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Anyone else find the fact that there’s a pre teen boy shaking his butt in a sexual way on the front page more than a little off putting?
Off putting? noooooo 😛
Hi all,
I’m exhausted – worked 25 hours over the weekend. I don’t have any energy to leave the country, so I guess I’m staying. Waiting for political stuff to disappear from my Facebook feed. It’s not happening yet.
Back at work. Twelve days straight without a break is going to SUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKK.
So… who’s playing games? I’m playing Animal Crossing, Justice for All, and Tomb Raider. \o/
ALSO, ALSO: PEACEFUL TOMORROWS #2
Tales of Xillia \o/
Uncharted: Golden Abyss …UGH SO BAD
Swipe controls for everyone! Or so I hear.
I got up to the first puzzle thing in it and I had a revelation, “this game is shit and I’m not having fun”. Then I started playing Rayman Origins! =D
Yeah, tempted to just ditch it but I always have a bad feeling when I actually give up on games :/. I don’t think it’s too long so I’ll see how far I can go before going insane
I gave up on it pretty early. I think without all the forced gimmickry it would probably be a solid if not slightly underwhelming title.
Despite enjoying the 3 uncharted games I had 0 interest in the game. I think even if it didn’t have the gimmicky crap I still wouldn’t have completely played through it.
I played for a little bit earlier in the year before giving up. What annoys me is that most places were saying the game was actually good and gave it some pretty good reviews. No, just no. It’s unfair how similar not-so-great games get less than favourable reviews. Assassin’s Creed: Liberation did a similar thing but I knew what I was getting into. I was somewhat interested in Golden Abyss and felt like I would’ve been misled if I had bought it otherwise. I’m just glad I got it for like $2 as part of PS+, can’t complain too much for that price 😛
Diablo 3!
Didn’t care for it at all on PC but the PS3 version has just sucked me in completely.
I might have to investigate the 360 version. Diablo 1 and 2 sucked up quite a few dozens of hours of my childhood.
Comment via phone!!!
JIMU joins the 21st century!
… I’ll get there one day. Maybe.
It’s so much harder.
Witch!
Hi phone buddy!Omg lyk me 2!
Except that’s only because I’m too lazy to get out of bed 🙂
Woke up to some good news this morning so Monday isn’t all that bad (touch wood). Got an interview for a new job down in Springfield and also a possible interview in Greenslopes. If all goes well for either, looks like I’ll be moving closer to Brisbane but will most likely stay north side… Murrumba Downs seems nice.
At least it’s not Shelbyville!
NORTHSIDE UNITE!!!
@gutsoup @dc
*cough*
I forget you’re back!
Good luck! Murrumba Downs is nice, my wife and I looked at a few places up there since I stopped working in the city.
Thanks mate, will need it. My fiance will still be working on the coast so probably best to stay north of the city and we would like somewhere relatively quiet/new but also not too expensive. So thats why we’re looking at murrumba downs unless anyone else has any suggestions?
Griffin is good too, right next to Murrumba. Kallangur is a bit more established, a workmate has just moved there from the Sunshine Coast and loves it.
Lot of new housing coming up in Warner too.
Oh ok, I haven’t heard/seen much of Griffin or Warner but will check it out.
That’s odd, the guy who I may be getting a job through also moved from the Sunshine Coast into Kallangur. Coincidence? I’d say so. The job I’m speaking of is with Centra in Greenslopes, not the same guy is it? @strange if it is!
Yeah, coincidence. I work for a web firm in Brendale.
Murrumba Downs is a nice suburb but you only have to go two suburbs over before things start getting hazy. It’s also a bit too close to Caboolture for my liking.
Had dinner with Tony Abbott and John Howard last night.
What a weekend.
Sorry to hear, man! 😛
John is the sharpest man I’ve ever met, regardless of age.
I was only joking – I think it would have been a genuinely interesting experience (regardless of what I might think politically). Tell us things!
I shall! I’ll write up my weekend a bit later today!
Well I already can’t reply to @shane
Y2K feature, not bug.
So I hit up the Quest for Glory series on GoG this weekend….
Still damn fine gaming after all these years !
DAY OFF
PARTY TIME
Gonna sit in your underwear and play Ass creed?
I finally found and bought the collector’s edition for P3P for a good price. Now I has to wait for it to arrive (it’ll probably end up coming when GTA is released D:)
Whats in that package??
Poster, cards and an artbook.
I had a awesome weekend, first i thought i got stood up after making someone dinner, then I didn’t. I also played lots of Persona 4 golden. I think it has its claws in me now. Its gonna taken me a while to finish but im enjoying the ride.
Woooo Purseowner!
What happened with the whole stood up thing? Was she just late?
Girls are always late once Rockets is done.
#superstud
#irresponsible
#hi5withafrown
Yeah dont even joke about that 😛
#OhFreeze
#that’swhatshesaid
Wait, that’s what rocket’s girlfriend said? That’s really awkward …
that’s what all girls say near @freezespreston
She got called back to the pharmacy because they had a break in and they had to check what was taken. Turns out it was cold and flu meds. WHO WOULD OF THOUGHT?
She ended up coming like a hour after and everything was cool.
I’m sure she did.
😉
That’s our @dan!
*crowd applauds and laughs*
*@dan theme music plays*
I think the fact that I tagged the wrong DAN makes this much more funny! \o/
Everything was cool…
So @freezespreston WAS there.
BEST. GAME. EVER. this year.
Of all years!
Hi, all.
*waves*
*sand*
Morning all! So im far from a political fanatic, i do get the basics… anyways,my vote on saturday ended up going labour,as i found them to be the lesser of two evils…
anyway, i wanted to ask the more knowledgeable ones, because i heard this from a few people on sunday regarding liberals policies….. some crap about overtime being affected and annal leave reduced from 4 weeks p/a to 1 week?!?
Mostly scaremongering I’d say. The Libs already committed political suicide once with work choices and doubt they’d be stupid enough to try again.
Pretty much this. They lost the 2007 Election largely on industrial relations matters.
That said, I think weekend penalty rates might be changed a bit. That’s a current hot-button topic. Keep your eyes on that.
although im on a fixed salary, but dont work weekends, if that happens ill be pissed. good luck getting people to work through weekends….
i assumed so… thank fuck for that.
Did somebody say…?
shameless advertising, i love it!!!
Plenty more where that came from.
Yeah, if that annual leave thing ever happens. Let’s just say goodbye motivation to work.
It won’t happen. No party ever (except maybe Clive’s) would even try to take away an Australian’s leisure time.
If they tried to take away leave entitlements like that I think there would be riots and possibly a coup.
It was penalty rates under awards that they were talking about getting rid of IIRC, not leave.
Anal leave? D:
Dont mind if I doooo
There has been lots of talk about overtime/penalties/annual leave/etc. along with the NDIS and Gonski school reform, etc. etc. — the first topic isn’t part of any announced policy and as Freeze/Shane said it’s very dangerous territory for them to do too much to workplaces; there would be mass hysteria and a solid platform to get rid of them.
The latter two were bipartisan policies and so there is <1% chance they’re going to tear it all up seeing as they were happy with it a few months ago, but it makes the point that there is a lot of fear-mongering and hysteria — that said, they didn’t have to present many policies… just explain they were undoing the things people (seemingly) don’t like about the previous 6 years of Labor, so we’ll see what policies they actually do come up with later on?
Played a bunch of Gmod with @f4ction on the weekend, and was reminded of why I’ve put hundreds of hours into that game. I reckon we need to do a big group event of it some time soon, both building things and custom map modes like sledbuild and Slender…- *looks over shoulder*
…Slenderman.
more like sledderman
Oh yeah, and playing as Slenderman is fucking amazing.
NOPE! Screw that! That mod looks terrifying.
I’m not one for horror/thriller games but it was a lot of fun. It’s multiplayer, so you’re not alone.
NOPE! Although I will get G.Mod for some derping around.
The best part is when you’re playing AS Slenderman and watching how your influence affects peoples behaviour.
And then eating them.
NOPE!
I’d eat you…
…
….
what?
eh i’ll buy it one day if i could be bothered XD
Do eeeeet.
But but it costs the same as a cup of coffee… are you really going to deprive me of a coffee? HUH? 😛
Yes, I believe I am.
… oh
Count me in.
NEW BREAKING BAD.
Sad thing for me is, by the time I get home from work and class, the new episode has been available to watch for approximately nine hours already.
Ooh thanks for the reminder. Will start [redacted]ing that when I get home today! \o/
Haha, yeah I too was careful about what I wrote there. Redacted, nicely done.
Spent most of my weekend playing the Mr Toruge DLC. Gotta say, I really enjoyed it. So many funny moments in the game although it was a little short. Up next is the pirate one, I think I played through it with @trjn and recall it being pretty “meh”.
I just recall it being pretty laggy.
I must have hosted then. =P
It was a graphics card thing. All the PhysX.
I liked the Pirate one. Torgue was funny, but I agree, bit short. Looking forward to Hammerlock’s and Tina’s, haven’t done them yet and I’m almost finished the main campaign on my Siren.
Nice! What level?
Hammerlocks DLC is pretty good but Tina’s is amazing. I think you will like it, it has a lot of D&D references.
35 I think. I’m a loot whore so I tend to kill everything and everyone in every area.
Yeah, Tina’s is what got me playing again, I was mildly interested when it came out but a lot of D&D fanatics have been raving about it so I thought I’d give it a go. But then I got all OCD and started a new character who will have to do all the rest in order first.
What a weekend! I’m glad I work in cubicleland so I can sit here and type on TAY and everyone thinks I’m working. Good news is the boy’s 2y/o party went well, he had a blast and everyone else enjoyed the leisurely Sunday BBQ (because they weren’t me, slave of the BBQ and the 30 mouths that had to be fed!).
In gaming related stuff, fired up SWTOR again, was immediately pissed at the paywalls, so subbed for 60 days. Turns out I was only 10 minutes from finishing Makeb on my BH so did that and some PvP. Fun was had.
How was the meat?
No one turned up.
🙁
I generally find that as long as you are happy to hand BBQ duties over to somebody else it doesn’t take long to pass the tongs. Depending on the number of guys about and how much girl talk is going on that they want to run away from.
Did anybody hat you and the missus enough to help you out and buy the little fella the disney infinity starter kit?
Lol no, but it’s already on the cards. Conisdering picking up a cheap 360 when the ‘Bone drops (Master Race and the Wii version is garbage)
Another day another TAY hip hop hooray, everyone have a good day. Honestly though hope everyone’s Mondays going well
Instead of playing games this weekend my wife finally convinced me we should get a second cat. I spent several hours coaxing it out from under the washing machine. Twice.
My first cat does not like other cats. We are trying very hard to change this, and it seems to be working. It’s probably going to take at least a week to keep our first cat from hissing on sight. I think she’s being aggressive purely out of fear rather than any need to prove her dominance.
Damn, my neck feels really sore… 🙁
Crime doesn’t pay!
Hey, minions need benefits too!
Howdy TAY
All Hail our Motoring Enthusiast Party overlords!
I was sick Friday, and as a result had a fairly subdued weekend. Did my democratic duty Sat then went to a friend’s for board games. Moar Ticket to Ride!
A monday morning question: Which Video Game character should be Prime Minister? I vote for the King of Sweden in my ongoing Crusader Kings 2 game. The one who cuckolded his own son. would keep the rule interesting at least!
G-Man from Half Life.
His policies are a little more transparent and open than Abbot’s.
Lazlow.
Demoted from rock station to talkback radio to prime ministership. It’s a natural career progression.
Reminds me, I need to lay out that article for @alexpants 🙂
I read that as I need to lay out Alex’s pants. It actually didn’t seem that unusual for TAY
He’s busy working man, he needs all the help he can get!
Vote #1 Lazlow 2016 with Cousin Eddie as Deputy PM.
Rufus, FFVII. Oh wait, he’s dead.
…erm.
Yeah I know. Totally just remembered Advent Children.
Gordon freeman: Just to watch the media go crazy trying to get a sound bite
Jade (BG&E): Good luck trying to rout the system with her in charge
Lucas Simms (fallout 3): If he can bring some for of order to the wastelands he might be able to handle us
Games. Subtitles on always, sometimes or do you let it go au naturel?
Subtitles on.
Because Mum doesn’t like the noise of shooty games I have to have it turned down.
Yup, subtitles on. Subtitles ALWAYS on!
Usually on unless the voice acting is very clear. I think Assassins Creed got me into the habit.
Subtitles on, because I suck at listening, and then I regret it immensely when in every god-damn cutscene I am sitting there for five seconds every time someone speaks, waiting for the subtitles to change.
I’m old, I can’t hear squat, so I turn them on or else I don’t know what’s going on or misinterpret things.
I also don’t appreciate what you just called me.
Subtitles on.
I used to just go with whatever was the default but then Mr. Rasta was all Rasta in GTAIV
Subtitles, because sometimes wives talk over cutscenes
Yep, this.
D: Not cool!
But then, Mr.Strange doesn’t pay attention to the cutscenes because he uses them as an opportunity to check the internets, so I have to watch them for him so he knows what’s going on. 😛
SUBTITLES, always. Same with TV shows and DVDs. There’s just so much you miss if you’re just absorbing information through your ears, and that’s not taking into account the stuff that gets buried underneath ambient noise.
Used to be on by default, but I try to avoid having them on where I can so I can focus on the visuals of the game, rather than reading the dialogue.
Never on unless it comes by default. I find I read the subtitles more than watch what is going on even if the voices are clear.
Same with movies, can’t stand watching a movie in English with subtitles on
So FFXIVRR is pretty good.
I think it’s pretty good as a Final Fantasy game and pretty good as an MMO.
I ended up re-rolling my character a few times, because of small cosmetic details that I decided I no longer liked. I’ve finally got a character that I’m happy to continue with; currently Lancer 20 / Marauder 15. I was a little frustrated when the storyline quests required me to finish a dungeon in order to progress – I actually levelled Marauder to 15 while I was trying to get in as Lancer, so then I switched class and requeued as a tank, still took about an hour to get in but finished the dungeon and got a nice rare Axe as loot.
Yeah, as a DPS (Lancer) some early dungeons take 30 mins in a queue. I’ve started considering levelling as conjurer some more to make it quicker.
I did that, got to 15 as Pugilist then couldn’t get past that dungeon requirement as a DPSer, so rolled a healy conjurer – almost 30 with that now and haven’t looked back. The conjurer actually solos really well because there’s an ability which allows you to swap your heal/dps stats. Turn it on or off as the situation requires.
I’m actually seriously considering ditching my current main class for a healy or tanky one too.
Healing can be either boring or stressful – it rapidly shifts from one to the other with very little warning. Haven’t tried tanking yet, but I really love the look of some of those suits of armor my disciples-of-war friends are wearing. I think when I hit 50 conjurer I’ll shift to Gladiator-tanking.
It seems like the hardest role to do properly, based on what I’ve seen in dungeons. But the armor is so pretty and I like looking menacing in those story cut-scenes, so I might even switch early, just to get that minute increase in satisfaction. (Yeah, you can go re-view all the old cut-scenes using the book at the inn, and it’ll show you with whatever your current armor is, but who wants to go back and do that?)
My kittygirl looks pretty cute in White Mage robes. Not that that makes a huge difference but I can’t say it’s not a factor.
Anyway, I have Marauder at like 16 or so so I should probably get Paladin to equal level, then try tanking some instances with both and see which I prefer. I can’t progress as Monk at the moment because the Garuda fight is way too hard with randoms and the Monk is the absolute worst class for that fight 🙁 Going to try and get to 46 or so, maybe get some artifact pieces, then re-challenge.
Finally got around to listening to an episode of the Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast (I think it was @masha2932 who linked it originally?) and found it oddly cathartic.
hmmm, myes, shallow and pedantic
*runs off to find out what cathartic means*
Provides emotional release.
*Provides release*
ah, the only explanation i could find was “An agent for purging the bowels, especially a laxative”… which seemed like a strange reaction to a podcast
There was this weird subsonic sound playing underneath the voices, and suddenly I lost control of my… anyway, it was a very embarrassing result. :\
this made me laugh harder then it should have… oh god, it’s awesome to be immature and still being able to laugh at poop-jokes \o/
Oh, good.
I thought I was the only one this had happened to.
Now you know why it’s called “Brown Note”.
Yeah, I remember talking about one of the episodes-it was the Ashley Burch one I think.
I haven’t listened to an episode in a while though, I think I forgot about the show*. Thanks for the reminder. The description on the latest one sounds interesting so I might listen to it at work tomorrow.
Oh if you need other podcasts listen to,
Savage lovecast-relationship advice podcast.
This American life-interesting stories every week.
*Oh, I remember why I stopped now, work was too noisy and it was hard to hear anything especially with the conversational tone of the show.
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
How is your wife going? I just thought I should ask, but my phone is dead, as per usual. (out of charge)
she’s… okay… took a bit of a blow on friday, when she learned that her cousins 2 year old son passed away due to kidney problems 🙁
so she’s gone a few steps back but before that we had made definite progress… got an appointment on Friday with a psychologist so we can get steered in the right direction…
That is always hard. Best thing to do is let her grieve and just be a support for her, especially if any panic attacks occur. Tell her it’s alright to wake you up if she has one while sleeping. I’m sure she’s probably being considerate and not waking you up if she can help it.
Also, sorry to hear about the passing of the young one. =(
Yeah she knows that i’m there to support her 24/7, but she doesn’t like waking me… i’m a light sleeper though so i pretty much always know if she’s awake…
The young one is a long story that’s too grim for TAY, but it was sort of a long time coming unfortunately… doesn’t make it any less sad though… We’re going to the funeral later this week so hopefully that’ll give some sort of closure for her
tell her to wake you. I don’t like waking Mum and if I know I can get through it without waking her I won’t. But I’m pretty experienced. Your wife is different, tell her not to feel guilty about waking you.
Well, I wish her cousin all the best. I can’t imagine anything more horrible then losing a family member.
1) One Direction guy gets tackled while playing in a charity football match.
2) he rolls around acting like a sook.
3) he throws up coz he was either a) a sook, or b) the cocaine was wearing off.
4) all the shit teenagers send death threats to the player who bumped into 1D guy.
http://bit.ly/17iA1Y2
Ah, get Vinnie Jones onto him.
It’ll do him good.
This is what worries me. =/ People throw around death threats over something as small as this. If the one direction guy was too frail, don’t volunteer.
true, but I think the bigger problem is with the 1D fans.
nobody, and I mean ABSOLUTELY FREAKING NOBODY, should be so obsessed with something.
their obsession is showing signs usually associated with mental illness.
This is true, but on the other hand, obsession is something you see in all walks of life, including sport, gaming and geekdom. There are always people who take things too far.
I’m trying to imagine what would have happened during Beatlemania if George had been tackled during a football game.
Probably not death threats.
People don’t seem to realise that football is a contact sport…though I guess I’m being charitable when I call One Direction fans “people”.
The’re as much as people as a pack of wild dogs with a bad case of rabies
I dont really see how that challenge led him to chunder. It was more of a jostle than a tackle, plus he looked like he couldn’t decide between a sore head or a sore knee.
When all else fails, vomit.
I would say it was more over exertion that let to the vomiting.
Playing at the level and wanting to put on a good show, go a bit too hard and into the red and that will be the result.
Good point, didn’t think of that. Too wrapped up in the ‘violence’ 😛
Pretty much this, I reckon. Back when I was swimming, I didn’t consider my session to have gone hard enough if it didn’t make me want to crawl out of the pool and go dry heave into the bushes.
So you have a bunch of one direction fans threatening somebody who has these fans
And these are the polite ones
the vidyer
Reply Flail?
Or intensely profound?
Flail. Profound.
Pro-Flounder.
http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbdlbuqOkA1rheqhwo1_500.gif
nope
Back in sydney 🙁
So…. who wants to motivate me to work?
How is everyone?
Meow?
How was your Melbourne trip?
The melbourne part was very awesome, Cocktails, awesome dinners and lunches, voting, shopping, and lovely times walking around melbourne 🙂
The rest of it was time spent with families and a rutherglen wine trip.
mmmm Alcohol
Sounds like an awesome trip but now you are at the bad part of holidays / trips. Going back to work. =(
Woof.
KITTY! \o/
It was at the point when I got home last night, saw the cat that likes me, and we just went for the head bump.
he has, of course ignored me since, but that was nice 🙂
You want motivation? My motivation today has been seeing Murdoch tell the world that public servants are lazy fuckers who don’t deserve to be employed.
So. Ultra-productive today. TAY only in lunchbreak.
FUCK MURDOCH.
I’m gonna spend all my working day for his lackey, the NSW govt., talking on twitter & TAY out of spite.
That’s just… proving him right. :/
thats the joke!
Got knee deep in the Last of Us over the weekend, quite a fan of Naughty Dog now. Considering playing through the Jak and Daxter. But GTAV is coming…argh!
About 3/4 through A Clash of Kings now, oh man, enjoying it!
Spent 2 hours at Cronulla beach in the sun only to remain as pale as ever >.< I swear I must have a heritage of nothing but pasty brits.
Hope errybody had a fine weekend.
you’ve got it good.
In my family (half brit, half italian) we’re either pasty as all hell (my father and myself) or tanned and awesome (mum & 3 brothers).
you can at least go outside in the sun for more than 20 mins without spontaneously combusting.
i’d consider that a win.
also, if you dig naughty dog…. have you played the uncharted games?
they’re pretty good, except Drake himself is an annoying twat.
edit: spelling
True, I just feel for the people blinded by the sun-light bounching off my skin when I take my shirt off.
Yeah I’ve played through the series on Ps3 and enjoyed all of them. The first two more than the third. I thought the third was a little over the top, Drake couldnt jump or grab onto anything with out it breaking, his ribs must be made of iron. But then again I did knock the game out over the course of a weekend so I was probably too much to digest.
They’re beautiful to look at and fun to play.
Don’t knock the dungeon-tan. Yes, it may be conventionally unattractive, but it’s a sign of someone who’s probably going to live longer without bits and pieces getting cut out of them in their 60s-80s.
This. Although I copped a bit too much sun yesterday.
Wife burns really easily and has it worse, but son is fine. Explained to my Mum that we’re good parents, just bad people.
Upvote for dungeon-tan haha.
I understand its healthier in a sense, a slight tinge darker to at least acknowledge my time in the sun would be nice though.
A little sun is good for you – best way to get vitamin D. But only about 15% of your body needs the exposure, and you only need to spend atound 10min a day out in the sun, for it. Most folks would get that commuting to work.
I did read, though, that the best way to use sunlight for a testosterone boost is optimally around 10min worth of as much skin exposure as you can manage around noon.
Almost didn’t play LoU cos I didnt enjoy Uncharted.
Lucky save from @gutsoup cis I loved it!
Oh really, which one did you play? What didnt you like about it? For me the guns felt pretty weak, also wave upon wave of pirates became pretty tiresome after a while, especially when playing on harder modes.
Still I had a lot of fun overall.
I got up to the first wave of doods on easy and couldn’t beat it.
Was not fun, gave up.
Sorted that whole gun thing with auto aim on easy in LoU.
Wow, England has such beauty. But we knew this right? My friend Kat went to Anglesey Abbey on the weekend and the photo’s she took, amazing. Kind of makes me wish we had such things near me 🙁
It’s all relative though, while yes it’s pretty, i find a lot of Australian scenery and sights amazing… i think it boils down to what you’re used to/what you grew up with…
Oh I hear you there man, but where I live in my immediate area there is nothing breath taking, apart from the beaches (oh hai Gold Coast) gotta go 45+ minutes away via car to see the nice things 🙁
*cough*
Come on Springbrook isn’t that close to me.. That’s like saying Mt. Warning National Park is a stones throw down the road 😛
Mt. Warning National Park is a stones throw down the road
You’re just the worst 😛
I, for one, would be quite terrified if I had a garden of statues of men with faces as their pecs.
Hi. This is my first time in TAY. Anything I should know? Long-time Kotaku reader, not-quite-first-time-poster-but-near-enough poster.
First rule of TAY is that TAY moves fast. But people are talking about you on page 5, you should come with!
So I played a couple of hours of I am alive over the weekend
I think that’s probably enough and I’m done with the game. Conceptually it kinda works but the execution of it doesn’t really come across well. It seems there is one exact way to do every ‘part’ and it has to be done exactly the way the developers want. It is much more of a puzzle game than a action adventure.
Right down to the limited supplies to if you have a group of 4 people there is one exact way you can complete it. Surprise attack person 1, shoot person 3, the knife fight person 2 before getting person 4 to surrender. If you Surprise attack person 1 then shoot person 2 instead of 3 then you will end up dying.
The same formula is taken to the climbing sections. Felt very much like hydrophobia in that aspect, however hydrophobia at least had real combat sections to break it up.
Gains points for urban decay but so much was lot’s of dust as an excuse for low graphical detail. Story telling method is interesting but the story itself hasn’t really grabbed me.
Would probably give it a 4 / 10, some enjoyment but to fiddly to really enjoy
Good review, I think it expresses every doubt I had about the game and why I’ve held off on buying it. You’ve now extinguished the flicking flame of curiousity.
Yeah, I had the same feelings which is why I gave it a try.
One of the things that I thought was a really cool concept was the ability to bluff enemies with an unloaded gun. Unfortunately it works look a boo in Mario. Point a gun at them and the put their hands up and back away. The moment you lower the gun they then rush at you with knives. Raise the gun and the put their hands up and back away.
The potential was there but it falls well short of the vision
You’d think after the third or fourth bluff they’d just be like “hey, this guy has no bullets!”.
Then you could counter that by building up a reputation as a guy who has bullets, so when they call your “bluff”, you can shoot them. Then for awhile people are less likely to risk it, whether your gun is unloaded or not.
That’s how I would’ve done it, anyway.
Oh wow, that’s disappointing. Not at all what I thought it would be from the pre-release hype.
I think I picked it up for something like $2.50 on a sale, and given the ambition of what it seemed to be trying to do versus the complete and utter lack of hype post-release, I assumed it fell miserably short of its goals, so actually playing the thing hasn’t been high on my list of priorities.
The art direction looked very appealing though, so it’s definitely higher on my pile of shame ‘will get to’ list. Maybe I’ll install a trainer or something to just get me some narrative satisfaction instead of wrestling with the mechanics.
I refused to play it because the guy who made it was a bit of a dick to PC Gamers. Wasn’t fair and completely uncalled for
You didn’t miss much.
I missed that story, what is the goss?
http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/11/24/ubisoft-i-am-alive-skipping-pc-because-its-not-worth-it/
It wasn’t ubisoft, it was the guy developer. He pretty much said we’re not bringing the game to PC because then everyone will just pirate it.
I forgot that I had set my alarms 2 hours earlier for when I had to get in to work early last Friday. This morning was confusing as hell because I tend to sleep so soundly through my alarms that I just turn them off in my sleep but still kind of know what time it is. I remember actually dreaming about being woken up at 4:15am and being really pissed off about it.
Thankfully my cat woke me up at 6:50 for breakfast.
I had a dream last night that my electorate voted-in the Greens candidate and his name was “Jurassic Anderson”.
ps. Hello.
I would vote for that candidate.
In our council election last year we had someone called Bruce Campbell running for council heh.
I had a dream on Friday night that my sister tried to kill herself by crawling through the S-bend of a giant toilet…
I think I’ve had Maccas for lunch every Monday for like 6 weeks :P. Sushi is healthyish isn’t it?
Healthius.
Hopefully I don’t change my mind at lunch time ;D
Rice paper rolls?
Seaweed usual green thing
Maccius Decimus Meridius.
I had a pretty awesome weekend. Got voting out of the way as quickly as possible then went to an anime convention. Con was pretty fun, there was some amazing cosplay, particularly 4 girls who came as Fionna, Prince Gumball, Marshall Lee and the Ice Queen. Also for the art competition, there was a pretty awesome sculpture of Garrus’s face. Can you imagine the calibrations necessary for that piece?
I hope they had a bunch of beanbags around the sculpture to catch the swooning ladies
I think I’m going to have to make a list of games I intended to buy and haven’t yet, and try to determine which ones are actually still worth playing, and which ones would have been nothing more than a distraction to the next game, assumnig I had enough free time to not have a huge backlog.
For instance: State of Emergency. This was a big deal a couple of months ago but interest seems to have died off. Given that I still haven’t touched Journey, Crysis 3 or Tomb Raider from my last shopping spree, would there be any point or should I just let it go?
I’m gonna give it a go when it eventually gets released on PC/Steam.
work through the pile- that’s what I’ve been doing most of the year.
I’ve made a list of games that I own that I really want to play. Before I buy any new games I have to compare it to that list and see if it would knock anything there off. If not I don’t buy it.
Has been working fairly well so far.
Figure that until I’m through that list I’m not going to play anything new anyway, so by the time i get around to it I could probably get it cheaper anyway.
Let it go and play Tomb Raider.
Def play Journey, can knock it over in a couple of hours.
Yeah, I told myself I was going to do that right after The Last of Us since I don’t use my PS3 very often, but I started playing stuff on the PC instead.
Guys, we made the finals of the battle of the bands, so I’m playing at the Royal Theatre in November. That’s the biggest venue in Canberra. I’m still not entirely sure how to process this, it’s so far away from what I ever thought I’d be doing. And then there’s the possibility we could play Groovin the Moo. This is insane.
Also, we sold a bunch of shirts, so that’s pretty cool too.
Hi 5 buddy
As someone who isnt that much into the type of music you guys make, i still like it. All of you are very profficient and your screaming is really well done. Good job buddy all the success you are getting is deserved. hugs
Hey, thanks guy.
Julia from Julia and the Deep Sea Sirens was one of the judges. Apparently we were her favourite act, which just seems crazy to me.
goddamn rad man. congrats!
also, come play in sydney at some point dammit!
Working on it! We’ve got contacts up there now, so hopefully we can sort something out.
Cmon, do your website link, you know you want to 🙂
Does that seem like something I would do?
I would like to buy a shirt, please.
This shirt?
We can arrange that.
hell yeah. I’d buy that. probably even wear it too.
Yes, please.
Tight enough so it holds my man tits in, you know, like the majority of the hardcore crowd.
Hit me with an email and we’ll make it happen. I’ll be sure to return the favour when you inevitably produce the the Zeitgeist Fart In A Jar.
ryanmchalker at gmail
cc @35
Dude, that’s awesome – incredibly exciting news! Congratulations.
Edit: What’s the ticketing situation for a gig like BoB? TAYmeat a possibility?
Totally free! \o/
Yeah, but… easy to get in numbers? 🙂
I assume so. Floor capacity for the Royal Theatre is 750, not sure if they’re using the seats as well, so I don’t think there will be an issue.
Morning all. Finished Diablo 3 on the weekend. What, the console version? No, just the regular old PC version of the game. With a lot of you talking about the game last week I’d thought I’d jump in and finish off the act and a half I still had left in the game. I also finished two of Borderlands 2’s DLC (Captain Scarlett and Torgues). I’d heard the DLC wasn’t that great, but I really liked them. They were as well done as the main game, I think.
Watched Prometheus for the first time on the weekend as well (spoilers below).
It was okay, a bit weird. You could sort of see what they were going for, but it didn’t quite work out. With the way the plot and character development played out it was almost as though someone had spliced two different films together.David was probably the best character, and I wanted to know what his master plan was, but that was never answered or even elaborated upon. In the end his entire motivation seemed to be to fuck with people, which sort of makes sense given how everyone treated him. I looked it up afterwards, and apparently he was just following orders the whole time, which is disappointing. He seemed like he had his own motivations and goal in mind, but nope.
There were a few scenes that I thought by themselves were pretty cool, but they didn’t really fit into the larger scope of things. That pregnancy scene for example. It was cool, it was horrific, but the whole time you’re left scratching your head over why no one else on the ship seemed to care. You’ve got the people who decide to freeze her instead of cutting the damn thing out of her (why? Everyone but David showed they didn’t want any contaminant getting back to Earth) and then later you’ve got this screaming, blood mess running around the ship and no one hear’s her or comes to check on her. And no one even asks her about it later. It’s like it exists in it’s own movie that’s not a part of the rest of the movie going on around it.
The amount of hypocrisy and blindness on the part of the human characters was pretty staggering. Why did the Engineers create you? Why did they want to destroy you? Why don’t you ask your goddamn own creation, why don’t you look at how you’re treating him? He offered amazing insight into the whole creator/created relationship, and no one paid any attention.
Also, when a giant spaceship is falling towards you in a line, don’t try and outrun it, run to the bloody side (and I’m still wishing Vickers had been the one to survive, she was a better character than Shaw).
That all said, as mentioned above, I did enjoy it. It just could have been a lot better than what it was, and really didn’t compare to Alien or Aliens.
Removed because I can’t get spoiler tags to work.
> these brackets not [
I’m paranoid that doesn’t make sense so instead of [spoiler] [/spoiler] which are forum tags, you want < spoiler> < /spoiler> which are html tags
Not aimed solely at Kermitron because I think some other people would like to know as well.
Yeah, I realised that but even after editing it didn’t work. :/
Hmm, that’s weird.
TestOkay, I know what it is. It’s been changed from spoiler, to s. So the tags are now !s> Remove !
It was always s. Or, more specifically, until recently s always worked for me.
I always used the full word
Can someone sticky this somehow?
Well the buttons working again. So that’s the esay way
Unfortunately the button doesn’t work on my PC at work. Don’t know if it’s a permissions issue or just Internet Explorer.
Either way, can’t be bothered typing my post again. It wasn’t exactly earth shattering discussion. 😛
Understandable. But at least we’ve solved it so you can type it in, right?
probably@kermitron
Ah ha, so it does work. At least something good came out of all that.
FUN FACT!
When I asked about BOLDNESS and UNDERLINENESS etc., you were the one who taught me how to tag 😀
We all have our off days!
It is OK to like terribad movies. Even though @dc had much hat for White House Down which we saw on Sunday (I fail at meats – it became man-date instead), I quite enjoyed it.
It felt like more of a Die Hard film than any of the recent Die Hard films.
It is quite ridiculous, features plot ‘twists’ you see a mile away, characters get almost cartoonishly stereotypical in their portrayal of archetypes, and there is an obligatory flag-waving rah rah America moment (although I was surprised there weren’t more). But there are sufficient explosions and man-shooting to satisfy the action-crave.
I kind of want to see that. It looks like stupid fun like all Emmerich’s work.
I am curious as to how it compares to Olympus Has Fallen. That movie was way more intense than I thought it would be.
Yeah, the BL2 DLC is great not sure why people dislike it so much. Tiny Tina’s is definitely the best of the lot. Sir Hammerlock is better then the pirate one but I enjoyed Mr Torgue just a little more.
I didn’t enjoy the film at all, but I’m glad you did. Would prefer to see someone come out of a movie I disliked saying they enjoyed it rather than hearing they wasted their time on it. 😛
As for why I didn’t like it — felt like a half-arsed attempt to cash-in on Alien with a new generation.Found it very underwhelming, and then the most interesting bits were already done in the Alien films; a poor duplicate(-ish) rather than something that can stand on its own. Lots of scenes that references Alien(s) or acted as a homage, and despite sort-of recognising it as a spiritual successor they also spent a lot of time ‘n energy saying that it was nothing to do with the existing Alien series — not a prequel, not another sequel, not a remake, etc… so, that just leaves being a copy? D:
I was reading about opinions on white house down and suddenly it is an attempt at cashing in on aliens. I haven’t seen the movie so I was trying to work out how usa rar rar action movie was an aliens cash grab.
I probably should have said “Prometheus” in there somewhere, but then I wouldn’t be laughing so… 😀
It’s just an s, you don’t need to type the whole word. < s > < / s >
That was meant to be a reply to @kermitron
I was going to say reply fail =P
Upgraded my 4S to an S4. Androids are weird.
Eventually I’ll dump my music and whatnot onto it. I might even use something other than a default ringtone! Just need to actually do that at some point.
That reminds me, after taking everyone’s suggestions into account last week, I went for the 90’s X-Men cartoon theme — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A5lClmH6MM — despite no-one suggesting it.
You should totally use it as well.
You should have used this version.
I’m trying to get the chirp noises from Journey to use for SMS/Twitter noises and then I’ll probably just stick to Panic Attack by Dream Theater as my ringtone. It’s pretty badass.
I found out this weekend that apparently Casio makes smartphones now.
Or graphing calculators that make phone calls, I don’t know.
Best thing to do first is strip off any Samsung or carrier apps. It’ll save you a great deal of annoyance, and if nothing has changed, increase battery life.
I turned off most of the Samsung apps aside from the one that stops the screen from dimming while you look at it. No carrier apps because I just bought the thing outright.
I went from an iPhone 3GS to a Galaxy S2. so I know what you mean about the differences being pretty jarring.
but man, I dont think I’ll be going back to iPhones now. Got the S4 & its pretty brilliant. ALL THE CUSTOMISATION!
One day I’ll work out how to do all that.
Right now I’m just mourning the loss of Simplenote and wondering if I should use an unofficial app to replace it or if I should just turn to Evernote.
I’m happy with my 4S and will probably just get a 5S when my contract is up for renewal in March. I’d consider changing to a Samsung or something but I’ve gotten into the habit of just using whatever phone my wife uses and she’s decided she might as well just stick with the iPhone, largely in part because we can just use iTunes to manage our music/podcasts/apps.
I don’t really care enough to make an informed decision.
What are your plans for your 4s? My wife is starting to get sick of all the apps that no longer work on her iPhone 3, and I am costing options for an upgrade for her.
I’ve put it in a drawer for now. My mum has my old iPhone and it’s at the same stage of life as your wife’s. She can’t buy it off of me just yet but I’ll probably give it to her when I go up to Brisbane in a month or so.
Not a definite thing, just waiting to see what she wants to do but she does have dibs.
Of course! No probs. Just thought I would let you know I’m looking, in case you had no plans.
I’ll let you know if mum decides you doesn’t want it.
EDIT: I speak English good.
Much obliged. Hope your S4 comes good! 🙂
I might have a Galaxy S2 spare, if you want an Android option.
Definitely interested. How much do you want for it?
At least one ShaneWSmith link a day.
@rize make it happen!
I’ve already gone over that quota, but I can totally do this. I’ll even get a head start, just for you.
There’s no way to use your own music on Android, you need to use an app as far as I know. Get the rings extended app if you want to do this. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.angryredplanet.android.rings_extended
Samsung phones might have there own pre-installed software though.
Potato salad Monday! \o/
Third best kind of Monday, running closely behind Porterhouse Monday and Surprise Sexy-Time Monday!
Surprise Sexy-Time Monday is a combination of Porterhouse Monday and Potato salad monday?
Wow… that would be a pretty amazing Monday.
You’re welcome!
I take my payment in hugs and cuddles
This is friggen hilarious. Haven’t laughed that hard in a while.
hey guys, quick question;
im pretty new to buying through amazon, how can i check if they will ship to AU?
more specifically, i want to buy a celestron 5SE telescope from the states; localy they are $1500, US they are $690
They won’t ship it to AU (I just checked)
If you’re not logged in to see, it says in the product details “Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.”
is there any way around this?
A mail forwarder would probably be the only option, unless you know somebody living in America to get it shipped to so they can forward it to you
Do you have an account? If you are logged in they will normally have a option on the cart to say ship to standard location. On the view cart their should be an estimate shipping, if it gives you a price they will ship, if it doesn’t they will say they can’t
Usually it’s add it to the cart add your address country etc and then it tells you. Only way I know of checking.
Just add it to your cart, and go through the checkout. It’ll tell you pretty quick whether or not they ship to Australia. An item that size, I’d guess no.
First day back at Uni after break and I have an in-class assessment. Fun :/
Oh well, time to print out another free Big Mac voucher
FREE BIG MACS?!
https://bigmacchant.com/
I’m up to 5 free big macs so far, get on it 😛
Yeah, I saw that on Ozbargain a while ago but ceebs Facebook effort things…
I like to have dem chippies and stuff too anyway 😛
I registered with email, cos I don’t like using Facebook to log in and that 😛 And oh wellz, more big macs for me!
YOU CAN DO EMAIL
HMMM
fuck! But I was gonna cut down on fast food. I didn’t have any this week! (except for the KFC feast tonight)
… :/
If anyone’s interested the JB near where I work (Queen Street, Brisbane) is selling Rayman Legends on VITA.
Oh crap. …
I have an electricity bill to pay so Rayman will have to wait a month ;_;
But … but …. Rayman! D’=
That’s right! Charge up your Vita just before you get shut off, and you’ll have something to do in the blackout! 😀
@shane is a genius!
Pretty sure (and thankful) that’s not true… because I was going to suggest running illegal cables from next door’s supply to keep the gaming going.
I consider it like this,
If I pay the electricity bill now, I will have to wait for Rayman but then I will have electricity to charge my vita to continue playing rayman.
If I buy Rayman, I’ll be able to play it for a day before I run out of charge, thus having to wait with no electricity for a month.
I’d rather go witht he first one
But you can hold the pretty case in your hands. Oooooh pretty case! =D
Plus it might be cheaper in a month 🙂
so… Rise of Flight looks like a pretty grand game on Steam… It was only just released but has anyone tried it? heard about it? have thoughts on it?
It comes with a free copy of IL-2 Sturmovik : 1946, too.
That’s a hell of a deal.
Yay for teething problems on the new phone!
Just got a voicemail about a job I applied for. Phone didn’t ring, no missed call notification. Dangit.
Well hopefully they won’t hold that against you.
They sent an email asking when I’d be free to talk. Just told them I was having teething issues with a new phone and that they could call anytime.
We’ll see how it goes.
For some reason, they’re calling from New Zealand. I guess that’s where the parent company or HR is. If it wasn’t for that, I’d have probably just gone for the immediate callback.
If the job has anything to do with supporting phones, you might be out of luck.
That sounds like the sort of thing that I should know about before applying for a job.
Well, I hope that future smoke signals and emails contain good news!
True story, when I originally applied for my current job in liability claims I was actually applying for an administrative role that would support the claims team. They were also looking to fill a junior claims role within the team. When the agency called me and said “yeah, you didn’t get the technical administrative job – you interviewed so well that they want to give you the claims examiner role instead” my mind kind of blacked out because I assumed that liability claims was so high end and something it would take me years to work up to even in a junior capacity. I later reconciled that I must have misheard and I would just be like, an assistant to a claims handler or something. In any case, it was an extra 2 bucks an hour so I wasn’t complaining.
A few days later my wife was telling a friend we were playing Halo with online about my new job, and he was like “oh yeah, what are you doing?”. I had to respond “I… I don’t know.”
Trying to explain exactly what I did at my old job is still something I struggle with. At work, it was always “Shirley’s old job” because people pretended to know what she did. Now that I’m interviewing it’s all “I processed payments and pestered payroll departments.”
This job does look pretty interesting. The applications closed last week, so I can only assume the first round of applicants kind of sucked and I’m a low priority second rounder.
As you can tell, long term unemployment has left me brimming with confidence.
Eh, it can take them a couple of weeks to sift through the applications depending on how busy HR is and how important it is to fill the role. If you’d be part of a team of people all doing the same thing, then the other people just fill in the gaps temporarily… or in the case of a recent vacancy in my team, so effectively that they decide not to replace them.
In any case, if applications only closed last week, they probably only started calling people this morning.
Out of curiosity, what’s your primary skillset?
Admin, HR, sales, client services, book-keeping?
@zap Admin. I’ve dabbled in client services and bookkeeping but I wouldn’t claim them as skills I have, just things that were done around me :p
Whenever @dc isn’t on screen, all the other characters should be standing around, saying “Where’s @DC?”
Also, I think @dc should be louder, angrier and have access to a time machine.
More @dc, more of the time!
@dc?
@dc *nods firmly*
*nods* @dc!
@DC? *tilts head and squints*
@dc *furrows brow* (whatever the hell that means, ask @dc).
@dc. Here’s a pic for him
He’s at the fireworks factory.
@DC? Are you at a fireworks factory, @dc?!
I’ve heard rumours that @dc loves buildings and Dark Souls. Can anyone confirm?
Also, @dc apparently hats Colobus Monkeys.
@dc fact of the day: If you spell @dc backwards it makes cd@.
And if you spell @dc forwards, you’re spelling it wrong. You should be spelling it @dc, not
f-o-r-w-a-r-d-s.
Because I know how much @dc loves witty wordplay.
If you remove the letters “@dc” from @dc’s name and add the letters HALFLIFE3, @dc’s name spells “HALFLIFE3”.
HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMED!
So that friend I stayed up all Saturday night talking to, with the D&M and everything? Went around to her place last night to hang out. Ended up staying up all night again. Talked through to 8am.
The most retarded part though is that we’re completely and totally just friends, neither of us interested in the other at all. This is just happening because… because?
I’m sure everyone agrees that there is a clear expectation of sex whenever you spend the night with someone of the opposite gender, and that you are doing absolutely everything wrong at the moment. Because who wants friends?
Edit: in all seriousness, it’s a good thing. Romance doesn’t have to be the only endgame in a relationship (despite what Bioware think). That said, two of my best friends spent years engaging in deep and meaningfuls as platonic buds and then something just went click in their heads, and they got married.
Edit 2: I might have just confused things for you. You’re welcome in advance.
Something something alpha male comment about friendzone.
ergh.
Something something oblivious alpha male bro-fist of agreement, totally missing the point.
That priceless Bioware reference xD upvoted!
I’m just wondering what her boyfriend makes of it all at the moment 😛
Lock your doors and windows at night.
…and just realised that I’ve kind of done this before. Used to spend ridiculous amounts of time with another friend a while back. Same case there, a mutual disinterest in each other in that sense, can’t remember what her boyfriend thought about the whole thing though. Or the one after him. Wonder how she is actually, haven’t seen her in ages. I’m a terrible friend 😛
THREESOME
Just say you’re gay or something and NO QUESTIONS ASKED!
Maybe, I don’t know. What happens on the TV is like real life, right?
Really have to wonder just how many already think I am sometimes..
😛
…called Nintendo? 😀
No but I did get a letter from then today entitled “FINAL NOTICE”
Seems I actually have til the first of next month to procrastinate. Woo! 😛
Good for you senor taco.
Just finished watching the latest Breaking Bad. Do spoiler tags work?
HOLY FUCKING SHIT IT’S METH DAMON!EDIT: Changed to 😐 because of new page.
Should have just mentioned @dc.
New page? Time to repost.
Just watched the latest Breaking Bad and
HOLY FUCKING SHIT IT’S METH DAMON!So I’m looking into moving out soonish. I was able to stay in the city (about a half hour walk from work) for the past three weeks and it made it realise that man, I should move and cut out my 2hr train rides 😛
Not sure what I’m going to do yet. Either rent somewhere myself or try and find someone to move in with. I feel like I could live on my own, but I’m worried I’ll turn into a total hermit 😛 On the other hand, I’m equally wary of moving in with a complete stranger. Unfortunately none of my local friends are interested in moving to the city.
So many decisions.
I live on my own.
You just have to make sure you have an active social life, and get out of the house. Even though I was feeling awful I still went out this w’end otherwise it can very easily become a fortnight, then 3 weeks, then…
Pffft. Who needs to go out ever? PC and consoles keep you company! But yeah, I live alone. I’ve lived alone the majority of my adult life, spent a few years here and ttere living with people and it was always more stressful than blissful solitude.
Natural introvert or something, I dunno, but I can’t think of many disadvantages to living alone.
@powalen – dooo eeet. Living alone has benefits:
* It makes romantic sleepovers more appealing/easier to set up/less incovenient for others (apart from your prospective partner’s significant other)
* It makes cleaning chores easier to organize, and you don’t have to deal with other peoples’ shit, or plates piling up in the sink for weeks
* You have all the entertainment devices to yourself and never have to put up with someone using the TV to watch Big Brother
* You never have to worry about what time you come home or leave or how noisy you are in the process, and never have to worry about someone else banging around while you’re trying to sleep
* You never have to share a bathroom and put up with other peoples’ weird hair or products or smells
* You never have to label your food or worry about it being stolen
* You never have to put up with roommates having domestic disputes or engaging in passive-aggressive psychological warfare with each other
* There’s no obligation to engage in conversation with people to avoid having them think you’re avoiding them or annoyed with them
* You can be naked at any time of day or night for any reason, without explanation/warning/justification
* You can eat an entire bag of grated cheese and no-one will try to stop you. (Wait… I think that’s a disadvantage.)
Suddenly I don’t want to be married anymore.
Adjoining apartments, with sleepovers. 🙂
I’m with TM, @powalen. If you have the opportunity, try living alone. It’s like having your own space ALL THE TIME. And if you can’t handle the solitude, move elsewhere. Easier to do it solo first than the other way around.
Speaking of living alone and the silence, after I broke up with my girlfriend, I played music all the time to eat up the silence. It helped a lot, plus I have a great taste in music and the music never says anything stupid.
I lol’d. Simply because my now wife, whom I met on World of Warcraft, was my guildmaster’s fiancee. Who’s the better healer now?!
BWAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Cheap / Fast / Good.
You know how you get something done while only ever having two of those?
well, the housing market in sydney is slightly different:
Convenient / Cheap / Not horrible & falling apart.
you can only have one of those.
I assumed he meant the ‘Gong.
Oh, but “2hr train rides” implies I’m an idiot.
Well yeah. If I can get my commute down to a half-hour train ride I’ll be a happy chappy. Hell, a one hour train ride would still be a significant improvement 😛
I could not tolerate having other people in my face all the time (wife excluded, because in that case the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks). Give me a 1 hour commute each way and cheaper rent for living in the western suburbs, thanks.
