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Want some rye? Course ya do!
what the?
No.
Bit early in the morning for me.
Who’s like us? Damn few! And they’re aaaaaaaaall dead.
17hrs spent on Pokemon this weekend… And I’m probably not even the worst! 😛
damn man, i spent about an hour… trying to get GTAV and beyond: two souls off my back first…
Think I’m on the home stretch of Beyond: Two Souls. I’m going to miss it.
are you getting all the feels??? cause im looking forward to them!!!
There’s feels a-plenty, but this is more a character study than emotional roller coaster of Heavy Rain!
I only managed to get a total of 9.5 hours over the weekend, made it to the second gym… my team average atm is about level 29.
Loving every, single, second so far… Except the roller blades, I like the concept, but I feel the execution was flawed… I want the option of being able to toggle them. I know the d-pad allows walking without them, but having to switch between stick and d-pad is not what I would call ideal. Oh well, having the dowsing machine equipped unequips the skates.
Approximately 7 hours for me. Second gym.
Man I must’ve been wasting a lot of time, I’m only a little bit after the second gym! haha
I’ve been wasting time also. In terms of; I catch every Pokemon I encounter (that I do not already have) and I never run from a battle.
Over 24 from when I started at 1pm on Saturday to when I went to bed at midnight last night
I knew I wouldn’t be the worst! haha
I think @beardymcmuttonchops is about the same play time but is further on gym wise
I think it was about 13 hours for me.
I’m at 28 hours now, up to the Elite 4. :3
Morning all!
So kitty turned up Saturday morning… shed gone missing from Friday morning… Id left the garage door open just a smidge and put a bed inside there for her hoping she makes it back…. i was up all nightchecking the garage every half an hour. Imust have fallen asleep at about 5am, woke up at am and checked and she was right there… first thing she did was run in, rub herself against my legs, then jump in bed under the doona. so relieved… \o/
Also damn all you bastards for organising a birthday meet in the city! the tally for the day was about $160 on games, $200 on blurays and god knows what else… i know im going to feel it closer to next pay day…. :S
So picked up Pokemon Y whilst in the city, im realising that the game is going to take forever for me to finish because i take my sweet time levelling all my pokemon evenly, and being unable to leave an area until i capture one of every pokemon in the area… lack of funds for pokeballs may soon put a stop to that…
But im totally stoked because I FOUND MY PIKACHOX!!! \o/
So anyway, i pushed pokemon aside so i can finish GTAV, just when i think its over, it just keeps going!!! Story spoiler below (closer to the end of the storyline):
I’ve just finished rescuing Lamar’s sorry ass from a drug deal gone wrong. Did the big Union Depository job, managed to get away with a little over 200 million…Oh and also was glad to see that lawyer chick get sucked up intothe plane engine \o/
also, is it just me, but damn, it seems like Franklin cant catch a break without his jealous homies bitching about how he’s doing well for himself now…
Also when i finish the campaign i might attempt to hit up the stock market… ie. buy cheap shares in a shitty company, then drive to the opposition and take them out? not sure if its possible, but will have a crack at it…
so hopefully i can wrap it up tonight so i can move onto beyond two souls which i also picked up on saturday, so i can then focus on my pokepals…
Excellent news about your cat pal!
There have been conflicting reports but overall it seems that your in-game actions don’t have too much of an effect on the stock market. I tried manipulating the market by blowing up clucking bell trucks and workers at the factory in the north but the share prices stayed the same. It could be that it takes the markets a little while to respond to actions
Some sites I read showed how to read a relatively predictable pattern for the player-influenced stocks. Predictable over days/weeks more than in-game. If you don’t like where your stocks are, though, you can always waste some time by sleeping to save game (don’t have to actually save). Some of them end up in the toilet and stay there, though. Like LifeInvader.
Did you do all the Assassination missions? Word on the street is that you wait until
you’ve completed most of the game and got some sweet heist money before you do them, so that you have many millions to invest in the stocks before and after missions.unfortunately…. i only made a measly 200k because of that…. /o\:C I had done the first two before I realized, and did the random stranger pickup where he gives you a stock tip in exchange for getting him to the airport.
Molly dying like that bothered me more than the torture scene honestly. Was just kinda brutal and undeserved I thought, especially since it was totally unnecessary in the end.Though I do like that she ran the fuck away from you like that – seemed to be the only character who really comprehended how much of an unstoppable, murdering psycho Michael/the player was.
Uni today, One day round-trip to Adelaide tomorrow, Uni Wednesday with a presentation in the afternoon.
Ugh, fuck this.
Greetings and Salutations TAY, how be you all on this *shudder* Monday morning?
I for one am greatly surprised by just how much I am enjoying Pokemon Y.
I seriously don’t think I have had this much fun since I played Pokemon Red, though I only just came to the realisation that my party consists of pretty much the same as what I played in Red (not sure about spoilers in regards to pokemon types, so I won’t bother listing), so basically I just feel like I am playing an upgraded version of Red… which is frelling awesome!
Yeah aside from my starter (Chespin ftw), my entire party is 1st gen Pokemon.
It really feels like the entire series has been building up to this game, to me. At first I was disappointed with how few new Pokemon I seemed to be encountering, but realising just how diverse the selection is this time around it kinda put that out of my mind (encountering Dragon types before the second gym? Who’d’ve thought!)
POKEYMANS!!!
Morning Tay…
Wind Waker HD is pretty freaking great.
That is all
Oh man, it really is. Like the game so much though it’s losing me a little as I get closer to the end.
So damn pretty, though!
Pretty, amazing music, quirky humour… me likey a lot :P…
Haven’t gotten very far into it yet though
I only just met with the Deku TreeBut i am loving it so much… and the sailing… omg the sailing is awesome XD
The sailing is incredibly relaxing. Especially when this music kicks in! 😀
Exactly! 😛
Am so glad that i get to experience this now, it’s a game i can immerse myself in and just explore… AND I LOVE IT \o/
I swear that song only ever kicks in when I’m like 10 metres from an island, and then I have to disembark. Stupid night-times, and stupid swift sail making everything so much faster.
I’m racing my son to the finish of Wind Waker HD. I’m actually doing the side missions as I come across them, where he just does the story and then finds a walkthrough and scams the rest. I’ll forgive him…for now. 🙂
Oh man, Heavy Rain’s a part of that Video Game Orchestra dealy! That had an amazing score!
So is anyone else having trouble interacting with Franklin’s dog Chop in GTA V (PS3)? I can’t get the mutt to do anything. You’re apparently supposed to press R1 to interact, but all Franklin does is duck for cover.
Yeah, barely worked most of the time for me and seemed so useless in an otherwise well realized game. I just ignored the urchin mostly. :S
same as me on the 360… kind of funny though… yesterday he jumped in a car with me, drove from Franklins house into the city, when someone swore at me for accidently running over his friend… Chop decides to open the door and jump out of a car moving at 80km p/h and start chasing after him… i tried to follow chop on foot until i got hit by a car, then i had no idea where he went and couldnt call him back…. hes not always at my place either so i have no idea where im meant to pick him up from…
Yeah, a “Yo I got this, dog,” button would be handy when travelling with companions.
On a man-date with Trevor (as Michael), I parked the car outside the golf club and was tapping away on my mobile to transfer enough funds to pay the green fees… when some douchenozzle NPC pulls me out of the car to start beating me up. So I decide, “Alright, my strength stat needs some upping…” and go to duke it out, when Trevor pulls out a fucking machinegun and sprays everyone.
MAN-DATE GONE WRONG.
And I’m grumbling, “Jesus, Trevor!” and trying to zoom us out of there, and Trevor keeps fucking spraying the cops and randoms with submachinegun fire out the passenger window.
It was certainly very in-character, at least.
That was a damn nice story, friend. 😀
Works fine for me, gotta be right next to him and his kennel though, hold down R1 then whilst doing that press L2 or R2 to take him for a walk or get him to search for special items.
Do I wish @welbot a happy birthday?
I think I do! Happy Birthday @welbot.
It’s his birthday? WOOO! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Happy birthday @welbot! You picked a good month to be born in.
Yours is this Sunday, right? RIGHT?
SHHHHHHHHHH! This is Welbot’s thread.
Happy Birthday Welly!
Happy Birthday @welbot!
Happy birthday @welbot! \o/
Happy construction day @welbot
Cheers for all the well wishes! I will start a new thread so people will actually read it too 😉
I pulled my upright JAMMA arcade cabinet out of storage over the weekend. Damn thing has some rust and corrosion which needs repairing before I am game to turn it on. Not that I mind, as that’s half the fun of owning one!
The plan is to get it working again, put in a new coin mech, and then pimp the sucker out. I’m leaning towards a black and chrome finish with a full set of Ghosts n Goblins decals at this stage. Once I’ve finished spending money on the cab, I’ll get back to sourcing an original Ghouls n Ghosts PCB, cause those suckers are rare and damn expensive. /sigh
I think @Freezespreston is making one of these dealies!
Difference between planning and doing 😛
Also sounds like he’s doing a legit GnG cabinet. I’m cheating with a PC MAME setup.
Yeah it’s a “legit” JAMMA cab. MAME will be for the next one, as I want an R-Type cab, but I’m damned if I want to pay for the original PCB…
The Ghosts n Goblins original 2 board PCBs are pretty easy to find….pity the sequel is a different story.
Repost because egotism.
Dark Souls 2! \o/
Ye gods that sucked getting up at 4:45am. Especially after Pokemoning until 1am.
Anyway without further ado I picked the Warrior class (something I figured I knew to face the unfamiliar) and ventured forth.
That wasn’t quite what I expected. Still unmistakably Dark Souls but many of the quirks I associated with the game removed. Some changes I liked, some I think I will like given time to flourish in the full game and some I just don’t think I’ll ever particularly like.First thing that I noticed was the animations. Oh my god. The improvement is beyond anything I expected. You’re character moves so smooth and fluidly. Even the bulkily armoured warrior moved with the practiced grace of experience. Every attack links from the previous one in one motion. It really is great to watch and control. The detail in the world is a real step up as well. The ground is no longer one texture just repeated along with the odd tuft of grass. The beta opened up in a forest and the ground covered in grass and rocks, irregularities here and there. Surprising how the small details make the world that little more immersive.Next thing I found was a message. The systems been given a small but important change. You can now write several statements in one message. Ie: [Be wary of ambush ahead. Use caution. Consider dashing through.] Makes the messages have the potential to be far more useful. Or misleading. I left a message at the top of a ladder at a fatal height [Giant enemy waiting on ladder. Try jumping off.] Makes you think twice about it with the threat of a giant enemy :3The enemies seem much more aggressive. The zombies are still just trash but the giant shambling fat things with dual sickles are deceptively fast and don’t let up pressuring you, which is a pain since one blocked swipe takes your entire stamina bar away and the next one is only a second away. There’s also some thieves who do almost no damage but are lightning quick and can attack 2-3 times a second. When encountering several at once it makes it a bit of a challenge.Some minor gripes.
The world felt a little too open. I’ve always associated Dark Souls with being an open dungeon crawl. Everything tinged with a slight feeling of claustrophobia. This one felt a tad directionless. Might not be a bad thing in the entire game sense but it bugged me a bit throughout, perhaps unreasonably. They’ve taken away the jump (or changed how it works? Did see a ledge that looked like I could jump too with an item on it but couldn’t work it out), while not really necessary I missed more than I thought I would. They’ve also taken a step back with the stat screens and used obtuse icons ala Demon’s Souls rather than the plain english of Dark Souls.Major personal gripe.
Started the game and noticed the weapon damage was 484. Thought wow they’ve started us off strong but first encounter with a zombie showed they have about 3000 hp. I hate when they just start throwing big numbers out. Makes them seem almost arbitrary and without impact. Dark Souls you noticed a definite difference between 20 and 50 damage. Dark Souls 2 there’s not a lot between 100-200.Decided to try some different characters.
Sorcerer.
Magic has been nerfed HARD (sorry @trjn). Gave me 20 soul arrows and it took 6 to kill the first zombie. Considering what lay ahead… Yeah.Dual Swordsman
Fast moving and fast attacking he could deal out a lot of damage in a short time. No defence at all. Also took a lot of damage in a short time. I couldn’t quite grasp the play style needed in the short time I had with him. Seems very skill dependent and should be a blast to master.Temple Knight
Oh yeah baby. This is my jam! Heavily armoured, carrying a halberd, crescent axe and miracle bell, this guy is built for heavy melee. And his backstab is glorious. Kicks them behind the knee then two hands the axe overhead and buries it in their skull. Looks awesome and everything is identified as a Dragonrider. I think I found my starting class.Online features
Completely broken. All I got were error messages whenever I tried to summon or be summoned. Didn’t get invaded once and couldn’t invade. Also once I quit and tried a new character all summon signs disappeared completely. So didn’t get to try that. There is a normal White Soapstone and a Small one with the small signs being identified as Shades rather than Phantoms. No idea what that meant as I never got to try. Bloodstains, ghosts and messages worked as usual and with no problems.Overall I loved it and am hype overdrive for March. Cannot wait to get a hold of the full experience and lose myself in the game for another couple of hundred hours.
\o/
I would love it If Pokémon X/Y had a better aspect ratio, the game feels a little narrow at times.
Maybe it’s just me.
I wish the overworld was in 3D. The terrain was clearly designed for it in mind!
totally agree…i guess they did that to minimise eye strain from extended play… you know cause some people spent like nearly 20hrs out of 2 days!!! not pointing at anyone specifically (ahem, @powalen ), but im sure their eyeballs would be hanging outside of their sockets by now, bruised, battered, and veins poking out…
Hola Tayberinos
I had a busy weekend! Bowling with work Friday night, picked parents up from airport Saturday morning, mates over for board games Saturday night (CHOO CHOO) and Bathurst party on Sunday.
Need another w’end to recover!
A Monday Morning Question: Now that Bathurst is in both GT6 and Forza 5, it’s time for more Australian landmarks to make it into video games. Which landmarks should be put into games of any genre?
I’d still love a fallout style urban decay of one of the major cities, either Melbourne or Sydney XD… possibly with zombies… no wait…
definitely zombies
Post Apocalyptic Urban Decay!
@dc!
Imagine bogan zombies..
FUCKIN EATIN BRAINS, CARNT
OH SHIT, THEY’RE CHASIN US IN THE TORANA!
The L4D pipebomb equivalent doesn’t need any special tech or pheromone type stuff to draw them in. It’s just a grenade with a pack of winnie blue taped to it
The Big Pumpkin and other related attractions, in a horror game. Can you imagine a banana and Cpt. Cook coming alive and hulk smashing everything??
Everytime a pokemon game comes out its always the same. I always want to buy it and the console for it in this latest case, only for pokemon. I miss silver. I’m not used to this new stuff, though I would like to try playing it. Only if I had the time.
The 3D is underused in this sixth generation of Pokemon. You may be more enticed to pick up a 2DS system on the cheap to allow you to get into X&Y.
Weekend shenanigans were pretty great. I rocked up to the midnight launch of Pokemon at EB Albert Street in the city and there were easily 200 people there. So many streetpasses \o/
Spent a lot of time playing Pokemon. Haven’t gotten to the second gym yet but I’m enjoying it a lot. Currently rocking Chespin (grass starter), Beedrill, Squirtle, and Farfetch’d. I nicknamed Squirtle as Exxon Mobil. Yes I am a horrible person.
Also saw Gravity on the weekend. It was a good movie but I think it’s not a movie you enjoy so much as you experience it. Also (very minor spoilers)
That introduction where it gave you a few facts about space bugged me to no end. Why use metric kilometres for distance and then use imperial Fahrenheit for temperature? Silly Americans.Albert St EB, eh! That’s where I bought Beyond: Two Souls! WOOOO!
(I make everything about Beyond: Two Souls. XD)
Or is Beyond: Two Souls about everything?
No, I’m just self-obsessed. Carry on. 😛
You never know, David Cage might have created Beyond: Two Souls as a complex metaphor/reflection on life and then wrapped it up in mystical/paranormal goodness.
You never know with David Cage. 😛
OH GODS YES THAT BUGGED MECouldn’t they have put up a different title card for the rest of the planet that doesn’t use fuckwit units?
The saddest thing about Gravity was:
It exists in an alternate universe where we still explore space. Still have space shuttles.I guess this makes it science fiction. :'(
FWIW, we do still explore space, it’s just the shuttles were old and not really fit-for-purpose. They never go to the point where they were the “space ute” they were supposed to be.
Why do the robots have to have all the fun. 😛
We still get Astronauts into space on Soyuz.
Gravity question:
Would that debris ever lose momentum? Did the Ruskies destroy space indefinitely?Speaking without any sort of physics or other science experience, I would imagine that the debris would eventually slow down to the speed of Earth’s rotation (ie. on par with the speed at which the space stations were in orbit) but it would take time for that initial speed to decrease. I have no idea how long it would take but possibly a few decades, perhaps longer.RUSKIES! *shakes fist*The Russians actually did detonate a rocket in space a couple of years ago, and the debris cloud was mooted as a serious threatThere’s no wind to act as resistance in space. The only force acting upon that debris would be the gravity of the Earth, which would (presumably) eventually pull that debris down, and any collisions that occur afterwards. Otherwise the momentum it had would be perpetualNot quite- there are other forces in space, including solar wind, other gravitational forces, and other matter that can impact the orbit of objects.The orbits would probably decay eventually. That said, debris fields like that have been used in science fiction in the past to effectively block access to planets.Just looked it up! Thanks for the heads up, IMDb!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_Syndrome
Ah yep, that’s the one. Thanks, I forgot the name! 🙂
The orbits may decay over time, as the matter is impacted by other micro-debris or space dust or even the force of light on the matter. They would not decay naturally if they were in a stable orbit, but orbits can be destabilised by other gravitational forces such as the moon- even the ISS must periodically correct its orbit. The orbits in the film aren’t really accurate- Tiangong and the ISS orbit at greatly different heights.And different again to the satellites. As well as different inclinations. The debris wouldn’t have bothered them.ALTERNATE UNIVERSE WHERE WE STILL EXPLORE SPACE! ALSO? SPACE WIZARDS!They weren’t exploring. They were mechanics. Even the filmmakers knew space exploration would be pushing it.The debris may have, you’d just need to be unlucky.Maybe once at best. For it to be matching your inclination, trajectory and altitude to the EXACT same is pretty much impossible.As I said, unlucky 🙂Trick would be detonating it in a plane. If you really wanted to safely detonate something in space you should shape the explosive so it blasts into and away from the earth
debris wouldnt lose momentum anytime soon, not whilst under the force of earths gravitational pull much like the ISS, it isnt actually floating in space… astronauts onboard and around it arent floating because of a lack of gravity…. they are actually constantly falling towards the earth, but because of the curvature of earths surface, they never fall to the center, rather they keep falling around it…. thats how satellites and everything stay within earths orbit and dont drift away….
if you were to build a ladder high enough to reach the ISS, you would be affected by almost exactly the same amount of gravity as you would if you were standing on the ground.
*head explodes*
Science is hard!
Orbits are reasonably straightforward- objects remain in orbit by reaching a velocity where their angular vector is offset by the acceleration towards the earth. This diagram is pretty much all you need to realise : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Orbital_motion.gif
*head explores again*
You and your science ain’t welcome here, friend! 😛
Hey, I didn’t get a four year science degree just to come here and talk about Beyond: Two Souls 🙂
YOU LEAVE BEYOND: TWO SOULS OUT OF THIS!
😀
@dc NO
SPOILER: ELLEN PAGE IS STILL STUCK IN INCEPTION AND BEYOND IS A WEIRD DREAM
Works for me!
The real threat in Gravity isn’t the Gravity, it’s Angular Momentum 🙂also solar winds and another impact could steer the debris outside of earths gravitational pull. and they didnt totally screw up space for everyone…it would be an expensive operation, but we would have the technology to clean it up… space exploration being palmed off to the private sector however means it would be interesting to see who would fork out the cash…
Cleaning debris out of orbit is a bitch to achieve though- it’s dispersed and tiny, so it’s hard to get a fix on. Best way may be a net, but it would have to be huge and tough.
Other options may be some sort of gravitational attractor- essentially a large lump of lead that you tow around and use its gravity to collect the stuff, but getting that in orbit and moving it around are prohibitively expensive.
Gravity:
One thing I loved about Gravity was how makeshift everything was. Millions of dollars worth of tech, but makeshift all the same.How so? Most of the stuff in space is utilitarian, not makeshift.Make shift might not be the right word. Just low tech solutions that allow humans to do the impossible.It’s just incredibly practical. Everything has been engineered to work- look at the clasp they were using on the tether- designed to be operable through spacesuit gloves 🙂What? Everything in space is built for a very specific purpose. Everything is intentional, not slapped together.Americans are fucking weird about metric. They scoff at the rest of the world for using it, claiming we’ll claim the Imperial system out of their cold, dead hands… while their professionals in engineering, architecture, medicine, military and science go ahead and fucking use metric ANYWAY in anything they’re doing that’s actually important.
Not to mention it’s absolutely ludicrous that they’re hanging on to the Imperial systems anyway, given that they’ve done everything else they can to distance themselves from the Brits. It speaks to a profound public ignorance or deliberate hypocrisy for no good reason other than being contrary…
…which basically sums up everything about the US you need to know, anyway.
Of course, this happened last time they got the two confused: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
More @greenius, more of the time.
You playing The Wolf Among Us, my friend? There’s notes to compare!
Bought it for this weekend!
I think you’ll like it! I’ve been tempted to play again already, just cause it was so damn immersive! 😀
The way you described it earlier, I’m imagining LA Noire with Walking Dead gameplay. Which sounds great.
Or I could be completely off the mark thinking that haha
Definitely noir. Definitely Walking Dead gameplay. Lots of fantasy too.
Yeah, I was doing my usual Sunday “sit around and wonder what game to play” and I was like, I know I’ll play more of the Wolf Among U- Oh. Oh right. Damn you episodic gameplay!
Halfway into the final chapter of Trails in the Sky. Reckon I’ve got 5 hours or so left to go. Still enjoying it heaps, it’s gotten really good. Still a little verbose but I’ve kind of gotten used to it – really wish you could make the text appear immediately though.
Hopefully we’ll get some news on the Steam version soon, and maybe a ballpark date for Second Chapter.
TitS!
Ohhhhh, that’s what TitS means.
http://bit.ly/GUckM1
Those are Tits. The capitalization is important.
It’s a literal translation of the title that just happened to create one of the most amusing acronyms in gaming. I’m not even sure it was deliberate. Or maybe it was, one of the playable characters’ names is Tita as well.
And yet the game is more about politics than birds.
POKEMONS!
I haven’t worked out my team at all and I’m sad to say it only consists of two starters and a Pikachu right now. Regarding Pikachu (putting in spoilers just in case):
I did not intend on keeping a Pikachu there but oh my god when you send it into battle it goes ‘Pika Pi!’ and when it faints it goes ‘Piikaaa…’ and that just killed me.I didn’t use the wrong tags there. You did. Stop looking at me.
I wanted to get a Pikachu but I was running around trying to find one with that stupidly low encounter rate. Watching TV at the same time just spinning the stick, mashing A and glancing at the screen. Got a little caught up in the TV and looked down in time to see a Pikachu fainting.
Gave up after that.
I’ll trade you one if you like! I hate Pikachu 😛
(So glad not every Pokemon says it’s name. The cries are so much better!)
Really? The cries they make just irritate me! THEY DONT MAKE THAT NOISE IN THE SHOW!
We can no longer be friends.
It’s part of the reason why I liked the Pokemon Origin anime so much! No annoying name-saying! Proper animal cries!
(I’m sorry Nob, you can be my friend again now)
The best bit is when Pikachu
gets donked on the headEdit: spoiler tags, although probably not necessary.
Heh. I have a grand total of 7 pokemon. I’d say the odds are pretty good I don’t have anything you want 😛
If I could give it away I would 😛 Any random thing is fine.
(That is if you haven’t already found one by the time I get home at 8pm)
Let’s just keep sending them to him until he has a full party of rats!
I have a spare one you can have for free if you like. Just catch some random thing and trade me.
I originally bought it for my wife, and then her first 2 encounters in the necessary area were Pikachu.
I have seen one wild one EVER.
Pip caught about 10 of them and has probably knocked out another 20 or so. You got Y?
Indeed I’m playing Y.
Yeah, encounter rates are a bit different between X and Y for some that are in both. According to my friend list and various streetpasses, I’m seeing more people playing X, so trading should be easy.
I thought they were relatively common where I first found them. Guess I was just lucky? (or not, depends what you think about Pikachu, really)
I was using a Pikachu, but then ended up switching it out for Tyrunt, who is awesome.
Hey guys!!!
Pikeyyymooooon, etc…
Sonic is out this week, it will be good unlike most of the previous games right? RIGHT?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA-*breaks down and starts crying*
I’m still interested despite being burned 78 times in a row so far.
I’m going to pick it up. =P
Apparently it runs at 1080p/60fps which is pretty amazing for a Ninty game.
Also, generations was a genuinely good game, let’s hope they can pull off 2 good games in a row
I have Sonic Generations waiting to be played from the last time I hit up a 2 for $40 sale at JB. The last Sonic game I played before that was Sonic 2006. The last one before that was when I was flipping between Sonic Heroes and Shadow the Hedgehog on the PS2, both of which I actually really liked.
I think I’m about to cave in. Is there any store doing a good deal for a 3DS XL and Pokemans?
Big W apparently has the price on the Pokeymans.
EB seems happy to price match Big W’s $44, too.
$44 is pretty good! I might buy the game first.
I think I’m about a third of the way through Beyond: Two Souls. I’ll probably try and finish it off tonight. Posting my thoughts on the game so far, which I’ll but in spoiler tags, though I’m not really posting any story specific stuff:
First up, the gameplay. I get that these are supposed to be like interactive movies, and I’m fine with that, but this thing has even less interactivity than Heavy Rain did, and that’s a bit disappointing. I don’t feel like I’m interacting with the world as much, or influencing the story as much. It’s also way too easy. In Heavy Rain, fights felt intense because you could screw up, and while Ellen Page can still get punched in the face, the stakes just don’t feel the same. I imagine part of that is because you’re only playing as one character, so it’s not like she can die before the end of the game, but there’s more to it.The way the story is being told, with it all jumping around her timeline, is frustrating and removes any sense of tension from the story. Situation that should have me on the edge of my seat, and usually would, don’t, because I already know how things turn out. The whole thing would be so much better if it was told chronologically from start to finish instead of jumping around, and it’s no surprise that the best sections of the story are the ones that go a fair while (so you can start to enjoy them without suddenly being thrown into her childhood) and where you don’t know how things will turn out (so the stories that happen towards the end of the timeline).
I haven’t read any of the reviews, but apparently a lot of them criticize the game for being so cliche, and boy is it ever. For the most part that’s fine, as cliches can be enjoyable and the game does them well. There’s only two instances I really take issue with (maybe three, but the third isn’t too much of a big deal). One of them was trying to be serious but just came off as hilarious and didn’t really fit with the game, and the other one felt entirely unneeded and poorly handled (the third, if you’re wondering my issue with it, is because it felt like it was only added because Jodie’s a woman).
In case you think I hate the game, I don’t. I love it. I’ve been really enjoying it. It’s just that I wish it was told differently.
Hi TAY, how was everyone’s weekend? I spent mine as a hermit playing GTA Online. I earned $1,100,000 moneys then spent $1,000,000 now I’m broke but have all the things (well some of them). The crazy folks in my crew earned about 3 million each and all bought tanks and Buzzard choppers and we proceeded to teach a whole lot of jerks a whole lot of lessons about randomly picking fights :D. Also the crazy folks in my crew have reached ranks like 137, 105, and the rest are all about rank 80 (I’m only 42 so i’m the babeh of the crew). Also thinking of picking up pokeymans if i get to a shop anytime soon, which one do people recommend?
Jaysus
You have done well in the online- i thought I was rich after i bought a garage!
I got my garage for free 😛
yeah i had the free one too, I upgraded to the $400,000 apartment with attached 10 car garage, also did you notice you have a bike rack that holds up to 5 bikes that don’t take up car spaces, the expensive apartments are pretty cool.
I have no money, I intend on buying a nice apartment when Rockstar give me ma unemployment cheque for 500k 😛
My crew suss out any exploits/ glitches / high earning missions. It only took about 2 hours to earn that million cause we sorta found a glitch and were beating a mission worth $25,000 and 4500 RP in about 13 seconds, then rinse & repeat. I think they patched it out now though. There was a mission u had to collect documents and deliver them to someone but we discovered if you blow them up the mission would complete, so we’d just rain explosives on the objective and win.
HAHAHA. Wow. To be fair it’s been about a week since I played GTA Online
yeah the guys i play with are nuts, most are unemployed too so they’re unhealthily obsessed with it at the moment. It was hilarious yesterday we were going through servers scaring the crap outta people cause we had tanks, choppers, heavily armoured cars and a lot of firepower, one of my crew members got an 84 kill streak in his tank (he is also considered a very bad sport now). We got so much abuse from people accusing us of hacking, so funny. We kept putting a high bounty on one of our tank drivers so everyone would come charging in to claim the bounty and then run away once they saw us. Also you can spectate anyone in the server from your tv in your apartment so we kept watching the carnage from there. Good fun.
Holy shit this is awesome, you’re playing on which platform, and if its PS3 do I have you added? I can’t remember who I have on PSN 😛
I’m on PS3 yeah you added me I’m Gutsoup on psn would you believe
Righto, good 😛 I have the bestest memory.
don’t worry man I have terrible memory, I have to write everything down or I’d forget everything, I’m like the guy from Memento
Hahaha. Oh how fun.
Morning all!
POKEMON X IS AWESOME!
Moving along:
Visited my parents on the weekend. I vaguely mentioned to my dad I was contemplating getting back into pistol shooting (used to do it years ago). Took him all of three seconds to offer me a free gun and like a years supply of ammo. I think he might be slightly keen for me to start shooting again…
*sigh* Canberra.
I don’t get it?
Then you said you didn’t want to do shooting in the “traditional” or “legal” shooting ranges
And wanted to switch jobs to a postal worker.
‘MURICA..
Wait a minute..
Do you have a license and everything? My Dad used to have his firearms license and it was an absolute pain in the ass. You’d get cops showing up every 6 months or so to inspect the firearms cabinet and stuff and then they’d act all suspicious because he didn’t actually own any guns, just the license (we had firearms in New Zealand but left them behind when we migrated to Australia)
Nah, in the process of renewing my old licence.
I have no problems with that sort of stuff. If the alternative was a completely lax approach to gun safety I wouldn’t be getting back into it.
Morning, all.
My stomach hats me.
! 🙁
If you had your pick of nemeses, ‘my own body’ would not be an ideal enemy to choose.
Morning everyone! Just had to stop by and let you know that, whilst playing through my first dungeon of FFXIV on Friday night, one of my party member’s name was Ivana Tinkle.
Everybody put down your glasses, Ivana Tinkle.
Fantastic pageget.
figured just to make things a bit easier, i added a pokemon section to taynames.
to make trading easier….. add your name, version, friend code and what you are looking to trade/have to trade… Leave someone a message in the messages section… whatever…
Pokefreaks…. pffffttttt….
http://www.tinyurl.com/taynames
Blah, work internet is blocking taynames. 🙁
i can add the deets for u if you stick em in a reply!
Ah it’s all good. I’ll add them when I get home. Haven’t fully decided what I want to trade yet either.
I initially misread that to read that you were naming pokemon after TAYnames.
(Edit: Dibs on Gyrados.)
Just got an e-mail from ‘Paypal’, they totally want me to update my ‘Porfile’…
*shakes fist* You guys!
quick, give them your username and password, before the fbi investigates you for failing to validate your identity.
To late. He made their list.
Most people would read this as “he is now on their list,” but given DC’s dedication to list making, I’m choosing to read it as “he was the guy who created their list.”
If you had money in your account they would call it a Richfile
Save it for page six! >:|
Oh yeah, Only War (Warhammer 40K RPG) shenanigans (spoilerised for length, it’s pretty wordy):
We’re currently stuck on a post-Exterminatus planet after our ship was brought down by an Orc rok (of all things). Our primary mission is to secure passage off this planet (Chargos I), past the array of quarantine death satellites, to report to our superiors on the viability of salvaging this planet (levels of archaeotech, etc). There are a lot of foul xenos and heretics down here so the effort to retake this planet would be monumental.The session revolved around us taking down a Heretech (heretical Techprist) who was impeding our plans for escaping this planet and also happened to have a very important piece of archaeotech, specifically a Relic Black Templar Razorback tank that existed pre-Exterminatus (which is approximately several millenia ago). Our Techpriest was especially keen to burn the Heretech as he was an affront to the Omnissiah.
Fortunately we were able to get into his facility by passing ourselves off as representatives of a larger and more powerful faction of Heretechs (with me playing the role of a Servitor). The Techpriest, our Commisar (who was posing as a leader of a remnant cult of the Emperor), and me (as a Stormtrooper posing as a Servitor) were given a tour of the facility while our Medic, Scout, and Sharpshooter (all of whom are from the destroyed planet of Tanith) stayed behind at our designated living quarters/habcentre.
We managed to get the jump on the Heretech when he was alone however he did managed to call up some servitors and several obedience-microchipped slaves to defend him, in addition to having a rotary carbine and four mechadendrite arms (think Doctor Octopus style arms). Our Techpriest managed to disable communications and other defenses while I went toe-to-toe with the servitors using my power fist and the Commisar blasted the Heretech with a handcannon and a bolt pistol. Meanwhile, our Psyker managed to rally our nearby additional squadmates and brought reinforcements via Valkyrie insertion (think the Penguin dropship from Halo with more guns). Our three Tanith comrades sought to take out their habcentre guards, however they were unable to take down a Command Servitor with advanced sub-dermal and external armour plating. Thankfully our Techpriest programmed an override virus that he transmitted to the Scout who was able to insert it into the Command Servitor and temporarily disable it and every other servitor within the facility.
During this time, the Heretech attempted to escape via elevator to a different level of the facility however I dived in after him as the doors closed, leaving the Commissar and the Techpriest to deal with the remaining servitors and slaves. The Psyker was evading Hydra cannon fire as he was laying down support fire from the Valkyrie.
In the elevator, I decided now was a good time to frenzy (essentially rage) the crap and proceeded to beat the everloving crap out of the Heretech, shattering one of his mechadendrite arms due to my power fist’s power field. I eventually struck him in a way that broke one of his bio-energy generators, blasting us both apart and leaving me unconcious. When I came to, his body was gone and we were on the medicae level where we had been given a tour of earlier. In my (continued) frenzy, I bashed through the elevator door and spotted the Heretech lying on one of the operating tables, clearly dying. For good measure, I broke one of his legs and killed him.
While I was focused on the Heretech, I was stabbed in the back by what I later found out was a power knife being wielded by the surgeon, who was also in charge of creating new servitors. That actually killed my character but thanks to the power of fate points, I managed to barely survive with grievous injuries. By the time the rest of the party caught up to me, I had been dragged to one of the operating tables and the surgeon had disappeared, along with the head of the Heretech, Fortunately I had not my own head or any other organs.
Due to my near death experience, I was unable to pursue the surgeon with the rest of the party who located the surgeon in the nearby manufactorum, along with the Command Servitor who had reestablished its original controls and directives. The party easily took down these two enemies, although not without turning the fight into a slip-n-slide Benny Hill style fight when the Scout critically struck the surgeon with a chain sword, cut her in twain and sprayed blood everywhere, forcing everyone in the immediate vicinity to take an Agility test or slip in the blood.
Upon closer examination, the surgeon had removed the Heretech’s head and was carrying it in a stasis tube. We can only assume she was going to attempt to graft the head onto a new body for the Heretech to continue living. The party also discovered the surgeon was actually a Dark Eldar Flesh Reaver and was engaging in heinous surgery on the servitors. Fortunately we all managed to survive, defeat the Heretech, capture the facility and the relic Razorback tank, and are now one step closer to getting off this godforsaken planet.
Highlights:
– me almost dying (yay fate points)
– our Commisar thinking it’s a good idea to jump off the side of the facility with a grav-chute because taking the elevator is too slow (he almost died from the fall)
– punching people so hard they explode
– our Techpriest being an awesome hacker and overriding most of the defenses
– our Tanith squad members for wiping the floor with the surgeon and the Command Servitor (Sharpshooter headshot + Scout backstab = dead)
– adding a Razorback relic tank to our arsenal of 1 Valkyrie, 1 Chimera (heavily-armed/armoured APC), and 1 Sentinel (essentially an AT-AT with an autocannon)
I thought the whole point of Exterminatus was to scour all life off the planet so you wouldn’t have problems like those!
That generally works but this was a former Hive/Forge World that fell to heresy. So while the upper layer of the planet was glassed/vaporised, there were several hundred layers of the planet to go through and not everyone died.
Ahhhhh. That explains that.
Wolf Among Us
Opens a black screen for a second then straight back to desktop.
8/10.
I think you’re playing it wrong …
no wolf make it not good just great ok bad
Sidevote for misquoting. Almost got it though 😛
I really want to get the game, but I know it’s not going to even get that far for me. Telltale games won’t even start up at all on my laptop :/
If it seals the deal there was a reference to Sam & Max in one of the background sounds.
No that just makes it worse. Making the game sound better when I’m not able to play it >:'(
sooo… it’s a TellTale game then? 😛
It’s a metaphor for the darkness of the human psyche!
Murray?
ROLL THROUGH THE GATES OF HELL
HAWLUCHA!
Mawile!
Whenever I’m looking at my Pokemon list I keep seeing Mawile’s name as “Mawt”. =P
OH MY GOD I JUST LOOKED THAT UP AND I NEED ONE RIGHT NOW!
Yeah, that is pretty awesome. I’m thinking Jack Black if he ever became a Pokemon.
When I first fought that Pokemon I legitimately thought it was a guy wearing a costume.
I was going to use him but everybody seems to be using him already /hipster
Love that type combo though!
On the other hand, I really like Helioptile but I hate that type combo! Normal secondary type adds nothing but an extra weakness to worry about >:[You mean, adds an immunity to Ghost type, aka the new type that rules supreme this gen. Also, Helioptile/Heliolisk can learn Thunder, Surf and Grass Knot and has Dry Skin as an Ability. It’s a gorram powerhouse special sweeper.Well when you put it like that… 😛
Dry Skin? Aw man, mine has Sand Veil! I’ve gotta breed a better one anyway, just waiting until I get to a point where EXP is a bit more easily farm-able/get a DittoSV is still kinda useful for going up against Sandstorm teams, I think Grass is a bit weaker during SS, but Surf should hit at full strength.Also, since it’s based on a gorram Frill Neck Lizard and it’s dex entry refers to drawing energy from the sun, everyone assumes that it’s Hidden Ability will probably be Solar Powered, which makes it great for Sun teams – especially paired with Mega Charizard Y.
How do hidden abilities work this gen? Is the Dream World still active, or is there a different way of getting them?Dream world is not currently active. Comes back online January 15th. But there are a few ways to get it in-game.Pokemon in Hordes have a high chance of having their Hidden Ability.
Pokemon you get through the Friend Safari have a high chance of having their Hidden Ability.
Also there’s an item that changes a Pokemon’s ability to it’s other ability. The wording is a bit vague, and I haven’t seen any in depth analysis of it, since it costs 200BP, and is presumably one use only.
NO WAY SWORDO MCGEE IS BEST POKEMAN
Somehow, I woke up at about 10. What witchcraft is this?
Totally gotta call Nintendo today. Totally don’t wanna.
Write yourself a list of points to cover before you ring, makes it easier.
Yeah, been thinking of doing that, especially considering that one of the nights last week when I couldn’t get to sleep, part of the stuff I was thinking of was what I wanted to cover on the call. Of course, couldn’t remember a single part of it once I woke the next day 😛
All I can remember now is that I want to ask her to explain exactly what the nature of this fault is, and also about what that $150 replacement would actually buy me – what data gets transferred, etc. Not sure what else there was to cover. Apart from mentioning that every single person I’ve told about this thinks that two years is a ridiculously short time for a Nintendo system to live for.
Did you go back to the consumer group you were talking to?
Not yet, no. I was planning on sorting things out at the start of last week, but Monday was public holiday, Tuesday was mostly lost thanks to a sleepless night and Wednesday ended up being about dealing with car insurance.
I figured before I do, I should find out exactly what Nintendo’s position on the matter is, hence asking about specifics on the fault and all that. Jodie mentioned that my 3DS was “due for disposal” on the 14th, which is today. So gotta get going on it.
@transientmind @popdart5 @novacascade @negativezero @mawt @tigerion @blaghman and i think that’s everyone
NUMENERA
First, if you haven’t read the recap of the last session that @popdart5 wrote up, it’s here : http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/09/talk-amongst-yourselves-244/comment-page-10/#comment-1964474
Popdart, any chance of getting this chucked on a tumblr or something? I can steal it and do it, but if you’re happy to remain as chronicler I’d rather you retain authorship 🙂
Just a reminder, our next session will be wednesday evening from 7:30 SA time
If you haven’t already, please send me a copy of your character
Also, if you have an image of your character you’d like to use, send that through to me as well, as I can drop it as a pog onto the virtual tabletop- will make it easier to judge distances etc.
@mythamphetamine are you still interested in jumping in?
I’ll try and throw something together when I get home tonight. Probably going to create a tumblr for recaps and then a google docs spreadsheet so we can keep track of loot/cyphers and other stuff that people want to keep track of.
I’ll have a look around for relevant images to add as well to the tumblr too. Character portraits are a good idea. 😀
So 7:30pm ACDT (Central Daylight Time) right? So for any Queenslanders, that would be 6pm AEST and 7pm AEDT for the other eastern states and territories.
730 SA time is 8pm Melb, 7pm Bris I think
Herp derp yep you’re right. Keep getting timezones mixed up and daylight savings makes things worse.
Turns out I’m not going to be able to make it on Wednesdays very easily. 🙁 Sucks as I think I had a pretty interesting character setup and everything.
Bugger! If you need to pop in late or something we can do that, or even every now and then
It might be an every now and then thing.
If you just give us a day or two heads up when you can make it I can tailor the story to fit 🙂
Oh yes, have to email my character profile through. Will do it tonight before I pokemanz
Should be no problem for me to be there
Excellent!
Yes indeedy sir, yes indeedy!
I’ll get back to you tomorrow with stuff.
Spotted this the other day when I was in Coles.. Oh lawdy, someone can’t numbers.
I think someone misplaced the decimal point.
Haha, I think so too.
I’m taking my time with Pokemon, seeing as this is a reunion long time in the making.
The customization options are really hefty, I’m impressed. You can get facial hair, although considering your character is like 11 every ‘stache is unfitting.
Or more fitting, I dunno.
I got kicked out of a clothes shop for not being fashionable enough.
THAT’S WHY I’M THERE!
I wasn’t surprised. Pppfttt, the french.
Decided to get on the Pokemon bandwagon.
With Pokemon Red…
Accurate photo of lambo right now.
Eww.
Heh, I started playing through Red again back when Black and White came out I think. Got about as far as Lavender Town before putting it down again.
One thing I really love about Beyond: Two Souls is they wait to give you the trophies you unlock until after the chapter. Small thing, but keeps you in the game and not thinking about doing things differently to get different trophies.
Spoilers for game structure:
I hope there’s a New Game + mode that allows you to play through the story in chronological order. I love the structure so much, though. Really cool way of doing things.If you read my post on the previous page, you’ll see I hate the way they’ve structured things. I wish the game had an option for chronological play right from the start, but I guess a NG+ mode that allows it would do. Not sure if I’d play it again though, as I’d already know what happens (and unlike Heavy Rain, it doesn’t look like the story branches as much based on your choices).Yeah, I definitely agree with you about the structure. Knowing that Jodie is still alive and well in a future scene takes away any sense of danger in what should have been high impact scenes. Having the game play out chronologically would have been much better, especially considering Quantic Dream proved they don’t give a shit about main characters surviving in Heavy Rain.You can turn off the trophy notifications altogether if you want- they patched it in for The Last of us.
Awesome.
This should be a system-wide option, not a per-game option.
Nothing kills a beautifully-immersive experience quite like an obnoxious giant pop-up on your screen. *bwop!*
It is- PS firmware 4.45 brought it in, it’s under the system settings
Oh! That’s awesome, I’m honestly over trophies and achievements. Don’t even check what I’ve unlocked any more. XD
Went to a Devin Townsend gig on thursday night and the support band did a cover of the Count Duckula theme, Darkwing duck and Ducktales it was rather funny seeing a bunch of metal heads bopping along to ducktales and going “wooh ooh”
Edit: support band was “Toehider”
DUCKULA
they also do Powepuff girls and many others, pretty amusing
That Beardy fellow went to that same gig according to my Facebook feed Thursday night.
oh really I didn’t think anyone was going to it so i didn’t bother mentioning it.
He loves Devin Townsend haha. I wanted to catch him at Soundwave last year, but alas I am pretty sure he was on the same time as Slipknot and there was no way I would miss out on Slipknot haha.
hmm, that beardy guy has good taste, perhaps we’d get along 😀
I’m looking for a best friend in a world we must defend.
Any one got any ideas where to look?
I thought I was your best friend ;_;
Nah!
So abrasive.
Digimon?
Ellen Page?
EMOTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great pick up line.
:'(
Yep, someone missed the joke entirely. (I blacked out the spoiler the idiot included too)
http://i.imgur.com/BszglWC.png
If that’s what I think it is, I probably didn’t want to look at that.
Can you add some context so people can decide whether to follow your link or not?
I think it’s a discussion about Breaking Bad, it references one of the writers. No spoilers, but the joke only makes sense if you know anything about how many seasons there are/will be.
Were 😛
There were 5 seasons, and the person replying to me seemed to miss the joke entirely and spoiled the ending for those who hadn’t seen it.
I was leaving it intentionally vague. 🙂
Pretty much someone on an image on Imgur asked where they can watch season 6 of Breaking Bad, I said they’ll have to wait as Vince Gilligan refuses to write a 6th season, someone who missed the joke entirely came along and said it won’t continue whilst spoiling the last episode of season 5 (which I blacked out).. People are smart 😛
Woot! just saved around 70% on my flights. Even with buying them early and getting that general discount I’m happy with that
Watermelon is the best thing ever. I could just eat and eat and eat until I bloat to death.
And usually do.
Best thing ever you say? I’m sorry but that title belongs to Lasagne. Nothing can de-throne the mighty Lasagne.
It can when it’s store-bought!
Also as much as I looooooooove a home-made lasagne… it’s got nothing on a good serving of gnocchi.
Home made pizza (base included) is the tits.
Maybe we could just generalise and say that Italian food is the best thing ever, because all Italian food is amazing now that I think about it.
Yeah pretty much. Also home made curries are amazing.
I can get behind this.
Although I stand by watermelon being the best thing that doesn’t need to be in any way prepared or cooked.
Hm. I’m sorry, crème caramel wants to have a word. As does chocolate mousse, tiramisu, Domino’s jumbo chicken wings, mint-choc-chip ice-cream, and really greasy extra-cheesy/saucy pizza with shitloads of crispy pepperoni.
You make a strong case, but Lasagne is too delicious! It’s the perfect food! Nothing trumps Lasagne (for me anyway)!
My mums home made mocha cheesecake wants a word with you.
I’d be happy for it to give me a mouthful.
Oh man, my aunt used to do the best tiramisu. Pretty sure it left you unable to drive afterwards, or at least close to it 😛
So Gaijinworks finally pushed out the Class of Heroes 2 physical PSP releases they’ve been working on for a while. Not really that important.
What is important is this:
So presumably one of those 3-4 games they’re evaluating is Class of Heroes 3. Presumably Valkyria 3 and FF Type-0 are both off the cards because in the former case Sega are dicks and in the latter case Squenix have been making some rumblings about doing that themselves. The Trails games are off the table because XSeed and Carpe Fulgur are doling Trails in the Sky SC next year, so I’m wondering what these other games might be.
Previously they’ve released some of the old PS1-era Working Designs stuff on PSN (Alundra and Arc the Lad) and I know that Ireland has mentioned he wants to get the original Lunar games up there at some point, but I wouldn’t think this would be their ‘PSP RPG’ titles.
Thinking of PSP stuff specifically that never got released in English and which is actually good enough to bother with, the only stuff that really springs to mind are the last three Shining games (Hearts, Blade, Ark), 7th Dragon 2020, .hack//Link, Summon Night and Genso Suikoden. I think I’d probably buy any of them if they were to be localized.
@transientmind I dub thee “Other manly upvote fairy” after @dc.
I approve of some things. I’m quite sure it’s less than half of posts, though!
Someone needs to make a game that’s a mix between FTL and Mount and Blade.
Horses in space?
No dufus, Riding rockets through space with your trusty sword!
I walked into Mind Games on the weekend, and walked out with what can be best described as FTL: The Cooperative Board Game.
Is that Space Alert? http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/10/the-top-5-board-games-that-really-will-ruin-friendships/
Space Alert is rad.
Just… don’t play with the CD. It’s pretty awful. Way better to have someone with a time card and a stopwatch actually reading out things.
Yes!
:O I must know what this game is!
Space Alert!
*throws cake at @welbot*
Happy Birthday!
Cheers buddy!!!
FARTY-MONDAY
Yet another weekend, yet another couple of days where not nearly enough gaming occured.
I cracked open NFS: Most Wanted (2012) from my free PS+ bundle, since I generally like the series. Raced around the open world, not really doing events, having fun. Once I started doing the events, I pretty much ragequit – dem cops. D:
Basically, no spoilers requires: it’s another game where you’re in a Lambo with nitrous going 240km/h, and a standard Ford Cruiser (cop) rocks past you doing 300+ and blocks your road. I was extremely angry, as I put my gf’s copy of NFS Hot Pursuit back in the box due to the ridiculous cop AI and general douchebaggery.
Since then, I’ve slightly upgraded one car and now cops aren’t such a huge hassle, but they still beat me @ 280km/h. I guess I’ll have to live with the fact that they are hax0rz.
Otherwise, really loving the game. Open-world, pretty graphics, cutscenes are lol-awesome, rockin’ soundtrack, nice casual drive mechanics.
I like that the cops are always able to pace you- if it was super realistic the chases would be no fun
Add me on PSN so i can invade your autolog (red_artifice)
Well, yeah, they need to be able to pace you for a little bit. But cruising on a highway for two minutes at 250km/h+, there’s simply no way. They literally fly past and ram you at 350km/h+. It just totally breaks the immersion for me. I’d understand if it was the supercar cops, but I’m talking the standard cruiser.
Also, I think you’ve added me already, but I’ll check again!
Oh wow, Al Pacino turned down the role of Han Solo in A New Hope. I never knew that.
HA! I totally misread that…
God, I wish I could just go home and sleep, Uni can go shove it.
Just finished Beyond: Two Souls. So amazing.
I think this is my game of the year. I loved every moment of it.
good to hear, sounds like people are being too hard on it.
Edit: did you like it more than TLOU? Did it make you feel all the feels?
Everyone’s entitled to their opinion, but I can’t understand why others don’t see what I like about this. I know it all comes down to taste and all that, but holy damn some of the stuff I’ve read has been so negative. People reveling in not liking the game.
I liked it as much as The Last of Us in different ways. I totally felt feels. I might’ve had manly tears in the ‘ol eyes atleast twice. Haha!
not enough brown textures
Hating things has always been a popular pastime for people.
I hate hating things
I try really hard to like things and only hate them if they really deserve it.
Me too, I prefer optimism to cynicism any day!
I’m just a meta-hater… i hate so much i hate hating
I find it amazing how this contradicts almost every other review out there.
Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
I wouldn’t want every game I play to be like this, but when one comes along that does I’m so damn psyched. That’s why I’m so happy Telltale has become Quantic Dream Jnr. XD
and you were so hyped about GTA V, I am so disappointed with you DC..
GTA V wasn’t even a GotY contender for me.
2013 has been an amazing year:
Beyond: Two Souls. Pikmin 3. The Last of Us. The Night of the Rabbit.
Any other year these could all be GotY for me!
GTA V was the only game I played that came out this year that impressed me and made me want to keep playing after I finished it 😛
Man, this makes me feel bad that the only games I’ve played from 2013 are Tomb Raider and GTA V 🙁 There’s no way I could really pick a GOTY this year, because neither of them are up to my GOTY standards. (They’re both fun, GTA more so, but neither of them are anything I’d make a point of remembering the experience.)
Edit: Oh wait, Animal Crossing. Yeah that’s not GOTY material either.
Get Wonderful 101 already.
Nah, didn’t really like the demo. My sister who loved the demo abandoned the game midway through too.
I haven’t tried the demo. It took a while for it to click, but once I did it was AMAZING.
Gameoftheyearier than any other game.
(also: Monster)
I have a feeling that if I do end up buying that (I will) once I have a bit more money that’ll be my goty. Looks so good.
are you done with GTA online or are you going to resurface one day? I have a bike rack full of bikes that need breaking in.
We haven’t played Online once, now that I think about it. I’m pretty sure I’m done, though. Got Wind Waker HD and then there’s Arkham Origins and Asylum later this month.
you should at least donate your stimulus package to someone if your not coming back. 😛
Oh man, I’ve been waiting for you to finish!
What choices did you make at the end?End game spoilers:
I managed to convince Dawkins and I chose life. I figured Beyond ain’t going any where and she’ll get to experience that someday too. Decided to go back to her ‘home’ with the Navajo. Felt right. I was worried that the game would try to force my hand to fall in love with CIA guy, even though I rejected him like three times. XDWhat about you, my friend?
Still have the Special Edition chapter to play, which I’ll do soon!
Same, except I chose Ryan at the end. I hated him up until the final scenes, then he totally redeemed himself. I figure it might not work out, but Jodie at least deserves the chance at a real relationship.Did you talk during the interrogation scene, btw? I like the way Ryan handled rejection though. Took it in his stride. Didn’t get all bitter. XDI did, by accident. At that point I was on auto-pilot a little, so I just reacted to the prompt. I probably wouldn’t have, or at least waited a bit, had I been paying attention.Oh man, I didn’t talk and felt guilty for the rest of the game. Ryan got hurt bad. D:Oh. Well I don’t feel so bad about my decision then. They hadn’t even started torturing him when I spoke.@bdkiaf: I think that makes sense for Jodie too. She’s compassionate and not a natural born soldier, just recruited through circumstance. You could totally justify talking and I probably would’ve if I replayed the scene. (Though I like how you have talking regrets and I have not talking regrets. XD)Yeah, that’s pretty much how I justified it. I won’t be playing it again though, same as Heavy Rain and The Walking Dead. As far as I’m concerned the story I experienced is the only story, I don’t need to go back and see what could have been different.Yeah, same here. I will replay the game, but will most likely make the same choices again.
It’s your version of the story for better or worse.
Anyways, I’ll try to tone down my Beyond ramblings now that I’m done.
Thanks for putting up with it!
Thank God.
How DARE you be happy and excited about things.
ANOTHER game of the year for @dc. Sigh. Must be a day ending in Y 😛
so sitting at home right now I have Beyond : Two Souls, GTA V & Pokemon. I really wanna be playing them all at the same time.
I cant decide which one to go with so I boot up Torchlight 2 again.
I’m doing games wrong.
I’m in a bit of the same problem. I have Pokemon plus a truckload of games to finish (Skyrim, LA Noire, other older ones I haven’t gotten around to) and yet I keep getting stuck playing LoL.
Gosh dang it.
Haha I have the exact same problem – Steam library is full from sales, I have many games on my old Xbox and Wii that I’ve yet to finish, but I keep going back and playing LoL.
@popdart5 Thought I would come back and mention that myself and a few other kotaku peeps play LoL semi-regularly. We have a teamspeak server that we chat on when we team up as well. My LoL username is Steveo The Devo, so if you’re keen for some games hit me up.
Sounds cool, yeah I’d be totally up for some games. My ign is popdart5 (I only just added it to TAYnames) and I will have to see if I still have teamspeak installed. Might be on later in the week as I am hella busy for the next couple of days.
You play games like a girl
Specifically my wife. Over 500 games in the account and she is approaching 700 hours in torchlight 2How many hours is she up to on Puzzle Pirates? I swear she lives on that game.
😀
She has hit 4 figures in that one
Holy hell! I’m guessing she likes that game.
Yep. Although it has the same issue that lots of MMO based games have, lots of time spent waiting to try and get a group together. So part of that is housework time
It’s like gaming comfort food.
CK2 is a comfort food game, as is Lumines.
Lumines is awesome for that. I’m so glad I bought it digitally so it’ll always be on my Vita when I feel like something like it.
Lumines is the closest to a gaming addiction I’ve ever got. During my Honours year I was suffering from insomnia, so I played Lumines to switch my brain off.
Once Honours ended and the stress levels dropped it cleared up
Nothing wrong with that. Torchlight II is brilliant, and endlessly replayable. I won’t judge you.
So I reckon I’ve played about 6 hrs of Poké Y over the weekend. I’ve restarted said game twice now.
(mild spoilers follow for the first 2-3 hrs gameplay.
Always knew I’d be getting a Charmander from the Prof when I met him, so I started the game choosing Chespin, the grass starter. Upon battling the prof I realised that I had no real attack against fire types, and 2 for water (pikachu & chespin). So I decided to restart, picking Froakie, the water starter. Got back up to prof, picked Charm under again, and started playing some GTA online. Meanwhile a friend comes round, and being who he is, he starts to make progress in my game for a couple of hours. I’m a little shitty about it, but I figured if I really didn’t want him doing it I would’ve stopped him from saving. As I start it back up with no idea where I am, I notice there is an event to get a free torchic. I finished playing last night having just defeated the prof for the 3rd time. Current lineup consists of Chespin, Pidgey, Pikachu, Combusken & squirtle. Let’s see how long they last!Because of the free Torchic, I chose Chespin at the start and Squirtle from the Prof. I’ve ended up with two fires though, because I’m also using Fletchinder.Ah, I forgot! I played some Dungeons & Dragons goodness with my pals on Sunday. We’re using DnD playtest (not the latest one) if you’re familiar.
Spoiler tag for length, cos I’m nice like that.
