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Hip Hop TAY something something Monday morning how’s everybody going this morning?
Morningzzzz (already fallen asleep). Today is looking kind of bleh. Yourself?
Yeah that’s the feeling I have, work today is gonna be long and slow I can already tell
I had to stand outside for 5 mins with no umbrella in the rain. Screw you Monday, I thought we had an agreement. You be average and I won’t hate you!
Mondays can’t be trusted you should know this by now!
What up, Cam?
Not much DC just at work wishing I was at home, yourself?
I gots me 50 eps of Parks and Rec to catch up on and two seasons of The Killing! And GTAV tomorrow! And stuff. STUFF.
SO MUXH STUFF!
GTA V HYPE!
Freaks out like an 11 year old French kid.
Ps. Happy Monday all.
Oh man, TAY’s going to be a ghost town! A GHOST TOWN!
Hopefully Scooby Doo’s in the mood for mystery solvin’…
Need to know if GTAV breaks street date. Kthxbai.
Not likely with so many midnight launches.
Nothing major happening this week right?
Nah. Kingdom Hearts HD was last week.
The sad thing is, I’m seriously considering not playing GTA V until I finish it…
And Beyond: Two Souls and Wind Waker are still two weeks away or so!
I heard there was a Saints Row knock-off clone coming out, bit beneath the radar, haven’t heard much about it.
Probably some $90 dlc with no effort put in.
I’m waiting for the DLC to come out on PC.
*starts laughing*
*laughing turns into crying*
Yeah my mate was umming and arring which console version to get.
I then sent him a shot of Max Payne 3 maxed out on my PC to make a point. It was a sore point.
Meh just tell him to buy a license for consoles and another when it comes to pc.
Shitty weekend was shitty. Bring on the new week!
Should have come to board games. We had fairy bread!
I was bedridden. 🙁
Do you count Friday night as the weekend? Because fuck you if you do 🙁
No Friday night is its own separate thing filled with fun and rainbows and sharks in tornados.
You’re alright Matt, you’re alright.
Better than that Alex jerk anyway.
Alex is dead. Long live Matt and his expensive new shoes.
Versace shoes
Shebehright, maaaaaaaaaaaaht.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com
Hope you’re feeling better!
Genuine question I’m afraid to ask in the wilds of the articles: That kid in the GTAV video there, he seems to be giving off a few signs of some sort of special needs. Anyone else see that or have I just spent too much time around my wife and her work?
Nah I agree.
The way the parents reacted even backs that up.
Nice to see the Internet make a thing of it -_-
After a rubbish weekend on call, I have begun my morning with a big Up ‘n Go. Shortly after I started work on a can of Mother. Fairly certain the two beverages are locked in mortal combat in my tummy-tum as we speak. Early reports indicate Mother is winning.
Have fun pushing that combo out.
Although it will probably be less push and more leak.
I think I’ll be more an unwilling participant in a horrific turn of events.
Oh god they’re forming an alliance and attacking the kidneys
Round 1, Fight!
MOOOOORRRRRTAAAALLL KOOOOMMMBAAAAAT!
FATALITY!!!
Also, World War Z was actually pretty cool, I thought. Didn’t see it at the movies because it looked dicky as hell in the trailers. Was actually pretty surprised at how much I enjoyed it.
i watched that last night too, was surprised how much I enjoyed it, those zombies are freaking brutal
That was the movie @dc took me to on our mandate. After seeing the movie I knew he just wanted to be friends. =(
(P.S. I really disliked it)
I disliked it too.
You didn’t put out! The heart wants what the heart wants… putting out!
I didn’t mind that it was a story independent of the book(s), but I thought the last third of the film was stupid and weak.
Given how it was supposed to end (spoilers – http://www.movies.com/movie-news/world-war-z-original-ending/12638 ), I now dislike it even more. 😛
Had the dog run into my knee that I had a knee reconstruction on 4 months ago. Doesn’t feel all that great. Hopefully I haven’t done anything serious and it’s just scar tissue or something that felt bad.
It’s all good though. Gta v will be out soon and I need to know if it breaks street date to go and get it after work and will only have 30 mins to go to the shops.
How was everyone’s weekends?
With 130 EB games stores and 40+ JB’s doing the mid-night launch thing I would not expect a broken street date.
Sleepy – Possibly still hungover – Weekend too busy.
*dies*
R.I.P.
Highlight of my Saturday: crushing a man’s skull between my fingers and using his corpse to beat his friend to death. With the power of imagination and dice.
No one told me Shane and BDKIAF were in town!
Spend most of the weekend marathoning Legend of Korra. I don’t care how many times I watch the last episode. But that scene
on the boat.is so damn amazing.Why didn’t you bring an umbrella?
Oh dear, I’m seriously considering calling in lazy on my half day of work today in the vain hope that GTA breaks street date. This is sad.
In other news, my internet is back on, Rayman Legends is a pretty cool guy (though the harder versions of the song levels are a pain), and woo get hype for Can’d Meat!
i appreciate the suggestion but i think i am okay with indifference for now thanks
I was hoping for more of a challenge with the 8bit versions but they only took me 2 or 3 tries.
All in all, Legends feels a little easier than Origins.
Add meeeee Blaghhead!!!
Ugh, effort. And yeah, it really does feel a lot easier, but I’ve been struggling with the 8 bit versions, but that’s just because I suck. It’s weird playing the Back to Origins levels, because it’s suddenly way easier to get the gold for lums than it was before.
Yeah, they’ve changed the way it works. It used to be you needed to time getting the King Lum so you could double your score for a small part, but now it’s just collect them in sequence.
Also Lums freed from plants don’t float away anymore, which is well handy.
I have today off. But then I’m working until Friday night and I’m stuck going to visit some jerks for the weekend so I won’t be playing
Kingdom Hearts GTAV Kingdom Hearts GTAV Kingdom Hearts GTAVDark Souls until next Monday.HYPE.
I haven’t been around much, is there some kind of plan or just the usual level of planning?
Just the usual complete lack of planning.
What time does Can’d Meat start, Blaghs!? What time!?
Yes.
I was going to say 3pm on my last post about it, but since some people will have been at my house overnight already, I’m not sure if it really matters.
Alright well I’ll just say “early afternoon” and then it’ll be a super fun surprise when I turn up.
Hola TAY
Hope you all had a great weekend! I went to my Brother’s farewell before he moves to Melbourne (WOLF CREEK THE MUSICAL! OPENING THIS FRIDAY! “It’s the feel good torture porn show everyone will love’ – Greg McLean, director of Wolf Creek) on Friday (Drank Lots) to a bucks show on Saturday (Drank…a fair bit) and then to the pub for tea last night (drank little).
The other odd thing that happened this weekend is that said buck locked me out of my own bathroom. turns out it’s a key lock… which I didn’t have the key for. Locksmith sorted it out.
A Monday Morning Question: What would you call a Video Game themed beer? I’m thinking Gordon Freeman’s Half Life Brew. The taste will leave you silent!
Dark souls dark ale. If I made it myself then prepare to die would work as a tagline
Mrs Tigs has a Razberry and Lilly lime drink she makes.
Uncle pey’j’s stout. It’s as stout as he is
After making the decision to buy FFX/X-2 HD when it’s out, I looked up the release date. Oh. OK.
So after making a few adjustments to my PS2 emulator I have the game looking amazing and running perfectly, and after 3 hours of playing on the weekend it made me realise that I never gave FFX the respect it deserves. The voice acting is still frequently jarring, but the story and gameplay is pretty great.
It is one of the more coherent plots.
Really?
I thought the story was so drenched in religious symbolism that it was awfully overbearing.
That’s what made Tidus slightly more endearing…he keeps ignoring all the religious precedents and upsetting everyone.
Symbolism is when they try to hide it behind a symbol isn’t it?
I saw ZERO attempts at hiding their anti-religious points. That was one of the parts I liked.
Tidus is a whiny baby, Jecht should have aborted him!
I’ve almost finished that one! I’m at the Calm lands or something.
One of us
One of us
One of us
Is actually ended up playing and finishing X-2 without playing X at all. I just completely missed the boat on that one and ended up playing the Powerpuff girls-style sequel. It actually made the story kind of interesting in that they kept making these references to things that happened as if you knew them, so piecing things together was kind of fun.
I tried so hard with FFX. My best attempt was 8 hours in before I gave up and just couldn’t play anymore, back on the PS2. I’ll be trying again on Vita with the HD remakes, but optimism is low. I still have a great deal of trouble pinning down why I didn’t like it, but I just didn’t.
I know Tidus annoyed me no end as character – in fact almost every character felt out of place to me. Except Auron, but only because he’s badass – I didn’t get far enough to find out more about him. It felt so different to the other games – and I’m not talking about gameplay specifically either. The story, characters, setting, it all felt odd to me.
But considering I’m far more likely to play it through on a handheld, and many people whose opinions I respect hold FFX in such high regard – I’m going to try again. I want to like it.
Incidentally, I own FFX-2 on PS2, but have never played it – so don’t know a lot about that one.
It’s Tidus’ stupid fucking shorts where one leg is longer than the other. They irritate me so much. Also he’s a dickhead. Waka also annoys me a lot.
Mainly though, the game is really heavy-handed early on. And for all the people whinging about FFXIII being linear, FFX is pretty similar.
Tidus was painful, and Wakka made me want to punch defenseless things. The difference being that when FFXIII dropped, there were more people on the internet using words easy to parrot like ‘linear’. I reckon at least 50% of the people I spoke to that hated FFXIII hadn’t played more than a couple of hours. I’d ask what’s wrong and all I’d get is ‘It’s so linear!’ Yes, but what else? ‘Oh, it’s just so linear!’ Right.
Honestly the FFXIII hate is remarkably similar to the ME3 hate in my eyes. Word-of-mouth, internet spouted, parrotted buzz words from people who wouldn’t know their ass from a hole in the ground. FFXIII was a great game. It had it’s issues, and some annoying ones, but it wasn’t the antichrist the internet would have you believe it was. It was a solid entry in the franchise – far from the best, but I put in 150 odd hours and thoroughly enjoyed it.
EDIT: Sorry for the slight tangent, but yes – FFX is pretty similar to FFXIII in linearity, but try telling that to the rose colored glasses. I think one of the biggest pulls was for many people, FFX was their first (or first serious) foray into the FF series. For me it was late in the piece and confused me no end, after the previous games. It was far too colorful and bright for it’s own good as well.
FFX was where everything started to go downhill. It’s a good game – I’ve finished it twice and liked it a lot – but it’s not quite at the standard of the PS1 golden era. And it’s all been downhill since then.
Incidentally it’s the first FF game where The Gooch wasn’t involved as director or producer. And the first one where Uematsu didn’t do the whole score.
I disagree on FFXIII. First time I got to Gran Pulse and then got distracted by other games and never went back. Second time more recently, I tried to force my way through and I don’t think I made it past the second chapter. The game’s straight up tedious. It’s not that the areas are linear corridors, it’s that it’s monotonous. Same fights one after the other where you’re not really doing very much at all – the combat doesn’t have any punch to it, you feel disconnected from the action – interspersed with a few short cutscenes involving characters who have no personality at all. The group doesn’t really ever feel cohesive and you’re not given any real reason to care about them so you can’t give a shit about their personal quest or anything, like they actively avoid allowing you to get invested in anything about the game.
Linear JRPGs are fine IMO. I loved Grandia II and that game is a straight fucking line without any optional content or anything, but the characters were great and the battle system remains one of the most exciting ever. Nothing wrong with a linear game. That’s not FFXIII’s problem at all.
Yeah, see I disagree. The ATB system is the height of FF’s combat system, but the FFXIII system was very satisfying. Thoroughly enjoyed it. The paradigm system was a great idea.
It’s better than XII at least.
FFX has the best ATB implementation IMO. Moves a bit quicker (one attack can start while the previous character is moving back into line) and the tactical options afforded by the fact it explicitly shows upcoming turn order and allows you to delay enemies and stuff is really cool (this was also one of the things that made Grandia’s combat so awesome).
So I spent my whole weekend finishing off a playthrough of Civ V with the Greeks, and got about 8 achievements in one shot the moment the game ended :P.
My next playthrough has been interesting so far, I declared war on the Ottomans with Carthage and the Assyrian Siege tower is so broken that if I had 2 siege towers and 2 longbowman and 1 sowrdsman to finish the job, I can take over any city in one turn. Shortest. Siege. Ever. xD
Ah man, I installed Civ on my MAC and it won’t run.
This sounds raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.
Delusional human, thinking the MAC can play games 🙂
I tried to play Super Meat Boy but it opened Tumblr and a font management program instead.
🙁
Started playing The Bureau: Xcom on the weekend. That game is brutal, for stuff up your tactics or you are screwed. I’m actually kinda enjoying it, the story and characters are very bland but the gameplay and combat is pretty cool.
The art direction is pretty cool too. Washed out colours and the like.
Yeah, forgot to mention the art. Washed out colours look real nice.
You’re okay, Nobs. You’re okay.
I changed my RSS feed from kotaku.com.au to kotaku.com.au Australian stories, and it has made me a better person already.
HELLDAMNFART! Haven’t been able to connect to Xbox Live for about a week now and it is driving me friggin nuts.
It’s a real kick in the plums as I was looking forwrd to some on live shenanigans for Diablo 3.
Stupis lousy internet thingamabob.
It really annoys me because every other device can connect to the internet, just not the xbox.
Also a nuisance as I got a bunch of dlc codes for SR4 that I can’t use either.
Grrr
Better start working in time for some GTA5 multi mayhem.
CRAPBOOBSCRAP.
Whoah, whoah… I don’t know if that kind of language is called for
😛
You’re a gamer. You’re entitled to use that sort of language.
doody
POOP!
Wow, I feel so rebellious.
Watch out for the monkey! He throw things!
Each volume of the Y: The Last Man hardcovers has a different picture of the same monkey: Ampersand, on the spine.
It’s pretty great!
best sentence structure EVER!!!
Brian K Vaughan though? Isn’t he the Under the Dome guy? *shudder*
😛
no, I think of him as the Ex Machina, Y: The Last Man or the Saga guy.
He was pretty great on the Lost writing staff too. What happened with Under the Dome, though? WHAT HAPPENED? :'(
Lost wasn’t that great either — “we know how it’s going to end!” to “we made it all up as we went, okay?!” but I don’t blame Brian K Vaughan for that.
Also, don’t hat me or punch me, DC! D:
Lost was awesome. You take that back!
As I read this the (weird new) Wiggles were singing “Do The Monkey”. You’re a Wiggle!!!! D:
Little known fact, in high school I was nominated as the “Most likely to become the next Wiggle” because I apparently looked like one. :S My brother was “Most likely to miss his own funeral.”
That’s not cool…you’d look odd in a skivvy. 😛
Atleast it’d cover my scrawny arms. I think the real deal breaker is children terrifying me and not wanting to be around them evah. 😛
But my son calls you his friend. 🙁
Strangelings are the exception! 😀
Next you are going to pretend you didn’t enjoy playing the My little pony game
My craptop just bluescreened!
My wife has started asking a lot of questions lately. Questions I’m not ready to answer yet, like “What’s Reddit?”
Respond with dad joke “dunno, I haven’t reddit?”
save it for page 6.
Reddit’s one thing, but don’t let her near Tumblr, ferchrissake. I’ve actually known two females who never exhibited any fan tendencies whatsoever descend into total fangirls as a result of that site. All the way down to dirty fanfiction, the whole shebang. I find it a little weird, tbh.
I’ve got all the ingredients for home made pizza except for the bases, so I’m gong to make some sort of crazy pizza jaffle/toastie/toasted sandwich/dealy… It’s going to be good! >:|
Sounds delicious! SnackTAKU please!
Useda buy pizza sauce and pepperoni and make pizza breads when I lived with @gutsoup he was totes jelly
@shane: How was the chair? THE CHAIR?
It’s not gonna save my marriage, but it’s all right.
Morning everyone.
For some reason, I slept in and still woke up tired.
Also, I can’t find my fine liner and I really don’t want to pay $5 for another one. D=
Whenever I sleep more than 8-9 hours, I wake up feeling ridiculously tired and exhausted — usually worse than before going to sleep.
Also, I hope you find your fine liner, scree!
Yeah, I find sleeping in makes me feel more “urgh” when I wake up.
I felt tired anyway. I was feeling depressed yesterday and it always makes me excessively tired
Yeah, rub it in.
Sorry Rize =(
That sucks get some tea in your belly to wake you up as @trjn always says.
Also if you can’t find your fine liner eyeliner works also
Eyeliner smears. This is for drawing. I had two but they’ve both vanished
Not if it’s a fine eye liner, I know this as one of the girls I talk to did a drawing for her BFF and ran outta fine liner so used a liquid eye liner and it came out sweet
All my eye liners smudge, even the non smudge ones. -_- I pay $30 and it still smudges.
Those bastard eyeliners! Maybelline?
One is Revlon creme eyeliner ($12) and the other is Benefit ($30)
I STILL HAVEN’T PREORDERED GTAV OH GOD IT’S THE RAPTURE!! Or so I’ve been told
neither have i, so your indie cred has been shattered
My indie cred was shattered when I went into cotton on and refused to wear their cuffed jeans
Me too.
(To be honest I am really not hyped for it in anyway.) =P
That’s just the Monday in you talking, you go wash that off!
I’m kind of tempted to buy it due to everyone’s hype, but the last game I did that with was The Last of Us and that didn’t work out to well. I think in going to listen to my gut this time.
:'(
Bikes.
So much room for activities.
We can be not interested in GTA5 buddies! o/
Same here. I’m just going to mosey into the store tomorrow and pick it up from the shelf and go to the counter and avoid making eye contact with JB sales people and then make small talk and then walk home and then play it. AND THERE’S NOT A DAMN THING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.
you going to Strathpine JB? I’ll be there at 9 am sharp. They cancelled their midnight launch 🙁
Because they plan to break street date! #streetdatebreak
I… was. Now I’m too scared that if I see you there it’ll be a repeat of my awkward man date with Transientmind. You don’t need that in your life, gutsoup. XD
pssst, @gutsoup. Make sure you put out. You only get one chance with DC.
It’s all good, I’ll put out 😀
That’ll be much less awkward 😛
Good man, the rest of the world must learn from my mistake!
Haha! It’s pretty damn cool that Jimu, Gutsoup and my local JB is the same!
we win….. for reasons. Well i might see you there tomorrow 😀
Go for the awkward conversation stay for the awkward man stare
I’ve matured as a person, when I bought Rayman Legends I managed a three sentence conversation with the girl at JB, and I held eye contact for roughly appropriate lengths of time! I believe that you can do the same, SkiFree!
Haha! When I bought Rayman I accidentally put my sweaty hands on the counter and spent the entire time trying to clean up sweaty hand imprint without people noticing.
D:
Haha 😀
(this is a comment to tell you I enjoyed your comment)
Thank you. I needed that. :’)
😀
I had an awkward conversation with the new girl at my local EB asking me if I was getting the PS4 and talking about games and my girlfriend was with me and I’m like why are you so chatty dammit I’m just buying a $10 HDMI cord
You leave EB girl alone!
I preordered it from ozgameshop.
If I’m lucky it will arrive for next Monday, the start of my mid-semester break, but more likely I’ll get it a day or two before GTA:Online goes live.
Sam, last GTA I played was Chinatown Wars cos I had a R4 card.
Good times.
get it Jimu, we can do pointless things online that don’t involve any shooting at all 😛
HA HA!
no
How many Sonic Transformed races have we had? HOW MANY???!!!
but I’m terrible at that and hardly play it, I’ll always be playing GTA 😛
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😛
correct
And on the topic of brilliant Pokemon names…
http://imgur.com/a/ovj9T
(Courtesy of Odin_Dude on reddit)
SEE, LARGE NUMBER OF GAME JOURNALISTS? THAT’S AN EXAMPLE OF HOW YOU GIVE CREDIT TO SOMEONEThat’s clever!
That is brilliant.
Ooohhhhh cleverest
@jimu Brian K Vaughan was also the Runaways guy.
@dc Don’t judge Vaughan by Under the Dome!
I blame Brian K Vaughan for all my troubles!
Hate to break it to you, but Brian K Vaughan isn’t the guy delaying Beyond Good and Evil 2.
But he is the reason there aren’t as many great Adventure Games these days
@dc
You heard it here first.
Brian K Vaughan moonlights as an architect
@dc — Also, I enjoyed Lost (didn’t watch it when it first aired, only in the last 18-ish months) but the writing wasn’t brilliant. Maybe top 30 of tv series I’ve watched. 😛
I’ve only read the Runaways that Whedon did, it was….OK at best.
So I couldn’t honestly have said I think of him as the Runaways guy.
PS: One of the Runaways is in Battle of the atom atm, true story.
Whedon’s run is not as good, and I think would suffer if you came into it cold.
Yeah, I’ll read the originals when I get a hold of a copy.
Library did have those manga sized editions but they seemed to have dissapeared 🙁
Sharknado is a pretty cool guy.
Amanda Palmer was ok.
GTA V for next gen & PC details found in 360 version it was pretty much inevitable, but that evidence pleases me.
Speaking of GTA… Hilarity & ignorance & jerk all in one.
Hey, it’s 35! Hey 35!
*waves*
hey DC.
‘sup?
I saw 35! That’s all that’s new with me though.
It burns….
Agreed on amanda, I liked the supports more, But was overall a good show, Were you down the front?
Also HI 35 🙂
OK, I have to go poop and vacuum.
Hopefully at different times…
You could use the vacuum to save you the effort of pooping!
so, nowhere in WA is doing a midnight launch for GTAV, so lets hope that gives them more incentive to break street date, then it might actually be worth living here!
Now green tea and Skittles Sours.
Good lord, I’m an adult. What am I doing?
FUCKING WINNING IS WHAT
Sour Skittles! FRIEND! I love those things!
So do I! My brother once tried to eat a whole bag of them once. He was successful … actually I depends what you classify as successful. He kept the whole pack down for a few mins.
They’re pretty fucking ace.
With everything else you’ve had today you might need to borrow @jimu’s vacuum.
It’s 10:30am and I’ve consumed an Up ‘n Go, green tea, Mother and half a bag of Skittles Sours.
brb, climbing the walls.
Climbing the walls? After what you’ve consumed , I wouldn’t advise being in a situation where you’re above another human being 😐
Up ‘n Go? Just like my ex-wife!
Climbing the walls?
Sure you weren’t bit by a RADIOACTIVE SPIDER?
Eh…eh?
“Mummy, why is the ceiling dripping rainbows?”
“Keep away from there Billy and call the plumber. I’ll call the exorcist.”
I’m eating Caramel Popcorn and watching kids’ shows.
Livin’ the dream.
So I missed the last two episodes of Breaking Bad and caught up on Sunday.
rot13’d:
Uatu.
No, that’s not a typo.
That’s the watcher’s name from Marvel!
Uatu the Watcher!
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/137/334676849_47b1bd270f_o.jpg
Correct response.
The Newsroom/Boardwalk Empire day! WOOOOO!
Black Mirror, WOOOO!
The adventure game?
Is that a movie?
>:|
:-s
D:
XD
And just like that, all was right with the world.
There’s another season?
Two seasons so far. third on the way I believe.
Wow I timed getting into work just right. Just started spitting when I started walking and was getting heavier. Ducked into an undercover area as it go heavy. Another guy did the same and for some reason gave me a run down of the location of all the brothels in a 3 suburb radius.
Stopped raining after 5 minutes so continued into work. 5 minutes after getting inside the heavens opens and it bucketed down.
The weekend was quite nice. Worked Saturday but finished fairly early so went home and spent some time wth Mrs Tigs. We played a bit of Reus which we am slowly getting the hang of. Damn unlock system means you need to achieve things in your previous game (have a forest village with 3000 prosperity) before it will unlock the next tier of sources. So we got stuck as we were unable to produce apple or pear trees which meant our growth was stalled. But we managed to unlock a bunch of stuff that game so it was good.
Celebrated @trjn’s birthday on Sunday with some boardgames. Played Dominion for the first time and can see why that was highly regarded. Although I was told that I was sleeping on the couch after I stole Mrs Tigs only silver early in the game. Thankfully I didn’t have to, but it was a close thing.
I also played Race for the galaxy for the 1st tie, which was a game that @negativezero was interested in. We opened it up and started to try and work out how to play. Started having major Eclipse flashbacks. Thankfully it didn’t take anywhere near as long to setup and the actual gameplay is quick and easy to pickup. I really like this game, fairly standard 4x style gameplay but with cards. Everybody picks a phase that everybody plays but the person which picked it gets a bonus. Build, produce and trade for victory points and the game ends when somebody gets 12 cards on the table.
What I liked about the game is that you race against your opponents, rather than compete against them. Which phase you call can annoy them such as calling consume when they have no goods but you can’t target or attack anybody. Makes for a much friendlier 4x experience so it is potentially better for playing with a significant (or potential significant) other.
There was also a selection of cakes and desserts of which I partook. We then went home, had chicken sandwiches for dinner, unlocked a few more things in Reus, played a little puzzle quest and went to bed.
And in the time it has taken me to write this the rain has stopped.
Lucky you.
It’s belting down here, and I took the bus today
Race for the Galaxy is an awesome game. I played the crap out of it with a co-worker at my previous job. We’d get through 2-3 2-player games every lunch break. It gets much faster once you learn the cards and the strategies.
A tip to start with: Blue & Brown production worlds (Novelty Goods and Mining). Get some worlds or developments which let you sell goods for VPs. Once you get set up (may take a few turns) you can get a rotation going where you Produce and Consume x2 VPs and run away with the game very fast – once you’ve got everything going you can have eg Settle/Develop & Produce in one turn (assuming 2 players) and Trade & Consume x2 VPs in the second. With a few cards out to increase your trade yield on mining goods that can basically take the place of exploration (explore helps your opponent, trade can often stuff them up because you must do a consume pass and exhaust all resources).
The big thing is to remember that whenever you choose a phase, your opponent gets it too. Try and anticipate what they’re going to play next and be ready to capitalize on anything they do so that you can make use of it as well.
Yeah, the blue/brown strategy was what my opponent used. I couldn’t really work out the expected strategy of the cards I had so didn’t really get anything rolling. We used the introductory sets to start with. But it is a really good sign when you get thumped in a game, don’t really work out what you should be doing but still enjoy it
Base game, there’s really only two viable strategies. You either go all military and aim for getting the high-value military worlds out quickly, or you go with the produce / consume strategy. You *might* be able to do the Alien approach but there’s not quite enough Alien cards and 6-cost developments to support it in the base game. Expansions make Alien and Uplift strategies viable as well as improving Military. There’s also stuff that will set things up such that you can have a Brown-oriented set of worlds and draw cards during your produce so you can basically never do anything but produce & consume, wait for other players to develop or settle and play your cards on their turns. That one’s impossible to stop once it’s going.
BENEDICT CHUNDERSNATCH.
Benedict Cummerbund
Benedict Cumberbash
http://pokebatchichooseyou.tumblr.com/
That is scary, really scary
Blame Mrs @beardymcmuttonchops.
Hahaha! *cries inconsolably*
THEY HAUNT MY EVERY WAKING STEP
Brambledick Thunderpatch.
Best pornstar name EVER!
KhanKHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNSnacktaku: It was good.
>=(
Okay…
Layer of pizza sauce, then a layer of mushrooms, then a layer of cheese, then a layer of pepperoni, then a layer of more cheese… then some pizza sauce on top. Cook for eight minutes. EAT.
Mmmm, how many bish’s / 10?
I don’t know about this Bish ranking, but on the scale of Sughly eating things off the ground, he’d definitely eat this off the ground.
Octave Theory – Earthbound Papas is a pretty cool guy!!
@gutsoup – Meepos poosect!
poopos minosect
You know i get that in my head at least once a month and get very weird looks from Jess while i walk around singing it.
I liked Black Mages a lot more personally. His Earthbound Papas stuff is a bit too 70s prog for me.
Different is good, I like my 70s prog just as much as my 80s hair metal!!!
Russell Brand annoys me.
he’s an intelligent & articulate & witty man, but he choses to waste that talent on making dick jokes.
that is annoying.
Yep, no one’ll ever be as good as Bill Hicks 🙁
Eddie Pepitone?
http://eddiepepitone.com/
Will check!, TA!
He’s really fucking good.
I’m not laughing though. Those people cracking up in the audience? weird.
Yeah man, some of his bits are absolutely genius.
This one where he heckles himself is one of my favourites.
http://youtu.be/Z9hqXEHp2HE
Yeah, that made me laugh.
Can’t hear him that well tough 🙁
His whole persona just makes me want to punch him in the face.
I felt the same until I read that piece he wrote about Amy Winehouse.
http://www.russellbrand.tv/2011/07/for-amy/
now I still want to punch him, but because he could be doing so much more with himself…
He’s smart enough to know that’s where the money is. I mean, look at TAY…full of intelligent articulate witty men who like to make dick jokes. 😛
Hey guys, she just called us men! *giggles*
But real men can grow beards… as i have yet to achieve this i have earned the right to call myself a child… ALL THE DICK AND POOP JOKES \o/
Probs on account of all the dicks we have as a collective.
Dickman.
The world’s most intelligent caveman.
I like some of his stuff. The video where he’s just being a complete prat to the people interviewing him is wonderful. But yeah, so much wasted potential.
Same. There’s certain things he does that are great…but…based on his behaviour in the public eye I’m glad I don’t have to deal with him personally.
I can’t stand his voice. Just his voice.
and his looks… and his jokes… actually lets just say i can’t stand him 😛
You should watch his documentary on substance addiction.
cheers man. I’ll check it out when I get home.
I tend to ignore him but when he occasionally does something intelligent, I tend to enjoy it.
Well, my scanner isn’t big enough to fit the page I want to scan onto it.
🙁
I’ve seen super villains origin stories start from less!
I’m closer to Chaotic Good, honestly.
I miss @shane, whenever he’s not on screen everyone should say… something…
http://www.shanewsmith.com
?
SHHAAAANNNEEEE!
Where’s @shane?
Lounging in a comfy chair in his man cave reminiscing and making up for lost time
I know how to get @shane
Dark Souls!
DARK SOULS!
DARK SOULS!
I hear Shane hates Dark Souls! (This is how we bait people, right? RIGHT?)
Also, @shane should have access to a time machine… y’know, so he doesn’t miss what’s going on in TAY as it happens.
Maybe he sat in the chair and can’t get out! D:
Hey TAY…
I am alive…
I am back from the funeral and i can honestly say that a children’s funeral is one of the most depressing things i have ever been a part of… normal funerals are bad, but this was the worst…
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAANYWAY, on a brighter note i still suck at War Thunder \o/
and played a shit ton on Star Trek Catan on the weekend \o/
How is life for everyone else?
also @scree, sorry if i was a bit short with you the other night… was kind of down, and had all the family over so i had to attempt to be social, which means i ran to and from the computer
You weren’t short with me. I understood. Hope things get better for you all.
Yeah, Scree’s the short one.
It’s true!
Well i wasn’t being very polite and i feel bad…
On the plus side i will definitely be playing L4D2 soon because DISNEYLAND \o/
you got the disneyland campaign?
I didn’t even notice, to be honest.
Yeah it’s downloaded through steam workshop, looks pretty darn amazing… i was a big fan of the Dark Carnival campaign, so i’m really keen on giving it a go
I saw it, but didn’t download it. Maybe I will have to.
Selfish, selfish, selfish Pixel
I’ve been fortunate enough that I’ve never had to attend a funeral like that, but imagine they would be horrible.
War thunder, are you going for any of the free planes? You only have to shoot down 1000 enemies or something
Is that all? well i only have 999 to go then XD
i think i’ll stick to my Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane for a while… looked at the repair costs of the other planes and holy shishkabob they’re expensive! i can’t afford to be shot out of the sky which happens pretty consistently!
Well if you stick with a single nation you get a big chunk of lions as you progress
http://warthunder.com/en/news/251/current/
hmmm… i might be in with a small chance… but Typhoon? eh 😛
Aw man, sounds like a tough weekend. Sorry you had to go through this. 🙁
all good mang, doing my best to be positive… we’re all doing OK considering, so that’s the main thing…
How’s life in the world of D.C.?
Lonesome! And socially awkward! And full of awesome TV shows!
so all in all A-OK?
and you’re never alone… i’ll always be there… sitting in a tree… across the street… with binoculars… giving you imaginary hugs from afar
*closes windows*
I was wondering who I was sharing my tree with 😛
If the branch is rocking, don’t come knocking…. JUST SAYING! 😛
Always shit when stuff like that happens. The best you can do is ride it out and wait for things to get better. Also, winning the lottery helps.
Yeah we’ll be aight! keeping high spirits so that’s the main thing…
Speaken of spirits when are you coming to Melbourne again? i still have half a shot-bucket that requires consuming!
#seewhatididthere?
I have nooo idea, but we should probably do something at some point.
Okay well i will call my guy so my guy call can call your guy so your guy can get back to my guy which will then contact me about doing something at some point mmmkay?
Star Trek Catan?!
Eeeeyup!
http://www.ozgameshop.com/strategy-board-games/star-trek-catan-board-game
I don’t know if it’s the novelty of being set in the star trek universe or the addition of Crew Cards (which can modify gameply a bit) but i enjoy it a lot more then normal Settlers of Catan
There’s a copy of that at a store near my place. Incidentally, I’m starting to spend a lot of money in that place of late…
I started spending waaaay to much money on Board Games…. BUT BOARD GAMES \o/…
But buying board games in-store tends to be 20 – 30 bucks more then online… Ticket To Ride Europe we couldn’t find for under $80 in stores so we bought it online for $55
Boo, it’s got the crap outer board like the 4th Edition. 🙁
In the original games the sea areas were hex tiles like the rest of the game and it was much easier to set everything up and looked tidier, plus much easier to re-randomize the ports and stuff.
Eh, not too fussed because it’s still GLORIOUS \o/ 😛
Question for Payday 2 peeps: what’s your opinion on the latest patch? I enjoy it and hate it in equal measure. Everything just became that much harder and I mean EVERYTHING. The sheer number of ‘dozers I’m seeing now is borderline ridiculous but it made stealthing everything that much more viable.
Pop’s Vote = Difficult and unfair but still fun.
Considering most levels makes stealth borderline useless, I’m glad to see there’s some focus on it.
I haven’t actually played since the most recent patch, though.
I’ve heard they completely screwed over the cash / exp scaling. Bags don’t give more exp / money then they did in the last patch. Which was a big thing they said they were fixing,
Also, overkill is basically impossible unless you are level 80+ with super upgraded weapons.
What I think was going through the dev’s heads when changing overkill: “So we hear you don’t like bulldozers…”
Yeah they seriously reduced the payout per bag unless you get in excess of the required amount. And they also reduced the base pay that each mission paid out as well. This is in addition to increasing the cost of all of the weapons, masks/customisation, and skills. Our only solace is that they have massively increased the potential payout from cash cards (I’ve seen $80,000 payout from a single card which was more than the payout for an entire hard Firestarter. Just makes grinding cards still probably the most cost/time efficient method for leveling and getting loot.
Good. Bothered the shit out of me that people would grab the minimum and bolt. I always want to go for the maximum and no one ever does.
I think I’m done with the game. Haven’t played in a week or so and don’t really feel the urge to go back. The new changes just make the game less appealing because it seems like more work to get to the good bits.
Chicken Nuggets and Death Sauce.
Healthy.
And now, home made jerky (four different flavours!) from my mate. Hoo-boy. Fuck you, digestive system, I never liked you anyway.
I’ve got some jerky here called Snakebite Venom.
I cannot eat it. I love Scorpion and Ultra Death Sauce but I cannot handle this jerky.
Nothing so severe here, but he bought himself a dehydrator and has been tinkering with various flavours for the last few months, and he’s getting quite good. Today we have satay, teriyaki, tikka and pepper steak. \o/
Your stomach can’t even handle dried meat…?
More like it’s so confused with everything it’s currently digesting that it will probably instantly purge anything resembling ‘normal food’.
To be fair, he did just drink an energy drink so it’s still getting over the shock of drinking sewerage.
It’s more the Up ‘n Go, Mother, green tea, and sour skittles that preceded said jerky.
You know what I re-realised today?
EB Games here is more or less the best place to get games here.
What a wacky, wacky up-side down continent this is.
Provided you price match.
Floated this a week or so ago, and had some interest, but I’ll ask again: Anyone (other than @mawt @mythamphetamine @transientmind) interested in playing the Numenera RPG over the web-o-nets? It’s the RPG that the upcoming Torment game is going to be based in and it’s a pretty cool guy
Ohhhh, pick meeeeeeeee!
Play it cool, man!
Excellent!
Sure, I’m keen. I haven’t played Numenera before but I reckon I should be able to pick it up easily enough.
It’s pretty easy (on the face of it)- players do all the rolling, characters can be knocked out in 20 or so minutes
I might be but it depends on timing.
We’d probably do it over a Google + Hangout, I can be flexible on times 🙂
Hnngh I’m a massive sucker for RPG anything but I really should stop. I’m currently in 5 different games atm and about to start a new 4th edition DnD game. So as much as I would like to, I’m going to have to bow out.
Man, that’s some pro-level RPGing there 🙂
Oh you have no idea. I have spreadsheets and everything.
Interested but depends on timing. Is it something you can drop in and out of week to week or do you need a dedicated party the entire time?
Can probably do drop-in drop-out- it’s all about exploration, so I’d probably just pick a site a week and we could explore.
Ok, then keep me in the loop. Should probably be able to make it each week (insert relevant timeframe) but with work I can’t be sure
Count me in!
Thank goodness for notifications. I have no idea what this game is but I like exploration games and playing with taybies is always fun. Count me in
It’s just as well I don’t own a Japanese 3DS or else I’d probably get diabetes
seriously why is there no elite beat agents 2
Because EBA was crap compared to the majesty of Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan. Which did get a second game.
And then Nintendo decided to be bigger pricks than previously thought possible and region lock the 3DS, preventing any break-out import success stories like Ouendan ever happening again on their platform. 🙁
Anyway, the Vita’s got a few similar sort of games (eg DJ Max Technica, Miku Hatsune: Project Diva) and Theatrhythm and Rhythm Thief on 3DS are both pretty good. Theatrhythm’s gameplay is very obviously Ouendan-inspired.
Stupid Hatsune Miku – that fucking ‘Cat Food’ song gets stuck in my head for days every time I play it. So horrifically catchy.
I know, right?!?
Man, I have a prac test today that I had no idea about until last night where I have to find and fix 8 errors in a massive Java file over 5 classes :l
Weekend was good. Ended up playing out little differently than I expected it to, but was still okay. Played a lot of Mario Party 9 which is way more fun than it should be, and played a few SNES games on the Wii. Also finally got to watch The worlds end last night from a surprisingly good quality rip. Was a good movie, as expected 😛
Fairly certain my teeth are vibrating and there’s a sort of time vortex forming above my head.
See you all last week.
You need more caffeine.
I told you subsituting the water in your coffee with energy drink was a terrible idea!
Hello, I am StickMan. I don’t really have much time for games, but I still have time to talk about games.
#full-time-job-problems #sosad #icryevrytiem
‘sup StickMan?
welcome to TAY!
This guy. Page-get on a first post. That aside, WELCOME!
I think he planned it… it’s a conspiracy… CONSPIRACY…
Wait people actually have time for games?
what’sthisidon’teven!
also Hi @stickman
Pull up a chair
Welcome man!
Sometimes I sit here thinking about playing games but end up not playing games because I am crippled by choice.
#FirstWorldProblems
My backlog is so huge that I have this problem every day.
Are you related to the Stickmen from The Longest Journey?
Makings of a friendship if so!
By binary logic, makings of a nemesis if not?
A stranger’s just a nemesis I haven’t met!
I’m quoting you on that. I’m thinking of putting it on my work email autosignature.
Binary logic?
Nope. Related to Nicolas Cage from Matchstick Men.
welcome!
Sorry had my hands full. Now I can welcome you properly. Welcome to TAY where the people are nice and the dick jokes are common. I am sure you’ll fit right in.
We don’t take too kindly to strangers in these parts! >:|
D:
Well, you don’t.
#angrydc #mustbeinabuilding
#someonehuggedhim
…hands full…
..dick jokes…
nope, nothing to see here, moving on
I was actually eating lunch.
Nonono, dig UP stupid!
Just a light snack?
Hi, StickMan! o/
Welcome Stickman,
Stick around 🙂
I know the feeling. I listen, read and watch a lot of stuff about games but barely play them.
Real mature, Bradley.
(cc @effluvium-boy)
EDIT: To make the quote, like, the full right quote.
what was the name of that show………… TELL MEEEEEE!!!!!
me and my girlfriend have been trying to figure it out for ages (without trying too hard and actually looking it up)
Stickin’ Around
aaah, thanks man. That was a good little filler show 😀
Welcome StickHuman! 🙂
Thank you all for the warm welcome, makes me feel all fluffy inside. Shall I now tell you all about all mah consoles, what I play, what I like? Since I have a captive audience and all. 😛
Either way, you lot seem pretty damn cool, so I’ll definitely stick around. #punintended #justthatgood #okenoughhashesnow
you can do whatever you choose…
Talk crap,
Talk other stuff,
Personal secrets,
Personal secretions,
And always remember:
Pants = Optional
this guy. like 3 posts in & already with the puns. @shane is gonna like you.
everyone else though….
Xenoblade?
DINOSAURS! The unstoppable T-Rex!
You I like
Afternoon everyone… how are we all?
How’s the 3DS? What games have you picked up?
lol…
dont laugh at me… i only have one game so far, i got it for free as part of the welcome a friend promo… basically my friend bought animal crossing : a new leaf and got a code where anyone that registers a new 3ds console by october 15th, can use that code to get a free digital copy of the game…
so yeah i have animal crossing…. though i have yet to play it…..or even launch it…. aparrently i discovered one major set back… the game plays in realtime so at night, which is the only time i get for games, all the shops are closed…. i plan on starting it tonight regardless…
other than that? the first thing i did once i got it all set up, is jump onto the Shop and buy Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening… one of my favourite Zelda games that i got right up to the end part but never finished… i undusted my old gameboy (black and white) about 3 weeks ago but my save game was gone…. damn battery backup…
DUDE: FINISH LINK’S AWAKENING NOW. We will not hold it against you if you cry at the end.
Also, 3DS friends!
My Friend Code: 0576-4656-9696
I’ve already started adding people from TAY-NAMES, if you add me and it says i havent added you just @ me and ill get onto it stat!!!
https://twitter.com/number30five/status/363218395501559808/photo/1
Added!
Bloody hell, TAY. I only just got a moment to breathe and you lot are on page 3 already. Everyone take a chill pill!
I’m sorry
So you should be, Scree. So you should be.
Lol you got downvoted =P
You can’t tell me what to do! You’re not my real dad!
His real dad was a muffin
hahah welcome to my everyday!
Why does no one buy them?
D=
https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/159795898/rupee-cushions-from-zelda
I would, but I have no emotional attachment to the Zelda series.
this is more a question of marketing.
http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/amX20w4_460s.jpg
On 9Gag, most likely reddit as well.
I’ve had a few favourites, but no one seems to care.
How are you otherwise promoting your etsy store?
…I’m not. i’m pretty terrible at marketing.
I don’t know too much about etsy marketing specifically, but I imagine the real problem with etsy stores is rising above the signal-to-noise. Maybe (if you haven’t already) try a crafty site like Pinterest?
Oh, pinterest?
But that requires effort.
Well, yeah, but marketing always does 🙂
Or emotions, apparently.
Monster.
open to suggestions?
rather than take a pic of a whole heap of them, take one nice big photo of a single cushion… its kinda hard to get a good feel for what they are from that pic…
also, try advertise them elsewhere? ive never even heard of etsy, but maybe its just me 🙁
It was an image I already had. I will take some seperate images later then.
Yeah, try one in context too- put one on a couch in a well-lit room. A little humour might be good too- take one inside a pot or somewhere where you find them in Zelda.
even better, buy a porcelain vase, put a cushion inside, get someone to dress up as link, and film him picking up the vase, shatter it against a wall then pickup the rupee…. at that point cue the old school sound ta ta ta taaaaaaaaaaaaaa sound effect from the gameboy games!
Serious answer?
The name of your store gives no indication of what you’re selling. The description of the cushions is too wordy, not punchy enough, too much time spent talking about how not to wash them. Maybe have a few Zelda references in the wording of your description. You only have one picture, which makes it look unprofessional, try seperate pictures (or even listings) for each colour. And also, it’s kind of sucky but you may need to pay for yours to be one of the promoted listings for a little while.
It was a kind of a spur of the moment thing. I may not be able to afford separate listings for now.
Photos I can do, and the description as well.
I was really trying to create a point of difference from those other ones.
If you want to make money off them, another way is to sell a PDF pattern for them. Provided its something you drew up yourself, of course. People will buy patterns for $5-$10 because they’re cheap, and they don’t have to worry about postage.
Yeah, I made it from scratch when a friend said she wanted some
How about:
“Dah Dah Dah DAH! While it’s usually dangerous to go alone, you’ll feel much more secure with a bit of change down the back of the couch! Feel like a rich Hyrulian with these Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess inspired rupee cushions! Available in four colours, these machine washable Rupees can be saved to combat Ganondorf- or just to settle down on for a long gaming session!”
Then include the rest of the washing instructions when you send it out.
Can I steal that? /lazy
All yours 🙂
Also maybe try putting them on a nintendo-specific forum or subreddit (@shiggyninty may know where they are)
I will update it later when I get images. =D
Also, if you’ve got something else to put up on Etsy, whack it up, with a profile pic as well- makes it look a little less sparse
I was thinking of making video game themed aprons and beanbags, but it’s a bit hard when I have so many cosplays to make
How long would an Apron take to knock out, and what themes would you go with? I do cook a lot…
Possibly a day or two. It would depend completely on the character.
@scree I may be interested- let me know what design/char sort of thing you’re thinking of 🙂
One other thing in addition to what others have said: did you ever make any in Green or Red? Those are the ‘classic’ Rupee colors and I suspect people don’t realize what they’re looking at with the colors in your photo. You might need a photo of some in the classic colors to hook people in and make it obvious what you’re offering.
I did, but green, red and blue sold out
Do you still have photos? Including those will give a more traditional look. Plus you can say they are sold out but can be ordered with the understanding it may take (4 weeks?) to get to them.
Once you get some more photos up I can add to my pinterest for all 6 of my followers to view #helping
Also if you are considering doing any cosplay requests having those on your store could bring more people to check those out and my browse your other stuff while they are there.
Bioshock Infinite is a pretty cool guy. I bought it over the weekend at EB (sales!)
The setting doesn’t feel as cool as Rapture, but I still enjoy it. Only a couple of hours in so far. I’m surprised I’ve managed to stay mostly free of spoilers until now. Only know one thing ahead of time:
Spoilers for Bioshock Infinite
That you apparently go to Rapture at some point? I dunno.(which is relatively good considering, but still a shame to have things spoiled :P)
Anyway, fun! Now get back to work!
Oh man, I liked that game. If you like it then I mustn’t of really liked it. That’s off-putting. :'(
Honestly, put that out of your mindI don’t know how to take this comment 😛
As in, “it doesn’t matter that I know that, don’t worry” or “I should try my hardest to forget about that”?
It doesn’t matter that you know that and you should try your hardest to try and forget it.
Don’t focus on it, as the context in which it happens is more important.Mostly because it’s not terribly important and doesn’t last very long.
I’ll try to keep it as spoiler free as possible
The amount of time you spend in rapture is like 30 seconds and it’s very close to the end. There is the rapture DLC though.What is the one thing that you guys feel confident about recommending to others?
It could be anything – hardware(PC parts, headphones,cars etc) , media (TV, music, movies) or life advice.
For me it’s TV shows. The person might not enjoy my recommendations but I always seem to make my recommendations with confidence. On that note, EVERYBODY WATCH ENLIGHTENED & CARNIVALE 🙂
I’d also say podcasts. I like most of the stuff I listen to.
With other media I tend to be more reserved or just not talk about it. Music especially.
Books!
Breathing. I’d recommend that to almost anyone.
BAH YOU CAN’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO
its not something I’d recommend to everyone.
Sometimes, I do wish some people would just stop.
…
Yes Dan. I want my new season of Zeitgeist 🙂
Food.
That’s our Bish!
TV shows and adventure games!
Dunno, I’ve never really thought about it.
I just, recommend… stuff, without really thinking, you know?
I guess it’s kind of a by product of how I talk.
…he said, not sure if his advertisers were listening. 🙂
I get my brand recommendations from Brand Power and then I feel confident to share this knowledge on!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
I find that Brand Power helps me buy better.
Stuff I like
DO NOT WATCH CARNIVALE!!! That thing got canned and ive been crying myself to sleep since..
Oh man, I’ve wanted to watch Deadwood for years, but have stopped myself so I don’t get hurt. :'(
Firefly 3
WAT.
That was meant to be a broken heart, not an implication that there were two other installments in the franchise :'(
Ha ha, same here. I loved that show. Enlightened was cancelled too. That’s a pattern, maybe I should stop watching TV shows and they won’t get cancelled 🙂
Hardwareeee. Nobody likes the shows I watch, nobody likes the music I like, nobody likes the movies I like, so I hardly ever recommend anything unless I’m half joking about it 😛
Hardware I can do though (particularly audio, but PC parts too)
Not even Oliver? :'(
The only time we ever argue is over movies/tv/music 😛 He likes some of the shows I’ve forced him to watch, I like some of the shows he’s forced me to watch. He loves NTSF:SD:SUV now and at least enjoys Aqua Teen Hunger Force. We have same-ish tastes in music but he prefers more experimental stuff than I do. That and he makes fun of me for liking Paramore 🙁
Movies are our biggest point of contention. I’ve never watched lord of the rings or star wars and that annoys him sooo much 😛 We both like dumb horror films though so we watch them a lot (Peter Jackson’s first few films are amazing btw) together. And we watched The World’s End together last night, so it’s not all bad.
Our differing tastes in media does keep things quite interesting though.
Ah, young love.
😛Shoosh 😛 I may still smell like his deodorant after we hugged goodbye this morning but it doesn’t mean anything!!
Cute.
Dat shit is strong.
(To be clear I only play our “relationship” up because everyone’s replies are amusing 😛 Not that what I said above isn’t true…)
Oh okay, so we’re just nobodies on TAY :'(
*throws out Tosh.0 and Breaking Benjamin*
(I don’t know what else we have in common in those categories :P)
After the first 2 episodes of this half of the season, I’m kinda going off tosh.0 😛 BB is still great though!
Oliver hates both of them 🙁 *weeps*
It’s okay, I quit Tosh ages ago. I remember saying it was bad and then you were all “nah” and then later on you were like “yeah, it did kinda get bad”
Nerf Guns
I highly recommend importing the newest bunch.
Bible verses!
Everything! I recommend everything to everyone and hound them until they say they like it. 😛
Hugs!
I am not sewing strange! The phone calls need to stop 🙂
Fine fine, but how do you feel about cross-stitch
WATCH SURVIVOR STRANGE!
SKYRIM!
Consumer-grade audio tech (focusing on car audio, though I’m getting more comfortable with home systems now, too) would probably be my thing, along with low-leveled tech support, I suppose?
Music is another passion on which I’m rather opinionated and like to think I know my stuff, though it’s so damned subjective, and leads to such shitfights that I won’t discuss it with most people.
Fights about music suck. I like to avoid them because at the end of the day we’ll both go home and listen to what we like.
Vidya games. Fantasy books, my taste varies a lot in other genres so not as comfortable recommending outside of the genre.
Back in my school days, I was always the go-to guy whenever anyone needed to know anything Nintendo.
It’s a service I still offer (perhaps not quite as well as I used to), but takers are much less frequent these days.
Is super paper Mario on the Wii good? Also why can’t I find cheap copies of Mario Galaxy 1 and 2?
🙂
Yes, however you shouldn’t go into it expecting the same as the other Paper Mario games (save for the dialogue). It’s somewhat of a different beast. Personally, I found the whole pointer mechanic to just be a pain in the arse, and I really really hate being forced to use the stupid sideways remote control scheme. Don’t get me wrong though, I actually do really like the game 😛
As for the latter: because Nintendo are dicks.
