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Mornin’ all.
Just wanted to give a big thanks to everyone who came to the Can’d Meat, I had a lot of fun, and I hope you all did too.
Apologies for the lack of preparation, the undercatering, and the fact that I’m a terrible terrible person, but you all should have at least been prepared for that last one.
If I had the money I would of come, but I’ve heard good things about the meat and I’m sure everyone had a blast!
Literally the worst. So glad I didn’t have to stay for more than 90 minutes.
I spent most of the weekend on empty TeamSpeak singing “Allll byyyy myyyyselfff” and crying. So basically, it was a good weekend!
Oh my god, I was there too doing the same thing!
But you know, separately.
o/
\o
I whole heartedly appreciate the tribute.
Oh, meant to say that if my leftover flotsam is causing grief, I can pick it up. Equally happy for you to take it to Flipside and recoup some of your meat-hosting expenses. Let me know if you want me to get it – otherwise, don’t want to know 🙂
New TAY, let’s make love. All-TAY long. Just don’t tell old TAY.
I won’t tell if you won’t…
Yeah, until some idiot lets slip to his girlfriend and SHE tells old TAY because she feels like she has a responsibility to let old TAY know.
Old TAY already knows. We don’t stop by nearly as often, and we barely speak. It knows.
Yeah, but you can at least let old TAY have its dignity, let it cling to the illusion if it wants to!
Morning all!
KILLING IS HARMLESS: A CRITICAL READING OF SPEC OPS THE LINE
$2.99 until Sept 30.
Also, meat was good.
My man cave is now the right amount of unclutter.
Every day is great at your Junes
Nearly every day at my local Junes these four kids run through the store and I am pretty sure they have stuff like armour and swords on and I am not sure what is going on???
And they all seem to really like that one TV in the electronics department.
Actually, I lie.
Maybe once every few weeks they come on through because you should be able to clear out a dungeon in one session so as to not waste time for your social links.
That’s exactly how I played it. Spent like a week IRL time grinding and kill the boss in one “game day”. GOTTA MAXIMISE THE SOCIAL LINKS!
Not sure if spoilers or handy game advice.
Morning all. How are we all doing?
DnD shenanigans recap:
Our entire group should never try and do an Acrobatics onto a sarcophagus again. I enjoyed my 4th Edition Dragonborn cleric, even though I failed pretty abysmally both times that I tried to Turn Undead.The best moment goes to our rogue who phase stepped out of a trap, much to the DM’s dismay.
Worst moment was when we realised we missed an entire chest of loot. D:
Kinda cruel of the DM to tell you you’d missed it. 🙂
I thought that was the DM’s job.
Even more cruel when he told us it was in the very first room of the dungeon and we simply hadn’t looked around for it. Fair is fair but how often do you get loot in the very first room? Mucho sadness. D:
Weekends are too short. Also, I watched Oblivion and Looper yesterday. Oblivion was actually pretty good, and Looper was also great – different to what I was expecting though.
How was that JGL looking almost like Young-Bruce Willis?
It was a little offputting at first, but I got used to it. Was more surprised at how the movie went in a completely different direction to what I was expecting. Great film though.
He really didn’t look close to a young Bruce Willis.
We know what Bruce Willis looked like 20 years ago. He looked like Bruce Willis does now but with hair. He really could have played himself if he just wore a wig.
I gave State of Decay a go on Sunday. I gotta say, it’s a really cool game. I have 12 survivors and we all just moved house! \o/
If you decide to buy it, be warned you MUST have a 360 controller, also it has a “few” bugs.
Also worth mentioning it’s early access alpha, so there’s a lot of work to still be done.
What he said! ^
Still in super alpha phase so they are working on KB&M support and fixing bugs. If you are a fan of Day Z but like a bit more direction / story, definitely buy it. Soooo much fun!
I’m hanging out until I see they have KB&M support, then I’m in.
Happy monday….
Looking forward to EB Expo, thinking of getting a ticket to an extra session though – Might need it, because I remember last year being lines for bloody everything….
Woo TAY! Spent the weekend playing tech support for Mum at her place.
Their ADSL connection had been going over-limit a lot, and she barely uses the thing for emails. Certainly not enough to justify 1GB download a day.
Hopped into the wireless router (secured with WPA) and discovered that including Mum’s devices, mine, those of my brothers who visit occasionally, and potentially other guests, I could identify maybe – MAYBE – 12 of the 30’ish MAC addresses which had passed through it. So. MAC filtering it is. Poor Mum had apparently had this issue the last six months or so and been convinced by BigPond that it was her doing something wrong. And she hadn’t been able to surf much or check emails for more than a few days of the month (post-reset) because the shaping speed is incredibly low – too low for most pages to load.
Edit: I felt the urge to inflict non-specific violence upon the perpetrators.
If they were connected to your network doesn’t that give you access to their machine? I guess it depends on their security settings. There is all sorts of things you can drop onto somebodies PC to get them in trouble. Guide to cheating on your wife, Divorce attorney website saved, collingwood supporter material.
Hola Tay
I had a busy weekend- went to a wedding Sat arvo and a 60th yesterday, behaved myself at both. Snuck in a couple hours of GTA V too- I don’t like Trevor.
Last night I watched the first part of “The Hollow Crown,” the BBC’s all star adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henrian cycle (Richard II, Henry IV parts 1&2, and Henry V). Great cast- Patrick Stewart, Ben Whishaw and Rory Kinnear absolutely killed. Looking forward to Henry IV tonight or tomorrow.
So a Monday Morning Question: Which Shakespeare play would you make into a video game? The Merchant of Venice as a management sim?
I actually had the opportunity to play a little GTAV over the weekend. I have to say, I am not too keen on the Los Santos setting. Los Santos or Los Angeles… either sounds about as close as you can get to my idea of hell on earth.
HELL-A, amIrite?
huh?
According to transientmind, Los Angeles (LA) = hell.
Hence, hell-ay.
… uhhhh?
I don’t know how else to explain it 😛
Just say it out loud.
*shrugs*
(Ser Trollulus)
They must’ve read the lyrics to Tool’s ‘Ænema’ and thought it was a love letter/good guidelines.
Hamlet – SCUMM murder mystery adventure game.
WANT
USE poison WITH ear
You are in a graveyard. There is a skull here. Horatio is here.
> Talk to skull
What
> Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio. A man of infinite jest and most excellent fancy.
Dude
> Where be your gibes now? your gambols? Your Songs? Your flashes of merriment?
Hamlet…
> Now get you to my lady’s chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she mist come; make her laugh at that.
Hamlet, no
King Lear as a super-dramatic interpretation with exploration and puzzles being key. Especially when he descends into madness.
NEXT GEN STORM EFFECTS ON THE HEATH
Much Ado About Nothing as a sandbox game where you play as Don John and have to spy on people and sabotage their relationships.
I suppose Taming of the Shrew would be a moot suggestion since the tsundere is one of your standard character tropes these days.
Until I actually wikipedia’d that word over the weekend I didn’t realise that tsundere was literally a cold/standoffish character coming around emotionally and becoming “lovey dovey”. because the phrase usually applies to female characters who beat up on male “accidental perverts” (e.g.: Narusegawa vs. Keitara in Love Hina) I always assumed “tsundere” meant something along the lines of “severe overreaction”, i.e.: this guy saw you in your underwear even though there’s a rational and innocent explanation so you kick him so hard in the crotch that he flies into the next county.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a third person cover shooter with zombies.
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
VIDEO GAMES ARE MADE UP GUYS
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend.
With this shotgun thy flesh shalt rend.
Taming of the shrew as a dating sim
Not only to you need to manage your own action and love interest their is the 2nd relationship over which you don’t have direct control and can only provide advice and support.
I was sick on Thursday/Friday and by 8pm I was done. I crawled into bed and lay there in a coma until awaking with a ravenous hunger at 4am. After taking a hot shower and finishing off my leftover mongolian lamb from the night before, I proceeded to play GTAV for some 12 hours, only taking a break to pop out and get a
healthybreakfast of McDonald’s for myself and the wife when she arose at around 10am, herself having been up until about 3am playing GTAV.As she had been playing it in the daytime during the week and I was limited to a few hours post-work in the evenings, she was some time ahead of me. I did not realise how much time she was ahead of me until I set the controller down at 5pm-ish on saturday and she informed me I still had catching up to do. I played a littlem ore after dinner but became frustrated by the fact that for the fifth time in a row when switching to Trevor I had to deal with his antics immediatley causing or being in the midst of causing a wanted rating and attempted escape from the police that always ends badly. I temporarily ragequit, also frustrated by the lack of money I was obtaining for my efforts and cars disappearing from my garages that I had spent a pretty good chunk of money modifying. Apparently there is a reason for this as far as Michael is concerned but I spent some $35,000 upgrading Trevor’s truck only to have it replaced with the default version the next time it appeared in a cutscene, which made me surpassingly unhappy.
Anyway, I surrendered the game to my wife for half of Sunday until she convinced me to give it another chance, and I played several more hours. When I stopped playing last night it was not out of anger, so I look forward to spending more time trying to catch up with my wife’s progress, which I imagine will extend an additional five or so hours ahead of mine.
I just wanted to add to the above by recounting one particularly interesting “switching to Trevor” incident.
Spoilertagged for GTA V gameplay elements – nothing story related.
I was driving north on one of the highways that leads out to the desert, in Trevor’s slow-ass truck, being pursued by 6 patrol cars with a two-star wanted rating. I simply could not outrun them in the truck, the only bursts of speed I enjoyed was from being repeatedly rammed. I decided to swerve into oncoming traffic to shake them off but this only put me in the path of oncoming police cars. In a tunnel.So after that carnage of twisted metal and swearing (by me) I emerged from the tunnel with my truck now, as a team leader I worked under in a warehouse once referred to a poorly maintained forklift, “running like a busted arse”.
I noticed I was also leaking gasoline, which was hardly ideal under the circumstances.
In a last ditch effort I ploughed off the road and up a hill, which amazingly the polcie were unable to follow. Truly my masterful driving must have dazzled them for they immediately lost track of me and began swivelling their line of sight cones every which way. I found myself on railroad tracks and quickly drove off them as an oncoming train threatened to do me some serious mischief. I sat in my leaking truck and heaved a sigh as my wanted rating finally diminished.
Then I noticed the fire.
I don’t know for sure what happened. I don’t know if the game is sophisticated enough for this, so I am only hypothesizing, but I believe that a spark from the train’s wheels on the tracks ignited the line of fuel that I had been trailing from my chase below, and the flames now engulfed my truck. I ditched the truck and ran for the hills, not looking back as a flaming door flew overhead and embedded itself in the geography. The explosion attracted the attention of the authorities, so I just kept running, eventually finding myself in a shanty town and uncovering the first fragment of a confession letter.
Having tweets about other adventures playing out, I almost regret that I wasn’t able to end this tale with “and then I was eaten by a cougar”, but there’s always going to be another day when I will have to switch to Trevor.
In some ways, I feel like this should be spoilertagged for those of us who haven’t started playing yet, but on the other hand I loved reading it anyway! 🙂
Sorry. 🙁
No, man, didn’t mean it that way. I was more commenting that it’s curious that I’m not too fussed by spoilers re: this game despite my level of hype for it. 🙂
I know, it just didn’t occur to me until you pointed it out that people might feel spoiled on things that aren’t story related.
But I remember I avoided Mass Effect 3 trailers/gameplay videos because I wanted everything to be as much a surprise as possible, so I can see how reading a chunk of narrative based on gameplay elements might take away the initial wow factor for someone who hasn’t played yet.
The mechanics seem able to support it. Hiding out behind a gas station from cops, I found a gas can. A few stolen vehicles and an oil tanker later, I was able to rig up a chain of explosions just from fuel trails left by the gas can.
Yeah, that part is fair enough, the ability to pour/leak gas was definitely intentional, but usually you have to ignite it with existing fire or shoot it. I am wondering if the train’s wheel sparks actually ignited the gas or if the fire started through other means like maybe a car accident that happened further away and the fire just took longer to catch up with me. That’s where I’m speculating.Recent GTA V Mythbusters vid confirms you can light gas trail with the backfire from a car engine. The mechanics definitely support it.Ooh, that’s very interesting. They really wanted to open this thing up for experimentation didn’t they?
Did you see the vid last week about the guy who headbutted a car and made it explode?Is that the Rooster Teeth/Achievement Hunter one that got posted here? I’m about 2 weeks behind on all their content because I’ve been distracted with other stuff, but i’m gonig to try and get caught up as soon as I finish the GTAV story.
That’s the one! Pretty funny.
I felt the same kind of rage losing a car I spent a lot of cash on. I’d upgraded nearly everything on it and spent a good deal of money doing so. I parked the beast in Franklins garage in Vinewood, saved the game, went for a cruise and the game froze. When I reloaded and opened the garage it was gone.
Dude where’s my car?
FUUUUU
Theoretically a car is marked as owned by you if you’ve saved it in a garage and modified it to some extent. If you’re real lucky it’ll turn up in impound but I think the impound only saves two cars at a time. If you don’t clear it out periodically I think cars get pushed out and disappear.
I really wish they’d just used the Saint’s Row garage system. Maybe it’s not realistic and I know they WANT you to keep stealing cars because it’s Grand Theft Auto, not Car Showroom Simulator, but I’m over 50% completion and I’ve got dick all money so far so it kind of sucks that a bunch of money I’ve spent has amounted to nothing.
Question because I’m curious:
In a game that celebrates the availability and disposability of vehicles, is there any counterbalancing incentive to keep one car and upgrade it? Or is it like the other GTA/SR games where I just won’t feel compelled to keep my current car if a dump truck or sports car is parked by the side of the road?Each character has a “default” vehicle that stays with them for the whole game. Franklin’s is definitely worth pimping the hell out of. You’ll always be tempted to ditch it for a sweet car that’s nearby, but your default car always comes back – Franklin will usually be driving his when you switch to him, or otherwise it’ll be parked outside his house.
As I said above, I upgraded Trevor’s and for some reason it reverted to the starting standard due to some kind of glitch the next time it appeared in a cutscene, so I’m still pretty miffed about that.
I wouldn’t put any serious money in Michael’s cars until late in the game, but I won’t elaborate further because spoilers.
You can upgrade cars and save up to four in garages, but I don’t recommend seriously upgrading these cars because they’re prone to vanish from the game for reasons that are not entirely clear. You can buy cars and save them in your garages and apparently these cars will stay more persistent – once you unlock something by paying for it the game does ab etter job of remembering it’s unlocked, but I haven’t done this yet.
You’re also supposed to get a bonus car (as well as bonus haircuts/beards and a weapon) when you link your Rockstar Social Club profile to your gamertag/PSN ID, but for some reason this only worked for my wife. It might be because I don’t have a gold subscription at the moment so I don’t have access to any online services – however I have been able to use the companion iPhone app to order vehicle upgrades and do some other things I won’t spoil for you, so I dunno. It’s a bit gimpy, probably because the social club servers have been getting smashed since launch.
Oh I didnt think about the impound! Heres hopings its there. I just figured that because the game froze while I driving it went to hyperspace somewhere.
Someone on here mentioned that whenever you hear tips about the stock market to buy big, I did that and waited until it seemed like the share price wasnt going to go any higher then sold. Worked like a treat. Before yesterday I knew zero about the stock market haha. Might be worth a try though if youre struggling for cash.
I’ve only used the stock market when
doing assassination missions for Lester, because he explicitly tells you which stocks are going to go up/down. I also bought Life Invader stock after donig the sabotage mission but it hasn’t paid off yet – apparently Life Invader stocks don’t recover until late in the game.Also apparently Ammunation is supposed to fluctuate based on real life sales, tracked through Social Club, but the stock goes up when people spend money and goes down when everyone buys stocks, so it’s really unreliable.
Motorbike got stolen. Felt like raging. Then felt like going all Batman on the case and came up with a suspect and a plan for the future if I get another one. though no solid evidence. So if I get another one I got ways of getting soid evidence now. Those things aren’t friggen cheap, so probably ain’t gonna happen.
Gaming wise. Haven’t been on kotaku in ages. miss it a little. Just got state of decay on pc, can’t wait to play it. Don’t have much time these days.
That’s shit about your bike man, you should go all batman on the guy/a that stole it. VIGILANTE JUSTICE!
State of Decay is great, spent most of my Sunday playing it.
That sucks man, I hope it turns out alright, 🙂
Thanks all. Should be alright. If the guy rides it it’ll be spotted by the cops. Probably took it for parts of get another one from auctions and switch the plates?
Anyway. State of decay. I hear that if you don’t play the game for long, your stats go down. Is that true?
“Anyway. State of decay. I hear that if you don’t play the game for long, your stats go down. Is that true?” That happens in GTA-Online, your stats will drop if you’re gone too long.
I hate that. its like im expcTed to not play anything else or to not have other things to do. Bah I’m just raging now. Btw spelling errors andweird caravters are from my phone lagging.
TF2’s halloween submissions opened up!
Anyone gonna submit anything?
Not planning on submitting anything but I do like the halloween themed items
So
StreetpassCan’d Meat was pretty great. Good to meet @nomad and @mrtaco too (I still don’t know whether to call you Gooky or Taco :P). There was a surprising number of Melbournese people there too. I think they outnumbered the Sydneyers (you’re letting us down, people who didn’t come!)ps. I didn’t take any of your junk, @shane. Your plan failed.
Downvote for calling it junk.
It was quite clearly identified as ‘crap’ or ‘shit’ in previous posts!
I dunno man. Gooky sounds kind of racist. But it would explain the piano…
Also, QLDr’s almost outnumbered the Sydneysiders. For shame.
And not all of it was junk. Why @shane personally handed me what appeared with a quick flick through to be a homoerotic pulp romance novel in graphic novel form. (I also took the Ezio statue and feel terrible about it.)
You are the only person who understands what I was trying to say with those books.
If it makes you feel any better, I don’t know what to call me either.
My diet for the last 3 days has consisted almost entirely of alcohol and McDonalds.
I feel a little off :S
I think the problem there is that you didn’t consume enough Maccas to absorb the alcohol.
For your next trip, I expect you to follow an exact ratio and for you to note it down in your dietary notebook.
I basically had the same diet when I stayed at Faction’s house before PAX. I think my problem was I didn’t eat enough Shapes.
Do you know what I’ve consumed today? Some dregs of a packet of chips, and 3 JDs and coke. IT’S 10 AM. I THINK I HAVE A PROBLEM!
Blagh’s knows how to party.
I’ll attribute that to a suspected lack of sleep
Same
Yo, Mo, waddaya know?
1 + 1 = 2!
2
Morning all
My Weekend was exhausting, played boardgames on friday, took housemate to Airport on Sat morning, Played Boardgames with @trjn on saturday, almost passed out on their couch, that was awesome… then went and got the expansion for smashup on sunday. Many other things happened I cant remember though.
How is everyone else
Felt kind of upvote-y this morning.
Must be because of the NO UNI FOR TWO WEEKS *happy dance*
Have an upvote.
Reposting from Old TAY:
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 need them. They’re spares and I have the full set they belong to, so I want to give them away. If you’re interested then reply here or hit me up on Twitter.
Three links!? *faints*
Hold on, I gotta test this.
http://shanewsmith.com
http://shanewsmith.com/thelesserevil/
http://shanewsmith.com/gallery/gallery/
:O
…
\o/
Yet if you edit your post it’ll go to moderation if there’s more than one link 🙁
A week off work and I didn’t get nearly as far into GTA V as I thought I would. Back at work and it just seems pointless. I miss my students days when I could slack off, play games and watch the simpsons all day every day. Damned responsibilities
Also, Brisbane Heat capitulated as expected in the T20 Champions League last night. Can’t believe I got back up to watch the end of that match after deciding to head to bed when the floodlight went out. One day I’ll see that team actually take advantage of the powerplay
Working and being a responsible adult with nice things sucks balls. At least the having of nice things sort of makes up for it.
I definitely prefer being an adult to being a kid. People lament how life was easier when you didn’t have to worry about anything but homework and school but I was a very socially isolated teenager and a massive underachiever after having it pretty easy in primary school and never developing any study habits. I didn’t have a terrible time at school (like I wasn’t bullied a lot or anything like that) but I still look back at high school as being some of the most miserable times of my life.
Moving in with my girlfriend, getting a full time job, getting married… I much prefer working a 40 hour week to earn money to pay bills than I every enjoyed having copious amounts of holidays. At least when I get home from work, my life is my own. The only people I know who really miss high school are the people who peaked there. Some people were great in high school and got into their preferred university course, but still didn’t manage to end up where they wanted to.
I don’t really know what I wanted out of life when I was 18, apart from winning the lottery, but the next best thing is working a job I find interesting enough that keeps the bills under control.
That would be me! High school was probably the best time of my life, or at least a very close second. Almost complete agency, beloved by all, big fish in a small pond, and almost everything in life was easy. Study, sports, drama/art co-curricular activities…
The man love thread!!
Proclaim your man love!!
First of all – Man love to Bill Murray. <3
What a guy!
I have to say, for me it’s Jason Statham.
Bowie.
Chris Hemsworth, the dude is Thor, nuff said!
That and he is just so damn dreamy.
*sigh*
Oh I thought of another, Nathan Fillion, the reason… he is Nathan Fillion.
Not sure if I should upvote both choices in agreement or downvote in jealousy 😉
Hugh Jackman.
He sings and dances, he slices apart people with adamantium claws, slays vampires and gets oral sex while hacking.
Plus he’s so ruggedly handsome.
All incredibly valid reasons.
Simon Pegg
AKA @markserrels
Man love for Chino Moreno, Ewan McGregor and Lance Henriksen.
Stephen Fry.
I would just sit there and stare at him for hours while he rambled on about anything and everything. Every time he drew breath I would whack him with a stick and shout “KEEP TALKING”.
Oh goddamnit, I’ve leaked my crazy thoughts onto TAY again, haven’t I?
All that needs is tea and scones and David Attenborough for him to talk to.
I have no idea how long I could sit and listen to those two talk to each other
Bruce Willis.
The reason: Bruce Willis.
(Edit: Really? Bill Murray? Well, go ahead and proclaim your man-love, I guess… You’ll never be his biggest fan, though. No-one loves Bill Murray as much as Bill Murray does. But he certainly seems to expect everyone to try. :P)
Bill Murray is a fucking legend and I question your credentials as a human being for not sharing my opinion.
IT’S BILL FUCKIN’ MURRAY.
As the codester says – Bill. Fucking. Murray.
BUT i would like to add. BRUCE. FUCKING. WILLIS!!!
Bruce fucking Willis is also a thing.
Bowie for me, too.
Stephen Fry & Professor Brian Cox.
I would have a man love threesome with those two guys. no questions asked.
oh shiz!!!
I need to proclaim my biggest man love.
BRUCE “HAIL TO THE KING” CAMPBELL
Hm, who else have we forgotten… Sean Connery, Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
so you prefer the older gentlemen? 😉
They’re only older NOW. There are no new young heroes. Only pup whippersnappers!
There is a distinct lack of Morgan Freeman in this thread
Robert Downy Jr.
I think it started with Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. But then Iron Man pretty much locked it in. And after Tropic Thunder, there was absolutely no turning back.
Wil Wheaton
that guy can play board games with me whenever he wants 😉
no i’m serious, i’d love to play board games with him.
Because you know you’d win?
BioShock Infinite (PC) is like $12 again.
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/117251
Is Shin Megami Tensei (put long name here) worth picking up? If I recall @bish has been playing it.
Shin Megami Tensei… 4?
I don’t know, the devil soul hackers one or whatever it’s called. I think it came out in Japan / US ages ago.
Right! That one. (Thought I heard 4 was getting released soon in AU but maybe I got confused)
Nah.
It’s an interesting game if you’ve delved into the main series and spinoffs just to see mechanically what they’ve done and how they did it, but as a game, it feels a little archaic compared to, say, SMT 3: Nocturne or even Strange Journey, which is probably a better comparison. The battle system plays more like Persona 1 if you’ve ever played that; if you haven’t, it’s not much like Persona 3/4, so comparisons there are stretching it. It doesn’t have quite the same refined combat, and that’s probably the crux of many of the latest SMT games, at least for me personally.
Would not recommend to the general RPG gamer.
Cool, thanks frond I will probably give it a miss then!
Morning amigos!
I had a pretty laid back weekend, having a couple months off alcohol and whatnot for a bit of a health kick. Went to a driving range with a few friends for the first time in ages, oh man standing still I couldnt hit the ball to save my life, Happy Gilmore-esk swing I managed to hit it straight 175m. So that was my technique the rest of the session and boy it worked for the majority of it.
We headed back home and started setting up for a BBQ while watching Sudden Impact, a cheesy Van Dam movie that is HILARIOUSLY bad. Basic plot is Van Dam is a fire fighter who must save his little girl from terrorists who have taken her and the vice president hostage at a hockey match, holding them ransom for $1,700,000,000.00…yes 1 billion 700 million. Im glad we watched it though, it felt like more a comedy with how much we were laughing at it.
Batman: Under the Red Hood came on TV afterwards, such a good movie.
Played some GTAV, felt like a bit of a pychopath. I had a collosion with a gentleman who proceeded to pull me from my vehicle and lay the smackdown on me. I reversed over his legs, poured gasoline over him and ignited the trail via blowing up his vehicle.
Happy Monday \o/
EDIT: Spelling.
Reading: . o O (Oh well, GTAV does probably make you feel like a bit of a psychopath just due to the unavoidable collateral damage. But I don’t know if that qualifies for… *reads* …Nope. You a straight-up psycho, Vonsack. You damaged as hell.)
You’re beginning to sound like my therapist.
>:D
Stuff in dot point form!
– woke up with the beginnings of a migraine today. but instead of staying home in bed & being a totally justified sook, I’m at work popping painkillers every few hours trying to to throw up. because thanks barry o’farrel for taking away our one-day-of-sick-leave-without-doctors-certificate things. fun times.
– parents have a talent for making any conversation awkward (i think they do it intentionally). on the phone with my mother last night, mentioned going to see Sharknado the other week.
“oh who’d you go with?”
“just a friend”
“is it…. a girl?”
*seeing where this is heading* “sigh…yes.”
“a… girlfriend?” *tone is getting more suggestive by the second*
“no.”
“why not? are you gay?”
“no, she’s just not interested”
“in that case, there’s a girl I work with about your age. she’s cute. I’ll give her your number &…”
“OH GOD NO PLEASE STOP THIS NOW”
– GTA V (early-ish game spoilers. before the first heist at any rate.)
that mission where you infiltrate the facebook / apple expy to sabotage the prototype phone… is its just me, or was anyone else proper shocked when the the CEO gets half his face blown off? I mean, it seems that was played for laughs, but it was just way too abrupt to be funny.– more GTA V stuff. I don’t like Trevor. though he does sport a rockin’ beard.
I wasted a lot of the available time I had with GTA V driving to every available barber shop, hoping to find new styles.
To my despair, no-one would shave Michael’s head.
[Edit: Also: Oh godammit, no! Don’t start a mission, I just want to get into the house to change wardrobe from this crap! And maybe watch TV on the couch while I try to eat/have a conversation! The game seems determined to conspire to keep you from your current goal, and while that may be cool most of the time, it’s a pain in the ass if you have a RL reason for trying to reach a certain activity in-game.]
After toying around with hairstyles for a bit, I discovered one that made Michael look almost exactly like Mr Blonde
Siblings are the best because when my sister got married and had a kid, on both occassions my other sister and I were all “AW YUS, PRESSURE IS OFF” and then we high fived.
Parents have their grandchild. They are happy.
I have 3 younger brothers, all of whom have partners.
You’d think the with 3/4 sorted that the pressure would be off, but that is not the case, unfortunately…
My parents despair of grandchildren. One of their sons is gay, one is shy and lazy, and another is an incurable commitophobe/lech.
just coz you’re gay doesnt mean you cant have a kid.
Well. He also doesn’t want to. He’ll probably get a cat, at best.
pets are a viable replacement for children. thats the path i’m going down anyway…
My mother has accepted my childfree lifestyle but she has started acting as a surrogate grandmother to the small children that live in the town where her and my stepfather operate the local postoffice/general store.
My parents tried to talk me out of having kids. Le sigh.
I don’t think it was played for laughs as Michael is all “I’m sure he was an asshole but I don;t think he deserved to get his head blown off on TV.”I was well shocked.
i swear he was laughing when it happened. in a HOLY SHIT THATS MESSED UP sorta way, but laughing nevertheless…I used to get that from both sets of grandparents,
Luckily my parents stopped them doing that… I dont know how you could get your parents to stop.
Main thing is, as long as you are happy with where you are that’s what matters 🙂
But if their genetic line ends with you, then their bid at immortality has failed! That’s of significance to them! Who cares what YOU want, you were simply a step in their plan for defying mortality!
I dont think they’d want to take the chance that their grandchild might be a *shudder* ….
….
…….
GingerI kinda expected that bit with the Lifehacker Phone – because everyone knows, 1) there’s room for an extra mobo in a mobile device, and 2) hackers can make your device blow up by hacking it – heck, the hackers in Die Hard 4.0 managed to download C4 into that one guys computer.So – after the man love thread – it’s the perfect segue-way to the much loved (hated) IN MY ASS GAME!!
The title of the last song you listened to followed by ‘in my ass’
Good god in my ass!
Edit: Ugh… page get fail.
Edit Edit: Page two? Number two in my ass???
CHULOOPA \o/You Gotta Love This City In My Ass.
…ouchies, that one will hurt.
Prejudice and Pride in my ass
Pretty Visitors in my ass!
…
\o/
Stay in my ass
😉
Midnight Man in my ass
O_O
Ghosts ‘n stuff in my ass. (It is haunted.)
Make U Sweat… in my ass
Help me lose my mind in my ass.
The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown in my ass)
I sat by the ocean in my ass.
Oh god…
Judas Is Rising in my ass.
Free. Slurpee. Refills.
*heaven*
Hey Matt, when do we get Alex back?
Alex is dead. There is only Matt.
It is known.
What isn’t known is if Matt shows up to board games.
I decided that I needed to lose weight. Started things by doing some push-ups and sit-ups just now. Then I’ll go for a walk or something after Breaking Bad o’clock.
I expect this to last until after Breaking Bad o’clock, when I decide I don’t want to go for a walk.
Maybe you should walk until Breaking Bad o’clock instead?
That would require either: a) putting on pants or b) doing laps around the apartment.
Neither of these appeal.
Maybe that’s why you figure you need to lose weight?
The ‘don’t leave the apartment’ body-weight workout:
1) Squats
2) Lunges
3) Dips
4) Sit-ups
5) Push-ups
6) Burpees (if you hate yourself)
Do [arbitrary number] of each. Problem solved!
I’ll probably work out some routine of things that aren’t burpees if this keeps going.
Leaving the apartment is kind of mandatory. Part of this is to have multiple instances of exercising a day and also just getting out of here a bit more often so that I delay my inevitable insanity.
I’m kinda like a dog, I need to go for ‘walkies’ for my sanity. If I don’t get an escape from the office to power around the block at least once (preferably twice) a day, I will go insane.
I read somewhere that the biggest part of the stress-relief smokers get from smoke breaks isn’t the nicotine hit as much as it is the break.
I read about a guy who wanted the breaks but didn’t smoke, so he bought bubble mix and took “bubble breaks”- just went outside and blew bubbles for 10 minutes.
That was on Reddit the other day. He did it for years and didn’t once consider getting one of those bubble blowing pipes.
That would be where I read it (reddit?) then
Amazing! 😀
Fuck burpees.
…said anyone who has ever done them. 😛
Dare I ask what burpees are?
http://youtu.be/O7_TBHno0Os – the technique is poor, but shows you the gist of it. (Especially the first few comments responded to by the video poster.)
Try a couple – say, I dunno. Five. Then you will have an understanding of why people hate them. 🙂
I don’t need to. I feel terrible after 15 pushups, I can only imagine I’d hit that point after like… five of these. If that.
I’m pretty sure that forcing prisoners to do burpees would be a violation of the Geneva convention.
Zero is an arbitrary number. 😛
There have been so many awesome Albums this month….
Naked And Famous – In Rolling Waves
Chvrches – The Bones of what you believe
London Grammar – If you wait
Adalita – All day venus
Just so amazing
Also – New Placebo album – Loud Like Love
Dear @freezespreston and @rize
Please do not purchase copies of Peaceful Tomorrows Volume 2. Due to your crazy levels of generosity certain… arrangements… have already been made on your behalf.
Sincerely.
He’s hired a hitman to whack you guys.
It’s the only way to stop the guilt.
Considering the massive donation you made on Saturday, I think we’re even in terms of generosity 😛
Only if you took all of it.
Well, I took the giant box of Star Wars books. Does that help?
Doesn’t hurt \o/
My copy of GTA V just turned up in the mail from ozgameshop — only checking in to see whether I beat @shane or not, and to say see you next year!
I kid, I kid. I’m sure Kotaku dick jokes are better than GTA dick jokes, I’ll be back for page 6.WHAT – REALLY? I GOTTA GET HOME!
*poises hammer over big toe*
Forgot the weekly plug:
WOLF CREEK THE MUSICAL
“Two severed thumbs up”- Crikey
Fringe Hub – The Loft, Lithuanian Club, Melbourne til October 5th
One of my biggest regrets is not catching this while I was in Adelaide.
Classic albums containing one crap track.
You know the score, you’re listening to one of your favourite albums and suddenly that crap track comes on that you had almost forgotten about. Ugh, that damn song. An otherwise near flawless CD, the song just doesn’t flow with the rest of the album and totally puts you off. Ones that I have discovered include:
Bugs; Pearl Jam’s Vitalogy
red dot; Pearl Jam’s Yield
Just Breathe; Pearl Jam’s Backspacer
Wasted reprise; Pearl Jam’s self titled
Beside You in Time; Nine Inch Nails’ With Teeth
The Game, My Ego, Mish Mash; Regurgitator’s Mish Mash
Every song on Metallica’s St Anger
Then again, maybe it’s just a Pearl Jam thing. Does any one else share this OCD dilemma?
St Anger does include one good track; The Unnamed Feeling.
Oh yeah, there’s almost no such thing as a perfect album. There are very few albums that I can listen through from start to finish without skipping a track or two. I share your dilemma.
My favourite album for start-to-finish listening would be Dark Side of the Moon.
Yellow Submarine – Revolver (The Beatles)
I know they just wanted Ringo to sing, but the track is inconsequential compared to the rest of the album.
Ooo a Beatles fan. My dad would love you. Yes, his love of the band has rubbed off onto me, sure, but I tend to enjoy their later years music – whereas he loves it all. I have Abbey Road, White album and Sgt Peppers. In regards to those three, Abbey Road is pretty much flawless, Sgt Peppers is okay, and White Album’s worst tracks are pretty much Paul’s “granny music shit”.
I think Revolver is their greatest – other than above mentioned “slight” track (which is still kinda fun) it’s incredibly hard to criticise.
Hmm I may have to check that one out, though I have heard that Revolver goes hand in hand with Rubber Soul.
Rubber Soul is very good, but it’s really setting the table for the next few albums. Does have Norwegian Wood and Nowhere Man though
Dunno about ‘classic album’ but one of the first CDs I ever purchased as a kid was ‘Dreamland’ by Robert Miles and it used to piss me off so much that the entire album was excellent except the second track that was absolutely ruined by some chick wailing off-tune all over it. Whenever I would listen to it I had to skip it. At one point I burned a copy of the CD without that track in it and it was glorious.
Mustapha; Queen’s Jazz.
Luckily, it’s the first song so you just start at Fat Bottomed Girls and all is right with the world.
Judas Priest’s cover of Johnny B. Goode on Ram It Down. It’s not particularly bad or anything, it just doesn’t really feel like it fits alongside the rest of the album. Seems more like it should have been a part of Turbo instead.
What up, home slices?
Whenever DC’s not on screen, all the other characters should be saying…
Oh, wait.
Hi, DC! How’re things?
Things are decent! How are you?
Not bad, thanks.
Morning DC! How goes you this fairly average Monday?
Hey Nobs!
Hiya DC
How’s the media?
Liberal?
Good.
That’s my dailiy sighting for the day. Back to GTAV. 😀
Wait what? Did Tony Abbott really appoint himself as minister for women or is this one of those Internet jokes?
It’s for real.
O_o
Don’t forget the Secretary Assisting the Minister for Woman. It’s not going well so far.
To be fair, I don’t think I’ve ever seen two women in the same room.
Pretty sure there’s only one woman ever and everyone else just dresses up (fabulously) in drag.
Is… Is this one of those Internet jokes?
The internet couldn’t make a joke like this.
Well he is an expert. Knows exactly what their proper place and role in society is and everything.
…
/o\
Look on the bright side: at least we’re not women.
“Minister for lay-deeeeeees”
Morning Friends!!
Screw Wind Waker, Link’s Awakening kicks arse… just as awesome as i remember it 🙂
also how the hel do i get rid of the 2 notifications???? it keeps telling me i have two, but there are none!!! its been stuck on 2 for 3 weeks now…
They’re probably from an old thread that’s been removed from being viewable. I have a notification I’ve been unable to get rid of since before E3 because the post got pulled ater someone replied to me on it but before I was able to read it.
ahhh… damn it.
I won’t downvote because I respect everyones opinion.
No matter how wrong they are. =PConfession: I like WindWaker, but I:
a) Cant be bothered flopping out my GameCube
b) Don’t have, and have no intention of owning a WII-U; Unless I score one for like $80 and even then will probably rarely touch, but then again flashy gadgets and stuff 🙂
c) Dont know if i can invest 60hours in my home-office without the missus threatening to murder me so i can play a HD upscaled GC version on the Dolphin Emulator….
Wait, what do you mean your GameCube isn’t constantly at the ready??
well i didnt get one till about 12 months ago and it is just sitting in its box
I’ve heard that if you have a wii w/ homebrew, and a disk copy of windwaker, you can:
1) use cleanrip to clone your disk to usb/sd
2) use devolution to load/run the image from usb/sd on your wii. The first time you run it (I think it’s *only* the first time), you need to have the disk in (as a sort of proof that you own a legit copy), but it’ll do stuff like emulate gc memcard, too (you need a gc controller)
I suffer no such compunctions! Enjoy your downvote and your wrongness, wrong-person!
(Link’s Awakening kicks the crap out of Wind Wanker. I haven’t played the latter, but I’ve seen videos and they make me glad I didn’t play it.)
Bleh, Wind Waker is superior on all levels, graphically / artistic style, music and characters (for once Zelda wasn’t just a 1 dimensional character.) Wind Waker is the best Legend of Zelda game made to date.
I could agree if you’d said it was good… but superior to Link’s Awakening? THE best Zelda game? ENJOY YOUR DOWNVOTE, SIR!
surely you cant compare them graphically??? i mean one is a gameboy game, and the other is a gamecube/wii-u game!
music was fantastic in links awakening, even considering all the limitations of the gameboy hardware!
I think it’s perfectly reasonable seeing as no one seems to want to take off their rose tinted glasses.
Also, If we can’t compare the games then that makes this whole endeavour pointless. (I mean, to be honest it was a little pointless at first due to the fact that the “best” game is always going to be decided by ones feelings).
Link’s Awakening is amazingly good.
I need to get around to playing Link to the Past before the sequel drops…
Walking With Dinosaurs The 3D Movie.
ZOMGlooksawesomemyinnerchildislosingitsmind!!
Oh yeah. I’m sitting in a cinema waiting for Turbo to start.
School holidays yo.
27 days to go till Pokemans
\o/
So close yet so far.
20 here!
But it’s okay because I will probably sit on it and not play it and instead be farming all the things in Rune Factory 4.
18!
New shiny Friday!
3DS Question: is it possible to take screenshots?
Some games have it built in. Animal Crossing, you just press both L and R triggers.
Doesn’t seem to work in all games, though. Certainly not in DS games 🙁
I really wish they’d incorporate a system-wide screenshot function. The one in Animal Crossing is really good to use. They already have the upload-to-social-media website thingo too!
Maybe when Miiverse comes to the 3DS.
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ChristianNutt/20130920/200739/Whats_going_to_happen_to_Atlus_postSega.php?print=1
This made me sad. It’s probably about right though. Atlus Japan will continue, but Sega will likely gut and then close Atlus USA because they already do localization in-house and Atlus’ usual games are too niche for Sega to give a shit about 🙁
@dc Jeff Daniels won the emmy for best actor. Deserved?
He certainly does a smashing job in The Newsroom.
But mostly for Dumb & Dumber.
Yeah, he does good!
“Shoot. The hostage”
Once GTA Online begins, we should start stock market scams.
So what we do is find one company and rob the balls off of it, then invest all the money into the stocks while they’re low to drive the stocks back up, sell, then hit the bastards again.
I’m picturing some CEO sitting in his office in time lapse as the level of paperwork on his desk piles higher and higher, juxtaposed with the level of whiskey in a decanter dropping lower and lower.
Over and over.
I’m a monster.
Or we pick a specific model of car and beat up on it continually
Sorry Dewbauchee, your customers are about to become very interested in the less “accident-prone” Invetero Coquettes.
Or buying ammunation stock and then everyone goes and buys rocket launchers
I shall be too busy becoming the undisputed tennis champion of Los Santos.
Should buy stocks in bikes. You know that will always pay off, because, bikes.
^ This guy, he gets it!
Amunation :-p
I’m on board for this!
It’ week 3 and I still have this cold thing.
Getting real tired of it’s shit.
Multiple weeks begins to sound a lot less like ‘common cold’ and a lot more like ‘lung infection’ or something. c.c
Yeah I’m on anti-biotics but so far, nothing
try kicking it in the balls and telling it to fuck off…. worked for my mates sister when she was trying to get rid of her boyfriend…
I had the flu for nearly 2 weeks, felt better for 2 days, crashed again for no particular reason. Feeling a lot better after getting plenty of sleep on the weekend but my nose and lips are all chapped from constant blowing/breathing.
I hate when my nose is so blocked up I have to mouth breathe while eating. I feel an old man trying to gum his way through an orange.
Hai TAY. Obligatory follow-up post here, after last week’s relatively-successful introduction.
This weekend was pretty chill. I even managed to snag a free copy of GTAV via my gf’s friend. The dude bought the game, then realised he left PS3 controller+HDMI+power-cord in another town 200km away. +FreeGame (loan) for us!
We’ve mostly just been cruising around the countryside having some fun. GF’s bday is coming up, she suggested GTAV & PS4 as her gift. Not sure if srs… since it’s my house, my TV, my home theatre… 😛 But! This way I have access to the next-gen anyway. Not sure what to go with…
HOW GO YOUR WEEKENDS?
Engagement ring ensures permanent access to PS4.
Heh, she wishes. 😛
Games are expensive, consoles even more-so! Console for yourself, game for her. That way, if you have to kick her out at some point, she only takes the game, not the console.
Much less heartbreak.
Yeah I know. Either way, I’m going to spend some cash because she gifted me a GoPro Black. I can’t follow that up after all this time (my bday is april) with a nail salon voucher..
has anyone tried that portal homebrew for the ds out of curiosity? its freaking rad… if only the ds/3ds had a second analogue….
I haven’t tried it, but the video I saw seemed pretty cool! 🙂
it is awesome. also includes a map editor, and getting new maps is as easy as downloading them and sticking them in a folder…
Is it circle pad pro compatible? That would be awesome if it was.
not sure, dont have one to test 🙁
I doubt it would be, pretty sure the 3DS hardware would be inaccessible to anything running in DS mode.
Personally, I found the touch screen great as an analogue control – you just need to make sure you have your thumbstrap for your DS Phat. Best most under-appreciated accessory in the universe.
Job interview get at EB Games of all places.
Don’t tell them you’re a gamer.
So you’re saying I shouldn’t wear my GTA V collectors edition Los Santos hat to the interview? damn it..
From what I’ve heard in TAY, identifying as a gamer actually makes them less likely to hire you, because you’ll have opinions of your own which might not match the store’s.
I saw that, yeah the only place it’s a positive to mention that is JB HiFi. Keep it to yourself otherwise.
Tell ’em you’re motivated to make a name for yourself in sales. They’ll eat that shit right up. 🙂
(‘Motivated’ on its own is bad – choose motivated to do something.)
Also: Penny-Arcade relevance: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/11/12
Cheers, it’s only for a Christmas casuals position, but hey i’m willing to take any retail work currently.
Practice selling people on the benefits of random household objects because they might hand you a fucking pen or something and get you to “sell” it to them. Don’t overplay your interest in games but to maintain a self awareness about gaming/nerd trivia. Prepare what you say before you start talknig to avoid awkward pauses, even if it means you don’t start talking for a few seconds – it just looks like you’re carefully considering the question (which you are). Don’t talk too much or try to hog the spotlight if it’s a group interview. If you take 2 minutes to say someting that can be said in 30 seconds you’re not a good salesperson.
If you have the opportunity, indicate that you understand it’s not all talking about games and rining it up at the register – there’s “housekeeping” involved in operating a successful store too. Don’t dwell on it too much, but drop a reference to it as an aside, they’ll appreciate that they won’t have to explain it to you later when you’re asked to strap on the backpack vacuum and chase the dustbunnies away after the doors close.
Yep group interview. Last time I had one of those (for Aldi) it seemed all we were there for was to listen and nothing else :S
Group interviews are the biggest wank and I actually think significantly less of any job that wants me to participate in one. 😛
But I can afford to be choosy.
Damn right they are.. I had one at Ford last year, the guys conducting the interview their heads were so far up their own arses i’m surprised they were able to breathe let alone talk…
I found it’s not just the guys conducting the interviews, but also the eager-beavers desperate to prove themselves ahead of the pack, trying to prove they have ‘leadership material’ by way of being bossy or hoping everyone else will put up with letting them direct things. So much wank on all sides, I’ll never participate in one voluntarily ever again.
Yeah, that’s a fair point. Ugh care salesmen though, they just seem so scummy..
The last group interview I had was for Westpac. They like to identify all employees as “leaders”, i.e. “people leaders” instead of managers, “self leaders” instead of office drone. In the group activity they set the group a task to give a presentation, which resulted in everyone trying to prove themselves by contributing the most to the discussion.
I watched everyone contribute their points, identified the key areas where each person would perform best based on what they were saying and provided gentle suggestions like “ok Julie, you take part A, Steve, you take part B, Jim you take part D, and I’ll volunteer part C” (part C being the bit no one else wanted to do).
Guess who got the job?
Of course, it was still a pretty crummy place to work, at least at the office drone level. Very glad to leave.
*sigh* last episode of Dexter for good tonight.. Not even sure how this is going to end, since it could go a few ways as it is.
dexter runs away to New Mexico. nobody in miami ever finds out what happened to him. Next weeks Breaking Bad finale ends with a standoff between Walter White & Dexter Morgan…In a post credits stinger, its revealed that they go into business together, using White’s drug dealing contacts to hunt down murdering dealers etc & kill them. thus begins a spin-off series… its like a buddy cop comedy.
Edit: thats a total joke by the way. no real spoilers.
One’s a horrible person, the other’s… also a horrible person! hijinks ensue!This needs to happen..
I just sneezed so loudly that about a dozen people in my office were startled by the noise. Just thought you all should know for when I attend a meat.
i do that too… especially when i yawn… my missus
hatesloves itMy dad’s sneezes do that. It’s like some kind of fricken sonic bomb going off, every time.
Well that was formulaic and predictable.
Really, what is wrong with Ryan Reynolds? He’s funny, good looking and has all the charm there ever was but is utterly incapable of picking an even halfway decent script and hasn’t really ever started in a decent movie. He’s doomed himself.
Which movie did you see?
Turbo
Ahh, that movie looked pretty “meh” from the adds / trailers I’ve seen.
I theorize that Ryan Reynolds is like… a consolation prize to bad movies.
Yeah, it’s utter shit, but if – for whatever reason – you’re forced to watch it, at least there’ll be some Ryan Reynolds.
He needs to be up on the man crush page from earlier. I loved him in Definitely, Maybe and The Proposal.
He was brilliant in Waiting… as well.
Doesn’t matter what Ryan Reynolds does ever again because Blade Trinity.
Not sure if blade trinity makes your heart flutter or if he can never redeem himself from doing that. Opinions seem to go both ways
Put it this way…I could watch that movie on Mute and still be happy…. 😛
I am apparently terrible at giving things away. 🙁
nah, it’s just TAY as usual.
It seems like pretty cool stuff! Just… stuff I don’t really want, myself. But pretty cool! And y’know, I give you generosity upvotes for it. 🙂
Yeah I think the problem is that no one wants them. Maybe if Namco weren’t dicks and released the games in English. 🙁
The blonde one kinda had that weird piece of hair that sticks up like Milla 😛
But yeah, no clue who any of them were…
Ahoge. Idiot hair. Usually suggests the character is carefree, stupid or a not quite in touch with reality.
Well perhaps @jordi would be interested based on the excitement of getting the last one.
The are really cute but since I don’t know the games there is no connection.
Well the difference is that the one I gave to her was a Tales figure. Multiple people here would have been interested.
The only time anything Idolmaster has been localized it was an iOS port of some of the PSP rhythm games which were insanely overpriced. Though insane pricing is basically the M.O. for that series.
I’m starting to think about going to Oz Comic Con in Melbourne next year. I’ll have to save pretty hard to afford it as I have a wedding to go to in Sydney in May. Looking forward to seeing who the guests will be.
EDIT: Pageget!!!!! Woot!!!!!
Or, save for PAX in Melbourne next year! =D
This. PAX next year will likely be a step up from this year’s too.
I have a couple of friends who are talking about going to Oz Comic Con, which is why I’m thinking that rather than PAX Aus.
I’m not sure if I’ll be there next year. This year was a bit of a financial wash-out for me. :\
I think a lot of the problem was timing. It was what, two or three weeks before PAX AU? One’s monthly nerdery budget can only stretch so far…
They’re probably going to shift PAX so it doesn’t clash with comic-con in the US, so fingers crossed…
It’s tough to move it from where it was though. Always going to clash with something. A month earlier and it’d be on top of E3. A month later and it’d be on top of Gamescom, and PAX Prime is the month after that, and TGS is September. Plus if they’re going to move it to Jeff’s Shed then they’ll have other events to fit in with.
Reposting for probably the last time – I’ll just assume no one wants these. 🙁
I have some spare Nendoroid Petits that I want to give away.
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.
If you’re interested then reply here or hit me up on Twitter.
I’m never going to manage to give these away, am I? 🙁
Well it depends on what sort of home you want them to go. I am kinda interested in possibly getting them for my nieces as they are gaga about collectable doll things at the moment.
But didn’t want to make somebody who knows the games not ask for them because taybies are like that. Much prefer the go to a taybie who wants them
@doc_what Thinking back, did I offer you one of these ages ago? I can’t recall for sure but I have a vague feeling I may have.
So I ordered a CD from Blockbuster right, they supposedly posted it on the 11th, still waiting for it to be delivered, this was being shipped inside Australia too, at this rate stuff I bought off eBay from the UK will arrive first :S
Auspost \o/
Yeah, it was being shipped from Victoria ffs, that’s a 4 day trip at most for post =/
Oh well Blockbuster are looking into it for me. I really wish JB would stop using Aus Post, or at least let us opt for express post, because it just takes way too long, i’ve waited upto 10 days for stuff that was posted from a JB HiFi north of Brisbane?! Also no doubt the new Alter Bridge & Scar The Martyr CD’s i’ve ordered which come out Friday will take 2 weeks to get here *sigh* again shipped from Victoria, if it wasn’t for the signed album & other shit that is only available from ordering online I wouldn’t bother.