If I had a job near the city I’d be up for moving out of my current place. I haven’t had any luck on that end though.
Hopefully I can sleep on your floor during the house warming meat? 🙂
Good luck though, short commutes are great.
Today was one of those weird days where I was busy all day long, but got absolutely nothing done :\ Hate those days.
On the plus side, for some reason, Aussie Stand-up comedian Bev Killick followed me on twitter last night! No idea why, but I think that’s pretty groovy!
She’s on in Adelaide all week.
I’m actually going to the comedy tonight, see my brother perform 🙂
She’s a riot. I saw her on the comedy channel years ago doing a short stand up set.. one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. Showed it to my mum (who HATES stand up), and she was crying with laughter!
Lo all. Anyone every bought/preordered online from Blockbuster or Video Ezy? The prices for GTAV are crazy cheap..
http://www.blockbuster.com.au/games/grand-theft-auto-v-xbox-360/dp/247916
I’ve heard mixed things, I think someone had a poo time with Diablo 3.
Something about it not shipping until November or something.
BUT I could be remembering wrong.
That’s a great price. Free shipping too. I’ve never used Blockbuster but I bought Far Cry 3 from Video Ezy last year and it arrived in about 2 weeks.
Do you know if blockbuster are offering the atomic blimp pre-order DLC?
(See below)
Since I think they’re all the same company if one of them has it, the other one will and if one of them doesn’t, the others won’t. But I saw that you asked very vaguely on Twitter. Send them an email, explain what you’re asking (show examples of other sites having the pre-order bonus) and maybe you’ll get a better answer. The Video Ezy one wasn’t very clear and it seemed like the dude had no idea what it was. It’s safer to assume that if it doesn’t say it, then it won’t have it.
But aren’t you buying it from Play-Asia anyway? 😛 Mr. ChangesHisDecisionasha!
Yeah, I’m buying it from Play-asia. I think I might have confused the Asian edition and the American edition’s price. I think the price was always $66 for the American version and maybe I thought it was $64 because the Asian version is $63. I don’t know. I’ll give it a few days anyway.
I like your idea of showing them examples. I’ll send video ezy another email with a picture of the pre-order bonus.
I’ve pre-ordered a few things from Video Ezy but I believe Blockbuster, EzyDVD, Video Ezy (and a few others) are all under the same company, so the experiences should be the same for all of them.
Prices were great when I first used Video Ezy and I got stuff like Far Cry 3 and Assassin’s Creed 3 for $23ish AT LAUNCH. The only thing is don’t expect to get anything quickly. Give it the usual 7-12 working days for stuff to arrive but also factor in how long it might take for them to ship it out.
From my experience they usually ship stuff AFTER release (maybe a week or so?) but you should get it within 2 weeks from then. I pre-ordered Rayman Legends (Wii U) from them last year and they only shipped it out last week (again, about a week after its launch). I wasn’t in a rush though so I don’t mind waiting, but I can tell you when it arrives if you want (well, if I remember to :P)
If you’re willing to wait that long then go for it! Personally I import most of my games, but for a big release like GTAV, I’d rather just buy it locally cause WOO HYPE!
I am so fed up with all the idiots in the Tony Abbott lookalike article.
comments sections.
they’re the herpes of the internet: best avoided.
Not on my beloved Kotaku. D=
even on kotaku…. remember (s)TAY SAFE.
I refuse. I will uphold Kotaku’s honor! =D
Good luck, scree.
Remember: Wear protection
Don’t worry I will. For Kotaku!
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_68dc2X9bOzA/TKpdOM5JiSI/AAAAAAAACW4/ANX_qJIVQXw/s1600/Full+Body+condom+costume.jpg
Could this work just as well?
How about no?
Christ there are some morons there.
BTW, if we’re doing lookalikes, for balance:
KRudd: http://www.quadrant.org.au/img/content/Jul_Aug%202010/Milky%20Bar.jpg
Gillard: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yCHj4O-uMb0/TyDC0GnKZeI/AAAAAAAAB8Y/Ph-EDPdOHR0/s400/Tilda+burn.jpg
I think we need to find video game ones. =/
My Femshep looked kinda gillardish in some lights.
Would have gone http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100418004852/simpsons/images/c/c3/MartinPrince.png for Rudd myself.
There’s nowhere near enough Breaking Bad hype. I’m very disappointed in all of you.
Only another five hours until I get home. THEN, Breaking Bad!
We have jobs.
meh. its over-hyped as it is.
You’re wrong.
dude, the fucking moon landing wasn’t given this level of hype.
it’s not a bad show, but damn… it’s not worth all the hype its getting.
The base level of hype these days is much higher than during the moon landing.
Just look at Twitter with the Sony press conference. It’s a launch date for PS4 and a new Vita model and some people are losing their shit.
Breaking Bad needs significantly more hype just to be heard over the low level “ZOMG I FOUND A DOLLAR!” hype that we see every day.
WE WENT TO THE FUCKING MOOON! WOOOOOOO!
OH FUCK YES! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!!!!!!
MOOOOO-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!
To The Moon is a fantastic game, you’re right 😀
to justify the ‘required’ level of hype, it would need to be a whole lot better than it actually is.
I’m a bit over hype to be honest. I miss the old days where a good thing was good & didn’t need its name shouted from the rooftops every 3 seconds, lest it be instantaneously forgotten & consigned to pop-culture oblivion.
I’ve watched this week’s episode, so my excitement levels are probably a lot higher than most people’s right now.
MOOOOOOOON!
I should point out, I really don’t care about all the hype stuff that goes on normally. I’m just being a bit silly because I’m bored and waiting for a phone call that probably won’t come until tomorrow now.
I just finished it a couple of minutes ago. Horey shiieeett.
If it makes you feel better — I never log in to Facebook. And by never, I mean once every 3-4 months.
I just happened to log in about 20 minutes ago, and WHAM — the most recent episode, spoiled in my news feed by some person I’m not even sure I know.
How is that for hype? 😐
Kill them.
It’s justified.
that article… ‘Football : The Kotaku review’
I’ll save you the click & repost the article here in its entirety:
that is it. the whole damn thing.
That isn’t an article, it’s a fucking tweet.
Fucking Kotaku US and their bullshit “articles”.
SOMEONE HIRE THIS MA-waitaminute.
http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/rugod0/dying-light-pax-2013–nighttime-survival-interview
Yes, I’m interested…
I’m just going to run some points off about my weekend
Friday
*Told at work that my boss is leaving and is nominating me as her replacement (BOOYAH!)
*Went to Watson Liberal campaign office that night and picked up a booth kit. Went to coles and bought some water and lollies.
*Spent till 11.30 making sandwiches for my booth team for Saturday (in case our lunch wasn’t delivered). Also packed the car.
*Got to sleep about 12.30am.
Saturday
*Woke up at 5am
*Arrived at booth at 5.30am with my gf. My booth is a strong Labor seat.
*Took over the place with posters, banners and A-frames.
*Labor campaign bus turns up at 7am. Freaking out till I see only one dude get out and a bunch of posters. Guy sets up in a couple places but it’s clear that the early bird catches the worm.
*Rest of my team arrive by 7.30am.
*Big queue in front of polling booth. I start directing the queue as its started going across the road. Walk up and chat to every single person there.
*Had a pretty great time. If you guys enjoy talking politics you should get involved in campaigning. I know there are a lot of Labor supporters here and the Labor campaigners were completely useless and had no idea what they were doing, lol. Someone asked one once why they should vote for Rudd and the Labor campaigner told him “He is good looking”. I am not kidding.
*28 degrees and no shade was pretty difficult to handle
*One campaigner from Greens turned up. She seemed a very very angry and pissed off woman. She gave up halfway through the day and went home, leaving her posters and rubbish behind.
*Finished campaigning at 6pm, went in to scrutineer. Labor didn’t send any scrutineers.
*Labor still won our booth, but we closed the margin by 5%.
*Finished scrutineering at 7.30pm.
*Rushed home, grabbed bags and arrived at Four seasons hotel at 9.30
*Checked in, had a shower and changed and back down stairs at 9.40.
*Hung out upstairs in private staff room.
*Went down stairs in to main room for Tony’s acceptance speech. Crazy intruder guy was kind of hilarious. Wow Australian security really sucks, lol.
*Went back upstairs where Tony did a private speech.
*Had a few more drinks, gf and I went back to room to sleep at around midnight.
Sunday
*Woke up around 10am. Checked out and had breakfast in the Rocks.
*Went home, unpacked car from day before
*Rested, then caught taxi to private dinner party.
*First ones there. Chatted to the host and his family. On BRWs 200 richest lists.
*Amazing views on water and mini beach.
*Tony Abbott and John Howard and his wife arrive.
*Got to chat to each separately for about 5 minutes. Tony is probably the happiest man on the planet at that very point. John is easily one of the sharpest minds I have ever met in my life. I think he’s losing his hearing a bit though.
*Got to take photos with both of them.
*Dinner was steak, sausages and salad.
*Dinner entertainment were a group of opera singers. Were truly epic. Tony joined in at one stage and he actually has a pretty decent voice.
*Home by 10pm.
That’s some serious weekend!
I sat in my house doing as little as possible in an attempt to save money.
One of my old besties is coming to visit me from Melbourne this Friday! eeeee!
The campaigner for liberals where I voted was an absolute fucking arsehole. That’s all I’m saying.
Edit: The greens guy was alright, and the young woman (who the old liberal guy kept telling to keep her mouth shut) was really sweet 🙂
Not a lot of point campaigning in my electorate for Labor. McPherson has been held by the Liberals since it formed in 1949. Don’t think there’s a safer seat.
Indi.
/s
I’m currently in Blaxland which has been Labor-held since 1949, and I used to live in Grayndler which is equally Labor-safe.
I spent most of my adult life in Moreton, which was listed as one of those potential Queensland losses for Labor. They still managed to hold it, so I’d call that pretty safe. Being next door to Griffith probably helped a little.
I’m not in Sydney, which is so safe that the biggest danger Labor faced here was the Greens.
I met him in 2005-ish — his hearing didn’t seem to be too great then, either.
Rayman Legends is so pretty on the VITA! =D
Psycho Break looks interesting. That’s my only take away from the Sony Conference.
I think you mean Evil Within 🙂
Dear god but am I keen for that game.
64Gb mem cards!!
\o/
Forgot how tasty Samboy Atomic Tomato chips were.
Also the new Red Bull Zero doesn’t taste bad at all in the way that when it doesn’t really taste like much its hard to find it gross.
Lesson learned – don’t feed dog two straight meals of only leftover BBQ meat.
Makes me think though – dogs are carnivorous – wild dogs must just shit liquid 100% of the time.
sounds … messy
You could say
(•_•)
( •_•)>⌐■-■
(⌐■_■)
He had a beef.
YYEEEAA…no. No that was awful.
the toon was good though! 😀
Dogs aren’t actually strictly carnivores. The domesticated dog has evolved to be omnivorous, like humans. They have no real issues digesting starches and vegetables and stuff. Just not chocolate. Or onions or garlic. Or macadamia nuts.
@redartifice
Oh what? @Crazyguy1990 doesn’t like Sterling?
Nope. I think he’s anything but.
What’s your rankle with him?
The other point I’d mention in that whole debate about objectification is that it’s systemic- it’s not a few examples, it’s the exceptions to the rule that are rare.
So I bought a PS3 today in preparation of GTA V next week >_> <_
Also uh you guys can add me on that PSN dealy if you ever so wish.. virus_mw
Nice. You have a nice long list of great games to play afterwards too. Cheap too since the generation is ending.
Feel free to add me and other taybies for some GTA online shenanigans when that releases.
I’m hoping my internet is reliable then. I’ve missed out on Payday:The heist and NFS: Most Wanted multiplayer sessions lately
Will do. I have Driver & Red Dead GOTY edition so far to play 😛
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11753050
James Blunt shares the time he single handedly prevented World War III.
That’s beautiful.
It’s true.
I remember reading that one a while ago.
After seeing him on Top Gear, it turns out that James Blunt is just a genuinely awesome dude. Shame about the music but even he admits that it’s sappy nonsense that pays the bills.
Check out the episode of Nevermind the Buzzcocks that he hosted. It’s fantastic.
I saw him live once, and he seemed really different from the interview clips he’s better known for. Seemed quite down to earth, and amused by the fleeting and trivial nature of fame. Interesting guy, I think.
I’ll have you know I am trying to better my artistic skills,
and only gave up 43 times.
/spongebob
😀
Wow. I can’t decided if this guy is a genious or just really really high.
CAUTION: Contains weirdness.
Cyriak is amazing and oh god nightmares.
Yes.
wait, you say you can’t watch Adventure time because it is too weird yet you link … that?
I is confused
I thought about that when I watched it. Maby it’s the duration. Adventure times is an entire series and after a while random becomes normal and boring.
I will never look at cats the same way again
You were already more of a dog person. What have I done, you’ll never love cats now!
I liked cats too…just not as much as dogs
Got a trial for a job starting Thursday. Its a see if you like the job and other guys and we will see if we like you and your work. Should be good.
This is good news now I have money to pay for GTA V
For anyone interested in picking up the Collectors Edition of Wind Waker for WiiU, Amazon Italy is selling it for around 90AUD.
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/115836
EDIT: Sorry ladies and gents looks like this offer is up. /o\
Gorzy, buy it for me as an early birthday present. Right? =D
No? Okay.
… I think I may have set an unfortuante precedent somewhere….
Apparently some guy’s GAME pre-order got cancelled because it was over 1kg
Which means ALL OUR PRE-ORDERS ARE LIKELY TO BE CANCELLED
:O
EDIT: Holy crap! Price increased mid-order so it’s now like $140 AUD, but might be the only other place you can get it from since this guy had his GAME order cancelled http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2062906#r40090848
Luckily the order must’ve locked in the price at $90 😛
Amazon don’t charge until they ship so I can always cancel it later and GAME hasn’t charged for theirs yet, and I guess if I somehow end up with 2 copies I can hook a TAYbie up!
How do you order it? everything is in Italian 🙁
I’m used to ordering from Amazon US/UK so I know what most of the buttons do (just go to one of their sites for a quick “translation”) but most browsers have an in-built translator. I was on Chrome and it had the option to translate Italian.
Last time I checked the price went up to $140 AUD :O
Sorry kotaku. audible ads again. I’m out. Someone tell me when they are gone.
When you install ad block
OK wow, I have a script/image-blocking thing installed at work, today was the first time I’ve heard audible ads on Kotaku or seen them expand to cover a significant part of the site.
Not a fan.
*in a gruff old timer voice*
You should’ve seen the Dick days…
Aw god, the Dick days.
Yellow, yellow everywhere.
I preferred the dick day to resident evil furry porn to be honest.
I always feel dirty when I actually learn something on news.com.au…
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/television/breaking-bad-8216crystal-meth-lab8217-toy-sets-spark-outrage/story-e6frfmyi-1226715378784
😀
Any coolness of that is totally negated by the angry I get from all the stupid.
@transientmind
Second week of observation of previously-mentioned girl at climbing. Night seemed to be getting on a bit but then she showed. Still friendly, not entirely sure about any IOIs. Seemed to sit rather close to me at times though. No attempts at number procurement made. Left with same vocal expectations of meeting next week.
Will continue to observe.
Roger, Eagle One. Distance pursuit. Be seen surveying her rivals to encourage her approach.
Where possible, casually interrupt conversation with, “One sec, what’s your number?” while getting out phone (don’t ask if you can have it, assume success), then continue conversation as if it never happened.
Castle, out.
Log, 2013-09-09. Location: Earth.
During my time trapped on this godforsaken planet, I have taken to observing what appears to be this world’s dominant species, Homo Sapiens. I have studied their language, and technology, though it is their social customs I find most intriguing.
Example: This afternoon, I witnessed a human courtship attempt. It is the most counter-intuitive mating ritual: The male climbs to the highest point of a nearby cliff (presumably to improve his vantage point when scouting for mates), and then returns to the base of the cliff. He will repeat this several times.
Upon spotting a suitable female, the male will engage in what is known on this world as ‘conversation’ – a purely vocal display intended to convince the female that he is a suitable mate.
On the one other prior occasion that I have witnessed such a display, the male and female exchanged pheromones via passing two black, metallic devices between each other. I presume these devices keep a record of the prospective mates’ scent preserved, should the humans wish to communicate again, or to complete the mating ritual.
In the case witnessed this afternoon however, no such exchange was initiated.
Instead, the humans vocalised at each other for some time before the female departed. The male expressed his hope that the female would return to that same place within approximately one quarter of a lunar cycle.
Determined to discover what happened next, I followed the male back to his den. The male proceeded to interact with some sort of coal-powered televisual device to communicate this afternoons happenings to another male.
I have noted, however, that more successful courtship attempts appear to have several comon traits – the human who initiates contact with a prospective mate will suggest a meeting at another time and place, well outside of the regular cliff-climbing, meet-by-routine pattern. Immediately following this, the male will offer to communicate via the before-mentioned black metallic scent boxes to arrange a time and location most suited to both parties.
It sometimes astounds me that the mating ritual ever occurs at all on this planet, fraught with difficulties as it is.
And now, I will end this log.
Signing off,
Sir Wilfred Diego DeMott, last of the Brixton Pathfinders.
-[END COMMUNICATION]-
EDIT: NO I DON’T KNOW WHAT THAT WAS. NO I DON’T KNOW WHAT I’M DOING. I’M TIRED. SHUT UP.
How do I upvote this multiple times?
Despite a couple of minor inaccuracies 😛
LATEST BREAKING BAD:
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LBH TRG GUR CVPGHER, OVGPU
http://www.cplonline.com.au/basic-pc-intel-dual-core-code-913.html
PC people, is this a good starting point? What specs am I looking for here?
MASTER RACE PAGEGET
Same case I’ve got except mine is blue and white.
Be aware it’s VERY bright. And there’s no way to turn off the LED’s that I can find. So if its set up in your bedroom and you like to leave it on it doesn’t work very well as I’ve discovered.
That’s OK, I’m going to set up my spare room as a study
All the cases I’ve mucked around with in the past you can just yank out the LED plug from the motherboard. Worst case scenario, you could probably snip them.
I can’t comment on the graphics card, but it looks like a decent enough entry rig.
Will play crusader kings II, 2 thumbs up
That’s good, because the one I’m using at the moment can’t run EUIV
Europa has higher spec requirements but should be ok. The CPL link is down atm but think it had the 7770 which should be fine for it
Just realised when I move out I’ll be paying less a month including Foxtel and internet (and phone line) than I pay in a fortnight here just for rent… shit. I’ll finally be able to actually save some money every week for fun things, like the $700 pair of speakers that are on the top of my buying list!
Fun?
Sounds horrible.
Seven…hundred….?!!
My shoes cost $11 🙁
Edit: oh man, I think I’m tired. Can’t read. Hahaha 😛
Your shoes cost $11 because they don’t let you listen to music….
Also, my shoes cost $15. Now I feel like I could have done better. 😛
Your shoes are cheap SPEAKERS?
I made a joke about people commenting in his footwear being loud but TAY ate my comment.
I was going to make a joke about SPEAKERS not SNEAKERS, but I thought you couldn’t have possibly made that mistake.
I don’t know what to think anymore, my whole world is collapsing around me!
You all think way too highly of me. Mistakes like this are a thrice-daily occurrence.
You know what’s funny is that I read this entire thread not knowing what people were talking about before going and re-reading myself, because I ALSO misread it as $700 sneakers.
Speakers!! Monitor speakers guys!! 😛
You did say “pair of”
I also read it as sneakers before realising.
In my defense they do sell speakers in pairs these days…
I got two pairs of shoes for $40 and thought I was doing pretty good.
I finally have seen what all this final fantasy XIV business is all about. Got to level 12 and the game starts throwing a load of new stuff at you. Some of it stuck, some of it … *shrugs*. Also gave the crafting system a go. It is … interesting, frustrating but interesting,
Meanuis! \o/
Once you get past 10 everything starts opening up. Considering you’re a marauder you should get less queue times for dungeons than I did. Just be aware that AoE threat is something FFXIV tanks should keep an eye on, and make liberal use of the numbering markers.
Number markings?
I did a couple of the boss fights, it was pretty cool. Tried to teach you about positioning and such. The group basically told me to ignore the adds and just focus on the boss. Oh yeah, queue time was between 1-2 mins.
If you jump to your actions/traits menu, one of the submenus is common commands. One of those is ‘markers’ which lets you assign number markers to enemy monsters. This lets your DPSers know which order to kill things in.
This way, you don’t have to worry about threat so much. Get a couple good hits on everything, then focus on one. If DPSers just pick their targets willy-nilly, the less experienced of them have a tendency to pick the stronger targets or anything you’re not attacking, which pulls threat away from you and sends the mob after them. Which means you have to go and get it, or the healer has to divide their attention. (Most of the time they won’t mind – healing can be boring when it’s not all going to shit, but in boss fights it can be a bit fatal.)
You’re not nearly cynical enough. Clearly you haven’t done a lot of tanking.
Most tanks know that DPS are utter wankers who will always unload on stuff before you can pick up any threat, then try and kite the mob (especially the %^&*)(%^& archers) and if you mark the target that’s like telling them DON’T ATTACK THIS ONE, ATTACK THE ONE WE JUST PUT TO SLEEP.
🙁
I was being a little generous to the DPSers. I’ve tanked a lot in every other MMO I’ve played, but they’re all usually very good about giving you toys that stick threat to you like glue. XIV appears to be a lot less forgiving than most other MMOs in that respect.
The archer comment makes me laugh. It’s ALWAYS a fucking archer trying to run away and kite. And they always unload with their biggest, highest-damage ability ASAP just to get it on cooldown, sometimes even before the tank has even moved. Way to play as a team, guys.
Numbers are still a decent way to go if you’re not communicating with your group. A lot of tanks will whack an initial mob that they intend to ignore for a while, just to get it stuck to them, then land hits on all the other mobs around, and the DPSers will just see, “PULL HAS STARTED. TANK IS ATTACKING THAT THING. I WILL ATTACK THAT THING.” And when the tank has moved on to hit the rest of the adds, the DPS are still tunneling that initial mob, and are surprised that they now have aggro.
Oh groups… you make me laff.
Thing is, outside of a boss fight, that’s never usually much of a problem. I can’t think of a time I’ve ever been overtaxed as a healer, even with a slow-ass cast time. Each hit usually gives most folks over half their health bar back, so I’m pretty casual about it all and often tell the tank to ignore Fuckwit X if he or she gets agro on standard mobs.
If it were WoW, I’d even let them die, to teach them a lesson, but you get rewards in dungeons for not having anyone die. 😛
I basically ragequit on Saturday night after wiping on Garuda for the 8th time, group disbanding, then re-queuing and getting the same guy as a tank and having him adamantly tell me I’m doing it wrong when I’m the only one actually doing the fight correctly and he’s telling everyone to do the wrong thing. 🙁
Haven’t logged in since then. Probably will need to. Not looking forward to doing that fight again. May end up leveling as a tanking class or something instead – Monk is great until you get a fight that requires you to move around a lot, hit many weak targets or shift targets a lot, since so much of the damage requires having bleeds and debuffs going and have no ranged attacks.
My queue time for the first few big dungeons (level 15+) has been 30 mins plus. The joys of being a DPS…
The number markers put giant numbers above an enemy’s head. You can mark them as 1, 2, 3 etc. to show your DPSers which order to follow rather than them having to watch and find your target, or steal threat from you and ruin an easy fight.
Do much info I (as a level 5) don’t understand, I must play more of the game
replying to this since it makes sense in terms of conversation, but really this is a tip for @sernobulus
I think it’s worth going to Ul’dah and training in the Gladiator job to level 8, when you’ll learn Flash – for AOE enmity. It’s not really something to spam, but I think it’s a lot better at grabbing adds than Overpower. Particularly for the early dungeons or until you do the MRD level 15 quest and get Tomahawk.
@sernobulus:
You need to get Gladiator to 15 to unlock the Warrior job at 30 anyway, so getting to Gladiator 8 to get Flash is assumed.
Flash isn’t that great, it’s not a huge amount of threat but it’s good to open with to pick up extra mobs, it has a wider AoE and it’s in all directions rather than a cone. it also uses MP (none of Marauder’s stuff uses MP) and it doesn’t break crowd control, where Overpower does. Basically it’s nice to have.
Gotta admit, FFXIV has been tempting me. I tried XI and didn’t like it, though.
Same. XIV grabbed me a lot better than XI, which now looks positively prehistoric by comparison. It’s far less grindy, far less merciless on newbies/soloers.
FFXI is rough as guts. It’s also aged incredibly badly. FFXIV is far more accessible, and looks a helluva lot prettier.
Well, if you do end up giving it a go there’s plenty of people here who can help you learn stuff 🙂
XI was a very hard game to get into. It was made when the only real examples of big MMOs out there were super hardcore like Everquest or Ultima Online. FFXIV 2.0 is very much a post-WoW MMO.
Good morning everyone.
I feel like shit. This cold refuses to shift. I will actually have to go see a doctor.
Have you tried 1-600-DOCTORB?
The “B” is for Bargain!
Hope you feel better soon scree
Rayman Legends is so great, played a couple of levels on my morning train ride. So much fun, and so pretty!
Fucking numpties, the lot of them.
*post holiday ‘Nef*
Numpties is a great word.
It just summarises my feelings towards stupid people perfectly, without resorting to swearbotting.
Superclose to finishing the story of Ni No Kuni.
It’s guilty of one of the worst game sins though…so much stuff only unlocks after completing the main game. I don’t like that for two reasons…often I lose motivation after finishing the game, and I also like to go around before the final dungeon tying up all loose ends and finishing off everything which is a bit difficult to do if a ton of stuff is still locked.
I had to find out online that things I was finding everywhere like the robots, and monuments were only relevant post-game.Frustrating.Yeah, that IS frustrating. Hey. Game devs. Not all of us want to New Game+ to see everything or roam around filling out a roster of items/characters/pets that are only available when there’s nothing useful to do with them.
Ha ha, I think you’ll finish the game before I get my copy from BDKIAF.
That’s OK though, I can always send a message on TAY or a tweet if I need help.
Yup. I’m always up for discussing games with you. 🙂
But not with the rest of us? :'(
I keep trying to discuss Ni No but nobody wants to talk about it. 🙁
I don’t want to bum you out by talking about its flaws/what I dislike about it 😀
But yeah, I pretty much gave up after beating the game, so I missed out on all the additional stuff. I was getting pretty fed up around the end so I just didn’t want to do anything extra.
Which was a shame because the game was kinda alright if not for ze flawsss (a sequel should help it!).
What would you like to discuss Strangeinat0r? Xenoblade? 😀
Other peoples opinions don’t bum me out. Go right ahead and opinionise me. 😀
I’ve blocked out most of my memories of the game so I can’t exactly remember what I didn’t like about it (:D), but there was something about the battle system that just seemed so bland. I don’t know what it was but battles were just so mehhh. It kinda felt like it didn’t need to be real time at all. It never did what I told it to do and the AI was so bad. Again, it never did what I told it to do :/
The game was really pretty though and I enjoyed the sidequest system where completing them gave you points for upgrades.
The game was fairly handholdy too 🙁
But I bought it for prettiness so I didn’t care!
So what do YOU think about it? Does it rank up there with some of your favourite JRPGs?
@greenius
I hate the handholdy-ness and not a fan of the so-called prettiness, but I actually really like the gameplay. I have no troubles with the AI, it actually seems to know what I want. I have my companions set to “do what you like” though.
I love the Familiar system. I feel a great need to catch all of them…some of them are so adorable. 😀
It’s not one of my favourite JRPGs, but it’s certainly been enjoyable and I may even try and Platinum it. I think the best thing has been seeing my son get excited and invested in the story.
I liked the story but wish there was more 😀
It’s like a playable Ghibli film!
:O
I reckon you’ll finish the game before I even do, I’m really that lazy
I’ll try, I have been having a lot of trouble finishing games lately.
Really? 🙂
PSVITA SLIM IN WHITE! DO WANT!
But, no OLED screen, Rayman looks so pretty with the OLED screen. D=
Wait, the slim doesn’t use the OLED screen? Wow. Pass on that one then. Dat OLED is such a damned purty thing to look at.
It uses LCD, but it’s a 16 million color LCD so the color should be as vibrant as the OLED. Wait and see I think.
I’m more worried about the build quality. Remember the PSP-1000 to PSP-2000 transition? PSP-1000 was built like a brick shithouse and PSP-2000 felt flimsy and rattly and easily broken.
Yeah, I’m not always a fan of hardware revisions. Interestingly enough, I was pretty happy with the PSP-3000. Maybe because my PSP-2000 had gotten me used to the idea. (I actually had all 3 PSP’s at different points) I liked the slim models better, but I agree – the 1000’s were tanks. Great build quality, but the size and weight bothered me eventually.
The Vita is a good size and weight for me. I’ll see how the slims feel in the flesh when I can, though. If I get better battery life, they don’t feel flimsy and plastic-ey, and the screen is decent, I could be sold on the idea.
Yeah, that’s the thing for me. The current Vita feels really nice. It’s got the right heft and everything. If the slim is a step backward in feel – and I suspect it will be because of the lower weight – then I’m out.
Definitely getting a 64gb memory card though!
Oh, the 64gb card is a thing? Fuck. Yes.
Mmm LCD, but an extra hour gained in battery life. And micro USB.
*shrugs* I have never been caught out, switching the VITA to sleep mode makes it use next to nothing in battery life.
Yeah, I had a game paused for a day or two because I had to go do Mum stuff and forgot about it. Was still almost at full power, just waiting for me to get back to it. I love that little console so very much.
Yeah, the more I play it the more I’m liking the VITA.
I want the God Eater 2 one. Slim or no, I just want it. That game better get localised, I swear.
As someone pointed out in the article about the FFX/X-2 one, it looks like one of those stickers you buy off eBay for $2.
How do you stuff up a Final Fantasy decal?
I hope God Eater 2 gets localized too. Also Phantasy Star Nova.
I have a white Vita 🙂
Pretty sure the AC3:Lib bundle is the only way to get an original in white.
Pretty sure Japan got a Miku Hatsune: Project Diva F LE version that also had the white vita.
Yo.
yo.
Yo yo
Yo-Yo Ma.
Yo Mama.
Yo-Ho Diablo
Yo ho ho he took a bite of gum gum
Fro Yo
The frogurt is also cursed.
But it comes with sprinkles
Sam!
o/
\o
Hi!
.o/
o7
At ease soldier
Interestingly, Diablo 3 on PS3 made me jump back on the PC version and finish my Nightmare playthrough with my Monk. Hit level 50 and started a Hell run too. I’m actually kind of playing both, for some reason. Doing a Hard run with a Wizard on PS3, at level 19 I think.
PS3 version looks pretty rough compared to the PC version, but it makes up for it by just working so damn well on console. It just plays perfectly.
If only the PC had controller support would be so good
@crazyguy1990 being that you are the resident Sim enthusiast XD
Have you tried IL2: Cliffs of Dover?
I heard it had teething issues but has been solved due to an active community…looking at alternatives to War Thunder because sometimes i don’t feel like being shot out of the sky every 5 minutes but actually want to enjoy the takeoff/flying/combat so i’m looking for something more… simmy 😛
*sigh* get into work after finally getting a weekend off. Huge pile of work that no one bothered to do sitting there. Start sorting through it and half of it is impossible work that they took payment for so now I need to call all these people and refund everything.
On top of that there’s $600 in the till I can’t match up with anything. Spent all morning going through all the figures and nothing is missing.
Of course the relief people know nothing about anything.
/o\
NUMPTIES
Some people.
Soo, there’s a 600 dollar bonus for you for having to deal with this shit?
@freezespreston is Lawful Good. He don’t steal.
I’m lawful neutral, finders keepers
I had this terrible dream last night where I’d shaved.
Jesus. I’ve had that one, too. Woke up horrified at what I’d done.
Aw, my lecture ended 45 mins early and I forgot to bring my book today :'(
Wat do. Hmmm…
I know! I’ll make a TAY post about it. Genius ;D
PLAY VITA / 3DS!
I thought about it since I did bring my 3DS. It has no game cart at the moment but for installed stuff there’s Animal Crossing and Pushmo. I guess I haven’t played Pushmo for a while… (more people need to get it!)
Animal Crossing. Catch the Autumn stuff!
Is there much autumn stuff? So far I’ve seen two different types of cricket and a red dragonfly and that’s it.
Fishies!
I caught a piranha it made my day
Dude
Kindle app for phone.
Phone reading is baddd. I don’t have a tablet either and I prefer physical papery goodness.
After I finish this book it’s Slaughterhouse Five time! Except I rarely read and I’ve been on this book for like a year 😛
Slaughterhouse Five is my number one dead-set favourite book of all time 🙂
You’ve said it before which is why I mentioned it 🙂
All this happened, more or less.
Also, as someone with a large collection of dead tree books, I don’t mind reading on a tablet- it is pretty convenient at times. Sure, if I have the choice I’ll go the actual book, but if I can’t get it I’ll happily buy digital.
This I agree with, and for some reason the same with games. Its like I need to see it on the shelf once I finish it to remind hey that was good or hey that was terrible.
See, I’ve kinda got past that with games and music- I can happily buy digitally there. Books though I still like physically so that I can lend them out, stack them, refer to them
Egg-head likes his booky-wook!
I had to Google that because I didn’t get it.
Thought I’d share.
I’ve decided that BOARD GAMES on Saturday is going to count as a half-assed birthday celebration.
Attendance is mandatory, fun is not.
And so, we cut to a scene of Saturday, where several people have been strapped very tightly to their chairs, all around a table, where Trjn emerges from one of the sides and asks “Who wants to play more BOARD GAMES?”.
@alexpants then starts sobbing uncontrollably and @cakesmith yells out “BUT YOU’VE MADE US PLAY FOR 45 HOURS STRAIGHT JUST LET US GO”
Trjn stares blankly at cakesmith and then yells “HANABI!”
PS Happy borthday!
Still probably better then what it devoled into last time.
As long as I’m not lying in bed with a fever, it’s a victory.
We too shall celebrate your birthday with boardgames. It may be 1000 km away but it’s the thought that counts
I’m okay with this.
Team Speak Board Games \o/
Teamspeak D&D! \o/
You roll an 8 your Internet disconnect and you are lost in the matrix..cast magic missle!
Drinks are likely and chips are undecided
We shall form a committee on the subject of “dip”.
They shall proceed to the Supermarket Of Commons and pass their findings in a due time
Still feeling a little off today and crazy dreams last night about dead family members has induced a relatively sombre mood. In response, I have a 17 hour Nine Inch Nails playlist running. This can only end well.
I’m craving more videos of Titanfall so bad. JS
It does look quite nice but round based multiplayer shooter are not really my thing.
At least it will be coming to PC so I might check it out at some stage
Personally it combines my two favourite things in gaming. That is competitive FPS as well as gravity defying movement/super human abilities…kinda.
And stompy stompy robot things
Did you ever play Shattered Horizon? Zero gravity FPS.
No, did it play well? I’m not a PC gamer at all tbh…apart from Worms 2.
eeewwwww console germs 😛
Worms is amazing even if it does feel like they are flogging a dead horse with the recent ones.
Are you planning on getting an Xbone at launch?
Yeah I’m tempted to buy the latest one on my Galaxy S4 to see how it plays. Something tells me I may be disappointed though.
I most certainly am. Along with a spare controller, CoD, NBA 2K14 & Peggle 2. I’m not really as interested in Watch Dogs as the general populus are. It looks like to me like a GTA with some of the fun sucked out of it…
EDIT: I have purchased Worms 2: Armageddon on my phone. Will have to wait til trip home to play. *feeling intrigued.*
Don’t know if any one remembers Damien Leeding, the responding cop that got shot during the armed robbery here in the Gold Coast? His killer is on trial today and is claiming self defense because the cop had a gun. His lawyer is arguing even armed criminals have a right to defend themselves against the police.
Seriously?
I often wonder how some of those criminal defense lawyers sleep at night. I mean they’re not all bad, because everyone deserves the right to defend themselves – but seriously. What the actual fuck? It’s like a burglar suing a homeowner because they tripped and broke something breaking into their house.
Eh, even as scummy as they are, criminals are entitled to the best legal defence possible. For Lawyers, it’s not a case of right or wrong, it’s a case of applying and interpreting the law.
I don’t expect that argument to fly anyway- the responsibilities of police are pretty well articulated.
Yeah, I’m more referring to the more extreme defense cases like the one that Freeze-o mentioned.
Funny part is, if he wasn’t breaking the law – or he hadn’t pulled a gun on police, he wouldn’t have needed to ‘defend himself’. Cops generally don’t shoot unarmed people, and oddly enough don’t chase people who aren’t breaking the law.
Exactly- that’s why I don’t expect that line of defence to hold up
The legal system is at its strongest when the prosecution only succeeds if they can explicitly prove something.
If a criminal gets off, then either there wasn’t enough evidence to prove what happened, happened, or the prosecution was slack.
Also slightly related: hyperbole time!
Exaggerated example to show why it’s important that the concept that the prosecution should produce explicit proof is the cornerstone of the legal system.
Oral sex is made illegal, on pain of death.
Police record you and a partner going into a house together and spending the night there.
In the morning, they arrest you and charge you with breaking the law.
Court demands you produce proof of your innocence, or you get killed.
Now the fun part is stepping back from the stupid example and applying it to a better case.
In this one, they could argue self defense IF:
– Unmarked cop car, plain clothes police officer.
– Pulled over at night/in a remote location.
– Defendant states the cop approached the car with his gun drawn.
In that circumstance, it’d be reasonable to state that you feared for your life and had no proof you were dealing with a cop, rather than a criminal.
It’s still wrong to shoot the guy, let alone shoot him dead, but if they can’t prove that he knowingly shot the guy, unarmed, knowing he was a cop, then it’ll probably go to manslaughter.
He was holding hostages in a tavern, the cop was uniformed and plainly identified himself. The guy even told the hostages he planned to shoot his way out if the police turned up.
His defense is that the cop was armed and returned fire so he killed him in fear of his life, therefore he isn’t guilty.
So the prosecutor will rip the argument to shreds, and everything will be right with the world.
But isn’t violence committed in furtherance of another crime exempt from a justification defence?
Or is that just in New York State? Almost all my law ‘knowledge’ comes from Law and Order. 😛
So you admit that the deceased discharged his firearm at the defendant in an attempt to wound or kill him?
That’s it, I’m suing the cops!
He kind of has a point, but it’s a repulsive argument and there’s no way a judge will go for it. I wonder if he’s deliberately making a stupid argument so his client has grounds for an appeal on whatever sentence he’s given later.
He kind of needs a point.
Preferably to the face.
Been hanging out with Alec again huh? 😛
The worst.
\o/
Classic Alec!
I would of gone with mental defect, he thought he was in his own house and was taking the tv to a friends
Tangentially related to the legal question above, but a Tuesday Morning Question: where would people place themselves on the classic D&D alignment scale?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_%28Dungeons_%26_Dragons%29
Myself? Probably Lawful Good. Younger me would have been more Chaotic to Neutral Good but I’ve become a bit more rigid with rules and laws as I’ve aged and seen the reasons for them.
Tangentially: I’ve long held that Law and Justice are very different things. They’re both important, but anyone who expects them to be one and the same is going to be very disappointed in life. It’s a lot easier to live with if you can understand the purpose and value of Law even when it directly counters Justice.
Justice on its own leads to some very dark places. Law exists to temper that.
Eg:
Law officers who have sworn black and blue that ‘this is the guy’, who have known it deep in their souls, whose decades of experience and instinct and pattern recognition make it obvious. Officers who had all the circumstantial evidence they could hope for, who could see this bastard getting away because of a fucking technicality, so they give Justice a little helping hand with a slight nudge. Under the right conditions, the guy even confesses to get a shorter term.
Twenty years later, DNA testing proves it was someone totally different and the guy they ‘knew’ did it was completely innocent.
Personally, Lawful Neutral.
Character choice, normally chaotic good or chaotic neutral, because unpredictability usually results in fun, as long as you’re not an evil jerk.
*dives out the window*
tch, that was a nice piece of glass.
Hmmm… neutral good describes me best, I think.
Probably Lawful Neutral, or Neutral Good.
At work, Lawful Neutral. At home, Neutral Good.
Ahh, interesting distinction. I might need to revise for my work persona.
Probably Neutral Good, i like and respect rules, but every situation is different and sometimes bending/breaking rules may yield a better result to do the “Right Thing”
Neutral Good.
To answer my own question: On a good day, Neutral-to-Lawful good. On a bad day, Neutral Neutral.
On a bad day, I’m chaotic neutral.
*casts Mordenkainen’s Disjunction, runs away*
NEEEEEEEEERD!
That spell is an example of the best and worst thing ever in D&D. You should look up what it does.
And then check your magic items.
From my experience with D&D (which is basically just the games) the best/worst thing about it is Wild Mages from Baldur’s Gate.
They are not!
*attempts to cast Burning Hands at Red, instead casts Gate and summons an unbound Balor*
Wild Mage casts Mage Armour.
Wild Mage turns into a squirrel.
somewhere between chaotic good & chaotic neutral.
+1
Neutral Good would be me since I follow rules but not in a closed minded fashion. Doing the right thing 🙂
On the quizzes I always end up testing as True Neutral.
Here in the real world, I’d say I’m pretty close that, but maybe a smidge toward Lawful Neutral.
I have a code of honour I prefer to stick to, but it’s always going to be overridden by survival instincts and the protection of my people. The fact that my code largely overlaps with The Law is only a happy coincidence born of the mutual benefits that arise out of observing a respect for others. There are a few instances where there is no overlap, which would make me unlawful.
Eg: I might be buying shitloads of PC games now, but that’s out of self-interest and the benefits afforded by Steam, rather than a respect for the law.
Neutral good I’d go with
Lawful Good for me.
Probably closest to Neutral neutral
Been explaining to mates why GTA:V wasn’t just released on XB1/PS4 instead of the current gen platforms. Thought people might like to discuss…
It’s all about the money.
R* would’ve started GTAV production on 360/PS3 specs. Even if they started developing for new gen mid-dev, Take 2 would still expect to receive a return from the current gen market, because that’s what the money was budgeted for. Know what I mean?
For EG (and these figures are made up for examples sake):
GTAV 360/PS3: estimated cost/budget $150M = projected return $600M
re-development for XB1/PS4: estimated additional cost/budget $110M = additional $440M expected projected return
Take 2 know they wouldn’t make their projected return on the 360/PS3 budget if they announced any new gen/PC release. And on the books, that would be listed as a company loss and negatively impact their funny-money internal budgeting.
I think we’re talking millions for GTA V, not billions 🙂
I also think that the cost of development for next gen at this point is considerably higher, so R* went for the current option based on when they started production.
I’m not sure I entirely agree that development costs are rising simply because of the new generation platforms. We’re not seeing the same fidelity bump we saw when platforms went from standard definition to high definition TV’s; which caused an enormous amount of extra work for artists because of a higher pixel count for textures. These new consoles are outputting what high-end PC’s can do, so we’re still in the same kind of “workload”.
Except it’s a new system at this point, so the choice for Rockstar was go with what they know or train every employee on a new system and then produce something materially similar. I also expect there’d be pressure to take advantage of the new hardware, which does make it more complex.
I’m pretty confident that most software houses have their artists work in the highest resolution they can, then scale down to the appropriate platforms dependent on size restrictions for each medium.
I’m sure they do, but my point still stands- there’s always a learning curve for new hardware, Rockstar has decided to ignore it on this one. I’d expect a smaller Rockstar release on PS4 a la Table Tennis before we get to GTA VI
$150 billion for a game development? Does every employee have a chair carved from a solid chunk of diamond?
@doubledizz explicitly said they were fake figures.
They just look really fake.
corrected, and now more realistic.
I know. Just having a giggle at the numbers he did choose.
HAHA yes they should be M’s, not B’s hahaha
I always find it interesting how side-tracked people can get on a conversation; completely overlooking the actual discussion lol.
It’s the internet: When we can’t summon a counter-argument we engage in pedantry to cover our shortcomings 🙂
oh now you’re just being sage.
That’s me!
No, you are.
Your mum
Persona 4 IM SOO UNDER LEVELED for the shadow yukiko fight also fuck that boss. Even if i was leveled properly it still seems like a really hard boss
she is weak to ice, so i use a ice attack, then the bitch ice shields up
then she summons another shadow that heals and silences. WTF
it requires a little more strategy then im used to using but my god im having fun trying stuff out.
Yeah, Persona 4 is not an easy game. Even though I had my dudes at max level, with the best weapons, armour, and even a stupidly OP item on my main (Gives immunity to all but Almighty damage, I think) I still almost lost on multiple occasions near the end.
IIRC she cycles through weaknesses? I can’t remember but I didn’t find her that hard.
I was consistently about 10-5 levels underlevelled for the majority of the game but I just went back to the previous dungeon and go through to the end (you get an item) and grind while watching TV/catching up on TAY etc. It’s super easy with the Triangle auto-battle 😀 (except when they have block/reflect physical 🙁 )
Do I dare attempt to digest a Zinger Pie for lunch? Do my bowels have the fortitude to withstand such an assault?
I’m currently debating whether to go out for Sichuan (to the place beside the place we went to Karaoke after PAX) after work. The mind is willing but the flesh is weak. Last time I went there, the regret was intense and burned like a flow of lava.
Live on the edge my friend!
Hell, I’m having enough trouble with a coffee and sandwiches. I really need to back off the coffee, my guts don’t handle it at all well anymore.
I should never have quit that stuff in the first place. You go without, you lose your tolerance.
I went back on energy drinks all last week while I was on holidays. Finished up the last one on Saturday night, come Monday I had the headache from hell. Back to normal today though.
Thanks for the lunch suggestion.
I just stumbled across what a Zinger Pie is (other than an awkward name). Looks gross, probably taste ok, followed by heapings of regret.
Oh man, I love KFC and never experience “KFC Regret” but there is no way in hell I’ll ever go near that pie. Just the thought of it makes me feel sick.
Well I am all set for a aussie parma tonight down at the grand so lunch was leftover stir fry. But looking forward to dinner, they make the correct choice and do the parmas in the pizza oven. Genius!
Wewt, we’ve signed up for NBN at our new place! It better be worth it, gonna cost me another $5 per month.
It will make the value of your place skyrocket in a few years when you’re one of the only places with decent broadband.
I’m actually surprised about how much of Tasmania is already covered. I highly doubt the take up is very high though, but we jumped on it!
Tassie was used as a test market for the technology IIRC, so a lot of the island was wired up.
anyone here know much about bone conduction tech? perhaps the TAY-doctors?
in what context?
basically, im deaf in my left ear… the nerve that runs from my eardrum to the brain is completely dead… has been since birth….
correct me if imwrong, but that should in no way affect me using bone conducting headsets would it? in fact, shouldnt it work better?
It should work better but only when listening to classical music
Jerrrrry beans!
The world needed more Galaxy Angel. 🙁
Dreamcast was released 14 years ago today. 🙁
Saddest page-get.
i need to pull it out and play with it…. in memory of a console that was years ahead ofits time… i still remember connecting to the internet on its dial up modem to play Phantasy Star Online, Unreal Tournament, and even Quake 1 & Quake 3 against my pc friends….
PSO was the shit.
That system had so many amazing games for its short life. Back when Sega were an awesome developer making quirky games for the core gamer audience. Before everything went all corporatized and cynical, when the B-tier game market still existed and crazy off the wall shit like Seaman or Space Channel 5 could still get released at retail in English.
Late Saturn, Dreamcast and early Xbox was the peak for Sega’s internal development really. You’ll probably never see them making games like Skies of Arcadia or Shenmue or Sakura Wars or Panzer Dragoon again, or if you do it’ll be like Valkyria Chronicles and they’ll refuse to localize the good ones because the shit ones don’t sell.
would love a shenmue 3 to finish off the trilogy…. maybe one day…
Wow..
My father bought me one for my birthday, I’d never heard of it before I opened it.
Sonic Adventures
Evolution
…some rally game.
I feel old.
You are old.
#Helping
#DamnWhipperSnappers.
#StayOnYourLawn
Technically it’s 14 years today since the 9/9/99 US launch date. It was released in Japan in November 1998 so it’s nearly 15. Which makes me feel very old.
I loved that system so much 🙁
I had some good times with it too. The Sonic game I had was quite fun, as was Evolution. Then again I was 10 years old so they could have been horrible and I would never had known haha.
I wish I’d kept all my first consoles instead of selling them to buy……consoles. Circle of life.
Sonic Adventure was the last good Sonic game. I don’t know about Evolution though. For me it was Shenmue, Skies of Arcadia, Grandia II, Jet Set Radio, Space Channel 5, Soul Calibur and DoA2 LE. I also spent some time with Sakura Wars but playing it in Japanese with a guide was very sub-optimal (and the guide was from the subtly different Saturn version too).
The number of awesome games there that I enjoyed was a big part of the reason the following generation the first system I got was an Xbox – it launched with a better Jet Set Radio and a new DoA and had Shenmue II and a Panzer Dragoon game in the works as well. Halo sealed the deal.
Had a zinger pie for lunch.
All the regret.
I quite liked it. Zippier than a Zinger burger, for sure. Unless the burger has Supercharger sauce instead of mayo. In that instance, about the same zippiness.