In my eyes the Paper Mario series has been on a slippery slope since the beginning. The first one was amazing, then they kinda got progressively worse 😛 I would rank Sticker Star as slightly better than the Wii one though, i guess making it the worst of the 4. It’s okay, but I found it really boring a few worlds in.
Haven’t gotten around to Sticker Star myself yet, but you’re the first I’ve heard rank it above SPM.
Also sif rank Thousand Year Door down in any way 😛
http://www.teefury.com/
I have 40 minutes to decide whether I want to buy this…
Who on earth would want to buy a shirt coloured baby-turd green?
No idea. I went with the brown one cos I can pull off brown 😛
…
…
…
DAMN IT.
…20 minutes.
Yeh ok I just bought it
How much was shipping?
$4. Pretty good I think, was expecting a lot more
Damn, you could have said $20 and removed all temptation
Now I am wondering if I should get the cumberbash one for Mrs Tigs as a surprise gift
Last night, I (eventually) fought my way through Riding On The Storm and then played through On Top Of Old Smokey (edit: more Rayman Origins speak. I am good at being informative >_>)
OhmygodthisindustriallevelIthinkIlikeitevenbetterthanthewateronesthismusicissogooooooooooood!
Im scared to play Rayman Origins. I have it on PS3 and Steam, but I haven’t yet played it. Do I play solo? Co-op? Solo THEN co-op? What do I do after I’m done? The series is so damn good that I’m scared of the “what’s next” after finishing. :'(
Legends!
I don’t have anyone to play co-op with and I don’t want to be slowed down anyway, so solo all the way.
Wrote a thing on the Potakus! Five Films to watch before GTA V (or perhaps while waiting for it to install!)
http://potaku.com/2013/09/16/the-gta-five-five-films-to-get-you-in-the-mood-for-grand-theft-auto-five/
No BMX Bandits..?
Nice list but you forgot Gattaca. Yes, it’s an LA movie.
It is a great film, but it doesn’t really tie in to GTA V
Haha, yeah I know. Just messing.
Which one of those did Rockstar steal the plot from though?
It’s always been one of my major issues with their games. I feel like I don’t need to play because I’ve seen the films they’ve cribbed their ideas from already. It’s kind of odd since they’re hardly the only ones to do it.
Heat.
Mind you, stealing from Heat is pretty awesome in the case of Payday, where it’s… basically the entire game is that scene.
The first heist theyve shown is ripped directly from heat.
Using the car to flip the armored car etc is almost a carbon copy.
Fingers crossed for a tonne of Lethal Weapon inspired missions.
Explosives on the toilet. It needs to happen.
I’d be more inclined to play a Rockstar game that was ripping off Lethal Weapon.
I can’t decide on a team for fire emblem so I just keep leveling up everyone. This is taking a while…
I used the Avatar as my primary damage dealer. A lot of the time she could have soloed most of the map. Maribelle also did a lot of my damage, and Nowi grows amazingly well if you keep her alive early on – she gets to the point with the right partner that nothing can damage her and she can take out most enemies in one attack. I generally would always have Lissa in for healing support, Chrom for general support and Olivia for giving a unit an extra attack. Also usually played with Cordelia for mobility (Dark Flier class is amazingly powerful once it gets the two attacks skill) and once I got Severa I found she was probably my second-strongest unit mainly due to stats and abilities inherited from her parents.
What’s more important IMO is deciding which characters to pair together.
Yeah, I’ve finally paired all the first generation up with the exception of Virion who gets to be forever alone as punishment for being a manslut.
You didn’t pair him with Cherche? You monster. 🙁
Just go with your favourites! Not really a wrong choice if you train everyone enough. Unless all of them are your favourites, then yeah…
I had a core team and then a couple of others I would sub out when necessary. I think my core team was Avatar, Chrom, Sumia, Maribelle, Donnel, Lonqu. Makes me want to play it again now 😛
Today’s Breaking Bad.
Nobody is going to cheer for Walt now, even if he did give Skyler a get out of jail free card.You should clarify what episode the spoiler is for at this point. I just clicked on it and realised today’s BB day. =/
It’s a good thing I was too hyped to go into details. Edited.
The good ol’ spoiler button temptation. You don’t want to be spoiled but at the same time you can’t help but press it, even if it’s just a little peek. rot13 is the safest route.
Yeah, my fault – but because I only caught up on the last two episodes yesterday, my brain didn’t twig that he’d be talking about today’s episode. To me, Breaking Bad isn’t until tonight.
Time to bring back an
oldnot that old game…The game of “In my ass”…
Rules are simple, list the last song you listened to and add “In my ass” to the end…
I’ll go first
Take me for a ride in my ass
TAKE IT AWAY PEEPS
Not that old. Folks played it on like Friday.
Fixed because “NUUUUUUURH”
I could play this game every day and still be amused.
and it was glorious
Panic Stations in my ass.
21st century in my ass.
I feel sorry for it.
Everything’s gone to shit?
Leathers in my ass.
I Want It All in my ass.
Call me.
– In my ass?
Maybe.
Feel Good Inc. In My Ass
By Gorillaz in my ass
😀 hahahaha
Angels in my ass.
Black skinhead in my ass
Oh kanye whatcha doing up there
Something something gay fish.
wasn’t listening to it, but it was in my head.
Some Nights in my ass
by FUN in my ass
When a fire starts to burn…in my ass.
HA!
Awh. My last played was ‘Magdalena’. That doesn’t work very well. The one before that was ‘superfun’ though, which does. Can we do backsies?
The rules are very flexible for this, more for comedic effect, so yes 😛
Superfun in my ass is an acceptable entry 😛
Soooo guys, Has GTAV broken yet?????
Didn’t know that Grain Trade Australia had a V version yet
*Runs away*
It won’t. The more I read across the day, I’m fairly certain. Shipping embargos, etc. It’ll hold.
Even if it does, EB / JB won’t follow suit since they have too much invested in their midnight launches.
except for my JB who cancelled their midnight launch after i placed my pre order with them, that’s good marketing tactics..
Jerks
Last midnight launch I went to was EB for Battlefield 3. It broke street date, so they were very sad at the launch. I went anyway and turned up early just as they were closing. “We thought we’d better stay open for the people who hadn’t heard about the break.”
Electrician is coming on Friday to deliver me from Wireless Hell \o/
give that man a medal
I intend to give him some money. Does that count? Side note: he is also the landlord for the house.
Hello all. I got Legend of Korra on DVD on Friday and then watched it all on Saturday and Sunday. It was awesome. Perhaps better than the original show. It seems like it was aimed at an older audience than the original was as well. Sucks it was only 12 episodes though.
I also got Bioshock Infinite. I haven’t finished it yet, but I’m a fair way through. Not exactly what I expected, based on a few things I’d seen people mention about it, but it’s still good. I think I prefer Rapture over Columbia though.
New season has just started I believe
Yup season 2 was available to those that sail the open seas on Saturday.
Is there a good quality version available online anywhere? That’s the main reason I held off watching the first season till it came out on DVD, because I heard all the online version were rather poor in quality.
I’ve always been able to get 720p versions of the latest episode the day that it came out. That’s better than DVD quality :p
Where from?
I used to go to Demonoid but the Pirate Bay is pretty dandy.
These days I’d recommend trying to find someone to recommend you to private jobbies. I mean nothing’s ever completely safe today, but I’d steer clear of the bay if you’re going sailing. Private sites aren’t foolproof, but there’s a lot less people using them, and fly under the radar a bit more than the others. I wouldn’t touch the bay with a ten foot barge pole – you’re asking for trouble.
Also the private ones tend to have higher quality content and are screened for malicious content pretty regularly. As well as no crap like passworded files, etc. They require a certain ratio from you, or donations – but so very worth it.
Incredibly true.
The bay is still kind of useful if you don’t have access to better places.
@trjn
Yeah, it also depends what you’re downloading. I think most TV shows and music are generally pretty safe. Downloading the latest movies and games is inviting trouble though.
New season of Korra aired yesterday so there’s that.
EDIT: Well poo, beat out by less than a minute
In regards to Korra, HOW GREAT IS THAT SCENE ON THE BOAT IN THE LAST EPISODE OF SEASON 1!
You mean
the bit with the brothers, then the explosion? Yeah, it was super awesome. And rather unexpected, given that it’s a kids show. Though as I said, it seems to be aimed at an older audience.Yeah that’s the one. It was the absolutely perfect way to tie up that story. Completely unexpected from a Nickelodeon show but, yeah it was amazing.I think you mean
Amon a boat. Seriously one of the most brutal things I’ve seen on TV.Potential spoilers:
Man that was such a good scene. I remember a lot of people saying it was such a cop out for it all to end like that but I found it was very fitting. And just as a petty hate of mine, I was incredibly infuriated by Steve Blum voicing Amon. Yes it’s a good voice but my god Steve, stop using the exact same voice for every character you do.Just bought a jacket, polo top and shirt from Target for $30 at their end of season clearance. None of them fit me yet, but it won’t be long. Pretty happy at the moment.
Obligatory “on target” joke.
Seriously though, you’ve done an incredible job man. Well done.
It was an Ontargett comment on Target.
“where can you find good value? With good old fashioned service, and friendlinessss? Targetts with a double t-s!”
@ontargett should get this, hopefully 😛
Indeed I do, sadly no relation.
I can’t remember who it was that was talking about moving to Murrumba Downs, maybe someone else does and can tag them for me, but a word of warning. A mate of mine just moved there into a new estate and a new house in Murrumba Downs and they cannot get the internet. There is a shortage of ports in the area and he literally has to wait for someone to move or cancel their connection to be able to claim the port (which will then leave the new tenants without internet). It’s not a provider issue, he tried Telstra, TPG, Dodo, IInet and a couple others all with the same result, no free ports.
The whole shortage of ports issue is incredibly common in a lot of locations. I’ve had to deal with it with most of my Internet connections each time I’ve moved.
that sux, I’ve never encountered it, I would be devastated, I’ve grown to rely on the net way too much, I’d imagine I’d be like the people in that South Park episode, just roaming around looking for internet, I hear there’s some out Californee way
I used to live in Murrumba Downs and it’s a bit of a joke. A friend of mine had to spam Telstra the moment he realised that a neighbour of his was moving out so that he could snag the connection before the new residents could move in. It’s a cutthroat world when it comes to internet.
it’s crazy, what is this the ninties 😛
Got a mate out in the middle of nowhere tiny town which is also full up on the rack, and he’s been asking our old Big T contacts what are the chances that a tech out there might accidentally bump a card and a port opened up, and was available long enough to get an application through…
Outlook Not Good. 🙁
I had that for years living 10 km from the CBD. Was stuck on ADSL1 for so long
It’s almost like they should replace the ancient copper wire infrastructure with a fiber-optic equivalent so you wouldn’t need to worry about spare ports for ADSL any more.
It was Nate! Don’t know his tag dealy though.
thanks man, I’ll keep an eye out for him. Dunno if he’d care just thought I’d let him know.
@d370n8
you sir are an extremely helpful gentleman,
You take that back weird fellow JB Hifi before opening time lurker pal!
Thanks for looking out for me gutsoup! And a big high-five to @dc for tagging. I’ve reconsidered areas seen as how the job is southside so now I’m looking around springfield lakes. Any info for there/surrounding suburbs?
…but you added it to TAYnames :/
When I said I didn’t know his tag dealy, what I meant to say was I was too lazy to look. 😛
And yet did it anyway 😀
The Helpius urges!
Been re-watching Sons of Anarchy since I bought some of it on Bluray, and this scene still gets me everytime from season 3 (spoilers)
The scene is where Jax finds out that Abel has already been adopted, and he follows the new parents around a shopping centre, seeing them happy & caring towards his son, and all he would be thinking is that this is the life he wants for his kid, not to live Jax’s life. Just hits me, you can see the anguish.Can’t find a video.
I found a stray kitten once. She was an inquisitive, friendly little thing, clever and full of beans. Followed me around everywhere, but was also happy to chill and entertain herself when I watched the telly or played games. Melted my cold, bitter heart. I temporarily named her Taylor and when I was able to get some free time, took her to the RSPCA to see if she’d been lost, and failing that, get her fixed, in preparation for taking her on.
RSPCA called me the next day saying there was a little 8yr old girl who had fallen in love with this friendly kitten and wanted to give it a good home, and would I mind if they took her off my hands?
“…OK.”
; _ ;
(Edit: I like to think that the kitten has a happier life as a cherished family pet than being just a quirky roommate for what was once a solitary bachelor.)
Oh man, that scene. Oh man. I cried like a manly little girl. Incredible bit of television.
MEGA HYPE FOR SEASON 6.
It’s already started man, you been watching it? Ep 2 comes out tomorrow.
I get all the eps before I watch them. Would not be able to stand a week wait between eps! 😛
Fair enough, it’s been pretty tough with Breaking Bad haha
DAMN YOU @BENJ, YOU ARE GOING TO COST ME A FORTUNE *shakes fist*
Currently on spoonflower looking at fabric and wondering if I should look at getting a pattern and commissioning some work. And it is all your fault.
Any time, pal! Glad I could be of assistance in the crushing downfall of your life 😛
Oh god, Spoonflower. I went there once and was smart enough to resolve never to visit again lest I spend all the moneys.
It’s bad enough for me and I don’t sew.
We got the koala material that my sister in law designed from there for a blanket for my nephew but otherwise have avoided it. I can understand why you avoid it like the plague. Or at least like the tax man, it would have a similar result.
So given the big response I got last page, it seems there’s quite a few keen people for some sort of Numenera online RPG thingo!
Given the big group, I’ll look to run a drop-in drop-out game based on exploration, probably using Roll20 (unless @popdart5 has a better tool?)
If you want to know about Numenera and the character creation, have a look at the player’s guide which you can buy from here as a cheap .pdf: http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/114852/Numenera-Players-Guide (failing that in the first session I can get you up to speed)
Probably look to start next week, what night is best for people?
I don’t think I have a “best night”, so I’ll see what the consensus is and see if I can plan for that.
Monday is out for me. Otherwise think i am okay for the rest of the week
DItto, not next weekend either, I’ll be out
Any/all nights post-1930 (2000 Eastern) works for me mate!
Sorry to disappoint you Red but I’m a pretty old school RPG player (pen & paper all the way). Roll20 is definitely a good system but I can’t say much more than that as I haven’t actually used it myself. From what I have seen though it is quite robust and intuitive, particularly if you do have large parties of players.
Any night is fine with me 🙂
Dilemma: now that we’ve had Trails in the Sky SC confirmed for a localized release next year, I kind of want to play the first chapter. I got a little way in but I knew it’d end in a cliffhanger and that kind of put me off, plus it’s apparently a slow burn early on, takes a while to get going.
Anyway, the’re releasing SC on PSP (digital on PSN, Vita-compatible) and Steam. First chapter is also getting released on Steam. I already own two copies – a physical copy of the UK release and a digital copy of the US release which I have on my Vita already.
So the question is, do I play it on PSP or get the much higher resolution PC version when it comes out? Steam release will most likely be better but no idea when it will hit aside from that it’ll be this year. Whichever I choose, I want to stick to since I want to carry my saves over.
I guess if there are no other changes to gameplay it just depends on how patient you are and how much you care about graphics. Considering you have it on ur Vita I’d probably just play it on that cause do you really want to buy a third copy.
I would buy a third copy if it resulted in more Falcom games in English. Ys seems to have no problems making it here now, but they’re five games behind in Trails now 🙁
EDIT: Also if the Steam version’s successful maybe other JRPG companies will consider the platform.
You can buy me copies to help support them! 😛
I’ll probably get them when they’re on sale or something. I don’t know much about the games but I’ve heard good things about the first one.
(PS. I finished Xillia last night)
Dangit.
The first copy of The Newsroom that was released was a complete clusterfuck. Credits rolled 22min in while the normal audio continued and then the video continued with a delay.
Anyone interested in the show that sails the seven seas needs to make sure they grab the repacked version.
for FFFRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE?????
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/id581058256?mt=8
At least the first 30 seconds is.
isnt it the full version? discounted from 4.99 to Free
The entire game is literally nothing but microtransactions. All you do is rub the screen for a few seconds and then pay money to continue. It’s an absolute joke.
Freeze is probably right. It… did not review very favourably.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/report/article/final-fantasy-all-the-bravest-on-ios-is-a-steaming-pile-of-in-app-purchasin
I just wanna say that Super Mario Bros U is the best mario game since Super Mario Bros World on SNES. Done so well! Much like the remake of Rise of the Triad, it looks awesome and super new, but feels just like the original! So many awesome secrets too!
Haha! It’s my least favourite Mario game. XD Something something Rayman Legends something. 😀
Rayman Legends! \o/
Out of the way, DC!
I very much agree with this opinion!
Hahaha upvote for the shuving D.C. out of the wayness
(I do agree with his opinion though)
I agree! And find it strange that it’s so hard to find others that don’t think the opposite.
I would also recommend New Super Luigi U.
So this http://themetapicture.com/media/funny-Batman-Catwoman-tricycle-car.jpg randomly appeared in my pinterest feed
I think I have seen that before
BenJ’s friends are the worst!
In this case they really are!
Oh lawd… He’s still doing that stupid batman thing too. “Launceston’s dark night” :l
(That kids a complete wanker :P)
I have the best wife. I had a pretty shitty day, then my WoW pre-paid time also ran out about five minutes after logging in when I got home. 🙁 So she’s bringing home burritos so I don’t have to cook dinner.
I’m not sure even burritos make up for the link the strange posted earlier. But they are a damned good start
Today’s Newsroom.
Felt a lot like a season finale. The actual court battle is really the only thing to be resolved and I don’t care about that, it was only the character reactions to it that I liked. Sloan being constantly cut off was pretty great though. Sorkin had some fun with this whole episode, particularly with the whole book signing bit.That was the season finale. XD
Was great. Could’ve worked as a series finale too, I thought. Satisfying end to the arcs, but enough there to ensure season three will be great!
*Sung as a Jingle* The adventures of Blaghs, being bad at social interaction.
*Chorus of voices* That’s our Blaghs.
So I got into work a smidge after Midday today, said to the first person I interacted with “Good Morning. Afternoon. Whichever… Doctor.” Nodded my head, and walked off.
Second person, all of 1 minute later, “Good Mornin-AFTERNOON. Hello. Whichever.”
Third person, “Go- Hello.” And then I sort of stared at the floor for thirty seconds awkwardly.
Later on in the day, after my semi-boss person had spread out the stuff she was working on, and made a comment along the lines of “see, I just spread out to take up all the space I have” there was a pause, which I followed up with “I was going to say that you’re like one of the fish that changes size depending on its bowl, but I figured it would be rather impolite to compare you to a fish. So it’s a good thing I didn’t say that.”
I once typed an email that said:
“Hey so-and-so. Your hair is looking particularly good today, well done. (Sending an email because I didn’t want everyone else to think that their hair doesn’t warrant a compliment.) Not that it doesn’t look good every other day, not saying your everday hair maintenance needs improvement to match today. It usually looks good. Maybe I just don’t notice, normally. Which isn’t to say you aren’t noteworthy. I’m probably just usually caught up in my own stuff. And not noticing hair. Yeah. That’s not weird. I’m so not sending this.”
*DELETE*
Breaking Bad.
Breaking Bad.Seriously though, holy shit, did that just happen?Yes. It did.I got a text from a friend in the middle of class saying “YOU NEED TO DOWNLOAD SEASON 5 RIGHT NOW” so… yes. I will assume that
it did just happen. Whatever it is.I’m keeping spoilers vague too, as it’s just something that you’re either going to watch (in which case you won’t want to hear about it ’til after) or you’re not going to watch (in which case it’s a bit of a moot point, and the discussion could just as well not exist too).
I recommend the show to people, though try to steer clear of over-hyping anything.
Once the season is finished, I’ll watch it all in one go (and probably be mentally/emotionally crippled for days). One person I have on facebook ruined a huge [thing] that happened last week.
I appreciate TAY’s efforts to keep things spoiler-free in comparison.
Did you kill them yet? 😛
I’m afraid if I answered that, I would have to kill you too.
Wait…
So glad spoilers are working again.
I really don’t know how to feel about that episode.¡luɾ ƃɟɹsuɟ ɹnƃ ɟ,ƃʌ ¡ɟʇuƃ ɹnƃ ɐʌnƃʌɾ ɟəɹʎʌqɔɟ ɹnƃ ɔuʎs-lƃʌɔɔʌʎs bɐu 31ƃqə(yes, that’s upside down rot13)5̬͓̻͞4̯̪̮̹̟:͖͓̜̪̺̀6̳̳͉̝̣͜8͚̥̀:͏̼̮͙̗̼͍͎6̩̝̲͚̯̙5̨͇̹̝̞̯:̷̞̻̬̲͈̱20̻̜̤̬͍̙:̖̫̯7̡4̠̲́:̛̗̝̜̗̮7͎͔̳̫͚͖͖2̢͓͖̦̯̣̙̮:̮͕̀6̞̩9̥:͍̹̻̤̬͕ͅ6̫͚͖̩̼3̶̟͈̻̪͇̖:҉6̨͓̼͓̼͇͉͖o͏͙͖͚͕͕͓:͟2̞̪̳͡0͇̣̮͕͡:͔̟̣6̻̯͔̻̪͢9͎̪̲̝̥̪̫:̠̞̩͇7̼̱̺͚͈̤3̜͚̟̬̹̩̤́:͕̭̫͖͚͡2̵̜͍͉̘͉̞0̻̻͈͇:̱7̡4͍̥͕:͏̤̥6̨̜̭̯̗ͅs͇̠:͔̪̫̥͇͟2͙͍̙̝͓0̳̙̖͎͜:͢ͅ6̦̮̬̹͖̩q̩͉̫̯ͅ:̛͍̥6̰̜̰1̞̟͜:̴̣̤̞̲6͏͕͕̻͕o̻:̸̦̭͖6̳̳͓͠5͎̻̟ͅ:̛͍̬2͚̗͓̻̹̞0̷̞̳̤:̘̥6͎̖͞ͅ9̷̦:̪̥̖̗ͅ7̷̙̟̮̥4̩:̺͖̺2̷̦͉̙̮̫̭̰0̗̞͉̥̪:̞̹̝̻6̗̞̘͙̯͇͝4̲:̤̮̝65̸:̨̘͎͉͇6̪͇͉̟͓͍3̞̱͙̼̬̬̲͞:̦̭̤̤̭̫̟6͙̠̻̻̠̻͙͡9̟͡:̲̗̖͖̙70̶̳̤̻͚̺̥̺:̧̘̤6̯̺̟̼̻̲͈8̫̞̞̮̯͘:̟͔̞̬͚͠6͇̝̗̜̠̦̳͟5̗̖̭̮͝:͈̰͓̜͢7̘̟͙͜2̪͙̝:͎6͚̳̖͇͍̣1̯͖:̧6̧̞̬̰͉͉̬2҉:6̱̘̣͕͕p͢:̮̮͈̩̣̼͎6͟5̙:͇̝̟̦̠͞2̹p̪:̯̖̳̟͎͓͉̕2̖̟̭͞0̴̣̼:͠7̪͡9͚̹̙̻̟̮̹͠:̱̬͈̝̰6͍͚̝̖͍͢ͅ5͓̳͓̣̠͟:͏͕͕̳̱̮͉̲7̨4̕:͚̞̠̰͕̙ͅ2̱͍͕̟0͚̣̕ͅ:̠̜̗7̭̳̳3:7̲̼̗̝4̴̪͕̱̮͇͎͕:̠͕̯͔̠͖6̜9̳̝͡:͔̩̙̣̻̪̰6̝̫͎̗̙̱p̶̦̪̯̯̩͍͎:6̱̪͕͠p̠̟:̡̫̩̜2͓͖0:̛̘̮̦̱̠̮͚6̲̗̞̀3̫̖:͏̭͚6̷̻s͙̹͚̩̦:̠͉̗͕ͅ6͓̥̖̱q̭͙̥͝:̦̪̭7͢0̳:̸6̞̳͘p̴̼:̸̫͎̯6̵̰͚̖̹̻9̜͈̪͙̼́:̛͔̱̙̣̼6̳͈͕̹̭̗͝3̬ͅ:̴̥̲6̜̰1̡̣̝̩͔̦̩̲:̸̳7͙͖̗̲̰̥̝͡4̠̥̮̹̝:6҉̰5̹̖:̯̬̺̠̬̖͚64̷͖͕:̵͉͚̯͖2̶̤̠̝̩̮̤̭0̠̟̜:̯͈̟ͅ6̭̱̀5̖͖̱:͓̘̘̗̯͢6̫̣̗̀r:̣̜̬6̩̫̲̖s:̨̣̦̗̟̘͔̻7̣͈̰̮͙̞ͅ5̦͕͜ͅ:͎̟̦̝̳̪6͇ͅ7̭̝̥͙̠ͅ:͇̳͎6̗͘8̷̠̰̳̹͎͙:̮̖͖̱͓͚͎́2̻̟̤͈̩0̪͎̞̰:͓͔̻7̀4̷̮͙:6̷8͏̤:̣̠̬̠͔̯6̡̳̤̬1̶̬͇̼̺:͘7̰͉̭̮͚̕4҉̲̥͇:̞̮͝2̪̘̯͇̪0̨̥̫̻̭̬͙ͅ:̵̭6̝͓s̪͕͖̻͙͡:̩̥͚͞6̦̭͡r̪̮̲͢ͅ:̜̝͘6̹͔̭̞̥̤͜p͉͓̝̰͍̳̜:̦͓̯̮̲̫͎7̗̮̟͇̜̼ͅ9̣͕͠:̡̯̩̼̙2̳̺̬̜̗0̳̳͇̻̗͇̭:͏̩7̻̼4̹:̡̲6̪̼̜̥̞͟ͅ8:̨̭̠̪̞̣ͅ6̪̪̘̥̗s͉̺̭̳͎:̯͔7̩̹̥3̢̮:̼̠͇̣6̷͖̟͙̠̮5̙̘̳̕:͙20͇̣:̹̮͍7̬͞7̮:̧̯6̵̝̩̲̱̖8͏͓͈̹͈̭̰̜:̡̭̩̤̗͓̭̗6̛͍͎̝ͅs̜͔̠̝͔̦͕:̩̀2̱͎͔̱0̡̻̖̥͚͇̬:̖̭͙͘7͔̩̟̻̝̟7̦̠͇ͅ:͍̲̣͕̣̟6̖̖͍̕9̟̞̪:̹̲͚̜͈̕ͅ7̨͍͓̝͚̘3͏̳͍̤̜̤:̸͈͇͕̲̝̠6̡̳̬̥8͈̦͜ͅ:͖̻2̺̯͍͙̞̞0͔̦̝:̫͙̱̠̕7̫̫̤͇͎͙4҉̥̩̲̭̳:̖̰͉6̝͝ș͖͚̹:̬̲͇̞̞̜ͅ2̸͍̺̤0̛̞̳̟̥̤:̼6̶̬͓̣̪p͏͉̻̳̠̙̝̜:̳̜̼̞̣̟͖6͙̜͡5̝͓:̙̞̘͖̜̰6͢1̣̣̳̮͕:̧̼7̬̩̜̠͖2̫͎̫:̭͖̼̞͇̮͚6̫͚͇͙̪r̦̹̠:̬̼̲̺2̫p͇͟:̼2̥̻͇͔͞0̞͓̠̙͉͔:͕̻͞7̨̝̱͙̳͇3̛̭̭:̡̻̲͍̗6̶̟̠̦̭8̶̯̣͎̖͚:̢6̡̖̗̝̞1̟͢:͉͇̬̗6͘p̘̼̺̦̘̱:͎̖̯̹6̲̩̹̤̦p̦̖̩:͕͚2r͓̯̤̤̤͚̝I agreeI’ll tell you – goddamn overwhelmed by how amazing television can actually be. Jesus effing christ.
Thought the same watching The Killing. Genuinely haven’t been this engrossed in a show for a long whiles.
BB though, it’s its own beast. After that last episode and reflecting on how everything evolved to this point, I genuinely can’t imagine many better realised stories, in any capacity. Just insanely good. Really have to persevere with it one day.
Getting kind of sick of all the annoying animated gif images on Kotaku, Gizmodo etc. They make it really hard to read what little content the US articles actually have – they’re distracting. The eye is automatically drawn to movement and having some fucking thing bouncing away really detracts from that.
Yes. Plus load time, and they seem to be “LOOK HOW GOOD THE GRAPHICS ARE IN THIS GAME!” which… is totally undermined by the fact that they’re gifs.
On top of that, they’re usually just not very good or clever animations.
Nono, soft ‘g’.
Jifs.
Also they completely devour your data when on the mobile site. Which seems to defeat the purpose of making a mobile friendly versio of your site.
I’ve taken to turning off images in my mobile browser. Saves a buttload of data.
Well, Star Trek 2 was amaze-balls, dun know wots alls yous bums wass torkin abart!
Because it was 2.5 hours of flashy nothing.
Don’t forget the 45 minutes of awkward D.C. has a mental breakdown at the worst time moment! 😀
Far more soul than anything Abrams could come up with.
I can except that you didn’t enjoy it, but you can’t convince me nothing happened.
I liked it, but I haven’t seen a Star Trek movie I haven’t liked. SPACE SHIPS! FUTURE! SPACE MUSIC!
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNREVERSE KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANI think the franchise needed a kick in the arse and they are doing a commendable job!
I enjoyed it, but those plot holes made Oblivion’s look small.
Plot holes: show me something completely devoid of plot holes and i will shake your hand
12 Angry Men.
Actually, I have no idea if it’s free of plot holes, I’m just sort of assuming.
But there’s a difference between something that has plot holes, and something where I am sitting in the cinema, astounded at how nobody in production noticed this.
If there was a plot hole in 12 angry men, it is likely I would notice.
For something like Star Trek, I really couldn’t care. As long as Kirk is a womaniser and Spock is logical: good job!
Seriously though, big dumb action movie versus well thought out drama, I go in with a different mindset.
*shakes hand*
I didn’t hate it… though I can’t really remember how I felt after first seeing it.
I possibly liked it slightly better than the first of the two new films? D:
I really liked it as well. It’s not as if the previous Trek films were high art or anything, most of the whinging I saw about it was about stuff that really didn’t bother me much.
As is the case most of the time people complain
*commence drunken ramblings*
Why can’t I ever get started with anything?
I can never find the motivation to start something.
I just sit there, trying to think of things, yet nothing ever comes to me.
Sometimes I get something, but I’ll scrap it because I’m too self-critical.
How can I fix this?
Remain in a state of lowered inhibitions, and should you ever get something going, don’t scrap it, regardless of your instinct. Share it. Put it out there to be loved, hated, experienced by others.
At the very least, just finish it. It’s only as good as you let it be, don’t cut it short.
This is, if we’re talking creatively.
Otherwise… well, I stand by my words, though if we’re talking about STIs, perhaps refrain from sharing with others.
I managed to get a sketch done!
I can’t upload it because my visual diary is too big for my scanner. 🙁
there’s your problem.
DUDE, I’M SO HYPE!
IOS 7 HYPE!!!!!
Nah, just playin’ (although I am sorta looking forward to it for some really weird reason). What I’m actually hype for is…
SURVIVOR! OMG!
@sughly @phoenix @powalen @strange (and everyone else in existence)
YES YES YES 😀 😀 😀
___
Also…
@dc and Sugs again.
This is what I mean 😛 http://i.imgur.com/iaHPmax.jpg
The stereotypical usual aquatic monster man creature gill frill fin things.
But then you said it was spikes on its back or whatever so that’s what I assume it looks like now 😀
You’ve been contemplating this all day? XD
No, I’ve just been at Uni so waited until I got home to explain what I meant a bit better :D.
Anything I do now until GTAV time is pointless anyway *twiddles thumbs*
Is Survivor this week? Do you know when it begins on regular TV?
A quick Googlin tells me Thurs on GO!
Ah. Thank-you. I was going to check the TiVo’s guide but got distracted watching Defiance.
In the morning I’ll set it to record the new Survivor. 😀
Yessss woooo SURVIVORRRR!
RUPERT!! (@greenius)
Yay Support me in my corporate role 🙂
Not a sportsball person at all, but this photo reminds me of home.
Nicely done, Bluewater Primary!
Ha. Nice.
I normally don’t like to complain about KotUS posts/contributors, but…
… Brian Ashcraft posted a story (link) about a Russian student who was meditating in the middle of the street in China. He gradually removed clothing until he was naked, and then police took him away.
Why is that a Kotaku article? ._.
BECAUSE CHINA!
Night!
Outdated news.
Polygon review for GTA V — http://www.polygon.com/2013/9/16/4720458/gta-5-review-grand-theft-auto
Interesting. D:
Giant Bomb — http://www.giantbomb.com/reviews/grand-theft-auto-v-review/1900-598/
… and they’re really the only two non-KotAU reviews I look at, so that’s all! 😐
What happened to that article about that fake review of GTA5 that had all the feminism stuff and gave it a 7? I KNOW I read about it on here, but I can’t find the damn thing any more.
Hahaha, I’d like to see that one too.
Oooh, the one I posted at the end of last week’s TAY?
Here you go!
(Also, @shane)
Man. TAY is starting to warp my view of reality 😛
One of us, one of us…
This sort of thing is why GTA has always been at the pinnacle of games that say to me “this is NOT FOR YOU!”. I know what to expect and I know it’s not my thing. I also find it disturbing that it is so many people’s thing, though. :S
I’ve never really understood the appeal either, they just don’t click for me and the universal acclaim the games get has never made sense to me either. Especially GTA4.
I play the games — I don’t hate them and don’t love them, but GTA4 was overrated and there are a lot of things that irk me. I think the satire and ‘wit’ of GTA games often goes waaaaaaaaaaaay over the head of the average person and they’re just left thinking “hahah, this is awesome!” which is a bit… sad and counter-productive.
I also don’t understand how the Polygon journalist can write…
… and then give it a near-perfect score, 9.5/10. And most reviews do mention something about the depiction of women or misogyny or racism, but they seem to be brief and fleeting comments that have no bearing on their overall enjoyment of the game.
Yeah, that always bothers me. Too often reviewers will write a mostly negative review and give a game a near-perfect score, or even write a glowing review but give a sub-par score. It’s almost like they pick the number they think people want to see, but give their true feelings in the words which they assume a large number of people will skip to get to the score.
As for GTA games, I think Rockstar are incredible at building worlds which is I think the main draw card,but once the hype dies down people often seem to be left feeling a bit empty.
So, it’s raining here. Raining so much that even frogs are seeking refuge inside my house.
#StopTheCroaks
Brisbane got its first real summer storm last night and it’s only September.
I fear for the future.
Good times.
I had to sleep with a sausage dog in my bed.
Friggin’ storms, man.
The Media started on GTAV already. Funny thing was that when the reporter suggested we should just ban the game altogether, he said that it was the responsibility of the parents, not the government and that 70% of players are over 18.
She then pretty much ended the interview.
WON’T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
… because there parents sure aren’t
Haha I saw that, the interviewee guy said the right things.
Exactly. He was like, not my cup of tea, but if they like it.
The reporter didn’t look too pleased.
That reporter will probably put in a complaint with the studio HR rep because the interviewer didn’t agree
When was this? Got a link? 🙂
I feel like buying a game, if only there was some kind of interesting game released today. Oh well, maybe next time.
Pfft, stay the course with Legends.
Have you unlocked Living Dead Party yet!?
I’m interested to know how those challenges fair on the Vita’s lil screen.
Oh man, I just started then today. Got through the 4 8-bit songs. It’s not too bad, I would need to see a WiiU version to compair them though.
The ones where they warp the screen can be a little tough, but I managed to get through them with only 1-3 retries/deaths.
Yeah same.
I was saying yesterday that it doesn’t feel as hard as Origins treasure chest levels.
The one where it becomes, like, 100 little screens was terrifying on my big screen.
I’d probably have a heart attack when it popped up on Vita.
What level is that on? I haven’t done that one yet but it sounds like fun.
I think it’s the 8-bit version of Grannies Jam (or whatever it’s called).
The final level.
Grannies World Tour and i am not that far yet. Last one I beat was Gloo-Gloo
The one where the screen continually gets more pixelated messed with my head. I liked how it eventually just devolved into a rectangle punching other rectangles and collecting squares.
Oh man, I got serious eye strain on that one.
It took me three attempts and I was stoically crying by the end.
Yeah me too! Little embarrassing when your on the train. The ladies like a man that’s sensitive right … RIGHT!?
oh, but there was a game released today! I understand if you haven’t heard about it. it was a pretty low-key launch.
http://bit.ly/18sHjLN
With a price tag of $0.99 it has to be good!
Nah, just keep playing Kingdom Hearts.
Oh don’t worry I will, in related news I hate those god damn Gummi Ship Minigames.
Yeeeeeeeep.
Awkward moment of the night last night at the Forest Lake, Brisbane store for the GTA V launch.
First copy of the night? It was sold to a TEN YEAR OLD CHILD. lol. That wasn’t the awkward part. The mother was there, I guess that’s legally ok and all that.
When the manager got up and tried to pump up the crowd to be excited for the kid, trying to get the crowd to be happy a 10 year old just got an 18+ game lol, most of us were standing around, looking at this little kid and I heard *many* comments like ‘So she doesn’t see the R rating?’ ‘It’s R rated!’ ‘It’s 18+!’
I guess all we could do was push for uncut games. Slack parenting is always going to be slack parenting…
Isn’t that illegal?
It’s like buying R18+ movies for minors, right? Because I know that’s a massive no-no.
It’s not if the Mother buys it and hands it to the child.
Are you sure?
I know MA15+ is okay, but once you hit R18+ it’s a whole different set of rules.
The Mother is technically an adult. So it’s completely legal. The most the seller can do is say to the mother, it’s not fit for children, but she doesn’t have to listen.
Also, being the Mother, not just some adult, makes it really hard.
Actually, the most the seller can do is refuse to sell the game.
If they handed the game directly to the kid instead of the mother it can be seen as selling to a minor even if the mother paid, it’s like bottle shops, if you go in with your 15 yr old cousin or whatever and buy alcohol they have to legally ask if your both 18 and then refuse to sell you if your with someone under the age of 18 because they can get in shit.
lol that’s exactly what they did. Handed the game to the kid so he could take it and show it to everyone!
@weresmurf I pray someone got a photo of that moment because they would be screwed!
Nope, it’s flat out illegal. Assuming the same set of rules apply to games as movies.
It’s the same category as if you were to supply cigarettes or alcohol to a minor.
As Dan said, MA15+ is a “recommended” rating. A minor can play it, albeit under ‘supervision’ but like that’s ever going to happen.
R18+ is a “restricted” rating. If someone were to report it, both the store and the parent could be charged with supplying restricted content to a minor and face fines (not sure what it is these days, but it used to be up to $100,000 for a business and $5,000 for the individual).
Are you sure? I was fairly certain that it was an exception when the parent did it.
Edit: Actually maybe I’m thinking of the one about showing restricted content to minors, and that’s the one that has the exception for parents.
Worked in a cinema for 8 years. This got drilled into us every staff meeting by head office.
From a cinema standpoint:
M – No restriction
MA15+ – Must be 15 years old or older. If under 15, they can be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Parent/guardian must be over 18 and must remain for the duration.
R18+ – Must be 18 or over. Anyone under the age of 18 is not permitted. No exceptions.
@cakesmith That’s at a cinema though, a public showing of materials. Different situation to purchasing material to take home for private viewing.
Isn’t it even a thing where underage drinking is technically allowed in private at home under the supervision of the parent, or something like that?
Not really. I’ve also worked at EB Games and a video store and the same rules applied (albeit, before the R18+ game rating).
Its illegal. the Cake guy is spot on.
from the classification site:
way tl;dr : Main difference being that the MA description has the ‘accompanied by a guardian’ exception, where as the R18 doesn’t have that. therefore selling to or showing a minor R18 material, or allowing them to play R18 stuff is supplying restricted material to a minor & will incur a fine.
Yeah, that’s illegal. Even if a parent buys it for a child. It’s so funny how EBGames doesn’t let that pesky conscience get in their way when some money is involved.
Annnd, there’s the problem.
However, it could be that she knows her child well enough that he wouldn’t be seriously affected by it. I would hope she would monitor play, but unfortunately, it’s not always possible.
I think going to the midnight launch is a little too much though.
That’s bullshit. No ten year old is not going to be affected by it. I wouldn’t even let my 12-year-old play it and she’s the most level-headed kid you could find.
I think I went full on Helen Lovejoy and was more concerned about that kid going to school this morning after staying up for a midnight launch. #Thinkingofthechildren #Notinabadway
I feel kids.
http://youtu.be/W5i5WjlfxlY
Noone feels kids as much as DAN!
Actually I didn’t give a crap what the mum did. I was shocked at the manager going all bigtime promotion about it lol. Thats bad publicity for EB right there…
If I said you had a beautiful body would you take your pants off and dance around a little?
I find the most erotic part of a women is the boobies.
Saw this awesome video of the building of Jurassic Park The Ride at Universal Hollywood.
If you’re into practical effects or old fashioned movie/theme park magic, it’s well worth a watch.
http://youtu.be/lD3O3OSMRYA
Rumours are that it’s being shutdown at the end of this year to start making room for more Harry Potter stuff, so if you haven’t been, I’d get the lead out and get there ASAP.
Because it’s amazing(ly corny)
Funny GTAV video made Dan laugh.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6919684/gta-5-is-so-realistic-its-boring
Morning peeps!
So whos been playing GTA V???
Grabbed my copy on the way home from work yesterday. Took like half an hour from the point of me starting my xbox up and actually being able to play…
The thing requires like a 7.5gb initial install. Keeping it spoiler free, i dont know if the start has the difficult turned down 50 notches or so till you get the hang of the controls, or if the entire game is like this…. but it is insanely simple, and the auto aim kinda ruins the fan….
also i dont know if i love the driving physics or hate them yet….
all the hat when it comes to driving
Holy crap. There’s about 30 people waiting outside Dick Smith.
for what?!?
are they having another sale again?!?
I don’t think I can wait and get GTAV later like I had planned. I guess I’ll co-ordinate with my wife as to whether she’ll go get it while I’m at work and get a head start on it, or if I’ll grab it during lunch and bring it home with me.
Morning TAY so after last nights escapades getting GTAV I’m actually really happy I was number 16 because JB eastland has come out and said that was one of their largest midnight launches to date with over 350 people lined up..and I was number 16
*mutteing to self repeatedly*
i will not buy GTA today. i’m waiting for the PC version.
i will not buy GTA today . i’m waiting for the PC version.
i will not buy GTA today. i’m waiting for the PC version………
you may as well, 360 version looks like ass…. i imagine the ps3 version will be quite similar…
Does it?
http://kramsdesign.com/misc/kotaku/gtav-comparison.jpg
If that’s what “ass” looks like on 8 year old hardware, then call me an ass man.
HUH? Is that for real? The X360 version appears way better?!
Full video.
native resolution renders thats all…. i think negs got it right… they look like “postage stamps”
yeah i can assure you when you see it for yourself, selective screenshots dont live up to their hype…. especially the jaggies when everything is moving….
Yeah because those are probably at native resolution. They’re like postage stamps on my monitor.
yeah, I heard a few people say that compared to the trailers & promo material it looks a bit rough.
hmm…. I’ll wait it out.
$79 at Target.
you’re such a horrible person.
I’m just thankful theres not a target around here…
OK, so, FINAL GTA V PLATFORM ROLL CALL
PS3!
PC! (eventually)
360!
When it arrives in the post…
360!
Not that it matters if I can’t get online
ARRRGGHHH
*crash tackles computer… as clearly all forms of technology a conspiring together… SKYNET LIVES*
360!
PS3.
WiiU!
3DS!
Pringles!
Mmmmm, Pringles.
*Salivates*
Cupcakes!
Revengance!PS3!
360, but think I might get it on PS3 as well.
360. My wife just texted me to inform me she’s going to go get it and she’s sure as shit not buying a PS3 version of anything if she can help it.
PC or PS4 when it’s cheap.
PS4?
WHAT DO YOU KNOW THAT WE DON’T?
oh come on, its bound to happen… my gues is it will be a simultaneous release on PS4 XBONE and PC 🙂
Simultaneous with the PC release of Red Dead.
Simultaneous… but why would they do that to us? To themselves?
A Red Dead PC release is one of those things I think you’d quietly tuck away in a quiet corner of the year to drop when sales are flagging elsewhere.
They won’t release Red Dead, moment has passed.
STOP STOMPING ON MY DREAMS. THEY WILL!
…They have to. ; _ ;
Do you seriously think they’re not developing for next-gen consoles and PC? By not announcing them they let you hyped up fanboys go buy it on a shitty old platform then in 6 months they’ll sell you the game again on a better platform.
Like they sold people Red Dead on PC.
Why do people keep bringing that up? Sure, it didn’t get a PC port. But at the time, PC ports weren’t that commonplace yet, most of them were shit, and Rockstar have subsequently released every game they’ve been involved with on PC as well.
Additionally Red Dead was a risky game they didn’t expect to sell very well and probably didn’t invest too heavily into a PC port during development. GTA has always sold well on PC (every version has had a PC port IIRC).
Either way I don’t give a shit about GTA at all so it doesn’t matter to me.
360
PS3.
PS3!
and sometime in the next millennium, PC..
PS3!
And for my Potaku brothers,
PS3 for the Doc
360 for the Shiggy
PC!
Probably during a Steam sale like every other GTA title I’ve bought.
That means you buy it and it sits in your library and never gets installed right? Because that’s everything I got in Steam sales.
Vectrex!
Can only render one car.
Virtual Boy!
Red goes faster.
WHO TOLD YOU-
I mean, carry on…
PS3
PS3!
Ordered from OGS last night….sort of regret it now.
So grabbed GTAV from EB. Started walking away when my brain woke up and realised I just paid $110 for it. Walked straight back in and apologised for being half asleep but I wasn’t really happy about paying that. About I minute later I walk out with $30 refunded on my card.
A+ for post sale service from the store but c’mon EB the company. Do you really need to be so insanely expensive compared to everyone else?
Now to get home after work and not play it until I’m done with Kingdom Hearts. Sorry GTAV. Priorities and all that.
Reasoning:
http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz3vcp4nS31r27qkzo1_500.gif
That’s why I don’t buy at EB. I go to the store that offers the lower price to begin with.
I would but that only leaves me with Dick Smith here and fuck that.
People will pay $110.
A couple did while I was there.
@gutsoup and I just had the best man date. We lurked outside a JB, talked games, bought GTAV and went our separate ways to play GTAV. Good times, good times.
What? Even better than Mr. Abbott’s?
I don’t know what that means, but yes!
http://m.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/lycra-or-not-abbott-has-a-mandate/story-fnahw9xv-1226717193255
I may have my GTA V package tracking open in a spare tab…
Mine’s at a point where it won’t update until it gets delivered now:
‘On board with driver for delivery today’
The driver never shows up you know why
That was at 6:13 this morning. It still hasn’t shown up…
If he’s anything like the drivers in our area you can expect him to dump it at the post office at 4:55pm then roll around at 3pm 2 days later to put the card in your mailbox telling you that your package is available for pickup.
My wife has made a habit of just going to the post office at 4:30pm on a day when she knows a package is due to wait for the driver. He and the LPO staff insist they “don’t have to attempt delivery to units”, which is a goddamn dirty lie (my wife’s aunt is a manager at the local parcel centre), but even if that were true it doesn’t explain why the lazy mofo doesn’t even fill out the card and put it in the box on the same day.
We suspect he’s working two jobs and just dumps his parcels in the afternoon on his way home from his other place of work.
Why, that… mother fucker that explains a lot.
I don’t even get ‘delivery attempted’ cards, the only card I ever get is from the post-office, saying some asshole courier didn’t even try to do his fucking job.
Sorry courier guys, I know you probably get a bum rap, but everyone else in your profession who I’ve dealt with has earned the reputation they’ve conferred on you by proximity.
Interesting little tidbit here from Rockstar Support;
https://mobile.twitter.com/RockstarSupport/status/379493174768439296?screen_name=RockstarSupport
For 360 peeps, don’t instal the play disk, only the install disk.
Games on multiple discs. Oh 360, you funny, backwards little man.
Having a decidedly wretched week on call. Now I’m at work, 2/3 asleep and have to sit in on an important conference call filling in for someone else – concerning something I have not the slightest idea about. Then I have to do a remote site upgrade this afternoon, which if it goes sideways, I create more work for myself after hours.
Hngh.
Few things are worse than having a conversation with people and nothing but, “I don’t know,” cards in your hand. Especially if it’s not your fault.
5 hours and 37 minutes til I finish work and go gta v. Kinda glad about the install as now I won’t feel so shit having to go to my brother in laws house for his birthday. If I could play straight away I would just ignore him.
Still don’t see the point of a Steambox…
I have a Steambox at home. It’s called a PC.
That’s the thing isn’t it. If I wanted to play PC games on a big screen TV I’d…wait a minute. That’s exactly what I do already.
From what I understand, Steambox is more an idea than anything else.
They’re looking at getting small form factor PCs capable of playing games at decent performance. Something aesthetically pleasing for the lougneroom so you don’t have a PC tower next to your TV.
I would imagine that if a company makes one they would be able to submit to it to Valve to be “Steambox” certified or something.
Quick, healthy meals.
my friend wants a steambox for the sole reason of making PC gaming easier to get into.
he wants to do mods and play cool PC games, but he doesn’t want to worry about not knowing whether his computer can run a game. so if he has some sort of steambox, he can just check on the internet (or on steam if they integrate something like that into their store) that’ll tell him how well a game runs on his machine.
so some people do want a console experience for their PC’ games, we aren’t the target for this product.
So multiple levels of Steambox? Isn’t that just going to confuse the issue further?
Really it just seems like savvy marketing for overpriced pre built PCs using the goodwill behind Steams name.
not really, if you have a certain model, steam would tell you whether the game will run or not, simple.
also no one ever mentioned whether they’d be overpriced or not, i’d assume they’d be sold at a price similar to next gen consoles.
Possibly get some of the benefit of knowing exactly which hardware configurations can be confirmed working and supported by the broadest range of games, similar to what some folks tout as the benefit to consoles. (Somewhat dodgy theory. Some console games do still get video lag, and when locked at 30fps, that’s pretty unimpressive.)
On top of that, they’ve probably missed the boat by not getting in before the PS4/X1. Like the family sharing, Valve are sort of… introducing features that their core user base won’t care about because it’s… impractical? Better than nothing at all even if I don’t buy a steambox, but odd decisions lately.
That said, and while they’re not quite a steambox, I do quite like the look of these — http://www.gigabyte.com.au/products/list.aspx?s=47&ck=104
More as a HTPC; smaller than anything I could realistically build on my own, but with the new generation of Intel integrated graphics it should handle any games older than a couple of years okay (which, let’s face it, is mostly what I’m playing on PC).
The point I think is Valve coming up with a ‘standard’ hardware spec and then all the PC ports targeting that so you know if you have a certain spec level you should expect most games that are Steambox Certified will perform a certain way.
Is there some sort of game being released today or something?
Ironclad Tactics.
Everyone is mega hype for the intense strategic battles.
Some terrible indie game or something, nothing worth worrying about.
No. Kingdom Hearts came out last week.
Etrian Odyssey Untold demo apparently!
Grandius Theftius Automobilias. Veritas.
Spent the evening helping my housemate write a GTA quiz as she works for EB Games and was looking to entertain the midnight crowd.
Try to answer a few of the questions we came up with without googling!
Q: In the original GTA, how many characters could you pick from as your protagonist?
Q: What was the name of the city you are in in GTA2?
Q: Name 3 of the radio stations from GTA: Vice City
Q: What was the name of the character voiced by Samuel L Jackson?
Q: In GTA Chinatown wars, what was the name of the protagonists sword?
Q: At the beginning of GTA3, what was the name of the fellow prisoner you escape with?
I’m going to go with my hut and say the answer for all those questions is Die Hard. The correct answer is always Die Hard.
42.
SAMUEL L JACKSON WAS THE COP FROM SAN ANDREAS RIGHT?!?!? DO I WIN?
You need the name!
I CHEATED AND LOOKED AT WIKIPEDIA, IT WAS OFFICER TENPENNY, I AM BEST
I DIDN’T LOOK UP WIKIPEDIA*, IT WAS OFFICER TENPENNY
*I looked at your postSHAFT!