Turns out their Warehouse is not in Victoria like the email made me think but it is in Hong Kong, so it’ll be here by the end of the week then, cause customs give everything the twice over that comes from Hong Kong for some weird reason.
New Little King’s Story.
I’m enjoying this immensely.
The end.
Hello all. Finished Bioshock Infinite on Friday night.
That was a rather bittersweet ending. It was good, though I was a bit disappointed we didn’t get multiple endings like we got in the last two games, which actually would have fit really well with Infinite’s story.Also, I caved and got GTA5 on PS3. It wasn’t just taymarketing this time, but also real world marketing, cause it seems everyone ever has this game (my neighbor was even asking me if I’d played it yet). It’s pretty decent. That map is ridiculously huge. Michael is the best of the three protagonists.
Anyone checked out http://www.epsilonprogram.com yet?
Yes.
Is it part of the story or anything? Or just some odd addition? Loading screen message suggested I go there.
I’m not too sure.
Only one of the characters can access the site, which unlocks a Strangers side story. I’m not sure if this was unlocked because I went there or it happens anyway. It’s pretty great.I need to find that..
Which character was it that goes on their path to enlightenment? I’m guessing Trevor..They each have a cult. If you’ve picked up a hitchhiker or a drunk, you’ve met Trevor’s. I’m trying not to give you specifics so you can enjoy the awesome feeling when it starts to come together. Just have each of the characters go to the site. Quickest way is to just Google, or the GTA equivalent, “Cult”.Ah cheers, I haven’t. I’ll keep an eye, only hitch-hiker i’ve picked up was a chick I unlocked as a heist driver heh.I did because you linked it, and then I realised you’d tricked me into checking out something GTAV related….
Need a shower?
Kifflom!
EB Expo is coming up, who’s going?
It wasn’t that great last year and the pricing seems a bit much ($40 per session, two sessions per day) especially compared to PAX. On the other hand, they have board games.
BOARD GAMES!
I’m considering going on Sunday but it’d probably just be better to get people to come over and play BOARD GAMES as usual.
You won’t be able to assemble a crack troop of Taybies and Friends and spend the morning trying to figure out what the shit is going on in Eclipse though, so why bother going?
I could buy Eclipse and do that though.
And then lose in the last turn because I didn’t think my neighbour had the ability to brutally crush me and my monkeys.
Good luck finding a copy of Eclipse to actually buy. After PAX I went looking for it and it’s disappeared again unless I want to pay astronomical prices for it 🙁
And now I have neither the spare cash nor the space for it.
I’d probably go whole hog and pick up Twilight Imperium 3 instead.
Games Paradise has a few copies of Eclipse if you actually want it. Costs about $100 (maybe a bit more?) but it’s there if you find the space.
Yeah see at the time OGS had it for $55. 🙁 $100 is way beyond my price range.
Twilight Imperium is good, but it’s enormous and takes forever to play. I have never finished a game.
Played Taj Mahal yesterday, quite an interesting game. Got into a battle over one province that really cost me. oh well, had to be done as it was worth to much to me to just let go.
Potaku have passes for the Saturday but I don’t actually know which session they’re letting us into…
Last I heard a few people were interested in going on the Sunday, but it was mostly general mumbling.
Gone are the glory days of the huge, reasonably organised Sydney meats, it seems.
Haha, organised.
If a reasonably sized group is going, I’ll come. I’d be going more for the people than actually wanting to go to the Expo 😛
For one brief, sickening moment I actually considered setting up a browser tab with a spoofed user-agent and signing up for Mobage.
Is this because of Atlus :'(
They’ve got a ton of popular games in Japan. I kind of just want to see what the fuss is about.
English-language Mobage I think all they have is Rage of Bahamut and that’s not worth it.
I guess this is the upside to the fact I have a crappy Windows Phone that has no apps and no developer support. 🙁
I just checked three pages of TAY for Meat reports. There were surprisingly few. Not good enough, peoples. Now I suppose I’ll have to do one.
– I took my little sister to Can’d Meat. She stayed for hours and is not scarred for life. \o/
– @blaghman did a very passable try at @bishing. In true Bishy style he wouldn’t let me help. (Hi @bish! )
– @rocketman is the best at Rock Band entertainingment but holy hells does @mrtaco have an epic set of lungs! Also, I don’t think I’ve had a song dedicated to me before. What’s that? No it’s not a tear, something’s in my eye, okay?
– @rize reminds me of the drummer in a (garage) band I was in once.
– @nomad is kind of a giant. How does he fold himself into a car for all his nomadic journeys?!
– I had no idea who was going to be there so all the Melbourne people were a super awesome surprise. I think I’ve mentioned before how awesome Melbourne TAYbies are, way better than those Sydney snobs who think they’re too good for Canberra Meats…. 😛
– I tried to pimp @shane’s stuff but people are too polite. I have no such qualm and happily grabbed a little Little Sister and a PS2 Indiana Jones game, as well as some fluffily garbed juggling geese.
– Mashaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! 😀
OH! Also, never let @cj near your rubber…anything. Especially if you don’t want it violated. 😛
Ha ha, yeah. He wants a carpet made of rock band drums. What?! 🙂
You should of been there for when @MrTaco played the piano.
I’m not crying. I’m not crying…
D:
I am :'(
Its ok guys I made a good impression for us I swear!
Also also, I left earlier than I wanted to, because I was tired. But when I got back to my sister’s I remembered I hadn’t finished handstitching the binding on her quilt so I was up until after midnight anyway. Probably should have just taken the quilt to the Meat and worked on it there. 😛
We didnt hug enough mum. Also i think your sister was freaked out by her new impromptu nephew. 😛
So… you’re not our new pet, then? Mrs Shane will be disappointed.
im on rotation between son and pet dog.
Sorry, I was entrusted with looking after the cats and House all weekend…
Sorry also goes to @blaghman
Sounds like I missed out on quite a bit of the awesome.
More things I remember that I didn’t write before:
* @mrtaco’s disappointed face when my small talk fizzled out and he realised just how much of a letdown I am in person
* flubbing up my introduction to @freezespreston by babbling like a moron and forgetting to say thank you for Dark Souls II
* making @strange think that I was scared of her.
Wooo! Social skills.
You think to much sir and you are way to generous
side note
HOW MANY COPIES OF SERENITY DOES ONE PERSON NEED?????
SERENITY++
(always one more)
I now own six copies of it.
I think that’s enough.
I used to own thirteen. Now down to two or three, I think. How many were in the box?
http://www.asianbite.com/photos/jackie-chan/jackie-chan-images_14807.jpg
7
Ah, but do you own Firefly on bluray in A STEELBOOK CASE?!
Oh god my face did that?
That wasn’t disappointment in you that was disappointment in me.
You were fine. And you did say thank you. I remember because I got all awkward because I don’t handle thanks all that well.
Just remember, no matter how weird you seem I can usually balance it out by being weirder.
Wait until you meat me, man. So disappointing. :'(
I don’t remember that last bit. Now I’m wondering exactly what was in that weird orange drink @freezespreston was responsible for…. D:
Unadulterated awesomeness.
TAY Meat Report – jimuGamer
I aint been to A MEAT SINCE THAT MOVIE ONE WHENS (oops capslock) whens Dans! and Sullys and Myth dint even show at the movies because drunk.
Me freeze and DC had good burgers b4 the movie Nobs had mediocre burgers after the moovie, I had twistys after the movie Freeze had New York Slice after the movie.
The movie was good, Elysium wa sthe name, it starred MATT DAMOOOON.
He did all right.
Sydney Snobs?
I even hugged you Strange!! Why!! :’-(
WAIT!
Technically I live outside Sydney and I did get a paragraph of my own on your meat write up \o/
You’re OK this time Strange 🙂
I wasn’t talking about the awesome people who did turn up, just those snobby ones who stayed away. 🙂
I attribute those lungs to years of clarinet playing developing some good capacity and breathing control 😛 Though god knows how it could have survived that long, I haven’t touched the thing in ages…
Also holy hell, this appeared while I was writing up my thing and the post times between the two are huge :/
Hi Strange!
Gone from listening to Steel panther to listening to Idolmaster tracks in gameplay vids.
I think I broke my brain
Is this my fault? 🙁
100% your fault
Edit: Actually only 50%, the other 50% is one of the staff here who mentioned steel panther at lunch
So…
Which ones? 😛
If you really want to cause yourself some brain trauma (due to insulin shock from the diabetes it will give you) IIRC one of the Yayoi song collections has a cover of her singing the main theme from Bandai’s Mojipittan. Has the added ‘bonus’ of being an earworm so even when you stop listening it’ll keep playing in your brain!
Is that the one that she duets with Chihaya?
It might be. I think it was with Haruka rather than Chihaya though. I’ll have to check when I’m not at work and less likely to destroy the ultra-cool image my co-workers have of me.
EDIT: Wait, did you just try and trick me into listening to that track again?!
The Chihaya one is some kind of terrible mashup someone’s done. The one I was thinking of was just Yayoi.
She kind of got eclipsed in the second game but Yayoi was by far the best character in the original.
Incidentally, this isn’t the most saccharine version of Futari no Mojipittan. The Xenosaga Freaks fan disc had a Xenosaga-themed edition of the Mojipittan game which has a cover of the theme with all the voice cast from the game. Basically this is the weaponized version.
Steel Panther, so glorious. Charming lads.
Machine Head once broke my brain. First time listening to The Blackening will do that.
Machine Head broke my ears when I saw them support Slipknot in 2008 😛
Dear new taybies i hadn’t met before,
You guys fit right in, Just lovely people in general. Nomad is awesomely funny and cool and Mr taco is a piano fiend and a ridiculously handsome dude. I mean i was the most handsome person at that party by FAR until he showed up in all his bald headed glory.
Dear old taybies,
I’m glad i get to see you so often, each time you guys sup(rize) me with your amazing humor, you giant amount of kindness and just how much you make me smile being around you. To be honest i think i would be lost without you, im so lucky and glad to have you in my life.
I am just in a really good place in my life right now, i have amazing friends, a great girlfriend, family stuff has sorted itself out and i have started to change my life outlook. i have so many of you to thank.
You spelled sup@rize wrong.
XD
I get it!
Get what?
Jokes.
huh??
Even me!?
It’s a buzz cut >:[
MEATWORDS
-Woke nice and early Saturday morning, aiming to leave the house by about 9. Naturally, things happened and it was more like 10 by the time I set off. Good thing I factored in buffer time with that.
-The trip was supposed to take a little over 3 hours, but I managed to cut at least 20min off that. Oops. Got to AIE in time for the Rift talk I was hoping to catch (then it turned out they were behind schedule anyway), but it turned out to be a bit of a dud. However the talk on sound in games that followed it was really good. After that I left to go and find @blaghman’s place.
-Driving in Canberra is awful. It’s like a constant huddle of cars crawling along from one red light to the next. I mean sure there’s no fear of death around any possible corner, but without that fear keeping you on-edge it feels a whole lot easier to just fall asleep.
-Started to get confused as I got nearer to where my GPS was telling me to go, since all the numbers on the houses were way higher than I thought I was looking for. Then it turned out it was just that side of the street I was looking at, and the right place was now behind me. That’ll learn me for not checking up on StreetView beforehand.
-As I walked up the path to the house, it dawned on me what I was doing – approaching a house belonging to someone I didn’t know, where neither of us know what the other looks like and the only names I had to go on were names that don’t sound like names at all. Couldn’t decide if it would be more or less awkward if it turned out to be the wrong place.
-Got to the door and… shit. No doorbell – I’ll have to knock. I hate knocking. It always takes a while to build up to it, because you don’t want to knock so meekly that nobody hears you, but you also don’t want to be a jerk that sounds like you’re trying to bash down the door. I got to it eventually, tap tap tap. Then waited. And waited. And… dammit. Now do I try again? Is it too soon? Wait, I can hear voices. Ok, it just wasn’t heard. I tried again, and… still nothing. God dammit. I don’t know why it’s feeling even more awkward now, since I’m the only one that knows what’s going on here. For a while I stand there trying to listen as I go to try for the third knock. Each time I’m about to attempt it though, there’s a rise in the noise from inside, so I wait again and try to pick a lull where I can be heard. Eventually I find a spot and try to do a more forceful knock, and success! There’s a quiet from inside and I can hear someone approaching the door. @masha2932 has come to greet me, and now the true awkwards can begin 😛
-Holy crap how have I written this much and I haven’t even gotten inside yet?
-It was bad enough walking into a room full of people that I don’t even recognise… but then I realised I don’t even know what to call myself. Do I use my proper name? Do I use my handle? If I do, then which one do I use?? What a mess. Usually with my net friends I end up getting called Gook, that comes from my usual handle I use most places. MrTaco was just a filler name I threw on here because I wasn’t really committed to it or anything, so now I’ve kinda landed myself in a weird no-mans land with the two. And then also, a lot of my friends from Melbourne have a thing about only using real names IRL, so I didn’t know if that would be a thing here too. So in the end I just stumbled through some sort of a three-name introduction. Bleh.
-Moving around to the kitchen, I got to start to learn what names belong to which faces. I picked out @strange from her tattoo, but I’m not sure what made me pick @shane. I guess I must have seen a picture or him somewhere? I don’t know. Engaged in some smalltalk with him, got to remind myself of how horrible I am at attempting to converse. When we got to talking about his books, he handed me a copy of The Lesser Evil. After I was done checking it out, I handed it back to him, but later had a bit of a hindsight flash – the image of the multiple copies he had in his bag, previous mentions on here of him just giving away his books, and then the possibly slightly awkward way he took the book back when I handed it back to him – and began wondering if I was supposed to have taken it, and instead ended up just being a jerk rejecting his work /o\
-Couldn’t believe how much stuff he brought along to just give away. Most people seemed to just kind of glance at them while he was there, but we started picking through after he left. Didn’t have to feel quite as vulturous once he was gone 😛 I wasn’t really looking for anything to take, mostly just curious what on earth he had in there. When I got to a copy of Firefly and remarked that I’d only seen maybe two eps of it, @strange decreed that it was now mine. Then when getting to the matching steelbook Serenity, made me take that too. Then we found another three copies of it, some legit some not so much. Each one of them with a different cover. Why?? In the end I also decided to take MGS2 for PC as well as Halo for Xbox.
-Not content with just making me take @shane’s things, @strange also pushed me into taking over the mic from @rocketman on Rock Band. I guess I had to make up for my lack of attendance at the PAX karaoke meet. I’d spotted that one Judas Priest song was part of the setlist, so I went with what I knew and belted out a (passable?) rendition of Painkiller. Great way to make a first impression 😛
-I think dinner was some kind of nachos, prepared by @blaghman. By the time I got to it I think I described it as some kind of meat cereal. Which needed more milk.
-Later on, Cards Against Humanity happened. It went on for quite a while, and naturally was filled with some pretty horrible (and hilarious) things. Also I got confused when people were referring to the guy down the end as “Nova”, when this whole time I thought that was the guy I was sitting next to. Turned out I’d just been mishearing when people were actually saying @nomad. I am good at things.
-After the game I thought I heard some piano sounds. Went to see what it was and it turns out there was an electric mini baby grand sitting in the corner the whole time, and I’d looked at it but not really registered that that’s what it was. @blaghman told me to play for some reason, so then I tried playing standing up WHICH I KNOW I CAN’T DO BUT STILL TRIED TO FOR SOME REASON. Nearly killed my left leg, because I’ve developed an overdependence on the sustain pedal. Banged out my Bubsy tunes, then tried to keep going with other things. For some reason, as soon as people can hear me playing, I struggle to remember what pieces I know and lose at least 30% of my skill. I played pretty terribly, but everyone was impressed for some reason. Too impressed. You guys need higher standards 😛
-We watched the first season of DBZ Abridged. I’d never seen it or DBZ before, but it was hilarious. I was pretty tired when it started and could have easily gone to sleep right then, but it kept me going pretty well. I think I need to get around to watching the rest of it at some point now.
-Somehow I think I woke up even more tired than when I went to sleep. Took a fair while for me to actually wake up. People appeared with food after a while, that helped I think.
-We spent a while watching people playing through Demon’s Souls and getting killed. Then we moved on to Nintendo Land and had some pretty good fun with that. Wish I’d brought some of my controllers and stuff so that we could have played more of the games, but still managed to have plenty of fun with Mario Chase alone.
-As everyone got ready to leave, more of @shane’s stuff was rifled through and claimed. Somehow there were now FIVE copies of Serenity in there. Are these things self-replicating or what?? I think @rize took the remainder of the books, but there was still a nice big stack of games left behind. As well as those inaction figures.
-Kinda helped with tidying up the place a bit, then as the remainder of folk went to start up some kind of card game, I decided I should probably make my way home what with the lengthy trip and all.
Afterthoughts:
-Everyone was awesome and I had a great time, it was well worth the trip.
-I am a total jerk, coming into this place and mooching a bunch of food and drink and games and not even thinking to give some money to anyone and now I feel bad.
-Yelling along to the radio really helps keeping me awake and alert for the long trip. Don’t know that I’d want to do the trip with someone else in the car so I couldn’t do that 😛
-Not moments after passing the “welcome to Sydney” sign, I had some idiot fuckwit move from the lane to my left to the lane to my right, passing right up scarily close behind me, all without an indicator. Then a few similar incidents not too long after. Home sweet home.
Happy now @strange?
Pretty sure you misheard me. I didn’t say I wanted to see your pianist skills…
In my defence of the dinner I made, I’m an idiot and left out multiple ingredients because I’m a bit stupid, probably thanks to the number of times I’ve hit my head while falling over.
I wish I was there. Sounds like it was worth it for the awkwardness, alone.
Summary of my interactions with @mrtaco:
I mooched and don’t even feel bad, so you’re a way better person than me. 😀
I kind of felt bad when I was the first to start rummaging through Shane’s things but I convinced myself that somebody had to start it or nothing would be taken 🙂
Oh no! Hopefully this hasn’t set a precedent and I’ll have to be the first all the time /o\
I don’t have to worry though @shane would never give out more stuff. Would he? Dun dun dun…
🙂
Actually, I’m already thinking about what else I should have taken with me the other day 😛
Ok cool. I was just continuing to follow your lead then 😛
Why were there so many different covers?
I wasn’t collecting them in 2005. And I wasn’t printing custom designs off the internet and putting them in retail versions. Nothing at all like that :\
You could’ve bought more, man. MORE. It’s your fault there’s no Serenity 2. 😛
The true awkwardness began with me? WHAAAAT!!! NOOOO!
Just kidding, it was nice meeting you too Mr. Taco. Gooky? Gooks? Aaaaa
You should come to more Sydney meats 🙂
To be honest, I was stunned you chose a Canberra Meat as your first Meat. I waited until there was one in a public place, during the day 😛
That makes a whole lot of sense. WHY DIDN’T ANYONE TELL ME THIS BEFORE?
Well, at least I came home with all my internal organs. I think.
So what’s all this talk of meats and such? Anti-vegan demonstrations? Organised visits of like-minded people in neutral places for the purposes of socialisation? Tell me what there is to know!
So you are curious about experiencing the meat?
TAY meat is sustenance for socially malnourished TAYbies! It’s goooood for what ails ya!
We dun’t spel goodly.
Your second thought is pretty much all there is to know. If you let us know what city you live in then hopefully you can be tagged in to future Meat discussions. 🙂
The only part that @stickman has potentially wrong is ” in neutral places”
Often they are but as per @mrtaco’s write-up above sometime you are standing on a strange doorstep trying to decide if you should knock while checking to see if the place looks like it has a basement.
I remember using google street view to checkout the location of my first meat and found out I had been invited by a bunch of internet strangers to a vacant lot. Seemed legit.
I’m still waiting on someone to attend the GrooteMeat.
…anyone :'(
Seriously though Stickman, meats are aw(ful/esome) and a hell of a lot of fun 😀lol i so would if I had money to burn!
I wouldn’t wish the travel expenses on anyone 😛
Wellllll….. therein lies the problem. Current location is Mackay, QLD. 🙁
My expectations are set to Low.
@beardymcmuttonchops has family in Mackay I think. He got trapped up there earlier this year!
Maryborough, not Mackay haha! cc @stickman
I spent several years of my teens in Hervey Bay, which is the cooler, fancier, richer, better-looking city compared to underdog Maryborough. On account of being on the beach, as opposed to inland. (Like… 30min inland. Which is your average city-dweller’s morning commute. Yet somehow when you live there, it counts.) The rivalry between the two towns is INTENSE.
I was born in Maryborough, and spend most of my working life before I moved to Brisbane commuting from Maryborough to Hervey Bay every day. It took me about 20 minutes to drive from my place to work and back. It now takes me longer to commute a third of the distance to work every day, and petrol cost me less than my Go Card costs. Not to mention we were living in a gorgeous old Queenslander on the riverbank paying $200 a week rent. Now we’re paying almost double that for a shitty inner city apartment :/
That’s Maryborough, not to be confused with the Maryborough in Victoria, where I have family.. Isn’t that Rocketman kid from Mackay or not far from it, same with Stevo?
Steve-O’s Mackay, Rockets used to be Ayr but is now Townsville.
ahhh I knew it was one o them M places! god damn kids and your good memories! git off me lawn!
#oldmanwelbot #forgetfuljonesbot
Perth is meatless.
You should just all come to a Canberra Meat. 😛
Tempted ^_^
My phone updated itself this morning and all the notification sounds have changed 🙁
mine’s always on silent!
All your meat write-ups are awesome. Meat write-ups should be compulsory for meats more than three people. XD
I believe you’ve been to numerous Meats of more than three people. Get typing! 😛
It’s been almost six weeks since our last proper meat! D:
I was gonna suggest a Wednesday lunch thing but then I remembered I have an appointment with my mother. Plus it’s school holidays. But if you want to have lunch with me, my mum and both my kids, feel free. 😛
You lost me at school holidays! XD
We should have a Gravity meat on October 4th or 5th!
Or a Beyond Two Souls pick up of shelf and go our separate ways meat. (Could work for Wind Waker as well!)
So lunch with my Mum is okay as long as it’s not school holidays? 😛
I just get so lonely and people are people! 😛
😀
@dc is terrified of children. They’re like people only smaller and more savage.
Children are terrifying, they are loud! D=
http://www.oktoberfestbrisbane.com.au/
The drinking TAYbies should have an Oktoberfest meat! (cc. @sughly, @dkzeitgeist…)
I like that we are the only two drunks
I’m already going, but I’m keen to go with anyone who wants to.
@Sughly, @strange and the rest.
@dkzeitgeist Oh I’m definitely going, just not sure what day yet.
Ohhhh I want to oktoberfest if you guys are. @strange @dkzeitgeist – keep me in the loop pleeease
@sughly: No offence, my friend. You two are just the only ones I’ve seen crazy drunk. XD
Err not sure who apart from @chuloopa is a Steel Panther fan, but they’re coming back to Australia in December for the Spreading The Disease tour (oh what a glorious name) with Buckcherry as support acts, that surprised me Buckcherry are supporting Steel Panther, not a bad choice though.
Sadly that crushes them being on Soundwaves second announcement more than likely, but still i’ll happily go see them headline!
That was why they came up in conversation at lunch today
I like them but probably not enough to go see them live
They’re even more outrageous live. They’re really something lol.
Their first album wasn’t bad, because you could tell the whole thing was a joke. But the second album took itself to a full-on creepy level. I haven’t been able to listen to them since.
If you say so I guess. A few of the songs on the second like 17 Girls In A Row are a homage (I guess is what you’d call it) to bands from the 80’s. Since I recall from The Dirt by Motley Crue, a story that involved Vince Neil & Tommy Lee before a show in the 80’s both nailed 17 girls on their tour bus.. Or maybe it was just Vince? Either way, there are a few songs written that reflect things that happened or supposedly happened to the bands they’re sending up..
There’s a big difference between being satire and becoming the thing that you were once taking the piss out of. It feels to me like Steel Panther crossed that line after their first album.
If you say so dude, they have their moments. They have fun doing it and people like them for it, they’re extremely talented musicians and their covers of anything Van Halen are just superb.
Shiny!
If anyone’s interested, Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum is $4 on Steam.
I tried playing that a little while ago, wouldn’t work.
Really?
How come?
POKEMEAT!
WHAT!? EVERYONE BUY POKEMON THEN SIT AROUND AND PLAY IT COMMUNALLY IN A COFFEE SHOP!!!
WHEN!?!? OCTOBER 12TH!!!!
WHERE? A COFFEE SHOP OF SOME DESCRIPTION! VERY OPEN FOR SUGGESTION! THERE’S THIS REALLY GREAT ONE AT THE LUTWYCHE CENTRO CALLED VALENTINO’S BUT I DOUBT EVERYONE WOULD WANT TO SIT AROUND THE FOOD COURT WITH ALL THE CREEPY LUTWYCHE LOCALS! SOMEWHERE IN BRISBANE THOUGH! I’D LIKE TO ATTEND!
I don’t play Pokemon/don’t have a 3DS, alas! Good idea for a meat though! I’m sure the others will be keen! 😀
You could always just come and hang out 😀 I have an extra 3DS you can borrow!
Haha! I miss hanging out with you guys, but the 3DS thing ain’t necessary. Thanks for the offer though! 😀 Besides, there’s a good chance I’ll be shut in my hermit cave still playing Beyond: Two Souls and Wind Waker by Oct 12th. XD
You could come and just awkwardly sit around! \o/
And sigh at all the fugly Pokemon designs!
(but secretly love them for being so bad)
As someone who genuinely thinks that Trubbish is genius, I can relate well to the bracketed statement.
I disagree. Most of them are good.
Yes, but you just said “most” which means that there are some fugly ones (I think you were even discussing some this afternoon :P) which can be sighed at!
But I wouldn’t look at those! I’d look at the Panda!
I own no 3DS, only DS, and I would (probably – date-depending) cheerfully hang out to drink alcoholic beverages with people who want to join me in giggling drunkenly at the pokegeeks while they get all excited about the shiny new hotness.
I’m gon b o’ersea
I PLAN TO BE DOING THAT ON THE NORTHERN FRINGE OF MELBOURNE!
How soon until online stuff can happen? Will it be like turnip prices?!?
Probably. With previous Pokemon games you needed to reach a certain point in the story before you could trade online. I assume this will be similar.
So I read the GTA V robbery article.
Are some people so ignorant that they don’t consider the feelings of others anymore?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/09/mentally-challenged-man-beaten-for-his-gta-v-happy-ending-follows/comment-page-1/#comment-1931331
Anna Murphy’s put her entire album up to stream for free on Soundcloud. I’m gonna wait until it’s officially released in a couple of days but some of you guys might be interested in checking it out.
https://soundcloud.com/annamurphy/sets/cellar-darling
words
Rayman Legends finally came today (@lockrobster – that’s about 11 working days from Video Ezy, but it shipped about a week after the release date), good timing too since I finished GTAV yesterday.
I mainly did the main missions for GTAV (some side stuff here and there) because spoilers are everywhere and I’m kinda glad that when I had things spoiled, I’d already seen (most of) them for myself. Kinda sucky how we can’t avoid spoilers for things anymore 🙁
@mrtaco … call Nintendo 🙂
@sernobulus @Transientmind @Zetrox2k – Honestly I wouldn’t say it’s “superior” on ALL levels. I’ve always considered the 2D and 3D Zelda games to be different. Wind Waker is up there with my favourite 3D Zelda games (but it’s not first) and I’d probably say Link’s Awakening is my favourite 2D Zelda. It seems fairer to compare them to their respective 2D/3D bros. It also doesn’t seem fair to judge them if you haven’t played either of them 😛
2D and 3D Zeldas are separate entities.
For 3D, my order probably goes OoT>WW>MM>SS>TP.
Wind Waker is an amazing game, but I think that OoT is too entrenched in my formative gaming years to be dislodged by anything.
@lockrobster. I’ve not come across you on Kotaku at all, though that handle is full of win. My god.
Hmmmm, I always think that Zelda always wanted to be 3D but couldn’t. It’s a reason why it translated so wee=ll without having to take on so many changes (Im looking at you Mario 64 which I love).
So with that in mind, Zelda is one of the few I can compare 2D to 3D.
My holy trinity in no specific order is LA, MM & WW(OK, order of release).
Also, a bird swooped at my head today. It missed but that’s a first…
It also swooped at another lady but she panicked and ran away afterwards 😛
It seems you were more fortunate than me. My bird didn’t miss…
Hmph. You and your being reasonable and stuff. THIS IS THE INTERNET, DAMMIT!
I pretty much need to at least call Fair Trading tomorrow… then possibly call Nintendo tomorrow. If not I think my last chance to do it would be Monday.
@stickman
Ugh. Mackay. All the worst people come from Mackay. Like one of my closest friends and worst of all my wife.
Ha, luckily I don’t originate from here. 😛 I just settle it on a semi-regular basis.
So, I’ve decided to take my work back underground, to stop it falling into the wrong hands.
Pokemon question that I’m too scared to google because spoilers:
Have they revealed what they’re doing with Streetpass in Gen 6? I’m assuming similar to Fire Emblem with AI controlled teams, but it’d be cool to get something really inventive.
Yes!
I mean no, I don’t think so.
Have you read about the bank?
It’s kinda a spoiler but not. It’s something along the lines of
that 3DS Aug Reality game only completely different.How many Pokemon do you have? Of the total, you think?
I spotted 1 or 2 a few months back I had NEVER even seen before, Gen III I think.
I’ve never completed the Pokedex. In any game 😛
same, pretty close in Black & White but there all sitting over in B2 and I’d need to evolve a bunch.
The only one I don’t have (I think) is Cryoganal, fought a few, always accidently kill them 🙁
I has that! You want? I don’t know how online trading works!
I can’t get my DS online.
3DS yes, but it goes into DS mode for DS games.
My router is incompatible with DS.
So, I bought a new router, which I never seem to find the time to setup /o\
From memory the DS couldn’t handle WPA, you need to have the wireless open or WEP for a DS to go online. I was shocked they never patched that.
That & then some routers just dont work.
They can see each other but then poop happens.
Notes about the meat:
– I am super unco. I slipped over (at least) twice, and cut myself 4 times while trying to chop things up.
– I don’t think anyone believed me when I said that I wasn’t flustered (I wasn’t really, I was just rushing around, not actually panicking).
– I think my intro to Strange’s sister was ridiculously awkward, because I was all like “I should probably say hello to all the people in my house” but I failed to mention the whole “I am the person hosting this” thing so I think I just looked slightly weirder than usual.
– Before most people turned up, Rocket, Nova, Nomad and I played a game of Smash Up, that I lost horribly. I choose to blame Rocket for no real reason.
– After everyone else left I played some board games with Techy, Beavwa and Pip, and that was rad.
– I was completely unprepared in regards to food, so even though I roped in Freeze and Rocket to help make some stuff (also, I think there was one, maybe two other people who helped me make the actual dinner thing, but for the life of me I can’t remember who it/they was/were) there was a distinct lack of food there. I blame the fact that I’m a bad host. And that I forgot to add like half the ingredients that would have worked for dinner.
– Making other people play Demon’s Souls is fun.
– F4ction and Rocket really did bitch a lot about the 2 kilometre (technically 1.8) walk I made them do.
– I have been left with a ridiculously large amount of alcohol, that I am going to do my best to drink all of in the next week because shut up I’m not an alcoholic how dare you say that to me I’ll smash your face in you cu-
– It turns out that using red chillies in Green Sauce doesn’t work so well. Whodathunkit?
– We ended up with a box from McDonalds on the Sunday for breakfast. That is probably worrying. Worse is that it almost all got eaten.
– Meating new people is fun.
– Seeing old friends is fun.
– I really hope that people don’t just turn up to Canberra Meats to humour me, and I don’t think I will ever be rid of this (crippling) fear.
On the plus side, if people are turning up to Can’meats just to humour you, it means they care. Validation!
I went for the food.
BUT WE DIDN’T EVEN HAVE BISH OR SHIGGY WHO ARE THE USUAL FOOD PEOPLE!
I should have just cooked more bacon…
I had very low expectations.
…they weren’t met.
(I’m just kidding Blaghs! ;D)
I came for the food but I stayed..for the food
BOARD GAMES \o/
Oh yeah, that was another bit I forgot to add. You are way too apologetic and self-deprecating 😛
Years of training. If I apologise, I’m more likely to be forgiven than if I don’t, and if I’m self deprecating, then I usually get the crack in before people who would otherwise insult me. It’s no fun paying out someone who agrees with everything you say. 😛
Oh man, that Blags guy. How lovely is he?
I know, right? What a sweetie!
Agree with that, smartguy.
No.
Also, these comments being “stuck” on page 3 is pretty annoying.
Can’d Meats rock.
I’ve only been to one, and I was tempted to gut a tauntaun to survive the night, but it was pretty great.
Overheard some people on the train tonight talking about the timetable changes coming soon. How they’re going to make the trip “significantly faster” each night.
Excitedly, I rushed home to check these changes for myself. Wow! My trip WILL be shorter…
…by ten minutes 😛
So that means it will arrive and depart on time now? 😛
@ambroseiv
YOU WIN. No gta for me. My poor toe 🙁
Edit: But I did pick up Sleeping Dogs for the 360 today. Fifteen bucks.
Sleeping Dogs is a pretty cool guy. Well worth that price, at least.
It better be. I bought it purely on the good rap it got from TAY 🙂
It’s worth it entirely for the novelty of driving on the correct side of the road (also its fist fights are fun, if a little simple, its car physics are fun, and it keeps the emphasis away from guns, for the most part, which is cool {also, the shaders and stuff for things in the rain and stuff that is wet are rad}).
The fist fights I noticed getting progressively more impressive as you made your way through the story. One of those ‘story influencing gameplay’ type deals which seemed almost subtle to me. To the point that I was actually surprised at the very stark contrast toward the end when I compared it to the beginning. Hallmark of a good game, that. To me.
Sleeping Dogs is excellent, for reals. You will not regret it.
Should I play it before or after GTA V?
I’m concerned that GTA V might overshadow Sleeping Dogs. Or are they different enough that it probably won’t matter?
I don’t think they’re really similar enough. Hong Kong is a different atmosphere to Los Santos. Sure you’ll do a lot of driving etc but most of the combat in Sleeping Dogs is martial arts whereas GTAV is shooting, so the mission structure between the two is quite different.
I really don’t think they’re similar at all apart from being crime-themed sandbox games.
Hey friend-o! I don’t know if you’ve got GTA V yet, or if you’ve started Sleeping Dogs, but I very recently started and finished Sleeping Dogs (probably just before playing GTA V).
Sleeping Dogs is similar to what Blaghs has already said and there’s less of an emphasis on guns. It’s more about melee fighting and the usual open world things like driving around, car chases, stuff like that. Sort of your typical Hong Kong kung-fu crime flick. The melee is similar to Batman’s but a bit simpler and not as good. Still better than most open world action adventures that just require you to bash one button. Cars have an arcade-y feel to them and it’s super easy to drive around.
Everything is all over the top and crazy, it’s great 😀
GTA V is more “realistic” so they’re pretty different. It also has a huge emphasis on guns and splosions. More mission variety too.
So it doesn’t really matter what order you play them but I generally try not to play games of the same genre close to each other.
@freya is disturbingly happy about getting Twitter responses from Quintin Smith and Leigh Alexander.
I contributed and then there were all caps.
Breaking Bad latest.
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Watched a McDonalds catch on fire this afternoon.
The store name sign on the roof started sparking in the ‘n’, then it burst into flames. It was actually VERY quick to spread to the rest of the sign and then down the tiles toward the drive-through window.
I took a photo and video with time-stamps while I called 000 to get the fieries out (will check with maccas tomorrow and see if they want the video for insurance or anything) [Edit: Maybe I should instead send it to news.com.au bwuahahayeahno.], and didn’t bother crossing the road to alert the staff because while I was on the phone to emergency, some other folks were already jogging over and gesturing at the fire, with staff inside looking out the window in puzzlement, then shutting down the drive-through and getting the patrons out.
One of those dangers you can stroll away from casually while arching an eyebrow.
…Well, so I thought anyway, til the wind changed and the now-thoroughly-billowing smoke turned to swallow me up for a minute. I covered up and jogged out of it, but I still copped a good lungful or two, which has been irritating me since. (Shouldn’t be much to worry about. I called the poisons hotline to make sure I hadn’t inhaled something which would slowly kill me and they noted that the truly harmful poisons from house/industrial fires take effect immediately and once the victim is removed from the source, the symptoms only get better, not worse.
Good news for all then \o/ except the owner of the Maccas that’s still pretty bad
So that girl at climbing reappeared tonight, apparently was away in some country town I’ve never heard of for a brief stint of work. She showed up a while before her friend did, then after a bit of bouldering they went downstairs to do some ropes. She asked if I wanted to come along, so I figured hey why not. Been a while since I did any top-rope , may as well take the opportunity while it was there.
A while indeed. When I got my harness out, I noticed that the chalk bag I’d gotten for Christmas was still completely clean. Never used. I was struggling to think of when I might have even gone for a rope climb last year. Seems that going for that long without does have quite the impact – climbing just felt like hard work. Legs were shaking once I’d get back down to the floor, I was getting all hot and sweaty, I had to constantly stop both to re-chalk my hands as well as because I just couldn’t hold on any longer. Absolutely terrible.
Seems like the invitation’s there to continue doing ropes with them next week, so I guess I’ll take up that offer and hopefully build up some form of stamina, and get back to climbing reds like I should be. Also she asked if I was interested in checking out the Castle Hill place since apparently they have cheap nights on Wednesdays. Turned her down though, because it’d be a pain to try and get there after school and then would probably lead to a late night, which is why I switched back to Mondays in the first place.
…She invited you. Dude! You are doing so well! You even turned her down. BAWS. Next time she invites you someplace that’s inconvenient, flip it and say, “No can do, but I’m free [x night].” If she isn’t free, just smile and shrug, “Shame.” Offer your number in case she can free something up. She totally will.
Transientmind: Love Guru
YOU’LL HAVE TO SPEAK UP I CAN’T HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF MY OWN OBLIVIOUSNESS
I dunno. I guess we’ll see what happens. For now I’m just happy to have someone to do top rope with 😛
sounds almost as exciting as the dance I’ve been doing with this girl who works at the cafe near my work. Until I found out she’s a lesbian :\ Oh wells.. better luck next time ey?! :p
Pfft, that just means she’s been waiting for the right guy. You could be that guy.
#helping
Not necessarily the hurdle it sounds like. A couple of my exes have identified as lesbian at some point. One went back to it, the other didn’t. (I still have no idea what about my approach succeeded though, so can offer no advice!)
Your girlish features?
My ego says, “Raw, unstoppable essence of MAN, irresistible to all men and women alike,” but my girlish figure and hourglass waist say… uhm. Stop reading my diary.
I guess that’s not as bad as her turning out to be a guy.
cc @rocketman
😛
So this SteamOS news in interesting. Unsurprising, but interesting. It seems to be designed for the impending Steam box, and giving people the ability to make loungeroom dedicated PC’s. Seems to be some mild frothing at the mouth for the desktop gaming rig environment – not sure people understand what’s involved though. Even if you could throw it on your main desktop rig, it’s still Linux and will inevitably confuse the shit out of your average user. Not to mention when they go to do a whole heap of things they can do in Windows, they’ll find they either can’t do it or don’t know how.
Linux is fantastic, I dual boot Debian myself – but it’s definitely not for your average user. It’s gotten 1000x better in the last 10 years, but yeah. I can see a pile of people loading it and realising it’s not what they thought it’d be. Apart from the fact not too many Steam games run natively in Linux – I mean there’s a fair few, but it’s still a small number. Means some form of emulation or streaming will be involved for games that don’t run natively under Linux. That means inevitable inferior performance to Steam on a Windows PC. Also, non-Steam games that don’t run under Linux? No deal.
Yeah, I agree. I’ll wait until it’s out, see what the performance comparisons and library are like, and consider dual booting, then I’ll partition a drive, install it, and then never ever use it because I’m super lazy.
Edit: And I should add, I used to use Ubuntu a lot, and it was basically just Windows but with all the programs appearing in their own little “store” equivalent thingy like what 8 does now. Well, Windows with bugger all programs, anyway.
I’m the same. You inevitably just go back to Windows, because it works, and everything’s there. One day I’ll completely replace Windows, but I think that’s several years away, at the very least.
If they could implement some sort of quick change thing (Edit: In this case I know that “quick” is a very relative term here), where I could open Steam in Windows, press a button, have it hibernate my Windows session and then boot the Steam OS (maybe boot up TS so that I’m still in the same chat, or transfer across what web pages I was on so they’d pop up straight away), then I could see myself using it if whatever gains were appreciable, but I can’t really see it happening. Which means for my main computer I’d need to sit there on start up, and think to myself “yes, I do feel like only playing games today.” We’ll see. I’m happy to go in optimistically, because at worst I end up in exactly the same position I’m in now.
As of right now, my PC plays games with absolutely no effort in my part, unless they make it easier to start then pressing the power button or have some kind of massive improvement (and I mean massive) I doubt I will ever consider using it.
I’ll be grabbing it when I can and at the least will be trialling it as a media server and checking out the streaming service.
Ultimately I’m going to try it out before passing judgement, but as of right now I don’t know if I’d ever use it as a full-blown system. That just means I’d have to buy two computers in stead of one.
I’m more excited at the prospect. Valve is working hard on making Linux a viable gaming platform, and this is pretty big news. But Linux has a long way to go before it could rival Windows as a gaming platform. I’d definitely give it a go if I can get my hands on it, just to see what it is.
I’d love for Linux to topple or rival Windows for games. I just know if it was ever going to be a thing, it wouldn’t be for at least 5-10 years at the very minimum.
From what I can tell after being called on my own idiocy non Linux games require another computer to stream to it.
That one caught me by surprise. But I’m all for it, wanna see where it goes. 🙂
People have been trying to push ‘Linux’ – no mention of distro – as a viable gaming OS for years, and hell, some devs have actually been participating in that. So there’s some support there already. All a SteamOS really is, is a major player’s alternative to the distros available now, with a guaranteed focus on games.
Devs seem to have been keen enough to code for Linux already, even with the disorganized nature of the distros as they stand. With a unified ‘most popular’ front, that might be all the hurdle-jumping some of the less-keen need to get started.
Quietly optimistic!
Like I said to Freeze, I’m excited at the prospect, just being realistic at the moment.
im sort of stuck between a rock and a hardplace with SteamOS…
One side of me is like “hell yes, clean dedicated gaming os without 5 billion services running in the background, im thinking 20-30% performance gain if done right. Im gonna dual boot this shit….”
…but then the other side of me is like “this is going to cause so much bullshit with my non steam games. Don’t wanna have to keep rebooting my pc every time i want to switch from one OS to the other….”
I want to know how you get software for it. Can you just run software from anywhere? Or is it a closed platform where you can only get stuff from steam. The rumours from earlier in the year said that the steambox would be running a locked down Linux based OS. But those are just rumours of course. It would be quite hilarious if it was closed though. xD
Honestly though, I don’t care for closed or open either way. Both have good things about them. And I’m rather tempted by the prospect of having a a SteamOS running HTPC to stream my games to. I don’t have a powerful computer I can leave hooked up to my TV all the time.
Heck, I don’t even have a HDTV yet.
…
Is it even possible to make a proper Linux release that is that locked down?
I’ve no idea. I don’t know much about Linux 😛
I’d guess ‘no’ though. If it were to be ‘closed’ I’d imagine it’d be meant to be closed as in the only way to get software int it’s UI is through the steam store, there’d be no option to install software from other places. But people who know their way around linux would be able to ‘hack’ it and install other software quite easily.
Sydney people should totally have a meat at the start of November or something.
yes
Breaking Bad S05E15 Spoilers:
HNGH.EDIT : I advocate rot13’ing everything, but this isn’t really a spoiler.
John SteamOS!
[Edit to move to relevant reply thread.]
Man. Stamos has aged well. He’s still lookin’ alright.
ADD HIM TO THE MAN-CANDY LIST.
…ewwww.
http://www.madman.com.au/catalogue/view/19457/ace-attorney
I made the grave mistake of watching the trailer, and now I desperately want to see this movie 😛
Spoilers: I didn’t like it that much 😛
I think Shiggy loved it, from memory. So now I don’t know what to think!
How about for yourself? 😛
I meant with regards to spending money to obtain said movie. Once I have it, I’m capable of judging it for myself 😛
Just do what everyone else does and [redact] it. 😛
No huge Meat write-up from me, however well deserved thanks to:
– @blaghman for having us! It was a blast!
– @novacascade for driving me 2hrs each way
– @shane! I picked up a season of Boston Legal & a season of Modern Family out of the box
– @beavwa for Sunday breakfast, that hit the spot!
– @mrtaco for his piano tunes!
Everyone else it was excellent to meet you all! You’re all a very welcoming bunch & really funny!
One final mention goes to @freezespreston and his jerky forged in the fires of hell!
(Oh, and @strange, I fold myself in half to fit in cars, It’s harder to drive but I’m more comfortable that way!)
Oh! That reminds me, I totally meant to ask you on Saturday if you’d received Tomb Raider back yet.
Yeah man got it back a week ago
Just got a message that a package arrived for me at home. From the sounds of it, it’s my Book of Sith. So keen to get home and start reading it!
My package arrives for you regularly.
So after my sister took me to Costco when I was in Canberra I’m even more impatient about the one up here opening. Giant packs of yellow American Cheese!
Oh, and while we were there she got the complete Song Of Ice And Fire series (so far) in a pretty box for $35. Pretty awesome price.
I got one of those box sets a few months ago. Sounds like they’re still dropping in price, cause I think I paid about $50.
EDIT: Oh and yes, Costco is pretty amazeballs 😛
I need to get around to visiting Costco one of these days. Kind of wish I’d done it when we still had the bigger car though. You could have fit at least four bodies in the boot of the Sonata.
Yeah, upon visiting I’ve concluded we’ll need to shop there when we don’t have the kids with us so we can have the extra carspace. We’re also gonna need a bigger fridge and freezer. They had these gigantic tasty-looking pizzas that wouldn’t even fit in our current fridge. 😛
Five if you cut them right.
Wait wait wait.
Costco sells American Cheese & it’s opening here?
When. Where. And what day are we going?
April 24, North Lakes. Opening Day Meat! 😛
Costco on opening day would be hell on earth.
Yeah, we have friends who live close-ish so we thought if we did go on Opening Day we’d park at their place and walk. I think the smarter thing to do would be to stay completely away on that day but I’m not sure Mr. Strange is inclined to be smart in this case. 😛
Given it’s costco, it’s not likely they’ll be out of stock any time soon.
Let’s see if I did this right. Stupid fiddly phone.
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/09/grand-theft-auto-v-and-the-midnight-launch-that-was/comment-page-1/#comment-1934216
Yep, it’s a lot of effort just to copy URLs. Don’t expect fancy hyperlink stuff out of me.
Best comment ever. I vote we all nominate Mr. Serrels for Kudos for it. 😀
*thinks about ‘several thousand’*
…Yup.
oh my god there is an awesome_jeevs that commented in that article.
I bet he’s like Jeeves, but awesome.
@batguy i am very VERY confused… my wifey just rang me to say that I just got Battle for Middle Earth for the XBox 360 in the mail this morning… which @shane sent me like 6 months ago by accident… which i then sent you…. ?!? …6 months ago!!!
Oh, man. It’s the flub that just keeps on giving.
Sorry guys! 🙁
i thought he would have played it, and finished it by now…. @batguy WHY DIDNT YOU TELL ME YOU DIDNT RECEIVE IT?!?!?
Haha… oops. I think because you took a few weeks to send it, and I’d already hassled you a few times, and then you said you’d sent it, and then I forgot about it.
Was it returned due to insufficient postage, wrong address, or what??
well the post office did all that i think they charged me $6… i paid exactly what they asked!
not sure about address, i havent seen it yet, my missus rang me!
Dear
Gold Coasteners,Golden Coasters,Inhabitants of Gold Coast and the greater surrounds:
I’m going to be around the general area for the October long weekend – 5th, 6th and 7th – so we should probably hang out some time. I’m still waiting on the details of accommodation and such to be finalised, but I’m thinking Sunday might be the best day for it.
We prefer G-Co Bro.
At first I thought that was the weekend of the Amorphis show but upon research it turns out it’s the week before, so it may be possible for me to attend whatever eventuates. If @dc ever takes a breather from GTA he should do his job and tag all the relevant people. 😀
Make me! 😛
@jimu, @gutsoup, @sughly, @freezespreston, @dkzeitgeist, @strange, @sernobulus, @virus__, @transientmind, @beardymcmuttonchops, @welbot, @lambomann007
So… @strange made you, huh? 🙂
(Through the almighty powers of… social pressure!)
She just knows I like meats so. damn. much…
Oh hey a band of yours I actually know! A friend gave me copies of Tuonela and Am Universum, I gave them quite a few plays back in the day. Totally had to google them to check the album titles though, its been a while ^^ This was a fave of mine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0U1M6SQuEc
I’m gunna be in Sydney that weekend. Woo, Doctor Who!
DAMMIT!
I’ve already lied to my family who lives on the Gold Coast that I’m bust that weekend because I don’t wanna go to a morning tea thing.
Why do you do things like this?
morning tea?! I love morning tea.
It’s a date then.
My wife’s aunt has invited us to a birthday lunch for her husband that’s at a really inconvenient location and has a kind of expensive menu. We can’t wiggle out of it with the inconvenient excuse since we can both drive, but we’re going to bitch about the pricing. We can afford it but don’t really want to spend a hundred bucks on a lunch when it’s not strictly necessary. We figure best case scenario, we get out of it. Second best scenario, we have to go but shouts us (since she can DEFINITELY afford it). Worst case scenario: rocks fall, everyone dies*.
*This is always my worst case scenario. I try to avoid referring to “worst case scenario” when making plans, because let’s face it, there are a lot of things worse than being late to an appointment or having to work back late.
*worst case scenario we all realize the futility of mortality, how even as individual humans are doomed to non-existence, we can’t even take comfort in the survival of the species as a whole, for even if we survive long enough to make it off our self-doomed planet and colonize the stars, the galaxies of the universe are spinning away from each other so fast that we will never be able to rein them back in to prevent the eventual dissipation of energy and matter whose inevitable entropy will cause the heat-death of the universe in the farthest, loneliest corners of existence.
That’s not a worst-case scenario, that’s an every-case scenario.
Well, the latter part is, but the worst case is everyone REALIZING it and ending the world in despair at the futility of it all.
(Edit: Or, people agreeing to a mad dictatorship where all of human endeavour is marshalled and disciplined into razor sharp foci to make the best attempt at survival possible, which involves the complete obliteration of all civil liberties and personal freedoms.)
all time is erased
Drug barons. People from the Gold Coast are called drug barons.
Gold Coast is like a real life version of Blaine County/Sandy Shores from GTA V only with faux rich people in a coastal town.
Well, my weight loss is starting to pick up. I have gone down a full size of clothing, tops and pants. It’s really nice to be able to notice the weight loss and also get compliments from people.
#not fishing
Why did I go to the GTAV midnight launch article and comment? I told myself i wouldn’t do that anymore.
