing
Brianstorm – Arctic Monkeys
EDIT: Stupid phone Auto-Correct
YOU LIKE THE ARCTIC MONKEYS NOB?
of course you do, you are a man of great taste.
Yeah man!
Brian.
Chk chum. chk chk chk
Top marks for not trying.
DOOM DOOM DOOM, DOOM DOOM DOOM DOOM!!!
Last nite the strokes
Last night, she said.
I really dint feel rafell
All the times that all
I flick ah you floor
The Power of Love – covered by I Fight Dragons
Horse and Cart – Snuff
Rainbow Connection – @effluvium-boy
I would pay up to $5 for that single.
Edit: fuck it, that’s not true. I’d pay way more than that.
I’ll accept coming to the Canmeat for at least 2 hours.
http://soundcloud.com/alex-sharples-1/flu-rainbow-connection
!!
Oh. My. Glob.
Daphne – Lia Ices
Control Machete – Bien Bien (or anything by Control Machete)
Taylor – Jack Johnson
I see that the mysterious case of the “Missing Rome II Review” has yet to be solved
pretty much said:
– Looks pretty
– Big maps
– It’s another Total War game
– Horrible AI problems
– Don’t play it just yet. might get fixed down the road.
Edit: still up on the US site. http://kotaku.com/total-war-rome-ii-the-kotaku-review-1248518849
It wouldn’t have anything to do with KotakAU having a Rome II sponsored competition right around when a ambivalent to negative review gets put u by said site?
Oh I have read the review, and commented on it :o)
Just find it mildly amusing that it “Vanished” as though it never existed
@markserrels
@dkzeitgeist do you know redhead Sharee?
Yes.
Oh my god would you stop living my life.
CONFIRMED
@freezespreston and @dkzeitgeist are the same person.
Tell your kids I’m their Daddy now.
All this Arctic Monkeys talk lately makes me want to listen to their new stuff, but I haven’t heard any thing since Favourite Worst Nightmare. I saw them live though. Good times, good times.
The stuff I’ve heard on the radio seems alright.
WIND WAKER GET.
Also, starting to feel compelled to 100% Tomb Raider.
Tomb Raider was an incredibly fun game. I loved the tombs in particular. So fun. Cool openness to the world that Uncharted lacks too. Also, WIND WANKER!
Typo or sass?
Either way I’m into you pretty hard right now.
@greenius: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXlE8ZESSEI
I thought this would be acoustic Sprawl since I wasn’t in the Twitter convo
*single tear*
A friendly reminder that on Saturday there shall be board games and yelling at politicians at my place, with a potential for cake. JOIN US.
I should have come on earlier to say I wasn’t doing a TAYlist today, I have too much going on today, have to start packing for Adelaide today, need to fill out a form and drop it off,also have another class all day tomorrow.
Any requests for the spotify list?
Hanson – Get the girl back
SOMETIMES I WONDER IF THE WORLD’S SO SMALL, THAT WE CAN NEVER GET AWAY FROM THE SPRAAAAWL.
QUIT THESE PRETENTIOUS THINGS AND JUST PUNCH THE CLOCK
Actually, I’m waiting for a new TV on the Radio album.
Those words make me want to burn down an arcade for some reason.
I love the film clip for that song, oh who am i kidding i just love arcade fire, cant wait till the new album and BDO 🙂
We should totally peer pressure @sughly to go to BDO!
…
Uh, no pressure, @sughly. 😛
I freakin’ love when Regine sings. She looks like she’s having so much fun.
Been playing some D3 the console version
The rolling is pretty addictive, I feel like sonic.
Apparently the item drops are a lot more generous too.
Still not going to get it.
They’re also targeted drops so if you’re a barbarian you get a lot more heavy strength based gear and not much mana or intelligence based stuff.
With no auction house that would probably be fair.
Some of the screenshots I saw showed people with weapons better than some of best available on PC.
So they’ve made it easier in general, then?
I’m not getting it out of sullen, petty spite and resentment over the fact that they fucked up the PC version and their response to the mistake they made is to charge people for the console version which strongly resembles what the original product should’ve been.
Can you imagine ordering a car, receiving a golf cart, then being told, “Oh, sorry about that. Yeah, that was pretty shitty. But don’t worry, we’ve done some hard work and now we’ve put out an actual car.”
“So… are you going to take back my golf cart and give me the car I bought?”
“No, but you sure can buy a new one!”
“Go fuck yourselves. Don’t stop until I tell you. I’m not sure I will tell you to stop.”
partly out of sullen, petty spite toward D3 & partly coz I like fun I’m gonna start a another character in Torchlight 2.
I am incredibly resentful that it’s console-only and the PC isn’t getting the version it deserves!
It’d be nice if they patched in those changes and gave the game controller support on PC. That might have been enough to get me to try it.
It was designed with consoles in mind from the very beginning.
PC version was a beta for the consoles.
/tin-foil hat
I’m not.
Don’t worry, the console version only runs at 1120 * 584, console peasants have to deal with sub-HD resolution.
(Though they do have 2x MSAA which probably works better than the post-process AA which the PC version has)
Wow, what a shit resolution, you may aswell kill yourself rather then play that.
#MasterRacingTheRightWay
640×480 all the way… that’s how to ‘puter right? RIGHT?
#PixelisgoodatIT
Pikmin 3 ending spoilers! Best moment in the entire game! XD
(Don’t watch unless you’ve played the game.)
Best moment if the game was when I decided I didn’t want to play it. I’ll just leave it sitting on the shelf unloved.
Your loss. Don’t understand that at all. People rant that there’s nothing good on the Wii U, they release something good and you refuse to play it and then complain that there’s nothing good on the Wii U. >:|
You finish Dark Souls and I’ll finish Pikmin.
You haven’t even started Pikmin though to know that you don’t like it. >:|
Dark Souls is too hard for my liking. Stresses me out. Makes me feel inadequate as a man. That’s why I haven’t pressed on. I ain’t no masochist. 😛
Nintendo just isn’t for me. I find everything outside of Pokemon, Zelda and Metroid to be shallow and uninvolving. But that’s okay. People like it and that’s their right. I’ll stick to the stuff I like.
Can I buys your ZombiU? 😛
ZombiU was 30% off in that Ozgameshop sale this week 😛
Thanks for lending me your copy @powalen !
🙂 ?
…Smash Bros?
But that has Pokemon, Zelda AND Metroid so it fits the criteria! 😀
WONDERFUL 101!
Seriously tempted because Platinum but I’m not usually a fan of squad games.
@freesespreston
There is a demo for it on the Ninty Eshop, might be worth picking up.
@freezespreston ^
But… if you give up when you’re at maximum emasculation, you’ll never feel like a man again! You gotta push through it, and let the game rebuild you into the kind of man it wants you to be.
You crazy.
I’ll show it some love, send your Wii u and Pikmin my way, thanks 😛
Bit harsh, but my copy will probably be shelved forever. Not because I disliked the game but because (in my opinion) Wonderful 101 is so much more fun.
The Taylist, 5th September 2013
brought to you by Joe’s Crematorium. You kill ’em, we grill ’em!
I don’t want to set the world on fire – The Ink Spots (Requested by @pixel_the_ferret_viking)
Stereo – The Watchmen (requested by @freezespreston)
Keep Your Heart Broken – The Rasmus (Requested by @shane)
CHAINSAW GUTSFUCK – Mayhem (Requested by @bdkiaf)
I bet you look good on the Dancefloor- The Arctic Monkeys (also requested by @bdkiaf)
Stunner – Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip (just because)
Smooth Sailing – Queens of the Stone Age (requested by @crazyguy1990)
Brianstorm – The Arctic Monkeys (requested by @sernobulous)
Last Nite – The Strokies (requested by @rocketman)
The Power of Love – I Fight Dragons (requested by @mawt)
Horse and Cart – Snuff (requested by @benny)
The Rainbow Connection – @effluvium-boy The Carpenters (requested by @rize)
Ich Bin Kopf Bis Fuss Auf Liebe Eingestelt – Marlene Dietrich (some German for you)
Daphne – Lia Ices (requested by @dc)
Mercy – TV on the Radio (TV ON THE RADIO!)
De Perros Amores – Control Machete (requested by @gutsoup)
Alas, no Red Tape. sorry @35!
Happy Listening!
http://t.co/i0zerfjgFL
EDIT: Last minute addenda!
American Ghetto – Red Tape
Taylor – Jack Johnson (requested by @coldcamv)
Tick Tick Boom – The Hives (Requested by @dkzeitgeist)
Again with the obscure band nobody has ever heard of not being there! WHAT GIVES?!?!
honestly… I may actually be picking songs by dodgy underground bands based solely on their unlikeliness of being found.
I’m a total hipster.
They’re on there, just not that track 🙂 I can add one if you really want to
oh wow. thats sorta surprising.
I know that since those guys disbanded there was another group who called themselves Red Tape, so I wonder which it is…
yeah, why the hell not? stick up something if you feel like it!
Found one called “American Ghetto,” On the list
yeah, thats them!
Edit: looks like I’ll have to go more obscure / hipster-ish next time…
There is all too little The Hives in this list.
Not anymore 🙂
A momentous day in TAYList history.
Was going to do it last time I compiled it, but you said it was a terrible idea 😛
I guarantee it gets skipped by almost everyone. I don’t even care.
I’ve still got Ordo Ad Chao in my car.
Sometimes I think I know you Dan, then you go and pull shit like this.
Sometimes little pieces of my million different lives stick around.
@mawt
This cover is fucking rad.
Haha, yeah. That opening acapella sealed it for me.
Question about the new Microsoft and Sony consoles:
Considering how prominent the YLOD and RROD were for 360s and PS3s, is anyone but me considering the possibility that a similar thing could happen again, resulting in a low-quality first iteration of Xbones and PS4s?
Nah.
Oh.
I never throught of it like that.
Kinda, to be honest as soon as the “new console” hype wore off and the hardware problems with the previous gen I regretted buying a 360. I’m gonna wait a while this time.
It’s one of the main reasons I’m not rushing into either.
I think that after all the bad press it got them, they’ll have done far more extensive hardware testing for the XBone & PS4.
I mean, the main cause for the original RROD was solder on the MoBo melting coz it just got too hot. something that simple should’ve been found & addressed in testing. I doubt they’ll make the same mistake again.
having said that though, theres always gonna be unforseen problems. just hopefully not as wide spread as the 360s RROD was.
Edit: Having said that though, I’ll be waiting a few months. Conveniently, my birthday is a few months after launch…
I’d like to believe that, but then I still can’t fathom how (specifically the 360) that sort of fault wasn’t caught, so I still see every potential in it happening again. I sure as hell hope it doesn’t…I was shocked when I first heard about the RROD and felt legitimate pity for the people it happened to. Such a load of shit…
had a deadline to meet I guess. rushed to launch without proper testing…
& yeah, I got a RROD & it was frustrating. but I think they’ve had enough time to weed out faults like that this time…
well… hopefully….
I experienced YLOD with my old clunker of a ps3, was devastating, but I’m still risking a launch model, will keep you posted with any issues.
360 wasn’t originally intended to release when it did. They designed everything assuming the CPU and GPU would be produced later on after a die shrink. It was pushed forward to get a strategic advantage, but the cost was that one of the CPU or GPU (I forget which) was much higher TDP than they had designed for, and the cooling inside was inadequate.
You know, there’s a joke in there about an “XBoner” and a “red ring” can’t quite finished it though.
It wasn’t just that the solder melted, it was that the PCB would buckle under the heat and components would literally pop off the board because the heat sink was too heavy and would warp everything, especially on systems standing on the side. That’s why the early RROD repairs often involved adding a backplate to the underside of the motherboard to stiffen it and keep everything seated.
Nah. Heat won’t be a problem. There are little gnomes with bags full of ice cubes to run around and cool the components.
Shouldn’t that be dry ice, cause y’know normal ice brings condensation and water + sensitive electrical items = a big no no from my experience..
Definitely one of the fringe benefits of being okay with waiting! I’m okay with waiting.
It will be a massive oversight and failure on Microsoft’s part if anything like that happens again — they’ve gone to sooooooooo much trouble to ensure something like that never happens with the X1 (bigger console size, extra cooling, some of the hardware was underclocked to keep heat down, have gone on record saying it can run continuously for 10 years without failing, etc.)
… but I haven’t heard much from Sony on that topic, so I think I’d be less surprised if they had some sort of issue. Not that I think they will, just that maybe they’ve been less-focused on it than MS.
YLOD wasn’t that prevalent, and systems that are hitting it now are 5-6 years old and often clogged with dust and used to death.
The new systems aren’t cutting edge weird hardware, they’re bog-standard low-power PC cores. They’ll generate significantly less heat as a result.
Additionally I don’t know about PS4, but XBone has stuff in it to detect when it’s overheating and immediately downclock to reduce heat buildup, so theoretically heat-related RROD-style death should be pretty difficult.
I wonder if we’ll get situations where it’ll downclock at a bad time and lag a game out. It’d certainly give rise to a fun new name for it 😀
‘Rubber-boning’ & ‘soft-clocking’ are the first 2 things i thought of.
Politics!
Still better than his laugh, god that thing is creepy
Did anyone miss out on a GTAV Special Edition but still wants a copy?
It’s this version FYI http://www.theaveragegamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/GTA-V-Special-edition-pic.jpg
I’m cancelling my pre-order tonight because I snagged one of the Collectors Editions, the one with the whacky money sack and hat etc, but I’ll hold onto it and pick it up in order to send to someone who missed out.
I’d rather it go to one of you nerds rather than the mouth breathers of outer western suburban Brisbane.
Let me know.
EDIT: THIS IS A PS3 VERSION, Y’ALL!
If only it was in Melbourne I would of jumped at it, however shipping through aus post would probably cost as much as the collectors edition did anyway
This is just the Special Edition with the blueprint map and digital bonuses, not the collectors with all the radical useless physical shit.
I think it’s normal DVD size so postage wouldn’t be a massive deal.
Let me know.
Ya never know with AUS post..their crafty people
ooh, maybe me, where is your pre-order at?
Edit: ps3 yeah?
PS3.
Mt Ommaney. (past Indro)
hmmm, i really want it but have transport issues,
*brainstorming ensues*
I work in West End and can pick it up.
So I can organise to meet you in the City after work one night and fling it into your waiting hands.
Or give it to Jim?
are you working the day it launches?
I’m thinking of putting in a days leave for launch day so i should be able to find my way to you.
Yeah I’m working.
If you have it off I can just give you my pre order receipt and you can bus it out to the mall and grab it?
Saves the hassle of transferring me cashola as well.
Just so you’re aware it’s this version http://www.theaveragegamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/GTA-V-Special-edition-pic.jpg
Ah, working in the city and picking up launch titles… I remember the lunch hour I went to pick up WoW’s ‘The Burning Crusade’ expansion in-store.
There were so many dudes in suits. Older guys, and like… expensive suits.
I’m gonna see if JB still has collectors edition,
I’m a sucker for useless extras.
@gutsoup
Best of luck to you, sir!
Totally get the itch for useless physical shit.
Plus I’ve got the IV Lock Box edition so this’ll go with it nicely.
@transientmind
I’ve only ever pre ordered once from the city, I think it was Bad Company 2?
I went after work and it was a nightmare.
Everyone looked like they were ready to hang themselves but the latest season of Big Bang Theory was gonna get their mind off it for another week.
Haha what the…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CefMym5ay5w
@dc
NSFW language and slight Ni No Kuni spoilers
Five minutes? I ain’t go time for that! XD
What… really? 😛
Went to pre order GTA V at JB, turns out they still have the collectors edition marked as available in their computer, so I couldn’t resist, I think I made the guys day when I asked to pre order that instead of the cheaper version heh.
you mean the one with all the physical stuff or just the dlc one? Also when was this?
Yeah the one with the hat and stuff, about an hour ago 😛
:O
want
I got the collectors edition of 4 with the safety deposit box thing, those other bits would be awesome.
I’m a sucker for useless bonuses
By the sounds from the bloke at my local JB, would appear they have a fair few left in their database up for grabs, so i’d suggest going down to your local JB and asking! I know 170 bucks seems extravagant since I just bought a PS3 for that much, but I really love the GTA series so i’ll always splash out for it 😀
Shit, $170
*thinks for a moment & considers checking available funds*
Don’t care WANT!!!
they have it, now i just need to get there 😀
Hype
Just so you know I checked all the JBs on the West side (Mt Ommaney, Oxley, Indro) and they were all allocated about a week ago.
Unless they got an influx of stock?
yeah I’m doubtfull I’ll find one cause i have awful luck with game stuff lately. I’m gonna call them up on my break in about 10 minutes.
they reckon they have stock, sorry to do that to you guy but i think i’m gonna go with the mega overpriced version 😀
Not at all, man!