Your colon will never forgive you
After the devastation of the Zinger, it’s now a semi-colon. HIYO!
Bad Shane, BAD! Its not page 6 yet get your dad jokes back in the box!
It’s always time for punctuation jokes. Period.
No one can stay mad at that
Massive team lunch. Very sleepy. Send help in the form of an early mark. Zzzzzzzzzzzz
Awww… “early mark” — reminds me of primary school. Reminds me of asking for early marks (and dedicated nap time) in high school. Makes me realise that I haven’t changed at all in the past 5-15 years.
Starcraft 2 has tutorials to learn the mechanics of each race. I tried it out.
I gave up after the Terran one told me to build three Marauders from my Barracks that could only build Marines and Reapers.
EDIT: Yes, I did have a Tech Lab.
PYLONS!
He is just learning. He isn’t up to you high level advanced strategies
Probes and pylons!
Wow, other people actually like Workaholics? 2 people mentioned it before me in the tv shows post! Nobody else ever likes the shows that I like 😛
I love workaholics. I think we talked about it months back. Can’t wait for the new episodes. The show just does crass humour really well.
It’s a great show, however it’s on the list of shows I like that none of my friends will ever watch with me 🙁 (The majority of Comedy Central shows)
But yeah I’m really looking forward to it coming back next year! I just hope there’s a bit more action in the office next season like in the first 2. Season 3 was fairly void of anything happening in the office.
I loved that show! I knocked the whole thing over in a week, and really really enjoyed it 😀
😀
WATCH PHILLYYYYY
ONLY IF THEY REPLACE ALL THE ACTORSSSSSSS
I HATE YOU.
BEN.
I HATE BENS.
THE WORST.
New MGS V character revealed — http://zombiesandwich.deviantart.com/art/Metal-Gear-Solid-V-Big-Quiet-Boss-XD-398939918
I lol’ed
I too, lol’d
😀
Zinger Pie thoughts: it took half an hour to get served with 2 people in front of me and every single table had old food on it so mood was pretty crappy before I even started.
Taste? Meh. It was okay. It would have been nice if they had added more than a sprinkle of shredded chicken into it. Also the pie is only half full so the first 6 bites are nothing but pastry. Spicier than I thought but this could be to hide a lack of any real flavour.
One Shiggy inside a Bish.
No need to do again.
That sounds… particularly unappealing. But then, I just had a lunch of pastizzi, pizza, canneloni, lasagne, gelato, and some sort of fruit-topped sponge cake, so it never really stood a chance.
My original (longer-winded) reply got ate by a database error, but I was basically whining that KFC’s service is always terrible and slow, it costs too much, and the food is just generally not very good – though admittedly maybe the one at Villawood, the only one I’ve been so since 2010 is just exceptionally consistently bad. After a slew of unsatisfactory experiences I didn’t go back for over a year then when I did (back in July while I was on leave from work and felt like some variety since I was actually eating lunch of some kind almost every day) nothing had changed. It still took ages to get my food, it wasn’t very tasty, and I feel like the for the price of two large meals versus two large meals at Maccas, there was a very small bang to buck ratio.
Since it’s only a slightly longer drive to Oporto or Red Rooster (which weren’t even options when we didn’t have a car), I think I’ll take KFC off the list of options for the foreseeable future, unless I am absolutely dying for some original or zinger chicken pieces. I’m certainly not going there for the burgers, wraps or chips anymore.
@popdart5
!!!!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/09/talk-amongst-yourselves-241/comment-page-2/#comment-1878638
Hey! Welcome to TAY 😀
It seems like you went into moderation so your comment didn’t appear until later and pretty much no one goes to older pages in TAY (except for those bored people like me who like to “catch up” on TAY :P).
So, Xenoblade?
@greenius the Indiana Jones of TAY… finding old stuff in long forgotten ruins
Hi @popdart5
Tell us things about yourself. What games you like, age, marital status, and credit card number. Then you’ll get a whack with a thorny paddle, and your initiation will be nearly complete.
Also, I’m @shane. Watch out for the writer, he throw things.
Things you should know… we’re pretty much all deviants. The conversations range from impossibly dense and specific topics that no one knows much about except the poster, to the totally and absolutely Not Suitable For Life.
And Dad Joke Page 6, which is pretty much the best thing ever.
I can verify. Dad Joke page 6. Best thing ever.
I just realized that we can – AND SHOULD – be re-using old Page 6 Dad jokes from previous weeks’ TAYs. Because one of the core principles behind Dad jokes is that they are re-used at every available opportunity. *rubs hands*
Looking forward to this.
I do this already \o/
Don’t listen to it @popdart5. It’s just a spambot selling some book. We all brought it and it still won’t shut up about it. 😛
There’s a new book. Came out yesterday. HAVE YOU BOUGHT IT YET?
I would but what about
the breaking and enteringseeing about a personally signed copy while I’m in Canberra?Guess I should order some copies of the book, then.We will make it happen \o/
Just ordered ten copies. I expect you to buy them all…?
Any other books you need signed? Bring them along! I don’t even care if I’m not the one who wrote them.
One day I’ll drive to Canberra to have you sign my copy of American Gods, Mr. Gaiman!
Don’t forget letter writing on page 7! Many a things happen in this little crazy (sometimes @dc crazy) but we love it so welcome to the land time forgot @popdart5 because seriously time flies on TAY.
I have nothing else to add other than I’m @coldcamv and enjoy your stay!
Page 7 is best page.
Dear RedArtifice
Although every page can be page 7 in your heart, there is only once true page 7 a week
A dollar short and 2 pages early
Tigs
Dear @tigerion and @shane
I know, but the anticipation is killing me
page seven versus
the haikus and father jokes
is not a contest
por que no los dos
in pursuit of greater things
Yours Redartifice.
Second-best.
Actually, third best. Anyone remember Dad Joke Haiku page? That one nearly broke the entire internet from sheer awesome.
Welcome @popdart5
There’s nothing much to know. Just be courteous to others and feel free to post any time.
Where are you from? Gaming platform of choice? What are some of your favourite games?
I’m Masha from Sydney( 2hrs out of Sydney to be specific). I mostly play on consoles-Playstation primarily and my favourite games this generation include
Prince of Persia 08
Red Faction Guerrilla
Split/second
Ratchet and Clank: A crack in time
Far Cry 2
and many others
All time favourite game for me so far is Shadow of the Colossus-amazing game and the PS3 HD port is great.
Don’t leave out those 2hrs from Sydney. That’s an important saving grace. Every hour away from Sydney is an hour closer to being a better human. 🙂
Using that logic, I’m like, the 3rd greatest TAYbie or something.
Not sure about that.
Don’t sell yourself short!
Edit: Also, who said the greatest TAYbies are great human beings? DEFINITELY not a prerequisite. 😉
Hey man, if there’s one thing I’m not about to sell myself short on, it’s my ability to sell myself short 😛
Welcome @popdart5 .
Enjoy tay, We arent all that scary,
Just me :p
@strange is scary 😛
Scary Fun 😀
Whatever happened to the guy we talked to at pax? I can’t remember his username. John, I think.
Are you there John?
@jonathorus
But he hates us :'(
(@miketarno)
Haha. I’ve just been busy and whatnot. I do post on the news though!
Also proof that I’m not ignoring you guys, I barely posted anything on Twitter in the last month or so!
When are we doing a Melbourne meat again?
I dunno! 😀
WHOASKIS!
I was looking through some catalogues for GTAV prices (WHERE’Y’ALL GETTIN YOURS?) and it seems like Target is selling Rayman Legends (Wii U, PS3, 360) for $40 :O. That’s cheaper than other local retailers (well I only checked EB :P) and cheaper than import prices (well… I only checked Ozgameshop :P). I pre-ordered mine last year for $42 and I still haven’t received it *waits*
Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD for $49 seems alright too since that’s cheaper than Ozgameshop.
I thought those bigger retailers wouldn’t have GTAV since it’s an R18+ game but I guess I was wrong. I wonder if K-mart will have it since that’s the closest gamey place thing to me 😀
OZGAMESHOP. IT WAS $63 OR SOMETHING, BUT I HAD A $10 COUPON LEFT OVER FROM PLAYER POINTS OR SOMETHING AND I GOT IT FOR ABOUT $53.
Uh… all caps. Okay then. We’ll go with it.
OOPS, I SHOULD’VE SAID LOCALLY.
I WISH IT CAME OUT THIS WEEK WHEN I’VE GOT NOTHING ON, NOT THE WEEK WHERE I’VE GOT A HUGE REPORT DUE FOR ONE OF MY UNITS :'(
SEE, BUT IF YOU ORDER IT FROM OZGAMESHOP, IT WILL ARRIVE IN A WEEK AFTER YOUR REPORT HAS BEEN HANDED IN AND ALL WILL BE WELL WITH THE WORLD.
PS: I’m imagining us screaming extremely friendly and helpful things to each other in furious tones of voice, and feel amused.
YOU MEAN TWO WEEKS+ AFTER WHEN WIND WAKER IS OUT? WIND WAKER, SHANE!
WIND WAKERRRRR
YOU SHOULD PLAY YOUR COPY AND TALK ABOUT IT ON TAY AND NOT GIVE UP AT A CERTAIN SECTION.
TWO WEEKS IS ENOUGH TIME FOR A PERSON TO PLAY THROUGH WIND WAKER. MUCH BETTER THAN WIND WAKER COMING OUT WHILE YOU’RE TRYING TO GET THROUGH GTA V.
OMFG WHY IS EVERYONE SCREAMING?!?! :O
ALSO PROBABLY JB @greenius BECAUSE THEY HAVE A MIDNIGHT LAUNCH AND I WANTS MAH GAME PRONTO!
I STILL HAVEN’T PREORDERED GTAV WHERE TO GET IT FROM HELP ME GREENIUS! Also all caps because it types faster on my phone
I HAVEN’T PRE-ORDERED IT EITHER BUT IT’S JUST A BLIMP SO I CAN LIVE WITHOUT IT!
I DON’T WANNA DRIVE TO KNOXXXX
How far is knox from you?
lol like 15 minutes but there’s a local K-mart at the shopping center where I catch the bus from, so I’ll be there anyway.
Is the local Kmart boronia haha
I live in Lysterfield (used to live in Rowville) so Stud Park!
You ever been to Big Al’s Pizza? theyre not bad with their pizzas
@coldcamv
Probably! That’s the Stud Park one isn’t it?
Yeah, right next to the charcoal chicken on the right hand side of the building. Give me a family aussie pizza from there and im set all weekend
HOW MUCH IS IT AT KMART?
I DUNNO, IT WASN’T IN THE CATALOG!
BUT IT ‘S LIKE $88 AT BIG-W WHICH IS JB PRICES WHICH IS THE CHEAPEST I’VE SEEN AT A LOCAL RETAILER!
SO MIGHT AS WELL GET IT AT JB ON LAUNCH. I THINK THEY’RE $89!!!
I DOUBT WE CAN FIND IT CHEAPER ELSEWHERE.
ARE YOU GOING TO A MIDNIGHT LAUNCH?
@miketarno it’s more to do with K-mart being right next to me and everything else isn’t :P.
Knox is the worst place. I live really close to there but I go out of my way to avoid it.
I live in rowville, but knox has a Schnitz and a boost juice, that’s why I go there
Also my girlfriend used to live in tecoma so when visiting her knox was kinda the midway point to hang out
EB because its in where I work and I can stroll in and walk out with a copy with fuss.
Gotta have that fuss it’s not EB without fuss
Until you get the store attendant who has no idea what Rayman is.
Or the manager who doesn’t know about a Wii U 😛
Geee Teeee Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy?
A V in five implied fifty-five! Don’t these developers go to school to learn basic math?
“Pacman Legends? I don’t think that came out on the Wii!”
I’m going to post this for every mention of GTA V from now on.
Holy shit what? $40??
I gotta see about returning this stupid $64 copy…
Shut up you idiot, $64 was for W101. Rayman was only $48.
Bargainius!
I might get it tomorrow if I see it for $40! Need something to tide me over until Pokermans (Luigi’s Mansion 2 isn’t cutting it :P)
Collectors Edition at JB HiFi, because fuck money.
What time is it? ASSIGNMENT TIME!
*gnarly guitar solo*
I’ll see y’all in a bit when I give up and procrastinate some more…
\m/
*headbangs*
Yes! Gonna get my copies of Mein Kampf and my collection of Pick Up Artist manuals signed by @shane!
\o/
Dude, it would be an honour. I’ve actually always harboured a secret fantasy to sign a copy of Mein Kampf.
Literary Hitler.
Gigantic cock and balls in gold marker?
Well, I never said I’d sign my own name. So many options!
Wait, that’s not how he usually signs his name?
Well yes, but the size is relative to how much he likes you.
“Follow your dreams”
Now in .gif form!
You could sign it Sally Robbins although that wouldn’t really work
@spaghett’s long dormant last played game!
Reflektor- Arcade Fire
The caroleans prayer – Sabaton
So long dormant and yet some things don’t change
Exit Wounds – Placebo
Runaway – Silverstein
Adam’s Song – Blink 182
Going old-school today!
Annnnnnnd depressed.
A few of their songs do that. =P
Little Black Submarine -The Black Keys
Copy of A – Nine Inch Nails
Uhh. I think it was Love Bites (Judas Priest) that was finishing up in my car when I turned it off last night.
I’m Alive – Disturbed
That one there is one of my personal favourites from their catalog.
Yeah, it lives right up there with Remember, Enough, Sons of Plunder, Shout 2000, and Prayer.
These tracks will always have a home on any of my music devices.
Touch Sensitive – Pizza Boy.
Highest Star – Amorphis.
Very much looking forward to seeing these guys live again next month.
Well. This week is going to be Crazy good for music.. Managed to find The New placebo album on Grooveshark ahead of its release on friday. Also Looking forward to Naked and Famous new album (Released same day)… and discovered London Grammar on the weekend. Loving that album too. Any thing else I’m missing?
ARCTIC MONKEYS!
Silly Nob, monkeys don’t live in the arctic.
Yes. This…..Yes
(containing hype)
Ministry’s From Beer To Eternity is out this week I think.
Edit: it’s already out. And so is Devildriver’s Winter Kills. \o/
Me, to coworker: “Yeah, I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
“It’s all over the radio! It was just on five minutes ago!”
“See, I don’t listen to radio and I can’t hear yours from here.”
“Then how do you find out about new music?”
“Uh… the internet?”
“But you haven’t heard about this song we were talking about.”
“Yes. The system works and keeps me well protected from crap like that.”
“Surely you’d have heard it on TV ads for the latest shows?”
“Yeah, I also don’t watch TV.”
“What the hell? You’re so full of it, I know you watched Game of Thrones.”
“Yeah, but I didn’t watch it on TV. I have a PC.”
“Can you even download shows like Masterchef?”
“Certainly not by accident, so again, the system works – I’m pretty safe from those sorts of atrocities.”
“There is something WRONG with you.”
“And as long as your kind continues to think that, I’ll keep insulating myself in my bubble of sanity.”
“My kind? You mean NORMAL people?”
“Yeah. The people who gave us our latest electoral result.”
“…Shut up.”
The system works!
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
But Masterchef is one of the few good reality shows…
My friend:
Ahahahaha!
It is glorious 😛
It’s starting to get too warm in Queensland. The temperatures have been getting up in the high 20s. We’re barely even done with Winter. Summer is going to be abominable.
Personally, I keep my apartment air-conditioned around 17-18 degrees. Anything higher than that is uncomfortable.
I think I either need to have an excuse (and the body) to go topless, or I need to move to Tasmania.
Most places I go have their AC set to 21 (including my place, most of the time) and I find it uncomfortably cold.
No less than 23 plz.
Anything over 20 and I feel the need to remove clothing. 15-18 is around ideal. 17’ish is t-shirt and shorts weather.
Come summertime here I still like going shirtless, cos it still gets pretty hot 😛
Now that I think of it, I hope the girls I’m moving in with don’t have a problem with that…
I GOT SUNBURNED TODAY WHILE HANGING OUT TOWELS!
I COULD BE YOUR FRIEND!
Friendship accepted <3
Producer of an ARIA nominated album just contacted me about recording our EP.
What even is happening?
Aw man. You’re going to get all Hollywood on us and forget all about us aren’t you?
:'( I miss @bdkiaf already.
I don’t.
Sellout Jerk.
😛That’s pretty awesome! Ball is rolling, gotta take advantage of the momentum.
That’s what I’m thinking. I’m attempting to now by setting up a webstore for our merch since we had a heap of people who wanted to buy stuff on Saturday but didn’t have the cash. I just printed up some stickers last night so that people can take them at shows since our Facebook page is impossible to find.
Things are happening at an incredibly fast pace now.
Have you considered an actual website? Sounds like it might be the way to go…
Dude, that’s fantastic news.
Don’t abandon us for more famous friends like @sughly did.
Hahaha! Yeaaahhh…
*looks around empty bedroom, goes back to work as a solitary tear rolls down his cheek*
Man, you used to be about the music…
Sounds like you’re in for one hell of a ride!
I expect a shout out when you win the ARIA for hottest up and coming music sensation.
Whoaaaaa, thats so so cool! Argh! Tell me with tags how it progresses since I am nomadic and can be in any and all (or no) parts of the internet at once. Ahhh so excited for you!
And we’re back.
But for how long?
In Pog form?
Oh god, what if we’re the horrible reboot that can never live up to the hype and expectations of the original?
Nonsense, I’m darker and edgier and therefore better.
Sometimes I wish I could just leave my phone sitting somewhere without having to worry about missing something important… So sick of making sure I have it on me everywhere, so sick of expecting calls from everyone!
Edit: Thought I’d chuck in that HD voice is great though. It’s nice not sounding like you’re in the 90’s.
I… kinda wish I’d receive a call or a text sometimes.
As it is, my phone is a twitter device and that’s it.
🙁 Somebody send this guy a text!
Of their junk!
…@dkzeitgeist
My macro lens is in the shop.
Someone give me the number to send my junk to? :p
Even when I don’t have my phone on silent so I can hide from Nintendo, I just leave it in my room all day and don’t even hear it most of the time when it goes off.
It gets kind of annoying when I actually have it on me and it decides to go off.
Last month I received a Jury Service letter, for this coming Monday.
I really, really, really, really wanted to go — it would be interesting whether or not I’m on a jury, and I get paid, and I have some law student friends I could gossip with, allowing them to live vicariously through me since they’ll never be called up themselves…
… but I have uni and my lecturers said it wasn’t a good enough excuse to miss classes if they give me an out.
I just sent in my application to be excused today, and I’m kinda hoping it’s knocked back. Stupid uni.
People on TV always hate it and want to get out of it, but I think serving on a Jury would be really interesting.
This exists?! I dont think Ill ever recieve one due to thinking its a scam
GOD DAMMIT TAKE THE GAEMZ
So I didn’t get much reception to this last time, and have (sorry!) forgotten those who had displayed interest, but I’ve got a couple game keys that I would like to give away. Some have been claimed (if I could get clarification from those that have called them, that’d be awesome), others have been declined from original recipients.
Let me know 🙂
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (I think @crazyguy1990 called this?)Age Of Empires II HD & III Complete (I can’t recall… someone called II, and I believe III defaulted to @ruffleberg?)
Magrunner: Dark Pulse
Episodes 1 through 8, Tales of Monkey Island
I have never played monkey island.
That is all.
It is yours.
That is all.
Wait I need ur emailz
…that is all.
Wait, i didn’t ask for this. I was just commenting that I’d never played it ;_;
You have never lived! 😮
[hasn’t played the Tales games, don’t know how they compare to the original two at all]
ORIGINAL 4!!!!
Misread magrunner as mangunner and was going to ask which one, because that’s basically every US AAA game now.
Mangunner: BrownDoeg
Is that the next game in the Halo of Duty: Gears of Honor series?
Nah thats Halo of Duty: Battlefighter for Honor’s Gear. HoD:GoH wasnt as good in my opinion, not enough 420xxNOSCOPExxxMLGxxxLoL incentive
I TOLD YOU WHAT GAMES I WANTED!
Hey, Tales of Monkey Island wasn’t offered last time :P. Well I haven’t played the Tales of Monkey Island games but I played 1.5 seasons of Sam and Max so I’m somewhat interested in it (MI1 and 2 have been on the pile for a while #Rapius) so I guess if @scree doesn’t want them then *raises hand*
I think Rhymius might be better than Rapius. The latter makes it sound like you get up to things that are generally frowned upon.
I thought the same thing and couldn’t understand the relevance ’til I saw your post. 😛
Nah, that would be Rapeius.
YOU’RE ALL SICK.
I believe I put my hand up for AoE 2!
SOLD to the man in the tighty whiteys!
Also, HUGE thanks to @virus__ for sending me the Bioshock 2 collector’s edition. For free. He said he’d post the record, but threw in the whole damned thing.
I… I can’t even.
Just awesome ^.^
You’re welcome man, just glad someone can get some use out of it. The game is probably still able to be activated on Games for Windows Live too lol.. I only activated and played it once heh, I now own it on Steam so yeah 😛
But yeah never played the CD or Vinyl, only looked through the art book once lol.
DARK SOULS!
Just killed the Iron Golem. Sen’s Fortress kind of really sucks for all the wrong reasons. Blighttown was so much easier, mainly because I didn’t have to worry about timing my dodges to avoid getting hit by lightning and then knocked back into a pendulum that would then kill me. The Iron Golem was a dick. He kept knocking me off of the platform. Took a few times to get the timing of the dodges right, then I just kept dodging between his legs so that I could attack him. That worked out pretty alright.Need more Dad Jokes — hurry up, page 6. 😐
Do we really?
(yes :D, better than talk like Jar-Jar page whatever)
This Ubisoft ‘Child of Light’ thing looks amazing but sounds terrible – for a supposed ‘tribute’ to 16-bit and early 32-bit JRPGs it sounds like they’re going to capture absolutely nothing that makes those sorts of games actually appealing.
Hint, Ubisoft: Characters are the driving element of the JRPG. If your game only has one of them and she talks only in obtuse rhyme then that’s going to only appeal to the sort of people that like the usual ‘auteur’ indie-scene drivel, not to the people you say you’re targeting the game at.
Honestly I still question whether a non-Japanese team can even make a JRPG. The design methods that a western developer brings to their games is too different. To me it’s like american companies peddling american-made ‘manga’. It’s not the same thing, no matter how well it apes it.
EDIT: Sounds like there’s only one actual character and she has a floaty blue orb to talk to, which is even worse. 🙁
I love the UbiArt stuff and want them to create lots of games with it, but this one sounds terrible despite how amazing it looks 🙁
This is the first I’ve read about it – I’m not sure I want to bother investigating now.
It was announced a while back but suddenly just now there was a big drop of Ubisoft Playstation stuff – I think a bunch of stuff must have been leaked and they decided to reveal it all?
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2013/09/10/hands-on-with-child-of-light-coming-soon-to-ps3-ps4/
There’s also some kind of WW1 game being made with the UbiArt framework too (its the engine that powers the Rayman games) and apparently the Assassin’s Creed Vita game is getting a PS3 port – presumably because Ubisoft already made most of the hard parts of the game and didn’t make much money off the Vita release so they’re basically cashing in.
Surely the trick to making a JRPG is to overload the game with exposition.
Don’t forget the protagonist with amnesia.
WOOO DEXTER HYPE!
Just kidding, there’s none of that.
It started to get interesting only to immediately go blergh again. I’m pretty sure most people are only sticking around for the end :P.
Which reminded me of Futurama. I gave up a few months back but didn’t realise it was the last season so I guess I’ll watch a few more eps just to see it end.
Aw, most of my TV shows have ended/are ending 🙁
But… SURVIVOR HYPE!!!!!
I don’t know what you’re talking about apart from last weeks episode, it’s been amazing..
only cause last weeks episode didn’t exist 😛Tea is pretty amazing.
Tea is a cool guy.
Earl Grey? Hot?
Lady Grey is a pretty cool guy actually.
So tasty.
#lolfable
French Earl Grey is cool too 🙂
I like hot chocolates!
No soap radio!
I saw a kidnapping today
so I woke him up! #dadjokepagesixBetter Nate than lever!
I read that joke to my wife. It took about half an hour. I wish I could have seen the inside of her head when I delivered the punchline.
@gorzilla
Found this thanks to you
O_O
Strangely enough, that is not the first time I’ve seen that video.
…
Oh god.
OH GOD
And I no longer want to eat. Great job.
Lamb shank?
I like the spider cows one.
I stopped after this and Kitty City 😛
Kitty City? Ooh, haven’t seen that one yet.
Boogie Maths, and Because are my favourites.
ASDJHSDLIUFHSIEUHFKSDJF HOW DO I FIND OTHER VIDEOS BY THIS USER?
I know they used to be in a drop-down on the right. Then they were in some kind of thing up the top. Then that disappeared too and I don’t know how to anything any more youtube is the stupidest worst anything augh
Search “cyriak”
They’re still on the right for me. You can always just click on their name (to go to their page) and see all their videos.
You know out of morbid curiosity I might check out all of them…
Eh? All I have on the right is a bunch of useless suggestions, with maybe a couple of others of his at the top.
I really don’t seem to use youtube much at all.
What the actual fuck.
Greenius, you should look up Tonetta.
@shiggy knows what I’m on about.
@shiggyninty
You should link me because I’m lazy.
😛
EDIT: I YouTube’d it and the thumbnails are… yeah… I’ll avoid this one 😛
I was trying to find another weird crazy video (this Japanese animated one and some Japanese guy is a bee – I’ll edit the link in later if I find it)
But stumbled across this instead lolololol
Peroperoperoperopero
OH GOD NOOOOOOOO
peroperoperoperoperoperoperoperoperoperoperoperoeproeproeporeproepriwe opiehbtgreniuasricacgewa;f hbndspjatbgtnm aerv
This really reminds me of Seaman for some reason:
sheep are pretty fucked up,
…
If Monty Python had had access to computers when doing animations, this would have happened.
I think I like the cows the most.
He was an alcoholic and it was destroying his family.
They say you catch more flys with honey
But you catch more honies when your fly #dadjokespagesixPorterhouse steak for tea. (Yes @shane, I know it’s not Monday.) My parents bought half a side of yearling beef last Wednesday, and let me have some. It is really tender and tasty.
SCHNITZEL TUESDAY!
@mythamphetamine trololol
EVERYDAY IS INDIAN DAY!
No it’s Mexican!
So much hat :'(
Why was six scared?
Because he had panophobia!I don’t get it.
Panophobia is a fear of everything.The normal joke is because ‘seven eight nine’, a play on ‘seven ATE nine’. But in this case, six is scared of everything.
I was actually disappointed that this didn’t have the correct punchline.
Oh, crap. The inner Maths Teacher is taking over. Ack!
…I understand it now, but I still don’t get.
But if you understand it, then you get it.
Okay, rather, it’s not very humorous.
That’s the point. It’s an anti-joke.
@trjn seems to know about them 😛
People living across the road from a cemetery are not allowed to be buried there.
Mostly because they’re not dead yet.
Or they’re Rocketman?
Obligatory ‘still alive’.
I’m doing science and I’m still alive.
Ha.
Finished Splinter Cell: Blacklist. Very enjoyable game. Played through completely non-lethal, trying to avoid guards where possible. Not that easy, actually. Story was alright, typical Tom Clancy game fare, enough to keep me interested. Co-op stages were very fun. Would recommend.
Been playing Rayman Legends a bit as well. That game is just so amazingly gorgeous. Also, it has a Rayman variant of Slime Volleyball. Instant win.
If you don’t know what Slime Volleyball is, then for shame. For Shame.
Picked up Diablo 3 on 360 a couple of days ago. Very enjoyable. Plays very much like the Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance games, which I thoroughly loved. So fun.
So, yeah. Stuff.
OMG! I forgot about Slime Volleyball!
Played that in class so much 😀
Slime Volleyball was the best.
Also, the creator was from the University of Western Australia (which I also went to, at a different time though). Kinda cool.
We had Java issues on my school computers for many years, so we had some very interesting “glitching out” variants of the slime games.
Slime Volleyball, Leiro and Quake were the flavours I had at highschool in the computer lab, though my class were outfitted with laptops for all classes, so we had crappy flash games for when we weren’t in the computer lab.
Edit: OH GOD AND THEN SOMEONE DISCOVERED GBA EMULATORS AND THERE WAS MUCH REJOICING.
O-Of course I know what slime volleyball is! Who said I didn’t!
Maybe you should tell the people who don’t know. Out loud. Not for me. Them.
RUN, PUNY MAN!
Alternatively, go play Slime Volleyball.
A game from Slime Games or Slime Zone or any of a number of other sites.
High school IT classes would always be 15-20 minutes of work ’til I was finished, then 40+ minutes of Slime Volleyball or Stick Cricket or something equally silly. Good times.
Pretty sure anything on a computer = Slime Volleyball, not just limited to IT classes! 😀
We played Super Maze Wars 😛
Obligatory upvote for still being alive. \o/
“What’s on the TV?”
“Just some dust.”you know whats odd & slightly annoying?
having all these recent games that I’ve never even been run (Blacklist, Outlast & a whole heap of others) but all I wanna do is play old stuff (Torchlight 2, Skyrim, Dragons Dogma, Splinter Cell Conviction etc.)
I suck at playing new things.
Aww, the end of Luigis Mansion 2 is so sweet. Not my favourite game (and surprisingly buggy for a Nintendo game :/) but still good.
buggy? I don’t think I encountered a bug when playing it.
Was probably unlucky. I can’t remember the last time I encountered a bug in a first party Nintendo game so they kind of stood out 😛 Fell through platforms a couple of times and had looping ghost-panic audio for the entire mission once. Nothing game breaking.
That’s really strange. I know a tonne of people who have played through it, and not a single mention of any bugs has ever come up at all.
Maybe you just got the lucky broken copy 😛
*sigh* the controller that came with my PS3 lasted all of 24 hours before it wouldn’t charge or turn on. Why in hell does EB Games give you a third party Bluetooth PS3 Controller with a pre owned console.. Ugh. Back it goes tomorrow!
OK, Age Of Empires given away.
Still got XCOM, and Magrunner: Dark Pulse codes to throw at someone.
Also I’m pretty sure that it’s a DRM free download link (not Steam activated) but I still want to see a fight to the death between @greenius and @scree over Tales Of Monkey Island 1-8.
OK, I don’t actually want to see anyone die. Maybe some maiming, but keep the death off-screen, if you could. TaIs this old XCOM or new XCOM? Because I wouldn’t mind trying new XCOM, except it will likely end up on my eternal pile of shame. Also I am computer-less this week.
PS hi tay, I’m still alive. Back from holidays and wishing for the next one
Who’s this guy?
That guy who’s inferior to me at Pokemon Online!
That guy who likes Xenoblade but never plays it!
That guy who I played Terraria with!
First point is a total fabrication. But the second and third are true enough so I guess you’re off the hook this time Green Man
This is Enemy Uknown, the old-new XCOM (not to be confused with Declassified, the new-new XCOM).
If it’s still available when I get my computer back I may take it off your hands. If someone claims it in the meantime they can have it
but D=
TO THE DEATH.
I didn’t ask for this D=
Well, @greenius has probably got the… love of green on his side, but I’m sure you’ve picked up some cosplay-jitsu at some point? That’s a thing, right?
If anime has taught me anything it’s that girls in school uniforms are the single most powerful resource on the planet, and if we could somehow tap into their power we would solve all requirements for energy ever.
Oh? I need to increase my Steam e-peen. Not interested anymore!
Wish you would’ve told me before I killed scree.
Sorry.
I dreamt I was a muffler last night. When I woke up I was exhausted.
Two nuns are riding bicycles along a pebbled path. One says to the other, ‘I’ve never come this way before,’ to which the other replies, ‘It’s the pebbles.’
Huh? You don’t get that one? One day you will, son. One day.
DARK SOULS!
Fuck the white gargoyle things in Anor Londo. That is all.No thanksOh yeah, those things.
Dodge roll is your friend. Or medium range pyromancy.I’ve liberally applied both of those things. I was still a stain on the footpath.KID FRIENDLY ONES I PROMISE!
What did the mother buffalo say to her son on his way to school?
‘Bi-son’
What do you call a deer with no eyes?
No eye deer
What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs?
Still no eye deer
(I believe there may be more deer ones but I can’t remember them. Feel free to add.)
What’s a female deer’s favourite nut?
A doe-nut
What do you call the ring-shaped island home to all the legless, eyeless deer?
Still No-Eye Deer Atoll.
How is the water?
Wet
Why did the girl fall off the swing?
Because she had no arms!
Why couldn’t the cat eat its dinner?
Because it didn’t have a face!
Why did the first Koala fall out of the tree? It was dead.
Why did the second Koala fall out of the tree?
It was stapled to the first.
Why did the third Koala fall out of the tree?
It thought suicide was in.
Why did the fourth Koala fall out of the tree?
It had a grand piano tied to it’s foot.
Why did the fifth Koala fall out of the tree?
It was hit by the piano stool.
Why did the Kangaroo drop dead?
It was hit by 5 Koalas and a grand piano.
What’s green, fuzzy, has four legs, and if it fell out of a tree, would kill you?
A Pool Table!
What’s this? (Hold your palms to your hands and make biting gestures.)
Jesus biting his nails.
The koala ones are brilliant.
Anyone else still struggling through Under The Dome? I feel like I’m kind of invested in the story but holy moley these are some of the stupidest people ever written in a TV show.
Thanks for the info. I was tempted to get into it, don’t really have the time but was hoping for something amazing. The Stephen King bit lured me. I’ll pass on it.
Haha, that is exactly how I felt watching tonight’s episode 😀
Nope, abandoned ship.
Yeah, the show’s writing is not great – none of the characters seem to make any rational or believable choices and they just brush aside what should be key emotional issues. Like you though, I’m sticking around for the mystery surrounding the dome.
We can stop any time but just like the TV characters we’re stuck under the dome until the mystery is solved. 🙂
Thanks for the reminder, I haven’t watched this week’s show actually.I just got to work for my night shift so hopefully I can download it fast enough to watch with my breakfast tomorrow.
@dc might still be watching!
But Linda’s voice is so raspy
/talklikeDC
Stoopid raspy-voice Linda. Started out looking like she was going to be a strong female character but she’s just a mopey moron. >:|
Based on this kind of feedback, I’m pretty glad I never started watching.
@greenius:
http://gematsu.com/2013/09/theatrhythm-final-fantasy-curtain-call-announced-for-3ds
\o/
If it doesn’t have Liberi Fatali I am going to go and stab someone.
Wasn’t that available as DLC for the first game?
Also they say 200 tracks. Surely if you selected 200 pieces from FF you’d get it.
I’m looking forward to them putting in some stuff from FFXIV. It has some really good music.
Sadly, no. The rumour mill says that there were licensing issues relating to the vocals, or something, but I have no idea. It’s the one song it needs for me to buy it.
FITHOS. LUSEC. WECOS. VINOSEC.
But wasn’t one of the other choral pieces from FF8 in the game?
@sughly !
I never got any of the DLC for Theatrhythm (it was too expensive IMO) so this is good news. Maybe it’ll have the original songs + DLC + new ones? I highly doubt it but a man can dream 😀
Gonna SS everything again! 😀
Awww im a bit slow. Just tweeted this to you ^^
I favourited it anyway to make you feel less bad 😀
*** Breaking News ***
Footballer accused of biting a fellow player on the penis is suspended for eight weeks. Reports suggest the victim is still recovering from his injuries.
I was going to add some sort of lame joke, but then I thought… is that really necessary in this instance?
That sounds like a mouthful.
Yeah, that would be a bit of a dick move.
I can’t get it up for that kind of joke.
You know sports…ball jokes.
Bit of a cock-up.
A little dick in cheek humour?
So it was real? I thought that one was a bit hard to swallow.
Wait, this is perfect for page 6. Just had a conversation with a friend who absolutely hates my terrible puns, nowadays to the point of physical violence. I fully expect a punch to the shoulder when I see him tomorrow.
He seems to bring out the worst in me.
This guy attempts to eat 150 sour Warheads in one sitting.
He gets to 86 before quitting and going to hospital on account of the blood pouring out of his mouth.I think of this every time I see him
@benj
2 Ghost Peppers, 2 Trinidad Scorpions and 2 Moruga Scorpions all at once.
Wait, that’s the guy that did the jar of vegemite isn’t it?
That’s him. He has a tonne of videos of him abusing himself.
He’s the bigger dude bro douchebag but its hard not to like him.
I had a lot of trouble with his dudebro-ness, but after watching a few of his videos I’m pretty sure he’s acting it up a bit.
FFXIV players:
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/special/libraeorzea/
Square released a companion app on iOS called Libra. Apparently still on its way for Android.
HOORAY! I can waste worktime playing games!
I’m not entirely sure that was the intended purpose though.
Awesome!
Except I have a Windows Phone 🙁
So Uncharted: Golden Abyss…
Has anyone actually finished it?
Ugh…
I usually always play games on their default difficulty but lately I’ve just gone ahead and turned it down especially when it’s the type of “kill lots of enemies” games. They just become bullet sponges and it’s not fun, it’s tedious. I did the same for Uncharted a couple of days ago and it’s been a bit better but the general gameplay is still pretty aggravating.
Want to do any sort of action? TOUCH SCREEN AND GYRO FUNCTIONALITY! WOOO! Oh, what’s that? You’re playing your Vita in bed? Too bad, the gyro is going to fuck up everything. Oh? You’re playing in the dark? Nah, hold up your Vita next to a bright light so this invisible ink or whatever shows up on the screen. Fuck off…
Assassin’s Creed 3: Liberation did the same sort of thing and replace most things with stupid gimmicky touch and gyro functionalities. At least most of the main things were still mapped to a button. I don’t understand why that game caught so much flak when Golden Abyss is doing the same shit and reviewers are pretending it ain’t no thang just because it has “Uncharted” in the title.
And I’m pretty sure this is a recent addition (thanks to a patch) but thanks to that PSN card game Uncharted: Fight for Fortune you’ll get notifications popping up for nearly everything, just to let you know you’ve found a trading card for it, despite not even owning the game. OH HEY! You’ve found this card for this game you don’t even have (or want) and here’s a game-pausing notification mid-cutscene! WOOO!
Oh and did I mention I think I encountered a game-breaking bug that doesn’t let me progress further in the game. Lovely! I guess I’ll try to restart the chapter but motivation is dropping badddd
It feels like Uncharted 0.5. Take out all the crappy gimmicky crap, or make it optional and it wouldn’t be too bad. But it’s all mandatory. Hell, even the menus are touch operated and are designed as such (they’re bad). But it still has the Uncharted prettiness (relative for the Vita), the characters and story. That’s why I’m sticking around.
Blergh
Uncharted GA was a great game – except for all the forced touch screen and gyro stuff. Because it was a launch title, they felt the need to go ‘LOOK! TOUCH CONTROLS! SEE? SWIPE THREE TIMES TO OPEN A DOOR BECAUSE IT’S FUN! GYROSCOPIC LOG CROSSINGS!’ Don’t even mention the godforsaken swipe-boss-battles. Eurgh.
Apart from that though, I found it to be a pretty tidy game. It looked and played great, and felt like a true Uncharted title, if not a little condensed for a handheld – which is to be expected. Thankfully Uncharted is one of the only Vita titles that overdid all the gimmicky controls, they seem to have gotten over it for the most part.
This is the argument I’ve had against mandatory kinect in the xbone since day one.
If you put this shit there, managerial types tell developers they have to find uses for it, even when it contributes nothing useful. We saw it with the 3DS, we saw it with the wii, we saw it with the original kinect. People feel they have to use it because it’s there, to retroactively justify its existence.
“But if they know that all machines have it, they’ll be free to create innovative things that use it without worrying about the people who won’t get to!”
Wii released in 2006. Still waiting for that assumption to be true.
Anyone who says this is wrong, and has been proven wrong by history, and is continually proven wrong anytime some idiot shoehorns stupid motion/swipe/gyro controls somewhere it isn’t useful or fun purely because the tech was there and they felt obliged to use it.
Just quit and start playing Rayman Origins. It worked for me!
Also, is AssCreed Lib a bad game? I think I saw it pretty cheap at EBGame and was tempted to pick it up.
I liked it. Haven’t finished it, but it was pretty fun playing a different, female protagonist in a different setting. The game also has a cool feature where you can change personas depending on what you need to do. You can change into a slave persona to infiltrate plantations, bribe and incite people, you can change into the ‘lady’ persona where you wear a fancy dress and can influence people, but can’t fight or you can just go the assassin persona.
Has it’s quirks, but it’s a pretty cool game.
Nah, similar sort of thing with Golden Abyss. Lots of gimmicky stuff but if you look past that it’s not bad. Still feels like an Assassin’s Creed game but don’t expect anything too much from it.
I believe there’s Liberation HD coming so you should just get that!
Yeah saw it popup on the KotakuAU page a few mins after posting. Convenient, but creepy!
If you like Assassins Creed it’s okay.
It’s just more of the same except on Vita.
I beat it..I didn’t enjoy it but I did it atleast
Strip out all the stupid touch screen & gyro gimmicks and it would still be a pretty average game. I couldn’t actually finish it because of the stupid shit they stuck in though. Also way too many kill rooms with too many enemies (Uncharted 1 and 3 also have this issue a lot too), plus they require way too much precision in aiming for what the tiny Vita sticks can actually give you.
It felt like they’d made it in an alternate dimension where Uncharted 2 had never happened.
My biggest problem with Golden Abyss was it just overstayed it’s welcome.
It just kept going and became a slog to get through whereas all the other Uncharted’s have kept me interested the entire time.
Also rowing.
Fucking. Rowing.
I used to always want the latest and best things but over the past 3 years or so, while i still buy stuff, i find myself not drawn to buying tech purchases anymore, Everything i have works fine and suits my needs. Sure i could afford a bigger tv and get the latest and greatest stuff but right now everything is functional. I either became fiscally responsible or super duper boring
side note: A old man hit my car ages ago (like 2 years) the dent is purely cosmetic and for whatever reason (read: i was scared) i didnt get his insurance to fix it. Now i could of paid for it to be fixed like 5 times over but i just continue to use it the way it is because its functional. I probably should fix it but ehhh.
Is anyone else like this?
Malibu Stacy’s getting a new hat???
You haven’t gotten boring Rockets… you got old 😛
It’s both. ‘Old’ and ‘boring’ go hand-in-hand. 🙂
Someone ran into my drivers seat door and didn’t leave a note. Took me 18 months to fix not because I didn’t have the money, purely because I couldn’t be assed. Now I am thinking of selling the car so I got it repaired.
I am sure some calamity will warrant spending all my bonus money in six months time, but right now I can’t think of a single thing I am mentally setting that money aside for. In previous years I was always waiting to buy *something*. Now, I’m not. There’s nothing I want. My computer is fine. My TV is big enough. I have an Xbone preordered and I’m setting aside the money to pay for it at launch. We have no need of other toys or gadgets. Maybe I will finally buy a decent suit like I’ve been promising myself for the last year and a half.
Bought a new good suit last week. Now just need to find a reason to wear it.
Dapper Meat.
Well, I will be in Canberra next weekend…
…you’ve got a nice suit as well. *hint hint*
Hmmm…
*scratches Cakesmith thoughtfully*
I have the weirdest boner right now.
I need something better than what I’ve been wearing for work. Most days I can get away with just black trousers and a shirt, but for meetings and conferences and court etc we’re expected to make more of an effort. My old grey thing from Kelly Country isn’t going to cut it much longer.
I spent $500 ($530 including alteration. Had to get the pants taken up) on mine from David Jones.
It’s a Studio Italia suit which I’ve had one of before. Really nice. Super comfortable.
Seperate it and you’ll be able to wear it loads of places. Wear the pants with a t-shirt, or the jacket with jeans and a t-shirt.
Yeah, I was thinking about using the pants as my new work pants.
The only thing stopping me is the fact their dry clean only. Currently I wear like, $30 pants from Target to work but they’re machine washable.
I dislike wearing suit pants without the jacket because I feel like all I’m doing is wearing out the pants faster and reducing the number of times I can wear the suit.
I am apart of my sisters bridal part which means I am getting a free suit. Tailor made with Vest and shirt.
Score! Last time I was in a wedding party I just wore whatever suit I had. All the groomsmen were mismatched.
Last time I was in a wedding party it was a rented suit.
And the time before that I had to pay for it myself. All $700 of it. Best part is it doesn’t fit me anymore because I’m
not fat anymorenot as fat anymore.I may have slightly outgrown my current suit jacket due to recent expansion in my radial giftedness. Part of why I haven’t replaced it is because I am planning on joining a gym.
My body shape can change fairly dramatically depending on what I’ve been eating/how I’ve been working out, so I usually end up buying two of everything – if I know I’m chunky at the moment, I’ll get a size smaller, and if I know I’m planning on bulking up, I get a size bigger.
Because that moment when your clothes don’t fit anymore is always awkward enough without signifying the change with a sudden shift in sartorial style.
I skimmed some off my bonus to upgrade my PC but the bulk of it is just going to sit there until I do something with it, nothing really planned. Might put it toward the deposit for a house or something if I end up deciding to buy one.
Gifts for Greenius!
😀
I’ve been like that forever. My win98 computer still works, so I keep using it 😛
My old car had a few bumps and bruises on it, thanks to several incidents me and my sister encountered over the years. The worst was one that she got hit with, which dented one of the front panels in such a way that the driver’s door couldn’t be opened. But the mechanic just popped it out with a crowbar and we kept on going with the thing as it was. Up until my big finale which wrote the thing off 😛 My current bumper’s slightly crumpled state irritates me, but I don’t know that there’s much need to get it fixed. It does indeed work (although I just noticed yesterday that one side of the car seems to have been pushed away from the bonnet), so I’mnot all that fussed on fixing it yet.
Kept with my old phones all the time because they still worked. Used my 8250 up until the start of 2009 when out of nowhere, the mic stopped working. So moved on to a 6100 that dad had lying around at home. Only upgraded this year because I ended up finding an excuse to buy an 808 (needed a camera for a holiday), and even though I spent the next few months still using my 6100 as my phone, I found a new plan which cost me the same as my current rate of credit use but offered me more usage, so upgraded to that which got me a micro SIM that could fit in the 808, so I switched over to using that too. Kinda sad to be off the SIM I’d been carting around since ~2002, but eh. Now to try and truck on with this phone for a ridiculously long amount of time 😛
And you still play Nintendo games!
trolololololol
😛
MY NES WORKS PERFECTLY FINE
The roof my car has basically no paint on it anymore, but eh.
Same, my car is an outside car so the roof and front bonnet have basically no paint. =P
You were planning on a holiday sometime next year right? Save your money for that. 🙂
Why is it every single competition in the universe requires Facebook now?
“just follow us on Facebo…”
“Nope!”
“You can enter, just send a tweet to-”
“Nope!”
I like to think this is the Face of Boe’s fan website, and thousands of Doctor Who followers follow it for random competitions.
Win a date with Jack Harkness!
Because everything is stupid.
Because it is easy to track, the competition structure is there, enter gives them the ability send you social media marketing, when you do enter it is flagged on your friends news feed to they get extra publicity from every entry.
Also in a lot of cases the reason they are running the competition is to increase the number of people in their social media community
I know why, I guess it was more a rhetorical question. Shits me, more than anything.
*Daily post about me loving Rayman Legends*
\o/
Dammit @dc!
…wait
And as predictable as the sunrise there’s a heap of people declaring how awesome they are for not buying iPhones and never planning to.
Great job guys. You’re the glue that holds our society together.
Right? Those guys are the true heros of today!
It’s the internet, dude. Biggest ‘cool’ competition on the planet. Don’t even go there.
Like us on Facebook to join the competition
Thanks man!
I want to buy one of each of the new 5C colors, so I can chuck them into a blender and see what color comes out.
In theory it should be white, right?
Brown. It’s always brown. Why do you think poo is brown? The body takes all the colourful things we eat and mixes them up. 😛
Haha, that too. I was thinking along the lines of white being made of all the primary colors, and since all the new colors are pastels, it would blend as white. 😛
Poo is brown?
*Calls doctor*
http://www.mens-wedding-rings.com/assets/images/Ring_Box_Image.jpg
Oh yeah, so the thing they were announcing last night was new colours?
Pretty much. And a fingerprint scanner on the 5S. Plus faster processors. The only recent jump in innovation that I recall was the retina display. That was awesome when I saw it.
My 5 is just a skinny version of the 4S with another row of icons.
Now that everyone hates Apple and it’s the standard to be a free-thinking Android user with your Galaxy S4 or whatever, I can’t wait to upgrade to the 5S when my contract rolls over in February/March.
In a weird way, Apple will soon become the ‘underdogs’.
I saw a really revolting ad in the cinema a few weeks ago with a bunch of utter wankers having a dinner party, and one of the more awkward betas saying that he was still using an iphone because he’s ‘creative’, and one of the bitchy girls slapped him down by noting, “You’re a barista.”
The idiot then proceded to stare, slackjawed and disbelieving, anytime anyone did something with their android phone that an iphone apparently can’t. “Wait. What? Did that just happen?”
That tool deserved to be ridiculed, but so did all the other posers in that horrific ad.
Edit: The take-away point from the ad seemed to be: “Buy a new Samsung thingey. You can be an enormous fucking tool in front of your poser friends.”