I play a Rogue, and we levelled up at the start of the night. I got some new ability called Uncanny Dodge, which upon reading seemed useless as it was just reiterating my Evade skill (can use reaction to halve damage). Pretty disappointed with my new ding, we carried on.Later, I re-read what I actually got: “DEX save throws to take half damage [read: Evade] can use your EXP DIE [yep, I read this before, seemed useless]. In addition, if making the saving throw you take half damage on a failed save, and zero damage on a successful save”. Ohmagawd.
So now I pretty much take half damage guarantee’d (if I can see the attacker hit me) with a very high chance of negating the attack due to high DEX and an EXP die. 😀 I used this to full extent when I got hit with a Sun Death Ray or similar, negating all damage. One of my crew raged hard because not only do I dish out the most damage, I can theoretically be the best tank too haha.
I haven’t followed the playtest super closely, but is that an ability that can pop every time?
Well, that was the argument that the rager presented. “You can’t use both, you can only choose one!”
But it’s not a spell or a feat, or anything like that. It’s a race ability/feature? Evade describes my reaction (which can be used at any time). Uncanny Dodge doesn’t even do anything, it just describes extra bonuses when doing DEX sav throws and reactions in particular. In that way, it’s like the description for an EXP die or attack bonus – it’s just a description of some bonuses that you apply to other things.
So, I think my logic is sound. I use the reaction (use = once per hit), and the reaction works as long as I can see the attacker and the attack. E.g. it didn’t work for the trap which made me go to -7HP 🙁
What’s the exp die?
Some characters get an ‘expertise die’. Mines a D8, and I use it for DEX saving/check throws. Basically, I add it to my roll. Different classes/etc have it apply to different skills, if they have it at all.
Interesting, though it does probably slow things down a bit from more dice and “does this apply at this point?” sort of questions.
One of the things i really like about Numenera is that it is low-roll.
It does seem to read that way to me. But I’d argue that the ability seems incredibly OP because it’s automatic – if I was putting it together I’d probably change it so that a successful save is 100% mitigation but a failed save has no effect. What’d probably end up happening is the DM is going to just start twisting stuff such that you can’t use evade. 😛
Also nothing wrong with being a rules lawyer and arguing the specific wording of everything. As a Rogue you have to do that, you always need to be exploiting stuff like flanking and dodge and generally being very particular otherwise your damage output is only average.
Actually yeah, permanent half-damage seems pretty OP
Indeed, it does seem OP. But alas, such is the game. I also have 10HP less than a wizard… I’m 47HP @ lvl 8.
In the last playtest my Paladin and Ranger buddies had double attacks at like level 5. Ranger had dual-weild crossbows too, so 4x damage… 😛
… how does he reload?
Very, very carefully.
As I said, we’re pretty casual players. Additionally, the DM at the time allowed a special ‘crossbow mod’ that featured a clip and auto-reload. Stretching the boundaries, I think.
@redartifice @stickman: I was assuming something along the lines of the way the dual-wielded shotguns worked in Marathon 2. “Many years of loving craftsmanship went into the design and construction of this brutal tool of mayhem, I hope you can appreciate that. I won’t waste my time trying to explain the loading mechanism to you — your primitive mind could never grasp its complex nature.”
Well that certainly sounds interesting. I haven’t been paying attention to the DnD playtest at all so I’m hoping I’ll be surprised when it is finally released.
Also btw Mr Stickman, myself and @redartifice seem to be the primary TAY RPG tragics. Join the club. 😀
Also @mawt!
Also me. I play two games a fortnight 🙂 At the moment, both are 3.5, but there’s been cinematic unisystem and BRP in there too.
I started pen and paper RPG in 4th ed and have become increasingly tragic since!
Haha, sure thing! 😛 We’re pretty casual DnD players in terms of gameplay, but it’s definitely fun to catch up with the gang every fortnight.
I haven’t played steadily for a while, though we are Numenera-ing online atm.
i did DM a 4e one-shot for some noob friends the other week, think we’ll do a follow-up session soon 🙂
I’m about to start playing in another campaign. \o/
This will be my sixth, possibly seventh, concurrently running game. I probably should stop but I’m having too much fun. 😀
Commitment!
After playing GTA Online, I think I’m more open to playing coop multiplayer next time there’s a Borderlands-style game released. (Probably The Division?)
Yay!
You’ll be getting a PS4, yes? So you’ll have the headset?
Headset built into controller?
PS4 comes with a mono headset that plugs into the controller
Oh man! Now I’ll have to make another excuse for not talking! Laryngitis? EVERY TIME A NEW MULTIPLAYER GAME IS RELEASED!
Or, now hear me out, you could talk.
Crazy.
Easy for you to say, awesome voiced guy. (Had no idea who you were when I heard you talking, but thought: damn this guy has a cool sounding voice. XD)
@dc come on, can’t be any worse than my reedy high-pitchedness.
I’ve got the deepness of Flu’s voice, but on the opposite of the pleasant spectrum. 😛
i played COD for several years, no sound or nothing you could say would ever be as annoying as COD douchebags.
Seriously, you need to talk, even if it’s just to tell me to stop yelling GET IN THE CAR at you
The word “powerful” has been used.
I got a shock yesterday when I was trading Pokemon with @novacascade. Game asked if I wanted to start “Game Chat”, which I said yes to, assuming it would open an instant message window… Nobody told me that meant voice chat! haha
“Ha ha ha, I’ll send this sucker my crappiest critter, he won’t know any different. I’m really screwing him out of something good here!”
“Voice chat? You can hear me? Ahhh…”
I thought Nintendo were super-against this because pedos were going to use it to contact your children or something? But they built it into Pokemon of all things?
I assumed it was only voice because we were already on each others friends list. Could be wrong though
Borderlands 2?
Over stayed my welcome on that planet. Don’t think I could play that game again any time soon. XD
Hypothetical question TAY – Say someone who doesn’t have a 3DS and wants to play pokemanz were to go against his budget (and fiances wishes) and pick up both, what would be the best/cheapest option? 2nd hand 3DS on Ebay? The 2DS?
Whichever one is easiest to take with you when she makes you pack your things.
Pokemon = worth it
IIRC the 2DS is about $138 and Pokemon $44 at Big W, so that would likely be your cheapest option. Unless you happen to get lucky with a secondhand 3DS, but who knows how likely that is.
EB has the 2DS going for $148 and if you price-match Pokemon from Big W for $44, you could get everything going for under $200. Not sure about 2nd hand 3DS but brand new still retail for $199 for standard or anywhere from $230-$250 for XL. 2nd hand basic 3DS from EB is apparently as low as $129 but quality might not be great.
I still have my original 3DS sitting in it’s box in my cupboard that I don’t use anymore, actually…
If you would like to turn it into some cash, let me know.
Feel free to email me at: ben-at-powalen-dot-com
I’ve never posted a parcel before though so I’ll have to check what’s involved in that! It’s in it’s original box though so I can’t imagine it being too much hassle.
2nd hand gen 1 3DS goes for 129 at EB (can be lower during sales, wouldn’t expect that any time this year)
If you prefer new hardware, it’s hard to go past the 2DS – it’s all about creating an affordable and less breakable option for the pokeymanzzz. 148 at JB.
Game is 44 at big dubya (only until Wednesday), you may have trouble with that, my local was sold out on Sunday (and reverting to 59 by Thursday). Next best was Target at 49, JB at 54, and EB and download at the full nearly 60 retail price.
I’d argue it’s very easy to go past the 2DS as that thing looks hideous. Better off with a 2nd-hand standard 3DS.
@steve-o_the_deve-o: I imported my 3DS XL from the UK and I think it was marginally cheaper than buying it locally. If you do that you may need to go buy a separate 3DS charger though.
Ah, good point. @steve-o_the_deve-o – I have seen on occasion, if you walk into the right Dick Smith or Hardly Normal, you may see a new original 3DS for 119. Pretty scarce though, I wouldn’t plan or bank on it.
Hang on, Pokeymans is going up in price?
One week special. Fine print says $58 after special, catalogue says special available until 16/10. (Big Dubya that is)
Hrmm. Might just have to take the hit on that one, seems to be out of stock online and not sure I can make it to a Big W.
Big W seems to do that a lot. Undercut everyone else for the first week or so then put prices back to normal.
Literally just sitting here staring at my phone. I almost wish they’d just call me instead.
Nike, man.
Just do it. Or they’ll throw away your 3DS
Do it for Pikachu.
I hate that guy 😛
Do it for the chance to beat up Pikachu repeatedly.
*loads up Red*
Pardon?
And he didn’t even buy you dinner first
Pokemon Amie: lovable Pokemon cuddling simulator or deadbeat trainer Pokemon-basher simulator?
Do it for Chewie and the Ewoks…and all the other puppets
LUKE BE A JEDI TONIGHT
Hamill is one of the greatest Simpsons guest stars ever. Especially when you realise he pulls double duty in that ep
he is the best in Metalocalypse, so funny. He’s the manager and random fans
Need to figure out what to play next as I think I’ll probably be done with my current stuff this week. Tossing up going back and finishing the story in FFXIV (I kind of lost momentum because of a terrible boss fight and some bad group experiences) or Xillia (stopped playing because of FFXIV) or maybe something else entirely. Also got Agarest sitting there on Steam but it’s a bit buggy still. Plus Disgaea D2 should arrive late this week or early next week. Too many games 🙁
Play Madden 2014.
Disgaea D2 is pretty awesome. I wouldn’t play anything that requires a lot of investment because D2 can take up a lot of your time.
Does it have decent mechanics for leveling up characters through the early stages of the game quickly? The way that the only effective method for leveling lowbies in 1-3 was to have them do group attacks with a high-level character or grind low-level areas used to really suck, I was super happy when Disgaea 4 added that system where you put down a thing and then the dudes inside the square shared some kind of bonus, because one of them was that one character would earn like 50% of the XP of another character. Meant you could put your top-end dudes (in my case it was usually Valvatorez and one of my Mages) in the leader positions and then put lowbies into the rest and quickly level them up. Great for when you reincarnate into a higher-level class and start again at level 1. The other games didn’t have a good mechanic for it like that. Coincidentally the only games I finished in the series are 1 and 4, but I’d argue that’s mainly because 4 has the best story after 1, and because both have Flonne.
Beyond:Two Souls.
Looks fantastic. Very cinematic and I’ll begrudgingly suspend my dislike of Ellen Page to say she’s done well. The more intense action scenes in particular are brilliantly shot.
Dafoe is wasted though and I can’t shake the feeling the scripts handed out were written in crayon with the ‘e’s backwards and all spelled wrong.
Worst review ever, no mentions of “EMOTIONS!”
7/10
Surprisingly restrained in the EMOTIONS! department. I mean its Cage so he can’t help himself at times but not horribly overdone.
Yeah, this is pretty accurate. I’m not an Ellen Page fan at all, but she’s done a great job in Beyond. Some of the dialogue is just so incredibly bad though.
Still loved it.
4 out of 5 emotions.
I’m enjoying it enough to recommend it to someone. David Cage needs to keep making games as he is damned good at it but someone needs to take the pen out of his hand.
Yep. The writing is by far the weakest point of Quantic Dream’s games. A game by them written by a decent writer would be fantastic, though there ain’t no way David Cage is going to let anyone else write but him.
To tell you the truth, I like his writing. Sometimes things are a bit too precise or speak what’s on your mind-like, but that mostly comes from a French writer penning an English script, I think.
I think this is his best writing effort yet and not a plot hole in sight! *glares at Heavy Rain* 😛 I’ll concede he might need a script doctor or editor to go over some lines from time-to-time, but otherwise it’s all good.
Weird! I loved the writing. I thought Dafoe was great! You crazy!
(Though all your remarks are mostly positive so I’m just being fanboy-like now.)
The one thing that always helps on a shit day of work: mint choc-chip ice cream flavoured chewing gum.
Mint chewing gum? Woah.
http://www.specsavers.com.au
I should be making a trip there next weekend to collect my new glasses \o/ I’ll be able to see through both eyes again!
Got a notification that someone replied to my post in the GTA “Go fuck yourself” article, only to go there and find no such reply. Stupid moderation. I WANNA KNOW WHAT IT SAYS!
Probably go fuck yourself.
Season four of the The Walking Dead starts tonight on FX on Foxtel. Tempted to watch, just to fill that Telltale void.
If only there was a Telltale game that you haven’t played you could amuse yourself with in the meantime.
No Jurassic Park evah! (Though I give it credit for pushing Telltale into the new direction it’s doing well at now!)
Yeah Jurassic Park was essentially the precursor in the cinematic narrative style that Telltale are perfecting now. Sure it was really rough around the edges but it led to Walking Dead so yay 😀
Oh, is that still going? I guess I’ll [redact] it. Maybe. :\
Now there’s an endorsement! Hype levels now at an all time high! 😛
Yeah, I’m completely up to date, but I’m not exactly hyped about watching the new episode tonight.
[redact]? You think the federales monitor TAY? IS SOMEONE HERE A SNITCH?
*flushes incriminating stuff*
PlayAsia sent shipping info for my Pokeymen to FedEx, but FedEx hasn’t picked it up yet.
HURRY THE FUCKING SHIT UP YOU FUCKS.
Also, my Shadowrun Fifth Edition hardcover core rulebook arrived from Amazon today. Now I get to read it and wish I actually had someone to play the game with. It is a very pretty book and smells awesome.
I named my Pikachu after you.
Codichu?
Just Cody.
\o/
This is the one case where renaming your Pokemon seems perfectly reasonable.
We could Shadowrun on Roll20? I don’t think @popdart5 is in enough campaigns atm…
NEVER! MOAR CAMPAIGNS!
That is, unless other people want to play instead, then I might sit this one out.
Maybe. I’d yearn for an actual sit down and proper play, tbh. I always had geek friends, but they were never board game/TCG/tabletop gaming inclined. Not sure why I was friends with them actually. Wait, they liked video games. Nevermind.
Roll20 is actually a pretty good substitute.
Only catch is as you can’t hand around books you need to have people ok with the mechanics.
*screams*
Yeah, these usernames are pretty scary.
Except @dc, who’s reverted!
I think he had to change back, court order. His name was causing to many heart attacks due to shock after reading his name.
*lowers shirt*
Your third nipple is still showing.
A friend of mine actually has a third nipple.
That is excellent. I always wished I had another.
We called him Scaramanga for a while.
because he has a golden gun? 😛
You could call him Ivannah after the woman in mallrats
sorry, sorry, thought I had pants on
EDIT: Well my comment’s effect is a bit diminished if everybody else here is naked.
I cannot explain just how much I hate being unable to do this.
The, uh… the day it is wearing on, man. :/ Need someone to call for you? Toss us a number, reference numebrs, key objectives… Talking on phone is something I spent several years doing for a living.
I feel your pain, my friend. 🙁
Hey. So, did it work out?
Current status:Stuck in bed.
Haven’t vomitted since last night.
Pokemon?
I guess that’s the best way to look at it. 😀
On the plus side, I did get out of bed… but I spent the rest of the day watching Ouran School Host Club.
\o/ Progress!
*flies in*
Just wanted to say @bdkiaf how awesome you are. Getting pokemans on the weekend, and Ash having his own 3ds… its the first game in the series we were able to start at the same time, and just sat there over the whole weekend keeping pace with each other, sharing new stuff, battling etc. And its aaaaall thanks to you. So srsly, thank you, a whole heap. Has been a pretty special couple of days me and Ash wouldnt have otherwise had.
*flies away*
Aw, you brought ’em closer BDKIAF! :’)
He’s a damn good guy. (And liked Beyond: Two Souls too. That makes him alright!)
For the sake of balance, I really didn’t like The Last of Us. You can decide what weight that carries.
Everyone has their flaws… 😛
Yessssssss! ^_^
I like stories like these. Vidja gaems!
Oh, did you end up switching versions? Y has some pretty cool exclusives, but I can appreciate the appeal of Charizard X.
I settled for X, I let Ash have first choice on all things, including starters so we kind of differentiated. So needless to say I have some pretty lame pokemans.
I hope Quantic Dream release a Heavy Rain/Beyond: Two Souls pack for PS4. (Uncharted pack from Naughty Dog too.) Don’t like the idea that if something happens to my PS3 I’ll never be able to play these again! D:
They’ll bundle the three games with Unkarted, surely!
Unkarted is genius.
Tech minded Taybies I need your help.
I had a spare hard drive I wan’t using any more and brought it down to throw into @Scree’s computer.
It worked fine the first time I booted it up after installing the new HDD. I hadn’t formatted it before I brought it down Scree’s comp recognised it straight away and even had my old data. I told it to do a quick format to get rid of all my old crap and everything seemed hunky dory.
She went to start her computer again this morning and it wouldn’t work. You can here it starting up for about 10 seconds, then it beeps very briefly then seems to shut down and restart all over again.
I’ve unplugged the new HDD and it started up again OK.
I know she’d had problems previously with it restarted and some of you had diagnosed it as a power problem and the HDD wasn’t quite getting enough juice. I’m thinking maybe the extra HDD was putting too much strain on the power which was stopping it booting properly. Anyone out there with actual knowledge on computers think this sounds right and will a new power supply fix this?
An SSD may help.
Actually, that’s not very helpful. An SSD may be desired however it is also a new purchase. You were salvaging an old drive for reuse. A new power supply could fix the issue however the only way to find out is to substitute one in and test.
Or not.
When the new HDD is plugged in and remove it (the new HDD) from the “boot priority list” (or whatever it’s called) if you haven’t already done so.
THIS. It may be trying to boot to the wrong drive.
Yeah, my dad had the problem recently, I was messing around with one of my old HDD on his comp and it kept trying to boot off my HDD because at one point of time it detected it had an OS on it.
I was thinking this but it didn’t seem to get as far as the bios menu (or where you press the button to get to boot menu)
It does sound like it might be a juice problem but could be something else.
It doesn’t sound like a problem of a missing boot loader or anything because you’d get a boot failure not an instant restart.
Does the machine boot normally if you leave the power plugged in but don’t connect the data cable? Tried disabling the drive in BIOS to see if it’s software-related?
Does it POST? Any chance you bumped something or caused a short circuit when you connected everything?
^— This. Also, boot into a USB linux flavour to prove that it actually does boot and stay on. Then, format the drive and all partitions on it.
This sounds like it’s going well above my level of knowledge. I don’t think I’ve ever done anything with linux.
This should help: http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd-on-usb-disk
What this does is prove that windows boot is not impacting the PC at all. If the PC doesn’t boot from USB with both HDDs connected, you know it’s a hardware problem.
What’s POST?
I’ll give it a go in various stages of plugged in as soon as Scree finishes what’ she’s currently doing with it. My first thought was maybe I’d knocked the RAM out of it’s seating so I opened it up and made sure everything was plugged in properly.
POST is that motherboard white-text-on-black-background stuff that appears before the Windows booting animation appears.
How many drives does she currently have installed. If you think it might be a power supply issue try unplugging one of the existing drives and booting with the new drive. If there is no issue then power supply seems likely.
Not as accurate but I guess you could try by unplugging an optical drive instead
It’s only the second drive so if I unplug the other one she won’t have boot drive. Though I guess if it’s working at least I’ll have the bios load up properly so I may give this a go as soon as she’s not using the computer. t the moment it doesn’t run long enough for it to actually send any output to the main monitor when both HDDs are plugged in.
So it’s not POSTing then? Or is it POSTing then failing? POST-then-fail suggests probably either a power supply issue or a short.
I don’t think so. Is POST when it loads up from BIOS and then chooses what to do from there? basically it only runs for maybe 3 to 5 seconds before looping back to the start. Nothing shows up on the monitor at all.
POST is before BIOS. It’s when it powers up all the devices, checks RAM etc.
Great my phone is dead, I have no way to retrieve ANYTHING off it. Thank fuck I backed it up last night but still.
sadvote 🙁
Journey stuffs:
Just played through for the first time while wearing white robes. The person I partnered up with also had white robes. It was clinical and methodical. They just went straight from glowing symbol to glowing symbol and skipped basically everything else along the way. Easily the worst possible way to play Journey and the only bad experience I’ve had so far. Was tempted to just abandon them and find a new friend but that felt wrong.That’s kind of scary to think that as a newbie if you picked it up and trusted someone like that, they might be leading you ‘astray’ by avoiding the scenic routes.
Don’t worry. Most of the stuff required doing jumps that non-white robes can’t make. And you probably couldn’t keep up with them if you didn’t know what you were doing.
You know those Australian Animals cards they’re giving away at Woolworths? They sell display books for the cards and such. Apparently they’re so popular that Woolworths has run out of stock of the books and there are many angry parents on Facebook whose kids missed out. My boss went on eBay to try and find one for her kids and they’re being sold for $50+ a pop. The contact page on their website has a big banner exclaiming that there is no stock, don’t bother calling.
I’m shocked that this is so popular 😛 Man, kids are so easy to rope in! Not like in my day! *hides Pokemon cards/discs, DBZ/Simpsons tazos, Looney Tunes tazos, Digimon plastic thingos, etc, etc, etc*
Hah, stupid parents
*explicitly displays Magic the Gathering cards*
i only recently got into magic, and now suddenly all of my money is gone
Not all my money, but it is an enjoyable way to spend some.
I’m more interested in Sealed formats going forward i think, other formats have too many cards I summarise as
Opponent played FUCKING BULLSHIT
it’s Super Effective!
Some of the Japanese TCGs (esp. Weiss Schwarz) found a good way to avoid that. Instead of constantly adding new cards which invalidate the old ones, they release sets themed around a particular game or anime. Often they’ll recycle certain mechanics and cards. You always build a deck from a single set (or sets, as some of them they might do multiple sets if they’re popular and get sequels) and so you can usually jump straight in and focus on the stuff that you actually like and generall won’t find that your old cards are deprecated by a new set coming out.
I think this is also the logic behind the way Magic currently works at tournament level – you can only play with that year’s cards.
Other TCGs I’ve played always had the issue of power creep. Stuff from later expansions was so much better than earlier expansions that most of the initial cards would never be used. I played the crap out of the Star Wars CCG for a long time and it really had that bad. For example there was almost no reason to use the Luke from the intial set because his Jedi version from the final RotJ set was so much more powerful. The only time it made sense was if you were theming around a certain area and there were cards that had a powerful gimmick that made it worthwhile.
I remember the early days of Magic (I started playing just after the Antiquities expansion IIRC, maybe a bit later – It’s blurry but I remember Revised Edition coming in not long after I started) they had similar issues of power creep and would address it by banning cards all the time.
Nowadays since I’m usually the one that needs to provide multiple balanced decks because no one else I know collects, if I’m getting card games I tend to prefer to play fixed deck stuff. That said I nearly went off the deep end a couple of times after PAX. Got the bug again after playing some of the stuff there 🙁
My Magic stuff is all post-Pax.
I’m just not interested in throwing money on individual cards- I like the randomness of packs, and playing with resources in front of you, rather than building gimmicky decks.
Yeah, my younger brother and his partner and some of their friends all build these intricate-yet-robust ‘win in 5 turns’ type decks with specific gimmicks and mechanics to unleash unbeatable horror. It’s all about how fast they can get out their nuclear weaponry.
By contrast, I really love playing with the improvised ‘never know what you’re going to get’ back-alley knife-fight type decks, compared to all this high-tech arms-race shit.
The absolute best format for TCG stuff is booster draft. You pay a cover fee for a bunch of boosters. Open each one, go through, select a card, pass the booster to the next dude and they pass theirs and you select a card and so on until you go through all your boosters. Have to build a good deck on the fly from what you get and that’s half the fun. Plus because it’s not preconstructed stuff one person with heaps of money isn’t going to be able to field a crazy powerful deck and instead it skews toward the players who understand the mechanics of the game better.
That’s what I want to get into
This is something my brother does. He has a box full of decks, each of which has different ‘engines’ – themes/gimmicks/win conditions. I kid you not that there are probably over a hundred different decks there, of varying effectiveness. Whenever we have folks around and everyone feels like playing magic – they can be familiar enough with the rules to play but not so devoted that they build their own techs, we can play like… five-headed giant and such with all these decks we pick up out of his crates.
It’s quite enjoyable. And for him, most of the fun is in the deck-building, not the playing. Playing is just validation of effectiveness.
Yeah, that sort of thing is awesome – I used to do it a bit too. But it’s also super expensive. 🙁
Sobering thought: M:tG is old enough now that there are people out there who’s parents played it when they were children. 🙁
Someone get me my shotgun, the kids are on my lawn again
Oooooooooooooold.
I had been collecting them but that was to give to someone who isn’t Aussie
Yeah, we can’t get a book for love or money, but I think we have all the cards… :\
Welp, guess someone is going on eBay…
I believe I overheard that Woolies have put a PDF of the book pages online if you’re a DIY kinda guy! (I could be completely wrong on this, don’t get your printer ready just yet :P)
I can check mine. I don’t know if they will, but I’ll try
Nah, don’t stress, we aren’t really that fussed. We haven’t actually tried love OR money yet 😛
last night mum asked for her packs (she was meant to get 6) and the guy just gave her all the ones left in the box, which was about 20… I hope she got the book then 😛
Welp, my current employer burned me on my police application. Said I was unstable, lazy, aggressive and wouldn’t recommend me to anyone. Guess all those awards for being one if the top employees in the country are nothing then? The fact my store is the 24th highest performing shop in the country is despite me? The fact he panicked when I called him and asked him what the hell and he started blathering about how I’m a great employee that he has no problem with at all would mean I’m terrible as well?
Fuckers.
Now I have to write a letter explaining my side of these things. This isn’t looking good on my application.
Fuck.
I should add he is still asking me to stay if it falls through. Is he retarded?
You financially stable enough to quit right now? If so, I’d quit right now.
That’s probably a stupid suggestion. Ignore that. I feel for you, my friend. You’re one of the most respectable, good natured people I know.
What an arse.
I’d recommend being pretty dispassionate in the letter. Explaining that your performance, position, and awards should speak for themselves and may in fact be the reason you’ve received a negative review, in light of the fact that they have asked you to stay on.
(Edit: Also, could be worth a call to fair trade to ask what your options are in the event of current employer sabotaging job applications elsewhere in order to keep you.)
I second the call for a dispassionate letter. Also, can you go to corporate or HR or something to get at least a please explain?
I third it. Also perhaps attach some alternate glowing reviews. Maybe mention what your current terms of termination are, to show that it’s pretty easy to fire you if you’re so bad.
He’s scared to lose you, obviously. But what a cunt for doing that you though man. Piece of shit.
Holy fuck. That’s really low. That’s some Today/Tonight shit right there.
Until they find out he plays video games, in which case the story goes from “Employer sabotages model employees police dreams” to “Deranged gamer tries to join police force so he can reenact GTA”.
Those GTA cops are simply the worst. “He was speeding, so we shot him”
Edit: I need to proof read.
Aw fuck! I’m sorry to hear this, man. 🙁
Quit right now unless he calls them and explains the situation
Get in touch with corporate HR right away
See if you can speak to one of the police recruiting guys to ask what the best way to go about getting your side of the story
Edit: When speaking to HR you might want to drop the term ‘Negligent Misstatement’ into the conversation
For what it’s worth, Mrs Shane was totally outraged when I told her. Happy to volunteer to proof any letters that get wroted.
Well that was a hectic last half hour, rush over to the shops to the phone repair store explain my phone has died and i’ve nfi what happened, girl said give her 10 minutes and she will have a look, rush to JB, Telstra & Vodafone to ask how much a new phone is, then remember I forgot dad’s script, rush to the chemist who says can I wait, I say no I will be back in 5 minutes, rush BACK to the phone repair place, the girl fixed my phone \o/ all she did was open it up (iPhone 4) disconnect the battery and reconnect it and it worked, wouldn’t even take 10 bucks for her troubles. But so relieved now. Didn’t want to be out of pocket a few hundred dollars for a new phone 🙁 I have my old iPhone 3G that @freezespreston gave me, thank god for that. But can’t even make audible phone calls on it now I found out, heh.
Well damn, some good news amongst the chaos eh?
Yeah, now my PC won’t boot :S I was having issues with it the last few days after a bunch of windows & drivers updates, now it will freeze when it’s doing nothing. Not cool.
When was the last time you opened it up and cleaned the dust out? That can often be a great place to start with PC troubles…
I do that every few months, I only did it about 3 weeks back, this was in direct correlation to some windows updates I installed on (I think Thursday morning) since ALL the issues started happening after I went to install these updates and they wouldn’t finish installing. Last time that happened (I was running Vista in 08 it corrupted my registry) but all is well now I managed to do a system restore and remove those updates so hoorah.
So according to Annie, for my birthday this weekend, I’m getting:
* A packet of new cow poo
* A packet of straws
* Some cheese
* And a new penis!
It’s going to be the best birthday ever.
A new penis! Not sure if good, or insulting..?
If you don’t use all those straws, I’m drinking from the rim of a cup like a savage.
What happened to the old one? D:
Used it too many times, Annie doesn’t want a new sibling 🙂
you might wanna check if the cheese is related to the penis too.. that could be..ugh.. i dun… even..
Hi people! Yes it is indeed my birthday today. I truly am #oldmanwelbot now.
Big thanks to all those champs a few pages back who sent their well wishes! I didn’t want to reply to every single comment, so I figured it was just best to pop a little show of appreciation here so it will actually get seen by someone other than Freeze, since it was his comment I replied to!
I’m lucky enough to actually share my b’day with one of my good friends, and heroe’s, Jennell Jaquays (formerly Paul Jaquays.. you know.. from a little place called iD), so it’s a double awesome day! I actually shared my b’day with one of my Grandfathers too, but he’s long gone now. Still, I remember him every year on this day, so in a way he’s still with me 🙂
Happy Birthday, maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.
Cheers buddy!
Merry birthmas.
Happy birthday bud.
Someone tell Namco they’re poopy-heads and also that I want God Eater 2 in English.
… had to be a page get.
Haha, poopy-heads is page-get worthy.
Your nick is worthy enough. RIP Peter Steele!
If you’re interested in this kinda stuff – I had another game day last week and I took another timelapse.
There’s another Gamelapse and other perhaps-mildly-interesting videos on my channel.
That’s a link to this page…
No it’s not, what are you talking about? 😛
Amused by the girl who seemed to spend an incredibly long period of time lying face-down on the floor in apparent boredom having failed to drag away the guy (boyfriend?) she was attached to like a limpet.
Excellent music choice.
Yeah, no idea why she was even there …
Does anyone feel they know me well enough to provide a character reference?
Yes. I mean no.
Sorry, I know you’re in a pickle. That was my cheap attempt at putting a smile on your face. We’ve never met, so that’s all I could do.
“He can’t remember who I am, so he will be very useful in the forthcoming trial.”
I think Freeze is a pretty cool guy. Eh posts shit on Kotaku and doesn’t afraid of anything.
I’d be more than happy to volunteer myself if you need!
He rolled low on his Wisdom stat and used Charisma as a dump stat but he’s Batman!
Just make sure to munch gravel in the interview
I consider you to be one of my best friends. I’d happily provide you one.
Written? (Phones scare me!) When do you need it?
Also, I’m not sure if I’d be much help being a crazed hermit and all that. Let me know!
Sounds like respectable people like Transient and Tigs would make better references.
‘His passion to fight crime or be a police officer or whatever is rivaled only by his passion for Dark Souls.’
Yes.
Known you almost 2 years, which should be long enough for most people to see that you’re an acceptable bloke.
I reckon I could string a complimentary word or two together.
Happy to provide a character reference if that helps. I have known you for 2 years and can attest to acts of generosity and the type of guy you are. I can even just say the good parts.
The pros are that I’m a director/owner of a company for what weight that holds.
The cons of having me do that are that I live 1,000km from you and have met you in person only a couple of times. Also I would have to mention you have still not sent back Mrs Tigs’ book back.
In reference to the previous post about what your boss said. We discussed the general concept with the group at trivia tonight. Pretty much all of us agreed that it is actually slander and that you could have a case against both your boss and because you asked for a reference from Mister Minut, the company as a whole.
The other thing that was mentioned as a talking point when you raise the issue with corporate HR is to phrase it as ‘He lied to the police’ as opposed to lied to a potential employer. You will get a “wait a moment, is that perjury” reaction from a HR manager and your complaint will be taken much more seriously.
It is worth speaking to a lawyer in regards to this, and if cost is an issue then you can always look at a no win no charge option. For a large national franchise it is probably easier for them to settle for $30k than to fight charges. Which gives you the time you need to clear things up with the police force.
If you would like me to act as a reference give me a call and we can discuss
I am getting a sudden strange desire to be creative.
I wish I wasn’t bad at art. 🙁
Throw paint at objects and point a camera at the mess. If you’re lucky, you’ll become a millionaire. If you’re unlucky, you’ll face a few vandalism charges and might have some people assault you for throwing paint on them.
By ‘bad at art’ I meant that I wish I could draw game sprites. 😛
Do what I do. Spend three hours working on something, realise that it’s completely awful on every level, and turn it into a circle.
What I anticipate happening from there: Give your game a name that’s some pun about circles. Rake in single digit dollars.
http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/13/4835988/deus-ex-human-revolution-pc-augmented-with-directors-cut-for-4-99
Oh wow! PC version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution can be upgraded to the Director’s Cut for $5! (Assuming you have The Missing Link DLC, if not $10.)
That is so happening. 🙂
But not for console version, too? 🙁
Just tried Coldstream cider for the first time. To me, it tasted like putrefying apples soaked in stale beer. Blerghhh.
In other news, I played TitS last night and I think I’m stuck. Don’t want to check a guide though so I was just stubbornly wandering around everywhere and now I’m kind of OP. Not sure if good or bad thing. 😛
Where are you up to?
Currently chasing the shadows that were seen when Cassius’ airship went missing. I was stuck on the bit where I had to find the reporter to see if he knew anything and I checked everywhere it was possible to go except for the out-of-the-way corner in the bar where he actually was. Embarrassingly, the bar had originally been the first place I’d checked but somehow managed to miss him. 😛At that point in the game I went and did all the available sidequests before talking to him and then I forgot where he was. 😛BTW a lot of the sidequests have cut-off points where they expire. You should do them the instant you’re able to. There’s a few in Chapter 3 that end very quickly and so the window where you can do them is quite tight.
Yeah, I had one monster extermination expire on me and couldn’t go back to a previous save because it was a few hours beforehand. I was frustrated because I’d searched and searched the place where it was supposed to be and couldn’t find it. Hmm, this is becoming a pattern with me these days. 😛Sweet!
EDIT: Reply Fail! how are we all this fine evening?
Had better evenings, feel like I am mildly sun burnt, curses.
I avoid that by not going out in daylight!
Worth it though, took the dog down the river, she finally knows how to swim \o/
My old dog used to love water, a Lab 🙂
Our other dog who was a red heeler cross ( whopassed away last week) love everything thing involving water, the hose, the local river etc.. Chilli (kelpie cross border) is a bit timid of the hose, but like her mum she LOVES bodies of water. I set up a kiddies swimming pool for her, the first hour or so she frolicked in it, was having the time of her life. Can’t believe she will be a year old in 2 weeks, wow.
Smudge didn’t do hoses, but she’d happily jump into water… or sit in her waterbowl. We kept buying her bigger and bigger water containers as she grew.
hahaha, adorable. I had to laugh after walking Chilli the other day come home first thing she did was go and splash in her water bowl…
Hey Tay,
So the new job is awesome. A lot of travelling all over Victoria, currently commuting from the Heidelberg area to Geelong every day (I get paid for travel and am in a work car). So I am pretty much gone 11 hours a day. Been busy working on the girlfriends cake shop website in the spare time (Does anyone have any extra suggestions for security on wordpress).
Played the crap out of GTA V in the other time I do have. Its fantastic, hedges though are annoying. Ending Spoilers Ahead
Luckily saved before Michaels family is held hostage at the house, as I choose to Kill Trevor thinking deathwish would Kill Franklin. So looks like I am replaying that last part to keep all 3 characters alive. Which is fine, might try the UD Heist the other way.How are all you guys and girls travelling?
I am travelling to werribee today to go to the zoo other than that no plans to travel
Does anyone know of any cheapish accommodation in Southbank Brisbane within relatively decent walking distance of Riverstage?
@freezespreston @idontknowwhichotherbrisbanetaybiestotag
I found some nice looking/cheap across the river. 91 bucks for the night seems pretty sweet.
The Valley is harder to find not sold out cheap rooms damn it.
Amazed you could find something. Southbank/South Bris within walking distance is probably one of the most expensive parts of the city, outside of the CBD itself.
(Edit: For long-term accommodation, not hotel rooms.)
Yeah lol.. It’s not cheap I know, but some website offers pretty swank deals for accom in Brisbane, so eh why not.
I wanna get a room for Steel Panther in December, since i’m sick of day tripping it up there to Tweed and back that night, i’m always too wiped the next day, ugh. Also my mate may becoming with me, gotta see if she still wants to go or is going to their Sydney gig instead.
there’s always the backpackers in the city. probably the cheapest you’d find
For the few dollars in that area you’ll save, not worth sharing with strangers 😛
Attention Numenera folk (@transientmind @redartifice @mawt @blaghman @tigerion @negativezero @novacascade @mythamphetamine), I have done it. I have created a tumblr and a google docs spreadsheet for our little escapades.
I apologise for the blandness of it all but I’m an accountant by trade and this is the first time I have ever used tumblr. I’ll be posting up session recaps plus whatever little pictures and stuff that I reckon are relevant to our journeys thus far (I couldn’t find that Scutomorph picture that you used Red :S). The google docs spreadsheet is for everyone to record their individual loot/trinkets/make character notes/whatever. Might be a handy link for Red to check in the future to see what we can actually pull out of our arses in a pinch. 😛
Anyway, links are below.
Tumblr = http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/
Edit: Of course, if you guys have any suggestions or want me to put up specific stuff for the tumblr, just buzz me on TAY or email at popdart10 AT gmail DOT com
Edit 2: Blah, moderation. Sticking the google docs link in the response.
Google Docs Spreadsheet = Spreadsheet
Good man!
You’re a champ 🙂
I might stick with this nickname until Squenix get around to releasing FF Type-0.
i.e. forever T_T
Your a rare blood..someone will need you one day
Made the phonecall from my car! It kind of worked out. Found out some info, now gotta decide what to do with it.
Also, Climbey Girl reappeared tonight. Potentially interesting developments there.
But in the meantime, Breaking Bad is on so I’m too busy watching that 😛
Man, I just realised that over the next couple of weeks I’ll probably never see most of the people I’ve met this year again 🙁 Although I won’t be living next to him anymore I hope I can still see my neighbour regularly next year. He’s my second best friend, and also my drinking buddy so I don’t want to lose contact with him!
In brighter news, a week on from Haircut 2013: The Shortening, I can finally say that my hair looks good 😛
To contrast, getting my hair buzzed down to a 2 is starting to feel too wild and unruly, and I’m thinking it’s time to go down to a 1. Tomorrow!
Nooooooo 😛
Do it the manly way. Razor over the sink!
Straight razor..over a gas station sink..the criminals choice
Season four premiere of The Walking Dead was pretty great. Note: This is the third ep I’ve seen. Other two were pilot which I hated and season three finale that was average!
So you’re watching The Walking Dead the same way I’ve watched Star Trek, eh? A random sampling of one out of every 30 or so episodes. 🙂
(In my case it’s actually much, much less than one every 30. Maybe one out of every hundred or more.)
It was a good episode. If you watch any more episodes, make it the other five of season one.
In honour of my new username and the month of Halloweentober, I decided to give The Walking Dead TV show one more last chance to win me back with the season 4 premiere.
It didn’t rise to the challenge.Edit: haha, didn’t notice @dc had already seen it and posted a contrary opinion!
To be honest, I was in the mood for pulpy zombie stuff. XD
No need to justify your terrible taste, man 😛
At least I didn’t sit through three seasons of a show I hated. 😛
To be fair, the third season was the only one I hated
and I got to see annoying Andrea die in the s3 finale, so it was kind of worth it allYeah, she was a bit annoying, hey.
Finished The Wolf Among Us Ep 1.
Really dug that. Looking forward to the next installment.
@dc @sernobulus
Gave Faith the money.Lied to Beast.
Told the green monkey to fuck off. He looked so devastated.
Went to Toad’s first. I may have beat him a little.
Lawrence was dead by the time I got there.
So far figured it’s probably the pimp. Seems likely going purely by evidence and we don’t know who the pimp is yet.
Walked away instead of tearing off arms.
Arrested Tweedledee, not that I think he’s guilty, don’t think either were, but mostly because his stupid face annoys me.
Not at PC at the moment, but wrote up my choices on old TAY. Really great start to the season, huh?
Wasn’t so impressed I had to download a random .dll file off some crazy French site to make it work though. Get your shit together Telltale.
Really? That’s odd! Worked flawlessly for me!
Couldn’t get it to run and some forums suggested that. It worked.
I had to do that for half a dozen games on my (relatively) old PC, back in the day.
And even then I was getting six fps, because that computer was arse.
Edit: #PCMasterRace!
Upvoting master race cheering out of principle, but you’re not doing the cause any favours here, my friend. :/
Having a crappy laptop which shared its RAM between GPU and the rest of the system, with one of the worst generations of intel on board graphics chips will kind of dampen master race enthusiasm. 😛
There was lots of discussion. But I’m lazy, so this misses my choices.
The creepy red head guy Snow and Bigby bump into the hallway going to look at the head.Considered it, too obvious.Snow White?Genius.Ok, so talking with Jodie, I asked about the repair process and what that involves, in terms of data transfer and such. At first she was telling me that yeah, all the data would be transferred over. Shop purchases, saves, all of it. Though then she checked up with the tech guys and… yeah nah. They can only do a “backend transfer”, ie all the stuff that isn’t on the 3DS. Because that shit’s fried. So while all my eShop purchases and such are safe, everything else is starting from scratch. For whatever reason I guess they can’t transfer the stuff saved to the SD card, which is kind of uber shit. I mean they made the fucking thing, surely they can decrypt and re-encrypt that shit to get it working on another unit.
I asked for more information on the fault, and she said it was just… broken. They’ve determined that it wasn’t anything I’ve done wrong, but for whatever reason they can also determine that it isn’t through fault of the update. The circuit board just died, and happened to do it at the same time. If it was because of a power surge or something, who knows. I forget exactly. The convo’s there to check on though.
Not sure what my next move is. Disposal’s been delayed til Friday.
Saw Jodie, thought this was gonna be a Beyond: Two Souls post! :'(
Glad you got to talk to her, my friend. I know how nerve wracking that can be!
What’s the deal with climber girl?
Oh yeah that part 😛
Um. Hard to remember exactly, it’s all in bits and pieces. First time she’s shown up in maybe three weeks, got chatty again. Found out a bunch more stuff about her. She’s Italian, woo 😛 Also while talking to another guy there, she mentioned she has a date on Friday. Didn’t seem particularly enthused about it (it’s with a friend of her sister’s), doesn’t seem to expect much from it. Said her last date was a disaster. Also that it’s been a long time since she’s been on a date, saying it was months ago. I scoffed at that being a long time, and let slip how it’s been six years for me 😛 She said something like “Really? I’d totally take you out on a date”. I responded with something dumb, just kind of shrugging it off. Hm, what else. Oh yeah there was the bit where she introduced me to the other guy she was talking with (Asian dude named Zee – what an awesome name), and we both more or less said yeah, we’d seen each other around but just didn’t know each other. I made a comment about there not usually being much reason to talk to strangers, just meaning in terms of initiating conversations but she took it to mean talking at all, then started asking if she was bothering me, talking so much 😛 Went to correct her, and that got to talk of my lack of talking skills. Something she disagreed with, saying that I’m talking just fine. I think I remember the phrase “you’re not as socially awkward as you think”, though I disagree with that. Oh, another thing she said was “so what, you only talk to the girls then?”, almost could have imagined it being said with a wink. Actually later there was another kind of flirty thing, I noticed the time and said something about being surprised I was still going after so long. She was just like “that’s just because I’m here”. I think the final thing of note would be that when she was having trouble with a climb, I asked what her armspan was like, and went to compare with mine. Usually there wouldn’t be any need to get close enough to touch chests while doing that, but I’m faaaaaaaaairly sure she went and did that. I mean we were standing on the big squishy unstable surface of the gym mat at the time, but I dunno. Fairly sure I didn’t do it, at least.
So yeah.
She’s just not that into you.
Edit: in case it’s not as obvious to you as it is to everyone else, it’s on. Like Donkey Kong.
Wow. I think the only other thing she could do at this point is wear a sign that has, “TAKE ME NOW, STUD,” painted on it. She basically asked you out on a date, txt her to follow-up with actually putting a time and place on it! Then just, y’know… continue being you, because it’s obviously working.
This this this this. Gogogog my friend, regale us with your adventurous tales when you return. :O
Sucks that your 3DS was out of warranty as that would have been covered. It’s a little strange that they can’t save anything from the SD card if it’s only the circuit board that is fried.
I’m not really sure why they can’t transfer it. She told me the usual transfer process involves them sticking the unit into a machine to do a backup of all the stuff, then putting it onto a new one. But since mine is fried, they can’t do that. So the stuff can’t be copied from my 3DS to a new one. But honestly, the data’s all there, they should easily be able to transfer that. If not then there’s not even any fucking point to being able to save to the SD card in the first place.
They probably need to get encryption keys off the system (because some dipshit at Nintendo decided everything on the Wii U and 3DS memory should be encrypted to just that system) and if the system’s fried that’s not possible to do.
This. Or, even if not that, they will blatantly refuse to transfer data anyway. This way, there is 100% of cases where data is not transferred. Must better to have that, than irate customers threatening lawsuits because their buddy got a transfer while they didn’t get one themselves.
Similar to mobile phone repairs – you risk getting device wiped, and you’re lucky if you get it back intact.
Posting this from my modern teckmological smartphone. I can’t be stopped now. The world shall be mine.
Somewhere your Nokia is waiting, biding its time…
Finland, I would imagine.
I’m gonna keep it close. I got used to having a talking alarm clock. The smartphone just has bells and whistles 🙁
It’s quart past twelve. I’ve been building my Numenera character since 7 O’clock.
Wow.
Walk me through the process of making a numa numa character, I’ll probably never play I just like making things
All Numenera chars are “I am an adjective noun who verbs”
The noun is roughly your “class” – there’s glaives, which are fighters/physical characters, Nanos (wizard-y) and jacks (of all trades)
The adjective is your descriptor, which is something like rugged or mystical – it’s your character’s background and general “vibe”
The verb is what you do that’s special. One of the chars (you can see them all on http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/) for example crafts illusions, so he can make images and distract with them. As he grow his char, his illusions will become much more complex
You then have a couple of stat pools that you draw from to do stuff, and some items and other bits and pieced.
I see, It was a good write up of the first session I thoroughly enjoyed that and can’t wait to hear the next adventure as you proceed further!
Also, If I could name one off the top of my head..Uncompromising Glaive who’s body is his instrument
Out of curiosity, what are you thinking of playing as?
Mystical nano that fuses flesh and steel. Had a slight hitch, as @negativezero had negotiated with me to change his character focus to fuses flesh and steel, be me and @mythamphetamine have worked out a way to flavour his character very differentlyI’m pretty sure mine would have worked out quite differently anyway. Shame I can’t play in the end 🙁
We’ll keep yours on the books, just in case you can drop in every now and then 🙂
Alright, I’m back.
What’s happened since about midday on Friday? If only there was someone who could summarise the events in some form of easy to read post *cough*@dc*cough*
@freezespreston’s boss is a huge d-bag. On the plus side, Freeze got to play the Dark Souls II Beta, so karmic balance I suppose.
@dc has a new GOTY. But this isn’t so much news as it is business-as-usual.
@welbot’s birthday was yesterday!
@mrtaco is gonna get very laid by an Italian climbing girl.
Mrs @shane is pregnant.
Now you know, and knowing is…
Mrs @shane is pregnant? CONGRATZ MANG!
THAT MEANS THEY’VE BEEN SEXING.
I accept your congratulations as well. 😛
Sometimes I’m genuinely unsure if you’re just messing with us or not.
If not, congratulations on the sex, and the resulting mini-Shane!
Mental image of a Raichu handing Shane a balloon that says “Great job!” on it while congratulating him on the sex was far more amusing than it should’ve been.
There may have been a thumbs up in there somewhere.
@ynefel In the congratulations or the sex?
@freezespreston
Oh, you.
Best to assume I’m always messing.
In this case, I left a clue. See “:P”
Just to prove that I’m only messing with you regarding the sex congrats, and not the pregnancy: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/09/talk-amongst-yourselves-244/comment-page-26/#comment-1984181
I don’t read back through TAY. I’m a bad TAYer.
I missed this. Congratulations on the addition to the family friend!
@freezespreston Boo to shitty bosses. Yay for Dark Souls
@dc has been playing Pokemans?
@welbot Happy belated birthday!
@mrtaco Giggity
Go @shane and Mrs. @shane!
All Beyond: Two Souls, all of the time.
I was going to buy it on the weekend then I didn’t.
Because I forgot. And never had a chance to go back. So now I probably won’t play it for a while.
I also haven’t seen Gravity yet 🙁
But you’re a cool guy otherwise, so no reprisals today! 😀
Cheers Cakey!
I saw some people discussing Super Hexagon in the Duet article yesterday so I downloaded it. If I can master that game without my brain imploding, I’m pretty sure I will be able to do anything.
Morning gang!
Doc’s copy of Wind Waker with the Ganon statue showed up today, which means my copy of the game did too. Looking forward to giving it a go tonight!
My poor Wii U, it is so cold and lonely and dusty. *stares at copy of Rayman Legends I barely played*
You are the worst gamer ever.
Cake I want you to find a mirror, look into it, and say those words again.
3
*whispers* psst, hey Pants, that’s the joke…
I’m just trying to figure out where that mysterious 3 came from in my last post…
Half-Life 3 confirmed?
It’s a good thing he doesn’t run some sort of gaming-relating media, like… a podcast or blog!
*looks at pokemon in shiny new 3DS* why would I want to wake the wind it’s cold enough!
Don’t feel bad. My copy of Rayman was hijacked by my darling son who decided that he wanted to solo the entire thing instead of having a multiplayer experience with his dear old dad. I think i’m soon to be exiled to my room with a VCR and some poorly copied reruns of Dads Army.
At least Dad’s Army is awesome. A decent consolation prize.
So I need to leave work at 3.30 to make it to the post office before it closes. I might check for the pickup slip tonight and leave early tomorrow.
@ Brisbane Peoples
I arrive at 4:30ish on thursday and am staying at a YHA in the city which looks to be right next to the train station, so where is good for dinner?
Depending on your budget and how far you want to walk? If you’re after ‘cheapish’, the ‘Trans’ hotel down the road and toward the station from the YHA does pretty reasonable weekday specials – $10 steaks and such, last I checked. If you cross the road and move toward Paddington there’s a Hog’s Breath Cafe. There’s also a food court with maccas and KFC in the train station proper, and subway just a little around the corner from the YHA toward the mall/cbd proper. And the mall has… well. MANY places. If you approach it from the George St end, there’s a little upstairs hole-in-the-wall Chinese place that does really cheap, tasty food. I forget its name.
Remember to pick up a Go Card or you pretty much can’t use public transport.
(Or you can, @gingerchris86 but you’ll pay around 40% more for using a paper ticket and there are several services which won’t accept anything but a Go Card. Also, when they say there’s a $10 ‘deposit’ for the card itself, that’s kind of… well. An outright lie. It’s a fee. You’re not getting that money back.)
The trains don’t use paper tickets any more do they? When I was last at Robina, there were no ticket facilities from what I could see, just go card shit. If only our public transport was as cheap as it is in Melbourne, when I was down there in December I put 20 bucks on a mates Myki and it lasted me the entire week I was down there and I still had funds left on it, and I was staying 40 mins away from the city too..
The Melbourne train zones are exceedingly generous. Everything from the CBD through to like… 45min train ride out is all the one low price. As opposed to Brisbane where they’ll use every 2.5km as an excuse to gouge you an extra couple bucks per trip.
Edit: And yeah, you can use paper tickets on a train. You can use any valid translink ticket on any translink service. Bus/train/ferry. Most of the machines should print out a paper ticket, too. Stations which have ticket-gate-only exits will also have an attendant to check tickets and use their own access card to open the gate. Watch the folks at Central, sometime.
Hmm, I see. Ugh, makes sense why it’s about 40 bucks from Robina to South Bank on the train. But now the train isn’t that much, it’s a miracle!
So the JAMMA cab lives. The coin mech is dead and a few button switches are clapped out, but otherwise good to go. Some soldering on my Ghosts n Goblins harness adaptor is required, but I’ll just make do with Snow Bros and Bubble Bobble for now.
Time to source some paint, chrome trim, and canvas decals. The Mrs is rolling her eyes already. 😀
Where do you source your parts from? I’ve been looking at Ozstick.com.au as they seem to have everything I’ll need at what seems reasonable prices.
The last time I did any major renos to the cab I was just using eBay. I know GameDude do some stuff, but I’ve never really used them. That site you list there looks reasonable.
I hear auctions for entertainment/vending equipment can be great places to get cheap arcade gear too.
There are no words for how little I want to go to work today.
Apathetic, unenthusiastic, languid, uninterested, blah
Does that help?
Shitbad.
There, I fixed it.
And fair enough, too. The good news is that there’s literally no reason for you to be a good worker anymore. I expect at least 100 TAY posts from you today, and at least one incident with a customer that falls just short of requiring police attention.
Well, @freezespreston can save his acting-out for when he finds a different job later, when the lawyers are talking damages for his defamation case (damages for loss of income/job satisfaction in the Force caused by giving a false reference – giving a bad reference isn’t illegal if it’s true or if it’s opinion, but outright falsehoods causing damage is defamation. Problem there is, the onus of proof is on the victim). Right now though is probably the time for being sickly sweet to idiot customers to avoid any more complaints coming in to head office, giving them fuel for their accusations.
Today I go to the zoo as an early birthday present to my girlfriend (who’s birthday is tomorrow) and then it’s basically nothing but party plans and dinners and work until next week. I am a busy bee
Make sure you see the Colobuses. Honor the Colobuses.
Colobi? Colobedes?
It’s not important, what’s important is the monkeys. And the fact there’s eight different sub species. (This might be a plot point that’ll be relevant in future storylines.)
Kenny will remember that.
I first read that as, ‘Honour the Colossus’. To which I thought, “COOLEST. ZOO. EVER.”
Especially when the battle music kicks in when climbing the mofos.
Flashbacks to hanging on for dear life on a Colossi praying that Wander doesnt lose stamina.
Only played it for the first time this year. Took a while, but that was the moment in clicked for me.
Wrote this afterwards:
http://www.pixel-otaku.com/ico-and-shadow-of-the-colossus-a-love-letter/
I thought you wrote it for Potaku. Looks like someone has been STEALING OUR ARTICLES.
So many suspenseful moments! The music only added to it 🙂
I think the ‘Back to the Future’ theme would have worked well in some instances too.
No colossi left, some stupid kid killed them all to bring his dead girlfriend back.
When you think about the uniqueness of the colossi compared to some random human chick, that becomes quite obviously a really terrible exchange rate.
(Edit: But I’d probably do the exact same thing for my girl. Because I’m a selfish ass like that.)
You never know what their relationship is. That’s one of the best things about the game.Well, yeah, but that makes it even more depressingYou can dress them up and make them re-enact the Civil War! \o/
EDIT: Finally learned something about colobus monkeys that I can use in everyday conversation!
Talk of the humble Colobus cures any social awkwardness. (Cause the other people will usually walk away, but that’s just nitpicking.)
…
You know who also picks nits? COLOBUS MONKEYS!
So I bought my gf a 2DS on Saturday. I’ve now lost her to Animal Crossing.
I got one too… But I’ve lost myself to pokemon…. well actually no…
….
Legend of Zelda… I bought it afterwards and couldnt stop… soo much Nostalgia
It’s on the list! Somewhere amongst Professor Layton, Phoenix Wright and OoT. =/
That was a reply fail to @gingerchris86
So many great games. Especially love OoT and Phoenix Wright <3
I will need to get OOT… After I finish Legend of Zelda 1 and Zelda II….
If you just want to play, not own, I’m happy to lend you my copy.
Thanks, But I will want my own copy 🙂
So, I started playing The Wolf Among Us last night when I got home. I haven’t finished the first episode yet, got about 3 chapters in before calling it a night because tired.
Enjoying it so far. It’s making me think I should actually go and play The Walking Dead…
@freezespreston, as part of my quest to divert you from being a responsible worker today, and therefore striking a blow for the rights of employees everywhere, I am prepared to discuss Dark Souls II. I am currently watching the Beta vid posted on Kotaku. Did you know that
there actually is a jump button (L3 according to the menu the guy opened).This makes me happy. The jump mechanic in Dark Souls was so hard to get right. A dedicated button to jump is awesome news.
Your turn!
*chants to self*
DontClickTheSpoilersDontClickTheSpoilersDontClickTheSpoilersDontClickTheSpoilersDontClickTheSpoilersDontClickTheSpoilersDontClickTheSpoilersDontClickTheSpoilersDontClickTheSpoilersDontClickTheSpoilersDontClickTheSpoilersDontClickTheSpoilersDontClickTheSpoilersDontClickTheSpoilersDontClickTheSpoilersDontClickTheSpoilersDontClickTheSpoilersDontClickTheSpoilersDontClickTheSpoilersDontClickTheSpoilersDontClickTheSpoilersDontClickTheSpoilers…
It’s only about the controls, nothing actually game spoily.
Noooooo! I want to come into this game blind!
*starts chanting to self again*
Hi Nob! How are you?
Pretty good! How about you scree?
I think i am getting better (I’m trying to distract you)
\o/
@sernobulus
I have lost a whole bunch of my scrapbooking photos though =/
Hi Nob, look over there *points*
Huh what’s over-ohh shiny!
SHINY POKEYMANS!?
Keep staring, whilst I do something over there *steals nobs keys and goes fro a joy ride*
All these articles about Gravity around the place make me want to watch Children of Men again. God, I love that film – it’s so close to perfection it’s kind of terrifying.
How’d you go from a movie about Angular Momentum to a movie about infertile women? 😛
Same director.
ah… PIXEL GETS STUFF… EXCEPT FOR THAT PART
Director.
EDIT alas, too slow, so screenwriter.
And Director of Photography
Auteur.
We should all watch Harry Potter 3 as well! For reasons!
The best one.
Agreed! That Cauron guy. So awesome.
Relevant
Me too! Sughly said the same. We should all watch it!