If no one takes me up on it I can get two packs of Disney Infinity Power Discs when I cancel it tonight.
sweet, thanks for the offer though, I’ll buy you a drink when next we meat 😛
Looks like ol’ Pow will be getting a taste of the social high-life this month! I got an invitation to the opening of the new Viking exhibit at the Maritime Museum on the 19th of September because we did some stuff for them at work. Got a fancy letter and errything.
Dammit I forgot to get a date again.
Bring one of your toy dinosaurs!
YOU HAVE 2 WEEKS.
AAAAAND…… GO!
Question for TAY: What’s the best pick-up line involving Vikings that I can use?*
* may or may not** be used
** definitely not
“You should be glad I’m not a Viking. You would have been ravaged and plundered by now.”
I’d like to pillage… No
Let me be the Loki to your…No
I’ll let you touch my beard?
I’ll let you touch my beard, if i can touch yours?
Deal.
Pretty sure Vikings don’t use pick-up lines.
“Drop your slacks or feel my axe” would be as close as you’d get, I think.
“Wanna see my longboat” was always popular
If you were really getting into the spirit of things, you wouldn’t be asking or inviting. 🙂
I’ve got a friend who works for the Maritime Museum. Perhaps she can point you in the right direction?
Hey Pixel, wanna be my date?
erhm…. eeeeeeeerhm… Before this goes any further i think i should tell you… I’m already married… I’d hate to lead you astray 😛
@tigerion on a more serious note, i appreciate the invite and i would love to go…
But due to issues on the homefront i feel i may be tied up with other things for the next little while :\
oh…….well….ok…..I guess
In that case I wasn’t really asking you anyway, it was just a pickup line involving vikings
Unless you change your mind
besides we can just send the wives off to do girl talk, married women stuff
yeah we should totally send the wives off so we can do girl talk… that’s what you meant right?
Well duh, like of course
Good… we can discuss War Thunder and- and how i like your hair and shoe shopping and-
“I like big Axes and I cannot lie?”
Will there be food at this opening? Because if you just grab a friend and say “would you like some food?” they may well say yes. Friend Dates are second best dates, after all.
And let them hog half my food!?
(I probably will end up doing this :P)
….
You know, I had a realllly long post about what I’m going to say all typed up. All heartfelt and the like. But honestly, I guess that’s just not me. So, uh right.
Life’s gotten a bit too complicated, so I’m afraid me and Video Games will have to distance ourselves from each other, and by extension me and TAY. And even Teamspeak. Trust me, that last part is pretty shocking.
….
So uh, I guess this is the heartfelt part. I like hanging out here. Good change of pace from the jokers I hang out with most of my day. So, y’know, I’ll miss you. This ain’t permanent, obviously. I aim to stay, unluckily for you guys. Just.. well, I’m typing this in a library at 8:30 at night, if that’s any indication of what I’m going through. Don’t worry, I’ve expierence in what I’m going through. I’ll be fine, for the most part. Hmm, this became too long by my standards even when I try to condense it. But I suppose this shows how much I care ’bout you all. So, uh, yeah.
Stay classy.
TL;DR: *shrugs*
Oh, and, uh, sorry for being depressing in the middle of a otherwise nice page.
Oh, man, hope you get it all worked out.
you know… you’re a pretty rad day. and person. & i know this has probably been said so many times on here before, but if while doing what you need to do, you ever need to talk / vent / be distracted from anything, or need help with whatever in any way, theres a whole bunch of people here that’ll be more than happy to do that.
& whenever you do come back (hopefully soon), you’ll always be more than welcome.
/sincere hippy bullshit
Hope whatever’s going on gets sort out soon, man. Preferably by
( •_•) ( •_•)>⌐□-□ (⌐□_□)
Saturday.
You’re a terrible person
Take your time, TAY will be here.
Kids doing creative writing and reading it out to the class in groups. One kid just pronounced “focus” as “fock us”.
Nearly fell of my chair laughing.
… & you’re at a christian school, right?
Edit: oh… that was bad. sorry.
*thinks back to District 9 and Wikus van der Merve’s tourette like outburst*
Fok
Fok
Fok
still can’t believe they let people like you near kids
ಠ◡ಠ
that’s…. f*cking creepy… 😛
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’ll forgive you cause i love you
¯\_(ಠ◡ಠ)_/¯
That has to be one of the best/creepiest/worst/fantastic smilies ever!
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
(ಥ_ಥ)
@rize “I’m sorry Jesus”?
@masha2932
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/115492
Planet Earth is dabombbbb
such good docos, I own a large collection of Attonborough, that dude has taught me more than 12 years of school did
@masha2932 do it it’s amazeballs, also try find Africa, very well made and it will make you homesick 😛
p.s where in Africa are you from?
Kenya. I think he’s seen Africa.
He borrowed Planet Earth from the library but said the DVD was all crappy and it kept skipping/freezing. So I just told him to buy it as it’s frequently on sale for a great price 😀
DO IT MASHA.
IT LOOKS SO GOOD IN BLURAY!
seconded
DO IT MASHA
See the crystal chandelier in all it’s highly defined glory
Planet Earth and Cosmos are the two most important documentary series which everyone should see. Planet Earth because it’s stunningly beautiful and Cosmos because Carl Sagan was one of the best people at explaining complicated scientific theories in simple language.
have you seen Life in the Undergrowth, that one is fascinating too,
I’m from Kenya. Yeah, I was watching AFRICA and I definitely felt homesick during some shots. There’s one where they are filming a rhino and you can see the Nairobi Skyline from the national park and I got nostalgic.
You’re from S. Africa right? AFRO TAYBIES o/
Yup South Africa, there’s a shot in Africa of the Drakensberg mountains, that’s when I got all nostalgic cause we had a great view of them from where I grew up.
I love me some documentaries 😀
Whoo, same birth continent TAYbies
I have more same birth continent TAYbie buddies than you two have! 😛
Ugh braggius
pfft, peasant, just like everyone else 😛
Mumbo Jumbo Podcast 7 – Sexy Trailers
Join Dane, Ryan and Shannon as they discuss Payday 2, Elder Scrolls Online, Dragon Age Inquisition, Mighty No.9, ZombiU, Wasteland 2, The Last of Us, Animal Crossing: New Leaf and the Nintendo 2DS.
http://mumbojumbovideogamepodcast.podbean.com/2013/09/04/mumbo-jumbo-podcast-7-sexy-trailers/
Woo! Dragon Age! @dc!
Also, you should come, stay a while, and listen.
Do any of you talk about eating a fart or drinking a glass of urine?
No?
I’ll pass then. The bar has been set too high.
I caved and picked up Diablo 3 on PS3. I can’t remember who else has it, but anyone want to try out some co-op?
@freezespreston
@distantdrop
I would grab it if it was cheaper perhaps, looks like it could be fun on-couch.
Any online pass? might be a fun hire…
hahaaaaaaaaa innuendo
Doesn’t look like it, though I’m still at work so I can’t confirm.
I’m not buying games until the 17th.
Then we’ll make our gang of Goslings.
If there’s the ability to have a jacket like Gosling’s I may never play another game again.
Animal Crossing had that feature! 😛
Bikes.
I do. Keen for co op.
@redartifice No online passes. You just won’t have the XP boosting helmet or the glowing wings.
Might hire it next time I do a MP night, cheers
Radical. I’ll probably be on tonight after dinner assuming no changes in current plans.
I’m re-rolling a hardcore DH on the console version, I’m only like 16 or something so I’m not to far ahead to co-op with.
Depends whether or not your okay with HC.
Oh man, Neilson Radio guy tricked me. I heard a knock on the door, so I do what I always do. Pretend I’m not home. I peer out window. Hey, that car looks like my dad’s car. Then the person at the door calls out my name. If they know my name, they must be someone I know. Then I had to talk to a stranger for ten minutes. D:
Also I think my strategy of pretending I’m not home backfired when I put DmC on pause. He would’ve heard that and the creeping away sound as I made my way to the otherside of the house.
Being a hermits tough. :'(
I used to do that until I started ordering stuff online and actually need to receive it (otherwise I’d have to go to the… POST OFFICE!)
It probably doesn’t work for you since you’re all tall and bearded and stuff, but I just say my parents aren’t home (which they aren’t) and just look like I don’t know anything (and I don’t).
Answer the door naked.
i once did door knocking for a day trying to sell an internet package, one dude came to the door wearing red speedos and red elbow length rubber gloves, me and the dude i was with were pretty quick to get out of there, could be a good method to try.
To this day i have no idea what he was doing and I don’t think i want to.
Just realized I’ve been calling the lead character of Beyond: Two Souls Ellie for some reason.
I’d say the reason is pretty damn obvious.
Every time I read about EVE online I become more and more fascinated
http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/the-right-stuff-what-it-takes-to-command-a-150-ship-eve-online-fleet
EVE is one of my favourite games to read about and one of my least favourite games to play.
http://blog.ubi.com/michel-ancel-rayman-interview/
He talks about Rayman and Beyond: Good & Evil!
Who?
*adds Pow’s name to the list*
Beyond good and evil 2
*Builds up hopes so they can be destroyed*
you take a cat and rub it on a cat and the cat gets all fat and then another cat comes out of its butt
Mewwwwwwww~~~
via… mitosis?
Futurama. Does anyone else still watch it?
I won’t spoil it, but the last episode just went to air in the US (assuming it doesn’t find a new home for a fourth time) and god dammit — over the course of the entire series, it’s been the most consistently amazing and entertaining cartoon (and close to the best show) I’ve ever seen.
Not in a Firefly ‘never had a chance to peak, so never went into a decline‘ type way, and not in a Simpsons ‘man, that was so good in the 90’s’ kind of way — it is just a brilliantly written and produced show. A shame that it’s over.
Haven’t seen the last couple of episodes yet, I’ll be catching up this weekend!
Glad it gets the chance to end on it’s own terms though. Hate when a show just doesn’t get renewed out of the blue. Especially in these big-budget TV series’ where the writers just keep stretching storylines so they have enough for multiple seasons and then they get axed half way through because the show is boring due to excessive padding 😛 /mini-rant
I haven’t really seen much of it since the four movies (which I can barely even remember, having only seen them once). But I still love it, and figure I’ll get around to catching up someday.
me, agree, consistantly great, like all the continuing bits and references to older episodes.
Why do pharmacists always want to ask me a million questions about how I’m feeling and what exactly is wrong.
Just gimme the damn drugs.
if you say that to them, you’ve possibly answered your own question.
Maybe they want to feel like they care more than your average drug dealer.
There’s a fair bit of self-diagnosis that they’re trying (in vain) to eliminate, and exercise four years worth of expensive medical training to be something more than a label-maker.
Got a mate who decided to go and ditch his lucrative pharmacist job and become a penniless med student so he could become a penniless GP all because he wished he could actually help people instead of pushing weight loss shakes on people.
Madness.
I just wanted some Panadol.
Do what I do. Ask for the ‘good stuff’ that has codeine with it. They’ll squint at you and check your licence and enter it into a database to make sure you haven’t been eating it like m&ms.
So I picked up Diablo 3 on PS3 and have been playing it for a few hours now. While it doesn’t look anywhere near as good as the PC version, it still looks pretty decent – most importantly, it plays really well on console. So much so, I’ve moved my PS3 back into my room and am playing it on my second monitor.
I debated just waiting and getting it on PS4, but thought I’d give it a go.
I’ve previously completed it on Hard on PC, and am about 3/4 through the next difficulty playthrough – is it Hell? I forget. But I’d gotten over the PC version. The RMAH felt like it had created some sort of gear barrier that got really hard to get over unless you were willing o grind incessantly for items or just outlay cash and buy the gear you need. Happy this seems to be missing that component.
Happy so far.
It goes: Normal, Nightmare, Hell, Inferno.
Maybe I only did Normal and got partway through Nightmare then? Bah, I forget.
BE MY PSN FRIEND SO WE CAN PLAY CO-OP, DICKMAN.
What he said.
Dickmen. Both of you.
But.. We’re already friends..
You feel that?
Yeah. I just added the shit out of you.
Is this one of things where I’ll get home and have to start crying into my pillow from loneliness?
Just watched the last episode of Futurama.
It was a good last episode. Not as good as the last episode of Scrubs but better than a fair few of Futurama’s other last episodes. That’s a sentence.
What do you classify as the last episode of Scrubs? Season 8 or season 9?
There was season nine?
Nah, I just checked and there wasn’t.
Man, i’ve been so disappointed with Futurama of late. Last weeks episode wasn’t that bad though.
Saying that this one is the best of the season doesn’t exactly tell you anything but it is the best of the season :p
EDIT: no “YOU WERE IN A ZOO!” after you think the credits were about to roll or other silliness.
Last episode of scrubs was great. First episode of the scrubs comeback season was GARBAGE
By “comeback season” do you mean the spinoff that focused mainly on interns and didn’t feature the main cast from the original series? I honestly don’t know what you mean because I haven’t seen any scrubs past season 6 and don’t want to inadvertently read too much by checking wikipedia because I’m actually catching up at the moment.
Season 9 was basically a spin off with limited appearances from the original cast. The hospital was “sold” and the original cast were now teachers with a bunch of med students doing learning stuff. It did build on some characters introduced in season 8 but it’s much easier to just think of it as a failed spin off instead of the last season.
There isn’t much to spoil though.
Yeah my wife and I watched seasons 1-8 on Netflix over about a month, then saw the first episode of season nine and NOPE
I’m actually going back to watch the end of Scrubs now because I stopped watching midway through season 6. I was pretty invested in Scrubs and felt bad I didn’t stay committed to the end. I’ve been doing that with a few shows lately – rewatched all of My Name is Earl because I missed the last five or so episodes, and now I’m watching Raising Hope purely because it’s a semi-spinoff (or at least set in the same ‘universe’. I was never into SGU but I watched it because it was cancelled and now I’m among the legions of people annoyed that it was canned just as it was really taking off. My wife and I recently discovered that we had seen all of season 8 of The Office even though we thought we hadn’t, so we just marathonned season 9 in one day.
Then there’s other shows that have ended or are ending that I feel obliged to watch because I was semi-interested at one point or my wife watches them. Like, I stopped caring about Dexter around season 5 but this is the last season so I might as well watch it. There’s only a year left of how I Met Your Mother so I might as well get that out of the way. Funnily enough I haven’t felt overly compelled to watch Firefly, probably because the fanbase is a little bit embarassing and I am worried that I will turn into one of these “Browncoats” and out myself as not only incredibly lame, but also completely behind the times.
Futurama is another show that I kind of want to sit down and watch because I’ve seen the occasional episode, and I guess it’s finally going for good after going and returning several times, but on the other hand I’m really not that invested. I’m so not invested I don’t know how much of it I have or haven’t seen. Like I’m pretty sure I’ve seen all of the first two seasons, but maybe I missed episodes. Maybe I’ve actually seen four seasons and just can’t remember. I have absolutely no idea. Maybe I should just leave it at that.
Same with south Park – I think I stopped watching midway through season 15 but for all I know I’m completely up to date and it just hasn’t been on recently. All I can say for sure is that I haven’t watched an episode for a few months. I could probably check wikipedia and verify what episodes I recognise and which ones I don’t, but… I don’t. Because I kind of don’t really care.
With Scrubs, season 1 was them finding their feet and seasons 2-4 (YMMV) were the good ones. The show went downhill without being terrible (think about How I Met Your Mother but much less so) until season 8 where it somehow managed to get back to the glory years. JD even grows a beard.
Futurama is an odd one. Season 1-4 are good, then there’s the movies which range from okay to terrible. Then there’s the post-movies seasons which just aren’t good but I watched anyhow just because it was there. It did end on a high note, although that probably because they’ve had practise at being cancelled by now :p
There are a lot of shows where it just isn’t worth committing to. They’re just nice to watch because they’re there and that’s about it.
Firefly is worth watching. I liked it and am not an obsessed browncoat. It’s just a solid idea with good execution and pretty good casting. There’s just not enough of it to get obsessed over.
Watch Firefly. Just… try to keep yourself from adopting the accent and mannerisms of Cap’n Mal.
Shiny
You know, during my post at the bottom of page 12 I was actually thinking about Scrubs — a lot of positive comparisons can be made between Futurama and Scrubs (for all the usual silliness both have killer musical episodes, both have emotional ‘n heartbreaking episodes, etc. great writing and diversity), and now I’m sad because I’m even more aware that I need a new show to fill the Futurama void.
Thanks, jerk.
Just saw that MS’ Illumiroom has been cancelled as it’s too expensive for consumers. Disappoint.
Well, the tech is there. Maybe in a few years when we’re more invested in our XBones they can refine the tech and quietly release it into the wild.
It’s definitely not appealing or affordable enough for them to try and force it onto the mass market.
POLITICS TALK
Is it just me, or is the $40 billion savings not really $40 billion when $33 billion is going to be spent on something else. Wouldn’t that only be $7 billion in savings.