I saw the same ad at the cinema and I share your sentiments.
Well on the basis that every phone has pretty much the same core functionality the ‘image’ of the phone is the only thing that will make people switch
In all honestly, that’s 90% of people who have smartphones anyway. I love gadgets and technology but while smartphones are goddamn amazing science-fiction devices compared to what I grew up with, I’m a little bit over the idea of being jacked into everything at all times. For most people they’re still such a novelty that you can’t have a beer without someone whipping out their phone or tablet to show off some app, or look up some factoid on the internet, so you know which phone they’re using and how fucking new it is.
I had lunch with one of our solicitors the other day and he had an iPhone 4 with a cracked screen, and all he wanted to do was show me a picture of his car. It was so refreshing.
90%? No way. 😛 I must have the coolest friends on the planet, who only use their phones in polite company to prove each other wrong on IMDB. 😉
I won’t be buying one because I’m happy with My Note II.
But I’m not going to shout it from the rooftops.
I only say that stuff to annoy Gorzy, as he has an iPhone =P
NOTE II IS AWESOME!!!
*jumps off roof*
I have an iPhone 3GS and it’s survived and functioned this long after so much abuse that I’m beginning to think it’s actually a Nokia.
The 5c looks to cater for a younger demographic, whilst the 5s looks pretty sophisticated in gold. 5s also has some cool new features that I wouldn’t mind checking out. I current;y own a HTC One, so this is a non biased opinion.
I kind of want an iPhone because I’m getting frustrated by the lack of apps on Windows Phone and the fact that the web browser doesn’t reflow pages to fit the screen (I assume Safari still does that?)
Don’t know if I can bring myself to go to a smaller screen after my 920 though. Also not sure if I can afford to buy one outright but don’t want to be locked into a 24-month contract again.
I haven’t been out of the house for anything other than to check the mail or do groceries since I got my tattoo. So three weeks. Yikes! No wonder I’m grumpy.
Three weeks without unnecessary going out?
Grumpy?
That sounds like bliss.
But there are other people in the house Bish. Little people with their pitter patter little feet, and their questions
This video was on Gizmodo a day or so ago about the benefits of going outside. Maybe you’ll get a creative spark for your sewing projects. 🙂
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/08/would-never-going-outside-really-be-that-bad-for-us-sadly-yes/
I need to go outside more too. Other than my walk to work or going shopping I spend most of my time in the house,
You go to Sydney sometimes!
Sounds like we need another Brisbane meat!
I tried to set up a casual lunch with @dc but he hats me. 🙁
Everyone wants to go on a date with @dc. He had a busy schedule.
Someone else will have to set it up, last Sunday was a total meat failure. 😛
But you are the leader
You didn’t remind anyone! You need to tweet and notify everyone constantly in the day or two leading up to it else we forget or think it’s been cancelled. 😛
Well, I did tweet things and such, but I didn’t tag people in, which is probably the mistake. Also, Twitter had kind of exploded with election-madness, so I doubt people would’ve even been in a receptive state.
I was going to post on Saturday asking if it was still on but I forgot. And I didn’t see anything anywhere about it so I kind if assumed it had been cancelled. Next time I’ll keep bugging you about it so I know what’s going on. 😛
It was a great idea for a Meat though, we should definitely try again one day.
Dear Tay
Hope you are all well.
A Wednesday Morning Question, inspired by @cakesmith’s post on page 5:
You are given the job of doing a gritty reboot of TAY. What Changes do you make?
Much love from the mirror universe
Red
P.S.
LETTERS
@dc is a replicant.
permadeath.
get a comment with 5 downvotes, your account is banned.
gotta start over with a new handle & everything.
Exploitable! Sounds like fun….
Scary.
Looks like I’m on the way to being the first.
FRET NOT, I SHALL RETURN AS.. BENNY2.0!
HAHAR!
“Gritty reboot”, huh? Well for starters I’d throw away “Dad Joke Page 6”, “Letter-Writing Page 7” and “Sexy Page 18”.
Although in this day and age, a gritty reboot would probably mean changing them to “Misogynist Joke Page 6”, “Petition-signing, Cupcake-sending Page 7”, and “S & M Page 18”.
I take it back, I’ll leave them as they are. 😛
For the new page six:
How many women does it take to change a lightbulb?
I dunno, I did it, because I’m not lazy and she was off pursuing her career, which is good, because she’s the breadwinnerಠ_ಠ
¯\_(ಠ◡ಠ)_/¯
Dear Red
I am firmly of the opinion that a gritty reboot of TAY would be more daredevil than batman begins,
However it if was to happen then it would need to be set after ‘the event’. No point having a gritty reboot without some of that post apocalyptic urban decay.
Happy with rainbow and sunshine TAY
Tigerion
Dear Red,
You cheap fox you sold me a fake statue! I swear when I find you I’m gonna skin you and wear you like a…what? Wrong Red? Shit!
Well I guess if I had to change TAY turn it into a forum with different sections but each section has a seperate password and the only way to get the password is to read @shane’s new book.
Yours apologetically but still peeved
Cold
pretty sure the 20 inch dong was a dead give-away that it was a fake, just saying
In hindsight the fact Mona Lisa was spelt moan Lisa was probably a hint as well
The fact that you thought Mona Lisa had a dong in the first place is definitely an issue…
It’s her expression that’s puzzled many… not the other part
There are theories that Mona Lisa’s likeness was based on a male subject, or even Da Vinci’s own.
We all know what she’s doing…
I approve these plans. I think you and I will get on famously.
Dear Red
Answer your own damn question!
I think that we’d definitely have to change some of the names and identities for grittiness. I think we’d need Brain@Masha2932, Redbloodartifice and beef@cakesmith at least.
Regards
Self referential red
Dear Red
You seem to have something on your head
Mmmm Brains
Regards
Masticating Masha
YOU’RE MASTICATING? IN PUBLIC? HOW RUDE
Yours
Moral Guardian
Lots of testosterone and swearing (though I guess that’s more a faithful re-enactment than a gritty reboot).
Shoot it on old film stock with handheld cameras.
MOAR SHAKYCAM
AND LENS FLARE… EVERYTHING IS BETTER WITH LENS FLARE
Having more than three new pages in a 24 hour period causes TAY to be inaccessible until the 24 hour period expires.
Productivity triples Australia-wide.
D:
@Blaghman’s superhero/noir tale is probably somewhat apt.
@ynefel I keep seeing you online in Diablo 3 and you’re only slightly behind me but I feel weird about crashing your game uninvited.
As do I feel weird about crashing yours. I’m just going to stand here awkwardly and cross my arms.
EDIT: Doing a Hard playthrough, and just got to Belial last night. Fuck that guy. On harder difficulties, as a squishy caster class, he’s just terrible. I’m level 26.
Somehow my Barbarian is regenerating 50 life per second, gets another 50 per hit and another 30 with each kill. He’s also doing nearly 500 DPS. It seems like it is impossible for him to die. Last time he did was in Act 1.
Haven’t used anything I’ve found yet. Everything gets poured into the blacksmith who has been producing some pretty gnarly gear.
I am playing on easy since I never played D3 much at all. Not sure if that affects stats or gear?
Not entirely sure how it affects it – I think it’s mostly the enemies, but playing on normal is pretty super-easy. But if you’ve never played D3 before, I’d be suggesting playing on normal.
Feels like my kidney is having a punch on with my stomach.
Urgh.
Ten bucks on the kidney.
Twenty bucks for the kidney.
The stomach will eat him for breakfast, I’ll take that action
I reckon the large intestine will jump in so I’ve got $30 on him
Hey.
You got a lot of nerve showing your face around these parts.
I take that as a hint that you want to play RDR again eh? EH?
Tonight?
I’m in Wagga til Friday, weekend?
reddead.wikia.com/wiki/Mexican_Army
“The Mexican Army is a faction in Red Dead Redemption. ”
“Mex is a Faction”
“Mex is F4ction”
ZOMG CAKESMITH IS F4CTION!
I will be drunk on the weekend 🙁
EVEN BETTER… DRUNK RDR \o/
As in, not at home drunk.
DITCH SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT AND GET DRUNK ALONE LIKE THE REST OF US ‘NORMAL’ PEOPLE \o/…
or pretend to be all cool stuff and that you know “real life” people… like some kind of social dude…
I do.
DISNEY INFINITY \o/
Dear Alex
How goes the career?
Workin hard for mah money
Red.
It’s 10am and I’ve run out of work. I sent an email about what to do now and am just sitting at my desk…waiting for something to happen.
Cue adventure!
You’re about to learn about what makes offices really function: busy work.
Oh I’m learning.
When I run out of actual work I can usually kill an hour or two scanning stuff then renaming and uploading the scanned documents to files. Assuming I have run out of things to look at on reddit.
Did you bring The Game with you?
…OH FU-
I mean, no.
.yeH
hey @dc, your mention of Arcade Fire & BDO reminded me of this.
few years ago… like 2008 or something, I was working the Sydney BDO for some environmental group. you know, acting all bubbly & stuff, trying to convince 50,000 festival-goes that hey, you might be better off putting your garbage in a bin rather than on the ground, managing a small clean-up crew etc.
anyway, I was on a break backstage as some band were finishing up their set & I got talking to one of the guys from Enter Shikari.
he started telling me about something that happened at the Gold Coast show involving the Arcade Fire & Rage Against The Machine.
So the artists area at the gold coast is 2 rows of tents, forming a sorta corridor leading to the main stages. anyway… RATM had been acting like divas the whole day – refusing to talk to fans, not doing interviews etc. anyway, when the time comes for RATM to go on stage that night, they send one of their reps around to every band currently in one of these tents, telling them that RATM would not be heading to the stage unless all the tents were closed up. They didnt want anyone seeing them as they walked down to the stage…
so yeah… all the tents are shut up, & RATM start walking down to so their set…
then, just as they’re about half way there, Win Butler bursts out of his tent & starts shouting
“FUCK YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!!!” over & over as he skips around them all the way to the stage.
all other bands came out & joined in & were pissing themselves laughing.
RATM were not overly impressed.
anyway. thats what @dc reminded me of. @dc @dc @dc.
@dc.
Edit: spoilered for wall-o-text minimisation.
Dear @dc
@dc?
Yours in @dc
Red.
“In @dc” ?
oh Red 😉
Worst hermit.
Have you told that story before? I’m sure I have read it almost verbatim, but I can’t remember if that was here or somewhere else.
yeah probably.
sorry for the repitition.
Nothing wrong with the repetition! It’s a great story and I have an unusually long memory for stuff like this. I just wondered if I had read it here or somewhere else. Maybe I am cyberstalking you everywhere on the interwebs.
Apparently this show about a bunch of kids dancing in water and fire and stuff is going to be back on Friday.
That sounds kind of rad.
I really should get around to watching season one of that
Oh hey, that’s that spinoff cartoon from that M Night Shyamalan movie right?
I read this and I know you’re trolling but I still felt a bit angry.
Working as intended?
Did not intend for actual anger, apologies.
Not anger at you specifically, just in general. And toward that hack director.
But if I watch his movie I can skip the tedium of watching the entire first season of the cartoon and lose nothing in the process. *ducks*
Now that I’m re(-re-re)watching Book One since I picked it up on Blu-Ray, I know what I want from Book Two.
-Asami needs to find a little bit more happiness, because, seriously, she is an emotional punching bag in Book One.
-Moustache Guy needs to get the shit kicked out of him some more.
-My Cabbages.
I still haven’t seen season one 🙁
Gonna go pick it up on blu-ray sometime this week though.
@rize if you decide you want to sell your old phone, we will buy it. My wife’s phone is now officially dead.
Are you saying that buying the phone off @rize would be….
The Lesser Evil?
Maybe I am. Regardless, it would definitely result in Peaceful Tomorrows.
I don’t have that iPhone but I do have a Sony Ericsson from 2004.
It’s Walkman branded.
Is that the orange/beige white w800? I had that phone and it was brilliant.
That’s the one.
Question for those who are PC tech savy.
If I upgrade my GFX card (currently have the a GTX560ti) can I use the old one in the secondary slot? Assuming I have enough room on the montherboard of course. I think I do.
Can the GTX560 do anything for me when run next to something newer? Perhaps use it as a Pysx Card?
@ynefel
Depends. You can add a second card and dedicate it to PhysX if you like. Best way is to test with benchmarks and see if the system works better with the 560 as dedicated PhysX, or without it. I tinkered with the idea (I had a GTX670 spare), but found my system honestly performed better with it left to default, which most of the time utilises the CPU for PhysX.
Get your new card and try both ways, see which is better. But it’s definitely possible. You don’t have to connect the 560 to anything either, just supply it power and that’s it.
EDIT: PhysX is only utilised by certain games too – so you may not notice a huge different on a lot of titles either way. The game has to be coded for it.
SLI requires identical GPUs.
You can run two GPUs but only one will actually work and putting something in your second PCI-E slot will usually slow down the first one as well. I don’t think you’d gain very much from having this sort of configuration, better to just yank the old one entirely.
If it was an AMD GPU then Crossfire can work with mixed GPUs with some caveats.
He’s not talking about SLI/Crossfire – you can throw in any GPU and dedicate it to PhysX. Say, if you have SLI Titans or something, (or any graphics setup – single card or otherwise) and you had, say a 580 (or any spare card) sitting around, you can just throw it in by itself and dedicate it to PhysX. It doesn’t get used for anything but assisting with PhysX calculations.
Yeah, which is why I mentioned that in the second paragraph.
Better to throw a 760 or 770 in there and ditch the 560 completely.
Also PhysX isn’t really worth having an extra GPU for.
Fuck it. I hate arguing with you.
Thanks guys (@negativezero)
I just realised I have my Home Theatre PC running on board graphics so i’ll just get a new card for the gaming rig and put the old one in the HTPC.
I’m pretty sure that just populating the second PCIE16 lane drops both to x8 speeds regardless of how you’re using the second GPU.
EDIT: Unless you’ve got a board with dedicated PCI-E lanes? But you’re probably the only one here with a crazy machine like that.
yeah some boards support dual channel PCIe where both will operate at 16x.
But without SLI, the second card will still only do either Physx or nothing. Is that correct?
Correct.
hey, anyone who’s played Splinter Cell Blacklist. I’ve got a question.
Only just finished the tutorial & gotten to the bit where you can pick what missions to do…
theres a timer on screen, counting down to the next Engineer attack, if I dick about doing side-missions instead of just main story ones, does that timer keep counting down & if it reaches the next attack date, & I’ve not done anything, does it change stuff?I haven’t noticed it go down. But that being said I haven’t actually completed any other missions yet. The side missions seem really bloody hard. At least on Perfectionist difficulty.I tried the Survive 20 waves of enemies one and it’s very hard.
Also in case you didn’t know. There is a mobile game (iOS and Android) where you control a little spy-bot. It’s actually not a terrible game in it’s own right but by playing it you can spend the points and unlock upgrades and gear in Blacklist. I think that’s pretty cool.
thanks man!
I’ll just keep going & see what happens. I’ve got a tendency to do every side-mission I can, so we’ll see how that goes….
I’m only playing on normal at the moment (I’m too impatient for perfectionist stealth games), so I’m looking forward to these other missions… :/
I finished another mission. It does count down, dunno if it makes a difference what mission. I finished a main story one
EDIT:
I did a side mission and it didn’t change so it must be tied to the story
That gauntlet is actually meant to be done with others, the dog+engineer combo can be frustrating, you can just cheese the waves by finding anything that resembles a pill box and proximity mine with lethal/shocks any access points and throw sleeping gas, grenades and immolation grenades at anything that moves *Sparingly of coarse* its actually quite effective.
Yeah I noticed that the level seems to be designed for co-op. lots of places where 2 people could cover all approaches.
Dear @tigerion
I would now like a Peking Duck Taco.
Stomach rumblin’ Red.
Dear Red
I too enjoy fancy mexican food.
Now I am really wondering if anywhere near me will make me a peking duck taco. It is almost lunch time
Considering the possibilities
Tigerion
Did I mention that this Saturday there shall be BOARD GAMES at my place to celebrate my ageing? I probably did.
Anyhow, attendance is mandatory, fun is not.
Join us!
I dont think you did. mentioning something about board games seems totally unlike you.
It does seem out of character.
Rang Vodafone to add a bit more data for the month. $10 for 500mb or $30 for 1gb.
Hang on a minute …
like how you can buy 1.25 litres of soft drink fpr $1.99 or 2 litres for $2.
I’ve turned into my godamn dad, checking out grocery store catalogues.
At least I do it with a 21st century twist – online shopping with sorting by price-per-volume.
The price of mobile data is one of the biggest telco scams in the world and from my time at the big T, I’m almost convinced that the only reason it’s so high is to actively discourage high usage, because it is one of the types of services that doesn’t handle high demand very well.
Your telling me I went 500mb over my cap once with vodafone due to a fault that they admitted was on there side..still threw me a bill asking for $700 for going over my cap and when I told the store they said call the call centre, when I called the call centre they said there’s nothing they can do and the best they can do is drop the bill to $200 otherwise they lose money because data is very expensive..like shit it is!
Haha. Wait, on that note I didn’t realize you can do that. I moved up by $10 in the last few months to the next plan and it’s been just the right amount so far.
@shane Whoops, sorry, totally forgot about the phone thing!
I was going to give it to you for free, but…I don’t suppose you have a couple of signed copies of Peaceful Tomorrow Vol. 1 & 2 that you could give to me at the Canmeat? 😀
Apparently I’ve purchased every copy or so he tells me.
Well, that’s an easy deal. Thanks, man! The books are yours. Are you sure? Happy to throw some moolahs your way too!
AND YOU SAID I WAS BAD AT HAGGLING
You ARE bad at it. You’re just not alone there 😛
I would also like to partake in the exchange of currency for goods.
I shall bring books to the meat! \o/
All good. It’s doing nothing right now and will probably continue doing so in the future, so it might as well get used by someone!
FYI I got it when the S2 was new, but I don’t think it has any superficial damage at all, and there’s nothing wrong with it that I am aware of. It has a nice little case with it too, I’ll just have to find the charger that came with it.
Thanks, man. That would be a huge help. If you find it, can we organise a time to make the exchange, pls?
Dear TAY.
I hope this missive reaches you safely. The coyotes have us surrounded and it’s making communication with the outside world difficult.
[The following section is illegible, torn and stained with what looks like coyote teeth marks]
..and isn’t too bad, once you get used to the smell. But that’s enough about politics, time to get back to reinforcing the defences.
– Yours in the endless, desperate pursuit of finding distractions to help ignore imminent mortality,
Transientmind.
dude…. dont mess with coyotes.
they’ll mess you up.
My supervisor said we all need to save at least one bullet for ourselves. I said to that, “Ben Cochrum would be disappointed in you.” (Use CTRL+F on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_attacks_on_humans)
Dear @transientmind
Where the hell did you find out about him?
Yours sincerely
Red in tooth and claw
Dear Red.
You’re never too manly to have heroes.
Yours in manliness,
Transientmind.
Dear Transientmind
Mine is Fighting Jack Churchill. You may also be interested in the segment on the Geologic Podcast entitled “Bastards who wouldn’t die”
Yours
Red
Dear @transientmind,
Hopefully this letter reaches you in time, we have read your letter and after a rather long tea break consisting of mini scones and tea, have decided to send our strongest weapon on the war on coyotes..
@dc will be there by sundown to circle the wagons and fend off the coyote menace.
Yours in squishieness,
ColdCam
Why is this MGSV ‘sexiness’ such a big thing? I’m a little confused. MGS has had plenty of sexy characters, not sure why people seem to be latching onto this so hard.
Dear Nef
Because a lady running around a warzone in fishnets and a bikini is ludicrous. Even by MGS standards.
Plus, after awesome characters like The Boss it’s disappointing
Yours,
!
Dear !,
Out of context, sure.
Yours,
Snake! Snake! SNAAAAAAKE!
Dear SNAAAAAAAAAAKE
It’s going to have to be some pretty impressive context to explain why someone is wearing a Bikini as battle attire. In a game that’s never been about realism but has always had an element of verisimilitude, it’s just really strange.
Yours
La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo
Dear la-li-lu-le-lohan
Box protector.
Hehehe
Yours,
Men who hide in boxes
Dear La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo,
I tend to agree, though I feel like Kojima deserves the chance for Quiet to be shown within the game before being judged. If people are still outraged, and knowing people they certainly will be, then they have every right to be. This wouldn’t be an issue if it were a Tarantino film rather than a Kojima game.
Yours,
Hi-Def Eggs
Dear Hi Def Eggs,
You mean a film instead of a game.
F’ingTFY
Freeze
Dear Freeze,
We’re talking about Kojima, not David Cage.
Failed in the film industry,
BDKIAF
Dear 1080p googs
I agree, but the current furor is over a character that we know about 3 things about: She’s a Sniper, She’s wearing stupid attire for a warzone, and the Game’s creator ha explicitly described her as “sexy” before anything else. I’m not passing judgment- the character may be awesome in other ways, there may be an explanation, or it may be a plot-based temporary costume- I’m just saying that within the game’s marketing team they need to have a serious chat with hideo.
Also, It’s my personal opinion that it’s kinda lazy design- at least Eva and Sniper Wolf made sense within the setting.
Yours
Metal Gear?!
Dear Metal Gear?!,
I can’t help but feel that if Kojima had never said anything this wouldn’t be nearly as big an issue as it is now. I also don’t feel like there’s anything inherently wrong with designing a character who is intended to be sexy or erotic or whatever the word was. The whole thing has been blown way out of proportion, as does every minor issue now.
Yours,
Joakim
Dear secret swede,
You’re probably correct- there is a sensitivity around these things, that’s the way things are. I don’t mind characters being sexy, or attractive- as human beings we are drawn to such things.
After a while though, especially female characters just feel like eye candy for the sake of eye candy, having no agency of their own and effectively being wallpaper.
And I hate feeling that about female characters.
Yours
Red
Notwithstanding the fact the entire issue likely came up due to a translation issue. Kojima’s English isn’t the greatest, and many descriptive Japanese words don’t equal the same thing in English.
Dear Red,
I agree, and I’m fairly certain that won’t be the case here. If it turns out that Quiet truly does just exist to look pretty and drive sales, then I’ll have an issue. But I don’t think that’ll be the case.
Awaiting context before passing judgement.
Yours,
BDKIAF
I thought I saw something about her being able to change her skin color to match the surroundings or something? That being the case, with her also being a sneaky sniper and everything, wearing less clothing would work in her advantage as it would let her hide more effectively.
Not that I particularly care as I’ve never understood the appeal of MGS
Dear Neg
Still seems a bit silly given that stealth camouflage and Octocamo are already known technologies in MGS
Hiding under truck til the alert phase is over,
Red.
Dear Red
I think you need to remember a bit harder.
Rubbing one out to a poster inside a locker
Freeze.
Actually, scratch that. I don’t want to know.
Fucking numpties.
Right? There was nowhere near this much hysteria with the Beauty & The Beast unit, and that was four times as much gratuitous ‘sexiness’
Women in skin tight suits groaning and trying to seduce you after each battle was nowhere near as bad as a ‘sexy’ (because, hell there’s a bikini!) sniper, right? Or EVA or The Boss with their tits out. Not saying these things offended me at all – because they don’t. Not in the slightest. Just ridiculous that the words ‘sexy’ and ‘erotic’ came up and now everyone’s all over it. Like suddenly it’s in poor taste or unprecedented.
The game hasn’t even come out yet. We don’t have a story or a context. Settle the fuck down.
All Kojima had to do was not draw any attention to Quiet and nobody would have done a thing.
Maybe it’ll be justified by context but I’m thinking that whatever justification is given is going to be so ridiculous that we’re going to stop caring about what she’s wearing and either praise Kojima as a mad god or just deem him mad.
It seems to happen most of the time. I just hope he doesn’t resort to half hour long codec sob stories to explain her story.
I’m just so looking forward to Kojima’s explanation of how its justified.
You know, you’re playing the game then all of a sudden the reason is revealed & just like he said, you feel ashamed & regret judging the character before knowing her story & you gain this great understanding of her plight…
…and then you shake the controller to make her tits jiggle.
Edit: Honestly, it’s a cash-grab. sell figurines & generate hype through controversy. /discussion.
Edit #2: Not that similar things haven’t been done before.
I dont think its clever, & I dont think its needed in the game, but the one question i have is why has everyone suddenly latched onto this example as if its something new?
‘sexy’ exploitation of game characters has been done so many times now its boring.
I just want her to turn around at the end if the game and say, “By the way I was born a man”. Every guy playing the game regrets making “sexy” comments.
Speak for yourself.
Ah yes, this reminds me of BioShock Infinite. That’s the last time I say “man she’s cute” to my female sidekick in a game…
I’m hoping it comes to explanation time, someone asks her why and she responds by putting a lollipop in her mouth and arching an eyebrow over her shoulder as she sashays away.
Dear god the Internet reaction would be priceless.
I sincerely hope she turns out to be transgender. That would be such a fuck-you to the naysayers and unprecedented in video games. And yes, I do actually know two transgender people in real life – worth mentioning they’re also some of the most grounded and beautiful people I’ve ever met.
transgender or not, its still exploitation.
though yeah, I agree that hetronormativity is way too overrepresented in gaming & getting GLBT characters involved is gonna be a step forward.
though not if they’re presented like this…
I agree, whilst probably not the most tasteful or subtle way to introduce a TG character to the world in a video game, it would still be kind of cool, I think. Baby steps, and all.
Thankfully, the marriage equality debate has shown people are a lot more open minded than they used to be. While not concerning the TG population specifically – it still inspires hope.
Dear Nef
There’s only one explicitly transsexual character I can call to mind is Poison from final fight, and that’s a dodge anyway.
Any others you can think of?
Red
Actually no. And to be honest, I wasn’t even aware Poison was transsexual.
Birdo.
Honestly I’d get more upset if that was the case as everyone would be back pedalling and saying there’s no issue with it, as if a woman has no right to any sexuality.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Unprecedented except for when Nier had a character like that. Or at least I think they did, as I have never actually played it (I am a bad person) I am not sure.
I don’t think they ever xplicity stated that Kaine was a hermaphrodite. Was alluded to in the manual or something.
They never go out and say a lot of the stuff in the Drakengard / Nier games. But it’s there. That’s Cavia’s thing. Like the whole Incest thing going on in Drakengard 2.
Nier feels like a dramatically underrated game, but I also have to admit to not playing it for long enough to be able to say for sure. 1) On console, 2) I am an incurable game tourist, and will hop from game to game like a playboy hops beds.
Poison from Final Fight/Street Fighter is meant to be transgender. Mainly because they decided it was weird for dudes to beat up a chick, so they made her a dude and then… I dunno, Japan?
Goes to show! Kinda funny in that my trans friends admit to being absolute basket cases.
Identity issues, self-insertion in games, role-playing, and dysmorphia are big issues to them that have a big impact on the kind of activities they enjoy, or the kinds of things which set off some of their darker funks. A gentle bit of ribbing and some hardcore nerdy distraction usually does the trick, but everyone needs alone-broody-time sometimes. Escapism has a strong lure if reality feels ‘wrong’, I guess?
Pre-op, anyway. One post-op still has lingering issues, but doesn’t identify primarily as being ‘transgender’ as much as being ‘a woman’. Sure, if it comes up… but most of the time? Woman does the job.
Which, y’know. Shrug. Tell me what you wanna be called, I’ll callya that or some abbreviation thereof. (Dibs on squid-alien-lovechild, anyone?) Won’t change what I call myself, and I’ll use ‘cis’ only either under duress, to poke fun at linguistic wankery, or where it is legitimately, academically relevant.
(None of my trans friends use that labelling, they just call people ‘people’ and have the common sense and self-awareness to know that 0.1% of the population might occasionally need their own qualifier. The only folks I’ve seen use that are Internet people, who I by default assume are looking for any excuse to sugar-coat the world for everyone and prove just how morally superior they are, like there’s some sort of prize for that.)
From now on you can call me adorababe or mouthy sex kitten.
Adorababe it is. Rolls off the tongue better. Men, women, and adorababes like Freeze.
If I don’t use it, consider yourself marginalized.
I like boobies.
Hooray for boobies!
Pretty much this. Female characters in the series have pretty much always been about the fan-service in terms of their appearance. Maybe the world of has moved on a bit in the, what, five years since MGS4…?
My thoughts on Quiet.
1. She’s supposed to be a representation of exploitation – mirroring the theme of children exploited as child soldiers which the game will purportedly covers.
2. In addition to the above, she also represents the sexualisation of increasingly younger girls as marketing tools – “sexy mutes” – valued only for their body and not for the person they are or for any input they could contribute.
I kind of agree with the transgender angle. The MGS games have had a fairly varied cast, so I could see it happening and it wouldn’t be out of place. Yet it could feel like a bit of a “cop out” solution to say, “ha, you vilified her, but she’s trans, so now who’s the bad guys?”.
Also, totally octo-cam nanomachine skinplants. I really hope we get another sniper battle boss fight a la The End – only this time Quiet won’t die of old age if you just leave the game for a week,
Next I’m in town you’re going to explain MGS to me because I think you get it way more than I do.
http://gematsu.com/2013/09/final-fantasy-agito-announced-for-smartphones
Do not want 🙁
Oh they didn’t.
Get.
Fucked.
EDIT: Although it doesn’t appear to be a direct port of Type-0 on PSP, so that doesn’t mean a Vita port is off the cards.
Right?!?!?!?! RIGHT?!?!?!?
So we’ve gone from press X to win to pay $1.99 to win?
Isn’t that how Final Fantasy: All the Bravest works?
Type-0 was generally considered to be really good. It’s an action RPG built off the Crisis Core engine.
It will be hot stinking garbage on iOS 🙁
Incidentally, Crisis Core was the best game on the PSP (for me, anyway) and thus I had high hopes for Type-0.
It was supposed to be better than Crisis Core. 39/40 in Famitsu (vs 35 for CC) for example. It looked really interesting too. 🙁
Umm…. ok then. <- that article from LifeHacker is a bit shit.
Edit: Though “If you are wittier than you are handsome, avoid loud clubs. ” made me giggle.
I actually read those, and it sounds like a list someone put together in the 90’s.
Well. It is a list by Goldman Sachs.
Totally geared towards Wall Street investment bankers.
Though some aren’t too bad. “There’s always another level. Just be content knowing that you are still better off than most who have ever lived.”
There’s actually PLENTY of good stuff in there.
Some favourites I really wish my loveless friends/relatives would internalize:
“When in doubt, always kiss the girl.”
“Buy a tuxedo before you are 30. Stay that size. ”
“If it’s got velvet ropes and lines, walk away unless you know someone. ”
“No-one cares if you are offended, so stop it.”
Ah yes, after reading every one of them I actually liked quite a few. They may seem superficial at first glance, but it’s actually decent life advice, even for non-douchebags.
I will print that out and adhere to them for a month to see what it does as an experiment. 😉
Off to build a thing I can do dips with in my backyard!
I’d print it off and adhere to it too, but I know for a fact it’d drive me broke pretty damn quick.
(I know this because I used to adhere to a lot more of it than I do now. Fancy suits and having everything laundered, pressed and steamed for me, etc… Mind you, as soon as I make more money, things like that go right back on the list. Better clothes require a better level of care than I can provide. They deserve the attention of a professional.)
Edit: Also, do dips on a chair (or two) like a real man. 😉
Shit man, I was the same. If the shirt wasn’t made from Egyptian cotton with cuffs and a European cut, I wouldn’t touch it. Now I just chuck them all in the washing machine and I couldn’t care less if I bought them from Target or some boutique Italian designer label.
That goes the same for watches and just about everything else.
I just feel like I’ve become less materialistic as I’ve aged. I also felt like I was doing all of that simply to attract particular women. But then I realized that it’s just superficial crap and there was no point.
Ha! Not a bad idea about the chairs. I can finally use those bar stools!
dual-hit workout – semi-plank with your legs! Hit those tris AND work your core.
*BROFIST*
*BROFIST*
I’m pumped!
And I think I’ll have a big serving of cottage cheese after that!
I usually just pick at my watches with a toothpick when they get a bit gunky. Not sure they’d survive a round in the washing machine.
Hehe. I meant that I’d care about quality watches. Now I just use my $10 eBay watch.
Some of them were ok. Some of them were sexist. Some of them were retarded.
Just like life!
But another layer means more warmth, which means more perspiration, which means you’re making it worse!
Shower each morning? Who has time for that 😛
Dear @ynefel
Given we’re in a weird reply loop upthread:
Poison is post-op transsexual in the west, but not in Japan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:LGBT_characters_in_video_games is a very short list.
Really? That’s it? Good job, games.
Red
EDIT: Letters no more 🙁
Dear Red,
The Letters will live on in your heart.
Blaghs.
Except when you aren’t on page 7, which is now …
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To: @blaghman
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Thanks for the info! Unsurprisingly, that is a really short list.
Would you be interested in doing a Duel Shock on the topic? Might be an interesting discussion 🙂
Hrm. Let me think about it. Call me chicken, but I’d be almost scared to broach such a topic in an article, for fear of saying the wrong thing. Screw the conservatives, I’d be wary of upsetting everyone else. I mean I like to think I’m pretty open minded, and I openly support gay marriage and equal rights across the board…..
I’ll get back to you.
I’m quite happy to preface the discussion with “we are coming from a position of ignorance please correct us”
If Commander Shepard is on that list then the player character from Saints Row should be on there too. DA:O too, I think?
Both Dragon Ages it’s doable. Also Fallout:NV at least- the confirmed bachelor perk does that
Felicia Day’s character in New Vegas is a lesbian, if I’m remembering correctly.
Female Reven from KoTOR as well.
Every lead character in every proper Bioware game since they first started adding ‘romance’ options in Baldur’s Gate II should be there if Shepard is there. I can’t think of any of their games where a homosexual option wasn’t available – they even managed to sneak one into KotOR.
I think SWTOR is the only game it’s not an option but I think they were going to patch it in at some point.
The expansion/dlc added it to TOR, though very, very poorly.
‘very, very poorly’ is basically SWTOR in just about everything 🙁
My (gay – relevant) brother and I were killing time on a long road trip and at one stage we got to talking about the Comics Code Authority and its rules (surprising one: the bad guy cannot win? What?), and eventually its impact on gay role models in comics and how slow the transition to fixing that has been.
He felt there was pretty much nothing to relate to, there, and that the BEST instance he’d seen recently was Mass Effect 3’s shuttle pilot guy. Just an ordinary guy, happens to be gay, no big deal, because god fucking dammit, it’s NORMAL, you don’t NEED to go drawing attention to shit like that already for fuck’s sake, it’s not a crusade, it’s not a flaming statement to draw attention to, ZEVRAN, it’s just NORMAL PEOPLE BEING NORMAL. And there should be more of that.
So we decided to go looking for a list of known gay comic book characters.
(Sidenote: That list was incredibly difficult to find if you look anywhere outside of wikipedia. 99% of the articles we were able to find were simply epic moaning.)
Longer list than expected.
Even when you rule out lipstick lesbians and missing-the-point giveaways like the fake comic book cooked up as a plot device for Queer As Folk. Still, better to have more items in a list that might not be relevant to your purposes than a shorter list than what exists.
(Edit: Unsurprisingly MOST of the characters on that list we had never fucking heard of.)
off the top of my head, Northstar, one of the Green Lanterns, Batwoman.
Yeah. And Midnighter sprung to mind, but the number of A-listers is really short. Lotta bit-parts and one-off antagonists.
Longer list than expected… but not a great list.
My take is when you’re blowing away a bunch of dudes is the characters sexuality even relevant? (unless you’re blowing a bunch of dudes then its a completely different situation) I mean do we know that Soap from Modern Warfare doesn’t like going out on the town in high heels and fishnets? Does it matter?
With that moustache?
But seriously, I don’t think every game needs gay characters, I just think that there’s very few examples to even discuss which is kind of sad. Goes double for characters that aren’t gay but have other alternate sexualities or are somewhere in the GLBTTIQQ area
I know (recognize) two names on that list. Which is an eye-opener. As mentioned above, it’s not an exhaustive list due to Shepard’s inclusion, and there’ll always be countless smalltime games and creations that aren’t recognized on a larger scale.
I’m really glad to see this discussion show up here though. Hell of a good way to finish up the day.
@jimu: regarding FF8:
The plot is very, very convenient and incoherent in a lot of places. All the characters grew up together but they forgot. The game loops on itself. Ultimecia’s motivation doesn’t make sense – she wants to ‘compress’ time or something. Heaps of stuff is poorly explained.So basically the theory is that Rinoa and Ultimecia are the same person. It hinges on the fact that Edea tells Rinoa that to avoid going crazy and turning evil, a sorceress needs a ‘knight’ to keep her stable. Squall acts in that capacity for her. So from that the implication is that without him, she would go crazy. The theory is that in Ultimecia’s timeline, Squall died and Rinoa went mad from grief, or alternatively that she eventually forgot about him because she had a GF (coincidentally named after the symbol on the ring that Squall gives to Rinoa – you fight it as the second phase of the final boss fight) and it had been established that doing that made you lose your memories.
There’s also the fact that Ultimecia and Rinoa had the same facial model, and both had wings when they used their powers and stuff. It was an interesting idea but Squenix flat out said the theory is wrong. Basically the problem is the game’s not well translated so the details are muddy and strange theories like this kind of fell out of the gaps.
Oo oo oo! I love that game! Pick me! Pick me!
YOU ARE CHOSEN!
THANK YOU THANK YOU!
Ultemicia.. Rinoa.. uh I don’t remember that bit. Sorry. Haha.
Interestingly, though not favourites by either FF or Zelda communities, FF8 and Skyward Sword are two of my very favourite games.
It’s straight up said in plain and simple terms that GFs make you forget(which you mention in a later paragraph so I don’t see why I need to explain it).
Rinoa doesn’t need to actually *be* Ultimecia because it is established that the powers are passed on from Witch to witch Edea>Rinoa>Ulimecia>Edea (can’t remember how Adel fit in ATM without looking it up)
So Ultemecia can have Greifer that she got from Rinoa who got it from the ring (you name) that Squall gave Rinoa.
i always took that as saying that something (death, voodoo, doesn’t matter) remade Squall into a GF.
A lot of it has to do with pre-destination paradox, it’s a thing, been used in Fantasy/Sci Fi for a while now.
Sure, Ultemecia’s character motivation is weak, but I dunno how that makes the tale incomprehensible.
Pretty much, I took it as the witch power corrupted people so she went nuts and compressed time just so she could rule the universe.
According to Squenix she compresses time because she’s afraid of dying. Which is not what I got out of the game at all. Which again is why I say that the game wasn’t well localized (this is a known fact – Squenix put very little effort into translating their games into English well during the SNES and PS1 era)Well it didn’t clearly state that, sure.
But far from incomprehensible.
I think your Twitter hyperbole gave me the wrong impression 🙂
There’s a few other spots where shit just goes into WTF-land though.
Like everyone coincidentally having grown up together but they forgot. Or the whole HEY I SENT YOU BACK 17 YEARS AGO IN YOUR DREAMS SOMETIMES SO YOU COULD BE MY DAD BECAUSE REASONS. There’s a bunch of other stuff as well but it’s been ages since I played the game last so the details are hazy. Mainly a lot of loose writing where stuff happens for plot convenience and you have to take it at face value and not think too hard about it. Quite common in Japanese writing in general I find.Was this a recent FF8 runthrough? No one told me. :’C
No, @Jimu was talking about it on twitter (specifically that ff7-9 is where we hit Peak Final Fantasy and it’s gone rapidly downhill since then) and hadn’t heard the Rinoa-is-Ultimecia theory and twitter isn’t a good venue for discussion like that so posted here.
FF8 is probably my favourite of them all, though 7 was more important and memorable for me.
EDIT: FF8 also probably has the best opening cinematic of any JRPG ever. Tales of Phantasia on SNES might edge it out on technical prowess but FF8’s has everything.
EDIT EDIT: Thinking about it, some of the Ys games have openings on the same par.
I agree it has an amazing beginning but one of my fave bits was the beach landing sequence, so good!
You wanna play?
I’ll play!
HELL YES! Let’s do it. I picked up a PSN copy when it was on sale back in June/July but haven’t looked at it. I love that game. PSPgo is charged and ready!
FINAL FANTASY VIII WE MEET AGAIN. I’VE MISSED YOU.
GAME ON! Anyone else is welcome to join us, too. I will make progress updates here on TAY and various chit chat about the game, but minimise them with spoiler tags.
I have a good little policy that I like to live by.
You pull me up or get in my way when I’m trying to do something to try and sell me something, tell me some sob story that just so happens to need money, try and guilt me into anything, or try and shove your ideals on me, and I will fucking cut you down, I don’t care who you are, no exceptions.
Edit: I am not in a good mood today.
Cut down metaphorically and/or emotionally. Not physically, like with a sword. That would be bad.
It appears you’ve misspelled “rad.”
Shhhh! You’re messing up my amazing image of a piece of cheese armed with a katana going all kill bill on those sorry sods 😛
Add a dap of lavender to your milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you’re laughing at it.
That series was awesome and it is now time for me to rewatch it again. Even though I’m pretty confident I did that six months ago.
I was actually quoting Dylan Moran from one of his stand-up gigs, today when someone was talking about the Wiggles.
*holding up the kettle in triumph* I GOT THE QUEEN! >:D
It’s a question of how do you kill them? Because clearly they feel no pain. Anything that can smile for seven hours and display no fatigue feels no pain. It doesn’t have no hearts or blood or anything recognisable human. I don’t think crucifixion would tickle a Wiggle. But there must be a way. I know somebody once who touched one of them and their urine turned blue and they got third degree burns and now they can’t eat dairy.
^ that one?
That’s the one. 🙂
Why does that almost sound like something from the little book of calm? I’m imagining a serene Bill Bailey reciting that line.
BIG BOLLOCKY BALLS!
C’mon now, you’re
bettersmaller than that.Oh, I have tiny balls but a humongous cock
That’s the way, champ.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (called by @novacascade when he gets to his PC provided no-one else wishes for it first) and Magrunner (Mangunner): Dark Pulse keys to give away.
Also episodes 1-8 Tales of Monkey Island still up for grabs, seeing as @greenius doesn’t want it, and he killed @scree.
I’ll take it if no one else wants it
*stab*
Remind me to never make you a cosplay.
It’s okay, I’ll always just go as myself.
Why would anyone want to cosplay as Greenius? Sheesh.
Because he… because I… becau..
:O
🙁
Are you taking requests now 😀
Don’t worry, I got you covered bro!
To be Greenius just wear green. Otherwise people will be all “you’re not wearing green”.
but what does Greedius wear?
The same thing but he just asks for free stuff a lot.
WHO WANTS TO BUY ME ANTICHAMBER?!
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/09/there-is-no-australia-tax-on-the-iphone-5s-or-5c/
Dear god. The pedantry on display in those comments. I don’t think I’ve ever been so depressed to be part of the species.
That article doesn’t even make sense. There’s absolutely no point of it when he’s not even comparing outright prices. He’s just made it confusing for everyone.
Edit: That and he’s wrong, anyway.
When gamers are cooler than gadget people… Truly, these are the End Times.
(Honestly though, speed-reading that whole page made me laugh.)
I like how when it’s raining in Animal Crossing, all the animals are holding umbrellas except for the amphibians.
It’s just like real life!
Reminds me of when we were kids. Dad used to tell us to get out of the pool if it started raining, because we might get wet.
#lateforpage6
TURNIP… PRICES???!
62. 🙁
I am trying to get better at drawing heads/faces.
Anyone know a good place to start?
With a pencil?
Draw a circle!
Like this?
It’s step 1 of drawing a circle!
(Spongebob reference, hopefully somebody gets it)
3/4 of my beard is gone and I feel naked and vulnerable. 🙁
But you’re left with fantastic mutton chops, right? Right?
Uh, check out this kitten.
*flees*
KITTY!
WHAT DID YOU DO?
I’m going to assume it was something involving fire and/or an explosion.
@puck @miketarno
You guys are my heroes. But you should know practicality and reason have hold no sway over emotions and drama. Kudos for continuing to argue for what I’ve given up on trying to communicate though.
That’s why I nommed them for kudos all that time ago and they both won!
I like to think I’m influential.
(I’m not)
Do I dare ask which article you are referring to?
*whistles* It may or may not have involved boobs and guns.
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view/774947/britney-spears-s-machine-guns-o.gif
😀
Haha, thanks Uncle Freeze. Some people think that arguing on the Internet is a waste of time, because you can’t win and nobody ever changes their views… but to that i say – it’s about the journey, not the destination! Debating is enjoyable for its own sake! It’s such a guilty pleasure engaging in a controversial topic with lots of strong opinions. In the end, the fact that these topics are divisive is probably a win for society. More debate = more understanding from all parties involved… eventually… hopefully.
Are you……ummm……do you like board games?
Board games, card games, pen and paper rpgs, theatre sports… if it involves playing in any way, chances are I love it! Computer games are awesome, but there’s something special about sitting around a table sharing a game with friends….physical dice are cool too.
TURNIP…. PRICES???!!! I
can’twill take a significant loss if I sell them in my town 🙁Babbling about turnips is the number one reason anyone who values their sanity should avoid Animal Crossing. It’s a secret alien mind control device, I tellsya.
I haven’t played for a few days. I could check if you like, though. Why can’t you sell them in your town?
I think it’s more along the lines of the prices are too terrible for him to sell them in his own town 😛
I played yesterday for the first time in months, prices were…
62 🙁
He’s a writer…he should be able to get his point across better, then. 😛
Nah, first draft of the comment. I trust Hemingway’s advice on first drafts and believe in the almighty EDIT!
Mine was 127 yesterday
I’m either set for a big spike or I’m on random. I had 112 yesterday (my buy price was 110) and today was 69 and 62. I am really hoping to get a big spike in the morning. I do I will let you know and maybe I can tether my 3DS to my phone or something so you can visit in the morning when I don’t normally have access to wifi.
Of course if I get good prices in the afternoon you’ll just need to wait til I get home from work.
Bad news, I’m at 51 this morning. Worst. Town. Ever.
@nomad Are you interested in going to @blaghman’s canberra meat on the 21st? I’ll be heading down after work on the Friday night. If you can get to Orange I’m happy to give you a lift down and back on Sunday
\o/
Oo me me!
Thanks Novahkiin!
Greeni-US NO CAR!!!
Not going via Melbourne. Driverborn is lazy 😛
That’s heaps generous Nova! I’ll have to give it some thought, what are the deets?
Edit: thanks heaps also for just thinking of me out of the blue!
Deets are here 🙂
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/09/talk-amongst-yourselves-240/comment-page-5/#comment-1855853
FF8
Okay first up, when I start these Final Fantasy games I customise them to suit me better. Straight into config menu and adjust the controls to play more like FF7, with Circle = confirm, X = cancel and Triangle = menu. Then it’s full speed adjusts for battle and field texts. Now I can get started.@jimu
As I said before, anyone else is welcome to play along with us.
FLASHBACK GAMING!
Whatcha playing on? I’m tempted to get it for my vita
I haven’t properly played any PSOne games on Vita but when just testing them out for a couple of mins they look and play great. I’ve got a PSOne Vita pile of shame to get through 😀 (FFVIII, MGS, RE1-3, Spyro 1-3, Vagrant Story)
All these games ill but and install when I get a bigger SD card
Are you guys playing through FFVIII?
I’ve been wanting to properly play (and finish it for the first time) it for a while but if I wasn’t already playing Tales of Xillia and soon to be Kingdom Hearts 1.5 and FFX/X-2, then I’d probably join in! (too many JRPGs!)
Although I suspect discussions would be hard since I assume you two have finished it before so it’ll be hard for me to avoid spoilers 😛
Join us if you can anyway, it’s a great game. And we will try to only comment on things relevant to wherever we have progressed to in this runthrough. Same goes for you too @coldcamv! I am playing FFVIII using my PSP go I mentioned it an a previous post at the top of this page. Screen’s a bit small but other than that I can’t fault it! 16gb inbuilt flash – no wanky, overpriced memory card required! Speakers sound great! and I have one in white! Mmm eye candy.
Upvote for selecting the correct controls for the game.
Good morning TAYbies! Got a couple of steam keys if anyone wants them – I recommend grabbing my Mark Of The Ninja key if you haven’t already played it. It’s DAMN FUN!
Trine 2 – PJ9NE-DF29B-ET67R
@markserrels Of The Ninja – LNF8H-3T6FN-K6A0B
Have a good day 😀
Thanks a lot Nate,
I grabbed the Trine 2 key.
Oh no! I just realised I own Trine 2 on PS3. Damn.
If anyone really wanted the Trine 2 key please let me know. I’m happy to buy the Bundle and give it away.
Sorry about that Nate, the problems of not keeping track of my collection.
Haha! I like how you always forget what games you own 🙂
No worries. http://www.humblebundle.com have just released a new indy bundle with brutal legend, fez, those 2 games and a couple of others. Definitely worth checking it out
New humble bundle. Already own every game except Fez. Curious about Fez but not willing to give my money to Phil Fish.
… Set contribution to ‘All Charity’. I now own Fez while satisfying previous conditions.
My conscience is clear.
Huh, for the first time I have all of them. Guess I’ll skip it unless they add more later.
It says on the page they’ll add more. No idea what, but maybe MotN DLC, Don’t Starve (just guesses)
I almost wish I didn’t already own FTL. But have been wanting to pick up Fez for ages. Also been vaguely interested in Mark of the Ninja.