*sits in the corner eating another box of crayons*
But you won some internets out of it…
I’d happily trade those internets for less fuckery.
Company dinner (right after work) the same day as Pokemon release day.
Worst Christmas ever.
Just pay someone to dress up as you and go to the dinner and act surly. That will work right?
sick day!!
There’s a reason the 3DS fits in your pocket. This may just be it.
This week I’ve cut down on Pepsi Max like crazy and stopped taking Zoloft. I gots me withdrawals on two fronts. Feel crazy light headed and headachey. XD
Hey @dc! How goes the GTA V?
It’s fun, but I’m looking forward to it finishing. Can’t wait for Beyond: Two Souls!
I’ve been slowly working away at it.
I just assassinated that social media companies CEO.Feels like a life time ago I did that mission. Hurry up, Nobs! 😛
I feel like I’m almost done with the game and that doesn’t bode well for bike gang, cause I’m not sure I wanna overstay my welcome in Los Santos.
Don’t rush me! I still haven’t finished Rayman Legends! (I’m still on the last Back to Rayman Origins world.)
Ya know, earlier today I thought about how I haven’t seen you talk about it that much so I wondered what you thought of it 😀
Trousers!
Jodhpers!
Breechers!
@gutsoup: Really, really liking this new season of Boardwalk Empire. Spoilers up to 4×03…
Seems to have more personal stories going on instead of the big arc stuff from the previous seasons. The Gillian stuff with the heroin addiction, Eli’s son at college, Nucky making a decision to stay in Florida based on influence by Sally. (Holy damn, Patricia Arquette plays a good character.) Also really liked the stuff with Richard and his sister as well as Chalky and the club.
Looking forward to seeing what happens with Margeret this season.
yeah, really interesting stuff going on
I’ll have to discuss it with you soon :D.
Sorry I’ve not been on TAY much
@sughly, @jimu, you and I should have another meat some time and then we can ramble in person while the other two discuss anime! 😀
I miss people. Working at home make no remember talking
Haha, I haven’t left my house in three weeks either, man. I haven’t spoken to any one with my voice in a long time. XD
lies, we spoke at JB, you used your voice and everything. Agreed about the meat, i need to get out more, i pretty much go from work to home and that’s it, haven’t been on a social outing in months now.
Oh yeah! Haha!
Good times, good times.
haha, the life of a hermit, we’ll have to drag ourselves out to some place at some point 😛
So haven’t received an email from the po-po yet so I send an email asking if anything is holding up my application.
30 seconds after sending it I refresh the inbox as if they will already have responded. Think my inbox is going to file a restraining order against me in the near future.
Hah! Who would do that!?
*refreshes page 10 seconds after posting*.
Back in Uni I was notorious for responding to e-mails seconds after receiving them. XD
That’s what people at work are like. “You respond to meeting invites so quickly”. The reason is because I have nothing literally nothing in my calendar. “Next scheduled event: No scheduled events”. ='(
MEATINGS! WOOOOO!
GTAV Assasinations
Got to the Bilkinton assassination outside the hotel. Ran to the top of the car park and promptly fell off, leaving the bodyguards to watch a screaming man bounce off the pavement in front of them.I am the greetest asaassassasin.
The leap of faith is in that other Assassin game, you know the one.Hitman.I planted Sticky Bombs all over the road. I regret nothing!V nyfb snvyrq n ovg ba gung zvffvba.
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I almost read this thinking it was the first assassination mission. D=
Not really a spoiler except for how much of a dickman I am.
Ah okay, I read the first sentence and instantly closed it.
Heh, I just did that from the place the mission market leads you. Parked my car at the exit to the car park, sniped the guy, was out of there in ten seconds.I should probably do a meat write-up at some point…once work stops making me…you know…work…
I did the first racing mission in GTA V last night. I thought the game would do what other games do, i.e. When you finish a race it loads a cutscene basically saying “you win”. That wasn’t a case, which led to me driving top speed into a lightpost causing me to fly through the windscreen, smash full speed into a house and die on the street / front yard. Atleast I still made $200 for winning! \o/
If the game were set in Canada, you’d have all the free health care to patch yourself up, therefore making the $200 worth it.
I like to think while I was laying motionless on the pavement in a pool of my own blood, they put $200 in my pocket and then walked away.
Nothing says “winning” like bleeding out on the pavement.
Kids: Don’t street race.
Bleed out, replace lost blood with tiger blood. Bi-winning.
You’re gonna hear me roaaaaar…
I did the exact same thing. Windshield cannon’d myself to death, had to redo the race.
All this GTAV talk makes me a sad panda. 🙁
It makes me want to go and buy it on console rather than wait for PC, but ultimately I won’t because I’m pissy and far too vindictive.
*shakes fist at Rockstar*
Stay strong, brother!
*returns to couch to keep playing GTA*
But you can, and then re-buy it on PC when it’s like $2 for the super ultimate sexy game of the whatever rockstar complete edition with DLC!
(it’s pretty fugs on console though 🙁 )
Sunovabitch. I seem to have fucked up my wrist at climbing last night – of all things, putting my shoes on at the beginning of the night. Pulling the velcro across to strap myself in tight, something went funny and twinged. It was ok for most of the night, since climbing generally had my wrist in either a neutral or back position. But just now I tried to hop on the piano and nope. Forward-tilted wrist all over the place, making it constantly just spazz out.
Hope it’s nothing major :/
That’s a fairly elaborate story to use as a cover for wanker’s cramp.
Hopefully it’s just a bit of strain and will vanish soon!
Oh no it’s ok. My right wrist is fine, it’s my left that’s buggered so I don’t have to worry about that 😛
PHEW!
Wait… but who uses their right? That’s unnatural!
PROPER PEOPLE.
So, GTA5 talk, since everyone is doing it. Does anyone else find helicopters ridiculously hard to fly, or is that just me?
Only part of the flight school I haven’t gold medalled yet.
Having flown a helicopter in a simulator, though, they are a bitch to control.
I wasn’t able to gold medal the helicopter training, the speed run, or the final course. I was 2 seconds off gold on the final course, decided I didn’t want to try again.
The rest were pretty easy.
They take a moment to get used to, but yeah they can be a pain. What’s annoying is how the wind really knocks them about, so it makes it pretty difficult to be accurate, so much easier to just gun it in them heh. I hate landing them, takes me about 5 minutes to do it and not crash and burn..
I find all the aircraft difficult to control. Any mission with a plane or heli involved me failing the mission numerous times trying to land.
I spent close to an hour at the end of one mission trying to set some cargo down using a helicopter (trying to keep it ambiguous rather than using spoiler tags). In the end I resorted to using the “skip mission” button because I wasn’t going to be able to progress the story otherwise.
I think Rockstar have really nailed GTA V, I just love how everything seems to flow. I especially like the new weapons system of how you select & can modify weapons, that’s brilliant. Also being able to carry every weapon? Even better!
I gotta say, I’m enjoying GTA V. I haven’t enjoyed one since Vice City.
Yeah I haven’t enjoyed a GTA game this much since Vice City, I really liked GTA IV, but still it was really lacking. I’m enjoying GTA V so much I went and bought the official Brady Guide, just so I could figure out where I went wrong in missions that I want to replay and to get an idea where the extra curricular things are.
This might be old news, but…
So on the topic of parents being retarded and buying younger kids copies of GTAV, I was curious about what information (in Australia) they were actually provided with (hey, let’s be optimistic and assume they glance at the classification information). Summary here.
This just seems like a massive failing of the classification system? Yeah, I’m a game-playing adult, and yay that Australia has decided that R18+ material can be made available for adults to purchase at their own discretion, but this seems very broken. :/
The ratings system (G, M, MA15+, R18+) etc is far from new. Movies have been using them since forever. Games have the rating very clearly labelled, even describing further drug use, violence, horror, etc. I don’t believe it’s an issue with the classification system. I’m not calling parents who disregard the classification irresponsible, but perhaps maybe a little ignorant. How much clearer can a rating for a video game be made? If you don’t know that they’re there – as a parent you should be paying more attention.
In this particular case, people have been saying that only ‘Drug use’ appears on the box classfication, and all the stuff that is “just” strong impact is seemingly suppressed/not clearly labelled?
I don’t see the issue. The game is rated R18+, and the reasons for it being so are very clearly explained. ‘Strong impact’ and ‘High impact’ when referring to drug use, violence, sex and nudity is just splitting hairs.
EDIT: Wait – what does it actually say on the sticker on the game? Does it only reference drug use? Because if it only cites drug use, then that’s not great, but at the end of the day, and R18+ rating should supersede all in this case.
Yeah that’s what got me, it only stated “Drug Use” nothing more. So far i’ve come across nudity, sex scenes (which I had to film for a mission) there’s an implied rape scene and then there is everyones favourite mission which involves torture that’s detailed, then there’s the general over the top violence..
I must admit the second (?) Franklin photographer mission where you have to photograph that teen celebrity in her backyard with her ‘friend’ made me think of the kids that got this game. It was literally the first thing I thought of.
Yeah, when I got that I was all “Really, how did this not get mentioned on the rating..?”
I did the mission last night. The same thought crossed my mind aswell. =/
I mean to clarify, I’m fine with it. It was actually quite funny, and I should be safe knowing it’s an R18+ title and only for discerning adults like myself. The =/ part was remembering that 11 year old kid that got the game, and knowing he gets this mission in the first hour or two of playing.
Yeah, it only mentions drug use – I guess I didn’t make it clear, but this was my entire point.
Ah, apologies good sir, I misinterpreted. It’s poor form that sex and violence aren’t at least mentioned, for sure.
The rating systems are all well and good but when you have R18+ with nothing more listed on the package then “Drug Use”. You are just confusing parents.
First of all “Drug Use”? Really? Goddamn Mario has “Drug Use” why not list it as “high impact drug use” or “extreme drug use”.
Second, there is zero mention of nudity / sex / violence / adult themes / course language. I think that just maybe if they listed all the stuff above it may have made atleast one parent stop and think “wait, do I really want my child to be exposed sex scenes and nudity”.
I find the biggest problem is that a lot of parents are just ignorant to what the ratings mean and putting some arbitrary letter without listing WHY it got the rating isn’t helping.
See my above post. It wasn’t clear to me he was implying that only drug use was listed on the label. Apparently I didn’t read the question correctly. I still maintain an R18+ rating should override any of this as far as it being available to minors is concerned, though.
I certainly agree that at the very least, sex and violence should be on the rating sticker.
Yeah posted it after you replied above, it was more of me having a go at the stupid rating systems rather then having a go at you. =)
All good, I didn’t interpret it as such. Just a justifiably heated response to a very real issue.
I kinda think that not including letters at all might be better. Why are the sub categories included at all?
The only reason that comes to mind right now is so that people can be informed about the content of some movie/game/whatever and evaluate whether it’s something they’d likely find objectionable (and so avoid, either for their own consumption, or … “hot topic” at the moment, buying for their kids).
By including only drug use, I think it’s misleading (consider the case of someone, purchasing for their own consumption, who is tolerant of drug use, but objects to violence). Whether someone being tolerant of drug use and not violence makes is reasonable or not doesn’t really matter – I think it’s the responsibility of the classification system to provide the information so consumers can make informed decisions (and *not be misleading*).
The other issue is the inconsistency of the system itself. Remember the minor controversy when Atelier Totori got an 18+ for ‘references to sexual violence’ because there’s an optional text scene where one of the older characters gets extremely drunk and attempts to grope the lead character. If that was enough to get an 18+ alone, then how the heck does GTA5 not also have similar descriptors if not higher-impact? I haven’t played the game but based off experience with the series I’d imagine there’s a heck of a lot more than wandering hands.
Obviously Totori was horrendously misclassified but I’m pretty sure you could pick out a dozen other R18+ games from this year that will have stronger classification descriptions despite weaker content.
Take a look at Payday 2 for example. “High impact crime themes, drug references and violence”. How does GTA5 not have a description like that?
Adult Themes and Coarse Language are content descriptors for lower-tier stuff. Even nudity is an MA15+ descriptor. Same for sex scenes though I expect that varies depending on how graphic it is – haven’t played GTA5 to know for sure.
If it’s been rated R18 then it is implied that there is content in the game which is not appropriate for anyone but adults.
However the stuff like sexual violence, torture & other high impact violence and drug use should all have been mentioned on the label IMO.
As I said in my post, the biggest problem is parents are ignorant as to what the guidelines mean. Putting a “R18+” sticker isn’t going to have the same impact as putting “High Violence, Sex Scenes, Nudity, etc…” Why not just list them on the sticker?
You know the chart they have on the classification site? This thing: http://edge.alluremedia.com.au/m/k/2013/08/GTA-V-R18.jpg
Perhaps that should be on the back? Not that I really want my box even more festooned with the shit…
Sex, Nudity, Violence, Drug Use, Course Language.
You could fit that pretty well onto it. Especially seeing as they used bigger font size then the usually do on the stickers for “drug use”.
EDIT: I’m not asking for them to go into full detail to what will be found in game but just general stuff. Doesn’t seem like much to ask.
I agree. That’s far from ideal. I’d be in favour of a bigger label with the ‘strong impact’ stuff included… or even, in a perfect world, more explicit information like tencuvp gbegher fprar
It’s by design that they only report the strongest content descriptors. They will report all the things that are the most objectionable only.
Their guidelines are fucked up and give way too much weight toward the wrong things, which is how you get utterly tame games like Atelier Totori getting R18+ and stuff. But at least the game is actually clearly marked R18+, even if the content descriptors aren’t that helpful.
I fail to see how the Drug Use is the strongest content in the game though, it’s for the most part purely optional to view and partake in.
I don’t HAVE to smoke that bong sitting there in Franklin’s lounge or Jimmy’s room. I don’t HAVE to buy the medicinal marijuana shop either.How ever I have to film a young girl having intercourse out in public for a mission or the fact that one of the characters safe houses is a strip club towards the end of the game with topless women..Just seems to me because drugs are illegal they’re focusing on that most and to me that seems wrong, when there’s worse in the game than marijuana =/
Spoiler tags? 🙁
Err fair point, not that any of it is to do with the main story but all outside of that. But yeah fair point..
I was thinking about this when they announced the rating. Why can’t we just put a complete content advisory message on the back of the box the way the ESRB and PEGI systems do?
Their ratings for comparison:
ESRB gives it an M17+ rating, but has consumer advice of “Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Mature Humor, Nudity, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, Use of Drugs and Alcohol”.
PEGI-18, with consumer advice of “Contains strong violence, very strong language, sex and drugs references”.
Australian R18+, “Drug use”.
So, yea, how many parents know the rating system well enough to guess at the implied content? How many forget when they’re picking up the game, and all they see is “Drug use”? Saying the decision is up to the parents is a little moot if the rating doesn’t convey its information effectively.
And I don’t see how shooting drug-induced hallucinations of aliens and clowns, or being abducted by aliens and flying across the city in a drug-induced haze, is more impactful than, say, switching to Trevor to find him jacking off into a toilet, or a going to a strip club, etc.Trevor jacking off into a toilet?! That’s a new one.. Worst i’ve had is finding him around about a dozen massacred people on a beach, in some strung out meth phase claiming he didn’t do it.How to play Bordlerands 2:
Use a projecter to project the game onto a wall. Have one person playing the game properly. Every else uses nerf guns and tries to shoot the bad guys on the wall. The people with the nerf guns don’t achieve a thing, but boy is it good fun.
They’re helping! \o/
Random question.
OK. not so random. Sorta related to today’s Off Topic article.
if you could go back in time & stop one game being released, which would it be?
Personally, Call of Duty 4 : Modern Warfare.
Just in the hope that without its massive success, the market wouldn’t now be annually saturated with releases of horrible “realistic” FPS spam.
CoD4 was ground breaking at the time, and an amazing game. What should have been stopped is Modern Warfare 3 onwards. CoD4 brought new ideas to the FPS genre that had never been seen before, and single handedly changed the FPS landscape. What was problematic was the annual bastardised, uninspired sequels.
dont get me wrong, CoD 4 was indeed great.
but it spawned this whole horrible mess of sequels & imitations that have flooded the market. without that initial success… perhaps that wouldn’t have happened.
Yeah, possibly. It’s not CoD4’s fault, and sacrificing it for the greater good would have robbed the world of a fantastic game. If CoD4 didn’t do it, something else would have. I maintain Modern Warfare 2, whilst uninspired, was acceptable. Modern Warfare 3, Black Ops/Blops2, Ghosts, etc is going too far.
I didn’t mention World at War, because I kind of count it separately for some reason – I did enjoy that – basically CoD2/3 with CoD4 dynamics thrown in.
Oh, that’s a good question.
I’m going to refrain from answering, since anything I say is likely going to be cheap trolling rather than anything approaching insightful. I like your answer though; as much as I enjoyed Modern Warfare, its sacrifice might be for the greater good.
FFXIII.
Just. Just no.
Flinstones Bedrock Bowling.
*shudder*
Dragon Age 2.
Boo, hiss. DA just needed more development time to build actual environments instead of recycling them, and less reliance on seemingly endless waves of enemies being spawned to pad out combat into tedium. The story/characters and setting were awesome.
The story was terrible, it was a tale of a hero dicking around in some city. Why do I care about this stupid city? What’s that you want to take part in this Templar / Mage conflict, nah need to go fight no name bandits. The only good bit was the end but then they screwed that up by ending it at the only interesting bit. Don’t get me started on how stupid the game was if you decided to play a Mage.
The characters were okay, they certainly weren’t bad.
The smaller scale of the story was the best part!
It was about someone who became a hero through actions instead of that tired old boring fantasy trope of being the scion of destiny, touched by fate to be the chosen one, saving the world bullshit.
You weren’t out to save the world, you were watching out for you and yours and doing ‘what seemed best at the time’ instead of obeying prophecy or similarly overplayed, lazy crap masquerading as ‘storytelling’. It was a far more human story, more relate-able, more intimate.
There needs to be more DA2s to balance out all that ‘fantasy epic’ shit we’ve seen before. A more intimate, personal and realistic (within the verisimilitude of course) story that wasn’t afraid to say, “And for a few years, nothing happened.”
I guess it comes down to taste, I don’t like shelling out money to see a story about some no name living their life. Honestly, the final result of the whole game could have played out without Hawke even being there. Also, the choices you made were pointless. It was the illusion of choice, regardless of how you played / what you do the same thing happened.
I’d argue pretty much the opposite. Hawke became quite the name and was far from being a no-name by the end. The Champion of Kirkwall was a position of some renown in itself (as much as any ‘Hero of Ferelden’ – ponder how much that title might mean to the Tevinter or Qunari), and if anything the other races and nations were content to say that the next Dragon Age was successfully ended in Ferelden, life can go back to normal. Status quo: preserved.
But by completely fucking up the balance of the Circle and the Templars, there’s a reason the Inquisition is looking for Hawke – the world isn’t going to be the same anymore. And regardless of which side you chose in the end, without Hawke, the other side would’ve likely quietly curb-stomped their opposition.
Hell, without the presence of Hawke, the Qunari shitstorm could’ve gone quite differently for the large and influential city-state.
The ‘illusion of choice’ applies even more strongly in DA:O, too. You were never going to NOT kill the dragon at the end and defeat the ancient evil.
Just to hammer the point home: Let’s summarize the plots of both games! (Kept fairly vague in one instance to avoid spoilers, in the other because there is nothing more to it.)
In one game, you are a soldier-turned-refugee who fights for the survival of your small family, then struggles to make a living in a hostile city. After striking it lucky on a risky expedition, you live happily and quietly until a friend gets into some trouble, accidentally igniting racial/political tensions that set the city on fire – in the process of defending your friend, you defend the city, acquiring status as the city’s ‘champion’ – a title and role you didn’t necessarily want. This title puts you in the unfortunate position of playing more politics, and in the ensuing tensions between state and religion, you’re forced to fight for your own/family’s survival, and in the process escalate the situation into a conflict that topples the status quo for the religion, politics, and military across much of the world.
Contrast:
You are a survivor of misfortune who is drafted into an ancient monastic order of holy warriors who fight ancient evil. Ancient evil is rising once again, and you must undertake a quest to recruit the various races of the land to create an army capable of repelling the rising evil, culminating in you – the brave hero – slaying a dragon and scattering the invading armies of evil.
Yeeee-awwwwn.
Because that is a totally fair comparison. Completely ignore all the racial background of you hero, racial tensions between other races, political corruption, just to name a few things from the top of head, totally fair comparison …
Broad strokes? They’re all the same and all have the same result – like you said, illusion of choice. 🙂
Also, if you wanna go to that level of detail you can do that with Hawke too, and the multi-threaded plots that spring up around the companions and their missions, and all the various factions within the city competing against each other. Smugglers, bandits, pro/anti-elven racists, nobles, vicious businessmen and people succumbing to the deadly corrupting influences of not just blood magic – turned to out of desperation from very real persecution as opposed to a ‘lifestyle choice’ in Ferelden – but also the relic taken from the deep, dark places. Not to mention the same persistent issues that DA:O had, continued and amped up. Qunari immigration, Dalish society, Circle/Templar tensions, and a heightened awareness of creeping Tevinter influence and slavery.
Well that’s like saying let’s remove Mexico from the map because Taco Bell sucks.
It doesn’t really affect anyone except CoD fans that CoD sells 20 million copies every year. Let ’em have it.
Metroid: Other M.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m the first to leap to its defence when people say it’s crap. My thoughts on it are that it’s a good Metroid game – an excellent extension of 2D Metroid into 3D space. I just think it’s an absolute turd of a shit on the Metroid timeline and completely undermines everything that happens in Metroid Fusion. The series would be better off if it never existed.
I enjoy the Call of Duty games and despite the franchise’s appeal for me waning with it’s over-saturation(what doesn’t get boring with too much repetition?) I believe its success has been good overall.
The popularity of call of duty (which really rose to prominence after Cod4) introduced a lot of people to the games. Yes, there are people who only play that one game a year but they are playing games. Can we really blame the series for other publishers copying elements wholesale from the series and trying to emulate its success chasing the audience that has already been catered to by Call of Duty.
The success of military shooters could even be encouraging other game makers to try new things. Most big publishers are chasing Call of Duty but others are looking to different markets- Bethesda with DIshonored, various Indie games among others. There are many interviews with indie developers who talk about their dislike of modern AAA games encouraging them to make new stuff.
With or without call of duty we would have another genre saturating us. In the 90s it was mascot platformers, WWII shooters in the 2000s and hack and slash games were almost everywhere after God of War’s success. Even with indie games there seems to be elements of saturation. It’s a reductionist way of thinking but I’m sure you’ve seen or read forums where people joke about ‘a new retro indie platformer with a twist’ . There are fantastic indie games but many of them are clones of other popular indie games, for example, Minecraft clones, moody platformers modeled after limbo etc
Look at your collection of games how many ‘horrible realistic FPS spam’ games do you own? If it’s anything like mine I’d bet it’s not that many. There are a variety of games out there and I think that for the time being the FPS spam is just the loudest vessel out there. If you really look there has never been a time with such a variety of different games and genres.
Back on topic, I can’t think of any game now to answer your initial time travel question unfortunately.
World of Warcraft. Because of all the suicides.
#SocialConscience
Oh man
I had to change into clothes in record time this morning when my workmate showed up at my house at 6:00am for us to leave. I forgot to set my alarm and my message tone woke me up with a “get out of bed princess”
Then i have to go out of town on Thursday and Friday for some more fun install jobs. So much of this seems pointless to me because while getting amazing overtime pay, the money isn’t going towards anything. I have a bunch of money saved for my Europe trip and dont have any massive upcoming purchases to fund. It just seems like all this effort is accumulating a meaningless number to view later. Sure in like 3 years when im interested in buying a house i will thank my frugal nature but for now I guess im just lacking motivation.
Yes i did just rant about getting paid. Tune in next time where i rant about how getting laid is shitty.
The money is going towards something.
Listen to this guy.
His ass is tight.
Not in that way.
Gotta spend the money somehow I guess.
I get the feeling that perhaps you may be doing something wrong.
Or she’s into butt stuff.
Edit: Or he’s into butt stuff. Equality!
If it helps, I regret not holding on to more money when I was your age. I went through a few shitty things that required money that didn’t have at the time, and I can tell you that having money sitting in the bank is in no way a bad thing.
Want to echo this. I basically pissed away a lot of the money I was making for a long time and now that I’m trying to save up a house deposit I’m finding I’m not very good at being frugal 🙁 I wish I had been a bit more careful with money when I was younger.
Hellyeah. I was earning some serious bank in my last couple jobs (despite them being hell on earth to actually live with – or perhaps because of that; compensation for your soul), and absolutely and utterly pissed away every single cent on stupid, stupid shit that benefited me in no long-term way.
Saving = winning. Buy a house, stop renting, that’s dead money. Mortgage is much the same, but at least you get equity.
Mortgage also means you actually can do shit in the house if you want. Don’t like the color of that wall? Paint the fucker. Want a pet? You can fill your house with cats. That sort of stuff.
It’s all about perspective. Remember that some people would kill to be in your position.
Yep. Like me, I would love a job ( since being unemployed and unsuccessful every time an interview comes around really sucks) that allows me to be able to save. It fucking sucks not having enough money to live on and put away at the same time.
Upvote for the agreement (not the unemployed part – that sucks D: ).
Cheers man, i’m trying. I’ve tried more this year alone and as a result i’ve had a few more interviews. But it just gets to me that it seems everyone wants a junior with some form of customer service experience to work school hours. Ugh.
That’s it, keeps me going. I may not have a job after Christmas (actually it’s basically confirmed I won’t) but still, I count my lucky stars that I still have a job and I have got 5 years experience from my job.
Gotta look at the silver lining and all that! Money in the bank is always a good thing, even if you just sit on it for a year or two think of all the interest! \o/
5 years experience is pretty good, yo.
It’s great man, I know people that have only just started working where I am, I feel bad for them just starting a job then being told they won’t have one after Christmas. Some of them are 1/2 way through a UNI course too. So to finish it will need to come out of their own pockets.
Im very grateful for my life and my ability to live and do pretty much whatever i want. I did work hard for where i am now and it is nice to get validation. I understand that other people would kill for my position, but its just human nature to complain i guess. We always want more.
You can always buy me things. Mrs Shane wants a minivan, for instance. And about $4000 worth of landscaping. #ChristmasList
Is that landscaping or “landscaping” said with a meaningful look?
#inappropiate
Yes. Or no. Actually, I’m not sure anymore. She wants fake grass, and some foliage clearing, but now I’m starting to wonder what that means.
The way I see it, the more money you end up saving, the more often you’ll get opportunities of investing in something in the future. As you already know, I’m saving for my apartment when the building of it is completed to get a minimal amount of a loan as possible. If I end up backing out of that contract (Which is a very small possibility at this point), I have tons of money saved into the bank just sitting there now, so what should I do with it? Maybe I’ll end up reconsidering looking for a new place for the time being, and decide to treat myself to a new car or another overseas holiday. I’ve saved the money, I can do that if I want. I don’t know for sure right now because I never know what tomorrow will bring or throw at me, but the fact that I have the capability to take opportunities that come by because I can afford it (Due to the saving I’ve already done), makes you feel like you got more freedom with how to you want to live.
Vegas.
THE HANGOVER PART 4
TECHY AND ROCKET SOCIAL ANXIETY MEANS THEY STAY IN THE HOTEL ROOM FOR THE WEEKEND 😛
Still better than the Hangover series 😛
Do what I did. Buy a pinball machine! =D
Holy shite buckets.
MightyApe are selling the Dark Souls II Collector’s Edition for… *drum roll*
$219.99 plus shipping
Edit: O_o
cc @freezespreston et al
I take it thats abit over the top price wise am i right?
Bargain.
Apparently $207.99 for PC from my tea ape.
Is there a reason why this is attractive over EB’s lower prices? (e.g. $159.95 for PC) Are EB’s just placeholders or something?
No reason at all. I think I should have added a “O_o” into my post for clarity.
Actually, I’ll do that now.
“Seen a lower price? Ask us to beat it!”
Lol.
So whats everyone gonna be playing tonight? I feel like giving GTAV a break so open for suggestions
GTA V!
No, wait, that doesn’t help. Also I might not have it…
SLEEPING DOGS.
OPEN WORLD URBAN CRIME SIMULATOR. It’ll be good for a change.
Besides GTAV I’ve been playing State of Decay, my group of survivors fall apart while I’m not there!
And just like that, I think my resolve for not buying SoD yet has failed.
I logged off Sunday with almost full “morale” when I logged in Monday it was almost empty. Apparently someone in my group shot someone else that had got sick.
Wait, shit really does happen when you’re not there?
I want to love that idea but it frequently means getting screwed over for not playing a particular game…or does stuff just happen each time you leave regardless of time since last played?
I’m not too sure, I think it may have been a scheduled story kind of event. However morale does go down while you go away, resources also get used.
Those moochers..always using the resources..if your gonna use resources go out and replace them!
GTA IV!
Work and watching breaking bad? That’s a game right?
Only if you BELIEVE it is!
My copy of GTA 5 hasn’t arrived yet so I’ll be playing Puppeteer. I really liked the demo and so I bought the game. The only reason I’m hesitating at the moment is because I already played the first 30min of boring tutorial stuff in the demo and i don’t want to play it again.
I might play some other demos too or consider starting Uncharted 3.
Hatsune Miku Project Diva f
because i’m a real man.
/brofist
You have impeccable taste, sir.
I still need to get the PS3 release but played a fair bit of the Vita version (I assume you meant Project Diva F, not f? Lowercase is Vita, uppercase is PS3)
nope, i imported the vita version from japan, i prefer games like that on portable consoles (ouendan, EBA, Theatrythm) :).
Import brofist!
Maybe some FFXIV – been chipping away at it.
Maybe some BF3… got back into that recently.
I also have other non-gaming projects that I should do work on, one which kind of has a looming deadline :/
BF3 what you playing on because I have the basic game on PC and PS3
PC! I think my origin deets are on taynames (if I do get on, might not be until late…)
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, aka “Drop your customers into open water and laugh at them simulator 3”.
Maybe.
Unfortunately I dont have that one 🙁
I might play some FFXIV though I logged on on the weekend after not playing for a week due to internet issues and then found I couldn’t be bothered queueing forever for what was probably going to be another terrible grouping experience. 🙁
So failing that, I might go back to Xillia or continue TitS (which I picked up again last week and am starting to get into again
Aint nothing wrong with getting back into some TitS..no innuendo intended
LA NOIRE!
I had a sudden craving to replay that this morning on the way to work. Sat there thinking about it the entire rest of the trip 😛
EDIT: I probably won’t actually play it. Way too much stuff to go around replaying old games, dammit.
Side-vote! Yay for completing old games. Boo for leaving old games by the wayside.
This is awesome. I can picture Snoop Dogg actually doing something like that.
Hello Tay.
So pretty much been the same old, same old here.
In news, Sid is now being swooped by 4 birds. Plovers, Magpies, Wattle birds and now willy wag-tails.
*Blip-Bloop*
Achievement Unlocked:
Get swooped by 4 different types of birds in one day.
Is there a reason you don’t talk to me on teamspeak anymore? Its like you hate me!!!!!!!!!
It’s your fault for not coming down to the other channel
Because you’re too sexy and I get nervous around you.
Plovers. The original angry birds. Fuck those guys, seriously.
Yeah they are worse then the magpies. The only birds that swoop me as well is the plovers, they other only attack Sid.
I was so confused when I first moved here. Plovers are EVERYWHERE around here, and yet, they’re docile as all hell. I… I don’t understand.
I read that as ‘swooned’ on first parse.
*goes to get more coffee*
Going to the park around this time of year with my dog was always hilarious. He’d get swooped by birds constantly and be completely oblivious to it.
Every time I see a reference to Watch Dogs, I think of the Phantom Tollbooth.
should i be preordering the pokemans? what version are people getting?
I don’t think you’ll need to pre-order. I’m getting Y version, and my sister will be getting X version.
is that because y=male?!?
Pretty much.
Both, as always. \o/
but why both? arent they essentially the exact same game with a few different pokemon?
Indeed. Different Pokeemenz.
y not just trade the different pokeemenz with a friend who has a different version?
Because friends get annoyed when you reject their trade because the Charmander wasn’t Timid.
PENNY ARCADE IS ALWAYS RELEVANT: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/07/25
“You’ve got your Pokaddicts, too – about thirty years old, ADHD, OCD. They’re a mess. What’re you doing, Pork?”
“Trading Pokemon. With myself.”
“Don’t fuck with these guys.”
So how do you always find these relevant comics :O?
It’s a mystery~~~
Uhm. Not-at-all-creepy-or-sad almost-encyclopaedic knowledge of PA comics. :}
Both, leaning towards Y but I’ll find out on the day which one I get to play.
I was planning to put out the call a few days before so I can see what everybody is getting. I’m undecided so I figured I’d go with the least popular one so we can all trade. Buutttt, if there’s no clear majority I’ll probably be going for Y.
I will be getting both, still trying to determine which has the better version exclusives – from what I’ve seen it’s probably X, so I’ll use that cart for breeding and main Y.
I’m getting Y because Yveltal looks freaking Badass (yes, with a capital B)
Watamote ep12:
It’s over. :`( Please let there be a second season…Have you checked out the list of anime starting next season (i.e. next week – I think new shows are beginning on the 2nd)? Anything there catch your eye?
I haven’t. Honestly, I’ve been too into Watamote to look at anything else.
I might try and give Gargantia a shot, though.
http://i4.minus.com/ibpdy6o55LnlmA.jpg this chart might be helpful.
Gargantia was a good show.
Seconding @negativezero – Gargantia was great. It somehow managed to combine modern animation with an old-school vibe.
I need to stop not doing anything. But I am too foggy-brained to not not do anything.
Stupid jerks getting all talkative and starting discussions and arguments right when I want to leave skype. And the stupid school holidays meaning there were kids yelling in the backyard outside my window to wake me up this morning. And the same stupid jerks making some kind of horrible sounds-like-destroying-a-shed noise when I went back to try and nap off the fog.
I’m getting too Danny Glover.
Hnngh.. Must.. Resist..
http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/dvd/dvd-genres/tv/breaking-bad-the-complete-series-blu-ray-limited-edition/691239
http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/dvd/dvd-genres/tv/dexter-the-complete-series-blu-ray-limited-edition/691912
But so tempting..
Dexter, eh.
The BrBa one is cool though
Dexter has been a good series apart from the third season which was a little meh.
Gave up after s4, everything I’ve heard since has been awful.
See listening to what others think about a show is a bad idea since it’s all subjective. I know most people will say season 5 was weak, but I liked it even if it deviated a little from the normal Dexter storyline =/ and season 6 with Colin Hanks was awesome and season 7 featured that Aussie girl that’s in Chuck. Season 8 was also pretty good, though I thought the final episode was a little weak how it ended. But other than that i’ve rather enjoyed the series.
I have people whose judgement I trust though, and I thought the premise was wearing thin by s4.
Whatever floats your boat man. But I think it’s been pretty good, especially the development of Dexters character over all.
Hngh.
Yeah.. I think i’ll skip these unless I land this jerb at EB, cause I really can’t justify almost 550 dollars on two TV shows, as AWESOME as those CE are. Also I need to remember I am saving money, not spending it 😛
Haha yeah I’d probably get BeBa before Dexter. mainly because of price.
Yeah haha.
Dunno if it’s still on but the Breaking Bad barrel was $165ish delivered at Amazon UK the last time I checked.
Thinking of putting pre-orders in now for Beyond: Two Souls, FF10/10-2 HD, FF:Lightning Returns, and Watch Dogs as well as the Dark Souls II Collector’s Edition so I don’t forget to grab them. I think that’s all I’m really planning on getting at this point. I think.
Beyond: Two Souls! 😀
Dark Souls II! 😛
Beyond: Dark Souls
Compromise?
I can’t wait for FFX/X-2!
I’m gonna hop straight into X-2. So excited!
I haven’t played it since it first came out, but at the time I played it as many times as needed to see everything. If there’s been trophies back then I’d have had a Platinum. Not sure I’ll go that far this time but I really am looking forward to having fun with it again. Too many people gave it a wide berth because of the pop-singing, dress-up stuff but it’s one of my favourite ever games.
Games I’m looking forward to for the rest of the year:
1. Beyond: Two Souls
2. Wind Wanker
3. Batman: Arkham Origins
4. Broken Sword 5
5. Asylum
6. Watchdogs
7. Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze
8. 3D Mario
Also Goodbye Deponia!
Oh yeah, Wind Waker HD. I’ll have to remember to grab that after we buy “the kids” a Wii U for Christmas.
Haha! Pikmin 3 too! So good!
Wind Wanker…
I don’t think there’s anything left this year that I’m super excited for. I have preorders down on a few things and there’s a couple of others I may pick up but probably not going to rush out for anything.
About the only thing that I guess I’m excited for is new Ys, but I’m probably as excited for the soundtrack CDs with the limited edition as I am for the game.
Luckily Dark Souls 2 is next year otherwise they’d all be that?
2013 has been an amazing year for games. The Last of Us, Pikmin 3, GTAV, Rayman Legends, The Night of the Rabbit, Tomb Raider… so many incredible games. Any other year any of these games could easily be game of the year!
…
I’m going to watch the pilot and judge it super harshly on that one introductory Ep.
…
Watch Warehouse 13! 😛
I’m curious as to the pre edit now.
“Whatever, Freeze”.
I think it’s been too long since @dc was at a Meat with us. He’s forgotten how we interact with him, and that we mean no harm. 🙁
DC, why did you edit out your original comment? I’m sure there’s some people interested in that show. I was going to check it out but I can’t remember what it was so I can’t!
It’s all that GTA he’s been playing.
I was going to play GTA V tonight, but I think I’ll read Doctor Sleep instead.
Shining sequel! WOOOOOO!
I thought you were saying they announced a new Shining game and was all set to complain about how there hasn’t been a localized game in the series since Shining Force EXA on PS2 🙁 Another series that went PSP and then Sega decided to shit on 🙁
We are never closer to American culture than when in the middle of a Sizzler’s dinner service.
Damn, I vaguely remember Sizzler’s.
The one in Corio shut down because it sucked. 🙁
Was probably the rat-sak salad..
Amongst other things…
I’ve only been to one Sizzler, in Carramar, because it’s the one my stepmother lived closest to and her and my dad are the only people I ever went to Sizzler with.
20+ years later it’s still there and I live 500 metres up the road from it. Still haven’t been though. I keep meaning to, never do. Wouldn’t mind ordering a steak from there instead of just gorging myself on fruit, salad, and ice cream.
I went back to Sizzler’s for nostalgia’s sake a couple years ago, and I really wished I hadn’t. The salad bar and dessert bar inspired less hunger than terror (oh god diseases!) and the best thing on the menu was cheese-toast. Unappealing steaks/fish dishes which could easily be topped by the $10 steak meals at most pubs.
VERY ho-hum. (Edit: Also, I usually do very poorly out of ‘all you can eat’ places, because ‘all I can eat’ is not very much. I get full pretty quickly to the point that the price of ordering the access is about the same as ordering a higher-quality meal on its own.)
This has what’s kept me from going back really. It was great when I was a kid and my dad was footing the bill, but paying $28 for what will probably be two plates of salad, possibly a soup, then one bowl of ice cream? Eh. I dunno.
Sitting here thinking what Facebook and Twitter would look like currently if the PS4 with it’s share button was out and had GTAV on it.
Like Miiverse but with bonus family and friends drama/food pics.
A good reason to avoid social media for a few months. (One reason amongst many.)
Anyone else watching Sleepy Hollow? I’m about to watch the second episode. I’m curious as to how it will be because the first one certainly had a lot of stupid-pills being taken. 😛
I really like the tone and atmosphere of it. Not up to date yet, though. Going to be a guilty pleasure show I think. 😀
What was that show you were mentioning? All I can remember is Tina Fey but I’m fairly certain you wouldn’t be too hype for a Tina Fey show.
Hostages with Toni Colette. Pilot wasn’t all that great, unfortunately.
Slightly less stupid but still a lot of Linda from Under The Dome kind of moments. What is it with stupid women in the Sheriff’s Department on US TV these days?
Also,
how long was it? A day or two? And nobody noticed the body missing from the morgue?d’loaded first ep, will have a look soon
I like it. I enjoy the sort of setting the show’s taking place in.
I watched the first 2 eps. Have to say I’m actually enjoying it. I don’t usually like these kind of tv series, but I actually sat and watched both eps all the way through. Usually with tv shows I get a bit bored and start doing other things, but… ok… well.. perhaps I was just too lazy to move to do anything else, but it didn’t put me to sleep, so I guess that’s something 😉
I’ve just started watching Sons Of Anarchy, and was a little taken aback to find that Opie is the spit out of my best mate’s mouth. Holy crap, the likeness is uncanny. Makes me miss Canberra just a little bit, actually.
In the land of vidyagaemz, all I’ve really played recently is Cookie Clicker. It’s… I don’t even know. I have 85% of the upgrades, and 90% of the achievements unlocked. I’ve baked 510 trillion cookies, and am currently baking at a rate of 3.5 billion cookies per second.
Halp o.0
In other news, I got my chair today \o/
Opie is possibly my favourite character in SOA along with Chibs, just something about that Scot that’s so loveable.
Edit: Also the scar on Chibs’ face are actually real too. That one took me by surprise.
Cookie Clicker seems a lot like that Candies game. Except better graphics and cookies rather than candy.
Waitaminute is Clay’s wife the voice actor for Leela from Futurama perchance?
Yes. She’s also Kurt Sutter’s wife.
So amazeful.
Also Kurt Sutter is Otto don’t forget to mention that!
Clay is also the narrator from the Fallout series.. He’s also Hellboy..
Good show.
Episode 4 is where season 1 grabbed me.
Bunbun is terrible at Dota.
Did you hear about the antennae that got married?
The wedding was boring but the reception was great! #dadjokepagesixThere is a surprising lack of @shane on this page. I thought he could smell when we got to page six 🙂
You win dad jokes for being the first one to post about it!
Oh man. News.com.au has the ending to Dexter posted on the front page. I don’t really watch the show so it doesn’t bother me too much, but that’s still incredibly poor form.
Welcome to newsdotcomdotau, where the credibility is made up, and actual front page news doesn’t matter.
I use brisbanetimes.com.au for my tabloid news fix. It’s still a bit too tabloid for me to visit with any regularity, but at least it’s less toxic than news.com.au.
OMG Gust are working on what looks like a successor to Ar Tonelico. Super hype.
Bet it will be like Ciel no Surge and not come out in English 🙁
I’ve never heard of any of those games / names you posted.
Whenever people start posting about things I haven’t heard of, I choose to imagine that it’s all about a rare type of mammal. Maybe even a rodent sometimes, I don’t know. It makes it all a lot easier.
OMG Gust Research are working on what looks like a successor to Rock Wallabies. Super hype.
Bet it will be like a Bilby and not come out in English 🙁
I don’t know man, I don’t think it works too well…Perhaps because I went with marsupials in lieu of rodents?Oh, it still doesn’t make any sense, but then I just assume that the person’s insane, and that’s easy to believe. You shouldn’t question how my brain works. It’s a dark path.
I now have a mental image of a bunch of Pidgey’s in a room using Gust and a bunch of scientist on the other side of a two way mirror writing notes and making noises like “ahhh”, “uh-huh” “interesting”, etc…
The Ar Tonelico games are niche JRPGs which were probably not that remarkable, but AT2 really struck a chord for me. Despite the awful localization it’s probably one of my favorite games. They also have amazing soundtracks.
The three games in the series basically finished the story of the world but there was always desire for more. Trouble is that Gust were subsequently purchased by Tecmo Koei (after really hitting success with the recent Atelier games) and Ar Tonelico was a joint project between them and Banpresto, who are now owned by Bandai Namco.
So it looks like this new game is more of a spiritual successor.
Because I’m now a dad, when I lock my keys in the car it’s my responsibility to fiddle around with the lock using a wire clothes hanger for hours on end, rather than call road service.
When the car isn’t running too crash hot, I will pop the bonnet and pretend I know what I’m looking at exactly. If a friend shows up to help, I will say ‘I used to be able to fix these things, but now with all these computers and stuff, I wouldn’t know where to start.’ We will then drink beer.
Because I’m now a dad.
#page6isnojoke
Also, it’s always a little unnerving/endearing to realize that parents are (and always have been) just as fallible as yourself.
I know I sound like (and am) a babby in saying this, but that was a really pivotal moment in my life, actually.
That, and my brother’s due to have a kid soon with his partner, and that’s just too weird to comprehend right now.
I used to assume my dad knew everything because he was old and wise, but now I’m as old as he was when he married my mum and I’m still basically a fucking idiot.
You must go to the top of your nearest mountain, and yell at the mountain, just keep yelling and soon the wise will come..because you will realise you look like a deranged person yelling at a mountain
BrBa
Yay Robert ForsterYou need to see my previous rot13’d post.
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http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/09/shooting-challenge-45-magnificent-mobile-shots-vote-for-your-favourite/
Y’all should totally vote for that Lucas M chap. I hear he’s a rather handsome fellow and totally wrote more than anyone else there ;D
I always seem to get too verbose about things. Though I like that the only other one to write nearly as much was also the only other 808 user 😛
Yesterday for lunch (and tea, you get 2 containers full) I had some stir fried chicken thing with “spicy salt” from some Asian place called written in tea. It was fucking amazing. It also had full chilli’s and jalapenos in it. I ALWAYS complain that hot things are never hot enough, but this was so hot I started tearing up. I was in heaven. Definitely getting that again occasionally when I have spare money.
So yeah… Last weekend was… stressful, if that even begins to describe it. Moving, dealing with frustrating people, looking after friends (who it turns out was roofied and now I feel bad for being a dick about it), 4 assessments to start and finish in 24 hours including a 2000 word essay, and fitting in going out to a concert and getting drunk. It was the busiest 3 days of my life. Monday afternoon I was so exhausted I couldn’t even put sentences together, completely zoned out for I don’t know how long, and ended up crying on Oliver’s shoulder. Not my proudest moment, but now we’re 1 all 😛
Also, oreos, milk, ice, a bit of coffee, and milk in a (high powered) blender. Omg it’s amazing. There might be ice cream in in as well, I can’t remember.
People who like spicy foods are crazy, like smokers. EVERY SPICY FOOD YOU EAT IS KILLING YOUR TASTE BUDS. It’s proven! They don’t grow back! You’re gradually destroying your ability to enjoy food, and eventually you will complain that all food is bland if it isn’t spicy, because that’s the only thing able to get through to your deadened tongue. For the love of all things flavourful don’t do this to yourselves, people!
Erm…
I wish I had something witty to say…
I wouldn’t worry about it.
Wit is the lowest form of sarcasm.
day off thanks to school holidays! good in one way cos I love having days off, but bummer that I don’t get paid :\
Going to go to my mums for a junk food lunch and watch Voyager though! w00t! haven’t been able to watch voyager with my mum for ages!
Hitman Collection (includes Absolution) is $11.24 on Steam at the moment.
I’ve spent an hour playing Muramasa Rebirth on the VITA. I have no idea what is going on. \o/
I had the same feeling when i approached Tetris, COLOURED BLOCKS MAN?????
They don’t even explain the story in Tetris! WHO ARE THESE BLOCKS? WHY DO I HAVE TO KILL THEM?
Exactly and why does the rate i have to kill them go up over time? WHO IS THE ACTUAL ENEMY AM I THE BAD GUY????
I heard they were Space Invader poop.
I’m sorry /o\
I, huh? What?
It’s all my fault?
What’s your fault? I’m enjoying the game. So YES! It’s all your fault I am having fun, you monster! D=
Oh god, how will you ever forgive me?
I can never forgive you! You will have to live the rest of your days with the burden of suggesting a game to me that I am enjoying!
Oh no. I don’t think I can live with that!
is that released here yet?
Did you start with Momohime’s route or Kisuke’s?
Momohime’s story
It starts you in the thick of it then explains what’s going on a bit later.
Yeah, I assumed so.
I beat the first boss so I kind of have a little idea what’s going on at the current given time, kind of …The plot in the Wii version was impossible to follow due to shitty translation, the Vita release is much better so it’ll come together for you eventually.
There’s three endings. Once you complete both characters’ first endings, all of the other character’s swords become available. Equip the swords unlocked for beating the final boss with each character and then re-do the last boss and it’ll change to a different fight with a different ending for each character. Then you have to do all the caves to unlock the extra swords you need to forge the 108th sword (the Oboro Muramasa) and re-challenge the final boss again a third time with each character to see the true endings.
I haven’t done the final bit because one of the caves is too hard for me to finish 🙁
Sometimes (being an old lady who has given birth naturally to two kids), sneezing is a scary thing. So the fact that today before a test I have to drink a litre of water in an hour is terrifying. 😛
That’s a pretty harsh requirement. Guantanamo University?
Hope you get an A anyway! 🙂
I got a P.
So does Strange.
….HA! I get it
Oh damn, I totally missed an opportunity to pun. And on page six too!
*hangs self*
So I guess we’ll be able to ask you… ‘How’s it hanging?’
We know we’ll get an answer because you’ll be hanging around… unless you’re too choked up to say anything meaningful.
He could be busy gallowvanting around.
Gasp. I didn’t even think of that, and I was SEARCHING after the first three.
You marvellous bastard you.
IM SORRY FOR BEING BORN
I get jokes!
Hope the test goes well, my pal!
So I made a fun discovery last night: Charles Martinet voiced a dragon in Skyrim. Don’t look into it too much if you don’t wanna see major Skyrim spoilers.
If you don’t know who Charles Martinet is, you should look into what a martinet is, and then use it on your butt.
It’sa me! A-Dragon!
@negativezero
I’m just glad that those links you posted the other day didn’t have associated videos, my glucose levels are already at critical.
So far this morning I’ve had a choc orange thing that someone left on my desk, 3 eclair lollies… 16 Jelly Belly Jelly beans….
Tasty
I can help you with that if you really want…
It DOES NOT exist
If you’ve got $50 or so to burn you could get the game on iOS and then the video would be interactive!
Somebody halp, Neg is trying to kill me 😛
You’re on an old TAY page, no one can see your struggles here.
Just finished GTA V. Amazing game. Still think Red Dead is my favourite Rockstar production, but this is easily a close second!
What about Max Payne 3!?
That’d probably be third! 😀 Loved that game!
What’s next? I imagine you’d have to choose carefully as most games might appear a tad empty after the playground of GTA.
Beyond: Two Souls! Looking forward to playing a game a bit more story based. GTA is amazing, but lots of its built around cool gameplay mechanics. I wants me a Quantic Dream story! 😀 To be honest, I find even the best sandbox games to feel a little empty and GTA was no exception.
But that’s nearly two weeks away! What are you going to play in the meantime?!
Edit: response to your edit: yeah asIwas typing I knew empty was the wrong word but I couldn’t think of the right one. 😛
Nothing. After playing a huge game like GTA I like to take some down time between my next game. I kind of feel relieved that it’s finished and won’t consume any more of my day. (Until I start the post campaign stuff. XD)
GTA Online of course! with Bikes
Read The Lesser Evil! Perfect way to pass the time.