ROUTER TALK
So anyone have any specific suggestions on modem routers?
Also GTA V. How do you get rid of a constant semi?
If you’re talking about the NBN, then actually it’s going to end up costing tens of billions more under the Coalition because they have to go from FTTN to FTTP eventually and haven’t considered that.
I was actually talking about the costings that were released at 2.30 today.
The NBN I know is going to end up costing us more if the Liberals do what they want. It should be left the way that Labor has designed it. Yeah clean up the roll out a bit if that helps with saving some money, but don’t throw away everything that has been set up so far to try and save some money in the eye of the public.
I haven’t read the Coalition’s costings. If they’re not confident in them to the point that they’re releasing the bare minimum after Labor has no chance to point out any flaws, there’s nothing of value that’s going to be in them.
EDIT: also apparently they didn’t include the Direct Action, NBN or Operation Sovereign Borders costs. Those are three big, expensive policies (admittedly, NBN is done off budget).
http://lpaweb-static.s3.amazonaws.com/2013%2009%2005%20TABLE.pdf
POLITICS: Not touching that one.
ROUTER: Ultimately any brand is fine, they’ve all had ups and downs in the past. Just go for the one that has the features you need (Dual band wireless, gigabit ethernet etc.)
YOUR SEMI: Not touching that one either.
“Savings”
I suspect they used the same accountant that Hollywood uses to ensure their films never make a ‘profit’ so they don’t pay anyone royalties.
Poltics – 40 bn savings is looking pretty dodgy. they’re counting money that they’re hoping to get that they may not actually get. (eg assuming that cutting mining tax will net them $10 bn in investment)
Router – steer clear of Belkin.
Your junk – leeches. lots of them.
Yeah I had a quick read of the 7 page document, and it all seems very dodgy. Did not see a mention of the NBN though at all on it.
costing for their NBN haven’t been been verified. probably why they didn’t mention it.
Johnathan Swan said on Twitter that NBN, Direct Action and Stop the Boats were not submitted.
Yeah. Stop the Boats is one that is going to be costly and is also so stupid. Paying the people smugglers for the boats.
There are items in that costing document that talk about it but the numbers are ludicrously low. $10m over 3 years for Operation Sovereign Borders. This is meant to be some taskforce involving a 3 star general.
There’s also “enchanced air surveillance” which is that drones that I thought cost a shitload more than that and were dropped. Weird.
Just an FYI, I’ve been using Belkin for 8 years (2 devices, one for 6 years, current one for 2) and have not had a single fault. It really is a case of personal experience with every brand.
EDIT: For work stuff. How did I not mention that?
Guess it just comes down to what you wanna use it for.
Wanted to connect the PS3 wirelessly… nope. so much screwing around. Seems lots of people were having similar issues. gave up.
but if you’re not using a PS3, belkin should be fine.
Using a Ps3. So I will steer clear of Belkin for now.
Why steer clear of Belkin? I’ve never had an issue with them, nor any of my mates who have bought them over the years.
Ps3 issues. Couldn’t connect wirelessly, & it seemed to be a very common issue.
Other than that our worked well enough, but I was turned off Belkin because of it.
Ah fair enough man.
Doing tech support for a few years for wireless customers, I can confirm that Belkin had a disproportionately high representation in customer’s failed ‘BYO’ hardware.
POLITICS:
NOPE
ROUTER: Dlink. Super easy setup, easy port forwarding and all that jazz and reliable.
SEMI:
Shit or get off the pot
I appreciate that mega Blastoise has cannons on his arms… but the water came out of his mouth in the video.
redundant cannons…
WHERE DOES HE KEEP IT ALL
The world’s most impressive bladder.
I don’t care that much but I know some TAYbies are trying to avoid learning anything new about the new Pokemons. So rot13 would help 😀
Rot13, bru!
Hey, I know that we talked about it a while ago, but are there any Taybies out there interested in trying a pen&paper RPG online? Thinking of trying “Numenera” as it’s fairly roll-light
cc @mawt
I was thinking that Numenera would be grand for road testing online RP.
After my D&D group moved states/countries/towns, we started playing online. There are plenty of good online tools if you wanted to go for something a little more roll-heavy
Roll20?
Your abilities not high enough you slip and injure your foot..roll for ice pack
We used Fantasy Grounds 2, but I’ve heard good things about RPGTable too
Am keen, as always. This thing doesn’t seem to have much luck in getting off the ground as yet ;P
Numenera is a bit simpler than D&D 🙂
I am! But I’m in Brisbane. So.
😛
Edit: Wow, reading fail. Online, eh? Ehhhh? Hmmmm.
Yesssssssssssss.
More important question: Who’s DMing?
I’m happy to DM 🙂
Awww yis.
Cakesmith and @freezespreston will be invading Canberra for @blaghman’s
orgy…sexy party…meat…awkwardly leaning on things gathering.I see how it is, Freeze. You got new Sydney friends now. :'(
And Canberran.
Well you might be cool enough to lean but I’ll be standing in the corner, hunched over, arms folded and staring at the ground muttering to myself.
You’ve been hanging out with @dc too much.
Bring him to Canberra, he can meet @shane!
@dc, come to Canberra.
Nah!
let’s start a fund to get @dc to Canberra!
What did I do to you guys to make you want to subject me to that? 😛
Being a hermit will do it, honestly.
Race ya there!
When are you headed down?
EDIT: I guess it’s more across for you.
Probably the morning of. I think I got there about 2pm last time. Depends when @Blaghman wants me there! (never?)
Whenever is good for you! I dunno… I am bad at this…
2 days out from the election, after the media blackout, and the Coalition announces this shit:
http://www.zdnet.com/au/australian-opposition-vows-to-implement-internet-filter-by-default-7000020270/
🙁
The Coalition’s strategy this election seems to be holding off on making announcements until it’s too late and Labor can’t debate them and the general public isn’t even aware of them. It’s annoying that it’s probably a strategy that’s worked.
Well, they can officially fuck themselves.
It’s actually kind of genius. If they block all the porn, then they cut like 80% of internet usage, so then there’s no more congestion and they can deliver the NBN speeds they promised in the first place.
Dastardly genius.
I got bored at work so I’ve been replacing the stuff on the engraving sample board with Monty Python quotes.
You’re doing good work, son.
Fixed.
Screenshot or it didn’t happen.
https://twitter.com/freezespreston/status/375521316306038784
Speaking of which, would you be able to engrave something small for me?
Sure. Let me know what and when.
It’s a small triforce necklace, but I don’t think the triforce is made of gold so I don’t know how it will look underneath.
I wanted the 3 symbols on it.
I can do that.
I will have to send it to you then. You know the ones I’m talking about?
FFXIVARR TAYbies,
Put your character details up on taynames and help to stop this empty frond list epidemic.
For your convenience, link to taynames. Switch to “The MMO Page!” sheet (tabs at the bottom).
Done. It was already there, but I updated the server info.
Will do it when I create a character
Awwwwyee. Added.
Moved us out of the ghetto ‘other’ section.
Also suggest linking to your char profile on the Lodestone – since you can be every class it’s quicker to look at the link than writing everything up.
I’m a dickman, the only thing been stopping me from getting this was the lack of people getting it on console, i did not realise it was cross platform, dammit, i was at JB last night and it was only $44, should have looked into it more
I’m considering learning to not suck at Starcraft.
I know I’ve said it before but maybe this time I’ll actually play the game.
Right now, I think I need to go back to the very basics: picking a race. I played Protoss and liked it but I decided to play Toss before ever touching the game. Maybe I should actually play a handful of games with each race to get the basic mechanics of them down and then decide which one best suits me.
That seems like a decent starting point. Not sure what the end goal would be though. Getting to platinum? Simply playing regularly?
I played random for a long time. Stayed average for a long time.
I picked a race and am trying to work my way to being better… for whatever reason i dont really know. Accomplishment i guess.
My masters friend linked me this site. I hope its of some use to you… im too lazy 😛
http://imbabuilds.com/
Edit: now im reading it because i feel guilty….
Those build orders are actually kind of useful…
I don’t think you even need to launch into trying a few games with each race or whatever because each race now actually has IN-GAME training matches you can do which teach you race-specific aspects of macro and micro and ‘industry standard’ moves.
Part of a whole big ‘newbie-friendly’ kick they went on to try and inject more lifeblood than the brutally hardcore South Korean virtual mugger.
How is everyone today?
Tired of the election.
I think I was tired of it from the last election.
I’m alright, how are you scree?
Annoyed. I played rayman so much my wrist started hurting a shit ton.
Awww. Damn malk 🙁
Oh no, I hope it gets better soon, you gotta rest it
I’ve been getting 3 hour naps out of it.
Which is 3 hours with out a sore throat \o/
Hooray for naps \o/
Melbourne update!
All checked in, and get bearings. Mana bar have confirmed that they are open tomorrow . We shall be there about 4:30!
Okay I didn’t know it was so soon so I probably won’t be able to make it. Being sick and injured and all.
Sorry.
I posted last time but I won’t be there. I’ve got assignments to work on (I’ll be up all night tonight for one :'( ) and Mana Bar is a fair bit out of my way. Have fun though!
I would live to be there but I don’t finish work till 6 then to get home get changed and get to mana bar it would be closer to 8. Sorry guys
I’ll check in with Mrs Tigs to see if we have anything planned for after work
What sort of time are you looking at heading out for dinner
Welcome to Melbourne
Around 7 for dinner 🙂 we are just heading towards Fitzroy now 🙂
DARK SOULS II BETA. For real men (and women) only.
https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-gb/games/dark-souls-ii-closed-beta-registration-ticket/cid=EP0700-BLET50006_00-SE00010000000000
@freezespreston @strange @sernobulus @dc @everyone
Done and done. And I mean done. *taps nose*
I downloaded it and … did it work? It said to go to my “Manage Downloads” on PS3 but it’s not there.
It’s not an actual download, just a registration for a chance to play the beat. If you get in then you’ll get a download code.
Um, to those who have left for dead 2 censored version, left4uncut no longer works. Try left4gore instead.
http://www.left4gore.com/
Blackgate!
Bravely Default!
Megaten IV!
Soulhackers!
Pokemon Y!
Rayman with all the levels!! Legends!!!
Pokemon Y?
Why not X?!
I would get X
Y?
No, Y not.
masterfully played, scree 😀
Colour scheme, prefer the bird. Could change.
I like the bird too!
Stupid deer…
Oops.
big oops?
I don’t think Malcolm quite understands the internet, thinks copper is acceptable in 2013 as a form of delivery thinks an internet filter is a good, idea, this man is losing it!
Yes he does. He invented the internet, remember?
Pfft, he wishes! 😛
I wouldn’t be so sure of that. Turnbull doesn’t strike me as an idiot. He went against the party once and it cost him the leadership.
We’ve got Malcolm blabbing on social media it’s not happening, yet there’s some other party member saying on another site it is happening.. This party isn’t talking to each other it sounds like..
Turnbull understands all too well. Guy actually knows his shit. And knows his party’s policy is shit. You could see it in his eyes when he first announced it, he thought it was tripe. 🙁
Okay, thanks to a moment of stupidity, and a suggestion of a text based punching game, I give you Punchy.
It is my magnum opus. There is definitely not only one correct option to choose.
It’s definitely not “Chapu Gur Vaperqvoyr Ohyx”. That would be silly.
http://imgur.com/iwdgqee
This already sucks.
I have no idea what to do. “Crying” doesn’t work
I actually considered adding a crying option! But then it would take effort, and I’m too lazy to work out how this thing works.
I won!
hmm… to the surprise of absolutely nobody, “Seduce the Incredible Bulk” ended quite badly.
wait wat.
Singing doesn’t work!
Are you even blaghman anymore?
Hey TAY, it’s been a while. It’s getting close to assignment time at uni so naturally I’ve been spending more time here being TOTALLY productive… >_>
In any case someone posted a link this the other day and it made me get out my old DS. When did everyone start doing this? Last year… Well, is it still going? Hmm, October last year…
BUMP!
I tried doing something similar with Pokemon Black a few months back but I totally forgot about it. Instead here’s my own Nuzlocke. With blackjack, and hookers. In fact, forget the blackjack and the hookers. Entry #01!
Hah, yeah that hasn’t been going for a while. Was it you who signed up for an account the other day? 😛 I never actually checked the request after I got the notification…
Good to see the TAYlocke spirit is still alive though haha
Yeah that was me. Then I remembered my own site and figured I’d do it over there 🙂
I bought my DS specifically to play Pearl I think it was. Never ended up playing it all the way through though. I can honestly see me picking up a 3DS specifically for X (or Y) next month.
Cool! Yeah the only reason we made a blog for it was because we didn’t want TAYbies to get annoyed with the constant updates of seven different playthroughs at once 😛 Served it’s purpose!
I should probably archive them somewhere or something, actually…
http://news.com.au/technology/internet-filter/coalition-retracts-internet-filters-policy/story-fn5j66db-1226712390937
That was quick.
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/media/listen.htm?show=jukebox&xmlUrl=/triplej/media/mod/hck4.xml&mediaType=audio&launchType=play&pluginTarget=undefined&pluginTitle=undefined&pluginColour=undefined
From tonight’s show. At 27 minutes in, sure sounds like Turnbull’s talking about the filter being an opt-out version.
And a relief, since all pundits seem to expect them to win.
Now, just to retract and revise their other half-arsed policies…
Thank fuck.
Oh my god I just got up to the water levels in Rayman Origins.
THAT MUSIC!
Right? It’s so amazing!
It’s impossible for me not to whistle along.
…In fact I’m going to do that right now.
Oh yeah! Greenius’ assignment break. GREENIUS GONE WILD
Ugh, put those tits away!
Good luck on your assignment 🙂
LOLOLOLOLOL!!!
I was playing that earlier today! Was fun
Just got up to it myself.
RACE TO THE FINISH!
I’ve just been invited to Canada to meet another online buddy I met on Twitter through a mutual appreciation for a musician. So that’s a thing, and it might be happening midway through next year if I can get shit sorted.
@bish @saturday whereabouts are you guys residing in Canadiatownland? Potential internationalmeat?
god help me im still going to be here halfway through next year
To answer your question, Toronto, Ontario here, Saturday is more or less Vancouver, British COlumbia. Basically opposite sides of Canadia.
Looks like Beesh wins the Aleph lottery (uhh, lucky you?) in terms of location.
That being said, I’ve no idea how large Toronto is, though I’ve been told that’s where I’m headed.
Toronto is pretty reasonable. Kinda like Sydney. I live near the subway!
I can get to wherever.
Dude! Duuuuuude!
Start training your stomach.
I have so many restaurants we could go to.
Eat out at good food places all day erry day!
Now my friend’s bringing up the idea of an extended working holiday and now I’m wetting myself both in excitement and fear. Oh god, I’ve no idea what to do 😛
Definitely going for a holiday at the very least, and having Bish as my culinary guide? I’m a little bit hype for that, actually!
Finally managed to get my WDTV Live hooked up to my router!
Now I can watch all of my videos on the tv! \o/
It’ll mostly be anime. 🙂
Spent the past 3 hours playing Okami with Oliver 😀 I hadn’t played it in so long. It’s impossible not to love somebody who said he once described it on Twitter as “gorgeousness on a disc” years ago. I completely forgot that we pretty much became friends after talking about Okami back in o-week :S
Today I think we’re finally gonna start filming for his short horror film for some competition. Should hopefully be interesting.
And just thinking about it, it makes me sad that after all these years I still haven’t found a game that captivates me as much as Okami does 🙁 There has to be something else out there just as interesting and fun.
Man, I really need to play my copy of Okami HD. You and neg zero have been talking about it a lot lately. So many games to play though /o\
Have you tried prince of persia 2008? The game borrowed a few aspects of Okami and is a great game too with an art style as beautiful as Okami’s
I think you’re already a Zelda fan otherwise I’d recommend that since I’ve been told Okami borrows a lot from that franchise.
I hope you find a game as engaging though, there are so many games out there that there should be one.
Not Okami related but for good fun open world games try Just Cause 2 or Red Faction Guerrilla. The grappling hook and destructible environments respectively make for great fun. Red Faction actually has a great pass the controller mode-Wrecking Crew-that could be good for you and Oliver and other guests to play.
Second time I’ve woken up at 5am in two days… 🙁
Morning 🙂
I been doing it for years now…
I should get ready for work…
Or this is all a dream and your already at work..
At work… sleeping. Dreaming.
Is WordPress now the simplest way to start a website. I need a website for my girlfriends cake business and have tried doing things in Dreamweaver but its not as easy as I remember it being 7 years ago. Just needs to be a website that can have an image gallery, contact, about, orders (just a contact form), and maybe eventually a little store on it for figurines and what not.