The Shaft remake movie with Samuel L. Jackson really needed to give credit listing to the gun.
Seriously, that gun had like… four testicles.
Needs more Vice City or GTA III questions, I can ace those mostly 😛 ah my pre teen and teenage years spent playing those two games..
We put together about 25 questions. Those were just off the top of my head.
I’ve played all the GTA, and the only question I could answer was the Sam L Jackson one.
Couldn’t get the first two, but the rest I’m on top of
Vrock, VCPR, FlashFM. Samuel L Jackson was Frank Tenpenny. the sword was Yu Jian. You escape with 8-ball.redartifice is the only true GTA fan
I played a LOT of the Ps2 era games.
Good ol officer tenpenny and his donuts
“The Original GTA” to most people is GTA3. Is that what you’re meaning or are you actually meaning the original Grand Theft Auto from the late 90s where everything was 2D sprites and the game played from a top-down perspective?
There were 8 playable charactersquestion for people with kids @strange @shane @freezespreston etc.
how young is too young for a kid to have free access to tech toys like iPads etc?
& what effect (positive or negative or none) do you think it has on a kids development?
reason I ask is that I saw this kid a few days ago. would’ve been no older than 18 months. he couldnt talk yet, but was opening up apps & playing games on an iPad like a pro. & I just thought it was a bit odd.
I dunno. maybe I’m just old & out of touch.
My kid was three and a half before we let her use anything (an iPad sent to us by @transientmind). She picked it up crazy fast, and can open, close and play her various educational apps like she’s owned one all her life. Kids are great at learning systems and rules.
In terms of the age, we’ve decided not to use technology (including TV) as a babysitter and restrict all screen time to 60min per day or less, so we might not be the best case study for ‘normal’. I agree with you, though, 18 months seems really young for that. We ummmed and ahhhed over 3 1/2. 😛
I would have been mashing away on computer keyboards by 3 years old, and I turned out just fine!
:'(thanks Shane.
just been looking into this early childhood mental development thing for work.
& the question came up that in this early developmental stage, when a kid is learning at an ultra fast rate, if by hading them an iPad or phone og game console or whatever as a babysitter, is this delaying other important mental developments such as language?
I’m sure someone will do some proper research into this at some point, but I cant find anything yet.
Most of the apps on our iPad are language and numerical development apps. So the kids aren’t so much playing games as spelling words and matching stuff to the words and solving mathematical problems and such.
Early anecdotal evidence suggests its not detrimental so much as my eldest is finding her class at school boring as she already knows it all while the other kids struggle.
With any luck It’ll taper out as they get older and socialization becomes more important. I was one of those ‘gifted’ kids who got bored. First few years of school were basically spent being allowed to sit in the bean-bags in the reading corner, reading novels brought from home, because there’s only so long you can go before going insane sitting quietly while the class is learning the alphabet or learning their times tables. Socialization introduced fresh challenges of its own to keep my occupied though, and the acting out settled down a bit. (A bit. Still got into plenty of low-grade trouble from mischief-making.)
Hopefully. At the moment she’s getting in trouble for rolling around on the floor and throwing things during class. The problem being they’re teaching the alphabet (and are only up to Q) to someone who can already write full words and simple sentences correctly.
Oh man… If that’s what school is like, my kid’s gonna be bored too. 🙁
She can already do sums, read all the letters and numbers, count to about seventy, sound out the spelling of words, and write her own name. And there’s still a year and a half until primary school starts…
Yep. She’s gonna struggle. Remember the majority of parents don’t go beyond “Look at the shiny ball” as far as educating their own kids goes. It’s really sad to think that to fit in my daughter is going to have to forgo her interest in books, ballet and classical music for Barbies, whatever kids watch these days and One Direction.
I should say that the ballet going isn’t entirely a bad thing. That stuff’s expensive.
My Grandma used to have me reading playing cards at the age of three.
Usually while i was sitting on my dad’s lap looking at his hand.
@freezespreston
My sister in law didn’t think there was any reason to adjust her langauge to be simple around the kids when they were growing up. So when the little one was 3yo, sensational was one of her favourite words.
She came home from either daycare or kinder and was explaining o her mum, It’s ok when I’m with the other kids, I just need to talk little with them.
@tigerion, I can relate. My 3 y.o refers to her friends at preschool as “my little friends” 😛
Maybe see if the teachers are OK with letting her off to the side to read quietly while the class covers things she knows back to front? My parents didn’t ask for that for me, the teachers just suggested it – but things have changed. My Mum is actually a teacher and the hoops and bullshit they have to jump through now are… unbelievable. And that’s ignoring potentially having kids tell their parents that so-and-so didn’t have to do the same work because they can already read, and having those parents storm into class and ask why some are getting preferential treatment.
School administrator balls have shrivelled to the size of m&ms, and caving to loud enough complaints is the default stance, as far as I can tell. Everyone should be ‘equal’, even when they’re clearly not. (Way to prepare kids for the real world, where no, we are NOT all equal.)
I dunno. If I was to speak off the top of my head, I don’t think screen-based entertainment is, in and of itself, detrimental. For example, Play School is desperately educational, and crams more concepts, games and learning experiences into 25 minutes than we could do in the same time. And from what I’ve seen so far, apps are great for teaching letters, numbers, words, memory and motor skills.
It all depends on the content. If you show your kid derrrrrr things, they’re gonna derrrrrr. But there’s no shortage of genuinely educational stuff out there, and (from what I’ve seen) no reason that kids can’t learn from screens as well as anything else.
My youngest is 2 and is remarkably adept with the iPad.
People underestimate how intuitive iOS is. My eldest at 5 is still struggling coming to grips completely with the Wii and nearly useless with the PS3 but has figured out some tricks with the iPad even I didn’t know.
Let’s time the GTA V PS3 install. Because why not.
HERE WE GO
It’s giving me time to search my house for an appropriately small screwdriver so I can fix my glasses!
About 15 minutes. Not bad.
Are you still filling in for Matt?
About 15 minutes for me on X360, too.
Final repost reminder thingy:
Canberra people: @shane, @bdkiaf, @rize, whoever I’ve forgotten.
Sydney (and surrounding areas) people: @alexpants, @anonymous_pessimist, @batgirl, @cakesmith, @cj, @doc_what, @effluvium-boy, @fatshadylive, @freya, @gingerchris86, @gorzilla, @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian, @masha2932, @kermitron, @mawt, @mrtaco, @powalen, @pyrean, @ruffleberg, @trjn, (I’ve probably missed some people, but I think I removed the people who said they definitely weren’t, apologies if I forgot you)
Other people: @strange, @novacascade, @nomad, @rocketman, @ambroseiv because I want to peer pressure him (unsuccessfully) and I’m pretty sure he falls into the “vaguely Sydneyish” group, @freezespreston, @f4ction @thesecretpeople.
*Cough*
Canberra Meat! Usual stuff! The 21st of September (But Blaghs, isn’t that GTA V weekend? Yes. Yes it is, I will be sitting around playing it. DON’T JUDGE ME!)!
Other words!
Jelly Shots!
Disney Infinity!
See one of Australia’s six Wii U’s, and wonder why anyone would buy one!
Singstar!
Probably LittleBigPlanet because there’s always LittleBigPlanet.
Notice that Blaghs has disappeared for 3 hours to cry in his room!
Food & Alcohol!
A disturbing and saddening lack of @bish.
I’m going to finally give an official time, and say that the shenanigans will kick off at 3pm on the 21st. But really, that doesn’t mean much, since a moderate number of people will have been at my house the night before, so it will really just be party house central, but with far less douchebaggery than that implies.
If you’d like to bring games or something, feel free. You may also wish to bring some sort of bedding thing, as my floor is not super comfortable, but I have a few blow up mattresses, a coupla spare beds, and some actually pretty comfortable recliners on my couches, so it may not be too bad.
If anybody would like to offer their cooking skills, that would be radalicious, I’ll be making some stuff, but I’m not very good at catering (or more accurately, preparation).
As with last time, if the people who are driving down and have space or a plan or something could post something below for organisation raisins, it would be swell.
And if you want to know my address, or any other information, chuck an email to blaghman (at) gmail (dot) com Maybe even do that if you’re enquiring specifically about the meat, but I’m not really fussy, I just like attention. In small doses.
I shall not be attending but instead playing BOARD GAMES!
Oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god…
I want to come earlier! I’ll need to leave at 4:30 at the latest because kids.
So we’ve got until 4:30 to have fun, cool!
No, wait until Shane leaves — then the real party starts!
I have the opposite wish.
#Dantastic
I hope this is the best Meat ever so I can claim that my leaving forced you to [DISNEY MESSAGE HERE] and became a better group of friends.
Plus Animal Crossing visits! Collaborative turnip buying on Sunday morning!
ps. I’m not bringing any food this time because lazy.
I’m happy to help out with the cooking of things.
Just don’t ask me to bake anything. I’m pretty awesome with a frypan and even better with a pot but the oven continues to befuddle and taunt me.
I’m pretty handy with a toaster. I haven’t burned anything in days!
Why cook when you can order hotdog stuffed pizza crust?
You just answered your own question.
You’re doing this whole weekend away from the family wrong Freeze. Make all of the poor life decisions!
@nomad and I will be there Friday night
I can’t cook anything that doesn’t come in some fort of pre-cooked frozen form, but I’d be more than happy to fork out some cash towards food/snacks whatever.
No can do.
Family commitments.
I Shall be Looking after My housemates Cats while he trapses over NZ for two weeks, so Alas I cannot, But instead I shall be there partially in spirit, and Partially at @trjn ‘s house playing board games for more than my normal 2 hours..
I should probably get around to sending that e-mail…
I hope I get paid reasonably well tomorrow. SO BUS FROM GEELONG TO CANBERRA. WOOO.
I should be there. If there weather isn’t miserable I’ll probably ride my bike which means if you run out of mattresses I’m sleeping with you Blaghs!
Hahah! Best GTA V review!
I havent read Leigh’s site, & I’m thankful i dont have to.
but I’ve been told its pretty good. gorundbreaking, in fact.
theres words there. I assume they form coherent sentences.
and punctuation is generally in the correct place. probably.
but I guess that this condescending tone I’m using, while Leigh will be able to relate to it, isnt exactly funny, and nor does this post contain a point. again something Leigh can relate to.
I give the site a 9/10
😛
I found it amusing because it’s written in response to the bulk of reviews that criticise the game’s characters or depiction of social issues and then go “BEST GAME, TEN OUT OF TEN!” — satirical in much the same way as GTA.
it just came across as petty & condescending & not at all witty.
theres better ways to make a point.
especially if what you wanna do is point out to GTA fans the problems with the games’ attitude toward social issues.
the way that was done, a GTA fan is gonna read the first sentence, note the rubbish piss take tone & quit.
this is only gonna appeal to people who already feel the same way, so it comes across as a bit pointless & self-indulgent…
Something pointless and self indulgent on the Internet? Surely you jest?
The worst.
http://potaku.com/2013/09/16/the-gta-five-five-films-to-get-you-in-the-mood-for-grand-theft-auto-five/
It’s her personal blog and entirely self-indulgent, not content generated for at a consumer level. I think readers fall into two main camps — a lot of game journalists follow Leigh’s stuff because it gives a slightly different insight and/or people have worked with her, while lots of people who dislike her also want to know what to criticise; one of the latter showed me the link originally. If you read her FAQ or other posts, she’s definitely capable of being abrasive and rude, too — but to that extent, I lump her in with most other high-profile journalists.
So I’m a fan of GTA (I preordered V to play it, not get outraged — honest! :P) but I don’t think it’s targeted towards gamers/people who want to know what GTA V is like to play — it’s a criticism of the reviews, which were outrageously similar, and for fellow journalists to take note. It’s not going to win any awards or high praise, it’s just throwaway commentary that made me chuckle.
In response to this I’ll repeat the same thing I said in response to this question posed on twitter earlier:
“if volition can put together likeable female characters in a world that has strippers etc, surely rockstar can”
While Saints Row 2+ allow for a female protagonist, does it really allow for a feminine protagonist? Or does it just let women play in a man-world and highlight the fact that women largely have to tolerate whatever men prefer?
My wife digs big explosions and female strippers but not all women do or should be expected to. Maybe these games aren’t for those women. In which case, would we be well served by a female protagonist in GTAV? Or would she become another target for objectification and victimisation?
I think they were talking about Shaundi/Fun Shaundi, Kinzie and possibly Asha. Not protagonists but characters that people are fairly well developed and interesting (at least by Saints Row standards).
Most media fails to have interesting female characters, let alone interesting female protagonists. Just look at how male dominated most casts are and how shallow the roles of the female characters can be.
Which is a completely fair point but perhaps not the one I am addressing. Are these female characters really “women” or are they men with tits? What really defines the motivations and behaviours of a woman versus a man? They tried to make Lara Croft super vulnerable so we’d want to protect her and while the game was apparently good (I haven’t played it yet) their attitudes to Lara and the torture porn-esque design behind some of her death sequences raised a few eyebrows.
There was an article recently that actually criticised the “strong female” archetype. When you put a woman in a game, or most media, they’re “strong” because it’s now frowned upon to make them “weak”. What they’re not, yet, is complex. We don’t have troubled, shallow, abusive, angry, drug-addicted female characters like we do male characters, because we’re so scared of making women anything other than “strong”.
The lack of complex and interesting female characters is a lack of willingness to take risks, which frankly is driven by the market. The most successful franchises with female protaonists are ones like Saints Row or Mass Effect or Fallout or Fable where gender identity (and in some cases sexuality) is just a toggle switch and doesn’t affect any gameplay or dialogue or story apart from superficial concerns like love interests.
Would GTAV benefit from a female protagonist or well-designed female characters? No, I don’t think so. They’d be out of place in the world. And maybe that’s Rockstar’s fault for making a game that’s a man sandbox and not an equal opportunity sandbox. Maybe they just don’t make games for everyone and while you’re free to complain, they’re not obliged do do anything about it. Damn thing cost $286 million to put on store shelves, and they’re aiming for the biggest demographic. If you feel excluded by GTAV that’s a shame because it’s apparently a pretty good game, apart from the misogyny.
Do I want more games that are accessible to more gamers from more demographics? Absolutely. But it’s just not feasible to make EVERY game accessible on that level. It sucks, but humanity is a diverse animal. Life is complicated.
It’s a bit of both really. Shaundi is very definitely a character that they could not have made a dude. She’s mocked for being a slut initially and then in later games is incredibly uptight and hardassed basically in response to how everyone has treated her. In Saints Row 4, her past version (Fun Shaundi) shows up and there’s an interesting dynamic between the two.
There are a lot of characters that are basically written as dudes with boobs, especially when it comes to protagonists. When it comes to video games, the writing is so poor that it’s actually odd for me to use Saints Row as an example of good characterisation. Yet the more I think about it, the more I think they did a much better job than people will give them credit for.
I was addressing the point the initial tweet made. That Saints Row has interesting female characters.
EDIT: Kinzie and Matt Millar could have definitely swapped gender without anyone noticing though.
I haven’t played SRIV yet but I will say based on 2 & 3 Shaundi is a good character and what you say about her being written comprehensively as female is true, but then again, her development as a character between past “fun” Shaundi and present “hardass” Shaundi seems to be centred specifically around a sexual aspect of her personal history. I’m not saying it’s wrong to do that, it can be done well, and maybe SRIV does it well. I don’t know yet, based on personal experience.
I’m thinking about how in SR3 Sasha Grey’s character was incredibly uptight about being labelled a slut just because she operated a brothel, which mirrors the current stigma Sasha herself is facing as an ex-porn star who is trying to find work in the non-adult entertainment industry.
I think the only reason Kinzie is a female is because girl hacker geeks are sexy (to boys), where as boy hacker geeks are repulsive (to everyone, as far as popular media is concerned).
There is one example currently in the news that your post makes me think of — Tony Abbott’s cabinet.
I read ABC news a lot and there has been a huge focus on the fact that Julie Bishop is the only woman in his cabinet — Bronwyn Bishop is out so she can be Speaker and Mirabella looks like losing her seat — and so that is evidence of his bigotry and hatred of women..
The only other female politician I know of within the coalition is Sue Boyce and she’s always been very left; likely unsuitable for cabinet even if she wasn’t departing next year… so it begs the question — should people be appointed on merit (though I suspect there is still a lack of women in the Liberal/National parties because of their social policies, but don’t know for sure) or should people be appointed on the basis of furthering gender equality?
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Is there a compromise between the two? I have two pro-Labor friends, both were ridiculing Mirabella and Fiona Scott leading into the election, and now they’re ridiculing Abbott for not appointing more women to senior positions; does personal prejudice/bias hinder equality? (in this case, political allegiance overruling the progress of women) Or are criticisms against those two fair and justified, in which case the appointment of the current cabinet is fair and justified in the absence of proven alternatives?
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TL;DR — It’s not just video games, fair representation of women is an issue everywhere. And yes, I just compared the coalition to GTAV.
Again, real life is slightly more complex than video games. We want to see fair representation across demographics in fiction because that’s representative of society as a whole, and you’re free to write pretty much whatever you want, if you choose to. In life, we don’t necessarily see fair representations for a myriad of reasons, a lot of them to do with legacy. There is a lot of upper management congestion, not only in government but in all manner of corporations.
There are less female executives and CEOs because many large companies have those positions filled my men who built those companies in an era when women simply weren’t accepted in those positions. Likewise, old white men are going to keep selecting other older white men for promotion, which creates a glass ceiling for women, regardless of the capability of women.
In the private sector there are organisations (Women in Insurance is one group who holds seminars and lunches I have attended previously) built specifically towards seeking out opportunities for female advancement in the corporate/insurance sector, and this includes personal and professional development opportunities. I firmly believe that any position should go to the most qualified candiate irrespective of gender, race, etc. The problem is that old white men are still being overrepresented in these areas because they’re still enjoying a legacy advantage (which tumblr loves to call “privilege”). People are actively working to remove this advantage and equalise the workforce, and we’ve seeing some excellent growth here. Women are being employed in senior roles more frequently because these orgnisations are building awareness and helping educate people so that when a suitable position is open, there are more female candidates prepared to take advantage of it.
The government on the other hand is in a tricky position. It’s pretty much the discretion of the PM (which is another role largely held by old white men barring one exrtremely recent exception) to decide who does what job regardless of qualifications. Now he’s held accountable for that come election time, but that’s three years away. He has three years to prove he made the right choice. The cabinet membership is extremely public and as such as become a hotly contested issue. Am I frustrated there’s only one female cabinet member compared to the eight or so (I’m not sure) that the Labor government had in place? Yes. Do I dislike Abbott? Yes. Am I opposed to the Coalition government and most of their principles? Yes. Should there be more female cabinet members? I am not at liberty to decide that. I don’t know what the actual qualifications are of the candidates for each respective seat. Maybe Abbott genuinely selected the best candidates. Maybe he didn’t. We’re inclined to assume the worst and the loss of female cabinet members looks incredibly suspicious given the legacy advantage and Abbott’s complete discretion. But I also think that most of us are unqualified to pass judgement on it, at least for now.
So I’ve managed to sneak through this entire console generation (360/PS3/Wii) without actually owning a console personally. It’s always been friends or family members that I’ve played stuff on (my sister had a Wii, friends mostly had 360s), handhelds, or PC. I guess that’s why I haven’t caught the GTA hype-flu and I’m still kinda meh about the whole next generation.
But you play D&D, so yer alright.
Handhelds and PC’s are all you need. It’s probably what I will use next gen (except for next gen Legend of Zelda on console).
Jump on board the 3DS train. Some great titles and a huge DS back catalogue.
Already aboard the 3DS train. Mucho satisfacto had so far and I’m probably more hyped for Pokemon X/Y than I’ve been for a game for a long time.
Oh man, so much hype for POKEMANS X / Y here!
*throws GTAV in the bin*
POKÉHYPE
Take that pic
Post to Reddit
Laugh at Americans who haven’t got it yet
@trjn YOU BASTARD.
THAT GATEWAY DRUG OF A GAME 7 WONDERS HAS NOW CAUSED ME AND MY FRIENDS TO BUY SO MANY BOARDGAMES. WE GOT RESISTANCE AVALON, LIBERTALIA, STAR TREK CATAN, ONCE UPON A TIME AND A BUNCH MORE GAMES.
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME.
Ticket to Ride! CHOO CHOO!
All good things. Embrace your board gaming self. You dirty spy, you. 😛
I have done good things.
Star Trek Catan is so awesome…
So is Gearworld…
why haven’t you bought Gearworld? BUY GEARWORLD….
we didn’t have time to play it last night sadly, we started setting up the board, but due to my friend being on his red p’s, he had to leave before midnight , i was so excited to play it as well 🙁
That’s a shame :\
ah well something to look forward to!… we’ve played a fair few games of Catan now, and it’s consistently awesome, especially when you start randomising the map
We don’t get to play much Catan. @freya doesn’t really like it, which is why @fatshadylive probably hasn’t come over in a few months, because that dude is obsessed with Catan.
To me Catan is one of those games that is majorly rewarding without taking too long…
I love Gearworld: The Borderlands, which is a logistics game in similar vein to Catan, however one game can easily take 3 – 4 hours to resolve, which means we never end up finishing it or someone gets bored half way through… Catan only takes us about 60 minutes to resolve and there’s always things happening keeping everyone interested… it just has excellent pacing i reckon.
I think Catan is one of those games that your experience is drastically different depending on who you’re playing with. If people really get into things, take part in trading and whatnot, it’s a good, fun and reasonably quick game. If people play selfishly and don’t really get into things, it’s just not fun.
This is very true actually… played one game where one of the guys were just not participating when it came to trade, and his only objective was to screw everyone else over… he hasn’t played with us since XD
Libertalia is fun
The parrot brings all sorts of troll worthy moments. I made Mrs Tigs brute punch himself out but playing my lower level brute as well as the two brute already on the board
Something’s missing. Have you checked that you don‘t need to acquire or buy another title?
Also you won’t truly be in the deep end until you’ve got yourself a copy of Descent, Super Dungeon Explore, Eclipse, Twilight Imperium or something similarly huge.
@35 slightly off topic, but the One Laptop Per Child project gave a bunch of tablets to kids in an African village who could barely read. within 5 months they were hacking parts of the OS:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/01/kids_learn_hacking_android/
thats pretty damn impressive.
Proves kids are smart everywhere.
kids between the ages of like 6 months to 5 years anywhere are amazing at learning stuff.
thats still pretty impressive though.
Installed a couple of UV LED strips and some fan filters on the new PC. Finally, I’m calling this complete.
http://i.imgur.com/lMzAKlY.jpg
sexy.
This ‘think of the children’ bullshit is getting me unnaturally steamed up. Maybe I put the cranky-pants on this morning, or stress is getting to me, but the next person I hear telling me to make considerations for the children when engaging in adult activities – SUCH AS ADULT-RATED VIDEO-GAMES – I am going to give them one hell of a fucking unrelenting serve about them manning the fuck up and dealing with their own damage.
I’m talking about how difficult it is to control children (no shit), or to deal with the urges they aren’t ready for yet (kids’ reach exceeds their grasp? NEWS OF THE FUCKING CENTURY. How do you think we LEARN?), or the confronting reality that one day their children will stop being their ‘precious little babies’ and turn into actual functioning people with personalities and desires, some of which will be adult. YES, puberty and adolescence are scary things to parents. MORE BREAKING NEWS. Coming up next: confronting your own mortality.That’s your damage, you punks. Deal with it. Don’t tell me that we can’t have bars because kids might want to go in there for a drink. Don’t tell me that we can’t have strip clubs because adolescent young boys (or girls?) might want to go in there and see boobs. Don’t tell me we can’t have adult games because kids will want to play them. NO SHIT they’ll want to play them. That’s what kids DO – test boundaries. And it’s your job to moderate or restrict that. And yes, it’s hard. Welcome to life. Who the hell told you it wouldn’t be hard, ever? And you believed them? Slap them for telling you, then slap yourself for believing it./Endrant. Breathe.
When I used to sell games, I could probably count on one hand the times that me advising a parent that a game was adults only actually made them reconsider buying it.
Luckily, one of those was the parent of an 8 year old.
One time when I was working at EB a kid brought up God of War 2 (MA15+) and his dad was right there. He looked at the rating then asked “why is this not ok for a 12 year old?”. He was told the game contains graphic violence, nudity and sexual references. He asked how bad the sex and nudity were, was told bare breasts, strongly implied off-screen sex. He said fine and forked over the money. And that is totally fine by me.
What gets me is when, recently, I was in an EB when a kid probably no loder then 10 brought his copy of The Last of Us to the counter, and the kid put the game on the counter. the mother looked at it, appear to carefully consider the rating and the implications of it being restricted to adults only, then said to the person working the counter “this is for him”, indicating her 10 year old child. The girl replied “that’s fine”, and sold her the game.
I’ve mentioned this before and how I felt compelled to say something to her, but I chickened out. I just wasn’t prepared to have that conversation and have someone judge me for being a stickybeak.
And sometimes, people – including your children – will go off the rails, despite your best intentions. Shielding them from the possibility of this happening, or ‘life’ as it’s called isn’t helping anyone. People need boundaries, but they also need freedom to push those boundaries and find their own limits.
I went off the rails for several years when I was younger – drugs, all manner of various criminal activities – all the fun stuff. My parents aren’t to blame for that, nor is society. They made rules, but also gave my freedoms. It was all very reasonable. I made my own (bad) choices, but also recovered from them at my own choosing. I also know plenty of people who didn’t. Even with the full support of friends and family. Some people are ruined for life. Some are dead. This is life.
Me going off the rails had nothing to do with music, movies, video games – it was all me. My parents did an exemplary job of raising me, and I knew what I was doing was wrong. I just decided to do it anyway.
Grand ‘Nef Auto.
If anything most of my poor choices in life were influenced by friends and pretty girls. Pretty sure no one will take to the media denouncing those though.
GUNS DON’T KILL PEOPLE
FRIENDS KILL PEOPLE
SAY NO TO FRIENDS
Parental outrage sees friends refused classification in Australia.
Humans become isolated, children lack trust in each other, and those who try to make friends are arrested.
Moral guardians are outraged at themselves for once, asking
“Why did we think of the children?!”
Pretty girls. They’re the worst.
Forget movies, comic books, games, music or anything like that — conservative groups should be banning pretty girls!
If we can eliminate anything sexy from movies, TV, and video-games, I’m pretty sure the popular theory is that children will never LEARN to be interested in sexy things like the unclothed human body, and that way they will avoid all the mistakes they might otherwise be encouraged to make by pretty girls.
But with juvenile male minds, without a pretty naked body to focus on, wouldn’t the mind just wondering when they look down and think “I wonder what i can stick this thing into”…
better to keep it focused, otherwise we actively encourage weird experimentation 😛
NO. Without evil external influences beyond parental control, all children are perfect little angels.
I had never thought if it like that… seems legit!
I heard someone say that the people with the best wisdom to offer, also made the worst mistakes.
And yeah. I was a very angry young man too, when I flew the coop. And I did questionable things, and had questionable done to me. I survived. Others didn’t. Being taught some independence and mental agility and let me associate with the ‘problem kids’ enough to learn things they can’t put on TV might’ve just helped me survive where the coddled wouldn’t have? Who knows.
By the same token, I know a woman who is in her thirties and who still lives with her parents and siblings in one big, happy family, like a Brady Bunch that never, ever grew up. Stuffed toys and all. So maybe keeping them in the nest forever works too, if that’s what you’re looking for. (Not a great way to get grandkids, but maybe there’ll be some sort of arranged thing with a similar family? I don’t know.)
Gahd, if I ever have kids I hope by their thirties they’re functional, independent adults with some real life stories to tell. You don’t live life without fucking up occasionally, it’s how you learn.
If you want to keep your precious little princess virginal and unspoiled… into her 20s? Sure, but you should probably learn to let go. Into her 30s? OK, that’s getting a little sad, but not hopeless, start actively encouraging dating. Into her 40s? You’ve effectively denied someone you apparently love some of the richest and most rewarding intimate moments human beings can share with one another. You weird, demented monster.
I’m already happy to let the kids make their own mistakes. Eg: Watching them climb to the top of the couch back to throw themselves at the bean bag. Remind them it’s a stupid idea and its going to hurt. Eldest did it and snapped herself and has never done it again.
The youngest is a dickwit though and has done it a few times. We need to intervene now.
But you let him try a few times, just to be sure.
Trying to teach them to stop and think about previous lessons. Problem is youngest is too much like me :S
I can’t stop looking at that gif to the right for the ‘Well, This Celebration Certainly Got Awkward’ article.
Started playing Sins of a Solar Empire last night again…
baaaaaaad idea…
started at 11am… 4 hours later “OHMYGODIBETTERGOTOBED”…
i’m not even close to resolving the match either
RTS. The best way to facilitate time travel.
RTS – The future is now… no really, look outside, you’re in the future from when you started
“Here’s a picture of me when I was younger.”
“But… ALL pictures are of you when you were younger.”
“I had this picture taken when I was 65…
Now I’m 28!”
Sins of a Solar Empire is a 4X, can you imagine a 4 hour long Starcraft match? Your fingers would fall off!
Now that I think of it, the plot of The Last Continent (the Discworld book set on the Australian analog Fourecks) had a big thing about time and space working different. “It wasn’t here five minutes ago!” “Yes but now it’s been there for thousands of years.”
Which means that the secret to time travel is probably buried at Castlemaine.
After two hours though it’d be much less cuz literally all of the resources on the map are gone 😛
Sins is one of my, “Damn, I’m getting tired, I should probably to to b-WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN I HAVE WORK IN FIFTEEN MINUTES?” games.
(Edit: Man, I am sweary today.)
Yep that’s pretty much my experience too…
but my god it’s bloody awesome…
Playing as TEC for the first time… i usually play as the Vasari because LETS ENSLAVE PEOPLE… so it’s interesting playing as someone else…
I blame GTA.
I still haven’t sat down and gotten into Sins proper. I’ve had a go at Rebellion, and recoiled in horror at the obscene time destruction potential. I have plans to though.
The worst one for me was Homeworld 2 with Complex Mod. You can throw some disgustingly oversized maps in there, and with all the extra ships, building options and tech – say goodbye to at least 4 hours before you get anywhere.
Rebellion is basically Sins proper with an expansion pack integrated into it. You lose nothing by sticking with it.
Civ is my equivalent of that. Never really got into 4x as a genre
I know 4X usually refers to space-based games, but isn’t Civ technically a 4X anyway?
Yes. Civ is practically the definition of 4X. The term’s associated with space conquest games mainly because it was first used in reference to Master of Orion.
So. Breaking Bad latest episode:
Svefgyl qvq rirelbar rawbl vg? V’z abg fher V rawblrq vg (gubhtu V guvax gung vg znl or rivqrag gung V’z abg rawblvat znal guvatf yngryl – zber fb n crefbany qvyrzzn). Unax, Tbzrm obgu qrnq. Bar bs gurz jnf zl snibhevgr punenpgref. Lrg V’z abg qrinfgngrq gb gur cbvag bs ungvat gur fubj (frr Tnzr bs Guebarf sna bhgentr) ohg ng gur fnzr gvzr V unir ab vqrn jung vf va fgber sbe gur svany rcvfbqrf. V cerivbhfyl sryg gung Fxlyne va trareny jnf veevgngvat, abj vg’f Jnyg’f vaprffnag ylvat orvat gur terngre veevgngvba. V fgvyy srry frnfba guerr jnf gur crnx bs gur fubj naq lrf, V srry sbhe naq svir unir qebccrq n yvggyr. Ubjrire V jvyy jnvg hagvy gur raq gb chg gbtrgure zl frnfba fpberf.
How does everyone else feel thus far?
I haven’t watched it yet, but am firmly advocating rot13 instead of spoiler buttons.
Nomad’s comment below is a prime example of why you don’t push the spoiler button out of idle curiosity. 🙂
(NOW YOU ARE TEMPTED. MOOHAHAHA.)
jung nobhg EBG13 vafvqr fcbvyre gntf?Nullifies the point of a spoiler button, unfortunately.
:’p
Edit: I use the spoiler button to minimise my giant walls of text.
That’s about it. It’s too tempting as a button press to use for actual spoilers.
its like double-bagging at the supermarket. minimise the chances of a spill.
damage mitigation.
My uncontrollable compunction to press any shiny button I see is probably the main reason I am a gamer, so I’d be surprised if there were others on a gaming forum who don’t share our pathology. 🙂
(It’s also the reason people used to get weird calls from me at four years old saying, “Hello? Hello?” because it was the only thing I knew to say into a phone – though I’m amazed I was able to figure out valid number combinations on a rotary phone. Anything with buttons had to be placed up high to be safe from my hands. A mate of mine with a 2yr old was the same, and he’s confessed, “Yeah, I can already tell where he’s headed in relation to a love of tech. He’s more like his old man than I’d like.”)
Jngpurq vg ynfg avtug, rkcrpgrq Tbzrl gb qvr ubarfgyl, jnf fubpxrq jvgu Unax gubhtu. Nyfb fubpxrq jvgu gur jnl Jnyg qrnyg jvgu Wrffr. V’z guvaxvat gung Jnyg vf tbvat gb pbzr onpx(fubja va gur synfusbejneq ng fgneg bs frnfba 5) gb xvyy Hapyr Wnpx. V qrsvavgryl gubhtug Jnyg jnf orvat n qvpx gb Fxlyne, fgrnyvat Ubyyl & fnlvat gung gurl’yy arire frr Unax ntnva. Ernyyl zna? Lbh pbhyqa’g rira gryy gurz jurer gur obqvrf ner?Edit: rot13’d
Heh. Uhm. Sorry to single you out? 🙂
V gubhtug vg jnf na nznmvat rcvfbqr ohg ab, V qvq abg rawbl vg bar ovg. V guvax guvf bar jnf gb znxr vg pyrne gb nalbar fgvyy purrevat sbe Jnyg gung gur gvzr sbe gung unf ybat cnffrq. Rira zl jvsr jub unf qryvorengryl ercynprq gur jbeq “phag” jvgu “Fxlyne” va ure crefbany qvpgvbanel unq gb erpbapvyr gung fur’f abg gur onq thl nalzber. Nyy gur fnzr, Jnyg’f erzbefr bire Unax vf pyrneyl irel erny naq ur jnf qbvat uvf orfg gb cebgrpg ure ol guerngravat ure juvyr gur pbcf jrer yvfgravat.
Gur ovg jvgu Wrffr jnf urnegoernxvat, Nneba Cnhy FBYQ gung fuvg.
V’z jnvgvat sbe gur cnlbss, juvpu V nz fher vf tbvat gb or vaperqvoyr.
@shane and I wrote a thing on the GTAs!
http://potaku.com/2013/09/17/duel-shock-grand-theft-auto/
@shane is a writer? Learn something new every day.
Wow, great read. I haven’t played any of the previous GTA entries to know half of what you guys referred to and wrote about. I played about an hour of IV before quitting.
I find it interesting the love that San Andreas gets from everyone… I played GTA from the first iteration, and i absolutely hated San Andreas, and found it to be the weakest of all the games, Vice City being the best bar none…
But very good piece of writing, very interesting.
Vice City is my favourite, I love that city so much.
San Andreas was less focused, and CJ is a busta, but I loved the sheer degree of fucking around you could do in that game. That’s what I really want in GTA V.
I was turned off by the whole tamagotchi “You gotta work out and then eat and then work out again BECAUSE YOU’RE FAT” thing, i think that’s where i got disconnected from the game… then they introduced the whole Turf Wars thing and i felt they just tried to cram too many mechanics into one game…
Vice City on the other hand, excellent map size, good pacing and simple-ish mechanics so you could just enjoy the world
I know Vice City intimately- even ten years later I could probably find all the weapon pick-ups. San Andreas I had more fun exploring and finding new things.
Okay we need to stop with the GTAV hype because I WANTZ IT…. BUT I CANNAE AFFORDZ IT! 😛
Vice City > San Andreas > GTA London 1969 > GTAIV > GTA 2 > GTA 3 > GTA.
Where V fits is yet to be determined.
GTA London 1969
*Eyes glaze over*
i like you
My ranking is
San Andreas – Vice City – GTA 3 – GTAIV – GTA 2 – GTA London – GTA
I remember wanting to play Duke Nukem 3D on my cousins computer so I could see boobies and he laughed at me for not wanting to play GTA so I can’t seperate it from that painful mammary.
GTA2 > Other < GTA CW
Oh shit.
I forgot there’ll be new Lazlow.
Hype levels at critical.
Sitting in the office, waiting for the work car to be repaired so I can do something. Boss has this morning of to play GTA, is this some sort of topsy-turvy world?
He’s the boss. Sounds about right to me.
It’s certainly what I would do if I were the boss.
Looks like this week’s BOARD GAMING is going to be all about playing the new games.
@mawt gave me a copy of Talisman for my birthday last week, so I think we’re going to have to bust it out (didn’t on the day because we had too many people) and the copy of Tokaido my brother got me just arrived (well, I had to walk to the Annandale post office, which I’m sure if the furthest of the three nearby post offices).
BOARD GAMES!
Good post, though it is lacking in Battledome.
7/10.
Would read again.
My life lacks Battledome and that makes me sad.
Would more parenthesis help? I’m sure they world (well, somewhat sure).
I played dominion on the weekend and now I want to buy dominion
Dominion is a pretty neat game. I wish I could play more of it but it doesn’t have pandas in it so @freya doesn’t always win. If she doesn’t always win, then we don’t get to play the game that often.
The expansion content looks great too. I have some and have enjoyed it but because we don’t play enough, I haven’t been able to justify buying all of the rest.
No one simply buys ‘just’ dominion…Beware of the expansions, your wallet will suffer!
Thanks for the warning, I was looking at it the other day. Something like 10 expansions and that doesn’t include the 7 fan made ones.
Fan Made expansions???? Links please 🙂
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36218/dominion
Expand the expansion tabs and you will see a list of them. eg Fairy Tale (Fan Expansion for Dominion)
Click the one you are interested in. If you scroll down to the files section they will often have print and play files available for download
Not true, the base game is the best version of the game and the expansion stuff isn’t necessary.
I agree that the base game is sufficient by itself. But the expansions are pretty tempting in my mind. Kinda in the same realm as Munchkin, having the expansions keeps the game ‘fresh’ if you play it quite often.
I will be bringing things too 🙂
\o/
I… actually won’t be able to make it this Saturday.
Got important family stuff on. Didn’t realise that we were so far through September already.
Dangit.
Well, we’ll wait for you to show up for the first game of Talisman. It’s a Fantasy Flight game, so I’m going to take a while to work out the rules anyhow :p
I found myself whistling uncontrollably (public whistling is a shameful act perpetrated only by willingly ignorant deviants or the deliberately malicious) in the floor foyer, waiting for the lifts when someone emerged from the bathroom and asked, “Is that… the theme from Monkey Island?”
I NOW RESPECT YOU, PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN COWORKER.
Or rather… that would be what I like to imagine would have happened if I had not whistled a few bars then realized what I was doing, and ceased that debased activity out of burning, burning shame and justified self-loathing.Damn. I should’ve gone with ‘previously unknown toilet-person’. Oh well. YOU CANNOT EDIT PAGE-GETS.
Haha, you cannot edit page gets. I only made that one up to retain the surprise factor when you realise your deeply personal comment is made highlight-worthy.
Of course you can edit page gets.
No you can’t. I don’t care if you made it up, it’s the Rule now! Accepting anything else would mean that my life has been a lie.
Your spoiler spoiled the story.
That’s why it says spoiler!
PAGE SIX!
It’s not so bad if you were whistling a tune briefly. There’s a special place in hell for people that just whistle random shit. You know the ones. No tune, just whistling because they can.
I sometimes randomly hear a brief whistling of an afternoon from another office a few metres away.
There is some model of weird non-apple ‘smart’ phone out there (yeah, weird I know) which must use a whistle as its default SMS tone. I only realized this the other day when I heard the exact same whistle that I hear in the office, and saw it prompt someone to check their phone, at which point it whistled again almost immediately after.
All this time I’d thought it was one of my coworkers being randomly cheerful/obnoxious.
Ohhhh…. I know the one – I think it’s one of the default Samsung/Android default tones.
Someone at school has that ringtone. I fucking hate it so much.
I once made my brother check his phone by whistling in the same way as that ringtone.
It was the best day of my life.
I used to whistle lots. Mainly because I almost always have a tune of some sort playing in my head. I don’t know what made me whistle it though, half the time I wouldn’t even notice. But it’s been aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages since that happened. Maybe all those people telling me I seem sad are onto something…
Oh and ftr people who whistle but can’t do it well or keep in tune at all are even worse than people who sing terribly.
I’ve mentioned this before, but we have a guy who regularly starts singing at the top of his lungs in the foyer on his way into the bathroom and continues to sing through the duration of his pooping or peeing. I’m not sure what tragedy befell him in this life to so thoroughly break the man as to result in this pathology, but I sincerely hope he still has friends or family who can persist through the madness long enough to ensure he gets the help he needs.
Edit – Re: Not whistling anymore: You got a healthy sense of dignity, shame, and respect for your fellow man. Take pride in having your jubilant exuberance thoroughly beaten by the staid social mores of your peers. But not too much pride, that’s unbecoming, too.
Once I get outta this funk, imma whistle so hard.
Every time you whistle, an uptight angel purses its lips in disapproval.
Wow, so many uptight angels due to Samsung then
lol I love it when you start whistling something a bit uncommon, and someone chirps up knowing what it is!
It’s almost as good as how people seem to feel when you shout out mad props for their t-shirts with obscure/subtle references that only gamers/nerds would get.
Secret handshakey. 🙂
Oh we had the best one of these a while back. Had a gaming meetup with a whole bunch of friends, so we drove down to the nearby shops to get supplies. I got there first, so as me and my carload were walking in, the other guy drives past and they all yell out the windows at us, and have the stereo blasting the DKC2 soundtrack. As they go off to find a park, we hear the (not particularly young-looking) woman in front of us turn to her husband and say “…I think that was Donkey Kong music??”
(@transientmind)
Kinda weird but kinda cool.
Web management lectures cancelled for a second week in a row \o/
And I’m probably the only person here who either doesn’t have or isn’t waiting on GTAV 🙁 I’ll get it when it’s cheap
Nerp, we’re in the same boat dudeguy…
NOGTA-FIVE o/
(SEEWHATIDIDTHERE)
Upvote because you aren’t alone.
Greetings from the only person in the world that doesn’t care about GTA 5. I feel so alone 🙁
Make that two people 😀
We should start a gang!
A bikie gang! Who ride motorcycles, not pushbikes.
I’m sticking with my Vespa!
Ooh ooh can I join please please please!
And my axe!
Whoo. You’re my new best friend.
*hugs*
You aren’t alone, pup
I’m sorta in a position where I’m not hyped for it at all, but will probably get it eventually anyway because of TAY Marketing/Multiplayer (and if I don’t get in while the hype is fresh then I’ll likely never play it :P).
I’ll finish Bioshock Infinite first though.
I laughed at the last line. RESIST THE TAY MARKETING. It would have you do crazy things like watch Breaking Bad or play Rayman.
RAYMAN! \o/
Hai gais!!!
<3
I need some recommendations for good android games…
GO GO GO!
Magic 2014. Osmos HD. Eufloria HD. Frozen Synapse. NFS Most Wanted. Amygdala
Awesome – thanks mate.
I have Osmos already (yay!) and i have frozen synapse on PC – is there anything different about the mobile version?
No, but it crosses over pretty well. Blendoku is a pretty cool little puzzler, as is Puzzle Retreat
World of Mystic Wiz, Elemental, rebuild, Stick cricket
Cheers! 😀
Might and Magic Clash of Heroes, Magic 2014 (Only works on tablets, but there are ways to trick it into loading on phones) Minecraft PE, Chaos Rings and The Walking Dead: Assault.
I can vouch for Might and Magic Clash of Heroes on any platform. Well. Maybe except for the PS3/360, it runs like ass on those. So long the loading times…
How about survivalcraft rather than MicraftPE? I hear it’s better – any experience?
Solitaire
Imaginary Range (is free)
Chaos Rings (which’d be better on Vita)
RAYMAN JUNGLE RUN!!!!!!
and the sequel Fiesta Run is out later this year too.
My dad was sitting on the couch and let out a loud fart
Me: “Dad, that was horrible”.
Dad: “That wasn’t me, it was the asshole behind me”.#dadjokepagesix
Oh wow, the comments are getting mighty heated in the ‘cocaine’ article.
ABORT ABORT
Or is it snort, snort?
I’ve only been checking the comments specifically for replies to my posts. I am not sure everyone who replied to my post understood my actual point.
I liked the part where you talked about understanding on the internet.
Some of them are saying GTA isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be anyway. Others are saying the whole fake cocaine thing was fine, and people should just deal with it?
they need to take a break, have a coke, or they won’t come within a sniff of calming down.
The comments that don’t even address the topic at hand and simply direct hate and anger toward other commenters is just sad. That is pretty much my only quip.
I think I’ll sit this one out…
I’d love if only one gay guy was invited to this and he just showed up in his normal clothing.
Cosplaying as Meepo would also be acceptable. Especially if you do it as a group.
A guy at my college went to a similar party facepainted as Pedobear.
Yup.
Dad jokes page 6! XD
I wish.
He and I were residential tutors at the time- think he wore flak from the Dean for it.
PPP = Point-to-point Protocol.
Ahahaha 😛
You can show up as any part of this WAN Intrastructure diagram…
Yeah! You’re a filthy hub aren’t you? 😛
Yeah you like that don’t you… oh yeah… Gigabit port… MMMMmmmmm
I know a guy who went to one of those with his boyfriend as pimp and prostitute respectively. And poofs, I guess? Double threat? I’m not big on theme parties. I’m not big on crowds in generally, really. They make my fists ball up and itch. Need room to breathe!
I hate theme parties with a passion. The only parties I’ve ever gone to here are the ones that aren’t themed, and there’s only been 2 of them 🙁 I’ll make an effort not to even be here when it’s on, cos the room the parties are held in is right outside my room and the music is gonna be shit like kesha and flo rida and pitbull and that.
Some people enjoy it though, apparently!
Themed parties are good when it’s a theme you can get on board with.
I painted myself Blue and went as Poseidon for an under the sea party, that was fun. Also did a Steampunk crew for a time travel party and The Riddler for heroes and villains.
We’ve had… toga, tight and bright, video games, PPP (this one), anything but clothes is coming up, and twice is nice (being tied to somebody the entire night)
Basically they’re all the same in the end, everyone rocks up half naked and leaves fully naked
Laaaaaaame.
The Flinders Toga was our open show (other colleges invited). I got some other college students expelled from the campus one year when I was a RT for letting off a fire extinguisher, the jerks.
Anything but clothes is pretty cool though
I think all of ours have been open to the other 2 colleges, but PPP is “strictly limited” to residents here.
I think the most eventful thing that’s ever happened is people somehow managed to pull up a street sign and now that lives here. Which is kinda lame cos the other college right next to us has a big maccas sign.
Our colleges had bathtubs explicitly for stealing from each other.
Themed parties are awesome.
So… I guess you’re just wrong.
Despite not giving a shit about GTA V this made me chuckle.
http://store.steampowered.com/news/11461/?snr=1_550_552&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Yeah, that got a chuckle outta me.
The Vita is really growing on me.
I won’t pretend it has a hugely interesting game library, but I find I’m picking it up and playing things noticeably more than my 3DS over the past month and even more than I play around with my phone.
What, I need a dad joke? Oh, well… I lost my job last week.
Unemployment’s not working for me.
Also, the Xbox Live sales this year — might only be stuff I’m interested in 30-40% of the time, and even then I won’t buy everything I want… but they’re great.
LIES. Steam is the one true salesplace! MASTER RACE!
(Because I haven’t used the words all week and they were getting lonely.)
Yeah, I mostly use my Vita more for convenience reasons. I can charge it from my computer, which is useful, and if I leave it unplugged for 2 days it’ll still have most of its charge, which cannot be said for the 3DS. Also Persona 4. It has no real relation to the arguments, but it’s a rad game, so, yeah. Persona 4. Bitches.
Blergh. Cracked and called Police Recruiting. Got the standard “we’re still collating results” before even finding out who I was. Getting edgy and frustrated.
So what they’re saying is they’re in the middle of some calbrations right now?
Damn it Garrus.
Freeze has got reach, but the Police had flexibility
I guess you could say processes are currently… frozen right now?
You get a begrudging upvote but remind me to punch you next time I see you.
Geez human why are you so cold towards me?
I can’t stay mad at you.
🙂
In all seriousness I hope they do get back to you soon rather than keeping you waiting
I was going to say they’d been arrested.
Dude, that’s been like… what. Almost two months now? I secretly thought you’d already been confirmed and I somehow missed it in a flurry of TAY pages/tweets I missed. That’s not cool.
They said to wait until Monday then send an email.
Hoping this means they’re sending emails out this week for the next intake and I should hear soon.
At least you know it wasn’t an answer to specifically fob you off because they’re holding back bad news. They’re fobbing off EVERYONE which means you’re still in the running.
I don’t understand the holding off of bad news. Sometimes it’s because you want to make sure that you’ve got your preferred applicant locked in and hired and they aren’t going to walk away because they were hoping for a better offer from someone else. But that’s corporate. I didn’t think the police would play that way.
If they’re not ready to start sending out rejections, the person answering the phone is really not in the best position to start having that conversation with a disappointed applicant. Even finding out who someone is could potentially lead to that information leaking or in a worse case scenario, giving an unsuccessful candidate false hope.
Best to provide a blanket non-response to keep anyone from getting the wrong idea.
I read a news article today about a father on trial who let his two infant children starve to death. The other week it was the article about the parents that pushed forward their wedding so that their terminally ill two year old would be included in their day/photos. Grim stories like these are really getting to me lately.
That second one is kind of bittersweet. I’d do the same but it is a pretty sad situation.
On a positive note, I CAVED AND BOUGHT GTAV HNGH! Despite my only previous experience with the franchise being an hour with IV, screw it, hype train I’m on it.
Get out of here, GTAV! *kicks*
I bought a Genesect figurine for my work desk. Yes, it is as cool as it sounds. So now that I’ve got a proper Pokerman representative on my desk, I’ve booted my old Black Kyurem figure back home (where it sits on the shelf in pieces because I’ve been too lazy to put it back together). It needs Blu-tack to stand properly because it’s spindly little legs can’t support it’s massive boofhead.
Also I received my Pikmin 3 bag from Club Nintendo. It’s incredibly underwhelming. Doesn’t even have Pink/Rock Pikmin designs on it. Probably a leftover print from the old games that they slapped on a 2 cent bag. Still, better than a Mario pencil case.
The only special thing I have at my work desk is a scanner. :'(
The good news is that my home desk now has this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BUL-i0yCMAASiH_.jpg:large Though I need to shift around Songbird and the Cowtapult.
Also, why does Australian Club Nintendo have to be so bad? Why do Nintendo of Australia hate us so, and hate my money so? My money’s just as good as other people’s, even if it a little damp from sweat, a tad smelly, and I think- Yeah, this one’s Monopoly money. But still, it’s not so bad.
I dislike how Japan gets all the cool Club Nintendo gifts and we don’t. Golden nunchuk, golden Wii wheel, SNES controller for Wii. That’s all I know off the top of my head. I don’t think I want to know about the others.
My golden nunchuk, golden wii remote and golden wii classic controller are pretty snazzy. I feel like they should be jewel-encrusted so that I can gloat about them to people more often.
This guy. I should just be happy with the Zelda posters and Ocarina orchestral CD I did get.
I have that too!
I wish the CCP didn’t have a black wire though 🙁
Ugh, so bummed I missed the SNES controller AND the gold nunchuk.
Pics! Genesect is badass, and is probably my favorite downloaded Pokemon yet.
I’ll try and nab one before I leave!
Had to order it from overseas because the Australian retailers are only interested stocking in the box-legendaries and starters 😛
Boooooo. If I could find a Raichu somewhere I might soil myself. brb, eBay.
Don’t forget to search by the Japanese name, too! Took me ages to find my Ho-oh because a lot of Asian suppliers referred to it as “Houou”.