Though from the looks of that video I might prefer having a controller for that…
Mark of the Ninja is pretty well top of my pile of shame.
Pretty much all of this bundle will go on the missus’ steam account to beef that library up. Maybe I can convince her to give FTL a go now.
Training for starbound
The new steam game sharing thing looks interesting. It doesn’t really effect me personally because of the forever alone thing. Still, seems pretty interesting (and familiar. =P)
It should be handy, previously we’ve had my PC = my account. Now that there’s a second decent PC in the house, she’ll be able to play my games there on her account instead of mine. Will be interesting to see how this evolves.
Leechius to the max!
I used to borrow a lot of games from a friend but then he started master racing. With this I can borrow his PC games! Yissssss
Poor Microsoft. Introduce us to the concept of family sharing for digital games libraries, withdraw the service so that it can be re-jigged without the constant online checks… and Steam swoops in and steals all the kudos — despite needing to be always online for the sharing service to work. 😛
Most of the Microsoft rejection/Valve acceptance on this matter is the marketing. Valve has just announced a great new feature, where Microsoft introduced it as a limitation of functionality. Also, pretty sure the Microsoft one wasn’t nearly this open. Wasn’t it essentially time-limited demos with them, or was that just a rumour?
Stupid Moderation x1
Stupid Moderation x2
@markserrels — apparently editing a post with two links in it gets you dumped into moderation. I’m not sure if that’s intentional, but it’s annoying. 😛
The post I’ve just tried to make two previous times:
Steam Game Sharing sucks. You can share your library with other people but only one person can access the games on it at any given time. So eg if I want to play a multiplayer game with my sister or something, I still need to buy her a copy.
If anyone has a spare Fez key, could I please have it? :3
thanksss
Pokemon X+Y
The final Corocoro magazine before the game launches has just come out. There will probably be a drip feed of information through the website (and maybe another Pokemon Direct) but probably not big info dumps like this.
Not going to cover everything right now, just what I’m excited about.
Rot13’d
Snvel’f glcvat.
FR ntnvafg Qentbaf, jr xarj gung. Nyfb FR ntnvafg Qnex naq Svtugvat.
Guvf vf cerggl tbbq, tvirf Svtugvat glcrf fbzrguvat ryfr gb guvax nobhg.
Qrsrafviryl, Snvel glcr vf vzzhar gb Qentba. Guvf vf snagnfgvp, n uneq pbhagre ntnvafg Qentbaf zrnaf lbh fubhyq unir n serr ghea gb frg hc ntnvafg gurz.
Jrnx ntnvafg Cbvfba. GUVF. Fb zhpu guvf.
Aresvat Svtugvat glcrf naq ohssvat Cbvfba va bar fgrc. Jryy qbar Tnzrsernx!
Gurer ner fbzr bgure fgeratguf/jrnxarffrf, ohg gubfr ner gur vzcbegnag barf.
Pardon my ignorance, but what’s a Corocoro?
Its just a Coro but with a second one.
Duh.
Sounds dirty.
Only if you make it dirty
Monthly magazine in Japan. It features manga/anime/video games news and content. Mostly aimed at boys.
In the past it’s been the number one source for information regarding upcoming Pokemon games. This time around Nintendo have used things like the Directs and websites and gaming events to drip feed information as well.
Morning fronds, today is RUOK day! How are we all RUOKing? (Seriously, why can’t it just be “Are you okay?”. Why do we have to degrade ourselves to teenage texting talk).
Anyway, seriously, are we all okay?
In terrible today mate, absolutely dreadful. It’s raining, I’m tired, I have to paint a house. Other than that shits fiiine RUOK?
Eh, can’t complain. =P
Feeling a bit shaken and off-kilter actually, but I think it’s a good kind of weird (see next post if you really want the deets).
Are you okay?
Hmmm, a lot of serious stuff. I personally try to avoid those kinds of questions, sure it’s good to look back on you mistakes and such but looking back too far / too much usually leads down a path of self loathing and resentment.
Learn from your mistakes and move forward is how I’ve always seen things! Not the best way to view thins but it has got me this far! =)
Stressed and annoyed, but that’s just me at work 😛
I hear that! It should be an international public holiday, it certainly would help with my mental health / stress! =D
No..
What’s up bud?
Yeah that was kinda short, sorry was dealing with stuff from work. Wall of text incoming
I’ve been at a loss for months now, more than ever before. As you may already know, I don’t get along with any of my family, and the longer I stay living with them while I wait for my apartment to be ready (Which also has had problems which I’ll get to later), the worse I get mentally. They’re always in this passive aggressive war with each other, specifically my mother and step father vs my brother and his new family. I’m basically stuck in the middle, peace with both sides, but probably copping the most flak from it. People I know now avoid me cuz of something my parents did to piss them off, so every day I’m pretty much on my own, playing games on my PC to try and escape the mental stress.I also had my long distance girlfriend whom I went to meet for the first time last year, but unfortunately due to how generally miserable I’ve been since year 7, I think we’ve become more distant because I seem so cold and emotionless to her despite that I was the happiest I’ve ever been while I was there with her. I’ve barely been able to get ahold of her to talk to her on Skype or facebook for more than half an hour anymore, and those events themselves have been few and far between for months. The last main thing I heard from her was “I don’t think I can ever make it to be with you in Australia”… All that I’ve accomplished over the years since I finished Tafe has been because of her supporting me and encouraging me to keep going, and I was doing the same for her during her studies. She was born and raised in Greece, now living in Portugal (Due to Uni connections), so it’s next to impossible for her to save the money she needs to even visit here let alone moving here one day. She doesn’t want me paying for anything (She’s stubborn like that), so every time I ask to help her she says she can handle it. So at this moment, I have an apartment on the way bought on a plan, and I may end up just having an apartment on my own without her like we initially planned to live happily ever after. Not very good for my morale…
Which then comes down to the complications happening with the apartment. The people planning this have now given me a new ETA of April 2015, which means that I need to sign up for a new contract. The problem with that, is that I’ll lose significant bonuses, like the first home buyers grant being much much less than it was before, which in the end seems like I’ll lose between 10-14k towards the overall cost of the apartment. I’ve got an appointment with a solicitor this Saturday, but I feel pretty cheated because I’m getting penalised due to their poor planning and the greedy building company that they ended up dropping for another.
All of this took a toll on my attitude at work recently, and many people were out on leave at the time, so I was basically the go-to guy for almost everything, which was also impacting my own work of course. In the afternoon I couldn’t take anymore and uncontrollably snapped at my colleagues, resulting in some verbal wrath from my manager, threatening to report me to HR unless I improve, also saying I should “Look towards signing up for a new role”. At that point I just broke down after everyone left to go home and I was reduced to tears for several hours. Thankfully no one at work saw it since it was late at night. And when I got home it happened again right in front of my mother… didn’t go well. I couldn’t sleep until about 2am then had to get up 3-4 hours later for the next day of work. So basically so much has been going wrong for me, and I feel completely alone again, so I’m not well… the thoughts of suicide are coming back too, which gaming used to block out, but it’s gotten to the point where it’s now unavoidable.
Damn that’s shit,
First of all, I just want to say, seek help, there’s nothing wrong with seeking help / visiting a psychologist.If you are having trouble with your apartment, I would suggest just dumping then and finding a new place. If they are already giving you problems, the may be worse down the track. Also, I know you have said you are having trouble getting in contact with your girlfriend just try to pin down a day that you to can just talk. Explain everything that’s happening and that she can help you by allowing you to pay for some thing.
All things said, you should seek professional help! Especially if you have thoughts of suicide, noone should feel like that.
That’s what this appointment with the solicitor will determine, whether or not I stick to it… It’s going to be a great place when it’s done… but that’s the catch, when it’s done
Really sorry to hear all this, man.
It might be a drastic move at a time when drastic moves might not be the best course, but have you considered being the one to move overseas? Sounds like you could definitely use some distance, and getting closer to your gf can only be good for morale.Money is just money, apartments are just apartments. They cause lots of stress, and are important for modern life, but don’t let them be reasons for missing out on anything important.
I thought of that myself, many times. But the question always goes down to “Will I be able to make a living there?”. I’m a network and IT tech that is currently working in Cloud computing that can only speak english. I don’t have a lot of options in countries not-so-developed as here. The countries she lives in are still trying to nail down what a stable internet connection is, let alone virtual servers and datacenters. It’s unfortunate that the career path I chose was a career of future technology, which a lot of nations lack right now due to financial woes, so I don’t have much option other than Australia to work, and she will never go somewhere like the US. If I make the move and go live with her, and it turns out I don’t turn out okay in terms of making sure we can support each other financially, I know she’ll blame herself for that, and hardThe upside is that the cost of living is (generally) quite a bit lower in places like that, so if you cashed out of your apartment, you’d be able to live for a while on savings while you scoped out the job situation (and retrained yourself if necessary). Or, you could be the man who brings the future to the developing world!Admittedly, I’m speaking from the perspective of someone who’s got no personal interest in his work, and would happily give the whole lot away tomorrow if the chance came along. You probably feel different about your work.
Don’t let that stop you, man, if you don’t want it to stop you.
More generally, if there’s anything I can do to help with anything, let me know.
Thanks Shane, I appreciate any help or advice.
Thanks to you as well @sernobulus
Got any plans next weekend?
Unfortunately my recall starts again from this Friday to next Thursday, so I can’t really leave the house. Why what have you got in mind?
Good. Next weekend (21/22), not this weekend.
Nothing definite yet, still working out family stuff, but may be considering a little road trip.
I may be up for that certainly :), keep me posted on the deets
Thanks for asking if IMOK. To be honest I’m a mixed bag of emotions right now…
GOOD – Going to see Dead Letter Circus tonight at the local.
BAD – Stressing about new job interview tomorrow.
GOOD – GTA V next week.
BAD – I finally grew some balls and bought an engagement ring, HOWEVER, I’m planning to propose while in melbourne but the ring won’t be ready for 6-8 weeks (MAYBE earlier) and when we go to melbourne it’ll only be 4 weeks.
So it’s safe to say that I’m not sure how I’m feeling…
Sounds like all good stuff to me, job interview is good because potential new job! Engagement is great! \o/
Good luck with the proposal, man. That’s always good, even if it’s nerve-wracking.
Recommend you get a little ring case, even if there’s no ring at the time. Put something cute inside, and make it clear that the ring is inbound!
I am never okay. I am sometimes good, sometimes bad but never just okay. 😛
How are you, Mr. Ser Nobulus?
Haha, well put! I’m very cheery today! I have no idea why, oh well! HAPPY! \o/
Oh man, I am so okay. So many exciting things happening all at once. Things are good right now.
Ahh yes! Good luck with all your stuff! What’s next on the escalator to stardom? =)
Some shows in Sydney would be nice. The actual next step is likely meeting with this producer and sorting out some recording time.
Noice! Be sure to keeps us updated!
I did all my emotional unloading on Saturday night, so I guess I’m good for now.
I’ve been feeling really tired and unfocused all week 🙁
I was feeling the same so I went home at 4pm yesterday, wrapped up in blankets by 6:30 and in bed by 8pm. Feeling a lot better today but still struggling to focus on my work.
Probably because I’m trying to do planning and process stuff so i don’t have a task to complete in the code, make it do this sense.
I did this last night only to wake up at 1am and not be able to get back to sleep 🙁
That’s the worst
Pop psychology overshare time! \o/
(spoiler tagged because wall of text and personal stuff)
Well, someone has just written a chapter of my memoirs for me.http://www.alanrappoport.com/pdf/Co-Narcissism%20Article.pdf
Kind of terrifying just how spot on this is. First heard about it on the Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast and had crazy chills going down my spine the whole time. This thing rocked my entire foundation… but listening to it felt like all the lights were coming on for the first time.
Children raised by narcissistic parents come to believe that all other people are narcissistic to some extent. As a result, they orient themselves around the other person in their relationships, lose a clear sense of themselves, and cannot express themselves easily nor participate fully in their lives.
The question “Why I write” is one for which I’ve never really been able to find an answer. Why I feel so strongly compelled to do it has always been a bit of a mystery, no matter how deep into myself I went, or how many answers from other people I read. But I see now, in part at least, that it was a survival mechanism, a way to build and retain a sense of self separate from the machinations of my parents. Writing saved me, the core of me, until I could start to build my own life and identity.
So much of my life makes sense now. Why I feel as though my formative years were from the ages of 18-20, rather than much younger, like most folks. My low self-esteem, willingness to accept blame, guilt for occasionally trying to do things just for me. Why I felt this really weird inertia pulling me towards a job I knew I was going to hate. Why my parents have lost interest in me since I started to disregard their advice, and why they don’t want to be involved with my kids (which they advised I not have yet).
None of this is big in the scheme of things, and it’s not like my childhood was a bad one. Just an interesting and apparently accurate revelation about my life.
Woo! Painful personal discovery!
You do realise that pretty much describes about 75% of people.
That quote, sure. I accept that.
It’s hard to explain, but this article resonated so strongly with me, and brought context to hundreds of odd events from my childhood, and recent years too. Including stuff that no one else knows. I really could copy/past most of this article into my memoirs and it would be the most truthful chapter 🙂
I don’t know, maybe I’m just being dumb, but this doesn’t feel like a case of Dr Internet defrauding my personal history.
The guys a cack. Taking broad definitions that apply to a lot of people to invent a condition and make a name for himself.
Its like those idiots who rewrote the definition of ADD from a specific condition with genuine problems to include people afflicted with “childhood”.
Y U try to poop on my context? 🙁
Because the article basically describes that caring about people and trying to do right by others is a condition.
Depression and anxiety are serious things (and see someone for help or support for gods sake if you are) which can all sorts of secondary problems emotionally and physically and this is just shrugging them off as part of a personality type.
You’re a good person going through a tough time. Not a mental case.
I don’t think it’s a question of mental case. Maybe I could benefit from therapy, but no more than anybody else. I don’t think the article particularly sways one way or the other either. This was a window into understanding, not a door to a padded cell or gateway to medication.
The notion of co-narcissism is a very useful framework to understand my past, to bring context to my personal narrative, and a base from which I can attempt to negotiate my future relationship with my narcissistic parents, and avoid (if I can) falling into the same patterns with my family.
Caring for people is certainly not a syndrome, but being conditioned through life to cater to the needs of others at the expense of your own is indicative of certain personality types. Not necessarily a bad thing, and not necessarily something to correct, but definitely something worth recognising.
Edit: maybe I should have been clearer about what I was taking out of this article from the start. I appreciate your caring, man. Means a lot!
I really think you’ve misinterpreted the article. It’s not in any way saying all depression and anxiety or caring about and putting others first is co-narcissistic. They are just some of the things that are symptoms of that.
Your “good person going through a tough time” diagnosis is pretty accurate though. It’s just that this tough time began in his formative years and has coloured who he is and how he interacts with his loved ones. How your parents treat you is always going to be a huge a factor in how you relate to other people.
I read all of this *manhug* it’s ok your with good people who will look after you.
Also from everything I know of you and what you’ve demonstrated here
is most definitely not you. Not even close.Thanks, man.
You’re right: that’s not me. That’s my parents.
I’d be the co-narcissist in this article.
People who behave co-narcissistically share a number of the following traits: they tend to have low self-esteem, work hard to please others, defer to others’ opinions, focus on others’ world views and are unaware of their own orientations, are often depressed or anxious, find it hard to know how they think and feel about a subject, doubt the validity of their own views and opinions (especially when these conflict with others’ views), and take the blame for interpersonal problems.
The non-clinical term would be doormat, and that described me to a T before I met my wife and moved out of home.
hmm…. the one thing i took away from that is that I am most likely not a co-narcissist.
Edit: you know what though? once you know something about yourself, its possible to change, or at the very least manage, that behavior. & if that was you in the past, you’ve obviously started doing that, coz from what I know about you Shane, you sir, are no doormat.
…Shanet?
Lightbulb moments are awesome.
Being aware of something like this as young as you are means you now have a chance to work on exploring who you are outside of your relationships to the important people in your life. I would suspect that you’ve been doing that subconsciously with your writing, but now you get the fun of doing it on purpose.
*hugasaurus*
While I personally don’t really agree with most of the article thingie, I’m glad you had a moment of self realisation! \o/
The Gold Coast City Council has enforced a new uniform involving head to toe covering with a very heavy and thick fabric, even for the people doing heavy physical labour in the sun. Workers have been pointing out its been hitting over 30 degrees recently and people are collapsing and getting all sorts of heat related illnesses.
The council is telling everyone that its not caused by the clothes and rejecting all medical certificates because apparently they know more than medical professionals.
It really shits me when this stuff happens. The people who made the decision don’t have to wear it and get to sit in an air conditioned offices and would rather put people at serious risk than have their authority questioned.
Well I’m glad I didn’t move to Queensland last year when I got offered a labouring job up in Coolum
That’s Sunshine Coast.
What the… guh. O_o
More and more the world is becoming about a bunch of privileged people trying to dictate to less fortunate people what they can or can’t do, and not actually knowing what they’re talking about.
Councils are the worst. A bunch of pseudo-intellectuals and political-wannabes who do nothing but contribute more bureaucracy and problems because they’re not living in the real world. Such a waste of time and money.
I wouldn’t mind at all if they were abolished (and, there’s a good chance I wouldn’t have to see Clover Moore on TV!)
abolish councils?!?! thats absurd! who would hold stop signs for no reason during peak hour?!?!
My local council changed the speed limit of the main road through my suburb (which I live on) from 60 to 50 — technically residential, but it’s also about 5km long and runs the length of the suburb and into the next two.
People were unhappy and wanted it changed back, so they decided to destroy the road and put in ‘traffic calming devices’ (lumps of concrete all over the road that force you to slow and swerve around them or destroy your car) to justify the decision, saying that it will improve pedestrian safety.
In 17(-ish) previous years I’m unaware of anyone being hit by a car on my street. In the last 18 months, three people were by cars hit within 250m of my house (including two kids going to school) because visibility is obstructed or people cross the road in inappropriate places and crowd the cars that no longer have a shoulder or anywhere else to go, etc. — they’ve made it even more dangerous.
Well done, council.
Why don’t they just make them work in those full-body sweat suits that fighters use to cut weight? That sounds like an equally effective idea.
Bleh, office type people are the worst! Surely there is some kind of OHS person these people can talk to. Nothing scares accountant / business people more then a visit from OHS!
Don’t get me started on office workers…! >:(
*turns around sadly, back into my office*
*spins around on office chair*
… hey… waitaminnit
http://xkcd.com/815/
I don’t know how to do your job, but my clipboard says you are doing it wrong
Steam Family Sharing – just in case you needed another reason to be friends with @transientmind
Haaaave you met @cakesmith?
HI @rize!
*waves*
If you dislike eating a particular type of food, would you avoid eating it, or would you aim to eat as much as you can so you can complain about it to people that like that food?
Why yes, this would be a comparison to people who bitch on and on every friggin’ day about articles they don’t like from Allure and Gawker.
But maybe if I force myself to eat enough I’ll start to like it!
But everyone needs to know how much I hate apples.
F*cking apples… they’re evil sons of b*tches.
I prefer to keep all of those foods in the microwave.
Uh, Pants? Food in a microwave is somewhat reasonable. This comment needs more absurdity.
I’ll be fair: there are some pretty far out things around here, but they don’t warrant abuse.
I don’t particularly read either of those sites. Certainly not enough to have a solid opinion of them.
Just wanted to make that reference though. 😛
If they managed to stop bitching about the food, they’d just start on the drinks instead. Some people would be just plain miserable if they had nothing to complain about.
I’m ok with making that sacrifice.
I continue to try different beers with the misguided belief that there surely *must* be some out there that don’t taste completely like shit. I mean why would people everywhere drink the stuff if there wasn’t?
I am not sure how this fits into the analogy. But I guess I do still complain about the shit that gets sent down the pipe 😛
Not really the point, but I refuse to believe that there isn’t at least one beer that you’d enjoy. There just has to be.
Well my parents brought back this one from the Barossa that seemed pretty good. In that I felt like it actually had body and flavour and taste and seemed like it could be something that should be appreciated for those things.
I still didn’t like it, but I felt like I at least wanted to like it, or should have.
What’s your usual drink of choice?
I discovered ciders and they’re pretty good. Then found out alcoholic ginger beers were a thing.
Chocolate milk can’t be beaten.
My eggbeaters say otherwise!
…also, strawberry milkshake >.>
When I was at bartending school (yes, it’s a real thing), I met a guy who had this recipe for a cocktail that tasted exactly like strawberry Breaka. Not Oak, Dare, Big M, or anything else… just like Breaka. And you could barely taste the alcohol. He called it ‘liquid panty remover’. When we were nearly done with the course and it was ‘make anything you like for a cocktail and we’ll all get good and plastered’, it was one of the more popular cocktails.
Holy crap I used to freakin’ love Breaka but completely forgot they were ever a thing!
…don’t suppose you’d know that recipe? 😛
Nope. Long forgotten, sorry. Been damn near ten years since I did any bartending. 🙂
If you’re trying to find a beer you like, I find that you should follow Zap Brannigan’s concept on pickup lines:
Try as many of them as you can as fast as you can.
Comment of the year.
That seam/edge on the slim Vita’s screen would bug the fuck out of me.
Is the new slim model replacing the current model? Because if that’s the case I may have to pick one up before the new one comes out.
I hope not. Potentially means the old one will get cheaper by comparison.
Ha! I just replied to your comment on that in the article. Yeah, it’s kind of annoying. The thing that made me fall in love with the Vita was the beautiful screen and the way it was so seamlessly integrated. The Slim one is kind of ugly. I’m kind of shallow when it comes to my portable devices, I need them to be sexy and if the PSV started out looking like that then I most likely wouldn’t have bought one. Hard to justify to myself spending that much money when its ugly.
Is that why you won’t come visit the Canberra TAYbies?
Hey! I’ll be there next weekend!
Wait, what? Shit!
*starts prepping dinner suit*
*…and Nerf gun*Yeah I feel the same way. I’ll wait and see how it fares on the other fronts I mentioned. As it is, it’d have to offer me markedly better battery life and be solid build quality for me to even consider it. I do like me some extra battery life. But even then – the LED screen, plus those seams/edges would likely ruin it.
The seam makes it look like a phone was whacked in a controller cradle.
Damn it LEGO, why are you trying to make me bankrupt!?
http://shop.lego.com/en-AU/Sydney-Opera-House-10234?fromListing=listing
@masha2932 you must check this out!
Something @dc something buildings something something.
Haha, at first I thought it was just going to be that crappy little one that is crap and costs too much for what it is.
That is far more impressive! And overpriced.
That’s what I was thinking too. But it’s got 3,000 pieces! A respectable amount.
Unfortunately due to our lower dollar, they’re about the same price on Bricklink. 🙁
Woah, that looks awesome. Almost 3000 pieces. O_o
Let’s split the cost and have a LEGO building meat. You can have it during the holidays 🙂
I bought the similar looking Opera house architecture set (significantly smaller at 270pcs) last year during the xmas specials http://shop.lego.com/en-AU/Sydney-Opera-House-21012 but I haven’t built it yet. I want to find some glass cases to store them in because my room gets dusty and I don’t want to ruin the clean whites of the set. I bought the space needle too.
I always believed that LEGO sets were both for play and display but the architecture series seemed designed for display.
That reminds me, I was going to tweet you some pictures of the LEGO house with the lights. I’ll do that tomorrow.
Oh yeah for sure.
Then again, most awesome sets like that are good for display. Unfortunately I took all of mine down. 🙁
Taking those TAYlist requests, but only the best 10 today, don’t want to deal with like 25 songs that I have to look for.
Kiss Me When You Come Home – Hanson
NOFX: Please Play This Song on the Radio
Cochise – Audioslave
The Unforgiven – Metallica
Sweat – Inner Circle
Friday – Rebecca Black
Get out.
It took us weeks to get him back in! 😛
Well, alright. But there’s plenty of room if you want to kick it in the backseat with me! 😉
MY HAND IS A DOLPHIN
Big Black Dick – Phil Beck
Disturbed: Land of Confusion
Apocalyptica: I’m not Jesus
Ha, I’ll try my luck again 😛
Sinner – Judas Priest
Saw Katie Noonan on Play School the other day and it reminded me of George. So I’m going to request George’s ‘Breathe In Now’.
My daughter used to call him “funny George”
(George Spartels, that is. Might not be who you mean :P)
As I was reading it, I thought @strange was about to request Wiggly-Woo.
Then I was sad.
Katie Noonan’s voice is amazing.
Spawn is so damn epic toward the end.
…now I’m gonna have to listen to em again.
Nancy Boy – Placebo
Happy Birthday From The Overpass – Totally Unicorn
(don’t even bother looking for it)
This one’s not going to make the cut, but I figure @redartifice will add everything to a new Spotify TAYlist…
Invader, Invader by Kyarypamyupamyu
Any song by the offspring
HAI EVERYONE!
I MISS YOU!
AND LOVE YOU ALL!
VIGOROUSLY!!!
In other news – picked up my first even Transformers Blind Box last night – got Grimlock. WINNING!
*BROHUG*
Dawwwwwww *blushes*
Hey man, are you okay?
How’s it all going with the job, etc? Any prospects on the horizon?
Yeah dude. Nothing i can’t handle 🙂
Thanks for the concern. Not much on the new job front yet, thankfully this one hasn’t quite gone into liquidation QUITE… just waiting for the boss to push the button..
Aside from that i got some other news which was a massive blow, and i’m not sure how to feel about that at the moment – but more on that later…
Hahahaha.. life – amiright?!
*Flips you over and returns the favour*
*also Hugs*
*hands you a towel*
I’ve missed you in your quietness!
good to see you around 🙂
It’s been busy packing up this damn warehouse… lol
I HAVE RIDDEN THE MIGHTY CHOCOBO.
His name is Bobby Corwen. If you get that reference I owe you one high five.
Village in IX!
*holds hand up*
\o
Al Gore has ridden the mighty moon worn?
Wrong reference, but yeah, that too 😛
I think I’m going to re-read Dune at some point.
That’ll be 1 high five please.
o/
I will collect it next week.
My legacy chocobo says hi.
*snooty sniff*
No Goobbue mount?
*tsk tsk*
No way in hell would I be seen on one of those things. They’re the most ridiculous looking mount I’ve ever seen.
The floating eyeball thing is up there with it IMO.
I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve typed up a comment or a reply I. The general articles only to decide its not worth it and delete it all and move on.
It’s kind of upsetting when I think about it. I wouldn’t be the only one to do this and to think any discussion is being stifled by the aggressive morons is depressing.
People are why we can’t have nice things.
Aggressive moron checking in, the key to not being annoyed by the comments is to accuse everyone of being a faggot. Because we all know that having a different sexual orientation = a wrong opinion.
Its a little saddening that expressing a viewpoint can lead to personal and hurtful attacks on people.
I leave my own thoughts and if people reply, that’s fine. If they disagree, we’ll have a discussion. If they’re willfully ignorant or offensive, I don’t bother. I don’t even have to downvote them, because they’re usually so dumb that other people do it for me.
Don’t look at it that way. Too depressing.
In other news, you’re saving energy and brainpower to devote to things far more important than internet arguments with morons! Or at least, you would be, if you weren’t typing up full responses to begin with 😛
Post it anyway, report uncalled for personal attacks
Othewise kotaku will end up looking like youtube
I should come join you. I am happy to step into the fray. I couldn’t stand the way people were treating Mark on Monday
Ill be in Canberra for Can’d meet on friday next week. WHO ELSE IS GOING????
I’m out.
We’re still eloping though right?
You know it bby.
Hurtful.
It’s because I
lovehate you.I dunno. Canberra is kind of out of the way.
Wanna listen to arctic monkeys and make out?
Yeah, alright.
MEEEEE.
Annnnd I’m back in.
Giggity.
ME! I am going!
If I can find a way for my son to be taken care of on Friday, that is. :S
On a more serial note:
@freezespreston and myself will be driving down from Sydney on Friday night and back on Sunday. Might be cheaper flights.
Do this @rocketman. Even if I went by myself the flights and rental car were about half the price of flights to Canberra.
I promise we won’t just drive you out to the middle of nowhere to bury you.
No I’m not crossing my fingers. It’s just arthritis.
Yeah im not super concerned money wise ( work pays me waaaaay too much for the nothing i do), i just took friday off because i wanted to go down early and spend friday with blaghs.
NO HOMO i just like his company and he is cool to talk to.
All I’m hearing is you hate me and @freezespreston and don’t want to road trip with us.
You are literally worse than Hitler.
actually might take you up on it, i thought it would be expensive but wow im not payng $1000 for a weekend.
Hooray! @freezespreston has the time deets.
I don’t have anything else on that weekend so I am still considering it.
Oh man, I thought you were guaranteed to be there!
*cancels flights* 😛
I am if you are ;D
Oh. Uhhhh.
I think I have something else on.
Oh man, I thought it was weird when I went into moderation for 6 or so hours but thanks be to @greenius I have been found and welcomed into the fold. Thanks to all who welcomed me way back on page 5
(Also didn’t help I was taken off computers for work training yesterday but oh well. I shall endeavour to be more night-TAY friendly for now on.)
I’ma be a little slowpoke on responses as I’m stuck on IE8 at work. D:
So about me:
I’m a young-un. 22 and born in ’91 (palindromic baby wooo).
Currently PC master-racer but do enjoy a bit of 3DS on the side.
I’m a Brisbane boy. QUEENSLANDER!! Nah, not that macho or bogan (at least I hope).
Favourite game atm: Payday 2
Game I’ve spent the most time playing the past few months: League of Legends
Favourite game of all time: Probably Metal Gear Solid.
First game I ever played: Resident Evil 2 when I was 6 years old. My uncle was a bad role model.
So am I doing it right?
Except for the Queenslander part. They’re all terrible.
Especially that @sernobulus guy. He is the worst! =P
Yeah he’s pretty bad. But don’t get me started on that @freezespreston twat. He makes all the good Queenslanders look terrible on his own.
However you want to do it is the right way….
Also, welcome. 🙂
Thanks for the kind greetings. I hope I don’t disappoint. 🙂
We have low expectations.
and how.
Are we the same person?
also you should totally play LoL with us 🙂
im also 22 and live in QLD
BEST FRIENDS 4 EVA!
We could totally be twinsies. Rocket n Pop. (That sounds a little too much like that strip club though :S)
But yeah, totally keen for some LoL. Add me, ign: popdart5, OCE
I just thought of a amazing idea. Popping candy in softdrinks.
we shall call it Rocketpop
“it will destroy your teeth but my god its not worth it”
Add me!
LoL: NooBHeadshoT
Steam: SerNobulus
A couple of us have been playing PAYDAY 2. What level are you on it?
Ooh nice. I shall be quite busy when I get home.
Also, Steam id: popdart5 as well (yes I’m boring)
Currently level 41 on Payday 2 IIRC. Just went straight enforcer and only just got the bulldozer armour so I’m tanky and slow and fat. Also I’m playing Chains so that has led to inappropriate jokes about a certain race of people and their stereotyped predisposition towards a certain fast food.
I’m a terrible person.
Racist jokes? Maybe you are @rocketman’s twin.
Also I’m around level 60, started in the mastermind tree but refunded all my points and went into the tech tree. Now I have shaped charges, massive weapon mags and fast regenerating armour.
Shaped charges are my favorite. Makes Firestarter a breeze. I managed to get $1,200,000 (actual pay not offshore) in one of the missions and it was super quick thanks to them.
Love and Rockets?
That’s just our weekly soap opera.
OH MAN IT TOTALLY GOT EVEN MORE SOAP OPERA LIKE THIS LAST WEEK.
LoL: Techknight 🙂
Looking forward to seeing what you can do, human 🙂
HI!
But you didn’t answer the most important question of all…
Xenoblade?
Haven’t played it. Is that bad?
There’s still time to fix that.
GOGOGO PLAY IT NOW
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
It’s very very bad and you’re going to get a spanking from @greenius, then a spanking from me, then another spanking from the green guy.
PS welcome! 😛
Uh…
😛
Welcome. 🙂
Welcome to TAY.
We’re pretty friendly.
You play Payday 2? Join the Kotaku AU Steam group. 🙂 Then you can see who else is playing.
I had a weird train of thought while thinking about Steam this morning
You know how sometimes you’re trying to log into Steam and you need to get a verification code or something emailled to you? You’re authorising a new PC. They send you a code to confirm you’re authorising access to that PC. If you have an iPhone or whatever, your phone chimes to annouce the arrival of the email.
So you pick up your phone, swipe in, check your email and read the code, let’s say it’s WTFBBQ42. You see that string of letters, and type it into the relevant field on your Steam login screen, and voila, you’re in, and everything is great.
So what if, say, your phone was installed in your brain and walkthrough the same process. You can’t “see” the code, it’s just there in your brain. How does your brain communicate to your hands that you need to type WTFBBQ42? The knowledge just appears in your head and your fingers do the thing you need them to do.
At what point would you no longer really be in control of that function? If you were to implant information directly into your head and act upon it with no other external stimuli and no direct control over how the information is being applied, are you distinguishable from a robot?
Let’s step back and assume that for now the only computer in your head is the brain you were born with, that for most of your life has been absorbing information about your surroundings and using that to assist you in interacting with your environment. You use your eyes, ears, mouth, nose and skin to conduit senstations to a lump of matter that independently interprets that data and provides commands to the rest of your body. Some you are aware of, some you are not. But it’s not really even consulting you. The brain has decided what it’s going to do, and how you feel about it. You are your brain, having a conversation with yourself, about what you are going to do, and you’ve already agreed that you’re going to do it.
What.
but i just wanted to play plants vs zombies. I didnt want to become a zombie.
o.O
Check out some of the stuff Sam Harris has written. Especially around free will and how our conscious minds lag behind our subconsciousness. i.e. every action you take is already determined by what your brain had ‘thought’ about without you being consciously aware.
I’ll look into it. I know it’s not an original idea and I’ve probably read stuff about it before, but thinking about typing a password into a computer put it in a specific framework I hadn’t considered before.
You are now breathing and blinking manually.
You are now aware of your tongue and that you have at least one itch somewhere on your body.
‘Friday’ is now playing in your head.
Congratulations, you’re no longer a robot.
That’ll be $50, thanks.
The fun part about a company-wide email asking “R U OK?” is getting a company-wide response from someone you don’t work with that’s so exceptionally depressing and awkward that I just want to go and hide.
R U OK?
“Not really. I… I feel so alone sometimes. I really need someone to talk to. Can we schedule a time? Any time is fine. I don’t really want to go home tonight.”
> Bro u clicked reply all. LOL!
*puts gun in mouth*
HOW MANY STI’s CAN ONE PERSON HAVE???
Shouldn’t they have Bcc’d the distribution list or something? But boy is that awkward.
That would fix the issue right away 😛
My plan to have Mrs. @shane’s quilt finished before next weekend has failed. The batting (fluffy stuff in between the two layers of fabric that makes the quilt warm) I ordered has still not arrived.
It’s a shame because I really do like giving people stuff in person and seeing their reactions.
You’ll just have to come down at a later date. Or we could have Mrs Shane up on Skype in November. 😛
Shane and Strange’s Skype call Special
There’s a meeting with some UK folks at work next week on a day I might not be in on but I enjoy being at work so much that I’m genuinely tempted to go in for it anyway. What even am I.
To be fair, the email about it pretty strongly hints ‘you might not be rostered but you should come anyway bitch’
Although it’s also a convenient excuse to avoid my visiting grandmother ‘SORRY GOT A MEETING TO GO TO I’LL SEE YOU LATER’
I want more excuses to see my grandma, GO VISIT YOUR NAN ALEX
What you’re forgetting is that @alexpants is a horrible person.
Also his grandmother is super racist.
That second part is pretty true.
Would i actually like your grandmother??
All my grandparents are dead and I kinda miss visiting them.
/downer
…did the site’s font just change for anyone else? Or is my brain just weirding out again?
Aaaaaaaaaand we’re back again. Weird.
See here: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/09/talk-amongst-yourselves-241/comment-page-9/#comment-1891078
In 67.3 words or less, what is the gaming related purchase you most regret making?
Mine is Left4Dead. I’d just put together my first gaming machine when it came out. My friends set up steam for me and said it would be a sweet game to buy and play together. I bought it, we never really played it. Its like a horrible hairy wart on my steam collection now… AND MY FRIENDSHIPS 😛
Wii U.
You still have 66 words to go! 😛
Nah, I think I’ve gotten my point across clearly.
Do you regret it because you didn’t like it, or because you didn’t play it? Because it’s still played every so often by TAYbies, and all the time by quite a lot of randoms.
Probably both. But I feel I would have liked it alot more playing with other people.
You still have every chance to play it. Just ask around on Steam if/when you do and you might find people that want to!
Left 4 dead 1 or 2?
Because some of us have discovered mods and are playing it quite a bit atm.
Left4Dead is dead to me now. I played the hell out of it with a friend in a netcafe when we were on man-dates. It’s just not the same online with weird randoms or incompetent/emotionless bots.
Invite me next time, I really need to play some more co-op stuff but never get around to it
Wii U.
I’m hoping the issue is you haven’t really played it. Because if you have, and you still don’t like it, you’re obviously a terrible person.
The number of people that don’t realise Left 4 Dead is the messiah seems to be growing these days.
Such a simple idea for a game – so gloriously effective, and so endlessly replayable. I’d actually go so far as to say I prefer L4D to L4D2. Not by a heap, but always found myself going to L4D.
I like L4D more, but I can’t argue that the variety of enemies in L4D2 is ultimately a good thing, more to think about etc.
So happy when they put L4D into L4D2…I never really liked the second lot of characters.
I didn’t even know they did that. I have to go reinstall it and put mods on it or something.
I’ve stopped enjoying Rayman Legends and wish I hadn’t picked it up for full price.
WHAT!? WHAAAAAAAT!! WHAAAAAAAAAAAT!?
Yeah I don’t really know. Just isn’t clicking with me, feels kinda empty.
Empty? But if you ignore the fact that the game has amazing and beautiful art / music direction. You still have the multiple game modes, daily challenges, weekly challenges, collectables, etc…
But besides all that, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Not the kind of emptiness I’m talking about. Another way to put it might be ‘soulless’, but that seems a bit too extreme. I guess it feels like a disconnected bunch of levels? I don’t feel like I’m actually working towards a serious end goal? Something is wrong and I just can’t seem to describe what it is.
I like that though, the game gives you a task (to stop all the nightmares) and you go do it. Every game today seems to think its needs to come up with some huge epic about saving all life on earth. What ever happened to the old school sonic / Mario games where you put the game in and play without some B grade story shoved down out throats.
I don’t exactly need an epic plot. It’s more that I don’t feel like I’m working towards anything at all. Everything feels inconsequential.
But of course, I’m glad everyone else is enjoying it. It just doesn’t seem to be for me.
Empty is exactly how I would describe it – in fact, I already did!
I feel less crazy now.
Aliens: Colon Marines.
Assassin’s Creed 3 (cc @alexpants)
I won a copy for free and I regret it …
Alien Colon Marines I’m talking about.
I got A:CM Collector’s Edition. Best purchase!
I also have the CE of A:CM.
I have the statue that came with my highly regrettable purchase of A:CM. The game itself was sold days after purchase.
While it still had some re-sale value? Or had the news got out by then already?
As do I.
Worth it for the figure.
Stronghold 3. I got suckered in by nostalgia so hard and then they put out that slimy crap which is so different from the charm of the original. It just didn’t feel right. Was feeling pretty sad after buying it.
I bizarrely had more fun with the online multiplayer gankfest version of Stronghold (Kingdoms).
…Even if I did find myself spending truly ridiculous amounts of time staring at scouts.
Nintendo Wii. And Wii Fit.
(Even though I regret getting the Wii, Mario Galaxy was great.)
Xenoblade >:(
007: Nightfire. They all kept saying that there was finally a game to beat GoldenEye, but NOPE!
I’ve bought a whole lot of other stupid stuff that I should probably regret laying so much cash down on, but I’m probably too dumb to do that. Like that pinball machine that is currently covered in… things, and hasn’t been turned on in forever. Oops.
Ass Creed III. Similar scenario, played like six hours then regretted paying full price. Okay, okay I regretted paying half price. Returned it.
Duke Nukem Forever Balls of Steel Edition. Preordered and paid the full $150 and everything. At least it taught me to think twice about preorders and silly CEs.
I think I may be the only person that didn’t mind that game. It wasn’t great but I still had some fun with it.
I may have had some fun for $5. But $150?
3DS
EDIT: Though that’s improved a bit so I guess this year’s most regretful purchase is Ni no Kuni 🙁
It’s very…. very ghibli.
And the mechanics were interesting and kind of fun, even… I just wish there’d been less hand-holding and forced tutorials and phased-in introduction of mechanics on a continual drip-feed.
The gameplay is shit and to me it’s not very Ghibli at all. It’s like… bootleg Ghibli had an illegitimate lovechild with the bastard offspring of Dragon Quest and Pokemon.
Wanted to like it so much 🙁
Its story and art was very Ghibli in that they tend to tell pretty much the same story over and over about wayward children with lost/dead parents, and a journey of exploration of a hidden world of magic and self-discovery and whimsey. It’s pretty textbook Ghibli in that respect.
Except they don’t. That might be the story of Spirited Away but Ghibli’s done a whole ton of films with none of that at all. The feel is just not there for me.
Also the traditional animation is ugly. Very low-budget for what I’d expect and looks glaringly bad against the actual game.
Mainly though it was that the actual moment-to-moment gameplay is just not fun.
Front Mission Evolved. Hated it, because I loved the original Front Mission.
RAGE. Worst launch experience ever. Why the fuck is it suddenly normal to have to wait six months after launch for a video game to be playable?
I was debating what to have for lunch, then saw Miley Cyrus with her tongue hanging out of her face-hole at the bottom of the page. Urge to eat has diminished somewhat.
All those hormones distracting your appetite?
Thanks to @dkzeitgeist I now have a Hotdog Stuffed Crust Pizza on its way to me for lunch. \o/
You have no idea how much you’re going to regret that :S
Zero regret!
I had it on numerous occasions last time they were doing it. The only time I regretted it was when they forgot the tomato sauce and mustard.
Blergh. I thought I’d love it because hotdogs are awesome but I’ve never felt grosser than after I ate one of those.
That’s a shame. I’m currently eating a Pepperoni with added chilli flakes Hotdog Stuffed Crust Pizza and enjoying it immensely.
@freezespreston
WHAT ARE THE DEETS FOR THIS ROAD TRIP SIRE???
It really sounds like a horrible, horrible experience.
I should try it, I guess.
Aint nothing horrible about it.
It’s shit food, no question, but it’s pretty dang tasty.
Now I feel like I need to try it again.
If you go in expecting to taste hot dog inside the crust of a pizza, you won’t be disappointed.
I’ve never tried it with anything but a Pepperoni pizza. I imagine it would taste way less good with some of the other types.
It was the bees knees, Strange.
Mustard the shit out of it for maximum taste.
I need this in my life.
The pizza, not Dan.
Okay, Dan too.
Hi all
At a forum all day, so TAYSPOTIFYLIST won’t be up til later. Enjoy your days! til this evening.
Breaking Bad spinoff/prequel ‘Better Call Saul’ coming soon. Opinions?
Not a bad idea, but not particularly interested myself.
Same. Mike and Saul are my favourite characters, but I’m not sure how I’d feel about a whole show just on Saul. It could be a Saul overload.
I’m guessing that it’ll feature a rotating cast of criminals and other ne’er-do-wells who come to Saul as kind of a hub of order to their chaos, rather than being extended versions of what we normally see of Saul.
I told my mate that every episode is will just be Hule breathing heavily whilst staring at Saul’s receptionist.
Multi-cam, live studio audience setup please.
David Cross cameos are a must, too.
What will my pay be?
Ehhhhhhhhhhh, I’ll watch the first episode with guarded curiosity, but not optimism.
It can only be bad.
So bad it’s good? We’ll have to wait and see!
@rocketman
I’m getting into Sydney airport at 8:30pm. @cakesmith is meeting me there and we’re picking up the car and heading off.
The quote I got for the car is $160 but I know how much rental car companies like additional charges.
@shane I have turnips at 149. Will get online tonight for you if you don’t find better elsewhere. And if you do, let me know!
Edit: 139, sorry.
Thanks mate. Will do!
Mine are 148….
We may have to become friends! // cc: @shane
We’re not already friends?! How did that (not) happen?
4940-5795-8006
I only recently got a 3DS and until I scored a free copy of ACNL I hadn’t been using it. I wasn’t around when everyone was in full turnips hype mode!
I’m 2552-1343-7565
61. Messar is the worst town now.
Home now. I’ll put Animal crossing on for your turniping convenience.
Thanks man. When I tried, your gates weren’t open but @strange had her gates open, so her town got my business instead. Just so you’re not waiting around all night for me! Thanks anyways.
Oh, that’s weird, I’ve had the 3DS on and ACNL running since I posted. Sorry about that!
No worries, dude. 🙂
I was a bit worried I’d cut you or someone off because the 3DS was on but I wasn’t really paying attention to it until it start flashing two red lights at me so I hurriedly hit save and quit and hoped I hadn’t thrown anyone out at the same time.
You know what i REALLY need to do?
Make a new installment of the Kotaku Chronicles…
Oh.. I had Zac around this past friday, Some of you may know him from posting on here a little bit a while ago, others would have met him when he came along with me to one of the melb meats – but, yeah, we had a bored games night!!
FINALLY played my tabletop version of Space hulk which was simple-simple AWSOME fun! So much fun. I lost horribly playing as the termies, but great fun, still.
Also played some new games Zac bought along with himself:
Infinity: A marvel deck building game. This game is really simple to get your head around, but is super rich and sooooo fun. There are some awesome heroes and villains, along with some great artwork and some funny lines. We chose Rogue, Deadpool, Iron Man and Hulk as our heroes, and Magneto as our villain, plus the spiderfoes (venom, hobgoblin etc) and the Brotherhood (The blob, mystique etc) as his lackeys.
Great game in general.
Sentinels of the multiverse: Another superhero card game, this time a generic no-name one, albeit presented BEUTIFULLY. Another great game with great variety, but hard as hell. This is possibly due to the fact that it’s meant for 3+ players, and we only had the two of us. We got owned pretty quickly, especially seeing as both the villain and environment get attacks.
@tigerion and @f4ction – what was the name of the card game you guys were playing at pax? I’m quite keen to pick it up, as it looks really fun. The one wit pirates and ghost and zombies and robots etc etc etc…
For anyone who want to see 3 random geeky dudes talk about the two games, plus the DC one
I harrassed Zac at Manifest. I was all, ‘You’re Loops friend!” And he was all “Yes, I am…”
It was horrifically awkward.
hahaha good times!
I think PAX had some of the best awkward moments of my life 🙂
I CAN’T WAIT FOR NEXT YEAR! 😀
Smash Up! \o/
THAT’S THE ONE!!
Thanks nobby!! 😀
Awesome!
Infinity and Sentinels of the Multiverse are both awesome. Played an epic three hour sentinels game on the weekend. Hardest boss (the Chairman, who has an Assassin minion and a bunch of other henchmen who in turn summon more henchmen that you basically have to take out in a specific order because they have stacking buffs) with the Advanced rules too.
Really close game and we initially thought we’d made it impossible but we stuck it out anyway so we could get a better feel for the heroes we were using, and then we realized we were doing okay and kept going and eventually won. Barely, but it was good enough.
Woah….
Just.. woah!
One of the heroes has a one-shot card that basically says until the start of his next turn, only the heroes can deal damage. We couldn’t have won without that card. The Assassin deals 5 damage to the highest-HP hero whenever you kill a dude. Every turn she summons a boss that then summons a minion. The minions did stuff like reduce damage dealt and reflecting damage back at you. And the Chairman himself did 6 (number of heroes in the game) damage to everyone that attacks him. Killing the bottom-level minions was pointless because you’d just get a new one summoned. Basically the trick was you needed to get all those dudes out of the villain deck, then kill them so they’d be in the trash (though there’s a couple of villain cards that summon all of them from the trash) but in a specific order, leaving the least important ones alive. That would get rid of the worst effects (+damage to you, -damage to them) then you needed to focus on the Assassin so you could clear out the guys without taking any backlash. Then using the shielding from the Hero I mentioned earlier, focus down the boss.
If you get a chance to play in a large group, try that boss. He’s super hard (possibly the hardest) but amazingly fun to beat.
Awesome 😀
We were playing against the dude who’s the evil version of one of the heroes 🙂
The Chairman made me think of Chairface from The Tick.
I want a good Tick game.
Sounds like smashup, I bought it the other day
Kotaku Chronicles! \o/
6.5 hours left of work after 5 already worked.
Thanks Tony.
I wish I could trade my heart for another liver so I could drink more and care less.
I just accidentally pressed the power button on my 3DS instead of the Home one. I had Animal Crossing running. The last public works project I built was the Resetti Centre….
Hope you like pedantic sooking.
One of the things I couldn’t stand about that game. Getting lectured every time I shut it down without saving. Even if I only fired it up to check prices or something then switched it off. It was funny at first, but then just annoyed me no end.
YES. I SHUT MY GAME OFF WITHOUT SAVING. NO. YOU DON’T NEED TO LECTURE ME ABOUT WHAT NOT SAVING MY GAME MEANS.