Already have a logo and toolbar made, but am having a few slight annoyances in dreamweaver that I can’t seem to get rid of.
THE CAKE IS A LIE!
Crap. Now I hate myself.
What the hell man? I’ve been nothing but honest with you!
Stop lying!
Or are you just lying to yourself?
Depends what your knowledge of coding (especially PHP) is, but I built my site through WordPress, and if you find a theme you like, you can customise it to look whatever way you want. My needs were similar to what you listed and it ended up looking exactly like how I’d first envisioned it: theapiary.co.nz – It’s got an online store, gallery, contact, about etc etc, and was all relatively easily doable. So basically, yeah I’d recommend WordPress.
Yep, WordPress is the easiest I reckon. You can create each item as a separate page which is really easy to do. Then you can grab lots of good plugins for image galleries, etc.
Some good themes can be found on places like http://themeforest.net/
Worth paying a few bucks for a good one. Otherwise there’s lots of free ones available.
WordPress is ok, although being open source, is prone to hacking. It’s not the most user-friendly CMS either, but if you have some experience in coding, you should be ok.
I’ve heard good things about BigCommerce. Steer well clear of Joomla and OScommerce.
Beats Joomlas CMS though 😛
I used WordPress to make this: http://shanewsmith.com/
But make sure you load it up with anti-malware plugins. WordPress is prone to hacking.
This weeks Humble Weekly Sale
Never heard of any of them but there it is.
I have AI war as it sounded like a fun game and reviews said it was alright…never played it but.
AI War is…………………………complex. I’ve played a bit but the total volume of options and scope make it very very non newbie friendly.
I just ran away in fear and went back to something simple and friendly like FTL
Is there a undetermined sized spoiler in the GTAV trailers?
So, because I’m a maniac and get weirdly obsessed with stuff, like how before I went to Disneyland I read almost every book or article about the secret places in Disneyland and it’s history, (did you know about the half size basketball court in the Matterhorn? or that it’s possible to see into the behind the scenes area of the Submarines while on the monorail but only for about 5 seconds?) I’ve been watching the GTAV trailers in the same deranged manner, brow furrowed, eyes unblinking, sweaty.
In the GTAV launch trailer you see the “tech guy” standing next to Michael as he outlines a plan.
http://youtu.be/hvoD7ehZPcM?t=36s
In the GTA Online trailer you see the same guy, who sounds suspiciously like David Cross in this trailer, in a wheelchair.
http://youtu.be/olEGtoYs_8A?t=29s
Colon capital “O”, people.
We’re through the looking glass here.
If you have loved ones, call them and say what you need to say now, I’m going public with this information.
I would be careful where you post that, Rockstar have a lot of ears and eyes …
I don’t wanna compare myself to Edward Snowden but it is eerily similar.
Let me grab my tinfoil hat
If so… David Cross voiced Zero in San Andreas. Could be Zero?
Also I remember Rockstar saying something about GTA Online is set a few months before the SP game. I’ll have to find my source though.
Dan, I read the same Disney stuff before my trips! o/
YEAH BOI!!!
Pretty much (verbally) abused my boss last night. Got my super statement, which informed me that he hasn’t paid me any super in the 2 years I’ve been working for him. Really made my blood boil.
Definitely worth getting some legal advice, man. That’s not a good situation for anyone to be in.
That sucks. Ring the Fair Work Ombudsmen if he doesn’t back pay it. They will force him to do so. So many bosses try and get away with it.
Illegal. If you go to the Fair Work Ombudsman, your boss will be fined in addition to being forced to pay you your super (+ interest too, probably). Might be worth giving him one last chance to come good, with the knowledge that a fine lies in wait… but then, let him have it: both barrels.
VERY illegal. Yes, there are fines involved. Had a few mates who did graphic design work getting shafted on that. The smaller shops are apparently pretty well-known for getting up to that kind of thing. It’s funny how many employers (even the really big ones) resent having to pay wages. Outside of a few specialist industries dealing in high-value products, payroll is one of the largest expenses most companies have and as a result, usually the first place they look to for cuts.
First instinct is to say, ‘get a lawyer anyway, @nomad.’ But there’s a couple things to consider. If he’s right on the edge of going bust, he actually CAN declare bankruptcy, and depending on the bankruptcy arrangement walk away without paying you a cent. At best you join the list of creditors who get X cents out of every dollar owed under whatever arrangement the courts make for his insolvency.
If he’s offered to make good, I’d personally give it a chance, but maybe send and save/bcc elsewhere a copy of an email saying that you need a deadline for this to be resolved.
I’m not a lawyer, but I believe there are potentially a few loopholes debtors can use to get out of their debts when they say they’ve provided you with advice of intent to not pay or an inability to pay, and depending on your response (or lack of response), you can be assumed to have accepted this. THAT’S why instinct says get a lawyer. There is all sorts of murky shit like that lurking out there in the system.
Apparently he paid the ATO all overdue fees in June. Waiting for some proof before going to do any jobs today though, he reckons the company has been scraping by just paying bills & wages. If that was the case, I probably wouldn’t have a hole in my wall if I’d just been told beforehand that they couldn’t afford to pay it yet.
Edit: Thanks guys, this helps just venting here a bit. Sorry to ruin your Friday!
How dare you ruin our Friday while you are having such a good time /sarcasm
The one thing that doesn’t quite ring true with that is that while PAYG and super are often treated as the same thing payment (they both are based on wage) I don’t believe that the super payments are made directly to the ATO. It should be going to your super fund of choice as far as I am aware.
I’m not a finance person, but that’s worth confirming. But as others have said an employer must pay super and the only way you are not going to get that is if the guy and company go bankrupt. They can’t just refuse to pay it.
Not normally, no, but because IG wasn’t paid in time, his accountant said it gets paid to ATO, who then calculates & adds the interest I missed out on. Said it should be in my fund in the next few weeks, so I’ll be watching that like a hawk.
Boss said there’s been several times where they’ve been within 24hrs of declaring bankruptcy. We’re only a small company & the 2 mobs we do contract work for rarely pay bills on time.
So my husband is planning to vote LNP. Because his father (who lives in rural Victoria and has been against Labor all his life) does. Because he hates Kevin Rudd. So for all the wrong reasons, really. Despite not agreeing with practically anything the LNP says. Despite the fact he lost his public service job when Campbell Newman got into power here in Queensland.
Any discussion we have on this just results in him digging his heels in even further. So I was wondering if anyone had any links to articles that might help. Not ones ridiculing people on Abbot’s side or anything, Just matter-of-fact stuffs that may help him make a more informed decision. To be honest, I don’t mind so much the fact that he’s voting different to me (even though it means neither of our votes really count, we just cancel each other out), just that he has no real reason for doing so.
http://dontbeafuckingidiot.com/
While I completely agree with that website ..
It may fall into this category.
That’s the kind of thing that doesn’t work. He’s stubborn to a fault.
Oh shiiiiiiit…
http://dontbeafuckingidiot.com/MediaStatement.pdf
Shiiiiiiit:
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O_o
“MediaStatement.pdf”…
trust me.. you don’t want to see @rize’s “Media” making a “Statement”
Summary (apologies for wall of text):
This website was put up on Wednesday the 4th of September at approximately 2am and has blown up something crazy since then…
…between 750,000 to 1.25M visitors in the first 24 hours based on existing data.
Worth noting that I realise that there’s more to political discourse than swears and hyperbole. This site is intentionally profane and somewhat simplifies policy issues for dramatic and comedic effect.
My ISP contacted me on Wednesday afternoon to let me know that the federal opposition party’s lawyers were demanding my personal details. Allowed it.
Approximately one hour later I received several phone calls making implied threats about my professional career.
Attack me, my website, the content and political arguments all you like, but leave other people out of it, please.
Thanks.
Also, O_O
The site has been up for just a few days. That was quick.
I’m not really surprised.
Passionate and not entirely inaccurate, but it reads like Clive Palmer’s rant yesterday about Abbott and Rudd and Murdoch’s wife being a Chinese spy — all sorts of unnecessary, emotive, abusive language that doesn’t really fall into the realm of satire or parody, just from the other side of the fence.
Picks on three policy issues (“they were good at the economy and they will be bad” doesn’t really count) to turn people against LNP, but someone else could start up a pro-LNP site and say “LABOR GIVE YOU NOTHING, LNP ARE GOING TO GIVE YOUNG FAMILIES AND MOTHERS ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FUCKING-THOUSAND DOLLARS! FUCK YEAH!” … it’s just vague and sounds good and not much more.
Despite how stupid Abbott’s personal views may be, if a newspaper posted this they would be sued. If someone said this under parliamentary privilege, there would be mass hysteria about them abusing their power.
So for a site akin to the political attack ads on TV over the last month (just without the approval and legal protection) and for this guy to be almost pretending that the opposition are unfairly upset… heh.
Palmer’s a nutjob. Everyone knows that the only Chinese spy we’ve ever had as PM was Harold Holt and he went back to the motherland on a submarine already.
Half-coughed and half-laughed, spat a mouthful of tea down the front of my shirt.
Would do again. A+
10/10
Excellent review!
While that site is funny, I think the number of people in all of human history who have been convinced to change their mind after being called a fucking idiot, is probably a number you can count on one hand. I’d suggest that a significant people starting a persuasive argument with, “Don’t be a fucking idiot,” don’t even get to finish the rest of their argument because it’s hard to orate effectively without teeth.
It’s a site for venting and for the already-converted to post and crow about – it’s a comedy piece, not a persuasive piece. I wouldn’t use it at all, it will have exactly the opposite effect intended.
In that situation you can show people literally anything and it won’t change their minds. People do things for odd reasons even when completely against logic. I really doubt you’ll change his mind.
Yeah if he digs his heels in when you have a discussion with him, then showing him basically any site, no matter how objective, isn’t likely going to change his mind. But hey, at least it means you’ll have the next four years of “I told you so”s to look forward to.
The one thing that might help (pure speculation on my part) would be the fact that the ALP has a much, much bigger focus on supporting primary and secondary education, not just via the NBN.
Yes, I did just pull a Helen Lovejoy. I regret nothing.
Also, let this be a lesson to all you singles: have discussions about all your beliefs and stuff before you decide to marry someone. It’s really stressful being married to someone who either has no beliefs or is in opposition to your own beliefs and values.
My wife doesn’t know or care so I effectively get two votes as she just asks me who to vote for.
High five!
My wife doesn’t care and neither do I… want another 2 votes? 😛
#Vote1Shiggy
I had a discussion last night about putting Palmer ahead of Abbott because I’d prefer the patients run the asylum instead of the megalomaniac.
I know other people that will be voting LNP first for a similar lack of reasons. I don’t try to change their minds, but prefer to have a discussion about the complete order rather than just where the 1 will go. It’s often the old ‘vote 1’ mentality, combined with the belief that there’s only 2 options that can have this sort of attitude. Attacking that choice directly won’t help, instead loosen the whole mentality by talking about every other candidate that isn’t Labor or LNP, and how they will be ranked.
When it comes down to it, the people in power spend millions wrestling over that power, and regardless of who you vote for, you get stuck with a politician. Don’t let it get to you.
On a happier note, how goes Ni No Kuni? (May I be so bold as to ask whether I get a little minion namesake in your game?)
I’m having fun with Ni No Kuni. I’m fairly sure I’m at least two-thirds through. I like that I’ve never had to grind to be able to progress. The parts where that may have had to happen have had levelling be a nice side effect to trying catch specific familiars.
I do not have a little Beavwa yet though. Mostly I go with one of the suggested names, it’s just if I see any that remind me of specific TAYbies that they’ll get that special name. Haven’t noticed any familiars being sufficiently Domo-esque yet, but I’ll keep an eye out. I suspect I’ll end up wanting to catch one of everything, anyway.
EVERY TIME I PLAY XILLIA I THINK ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU TWO WILL LOVE IT!
SO GOOD!
(@beavwa)
Little acorns, one at a time, Strange. Once the weekend passes (and a couple of days if it’s heated) it’ll be over for another 3 years, at least.
Then it can all go back to being strange in the love household.
Vote 1 for The Fishing Party? 😛
That’s my strategy, vote for the silliest sounding one that doesn’t have a chance of winning anyway. I don’t like Labor or the Liberals. 😛
You still will have to rank one above the other, at least on your House of Reps paper. It’ll still (in all likelihood) be counted against at least one of those parties in preference distribution.
Don’t throw your vote away.
Unless you’re voting for LNP.
Then throw it wherever.
Preferential voting makes it damned hard to throw a vote away.
Looking at the seat Lambo’s probably in (Blair), it’s held by Labor who got there with Greens preferences last election. It swung hard to LNP in the State election (as with most of Queensland) and I doubt most of the anti-Newman backlash would be as strong in Ipswich.
Unfortunately, the other parties running are Family First, Rise Up Australia, Katter’s Australia Party, Palmer United Party, Greens and an independent.
Please don’t vote for Rise Up, @lambomann007, the person who formed the party thinks that gays caused the bushfires in Victoria.
Equal opportunity arson, or because God hates gay people?
Batshit insane, God smiting the Sodomites.
I’m not exactly the most pro-Christian person, particularly when it comes to politics but Rise Up represents everything wrong with far-right Christian lunacy (as opposed to Christianity which can be somewhat okay sometimes :p). They’re not Christians, they’re lunatics that happened to read the Bible.
The only way to ‘throw away’ a valid ballot is to vote one of the two major parties 1st.
The Age just put out an editorial backing Rudd that fits your criteria.
http://www.politifact.com.au/
May be worth mentioning that the ALP raised out tax threshold to $18,000 up from a pathetic $6,000, under a Liberal government we may just lose that.
http://www.bookdepository.com/Dark-Souls%3A-Design-Works-From-Software/9781926778891
So… this is pretty.
@freezespreston, don’t forget, I already ordered this for you. So don’t order a copy.
You are a horrible person!
I must stay strong!
I must stay strong!
I mus-Thank you for your order
SHIT!
o_O
What did I do this time?
I’m… pretty sure I told you about this. Around the time when I was soliciting phones. Late July…?
Fuck. I completely spaced on getting back to you about that phone. I’m so sorry.
Turned out wifey is using it as a business phone.
Again. I’m so sorry about not getting back to you. I feel like a douchebag.
Worse than Hitler. WORSE.
Like a horrible science experiment attempting to clone Hitler but ended up with conjoined twins, both of who are clones of Hitler
Fuck. Your book.
Morning TAY!
Backed Mighty No.9 on kickstarter and registered for a charity run called ‘Electric Run’ for the Cancer Council, already raised $130.
Pretty good morning.
Happy Friday! \o/
I suppose I should link the donation page incase anybodys feeling charitable lol 🙂
https://ersydney2013.everydayhero.com/au/jordan
Cyberdyne Systems improved life mates and Superman’s sexual fetishes.
It’s the end of Season 3, y’all.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2013/09/06/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s03e22-tiny-clark/
LISTEN AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS YOU RAD…S?
So I decided to try out The Sims 3 yesterday. Made a new Sim, and by the end of the first day he already had a best friend/romantic interest who came over for a sleepover that night and slept in his bed, meaning he had to sleep on the couch. I don’t remember the sims in the original game being this friendly. Took ages for my sims to become friends with others. O.o
It’s possible that the aloofness of earlier sims were responsible for emotionally damaging the kind of emotionally-stunted people who seek comfort in playing the Sims. 🙂
(Don’t look at my number of Sims3 hours played on Steam.)
Whenever I’ve made a Sim, I go for personality traits which reduce their reliance on socialization. Which is weird, because normally I avoid self-insertion. I guess – much like real life – I don’t have the patience to deal with those obligations.
I build houses and lose interest.
Most of my games result in my sim and his loved ones dieing … That sounded less dark in my mind.
The only thing that could have made the sentence worse is ” while I watched” at the end
Wonderful 101 is so great.
So wonderful that it sold a total of 101 copies.
wow! thats 2 for each Wii U sold!
*high five*
Do the controls get explained better than the demo? I found that off-putting. Was really psyched to play the game until I played the demo. XD
Don’t you already have the game though? (I think your sister bought it but I assume you can just play it? :P)
Just give it a go and see for yourself! 😀
I’ve got DmC to play though! XD
But you’ll have W101 for next week before GTAV comes out! Action games don’t last too long and we all know how quickly you blazed through Dishonored, The Last of Us and Pikmin 3 😉
Has anyone played Neverwinter? Was having a look on metacritic at the positive and negative user reviews and it doesn’t sound great.
I see a bunch of your playing FFXIVVLBRT or whatever the acronym is. What’s it like?
#mmopangs
I couldn’t get into it, found it boring playing solo,
To be honest I think GW2 spoilt me a bit. We should all play GW2 or SWTOR! \o/
Try FFXIVARRRRRMEHEARTIES. 🙂
That’s what I was referring to in my first reply, played FFXIV got to level 10 and have no motivation to continue.