Don’t they know that I speak English. Geez.
Hey…
My unused dust collecting Mario pencil case is awesome!
So I was just in the elevator with the poop-singer guy, and he just started beatboxing in the corner.
1) I’m now pretty convinced that he has some sort of uncontrollable compulsion which defies social conventions.
2) I’m upgrading his status from ‘freakishly weird’ to ‘possibly a pretty cool guy’.
– GAT V FREE ON PC!
– Also BioShockers Infinity + Mafias 2 (PC) for $11ish apparently?
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/116625
Ugh, feeling a bit crap today.
Might head down to EB for a pick-me-up.
You’re going to pickup EB girl? I don’t know if dc is going to like that 😉
We should probably find out more about who she is so that someone doesn’t accidentally hit on her without meaning to. Were I single, it’d be a very real possibility.
(Edit because semantics are important. ^.^ )
Until then, fair game 😉
Hey man, some of the girls in those stores have dyed hair, tattoos and piercings. That’s like… my achilles heel and I’m sure I’m not the only one. @dc needs to put on the moves!
Mine too, except for the piercings and tattoos. I don’t know what it is, that kind of stuff just puts me off
Haha! My only move is not to make a move and die alone! I’ve mastered it well!
smooth!
Mrs. Rize may also take issue with it. Unless that’s what she’s into…
Has he broached the subject yet?
Isn’t that the reason everyone is going to Canberra?
Well, shit. Now I gotta rethink what I’m bringing with me.
You mean Cocaine?
It;s a hell of a drug!
If only there was some new game out you could get.
Oh wait! Kingdom Hearts HD!
Watamote Episode 11
Dat ending. So many feels. O(≧∇≦)OSTAR TREK!
… WHICH ONE?
All of them!
You’re all astronauts on some sort of… Star Trek.
I was impressed by the CG contacts at the time, but in the long run, I think i prefer the visor.
Clearly DC means the most recent game. D:
!KERT RATSAm I doing it right?
That’s the mirror universe name!
Can’t be… no Goatee
The Goatees are recommended, but not mandatory.
Galaxy Quest is the greatest Star Trek movie.
The second season of Star Trek: Enterprise on blu-ray arrived yesterday. Mr. Strange won it from SyFy.
Did you like Enterprise? Season four was particularly good, when Manny Coto replaced the show runners. I thought it never lived up to its full potential, but I liked it. I liked the sappy sense of exploration opening credits too. Oh man, I’m a nerd. :'(
I think I got up to the third season. I was enjoying it though. Theme song was excruciatingly bad though. Mr. Strange said he loved that song so I’m scared when we watch it together he’ll sing along just to annoy me. D:
To be fair, I likes me the images more than the song. An instrumental Voyager-esque song would’ve been ten times better. 😀
Stop calling yourself a nerd, and saying it’s a bad thing every time you talk about Star Trek. It makes me angry.
GTAV’s bikes are fun! I look forward to our bike gang forming!
I only flew over the handle bars once!
If it does not allow me to put cardboard pieces or playing cards in the spokes i’m out!
All vehicles control easier with Franklin because his driving stats are better at the start. Also when using Franklin clicking on L3+R3 allows you to slow down time to avoid nasty crashes.
One of the things I’ve done a lot after jacking a convertible is stop and keep opening and closing the roof. 🙂
Oh yeah, I love Franklin’s driving skills.
I was really hoping to see something like this with the Coalition scaling back the NBN — someone like iiNet/Internode or TPG building their own fibre network.
I’ve never liked
OptusSingTel, Telstra have too much control over different infrastructure and charge a fortune for it — great that someone else is taking initiative and I hope they do well ‘n there’s plenty of competition.It doesn’t matter if it’s Telstra or TPG owning the lines, monopolies are a shitty thing to have to deal with.
This is just going to lead to areas being only serviced by one ISP if they want fixed line services.
Well, yeah — this is where my hope of plenty of competition comes in. I live in an area serviced only by Telstra and TPG, and it’s terrible. TPG look after all 15 of their customers, and all other companies deal with Telstra wholesale ‘n so it takes twice as long for anything to happen.
On the other hand, here is an opportunity for people to get fibre without the Turnbull-estimated install price of $3000.
TPG is basically building nodes in the basements of apartment blocks, which is what would have happened under the NBN anyhow. Maybe even both versions.
Works out well for renters in areas like mine but if TPG gets a monopoly, it’s not amazing.
The developers of Girl Fight do realise that DoA is a thing, right?
There’s boys in DoA too though.
For sure, but DoA have Girl Fights thing covered and more.
Well maybe Girl Fight will mix things up a bit and have a character that doesn’t have huge boobs. Sometimes I wish DoA had some variation on that front.
I am probably the only one who cares about this whatsoever, but the PC port for Agarest is out October 3 on Steam and is available to preorder now at 20% off and with a bunch of paid DLC included free.
Never heard of it but it looks rather interesting.
What’s it about?
BoobiesStrategy RPG with some dating sim elements I guess. Basically the story plays out over five successive generations. During each one, the hero has to develop a relationship with one of three girls, and the two of them will be the parents of the next hero, who inherits various traits from them.
It was an interesting game. Not amazing but it’s also going to be the only proper JRPG on Steam until Xseed release TitS (which, misleadingly, is not about boobies) and it’s been ported by the UK company that handled the original PS3 release of the game at their own expense as a test case for trying out the market for Japanese stuff on Steam, and so I’m supporting it mainly from that perspective.
Also I’m expecting the PC port will have some of the clunkier elements of the PS3 port fixed. Less framerate issues in certain battles, mouse controls that should make the menus a little less unwieldy etc.
It had an interesting battle system where different characters have each got a certain pattern around them on the grid and if another character stands there they can link, which lets that other character move on the first character’s turn. Strategically it can let you target specific monsters from out of range and stuff. I never played enough on PS3 (got halfway into generation 2) to really see if there was any depth to the system.
It’s $16 US at the moment so not exactly breaking the bank.
Interesting.
That’s the one where you play through multiple generations and how you level your current characters affect their children?
How did it review?
I bored and feel a bit sick 🙁
Likewise 🙁
‘cept I think I feel sick because I ate a cherry ripe… so rich D:
I feel oddly lonesome. Haha! Was good seeing Gutsoup today, though. Felt sociable. XD
Come to Canberra.
You move. bro 😛
odd
Ssssh. You’re not supposed to draw attention to my illiteracy/terrible sentence structure/tautology.
Huh?
Yes!
Final Under The Dome tonight. Will they get out? Probably not.
Anyone going to watch Sleepy Hollow afterwards? That looks like it could be cool.
I won’t be returning for season two of Under the Dome. I don’t care about any of those folks and I don’t care if they get out. Haha!
Even Linda?
Especially Linda. Why can’t you be more like book Linda? :'(
What’s the difference?
Everything.
Book spoilers, that don’t spoil the mystery or any thing substantial. Just about differences:
In the book, Linda is a mother with two kids married to the local paramedic Rusty. The whole family dynamic and her less substantial role in the police was much better than how she’s written here.Wow, she’s heaps different in the show than the book. I wonder how Stephen King feels about the changes between book and show.
He doesn’t mind at all. He wrote an open letter to the fans a while back saying how much he liked the series and how he’s given it his blessing. He said if you don’t like the show, it doesn’t change the book that you can read whenever you want so both fans should be happy! He’s given the show runner Brian K. Vaughan creative control!
“I don’t care, they already paid me!”
Survivor? 😀
(More Rayman Origins ravings)
Wait wait wait. So you’re telling me there’s ANOTHER song for the factory levels? and it’s even BETTER than the first?
This game… this game!
I don’t know how to get motivated… 🙁
Double 🙁
Set some clearly defined, realistic goals for yourself?
Work with others on a project (you might feel more motivated if others are depending on you?)?
Take up some unrelated hobby/activity, so your mind is on something else rather than the “not-doing-the-thing-you-want-to-be-motivated-to-do”?
I dunno, I have issues with motivation/time management as well 🙁
I know this guy, he serves me food every now and then. I can never look at him the same way again, it’s so fucking weird!! What’s worse is apparently he still does it in pubs around Hobart!
I give it 2 out of 5 raised eyebrows.
I met this guy once
Now I wanna meet that guy
Next Month’s (October’s) PS Plus games for Europe:
PS3:
– Far Cry 3
– Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
– Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen
PSV:
– Street Fighter x Tekken
– Touch My Katamari
Nice selection on PS3.
Whoa, FC3 would be pretty neat. I don’t really play games too much, but this PS+ membership is definitely paying off.
Do you know if Europes game selection differs from what we get?
Same for Australia – we’re part of Europe.
Unless by ‘we’ you mean people with US PS+ in which case the US lineup is usually different.
Ohhh okay. Thanks!
So I have been banned from Tay by @serNobulus because apparently noone is angry and upset with me.
I know it won’t help, but I feel that I must sincerely apologise for upsetting and/or angering those on here. I didn’t mean to do it, sometimes I am just a bit exuberant and run my mouth off without thinking of the consequences.
You’re all really nice people and have helped me a lot without possibly knowing about it. I know that my self esteem and my anxiety have become much better and I found some friends that I would never want to lose.
If I ever have a problem, I know I can come here and get some good advice. However, I don’t want to be a burden on people, especially people as nice as everyone here. You have all cheered me up when I’ve had a bad day and while we may not always agree on everything, it is done in a civil manner.
So I’ve decided to take Nob’s advice and leave Tay so as not to upset people in the future.
=P
:'(
If it makes you stay, I will be angry and upset with you!
Grrrr!
Err what happened? =/
But Scree don’t go D=
Virus
It’s a jokeRighto, i’m gonna go back to my little world in GTA 😛
I don’t get it! Are you saying the cops knew they were being set up by Internal Affairs the whole time?
The worst.
I thought there was a guy called @noone around here? Wasn’t sure if typo or name. Either way, from what I’ve seen, you’re a pretty cool gal and not afraid of anything.
….The user noone actually exists.
So that GTA V, how awesome is it?!
I just unlocked Trevor, was pleasantly surprised to see Johnny from The Lost MC make a guest appearance. Also the hint of Niko Belic appearing later in the story sounds good.Shouldn’t have clicked that haha, lucky it’s not a major thing!
I should show more restraint!
Hahaha. That’ll teach you 😛
I doubt it!
I saw this earlier, a parody of Fifty Shades Of Grey — http://24.media.tumblr.com/941c62de363dff69b685ae50c62a7ff9/tumblr_mt9n7wTXLx1qizddwo1_1280.jpg
So much satire; I’m starting to feel like I’m missing out by not playing. Just a little bit. 😛
Oh lawdy.. That’s both brilliant and sad lol.
I just did a search in chrome and it used Bing…WTF???!!!
That’s called ‘being the bigger man’. Or a piss-take, I’m not sure.
I’d forgotten how disturbing some of the openings from Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei are.
That was a fun show! Kinda wanna rewatch it now.
I’ve never seen that opening before though. Is that from a new one? Maybe I just can’t remember it 😛
You haven’t heard Kuusou Rumba before or haven’t seen that particular animation before?
There’s actually two versions of Kuusou Rumba – season 2 (Zoku) had the original version, and the OVA (Goku) had the linked one. Goku’s opening animations are all different and all crazier than normal.
It’s actually a pretty long show when you add all the different releases together and the stuff toward the end wasn’t subtitled for a while (hard show to translate I think?) so you might have missed some of it?
Easy way to figure out what you’ve seen and not seen is the Openings. If you haven’t heard RUMBA RUMBA RUMBA RUMBA then you probably haven’t seen Zoku/Goku and probably missed Zan as well.
No no, I’ve heard the song I just don’t remember seeing that particular opening animation. But if its not new then I’m probably just misremembering. I’ll have to double check to see if I missed anything one day.
It was only used in one episode of the Goku OVA. Each one had a unique opening animation IIRC.
@dc @dire_wolf I’ll decide if I want to watch the next season of Under the Dome after this episode. If nothing happens this episode (ie. stretching the mystery out for another season) then chances are slim 😛
Pssst, read the book. Dump the show. Do it for your old pal D.C.!
Un-possible! The book is too different from the tv show; better than the tv show, but that’s not important! D:
But the TV show is ruining everything good about the book. It’s like they decided to take away all the compelling parts and make everyone stupid.
Yes, but… shush! D:
This show rates crazy high. I don’t understand it. How can terrible scifi rate ten times better than great scifi like BSG. :'(
Yeah, that always puzzles me.
I started watching Revolution, and it wasn’t great by any means but I kept watching it because it vaguely reminded me of Walking Dead in potential but lack of consistency + Giancarlo Esposito (AKA, Gus from Breaking Bad) … and I have absolutely no idea how it was renewed for a second season, compared to the other shows that were cancelled. 😐
Revolution was terrible in the beginning, but it got pretty awesome in the end. I’m looking forward to seeing what happens in the next season.
@strange — yay, someone to watch it with! 😛
I was super-surprised it got renewed.
Just how different is the book? Would it make the show seem even worse if I read the book?
Series and book barely resembles each other any more!
I’ll read Under the Dome when you watch Rubber.
I didn’t want you to read the book any way. It was reverse psychology.
Reading is for nerds
Maybe you would be interested in some picture books?
It’s like I don’t even need to post here anymore! 😀
Wait… that’s bad 🙁I watched it!
Oh man so much stupidity in that last episode. :S
Linda is the stupidest stupidson to ever be on my TV and I’ve seen episodes of Big Brother….Everyone in that town deserves to die for being almost as stupid as Linda.I want Linda to die more than Big Jim. It’s like she sees his lies — you can see the suspicion in her eyes… AND THEN SHE GOES ALONG WITH IT INSTEAD OF THE HALF A DOZEN PEOPLE TELLING HER OTHERWISE. WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU, LINDA?! D:.
That said, I did appreciate how everyone else is now recognising her as stupid and they took advantage of that to trick her into touching the mini dome.
Spoilers for the finale
The main thing I wanted from the episode was for Big Jim to die. Now that he’s still alive, I assume he’ll be the main villain in the next season as well, which I’m not a fan of 😛 I get that you’re supposed to hate him, but it’s not even the good kind of hate. He’s just annoying.I don’t know why I expected anything different from this episode to be honest. The Dome can’t come down or the show ends. The writers are going to want to squeeze as many seasons out of this as possible, so the Dome has to stay up…
If you can’t tell, I’m getting increasingly cynical about American TV dramas 😛
Ps. (More spoilers)
How did they construct a fully functioning gallows in like, an hour? hahare: your last point — yeah, I thought the same thing. Very professional. 😛
I didn’t like Archer, for some reason. Don’t hat me, DC! D:
Though the reference to him in the first of the new Star Trek films was amusingI hate Archer cause he reminds me of George W. Bush. True story! XD
If that’s the reference I’m thinking of, it’s more likely to this
Didn’t Wikipedia used to have a disambiguation link when you searched for it in Google or Bing or whatever? I don’t think they’ve had it for at least a year, but it would save me sooooooooooo many clicks when looking things up.
I usually append a term that would appear in the brackets of the title. E.g. looking for a game called Cake, I’d google for “wikipedia cake videogame”.
I wish the mp3 format would just die already… Oh and wma.
Prefer FLAC?
*.rm
Well yeah, but even as far as lossy formats go mp3 is god awful.
LPs are where it’s at.
LP’s are great as long as you have a decent setup 😛 I’d just never buy any new albums on vinyl because it’s too expensive and flac will do!
True, but everything plays the format, and the average user (myself included) generally won’t notice the difference.
Lots of things play aac files though, and I’m sure most people are familiar with the format in some way 😛
At least they work everywhere. You can’t say that about many other compressed audio formats.
That’s the point though. I wish it would die off so superior formats would replace it as the standard.
What superior formats are there? FLAC? Apple Lossless (lol)?
aac is fine. Like I said above it’s already got fairly wide support, is far superior than mp3, and can achieve better quality in smaller file sizes. I’m purely talking lossy formats here. None of my portable devices can play FLAC’s so I still need lossy formats occasionally.
“Wipe My Arse?”
😛
MAX PAYNE 3 BEAT. Pretty great game. Thanks again @rocketman!
I still haven’t finished it.
I didn’t like the shooting and weapon switching. I’ll get back to it and persevere eventually, but I wasn’t finding the gameplay any fun. D:
Learn the battle secrets of Blaghs*:
Stand behind a piece of cover, but not like, in cover mode. Move so that the reticule is over someone, but so that you’re still behind cover. Shoot them in the face. Laugh at how the game decided that your hitbox is Max Payne, but that bullets fire from the center of the screen, not where his guns are (some games cheat and make the camera the hitbox, in a sense, to stop you from being a jerk like this).
*This strategy requires that you gain enjoyment purely from beating the game’s systems. I know I do, but I think I’m a jerk.
I still haven’t obtained it. 😛
The final battle in that game frustrated me because I couldn’t cheese my way through it, so I had to try and beat it by slow motion jumping everywhere.
I think I must have gotten lucky – didn’t have any major issues with that battle. (Admittedly, played through in Easy mode)
I probably only had issues with it because I had cheated my way through a good 75% of the game and so had forgotten how to play. Best at games. >.>
12 people online on the PS3 and all playing GTAV except an old school friend playing Xillia.
So I’ve been watching Defiance with Mr. Strange and really enjoying it. We only have about 3 episodes left though and with how long until Season 2 airs I’m wishing we hadn’t started watching it so soon. We’re about to run out and I haven’t enjoyed a show this much for ages. Don’t really have anything sci-fi-esque to fill the inevitable void.
*puts on @dc hat* Terrible CGI, no Sorkin, you like it, nah, shaking fist.
Colobus Monkeys.
I saw an update on Facebook today from a guy I used to know who has become a zookeeper. He just met a family of colobus monkeys today at the London Zoo. I thought of you immediately.
He should get his own kind of monkeys! >:|
Tell him I hate him and everything he stands for!
*adds to his list of things to Netflix*
It’s far from perfect but I kind of fell in love with the atmosphere and the world.
Almost Human looks pretty cool, starts soon, and apparently Sleepy Hollow is pretty good.
Yeah,I’m looking forward to both of those. Almost watched Sleepy Hollow last night but I was too tired. Considering waiting until the seasons are over because I don’t like waiting a week between episodes. My old lady brain forgets what’s going on. 😛
I’d really like to see Frank Darabont’s take on Under the Dome! The Mist-like!
The Mist was daaaaaaaaaaaaark. I wish a lot more films were like that (take note, World War Z 😐 ) instead of studios demanding a happy ending so that audiences didn’t get all reflective ‘n upset, but TV has its share of dark ‘n gritty shows — I would settle for a less-dumb Under The Dome. 😛
I kept hearing from everyone how dark The Mist was, so I worked out exactly what was going to happen
the moment they drove off in the car.Yeah, if people had said “oh, it’s directed by The Green Mile guy!” I wouldn’t have been in any rush to see it — instead, people said it had
a much darker ending than the book and that’s why I saw it, totally expecting something on that scale of ‘bad’ to happen. Not disappointed.The Green Mile was amazing! So was Shawshank!
Not to be confused with the Shankshaw Redemption, which was about a Collingwood footballer. 😛
Would be so much better than what we ended up with.
GTA V is a cool guy. I started really digging it after just getting lost in the city and the countryside for an hour or so. It really feels like a living, breathing world that you’re just one little tiny part of.
It’s such a departure from Saints Row IV, which I’ve also been playing, which is a constant ADHD assault on the senses demanding that every moment be filled with explosions and ridiculousness and wall-to-wall pop-culture references.
It’s weird to think that GTA could be the laid-back chill-out version of anything, but there you have it.
I’m playing on PS3 and I’m noticing some pretty massive frame rate issues. Maybe I’m spoilt by playing everything on PC at 60fps and up, but GTA V does seem really stuttery and jumpy so far. Not enough to impact on my enjoyment of the game, but still enough for me to notice and for it to bug me 😛
The only time I’ve noticed stutter is if I’m looking at the GPS, which seems to usually update on a slower tick, other than that, it’s been relatively smooth sailing.
I’ve noticed a few say they’re having this issue and I haven’t encountered anything like that yet. Only ‘bug’ I had was when I retrieved some womans purse off a bloke who stole it and it stayed in Michaels hand during all the cut scenes haha
RAYMAN IS OVER!
(origins)
Good gravy those credits are long. So long. So stupidly long. And you’re standing there controlling Rayman, but… why? I wish I’d just skipped out out of, but I wasn’t sure if there’d be something I’d miss or screw up. Stupid Ubisoft.
Then the Land of the Livid Dead… I don’t even know how long I spent just trying to get past that first section alone. All up spent the better part of an hour before I finally beat the boss waiting at the end of it. Then found that I’d managed to miss two electoons and a race trophy. Pain in the arse to find which ones. Got them in the end, so now the game’s 100% complete save for three small achievements.
Best game though. So so best. Now I’m afraid of Legends being able to live up to it.
Don’t worry, half of Legends’s content is just taken straight from Origins! Ahahahahaha.
It’s still really really good (I never actually finished Origins, but I’ve finished all the new stuff from Legends), but it’s a little baffling just how much of the game is the retread stuff.
Breaking Bad most recent ep. If you loved the ep, you might not want to read this. I liked, but didn’t love.
Nalbar ryfr srry gung gur fubj unf whzcrq sebz guveq gb svsgu trne jvgubhg jneavat? Irel wneevat.
Vg frrzf yvxr gur jevgref unq nyy gurfr terng vqrnf sbe Jnyg’f qrgrevbengvba vagb cher rivy, xvaq bs ena bhg bs gvzr, naq gura qrpvqrq gb whfg znxr gur riragf unccra naljnl.
Unax’f qrngu jnf fhqqra. V xvaq bs yvxrq gung vg unccrarq guvf jnl, naq gung ur qvqa’g znantr gb fubbg/oyhss uvf jnl bhg bs uvf vzcbffvoyr fvghngvba, ohg V ungr gung vg unccrarq vzzrqvngryl nsgre gur ‘pyvssunatre’ bs gur ynfg rcvfbqr. Vg znqr gung raqvat n ernyyl purnc tnfc-zbzrag vafgrnq bs n cebzvfr bs rkpvgrzrag gb pbzr.
V’z jvgu @benny ba guvf bar. Abg ernyyl va ybir jvgu frnfba 5 (cnegf 1 be 2). Fgvyy n tbbq fubj, naq V’z fher gur raqvat jvyy or svar. Ohg V’z abg sbnzvat sbe vg yvxr V ubcrq V jbhyq or.
Monster!
DON’T READ SPOILERS, D.C.!
:'(
V qvqa’g srry gung jnl ng nyy. V guvax Unax’f qrngu vf svanyyl jung oebxr Jnyg pbzcyrgryl. Gurer jnf fbzr vzntrel ng gur raq bs gur rcvfbqr gung V ernyyl ybirq. Nsgre Jnyg qevirf bss, n qbt pebffvat gur fgerrg. Gur qbt vf bss gur punva. Gurer vf abguvat yrsg gb grgure Jnyg gb nalguvat ur ybirf be pnerf nobhg nal zber. Ur’f yvgrenyyl qrfgeblrq vg nyy. Jung jr frr va guvf rcvfbqr vf whfg ubj frysvfu naq neebtnag Jnyg gehyl vf. Vg’f fbzrguvat jr’ir nyy xabja sbe gur cnfg pbhcyr bs frnfbaf, ohg jr’er bayl ernyyl frrvat vg hayrnfurq va guvf rcvfbqr.
Nyfb, V nyzbfg onjyrq yvxr n onol jura gurl xvyyrq Unax. Ur jnf gur bayl bar va guvf fubj gung V gehyl jnagrq gb pbzr bhg ba gbc. Ohg V’z cerggl fher V xabj jub gung znpuvar tha sebz F05R01 vf zrnag sbe. V guvax Jnyg’f tbvat uhagvat sbe fbzr arb-anmvf gb serr uvf orfg sevraq sebz freivghqr.
So apparently Squenix have a complete localization of FF Type-0 in multiple languages completed and they’ve just sat on it rather than release it because it wasn’t going to sell well enough on PSP for them.
That’s way, way more frustrating than them just passing on it. 🙁
@jimu — why are DC ruining Batwoman? D:
http://www.unleashthefanboy.com/news/dc-sexualizes-violence-women/71361
@dc is a jerk who hates women. Or is scared of them, and so takes it out in print form. Or something. I don’t know, I’m not a shrink.
Scared, mostly.
Also, I feel like Batwoman should be in the kitchen more where she belongs.
😛Hahah!
I hope you wear GoPro when Strange next sees you — so we can get great footage of her punching you in the face. 😛
That writer is a sensationalist. Is that his/her bag?
The only thing DC are actually guilty of is mediocrity.
They wanna keep status quos as they are, they’ve invented this new, young, hip, aggressive (boring) status quo with the Nu 52 and to keep it easy to edit, they don’t want it to change.
Clark and Lois are also not a married couple anymore.
Marvel made the same mistake by having Spidey sell his love of Mary-Jane to satan for the life of Aunt May. Less controversial but equally as stupid.
It seems to be accepted in Marvel/DC editorial circles that the idea of marriage is somehow off putting to readers and that it’s somehow more exciting to tell stories of single characters. That marriage is some kind of cage that stops any sort of creative freedom from happening.
I can only imagine what sort of sterile house-lives they all have considering most of them seem to be married.
I can tell you right now, when I was 10 and I first started to read in-continuity Spider-Man books, I thought it was fantastic that Spidey was married to MJ, it showed me that unlike Bart Simpson or Fred Flinstone that Peter Parker had aged, since I was also reading reprints of classic Spidey issues from the 60s where he was a poor high school student.
This set superhero comics apart from cartoons for me in a very important way because not every episode ended on the same status quo. Things *could* change and that was a lot more exciting.
What they do now is boring.
So yeah, DC is ruining Batwoman and yes it was the best Nu 52 title and I am very sad to see JH WIlliams III leave (let’s hope he goes to Marvel) but yeah, this is an ongoing problem with mainstream American Superhero comics ATM.
That said, it was a good run and I was glad to be a part of it while it was happening.
The new writer is a homosexual man, pretty sure he was hired to try and calm fears.
The situation with Harley Quinn seems to be blown out of proportion too since only a panel was shown. The writers of that comic (Palmiotti and Conner?) have stated the offending panel was a dream sequence in a a Looney Tunes style parody not pro-suicide.
I’ve actually seen Palmiotti be very anti-suicide on Twitter.
TL:DR: Meh
Don’t yet own Saints Row 4, but was able to register the free GATV pack to my Steam account. Woo. Free DLC for when I do own Saints Row 4.
It’s real good.
Oh god I’m actually being kept from leaving for bed by an argument that broke out over whether the Star Wars prequels sucked or not.
I think this is a new all-time low.
The only prequel that didn’t suck majorly was Episode 3.
As for 1 and 2, let’s pretend they never happened.
I never truly understood how hard or specifically why they sucked until Mark posted those youtube videos a few weeks back. Still looking forward to the guy doing one on Episode 3.
2 is the absolute worst.
That fucking ‘romance’ dialogue. Goddamn. “I don’t like sand” etc.
The really horrifying thing is that between those films and Indy 4, I actually ended up wondering whether George Lucas was ever a good director or screenwriter at all. Was Episode IV a fluke or what? Was it just that back then he wasn’t surrounding himself with sycophants and yes-men that would never call him out on how terrible his shit was? It honestly baffles me.
On the upside, the outlook for Episode VII looks great simply because Lucas isn’t involved. It’d be hard for them to make something worse than Attack of the Clones.
It’s a shame that Irvin Kershner died a few years ago. I’d have absolutely loved to see him take the reins on Episode VII, especially since Lawrence Kasdan is on the project as well.
I love them.
Dear Tay
I have been playing GTA V and am thus far enjoying it. The city is much nicer to drive around in than Liberty city, which is a big plus in my book. Also, has anyone else met a certain char (minor but fun spoiler)?
Packie?The weather in Los Santos is lovely,
Red.
P.s. Letters!
Dear TAY.
So GTAV. I too, am enjoying the game. Part Heat, Part Sopranos. All awesome so far.
PS Jimmy sounds exactly like Jonah Hill.
Regards.
Dear TAY
I have no GTA V yet, but I have an email confirming that it has been despatched from OGS warehouses! It’ll be here in time for the release of GTA VI. I’m confident.
I received my email around midday yesterday — I’ll race you to see who gets it first.
Why am I still awake?
:\
Double Get? Really? 🙁
Goodnight!
Mornin’
Dear TAY.
I totally forgot it was letter-writing page 7. I hope this letter isn’t too late and is received safely.
So TAY… Thanks to your damn tweets and discussions, I have succumbed to the madness and bought a frickin’ console game. I feel so dirty. Yes, I have been affected by hype and am ashamed.
On the plus side, this The Last of Us game is pretty awesome, and it is money probably well-spent, making me feel less dirty for sullying my gamer-brain with console time.
(Apart from that intro. Fuck you for that, TLoU. ) Playing tense things in the dark late at night is a good thing, I think, except for the being wired when I should probably be sleeping.
Yours in Sleeplessness,
– Transientmind
Man, The Last of Us is pretty damn good at emotional manipulation. I called the end of the prologue, and that of… Act 2 (for lack of a better term)(?) long before they happened, and yet I still had an emotional response. They’re not at Pixar levels yet, but I’m confident that with time they’ll get there.
I wasn’t too emotionally involved (my heart is icy stone-cold) but I was really interested the whole time and thought there were some interesting twists and turns along the way and I really, really liked the ending.
ending spoiler:
Joel is my kinda crazy!I had no emotional responses to the game, probably why I didn’t like it. =P
Dear transientmind,
I shall help you liberate page 8 in honour of letter-writing page 7.
Yours in freedom fighting,
AmbroseIV
*Samsung whistle*
“Hey got ur mail dont start revolutn i was just l8 lol”
Both page six and page seven weren’t very sixy or seveny this week.
Also, one of us etc!
Best week. 😛
…side-downvote *glareface*
Dear Strange,
Boooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Yours
Red.
@strange should hire Red to author her autobiography, he’s clearly an excellent… ghost writer.
#dadjokepage6 wanna be like @shane
Dear traitor
I hope you enjoy your time slumming it, but don’t expect to waltz back in here without a few raised eyebrows.
Also we expect no complaints if your next cup of tea is standard black tea rather than earl grey.
Not angry, just disappointed
Tigerion
I am suddenly reminded of the ‘de-frocking’ scene with George Banks in Mary Poppins.
*Punches bowler hat inside out*
The Last of Us! WOOOOO!
POST APOCALYPTIC URBAN DECAY!
http://www.siliconera.com/2013/09/17/explore-the-depths-of-an-asylum-in-the-evil-withins-latest-trailer/
Psycho Break looks awesome, prolly my most anticipated next gen title(?)
Bio Hazard
Dino Crisis
Psycho Break
Oh yeah!!!
Dear TAY,
An attractive young person of the female variety has invited me rock-climbing, among other things, though I have never attempted this particular activity before; besides remembering that I do in fact have legs and should not try to drag myself all the way up the wall, are there any convenient tips that I should keep in mind?
Regards,
A poor man’s @markserrels
Climb the rocks 🙂
Don’t screw up.
Take off all clothes and safety gear, they will only slow you down.
My only advice?
Watch out for the monkey. He throw things.
Envy 😛
Try and keep your arms straight, if you keep holding yourself up with bent arms you’ll tire out much faster. Another thing that happens a lot when starting out is forgetting that feet are a thing that need to be kept in mind too, but that one tends to take a while get used to.
Serious advice? What the…
Have fun, be honest, and have fun!
But… but honesty is the worst policy in dating!
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Well, honesty can be OK if it’s used as a disarming weapon to disorient and intrigue. But personal, vulnerability-inducing honesty, or any kind that prevents you from betraying more eagerness than is required to indicate interest? Noooooooooo.
What?
Why sabotage any future relationship by faking shit in the early stages?
it’ll only come back to bite you in the arse later!
…Later? What later?
I’m not saying LIE about anything and create like… a fake job with the CIA or something, just don’t let on much more than is absolutely necessary and never/rarely talk about ‘feelings’.
I seriously don’t get that.
Don’t talk about feelings?
Sure, don’t drop your whole life story and reveal your oedipal issues on a first date, but don’t try to hide what may come up naturally.
If they don’t like it, then don’t waste your time imho.
For an example, I didn’t mention my checkered past to my wife on our first date, but after a few months when things got serious, I knew it was time to mention my past drug use.
Fuck it was hard, she was shocked into silence for a few minutes and I thought that was it. But she took it well and now we’re happily married with a kid.
So yeah, of course don’t drop all the bombs on day one. But still be honest, you know???
Offer to climb her rocks. If you nomsayin’ 😉
OK I’LL SHOW MYSELF OUT
Thinking I should organise 2 weeks off work very soon and just spend some time actually playing some games instead of just buying them.
I know I know. Crazy talk. But jut might be crazy enough to work.
Whoaaa, back up there buddy. Didn’t quite catch that. You are not just going to buy games but “play” them?
Wait… I don’t understand. Why would he play games when there’s so many to buy?
Yeah, I don’t quite understand it. *shrugs* I guess some people like doing crazy things.
These are the ravings of a madman. I think everyone knows that man was not meant to play games he buys. Why else would publisher bundles exist, or Steam Summer/Holiday sales? Or midweek madness specials? Or weekend specials?
All the evidence is against @freezespreston on this one. Next thing we know, this fool will attempt to sail over the edge of the earth.
We do call him crazy uncle freeze for a reason I guess.
Awesome! I thought I was the only one not playing my games. 🙂
You guys.
Bikes.
I outran the cops on a bike and it was awesome.
GOTY.
I found a bunch of teenagers doing stunts on their BMX’s in a construction site so I pushed one of them off and did bunny hops until I got arrested.
So you haven’t had a chance to play the game yet?
Nice, have you played GTA V? You may like it.
I’ve not got on a pushbike yet, though I did a running race against a woman.
I played tennis. Trying to get stamina up so I can do the triathlon.
Also, you know, missions. But that’s not what GTA is for.
Oh man, the tennis is fun!
I’m so hype for GTA Online. So many activities!
I know @dc found a bike somewhere 🙂
There’s a bike rental place down at the beach, just fyi.
There are probably a few
decenthorrible, horrible jokes in that, but I can’t make them because a few years from now I found a genie in a lamp and wished to retroactively be a less horrible person.I managed to jump a bicycle onto a moving train, it was pointless but i felt like a hero 😛
I’m not up to bikes yet. I have done the prologue and the first set of Franklin missions which got me to Michael, then I decided to take a break for the night after clearing a few of the “strangers” off my map.
I like how there’s sub-objectives that contribute to a rating for each mission, though I’m not sure I like being timed. No big deal, I’m sure that’s just there for perfectionists anyway, but seeing that I didn’t get a tick because my 6 minute 44 second or whatever completion time didn’t meet whatever the par was is a tiny bit disheartening.
The cocaine stunt that EB store pulled is on the front page of today’s paper.
Edit: Oh. It was the Southport store at Australia Fair here.
I’m sure there’s absolutely zero sensationalism to go along with it.
Ooh! Ooh! We can be hipsters and go visit online newspaper website comment threads and groan and roll our eyes like, “Dude, that happened like fucking… MONDAY. Catch up, we’re already over it.”
Oh wow.. Amazing.
Still going through the post-game stuff in Ni No Kuni. I was going to try for the Platinum but then I saw that I need to
play around in the Casinofor a couple of Trophies so I’m not sure now. If I manage to get all the others without trying very hard then I might give it a go but it’s not really my thing. I’ll continue playing the game until I stop having fun though.Hey, that’s how I played! 😀
And I stopped at the Hogcity D:
But then the other day I beat that part 😀
You stopped there? The fun doesn’t properly begin until after that part. Hopefully you’ll continue playing now and have more fun. 😀
I stopped when i stopped having fun at the Volcano.
Yeah, that whole part was pretty sucky. Especially
the timer when you’re inside the volcano. If it goes off and you didn’t make it, it blows its top and it’s gameover. But if it you make it where they wanted you to be within the limit then Mr. Drippy’s all “Oh, I was just trying to get you to hurry, don’t worry it’s not going to blow yet.”Argh! >:|I was having heaps of fun and then I just wasn’t.
The world stopped sucking me in :-/
I think the last area I cleared was
Fairy town or Pig Town, can’t rememberHow far through am I?
Hmmm, I guess around halfway. Maybe a little over.
hahah that’s EXACTLY the point where I gave up trying to get the Platinum 😛
Dear Penthouse,
I never thought this would happen to me. As I was innocently perusing the inflatables aisle of my local adult emporium, the room was suddenly flooded by lycra-clad ninjas carrying coils of surgical tubing, who quickly surrounded me, imposing a silent menace. I could see the hunger in their eyes as they slowly advanced, and
wait, wrong forum
Dear TAY
GTAV looks amazing, feels amazing and is a lot more cinematic. However, I couldn’t help but feel like it’s more of the same.
I’m thinking the issue is with me. I just might be over open world sandbox games.
Kind Regards
phlaiman
Dear Phlaiman
Do what I did, and try to break into the airport. Escape on a baggage carrier.
Yours
Red
that’s what makes sandbox games fun, just all the fun you make for yourself,
also want to mention parachutes, how good are they to control, so good, that’s how good.
Haven’t got one yet 🙂
one of the first things i did was got in my Blimp, flew to the tallest mountain, found a parachute in the cable car house thing, jumped on a dirt bike and launched off the top of the mountain, parachuted onto a moving train (i seem to have a thing for moving trains), tried to get into the drivers seat, couldn’t, shot the driver and then accidentally fell off the roof of the train and landed in front of it somehow.
GOTY 😀
Edit: Also the blimp is basically a flying bomb, if you touch anything it explodes,
Dear Red
Will do
Yours Truly,
phlaiman
Dear phlaiman,
As someone who has recently revisited about 6 hours of GTAIV and most of Lost & Damned in an attempt to get “up to date” before the GTAV launch, I am of the view that while it is “more of the same” is terms of being a crime-themed sandbox game focused around indiscriminately borrowing vehicles without consent of the soon-to-be-former owners, the world design and gameplay is a marked step up and I am pleased with the changes so far.
The characters introduced thus far (I am a mere three hours in) hint at a much more compelling and interesting narrative than the bleak outlook of the predecessor, and I am confident that as events unfold I will continue to experience a steady increase in my overall levels of satisfaction.
So far my benchmark for crime-themed sandbox games is Sleeping Dogs, a hot contender for 2012’s GOTY despite a number of non-critical shortcomings imposed by budget restrictions, and I have high hopes that each of the 286,000,000 North American dollars was well spent when crafting the ultimate rebuttal to all the imitators of the original crime/murder simulator.
Warm regards,
Kermitron
Junior Executive Vice President of Stuff/Things Development, Kermitron Enterprises
Has anyone that is playing GTA downloaded the app for chop training? Does it improve him much?
I have it but the Rockstar Social Club appeared to be overloaded and just throwing up error messages when trying to sign in.
Edit: Yep. Still failing.
i see, I’ll get it later then i think.
It’s a 444mb download, so don’t do it when you’re in a hurry either.
shit, definately wait till i get home on the wifi, I was thinking of just using my obile network, that woulda cost a couple of bucks
Thankfully the App Store doesn’t let you start the download over the mobile network if the file is over 50mb – assuming you have an iPhone. I don’t know how it works on Android/Windows.
So far the app hasn’t worked so well for me, it keeps crashing out and forcing me to log in repeatedly. I’ve apparently taught him to sit but I haven’t tested this in-game yet.
You can also use the app to order upgrades for each character’s unique vehicle, but so far this hasn’t worked. I’m guessing the social club servers are a bit swamped at the moment.
Message from my roommate saying GTA has arrived!
Unfortunately I have a long day of driving & payphone repairs to do.
My advice: just phone it in.
Your call, buddy.
There’s no need to take that tone. You seem to be dialled in on making these bad puns, but they ring with inauthenticity. Obviously one of your hang-ups.
😛Dear TAY,
Uggh hump day.
Yours in tiredness,
Pop
Dear Pop,
I went to bed at 6pm last night. Still tired anyway.
Regards,
Old (Grumpy) Man Beavwa
I went to bed at 00:15 this morning, and I work up feeling great. I’m a weird guy.
Dear Pop,
I am on call this week and have had 3-5 hours sleep for 4 nights out of the last 5.
Regards,
Cody
That sucks man. 🙁
dear pop youre way too energetic for a wednesday. please reduce energy levels by 32%. thanks in advance, 35.
Not 35%?
i have no idea what you’re talking about. o_o
Ludum Dare results!
Out of 1437 entries, my game came:
#52 Mood 3.74
#226 Graphics 3.50
#233 Theme 3.51
#323 Audio 2.95
#418 Overall 3.19
#450 Innovation 3.11
#788 Fun 2.66
#938 Humor 1.48
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=15359
I’m starting to notice a trend, from this Ludum Dare and the last one. How my Mood score is really high (this is the second time it’s been in the top 100) and my fun score isn’t at all. My way of making games as of late seems to be to design and make the world first, then think up and make stuff to do in it afterwards. The only problem is that with these 48hr comps I don’t always have time to do the latter part very well 😛 So that’s something I need to work on.
Nice work man. I don’t think I could ever make a game in 48hours. Way too stressful.
I would have had more fun if I didn’t fall through the hills into a bottomless pit of white 😛
Nice job though, at least you are ranking highly in one area so you can take that and improve the other parts
Apologies to all the people who don’t care about GTA.
I played a mission last night that made me super duper uncomfortable. Like, I nearly put the controller down and refused to participate thanks to this. I know it was their aim, so they did well there, but it was not what I was expecting from the game.
Other than that I’m having a ball. By which I mean I’m flying planes into walls, rocks, mountains, you know, all the good stuff.
Which mission is this so I can look out for it?
I think the mission relates to (and this will pretty much spoil the content of the mission, I don’t know it’s name D: )
using Trevor to torture ‘n disembowel someone — a couple of the reviews discussed it.Ah okay. I’m still early into the game. I thought this might be one of the earlier missions, but I guess that’s not the case. I haven’t even unlocked that character yet.
Just had a gander at the trophy list for GTAV. Fully half are for GTA Online. Blergh. There goes any thought or urge I had for the Platinum trophy.
I hate games that do that. Anyone/everyone who buys a game can play the singleplayer or campaign — for one reason or another, many people can’t/don’t play multiplayer.
Seeing as multiplayer often has little to do with the story and not all multiplayer games are competitive (CoD and Halo might be, I doubt it with GTAV) and people often don’t want to listen to some whiny 13 year old talking about how he’s going to rape this person or that person… why use online play to determine whether or not someone has completed it?
Even more so in this instance — aren’t they marketing GTA: Online as if it’s a separate game, but all copies of GTA V will come with GTA:O, will launch two weeks after release, etc. etc. etc.?
Argh.
Yep, I 100%’d Tomb Raider’s singleplayer campaign, and got all but one or two of the SP achievements. Check gamer score: 480ish/1000 :\
It works both ways. I played about two or three hours of GTAIV’s story, but dropped probably a couple of hundred hours on multi. I have little to no interest in playing GTAIV’s story either. BF3 is the same. Never finished the campaign, and doubt I ever will – but have blown several hundred hours on multi there too.
I’m starting GTAV’s story and will see how I go, but to be honest, it’s only because GTAO isn’t live yet.
Single player isn’t for everyone either.
EDIT: I’m not advocating multiplayer trophies either – but just illustrating a point.
You’re not joining our bike gang..?
I’ll join if we have train jumping competitions 😛
Fuck. Yes.
Bikes
I’ll be a Pedal Padre. Don’t worry.
Just wont be winning all the events.
Pedal Padres is a fantastic name.
I fucking hate it when they make half the trophies or achievements require you to sink hundreds of hours into multiplayer for what is primarily a single player game.
Not all games with multiplayer trophies/cheevs are ‘primarily single player’. That’s a matter of perspective.
GTA5 is a multiplayer game then? Despite the multiplayer shipping 2 weeks later, the intended best experience in the game and the whole reason people would buy it is to experience the multiplayer?
That must explain why I absolutely don’t give a shit about the series then.
No, it doesn’t have to be defined as either one – single or multiplayer. Nor does any game that includes multiplayer, single player, or trophies/achievements. That’s my entire point. If you hate multiplayer or multiplayer achievements, that’s your opinion.
So… my internet was ‘fixed’ — couldn’t find any problems at the exchange, couldn’t find any problems at the house, but it seemed to be working again. Changed the wall socket for good measure, not reading any line faults and the SNR is stable, everything was okie.
Now I’m still having line sync issues — every two or three days (starting at 3-4am) I’ll get a couple of disconnects… then a couple more… then a couple more… maybe up to 30 disconnects until about 2-5pm, when it seems to settle down again.
SNR drops from 10’s to single digits (hovers between 0 and 4… 4 if I’m lucky) and it’s just terrible; chokes and dies if you try to do anything. I live about 5km from the exchange, but had speeds pretty consistently around 6mbps… I could ask for a stability profile to be put on my line, but then it would drop to around 2.5mbps and that is… well, far from ideal and doesn’t fix a problem that just suddenly appeared in the last 7 weeks.
So, I guess what I’m saying, besides ranting out of frustration, is… halp, anyone ever had an adsl problem like this before? D:
I have cable. #helping
I used to do ADSL faults with Bigpond.
There are a lot of reasons for no sync beyond physical line issues. What you’re describing usually gets lumped under the very broad category of ‘drop-outs’.
[Edit: Use those words when interacting with the faults department. It will help.]
If it’s happening at relatively predictable times of day, keep a record and log it with support. It can be anything from dodgy ports on the card at the exchange through to corruption in the pvcid you’ve been assigned, requiring a rebuild. Those can be difficult/expensive/time-consuming to fix and most providers will probably try every other possible option before looking into card-replacement, so it’s likely you’ll probably even be moved over onto a different open port, if the exchange has any.
Record everything, make a (polite but persistent) nuisance of yourself. Log a job about drop-outs specifically, take a reference number, keep requesting that it be re-opened on every fresh instance instead of letting them get away with logging new jobs and giving new reference numbers. (It’s SUPER bad for their stats and will get you a result faster.) If they insist on giving you new job numbers, ask to lodge an official complaint, explain that you do not want them ‘resetting the clock’ every time you call about what is essentially the same issue. This is important – make them aware you know that there are deadlines for resolving issues and you don’t want them reset.
Get a complaint reference number, and if the next instance sees you experiencing the same issue, lodge a complaint with the TIO (telecommunications industry ombudsman) about the time taken to resolve the issue and the fact that they seem to be resetting their deadlines. Carriers who are found to be doing the wrong thing, by the TIO, face fines in the tens of thousands of dollars and they will bend over backwards to ensure that doesn’t happen.
[Edit: The TIO does not look kindly on queue-jumpers, and require you to have made an honest and genuine effort to resolve things with the carrier through their process before contacting the TIO. So give it at least two weeks, and in my opinion, start TIO proceedings if you don’t have a resolution by the end of a month.]
You might be frustrated, but you’ll also be best served by not being snarky or emotional. It’s tough, but effective.
…Or you’ll get lucky and you’ll be fixed forever the first time they do a rebuild on a fresh port.
What is it with the serious advice today? This is not the TAY I know and love.
Stop being a dickman
Better?there was a lunar eclipse on mars last night. the equilibrium of the internet has been temporarily affected. stay calm. this will not last long.
You’ve probably heard this from your ISP already but an isolation test is good. In fact my normal home setup is always a damn isolation test. No line phones connected, no filters, no alarms. Just the modem/router direct to the line in the wall and eliminate any possible interference.
Other wise if it’s not the exchange or your house, it may very well be the lines down on the street. Which just happened to me my exact issue earlier this year. Of course, if it’s outside your house, then it’s your ISP’s problem to fix.
Or go with Transient’s answer.
:’p
Oh, your stuff is all true too. But line faults and ADSL faults are different corporate entities who will cheerfully shove blame on each other, and after a certain point, ADSL finally have to accept that line faults might be right, and there is nothing really ‘wrong’ with the line.
(All lines have something wrong with them, it’s the nature of copper. But there are acceptable limits to how much can be wrong with them, and it’s down to signal-to-noise ratio.)
Might be worth remembering the distance to the exchange can be subjective. You might live, say 2km away in a straight line, but you could be going through 10km of infrastructure to get to your place. It’s never as the crow flies, but rather via a lengthy, convoluted warren of ancient infrastructure.
Edits added, should’ve been a separate post so you see them, because they’re kind of important to getting a good resolution.
Argh, things I keep forgetting which might not be normal to assume:
Reference numbers come in many flavours.
If you’re not with Bigpond (and what self-respecting gamer would be, where there’s a choice?), you have a second layer to deal with.
If the ISP owns their own DSLAMs in the exchange, the process above is fine. But if they don’t and are wholesaling Telstra linespace, ISPs will need to log their faults with Telstra. Either with Telstra line faults, or with Telstra ADSL faults (both departments use the same tracking system, but have different deadlines and processes and handle different parts of the problem).
When you get and keep one consistent reference number with a wholesaler who still has to deal with Telstra for ADSL faults, that’s not really going to help as much as insisting that they re-open the Telstra fault reference as well. Other carriers write in a lot of Terms of Service excuses they can use with regards to Telstra being dicks to them.
So at what point am I allowed to air my grievances about GTAV?
Good question – too soon and you’ll be branded a hater who doesn’t “get it”, too late and you might miss the all important “we now hate this” Internet bandwagon.
Gee we’re a complex species aren’t we?
Now? Perhaps in spoiler tags for those who haven’t started playing yet?
Never. There is literally nothing wrong with GTAV, it is a perfect game and if you don’t agree you’re obviously wrong.
Never. GroveSt4Lyf!
Now!
People commenting in TAY are understanding, gentle creatures — can disagree with one comment, then be best buddies ‘n making dick jokes again with the next.
Besides, the reviews were all very same-y — I’m genuinely curious to see/hear what real people think after playing it.IT’S MYSOGINIST!
Editing it to make a typo was a nice touch 😛Goooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Please do, i am yet to purchase the game and a lot of people’s eyes are still glazed over by hype… so some criticism should be good so i can make an informed decision
I think if I had been hyped, I would be disappointment by now – although I can recognise that there are people will use the hype to gloss over a lot of their misgivings. I can definitely see some people coming down off a hype high and being somewhat disappointed – GTA Online will probably be the booster shot those people need. I can also see the game growing on people, who weren’t hyped, like me. I think GTA V will probably be an enjoyable experience.
I guess now is as good a time as any – screw the hater haters.
No plot spoilers here:
I guess this is a side effect of my shift back to PC gaming over the last 3 years, but the visuals leave a lot to be desired. Jaggies everywhere, poor textures. Seems to be a bit of pop-in as well, but I’ve only noticed it during missions, so that might be more of a case of poor programming.Basically 0 collectibles. I spent a lot of time doing some city exploring; driving around, climbing buildings, etc. but all my searching just turned up a lot of empty rooftops.
This is more personal preference, but this might be the worst set of radio stations yet. Nothing appeals to me, so I just turn the radio off now. Disappointed.
possible early game plot spoilers, about stuff I actually liked:
I enjoyed the game’s prologue and I really liked that opening sequence, and then the first shift of focus from Michael to Franklin was super cool. And when Michael was reintroduced into the game was amazing. Gives a kind of Pulp Fiction type vibe; all these stories coming together.I wasn’t on the hype train at all, picked it up on a whim, and I’m actually enjoying it.
Aw man, that first spoiler tag is disappointing to hear. Especially the second point.
I’ll probably still end up getting it next weekend though 😛
That was much better to read than the official reviews which were “I didn’t like this… BUT TEN OUT OF TEN!” and made it really hard to gauge what’s good and what’s bad..
I mean… BOOOOOOOOOO, HATER! GO BACK TO YOUR WOMEN IF YOU LOVE THEM SO MUCH, PHAG!
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*cough*
Pretty sure pop-in and jaggies are a hardware limitation. I’ve experiences the same feelings, but reminded myself we’re playing with what, a 7 year old console? Meh. I’ll live.
Alternatively, the details and animation in cutscenes – faces in particular – were quite impressive.
Those dirty streets…
Soooooooooooooooo good.