Played the Special Edition chapter that came with Beyond: Two Souls. Impressions:
Was this weird Portal kind of puzzle solving where you cooperated between Jodie and Aiden. It was kind of cool, but felt completely different in tone and implementation to the other chapters. Jodie barely spoke a word too, which makes me think it was produced after Ellen Page wrapped on the game. I liked it, but to tell you the truth I was a little disappointed it wasn’t another story based chapter. :'(Also the OST that came with the Special Edition is only 4 songs. D:
Worth buying the SE for the cool box alone though. Plus the behind-the-scenes content looks awesome.
I like how the Tweed police don’t think the fire at a local abandoned country club is suspicious, yeah okay. We’ll just disregard the fact that kids who’re in gangs with criminal records hang out there and trash the joint etc.. Or the fact the fire started inside, and there were two suspicious looking people spotted inside the grounds by someone who lives adjacent to the place, just before it started.
But then again, they don’t think any fire is suspicious at the early hours of the morning when suspicious people are seen in the immediate area just before and after it happens, you can ask the ex-tenant of my grandmothers house which randomly burnt down one night and the fire started at the front of the house nearest the road, and the 4 teens in the area (mind you this is in a secluded part of town with one neighbour and the neighbours house was not occupied at the time) and a fire also happened to be started 50 metres down the road too, but that wasn’t suspicious either apparently.
Sorry i giggled a bit too much at that part…
WATCH OUT… IT’S THE TWEED POLICE, HIDE YOUR ELBOW PATCHES
Oh No! He’s going to come and lecture mathematics at us!
LOL. They’re useless & corrupt. I have a few more stories of them and how they have never done their job, one involves identity theft and them not giving a fuck!
Corruption? in Queensland? Who’s ever heard of such a thing.
I’m in NSW, so it’s NSW police lol.
Well, bah. I care not for your border shenanigans! QUIT FLIPFLOPPING AND MOVE INTO ONE OR THE OTHER STATE PROPER
I live in South Tweed which is probably at least 5km’s from the border. So there!
Oh, SOUTH Tweed, totally different.
STOP EQUIVOCATING AND CHOOSE A SIDE
EXACTLY. it is different 😛 Plus why would I want to live in Queensland, such a backwards state, though living on the border is pretty handy, shops shut an hour later across that imaginary line for a start 😛
Tweed is in NSW…
I’ll admit I got my geography wrong there, but I don’t care enough to edit it.
Pfft everyone knows that QLD has the Hawaiian Shirt Brigade
Lolwut. I’m not even sure what this is relating to.
@virus__ sometimes my mind is a pretty amazing place 😛
Awesome 😀
I might be wrong, but I thought identity theft was something you could take to the AFP instead of your local cop-shop.
We went to the AFP first, they suggested (since we knew who did it and had the registration of the car also used) to go to the state police, they turned us away and were very unhelpful as per usual. Ugh.
Their advice once when we called them on our psychotic neighbour who was threatening to kill us and burn the house down? Just ignore him, he’ll calm down. Yeah, he’s off his face on ice and he already was psychotic before the amphetamines and you guys have seen his record. How the fuck did we end up with such useless cops is my question.
Combined with the fire thing not being ‘suspicious’, it sounds like they’re either incredibly corrupt (they know the people involved and don’t want to get them into trouble, or they’re being pressured to massage crime stats – which usually only include reported or logged crimes, not non-suspicious incidents – to make Tweed seem very safe) or they’re incredibly lazy.
Possibly over-worked and stretched, if we give them the benefit of the doubt.
One cop is back in court again for contempt of court, last time he was there was for cocaine charges.. Another one in recent let a female prisoner play with his gun, after she fucked him, IN the police station.
Another time they came (same neighbours) they suggested an AVO, when it turns out they were actually meant to issue one on the spot according to what we were told when we went to take one out at the courthouse the next day, given the neighbours behaviour and past record.
…
Haha, yeah we have an amazing police force. The cop on the coke charges, I think he even swiped it from evidence if my memory serves me right LOL.
Note to self: don’t live in Tweed.
@negativezero it’s nice a place, just stay away from West Tweed, it’s like Frankston, or Redfern hahaha.
Suspicion = paperwork = work = bad.
Work = bad, more so.
Fuck the po-lice!
Everyone’s hating on the po-po!
@freezespreston isn’t
Po-po?
popo?
POPO!!!!
I was hoping for POPO from DBZ but wotdafug is that video? It was creepy O_O
POPO!
DBZ Abridged on youtube… best.POPO.EVER! 😛Seriously, if you’re a DBZ fan, check out Team Four Stars DBZ Abridged… they do a freaking good job at telling the story while taking the absolute shit out of it at the same time…
I prefer the abridged storyline, so good.
…
You’re all going to die.
MAKING TOAST!
BUTTERING TOAST!
HAVE A GOOD CLIMB BACKUP BITCH
Not a bad song…
because the PO PO don’t give a shit
Wind Waker!
Just got up to the Wind Temple after sailing and charting islands for the better part of an hour. I think my first port of call after I finish this is the auction house on Windfall Island to buy a faster sail.I got the swift sail right after I did the forbidden forest. The whole “changing wind directions automatically” thing is a godsend. Also, if you haven’t unlocked the fast travel system, I would recommend doing that.Done that! Still like to manually sail about from time-to-time though.Yeah, I spent a lot of time sailing when I didn’t necessarily have to. Was great to sail around with whatserface just chilling on the side of the boat.ahaha, awesome halloween name, first time I’ve seen yours :D, made me laugh very inapropriately 😀
Personally, I liked that you needed to tack into the wind and stuff. But Wind Waker’s sailing really clicked for me because it took me back to when I was much younger. My last two years of primary school, the school I was in during the spring and summer every Friday we would walk around to the lake and spend the entire morning at the school’s boat shed, canoeing and sailing. The boat in Wind Waker is almost exactly like an Optimist. Link handles it very similarly. Stepping into the Wind Waker boat bought me right back to it.
I just realised after my incident with my phone yesterday, I now get better battery life, what the fuck? Usually by now i’d be down to about 80% battery, but i’m sitting pretty on 98% :S
Calibration is either whacked or fixed. Long-term you shouldn’t see any changes.
Yeah, not sure what the go was, but ah well. As soon as I have enough spare cash i’ll be getting a new phone anyway.
Sounds like it could have been an app lingering in the background draining your juice. With the battery removed and reinstalled, all background apps are killed.
I usually don’t have that many apps open, messages, safari, twitter, facebook, facebook messenger and the iPod app. I’ve turned off background refresh & i’ve done a test before where I closed all the apps and battery life was about the same, shitty. That was just after updating to iOS 7, but then again it was never amazing with iOS 6 as well.
Saying that, there could’ve been a contact issue with the cable for some odd reason that was causing it to lose charge quicker, but eh.
I finished Beyond: Two Souls last night. Ending spoilers:
I chose to live, and then I chose Ryan. It was a nice, happy ending. There was a boat and a beach and a coconut and Aidan was still around. Then of course there was that end of the world this is the future ending scene, which I assume everyone got.It makes me want a Beyond: Two Souls 2, but not one by Quantic Dream. If running around Somalia taught me anything it’s that Ellen Page as a soldier is awesome (and if putting on a diving suit taught me anything it’s that Ellen Page as a space marine is also awesome). I want a sequel that’s not an interactive movie but an actual game. I want Beyond: Two Souls, the third person shooter. Get the Spec Ops guys to do it, they’ve shown they can handle EMOTIONS.
Further thoughts:
The fact that The Embasy level is never fully explained is annoying.
An Easter Egg means Beyond: Two Souls and Heavy Rain totally happen in the same universe.
With the exception of Jodie, female representation in the game was rather poor.
The Sheriff at the start of the game looks the same as the pervert Madison dances for in Heavy Rain.
Like the real Ellen Page, Jodie’s age was annoying to pin down. For example, I would have guessed the mission where young Jodie goes into the lab to stop the condenser would have happened when she was about fourteen, but it took place after her rebellious goth phase and she was meant to be seventeen in that.
I will forver maintain that the story should have been told chronologically.
Alright Poke
nerdsfans, who is breeding the gen 1 and 2 starters?I will happily trade Pidgeys for them.
Where you get Pidgey from?
Only if you call every single one Butts…
“Butts used Gust”
HA, classic!
Butz was also the wind element dude from FF5 iirc.
HA!
#immaturity \o/
And who can forget Poo from Earthbound!
Wasn’t it Bartz?
Butz + Farts = Bartz?
Different versions I think.
I will be once I find a Ditto!
I need a Timid, Adamant, Modest and Jolly Ditto! One of each! Stat! (or I’ll just wait and transfer the ones I already have in White 2 when I can…)
I’m pretty sure my entire team will end up being gen 1/2 Pokemans.
For the first time you can have an entire team made up of a starter from each Generation!
I’d go Charizard, Feraligatr, Blaziken, Torterra, Samurott, Chesnaught.
Why would you go Charizard over Blastoise?
Because I’m not a crazy person.
Clearly you are son.
What’s this breeding thingo people are on about?
We’ll tell you when you’re older, son.
I thought you said you had the talk with him.
I just told him that if he keeps doing it he’ll go blind
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/09/talk-amongst-yourselves-244/comment-page-26/#comment-1984181
It’s like Fire Emblem but for Pokemon.
Ditto will bang anything. That’s all you need to know.
I believe @beardymcmuttonchops has started. Maybe @beavwa?
@cakesmith Yo. Got squirtles and charmanders good to go, should hopefully have bulbasaur production up soon. I can trade you the first 2 tonight.
I need Squirtle as well as Bulbasaur.
Hopefully I have a Bulbasaur when I get home. Otherwise should be able to get it tonight with a bit more work.
Edit: not sure if I have you on the friend list, I’ll add you tonight when I get home.
Charmander would be nice. Already got a Squirtle.
EDIT: I don’t really have anything of value to trade though 🙁
Only managed to put in a handful of hours so far.
No worries, not looking for any trades in return. Any crappy trade fodder will be fine.
I only have 1 gym badge at the moment. I suspect if I progress further I may be able to do something about later gen starters. Worst case, I have all of gen 1-5 sitting on white to be transferred in December.
Further note, I’ve only got gen 1 and gen 6 at the moment, it’s a little hard to trade for the others when I haven’t seen them yet.
Are Pokeymans okay with being traded like cabbages? Don’t they have feelings? Loyalty?
You’re not cut out for the ruthless world of Pokemon.
Got to catch ’em all, except the emotional connection part!
Also why I can offer a pre-hatching egg trading service. So that little critter knows only you as its master when it hatches.
I’m finally going to see Gravity this afternoon. I’m really looking forward to seeing it, particularly after seeing you guys rave about it. Hype choo choo!
Gravity. Don’t let it bring you down.
A dad joke, and we’re not even up to page 6 yet …
Shane’s more dad than man now. :'(
In my mind’s ear, I heard that in Alec Guinness’ voice. “Twisted and evil.”
Poke-peeps, just saw this on twitter, thought I should post it here so people can see it.
Thanks for the warning. Generally shouldn’t do this but I’ll actively avoid it now.
Yeah, I usually save at Pokemon centres seems like the best time to save.
PlayAsia has my Pokemon still waiting for FedEx to pick up. Starting to get annoyed. I love PlayAsia, but sweet green Christ they like to fuck about with their shipping.
Trevor is so classy. Took that on top of Mount Chilliad, haha.
Oh, and by the way @shane, my copy of The Lesser Evil has been shipped, so I’m hoping to get it by the end of the month. Fingers crossed.
… your name terrifies me more then anything 0.o
Yeah, I was coming up blank trying to find a scary play on my user name, and I started thinking about things that would scare me, and that was one I thought of.
I can see your halloween costume now…
@ontargett as “Nescafe Blend 43 decaf – The last coffee on earth”
*shudders*
http://www.reddit.com/r/TheSimpsons/comments/19x2gn/im_going_to_make_the_most_international_coffee_in/
\o/ Awesome! Really hope you enjoy it, man!
(However, I will accept no responsibility if you don’t enjoy it, and will cite the likelihood of user error :P)@transientmind
Can’t text her anything, don’t have a number to use 😛 She should be in on Monday though, so a chance to discuss how her date went. Then the day after, she’s off to Hawaii for like four weeks or something on a holiday.
If she says it went well, say “That’s a shame.”
If she says it was not good, say, “Phew!”
It’ll get her thinking about you (and she probably will keeping thinking about what you say for the entire four weeks!), and then you might not have to make the first move.
#helping
If I were a crass individual who coincidentally happened to be a recovering he-slut, I would suggest saying something on Monday like, “How ’bout you buy me a drink before you leave.” Followed by some grappling in the taxi to her place, and asking her, “So when’s the flight?” then – regardless of the answer – saying, “Well… you can sleep on the plane.”
But as the upstanding, respectfully appropriate individual I am now, I would never suggest such a thing. Nope.
(Edit: Drinks could even be a single coffee – too much booze could slow you down – and if you’re being given The Eye the whole time, in my experience that usually means you will totally have permission to look her square in the eye with the very faintest ghost of a smile and rumble lowly, “You wanna get outta here?” Even better if it means leaving drinks unfinished – heightened sense of urgency. …Hypothetically, of course.)
Don’t listen to these two guys trying to game your interactions, if you start a relationship by being somebody you’re not it won’t end well. Just be yourself because it’s obviously working. Just make sure you have enough courage to make her aware of the fact it’s mutual curiosity before she thinks you just want to be friends.
I do not see how these suggestions are compatible 😛
So what you’re saying is I could totally get out of having to do anything scary if I just sit there and act dumb, it’ll all just blow over 😀
Grr. 😛
Just respond affirmatively next time she leaves you an opening. If you can sing a Priest song in front of a bunch of almost-strangers, you can do anything!
Tooootally different situations!
One of them is me playing the fool, creating a mask to hide behind. The other requires the opposite of that 😛
Agreed. You need to do something to make sure you don’t get accidentally placed in the friendzone. Unless you want that to happen, that’s cool too.
Alternatively.. if she’s actually into you, the above-something could literally be you saying something like “I have no fucking idea what I’m doing, but I like where this is heading.” You said that she’s mentioned your social awkwardness, so I’m gonna say she’d be fine with you just telling her the truth.
My suggestion was only about half a step above doing nothing, and requires not much in the way of self-confidence or risk. Just saying.
Edit: You’ll be fine. Good luck, mang!
Nah, it’s more like… I dunno. Changing railway tracks at the switch. The locomotive keeps powering on, but it only takes a moment’s action to change which direction it goes.
Bah… @mrtaco, I am loathe to admit it, but Strange is probably right. 😛 Don’t get friend-zoned! But… yeah. The kind of stuff I talk about is only stuff that’s worked for me. And clearly we have… different ways of approaching things, but yours seems to be working for you big-time. (What sorcery is this? Are you a wizard?)
Friendzone is a myth.
Accidental hero.
guys, I think i may have just cured cancer.
kid at work comes in to return a book thats 2 months overdue & starts giving me this sob story about how she couldnt come in over the holidays to return it coz *starts tearing up* ‘my grandmother has cancer & I had to go to see her in some place etc…’
now, we dont charge overdue fees. its an informal policy that we just wave em if the overdue stuff comes back (coz we’re just that nice).
so I tell this kid that its ok, theres no fee to pay & BAM. no more dramatic near-crying, just ‘OK cool. bye!’ then she walks off chatting & giggling to her friend.
so yeah, either she was lying about a terminal illness to get out of paying a $10 fee, or by waving said fee, I just cured her grandmother.
tl;dr manipulative bald-faced lying people are shit.
Edit: i should point out that this happens so damn often, I can no longer bring myself to give a shit about any students sob story, whether it be true or not.
Deface the book she returned and charge for damages.
I could just put a random fee on her record under the ‘MISC CHARGES’ category.
It’ll be all official & stuff, but no one will ever know why it’s there…
HALLELUJAH
SOUNDS TO ME LIKE YOU JUST CURED CANCER \o/
Now we need to see how far his healing powers will stretch! @35 I have this rash and it hurts when I pee…
I hope you have an overdue library book or the cure won’t take!
sorry dude, I’ve only got jurisdiction over TAFE NSW students.
How old was this student? There comes a certain point in your life when you do actually start experiencing those sorts of hardships and you suddenly become acutely aware of how disrespectful it is to use the suffering of others as an excuse for your own shit.
probably 17 or 18.
either way, old enough to take responsibility for their actions.
Used to get that all the time when I was working at the TAFE library.
What I really hated was when a student would borrow a very popular textbook at the start of the year and not return it until the end, as we didn’t accumulate fines over time they only had to pay the initial overdue fine, so basically they just rented a book for $10 for the year, while everybody else missed out.
Thankfully one of these arses got a massive karmic kick in the nuts as they had not payed the measly $10 before uni registration cut off, so when they came in in a panic to pay on the last day I was more then happy to take their payment, only to then inform them the system would need 24 hours to process the payment before they could get their results.
The resulting tantrum was both amusing and gratifying as there was literally nothing I could do as that is how the system worked.
Never had so much pleasure in telling someone they should have returned their book on time 🙂
man, students who exploit the system are rubbish.
theres one woman who borrows text books from us who knows exactly how to work the system to her advantage (and to the disadvantage of other students)
gets stuff out on two week loan, manages to keep it for two months without breaking any rule or incurring any fine. got to the point where I’d put holds on anything she borrowed so it couldn’t be renewed.
The other exploit I heard was that they would get people from other classes to reserve copies for them so that when their loan period ended someone they knew, who didn’t need the book, would get a copy to then pass it them.
God how I hate scumbags.
Sometimes ‘natural justice’ needs a little push. 🙂
I have this itch to keep playing Pokemon Y, all of the time. Except I’m at work and must work. I’ve not had an itch like this for gaming in a long while. I’m approximately nine hours in and I don’t want to stop, the game is purely addictive. Like Endone.
Morning all!
so finally finished GTAV!!! \o/
Spoilers ahead…
So I saved the game before undertaking the three different options.Option A: Was not really wanting to kill off Michael because i kinda felt bad for him… Ending was ok, one thing i totally didnt even think about, but should have seen coming? Michaels cut from the gold heist was given to his family… michael was no longer playable beyond this point
Option B: I was totally looking forward to killing trevor, however was shattered that afterwards, trevor is no longer playable… i love to hate the crazy bastard. Loved Michaels frustrated verbal release once Trevor was finally dead… “Human stew is where I cross the line!” I felt like this should have been the logical conclusion the story… the extra $9mil from trevors cut being split was pretty tempting too…
Option C: Was the only way to go for me as i wanted to keep all the characters… would have been funny if you could have taken option a/b and then it turns out that they’re not really dead..
so yeah.. a whole heap of missions opened up afterwards. whilst so close to the end, i was hoping it would end so i can see the ending, then when it ended i was shattered… once i realised all the extra stuff there was to be done i was pissed!
anyway Im putting it aside now, need to move onto beyond: two souls, then ill pick it up again and finish it… will seriously consider grabbing a ps4 version when we hopefully see one. its obvious that the current gen has hit its limits…
besides, GTA Online alone will justify a second purchase..
When the credits are done rolling, you can keep going and doing all those extra stuffs…
yeah i know…
Pokéfriends
Need some confirmation of Mega-evolutions mechanics. I played around a little bit last night, now that I’ve got a few more than just Lucario and Torchic to megavolve. Anyway, Megas were always described as only being allowed one per battle. I orginally took this to mean that only one Pokémon in your party would be allowed to Mega Evolve, however, in one battle I switched out my Megavolved Venusaur, then later switched him back in. He switched back in as Venusaur and the Mega Evolve button had become greyed out.
Firstly, can anyone confirm this? or was I just bad at pushing buttons and I really should have been able to Megavolve the same Pokemon again?
Secondly, if this is true, then Megas no longer seem quite so OP, and there are quite a few ways to shut them down.
If any of you are looking for a gas supplier, don’t go with Energy Australia.
Just got a phone call from their collections department over a matter I thought had been resolved in mid-september.
EA IS THE DEVIL
AGL for us.
Can’t complain. Our bills are usually around the $200 mark, quarterly – gas & elec.
Brain storming thoughts for @freezespreston character reference. Here’s my list so far.
— Trust worthy, the kind of person you can confide in.
— Hard working with a strong work ethic.
— Responsible.
— Good natured.
— Loyal and protective to those around him.
— Role model. The kind of person you can look up to.
— Looks out for people, eager to put others first.
— Respectable.
— Accommodating and hospitable.
— Problem solver. Instinctively wants to help those around him.
— Focused and disciplined, sets goals and achieves them with an unwavering determination.
— Good guy.
— Dissed Quantic Dream so all these points cancelled out.
— Monster.
Don’t use Loyal and protective. Police should be objective.
Good point! Like I said, just brainstorming. Will whittle it down to relevance later.
Also, I truly don’t know if my word will carry weight with any one. I’m happy to write one if you need it Freeze, but can’t help but think it’ll have more weight from someone like Tigs.
I missed all this. Freeze needs character references for his Police application?
I’d be happy to provide one but unsure if stay-at-home mothers’ opinions would be useful in that kind of situation.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/10/talk-amongst-yourselves-246/comment-page-3/#comment-2006874
Yeah, that’s exactly what I’m thinking about myself. I’m a crazy hermit.
Sincerely think I’m not the person Freeze needs for this.
Any one who is, feel free to use some of these points. They’re all true! Freeze is awesome!
Yikes! Not cool. But yeah, sounds like they just want to keep him chained to their machine. Transient Mind’s suggestions sound good. I hope it all works out for Freeze. 🙁
You’re right. Police shouldn’t protect people.
It’s still a word that they’ll pick up on. Depending how close they read it.
Yeah, something I thought too when writing it down. Good to have confirmation. Thanks Red!
I’m just joking, man! Your point is a good one.
Sorry, I’m feeling a little humourless atm.
ENERGY AUSTRALIA YOU HAVE MADE THE LIST
That’s how it works in NSW.
He’s applying for the Queensland police force.
What I’m trying to say is you’re awesome. I feel like I know you pretty well now and feel like the events of yesterday are weighing on your mind pretty heavily. You’re one of the best pals I’ve ever had and you deserve good things. Keep on keeping on and this po-po thing will happen!
Don’t forget to put:
up the top.
I guess that’s better then “– Likes S&M” which is pretty much the same thing right?
Ssssh, we’re trying to make him look good! 😛
A bit cheesy. I would have gone for attributes better suited to the role. Words like tough, disciplined, fit, square-jawed, ripped, gun, and likes puppies.
Since we’re going for police stereo types, Brain is at least 6 foot off the ground.
Cool guy’s gotta go in there.
Geddit?
Because his namah forget it.
hi Dan, we’re good at crashing jets 😀
Dynamite at it.
I don’t know if I’m the right person to serve as a character witness (but will do so if required), but here are some words for finetuning and to kickstart discussion.
___
To whom it may concern,
I have known FreezeSPreston Icequire for almost three years, and I consider him a very good friend of mine. He is an unfailingly generous and kind-hearted man, who always puts the needs of others before his own. His strong family values, diligent and committed work ethic, and personal moral compass make him a very positive role model in the community, and someone to look up to.
Under his management, the ____ branch of Mister Minit went from being one of the worst-performing stores in the country to one that won national awards. It is entirely understandable that his superiors are reluctant to let him go; however, I submit that the tactics they have employed in this circumstance are reprehensible and their testimony not to be relied upon.
I would not hesitate to recommend FreezeSPreston for the position he has applied for in the police force, and am happy to serve as a character reference on his behalf. I can be contacted at ____ during business hours or ______@_____.com outside of business hours.
Sincerely,
___
My feeling is that although Freeze may not be able to slam his bosses for torpedoing his character reference, there’s nothing stopping us from mentioning it.
Shane, I think you’re more than qualified to be a character reference. Published writer, friend, family orientated. Do it!
Yeah, but if they actually ask me any questions, I might have to confess that I live 2000km away and have met the man for a total of about an hour 😛
@freezespreston, not saying I won’t do it. Just let me know if you want my input, man. I’m greased up and ready to go!
That’s why you’ll be forced to hang out with us more when you’re in town for Supanova! 😛
Also, 21st Century. People can be friends without ever meeting face-to-face. I’ve confided in you guys more than I have to people I went to Uni with and saw every day for years!
But do prospective employers see things that way? I know most of the professional world (especially public sector) is firmly rooted about forty years behind the pace.
Unless they’re youngish, yep.
May wish to remove his last name, as it could show up in a google search, which potential employers are doing these days, just an idea 🙂
Done.
Google searches don’t run through the inner depths of TAY though do they?
So far I’ve been working on the assumption that they only look at the front page, not the comment pages >.>
They sure do.. I’ve found my Kotaku, Gizmodo & LifeHacker posts from when I used my Facebook login (all those years ago when we had them)
Pretty much the web spiders will index everything, if it’s able to be indexed I guess.
Hmm… I only seem to get the first page of TAY, all the inner pages don’t come up. Only times it seems to have any of those deeper comments are when they show up on particular users’ profile page at time of crawling. I think it’s mostly safe. Ish.
See, I’d be more than happy to write something similar, but I’d say it comes from a perspective of a fellow hobbyist in a social club – where he is highly-respected and a positive contributor – which has regular correspondence and semi-regular meetings for drinks, meals, BBQs and movies.
It means you can slip in folksy anecdotes such as, “Freeze is the kind of man who buys the first round of beer, and doesn’t keep score.”
You left out dad jokes. Can’t believe it 🙁
So yesterday I ended up with a mega headache and blamed it on the English Paper Piecing I did all day…but today I have another mega headache already so I no longer have an excuse to avoid the paper piecing work I should be working on, dammit. 😛
Better avoid doing more work, just to be safe. Go play some games!
You are now my new Doctor. I’ll take your advice in all things medical from now on. Even if it’s “Broke your leg? Dark Souls will make you feel better!”. 😀
🙁 Hope you feel better, Strange.
Could be a neck or back problem. I sometimes get unmanageable headaches caused by out of place vertebrae. Not a nice feeling, cracking your back or neck in can really help.
Your excuse is that if you were healthy the first time, and wound up with a headache, doing it now in a weakened state might KILL you.
Donna from The West Wing was on The Good Wife last night. Abigail Bartlett from The West Wing was on The Good Wife last week. *waits for Martin Sheen* So good seeing some of these actors again.
…
I guess this makes page six:
THE WEST WING PAGE SIX
(No dad jokes allowed.)
No dad jokeS
So we’re allowed one.
per postI’LL KILL YOU!
See you in three weeks!
I’ll be the one punching you in the face!
President Bartlet: We did not lose Texas because of the hat joke. Do you know when we lost Texas?
C.J.: When you learned to speak Latin?
President Bartlet: Go figure.
Saw an Assassin’s Creed 4 trailer last night on TV. Really reminds me of a realistic Wind Waker! I want to explore tropical islands and sing sea shanties come night fall! Why did you have to suck so damn bad, Assassin’s Creed 3? :'(
That’s not a bad way of viewing… Wind Waker uber HD 😛
Here’s hoping someone makes a mod to replace the music with Wind Waker music XD
Sailing along to the Ocean theme would be pretty amazeballs 😛
Assassin’s Creed tends to have great music anyways. XD
Well Jesper Kyd is from Denmark after all XD
Oh man, being able to make your crew sing you sea shanties? Greatest thing I saw at EB expo!
…excluding Watch Dogs, because…c’mon.
A guy walks into his dentist’s office and says “Doc, I think I might be a moth.”
The dentist replies, “ok…..so why did you come in here?”
The man says, “because the light was on.”#dadjokepagesix
I know that I bitch and complain about customers all the time but thinking back I have not once lost my temper with one. Always been firm but always polite at the same time.
Sounds like the only unstable person is your boss. Who’d do that to someone? A bastard, that’s who…
I was totally gobsmacked when I read that. Mrs Shane too.
Just couldn’t believe that someone would think that’s an okay thing to do, especially when the goal is to retain the staff member in question. It’s the product of a broken brain, that’s for sure :\
I ranted to any one who’d listen last night. Was so riled up. Can’t imagine how Freeze felt!
I uh. I may have called the guy and gone off at him. I may have opened with “if you think I’m so terrible a worker why not just say so and get rid of me?”
That’s… going off? I consider myself a pretty calm and centred person (to the point of near-catatonia), but I would have absolutely let loose if someone did that to me.
Well, you have children. That teaches a level of patience and tolerance that probably carries over damn near anywhere. 😉
I remember the days when I used to come hang out with you at the Tweed store, you were never rude or anything to even the most foul customers that turned up.
Write a letter to that effect!
Brilliant thinking 99. I hadn’t thought of that actually 😛
The @Freezespreston rally-around thread, reposted for Page6.
I don’t know if I’m the right person to serve as a character witness (but will do so if required), but here are some words for finetuning and to kickstart discussion.
___
To whom it may concern,
I have known FreezeSPreston Icequire for almost three years, and I consider him a very good friend of mine. He is an unfailingly generous and kind-hearted man, who always puts the needs of others before his own. His strong family values, diligent and committed work ethic, and personal moral compass make him a very positive role model in the community, and someone to look up to.
Under his management, the ____ branch of Mister Minit went from being one of the worst-performing stores in the country to one that won national awards. It is entirely understandable that his superiors are reluctant to let him go; however, I submit that the tactics they have employed in this circumstance are reprehensible and their testimony not to be relied upon.
I would not hesitate to recommend FreezeSPreston for the position he has applied for in the police force, and am happy to serve as a character reference on his behalf. I can be contacted at ____ during business hours or ______@_____.com outside of business hours.
Sincerely,
___
My feeling is that although Freeze may not be able to slam his bosses for torpedoing his character reference, there’s nothing stopping us from mentioning it.
Haha. I saw that. Thanks guys. Bit of a boost to the old self esteem.
I’ll admit that my current thought for my course of action is to just gather as many positive references as I can regardless of weight carried and just drown them with positivity. Don’t care if it ends up being 100 pages long.
Hold on, I’ll put this on a Shane W Smith letterhead and email it to you.
Or maybe a government one might hold more weight… I’ve never written an official government letter before 😛
Edit: before I do, can you tell me the name of the store in question.
Maybe leave out the part about my employers. Whatever my employers have said is irrelevant to what you may think of me.
The fact that they are just trying to keep me is really only conjecture at this point.
Can do.
It was Tweed
Alas, I already sent you the email. I can add that in if you want, but will have to be a bit later (have actual work to do BLURGH :P)
Let me know when you get it, and if you want it changed! 🙂
– Cakesmith
Hey, you served as a reference on my resume and I have a job now. Your word’s gotta count for something good!
They hired you despite my recommendation, I’m sure.
Haha! Oh man, I’ve missed these! More @sughly, more of the time!
http://www.procrastoonation.com/archives/176
Hah. Took me a while to get that since I just assumed it was an error above it.
It helps to scratch your head, tilt it sideways! 😀
Ahhhh.
Needed a Pie Chart.
Or a montage.
@mrtaco: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC5FdFlUcl0
Why be me when I can be free?
Hey Sydney people, we should totally Streetpass on the 8th or 9th (Friday/Saturday) of November or something.
Then we can go have a meal and run down some stairs and almost break our necks.
Might be cool.
( @35 , @alexpants , @anonymous_pessimist , @batgirl , @batguy , @cakesmith , @cj , @doc_what , @effluvium-boy , @fatshadylive , @freya , @gingerchris86 , @gorzilla , @harli , @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian , @masha2932 , @kermitron , @mawt , @powalen , @pyrean , @ruffleberg , @shiggyninty , @trjn , I am probably missing people here)
Nah, you should ALL come to Brisbane for Supanova.
Shane is offering to fly us all to Supanova?
Too kind man, too kind. But I accept your offer.
Eh, I suppose if I have to.
OKAY
Fridays are better for me!
I agree with Fridays.
Even if you are wrong about Charizard.
Friday is preferable for me as well!
Eww, street passes. That means interacting with people.
Woah, hold on, no one said anything about interaction.
Just be in the general vicinity of the green light zone, and then you are free to leave.
That’s okay then.
I work Friday nights and Saturday day!!! (I might be able to get friday off, or I might of resigned by then anyway)
Just make sure that you have a pink pokemon X & Y puzzle piece. Otherwise no deal.
Yep, I’ve got them all except the pink ones!
Yeah, that doesn’t help me. I can do that myself. Who invited you anyway?
@bish.
He promised pink pieces.
Maaaybe.
YAY! YES =D
Any time Popsugar nominates to have Scarlett Johansson at the bottom of my feed instead of Miley’s tongue-filled head is a win for me. I may be winking at my screen. She appears disinterested.
Well, I saw the title, I misread the title and now I’m just left disappointed.
This must be how my ex feelsDefinitely a roller coaster of emotions that title… first 0.o then \o/ then /o\
All I get for PopSugar is stuff about Tony Abbotts daughters =(
Who are actually surprisingly attractive given how funny looking dad is.
This is true. I wonder if they’re embarrassed to have him as their father..
Stoopid Lifehacker. Now I want a Ramen Burger!
I read that as Rayman burger. >_>
Gloo Gloo-ten free?
I feel dirty now. :S
I don’t know the reference, but assuming DADJOKEPAGE6.
*sniff* I’m so proud.
Oh man, I read that article and promptly felt like my life was incomplete. I still do. FUCKING RAMEN BURGER, FUCKING.
I’m hungry.
=(
Got mince out of the freezer and popped it in the fridge now so I can attempt to make Ramen Burgers for dinner tomorrow night. \o/
The glowworm was delighted when its tail was cut off.
#DadJokePage6
___
A blind man walks into a bar… and a table. And a wall.
#DadJokePage6
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A bike can’t stand on its own because it’s two tired.
#DadJokePage6
___
Oh, man, that was an emotional wedding. Even the cake was in tiers.
#DadJokePage6
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I won’t tell you the pizza joke – it’s pretty cheesy.
#DadJokePage6
___
I wrote a song about a tortilla. Well actually, it’s more of a wrap.
#DadJokePage6
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Dwarfs and midgets have very little in common.
#DadJokePage6
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It’s hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs because they always take things literally.
#DadJokePage6
SO MUCH PUN
BRAIN CAN’T CONTAIN…
*pop*
I used to think the brain was the best organ… but then I realised which part of me was telling me that O_o
My favourite was the dwarf one. Just a little joke there.
So meta!
Dwarves do like their precious metas.
I think the first joke really shines!
Although, I didn’t see the second joke coming.
I couldn’t stand the third one.
The fourth one made me a little emotional.
The fifth and sixth left you hungry for more and the seventh up came up short.
And the last one stole the show.
Ta-daaahhhhh!
The duck went to a pharmacist to get some chapstick. When they asked how he wanted to pay for it he replied, “Put it on my bill”
http://i.imgur.com/kHHtFuo.jpg
@shane
Thank you so much.
Pshaw you, I’m just writing a wrong. Today, I’m literary Batman.
Edit: if anyone asks me, I’m gonna say I’ve visited you at your store.
Edit 2: For the record, you bought me Dark Souls 2, which pretty much means you own me for life. For any purpose you want.
Edit 3: No need to thank me, either. I was so outraged at what’s happened to you, I kind of felt compelled to do something. You’re a good guy who deserves way better. Scales of justice and all that. Glad I don’t seem to have stepped on your toes or anything! 🙂
Soooo… I guess I have to watch ‘Orange is the New Black’ now.
All because of this strip: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/10/14
In the last panel, Tycho basically steals the words from my brain.
…
*runs home*
It’s not that bad a strip.
Haha, strip. 😛
HA! igeddit
They had me at Captain Janeway!
…
Except for the fact I haven’t watched. So they don’t really have me at all.
*moseys off*
(Although I’m pretty glad Janeways not topless in this show. I hope. If she is I might have to burn the show with fire. :P)
She’s also in Dragon Age and Alan Wake so you should pretend you like those too and never play them
I knew about Flemmeth, but she’s in Alan Wake too? Who does she play?
she was the voice of “the dark presence”Oooooh! I needs to replay me Alan Wake!
Wait, Flemeth was janeway?
Not just topless.
Lesbian shower scene.
…I have to go now. Bye TAY!
*faints*
It’s a great show
and here’s me downloading Parks & Recreation like some lame person..
It’s not lame! Parks & Rec and AWESOME!
I needed another show since finishing Malcolm In The Middle, and I keep seeing memes of this Ron Swanson bloke, he seems mildly entertaining. I feel like checking out Community as well, but I feel one sit com (or whatever) at a time is what it should be.
Just so you know, the first season isn’t all that great. Gets amazing from season two onwards though! First season is only short though so won’t take long to get to the good stuff.
I need to watch this show…
…for science
I gotta be honest, I don’t know why TAYbies didn’t make a bigger deal out of this. It’s pretty important. All this comparatively pointless shit about GTA and Pokemons and Breaking Bad and other completely relatively trivial crap… DONNA FROM THAT 70S SHOW TOPLESS. I’m kind of hurt and betrayed that this vital information wasn’t imparted to me sooner.
Then again, maybe not everyone has the same insane weakness for redheads that I do. …Nah. That hardly seems possible. It’s TAY who is wrong, not me.
Can anyone confirm how trades work from Pokemon B/W/B2/W2 to X and Y? Can it be done directly? I’m definitely going to be doing mine from scratch, without using my other Pokemon, but I’d like to transfer them over anyway. Mostly because I’ll want them eventually, and can send over my Lucky Eggs and Exp Shares with them.
no direct transfer. You download the Gen V -> Bank app, and upload them to Pokemon Bank and then download to your X/Y cart.
Ah. The next great question – do held items go with? I love my collection of Lucky Eggs and Exp Shares.
You won’t need the EXP Shares in this game! (it’d probably block them from coming in if it does allow hold items)
Hmm, good point. EXP Share has changed drastically enough that they might block it… however, I haven’t seen any lustrous/adamant/griseous orbs in the XY world – so maybe there will be some kind of ban/allowed list.
I’ll be frustrated if I have to buy EV-training Power items one more time.
Aight, thanks for the responses, you two. I’m so impatiently waiting for my X and Y. *fidget*
I was under the impression that you could do EV training via the Super Training thing, so wouldn’t that sort of replace needing those items? (admittedly I’ve only skimmed a few forum posts on the topic so this could be completely false :P)
Still investigating Super Training.
I think if you are good at the mini-games then you should be fine – most people are reporting 0-max Effort in 40 minutes. With Pokerus + Power Items, I was getting about the same.
You can skip the mini games and just tap for more training bags, but I’ll just end up wearing a hole in my touch screen. Given the fact that there seems to be a much wider diversity in Pokemon on any given route, I might just have to get better at Super Training.
No items. Pokeys only.
@shane: You should’ve heard my god awful pirate joke to Strange’s son last week when Strange and I had lunch. So, so shameful. I think just being around kids forces you to tone down your humor and then the puns arrive. D: I made Strange promise not to tell you of this incident. XD
…because you were so proud you wanted to share it yourself…? 😀
*sits and waits expectantly*
There was no pride. Only shame. *stares off into distance* Only shame.
*continues waiting*
Make me wait too long, and I’ll make sure every joke on this page is credited to you.
So this is sort of a confessional, huh? Well, my son, your penance is to tell us the terrible joke. For this is the house of Dad Jokes Page 6, where all are forgiven for their puns.
I was talking about Quantic Dream! (I do that in real life too! To any one who’ll listen. QUANTIC DREAM!) Then Strange’s son asked what Beyond: Two Souls was rated. Then… then…
*runs off sobbing*
I DON’T WANNA TALK ABOUT IT…
You were so close! Pretend you’re hitting me in the face with the punch line!
You might THINK you’re remorseful and repent of your pun, but dogma dictates that you can’t actually be forgiven for it unless you go through Dad Joke Pg6(tm)-licenced confessional! CONFESSS OR BE FOREVER DAMNED.
You may now commence hallucinations of a fiery-hot afterlife of an endless car trip with no air-conditioning, daggy old 60s brit-pop, and the Devil up front, telling terrible jokes and winding the windows up before demanding you pull his finger.
… It… it… was rated arrrrrgh. Only pirate’s can play it.
*throws self out window*
BAHAHAHA!!!!
That is not something to be ashamed off, that is a joke to take pride in.
So totally going to use it on my nephews.
EVERYONE HE DID IT! DAD JOKES PAGE SIX!
I fully condone this terrible pun!
10/10 Shaneys
@benny, he did it twice.
Well, my work here is done. Now that @dc is the new Shane, what do I do now…?
*moseys off, squinting and tilting head*
*peeks out window*
Well. At least he died with a clear conscience.
tch, that was a nice piece of glass.
Rated X for Jason?
Now I really hope that DC gets an accidental pageget when he finally gets around to revealing the joke.
Nah, he’d just edit it before anyone got to read it.
So bad! That Shane’s a bad influence on you, next thing we know you’ll be playing Dark Souls…. 😛
I’m becoming everything I hate! SHANE! 😛
🙁
Jokes! JOKES! *cough*
-_-
Well, now I just don’t know what to think. You want to punch me in the face, kill me, and now you hate me.
I’m starting to wonder if we aren’t brothers for real.Tell me, Shane. Do you still hate The Stand? DO YOU? *throws dinner plate*
Like this?
I never hated it – I was just left disappointed, that’s all. I think it peaked early and got progressively worse as the book went on 😛
Well your face disappoints me!
Also, your face peaked early and got progressively worse as the Shane went on!
@dc said it
Quote-ified for all to see and enjoy. XD
Oh, he’s never going to live this one down. Fantastic 😀
I’m pretty sure I stole the joke. And also, I was kind of stressed cause I had to socialize and I apologized immediately after. Maybe I’ll get a reduced sentence for showing remorse?
Tell me you didn’t really apologise after telling a kids’ joke to a kid.
You’ve clearly never spent face time with D.C., awkwardness abounds!
Okay, but your sentence was already kind of trim. I guess you could chop a couple of R’s out of “arrrrrrrrgh” and the joke would still stand.
Funniest part, is you did it in front of @strange, whose distaste for dad jokes is well known.
That’s like going straight from jogging around the block to the Olympics.
She was right to hit me.
Haha, she hit you?! Because of the joke? Or just because?
*strokes patchy chin stubble*
I like to think it was because of the joke.
Because I’m evil.
I love Page 6 <3
I hope it never ends.
If this had been a page get it would’ve been magical.
I was so worried about that 😛
I made this sandwich. I ate it. The deliciousness was overpowering.
http://imgur.com/sF6sWy3
You did not , you stole that pic out of an advertising magazine
Everyone knows sandwiches are just a thing from the movies. Only processed microwave meals exist in real life!
So mean, look at my Lurpak container in the top-right. I am an artist, sir.
More research required!
Observation: 2 slices of bread. Assortment of fillings.
Conclusion: Yep, definitely a sandwich.
Salami! Double cheese! Lettuce! Tomato! Result? Yay!
I wrote a thing about stuff!
Mainly Nintendo! And the Wii U! And Zelda!
http://www.pixel-otaku.com/wind-wakes-nintendos-sales-by-685/
Wii U? Got no games.
Marlowian Tragedy.
I always thought of the Wii U as more Byronic.
It’s like Braiiiiiin on your Bedding day,
It’s a freee Briiide when you’ve already Bayyyyyed
In related post, this analysis of a terrible song tells us everything we already know: that its primary irony is that it’s a song falsely claiming to be about irony.
Jagged Little Pill might’ve been the first album I ever bought. 😀
And you know what? I’d buy it again!
I know @mythamphetamine has my back on the Alanis front. 😛
Heh.
“Alanis front”.
Hey, I read this one already! And my comment is still in moderation.
*grumble* never had this problem with the old site *grumblegrumble*
*shakes fist at the po-po*
We have plans. PLANS!
Edit: There’s also the fact that I don’t agree with anything you said 😛
I know Raccoons can carry rabies and all that.. But holy shit this one here in a tuxedo is just adorable..
I tried to Google a picture of a cartoon bandit mask to be a smart ass.
The innernette gave me a way better punchline.
https://twitter.com/dkzeitgeist/status/389976858122399744/photo/1
LOL. Oh wow.
I feel like that should be rated NSFW.
Or just straight-up not safe for sane minds.
http://www.esperino.com/eb-expo-2013-interview-nic-watt-of-nnooo-blast-em-bunnies
😀
Who was it?
I think it was @shiggyninty
Got a new shirt from my sis!
http://twitter.com/theREALwelbot/status/389973031977635841/photo/1
She always finds good ones!
Suddenly my train ride has become my favourite part of the day. 2hrs of uninterrupted Pokémon a night! Yesterday I opened my 3DS on the train, played for a few minutes, looked up and it was dark and I was at my station. It’s like, time dilation or something.
On a completely related note, I have no desire to play Animal Crossing anymore 😛
And on an unrelated note, I got compliments at work today. The other guy they hired for a similar position to mine got fired. I’m totally okay with being the favourite …Until they trade me in for a younger and better looking model. Oh god!
How many Vivillions have you got so far?
(I assume that by now you’re aware of it’s “gimmick” and have at least looked up the differences.)
Just the two, including the one I use. I only caught the second one to find out why…
mine was brown/blue and not pink like I expected. Assumed it was like Spinda with random colours but after it turned out the same I had a google. Pretty awesome! I like my one but some of the other patterns I’ve seen are really amazing!I might have to breed a bunch to Wonder Trade!
That’s why I like Bug Types! They always seem to get cool extras and evolutionary gimmicks like this.
“River” is still one of the better patterns, IMO.
BUT DAT “OCEAN” pattern. Damn Hawaii!
I caught a Mawtlucha today at lunch. SO HAPPY (*°∀°)
I bet it’s your favorite part of your day cause of that lady you laughed at bogans with last week. 😛
It was pretty funny
I now have nine references from customers, co-workers and professional relations that are willing to back me up completely. Only one from TAY.
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t shocked so many people seem to care so much.
Well done. That says something.
That he can terrorise anyone into giving him what he wants so long as they’re not above him?
I gave you mine 🙁
Whatever happened to @greenius? Haven’t heard from him in a while. :'(
He became soylent @greenius 🙁
He’s taking a break because busyHahaha well played.
POKEYMANS of course! He has no time for idle chit-chat!
Hmmm, what a snobius.
Hi
Yo! WELCOME BACK! \o
Where have you been?
Been busy with Uni stuffs and I’ve sorta been avoiding the internet for Pokemon spoilers (because certain Kotaku US authors just love posting articles that reveal all the spoilery things :P)
I know! I can’t believe that Pikachu dies in this one. I mean WTF dude?!
@tech_knight
Check your steam inbox! 🙂
GAH page get? REALLY!?
I hereby declare page 7… the deecee page!
Deeee Ceeeee phone home.
All,
If I’d known I’d get the page, I would have written a concise letter thus.
Sincere Regards,
J
Dear @dc,
Page seven is already reserved. You know. For this. What I am doing now. Yes.
Regards,
Evil Benny.
PS: Muahahahahaha!
*and then serious face doctor evil pinkie finger over pursed lips and raised eyebrow*
I KNOW YOU ALL TRIED TO DO THAT LAST BIT WITH THE FINGER AND THE LIPS
BECAUSE BEFORE I WROTE IT I TRIED TO DO IT TOO
Dear Tay
I hope this letter finds you well.
it is 4:30, and I haven’t been able to give a damn at work since about 3pm.
How are you?
Yours in interminable boredom
Red.
Dear Red,
Stop living half hour in the future,
Your pal,
Dan. (Not that one.)
Dear TAY,
I was going to tell you a dairy joke, but it was too cheesey.
Regards,
welbot
Oh man, he’s merged page 6 and 7 themes. These are the end times. :'(
That’s rather dairing of you.
You’re just milking it for all it’s worth.
He can’t help it. TAYbies are a cultured bunch.
Always straight onto an opportunity, the very moment it passed your eyes 😛
Dear Page 7,
I have always been sad when you come around. It is nothing against you personally, but following up Dad Jokes Page 6 is basically suicide.
Regards,
That Nob
To Whom it May Concern,
Picked up Max Payne 3 and Sleeping Dogs for 40 spondula’s at JB today. Many wins are about to be had.
Cheerio,
J
Dear TAY
Today had been an odd experience for me. It’s been bewildering to realise how many people seem to think so highly for me and are willing to stake their reputation in stating so.
I really don’t know how to feel.
Regards
Freeze
Reputation? What reputation do I have, ha! 😛
Dear Freeze,
My reputation ain’t nothing to me, so don’t read too much into it.
You should feel awesome. Because you are.
Sincerely,
Bubbleburster
Dear Freeze,
Does this help? http://i.imgur.com/cpFMFt1.gif
Kind retards,
Cake
HELP ME DAVID CAGE!!
Dear Freeze
You is Good People.
-Strange.
Hope mine is acceptable I used @shane’s as a template of how to write it and how to actually write something decent 😛
Reply fail.
Dear TAY,
Gravity was amazing. All the feels.
Hype choo choo justified.
Thanks for recommending it to me as I possibly may not have watched it otherwise.
Yours sincerely,
ontargett.
Dear TAY.
Can anyone suggest some good 3DS games other than Fire Emblem and the new Poke’s?
Those two seem like cool guys but I have a 5 game requirement for buying new consoles.
Regards
Some guy.
Dear Jo
Theatrythym.
No I don’t know if I spelt that right and no I don’t care.
Tappy tappity tap tap swosh
Freeze
Hmm, shall investigate.
Dear Jo,
I quite like Mario and Luigi Dream Team. It does get a bit repetitive though, and it’s definitely not for everyone’s tastes.
Blaghs.
Yeeeaaah, I have an irrational dislike for Mario however.
So do I, but Mario & Luigi (and Paper Mario) are still up there as some of my favourite series 😛 All the other Mario games can go get lost though.
Dear Jo,
I’ve barely used my 3Ds besides Animal Crossing and FF: Theatrhythm. I think it was worth it for those two games alone though. I do like your 5-game requirement as it seems sensible but I think that if it’s the right two games it can be enough.
-Strange.
P.S. I like seeing you pop up around here again. 🙂
Aww, thanks Strange.
True, I did buy a PS3 pretty much just for Demons’ Souls. But you know, it’s Demons’ Souls.
Ocarina of Time remake.
Huge DS catalogue. Highlights include Phoenix Wright series, CHRONO TRIGGER, GTA Chinatown Wars, bunch of Mario/Zelda games, Ghost Trick, and many many others.
Also eshop lets you purchase retro games, including LINK’S AWAKENING, and DONKEY KONG.
OoT is one of those games everyone lauds highly but I never played and so raise a skeptical eyebrow whenever it is mentioned.
So maybe this would indeed be a good chance to settle the matter.
Understandable. I’m notoriously hard on games I have soft nostalgic feelings for, but this one held up really well. I’m happy to lend you a copy to save the expense of buying it, if you like.
Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars was the sleeper hit of the launch lineup imo. Turn-based strategy game that somehow made me actually have a sense of strategy for once, so that’s a huge plus for me 😛
Also a big fan of Steel Diver. I feel it’s a bit of a misunderstood title that didn’t get the love it deserves, but it’s not really everyone’s cup of tea.
Resident Evil Revelations is a top game, works really well with a Circle Pad Pro (haven’t played without). And if you’re a fan of RE4’s Mercenaries mode like I am, then RE Mercenaries is a great pickup too. Can be had pretty cheap these days.
Shinobi. I’ve never played a Shinobi game before, but it somehow felt like it was “right”. Brutally hard, I played in the easy mode that gives you infinite continues and still was dying left right and centre (and everywhere inbetween). Another under-appreciated title that can be had for a song these days.
Kid Icarus: Uprising. Absolutely fantastic production values, perfectly captures the essence of a Saturday morning cartoon, can’t sing enough praises of it. But I would recommend against trying to play with the stylus, and try get yourself some kind of thumb strap (so that you then use the touch screen like an analogue stick). Though some have found using the stand fixes that ok, I’m not a fan of it though.
Luigi’s Mansion 2. Another one deserving of high praise. Every bit as good as the original, and then some.
Star Fox 64 3D. Finally, Lylat Wars makes it off the 64 and gets a shiny new coat of paint. And it looks goooooood. There’s some minor changes to it that might be niggling for a hardcore fan, but it’s a top translation. The new multiplayer mode is pretty fun too, just a shame it’s offline-only.
Cheers man, I shall look into a few of those.
Steel Diver friend! It’s not the most amazing title, but I still play it occasionally! (helps that I got it for like $10 :P)
Yeah, I got mine for about the same 😛 Myer’s clearance stuff IIRC.
It really nailed the feel of trying to control this big, cumbersome hunk of metal I thought. And I loved the boss fight against that battleship. I just wish they had a few more levels in there.
Theatrhythm
Ghost Recon Shadow Wars
Paper Mario Sticker Star (probably debatable)
Mario & Luigi Dream Team
Bit Trip Saga
Harvest Moon A New Beginning (haven’t played it yet but if you’re into that then it looks really good)
I’m gonna say Monster Hunter as long as you get a circle pad pro thingy.
Fuck yeah Shadow Wars fanclub.
if you have friends with it, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate is awesome.
Other than Fire Emblem and Pokemon (which I think are the two best games on the system):
Mario Kart 7, Virtues Last Reward and Animal Crossing are all fantastic.
There’s plenty on the eShop too: PullBlox, Mutant Mudds, Harmoknight, Mario and DK, Attack of the Friday Monsters.
Upcoming stuff: Zelda A Link Between Worlds, Ace Attorney 5
Can’t go wrong as far as I’m concerned!
Ahhh yeah, 999/Virtues Last Reward was also a thing that caught my eye.
Ok thank you all, I think I shall have to go spend some money.
Also, would peeps consider the XL worth the $100 more?
@benny @powalen @grandmasterb-funk @mrtaco @benj @shane @strange @blaghman @freezesprestonI love the XL, whenever i look at my friends with regular DS’s i wonder how they can look at such a tiny screen.
#XLElitism
Also, Virtues last reward is great, however i played it on the Vita, and i thought i heard there were some bugs on the 3DS one.
Yeah there is bugs in the 3DS one apparently. I personally didn’t encounter any (didn’t save in any puzzle room, which is where the bugs can happen) but it’s something to watch out for!
I paid $0 for mine, so it’s unfair for me to weigh in. I love the XL, though. Apparently the battery life is much better, and the screen is (according to Nintendo) 90% bigger.
The XL is much better in my opinion.
I was prepared to hate the 3XL, but was surprised to find just how much I loved it. Easily the best piece of hardware Nintendo has put out since the DS Phat. My only problem with it is the screens, in that the sweet spot for 3D is much harder to find, and also difficult to hold. But if you don’t like using the 3D then that’s not really a problem.
XL is vastly better than the standard. The battery lasts a lot longer by 3DS standards (which is still terrible but big improvement anyway) and the screen is easier to see. Bigger ‘sweet spot’ for the 3D if you care about that. Also for DS games it’s way better because the top and bottom screens are rendered at the same physical size. On the standard 3DS, top and bottom screen are different sizes for DS stuff which makes some of the games that are meant to be played book-style like Hotel Dusk or Ninja Gaiden or stuff where both screens are contiguous like The World Ends With You a bit odd.
Despite your dislike of Mario, I also recommend Luigi’s Mansion 2.
Fire Emblem is the only game I’ve gotten for it that didn’t leave me feeling regret for my purchase but your mileage may vary. And despite this I own two of the things 🙁
Also Bravely Default in December. Etrian Odyssey is okay. Luigi’s Mansion is good if you can get past the archaic game design. Rhythm Thief and Theatrhythm are both cool if you like rhythm games (though unfortunately the best rhythm game series on the system remains Japan-only).
EDIT: Also there’s Monster Hunter 3 but IMO don’t bother – wait for MH4’s eventual English release because it has online play.
Thanks to going to youtube to find that previous link I ended up discovering this full version of the opening to the upcoming Project Mirai 2 and I’m addicted 🙁 The composer’s done some kind of filtering or something to the vocals because they sound really realistic where normally the vocaloid stuff has this really robotic tone to it due to the clipping that happens because of the way they shift the pitch.
(Yes, I realize that no one else is likely to care about this but me)
I bought a new laptop. I blame @trjn because it is a macbook.
MARKETING
They’re a good laptop. Can’t go wrong.
They do make unfortunately good laptops.
MARKETING
Little bit hype for Numenera. Little bit.
Are you joining us tomorrow night? Thats awesome, what sort of character did you make?
I shall never tell!
It’s a Nano, though we’ll all find out tomorrow night 😀 I’m not sure how much I should/can divulge at this point?You can divulge as much or as little as you like, but I’ll give you an intro tonight
Dear Tay,
Today I found myself in a highly embarrassing situation that I personally blame Mark Serrels for, due to his “What song are you currently in love with” article.
So anyway, I was at a set of traffic lights today listening to a highly embarrassing song, practically screaming the lyrics, when I hear the two young ladies in the car next to me singing along really loudly while looking / laughing at me. This wouldn’t have been so bad, except for the song in question was Toxic by Britney Spears and my drivers side window was down.
That is all.
From:
-LionDied
Back in high school, we were headed to some camp (no, not one of those camps), and some poor bastard fell asleep at the back of his bus with his earphones in.
They were the type with the volume wheel incorporated into the lead, I’m sure you know the ones.
Anyways, long story short, turn earphone volume down and disconnect, set alternative MP3 player volume to max, song to Toxic, ramp up volume on the earphones, and connect.
That poor, poor kid.
I end up there a lot.
What, at the red light?
..district.
Ok, but what did you do next, after seeing that they were looking and laughing? This is important. Did you stop, or did you just go harder? 😛
For all my time spent singing in the car (ie every time I drive), I’m surprised I’ve practically never been caught in such a situation. Although the other day I thought I was getting looks from some lady in the car next to me, but I was busy looking at the light and waiting for it to change.
I was a little too into the song to stop, so I looked at them and practically yelled “I’M ADDICTED TO YOU, DON’T YOU KNOW THAT YOU’RE TOXIC!”. Luckily that is when the lights turned green and i floored it.
Excellent.
10/10, would read again.
Dude.
Well, it is a good song.
It’s a great song! Just not one you want to get caught singing in public, let alone screaming out the window of your car…
Dear TAY,
I think I’m Pokemaning wrong. I just beat the third gym and I’m on the next route, and I’m feeling so damn OP. My Pokemon are all level 36 – 38, and I’m fighting trainers who are using level 28 Pokemon. I mean, it’s not like the single player Pokemon and the trainers you face are ever a challenge, but damn is this easy. And it’s not like I’ve been grinding either. I blame the new XP share. My Blaziken, which I’ve used maybe a half dozen times, is almost level 40. It just feels wrong.