Nah! If I never read it, then I’ll always have new Shane material to read! XD
You’re already 3 books behind. You can read the first two and still have something to look forward to 😛
If it helps it’s sitting next to Stephen King’s The Shining in a pile of books I want to read but haven’t yet. XD
My favourite Rockstar game so far is The warriors. Fantastic game.
Can’t wait for my copy of GTA 5 to arrive, San Andreas on the PS2 was great. Silly me and my decision to buy online 🙂
I count the years now with RDR as a reference point. It’s year 3 aRDR.
@jimu: You probably know but Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. started today in the U.S., you should watch and then we should talk about it. Joss Whedon! WOOOO!
Fine. Don’t talk about it with me. >:(
😛
Bah, you ain’t no Whedon fan! It’s not like you were a Browncoat who married another Browncoat! 😛
Firefly reference \o/
i love you
*mental hug*
The majority of Fall season in North America actually seems to start this week.
Might be cool.
One of the best times of the year! 😀
(Though now there’s all these awesome cable shows like Mad Men, Newsroom and Boardwalk it’s pretty good all year round now.)
New How I met your mother hahahaha
remember when that show used to be good. In saying that im totally going to watch it all just because its the last season and I deserve a good ending.
I watched the season premiere and can’t stand the laugh track. Drove me crazy. *shakes fist at multicam sitcoms, my nemesis.*
Multicam sitcoms, for better or worse, have their place in television.
Anything good starting this TV season? 😛
http://tvline.com/2013/07/17/fall-tv-premiere-dates-2013-schedule-calendar-printable/
Haha! That wasn’t as helpful as I thought it’d be. Lots of great returning shows, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is one of the only new shows I’m crazy psyched about though.
There’s one with Karl Urban coming up in November or so. Almost Human?
I think it might be okay mostly because of Judge “Bones McCoy” Dredd.
Oh yeah! I forgot about that! That’s by the Fringe show runner too, so looking forward to it!
Awww yiss. Junior Masterchef.
D:
Oh man, you should see it here.
The Americans have their first season of it coming up and people are all “omg” and I’m all “…nah”.
The Amazing Race is back on the 29th! @greenius, @sughly and I will most likely have rambling a-plenty!
Ooooooooooooh. Here’s hoping there’s some actual interesting people on it this time 😛
Yeah, I agree. A season of The Amazing Race is made by good contestants. You can have the best challenges and locations, but it means nothing if you hate all the teams. XD
Gauranteed we will like basically none of them to begin with. Few episodes in, a couple of favourites will emerge. A few more in and we will learn to love some teams we hated before because they did stuff that shows they are nice after all. Others will become even more hated. So is the ways of Amazing Race contestants.
Like whatshisface and his blonde wife!
Sughly knows what he’s talkin’ ’bout!
My net refuses :'(
@freezespreston: Sorry for being a jerk last night. Wasn’t in the best of moods and took your post as an attack on me some how. I know that wasn’t intentional and I’m sorry.
Fucking MOODY DC
just as a note: I was being sarcastic, i don’t want a well written apology posted to me later ya jerk.
Rockets, I could never be mad at you. Freeze on the other hand. *consults ‘The List’ with 700 exclamation marks next to Freeze’s name* 😛
He can’t be that bad, he didn’t hat The Last of Us after all.
But you liked Rayman! That’s why you guys make good villains, there’s sympathetic aspects to you! 😛
Takes a big man to admit that sir. Kudos.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2013/09/24/david-cage-on-self-doubt-and-admiring-team-ico.aspx
Not going to read, cause I don’t want spoilers but David Cage and Team Ico in the headline! I thought someone might be interested. 😀
SPOILERS the game has a quicktime event.
Game of the Year! 😀
WTF was with Fahrenheit anyway? majorly fell to pieces towards the end
I still loved it though. Did jump the shark like crazy towards the end though. Amazing atmosphere.
Felt like it was rushed out. I do wonder how Quantic Dream would go with an episodic game
Fahrenheit was originally going to be episodic back in the day!
Also, I’d totally play that episodic game. 😀
As much as I want to see it, I just know they’d try and one-up themselves every episode and things would just get crazier and crazier.
Btw, I’m totally betting that the old man/wizard/actor from the Quantic Dream tech demo will be in Beyond Two Souls somehow.
@popdart5 I still want to see Kara from that robot tech demo in her own game!
Also, I read you were a Brisbane TAYbie! You should attend some meats!
@dc Oh I shall, don’t you worry about that. I might just ‘pop’ on over to one in the future.
I’m sorry to have inflicted that atrocity on you.
Shane doesn’t apologize for his puns, so the fact you do makes you alright! 😀
PARKS AND REC IS BACK TOMORROW
I have been waiting for it for so long, Kind of sad that The Office is finished as my staple comedy, despite what people say about the later seasons i loved it, i loved all of it.
Looking forward to Parks and Recs. Started watching a few weeks ago and watched 50 episodes back-to-back last week. Now I’m up to date.
Minor season premiere spoiler:
First two eps are set in London! 😀Morning TAY,
I’m in a lot better mood today then i have in the entire last week for some reason…
This makes me antsy, my mind must be conspiring against me to launch in all out assault…
but for now, HAPPY DAYS \o/
Bit of an update on the homefront if anyone is following/cares:
My wife has had to quit her job, we realised that it was one of the major triggers for her issue, and she is taking the time to herself to sort things out… so yay for progress \o/,
not so yay for money /o\
She is making tremendous progress though, and we have only been to the psychologist twice so far… things are slowly getting better and i see improvements every day…
Big thanks to @scree for the exercises she suggested, she has been doing the muscle relaxation one every night (or as needed if she can feel something coming on) and it has helped a lot…
@scree is pretty awesome for being so helpful!
Also just got an $800 bonus at work for me being outright amazing* (read: doing my job)
so i’m treating myself to Wind Waker HD… then it’s back into savings mode for me…
*not really
TL;DR shit’s getting better, Pixel = happy
Aw, thinking of you guys. Hope things are better with Mrs. Pixel soon!
Wind Waker! Oh man, that’s going to be so damn fun!
I missed out on the original Zelda hype (because i didn’t own or had access to a Nintendo machine) so i’m super hype for giving it a go… Loved Ocarina of Time on the 3DS so i cannot wait for this \o/
I haven’t played the original Wind Waker either, but I always loved the art direction. So pretty looking.
Glad to hear things are looking up for you and your wife!
Also, WIND WAKER \o/
I am so glad that is helping!
If it makes her feel better, I also had to leave my job at McDonalds when I was first diagnosed. I think work adds extra stress that doesn’t help.
I really am happy that she’s better and that you are too!
I don’t think you realise how much it has helped…
the technique even worked enough for her to go into work to clear off her desk…
Okay maybe i did drive her… and walked in with her… and she was anxious as all hell… BUT SHE DID IT \o/
without breaking into tears…
that was a major victory…
So major kudos to you, and thanks \o/
The fact that she faced her fears and come out feeling alright in the end is a major achievement!
WOO, WIND WAKER!
Also, the wife thing is good too.
Yeah screw that GTAV hype… WIND WAKER \o/
it’s not like GTAV is a very good game anyway right? RIGHT?
…
;_;
https://vine.co/v/hvjV2P5YYqt
Rocketman sings like an angel.
BEST.PAGE.GET.EVER!
I don’t understand technology because I load the page and all I get is a static image???
I’m Ron Burgundy?
Firefox?
http://www.ghacks.net/2013/08/26/fix-vine-videos-playing-firefox-web-browser/
I now regret fixing my issue.
To be fair i dint know he was recording.
Did you get the Thunderstruck one? Please tell me you got the Thunderstruck one!
So there are some “leaked” images of the final stage evolutions for the new XY starters. Seems to be about a 50/50 split between them being real/fake.
Apparently it had been mentioned previously, but I don’t recall it: the starters’ final designs are inspired by a knight, a rogue/ninja, and a wizard. The big reason for the real/fake split seems to come down to Froakie and Chespin. Fennekin is the “wizard” of the three, and its final form weilds that stick like a wand. There’s argument over how the other roles are split. The leak refers to the Froakie evo as “Gallantoad” – implying he’s the knight and Chespin the rogue. But he looks more like a Ninja and Chespin more like an armoured knight.Edit: A stray apostrophe
worst thing about X/Y starters, is they all look like dweebs.
If I was a pokemon trainer, I’d be a bit embarrassed to be seen walking around with that frog thing.
dunno about their evolution forms though.
I JUST WANT SQUIRTLE BACK DAMMIT.
well
you get to pick a Kanto starter as well – I think it’s some time after the first gymalso, these starters might just be the best looking yet. Froakie looks like a badass!
having not played a pokemon game since red / blue, I dont know what a Kanto starter is… :/& I’ve gotta disagree about the frog guy. at least in its initial form, its looking anything but badass…
Kanto is where red/blue is set. So Bulba, Charmander and Squirtle get called “Kanto starters”.The “leaked” final evolution, based on a posion dart tree frog: http://i.imgur.com/L93hubC.jpgoh awesome! so Squirtle is making a comeback!ok. that final evolution is indeed badass.
This generation of starters beats a lot of the old ones. I mean, none of them are a one-legged chicken, so there’s that.
How dare you.
cc @novacascade
Sir, I do believe you impugn the honour of the Torchic family and I will not stand for it.
White gloves at dawn. Be there
Death by white glove… that sounds… messy.
THE CHAFING.
Dear Tay
Let’s get some correspondence up in letter writing page seven.
Your PenPal
Red
Dear Red,
I’ve never really bought into letter writing page 7. I think letters are suitable for anytime, and anyplace. Just like terribl(y awesom)e jokes, actually .
To that end, here’s a letter for you: G
Hope you like it.
Sincerely,
Shane
Dear Shane,
The mysterious letter G: what does it mean?
Wait a minute. G, G, Gordon Freeman. HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMED.
Yours sincerely,
The Internet
Dear Popdart5
NOT ONLY GORDON FREEMAN BUT G-MAN AS WELL…
SHANE CONFIRMS HL3 RELEASE
Kind Retards
Pixel
Dear Red,
How goes thee on this fine Wednesday? I hope thou art well.
In real talk, I bought the core rulebook for Numenera the other day. Dayum there are some pretty pictures and I am digging the whole system atm. I will have to try it out some day. Kinda disappointed they don’t a non-PDF version available but oh wells.
May your day be full of natural 20s.
Pop
Dear Popdart
I am well, although work is a drag today.
Re Numenera physical books, I do have the corebook coming in the mail any day now, which I’m keenly anticipating. once the kickstarter backers are taken care of it’ll be available for purchase.
Rolls for initiative,
Red.
Dear Red,
Ah cool. I was unaware that that was a one of the perks of being a backer. I have the PDF now so I’ll probably end up showing a few friends who might be interested. I’ll still grab the book itself as I am a sucker for books.
Re initiative: You have a higher initiative than the orc that just bursted into the room. Unfortunately you do not get a surprise round. What do you do?
Tension is building,
Pop the DM
Dear Pop who wears the viking hat
I draw my daggers as a minor action, and use my move action to go into stealth. I then throw my dagger for sneak attack damage. i roll (rolls D20 on desk) a 17.
Awaiting your ruling
Red the Rogue
Dear Red the Stabby,
The orc completely failed his perception check so he is completely oblivious to the dagger that is flying towards him. The dagger bypasses his AC and (rolls damage) deals 6 damage plus your strength bonus of 2 so that’s 8 damage all together. The orc is now bloodied.
The orc is (rolls another perception) still has no idea where that dagger came from. He looks blindly around the room and bellows in frustration.
You are currently without a dagger but it is your move.
Pop the stupid Orc
Dear PopDM
I use a minor action to kick over a brazier, plunging the room into low-light (half elf, l have low-light vision). I then charge the orc and make a grapple check using dexterity instead of strength (I have a feat) to try and pin it so I can retrieve my dagger. I roll a 12 (+3 from dex)
Hoping this orc has loot
Red the rogue
Dear Red the Wrestler,
While the Orc was weakened by the sneak attack, trying to grapple an Orc is generally not advised. Your grapple check is insufficient and you are left in a bad situation.
The room is starting to turn into an inferno as the barrels of ale start to fume in the corner. Thankfully the ceiling is made of stone so you are in no danger of it collapsing on you.
The Orc turns around and snarls at you. It swings at you with its axe and barely misses. You manage to duck out of the way of the blow and you spot your dagger is buried in the hide armour that is protecting his upper back.
Eveything is on fire and the orc wants to murder you.
Pop the DM
Dear @popdart5
I grab some coals and flick them into the orc’s eyes to try and blind him. Probably counts as a standard action – I roll an 18 + 3 from dex to do so. I then use my move action to get some space between me and the orc, heading in the direction of the door if I can.
Dodging,
Red the Rogue
Dear @redartifice the rogue,
The coals catch the Orc by surprise and he staggers backwards and slips on some of the ale that is leaking from the barrels. He is now prone and quite close to the fire.
You have a clear escape out the door that the orc burst through and you can see out of the room and into the hallway the orc ran down. Roll a perception check if you please.
Freedom awaits.
Pop the DM
Dear @popdart5
I roll a 15 + intelligence modifier of 1 on perception
Frantically squinting through the smoke
Red the Rogue
Dear @redartifice,
Through the smoke you see light streaming in from a doorway at the far end of the hall. In addition, you think you can see something on the ground just outside the doorway but you can’t quite make out what it is.
Run Forest Run.
Pop the DM
Dear @popdart5
I spend both my move and standard to sprint for the far doorway, dodging the flames and covering my mouth to breathe through the smoke. I try to grab the loot? beyond the door on my way past- dexterity check of 14 + 3
Scrambling,
Red the Rogue
Dear @redartifice,
As you run past you snatch the bag and barrel out the door as smoke continues to billow out of the house. You move off a distance to catch your breath and rummage through a sack of presumed valuables.
You find:
– 100 gold pieces
– a shiny short sword that seems to shimmer. When you pick it up, it starts to glow red (your Individual Magical Effect or IME). +1 short sword
– three rubies worth approximately 50 gp each (potentially worth more depending on the buyer)
– one exquisite ring worth approximately 200 gp
So yeah, that orc just robbed a noble and the orc is now being roasted.
Summary of Destruction:
– one orc burned to a crisp
– a house that will gradually burn down
– a slightly singed and soot-encrusted rogue but otherwise unharmed
– one dagger, may he forever rest in peace
Impromptu session is now complete. Or is it??
Yours sincerely,
Pop the Impromptu DM
Nah
Dear Red
If you are riding a horse flat out, you have a giraffe besides you and are being chased by a lion what should you do?
Get off the merry go roundSafari dreaming
Tigs
Dear tigs
Before I read the spoiler, I was going to say hobble the giraffe.
Yours
Nature Red in tooth and claw
Dear @strange,
You’re awesome.
Your pal,
D.C.
Hi Strange!
Funny story, I tried to post that first line by itself and it said I couldn’t because it was duplicate comment, so I was all like “How do I get around that??” and even now I still can’t think of anything.
I’m sure you will think of something eventually.
Oh man, what’d I do now? I’m not supposed to be awesome, I’m supposed to be bossy and opinionated. 😛
Pika pikaaaa*
(*17 days)
Rai!
Squirtle, squirtlesquirtle
(•_•)
( •_•)>⌐■-■
(⌐■_■)
SQUUUUUUUUUUUUUIIIIIIIIRTLE
Dear Toothache,
FUCK. YOU.
Sincerely,
Z
Aspirin is pretty amazing for toothache.
alergic to aspirin, can only have paracetamol… was taking panamax till i discovered mercyndol night strength…. that shit is epic…. i feel like im floating on clouds… speaking of which im gonna pop a couple more 🙂
That stuff’s great, if you’re not worried about falling asleep. I don’t think I’ve stayed awake more than an hour after taking mercyndol.
Dear Toothache,
Maybe some candy will make you feel better?
Mind Retards,
Pixel
Dear boardgamers
Pandemic! IPad! *froths at moth* *realises it’s rabies and not actually excitement*
http://zmangames.com/nouvelles-details.php?id=353
Someone please call the CDC
Red Cubes
That’s pretty rad. Here’s hoping they bring the expansion content into it. The expansions are also pretty rad.
Sweet 🙂
I was looking at getting Pandemic at some point soon. Is there any real advantage to the app version, other than portability?
Dear Rize
The Board version is very, very, good. Depending on how this is executed I don’t know how different it’ll be- I imagine it makes the cube accounting easier, but that’s part of the fun.
Sidenote: Last time we played Pandemic we were defeated twice by a disease we had named Bieber Fever.
*coughs*
Red
The first time I played it with Trjn and Freyjr, I drew three epidemic cards in quick succession and doomed us all.
Dear Alex
I thought you didn’t come to board games?
Or was it Matt that time?
Yours
Red
This was before weekly board games became a thing.
#HipsterPants
Boardwalk Empire is a good show. I can see why people would keep watching.
I’m still convinced that I’m right about season 2’s finale being the perfect way to end the show.Did you say that about season 1 as well? Or was that someone else..?Just season 2.Wait I forgot we were into season 4, yeah the ending of seas 2 was perfect.Never forget.
Secret shame TV shows! We all have them, I know for a fact @strange watches a certain show about Teen Wolves of some variety. What’s yours? I admit, I watch Parenthood and Grey’s Anatomy. XD
I don’t know, I don’t really feel ashamed of any of the shows I watch. I have copped a little flack in the past for enjoying:
* M*A*S*H*
* Gilmore Girls
* Friends
So maybe those, I guess?
EDIT:
OH! Actually, I just thought of one:
* The Walking Dead. As yet undecided whether I will keep watching after the terrible season 3.
M*A*S*H? For real? That says more about the person who doesn’t like the show than you, my friend. It’s a classic! Friends is pretty iconic too and from what I hear Amy Sherman-Palladino’s got skills to pay the bills, she was a staff writer on Roseanne don’t you know! (Though yeah, Gilmore Girl’s is probably a little shameful. XD)
Nah, Gilmore Girls had some of the best dialogue in recent years. Sharp and witty.
Great show.
I also like Lauren Graham on Parenthood, so I guess it’s got good casting too. (The daughter was good on Mad Men too and Cary from The Good Wife!)
In comparison, Lauren Graham is dead boring in Parenthood. I really think the role she was born to play was Lorelai Gilmore. Same too with Alexis Bledel, actually. She was okay in Mad Men, but she owned the role of Rory.
Parenthood: Where your favourite actors go after their amazing series finish. (Peter Krause, Six Feet Under!)
Mrs Shane and I watched the movie the show is based on just the other day. It’s way better, but the last twenty minutes is so 80’s saccharin that it made my teeth hurt.
Parenthood is actually pretty amazing, especially season two and on wards. The ensemble is great and they’re all good acting off one another. Sense of energy and ‘family’ you don’t get on other shows. Jason Katims knows how to tell interesting stories with ordinary situations. (He was show runner on Friday Night Lights too.)
@shane
Oh man, “based on” is a fairly liberal interpretation.
To be fair, I’ve only glanced at the TV show, but it seems way more serious family drama than the comedic tones of the movie.
Also, Keanu Reeves,
@bish, they’re remarkably similar, actually, in many ways. There’s a pretty clear direct 1:1 translation from most of the main characters in the movie to the main characters in the show. It’s a genuine adaptation, for sure.
Edit: I don’t think they replaced Keanu, though, because how could someone do that. Or maybe because once was enough. One of those.
Show was better when it moved on from movie story arcs though. Season one is easily the weakest.
@shane
Then why isn’t Keanu Reeves’ character played by Keanu Reeves? I mean, he looks exactly the same, so might as well reprise his role.
Also Melissa McCarthy didn’t have to be in a pretty awful show revolving around degrading obese people.
Only someone who had never seen Gilmore Girls would say that.
I’ve seen it. I don’t care for it. The town ain’t hermit friendly! 😀
Where you leeeeead, I will foooooollow…
Gilmore Grillz represent!
Winning love by daylight.
FIghting evil by moonlight.
Never running from a real fight.
Dear @dc
Does Arrow count? it’s kinda soapy. Leverage is slight but good fun.
Sneering cultural elitist,
Red
Greg Berlanti’s shows are usually always quirky and fun, so Arrow probably ain’t too bad.
Don’t know if it’s a secret shame show or not but I used to watch Charmed.
Hey, those girls were appealing to the eye for my teenaged self.
Hercules: the legendary journey
I have also been know to sit down and watch master chef
Haha! I used to watch Xena: Warrior Princess! Lucy Lawless is awesome and I’m always happy to see her show up in other stuff like Battlestar Galactica and Parks and Rec.
Xena is great as well, but I would consider watching that less shameful than watching herc so that was the one I listed.
Does Andromeda count as shameful, I know some sci-fi fans are not very impressed buy it
Oh and on being happy for her to show up in things, how about Spartacus *wiiiiink*
I hear you see her boobs. They’re not her boobs 15 years ago when she was popular, but still.
BEWBS!! \o/
Although you see a lot more than that and even after 15 year what you see if quite impressive
I’ve been watching Daria recently.
I’m not ashamed of it, I just wanted everyone to know.
i really need to get off my butt and purchase that
Neighbours
I watch True Blood but I don’t hide that fact so I’m not really ashamed of it. It is trash though.
I also like Big Bang Theory. The internet tells me I shouldn’t, but then the internet also believes you can start a fire with an orange and that celebrities deserve to die because they have the audacity to be rich and famous because we keep watching their movies and buying their albums, so maybe the internet is not the most reliable source of balanced opinions.
I like Big Bang Theory…
Just saying 😛
I like it as well.
I used to watch on while my mum and sister watched Gilmore Girls. I used to watch Smallville, missed a bit in the middle somewhere but watched it through to the end. Not sure if these really count as secret shame, but I also still liked Stargate Atlantis even though it seemed like nobody else did. Also a fan of Supernatural, that seems to mostly be a show that girls like for some reason. Used to watch on with Parenthood, but not all that closely. It seems to have disappeared or something, I dunno.
Hmmmmm I wonder what the ‘reason’ might be
Atlantis is great, I’m also a fan of that one
Is it that the whole time girls pretended to not like horror stuff, they were actually lying?
Pretty sure that isn’t his name
Not just Teen Wolf, Vampire Diaries as well. I would highly recommend them over almost anything else I’ve watched in the past few years so I guess they’re neither secret or shameful. 😀
I’ve seen every episode of Jersey Shore!
:3
After watching Jeff Daniels play a serious news man on The Newsroom for two seasons, I find this as awesome as it is jarring. 😀
http://www.twitter.com/Jeff_Daniels/status/382520858100523009
Better Late Than Never – The Canmeat Edition
I always have a terrible memory when trying to do meat writeups, especially after waiting more than a day to do so, so I’ll just aim to recall the highlights (in no particular order):
– I picked @rocketman up from the airport on Thursday and only took two wrong turns getting to Blagh’s place. Hooray!
– @blaghman was a brilliant host, especially those crazy-awesome chicken…thingies…with the sauce
– @freezespreston buying a metric shittonne of alcohol and foodstuffs
– Getting to meat @mrtaco, @strange, and @nomad!
– @cakesmith showing off his massive Rock Band DLC list, and the one song I WANT TO PICK WOULDN’T WORK
– @shane turning up with several boxes of giveaway stuff, and then returning to the car to get more boxes
– Got to meat Mrs @shane! Turns out she’s awesome!
– At one point, being handed a jelly shot once every 10 seconds
– @mrtaco and his awesome piano skills playing various gaming music
– @beavwa brought out Cards Against Huge Manatees; hilarity ensued
– @tech_knight and I having an epic fight in Injustice. HEY TECHIE! DOWN-FORWARD-PUNCH! BANG
– @cj violating everyone in Luigi’s Mansion in Nintendo Land by
being a cheating piece of shitdoing well as the ghost– The race to see who could do worst in Mario Chase. @freezespreston won (lost?) with a time of literally 0 seconds
– @f4ction and I having a discussion about just how shit being sick at a party is (the answer, it turns out, is “very”)
– @blaghman fell over a lot
– I can’t remember who it was, but someone kept comparing myself and @cakesmith to Han Solo and Chewie. I’m OK with this.
All in all it was an awesome weekend!
For what it’s worth, Mrs Shane thinks the Galaxy of you II!
What? It’s still page six in my heart.That was far, far too brilliant.
😀
Speaking of brilliance: I have a book soon to have your name on it. We’ll have to figure out a drop-off plan!
Yes.
Yes we do.
*strokes face*
Dude!, personal space,
I’m sure @shane is not too comfortable with you touching his face
Who was who?
I was the one with the vest, and Cake was the really tall one that no one could understand.
haHA! And he keeps picking on the way i speak 😛
“- At one point, being handed a jelly shot once every 10 seconds”
As someone who has observed and interacted with you at two (or three?) of these meats, I’m pretty sure the person handing you those jelly shots in quick succession was you.
Can’t be… if memory serves correct if he is handing himself anything it’s a spoon for the big Jelly Bowl XD
Nah, this time it was a plastic tumbler full of green jelly
Well… it’s no shotbucket… or MLP… OR MLP + SHOTBUCKET \o/
Well, get over here next time! 😀
… OORRR move to Melbourne \o/
Problem = solved 😛
– @powalen did nothing special
I totally missed this but am laughing at the hilarious accuracy of it.
That gun was OP… just sayin’
Still, it was so hilarious I couldn’t concentrate enough xD
AHH!
BANG!
That Joker vs Nightwing (Was it Nightwing, the bow guy?) fight was even more hilarious though, just firing arrows and bullets at each other, sometimes hitting both us at once.
Dear @popdart5
That was fun. We should do it again with more PCs 🙂
Thanks
Red the Rogue
Dear Red the Rogue,
That was indeed fun. I’m glad you enjoyed it. 😀
Unfortunately I now have to do actual work. I shall pretend my workload is a roaming band of goblins who are preventing the local town fair from being held and it is my duty to save the town fair.
Onwards to victory!!
Yours sincerely,
Pop the sometimes okay DM
Edit: Also, sorry about being a little bit slow on the responses. Had to hide the fact that I was running a micro-d20 escapade from my co-workers.
@alexpants
http://i.imgur.com/MPCGuZL.jpg
I’ll take 50.
I was paying off a preorder at EB and glanced at the shelf and was like HNGH GENESECT.
It was fate, man.
They’re at EB?
Hm, might have to go on an adventure tomorrow…
I’ll take one of those.
NOW I’M CONFUSED. WAS IT PANTS OR POW I WAS TALKING TO ABOUT GENESECT???!?!?!
It was me, ya dingbat!
Actually, it might’ve been both. Or neither. Who knows. In any case, I promised to take a picture of the Genesect figure on my work desk but turns out I’m a filthy liar because I forgot.
You.
This guy.
TAKE A PICTURE, POW! We’re totally Genesect and Zekrom bros.
It wasn’t me but I like Genesect so it was coooool.
Genesect is pretty freakin’ cool.
Dear @novacascade @tech_knight @tigerion @negativezero @rize @sernobulus @mawt @mythamphetamine @transientmind (people I talked to about Numenera)
I have not forgotten! I’m just waiting on two things – receiving the physical books, and for the character creator app to be officially released on Android/ios, as that makes the paperwork a lot simpler.
Will keep you posted
Red
oooooh, unlike you, I had forgotten.
And I’m getting a bit more free time of the evenings soon, so will be looking for something to fill in the space.
I should probably read up on it a bit before I forget again…
http://io9.com/a-new-age-of-science-fantasy-rpgs-dawns-with-numenera-1216234747 is a good overview
Thanks for the overview, I’ll see if I can get time to read up so I’m only clueless rather than completely clueless
Looking forward to it, I’ll read up on this more tonight.
Oh, hey, scratch some of that, the ios app is already up: https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/numenera-character-creator/id684818091?mt=8
To buy robot turtles or to not buy robot turtles? Is that even a question
Is there even a choice! ROBOT TURTLES!
But they could be the oh-so-adorable-but-deadly mine turtles. You’ve got to watch out for those critters.
I still don’t see a reason to not get these…
Why are you asking yourself this?
I know I’ll get it. But at least by pretending to consider it I can say I am being responsible with my money
Dear TAY.
I have another confession to make. I bought a godamn console game again. I keep slipping. That’s the second one in as many weeks.
This time was because I had played a certain game of a friend’s on the weekend, and enjoyed it too much to want to stop. So yeah. Now I have a GTA V sitting in my PS3. I actually put in quite a few hours last night and got up to the heists people have been talking about.
I’m given to understand that I will be unlocking Trevor soon too, who people seem to either love or hate. I’m predicting hate, since I like playing the (mostly) ‘good guy’ to an extent, and don’t like the South or Country. Also, all pictures of the man seem to leave him covered in stains and not doing anything about his terrible bald-spot. We shall probably find out tonight.
Yours in being weak and submitting to peer pressure/instant-gratification to stoop so low as to buy console games,
– Transientmind
Dear Transientmind
Add me on PSN! (red_artifice)! Join the Potaku Crew!
Bikes
Red
Dear @greenius,
On my way to school today I finally called up Fair Trading and talked to them about my issue. I think I am now set to take on Nintendo and hopefully not have a panic attack this time.
I am not sure if I want them to call me or want to make myself call them.
With much trepidation,
Gooky
Good luck friend-o!
Walked out my front door today and there was an insect moving near my face, instant reaction is to bat at it since it’s probably a fly. Pause mid swing because it’s not a fly, it’s a spider. I don’t really like spiders very much at the best of times, but this one happened to be a big redback. 🙁
Ran to get the bug spray, came back and it was gone. D: So sprayed around the carport roof a bit and hopefully it’ll take the hint. I know no one’s died from a bite from one of them since the 50s but I really don’t want to test out whether I can be the first one.
I was so freaked out about it that it took me most of my commute into work to calm down. Despite having lived in this country for over fifteen years, this was actually the first time I’ve encountered any dangerously venomous creature in the wild.
Fucking spiders. 🙁
Spiders are jerks! A Redback bite usually won’t kill you unless you have a pre-existing condition or are a child / elderly person (atleast that’s what we were told at the first aid course I went to). Still, they are (from what I’ve heard) painful as hell.
Redbacks used to be scarier when everyone had an outhouse I think. I cannot imagine many things worse than a spider sinking its fangs into your junk.
But this one was scary enough. Possibly a bit irrational of me to be so freaked out I guess?
Well you didn’t set your house on fire so I wouldn’t say it’s irrational.
I considered it briefly.
We had wildlife safety classes in primary school where they taught us to check under toilet seats before sitting, among other things. I still do it years later 😛
You crazy country bumpkins!
Once when I was a kid I caught a red back spider and sealed it in a jar of water (as you do). I left it there for weeks until the red back became a grey back.
True story.
I hear Dexter got started the same way.
I would’ve got a lot further with my work if it weren’t for Dee Dee.
Omelette du fromage
I loved that episode.
@gutsoup
I don’t think Muramasa Rebirth is out in Australia, I just ordered one from the US seeing as there is no region locking (unless you want DLC which doesn’t exist for this game, I think).
Dear TAY
Malcolm in the Middle DVDs are now available in Australia.
Target have them for $20 per season, JB for $23.
Complete series is something I can only find online (Edit: Link changed from JB’s $124 price tag to Fishpond’s $95.)
(Edit 2: the box states “Volumes 1-4”, but the price is all wrong for that. I have no idea what’s going on here)(Edit 3: According to The MiM forum: “The Volume 1 – 4 is referring to the the DVD cases. The Complete Series DVD release uses only 4 DVD cases for the discs, to save space I expect.”)Sincerely,
A fellow aficionado
Dear Shane
Which season is the one where Hal starts cooking Meth?
Thanks
Red
Dear Red,
That would be Season 5, Episode 16 titled “Malcolm Visits College” where Hal is arrested by the police for Narcotics.
Yours faithfully,
Virus.
Edit: I watched that episode last night..
I was all prepared to be impressed until you edited 😛
I still am!
But I did watch that episode last night..
Oh man, Francis was fantastic – before he got married, anyway. Pria was pretty funny, but pre-marriage prankster Francis was brilliant.
Armored Core Verdict Day in hand, day off tomorrow. Second wing of Siege of Orgrimmar opened for LFR last night, and got three toons to put through it. I’d say I’m set! \o/
Never thought a news story would make me tear up a little but front page of today’s local paper features a man who beat his 4 month old girl to death and the hospital says she has fractures on her arms, legs and ribs that were several weeks old.
If it’s the same story the Daily News has been running the last week or so, then I have no words for it at all.
People are why we can’t have nice things.
People should also require licenses to have children, pets and internet access.
yep, people have to undergo psychological evaluation to do certain jobs but not to raise a child. I have evaluated myself and deem myself unfit for parenthood, not because I”m crazy or anything I just don’t think i’d do a good job and it’d be unfair to the kid.
Gah 🙁
That kind of thing really gets to me too. When I rule the world (when, not if, because it’s starting to look like it’s mankind’s only chance for survival), guys like this will be the first to be painfully ground into healthy nutritious food for our animals.
Keanu Reeves said it best.
“You need a licence to buy a dog, to drive a car – hell, you even need a licence to catch a fish. But they’ll let any butt-reaming asshole be a father.”
EDIT: But what really gets me is how those earlier injuries remained unnoticed and unreported. One deranged lunatic, I can possibly understand (possibly), but a network that enables him to conduct himself like that is unforgiveable. Is it really possible that the father was the only person to see that poor kid in that whole time? Surely not.
The mother is being charged with child cruelty as well.
You’re probably assuming these people have normal networks of family and friends. They may not, and in such a case, 4 months isn’t a very long time. There’s every chance no one saw the girl but the parents, or someone just as fucked up as them who didn’t care or worse, contributed.
Pretty sad to contemplate, but that may be the case. Just makes it all the more sickening imagining a helpless child with no one else to realise she was in danger. =(
I remember doing a journalism course at uni, and one of the subjects was sourcing stats. We looked at the ABS census figures, part of which included homicides. Lecturer was explaining the different types of homicides and the social links we draw from it to inform stories.
The subject came up, ‘Children aged 2 or under,’ and their (too high) homicide rate. The lecturer/tutor was asking these fresh-faced little students who they thought was responsible for the overwhelming majority of these infant deaths. To their credit, none really knew. Bless their innocent little hearts.
I offered the correct guess, when asked (I was usually called on in tutes as the last resort, when it was time to give the class the answer): mothers’ partner. Usually the father or un-related boyfriend who wants the ‘fucking thing to just shut up already’.
The figures were really high. :/
I can think of two explanations on how it could go unnoticed. Either he made up an excuse such as “oh, she had a little fall, but the Doctors tell me she’ll be fine” or people were too scared to ask questions in case any injury was a birth defect. No one wants to be the person to ask, “hey, why’s your baby covered in bruises” and then be told, “they’re birthmarks you idiot”.
More likely, friends were asking: “Fuckin’ noisy, isn’t she? Can’t you do something about that?”
“Yeah, sure. You wanna cold one?”
“Fahkn’oath.”
*disappears* *smacks child about*
“Yeah, couldn’t get ‘er to shaddup. Just turn the volume up or something.”
Those households do exist.
Boardwalk Empire S03E05:
Starts with Rosetti being choked by a whore while he jerks off. I regret having the HD version of this episode.Ok ,
Time to try the New Dream Theater album…
Gave up… back to Images and Words…
There’s a new album?
Feels rather soon. Is this all the songs that Portnoy wasn’t happy with so they decided to do now that he’s gone? :p
It’s two years since the first effort with the new drummer, but yeah I gave three songs and wasnt into it… I’ll try again later…
It’s a selftitled album
I’m calling @powalen out for not providing pictures of his Genesect.*
*Not a euphemism. Probably.
I would’ve done it already if my phone didn’t make an obnoxiously loud click sound when taking pictures! Damn privacy laws.
Tell people you’re photographing your ‘Pokemon’. I’m sure they’ll leave you alone after that.
If you are going for that you might as well go all out and call it your pocket monster
Is that something you can’t turn off?
Pretty sure mine lets you turn it off, even before I put on the custom firmware.
I will investigate!
In non terrifying 8-legged serial killer sitting outside my door news, I couldn’t sleep last night so ended up playing TitS until 3am 🙁
Finished the first chapter so I think I’m probably 20% done with the game. 17 hours clocked. Going to be a long one 🙁
I bet I get to about 80% and then XSeed release it on PC and the PC version’s heaps better and I have to start over.
Huh huh huh, tits.
It makes me giggle every time it’s mentioned. Ah, maturity.
I still don’t know if it was deliberate or not. It’s a direct and almost literal translation of the game’s title in Japanese (Sora no Kiseki). A literal translation would be something more like Trails of Sky but that sounds a bit awkward.
It’s really good. I’m liking it a lot. It’s definitely a JRPG but it doesn’t have a lot of the usual repetitive tropes (eg main character is a girl and she doesn’t have amnesia and is actually capable). It also has some elements to its design so far that feel decidedly western, though it might be a result of the fact that Falcom are historically a PC developer rather than console and this was a PC game before it was PSP. You can save anywhere – there are no checkpoints or save points. Also so far each chapter (Prologue and Chapter 1) has been based around a sort of hub town, with areas to explore around it and a series of sidequests to do that unlock as you play through the main storyline. That more open design feels more western to me.
I didn’t sneeze! \o/
Also, the sonographer lady said I did a good job because it was the most full bladder she’d ever seen so I think that’s a good thing. It’s a good thing, right? 😛
It’s certainly an odd thing to be proud of, but hey… take compliments where you can get’em! Go you!
So you… Passed?
With flying colours!
…colour, singular.
GTA 5’s radio stations are pissing me off. It’s like walking into a bar that has 1 unlabelled beer on tap, and a wine list that has only two entries: ‘red’ and ‘white’. Then there’s 47 different flavours of vodka, and 32 flavours of gin. I assume vodka and gin lovers are having a blast with the stations, but me… I’m just turning the radio off.
How many rap/hiphop stations do we need anyway? (For fuck’s sake, there is NO difference between east coast and west coast rap.) And why is all the pop/rock lumped in with a collection of pop/rock from all the different strata in our timeline? Also, there is no difference between their punk/alternative/indie stations either, they’re all virtually indistinguishable ham-fisted string-smashing while atonally yelling indistinct drivel.
More importantly, where the fuck is the techno? I know there are bits and pieces of it sandwhiched in on some random shitty (also mostly-rap/hiphop) stations, but that’s like asking for chocolate and being told there might be some m&ms in the trail mix. I switch to those stations and get an earful of aural-equivalent raisins every time. How about just a solid block of chocolate, you fuckers?
I’ve read there are 240 songs in the game, but I’ll be damned if any more than 10 are listenable.
Predicting radio mods for the PC release. In the meantime, the radio is all the incentive I need to ride a bloody pushbike.
Non Stop Pop for lyf.
Yeah, the radio’s pretty terrible. I switch between pop and rock, but it gets pretty tiring hearing the same 10 or so songs over and over again per station, plus the pop station has an overabundance of urban pop. It’s meant to have songs from the past few decades, but it’s all mid to late 2000s stuff.
Also, I know it’s meant to be realistic, but ads and radio hosts talking during songs is annoying as hell.
It’s hard to imagine you pissed off when your avatar is a giant smiley!
I am a giant smiley ball of IMPOTENT RRRRRAAAAAAAGE!
…pac…man?
hehehe Impotent
PAM GRIER
Time to tune into Old Man FM
;P
I felt this way about the terrible mixture of music in the previous GTA games too. And just about every other knockoff. Sleeping Dogs had some okay stuff but it didn’t have very much music (I think there was generally about a 30-minute cycle per station) so you ended up hearing the same stuff over and over.
SR3 had some decent music.
@greenius loved it when I blasted the classical station during multiplayer sessions.
I did?
🙂
yeah. I’m not a fan of the radio stations either. Even the stations that I’d be inclined to listen to seem to have one good song and a whole lot of “oh, ok”.
I’ve been slowly putting together a custom playlist on Spotify. It’s been primarily inspired by the soundtracks from Tarantino movies; it’s got songs such as “Little Green Bag” by George Baker Selection (I mean, you made a heist video game and didn’t include this song?), “Once in a Lifetime” by Talking Heads (I like to think of this as Michael’s theme), “Unchained (The Payback/Untouchable)” mashup of James Brown and 2 Pac (aka the theme from Django Unchained), and “Down on the Farm” by Seasick Steve (it’s a song about tractors). I’m currently going through surf guitar and heavy metal songs (I’ve got “Miserlou” and “Holy Wars…The Punishment Due”)
Oh, also, I never played TLaD or BoGT – did either of those add extra radio stations?
It seems obvious that GTA V has
had a lot of content cut. I think the biggest example is Casinos. There’s code that tracks money spent/won, so they’re obviously coming – either they’ll open with GTAO – since earning/losing money seems to be a big part of the focus of online play. Additionally, I’d love to pull a heist on a casino. Alternatively they’re going to add a trip out to Las Venturas in an inevitable expansion and open casinos then.Edit: oh, so the whole point was that if R* is going to add stuff later, maybe they could add new songs? That would be nice.
Linky?
http://open.spotify.com/user/1255130935/playlist/6efrt7epNmbbPbEvjMe9sA
Completely out of order and unfinished.
needs “ventura highway” and as much as I’m not a fan, some eagles/west coast rock 🙂
So here I was being all concerned that I was badgering a few work colleagues about some unfinished work and now I can’t get that stupid badger song out of my head. #Workinghard/Hardlyworking
Mushroom mushroom
Ooooohhhhhhh it’s a snaaaaaaaake….
Damn! Beat me by a few seconds!
I felt nice and gave you two upvotes as well.
😛
Snaaake! Snaaaaaaake! Ohhh, it’s a snaaaake!
Oh it’s a snake
GOOALLL! It’s a goooaaalll…. it’s a goooalll…
zero energy & zero inclination to do anything productive at work right now.
I’ll give a high five and a cupcake to anyone who can make today over already.
Hm. Stability of the space-time continuum vs cupcake. Rending reality? Or cupcake? Hmmmmm.
Oh, I didn’t read the bonus high-five bit! SOLD. Time for someone who doesn’t read very carefully to get his fabric-of-reality sewing thimble on.
….Aaaaaand done. It is now a few hours later in the afternoon – 5pm, hometime, yes? Even though the intervening hours did not actually occur, you will probably have generated memories to fill in the gap. Human brains are funny like that.
Thank you for the cupcake by the way, it was delicious. The high-five less so.
might be a tad late on this, but has anyone christened @transientmind “Up-vote Fairy 2.0” yet?
Hey! It’s not my fault people keep saying things I like or approve of!
Not the manliest title…2.0
cc@dc
@dc is slacking off
Eventually he’ll reach upvote capacity and then devolve into a being that continually adds people to it’s ever-growing “list”. We’ve seen it before.
Want some rye? course ya do!
Melbourne peeps
Just heard that Mana Bar is flogging off all their stuff today.
So if you are interested you might be able to get some things for a nice price
Shot not buying any of the controllers 😛
What is the stuff though?
They don’t have a listing or anything, figure they are closing so want to clear out as much as they can. Sounds like it is basically all the decorations and the cabinet they had setup to make it gaming themed.
Think they are also getting rid of their consoles
This cabinet sounds interesting…
IT’S ALREADY OVER!?!?! *cries*
Really? Ahhhh fudge I read that as 2AM /o\
Their twitter post just linked to a youtube video instead of a full announcement, and I was far too lazy to try to find the facebook page manually. Eh, would have missed it anyway.
I wonder if anyone picked up anything good.
How does this work, a job I applied for apparently got filled according to the email I got today, yet the company relisted the same job last night, wut?
Well, if it’s legit and not just fancy foot/paperwork, it could be multiple versions of the same job. We have many identical positions here, but each is tracked separately. And if we were to fill one of them and someone handed out their resignation in the same position, we’d have to advertise it separately. (There are performance indicators for HR folk relating to the deadlines on each particular stage of the recruitment process, they can’t just expand one particular phase for some reason, such as… another identical position became available.)
Thing is it’s a tiny one or two person store in my local shopping centre that never seems to see any customers, so just baffles me lol.
Meh. In that case, fancy paperwork I’d bet. Ticking some HR/recruitment-agency-requirement boxes. 😛
Mr. Incredibeard, you go too far.
Non-TAY Kotaku commenters are such stuck-up pricks sometimes. 🙁
*patpat* There, there. You will always have TAY.
I figure it’s a gradual exposure to community thing. If you know you’re going to be spending a lot of time interacting with someone you can make more of an effort to try to see where they’re coming from, and – over time – you naturally get a better sense of the kinds of things they think, so don’t hold it against them too much when they say something really, really
stupidill-informed, like ‘controllers are better for playing video games than the holy keyboard and mouse’, or how consoles have more advantages than PCs.…Well. You don’t hold it against them much. I mean, they’re obviously not getting on the escape vehicle with you if there aren’t enough seats, come the zombie apocalypse. Seats are for people who can be trusted to use all their faculties. But you’ll at least leave them some bullets to end their pitiful misery painlessly themselves as you zoom away. We are not monsters.
I agree with this, alot of TAYple i dont think i would naturally agree with in normal comments sections, if i had just seem the odd comment around cyber space but if its a TAYbie, i will literally throw all of my weight behind them regardless of wether they are right or not. I would be a terrible judge. 😛
I won’t go so far as to use my mighty and intimidating logic powers to champion the cause of TAYbies who are very clearly and obviously wrong… My magnanimity is such that I won’t berate them or downvote them into oblivion like I would some common, random-commenting peasant who isn’t in the cool club for cool people. (Not that it’s a very exclusive club. But it does have the entry requirements of wanting to belong and get along. And those are worthy traits in themselves, I say!)
Well. Except in TAY proper. I downvote in TAY proper. BUT ONLY BECAUSE YOU ALL KNOW IT IS NOT FOR SERIOUS OR REALS AND I THINK YOU ARE COOL.
…Also I am mellowing in my old age and hardly rant at all anymore. Being angry makes me tired! I need that energy for the lady and video games.
You know if you downvote someone enough all their comments go into moderation right?
And it’s super fun!
I don’t think it was ever proven.
Like some kind of a little brother syndrome?
“Nobody beats up my little brother but me!”
But a controller is better than k&m for the majority of games.
It is known.
Freeze and his comment live… for now. Long enough at least for the upvote button to determine who belongs on The List. Nowait. That’s @dc’s thing. Damn. I need to come up with my own Thing. Maybe I shall send the flying monkeys. Hm. Back to the lab, I need to work on this some more.
If you had a controller you’d be done by now.
GRAAAH!
Better not be Colobus Monkeys! >:|
Re: Destiny or titanfall?
Yeah, I don’t know if these people are such sad, miserable, vindictive pricks in real life or for some reason only act so online.
I’m finding lately that online and in person are completely different creatures in most cases. It’s all well and good that the innernette gives people a voice they otherwise wouldn’t have, but that privilege shouldn’t be abused like it is.
They’re about 90% of the reason I have no interest in Titanfall. I’d have to play games with them.
So to answer your question, probs Destiny. At least I can co-op with good dudes (right?)
I find it weird but I guess since I have numerous online only (at the moment) friends, I find it easier just to be myself
Also you put something of yourself into what you write so even if you are ‘playing to the crowd’ that becomes part of you. Basically if you act like a dick some of the time, then part of you is a dick. That’s a bit literal, replace that with jerk.
Destiny for me as well if they do release for PC. Might check out titanfall when it hits sale prices and it has a strong community, But certainly not a must buy
Arrrrrgh! I bit the inside of my lip/cheek so hard my mouth is now full of blood! I have an owie! I need my boo-boo kissed better. Someone get Emma Stone over here ASAP.
I’d settle for Emily VanCamp.
Sorry, only Curtis Stone is available. But since you bought two console games this week the last master race rant I heard tells me you will enjoy that
Kotaku was being screwy and wouldn’t let me upvote you and then it blue-screened me and told me to go get a coffee. The hide of it! I don’t even drink coffee. I just wanted to upvote you!
Well now I get an upvote and a comment so the winner is me \o/
@ynefel Are you happy now!?
http://i.imgur.com/gs6MJcR.jpg
Good lord, co-joined twins Gollum and cakesmith
Can never be unseen. 🙁
My work here is done.
http://collider.com/batman-series-gotham-commissioner-gordon/
Gotham City based TV show that’s not about Batman! I like the sound of this!
So every episode is 44 minutes of Gordon standing on the Police HQ rooftop fruitlessly waiting?
He doesn’t know what he’s waiting for… but he knows it’s coming… in the season one finale! XD
Oh man, now I feel like playing Arkham Origins!
So hype for that game 😀
I have city to play so I’ll be fine 🙂
Interesting, I’ll have to keep my eye on that.
I don’t know much about Batman, but if it’s set before Batman’s around, does that mean it’ll just be Gordon vs. just normal street thugs and gangs? Because I think that’d be a bit boring. If it was Gordon vs Batman villians, that’d be pretty cool.
That’s pretty cool. For a while now I’ve thought they should make a series set in Gotham that didn’t focus on Batman. It’s like they read my mind.
More Boardwalk Empire season 3 stuff.
Oh dear, they managed to bring the incest thing back even with Jimmy dead.Haha! Oh man, uncomfortable viewing to the extreme! XD
I mentioned this on Twitter earlier, and here’s the TAY crosspost!
Wednesday next week, who’s up for a City Lunch Meat in Brissie? I’m thinking the Snag Stand, same place we met Batguy for lunch. I’m only going to get about an hour for lunch (max) so how about meet at 12pm outside EB, migrate to sausages, then have fun times?
@jimu, @gutsoup, @sughly, @freezespreston, @dkzeitgeist, @strange, @sernobulus, @virus__, @transientmind, @beardymcmuttonchops, @welbot, @lambomann007
:'(
You’re not in there because I copied one of your people lists! :P!!!
You didn’t get a mention because we assume you’re always standing around outside that EB, just waiting for a Meat. 😛
Edit: that sounds kind of weirdly mean. My apologies, I didn’t mean for it to be like that.
I would but work.
As much as I’m ready to tell my work to get stuffed my wallet won’t allow me to do that just yet.
Probably won’t be able to make it then.
Lambo. Doesn’t. Meat. 😛
I am itching to go to another meat sometime though.
But Lambo. Doesn’t. Meat >:(
Dang it. I usually work in the city on Wednesdays but not Wednesday next week. 🙁
My virgin meat shall be another day.
I very much doubt I’ll be able to make it. School holidays ftl 🙁
Timing be tight, I’d probably only be around 30min, but worth it to swing by and meatgreet.
🙁 won’t be able to cause work
I’ll be theeeere for youuu… just, someone remind me closer to the day so I dont forget
I keep saiyan, I’ll b o’ersea
Innernette’s shaped ;_;
I thought it was my internet that was shaped, but it was avast.
So iiNet removed it for me
I wish! Went over the download quota, back to dialup speeds.
=( that’s pretty sucky
You were using avast? 🙁 I am saddened.
Yeah it was because the other anti-virus I was using was crap.
iiNet suggest one and uh…appropriated it for me.
As long as the other AV you were using wasn’t Security Essentials. 🙁
Nope, but I tried it and it didn’t work.
“Didn’t work” in what way? It should work pretty well.
Mine’s amorphous.
Does your router have a way to limit the amount download quota that goes through it?