Also, sweaty shirts when you run for too long. The little touches are so great.
I like little touches.
Take note.
Re: music – I’m alright with the rock station, that’s all I ever listened to in GTAIV and in GTAIII/Vice City I played on PC so I made my own radio stations from my mp3 collection.
As a primarily console player I think the visuals are alright considering how large the world itself is. It’s 8 year old hardware, so maybe my expectations are set low. I may rebuy it for Xbone if there’s a next-gen port once the consoles are out in the wild (and if I’m still playing it of course).
Non Stop Pop and Los Santos Rock Radio are where it’s at.
Haha! This will sound so damn wanky but I was driving through downtown Los Santos with the pop station on. Fergie’s Glamorous to be precise. It was really, really atmospheric. XD Then Britney Spears Gimme More. Not my type of music at all, but fit the setting awesomely!
I bought shares in worldwide fm in-game so am now listening to it exclusively for a bit to drive the share price up.
WHAT ABOUT LAZLOW? IS HE STILL ON TALKBACK?
I watched him on TV for a good five minutes! XD
Oh, good point. I’ll probably switch over to Lazlow after I get bored with the music. I had listened to him a little in GTAIV but during this recent revisit and Lost & Damned I only had that station on because I wanted to listen to all of it. Top stuff.
He is but the talk back sucks. Every time I turned on WCTR (what seems to be the only talk back station now?!) it was the same boring 5 minute show with Lazlow and some woman.. I wish they would bring back something like the talk back radio in Vice City or San Andreas.. It was funny and you could listen for hours..
Gameplay stuff:
Are you on 360 or PS3? According to Digital Foundry the 360 version has some texture issues even when you’ve only installed the install disc. That said, there is definitely some super low res stuff there (the bushes that can deform when you drive through them are all sorts of crap). In terms of rendering, it’s running at native 720, so compared to a lot of console titles it’s not so bad for me, though I totally understand that it’s a subjective/preference thing. Oh, and there are collectibles, but I think they’re all out in the not city. Does seem to be a lack of ambulance/police etc. Stuff though, which is disappointing.Edit: More thoughts:
I quite like the rock radio station, at least. They’re not the songs I would have chosen, but I think they all work really well. It’s an interesting comparison to SR4 where whichever station I listened to had the songs I would have chosen to appeal to 80s man nostalgia, and yet it lacked coherency, and lost impact on the twenty-third playthrough of The Touch in the course of an hour. Oh, also, the like, original soundtrack stuff. I mean, it’s not bad music or anything, but I think it lacks the coherency that Red Dead had in that regard, which makes sense since it’s juggling a million different things, but I kind of wish that all the music was just the Read Dead Redemption twanging. That’d be rad.I’d also like to add that I like that they brought “the fun” back to a lot of stuff. There’s a few missions I’ve done which are straight up weird, and I really like them for it. And then there’s the aforementioned super uncomfortable one. :/Finally:
Let’s be honest, my response isn’t really surprising. I’m a sucker for open world games, and fanboys gonna fan.PS3. I think it just comes down to being almost exclusively PC for the last 3 years or so. Running Skyrim at Ultra High with 20 odd mods dedicated to graphical enhancement means that something running on 7-8 year old hardware is just not going to compare. If I had remained primarily a console gamer, I think I’d be much more impressed. I noticed the acheivements/trophies for collectibles and figured they were probably outside of the city. There’s also the possibility that progressing the story will unlock more to do and I just started exploring too early.I’ve been master racing it up for the last 2 years, but for some reason the switch doesn’t bother me that much. Maybe I’m just complacent. Actually, it’s almost certainly because I’m complacent.Red Dead with switchable radio stations while riding your horse. GOTY bonus feature.
*double air-fist* MASTER RACE.
@DC TREME SEASON TWO COMPLETE
Discuss!
My favourite moment: “We gotta cut another record!”Laughed so much I missed the next two minutes of the show.
Oh man, that Harley stuff was pretty damn intense, huh? Loved this moment.
Also that Jazzfest stuff was pretty damn great. Jeanette and all that. Also Toni and her daughter a year after last seasons events.
One thing I loved this season was Jeanette and all the real life chefs in New York City.
This might sound odd, but Sonny’s one of my favourite characters too. He’s a screw up and everyone can relate to a screw up. Annie is all kinds of awesome too. VIOLINS. WOOOO!
It’s not odd. I really liked his arc this season.
He’s settled down a lot, and the intervention of Antoine’s bandmates was good for him. Now that the band is gone, though… what’s gonna happen to him?Watch season three to find out! XD
Also looking forward to watching season four with you watching too. Will have much more to say after watching the episodes in a timely manner. 😀
When’s the DVD coming out?!
Edit: October 23 apparently. http://www.stack.net.au/TVonDVDReleaseDates.php
…
Dunno. Haha!
Morning all.
I am working on a shirt design. When I’m finished I will post it here, because I feel something is missing (yes already)
Awesome 🙂 looking forward to seeing it
Removed.
Stupid TAY… didn’t say I was replying to anyone -.-‘
WTF TAY? Meant to be a new post! Sorry @scree! /o\
No problem?
GTA V’s my favourite Grand Theft Auto game without a doubt, still don’t think it’s as good as Red Dead though but that game had moseying.
One of my favourite things to do is compare landmarks from Los Santos and L.A. Noire. XD
Man, that’s throwing off my navigation. between LA Noire and original Los Santos I’m finding it hard to get my bearings.
Did you find Grove Street? Is it in the game?
To tell you the truth, I haven’t played much of San Andreas so wouldn’t recognize it anyways. XD
It is
CJ’s house isn’t, and the overpass near it has gone. Also, apparently it’s Balla territory nowAs opposed to busta territory?You is a Busta, CJ (also dunno if @alexpants noticed but I snuck that in as an article tag on the one that went up yesterday)I noticed, Red. I noticed.I foudn a cul de sac that was very reminiscient of Grove Street but I am not sure if that was the right place. It didn’t really look how I remembered it, it just had that ‘vibe’.
There is explicitly Grove Street- if you find “Grove Street Customs” it’s just down the roadHave you been to the cinema yet? I watched a movie last night, The Loneliest Robot in Great Britain. So good.
Haha! That’s what I watched too. I found it troubling. XD
It certainly took quite a dark turn. I chortled multiple times though.
I watched some weird french art-house film. Well crafted gobbledegook.
3 Stars
/Pomeranz
We should all park our bikes and see a movie when Multiplayer is released. XD
OH GODS YES
WE CAN MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATRE ONE OF THEM
I’m so hype. Gonna watch movies and ride bikes and do sick jumps and get mad air and play tennis and play golf and rob banks.
😀 I too will do these things, perhaps with you even 😛
http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/877563176_WNpfQ-L.jpg – A PENNY ARCADE STRIP FOR EVERY OCCASION.
So it seems Red Dead was 2010. Yeah. Three years ago. A third of a decade.
Anyone feeling old yet?
I don’t think I’m allowed to feel old at my age. I think it’s illegal or something.
It accelerates as you age. Which makes sense, really. 1 yr is kind of an eternity when it makes up, say… 10% of your sum total experience of all things ever. But that same one year is 3%? It’s less impactful. And that only decreases.
On the plus side, it makes age differences less important in relationships. Dating seven years younger than you as a 30yr old is a good thing. Dating seven years younger as a 20yr old is very, very bad.
Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies. October 24. \o/
Still digital-only so I refuse to buy it /o\
Two(ish) weeks after Pokemon /o\
Ha ha!
It’s gonna be hard to fight the temptation. Really want a cart version though.
I don’t mind that it’s digital-only. I mind that it’s digital only on Nintendo’s piece of shit infrastructure. 🙁
Not having a working console sucks. I’d love to be able to play GTA V, but I can’t. Hope everyone who is playing it is enjoying it.
Buy it and send it to me, i have a working console and will enjoy it \o/
#helping
#thatstotallyhowtheworldworks
I’m hanging out for the PC version out of fiscal responsibility & the hope that it will take advantage of the beastier hardware…
in the meantime, I think I’ll finally get around to finishing GTA IV…
Edit: or one of the hundred or so games that are on my pile of shame. but unfortunately, I’ll probably spend all my time playing Torchlight 2 some more.
Listening to Non Stop Pop in GTA is kind of a weird feeling. Some of those songs are from when Mrs. Freeze and I started dating and were in heavy rotation at the
speakeasysJuke Jointsdiscothequeship young trendy clubs we frequented back in the day.…
I’m not old. Damn kids always laughing and questioning things.
BTW, posted this on Twitter last night, but those who got the Blueprint map in the special edtion, shine a blacklight on it:
http://t.co/pv4QZhmJCH
(non-spoiler example)
Okay lets try this a second time!
You really gotta give Riot Games (Makers of League of Legends) credit, they really know how to do blood pumping music themes. Their latest login screen theme music promoting the season 3 world championships is EPIC! Can’t stop listening to it.
@greenius @sughly @jimu FF Theatrhythm sequel has music from FF7: Advent Children. Which has to mean there’s going to be a Black Mages track in there. \o/
I sucka da balls at rhythm games cos I have none D:
(HA HA! did I mean balls or rhythm?
YOU DECIDE!)
Haha, sucka da balls.
BOTH!
I dont know what a black mages track is :3
O_O go findout!!!!! 😛
You awful awful man.
The Black Mages was a band headed by Nobuo Uematsu (along with Squenix composers Kenichiro Fukui and Tsuyoshi Sekito). Basically a prog metal band that played covers of FF music.
FF7: Advent Children was probably their swan song. They played a bunch of pieces on the soundtrack which were pretty awesome.
Oh ok. I’m not a big fan of the metalish stuff in FF though >_>
No no. It’s not covers of the metalish stuff. It’s progressive rock covers of all the final fantasy songs.
FFIX’s Vamo Alla Flamenco.
Also you genuinely didn’t k ow who they were? I thought you were trolling :/
Ahhh ok. Still dont really like it >_>
“I don’t like metal”
You’re such a wuss, danedane.
It’s really, really racist.
What’s doin’? I’m home sick……..again.
Hey, it’s Jimu! Hey Jimu! Hope you feel better, my friend!
Ta!
@transientmind
You want to feel old?
This song is 13 years old.
I just saw the comments, and that’s a fantastic addition to the soundtrack.
13 years though? Christ…
Here’s another that’s also 13.
One of the radio stations a coworker was listening to a couple years ago had some Nirvana playing in their ‘classic rock’ blast-from-the-past session. Hearing a radio blurb say, “The best classic hits of the 70s, 80s, and 90s,” the way it used to say, “60s, 70s, and 80s,” in the nineties is a bit of a blow.
The “Classic Hits” station that I listen to sometimes started playing Ricky Martin, and I started crying to myself a little, because Livin’ La Vida Loca’s a song from 1999. I ACTUALLY REMEMBER WHEN THAT ONE WAS RELEASED.
Triple M plays Linkin Park.
Just a heads up, Stargunner is available for free on GOG.
Repost as it was the end of page:
Posted this on Twitter last night, but those who got the Blueprint map in the special edtion, shine a blacklight on it:
http://t.co/pv4QZhmJCH
(non-spoiler example)
ooh, can’t see the pic from work but I’m imagining it’s awesome,
I’ll need to track down a black light.
$5.50
http://dx.com/p/380-400nm-14-led-ultraviolet-light-uv-flashlight-black-3-x-aaa-178998
I saw this when you posted it last night and couldn’t make out anything other than a map 😛 I have no imagination, it seems.
It’s really hard to photograph on a phone – also don’t want to stare at it too long, hurts your eyes
I thought I saw the silhouette of a woman from behind in a backless dress, but it didn’t seem really obviously clearly so, meaning it’s probably just another of those ink-blot tests. Which, y’know. Are usually women, to me.
http://gematsu.com/2013/09/imas-channel-announced-for-playstation-3 I knew there was a reason to keep that old JP PSN account!
I’m not sure if I’m joking or not D:TURNIP… PRICES??!!
BIKES
Am I GTAing right?
$4.98/kg at Woolies.
#TotallyHelpful
Cheap.
https://twitter.com/freezespreston/status/366849857442430976
63 this morning D: Haven’t checked this afternoon.
Hopefully someone on Saturday has amazing prices that I can abuse.
178 this evening, wondering if I should hold out for better. How about you?
105. No good.
Well if you want my 178 I’ll go ahead and open my gates for you.
Thanks man, I’ll be along shortly to see if you’re open.
Thanks. Sold all my turnips. Dropped a bunch of stuff at your feet, and gave some cashish to your museum renovation!
Cheers! I’m torn on whether I will sell now or try for a better price in the morning. I’ve got two hours to decide. *bites fist*
Well, looks like Atlus has been bought out by SEGA. I swear to god SEGA if you ruin Persona 5 I will … I don’t know, most likely bitch about it on the Internet and cry.
dammit I only just discovered Persona, i hope they don’t mess it up
Sega will fuck it up in unpredictable ways. If Persona 5 is shitty, they’ll release it. If it’s good, they’ll sit on it and not allow it to leave Japan. Also Persona 5 will now be Wii U exclusive because that’ll sure help it sell better.
Sega are druids. They have to maintain true neutral. Balance is everything. Whenever they make a good decision they must balance it with an awful one.
…….. *sob*
Company of Heroes 2 came out unscathed from Sega meddling, it seems.
Different scenario for sure,but considering no one really knows what was going on with Persona 5… it certainly seems somewhat pre-emptive to say that SEGA has already screwed it in the butt.
Sure, rah rah Valkyria Chronicles 3, Yakuza 5, but you know.
Maybe time will tell.
I prefer this line of thinking when it comes to the unknown.
I try to be cautiously optimistic about these sort of things but I’m usually disappointed.
I only set myself up for disappointment when I can see they’re making mistakes even before the game is even out (e.g. business model, day one DLC reveals, always online even for Single Player, etc)
CoH was basically done when Sega got it. But generally they’ve left their western studios alone to do what they do.
Atlus could do much worse than Sega. Best case, Sega now have a quality localization company they own and their localization output might go up. Less likely to have situations like the 90s where Atlus tried several times to get the license for Sakura Taisen from Sega and Sega wouldn’t let an external company handle one of their biggest franchises in Japan at the time (Sakura Taisen was huge for a bit there).
It also should mean that us poor Europeans should be a lot less shafted. Atlus has no EU distribution and we often take months or even years to get stuff. That should go away because Sega will handle it, though probably some existing games will still be published by NISA.
At least it’s not Squenix. All their games would be ported to iOS and we’d never get anything in English again. 🙁
I actually wasn’t saying anything bad about SEGA. I was just saying, “dont screw up” which i would have said regardless of who bought it. I’m hoping that they will allow atlus to keep chugging along, who knows, we may get faster access to Atlus games now that SEGA owns them.
Total War series is published by Sega as well, and that seems to do alright. (Apart from Sega being one of the prime offenders on adding the Australia tax to Steam.)
Total War apparently makes them shittons of money too.
I miss when Sega was starting to be all awesome for a while there. Bringing us stuff like HotD Overkill and The Conduit, MadWorld, other stuff I forget… feels like ages since I had reason to like them.
Sega used to be badass. Back in the Saturn & Dreamcast era they made amazing games. Then everything slid sideways into a shit sandwich and Sammy (who are a company that makes most of their money on Pachinko machines) purchased them 🙁
Sega’s buying Atlus. /o\
New Armored Core drops next week and I didn’t even know until just now. Hngh. This is what I get for being a master racer. So preordered the fuck outta that thang.
Last episode of Under The Dome even though everyone’s already talked about it:
The whole thing felt incredibly contrived. Really, Julia, there’s nothing you can do to help Barbie? I mean, really? And Barbie just stands in front of the crowd completely mute and doesn’t even try and defend himself? The whole thing was a bit ridiculous. You get the feeling that if people just started talking, all of Big Jim’s plans would unravel in an instant.
I stopped watching it as I found it truly dire. I’ve not yet regretted this.
I hope that
Barbie runs away when they’re all stunned by the bright light, and instead of going a single day where he’s free from jail and no-one can manage to remove his handcuffs, he’ll go the entirety of season 2 without taking them off!I don’t understand how people can continue to watch stuff they don’t particularly like. I don’t even have time to watch/play all the truly great TV shows, movies and games let alone bothering with even the average mediocre stuff.
I don’t really dislike it too much, I just think it’s rather flawed.
Totally and absolutely this.
That said, it’s kind of hard giving up on something, especially if it used to be awesome. It still hurts that I haven’t seen two thirds of The Simpsons. I sometimes wonder if I did the right thing giving up on Dexter, despite not enjoying seasons 2 or 3.
On the other hand, wife and I watched all the way up to the final season of Packed to the Rafters, based entirely upon the strength of the first season, and regretted it mightily.
Well, enjoying something and thinking it’s actually good are not the same thing. I enjoy a lot of things that are legitimately terrible and I know it.
My life is empty. TV makes it less empty. XD
I like to see a story through to it’s end, which isn’t exclusive to TV shows… but yeah.
Sometimes (and this isn’t really the case with Under The Dome, which I’m watching to see how far it diverges from the book… so maybe more Walking Dead?) I’ll watch a show that I don’t like because it has a couple of good characters, and part of the fun comes from picking the flaws in everyone/everything else. 😛
Is it possible that people are actually more upset that SEGA bought Atlus than if Nintendo had bought them?
I don’t even know where the Nintendo rumor came from. Nintendo would have been a terrible fit.
I’m sad that Sony didn’t buy them.
Bayonetta 2 on Wii U?!
*table flip!*
Only reason there’s still a Wii U in my house.
ZombiU! Best game on the system, period.
Didn’t care for it.
Monster.
It was. Until Pikmin came along.
Then W101 came along and dethroned that too.
People will cry irrespective of who buys it. It’s the internet and people’s jimmies are being rustled.
Mad Men’s final season is being split in two over 2014/2015. Not sure I like that. *shakes fist at Breaking Bad for setting precedence*
http://tvline.com/2013/09/17/mad-men-final-season-two-seven-episode-cycles-airdate/
Seven episode seasons? That’s crazy talk.
Where do they think they are? Britain?
Season two of The Newsroom was only 9 eps and was over crazy quick. :'(
Mid season breaks are a dick move.
Gotta get dem awards.
Or they just milk it because they can.
The Shield and the Sopranos both kind of did it first. But instead of the normal 13 ep seasons, they each had a 23 ep split-final-season, so I guess it’s not the same.
At least The Shield had the decency to call the second half of the split Season 7. I don’t understand the semantic games being played here – if it’s being released in a separate year, why isn’t it a separate season?
Still, I don’t think I really like the way AMC release their shows. Also, from what I’ve heard, the behind-the-scenes stuff can get kind of nasty.
Plus they cancelled The Killing and have made an enemy with me! >:|
They’re on the list, then?
The Shield kicks the shit out of any other TV show I have seen ever and it needed to win more awards and recognition and stuff. I was watching it when it was on TV for a while, back YEARS ago, but I think it went through its own sort of development hell at one point? I can’t remember. Murky impressions are all I have of those days.
I was lucky enough to see the first ep when it first aired on Australian TV. Followed it diligently and obsessively for its entire run. I even have a massive vinyl poster of Season 7 that’s the size of a bookcase. I have no way to attach it to my wall! It was my all-time favourite show for almost a decade. My life felt empty when it ended, but I felt satisfied too. 😛
The only issue it ever had (that I’m aware of) was that the Writer’s Guild strikes happened while they were filming the final couple of episodes. It was FX’s darling show, and treated rather well from all accounts.
I agree with it being one of the best shows ever. Vic Mackey is TV’s second-most compelling antihero after Tony Soprano (and The Shield had a much stronger finale). Walter White (and Don Draper) don’t even come close (yet?).
Tell me about it. Talk about an asshole you can relate to. And that finale… nothing else has left me so gobsmacked.
Lots of shows have done that, Breaking Bad wasn’t the first.
I mean with AMC specifically.
I hate split seasons, they’re evil, but I’ve come to prefer <14 episode seasons — easier to watch and (so far, for the most part, in my limited experience) better writing ‘n production.
Edit: Or maybe I should say… they seem to be ‘tighter’ and more consistent? Less filler, less fluff, better pacing and character development and relevant stories, etc.
Breaking Bad did it because of Mad Men.
The people behind Mad Men demanded enough money that the only way Vince Gilligan could finish Breaking Bad the way that he wanted to was as a split season.
Ugh, AMC are such pricks for doing shit like this to shows, first Breaking Bad, now Mad Men.. Ugh.
One good point someone raised about the Sega Atlus acquisition is that it’s Sega Sammy Holdings (the parent holding company of Sega, Sammy and a bunch of other companies purchasing Index Corporation, who is the parent company that owns Atlus, and Atlus is the parent company of Atlus USA that does all those quirky game localizations. It’s not Sega buying Atlus. Realistically, Index Corp should be a company that sits alongside Sega and Sammy in the holdings group.
That should mean that Sega can’t directly interfere with Index / Atlus. Ideally it should mean they can co-operate a bit better.
It is a day for confessions. Not only did I purchase a recently hyped console game (well, recentish), but last night I also sat down and watched TV.
Like actual TV. Just sitting there, watching what came on. No prerecorded skipping ahead or streaming media. Just TV.
It was weird, but not too bad. It was the ABC2 channel, which was mostly shows I was mildly amused by (The Roast, Doctor Who, Good Game, Archer) for a few hours, and self-referential ads about the channel’s identity crisis. TV could be (and used to be) much worse. Better still, they put on some really boring programming at about the time that I felt was appropriate to go to bed. Well-played, ABC2! I might try watching this thing again sometime.
Also, Doctor Who fans, what the hell is wrong with you? This show I’ve never seen (apart from some moments in the 80s) has a massive, cult following of rabid devotees who I generally concede, “Yeah sure, it’s probably great, I’ve just never bothered,” to, but what the actual fuck? That show is HORRIBLE. It’s campy and poorly acted, and did the director and cinematographer get blind drunk at lunchtime and let their tween kids take over, dragging bring-your-daughter-to-work day out for an entire episode/child labor violation? I’ve read fan-fiction better than that script.
I am so, so, so disappointed in all of you Doctor fans. More than I am in myself for having watched it.
SBS2 and ABC2 is where a lot of the quality is atm.
Doctor Who: When it’s good, it’s good, when it’s bad, it’s a very specific kind of terrible.
I like Doctor Who but because it’s campy.
I’m also not a massive fan, I just got bored and decided to watch all of the post-relaunch seasons.
Matt Smith is/was a terrible Doctor — I stopped watching 6 episodes into his tenure and have already conceded to rabid fans that criticised my decision that I’ll have to catch up on his episodes before the 50th Anniversary Special… but still.
I don’t know if it was a Matt Smith episode on last night, but I’m blaming him anyway!See, I think Matt Smith is better than Tennant.
I’m not a crazy Tennant fan — Eccleston wasn’t perfect either, maybe a bit angry, but for that reason I would have also liked to’ve seen him go for a season longer. Ultimately, the character appeals to me more than the actor.
I just… felt really distracted by Matt Smith — wasn’t watching the show, was watching his acting… though I honestly can’t say if that’s a problem with him, or the stories. I’ll be in a better position to judge when I watch it in the next couple of months.
“Terrible” was a bit over the top, for the sake of it. 😛
David Tennant, apparently.
Matt Smith > David Tenant.
Tenant would just shout “I’m clever!” while Smith would occasionally be clever.
Also, Smith was a giant toddler and that was just more entertaining.
Only mildly amused by Archer?
We can no longer be friends.
Archer is better if you watch all of it- sans context, an episode is funny, but with all the callbacks it becomes hilarious
This. It’s by far the most self referential show I’ve ever seen, even reaching back multiple seasons.
Now I want to watch it again.
But I’ve been waiting all day to get back to GTA V.
It’s a hard life.
I know, right! I can’t decide between FF14, Last of Us, TV, anime, or meticulously archiving and adding redundant back-ups for my multi-hard-drive-spanning alternative porn collection.
Archer.
Right, right… postponing friendship termination and all that, gotcha. Absent-minded me, total inability to manage priorities.
Arrested Development tops it I think, but only because Archer genre shifts almost week to week.
I overdosed on the adult swim absurdist/mundane-humour style with ATHF and their ilk. I’ve never seen Archer before though. It makes me smile because I like the actors, and I will consider looking into watching entire season.
You should do that. Friendship termination is temporarily on hold.
Yay! Temporary aversion of doom is the best we can ever hope for. In employment, relationships, and our inevitable mortality.
I don’t like Archer. It reminds me too much of Frisky Dingo, which I also didn’t like 😛
Upvote for ATHF!
I’m spending more and more time watching ABC2. Through the day the kids are watching it and once they go to bed Spicks and Specks has started and half the time the next 3 or 4 shows are good too.
Pleasantly surprised by Good Game, too.
Even if they’re just fucking wrong (because our opinions differ slightly), which makes them my mortal enemy and I hate them (in proper gaming tradition), I get the feeling that they are, at least, actual gamers and not dudebros or models being given cue-cards and groaning after shoot that this ‘nerd shit is weird’ with a need to cleanse their mental palates with some beer-pong+sports or blowing more casting directors in search of their Big Break.
I’m not a fan. But it’s more because I find the whole “gamer culture” to be awkward and embarrassing at best. I’m fine talking about it and hanging around here but the mainstream body of it feels weird to me.
Or maybe I’m just weird.
I personally think I’d do a better job than that fella who’s on there. Serious lack of facial hair in that pairing.
Dude, you hang out on TAY.
ie: away from the majority of the “average gamer”.
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
I felt that way about it back when Junglist was on it but it seemed like they changed direction a lot when they let him go.
I saw the fans, and thought the same as you… until I watched it.
It’s definitely not for me.
Also, just looked up which episode was on. Yeah, that’s one of the weakest of the season finales imho. Pity is, the two eps before that are some of the best.
Wait, which episode did you watch @transientmind? The one on TV last night? I hated the end of Donna’s season 😛
Midnight was a fantastic episode though, which was on a few nights ago.
It was the one where
the earth gets stolen by daleks, somehow Torchwood and possibly some other shows I know nothing about(?) all got linked in to gether, the doctor went to go find all the missing stolen planets, and on finding the place, goes to do a tacky reunion-jog in the middle of an alien martial-law killzone, and UNEXPECTEDLY GETS SHOT, which apparently doesn’t kill timelords, only their actors’ careers.haha
Yeah, a season finale is probably not the best first episode to see. Oh well, we don’t all have to like the same things 😛
Yes we do! We’re gamers! We’re as tribal as it gets! Even more so than sports fans! Who we share other things in common with… http://youtu.be/BIUQw1w5OqM
@powalen likes Xenoblade too!
Hmm. How do I explain this?
Doctor Who has an episode (actually, I think it was a two parter) where they go to a rock that is orbiting a black hole, and inside said rock, they find the devil. Not like, an allegory for the devil, or like, something deep and mysterious. They find a really big red dude with horns who is older than time itself.
The 2010 Christmas special of Doctor Who was A Christmas Carol. It was even called “A Christmas Carol” just so you knew exactly what they were doing. With the Scrooge character played by Michael Gambon.
There is also an episode where a hospital ends up on the moon, one where people are sent back in time by statues (fantastic episode), and one which introduces a character who has known The Doctor for many years, but who he had never met.
The show is amazing. It’s cheesy. It’s campy. Its suits are rubbery, and its special effects are complete arse, and these are the reasons that it’s great.
You… you mean I’m not the only person who doesn’t like Dr Who? I get soooo much shit from my friends about how I don’t like it, Oliver’s genuinely gotten pissed off at me for it when I started making jokes about the show, my neighbour yelled at me multiple times, my friends back home didn’t invite me over sometimes because of my dislike for it when they wanted to watch it, people I sorta casually know who bring up TV think I’m weird because I don’t like it, and I just sit there blankly thinking “I DON’T GET YOU SEE IN THIS FUCKING STUPID, AWFUL, SHOW!”
I feel so relieved that I’m not the only person anymore who doesn’t like it
These people are pod people, quite mad, infected with the brain-worms, or a combination of all three. Endure their scorn and derision like the house arrest of a modern Galileo.
…Well maybe that’s going a bit far, but seriously, those people are freaks.
I don’t even know who you are any more.
People say gaming as a whole is getting worse and worse with day one DLC, micro transactions and online requirements.
I posit that it’s better. Anyone remember LJN? Or those cartridges your parents would get you because “they have 100 games on it”? Or when Grandma would give you one of those god damned Tiger handhelds where the fun ended once you finished unwrapping it? And I’d say even the worst games of today are better than the mediocre games of yesteryear.
Or the fact that we can patch them with ease? Or the fact that as a medium it can support discussions on topics like gender?
I remember those $5 shareware disks (CD’s, but mostly floppy’s) that supermarkets used to sell — there would be half a dozen demos of games that wanted you to ring a number, pay $30 and get the full game.
I remember playing Doom shareware and wondering how on earth I was supposed to get the full game being in Australia. Never stopped and wondered how I got the shareware version in the first place.
In a shiny plastic container/wrapper hanging off a rotating wire ‘display’ rack in an electronics store that sold real console games. Shareware discs they were kind enough to sell you for fifteen bucks.
101 Games For Windows.
Sidevote.
Now that @transientmind has got me reminiscing about old favourite shows, here’s your Hump Day question.
Best Five TV finales ever?
Here are mine.
1) The Shield
2) M*A*S*H (Goodbye, Farewell and Amen)
3) Six Feet Under
4) Farscape (Peacekeeper Wars)
5) [Open slot]
None. Because any series I’ve invested enough time in to see it all the way through to the end I’ve come to love immensely and I’m more distraught that there is no more.
But then you can rewatch them! \o/
This. What self-respecting TV show has the right to end? Bastards. Fringe made me immensely sad, but I couldn’t stay mad at it because it ended so well, didn’t overstay it’s welcome or turn shit.
I agree with The Shield, Farscape and Six Feet Under — not in any particular order, but they were all great.
I haven’t seen M*A*S*H start to finish, but… I’ll take your word on it given the other three.
For now. 😐
What M*A*S*H did for the quality of TV cannot be overstated. Its legacy is absolutely massive. It’s entirely responsible for my love of witty comebacks and ability to pun at short notice. (Also something something pioneering poignant emotions and social/moral depth in sitcom format)
Crap… that finale is 30 years old this year :\
I prefer my childhood memories of M*A*S*H compared to the recent re-watching I did of a few episodes. As an adult, consciously aware of behind the scenes reality, I have the strong suspicion that Alan Alda was probably an insufferable diva.
I’ve read his autobiographical books. He knows he’s a smart guy with wisdom to impart, so there’s naturally a little arrogance there (or maybe it’s just some weird kind of confidence I could never have), but overall he seems reasonably down-to-earth actually.
He’s one of my idols, so I’ll appreciate a hiatus on the Alda-bashing please.
Mrs Shane and I recently watched through all 11 seasons of M*A*S*H. She’d never really watched much of it, and we loved (almost) every minute of it. The finale is just gobsmacking. Still.
*Adds M*A*S*H to @dc’s list, underlines it*
Twice. In red ink.
I tried to think of TV examples but all I could think of was anime and I don’t think that will count.
Anime counts, whosaysitdoesn’t
point them out to me *tightens grip around lead pipe*
Anime counts! \o/
Yeah well the one I’m thinking of is Full Moon o Sagashite. A really obscure early 00s show aimed at preteen girls.
But the feels, man. The feels. 🙁
Probably in terms of the way it was received, the original TV ending to Evangelion is up there too.
Six Feet Under
Life on Mars
Cowboy Bebop (@negativezero it’s totes suitable)
West Wing
Blackadder 4
Blackadder Goes Forth.
I’ll assume you knew that and it was part of a cunning plan. *strokes chin*
Yeah, just wanted to specify as there was also the telemovie.
The time travel one? That was pretty fantastic.
Yes, but Goes Forth has the amazing ending
As far as I’m concerned, Cowboy Bebop didn’t end. I didn’t watch the last couple episodes, but for all I know, the series has continued on and Spike and co are having many whacky adventures together and all my precious memories are preserved beautifully in metaphorical amber.
I dunno, a great ending when well executed is a wonderful thing.
I honestly don’t think I could list 5. I can’t even remember which shows I’ve watched all the way through.
Scrubs, 30 Rock and Boston Legal are the only ones that come to mind.
I really liked the Scrubs season 8 finale. But then they had to go and make season 9, so I couldn’t even consider including it in my list 😛
Yeah, I know. I treat season 9 as a separate thing. It helps.
Here’s three.
Fringe. Sopranos. Lost.
Funnily the same three choices as my favourite tv shows.
Also, seeing as they’re not listed… thoughts on:
The Sopranos? The Wire? ALF? Battlestar Galactica? Roseanne? Buffy? The Next Generation? Cheers? Frasier? Scrubs? Fringe?.
Not all of them were good — some were bad but I would like to know your thoughts if you’ve seen them!
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Edit: I don’t know why I used spoilers!
The Wire: Good but s5 is a little weaker than 4. Battlestar I thought was a bit lame. Buffy’s was good, Angel’s was better. Scrubs was undone by s9 but was a good farewell to the main characters. Fringe’s was good because the characters got a happy endingSopranos was a great finale and is a good way to finish up what is probably the smartest, psychologically deepest, symbolically richest show I’ve ever seen. But the actual ending itself wasn’t especially memorable. The show is amazing, but the ending was just another episode.The Wire… pretty much the same actually. The ending was good, the show was brilliant.
ALF… never seen.
BSG… have only seen the opening miniseries. On my to-watch list.
Roseanne… haven’t seen.
Buffy… nope. But then I’ve fallen out of love with the show pretty heavily.
TNG… haven’t seen.
Cheers… haven’t seen.
Frasier… havent’ seen.
Scrubs… see comment thread with BDKIAF. Not good enough to make the top 5, but season 8 finale was still quite good and made me mist up.
Fringe… haven’t seen yet.
BSG
ending was a bit soft I thought. The series was so unrelentingly depressing it really felt out of place and tacked on.I liked it, but not what I wanted it to be — you’re right that it was a bit out of place in terms of the tone of the series, and I was hoping for something emotionally crippling rather than… so… full-circle and nice ‘n neat?Under the Dome
…kidding 😛
I wish I could say Futurama, but I thought the finale was a bit not-that-great.
I enjoyed it, but it wasn’t their best episode or their best finale. I was hoping to see Pazuzu one last time. D:
The end of the last movie where
they all went into the worm hole togetherwas a fantastic ending. Pity it couldn’t have stopped there. It never reached te same heights again.Which one? Season 4? Into the Wild Green Yonder? Or the one that aired recently?
I actually think the last one was a good way to end the show. Season 4’s ending was nice but they clearly didn’t know that they were getting cancelled so it was a “just in case” finale and the movies were just bad.
Yup. I didn’t like the movies as much as the two most recent seasons, so that kind of detracted from the finale and it did leave more than a few things unresolved.
Any Queenslanders want free tickets to Lamb Of God and Meshuggah on Friday night?
Mr. Strange won tickets but obviously can’t go because I’ll be in Canberra. This offer will only stay open for a short window of time because he’s planning on offering them up to his facebook friends in a few minutes.
@dc would love Lamb of God 😉
Hnnnghh.
Was gonna ask if that was a yes…and then realised you’ll be in Canberra as well. Or do you not leave until Saturday?
I’m leaving Friday afternoon but those are two of my favourite bands.
I’m just having an aneurysm. Don’t mind me 😛
I didn’t even know they were touring here until Mr. Strange told me he won the tickets. If I’d known I definitely wouldn’t have been going to Canberra this weekend. 😛
I win!
If any Queenslanders say no to this offer, they’re in dire need of sterilisation.
EDIT: I have seen both bands multiple times and they’re AMAZING. Meshuggah in particular.
Lamb of God is one of my favourite live bands. So incredible. Saw them in what was essentially a university cafeteria when they were doing sidewaves with In Flames. Great show.
Meshuggah is far more ‘sedate’ as a live presence (in terms of physical activity on stage), but so fucking talented. Jens with a foot up on a speaker roaring into the mic is a sight to behold.
Best gig award goes to the last Devin Townsend gig I attended – one of the most energetic and fun-filled gigs I’ve ever been to. He had Ziltoid clips running for a good half hour before the show – Ziltoid narrating funny internet videos and random shit, was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. Then the gig itself – Devy is an amazingly talented musician to begin with, but as an older dude he’s sorted through most of his shit and is an unbelievably positive and all round chill guy. He interacted with crowd non-stop, looked to be having a blast the entire time, then finished up the show with about 50+ people up on stage singing ‘Bend it Like Bender’.
Special mentions go to Deftones and Static-X – Static-X actually blew me away surprisingly, considering I only saw them two or three years ago. Wisconsin Death Trip is a high school anthem for me, but I thought they’d have tapered out a little. No so. They were brilliant. Deftones were unsurprisingly amazing – Chino is my favorite vocalist of all time. The band aren’t too bad either.
Oh man, I don’t even know what the best gig I’ve been to would be. Maybe Parkway Drive at the Jamison Inn. Tiny room, absolutely packed, was just after Horizons, when they were really starting to blow up. No other show I’ve been to matches the atmosphere in that room.
Of course, there’s also Iron Maiden, Bruce’s voice is still absolutely ridiculous. Muse, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Avenged Sevenfold all get honorable mentions.
Edit: Oh, and Dragonforce at last year’s Soundwave absolutely blew me away. Super talented.
Okay, he’s about to offer them on Facebook. I’ll let you know if he gets any takers. In the meantime, they’re still up for grabs.
The office across the hall from ours is rebranding and have started scraping the slogan sticker from their office door. They only got part-way through scraping off “design is our asset”, so now it reads “design is our ass”.
PHOTO QUICK
If the walls/door weren’t all clear glass, I would. They stare at you enough as you walk past to go to the toilet 😛
Cmoon, I’m sure you can come up with a clever ruse.
Walking, stop suddenly, pull phone out of pocket. Check it for text message, sniff with faint amusement, nodding once, turn around as if pacing while still swiping… STEALTH PHOTO… tap an imaginary response, lock phone, put away, continue on journey.
Note to @powalen this is totally not something I use for creepy purposes, nor is it part of my secret spy training, nor am I typing this from an aircraft carrier in the south china seas on a mission to fight pirates.
Burst out of my office, pull out massive SLR camera, take photo using the brightest flash setting, yell “SOUTH SIDE OFFICES RULE”, rude hand gesture.
Yours is way better.
Sounds about right
help them out by getting rid of ‘is’
then giggle on my behalf.
Add stylized cartoon buttocks. AWARD-WINNING DESIGN.
This amused me greatly.
greatest thing ever.
Lost it with the bear out the window 🙂
I couldn’t contain myself after ‘and then I just decided to never go on the internet again’. I know that feels.
That was amazing.
This made my day.
I’m now being followed by ABC Radio Brisbane on Twitter. Is this because I bitched about housework?
I’m being followed by the lead singer of Hunters and Collectors.
Were you tweeting about the holy grail?
Nope, the new Avalanches single.
AVALANCHES
They’re releasing a new album?! It’s been what, 15 years since their first one?
Alas, no. Single for a Hunters and Collectors tribute album
http://www.stereogum.com/1463552/the-avalanches-stalking-to-a-stranger-planets-collide-remix-video/mp3s/
COME BACK AVALANCHES MUSIC NEEDS YOU
🙁
There’s been talk about the Avalanches doing a new album for years but nothing ever happens 🙁
And it makes me sad every time. They’re obviously working in dribs and drabs, but haven’t released anything.
They’ve got so much material in the can apparently, but are perfectionists, and the samples are difficult to license.
I’ve been followed by some things I wasn’t entirely comfortable with being followed by. I have to go and check again to remember what it was though.
I had some hilarious moments in GTA last night, but this one in particular was pretty memorable because of how the AI behaved.
So I was walking along, because well, I like to walk a lot in this game to take things easy and enjoy the finer details of the scenery. (OMG, have you all taken a ride on the Ferris wheel at sunset?)
Then I stumble across a shootout between two cops hiding behind the doors of their car and 3 thieves, who for some reason got away in a taxi. The shootout continues for a bit until eventually there’s only one cop left and everyone else is dead.
Next thing I know, a car that was stopped on the street during the shootout, reverses straight into the cop that was left alive as he’s trying to get back in his car.
So the cop starts to shoot this car and then proceeds to grab the dude out of the car and pump about 5 shots into him.
Of course, I then casually got into the guys car and drove off. 😛
I should have waited longer to see what happened next! Perhaps adding an ambulance to the mix would have thickened the plot even more.
Did you get it on PS3 like I told ya?
*blushes* No. 🙁
Most of my online buddies got it on 360.
No I didn’t!
You know, I meant the other 40 people on my Xbox Live list. Plus I must admit, my PS3 is really gathering a bit of dust since The Last of Us got completed. 🙁
Worst guy ever.
And golf. Golf was so fun to play. I really hope they have that in MP.
I did.
VIDEO GAMES!
NO
D:
MOVIES?
TV Series. That end.
What games?
Mind games. *queue mystery music*.
Chess?
Cheese?
TV?
Bikes.
Spikes?
I played one of those once I think.
Ugh. Email from a coworker reminding us about fundraiser chocolates… 18 point text in fuchsia.
Who the hell still does that? I thought we stamped that nonsense out as part of the anti-tacky ethnic cleansing of the 90s and 00s. We burned their geocities to the ground til there was nothing left to [blink].
I don’t know what’s worse. That I have a co-worker who uses that size and colour in an email in a non-ironic fashion, or that I know and used the word fuchsia.
Anyway, the moral to this story is now I have chocolate.
They were trying to ensure that the fundraiser message was seared directly into your optic nerve
One of my colleagues has some font size 32 in their email signature
O.o wha? The largest text size I use is 12! 10 in my email signature. Who the hell uses 32?
Someone with very bad eyesight?
Isn’t that what zoom is for?
If I had my way every one of my posts would be blue 16pt Comic Sans.
.freezespreston
{
color:red;
text-align:right;
font-size:40px;
}
D:
Yes, sir!
(Works in firefox w/ greasemonkey, chrome makes you jump through a few more security hoops.)
FYI, it does this to every one of your posts.
Brilliant.
Quality library software: this thing I’m using returns DB_ERR_FOUND if it was successful. Not misleading at all.
what system?
Internal library code.
Say it’s broken and offer to rewrite it (not for free)
I’m not a contractor. This is our internal software. If I say it’s broken and offer to fix it I’ll have to do extra work for no extra money.
Age of Empires 3: Complete Collection is 66% off on Steam for the next 40 hours.
Go! Go! Go!
Good thing I have it on disc. 😀
It’s no AOE2…
True.
🙂
Or Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds 🙂
Maybe a little less maddening than the HD AOE2 though.
http://rense.com/general9/gunlaw.htm
There’s a city in Georgia where it’s a legal requirement to have a gun in every residency.
http://24.media.tumblr.com/2dcf8a1fb0dadac896db1758839845a7/tumblr_mspi6g938s1sdcylho1_400.png
I am losing motivation on my drawings. I am the worst. =(
Don’t give up!
Is this the drawing for the t-shirt?
yeah. I’m struggling to get my head around it all I think
http://themetapicture.com/media/funny-kid-reading-books-drawing.jpg
…
Now I can’t work on anything!
Quick, work on a will before your writing goes too!
http://i.imgur.com/gbXqe8d.jpg
Oh god, kill it with fire?
It’s what happens if you don’t keep up your drawing skills.
It’s a grim warning from the future.
Or I should just cut my hand off and end it here?
You could always draw with your feet.
._.
I don’t think so
Time to get all Mr Squiggle then.
My eyes are bleeding!
D`:
Oh, I dunno, that’s not so bad for a MS paint jobbie. 🙂
Oh god no.
So they’re directly part of Sega 🙁
DO NOT WANT 🙁
That sounds like the worst possible outcome
Worst possible outcome: Nobody bought them, Persona dissapears forever D:
I don’t know, if the choice was “There’s never another Persona game” or “they make another Persona game but it’s a terrible microtransaction-based free to play mobile game” I’m not sure I’d pick the latter.
In my mind, that would not be another Persona game.
As All The Bravest (?) isn’t another Final Fantasy game, you know?
shit
shit
shit
Since they’ll have Atlus US to work with now, perhaps Western dristribution/localisation could get better. You never knoooooooooooooow.
#GlassHalfFull #YesIunderstandTheGlassWasFullyFullBeforeStayingPositiveAnyway
Warning: criticism of dumb commercial TV, open at your own risk.
Flicking through TV channels, have it on The Project for about 2 minutes — saw them making fun of a Coalition politician at today’s swearing in because of her hairstyle, something like it could only be put together in a meth lab..
Normally I don’t care — I think if people make fun of Abbott’s speedos or Howard’s eyebrows or Alexander Downer wearing fishnet stockings or Kevin Rudd’s stupid fringe or Peter Garrett’s… just Peter Garrett, really, then it’s okay to make a couple of non-malicious jokes about a woman’s appearance too (equality! 😛 ) but… from watching the election coverage (and god Steve Price gets annoying when he gets all upset about anti-Liberal stuff, like they can’t defend themselves), I saw that The Project guys really don’t like Abbott and they mentioned his criticism of Gillard and focus on Fiona Scott having sex appeal a couple of times, the whole chauvinist thing.
.
I understand they’re comedians and want to make jokes and be clever, but if it’s good enough for them to criticise and hold against people… why make that joke? Why promote the idea that misogyny/sexism/whatever you want to call it only relevant when it suits a political agenda, else it’s totally fine.
.
Stupid. Charlie Pickering, what a pretentious dolt.
.
Anyway, I turned it off and started to catch up on this season of Breaking Bad — happy ending! \o/
You must be watching a different The Project than I usually see.
I didn’t say they were funny, more that they’re trying to be funny/think they’re funny!
I was going to quote that line myself before I scrolled down
Fixed for you.
Today @Scree tricked me into watching my little ponies.
But if they are yours, shouldn’t you take responsibility for watching them anyway? 😛
Sure, “tricked”, I heard you discussing the plot with her just before!
I had to leave the TS channel to escape the My Little Pony talk.
I am sorry. =(
AND THEN YOU TAUNT ME BY LINKING ME MORE MY LITTLE PONY STUFF.
Why @scree? Why?
;_;
but…it’s funny.
So much hat D=
Is there a plot? I saw part of an episode and I think I spent two minutes watching a purple unicorn levitating crystals and frolicing in their splendour.
What more plot could you possibly want?
I’ve almost finished The Wire… I’ll be up to season 5 by tomorrow /o\
Thankfully I’ve got Sons of Anarchy and the first season of Digimon to work through next 😀
Chaaaange into digital champions tooo save the digital world
And the second Digimon season too right? S2 was almost as good as S1. Really liked Frontier as well
Season 2 was the one with the egg evolutions, right? I liked that season too!
Yep, thats the one.
3 was in the real world, with the cards
4 was where the kids became Digimon themselves
5 I never watched but was, by most accounts, terrible
I never saw Digimon, and never played the games (except for maybe 1/2 hour of some RPG on the PSX? I vaguely recall something like that) so am trying to make up for lost time.
With regard to only getting season 1, well, if it’s anything like Pokemon, the series will be dead to me soon after 😛
Buuuut, I guess season 2/Silver/Gold Pokemon was alright too.
Maybe I’ll have to find Digimon S2 as well ^.^
The Wire is incredible. Sons of Anarchy is just as good. If you dig those, I can recommend a bunch more shows!
I’ll certainly hit you up once I’ve burned through it all 😀
For some reason Digimon just never worked on me. One of my mates always goes on about it though.
I should check out a game one day, they look alright.
“Why are Bens so disgusting?”
– Ben
Ben, you’re alright.
We’re only a little disgusting.
Come on Ben, lift your game
Hey yo @rocketman I wanna meet you bb.
2nd-10th November.
Hey yo @freezespreston and anyone else who might be able to make it to the Sunshine Coast/Surfers Paradise (that’s the one close to you, right?), I wanna meet you bb.
10th-16th November.
I think.
That’s the one close (ish, an hours drive) to me! Freeze and co are Gold Coast.
I was doing some “spring cleaning” as Powalen likes to call it, and figured I’d delete some of those unloved songs.
Probably deleted around 100 albums or so but it only turned out to be 22GB :/. Probably should’ve just left them there…
“Only”? That’s more than a quarter of my hard drive!
OMG, you could have ‘given’ them to me you asshole! >:-(
Sorry, I only give songs to PS3 GTAV buds.
:'(
Playing GTAV and my PS3 goes mental. Pretty sure the fans were about to create a time/space rift by the sound they were making. I panicked and shut the thing down.
Wondering if anyone else’s has done that?
My Slim makes noisy sort of “disc loading” noises but can’t say the fans go crazy. I think my 40GB did something similar though before it died :/
It shouldn’t be about to die. This ones not all that old.
Mine is doing that. That’s why I assume it’s on its last legs. Internet reckons overheating is imminent.
But since it started doing that, I’ve played through:
Uncharted 1
Uncharted 2
Uncharted 3
inFAMOUS
inFAMOUS 2
Demon’s Souls
40 hours of Dark Souls
… and I’m sure some other games too.
and it’s still not officially dead.
It just needs to last until a few months after March.
I think you should switch to 360 to be safe! Then we can co-op!
I just remembered, mine is a slim and it makes odd noises when some DVDs are in the drive.
Like my son borrowed Dora the xplorer and when you first put it in the noise was really loud but after actually getting into the menu it would quieten down to normal sounds.
Slim here too but it was after about 3 hours of GTAV.
My old Xbox did that too, and even some of my DVD players. It’s the discs. I think they’re imbalanced or something.
My first Slim made noises like that its whole life. It was noisier than the Phat. It lived for around two years before YLODing.
That’s actually reassuring. Thanks.
Oh god…now if it breaks it’s my fault! 😛
Mine does this whenever I play anything, which is why I thought it might be wearing out. And is also why I got PS+ and have my saves and shit uploaded to teh clouds.
…I don’t know if I want to sleep or not…
Hey. O/
Hi. \o
What’s happening?
Not much, just talking to myself. 🙂
Well, sometimes you have to be able to talk to yourself before you can talk with others. 😀
True.
…okay, maybe I should go to bed.
Hi o/
THE GLORY OF 13 HOURS SLEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!
Kyle Bosman wins the intarnit:
http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/384uqk/the-final-bosman-too-cool-for-titanfall
I’ve long held that TItanfall is being WELL overhyped considering it is basically call of duty in three dimensions and some giant robot suits, so maybe mix in some Battlefield 3 which has JETS. I dunno. It’s a multiplayer-only lobby shooter. That’s very hard to get excited about in the first place, and when people say, “It’s like Call of Duty MP but BETTER!” to me that’s like saying, “It’s like eating heated-up turds, but BETTER!” Yes. Well. A lot of things are better than that. Almost anything is better than that. I can look at this week’s Steam indie release page and find something better than that.
My reaction to the game could be summarized in one sentence as, “Well it’s coming to PC and it looks nice enough, so I’ll probably play it at some point… I guess.”
I only put the vid up cos I think the Bosman is a charming nerd.
But yeah, I don’t play many FPSs at all, especially multi.
Looking at this week’s Steam release page was a good idea, though. How come no-one (except @freezespreston but listening to him is like a colourful simile) told me about Ironclad Tactics?! Alternate civil-war-era+steampunk robots turn-based strategy with deck-building/upgrading mechanics and a campaign story told by way of in-game graphic novel?
I don’t game on my craptop, I own one Steam game and only coz @negativezero gifted me!
Y’all need to realise there’s a method to my madness.
and the method is CHAOS!
Because it only just came out and I haven’t looked at it today.
Foul play looks interesting as well. A side scrolling beat-em up but set entirely on a theater stage and points are rewards for performance.
Pokemon White!
So I’m only 2 and a half years late to this party, but it’s starting to grow on me.
Edit: This may just be the X/Y hype talking, though.
Oh yeah!
I own/finished that!
Doing Black atm cos a friend found it at Smith’s Dick without a case, haggled them down to a fiver and gave it to me as a late b-day gifd.
Having a ball all over again!
Who’s your team?
Mine:
Pig starter – Bacon
Toad guy – Headphones
plantbug – Leafy Bug
Icecream – iScream
pidgeon – GoodFeathr
unamed ferret thingo as a HM slave
7 badges, just started on legendaries.