Still a great game.
Regards,
Dire Wolf
Turn off the EXP Share. Makes the game way too easy in my opinion. I turned it off before the second gym and still don’t have to grind much, if it all 😛
EDIT: oh, you mentioned the EXP Share! Shows me for skim reading 😛 I turned it off because I didn’t like that my Pokemon were levelling up without me actually using them. My Vivillon got to level 25 with me barely touching it 🙁 Didn’t like that.
I am grinding so hard, because team AllFire is a little bit shit in many instances.
That’s because the name is a little bit shit.
Team Blazing? No, sounds too much like stoners.
Team Flamers? … maybe not.
Team Flameo Hotman!
Team Magma! Team Flare!
…wait.
Really? Vivillon was front and center star of your PR video. Figured it was your main.
It is! It just kept levelling up in the background as I trained other things! D: The main reason I turned it off, because I never got to use it 😛
EXP share has made my life so much easier.
I’ve been doing stacks of starters over twitter – you want a trade tonight?
Sure thing.
The EXP share is a great addition for those who want it, like me.
honestly the grindy nature of the previous pokemon games annoyed me a ton, the new EXP share is great for me 🙂
Been running ProleteR’s Soundcloud feed for an hour now and I’m digging it. Old 30’s(?) style music with a hip hop beat mixed in.
https://soundcloud.com/proleter-beatmaker
Seriously don’t know what to do about this 3DS thing. Didn’t end up calling Nintendo today, so I guess I’ve still got til Friday to get around to it. But I don’t know what to do. I mean on the one hand yeah, I can just pay the $150 and be done with it. Move on. But lying in bed trying to sleep last night, I couldn’t not think about it. I mean I’ve done everything right here, I read and followed all the instructions and did everything correctly, treated the console right and after just two years it explodes. Every single person I’ve told has responded with either “what??” or “that’s bullshit”. So either Nintendo is unreasonable, or everyone else is unreasonable for expecting it to last more than two years. Secondly, I’m paying $150 for a repair service when they aren’t even giving me a full repair service? Ok they’re transferring the backend stuff, but what about the shit on the SD card? What’s the point of even letting us (and suggesting that we) back up our save data on there if they “can’t” do anything with it? More like won’t.
This is all just bullshit and I’m pissed and I hate the futility of it all.
Can you at least get them to send the SD card back to you? There might be unofficial local repair folks who can get the data off it for you
Oh the SD card will definitely be coming back to me. That 32GB sucker is mine 😛
But I don’t think there’s anything that can be done with it. Far as I know, the 3DS hasn’t been cracked at all yet so nobody knows anything about extracting the keys or using them to decrypt stuff. Plus you’d need to somehow get my 3DS’s keys, which I guess are kind of inaccessible at the moment.
The data’s all encrypted to the system to stop people uploading saves to it that exploit Nintendo’s shitty coding and install boot loaders that let you get root access like with the Wii.
@mrtaco: at $150 to get it fixed I’d probably just go drop the extra on new one personally, then ask them if they can at least transfer your purchases to your new system. Or if you just want to wash your hands of it all and get a different portable now is a great time to get a Vita before the ones with the crappy screens displace the OLED ones.
I am half thinking about it. Although having just found that there are exploits out there in firmwares 4.5 and below that allow execution of custom code in 3DS mode (infuriatingly, that would have been the version I was on when I went to update and if I’d known I sure as shit wouldn’t have tried to do it!), I’m curious about whether that could help me out at all. I did see a red one today that would be rather nice, though $188 ick. And not even sure if it would be vulnerable. Though the only thing then is that I’d need to go online for it to hook up with the shop stuff, which I wouldn’t be able to do without updating. So I’d need to get two new ones if I really wanted to make sure I was safe.
Can’t wash my hands of it though. Both because of a misplaced sense of loyalty to Nintendo (despite this? Hahaha) plus I just don’t really like the other systems at all. Especially the Vita.
Well if you want to play Nintendo games then you’re going to be in the hole at least $150 regardless. New ones are what, $188? That’s the cost of a game to get a brand new one with a new warranty.
Don’t bother with exploits. You’re never getting your data back because Nintendo are crap at everything that involves user experiences. I firmly believe that the company are their own worst enemy, and they would be better off being a software company instead of hardware and operating systems because they have repeatedly shown they just can’t get that shit right.
I own two 3DSes and hardly ever use them because the games on them are just not there if you’re not a Nintendo fan. 🙁 I keep buying new 3DS games and then not playing more than an hour or two. I can’t shake the feeling that they’re toy games for a kids system. Fire Emblem so far is the only thing that has warranted serious play time.
I’m more looking at the exploits in terms of preventing data loss down the track. That was why I put homebrew on my Wii (as well as getting around region lock), because of how they locked down WiFi games to the console and wouldn’t let you copy them. Then there was the brick protection too. Yeah I figure that my current data is gone (though it’d be great if there was some sort of workaround for it down the track :P), but if it can save me if this ever happens again then it’d be worth it.
Not sure if I mentioned elsewhere but I did check about the warranty, and the refurbished 3DS they’d give me for the $150 would have a new 12 month warranty on it, just like if I bought a new system from a store, so there’s not much difference there. And I’m still big on Nintendo and their games, I played the absolute crap out of my 3DS and took it with me everywhere all the time. All the other systems don’t really seem to have much that appeals to me at all.
Well in that case it sounds like Nintendo are probably offering you a new system for $150. Probably not a bad deal.
@ynefel *ahem* https://twitter.com/CannonFodderJnr/status/390036665592328192
I still don’t have my Pokingmenz. =(
In transit, due Thursday, apparently.
Hngh.
@freezespreston: Sorry for the short notice man, but I don’t think I can attend this weekend dealy!
I don’t think anyone can. Was going to call it off tomorrow anyway.
Oh shit, I thought this weekend was the 13th.. wow, I really need to keep track of the dates :S
Edit: was just saying to my friend I thought I had something on this weekend but I wasn’t sure and said I thought it was next weekend. ugh. Can we reschedule? Any weekend apart from November 22, 23 & 24th, i’m off to a wedding then..
SUPANOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVA
Which weekend is that?
Somewhere around 6-10th November. Whatever weekend those dates cross.
That would be me too. Brother’s birthday event at Strike Bowling, then family in town from Malaysia. I’ve been trying to get a more concrete time on the Saturday evening event in case Freeze-Event was a middayish thing I could do then head back to Bris, but people have been very flaky about it.
Not double-booking would be a good thing.
@scree, you finally got Pokemon?!
Yes, @gorzilla bought it for me!
I’ve been enjoying it, but find I have to grind a shit ton
I was trying to trade you a Pikachu last night, if you didn’t already have one of course. I have two.
I have one, from @Gorzilla. He only encountered like 10 in an hour =P
@beavwa, that was awesome! Thank you! However I’m running out of awesome Pokemon to trade you in return!
Pokemon people: if I were to purchase a Pokemon game having never played any of them ever, would X/Y be best or is it not shaking out as good (or too early to tell?)
Also do whatever stupid gimmicky online systems Nintendo’s put in place work cross-region (i.e. US to EU copies) or is it region locked like everything else (i.e. can I hunt for the best price out of US or EU since I have both region systems)
I have not caved in yet but I’m getting close 🙁
I would say X&Y would be a great place to jump into the series. Its has a few new features that make it great for new players, especially the EXP share to cut down on the grind. The online stuff seems to work with any copy of the game. I’ve done random trades with people as far removed as Japan, USA, Canada, Italy and Spain. And a couple of battles with people from the States as well
What about wireless though? Sometimes they’re shitty and don’t let cross-region stuff happen locally. Eg it’s impossible to play Star Fox 64 multiplayer with someone who has an NTSC unit, even though it’s download play only. And NTSC Shinobi completely ignores PAL Shinobi for StreetPasses.
I have no evidence, but I doubt it’d be an issue for this game. They actively display foreign-language players to you and encourage you to interact with as many countries as possible. Can’t see any reason why they would region lock local multiplayer.
Yeah, this absolutely shits me. Eg you can’t play Monster Hunter 3 cross region for local multiplayer. Meant I had to buy an AU system for that (also for Fire Emblem because I’d been waiting 3 months for a US copy to show up in stock at Play-Asia and gave up)
It’s difficult to say, to be honest. On one hand this game is greatly enhanced by being familiar with the series, but at the same time it’s first timer friendly. With all the new advancements this time around I kind of find it hard to recommend any previous entry, but I don’t want to get you caught up in the hype and then you hating it 😛
But yes, Pokemon online stuff is global. Everybody plays with everyone. They’ve really emphasised the global community this time around with all the online options.
Truth talk: I will probably hate it anyway as I hate everything apparently. 🙁
Sorry, probably shouldn’t have phrased it like that. If you want to play it, go ahead. I think it’s a genuinely good game despite the hype so if you like this sort of RPG then there’s no better.
I haven’t fully finished Pokemon X/Y yet but looking at its production values and sheer success it looks like a great place to start.
If you wanted to dabble in something a little older I’d say HeartGold/SoulSilver would be a good choice, a large amount of retro with a modern tinge to it. also 16 badges and two regions in it!
*sigh* Really starting to get stressed now 🙁 Finally actually found the marks for the first assignment for programming with data structures and my group failed that (only got 36.6%), I have no idea how well I’ve done in the prac tests (wasn’t able to make one of them, think I did okay in the other two though), so I think my groups going to need a distinction in the second assignment due on Thursday for me to pass internally. (I need at least 45% of the internal marks to pass the unit) The exam itself is worth 70% of the unit so that will be fun too :l
I have no idea why I even chose this stupid unit. It’s not even necessary for my degree, just an elective because I couldn’t find anything better. I really should have chosen a business unit instead, and I think I’m gonna do that from now on anyway. Fuck computing, fuck the weird creeps that I have to try and get along with, and fuck UTAS and their complete incompetence in the way they’re handling enrolments next year for ICT.
That and I’m expected to be available for friggen wedding stuff. Sorry, I’m busy, can’t help, your fault for making it right when everyone’s busy as fuck. I already had to cancel shit just to show up on the day, don’t push it. You may be my best friend and a lot of the times it probably seems like you are, but sometimes you aren’t my first priority.
Urghh. *going to bed.*
Upvote for fuck computing.
I’M I.T. AND I HATE IT ALL.
Life goes on either way, so don’t sweat it. As for uni, I’ve finished computing and an extra year of it to get a masters eventhough it was course work. Loved uni, it was easy. hate the job, sitting in the office for 8 hours straight sux. Working on new software can be interesting though. Either way time keeps mving on. Friends and wedings, was in a similar situation last week. Went to a wedding it was ok. It was one of my family friends and he gets married once so why not go? Time mnagement is more about setting priorities right. You’ll get through, the only difference will be how you get through at the end and even then its like meh.
Why am I not tired?
My right arm does feel kinda sore, though. 🙁
Seriously, I honestly don’t feel tired at the moment. :\
…………………………
If you slow down your blood won’t be pumping so fast.
So I estimate it’s been about 13 years since I saw a wild shiny Pokémon (and caught it), and that’s better than the average. (Story gyarados doesn’t count)
Within her first 2 hours on X, she catches a shiny Pikachu, doesn’t even realise it, and gives it to me as trade fodder…
Well, I do have a shiny Pikachu now. It’s just like a normal one but a darker shade of yellow. Wooooo.
I’ve yet to see a real shiny before in my life.
=(
I was hoping you didn’t already have @mawtlucha and Eevee before our trade.
Didn’t have the wrestling bird thing, the thought is appreciated. Others have been giving me any low level fodder, I’m not looking for anything in return. I have all 6 starters now, need any others?
I’m good for now thank you. I’m actually trying to work it out myself. Are you using a traded Ditto?
Yeah, I traded for a ditto as I’m only 1 badge in. Bred my starters, traded them for the others on GTS. Bred lots more to save others the hassle. I like to try to be useful.
Playing payday 2. Must admit, it’s pretty cool.
…yay… yesterday was just all kinds of fusterclucking…
my manager got the shits with me because apparently i “owe” hours for the hours i’ve had to leave early to tend to my wife…
Secondly our new puppy is on antibiotics for Kennel Cough (that’s normal) but not cheap :\
and on the way home a truck decided to fling a freaking boulder at my car creating a huge crack in the windscreen… $500 replacement coming up :\…
Tuesday can go ef itself….
Ah well, today is another day, HOW IS EVERYONE?
If you have personal leave, you can claim that when you’re tending to a spouse. You may not owe anything.
That’s what I told her, but she was adament because i didn’t give ahead notice blah blah, so i said “Fine, i was sick” and put it through as sick leave
You don’t need to give notice! GAH
New Humble Android Bundle.
I bought Ticket to ride last week.
RAGE
Buy it again!
Did, for tablet!
DOC WHAT QUESTION TIME PART 1
What are all the TAY running gags/memes/in jokes etc that you can think of?
Dickmen.
DC’s pirate joke.
Mang,
Penicl (old one)
and then i found $10
Dad jokes page 6
Letter writing page 7
R18 page 18
and
#hasttagsforharli
is what i can think of
You are a beautiful viking!
*blushes*
naaaws
You misspelled penicl.
Thanks mang, fixded
DC Hats buildings
Get the Paddle
Who’s this guy?
Shameless plugs
*jumps out window*
me. cept i’m not running so much, as stationary.
also
Oh Rocketman!
#oldmanwelbot
#oldmanserrels
@mcgarnical is the worst person on this site.
That quote I don’t have bookmarked anywhere – ‘wolf no good bad just ok’
‘thing is strange’ (Hi @strange!)
*clears throat*
i got game to be wolf or shot wolf but no wolf in wolf game. otherwise it gootd game but no wolf make it ok great but not ok good just great ok bad. if you want wolf no get if like shoting bad guys ok great get.
http://www.amazon.com/Wolfenstein-Xbox-360/product-reviews/B001CRQYBO?pageNumber=10
YOU’RE WELCOME
Also “Went out Friday night then on Saturday (hi @saturday) I went to ”
Oar of thorns
Bish cleans / surly people in hoodies
#dantastic
Sughly’s pictures of incidents
Sorry
SPAYCE MAUREEN!!!!!
shanewsmith.com
Why does nobody else ever mention storing bread in the microwave!? It’s the funniest one!
For posterity: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/09/make-the-most-of-your-microwave/
Shane.
frond (friend)
meats (meet-up)
hat (hate)
Warranted hat.
Benj + Oliver 4eva <333
Doofus!
It’s JUST a question! No need for name calling! D:
Monster!
DOC WHAT QUESTION TIME PART 2
What are the most pretentious, art film type scenes you can think of? Either things you’ve actually seen, or just some cliche you can thing of.
Some terrible Internet film. Judy Against Dead People or something.
Serious answer: Only God Forgives was a pretty excruciating 90 minute wankfest.
The art movie in GTA 5 is really weird. It’s called Capolavoro. I think it’s just Rockstar making fun of foreign language art films.
I watched it all and it was hilarious!
The Room
HI DENNY!
Spooooons
The I can think of which I’ve seen maybe The brave
I haven’t seen it but I very much got that sort of vibe from what I saw about ‘The artist’
Plastic bag in the wind.
Upstream Colour.
The second movie by Shane Carruth (writer/director/star/caterer for Primer) about a bunch of people getting infected by mind controlling worms, having their identities stolen and then freaking out and running to a pig farm while reciting poetry.
Very pretty. Very little dialogue. Very vague. Incredibly pretentious and arty.
Curious as to what was wrong with Watch Dogs to necessitate a 6 month delay a few weeks before release. Wouldn’t it have gold by now? Got to be something pretty major for that long a delay.
Maybe something to do with the three letter acronym starting with an N ending with an A and it has an S somewhere in the middle.
Maybe next gen wasn’t up to standard, and they want to take the Rayman approach of every platform at once, when every platform is ready?
Other theories are that they may have projected a negative impact on AC4 sales, so it’s been shifted to the next sales / maximum profit window, which must be several months after Christmas.
Surely it’s not cheap to just sit on a completed game. Not to mention the months, hell a years worth, of advertising they have given the game.
Eh, maybe projections showed guaranteed sales regardless, and they’re working on DLC either way.
Plus, as a ‘next gen’ title, wouldn’t they get more sales once everyone that wants a next gen device actually has one? Supply of hardware won’t fulfill all preorders until some time next year.
But it’s current gen as well so they probably wouldn’t lose all that many. Also there’s the fact that there is a bunch of people out there who preordered PS4’s/Xbones purely for Watch Dogs.
Also also Watch Dogs has been way more hyped and advertised than AC4.
I wasn’t even aware the AssCreed 4 was coming out then …
Plays into my points. If people ordered new hardware for this game, don’t sell it until they have the hardware. If it’s overshadowing AC4 with maximum advertising and hype, won’t that be bad for AC4 sales?
(Pure conjecture and devil’s advocating on my part, don’t really have an opinion either way)
Not so sure. Being the closest thing to a system seller that MS or Sony had at launch it wouldn’t be doing Ubi’s relationship with them any favours to just withhold it for no other reason but a few extra software sales.
Yup, the company with the most to lose from this is Sony. Microsoft have a much wider selection of release games.
Here’s a tinfoil hat theory, Microsoft paid off Ubisoft to hurt PS4 sales? Sure, Microsoft take a hit but these is a huge blow for Sony.
@sernobulus That’s a nice tinfoil hat theory! One of the best I’ve heard so far.
The still unknown fallout at this point is the preorder bundles. I’ll be watching with great interest how that is handled.
Not to mention breaking their agreements with Microsoft and Sony to offer launch-day console bundles.
So it turns out that I have a
nunhealthy obsession with porridge mixed with protein like @markserrels does.We’re NORMAL m’kay!
Just listened to The Number of The Beast by Iron Maiden. Damn, that has some epic songs: The Number of The Beast, Run to the Hills, The Prisoner and Hallowed be Thy Name.
So, a question for all you TAYbies this Wednesday morning: What is your favourite metal album or is it impossible to choose?
For me The Number of The Beast is hard to top. But I will accept any recommendations and listen to them on Spotify if I can.
Number of the Beast is dear to me as well. Also Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppet albums by Metallica.
*I love every song on those three albums. Every song. That is epic.
Most influential ones for me would be Pantera’s Vulgar Display of Power and Far Beyond Driven, At the Gate’s Slaughter of the Soul, The Haunted’s Self Titled and The Haunted Made Me Do It, Slayer’s Seasons in the Abyss and Reign in Blood, Sepultura’s Beneath the Remains, Metallica’s ….And Justice For All – and Black Sabbath’s Dehumanizer deserves a special mention too.
Actually there’s a lot more, but I’ll stop there.
Whilst I enjoy most of the songs on Justice, I really can’t get past the overall tinny sound.
See I’ve never noticed it. Puppets is a close contender, but Justice wins simply because I love pretty much every single song off the album. Also, Puppets feels very short to me. Still both incredible albums though.
War Ensemble is my absolute favourite song to air drum along to. Lombardo was a beast
*is a beast
He’s still got it, no doubt about that, but more recent releases for me just don’t have the same power and impact his drumming had back in the late 80s-early 90s
Number Of The Beast is definitely a classic.
Almost all my favourite albums are metal. Were you after more classics or contemporary?
I’m open to both. I have a wide ranging taste in music. It’s funny, because I didn’t even start listening to hard rock/heavy metal until I was an adult.
I started as a teenager, got introduced to Metallica by a guitarist boyfriend in high school. Then I kind of went on a musical journey through a lot of genres adjacent to metal, like prog-rock, grunge and punk before coming back to metal again after my daughter was born. I was really depressed and hadn’t listened to any music at all for a few years and put Ride The Lightning on (my favourite Metallica album) on a whim one day which made me start remembering who I was outside of being a mother and started me back on the path to recovery. I owe a lot to metal. 🙂
These days I mostly listen to power metal, symphonic metal and folk metal. I’ve found they make me happiest. Some of my favourites are really cheesy though, so maybe that’s me getting old. 😛 Things like Gloryhammer’s Tales From The Kingdom Of Fife are pure cheese, but pure joy at the same time.
So from the Power/Folk/Symphonic spectrum I highly recommend Sonata Arctica’s Days of Grays, Sabaton’s Carolus Rex, Ensiferum’s Unsung Heroes, Eluveitie’s Helvetios, Epica’s Requiem For The Indifferent, Helloween’s Keeper Of The Seven Keys, Gamma Ray’s Majestic, Dream Evil’s Book Of Heavy Metal, Blind Guardian’s Nightfall in Middle Earth, Avantasia’s The Metal Opera, Timo Tolkki’s Avalon – Land Of New Hope, Heavatar’s All My Kingdoms, Iced Earth’s Framing Armageddon, Orphaned Land’s All Is One, Therion’s Sitra Ahra, Tarot’s Crow Fly Black, Stratovarius’ Nemesis, Tyr’s By The Light Of The Northern Star, Within Temptation’s The Silent Force, Lingua Mortis Orchestra’s LMO, Pythia’s The Serpent’s Curse, ummm I should probably stop now. Sorry, got a bit carried away. 😀
You going to see Korpiklaani next week? Fantastic live band. I’d also pick Burnt Offerings over Framing Armageddon by Iced Earth, Ragnarok by Tyr and as below, Gothic Kabballah by Therion, although any Therion album is pure class 😀 I also forgot to mention that Riders Of The Apocalypse by Demonoid is my absolute favourite death metal album, even more-so when you think that it’s coming from the Therion guys
Definitely seeing Korpiklaani next week. Those guys are so much fun live!
I’m more of a Ripper fan than a Barlow fan. Especially after seeing them live with Barlow after his (brief) return. It hurt to watch him because he looked like he himself was in pain. Hence Framing Armageddon over others. As for Tyr, I was tossing up between Ragnarok, Land and LotNS…figured they were all equally as awesome so it didn’t matter. I’m also loving their new one. And agree on the “any Therion” front.
Speaking of Therion stuff, have you heard Les Fleurs Du Mal? It’s them covering french pop songs. So weird but it really grew on me.
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son is probably my favourite Maiden album although Hallowed is my favourite song and I don’t think I’m alone in that area. Favourite metal album…hard to pin just one down. Rust In Peace or Peace Sells by Megadeth (My favourite is whichever I’m listening to at any one time), Blackwater Park by Opeth, Never Neverland by Annihilator, Among The Living, Spreading The Disease or Sound Of White Noise by Anthrax (see Megadeth reasoning), This Godless Endeavour by Nevermore, Century Child by Nightwish, Gothic Kabballah by Therion, Prometheus by Emperor, The Human Equation by Ayreon (so psyched for the new album next month).
As you might be able to tell, I really can’t choose one.
Master of Puppets by Metallica. The perfect thrash album, it’s possibly my all time favourite.
But I can’t ignore Seasons In The Abyss by Slayer & Peace Sells…But Who’s Buying? by Megadeth. They’re both classics themselves.
Other then that, i’d have to say House of Gold & Bones Part 1 & 2 by Stone Sour, Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses by Slipknot & Blackbird by Alter Bridge, and since The Living End aren’t metal, I can’t list them 😛
Carolus Rex – Sabaton
Is always my go to album these days. A close 2nd would be Justice for All or if I’m feeling a bit lighter S&M
My two favourites used to be Screaming For Vengeance and Defenders of the Faith. But while I initially wasn’t too fond of Painkiller, I’ve grown to quite like it, a lot. Not sure what I’d pick as a another second favourite to go with it, I guess it’d probably be between Ram It Down and Angel of Retribution.
Or getting off the Judas Priest for a moment – F-Zero X Guitar Arrange Edition 😛
Screaming for Vengeance is a brilliant album. I downloaded it for Rock Band, and it was a heck of a lot of fun to play.
It has the best opening instrumental piece of any metal album ever.
While not necessarily instrumentals, I find a lot of their albums kick things off really well. Sin after Sin with Sinner, Stained Class with Exciter, Defenders of the Faith with Freewheel Burning, Ram It Down, Painkiller, Angel of Retribution with Judas Rising. Also Demolition with Machine Man, British Steel with Rapid Fire, Turbo with Turbo Lover, and maybe even Sad Wings of Destiny with Victim of Changes.
…Probably would’ve been easier to list the ones that I didn’t think started out so strong 😛
Yeah but The Hellion is its own piece. And the way it leads into Electric Eye is awesome. The others have good opening tracks, but not an actual intro like that.
I just hate that it’s a separate track because when playing from anything other than a CD there’s a huge horrible skip when it changes from one to the next.
I’m old fashioned in that I prefer to listen to albums end to end and not random tracks so I rarely get that problem, but I imagine it’s annoying.
Oh, I do the album thing too. My car’s USB thing is just horribly slow at loading the next track. It’s a little better if I do it by bluetooth from my phone, but there’s still enough of a skip there to be annoying.
Deathcrush – Mayhem.
Obviously.
But seriously, Music For The Recently Deceased – I Killed The Prom Queen.
Opeth’s Ghost Reveries and Dream Theater’s Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (Images and Words is also acceptable).
First Maiden album I ever listened to. Classic.
Children of the DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMNED…
Not sure what my favourite metal album would be, but there’s a very high chance it would be something from Iron Maiden…
I dunno, I’ve gone through phases. Had you asked me about ten to fifteen years ago it would likely have been a Metallica album. More recently probably would have been something Nightwish. I still like to pull out Therion’s Lemuria / Sirius B or Secret of the Runes periodically, depending on my mood. I find the run of Judas Priest albums from Screaming For Vengeance through Turbo end up on my rotation fairly often too.
Probably the ‘metal’ album that has had the most play time for me in the last couple of years is UI-70’s “Endless Flight of Eternal Night” which is oddly enough an (instrumental) metal arrangement of the music from Touhou 8: Imperishable Night. I doubt anyone else here has heard it so I’ll see if I can dig it up on youtube or something when I’m not at work, it’s pretty good.
EDIT: It was probably more what you’d call industrial than metal, but when I was much younger I used to listen to the redbook audio from the Descent II CD all the time. I remembered because it had an instrumental arrangement of a Type O Negative piece on it. 😛
I know everyone with a 3DS is elbow deep in their pokeymans but if any of you are still checking Animal Crossing, I am yet again (against all statistical probability) stuck in a decreasing pattern and face the prospect of losing a considerable sum of bells. If anyone is on a good pattern and has decent prices this afternoon or tomorrow afternoon, I would be extremely grateful to visit your town.
Otherwise, 🙁
I went to check and the store was closed.
Which is one of the major reasons I hate this game. Limited time means being chained to a schedule is the worst possible thing for me.
At this point I’m tempted to roll my clock forward two hours so I can still play during my morning commute and turn on the beautiful village ordinance. That way it’s on my schedule (since I hardly play at night anymore) and I don’t have to spend 45 minutes watering flowers.
Just make sure you do it after you’ve sold your turnips!
Does going forward count as time travel? I thought it was only if you tried to go backwards to a time you’d already played in.
Yup, you’ve got it right. I was thinking you wanted to turning it back for some reason, even though you said “forward” 😛 I blame daylight savings.
This is almost entirely why I couldn’t stand Animal Crossing. It doesn’t want you to play it when you want to play it for as long as you want to play it, it wants to take over a regular half-hour interval of your life every day on a schedule it decided for you. Fuck that.
I’ll try and remember to check for you after lunch.
Cheers. 🙂
Thanks strange, I got my turnips sold and left you a small token of appreciation. 🙂
75.
Boo. Thanks for checking though!
109 bells at the moment. Not sure that’s profitable, but I’m sure you can break even with this price. But, y’know, I’m living in Canada and your afternoon is probably my middle of the night.
My buy price this week was 100 so I’d at least get my bells back. I’m guessing you’re 14 or so hours behind Sydney? I’ll bear it in mind but a local option is probably preferable. Best prices seem to be most common Thursday afternoons so I might stick it out.
Time difference sounds about right. Here’s hoping your decreasing pattern is just a build-up for a large spike.
I hope so, according to the stalk market guide I rely on the highest price is the fourth in a series of increases and can’t happen later than Saturday morning, so if you haven’t seen any increase by Thursday afternoon you just have cut your losses (or find another town with better prices).
Because I’m a sad bastard I have a spreadsheet for tracking my prices and profits. I started at 88 on Monday morning, then went 84, 80, 77, 74 and now I’m on 69. This is pretty consistent with the three other times I’ve gotten the decreasing pattern (which means if I am on decreasing again it’ll be 4 out of the 7 weeks I’ve been playing, meaning I get the decreasing pattern > 50% of the time).
I got an extremely high price on Tuesday last week (475!) so I almost didn’t bother buying turnips this week because I suspected the game would give me a decreasing pattern just to balance things out, but I am ever the optimist. I figured someone else would have a good price if I didn’t.
haha, now I know how the bad sport thing works on GTA 5, 2 of my mates are in the sin bin for 12 hours for being bad sports, they can only connect to other bad sports, won’t even let them join an invite only session or crew session. One of them got it for getting an 85 kill streak in a tank & the other got a 115 kill streak in another tank then he switched to a buzzard. Blowing up people’s personal vehicles seems to get you a bad sport raring pretty quick. Was hilarious to watch I just stayed in my apartment and spectated on Weazel news.
Edit: I’ve received $1000 several times now for being a good sport
This gives me hope that there may be a future on GTA Online for me. I haven’t gone back to it since having a very negative experience the first time I was able to get in and play.
I would highly advise playing with friends or joining a crew, we generally leave people alone unless they attack us first, you can get people to back off pretty quick if your whole group goes after them, also setting bounties on players helps cause they’ll usually get hunted down. Me and my crew are like the anti jerk squad, when someone starts griefing folks we’ll usually go after them and get rid of them. Especially hilarious since most of my crew have ridiculously high levels and all kinds of toys to scare them off (tanks / buzzards etc)
I tried to jump in with you last night, your session must have filled up
I was a bit eratic last night, didn’t actually get to play much, hopefully will get a few hours on tonight, if i see you online I’ll try invite or join. Funny, like I said my crew are pretty full on sometimes I get wrapped up in stuff with them too. Last night one of them reached level 140, we keep asking Is there a level cap?
I’m Numenera-ing tonight, but whenever you see me on I’m happy for an invite!
Morning all! so i ran into a really annoying bug in Beyond Two Souls very early in the game (first 1.5 hours?)
if you havent reached the condenser, stop reading now!So basically when you attempt to shutdown the condenser and realise the lever wont work, Jodie asks Aiden to protect her while she runs across to the other control panel. so i switched to Aiden just as i opened the door. at this point however i need to be controlling jodie and guide her to the ladder. this is where the bug kicks in… i am stuck as Aiden. i cant switch to Jodie anymore…
I even tried quiting the game, resetting the playstation and continuing my game, but im still stuck as Aiden… looked up a video walkthrough to make sure i hadnt missed something, but nope nothing.
so at this point i need some advise. because the game changes based on the decisions ive made, if i were to restart that chapter will it use my past decision or do i have t start the damn thing from the start….
also, does anyone else find the control system a major step back from heavy rain??? i found myself at certain times not knowing what to do.
Restarting a chapter won’t undo past decisions that came before the chapter you’re restarting.
I think if you restart the chapter and choose the option to have it save it will carry on based on the past decisions you’ve made, but don’t quote me on that. In any case, it seems like you don’t really have much of a choice in the matter.
I found the control system a step back in that it feels too easy and like you’re interacting less with the world.
I liked the control system, but at the same time there didn’t seem to be as many ‘hot spots’ as in Heavy Rain.
Aiden was a cool addition on this front, though. Loved scouting out locations ahead of Jodie and having the two work together.No actual spoilers, just precautionary tagging.
Yep, the controls for Aiden are stupid and unintuitive, especially in the fast paced action scenes. Probably my biggest complaint about the game. Other than the weird kissing.I don’t think I’ve ever played a game where the kissing doesn’t look weird. Someone should really try and fix that.Ha. The kissing really is isn’t it. Just mashing their faces together. The worst thing about Aidan and fighting off the entities it can be really hard to see the dots and sometimes I have no clue what direction I should be pushing the sticks.spot on thats exactly what i meant about the controls being a step back….
@spaghett’s Last song played game!
Washington Bullets – The Clash
Valentine’s Day — David Bowie
Rap God – Eminem
Whaaaaaat, a new Eminem album, hells yes. Can’t believe Relapse and Recovery were 3 & 4 years ago now :S
The Marshall Mathers LP 2. The tracks I’ve heard so far are insane. Especially Rap God.
I should go have a listen. I quite like the direction he went with Relapse & Recovery, was a nice change after The Eminem Show & Encore. Proved he wasn’t all about parodies and could be serious if he wanted.
Wasn’t impressed by Bezerk.
Rap God is groovy though.
One of my work mates played it for me this morning. Holy balls the man is talented. I love how he waits for everyone to start doubting him, then drops something like this that just destroys everything. I’m not even a massive rap fan, but anyone who doesn’t believe he’s one of, if not the most gifted rappers of all time is fooling themselves.
The whole song is incredible, but that bit at about 4:20 literally made my jaw drop.
Yeah, Busta Rhymes is getting a run for his money. Just amazing.
And now for something completely different: Hangover Heart – Hank Thompson
The Trooper – Iron Maiden
I wish The Trooper beer was available here in Australia >=[
Possibly my favourite Maiden song.
It’s quite possibly some of Steve Harris’ best playing too.
Hallowed Be Thy Name – Iron Maiden
Maceo Parker – Those Girls
not bad for a 70 year old
Maceo.
Nice.
Was listening to the Roadrunner United album, forget which track. Think it was the one with King Diamond.
Odroerir – Idunas Apfel
Just heard they got added to the Eluveitie and Friends festival so I thought I’d check them out. I’m only in the middle of the song but I love it.
Aw man, the song appeared to cut off before the end. Oh well, guess I’ll just have to buy some of their music now. Lucky it’s payday. 😀
Battery in my arse
by Metallica in my arse
Audioslave – Show Me How to Live
Don’t change your plans – Jen Buxton.
I have such a crush on that woman.
I know people have already discussed it but I finished episode 1 of The Wolf Among Us last night. Looks like I pretty much made the same decisions as everyone else.
Gave Faith moneyLied to Beast
Accused the pimp
Went to Toads first
Caught Tweedle Dee
Stayed quiet about the suspect (because I wasn’t paying attention)
Walked away from the fight
Arrested Tweedle Dee
— I gave the money to Fatih.— I didn’t tell Beast about Beauty.
— I went to Prince Lawrence’s place first.
— I saved the guy, caught Tweedle Dee.
— Stayed quiet about suspect, didn’t have one.
— Showed restraint in fight.
— Arrested Tweedledee.
You like? So atmospheric and crazy cool art direction.
Huge fan of the comics so I’m glad they’ve taken the feel or the comics and put it to an original story and made it it’s own thing.
This is good to hear!
Also: I didn’t know you read Fables! This is also good to hear!
I’ve admittedly only read Vol. 1 of the Deluxe edition (first 10 issues) and need to grab the rest but I highly enjoyed it. I told @alexpants to read it but he’s stubborn and says he has enough as it is but then refuses to play the game because he hasn’t read them.
Ah, it changes direction a lot later, to the point of being almost a completely different book. That said I still love it.
We didn’t have none of your fancy deluxe editions back in my day though. Mine are all ancient, dog eared trade paper backs…
I hope nothing happens to them and I have to replace them with shiny new hardbacks with extra content…..
It was nice to play a game where they understood noir is more than cops in the 40’s. *stares hard at Rockstar*
You and I don’t seem to see eye to eye on many games. 😛
I thought LA Noire delivered pretty well on the Noir stuff.
It was missing a lot if what makes a noir setting.
If anything it has a lot more in common with the Hardboiled genre.
Like what?
I never said it was bad. Just failed pretty hard at the whole noir thing.
It totally delivered on the L.A. part though.
*stares at Warner Bros. and then Ryan Gosling*
…sorry, what were we talking about?
High five if you get that reference@sughly – with kickstarter launching in Aus, might be worth trying to kickstart Annas quest! might even be worthwhile giving away the first part at the $15 tier?
Edit: Its launching next month in case you didnt know!
Sughly’s got himself a publisher for Anna’s Quest! So. Damn. Proud.
Quick question, @dc: Dane Krams or David Cage?
I admit, I’d kind of like to hang out with both of them and see the inevitable fist fight between the two. I think Sughly would win the fist fight for sure, but David Cage would win on the feelings front. These guys don’t even make games in the same genre, so you can’t compare. Krams has a better handle on puzzles and old school mechanics, Cage has a better handle on being Cage. 😀
With non-answers like that you could be prime minister one day!
@dc hats parliament…house.
Sughly’s got a good eye for film and cinematography and all that. I think if he made a Quantic Dream-style game it’d be amazing, but he hates them alas so… *shrugs* I think Cage would struggle making an old school adventure though…
So @sughly > Cage?
That seems fair.
Also, Sughly hangs out with me and talks adventure games with me. David Cage has never done that. *shakes fist* 😛
o_0 really??? when did that happen! CONGRATULATIONS @sughly !!!!!
He’s been super secret about the details, but that’s why you can’t buy ep one any more.
He has? Every meat he’s been at, that i’ve been to he hasn’t shut up about it 😛
Edit: Thanks @Strange. You’re such a lovely person.
He’s never spoken openly about the specifics and details outside of friends though. He trusts his pals to be discreet and I appreciate the fact he feels comfortable to talk to us about it.
See that’s the thing, if he’s meant to be quiet about it, then it might be best to keep quiet about it. Since anyone of us could go and blab and all it takes is one person. Personally, I wouldn’t do that to Sughly because I don’t want to see his career ruined, and I was happy it happened for him, he deserved it after all the hard work he has put into everything, I respect that.
But you can’t trust any and everyone no matter how close of a friend they may be. I just wouldn’t like him to learn the hard way like I have. From people who I thought were close enough friends to trust. Some even involved in this community here. Which is why I just keep to myself and a few other friends i’ve known long enough to talk to about it all. No matter how small the issues are.
Ummm, wut. Why would you guys even go and talk about it? Bit concerning that’s the first thing you think of.
Sorry, I gotta vent. Working from home on your own is an incredibly stressful thing to do, despite all my joking about it, so when I see close friends and family it’s almost a necessity for me to talk about it, to get a lot of weight off my chest. It helps me a whole heap mentally, because it makes what I’m doing real, and not something that’s built up in my head and just sitting on my computer. It’s not about bragging, it’s about confiding in friends and getting their support. That’s unfortunate you have trust issues, but I don’t, at least not with the people I talk to about it. Don’t need advice on how to act with my friends, thanks.
@sughly I understand dude, just i’ve been burned by people in this here community, and I wouldn’t want it to happen to another person is all, it was horrible and I was attacked by others I never had anything to do with. Never thought you were bragging, in fact I thought it was really great all this happened to you and you deserved it. No one seems to realise that i’m all for you and your work,
For downvoting you when you’re being objectionable? If that’s lovely, I’ll take it. 😛
Hardly objectionable. I don’t have a problem with Sughly talking about his achievements, I encourage it. Just if he’s meant to keep it on the down low I think it’s possibly best to not talk to everyone in an open internet community about it is all 🙂 If this was a protected forum of sorts sure, that would be fine, but since anyone can come along and view it, it’s possibly best to think twice, even when telling people outside of here when catching up in real life, it’s best to chose wisely who you tell and in which sort of environment too.
I don’t recall @sughly ever discussing specifics here.
I feel like Sughly ain’t going to appreciate any of this stuff being talked about now. I feel like it’s my fault, I apologize. Maybe we should all stop and agree that Sughly’s a damn good guy who deserves good things.
You may well have intended all of this, but your initial comment makes it seem like you’re sick of hearing about it and kind of makes you sound like an asshole.
@dc yeah, honestly it’s none of our business and we’ll wait for the big announcement 🙂
@bdkiaf Honestly I don’t care how I sound, i’m not sick of hearing about what Sughly is working on, in fact I don’t hear much at all. It’s nice when I hear stuff from time to time.
To everyone else:
I know i’m usually seen as an opinionated arsehole around here by a fair few people who seem that they are seen as bigger than Jesus. I’ve felt excluded some days when i’ve said something as a total joke in the past which was obvious to some and then have half a dozen people attack me and when I defended myself I got called awful things or told it was a “joke” when in fact it was felt like it was straight up bullying, which I thought I experienced enough of when I was school. It was one reason I just stopped coming here one day for what, 3 or 4 months? Nobody seemed to notice or care, I don’t know I didn’t keep track how long I stayed away for, it may also be a reason I didn’t come to any meets.
Sometimes I didn’t feel accepted, I honestly still don’t. I’m a pretty quiet person, I know I don’t seem it, but I am. I’ve had a pretty rough last 24 months, and more even so the last 2 weeks have been down right awful for me.
I always try and be nice to people even if they’re horrible to me, I don’t see why I should bring myself to their level, it wasn’t how I was raised. But sometimes I just can’t and need to be just that in retaliation.
I think this will be my last visit to these parts of Kotaku.
But dude, you were abrasive, and people were just defending. You can’t play the victim when you’re throwing punches. If you say something and people pull you up on it, just be humble about it is all. You’re an opinionated guy, which is absolutely fine, but you have to be prepared for people to throw it back at you while you’re putting your opinions out there. Not everyone’s out to get you, it’s just people disagreeing with you.
How was it even, it was a damn joke. It’s fucking clear that I like you and your work and do not have an issue with it. But now honestly since people can’t see that even after explaining, whatever.
I’ve just been pushed too far this time, in the past I have come here a few times when in a really shit time and opened up with what was happening in my life hoping for some kind words from people and no one cared, I was ignored countless times. But along comes anyone else with their hardships and they get all the attention, it made me feel excluded and not wanted around here. But hey, i’m not human or worthwhile according to some people here, so why should I matter.
Understand, this has gone on for a fair while. More than a year now, bordering on close to two years. I thought this place was different and full of nice people, but I just keep getting proved wrong when someone take it out to personally attack you outside of this place. It’s fucking horrible.
I don’t have an issue with people disagreeing with me, but its when it’s vulgar retaliation or retaliation because it’s done just because they can and think it’s “fun” it’s not. hell i’ve had people attack me over an obvious joke which others got, and a few decided to chew my ear off over it.
I felt it was time I addressed the issue i’ve buried for so long, and leave and not return. I won’t bother coming to any future meat, as I feel I don’t belong. Which is a shame, since I like a few people who I got along with really well, but it’s probably for the best for everyone. I won’t be logging into this account any more. So replying and mentioning me will not be noticed. Have a nice life, I hope it treats you well.
Nice! I love @sughly’s art style, and Anna’s Quest is great. Mad props, yo. It’s always satisfying hearing of artists succeeding – writers, musos, etc. It’s easy for people like me in a regular job to take stability for granted.
Seeing his art style is crazy impressive. There’s old school developers like Jane Jensen (creator of Gabriel Knight) who are making new games that don’t look any where near as good as Krams’ stuff! They’ve got an entire dev team, he’s just one guy!
Thanks deeceeee, and all the kind words folks ^^
@beardymcmuttonchops is already planning his kickstarter!
Can’t wait for that! Wanna read his book NAOW!
I read the first chapter or so a while back, it’s pretty cool
@redartifice I started creating the project last night :3
So far Berkid is the only person apart from me who’s read it in its entirety. She assures me that it’s not poo, which was always my biggest fear. Like @sughly said up above, when you’re the only person working on something…. You might think it’s brilliant, but there’s always this nagging little seed of doubt that makes you think that you’re delusional and you’re wasting your time and you should just quit. I get that all the time. Really bad.
So like, it’s crazy to think that I’m at the stage now where it might actually be a real thing.
High Priestess – Active Child
Amazing song. Was lucky enough to see it live, guys got some unworldly lungs.
Story time 😀 Beware, wall of text ahead.
Last night my lazy fifteen year old sister-in-law needed help with her resume. So there I was updating the whole thing while she sat on her bed Instagraming or Snap-chatting selfies to her friends. Poor wording and grammar throughout, I changed almost all words she had listed under ‘SKILLS’, funnily. I corrected Polite to Politeness, Motivate to Motivation, Keen to Drive and Determination etc. My changes may not have been the best, however I wanted to retain most of her ideas.
I then made one little secret change for shits and giggles.
It was merely a test to see whether or not she would actually proof read her own work after I was done with it. The short answer is no, she did not. This morning when I dropped off my kid and wife, there she was crying. She told me that she had emailed her resume to Target and then realised my change after the fact. She then began throwing curse words my way, questioning ‘WHO CHECKS THEIR NAME? WHY WOULD I BOTHER TO CHECK THAT?’
There, in bold lettering at the top of her resume, I had changed the spelling of her name from ERMINA to ERMINDA.
I then simply said said to her, ‘You need to proof everything.’
I copped a bit of flack but it was worth it.
Harsh but fair.
Harsh, I’ll admit. I tried to console her by stating that in the grand scheme of things it wasn’t such a big deal as the worse that could result from this would be a scenario along the lines of;
She’s at the Target interview and the interviewer first up asks for the correct pronunciation of her first name. ‘Er min da? Is that how I say your name?’ See? Not so bad.
I even suggested she could lie and say that it’s a silent D.
Use the line from Django Unchained 😛
Today, teenager’s resumes. Tomorrow… the WORLD …’s resumes.
hopefully she’ll learn something from the experience
Teenagers? Learn?
*starts laughing uncontrollably*
So true. This was just one of many stories.
There’s nothing wrong with asking for assistance with your resume, but sitting back and letting someone do it all for you – then not even checking it? You deserve a little wake up call there, missy.
Well there’s a name i’ve never heard before.
The evilest Benny.
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So keen for Numenera tonight. If anyone missed the wrap from last session, it is available here. http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/
I will be doing another recap for tonight’s session and that will go up on the same tumblr in the next couple of days.
David Bowie’s The Next Day is still incredible. Haven’t listened to it for a while, but was lying in bed in the dark with headphones last night and it was so damn atmospheric. 😀
I love Bowie’s older stuff, so I may have to check this one out.
Standout tracks would be Valentine’s Day, Where Are We Now, Heat and The Stars (Are Out Tonight)…
Standout tracks would be
Whole album.
There were a few songs in the later part of the album that didn’t click with me, but I agree with this comment for the most part! 😀
Wow, apparently I haven’t listened to Bowie at all in the last 6 months and only 80 times in the last 12 months. ha.
How to get from my old house to a portal to another world: http://goo.gl/maps/pyS0Z
So, sleeping pills, yo. What da Eff. The pharmacist said it would be good sleep! Real sleep! LIES!
To be fair, the pharmacist was bang on the money when he said 10hrs ‘out of it’, and I absolutely should’ve taken it earlier than I did, but it wasn’t a 10hr solid block of sleep… More like seven hours of incoherent, poorly-remembered nightmares (I vividly remember and can document my usually-lucid dreams) followed by three hours of fall-over near-sleep, groggy semi-consciousness. Still a bit wiped out, in fact.
On the plus side, a few days of that and maybe my body will learn its fucking lesson and behave.
Sleeping pills barely work for me. Had to try three different things before I found any thing that would help. Really, really don’t like them though. I would often wake up to read twitter posts I hadn’t remembered making. One day my lip was bleeding. D: For a guy who likes to stay in control, this was disconcerting.
:S jeez man, were they over the counter or prescribed? Friend of my who has/had awful sleep patterns said she tried over the counter ones from the pharmacy, said they didn’t even work for her. She’s a nurse too, she should’ve known better.
I had two different prescriptions that weirdly didn’t work as much as the over the counter stuff.
Wow. total opposite experience ha. I feel like I should be on them sometimes, but then again I hate over sleeping.
My doctor was stunned the over the counter stuff worked better than the prescribed stuff. Made me bring them in so she could look at them. XD When I first started taking Anti-D’s it messed me up and I couldn’t sleep for an entire week. Wasn’t the greatest of weeks, I can tell you! 😛
I remember getting tweet replies from you at like 3 in the morning that week
Sounds like a horrible week honestly. Hopefully you’re not gonna go there again any time soon.
Well, if you were taking Ambien, that wasn’t you – it was the Ambien Walrus. He’s a known troublemaker.
http://bits.tombridge.com/post/3201897358/all-the-ambien-walrus-comics
Haha! My doctor refused to prescribe that. Truth be told, I would’ve refused to take it anyways. XD
I’ve done the D.C. patented thing of making an unrelated comment about him. Sorry ’bout that man. Hope you sort this sleep stuff out soon!
How dare you offer your experience with sleeping pills to a discussion about sleeping pills? You’re the worst.
Shared experiences is how we learn. 🙂
Ugh, biggest problem I had with sleeping pills is being groggy for half the next day.
That’s what I got right now. Five o’clock seems like an ETERNITY away. An eternity of trying to hold my head up and not pass out.
Which is very similar to the symptoms of not sleeping at all. Which makes me wonder why bloody bother.
Yeah, that’s what I found. I ended up using some extreme measures to make sure I slept more during the week: no games on a work night, no screens in bed.
Murdered: Soul Suspect still is one of my most anticipated games for next year. Love the idea it’s a L.A. Noire/Heavy Rain hybrid.
http://www.adventuregamers.com/games/view/24774
What are you guys looking forward to next year?
Watch Dogs :'(
To be honest, my hype levels for that game went down massively after being so disappointed with Assassin’s Creed 3. Since then I’ve played Zombi U and Rayman Legends and have looked in awe at Valiant Hearts and Child of Light so Ubisoft have redeemed themselves for me.
Really damages PS4’s launch line up though. Guess I’ll still have Killzone.
It was the only non-sports launch title I was planning on picking up, so I’m pretty disappointed. It was looking like a terrific introduction to the next generation.
Final season of Californication
Final season of Sons of Anarchy
Part 1 of final season of Mad Men
Oh, you meant games?
*shrugs*
Destiny.
Oh yeah! That looks damn good! Really love the world building and atmosphere there. Have they announced a PC version yet?
Nope, not yet. I think you won’t see them announce for PC until well after the console release. Which means I’ve got to buy a PS4 🙁
EDIT: There are other games I’m interested in getting / kind of excited for in 2014 but I think that Destiny’s the only AAA one. I’m kind of sick of AAA games in general.
Ugh, I love Joey Jordison, but he really talks a lot of shit at times regarding Slipknot & new material. I understand losing Paul was a bit eye opener and shock to the band, it fucking sucks he’s gone. But it gets a bit boring when he says in every interview regarding Scar The Martyr of late that he has a lot of new material written for Slipknot. He should get his manager or whatever to have a list of questions that are NOT allowed to be asked unless he brings them up, like Slash has.
*nods knowingly*
I have no idea who any of these people areI was about to say, you don’t know who Metallica are? Then realised that was in my reply on Blabbermouth lol..
Joey Jordison = drummer of Slipknot.
Scar The Martyr = Joey’s new band. Who are okay, but nothing amazing.
Paul Gray = deceased bass player of Slipknot.
Slash = figment of everyone’s imagination 😛 He was also in a small Los Angeles rock band back in the day that goes by the name of Guns N’ Roses.
You’re welcome.
Guns and Roses? sounds indie.
https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly
pretty good deal!
I quickly bought that this morning since payday was yesterday. I’ve wanted to check out Cities XL for awhile so that’s my price of entry alone. The other games are a bonus, but I’m keen to check out all of them.
Preparing to watch Orange is the New Black. Completely unrelated to yesterdays discussion, I can assure you. 😛 Between Boardwalk Empire eps last night I caught part of the pilot on Showcase and saw Star Trek: Voyager’s Captain Janeway acting all crazy and speaking with a Russian accent. Made me laugh. Made me want to watch more! 😀
The entire show actually takes place on a holodeck.
Beats all that gothic romance and Fair Haven stuff they subjected us to on the show! Hope there’s no holodeck malfunction. (NEEEEEEEERD.)
I wanted to upvote you because Fair Haven was excruciating, but then I had to downvote you because yet again you associated Star Trek love with nerdery as if it were a bad thing. 😛
I’ll take your sideways vote! 😀
Edit: D: It’s an actual downvote! Monster!
Ah, but it’s a Simpsons reference, and potentially self-referential!
Unfortunately I’ve set a precedence. 😛
I hate it when you’re [redacting] something and everything [redacts] quick except for the first episode. Then you’ve got to wait until that’s done when the rest is just sitting there. :'(
Made this point the other day, but do we really think the federales are monitoring TAY? I mean- STOP ALL THE DOWNLOADING LOVE YOUR REGULAR IN NO WAY UNDER DURESS REDARTEDFISH
dafuq did i just write…
move along people, Pixel needs a 5th coffee to cure this
Me, I’m on an IV drip of coke and just slapped my face a few times to try waking up. Hard.
I’m crashing quite hard right now but can’t justify getting another coffee cause i go home in 10 minutes XD… NAP TIME
They monitor EVERYTHING! No really. EVERYTHING. Just don’t do anything with the vast majority of it. But I’m thinking you can be pretty confident that if they ever needed to nail you to the wall for something, it’d probably come up.
HEY! @35, @alexpants, @anonymous_pessimist, @batgirl, @batguy, @cakesmith, @cj, @effluvium-boy, @fatshadylive, @freya, @trjn, @gingerchris86, @gorzilla, @harli, @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian, @masha2932, @shiggyninty, @powalen, @novacascade, @ruffleberg, @rize, @blaghman, @markserrels and any other TAYbies would like to help.
(I copied this from Cake’s EB Expo post, but left you crazy Canberra folk in there just in case.)
So there’s no way we can film the cop movie for TAY film this year. We’re still scripting so, given that we’re only a few weeks from the deadline, it’s time for plan B.
Plan B didn’t exist till today and here it is.
We will be making a deep and meaningful art film about love, loss and the human condition. All that wanky stuff.
The script so far is basically just random pretentious things I can think of strung together in an incoherent matter. Like LIFE, man!
We’re looking to shoot stuff on the 26th/27th of October.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated 😀
Campbeltown Stars: Narcotics and Terrorist Squad is still happening!
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c268/cronotriggr/poster_zps00bdad2a.jpg
But is it better than Pukeahontas?
Yyyyyes?
Pretty sure I’m working that Saturday 🙁
Pretty sure you are the worst. 🙁
Pretty sure that Cards Against Humanity proved that at the last Canberra Meat
Just make sure you use Johnny Cash – Hurt and it will be glorious.
I will make you… hat?
Aw yis!
I have part of my brain yelling at me that something is happening that weekend but I should be available, depending on where we film it…
It’s okay. If you remember what it is, you can cancel it and help us make a film.
Done, if it means I get to embrace @shiggyninty again. I miss him so.
🙁
ok.
You’re a good guy.
Alternate between slow motion and time lapse footage of cities – get Phillip Glass to score it.
Slow motion dropping of a milk carton! ALL THE FESTIVAL AWARDS!
You left me out. I see how it is.
But for real I should probably be free one of those days. What kind of help would you need?
Mainly actors. People to come up with arty farty wanky ideas, slurpee holders. We need all sorts.
You missed out one Canberra folk 🙁
I can’t be there in person, but if you need script feedback or whatever, I’m happy to oblige.
I think you’re far too humble to write pretentiously, but if you want to try…
Im working till 3 on the Saturday but have all Sunday off. If stuff is happening late Saturday I can make it to that too probably.
Probably not Cause Shiggy’s working that night. But we’ll be shooting on Sunday.
And what location will the shoot be happening most likely??
City area. Possibly North Sydney because that’s where we shot JVtD and it’s quiet at the weekend.
Easy
In Fiji for work by the looks of things.
The sun’s malevolent rays will sting little compared to the overwhelming, abrasive tendrils of betrayal which will no doubt entomb my conscience during my absence.
I’ll peer out, towards the swimming pools and beaches, teaming with cheerful vacationers, and see naught but the emptiness of my heart.
What a wretched soul…
What a careless, blundering fool I am to leave my peers in such a time of need!
Such need.
Wow.
Fin.
This is my opening.
Whereabouts are you shooting?
Probably the city or nearby. Maybe Nth Sydney again because it’s so empty. It’s like LIFE!
Put me down as a 90% yes! I can usually make it to daytime things! Will confirm!
STREETPASSES \o/
POKEMANS \o/
After you replied to my comment about alternate ideas for a Zelda game by calling them stupid, it’s really disappointing to find out that you’re a film maker and creative type yourself. I would think that someone like yourself, not to mention being the host of the Kotaku community podcast, would show some more manners and respect to someone expressing themselves. When you say something potentially insulting or hurtful, remember that there’s an actual person on the other end.
Sorry. I should have thought about your feelings. Although… what about the people who make Zelda games? You didn’t think about them when you were talking about how stale the games were. Maybe one of them will stalk you and leave you a creepy message somewhere…
That said, I’m deeply sorry I hurt your feelings. I did not like your “ideas” but that’s in no way my opinion of you yourself. You are also entitled to your opinion on any and every subject matter. Hold on to your convictions and beliefs no matter what any jerk and asshole on the internet tells you.
Even this asshole.
Who is also entitled to his opinions.
To clarify, I’m not a writer by any stretch of the imagination, the ideas I out forth were the most ludicrous concepts that popped into my head – Link teaming up with Gannon to stop Zelda (O_o) so I wasn’t shouldering offence that someone shot down my Zelda fanfic that was years in the making, I was just putting forth the idea that I’d welcome some radical changes to the franchise.
What wounded me was the word ‘stupid’. It’s not your fault that I suffer from chronic depression and crippling anxiety (I nearly got a panic attack when I got a notification that you’d responded to me). The smallest thing can topple me and send me spiralling. Then what am I doing on the internet? You might ask. Yes, it can be the harshest place, but normally random insults don’t bother me in the slightest. But as a listener of your podcast I wouldn’t consider you some random internet denizen.
So allow me to accept your articulate apology, you have no idea how much I appreciate it and I forgive you. Cheers.
In regards to criticising people’s work, it might surprise you to learn that, years ago, I was a very public figure. I travelled the world, had lots of fans, made a great living etc etc. As you could imagine, I experienced mountains of criticism for my work too. It hurts. It hurts a lot. I can tell you from experience that feeling of spending hours signing thousands of autographs does not eclipse the wretched feeling that a single barbed criticism can inflict. I feel like everyone should spend some time as a producer of art/content to have some perspective of what it’s like to receive criticism because people fail to comprehend the power they wield with criticism. And unfortunately most criticism is administered flippantly and especially on the internet, hyperbolic or cruel words flow so easily to compensate for the limited form of communication that text only input creates. I don’t believe any artist is above criticism, but just as an artist is expected to deal with criticism, I believe a critic’s responsibility is to present their critique with basic human respect. That’s why I try to frame all of my criticism respectfully, as if the person was standing in front of me and I try to refrain from making it personal or hurtful. Negative criticism can go a LOT further and have a lot more positive impact if presented respectfully.