Finished GTA V. Pretty good, pretty good. I feel like I’ve barely scratched the surface of what there’s to do…
Ending stuff:
I chose option C. Would anyone not? Do we know if it actually makes a difference, or is it a faux choice? I should just google this, but I feel like asking questions that I assume only D.C. is going to see right now.They said something about possibly being able to meet characters that “survived” the story in GTAO. At first I figured that might mean there are three legit choices, but I’m more inclined to think it’s a faux choice.Started watching the AMC series The Killing over the past few weeks. It’s amazing and so good. Great atmosphere. I really recommend it.
Even though we’ve never met, I consider you a friend, and would certainly miss you if you suddenly vanished from existence. Stay strong, man. You’re a great person and things will get better for you.
Thanks man. Deleted my post. Was far too emo for TAY. Haha! You’re awesome.
I didn’t see it but guaranteed it was not too emo for TAY. Doofus. 😛
STOP DELETING YOUR POSTS! Next time you delete a post I’ll buy you something….
Anyway, if something was bothering you enough to originally post, don’t forget you can always email me. *hugasaurus*
This post confused me. I really started to wonder what the show The Killing was about.
Why do you do this to me @dc
TAY is the place to talk like that. (I gots to read it pre-edit)
Whenever anybody here has a bad day, you’re always there to say something and offer a shoulder to lean on or just send best wishes. You’ve done that for me before and it helps. The idea that you can’t for some reason expect the same from everyone else and feel like this isn’t a place to talk about your own problems is silly.
There’s plenty of people who are lucky to have you around. Never underestimate how much having a constant friendly face like yours around, even in an online capacity, can brighten someone’s day. I don’t mean to boil your life’s significance down to that, but that’s what I really know. Brisbane TAYbies can speak to your other strengths better than I ever could.
Thanks man. You so kind!
Something about TV.
Uh oh. Be careful or @strange will buy you a present.
Doofus.
You are! 😛
Ah I just happened to see this ducking in for the above meat! No, I was thinking I was too hard on The Killing when I popped in and compared it to Breaking Bad the other day. Especially since I did complain about the writing being better in Killing at the time BB was on soooo, yup. I think I was just on a massive BB high where everything looked not as good ^^. BB did come around in a big way, but The Killing definitely holds its own in terms of writing and acting. There’s just such good character development in there, Holder and Linden, and Peter Sarsgaard in s3, so amazing. Ok I’m just rambling now, out I go…
Haha! Only up to season two! Really loving it though!
Btw, have you played The Raven yet? Just bought it on GOG. Got great reviews on Adventure Gamers!
Nuppers. But speaking of series, I’m getting numerous Newsroom recommendations recently, and with Jeff taking the emmy, interest piqued…
Such a great show if you’re a fan of Sorkin. Really recommend it.
Damn my perfectionism. If it weren’t for it, this drawing probably would have been finished in one week, instead it’s beginning to look like two.
🙁
Nothing worse for an artist than not being happy with your own work.
Trust me, I know.
I decide to do everything the hard way too. But yeah, I know that feels man.
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! OR A LEUKAEMIA PATIENT, WHOEVER GETS IT FIRST!
Ah, the blood god has enough blood.
Let the patient be happy. \o/
Just watched the first episode of Agents of SHIELD. It was less bad than I was expecting, to the point where I actually enjoyed it. Then again, my taste in shows is awful, so take from that what you will.
That said:
It built itself perfectly for a comment at the end like “it’ll take forever on these backwater roads.” “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” *Car flies off* Oh well, what can you do?And in completely unrelated thoughts: This Batman Origins Trailer
When Bats speaks near the start, that’s actually pretty Conroy-esque, and I was all “yay, he doesn’t sound too bad.” But then he did his Bruce Wayne voice, and it sounded terrible, like, so very, very terrible. Then his later stuff as Batman is super super variable. :/
Oh well, I mostly care about punching dudes in the face in stylish rhythm oriented combat, and I’m pretty sure it’s going to deliver on that count, so it’s all good!
Just finished watching. Thought it was really fun. Really liked that
when the girl was taken hostage by Gunn she got away by herself instead of being all helpless.Also,
didn’t even know Book was in it at all so that was a pretty cool surprise for me.But all in all yeah, just good plain fun.
Going to watch it in about an hour or so. Really looking forward to it!
Cal Wilson is wearing a barbapapa tshirt on spicks and specks
*nostalgia swoon*
I have held such a crush for Cal Wilson. But she’s getting on a bit. 🙁
To be fair so are you.
Haha! I was gonna say that, but felt it was too mean! XD
The unrelenting march of time is a cruel mistress.
🙁
Men age better! We get more, uh… dignified. And uhm. Distinguished. Yeah. Grey hairs and stuff – sexier on guys than gals! I’m not even great-bearded yet!
This was fairly early, she still had long hair
A naked Danny DeVito just emerged from a couch.
Hawt.
Just another reason we do boardgames at my place instead of yours
A very sunny Christmas indeed.
Everytime I hear the brand Nutri-Bullet I can’t help but envision some kind of weird sex toy.
I’ve never heard it before but it makes me think some kind of gritty grimdark Dr Mario.
I was just imagining Nutri grain, but in the shape of bullets, and it’s actually steroids. >.>
Wait, it’s not? Then what the hell did I order last week o.0
http://www.gog.com/game/the_raven_legacy_of_a_master_thief
All three eps of The Raven are now available on GOG.
First ep reviewed really well on Adventure Gamers:
http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/24976
Second ep reviewed slightly less well:
http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/25202
Third ep is so new, there’s no reviews. XD
Just bought ’em. Will let you adventure fans know if it’s any good.
@strange: This will be what I play next between GTAV and Beyond: Two Souls now. 😀
Eat my shorts.
Why you little…
http://i.imgur.com/Y6aL0xg.jpg
Yesssss! Haha! That’s a damn fine collection you’ve got there! Night of the Rabbit! Scratches! Theme Hospital! 😀 Be sure to get Flight of the Amazon Queen and Beneath a Steel Sky while you’re there, they’re free!
ARRARRARGGGGRAGRGRRRRHHHGGGHHHHHHHHHHH
you know those times when you just wanna fucking shout at everything? I mean, not even anything in particular, but EVERY FUCKING THING EVER.
and its not even for a reason?
funny. didnt feel like that this morning.
good vibe from the last few weeks is crashing, I think.
shame.
really in need of a break from stuff. yeah. i think thats a good idea. I’ll do that…
Edit: worst page get ever. but fuck it. I aint gonna edit that shit.
🙁 Sorry to hear that, my friend. Hope you feel better!
Definitely sounds like a break is in order. Even just a tiny break can do wonders so I really hope you can do it.
Oh man…reading that back it sounded I was advocating for broken bones. I really wasn’t!
But yeah, just yell at nothing until you’re hoarse and then start planning a break before you have a breakdown.
*giant hug*
Long weekend soon! Hang in there!
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/09/31-photos-from-the-golden-age-of-airships-when-zepplins-ruled-the-sky/
This reminds me of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Fringe. And GTA V. (Thanks again for the blimp, @gutsoup. I totally crashed it!)
Last Crusade tis the greatestest movie there ever were.
So damn good.
Must’ve watched it 100 times when I was a kid. Have the Blu-Ray boxset but still haven’t watched in HD yet. That gives me an idea! D:
Love the score too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LtWN94DxrA
Without a doubt my favourite John Williams music!
The adventure game was pretty great too at the time.
Easily on my top 3 list.
Wow, Warm Bodies was a surprisingly good movie.
I had initially ignored it thinking it was just a film trying to capture the success of Twilight but it is really well done. There are some cheesy aspects but it’s a nice take on the zombie fiction. Wholesome in a way, not too scary or gory.
I just checked and it was a novel first. I don’t think you need to read the book since as far as I can tell the movie is very similar.
The movies main theme is really good too and variations of it are used throughout the movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnSgosM8A4o
Thanks for recommending it whoever you were. I think it was @benny
Movie spoilers not joke spoiler!! Warning!!!
I liked the balcony bit where it was clearly obvious that it was an allusion to Shakespeare. There are a few moments like that too. I was rolling my eyes at first with the whole cured by love angle but R was aware about it at the end which made it fine I think.Also the black zombies looked how some people I know look when they are stoned/drunk
I was hyped for that movie from the moment Giz posted the trailer. Really enjoyed it.
Nope, sorry. I only recommend Gattaca or The Professional. :’p
Ha ha, sorry about that.
I’ll make sure to watch Gattaca and The professional as penance.
Fact: I always think of Gothika when I see Gattaca and Gothika was not good.
Gattaca is the best movie evah!
We started watching that in year 10 science or something… not sure how far through we got, the last I remember was when he popped his contact lenses out in the car before the guy came to scan him, but I don’t think I ever saw the end of it. Not sure it ever appeared on TV either.
Yeah, it’s a really solid film.
The whole stories based on Shakespeare. It’s basically Romeo and Juliet, but with zombies and a happy ending (a happy ending in a zombie film? how insane is that?). Personally I think there needs to be more zombie versions of Shakespeare’s work.
So EB Games do really interesting group interviews.. Went for almost 2 hours, I wish all group interviews were that great and indepth.
Good luck man!
Agreed. Hope it goes well, Virus!
Thanks DC!
Thanks! My mate that works at one of the stores I applied for is going to put in a good word with his manager who was there tonight, so that’s even better.
I hope he doesn’t let slip that you’re a gamer! 😛
Well thing is, they encouraged we talk about games, everyone there who was interviewing us talked about how they loved games haha. Plus the manager from my local store was there, she sold me my PlayStation hahaha.
wow, really, the 2 i went to were me and a guy sitting at a McDonalds table and they were both the worst interviews ever.
Yeah, we did all these team building exercises and stuff. We also had to sell a product and then convince them to trade it back and such. I just liked how involved it was, made you feel part of a team kind of dealy.
well that’s good, good luck mang. Good to hear they’ve improved in that area because the 2 i went to were the most uncomfortable and unprofessional ones I’ve ever been to.
Dark Souls is $12.50 on Steam for the next 35 hours.
Too bad that I already bought Roller Coaster Tycoon 3… :\
DARK. SOULS. >:|
Already spent my gaming budget for this month otherwise it would be tempting XD aaaaaahhh well, there’s always the steam christmas sale
Dear @cakesmith!!!!!!!!
My body is ready, i’m yours!
ALSO STOP BEING ALL NICE AND STUFF 😛
For the uninitiated, Cakesmith just gifted me Dark Souls because he’s a champ…
No mention of the note that came with it?
Now I’m just sad.
Bork Bork Bork?
Watched the Agents of Shield pilot.
Serviceable.
I enjoyed it in the same way that I enjoy the movies. I appreciate that they don’t try to play everything too serious.
Also, Clark Gregg just seems to be effortlessly funny.
Length? How much will it be butchered for broadcast here next Wednesday?
42 minutes, so should be intact.
Picked up a Dreamcast console today. Ooo yeah, retro fever!
Nice!
Psh, who even owns a Dreamcast.
I think I may be the only one.
I do know one other guy with one, so you’re not entirely alone 😛
How much does one of those set you back these days anyway?
$150 scored me the console, four controllers, a VMU, and all the cables.
Sounds like a pretty good deal. Sega fans seem to have it pretty easy, there doesn’t seem to be any kind of equivalent to a Nintendo tax 😛 Sega stuff just always seems so cheap. Well, until you get into some of the rarities I guess, but that’d be like anything.
I have one too! Until recently, it was still plugged in to my TV as well. I love that little console, it was way ahead of its time.
Does it work? Mine doesn’t work right any more 🙁
Yup, works fine. Now I just need to do some research to see what cool things I can do with the unit.
You can play some badass games.
GTA V get!
*plays Sleeping Dogs instead*
Such a brilliant game.
Sleepy Dogs was the only open world game like that that I’ve finished and enjoyed end to end.
I meant GTA V, but I also quite liked Sleeping Dogs, though I should finish it haha.
You’re doing it wrong, haha.
Why don’t I have that itch to play a game for hours on end like I used to?
Gamer ennui! It strikes us all. I have no solutions. Comics, movies, tv shows, exercise, playing old things you never finished, or just jumping into some old ‘popcorn’ game (which, for me is Supreme Commander 2).
Solution.
Suggestion for a future book: call it “The Solution”. It’ll practically pimp itself!
Better avoid the word “Final” if you write that book.
Don’t ever stop self-pimping, you legend.
I was just about to stop, but your post has encouraged me to continue forever.
TAY might hate you for it. <3
When you find the solution to that let me know, I’ve been suffering from that lately too 🙂
Same. I don’t know why, but some games are not the how they were once.
So I… uh… may or may not have bought Dark Souls on steam today. Now I just need to invest in a controller and then the insanity can begin. I feel like this was a bad move, especially with less than 2 weeks before Pokemon is released :-/
DARK SOULS \o/
A dark souls pokemon play combo could work well. Once dark souls makes you want to put a controller through the wall, switch to pokemon. Then come back to dark souls until you want to put a controller through the wall.
Rinse and repeat
Hmm, there is wisdom in what you suggest
That does require oodles of time and a certain type of masochism that few people possess.
Freeze posted a picture of some of his GOG games through his phone on the previous page and I was wondering if you guys know a good game tracking app? I’m on Android.
I really like the bookshelf view that GOG uses on their site and I just want a similar app I can use to view my collection.
Thanks.
I like their little bookshelf display for your library too! Always reminds me of my old media centre interface I setup with movie covers and stuff. I am unaware of any apps that replicate that particular kind of display for android, but there are a few apps out there for keeping a list of games.
A quick google for game tracking app will net you a few decent apps, but they don’t looks as flashy.
Android users!
Humble Mobile Bundle 2!
I think every game I have on Android comes from Humble Bundles (except Minecraft, which I got for 10c).
Star Command makes the price look totally worth it…aaaaand then I saw Carmageddon.
DO YOU HAVE RAYMAN JUNGLE RUN!?
GET RAYMAN JUNGLE RUNNNNN~
GTA V stuff!
I just finished my first heist
I went for a cheap gunman and the moron crashed his bike, there goes $1,000,000. I also unlocked Trevor and I gotta say, I actually like him as a character. My view of him might change after that mission but I have genuinely laughed at some of his conversations.You can pick up his stash, probably to late now to mention.I think everyone did that :O
Quite intrigued by this whole SteamOS news Valve is stirring up…
I think it has the potential to be a solid OS, if Valve can get enough developers to develop for it..
Plus the game streaming thing sounds like a dream come true.
What are peoples take on it?
It’s potentially a legitimate alternative to Windows for gaming. It’ll take time, but it’s gunna become very popular.
In the mean time, I’ll be grabbing it when I can and trying out some of it’s features…especially streaming.
That was pretty much my plan…. whack it on my laptop and stream games to other parts of the house XD
I’m gunna throw together some old hardware and run it on my TV because why not?
Actually not a half bad idea… think it’ll run off my Asus eeepc? 667MHz Atom Processor, 4GB internal memory… OK maybe not 😛
Whoa! So Dick Smith have 50% off Nintendo stuffs making the Wii U Premium $214 and basic $174
http://search.dicksmith.com.au/search#w=wii%20u
It’s apparently in-stock online :O
GET YOUR ZELDA MACHINE PEOPLES!
Holy shit…
EDIT: Disney Infinity for Wii U is $45. Funnily enough, the Wii version has no sale price at $90…
EDIT EDIT: Also, the Wii U console page is 404-ing. Might have been a price typo?
Yeah I got that too. You could still add it to your cart from the search page though.
What the… that’s pretty cool!
Edit: site not opening for me.
WHO HAS A BIG PACKAGE JUST FOR YOU?
I feel like I need to buy one but no I don’t that is stupid what am I even doing.
You’re buying a Wii U of course
#helping
I don’t need two! >_
link them together… Totally works like SLI right? RIGHT?
Also I already have a Zelda machine – it’s called the GameCube 😛
It ain’t going to play the new Wii U Zelda is it? 😛
Nothing’s going to play a game that doesn’t exist 😛
It exists, it just isn’t announced 😛
Bargainius.
$35 might actually be somewhat reasonable for Mario…
It is! Really solid game imo, well worth getting but especially at that price.
D: I shouldn’t have stayed in bed so long. I can’t find any WiiUs there. 🙁
Double D:
While I was looking for the Wii U I came across half-price Disney Infinity starter pack for the WiiU but now it’s gone too. I snoozed and I losed, I guess. 😛
whoa that’s awesome, do you know how long that goes for? I am trapped at work 🙁
September 30th but good luck finding stock 😛
Better be quick!
well, trapped at work till 5 so i may as well give up now 🙁
How are our turnip prices? I’m at 167 and that’s my highest for the week so far but I’m holding out for better this afternoon. Probably stupid since this is the fourth increase and I’m pretty sure it can’t get any higher in any pattern, but I really want a big score this week.
Mine were 141 yesterday afternoon, and I’ll check them again after lunch today.
A’ight. I’ll also keep you posted.
Turnip prices?
*drum roll*
57!!!!!!!
Womp womp. Do you need to sell? If I have a good price this afternoon I can open my gates this evening.
Thanks man, but nah i didn’t get a chance to buy on Sunday… think that’s fairly fortunate because it’s been the insanely low pattern week… started at 150, and steadily been going down
Hola TAY, not taking any requests this morning (though you’re welcome to try).
This doesn’t mean there’s no TAYlist, just that I can’t be bothered adding all of your songs to the computer for my show today.
Chainsaw Gutsfuck.
*CBF fist-bump*
You know, in that case, this seems like the perfect time to make my first ever request:
Snow – Informer
Two weeks of being unable to connect to xbox live.
ASKDFHJBIUSDFVGBNSDJBN SDVKJN ASDGKLJSDVN!!??!
*ahem*
My own fault for getting a cheap arse wirless dongle thingy, but just annoying that every other device can connect through it to the internet (computer, phone, 3ds, ipod and sister’s ipad) but not my xbox… I is one unhappy Hugo.
Also as I don not have a phone line, nor any real desire to pay for one just for internet, I suppose I only have myself to blame.
Still frelling annoying though.
I’m a heavy user, but I won’t be getting a proper phone line again in a while. I just go with naked DSL at the moment, if I move – cable where available. The ‘naked’ discount isn’t a hell of a lot; you still pay an extra fee on top of a regular internet plan price, but it’s not as bad as actually having the extraneous service.
I have been thinking about naked DSL, however I hardly use the internet and only three weeks ago my xbox was connecting perfectly, so I don’t know if this is just a temporary thing, tech support has been useless, or if this is now a permament thing in which case I may have to just bite the bullet and change providers.
If tech support has been useless, I recommend one of my old ‘TIO rants’. The ombudsman is there to be used, because you shouldn’t have to get the run-around on telco stuff. It’s seriously not that hard to either fix things or admit that they’re broken and you need to source alternatives, but telcos make it difficult through incompetence or apathy.
They want to try making minor bullshit adjustments then, ‘giving it some time to see if it improves’ and shit like that to stuff you around and basically hope that you’ll give up and put up with shitty service that isn’t going to involve them having to make expensive infrastructure fixes or lose you as a customer. They want to have their cake and eat it too.
The TIO gives them some incentive to lift their fucking game and fly straight – at least in the specific instance of the person complaining. I can’t recommend it enough.
Alright then @lucifer9783
TAYspotifyLIST for 26/9/2013
YOUR REQUESTS BELOW
Immortality – Celine Dion/Bee Gees
The Maiden and the Minstrel Knight – Blind Guardian
Octavarium – Dream Theater
EDIT: I know the album version isn’t on Spotify, but the live version from Score works just as well.
Butthole Surfers – Pepper
Chili Peppers – Sikamikanico
Metallica – The Unforgiven (Part 1)
Immortality – Pearl Jam.
I didn’t say I wouldn’t do a TAYlist, just that I’m not taking requests for one.
Watched the first episode of Agents of SHIELD last night.
It’s alright I guess. Has potential. I can see it becoming a Buffy-esque Scooby-gang “
monstervillain of the week” kinda thing.Who am I kidding, I just want Firefly back 🙁I should probably jump on board for this show now, or I’m going to forget and never really get around to watching it.
Do like I do! Remember that everyone is raving about this cool show which wound up a while ago, grab all the seasons at once, then cannonball them in a dramatically unhealthy marathon which damages your sanity and has you mimicking the accent, mannerisms and speech patterns of your favourite character.
It took me MONTHS to shake Cap’n Mal.
I actually really enjoyed it…
Was kinda quirky, but i’m interested in seeing how far it’s going to go story wise
I’ll stick with it. I think it’s hard to judge a show off 1 episode. If that was the case I never would’ve stuck with the likes of Dexter and Parks and Recreation.
I think people who are expecting known Marvel players to show up will be disappointed. Which makes me a little confused on who their target audience is.
I’m also a little confused as to where it sits in the timeline. Is it pre-Iron Man 3 or post-Iron Man 3?
They mention Extremis but nothing else from the movie (ie: the attack on the President/The Mandarin and the fact he quit being Iron Man at the end.Also, at the end of the episode
Even I found the flying/hover car cheesy.Yes, the hover car was definitely cheesy, but i wrote it under “meh, Stark Tech” 😛I got a feeling that it might be running concurrent with or slightly after Iron Man 3, yes there’s no mention of the President etc. but they knew what Extremis was, and i would believe that it was in Iron Man 3 that the world first learned about it
Of Course there’s the inherent possibility that i am entirely wrong about all of this, but that’s my 2 cents 😛
Nah, you’re spot on. Just seemed like a few things they took for granted.
Given shield’s scope is international, I think they’ve kept from tying it down to one country’s presidentThat would make sense, but inherently un-american of the show if they decide to do that XD
…I should really watch Iron Man 3 some time.
I loved number 3… i still reckon 1 was best, but 3 is probably the follow up…
only thing that got to me was:
WHY THE HELL WAS THERE NO AC/DC????????…is that a spoiler for 3? I’m not sure if you’re aware, but I haven’t seen that yet.
😛
It’s a soundtrack spoiler, if that matters to you. 😛
Wasn’t sure if it would ruin any anticipation for some people so i played it safe 😛
But really that’s all i could really fault the movie on 😛
I still gotta see it too. Stupid jerk friends not inviting me when they went.
I thought it was fun. There’s definitely potential there and hopefully it doesn’t take too long to live up to it.
OKAY!
Let’s assume for the moment that I have about $100 to spend, and I was under pressure from the missus to shuck off my fossilised old-world sensibilities about battery life and need vs want, and finally join the smartphone age.
Does anyone have any recommendations about how best to proceed?
How does this one look? http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/321136550568
I have an old phone you could…oh.
Can you stretch to $150? I know Gizmodo looks somewhat favourably on the Agora: http://www.kogan.com/au/buy/agora-50-dual-core-smartphone/
I’ll keep it in mind, but it might be stretching things.
Maybe post this Q over at Gizmodo too?
People post on Gizmodo? What?
*whitenoise*
Also, bear in mind that you may need to adjust your phone plan/sim card for the datas
Thanks, yep, we went through that part of the process a couple of years ago when Mrs Shane got technologically up to date.
How do you feel about plans?
You should be able to get a decent phone for no cost if you are willing to lock in with a provider for a couple of years.
I’m not against them per se, but ultimately, I’d like the cost over two years to be under $500. And so far, I haven’t seen any $20 plans that come with a phone and have a decent data allowance…
If I get the phone myself, I can get on the same plan my wife is on with TPG (hopefully), which is $15 per month and comes with about 1 GB of data.
You probably have to ……go talk to somebody in store
They are not going to advertise any of the low end phones as they want to be pushing the new and cool. But I haven’t looked at phones for well over a year so not sure on what is available
Thanks!
Don’t get Huawei.
Seriously, I had one that only lasted a month before dying in the arse.
Try and find yourself Samsung Galaxy Pocket if you can.
Here’s one for $80:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Samsung-Galaxy-Pocket-S5300-BLACK-4Gb-3G-WiFi-GPS-small-touch-smartphone-2NDS-/111110550341
I kinda want that South Park collectors edition.
Pending the price.
BOARD GAMES at my place, Saturday at 2pm.
Depending on how many people are there, we’re going to bust out Talisman and Tokaido. Don’t know the rules to either yet but I’m sure that’s not a problem.
Let me see how things are going, Both Anton and I are on call this weekend, I’ll let you know
Tokaido looks so pretty, if you do play it let me know what you think. I have almost bought it just one visuals alone
I wanted it because it was so damned pretty but the fact that it’s made by Antoine Bauza (7 Wonders, Hanabi, Ghost Stories and Takenoko) kind of helps.
Positive Note: The last two weeks have been the first time I’ve stuck my head into TAY, properly. You’re all awesome people and It’s nice to know that there are Kotaku people who aren’t like the wild commentators out there.
Kind of positive but not really feeling it positive note: After 12 years of banging my body any which way including loose, I gave up alcohol last month (we really didn’t have a nice functioning relationship) and three days ago threw away my 33-a-day smoking habit cold turkey. I know it’s doing me good, but I currently feel like a psychopathic Dr. Who – I hate everything that exists, everything that has existed and everything that will exist with a fiery passion normally reserved for licorice.
Any tips from the general populous on how to stay not smoking?
I have no specific advice, but congrats man! That’s awesome, and good luck!
From what I’ve heard, nicotine only takes a handful of days to flush out of the system, and what you end up struggling with isn’t so much the addiction as it is the habit.
What @shane said…
I can’t say that i am a smoker, but both my parents were and my mother managed to kick the habit…
As far as i believe, it’s not a matter of quitting the habit, but rather replace it with something else…
With her, she started in Nicotine gum to get the body used to less and less Nicotine, but she also kept normal gum around, because when she felt the urge to fidget with smokes, she popped a normal gum instead…. worked tremendously for her… obviously everyone is different, but something for you to think about… try replacing it with something else
I really want to quit smoking but I”m afraid I’ll turn into Trevor Phillips if I do, I have too much bullshit going on in real life, I don’t think i can do it 🙁
One thing I have heard frequently: if you have a desk job (or don’t move around much at work), once every couple of hours find an excuse to go for a 5 minute walk, preferably outside (but away from other smokers). Part of the reason people crave a smoke break isn’t for the smoke, it’s for a chance to stretch and move around a bit.
I quit cold turkey too, and have a few friends who’ve done the same.
Biggest tips:
1) Sex. Hold off as long as you can and when you think you’re going to cave… sexytime. This might not always be feasible. And can be a double-edged sword if you ever got into the habit of a post-coital smoke.
2) Exercise. In the first few weeks of quitting, your body can go into a crazy recovery mode where it starts dislodging and spitting out all the gunk and shit and you can feel like absolute crap at even the slightest exertion. Worth doing. Get a really good sweat on and reward yourself in some way. [Edit: At the very least, realizing how quickly you get fucked up doing so little will remind you why you need to do this.]
3) Ease up on all your other responsibilities and obligations. Don’t make promises to folks for any kinds of obligations. You’re going to be cranky an ineffecient anyway, but performing at your best can use up your willpower reserves.
These are all based off the one really big underlying principle: You have a finite amount of willpower. Using it up on ‘not smoking’ means you won’t have it handy for other activites… and vice-versa. So pretty much be ready to forgive yourself for falling down in a bunch of other areas because the fact is you’re using up all your willpower reserves JUST on not-smoking. Replacing it with things you would typically consider indulgences makes the drain less significant and keeps you more functional in other areas of your life.
Your call on what you consider a ‘treat’. For me it was always sex, junk food, and video games/TV, or a sleep-in. (And sometimes painkillers. Which, combined with the punishment I was inflicting on myself from basic exercise, was often very welcome. So much dizziness/nausea.)
SCIENCE: The phenomenon is known as ‘Ego depletion’. There’s some really good articles about it here: http://youarenotsosmart.com/2012/04/17/ego-depletion/ – understanding the principles here allows me to get a lot more done than I normally would, purely by having a better idea of my limits and when I’m stretching my resources or using them ineffectively.
[Edit: Also, can someone who is neutral about quiz_b’s post please upvote a second time for me, due to the reference to liquorice hate and every which way but loose? Thanks. I’ll upvote something for you at your discretion (provided it doesn’t violate my ethics).]
Science, bitches!
I upvoted you for a moment but then I got to the part about liquorice hate.
I also could have said sardines. Are sardines acceptable as a co-hating food?
Anchovies certainly are but sardines are acceptable
You can’t have a pizza without anchovies!
Yes you can, you replace them with pineapple
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Yes you can, it’s called delicious Pizza
*runs away*
😛
You have made a powerful enemy today, my friend.
Hm. I think I only tried sardines once, not too long ago. But I don’t remember hating them.
(@Tigerion as well to save on double replying) I’m against both. Anchovies because they are little balls of saltiness when I least expect them on a pizza. Sardines because I have vivid memories of my dad spreading them on toast for breakfast. Bones and all. He’d just whack down a whole sardine, eyeball and all, angle the knife and…
Yeah I can do without both to tell the truth.
liquorice is a punishment for the sins of mankind.
I am a glutton for punishment.
Currently downloading my advance copy of Anna Murphy’s Cellar Darling album that I backed on Kickstarter. Today is looking like an awesome day after all! 😀
Today is Survivor day!
Of course it’ll be awesome 😀
I still haven’t had a chance to watch the first episode!
I know.
:'(
While i’m on new stuff i started watching…
Decided to start watching Attack on Titan last night, only one episode in, but i’m quite enjoying it…
Keep in mind that my experience in anime is very limited (Macross (Robotech), Dragonball (all of them), Transformers Super-God MasterForce primarily)
I love the setting of the show so far…
Any other animes people can recommend that i should give a go?
Sailor Moon.
Gunsmith cats, Trigun, cowboy bebop and maybe along the same lines scryed
BEBOP YES
I also enjoyed Ghost in the Shell; Standalone Complex and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Yes. Definitely Bepop, Trigun and GitS:SAC.
Or is you want something way outside what you have listed you could always try Club to death Angel Dokuro-Chan
iiiinteresting, thanks Tigs… i got some research to do when i get home XD
Have you seen Avatar:the last air bender?
eeeyup, didn’t class it as an anime because Nickelodeon XD but yes i have… Legend of Korra is also downloaded but haven’t watched yet
I thought that might be the case which is also why I didn’t list it. But it is very good so figured somebody should throw it out there is case you hadn’t.
Oh god… that anime was friggin weird…
Good, but weird.
I enjoyed Trigun. Haven’t seen the movie though.
I still haven’t finished it. 🙁
I think I got about halfway. Hmm,, I’m going to need to make my Christmas List for my family soon, think I’ll put it on there. 🙂
I remember the second-last ep being my favourite… by a really long way, actually.
Awesome, good to still have great episodes to look forward to.
Trigun is one of these series that starts out one way and then once it sets you up in the universe lays on the real story. Cowboy Bebop was the same way, which is probably why they’re constantly compared and there’s a something of a rivalry between the fanbases.
I don’t really remember a lot about Trigun, but there’s a couple of big moments toward the end.
I really need to remember to grab Attack On Titan.
As for other anime? It’s been a while since I’ve watched much and it depends on how much gore/weirdness you like but I’m very fond of Last Exile, Gantz and Elfen Lied. Last Exile is practically family-friendly, Elfen Lied is super gory and violent,and then there’s Gantz which is super-weird as well as incredibly gory ,boob-obsessed and violent.
And my all-time favourite anime is Berserk. Again, super violent.
There’s loads more but I’m struggling to remember the names. I’ve barely watched any anime for at least five years because Mr. Strange always falls asleep due to reading the subtitles.
I don’t mind weird or gory at all, so i will have a look into some of these, thanks 😀
Outlaw Star.
Or, if that’s not your cup of tea, there’s Freedom, Eden of The East, and Spice and Wolf.
And Azumanga Daioh.
Oh, also, Mysterious Girlfriend X, which is available on crunchyroll.
Get past the initially squickish-seeming premise, and you’ll be rewarded with an adorable teenage romance story.And.. one more, I promise, one of my top three of the Summer 2013 lie-up, Watamote.
Cringe comedy, yes, but it’s such an enjoyable series that I couldn’t leave it out.
http://www.crunchyroll.com/watamote-no-matter-how-i-look-at-it-its-you-guys-fault-im-not-popular
Outlaw Star was pretty cool. I should check out those other ones you mentioned.
I absoloutely Loved Texhnolyze . If you can find it
That’s the last anime I saw. Stayed with me for a long time. Definitely thought-provoking.
From memory it had a rather WTF ending, But not as WTF as Ergo Proxy
Death Note.
Re-vote for above mentions of: Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Ghost in the Shell – Stand Alone Complex (and the follow-up series, ‘the second gig’), Scryed.
No reservations in recommending these. They’re just ones I’d watch again, stand-out classics. I have more borderline recommendations, but these I enjoyed unequivocally:
Series:
Black Lagoon
Sword Art Online
Suisei no Gargantia
Hellsing (english dub – I don’t recommend english VA often, but it’s better in this)
Macross Frontier (it occasionally references other macross series/movies which is good if you’ve watched them, but I give it credit for standing exceptionally well on its own)
Samurai Champloo
Full Metal Panic
Tower of Druaga
Rideback
Blassreiter
Gungrave
Full Metal Alchemist
Last Exile
Valkyria Chronicles
Angel Beats
Berserk
Zetsuen no Tempest
Ben-to
Ergo Proxy
Serial Experiments Lain (sometimes just ‘Lain’)
Hyouka
Rah-Xephon (english dub, again)
Movies:
Patlabor 1 & 2
Spriggan
Ghost in the Shell
Jin Roh: Wolves in Human Armor
Why can’t I upvote more than once?
As a side note, I’d actually recommend watching both Hellsing and the Hellsing OVA although you will be waiting quite some time for the English dub of the OVA.
Also, pretty much anything by or involving Shinichiro Watanabe is golden.
My personal additions to the list:
Fruits Basket
Excel Saga
Elemental Gelade
Samurai 7
Oooh, someone likes the saccharine. 🙂 In the sweeter stuff I definitely second Fruits Basket, and would add more…
Actually, now that I think about it, I wrote a really long anime recommendation list on this post:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/05/four-anime-you-can-skip-this-season/comment-page-1/#comment-1400091
I actually included notations about what to expect about each series, a sort of hyper-condensed review. Everything on that list is very good and worth watching.
Yeah. @pixel_the_ferret_viking – go to http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/05/four-anime-you-can-skip-this-season/comment-page-1/#comment-1400091
I disliked Excel Saga. I got tired of the randomness and while it sort of tried to make a point towards the end, I felt it didn’t do it well. Abenobashi Mahou Shotengai had a similar concept but executed it WAY better, in my opinion.
Serial Experiments: Lain was amazing, Hellsing was also awesome. :)Samurai Champloo also good. :_)
No one has mentioned FLCL, so I will. It’s only 6 episodes long, and it’s fantastic. No reason not to check it out.
I was late to the party, otherwise FLCL woulda had the shit mentioned outta it.
Macross for real instead of the horrible butchered Robotech adaption? 😛
you know where i grew up they banned Robotech, i was heartbroken, they also tried to ban He-Man, She-Ra, Rainbow Bright, just to name a few,………… jerks
Edit: oh and Ninja Turtles, luckily they didn’t or my childhood wouldn’t have been the same 😛
Berserk, Ghost in The Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Second Gig, Paranoia Agent, Mad Bull, Gurran Lugan, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Soul Eater. Tenchi Muyo, Ranma 1/2 (1/2 = half not 1 & 2)
These are among my favourites off the top of my head.
OH YEs, How could I forget Neon Genisis! That is compulsory viewing for EVERYONE!!!!
Another. Unless you don’t like gore.
Baccano! is friggen amazing!
It’s one of those animes that doesn’t feel like an anime, ya know? Some things have that crazy “anime” feel to it which makes them good but Baccano! feels like it could work just as well as a TV show, movie, game or book. It’s just all round awesome!
Absolutely worth checking out!
Char char!*
(*16 days)
Ji – ggelypuff,
Jiggely – yyy – yyypuff
ji-ggelypuff, ji-ggelyyyyyyyy
*falls asleep*
That left a huge grin on my face.
Not because of a reminder of Pokemon (past or present), but because it reminded me of all the times Jigglypuff tried to put me to sleep in the original Smash Bros. and got smashed off the platform for it.
And then that one time where she put you to sleep and then insta-down-B rest KO.
Good times.
Hey @35 I hope you’re feeling better today. 🙂
getting there.
thanks Strange 🙂
Repost for those who slept in:
TAYspotifyLIST for 26/9/2013
YOUR REQUESTS BELOW
Magic carpet ride – Steppenwolf
Carolus Rex – Sabaton.
A Dangerous Man – Foxy Shazam
Magic Dirt – Get ready to die
Musical Ride – Hanson
Brothers in Arms – Dire Straits
The Lesser Evil – James Flamestar!
Man, do I wish I had Flamestar’s album. I’d play it every week.
I am currently wearing a hoodie that I bought a couple of months ago. It didn’t fit at the time, but it is now fitting really comfortably. Hopefully I’ll also have some good news at my weigh in tonight. Fingers crossed.
I need your help Pokenerds.
X or Y.
And why?
Y because WHO THE HELL WANTS BAMBIE?!?!?!?!
Edit – i honestly have not read into the differences so i went with the front cover XD
Y legendary looks better, X will likely be stronger.
I think most may choose Y so X has better trading potential, unless everyone else also goes with X for this reason…
Y
As in, y r u a zombie
I should probably make a decision about that soon…
They haven’t announced all of the version exclusives yet.
Edit: http://www.serebii.net/xy/exclusives.shtml
The item to transform Mewtwo into it’s X-Mega form will be exclusive to X. I’m not going to use Mewtwo myself, but I think that’s the better of the two forms.No preference. Whatever they have the most of at the shop.
I’m getting X because it seems like other peopel are mostly getting Y.
Heard back from the police \o/
My application has stalled because they haven’t heard back from previous employers yet /o\
One said they already sent it weeks ago, he resent it and said he had put in a good word for me \o/
Other one was dismissive and hostile /o\
This should have been sorted out months ago /o\
Seriously, this whole thing has been a giant clusterfuck and it’s destroying me mentally and having a physical flow on effect. The problem being my future is now entirely in other people’s hands and they seem to be fumbling a lot. Not sure how much more I can take.
Sends Hugs, Because hugs make everything better right?
I do understand the feeling of futility, being in other peoples hands.
At least you know what’s going on now. Hopefully the one responsible guy will cancel out the doofusy irresponsible guy. *hugs*
At least you know. Knowing is so much better than not knowing.
Definitely gonna have to do some stress relief though, I reckon.
Hope it all works out, Freeze. You’re one of the best, most responsible people I know. I reckon it’s just a matter of time, my friend!
See my comment below. Should put a smile on your face.
Hope it works out, man. Having to rely on other people for your own professional reputation is the WORST.
Case in point: as much as folks joke about it these days, seeing The Lesser Evil #2 come out with “#1” written on its spine felt like a huge kick in the guts. It’s not the same level as your predicament, but the feeling that your reputation is suffering because of someone else’s fuck-up is one that I understand. 🙁
Instead of working I’m reading the Robin Williams AMA on Reddit. This man is some sort of wizard. You can’t read anything he says without a stupid grin on your face.
Plus he’s a total nerd
Yep. Just a sample –
Robin Williams on Call of Duty:
Robin Williams on his favourite animes:
When asked if he’s seen Full Metal Alchemist:
Thanks, that was great. I keep forgetting what a huge movie career he’s had.
Well, there goes my productivity.
Okay that Gizmodo TV piracy article is really annoying. Its headline and tone suggest the networks are sucking at giving us content within hours from the US, but really(and as even the article itself admits) we’re getting more shows fast-tracked than ever before.
And the most annoying thing: taking a stab at Vampire Diaries and calling it “poorly scripted”. 😛
A few weeks ago Showcase on Foxtel had new Dexter, new Breaking Bad, new Boardwalk Empire and new Newsroom on back-to-back hours after they aired in the U.S. and commercial free!
It was AWESOME.
They’re learning but unfortunately the lesson isn’t just that we want content sooner, we want content on our own terms.
TV shows are an interesting conundrum because we are completely used to getting them for free. The price we paid was watching the ads and nobody ever thought of that as an actual price. So when a solution came along that meant we got to watch what we wanted, when we wanted without being at the mercy of the network’s scheduling and edits why wouldn’t we take it?
Catch up services are a good step in the right direction but by now, people like me have gotten accustomed to just downloading things.
The problem with tv piracy in my opinion is only partly because of delays, which arent anywhere near as common anymore… the reason we personally download tv episodes is simply because i can not guarantee that im going to be available every monday night at 7:30pm or wednesday at 8pm so i can watch a show… to top it all off reception in my area is very iffy..
a hdd recorder wont help because programming isnt at 7:30 on the dot anymore; at times 7:35, 7:40, etc… not only that but if you watch multiple shows on the same time slot, it makes this impossible…
i would be happy to use an FTA program or something that would download my shows when they are available and i can watch them when i want…. even if it forced me to sit through the ads… hell id even pay an annual subscription fee for it.
Yeah, I got good and ranty in the comments on that article. This shit is NOT rocket science, the industry bone-heads are exhibiting pants-on-head levels of stupidity and it’s frustrating in the extreme.
These dolts are still stuck in the time-slot mentality, thinking that they’re competing against other shows. But they’re not competing against other shows. They’re competing against free, at-will access to all shows everywhere.
Then they go spend millions of dollars on an ad campaign telling us that they’re reducing the fucking we get on time-delay from the US down to a mild ear-fucking instead of bound-and-gagged bloodsport. Like they’re proud of their inadequacy in that field.
The mind boggles.
Bah, forget about that stuff…the article insulted The Vampire Diaries! How could he?! What a moron!
Most of us don’t care about how well written our porn is :p
Anyone who thinks Vampire Diaries is porn hasn’t watched it. Teen Wolf on the other hand…. 😛
I’ve seen some. A girl drank some vampire blood or something and then masturbated feverishly.
I imagine that’s pretty much 90% of the show, the rest is vampire pool cleaners and pizza delivery boys.
D: I don’t remember that! Sounds more like True Blood. 😛
@Strange Maybe it was. I have to admit I wasn’t paying too much attention to the title.
Well, to be fair, I don’t really know anything about it at all, though the name is a bit of a turn-off.
Just shaved my head and there’s not a thing Mrs. Freeze can do about it! 😛
So many grey hairs. So many. D:
Over the sink??!!!
Haha! Nah, got my mum to do it this time with clippers on the balcony! Super manly! XD
I was about to say don’t do it on a balcony. Oh god, hair, hair everywhere!
*Just had my head shaved
Filthy liar.
I just wanted to feel like a big man! :'(
Should’ve let the hair grow out, then. You could’ve been an inch or two taller!
#OhShane
Haha! 😀
EDIT: again, this is one of those times I’m just unnecessarily letting you know I enjoyed your comment!
pics or it didnt happen!
Mustn’t of happened then! I could’ve sworn it did though! 😛
Was it by a jumbo jet?
I’ve mentioned here before that we’re planning on getting the WiiU and Disney Infinity for the kids for Christmas so this Dick Smith thing could be awesome for us if we’re lucky.
We’ve called the one nearest where we’ll be doing the groceries tonight and while they can’t hold them for us, they do have a couple of the nice shiny black WiiU’s so NOBODY go and buy them BEFORE WE GET THERE, OKAY? 😛
Awesome! 😀 I really recommend Pikmin 3 as well, eventually. Such a good game!
Can you put a deposit on them over the phone?
Apparently not. Because it’s a super-special sale.
Can they take an order over the phone? Because I wouldn’t expect them to stay there all day… this sale is getting a LOT of attention.
Edit: like minds think alike tigs!
You couldn’t even do the whole “click and collect” thing on the site. It sucks but I guess it’s understandable. Don’t want someone being denied going “But there’s one right there!” “Oh, someone’s picking that up later” “But I’m here NOW!”.
All right then… well, good luck! Hope you end up with one! 🙂
strange, why not order the console on line and organise in store pickup and grab it tonight?
See above. 🙂
Melbourne city staff are flat out lying to their customers about what’s on sale. Hopefully your place is a bit better (otherwise I can offer the infinity I just picked up if you are unable to get it otherwise)
(O.o)
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I changed my screen name to match my PSN name to avoid confusion whilst on the GTA’s.
So hey!
..boredom..
I did a double-take kind of thing earlier. Thought “RileyJones” was new person and then saw that it was you.
:O
I’m remembered!
I did the same thing with “Raichu” yesterday.
I miss Cody. Where’d Cody go?
It’s kind of a shame. Doesn’t matter how cool Raichu is, @ynefel, when you have Saxton Hale as your avatar, there’s nowhere to go but down. 🙁
Every time I go see the critters at the pet store, I feel like I should buy a dozen kittens! I could train them to do my bidding! (Most likely they’d train me to do their bidding. XD)
I haven’t been around much so don’t know if you guys have talked about this, but is anyone else disturbed by GTAV’s rating just saying “Drug Use”? Last couple days I’ve been able to play it properly and I’ve tortured people, the language is insane and I saw a dudes balls.
My housemate works at EB games and she’s had several mums coming in with their 12 year olds to buy them GTAV, thinking that it’s just Drug Use and that’s no big deal. She’s started pulling out a copy of the map and starts pointing out the stripjoints and where you can go on a rampage.
Yeah, we discussed this yesterday or the day before here in TAY. I think the consensus was that there should be more detail on the label, including the “strong impact” MA15+ stuff, and not just the one element that pushed it to R18.
Or at least that’s what I think. Hell, I even think the categories are too vague. I’d actually like to see a more detailed individualised breakdown on R18 labels especially, including (in the case of GTAV) warnings of a
torture scene, male and female nudity, excessive swearing (maybe even something to do with tiers of swearing too), etc, etcIt so blatantly misrepresents why a parent should be concerned with this game. I am kind of surprised it even got away with an R rating.
The current system relies on parents being aware of the kind of offensive content is in an MA15+ game and being ok with it. If you se an R game you should assume high levels of violence, swearing, nudity, sexual references, etc.
It makes sensem but it relies on people being better educated at this stuff than is reasonable.
Part of the problem is still the perception that games are for kids.
So an R rating with drug use for a parent who has no idea other than kids like games can mean, oh they say this is an adult game not like all the other that are for kids because it has drugs in it, but I’m ok with them seeing some drug use in games.
There’s a strawberry cheesecake sitting in my fridge from The Cheesecake Shop. It’s not all for me, but I’m thinking of eating it all because I can’t control myself. But then there will be guilt. The guilt! D:
…
Eat that much cheesecake and I don’t think your issue will be guilt…
Speaking of which, this is a pretty great recipe for Strawberry cheesecake cupcakes, guys.
http://musingssahm.com/2013/05/strawberry-cheesecake-cupcakes/
I’ve been told that even after a day or two they are pretty great, but I personally think they are infinitely better fresh.
Should I walk into my local Dick Smith when I get to town to see if they have a premium Wii u? I’m torn between the cheap price and the fact that the only games I’d
likely buy would be HD versions of Mario kart or super smash bros.
Any other “must buys?
Pikmin 3 and Rayman Legends so far. Zombi U is pretty great. There’s also Wind Waker coming next month. Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze coming in November. 3D Mario coming in December!
Nobs likes Wonderful 101 too. (I didn’t care for it!)
*adds exclamation mark to list”
Remember that time you hated The Last of Us and we became enemies? 😛
Tragic story of a hero that was let down by hype and had to turn to a life of evil to survive.
What did that exclamation mark ever do to you? 🙁
Wind Waker, ZombiU, Rayman Legends, Wonderful 101, Pikmin 3. I think that’s about it.
I’d add NSMBU and NSLU, but ymmv with those I guess.
I loved Monster Hunter but it’s very much a multiplayer game.
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Life’s a happy song when there’s someone by your side to sing along!
When you’re alone, life can be a little rough
It makes you feel like you’re three foot tall!
When its just you times can be tough
When there’s no one there to catch your fall!
Everything is great everything is grand
I’ve got the whole wide world in the palm of my hand!
Everything is perfect, it’s falling into place
I can’t seem to wipe this smile of my face!
Make you feel like
a big manyou’re three feet tall!
Stop changing your names, people. You’re confusing
me@greenius!But … but it looked like fun.
Now I’m all deeply… something… 🙁
I think we should all change for Halloween month
WHAT!?
Remember when we all changed our avatars and you got confused?
But that’s avatars, not names :-).
Remember how @blaghman @powalen and I briefly changed our names to @dc and avatars to Pey’J? Now THAT was confusing :P!
Speaking of which, since I use avatars to figure out who is who (I didn’t even notice the vonsack or ynefel name changes :P) – Mr. Cakesmith and Rize are messin’ with the system!
My poxy little shopping center I work in has always been limited to MacD’s, KFC and a Shingle Inn food wise.
Till now. A Sushi Train just opened up. Gonna eat so many plates of deliciousness.
http://www.procrastoonation.com/archives/156
LOVE this one 🙂
Haha! Me too. It’s one of my favourites!
Also @strange, do you want me to check the Dick Smith next to me and you can reimburse me for it later?
Oh that would have been nice except I’m pretty sure we would be putting it on the credit card instead of paying with money in the bank. Thanks so much for the offer, though. 🙂
Choo choo
Remember that meat where we all went to sushi train and @dc went to KFC. Good times.
I forgot to tell you guys that I’m pretty much that guy in @Sughly’s procrastoonation comic. XD Also, I don’t like sea food. Haha! Plus I got to spend quality time with Mrs. Hellscream!
That was the first time I had ever been to a sushi train so that comic was running through my mind the whole time I was there. =P
I hate seafood too and I had awesome non-seafood sushi-trainfood. Mrs. Hellscream was naughty, enabling you like that.
There’s a Subway out near the bus stop as well..
Oh @dc I can’r remember but I think you’ll know: is Beyond: Two Souls going to be on PS4? Or is it just PS3?
PS3! Only thing Quantic Dream have shown with PS4 tech is the Old Man face and Wizard tech demo!
Okay, thanks for being Google for me! (I would apologise for being lazy but I can’t be bothered….). I’ll pre-order it tonight. Yay!
Quantic Dream is Strange’s Space Maureen?
I remembered I could pre-order online for pick up in-store so I just did that then. \o/
So. Damn. Proud.
You hear that monster @sughly ain’t even getting the game! What a monster! 😛
Oh man, I totally forgot to download the demo for that last night.
Early access wheeee!
No need to play the demo! It’s gonna be awesome!
Just pre-ordered Beyond: Two Souls special edition. After The Last of Us it’s the game I’m most looking forward to this year (man, Playstation gets the best games). Also handed in my resume to EB, so fingers crossed that works out.
Hope all goes well with EB!
I can’t wait to get Beyond: Two Souls. I’ll be getting the Special Edition too. The Heavy Rain OST was so damn good I can’t wait to hear this one. Also there’s an extra scene. AN EXTRA SCENE! Hopefully it’s Ellen Page sitting on some steps with her ‘ol guitar singing Anyone Else But You with Michael Cera as the camera pulls back!
Don’t tell them you’re a gamer!
Too late, already mentioned it in my cover letter. If it comes down to it I’m confident I can sell them on the merits of having someone working there who actually knows about the products being sold.
So… Reel Anime is on again.
Shame I’ve already seen most of them and the rest aren’t really that exciting 🙁
Evangelion 3.0 would be pretty cool to see on a big screen though I guess? Probably worth seeing again just because the first time through it kind of didn’t make sense.
Doc and I are going to see Ghost In The Shell at some point. Not sure about the others yet though.
I recommend that you don’t get your hopes up too high for Arise. Not saying it’s bad but it wasn’t as good as it could have been.