Team:
Fire starter – Figgy
Emolga (NPC trade) – Minipete
Munna – Manny
Pansage – Panny
Tirtouga – Tim
Tranquill (Fly slave) – Tracy
Wow! I’m just outside of town about to get the eighth badge!!!
In my WHite game I used:
Serperior- Smugly
Bisharp – Muramasa
Carracosta – Crush
Golurk – Giant robo
Darmanitan – Nutter
And I never did quite decide on a 6th
(Had to check the cart cos it’s been so long, “lucky” I’m home sick!)
I … can’t think of what any of those are off the top of my head.
starter snake
black/red power ranger dood
ancient turtle
golem/ghost/robot guy
fire gorilla
Hey hey!
out of boredom:
Black 2 team:
electric eel – Atreides
fighting jackal – Anubis
Water starter – Rotten
red crocodile – Convict
fire duck – Jamu Ya (that’s ginger duck in mandarin prolly mispelled)
cloud dragon bird – Altaria (cos I caught it in the companion app for 3DS and never bothered renaming it, it’s shit and I only kept it around to FLY)
There are fire ducks in bw2?!? Want.
BW2 have Pokemans from all the Gens, fire duck is the guy from Red & blue Magmar(?).
Only, you catch him as a baby (gen 2) and he evolves all the way past (Gen 4), pretty cool.
he seems to be swapped out in White 2 for the electric guy, same rules apply.
Oh Saint’s Row 4, even though I’m not hyped to play your game I am tempted to just buy the game for the tweets in this article.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/09/gta-v-gets-trolled-hard/
New Humble Bundle additions!
Welp… I just got an email from Arenanet saying someone is trying to sell my Guild Wars 2 account. Looks like I got hacked recently, and I can’t do anything about it until I get home today -.-
I reckon I’ve receieved a thousand different variations of ‘Someone is trying to sell your GW2/WoW/EVE/*insert MMO name here* account’ over the past few years. Every single one of them has been bullshit. Be careful dude, especially if they ask you to ‘confirm your details’ and enter your account details on a website. If you’re not sure, contact Arenanet and get them to confirm if there’s an issue or not.
I’ve even had emails telling me someone’s trying to sell my Runescape account, despite me never owning one.
No I’m going to just login via the GW2 official website, not the email and change my password that way.
Edit: I also get those kinds of emails for things such as Diablo 3, Wow and even Aeon, I never had an account in one of those 😛
Nice! Just making sure you don’t get done by asshole scammers, but it sounds like it’s under control.
It all started for me when I was selling a WoW account back in the day and a friend put my email addy into a website that values accounts based off what characters you have, and ever since then I’ve been slammed with bs account emails for every online game in existence.
Maybe not, cuz I just tried to login to the official website. I haven’t played in a while so I hope it’s only that I forgot it…
Doesn’t GW2 require email authetication to do just about anything? Every time I haven’t played in a while or try to log in from a different location, I always have to do email authentication. Which is quick and easy, but yeah – thought that’d stop most things.
It picks up if your IP address or location is different to usual and prompts for authentication.
Yeah and it requires a CD key and character name to reset it to something else. So it is most likely I just forgot it.
So I just started feeling sick again. Coughing and hacking.
Hooray.
Welcome to the sick zone
Fully.
Bro.
Do you even lift brah?
I lifted a bra once, got slapped 😛
uggh, I’ve been in denial all morning but I think I’m joining you guys in the sick zone.
🙁 (not cool, unless i get sick enough to take time off work)
Dressed up like a
pratpirate, got a dozen doughnuts for free. Awwyeah.And it only cost you your dignity.
Joke’s on them, that cheque’s gonna bounce!
Worth it.
Holy crap, Higurashi made it through Steam Greenlight.
So did Long live the queen. The game, when it asks would you buy this on steam, I had to look at myself honestly and say yes.
But Higurashi looks odd, visual novel but still claiming it is a game. Is it run around and try to find the next step in the story by who you talk to and where you go?
It’s linear. The ‘gameplay’ is you trying to figure out the mystery.
Also don’t get put off by the awful art, the actual story is pretty awesome (though the sequel was better IMO)
Thanks for the advance warning. I get curious about these things, but I have literally no reference point whatsoever to even begin considering what I’d be getting myself into.
Having some reasonable expectations prevents getting hopes up for something it’s not and lets me enjoy things for what they are without that disappointment dragging the vibe down. 🙂
Well on the art side, there are patches that will put the PS2 version’s sprites into the game – they were redrawn for the PS2 when it got a re-release after it was adapted into an anime, and the character art is professionally done so it looks reasonably good.
If you want a horror VN then Corpse Party is a superior choice, but Higurashi is still a good experience.
o_O
Interesting.
I may have to check it out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockchafer
tee hee hee
Oh, Jimu.
😛
I enjoyed the picture on the article of the ‘female cockchafer’.
I’m intrigued but I don’t know if that article is sfw.
It’s just a animals
Depends on your work policy on spang beetles
So as I may have mentioned I’ve been watching through HIMYM lately because I originally lost track of it after season 1, and I got to the episode that had a Doogie Howser parody ending where Barney is updating his “blog”.
So of course I had to completely not pirate and totally legally acquire the entire series of Doogie Howser MD, which I think came out when I was 7 years old. Will I ever watch it? Sure, right after my entirely legitimate copy of The Wonder Years, I guess.
Not-Pirating is cool. I also used completely legitimate means to acquire this ‘Community’ thing people were raving about and posting cool quotes from, and discovered it was not to my taste. Returning this product for a full refund of the price I paid for it was simple and easy.
*not-at-all-suspicious knowing nod*
I haven’t been able to find a source for a legitimate copy of Community, but I want to check it out. People always use it as an example of how to do nerdy humour right, usually when deriding the Bang Bang Theory (which I also still watch regardless of what anyone thinks) so I’m interested to know what it’s really like.
I suspect most people watch it because Alison Brie’s breasts jiggle a lot, if the number of gifs on the subject are any indication.
I wasn’t a fan, but I only gave it a few episodes to prove itself worthy.
iOS 7 HYPE!
Apparently it’s laggy on pre-iPhone 5 stuff 🙁
Also: HOLY CRAP, SURVIVOR TODAY OMGOMOGMOMGMGOMG!
I wasn’t even sure iOS7 would come out on the 4S. Now I don’t know if I’ll update. Do I want to be an OS version behind for the next six months until my phone contract rolls over and I can get a 5S?
Something something Apple Sheeple something.
Posted from my iPhone.
Android is too complicated, I don’t know which phones are any good. At least with Apple, I can just buy whichever phone they tell me to!
I have an Android phone and an iPad Mini. Take that, brand loyalty!
I have a 4S and I’m downloading the update now. I’ll let you know how it goes.
I’m still on iOS 5 so I don’t know if iOS 6 made it quicker or anything.
Planned feature, not bug.
Yeah, I’ve heard that said about Survivor too, I have my doubts.
I’ve heard of this happening before. Seems to be a gentle nudge to upgrade.
I get these gentle nudges every time I load itunes, which leads to me flipping my screen the bird and ranting at it. Which is unfortunate, because the screen totally didn’t deserve that.
Don’t shoot the messenger, man.
I haven’t updated my iOS or iTunes in years. Probably around the time of Southpark’s ‘Human Cent-iPad’ episode. 😛
Looks like Mrs Shane will be tagging along for the Can’d Meat this weekend. We’ll be there from ~3pm to ~4:30pm. Tickets are selling fast, so get yours now.
Doc’s Market Research Time!
We’re still making the buddy cop film (Campbelltown Stars) with no budget, but I’m writing a serious horror film while Alex works on the cop script and for to make that one properly, I’ll probably need some cash.
I was THINKING about going a Kickstarter/Indigogo route but how much would you be willing to donate towards a horror film and what would you expect in return? It’s not the most popular genre I guess…
Anyway, this is still a long ways off happening but I’m doing a little research.
$2, this button and a packet of gum.
As horror movies make me devolve into a screaming 5 year old child I would probably not watch it even if it was free.
Actually, maybe you could set up a teir where you promising not to show the movie to people that donate. Cowards like me would love that tier! =D
I would be willing to chip in a few bucks to help out, you know, whatever I can reasonably afford. I would suggest anyone who chips in $20 or more should probably get a copy of the finished movie when it’s done, in digital format – I don’t know how you’d manage that, I haven’t even gotten around to downloading Pez’s gamer album which I backed like a year ago.
I want to say $30+ should be a t-shirt tier but printing t-shirts is expensive and will just detract from the budget, so $50 seems more reasonable for that kind of thing.
This is pretty close to what I’d had in mind actually. Although I’m a bit iffy about shirts etc. I know Pez ended up using a crazy amount of the money he raised fulfilling the reward tiers.
Yeh, I would recommend against clothing. It’s too expensive. Exclusive backer packaging for the DVD is much cheaper to produce! \o/
blu-ray/DVD combo?
If you want! \o/
Clothing isn’t that bad. My band’s shirts cost us $7 per shirt. It really depends on where you get them printed.
Since Potaku isn’t exactly up there with Double Fine and Penny Arcade yet, you’re probably not going to get a huge amount of backers, realistically. The cost of something like t-shirts is something that is diminished in larger quantities but you’re more likely to not need more than fifty or so maybe a hundred if you plan on selling them to fans once the movie is complete. I don’t know how many people outside of TAY are listening to/reading Potaku so maybe my numbers are way off. I don’t know what the unit price on t-shirts would be for a run of 50-100, but if you plan on offering t-shirts you probably just want to add that to the $30 level then round up to the nearest ten for shipping, *then* factor that into the target.
Assume the following: you want $5,000 for the movie, you are offering 25 t-shirts, and t-shirts cost $15-$20 to print and send out.
If you offer the t-shirts for $50 you’re only getting $30 of that. You might hit your target of $5,000 but $500 of that goes towards printing and sending t-shirts, so really you needed to raise $5,500 to still have $5,000 for your movie budget.
On the upside distributing the movie digitally is practically free, at least by comparison. All you’re losing is potential sales and I have no idea if you planned to sell it afterwards anyway.
This is a separate project from Potaku although we would get it up there and mention it on the show (Listener numbers are significantly higher than the number of TAYbies, so that’s a plus, although random listeners would be less likely to donate. I’d also see if any sites dedicated to horror films etc would put something up. Same with Kotaku.
I’d distribute the movie (Digital and hard copies) to backers, but I’d probably look at putting the finished film up on iTunes or maybe even Netflix or something. Some for of digital distribution where I don’t have to worry about selling and shipping copies of the film.
Fair enough, I was just throwing around random numbers.
T-shirts are a pain and probably only a good idea if you’re pretty sure of a large demand for them. At this stage that’s probably not feasible. Free digital copies is the easiest answer, and while you could probably do that for ten bucks Shane’s idea of throwing in extra, outtakes, etc for a higher tier seems like a good idea. If you want to go all out and produce a DVD then you’ll want to have a commentary track and maybe some behind the scenes stuff as well, because otherwise what’s the point?
I know for a lot of games they let backers name things or contribute to the production but that’s risky. You could certainly offer it, in some limited capacity. People might go for it.
I personally would contribute a few bucks because friends, but horror isn’t really my shtick. How much would depend on timing, but I’ll try to chuck in something like $30-40.
Re: perks, probably something akin to the Flamestar structure. That seemed quite a well-structured campaign. Digital goodies (copy of movie) for low-tier contributions, exclusive making-of vids/blooper reels for slightly highers, and maybe a DVD for $xx or above.
Tickets to launch parties, cameo roles, name in credits, even editorial contribution, there are plenty of pretty cool benefits you can offer without breaking the bank. A lot of these restrict the geography a little though.
$100 for a part in the movie.
SOLD! I’ll pay you $100 for your time!
NO, I’ll pay you $100 for my time!!!
Wait… no, that sounds right.
So do we just use this alley here or…
If you get a kickstarter going is there a tier where we get a recording of @sernobulus locked in a room and forced to watch the film?
I would probably throw 10-20 bucks at it for TAY fronds, not something I would back otherwise. Unless the above tier is available
It would make for a great commentary track.
$2000 to spend a night with Doc.
DONE!
You’re getting SO ripped off!
Butt seriously, I would throw money at this.
haha. “Butt”.
$1000 tier to be credited as ‘Executive Producer’? 😛
If someone gives me $1,000, they can be credited as whatever they want. 😛
Apparently there are now comprehensive guides out there about how to run a successful kickstarter campaign, bullet point one of which is basically to generate awareness first and set up a marketing campaign before the kickstarter even goes live. Bullet point two being set up a rough draft of the pitch and hand it around to other professionals for critique before posting.
…I have no idea where to find these guides, I think it was something I read on Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Penny Arcade Report, or Polygon. I’ll go hunting tonight if I remember. 🙂
Man, that would be awesome. We’re still a long ways off starting to do anything with this other than me messing with the script.
I’m really just spit-balling ideas just now while we work on out $0 budget flick “Campbelltown Stars”.
TAYlist request time! For a TAYlist that may or may not happen, because my throat has been buggered again
R U Mine – Arctic Monkeys
Ducktales WOO-OOO
Scot-rail WOO-OOO
Great now i have that stuck in my head… WELL DONE, PIXEL….
Transport links are pretty great
here in Scotland
Well f**k your cars and aeroplanes,
they’re for Nobs man
You want to cross the Firth of Tay
there’s only one way
Scotrail. Oh aye.
Every minute some c**ts taking scotrail. Oh aye.
And my curtain rails are hump back whales go scotrail.
Up up up uphall,
Glasgow central,
Inverkeithing,
Bathgate, Methil
What to do just jump onto a scotrail. Oh aye.
F**k your tram let’s get yoursel on scotrail. Oh aye.
This daft joke wont travel well but scotrail.
I laughed. It travelled all right.
Bit of a sleeper hit, but it got a bit of steam behind it.
Nice! You’ve obviously been training up your puns.
I was sick of railing against them.
@redartifice let’s not get off track here…
@shane seemed like an appropriate junction.
Beastie Boys – Sabotage
Anything QOTSA.
Kingdom (the version on Epicloud) – Devon Townsend 😛
Catch Your Dream — MouseRat
Obligatory hipster suggestion you wont be able to find :
Caveman – God God Dammit Dammit
Serious suggestion :
Pattern Against User – At the Drive-In
No luck!
Serious? no ATDI on spotify?
that sorta surprises me…
oh well. thanks Red!
Madness – Baggy Trousers
TV on the Radio – Will Do
i love that song, my favourite tv on the radio song.
Can I request a song for my friend Gary who ‘apparently’ slipped in the shower with his superman action figure
M People – Search for the hero
Last Kiss – Pearl Jam.
Even though the song makes me sad.
it makes everyone sad.
dreams – Fleetwood Mac
drops mic
The Chain – Fleetwood Mac
Sit On My Face – Monty Python
…
Failing that,
Karma Police – Radiohead
Day 3:
GTA V still remains unopened.
What about KH1.5HDR?
10.5 hours in.
Finished Agrabah the other night and started rounding up some Trinity marks.
Didn’t play it last night. Was in bed by 8 because I’m an old man.
I got up to Ursula in The little Mermaid world. Died against her twice so I gave up.
Ugh, vertical combat. BOO-URNS!!! I just want to get to Halloween Town so I can sing “This is Halloween” along with the music.
I tried to do some of the mini-games in the 100 Acre Wood. That honey one can fuck right off.
Also the slides in Deep Jungle.
And Gummi missions.
Wow, most of the minigames are terrible now that I think about it.
So you would say the 100 Acre Woods mini-games are complete Pooh?
You get an upvote, but also a punch to the neck this weekend for that comment.
Sometimes I get the itch to play that game again.
Then I remember that the first time I played the first game I couldn’t beat Cerberus no matter how often I tried and eventually gave up. 🙁
Remember when we were going to play GoW but then didn’t because GTAV was coming out?
Remember that time i was like totally sitting ready* with GoW because WTF is GTAV anyway and then nothing happened?
Good times… good times
*not reallyBlame Cake because he’s a terrible person.
Also, we really need to pick a day and stick to it so we all actually play it.
uhuh… RDR anyone? XD
Hi!
But God of War isn’t multiplayer.
Silly Rize.
God of War isn’t multi because no one likes Kratos. He throw things.
As of last night, my sister now has more ink than me. Like, 2-3 times as much. Not sure how I feel about this.
BUY MORE PENS!
Get more then.
. http://youtube.com/watch?v=oPwrodxghrw
Summary for this mobile / at work peon?
Maxwell Smart. Missed it by that much.
Maybe you should buy some more pens then.
Edit: Goddammit.
Edit makes it win.
Is Wii Sports Club really going to sell any Wii Us? Seems like all the casual crowd that snapped up all those Wiis for it would be thinking they already own it.
If it was free, it might have.
US will have to shell out 50 smackeroos to get all 5 sports, so I’m dreading the AU prices.
I think Nintendo forget that the only reason Wii Sports “sold” well is because it was bundled with the console.
Even in my tiny monkey sphere there’s plenty of people who got one purely for Wii Sports and own no other game on it.
The Wii’s abysmal attach rate would say that’s not uncommon either.
The Wii’s abysmal attach rate is because there were hardly any decent games on it. I think Wii Sports was appealing because it was bundled with the console and it made novel use of the new motion controls. Wii Sports sold the Wii to a lot of people, this is true, but imagine you had to buy a Wii for $350 and buy Wii Sports for $50, instead of getting both for $400 whether you like it or not. I do not think the attach rate for Wii Sports would have been quite as high if they’d had the option to get something else? Not that the Wii launch lineup was that crash hot, but still. Wii Sports was appealing to Wii purchasers because it was an excellently marketed bundle.
I think they’ve noticed something different: Streetpass ‘games’, selling for $8 each, are selling quite well. The mega-casual games market still has money it wants to spend.
WOW! Kotaku just gave me the blue screen of death!!!
wait until you see the kitty of death…
if it’s anything like the Woe kitten I’m scared
Kitty is adorable
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/09/stop-shaving-cuts-with-mouthwash/
I thought shaving cuts only happened in the movie. Pretty sure I’ve never cut myself shaving evah.
well i have to be able to grow something to actually shave so i’m safe \o/
You poor bastard. If I couldn’t grow facial hair, I’d never leave my house. Facial hair disguises my monstrous ugliness. XD
HEY! STOP STEALING MY IDEAS!
Hey, I’ve been disguising my face with facial hair long before you even began growing it, my friend! 😛
What kind of viking has no beard???
MEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeee
*sobs*
Electric razors tend not to cut. But shaving the traditional way, cuts are totally real. They don’t hurt, but they can bleed a bit. I hate shaving my adam’s apple.
I use regular razor after my electric razor started turning on by itself at night and terrifying me forcing me to throw it out. No cuts. Then again, I don’t need to shave my adam’s apple ever.
“Electric razors tend not to cut”
yet, somehow I manage to do just that. frequently.
most of the time I use a standard blade though & yes, adams apple is terrifying.
I have on… four occasions now, I think.
The first time was the night of my year 10 semi-formal. So that was slick as shit.
My “safety razor” is actually missing the part that makes it “safe”, so I get them a bit. Particularly bad one this week, caught a lump that shouldn’t have been there and took off a nice big chunk of skin…
:S
I tend to bleed a lot if I shave too much (every day), I’d consider this more shaving grazes than shaving cuts. Shave every 2-3 days, no blood.
I don’t like electric razors, while they don’t cut, they also don’t shave close enough for my liking – I can still feel stubble (even if I appear clean shaven). Given the main reason for me to shave is so someone else doesn’t complain that I’m ‘spiky’, the electric result is suboptimal.
One time when I was 19 my mother opened the bathroom door while I was shaving which hit my elbow, causing me to move the razor sideways. My Mach 3 left three parallel slices in my face between my ear and cheekbone about an inch and a half long. Not something a little dot of TP was going to sort out. I don’t know how people on TV manage to leave tiny little nicks all over themselves.
They have no blades in their razors
Maybe they are using broken bottles. It’s what I would do, if I were on TV.
I’m thinking I need to do another game cull. After finishing Max Payne 3, I went looking through my meagre collection for something new to play, and was inspired by none of it. That means I don’t need to own it anymore, right?
You’re the worst collector evah! 😛
Agreed. =P
Give it time. I’ve suffered from cull regret before and I gave away some anime DVDs that I really wished that I had kept. Now I just horde everything that I buy and never let go.
Canmeat/Great Shane Giveaway?
Don’t give him ideas.
I already have one (maybe two) huge boxes that I’m planning on bringing. I guess I could chuck some more stuff in there! \o/
Edit: speaking of, if you still want to offload the phone, we can do the exchange on Saturday?
I think you need to become more materialistic!
Tried that. Ended up buying a bunch of stuff I now want to give away 😛
OH SHIT.
I totally forgot about the phone! Sorry!
Yeah, I’ll bring it on Saturday.
Hahaha, no worries. I assumed we’d be doing it on Saturday because convenience. So if you want to edit your comment to pretend that was the plan all along, we’ll go with it.
Also, thanks! Mrs Shane will be tres happy.
See, I used to do that a lot when I was poor. I’d go through the collection, see what wasn’t supercool no more and trade it in for new games.
Then a few years later I would find myself re-buying games or lamenting selling that rare collectors edition.
I like not having to have to sell all my stuff to trade up anymore and I am the type to replay old classics. I know Mr. Serrels argues against it and seems to think he’s so cool because he doesn’t have to own stuff but yeah, whatever blows yer hair back.
I suddenly found myself playing a shitload of Skyrim recently. After messing around with some mods adding extra melee insta-kill methods, I’ve having an awesome time smashing stuff with a giant axe. I think I’m actually approaching 200 hours in that game at this point…
Know how any mods that add fist weapons / an unarmed tree? I’m really liking my unarmed playthrough but I am starting to get a little weak.
I like the idea of punching a dragon in the face…
ALL THE MANLINESS
Also punching a giant in the kneecap…
WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF THIS, THIS IS BRILLIANT
It is so awesome, also the unarmed finishers are so satisfying when killing a humanoid enemy.
Unfortunately without anyway to properly boost their damage, unarmed characters just become tedious.
I haven’t seen any but they’d be there if you look around.
Just to check, you are using heavy armour hands, right?
Yeah, the bonus doesn’t scale with actual armour rating though, it’s only “basic” rating. So if you upgrade dragonbone gauntlets it will only scale of the base armour not the actual armour.
I can see why it’s like that, but it’s still a bit shit.
A quick look on Nexus and Steam Workshop shows there’s mods ranging from simple increased damage to entire Unarmed skill trees, so you’ve got options to fix the issue.
If you haven’t installed the MLP mods, you’re skyrimming wrong
my current play through – which has been on hiatus for a few months now, but Skyrim is a fantastic fallback game – has been dubbed “Skyrim vs Wild”. The basic premise is I’m not allowed into cities. It started because I always end up holding on to everything I pick up and stashing it in my house even though I’m never going to use it. So I wanted to play with only the stuff I can carry. Playing as a stealthy archer because I find that the most fun. I think it would be even better if I can find some mods that buff the effects of food and focus on cooking rather than alchemy.
There’s a few cooking things out there. I haven’t used any but I know they’re there.
I’m really bad with hoarding too. Stuff like dragon bone/scale makes sense up to a point, but I hold on to shit my character will never EVER use, and I still don’t know why…
Every book. I am obsessed with collecting a comprehensive library of every book, tome, scroll or letter in the game. Every magic item, just to be sure. A bunch of non-magic but still unique items. Multiple sets of the guard armour from each of the holds. Piles and piles of ingredients, ores, hides and gems.
So yeah, it was hard to just leave loot behind the first few times, but it’s getting easier and easier each time.
“Going into a dungeon. I hope there’s a box outside, because I want somewhere with fast-travel I can spawn at, pull out 500x pieces of brooms and flatware, then fast-travel back to my house.
Honestly, I play Skyrim like a removalist/kleptomania simulator. Sometimes the houses I have to move things out of have people/enemies in them. So part-time pest-control. (I fumigate with arrows.)
Was up until an unreasonable hour last night playing Torchlight 2.
So I’m unreasonably tired & having inappropriate thoughts about coffee.
But I finally got my Engineer to lvl.100!
Next step is to beat Tarroch’s Tomb…
I can get up to wave 10, but then…. HOLY SHIT LEVEL 190-199 BOSSES. RUN AWAYThen I guess I’ll start a new character. I’m thinking Embermage…
aaanyway…. whats up with you lot?
I made an Outlander and got him to 50 or 60 something and NG+, but then realised I was only playing on Veteran. Restarted on Elite with a Berserker and am about 15 or 20. Need to pick it back up again. Great game.
I know difficulty is determined by the game you’re playing, but it was eating me knowing I wasn’t playing on the hardest setting in single player.
My default setting is veteran for TL2, but my mates who I was playing with had their games hosted at normal…
had a few runs at Tarroch’s Tomb on Vet, but failed miserably on wave 5… so set it back to normal to see what came next… but damn…. I’ll have to abuse Boris the Enchanter to get the stat boosts i need to beat it… or just keep farming for uniques there…
but yeah… damn good game.
I really need to give that game more time and love. I did start a couple of weeks ago, then got distracted by something or other.
It’s pretty damned ace. Diablo 3 has improved greatly since launch, but Torchlight 2 is pretty much everything D3 should have been.
Based on my experiences with D3, I couldn’t agree more.
I have to state that my opinion of Diablo 3 has improved a lot since launch. It’s undergone some much needed tweaks and changes, all for the better. Now RMAH is officially being ditched, that’s great news. I still think it’s a great game at it’s core, it just had too many bastardised additions tacked on, and that seems to be improving.
The advantage of Torchlight 2 is that it’s been what it meant to be from day one – a pure, no bullshit, unadulterated Diablo game. It does it so well.
And then if you want any tacked on bullshit you can mod the hell out of it.
Yeah I haven’t delved into the modding for TL2 as yet, but that’s a pretty damned big bonus to have. Steam Workshop integration for TL2 is crazy. Mods galore.
It’s REALLY easy to use, when you subscribe to the mods you want from the Steam Workshop, the next time you launch TL2, it’ll start this launch overlay, which is basically “Start game with Mods” and “start game normally” option, and all the mods you subscribed to will be in a list for you to run whichever ones you like, and you can save the mod list as a profile to use again later. Really cool!
That’s what happened to me every time i pick up and play it…
I play it and think “OH wow this is great, why’d i ever stop playing it?”
Then don’t play it for another few months
Same. I’ll be like, “What the hell, 3am? For fuck’s sake, I can’t keep doing this,” and put it away until I plan on having a super-long serious gaming session… but I really rarely ever actually sit down intending to pull those.
Woh! Kotaku looks weird now…
I DON’T HAVE TO PAY FOR THINGS BECAUSE IT’S INCONVENIENT.
#TalkLikeAPirateDay
You fight like a dairy farmer.
Is it just me, or does Talk Like a Pirate Day seem to happen multiple times a year? 😛
The others are just illegal copies.
I said that as well, I’m sure it comes up on facebook as often as “OMG TODAY IS THE DAY THE MARTY MCFLY COMES TO”
I’m only downloading it as a demo. If I like it I will definitely buy the full version and not just continue to use my pirated copy!
They don’t make things exactly the way I want it so o should get it and not pay for it.
I don’t like to pay because gummint/fat cats.
Despite a medium exists in which I can pay a small fee to legally stream any show I want, I’m still gonna download things!
“I totally buy games that I like. If more games had demos, this wouldn’t be happening to them.”
So pinball FX has 66% off all their tables. Think I might be using up my trial periods of the tabels tonight to make some purchases.
Does anybody have the game and any recommendations for which tables are good.
Thinking Civil war, Excalibur and maybe core pack at the moment.
I’m not a huge pinball fan, but just had a look at Pinball FX’s website and that Star Wars one looks freakin’ nice!
Yeah that quite cool. Unsurprisingly the Empire strikes back is the best of them. Does a good job of drawing you in, when you bring up your mission you get to choose a movie scene and then have to try and complete it. Have the big AT-AT walking while you try and take it down is cool and is a good feeling when you succeed. Clone wars and Boba fett are about the same.
Although you might mean the new tables, they look amazing
Tay,
I feel like shit. I was supposed to work on drawings.
I don’t feel like it.
Play games!
As far as i know scree scree you dont have any obligation to try and enjoy yourself or do things for others when you are unwell. watch tv, lounge around relax.
I refuse.
Then just rest / nap. That’s what you are supposed to do when you’re sick! \o/
I been watchin’ movies, best I can muster during a sick
CANBERRA BITCHES well in a few hours.
i dont have a book to read, ill have to buy one at the airport, any suggestions. Maybe they’ll have “the book thief” i have been wanting to read that for a while. Otherwise i guess ill play persona 4 golden and nerd it up. I still prefer books.
Ready Player One seems to be the travel book of choice lately. I’ve not read it, though I’ve only heard good things.
50 Shades of Grey.
thanks buddy. my mum has it ill borrow her copy
I’d recommend never touching her copy ever.
See if they have Peaceful Tomorrows.
If not, you should just boycott the airport store and travel bookless.
Book Thief is amazing. Highly recommend it.
Agreed, fantastic piece of work.
Hey guys, if anyone wants my Limbo and Bastion codes from the HIB, sing out!
Yes please! I was tight arse and didn’t go average price. I went 99 cents.
That’s not singing!
OH SH** my mistake, I have the keys already. I went 99 cents with the weekly bundle. God I really need to keep up. Thanks.
I played a good chunk of The Bureau. I’m actually kind of enjoying it, if you ignore the boring story / characters it is actually a good game. Although I think the game has a memory leak issue. The more I played the more graphical glitches I started to encounter.
Last night in GTAV a random pedestrian threw his phone at me, declared himself the “Epic King of Asskicking” and proceeded to run away.
Also had a weird hour and a half where every single car in existence was the same 4WD. Even the parked ones.
Also watched some black and white Italian movie that looked like @sughly’s perfect movie.
Was there replicants in the film?
I had some guy tell me I couldn’t park where I was, so I punched him in the face. @dc would be proud.
So. Damn.
I spent 5 minutes watching a mime!
I was reading a forum thread somewhere yesterday where people were posting all the random, funny shit that’s happened to them in game. Some seriously funny stories too – some of it was just fluke/glitchy stuff, others were clearly intentional.
My wife texted me after playing for about an hour saying she wished we had a capture card because she had a bus that was flaoting above the road at a weird angle, occasionally crashing down onto cars. It finally found a free piece of road then drove off like nothing happened.
I’ve just had Michael’s wife standing on a bench in the kitchen in a bikini clutching a whiskey bottle, so nothing unusual yet.
I watched that same movie. I guess they made the most deliberately wank thing they could think of as a general jab at arty cinema.
I’m starting to feel like this is an insult… 🙁
I consider you the most knowledgeable movie guy I know! You got street cred!
Hey, I didn’t drag you into this. Watch the movie and see if you reach the same conclusion. 😛
😛
You like Black Dynamite so everything’s cool.
hey @dc
want a blimp?
Are you taunting me? Cause you know the answer is yes! XD
nah, i wouldn’t be that cruel, they gave me an extra code cause the blimp was part of the collectors edition stuff, I’ll send it to you on the psn when i get home (should be by 6pm)
Oh man! You’re freaking awesome! This makes up for not putting out at the man date! 😛
Thank you, my friend! If you change your mind for whatever reason that’s cool too!
there will be no mind changing here. I don’t have the equipment 😛
What’s her name?
Just watched Nu Evil Dead
So to defeat Satan all you have to do is chainsaw his face? OK.Also, that post-credit scene should have happened a lot, LOT earlier. Like in the first 5 mins.
Haha! I liked it though. Was cool movie. Freeze and I saw it on a man date once!
hey @dc, you dont need to keep specifying ‘man date’
we all know you’re both male.
its just a date.
but mandate is an awesome wurd!
I’m not really into that kind of horror, I’m more a psychological horror guy.
I was scared
around the part with the car crash, the water was freaking me out. and the fact that she just had a head injury had me worried she’d do something silly, LIKE GET INTO THE MUDDY WATER.The rape tree also freaked me out.
But then it was all body gore, and yeah, I cringed but it was more yuck than scary.
Haha! Freeze was jumping like crazy all through the movie and I just sat stoically, staring blankly ahead. DEAD INSIIIIIIIDE!
GTA!
I did the first heist last night. My advice: Don’t skimp on the crew members!
Haha! I thought I was being all clever on that one and didn’t think I needed guns, so got the cheapest guy. He crashed his bike right at the start. XD I used the stealthy approach though.That’s what happened to me! Luckily Franklin picked up his take 🙂i did the same thing, I thought i’d cheap out on the gun guy, managed to get his bag so that was also good, at least we didn’t have to split it as many waysFirst heist:
I went the quiet option so I skimped on the gunman, since I figured we wouldn’t be shooting. I also got the LifeInvader guy as the hacker, which was pretty amusing. Gunman crashed into a wall and died on the way back to the truck. LifeInvader guy barely knows how to use a computer.After the fact i had to run a basic viruscan on his comp I wasn’t gonna trust him to hack anythingWell his skills apparently went up 25% after that heist, so he might not be completely useless now. Maybe. It was funny having him freak out during the mission though.how long did that get you inside the store? Also, can’t wait to do that in MP!I’ve read heists will be in multiplayer but i don’t know if we get to plan them like you do in SP
Not sure, 30-60 seconds maybe? Not long, but long enough to clear all but 2 cabinets.the woman hacker got 90 seconds which was actually way too long. You were probably smart picking the crappy hacker and improving him on what I’m assuming was an easy heist being the first one and all.That’s what I figured, since their cut stays the same regardless of how good they get. We’ll see, I’m probably going to be doing the second heist tonight.OI @RIZE… i just realised that after last time we played RDR, i purchased the Undead Nightmare DLC so we could zombies and stuff…
that was over 1 year and a half ago…
we should probably do something about that 😛
you should, it’s pretty fun,
Bahahaha!
Yeah, we really need to play that a bunch. I think a lot of the UN multi stuff has room for 4 people too, doesn’t it?
I do believe so…
Is the Lasso back in Multi? because i really just want to ride through the map pulling a zombie behind me, crashing into other hordes of zombie for comedic effect.
#funnierwhenexplained
DARK SOULS II COLLECTOR’S EDITION and LIMITED BLACK ARMOUR PRE-ORDER EDITION unveil! The Soul Stirring Special Editions will make DARK SOULS II worth dying for on march 14, 2014
Don’t miss the new trailer available here:
EU version: http://youtu.be/P-o2KMm-5tQ
…
DARK SOULS II is scheduled to launch in Europe and Australasia on March 14, 2014 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. DARK SOULS II for PCs will launch shortly after in 2014.
The DARK SOULS II Collector’s Edition will feature:
– a premium quality Warrior Knight figurine measuring in at 12 inches / 30 cm in height and weighing in at nearly 16 ounces / 450 grams.
– an exclusive hardbound art-book filled with never-before-seen images.
– a full-colour fabric map of the DARK SOULS II game world that can only be had within the Collector’s Edition.
– a metal game case from the DARK SOULS II Black Armour Edition which will contain both the game disc and the official game soundtrack composed by famed Japanese composer Motoi Sakuraba.
Pre-order the game to receive the DARK SOULS II Black Armour Edition when the game launches; while supplies last. The Black Armour Edition features a metal case that contains both the game disc and the official game soundtrack that is sure to stir emotions and set players’ mood for battle.See more
hmmm… i should probably play Dark Souls at some point XD
Not a terrible idea. I feel like I’m on the clock with this game. Got to finish before March.
Admittedly, I’m at least halfway through the game as it is, so that might not be impossible to pull off.
Well, first goal is actually to buy it… Then play it… then it sounds like i might weep a bit… then rinse and repeat
Don’t repeatedly buy the game. That might get expensive.
Damn it, i’ve been doing collections all wrong!
WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH ALL OF THESE?
*throws discs in the air*
If I were you ( a not much of a collector guy), I’d save my dollars and just get a normal edition.
Or is that too logical?
I guess I’m also cheating a TAYbie outta a free copy next year 😛
Haha, very funny. This is one game I don’t think I’ll ever be giving away. Don’t tend to go in for collector’s editions anymore these days, but I always said that Dark Souls would be an exception!
@freezespreston already very kindly ordered me the standard edition. I’m gonna go into EB either this week or next and see if they can upgrade me.
Or get both so that that TAYbie I mentioned doesn’t miss out 😛
Heading over to order in about 10 mins.
GTA V
Ha ha! I haven’t played
😛 I knew it………..
I never thought of it like that… Thank you!
Dude. Spoilers.
*eyeroll*
*adjust beret*
GTAV query: my wife has linked her Rockstar Social Club to her gamertag and got an extra car, gun, garage and haircuts. Even though my rockstar Social Club is linked to my gamertag, I don’t have the extra content. I’m assuming this might be because the Rockstar servers weren’t getting hit so hard when she started playing as opposed to when I started playing, so hopefully it’ll get fixed up later, but it’s annoying me because apparently she got free access to a garage as well but I only have the option of buying one for $30,000.
Oh god a pageget. What are my duties here? What happens on page 12?!
You got the page.
You decide
ok since it’s page 12 we type as we imagine 12 year olds type.
That’s right, it’s YOUTUBE COMMENTING PAGE 12.
Business as usual then?
Zing!
Yes.
Try unlinking and relinking?
I might give it a go tonight if it hasn’t sorted itself.
hdjdnalsosjzjeore
*starts frothing at mouth*
http://mobile.siliconera.com/siliconera/#!/entry/dark-souls-ii-ships-on-march-11-warrior-knight-figurine,523a4d00da27f5d9d02278db
*throws holy water at Ser Nobulus*
The power of Christ compels you, the power of Christ compels you.
Repost from previous page because DARK. SOULS. TWO. \o/
DARK SOULS II COLLECTOR’S EDITION and LIMITED BLACK ARMOUR PRE-ORDER EDITION unveil! The Soul Stirring Special Editions will make DARK SOULS II worth dying for on march 14, 2014
Don’t miss the new trailer available here:
EU version: http://youtu.be/P-o2KMm-5tQ
…
DARK SOULS II is scheduled to launch in Europe and Australasia on March 14, 2014 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. DARK SOULS II for PCs will launch shortly after in 2014.
The DARK SOULS II Collector’s Edition will feature:
– a premium quality Warrior Knight figurine measuring in at 12 inches / 30 cm in height and weighing in at nearly 16 ounces / 450 grams.
– an exclusive hardbound art-book filled with never-before-seen images.
– a full-colour fabric map of the DARK SOULS II game world that can only be had within the Collector’s Edition.
– a metal game case from the DARK SOULS II Black Armour Edition which will contain both the game disc and the official game soundtrack composed by famed Japanese composer Motoi Sakuraba.
Pre-order the game to receive the DARK SOULS II Black Armour Edition when the game launches; while supplies last. The Black Armour Edition features a metal case that contains both the game disc and the official game soundtrack that is sure to stir emotions and set players’ mood for battle.
DARK.SOULS.2!
DARK.
SOULS.
II.
Secret
Of
The
Magic Crystals
2
\o/
Yay, preordered!
Oh man, buying GTAV online is a real test to my patience, especially with the crazy amount of hype its getting from…err…planet earth is seems.
Must resist the urge to run out and buy it tonight! Must finish Mirrors Edge and Blood Dragon before it arrives!
And then iibuy sends me an email saying they’re selling it for $59.99 for one day only…curse you iibuy.
You can run through Mirror’s Edge in a day, so order GTA V now.
#helpius
Ha, run through, I get it. My copy was dispatched from ozgameshop Tuesday, so I think i’m looking at end of next week. I’ll have to lock myself in my room this weekend to prevent temptation!
Doesnt help having all my PSN buddies playing it.
#Imlookingatyou!
You know what. Im caving. Fuck it.
That’s an impressive lack of willpower son. We could use someone with your impetuosity here at ‘Impulse Inc’. As director of rash decisions, I’d like to offer you an interview… except I totally just filled the position with some guy who tweeted me, “C’mooooooon. ;)”
Damn I’m good at my job.
Haha hey the intention was there…
Buut that was about it >.
I have a habit of purchasing games at premium prices upon release, plowing through them as fast as I can and then offloading them for a premium price on ebay. It’s how I can afford to play some of the latest and greatest. In the case of GTA V however, with all the amazing stories and experiences I have read that people are having: I think I will be unable to let this one go.
There is just so much to do in this game.
SELL ALL YOUR GAMES SO YOU CAN BUY DARK SOULS 2! YEAHHHHHHHH!
Haha, someone’s hype.
Someone remind me to e-mail @blaghman about the meet thing when I get home.
I’m totally going to forget.
Hey, Gook! Email Blaghman.
I’M NOT HOME YET
HEY GOOKY
EMAIL BLAGHS WHEN YOU GET HOME.
Dammit I should have remembered to do this yesterday, when people were being helpful.
if its any consolation, I’m never helpful. so by doing it yesterday, you wouldn’t get a better response.
I’m catching myself morphing into a bit of an asshole this week, so I’ll promise to remind you, then probably not do it.
(I’m gonna blame workstress, because nothing is ever my personal responsibility. …Oh god, the change is happening faster than I thought!)
Someone’s poorly trying to argue about climate change on my fb.
*slams own head in door*
IT WAS RAINING ON MONDAY. ITS NOT RAINING TODAY. ITS ALSO HOTTER TODAY.
*BAM*
CLIMATE HAS CHANGED.
/DISCUSSION
He’s arguing because there’s lots of antarctic sea ice therefore climate change isn’t happening.
MY FREEZER IS STILL COOL AND FULL OF ICE… CLIMATE CHANGE IS A HOAX, NAY A GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY
*dons tinfoil hat*
*facepalm*
umm…. there’s a whole lot less ice in the antarctic than there was 50 years ago…
Also sea ice =/= land ice, which has dropped dramatically.
Discussion started when someone else posted that stupid article on the IPCC from the Australian the other day, which I ripped to shreds then.
I just posted “And? It still is a single point of data amidst many others, which is precisely the value of the IPCC report, which reviews and contextualises it.”
I expect a conspiracy-laden response, after which I’ll not respond again.
I’m at home *sick* today, getting wasted alone. Like a pro. Except I keep walking straight into doorways whilst trying to navigate through them. Not pro so much.
Does this ever happen to anyone else?
The last time I got drunk was about a year ago. Then I started limiting myself to one or two beers on social occasions. Ever since I got my provisional license the most alcoholic thing I’ve had in my mouth is mouthwash, and only ever in the mornings before I leave for work on the train and won’t be driving for at least ten hours.
I never know when I mght need to drive and I’m limited to 0 BAC until I’m on an unrestricted license.
I’m probably never going to get wasted again.
I heard licencing restrictions got crazy intense in recent years. A coworker was telling me about the hoops her younger brother – IN HIS LATE 20s – was having to jump through to drive on his own, and my mind boggled. Getting me to get my licence as early as I did was one of the best things my parents ever did for me.
I’m 30. On the upside once you’re over 25 you don’t have to complete a logbook, so I got my Ps after as many lessons as I felt like doing, which was five, only three of which were with a paid instructor.
I’ve been pretty drunk quite a few times before, done some things I still regret, but I’ve always been able to navigate my way through a door 😛
My friend once walked drunk into a garage door that was 3/4 up, he now has a Harry Potter like scar.
Wait, no, he was sober. That makes it worse!
Welp, my throat’s gone terrible again, can’t really do a radio show like this, I’ve taken down all of your requests and I’ll do my best to play them next week.
Sorry, all.
cc @sernobulus @shane @cakesmith @beavwa @gutsoup @dc @35 @popdart5 @redartifice @tigerion @freezespreston
EDIT: also @scree for her request last night on TS
Then I’ll leave this here:
<3
\o/
I’ll do the playlist anyway – @scree what was your request?
Offspring, any song really.
Million Miles Away and Spare Me The Details were mentioned
I love Offspring. Especially Dirty Magic. Pretty Fly sucks arse though.
I like Pretty Fly, there’s nothing wrong with their ‘fun’ songs. “Want You Bad” was a boneheaded party song but it was the only one off of Conspiracy of One that I could tolerate.
The Offspring were pretty emo during the Ignition era, all things considered, but man, Dirty Magic… I haven’t heard that in a long time but it’s still burned into my head.
Spare me the Details is about as fun as I would go with Offspring.
I didn’t mind Spare me the Details but it’s not really up there on my list.
Gonna go far kid is my favourite pump up song. I listen to it when doing excercise.
feel better man!
Sorry
Speaking of DARK SOULS, this guy does some pretty amazing things in that game.
Right now, he’s doing a speedrun with the first person hack on. It’s wrinkling my brain.
A negative point for GTAV.
The street racing sucks harder than anything then anything has ever sucked in the history of suck. Shitty controls, stuff popping out you can’t avoid and cheating AI.
Seriously cheating. I rammed the leader and flipped him off a cliff and he suddenly popped up in front of me a second later and keep going like nothing happened. If it happened to me though stiff shit.
Yeah, I tried the street racing mission last night. Fuck that noise. I ended up just shooting at the other drivers. Apparently ramming them off cliffs is cool, but shooting “spooks” them.
Franklin’s special ability helps a whole damn lot when doing corners and the like.
Yeah, I think I just picked an awful car. It handled like the wheels were coated in grease.
Your driving skills do level up, every car handles like a greasy cow at first.
Isn’t that normal for GTA cars? They’ve never been good at driving controls.
Definitely worth popping it on in the last section of a race even if you think you’ve got a sure win.
I’ve been stuck in flight school for the past hour. D.C.’s weren’t meant to fly!
I’m about to attempt that tonight. I’m not excited for it, I’ve always sucked at flying in GTA.
My sense of control in a 3D space like flying or swimming in games has always sucked. 🙁
That reminds me, underwater off the pier is so pretty. I wasn’t expecting that when I dove off the edge.
yep, i almost drowned the first time i went swimming because i was too busy staring at all the shiny things.
the planes are really touchy in this though, I’m going to try play with sensativity later because the couple of times I’ve flown I’ve been all over the place
Edit: reply fail, also “play with sensativity” sounds a bit suggestive
Hasn’t that always been the case in any kind of racing RockStar has done ever?
I have always hated the racing side missions in all of their games for this particular reason
The one in Vice City almost had me snap a controller.
I hate it when they make them compulsory “Story” Missions…
I know they’ve made them easier for those particular missions and even still i can be stuck for hours, coursing and swearing, throwing puppies and yelling at the controller…
On the upside, if you get stuck you can skip the mission
Yeah I can’t being myself to do that. What’s the point of playing the game if I’m just going to skip chunks of it?
I completely agree, thankfully it hasn’t come up for me yet. My wife convinced me not to rage quit a race that was going badly because it wouldn’t count towards my failures and I would have to do it more times to get the skip option, but frankly if I get the skip option I’m just going to feel insulted.
I’m just considering it as an option because if I can do 90% of a mission but there’s one stupid thing that trips me up, then what’s the point in letting it keep me from enjoying the rest of the game?
PENNY ARCADE STRIP FOR EVERY SITUATION: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/03/04
Div: Christ, you suck at this. I thought you’d be better at playing a gay vampire.
Gabe: Dante is neither gay nor a vampire. And I don’t suck. It’s hard.
Div: “Easy Mode Unlocked”? You died so much the game took pity on you? Man. Actually, that Easy Mode sounds pretty good right now. You should do it, man. I won’t tell anybody.
Gabe: I’m not playing on Easy. Shut up!
Div: You’re right. Keep goin’. We’ll hold out for Ultimate Fucking Pussy mode.
… you can?
If you screw up three times I think you get the option to skip!
*throws paper into the air*
That’s it, giving up on life, universe, video games and everything!
*mental hug*
find a car you like, i tried street racing in 2 cars and totally sucked, found a car that handled much better and stuck to the road (really should have taken note which one it was) and destroyed the race with very little effort, I found the same thing with GTAIV i ended up using a pretty slow car but it handled well and breezed through all of em, I completely suck in some cars but am phenomenal in others.
I failed horribly on my first attempt, but second try I smashed through it.
If you get knocked way out of position, hold down Triangle, it will reset you on to the road.
The only real lesson I learnt is that I need to not hold the trigger in as far as it goes, because that’s a recipe for disaster. Apparently my Forza skills are finally paying off.
Triangle… Forza Skills…
*Brain explodes*
The Triangle and the Forza Skills are separate!
My only real Forza skill is holding down Y to reverse time. >.>
I know, i was just trying a lame attempt at a joke XD…
I CLEARLY GOOD AT JOKES ARE!
Shoot him with a red shell the drop a banana as you overtake!
Or… blue shell! BLUE SHELL!
I do not understand rubber-banding in racing games, and it is the primary reason I have been turned off the entire genre forever. To see that kind of shit in GTA5 is incredibly disappointing. If anything, I would think that would be the kind of game which gives even LESS of a shit about you doing unfair or underhanded (you know… sandbox) things.
I think that’s why I like Gran Turismo so much. Being more of a driving simulator than a racing game means its got none of that.
So it’s looking likely that I’m going to be the healer/leader in a party with everyone else being dps/striker characters for DnD 4th Edition game I’m playing in this weekend. It’s like scrub-tier MMO all over again. /o\
But it’s a Skyrim-themed game so \o/
Play the Warlord! Warlords are cool!
Actually, we had a guy play a total pacifist cleric. He was actually an evil cleric who’d been cursed so he could only do healing magic and would be in pain from inflicitng hurt on others
I haven’t yet fully drawn up my character but I will take your advice on board. It’s my first real time playing 4th Ed so it’s gonna be a learning experience. It’s also been a supremely long time since I played a healer.
I tend to play punchy characters but I might take on board that pacifism idea.
He played it in full on snarling villain mode while dispensing hit points. it was hilarious 🙂
You should play a Warlord by picking powers that sound like they’re song names or album titles of your glam/heavy/black -metal band.
At level 1 you can have Inevitable Wave and Direct the Strike as At-Wills, Hammer & Anvil or Leaf on the Wind as Encounters, and Lamb to the Slaughter or White Raven Onslaught as Dailies. There is an unwritten rule that if you do take WRO, whenever you use the power you need to let out a screech of “Whiiiite Raaaaven!”.
Edit: Tried to clarify the genre. Basically I did this as my first 4e character. Inspired by Lionwhyte from Brutal Legend, also Steel Panther, hence “glam”. But really, a lot of the abilities are more fitting a heavy metal band.
Warlord sounds like an epic Power Metal band name too. Like they should probably be found opening for Hammerfall or something.
Funnily enough we are considering doing a Pathfinder game where the entire party consists of bards that go through and battle demons and monsters through the power of rock. Think Spinal tap meets Brutal Legend meets DnD.
My neighbour was robbed on Sunday. I was home all of Sunday and didn’t notice a thing. WORST NEIGHBOUR EVAH.
That happened near us, and the coppers claim they jump over from our yard.
We were all here :-/
Convenient.
GTAV was still days away, man. Couldn’t have been involved before video games mentally conditioned me. That’s just science!
Practice.
I’d be practicing jumps on a bike if I were to practice any thing. 😛
Conclusion: You robbed his house in preparation for GTAV. Ban video games plz.
Apparently one time someone was brutally assaulted outside my house at 3am. I was awake on the computer so seeing the lights on the police knocked on my door thinking I’d be able to tell them something. They were astonished that I didn’t hear a thing, kept pointing at the footpath 20 metres away saying “it happened right there“.
D: Everyone’s hating on the po-po.
I remember one time living out at Keperra, I heard one of the neighbors across the road giving a bloodcurdling scream (after a lengthy period of indistinct bogan shouting/swearing that I’m perfectly capable of tuning out). Things got real quiet, and I could his this guy wailing, “Oh god! Someone please! Call the police!”
Roomies were huddled in the hallway when I went to go check outside and see what was going on (mobile in hand to, you know… call the police like he said) and were all, “What do we do?”
“Well. We call the police, obviously.”
Couldn’t see anything out the windows or through the front gate, so shrugged, gave the police as many details as I had and said, “Yeah, I’m not going outside to get any more than that though,” and they noted, “Probably doesn’t matter. There should be someone there already anyway, or a minute or two away from it. We know the place pretty well. Other neighbours called in when the shouting started.” A little further monitoring saw that cars did indeed turn up without sirens.
Maaaan, PSN’s new offerings a a letdown this week.