@transientmind so he doesn’t miss it because I think I’m that important
I played GW2 for weeks, I thought it was great. The restricted skills and weapons skills bugged me a bit but there were so many other things to love. And then I hit max level. And found out that there was nothing to strive for, no challenges to face, no endgame content to master. And then I uninstalled it and lamented the game it could have been.
I didn’t mention the third option in my little appeal for help (or treatment) above, but it’s to patch SWTOR and jump back on. Which from the comments here (no offense TM, you know I love you) looks like the most likely case. If I wanted a solo experience I’d play a solo RPG, I want group quests and world PvP and battlegrounds.
Whatever the US PvP server is that we were getting moved to is the one I’m on. I have High level toons in both factions. Let’s play!
I will so join you in some SWTOR action if you descide to start playing it again!
@enduwolf Same here! Although my highest lvl toon is a 38 Jedi. Put yourselves on Taynames! I’m on The Bastion, I think that’s what the auto transfer server was.
I was going to say Bastion but then I thought ‘or was that my GW2 server?’
I do know however, that it’s the name of a game I’ve downloaded onto my steam but haven’t played yet.
I’ve got a 50 Smuggler from my first play and a 55 Bounty Hunter from my second, plus assorted mid level characters on both sides.
I will investigate this Taynames.
& @sernobulus patched up, character names added to TAYnames. If you’re keen for game, find me on steam (enduwolf)
Awesome man, I’ll see whats happening tonight!
I play FFXIV as a solo RPG because I want a good final fantasy game, and Square seems incapable of making one in the last ten years. 😉
(Edit: Also, SWTOR really is exactly the same thing, you know, only it’s a 2-player thing. Any more than two people questing in TOR is an absolute waste, because it means someone is going to be missing out on their wonderful companion comments. SWTOR really is a questing adventure game, a 2-player RPG. The endgame is absolute shit, and if all you’re going to do is hard-mode dungeon grind and raid, you might as well go back to WoW, which does it much, much better.)
Yes, but you see, one person is less than two people. Plus, my best friend (my best friend after you of course) is a big SW fan, and I played tons of it with him.
Plus, some endgame is better than no endgame.
And no. No more WoW forever. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a hater, just the game changed too much from the one I liked. Loved even. But SWTOR is very close to the WoW I enjoyed.
Did get a wife and kid from WoW though, so I think I won. Take that Lich King.
I’ve played a bit of Neverwinter, but honestly don’t think I gave it enough time to make a fair assessment of the game. Nothing seems particularly good or bad in the couple of hours (3, maybe?) I’ve played.
As a big Final Fantasy fan, I love it. Hell of a lot of fun. Ultimately, though, Guild Wars 2 is one MMO I struggle to fault.
I struggle to fault it, but I also struggle to play it. I just got… so very bored, after a while.
If I had to pin-point it, I think it was probably unlocking all my abilities way too early. Buying every weapon and unlocking it fully, ASAP. From that point onward I was never doing anything new.
FFXIV feels a lot less like a MMO and a lot more like a Final Fantasy game with other people in it. Sometimes those other people are stealing your mobs (difficult given that as long as you first hit or do a certain percentage damage you’ll get the credit anyway), and sometimes they’re being an idiot in a dungeon, but the occurrences of that and the annoyance value of it are both low.
It’s largely a solo game, even, apart from the gankfest public quests (FATEs), and the handful of instances where the main storyline directs you to some dungeons before you can progress any further (which you only need to do once each, and which yield ENORMOUS amounts of cash and exp the first time you do them, making them something you’d be chomping at the bit to do anyway).
It also starts out very, very, very low-key – you are basically a wandering vagrant looking for work, an imposition on everyone until you can prove you’re useful, which you do through odd jobs and chores for a quite a while before eventually being revealed as the scion of destiny, blahblah standard fantasty trope shit. It escalates after that, but it’s a slow burn compared to other MMOs.
I don’t think there’s any PVP yet – some arena-style instanced stuff will be added at some point. It’s sort of like GW2 in that there are no antagonistic player factions, you’re all on the one team. Again, don’t think MMO, think Final Fantasy game.
The main thing that irritates me about the game is that your a silent protagonist, kinda makes me feel like a spectator of the world rather then a participant / influence.
GW2 & SWTOR were great, it actually felt like I was part of the world.
SWTOR will always win the award for best player-NPC interactions.
Edit: Misread your post! \o/
I started playing The Secret World immediately after having finished SWTOR and playing GW2. GW2 felt like a giant step backward from SWTOR, and TSW was even more jarring. Eventually I got over it.
Oh man, Ace Attorney: Justice For All is amazing. The third case was hilarious, and this last case is just gobsmacking, dramatic and tense.
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Mateee
Trials and Tribulations.
DUUUUUUUDEEEEEEEEEE!
That’s next. So psyched!
I don’t know how to feel about this.
This is the Internet. When it doubt, go with self-righteous outrage.
If I have one complaint it’s why he needs to become Robocop. It’s gone from getting blown apart by gangmembers with guns to a car explosion…
Wasn’t the car explosion his family in the original movie?
Or am I thinking of The Punisher? Haha!
Nah, he was shot to pieces by a gang.
Man, that movie was pretty brutally violent now that I think back. I think I saw it when I was about 8.
Edit: I just went to the imdb page and read the parental guidance section on violence and gore. Something about the phrase “Two men attempt to rape a woman but one gets shot in the crotch by a robot and the other runs off.” elicits a giggle from me.
I rewatched this last month and by god, it really is brutal… That scene of him getting shot to bits…
I also watched when I was like 8-10, I need a rewatch to see how brutally it is.
I’m surprised how much I like this! 😀
That suit does NOT hold up 😛
On one hand, it could be… decent… and terrifically, hilariously bad… eh, I’d watch it 😛
Eeeexactly.
SLJ and Gary Oldman make me feel a little more hopeful, but it also looks… too flashy ‘n not ‘gritty’ enough. Needs to be more like Dredd, but maybe they’re staying away from that because it underperformed at cinemas. Dunno, guess I’ll keep an eye on it.
the concept made me go hrrrrrrnghhh not another remake, but that looks surprisingly badass, dunno if my love for old Robocop will let me enjoy this though. Good lineup of actors so there’s that
I plan to watch the shit out of it.
best get cracking coz based on that trailer, that film look to be a whole lotta shit.
“Quick, we’ll drink till it’s good”
DmC’s combat is crazy complex but feels intuitive too. Reminds me of Arkham Asylum/City!
How far are you in DmC frond?
Whfg xvyyrq gur Pnoyr Arjf zbafgre naq nz abj ng UD gung’f orvat nggnpxrq!
So this morning my wife encounted a Game of Thrones spoiler while reading the wikipedia article on toilets.
Someone clearly thought Game of Thrones was shit.
“Game of Thrones” is a new party game best played in public bathrooms, you should try it
I have mobile internet again. Signed up with Boost, so Telstra coverage still. Also ported my number over, so I don’t have to let everyone know my change of number, which is even better. Woot!!!!!
More @perstephanie more of the time!
D.C. you trickster!
Wonder what happens if I @shane here.
Here’s what happened: I got a notification, but DC gets the link.
Hahaha!
You know, I’ve been seeing you pop up on PSN a lot. If it’s that important to you, we could message each other there. 😛
morning all!
so my minecraft just crashed, i find the second line of the log report somewhat ironic…
****************************************
—- Minecraft Crash Report —-
// Hi. I’m Minecraft, and I’m a crashaholic.
****************************************
Oh my god, XSEED are teasing Trails in the Sky Second Chapter on twitter. It’s actually happening.
Booking a ticket on the hype express.
Tits! \o/
XSEED got sick of releasing Tits games so they decided to release TitS?
holy fuckballs…. is this shit for real?!?!? i thought they werent doing it because of the time and cost to translate it?!?
They always said they wanted to do it but the script size for the Legend of Heroes games are insane. A lot of the reason for the size is because after every major plot beat, if you go and talk to people in towns you’ve visited, all the NPCs dialogue updates to reflect what’s happened.
But yeah, for shit legit reals. Nothing actually announced but they started teasing stuff with cut down image chunks, culminating in:
https://twitter.com/XSEEDGames/status/375771805329281024/photo/1
And while that looks like a thigh maybe, it’s actually this guy’s arm:
http://i.imgur.com/5U0gRHQ.jpg
That guy being Agate from Trails in the Sky. The particular image it’s cropped from is a Trails in the Sky: Second Chapter image.
It’s happening. \o/ Big question now is if it’s PC or PS3 HD versions, because presumably the ship already sailed for PSP and there’s no Vita port. PS3 HD seems likely, but surely they’d need to release the first game for PS3 beforehand, and also the PS3 is about to be deprecated by PS4, so they’d be in the same place in a few years when PS3’s already dead and they want to release the third chapter. PC would avoid that happening but the PC version is much older than the PS3 port…
i honestly think this will still be a psp release… less effort. i doubt theyd go through the costs of porting it to a new platform. If anything, at best, it may just be their Vita debut. which would be awesome.
They wouldn’t be.
The Sora no Kiseki trilogy games are all already ported to PS3:
http://www.play-asia.com/paOScore/19-71-bp-15-Sora+no+Kiseki+Kai.html?
Additionally, they were originally PC games. Nihon Falcom are one of the very few JRPG developers that comes from a strong PC software background rather than consoles. Their earliest stuff like Sorcerian and Ys was developed for PC-88. The original versions of Trails in the Sky were released for Windows. The PSP version was actually a port with cut-down graphics. The PS3 ‘HD’ re-release basically takes the PSP’s gameplay enhancements and the PC’s graphics and combines them.
The PC versions were updated a few years ago to work in Win 7 and the update also brought in the PSP version’s enhancements I think, and I think they were doing some kind of Win 8 upgraded version soonish too. So theoretically a Steam PC version is just as likely as PS3.
I’m cooking dinner for myself and lady friend, i think i am going to do Fettucini Alfredo and Nuttella cake in a mug. Unless someone else has a better idea?
Here’s a better idea: ditch the girl and invite me over instead. I’ll put out if I have to 😛
Sorbet for dessert, with a very tiny amount (maybe a square or two) of dark chocolate. Go for foods that won’t make you bloaty or gassy. A bit of intestinal discomfort can go a long way to killing a mood when you’re both in shields-up editing for presentation mode.
WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU AND WHERE WERE YOU FOR EVERY DATE I HAVE EVER BEEN ON BEFORE????
YOU ARE LIKE GENIUS
He’s TAY leader for a reason!
Dunno! …I was probably out romancing? Selfish, I know.
Suggestion that you probably already have covered but worth mentioning anyway: When you clean the house from top to bottom before she arrives, spend an extra few hours on a couple passes over the bathroom, specifically the toilet and shower.
Note: Really, the shower. It needs to glow and sparkle, especially the floor of it. You will be judged on your shower, even if she’s not actually going to take a shower.
(After your initial romp on the couch/bed, it’s worth inviting her in for one, though.)
By ‘initial romp on the couch” you mean Co op-in-a-game-on-a-console-of-your-choice right?
That way you can stay and play while she goes to have a shower, wouldn’t want you to get bored
#Pixelisinwithdaladies
brb. buying a wig & a set of chicken fillets. I wanna have you cook tasty foods for me.
I said im making pasta, we dont need chicken.
but… without the fillets, my bust is less than impressive.
Don’t forget to play
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com
to set the mood.
This week’s ep, of course, with discussions of rape porn and superhero fetish!
you gotta admit, playing Zeitgeist for her & then following up with the line ‘hey, at least I’m not that guy’ would make anyone swoon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE
I… um… what?
Gold, Jerry, GOLD!
WOOOOO!
Finished my assignment and I didn’t have to stay up all night to do it either! 😀
😀 😀 😀
Only 6 more…
…
D:
🙁
:'(
However, that means GAMES TONIGHT!
I thought that’s what “Assignment” meant… that or porn
Like that assignment you had for Poland right?
Even I’m getting tired of these jokes.
“It’s Interspecies Erotica”… every time you make a joke, it’s my job to somehow apply a Clerk II quote
I miss my donkey.
You just reminded me I had an assignment due on Tuesday and my heart sank.
Then I checked and realised I finished it and submitted it last week because I knew I was going to be swamped this week and might forget.
Gifts from past-you to present-you are always awesome. You look back and go, “Man, thanks Past-Me, you’re an alright guy.” I like to book days off from work at points on the calendar where I’ve calculated that I will probably be running a little ragged, as a gift to Future-Me.
Introducing Carlos Estevez.
He looks familiar… I wonder if he’s related to Emilio Estevez?
he is.
also, I like how they must think that by using his birth name they’re distancing themselves from the train wreck that is Charlie Sheen.
That’s the joke.
i get jokes.
Is that Ramon Estevez’s son?
You know, I think you might be right. There’s definitely some family resemblance.
@dc the controls are explained much better in the actual Wonderful 101 game rather then the demo. Also, each character/weapon type is introduced slowly so by the time you master a weapon/fighting type another weapon type is introduced. You should give it a go, especially since your sister already owns it. Which reminds me, has she played it yet? Or is she still playing Rayman?
Still Rayman, but onto the last levels so soooon! This sounds better than the demo!
This fixation with only playing one game at a time… it baffles and even scares me a little!
When I was a kid my folks would only buy us new games after we finished the ones they already bought. Mental conditioning at its finest. Plus I like to be immersed in one game and one story at a time. 😀
also whilst on the subject of PSP and rpg’s, would love me another Corpse Party, on vita….
game of course, the alternative is creepy and disturbing…
@negativezero – shit that was in reply to you….
Best page-get.
You’re potentially in luck then, because Corpse Party: Blood Drive releases on Vita in Japan this year. Sequel to Book of Shadows, finishes up that whole storyline with those characters. Presumably XSEED will do it because the games can’t be very expensive to localize.
Things
Got Diablo 3 (PS3) (will be pretty free this weekend if people were keen for co op @bdkiaf ?)
Should have FFXIV this afternoon too ( @negativezero what server u guys in)
Did the bad ending to P4G but not the true ending yet ( @greenius @blaghman )
P4G Bad ending spoilers
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There, no need for me to post many annoying posts, get it all out in 1
FFXIV: Neg Zero is on Tonberry, I think most of us ended up on Behemoth cause Tonberry filled up. May be different now?
cheers buddy, yeah i expect because I’m a bit behind everyone it probably won’t matter anyway cause i probably won’t quest with people anyway as I’ll be underpowered.
@rize is correct, Tonberry was full from a few hours into Early Access. It’s open as of the server enhancements though, but if you want to play with TAYBies then Behemoth would be a better idea as I’m the only one on Tonberry AFAIK.
Cactuar pride, woo!
Tonberry is the best FF monster. It is known.
Cactaur slides dyamically into view in a running pose with an expression of surprise!
A rainbow background scrolls psychedelically.
Cactaur pauses, in-frame. Says nothing.
Cactaur slides dynamically out of frame, still in running pose.
Im on Phoenix as both Tonberry and Behemoth were both filled as well as Cactuar
🙁
EDIT: @gutsoup should probably take note of this.
well shit, I dunno now.
At the moment I really don’t think it matters. 🙂 Groups aren’t really required for most of the content, it’s all very solo-friendly and your class/story-specific quests are forced solo. The dungeons you have to do are doable through a cross-realm dungeon-finder tool.
Well if you play on Phoenix I am Samuel Killington (as I was peeved that I couldnt get on one of the other servers)
I’m pretty busy this weekend but if you see me online then I’m keen for co-op.
Sick. Ergh.
Boo.
It seems like everyone is ill
Hope you feel better, Red!
Just a cold thing. Wanted to watch a dumb action movie, so watched the copy of Transformers 3 that came with my tablet.
Would be a great film without the humans in it. Except Tyrese Gibson and Frances McDormand, they can stay.
it has Leonard Nimoy in it… LEONARD NIMOY… and he even does a Star Trek quote… WONDERFULLY CHEESY \o/
Also a highlander quote.
Also, the two little robots are watching star trek at the start
This is my favourite part of the film.
http://www.polygon.com/2013/9/5/4697064/former-bioware-writer-hepler-plans-to-work-on-new-relationship-driven
This sounds amazing! Mass Effect/Dragon Age spoilers in the article though!
http://www.polygon.com/2013/9/5/4697646/beyond-two-souls-demo
Beyond: Two Souls demo, Oct 1. I won’t be playing this demo, but others might want to. I know Heavy Rain’s demo was particularly effective in getting me all kinds of hyped for the game!
As seen here:
http://archive.adventuregamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26281
XD
Which one are you?
Wilco?
Yeah, you do seem like a Wilco.
Nah, I’m already sold based on Heavy Rain.
o/ Likewise, my pal. Likewise.
Quantic Dream do great demos though. I remember playing Fahrenheit’s in awe!