56 minutes seems abit… short?
It’s part 1 of a 4-part ‘movie’ (actually OVA) series.
Honestly, I’ve been putting off torrenting Eva 3.0 just so I can see it in a cinema.
I definitely want to see evangellion 3.0.
Hmm. So should I rush out and grab a Wii U console or should I take this as a sign that a general price drop is on the way?
I wouldn’t take it as sign of a price drop. I’m not sure why DSE even had Wii U in stock considdering their previous downsizing but I think they’re just generally getting rid of their gaming stuff.
If you ever want one, get one. It’s very unlikely to get to this price any time soon as it’s a sort of get-rid-of-stock price.
Don’t get your hopes up though, I doubt there’ll be much stock.
GOT ONE! Damn you, Greenius! Telling me all about super deals and whatnot.
Nice, dude!
😀
@gutsoup – don’t give up hope if Benny was able to get one!
I freakin’ love this song so much! XD
So, iOS7 has been out for a bit, what are people’s thoughts so far?
It’s pretty looking but my iPad 2 crashes Kotaku every damn time now. :'(
I’m liking it. Looks cleaner and more modern. Few things weirded me out at first (Safari) but I can see how they’re better now.
It’s great. I like the new look and it all looks very “clean”.
I hear it doesn’t run so great on older devices though. I’m using an iPhone 4S and it’s been completely fine, but I hear it isn’t so great on the iPhone 4 and it seems like Mr. D.C. is having troubles on his iPad 2 🙁
It’s great. My iPhone 4 has become a lot more responsive. Aside from the new and improved less battery life it’s fine.
4 or 4s because I have heard people with 4S are fine but people with 4 are having issues.
4, i’ve found it flawless. Apart from when I reboot and my messages disappear for a minute o.O
Edit: I saw a few on Twitter complaining that the update on their 4S completely stuffed it and they were not impressed. I guess I was lucky, but it runs really well and it’s snappy.
It’s great, looks pretty, everything had a nice cool and smooth animation when opening apps. If you have older then a 4S I wouldn’t suggest updating as apparently it had stability issues with old models.
Nowhere near waterproof enough.
I recall seeing that, it was pretty funny.
I had to ride out in gale force winds.
Now I feel really really ill.
So, I just want to say
Fuck you wind.That blows.
How great is Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD Remix? The answer is pretty great.
I just reached Traverse Town in Kingdom Hearts and it brings back the memories :’). Kudos to Square Enix for not doing a lazy HD remaster and it actually looks great. So pretty!
This is getting me extra hype for Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD! I didn’t occur to me until recently but it’s going to be hard to get back into random battles :(. Ugh!
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Vooks also has a bargain round-up for Pokemons
http://www.vooks.net/bargain-roundup-pokemon-x-y-special-edition-3ds-xl/
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SURVIVOR HYPE
Ugh, Gameius. Have you beaten Rayman Legends yet!?!!!!!1!!!!
I downloaded it!
I’M SAVOURING THE EXPERIENCE
I made progress on it at @blaghman’s house but forgot to upload my save file to PSN+ and can’t be bothered doing Monstro again. Ugh.
Also, FFX HD is apparently awesome. FFX-2 is apparently not so awesome.
I got up to what’s-her-face boss in The Little Mermaid world, couldn’t beat her so I rage quitted. Haven’t played it in a week since.
I remember there was a trick to that boss…but I can’t remember what it was. It was some way of exploiting it.
Oh no! But that’s the one I was excited about. 🙁
Well, apparently not so awesome compared to the FFX remaster.
I can’t remember where I read it (might’ve even been an article here), but you can tell they spent more time polishing FFX.
If the stuff is just on my playstation, would I be able to upload it from here without the disc, or is your login stuff not saved?
You could. But that would involve effort and I know you don’t have much of that.
I was thinking about going upstairs and playing a little more Demon’s Souls, so it wouldn’t be too difficult if I’m already using the PS3.
But then again, effort.
Eh, if you can be bothered go for it.
Save files > triangle > copy > PSN+
Pretty sure it will ask if your sure you want to override the save. Go for it.
Basically press buttons until it works!
DEMON’S SOULS \o/
After we played a little on Sunday morning, I got vindictive, and so died 7 times to the red-eyed knight dude near the start. I did beat him though.
But since I haven’t beaten the boss guy, I can’t level up, and he only gave me 2000 odd souls anyway, which is super depressing given how badly he wrecked me.
Oh that red eyed knight. I know him well.
off topic but oh @rize
@shane You had that bookmarked for some reason. You didn’t just go and search for it. Right?
Right?
@mrtaco
🙂
I gave my copy to
@AlexPantsMattPants. But he’s a jerk and hasn’t played it yet.So if anyone knows anyone who has a great passion for buying Train Simulator DLC, I can totally hook them up with 19 Steam discount coupons for said DLC.
@cakesmith
Fun fact: I’ve avoided owning Train Simulator so far.
Now, Euro Truck Simulator 2 on the other hand…GOTY!
ETS2 is fething insane.
Try playing it without a wheel.
I got a big stack of those last night too. Free to a good home. Or just free, doesn’t even need a home.
I was playing and switched back to desktop and boom 20 inventory items.
Looked with excitement that quickly dropped
I hope @shane has good news for me because my bells just dipped to 137. 🙁
Mine haven’t broken 100 this week…
Dang it. Man, I remember when this game was new people were getting a crazy 700 bells for their turnips. Where’s my big score? 🙁
144, my good man. 144.
Welp, it’s no 167 but since I got greedy that extra 7 bells per turnip are a godsend. Mind if I visit tonight?
Shouldn’t be a problem, man. I’ll try to remember to open my gates as soon as I get home. Won’t be interacting, but they’ll be open!
Yell at me on Twitter some time after 6 tonight to remind me to check mine for you.
Will do!
Well, I finally saw the Pokemon 3DS XLs.
Might actually make the jump from my launch 3DS…
I’ve been tempted by a number of different special XLs, but ultimately I don’t need to buy an XL again.
My launch blue 3DS is too small for my fat hands and gets uncomfortable after playing it for more than 30 or so minutes.
Well, that’s because you have fat…aww…
“Will somebody get this walking carpet out of my way?”
http://i.imgur.com/KXpi7r0.png
…HA!
I was proud of that one 😀
@rize
They don’t do much for me unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately?)
That black and gold Charizard one from a while back, however…
Ain’t no Pikanips
Yeah, it’s pretty damn tempting, but my income is so low that I don’t think I can afford it. :'(
Well I’ve been wondering for a while but when’da get your job? What is it?
Just curious I guess because since I’ve been outta the loop you just got a job outta nowhere :O. Grats!
(it’s weird when Blaghman doesn’t do Blaghman things)
Looks like I’m packing you in the boot for the next Canberra meat…
But I want to sit in a normal people’s seat!
it’s been so long since i sailed anywhere that I’ve forgotten what I need to do to ensure that me rewriteable disc will work in my player if i grab stuff off my PC.
Guess I’ll just have to try some more stuff out tonight
I’m kind of getting tempted to play WoW again. D:
I’ve been playing it recently. I was looking forward to trying the new patch stuff, but then I got bored of Timeless Isles really fast and don’t know if I can be bothered gearing up to run Siege of Orgrimmar. I did however start leveling up a female human monk after watching Legend of Korra, and that’s been kind of fun.
I haven’t played since 4.0. Lost interest once I finished the story content and realized I didn’t really want to run the heroics (too hard to PUG early on). I’m kind of tempted to go back for a bit. I was playing FFXIV but I’ve probably played 2 hours in the last week and a half after a few really bad grouping experiences in a row left me kind of nervous to re-attempt the story boss I’m stuck on, and I’ve since been outleveled by friends I was play with 🙁
Unfortunately Blizzard’s moved away from heroics. The whole expansion’s been about daily quests, rep grinds and raiding.
Yeah and rep grinds were what broke me. The fucking Argent Crusade grind in WotLK with the goddamn jousting. 🙁
After doing the Firelands grind in Cataclysm I swore I’d never do another rep grind again, then I went ahead and did the Order of the Cloud Serpent (which wasn’t actually that bad) and Operation Shieldwall (which was really bad) reps in Mists. I am a terrible person.
*slap* SNAP OUT OF IT, BUZZ
I know the feeling..
It doesnt help when your buddies you used to play with for years have jumped back on the bandwagon!
Stay strong friend! Think about all the other games and stories you could play through instead on chasing the infinite carrot.
Oh no!
Received a phone call, I have an interview tomorrow for a new job, which is great (I loath my job). The problem is for the first time in my life ive attempted to grow facial hair. Ive only had good things said about it, surprisingly, because im quite baby faced.
Im pretty sure the safe and responsible thing to do is shave away my new friend of 5 weeks. Le sigh..
Then again it seems like a pretty small price to pay, it can always grow back.
In other news i’ve watched Serenity (for the first time) twice in two weeks and have Firefly waiting for me when I get home. I’ve heard its a good series that was unfairly axed. Everytime I see Nathan Fillion I think he would suit Nathan Drake in an Uncharted film adaptation.
I also have a babby face, it’s why I never completely shave off my facial hair. I look like I’m 16 when I shave my facial hair completely off. -.-
Do people mistake you for @rocketman?
He said 16.
I never said anything about looking like I’m 12
I wish I’d grown it years ago. Its not the best going out with your friends who all look like men and you look like a boy or one of their pre-pube younger brothers.
I’ve been thinking and the role I’ve applied for needs some years of prior experience, I dont really want to be looking like a teenager fresh out of school. I might just tidy it up, its looking very Theon Greyjoy at the moment.
Hey Mr Jones, from a bearded fellow who hasn’t shaved his off in a decade:
Trim and keep neat lines. Even if just hair clippers on setting number 3.
Rule of thumb: If your beard looks consistent, it looks good.
And remember: you are more likely to be attacked by a bear when you have a beard. Many look upon this as a negative, but you have a beard, which means you are manly enough to survive and beat that bear down and weave the fight into a tale that will make men buy you drinks and women swoon at your jawline.
Heh hmm aha hahahah! I will remember that.
Swoon needs to be used more in conversation.
I’ve also heard: “chicks get wetter if you keep a thick face sweater”.
xD
As someone who saw Serenity when it was new, without having seen Firefly, the whole movie makes a whole lot more sense once you’ve seen the show. Like character motivations, and certain… incidents have way more weight.
I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar.
Whelp, made myself sad.Oh interesting! Im a bit confused though, do the events in Firefly happen before or after the movie?
(Im trying not to drop any spoilers from Serenity)
Before. There are people more educated on here than I am (@shane/@strange) but if I recall correctly it’s like 6 months – 1 year after the series.
Ohh..I now understand your spoiler tag.
🙁
Clipper it neat if you really want to keep it.
Shave it into a “Lemmy” and they’ll make you CEO.
Hope the interview goes well, my friend!
Thanks amigo!
😀
the shitty thing about doing on the side IT work…
so i got paid on the 15th. I have a loyal customer who i do all their IT work for their business fibre optic specialists working with network carriers). after bills and everything i was left with about $1600. he needed some new pc’s ups’ and stuff, so i forked out $1400 on saturday which left me with $200 till he pays me… I invoiced them monday morning, and though they are usually pretty good (they normally pay their bills within a day or two, i have yets to be paid, and we are down to $90…
i mean, as long as i can pee in the fuel tank and grab a few bags of rice, we’ll be ok i suppose :/
on the plus side he did give me a free PS3 slim that wasnt working… turns out its a 500gb and the blu-ray laser is dead…. found a new drive replacement for $60ish but i cant buy it till i gets paid….
and to make things worse WII-U’s are half price!!!
/o\
Numbers /o\
im sorry! /o\
Summary: $90 left till customer pays me at some point.
I was just joking /o\
Hope you get paid soon, man!
Hi! \o/
Numbers \o/
So I’ve been accused of being a Rockstar shill.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/09/rockstar-is-expecting-gta-online-to-be-a-bit-rough-at-launch/comment-page-1/#comment-1943028
How are your days going?
Alright.
I ate a yoghurt.
Thinking about maybeeeeee gettin’ a coffee.
But, you know… Dat’s about it!
-makes noises with mouth-
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-looks around-
-inhales to say something-
-stops-
-exhales-
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Better now I have butterscotch lollies.
But why do you want to know – are you collecting data?
Stupid NSA Shill.
Nonsense, and I can prove it’s nonsense, just give me your tax file number and
That guy is pretty much always a tool. I really wonder why he bothers trying to post when it’s only going to be downvoted into oblivion.
He’s one of the ones that @markserrels was having a go at the other day when he got a tad metaphysical
When it’s all said and done, GTA V does feel “half done”.
It’s not just the delayed online launch. There’s the online guidebook/manual and ifruit app, which I can’t get (still) because I don’t have an iDevice; seems kind of odd not to have it available for all smartdevices. (I guess I’m particularly puzzled that it wasn’t done in something like HTML5 that could be quickly and easily made available to all systems.)
Furthermore, there’s seems to be a lot of stuff cut from the game – and in light of the microtransactions announcement, I can’t help but think it’s been purposely reassigned to DLC – like Casino and prison break.I guess the PS3 and 360 versions were ports – trimmed down from the inevitable PC/PS4/X1 version – so they haven’t been given the highest level of care or attention to detail.
To me things like that are ‘value add’ projects to keep the dev teams busy, rather than firing them just because the game has gone gold / master / whatever the pre shipping term is. I wouldn’t call other games without them incomplete.
Ugh. There is plot afoot. The arts teacher came into the classroom all giggly and stuff before, went up to my friend and started talking to her. Didn’t think much of it at the time. Later I found out that it was a scheme that somehow involved me, and encouraging me to go along to after-school drinks tomorrow night. Slowly, bit by bit, more information dropped. Something about how “I have to meet someone”. But it wasn’t anything to do with the girls here I’ve been eying off. And it’s nothing bad. And. I don’t know. I was close to being told, but then my friend was saying that she also didn’t want me to panic. I decided I just didn’t want to know so I’ll leave it til tomorrow night to find out.
In the end, one of the other conspirators got the go-ahead to tell me during lunch break. Apparently last night, the first years were out for drinks and one of them had a little bit much, and then started saying things. Asking who the second year was who had the ghostbusters outfit. No one knew who she was talking about, so she got her phone out and showed them a picture. Of me. In my (movie) Luigi outfit. And then apparently said something or other about my being hot, and more or less frothing at the mouth.
So yeah. Wishing I didn’t know now, I don’t need this hanging over my head 😛
I think an “OOoooOOoooOOOoh” is appropriate here.
Ladies man!
Seriously though, it’s getting ridiculous. I mean it was bad enough that I kind of have my eye on three girls here. And one of them is already below my “creepy age”. Then I’ve also got climbing girl who seems to be circling the waters. A couple of days ago I got a message from a friend I used to have a bit of a crush on and moved to England a year or two ago, saying that she’s about to open a new salon so presumably she’s back now. Also it turns out the salon is in the same place that a girl at my workplace a few years ago lived, and yes she was another cute one I was trying to figure out the signals from. Then yesterday, another (even younger :/) girl in my year here at school decided to use me as a pillow, out of nowhere. Just last night, I joked to a friend that if “Cosplay Girl” (yet another tale from the past) started messaging me out of nowhere I would go crazy. AND NOW THIS HAPPENS.
Something is going on. I am not sure I like it. Does Spring have some kind of an effect on people or something?
Enjoy it, my friend. I haven’t been hit on since 2007. XD
Hey DC, you’re quite an attractive person.
*swoon*
Now imagine that that was ACTUALLY Han Solo saying that…
“HE COULD USE A GOOD KISS”
edit – because Pixel spellz sheez extremly good
Also, I suspect you increased your appeal ten fold after dressing up as Manny Calavera to PAX! His charisma has rubbed off on you! 😀
Just remember:
Love? Love is for the living!
“Hijole mano”
Dude, if you can’t manage a threesome out of that mess, you’re just not trying.
#HELPING!
Stop trying to live vicariously through Taco Man and go get your own threesome if you find the thought of them so awesome. 😛
You’re right!
*phones home*
Forget trying to interpret signals. If you do like someone just take a chance and ask them out. It’s not that difficult. If you go around trying to figure out if someone is interested in you instead of just asking they’ll assume you’re not interested and move on.
You’re a good-looking guy and it seems like you have many options so just go for it because if you do get knocked back it seems like there’s many more waiting in line.
Maybe Strange could ask them out for you! 😀
I’ve never actually been knocked back before… because I’ve never given it a go >_> The only time anything’s happened is because the other person was the instigator 😛
Pretty sure any actual rejection would be reason enough to go and hide and never do anything again ever.
Man up, doofus! 😛
Live a little. Seriously, don’t be afraid or some of the best things in life will pass you by. Speaking from old lady experience, here. 🙂
So. Old.
Strange speaks so much wisdom in this thread, @mrtaco. Success is a habit! Assume success, but don’t be surprised or hurt if it turns out that wasn’t the reality – rejection means nothing! Assume that you are of superior quality and worth and you’re not going to ‘chase’ as much as indicate to them that you are available to them. You know what you want and you you’re reaching out for it, but not to the extent that you’ll change yourself or debase yourself, because you have options!
MANLY.
Hey I went to Canberra, didn’t I? 😛
I know this on an intellectual level. And I try to follow it, in general. But when it comes to girls… nope. Once the time to jump rolls around, I can’t do it, I just freeze completely solid, and ride out the awkward silence til the chance is gone.
… solid… ride..
*snigger*
I LOVE BEING IMMATURE \o/
Uhm. Pretend its laconic stoicism or something. Yeah. Tall, dark, and mysterious.
Well Canberra seemed to work out okay so maybe you should do what I say more often. 😛
@transientmind Minus the “tall” part 😛
Stop being greedy and introduce me to them! 😛
PS. How’s the Nintendo thing going? 😛
I sooooooorta kinda shoulda called at lunch today. But I was more concerned about getting a nap in so that I could continue working afterwards.
That plan was foiled though, particularly by a stupid fat ugly jerkface pigeon man-baby who I hate. So I pretty much should have done it.
Either gotta do it tomorrow, or I’m left with only Monday…
You can’t mention a stupid fat ugly jerkface pigeon man-baby who you hate without telling us more of the story!
Nah, that’s pretty much it. He’s a nosy busybody who just chimes in on conversations with irrelevant bullshit, and today he decided to continually give me warnings about how long there was left of our lunch break.
I DON’T GIVE A SHIT, I WILL STAY HERE UNTIL I AM READY TO LEAVE AND I DON’T NEED YOU DISTURBING ME IN THE MEANTIME.
Really
Jeez, you’re just getting it handed to you on a platter, now! Very nice.
This sounds like it should be almost impossible to screw up.…You’ll do great. 🙂I’ll find a way!
That’s the spirit!
Just make sure there’s a piano around for you to use and you’ll have no problems at all
Unfortunately the place we go to does not have one 😛 Not that I’ll think I’ll need it for this one, from the sounds of things…
There’s an app for that
*nods*
Instant winnah with all da ladies
Playing Piano on you iPhone…
who wouldn’t love that?
Someone with a Symbian phone 😛
THERE’S AN APP FOR THA-… oh
…
well…
bring a glockenspiel?
Theremin!
I do have another instrument in my arsenal that totally blows those out of the water…
It’s kind of a secret though. Also rather unwieldy to just take out anywhere.
And I swear I’m not making a penis joke here.
If that doesn’t score you cookie points, WHAT WILL?
ESPECIALLY if you can recreate the Star Trek original theme, similar to Sheldon in the Big Bang Theory…. CHICKS WILL BE THROWING THEIR PANTIES AT YOU I TELLZ YA… AND SO WILL I
FAKEBLOCK!
o/
\o
Stop stressing, it’s just a girl!
I’m sure you’ll be fine…just dedicate a song to her. 😛
EVERY REASON TO STRESS!
And totally isn’t even any karaoke to hide behind. If that makes any sense at all.
This must have been what Nintendo were talking about when they said it was The Year of Luigi.
I think today’s the first time I’ve made a purchase out of spite, purely because the staff at the store didn’t want anyone to buy it.
What was it?
Disney Infinity Wii U.
My local Dick Smith has staff lying to customers that none of it is on sale apart from a few dodgy things in a bargain bin.
Why is it always Dick Smith that this sort of thing seems to happen with? Are the other retailers just better at shutting their staff up? 😛
Actually, technically Disney Infinity shouldn’t be on sale (http://files.ozbargain.com.au/upload/62400/18476/image.jpg) but I think it was discounted online anyway, so who knows :/
Hence why I bought it – their reaction showed that they knew about the online / scan price but were lying about it. Got it shoved my way in a less than pleasant manner once the purchase was complete.
Wait, what?
Did you just get a WiiU?
I should have tried with the display box on the shelf, but didn’t push my luck that far since I already have one.
@cakesmith Tempted to make this a permanent change…
Relevant:
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/09/scientists-created-a-new-form-of-matter-and-its-like-a-light-saber/
Also relevant:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/09/every-sci-fi-starship-ever-in-one-mindblowing-comparison-chart/
This would’ve worked better if I still had long hair.
But I agree.
One of you needs to change your name to Han.
Then the other needs to change theirs to Shot First.
So I’ve managed to hurt my arm vaguely badly. I think it was from the second time I fell over at the meat, and I caught myself on the bench, or something? I dunno. My arm hurts. I can do a bicep curl fine, and a push-up, while ridiculously pathetic, is still entirely doable, but if I try to do a bench dip my arm sort of explodes in pain, and it’s been hurting all day…
Also my glasses popped apart again, and this time the base is completely ballsed, so the screw has nothing to screw into, which is problematic. On the bright side, I’ve been bitching that I need new glasses for forever, on the downside, I’m a slack bum and I don’t actually have a medicare card so I have to pay for the eye exam and I do so hate to throw money away.
While I’m here: @dc Did you post your thoughts on Agents of SHIELD? If you did, then I demand either a re-write, or a link, if you didn’t, then I demand your thoughts. Or you can ignore my demand, that’s cool as well. Who am I to tell you what to do?
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
I back up Transient Mind on Full Metal Alchemist and Hellsing, though I’d definitely recommend Brotherhood and the OVAs respectively. And while he recommended the GitS movie, I’d add Stand Alone Complex to that, as it is pretty damn rad (Tachikomas are the bestest things ever, though there’s way too much in the way of pseudo-mullets for my liking). And as much as I’d like to recommend Naruto, as a big fan, it along with Bleach and One Piece have been running for way too long and so there’s too much to catch up on for it to ever be a serious recommendation.
Oh, and if you want less actiony stuff, The Devil’s A Part Timer is a recent one that is really really fun (it’s hardly outstanding in any way, but it’s straight up enjoyable), and if you feel like being sad then either Angel Beats (probably my favourite Anime, and I think a decent number of people would recommend it (though it’s worth noting that NegZero really didn’t like it)), or Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day (I thought this one was pretty good, but not the greatest thing ever, in the recentish article about it a lot of commenters thought that it was fantastic, so hey, opinions and shizz).
Oh, and in terms of movies: Most Ghibli, of course, as well as The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki. Oh, and in action ones, there’s Vampire Hunter D and its sequel (I’ve actually only seen Bloodlust, though I’ve been meaning to rectify that for a while).
I generally only watch the most, uhhh, standard stuff? So there’s nothing all that weird in here.
Thanks for that, i think i have enough stuff to catch up on now to last me till… erhm… till i’m done with watching all of that? 😛
I have seen a few clips of Hellsing… okay so maybe it was TFS’ interpretation of Hellsing on youtube, but it certainly drew my attention to the real thing so i will definitely check that out
I missed this whole thing, but…
BACCANO!!
Upvote for Baccano as it is badass.
Haha, as I was catching up on TAY I did a search on the original post and no one mentioned Baccano! :'(
SO I DID!
@pixel_the_ferret_viking – BACCANO!
Word to the wise: if you’ve seen Hellsing: Abridged, that release schedule of one per year is about the same rate that you can expect the English dubs to come out.
If you don’t care for dubs, I think they are still one episode away from finishing the the subbed series. They release new episodes kinda haphazardly.
About Agents of SHIELD? I posted mainly to Jimu on twitter. I liked the pilot, though it didn’t feel very Whedony. Liked the smaller scale black ops feel to the team and think there’s a whole lot of potential here!
If not being very Whedonesque means that it’s less like Dollhouse, then I’m all for it! 😛
It actually reminded me more of Dollhouse than his other shows. Also his brother Jed and sister-in-law Marissa (Who were EP’s on Spartacus as well as Dollhouse) are co-creators here. Suspect they’ll be doing heavy lifting here while Joss is making movies. I liked Dollhouse, so don’t mind…
Definitely not for me, then. Not a Dollhouse fan. Anything that goes in that direction makes me go in the opposite direction.
A lot more ‘team’ based though. The ensemble all works together in a Firefly or Scooby Gang kind of way. Just general tone, I mean. You should check out the pilot atleast!
Maybe I will one day.
The best part of The Avengers to me was the S.H.I.E.L.D. down time stuff between fightin’ and that is all here, which is promising. Check it out on Seven next week! I insist or I’ll have to call your Whedon cred into question! 😛
@dc, me giving away eight copies of Serenity and a spare copy of Firefly over the weekend was a tacit admission that my Whedon cred is shrinking rapidly towards zero.
Fray is the reason I got into making comics, though…
[post edited down significantly because I’m becoming a media snob and don’t want to bring people down with my arrogant elitism]
:'(
Dollhouse got so good in the second season for what it’s worth! (Though I freakin’ love Buffy the Vampire Slayer to this day.)
@dc
No, I’d say Dollhouse was simply crap less of the time in Season 2. It still had way too much Echo. She was a black hole for characterisation and depth, and it would have been so much better if she just wasn’t there. Her sole redeeming feature was that she led to more Alpha.
For what it’s worth, I think a lot of its faults in Season 1 are due to the fact that they were too scared of not lasting more than 1 season, so they were trying to cram in enough stuff, but then they’d written themselves into a hole for Season 2.
Edit: This sounds harsher than I mean it to be. I did like Dollhouse, really, but Echo was just bad.
High five for Dollhouse!
Maybe should have put that in my secret shame shows thing. Except I’m not shameful or secretive about it 😛
The Epitaph eps in particular were pretty great!
Apart from the sads 🙁
I would love to see a resolution to what Epitaph was setting up.
But Dollhouse was his least Whedonesque show.
FWIW it’s not that I didn’t like Angel Beats, it’s well produced and everything. It’s more that it frustrated me with how little sense it makes.
The entire plot is predicated on the assumption that no one ever asks anyone to explain or justify their assertions and everyone just believes what they’re told.If you want that sort of show in terms of the feel and the style, then there’s just better options out there, like basically everything adapted from one of Key’s visual novels – I’d take Clannad or Little Busters or Kanon over it any day, since at least they’re internally consistent.
Yeah, so I unlocked Trevor.
…Fuck that guy. I want DLC/expansion at some point down the track where I can put a bullet in his skull.
I didn’t like him at first either, but then he sort of grew on me.
I can see how he’s meant to be semi-sympathetic (but mostly repulsive). Still…
SPOILERS:
I quite liked Johnny Klebitz, and that was about as emasculating an end as it gets. Trev fucks his girl, then threatens to rape him. Johnny can’t even look him in the fucking eye! Just tucks his tail between his legs. And at that low point of being completely and utterly metaphorically castrated, Trev kills Johnny – by accident, even more insultingly. Then goes and shows off a bit of brain on his boot to his brothers, before killing them too. Hell, why didn’t they just go the whole hog and go through with the rape and physically cut his balls off? How’d Rockstar reach that ‘too much’ reasoning, do you think? It’s OK to shit on a past protagonist, but only so much. Talk about a gratuitous ‘Worf Effect’ example. Or maybe ‘Make way for the new villains’. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheWorfEffect) For fuck’s sake, that was pitiful.So yeah, come the next DLC I’m looking forward to giving Trevor some http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome
Spoiler rot13’d for extra safety as it somewhat refers to the endgame:
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I’m going to stay relatively end-game spoiler free, so I’ll leave that untranslated for now and simply assume that your comment is informative and wise. 🙂
Well the non-spoilery part is that basically I liked Johnny and the Lost too and I didn’t like how they’re portrayed in GTAV, but 30 hours in I’d kind of forgotten all about it.
Trevor is probably the funniest character in the game! XD
people say he grows on you, I’m almost at the end of the game and i hate him. He has a lot of funny moments but as a human I despise him. And I’d just like to point out that i love me some violent games, the dude is just a prick
I mean how would you be if you’re constantly off it on speed.. Psychotic is the answer.
I watched Agents of SHIELD:
Got a very Scooby gang vibe from the team. You can tell that Joss Whedon was behind it (and if you didn’t know you’d have guessed it was an imitator because Whedon has been so successful at making TV shows. It was disappointing that the black guy with super strength didn’t end up being Luke Cage but I get a feeling that they’re on a very short leash with known characters.The hovercar at the end was exactly the sort of cheesy thing I was hoping for though. The show needs a level of goofiness. I don’t know why but it just does.Yeah, it’s a nice little bit of goofy fun. I said this in my first comment about it, but I’m super sad that they didn’t go for a Back to the Future reference as it took off. That would have made it that much more perfect.Was that black guy Gunn from Angel? I’m pretty sure it was but it’s been a while!THAAAAAAAAAT’s why he looked so familiar! THANK YOU, i couldn’t for life of me remember where i had seen him beforeI like how it feels fresh while at the same time feeling comfortingly familiar. I’m looking forward to seeing how it develops.
Yeah! All the elements were there for something special, it’s just a matter of reaching that potential! Really loved the standing sets too. Really cool look and feel to the show. Hope it distances itself from the movie more and more as it develops too.
Question, is it worth a sailing trip on the weekend or *shudder*, watching on commercial TV next Wednesday night?
I enjoyed it and obviously didn’t wait, so you can probably guess what I’d say :p
Just realised I haven’t done my daily shill.
In case people were wondering if State of Decay is worth it: yes, yes it is. Buy it!
EDIT: I should probably mention, I’m generally turned off a game when it’s an Early Access title, but in this instance I’m glad I got it. So much fun, especially cause it’s not just about zombie killing.
It really is a great game. Been playing it consistently each night since Sunday.
Same!
Oh, FYI so far those alcoholics haven’t done anything overly stupid, but I just moved house and seem to be having issues convincing people to keep the friggin’ lookout manned at all times.
@transientmind Sorry PC Master Race Leader but if there is a single WiiU left when I check my local Smick Dith, I’m abandoning you.
I’m sorry. It’s not you, it’s me.
PIKMIN 3! RAYMAN LEGENDS! ZOMBI U!
NSMBU!
Save that for the worst Wii U game list. 😛
you monster
*sobs*
Por qué no los dos?
Oh PC will always be there. It’s just Nintendo. I’ll just have to combine the two somehow.
PinCtendo.
I consider myself a PC gamer. I’d take a good PC version over other systems most of the time, but I still have all the consoles. I like games more than I like the PC as a platform. The fact I’d miss out on stuff like Uncharted, Heavy Rain and The Last of Us otherwise means consoles are a good thing! You can still have your PC street cred and consoles! 😀
Oh I know. I’m not petty enough to hate on consoles for the simple reason that they’re consoles and not PCs. I just thought I’d let Dear Leader know considering he nommed me as a good example of the Master Race. I wouldn’t want him thinking I’ve betrayed him or anything.
Haha! He’s played The Last of Us and GTA V back-to-back! He’s in no position to judge! 😛
Shu– just– you… god… dammit.
I think you mean most of your master race street cred
🙁
We’ve all been there, man. We’ll… we’ll get through this.
Mr. Strange either went in or rang around all the ones even remotely close to us and they were all sold out by around lunchtime. 🙁
I’m hoping Smick Dith Chermside has one because barely anyone goes there. If not, oh well. I can just wait for a special edition Zelda or Mario or DK WiiU.
Fun fact: When I bought the 3DSXL with DKCR, I got a free DK tie. \o/
Let me know if you have no luck with the Disney Infinity thing either.
On another note, best non-sale deal I’ve seen around is 399 for the Monster Hunter bundle at JB, but you’d probably want to grab NintendoLand on top of that (since it’s not in the bundle)
I now have a Jedi Path and a Book of Sith sitting at home.
I have no idea which one to read first…
The light side! THE LIGHT SIDE!
I feel that since @dc is saying Light Side I should say “Go the Dark Side”. So yeah, do that.
HAN SHOT FIRST
#relevant
Leaving Leia disappointed.
… so Book of the Sith it is?
The Book of Sith obviously. It has cookies, And women.
Things that are really starting to annoy me:
“Hey, look! We’re making a new game that is a sequel or return to a game you really like! By the way…”
– “It’ll be released in two years if our Kickstarter is successful”
– “It’ll be a free to play game for your goddamn phone”
– “It’ll never be localized”
🙁
I blame Apple.
I blame whoever is a convenient scapegoat at the time.
GOD DAMN IT MILEY CYRUS.
Thanks obama
Twerk it Baby
You can see her nipple in the wrecking ball music video*, so it’s hard for me to stay mad at her.
* According to reddit. I haven’t actually watched the video. Is it her or Taylor Swift that writes nothing but sad songs about breakups over and over again?
Taylor Swift. Or Adele. There’s just so many of them now.
Didn’t Adele quit?
I liked Adele and that song she did about setting fire to the rain.
For me they’re all adventure games and they’re all in English and all for PCs.
You gots an obscure JRPG preference! XD
Yes well the third option applies there, but 1 and 2 don’t. Each of those problems is a separate problem in its own right.
I don’t see the first one as a problem.
I’d much prefer a two year estimate than something silly like three months. Games take time to make.
It was more an issue that everything is being kickstarted.
That’s a different issue from “our project is going to take X time once we get funding.”
I openly don’t like Kickstarter. Too many people are throwing good money after bad on a funding method that doesn’t really make sense and many people putting in the money seem to think that they’re pre-ordering a product that might have to get scrapped.
It isn’t so much of a problem but sometimes it would be nice to get an announcement of that sort of thing knowing they had been working on it for a near and they were just telling us that it was coming.
Not it might be coming if you cough up before you have any idea if it is a bug riddled mess or using a name and nostalgia but making something totally different.
Kickstarter is a way for people to get money without applying for loans. Either because they don’t want to worry about paying back the loan or because they can’t get the loan.
Giving money to people in that position is not risk free and it’s why I don’t bother with that model at all.
I don’t have a problem with the funding model for kickstarter. I have backed numerous things, and while I do consider it a pre-order I understand that it isn’t without risks and know it is unlikely I’ll get everything I backed.
maybe it is because of my taste in games but it seems that so many of the game that look interesting to me are kickstarter funded rather than developer/publisher funded. So while I’m happy the games are going to get made (The ones that get funded anyway) it is nice when things like xcom come along. Firaxis had been working on it for a year before they announced it and then it was ready to go.
Kickstarter feels like it’s become the place that you go to do astroturf marketing and sell preorders, rather than the actual purpose the site supposedly had.
I’m at the point where so much stuff is being kickstarted that I’m refusing to back anything new (unless it’s something special) until I see a return from some of the other stuff I’ve backed. I think I’ve given money to ~20 projects now and seen an end product out of only one of them.
@negativezero
I haven’t quite backed that much about 10 projects but a couple of them were arty kinda things that i wasn’t interested in the rewards anyway.
Of those I’ve only got a portion of one of them but I’m feeling very similar. Had it come earlier I’m sure I would have backed satellite reign but with the number of projects I have I figured I would wait and get it when it actually launches.
Think I’ll still back the occasional project but the bar is much higher. Most recently was road redemption and that just ticked every road rash box so jumped at it
@tigerion
I’ve backed:
– Thunderbeam (Over 2 years, not yet finished)
– Double Fine Adventure (Ran out of money, didn’t develop like I expected it to, seen nothing out of it)
– Class of Heroes II (failed to make goal)
– The Banner Saga (Turned into some kind of shitty free to play thing 🙁 )
– Wasteland 2 (not done)
– Shadowrun Returns (actually released but I haven’t played)
– Echoes of Eternia (not done)
– Leisure Suit Larry Returns (I dunno, did this release? Never got around to grabbing my copy, hear it’s awful)
– Republique (Not done, I no longer have an iPhone to play it on 🙁 )
– ClassRealm (failed to make goal)
– Grim Dawn (In development and I think I can get into a beta or something but fuck that)
– Broken Sword – the Serpent’s Curse (I think this is close to being released?)
– Project Eternity (not done but looks like it’s progressing nicely)
– Torment: Tides of Numenara (not done, I think they’re still deep on Wasteland?)
– Pilot of Jeff Cannata’s new show (Done, released last week and got to see the teaser at PAX AU too)
– The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers (not due until 2014, the guy’s over in Japan right now interviewing people for the book)
– Massive Chalice (I hope they’re actually working on this)
– Sattelite Reign (nothing yet but it’s pretty early)
– Little Witch Academia 2 (They’re not planning to start this until next year since Trigger’s new TV anime Kill la Kill (starting next week!) is taking precedence, but that was expected and I have no worries they’ll deliver)
– Mysterious Cities of Gold – The Game (Close to or just finished funding)
Also really tempted to back Mighty No. 9 but I don’t want it on any of the platforms they’re developing for (I want it on Vita 🙁 ) and also I have never played a Mega Man game so don’t know if I’d even like it.
It’s weird, the two funded projects I have outside the games space I have no doubt will be delivered exactly when and as promised, but I fully expect all the games projects to take forever and come out crap.
TAYlist for the 26th of September 2013
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by not having to deal with @mentions and requests for a weekDiesel – Tip Of My Tounge
Arethra Franklin – I Say A Little Prayer
Spandau Ballet – True (I misspelt Ballet as Bullet the first time I wrote it down, laughs were had)
Cockraoches – She’s The One (I swear that’s not a Freudian Slip)
Green Day – Holiday
Bombs Away – Drunk Arcade
Beatles – Let It Be (This awas marked on the computer as Australian, wut?)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Learning To Fly
Vanessa Amorossi – Have A Look (I feel less manly for liking this song…)
Dire Straits – Sultans Of Swing
Traveling Wilburys – Handle With Care
Choirboys – Run To Paradise
Carly Simon – You’re So Vain
The Kinks – Lola
Milky – Just The Way You Are
3 Doors Down – Kryptonite
When I get my arse in lots of strife
Sheila Mary comes to me
Pearls of bloody wisdom
Let it be
New development on the above!
My friend just went to get the girl’s facebook up to show me who she was (she was the one I was thinking of, from the description), when she noticed that she apparently graduated from highschool in 2012. Which would put her at about 18 or so, approximately two years below my mathematically defined Creepy Age.
Oh noes.
Dating an 18 year old doesn’t make you a creeper, though to be fair, my views may be skewed by only being 19.
If my maths is right (a big if right there) that makes Gooky around 26
Which makes all the difference. For instance there is a decade between the decades we graduated high school. For me it would well and truly be creepy territory.
EDIT: Nevermind.
Isn’t the rule “your age ÷ 2 + 7′ or something?
That’s the one.
Relevant: http://xkcd.com/314/
Grow a moustache and lick it as if you were a chameleon licking it’s eye balls.
That’s how you creep, son.
http://youtu.be/tLPZmPaHme0
(Lonely Island – The Creep)
Anyone else just get an image of Dan with a porno moustache licking things? No? Just me? Ok.
http://i.imgur.com/HFBTjRQ.jpgCheck twitter.
You are my favourite person.
I think the rules at uni vary a fair bit on the rule for the Creepy Age. There are so many different age groups at uni so for the most part it doesn’t really matter.
Besides, it’s only mathematically defined. If you don’t personally feel creeped out, nothing really stopping you if you want to like her back/engage in conversation.
Hey, 18 is still an adult. Technically.
(Only problem I would have is that a lot of 18yr old girls are… difficult to talk to. They’re all about what they’re going to do, and not what they’ve done. All their stories are about high school. THAT can be difficult to handle, mentally. But if you’re not in it for talking to them, then hey! Play on!)
Well, the pub *is* pretty noisy…
Plus I find anyone difficult to talk to anyway 😛
Edit: People difficult to talk to? Then just don’t say much. Easy! Young girls’ll do most of the talking for you anyway, and as long as you’re sitting there with an aloof, self-confident air, smiling occasionally to encourage them along with their stories (just for the love of god don’t nod like a bobble-head – they crave your approval, don’t dole it out like a drinking bird toy), you’ll hardly have to do any work at all!
You wanna know the secret behind pubs being noisy?
1) You don’t wanna hear the fucking inane shit that people are saying around you.
2) You wanna have a conversation with a girl, you two gotta lean in real close to each other. Exchange some pheromones.
3) When you’re done getting all close for a while and they’re warming up, noisy is a perfect excuse to yell, “I can’t hear shit in here, let’s go someplace quieter to talk.”
(Like, I dunno. Your apartment – it’s comfier and you can still have a few more drinks in peace. On a nice, cosy couch. Get some water without paying five bucks a bottle for it, maybe put on some Rage or a movie while easing back on the alcohol a bit. Or coffee… WITH BREAKFAST. OK maybe don’t say that part.)
Heh… number 2 worked for me once before. Completely inadvertently, of course 😛 I was talking to this Finnish girl, and couldn’t hear what she was saying, so leant in close… then she turned her head and went for the attack. Took me completely by surprise 😛
Number 3… ha, don’t know about that. My house is a good hour’s travel from the city via public transport, and also houses the rest of my family. And my room is kind of a mess. Nope nope nope.
‘Completely and utterly oblivious’ is a very special kind of dating game…
c.c
(To be fair, it’s how I frequently used to operate until a friend was so frustrated by all my ‘missed opportunities’ that she went to a great deal of effort to challenge my perceptions of how women were interacting with me. Eye-opening! So many! But then, y’know, I eventually fell for her instead and the rest is history. That was probably her plan all along… though that’s a VERY long-term game-plan if it was.)
Been listening to the new Dream Theater album most of the day.
Wasn’t a huge fan at the start but it’s growing on me. Better than ‘A Dramatic Turn of Events’ that’s for sure.
Stuff people won’t care about because drummer:
It took a while to get used to Manginis style. It’s very different from Portnoy. While Portnoy was very “stick” heavy (used lots of patterns on hi-hats etc) Mangini is more, I guess you would say natural. First listen there were bits that felt like he was playing oddbeats because Dream Theater, but after a few listens they actually work well.There’s no doubting his skill. Some of the fills he does sound impossible for 1 man to pull off.If there’s one thing I do dislike, for the last two albums, there has been a stronger synth sound to everything. Even the vocals. And I wonder if this is to make up for the lack of Portnoys deeper vocals. Having said that, the guitar and bass patterns are classic Dream Theater. And if Rudess would use one of the millions of other possible synth sounds rather than the one he ALWAYS uses, that would be great.tl;dr – Best album since “Octavarium”. Would sit somewhere in the middle of the list.
I liked Dramatic Turn of Events. It wasn’t as good as their best stuff but it sounded a lot more like Dream Theater than Black Clouds and Silver Linings.
I’ll get around to listening to this one. I just need to bother loading up my phone with musics.
There was nothing wrong with it, just didn’t grab me as much as previous albums. The only reason I really compared it to that is because it was the first post-Portnoy album.
Aww yiss, just got a call from the manager at my local EB, interview Saturday morning 😀
Booyah!
Nice work mang! \o/
I know right?! ALL the over priced games!
Recent days EB had actually not been to bad, until I saw GTA V selling for $110. =/
Yeah, they still want 98 for The Last of Us which is a bit steep imo. Though saying that I did spend 75 bucks in that store today on a wired 360 controller for my PC and a bluetooth headset for my PS3.. They were both cheaper than JB by a few dollars heh.
Protip: now’s the time to stop bashing their prices. 😉
Naaaah 😛
awesome! best of luck sire!
Thanks dude! Would be great if I could land it.
I wish the Scar The Martyr album would hurry up and leak so I can make my mind up if they’re any good. The 2 singles released and the 2 unreleased in the EP, i’m just not sure. They’re good songs, but they’re all so samey sounding 🙁
Edit: saying that I still bought the album from JB online, just waiting it’s arrival is annoying.
They arrived!
\o/
HOORAY!
What am I looking at?
….
Kids these days.
Man, they look so familiar but I can’t put a name to them…
http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Cacodemon
http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Pain_elemental
Jesus fucking Christ.
I’ll just show myself out. Here are all my nerd credentials.
EDIT: Apparently you can’t downvote your own comment.
I’d do it for you but I’m going the other way because I love this exchange so much and especially the fact that you were actually being serious.
No noes, you are doomed!
Where’s my BFG 9000?!
cacodemon ftw!!! very cool!
GIMME
Does anyone know if the iPhone 5S is the same form factor as the iPhone 5? Just wondering since the 4 & 4S varied slightly.
It’s the same.
Awesome, thanks 😀
I did it. It took all my effort, but I looked at the Wii U on sale and said nope, I can’t really afford this right now. And walked away!
D: They had one there and you didn’t grab it? I absolutely live in the wrong state. We tried all day and never made it in time. 🙁
Sorry, I’m not entirely sure they had one apart from the display unit. No idea if they would’ve sold me that.
Kantai Collection for Vita? Kadokawa, you’re making it really hard to resist going through the pain of signing up for your terrible social game. If it didn’t involve a lottery to get in and a VPN to sign up I’d probably already be playing 🙁
EDIT: Since no one will have a clue what I’m talking about:
http://gematsu.com/2013/09/kan-colle-kai-announced-for-ps-vita
It’s a card-battling free to play game where all the cards are anthropomorphisms of the warships of the WW2-era Imperial Japanese Navy. The premise is so absolutely nutty that I can’t help being interested.
Jeez. And I thought that anthropomorphic girls-who-are-also-guns thing was nutty. (Upotte?)
Don’t forget the girls-who-are-sort-of-warplanes thing with Strike Witches as well. I am semi-ashamed to admit I liked that. And Upotte.
I have a vague recollection of one where the girls were soft drink cans but I think it was pretty awful.
EDIT: Japan’s ability to make anything super weird by turning it into or somehow shoehorning girls in is amazing. Warships? No problem. Tank combat? Got it covered. Shards of charcoal used to improve the flavour of rice? That’s a thing too.
It’s like some kind of bizarre corollary to Rule 34.
Very interested by that as well, just the right mix of history, strategy and WTFery to gt me interested.
Have you ever heard of this card game then:
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/72809/barbarossa
“Barbarossa is set in a fictional Second World War setting in which cute German military girls rush against Moscow to defeat the evil magician Stalin.”
EDIT: Just looked and apparently it’s getting localized. Company doing it has already done the initial translation, looking at early 2014 release, and will probably do a kickstarter for extra stuff like playmats and extra promo cards and stuff. I really shouldn’t want to own this…
Had a look and conceptually it is ok but seems a bit to much ummmmm upskirt panty flashing for me to be willing to pull out for a game night.
At least the battleships are somewhat modest from what I have seen
Fair enough, that was my impression too. I’m still tempted to grab it when it releases in English though.
Not sure how it would go playing these cards with Mrs Tigs
http://boardgamegeek.com/image/816437/barbarossa
or
http://boardgamegeek.com/image/816438/barbarossa
Although if the release a translated physical version of Kan Colle Kai I will get that. Shut up I can dream.
@mrtaco
Have you Rayman Legen’d yet?
If you liked Origins, you’d love it! So awesome :D!
Not yet, no. I’ve had a couple of chances where I could, but I’ve been kinda putting it off so I can play it on the big TV.
Loved Origins, 100%’d it and can’t wait to get into Legends. Liiiiiiiittle bit wary of jumping into it so soon after though, don’t want to burn myself out on it.
I played Origins on PC and I’m playing Legends on the Wii U (on the big TV) and it looks great 😀
So pretty!
…so I have a notification telling me @masha2932 has replied to the above comment at 5am. But I come here and all I can see is @greenius’ :/
Yeah sorry about that, I don’t know why but my comment went into moderation. I have notified Mark Serrels about it and hopefully it can be fixed soon.
I was just advising you to get Rayman Jungle Run if you have a smartphone, great Rayman experience on the phone/tablet.
Ah.
Wonder if it got put on Symbian, actually. But then, it’s Ubisoft. They probably didn’t. Seems to mainly be Gameloft sticking with Symbian releases, although I think it’s been a while since they’ve done any of those.
Buy a cheap Android tablet for it! It’s totally worth it 😀
I shall never submit to ze googles!
Zinger pies; so good, but my mouth is on fire.
A Zinger burger with supercharger sauce instead of mayo should help extinguish the flames.
Sons Of Anarchy can be a really distressing experience.
Just watched episode 11. Damn.
Also;
Pork belly with chilli-rubbed crackling for dinner CC: @freezespreston
Nice. I made slow-roasted beef ribs with potato salad. I made the best and tastiest spice-rub I’ve ever made and I can’t remember what I put in it though. I am the worst!
Greensauce is the answer to all problems. Unless it’s not, in which case it’s paprika.
I just ate dinner but for some reason I am hungry again
Dude you’ve seen nothing yet, the first episode of season 6 really got to me.. Ugh.
Edit: ugh that episode, yeah.. Enjoy the next two =D
Sons of Anarchy! Whatta show. I think I know to what you are referring, and OH MAN.
Just finished season one.
Final ep potential spoilers? Iunno
In the final scene, the names on the tombstones are repeating. “James R Prasker” and “Anthony Tarnish” appear multiple times, along with maybe one or two more. Significant, or just CGI laziness?Kurt explained this in a WTF Sutter aaaaaaaages ago. The tombestones are just poly styrene (all real) some of them have names on them and the rest the names are CGI’d in, he wanted them all to have names and not go the CGI route but he was not allowed for some reason, so yeah.
Not spoilers at all honestly. They’re just tombstones in a war veterans cemetery.
Tonight I begin the migration from Wii to Wii U. After I finish my report. So maybe not tonight then.
I was thinking of doing the same thing!
Coding is no fun, I have to use my brain and stuff. Why can’t games make themselves? I just wanna make prettiful graphics 🙁
I have the opposite opinion, coding is easy, prettiful graphics are hard.
*BOING*
Are you thinking what I’m thinking, B1?
This so much. Art is hard 🙁
I can draw like, stick figures, and if you want 3D art, then I can make the shit out of a uniformly coloured cube.
I can make some really simple icons and stuff maybe. Really really bad pixel art at a stretch.
Also, fuck Unity >:[
In regards to the GTA V classification, where most people are reporting that the box only states ‘Drug use,’ it should simply state ‘Strong impact themes’ when there are too many to list.
I’d like to see more creative labels. I think GTA V would earn a parental rating of:
* “Jesus Christ, why don’t you just leave your kid with Charlie Sheen?”
* “If you don’t shield your child from this, there’s no point in shielding them from anything else in this world.”
* “When your kid goes insane and guns down a pensioner for crack money, this is the game they’ll blame on the news.”
Haha, given that I have just unlocked Trevor, I totally agree with all of those ratings.
Beards!
All the manliness!
And this is why Strange is the first lady of TAY 🙂
Ugh… I ate too much. 🙁
TURNIP PRICES???!!!!
@RIZE REMINDER
I approve your use of caps and the number of ?s and !s !
YOU DIDN’T ANSWER MY QUESTION!!!
???!!!!
Animal Crossing was so last last last month.
UGH. TYPICALIUS.
127! Lucky break!