When do I get Fez for Vita??
Or Duke Nukem??????
whats up this month? havent checked…
Apart from Dragon Fantasy Book 2, I honestly can’t remember 🙁
Or maybe they still haven’t updated, thought that was last week, ooorrr the selection is pisspoor 🙁 🙁
I didn’t realise that Dark Souls II was coming out on PC too.
Also, that CE is really, really expensive.
Really? All I can find is that no price has been announced.
People were talking about it so I looked on EB. They probably have a placerholder price up (hopefully), because it was $160-$170.
https://ebgames.com.au/pc-164196-Dark-Souls-II-Collectors-Edition-PC
It will be a placeholder. Namco haven’t said anything about pricing yet.
Just went to preorder it. EB don’t even have it in the system yet.
… but it’s on their website :\
Another win for EB Games.It will be there if they restart their POS (which requires rebooting the computer). It will cause the system to connect to the main server and get all price changes, new SKUs etc.
Easier to add an item to the website than a live POS environment.
Cakesmith – Making the mysteries of the universe more boring since 1989.
So… tomorrow’s a safe bet, then?
Edit: Also, thanks for the info! Good to know, and I hereby wholeheartedly retract my EB bashing.
Yep.
Depending on your store they might do what we used to do:
Make a dummy pre-order under your name for a random item.
Mark your name down tomorrow in the daily diary.
Move money from dummy pre-order to wanted item.
Like mentioned, will depend on your store/how friendly you are with the staff but it’s what we used to do for people who really wanted collectors editions.
Err and cc @freezespreston or something…
@cakesmith, thanks. I’ll just go in tomorrow. That’ll be soon enough 🙂
The Taylist for 19/9/13! Brought to you by @lucifer9783!
R U Mine – Arctic Monkeys (requested by @sernobulus)
Ducktales – Cluster (requested by @shane)
Sabotage – Beastie Boys (requested by @cakesmith)
Kingdom – Devin Townsend (requested by @gutsoup)
Baggy Trousers – Madness (requested by @popdart5)
Will Do – TV on the Radio (requested by yours truly – and @rocketman it’s a great song!)
Search for the Hero – M People (requested by @tigerion, and in honour of Gary)
Last Kiss – Pearl Jam (requested by @freezespreston)
Dreams – Fleetwood Mac (requested by @rocketman)
The Chain – Fleetwood Mac (requested by @benny)
Sit on my Face – Monty Python (requested by @crazyguy1990)
Karma Police – Radiohead (requested by @crazyguy1990 as well)
King of the Rodeo – The Bamboos feat. Megan Washington (Just cos)
Rock el Casbah – Rachid Taha (also just cos)
Dirty Magic – The Offspring (requested by @scree)
http://t.co/MhNGIK5NgT
Enjoy! any late requests I can append to it
Awesome.
Upvote for Fleetwood Mac.
hey guys,
just sharing some love here… anyone in melb that hasnt got GTAV yet i can direct you to a store in tullamarine that has loads of copies in stock, ps3 and 360, for $60…just let me know!
Sharing love, eh?
http://www.twitter.com/Mythamphetamine/status/379391373142552576
Am I the only one that finds it odd you had that link ready to post. =P
aint nobody wanting a piece of THAT love…
That sounds really shady. =P
That sounds like a good deal. I paid $78 at Big W and I thought that was a good deal.
He said GTAV not Trials:Evo
lol
you know whats even shadier??? that they are AU copies not grey imports!
WTF? I paid $63 for the privilege of waiting mumble weeks for OzGameShop to send me a grey import copy. Feelin’ stupid now.
*twitch*
My resistance is crumbling
Feeling unusually grim today…
I normally feel a little grim, but today seems worse…
Thinking the last few weeks events are catching up to me…
AAAAnyway, i’ll always have gaming and alcoholism to resort to \o/
Played some more Sins of a Solar Empire last night…
Played for 4 hours and virtually got no where…
Also started playing Borderlands 2 again, starting a Gunzerker… haven’t gotten far, but am keen to do some multi of that (PC) if anyone is interested in the near future…
if all the cool kids aren’t to busy with GTAV
Give me a shut on Steam if you want to play a game. I haven’t levelled the turret guy yet.
You okay pixie?
ill send hugs stat.
Just stressed mang,
Been trying my best not to be sooky about it, and keeping high spirits, but i think it’s just getting to me today.
Due to my wife’s current mental state it’s been a plethora of sleepless nights, and still going to work the next day because we need money. Looking after her whenever she needs support, plus pretty much being the main cleaner/cook/dog walker… Sheez is just taking it’s toll…
But, as they say, tomorrow is another day, life moves on and old* Pixel will be A-OK
Hugs are always welcome though
*not that oldDude i cant possibly imagine how tough it is to providing so much support. Just remember she is worth it and it will get better
That is one thing i haven’t doubted at all, It’s tough, but it’ll be all worth it in the end
The cool kids might be busy but that still leaves me
Let me know if you want to play
BORDERLANDS 2: VAULT HUNTER EDITION – XBOX 360
I remember there being a problem with scarcity of this. I found one today for sale (second-hand) for $60. Anyone want it? I can pick it up for you, and (if you’ll be at the Can’d meat this weekend) bring it there.
Vault Hunter was easy. Loot Chest was the problem.
Ahhh, right. I obviously didn’t follow it that closely 😛
Buy it anyway, Borderlands is great fun
It’s not for me, I’m afraid.
I got bored one hour into Borderlands 1.
@shane only likes taunt cinematic experiences because writing.
That’s not entirely true. It’s mostly true, but then DARK SOULS.
This week seems to be the week myself and @sernobulus make the same joke within a minute of each other.
Freeze is just future Nob.
Gaze into the face of inevitability and despair Nob.
On the pus side, wife, kids and you are friends with awesome people and you turn out a really delightful person. although you already are.
He, pus.
Yeah, was thinking the same thing! We must be twins, or the same people, or witches!
QUICKLY, SOMEONE BURN THE WITCH.
All I have are yo’momma jokes and they’re not sufficiently high quality burns.
You know i can disclose a lot to people on the internet (see pretty much every twitter and TAY post from me in the last 2 and a half years) but I’m finding it a lot harder to blurt out feelings in the last few weeks. Maybe I’ m finally becoming a more normal person who doesnt spill a bowl full of emotions every 3 seconds. In any case its less tiring.
Are you in Canberra right now Rocketbuddy? Are you and @blaghman currently leaning on things!?
Not until tonight friend. and then the leaning shall commence.
He’s going to lean on me first, due to insufficient strength and/or lack of car.
Rockets, I’ve been feeling the same thing lately. Got these heavy thoughts I want to share, but won’t allow myself.
@kermitron
iOS 7 works fine on my iPhone 4S. I’m not noticing any lag 😀
Cool, though my wife upgraded since she’s at home and showed me a screencap of how messages look like now. Do not want. 🙁
Will probably still upgrade though. #sheeple
I actually really like it. Though I’m also a bit of a Jony Ive fanboy.
Apple’s evil plan to force obsolescence failed. Give it time. They’ll realise their mistake soon.
I don’t think I’ve updated my iOS or iTunes or firmware or anything for years. The phone and iTunes nag me about it all the time. I tell them to shut up and make me a sammich.
My phone has yet to ever successfully make me a sammich. 🙁
Nothing like sitting on the toilet, attending to business – when proceedings are interrupted by a gigantic fart that leaves you sitting in your own stench giggling like a little kid. I blame the superior acoustics of porcelain.
What business proceedings can possibly be interrupted by a f…
Oh, wait.
Save it for page 18.
Could sell it to any symphony orchestra with that catch phrase…
“Porcelain – superior acoustics,
please allow us to demonstrate
Here is a standard trombone
*trombone blows a tone*
and here, as demonstrated by my sexy assistant Nef, is a standard porcelain toilet bowl
*Farts, wall’s shake, things are falling of the shelfs*
Call now for a buy 1, get one free”
*wink, thumbs up and teeth gleam*
If I were a struggling actor stuck doing TV ads in my search for a big break, no matter how good the contact or how high the pay, there is no way in hell I would ever take on that role.
Playing a show tomorrow night, in case anyone happens to be in Canberra.
https://www.facebook.com/events/492016407550624/
Which one are you? Not seeing HQ in the list of bands… ?
Yeah, we’re not on the event page yet, only got the call about an hour ago. A few bands pulled out of the heat, so they’ve asked us and the other winner from our heat to play a “guest set”.
Guest set: 45min triangle solo.
Powerful stuff.
There’s also the Rage Against the Machine option where you just stand naked on the stage for the entire length of the set while feedback plays through the amps.
More cowbell please!
I’m going to regret commenting in that GTA5 and women article, I just know it.
Quick, add six spam and kiddy porn links to your comment so it goes into moderation, and no one replies to it. Then delete your Kotaku account and start a new one. Then move to another country and change your name. Cut your face for scarring, grow a big distracting beard, and affect a slight limp. Stoop so you’re no longer the same height, and get an eyepatch.
But I can’t grow a big beard 🙁
Then you are not a man. Do the rest, though, that’s good.
Didn’t even bother opening it. If you’re expecting political correctness, equality and inoffensive material from GTA you really need to find another industry to be involved in.
I think that’s a cop out. It’s not right to excuse sexism just because it’s expected. And with GTA, I think we are talking honest to god sexism here, rather than the satire type you see in something like Saints Row.
Damn straight it is because the GTA universe is a sexist place. But it’s it’s own universe and a creation and not real life. Don’t like it? Return the game and play something else.
Well, I disagree with your attitude, but I won’t get into it with you, lest either of us say something we’ll regret.
sigh i totally wish the amity affliction were touring in Townsville.
ITS MY PAGE NOW BITCHES EVERYONE HAS TO PRAISE ME OR SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES
ALL HAIL ROCKETS
HE LIKES FLEETWOOD MAC. BUT POINTS OFF BECAUSE TUSK IS THEIR BEST SONG
Yes.
Go Your Own Way
The Chain or Never Going Back Again.
ROCKETS ARE GLORIOUS
And I suppose Rocketman is pretty great too.
No.
You know what we haven’t done in a while?
The
@dc@redartifice@spaghett Last Played Song Game!Nine Inch Nails – The Becoming
Alan Wake – Old Gods of Asgard – The Poet And The Muse
Impeccable taste right there
3’s and 7’s- Queen’s of the Stone Age
Objects In The Rearview Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are – Meatloaf
Catch Your Dream — MouseRat
I’ve seriously had this stuck in my head for three days. XD
5000 candles in the wind and the pit are pretty great too
“bye bye lil sebastian, we will miss you in the saddest fashion”
Poets of the Fall (are anyone actually surprised at this stage?) – Skin
XX- angels
Can’t remember – That was a few days ago
‘SHIBUYA’ by Takeharu Ishimoto (from the ‘The World Ends With You’ soundtrack).
What A Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
Pure Awesome
Something off Lacuna Coil’s Dark Adrenaline – forget the name of the track.
M People – Search for the hero
Rebecca Black – Friday
(Because I like to recycle my own shit jokes).
Nine Inch Nails – With Teeth.
Falls on Me – Fuel.
that @rocketman guy is pretty rad, is he not?
is that praise enough to avoid the rocket wrath?!?!? oh god i hope so…
please dont hurt me please dont hurt me please dont hurt me.
I DONT WANNA GO BACK IN THE DARK ROOM WITH THE SPIDERS!!!!
*cries*
He is a terrible person with a super awesomely cute butt.
Well it sounds like at this point Sega is going to leave Atlus alone as its own thing, but Atlus will get access to Sega’s marketing and distribution channels. This seems like a good thing.
Now if they would just hurry up and announce Persona 5…
I’d prefer they make Persona 5 the bestestesesez Personas evrers, than hurry.
Plenty to keep me occupied til then.
Like a replay of P4G!!
They’ve been working on it for ages and were teasing an announcement recently, but Index has been in bankruptcy since June so they probably had to wait and see where they were going to end up first.
It’s TGS now, right? Surely it’s the perfect time for some hype bombs.
Sega’s acquisition of Index isn’t finalized until November though. But yeah, this would seem like a good time to do it.
I am eagerly waiting for P5 😀 Give us something soon Atlus!
so yeah….
theres a GTA V spoiler in the comments section of Serrels’ “Where Is The Thing That Terrifies Me?” article.
what a fucking twat.
Edit: made it a bit clearer about who did what in the where.
EDIT: We can’t @ Serrels any more? 🙁
@markserrels
I feel a bit bad about that.
I mean, I dunno if that is a spoiler for Mark or not, but it would absolutely suck having to take all the spoiler bullets to remove some spoilery jerks comments.
He has to read ALL the comments, not just ones he’s tagged in?
Dude. That man is a fucking hero. c.c
Whoa, lucky I skipped over that comment!
Only if people draw attention to it (reporting and possibly downvoting it). There was a time where he took an apparently massive Game of Thrones spoiler bullet for us :'(. Whatta guy <3
Twitter and kotaku are different tags
Thanks for the warning! Won’t be reading that one.
At first I was like “how is that a spoiler?”
Then I was like
oh, there’s 2 meanings of that word. I bet it’s not the watersport.I had to re-read that twice, cause I thought you said “Serrels just posted a spoiler”
fixed. sort of.
Just a heads up, looks like the comment has been deleted
That’s the power of the report button
DARK SOULS!
Just beat Seath. Took a few tries, many of which involved falling off of the invisible paths in the Crystal Caves even though I knew exactly where I had to run (protip: it’s the sparkly bits). Turns out the trick to not getting cursed is to wear a pretty dress. The Antiquated Dress set that you get for unlocking the DLC is the most curse resistant item that I had. So I was rolling around in that pretty white dress while alternatively burning and stabbing Seath. Good times.I really like in Persona 4 Golden how the visual equips are separate to the stat increasing equips.
That way I can be in drag ALL THE TIME!
But the pretty princess was both practical and pretty!
Seath is a massive pain in the arse and bordering on impossible until you equip curse resist. Then he’s almost a joke.I didn’t equip curse resistance, and once I stopped trying to cut off his tail, I found him really damn easy. Of course, I was super overlevelled as a Pyro, so that may have helped.Switching out Hidden Body for Combustion gave me more than enough fire power to just wreck his face.Just watched Star Trek III cos good.
Never realised that I saw all of the Star treks on teli growing up and don’t think I ever saw them all in one sitting.
I saw 4 at the cinema but I was so young I may have been escorted out for misbehaving by my mother…unsure.
I enjoyed that one. Disliked Voyage Home even though it was a huge hit. Actually didn’t mind Final Frontier and Undiscovered Country was pretty good too.
Wrath of Khan is still the best and I’ve never actually seen The Motion Picture but my dad says I’m not missing much.
Voyage is really funny, not a single phaser is fired and there’s no baddie at all.
It’s so goofy, I’m suprised it did well, but I guess it was needed after two over-serious films.
I like em all, the first one just really drags along.
There’s a fanfare when Kirk first sees the Enterprise that never seems to end.
Watched the new one last night (Into Darkness). Was pretty decent. I’m not much of a Trekkie, to be honest.
I wouldn’t go so far as to call myself a Trekkie, but i’ve been watching it for as long as I can remember.
Trekkies do stuff like have Klingon themed weddings and stuff D:
So, I just pushed a mower without any petrol halfway down a bloody big paddock and back to the shed.
How’s everyone else’s Thursday going?
i did something similar.
but i was going uphill
Edit: in the rain
Edit 2: and it wasn’t a lawn mower, IT WAS A GIANT BOULDER.
Edit 3: seriously though, that sucks man.
It’s all good, mate.
Helped myself to a beer, and am about to have some lunch.
Also, my dog is laying on my lap, on his back.
He gets comfortable in the most unusual of ways. 🙂
see, now I’m jealous. I’m stuck in an office & you have beer, food and a puppy…
But offices aren’t all bad:
http://global3.memecdn.com/BEST-OFFICE-EVER_o_67942.jpg
HOLY HELL I WANT MY OFFICE FULL OF BABY PANDAS!!!!
can you make this happen for me, Pixel? PLEEEAASSEEE!?!?!?!?!
I’ll have to get in touch with one of my “guys” to see what i can do…
I’ll just have to get in touch with the government about certain Animal Regulations and possibly get them amended…
I’M ON IT
You’re the best viking ever!
(I’m sorry Erik, we had our fun, but I’ve met someone better)
I’m hoping I’m not the guy you need to touch.
@rize
I need an adult?
AWWWWWWWWWW!
He’s way too old to be called a puppy.
We’ve had him for nearly nine years.
Dog = puppy, regardless of age.
its just a dumb habit of mine.
I call all dogs ‘dog’. No need for names, it’s easier that way.
That’s my approach to humans.
As a cat person, I just substitute most peoples’ references to ‘dogs’ with ‘cats’ and the world immediately becomes a much better place.
Cat person. Introvert. Left-hander. Genius.
So outnumbered by this world.
Modest too.
Well, I wasn’t going to say anything… but since you did, that’s the perfect excuse. SO modest!
I’m going to a training course and learn how to name-drop,
then my journey to the dark side will be completein the name of self-improvement. Because I like to, y’know, challenge myself? (Visualize said in breathy, airheaded tones.)I had my monthly check up and lifted a heavy log..days are numbers with nanes
Blergh. I hate helicopters in GTA. I crash every time. And the next thing I’ve got to do for the flight school is a speed run and I can’t even do the regular run in a timely fashion. XD
I haven’t touched the flight school.
My memories of the equivalent in GTA: San Andreas on PC are still too raw!
Augh. Spent so long unable to fly high enough in the small plane to go through the rings. Eventually found out that there’s a ‘retract landing gear’ button that makes you start flying properly.
That stinkin’ flight school, man.
I’ve only tooled around in the Atomic Blimp so far.
I landed it on the Capital Records (or GTA equivalent), jumped out and managed to swing the camera around just in time to see it slowly slip off the edge into the street below.
Last I saw Franklin, he was still hanging out up there.
I flew a plane
I wasn’t very good.
I find planes fun to fly now, helicopters have made my list. Whenever I see one now I’m going to shake my fist!
I have had to land helicopters on 2 occasions. The first time went fine, so long as “took five minutes to descend ten metres” counts as fine. The second time I clipped something on the way down, managed to flip the helicopter in its entirety, and while on a spin I jumped out and fell 2 metres to the ground (coathangering myself on a pole on the way), only to turn around and see that the helicopter had landed itself perfectly, and I just three-quarter killed myself for no reason.
Shameless self promotion (you have taught me well @shane) but there are a ton of cheap Early Bird flight deals to Europe just been released. If anyone is planning a trip to Europe in the next 6-12 months, now would be a great time to drop me a line.
EDIT – Hawaii as well.
Also @rocketman is awesome. Especially since he is coming to Canberra this weekend (enough praise?)
I didn’t even have to self promote yesterday, @bdkiaf did it for me.
Thats just showing off really 😛
https://www.facebook.com/HarleyQuinnHC
https://www.facebook.com/HWTDubbo.Orange.Parkes
See, I can do it too 🙂
why are you at the bottom of the globe?
is this some sort of secret travel agent hierarchy? the newest initiates start at the bottom, getting tea for everyone, being used as a footstool etc before moving on & becoming acceptable as true travel agents?
coz thats how it works in the public service.
I like to think of it as the 4 Compass points being the most important 😀
North obviously goes to the owner. However East and West are the only 2 people in the 3 offices that have been here for less time than I have. So most important in the future maybe
Canadia?
Because, y’know, that’s Europe and all.
Probably in the next month or two. Gotta keep the 2 major destination continents separate somehow
Waitwaitwait are there any plans to dress up as a glam band and sing The Final Countdown when the sale is nearing its end?
No!
Well… maybe…
On second thoughts no
Anyone see this? Crazy thing is she sounds pretty good!
Possessed little girl! D:
Well, she certainly has the mindless, earsplitting screaming that is Metal down to a tee.
I kid, I kid. Only half of Metal is like that. Some of it is actually good 😛
Mate. I’ll wreck you.
Not what I expected… 😛
I did come across that earlier, but I have no idea why that would have been.
Is Rocketman rad enough to come to the EB Expo? Who’s going to that anyway? I hear Rize is. That’s cool. Are you cool?
I am not cool. :'(
Actually I might go, I dunno. Probably not, but I might get peer pressured into it. >.>
Do it.
Oh, @rize is going? I wonder if it’s too late to get a refund?
In all seriousness though I wasn’t planning on going.I was thinking of but between @rize going and you not than I’m afraid there’s not enough raditude to bother anymore.
ಥ_ಥ
If I can get in for free again I might check it out. Sure ain’t worth forty bucks though.
Yep, I am. Decided it was a good excuse to go to Sydney and
drinkdo stuff, and myself and my wife get to go check out the Doctor Who exhibition too!GTA Easter Egg:
Oh shiiiiit.I had to talk myself into clicking that spoiler, and:
aw shit son, it is so on!Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!!!JB are selling Kinects + 5 games for $70?
Huh.
Not something I would use so it would be an unnecessary waste of $70, but I’m surprised it’s going so cheap.
Hey, @mrtaco – email Blags about that thing. Unless you’re not home yet. But y’know. Read this now and leave for home soon like a normal person, then bear it in mind while you’re traveling or something. Because you asked us to remind you. 🙂
Damn, I was just about to remind him. Good thing I refreshed.
While I’m here: @alexpants You should come to the meat.
@ambroseiv: Peer pressure, peer pressure, peer pressure.
Is Gooky Canbernese?
He’s a Sydneysider, but was considering coming down.
Well I’ll be…
Which one’s your local climbing gym, @mrtaco? (If you’re the one who climbs… my memory is failing)
Well, my local one is technically Villawood.
But St Leonards is the one that I frequent 😛
Interesting…
My local is Brookvale, but I like to go to St Leonards when I can (and St Peters on the odd occasion).
We should organise a climbing meat and get Serrels in on the action.
I was in-transit, but now I am home. And it’s dinnertime, so I’ll do it after. Hopefully.
Thanks 😛
Home. Start of 4 days off.
It’s beautiful *sniff*
Time to buy some more games!
PROTIP: Don’t bust open one of those airwick airfresh freshair freshwickairfresh things and expect to come out unharmenfgd
So, yesterday my Nana, 85 years old, who I love dearly got stomach pains and had to be taken to hospital. By 1pm we’d found out a blood clot had moved into her stomach and her bowel was dying. I can accept this, she’s very old, my Pa died five years ago and she said she’s ready to go. I got to go say goodbye to her last night, it was very emotional but something I needed.
I get home, and some piece of…. you know… has broken into my house. Whoever it is has stolen my phone, my laptop, the laptop bag which contained a Uni book and a few other things. I just can’t f***ing believe it. I didn’t need this. That laptop was a scholarship gift from University as I needed one but cannot afford it at the moment.
THEN the Insurance company, tells Dad he has to pay a minimum 500 dollars + they’ll double his insurance costs next year. So, 1000 dollar laptop + 399 phone (SGS2) and a Textbook 82, well, he’s told me he’d rather not claim. I guess I kinda understand, them being pensioners and all that but I can’t help feeling cheated, especially since he was the one who left the garage door open all night accidentally.
My Nana is still holding in there, still alive but slipping. I’ve lost something I really needed for Uni and now have to find a way to get a new one. What a goddamn world.
This week is f***ed. I’m sure as hell hoping next week is better.
Sympathies and anger.
(Edit: Insurance companies… Tyler Durden had the right idea?)
Indeed, already thought about Tyler…
Right now my anger over the laptop is very subdued, waiting for the eventual call about Nana.
Escaping reality usually does it for me.
Avoidance: The best coping mechanism.
(…Until it’s not.)
Good luck.
*hugs*
Losing someone is never easy. Having that extra crap piled on top must be frustrating as hell.
Never rains, it pours. Not much to do but beam my patented positive juju your way, my friend. Shit has a funny way of working out. Just remember that.
More DARK SOULS!
I wasn’t sure where to go after Seath and Freeze thought that the DLC would wreck me. So I went and killed the Sanctuary Guardian and Artorias. I heard magic is pretty strong.words…
http://au.ign.com/articles/2013/09/19/tgs-monster-hunter-frontier-g-announced-for-vita
@sernobulus @jimu
Dunno what this one is and I’m not super excited but I’m just happy that there’s Monster Hunter on Vita. This means there’s likely to be more in the future!
MH on Vita!
Without putting my opinion in either way – I really wish this whole women in video games thing would just shut the fuck up for 5 minutes.
EDIT: To clarify, I’m not saying I agree of disagree, nor that there aren’t issues or they shouldn’t be discussed – I just miss gaming being gaming. Not this endless cross examination of sexism, racism, violence, whatever. Shit’s getting old. I play games to get away from that shit – there’s enough in every other avenue of life.
Hngh.
/endrant
Same. I don’t give a shit either way, I just wish I didn’t have to see it everywhere :l
(Before anyone thinks how could I not give a shit, I don’t give a shit about 99% of things, and wish 99% of everything would go away so I don’t have to see it)
What? No. We should strangle content creators rights to free expression and force them to conform to a checklist of inoffensiveness and all inclusiveness until everything is a shapeless colourless blob so no one can feel offended or left out.
The fuck is wrong with you?
Just feels more and more like a shitty competition to see who can get offended the quickest. That’s what fucking old people do. Get offended by everything. Bah.
FUCKING A
You don’t like a thing, fuck off and do another thing, maybe that things not for you!
I should write articles about how there aren’t enough crossovers in sports. Comics do it, why don’t sports?!
Mentioned on Twittererererer, will mention here.
Apparently I made a Kotaku AU crew for Rockstar Social Club a while back, which is gaining a few members due to GTA V.
Feel free to join here: http://socialclub.rockstargames.com/crew/kotaku_australia
Probably gonna bump up a few people to higher ranks etc. Let me know if you want a promotion.
EDIT: Apparently Shiggy made the KotAU one, then passed over control when he made the Potaku one. Which would explain why I can’t remember making one 😛
I saw that there were some in Kotaku Australia and some in what I assume is Potaku.
MAKE UP YOUR MIND PEOPLE!
(i.e. I don’t know which one to join for shenanigans :P)
I’m in both!
Fuck Telstra are useless! When my friends moved at the start of June they were without internet for literally a month (dunno if anyone remembers my drawing of the pig with the Telstra logo on it with the two dicks around its arse) because they’re so friggen incompetent, and it looks like once again Telstra are going to fuck us around backpedaling on dates and installation and that when we get the house on Tuesday.
I fucking hope it doesn’t take as long as it took them last time. I’m expecting it to be even harder to actually get them off their arses and actually do something considering it actually takes an ounce of effort to set up NBN than it does adsl.
Upvote for using almost as many fuck’s as The Wire, but if I’m honest… you really needed a couple of dozen more.
Having had internet drama for the last 7-ish weeks, I hope you get it sorted out with a minimum of troubleAfter a couple of weeks of gaining weight :(, I have lost 1.4 kilos this week. Yay!
Should I buy DuckTales: Remastered on Live?
I would have bought it on the PSN if it worked on Vita *fist shake*If you have to buy it, you should probably buy it on PC. 🙂
*MASTER RACE AIR-FIST*
I’ve heard it’s getting a retail release – though apparently only the Wii U one actually comes on a disc, while the PS3 one is just a box with a download code :/
Only seen the box art showing a US version though, hopefully it comes out here too.
Oh wow. Hiroshi Yamauchi has died.
Always with the get…
He always looked like he’d died about 30 years ago and had been reanimated with whatever godforsaken voodoo is used to keep Richie Beneaud on the air.
I don’t think I’ve ever been particularly saddened by any kind of “celebrity” or otherwise famous death before. But I’ve actually shed few tears after having heard this. Probably helped along by all the talk I’ve seen from others pointing out just how big and influential he was, not just in terms of Nintendo but on games as a whole. And the realisation that without him, my life would be completely unlike what it is now. The room sitting behind me filled with a ridiculous amount of Nintendo gear is a testament to that.
Watching a doco about the Jack Daniels factory on 7mate.
It’s actually kind of fascinating to see how they make the barrels.
War Thunder people: have any of you tried the Steam pack? Apparently it comes with some single-player campaigns as well as premium currency, I’m curious whether the campaigns are any good.
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/09/the-internets-dirtiest-malware-tricks-infographic/
This is basically just an advertisement right?
Basically?
The fact that ZoneAlarm made it and they claim that 71% of everyone don’t buy a firewall should tip you off to that. Hint: everything running XP SP2 or better has a firewall.
The thing about 1 in 4 machines having no AV protection is basically true though. It was one of the main reasons for building it into Windows 8.
“Vulnerabilities detected in your Flash player install. Please click here to install malware.”
Updated for everyone:
Not only did they steal my laptop, my phone and my textbook…
They also stole my SONS tablet (a 99 dollar cheapie) and his Nintendo 3DS.
So, my faith in people is destroyed…
Id there anyway we can use your friend code to find out who did it? Like have Cash convertors be on the lookout for a particular friend code?
No idea, don’t know if he ever wrote down his friends code 🙁
I can handle my stuff getting stolen, I’m an adult, I’ll deal with it. But they stole from my son. I gave him my Asus tablet I got last year tonight, to replace it, so in a way the burglar did him a favour I suppose? *shrug*
That’s messed up man I’m sorry to hear that 🙁 I wish there was a way to track the stuff that was stolen. There’s been way too many thefts lately, I actually caught a guy trying to break into our work van, I came out to get something and he was rummaging through our tools. He got a nice lift from the police and turns out he had been stealing tools then showing up on people’s doorsteps saying he will do work cheap for them.
I know it’s probably not much help now, but maybe write down the serial numbers of electronics and that. If things show up anywhere it could be easier to point out if it was a) stolen and b) yours.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=151201980 so… this was greenlit.
Not gonna lie, this looks kind of awesome.
swaying junk animations. GOTY.
I think it’s been on Xbox Indie Games in the US for awhile, I’ve seen several Let’s Play videos on it. Achievement Hunter used it for one of their versus vids.
Whenever I see Lifehacker, I can’t help but read it as Lifeinvader. I might as well live in Los Santos now.
*creeps in from the shadows*
Good evening..
*creeps back into the shadows*
*steps into shadows*
Get over here!
*Drags ColdCamV back out*
OH GOD IT BURNS!
Maybe I shouldn’t set everything on fire before I do it… :\
But you can’t set fire!..to the rain!
You can only watch it pour as… I touch your face.
Awwwkwarrd..do it again
Oh, good.
You’ll be able to see this, then (Not Safe For Sanity):
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/6682/horseay.jpg
From the site I found it on:
Now turn and cough *cough* you feel that? I’m elbow deep in your poop shoot and you lost your head
During my uni days, I used to hang with a vet student at our residential college who once brought in these rubber gloves she used out on the training farms.
“Dude. Those gloves are… long. Just how far inside an animal are you going with that?”
*thoughtful look at gloves* “Preeeeetty far.”
“Birthing and stuff, right?”
“Sometimes. More often? Pooper.”
“You didn’t go into this because you love hanging out with puppies and kittens and wanted to be around them to give them wuvs and cuddles, did you?”
“Hah. I grew up on a farm. I knew what I was getting into.”
What the fuck. I finally remember to go and e-mail blaghman, but then I can’t get into my got damn hotmail? Well, I can. But first I have to submit to their demands to give them my phone number. Fuck off, my phone has nothing to do with e-mails you cocks.
Security reasons…NSA security reasons
Honestly, them having your phone number comes in pretty handy so you can be texted an access code if you lose control of the account. I’ve had to recover my account from spambots a couple of times, and I use really secure passwords.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-sexist-video-game-problems-even-bigger-than-breasts/
Saw the title and thought it might be a funny but insightful look into the whole thing. I mean its Cracked.
Instead it’s a raging anger filled rant that sounds insanely bitter without even a writers name attached to it. There’s absolutely zero humour to it and it seems to confuse emotions with weakness (ie: Ellie crying. Who the fuck wouldn’t in that situation? I certainly would). It even calls the father/daughter mechanic of Bioshock games as sexist which as a father to 2 girls I find offensive, which is saying a lot because its incredibly hard to offend me.
This whole thing is getting ridiculously out of hand on the Internet and I’m completely over it. Yes I would agree that there’s issues but they’re so drowned out by the pointless screaming about stupid shit that nothing’s ever going to be done about what matters.
It’s the ‘boy who cried wolf’ I tellsya. People get this weird idea in their head that it’s possible to care about all things all the time, not realizing that compassion fatigue is a very real thing even for those of us who aren’t emotionally-stunted, cynical bastards.
I haven’t visited Cracked regularly for a long time but I only tend to read articles, especially video game articles, if they’re written by John Cheese.
I wasn’t so much offended as I was bored reading that.
Tonight was good. Smoked some weed and just sat and chilled with my neighbour for like an hour and a half. We don’t get many opportunities to just sit and talk about life and shit. Would do it again.
In related news, smoking it has nothinggggg on eating it. I still feel like it’s safe to stand up. Weak.
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Ever since I’ve heard Medical Love Song, I’ve been unable to get “I got snail tracks in my anus” out of my head.
So, I just finished the main story of GTA V..
So I took option C with Devon and that was the death wish and saved Michael & Trevor, which is what I thought was the way to go, I love Michael & Trevor, they’re great characters. I’m tempted to go back and see if I can replay some of the heists and plan them differently to see if I get a bigger cut or if I get a cut at all (the Merryweather ship heist, I lost 20 million since Lester made me give back the weapon so rude..So yeah, Rockstar once again has delivered, I really loved GTA IV, but we all know it had its fatal flaws, it seems in GTA V they have taken those and vastly corrected them, which makes me damn happy. No mandatory bowling outings, or darts, or boating or helicopter trips with juiced up or stoned out of their minds people.
Game of the year for me, I don’t care for any other game coming out no matter how good it is, GTA has been my favourite franchise of all time.
I must also say, for me picking up a console solely for a game and not having been a console user is almost a decade, it controls amazingly on the PlayStation where I think GTA should be played.
Aside from a few graphical downsides due to the hardware, I think it looks fantastic on 7 year old hardware.
I seriously cannot wait for an expansion like GTA IV got and GTA Online.
Also another thing I noticed I could play GTA V for hours on end, where as Saints Row IV I kept finding myself getting bored of the missions and same old shit every side mission of hack this shoot that collect this..
Also it’s now my all time favourite GTA, I thought Rockstar would never top Vice City, they did in every aspect apart from the soundtrack (personal preference) would’ve liked a custom radio station so I could have my own tunes =( also not enough talk back radio, I have thought it’s mostly been pretty weak (apart from Just or Unjust in GTA IV) since San Andreas which had some amazing talk back Gardening with Maurice was always a favourite of mine, heh.
TL;DR, amazing game, 10/10, game of the year/this generation consoles, etc etc..
Damn these credits go for ages.. I’ve managed to type all this whilst watching the credits, wow..
Oh man, my copy is still weeks away /o\
Now that you have a console you should try other console exclusives.
If you’re still in an open world game mood try Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption. I hear it’s good. 🙂
I have RDR and have played a bit, it’s not grabbing me 🙁 I mean it’s good but I don’t feel the want to play it like I do GTA V
I picked up GTA IV, L.A. Noire & Max Payne 3 yesterday for like 40 bucks at JB heh. Despite owning all three on Steam and finished GTA IV 3 times with 180+ hours and L.A. Noire Twice with 50+ hours and Max Payne 3 once, I thought it was a good investment.
I didn’t read your spoiler because I’m only 7-8 hours in, but I already like it more than Vice City. It’s got the same feel to it but everything has been upgraded. I played tennis last night. Tennis. Because there’s a tennis court in my backyard so why not. Enjoyed the hell out of it.
Good call, my spoiler is pretty much just about the final part of the game.
I haven’t played golf or anything yet.. I did Yoga, Michael fails at that hahaha.
Just gotta figure out how i’m gonna get 150 million to buy the country club heh.
Tecmo Koei confirmed Atelier Escha & Logy for western release \o/ And it sounds like unlike Ayesha, they’re not going to half-ass it and are going to be dual audio this time.
This is awesome news as from what I’ve heard, it’s one of if not the best PS3 Atelier game.
Started messing around with some Skyrim Mods. Found an unarmed & unarmoured mod and a couple of other ones. Started a new save and got up to punching my first dragon to death. However I’ve encountered a small bug. The part where you are supposed to absorb your first dragon soul, nothing happens. I’ve tried turn all my mods off and that still doesn’t help. I think in gonna have to mess around with the console commands.
I modded Skyrim and then it updated and then all of the ground was black, and my first thought was that it was being racist.
You have a racist computer! So very racist!
On the bright side I have so far punched a giant and a dragon to death! \o/
Next? A giant dragon! Or a giant riding a dragon!
DARK. SOULS. 2.
Getting off work early today to go and upgrade my pre-order! \o/
Not really going to be thinking about anything else today.
You have an obsession. Glad to see it’s a good one.
It’s true.
Oh god. Read this, thought ‘what pre-oreder’.
Searched internet, spent money.
So many pretty things!
OMGOMGOMGOMG!!!
THIS WEEK’S HUMBLE WEEKLY BUNCDLE IS ALL OF THE ‘X’ SPACE GAMES!!!
OMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!
Except the new one…
I haven’t really heard of this franchise before. So it’s good then?
To me there’s only one X.
Well, there was X-scape too. But that was a digidownload, baw 🙁
Why do youtube comments now read from oldest > newest?
It was already painful due to the actual content, but now it’s like they’re trying to stop me altogether.
You read the comments on Youtube? Oh dear.
It’s like it gives me a chance to reminisce about high school, but then I can just close the video when the stupidity gets to be too much.
The new iOS update sure is nice, glad to see apple didn’t balls that up! \o/
BIOSHOCK INFINITE + 1 + 2 FOR $20 ON AMAZON! (Yes, I’m yelling)
Gutsoup’s GTA V tip #7
Do not engage in fist fights with sharks, it will not end well. (but does net you a trophy for being killed by a shark)
Not T enough.
WIRED INTERNETS \o/
BEYOND: TWO SOULS!
looking forward to that one.
BEYOND: DARK SOULS TWO
Attempted flight school last night.
It was raining.
Made it through the first ring then flipped the plane and crashed.
Fuck flight school.
You should play GTAV instead.
Any Brisbanites checked out the Brisbane Festival yet? I’m heading to the Spiegeltent tonight and I’m not quite sure what to expect.
Spiegeltent is cool, really nice in there, very surprising, also don’t forget to try one of the many exotic beers.
The preferred nomenclature is “Briswegian”.
Never heard of Briswegian being used before. I am familiar with Brisbanner, which is a horrible name that no one shoud ever use.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/09/19/the-walking-dead-co-writers-mark-of-the-ninja-designer-founding-new-studio.aspx
Interesting, Sean Vanaman, lead writer on The Walking Dead season one has left Telltale. So has Jake Rodkin. (Who used to be a regular on the Adventure Gamers forum. XD) I can’t wait to see what these guys make, but hope it doesn’t impact the quality of The Walking Dead season two either.
I’d hope that by now Season Two is pretty much written… weren’t they aiming for a release of part one this year?
Still got an entire season of Fables to get through though. Article says that he’s contributed to the season too, so that’s good. Really looking forward to see what these guys make at their own studio though!
@sughly: More details on The Vanishing of Ethan Carter adventure game. Can’t wait to play this! http://www.gameinformer.com/games/the_vanishing_of_ethan_carter/b/pc/archive/2013/09/19/the-astronauts-release-first-screens-from-upcoming-horror-game.aspx
Coooooool
Finished season one of The Killing, btw. So damn good. Can’t wait to start season two tonight!
Read that they should be rleasing the GTA V companion app for android and PS Vita soon, I went to get it on my android only to find it’s not out yet 🙁
Thanks for the blimp, man. I look forward to sailing the majestic contraption over Los Santos!
Is the blimp that comes with the game a DLC code?
If so, I might have one to give away soon too… my man cave gets wireless for my PC and 3DS but not for consoles.
Yeah, you’ve got to redeem it from the SEN store or whatever they call it these days!
Only a 100kb download though. You can’t run an ethernet cable to the PS3?
It’s not worth buying a cable and running it 20m through the house for that. I am willing to accept that there will be enough other activities in the game that I can survive without a blimp.
Oh, the humanity!
Can’t you do it online at work?
I know Sony has a webstore but I’m not sure about Xbox
It sounds like a lot of work. Is it even possible to download it onto a USB and take it home?
no worries, have fun slowly flying places & looking at things 😛
Can you jump out mid air, parachute down and watch it crash from a-far?
Wait, don’t spoil. I’ll be trying this myself. XD
just don’t forget to bring a parachute 😛
D.C.’s ADVENTURE GAME PAGE 15!
Favourite adventure game?
The correct answer is Day of the Tentacle.
‘fraid not, though it’s certainly up there. FULL THROTTLE! GABRIEL KNIGHT! GRIM FANDANGO! 😀
Downvote for being wrong. 😛
I do love Day of the Tentacle though. XD
I feel like I could… TAKE ON THE WORLD!
The Dig.
Pretty hard to go past The Walking Dead.
Also have very much love for Ace Attorney series, The Dig, Fate of Atlantis.
Anna’s Quest looks like it might be all right too. But I don’t think that one will ever come out.
Machinarium.
#Nostalgia glasses activate# I’m a young-un so I’m going to pick the very first adventure game I ever played: Broken Sword on Playstation. If you’ve ever played it,
you know how freaking hard that goat puzzle is in the Irish castle. Now imagine trying to do that on Playstation with a controller. D:I loved Broken Sword. There’s a new one coming out next month, in case you didn’t know!
Was that the 3D one that they managed to Kickstart or something else entirely?
2.5D one, 2D backdrops with 3D characters!
I would probably go fate of atlantis
There is also a special place in my heart for the original kings quest
Hard to say favourite, so I’m going to ignore your question.
The first adventure game I can think that sunk its hooks into me was Maniac Mansion on the NES. Great memories of that game!
That was my first adventure game too! D:
@freezespreston, @strange: Have safe trips down to Canberra, my pals! Have a good weekend too!
Oh, I see how it is. Wish them a safe trip but not me.
Jerk.
But I know these people! You could be a sentient A.I. for all I know! Sentient A.I.’s are trouble!
Well I’m travelling down with Freeze so you effectively just cancelled out your well wishes for him.
Yeah. Think about that for a while.
Are you the in-car GPS system? D:
Please, I am the DJ. I was up late last night making a rad mix tape cassette. Can’t wait to play it!
My feelings are hurt.
Have a safe trip butthead
Why aren’t you coming, huh!?
He’s feeling guilty.
He knows the reason.
I do?
Imma HIT you MAN.
Isn’t that more of a reason to go than not though?
@Alexpants @mattpants
So… you’re coming, then. Awesome.
THE GAAAAAAME!
Oh yeah, that too! 😛
Quiet, you.
Pft. Flights are WAY safer than driving, I’m more likely to die than the two of them combined.
So much jerk.
Clearly they don’t have D.C. as their pilot then. GTA tells me I suck at flying. XD
Oh Hi there!
I didnt get out of bed yesterday due to a Whole Brain migraine! /o\
Minor headache today\o/
How is everyone else?
I don’t get ’em often, but migraines hit me for six.
I can still remember the first time I ever had one – I was in my mid-twenties and up until that point, I always thought people who complained about them were simply experiencing a very severe headahce, and should probably just take some pills and stop being such sooks.
Then I had one (or what they told me was one), and I actually checked myself into hospital because I thought I was dying from a brain tumour or anneurysm or something. Nope, apparently that level of pain and dizziness and pain and nausea and pain and tunnel/spotty/static vision and pain is normal for a migraine.
So yeah. Now I know that younger me who thought migraine-sufferers are just sooks? That me, is a dick who will/has got his come-uppance.
@shane You are confirmed for an appearance tomorrow at @blaghman’s right? Right?!?
Yeah, pretty much. I have a whole box of crap I want to give away, so I guess I’ll be there for a bit.
More accurately: Mrs Shane and I plan to be there from 3pm to 4:30ish.
Edit: As if I’d miss out on all those
streetpassesnerdpasses.Edit 2: WHY DO YOU ASK? *suddenly paranoid*
Excellent.
I have no evil scheme…for reals…
Although if you happen to bring a copy of Peaceful Tomorrows I hear money can be exchanged for goods and services and I happen to have money.
I’ll bring everything I have, but the order I placed last week hasn’t arrived yet. Fingers crossed for today/tomorrow morning :\
Edit: and you still have money? Even after Disney Infinity?
I bought 4 disc packs the other day and only got doubles. That was the realisation that it was now burning money.
EDIT: Maybe you should be paranoid Shane. Be very paranoid….
I’m going to factory reset my phone and update it for you tonight so it will be good to go tomorrow!
Went to the opening of the Vikings exhibit at the Maritime Museum on Darling Harbour last night. Was pretty cool! They did speeches and things on the harbour then a Viking boat came sailing in and docked and a bunch of Viking reenactors had a battle. Was fun!
The museum itself is pretty cool too. Never really been interested in Vikings, if I’m honest, but still pretty cool seeing some of the stuff. Couldn’t get a go of the interactive kiosk thing that my company did because there was too many people… so, I guess that’s a good thing (I was just hoping it wasn’t going to crash or something :P)
Did you bring a date? 😀
;_;
That’s a yes?
SO YOU DID GO ON A DATE!
Why spin a leek when you can do it while headbanging.
Thanks internet.
Okay, I take back anything nice I said about this new updates. I’m no longer being notified when I get calls / messages / tweets. Good work apple. /o\
Mines working fine. Must be your passion fingers 😛
Edit: Welp. Reply fail.
@freezespreston — regarding your comment on the Cracked sexism article… it’s ridiculous. People shout sexism or racism over the stupidest of things, complete non-issues, and it undermines the serious problems.
I have a story for you, but it’s long and rant-y:
I was on a bus down to Wollongong last Saturday and two separate people, woman in her 60’s and a guy in his 50’s, were heckling and abusing the bus driver so relentlessly — the woman was just a cow, treated him with total contempt, but the guy spent about 25 minutes constantly walking up to the front of the bus “Do you know how to drive mate? Where are you from mate? Do you have a licence over in Ghana? South Africa? Brazil? Nigeria? Where are you from, mate? This isn’t a safari mate, keep your eyes on the road! This isn’t the Serengeti, you’ve gotta watch the road mate! Fucking bus companies, they just put you poor blokes behind the wheel and don’t even tell you what you’re doing, it’s sad the way this country is going.”.
Then calling out to the 20-odd teenagers on the bus, going down to the beach: “You kids watch, this is only gonna get worse with Tony Abbott! This guy doesn’t even know what he’s doing, fucking country, on a downhill slide!”
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The driver was getting so stressed and distracted that pulling into a stop, he clipped the front corner of a car parked right up against the bus zone — silly mistake, but I felt terrible for him and given all the abuse he was copping I wasn’t surprised. The guy in his 50’s runs up to the front of the bus “Mate! Mate! You just hit that car! What the fuck are you doing? Mate! Stop the bus, stop the bus! (it was already stopped, pulled into the bus zone) Great! Fucking great, now I’m going to be late! How long are we going to be stuck here?”
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The bus driver was shaking, totally distressed — not angry, just totally apologetic and acting like it was his fault, “what can I do to make this better?!” type thing. It was terrible. Completely and utterly disgraceful, and then under the guise of being supportive for the rest of the bus ride the guy would yell “SETTLE DOWN MATE! RELAX! JUST RELAX! FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!” (anything but relaxing) and continued to make (what I’m sure he thought were clever) references to Africa, immigrants, etc. and most of the bus were laughing along with him, except for 2-3 middle-aged women who were looking away and trying to avoid it all.
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I was sitting directly behind the drivers partition with the rest of the bus and twice I said he should go back and sit down because it wasn’t helping and he didn’t argue with me, but it hardly stopped him either.
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In the end, I recorded video of the last 13-14 minutes of the bus trip on my phone (which, fortunately and unfortunately, wasn’t the worst of it) and sent it into the bus depot with an email explaining what happened — in part because I assume he’ll be held accountable for hitting the car but wanted the circumstances to be totally transparent, but also because I’m hoping for some sort of justice.
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Even then I feel guilty for doing little more than watching it unfold, or think maybe he would be better off with another job if he’s going to be targetted like that, or think maybe he should have just thrown them off the bus and saved himself all that drama… but no, it’s not anyone else’s problem — they were just two really fucking disgraceful people.
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Anyway, I think that experience has fuelled my discrimination anger this week — the fluff about GTA V in reviews, the fluff about politics… they might be high profile, but the discussions they’re generating are just garbage and not at all productive, and I’m tired of hearing about it.
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And I don’t want this to seem like racism > sexism because that’s not what I’m saying, but if people want to break these issues down into such tiny arguments — can’t hold a door open for a woman because she can do it herself, that’s sexist, or can’t put a woman with huge breasts in a satirical game, that’s sexist — then conflicting arguments and opinions being promoted by different people and an over-saturation of non-events are going to make people angry and uncaring, which is entirely counter-productive.
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A really simple piece of advice that will fix everything and everyone should take to heart — don’t be a fuckin’ dick.
@freezespreston — reply fail.
If it makes you feel better, it’s illegal to park right up against a bus zone.
Supposed to leave a 10 metre gap before and after.
Probably won’t help.
Bus down to Wollongong? You should come visit 🙂
My grandparents live in Wollongong so I’ve been visiting all my life, and I spent a couple of years living down there while I was at UOW.
Wouldn’t be too far out of my way or too unfamiliar to visit!
The way I see it, anything a man can do, a woman can do too.
Anything a woman can do, a man can also do. (biological limitations apply of course)
Some people will complain about anything. For example, people complain their isn’t enough strong women in games. When they put them in the game and they’re injured, people complain.
You can’t win.
Feminism still has a role in society, and still has important work to do… it’s just that there’s no real consensus on what that important work is.
I think it’s starting to dawn on the feminist movement and society in general that equality for women doesn’t just mean getting more good stuff. It also means increased participation in dangerous labour, and a removal of a whole bunch of existing protections for women (this translates to participation in violent games too, and the example you mentioned).
Some feminists are fine with this; others just wanted the extra privileges for women. Ultimately, this has caused a huge social rift where no one clued into gender issues (men or women) is really sure what they want from society anymore. So they complain about everything that maybe might just feel a little bit wrong to them, in the hope that their brains will catch up with their mouths and they find renewed purpose in common ground with other equally baffled people.
Edit: obviously, there are many generalisations here, and I don’t mean to suggest that everyone has lost their way when it comes to gender politics. But there are plenty of loud and prominent voices out there who just don’t know how to pick their battles.
What he said so much. I agree women rights has a long way to go. Unfortunately if you ask a feminist / someone loudly fighting for female rights how they plan to fight for equal rights majority if then will just give you some load about women needing all these benefits or they have no idea and basically just keep yelling “EQUAL RIGHTS EQUAL RIGHTS without answers your question.
I think the problem is people just need to have a good long think about the best way to go about feminism and maybe they will realise that yelling “Equal Right RARRRR RARRR RARRR!” really doesn’t solve anything.
I find most feminists aren’t really for equality at all. They want to wear the pants, but they don’t want the men to wear the skirts.
They’re looking to only benefit woman, but forgetting about the consequences of these things. If you want the good, you have to take the bad.
To me modern feminism is that you want the man to hold the door for you, but reserve the right to tell him he’s a jerk for assuming you can’t open it yourself.
That’s far more accurate than I want to admit.
But I hold to door open for everyone. Male, female, transgender, disabled.
Likewise. This is why it really irks me on the couple of occasions I’ve been snarled at or criticised — people want me to treat them worse than everyone else all of a sudden?
I got berated by a women in her late 20’s because I gave up my seat on the train because she looked exhausted and she was carry something like 5 bags. She went off on a big tangent about me being sexist.
@sernobulus
Ugh, what a bitch. I give up my seat for anyone who needs it more then me.
@ambroseiv
They are just idiots. Just respond ‘You’re nothing special, I’m just a nice person who opens the door for anyone. A thank you would have been nice.’
As a further thought, that’s pretty much the case with any sort of widespread social movement. Feminism, global warming, Occupy, Wikileaks. The moment they grow from like a grassroots thing into something huge, it seems all of the extremists come out of the woodwork to voice their opinion which is often either hindering the original intent of the movement or being completely contradictory to it. And once people start associating a particular group as having extreme views that are far from the cultural norm, that’s when they risk being completely written off by society as a bunch of loonies.