*GASP*
YOU HAD SOMEONE ELSE BEFORE TAY?
HOW DARE YOU… i thought we were your first
*wails*
Sughly posted there too. We totally talked about stuff before TAY. D:
“It’s like you reached into my chest, and pulled out my heart, and threw it into the woods!”
You clearly have the street cred to post on Adventure Gamers. Where were you? 😛
“I saw an ad to join a barbershop quartet. Got a problem with that?”
I wish Cooking Mama taught me how to make kickarse thick, chewy chocolate chip cookies.
It’s been a long time since I’ve baked, but I think you can increase the chewiness by slightly reducing the proportion of flour you add, increasing the sugar and butter, and possibly cooking at a lower heat for longer.
@trjn is probably better informed on the cookingstuff!
Is there any thing you don’t know, Transientmind? 😀 SKILLS TO PAY THE BIIIIILLS.
Oops. Too much advice. I should quiet down perhaps. 🙂 I am old (HAH. 30s still counts as young dammit!) and have done many things. Not all of them good. 😛
I didn’t mean it as a dig or any thing. Just genuinely impressed with your helpfulness on multiple fronts. 😀
He doesn’t know everything, he only knows what he knows.
Not baking. I’m shit at that. Cooking Mama is definitely the go to person.
The one on Twitter, not the one on DS.
Glue! Glue would make it all chewy, right? Or maybe Fantales, just throw a whole pack into the mix. The whole pack, including the packaging,
Also, crush up some DVD’s of the movie “Kick-Ass” into a fine powder.
FANTALE BISCUITS HAVE TO BE A THING RIGHT???
Aha! http://www.culinate.com/articles/features/baking_chemistry The answer is out there somewhere. 🙂
Edit: Oh man, is there some good stuff in here. Things I never knew about the differences between different leavening agents – eggs whites vs yolks, yeast, protein quantities in flour… This shit is gold. Heaviness vs fluffiness, moist vs dry, how to get the effect you need.
I reckon as gamers with plenty of RPG experience, TAYbies can probably ALL get this stuff down. Ingredients are like… pokemon. Different speed/strength/weakness/compatibility stats.
The easiest way is to make them bigger and cook them for less time. Don’t forget that with biscuits even if they’re burnt they won’t go crispy until they’ve sat for a while after removing them from the oven, so in order to tell how cooked they are you need to go by colour and smell. If you want chewy don’t cook them until they’re browned, take them out when they start to smell cooked and just before they start to go brown.
Not that hard.
I’m sure if you asked her nicely enough she’d give you the recipe!
Something something politics something something.
A-HA!
IT WAS YOU ALL ALONG!
I would have got away with it too, if it wasn’t for you meddling kids
Dammit, how did you know?
Waitwaitwait… @freezespreston was talking about Blags? Shit, so I just flushed all that baking soda for nothing? God… dammit.
That’s right! And you’ll never take me alive!
*jumps out window*
Straaange! Crazy Uncle Freeze is yelling at the mirror again!
Was it? My bad. *goes to get a mop*
This is in regards to @bish being the cookie thief, isn’t it?
@shane and I solved that mystery. It was the cookie monster.
It was a particularly unsatisfying conclusion.
Occam’s razor, though.
http://store.bethsoft.com/brands/doom.html plush Cacodemon and Pain elementals?
so kawaii!
BUT GREENS THE COLOUR OF SPRING,
AND GREEN CAN BE COOL AND FRIENDLY LIKE,
AND GREEN CAN BE BIG LIKE AN OCEAN OR IMPORTANT LIKE A MOUNTAIN OR TALL LIKE TREE
WHEN GREEN IS ALL THERE IS TO BE,
IT COULD MAKE YOU WONDER WHY, BUT WHY WONDER?
I’M GREEN. AND IT’LL DO FINE. IT’S BEAUTIFUL. AND I THINK IT’S WHAT I WANNA BE…
After all, life’s a happy song!
…no!
You’ve got everything that you need right in front of you,
Nothing’s stopping you, nothing that you can’t do
That the world can throw at you!
STOP TRYING TO MAKE ME HAPPY WHEN I’M THRIVING IN MY MISERY! 😛
Run @greenius. Run before its too late and don’t stop.
Oh hey a Notification!
*checks*
GOD DAMN YOU BOUGHT BE BACK IN HERE. ARE YOU TWO WORKING TOGETHER!?
Mah-na Mah-na
Baw, didn’t get my lunchtime nap due to people coming and talking. Now I am sleepy.
Man, I miss worktime naps. When I was sleeping polyphasically, 20-30min every 3.5hrs, those naps were vital to my survival. I’d take them in the filing room, in the cool and quiet. People would occasionally walk in to do filing things and have heart attacks because they thought there was a dead body in the room.
Haha, I think I’ve kind of accidentally gone somewhat polyphasic somewhere along the line. I just seem to shut down halfway through the day and need a 20-30min nap to get through.
On the plus side, today’s nap buddies/later interruptors were a pair of cute girls so it’s kind of ok.
YOU TEACH ME AND I’LL TEACH YOU. POOOOKEMON.
i’ve told you @dc… NOT a pickup line
Tsk, such a poser. Do you even catch ’em all?
ps. If you must listen to a Pokemon song, at least listen to Viridian City, geez. Or the Pokerap.
Mate, What Kind of Pokemon Are You?
Don’t you bug me with a Caterpie for flying type the win’s easy!
So does anyone know how an absentee vote thingy works? I’m still enrolled in Bass (Launceston) but I’m in Denison (Hobart) and I have no idea how anything works 😛
You guys in Tasmania are allowed to vote? D:
😛
It’s only a relatively new concept here. Bout 10 years or so
Go to a polling station, tell them your enrolled in Bass & they’ll sort you out.
You can vote at any polling station in the sate that you’re enrolled in.
This man speaks truth. This is what you do.
Also, fill out an enrolment form. Get yourself updated.
I just kept it as the place of my home address, cos where I’m living now is just a temporary address. That and I expected to be going home this weekend anyway up until a few days ago.
But yeah, changing details after the election now that I’ve actually got a house down here and not the address of a residential college
Okay, thanks 🙂
Might spend 5 minutes looking at who the people are I’m voting for… I couldn’t name a single one of them 😛
@dkzeitgeist Loving the Zeitgeist mate. I too have sweaty hands.
Thanks man!
Tell your friends*
*If you don’t want them to be your friends anymore.
Hi guy
How long would you wait for an order from Ozgameshop before you chased them up.
I got the e-mail saying your item has been dispatched on the 21st of August and I’m still waiting.
So that’s 12 working days and 4 weekend days. I’m getting damn impatient
I’ve had things turn up in a week, and others in 3.
I’d give it one more week before a polite chase-up.
I don’t think I’ve ever had an OGS parcel turn up in under 14 days or so 😛
yeah I’m extra impatient because I’ve had 3 opportunities to get the game while waiting. It’s Saints Row 4 and I really wanted to have it finished before GTA.
*sulks impatiently*
Oh well Diablo 3 it is then 😛
So I’ve ordered a plush CacoDemon and Pain Elemental.
Thanks
Obama@negativezero.With the clock going half-speed today on my last day of work before going to Europe, I downloaded dosbox and some abandonware to pass the time. I was 15 minutes into Albion (awesome game, you doods should check it out) when my manager bursts into my office because something has gone to shit. I began frantically pressing the windows button and moving the mouse, but lo and behold, dosbox had captured all my inputs. The three finger salute was the only available option, but I wasn’t sure I had enough time to close down or at least minimise the window. My manager was at the side of my desk at this time, so I did the only thing I could think of – I kicked the powerboard out from under my desk, shutting off my pc and also managing to trip my manager over. Luckily he was so flustered and rushing so quickly he thought he had just managed to hook it on his shoe and took the blame. I also added that I hadn’t saved and I just lost 2 hours of work. He apologised profusely, left the new error report with me and I got two more hours of bludging.
How do I still have a job?
WINNAH \o/
Lotta games from those days actually used to have ‘Boss buttons’ for exactly that scenario. (F10, F11, F12? I can’t remember.)
The 2hrs work? Ballsy. Next time go with interactive text adventures, or Liberal Crime Fighter.
The old Leisure Suit Larry games come to mind for Boss Buttons. I played them when I was a lot younger and had no idea what they were for. Then again, I had no idea what a lot of things were for playing those games.
The boss button in LSL became “parent” button for me, which was really funny because they didn’t question why I always asked them strange questions every time I played it (the “prove you are adult to play this game questions). LSL 1 was actually the first PC game I ever bought, I saved up money for months.
I was in http://www.lastminute.com.au yesterday booking flights. Look in the top right corner.
Was… was that a reply to the wrong person? I looked in the upper right corner before I saw your post, and it linked me to this post, which then pointed me to the profile, which pointed me back here, which… *head explodes*
That’s genius.
OHHHHH, NOW I get it. By default I run a script/cookie/misc blocking plugin on my browser which also blocks images. You meant the top right of the linked website.
Yes. That is very awesome. 🙂
haha, nicely done, my boss always sneaks up on me, I swear our carpets were made by ninjas cause they completely absorb all sounds & I never hear him approach.
Can I have your job while you’re away? I think I can imitate you easily enough.
*takes off shirt, breaks Gorzy and Pyrean’s couch, climbs on roof*
I am reminded of this: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/08/30
Interesting, I’m reminded of this
@alexpants @steve-o_the_deve-o
Oh, what a night, late December back in ’63
Their furniture broke so easily
As I remember what a night
Oh, what a night
You know I didn’t even know his name
I licked his face, he left on a plane
What a lady, what a night
this’ll be the last sportsball players acting like goddamn animals thing I post. promise.
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/sep/06/sport-afl-brisbane-lions-inquiry
Holy shit, sportsball guys. Quit trying to out-douche each other. You’re all awful.
I believe the story was reported by the kebab shop owner. Wait and see how trustworthy he is.
*sigh*
So after spending my lunch break sorting out my senate preferences in a spreadsheet I come across this http://www.belowtheline.org.au
Drag and drop the order then print. Excel is for chumps
Alternatively http://www.senate.io
As I live in the ACT, and there are only 20 odd Senate candidates, I plan to go in there, put Zed Seselja last, and then work my way up from there.
UPVOTE. SO MUCH UPVOTE.
Zed, then whoever the other LNP candidate is, then the Palmer United guy.
Palmer reckons they’re going to get a heap of seats. Nutjob.
The thought legitimately terrifies me.
Its the thing nightmares have nightmares of
As someone who doesn’t live in the ACT this means nothing to me.
Okay, imagine someone who managed to fail at local politics, so they decided to go and run at a federal level.
That is an exact description of Susie Douglas in my electorate. Booted out of Gold Coast Council and has returned under the Palmer United banner.
Aw, I thought it was gonna be something that helps me figure out what to do there.
Above the line I go!
Well I blame @shane for this one since it came from the oz comics page
Poor bloke but I can’t stop laughing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZGNk8pUj4Y
cc @powalen
Haha!
They had one of them roaming the streets a while back advertising the Sydney museum. Wish they’d done something like this 😛
I want to draw but I am unsure of how this will effect my wrist.
practise drawing opposite hand?
…I can’t at all
Fun/frustrating thing to try sometimes. 🙂 I used to be able to write really well with my right hand (I’m a lefty) at school, but without practice, it has devolved to illegible scrawl.
…To be honest, I write so very little with my hands (EVERYTHING is typed now!) that even my left’s got pretty bad.
It’ll frustrate me. I am a perfectionist. Just ask anyone whose had to listen to me talk to myself about the cosplay.
Left Power!
Draw with your mind.
Draw a blank!
Call Nintendo!
Can’t, it’s the weekend!
I mean sometime soon 😛
Well I think I only have another week or two before 90 days has passed and they can just chuck out my 3DS or whatever. So the clock is a-ticking.
Draw four!
Suffer!
^Woo, 4000th Kotaku comment 😛
Draw four… thousand? 🙂
I got home from work early and now I’m drinking and I’m going to keep drinking and vote in a drunken haze tomorrow and resign myself to drinking for the next three years kbai.
How it feels placing candidates in the middle of my senate ballot:
GUYS! GUYSGUYSGUYSGUYSGUYES! Guess what?
Spoiler tags work now.Or maybe it only works for approved Kudos winners.
I’m pretty sure it’s everyone! Be brave. Try it out.
I believe in you.
Aww I should’ve refreshed 😛
I blame @markserrels ‘ cool climbing video and relatively cool Hulk Hogan one.
EDIT: But I still think we should rot13 spoiler tag Breaking Bad spoilers because no one wants that spoiled D:
testAnyone looking for me we have moved to the bar opposite monster threads 🙂
I can say, without any hesitation, fuck this week.
Monday – Stupid busy at work
Tuesday – Slight case of death, I assume stupid busy at work (took the day off)
Wednesday – Slight case of death, stupid busy at work, find out my grandad had a heart attack
Thursday – Stupid busy at work, find out my dad is in hospital as well with pericarditis
Friday – Stupid busy at work, find out that my dad has a low blood platelet count due to his lupus and spend the next hour freaking the fuck out trying to hide it because I’m at work.
Fuck. This. Week.
Annnnd it’s a page get. Shit.
http://i.imgur.com/sEz88oo.gif
Man, Nathan Fillion is looking a bit chunky.
This is why there can be no more Firefly.
:C
Well, that’s just shithouse. Hopefully things smooth out a bit over the weekend.
Try to stay positive, man…as tough as that sounds right now.
I prefer to stay distracted when bad shit is going down.
…And a tad drunk.
Reminder: Spoiler tags now work! Yeah.Sorry about the tough week, my friend. Thinking of you. Hope everything works out!
hopefully next week will be a lot better
Tell you what.
I’m coming down in two weeks.
Lets get drunk.
I’m truly sorry to hear that. Any one of those is not cool but all in the same week? Yikes. *supermegahugasaurus*
*hugs*
Hope things pick up for you and your family, man
Woo, parents away for the weekend so assuming my sister will be as out and about as always, house to myself!
…’cept tomorrow’s lost to VR Jam at school. And I don’t know if there’s enough leftovers to make it the whole way through or not. Hmm.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1233380_585071148226660_762483899_n.jpg
Zomg!
Yeeeah, I can’t afford one 🙁
That’s purdy lookin
@coldcamv
Apparently you replied to a comment of mine but the link just takes me to some other random page on TAY :-/
I have no idea, I wish I could remember what it was about, damn you TAY you give us our spoiler tags but you take our way of finding out what some people say
I found it!
Something about me dreaming about going to work or something 😀
Ni No Kuni stuffs:
Fuck Miasma Marsh. Up until now I’ve never had a problem getting through a dungeon area. Almost all enemies elsewhere run away from me when they notice me and most of my Familiars are fully metamorphed and level 35-40ish but this is the first dungeon I’ve died in. And what’s with making you pay to “Continue” but it puts you back to the start anyway? That’s kind of silly. Thinking of just kind of cheating my way through by casting “Veil” and “Levitate”.It feels weird using spoilers! I didn’t really like Ni no Kuni’s method of enemies on the map. They respawned too quickly and they run towards you too fast (so they’re hard to avoid). At some point I just “ugh” and veiled and levitated when I could which made me more manageable but meant I was pretty underlevelled for most of the game, making some fights (especially the last one) super challenging :O. So much rage!
You’re probably sick with the Tales comparisons but I know you loved Graces but in Xillia they handle it all really well :D. Enemies aren’t quicker than you! It’s easy to explore all the things while avoiding enemies (or fighting them if you want). That’s how I like it 😀
Are you tired of all the Xillia comparisons!?
What’s your Tales of rankings Strange? (what’s yours @beavwa and anyone else? I’m sure we’ve talked about it before Neg which is why I’m not specifically asking you again :D)
TALES!
I’ve only really played Graces. I played the PSP one but didn’t get very far. Kind of fell in love with Graces though,and looking forward to getting to play Vesperia and Xilllia.
And yeah, I’m kind of tired of you talking about Xillia every time I mention Ni No Kuni. You don’t need to sell me, I’m already going to get it. 😛
MUST SELL THINGS ANYWAY! HAVE YOU GOT XENOBLADE? YOU SHOULD GET XENOBLADE!
Vesperia
Symphonia
Graces
I like when they do it so enemies on a map are a meta-game.
Like attacking them from behind or before they notice you gives you preemptive attacks and same for them.
I liked in Blue Dragon how you could learn skills that worked in the field, like the bubble that auto killed lower level enemies and only gave you some EXP (or whatever).
Most Tales have the back attack things and usually have rings that stun. Enemies can join together too but it’s less risk/reward than Blue Dragon’s was. I think handled it pretty well but it was still annoying to avoid enemies :'(
Spoilers work!? 😮
Levitate isn’t cheating, it’s basically expected in that dungeon. Pretty sure I remember characters mentioning that you should find a way to avoid the poison. I didn’t figure that out until too late… 😛I like how the favourite-to-win local candidate for this election describes no policies or any goals on her website.
a liberal, eh?