I wouldn’t know about the autographs. Someone recognised and waved at me once. Does that count?
I’m a Zelda fan-boy and an attack on the franchise can feel like a personal attack.
While I don’t think this is the place to continue this discussion, Zelda needs a mechanics makeover. Like the jump from Link to the Past to Ocarina. It’s not broken (personal opinion) and I’m certainly not tired of it, but I understand that I have these old games (And the future remasters/re-releases) to play forever so I don’t NEED more of the same.
There are Zelda games out there that are more different. Spirit Tracks involves Link driving a train around Hyrule being helped by the sassy ghost of Princess Zelda would be the most different than I can think of (And similar to an idea you had). It was a terrible game. If anyone tells you different, they are lying. And also terrible.
Evil Zelda would mean she WOULDN’T represent Wisdom, so she wouldn’t be Zelda. She’d be evil Ganon. And a female villain may seem a bit sexist? It’s not, but people may see it like that.
Zelda saving Link (Another popular idea) again means that Zelda would have to represent courage and Link would be wisdom? Which would basically mean you gender swapped Link and Zelda. Lazy, overused fan-fic concept. Fun? Sure. Would it fix Zelda? No. It would be the same game, with different character models and a large portion of the fan-base missing.
What would I do to fix Zelda? I have no idea. I love it as it is and having it as anything else is abhorrent. Larger world to explore? Hyrule always seems vastly underpopulated to me so I’d beef it up and mine concepts not fully utilised from other games such as the expansive world of Zelda II. Maybe getting from point A to point B should feel like an epic undertaking full of peril? But then it sounds like I want Zelda to be Skyrim…
Maybe Nintendo should keep doing what they’re doing.
I adore Zelda as well. A link to the Past was nothing short of transformative for me. Zelda 1 and 2 were great but the (at the time) staggeringly amazing graphics of A Link to the Past gave me a place to get lost in. And it was among the first open world games too. I could explore the far reaches of the world and find new people and places at my own leisure. I could go on adventures and solve puzzles and get lost in the world. My dad was dying of cancer at the time so it was an absolute escape for me. And it was in the time before the internet too, so we couldn’t access instant solutions, often having to trade tips in the school yard on a puzzle we’d spend months stuck on.
Man I loved that game.
I loved Ocarina and Wind Waker also. If I was the kind of guy that got tattoos I’d have either a Halo or Zelda tattoo. It means a lot to me.
I guess I would say Zelda needs some reviving or refreshing as opposed to fixing. What I would do to fix it? I dunno exactly. Something that’s a hard turn but retains the DNA of the series. I’d love to hear Link talk. I’d love some more RPG elements instead of Link’s pretty much linear progression. I think the dungeons and combat are top notch and they still feel satisfying (in 2D and 3D) to this day. It’s a little annoying that the fiction and plot resets almost every game, I’d like to see a story that spans several games and sees a cast of characters grow, change, prosper and die along with some twists and turns, maybe even a cliff-hanger. I’d like to see that continuity in fiction and setting span across several games. I’d absolutely LOVE a co-op experience, I’d love to play a Zelda game start to finish from the lounge with my wife. I LOVED the art style change of Wind Waker, perhaps another swing like that would be good, maybe the opposite of Wind Waker, something whimsically dark and gothic, like a stylised Grimms fairy tale. Heck, what about a claymation style version! That seems about as ridiculous as toon link!
As far as gameplay goes, I’d like to see Zelda become a military FPS with monthly DLC and pay to win microtransactions. Just kidding, I have few ideas on how to freshen the Zelda tropes, I’m not good with that stuff. I just know I’m fatigued by the formula as it stands. I’d rather a huge swing rather than progressive evolution. I do know I miss them being harder like on the NES and SNES. Gimmie that brutal Mario/Punchout/Battletoads difficulty, something to make me throw my controller.
tl;dr I want to see Nintendo take some big risks instead of treading carefully.
I’m in like Donkey Kong.
Though I’m going to a fancy lunch with the missus on the Sunday, so that will restrict my availability somewhat.
Keen 😀 Also, gonna share the hype on twitter 😀
@redartifice I’m the worst. I just took my bag with the 3DS with me for lunch but completely forgot to go to the post office. TOMORROW! I PROMISE!
Nonsense, you’re the best!
POKEYMANS
RETARDEDFACE THE MAN-POKER.
I went to say I read that as “retarded face” then was all “oh….”
I can’t help it. I read his handle like that one day, and it just won’t go away.
For reference, I love red and think he’s a top guy.
I think @anonymous_pessimist pointed it out one day and now I see it too.
Just finished my seventh Journey in seven days. Could not have asked for a better way to finish this run.
Played with another white robed player. We did everything and derped about like little kids along the way. It was one of the best games of Journey that I’ve played. Even after beating it daily for a week, I still have a stupid grin on my face as we played about. And man, that last level! It just gets better each time. Recapping all of the past levels is even better when you’re recapping them for the last time for a while.I added you on teh PS3. I’m assuming it’s possible to link in with your friends? I’d love a co-op first-run.
I don’t think it’s possible to deliberately join someone’s game, the co-op doesn’t really work that way.
It doesn’t connect you direct with friends, it’s random.
Doesn’t really matter as you don’t speak to one another anyway.
CHIRP
CHIIIIIRP!
Ah, okay. I knew about the random connect and no talking, but thought a friend option was still there. Oh well, I guess I’ll run it once, then again with some randoms!
Enjoy.
Always run it online! adds so much to the experience
Also, don’t play it for the first time with someone else watching.
@gutsoup: Caught up with Boardwalk Empire!
Love the Florida stuff. Probably my favourite arc on the show at the moment. Also, the Jillian/Heroin stuff is pretty interesting, especially how Roy hasn’t abandoned her. As horrible as she is, I hope she gets clean and finds some way to be happy. Hope Richard and lady get to keep Jimmy’s kid though. The Eddie stuff last week? Holy damn! Also, Eli’s son is a monster… not for the prank, but throwing his friend under a bus. It was a genuine accident they should’ve taken responsibility.Boardwalk Pals 😀 Incoming wall of text.
it’s getting really interesting. I really don’t know whether to pity Jillian or dislike her I’m really indifferent about her. Eli’s son really is a monster, I had no idea that’s what they were up to even when the cops came and got his friend, I guess i didn’t think he was that much of a douche. Liking the Florida part too, it’s going to get interesting, starting to like Myer (no idea on spelling, little dude that partners with Nucky), he’s always been lingering in the background but looks like he’s about to step up . Didn’t like Eddie committing suicide, he was one of my favourites and I thought he was about to get a bigger role not die :(. Also wondering where the Dr Narcise arc is going, it would seem Mr Pernsley has switched teams, I hope he gets what’s coming to him, he’s a bit of a psychopath and he betrayed Chalky (who is still one of my favourites even though he’s such a jerk). So many arcs going at the moment, I hope Richard ends up happy. And I think Al Capone is about to cause a lot of trouble after last week’s episode and his brother getting killed (was it his brother or cousin, can’t remember), Interested to see where Nelson is going to fit in. How funny is the prohibition agent, he acts like he’s about 10 when he’s undercover, so dorky and naive seeming and no one suspects anything, except maybe Eli now, do you know what the symbol was on the hanky he gave Eli? was it something to do with the FBI or something cause Eli got a funny look in his eye when he saw it. Sorry that turned into a bit of a novel 😛Haha! Don’t know what the logo was, but yeah, seemed to focus on it for more than a little bit. A clue! It’s good to have a prohibition officer who’s not incompetent, but at the same time he seems just as psychopathic as the psychopaths. XD
Aw man, Nucky was totally the downfall of Eddie going all the way back to last season, getting shot trying to protect him. At the same time all that stuff about his past was kind of troubling, abandoning his family and the like. I guess he’s flawed, but wasn’t a monster or any thing.
Cool seeing Margeret again at Penn Station, but I’m not sure how she’s going to come back proper. She seems to be out of Nucky’s world now and if she somehow finds her way back in it’ll be all her doing. I’m still wondering if she went through with the abortion last season. Keep thinking we’ll see the Irish guys kid show up soon.
Sally, the crazy Florida lady is awesome. It’s good for once to have a love interest for Nucky who isn’t vulnerable or needs protecting or any thing. Loved when she punched him in the face during his woe is me rant.
In some ways Nelson is the comic relief character. Seeing all the struggle and victim of circumstance shenanigans he gets into. Hard to feel too sorry for him when you remember all the corrupt stuff he did when he was the law.
Really like Eli. He seems to be coming into his own a bit this season. Was always the weakest link in Nucky’s business, but now it seems like he wants to prove himself.
When Nucky was bailing out Eli’s son it really showed what a psychopath he is too. Eli’s kids a monster, but there’s no doubt that Nucky was the mastermind behind it and then the hint that he expects to be paid back later when asked how much his defense cost.
Sometimes I forget when the show is set and get surprised that the subway actually existed in New York City. Also weird seeing how Wild West-like Florida still is.
Still don’t know what Chalky’s problem is. I think he feels like he doesn’t belong where he is. The club was his attempt to be a big shot and Pernsley and Dr. Narcise’s run in kind of made him a partner in his own business. He is a jerk, like you say. Compelling all the same.
sorry had to pay everyone at work so I’m a bit late 🙂
So I’ve been playing Dead rising 2 Case Zero the last few days and wrapped it up, making it the 5th game I’ve bothered to get all the achievements in (at least, that hasn’t been removed from my completed list due to DLC), and moved onto the full game.
Man, I really like this game more than I did when I bought it for a friend and put a few hours into it 3 years ago. I was really intimidated by the overlapping story threads in the original and thought I would be equally overwhelmed by DR2, but after playing Case Zero multiple times I feel like I have a much better grip on it. I think there’s still a few areas I’ve screwed up and I’ll probably need to start over, but I’m feeling good about it.
I’m now a lot more interested in DR3, which I was planning on skipping.
I skipped all the Dead Rising games/DLC after the first one had me turning completely neurotic. Mostly because I would keep MISSING things. I’d get a notification all the damn time saying that someone I had never met had just died, and it was long enough now that I probably could’ve saved them if I knew what I was doing… also all my nifty equipment just kept breaking, and I never knew what to take photos of and crap.
Basically, the game was a series of moments of being repeatedly reminded I wasn’t playing optimally and I didn’t know how to.
Kind of like why I can’t play those Japanese dating sim games. I played a westernized one, once ‘Shira Oka’ I think. Apparently you need to be in certain places on certain days in order to trigger encounters with different people to open up their storylines, but there’s no in-game clues as to when they’re going to be in those places so you just to make notes or look up a guide, and keep track of what’s happening on which day to make sure that you’ll be there, and sometimes these events are mutually exclusive with someone else’s so you need to know who has the most opportunities and still keep on top of your studies and AAAAAARGH!
Yeah, that’s what turned me off the first one. DR2 seems more manageable though. I’m sure there’s events I’m missing but I feel like I can deal with having to replay multiple times to figure things out. After a few runs at Case Zero I had it down pat. Plus the survivors aren’t complete derpfucks.
The only thing I’m not looking forward to is the psychopaths. I ran into one last night and did not enjoy that at all.
@redartifice
Biggest thing I felt LA Noire was missing
was the central character. Noir is more about the leading man, usually hyper masculine with serious flaws, following him and more concerned about his actions and methods of dealing with things. Cole was too clean and nowhere involved enough. You could change him out with someone else and it wouldn’t have changed much since the game focused more on the actual cases. Rockstar wrote a far better noir character that wasn’t even noir in John Marston. Max Payne nails it. Bigby Wolf nails it. Cole Phelps was just kind of there.I figured Cole more as the Ed Exley type. He wasn’t a traditional Rockstar protagonist (wasn’t Houser written) but I thought he was deeply flawed as a person. Kelso was closer to the “traditional” noir protagonist.The issue with Cole was
he really only had flaws because the story dictated it – there was nothing believable whatsoever about his infidelity. He wasn’t developed enough as a character for me to appreciate for one second he’d go cheat on his wife with Giselle or whatever – in fact if I recall correctly the reason he got kicked out of the house was because he was supposedly cheating, and the entire time I was just like “buh-whaaaaa?” because it made no fucking sense!I understand they needed to write in a downfall for Cole to struggle with but it just compeltely disengaged me from the third act. I didn’t mind the ending, I really didn’t. But the path they took to get there made no sense.
Also I would have liked if your degree of success in the case had an effect on the story. You can miss clues and arrest the wrong guy but still be a rising star and get promoted! The cases were interesting, but I agree that Cole is completely tertiary to the story. The game is the setting, and how you feel about the game depends on how much you liked the setting. I liked it a lot, but it had problems.
LA Noire deserves no praise at all because of that ending.
The fuck was that? Seriously.
…
I legitimately liked it. Haha!
Back me up @powalen and @shane. XD
Also, the game had some awesome original music! 😀
Yeah I liked it. The final act wasn’t as good as the rest of it, but I appreciated everything it tried to do (and that it succeeded at quite a lot of the time)
You’re on your own!
(I did like the game a lot but thought the ending was super weak haha)
Oh yeah? Well so’s your face!
My main issue with the ending was
Kelso happens to find a movie of all of the villains discussing their scheme! WTF?I’ve gone 2 weeks without soft drink. I can’t believe it. I was tempted yesterday at lunch and the movies, but I had iced tea at lunch and a bottle of water at the movies. It’s looking more and more likely that this move to give up soft drink will be permanent.
I ate McDonald’s for lunch and now I have McD regret. Congrats on the drive for a healthier lifestyle. 🙂
I had KFC regret for lunch yesterday, so I’m not exactly eating healthier …
Have a look at the refined sugar content in those iced teas. Usually it’s far more than soft drink has.
Yeah, bottled iced tea is super bad for you. Pretty much any drink except water isn’t exactly a healthy choice.
It’s frustrating going through drink selections. I don’t particularly like sweet things, I generally take coffee black without sugar, and drink manufacturers seem to assume no one will drink their products unless it’s got enough sugar to give an elephant seizures.
Sour apple juice is the only thing I really like but it gives me a stomach ache after a little bit.
I mostly drink water or black coffee without sugar (usually espresso). I just wanted a break from those two drinks and I thought iced tea wasn’t the worst option.
You could always make your own iced tea. It’s not too hard and you can vary the sugar content or use alternative sweeteners if necessary, plus you know exactly what went into it.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!
YOU GOT THIS!!!
I don’t even know if I ever “officially” given up soft drink, or why. I just kind of… stopped having it. I still tend to have it when I’m out, because there’s not much else to have. And I absolutely hate water, tastes horrible. Always gotta put something in it, I’ve usually got a bunch of cordials to choose from, though I tend to try and make it rather weak.
QLD just passed its anti bikie laws and they’re pretty tough. 15 year minimum mandatory sentence for anything bikie related, including entering a pub wearing colours, setting foot in premises listed as a headquarters, or riding in a group of three or more known members.
Civil liberty groups are going bananas over it, complaining that being busted with a meth lab means 35 years imprisonment.
I always thought there was the option of, I don’t know, not manufacturing illegal drugs but perhaps I’m wrong?
There are already existing laws to prosecute them under.
Writing up new laws that are basically “don’t be a part of a group of people” as a way to target bikies is a terribly irresponsible way to approach it. The laws are written in such a way that you could apply them to parliament.
Is it wrong that this appeals to me on some level?
It’s specifically written for 26 named outlaw motorcycle gangs. You need to have been identified as a member previously for it to apply as well.
They had to slap on a last minute amendment so that the bikies’ lawyers didn’t also fit under the laws. Hope the cleaning lady doesn’t get 15 years too.
But what about those of us with totally pure intent who just accidentally whip up a batch of meth amphetamine when we really just meant to make a coffee?
Aww man, I hate it when that happens!
Does this mean that if you are busted with a meth lab and are not identifiable as a member of one of the 26 clubs you would get a smaller sentence?
Yeah, you’d get about 25 years less.
Can’t see how that could survive a high court challenge.
Increase the penalties for everybody or just bloody well enforce the ones you have. Get a full ATO tax audit of places and people they know are crims.
Personally, I feel that it’s true that ‘one rule for everyone’ is a pretty noble concept – in theory – in practice it doesn’t quite work as it sounds. In practice, the Law is a kind of game, and the only ones who suffer from its wrath in full are the ones who aren’t very good at playing it. The high-level, organized crime which cumulatively does the most damage to society, also has the very best ‘players’. And because things have to be ‘fair’, they can play better than the cops, sometimes. Cops can’t break the rules to acquire evidence, but criminals can break the rules to destroy it! That just means the cops have to try harder.
The rules of this game are pretty fucked. Where the reward for playing the game smart is that you get away scott free. And that’s… justice? Nope, but it’s the law.
It’s a fourth wall scenario, where everyone KNOWS shit is happening, they might even have evidence of it, but so much of it could be unusuable/inadmissable due to being acquired illegally or in ways which say they weren’t ‘playing the game’ properly, so that blind lady justice can maintain her suspension of disbelief.
Altering the law – and the law is nothing if not alterable – to better reflect the realities of the scale of damage done and the difficulties faced in ‘playing the game’ against such good players? I have difficulty finding much wrong with that. It’s candidly admitting, “Hey these rules are a bit shit… but oh wait. I made the rules, I can change them!”
The danger to that is the ‘Big Brother’ scenario where people have their privacy invaded while NOT committing crimes, or have to justify their behaviour – such as being a bachelor and thus having no alibi for most nights they spend in front of the TV – when under suspicion. See: Patriot Act.
This stuff, specifically naming the Bikie organizations being targeted? Not that kind of scenario.
Wow, NIN/QOTSA pre-sale tickets sold out in under a minute…
Frontier Presale on tuesday…
Yep. This was the nin.com/qotsa.com pre-sale.
I need to get 3 tickets so I’m waiting for the Frontier one anyway which has a 4 limit restriction (as opposed to 2 from this pre-sale).
Still crazy fast. Be interested to know how many were available.
Definitely.
I want to go but I don’t think I could even try to get tickets. They’ll be gone by the time I remember to try.
Well, shit…
CANCEL THAT!!!
JUST FOUND OUT WE GOT TICKETS!!!
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!
Now to rig the coin toss so I don’t get a sobby goth kid headlining.
COLON CAPITAL DEEEEEEE!!!
Was driving to an industry visit.
Flat Tyre. Giant screw sticking out of it.
Fantastic.
So you’re saying your car’s screwed?
Don’t you start. @shane already took down @dc.
He’s a bad, bad man. *stares off into distance*
Wow, I guess people are tyred of these puns.
Yet they keep rolling out.
Well that blows.
Yeah, they’re wheely bad.
It’s a pretty exhaustive collection.
Sorry, I’m just left feeling a little deflated.
Slow clap
Actually, that’s pretty funny 🙂You’re not stranded, I hope?
Nope. Temporary tyre, back to the office. Still bloody annoying though.
Good to hear!
Nothing good can come from being stranded in South Australia! 😛
*”Nothing good can come from being
strandedin South Australia!”There, fixed.
Hey, I’m actually entitled to make Snowtown Killer jokes 🙂
I’m not disagreeing, at least in the parts that aren’t, y’know, in the city near witnesses.
Morning friends. Long time no speak. I’m slowly realising that GTA Online is kind of ruining my ability to get through my pile of shame. Every time I put in a game to play I get about half an hour in and realise that my housemate is slowly getting higher and higher leveled than I am and I really like screwing around with him and I end up putting it in.
My dad went on holiday to Thailand ealier this year and he got me some trinkets … He got me an abacus necklace. I don’t know how to use a freaking abacus. Hell, I barely know how to use a scientific calculator anymore.
I nearly fell off my bike this morning, riding this morning it was crazy windy and I was getting pushed all over the road … had a strong gust start so I began to correct it to get back into the inner wheel line thing, so I’m leaning a bit to combat the wind while I take a corner and then another gust came in and caught under my wheels and I was at a very scary angle for a few seconds. Biggest nope moment so far. That was fun.
Going to see gravity on the weekend, should be cool.
Heh. Phrasing.
… I didn’t even see that, not going to change it. We have a turk and jd type relationship, so it kind of works
EAAAAAGLE!
I thought we’d made enough screw comments on this page
You’re right, this page is fucked.
Just went out to get lunch but forgot it was Wednesday so I didn’t go to the city which means I missed out on pretzels. Damn you, forgetful past me!
Why is Wed different?
There are markets in Brisbane Square on Wednesday.
Ah, my Brisbane experience is pretty much purely for tradeshows.
…chirpchirp.
Come Wednesday all Brisbane folks must prepare a shrine with pretzels, so not to anger… the thing we don’t speak of…
Her name is Strange.
I went to get lunch today but was driven out of the shopping centre by thousands of screaming children let loose during what seemed to be an excursion
to annoy Powalento the cinema.It was probably the strike-out version, Pow. Hmph. Children… They should be seen and not heard. And preferably not even seen. (Milford School values – everywhere!)
(Edit typo.)
Oh god.
That’s today!?
After my… transformation? at Oktoberfest, I’m limiting my diet for a little while.
But will the waft of smells break me?
We’ll always have last week, Strange. :’)
You mean last week when I almost left the pretzels in the Parents’ Room? Maybe it’s all a sign I need to stay away from pretzels for a while. 😛
Maybe the pretzels are punishing you for not playing more Beyond: Two Souls, more of the time!
Sentient pretzels.
Terrifying.
I, for one, welcome our new Pretzel overlords!
The Pretzels…They make me do things…horrible, horrible things…
EMOTIONSWind Waker! *shakes fist*
I can’t quit you!
You say that as though it’s a bad thing? I thought you loved it?!
I’ve been playing it for like two weeks now, it’s one of the longest relationships I’ve ever had!
I feel like I need my space. Things are getting too serious. It’s not you, it’s me!
Wind Waker, I have left you for another game. A younger game. Ten years younger to be exact. She is gorgeous, addictive and sort of French. She has over 700 things that I want and I’m not going to stop until I get them all. Her name is Pokemon.
XD
Ah, got to catch ’em all, eh? The thrill of the chase!
She also has a breeding program that I want to get into.
*backs away slowly*
pi-KA
A Pi bonded equilibrium constant for the partial ionization of weak acids in water?
PIKAcHU. An unholy substrate of Phosphorus, Iodine, Potassium, Actinium, Hydrogen and Uranium.
Wait…
The game I’m involved with is also named Pokemon…
That’s a funny coincidence!
…
More Pokémon talk? More Pokémon talk!
So I caught a bunch of Sliggoo last night, because I’d be able to scour for decent nature/ability, have a pair for breeding and the remainder would make for cool wonder trades. Anyway, one actually stuck out as decent:
He’s got Calm nature (+Sp Def, -Atk) which seems like it might be best or second best nature, and the Mischevious characteristic (IV for Sp. Atk ends in a 1 or 6 – good chance at high SpAtk base). His Ability is Hydration – definitely better than the other possibility, which is Sap Sipper.
So I was wondering how best to exploit Hydration. Rain Dance + Rest is the obvious combo, but that’s half his moveset gone, and I think the only reasonable way to round out that moveset would be Dragon Pulse + Scald. Not the greatest coverage. I figure that replacing the one STAB move is probably going to be the right choice, and I wonder if he can learn Sludge Bomb (or similar – I think there was a new high BP Special Poison move added) since it’s got the whole slug/slimy theme going on. That would give coverage against Fairy types.
The other option is his Hidden Ability – Gooey, which reduces Speed of any Pokemon that lands a hit on it (I think this means “contact” attacks). If I can get Sliggoo to appear in Friend Safari, I could get a female with Gooey to breed. With Gooey, I could drop the Hydration set for something that was a more well rounded attacker.
Edit: The Hydration Insta-Rest trick is really only useful once. If I’m taking the sort of damage that requires me to spam it, then I’m doing something wrong. It might be better to run a Chesto Rest set (this certainly makes Gooey the more appealing Ability) and run Goodra like a Bulk Water.
Oh, but Rain will buff Scald, which isn’t getting STAB…. hmm.
I can do backflips on my roller skates!
That’s neat, right? I think it’s neat.
EDIT: Ugh I need to add so many TAYbies for the Friend Safari whatever. Online interaction? Nintendo? The two mixing do not sit well with me.
I think what’s most disturbing is that, once you’ve actually swapped FC’s, the online interaction in-game is freaking fantastic.
I know Drought/Drizzle etc got nerfed to 5 turns only, but does manual weather, plus the applicable stone still extend it to 8 turns?
Scald is a good option, or maybe Surf for a bit of extra power. Though scald is usually the more common option on bulky waters. Sludge bomb or gunk shot (I think its special? ) would give you the coverage against fairies.
I think weather stones work on ability weather as well, pushing out duration to 8 turns. I’m okay with it, as there’s a bit of strategy around choosing whether or not to use up the hold slot with one of those stones.
Did a bit of digging into new moves, and I’ve come up with a set – now all that’s left it to make sure Goodra can actually learn them:
Rest (definitely)
Scald (Highly likely – Sliggoo was caught at lv 48, iirc, and came with Muddy Water)
Calm Mind (Highly likely)
Belch (desperately hopeful. This is a new move. type Posion, Special, 120 BP and 90 accuracy, but requires the user to have eaten a berry before it can be used. Would synergise well with Calm Mind into Chesto Rest)
Alternative 4th slot: Sludge Wave/Sludge Bomb (purely speculative, but I think my logic will probably hold up. Wave is very slightly stronger than Bomb).
If it can learn Belch, then Chesto Rest is the way to go, and I’ll work on getting the Hidden Ability since it’ll be much more beneficial than Hydration.
Oh, did they? So that’s why a Sand Stream sandstorm subsided mid battle! I was like… What happened!? 😛
*snrrk*
Hey, I haven’t read the news in a while! Let’s see what’s going on!
16yr Old Boy Uses Stun Gun on 16yr Old Girl at School.
Well that’s a new and terrible way to overcome the fear of rejection. Where’s the chivalry? When I was a kid, you only used painful and dangerous weaponry on your mates. And in the back-yard, not school (unless you could get away with it).
Politicians Get a 9% Pay Rise.
*spits* Yeah, it’s better than the 45% pay rise they gave themselves, but why am I still in year-long industrial action without an increase in pay, over getting something better than a 2% payrise? If 2% is supposedly good enough for us, it should be good enough for those assholes.
Doctor Embarrassed in Sting Wants Filming in Medical Practices Outlawed.
. o O (Well no shit he does, he’s embarrassed.) Sure, this particular instance was a particularly misleading bit of foul play from those paragons of journalistic integrity at A Current Affair, but that’s what defamation lawsuits are for. Recording our encounters is still one of the last defences against injustice that we have as citizens. (On the other hand, if he were calling for ACA to be banned, I wouldn’t mind.) 😉
Summer Storms Threaten Brisbane Water Supply
Eh? More water = bad? How does that w– ohhh, it washed a bunch of silt into the water supply. That makes sense. Oh well. Title should’ve been Brisbane Water Has All Its Eggs In One Basket – worth reminding folks again, considering the droughts a few years ago had us mere hours from being without drinking water on several occasions and we haven’t done much about it since. Apart from keeping the Wivenhoe well-topped-up, which… y’know. Worked out great, come flood time.
Adding GST to Fresh Fruit and Veg will Negatively Impact Australian Health.
File this one under ‘no shit, Sherlock’. We already have enough excuses to eat like crap without adding price to it. I mean… McDonalds’ ‘loose change’ menu is the best(/worst) thing that ever happened to the homeless who can’t refrigerate food, but to low-income families where every dollar counts, the last thing you want to do is blur the lines between healthy and unhealthy.
Politician Uses Taxpayer Money to Buy Bookshelf So Big It Doesn’t Fit in his Office
Yeah, alright… I can’t read news anymore.
That bookshelf one is misleading- it only doesn’t fit in his NEW office, it fit fine in his office when he was in opposition (it’s Brandis)
It seems so… utterly unimportant an issue that I can’t believe it really qualifies as news.
(And no, @dc – news.com.au front page does not count as news. Although… what’s my horoscope for today? I’m a Pisces.)
News, eh? Where are the lists and celebrity gossip? Are you saying News.com.au’s front page isn’t news?
I read a hard hitting piece of journalism today about what your seating preferences in a cinema says about you! It was thought provoking stuff!
Ooh! My ideal seating is the middle of the row, a third of the way back from the screen. What type of [whatever it is] am I?
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/movies/what-your-cinema-seat-says-about-your-personality-according-to-psychologist-hiromi-mizuki/story-e6frfmvr-1226740908274
It means you’re confident AND decisive!
Well he did make the running for the Brisbane Meat group leader.
Strange is leader! Strange talked to a scary shop assistant for me!
Indeed, but @dc retained the crown with solid and consistent performance.
I think Freeze might be the secret leader of the group. He pretends he’s not group leader, but he’s the guy who always ensures meats happen when D.C. does the impromptu cancel at the last minute thing. XD
@dc I think you might be right.
Holy bullshitasaurus! That’s the stupidest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Why would you make me click on that link, DeeCeeeeeee…WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!
It’s news! Why else would it be on that site? 😛
Bahahahhaa! Oh man, that’s an amazing term!
I surely hope the hugasaurus and bullshitasaurus never cross paths! D:
and @strange: This needs to become a TAY thing!
…What the hell did I just read?
A future Pulitzer prize winning piece of investigative journalism!
It’s funny, as someone that works in the Water Industry there have been multiple proposals for new water storage facilities to supply water for Brisbane. Every time something has gone through, the greenies have jumped up and down about killing trees or snails or some shit like that.
So basically in the greenies’ priority list “having enough drinking water so all humans / animals / plants in Brisbane don’t die of thirst in the next drought” is at the bottom.
I took the ten minutes of my time to make sure I numbered all 1-82 boxes on the senate. Greens were last. Stop The Greens were surprisingly in the top quarter!
That 9% is made more annoying when you realise its $12,000 a year.
What I could do with an extra $12,000 a year *gazes off wistfully*
…
Fucking mongrels. I’m in the wrong job. I can be a fucking mongrel too! I’m sure! If I tried very hard and didn’t care about the respect of my friends and family anymore… Hm.
i could solve all my problems and plenty more with a bonus like that! we have to fight tooth and nail to get an extra $2 a fortnight though :\
Oh man, that much would solve ALL my problems. All of them.
I caught an intro on ACA last night (and I’m sure you all know just how much I love that show…)
and they’re all about ROAD WARS! BIKES AND CARS! OH NOES! CAN’T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?
Like fark man.. how many times to they wanna beat the same fuckin drum… :\
Hmm… *strokes chin*
AND TERRIBLE
Terrible…y effective?
I propose sometime this summer Brisbane TAYbies and Sydney TAYbies have a simultaneous interstate Wet n’ Wild meat! (I won’t be going, cause of the pasty white skin and scrawny frame thing… but I enjoy when others meat! MEATS!)
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/10/are-sydneys-wet-n-wild-ticket-prices-too-expensive/
Why do they charge by height though? That’s weird?
Because if you’re under a certain height then you can’t go on a bunch of the rides, thus should only have to pay for the portion of the park you have access to?
That makes sense!
You can’t tell everyone to do something you won’t do yourself.
Monster.
I can and will! GO HAVE FUN NOW! >:|
Make me.
What if I go and hold all your smart phones and wait in the car!
No. I want you between my legs half naked and wet in the
Tunnel of GropeTerror Canyon slide.D:
Well they won’t let me go by myself.
Pooooookemooooon
Besides, I doubt @dc has anything on the pasty white of my legs. The only place I wear shorts is in the gym. My skin is so white you could bleach chalk and it wouldn’t be as white as my legs.
Gym? What’s a gym?
(In my head-voice you said it Homer-style. ‘Guyme’
Mine too, Cam. Mine too.
I’ve got the unenviable combo of pasty white, giving Bigfoot a run in the hirsute department and having an unfortunate body shape comparable to a unevenly filled flour sack.
I’m a skeleton. I can eat a whole cheesecake and you can still see my ribs. XD
You’re the sort of person I loathe and secretly envy 🙁
Cheer up. It’ll probably crash when he’s in his 30s. No-one’s metabolism lasts like that forever. 🙂
As long as there’s stress and anxiety, there’s scrawniness. Atleast if I stop being scrawny, I might be happy. 😛
@shane when you’re finished with the ds games could you send/give them to @gorzilla?
Shane likes giving things to people, I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s already given them away! D:
I don’t give away other people’s games! :O
-_-
You passed the ethics test! *scribbles note into Shane’s file*
Wait, you’re keeping files?
D-CIA.
You passed the deductive reasoning test! *scribbles notes into Red’s file*
You’re actually looking for Reds under the bed?
Joke’s on you, I’m hiding BEHIND THE CURTAIN!MONSTER!
We’re all monsters now.
The things you have to screw around with just so the game knows you’re not on triple screens anymore.,,, 🙁
Talking with a friend from my old forum group who I haven’t spoken to in aaaaaaaaaaaaages (he decided to jump on Skype, and it’s connecting to me through MSN :P). Found out that one of the others from Brisbane is playing (in a band) somewhere down here at the start of next month, and that another of the ones from Melbourne is now engaged.
Then he gets to the part where he starts trying to pressure me into getting facebook. BACK OFF, SALESMAN!
Yeah, forget Facebook…Twitter’s where it’s at. 😀
Ew, that’s even worse 😛
Forums. That’s the best way to do things.
I used to be like you. Then I was TAY-pressured into Twitter. It’s actually really handy. Plus it’s like Mega-TAY if you follow all the TAYbies.
I SHALL NEVER SUCCUMB!
I can’t deal with possibly missing out on things. Whenever I log onto the forum, I have to check through all the new posts before logging off again. TAY is hard enough to keep up with and it drives the others in my group mad that whenever they look over at my computer I seem to be on Kotaku instead of doing work. If I had to try and keep up with twitter and/or facebook too, I would probably die. Be it from overwhelm or at the hand of others, it’d happen.
Plus I have the whole paranoia thing going on. Lucas lives out in the real world, Gook lives on the internet. The two worlds should be kept as separate as possible 😛
Lucas, eh? *scribbles notes into file*
…who taught you to write.
Pack of highly intelligent Colobus Monkeys who escaped from a research laboratory. They taught me. I taught them.
They taught @dc how to write. He taught them how to FEEL.
Gook has long, flowing, lustrous locks halfway down his back, is 6 foot 8 and has 18 inch biceps?
The locks are more curly than flowing.
Oh. This is Gook right?
@freezespreston
WHO GAVE YOU THAT
You’ll succumb, they always do. Just ask @dc what his opinion of Twitter used to be, and how long he held out before becoming just another Twitter addict…. 😛
I’m as weak willed as I am unlikable! 😀
So, not weak willed at all?
Pshaw. You’re talking to a guy who still uses a Windows 98 machine, and is still signing in to MSN daily despite the fact they allegedly “closed” the service over six months ago. I’ve been resisting the peer pressure for years upon years, they always give up long before I do 😛
Dear Naughty Dog,
You’ve had a team working on a PS4 title for quite a while now. Please, let me see something. Anything. To say I am keen to see it would be an understatement.
Yours in anticipatory excitement\
Freeze
PS: Hnnnngh. C’mon already.
It’s the team that made Uncharted 3. They can take their time.
That was their first game after splitting into two, though. Second game was The Last of Us, a thing of freaking beauty. I suspect next game won’t have the problems of UC3.
Team A made Uncharted 3, Team 1 made The Last of Us.
After the split, I think it’s clear which team is worthy of being called the Fighting Mongooses.
Haha! But the things learned by Team A helped the Mongooses! Remember Uncharted 1 and 2 were made by ALL these people. If The Last of Us was released first it’d probably been all kinds of flawed too. The good people didn’t just all go to The Last of Us team. 😛 (I hope. :D)
Yes and it was also very clearly rushed out the door to meet deadlines. There’s a postmortem out there where they admit they had to crunch like mad to make it, and Naughty Dog is one of the developers that doesn’t do crunches normally.
EDIT: And by that I mean I’d rather Sony lets them take all the time they need to make something awesome again, instead of rushing out a broken, frustrating mess.
Oh yeah, don’t get me wrong. If they feel the need to take their time then I’ll happily wait.
So, primary school is still scary if you’re an adult. 😛
Just had the orientation night at my son’s soon-to-be school. I’m not scared of the teachers anymore, but I’m definitely scared of the other parents. A couple of them even spoke to me. Eek!
Try sending your kid to the same primary school you went to as a kid and half the teachers are still there. I feel like a 8 year old every time I drop her off.
That would be…disconcerting. To say the least.
Oh man! Home schooling! It’s the way of the hermit!
It’s also the way of the organised. So, not my way. Unfortunately. My daughter’s curiosity and willingness to learn was killed by school and I really don’t want that to happen to my son as well.
🙁
School isn’t for learning. School is an institution where children are segregated by age and removed from society for most of the working week so that they don’t impede its function.
🙁
IMO the kids that do best in school are the ones that learn early on how to find things out for themselves. Understanding doesn’t ever arise from rote memorization.
Whoa, the Orange is the New Black pilot was amazingly good. Warm, funny, scary… well written stuff. I highly recommend it!
I just came to post the same thing. I’m hooked.
Those of you interested in fantasy and music artworks may be very interested in this Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1537729205/the-art-of-big-o
http://www.fabsugar.com.au/Melbourne-Cup-Dresses-32167091?slide=6&image_nid=32167222
How the hell is that possibly $656 worth of dress? It looks like a pillowcase…
http://www.fabsugar.com.au/Melbourne-Cup-Dresses-32167091?slide=10&image_nid=32167143
And this one’s $501?! There’s like 2 hours work, max in those. Plus they’re really ugly. Fucking “fashion”.
!
This one’s over $1000 and it makes that poor model look terribly misshapen. Imagine how weird it would look on a regular-bodied girl.
Edit: Forgot to put the link in but I’ll spare everyone and leave it that way. It was the first one if anyone’s interested though.
Number 6 is $5218.
D: I guess at least that one has some work and actual design in it. But holy crapsticles is fashion overpriced. Especially when you consider how much of it is actually made in sweatshops in less fortunate countries.
Mrs. Freeze said it looked like she turned up in her partners T-shirt.
‘Boyfriend Jeans’ are apparently a hot item. My girl prefers the work shirt. I am OK with this. But only around the apartment and absolutely non-negotiably NOT IN PUBLIC.
What in gods name are boyfriend jeans?
Basically the (comparatively) baggy jeans their boyfriend wears. So… just over-sized jeans. Given the difference in price between what I’ll pay for a pair of jeans vs what a fashionista does, there must also be some missing ingredients as well. Like maybe my jeans aren’t acid-washed in a mix of nymph tears and satyr spunk or something – whatever the pre-requisite is for absurd female fashion that makes no sense to me.
Good job fellow Numenera players. I shall endeavour to get the session recap out tomorrow at some stage (for those others who are interested, there were some funny moments 😀 )
What time did you guys end up starting? I was home about 8:15pm but thought I was probably going to be too late to join.
7:30 SA, but if we’re playing and you’re late that’s cool, jump in! We’ll assume Aura was napping 🙂
Or, I’unno… went scouting. 🙂
Like Russef, the least stealthy stealth guy?
AMAZE.
Srsly. Felt like I hindered progress (outside of story) though definitely understand much more than when I went in. Thanks guys!
That was our first really big combat. The first encounter we had was very, very, very swiftly dealt with by the two who weren’t there tonight. I think we can safely assume that they spent the rest of the day bro-fisting and posing over the corpse or something.
I nabbed a trophy, so I’d call it a win 😛
Ah it’s all good. Always tricky to meet up with a group and you were in a bit of strife but we all survived and with good tales to tell too. 🙂
There were some really bad dice rolls tonight. And not just me either.
Ahaha, I just realized I completely forgot about including my shield in my defense rolls – all my rolls should’ve been 3 points lower. All three hits I took should’ve been deflected – should’ve come out of that fight unscratched like a BOSS. 😀
@redartifice I will remember next time!
Today is my girlfriends birthday so today’s been a good day 🙂 that’s all I wanted to say so also hey how is everyone
How was the zoo visit, my friend?
T was good, got some pretty sweet photos and went on a safari tour, saw some friends we haven’t seen in ages.
Were these friends Colobus Monkeys? *waits hopefully*
Indeed they were..as well as other friends..and a gorilla who slammed the double thick glass and put a crack in it
Just in case you need a laugh.
Oh yeah, this morning I got stopped by Cancer Council people when heading into the station. The girl asked me if I knew anyone with cancer, I paused for a moment to think about it. Then remembered that my Nanna had cancer, so replied.
“No, they’re dead now.”
So flippant 😛
It was kinda funny though. I mean I did try and be upfront and warned her I was a jobless student, but unlike most of them she pressed on. Asked me if I drank coffee. Nope. Ok, but surely I eat fast food. Nope. Total tightarse here, I only make considered purchases. Well, mostly 😛
Eventually she let me go, though as I left she told me I have nice eyes. Aw shucks.
Ha! Haven’t had a get in a while.
Holy damn, you’re a ladies man!
It’s just a ploy to make you give them money.
Same goes for the charity folk.
*ba-dum*
I think you’ve got super powers, my friend. Use them wisely.
Like Ghost Rider? 😀
Look into my eyes!
*swoon*
OK, so yeah, now I am utterly disillusioned by the charity girl who called to me, “I just wanted to tell you you have beautiful eyes!” as I was walking away, having smiled and wished her luck (but no thanks) without breaking my stride.
I THOUGHT MY EYES WERE PRETTY DAMMIT, NOW I REALIZE IT WAS ALL A LIE BECAUSE THAT’S JUST A THING THEY SAY.
I shall take my hurt from this betrayal and use it to forge a steely resolve to wreak terrible vengeance on the world. …Tomorrow. I’m tired now.
For real? Oh man, that’s so manipulative if it’s something they do. 🙁
Oh man, those poor girls must have no self-respect. None.
It’s ok. Both of us have beautiful eyes.
OK, I’m going to cling to this out of desperation and because world-shattering vengeance looks like a lot more effort than I’m really prepared to put into it.
I’d wear an eye patch so it would never happen again! D:
Don’t lie, you’re only doing it to play adult games.
Ohhhh, I always wear sunglasses, and they have no idea what to say to me. Now I know why.
This is how I choose to interpret that conversation.
Oh, you’re not going to give charity any money? Okay, that’s enough business talk. Want to get some coffee? No? Oh, well, then how about some food (but it’s gotta be fast, because I’m working)? No…? Well, I think you have nice eyes…! No? Well, nice to meet you… *girl goes home and kills self*
Ohhhh, ladykiller.
They’re such assholes sometimes, trying to make you feel guilty for buying a burger or coffee. One tried to make me feel bad for buying fucking spectacles that I require for my health.
You’re a monster.
@dc
Beyond Two Souls late game.
You two stay here. It’s only a two man sub. *gets into a sub that can hold 10-15 people*Obviously he was just socially awkward and wanted some alone time.Shane, what are you doing reading spoilers? 🙁
This was my first one. It was a late night lapse of judgement. Also, I will probably never play the game, given my PS3 is unplugged and gasping its last 😛
*clenches punching fist*
Soon.
I’m picturing you sitting there, stroking your clenched fist with a twisted evil smile on your face. “Soon, my pretty… soon. On behalf of the little guys, like Stephen King, we will have our revenge!”
Only tag me for good Quantic Dream posts! 😀
You know I’m really curious as to why you dismiss so many movies and TV shows for far less but so tolerant of this.
Like what movies and tv shows?
It’s so weird, man. In uni and high school I was known as this guy who watched every thing. Who was forgiving of shows. Who wanted to see the best in things. Who defended the little guy and could find enjoyment in stuff others couldn’t and I’ve some how acquired this reputation on TAY for being a stubborn jerk who refuses to watch things for no reason what so ever. :S
Where’d that come from? Even when I’ve seen movies with you guys, when we saw Oblivion I’m fairly certain I was the only one to like it in the group. I loved Battlestar when everyone jumped ship. I loved Lost when everyone jumped ship. I watched Caprica when no one else did. Loved M. Night Shyamalan’s stuff when it was becoming cool not to like it. Watched and loved Newsroom when critics were tearing it to shreds. I like what I like. *shrugs*
Sorry man, this has turned into a bit of a rant. Not at all directed at you, just something that’s been on my mind lately…
Edit: Re-reading my post above, I didn’t mean to criticize what you were saying. I just prefer to be blissfully ignorant when it comes to those sorts of plot holes or technical errors and stuff. Go out of my way to avoid reading that stuff and certainly don’t want to be tagged when that stuff comes up. I know that ain’t normal and… uh… I think I might go to sleep. Rambling DC mode activated. 😀
Warehouse 13 is the first one that springs to mind.
Don’t mind me. I think it’s just mostly just me and @strange who keep trying to get you to watch stuff that you just respond with a “nah.” I guess both of us could have what is described as odd tastes.
And what I put in the spoilers up there was just something that made me laugh. Wouldn’t matter who did it. You’re the only one I know for sure is that far into the game.
About Beyonds ending (don’t stress nothing negative)
5 minutes into watching me play at the start Mrs Freeze called the twin thing. Holy shit she was right. Not sure I should let her know in the morning. She’ll be insufferable.People jumped ship on Battlestar? That was awesome the whole way through though.
Beyond ending spoilers:
Haha! I guessed that too. 😀 I also guessed the Origami killer’s identity in Heavy Rain! *flicks fringe* What decisions did you make?I talked Dawkins down, chose life and went ‘home’ to the Navajo. I felt like Jodie was most happy there.Warehouse 13 I actually was really looking forward to when it was being developed and had Jane Espenson’s name on it. She was one of my favourite writers on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Saw the pilot, saw it was quality but knew the tone wasn’t to my liking. I gave it shot, though. Didn’t have any bad expectations going in, just optimism! 😀
Edit: Lots of people hated BSG’s last season. :'(
*hugs it out with Freeze*
Just worried you guys think I’m a TV or movie snob. Just in case you do, I have a confession to make: I watched and liked Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman… last year… XD
Any way, I might go to bed now, but just re-read the original character reference I wrote… I have nothing but respect for Freeeeeze.
Beyond
Not sure what I did with Nathan. He shot himself though.Did what those 80’s commercials said and Chose Life.
Went back with Ryan.
And you’re not a snob. Just a snob with what I like 😛
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: pilot episodes are hardly ever that great. Most shows need at least a few eps to find their feet and set the tone. So just watching a pilot isn’t necessarily going to to give someone the best impression and may cause them to miss out on things they’d otherwise have enjoyed. I have a loose 3 episode rule for judging stuff. I find the third episode you can usually get a better feel for the show.
Also, I’ve never thought of you as a TV or movie snob…just a game one. 😛
I really think you should try Dark Souls again and at least defeat that Demon on the bridge. That’s like a three-episode equivalent. 😛Not odd tastes, strange tastes. 😛
It’s because you don’t like Dark Souls. That’s the genesis of this reputation. Also, Breaking Bad. I suspect between those two examples, you’ve managed to find a point of contention with just about everyone here.
Not that that’s a bad thing. Taste is taste, of course. And to be honest, you seem to be enthusiastic about way more things than you are indifferent towards. Certainly way more than myself. It’s just that around TAY, Dark Souls and Breaking Bad are reasonably high-profile 😛
That’s my guess anyway. Also, your inexplicable hatred for buildings might have contributed.
In case it wasn’t clear in what I said, I don’t think your reputation for stubborn critical jerk (if you’ve even got one) is really justified. In fact, I think that should really be my reputation. Maybe folks are getting us confused because twins…?
Edit: Dr Quinn? Hahahahahaha 😛
A stubborn jerk who didn’t like X-Men: First Class
I still haven’t forgiven youI liked it! 😀
@shane didn’t 🙁
You’re alright DC, you’re alright.
@cakesmith: Want me to punch him in the face for you?
@cakesmith, I haven’t seen it! I haven’t judged it at all that I remember… :\
@shane: Just to be sure, I should probably punch you in the face!
@shane I’ll dig up the old TAYs if I have to!
Maybe you just said it looked a bit rubbish. Either way, you like Batman Begins so you’re not totally awful.
It’s basically Mad Men with Superpowers! That should’ve been the tag line! January Jones is even in it! XD
@cakesmith, I might have said I have no interest, because I didn’t much care for X-Men 1-3. Don’t think I would have said anything more judgemental than that. I haven’t even seen a trailer for First Class. You might have to dig up old TAYs.
Edit: How long have you been carrying this grudge for? XD
@shane Well, I started looking through TAYs from around the release date and then realised it was back when we were hitting a couple of thousand comments a day. 🙁
I don’t really hold a grudge (I just may have watched it the other night and for some reason I thought you disliked it haha)
EDIT: I hope you understand this is all fun and games and it’s not like I have a personal vendetta against you or anything.
I just want to go to sleep and forget that the next 15 hours even have to happen 🙁 I have 20 minutes to write one more (rather complicated) SQL query then I’m going to bed, only to spend all of tomorrow flat out too :l
SELECT *
FROM folderOfQueries
WHERE senseMade == true;
Shit. It’s my sister’s birthday on Monday. Not only does that mean I have to think of a present, I also mightn’t be able to go climbing.
Hmm.
Take her climbing as a present.
I don’t think she’s been climbing recently, possibly recovering from injury still.
Perhaps I could bargain my way out if I brought up the issue directly with her… but I don’t think I wanna do that.
Tee up an extended lunch-date with sister. Your treat, somewhere nice she’d normally never eat if she’d have to pay for herself. If she’s not the super materialistic type, she’ll appreciate the novel experience, good food, and being able to enjoy it in your company.
Edit: That’s if you can both get someone to cover you for an hour or so.
Edit 2: Bonuses:
* Fixed duration so no-one has to be the one to awkwardly decide to leave
* Not inviting others means you’re not putting an obligation on others to both spend money somewhere they mightn’t want to AND buy her a gift
* One-on-one means you get some good face time to chat.
* Lunch-time means the break will probably be a welcome change of pace from work, improving the day AND she gets the bonus of being the envy of all her coworkers for the rest of the day when she talks about it.
* If her coworkers aren’t totally in love with her, they’ll probably have a morning or afternoon tea planned instead of a full-blown lunch, so she’ll possibly be celebrated twice in one day
I see nothing but win, here.
I’m such a horrible brother that I have no idea what she does Mondays – if she’s at uni, or she’s working, or nothing, or anything 😛 In fact I don’t even know if she has a pattern for being home or not. Sometimes she’s here, a lot of the time she’s not. Shrug.
…I take back my ‘nothing but win’ comment. 😛
Well, if you’re a horrible brother, a text message at midday should suffice. Go climbing 😛
Three eps into Orange is the New Black. Best show I’ve seen in ages. So good and compelling.
All these actors and actresses I’ve seen in more iconic stuff too who are way better here than the roles they’re known for. The writing is excellent too. So, so good.
I watched the shower scene separately. I’m good, now.
…
Too much information, my friend.
Too much? NAY, it was too short! And probably just a teaser because they can’t show true pr0n on teh youtubes.
Might give it a look. Is it Mrs Shane friendly?
Definitely.
Has a weird Freaks and Geeks vibe to it some how. I can’t pin point why yet. There’s a lot of nudity, but that goes with most cable-esque shows these days. I think she’d like it…
Cool. Thanks! I’ll tell her she can blame you if she doesn’t like it. She might send me to Brisbane with a punch in the face for you.
Haha! I just posted a punching threat above… at the same time! TWINS! 😛
I decided to forgive GTA V. We’re on speaking terms again. Some of the magic has been lost, but it’s still a solid game.
Now, it’s 12:50. I’ve done a lot of writing tonight, so I’m giving myself a ten minute early mark for bed. Night all! 🙂
Night Shaaaaaane!
Welp, too late now. Just went and told my sister about the whole thing (well at least the bit about suspicious signals the other night, reluctant date Friday and leaving for the holiday on Tuesday). Then underwent the subsequent grilling. And it turns out that after all that, she didn’t expect me not to go climbing in the first place, it’s just Mum that has a problem with it – apparently we’re actually going out for the birthday later in the week, especially since my sister’s still recovering from dental surgery and can’t really eat anything substantial yet.
So now I gotta continuously get subsequent grillings whenever I go climbing, and then deal with extra awkwardness if anything happens on the whole Sketchbook Girl side of things (the shy one from school).
This is hard. No wonder I spend so much time being single.
Unzip, slap it on the table and raise an eyebrow.
One way or another your problems will be solved.
I don’t know how things work with your sister, but for us that’d be kinda weird.
She wouldn’t be grilling you any more though would she?
I was talking about the other girls but whatever works best for you.
I should’ve been in bed an hour ago…
Anyway, goodnight!
@kermitron my turnips are selling for 141 at the moment. Can’t get to Wifi until tonight, but hopefully they’ll be that or higher. The Stalk Market Wizard says I’m on a Large Spike pattern… but we’ll see. Yesterday it said I was on a Decreasing pattern 😛
Sold them in Strange’s town last night for 194 but thanks for keeping me in mind!
I think I’ll be buying tickets for the Breath of Life Festival 2014 (the local music festival). They’ve just made the first announcement, and it’s pretty awesome. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis headline, plus Empire of the Sun, Public Enemy, Art vs Science, Parkway Drive, and Dead Letter Circus. It’s also on the Saturday before my birthday.
I saw Empire of the Sun at Splendour this year and they blew my mind. The costumes, the lightshow, the visuals, incredible! Acid is a hell of a drug.
Pretty solid line up, I vote DO IT!
BRISBANE PEOPLE
I get off the plane at 4:30 and should be in the city by 5(ish)
I’m not sure where to go so if anyone has any awesome ideas of where to go let me know, if anyone wants to meat up tonight also Please let me know 🙂
Staying in the city but happy to meat wherever thats relatively nearby
( @dc @freezespreston @sughly @sernobulus @jimu @gutsoup @transientmind @beardymcmuttonchops @popdart5 @dkzeitgeist @welbot umm…this is diffcult…DeeCeeeeee, help! )
@strange
#Helping
Shane’s got this covered.
(Also @lambomann007, @virus__, @enduwolf…)
Oh, I didn’t know Popdart was a Brisbanite. I’m actually pretty tied up tonight, I’m not sure if I’ll be able to swing a free hour to get out and about in the city… but @gingerchris86 shouldn’t be meat-less! I can probably swing some city-time between 6:30-7:30, give or take a half hour. Any ideas on the kinda place you wanna go for meats, Chris? Drinks? Meal? Movie?
You guys could go to Beach House in the Myer Center again. That was good eatin’…
Yeah I’m a Brisbanite. I’ll be at one of the meats eventually however I can’t really do anything tonight though unforunately. 🙁
Drinks and Meal probably
Bit of a long trip for dinner in a work night for me.
Yeah, someone really needs to commit to at least second base for the drive to be worth it. At least.
Oh hello! Is this like a proper meat? Whats happening?
I’m not sure what’s happening. Ginger Chris is up here for the night and needs some company for dinner and drinks. Looks like Transient Mind is going to be able to hang out with him but I don’t think anyone else has said they can do it.
@dc?
Haha! Nah, kind of in a super emo mood at the moment. Wouldn’t be much company.
Keen to hang sometime soon though!
Doofus. Super emo is when you need the company.
I would love to, but I’m too broke atm 🙁
Morning TAY.
Pokemon related…
Edit: its a fairly general question, before i get in trouble…
Does anyone know if you can name change the Pokemon you get through the GTS? Right now i have a doodad with a funky name made out of Japanese characters… and I dont know what it says…The tattoo artist said it meant “serenity and wisdom”.
But it really means I’m as gay as the fairies
Unfortunately not. Any traded pokemon cant be renamed.Thanks.
Better find out what it means then!
I CHOOSE YOU, 3 HORIZONTAL LINES WITH SQUIGGLIES INBETWEEN… has a ring to it, doncha think?
But beneath those lines and squigglies lies something sinister.
Post a pic here? I’m sure we can muddle through it.
I took a photo, realised i could compare the photo to the name in the pokedex
(because when you trade it gets all multicultural, so i have a japanese edition of my pokedex as well as english).Turns out its just the name of the Pokemon.
Well fair enough then.
Am I the only one who’s slightly disappointed it wasn’t something kinky, weird, sinister or all of the above?
What @novacascade said. Does make that decision a little more important when you catch things, if you ever expect to trade it. That person will be stuck with it forever.
Thanks for the tip Beavalicious
I haven’t been making the most of that opportunity! Curse my laziness for not doing that for the last 70 or 80 I bred.
morning all! so my cute little Torchic just evolved into cock and balls… o_0
http://i.imgur.com/oAsDbsu.jpg
I can never unsee this.
yeah, i know… for comparison heres the previous form…
http://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/torchic-590×330.jpg
how it goes from a cute little bird to a phallus is beyond me… at least it was only trying to learn double kick and not “double team”…
i just wish to know , who else when the games industry either goes full digital or always online will be giving up or scaling down dramatically their future new game purchases
Me. I like physical products. I don’t like the non-transferrable section of digital licences.
Edit: you also make a good point about the temporal nature of ownership when the product’s functionality is tied to the existence of a server that won’t be up forever.
same here im paying for a product i should get a product that is mine, and with always on it is just an illusion
Technically the way the EULAs are written, even on many old games, your physical copy isn’t actually a product that is yours, it’s a medium for transporting the license you have to access the content on that disc, and the only time that ISN’T the case is when a country (such as Germany) specifically passes laws to override that civil contract you enter into by using the product.
It’s been that way for a while now. I honestly can’t remember when software licensing took that turn, but my gut says it was sometime around the Win95-98 days, when Microsoft revolutionized their strangehold on enterprise and digital music was starting to terrify the shit out of record companies.
I’m really not fussed… While i enjoy my collector’s editions, the vast majority of my “modern” gaming collection is through Steam anyway… If a physical collectors edition is still available for a few select titles that i’m hanging for i’ll get that, but for the rest i’m quite happy with a digital library… my Xbox 360 and Wii collection is taking up way too much space as it is XD
I guess i should elaborate a bit,
I used to be physical all the way, but as i’ve become older/house filling up with crap, i’ve started appreciating digital more.