Whooops.
Fortunately (?) mine are only at 110.
Crisis averted: I did not end up buying a WiiU. Mostly because I didn’t want the Basic and white clashes with my black TV and black TV stand. Yeah I’m petty like that.
I stayed pure @transientmind. 😛
But the Basic was only $174!
I know but it’s so white. The colour scheme is all wrong for my set up. It clashes I tell you.
Upvote fore recognising that black is superior.
Racist!
That’s impressive stuff man. At that price, I might even have caved myself. 🙂
Because you are so weak at the moment 😛
Survivor!
@sughly @phoenix @powalen @strange @masha2932
Aww man, so much sadness at the start :'(.
I’m loving the whole “Blood vs. Water” concept and it really changes up the gameplay and how people vote. Next week looks interesting with Tyson swapping!
So much hatred for Colton. He can die in a fire for all I care…
Also, Hillbilly is an idiot lol…These are spoilers and not just hype, right? It only just started on TV.
Yeah, spoilers/thoughts but I intentionally didn’t say anything too specific because people always accidentally click on tags 😛
Read it after the ep. 🙂
Spoilers
aw man, that would’ve been amazing if they voted off John and then he had to go against his wife hahaHaha I thought that too.
It’s like he spent so long worrying about who would have to challenge her and then they’d be fighting against each other. Whenever it happens with the loved ones it’ll be interesting :O
But… Rupert :'(
I have to admit…
I’ve never seen a season with Rupert in it. Still sad to see him go, heard lots of talk about him being awesome.Seriously get rid of Colton. And the girls on the loved ones tribe need to start doing something, fast. Close challenge though.Also it’s going to be an amazing season re emotions, loved ones, etc. Cant wait for the merge 🙂You NEED to watch Heroes vs. Villains NOW. Probably the best season! Pearl Islands and All-Stars were good too but HvV has Russell!
Well, I said I was hoping for good weight loss news tonight, and I got it. I lost 2 kilos this week and have lost 5% of my body weight, a total of 8 kilos. It’s taken a long time to get there, and I still have a long way to go. Thank you all for your support and encouragement.
That’s fantastic work – congratulations! 🙂
You’re @ontargett!
\o/
http://p-ch.jp/
Atlus teasing something. November 24 reveal?
The logo down the bottom with the white box and the squggly black thing? That’s the Persona studio’s logo!
PERSONA 5!
OH GOD SO EXCITES
It’s right after the premiere of the P3 Movie as well 😀
So the link to this – which was posted on the official Persona twitter account btw – was just retweeted by Shuhei Yoshida. Tacit admission that it’s coming Sony’s direction? Let’s hope so. I’d be so upset if it was for 3DS.
FOR IOS
I HAD THAT THOUGHT TOO.
GET OUT OF MY HEAD AND STOP TAY-ING DURING SURVIVORTIME!
>:(
Purse Owner \o/
Holy moley, Coles’ new Lemon Meringue icecream is awesome. Mr. Strange is loving the Peanut Butter icecream, as well.
Lemon meringue! *whatever a drool emoticon looks like*
Peanut butter… *whatever a vomit emoticon looks like*
I like you. You has good taste and stuff. 🙂
Hear that, @dc?
No! >:|
I’m all fist shakey at coles atm. Discovered the best chips, but they’re exclusive to coles.. and I’m surrounded by woolworths 😐
Well now instead of feeling sorry for you,I’m just wondering what these best chips are!
hahah they’re salt and cracked pepper flavour crinkle cut chips.. not sure what the brand is off the top of my head though
Sounds tasty, I’ll have to keep a lookout. I wish people still did cheese and cracked pepper flavour, that was the best ever.
there’s some new thick cut kettle chips too. bbq rib flavour. so good.
RAYMAN LOVE <3
Re-downloaded Origins because I never played the Livid Dead Levels and thankfully my save is still intact 😀
I’m playing Jungle Run again too!
WOOO
Mario Schmario.
Is that the next mario? Jeez, they haven’t even released Mario Cats yet!
I dun get all the mario hate from rayman fans.. I took at look at the origins trailer the other night, and looks totally cool, but it’s not a mario game. Sure it’s a platformer, and similar in ways, but why don’t people love both? I reckon mario bros u is an awesome game! of course, I’m only comparing it to other mario games, but.. isn’t that all it should be? why do people compare mario and rayman all the time?
I don’t think it’s really hate. For many people the Mario 2D platforming games have become a bit boring and similar lately -New Super Mario Bros U and New Super Mario bros 2 didn’t do much compared to say Mario Galaxy or 3D Land. Rayman on the other hand has markedly improved from its Good but not great 2D PS1 game to average 3D ps2 versions to a great reboot(reinvention) with Rayman Origins and Rayman Legends.
Even on Nintendo’s own platforms (Wii U) Rayman legends for examples is doing some creative stuff with the touchpad( Murphy levels ) compared to just placing platforms on Mario Bros U. Another example, Rayman Legends has introduced fantastic music levels and mini games like Kung foot compared to to the coins mechanic in Mario bros 2.
I think it can come of as hate, and as someone who loves the Mario games I can see how you’d come to that conclusion, but to me the tone seems to be one of disappointment -as the king of the genre Mario can be better and more exciting.
Mario to Rayman is a completely fair comparison as they’re both 2D platformers that play similarly. Nothing weird about it. Rayman has also been one of the biggest and best 2D platformers in recent times, so why not compare it to the most prominent series?
It’s pretty much what @masha2932 said. Rayman Origins came out of nowhere for me and did something new and fresh. Mario has been Mario for so long and it’s getting stale.
I grew up with 3D Mario games (64, Sunshine) and I love them, and unlike 2D Mario games, they’re actually doing something different with each one. I’ve rarely played 2D Mario games so I figured I wouldn’t get “Mario fatigue”, and yet I had it with Super Mario Bros U. Everything just felt so dated. It’s still Mario but that’s the problem.
I actually played Mario U before Origins or Legends. But as soon as I tried out the Legends demo it was clear which one I was having more fun with.
Give Origins/Legends a go.
i’m not saying anything against rayman. i would love to play it.. i just don’t get why people bag on mario u for being samey. i mean.. it’s mario.. it’s not meant to be mind blowingly new.. it’s a throwback to the days of old with a little boost of new goodies. It was never pimped as being the next big thing, just an improvement on the old format, and I don’t think they could have done a better job.
I reckon you should try it out so you can see why we all love it so much :)!
Again, that’s what I think the “problem” is and why most people hate, or don’t like recent 2D Marios (NSMB2 and NSMBU) as much. I’m not hating on Mario, or Nintendo as like any other developer they’re releasing similar games – because why fix what isn’t broken? My favourite game series of all time is The Legend of Zelda and I love other staple Nintendo franchises (Mario, Pokemon etc.). I’ll happily play and buy their sequels even though they’re pretty similar – but for one main reason. There’s nothing really as good out there.
In recent times what else is as good as 2D Mario? Rayman. It’s just knowing that there’s something just as good, if not better out there that makes going back to Mario being Mario, much harder.
Ultimately it’s just what I enjoyed more and had more fun playing, and Rayman has been more enjoyable.
I just came agonizingly close to ordering copies of Eclipse, Lords of Waterdeep, The Resistance and (if it had been in stock) Hanabi. Twice. Barely held off.
Cheaper by ~15-20% to buy from Amazon US than to buy from local retailers 🙁
You probably would have been disappointed because I don’t think that Amazon US ship eclipse to Australia
They didn’t give me the usual ‘can’t ship it to you’ error. Trouble is it’s expensive to ship, even with their price it’s > 50% of the game’s price for shipping. But adding more games doesn’t make the shipping costs that much more so obviously there’s a $25 or so starting point then price per 100g or so.
I thought when I tried to check shipping prices after PAX it wouldn’t ship. We found that amazon bulk purchases were the best value when we started getting games. As long as amazon is the merchant we found getting around 4 or so games was good value. Things got rather expensive when you had multiple merchants as they each ship individually
Found OGS pretty much the same value due to the free shipping but the range is limited compared to amazon.
Just finished Indie Game: The Movie.
Really, really interesting look at a bunch of people, just doing what they do. Rather odd seeing that they’re all so… broken, or weak, yet steadfast and determined. Perhaps they’re just a little more honest with themselves and others than some I know.
Great film. Makes me want to create something.
99% of people I know who’ve worked in game dev (including me) are broken and weak, but steadfast and determined. It’s just the way of the industry. They work like slaves, often get paid fuck all to do so, but they go back everyday simply cos they love it!
Oh Jesus Christ. I just completely lost it playing GTAV. Middle of a mission where they’re talking serious business and Trevor drives off and honks his horn. I completely forgot I changed his car’s horn to a clown horn…
Guys. Halp.
It’s Friday! D:
One day til big Sportsball goodum finale match!
18 hours til ambush!
Oh, god.
What is with the fething load times in Train Simulator 2014?
DLC to improve passenger embarkment time!
Maybe Metro could learn a thing or two from this…
Cheapest place to buy GTA V? I’m… er… Asking for a friend…
Ozgameshop is flogging the 360 version for $65 if you can wait for delivery
Had my first foray into Dark Souls night and i gotta say i am thoroughly impressed!
Only just killed the Asylum Demon and escaped the undead asylum… then got to this ruined town (which name escapes me) got to the tower with the Taurus demon, but decided to venture down below (because i have the master key) and met some moron that keeps insta-killing me 😛Having that said i really enjoy how they made the game feel… the character actually feels like he has weight behind him which is awesome… and doesn’t look too bad on PC either… i have downloaded but yet to install a HD mod though as there are some blurry textures, and i did install the DSFix as well because people recommended that…
overall, very solid, but very demoralising game 😛
Oh, that’d be Havel. You’re venturing into speedrunner territory, best not to go that way.
ah… that makes sense XD… my stubborness was getting the better of me…
“Well maybe if i try th- oh, *YOU DIED*
AHA, he won’t get me if- oh, *YOU DIED*
how about- oh, *YOU DIED*
But- oh…. *YOU DIED*
*YOU DIED*
*YOU DIED**YOU DIED**YOU DIED**YOU DIED*
*YOU DIED*”
The thing with the MK, it’s a sequence breaker of sorts. If you use it to open something, expect roughly what you’ve found so far. Mind you, you can also find that in places without it.
DARK SOULS 😀 \o/
15 days to go, 3rd and final shiny today.
… I mean Venusaur.
I’m starting to get really, really excited.
Upvote for Egoraptor cartoon.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2013/09/26/quantic-dream-39-s-tech-demos-and-mysterious-ps4-project.aspx
Another David Cage interview! This one about their tech demos and PS4 projects!
I think you should marry David Cage.
And I think you should marry Jurassic Park or one of the dinosaur inhabitants! 😛
I would if I could
Life… finds a way…
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2013/09/26/killzone-shadow-fall-ps4-bundles-unveiled/
Sony Europe announced a Killzone PS4 bundle. If something like that was announced over here, I assume it would be easy for someone who’s already pre-ordered PS4 and Killzone to change their order to such a bundle? It’s a big assumption though that we’d get any sort of bundle, but I can dream
Given that all the release day pre order stock is pretty much sold, I’d expect bundles to come in later shipments. But hey, you might be in for a pleasant surprise.
Humble Weekly Sale
Definitely going to pick this one up when I get home from work. $6 is worth it just to see what all the Tropico fuss is about and I already wanted Sine Mora as well.
Sine Mora is pretty sweet.
My wife checked out the demo on Xbox 360 but we never pulled the trigger on buying it.
Seems like an odd control setup if the triggers make you purchase the game.
We’re from Rand McNally.
Tropico is awesome! I spent a fair bit of time playing 3, and have picked up 4 but haven’t started playing it yet.
Who else but Cakesmith?
…wait
Tropico 4 is awesome, spent a lot of time in that one. Recently got the modern times campaign as well but haven’t tried that out yet.
Skydrift is great!
Sine Mora is awesome too!
Morning all, does anyone know if it is possible to download Wind Waker HD at present?
Only available in US eshop, so unless you have a US WiiU then unfortunately, no.
Yo @strange. I see you’re looking for a Wii U. I happen to have one I no longer want. Just FYI.
@bdkiaf hats Nintendo products it seems.
@bdkiaf assumed that there would be something worthwhile on the Wii U. @bdkiaf was wrong.
Somewhere in your garden, a group of Pikmin are crying. :'(
You know it’s dire when @bdkiaf utilises third person.
BUT NSMBU AND SM3DW AND OMG YOU JUST HATE NINTENDO YOU AAA FANBOY GO BACK TO YOUR GTA WHICH HAS NEVER CHANGED ANYTHING EVER.
Hey. My Wii U gets plenty of use with Di… Wait that’s a Wii game.
Oh. Wii S.. wait. Wii game again.
How about M… No. No. Wii game.
Ummmmmm……,
Don’t pick on Nintendo. Only people who hate fun do that.
I sold mine too.
Ooh…interesting. Let’s talk price!
BIDDING WAR
Five hundred dollary doos!
Looks like DC wins. I don’t even know what a dollary doo is, let alone owning any.
A Dollary-doo is equivalent to 88 Brass Razoos.
A buck!
EB offered me $140 for trade in. You can have it for that plus whatever postage is, if you want?
Okay, I’ll talk to Mr. Strange and get his thoughts!
Sold!
Send me an email at strangeandalone at the mails of g, with further instructions. 🙂
Wow, so damn kind.
Dayumn dude! :’)
Also, I’m just going to straight up say it because I’m greedy :P. Are you selling your games to @strange? I’ve been wanting to pick up a cheap copy of ZombiU (if you have it) for a while so maybe we can work something out if Strange doesn’t want it? 🙂
There’s also other games I’m interested in but I don’t think you have them anyway 😛
Thanks in advanceeee
I dun have it, sorry man.
I have MH, NBA and Nintendoland. I think that’s all. So yeah, probably nothing you’re interested in.
No problem. But with only those games, no wonder you didn’t enjoy your Wii U as much!
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/09/21-muppets-find-a-much-deserved-home-at-the-smithsonian/
So damn awesome!
I discovered a new kind of zombie in State of Decay last night. Let’s just say that testing an unknown enemy’s abilities by ramming it with a car was a mistake.
“Unknown Enemy”
Is that what you call students at the school you’re at?
I got a truck stuck on a wooden fence! \o/
I just, for the first time in my life, got to try that fabled snack, the “twinkie”.
I immediately regret my decision.
So it’s the KFC of whatever-twinkies-are-categorised-as?
They’re similar to Oreos in that they promise some crazy awesome eating experience and they’re really just sub-par food, especially compared to alternatives.
Ugh, Oreos are the worst. But at least I expected them to be as terrible as they are. This twinkie thing was… I don’t even know what it was. The world would have been a better place if they never got resurrected.
Best way to have oreos is to throw them into a blender with milk, blend, and enjoy.
Throw them in the bin and have something else 😛
But Vita-Weats and milk don’t go well together. 🙁
They do when you spoon a tonne of sugar on top of them!
D:
Wait. No. I’m thinking of vitabrits. Which I think I actually kind of preferred to weet bix.
I agree. I was expecting a soft sponge with loads of creamy filling. Instead I get a block of sugar in the disguise of cake and some of that fake cream that seemed like it’d gone south of the expiration date. Plus too dry.
Americans it seem love to rave about their sweets but when you try them they’re nothing special at all or covered in peanut butter.
Or cinnamon. Had a mate go live in Boston for a couple months for a training course and he reckoned they’d add either sugar or cinnamon or both to EVERYTHING. A couple bucks would get you more food than was reasonable to eat. Well. It was probably a reasonable amount of actual food for the price, but padded out with completely inedible layers of fat.
That’s the one thing I like about America. They have cinnamon everything.
Cinnamon is the best.
I see your Cinnamon and raise you MARZIPAN!
Well I never!
Cinnamon Challenge at five paces. At sundown.
I accept your challange good sir… now excuse me while i go practice!
Yeah I was kind of disappointed when I realised that OREOs did not taste any better compared to those 50c cream biscuits you find in asian food stores and dollar shops.
Monte carlos for the win.
Truly a man of taste and sophistication
Monte Carlos are OK but I like KIngstons better.
My favourite Arnott biscuits overall are Gaietys though. Mmm, those things are so light and tasty it’s easy to eat a whole pack and I sometimes do.
Too many of Arnotts biscuits aren’t as good as they used to be. Gingernuts and Saos are too moist and soft. Iced Vovos aren’t as puffed and fluffy. Scotch Fingers are beaten on taste by home brand ones. Something even seems a little off about the Milk Arrowroots.
Gingernuts too soft? I get them for work as they are the only ones hard enough that I need to have with tea. Which is important because otherwise I go through an entire pack in a day or two
Maybe they’ve fixed them. Last few times I had them, they were disappointing. Generics were better.
Gingernuts vary state to state. I can’t stand the ones we get here in Canberra, but love the ones from Queensland.
You craaaaaazy.
They’re great. You’ve just gotta curb your expectations that it’s going to be quality.
Have I pimped the hot dog stuffed crust pizza to you?
you sir should be a salesman for pizza hut.
Through your elaborate presentation of Hot Dog stuffed crust Pizza i shall now go purchase one.
Thanks you
Enjoy it.
It’s Dan & @strange endorsed.
I’ve tried it. Wasn’t as bad as I was expecting. I still consider it a crime against pizza though, and can’t believe it didn’t come from Dominos.
Snack related mishap!
They’ll grow back, right?
you so get it! \o
Good morning.
All i want to do is crawl into bed and go to sleep.
I’ll join y-
Wait. Waaaaaaaaaaait.
And now we know why you keep ending up in these predicaments.
And knowing is half the battle!
*Thumbs up, teeth gleam*
Uhh, Pixel, I think you’ve got something in your teeth.
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgvh74oFKA1qcgb8s.gif
Orly? Where?
The cleaner in my office hates Tifa. She sits on one of my speakers with Red XIII, and the morning after they clean – every time – Tifa is in about 3 pieces on the desk behind the speaker. Red XIII remains happily on the speaker, unmoved.
My cleaner hates Michelangelo. Every time they clean he gets knocked off his steed (and I’m usually too lazy to fix it. Also it’s funny):
http://i.imgur.com/firtYGY.jpg
The T-Rex looks less than pleased with cowabunga hanging from his tail.
But Michelangelo just looks so damn happy!
I really want my own fixed desk at work so I can start doing things like this. :u
Get one of these babies
Hot damn, I’ll be the envy of everyone in the office!
ahahaha, that’s awesome i totally want one.
Envy issues. Tifa is fiiiiiiine.
Tifa is ace.
The cleaners here like to molest Soundwave periodically, bump my VF-1A all the time and mis-align the missile pods, and if I leave any mint-flavoured gum on my desk they will steal pieces.
I am a terrible person.
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/09/the-original-game-boy-is-travelers-best-friend-once-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1946394
No, you’re not. 😀
I think we established that @novacascade was the most terrible of us all last weekend. I do have that at least.
Sssshhhhh, its supposed to be a secret 😛
Damned is a multiplayer horror game.
Kind of want to play it.
http://store.steampowered.com/news/11534/
I prefer crying myself to sleep because of sad not because of fear. =P
I’m sorry =(
uuuhhh that actually looks interesting…
But i would feel kinda self concious cause everyone would know what a wuss i am XD
me and a mate used to tease eachother heaps cause of all the screaming me and him did playing dead island, good times, manly men we be!
It’s awesome when you both get intimidated that same level, you can laugh/scream/laugh and then scream again…
The annoying part is if you’re the timid one and the other person doesn’t even flinch…
then they make fun of you and make you feel like an idiot
you should play stuff with me, I’m often called a lunatic cause of my eratic behaviour, I’m either laughing maniacaly, screaming in fear or giggling about something really silly that I’m up to. I think i play with good people mostly cause we always laugh our asses off during most of our multiplayer games.
sounds awesome… i might join these shenanigans one day… It’s very limited the multi i play lately XD
GMod and Slender!
Speaking of, need to see if people are keen for that this weekend.
YES, I WAS CONSIDERING SUGGESTING THAT MYSELF, BUT THEN I REMEMBERED THAT I’M LAZY!
damn… i might have to actually invest in GMOD at some point…
You’re such an enabler
Do it today, it’s base price is $10!
… i wish 😛 but as stated earlier, my gaming budget got blown on Wind Waker… next month however
*Shakes Fist*
multiplayer horror isn’t a thing.
a game can be multiplayer, or it can be horror.
shit aint scary when you’ve got company. especially if your co-op partner is tea-bagging a eldrich abomination.
Yeah, I know, but I don’t mind because it’s fun. I need more multiplayer games.
I should expand. There can be horror multiplayer games in that their subject is based in horror (zombies, blood stuffs, you know) but is multiplayer. I consider the stuff that is actually scary to be survival horror.
And even still, i would find a way to get scared 😛
It’s less scary when there are friends =D
Kind of want to buy it but shouldn’t. =/
but but but one of the friends IS the monster! 😛
I got many fond memories of being a teenager lanning AvP2, and setting up custom matches where there would be 4 marines and 1 alien… that sheez was scary as hell XD
You should try Gmod Slender. If everyone buys into the game’s premise, it’s really, really fun, and pretty damned scary.
I think a game could do multiplayer horror pretty well over the internet if people could put up with some of the tricks it’d use to do it, and not cheat their way around them.
Like silencing players – either if they’re dead/abducted or simply putting them out of contact for a while. You could get around it with TeamSpeak or Ventrilo, but suddenly losing someone and not knowing where they are or if you can get them back or what got them?
Yeah. Multiplayer horror, son.
I used to get that intense vibe from playing Hostile Intent – it was a mod like Counter-Strike, only with hyper-lethal weapons and no UI. None. When someone died, there was no message on the screen, just a burst of gunfire and everyone using their radio mics to report in. If someone didn’t report in, you’d have to assume they were down.
(Although sometimes for some reason people just wouldn’t report in. Maybe they didn’t know where the button was? Which could make things very awkward if you were covering a door and could hear footsteps behind it but couldn’t tell who was on the other side and didn’t want to wait for them to open it before drilling them with bullets. “Whoever’s in the garage, report in. Report in. No seriously, if you’re getting close to the door, report in I’m about to fill you with lead TOO LATE.” *BLAMBLAMBLAMBLAM*
Catch your dream and shackle it to your heart,
Catch your dream, don’t let it spread its wings and fly away,
Catch you dream, don’t ever let the quitting start,
You gotta catch your dream and shackle it to your heart…
New Parks and Rec today! WOOOO!
Also new Parenthood and Grey’s Anatomy, but I’m sure normal people don’t care about this. XD
Grey’s Anatomy?
Isn’t that just Scrubs, but not funny?
Yes! 😀
Also the first few seasons had a great balance of medical cases and character stories. Now it’s just a soap opera, but I’ve watched for nine seasons so why stop now? 😛
I’m sure people who watched Bold and the Beautiful back in the… 70’s? 60’s? 50’s? 1667? WHATEVER, are saying the same thing XD
Whenever I see the name I just assume that everyone can’t spell, and they’re really talking about Gray’s Anatomy. I haven’t quite worked out why there’s such a following for it yet.
It’s word play, Blaghs. Word play! 😛
What? Word play isn’t addressed in Gray’s Anatomy at all. It’s a book about anatomy, D.C., word play has no place here. If you want to discuss the medial collateral ligament, then it’s the perfect source, otherwise I cannot understand its relevance.
No, that was Scrubs season 9.
There was no season nine. Why would you lie? You and your lies!
*continues to repress those memories*
I’ve been seeing ads for new Modern Family, too!
Also, I wonder when Shameless (US) comes back. I miss it! (EDIT; not until January D:)
Blergh, I hate Modern Family so much. It’s a multicam sitcom in writing disguising itself as a single camera comedy. 😛
Plus it has like, three buildings.
I just watched the Michael J Fox show!
I laughed at all the Parkinsons jokes.
Not sure if good writing or I am a horrible person.
Michael J. Fox is awesome! Still not sure if I want to watch this show though! XD
I think i’ve been struck with the Dark Souls fever…
When i played it last night i was like “Yeah this is quite alright, but i don’t understand what everyone is raving about”
Now I CAN’T BLOODY STOP THINKING ABOUT IT…
“OH i could do this to kill this guy, oh and try this, and go here and do this and-“
Oh no, it’s got Pixel too. :'(
i’m… i’m sorry D.C…. at least we’ll always have
*dramatic music*
Grim Fandango
That we do my foreign friend, that we do!
Ahhh, that moment when the game just clicks. So awesome! \o/
Yeah, I was in that stage for AGES with it, and then one day in Anor Londo I was like “Oh shit, I now enjoy the moment to moment gameplay as well as the constantly-thinking-about-it-all-the-time.”
Still haven’t finished it though, because balls to the DLC stuff.
I think Dark Souls is going to be one of those games that i will love the crap out of but probably never complete… and if i do complete it it’ll be in a few years time because i will just keep chipping away at it a little at a time….
But it really is a solid game
I plan to finish it before Dark Souls 2 is released. Thank christ I have many many months until then.
Jebus i might have to do the same thing :\
OH CRAP now i’m going to buy into the Dark Souls 2 hype….
*Chugga chugga chugga CHOO SHOE*
*Chugga chugga chugga CHOO SHOE*
I just cannot get into that game.
I have tried many times, even forcing myself to stick with it in hopes that I will finally get in the groove… but nuh.
Just can’t seem to enjoy it and it is a shame because I can easily see why others both enjoy and become obssessed with it, but for some strange (Hi @strange) reason it just isn’t a game for me.
Lack of being able to yell?
Yelling would make this game A LOT better… 😛
Everything is better with a bit of FUS RO DAH!
I have the same issue, but it’s more that I suffer from motion sickness
I really enjoyed it at the start but just started losing interest the more I played.
THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID!
*badum tish*
Excellent.
YOU MONSTER…
so… thanks 😀
One of us, one of us!
A fever you say. Sounds like you are sick, best you not come into work today. I guess you better stay home, hopefully you can find something to occupy yourself.
… That sounds excellent, I will just go tell my boss i have the doctor’s approval… You’re a doctor right? RIGHT? 😛
Well, I’m sure there is a reason I call myself Dr Tigs
“Not only is he a REAL DOCTOR, he’s a dashing special agent with a P.H.D. in KICKING YOUR ASS!”
HE IS…. Dr. TIGS
I officially declare this week to be butts.
Butts.
So butts I might cave and get one of those Pokemon 3DSXLs.
Or a VITA and Persona 4 Golden right? =D
…
right? D=
Said no one ever, AMIRITE? 😛
*ducks and runs*
Why not both?
*cheering*
A Vita will always be there for me to buy. These Pokemon things are LIMITED! That words sends panic into my consumer brain!
But, Persona 4 Golden! D=
*Checks save file*
Yep, still at 15mins.
You are the worst! HAVE YOU EVEN PLAYED RAYMAN LEGENDS YET!?
And because I hat fun, last night I started playing Final Fantasy XIII again.
Wow! You must hat fun even more then @dc hats fun and buildings combined.
eBay keeps me in check whenever my brain thinks that way.
But they’re going to replace the awesome first-gen OLED Vita with a poorer-made LCD Vita soon!
I like Butts…
BIG BUTTS AND I CANNOT LIEI’m talking bad butts!
Women…
someone needs to organise a meat in case @neinhandle / @jamesmacusedmyhandle is in town.
I would do it but I don’t get back til that mornin
What date’s that?
Wait, what? When is this happening? There must be a Meat. I decree it!
@jimu: You flying out tomorrow? Hope you have a damn good trip!
It has also come to my attention I don’t actually possess a Raichu in any of my Pokemon games. Easiest way to obtain a Pikachu in B/B2/W/W2?
Apparently it’s trade only.
Wait 15 days and you’ll be able to catch one!
I don’t like you anymore. I told my Genesect about you.
WAITING IS FOR CHUMPS POW
The only pokemon I want to transfer to my next game is my Growlithe, because Growlithe is the best! =D
I’ll be transferring my three Level 100 Butterfrees 😀
My Zekrom is my favorite.
Pfft.
http://danmurphys.com.au/media/DM/Product/750×2000/87466_0_9999_v1_m56577569835766685.jpg
This must be one of those ‘Mega Evolutions’ I’ve been hearing so much about.
oh good, i wasn’t the only thinking that each time i bloody see that beer XD
and THAAAAAAT’S why i feel like a pokemon master after 10 of these \o/
Just beat the Elite 4 sequence last night, so I’ll be investigating bringing gen 4 pokeys forward very soon. From soul silver.
Do you only have Gen 5 carts?
I have a bunch of Pichus sitting around somewhere – I think they’re the shiny ones from a Gen 4 promo.
I have Heartgold And Soulsilver. Still vague on transferring to newer ones from there though. I’ve finished the main story on HG and um to about the 3rd or 4th gym in Kanto. Haven’t touched it in a while though.
EDIT: I also have Sapphire/Emerald and maybe Leaf Green sitting around somewhere. Also have a DS Lite so I can do GBA -> DS transfers. I was led to believe you need to get to a particular area in one of the games to GBA to DS though. It’s all very confusing.
You can do Gen 4 > Gen 5 after the E4 and you have gained access to the Poke Transfer Lab next to White Forest/Black City.
This requires two of DS/DSi/DS Lite/DSiXL/3DS/3DSXL.
You can do Gen 3 > Gen 4 using (iirc) Pal Park that opens post E4.
This can be done using a single DS/DS Lite with two different carts plugged in.
So if you’ve got something on R/S/E/FR/LG you do need to get it to D/P/Pt/HG/SS first before you can send it to B/W.
So if I’m on Kanto in HG, I should be able to transfer to my 5th gen carts then? Or do I (christ, I hope not) have to do Kanto first?
I think the only restrictions on the source cart are:
1. Pokemon don’t have hold items or know HM moves.
2. You can’t send your last Pokemon.
So to transfer from Gen 4 you should be good to go.
I never transferred from Gen 3 to HG/SS, so I looked that up. The Pal Park is in Fuchsia City and you can use it as soon as you reach it, so you should be good to go there as well.
Hrm, I might have to give it a go! There’s a bunch of ‘mon I’d like to shift from HG to my 5th gen games. Thanks for the info, Poke-man. Appreciated as always.
@tofu
I should give you back Metro. I find that I can’t play while sick because the difficulty spikes aggravate me.
Or you could hold on to it until you aren’t sick and then continue with it
Nah, keep it till you’re better if you like the games
Well that’s interesting two CD’s shipped the same day from the JB warehouse in Victoria one of them arrived today, uh fair enough..
Good work Australia post.. Just hope the other one turns up since it’s signed and has other cool stuff with it.
Something on Kotaku is constantly crashing Chrome’s Flash plugin 🙁 Happens all the time for me.
Are you blocking ads? I am, and don’t seem to be having issues.
Yes.
…I wonder if anyone out there has actually named their kid Bort.
Uh… My name’s Bort. As is my grandfather’s.
What’s wrong with it?
Effluvium Bort?
“Jewish: nickname for a man with a remarkable beard, from Yiddish bord combined with German Bart, both meaning ‘beard’.”
I sure hope so.
… i wish my name was Bort now
BRB, changing my name to Bort Thunderbeard.
So really you’d be Beard Thunderbeard.
How are you doing Beard?
The lady at Disneyland bought it as my name when I got it stitched on my Mickey Ears.
Bort it!
YES!
Does anyone know of a Dick smith with Wii Us left? Preferably Brisbane North Side. I’ve convinced my mate to get one and he’ll pick me one up while he’s there so I wanna find some. I have to wait until i get a break to try ring around.
When checked yesterday at about 5pm, Dick Smith Chermside still had a Basic WiiU display unit. I don’t know if that equals an actual in-store unit but it might be worth trying.
only northside store with any is Bribie Island, I’m trying to Bribe my mate to go there.
Edit: They reckon Mackay store has 12 in stock if anyone happensd to be up that way.
So, in regards to the Futurama ending,
Does this mean that the Fry and Leela from Universe 1 broke up?I don’t know how I feel about seeing Jerry Dantana in The Crazy Ones.
Robin Williams sure is Robin WIlliams though.
What’s SMG like in a sitcom?
sub machine gun?
also those happen to be my initials, Before Gutsoup i used to be Smegmata cause it fit with my initials and is hilarious.
#buttinginwhereimnotneededasusual
Why don’t you smegging well smeg off, you annoying little smeggy smegging smegger?
heh, smeg.O_O
*smegs off*
Sarah Michelle Gellar! Geeeeeeez! 😛
Buffy was a sitcom wasn’t it? 😛
*runs away*
Your face is a sitcom! >:|
… :'( people do laugh a lot
😛Me too, man. Me too. :'(
@dc
YOU LAUGH AT ME TOO?
*bursts into tears*
😛Nah, he meant Super Mario Galaxy.
So your name really is Sephiroth? 😛
Also, your hashtag was stoopid, you doofus. This is TAY. Everyone butts in. That’s kind of the whole point of things. You’re one of us!
D:
She called you a doofus! She must hate you! :'(
…doofus.
😛
Suits.
I think her role is to play support as the straight man as the foil to Robin WIlliams’ character, and to reign him in. And does a pretty okay job of it. The dynamic and chemistry between her and Robin Williams is hard to tell after one episode though.
That said, Buffy has some decent laughs in it, so if they give her more comedic moments, she’d probably do fine.
You’ve convinced me! I’ll watch the pilot! Didn’t like Michael J. Fox’s sitcom though. I really wanted to, but found it way too formulaic. Hopefully he’ll still guest star on The Good Wife from time-to-time.
Yeah, second episode ended up with a moral of the story thing, and I was just all nah I’m okay thanks.
Still, I like the idea that they’re trying to make us comfortable with laughing at Parkinsons. With Michael J Fox’s blessing.
And now that I think about it, I would have really liked to have seen Michael J Fox play a smart-arse again. But maybe that’s just Family Ties kicking in. Few glimpses of it in the first episode though.
I’d imagine terrible, just like she is in everything else.
She was good in Buffy! And Cruel Intentions! And I Know What You Did Last Summer!
No, no she wasn’t. BtVS was good in spite of her. She was always terrible. She’s urky. Every time I see her I just kind of think “urk”.
I don’t like SMG the person, but SMG the actress is amazing! You’re wrong Strange and you’ve made the list! *consults list* Oh, you’re already on it… carry on. XD
She’s a terrible actress! Every part she plays is the same. She doesn’t act, she just memorises lines.
But… what about The Gift? The Body? Becoming? Passion? Innocence? The Prom? And all those other Buffy eps where she was amazing! :'(
@dc She wasn’t amazing. The scripts were. She was terrible. As usual.
Also, after reading all your posts, I feel like I didn’t enjoy Agents of SHIELD very much.
For a pilot of a show that involves science fiction and potential super heroes, it wasn’t particularly exciting.
And I feel like the mysteries they dropped at the start aren’t very compelling.
I understand that it’s an episode about getting the gang together, so maybe later episodes will ramp up. My hope is that it’ll ramp up like Fringe.
And you know, while I’m at it, I also watched The Blacklist.
But whenever I see James Spader I think of Stargate and then get him confused with Michael Shanks and then I wonder how Michael Shanks aged so horribly because in my mind they’re the same person.
But anyway, okay show I guess.
That show dropped enough first episode mysteries that made me curious for more.
Just finished watching Agents of Shield.
I’m calling it now, Coulson’s a clone.
Life Model Decoy. Robot and doesn’t know it.A dozen Colobus Monkeys sticky taped together in a suit!Coulson was in our heart all alongHe was a replicant all along?NO WE ARE NOT HAVING THIS DISCUSSION AGAIN
THE KOTAKU COMMUNITY IS STILL HEALING FROM LAST TIME
Nah.
Too obvious. It’ll be more interesting than that.“coulsons” are actually a mass produced android, designed to be as likeable and efficient as possible. Think about it- outside of the dry jokes how much information about Coulson do we ACTUALLY know?Coulson is an Android, who at the end of the series, finds out his entire being is just a computer program, and goes nuts, thus becoming Ultron and setting up the second avengers movie.If we didn’t already know James Spader was going to be Ultron that’d be awesome. That said, nothing is stopping him being The VisionCoulson/Ultron, feeling so betrayed by his creators, decides to change his voice and appearance, just to spite those who created him? However, Coulson being the vision could work really well, that is of course if the whole “android” theory is correct.Why is there always more lettuce in the box, than in the Big Mac?~~
The lettuce was also in our hearts all along.i always thought it was like packaging to keep the burger safe
Most of their customers probably take it off! If only they’d do it with the pickles! XD
D=<
ONLY MONSTERS TAKE OFF THE PICKLES!
Oh, man. You’re some sort of pickle eating, The Last of Us hating monster! I’m glad you didn’t put out! XD
I wouldn’t have even if you bought me dinner because I wouldn’t have got any pickles! >=(
Well I hope you and your pickle are very happy together. 😛
We will! I hope you enjoy your pickle-less life. =P
…
RAYMAN LEGENDS!
*glares in @dc direction*
You’re lucky you like Rayman Legends.
*storms off*
Dude, they’re the worst.
No you are.
This Ser Nobulus chap is a pretty cool guy.
:'(
Ugh, Ser Tacookyulus
A burger without pickles is like a pizza without pineapple.
This guys gets it! \o/
Pineapple on a pizza? What’s wrong with you! 😛
Oh, man. You’re some sort of non-pineapple pizza eating, Dark Souls hating monster! I’m glad I didn’t put out! XD
=PTo be fair I used to have an allergic reaction to pineapple when I was younger and my face would puff up. Valid reason not to eat pineapple. XD
Pickle i could get behind but Pineapple?
duuuuuuude…no!
THAT’S RIGHT!
I just don’t even order the burgers with pickles 😛
With an extra serving of annoyed employee spit!
But.. The Big Mac sauce is made with pickles..
I get that all the time but it’s so different! It’s not really the taste of the pickles I can’t stand, it’s the texture. It feels so out of place in my mouth and makes me want to kill myself. (Well okay not quite, but almost)
To be fair, it’s made with pickle relish, so it’s a little different.
I used to be like you, took the pickles off every time, until I just stopped. You can’t even taste/feel them. That said, whole pickles on their own are fucking weird and I don’t know why they’re a thing.
Proper pickles, that like, are good? They’re rad. I can enjoy them. Get their pickley juices all around. Don’t really like them in burgers and the like though.
Ick.
At Disneyland they sell great big pickles on sticks. That’s apparently a tasty snack. They taste like a sweaty cucumber.
Gimme a whole pickle or give me death.
#PickleParty
EDIT: This is a reply to @bdkiaf, obvs.
@bdkiaf
Okay, yeah, that sound horrible.
@dkzeitgeist
You disgust me. Well, more than usual.
#sliced4lyf
Oh man, proper pickles sprinkled with smoked sea salt. Awesome.
Monsters, the lot of you!
This place has changed!
*runs off crying*
McDonalds healthy menu!
Side salad!
Eat your greens, Greenius.
I do, but Maccy Ds don’t make it easy when I have to put the majority of it back into the burgs.
Are you advocating cannibalism now?
@sernobulus was right, you’re all monsters.
Well @scree and @dc did eat @cakesmith earlier this week.
That’s how they lettuce know they hate us
So yesterday morning Oliver and I went into town, he pointed out “50% off Nintendo products” at Dick Smith, we go in, I walk out with a Wii U. Bitch, I didn’t want to spend money! But I now finally own one, and I can get Pikmin 3 & The Wonderful 101, so yay! We also went halves in GTA V. It’s pretty fun. I’ve never been massively invested in the GTA franchise but it’s pretty great mindless fun.
And now I’m at uni, but my web lecture was cancelled again for the third week in a row and they didn’t send out an email this time :l
X(enUblade) !
I shall probably preorder that one 😛 I never preorder things
With the shitty sales of the Wii U I’m not confident that game will be localized, and until it is confirmed and we have some concrete details about the sort of game it is I refuse to be hyped.
PIKMIN 3! You’re alright, Ben. You’re alright. Don’t believe what the others say behind your back! 😛
Behind his back? I always say it straight to him!
Ugh Bens!
Also to all the people who just got Wii U’s and want to play Pikmin? USE THE WIIMOTE AND NUNCHUCK!
AND Wii U Gamepad as a map!
And now you know and knowing is half the battle!
No. Meating. Shane. >:|
I’m known for my quickness!
Thanks for reminding me to get my Wiimotes and that sent down from home! Completely forgot about them
…all the hat. *sniffle*
@dc
The ladies can attest to this.
Pssssst, that’s the joke! 😛
Hey @greenius I watched the first episode of Survivor. I don’t really like anyone. And nobody’s as pretty as Malcolm. D:
Don’t you see? If they brought Malcolm back, they’d have to bring, like, his brother or something too. I don’t think people could handle that much.
But yeah, the new mechanic is pretty cool though. Much more strategy involved than I expected!
Two Malcolms?! *swoonasaurus*
Yeah, I can see how that may be a bit much to handle. 😀
Gonna watch the second episode in a bit so I can be all caught up and Greenius doesn’t yell at me.
But his brother doesn’t look anything like him!
(he was also annoying :P)
And now I’m all caught up.
Dammit, Rupert! If you’d just fixed that second last one before rushing ahead you’d have been fine.Also, I don’t know why John was so worried about potentially sending Tyson up against wifey. It’s not necessarily going to be a test of strength. Should’ve just been smart and gone along with his alliance. .He did in the end anyway but yeah, he showed some doubt and very nearly screwed himself. Although the alliance probably thought he cared about Rachel more than Tyson going up against his wifey. I would’ve either shut-up or bought up the Tyson thing just to at least let them know his concerns 😛Did you read the previous discussions?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/09/talk-amongst-yourselves-243/comment-page-12/#comment-1944644
With the Surface 2 on its way soon, I’d really like to get a Pro and see if I can’t get Steam OS working* on it. Bit of a waste of money to test, but still…
*Not just in general, I mean working for me.
We have some old windows tablets at work… Civ V…
Do it!
After SteamOS is out I’ll see 🙂
I have not tested this but I suspect it’ll be difficult as I imagine they ship with secure boot enabled and possibly no access to BIOS to disable it, and additionally if you put linux on there probably nothing will work due to lack of drivers.
*tears hair out at work and growls and swears upon discovering an iceberg of errors*
“Hey, what’s up?”
“Sorry boss, there’s just so many errors, it’s taking me HOURS to correct them and will take hours more, yet. Bulk updates gone wrong.”
“Really? Well, who did them? They really shouldn’t be making mistakes like those.”
“Uh. It’s not important. They’re clearly one-offs, it’s just going to throw the deadlines out.”
“We still need to let whoever did it know to be more careful, this isn’t good enough. Let’s go take a look at who…. Oh.”
“Yeah, well. You have a lot on your plate.”
Delicious meats are delicious.
Thanks to a Lifehacker article, @freya bought some meat, fruit and veg from Aus Farmers Direct (or one of those sites).
Home delivered meat for a fairly competitive price and it is delicious. The fruit and veg are okay but the meats are fantastic.
Now I’ve finally gone and replaced the gas bottle for the barbeque so that we can eat the tasty looking sirloin steaks that can with the delivery. If the lamb and pork loin chops are any indication, these are going to be tastacular.
Meats! WOOO!
…
Different kind of meats? Pffft!
Seems like the opposite of here. The fruit and veges from Aus Farmers Direct are really good but the meat is overpriced and tasteless.
We’ve been getting our meat from the Superbutcher recently, just doing one big shop a month and oh my goodness have some of the steaks been amazing.
Did you try the kale yet? I like it way better than spinach.
I tried frying it up like bok choy.
Do not fry kale up like bok choy.
Hadn’t heard the name kale so I wiki’ed it:
“Because kale can grow well into winter, one variety of Rape Kale is called ‘Hungry Gap’”
…laughed way harder at that than I should have.
My phone is telling me that it’s “Lord Homo’s Birthday” tomorrow… I have no idea who that is and why it’s significant enough to show up on the lock screen.
Well, he is a lord …
SOLUTION:
send a message to every contact in your phone saying “HAPPY BIRTHDAY LORD HOMO”
the one person who doesn’t abuse you is the one the reminder applies to.
Knowing my friends the only person that wouldn’t say something along the lines of “aww thanks love you sweetheart xxx” is lord homo 😛
I have really immature friends
“I have really immature friends” – Guy with “Lord Homo” in his phone
Well, if I don’t talk to you tomorrow, Happy Birthday!
:3
hey @dc do you like the band Outkast?
They did a movie called “Idlewild”, it’s set during prohibition, bits in Boardwalk remind me of it, if you don’t like them you probably won’t like it because they use their music through the whole movie. Dunno why that pooped into my head. 😛
Because it was crap?
:\
YOU’RE NOT DC.
Prove it.
Never heard of them. XD
I’ve had a really busy morning. I had to have a blood test so I walked into town early and got that done. Then I went to the local comic shop and had a chat with the owner who is a mate of mine.
I impulse bought the Penguin One Shot with the lenticular cover and a really cool notebook covered in Fantastic 4 comics. I also bought Neil Gaiman’s new book Fortunately, The Milk.
I was supposed to go to the Library to look at some quilting books they were getting rid of for my mother, but I only remembered that as I got home, and I didn’t feel like going into town again. I think Mum will understand.
Hang on a second.
@dc hates pickles, pineapple in pizza and Dark Souls and likes Sarah Michelle Gellar and David Cage?
Why is he allowed here or anywhere again?
I need an arch-nemesis.
Guess what @dc, I love buildings! >=D
The heroic Doofus Creeper clashes once again with the evil Nob Grinder!
Hmm. Those names could probably use some work.
I am so glad I managed to make @dc HATS BUILDINGS stick
SOVIET ARCOLOGIES!
http://cdn1.cdnme.se/cdn/7-2/2379614/images/2011/za_i_aint_even_mad_144473814.gif
He’s also never heard of Outkast. I mean not liking them is fine, but never even hearing of them?
Wasn’t lying when I said I was disappointing AND a hermit. 😛
But I like you too, Freeze. What does that mean? 😀
What? No one likes me! What’s wrong with you?
Hating pineapple on pizza is truly a sign of sanity and good taste. Pity about the pickles. But SMG was pretty hawt back in the day, so that’s fair, and everyone knows that Dark Souls is a myth – nothing more than the fevered ranting of those touched by Elder Gods. I’ll vouch for this crazy pickle-hating @dc person.
@dc hates pickles, pineapple in pizza and Dark Souls and likes Sarah Michelle Gellar and David Cage?
If it wasn’t for the fact that he doesn’t like SKYRIM!, I’d swear that @dc was my soulmate!
*whimpers*
Ah, but @dc has that SKYRIM! issue, while as for you @pixel_the_ferret_viking …
Cradled in love my dear Pixel, Cradled in love
edit: Just meant to link it, ended up watching it and several more PotF FTW!!!
So I’ve just spent an inordinate amount of time trying to rip some DVDs to my computer so I can transfer the files over to my tablet, only to have the whole thing turn out a failure because copyright protection was being a bitch. Then I tried to use one of those digital copies of the film that came with one of the films, only to have that also not work properly. In the end the only file I’ve managed to transfer over to my tablet and get running perfectly was the damned pirated copy of Agents of Shield, and I only transfered that over as a test to see if I could get anything to play at all.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones
Relevant.
Handbrake has always worked for me!
That’s what I’ve been using, but it doesn’t work for copyright protected DVDs.
Really? How strange. It’s always done them one way or another for me after a bit of fiddling (I hate those ones that give you 100+ different same-size files to rip and only one of them is the ‘real’ one :P)
Maybe I just haven’t done as many cutting-edge dvds.
I did soooooo much fiddling to try and get a copyright protected dvd to rip, then I gave up and began searching my collection for a dvd that didn’t say it was copyright protected. After even more fiddling I’ve finally got it ripping (or burning, or whatever you call it) the first season of The Walking Dead, and fingers crossed this all works out fine. Knowing my luck though it’ll take another hour of fiddling around after it’s finished ripping to get it on my tablet and playing properly.
I just think it’s ridiculous that it’s been so hard to take media I own and put it onto a device that I own but then it took me about a minute to put something I pirated onto my device.
Yeah, I agree. It’s pretty terrible.
anydvd
Get on it.
I tried to rip DVDs once. And it took me hours and hours and millions of google searches to get precisely nowhere.
I completely don’t understand how it was ever supposed to be such a simple task and widespread problem. It’s like nobody bothered with it after 2006 or something, and suddenly all existing methods just stopped working.
@novacascade @tech_knight @tigerion @negativezero @rize @sernobulus @mawt @mythamphetamine @transientmind (+ any other people I talked to about Numenera and are interested)
At the start of the week I said I was waiting on two things- the release of the character creator app and the arrival of my physical book. Now that both things have happened, I reckon it’s time to get this show on the road!
How is next wednesday for people? Envisaging a session where we do the character creation (I’ll walk you through it) and talk about the setting, maybe start the adventure too.
If you are interested/available, please send your details to red_artifice at the hotmails and I’ll send you a link to the player’s guide and also an invitation to roll20, the online thingo I’m going to use (which works with Google+
The android character creator app is here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lbgames.numenera&hl=en
and if you search numenera on the itunes you’ll find it
Cheers man, I’ll start organising myself.
I should be fine for Wednesday night!
I was kinda interested but I don’t really have the time during the week anymore. Maybe once I move!
Numenera suits pretty well to drop-in/out campaigns 🙂
Cool. (To be honest I haven’t really been paying attention to the organising you guys have been doing :P)
I’ll sit this one out and maybe join in next time!
Wednesday works for me.
Exxxxxcellent. I will have to test out my google+ account and similar things this weekend. LET’S DO THIS.
And if I have a Windows Phone? 🙁
Logistics also: time and place? You mentioned google hangouts IIRC? So voice? Will need to ensure my headset is working. Longer-term Wednesday may be a little tricky for me but can probably make next week.
EDIT: Is there any preparation or reading we should be doing beforehand?
Google hangout, yep. Probably from 7pm SA time. Headset good, headset + webcam would be even better
We can discuss scheduling for people as we go- whatever works the best
Also, If you have a Windows Phone I cannot help you 🙂 The character sheet is available at http://www.numenera.com/charactersheet/ and we’ll go through the creation
What in the world is Google hangout?
It’s a video call made through Google +
Fair enough, I was gonna say we have a Teamspeak server but if we need video then it probably won’t suffice.
It’s more that the hangout integrates directly into roll20, which lets us have a shared gamespace 🙂
If you send me an email I’ll flick you a link to a .pdf of the player’s guide, which gives an overview of the milieu 🙂
I’ll be emailing you tonight!
I’m not sure if I have your email or not.
Also not sure if Google forced me to make a Google+ account yet.
red_artifice at the hotmails
Ohhh, poor Google+… Do you remember when invites for that were rare and sought-after? But after a while, when people still hadn’t go their invites they shrugged and gave up on hoping for one? That whole scarcity = popularity shit backfired hard.
Now they’ve gone madder than a diva who is realizing that her ‘hard to get’ act has worked too well and now she’s in her mid-thirties and the requests have stopped and magical prince charming never fucking showed up.
I am looking forward to a full write-up from someone after the first session to see what shenanigans occurred.
Btw, to those who are looking at playing, there are some scary looking monsters and creatures.
Have fun. ;P
I’m amazed at some of the originality of the creatures, considering this stuff has been done a million times before.