MQFT: Multiplayer edition!
2
3
X
M
I DON’T WANT TO ANSWER IN CASE YOU NEVER TELL US WHAT IT WAS!
(@strange ;D)
I promise to inform you. And all other participants.
But this one requires participation!
XXX
M3 2
You’re all poo.
@strange ruined it for everyone!
All right all right! The MQ was “What quilting class will I buy next?” HAPPY NOW?! I told you it was boring and not worth the build-up.
IT’S NOT BORING!
WHAT WERE THE CHOICES?
ARE YOU GOING TO SEW STUFF WITH GEORGE!?
George costs at least $7000. He’s way out of my league. :'(
And I think the choices were between one on strip-piecing, one on curved-piecing, and one on scrappy piecing. The answer was ‘P’…which stood for ‘Playing with Curves’ and the course is actually pretty interesting so far. Handy tips for sewing convex pieces to concave pieces smoothly. Are you bored enough yet? 😛
@strange
Nope! 😀
Sewing was pretty fun when I did it in school. I made an amazing pillow with Patrick from Spongebob on it. I was the best at arts and craft.
One day I will get around to starting my blog about my sewing adventures. You’ll probably be my only reader!
@strange
READ?! Words scare me!
I’ll definitely look at the pictures though 😀
@strange I’m sure it’ll have us in stitches.
*sad trombone*
(upvote for “sad trombone” not terrible pun)
It was sew bad 😛
well, i know i’m pretty shit, but in this case i was just saying 3 & X 🙁
YOU MAY ONLY CHOOSE ONE.
Unless no-one else picks, in which case you’re getting both, and Pow will get the other two 😛
I’d like 2omb Raider (2013) or M for Monaco ;D
I know they’re not offered but thought I’d share.
😉
Don’t give me games! I won’t play any of them!
2
Need moar answers!
I’ll go with 2 as well just so we can finally have an actual outcome for once 😛
I need moar variety!
I vote for 2 again
OK so this didn’t perform quite as I had hoped.
2 = Age of Empires II HD
3 = Age of Empires III Complete
X = XCOM: Enemy Unknown
M = Magrunner: Dark Pulse
It’s a Steam giveaway, so I was hoping to give them to the first person to pick each one 😛
Who wants what?
(AoE 2+3 defaults to @ruffleberg should no-one claim this weekend)
Aw I thought you were trying to pick which Mega Man game to play.
Aww man, that was a great idea. Shame everyone just gave you silly answers.
oh shit. I had no idea what this was about. I was just being a smartarse.
i withdraw my smartarse-ness!
no wait, I leave my smartarse-ness, but withraw my entry to your giveaway!
aaanyay… you sir, are quite the generous gentleman!
LET ME THROW GAMES AT YOU /o\
OK!
😛
BUT I HAVE THEM ALL /o\
I’ll have one of each, you junoo! 😀
No good deed goes unpunished! To me, the saddest thing is when someone tries to do something nice and it fails. 😛
(Like when my brother bought me Arkham City for full retail then it went on sale 75% off the next day. He was gutted. I had to be like, “It’s OK man. You didn’t get me $20 worth of game. You gave me $80 of feels.”)
Jus’ gammin’
I think I’m in love and his name is George
swoon
loom
boom
exhume..the corpse
Ugh, dreading Sunday when we find out Labor is out of government for the next century.. But at least I can look forward to using certified stationary tomorrow as a polling assistant I guess 😛
Next century? I’ll be surprised if Abbott is more than a one-term PM — possibly a different story if it were Turnbull or Hockey, but just because people really hate Labor at the moment it doesn’t mean they’ll be in love with Abbott.
Though I guess it hinges on the state Labor are left in and how they regroup; might just be wishful thinking.
Well the public did keep Howard in for almost 12 years..
Just got back from seeing Elysium.
Stop the spaceship people.Wha?
I liked it.
Boat people joke.Oh riiiight, politics.
No idea.
Weell, some.
@powalen and anyone else who cares.
I lost my first Pokemon today. She was only 2 levels old. A Spinarak by the name of Rosie. Nuzlockes suck.
But it’s okay. I caught a Geodude as a replacement. So yay?
You killed a lovely bug type and replaced it with a lump of old rock!?
I don’t know what to say.
I also caught another Rattata and an Unown… does that make it any better?
Well the Rattata probably has fleas so it is kinda a bug type
R.I.P. Mr. Squiggles
:'(
On another note, I just finished “watching” Oz the Great and Powerful.
I stopped watching it. Felt no connection to the characters whatsoever. I think part of the problem was the wizard character. Oz is a conman. He says so himself. So the whole first half I just couldn’t care less about him. I was expecting to end with a house crashing down on Evanora as well. Like her fleeing from everyone and suddenly BAM! You just got house’d! That would have at least kinda tied it to the original movie (I know it’s based on the books. But wasn’t there four witches anyway?) And finally, that credit music? What the hell? End rambly late night movie review.Yeah!
I thought it was awful too!
o/Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC confirmed localization! PSP PSN release + Steam PC release in 2014. Trails in the Sky FC also confirmed for PC later this year.
\o/
HYPE.
Apparently SC is being translated by Carpe Fulgur instead of XSeed. CF are the guys that did Reccetear and a few others. Good group, probably not quite as good as XSeed’s internal translators but if we were waiting for them we’d be waiting forever.
So uh, Wikipedia hasn’t been updated yet (and I’m too lazy to do more Googlin’) but what’s SC and FC?
I know there’s Trails in the Sky on PSP which I’m interested in but didn’t really want to play on PSP :P. Is this an enhanced port or something entirely different? (sequel?)
Yay for more localisations! 😀
Second Chapter / First Chapter. There’s also a third part of Sora no Kiseki / Trails in the Sky but unlike the first game, Second Chapter doesn’t end on a massive cliffhanger. However Third sets up a lot of the stuff that happens in the Crossbell games (Ao no Kiseki / Trails in the Blue and Zero no Kiseki / Trails of Zero).
The upcoming Sen no Kiseki / Trails in the Flash doesn’t seem to be directly related the same way, and the previous one, Nayuta no Kiseki, was more like a Ys game than Trails.
So we’re getting FC (the PSP one) ported to PC as well as the SC (second game) localised? Awesome!
I assume no news on the third yet? Need to have the complete package… D:
Not ported. It was originally released on PC, the PSP version was a port. The recent PS3 ‘HD’ releases were PSP version + PC graphics.
XSeed says that they’re intending to add in the extra features from the PSP versions for the Steam port, like they did with their Ys releases. Plus presumably adding achievements – PSP doesn’t have any and PS3 port is just a PSP remaster, so also doesn’t have them.
You won’t miss out not having the Third. First and Second together are a complete story arc. The Third basically tacks on a whole bunch of post-story character development and sets up for the subsequent games.
One TitS isn’t enough, two is plenty, three is just being greedy. 😛
TitS on my PC, finally!
Man, I hate having “bad days”. I inadvertently become a bit of an arsehole to people and get all cynical and judgemental.
So today I was being accused of being grumpy on several occasions when I was really just tired and non-responsive, and their insistence that I was grumpy made me grumpy, and when I told them they were all “Man, why are you grumpy!?”.
tl;dr today i murdered someone
Feeling like you’ve just been an asshole to people is the worst. Whether it’s out of crankiness or misguided enthusiasm, coming to the realization is definitely ‘retreat into shell’-inspiring stuff.
I have no solutions, only sympathy. :/
I pretty much just ignored Oliver (floor guy) all day and made a shit ton of backhanded comments. I felt like a complete dick 🙁
We hugged it out though, explained everything and it’s all good.
So I can’t get my music mods to work on L4d2 at all. I can’t seem to figure out why.
Who pooped the bed?
Danny deVito?
WEEKEND QUIETNESS DISCUSSION:
– I voted at my old primary school which I haven’t been to in like 8 years. dem memories! :’)
– Assassin’s Creed: Liberation HD huh? It was alright on Vita, nothing special. Gameplay was average-y and I only really liked it because it had that “oh, well that’s alright for Vita”. Probably won’t hold up against console AC games but I enjoyed it more than AC3 😛
– I’m re-watching It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. God, I love this show!
– Let’s say I wanted to listen to a certain podcast that had plenty of filth, how would I go about doing this? Is it better to download/stream? I’m thinking of listening to it on the bus or something (with earbuds in – I don’t want weird looks) so would streaming destroy my 3G data usage? @dkzeitgeist
– @dc ! Do you like staring at all the pretty sights in games? Well check out Tales of Xillia! So much prettiness! Like this place http://s2.dmcdn.net/CPKM8/x240-2HA.jpg (terrible screenshot, but it was all I could find :P). I stared at all the things so much in that town!
Still a JRPG though, I admit it is pretty. Very pretty.
Dammit. I was holding out for this, then earlier in the week gave up and bought it from ozgameshop for $20. Now, I’m not going to say it was a waste of money… but I would have preferred it on 360 or PC if I had the choice. D:
RUM HAM
YOU WATCH IT TOO?!
So many people are getting Friendship Points!
Rum Ham is my favourite episode.
Actually, any episode where Frank is being gross and everyone else is being horrible is my favourite. Which is basically all of them.
Quality video, there.
Another favourite is the one where Dee and Mac thought they had become cannibals
Racist cannibals.
It is better to download podcasts if you’re going out. It helps in case you’re in an area with a poor internet connection. Just download it on your phone then delete it after.
Even at home downloading is better since it allows you to skip or rewind to different parts of the podcast. Most of the streaming players are not the best either – they often load slowly, skip etc.
The town you start in in Xillia is very pretty too.
Fennmont? Too dark and sparkly for my liking 😛
How long have you played Xillia? (location wise will probably be too spoilery)
I’m about 20 hours in. I assume it’s a 40 hour game.
I played about… 20 hours I think? I got as far as
the town in the snow where the king lives and where Alvin betrays you again and you have to fight the dude that goes super-saiyan on you as you leave. I stopped there and then FFXIV happened 🙁– I need to go vote, nowhere near my old primary school though. Dem memories of the last time I voted there…
– I’m watching Big Bang Theory again. Great stuff. Never watched it when it first aired but I’ve gotten into it since.
– Download the podcast. Won’t use all your data, protects against shit connection, etc.
Each episode is only about 30mb so, it shouldn’t be too harsh on the ol’ data.
If you’re iPhone equipped just subscribe via the Podcast app and then it’ll download new episodes when you’re on wifi, ready for you to listen to while you’re out and about!
THE FUTURE IS NOW!!!
Dad joke time!
Why did @shane take a garbage bag to the movies?
Cos Mrs Shane told him to take out the trash!
Inserting @shane into the joke for no reason makes it twice as funny.
But twice as funny for 0% funny is still 0%.
D:
awww all the hat :'( I was just trying to lighten the mood
POLITICS! 😛
@dc’s right! Politics will lighten the mood!
He’s being Hulk Hogan DC! D:
Managed to find an english fan translation of Danganronpa, and holy crap, the game is awesome. it’s seriously like a phoenix wright game on crack.
Why not just wait for the official translation? It’s out early next year.
because i’m impatient? 😛
nah but i thought about it, i’m also watching the anime, so the story is kinda spoiled already, but the game goes into way more detail.
i’m still gonna buy and beat the game again when it’s officially out, there’s some persona-ish elements to it that means multiple playthroughs can work, and by six months i would have forgotten enough to make the game exciting again.
also, the translation is of the PSP version of the game, so there’ll be vita differences as well.
This is why I dropped the anime a couple of episodes in. I made the mistake of watching the Persona 4 adaption and it ruined the game for me. Never again.
you are a stronger man than me, the show hooked me too good, i couldn’t wait till next year
Never heard of it, but man that description makes me want it SO BAD>
Age of Empires II HD
Age of Empires III Complete
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Magrunner: Dark Pulse
It’s a Steam giveaway, so keep that in mind 🙂
Who wants what?
(AoE 2+3 defaults to @ruffleberg should no-one claim this weekend)
while on the subject of game give-aways, I have a copy of Tyrian 2000 to give to someone on GoG!
Anyone interested?
Tyrian? Oh god I spend so much time on that game.
Phoenix cannons made the bosses a joke.
Everyone gets Tyrian for free on GoG I thought?
EDIT: Yeah, it’s free
oh damn.. I dunno… it’s sitting in my gift box.. I can’t do anything with it except give it away, as I already have it
well… I’m not going to say no, if XCOM gets send my way… if anyone else lays claim to it that’s cool but i’ll put up my hand 😀
awww I’d love AoE2 HD! But if @ruffleberg has dibs already, that’s cool
aww reply fail to @mythamphetamine
Done. Finished voting. Now I never have to deal with politics ever again, right?
Abbot a holiday? You’ll have a Ruddy good time.
Iiiiii don’t really know what I’m doing here. Also I’m super tired and can’t brain and need to sleep for more.
I’m doing that now, having taken booze and painkillers and deciding to sleep until I wake. (No alarms! Yay!)
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/07/turnbull-wants-to-charge-you-thousands-of-dollars-to-access-the-nbn/
Ignoring the policies and article entirely, those comments. Wow.
If Allure really wanted to be a hit with advertisers, they should set up a political sister site — god help that poor editor, though.
Should probably go brave all the bogans and vote…
Hi guys. How is everyone?
Same old, same old.
Hi, how are you? I’m OK, just about to finish my shift at work.
Can’t complain, how are you?
The setting of Assassins Creed Black Flag looks amazing!
If only it wasn’t an Assassin’s Creed game… 😛
Just buy it, and every time they say “Assassins” replace it with “STABBY FACE DUDES” and every time they say “Templars” replace it with “JERKBAGS.”
Bam, now it’s the best game ever.
Or ignore the missions entirely and just sail about from island to island singing A Pirate I Was Meant to Be!
Beware the jerkbags, they are trying to destroy the stabby face dudes hideout and we as stabby face dudes must do all we can to stop the jerk bags
Nono, because it’s piratey – when they say Assassins mentally substitute, ‘Sons o’th’ sea,” and when they say Templars, “Landlubbers,” or “scurvy dogs.”
Giggle.
Holy crap this article is insane and I can’t stop laughing.
http://vice.com/en_au/read/here-comes-a-victory-of-shit
*flex*
Games I finished in 2013:
• BioShock• Catherine
• Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition
• Deponia
• Dynasty Warriors 8
• Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
• FTL
• Hotline Miami
• Little Inferno
• Luigi’s Mansion 2
• McPixel
• Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate
• Need for Speed: Most Wanted
• Ni no Kuni
• Okami HD
• Persona 4: Golden
• Pikmin
• Pikmin 2
• Pikmin 3
• Pokemon White 2
• Proteus
• Rayman Jungle Run
• Ridiculous Fishing
• Sleeping Dogs
• Sound Shapes
• Super Hexagon
• Super Meat Boy
• Super Metroid
• The Cave
• The Last of Us
• The Walking Dead: 400 Days
• Thomas Was Alone
• To the Moon
• Torchlight II
• Trine
• Trine 2
• Where’s My Water?
Thanks for lending me all those games I haven’t played!
Thanks for lending me all those games I haven’t played too!
Machinius.
*double flex*
Flecks.
Sine Mora time!
I remember seeing a review of this back when it first came out on Xbox. Looked interesting and I’ve been meaning to try it out for a while 😀
(I’m pretty sure Freeze is the only other person I’ve seen even mention it :P)
Thoughts:
OMG! This game is so pretty! @dc – PRETTYNESS! (look up some screens, although there’s no time to stare at things in-game :'( ). Although it’s super pretty, the 3D perspective kinda makes it hard to see things sometimes 🙁
It’s been a while since I’ve played a proper shmup but I like the mechanics this one has, especially the no lives thing. I hate shmups where you die in one hit :'(
Story in a shmup? trololol. It’s nothing special and there’s too many perspective shifts to make anything really worthwhile. I guess I’m only like 30 minutes in (it’s apparently a 2 hour game) but I can’t say I care too much at the moment :P. The whole Hungarian thing is weird too.
and… OMG THEY’RE ANIMALS
I really enjoyed the PS3 demo. I think it’s a PS+ game on Vita too.
Aw fuck. Just remembered Uni starts on Monday 🙁 I accomplished very little (nothing) this week! Wasn’t a bad week though.
It was amusing at the voting place watching the people for all the parties hand out fliers and really getting into arguing with each other. They continued well after we’d actually walked past them and taken their fliers.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/09/fully-destructible-bicycles-should-be-in-every-game/
Haha!
I’ve never heard of it until now, but now I’m interested 😀
Some of the guys in here are saying Abbott won?
Wut? How?
Apparently it’s incredibly one sided too. Not even close.
Damn.
Why do I have the urge to move to New Zealand?