I think what i’ve come to realise is that with games, i’m okay paying for the experience, because lets face it, digital or disc, once the disc is in or the game is downloaded the experience is the same… Hence, at this stage, aside from some kickarse art book or statue, i appreciate that i get the same experience without the clutter (i’m married, can you tell?)
As primarily a PC gamer I’ve already become used to it. In fact, because of the price of many digital options my purchases have sky-rocketed, without really costing more. It’ll end up the same with consoles, in time.
EDIT: Sense-making…
Did someone say digital purchases?
Heres my stance:
PC Games: All digital since about 2005
PS3: All retail, with the exception of PSPlus stuff which is free i suppose…
360: All retail
3DS: Combination of Retail/digital. If its available retail,, i will always buy it, however some stuff, ie links awakening, is only available digital from the eshop.
Vita: All retail, with the exception of PSPlus stuff which is free i suppose…
To be honest, the day that consoles become digital only, im not touching another console again… i have several reasons for this… primarily, i tend to go back to consoles after a few years and re-experience some of them… The issue with going full digital is that at some point, cloud servers will stop supporting certain consoles, content will no longer be downloadable, any existing content will no longer have a means of having the license authenticated for you to access even singleplayer components.
if that happened to steam? well they have always said if that were to ever happen they would release a patch that will strip the steam DRM… I trust that they would, although then again,if they got to that point, im sure they’d have bigger things to worry about then releasing patches for people to strip DRM. Personally, my solution would be to torrent all the games id bought, and crack them… and yes, at that point i would feel “entitled”, that i have the right to pursue a means to still access my paid content 😛
They don’t want you to go back and play them. They want you to repurchase the HD rerelease.
yeah cause a remake of Wonderboy in Monster Land is ever going to happen… or a good killer instinct… or streets of rage… or Double Duke… 😛
Never say never, 007.
Hee. A ‘good’ Killer Instinct. I see what you did there.
thank you, we share the exact same view on this, i mean just the other day i was playing older games on my ps3 and realize that future games wont be able to be replayed after a while
Me. I like physical things. Digital is very convenient but there are times I want something tangible.
Steam has only made me scale up dramatically…
*thinks about all the unplayed games bought in steam sales*
😛
I don’t really care anymore, to be honest. As long as I can play my games offline and there’s backups in place in case my hardware breaks/gets lost (ie. accounts) I’ll happily go full digital.
Mine won’t change. In fact, my Steam library keeps ballooning, and I keep getting PS+ games without a physical copy.
Me. Especially considering I’ve just been fucked up the arse on my 3DS’ digital games. I still have access to them all, but my save data has all been made inaccessible.
Offline forever.
I’m not overly fussed on only having non-transferable digital versions of my games, but my future spending will depend on whether there will be opportunities to take advantage of competitive pricing. I don’t mind going all-digital, but I don’t want to be locked into paaying $109.95 because that’s the RRP and there’s now a monopoly on the content delivery.
Also, I hate that Microsoft rarely reduces prices of games on the XBL marketplace to reflect their age. If something like Assassin’s Creed 2 was in a 2 for $40 sale at JB a year ago, why on earth would anyone pay $99 for it now?
This mentality needs to change before anyone will trust them enough to abandon discs.
Yeah. Putting one or two games a month up for ludicrous sale prices (I’ve seen some good specials, 75% off kind of stuff on XBL) is NOT good enough to compare to Steam at all. It’s not just in a completely different ball-park, it’s in the wrong country.
As most people have already mentioned here, PC gamers are pretty much already accustomed to digital purchases (I know I am). I know I have only bought a handful of physical PC games over the last few years and that’s usually because it’s a collectors edition with some bonus loots. Like the Skyrim collector’s edition which came with the dragon statue.
IMO, there are a number of things that consoles need to do before they can go full digital.
1) Price – the advantage of buying games off Steam is you can usually get them for cheaper than retail. This doesn’t appear to be happening on the console marketplaces yet. I remember seeing Payday 2 for $59 for a physical copy at JB, but it was $69.95 on PSN.
2) Storage – Digital games take up space. And when you have a lot of games, you need a lot of space. I have a 3TB hard drive in my PC dedicated to games on Steam/Origin. Sure, I don’t NEED to have most of my Steam library installed, but I like having the option of being able to just play something when I feel like it, so things rarely get deleted. If the same approach was taken on my 360 (which is a 250GB model), there is no way I would be able to keep them all installed on the hard drive. Games are also getting bigger in size which leads us to…
3) Bandwidth/Download Quota – Not so much a problem in the likes of the states but definitely a problem here in Australia. Games are getting big. And I mean huge. There’s talk of Killzone on the PS4 having a 50GB download off the store. Hell, COD: Ghosts on PC reportedly has that. We all know how awful Australian internet is and the rubbish speeds we get. Then there’s download quota. I’m lucky in that I’m with Internode which hosts a lot of the Steam content servers in Aus and they offer free downloads from then. Through a simple IP filter I can force my PC to use their servers. Between new games and updates, I easily download about 50-100GB a month from them. But for the likes of Sony/Microsoft there’s no way of knowing where your downloads are coming from and so it will most likely go against your quota. Unless you’re paying a premium for a huge download quota, this is going to cause issues as games to become bigger in file size.
4) Willingness to adapt – Sure, PC gamers are now used to digital games but it has taken us a long time to get there and there has been a lot of backlash throughout the years. There’s an excellent Jimquisition (who totally stole my idea for a Pixel-otaku article when the Xbone DRM was announced) on why PC gets away with it that covers the points better than I can make them. It’s technically about the DRM but it covers this as well.
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This is basically how I buy games:
PC – Digital. If I need more space it’s easier enough to throw in another hard drive.
Xbox360/PS3 – Physical where possible. Storage restrictions.
3DS – Physical only. The prices of the eShop put me off. Purchases are bound to the console, not an account.
Vita – Digital. This is mostly due to PSN+. Out of all the Vita games I have, the only ones I’ve paid for are LittleBigPlanet ($10 during a sale), Persona 4 (because people told me it was good at 10pm at night). The only physical game I have is Assassin’s Creed 3: Liberation because it came with the console.
So succinct!
9/10, 10/10 would recommend.One point docked for lack of dragons.EDIT: RETRACTION AND APOLOGY: Transientmind reviews wish to apologize to Corpsesmith for the incorrect assertion that the comment reviewed was lacking in dragons. Despite not being real dragons, dragon statues count for review purposes, and as such we have changed our review to reflect this.
Read again sir.
Review altered!
Well I’ve been near enough fully digital master race for 5 years, maybe more.
Depends on what they do with pricing but I bought so many more games since I did everything in steam. But it is also during the rise of the indie so prices were lower.
But digital is just so much more convenient, click buy spend money out of your steam wallet and start installing.
I’d probably either increase my purchasing, I think. At the moment physical products in a year make up about 1% of my purchases, and even then only because they’re… *looks around shiftily* Er. For consoles. Otherwise the Steam Cloud is an enormous boon to me.
My broadband is fast enough and generous enough on download caps that it’s easier and faster for me to rifle through my damn-near-700 games using the in-app search engine and select something I want, download and install, than browsing through a manually-sorted CD library (of differing shapes and sizes) and changing discs, hoping I still have all the discs, and still have the CD-key to enter manually.
MUCH easier to move around between apartments, too. Or install on friends’ machines.
I’ll take a two dozen digital steam games on a Steam publisher sale for the price of one or two retail game DVDs on special at EB/JB, thanks.
Not feeling good right now, I’ll still be taking requests for the TAYlist, just don’t be upset when I say I’m not going on air today.
Feel Inside (and stuff like that) – Flight of the Conchords
The Jezabels – Endless Summer
Hope you feel less bad at some point!
Real Nigger Roll Call – Lil Jon
I Feel Better – Hot Chip
What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye
Monster Mash – Bobby “Boris” Pickett
Obscure request:
Time Travel – The Riot
Proper request:
Easy – Faith No More.
Edit: Also, feel better man!
Somewhere Only We Know — Keane
‘nother one:
Only Living Boy in New York – Simon and Garfunkel
RPG folk!
The guys who did Numenera are kickstarting another RPG on the same system, which is Fringe meets Gamma World!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1433901524/the-strange-a-tabletop-rpg-by-bruce-cordell-and-mo
Given how cool the Numenera book is, i might just have to do this one…
As I was reading the spiel, all I could think about was how often they mentioned The Strange (Hi @strange!).
Also I’m getting a pretty strong Lovecraftian vibe from it all. I too might have to back this one.
Just make sure you read the bit about shipping, it’s a bit weird how they’re doing it
Man, only $170 for A @strange family
Better not let Mrs Tigs see that, she is still enamored by that little flirt Master Strange
Oooo.
When going through the Numenera stuff I was wondering if it could be adapted to other settings as well, since the core concepts of the game seem pretty flexible. I’d love to see someone do a cyberpunk-ish setting for it (not Shadowrun, I really don’t like Shadowrun very much because of the jarring fantasy elements they have).
How has it been 21 years since we last had a Wonderboy game?
Was all like “Dafuq is Wonderboy, i’m obviously younger then i think”
looked it up, and went “oh yeah, i played the crap out of that as a kid, just didn’t know the name of it because #noenglish”
;_;
#oldmanpixel
Sorry. I’ll rephrase.
How has it been 21 years since we last had a Gurdyhurdy Borkbork game?
Mang, i have Gurdyhurdy Borkbork game every day*
U-KNO-WAT-I-MEAN
*hi-five*
*chest bump*
*DARK SOULS \o/I’m holding out for a proper Banjo Kazooie remake / sequel. It will happen one day … right … RIGHT!?
Reading the Canto article on the front page makes me realise that we really need to organise a MH3U playdate some time soon
I’m hanging out for MH4 whenever that gets released (dang it Capcom, hurry up).
That 3ds only right?
Yeah. Japan got a special release bundle with shiny new 3DS decals (similar to the Pokemon ones) and I am mega-jealous.
And no english release has been announced has it?
Otherwise i’d be all over that sheez
As far as I know, it only just came out in Japan and there is no firm date on releasing in the rest of the world aside from sometime (hopefully) next year.
But yeah, I wants it so bad.
Fairo… Kinda hoping for a console release as well though because while i like having MH3U with me at all times, seeing it all huge and pretty with proper sound system makes it AMAZING 😛
Knowing Capcom, they will release MH4 on handheld first. A year later we will get MH4U for console. A year after that we will get MH4UOMGSUPERMEGAEDITION
add another few years for a western release XD
Nothing announced but they’ve moved 3 million copies of the game in Japan so at this point international sales are gravy, they’d have no reason not to. Plus it has online play which makes it actually a viable option for portables outside Japan.
My company is currently running a promotion where if you purchase a $200 Leatherman you go into a draw to win a 2014 Jeep Patriot (plastered in Leatherman logos naturally :S).
Just had a guy buy one and get shitty with me when I tried to fill out the form. So now I have a barcode and a receipt but no entry. I can’t enter so does anyone here want to?
I couldn’t handle having a Jeep. Every dick head saying to you “You bought a jeep?” Or “it’s a jeep thing”.
sell it… then you can tell everyone “sold a jeep”
Why not. What do you need from me?
back and front scans of your passport, drivers license, credit cards, medicare, bank statements.
also,mothers maiden name, best childhood friends name, first pets name, first grade teachers name, and place of birth…
also anyone elses details you have access to will surely help him…
Is it weird that I’m pretty sure I already have all your necessary details?
A little. But I’m okay with it. After realising just how extensive @dc’s file on me was, I decided I had to get okay with having no secrets.
*scribbles note*
*passes to @dc for filing*
I’m actually tempted to buy a Leatherman. Where do you work?
Mr Minit.
Oh yeah, I should have remembered that.
Does anyone know a good computer store that sells already built towers for fairly good prices? (some kind of franchise i can access in SA would be nice)
I usually go through MSY for myself, but this is for my girlfriend and she wont invest the same amount of time researching the bits for a good machine (which means neither will I :P).
@welbot?
He would’ve built half the Taybies PC’s by this point?
haha not quite half, but I have built a few for you guys 🙂 Quite happy to help out @wilbur if need be 🙂
i can happily help you put together a list if you can give me a budget, what accessories she need, and what she is using it for…
Shes looking around about the $600 mark.
Uses it for study, movies, and casual gaming, although every machine she goes near The Sims destroys. That game’s a menace. Adamant that it has to have a blu-ray drive and a compact tower.
Is that ok? I’m pretty computer illiterate… just a google monster.
Well you can always go the MSY pre-built system. Can’t believe they don’t just have set systems like CPL do but seems fairly straight forward. Pick the chip and then choose if you want optical drives, upgraded drives, etc…
I had a look at that, but then a similar list to the part list popped up and i got scared. is it just under ‘custom machines’?
http://www.msy.com.au/systems.jsp
When you click one it does look scary. Basically pick your price from the first box.
Then you have the optional upgrades underneath. For example you want to select a blu-ray player under option 3
Oh ok wow. made a lot more sense after you explained it.
Thanks!
You know, for a business that has supposedly been in the IT industry for more than 16 years, their website is pretty shithouse.
Their customer service aint much chop either.. trust me..
Arrgghh I’m so sore this morning!
Summer Oztag started last night. I thought that taking the pup for a run a few times a week the past few months would have gotten me up to specs for it, nope, I was rooted after 10 minutes.
It was pretty fun though. Had to apologise a few times to the girls on the other team. The intention was there to grab the tag but when you’re both moving fast sometimes you miss and..uhh…get…bottom 😐
In other news news I’ve decided to give GTAO a break for a bit. I need to finish the singleplayer story and catch up on Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead. 2 eps in on the latest Breaking Bad and yeah, wow!
I’ve had an itchy trigger finger lately. If anybody has COD4 *boo, hiss* on PS3 or PC and wouldnt mind a game or two let me know 😀
Happy Thursday!
I love Oztag. Same skills and plays as Rugby League without the concussions and broken bones. The footy pissups just aren’t the same though.
Pokemon question to people regarding Honedge (spirit in a sword Pokemon):
Are Fighting types supposed to be super-effective against it? It’s listed as a Ghost/Steel type and I was under the impression that the Ghost part (where Fighting types can’t affect) would trump the super-effective nature of the Steel type. Is that how certain dual-types are meant to function? (First time playing Pokemon since original Silver/Gold so mega-noob here. It just seems a little weird to me.)knowledge…inferior… must retreat…
Ghosts should be immune to Fighting attacks, but if the attacker used Foresight/Odor Sleuth or something similar beforehand then the immunity is taken away!
Ah that would be it. I forgot that the AI used Foresight before it attacked. Thanks Pow.
So for dual typing, you essentially combine the strengths & weaknesses.
Immunity always overrides weakness, so Ghost/Steel is immune to Fighting.
Its remaining weaknesses are 2x damage from Ground, Fire, Dark and Ghost.
Did some wonder trading last night on Poke Y
I’d immediately trade most of them on however i kept a Chespin which I gave to my housemate, a Frogadier which I’m hanging on to, already have Wartortle but you never know…I also managed to grab a Dugtrio. Didn’t even know they were in game!
The trading is pretty full on. Everything is so easily accessible.
Yeah it’s ridiculous, even had a lvl 50 Noctowl, scrapped that though cause Pigeot.
All I get is stupid monkeys 😛
Don’t get me wrong, I spent a good hour just wonder trading while eating dinner last night. Those were the only notable trades. there were plenty of useless ones, but at least I’m filling out the dex!
I haven’t checked out GTS yet. How does it work? Is there a request option? Or just random give and take?
I’m not sure what GTS means man but I’ll tell ya how I’m wonder trading. In the PSS screen you tap the little button up top, kinda looks like a phone or a sports pedal. In there should be the wonder trade option. Just pick the ‘mon you want to trade & the game does the rest.
GTS – Global Trade System. Separate from Wonder Trade. You can deposit a ‘mon, nominate what you want, and wait for someone to do it (you don’t need to be online), or you can search for a particular ‘mon someone else has deposited, and offer what they want if you have it.
Oh wow I didn’t even know that was a thing. How is it accessed?
Icon down the bottom just like Wonder Trade. Might be page 2.
This is what I used to get all the gen 1 and 6 starters and start my breeding program (are there any you want?) – the biggest issue with this system is you can only search or specify ones that you have already encountered. Can be really crippling since most of the time you’d want to trade for something new.
Heaps generous man! I think I’m good for now, have combusken, quillion, pika, wartortle, pidgeotto & an abra. Abra is just being used as an escape rope for now, might actually use him in battle later on.
I stand corrected. Last night I discovered, below the A to Z buttons, there’s a ‘Which Pokémon’ option that lets you type in anything. ANYTHING. Global trade just got a lot more useful.
@beavwa
Oh god I need to use this for a ditto!
I have 4 Japanese dittos now. You can have one if you want it.
@beavwa
There you go again, being ridiculously generous! I might actually take you up on this offer, should be online tonight, not sure when I’ll get home from work however, but I’ll let you know!
@popdart5 I am a weak, weak man.
Just backed it 🙂
Good man. Went for the tier with physical shipping of the corebook?
Also, I like how rather than adding extra rules to Numenera, they’re creating extra worlds and places that use the ruleset as a base to build from. I’d much prefer that than seeing a clone of the DnD model where they crank out Player’s Handbook 4 or something silly like that.
Yep, physical book.
What’s cool is depending on where you are your focus changes- you keep the “Clever Jack who…” but you might get new powers
Oh man, how good was Juno? 😀
It’s no Children of Men, but it’s very good.
It’s probably the Children of Men for coming of age dramas for me. 😛
Well, they both featured pregnant girls who didn’t know how to look after children. Comparison is valid.
You don’t want the answer to that.
I assume cause you loved it so much you want to avoid getting in a fist fight with me about who liked it more. It’s okay, man. I’m not that violent. We can both love it!
My english class sneakily watched Juno instead of a King Lear film when my teacher was out of the classroom. She came back in half way and yelled at us.
You were right to do it!
Also you were in high school when it was released? Oh man! #OldManDC
Year 12, if that makes you feel any better? 😛 (Probably not)
Beyond: Two Souls spoilers…
When Jodie picked up the guitar, I was sad she didn’t play this. XDI’ve never seen it. It looks too indie and hip for me.
Diablo Cody has a pretty unique voice. Young Adult and United States of Tara were pretty great too!
Despite the dream team of Toni Collette and Diablo Cody, I just couldn’t get into United States of Tara. I gave it six episodes and everything!
#TVSnob
Must admit it had a damn fine opening sequence though. Pretty sure it’s the lead singer from Polyphonic Spree. Young Adult is pretty good, about someone stuck in the past who refuses to move on. I could relate.
It is. Even if you have a high tolerance for hip indie stuff. I’d say the levels of hipness and indieness need to be seen to be believed, but that would necessitate you actually seeing the movie, which I do not recommend. Instead, read the Abridged Script. It is 100% accurate.
That abridged script is genius. I can’t believe I’ve never seen it before.
I actually really hate that movie. Yes, I know hate is a strong word. Yes, Michael Cera and Jason Bateman are pretty cool guys. It’s Ellen Page. I have the urge to punch her in the face watching it.
I really fucking hate that film with a passion.
Atleast we have Gattaca!
We will always have Gattaca <3
Woot! Contrast pre-order get 😀
Really hope this game lives up to the level of hype I have for it, looking amazing, As far as box quotes go you can’t really beat
I guess I’ll find out in a bit over a month
>:|
People shouldn’t be fooling around while watching Pan’s Labyrinth! It demands full attention! 😛
There’s something so sexy about eyeless monsters and Spanish fascists though.
That bottle scene *bites bottom lip seductively*
I feel dirty and sickI think the Bioshock Infinite comparison is probably a bit of a stretch. But yeah, I saw that on Steam this morning and was very annoyed that Steam hadn’t gone out of its way to let me know that one had been Greenlit. I had it favourited and followed and everything!
It was greenlit a long time ago so you might have missed that one.
The devs posted an announcement this morning so if you are following you should have the notification of pre-orders in your activity now. This was one of the very first games I voted for on greenlit and the one I have been most looking forward to. Even more so the road redemption.
Edit: Just to follow on from your point I still think that is one area that really needs to be improved in greenlight. When a bunch of games are greenlit let me know which ones I voted for, or let me filter my voted for games buy status (awaiting, greenlit, alpha and released)
Is the Kotaku article community predominantly console fanboi? (or fangurl?) I don’t have a problem, if it is, but it would be good to have some confirmation so I can adjust my commenting to suit.
Because when I say that a 5600DPI mouse that can track 10G movements has greater precision than a 360 pad joystick with limited movement and a big deadzone…. and I get replies like “omg j00 can’t prove that mouse is more precise, wheres ur references????” I get concerned.
@transientmind is their ring leader. He just loves consoles so. damn. much.
*rage explosion*
I can’t imagine you rage exploding with that gravatar
Comment of the week. 😀
Fangurl?
You mean like a vampire website?
just don’t read the comments.
I’m really getting the feeling that TAYbies are far more casual in nature, and come here to spread their love and goodwill. On the other hand, the article commenters are another different crowd. The views of the two crowds are pretty different.
amirite?
Imagine a game of Left 4 Dead… TAY is sort of the safe-house, containing the survivors… don’t open the door though, THEY’LL EAT YOU
That’s brilliant, that should be the description at the top of the page.
YES. I hate that damn bastards so much.
… love and goodwill.
It’s really just dependent on where you’re posting. I’m polite about being a complete arse on TAY, but in the normal comments I turn into a rage fuelled troll machine of dickery.
I left some pretty insightful words at the bottom of the previous page.
There’s a community outside of TAY? must be DLC
I wonder if there’s bizarro versions of all of us. D:
Mirror universe, we all have goatees
What about the people who have goatees already? D:
Donkeydees
Can’t trust them, THEY MAY BE ONE OF THEM
Dum-Dum-DUUUUUUUUUUM
Somewhere there’s a @dc that loves Dark Souls & buildings and isn’t a fan of David Cage. His name is @freezespreston
=P
I should hate that guy. But I don’t. I don’t.
It’s because he’s a cool guy! \o/
That MostStrange person. As if it wasn’t bad enough he was trying to one-up me, now you’re telling me he was a bizarro version of me?!
There’s JamieDeeCee for me, but I think he makes a better D.C. so think there might be a Fringe thing going on here…
But neither one is ‘better’. It’s all relative. It’s a completely pointless and unwinnable argument. I like both, for entirely different reasons.
Except that mouse and keyboard is better. c.c
\o/
God dammit Nef! We can’t have that kind of logical reasoning in here. This is the innernette!!!!
A few years ago: http://techreport.com/news/19320/keyboard-mouse-may-have-sunk-microsoft-cross-platform-gaming-plans – good summary of the issue with links to a primary source.
This is why we can’t have nice things PC gamers. You ruin everything!
WE already have nice things. It’s console gamers who ruin everything by being slow and imprecise.
But it’s so expensive!
Everything worth having is.
Just like companionship…
…wait
I used that. “Oh, but it’s a rumour of a rumour of a possible rumoured test!”
In that case, send them to the Dust514 forums, where right now, there is much rage about keyboard and mouse users who are destroying gamepad users, and that’s with intentionally dev-handicapped sensitivity/turn-speed on mouse input. 🙂
Or just telling them to play any shooter on PC, but with a gamepad.
Link?
Zelda?
I’ve never used a mouse in Legend of Zelda games. I’m also curious for a Link.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/10/we-are-still-shooting-the-hinges-and-it-still-sucks/#comment-2013621
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/10/even-microsoft-thinks-cross-platform-multiplayer-makes-sense/#comment-2014614
FWIW, I disagree that solely consoles have lead to the level design changes- I think it’s the drive to “cinematic” games that has, which has coincided with the rise of console shooters.
Yeha, wrong wording on my part, but I don’t believe it’s just consoles that are to blame for it. Although it’s hard to deny they’ve been the major pushing force.
I’d point to the “mainstreaming” of games more than the consoles- it’s the transformation of games from a specialist hobby to a mainstream entertainment sector that’s done it. The consoles played a part in that mainstreaming.
No, they’re just antagonistic pricks. You made the mistake of reading the comments in the first place.
@shane: You caught up with Treme yet? December is soon and I want a pal to discuss last season with! We can’t all have Treme watching wives! 😛
Haha, I was just this minute looking up prices for season 3 DVDs, and was going to come on here and brag about there only being one week left to wait, and then hype you up about 6 weeks until Season 4.
… That’s kind of unnerving.
Cut it out. That kind of thing is supposed to be for married couples, who frequently finish each other’s sandwiches.
You know what else is unnerving? Your face, that’s what! *decisive nod*
TREME!
@wilbur
i54440 $209
Gigabyte H81M – DS2 $69
4GB Ripjaw 1600 Ram $52
WD Green EZRX SATA3 1TB $69
SATA Blu-Ray Combo LG $54 (will burn DVD’s but only read BluRay)
Coolermaster FOR-500-KKN3 Case USB 3.0 $49
Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 1GB $115
Litepower 500w OEM $46
Total: $663
Gone a little bit over your budgeot but it beats the hell out of getting an i3… or worse…
the extra $63…
Could have probably used integrated gpu if she wasnt planning on playing any new games, but this GPU will even allow her to play games like borderlands 2 and others.
if she wants to burn BluRays (i dont see the point) you are looking at an extra $35
if she is planning on playing back BD’s bare in mind that the AACS security has been bypassed and is supported by players like VLC (youll need to install the keys, etc, i can tell you how to do that) but the latter BD+ encryption although it was broken a while ago, has not been made public so no player will support it… so basically 1 in every 3-5 new bd discs will work as BD+ is becoming more common.
if she is willing to bump a bit further to $700, id bump the ram to 8gb in order to get the most out of the GPU…
Mobo also has USB 3.0 ports
Good man! I’m so out of touch on specs. Though I’d say the next time I get a PC built I’d be tempted to not even bother with an optical drive. I haven’t used mine in three years.
agreed on the optical front…i still have one for when i find old cd’s and i want to check them out…
Thankyou. You’re a hero.
Problem. 🙁 These costs probably don’t include shipping or putting everything together.
@Wilbur specified “available in SA,” so he can probably MSY a bunch of this stuff.
@wilbur all these parts and prices are from MSY
Yeah, figured, thankyou 🙂
Check with MSY if that’s where you go. Last time I got my machine built it was only $50 – $100 to get it done if you purchase the parts from them.
The other question is does she have a PC already, or do you need keyboard, mouse, monitor, etc..
She evolved from laptop to pc. shes currently using a pretty old one of mine to test it out.. but sims has already chewed it up and spat it out. keyboard, mouse, sound system etc are no problems. just wants a new improved tower.
Missing an operating system.
SteamOS, obviously.
yeah my bad!
Personally for a lower-end system not intended for gaming use I’d drop the GPU entirely. If an R-series i5 could be procured that would be perfect (R-series Haswell CPUs have Intel Iris Pro GPU on board, which is actually pretty decent, but I don’t think they’re easy to get hold of).
Also need to allow for Operating System. Win 8 system builder copies are around $100. However bear in mind that Windows 8.1 releases at midnight today.
hmm yeah didnt factor in the OS…
as for the gpu, he said she will occassionally use it for gaming if shes planning on playing anything semi recent id keep it… the onboard crap usually is only good for anything pre-2006 and very basic beyond that…
on a sidenote any major improvements to 8.1? i gave up on it after i bought an upgrade copy of windows 8 after being told by an MS rep that you can install it without a previous windows 7 installation, just needing to get the key verified. so basically when i want to format i actually have to install windows 7, then run the windows 8 upgrade… why they wont fix that shit and just allow a key verification to prove you own 7 is beyond me…
8.1 has a number of fixes but the most obvious stuff is you can boot into the desktop instead of the start window, and they added a start button back in instead of that hot corner rubbish.
thank fuck for that… so basically its like a windows 7 interface with the cool windows 8 gimmicks and an optional metro interface? possibly sold… is it a free upgrade to 8.1 from 8?
Yes, it’s a free upgrade from 8.
It’s basically SP1.
Also the start *button* is back. It still brings up the start screen. Personally I’ve gotten used to it but YMMV
Onboard graphics will run basically everything by Blizzard, Valve and any non-AAA title.
EDIT: Most Windows licenses include free downgrades to any previous version. MS will even provide the stuff for the downgrades if you ask. I had to do it on a work computer that was running Windows 7 but needed XP for some old software. Always worth just buying the latest version and downgrading if you don’t like it.
That’s… not usually how the license is supposed to work, as far as I know.
Also support will be dropped for Windows XP in April. We intend to have a party that day.
Maybe it’s how the corporate licenses we had worked.
The way the guy described it made it sound like it was an across the board thing.
Biggest performance bottleneck I can see on that is the hard drive. Green drives (at least in my experience) have pretty terrible read/write speeds. Shelling out an extra $10 could get a pretty hefty performance increase, which seems like great value to me.
so guys ive been getting back into my sketches and have been focusing on video game characters can anyone tell me who they are and what game their from as well as their opinions
http://imgur.com/a/GAdl7#0
You draw good. *scribbles notes into bjh’s file*
me draw good *scribbles all over monitor*
Someone take this man’s pen away from him
NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Not yours, @dc’s. He’s taking NOTES.
NOTES!
I’m assuming my file simply contains the word ‘Gattaca’.
I’m okay with that.
That corvo one is pretty cool.
I don’t remember Elizabeth being quite as pneumatic- my impression was always “skinny kid,” but otherwise pretty cool
They look good, although I think something off with the faces (maybe the eyes?). Then again I would take anything I say worth a grain of salt because I can’t draw anything better then stick figures.
elizabeths are deliberately oversized, i dont know about the others
It was mostly the Elizabeth one I was referring too. =P
Finished Beyond Two Souls last night.
Enjoyed it albeit in the same way I enjoy Bay movies. Turn your brain off, don’t ask questions and just go with it.
Only major negative against it is the way it was obviously written linearly then broken up into a bizarre order with out any reason or explanation. Really destroys any flow or build up the story might have had.
Still worth a playthrough though.
I think I’m the only one who loves the structure and it ain’t for nothing:
General spoilers about structure:
One plot point contrasts another in a way that wouldn’t have the same impact if they were six chapters apart. Kept me contemplating on how one thing would lead to another, cause and effect and all that. I thought it was pretty brilliant!Legit Beyond: Two Souls ending spoilers:
The prologue where Jodie begins to tell her story is at the end of the game. I’m not sure what the Beyond ending is like but in the Life one it’s her attempt to scrawl her memories into a note pad while she can. Before it’s fragmented. The visions flashing before her eyes in the Condenser too, how all moments led up to here.Also? Michael Bay? -_-
I think I need to stop talking about this game with people. I get too invested in my love of it. 😛
Just seems to me people are more likely to believe criticism than praise and it makes me sad when there’s another criticism piled onto the game. Then again, everyone is entitled to their opinion and your opinion is just as valid as mine. Maybe even more so. (There’s no fanboy love in your heart for Quantic Dream. XD) Just using absolute terms like ‘Without any reason or explanation’ when there is makes me sad. Haha!
Any way, this is the last thing I’ll say about Beyond: Two Souls for a while, I think. XD
Nah, the structure doesn’t work for me because it removes any sense of danger. You already know in the future that Jodie is alive and okay, so it doesn’t feel like anything is at stake.To me that never was the point though. It was a character study about Jodie. It wasn’t supposed to have this imminent sense of peril as Heavy Rain or Fahrenheit.I respect your opinion though and feel like I’m coming across as a bit of a jerk.
I’m sorry guys!
Don’t apologise for having an opinion… ever
I’m apologizing for ranting at people who are expressing theirs. XD
Although at least he’s finished it and is offering a constructive opinion and not straight up shitcanning it, as opposed to the usual ‘ERMAGHERD IT’S SHIT BECOZ THE INTERNET SAID IT WAS SHIT!’ Because I fucking hate that too.
To build up EMOTIONS!!!
You guys didn’t tell me the Game of Throne show deviated so much from the books.
I really enjoyed getting caught up. Ridiculously good. I think I still prefer the Twilight bad lip read, but this was very good.
I watched this on my phone when I first woke up groggy, by the time It was finished I was well awake from laughing 😀
Any would-be fans of The Wire looking for a decently priced boxset?
@Mythamphetamine @BDKIAF ?
https://webshop.cashconverters.com.au/item/1798227/dvd-boxset-the-wire-complete-series
Cash Converters? Those guys are scum! No one should support them!
Really?
Guessing this
http://www.news.com.au/business/breaking-news/class-action-targets-cash-converters/story-e6frfkur-1226736570433
Is there a Today/Tonight piece on this too? I need corroboration from a second equally reputable source 😛
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-10/2440m-class-action-launched-against-cash-coverters-over-loans/5014510
ABC?
It’s no today tonight
According to my oldest friend and godfather to my children that’s worse than news.com and ACA combined.
And he’s one of their national news editors.
Predatory lending?
They keep asking him for ID everytime he tries to flog his stolen jewellery there.
I can now see @dc going into his local cash converters and saying
Said the Raven,
EMOTIONS!I dunno about that one. I’ve used them a couple times in the past, when in tight spots. They provide a fairly unique, niche service that shouldn’t be used except as a last resort, but it is useful in the very rare situation that it’s your only option.
The terms of their short-term loans are utterly outrageous, but they do tell you that, going in. They’re very up-front about it. They have to be. Their procedure is learned by rote, and they go through the payments with you, pointing at the contract with a pen, adding up the amounts, confirming with you that you’re agreeing to pay back that insane total amount.
If you suddenly need to borrow $200, you WILL be paying back something like $350-400. It’s a very, very, very bad rate, but when you need it, you need it. People shouldn’t be using this to pay their regular bills, because they’re effectively doubling the cost of whatever they’re paying for.
If anyone is taking the loans consistently, then it’s something that they personally are doing very wrong with their finances or life is tossing an unreasonable amount of unexpected shit their way and they need to find a much better solution than payday loans.
The reason the rate is so high is because it is an unsecured loan and they check your bank statements, not your credit rating. So if you’re a really unreliable credit risk you can still get some spot cash if you need it, and you can get it fast, without waiting the week or two that any other personal loan will take. Additionally, that rate only applies to small amounts that wouldn’t be covered by a typical personal loan, which is usually a minimum of at least $1000 and at some institutions, much more.
It’s really hard to figure out what kind of case people are going to make against these guys.
Yes, they’re basically legalized loan sharks, but that’s OK. They can’t take your knee-caps, but they can obliterate your credit rating and aggressively pursue a default which might force you into bankruptcy procedings, but if anyone felt forced to take out a payday loan and couldn’t pay it back, they were probably already very close to that anyway and instead should’ve either gone without whatever they would’ve ended up having cut off, or negotiated directly with their creditors for hardship considerations and payment arrangements.
I dunno, this class action smells kinda bad to me, I can’t see this working out. Everything I’ve read in the terms and conditions and the attention to detail the guys doing the claims have paid to their process indicates to me that the Cash Converters legal team has been pretty thorough in making sure they do their ‘due diligence’ in making sure people understand they’re making a very poor financial decision.
I used to work in a PC shop next door to a cashies, and we used to refurb all their PCs for them. There was a couple of close shaves with people buying second hands PC’s that hadn’t been ‘sanitised’ and finding all kinds of unsavory shit on them. They actually sought us out to ensure PC’s were clean of all the previous owner’s stuff prior to going out on the shelf. They get a pretty bad rap unfairly for the most part. They do everything above board, because they have to. This particular cashies actualy had a direct connection to the local Police Station, and every single transaction in the place went through the Police station. The Police were also in there every day or two working with them checking any leads or following up on dodgy things. If anything, cashies actually helped the cops find all the dodgies and unsavories. As for exorbitant rates on up-front cash loans, what do people expect? Cashies tell you in several different ways exactly how it works with rates and repayments. They’ve always been above board for everything I’ve seen.
They provide a service that many people use, and they do it fairly well. Anyone who goes in there should know what they’re in for. You don’t go to cashies because you want a great rate loan, you go because you need cash NOW. Also, you sell your shit to them because you can’t sell it elsewhere or can’t be assed selling it yourself. Thus you won’t be getting top dollar.
Dunno, I’m good friends with some guys that work for cashies, and after seeing how the place actually works, I get kind of sick of people bagging out cashies like they’re scumbags or something. If anything, the people who use cashies are often the dodgier ones.
Shit, thanks a lot. I’m just trying to alert people to bargains 🙁
😛Well, that was in response to the link calling Cashies into question, not the posting of the bargain.
Probably the best use of Cash Converters would be buying things.
Hence the “:P” in my comment.
I dunno, maybe it’s the advertising that people object to, making it seem like a more reasonable option than it is – when it really should be the LAST option when you have no other options.
Or maybe it’s folks not internalizing exactly what almost 100% interest over four weeks actually means.
Maybe it’s that they’re really just angry that they’re in the shitty situation they’re in anyway, and want to take it out on folks who made such good money off their desperation. The whole, “This is exploitation!” angle.
I kinda get that… it is kicking someone when they’re down. But to my mind, the way they operate is much better than credit cards who will quietly, insidiously let people rack up more and more and more debt to the point that it might even rival their annual income, all without ever cutting them off directly or forcing them into the realization that in a year they spend more than they earn. (And when it gets to critical mass and the cardholder realizes they’re in trouble, they just sit there leeching interest, such that no actual repayment ever happens, just interest paid on a mountain of debt.)
If anything needs reforming it’s credit cards, not payday loans. Middle and lower class Australia probably needs to spend a LOT less of their lives on credit.
Like you say, at least up-front loans there’s no mystery. Friends have their banks ringing them once every moth or two offering to up their credit limit.
I think you’re spot on with the people blaming cashies for their situation and exploitation angle.
Admittedly the area this one was in is pretty much bogan/junkie central, but you should have seen what the cashies people had to deal with on a good day. Scum of the earth at times, and I genuinely admired them at times for not vaulting counters and belting people.
So, looks like PS4 might have a tough launch. Drive club might be delayed, everyone seems to be all hush-hush with it which doesn’t sound good. The XBone is looking more and more appealing.
Then the PS4 games will come out and you’ll hate yourself for buying an Xbone.
Not really, it would go something like this.
– Buy XBone
– Realise all the good games have PC versions
– Regret purchase.
=P
Except teh Haloz.
CORTANAAAAAAAAAAA
Atleast I’ll have Killzone. Not looking forward to a Wii U style drought though. D:
Don’t think it’ll drought. The big guys (Ubi, EA, etc) have committed much more to PS4 than they ever did to Wii U.
I think there will be a drought, not on the level of WiiU but I reckon it will be a little quite on the PS4 for a couple of months.
Then again, I remember 360 on launch was about the same. Spent more time on the backwards compatible Jade Empire than I did on any 360 game.
let’s hope indies save the day,
Starbound inbound
Really good point.
Indies won’t be a system seller, but they can definitely sustain interest in the platform.
I’m a big Battlefield fan too so I’ll have fun at launch, just sucks that there’s all these last minute delays, I’m sure people’s choice of console was affected by launch titles, I hope it’s all issues with development and wasn’t some sort of marketing ploy and they never intended on releasing at launch.
There won’t be a drought to the same extent because Sony have been actively courting shittons of indie devs to get stuff to pad the gaps between AAA releases.
EDIT: Also I think this is why they held Infamous back to be released in February. Same way that with the Vita they held Gravity Rush for several months – it released in Japan less than a month after the system but took five or six to be released in English despite being done.
Yeah every time i hear about another game being delayed i just think at least there’ll be indie games, I think I played as much if not more indy games than big studio titles over the last few years, there has been some really great quality games.
Killzone is the main reason I’m buying a PS4. That and MGSV, when it comes out.
Waiting until next August sounds like it might have been the most awesomest idea. I’m not getting upset at all. \o/
*joins Shane in the ‘I didn’t preorder a console’ corner* Yaaaay.
I’ll probably just get a PS4 with my tax return, at this rate.
…Oh. That reminds me, I have to talk to tax wizards later on and exploit the system. It’s pretty amazing how much money I regularly fritter away out of laziness.
Let us know any hints you come across. My tax agent last year was scrupulously honest. 🙁
Salary sacrificing is the order of the day today, I believe. I haven’t been doing it.
Ah right, I’ve heard this advice. I can’t afford to do it though 🙂
I’m glad I decided to wait as well. Going to wait until Destiny gets a date and then buy one.
Oh god! Just realized what I’ve become!
…
People not liking Quantic Dream games is a Shakespearean Tragedy! XD
No need to get Blue.
Relaaaaax DC. We’ve all got things we go crazy over.
Crusader Kings 2?
DARK.SOULS.
@sernobulus ?
MASTER RACE!
You’re confusing people having criticisms about it with them not liking it.
Dark Souls is the only game I’ve ever considered near perfect but it has its flaws as well.
Criticism is necessary for growth!
It’s like the girls in the office here, complaining someone hates them because they criticized them. I’m like… “Not really. I sit here and listen to you bitch about your boyfriend every other day… does that mean you hate him? Or that you just wish he’d improve? Same deal. Someone calling you out on a mistake doesn’t mean they hate you, it means they wish you wouldn’t make the mistake that makes their day harder.”
Fuck you, PlayAsia. Pokemonz are still in transit, looks like I won’t receive it until tomorrow. So much for FedEx priority shipping. Only works when they pick it up immediately, not when you leave it sitting in your warehouse for two days waiting for the orders to pile up enough to justify a FedEx pickup. Asshats. I know it’s not FedEx’s fault because I’ve been watching it. Shipping info was transmitted on Saturday, so it should’ve been picked up first thing Monday. But no, it didn’t get picked up until Wednesday morning. Then you email PlayAsia, and get the usual – ‘Sorry.’ – nothing constructive. Only reason I continue to buy from them is because at least they’re reputable, and I need US 3DS games.
Refund time!
This is why I’ve started ordering Vita stuff through Amazon US. You pay a bit more for the shipping but they ship on time.
It’s entirely possible that Play-Asia didn’t actually have the game when they created the FedEx manifest though, it wasn’t necessarily sitting in their warehouse. Because they re-sell stuff from other regions they don’t have wholesale agreements for US/EU stock and have to import copies from those countries then resell (this is also why their stuff costs extra). Nintendo were really cagey about Pokemon’s release to try and stop people selling early, so it’s entirely possible that Play-Asia didn’t get their stock until a couple of days ago since it’d be US release + transit time to Hong Kong.
That would also explain a few things. Either scenario is still unacceptable. Don’t mark it as ‘shipped’ and provide me a tracking number so I can watch it waiting two days in Tsuen Wan for pickup. Also, I kind of really want my Pokemon. I’m likely being impatient as well.
Fairly sure that I just got a job. I’m also fairly sure that they decided to hire me before I walked in the door.
It’s not the perfect gig but the company itself looks like a good place to work and there seems to be room for the role to grow. I’m okay with that.
McDonalds?
Everyone knows that I’m all about the Subway.
Obviously, because Trains.
CHOO CHOO
Don’t you need an art degree to work at Subway?
Protip: the role at Subway won’t grow. It’ll stay a foot long.
* Actually 11 inches
Ahh, so there is room to grow. I stand corrected 🙂
Consult your doctor if symptoms persist after 4 hours.
!!!
well done.
Oh wow! Way to go!
Working is awesome, well done.
(Wait… no it’s not! It’s KILLING MEEEEE. Oh, it’s the ‘having money’ that’s awesome, but which only occurs as a result of working.)
I’m not a huge fan of working but after 6 months of not working, I can tell you that it’s definitely a lot more appealing.
A good place to work, it isn’t crytek is it? I hear they even supply staff with dinner.
You’ll never see your loved ones for the final 3 months of each game’s development cycle, but at least you won’t be hungry*
* unless you don’t like Pizza and/or the rest of the office are monsters that like pineapple on theirs.
Upvote because of opinion of Pineapple Pizza
Double upvote. Pineapple on pizza is a mortal sin. It is known.
I am secretly a monster
Pineapple on pizza is a good thing. >:|
THAT’S IT… YOU AND ME… RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW
*put up fists*
COME ON, COME OONN
pizza is made for pineapple to be put on it.
Downvote, because pizza is the only place pineapple belongs.
Downvote because Brazilian BBQ!
Don’t let @splicer hear you saying that.
Good show, old bean.
Celebratory board games on Saturday!
Would you believe I’ve never read Nineteen Eighty-Four before? I’m putting that right now, so I can make pretentious claims to be among the the ranks of the Literati.
The first half of it is pretty good as a novel/story, but the second half loses itself a bit in the politics (still an interesting read though).
Seems to be the Orwell structure.
Animal Farm, Burmese Days, Clergyman’s Daughter, all share that particular idiosyncracy. I don’t have a problem with it. I’m actually pleasantly surprised that someone who wrote to expose the problems he saw in society focuses as much on characters as he did.
When I had to read Nineteen Eighty-Four for High School the class was basically told ‘Orwell is an essayist, not a novelist, so this is probably different to most books you’ve read before’.
Interesting! Probably decent advice for high school kids, but it kind of sells his work short a bit, I think. His books work okay as novels too.
It’s my favourite of the “classic” spec fic/dystopian books. Admittedly its competition is really only Brave New World (which I didn’t like), since I’ve only read about a quarter of Fahrenheit 451 and excerpts here and there from A Clockwork Orange, and I have no idea about what else falls under this heading.
But I was a nerd, I read Nineteen Eighty-Four in year 9 because we were studying Animal Farm and I wanted to show off.
Brave New World annoyed me to no end. Sure the world and the setting were interesting but those characters were just illogical and stupid.
Have you read We by Yevgeny Zamyatin? It apparently inspired both 1984 and Brave New World.
I had to read it for high school English.
It. Is. Dynamite.
I barely registered its existence until about a decade ago. A friend was mind-boggled that I hadn’t read it yet, and lent me his copy.
I was greatly amused. Also, @dire_wolf is bang on the money on the structure. Though, to my mind, the latter half could just as easily be explained away as a descent into madness.
Watch the spoilers! God, the book’s not even 65 years old yet.
@melbTay @interstatevisitors
Starting to heat up again so the BBQ can come out. Looking and boardgames and a BBQ the weekend after next. Can either do a Saturday or Sunday. Either way we would probably look at staring around 1pm.
Who is interested and which day suits
Where abouts do you live my good mang?
I’ll investigate if i can indeedly make it to said shenanigans as i rarely turn down a good BBQ
i should clarify you can send deets on ze twitterz or to:
jacob(dot)didriksen(weirdathingy)gmail(dot)comNAME.
At least it’s a made up name. Imagine putting your real name out on the internet.
I remember last time we did real names I revealed @shane’s first name, and for that I apologise.
It’s actually Engelbert.I thought it was Alfonse….
He’s known by many names
I’m sorry, I just can’t upvote for Engelbert 🙁
It’s not Fabio?I am all names to all people. Everywhere and nowhere, like a ghost in the machine.
My place in glen iris
Which day suit you (and the Mrs if she/you like) the best
I want to come!
Locked in, dino buddy
Hot on the topic of literature read in school, I have this conundrum that has been bothering me for a few years now.
A book I am desperately trying to learn the title of, because I forget. I only remember the premise.
It would likely have been year nine that I read it, but basically it is about a girl who is the lone survivor of biological warfare. She lives in a village which is surrounded by pollution, thus she cannot escape. One day a male visitor arrives wearing a bio suit. The story goes on.. I don’t want to spoiler the ending but
the male visitor attempts to rape the girl but she overpowers him and takes his bio suit and escapes into the pollution leaving him all alone.Does anyone recognise this novel from my description?
I think this might be what you’re looking for
(to tide you over)Have you no shame?
That was rhetorical(O.o)
(o.O)
So I was looking for a new text to read in between A Storm of Swords pt. 1 & 2. I’ve succumbed to my curiosity and purchased a copy of The Lesser Evil this afternoon.
“Game of Thrones – Galactic Version” … “Epic but deeply personal” – Robert Simon.
Looking forward to it 😉
Huh. Oh man, I totally wasn’t expecting my spam to work.
SORRY! 😛
PS: Thanks, and I hope you enjoy it! Please don’t try to compare it to GoT though 😛Hey it works mate, plug away I say. I’ve been interested for some time but always been in the middle of something else. Coming up to finishing pt.1 of ASoS and would mind a break from the world of Westeros. I wont, just an interesting comment 😉
I read that book also, oh maaaan, the name is on the tip of my tongue …
Pride and Prejudice!
Funnily, Pride and Prejudice gets a mention in the book!
I BELIEVE IN YOU
Z for Zachariah.
That’s the one.
Beat me to it. On hazy recollection, I think we had to read it in grade 7.
I LOVE YOU
YOU’RE OK TOO
Z for Zachariah.
Although I though it was radioactive, not biological.
Was radiation and some sort of chemical weapon, from memory
Wasn’t the whole thing with the suit some crap about magnetising rubber and the protection that created?
Eh, my memory is pretty terrible for things I read a lot more recently than 17 years ago. Speaking of which, found an old Victor Kelleher novel at some markets recently after not being able to remember the title for it. The time loop caveman one.
From memory and a quick wiki, it was a prototype, which is why it was the only one that worked.
And the only one with bonus speed holes in the backPublished (posthumously) in 1974. Interesting.
I loved Victor Kelleher when I was a youngster.
I still grab one of them every year or so and read for nostalgia sake. Taronga is still one of my favourite books
Benny you’re a damn genius. Crowd-sourcing nostalgia! Why didn’t I think of that?!
Guys! I’m thinking of a cartoon from the 80s which was about a human colony ship which crashes into a strange planet. It’s crewed by a bunch of robots, and the only survivor of the cryo-modules is a little girl. The show was about the robots trying to figure out how to care for the human and keep her alive on this strange planet.
Transformers!
I was thinking the same thing (the genius part of course) and it just goes to show that you can’t Google search everything. Sometimes you NEED some TAYbie love.
Japanese or American? Or were you being sarcastic?
American! Was not being sarcastic. I watched this thing ages ago and can’t remember if it was a miniseries or proper series, but the VHS tape we had of it was just labelled ‘Robot Story’ and it got tragically taped over.
EDIT: Or… I could just fucking google it and find it almost immediately.
Dammit, I swear I tried that a couple years ago and came up with nothing. Must be getting closer to the singularity, the machine is waking up a bit.
EDIT 2: Also, French, not American. Crazy! And a full series – 56x 13min eps (or 26 full eps, if presented that way.) And the girl had a dog. Dubbed in English. Called ‘Robo Story’. CLASSIC.
Nostalgia gives me butterflies.
Speaking of french nostalgia I had a massive nostalgia hit the other day when Myf was wearing a Barbapapa t-shirt on spicks and specks. Mrs Tigs had no idea what I was going on about.
Robo Story?
EDIT: Oh, wait. Never mind, you found it yourself.
That was it! I was pretty surprised that I was able to just google it today. I tried a while ago and failed. It led me to THIS LINK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:French_animated_television_series which had numerous surprises in it.
Such as:
Jace and the Wheeled Warriors
M.A.S.K.
Inspector Gadget
Care Bears
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
Dennis the Menace
Denver the Last Dinosaur
Garfield
The Mysterious Cities of Gold
The Twins of Destiny
Basically some of the weirder/cooler cartoons of my childhood. c.c FRENCH!
I remember Denver the Last Dinosaur 😀
*He’s my friend and a whole lot more!
Barbapapa is on the list \o/
Cities of Gold was so damn whimsical.
Yeah, France has always been big on animation (guess what language the term ‘anime’ comes from).
Several of those were likely animated in Japan. I know Mysterious Cities of Gold was.
So much of my childhood, right there.
It’s been nearly two weeks, I hope my copy of Disgaea D2 shows up soon 🙁
I know that feeling, I’m still waiting for my copy of Wind Waker to arrive.
Anyone who is up for meat tonight, email me on djdimsim at Googles thing and we can organise things 🙂
Time-crunch has landed. I’m totally not going to be able to make it, my window just shrank way too much. 🙁 Hopefully some other BrisTAYbies will be able to step in!
(Edit: Though DC, Freeze, Welbot, and Enduwolf I know are all a pretty decent hike out of town.)
Unfortunately getting to the city during the week is a bit of a hassle. Sorry man. =(
…That said, if I decide around 6-6:30pm that I’m jack of this crap and fuck all this BS right off people can damn well wait, then yeah, I might be able to scoot over to the CBD to hang for a bit.
It probably could’ve been predicted but I am totally jack of this shit and ready to go out and get some dinner. Chris, I’m thinking the Trans hotel which is just down the road from the YHA. I’ve tossed you an email to grab contact details, but I’m happy to meet you either at the restaurant or the YHA.
@sughly – if you want in, toss Chris an email on his gmail above?
I probably won’t be able to stick around long, maybe leave 7:30’ish.
Sounds good to me 😀
Ah not really easy for me to get out anyway, I should probably pass on this one
Guys, apparently everyone missed the big news today.
Snoop
DoggLion has rebranded himself asSnoopzillaI can’t wait for him to fight MothRza.
Or Mechasnoopzilla
or The Game-ra
Obligatory Gizoogle:
Yo, snoop Dogg Lion has rebranded his dirty ass as
SnoopzillaSure is orange outside.
Are you visiting @novacascade?
Oompa Loompa convention?
I hate having gay friends. Their fashion advice and constant source of good meals does not balance out the disturbing fact that they own and show off a large black vibrator. Why? They’re both male. I presume they attach it on their hindquarters and twirl around making helicopter noises.
That’s how gay people have sex, right? Let’s go with that.
You’ll find out once you’re old enough to start needing prostate exams.
prostate exams involve acting like a sexual helicopter? My goodness, middle age is weird.
Also, sexual helicopter. That is a term I never thought I’d use.
Sex IN Helicopter, however…
I have a straight friend who has a gigantic black dildo. He posts all sorts of pictures of/with it at as many opportunities as possible.
Straight people also have sex like that.
Havin’ a peg.
At least your gay friend provides good meals…
A good tossed salad is all it takes.
B-AMBIGUOUS!
I think @gingerchris86 owes me a few meals.
I bring snacks! But sure, maybe :p
Considering that I had to teach Carlos (my old housemate) how to cook, I have slightly different expectations when it comes to gay guys feeding me.
Phrasing?
Dudes. Dudes! DUDES! Duuuuuuuudes.
HOURS of entertainment here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animated_television_series – I am ‘sourcing’ so damn many of these when I get off work tomorrow.
I tried that a while ago but couldn’t source a lot of the ones I wanted.
Think it had something to do with the drought we were experiencing and the farmers not having enough seeds
True, true. I’ll have to find out where these things are being held in archives and launch a raid. Anyone know where I can get cheap balaclavas?
I wish I had more time in life.
OK so, depressingly one of the ones I was looking for, I can’t actually identify by name on this list, and all the likely options aren’t giving me the result I was looking for…
Sort of dystopian future with humans an endangered species in a world of automation. Everything appears to be run at the behest of ‘the master’ including deadly security bots which hunt down and exterminate humans wherever they can be found. A teen boy and girl meet by accident and the story follows their hunt to locate the human resistance, or just safety in general.
And, uhm… I think the boy ends up with a mechanical hand or something.
It sounds like The white mountains but that was a book
Yeah, that sounded likely to me too, so I looked it up – it did get adapted to a TV series, but it was a live-action series called ‘The Tripods’, apparently.
Which was the name of the book trilogy of which The white mountains is the first
Widget the World Watcher!
\o/
haha I loved widget 🙂 My sis and I watched it whenever we could!
Someone posted the “Shibboleth” bit from The West Wing on Reddit.
I’m now watching the first episode of The West Wing.
Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World Second Session Recap 16th October 2013 starring:
– Adahn aka. @transientmind the strong Jack who focuses mind over matter
– Russef Volarskii aka @popdart5 the mechanical Glaive who murders
– Ranger aka @mawt the rugged Glaive who lives in the wilderness
– Beltigron aka @tigerion the mystical Nano who crafts illusions
– Nova aka @novacascade the stealthy Jack who explores dark places
– Storyteller aka @redartifice the awesome GM who weaves tales
Introducing:
– Phetys aka. @mythamphetamine the mechanical Nano who fuses flesh and steel
And strangely absent:
– Aura aka @negativezero the clever Nano who talks to machines; and
– Blaghs aka @blaghman the tough Glaive who masters weaponry.
(Author’s note: I continue my journey as the only person retaining my family name. Coincidence or sinister plot? I must investigate further.)
WARNING: Massive wall of text in the spoilers. Click at your own risk.
Last time on Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World, the party was currently travelling deeper into the False Woods, seeking the village of Aldea. Aldea was the home of Patel and Seria, two children who had fled as Pallones attacked in a large swarm. So far, the party had not encountered any Pallones although Blaghs did slay a rather vicious Scutomorph, a giant beast that looked like a gigantic millipede. Aside from that one brief foray, the False Woods were quiet. Peaceful Scutomorphs remained entwined around the strange inorganic tubes, showing no sign of violence or ill-will towards the party.The party journeyed deeper into the False Woods until they came upon a clearing with what they only assumed was the village of Aldea. Already, the party could see something was wrong. The village itself seemed fine, safely protected behind a sturdy wall made out of stone, mud, and other materials both natural and unnatural. It was outside of the village where things were different; several outlying buildings were destroyed with some of them looking as though the tops of them had been sheen off by an exceptionally sharp blade. There was no sign of anyone living and no sign of the mysterious Pallones either.
The party cautiously approached the village gate, which swung freely in the breeze. As they pushed past the gate, they were surprised to find people who were still alive. Well, mostly alive. A few bodies lay still in the dirt of the main street while several others cradled broken limbs and attempted to prevent their internal organs from becoming external organs. There were a large number of men and women running around, gathering up weapons and makeshift tools that could be used to defend themselves. All variety of equipment was going to be used, ranging from sturdy sticks to axes and hammers to strange metallic bars that arced electricity. In the midst of all of this chaos was a man who appeared to have given himself up to the relics of the Numenera with a vast array of mechanical body parts. In fact, he looked more machine than man at certain angles. This man would soon be known to the party as Phetys.
As the party was about to start entering the village, a sudden cry rang out.
“They’re coming!!”
The villagers immediately started scrambling for the safety of their homes while the party and Phetys were left confused and unsure what was going on. Ranger pointed up into the sky where a small herd of Pallones were descending on the village. From the ground, the Pallones looked liked semi-transparent, disc-like creatures. Their bodies were spinning much faster than the eye could keep up with and the party could tell they were dangerous; one of the Pallones sheared straight through a chimney of one of the buildings as though it was nothing but putty.