It seriously undermines a lot of good work that people do.
“Biological limitations apply of course”
read that & thought of Thomas Beatie
Well, men can’t have babies and while some women can carry heavy things, I certainly couldn’t. In some cases, everyone may need a little help.
That gives me an idea — robots.
Implant our brains in totally uniform, indiscriminate robot bodies.
Look at me solving all the world’s problems, I’m practically Elon Musk or Richard Branson.Moarliek John Lumic.
I feel like I should be able to give you 2-3 upvotes — for the people who appreciate clever references to TV shows, but don’t watch Doctor Who.
Jerks.Arnie did it.
my point is that the modern idea of ‘gender’ is separate and independent of what genitals you happen to have.
‘male’ and ‘female’ are what you identify as, not whats between your legs.
so yeah, for all intents and purposes, that is a picture of a pregnant male.
Point is, people are always going to use the body parts to define people. It will always be the way unfortunately.
My wife was saying last night that the reason all the female characters in GTA are kind of messed up is because respectable women wouldn’t be hanging out with the protagonists of a crime game. I thought that was a pretty good point.
GTA is a horrible world full of horrible people doing horrible things. Gender equality is one of the more minor problems with it…
Yeah, I mean there’s nothing wrong with (don’t read unless you’ve unlocked Trevor)
Trevor bashing Johnny K’s face in and splattering his brains all over the streets of Sandy Shore..Bus Justice is risky. Recording and sending was the right thing to do, and you needn’t have done any more than that.
It’s all very good and well to want to stop something as it happens, but it’s also how things can turn tragic. Letting the authorities do their job or helping them do it might not feel very heroic, but it’s safer and potentially more helpful. And better sent to the authorities than posted to youtube.
You don’t want the prosecution getting all muddied because the greater charge is you laying a beat-down on an elderly man and woman – even if they started it – or worse, a bunch of hotheaded little racists who jumped you getting tried for your murder or mutilation.
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I remember walking in the City once, pretty early in the morning, just getting some fresh air at 2am. On a particular stretch of road, I saw a peculiar thing. Three men, jogging. Not very fast… maybe slightly faster than my walking speed. But they stood out, in the deserted witching-hour streets. Not the least because one was quite disheveled, and the two behind him were cops.
All three men were clearly out of breath, red-faced and exhausted, sweating buckets, jogging as fast as they could manage. The cops looked like they were probably going to have the edge, but they were a fair bit tubbier than the leaner jogger who I could only assume was trying escape on foot? They had clearly been running a while.
It seemed kind of absurd, really. The world’s slowest and most boring police chase. I actually stood on the sidewalk – taller, leaner, and probably fitter than the lot of them, arching an eyebrow as they drew closer and seemed to ignore me.
I… may or may not have… stuck my foot out at an opportune moment (entirely by accident), inadvertently kicking the fugitive’s ankle as he went to put his weight on it.
*splat*
I stepped back a bit, casually and quietly, to let the officers do their work, and not moving away too quickly in case they wanted to chastise me for getting involved where I shouldn’t (totally an accident, I swear), or for complicating things. Apparently life’s hard enough, though, because no-one – cop or crook – said anything to me or acknowledged my existence (in fact, the fugitive didn’t even really look annoyed – more relieved to not be running anymore, probably aware that he was going to get done, regardless). I went on my merry way, secure that if it had been a problem, I’d have been told.
I’m pretty sure that under most circumstances, anyone doing that kind of thing could quite possibly have given the defendant’s lawyer a free penalty, or need to be called in to make a statement or be a witness, or berated for putting themselves in harm’s way (WHAT IF HE’D BEEN ARMED?) etc. It’s nice when life is simple, though.
*cough* Of course, Bus Justice can also be… satisfying and effective. And I can talk freely, because everyone else is up to page 16 now!
A few years back – before go-cards – on a bus in Spring Hill. The bus I was riding pulled up at a stop which had a very attractive young woman standing at it, and three little punk assholes crowding and harrassing her.
The doors opened and she stepped on quickly, all huddled and trying to make herself small, escaping to the first seat possible, while these loud-mouth little assholes jump on (not showing a ticket), saying things like, “Hey, no, come back! Don’t be shy! We just wanna hang out, you should come hang with us, we’ll treat you right!”
It was textbook harrassment, and I could personally envisage it turning into something worse. The driver hadn’t moved the bus yet – the boys hadn’t shown their tickets. But he also wasn’t demanding it from them, just watching uncomfortably as these little shits tried to convince the utterly-unresponsive girl to come home with them. I was scowling and getting ready to growl something, but at that point, the ‘leader’ of the little troupe of fuckwits reached out and touched the girl on the shoulder.
Oh fuck just saying something.
I stood up quickly and violently, murder in my eyes and heart, and thinking to myself, “So this is how I go to jail. Fair enough.”
But I mustn’t have been the only one who couldn’t handle what I was seeing, because after I stood up, I could hear a couple other guys scattered further at the back of the bus stood up swiftly and aggressively as well. The sudden motion obviously registered, because the three little c***s suddenly turned toward the back of the bus to see the incredibly angry men standing up and getting out of our seats.
Without a single word, the youths silently turned to quickly retreat off the bus. The driver shut the door immediately after.
I don’t know how else that might’ve gone. Could’ve gone badly, certainly. Maybe I’d have got stabbed. Maybe I’d have gone to jail for murder. But there’s always a chance that if you stand, others may stand with you.
This is why you’re leader!
😛
🙂
Get back to page 16, you!
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/09/19/double-fine-39-s-broken-age-part-one-enters-internal-alpha.aspx
Part one of Broken Age is fully playable now inside Double Fine HQ. WOOOOOO!
I’m still conflicted about this two part thing. Weighing up whether I should hold off until both are released.
Also my pals from SpacePyrates were in the U.S. this week and totally got a studio tour of Double Fine from Chris Remo and they met Tim Schafer. They made my enemies list! 😀
I remember when I borrowed my copy of Psychonauts to SpacePyrates guy in 2005. >:|
Their trip sounded pretty cool. Big successes at the Small Press Expo too. I’m crazy jealous.
Yeah, they reckon American cons are much better than Australian ones!
I’d believe that. They are SO much bigger.
Get it for note comparing!
I don’t want to play it in two parts though.
Pretend it’s two games!
Make me!
Key and Peele are at it again.
If you’ve never seen the other ones, watch them first:
EDIT: Actually just re-watched this one and it’s the not-funny one. SKIP IT!
DARK SOULS!
Fuck you, Manus. Fuck you, Sif.I rescued Sif in the DLC so I could summon him to help against Manus. He’s really useless. I’m doing alright though, just keep dying right at the end. It’s a tough fight.It took me a few tries to beat Manus. After Ornstein and Smough, probably my toughest boss fight. Sif is only useful to distract his attention if you need to heal (in the end I stopped using him). If you’ve got a good stable shield (Greatshield of Artorias for example), the only thing you really need to watch out for is his magic attack and the timing to nullify that.Ha. Finally. A reversal. I never struggled with him in the slightest.
Validation. 😛
It’s only two deaths so far :p
EDIT: Now four but I’m dying much more often on the bridge leading to him. Damn that caster. Keeps making me do a jumping roll and then I go off of the edge.
EDIT EDIT: Now many.
Sif was in the DLC? :O. I think I did the DLC just before the Gwyn fight (so I pretty much finished the game by then). I thought Manus was the easiest of the DLC bosses and I pretty much killed it on my first attempt. That dragon on the otherhand…In the Chasm of the Abyss, there’s a piece of floor that drops away and Alvina will appear. Follow him, all Cheshire Cat-like and he’ll lead to an elevator. Near the elevator is a hidden wall that has Sif trapped by several Humanity Phantoms. Kill them, free Sif and you can summon him against Manus. He’s not as big.Ooooh I think I recall that. I remember seeing a weird ghostly figure and I followed it and found the elevator, but not the hidden wall. I was doing a no summons run though so it wouldn’t have made a difference, but a nice little touch nonetheless!You get a shield for freeing him and a different cutscene when you fight him if you didn’t fight him before doing the DLC.Anyone here played State of Decay before? Apparently they are releasing an early access alpha through steam tomorrow. Not sure if I should pick it up and play it …
I haven’t myself, but will probably check it out. Seems fairly highly regarded by many people.
Got it on xbox, bloody loved it.
In most games like this your character becomes so powerful, or has access to such OP equipment, that it becomes all about killing and losses the survival feel. As this game focuses a lot on the needs of the community, it never really loses that frantic need for scrounging and hunting supplies, you never really feel like you have done all you can as there will always be this feeling that you should scout just a couple more bulidings or houses in case they might have something you could use.
The only downside is, it does get rather repetitive after a while.
Sounds intriguing.
Anything like Left 4 dead?
I think it’s more like DayZ but more story based. (As in it actually had a story).
If I can handle it, sounds like my kind of game.
Third person, open world survival.
Lots of exploring, scavenging for supplies.
While there is lots of zombie killing, the focus is on building and maintaing your community.
I didn’t particularly enjoy it, but there were definitely some concepts in there that I thought were really good. Just wasn’t enough for me to keep wanting to play it, though.
GTA V Character Swaps:
I don’t know if it’s random or sequential or what, have your guys been doing anything funny when you switch back to them? here are a couple I’ve had
Trevor: Swapped to him and he was on the beech in a dirty old singlet and his underwear, bent over a couple of sunbathers staring at them about a foot from their faces and he made a comment about geting the people to put sunscreen on him.Michael: Once he was dropping off what appeared to be a prostitute another time he was walking out of a motel room and muttered to himself “I just couldn’t go through with it” (interesting to see him battling his sexual demons)
Franklin: Nothing really interesting yet, once i switched to him and he was washing his car that’s about it.
So have you guys had any funny/ interesting swaps, also does anyone know if they are random?
I assume they’re random.
My favourite is Trevor spooning Floydlol, haven’t had that one
Hah, i’ve had similar.
My favourite though;
After I finished the game I switched to Trevor and he was on a hillside blind drunk in a floral dress..Another time with Trevor I switched to him and he was on a beach in his undies around a fuck ton of dead people also drunk again, claiming he didn’t do it and was freaking out.. I then jumped in a boat and took off.
Another time he was at some rich persons place drunk as a skunk, nothing interesting there but amusing.
Mostly with Michael i’d switch to him he’d be off sobbing about his pathetic life somewhere..
Franklin i’ve encountered him for the most part either getting high or coming out of a strip club drunk..
haha, Trevor’s do seem to be the most interesting, I like all the little touches in this game, so good.
Agreed, it’s really awesome. Anyone who thinks game is shit or won’t even play it for everything that isn’t the story, there is something wrong with them.
yeah, I’m a massive fan of the franchise and am having a blast with this instalment, I can see why people get offended but it is GTA, it’s like walking into an adult shop and saying I was offended because they sell sex toys.
Same man, i’ve been a huge fan since the original GTA’s almost 20 years ago now :S I remember playing GTA I & II on PC back in the late 90’s then getting them on my chipped PSX, ah those were the days.
yep, loved the orignals, to this day still get the pickup truck song in my head from GTA 1
“Well it was back in 1849 in the Springfield golden nugget mine…………. the men folks found their woman scary cause they were so big and hairy” and i loved the DJs excuse for the song being on a loop “That was so good I think I’ll play it again”
@effluvium-boy Rocktaku!
What’s the Brookvale one, is that a Sydney Indoor? I’ve only tried the Villawood one, but based on that and descriptions of the St Peters ones, I don’t like them very much 😛 I like ClimbFit, they have really good route setters. My sister went to The Bloc for that comp they had a couple of weeks ago, said it seemed like a pretty good place. Might have to check it out sometime.
Brookvale is Northern Beaches RockHouse. Really small compared to St L’s and St P’s, but it has enough to keep me interested.
St Peters has some fun walls, like a stalactite (pretty easy), a speed wall, and some other cool stuff, but from the looks of the photos it’s pretty similar to Villawood.
St Leonards is probably my favourite. Good routes, like you said.
Incredibly tedious list of jobs at work is made worse by the fact that it’s Friday and
I’m gunna get downthe weekend is so close.I hear you man, I’m struggling to motivate today because the weekend is close and I can’t stop thinking about vidya games I’m going to play. 😛
Tomorrow we get to embrace and have a gay time once again.
No regrets.
Why would you regret that?
Stupid icecream eating JERKS.
So steam is have a talk like a pirate day sale
fair range of pirate themed games on sale so you can grab monkey island, jolly rover, Sid Meier’s Pirates or SPAZ for around $2.50 each
Some trading games and rpg kinda dealies there too
these deals have made me notice a disappointing lack of Curse of Monkey Island on steam…
Also a lack of free frogurt.
$2.50 for SPAZ is a good deal. If people don’t have it, I recommend it.
I picked up Risen 2 during the Summer Sale and haven’t actually played it yet. Anyone here played it/know if it’s any good?
Someone said it was awful. Can’t remember who.
Went on bit of a spending spree. Only meant to grab some socks. Ended up with socks, undies, shirts, pants, a pair of $250 Oakleys, new keyboard and mouse for the girls computer.
Remind me not to go grab something small with a wallet full of cash again.
Edit: Oh also upgraded order for Dark Souls 2. Be aware that Black Armour Edition is just the digital stuff and a metal case. Collectors Edition is the statue one. At least in EB’s system.
I can look after your wallet if you want!
😀
If you max out your credit cards then you can’t spend any more money! My plan is foolproof! \o/
Genius!
Hey don’t call me @greenius! >=(
Greenius the genius!
That’s the same as it has always been – the image of the collector’s is a bit misleading because it has the text ‘Black Armour Edition’, but it means it includes BAE along with all the other stuff, not that it is called that.
Also, I”m getting sick of blue Comic Sans.
Ever since the EB Girl story/jokes, I can’t walk into an EB without seeing a girl behind the counter — a couple of times they don’t really know what they’re talking about, most of them are nice and friendly (more so than the guys… who, if they’re not older than about 25, seem to grunt and mumble a bit and don’t make a great impression), and all of them are really good about trying to push a sale; effective without sounding condescending or saying things like they’re straight off a script.
I was just in EB and saw someone (“Lauren”) sell a guy GTA V + the guidebook for $140, and was really quite impressed.
Also, I gave her your phone number, @dc! 😀She probably already had it.
Yeah, she did.
😐
I went into EBGames just before, how are they selling it for $110 when the norm seems to be around $80?
By taking advantage of people — if someone mentions another, lower price they’ll price match without hesitation… but if you don’t, they want as much money off you as possible.
Which is good for the business, shitty for consumers and shitty for competitors who lose the business if you do ask EB to price match.
So I was hoping to have my Animal Crossing museum exhibit celebrating The Lesser Evil ready for tomorrow’s Can’d Meat, just in case folks wanted to visit. But alas, I’m going to have to leave it half-assed finished (like everything else in my town) and just dump a big pile of free crap near the train station for people to help themselves to instead. Default position to make people like me: give them free things.
I can get some more space things for you if you like!
I’m mostly after the Lunar Horizons wallpaper and something Desert flooring. And Sahara (or whatever the camel’s name is) has already been to my town this week.
Oh and a typewriter if one exists in the game.
Got anyone in your Happy house academy showcase?
Yeah, they come up as “Not For Sale” 😛
That’s how I found out they exist!
You can steal furniture and stuff from them.
Whaaa? Really? 😀
No, Scree is wrong.
(IT’S ALWAYS SCREE’S FAULT! BLAME HER FOR EVERYTHING!)
You can buy whatever people have in their HH house as long as its colour hasn’t been changed or it isn’t like a rare/exclusive thing (i.e. Gold Bug Trophy, something with a custom design, Nintendo Play Coin items). It’s not stealing it’s just ordering whatever they have from a catalogue and it arrives by mail.
You can only order 5 things per a day though (less if you mailbox is clogged up).
Me and @sughly got so much goodies and I’m glad I quit playing before PAX otherwise I would’ve spent so long ordering pieces to complete sets :O
(if you were after Space/Astro stuff, I think Sughly has all that stuffs)
@greenius that’s what I thought. These particular items I’m after are apparently rare, only available from the weekly camel.
I just ate an entire cake! WOOOOOO!
D= poor @cakesmith
Why @dc? WHY!?!
…
I wish I could.
It wasn’t supposed to be all for me, but I couldn’t control myself! D:
It’s okay though, cause I’ve gotten rid of the evidence…
But then there’s the guilt. THE GUILT. :S
I feel like we have had this convers…
Oh.My.God! @dc is the Matrix!
First you rob your neighbours house now you eat an entire cake by yourself! THIS IS ALL GTA V’s FAULT!
*runs off crying*
Was it a cup cake?
If only!
Kettlecake!
Ugh..
Its that time of the day again where time seems to slow down until sweet, succulent freedom.
Guess its back to clicking the ‘random page’ link on http://awoiaf.westeros.org/
Hurry up 5 o’clock!
Came here to post pretty much the same, except I’m hitting Random on TVtropes
TVtropes is new to me, going to check it out. A new site to waste time on!
\o/
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife
@vonsack Also: http://xkcd.com/609/
Haha thats more or less whats happening now, somehow found my way to a page about Conan the Barbarian..
I was doing the same thing there, but now I’ve ended up on The SCP Foundation.
iOS 7 has a pretty sweet digital level in the compass.
So. Meetstuff. Should I be like… bringing things? Other than something to sleep in.
My usual net buddy meetings involve us all bringing our various toys and such to a community hall basement filled with TVs and just pigging out on junk food and playing games all day… it’d feel weird to not come along with a car full of equipment and stuff >_>
Lube.
At the risk of having my comment taken out of context: are you coming this weekend?
Heh.
Yes.
Vasalube.
I never noticed that it was called Vasalube in the movie, I assumed it was Vasaline heh.
A smile.
Awkward?
Listening to my iPod on shuffle and Dancing Mad came on.
Jesus, Kefka was such a fucking mental character. I still remember the poisoning scene, and it’ll be one gaming experience that will never leave my memory.
(\ _ /)
(=^-^=)
(“) (“)
It’s a bunny!
Okay, not so much.
Why did you punch the bunny in the head?
Because rabbit stew.
Isn’t the digital copy of Wind Waker coming out today?
I so badly want to play it D: but I guess I’ll wait another two weeks.
US only, this is revenge for all the games we got in EU before the US! D=
I have to wait for my copy to ship from the UK early October, which means I probably won’t be playing it for at least another month. On the bright side, collector’s edition!
Tried to get Virtual PC working under Windows 95, only to remember you have to have a copy of Windows 95 for it to do so.
🙁
Is it bad that my first thought when I looked at this
http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_from=&_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ssn=rocket431
Was that somebody is getting / has just got married?
Oh, that poor bastard.
😛
I keep forgetting about them but it only takes a single listen to remind me why System of a Down are one of my favourite bands out there.
… Now I need to listen to some System of a Down.
I have my iPod here and it’s already happening.
In listening to them right now too. =P
Matter of fact… I’ve got it now.
http://youtu.be/KolkCNvDnWc
My favourite track is Hypnotise. And Aerials. And Spiders. And Chop Suey! And Boom. And BYOB. And Toxicity. And Tentative.
Ah screw it, I like most of them.
I do have a similar feeling with them though, not sure why I like them, but once I start listening to them again I remember.
SUGAAAR.
I’m just sitting in my car and waiting for my…
Been a while since I listened to them too but the other day one of their songs popped up during a shuffle and I immediately listened to Mezmerize, Hypnotize and a bit of Steal This Album.
Good stuffs
DARK SOULS
Manus is dead. Fuck that guy. I also finished off Logan’s quest thingy, now I have his hat.Oh wow. Trevor certainly is… something.
That’s one way to put it.
I’m not entirely sure I’m comfortable playing as him :S
Which I guess is the point.
Did you just unlock him?
No real spoilers, just general feelings on Trevor:
Everyone seems to have that same response initially. He grows on you. He’s easily my favourite of the three main characters, though I wasn’t a huge fan to start with.Yeah. Just unlocked him and finished his initial mission. Don’t get me wrong. The fact that I feel uncomfortable with him means they’ve done a fantastic job of it. The characterisations of the Michael and Trevor is absolutely brilliant. Franklin feels a little cliche though.Trevor has this really odd charm which I’ve come to love. Give him time. Franklin is probably my least favourite of the three. You’re right, he feels a bit cliche. He doesn’t really have much going on other than a desire to make money. His friend more than makes up for it though.Ironically his friend is probably a bigger cliché than him, but I’m a big fan of Lamar.Haha. Yeah. Lamar is so full on gangbanger but he’s got nothing. It’s nearly adorable watching him try.I ran over the bikers girlfriend on the way out and they actually mentioned it on the trip to the next point saying she can’t talk now. And I delivered a drunk couple to the cult. I’ll be honest. I feel slightly sick. There is no fucking way I’d let my kids play this game and am seriously questioning all the parents who I’ve seen buying for their 10 year old kids.Ah, I did too by mistake, but then I reloaded because I felt like an ass and they had the same conversation. So not sure what her fate is.
I read about the cult somewhere in the game, or it was on the radio or something and I suspect there will be missions associated with that.
Thanks for the heads up. He’s certainly an interesting character. I just unlocked him last night and I’ve been exploring Sandy Shores.
And of course his mission was the first time I got to
fly!😀HEY @mrtaco DONT FORGET TO EMAIL BLAGHS WHEN YOU GOT HOME YESTERDAY.
still not helping.
I totally did forget. Even after being reminded <_
CALL NINTENDO!
;_;
So there’s about 50 odd hours available in this weekend. What substances, legal or otherwise and including, but not limited to caffeine can I consume to maximize the amount of time I can spend on GTA?
Honestly if you’re going for a proper marathon, consider sugar-free caffeine and stick with foods which have lots of low-GI calories.
What goes up must come down, and sugar-crashes drawn out over two days can be nasty on the snap-back. You may even give in entirely halfway through the Sunday, which would be terrible.
Snack continuously and if you’re going to have high-carb foods, keep ’em small and light and regular. You want a slow, sustained burn… not a series of soar/crash troughs.
(Edit: Try to keep ALL your meals light, in fact. Even your proteins. Go eggs/avocado/fish/chicken instead of heavier meats. Don’t wanna get eaty-sleepy!)
Actual foods: Carrot stics sliced up and left in a jar of water. A tray of dip with celery. When craving a hot meal, scrambled eggs, or a fried egg on toast (maybe with a slice of shaved ham), though that would be your big breakfast/lunch meal for the day. A few handfuls of nuts (almonds are best) throughout the day. Try to get them roasted, they’re fucking delicious, roasted (though they do lose some of the good fats that way).
On the other hand, the 2am triple-quarter pounder meal has done absolute wonders for my past gaming marathons.
…
My stomach just compressed into a ball and wailed even THINKING about a triple-quarter pounder meal.
And to think, I’m the one that advocates healthy eating :p
Seriously though, they were traditional. My friend and I would spend all night co-oping Gears of War or Halo or Army of Two and inevitably we’d get hungry late at night. Large triple quarter pounder meals were the perfect “let’s take a break and do even more damage to our bodies” meal.
The real trick to gaming marathons is iced tea. Stops you feeling hungry and forces constant pee breaks so that you don’t end up melding with your couch.
I usually just have a gigantic bottle of water. I drink a LOT of water. And take many pee breaks.
And yeah, maccas WAS a traditional gamer-gluttony meal for me (pizza too) when I was maybe five or six years younger. My body now tends to freak the hell out at take-away. I get quite refluxy. (Though that’s possibly an inherited condition – my Mum recently had surgery to address her own reflux. The figured, “It’ll only get worse and you’re not getting any younger, and surgery just gets harder and harder to recover from as you get older, so… might as well.”)
I much prefer mine activated.
So I was contemplating chips, ice cream and the usual junk I have when I’m engrossed in a game, but then I read this and decided to start with a chicken salad and snack on some fruit. I did get some ice cream because I’m a sucker for it, but I will attempt to consume it in moderation.
To top it all off, I might need to hit the gym tomorrow to make up for any indiscretions!
The cost of gaming for me is normally huge. I pay $90 for a game and then about $200 in snacks. Not to mention the health cost that’s then involved from consuming copious amounts of chips and other snacks.
Wait, BuffTarno is back? :O
Well, he’s trying to get back at least. 😛
Mike, you have to cook.
Haha, well I did learn how to make meth from playing Payday 2 this week, so might as well put my new skills to good use I suppose. 😛
I am TOTALLY surprised we haven’t heard more about that from the mainstream media. I mean, a how-to Meth cookbook? That seems like the kind of thing that would send the fundies into fits.
You can spend a little bit of effort and call in sick next week. Should add a bit of extra GTA time.
Grapes are great to snack on and they don’t leave a lot of residue on your fingers. Make sure you keep them in the fridge so they are nice and cool if it’s a hot day.
Bananas are a great pick me up too. Nature’s energy snack and all that 🙂
Have fun, I haven’t had a gaming session that long in a while.
I got some bananas! 2 of which have already been consumed. 🙁
I haven’t had a decent game to immerse myself into for ages either. I just need to remember the regular breaks and to pop out of the house once in a while.
Play yo games masha!
So my mate just called to ask me if GTA V is ok for his 12 year old because all the other 12 year olds at his school have it………..
this is why we can’t have nice things :/
He’ll be the least cool Dad on the face of the planet, but it’s a bullet he’ll have to take for being one of the best Dads. :/
I don’t envy him. Maybe he can come up with something awesome to compensate. Trip to the go-kart track, rock-climbing, a few hours on jet-skis… Probably cost about the same.
Fortunately for him I’ll be taking the bullet, he calls me about parental ratings on games often and his son knows I’m responsible, this time I actually heard a big “AAAAAAWWWW” in the background from his kid, I never tell him outright yes or no I always explain things in great detail about the game and leave the decision up to him (I’mnotaparent), needless to say after only a few details he’d made up his mind and it seemed to be a firm no. It feels weird because obviously when i was a young gamer I managed to get my hands on games I shouldn’t have, but nowadays games are so much more graphic and stuff. I think ratings are a good thing and should be enforced within reason and at the parents discretion cause kids mature differently and there are a lot of variables.
#beingresponsiblefeelsweird
TLDR: Raising kids these days must be complicated
No kidding. I remember being a kid and being totally over the moon when we were able to sneak in a watching of Terminator 2, Total Recall, or the Michael Keaton Batman at a friend’s place. And our parents being pissed.
On the plus side, kudos to BOTH of you for actually following that process.
I remember buying Duke Nukem 3D when I was 13 after playing it at my mate’s place. It was honestly one of the greatest days of my life.
So apparently Squenix have some kind of 1 hour FF stage event at TGS tomorrow. The people presenting are Motomu Toriyama and Hajime Tabata. Obviously Toriyama is there to show off the next FFXIII game about that character he has a hard-on for. Tabata meanwhile is the director of that bleh-sounding FF Agito iOS game… and also FF Type-0.
Additionally yesterday when Eurogamer posted that story about Squenix ‘definitely’ intending to localize Agito and considering a localized PSN release for Type-0, it was retweeted by Shuhei Yoshida, in English, basically teasing that there was something in the works there.
Announcement may be incoming.
EDIT: Don’t get excited though. It’s Squenix.
Upvote for Edit. Also, for dissing FFXIII-related games.
There hasn’t been a teaser trailer announcing the opening of a teaser site with a countdown to the release of a trailer announcing an iOS port of Type-0 yet. That’s Squenix’s usual M.O.
Interesting note: the best FF games recently have been FF Type-0 and FF XIV 2.0. Both are games headed up by reasonably new directors instead of the old guard, who have instead consistently shipped shit. Naoki Yoshida appears to have managed to make XIV a pretty decent and seemingly fairly popular game – amazing given what he started with and the timeframe involved – and Tabata’s FF Crisis Core was one of the best PSP games, and Type-0 is apparently awesome too.
They really should get Kitase, Toriyama etc. to step back and let some of these younger guys handle a mainline FF. I bet it’d shit all over XIII. Probably get done in half the time too.
@sughly @greenius @powalen @strange
SURVIVOR!
I would have gotten rid of Katie, she seemed pretty useless in that challenge. Marissa seemed like someone who would help you win some challenges. Little too early to be playing those games in my opinion. Thoughts?Yeah I agree. Especially after being all “I’m da bestest at puzzles, I can beat my mom!” :P. It didn’t seem fair to vote out Marissa based on Gervais(?)’s crap and they don’t even seem that close. Like they seem more competitive so I doubt it’s really going to affect him, he might even like it. I don’t remember him at all from the first season (and that’s because I saw it 13 years ago :P) but I don’t like that cocky attitude, especially after he was the worst in their tribe…
But dudeeee, Rupert :'(. Colton is annoying as ever and it seemed like he changed so I was willing to give him another shot but the previews don’t make him seem any better. What a twat.
Yup, agrred with you and @greenius. RUUUUPEEEEEERT!! Goddamn people voting off goddamn Laura (Mrs Rupert) and then goddamn letting goddamn Rupert take her place. WHAT THE HELL MAN! The show hasnt even started T_TBut, yeah… I dunno, I felt bad for Katie still, I mean there’s varying puzzles and that came across like one where 3 was one person too many. But still, I liked that Marissa girl too and she deserved it far less. SIGH. I didnt want all the guys to join up with hillbilly man, but I suppose at this point like one of them said, no point fighting an obvious alliance and causing trouble for yourself. I hope they leave hillbilly and go with some of the girls instead.
I might be TLOU’ing wrong, but so far it’s a few days in and I’m only 25% of the way through. I’ve just been going SUPER SUPER SLOW through absolutely everything. To the point that clickers haven’t actually given me too much trouble. I just die, restart, crawl around again. In some cases I’ve killed them because of having too much ammo and not wanting it to go to waste.
Probably doing it wrong. But if it helps, I have noticed that entering ‘safe’ areas/moments results in me consciously realizing that my traps/shoulders/neck have been bunched up the entire time and it’s time to massage them loose.
I got it at launch, and friends tell me I’m something around 50% of the way through… not been able to play regularly and whenever I go back takes too long to relearn controls etc 🙁
Sounds like you’re doing it right! I took my time too.
http://gematsu.com/2013/09/action-rpg-reborn-announced-for-playstation-4-ps3
So basically this Miyamoto Musashi + Cyberpunk? Sounds badass.
Though it’s also another fucking Kickstarter project 🙁
Peace out for the weekend, TAY. Time to go hang with some of my family for once. I don’t get to do it often enough, this’ll be pretty rad.
Take it easy, TransientMind! Have a damn good weekend!
@freezespreston
WTF
I went to EB Games this afternoon to try to upgrade my Dark Souls II pre-order, and was informed that it had already been upgraded this morning.
You magnificent bastard you.
_____
And to karmically balance out your sheer radiant awesomeness, I’m going to be letting you, @cakesmith and @rize down by saying that Peaceful Tomorrows #2 will not be making an appearance tomorrow. The package was brought here on Thursday by the couriers, but Mrs Shane wasn’t home, and then very cleverly left the delivery notification in her purse until after business hours tonight and forgot to mention it to me at all.
Next delivery day is next Tuesday 🙁
Freeze is awesome!
http://tinyurl.com/lojbes3
Noooooo!
Ah well, I spose you can still have the phone… 😛
But…what will I exchange this copy of GTA V for now?
Huh… what the.
Noooooo. Leave that at home… or at blaghman’s if you so desire. Mine is en route from OzGameShop!
Ugh, I can’t even give away this steel book case!
Curses!
How am I supposed to mooch a free delivery copy of volume 2 from Cakesmith now?!
http://collider.com/star-wars-episode-7-saoirse-ronan-benedict-cumberbatch/
Star Wars casting rumours. Saoirse Ronan would be awesome!
Shocking Revelation: I’m not a fan of CinnamonBotch.
I think he’s a decent character actor, but would prefer someone like Michael Fassbender any day!
Was Ronan the dead girl from The Lovely Bones?
Yeah. She was particularly good in Hanna too.
OMG I just saw @markserrels on TV y’all!
Did they have a translator?
Is Shaun of the Dead on again?
*runs to see*
Haha, I’m being serious. He was on SBS news talking about the death of Hiroshi Yamauchi.
But did he do the famed Serrels Stare?
Mark Lycette*
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/09/20/look-back-life-nintendo-chief-yamauchi
Five minutes until the Cats vs Hawks starts!
Nothing interesting NRL wise until tomorrow.
😀
Wooooo sportsball
Go the flying creatures.
Actually surprised how invested I am in a hawks win🙁
Sorry mate, I’m a Hawks supporter too, although I’m nervous …
You a cats supporter? Sounded like you didn’t care about AFL much anyway
Then again think I thought you were, think I a few beers has made me miss something
Yeah, cats supporter all my life.
(Apart from 2000-2001 where I deferred to Essendon)
Bad luck mate, but serves you right for defecting from the one true club in 2002
Good match and the only reason I was following the hawks was my wife and in laws from 2 families are hawks supporters.
All of you Canberra Meat people should post some sort of in-progress photo of the Meat so I can pretend I am there.
Which, I am… in spirit. ಥ_ಥCanberra Meat? Pfffffft… Ethics report writing meat at my place! WOOO!!
Cool, you coming round to pick me up right?
Yeah, Powalen or Novahkiin should be there around 3pm. They’ll getcha here!
Bring the textbook since I don’t have it! 😀
No probs! We gonna party (read textbooks) so hard!
This GTA V plane landing business is bullshit.
Oh wait, now the landing gear is down, it’s easy.
I think my PSVita charger may be done for. 🙁
I’m sorry for your loss.
It’s working fine now.
🙂
@crazyguy1990 Commiserations mate. Brilliant effort from the Cats, but we just shaded it in the end. Go the mighty Storm tomorrow!
I hope Hawthorn get the shit kicked out of them in the GF.
Worth it to see them lose back to back.
We will see what happens next Saturday.
Go Storm!
Upvote for raw sportsball pain and emotion.
Hmm I think I see what’s going on here…
GEE IT SURE SUCKS THAT MY WALLET ISN’T COMPLETELY STUFFED WITH HUNDRED DOLLAR BILLS
Ugh, Three gets in four pages? And of course this one had to remove all context too…
I need something to take my mind off of things, and none of my games interest me.
Also, I’m too ropeable too sleep.
Also, I may have shotgunned a can of Guinness to ease the pain.
🙁
Cartoons or animated show?
Have you watched Gravity Falls? Mabel and Waddles are always so cute together. Just look at them eating that pizza http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSYyO-4rQzpL5F9fVsjUbKGtZxjjBxkrQ0D0vcolgo7fBQg7uihlCLJ4lCy
I love Gravity Falls!
Pass.
Watch Archer.
Archer always cheers me up.
GTA V Trevor related.
Trevor: You can jerk me off until I get bored. I’M JOKING. You can suck me off.Uh, yeah. If you’re an adult purchasing GTA V for a minor, shame on you. This one is the worst of the worst and you really need to see the Trevor scenarios before you make the purchase.
Ha, agreed. Trevor alone made this game R18+ for sure.
I’m honestly tossing up whether or not to get a dakimakura pillow and cover off of eBay or not…
Well, I caved. :\
Man. It’s been a long time since I’ve gone out to meet a whole load of internet strangers before. I mean there’s been plenty of new meets in the meantime, but most of them chain off others/involve people I’ve been talking to for a whole lot longer.
Many an incoming awkward.
ALL THE AWKWARD \o/
Wow.. This mother sure is pissed at her daughter, i’m guessing the kid won’t screw up again like this..
Hahaha, my sister just showed me that.
Laughing so hard. Most excellent mothering right there, I hope she makes a mint off it.
I was so tempted to enter the coles comp to win those tickets and then sell them on eBay haha.
Holy crap… they’ve gone up to $25k?? I really hope those are serious bids.
Although, my dad reckons they might be the girls, using fake accounts to just spam the thing with fake bids. Which would be kinda crafty. Wonder what you’d do in that situation.
Shame that the private bidder thing stops you seeing how many individual bidders there are.
“Tricks like this on OUR parents is how HALF of you were conceived …..And why a lot of your friends DONT have an address to send that Fathers day card to!!”
Harsh!
BUT OH SO HILARIOUS!
“Tricks like this on OUR parents is how HALF of you were conceived …..And why a lot of your friends DONT have an address to send that Fathers day card to!!”
Ha ha! WOOOH!!
Oh hey iFest is on at the Canberra campus of AIE tomorrow. And it’s on the way to the thingie!
Guess I could stop in there for a little while… Ooh, and there’s a guy talking Rift development at quarter to 1! MAYBE I CAN GET HELP FOR MY WHATSIT!
Dammit, now I definitely have to get up early tomorrow.
Dear nightweekendTAY. Yep, all two of you. You know who you are.
Seeking feedback on this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lkt0xllloe11b0u/roll%20up%20banner.jpg
Thinking about getting one of those big pull up rollaway banners for conventions. This one would be two metres tall, and needs to attract attention from a medium distance.
HI SHANE!
I like the Michael Myers thing you have going on there with the silhouette 😛
Uh.. in all seriousness, looks pretty good to me, maybe with the red glow dial it back a bit so it’s not as flared out, but that’s just me.
Thanks. I’ll have a tinker with the glow once I sort out the bigger-picture stuff others have commented on! 🙂
No worries man, if I was in front of my computer with Photoshop I could actually explain it with a bit more detail haha.
Do you need so many boxes with your books’ characters? I feel like there are too many – maybe have a big one or two for each book you’ve written? Think of the GTA box art for example.
Also do you think the website should be at the bottom? I feel like it would be better at the top of the banner. With so many people walking by at a convention very few people will be looking down until they are near your table. I’m thinking you should switch the top and bottom parts. Have your head and the website at the top and the reviews at the bottom. Also maybe move the Shanewsmith.com to the left so it doesn’t cross the image of your face. You know what I mean? So it’s Shanewsmith,com then a small space then your face in the top right corner.
Hopefully this helps. I could be wrong though 🙂
Finally ask some of the more artistic taybies for advice. I know Pupplylicks designs shirts so maybe he has some tips – send him a tweet since he is rarely on TAY. Also maybe some people here know graphic designers.
Good luck.
Thanks, man. Much appreciated. Some good advice here! 🙂
The titles of your projects seem small?
You’re right. I’ll see what I can do about that! Thanks!
Frank honest answer, I don’t like it
Having the testimonal quotes there and the main focus of the banner I think has the opposite effect of what you are after. If you really want them on there I would have a group of pictures then the quote beneath.
Your art is great and that is what you are showcasing, don’t relegate it to the background, let it show. You want the banner to draw people to see more and pictures will do that much better than words.
Then again I write code for a living so taking design advice from me isn’t always the wisest course
Thanks, man. Feedback appreciated.
I’m gonna take some time to rethink what my priorities should be.
In my head, I don’t see my artwork as any kind of drawcard – which is why I’m prioritising the reviews above the art samples. Because I kind of believe that the books stand or fall on the writing. But maybe this perspective on my work isn’t the commonly-shared one.
Then maybe you need to showcase your writing. I just don’t see review quotes as a big drawcard
Fair point. Thanks, man 🙂
Canberra.
eww.
3am, still helping my friends move. Pulled my back out and everything, lost my jumper somewhere so I’m wearing one of Olivers and I’m pretty sure it hasn’t been washed, and I’m dealing with the biggest fucking princess who’s throwing a hissy fit because we won’t drive the moving truck 1.5 hours there and back to get her bed cos she can’t sleep on a different one for 1 fucking night.
Rockstar just made $1billion in 3 days. That’s insane.
“this marks the fastest that any entertainment property, including video games and feature films, has reached this significant milestone,”
The Wire season 5 spoilers
Just watched episode four, which ends with the death of Prop Joe. This show has a knack for killing off big players, no?In other news, I think I accidentally missed ep. 3, which means that I spent most of this episode piecing together the fact that they killed Butchie to get Omar out of retirement. Damn, that would’ve been a powerful play.
Working weekends suck!
But hey, only 7 hours and 31 minutes till hometime
…
/o\
Good morning SaturTAY! The highlight of my day is going to be getting a haircut and talking to my dentist about oral surgery. Then perhaps some GTA V. Hooray!
Also, I am the thumb who knocks!
Heisenthumb.
Just got out of a playdate (for my son) because I am sick.
Yay! Don’t have to talk with other parents!
Boooo! I am still sick.
@transientmind
Thanks for the warning on towns, was curious so was giving it a look
Hey actually, that might not be relevant anymore. I’ll give it another whirl next week when I’m back at a gaming PC. That was launch review stuff, I should probably revisit it.
iOS 7 peeps:
Is the hourly forecast not showing on the weather app?
EDIT: It’s been weird today. I have a weather page for whereever I am and one for Melbourne (so they both say Melbourne). Since they’re both the same they’re supposed to show the same stuff but this morning the hourly forecast didn’t showup, then they both had different temperatures and forecasts, then one showed the hourly and one didn’t and ugh, friggen mess :/
Seems to be fine now…
I was going to (finally) finish Lost & Damned and Ballad of Gay Tony this weekend, so I could delete them off my 360 HDD and have room to install GTA V when it (hopefully) turns up next week.
For some reason I picked up Bioshock Infinite and’ve started playing through that instead. /o\
Just had a look at World of Warplanes… Actually looks a helluva lot better then War Thunder at this stage…
Keen to give it a go… shame that it’s release has been pushed back ;_;…
Did anyone try it’s open beta?
I’m keen to know about the simulation aspect of it all
I know that one of the top world of tanks players did a review and didn’t like it at all. When he tried war thunder he was of the opinion that war thunder was the superior game.
Iiinteresting…. i just checked a few forums and they come to similar conclusions… Maybe i was a bit hasty saying that it would be good… they even artificially minimised the “Sky roof” to 2 – 3 km, which means no high flying :\…
*sigh* okay,
back to War Thunder for me 😛
Fuckkkk. Just remembered I’m meant to be going to a concert tonight. I’m exhausted. My arms are so weak I couldn’t even pop a zit this morning :S
we ended up getting miss Polly prissypants bed last night. Took a car though, not the truck. Never tell us something won’t fit in a car. We’ll make it fit.
So Deep Down is a free to play game. My interest in it just plummeted to zero.
Why is everything going free to play? That always means that it costs a shitton to actually enjoy. 🙁
This is how I feel — the only thing inherently wrong with ‘free to play’ is that there’s a good chance it actually means ‘you need an endless supply of money to really enjoy’ and so, minus some time with WoT and War Thunder, I just won’t bother.
Puzzle and dragons
5 million dollars a day
Shove ads in peoples faces for more revenue
Recurring income rather than spike and drop off
Because they hat us
Yeah, it’s mostly about the hat. 🙁
That’s why we hat them back.
Valve makes a lot of money from all those hats too.
Noticed Empire of the Sun is showing on Ch.9 at the moment — must have missed the first half by now and I would get annoyed watching it with ads, but it’s a great movie.
I’m not a huge Christian Bale fan, but just now thinking about it… I would watch the shit out of a movie with an adult Bale and John Malkovich. Someone should get on that.
Finally have my PSVita stand working properly! 😀
Dear @blaghman
I know I left a whole lot of shit at your place, and I’m now starting to feel bad about it. Please let me know if there’s anything left that you don’t want, and I can come and pick it up.
Sincerely and ten pages behind the times,
Shane
you left shit at his house? you monster!
Taken at 7:02
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I played some GTAV today and by played I mean I unlocked Michael and then spent 1 hour + playing tennis! \o/
So I learned an important lesson today: magpies are pernicious little terrors and they seriously hurt. And I may be a little bit sunburnt too.
I think I might just stay inside tomorrow.
Page-get honours: I hope all those at the Canberra meat are having a good time. 🙂
With Freeze S Preston on duty, there’s bound to be good times!
Or food poisoning.
You never can tell, with that man.
Just because I’m pouring more alcohol than necessary into the punch and jelly shots….
Shhhh…
GTA V, so after finishing the game i’ve come to realise that it’s probably important to do the Strangers & Freaks whilst playing the main story, spoilerised for reasons..
So I came across these two twits robbing a drug store as Franklin, one was Irish and guess what it was Packie McReary, turns out you unlock him for heists which would’ve been so damn helpful.Just doing this one atm as Trevor stealing celebrity things for an old couple, and lo & behold Love Fist from Vice City are in the game.. Shame their music isn’t but still Love Fist!
So much fun, just gotta figure out how to acquire another 190 million dollars to buy two more cinemas & the golf club, god damn it.
I just did one of those quests for Michael
WHAT.THE.FUCK! I just did the weed one. That was just, way left field and out of nowhere. I was laughing through the whole thing.Oh man the one Trevor gets for that is fucking hilarious. You thought Michaels was pretty fucken weird and hilarious with Aliens, Trevors is even better.I also did this one for this old couple who loot celebs trash, oh god hahaha. That was an interesting chain of events.I finished all the Strangers & Freaks, so good.
I want to punch the cold I have. I’m fed up with feeling like shit.
I haven’t been sick for months.Dear @rize
My wife loves her new phone so much that if your marriage is ever on the rocks, I suspect she’d be a willing rebound.
Sincerely,
Soon-to-be-jilted
PS: Thanks!
PPS: Thanks a lot…
I’m sensing a new TV series — Kotaku Wife Swap.
Didn’t think they were having that kind of party at Canberra
Ha ha, your wife seemed awesome though 🙂
Dear Shane,
I seem to have left that Meat with an extra Little Sister. I arrived with one, left with two. Weird. 😛
P.S. Thanks!
P.P.S. Wait, this isn’t Page 7….
For some stupid reason, the taskbar on my main monitor isn’t showing the Start orb.
And that’s The Wire complete.
Brilliant.
Nice one, man. You tore through that! Really glad you liked it.
Edit: You should try Treme, if you haven’t already. Made by the same folks, and even has a few of the same actors too!
Edit 2: Favourite season arc? Mine was probably season 4, though I thought season 2 also excelled.
I’ve heard talk of Treme both here and on Twitter. I’m going to work through Sons Of Anarchy first, then (possibly) Digimon before I move on to other stuff.
Treme is current, isn’t it? Like, it’s still being aired now? I fell into the trap of episodic viewing with Scrubs, True Blood and Breaking Bad, and I’d really like to steer clear of that whenever possible 😛
I don’t do well with juggling story arcs, and I’m definitely a binge-consumer. Gotta wait for the collection, yo!
Treme has one season left, but it’s only five eps long and will be airing in December!
Favourite season was probably 4, although 5 is fresh in my mind and with that
Not sure whether spoiler-worthy, but whatever. Omar is just such a great personification of Chaotic Good. I love it! His final tirade was fantastic, though I sure as hell didn’t see his death coming in such an understated fashion. Amaze.I love his death beacuse it’s so random. Even legends die 🙂Now watch all of Malcolm in the Middle @trjn would greatly approve. I’m almost onto season 5, such a glorious show. Watching Daria after I finish all of this lol.
MiM is pure awesome. DVD set coming out this November!!!!!! (Amazon.co.uk has details)
Meat write-up, @shane. *glares* 😀
You were right: Freeze is indeed awesome. So too were all the people I met today!
For my part, I’m doing a DC and mulling over all the conversational shortcomings I brought to the table.
Other pertinent points:
* That one box of free crap I intended to give away ended up being three huge boxes and a bag. I walked away and left them there at blaghman’s place.
* Huge meat. I’d say around twenty people. Folks from the entire eastern states of the mainland. Canberra must be a central-ish locale for such things. That, or people recognise that blaghman’s place is worth meating at. Met a lot of folks for the first time, including Freeze, beavwa, Gooky and Nomad, and plenty of folks I’d met before (and some that I sadly didn’t get a chance to meet).
* Mrs Shane likes TAY folk. She especially enjoyed talking travel with novacascade. In a lot of ways, getting a free phone from Rize was the perfect introduction to life as a TAYbie 😛
* Discussion topics ranged from Tomb Raider’s insane level of graphic violence, to psychopathy, to Disney Infinity, to future inheritances, to travel, to Dark Souls, to collector’s editions, parenting, gourmet cooking, the lack of Bish, and many other things.
* Rocketman likes hugs.
* We left at 4:30 when our babysitting (my mother) called and demanded our return, claiming to have “other things to do”
* Got 8 nerdpasses from the day, but didn’t actually get a chance to check them until we got home afterwards.
* More strange, more of the time.
Awesome, write up! Looking forward to meeting you in November!
Hi I’m Shane, I dumped my stuff at Blaghman’s. Masha was a leech and rummaged through everything and picked the biggest package. Introduced myself to Mr. Taco and gave him a copy of the lesser evil omnibus. Gave Freeze some books and talked to Strange. I told the chair story and apparently it was green not blue – marriage is still under observation. I said my goodbyes and left soon after.
NB: Ha ha, reading this it sounds like I was watching Shane all day. Sorry Shane. 🙂 Good news though @shane as soon as you left people were more confident and took a few things from your boxes. Nova took all the Star Wars books for example.
Thanks, masha/shane. Good to know the boxes got picked through at least 🙂
Well, I’m officially not doing anything next Saturday.
🙁
I’m not doing any thing any Saturday!
I’m catchin’ a plane OVERSEAS 😀
How long you going for?
wun mumf!
Must be a hell of a throw, then. XD
@saturday
Not a Freo fan, but as a resident of WA it’s gonna pretty exciting next week!
I will say, for the record, that Ross Lyon is a scumbag.
Man, I can’t deal with everybody’s shit 🙁 It’s too hard. I’m drunk, everyone else is fucking drunk, I can’t be expected to keep a clear head all the time whenever anyone fucks up. Even if you whinge down the phone that you love me at 1:30am there’s not much I can do.
In brighter news, I went and saw The Basics tonight (gotye and his band). Was pretty good actually. I hadn’t really listened to much of their stuff other than what Oliver had shown me, but they were pretty cool. He was really disappointed because he had work and couldn’t go, but I went with my neighbour and his friend. Got some photos but I cbf uploading them.
“Hey, my phone says I called you 3 times last night?”
:O no way!
The Bureau Xcom Declassified is $17 at the moment, is it worth it
THIS IS A LATE REPLY BUT YES, I TOTALLY THINK IT IS.
This is probably better to re-post on new Monday TAY, but I won’t get the chance to. Are any of the Brisbane TAYbies keen to meat up on October 12th in a coffee shop or something and settle in for a Pokemon X & Y sesh?
Pokemeat? YES!
\o/
Exam tomorrow. Holy crap.
Microsoft exam 70-642.
For some reason the muscles on my sides of my back, below my arms, are really sore. Like I’ve used them for some kind of strenuous exercise. I can only assume that all the driving I did down blaghman’s place and back was somehow some kind of super hardcore version of driving, because that’s the closest thing I can think of to any form of physical activity involving arms over the last few days.
Meet was cool, but really need to sleep now.
My hand is really sore after the meat, and for no real reason. I think @blaghman must be running some kind of Frankenstein-esque lab where he drains the energy and life out of vibrant youngsters like us to keep his ancient and evil spirit housed in youthful flesh.
Pretty sure you used your lungs for strenuous exercise…. 😛
What about how you’re extremely talented at piano? You were playing those tunes heaps quick last night!
Probably bad timing to mention this given that it’s nearly 10pm on a Sunday and there will be New TAY tomorrow, but I have some spare Nendoroid Petits that I want to get rid of.
These are small super-deformed (they have large heads and are super cute) figurines made of PVC, standing about 65mm tall, as opposed to the main series which are about 110mm. Sold in blind packs, there’s usually 6 in each set plus 1 secret. I tend to buy a box when they release them and thus get a full set + one random spare.
Anyway, the three I have spare are all from The Idolmaster. I have spare Futami Mami and…
Hoshii Miki from the Idolmaster 2 sets, and Takagaki Kaede from the first Cinderella Girls set.
I don’t want them as they’re spares, so if anyone else would like them I’d be happy to give them away as at the moment they’re wasting space for me.
(Note: breaking over two posts due to 2-urls-but-1-if-you-edit-your-post restriction)
See you all in new TAY, everyone!
Goodbye most-fucked-up-week-of-my-life!
WAIT!
What am *I* doing here???
It’s too early for metaphysics.
A NEW CHALLENGER APPROACHES!!!
*PUNCH*
SHINYUREPPA!!!
You guys are crazy!
Bruddah!
You finally find us!
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