If I plan properly I’ll try and keep a log of how everything goes so I can chuck it on TAY, but if it all works well there’s every chance I’ll get too immersed and forget 😛
Would be a good Potaku article too
I’m really bad at following through things like that, partially because of too much self-criticism, but I can try!
All the phallic monsters \o/
Wednesday is good for me, I’ll try and have a look over everything before then
Count me in mate! Will send an email this weekend.
Actually it’s looking like next week might be tricky for me too 🙁
No Prob- should be able to catch people up 🙂
I’m good for Wednesday so will be there.
How voice sensitive is this as far as gameplay goes. Mrs Tigs has expressed interest in being part of it so would have to share a headset. Could that work or do I need to see if I can get multiple headsets to work. Is that even possible.
So do we just buy that character generator and make a character. Do we need to send that to you are anything?
The Character Generator doesn’t have all of the rules and flavour in it- it just makes the tracking and mechanics easier. The player’s guide, which I’ll circulate, has all of that in it. I’ll grab characters after the first session,as if everyone generates characters independently we’ll end up with like 6 of the same class 🙂
If you have a webcam that might be the best option, as then you can both sit near the computer. Otherwise you may be better setting audio output to your sepakers and passing the mic back and forth. I’ll set up a webcam and headset for my part.
No webcam unfortunately. Anything that needs to be sent can go to tigerion at the google mails
Sorry I’ll have to back out if we’re starting then cuz I am really sick right now and it is showing no signs of going away 🙁
No prob, flick us an email anyway and we can bring you in once you’re better
Sounds good. Right now I can’t talk, can barely think straight, in constant pain in many places especially my throat, and I’ve barely been able to eat cuz I don’t want to deal with the excruciating pain while swallowing my food.
Afternoon guys!
I had a job interview today, decided to trim the beard rather than get rid of it, I think it was a good decision at I was in a room full of hipsters.
Sped back to my current job in record time. Now to wait out the afternoon catching up on TAY, recent articles with http://awoiaf.westeros.org/ in between. Employee of the year here *flex*.
Going to the footy tonight, carn’ Bunnies!
Happy Friday!
The entire day I’ve been playing Operation Timewaste because I finished all my work yesterday. In related news, I hold the office record for the pinata minigame currently on the Google homepage.
(Also, I went to buy GTA V today but all the big department stores were sold out. I’ll go to my local haunts tomorrow morning to try again and if I can’t find it there
I’m giving up on life foreverI’ll cave and go to JB)My score is 129.
My highest so far is 162.
EDIT: 171 😛
172
163 actually. I just felt contrarian.I’m on 173. I’m sure I could get higher, but I have this niggling feeling that I’m supposed to do things with my life.
177 \o/
Five minutes to go, we’ve merged in all my code and the tests are going well. SWEET RELIEF!
Until I realise what is apparently waiting for me down at the bar. God dammit.
Beer?
Gross.
GIRL GERMS!
Considering Girl Germs is a (Twitter)TAYbie, this amuses me
Grosser.
Talk only about adventure games! Girls love that!
Grossest.
. o O (Who says god dammit at the prospect of gettin’ some?)
A priest.
Someone who doesn’t know how to function in the “normal” world.
Let’s look through “Creative Cursing”!
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Oh Em Gee! PLANETARY ANNIHILATION IS NOW IN BETA! My kickstarter level has paid off, my key is active!
I know what I’M doing this weekend! Screw GTA!
So apparently I applied for a job at Optus.. err, I don’t recall this or have records of this, but I have an interview in 2 weeks so yay? ha.
It’s a trap. Whoever made this appointment is going to steal your kidneys and leave you bleeding out in a bath full of ice.
What kidneys? I replaced them with tin cars years ago, much more efficient.
Aw, maaaan. peeps be in here talkin bout the pikeymans & da P4Gs n shit &. my nets doen n ma phones too shit *sobs*
Turnips are selling for 302 in my town tonight if anybody still has some! @shane @Kermitron @whoeverelse
Damn it. I sold all mine yesterday at 144. 🙁
I sold mine for 127 yesterday D:
Damn it! Sold out. 🙁
So now I feel even worse.
I wish this cold would piss off.
Someone come and finish my shirt design while I go stay in bed.
Anyone want to join me on a evening beach run?
No?
Oh well. Foreveralone.jpg.
That depends. Is that anything like a moonlight walk on the beach?
1. Who are we running from?
2. Is there anything we can use to defend ourselves?
3. Will there be others accompanying us?
I would 🙁
For anyone interested, Dead Island: Riptide is free for the weekend (and 66% off to buy).
(CC: @Rize, @cakesmith )
Oh I see how it is. =(
I TOLD YOU PERSONALLY ON TEAMSPEAK.
I only just noticed. ^^;;
You honestly can’t expect her to listen to you on TS though, can you? You do remember that you’re Nob, right?
I often forget that. ='(
Me, PLAY a game? What is this, amateur hour?
hour?
I can see why it’s 66% off, I wasn’t overly keen on the original, and Riptide feels the same. Also they should’ve named it Dead Island: Cut Scenes since the first few minutes were cut scenes after cut scenes..
But they’re good at cutscenes. You must watch them!
I actually picked it up at some point in the last few months. Haven’t actually played it yet, though.
Transferring data over to my sexy new Pokemon 3DS XL \o/
It’s so pretty!
Wait they’re already out? Why!? The game isn’t even out!
The guy warned me about that as I bought it. He said he’d already had customers thinking it came with the game!
Still can’t get DVDs to rip properly. Damn.
So anyway, I won’t be on next week because I’m off to New Zealand for the week. Got a flight at 7 tomorrow morning. So, catch you all the week after next.
Have fun on the trip, my friend! Hope you have good times a-plenty!
4.2km of sand running. I hurt in places I didn’t know I had, there’s sand in every crevasse and there’s a fine sheen of salt over me.
Thing is I feel fantastic. I haven’t run in nearly 2 months and getting out there and doing it again seems to have helped me a lot mentally and behind the soreness my body feels pretty good too.
Plus running along the beach there just reinforced how beautiful my part of the world really is. There’s no way I’d ever leave this to live in a city.
If you really want to punish yourself, halfway through your run take a quick break to do some push-ups.
In the sand.
Facing downhill (or, towards the sea, however you wish to phrase it).
That’s awesome! I always liked that high you get after you run, how you can not do any thing for the rest of the day but know you’ve accomplished something just cause of how sore and tired you are. Good times!
Whenever I did squats or similar exercises with my legs, they’d tend to pull inward a lot, and my ankles were pretty weak. A couple months staying with friends on the coast doing sand-running every day sorted that RIGHT out.
Edit: Point being – sand-running. It’s clearly good for you!
Hnnngh damn it. I seem to have come down with a severe case of dice hype. @redartifice, please sign me up for Numenera if there are gonna be less than 6 people for Wednesday night.
Sorry for the late response but I am massively digging the system they have. But if you already have enough players, I understand. We should get more people playing RPGs 😀
I am still massively keen to hear how everything pans out though.
I’m still working on the final number- waiting to see who actually emails me – so email me at red_artifice @ hotmail.com and we’ll work out the list from there. If we have an unwieldy number I’ll split it into two parallel games and run it fortnightly.
It’d be good to have an experienced RPG player or two at the start just to keep it on track 🙂
My new housemate kinda drives me nuts…
Tell Oliver sometimes you don’t wanna sleep on his chest and smell like his deodorant, damn it. 😛
But… but…!
Ahaha my biggest issue with her is pretty much about Oliver and I… I thought gay jokes were a primary school thing between guys, but apparently 20 year old females find it hilariously funny to tell them like 10 times a day too! It’s really getting on my nerves. She introduced me to her mum as Oliver’s future husband :/
That and she thinks my Xbox is hers.
Haha! Sorry for the jokes, man. You just make it so easy. 😛
Sounds like it’ll be better to sort this stuff out now rather than get bitter in silence…
Easier said than done, I know.
Ahaha it’s fine, I kinda word these things to make it easy for people to joke about 😛 You guys are quite witty about them
It just seems weird having to sit her down to explain the concept of “best friends”.
Yeah, nothing really weird with that at all. Friends have all kinds of in-jokes and ways they interact and all that. Don’t need to feel bad about that.
Then tell him to get out of the drivers seat.
*her
We’ve had many group chats. We’re making progress, but I dunno, she’s just got an annoying personality.
I love that clip 😛
If there’s a decent way to enjoy blu-rays on a multi-monitor pc without the player crashing, I’d love to hear it!
I use VLC with no issue, though “fullscreen” seems to fill the two side screens with black, unless I mess with the aspect ratio. Outside of that, no issue whatsoever.
Trouble with VLC is, it doesn’t work without AnyDVD HD enabled, causing me to lose the menus.
I’ve tried using ArcSoft total Media Theatre, and I can watch the blu ray for a bit, but eventually end up with this:
“Your system is not compatible with HDCP, BD playback is disabled. (ErrorCode=3016)”.
Whoa…
I’ve finished around 42 games this year so far D:
I’m most likely going to finish at least 5 more.
Good times…
That’s 42 more than I’ve finished this year!
D`:
Aw man, putting me to shame!
– Pikmin 3
– The Last of Us
– Tomb Raider
– BioShock Infinite
– Zombi U
– The Cave
– The Night of the Rabbit
– A New Beginning
– The Blackwell Bundle
– Ico
– Shadow of the Colossus
– To the Moon
– Dear Esther
– Remember Me
– Ni No Kuni
– Deadlight
– The Walking Dead: 100 Days
– Gone Home
– Rayman Legends
– DmC
– GTA V
-The Last of Us
-Bioshock Infinite
-Night of the Rabbit
That’s it for the year :S
Good games, every last one though! I’d say The Last of Us and Rabbit are my GOTY so far!
Btw, Freeze… I’m sorry to say that The Raven is kind of terrible! D:
But you talked about it and recommended it!
I can’t trust you any more!
DmC: Devil May Cry
Bioshock Infinite
Thomas Was Alone
…….
Thats it
Xenoblade? :'(
At least you’ll maybe beat Pokemon X/Y!
Ok, so it’ll be 2 Games by the end of the year. \o/
-The Last of Us
-Uncharted golden abyss
-Gravity Rush
-Bioshock Infinite
-Farcry 3
-Tge walking Dead:400 days
-Deadlight
– That’s all I can remember
• BioShock
• Catherine
• Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition
• Deponia
• Dynasty Warriors 8
• Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
• FTL
• Grand Theft Auto V
• Gravity Rush
• Hotline Miami
• Little Inferno
• Luigi’s Mansion 2
• McPixel
• Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate
• Need for Speed: Most Wanted
• Ni no Kuni
• Okami HD
• Persona 4: Golden
• Pikmin
• Pikmin 2
• Pikmin 3
• Pokemon White 2
• Proteus
• Rayman Jungle Run
• Ridiculous Fishing
• Sine Mora
• Sleeping Dogs
• Sound Shapes
• Super Hexagon
• Super Meat Boy
• Super Metroid
• Tales of Xillia
• The Cave
• The Last of Us
• The Walking Dead: 400 Days
• Thomas Was Alone
• To the Moon
• Torchlight II
• Trine
• Trine 2
• Uncharted: Golden Abyss
• Where’s My Water?
I got to discuss playing Where’s my Water? with my sister. Given she isn’t a gamer, I considered it a success.
My mum played it for a decent amount too!
@tigerion: I actually attempted to sign up for Kantai Collection today. I was curious how hard it would be. After dicking around with VPNs on my old iPad for a bit I managed to sign up and create an account then went to try to get into the game (there is a lottery every day for access because it’s crazy popular) and… it uses Flash. Which of course, the iPad doesn’t support. 🙁
I’m going to maybe retry tomorrow on my Surface RT (which does support flash) and see how I go. Assuming I can get a VPN going on it.
Mr. Strange and I just attempted to watch Spiderman 3.
Got 37 minutes in before we couldn’t take any more. I’ve never walked out on a movie or stopped a disc before. Usually there’d be something I’d be curious enough to stick it out for but I’m just choosing to believe they all die in the end and that’s why there had to be a reboot. 😛
There’s only two movies I remember not liking so much I wanted to walk…
Transformers and White House Down. XD
Transformers was fun!
But White House Down…I saw just the trailer for that and wanted to walk.
White House Down gave me time to reflect on how awkward I was at Transientmind meat though. XD
My first viewing of Toy Story 2 was cut short by someone having a heart attack in the cinema.
Bullseye, Woody’s Horse was just too cute and expressive for them to handle?
Dear @shane,
The lack of a capital ‘S’ in your name is bothering me. Fix it. >:|
Your pal,
D.C.
DC, nope! I’m taking a stand. I’m not sure what for, but I’m taking it anyway. I’ll fight for this cause tirelessly, day and night, until you’re sick of hearing about it. I will never relent. NEVER.
Resistance means you’re going to face capital punishment.
But… I already live in Canberra…
So it’s just called “punishment” there?
Very Clever, Virus!
Thanks, ha 😛
@dc did you ever play Rayman Jungle Run?
😀
@mrtaco GET IT!
Jungle Run is such a brilliant piece of game design. They distilled everything that mattered from Origins, and put it in a touch based game. So good.
That said, I’ve only completed 2 worlds in it…
Worst.
I’m doing the final level now and it’s hard… 🙁
I got stuck on the final level of the second world for so long. It was pretty depressing.
The “Fly” Land of the Livid Dead level? I was stuck on that too whenever I stopped playing Jungle Run however many months ago, but completed it yesterday. It’s probably the hardest level in the entire game so don’t feel too bad :P.
I’m all done now :D. Now I’m just going for 100%.
I AIN’T PAYIN’ THAT MUCH FOR THAT SHIT
Shit? :'(
Nah! I’m a little Raymaned out at the moment, though. Spent so long with Legends. XD
Oh man, you definitely need to pick it up sometime for your iPad! It’s great!
It’s one of like 10 games @masha2932 has played AND finished! 😀
It’s ok, @everyone. The girl didn’t show. Apparently was sick or something. But the arts teacher and his co-conspirators said that they’d keep her informed of my whereabouts.
I am now at my friend’s house and seems to still be running on cider. Also I think I spilled the beans about the girl at school who has most caught my attention. Also got told that I have confidence issues by the one I spilled to. It’s like she knows me.
Lovesick*
I love this
http://9gag.com/gag/apqQedb
I am too nice to dress up my dog
oh man imagine if pokemon had clothing and you could dress up a charmander in a little squirtle onesie
O.o
…
That would be amazing
SEPTERRA COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEE!!!
You know that edition of Shadow of the Colossus that comes in a cardboard clip case and has those art cards with it? I got that yesterday for $3. Also picked up ICO for PS2 and Okami for PS2 for $3 each.
…
Expect them to feature in a giveaway in the future.
Man, I gotta stop buying things just because they happen to be cheap 😛
Keep it and frame the art cards for your man cave.
And yes, you do need to stop. If you buy a bunch of cheap things you didn’t really need or want, it all adds up and you end up missing out what you really need or want. Stop buying things with the intent of giving them away, too. 😛
Next time you see something cheap, don’t buy it but put the money you would have bought it with away.
Save the $3! put it towards the new phone!
Second interview for EB Games went rather well I think, the manager of my local store is really nice, also she knows @freezespreston..
@freezespreston, she used to manage the store over at The Pines up until about a month ago turns out 😛
The question is whether or not that will count in your favour… 🙂
We’ll see, I was one of two people who she was interviewing so yeah..
Sounds promising to me. Good luck
Thanks! I’ll know next Saturday, since the managers are off to their yearly conference this week.
The manager that was replaced by the one who didn’t know what a Wii U was?
Yeah pretty sure. She was also at that group interview the other night, she seemed nice.
Yeah. She’s awesome. Be good to work for.
Yeah man, I got that vibe. Sucks you lost such a good manager from there though.
what is it with me and banks?! ALL THE HAT!
*shakes fist*
Banks, who uses banks? I keep my money in a sock under my mattress!
And your address is?
For research purposes obviously
123 Fake St, That City, Some State, Post Code 1234..
Hope this helps your research!
Excellent!! I will be there shortly to… conduct further research
Excellent, i’ll pop the kettle on for tea and or coffee.
heheh I remember a skit that was done on Fast Forward or Full Frontal about Mattress Bank! so funny!
I’m not even sure where I pulled that reference from hahaha. It just came to me. I’m sure i’ve seen it in some show before though lol.
the one I saw was meant as a parody of the commonwealth bank
Ah Australian comedy, so good. I was watching Fast Forward on TV a few weeks back, was a skit with Alan Bond trying to sneak into the billionaires club and being told by the concierge bloke if he wants scraps to come to the back door like he was told.. Oh so good.
when do you find out about the results of your second interview?
Next Saturday! Manager said she will give me a call to let me know what her decision was. They have their annual managers conference this week. Not sure if it was a good thing the assistant manager knows me there 😛
well as long as their opinion of you is a favourable one, I’d say that’s gotta be a good thing 🙂 Best of luck though!
Haha yeah, true. It seemed to go well, I will say it’s funny how some managers don’t want to know if you play games (like pointed out here a few weeks back).. But I was asked what’s my favourite game.. Christ that’s hard to answer :S But Portal, Tony Hawk & GTA V seemed to go down rather well haha. L.A. Noire would’ve been a very acceptable answer too it seems lol.
hahah i wonder what their reaction would have been if you’d said Candy Crush Saga :p
Just because I beat that, doesn’t mean its my favourite 😛 It’s obviously Tiny Monsters on iOS that’s my favourite 😛
Ugh, closest place showing Metallica: Through The Never isn’t exactly close to me, and it’s 3D Vmax so it’s about 28 bucks in total in the end just for the movie ticket =/ I love Metallica, they’re in my top 5 favourite bands. But daaaaaamn.
Hoping there’s a standard 2D release as well like the US & UK are getting a week after the IMAX/VMAX 3D showing.
Saying that though, from what i’ve seen of the behind the scenes the stage set up for the concert with props symbolising each album looks AWESOME. Along with Motley Crue & Rammstein, when they want Metallica seem to do awesome stage productions.
Dane DeHaan is in that movie, he always chooses excellent roles!
@dkzeitgeist was saying something like this the other week on Facebook.
I’m impressed though, Metallica sunk 20 million dollars of their own into it. I’m sure that’s small change for the 4 of them, but I hope they make it back with the initial release to cinema.
The Last of Us Story DLC will have a new character!
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/09/27/the-last-of-us-will-have-a-new-character-for-dlc-first-map-pack-next-month.aspx
I propose a Gravity meat for the night of Saturday, Oct 5 in Brisbane! Dinner before or after! Let me know if you guys are keen. This is Alfonso Cuarón’s new movie. He’s the Children of Men director, in case you didn’t know. The movie looks all kinds of amazing.
@sughly, @dkzeitgeist, @strange, @freezespreston, @sernobulus, @virus__, @transientmind, @jimu (I know you’re in Taiwan, but I’ll tag you anyways.), @gutsoup (Hey man, we’ve hung out three times now. You should come to a meat even if your pal Jimu ain’t there!), @welbot, @beardymcmuttonchops, @popdart5, @d370n8, @lambomann007
Should say that this will be the 3D session. Cuarón’s shot this in 3D and apparently it’s visually spectacular. I know some folks ain’t a fan of 3D, so hopefully this isn’t a deal breaker!Wait, is this the weekend @mawt’s in town?
it is!
I had originally earmarked Sunday for doing “things” since we (me + fiancée) will be flying up Sat. morning, but I think movie + dinner on Saturday sounds like a pretty good idea.
Not gonna be able to make it sorry dc. Going to the beach that day so I’m going to be all hot and sandy and tired by the evening. I know this sounds like an excuse to delay my first meat but I’ll get to one eventually I promise.
No problem, my friend! There’s always another meat around the corner and I delayed my first meat for nine months or so. 😛
Hey waiiiiiiiit… 3d? :'(
That a deal breaker? All I’ll say is that when I went to Kennedy Space Center I saw Hubble 3D on IMAX and there was a shot of astronauts floating in the International Space Station that looked so awe inspiring and beautiful in 3D that I might have had a manly tear in the ‘ol eye. The sense of depth for space stuff in 3D is amazing.
Don’t want to alienate people who hate 3D though.
3D gives me headaches and I find it hard to focus properly.
Aw, okay then. I’m willing to compromise. I’d prefer to hang with you guys and not see this in 3D if it meant I was able to hang out with my pals. (Just that I’ll probably see it again in 3D the week after, like I did with Star Trek is all. XD)
Yeah normally I’d be willing to bend, but if the consensus is 2D, good call
Oh wow. No 3D’s a deal-breaker for me. 🙁
However, if you guys see the movie then I could meet up with you afterwards for dinner, possibly.
Aw man, I hate planning meats. XD
Aw man, sorry. You know I never see movies with you guys anyway! We’ll figure something out. Don’t stress!
Don’t worry ’bout 3D! We’ll see it in 2D, my friend!
Also, let me know if you guys have any suggestions for dinner! We could go to the Bavarian Beer Cafe dealy again or somewhere cheaper or any thing really. I mostly just want to hang with you guys! XD
Another cop got shot in the face on the Gold Coast last night. Luckily he survived. Bullet went in the left cheek and out behind the left ear. Shooter got arrested not long after.
Also a huge brawl between a bikie gang and a heap of cops in Broadbeach in a separate incident.
Qld police minister insisting there’s not a crime problem on the Gold Coast.
Edit: oh yeah, a guy got shot in his car a few days ago as well.
If I could facepalm any harder, it would cave my skull in.
Officer Freeze will clean up the streets or get shot trying. XD
🙁
Yeah we don’t have any sort of issues at all.. Apart from the bloke at Ashmore, (I think?) that was found with explosives a taser & an air rifle, then there was the chicken farmer at Tallai that was found with a Chinese assault rifle, a silenced .22, a cross bow and something else.. Yeah Gold Coast doesn’t have a crime problem at all!
no crime problem on the GC?! what a laugh. everytime I turn the news on, there’s something about crime on the GC!
The AFL Grand Final is on in an hour!
…I don’t give a shit, honestly.
Weeeeee, chatting with Dave Ellefson of Megadeth..
Just finished Bioshock Infinite. It was amazing. So good.
Discovered the series Weird or what.
Amazing stuff. Really interesting too.
If you like some of cracked’s lists you’ll like this too.
SHATNER!
WHERE?
Here
Welp. Goodbye Sunday.
Sorry
It’s not like I was going to be doing anything with it anyway 😛
Now that the surprising amazingness of Bioshock Infinite is over (surprising because at first I didn’t love it as much as the first Bioshock but it managed to turn me around), I’m starting GTA V. It’ll be interesting to see how this goes. If I’m honest I’ve never been a huge fan of GTA (I’ve enjoyed doing random stuff in them but I don’t think I’ve ever got close to finishing one of the stories) but I’m optimistic after all this recent TAY Marketing 😛
http://www.polygon.com/2013/9/27/4777798/lucasarts-day-of-the-tenticle-hd-origin-service
Aw man!
:'(
I would’ve loved to play some of the classics again!
Grim Fandango HD pls. No more tank controls pls pls
Weirdly though DOTT has aged awesomely. Looks pixel-like but is perfectly playable and awesome still. Scumm VM can make it all nice and smooth as well.
I know, I only played them for the first time a few years ago! :D. I did only manage to finish Grim Fandango though (but that’s the bestest one anyway :D).
I dabbed a bit in the Monkey Island remake and it’s good for those adventure game derps like me who struggle on puzzles 😛
I think I would’ve preferred a Fate of Atlantis HD version, only cause that’s one of the only LucasArts games I didn’t finish and would love to in spiffy HD.
I was on a Schafer thing so I only played Monkey Islands, Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle and Grim Fandango :P. I’ve heard good things about Fate of Atlantis though and there’s other classics I’ve never got around to playing either like THE DIG and uh… what was the other main company? Sierra(?)
Oh man, if you get around to playing one Sierra game make it Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers!
How good is Full Throttle? Pretty damn! 😀
Alfonso Cauron talks about his perspective on 3D, for those interested. 😉
http://www.screendaily.com/news/cuaron-most-3d-films-are-crap/5060907.article?referrer=RSS
Haha! I seriously didn’t post this to pressure people for meat. Just wanted to assure any folks on the fence that the 3D isn’t an after thought. I’m still happy to see 2D version if that’s what the group wants. I feel for Freeze who can’t comfortably see 3D movies too.
Don’t stress about me. If everyone wants 3D I’ll still go. I just vastly prefer 2D.
Looking forward to the movie either way!
And hanging with you guys. And getting some tasty foods. And hanging with you guys.
I are da best at GTA.
Spoilers for the first 5 seconds of GTA V “tutorial”, in case anybody doesn’t want to know?
Game tells me to Hold L2 to aim gun at hostages, accidentally hit R2, killed all hostages, game over 😛You had a good run, Pow!
@greenius: Up to World 3 in Rayman Jungle Run. Are you happy now? ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?
gloo gloo gloo
5 more levels until I’ve 100%’d everything 😀
(@masha2932)
Also, what happened to “I think I’m all Rayman’d out”? 😉
BUT HOW GOOD IS IT!? I thought it was a stupid Rayman themed endless runner but didn’t realise it was a platformer with set levels. Works really well and like Blaghman says, really captures the essence of Origins. I’m glad Legends adds sort of “runner” levels too and I hope the sequel to Jungle Run (Fiesta Run – which comes out soon!) has those music levels from Legends too 😀
Haha! Was on App Store and saw I had enough credit. XD
Yes you can! 🙂
Thanks Obama!
Whoa! Just cause they’re both Kenyans doesn’t mean they’re the same person! 😛
Wooo, awesome game.
Hi guys, I managed to find some time to quickly TAY. So. Goddamn. Hectic. I feel like Stevie from Malcolm in the Middle whenever I talk. Anyway, just a brief hello and I’m now off to play some Batman Arkham City on my new Wii U. ZELDA MACHINE GET! WIND WANKER HD NEXT WEEK!
Hells yeah! Enjoy, my friend! Also, how good is Gattaca?
DC, my mate, you KNOW how good it is.
Everyone else, look no further. GATTACA.
And my Wii U gamepad is out of charge. Looks like I’ll be here for a bit.
Remember to add your buddies on TAYnames!
Just remember to add them through MiiVerse and NOT just add them as a friend. If you do the former the person you add gets a notification and once they accept, you become friends, but the latter is just like a 3DS one and both people will need to add each other. There’s also no notifications either!
UGH NINTENDO
Confusius. So now I know why I don’t have any 3DS friends. They don’t add me back.
Well, my weekend isn’t interesting anymore… :\
Scratch that, I’ve managed to find a software player that won’t crash when I try to play my discs! \o/
My weekends are never interesting. XD
I drove my car into the sewers and then it blew up and now I can’t get out and please send help.
I found my way out and then got punched by a bum and died.
I was in a critically important mission, tailing my target, and being stealthy.
So I stopped at a set of lights, and started doing a burnout.
The guy in front of me took offence, pulled me out of my car and started beating me up, all the while my target drove off.
Totally did not make the connection that this was GTA based. I lol’d.
GTA?
Borreeeeddd. Watching Senna, cos it’s on and I remember somebody on here saying I should watch it.
I was gonna finally setup my Wii U but it turns out the controller needs charging first, so… See above 😛
Hell yeah!
Senna was an awesome doco!
ALSO! Serious question. I can pretty much only afford to get 1 game at the moment so help me pick:
Pikmin 3 or The Wonderful 101?
Which genre are you more interested in?
Dunno, Pikmin is great and I love Platinum games + it looks awesome so it’s just really hard to pick 😛 W101 does look more… fun though I think.
You could be dodgy and buy it at EB then return it after 7 days and grab the other one. Pikmin 3 is fairly short.
I haven’t played W101 so I’m a bit biased, but Pikmin 3 was great. I’m not sure whether I like it more than 1 or 2 (all of them do things better AND worse than each other), but it’s just as good!
I think @dc @mrtaco @beavwa @sernobulus have both so maybe they can help.
Keep in mind first party Ninty rarely drops in price and Platinum’s games usually drop quickly 😛
Hmmmm… that is a tough choice.
Pikmin 3 isn’t necessarily that short. I mean you may see the “end” of the game fairly quickly, but if you go through and 100% it, as well as work on beating all the missions… I managed to sink a good 40 hours into it.
W101 I guess kind of felt more substantial, but from memory I hit the end after “just” 24 hours. Though there’s still Hard difficulty to go back to.
But going by playtime alone does a disservice to either game. They’re both very different beasts. Pikmin is maybe a more sedate experience, wandering through a gorgeous world and working on your micromanagement and parallel tasking and problem solving. While W101 is an intense and entertaining experience, with lots of bright colours and action action action.
I personally champion W101 over Pikmin as Wii U’s best game, but honestly I find it difficult to truly choose between the two.
I loved Pikmin 3 and I’d go with that!
Man, so hard to choose! I’m thinking W101 looks more interesting to me though.
There’s a demo for 101, might be worth trying. I was looking forward to it until I played the demo which I hated. Pikmin 3 is just pure fun.
I won’t have internet I can connect it to until November 1st, so I’m kinda outta luck there 🙁 It sounds like I should get Pikmin 3 though 😛
So, I played a 3 on 1 game against the CPU in Age of Empires 3.
Good god, that was fun.
Also, I’ve thought of the best crossover ever.
The cast of the Brady Bunch as The Shining.
Finally home, after having left for school yesterday morning. Well now it’s technically the day before yesterday.
So the whole mystery girl thing fizzled out at the pub, but that’s probably for the better. I mean sure it’d be a nice confidence booster to have someone just jump me like everyone seemed to think would happen, but I dunno. Wouldn’t want it to interfere with my chances of anything happen with someone more desirable, but hey. Guess we’ll just have to see what happens down the track.
Afterwards I ended up continuing on to my friend’s place with a couple of other guys, we talked games, played some Rayman and… something else, I don’t know, and then got to messing around with GTA. Also there was some use of substances that I had not come across before… my friend was keen on getting me to have a go, but I chose not to partoke 😛 Didn’t seem like the right time, perhaps some other day. So my friend just chose to exhale in my direction for the rest of the night instead.
And I did hop on here briefly, for some reason. I’m a horrible creature of habit. Apologies to @greenius, I get a little more abrasive than usual when fueled by alcohol >_> Ended up spending most of our time with GTA, just screwing around for a bit then going on a quest to try and find the mythical nudist colony. I managed to track it down because I’m awesome or something. I managed to end up on some kind of a second wind, and the others all went to bed because tired but I stayed up til after 7am playing the damn thing. Really weird considering I generally don’t really like the 3D GTAs. I mean I can totally appreciate what a technical marvel they are, but I’m not a big fan of how they play. The controls still just feel unbelievably clunky, and keep pissing me off. Aaaaaaaaalmost was at the point of considering picking it up… but nah.
Hardly even got a chance to come home, one of my highschool friends messaged me to go to another mate’s place tonight to hang out. Had woodfired pizzas, talked a lot of shit, somehow managed to just destroy his girlfriend in a game of chess, then watched a movie I forget the name of. That one with the four magicians that rob all the places. It was pretty decent.
And now, finally, I can come home. And lose all of Sunday to sleep, most likely.
Suggestion: Hooking up with a blind date is unlikely to damage your chances with someone you like elsewhere. Being ‘taken’ or ‘kinda seeing someone, but nothing serious’ is like catnip to many women. It means that you’ve been vetted by someone else and found suitable. When girls know a guy ISN’T being courted or taken, they instinctively become suspicious about what might be wrong with him.
Dating does not equal committed relationship, until one party asks for it to be.
And then you flee, never looking back! *knowing nod*
Transient The Wise.
I can kinda see how that makes sense. But the paranoid side of me can’t shake the idea that if anything happened, then people would be talking about it which means others would hear about it which means judgement, therefore I should avoid ever doing anything that might be objectionable 😛
was really hoping to have a somewhat decent sleep in this morning, given that I was woken up yesterday at 5:30am by thunder.
Today I woke up at 4:30am, to a different kind of thunder. This time it’s inside my head, in the form of a cracking toothache :\ Thank glob my sister gave me some panadeine forte yesterday, or I may have stabbed myself in the face. Just wish it would hurry up and kick in.. arrrrrrrrrrrrr so much hurtiness
In future if you check in at a hospital with that degree of pain and explain that it’s 3am on a sunday and there are no pharmacies open that will sell painkillers of any degree of effectiveness, they might/should probably give you some forte.
I went to a hospital the first time I experienced a migraine and received that. FREE! Yay medicare.
I’m not that big on backing Kickstarter things (though let’s be honest, that’s because I usually don’t notice them, rather than any real opposition), but you can bet your buttresses that I’m about to back this.
It describes itself as Wind Waker meets Dark Souls. It’s the perfect game for D.C. to end up hating. Although its animations currently look super rough (that jump :/), and though it’s made by a pair of Swedish dudes, by the look of it, I still feel the need to be that guy and mention the grammatical errors in the pitch.
But did I mention Wind Waker and Dark Souls?
omg
up on sunday at 7:47am
hi glahman
HI BISH!
I was actually awake at 6:30. I don’t know why. I assume because I’m an idiot.
How sweet, to be an idiot.
(I too, was up at 6:30)
WHERE ARE YOUR COOKIES AT NOW, ‘LEPH?
2 hours, 44M CPS, 122HC.
Geez, I started an hour and a half before you, or thereabouts, and I’m only on 92 million CPS. I guess the 70 odd HC make a difference.
Huge. I’ve gained another 90M CPS in the past 20 minutes.
Ho-lee shit.
Right now at 146M CPS.
Looking here it appears that cookies are going to get a 50% nerf in the next update. Shit.
What’s the HC stand for? I actually started this thing up a couple days ago and am up to, uhm… 2.91 billion cookies per second. But I never turn my PC off, so…
Heavenly Chips. Once you reset, all previously baked cookies are converted to HC which grants you a +2% CPM per.
Oh nice! I’ll have to do that come the grandmaocalypse.
What is this? Idiot Day?
I also woke up at 6:30…
… I hate you blaghs.
*backs Kickstarter project*
Is this a Kickstarter based on hate for Blaghs?
Because that seems a little excessive…
It’d probably find funding in record time though.
Nah, I’m promoting a Kickstarter to fund all the Hat I hold against everything.
EDIT: Unfortunately I have so much hat that the goal is in the $100,000,000 ballpark.
That’s diabolical mad scientist evil dictator level of funding. So much hat. Respect.
What are your plans for stretch goals? I really hate it when project creators are unprepared.
So on top of chatting with Dave Ellefson of Megadeth yesterday in a live chat set up by Soundwave, today they’re setting one up with Brian Marshall & Scott Phillips from Alter Bridge, aww yeah 😀
I expect there to be more people this time though 🙁
So Soundwave moderate the comments/questions which is fair enough, but they keep letting through the same old comments it’s really boring.. I feel sorry for the guys. I’ve asked three questions so far, all on topic, haven’t been put through and they were unique and interesting, but apparently that’s not good enough 🙁
Just watched the first episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine. really enjoyed it. Had a grin on my face the entire way through.
@dc
Andy Samburg makes me want to punch him in the face every time I see him. I think that’s a deal breaker right there for me, unfortunately. :'(
Though it’s co-created by one of the Parks and Rec guys, so that’s reassuring!
Half the premise of the show is every other cast member wants to punch Samburg in the face.
http://www.tv.com/shows/brooklyn-ninenine/community/post/brooklyn-nine-nine-season-1-episode-1-premiere-pilot-review-137909246235/
But Hot Rod!
I don’t know what that means, BUT NO! >:|
😛
And after that comment, I realise I’m liking films that score low with critics and dislike ones that they love.
*More and more.
But you like Gattaca, though. That’s your saving grace. 😛
Yeah Gattaca is the best of the best but even that doesn’t rate too high with critics.
They must be dead inside! :'(
Considering I don’t have beta access to Hearthstone, would anyone be interested in a game or two of Elements with me? It’s been a couple years since I played last, though IIRC it plays much like MTG, only without the ridiculous hole in your wallet.
Wait I just remembered it’s single player. I think. Nvm
There’s PvP, it’s available from the main menu.
I think PVP is random though, no real way of choosing opponents.
Great game though 😀
My parents just got back from their holiday. I was expecting them tomorrow, so was about to start cleaning up when they got back. Whoops. (Edit: I should clarify, I’d cleaned up, but there was some stuff in the kitchen, and I meant to wash the floor properly, yadayadayada)
My mother’s comment? “Sean, I can forgive most things about the state of the house, but there’s one thing I cannot.”
“There isn’t any milk for my coffee.”
They also bought me a book called Inconsequential Dilemmas, which has 45 flowcharts to help me deal with my crippling indecision. So if I’m ever asking myself “Should I hug this person?” “Should I use an alias?” or “Am I in a cult?” I have the perfect little guide to help me.
Here’s a helpful tip: never hug D.C. >:|
DC gets a hug next time Virus sees him.
Why do you hate me, Virus? :'(
I have my reasons, none of which you will ever know!
You will never know because I in fact do not hate you 😛But what about when you’re trying to decide which flowchart to use?
WHAT THEN?!
That’s how they get you to buy their follow up book.
SNACKTAKU:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-live/cheesy-bacon-grits-recipe/index.html
Uhh, it’s not great. Not terrible, but not great. Perhaps if I used actual grits (crushed corn, yeah?) instead of cous cous? Iunno.
Only a doofus would substitute cous cous for grits. Grits is kind of like polenta. You’d have been way better substituting something like oats if you needed to. I’m surprised it was even edible with cous cous. 😛
Grits? Cous Cous? Polenta? Stop making up words!
So, I’m kinda converted to non-stop pop on GTA V, but there’s one track which keeps causing me to windshield-cannon (on account of driving so fast the cars actually start generating lift, to take-off). It must be subliminal messaging. 😛
(Edit: You know which track. That’s so going on my workout playlist now.)
So, let’s see if there’s anything good on TV…
Horse Racing and The Bolt Report?
…
*bang*
It’s okay! My head hit the desk! Totally not the other thing you were thinking!
I put on the second season of weird or what for Mum because stuff everything on TV.
It’s the end of 2 weeks and this drawing design is still not finished.
I hate being a perfectionist, but at the same time, I wouldn’t have it any other way.
I’m really impressed with it. You must be close to finished now right? I can’t see that much that needs to change.
You underestimate my ability to change my mind and add more work to my plate!
I estimate 3 more days.
That means it’ll probably take a week.
Anyone ever noticed there’s two doctype declarations in Kotaku’s source? <.
Fire Emblem players I need your help!
I just maxed out my avatar as a grandmaster.
What callass should I retrain him as to kick arse?
The best skills a male can get are Sol (recover half the HP you hit the enemy for) and Counter (what it says on the tin). Those are from Hero and Warrior (male exclusive) respectively.
Also Astra (from Swordmaster) and Lethality (Assassin) are amazing too. Really, you can’t go wrong! http://serenesforest.net/fe13/skills.html
ps. Grandmaster is an amazing class though so it might be worth switching back after grabbing any skills you want!
I’m tempted to try and learn all the skills but I doublt I’ll put that much time in. Especially since I can only euqip 5 at any one time. That Sol one sounds very useful.
A good one is Dark Flyer (I think that’s what it is called). It’s an advanced class of the pegasus rider and at level 15 they get a skill that essentially renews their turn if they kill an enemy. Quite good.
Man, having conversations with people who are high is so fun. They say the most ridiculous things 😛 I had no idea that guy even smoked weed, so you learn something new every day!
I’m sorry to say but you were looking at the mirror the whole time Ben 🙂
Hey, I haven’t touched it since like a week and a half ago! 😛
Unless that’s what the weed wants you to think! D:
GTA V:
Trevor is one hell of a character, I just realised I can buy him leopard print undies and more women’s dresses.. Also I swapped to him before to find him doing mind scarring things in his bathroom.. What a charmer.
Proto hipster.So I just remembered I have the first 5 VHS’ of Cardcaptors. The Australian edit.
Apparently, they’re kind of rare. I was checking online and everyone is mentioning DVDs.
Anyone else have them?
As in Cardcaptor Sakura?
Cardcaptor Sakura is the unedited one. Cardcaptors was the dub version
Cardcraptors is super rare because it was one of the most terrible hack-job localizations of a great anime since Macross. They whitewashed everything, changed everyone’s names and edited it such that Li was the main character instead of Sakura.
As I understand it the ‘International’ edit is a lot less severe – Sakura is still the lead character – but it tanked as a show and Australia was the only place it got a decent home video release with the international cut.
Shame really, the actual uncut original show is still probably the best magical girl anime ever produced and has amazing quality animation. I imported the whole show from the US years ago, I don’t mind admitting it’s one of my favourite things in my collection.
If anyone else is looking for the best price on Wind Wanker HD, VideoEzy have them for around $58 delivered. And if anyone finds it elsewhere for cheaper, I don’t want to know about it. XD
I’m sure I could find it cheaper, but I think I might have to mosey to JB on day one just so I have it straight away and not worry about shipping times. (Which makes no sense, because I won’t be playing it until after I finish Beyond: Two Souls anyways. XD)
Yeah, some days I’m like that. Ozgameshop is a no deal as it’s all the way from the UK, I think previously I’ve waited a week or two. VideoEzy should be interstate (worst case) I’m guessing so maybe two, three days? I’m hoping?
Okay, T&Cs state 3-10 days. Here’s hoping it’s two.
I hate to be the one to say this, but their games bit is basically just wowhd and they ship from Hong Kong and can take up to a month to arrive.
Ozgameshop on the other hand are really quick for me usually. Games usually arrive within a week. One arrived in 4 days which was awesome.
Ah well, at least it’s a PAL copy.
(AHH TOO MANY BENS!)
Yeah Ben, what Ben said is right, Ben.
I believe Wow HD, Video Ezy, Ezy DVD and Blockbuster all have their online sites under the same company, so they’re essentially the same. Order from them if you don’t mind waiting around 3 weeks.
Out of them I’ve only ordered from Video Ezy and they’ve shipped from Hong Kong. Games are the usual PAL/UK versions (same as Ozgameshop/Zavvi/Amazon UK etc.). Shipping has been in the usual 7-12 working days for me BUT they’ve shipped the games AFTER release (about a week or so in my experience). I recently got Rayman Legends from them and it arrived in just under 3 weeks.
Nothing wrong with them though, as long as you don’t mind waiting! I know Video Ezy has $2 shipping (per an order?) but it’s free if you spend over $60.
I’m spewing about the possible wait time. $56.91 was the best price I found, though.
Locally it’s going to be like $89 anyway so that’s a decent saving. I had my Rayman pre-ordered from like October last year and by the time it actually came out, it was CHEAPER locally than what it was to import :P. You just got the Wii U, right? Maybe play some other games while you wait for it to arrive? (PIKMIN 3! :D)
Zelda is my favourite series so I’m usually all over it ASAP but Nintendo AU are poops and they didn’t bring the Wind Waker Ganon edition over :'(. So I had to import it, as did a fair few TAYbies, so we’ll all be waiting anyway! …luckily I’ve already played Wind Waker like 10 years ago so the wait is more bearable 😀 (and also POKEMON!)
Man, like the only Zelda game I’ve never played before is Wind Waker, but I’m going to sit firmly up here on my moral high horse and still not buy it because I can’t stand the idea of full priced HD re-releases 😀
Ugh Ben.
Your loss! 😛
Nintendo have done fairly good ones though, it’s not just a shiny coat of new paint.
I just read that Big W might have it for $68? I dunno but you could always hold out until launch to find out if there’s a cheaper price?
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2062906
But what I’m worried about is that someone posted that their limited edition order got cancelled so I don’t know whether ours will be or not :'(
Currently I see it listed as $74 for BigW. Here’s an idea: which store selling it, sells it shrink wrapped AND has a lengthy return/refund policy? That way I could purchase it on launch, play it until the sealed VideoEzy copy arrives and then return that copy using the store receipt.
Well if you pre-order something at EB I think it’ll be shrink wrapped. Most of those big retailers don’t have a very good return policy (like no change of mind or something) and they usually have a “if this seal is broken, you can’t return it” sticker on it.
BUT the Video Ezy copy will be a UK one anyway. I don’t know if it changed but I believe EB/JB only accept Australian games so you probably couldn’t return your Video Ezy one anyway.
Dear TAY
Might have some big life updates for you soon. Really big updates. And updates plural.
That is all.
Keeping you in suspenders,
Shane
You’re going to tell us the W doesn’t actually mean anything and it’s all a sham aren’t you? Because that would bring my life crashing down around me and I’m not sure I’m emotionally equipped to handle that right at this moment.
Gotta be Half Life 3.
Hmm… is it just me or does GTAV look graphically better on everything but my TV? 😛
Every single trailer and screenshot I’ve seen made it look good and every video I’ve seen makes it look better too. Maybe it’s because it’s on a smaller screen or in a lower resolution (so it hides all the jaggies and stuff) but it just doesn’t look as great when I’m playing 🙁
Maybe the Xbox version looks better? (I’m playing on PS3). Who knows…
GTA ONLINE WOO! A ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY MULTIPLAYER WITH @DC !
Someone here on TAY previously linked me with a comparison video in which the 360 version looked better than the PS3 version. I have the 360 version and it looks great.
The issues in that were actually all down to gamma/colour issues (the PS3 is notoriously tricky in this regard, has limited RGB on by default, isn’t set up entirely right normally), so PS3 and fuck trying to link things when I’m tired. The point is they’re identical.
I have heard rumours that all the screens and trailers are from the original build before it was downscaled for the consoles.
This makes sense.
Also, what time does Breaking Bad usually get uploaded?
@trjn I know you’ve talked about refreshing it one day :P. It’s my first day-off on Monday so I need to know around what time I’ll need to completely avoid everything and everyone.
Since I feel like pretending to be useful, while not actually helping, some basic arithmetic tells me that eztv had their copy up somewhere around 2:30 last Monday, so you should expect it around then. The downside to this is that the margin of error is about 1 hour either way, depending on how their system works, so I’m really not helping at all.
You can find the episodes on kickass.to as of 12.20 – 12.30pm est. You’ll have to search specifically for it on the site though, it won’t come up in the daily feed for around 2 – 3 hours.
Fun!
@jimu, @greenius: What are you guys doing here? D:
Avoiding the scary (new) parts of the internet! Some people can’t shut up about spoilers, not taking any risks!
Not a single spoiler here I swear to christ. I WOULD NOT DARE to spoil it at all.
But all I’m saying is the final Breaking Bad is *FANTASTIC*. I hereby rank it up there with MASH and Star Trek The Next Generation with the best finales of all time.
Enjoy it guys and girls, it’s brilliant. Absolutely fantastic. I won’t be talking spoilers online for at least a few weeks or so on my own facebook with friends out of decency to people who have been following the show like I have.
Hope you all enjoy it like I did!!!!
Alas no Breaking Bad next week… maybe I’ll start again from Ep1…
In case anyone’s interested Rockstar have announced the launch time of GTA Online.
It’s gonna be 7am eastern time tomorrow, which I’m pretty sure is 9pm tonight here (Vic).
http://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/51487/gta-online-details-game-day-access-info-and-more.html
*Crickets Chirping*
no mention today of the new Bethesda publishing studio set up in Sydney?
So, how bout that WInd Waker HD not actually being available for download today -_-
Morning friends!
I GOT TO PLAY GTA ONLINE!!! Finally
Man, it was pretty awesome. I got in and someone tried to run me over straight away so I fled to the safety of a building and they just started destroying my bike … There’s a chance that I chased them all over Los Santos while in a cop car before a stand off in the mountains where we were both diving between cover trying to take wild shots at each other, he was kind of at a disadvantage because I had a shotgun, when we realised that wasn’t doing anything and we didn’t want to waste any more ammo it basically turned into a foot race down the mountain to find a car to run the other one over with. Technically it was a tie because he ran me over, but I got him with a death twitch shot to the face.
Then I found Cracks and we went on some missions (sorry about being so terrible, Cracks) and a 3 star getaway from the cops that ended with us barreling through the subway in a sports car
Sounds awesome. FYI this seems to be old TAY. not sure why it’s been published to the front page! We’re mostly Over here.
Cheers, Yeah, I’d seen that after I’d posted … Silly Mark positng the wrong one
Yeah its pretty insane. In a good way and a bad way. My opinion: they shouldnt have distinguished the players so much from the ai. So that players could’ve just behave like ai if they wanted to avoid all the chaos. Or set up meeting points or taunt if they want to do a mission or start a shoot out. At the moment its like just people hunting people down.
If they didn’t know who the players were, they could end up killing civilian AI which would lead cops onto them more easily for being douches. Right now it highlights who the players are and if you want you just kill them.
Hey just a suggestion/idea for people wo want to play ore calmly on an open public server. I know there are safe options and all that but that’s no fun
You could just go into passive mode, you still show up on the map, but no one can shoot at you and you can’t shoot anyone, that’s only in the free roam mode though and you can still be run over.
Yeah I know but I don’t want to know there’s a guy behind the corner or him to know I’m there. Its a lot more fun that way. If I knew where my crew were yeah ok.
This is the wrong TAY, isn’t it?
— wrong tay
Did Gabe ever mention HOW much faster Linux was compared to games on windows?
My name is Karen Percy and I am a reporter with the Lateline program in Melbourne. I’m doing a story on teen gamers who’ve been targetted by online gambling companies – apparently this is an increasing problem in Australia. I am seeking contact with teens who might have been in this position. If this has happened to you or someone you now please contact me. percy.karen@abc.net.au 0447 964 947
Im posting here because i feel lost today. I was expecting my daily Hitaku at 12pm (10am here in WA) here . then 10am comes up. no hitaku. then i think “oh, its daylight savings time! must be an hour later”. nope. Its an hour earlier. but that had me even more confused since it should already be there. so super confused and distraught me pulls out my daily planner. its a holiday on the east coast. Feel so alone right now without my Hitaku.
Things to beware
Upon an epic quest
Include porcupine
THE DIG \o/
EDIT: wrong TAY -__-
Wrong TAY again? Where is this week’s?
I thought @greenius was just making a clever Breaking Bad joke upthread there
http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/665504/simpsons-burlesque.gif
So if any of you were at the EB Expo and thought it would be funny to grab Mario’s chest from behind, I have some news for you: That was my female housemate in that costume.
Someone did that? ew.
I know, right. Who dresses up as Mario?
People who work at EB 😛
Someone who knew. Who grabs Mario from behind?
Did anyone else see this?
I too couldn’t climb the stairs due to a (thankfully temporary) disability and got the total brushoff by Microsoft and was actually helped upstairs by a very apologetic Sony crew. Kudos to Sony, they just seem to have a better corporate attitude this time round.
http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/17876/article/sony-s-ps4-team-makes-disabled-fan-s-day/
TAY’s all screwy at the moment, so people probably will miss this.
Awesome story though.
New TAY is over here: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/09/talk-amongst-yourselves-244/comment-page-21/#comments
Oh man! I saw that someone had posted on page 18 and I was all “nooo people need to know there’s a new TAY!” so I was going to post the new link but luckily you already did 😀
I am an hero
Hey dudes, sorry about the TAY confusion. It all got a bit messed up with me being away on Monday and Tuesday. I’m going to start a fresh one tomorrow (I know, thursday. Christ…)
Anyway, my bad. Next week we’ll be back to normal. Sorry for all the hassle.
Bad Serrels! *whacks nose with rolled up newspaper* 😛