The party immediately burst into action. Adahn charged forward with his broad sword and sliced at one of the beasts. Unfortunately he missed as he was just out of reach as the Pallone continued to descend. Ranger fired a bolt from his crossbow and managed to hit one of the Pallones, knocking it off course as it started to wobble. Nova followed after Adahn and attempted another strike however he too also missed. It was then that the party realised that there was another Pallone descending from behind the party that they were previously unaware of. Beltigron, sensing this danger and the threat posed by the two Pallones above him, began muttering some strange phrases before diving into the cover provided by the awning of one of the buildings. It turns out that Beltigron somehow managed to conjure some form of illusion of himself that perfectly replicated where he had stood just moments earlier.
Phetys was slowly being surrounded by the Pallones as they continued to descend into the village. However Phetys was not afraid as he struck forth with a mighty blow of his bladed ring of wire mesh and metallic shards that he swiftly followed up with a swift kick to the Pallone that buckled its body and brought it crashing to the earth. This defeat was felt by the rest of the herd as the Pallones pressed in for the attack. They glided and sliced past a number of the party, dealing some damage to both Adahn and Phetys. The illusion that Beltigron had summoned successfully drew the attention of two of the Pallones, however they quickly realised that it was a ruse once they glided straight through the image.
Russef dashed forward into the gatehouse tower and attempted to sneak up to the top of the tower to gain some height and try and get the drop on the Pallones. Unfortunately for him, someone had seen fit to leave a cooking pot just inside the tower that he somehow managed to kick into a large pile of scrap metal. Suffice to say that Russef reached the top of the tower and the Pallones were well aware of his presence. Ignoring the racket behind him, Adahn struck forth with his sword and solidly connected with the Pallone, sending it veering off course. Nova moved back to take care of one of the Pallones circling the illusionary Beltigron and he smacked it with his club. Ranger holstered his crossbow and drew his blade as he attempted and failed to stab the Pallone that had descended next to him. Beltigron darted out of the cover of the building and also missed the Pallone as he swung with his quarterstaff.
Phetys moved closer to the rest of the party and then punched another Pallone with his bladed ring that barely seemed to scratch it. The Pallone then responded by flying directly at Phetys who managed to duck out of the way just in time. Another Pallone approached Phetys while another one descended close to Adahn who was slashed across the chest as it flew by him. Nova and Ranger both successfully evaded the Pallones as they glided past and Russef also managed to dodge a Pallone that had followed him to the top of the tower. Russef then attempted to stab the Pallone with his dagger however the blade was just out of reach.
Adahn counterattacked the Pallone that had sliced him and sent it crashing into the dirt with a powerful slash. Nova clubbed at the Pallone that he was duelling with but it was resisting all of his attacks. Ranger’s and Beltigron’s attacks were also ineffectual against the Pallone’s natural (or unnatural) body. Phetys continued moving towards the safer position of the party but not before he struck another Pallone and following it up with a roundhouse kick that sent it spinning erratically before it collapsed. However as he attempted to evade the other Pallone, he mistimed his roll and got a severe gash across his back as he retreated away. The Pallones again sailed through the air, narrowly avoiding Ranger, Beltigron, and Nova while taking another chunk out of Adahn as it glided past his belly.
The Pallone on top of the gatehouse tower attempted to fly directly at Russef but Russef dropped to the floor and avoided it entirely. The Pallone had misjudged its trajectory and crashed into the ground below. Russef took advantage of the situation and leaped down, driving his dagger in the beast’s back and crushing it into the ground. Nova ran forward to assist Adahn as he assumed Ranger and Beltigron were going to be okay. Seeing the backup, Adahn moved forward to pull Phetys out of harm’s way and although he didn’t hurt the Pallone with his slash, he certainly drew its attention.
Phetys took this chance to retreat further to the gate where Beltigron and Ranger were engaged with two Pallones and his bladed ring penetrated the natural armour of one of the Pallones as it crumpled to the ground. Ranger and Beltigron attempted again to destroy the Pallone next to them but it kept altering its altitude to evade the attacks. The Pallone rapidly changed course and flew at Ranger, taking a gash out of his shoulder. Adahn also copped another blow as the Pallone that he had attempted to strike cut him on his sword arm. Nova managed to evade the Pallone as it flew for his head and another two Pallones approached from the south where they had originally descended.
Russef sought to reclaim his position atop the tower again and he attempted to sneak back up the stairs. He managed to alert the Pallones to his position again thanks to breaking the first step on the stair case and cursing profusely as his nose connected with the staircase as he slipped. He still managed to make it to the top of the tower, albeit rather frustrated with himself. Adahn and Nova were trying to fend off the two Pallones near them without any success while Ranger, Beltigron, and Phetys managed to strike the Pallone near them enough so that it’s spinning motion slowed down.
The two Pallones from the south continued their advance, with one heading towards the gate and the other heading towards Adahn. Nova was clipped by a Pallone as he attempted to duck out of the way while Adahn managed to dodge as the Pallone sailed over his head. The Pallone near the gate sailed straight at Ranger who also evaded the attack. Now that Russef had his height advantage back, he took out his crossbow and bulls-eyed the Pallone that was approaching Adahn, pinning it to the side of one of the houses. Ranger retaliated against the Pallone that kept attacking him and finally stuck it with his blade. Beltigron noticed that Nova and Adahn required some assistance so he drew out a small object and projected a thin green beam of light at one of the Pallones, hoping to draw its attention. The Pallone’s gaze (although it was hard to tell) was drawn to Beltigron and Adahn took advantage of the situation and came down with a vicious chop onto the Pallone, cleaving it in two. Nova continued attempting to strike the Pallone next to him but he was unable to repeat Adahn’s manoeuvre. Phetys continued to retreat to the gate, placing Ranger between him and the approaching Pallone.
The Pallone that Nova was duelling with unsuccessfully attempted to decapitate Nova while the other Pallone glided at Ranger who managed to evade the strike. Russef, thinking too much of one thing is never bad, holstered his crossbow and drew his dagger and then repeated his death from above strike from earlier. As the Pallone’s spinning finally ceased, the last Pallone realised the loss of the rest of its herd and ascended out of the village and out of the way of the party.
Once the battle was over, the villagers left the safety of their homes and thanked the party for defending the village. Russef spoke to a large, dark-skinned man called Lowd who was the closest thing to a villager elder. Lowd explained that the Pallones had only started attacking this morning and that they had never done anything like this before. He said that the False Woods were a little more dangerous in recent months than they had been previously but they had never tried to attack the village before. Rufus asked if the anything else was wrong with the forest and Lowd said that the Scutomorphs had been slightly more agitated and aggressive than they had been before.
Meanwhile, a woman ran up to Adahn and asked if he had seen her children. She asked if he had seen Seria and Patel. Adahn told the mother that it was Seria and Patel who had told them of the Pallone attack this morning and they were on their way to the Celion Basin. The mother was still frantic with worry but Adahn managed to calm her down. She started talking about Seria and how she was good with animals so she hoped she was okay. Adahn remembered what Ranger had mentioned about Seria possibly being a Beal and he directly asked her whether Seria was a Beal. She was initially surprised by the question but she admitted that Seria was indeed a Beal. She also mentioned that Lowd was also her father and Seria and Patel’s grandfather. She then started babbling that it might be Seria’s fault that the Pallones are attacking and that she might be the key to fixing all of this. As she started ranting, Adahn perceives a slight psychic latency emanating all around him. He didn’t realise it at first but he recognises the signature as being similar to the feeling of Seria’s psychic when he encountered her but only much weaker. He assumes that this is likely due to Seria’s family all having an innate psychic nature, although none are as pronounced as Seria.
The party started assisting the villagers in cleaning up from the battle and repairing a few of the structures. As this was going on, Beltigron spotted a woman who is off by herself away from the rest o the villagers. She wasn’t helping out with any of the cleanup and she was keeping her distance, maintaining a cold and aloof image. Beltigron mentioned this to the rest of the party and Ranger was curious enough to approach the woman. She was smoking as Ranger approached and she introduced herself as Vivirus. Ranger asked her a few questions about what is generally happening in the forest and Vivirus launched into a full-blown tirade, accusing Seria of causing all of this and blaming the rest of the villagers for not stopping her when she started “poisoning” the forest. Ranger asked her if she had any proof that Seria was causing the Pallone attacks and she said that she just knows it as she has seen Seria playing with the animals in the forest. Ranger decided to leave her be and regroup with the others.
As the day turned into night, the party decided to stay in Aldea for the evening. Phetys formally introduced himself to the group and he said that he only arrived in Aldea shortly before the rest of the party did and he had no idea what was going on. He also showed the party a shard of one of the Pallones’ body that he salvaged and he mentioned the almost transparent nature of the piece as well as its surprising sturdiness. The party began discussing what to do about the Pallone attacks and it was quickly decided that the best option was to track down Seria and figure out what she may have inadvertently done to the forest. The party agreed to head out to Celion Basin tomorrow and, when they spoke to Lowd about their plans, Lowd agreed to supply two days’ worth of supplies to the party.
The sun rose following their night in Aldea and the party began trekking back the way they had come and towards Celion Basin. Will they discover more horrors in the False Woods or will they emerge unscathed? Will the village be safe for when they return or will the Pallones overwhelm the villagers’ meagre defences? What exactly has happened to the wildlife and what is Seria’s role in all of this? Is it her fault or something more sinister? Tune in next time for more Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World.
Organisation notes:
I’m looking to add any character portraits that people want to the tumblr (http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/ for those who lost the link) so if you find something that represents your character, send me a link or the image itself to popdart10 @ gmail DOT com. I’ve already got my character portrait up there so there’s a precedent.
Also, I’ll be reposting this massive recap to the tumblr later today. Hope you enjoyed it. 🙂
I’ll mention that if you’re stuck for a character portrait that looks suitable Numenera-y, the art of Moebius is a good place to start
I’d really love to get involved I. This but I just can’t commit any time. 🙁
Hey man, I’ve only turned up to 50% of the sessions, so it’s not too demanding!
*Glares at 4 week old set top box that decided it wanted to die*
I got one whiff of the smell left behind by the scutomorph we murdered in the first session and was like NOPE and went home
Thanks Choppy, I really like the way you are doing these.
I’ll have a look around and see what i can find for my character portrait. Did you want the background info as well?
All up to you Tigs. You can send just the portrait or maybe add a blurb with a little background. Whatever you would like to put up on the Tumblr is fine by me.
Woo 3DS get.
Who wants a friend code?
Wooo! \o/
If it’s anything like 2879-1035-0967 then no. I don’t want anything to do with that jerk.
Put it on TAYnames.
Ah yes, I forgot about that thing
Hmm. Looks like my latency tester arrived from Oculus. Though I haven’t opened it yet.
But just from looking at it, it’s a fucking joke that shipping was $60. And now I know why – MANDATORY EXPRESS SHIPPING? Fuck, guys.
Just had an awesome meal of fish and chips with my parents and their dog. Biggest piece of Blue Grenadier I’ve ever seen …
And both Mum and I are on a diet. Meh, back to it tomorrow.
EDIT: And of course it’s a pageget!
Onpagegett
You’re name is genius.
Gizmodo down there reminding us all why FTTP is so damn important. 😛
Related: Popsugar tells us the 30 most coveted hair colours in Hollywood.
The fuck? I didn’t even know there were SIX colours, let alone THIRTY hair colours. Forget there being even more than that for there to even be a ‘top’ thirty.
1. Red
2.-30. Who cares?
Well, everyone knows that if you can’t have red, then who the fuck cares, but I’m quite partial to weird dyes like blue or purple, if red isn’t available.
Bro, bro, c’mon, even I can name 12, no problem.
There’s Brown. Darker Brown. Dull Brown. Light Brown. Boring Brown (that’s what I have). Very Light Brown. Very Dark Brown.
Blonde. Strawberry Blonde. Blondes who say they’re Blonde but they’re really just Brunettes. Light Blonde.
Ranga.
Pretty sure I’ve dyed my hair at least 30 different colours in the 20-odd years I’ve been dying my hair….
When I was 17 I had black and yellow stripes.
Went completely white for a while after that.
Later dyed it bright red but it turned salmon pink within a day.
Bit later had an upcoming job interview so dyed it black but got one that was supposed to have dark blue highlights in it. My hair turned bright purple.
There are women I know who would have wanted that exact same effect and ended up with the exact opposite.
Quick question,
Anyone know of any ghost shows (like ghost stories or the history of haunted locations)?
Or of more shows like weird or what?
I’ve run out of them for mum
Ghost Adventures
Paranormal State
Paranormal Witness
My Ghost Story
A Haunting
Ghost Hunters
Ghost Adventures
The Dead Files
I’ll Haunt You When I’m Dead
Thanks. She’s seen all of them except I’ll haunt you when I’m dead, so I grabbed that.
The (more) serious ones I can think of are:
– Ghost Lab
– A Haunting
– Unsolved Mysteries
– Ghost Hunters
– Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
– Most Haunted
– Paranormal State
The less serious ones are:
– Supernatural
– Ghost Whisperer
– American Horror Story
(I know that these are not what you’re after, but Supernatural and American Horror Story are good!)
Seen all those but beyond belief. Grabbed that. Thank you!
Casper the Friendly Ghost
Scooby Doo
Hello Mark or any other Kotaku Staff.
A friend of mine just posted this link in facebook that links to a petition site claiming that GTA V “promotes running over and beheading animals and other acts of pointless cruelty”
I haven’t played GTA V yet so my take on the whole thing is that they are full of crap, and are using GTA V as a scapegoat because it is the “in thing” at the moment. They are only 100 or so petitions from reaching 46,000. What is your guys thoughts on this?
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/728/925/671/grand-theft-auto-v-promotes-violence-to-animals/?taf_id=10075449&cid=fb_na
Best way to contact a Kotakutype (other than through Twitter) is through the contact form: http://www.kotaku.com.au/contact/
Or, if you’re lucky, @markserrels.
Also, why cilantro and not coriander?
Ah, Thanks for that 😀 I had no idea how to contact them hahaha.
Cilantro rolls off the tongue better….no real reason though, really 😀
So let’s ban it completely so everyone will go out and “behead animals”.
Petition signed!
That’s what you wanted, right? 😛
(I don’t really agree with what it says, but we gotta look out for each other here!)
Just for the record, I didn’t actually sign itBought an afterglow headset… feel like Tron.
So good.
pics?! wanna see! dunno what the hell that is!
ill try, not too savvy. gimme a tick.
Edit: http://imgur.com/H3b3Sz6
http://www.afterglowgaming.com/products/9929BL/wireless-afterglow-universal-headsets
What’s the sound quality like? I’ve always figured its gimmick was fancy lighting at the expense of audio.
I think its pretty good. This is my first decent quality headset in a while though so i cant make a solid comparison to anything.
Pic require moderation apparently… who knew…
guess they are pretty saucey
What do we know about this musical chest that comes with Zelda?
https://ebgames.com.au/3ds-162264-The-Legend-of-Zelda-A-Link-Between-Worlds-Nintendo-3DS
http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/14/4838118/uk-retailer-game-offers-musical-treasure-chest-for-zelda-pre-orders
I think I need this.
omg, I need this ;_;
I know squat about it except it makes me wanna cry cos I don’t have it or a 3ds :0
… i want that
So apparently people are following me on Twitter (thanks @strange @mawt @redartifice). I’m going to disappoint you so very much. 😛
(Clarification: I don’t tweet much at all, if ever)
Welcome to the Quiet Club, we have cider 😀
Am I following you? What’s your handle?!
Same handle as TAY @popdart5
Thanks!
As an aside, Twitter really needs to update its search functionality. I searched for popdart, assuming that it would prioritise folks followed by people I followed. Nope!
Met up with @gingerchris86 for food and booze at the Trans hotel. He is pretty cool guy, hey!
Yes.
Signs went up today for out Halloween dressup day on the 30th. Need to come up with an idea for it.
So far the only one I have left in my arsenal that I haven’t worn to one of these things is my Little Mac getup, except the boxing gloves aren’t really usable any more. At the time I just got some cheap ones from Target (Father’s Day sales iirc :P) then spraypainted them green. It worked ok for the one day I needed them, they did start cracking and leaving paint flecks everywhere. But since then they got left out on the verandah and got covered in dirt from that dust storm years ago, so they’re fairly horrible now. Dunno if I could respray them, or if I would want to.
How about going as Seth from Street Fighter?
I’m under strict orders from several people to remain clothed for the event 🙁
They’re jealous of your ability to attract the ladies, and don’t want to give you any more of an edge.
The orders came from ladies 🙁
They’re worried they won’t be able to resist.
Do what I do. Go as the invisible man.
Which one?
The i’m-completely-naked-and-therefore-invisible-man?
or the i’m-not-even-here-which-is-why-i’m-invisible-man?
Go without a shirt or shoes.
You would be a premature ejaculation. Just came in your pants.
…see above 😛
Finally got all my assignments out of the way today. Was a complete wreck afterwards, made Oliver come and pick me up and take me home because I flat out refused to walk, barely said a word, looked “like you’re about to murder someone”. and didn’t smile once but we got there! And for some reason after all that and having a go at him he still bought me KFC, Maccas and some groceries 🙂 Had an “I love you”, “I love you too” back and forth today for the first time as well, which was kindaaaa (okay very) awkward but appreciated none the less 😛
I’m a bit cheerier now, at least, but I still feel awful, like really, really awful about how I treated him earlier today especially since he hadn’t even done anything other than not answer his phone 🙁 It’s his big day tomorrow so I should probably cheer the fuck up by morning and practice smiling or something.
Also I think I’ve decided I’m going to ditch IT and switch to a business degree. Will probably be a better idea in the long run than sticking with what I’m currently doing.
His wedding is on a Friday? Interesting choice. All the best for the big day. Don’t think of it as losing a hetero-lifemate so much as gaining a wife for you to share.
Business degree will result in your job being full of bullshit. Like literally, your job will just to be a giant douchebag and speak shit all day every day, and kiss ass. If you’re good at that sorta stuff, good on ya. IT on the other hand can pretty much be you alone, doing your thing, if you do it right.
I know, I became fully aware of the culture of business from my management class this year 😛 I’m just happier doing it because it’s more interesting and I’d rather be associated with that than the arseholes in computing. That and I find nothing I enjoy about what I’m doing anymore.
@dc I’m afraid I have to tell you Beyond: Two Souls has lost some points from me.
Just played
Huntedandwas horrified to find the game forced me to drive. D:😛South Park isn’t being aired this week due to a power failure at the studios.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/news/j2j34b/episode-1704-will-not-air-tonight
Wow, for something like this after so many consecutive episodes… feels weird, man.
PC master race represent!
Apparently an anecdote about how I met my wife enraged someone enough that they felt they needed to downvote it.
It is amazing how much any slightest hint of sexuality is immediately condemned as something evil to be suppressed in the general articles on this site. I’ve really never seen anything like it anywhere else.
Oh I don’t know, still see plenty of “tits or GTFO” every time they have a female games executive doing an interview. 😛
Thus, whatever happened is clearly your fault.
You’ll also notice those are usually the only ones to get downvoted into oblivion. 🙂
The audience swings pretty heavy toward the puritanical/’sexy=exploited’ angle.
I may have had my tongue-in-cheek while writing the above.
Hairy chest or GTFO Shane!
Usually when I mention my wife it’s in a gaming context and people upvote me and reply saying how awesome it is I have a wife who games.
Maybe because we are gamers, the context becomes desexualised? Like, there’s no way we can play Halo together AND bang. We are probably both virgins.
Upvote for having a gaming wife. That’s awesome.
😛Didn’t your wife not like Clementine?
Yeah, but she made me hold the controller the whole time. I’m not sure this counts 😛
HURR DURR IT’S NOT GAEMING RETALTED!
Why did I read, why did I comment. It’s like once every month or two I slip and just have to respond to fuckery. If you don’t like it, don’t read it. How fucking hard is it?
Depends on how hard you want it to be.
And yah I’m reading things but feel like I can’t really contribute to anything that much. So contributing here.
I keep myself on a nice regular schedule. About once a fortnight I choose the “best” article for my purposes, I skim through it, and then I immerse myself in the fuckery of the comments. I embrace the stupidity. I laugh, I cry. I mostly cry. Actually there’s no laughter. Just lots of crying.
But then I get it out of my system for a bit. Then I can ignore the morons with their inconsistent arguments, their stupid viewpoints, their inability to form even a vaguely coherent sentence.
I just avoid the comments and most Kotaku articles full stop. I literally load the page and click on my notifications to find the latest TAY. Then sometimes it’s a slow day at work and I stray from the flock.
Get into work. Problems everywhere.
HAHAHAHAHA NICE ONE FRIDAY
*tears*
It’s not that hard. All you have to do is trip over your chair and bang your head on the desk. Start speaking in tongues, and pretend not to recognise anyone. You get to go home (or at least trade your dingy cubicle for a semi-private hospital room), and you’ll probably also have a decent worker’s comp claim.
Hmm. Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
New Humble Weekly Sale
aaaand purchased 😛 Deathspank is pretty funny
I’m a big fan of the original DeathSpank. So much that for several weeks, my internal monologue was conducted with his voice (and not by choice either).
Don’t bother with the second or third though, just the same formula recycled, especially when the last one was so clearly modularised – here is a new area, here is the level you’ll be, here is the gear for that level themed to this area. Ugh, lazy development by the numbers.
I loved the first 2 penny arcade games before they got ruined by that new mob 🙁
Yeah, Tycho raves about how great Zeboyd is, but the mechanics, graphics, and music of the games aren’t anything special. Cthulu Saves the World and Breath of Death were mostly fun to me because of the story/humour, and that’s Tycho’s job in the Rain-slick Precipice games.
Part of me suspects Tycho’s praise is because Zeboyd hasn’t been crawling up his ass for script deadlines like Hothead were. After all, when they split, Hothead basically said they didn’t want to do it anymore, and the diplomatic way of putting it was that Tycho was ‘having trouble with deadlines’. (That’s kind of a big deal to a dev studio – or any project, really. If your project is being held up by one person doing something, that means you’re still paying a bunch of people to… wait.)
If that’s the diplomatic way of putting it, my guess would be that the less diplomatic way of saying it would be that he may have been acting like a fucking diva. I love Tycho’s writing, and usually some of his thoughts, but I think in this instance he’s excited about us getting to experience the consolation prize because he fucked up the real thing.
I play a bit but it really didn’t grab me. I did buckle and bought ep 4 at the summer sale. Think I might just read the storyline of ep 3 and try ep 4. Looks a bit better and hopefully plays better.
I know many people like the version 3 more than 1/2, I got chewed out in comments once for saying 1/2 were better. I should have known that a man of your impeccable taste would know the truth
Yeah, I still haven’t finished 3 or tried 4. I’m just not feeling transported into that world the same way.
Oh man, the heists in GTA V are brilliantly conceived. (Execution is all right, but the concept is genius, and I love the preparation and build-up to each one).
Getting mega-hype for GTA Online. Won’t be long now!
It’ll be interesting to see how the hesits work in GTAO, how much planning is actually involved, etc. While the heists in GTA were great fun, you did just basically follow a set of instructions like any other mission. I’m wondering if in online you have to set your own escape route, pick your own vehicles, etc.
+1!
Could be a good way to legitimately make some decent money in GTAO. Rockstar have really nerfed the ability to make cash easily in this, albeit stating before the release that “it will be easier to make money than in single player”.
Easier, my ass. Even when you cheat it’s not as easy.
Haven’t played it yet, but I’m keen to see how it all works. Getting XBLGold for my b’day this weekend! 🙂
Hooray! It’s not bad. A bit of a grind to get some decent stuff but I suppose that’s part of the satisfaction.
More fun with friends.
@shadow – Are you ready to join me in the cheater’s pool? 😛
Is it cold?
Pretty warm actually, what with all the tank explosions, missile strikes and all.
Guys, I’m 19 years old and am financially well-off enough to buy both the XBONE and PS4.
Am I a bad person for wanting to get both? I just feel like people will be like
“Oh… you.. you got both? I-I could only get one of them..”
So who’s’ getting Sonic: Lost World tomorrow?
Wii U? 3DS? Both?
I’ll definitely be getting the Wii U version, undecided on the 3DS.
I was thinking about it, actually! Probably not tomorrow, but eventually!
Never owned a Sonic game 😛
I thought Sonic Generations was really good I have high hopes for this release.
I will probably pick up Sonic on the WiiU. I played the handheld for a minute or two at PAX and felt “meh” about it.
So decided to chase FedEx this morning, and apparently my Pokemon X and Y will be delivered this afternoon. \o/
Hooray! Now the important question – what would you do for a shiny Raichu?
Well, as long as he’s all shiny and lubed up… @freezespreston, want to take it from here?
Unsavory, messy things.
Well, I’ve linked you the picture I put up on twitter of the shiny Pikachu currently in my possession. I’m not going to use it. It’s just going to sit safely in the PC storage for now.
Wait wut. I saw the picture but thought you were just showing off a Pikachu. It’s shiny? HNGH.
Little red star… Take another look. It’s a darker colour than a normal one.
*twitch*
Does that mean it stays shiny when it evolves?
Hngh.
As far as I know. I’ll evolve it in preparation once I’m a little further through the game and have free access to many evolution stones.
@beavwa
Don’t evolve if you can, please – I’ll take it as a Pikachu and just evolve it so I don’t have to bother catching a Pikachu to fill the ‘dex. And also – holy balls, you are amazing. I didn’t even know it was a shiny, let alone any plans to give it to me.
/brohugs
I can give you another Pikachu for the ‘dex. If I evolve it, that means I get to record both shiny forms in my ‘dex.
And yeah, it had your name stamped all over it within about 2 seconds of me receiving it. You’ll appreciate it far more than anyone else.
@beavwa
Ah, that makes sense. In that case, evolve away – I can catch any old Pikachu for myself, that’s not a problem. Shiny Raichu will get a good home, trust me. =)
Hmmm, maybe I’ll have to scratch that evolution plan. Supposedly, pretty much the entire learned move set is pre evolution (has to be Pikachu), so I’ll just leave it as is.
I’m not the OT but I can get the nickname changed in preparation of your taking possession. I was thinking ‘Shinychu’…
No! They must have original names. I do not rename my Pokemon. I’m weird.
Ooh ooh, how about ‘Nef Jnr’
Edit: :p
It’s all good, just hit me up when you’re ready for it, and it’s all yours.
You got XY? That’s sexist! Should have gotten XX!
Happy Birthday Lamboman!
Happy birthday @lambomann007 – enjoy your final year of teenageness.
It’s all downhill from here. Hair begins to migrate from the top of the head down south, some setting camp on your back, others moving further down between the two mountains of doom.
Responsibilities kick in and the worst part is that you now have to buy your own socks and underwear. 🙁
oMG! Carmageddon 2 coming out on GoG today! Do yourself a favour and play it if you haven’t!
I set that email to ‘unread’. I’ll pick it up one day. So very many hours sunk into the demo of the original 3D one. 😀
🙂 It’s a hella fun game! the amount of cars you can drive is just awesome! so hilariously awesome!
This morning I locked up the house and was about to drive to the train station when the Aus Post parcel guy pulled up!
– WIND WAKER GET! \o/
– Although now I have to work through the day knowing that poor Wind Waker is sitting alone and scared in a box /o\
– Also, my debit card has died (keeps getting declined when I try and use it), need go to the bank to organise getting a new one. /o\
Also, I was playing Pokemon on the train this morning and battles a Hiker on a bridge that kept saying bridge related puns!
GOTY!
Wood you care to elaborate? There’s a gap in my knowledge when it comes to bridge puns, and I’m just not across what kind of span they have. The suspension is killing me, but I’d better steel myself against it before I reach the end of my rope.
Could you please apply for a job as an NPC designer at Gamefreak?
First you abandon SWTOR for LoL. Now I bet you do it for Wind Waker. Why so much hat Nob?
We had like 30 mins to play. I figured there was no point in playing before shutdown. =P
Ordered the fancy Zelda treasure chest.
I keep telling myself I’m done with collectors editions so why do I keep ending up with so many?
Wizards
Wizards who specialize on retail and study the arcana of buyers remorse.
Get us every time.
well if it makes you feel any better, I could be persuaded to take it off your hands. You know.. just to save you from regrets
…whoops. Sorry, man 🙁
I suspect I’ll do the same thing if I walk into my local EB.
Preordered the Zelda 3DS XL, I assume I’ll lose the game if I do a system transfer? any veterans in this department?
Unsure why the Wind Waker theme was playing in my head as I wrote this.
Well, that’s where the wording is different. Previous game inclusive ones have had the game preloaded. This description says it comes with a download of the game – conceivably could mean you can get the game after the transfer, which is a workaround of sorts for this awful system.
Oh man, I’m not playing any RPGs this weekend so I have time for actual video games. \o/
RPG video games?
Nah tabletop RPGs. Stuff like DnD, Pathfinder, Warhammer, etc. It’ll be nice to get back to video games for a solid slug.
Was always interested in having a go at something like that but was always scared of the stigma. I play Warmachine now though so starting to get into stuff like that.
Stigma? The one propagated by teens with an IQ of 80, STI count of >9000, and pending pregnancy to their ex-bf?
Someone’s wearing their cranky pants today…
I miss your scent, you beautiful man.
If I could smell I’d be giving you a sniff, mark my words.
Confession time: my brain is broken. Come for a trip on the waaahmbulance. Or maybe because it’s comics-related, we could call it the WHAM!bulance
Ever since my joke link to The Lesser Evil yesterday that caused vonsack to buy a copy of the book, I’ve been feeling guilty about it. I know none (or few) of you see it this way, but I can’t shake the feeling that I’ve tricked people (here or Facebook or Twitter) into buying something they don’t want or need and that they won’t enjoy. Every time someone tells me they’ve bought a copy, my first instinct is to apologise and offer a refund.I don’t think I’m cut out for marketing. At the same time, I kind of feel an obligation to my publisher to keep it up. Nasty business. Also, I know it’s the only way I’ll ever make the transition from amateur to pro. Still, I just feel dishonest and dirty all the time whenever I think of my book sales – in some sense, it’s almost a relief that so few people have been suckered in.
And like I said, I know objectively that’s not the real truth of the matter as far as you’re concerned. And I’m not looking for any kind of validation or affirmation in response to this – just thought you all deserved to know the truth behind the dumb jokey self-promotion I continually shove in your face, and know that I am more apologetic for it than I seem.
I really wish I could land an agent. I’d happily sign away 15% (or more) of my royalties in exchange for all this marketing stuff.
Just to make you feel worse, I’ve decided to order a copy today.
WHY GOD WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
I mean, I hope you enjoy it, man!
Jokes aside, you really need to push aside this guilty feeling. All the reception I have come across has been overwhelmingly positive, you have no reason not to feel completely confident in your product. Your hard work and effort are worth the price and the fact you have a publisher shows they have confidence in you as well. Not only this but I suggest you look deep inside and think about how badly you want this to work out, how much you want this to be successful for you and your family. Don’t shy away from shamelessly plugging and pushing your product, this is important to you and the direction your life can take.
Don’t worry man, I never said I was going to stop.
I know how much I want this to work out… I just wasn’t expecting all these weird feels along the way! 😛
Being shane is hard. *pats on back*
You speak from experience, sir! 😛
It’s not hard being Shane. Shane has a charmed life – he just has a hyperactive guilt chip and an annoying moral compass that punishes any behaviour that’s not absolutely honest.
I was going to make a ‘inshane’ pun to make you feel better but the meta-ness of it all might’ve imploded a distant universe or something.
Phew, that was a close one.
Are there mistakes that have made it to the latest edition that you’re aware of?
Maybe that’s it. Unless of course, it’s pure perfection. 😀
I plead the fifth.
How have you tricked anyone? You linked a product and they made their own decision.
You’re talented. Suck it up and deal with that fact.
Hmm. That was meant to be jokey but came out kind of harsh.
I’m pretty sure I have claimed in the past that The Lesser Evil will fix everything that’s wrong with your life. WHAT IF SOMEONE BELIEVED ME? 🙁
Yep, pretty sure those feelings aren’t uncommon and the reason that many creatives are happy to hire those marketing types.
Yep, all those free-minded bohemian sensibilities (that I possess only the tiniest smattering of) come with an inherent distrust of marketing and capitalism in general… and an intense distaste for the need to sully the purity of creativity with the filth of money. Still fighting my way through all that, I think.
It’s okay…we all know you’re a doofus. 😛
I kind of understand. Every time I make something for someone I think the money they offer would be nice, but then I turn them down because it feels weird taking money from friends.
Wait… so you’re saying I shouldn’t be taking money from friends? Oh man, I’m doing this all wrong. ALL WRONG.
😛Shaaaaaane.
You wrote because you wanted to share a story with people. It’s more than fair on our part that we compensate you for it by buying the damn thing.
Marketing is never easy, but it’s not dishonest that you sell your work. We’re all adults here, we can make a judgment whether to buy your book or not, and we wouldn’t keep buying the new ones if we didn’t enjoy what we’ve read.
Jokes on you, you gave me the books for free!
(Now I’m the one who feels guilty :P)
Oh yeah, that phase of giving away books was a very expensive therapy session for me. Never felt more comfortable in my writing guise, though.
Woah mate don’t feel guilty! I’d been interested in getting a copy for some time. I’m coming up to finishing what i’m reading now it was the perfect opportunity. I’m still a newbie around here but you seem like an interesting fellow and I’m curious as to what you’ve produced.
Also I like supporting home grown talent and batting for the little guy. My best friend is an amazing artist and writes/draws his own material and for years I’ve been suggesting he try and get his stuff out there, but his focused on his music, which is fair enough. This sort of reminded me of it. If that makes sense..?
Sorry, I didn’t mean to start a thing; I just thought it might be interesting to share some of the totally unexpected consequences of being published.
All is good 😉
Happy Friday friend.
<3
Man, your dad jokes are getting weird…
@melbTay Repost for new day
Starting to heat up again so the BBQ can come out. Looking and boardgames and a BBQ the weekend after next (the 26th / 27th of October). Can either do a Saturday or Sunday. Either way we would probably look at staring around 1pm.
Who is interested and which day suits
@greenius @scree @beavwa @princesspipster @tech_knight @budgieishere @tigerion @jordi @f4ction @splicer @notoriousr @tofu @blood_apathy @dire_wolf @mcgarnical @pixel_the_ferret_viking @puppylicks @ynefel @zetrox2k @syvraen @klutar @smurfydog @negativezero @velnica @crazyguy1990 @chuloopa @inquisitorszIf you are not included in the tags that doesn’t mean you aren’t invited, just that I don’t have you in my tag list
Weekend is 26/27?
Yes, that weekend
could probably do sat 26th?
I’m probably free all weekend at this stage. Though I’d have to check with the other half.
My saturday’s already pretty booked, but I’m free on sunday
I’ll have to double check my schedule for that weekend, but put me down for interested
Probably. Will depend on the day and what else I end up having to do.
I’ve got assignments/exams, so I won’t be there.
Have fun though!
Pokeman assignments?
My PCs are starting to die, which is hardly surprising seeing as they’re between 5-8 years old now. It’s been a fairly long time since I’ve built a PC from scratch – anyone got any good guides or sites with recommended parts for different budgets?
I usually just set a budget than visit sites like centrecom, look at prices and specs of parts and make a decision.
@welbot @zetrox2k
This came up in yesterday morning TAY as well, if you want to skip back a little.
@welbot??
hit me up on steam or facebook and we can chat about it if you like!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&key=0AvaYhPmP5kwadHZsOW9QVFRkZEpzcUplak5zZFUyYnc&output=html
EDIT: This comes via the NeoGAF “I need a new PC!” thread.
glad to help if you need me to man. just let me know!
Hah! So apparently my card was frozen because of “suspicious activity” from Kickstarter. Oh well, atleast I don’t need to wait for a new card!
How many Christie Sims books can one man need? This many seems suspicious.
I caught a Ralts last night which I called Jodie. It has a quirky nature. That seems appropriate.
Alphonso Cuaron doesn’t think Gravity deserves an Oscar.
Oh, is that how it works?
I don’t think The Lesser Evil deserves a Nobel Prize.
Oh my god @shane. The Lesser Evil jut won the Nobel Prize for…uh…chemistry.
Congrats man. How does it feel?
A little odd (though admittedly, winning the Literature category would feel odder), but I won’t be demanding a recount. CHA-CHING!
They felt The Lesser Evil deserved a Nobel Prize but the Literature category had already been won by Ravaged by the Raptor.
Edit: I love how it’s called Ravaged by The Raptor but the cover has two Tyrannosaurs on it.
Everyone: Link NSFW 😛
Oh it’s pretty much SFW. NSFL maybe.
Like most Nobel literature 🙂
K.
Don’t forget the Rockbjörnen, Sweden’s most coveted music award!
Ha, called up by Nintendo. It was some guy I don’t know, apparently Jodie wasn’t in today. Said some bullshit about friends offering me their 3DSes, and that I was going to check one of them out over the weekend to see if it’s any good. Stay of execution granted til Monday 😛
Think I might try Fair Trading again, because catastrophic electronic failure in just two years is bullshit. Especially when they themselves have said that I’ve done nothing wrong to cause it.
That stuff probably takes time. Have you mentioned this intent to Nintendo? Aus Consumer Laws are pretty neat. Either way, you need to follow process: advise Nintendo that you believe they are in breach of Law by refusing service. Wait for response. If negative, advise that you plan to make a formal complaint. Wait for response. If negative … uh.. I’d just leave it – get a letter in writing explaining everything. Then, either wait patiently while ACCC works its magic, or buy a new 3DS for like $20 (?) more. Note down that you either want a free 3DS, or a monetary compensation.
Alternatively – where did you buy this 3DS from? If it’s from a local retailer like EB/JB, the onus is on them to arrange the warranty repair.
I did bring it up earlier but they kind of shrugged it off, and since then I’ve gotten more details on what happened which should help me I think.
I bought it from Dick Smith back at launch, that online preorder special they had for the first hundred orders. I wanted to deal with NAL directly because of the whole data transfer issue.
So after all those Ramen Burger sightings I made my own last night.. No idea if it tasted anything like what people are buying and raving about in Sydney, but it tasted awesome nonetheless. I went for an asian flavour profile and was pretty happy, especially because even the kids loved it.
Didn’t take pictures because my husband got home late so by the time dinner was ready I was too hungry to stop and take a picture. 😛
Where can one acquire a Ramen Burger in Brisbane. I am interested in trying it!
Strange’s place, have you not been paying attention!?
I stopped paying attention after Ramen Burger! It happens a lot when people mention food, like one time …
…
Fooooood.
I do not know, that’s why I had to make one.
I think I missed this whole discussion. What is a Ramen burger?
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/10/ramen-burger-australian-review-the-burger-revolution-is-here/
Interesting, I wonder if I could do that with rice noodles
I saved a Koala last night, poor little dude was looking rather unwell wobbling around on the road, jerks kept speeding past it narrowly missing it so I got a bit of the rage virus, put on my big man voice and meanest face, puffed out my chest and began cursing at jerks and stopping traffic like a jerk (i think my mean ness worked cause people became very compliant once I was looking angry swearing at them) ,I then chased him up a tree and called rescue people and waited with him, he’d wondered into suburbia after crossing the road so he had no business being there. turns out the poor thing had a horrible infection and the Koala rescue folks were very appreciative that I called them. Sometimes I’m an ok guy 😛
Nice guy @gutsoup! \o/
This is Kudos worthy. @markserrels
I’m sure there are much more deserving folks on here, I haven’t been very active on here lately, it’d be weird getting Kudos. But thank you 😀
Tough luck, hero.
Ah, kudos time! I’d forgotten, thanks. *opens email*
That’s a much better story than my complete failure to help a baby Maggie (by which I mean delay its death by a couple of hours).
It had been sitting at the front of a driveway down the street all day, and I’d been swooped repeatedly in my attempts to do anything earlier, but I decided to man up, and I walked down there just planning to move it on to the grass a few metres away. It had managed to move itself 5 metres onto the middle of the road, its mother was sitting near it yelling at a Miner Bird, and its father was up in the trees swooping down at me repeatedly. So I went “Nonononono” and left it. :/ Stupid idiot bird.
yeah it suxks that they don’t realise you’re trying to help, the Koala went totally nuts when the dude grabbed it, he copped a few scratches on his forearm,
At least you tried man, a lot of people wouldn’t even do that much, good on you 😀
Isohunt is closing down.
Well, [redact].
Why is everyone not using Pirate Bay and singing sea shanties?
Because nobody cleans the poop deck….
That’s borderline dad joke, @strange…
Nah, that’s just #boysClub
Kick arse is where it’s at now.
So I now have all the Gen 1 and Gen 6 starters in Pokemon X. (Evolution spoilers)
Seriously loving the way they actually had a theme for the final evolutions for gen 6 starters. The whole warrior/rogue/mage thing is so cool!I just obtained the ring to enable Mega Evolution but I still don’t see the purpose of it. Is something else supposed to happen during the battles? Different attack options? Power increases? Everything just seems the same to me, other than a cooler looking Pokemon.They get different base stats (presumably higher), and it changes their ability (I’m gonna say in most cast cases for this one, not entirely sure though). In some cases it changes their type as well.Time to breed
Plus it (half) satisfies all those people who have been screaming for Dark/Fighting/Psychic starters for the past 3 generations 😛Dear EA / Bioware,
I would really appreciate it if you would make a game set in the Mass Effect universe with the gameplay of XCOM Enemy Unknown.
Biotics & Tech powers etc, pick your squad from all the races, level them up etc.
get on it, EA.
Cheers.
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Perfect! They can make it an always-online competitive multiplayer-only galactic ‘territory control’ type game, where you join factions and engage in gank-fests against impossible-to-beat Koreans.
It’ll be a freemium mobile game, where cash will buy you access to certain race/class combos and let your troops beat the level cap, plus you can buy access to ‘gold’ weapons, which are incredibly powerful but available for a limited duration. You’ll also be able to buy fuel or something which will allow you to engage in more battles or expand your xcom-style base further than the free limits, or buy better generators/labs/workshops/research options.
(Edit: I forgot to mention your base size will be limited so that it can’t be entirely self-sufficient but you’ll be able to boost it by spamming your friends with requests over facebook and twitter.)
Well the newest X-com sounds kinda like that in reverse. Xcom universe with mass effect style combat
its…. sort of like that.
but it just doesn’t work as well as it could have unfortunately.
Edit: mainly due to the horrible squadmate AI.
Pokémon
I’m sure you’ll all be happy to know I’ve made some progress on the Goodra front.
Spoilered since not everyone wants to hear about Pokemon all the time. I used a bunch of new lines, so hopefully we don’t get infinity spoiler brackets.
It’s got a weird movepool.
It learns Muddy Water and Aqua Tail, but not Scald or Surf.
It also learns elemental beams/blasts – Ice Beam/Blizzard, Flamethrower/Fire Blast and Thunderbolt/Thunder.
It doesn’t learn Calm Mind or Bulk Up. I don’t think it learns Dragon Dance by level, but I would expect it as an Egg move.
So Hydration with Rainy Day + Thunder and Rest abuse might be the best offensive set.
Dragon Dance could make it a decent mixed sweeper.
Going to look into its potential as a wall//tank, despite it’s relatively low Defense. Bold + HP/Def EV spread could fix that, and one of the new move, Conspire (I think??), sharply reduces the foe’s Sp Atk. I think it could work as a phazer coupled with some entry hazards.
My Charizard knows Ember.
Come back when you have a level 100 Gyarados with splash! =D
What’s a Goodra?
Final stage evolution of the Gen 6 dragon. Pure dragon type. Good special attack and special defense.
Completely unrelated to what you’re talking about, but anyway:
(no spoilers or anything, just spoiling for the benefit of others :P)
So: opinion on Fairy type now that you’ve had a play of the game? I kinda think it fits pretty well, actually. Seems pretty balanced (which I was worried about, adding types this late in the game) I’m pretty glad that Poison is SE against them. Needed a bit of a boost! Was hoping Grass type would be SE though, it really needs a boost 😛Also: you weren’t kidding about there being not many new of any type! 😛 Can’t make a balanced in-game team because I don’t like enough of them haha I’ve added Klefki because it looks funny 😛
RE: Fairies
Back in June, there was a question about how much Fairy type would mix up the competitive scene. I took it as an opportunity to make some predictions + wishlist what I thought the type would be like. http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/06/talk-amongst-yourselves-228/comment-page-13/#comment-1551398
Turns out I was almost spot on.
So I’m quite happy with what they’ve done with the new Type Chart.
I am a little disappointed that, despite all that, there’s no hard counter for Garchomp – Klefki, Mawile, Carbink, Dedenne all have a second type which is weak to Ground. I guess if you can load Klefki up with Air Balloon, you might be ok.
Grass is still in a weird spot. I didn’t expect it to be SE vs. Fairies, and I’m not really sure how to “fix” Grass types. Probably the best way to do it would be to make something “cool” like a Grass/Dragon that’ll get picked up by the competitive scene in a big way, and watch how people make teams around supporting a grass type.
Possible actual Gen 6 Pokédex spoilers:
As for the short ‘dex – it’s weird: I’m a bit disappointed that there’s no new Legendary Trio, or stand alone non-Event legends (eg: Heatran), but I love almost every new Pokémon – even Klefki! It does feel a bit like only half a generation, and there’s already rampant speculation about what sort of events/DLC/Gen6.5/Gen7 might add to X+Y. Since people can’t hack 3DS carts the way they were able to hack DS carts at the moment, there’s a lot of mystery about what comes after Pokemon #718. Coupled with the fact that they very much have the potential to add new content through title updates, I think it’s pretty exciting.I was expecting Xerneas to be a powerful Grass/Something type so thought maybe that might give Grass a bit of a go. Especially now that they’re immune to powder moves, but alas.And yeah I was thinking about DLC last night when I caved and looked through the new Pokedex for my two final party members (turns out I’d seen 99% of the new Pokemon and didn’t realise haha). I think they’ll definitely add new Pokemon later. It’s much better this way I think, now it’ll actually be a surprise to see what event legendaries are coming instead of the usual seeing everything ahead of time
Ah yeah, I keep forgetting the whole Immune to Powder thing (and Electrics being immune to paralysis). I don’t know if Spore was really prominent enough in the metagame that we’ll see a huge jump in grass types to counter it but I guess now there’s an option worth considering if you feel that your opponent is going to trying and use a Spore Breloom to take your team apart.The time has come to clean up my act – I have not been playing games to completion. It’s a nasty habit that was probably inspired by my MMO-tourism, and the desire to leave certain TV/anime series unfinished because I knew the ending was shitty and I wanted to preserve my memories of a good game.
In some cases I wasn’t able to progress due to bugs which would’ve meant replaying literally hours of stuff.
SO. 2013 ends in a little over 2 months. Here’s my list of games I actually thought were worth playing… but haven’t finished. This list does not include games which are apparently pretty great, which I own but have never touched – only ones I’ve started and kinda enjoyed, but not finished, and would kind of like to. Does not include games I started and loathed and will not go back to ever.
BEHOLD MY SHAME:
10,000,000
Advent Rising
Agarest: Generations of War
Alan Wake
Assassin’s Creed (fucking every one of them except the original)
Bastion
Batman: Arkham Asylum/City
Bioshock 2
Borderlands 1’s DLC
Borderlands 2 (+DLC)
Braid
Breath of Death VII
Brutal Legend
Bulletstorm
Castle Crashers
Command and Conquer 3
Costume Quest
Crysis 1
Dark Messiah of Might & Magic
Darksiders 1 & 2
Darkstar One
Dead Island
Deponia series
Deus Ex: HR DLC – The Missing Link
Dishonored
Doom 3
Dragon Age: Origins Awakening (plus other DLC)
Dreamfall (The Longest Journey 2)
Dungeon Defenders DLC
Dungeons of Dredmor
Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon
Evil Genius
Fable III
Faerie Solitaire (SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP)
Fallout: New Vegas
Far Cry 2, 3 and Blood Dragon
Frozen Synapse
Full Pipe
Geneforge
GTA 4 + DLC
Grotesque Tactics
Gyromancer
Half-Life 2: Episode Two
Heroes of Might and Magic 5-6 + DLC
HeXen 2
Hitman: Absolution
Hotline Miami
Jagged Alliance: Back in Action
Just Cause 2
King Arthur – The Role-Playing Wargame (1 & 2)
Knights of Pen and Paper +1
L.A. Noire
Left 4 Dead 2
Legend of Fae
Legend of Grimrock
Machinarium
Magic: the Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers (2012-14)
Magicka story DLC
Majesty 2
Mark of the Ninja
Mini Ninjas
Monaco
Neverwinter Nights 2
Nexus: The Jupiter Incident
Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals
On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode 3
Papers, Please
PAYDAY2
Plants vs Zombies 2
Poker Night 2
Prime World: Defenders
Prince of Persia
Prototype
Puzzle Agent
Puzzle Kingdoms
Puzzle Quest 1 & 2
Quake 4
RAGE
Remember Me
Retrovirus
Revenge of the Titans
RIFT (yes it’s a MMO, but I haven’t hit max level/seen story content)
Risen
Rogue Legacy
Runespell: Overture
S.T.A.L.K.E.R – Call of Pripyat and Clear Sky
Saints Row 3
Sam & Max (telltale series)
Sanctum 2
Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves
Scribblenauts Unlimited
Septerra Core
Shad’O
Shadowgrounds: Survivor
Shadowrun Returns
Sid Meier’s Pirates
Silverfall
Sleeping Dogs
Space Hulk
Space Pirates and Zombies
Space Siege
Spore
Star Wars: KOTOR (haven’t completed many class quests, which are basically different mini-campaigns)
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (1 & 2)
Star Wars: Republic Commando
Strike Suit Zero
Stronghold 2 & 3
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
Symphony
Tales of Monkey Island
The Binding of Isaac
The Elder Scrolls 3, 4, 5 (Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim)
The Last Remnant
The Walking Dead
The Witcher 1 & 2
Thief: Deadly Shadows (I cheated and watched the cut-scenes to see the end, but didn’t actually FINISH it)
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction
Torchlight 1 & 2
Total War (ANY of them except the original Shogun – never seen a campaign through to completion. Medieval, Empire, Rome, Shogun 2)
Trapped Dead
Trine (1 & 2)
Tropico 3
UFO: Afterlight
Unreal 2
Uplink
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines
Vigil: Blood Bitterness
Warhammer 40k: Space Marine
Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War 2
Winter Voices
Zeno Clash (1 & 2)
Somewhere in the order of around 130’ish games. That should be doable… uhm. Maybe not in 2013 though.
EDIT: COMMENT NUMBER 4000. I HAVE CLEARLY BEEN GIVEN A SIGN BY FATE. THIS MUST HAPPEN, THE LIST MUST BE CLEARED.
thats certainly a list.
Finish the Batman ones. Because Batman.
Yeah, if I had to pick any games from that list, it’d be those.
If it means anything, I have a massive pile of shame myself, but here’s some games from your list that I finished and thoroughly enjoyed.
– Batman Asylum
– Crysis 1 – it’s a bit of a grind at the end… but it’s an adventure.
– Fable 3 – I finished the story mode. No real bad parts.
– Just Cause 2 – finished story, and then some. If you haven’t done the story at least, what the fuck is wrong with you. Probably my fave game evar.
Otherwise, good luck to us both to slog through our lists. I’ll be needing a 6mth vacation. 🙁
These are your unfinished games from 2013? Or from forever?
Just from my Steam library. There are probably more CDs and DVDs floating around I can’t keep track of. 😛
My steam library is mainly stuff I purchased and never played, rather than stuff I never finished. But my never finished pile is very big when taking into account physical purchases on consoles etc. as well 🙁
I’m totally going to draw up a list of things I’ve never played but intend to, and things I’ve either played/not played and never intend to(again). Just to see how much stuff got bundled in that I didn’t want or need.
I did that for shameless gaming month one year and every few months when I get bored I up date it. Think it is a bit out of date but this was mine http://www.howlongtobeat.com/user.php?n=Tigerion&s=games (Select backlog)
Need to clean it up as there are things on there that I will not go back to
I used to maintain a list but it got crazy and depressing so I stopped 🙁
Bastion! One of my favourites \o/
Magicka is fun with buddies, I never finished so if/when you get around to it holla at me.
Woooooooah
/keanu
Wow your list is very similar to my own one
Agarest: Generations of War (Just started)
Alan Wake (Started recently, playing through with Mrs Tigs)
Assassin’s Creed (Have revelations installed but not started)
Bastion (Completed but have a NG+)
Batman: Arkham Asylum/City (Finished AA but haven’;t started city)
Bioshock 2 (Still trying to finish 1)
Borderlands 1’s DLC (I also have borderlands 1 DLC so if you want to co-op that hit me up)
Borderlands 2 (+DLC) (Play occasionally)
Braid (Same situation)
Brutal Legend (Haven’t started)
Crysis 1 (Have warhead)
Dark Messiah of Might & Magic (The only game I quit because fuck those spiders)
Darksiders 1 & 2 (Finished 1 need to start 2)
Dead Island (Started, think it needs co-op)
Deponia series (Part way through the first one)
Deus Ex: HR (Need to start)
Dishonored (Need to start)
Dragon Age: Origins Awakening (Started with Mrs Tigs but started other games)
Dungeon Defenders DLC (So much time required)
Dungeons of Dredmor (It’s a rogue -like. Can you actually finish)
Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon (No started)
Evil Genius (No idea how many times I’ve started this game)
Faerie Solitaire (SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP) (Completed)
Fallout: New Vegas (Waiting until I finish things to play with Mrs Tigs)
Far Cry 2, 3 and Blood Dragon (Just have blood dragon)
Frozen Synapse (Yep need to get back to it)
GTA 4 + DLC (Same situation)
Grotesque Tactics (Completed)
Half-Life 2: Episode Two (Completed)
Hitman: Absolution (Need to start)
Just Cause 2 (Completed)
L.A. Noire (Need to start)
Left 4 Dead 2 (HAppy to co-op this with you as well)
Legend of Fae (Started on hard and hit difficulty spike)
Legend of Grimrock (Need to start)
Machinarium (Same situation)
Magicka story DLC (Same situation)
Majesty 2 (STuck on final mission)
Mark of the Ninja (Getting through this now)
Puzzle Agent (completed)
Puzzle Kingdoms (completed)
Puzzle Quest 1 & 2 (completed once but need to whore it out)
Revenge of the Titans (Same situation)
Runespell: Overture (completed)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R – Call of Pripyat and Clear Sky (Need to start)
Saints Row 3 (Completed)
Sam & Max (telltale series) (Part way through season 1)
Sleeping Dogs (Need to start)
Space Pirates and Zombies(Same situation)
Space Siege (Completed)
Star Wars: Republic Commando (Completed)
The Last Remnant (Need to start)
The Walking Dead (Same situation)
The Witcher 1 & 2 (Same situation)
Torchlight 1 & 2 (Completed both)
Total War (Don’t even talk to me about this series)
Trine (1 & 2) (Have goblin DLC to do)
Tropico 3 (Tropico 4 for me and 1 mission before I start DLC)
UFO: Afterlight (Gave up and now stuck on new xcom)
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines (Need to start since repurchasing)
Warhammer 40k: Space Marine (Completed)
Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War 2 (Need to finish retribution)
I recently created a list of the top games I own that I had never played but wanted to. Before purchasing a new game I refer to this list and if the game isn’t better than things on the list I don’t buy it.
1. Alan Wake – 18 hrs2. Batman: AC – 20 hrs
3. Bioshock Infinite – 15 hrs
4. Transformers: War for Cybertron – 10 hrs
5. Darksiders 2 – 29 hrs
6. Deus Ex:HR – 30 hrs
7. Far cry 3: Blood dragon – 7 hrs
8. Hitman: Absolution – 19 hrs
9. LA Noire – 25 hrs – 35 hrs
10. Sleeping Dogs – 20 hrs
11. The cave – 12 hrs
12. Total war: Shogun 2 – 35 hrs
13. Deponia – 10 hrs
14. Xcom – 31 hrs
15: To the moon – 4 hrs
Wooooah again
@chuloopa:
http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/this-is-what-would-have-happened-in-space-marine-2-and-3
Be sad with me. 🙁
My god, the top comment atm on that article is hilariously neckbeard.
Yeah, that’s what I thought too. I mentally read it in the Simpsons Comic Book Guy voice.
In episode 2F09 when Itchy plays Scratchy’s skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib twice in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is some sort of a magic xylophone or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
You forgot the nasal scoffs before the magic xylophone 😛
#ComicBookGuyPedantry
#hashtagsforharli
I laughed, then I felt bad because I’m just as nerdy about some fictional universes (bad that I laughed, not that I’m nerdy).
Hahahahahahaha!
It’s amazing.
Oh dear. Although I was under the impression an Inquisitor’s authority exceeds all – anyone can be scrutinised, even (especially) Space Marines.
Aww mannn 🙁 Crushing…
…Unfortunately, while i was reading it i had the same neckbeard thoughts.. mainly because anyone whom is judged to be a heretic by the inquisition is instantly put to death..
Plus a single ‘rogue’ space marine with the ability to create his own chapter… there is just no way the 40k nut in me could have enjoyed that story line..
I’d be happy to see the whole “escape and go rogue” thing – because that happen – hell, there have been numerous marines, companies and chapters that have done that done that (dark angels, fire hawks, flame falcons etc) – but to make his own chapter?
The thing is that i’m happy to take liberties with cannon material – to bend the rules, if you will – but his ideas just seemed to go against everything in 40k – especially with the Space Marines.
Awww mannn ow i feel like such a horrible neck beard.
opinions on Valkyria Chronicles?
Been looking for a decent strategy RPG sorta thing & that one keeps getting mentioned.
Pretty darn great.
Critically great reception, great aesthetic and art design, solid gameplay.
Only thing I can fault it with is that there is an optimal way to ‘solve’ each mission which is not so great if you’re a strategy nut, but you won’t care otherwise.
thanks man.
its sounding pretty ok. I’ll check it out.
That was one of my only complaints as well. You CAN dick around and figure things out yourself, and think you’re doing pretty damn well… but there is an optimal strategy to follow unique to each map if you want to get the highest possible rating.