Nothing beats people lecturing others about safely removing their USB drive…
*attempting whistling innocently*
See the thing is, with the 3Ds version it only happens the first time you do it. Unless you’re stupid enough to build a Resetti Centre. One day I had loads of Bells and nothing better to build so I built one. So I essentially just paid hundreds of thousands of bells to be lectured. 😛
One day I’d been playing on and off all day, leaving it on the charger between plays but not turning it off. I’d been to the island and got enough Bells to get the next section of my house and even built a town project. Caught a couple rare things I hadn’t caught before as well. Just before I went to bed I went to hit start to save it and quit but accidentally hit the power button instead. D: Losing all that was more than enough punishment, a lecture on top of that is just rubbing salt into the wound.
See I never built a Resetti centre, but still had that stupid assistant telling me off every time I went to load my game.
Tried streaming Dark Souls to see what would happen.
FFsplit crashed.
Now I know what will happen if I try to stream.
I’ve also unlocked the shortcut to O&S so I might go grind up some souls and level up my spear and magics before fighting them.It’s not the lightning spear is it?
Raw Winged Spear.
I probably should have made it anything but raw but I don’t really care that much.
Just tried using Ricard’s Rapier and the little pose you do before strong attacks is ridiculous. Not a fan.
Raw? Really? Can’t say I’ve ever heard if any one actually using that. You get better results from a Normal.
I know. I just kind of did it and haven’t bothered changing it back.
I’m really tempted to set up streaming so I can stream my first playthrough of Dark Souls II when it’s released.
Several people might do that.
Honestly, I don’t really give a shit if I have -1 viewers. I just want to give it a go! Plus, you guys on TAY will watch it right? … right!?
MAYBE!
I would, except that I’ll probably be playing it!
By which I mean crying.
I will be crying a lot.
You’ll be competing with my 0 viewers when I start streaming LoL one day 😛
People still play LoL?
I play it every evening after work :). I find it fun while still challenging at the same time, rather than that other game that just punishes you so brutally for one slight mistake as part of one of the thousands of things you didn’t know about the mechanics.
Oh wow. People still do play it. Maybe they should have had a booth at PAX or something.
I just realized I haven’t played any games since Saturday :O
ABOMINATION.
I rage quit on the Garuda fight in FFXIV, spent all Sunday playing bored games, Monday I got home late, tried to log in and it was 1017 erroring me 🙁 Tuesday I was out for dinner and then last night I was exhausted after being woken up super early by the people next door starting world war 3 in their back yard with a bobcat, so I went to bed at like 9pm (old man Negs).
And today I think XIV is down for maintenance.
Bored games is an acceptable substitute.
I read up more on this Steam library sharing thing and I have to say it’s really not that good.
So say @rize is using a game from my library (Saints Row) and then I decide to play Bioshock, it will kick Rize out of the game, even though it’s not the same game.
EDIT: I fail at formatting.
That’s a little dickish… and by little I mean a lot.
It seems more like a “You can play my PC games while I’m away on holiday” deal
Don’t let semantics get in the way of all the Valve cock sucking!
Remember, Valve is good, valve is great, something something, no company can ever be as kind and generous and thoughtful as the almighty Valve.
Vote 1 GabeN for Jesus!
It’s not great, but it will finally allow my wife to have her own steam profile and play games I’ve paid for that are already installed on the same PC without having to pay for them a second time. You know. Like the Xbox 360 and PS3 can already do with XBLA/PSN software.
On the same PC you certainly won’t have an issue, on two PCs at once, no. It’s much better than nothing at all at least 🙂
Personally, I’m thrilled. My wife hasn’t been able to play certain games because she doesn’t get to have a fresh save, and I don’t want to delete my data.
Eh? Huh? Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
That’s just plain weird.
I think the point of it is so that a household only needs one copy of a game rather than having to buy multiple.
So I can play Skyrim and get achievements and profile information but if Mrs Tigs want to play then she can play that on her account because I have purchased it. Seems to be more of a shared PC thing game installed on the one PC but different profiles can access it.
I can see where the rule is coming from as otherwise it is just a group of people sharing an account and only needing to purchase one copy of everything (besides multiplayer)
I agree. There’d be too much room for abuse.
So it’s more like you’re logged in on their computer, but all the gameplay counts against their account. Given the problems we’ve had with same games on same PC for multiple accounts, this lets my library be used on her PC without having to worry about that.
Essentially, yes, very restricted, but I can see usefulness with my current situation.
A couple of really interesting smaller games have been announced and I think I am looking forward to them more than any of the big names. Maybe it is to do with the focus on console but none of them have really stood up and been must have for me.
Child of light and Valiant hearts look really cool. Maybe it is the art style that draws me to the games. I know that games like The division are coming to PC and looking forward to that, but they don’t look that much different to any other game. Where as taking something like valiant hearts it is clear that you are looking at something different.
I wonder if as I get older the advertising that worked for younger me isn’t pushing the buttons or if the current advertising is all for console type games that have never had huge appeal. I suppose the other option is my pineapple is so large that anything new is just another level on that so I am less interested in what is on offer.
Valiant Hearts looks fantastic but I’m not sold on Child of Light.
Pavilion looks pretty great as well.
Child of light was part of the reason for the post. It looks amazing from an art style perspective and I think that is why I am interested in it. But puzzle platforms are some of my favourite types of games so it has that going for it.
I’m not sure it will be great but for some reason I am looking forward to it and much more interested in that than anything else announced recently.
Funny thing actually, I don’t remember ANY advertising for games I played when I was younger.
I remember getting a Sega Master System because the TV ads for Prince of Persia on SMS looked fucking rad.
(That game was fucking rad and the SMS version was very nice to look at)
I remember seeing ads for Super Mario Kart when I was little and wanting it so bad, even going over to a guy’s place just because he had it and I wanted to play it. We weren’t friends at all.
I feel like we’ve come full circle. Computing power has increased to the point that doing cutting-edge graphics is so expensive that developers are going back to doing 2D again, but the advancements in computing power mean they can do astoundingly complicated 2D work.
The two Ubisoft games are visually stunning. I have major issues with the Child of Light one being called a JRPG (it flat out isn’t one) but I’m really hopeful we’re going to see a big resurgence in highly artistic 2D games again, now that technology isn’t a limiting factor.
Ubisoft should license out UbiArt.
But it has turn based combat. Clearly that makes it a jrpg.
We are getting so much power and yet not enough to get through the uncanny valley so as you say actually rolling back the realism is a better bet. The thing that i am hopefully for is that large studios like ubisoft are making mid range games, rather than just the AAA. That is something I would like to see develop and become more regular.
Well that was interesting. I was cleaning out the storage cabinet at work and found a book of old correspondence dated 1931. The joys of working in government where nothing gets thrown away ever.
So what was the government concerned about in 1931, man? 🙂
Whether this business selling dental equipment should pay sales tax considering his business income was only 1,000 pounds for the year.
Exhilarating
Don’t keep me waiting man, what did they decide?
I am not joking, I need to know.
They said he had to pay tax. They are the government after all.
I’m glad the story had a happy ending.
I don’t know what I expected, really.
Whether to replace their ageing Steel wire communications infrastructure with Copper.
Seriously.
Copper to the node, motherfuckers! Steel will see us through to the 23rd century.
I have a Morse key from a Spitfire… that’s almost 1931!
‘cept it had nothing to do with the government or books. D:
Would it be a bad idea to back this at the $250 level?
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1613260297/golem-arcana
It’s risky, like any investment. Up to you, really, but don’t think of it as a pre-order.
Yeah thats true. I’m more thinking for a will I actually play it, which I’m sure I would, one of my turnoffs with warhammer is the dependancy of rulebooks, so this idea is excellent from my point of view.
oh, I didn’t realise they’d actually launched their kickstarter for this.
Hmm, that “Warlord” tier does look pretty tempting. On one hand, I’d to have the base set for each army, on the other hand do I want to double up on the armies from the starter set?
Worst page-get ever. And it was my first one too.
And I reply-failed too. I should quit while I’m behind.
Shut up. God, you’re the worst person on this site.
Dickman.
Piecharts.
Worst Hermit.
@dc hats fun.
Creepy Postman.
Greeting said postman in a decided lack of clothes.
Oh Rocketman.
Sorry.
Flu’s Sexy Voice.
DAN! with something inappropriate http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/
http://www.shanewsmith.com
The real @shane.
The real @freezespreston
Oar.
Beef era.
Swearbotting.
Now you are truly one of us.
one of us one of us…Not quite.
There’s a book by a certain author which he may not have a copy of yet.
Welcome to the family 🙂
Not as great as my page-get, but okay nonetheless.
You haven’t been here very long at all if you think that is the worst page-get ever
I thought it was a pretty good one.
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Californication
Yesterday, I re-watched 11 episodes of the first season of Californication. I nearly kept going and watched the final ep as well, but it was already 1am by then. I love this show. There’s something about it that is so meticulous – a fine line between smut/depravity, and romantic ideals that would even make Hallmark vomit – and somehow, the show manages to do quite well for itself in both fields. It’s like the Kevin Smith of television, only more consistent. Also, David Duchovny is far more compelling here than he ever was as Mulder.Tomb Raider
100% achieved. Game on its way back to @nomad! Thanks nomad! Really appreciate the loan. Glad I gave it a second shot. In a lot of ways, I want to retract that Potaku article I wrote. Interesting though it was, I no longer agree with the argument in it.Ace Attorney
Justice For All completed! Man, that last case was EPIC… and hilarious. And tense. Really really tense. Seeing Phoenix put his head down on the desk, defeated, was pretty powerful. I love these games so damn much! I’m already up to the second case in Trials and Tribulations, and loved playing as Mia for the first case. Very interesting prequel!Other
Tomato and onion flavoured tuna, and grated cheese make for good toasted sandwichI don’t know if I’ve mentioned this, but I’ve discovered my calling. Yes, it’s writing. But more than that, if I ever get some free time, I’m going to start up a publishing company. At this stage, thinking comics publisher, but have yet to decide for sure. I have the name all figured out, though.@DC. Where is @dc? Has he abandoned us?Yeah, I remember Californication being really good also. Not sure why I stopped. Made it to season three or four I guess. Should really go back and continue.
I gave up partway through season 3 on my first watch-through, because it felt like it was getting a little too gratuitous. By chance, I stumbled across the season 4 premiere on TV and really liked it. Discovered that the factor influencing my enjoyment of the show was my wife, who didn’t really like the show. So I am rewatching it all without her, and LOVING it.
Yeah it’s funny how that happens. I told my dad to watch The Watch, funnily, because it’s HILARIOUS and he did with mum. Then he said it was merely okay but proceeded to quote really funny moments with me in conversation the next time I saw him. We had a good laugh. Mum didn’t like the film.
I loved season 1 of Californication. Season 2 had some really excellent moments and that final episode was so well done. I kind of forgot about it after that. I think I saw a random episode from season 3 once. I should rewatch it and get caught up.
Season 4 is brilliant. As good as 1 IMO. I really enjoyed watching it as it aired. Seasons 5 and 6 were quite solid as well. Really looking forward to S7 (hoping it’s the last season, though).
You could have saved yourself a lot of trouble on the Tomb Raider thing by simply accepting that your worldview and gut feelings at the time were incorrect because they did not match my opinions and feelings.
Because I am always right. Even when I’m wrong. ESPECIALLY when I’m wrong.
I think @transientmind killed @dc for his $3 steak at the Sunday ManDate Meat. 😛
Plausible, but they actually made the steaks bloody enough that I didn’t have to. HE WAS ALIVE WHEN I LAST SAW HIM. I SWEAR.
Also, you should write a rebuttal to your Potaku article….
R U ALL OK?
I M GR8! U?
caring in a semi-literate fashion!
https://www.ruokday.com/
I’ve always wished that Mel Brooks made a History of the World, Part II.
Nothing profound behind that, I was just thinking about watching it earlier today but this comment is probably as close as I’ll get.
I too have spent many a night staring at the stars and sighing with thoughts on this very issue.
I’m seeing people around the place trying to poke holes in Steam Sharing. Other than not being able to play the same game at the same time (not a limitation to me, at all), can someone explain the issue? Seriously, I don’t get it.
EDIT: Keep in mind I want to hear facts. I might have missed something that people are angry or disappointed about. Not interested in hearing how it means you don’t get free multiplayer games.
You can only play another person’s steam games if the owner is not playing something on steam himself/herself. So if you’re sharing a PC with Steam, you don’t need to install/buy twice anymore. That’s about it
I think it’s not about “same game/same time”, it’s “same library/same time”.
If the owner wants to play ANY game from their library, not just the ones being lent out, the borrowers have thirty minutes to vacate any borrowed games.
No, I get that, I’m still not understanding the problem. People are complaining because they can’t use one library to play together. Considering that was never on the table, I’m confused.
If you lend me Bioshock, and I’m playing it, and you decide to hop on Steam and play Civ 5, I would get kicked out of Bioshock.
I think the complaints you’re referring to are indeed desperately misguided 😛
I think they should just shut the hell up cuz this is way better than nothing at all 🙂
If my girlfriend had a gaming computer, she could play all my Steam games while I sleep haha, it’s a shame she can’t really afford one
This is my view exactly.
One perfect example I can think of compared to an event in the past. I went overseas to Portugal for two weeks, I could’ve given my brother shared rights while I was playing Steam games in offline mode up there, he could play any of my games for the two weeks that I’d be away for.
On the topic of offline mode, I wonder how that’d work?
I assume they’ll block offline for shared games for the person it’s shared too, but curious if they’ll limit it for the person it’s shared from to stop people cheating the system…it’d be a little disappointing, but they’d be well within their rights to do so.
@Rize I don’t see why anything has to change. As far as I can tell, it’s just like you logging into someone else’s computer, only it can now be via their credentials instead of yours. No more open to abuse than before.
@rize
I’m going to guess in the most logical manner that only the library owner can play the shared library’s games in offline mode. It’s probably going to be a separate library in the client to the person that’s getting access to the shared library, that doesn’t have offline mode as an option.
@Beavwa What I mean is, I share my library with you, I then go offline and start to play a game. In the mean time, you fire up one of my games too, theoretically allowing both of us to play one of my games. That just seems like something they would/probably will block.
@tech_knight Yeah, that’s what I’m thinking.
@Rize I go offline on my PC and start playing a game.
My account is logged in on another PC, same game is started up.
Same scenario, yes?
@beavwa, I see no issue with that. I’d say that the way the games would run together is going to depend on the game’s multiplayer design itself. If it’s something like Counter Strike Source, offline mode will disable any form of multiplayer and you’ll be stuck with bots while she’ll be able to play online with ease. Other games that don’t use steamworks may be linking up to your Steam key that’s bound to your overall account, therefore both won’t be able to play online at once. I’m just basing this off experience I’ve had with trying to get multiple PCs with the same game up at once with no DRM, yet use things like CD keys.
Easiest summary – it’s account sharing, not game sharing. Library for an account is only used in one place at a time.
I think I understand where you’re coming from — it’s better than nothing, but it’s just the whole… entitlement thing that seems to be an issue with a very vocal part of the gamer community.
Personally, seeing as X1 copped a lot of flak over the same sort of thing I’m fine as long as people’re being consistent — I’ve spent more money on Steam than any game console/service by a fair margin, but I trust their good-guy/community hero-type image about as much as Google’s “don’t be evil” mantra, so I don’t mind seeing them put to the sword just a tiny bit.
The main issue as I see it is people are comparing steam sharing as lending a physical disc to somebody. Since this isn’t what it does and what they want they get upset and whinge.
It’s not that you can’t play the same game at the same time, it’s that you can’t play *any* of someone else’s games if they are. Unless you’re in a different timezone or work and play different hours that’s going to be pretty useless.
Well it seems to be more of a family sharing thing rather than give free games to your friends. For some things it might be useful for Mrs Tigs to have her own account rather than mine, still considering it but there is possibilities there.
All the critics need to give up and go home on this subject because gaben is the closest thing to a god that any human can possibly be without being me.I’m a little disappointed in not being able to distribute out my unplayed games to people while I continue to use the rest of my library, but not that disappointed, because it is totally exploity.
Because fuck you!
PC MASTER RACE! GABEN FOR JESUS!
Butt seriously, to me it’s very much a “oh, cool idea, I see how it could be useful, but reading the restrictions I’m never going to use it”.
I was talking to a guy at work (one of our business analysts) about it and he said, to him it doesn’t seem to offer much to Steams core demographic. And I agree with him. But then he added that they know their market better than we do which I also agree with so, eh.
I know I’ve said it before, but why do all Kotaku US articles seem to come with a compulsory portion of snark and general pisstake-tone? I know I shouldn’t read it – but it’s so annoying.
They’re all angry about Syria.
And yet again, a serious response eludes me.
Sorry man. I don’t have a serious response. Other than perhaps that their hiring policies aren’t as stringent as their Aussie counterpart.
Great, now you’ve jinxed us!
In before Brian Ashcraft is the next editor of KotAU. D:
At the risk of angrying up everyone’s blood, apparently Tone Abot has been talking to Obama about that, and the short grabs I’ve heard don’t spell out anything positive for Australia.
Any quotes? I’m at work so can’t search for myself yet… but this doesn’t surprise me in the slightest, since he once said “Baddies versus baddies”, ignoring the fact that there are innocent people in the crossfire.
All coloured foreigners are baddies though aren’t they? Stop the boats! With missiles! They’re full of baddies!
Well technically I’d think that helping end their civil war and putting things back in order there would probably actually stop them trying to flee to Australia. Potentially. It’d probably be more effective than buying dodgy fishing ships from Indonesians at least.
Originally heard it on the radio, but a quick search…
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-12/tony-abbott-barack-obama-syria-diplomacy/4953584
O.O… This guy is just getting worse since getting elected in… welp, you were right Mr Keating, “god help us”
Urgh.
Though, I’m also interested in how the UN plan on destroying all of their chemical weapons in the midst of a civil war. No-one on the anti-Assad side of the debate seems to have a plan that’s more than “well… let’s just hope for the best!”
If you think that Rudd would have said anything different had he been elected instead, you’re delusional.
I don’t give a shit who has, might, can or would say it. It’s not a good thing.
There is a decidedly superior attitude coming from most of it. I don’t know? A cultural thing maybe? Playing up to the snide cynicism of the average commenter?
I don’t have a huge pool of experience to draw on, but I’ve heard a lot of Americans consider Aussies to be ‘pretty chill’ and ‘totally relaxed’. Maybe what seems ‘normal’ or ‘reasonable’ to us is actually way too mellow for the US reader?
@DC, where are yooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooou?
I feel like a bereaved twin 🙁
Not really.Maybe reallySort of kind of not really a little bitI have also been missing @dc — his upvotes are comforting and reassuring, I’ve been having trouble sleeping without them. 🙁
Read that as “sleeping without him” 😛
He’s powering up Dragonball Z style for a face crushing of epic proportions in November.
He’s been away all week, this spirit bomb is going to be awesome!
Who plays Frieza in
DBZTAYBZ?Uhh…
…Freeze?
Ryūsei Nakao does Friezas Jap Voice…
BlueMaxima.
*vomits*
It was a small hope for that NBN petition but still a pointless one.
As evidenced here.
Twat.
Not even nearly a strong enough insult for such a remarkably childish and flippant response.
I’ll be honest, it wasn’t the one I initially went with.
I think “circumcision offcut” describes him best.
Ugh. The sheer level of arrogance in that tweet exceeds the maximum payload for 140 characters. How did he even do that.
On the plus side, that asshole just managed to perhaps unwittingly highlight everything that is wrong with democracy.
What’s the most important issue to you, as a voter? The economy, you say? You want to have a job? OK. We’ll make sure that happens because we’re apparently more trustworthy, but in return, you have to agree to all our backward, draconic bullshit.
(See: Why we don’t have a R18+ rating. YES, I KNOW WE HAVE ONE IN NAME, BUT IT IS IN NAME ONLY.)
I can’t believe that’s an actual tweet. Did he lend his phone to a 15 year old girl for a second?
Tony stole his phone.
What an unproductive day.
Now I know how government employees feel.
screw you man!
just coz you didnt do a single productive thing all day, you think you know what its like?!?!
nah man. you dont get it. I’ve seen it. the face of the government. the bureaucratic nightmare. it gets INTO YOUR HEAD MAN. INTO YOUR HEAD! IT EATS YOUR WILL TO LIVE.
until friday, then its all cool.
MUST TRY PIZZA HUTS’ HEART ATTACK IN A BOX…
http://www.pizzahut.com.au/hot-dog-stuffed-crust?utm_source=ACT&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DM16926~undefined~REMAINDER~Wed%20Sep%2011%202013%2020:31:21%20GMT-0400%20%28EDT%29~E3784194
There is a @strange review on page 9
Hmph, all these places with their crust-stuffing ways. They’re ruining the best part of the pizza!
MGSV HYPE!
I really wish I knew what was going on :P…
well… (cc @dkzeitgeist)
I think I need to play Peace Walker to catch up on what went on in the lead up to MGS V. In particular, I think it clarifies the roles of Skull Face and XOF.
But yeah, there are probably going to be two Snakes (return of Hayter, “Kept you waiting, huh?” etc). And, Quiet will be in the running for best sniper battle.
Oh, just had a thought about boss fights, regarding the theme of Loss – and “The Phantom Pain” that accompanies loss – which we see reflected in Miller and Snake both with lost limbs. Quiet has been described as “mute” – so she has “lost” the ability to speak. With the immense scarring, Skull Face may have “lost” the sense of touch. I think it will be likely that each of the bosses will have “lost” something (blind boss fight? taste seems the hardest to convey – maybe a rakishly thin guy who doesn’t eat and will never get to “laugh and grow fat”). This would be a nice nod to the “emotion” bosses from MGS3.
ILY
Brilliant.
Yeah, I’ve only ever played and finished MGS, 2, 3 and 4. I assume Portable Ops and Peace Walker should help clear things up around that time period.
I have been meaning to view the MGSV redband trailer. Haven’t found the spare ten minutes yet. I know, it was released in June. I’m working on it.
I saw it whenever it came out and just watched it again after all the Quiet stuff.
To be honest I didn’t remember her and all I remembered was HORSE STEALTH!
TAYlist for the 12th of September 2013
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by so many mediocre requestsScissor Sisters – Filthy Gorgeous
Naughty By Nature – Holiday
Metallica – The Unforgiven (Requested by @Beavwa)
George – Breath In Now (Requested by @Strange)
Shakira – Whenever Wherever
Whitlams – Thank You
Bryan Ferry – Let’s Stick Together
Naked Eyes – Always Something There To Remind Me
QED – Everywhere I Go
Fleetwood Mac – Little Lies
Audioslave – Cochise (Requested by @cakesmith)
Miranda Murphey – That Girl
Inner Circle – Sweat (Requested by @FreezeSPreston)
Meatloaf – Bat Out Of Hell (Needed a long song so I could reset the computer)
John Farnham – Age Of Reason
Black Sorrows – Stir It Up (Little darlin’, Steer It Up)
Earth Wind and Fire – September (Pretty fitting, given the month)
my requests are never mediocre. just impossibly obscure.
I was thinking more hanson-rebecca-black-@trjn-has-bad-taste-in-music-ish requests that your request
Placebo? Mediocre? HArumph! :p
Oh, Gizmodo. Don’t ever change.
I thought it was the weekend then realised it wasn’t and then I posted about it online to people who don’t care.
THE END.
Boredius?
Excited-but-then-depressed-ius.
Needs-more-character-developmentius.
4/10. Would not read again.
TELL IT AGAIN, POP!
The clock was ticking and time was running out. Life is slowly ticking away, every second was a second wasted. Life moves on.
It was only 11 days until D-Day and I was nowhere near ready. I felt like I had all the time in the world to prepare but everything in my body was telling me not to. It was the first and last thing on my mind. Was it even possible? To think something like this could be done, that they would have the nerve to even ask us. Our eyes and voices told the story. The fear, the pain, and the anger. Every little inch of our existence was fighting against it.
The Management Ethics and Corporate Governance report was due soon…
THE HORROR!
I thought it was the weekend then realised it wasn’t. This discovery gives me more time, but will only prolong the inevitable. Up is down, left is right, it’s messing with my mind. People need to know. To keep away, to protect themselves. I must get the word out. I’ll need to post about it online, to the people. They have the right to know. They may not care but in the end they’ll thank me. They need to know the importance of ethical issues.
Perhaps I’ve emerged a better man after this. A man with great ethical prowess.
Although it brings me closer to the deadline, as time passes there is but one more thing that stands in my way. One more obstacle I’ll have to overcome on my ethical journey.
Grand Theft Auto V.
Bikes
THE END.
Marry me.
Bare my child, but impregnate ME with your crackpot theories.
Zigga-Zig-ahhh
So I got Kingdom Hearts -HD 1.5 ReMIX- (seriously?)
Not sure why. I’ve played these games and I won’t play this for a while yet.
But here it is in the bag.
I’m interested to see how much better 365/2 days is going to look in this version, cuz that was on the DS, and I never got the chance to play Chain of Memories, so I can’t wait to get this.
I think its just the cut scenes, no actual gameplay.
Aww that sucks
I know. I initially thought it was the whole lot.
Indeed it is.
I’m waiting on mine. I ordered it cos I’m a sucker for an art book… even if it is the size of a ps3 game case.
I feel the same as you. It will look pretty and collect dust.
Welcome to every game I’ve ever purchased.
Now that I’m almost done with Ni No Kuni I was thinking of getting this as another game to play with my son. I might put the PS2 version of Kingdom Hearts on to see if he likes it.
It’s Disney. Everyone loves Disney.
XILLIA
Wait no, shutup Greenius! That’s so unlike you.
XENOBLADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have you seen the co-op stuff in child of light? Sounds like that could be perfect for you and master Strange.
The lead developer has basically said he loved Ni No Kuni but wished there was a way he could play co op with his kid and that influenced the design
I don’t recall hearing about Child Of Light before but I just looked it up and it looks awesome. 😀
Same. Although I had a $10 Amazon voucher so I thought I might as well import the Limited Edition from them.
But I figured I never owned a copy of Kingdom Hearts and the Final Mix stuff is new, same with Chain of Memories so it was justified. Would’ve liked KH2 in there as well though :(.
You’ve played Chain of Memories before? The PS2 remake never came to PAL regions.
Never played that one. Card based videogames never really appealed to me. Takes all the fun out of playing against the other person instead of their hand.
It’s actually the first kingdom hearts game where you don’t always play as Sora from start to finish.
It doesn’t really play like that. You’re not really “versing” anyone. Think of it like the normal Kingdom Hearts gameplay except your attacks and actions are based on cards. It’s hard to explain 😛
I’ve never played the remake but I played the GBA one a bit, but it’s been years so I can’t remember it all that well.
This is how i feel about prostitutes sometimes…
… well the “But here it is in the bag” bit, at least.
The trick is to tie a couple of bricks to the feet so the bag doesn’t float back up.
Ahhh.. good times.
You’re talking about condoms right?
In which case I have no idea why you need to do any of that and you probably should see a doctor.
DARK SOULS!
I summoned Sunbro to help fight against Smough and Ornstein. The fight was actually kind of trivial with his help. Also, I think I was invaded by a phantom because I got a message saying that a phantom left when I entered the boss room. I went and killed the Stray Demon as well afterwards, just because magic is OP yo.EDIT: I changed my Raw Winged Spear to a Magic Winged Spear. Does about the same amount of damage right now (had it at +4 and is now +3) but once I get more Dex, I’m sure it’ll improve dramatically. Haven’t really used it though because I have the power of magics.
Don’t stress so much about Dex. Very soon you’ll be able to create Enchanted weapons which lower the Dex and dramatically raise the Int scaling of weapons. You need a +5 magic weapon first though.
Yeah, I looked that up. I have to get pretty much all the way through Duke’s Archives to get that. Might take a little while.
Edit: I’m thinking of the wrong ember. I could probably go get this upgraded to Enchanted whenever I want.
Summoning is like cheating broskis! :O
But on my first playthrough I thought I’d test out the games summoning feature and two peeps helped me run through a majority of that area (including those bosses). I didn’t even know what happened 😛
(solo’d them on my second playthrough though :D)
I thought I’d try it out, see if I died somewhat slower.
Summoning screwed with the AI enough that staying out of danger was a little too easy.
I always summon people now. It’s more fun taking on the bosses that way plus the extra rewards.
Every playthrough I do also involves me standing at the bonfire with a summon sign down and co oping the bosses 10-20 times before moving on.
Really co-op in the game is the main reason I play now.
ETRIAN ODYSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY
Four. Hmm do want. Will probably check out the demo first.
You have to draw your own map! What is this, the middle ages?
(I actually quite liked the map drawing :P)
KNIGHTS OF PEN AND PAPER IS PRETTY GREAT!
AS IS GAME DEV STORY!!
ALL ABOVE THE LATE NEWS TRAIN FOR A RIDE WITH TEH LOOPS!
CHOO CHOO MOTHER
LOVERSChoo choo mother lovers?
*makes cord pulling motion in the air*
Chooo Chooo!!!
I’ll pull your cord.
Yes please!
I feel like I violated some very basic principles today…
My coworker’s mother is visiting the eylandt this week, and she came in to work today to see what all the fuss is about. While she was getting a tour of the main office, I snuck out the back into the morgue, climbed into my body-bag, and lay silent, waiting.
Some minutes later, they step into the morgue and find that a body has been left out in the viewing area, so of course mother dearest opts to help shift my body to the fridge, at which point I slowly sit upright, to the amazing chorus of screams that echoed through the area.
And now I’ve got the body-bag as a souvenir, which isn’t at all morbid.
In other news, it’s R U OK? Day, and I’m a little concerned by it all. The spin they’ve put on it (much like the road safety signs found in ACT “DRIVE N TXT U B NXT”) seems to be geared towards a younger demographic -and that’s great- but it seems to bring with it an air of silliness, as if it’s a joke.
Awareness and acceptance go a long way, though they’re still just pieces in a much larger puzzle. The fact it’s branded in txtspk tarnishes the message, I think.
Are you OK?
As if its a joke? Looking at Facebook and here it pretty much is one.
Edit: Now I think about it here and the people on Facebook joking about it are 100% male and I wonder if it has more to do with the general male uncomfortableness with discussing such things rather than the wording of it.
Exactly, and it’s one thing that needs more light shed on it, seriously. I understand the importance of being able to laugh in the face of adversity, but the whole idea of RUOK isn’t to laugh it all off, surely. The fact that so many people dealing with mental illness (of any flavour) try so damned hard to pretend it’s OK, to say “yeah, I’m fine” when they’re tearing at their own seams, and we all just joke about it.
Sorry, I’m… I dunno. I just can’t laugh at this one.
As a person with mental illness, you have my permission to laugh. =D
Shh, shh, nah bro, it’s ‘cos the whole thing is queer as.
Dat shit is fer de Sheila’s bro.
I take it seriously. At least Australia is doing something, unlike America.
…the fuck is up with Groote Eyelandt.
HI MYTHOLOGICALOTTADRUGMAN! *waves*
In terms of the name? Dutch origin thanks to the original-wait-not-original-wait-no-that-was-the-other-guys settlers.
In terms of the prank? Yeeeah, I got roped into it at the last minute actually. No one else was willing to hide in a morgue. Funny, that.
Oh you did that for real. Oh man that’s awesome. I’ve read too many of those green text stories from 4chan to have me question every single hilarious story on the old interwebs.
Yeah, for realsies. Wasn’t feasible to film it without giving up the gag, but I’ve got the bag as a memento 😛
Make for disposing of a body easier 😛
>Be me.
>Kill a dude.
>OMFG bodybaglols
I don’t think text speak takes away the legitimacy of the message or sentiment. You don’t have to be 100% literate to be depressed or care. I don’t necessarily think it caters to a particular age bracket either.
I feel the text speak brings laziness. ‘Awareness and acceptance go a long way, though they’re still just pieces in a much larger puzzle’ pretty much sums it up. If someone answers ‘No I am not OK’, where do you go from there?
Good idea, just half baked.
-_- did i really?
…. i really did.
@mythamphetamine… this was for you 🙁
Was… was that the first reply-fail-fail? Niiiice 😀
Where do you go from there? You do whatever fits the dynamic of the relationship, I suppose. Offer support in whichever way fits best. A question can be little more than an opening to help, and it’s little more than a question that’s needed at first.
God only knows what it was. 😛
Yeah i understand its context related how you handle the situation from that point when someone says they want help. I just mean that someone could ask ‘R U OK’, get a response along the lines of no, and then suddenly be in a situation they’re completely unprepared for.
Yeah, that’s certainly a possibility, though is that the fault of either party? I say no, it’s more the fact that it’s so damned ingrained into us that the correct response to “Are you ok?” is not the accurate response, but a simple, unobtrusive “Yes”.
Perhaps the message does indeed need to change from R U OK?, at least until such a time that our day-to-day niceties are leashed and somewhat more representative of our true intentions. Honesty and openness aren’t really nurtured in today’s conversational structure at all. Be-polite-and-keep-to-yourself seems to take precedence.
I don’t know if the actual message is just to ask everyone if they’re okay but more that if someone is struggling not to ignore them?
As weird as it sounds, “what’s wrong?” feels like a much better question to me. The problem is that it’s much harder to generalise that across to everyone. If someone asks you if something’s wrong when nothing is, you tend to feel a little offended whereas “are you ok?” seems less forced to me, but it’s something that I’d be less likely to respond to.
Certainly, it’s a tricky line. I don’t think RUOK? is the best question.
Hey Blaghman: ROOO-OCK?
No one actually talks in txt speak any more unless they’re 50 year olds who think teenagers still type that way.
Also that is the best practical joke ever.
Are you okay day is stressful. =(
R U Okay?
Sorry. Someone was going to do it and if anyone is to make an ass of themselves it’s going to be me 😛I feel I added to that counter productivity somewhat…
sorry 🙁
It wasn’t you guys. I encountered someone who was very un-okay. Trying to help is a bit stressful
What? I got @transientmind downvoted?
I… I don’t know what to feel except tears :'(
Blasphemy! Sacrilege! Lies and slander!
What did you do freeze? What. Did. You. DO?!?!
I made fun of Queenslanders.
Well, you can’t have slander without Queenslander!
…
*Tumbleweed*
You can’t have it without Queen either darling!
I wonder if the Queen slanders Queenslanders…
Yeah. Yeah, you know what you did.
🙂
Aren’t you from down south somewhere originally?
*recoil in horror* I was born in Corinda! I was raised in the Wide Bay! I mean, yeah, sure, I’ve travelled a bit and lived in a few places, and would kinda like to live in Tasmania, but… QUEENSLANDAH! It’s superior blood.
Hey I was born in Herston not 14km from there. High Five!
I got new slippers!
They’re to go with my Totoro kigurumi.
Guys. Worst news.
They’re saying the sunny streak is over already. Even now it’s all super windy outside and all cold and horrible 🙁
…worst…news?
Surely you jest!
I don’t understand those freakishly malformed/uninformed raggy doll reject-bin cast-offs who think that sweltering, cloying heat is somehow better than fresh, crisp, cool air.
Just to be whoever you are is no disgrace! >:[
Still all sunny skies and hotness up here.
Out…side?
So I finally watched the MGSV redband trailer. Very cool. I’m actually quite impressed with Keifer Sutherland as Snake, he has a great voice. But yeah, much like a few others here, I feel I need to go back and finish Peace Walker to fully get up to date. Of course, I’m going to have to start saving my pennies too, as this one is going to cost me a PS4 in addition to the game.
I bought SRIV for Beardy but he’d already bought it before I got the key sent to me and then they sent it to me and IT’S A PHOTO OF A RETAIL BOX AND THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE IN SPANISH THIS IS THE GREATEST THING EVER.
DARK SOULS!
After killing O&S and the Stray Demon, I went and killed the Hydra so that I could get to the DLC. Now I’m working my way through Duke’s Archives. Already had the first Seath encounter and didn’t even bother fighting. Just let him kill me and then did the whole prison escape thing. I died after I got back into the main building and decided to call it a day. The tentacle lady things are super easy to kill with magic. They might have been glitched out, the ones in front of Logan didn’t do anything while I zapped them to death.There’s 2 of them and they don’t. There’s some lore about them being handmaidens of someone or other who kept part of their minds after being transformed. That’s why they drop the miracles.
I thought Seath made them (I read the wiki).
Also, I killed a dozen of them when they were just sitting in front of the jail cell.
Seath did make them. Magical experiments.
Usually the big group is pretty passive but if you get right up in there they’ll attack you except those two.
I’m a cowardly mage with a pointed stick, No tentacle orgy for me.
Your loss.
When the game first came out, I basically ‘cheated’ it by focusing on Pyromancy. Made most battles a piece of cake.
I believe they nerfed it later. 🙁
Nah, they only get aggressive in two circumstances. When the bells are ringing, or when you get too close to them downstairs.
The office cleaners have been away for a couple of weeks, so currently my work kitchen is like that scene in the Simpsons where nobody wants to take out the bin, so they keep piling rubbish on top in the hopes that it doesn’t collapse under its own weight.
Wash what you use, anddon’t be a dick. Sorted.EDIT: added strikethrough
Staple your banana peel to the side of the trash
Just watched the latest Nintendo/Pokemon Direct. While I’m generally hype for X&Y, and keen for original starters making a return, I personally don’t see the need for Pokemon Bank. 3,000 pokemon in cloud storage? Why? How many pokemon are there in total? Way less than that. Are people really keen on collecting duplicates? Iwata has a lazy eye and Ishihawa looks like Jackie Chan.
Pretty sure there’s plenty of people who’d quite happily fill the entire thing with nothing but Pikachus and then complain about not enough space.
So… I herd u liek mudkips?Don’t worry, I’ll show myself out.
I dunno! There’ll probably be something like 750+ Pokemon after this gen. Plus multiple forms and shiny versions. Not to mention the competitive scene where a lot of Pokemon have multiple viable move sets and builds. I can see some really hardcore people filling that up! Might get used for multiple generations as well!
Hah, my neighbour didn’t believe me when I told him pretty much all I tweet about is food. Showed him.
And woot, didn’t expect that when I did some survey like 5 months ago now I’d end up with $40 of ozgameshop vouchers out of it 😀
Wat. THANKS FOR TELLING US, BEN.
Ugh Bens.
YOU STILL WON’T TELL ME ABOUT THIS CRAZY FREE MONEY SURVEY MAGIC THING
>:’O
You had a fit at me 5 months ago too 😛 Somebody on Whirlpool was doing a study on video game behaviour or something for his grad research and there’s 4 surveys, 1 every couple of months and you get a $10 ozgameshop or jb hifi voucher out of it every time. Initially it was only gonna be 1 voucher but his uni gave him more funding for 4 for each person. I did it initially and forgot about it until the voucher came by which time the survey was closed 🙁
And you didn’t answer me then too! 😛
Bedtime!
Night!
Aha. The Humble Weekly Sale is more like it.
SOLD. As soon as my pay goes in tonight.
Hard reset is a really cool game once you get the hang of the environmental damage
I’m still waiting to see what else ends up in the Indie Bundle 9.
I’m interested in bundle 9. Got the weekly email this morning and no interest. Besides SS2, but chances are I’d never get around to playing it anyway
Eeeeeee! So excited! I get to see one of my old besties today!!!! He’s coming up from melbourne to stay with me and have a bit of a double birthday bash! (It’s almost the half way point between both our b’days)
So hype though! I haven’t seen him in… geez.. must be getting close to 10 years now?!
Awesome man, sounds fun
Hi Tay
Another busy day, so I’ll not be on much if at all. Have a good one, and congrats to the Kudos winner!
Yeah I’m probably in the same boat as you red but ill try and be here!
Same. The actual getting of work done… it is highly disruptive to TAYing.
Even though it’s Friday, I do not care for today
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
Miyamoto, you’ve returned!
┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ)
Friday cares for you.
Friday can go fallate a cactus.
I’m looking for new career opportunities.
If you know anyone, pass along my details.
http://youtu.be/W5i5WjlfxlY
Genius.
Tell you friendsssssssssssssssssss
Looking for work in daycare?
MORE.
VODCAST.
MOREEEEEEEEEE.
Okay.
Came into the office today and got told ‘since Matt’s not in today, you’re Matt so label all this stuff’.
As such I have assumed a new identity. Hello all.
HI MATT
BULLSHIT. I’m here, and the only one on my team I might add. One guy is still on holidays and everyone else is sick.
HI MATT!!
What’re Matt’s pants like? Are they spiffy?
Please tell me they’re spiffy.
They’re only sorta spiffy.
Hey Matt, how goes the labelling business?
I hear it can get sticky at times.
\o
o/
I have attempted to claim a chair. It probably won’t work.
Put a sign on it saying Matt wants a chair and they might do it
Peaceful Tomorrows Volume 2 is under $15 for a paperback copy! What is this madness?! Act now or learn to live with regret when the price is inevitably fixed.
http://www.bookdepository.com/Peaceful-Tomorrows%2C-2%2C-Graphic-Novel-Shane-W-Smith/9781927384145
IF YOU DO NOT BUY, YOUR TOMORROW MAY NOT BE PEACEFUL.
TERROR!
😮
IT’S TIEM TO GET LOOPY WITH…
Chuloopa’s patented ‘in my ass’ game!
The title of the last song you listened to followed by the words “in my ass”
This week we’ll do both the song title and the band that sung it, because my last band is perfectly gigglicious!
Twisted Transistor in my ass!
by
Korn in my ass
😀
LOOPS! \o/What if it’s me in my ass?
Then it’d be the man in the mirror in your ass.
Smell Like Teen Spirit in my arse
by Nirvana in my arse
I like this one. I like this one a lot.
And All That Could Have Been in my ass
by Nine Inch Nails in my ass
Ha…
haha….
BAHAHAHAHA!!!
BRILLIANT! 😀
best game 😀
So many laughs and it works with so many songs
had to add this cause i just listened to it and thought of your game
Heartbeats in my ass
By The Knife in my ass
😀
hahahaha yeah – i do love this game ever so much
Moving on in my ass.
Curry’ll do that to you
Oh dear…
Um… Ten Thousand Fists… in my ass -.-
-Disturbed
That.
Is.
AMAZING!!!
Also, i LOVE that song
Blue Orchids in my ass!
by
Sun Kil Moon in my ass!
How pleasant! 😀
At least it’ll smell fresh! A whole lot better than teen spirit anyway!
This is A Story Of A Girl In my ass
By Third Eye Blind in my ass (funnily I think my third eye is blind)
How very apt.
Also, that sounds like it would make a great kids book.
Ummm. I lol’d.
Don’t Fuck with my Sugar in my arse
by The Cops in my arse
How sweet 😛
The fox in my ass – ylvis
And here i was thinking gerbils were bad…
Still the same as the other day… so I guess it’d be Love Bites in my ass.
And Judas Priest in my ass.
Oh dear.
Sounds like a real pain in the… well… ass..,.
Least it wasn’t a Catholic Priest?
SOMEONE GIVE THIS MAN THE INTERNETS FOR TODAY!
Black in my ass.
I imagine it would be pretty dark..
Disappointed in my ass – Nine Inch Nails :'(
Playing around with PS2 emulation last night, ended up starting FFX. I wasn’t able to get the game as pretty as I’d hoped, which now makes me think of picking up the HD version…which also means I’d want to get a Vita because I’d have a better chance playing on handheld than I would PS3. Except cost…
Get kingdom Hearts! It’s a pretty cool guy!
The funny thing is, I own FFX/X-2, and Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2 on PS2…
FFX HYPE!
Morning guys and gals!
So I’ve convinced myself that should my pay drop in before 3pm i will be going to buy a new 3DS XL…
anyone know if anyone has any decent deals going for one?
For anyone that doesnt know, i did buy one off ebay that ended up being pink… that went back up on ebay and was sold in a hurry..
anyways, I’m hoping not to spend more than $200 but i dont like my chances, considering i still have to buy a charger and sd card.
can anyone confirm that i still need to buy a charger?
not fussed on picking up any games, a digital copy of AC:NL awaits already, and then theres Pokemon X/y and Zelda:ALBW coming up which are the main games im interested in…
They are release a limited edition Pokemon X/Y 3DSXL. It looks gnarly!
yeah,im not particularly wanting to cover my console with pokemon stuff… im quite boring and preffer the sleek, plain ol’ varieties…
Mine came with a charger, and I preordered an XL. Pretty sure it came with an SD card too.
Out of curiosity, if you got a colour you didn’t want, couldn’t you have gotten a refund?
it was a standard 3DS (not an XL) and bought second hand on ebay… no biggie, just screwed up royally… for some reason i thought the description read Cobalt Blue… dont ask how, i have no idea… what it actually said was “girly pink”… @scree has already had a good laugh at me about that…
anyway, i thought i paid $150 for it, so i sold it for $150 + $5 post, then after i checked i realised that i had gotten it for only $100 delivered. \o/
why is it that everyones been telling me they dont supply a charger to keep cost down? also you sure it comes with an SD?
And then I ranted about the stupid naming of said Pink.
All 3DS come with a 2GB SD card, from memory. The XL might be 4GB, but pretty sure it was 2. Either way, you get one free!
\o/ \o/
how about charger?
Yeah they come with a charger – well, they did when I bought them. I’d have a hard time believing they’d sell a console without a charger. The 3DS comes with a charging dock/cradle thing too – don’t remember if the XL did or not.
XL didn’t get the dock, but I didn’t see it as a big loss.
Yeah I never used it anyway. Don’t even use the wall charger either – just have a USB cable on two of my PC’s and charge it from there.
and here
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=549704
Yeah i thoughtit was really odd but here:
http://3dsforums.com/nintendo-3ds-3/how-does-nintendo-expect-us-too-charge-our-3ds-xl-no-ac-adapter-40831/
They look like pretty old posts though. I’ve bought four 3DS units all up, and they all came with chargers.
yeah just checked eb site:
Whats in the box:
Nintendo 3DS XL System
Nintendo 3DS XL Stylus
SDHC Memory Card (4GB)
Nintendo 3DS AC Adapter
6 x AR Cards
tee-hee pointy boobs
lol, grow up you!!!
(Hint: Don’t)
Yep, mine came with a free Lexar 4GB SD card.
http://webshop.cashconverters.com.au/item/1777949/nintendo-3ds-xl–hand-held-game-red
And it’ll only be a little bit stolen!!
Personally i think games are WAY better when the screen is covered in the salty tears of a childs anguish!
i did see that one yesterday loops but i have a couple of issues with it….
1. 200 seems a bit high for a secondhand XL
2. its in WA, im in VIC… whilst i know delivery is cheap, i have no way of knowing what condition its in realistically… their images are too generic.
Hence why i only ever buy games from them lol
In Australia, all 3DS XLs come with the charger and SD card (4GB). I believe it’s just the UK that doesn’t get the charger (if you wanted to import it).
It’s generally around $200-250 so it shouldn’t be too hard to find around that. Sale prices locally have been around $200 with a game and/or accessory pack. It’s usually cheaper to import, and they have more varieties, but since you’ll need the charger it’s probably better to buy locally. It uses the same charger as the DSiXL (I think DSi as well) and the 3DS. You can probably pick up a cheap one on eBay as well.
wait so sale prices are at $200 with a game and/or accessory pack for a 3DSXL? has anyone got a current deal going? or should i be waiting?
I dunno, have a look.
I think I recall the XL being $200 a few months ago at JB during a sale. I got mine earlier in the year for $250 from them (non-sale price), but it came with some LEGO Harry Potter game and an accessory pack. Since I needed a case anyway it was essentially around $200 anyway.
I’ve seen them go for like $180ish with a game on Amazon UK and other import sites.
XLs come with a 4GB? I thought both 3DSes only came with 2GB, and it was the 2DS that was coming with the zomg 4GB.
memory cards are sooooo cheap….
http://www.oo.com.au/SD_Memory_Cards_C460.cfm?sort=CheapestFirst
You’re right. SD card in the 3DS is a godsend in comparison to M2 or PS Vita memory.
Yep 4GB. I looked at my 3DS XL before posting 😛
I was lucky when I bought my blue XL a few months back. Good Guys had them for $196 so EB price matched them. I don’t know where you can get them new at that price at the moment.
Jurassic World!
@powalen would have an opinion on this!
I’ll probably see it, even though I haven’t seen all the JP movies that currently exist. (There are three of them already? REALLY? :P)
New dinos as well as a plesiosaur. Something about plot and people but who cares about incidentals like that.Considering my last foray into the Jurassic Park universe was Jurassic Park: The Game (The Telltale one), there needs to be a whole lot of pandering.
Seriously, screw the mosasaur.in case anyone missed the weekly bundle:
https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly
It’s pretty rad, hey? 😀
yeah good deal 🙂
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, hard reset is a pretty cool guy
My internet is finally fixed… after 6 weeks!
Technician took about 10 minutes to look over things, then spent about 15-20 minutes chatting — pretty good guy, maybe have softened my contempt for Telstra slightly (that bastard, how dare he!)
Now I don’t know what to do, I’ve become accustomed to… not-internetting.
TAY
Got my KH 1.5 ReMIX this morning.
After yesterdays talk about the limited edition, yes the art book is the size of the case… but this is because it IS the case.
At first i was disappoint, but then i looked at it and its actually pretty cool… to an avid collector anyways!
EDIT: I was expecting it to be more like the Dark Souls limited edition.
Wahhh? :O
I should be getting mine in a couple of weeks.