That’s it. Country’s fucked.
When it comes to politics, no matter who wins, the country’s fucked.
Yeah, but when I need to choose between a government with fast internet and a government with faster internet, the choice is pretty obvious
The sun will still rise tomorrow. Your downloads will still work tomorrow. They’re not about to get any slower at least. Could be a lot worse.
They will now you’ve said that!
But when you could have voted for faster speeds, all that this brings to mind is:
Until someone crashes into a node and wipes out your suburb.
BenderAbandonShip.jpg
If my understanding of democracy is correct, then I think it’s because more people voted for him than anyone else.
PS. Don’t blame me. I wasn’t allowed to vote :\
I dunno. I think it was probably Snowball II.
Now, there are lots of people who have voted for Abbott for entirely valid reasons, for their personal beliefs on the economy, for their own personal wealth, maybe even because they believe that their Asylum Seeker policy is -somewhat miraculously- less barbaric than Labor’s.
On top of that, there’s a whole host of people who will have voted based either on the fact that “they always vote Liberal” or based upon the mass media’s attacks upon him. More than anything else, I feel like this is a win for Rupert Murdoch, not the Liberals.
Couldn’t agree more. So many people would vote because at the start of every news story, or on the front page of the newspaper was either a Kevin Rudd stuff up or something Tony Abbott had done right. Like he was applauded for being rude and telling Kevin Rudd to shut up and then Kevin Rudd walks past a disabled person and is the worst man in history.
The leadership spills are the things that cost Labor. I blame Gillard for even stabbing him in the back all those years ago.
God fucking damn it, Geelong. You had one thing to do… 🙁Yay Freo! (Are we even allowed to talk about sportsball here?)Go Port Adelaide though. So Glad Collingwood is gone.Ugh, politics on every channel, politics when I’m at work, politics when I argue with the wife.
I think it’s time for some vidya gaems. *wife yells out* HOW ABOUT ACE ATTORNEY?
Shh! I can’t hear the politics!
Even news.com.au are taking the piss.
Walked all the way to the pub, stayed there for like 2 minutes, then walked back. Good trip!
Looking through the freezer, there’s still quite a lot of “cake” left, so… It’ll probably be goodnight in an hour or so 😛
“cake”
O_O
As a Canberran, I can only assume that it’s pot cake.
You assume correct, sire.
(We went for the whiskey instead of pot though, and no point using both :P)
*gasp*
Don’t judge 😛
http://assets.vice.com/content-images/contentimage/no-slug/95a64659a266a0b362df15f5346bdb7b.jpg
I think I know what Tony’s saying:
Awesome photo
@dc circle those wagons!
Cayote!
Coyote?
Don’t give a fuck!
http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/177/9/7/watch_out_calvin__we_got_a_badass_over_here_by_thewulfman-d54w2h9.png
Gonna circle wagons,
gonna circle good…
So yeah, this is what we have to hold onto, now: http://www.thevine.com.au/life/news/why-an-abbott-election-victory-would-be-good-20130905-264996/
I’ll be holding on to something different: http://uowblogs.com/sandracjones/files/2012/10/alcohol-21s6tut.jpg
That’s what they want. 😛
Heh, got shown that yesterday. And been thinking about it all evening.
Fantastic points, and something I agree with. Liberal will tear itself apart. We need a new Labor leader, someone with heart, and not broken promises. Someone that everyone can work with and not going to hate behind their backs. Liberal looks to now and Labor looks to the future. I just hope the entire leadership feuds haven’t damaged this country too badly. I still believe that Gillard never should of backstabbed Rudd it just makes you look weak. The make up of the Senate will be very difficult for Abbott to put through any major new policies.
New deodorant is powerful stuff. I put some on before walking out into the madness today, and even after a post-workout shower, a post-sleep shower (I took painkillers and napped heavily), I can STILL smell it on myself. And I can normally never smell it.
On the plus side, it’s not bad.
Then you found $10?
Does it count if I find it in my pocket?
That’s just past transientmind looking out for you!
The orange Adidas deodorant? Best smelling shit ever.
Best smelling shit is like the skinniest at fat camp.
Actually, I had that but ran out and thought I’d try something different. This one’s Lynx Apollo.
Which, y’know. Wrong mythological figure, really, but it’ll do.
Prometheus stole fire from the Gods. I stole sexy.
…You’re welcome. 🙂
@jimu ‘s been on a shopping spree!
Unless the Vita is counting you playing the demos as starting the game for the first time 😛
Demos
Thoughts? 😀
Rayman: Yes
Spelunky: Nope
Limbo: Needs to be half price
How much is Limbo? I bought it at launch for Xbox and was pretty happy. Defs go for it at $5 or so.
$15 in US
Ouchie D:
Yep, looks like an amazeballs piece of art, but short and old and available far cheaper elsewhere.
I just got Walkin’ Dead for $20 the other week.
@greenius I got given a code for a free quilting class and can’t decide which one to get…MQFT? 😛
I don’t know what to say!
There’s no options!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes or no, should I do a MQFT? 😛
P, F, S, or M?
YOU WENT AHEAD ANYWAY!
P for Who Pooped The Bed?
You seemed to want to skip ahead to the answers. 😛
What is with you and pooping the bed today? What is this reference going right over my old lady head? Or was it just something you did?
P.S. Thanks for the ‘P’. “Precision Piecing” it is. 😀
There was an accompanying clip! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65eig7VCYvE
It’s just an episode (and its plot theme) from one of my favourite TV shows :D. The 9th season recently started so I’m re-watching the other 8! Danny DeVito is so horrible in it 😀
There was no clip there when I saw it!
A true weekend TAYbie would refresh enough that they would notice the edit!
There’s a 9th season!? :O
@powalen
Yup! Aired last Wednedsay (in the US). I saw it while looking for MOLEY MOLE on YARGH bay. I knew it was going to air but didn’t know it would be early Sep :D.
It’s picked up for at least a 10th as well and there’s a potential movie for when the TV series ends. Have you seen the Christmas Special? So crazy :O
What!? No!
Tomorrow will be Christmas in… September!
What about the full Dayman performance? They actually did a live one on stage!
GOTTA PAY THE TROLL TOLL TO GET INTO THE BOY’S ….
I might go to bed… night.
@beavwa @strange @negativezero @jordi @doc_what @jimu @beardymcmuttonchops (and others)
Tales of rankings! What’s yours? 😀
Have you finished those ones Beavwa? (in reply to your comment on the last page). I actually haven’t finished Vesperia or Symphonia but put around 50 hours into each of them so I got fairly close.
Mine’s probably something like:
Vesperia
Xillia
Symphonia
Eternia
Abyss
Phantasia
Destiny
Legendia
I’ve barely played the last two and probably only put a couple of hours into Phantasia.
I’d say the “top 5” are pretty solid and it’s hard to say for Vesperia and Symphonia. I liked them a lot but I played them before really playing anything else in the series so it’s hard to make a fair comparison. Eternia was my first real one and that’s definitely my favourite 2D one. So great!
Xillia is really good so far though, only about 20 hours in though. Maybe I’m putting it and Vesperia up the top because of HD anime prettyness :D. I haven’t played Graces f yet but I don’t think I’d like it as much as them. I don’t like the art style as much 😛
But I guess most Tales games are pretty same-y so it’s hard to compare and rank them 🙂
Bearing in mind that I have not finished Xillia yet:
– Vesperia
– Abyss
– Phantasia
– Xillia
– Graces f
– Symphonia
– Legendia
I haven’t played much of Eternia and haven’t played Destiny or Destiny II at all, but I suspect they’d slot in toward the top end. Vesperia has everything, solid cast where no one is particularly annoying, solid battle system, good plot, and a good dub. Graces has by far the best combat but basically the game would be twice as good if all the cast was replaced except Sophie. Xillia has good and bad bits to it, takes way too long to assemble the cast and stuff. Abyss probably has the best plot of them all but Luke
spends so much of the game as an unlikeable fucktard and all his friends are dicks too. Symphonia was great at the time but I don’t know if it’s dated well, and it has too big a cast IMO. Phantasia was the game that got me into the series so it’s pretty special. It’s also an amazing technical achievement – a fully voiced 2 minute opening song with a cinematic, on a SNES cart? Still stuns me.For characters, I think I’d be hard to pick between Yuri, Rita and Presea. Sophie was pretty good too. Elise was going up the rankings pretty fast for me but have to play more Xillia to be sure (also whoever decided to localize her name as Elize despite that NO ONE SAYS IT THAT WAY needs to be first against the wall when the revolution comes. >:( )
BUT GUY IS AWESOME
Most of the time.
He doesn’t do himself any favors in the bit where they all shit on Luke because he’s a clone, but at least he’s the first one to realize he’s being an assholeFinished those 3 (Symphonia several times to see the favourite support character stuff and minor sequence break dialogue).
You’re a monster if you think Phantasia should be that far down the list, regardless of whether or not you’ve played much of it.
It’s only low because I haven’t played it enough. I guess I could just remove the bottom three all together 😛
Abyss
Graces/Vesperia
FFXIV update:
Fuck you, Garuda. And fuck you dickhead tank I kept getting in the queue 🙁
Nothing like late-night conversations with friends where you go and tell them all sorts of closely-held secrets you never thought you’d say.
Those kinds of conversations are the best. They’re conversations where you actually learn things about people and get a deeper understanding of them!
Yeah but now she knows things!
That’s good! If she knows weird shit and still accepts you then how can it not be good? 😛
Oh everyone already knows about the weird. I can’t turn that off 😛
Ahh! The grass changed coloured slightly! I’m more excited to see this than I probably should be. #AnimalCrossing
CHRISTMAS IN SEPTEMBER?!
Turnips in September
Wait… are you talking about the Season 5 Episode 13 Christmas Special? I thought you meant there was one recently… 😛
😛 but it’s nowhere near Christmas!
Of course it was that older one 😛
Recently as in last Christmas, not 2010 Christmas >:[
DOESN’T MATTER. RE-WATCH IT ANYWAY!
Speaking of Animal Crossing: I’m an idiot.
Wondering for weeks on end why my grass just won’t grow back. I plant a tonne of flowers over the top of the dirt, water them every day and the grass just continues to recede.
Turns out that walking on your flowers cancels out any watering you did on that day… stopped doing that and the grass is regrowing before my eyes! 😛 (except certain patches which seem to be permanent)
Walking or running?
Both. That’s what the Wiki says anyway. I was under the impression that walking on flowers did no damage to the grass underneath so I’d been doing that all the time 😛
Because villagers walk on flowers. Sometimes I have to walk on them to water them
Apparently Villagers walking on flowers doesn’t affect anything http://animalcrossing.wikia.com/wiki/Grass_Deterioration
But yeah, I had to go around and reorganise my flowers so I could water them without stepping on them.
Ah I don’t care about the grass. Apparently it’s the grass underneath that deteriorates.
As long as my flowers breed, don’t care.
Ohhh! Okay. Sorry for the confusion 😛
Mac Bangs Dennis’ Mom is one of my favourite episodes in the history of everything
Porn has episodes now?
I’m at work on a Sunday. Entertain me TAY! I command you! \o/
I typed in “Why does my po” in Google, got to “Why does my pocket bike die?”.
What the hell is a pocket bike you ask?
This, apparently: http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/6299/pocketbike0069ad.jpg
So, why does your pocket bike die?
Maybe it’s because it needs to be 10 times bigger to adequately carry anyone anywhere, you twit
Haha, is there a site that is purely devoted to responding to the stupid questions people ask on google with stupid answers? We should start one. That will be our first response.
I believe it’s called yahoo answers
WTF Yahoo! Answers?
*Dances. Badly*
*Falls over*
*Waddles off while sobbing*
Encore!
I really liked the part where he cried!
I liked the part where he waddled.
Hey Blaghs, remember that time you tried to slide down the railing at Wynyard?
Yes. It was fun.
@greenius
10 days! \o/
Is this a spoiler? They’re on opposing tribes, which was expected. Should make for fun times at the merge. But would it have been better if it was mixed instead of Relatives vs Favourites?I’d say it probably is a spoiler but no one really cares since you find out within 2 seconds of the season starting anyway.
I didn’t actually know that but mixed would’ve been better 🙁
Still gonna be pretty good though!
!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😀
Is this Survivorinos? Do we know what time/day it’s going to be shown on tv yet? 😮
TV?
*look of disgust*
GO! – September 19th, so I’m guessing Thursday nights.
I don’t know what this is but it sounds Tasmanian.
Worked the election yesterday, happy to know that our local Labor member kept her seat for Richmond, she’s done such a great job for us would’ve been sad to see her voted out and a bloke who owns both our local Hungry Jacks get voted in, who to me seems dodgy… Every time i’ve seen him, something just seems off about him.
Counting votes is a horrible horrible thing.. Sorting them was something else as well. I happened to come across a Labor vote that had blood all over it.. Charming. We also had 123 people cast informal votes (not number anything, put a 1 in every box, write rather rude things on them and draw really badly) couldn’t even give credit for anyone’s artistic skills.
Ah well even with the outcome as devastating as it was for the election, at least there’s GTA V next week and my friends from Victoria are coming up that same week too, can’t wait to see them!
How nice, one of these page get thing-a-mobs.
Get a page get = +50 TAY points.
Point out that fact = -75 TAY points.
That’s okay, couldn’t give a stuff about points anyway ^_^
But if you collect enough you can redeem them for cool prizes such as TAY merchandise, or your very own TAY meme!
What kind of merchandise are we talking about?
I got a framed photo of @blaghman staring sullenly.
I don’t know why it’s in my bedroom. It’s creepy and makes it hard to sleep.
A snowglobe of a topless @dkzeitgeist
My precioussssssssssssss
So boring stuff 😛
Woo! GTA V! what platform?
PS3! 😀
Nice! Add me for MP!
When I pick my PS3 up this week, I shall! Gotta work out what my PSN is, haven’t used it since I owned a PSP..
Yes I bought a PS3 just for GTA V..
Polly Ticks!!!
Look out your bird is a bomb! :O
Anyone have any knowledge about working abroad and such? If I can supplement a holiday with extra cash, awesome. Unfortunately, that’s a really scary proposition.
Depends on the country
Canadiatownland.
I don’t know anything about it myself, but a friend is leaving for there tomorrow with a work visa that’s good til July next year.
Get to the Candianainan embassy! (or website)
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/movie-defense-force/7188-Showgirls
HA HA!! YES!!!
Is it just me, or is sunday night a battle between networks to see who can broadcast the shittiest programming?
Is it all election stuff? Cause that stuff is pretty shitty.
Woot, signed the lease agreement tonight! less than 20 days and I can be out of college for good! Speaking of college, I haven’t been here for a week and a half. Feels weird.
So I’ve been playing some more fire emblem.
I just got S relationship between Meriel and Ricken.
Soooooooooooo creepy.
I’m never sure if im creating the age differences myself… or if it is just that creepy.
Man, fuck putting up fences.
I’m tired as shit right now…
Just slept for two and a half hours. :\
Eugh, I remember when we installed our colourbond fence, worst weekend evar.
Vita Uncharted is so mehhhhh
C’mon peeps, just cause there’s a touch screen doesn’t mean you have to use it for every single little gimmicky action :/
Holy shit. Having to swipe up every damn time you climb a ledge? Screw that noise.
Worst thing ever, Im shocked I actually finished it that being said i only got 40% complete or whatever and refused to replay it.
No no. The worst thing was every single time there was a beam Drake would stop in the middle and you having to balance him. That made me stop playing.
*runs across a log*
“OH SHIT”
*has to balace*
fuck off… Instant-fail as well when I’m playing lying on my side in bed.
Yeah! Let’s rotate this objection 10 times and examine it 100%
This. I literally can’t do motion-control shit like balance beams. It’s 100% unintuitive for me. So I got to the first one and could not get past it at all. And the one time I managed it, I died in a firefight on the other side and guess where the checkpoint is. 🙁
On the topic of Vita I actually went and brought that new killzone game for vita, haven’t played it yet I’m a monster D:
Tell me if it’s any good
NOOO! I totally forgot what I was doing! Instead of going back in and finishing off Azalea gym (I was halfway through it) like I was supposed to I went and tried to enter Ilex Forest. Cue rival battle with a level 18 Croconaw /o\
R.I.P Casper the Gastly AND Remi the Rattata 🙁
#nuzlockerun
Balls. Bugsy’s Scyther sucks them. Goodbye Omelette the Togepi. I hardly knew ye.
You show so much more restraint and maturity in naming your Pokemon than I could ever hope to.
I started trying to name them all based on movies on my shelf, then I called one Omelette… Not so much a case of more restraint, just less creativity.
Anyone interested in a free steam key for Game Dev Tycoon?
Also finally SR4 this week, I guess they decided against the 20th date to avoid competing with GTA.
There’s a new TAY up, friend!
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