EDIT: Just saw an unboxing, that’s kinda different! That means the FFX/X-2 one will probably be like that… interesting!
Yeah, I’m primed for the FFX/X-2 one now!
Thanks SquareEnix, saving me money yet again
Working from home today which is good because it means I have access to the oven rather than just a microwave. Turkey Kiev for lunch \o/
Arg…. ive been set up on 3 seperate occasion so far, where someone has told me they were coming to pickup a console im selling and then they bail.
im selling an N64 console with memory expansion and a region modded SNES. the irony is that someone rang and wanted to pick them up last night, but i said to him i already had someone coming down today… now this guy rings me and tells me “i didnt realise how far away you lived”…
:/
What kind of region mod? Just the one where you lift the pin off the chip, or the full deal where you put in the switch and everything?
Saints Row IV.
Played the intro / tutorial mission 4 times last night coz I kept messing up my character creating thing. Then I realised you can change that in-game at a plastic surgeon.
point is that because of this, I now have an Aerosmith song stuck in my head & I hate myself for that.
Which brings me to the question:
best use of music in a game? not soundtrack, but one key point where the music made the moment it accompanied just work
For me, it was in Journey
End game spoilers:
after you collapse on the mountain & the big guys resurrect you… then this starts playing. that *bwoung* bass chord that plays as your scarf starts to grow to epic lengths made that moment brilliant.That Junior Gong/Skrillex song in FarCry 3 whilst tearing about with the flamethrower. Shit was epic.
That bit in Spec Ops: The Line. You know the bit I mean.
The music in the final bits of Tomb Raider.
Ornstein and Smough battle theme.
But the winner for me has to be this one: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: OBJECTION! I am so sad that music never made it into the subsequent games. But the music in these games is pretty excellent all around. The Cornered music is particularly exciting also! 🙂
Oh oh! I’d forgotten! Is that gur ovg va gur ndhnevhz jurer lbh’er gelvat gb fgrny gur jngre naq Zbtjnv’f ‘Ze. Ornfg’ vf tbvat? Because that was fucking epic. I actually replayed that bit once or twice just to appreciate it.
V gubhtug gurer jnf n onggyr va gur fgerrg jurer guvf chzcvat ebpx zhfvp jnf cynlvat. V zvtug or erzrzorevat vg jebat, gubhtu.
I could be talking about something completely different. Either way, still remains my 2012 GOTY, and an all time favorite!
that track is Glasgow Mega Snake.
& yeah, that sequence was the highlight of that game for me.
The song was the perfect choice.
Vg ernyyl jnf gur cbvag jurer vg ernyyl qnjarq ba zr whfg jung gur shpx jr jrer qbvat, naq ubj fvqrjnlf guvf jnf npghnyyl nyy tbvat. V zrna V xarj cevbe gb gung frdhrapr, ohg guvf jnf whfg pbasvezngvba. Gur fbat ernyyl qebir ubzr gung eriryngvba.
Saints row the third with the helicopter jump as Kanye West is playing in the background
Also “You’re the Best” during the wrestling match with Killbane, and “Holding Out for a Hero” when you’re making the decision to save Shaundi or stop Killbane from escaping.
Holding Out for a Hero was one of the best moments in the game. SRIV tried so hard to capture it and didn’t come close.
Well it’s hard to go wrong with that song and any climactic chase sequence. See: Shrek 2, Short Circuit 2.
I loved that wrestling bit, saints row 3 was just all around good in my mind
Red Dead Redemption – crossing into Mexico, song played: Far Away by José González. Just when you thought you were close… I felt the weariness, indeed.
Ultimate use of music in a game, though: Quire of Voyces version of ‘Agnus Dei’ from Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings. Homeworld, returning to Kharak after your test flight.
Adagio for Strings still gives me goosebumps in just about any version or application. It always makes me think of Platoon by default.
Homeworld was actually my first exposure to the track. I had never been so determined to inflict furious and righteous vengeance before as listening to that Intelligence Officer choke up while trying to dispassionately report on the casualties.
Regrettably I was late to the Homeworld party, having only played Homeworld 2 this year. With a few mods though, it’s still an incredible game. Was excited about Gearboxes ‘HD’ remakes until I saw it looks like they’re just Borderlandsing them. I still play Homeworld 2 with Complex mod on occasion with a friend.
Skyward Sword ending movie.
MGS3 menu.
MGS4 Act 4.
Pokemon Red/Blue intro movie.
FFVII: Crisis Core heavy metal guitar bits.
And yes, I know it’s against the rules but, the whole FFVIII soundtrack.
The whole Crisis Core soundtrack is fantastic – sits in my regular playlist.
Agreed. One of the few soundtracks that I have imported.
SOmething from recent memory, Muse’s Butterflies and Hurricanes playing at the start of NFS: Most Wanted
First mission in Blood Dragon on the helicopter.
The intro to burnout paradise
SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE EATERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Oh god, that game gave me so many feelings. The music they chose for each of the boss fights, the epic ladder climb, the finale. Just wow.
Red Dead redemption, when you get on the horse in mexico… Jose’s guitar just does wonders in that game 🙂
FRONDS!
Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask is $35 at MightyApe.
http://www.mightyape.com.au/product/Nintendo-3DS/Professor-Layton-and-the-Miracle-Mask/20641470/
I don’t know if that’s cheap or not, but it seems like an okay price to me!
*waits for someone to buy it and lend to me*
🙂
Ugh, Stingyius
Thriftius
Thanks for buying the game for me!
Floods by Pantera is a brilliant song.
Just saiyan.
RRRAAARTRERGGGHHHHHHHHMOOOARRRRPOOWWAAAAAAAAAAAARRGGGGGGEREHHHH!!!
Page get? Seriously.
Ugh. That’s terrible.
You got the page.
You can’t un-get it.
Mwahahahahah!
To make it page get worthy you could have at least said Floods in my ass
DAMMIT
GSTK is a great album.
Floods in my ass.
Just needed to let everyone know in case they missed it, that Voyager 1 has finally left our solar system. :'(
Farewell our little friend. http://www.theage.com.au/technology/sci-tech/voyager-1-exits-solar-system-in-breathtaking-achievement-36-years-after-launch-20130913-2to2h.html
I had shivers down my spine, partially because ATB Endless Silence was playing as I read that…
Farewell Janeway. Don’t bring the Borg back with you this time.
@dc might appreciate that if no one else does.
The first Star Trek movie was pretty terrible though.
That’s because Voyager wasn’t in it.
Are you saying Voyager was your (and/or @dc’s) favourite series?
Let’s be friends!
Of all the Star Trek series, Voyager isone of themmy favourite — it has grown on me over the last few years, while I find DS9 too… urgh just didn’t like cast too much, Shatner entertaining as a parody of himself but annoying otherwise ‘n TOS lacks any real depth or development, TNG is a bit too… well, it doesn’t have Robert Picardo for a start, and Enterprise feels like it could have done more in terms of being a prequel (still doesn’t deserve the hate it gets either). Voyager is delightfully imperfect, arguably better stories even if it didn’t execute 100% or have an entire cast of outstanding characters.I like Next Gen the best, but Voyager is one of the most underrated Trek’s… had a good sense of adventure and exploration!
It’s the only Star Trek show I’ve seen. I’ve seen a smattering (around 30 eps) through the entirety of the show, and found it to be quite erratic in quality. The ending was terrible.
I own the limited edition Borg Cube DVD set of the entire show. Bought it to impress Mrs Shane during our courting period.
They keep on saying that it’s done this and then changing their mind. :\
Roll up, roll up! For two spectacular nights only, Nomad the Forgetful will be camping on a floor in Canberra for his inaugural Meat! Come one, come all to see his mediocre tricks, smell his weird smells and taste… actually don’t taste me.
Booked next Friday off, so assuming @NovaCascade is still cool with driving me down to Blagh’s house, I’ll be there!
A word of warning: I tend to swear a bit mid-sentence. Its mostly habit, I mightn’t even notice I’ve said it. Apologies in advance!
No promises on the no tasting front.
I like to lick people while they sleep.
It’s a condition and I’ll thank you to not be a bigot about it.
Don’t thank me yet.
Still cool man. I’ll see you next week.
Ah first meat… the grow up so fast *sniff*
Holy carp this is genius!!!
Phone Blocks!!
So much awesome!!! 😀 What a great little idea – if it works!
Does this work? If so, enjoy!
https://www.humblebundle.com/?gift=n2VXr5PcTnBfWhahaaaaaaatt???
You’re a baws, man!
Like seriously.
Bruce. Effing. Springsteen.
Pretty sure that’s impossible. In regards to the part where he swaps around components and their positions, that is.
Also what happens when you want a bigger screen?
I’m thinking that the programming would be in each block itself, and the base would simply be a link – so i don’t see why it wouldn’t.
As for the bigger screen – i suppose you need the duplo version?
Haha, yeah. Duplo. I could be wrong but I think that if each component contained its own programming, they would be fairly larger in size and fairly expensive.
Fuck Unity. Fuck Unity right in its stupid asshole.
Also the guy who keeps leaning over my shoulder every ten seconds to check on what I’m doing.
Search google for ‘methods of asphyxiating annoying coworkers’. Groan suggestively as you read the results.
YEAH!!!
Wait… you want to make love to they guy looking over your shoulder?
Just remember to use protection, yeah?
Incidentally, how long did it take you to type your comment? It’s relevant for reasons.
Slower than ten seconds, but luckily he was otherwise occupied at the time 😛
RIP, Spacefrog.
ATTENTION ALL TAY MELBOURNE PEOPLE!!! And ANYONE TRAVELLING TO MELBOURNE AFTER THE 20th.
Melbourne Show Meat..Who’s keen?
Awww mannn that would be sooo awesome – alas i can’t attend 🙁
Stupid wedding… who’s bright idea was it to get married?!?!
God.. worst. brain. ever.
CHANGE OF VENUE. GET MARRIED BY A CARNY!
CHANGE OF BRIDE! GET MARRIED *TO* A CARNEY! RECURRING DISCOUNTS!
Live the life on the crooked ring toss
Pretty sure that’s the definition of marriage anyway.
Nah engagement marriage has always been haunted house
Yeah I’d be possibly up for it
I’d be interested if the Melbourne Show wasn’t the most boring thing in the history of boring.
It truly is but hey it’s an event people can go too..look around, get a show bag and then bail for the nearest bar
Seriously, a ride on the Mad Mouse is pretty much every marriage in summary.
I think you should all go meat ColdCamV, cause he’s a good guy!
(Hope you’re feeling okay, my friend! Any news on that front?)
Thank you my friend, yeah all is good gotta get a blood test on Tuesday then doctor visit Thursday then repeat in a month. It’s gonna be a long 5 years haha
Hope it all goes well!
Me too but so far so good \o/
At what point in our lives are we going to raise Dave Grohl up to the status of Jesus? Asking for a friend.
He’s got the hair so just needs a robe and he’s set
Dave Grohl is pretty cool, but sadly Foo Fighters isn’t really my thing. He gets points for Nirvana and being a seemingly cool guy though.
He’s already my personal Jesus.
To Lemmy’s God, of course.
@miketarno ?
Yes my child? 🙂
Why do I feel like I’m no longer interested in video games?
BECAUSE YOU HAVEN’T PLAYED ANY OF THE GAMES ON MY TOP 25 LIST.
Perhaps?
Where is this list?!
I need to know!
The list:
BerzerkFinal Fantasy VIII
A Link to the Past
Skyward Sword
Super Mario Bros 3
Metal Gear Solid 4
FFVII: Crisis Core
Metal Gear Solid
Final Fantasy VII
Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow
Street Fighter IV
Super Metroid
Gran Turismo
Commander Keen
Toy Story 2
Jackie Chan Stuntmaster
Donkey Kong Country 2
Super Mario 3D Land
ISS Pro Evolution
Metal Gear Solid 2
Mass Effect 2
Star Trek 25th Anniversary
Luigi’s Mansion 2
Max Payne 3
Ocarina of Time 3D
Berzerk – N
Final Fantasy VIII – N
A Link to the Past – Y
Skyward Sword – N
Super Mario Bros 3 – Y
Metal Gear Solid 4 – N
FFVII: Crisis Core – N
Metal Gear Solid – Y
Final Fantasy VII – Y
Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow – Y
Street Fighter IV – Y
Super Metroid – N
Gran Turismo – Y (First Ps1 game)
Commander Keen – Hell Y!
Toy Story 2 – Y
Jackie Chan Stuntmaster – N
Donkey Kong Country 2 – N
Super Mario 3D Land – N
ISS Pro Evolution – Y
Metal Gear Solid 2 – N
Mass Effect 2 – N
Star Trek 25th Anniversary – N
Luigi’s Mansion 2 – N
Max Payne 3 – N
Ocarina of Time 3D – N
Looks like you need to join us in our FFVIII playthrough then. Or a rest from gaming.
Berzerk – N
Final Fantasy VIII – Y
A Link to the Past – Y
Skyward Sword – N
Super Mario Bros 3 – Y
Metal Gear Solid 4 – N
FFVII: Crisis Core – Y
Metal Gear Solid – N
Final Fantasy VII – Y
Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow – Y
Street Fighter IV – Y
Super Metroid – N
Gran Turismo – Y (First Ps1 game)
Commander Keen – Hell Y!
Toy Story 2 – Y
Jackie Chan Stuntmaster – N
Donkey Kong Country 2 – Y
Super Mario 3D Land – N
ISS Pro Evolution – N
Metal Gear Solid 2 – N
Mass Effect 2 – N
Star Trek 25th Anniversary – N
Luigi’s Mansion 2 – N
Max Payne 3 – N
Ocarina of Time 3D – N
You score 11/25. And you beat @crazyguy1990 by one point.
I scored 19 \o/
WHHHHAAAAART?!?!
Maybe you’re in one of those slump bits where you need a break, or something completely different to take your attention..
Or moar 40k.
I think moar 40k would be the answer.
I’m not a fan of 40k.
Sorry. 🙁
There’s your problem.
Now.. to find the solution…. YOU NEED MOAR 40K!
That’s cold, man…
Someone call?
Does this make me WarmCam?
If you chuck on a cozy jumper you will be
You’re probably in a slump period like Loops says. Take a break and try other media or hobbies. Alternatively, try going back to an old game you loved. The nostalgia might renew your interest.
Or remind you how much of a biatch nostalgia is. lol
I’ve felt the same for months. Just not interested in anything new coming out, and even 95% of Nintendo’s newest stuff doesn’t even look remotely interesting. Gimme a new Metroid game, and a good new, non-remake, non-carbon copy with new material Zelda game and I’ll get drawn back in. I have no hope for the first one, and only slightly more hope for the second one at the rate we’re going.
Saying that I did play Okami the other week for a few hours straight and really enjoyed myself, so it’s not a blanket “I don’t like games anymore” case. I want something new that’s just as interesting though :S
Non-serious political talk:
how good would a political party made up entirely of ABC staff be?Leigh Sales, Andrew Denton, Kerry O’Brien, every host of MediaWatch ever, Alan Koler… they’ve got some serious intelligence in there. & they’re damn good communicators. & they’ve got that ‘trust’ factor that a heap of real politicians are lacking.
was just a thought. but i think it could work…
Edit: hell, make it a coalition with SBS. I’d vote for Lee Lin Chin
The Hamster Decides: Australia’s Policies.
Throw in The Gruen for added satire and it’d be pretty good.
I seriously – SERIOUSLY want the guy from the iSelect ads as PM
I say Vote 1 Bernie Fraser.
Would work better than most people currently in the Labor party, but then I’m not sure if they’re wary after experiences with other high profile politicians (Maxine McKew, and to a lesser extent Peter Garrett — ’cause he’s not a journalist) being unhappy with certain things, so they tell anyone and everyone who’ll listen. 😛
I may end up quitting FFXIV. Every time I’ve played recently I’ve ended up coming away from it incredibly upset and angry. 🙁
WOOO! MMO’s
why 🙁
I’m gonna guess ‘other people’. The answer to ‘what makes you upset and angry’ is usually ‘other people’. For me, anyway.
That’s what made me quit WoW. =D
A bit of this, a bit of the game itself.
Specifically there’s an issue where if you have any latency (and I have some latency as a result of the fact I’m living in a rental place where the only option is cable internet and the only active cable socket is at the other end of the house and so I’m on wireless) you can be a long way behind what is actually happening on the server. 90% of the time it’s fine, the only real issue you have is mobs that are moving can be hard to hit. The problem is that in instances, you get a lot of AoE attacks by enemies. Red box or whatever appears, you need to move out. You immediately do so. In any other game, that’d be fine.
The problem in FFXIV is that at say 400ms lag, you see that box pop up 500ms after the server started. AReaction time and then actually moving out, maybe it’d take you 500-600ms. Except because of the lag and additionally because the game polls for your position only every 100ms or so, you have a much smaller window than it looks – the instant the cast finishes, you are hit by it on the server. So if it’s a 1500ms cast time, and you only got to see it at 500ms, then it’s actually only a 1000ms countdown. The margin for error is tiny.
Now imagine you’re playing a melee class so you’re always right at the center of the zone, you have no reach and no ranged ability at all, and you are restricted in the directions you can run to exit an AoE because you can’t run infront of the boss or might have multiples layered together.
Now imagine you get out of these with heaps of time to spare but the server decides you were still inside and you die. Imagine this happens more than once and you are yelled at by the group and told you are a terrible and useless player.
This was an hour of my life last night. Darkhold’s last boss has an AoE he fires at random people with about a 1 second cast time. I literally could not avoid it. It’s an instant kill. Doing the absolute best you can, executing everything properly while playing the most complex DPS class in the game and then still dying anyway and being told i’m terrible and should go play something else really leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
It’s basically just a few bosses, but the problem is I am completely stuck – can’t do Garuda to continue main story because every group I get has been full of assholes that are adamant they know the ‘correct’ (read: wrong) strategy, and can’t do Darkhold because the final boss is impossible with any lag. 🙁
EDIT: I ended up so upset at the abuse I was getting that I rage quit and then couldn’t sleep until about 4am. 🙁
I’ve noticed that a lot in dungeons, actually. There are many instances where the red box will appear on the ground, I’ll move out of it quick-smart, and a couple seconds later, I’ll get smacked with the damage from having been in it. Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I don’t. It always feels like bullshit, but as a healer it’s never all that bad and I just factor it in as one of those things I need to heal through.
I’ve been putting it down to playing on a NA server and will see if it persists when I eventually character transfer/re-roll on a JP server. Do you play on a JP server or NA? I’ve heard we can get up to 100ms faster on the JP servers.
I’ve had a similar issue – unless you start to move out of the red box within 1, maybe 2 seconds at the most of the indication, you’ll likely get hit. I’m happily taking my time working through the main quest line and only doing instances I have to in that particular line. Actually taking my time anticipating server transfers. 200-300ms latency would be acceptable – it works for WoW, should work for this. But 400 odd ms is just a little too much.
One of the things I’ve done to compensate is internally recognized how long the cast times are on some of the AoE effects, with a sort of mental ‘Deadly Boss Mods’ timer telling me, “Shit’s about to land now, start moving.” If I’m already in motion when the boss plants that shit on me, I’m probably gonna make it out. My internal timer is a lot less reliable than DBM for WoW is.
…I wonder if there’ll be a mod like that for XIV.
The thing is that unless I was already moving, with the level of latency I was getting I couldn’t have dodged it. I’ve got a 3-hit sequence to maintain because I have to keep three stacks of a self-buff up from hitting the third attack in the sequence. I have to maintain two bleeds and a second self-buff as well. And the healer we had was a bit slow so I was also popping mantra on cooldown, keeping my DPS CD in use… I’d need a third hand to be able to do all that and also move around and keep the camera angled right. Or a Naga. But my old Naga died after a couple of months of use and I’m leery about giving Razer my money again.
JP server. It’s a known issue:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/80152-GAMEBREAKING-Ability-moving-objects-delay-and-unresponsiveness-(affects-everybody
For most stuff it’s fine, you either have generous time to move or the damage is something that can be healed through.
At level 44 as a monk in quest gear, I had the lowest HP pool in the instance (the healer had 100 hp more than me) and also by far the lowest armor of the three in melee (I got matched to a group with another melee DPS) and it literally was a one-hit kill on me. The tank would take ~20% from it and the other DPS took ~60%. Point was I shouldn’t have been hit by it at all, and I was. I’m not a bad player 🙁
400ms on a JP server? Holy shit…
Last time I looked I was getting 120-150 on JP and 240 on NA 😐
I don’t know for sure – not sure how to actually get the game to show it or manually calculate. I’m guessing mainly based off how it feels. I think I get bursts of latency too, it might not be constant.
At some point I need to either get a decent wireless router to replace the godawful wireless in the Telstra-provided cable modem I have so I can switch to 5ghz (the 2.4ghz band is very congested in my area), or get the house’s owner (he’s an electrician) to run Cat6 through to my room. Probably running the cable is a better option but it’ll cost me a bit.
@negativezero
You’re on wireless? O_o
Switching to 5Ghz, or even wired may not fix your issue, but it’d be a start. 2.4Ghz wireless is awful. You could have a fantastic connection to the router, but the 2.4Ghz band is congested as hell. Get as Wifi scanner and have a look – even changing the channel your wireless router runs on could help. Of course wired ethernet will eliminate that as a potential issue. Even just run a network cable temporarily and play to see if it helps? Could help cross that off the list – if it’s still dicky on ethernet, you know there’s probably not a lot else you can do short of talking to your provider – which would be an act of futility, but an option, nonetheless.
@ynefel: I’m well aware that the 2.4 ghz band is shitty, but the router I have only operates in 2.4. I had a really good dual-band ADSL2 router but I have tried several times, put the shitty Telstra cable router into bridge mode and using the good one for actual routing, and it just doesn’t work 🙁
The channel I’m on is clear.
There’s no practical way to run a cable from where the modem is to where my PC is (it would be a deathtrap for people, crossing multiple doorways), and no way for me to move the PC. I probably should run a cable to check if the latency is in the wireless but I’m fairly sure it is – I have my NAS wired directly and it runs very well.
Broke.
You forgot broke.
DO EET.
Is it a people issue or a game issue?
I’m still loving it, The only thing that’s annoying me at the this point is them making me go through every single story quest for the main line, despite being a 50 legacy Black Mage. I mean I can understand why I’d need to – it’s all new quests and everything, but it’s still annoying.
Well… I went and bit the bullet… I’ve backed Golum Arcana …
I think it will be excellent because its from the same mind who created Shadowrun and Mechwarrior. Thats enough to make me do it 😉
what tier did you end up backing at?
My guess: The Embarrassing Tier. (‘Tier rewards: We totally won’t tell anyone you spent this much money.’)
Warlord – I decided I wanted the extra races
Cool.
I think I’ll just go for the Warrior tier, but I’ll look at getting the different tiles.
No I do not want to pass on my Pokemon to my kids and their kids via Pokemon Bank, Patricia. What a ludicrous suggestion! Suddenly Pokemon are heirlooms? What is this madness?
Actually, I can see a ridiculous amount of potential in that idea.
I must be blind.
You’re a monster if you pass them on to other people, breaking the strong bonds you forge with your Pokemon as if they’re some cheap material trinket to be passed around.
No, my Pokemon will forever be stored in a state of stasis, in the Pokemon storage PC never to see the light of day again, as a testament to our bond.
Ehhhh…..? O_o
I think maybe I just don’t understand Pokemon. Why would anyone want to pass them on? Isn’t the game all about collecting them? If you give someone a pre-made collection, what game is left?
Yeah, people will get all sentimental about the great adventures they had with their little digital pals and want to pass those heirlooms on to their loved ones, perhaps not realizing that playing with someone else’s pokemon is kind of like wearing someone else’s underwear.
Right? Not just spoon-feeding people, but in terms of collecting things — I’m not sure about others but I am reluctant to get rid of any of the Pokemon I’ve caught. Even if I have a level 7 pidgee that I’ve never used because I caught a pidgeotto… I’m not going to release it or trade it or give it away, because it’s mine.
Though, to be fair, it wasn’t Patricia’s suggestion, I did hear this mentioned in the Pokemon direct, I believe the idea was from some Japanese popstress.
Well, it’s certainly an interesting take on the idea of “Digital ownership”.
When I die, nobody gets to inherit my Steam account or my iTunes account.
The thought that I could pass on my favourite Pokemon to others is pretty amazing.
also, I’m pretty sure Pokemon Bank sees the addition of the 3DS into the “Nintendo Network”, so unified account for Ninty systems which puts us closer to a Pokemon RPG game that you can play at home on the Wii-U, then take your 3DS with you on the go and pick up where you left off. < /dreams>
This makes sense, the actual game (and game saves) in the cloud but not the Pokemon.
I sure hope so. The paranoid voices in my head are screaming that they might screw it up by just tying it to the hardware by using the 3DS as credentials, or worse, that in combination with an X/Y save file. Lose your save, lose your cloud stored critters.
… I think I need to go drown these voices in copious amounts of alcohol tonight.
No, I get it. People get pretty damn emotionally attached to their pokemon runs, and like any other thing in life – people want to think that their cherished experiences will be relevant or appreciated when they’re gone.
Some people have been playing with their pokemon since childhood, into adulthood, through marriages, births, maybe even deaths. The first one came out in 1996, guys. Pokemon is now old enough to be finishing school and going to uni.
There might be some potential http://youtu.be/4DLbD7ofq1w out of it.
That is more relevant to the games themselves. The games go back to 1996. Is it even possible to have Pokemon transferred all the way from first gen to current gen?
I don’t think so, though it might be possible with emulators. Don’t underestimate what pokefreaks are capable of, though.
Heh, last emu I tried back in the day was Silver that had been run through a basic auto-translate. The phrase “You put the Odd Egg in the pocket of your bag” ended up as “Odd Egg Pocket Fuck”.
I need to dig up the screenshots from the archives one day.
I think there is a guy who has done it, but he might have had to cheat a little bit to get his pokemon from the original Gameboy to the Gameboy Advance.
@tech_knight
@ other Civ V ppls
Wanna start a Civ V multi soon?
Any particular time in mind?
At the moment 8:30ish tonight looks pretty good from my side. Let’s see if anybody else isn’t already in a game hey? (cc @Mythamphetamine @ShadowRize @a_sharples @Blaghman @tech_knight) I’m sure I will need to be flexible with time and that’s cool
@rize @cakesmith
Count me in!
Thanks for fixing the tags dude! Alright, I’ll put the message out on Steam if all goes well. If you’re there that’s cool. If not I’ll keep going on my Romans Single-Player.
Potentially a yes, but depends on where I’m up to tonight. Give me a shout around then in case I’ve forgotten!
…Maybe.
I’ll just have to keep an eye on this, an eye on Geelong, and an eye on the Storm.
I Could Be in on this too, Can Someone prod me around the time? Might have to go do boyfriend stuff, but if not sure!
Yeah but on one condition, conquest-only victory condition. I want everybody to slaughter each other to win *Cue evil laughter*
YOU’RE ON ROBUT. 🙂
My set top box died, so I have no internet for the forseeable future, so I’m afraid I must pass. :/
What’s the player cap in a match? If it doesn’t crash on me I might be up for a game. hopefully I’m home from work by then.
Half the time I tried to launch it the process would start but no game, otherwise it’ll load up but if I switched to desktop it’d crash.
Count me in as well
Are we going vanilla as I think some peeps don’t have the expansions
Edit: My vote is to get everybody on at the same time and start it through the actual civ multi service in game rather than trying to use a 3rd party upload/download of save file program
I’m game although I’ve never played before so depending on the cap of there’s an open spot count me in
HEY IPHONE PEEPS!
What model do you have and what firmware? Are you going to update to iOS 7?
I’m rocking a 4S with iOS 5(?) because I didn’t want to get rid of Google maps (there’s an app for it now anyway!) but I’m liking the look of iOS 7. Looks groovy.
I’m happy with my phone but I was going to do a “Trjn” and go from 4S to S4. There was a super cheap S4 at Kogan on the weekend but apparently it was a pricing error, naww 🙁
Man, Apple products are expensiveeee D:
Don’t make the jump if you like playing games on it. http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/google-play-doesnt-want-your-favorite-ios-indie-game-and-other-reasons-why
I use a 4S and have no complaints with it, but I don’t think I’ve even updated it to iOS5. Every time I load up itunes or connect a device to the PC, I tell Apple and its updates to go fuck themselves.
Oh, I thought you meant jump to iOS 7 would ruin my gamein’ :O.
I originally went for the iPhone 4 since I didn’t have an iOS device and I wanted in on some of those “sweet gaming apps”. I’m tempted to just stay with iOS just because I’ve already got the apps and it’ll just make things easier. But damn, it’s all so expensive :/
I think in the future I’ll just use an iPad for any iOS apps/games and get whatever for a phone. Who knows 😛
I’ve put off updating my iPhone firmware and iTunes for so long and I only recently updated iTunes because it was apparently causing a buttload of errors on my PC :/. I do like the look of iOS 7 though, has more of that modern and clean feel, you know? But I don’t know too much about it and it might be annoying to learn, or could bring more problems :P. I think I’m just jealous of all the cool new gadgets and want a “cool new gadget” feeling 😛
If you do decide to upgrade phones, consider selling your old one.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/09/one-huge-reason-to-not-switch-to-android-or-windows/ (Summary for tl;dr: Iphones have the best re-sale value by a really, really huge margin.)
3GS
Two days ago I went from iOS4 to 6, purely for app support.
Not awful, although bit more drain on the battery for whatever reason.
And it will probably sit on iOS6 until it dies.
Yeah, the battery thing is something I’m worried about. I believe @miketarno had a similar problem with iOS 7 on his iPhone 5. It drained pretty damn quickly when he wasn’t doing anything :/
I think the iPhone 3-4 had a decent battery anyway, so who knows 😛
I’m starting to think that it’s just the iPhone 5 that’s the problem. Though I first noticed it happening on 6.1.2. iOS7 has perhaps been a little bit better actually compared to 6.
Get a Windows Phone 😀
…No? Okay, I understand 🙁
I’ve retweeted Harvey Norman (your favourite people!) Lumia tweets :P. It feels like 50% of Twitter TAYbies have won something from them 😛
I may have retweeted them last night too 😛
I had one! And I really, really liked it.
But unfortunately the bastard kept on resetting randomly. I’d go to send a message and bam! It reset. I’d answer a call and bam! It’ll reset. So in the end I gave up on it.
A shame really because I liked the OS.
Weirdly enough, the best part about it for me is jumping to the bigger screen. I never realised how cramped a 4S felt until I used an S4.
Need to go get an SD card so I can actually load the phone up with things.
My dad recently got one and I’m a bit jelly 😛
I always update my firmware whenever it’s available, so I think I’m on 6.1.3 or something. I’ll get 7 when it comes out. I have no particular attachment.
I did that too until I found out they got rid of Google maps and replaced it with that abomination. I used Google maps a fair bit as well so I didn’t really want to see it go, but now that they’ve released the app (which seems alright) I might as well go for the upgrade!
I honestly didn’t miss google maps in the short period between it being gone and the app being released. I’m glad there is an app for it now, but it’s absence barely registered.
I think if Apple ever did get rid of google maps for good, I would consider switching to Android.
I was going to buy a can of coke for a dollar (supacheap!) from the office fridge, but when I was at coles, I saw a 2L bottle of ‘cola’ (ruh-roh) for a dollar.
So. I was like, “Well, knowing what I know about home brand procedures, this will be the off-cuts of a batch that could have come from anywhere. Pepsi or Coke included. Let’s roll the dice and see if I get lucky.” (I did not get lucky.)
It’s been a while since I’ve SOILED my taste buds with anything other than pure, uncut coca-cola, so I’m a little rusty on brand recognition, but this ain’t it. I almost wanna say pepsi, but I’ve had some of that recently and this ain’t it either.
On the plus side, it tastes a lot like the cola-flavoured icy-pops you’d get in conjoined bags to stuff in the freezer, which I haven’t tasted since I was a child. So that’s a nice side-effect.
The rule is always go cans.
If you want cheap cola LA ice is actually pretty good, try that sometime!
My favourite (even over coke!) was always AC cola from Kmart. Shit was like 50c a can from the vending machine.
It’s funny how you adjust. I completely cut out sugar a month or so ago and had a glass of normal coke last weekend and it was pretty awful. Decided to stick to Zero or just have tea.
Yeah, I don’t know what the generic brand of cola is that Woolies or coles use but it’s definitely not from a cast-off pool of brand name stuff likeo ther products are. Avoid it like the plague.
The only generic brand of cola that tastes anything like Coke is Regal Cola from Aldi. I know this because I have been a Coke addict for 20 years. 😛
@dire_wolf @shane
Wait what. Jurassic World? I don’t know what’s going on! If it means that all the dinos have escaped Jurassic Park, then I don’t like that idea 😛 The end of JP The Lost World was the worst part.
But, optimism. Will need to research this further tonight.
There’s a rumour that Jurassic World might refer to Disney World. A second attempt at a park on a larger scale! Also the Safety Not Guaranteed director is on board and that was amazing!
Personally I’d set it in a dystopian future with post-apocalyptic urban decaying cities, a band of human survivors and a dinosaur threat who have reclaimed the planet! 😀
And people get infected by Dinosaur bites and turn into Dinosaurs themselves?
No! The people are replicants! Replicants can’t become dinosaurs! Way to ruin the twist!
I would set it in the distant past where a group of humans come from the stars pursued by an evil alien race and they both crash-land on earth then the two sides engage in a war fought by enslaving or befriending dinosaurs and strapping giant laser cannons on them and using them as mobile weapons platforms.
Or they could just re-issue all the Dino-Riders toys and I’d buy them all and be happyYES!!!!!!
Edit: Since I posted before I read your spoiler, I too would be less wealthy than I am now
That’s an idea I could get behind. I would like some of the original cast to come back, but I can’t think of an in-universe reason why those characters would ever want to do anything like that again, seeing as disaster has happened twice for almost all of them 😛
All I hope is that it doesn’t feel like a past-it’s-prime spin off that a lot of things end up becoming D: But then again, there’s still a lot of plot points from the books they haven’t used in the movies so maybe!
I don’t want any original cast. Maybe Laura Dern, cause I like Laura Dern but I think a clean slate is best!
Yeah there was a rumour ages ago that she would be returning, which I am totally for. However I don’t think there’s any chance her character would step anywhere near another park. Here’s hoping she has memory loss or something 😛
I wouldn’t mind seeing the kids from the original involved somehow, too. Though there’s probably an even slimmer chance of that happening haha
CLEAN SLAAAAATE. Maybe a couple of InGen references, but that’s it. 😀
Or Lexie could be one of the replicants!
Adult Lex is in charge of inGen, adult Tim is a paleontologist. Do it Hollywood.
I don’t care what excuse they have to use to get him there, I’d love to see Sam Neill return as Alan Grant.
Assuming things follow on chronologically from Jurassic Park 3.
There were all of those pteranodons that escaped from their enclosure. Unless the air force came in and shot them out of the sky, they could have run wild and started overwhelming small areas.Also, I’m surprised that they never carpet-bombed/napalmed the second island like they did the original island that had the park on it. (I can’t quite recall the names of the islands so I do apologise.
You’re back! \o/
I like to think it was your Voyager post. :’)
Everything okay, man? Just laying low for RUOK day?
Hope you didn’t come back to an unmanageable number of mentions 😛
What? *notices date* D:
One minute I was outside and saw bright lights in the night sky…
Hahah I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that! I was scrolling down and wondering why all those earlier replies didn’t mention the D.C.beingbackness. It’s like they were actually replying to the topic of the conversation. How dare they!
Oh man, Giant Bomb is doing some amazing things lately. This Quick Look is amazing.
The game is creepy, the music is weird and the photo mode is just plain brilliant.
But wait, there’s a reason to stick all the way to the end: English lyrics sung by a Japanese vocaloid app thing. Subtitles are necessary but only make it slightly more understandable :p
The Vocaloid tech is really quite amazing. Bear in mind that Miku was one of their earliest ones and her voice banks weren’t built with english in mind. Luka (the pink-haired one) has better English support but it’s still quite rough. There’s newer Vocaloid stuff like Megpoid where you can find stuff where people have made reproductions of songs sung by the singer used for creating the voice banks (Megumi Nakajima) and it’s probably within 10% of the same quality. Mainly the issue the newer stuff has now is that it’s too perfect and crisp, doesn’t have enough variation and minor flaws. If the tech’s at this level now, imagine what it’ll be like in a decade.
English synthesis is stupidly difficult. Japanese is hard, but the language has IIRC less than 100 unique sounds. English has something like 6-7 times more unique vocal sounds compared to Japanese.
Trivia: The actress that provided Miku Hatsune’s voice, Saki Fujita, was offered a choice of a once-off payment or ongoing royalties for the use of her voice in the software. She opted for the lump sum, convinced it would fail. Whoops.
I remember reading Japanese has 110 odd unique sounds, and English has in the vicinity of 8,000.
That sounds slightly inflated but yeah, I believe it’s arguably that sort of ballpark. It’s one of the reasons why English is a hard language to learn.
It’s not really surprising. There are thousands of little start-ups that offer people a cut of the profits that never turn out to have any profits.
You always hear about the person who turns it down for the big thing but nobody knew it was going to be a big thing instead of yet another flop where the person doesn’t get paid.
@dc where are you @dc?
I’m just tagging @dc so that @dc will have notifications when @dc comes back.
has anyone seen @dc?
@dc @dc @dc dammit @dc.
Edit: ha. way to refresh the page before posting you dickhead. sorry @dc
BEHIND YOU!
GAHH!
*runs and hides*
Listening to the Rayman Legends while I work makes everything seem 1000x time more epic. God I love the music.
The Mansion of the Deep music when you go right in the initial hub is the best. So James Bond-like.
It’s funny you say that because a lot of the 20,000 Lum’s under the sea stages names are based off James Bond movie titles.
Haha! I saw that! Awesome attention to detail!
Trailer for the final season of Treme! http://collider.com/treme-season-4-trailer/
Any late-second or third season spoilers? Kind of want to see…
All spoilers! Don’t watch!
I should not have posted – or especially watched – that ‘saddest thing on the internet’ Animal Crossing link.
Now I am sad and have to call my Mum.
Which link? I see nothing!
LIAR MAN!
But I think I know which one you’re talking about. The one with her mother? 🙁 that was so sad…
Go to 5:35-ish, for 2 minutes, to see someone express my thoughts on the Steam/X1 sharing stuff. 😐
I reckon at some point in the next 6 months I’m going to end up with a Vita, so I can play all the FF games exclusive to it/PSP that I’ve missed out on.
Except Crisis Core – the greatest FF title on PSP. Because someone is stupid. Not sure if Squenix, but not happy Jan. UMD is your only option, because no digital download. =(
That game is great, it’s the only reason why I still have a PSP.
OK then, screw the whole idea.
No really. If I can’t finally play that, then screw it.
Yeah. Crisis Core, Dissidia/Duodecim, Final Fantasy Tactics and FFIV Complete are the most noteworthy PSP exclusives. You can get FF Tactics on iOS etc anyway. Other than that, you can play all the PSX titles digitally on your PS3 anyway.
And Type-0, because the other greatest FF title on PSP never got localized 🙁
The Vita is pretty great!
I’m still holding out for if they ever find a way to hack it to play “acquired” PSP games. I think they’ve actually done this now but it’s easier to just play acquired PSP games on a PSP :P.
Well if that ever happens, then you can play Crisis Core!
I could just emulate on my computer, or on my phone, but I kinda wanted to do the right thing. Plus, controller would be mandatory on phone which makes it difficult.
I only recently found out PSP emulation on computer was a thing :O
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/09/12/jk-rowlingharry-potter-fantastic-beasts/
New Harry Potter movie, eh. (Technically just set in the world.)
I’ve never really been a fan of the books / movies.
I like the Universal Studios theme park ride! XD
SPINOFF. Never thought it would happen.
No, wait… I’m surprised it took this long, actually! 😛
Speaking of spin-offs… as someone who doesn’t watch Breaking Bad, the spin-off announcement doesn’t feel like a good idea to me. D:
Agreed. This came up on TAY the other day. I’m going to watch with cautious curiosity, but no optimism.
As much as I personally liked Caprica, I feel like it weakened the Battlestar Galactica brand and I have a feeling this will do the same. Filling in backstory that doesn’t need to be filled in. Sometimes less is more!
I was gonna make scrambled eggs for lunch, but then I made french toast, because I’m an indecisive fuck.
Best decision.
French toast is so damn awesome. You did well!
Indecisive fuck?
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/09/how-to-secure-and-maintain-a-sex-buddy-relationship/
This article helps with the ‘what to do after you find one’ but not ‘how to find one’. 🙁
Both would have been good choices.
@gutsoup: Up to date with Boardwalk Empire now! Season three was so good and the sense of escalation as the season progressed was pretty amazing. Can’t wait to see what happens in season four, though it’s weird watching after marathoning season three and seeing the momentum reset to zero.
awesome, yeah the third season got really intense at the end there, it’s going to be difficult watching it week by week, so much suspense. Glad you liked it cause most people seem to have gone off it but I’m more into it than ever, I think I just really love the time period, setting and the lingo, gorgeous scenery and the actors all play their parts perfectly.
I’m captivated.
How cute was Billie in the last season 😀
Oh yeah, Billie’s awesome. I love the shots on the Boardwalk at night after its rained. So much old timey atmosphere. Really think season three was the best so far, so can’t wait to see if season four stays as good. I really like Chalky too. I remember you saying you were a fan. Interesting to see what’s happening this season with him!
Sex Buddies…
Sequel to that talking dog movie franchise?
Sex Bud.
Here’s a sample cover for it I designed.
Circle the relevant answer?
well… if you want.
😉
Hmmm, I read that article. It’s definitely not for me. Rule 8 in particular I’m sure I’d fail at.
Also, I tend to bring intimacy along for the ride whenever sex is concerned. I can’t separate the emotions out the way other people can. /estrogenmomentPlus your wife would be pissed! 😛
Nah, I’d just remind her about the blue chair.
I’ve been there and found it empty and kind of soul destroying. Always been happier when in a solid relationship.
I’ve found them useful for dealing with low points. Also, ego boosts. Nothing makes you feel wanted like a booty call.
Story of marital bliss
About five years ago, when we bought our house, my wife gave away my beloved blue armchair because it didn’t fit in with the rest of our furniture, and looked like rental furniture. It broke my heart; I’ve never let her live it down. We found it at a garage sale when we were furnishing our first rental; it was the world’s most amazingly comfortable chair, and made me very happy.
Every time I make some sort of mistake in our marriage and she calls me on it, I remind her about the chair, and come out on top.
So, apparently today, after five years of diligent searching, she’s managed to track down a replacement. We’re going out to look at it tomorrow. I don’t know what to hope for. And I don’t know what this means for our marriage. If I can’t hold this one mistake she’s made over her head anymore, I guess I’d better straighten up and fly right, or start keeping a solicitor on retainer… :\
Sounds like the set up for a sitcom episode.
This one?
Uh… no. That thing is worth more than the car I was driving at the time :\
This was just some $50 armchair. Nothing too special about it, except that it had a very good understanding with my spine when I sprawled across it with one leg thrown over the armrest.
You can’t just replace the world’s comfiest chair. D:
I wish I’d done that with my husband’s stuff. So much of his old stuff is ugly but I’ve kept them because he seems attached. Everytime I look at them I sigh wistfully and think about how awesome our house could look if I was to flex my interior decorating muscles. 😛
We’ll see tomorrow.
Perfect addition to the man cave?
You know it!
o/
o/*\o
My punching hand! D:
You’ll have to make some excuse as to why the new armchair is unsuitable.
“… is that… is that urine? Look, I can see the stain right there! Your eyes must be bad, maybe you need glasses?”
“It’s not the chair I fell in love with you in!”
:'(
Uh, replacement? As in the same one?
Sadly, probably not. I haven’t seen it yet. But it’s been five years – I’d be willing to accept a compromise candidate at this late stage.
My parents had a similar problem. Their solution? Reupholstering so that it did fit in!
I bet you five years ago would have loved that.
@transientmind’s idea of separate apartments with sleepovers sounds better!
Or once you get your chair back, she’s to unload a five year long list of things you’ve done wrong all at once. Pandora’s box, she opens! Be wary!
Hnnnggghhh, this chair better be perfect.
Maybe the ‘chairs’ your state of mind. It was in you the whole time!
No wonder my back is so sore.
Don’t be surprised when after attempting to get comfortable in it you discover that it’s exactly the same chair, but… you are no longer the you of five years ago, and it’s no longer comfortable because you have changed shape.
NOPE. Not listening.
That’s OK. Your body doesn’t mind that you’re not listening. It’ll just keep changing shape on you – little extra cushion on those love-handles, bit more padding on the spare tire, ass cheeks start growing a bit to really fill out those pants… And that hairline will start receding, leaving even more of your dome to really give off some surprise light-reflection in those selfies. Yup.
Ahahaha that’s so cruel 😛
NOPE. #RiverInEgypt
At least I won’t go bald ever. I’ve got that much in good genes. Also have a fair-to-middling chance of remaining skinny forever.
What? Oh, right. Yep, might be bragging.
Oh, you’ll stay skinny in the neck, ankles, wrists, arms… but you’ll get this little pot belly, and your butt will expand a bit. 🙂
#helping
Interesting marital bliss
So.. Apparently these are all the vehicles in GTA V…
Pfft, is that all there i…?
*computer crashes from overload*
I know right?! I was expecting about 5 times the amount. Worst game evar.
no glass shadows confirmed terrible game 0/10 wouldn’t rent.
Who needs cars when there’s bikes! Bikes!
i’m not even exited for this game anymore
Rockstart this game gonna be SHIT
@dkzeitgeist should do a dramatic reading of your comments. 😀
Yeah, but it’d just be twenty minutes of “The Lesser Evil” “shanewsmith.com”
Even I acknowledge that’d get old pretty fast.
Just ate four cookie and cream iced cup cakes. They weren’t supposed to be all for me, but I couldn’t control myself. D:
It’s okay though cause I’ve hidden the evidence, like they never even existed.
…
But there’s the guilt. The guilt. D:
You push that guilt right down, like a man.
Just buy another pack and forget the first one ever existed.
I’d just eat them too, I know it. :'(
…and then eat them too.
then hide the evidence.
then feel the guilt burn…
then get more cupcakes to nom on to suppress the guilt….
i can see how this could become problematic…
This is how it begins! No one starts out addicted to eating cupcakes! :'(
I did.
My mum ate cupcakes while she was pregnant with me, so I was born cupcake reliant.
it was a long and difficult journey, but I overcame that dependency…
now i just take it one day at a time…
Edit: what the hell is this? I don’t even… NO, REALLY. WHAT!?! SHUT UP SEAN.
I liked it! It made me laugh!
i think i’ve just run out of intelligent brain function for the week.
still got 2.5hrs to go. this should be fun.
This whole chain had me laughing out loud as I walked down the street. I’m sure if there had been anyone out I would have gotten weird looks.
@blaghman
Haha, cupcake reliant.
HUSH YOU. IT’S TOTALLY A LEGIT MEDICAL THING.
No joking matter, my friend. Bakeries should be outlawed. Cupcake Prohibition. Though that’d lead to bootleggers like Nucky Thompson. D:
A real name has be spoken on TAY
*gasp*
And I like the crazy 35 posts. I prefer the human flirting one though 😀
Hey, whoa, hey, like Benny is totally my real name, too.
It is.
Sort of.
We all know that’s not your real name. Same with @benj @shane @miketarno !
*fake name.
Everyone knows 35 is his real name.
@benny: I thought you were named after that cat from Top Cat! You know the one!
@benny, no one here uses their real names. Pfft.
Pfft, who’s this “benj” person?
Oh man, I think I’m like the only person with a full real name. Besides the article writers.
I should become an article writer!
@benny
I’m in my friends phone as Benny and it really annoys me 😛
@shane We know… Alphonse
@miketarno, I’m reasonably sure people know my full name too! 😛
Wait… I thought everybody was using their real names!?!
Awkward…
@miketarno: we all know your real name is dave. >:(
@negativezero Nooooo! I Should Have Known it was only A Matter of Time until you figured it out. But, Honestly All My Life I’ve kept this a secret…
@miketarno
The Pretender!
:O
@shane I thought shanewsmith was a nom de plume!
So, I decided to tweet this to Tony Abbott:
just discovered this. sorely tempted to buy it.
just to clarify, its from Preacher
PREACHER \o/
Here, I’ve got this brilliant recipe for quiche! You make the quiche, right, an’ then you cook it, an’ then you throw the stupid fuckin’ thing out the window. Then you grill yourself a T-bone an’ eat that instead.
currently re-reading Preacher.
so many amazing quotes from that series.
I think my favorite quote (or at least the most recent favorite) is from Herr Starr arguing with the army general:
“I don’t care if you like me, or loathe me, or masturbate screaming my name.”
Edit: or what is possibly the biggest bad-ass boast of all time:
Saint of killers: “Not enough gun”
I should re-read that series. But about eight years ago, someone borrowed my #1 TPB, and I never got it back or replaced it. I’ve actually forgotten how Jesse gets the Word. 😛
via a random bit of deus ex machina…
hmmm….. sorry.
Spoilers! Christ 😛
My wife just sent me a video of my youngest having an argument with an iPad app that has a penguin that mimics everything you say in a high pitched voice.
Kid: I have an apple.
Penguin: I have an apple.
K: No, I have the apple.
P: No, I have the apple.
K: No look. See its my apple.
P: No look. See its my apple.
K: hnnnghh. Stop lying its my apple.
P: hnnnghh. Stop lying its my apple.
This went on for about 5 mins with her getting more and more upset with it.
Sounds cruel.
Which is obviously why I find the story so entertaining. 😛That penguin’s made a powerful enemy today!
… what’s the app? 😀
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/talking-penguin-3d-hd/id537549091?mt=8
Thanks. I might see if I can annoy my 3yo with it.
Monster! D: The psychopath test was right about you! *runs off crying*
And also about the 14 upvoters to Freeze’s comment, I suppose. Why single me out? 😛
Relevant.
Awh, she’s learning how to be a Gamer! Getting upset at imaginary things and screaming at the screen can be pretty hard for a lot of people to learn properly.
It’s a very important skill though!
So it’s been a strange week, Incoming wall of text (edit: dunno what happened i only used 2 spoiler tags)
started with me getting sick but I never mind being sick cause I get time off for games :D. Went to the doctor and on the way home found $100 (2 x $50 notes) on the ground, I picked them up and said out loud “is this a joke?” there was only 1 other person in the car park so I walked over to them and asked if they happened to have been messing with their wallet cause I just found some money on the floor, he looked at me like I was trying to mug him and shoed me away, so whoo score. Saints Row 4 finally arrived so I’ve been playing that and Diablo 3 all week. I had monday and tuesday off cause of sickness and when i went in to work on Wednesday i felt a bit nervous as I don’t like taking sick days, walked in and was met with my first raise in this job so double whoo me. Also my dog turned 1 so I made him a meat cake and bought him toys 😀TLDR: Been sick but shit is good
Haha! Oh man, I expected an #EmoGutsoup post! This is awesome! Hope you’re feeling better now too!
yeah, I’m actively avoiding negative posts, I made a lot recently and thought, what’s the point. Haven’t posted since last friday because i felt like i was being a pain 😛
I missed you! Wait a second, I wasn’t posting either! XD
See, I like the emo posts because people’s unhappiness sustains me. But I think I’m just a terrible person.
You know… Peaceful Tomorrows Vol 2 is only about $15 at the moment. You could buy like 7 copies for only $5 of your own money.
I was about to ask how many books you have done but thought I know to shanewsmith.com, so i looked, still not sure, so is there the Lesser Evil & Peaceful Tomorrows? any more? What is the best way to buy them? On the site or should i hit you up here?
I’ll be in Brisbane in early November for Supanova and also meaty goodness one night! \o/
@dc is organising it all.
—
Edit: About the books, here’s what’s out so far:
1. The Lesser Evil (omnibus): 353 pages
2. Peaceful Tomorrows Vol 1: 330 pages
3. Peaceful Tomorrows Vol 2: 280 pages
Coming in 2014:
4. The Game: 350 pages
Coming one day maybe:
Triumviratus (monthly series)
James Flamestar miniseries
The No Meating Shane Meat in an undisclosed location… so someone doesn’t find out!
Yeah I don’t particularly want Freeze there either.
I’ll get all of them from you at Supernova, causing all onlookers to wonder what they’re missing and immediately buy your entire catalogue, resulting in a whirlwind of success and fame and fortune.
#accuratelypredictingthefuture
\o/
Shane W. Smith! I knew I heard that name somewhere before. 😛
story contained references to puppies. + 50pts
used the words ‘meat cake’ + 20pts
didnt include the line ‘…and then i found $10’ -25pts
found $100. +10pts
sick. -20pts
gaming. + 15pts
Total: This story scored 50pts.
Result: awesome.
hehe, I didn’t know we were scored on our comments, I’ll have to try harder. 😛
It was a pretty awesome week though.
you aint scored on nothin. i’m just being a dick. more so than usual.
ha, i know i was being silly too 😛
No silliness allowed in these parts! >:|
oh. I’ll show myself out then.
Holy crap! So many @dc comments with green upvoteness
😀
So nice to have things back to normal. I was beginning to think people didn’t like me 😛
Positive reinforcement!
not having any luck tracking down a cheap 3ds xl…. if im to stay at my $200 limit, id have to go for a 2nd hand one at eb… not really wanting to do that
Yeah sorry my reply post didn’t really do much other than probably piss you off more.
ITS YOUR FAULT BENNY!!! YOU SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT 2 x 3DS XLS AT THAT CRAPHOT PRICE ON THE OFF CHANCE THAT I MIGHT WANT ONE!!!!
YOU INCONSIDERATE BASTARD YOU……
¶:Þ
Haha. Don’t rush your decision today, let me see if I can find one under $200 for you. I was in the same situation months back. Down and out, really wanted a 3DS XL, was almost going to concede and pay like $239 or something at JBs when I came a cross that deal.
My “Don’t Blame Me, I Voted For Kodos” shirt arrived today.
I’m in Canberra next weekend. Tempted to walk around near Parliament house wearing it.
It’s a nice idea, but for the record,
no oneeveryone will notice and you’ll be en route to a PNG holding facility within two hours.DAMMIT SHANE! LET ME HAVE THIS!
Edited accordingly.
Nauru is actually not a bad place, they at least have internet there for the asylum seekers, so he’ll be alright..
http://www.redbubble.com/people/jiim/works/10795724-i-did-not-abbott-white-text?body_color=red&p=t-shirt&print_location=front&ref=shop_grid&style=mens
Edit: I’m not one for subtlety, obviously.
DARK SOULS II
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/screenshots.php?id=12958
It’s been nominated for some award or something, but the big news is that there are ‘screenshots’ of concept art that I haven’t seen before.
@DARKSOULSIIfolks @freezespreston @strange @sernobulus etc
Hmm. That guy with the blank mask and the tear design.
Intriguing.
@zetrox2k
Care to hang out for the 2DS for $148 or specifically after the larger screens as found on the XL?
BIG SCREEN and 3D…
if i wanted a normal screen i can get used 3ds’s in great condition for $100…
also see my post below.
also, thanks for the help man!!
and just to add: i left my MC Hammer pants back in the 70’s so i doubt ill be able to fit the 2DS into my pocket 🙁
Haha, this guy.
woot woot… girl at kmart said she will do a 3ds xl for me at $199…
she said “oh why dont you price match it with Target? They are $199”
my response “oh i thought they were $249?”
“no no, im looking at their website. $199. im here till 7, ask for cynthia…”
SCORE!!! i dont know what target website she was looking at, my guess is the US one maybe?!?
*cough*flirting*cough*
HOW DOES ONE FLIRt WITH SOMEONE THEY HAVENT EVEN MET YET?????
Sexy voice on the phone? Bet it happens to @effluvium-boy all the time.
If only.
its all about the tone. speak sexy.
i cant help it!!!!!! /o\
That sounds more like she wants you to come when she knocks off.
She’s definitely got something for you to play with I’d say.
http://i.imgur.com/zwVcUn6.jpg
Don’t get penisy, kid.
HAHAHAHA!!!!!! Alas, i have that effect on women…. I find myself constantly breaking innocent hearts the moment they set eyes on my wedding band.
They’re about 9 years late to the party however, ive already been snagged up… 🙂
Hmmm, I gotsta get me a wedding band!
Wow, we heard it here first. @dc wants to get married!
Or starting an Arcade Fire cover band!
I thought it was in a George Costanza kind of way.
Y’know, pretending to pick up women.
this is gonna sound so wrong dc, but in all honesty, some women like hitting on married men… i dont know why… my guess is that a wedding ring is usually a sign of a commited and responsible individual… but if that person turns around and starts flirting back, would you really want to be in a relationship with some unfaithful douche
isn’t that betraying some sort of, uh, sisterhood or something? CRAAAZY!
Yep, because women are all tuned into the hivemind. Fuck things up with one, and you’ll never get yourself another one 😛
hahahahahaha!!!!
I mean a woman stealing someone elses husband and then not expecting to be cheated on. (Same goes for guys stealing someone’s wife as well.) I don’t even know what I’m rambling about. XD
in my experience, thats pretty accurate.
I think it’s twofold:
1) Safe practice for flirting, can maybe get validation without threat of actual sex
2) Genuine attraction to someone who is capable of committing.
That said, it might just be you, man. You just might be a hot ticket. Because I don’t get flirted with, no matter how much I wave my ring around 😛
Shoving your ring into a strange girls face yelling about being married and begging to be flirted with isn’t a great tactic. I never works no matter how many times I tried
You totally get flirted with, you just don’t recognise it.
[insert link to story from a couple of weeks back]
No link, no proof.
@Shane
You might not get flirted with, but I totally like your scarf
I hear his wife made it!
lol i was almost in tears man…. hot ticket…. lol…
ahem…
im generally a very shy and esoteric person if you’ve ever met me in person… i do my best to participate in a conversation but am FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR from being the centre of a crowd. Im just generally a friendly person. but far from me actively flirting…
even when i met my missus… i liked her from the moment i saw her but i couldnt even talk to her! she kept approaching me!
It’s more that women want a guy who is ‘high value’. You prove that you are high value by someone else already having you. You’ve been vetted already and found to be acceptable.
Fucking score. Plus a cheap 3DS XL, too!
XD
i can give her your number??? unfortunately for her im taken! 🙂
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/09/how-to-secure-and-maintain-a-sex-buddy-relationship/
Well played.
Be sure to add my 3DS friend code when you collect the new handheld.
will do!
Urge to kill. Rising.
Maybe we can harness his rage, Hulk style! *strokes patchy chin stubble*
I seem to be getting likened to the Hulk rather frequently lately. This is worrying.
Here, have beer and TV.
*eye twitch*
At least you’ve got that body bag! Or was that someone else here on TAY..
That was Aleph. KEEP UP!
Oops my mistake.
@dc I could learn a thing or two from you and your referencing techniques.
WHAT’S THE SECRET?
Beautiful Mind corkboards all around the room, linked with red string and lots of permanent marker.
That’s fascinating. I mean creepy.
I told you, man. That’s just my list.
Today has been really slow.
My attempts to steal a chair have been unsuccessful.
My time as Matt is almost over.
THE WEEKEND IS ALMOST HERE!
I wonder what he’s been doing with your identity all day?
Reading and critiquing The Game, no doubt.
…I hadn’t thought of that.
THAT BASTARD
Well, this just makes those messages I’ve been getting from AlexPants all day rather concerning…
Don’t trust him.
Who knows who’s even the real Alex any more, if he even existed at all! D:
It’s like that Catfish movie all over again.
You’re just gonna have to trust your memories to be real or something stupid like that.
http://www.amazingsuperpowers.com/2012/01/trading-places/
*throws papers in the air*
Out.
*dives through the window*
Congrats on your new found life style! Brave thing you’ve done!
MY TURN
*dives at window*
*hits metal filing cabinet*
I’m getting better! \o/
You score for secondary psychopathy was higher than 88.6% of people who have taken this test.
…I think.
At hiding the crazy?
Why hide it when you always lose it?
http://www.lifestyle.com.au/health/apply-for-embarrassing-bodies-down-under.aspx
Anyone?
nope.avi
Every one knows that every self respecting person with an embarrassing body issue lives under an opera house in the catacombs playing the organ all day.
You going to invite them down?
If they play their cards right!
Or at home playing the organ.
Knowwhatimsayin?
They’ve had the truck for this down at Circular Quay a few times now.
People seemed more interested in taking photos of it than partaking itself.
“Mommy! Mommy! I wanna see the attention whores with no self-esteem!”
“Not now, sweetie, we’re running late. I’ll let you have a little more internet time after dinner, instead.”
Maybe they can check out my superfluous third penis. I wish someone would.
Oops I just pledged $300 towards a five-STEM set on Kickstarter, pretty much just because there were only 120 left of the earlybird pack when I went on and a few minutes later it had dropped by nearly ten when I refreshed and I panicked.
Fool and his money.
Just spent the last two hours reading WH40K lore in preparation for Only War RPG tomorrow.
Not a bad way to end the working week. 😀
Skim read that as WHORE lore. I know, it’s Friday. I’m going home.
Heyo. Thought I’d drop in to see how everybody was doing? How is post-election Australia? Does everyone use caps as currency yet? In London at the moment, after spending 2 days in Singapore. Highlights included spilling rice all over a Hawker Center after accidentally knocking over two little Asian men (too crowded for this country bumpkin) and attempting to talk to London locals using the lines from the I.T Crowd (they always try to walk it in etc.).
I also saw a couple of Harli and Bish look-a-likes. They didn’t respond to their handles being yelled at them. Rude. I think my racist levels are lowering though in that I didn’t see them everywhere – Rocketman,I shall require north queensalander training when I return.
Weren’t you confused when there were several hundred Harlis and Bishes?
Just… stay away from the police! :'(
Hope the trip treats you well, my friend!
DRUG LORD
Thanks to the fortune of something called a calendar, I don’t have to brain for lots of hours now.
Until that Monday bastard shows up again.
We need to hunt him, her, or it. Hunt and kill – once and for all.
I couldn’t help but notice this about the Activision publisher weekend (it’s amongst only a handful of remaining Australia taxes on Steam):
http://i.imgur.com/5RFEIAF.png
You mean A¢tivi$ion?
I know, but it’s sad that it still happens on Steam, esp. after ten years…
A lot of the activision stuff is marked up 40% so even a 25% discount doesn’t get it down to ‘normal’ US prices
My neighbour’s wifi point is named: “FREE candy for kids!”
So generous!
Oh wow! This PAX Gearbox code is better than I thought 😀
I thought it was just some Borderlands 2 skins but turns out it also gives some extra goodies!
It did require me to make a Twitch account though, I’m scared of all those faces and dogs D:. It’s always sad when “Greenius” is taken, like who’d want that stupid username? Since I’m such a genius I figured GreenGreenius is going to be my new “username has been taken” name 😛
What code? I want a code!
It was from the panel! Some exclusive skins and heads for Borderlands 2 and I also found out we get beta access to an unannounced Gearbox game and Homeworld Classic and HD for free 😀
They also gave out codes for the Ultimate Vault Hunter Upgrade Pack 2 (the one that increases the cap to 72)
Nice. I hope @miketarno redeemed his code.
Oh crap, I forgot! :O
The instructions are on the paper yeah?
Kappa FrankerZ Kappa WinWaker Kappa Keepo Kappa Kappa
I’m getting pretty fluent in Twitchese.
KevinTurtle Kappa Kreygasm Kappa
DayJ
BibleThump
Bunnypls
I need an adult.
I’m an adult!
eh.
Little from column A, little from column B.
Urghhh looks like I’m spending the weekend on my lonesome 🙁 Which is kinda annoying cos I stopped budgeting in food for weekends months ago 😛
Today I have powered through 3 weeks worth of lecture materials for data management and started the last assignment for that class. Has been my most productive day in ages, especially considering I spent a grand total of 1 hour at uni this week! (I would be screwed if attendance was mandatory.) Funny thing is, there’s only 5 weeks of semester left and I feel like I’ve done absolutely nothing all semester. I remember last semester dragged on and on and it felt like things never stopped.
For now though I feel like playing Paper Mario 3ds. I remember getting that last year and I’ve barely touched it since. I don’t think I got all that far through it from memory.
It’s your second semester isn’t it? It gets easier 😛
Well not necessarily, but you’ll start caring less so it gets easier 😀
Hooray for apathy! Once you move off-campus there’s a strong chance you’ll want to go to classes a lot more for the social thing too. (Weird advice from a hermit, but whatever. XD)
“social”? What’s that?
I don’t think I’ve voluntarily talked to a single person actually at uni :S I’m more of a hold on tight to a couple of very close friends than a meet everybody! person. Always have been 😛 That and I really don’t feel like I fit in with all the other computing students. A lot of them just plain creep me out (no offense to other computing students) so I keep to myself.
Business students are alright I’ve noticed, but yeah no more business classes after this semester.
I guess doing a film degree had a whole different dynamic. Forced to hang out with people, plenty of downtime together and the like.
Yeah, Business students are pretty cool :3
Ugh, they’re so full of themselves though
😛Yup. This semester is sooo much easier than last semester (once I actually got a grip on what I was doing, the first few weeks of this semester I was a mess).
If more of my classes were in the afternoon I’d probably go to them though 😛
Accounting, amirite?
2 days of work down at the new job. Loving it so far, fantastic group of people. Hopefully they like me and work ethic. Cannot wait to get paid for the first time in 12 months.
That’s awesome to hear, my friend! Hope it all goes your way!
Broken Age is looking very much like not something I was expecting when I backed it. I hope it turns out okay.
Friday night game for you all.
Since my laptop is off getting repaired, ive decided to replay Pokemon White 2 and you guys get to pick my team. The first 6 people to reply can each pick one fully evolved pokemon from this list – bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/NUdex – and I will use it and nickname it after you.
*Disclaimer* If your first choice isn’t found until post elite 4 or really late pre elite 4 I’ll let you pick again
Link borked /o\
EDIT: added link
Yeah can’t fix it on my phone. Edited for your convenience 🙂
Borked link duder.
Flareon!wait no no, PINSIR, I CHOOSE YOU!Suffer in the Safari Zone, yo 😀
Worst eeveelution but I shall bow to your request 🙂
I’m sorry, I have to take your first answer
…dammit.
Pretty sure Pinsir is pretty easily found in the wild in White 2. Get with the times man.
Its still a bitch to catch though
Raticate.
Done
Carracosta
Fossils are post elite 4 in white 2 🙁 Shame, I like Carracosta
Scolipede then.
Awesome choice 🙂
Scolipede is actually amazing. Was so useful on my monotype run. Especially with Aqua Tail.
What other moves did you give it? X scissor? Poison Jab? Earthquake?
From memory… Aqua Tail, Earthquake, Steamroller (the high flinch rate was too fun. I had Leavanny for X Scissor anyway) and either Poison Jab or Rock Slide. I just went for all attacking because it already outsped most things and hit pretty hard out of the box anyway! Worked pretty well in the team.
Zebstrika
Found later than I expected but still doable. Locked in 🙂
Ice cream.
I can do it if you really want to but its not found until after the 7th gym and only in winter, which isn’t until December. Do you mind picking something else?
Garbador instead 😛
That’s a rubbish choice.
But I’ll take it *sigh*
At least I get to name it after Greenius 😛
D: !
You should do a nuzlocke run!
Nah I always bomb out on nuzlockes eventually. And I don’t know White 2 well enough for that yet
Vanilluxe! \o/
I’m surprised you didn’t pick an ice type Freeze 😉
Honestly was going to pick Cryogonal originally.
Still have one open team slot. I know someone wants to take it……… anyone?
PINSIR
You only get one choice >:(
You could pick one. You still need to choose a starter.
If no one volunteers soon I will. Might use a random number generator just for the hell of it. I’m getting kind of bored of the starters. Unless its a 4th gen starter because they are freaking badass, all of them
Hmm, the 4th Gen starters are my least favourite (based on design), except for Empoleon. That’s badass 😀
Come to think of it, it’s the only gen of starters where I don’t have at least one of each, so maybe that’s why I don’t like tree turtle and fire monkey as much 😛
Infernape is awesome, not as good as Blaziken but still great. But Torterra is the pick of the three for mine. Carried me through most of the Elite 4 first time through if I remember rightly. Get up a couple of Curses then throw out the earthquakes and wood hammers with synthesis to offset the recoil. Things a tank that just wont die 😀
Yeah but I’ve based it on designs 🙂
MEGA CHARIZARD!
Haha maybe when X and Y come out. Although I’d rather have a MEGA MAWILE.
Do you want to make a choice?
PINSIR \o/
I always liked Darmanitan.
Edit: Ah let Nob make a choice, he got in first.
Nob seems to have gone AWOL so Darmanitan it is.
Hmm 2 fire types. One great, one average. I wonder which one will get more use. Luckily I picked the water type starter so my rival has the grass 😀
Castform!
You’ve already got six, but I’m suggesting it anyway 😛
You would pick something terrible wouldn’t you Pow.
I once did a three-Castform run of Heart Gold, one of each weather type. It actually wasn’t terrible! (I ended up quitting because it was boring using essentially a single Pokemon the entire way through :P).
Which one got the most use?
Sun, I think. The first bit of Gen 2 is pretty decent for fire types. Plus, Sun is the best Castform 😛
Games. Words. Thoughts. Boredness.
I beat Uncharted: Golden Abyss yesterday. Drake and co. was all “WE FOUND THE GOLDEN ABYSS!” uhh… I didn’t even know I was looking for it and it didn’t even occur to me that it was a thing, despite it being the title 😛
Now my world is feeling all topsy-turvy thanks to Gravity Rush. I’m liking it so far! It was the only original game I was initially interested in when the Vita was announced. I like the style and the gyro comic thing is pretty rad 😀 (except when I do the shaky leg thing and the Vita is all shaky)
I also started Wipeout just so I could play it and be all “well that’s the same thing on consoles” and then delete it for more space …but then I played it and realised, it was indeed essentially the same old Wipeout – which is damn awesome! Might play it after Gravity Rush.
I still need to get back to Fire Emblem and Kid Icarus: Uprising :P. I didn’t play my Vita for a few months but now I’m back into it. Thanks PS+! :D. What’s that? Breaking news? Vita has games? Nowai. I’ve also got a bit of a PSone Vita pile of shame. I never got around to properly playing FFVIII and I’ve been meaning to replay MGS. I’ve also never played Vagrant Story or RE1-3 (I’ve played 4-6) so I’m interested to see what they’re like :D. Also keen to re-live some Spyro nostalgia!
About 32 hours into Tales of Xillia now and it has that crazy JRPG story where things are crazy and what the fuck is going on I’m so confused…
No Rayman Legends yet :(, maybe it’ll arrive next week, but next week is also GTAV week and assignment week :'(. But! I have my mid-semester break shortly after and assuming Breaking Bad doesn’t take any breaks, the last episode will come out during my break (so I can download it ASAP to avoid spoilers).
@masha2932 decided to make a spreadsheet for his games and since he’s bumasha he needed my help. It kind of got me wanting to start one for myself but all it’s going to do is make me realise how many games I haven’t played and I’m too lazy to type out every single game I own :P. My game library sky rocketed every since I started master racing last year since PC games are dirt cheap. Like I can get a full retail game for the price of a meal at a terrible take away establishment of my choice. Like shiet man, that’s cheap. There’s also whole lot of bundle stuff that I guess technically counts as games I own, but not necessarily want. A couple of weeks ago I wanted a single game in a bundle but it came with about 6 others I just had absolutely no interest in 😛
WOO WORDS
So many words..so little reading span..I have so many games to play I really don’t have time to play them all. I need to take a week off and isolate myself and just smash through all my half finished games. I feel terrible about not completing half of them P4G is one of such games
P4G takes priority over everything! (except maybe Xenoblade)
Again no Wii and no $100 odd dollars for “preowned” copy makes it hard to play Xenoblade
It’s not that expensive, that was just in the US. Could always buy and emulate it on PC! It looks way better on it.
This is true, and very tempting
Join us with our FFVIII run through!
Nahhh, currently playing Tales of Xillia, will have Kingdom Hearts and KH: Chain of Memories and then FFX and FFX-2 soon!
So many JRPGs!
http://huffpost.com/us/entry/3907866?ir=Media
Esquire. All class.
Your link didn’t work for me, but when I searched for the article number I came up with this — http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/11/esquire-911-mistake-photo-richard-drew_n_3907866.html
All resolved with a tweet saying…
Very classy.
That’s the one
I saw an article come through work today saying that a genius at Boston International Airport made the brilliant decision of doing a large scale emergency drill on sept 11 involving “large fire and billowing smoke”. Needless to say travellers were less than impressed. Who in their right mind decided that would be a good idea? *facepalm*
When is that a good idea at any airport at any time? Wouldn’t that just delay every flight for no real good reason?
I have no idea how it works. Maybe it was off in some of the outer buildings but even so. Yeah you’re right
Extremely annoying how the ?ir= bit in the url refers to my username and thinks its a mention to me. Refuses to go away 🙁
TGS is next week :O
THE LAST GUARDIAN NEWS!
Haha, just kidding.
… 🙁
Why have you got to be so negative? 🙁
There’s a good chance the next Tales game will be announced. They’re doing some kind of big Tales thing there and they’ve been registering domains and trademarks and stuff too.
There’s also bound to be some other PS4 stuff as so far they’ve shown a bit of JP launch games but not much beyond that and I’d expect there to be a fair bit of other games in the works.
Last Guardian might still happen. That shit’s definitely on PS4 now though.
I’ve just started watching Tokyo Magnitude 8.0.
It’s slow paced, but quite interesting.
I am seriously dumbfounded by just how damn good today has been. Had a fairly so-so day at work. All 2 hours of it. Then I went home and shortly after, my friend’s plane arrived. I went and picked him up, and we went shopping on the way home cos I needed to grab some washing powder and stuff. As we walk in to the shopping centre, he says I wanna play wii u with you!
To which I reply, I don’t have a wii u.
“Let’s go buy one” he says.
Proceeds to walk in to EB and buy pre-owned 32gb console and mario brothers.
I asked if he was gonna have room in the little luggage bag he brought with him, and he said “I dun have to worry about that. You can have it!”
:0 :0 :0 :0 :0 :0
ZOMGWTFJUSTHAPPENED?!
Arrived home to find that he’d also had 2 other special gifts posted, and they were waiting in my mailbox when I got home! Swear to god.. day couldn’t get much better!
Oh! Forgot to mention, I found 5c while I was on the phone to the school service centre this morning too!
I’ll have a wii u friend code or whatever to hand out now I guess. I dunno how adding friends works in this yet, but my account is registered as welbot if that helps anyone!
*fistbump*
Nice.
Man, and I get happy when my friend buys me a Turkish delight 😛 The bar has been raised!
That’s pretty awesome, finding 5c and all. (And I guess your friend is awesome too, but a Wii U is no 5c coin)
hehehe finding 5c is usually enough to put a glow on my day! This has just taken shit to a whole new level though! I’m gonna be on a buzz for days!
Wow. You should marry him.
Also, RAYMAN! WONDERFUL 101! ZOMBIU!
(edit: oh yeah and that Pikmin thing!)
(conversely, my day was rather shitty, both for me and a lot of other people at school. Guess we must have pooled a whole lot of the day’s bad luck there. I’ll just pretend it was all to open up a pocket of good luck for you :P)
Also Animal Crossing! eeee! One day when I can afford them anyway! Potential is more real than it’s every been though! 🙂
XENOBLADE OMG
Dude that’s awesome as \o
The food in my stomach feels like it is trying to claw its way back out (but not in the “be sick” sense) and I don’t like it. Nor do I want to go attempt to lie down and make things any easier for it.
egads! sounds horrible :\ Hope it settles down soon
Dug around in the pantry and found a strip of most likely ancient Mylanta tablets. Most of the foil on the back was cracked and broken and they say you’re not supposed to take tablets if the thing’s not sealed… but caution, meet wind!
Fast food again? 😛
A bowl of muesli and yoghurt :/
Mixed with a dinner box and a bucket of chicken?
😛
Well one of the guys did give me a couple of pieces of Korean Fried Cornflake Chicken that he didn’t want back around dinnertime…
Why am I still awake?
God dammit, internet.
Going to look at units to rent today. It’s going to be exactly like Animal Crossing in real life!
Get one with a big basement and large white walls to paint messages in blood on!
If I throw my bed here *pulls bed out of pocket* and my tv over there *pulls tv out* nope not enough room..”excuse me where’s the nearest Tom Nook shop?”
Just people tend to less jovial when you write letters to them that are mostly death threats.
You’re going to be forced into buying a house by a raccoon mobster and then work as his indentured servant to pay the bill?
Man, it’s kinda scary getting a call at 8am from a drugged up friend whose been admitted to hospital 🙁 I hope she’s okay.
Hope everything’s okay.
Been playing a little SR4, using the same map was real lazy on their part, and I can tell collecting these clusters is going to get old fast.
If I wasn’t so OCD I would be having fun doing the story, but instead I’m stuck doing the various events and activities for control.
I got enough of the clusters to max out pretty much everything just by getting everything I saw on my way to missions.
Also, all the random tasks are part of everyone else’s side quests. Make sure to talk to everyone on the ship and do story missions often or you’ll miss out on a lot of conversations.
When I went to bed last night I was like I will work on the dog scrapbook!
I woke up, pulled out all the paper I had, decided nothing went together, packed it up and put it away.
So much for that plan.
Sounds ruff!
Howl will you ever get the motivation to pick it up again?
This thread has gone to the dogs already thanks to you Bish 😛
Yeah, I’m thinking I will just go to Kaiser Craft and annoy them for tips.
$199 3DSXL=Get
Turns out she was kinda flirty but I think that was just her acting nice. Felt bad for her as I was waiting at the register. Customer in front of me paid $116 in 0.20c and 0.10c pieces and I’m not even joking. Took her like half an hour to count it all. Could tell she was getting frustrated… Personally I would have asked the customer to go to the bank first.
Anyways my friend code!! 0576-4656-9696
I’ve already started adding TAYBIES from the list so add me when you get a chance… Damn the 3DS friend system is retarded…. Also got a free digital copy of animal crossing new leaf from a friend as part of the welcome a friend promo 🙂
Watched a youtube video of Steve Irwin The Crocodile Hunter, looked for the dvd’s. Almost spent $300 on getting the complete edition. 21 dvds or something.
o.0
Its this entire “you have a job now so you must buy something” thing. Really hard to not spend money before GTA V.
*circles the wagons*
It’s quiet. Too quiet.
Haha dude, oh man. It was like 2:55 when I caught up and wondered why it was so quiet. I was JUST about to post some stuff when I thought I might refresh 🙂
Good on ya!
I posted seven hundred links to trigger conversations. Then ruined it by getting a page get. :'(
XD
Post 700 more!
Arcade Fire! Adventure games! WOOOOOO!
Also, cool Square Enix sale on today at GOG. Omikron: The Nomad Soul and Deus Ex are included! http://www.gog.com/promo/square_enix_weekend_promo_130913
Not going to read cause I don’t want any spoilers, but the headline is interesting! http://www.polygon.com/2013/9/13/4723206/the-future-of-game-narratives-will-be-designed-with-scorcese
Beyond: Two Souls related, btw.
Cage talking with his hands down the front of his pants again.
No spoilers about anything. Just discussing non existent future maybe tech and storytelling devices.
Safe to read Señor @dc.
Even so, I don’t think I’ll read. My Beyond: Two Souls hype is at dangerous heights already!
He doesn’t even mention a game. Just implies that he is a better story teller than Spielberg and Scorsese.
Can’t argue with that.
>:D
Don’t make me tag Neg into this.
What does he know about great games. He only plays Japanese games which are all terrible.
…
😀
So’s your face but we don’t make too much of an issue of it.
*satisfied nod*
My mum says I’m handsome.
…
Wait, she’s never said that. D:
http://www.polygon.com/2013/9/13/4726170/star-trek-director-j-j-abrams-emotionally-hurt-by-star-trek-the-video
J.J. Abrams was sad about Star Trek game too. :'(
http://www.polygon.com/2013/9/13/4727396/celebrating-the-enduring-cult-of-ico
Rime guys liked Ico! I wouldn’t have guessed. XD
http://www.gameinformer.com/games/montagues_mount/b/pc/archive/2013/09/12/atmospheric-first-person-adventure-montagues-mount-coming-october-9.aspx
Oooooh, this looks awesome in a Dear Esther/Scratches/Gone Home kind of way!
I’m scared to play Scratches, D.C.!
So you should be, Greenius. So you should be. Legend tells of @sughly screaming like a little girl. I was much more manly, though. Recoiling into my seat in terror. *nods*
He once discussed the game with you on TAY without using spoilers!
He ruined the game for meeeee!
Well, at the Elysium meat we talked about it openly without spoiler tags too. Gone Home as well. XD Good times, good times. Also the guy’s new game Asylum is out next month. Play Scratches before that! 😀
Scratching ghosts are scary!
Maybe the scratching is from a cat at the door that wants food!
Like my soul?
@dc
I was playing Tales of Xillia and a character said “mosey”
That means you have to play it now, right? That’s how it works doesn’t it? 😀
That game should get its own cowboy lingo! >:|
Monster Hunter on Vita would be amazing…
:'(
:'(
http://collider.com/mummy-reboot-andy-muschietti/
The Mummy movies are a secret shame of mine. I like the pulpiness.
I like the boyish handsomeness and charm of Brendan Fraser.
I figured as much! 😛
I liked the second one a lot. It’s so completely over the top and stupid and it’s aware of it and really runs with it well.
Agreed! Third wasn’t all that great, but the first two… so good.
The first two were great. I even went to watch the third one in cinemas but it wasn’t as good.
I loved the shit out of the first movie. It’s exactly what Indy 4 should have been.
I think Marc Webb’s Spidey movie was better than all of Raimi’s after watching it again yesterday.
His (500) Days of Summer movie was pretty great too. Pretty real great.
Really? I found it pretty soulless and a paint by numbers comic book movie. Had no identity of its own.
But it had Martin Sheen and Sally Field and Dennis Leary and Emma Stone! WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT? 😛 I like the more grounded feel to the world over Raimi’s over-the-top stuff. Also liked his take of Spidey better. A kind of jerky teen and all that.
http://youtu.be/l2KSPiTOMR8
Ahem… @freezespreston will agree.
Agreed! (for once)
You liked it? Oh man, this changes things. I’ll have to think about this some more.
You’re both wrong. So very wrong.
Pow’s wrong. It’s a terrible, terrible movie.
I quite like the first two Mummy movies too 😛
Well, I hated them. 😛
Powalen likes Xenoblade and Baccano!
So I trust his opinion! 😀
I’m with Freeze on this one. It sucked. No where near as good as the first two Raimi ones. Besides, the first Raimi Spiderman was that good it pretty much kick started the whole superhero film genre.
Don’t forget the first X-Men!
That film was awesome, too.
Oh yeah, my mistake, I always assumed those two films were both released in 2000 and that Spidey was the higher grossing of the two but duh, Spidey first came in 2002.
You so crazy!
I have nothing to say!
But you just said something. So you did.
Liar.
It was all I could think of =(
Are you a mime? D:
Be careful how you answer, Scree. The revelation that you’re a mime could get you exiled! 😛
I am not a mime. But I have watched So I heard you could Mime.
It’s looking increasingly likely I won’t be going to Canberra next weekend. To say I’m disappointed would be an understatement. If I don’t get this break I’m seriously headed for a breakdown. Not once since my son was born has there been a day where someone has said “you just sit back and I’ll take of everything for you”. Not even when I’m sick, not even the day after my son was born when I came home with him from the hospital, not even today when I spent the morning in crippling pain. I need this so bad but I can’t get anyone to look after my son on Friday and my flight leaves at 8:30am. 🙁
🙁 Hope it works out, Strange. You’re awesome.
🙁
*hugaceratopsaurausraptorex*
Mr Strange asking to work from home or the occasional care didn’t pan out?
Mr. Strange has a new guy starting at work on Friday who needs to be trained and I couldn’t find occasional care in our area. Thankfully my Dad is awesome and was able to come to my rescue.
🙁
Hopefully you get the chance to have a mini-break if you can’t come to Canberra. You sound mentally and physically exhausted. Maybe Nova can get you a deal on a local spa weekend or something.
You were going to visit your sister as well, right? Can you change flights to later in the day and bring your son over with you after he comes from school? He can see his aunt and play games with us at the meat:-)
Edit: changed some spelling mistakes
I think you’ll find the idea is to get away from the kids.
As much as we love them sometimes you need a break.
Noooo! 🙁
Holy moley…crisis averted! I have the best parents. My Dad is demanding the day off work. He said he won’t take no for an answer from them and to just go ahead and plan.
I can’t describe how good this feels. It’s like a giant weight I didn’t even know I was carrying around has suddenly been taken off me.
Thanks for the kind responses. You guys are pretty awesome.
Great news! See you next weekend, then! 😀
Hope you have a damn good weekend, my pal!
You should hide in my luggage. If I turned up to the Meat with a surprise DC everyone would love me forever. 😀
Until they realize what a crushing disappointment I am. XD
*Googles nom de plume*
I R SMRT
Nom de ploo me.
@dc
It’s when you eat a bunch of feathers, right?
My favourite Tales game is Tales of Destiny. And I love every other one. #slow
DID YOU FINISH XILLIA?
I’M GETTING CLOSE TO THE ENDDDD
… no ._.
Jude is such a sweetie pie
How many hours? I’m at 33 or so, think I’m in the third part of the game!
(being vague because spoilers)
I don’t really check because I have too many hours due to constant grinding. I’ll get back on it 🙁
The levelling system is pretty cool! 😀
Although I hate how you get less points as you go on. It went from 3 -> 4 -> 5 and then it went back down to 3 :'(
So tired 🙁 Barely been up for 4 hours, wanna go back to bed.
Your friend end up being okay?
Yeah, she’s fine 🙂 She’s extremely out of it after the pain medication, but apparently they finally pin pointed what’s wrong with her.
Glad to hear she’s okay. When you said drugged up I thought you meant an overdose or something initially! D:
Ohhh nah 😛 Drugged up on morphine/endo-something/something else haha
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/116333
Just showed this to my friend. I’m being told that if the store at Central counts, participation is not optional.
WOO! Official green wallpapers in iOS 7! 😛
I’ve been using the same two green abstract wallpapers for years.
I’m oddly “excited”for iOS 7 just because it’s something different and it’ll make it feel like I got a new phone. All these people will their cool new gadgets *mumbles* 🙁
The 5C case looks incredibly stupid though. It’s plastic anyway, so why would you even need a case? eh 😛
I like the new look of iOS7 too. So spiffy looking. I use the green grass backdrop on my iPad. XD
Omg, how can you, like, stand to use that apple crap?
I don’t really care, I just have nothing to talk about. =P
STOP TRYING TO START INTERNET FIGHTS YOU KEYBOARD WARRIOR!
I’ve also been looking at lotsa videos and I saw one for the Note 3. Those pen features look pretty cray cray :O. Does the Note 2 have that much stuff?
Um, it’s camera features are awesome. I don’t use the pen tools that much because when I had note II, there was no photoshop for it. I keep forgetting to look for it.
Just realized how much weight and stomach fat I’ve piled on in the past 2 months. Feeling really depressed about it.
Once the Academy stuff happens, I’m sure you’ll get back into shape again, my friend! (Can’t say I noticed at the Kick-Ass 2 meat, though. You looked like normal Freeze!)
If it happens. Haven’t heard a peep yet, it’s been 6 weeks.
They’d let you know one way or the other, though. I think you’ll be fine!
DID YOU PASS?
I did. Got a solid B grade. Just haven’t heard anything since. Damn government employees. Slackers. Every last one.
*stares at assorted taybies who know who they are*
Yeah my coworker just did her psych exam but she’s asked a lot of people. For Vic people wait up to a year before they get admitted
Just watched the Comedy Central James Franco roast. Was pretty funny! I have no idea who the Natasha chick was or what she’s done, but she was hilarious. That’s what I thought when I first saw Anthony Jeselnik on one of the roasts though, and now he’s up there in my top 3 comedians list 😛
Haha yeah, I saw her portion this morning and it was great.
EDIT: Are there any other ones worth watching? I haven’t really bothered with the roasts and I think I’ve only seen Trump’s (“The Situation” was so bad :P)
The Charlie Sheen one, for the all hype that was built around it (which led me to believe it would be shit), was actually pretty good. The Roseanne one wasn’t bad either.
Edit: Also of note is that Childrens Hospital got a mention by James Franco because Nick Kroll was apparently in the show at one point but I can’t remember that at all 😛
Shatner and Hasselhoff are good.
Martin Freeman!
Chris Evans must be upset that you’ve moved on.
My love is free to share.
2 refs on the field and 4 in the box and not a one can count to 6.
Just finished Saints Row 4, highly enjoyable, heaps of references. Never really used the vehicles though, except for missions with homies. Hope the eventual reboot/SR5 is somewhere between SR2 & 3 in terms of gameplay.
Go to log into steam, steam tells me to enter a code because I haven’t logged in on that computer before. Try and log into the email account I use for it, it tells me to verify my account by getting a code from another email address. Go to log into that email account, AND IT TELLS ME TO VERIFY THAT TOO
*flips keyboard*
JBHi-Fi currently have 20% off all DVD and blu-rays, online and in-store.
Ends tomorrow.
Cant sleep
*refreshes TAY*
OMG MORE RAYMAN WATER MUSIC
This time the one that starts out all Jaws-like. SO GOOD!
Still awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake
Sleeping is for chumps anyway.
STILL AWAKE NOW?!
True story, I was actually already back up being a dad a good hour before this!
Ugh, Tactical Haptics kickstarter coming up next month too. My wallet is crying in anticipation.
So I broke 200 hours in Animal Crossing this morning. Not sure if I should be celebrating…
200 hours of paying Tom Nooks “protection” money.
lolnerd
@sughly had that in the first week!
Because people won’t get it:
… I don’t get it
Yeah, the video kinda confused me more 😛
I believe the issue here is that Greenius is spouting nonsense, as it is mathematically impossible given the current understanding of physics to experience 200 hours in one week.
It is highly recommended that we just smile and nod at Greenius and move on, allowing us to cease interaction with Greenius, whilst he experiences a sense of satisfaction at his attempt of some sort of “humour”.
Ugh, TAY. Gets. Greenius’. “Jokes”.
(ironically, you actually got it)
I only get funny jokes
Get what?
*shrugs*
Dont even want to look at what it says nowadays
So I am trying to draw the two main characters. I’m not doing very well and it’s depressing.
D=
Also, hello.
Hi.
@greenius you should make a chart of the pie variety.
http://sacfs.asn.au/images/humour/pac_man_piechart.gif
EB is having a sale (shock). I bought Bioshock Infinite for $46.
There was also a kid there, probably about 12ish, begging the guy behind the counter for a job. Saying his parents said he could get a job there. Then he walked behind the counter and started typing on the keyboard and opening drawers.
Kids these days.
I wish I was there to put the kid to test. I mean what are the legalities of a minor selling me an R rated game these days?
In terms of me discussing the themes before I make the purchase.
“So uh, kiddo, before I buy this copy of Blood Dragon for my 6 month old’s first birthday, is there anything I need to know? Any sexual scenarios, decapitations or animal mutilation?
Twelve year old pretend salesperson: What’s a Blood Dragon?
Had a zinger pie today. Was a pretty good pie actually. Would eat again!
The Bens are taking over TAY. It needs to be changed to TAYB or Talk Amongst Yourselves, Bennies. We will become referred to as TAYBies and the rest of you must give up your taybie titles and revert to.. TAYies.
ledzeppelin-ramble_on.mp3
Ugh Bens.
LIKE JOEL IS ANY BETTER
Previous reply was a bit rudie nudie.
UGH BENS!
EDIT: UGH BEN!!! Editing/deleting his comment.
HOW DO YOU KNOW MY NAME.
WHAT IS THIS.
*melts*
UGHHHHH JOELS
Dude, you 5+ Bens ain’t nothing compared to us Joels
You’re just asking for a paddling son
Whoa, whoa. This is getting heated. Turning into a New Gettysburg or some shit. No one wants a civil war of taybies versus tayies eventuating.
And none of you have anything on us Seans.
I mean, I know I drag us down a notch or 3, but look at 35, he’s rad!
Sean’s are good but Mike’s are where it’s at.
3DS buddies know everything about each other.
I like the sound of this. I say we approve this motion immediately
You could call it “TAB”, but then you might get sued. 🙁
it’s not the poop, it’s the mystery behind the poop.
We just all misunderstood Sandy from the start.
I heard a turtle managed to fit in there…
There was a fake GTA V review posted online earlier (link) and it’s both amusing and depressing to see people losing their shit, thinking it’s real.
Like they are here, on this GTA fan site — http://gtaforums.com/topic/590789-this-review-oh-women/
Amazing. Even after they’re told it’s fake and that a guy is writing the actual review, they’re still losing their shit.
Maybe GTA is a bad influence on people. 😐
Posting on official forums is a bad influence on people. Nothing good has ever come of it.
http://www.gog.com/game/i_have_no_mouth_and_i_must_scream
Haven’t seen this game in ages. Yoink!
Who wants this System Shock 2 Steam key I have languishing here unloved?
I asked on Twitter and within 15 seconds about 30-40 people followed me and started demanding it :S
Can I please have it?
Done. I DM’d you the code.
Thanks a bunch! 🙂
Is system shock good? I’ve never played them but I liked the Bioshock games.
I’ve been told yes. It’s one of those games I never played. I stopped PC gaming round about 1997 and went console for years so I missed a fair bit.
I started on consoles, now I play everything.
I do now but it took me about 15 years to get a decent computer again. I remember when dad brought home a Pentium 75 with 16MB of RAM. Oh how I lorded it over the peasants with their 486’s.
Yeah, I didn’t have a computer until I was 15
Same here! High five o/
First one was amazing at the time but has dated really badly. Second one is better but still hasn’t held up well IMO.
Hate. Let me tell you how much I’ve come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If the word ‘hate’ was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant. For you. Hate. Hate.
I love you too Blaghs.
So you know who he is now?
So PS3 people.. I got a PS3 last week or whatever (pretty much just for GTA V), I picked up Driver & Red Dead Redemption.. What are some other PS3 or console exclusives I should pick up? Not a fan of shooters on consoles just so we’re clear..
I hear Journey’s a pretty cool guy.
Don’t Stop Believin’
There’s no such thing as DCs.
I’ve already played that, I did so at @trjn’s this one time. Good game.
Valkyria Chronicles!
Ni No Kuni? The Last of Us?
I’d say Uncharted, inFamous, The Last of Us and Heavy Rain!
Also hit up the 2 for $40 deals at JB. Lots of great stuff there.
Had a look my one didn’t have anything good other than Little Big Planet 2, and their copy of Heavy Rain was the move edition the heathens D=
Prince of Persia 08
– ICO and Shadow of the colossus HD collection
– God of war series- you can start with 3 but the 1st 2 games are great as well and they are cheaply bundled in a HD collection. God of War 3 looks fantastic.
– Red Faction Guerrilla
– Ratchet and Clank: A crack on time
– Split/second
– Uncharted series- It’s a third person shooter but it’s half a platforming game as well so I’d say it still fits within your criteria.
– Just Cause 2
They’re are a bunch of other HD collections on PS3 as well, so if there is a PS2 series you enjoyed there might be a HD collection.
Those are just the physical games I can think of now. I’d also recommend you look at downloadable games on PSN. Games like
– Greed Corp
– Walking dead
– Journey
– Flower
A PS+ subscription is also a good idea since you can get discounts on games and a few ‘free’ games every month. For example this month PS3 PS+ members get
Assassins Creed 3
Stealth inc (ps3/vita)
Jak and Daxter HD trilogy
There’s currently a special where you get 3 extra months free when you buy a one year subscription. A one year sub is $70.
Hope this helps
Okami HD. PRESS CIRCLE TO BARK!
Unfinished Swan
Echochrome
Edit: circle dammit. press circle to park. I cant even get my own jokes right. what a loser.
PS+ should be the first thing you get.
Others have mentioned some good games. Yakuza 3 and 4 are worth a go as well. Tales of Graces and Tales of Xillia if you like JRPGs. Some of the Ratchet & Clank stuff is good and can be obtained on the cheap now. Infamous 1&2 as well. MGS4 if that series floats your boat. Really the benefit of the PS3 is the first-party stuff and the Japanese exclusives.
If you didn’t play them on PS2 there’s a good set of HD collections. The Sky Raccoon games for example were brilliant and a lot of people passed them over on PS2.
Moved everything around in my room to try and make the space more useable and improve my wireless signal. Got everything all clean and tidy and set up.
Wireless is now terrible 🙁
*shakes fist at wifi*
All three of my consoles sit side-by-side, all three of my consoles aren’t consistent when it comes to picking up the wifi signals. :'(
I’m going to have the owner (who is an electrician) come next week and run some ethernet. I tried using a different router for my wifi, one that I know is stable but it hasn’t made much difference so Ethernet is the best option. Going to get him to try moving the active cable port as well, to our study (currently it’s right at the front door in the lounge for some crazy reason) and then if that works the wifi will be in a more central location as well. Dunno why there’s so much interference, I’m literally only one brick wall away from it – thinking maybe the tin roof of the carport is acting like an enormous Faraday cage and killing the signal.
🙁
Throw some clothes on the floor, maybe that will help 🙂
Quote of the day:
“My ethical unpredictability is default proof of its hard-won vitality.”
Funnily, I was just thinking of a quote too.
As we celebrate mediocrity..
Just watched World War Z. Disappointing. Yet I keep reading rave reviews about it. I mean, did we even watch the same film? It’s mediocre, at best. Comparing it to The Walking Dead may not have been fair, but I did anyway. There are way better zombie films including 28 Weeks Later, Zombieland, Shaun of the Dead, Planet Terror. Hell, even the Dawn of the Dead remake was better.
What is going on?
See you all in new TAY!
o/
Farethewell Olde TAY, ye wille be missede
WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?
@greenius sees all!
You’re okay, Jimu. You’re okay.
Just OK?
GODAMMITT!!
You’re pretty okay!
D: D: D:
@dc what are you doing here at 4pm onwards!? :O
poop
You and your stories!
@dc I like the avant garde and sweaty hands at JB one!
…wait that was you 😀
@jimu, don’t you agree that Old Man Greenius is the worst!
crotchety @dc