I avoided looking those up, just had fun with boosting my dudes’ stats and having my favourite stand-out characters in key positions.
“Optimal Strategy” -> Scouts bum rush everyone.
Toward the end of the game when you’ve unlocked those extra condition things Alicia gets stupidly OP. Theoretically a motherfucker with a rifle should come off second-best against a tank, but theory falls down when you’ve got a team of badass scouts.
I should get around to finishing VC2 some day. It’s not on US PSN so I can’t get it onto my Vita and I’d have to dig out my PSP for it (bonus: I have it undubbed)
One of the absolute best games of the last generation.
I almost kinda recommend watching the anime of it first… Kinda. Uhm. Uhm. Who would know better about that. @negativezero ?
On its own, I played the game halfway through, first and I loved the shit out of it. I kind of appreciated being able to take the storytelling at a slower pace. But after I watched the (truly excellent) anime and played the game again, I was playing it with their voices and filling in the gaps in detail with the (obviously) better-animated anime run.
I’m pretty good at editing my memory, so neither side negatively impacted the other, but I THINK that if I were doing it fresh, I’d… I dunno. Slightly lean toward the anime first. (I worry that maybe you’ll consider the game less well if it just feels like a bad translation rather than great on its own merits, but I may be overthinking it.)
There are a couple dramatic moments and the impact of those in the anime hit me about a thousand times harder than in the game, but I hadn’t actually got up to that point in the game yet.
Regardless of all that waffle it is absolutely worth playing.
I thought the anime sucked. It loses all the tone and nuance of the game plus the game is visually stunning where the anime is bog-standard and doesn’t have that amazing watercolor look. Vastly better as a game.
EDIT: Also the anime was a cash-in on the unexpected success of the series, to promote their terrible Every-Bad-School-Battle-Anime-Trope-Imaginable sequel which was developed on a budget of nothing and basically destroyed the franchise forever in the west 🙁
Harsh! I pretty much disagree on almost every point. 🙂
I thought the story points got strung together much better in the anime, whereas the game only gave you bits and pieces to work with, buried in peoples’ profile often without context or introductions, and lost a lot of nuance the DID get captured in the anime. Static portraits with text underneath is almost the worst medium for storytelling I can think of (another reason I can’t stand most Japanese ‘visual novel’ games).
I’ll grant that playing the game for the first half-dozen missions definitely made me feel possessive of the characters and like I’d had an actual connection to them, but the necessity of turn-based combat and ‘back to the barracks’ post-mission tooling around (and skippability of cut-scenes) really broke the flow that the anime was able to get.
Also, the water-colour effect in the game really is gorgeous, it’s true. But I felt that even if the anime wasn’t getting the brush-stroke effect, it definitely captured the visual theme in terms of colour and tone.
The problem is that the actual plot of the game is generally trite anime bullshit when divorced of the game it belongs with. I suspect you’re also conflating memories of the two. Admittedly it’s long enough ago that I can’t actually remember if I even finished the anime. I didn’t finish the game until a long time after I got it, I was stuck on the level with the train cannon.
I also seem to recall a lot of people complaining about how much fanservice was shoehorned in for the adaption, but I think that that’s kind of splitting hairs since the game had that Edy DLC and the beach episode.
The game has a lot of properly animated conversations, there’s not much ‘static portraits with text underneath’ that I recall at all. It’s got a storybook-style presentation, always reminded me of something you’d have seen in a really well-illustrated kids book from the 50s or something. I really missed that. They took it out of the PSP games too. 🙁
Beautiful and challenging, I loved it
One of my favourite PS3 games!
The KFC in the shopping centre where I work has run out of chicken.
O_o
You work at KFC?!
YOU’VE BEEN LYING TO ME.
Can I please have that character reference back?
Edit: thanks to your edit, I now look like a crazy person.
Can I please have that character reference back? 😛
What ARE you talking about.
The KFC in the same building as where he works.
(Yes, I know thatwasthejoke.jpg) 🙂
You would be surprised how often I used to hear that at my local KFC.
How bad does management have to be for a business that purely sells chicken to run out of chicken?
Yeah it seems like a colossal fuckup for a chicken place to not have any chicken. It’d be like a cheese shop with no cheese.
I love Monty Python.
The sad thing is that it constantly happened on Friday nights.
I worked at a servo that would routinely run out of prostitutes.
Must have been included as part of the staff discount
HaiTaku get
Day = made
I don’t even participate anymore, I just come to glare at/admire the people who get these usually obscure games so fast.
I nearly got it today, but I ran out of syllables. It’s about time I let someone else win one though.
Congrats! 🙂
@beavwa has a shiny Pikachu for me.
I am now even more excited for Pokemon. Holy balls.
*fidget*
Well done. The new Pokemon game is amazing.
Whenever @dc isn’t on screen, all the other characters should be asking, “Where’s @DC?”
Also, I think he needs to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine.
Beyond: Two Souls
Party scene
I went for the revenge, took it way to far and felt bad after I remember Dawkins probably stuck his neck out for Jodie to make it happen, goes to show absolute power corrupts absolutely all I needed was a little bullying to set me on a murderous rage, scary take on human nature.I demand vengeance! Blood for the blood god! Burn them all!– Me, playing that scene
That sounds so cheesy, you should write raid boss quotes for World of Warcraft =)Pokemon X/Y get. Now, do I start X or Y first? What usually happens is with each release is I play both through, and at the end, migrate all my Pokemon from both to one of the titles and play that. Thinking I start with X, because eventually I’ll have Y as my ‘main’ copy.
Just found a piece of my watch’s clasp thingie that comes out. Took it out, then proceeded to dig out all the crud that was caked up inside. Now there’s eight years worth of skin, sweat and dirt spread across my desk. Oops.
Overshare watchcrud pageget.
Sunovabitch.
No wonder I didn’t notice – it’s one of those awkward gets that are stuck on the previous page for some reason.
I get to deal with that every day.
Except it’s other people’s watchcrud.
How big is your collection these days?
Just wanted to say as a resident of the Blue mountains (we’re fine currently) that I hope all you Kotaku kids around the state are ok. Nothing (not even dreamcasts ;-)) are worth risking your life for. Some sad scenes up here but in all seriousness – stay safe. Thanks to the firies. If you are in a position to donate – please do via the salvation army. Cheers.
Eh? People need to be safe, what?
Hm. I haven’t looked at the news since the other day where it made me ill.
*checks news* Jesus. Uhm. Yeah. Stay safe, people.
Need inside info from Brisbane city from you fine folk.
Looking at (decent) hotels to stay at in or near Kangaroo Point, closer to the bridge the better.
Cheers.
We stated at Adina Apartments up there a while ago.
This was the view from the apartment. Close enough to the bridge?
My laptop which is currently 20 months old is dying on me. Used to be that Apple made reliable hardware (yes, I am a traitor that owns a Macbook Pro) but this thing has been a bit of a lemon. Total hard drive failure about a year ago, fixed it but now I’m getting unpredictable kernel panics every week or so (have checked memory and it’s not the cause) and last night I had the thing lock up and start beeping at me, apparently because I’d forgotten to turn off the shitty AMD GPU before loading Plex so it had overheated.
So looks like I need to get a replacement laptop. I basically only use the thing for video nowadays but because the bulk of what I watch is anime, and anime subbing groups are run by assholes that put everything into 10-bit which means you need a desktop-class CPU to decode it and can’t use h264 decompression hardware, I actually need a decent machine. Basically the only reason I went with a Macbook Pro at the time was that they have well-built casing that isn’t festooned with stupid shit and reasonable specs, and that trackpad.
What are my options if I don’t want to go Apple again, but don’t want a laptop that feels like it was made with a million compromises and half-attempts, isn’t made out of crappy plastic and has decent specs without weighing a ton or being seven inches thick at one end?
Dell.
Don’t. I had a Dell laptop and it was the worst thing I’ve ever owned.Too far.
You’re listing things I shouldn’t buy right?
P.S. they make nice monitors though
See I actually had a much different experience with 3 separate Dell laptops. All were great, and one still serves happily today. Although I wouldn’t inflict a Dell desktop on my worst enemy, their laptops have been good to me.
Although lately I’ve ended up with Asus – I have two Asus laptops, and they’ve been great. One RoG laptop, and an Ultrabook (Zenbook).
I have two desktops at work, a Dell and a HP.
🙁
Oh dear. You are the unwilling center of a dirty big shit sandwich.
Not HP.
You could try install an SSD and breathe some life into the old MacBook?
As for non-crappy plastic models, I think you are limited to MacBooks? I don’t know any other aluminium laptops. I could be wrong.
there are plenty of aluminium options around from most manufacturers
You’re right, I even recommended a Samsung one to my cousin. I’m going nuts.
Or I’m just oblivious to everything other than my MacBook Air. XD
It’s not a hard drive problem. The machine itself is fucked and slowly cooking itself to death.
In that case, I must agree with Cody – no HP. I would also add skip Acer, too.
Acer is also poo. It is known.
http://www.samsung.com/au/consumer/pc-peripherals/notebook-pc/ativ-book/NP940X3G-K01AU
13″ is too small for my meaty ham fists.
EDIT: Also really crappy CPU that would struggle to handle software decoding my video 🙁
If an i5 can’t handle it then calling the subbing groups assholes was a massive understatement…
10-bit 1080p with FLAC audio. My MBP struggles with it, a 1.6ghz i5 wouldn’t handle it at all.
you do realize that’s a 3200×1800 display? I’m sure it’d have enough grunt for what you want to do. 4thgen i5’s are pretty awesome
plus it says up to 2.6GHz
That’s all GPU though, the intel HD 4000 is pretty decent. The problem is that the ultrabook CPUs are severely downclocked and 10-bit h264 is entirely software (i.e. CPU only, no GPU). If it was standard hi-profile h264 my phone could do it. 🙁
The CPU in that thing probably could handle it under Turbo Boost for a bit, but the problem with Turbo Boost is that once the CPU exceeds its thermal envelope it’ll progressively downclock itself to cool off again. I need something that can handle what I want to do without without needing to overclock.
Other option: get a new PSU and case, put my old desktop’s bits inside, turn into transcoding plex server and then just watch movies in bed on a tablet or something.
FYI, I’ve been running Plex for a few months now and it’s surprisingly great. Streaming to a tablet is just so much better than trying to use a laptop, especially in bed.
Yes, it would be awesome if I could do it. But so much of my stuff is Hi10P and my Plex server is running on my NAS (which is a single-core intel atom, not nearly beefy enough to transcode video).
However my old desktop was capable of playing the stuff back so I’d imagine it’d be okay transcoding it too.
I’d like moar details please, on how you’re getting this anime. I do want to catch up on some.
You want info on obtaining or info on what’s good?
Both would be awesome.
Are we Twitter Fronds yet?
As for what’s good, it really depends on the sort of stuff you like and what you might have seen recently (since there’s a fair number of sequel seasons currently running or recently finished).
Good time to jump in on new stuff as well, current cour began at the start of October so you’re 2-3 eps into a lot of stuff which is about the point you can figure out if stuff is going anywhere or not.
Hmmm…
http://www.razerzone.com/au-en/gaming-systems/razer-blade/
Do you have a price limit? I just bought an ASUS R501VZ a couple months back and it is pretty good! A little on the ritzy side though.
Edit:
http://www.mln.com.au/product/?itemID=4297
I’d probably consider it – I’m usually happy to spend ~$2500 for a good one (thus why I have owned two Macbook Pros in a row. Incidentally my old 2008 MBP is still working perfectly) but I kind of expect to get 3+ years out of it if I pay that much, and I never found that to be the case with most Windows manufacturers but previously had good experiences with Apple stuff. I think this particular model has been a lemon. They moved from nVIDIA GPUs to AMD and the AMD stuff is just not good.
They’re past due for a Macbook Pro refresh actually, maybe I’ll hold off until then and see.
$2500?! That’s a crazy amount! The one I bought was only $1200, hasn’t had any problems, and is covered under ASUS’ 2 year warranty. Although I don’t know what you need it for, or much about specs, so it might not be what you’re after.
Yeah, I upgrade around every 3 years and splurge on something pretty decent that I expect to last for at least that amount of time. I used to buy cheap ones but I was constantly having to upgrade and also they were worthless pretty quickly, where the higher-end stuff is still useful to people a few years later when I move to a new one, eg. my sister still uses my 08 Macbook Pro. I had intended to give her my current one when I move to what’s next but doesn’t look like that’s a good idea 🙁
http://www.kotaku.com.au
dont mind me. I’m just curious.
LIES!
WItchcraft. BURN THE WITCH!
Well, look at you there messing around with html code.
i was just curious to see what was given preference – the anchor or the straight pasted link.
Pretty sure the straight pasted link is parsed as a link purely thanks to the browser, so if it reads a link tag that gets priority. Which, I guess begs this question that I should know the answer to:
www.kotaku.com.au
Edit: And unedited to bring me out of the deathpool of moderation.
Edit 2: And, disappointing and entirely predictable response.
just got my haircut after almost a year of not cutting it…
this feels weird…
How do you think I felt going from three and a bit years of growth to bald? 😛
I think I can roughly imagine.
Repulsed?
Oh no wait that was me.
(I’m just kidding Blaghman! You’re my second favourite!)
Nawww, I’m still #1 😀
was it this one?
i spent $10 on my haircut, my cousin is a hairdresser 🙂
Tables are about to be flipped.
Rant ahead
Work is busy today and we’re struggling to stay on top of it, meanwhile one of my co-workers (preface by saying he’s a nice guy, but he’s one of those people who has been at the company for so long that he thinks the rules don’t apply to him) took an hour and half lunch break and has had at least 3 smoke breaks of about 15mins since he got back.Meanwhile, I haven’t even had my lunch break yet because every time I look up to leave my desk he’s not at his and being in support we need a minimum number of staff available and we are already people down due to annual leave. Posting this is the first time I’ve stopped working since this morning when I went on Twitter/TAY for 5mins.Ugh. People are the worst. And it actually sometimes makes it harder when they’re otherwise nice, because you just feel like a jerk if you go off at them 🙁
Hope you get a break or some other kind of karmic restoration, man!
I gave up on karma a long time ago.
I figured it would be fairly obvious not to get on the wrong side of a corpse-blacksmith but maybe that’s just me?
On the bright side, Friday?
Not really. Had plans tonight catching up with a friend I haven’t seen in 2 months. Really looking forward to it. So naturally it got cancelled.
Would it help if I sent you pictures of my beard?
…maybe
What about pictures of my
penis? C’mon, I’m not gonna be clever here.Do an actual tableflip, helps a lot.
Fuck the fucking fuckers. In other news, It’s Friday and a 2-day reprieve is nigh. Not a long term fix, but focus on the pretty light at the end of the shit-tunnel, brah.
Am attempting to negotiate a few days off work either side of my Brisbane trip. If I get my way, I’ll be taking a week and a half off, and it’ll all come out of accrued flex time that I’ve already earned.
It’ll be the first break I’ve had from work since my son was born sixteen months ago. \o/
YOU HAVE A SON?! No one told me. I mean, it feels like just the other week that you made the announcement. 😀
#justmessing
Nobody has mention little Lesser Evil Smith to you before. That is unusual, Shane talks about him constantly
I’M STILL ALIVE!!!
\o/
Who’s this guy. :\
OMG SHANE HAS AMNESIA!!!
*thumps him in the head*
Yes, because that always helps 😛
IT HELPS IN THE MOVIES!!!
*thumps nova*
Boardgames, my place, next weekend.
Chuloopa attendance – Unclear
Sorry buddy – i forgot to reply to that one. Unfortunately i can’t attend as it’s my bucks weekend and i will be busy getting shot repeatedly with paintballs before soothing the pain with alcohol shortly before forgetting where i live 🙁
Buck’s weekend? The marriage is that soon?!
(You can tell I haven’t really paid attention in this place for a while :P)
CONGRATULATIONS LOOPS!
So am I still the youngest person here?
yes.
why aren’t you taking your nap?
go back to bed!
Happy birthday! Wait, it is today right?
I lose track of time on TAY so easily.
IT IS HIS BIRTHDAY!!
HE’S SO YOUNG HE WAS LITTERALLY BORN TODAY!!
LAWL!!
#chuloopaswithasntgottenanybetter
Never change.
Thanks! Yes, it’s today. Just turned 19 😀
OOOLLLLDDD….
wait… 19?
YYOOOOOONNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😛
Nah, I think it changed last week and now I am.
Happy Youngday!
Bappy Hirthday!
When I posted my list of ‘things I’ve played and have really been meaning to get around to finishing’, there was an unexpected bonus side-effect of folks like @vonsack or @tigerion saying we should totally do some of the co-op thingies together. Which, y’know. Awesome idea, guys.
So anyway, Transientmind’s ‘holy crap he’s got a lot of games on Steam…’ lists follow:
1. Games I’ve either never played and don’t have much interest in playing, or I have played and thought they were so shit I’m never touching them again. (ie: Money well-spent.)
9th Company – Roots of Terror
688(I) Hunter/Killer
Age of Empires 3: Complete Collection
Alpha Prime
AlternativeA
Angelica Weaver: Catch Me When You Can
Ankh 2: Heart of Osiris
Ankh 3: Battle of the Gods
Anomaly Warzone Earth
AquaNox 1 & 2
Arma 2
Armada 2526
Arx Fatalis
Astropop Deluxe
Aztaka
Babel Rising
Bad Rats
BC Kings
Ben There, Dan That!
Birth of America
Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition
Bloodrayne 2
Bone: Out From Boneville & The Great Cow Race
Book of Legends
Botanicula
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars
Bunch of Heroes
Caster
Ceville
Chains
Chantelise
Chime
Chronicles of Mystery: The Scorpio Ritual
Clive Barker’s Jericho
Cogs
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
Commander Keen pack
Commandos 1, 2, 3
Cosmic Osmo
Cubemen
Culpa Innata
Dangerous Waters
Darkest Hour: Europe ’44-’45
Dark Fall: Lost Souls
Darkspore
Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel
Delve Deeper
Demigod
Disciples 3
Divinity 2
Ducati World Championship
Dungeon Siege 1 & 2
Dwarfs!?
E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy
Emerald City Confidential
Exodus from the Earth
F.E.A.R. expansions, 2, 3
Feeding Frenzy 2
FlatOut 1 & 2
Fleet Command
Flight Control HD
Foreign Legion: Buckets of Blood
Freedom Force / +vs the Third Reich
Frontlines: Fuel of War
Front Mission Evolved
Galaxy on Fire 2
Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime
Ghost Master
Gumboy: Crazy Adventures
Hazen: The Dark Whispers
Helldorado
Heretic & HeXen
Hunted: The Demon’s Forge
Hydrophobia
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis/Last Crusade
Insecticide
Intrusion 2
Iron Brigade
Ironclads (various versions)
Iron Grip: Marauders
Iron Roses
Iron Warriors
Jack Keane
Just Cause
King’s Bounty: Armored Princess
Kuros
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
Larva Mortus
Mahjong Quest 1-3
Making History
Manhole
March of War
Mare Nostrum
Marvel Heroes
Mr Robot
Myst series
Obulis
Oddworld series & Spin-offs
ORION: Dino Horde
Osmos
Overlord 1-2
Painkiller series
Penguins Arena
Perimeter 2
Pizza Frenzy
Port Royale 2
Power of Defense
Prince of Persia (Sands of Time series)
Project: Snowblind
Project Freedom
RAW – Realms of Ancient War
Razor2: Hidden Skies
Red Orchestra
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Reus
RIP 1-3
RUSH
Rusty Hearts
Sacred Gold
Scratches
Second Sight
Secret Files
Section 8
SEGA Genesis & Mega Drive Classics
Shadow Harvest: Phantom Ops
Sniper: Ghost Warrior
Solar 2
Space Empires 4 & 5
SpaceForce: Rogue Universe
Space Siege
Space Trader: Merchant Marine
Spelunx
Star Ruler
Star Wars: Starfighter
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes
Strong Bad series
Sub Command
Surgeon Simulator 2013
Swords and Soldiers HD
Syberia 1-2
Tank Universal
Telltale Texas Hold’em
The Polynominal
The Showdown Effect
Thirty Flights of Loving
Time Gentlemen, Please!
Titan Quest
Tomb Raider series (excluding the reboot)
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon / Advanced Warfighter
Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. 2
Two Worlds
Typer Shark
Uru: Complete Chronicles
Vegas: Make It Big
Wallace and Gromit series
Waveform
World Basketball Manager 2010
World of Battles
World of Goo
Worms Reloaded
X-COM series (not including Apocalypse or the reboot XCOM)
X3 series
Zen Bound 2
Zombie Pirates
2. Stuff I’ve already played and completed, or stuff that can’t actually be completed because, like… MMO or minesweeper.
Audiosurf
Battlefield 2
Bejeweled 1, 2 & 3
Big Money!
Bioshock 1 & Infinite
Blacklight: Retribution
Bloodline Champions
Bloodrayne
Bookworm and Bookworm Adventures
Borderlands
Brink
Bullet Candy
C9
Call of Duty whatevers
Champions Online
Chuzzle Deluxe
City of Heroes: Going Rogue (RIP)
Counter-Strike series
Darwinia
Day of Defeat
DC Universe Online
Deadspace
DEFCON
Defender’s Quest: Valley of the Forgotten
Defense Grid: The Awakening
Defiance
Deus Ex 1 & 2
Disciples 2
Discovery! A Seek & Find Adventure
Divinity: Dragon Commander
DLC Quest
Don’t Starve
Doom 2
DOTA 2 (unfun LoL for hipsters)
Dragon Age 2
Dragon Nest
Dungeons & Dragons Online
Dynomite!
Endless Space
F.E.A.R. (Not the expansions)
Fallen Earth
Fallout 1, 2, 3, Tactics
Fantasy Wars
Far Cry
Final DOOM
From Dust
FTL: Faster than Light
Geometry Wars
Global Agenda
Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising
Godus
Greed Corp
Gunpoint
Guns of Icarus Online
Hack, Slash, Loot
Half-Life (1, 2, 2-ep one, blue shift, op force, source)
Hammer Heads
Heavy Weapon
Hitman: codename 47, silent assassin, blood money
HOARD
Homefront
iBomber Defense Pacific
Iggle Pop
Impire
Insaniquarium
Jade Empire
Jagged Alliance 2/Online
Kane & Lynch 1 & 2
Kenshi
Left 4 Dead
Loom
Lumines
Magical Diary (SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP)
Mass Effect 1-3
Max Payne 1-3
Medal of Honor
Metro 2033
Mirror’s Edge
Monday Night Combat / Super MNC
Monkey Island series (except Tales)
Natural Selection 2
Nuclear Dawn
On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 1-2
Orcs Must Die 1-2
Organ Trail
Planets Under Attack
Plants vs Zombies
Poker Night at the Inventory
Portal 1-2
PoxNora
Prime World
Puzzle Pirates
Quake 1-3
Realm of the Mad God
realMyst
Red Faction 1, 2, Geurilla
Rocket Mania
Rogue Trooper
STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl
Saints Row 2
Sanctum
Savage 2
Sequence
Shadowgrounds
Shattered Horizon
Sid Meier’s Civilization 4 & 5
SiN + Episodes
Sins of a Solar Empire (+ Rebellion)
Sol Survivor
Spiral Knights
Star Drive
Star Trek Online
Star Wars: Battlefront 2
Star Wars: Jedi Knight/Dark Forces series + Jedi Academy
Star Wars: Empire at War
Star Wars: Galaxies (RIP)
Supreme Commander 1-2
System Shock 2
Talismania Deluxe
Team Fortress 2
Terraria
The Banner Saga: Factions
The Dig
The Longest Journey
The Lord of the Rings Online
The Ship
The Sims 3 / Medieval
The Wonderful End of the World
Tom Clancy’s Endwar
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell (up to Conviction)
Tower Wars
Towns
Triple Town
Unholy Heights
Universe at War: Earth Assault
Universe Sandbox
Unreal/Tournament series (except 2)
Warframe
Warhammer 40k Dawn of War + expansions
Wolfenstein 3D
Zen of Sudoku
Zombie Shooter
Zuma
3. Games I own which I’ve never played but have totally been meaning to.
Afterfall Insanity
A Game of Thrones – Genesis + Game of Thrones
Alice: Madness Returns
Aliens vs Predator
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Anodyne
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
Aura: Fate of the Ages
Battle for Graxia
Binary Domain
Bully: Scholarship Edition
Cart Life
Cave Story+
Cities XL
Confrontation
Crusader Kings II
Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble!
Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition
Deadlight
Deadpool
Deadspace 2 (Origin. Ew.)
Dimensity
Dino D-Day
Dungeon Siege 3
Fallen Enchantress
FEZ
Gemini Rue
Genesis Rising
Half-Minute Hero
Home
I Am Alive
Kentucky Route Zero
Krater
LIMBO
McPixel
Penumbra series
Planetary Annihilation
Prototype 2
Psychonauts
Recettear
Red Faction: Armageddon
Retro City Rampage
Risen 2: Dark Waters
Rise of the Triad
Runaway 1-2
Samorost 2
Serious Sam 3: BFE
Shadowgrounds: Survivor
Sim City 4
SOL: Exodus
Spec Ops: The Line
The Cave
The First Templar
Thomas Was Alone
Tomb Raider (reboot)
To The Moon
TRAUMA
Under the Ocean
Velvet Assassin
Wargame: European Escalation
Zombie Driver
Zombie Shooter 2 (DON’T JUDGE ME)
Now that I think about it, that list at point 3 is quite large. And probably quite expensive. I could play even one of those every week and consider it a ‘present to me’ and not need to spend any more money on games for like… an entire year.
None of those lists contained “would-like-to-coop” games! I too, am interested in coop-ing things with various peoples. Perhaps a new sheet on TAYnames, to list some coop-able games we all own? Would help us match up compatible players.
I like this idea. In fact I might look at doing something about it tonight.
Even better idea, you setup the page and I’ll fill in my details after you’ve done all the hard work
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I like this idea too o/
You haven’t played Rise of the Triad yet?
When you get the chance, play it for five minutes, then stop.
Just to get yourself in the mood for it.
You’ll thank me later.
HOW IS BROKEN SWORD IN YOUR ‘NOT PLAYING’ LIST?!
BROKEN SWORD IS AMAZING.
Mostly because reading the name of it didn’t immediately conjure some mental screenshots to orient my expectations. 🙂
BROKEN SWORD IS BRILLIANT.
Yeah i’m down for some co-op !
Theres a heap of pop culture references from the small amount I played of Magicka, def worth a finish.
Alice: The Madness Returns I really enjoyed, wasnt perfect but the concept was really cool. An underwater stage you actually dont mind playing! Each new level is creepy and strange in its own way. It does get a bit repetitive though and they do recycle a lot of enemies. Still I enjoyed it for what they did right.
Also, Specs Ops is a must play.
AND SOLITAIRE. THAT GAME IS FUCKING RIGGED.
Faerie Solitaire? I know dude, some of those puzzles are so hard!
NO, JUST REGULAR WINDOWS SOLITAIRE.
That fucking game hates me, man.
My dad’s a demon with that game. He’d seriously spend hours with it on the weekends while talking to work people about boring work things that he probably shouldn’t have to be putting up with on the weekend… A national park catches on fire or a dingo eats someone and people get so dramatic! (Seriously, people. Stop feeding dingoes. They lose their fear of humans and begin to demand food, and it’s the children who suffer for it.)
All I got from that was Solitaire makes the children suffer. I fucking knew it. I am NOT surprised.
I agree, people should really stop feeding their children to dingoes.
Worse egg finding system ever. So hard to get the last few pets.
There is an easy way to complete all the puzzles if you are interested 😉
Nooooooooooooommaybe. 🙂
I’ll remember to ping you next time I’m feeling completionary, but I think that one’s a fair ways down the list. I’m considering tackling the ‘incomplete’ list alphabetically.
It’s by design. That’s why they invented Freecell. Every Freecell game is finishable. Klondike isn’t.
I remember when I found a game number (back when they had numbers) that was really easy to finish. I believe it was number 150, I would just play that same game over and over until I could beat it in less than a minute 😀
So i beat bioshock infinite, pretty good, not game of the year like people were saying it was, seeing as the “game” part of it wasn’t particularly innovative. i loved the story though, i’m a sucker for alternate dimension sci-fi stuff like that.
Probably my favourite part of Infinite was the art direction and attention to detail. I imagine Booker blasting away, screaming at people, “WILL YOU MOTHERFUCKERS JUST DIE ALREADY SO I CAN GET BACK TO READING THIS CHALKBOARD AND THESE FLYERS?”
Someone much smarter than me suggested that if the whole game had been like the first hour of the game it would probably have been game of the year for all years forever.
But unfortunately the rest of the game doesn’t live up to the start 🙁
I thought the end was pretty clever though, it made me feel less like I’d been bait & switched. Hate the gameplay in general but love the rest of it.
Yeah. Beautiful, rich, living world to the Military-Industrial Crate Zone.
“Hey, can you please-”
NOPE.
*throws laptop in the air, walks out*
“Depends. Can it be completed in the next six minutes?”
“…hold my $10000 that I never expect back?”
YOU LOSE, SIR.
Oh my god they’re doing a new Sailor Moon anime in January.
Fighting Evil by Moonlight!
Finding love by daylight!
Never running from a real fight!
I always thought it was “winning love by daylight”.
Yeah it is. =P
Regardless, her relationship with that dude is totally fucking creepy. I don’t care if they’re destined for each other or whatever the hell they justify it with, she’s supposed to be like 13 and he’s in his 20s. The more disturbing thing is that no one – including her parents – seem to find anything wrong with this and actively encourage it. 😐
Maybe it’s a Japanese thing?
┐(゚~゚)┌
I’ll just leave this here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwlM-C0jAfQ
*tears open shirt* FRRRRIIIIIIIIIIDAAAAAAAAAAAAAY
*passes out on couch*
@negativezero I added you on teh twitters. I’m not friends with anyone on there lol. Also, new thread since it wouldn’t let me reply to you. 0_0
Twitter fronds!
I tried to DM you but twitter is being mean 🙁
🙁
It wouldn’t let me send you links. Maybe thought I was a spambot? Dunno. DMed you finally.
HI EVERYONE.
OBLIGATORY NOT DEAD POST.
LOUD NOISES.
POKEMANS IS AWESOME.
HI CRACKS
OBLIGATORY WHO’S THIS GUY POST
LOUD NOISES
YES IT IS, BUT NEED MORE DETAILS. STARTERS, TEAM, PROGRESS. NEED ALL THE DETAILS
CHOSE FROAKIE, BECAUSE ALWAYS CHOOSE WATER STARTERS.
CHOSE CHARMANDER – WOULD HAVE CHOSEN SQUIRTLE, BUT ALREADY HAD A WATER POKEMANS. LATER ACQUIRED SQUIRTLE AND BULBASAUR FROM BEAVWA.
CURRENTLY ROLLING WITH
GRENINJA 51
CHARIZARD 51
PIDGEOT 50
TYRANTRUM 47
DOUBLADE 48
FLAAFFY 26
I WANT FLAAFFY TO BECOME AMPHAROS, BECAUSE AMPHAROS IS A PRETTY COOL DUDE. ALSO, MEGA AMPHAROS LOOKS BITCHIN’.
I HAVE JUST EMBARKED ON ROUTE 14.
Remember to boot up Mystery Gift at the title screen for a free Torchic.
Yeah, picked up the Torchic. Will train it up at some point.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh ended up walking out of school the same time as Sketchbook Girl AGAIN. Shared awkward nods of hello at the lift, but then partway through the carpark she asked if I was going down to the pub. Told her I wasn’t this week, knowing she didn’t plan to. Then after she said she wasn’t either, I made a comment about her having had a rough time last week. EVEN THOUGH I KNEW THAT IT HAD JUST BEEN BROUGHT UP A LITTLE WHILE EARLIER IN A CONVERSATION WITH MY FRIEND AND THE ADMIN LADY, where it was mentioned how she got bowled over by all of three drinks last week and had to go home, at which point she apparently turned bright red.
At least I didn’t have to endure the ensuing silence for long, with her leaving in a different direction at the end of the driveway. Still, feeling good that she seems to keep initiating conversation – which is more than I can say about myself, really 😛
And no I cannot explain nor reign in this apparent compulsion to detail every little interaction that I ever have with a female 😛
God, if I *actually* did that…
To be fair, I detail every interaction I have with females.
Oh.
It’s a great sign that they initiate conversation! You should use that as the ego boost you need to capitalize on it. 🙂
I would, I just have no idea what to do 😛
Somehow, despite the fact that I’ve had countless conversations with people that have even gone on until the sun’s risen again, I just can’t seem to make myself have a conversation when I want (need?) to. Unless they’re driving things along, I just go completely blank and can’t think of a single thing to say. And in this case, it seems like she’s in the same or at least similar boat.
Do more reading. There’s tons of guides, even on Lifehacker: “top 10 things to keep conversation going” etc.
I have read a few things like that before, but it’s hard for that kind of stuff to really stick and be able to think of them/apply them when needed. Learning new behaviours, forgetting old ones, etc.
Yah I know, requires practice I guess. I’m not perfect at it either lol. Gl. 😀
I just yelled at the video in this article: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/10/toy-story-in-space-brings-the-disney-infinity-saga-full-circle/
He was like “These little yellow guys” and I was like “NO. NO MIKE FAHEY, YOU ARE WRONG. THEY’RE LITTLE GREEN MEN!”
My life is very sad.
EDIT: AND THEN HE’S LIKE “Jessie’s Boyfriend is Woody.” NO. NO MIKE FAHEY. I DON’T CARE THAT YOU ADMIT THAT YOU CAN’T REMEMBER. THAT IS NOT THE FRIGGIN’ CASE.
Poor Bo Peep :'(
So much heartbreak that is barely even addressed in the third movie. :'(
So after playing trauma centre with @gorzilla I realised I would really like to play Trauma team. Pity it was never released in a pal region. =(
Softmod your Wii. Install the Homebrew Channel and you can break region coding on the system and play any import game.
Good to know!
Depending on the firmware you’re on it’s trivially easy. I’ve installed it a couple of times on mine (some game I had required an upgrade and then re-install via the letter bomb exploit)
EDIT: http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_Channel#Installation
If you’ve got specific games there are exploits for some of them that work on different systems, else you’ll need to do a LetterBomb or BannerBomb exploit. It’s easy. All you generally need is an SD card and a PC that can put files onto said card. Copy the HackMii stuff to the SD card along with whatever exploit you’re using, run the exploit, magic happens and the HBC installation starts and then it’s installed. Then you need a homebrew app for breaking region codes. I use Gecko OS (it’s on that wiki). You basically load the Homebrew Channel (it’s an app on the front menu), run the program and then it should boot the disc cross-region. Very easy.
I managed to install the Homebrew Channel on my Wii, but I never managed to get anything else working. I am a very special case.
I got everything to work except Fatal frame 4. Turns out because I had a red wii, it was too recent for the patch. =(
Clearly the solution was to cry.
Dammit I keep forgetting that I need to pick that up!
Same goes for Excitebots. Heard it’s really great – except for the practically game-breaking red bars that you have to swing around.
I have added several TAYbies on 3DS – most notably @mawt, @beavwa and @powalen. Addmeh!
Well you certainly didn’t add me. I can tell as I’m not on your notably list.
I did add you, poopface.
I thought I already had you! I’ll check.
You probably do.
Added!
You’re showing up in my friends list, so I must have added you already. \o/
30 Video Games You Don’t Want Your Kids To Play
Um, considering they’re all MA15+ or higher… Duh?
Games are for children!
Apparently Saints Row is so bad for kids that it’s in there twice.
Actually, yeah. That’s fair.
Honestly, the first Saints Row game is bad enough that I don’t think anyone should play it.
Booo hisssss ohwait. The first one made. OK.
Honestly, I’m not a fan of any of them. 2 Put me off thanks to the way its cars handled like trolleys with jets attached to them, 3 I just found boring, while strangely compelling, and 4 was only really interesting because I am a mad sucker for open world super power games.
Despite all this, I keep buying them, and in the case of 4, I bought it off Amazon and played it illegally before it was released here, and I’m still not sure why.
Ditto for ‘Aliens’ assuming that means Aliens: Colonial Marine.
Colonial Marines is bad enough that nobody should play it, let alone kids. It was really not a very good game.
Don’t know why I finished it. Was so tempted to just stop playing.
Amusing anecdote: I played Leisure Suit Larry when I was a kid. The original game. I finished it, even.
Since it was trendy earlier and I’m always late to the party, games in my Steam list that I have not finished that I didn’t drop because I hate:
– Alpha Protocol
– Borderlands 2
– Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon
– Max Payne 3
– Torchlight
– Torchlight II
– The Walking Dead
– X-COM: Enemy Unknown
And the list of stuff I have that I’ve never gotten around to starting but intend to at some point:
– Alan Wake’s American Nightmare
– Binary Domain
– Cave Story
– Crysis 2
– Dark Souls
– The Darkness II
– Dungeon Siege III
– Dyad
– The Last Remnant
– Metro 2033
– Rage
– Shadowrun Returns
– Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II (I don’t even remember buying this…)
– Trine & Trine 2
Obviously I have a ton of other stuff, but it’s all stuff that I finished or that I picked up without much intent to play but it was like $2 or something, or where I purchased to support a developer I like, eg. I own all of Carpe Fulgur’s games despite not really ever intending to play because I want to support localization of small-scale JP games. That worked out nicely since they’re handling Trails in the Sky SC now.
I put more time into Blood Dragon than I did Skyrim…
Sidevote.
Loved Blood Dragon, but Elder Scrolls games are favourites of mine.
All I got from that was something about someone handling TitS.
I hear that tits have gotten larger and more expansive over time.
Clicking Bad
Who demands that much of a bribe?
I’d play Clicking Bad, but I have 295 HC invested into Cookie Clicker, so I’m too busy to play anything else.
Edit: And smart people. That’s who. Seriously, you accept that once, and you’re set for life!
Edit 2: Okay, I’ve started playing Clicking Bad. Goddammit.
It’s a little more short than Cookie Clicker but there’s a balancing act between supply and selling. They keep updating it too so have to refresh every so often.
Yeah, I think it’s an interesting dynamic. Also, where I currently sit, Drug Mules are way OP.
I have an assignment due! Why did I have to google Clicking Bad?! WHY?!
Dear lord. This game. WHY DID I HAVE TO START!?!?
You and @liondrive should just be thankful you didn’t do cookie clicker instead, which is MUCH more involved and addictive. c.c
(NEED MOAR HEAVENLY CHIPS, ONLY HAS 337…)
Man, wedding was really nice. I’m so happy for my lil’ Oliver and his now wife 🙂 Couldn’t keep the smile off my face when she walked down the aisle. The few hours beforehand were a tad stressful, trying to make each other look nice and whatnot, but I think we did alright in the end! Was good meeting his family too, who apparently all know quite a lot about me 😛
Did you mouth along her vows while watching Oliver? 😛
Good to hear everything went well. It’s kind of a relief when it’s all over. All the stress and build up all gone and worth it.
ahahahahaha nooo 😛
And yeah, was good when the ceremony part was over at least. Spent half the afternoon just trying to calm him down
GTA V patch 1.04 is in. So far from what I can tell, they’ve nerfed some of the games. Base Invaders only gives you $12,500.
Seems like Rockstar are either taking the $500,000 bonus into account or they’re trying to funnel people to buying GTA$.
@shadow – No word yet on the sin bin. Everything was fine when I tried it.
Did they nerf the bike selling glitch?
No idea, I haven’t bothered trying it.
Pokemon talk. No spoilers.
Goddamn, the market for Vivillon on the GTS is cutthroat. Anything but the Japanese purple pattern gets snapped up instantly. I’m constantly refreshing the GTS. The second I see a pattern that I don’t have (and they’re usually asking for a Vivillon in return) I click Trade. “This Pokemon has already been traded”. Refresh. Trade. “This Pokemon has already been traded”. Refreshing every few seconds and they’ve already been snapped up! It’s a minigame of it’s own!Such a good feeling when you manage to beat out the crowd and get a new pattern though! I’ve got 6 different colours now 😀 Their plan was clearly to get people trading across countries/showing off their global audience and it’s worked. Love it.
That’s something I wouldn’t have even thought about. Interesting!
Also, glad I’ve never felt the need to ‘catch them all’, or shiny hunt, or anything along those lines. So much time spent already 😐
I’m tempted to try and catch em all this time but only because it is now soooo much easier to trade for what you don’t have
Agreed. The new trade system is way better than using the old Gameboy link cable.
What is this “pattern” people keep talking about?
Do they actually have textures to them now or something?
Vivillon from different countries have different colours/patterns on their wings.
Ah, interesting. And that’s the only one that does it? Seems kinda odd to implement an extra feature like that just for the one guy.
Well, it’s more of a gimmick than a feature. They’ve done similar things before. What better way to push the (much improved) global connectivity features than by riling up the collectors and completionists? 😛
I don’t know why, but I kept googling 3dfx to see what it was all about.
Probably because I never had a 3dfx card back in the day.
I had a 12mb Voodoo2, and it was the shit back in it’s time. Piggybacking off a 2mb Trident onboard graphics card. Quake and Quake II in OpenGL – I was the envy of all my friends.
Oh man, when I got my Titanium G4 powerbook, that thing had a separate GPU with 64 Meg of RAM, so it just destroyed everything else at the time.
Sadly it was a mac, so it only had 12 games. :/
I loved my original 3dfx card. Cost me a whopping $300 back in the day! So many good times though!
Fuck yeah, there’s not one, but two new Tim and Eric shows coming! 2!! With Zach Galifanakis 😀 This is gonna be great, it’s been so long since they’ve been on TV.
I know Rule #1 of the Internet is don’t read the comments but god damn have some of these drop kicks completely missed the whole freaking point of this article
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/18/australia-nsw-bushfire-twitterr
What the hell is with Dunsparce? A Lvl 19 one just wiped out 5/6 of my Pokemon all leveled 26-34. D:
I’m guessing it was flinch hacking you with headbutt and Serene Grace?
Went to Friday Night Magic, for the first time ever.
Drafted, also for the first time ever (Green-White)
Didn’t suck! did well enough to win a pack! had an epic move- guy was attacking with an uber buffed monster (up to 12/12), which would have got him the game. I waited for his attack then played “defend the hearth” which meant I took no damage and then I flattened him next turn to win 🙂
I watched a friend of mine play Magic once. Prior to the game he’s been showing me his deck, and he’s like “this is an OP Black combo that has no chance of happening, but that has mad escalation of power.” Then he played his brother, and the perfect combo happened and he pulled it off, and we were both just like YYYYYYEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
i’m probably gonna start doing drafts next week, my friends did it this week without telling me, so when i showed up a little later, they were all drafting and i had nothing to do… so i played pokemon…
I just went into the store, but I’ll do a draft with my friends at some point. I think it’s going to be the format I stick with- less deckbuilding bollocks, more playing the cards you get
The only problem with drafting is that it’s a bit pricey to do regularly.
True, but I can always stick the cards into a cube later on. Besides, for $20 and 3+ hours of entertainment it’s cheaper than a movie.
Also: HANABI: It’s just a couple of card decks, right? Saw it at thte game shop, but I didn’t know if it was the full game or an expansion so I left it
A single deck. Should be 60 cards total (10 per colour including 10 rainbow cards for the rule variants) with 8 clue tokens and 4 fuse tokens.
It’s an incredibly small and simple game.
The box is about the size of two standard decks.
Cool, might grab it next time I’m there
I’m really tempted to try and teach people that play BOARD GAMES how to play. Mainly so that I can put together a draft cube (probably just a cheap commons/uncommons only one) to allow for super happy fun times.
i’d join in… you know… if i wasn’t on the other side of the country…
The problem is drafting is that you need to at least have some idea about deck construction. That’s the trickiest bit, getting everyone to have experience on that end of things.
Goodnight, folks!
Have a good weekend!
@beavwa Thanks again for the ditto offer, got home from the pub earlier, did a search, and someone was trading it for kadabra. I jumped on that right away because I can catch an abra whenever. Also this thought crossed my mind – doesn’t kadabra evolve as soon as you trade it? Meaning he/she doesn’t get kadabra, they get alakazam? Jokes on them!
I’m so evil.
And drunk.
Their intention was probably to get an Alakazam in the first place! If you were really evil you would trade your Kadabra holding an Everstone for maximum troll-ness 😛
Yeah when I woke up I thought about it and you’re probably right. Everstone would’ve been sweeet!
So my Pokemon experience is limited to half of White which I really enjoyed before becoming sidetracked by 3DS and PSV games but somehow I had a dream this morning about Pokemon.
One of us, one of us
I’ve added a new page to TAYnames called ‘Co-op Goodness’. Feel free to add your list of games you wanna play with peeps and perhaps edit the format – it’s pretty basic atm. 😛
@tigerion
@transientmind
I see @tigerion in there messing around with the list already! 🙂
Yep. 🙂 Good job to whoever made the new format, it’s much better haha.
Wasn’t me! Probably Tigs.
Figured that would be a bit easier
I’m sure it will evolve a bit once people start to use it
Man, they really should have made turning on Streetpass/Spotpass in X/Y more obvious. I would’ve never thought to look in the Holo-caster menu all tucked away in the corner. So many people are going to miss out on these features!
They were being… ghastly..
Shit, it’s 25 degrees right now. It’s warming up a bit! I have a long, fun week of studying ahead of me, but I’m taking a break from doing anything this weekend. I feel like I deserve it 😛
In other news today is the first time I’ve woken up with a hangover in quite a while… Whoever it was that put so much money on the bar just for the wedding party, I thank you 😛
Capitulated. Went into JB earlier to buy Pokemon.
Out of stock. 🙁
Going to be yet another 3DS game with no stock for months I guess. 🙁
Why not buy it online?
http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/game/3ds/pokemon-y-version/679359
Are you after X or Y?
I don’t care.
I wanted it in my hands today, otherwise I’d order it from somewhere cheaper.
Ah.
Moving on…
If you are near a shopping compleXY, try Target. $49 according to the catalogue.
I’m close to two but dunno if I want to go back out just for Pokemon. Should have gone there earlier.
It’s worth it.
Be PositiveZero!
😀
I’m trying to motivate myself to draw…
But instead I ended up at tvtropes, dA, xkcd, and TAY.
Ahhhh the researching phase 😉
Namco: another week without news of a localization for God Eater 2. You are still poppy-heads. >:(
A parody song on DLC — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTYpKlIc_fg
It’s amazing. D:
Now Aladdin songs are going to be stuck in my head, taking over from the Duck Tales theme. 😐I’m kind of tempted to rewatch Aladdin now.
Even though I last watched it like 3 weeks ago,
Aladdin sucks. Genie is way better. XD
I traded in a couple old finished games and managed to get Wind Waker for $50! 😀
Time to join on the hype traaaain. My first proper WiiU game to boot.
Haha, getting all Nintendo Defence Force in Mark’s Wii U article. Ah well, it’s fun to angry up the blood sometimes.
Championing the underdog, eh? Well, people do strange things when they have chronic buyer’s remorse. 😉
You’re right. I never should have sunk all that money into that stupid PC 😛
EVERONE IS MAKING THE LIST TODAY.
Stanley Parable. People are playing it, yeah? You should. It’s great. The internet is being quite odd when it comes to reviews and such about the game, however-
So yeah, checked out the trailer, instabuy. Keen to explore!
Periodically I find the most unexpected stuff on youtube.
Today’s discovery: at some point Andrew W.K. appears to have done an entire album of english-translated arrangements of songs from Mobile Suit Gundam. It’s pretty amazing.
So, Pokemon X/Y.
Has anyone else had a passerby just constantly request to trade?
Yes. Someone named Strawberry was constantly asking me to trade/battle/etc for a good half hour today. I think they eventually got the hint 😛
My person didn’t. I ended up disconnecting from the internet
My PC won’t update to Windows 8.1. Some kind of device conflict 🙁
Make them get along!
…
Seriously, though.
That’s weird.
Have you searched any forums?
Widespread problem, no resolution known yet. 🙁
My Surface just shat itself and decided to change everything to display in Japanese instead of English. I had the IME installed a while back so I could enter kanji (it’s useful). I suspect it’s stopping me seeing the 8.1 update on the surface as well.
Nothing will let me update. So frustrating. 8.1 is a less annoying 8 and I can’t get off 8. 🙁
My galaxy tab shat itself tonight too 🙁 All teh sucks for us 🙁
Upgraded all four of my machines yesterday, and they all worked perfectly. It’s pretty good so far too, some improvements.
Yeah, I’ve had it on my work laptop since RTM and have it on my desktop at work as well. Just my two personal machines missing it.
The surface refuses to show the update in the store. I’m actually wondering if it’s volume licensed and can’t be updated.
Having a pretty shitty day when all of a sudden my sister brings me white-choc coated raspberry licorice. Best sister ever! My day can only go up from here!
White chocolate coated raspberry liquorice? Don’t think I’ve ever tried it.
I could lie and say it’s only alright so that you don’t feel like you’re missing out, but it is delicious, a little moreish, but delicious!
And please excuse my spelling of liquorice, I only like raspberry liquorice so I don’t pay attention to how it’s spelt 😛
Spent all day watching Brickleberry pretty much. I gave up on it after the horrendous first episode of the season, but omg it’s gotten so good after that! This parody of Wrecking Ball had me in stitches. I’ve watched it like 20 times now 😛 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9P6oNobWfs
Has anyone seen AC4 PC standard edition cheaper than OGS’ $53? Happy to buy it completely digital but the Steam price has $20 Australia Tax on it…
Greenman is $60 and Mightyape $55.
Maybe one of those mental Russian sites of dubious veracity?
OGS is $53 so that seems like a better approach even though it’d mean waiting a couple of weeks.
I might just hold off and see if anyone sells a CD key. Not one of the dodgy Russian places though.
Oh I still have $10 unused credit with GMG from when I preordered Tomb Raider. That makes things easier.
Caught a Wobbuffet.
Only took 8 Ultra Balls, 6 Nest Balls, 3 Net Balls and 37 Great Balls….
I caught Xerneas with one Quick Ball in one turn.
I hat you a little. I never seem to be able to catch anything.
Serious tip: Quick Balls! They have a 4x catch rate on the first turn of battle (goes down to 1x rate after the first turn). You can generally catch most things without any weakening or anything!
Spent 50 000 on Quick balls. They’re not helping *shakes fist*
Are you using them only on the very first turn? Before any Pokemon has made a move?
If so… then yeah, you’re bad luck 😛
Would anyone like a copy of Civilization 5? I just found I have a steam key for it that I haven’t redeemed. I already have the game so I can’t activate the key to check if it’s still active.
EDIT: claimed
My cool little Dragon/Dinosaur looking thing transformed into a box with 4 stubby legs. 🙁
The Stanley Parable is definitely a thing.
Kinda like Antichamber, only set in the (sur)real world, and now with added narrator.
It’s awesome. Just tried the demo and immediately bought the full thing. Such a cool demo.
The start was hilarious.
With having to move the mouse because the wall looked like the intro credits.GTA V ending
Multiple choice ending?Is there really any choice but C? Did anyone actually choose to gun down Trevor or Michael? How did that go?Yeah, I couldn’t do it.
I know I talked big about wanting to kill Trevor at some point, but not by Franklin… not like that. Or Michael, really. I mean. Those two guys really did care about each other.Strip Trevor down sometime and check out the tattoo on his upper arm. Sigh.
I picked killing Trevor purely because I thought Deathwish meant Franklin was going to be killed. Thought they were putting on one of those horrible choices you don’t want to make. Turned out I gave the writers too much credit and there was an easy sunshine and rainbows choice rendering the choice pointless really.I picked C because
I wasn’t sure how the game handled how you can play with the characters after the game was finished for collectibles. I assumed it didn’t matter, but still. Plus I liked all 3 characters in their own way.Some moron must’ve decided to light up in their apartment, tripping the complex’s fire alarm. The alarm for our floor is directly outside my door.
Booooo.
Evacuation resulted in numerous hot neighbours in various states of undress.
Silver lining.
Shoulda tried my line on a couple.. never know your luck in the big city! 😉
Academic purposes only, I’m spoken for. 🙂
Happy Birthday, @shane! Hope it’s a damn good one! You’re awesome, look forward to hanging at Supanova!
And crushing his face?
Goes without saying!
Happy Birthday Kristen Bell and @Shane.
We can see Kristen Bell’s fashion evolution below, where is yours Shane?
🙂
Dear Apple.
Stop trying to force QuickTime as my default player and stop trying to change my system to make QuickTime associate with everything. I barely tolerate you as is and only because my phone requires you because it’s not allowed to be simple apparently.
Regards
Freeze
Quicktime is to Apple as Windows Media Player is to Microsoft.
Useless, outdated, and superseded by the competition.
http://www.katawa-shoujo.com/secret/paritytime/
\m/ (-_-) \m/
I don’t know what’s happening but yes. Yes indeed.
Read that as Pantytime at first :/
Wave yo arms in the air if you feel fine
exceptrin
Thought on “Cloud Processing”. If it’s going to be used to handle stuff way too intensive for the Xbone to handle how is that going to work on my internet connection that struggles with a low res YouTube video?
I don’t think it’s the sort of thing that’s going to use a lot of bandwidth – just calculations being sent back and forth. Just means questions are answered elsewhere is all.
Isn’t there going to be some lag though?
Don’t see why. I’m sure it’d be managed in such a way that it’d process stuff in advance, or process less critical stuff in realtime. I’m no expert, but it could only work a certain way.
There’s many ways you could theoretically leverage cloud computing. One of them is to be able to suck in huge data sets, pre-process them and then return processed information to clients as necessary, so like the stuff that Forza is doing where they’re taking telemetry about the way you drive and processing it to create an AI model which then feeds into other people’s games.
It’s also geo-located so you can also use it to spin up servers on demand to meet load in specific areas at specific times of the day without having to have servers provisioned, so for example Titanfall is hosting all their Xbone servers in the Microsoft cloud so that if for example a couple of hundred people all start playing in Argentina unexpectedly, servers are created to host the games immediately. Potentially this would help avoid situations like the SimCity or Diablo 3 launches where they provisioned servers for average usage but in the first couple of weeks the load is much higher.
The Cloud is a big buzzword in IT management at the moment. It’s the new Web 2.0 or XML or Java or whatever. They like to have something to claim is going to solve all our problems. It’s got some useful applications but it won’t cure cancer and solve world hunger like they make out. Also the backtracking on the always-online requirement for Xbone probably hamstrung their plans with cloud computing a fair bit.
If you have the time, this is a decent theoretical look: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-in-theory-can-xbox-one-cloud-transform-gaming
That’s… not exactly a positive article. Though it did clear up a lot of questions I had.
When I think of the cloud, I now think of Rockstar’s cloud saves… and it sends a shiver down my spine. It’s a different thing, I know, but still.
It could work well once the tech matures more.
Stanley Parable. People are playing it, yeah? You should. It’s great. The internet is being quite odd when it comes to reviews and such about the game, however-
… I feel… a sense of Deja Vu. Ah well.
I’m also playing Goodbye Deponia, and only @dc will care. You play it yet guy? it’s pretty neat.
I also own a phone now. The fact that I’m on a two-year plan is probably the biggest commitment I’ve made since my relationship with my ex, and that ended with me getting hit with a folding chair.
So needless to say I feel kinda.. odd about it. Also, does this mean I finally have to use twitter? Crazy thought.
I’m waiting for the GOG release of Goodbye Deponia, apparently it’s still four weeks away. :'(
Give me the heads up when it’s available. I need to wrap up that trilogy.
Will do, my pal!
Doh! Exactly what I posted 2 posts below. Should have read this first. 😛
I played the demo and was sold immediately. It was the best demo… ever! Well maybe not ever, I did sink about 50 hours into the Fallout demo back in the day. Probably more than the full game itself!
I think… it’s the perfect example of what a demo should be. It tells you exactly what the game is about, without really telling you anything about the game. I mean, I don’t think all games should have demos like that, but for the game itself it’s pretty damn amazing, and I think a lot of games could learn from it.
Started playing The Bureau. It didn’t grab me.
Still 1000 times better than Resident Evil 6 as I have since discovered.
That reminds me. I started playing RE6 with a mate online but just didn’t get drawn into it enough. Still want to finish it though but the logistics of playing with this guy… he’s barely online.
Everyone should totally check out the Stanley Parable demo available on Steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/221910/?snr=1_7_15__13
Played it and was immediately sold on buying the full game.
Yes. More people to promote The Stanley Parable. So good. Soooooo gooooooddddd.
After reading this:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/10/why-i-cant-get-into-pokmon/
I’m kind of glad that JB had sold out when I went to buy it yesterday, as I suspect I’d run into the exact same issues. 🙁
Negative hats fun. So negative.
Not at all. I hat things I don’t find fun. Which might be different to the things you find fun.
Same predicament I had. Was at the shop ready to buy it but then I had a long hard think and realized that I’d only be getting it to satisfy my OCD when it comes to collecting things. Which is a big chunk of what the game is about. Gotta catch ’em all!
The story in Pokemon games sadly never appealed to me much and as the article pointed out, part of it is due to the seemingly young target market. Alas, I’ll always remember the games in the series that I did play quite fondly.
I’ve noticed I’ve been a moody jerk the past week for some reason. Overreacting to things and the like. Blergh. Sorry to any one I might’ve upset. You guys are awesome.
I blame David Cage for giving you all those EMOTIONS.Nope. Not going to do it.
It wasn’t David Cage.
We should organise a TAY rendition of The Wizard of Oz.
…
I’ll be busy that day. 😛
Also, I’ve already been on a Wizard of Oz-like quest. (cc. @transientmind) I found my productivity! All the thoughts I have conducted would no longer be obstructed if I only was productive…Meh. We’re used to it. 😛
:'(
COLON PEE!!!You need to remember that even if you were a jerk, which you weren’t, whoever you were one to would forget about it and forgive you long before you forgave yourself. So just forgive yourself for being (like most of us) merely human.
Someday I hope I can be human 😀
Monster.
Picked up Serial Experiments Lain today.
Looks interesting from what I’ve watched.
It’s a pretty abstract anime, might be worth mentioning to avoid the dub, the dub has been widely known to take away a lot of the unease and eerie feel to the anime.
I don’t think I’ve seen that again in a long time. It gets pretty weird.
I take back everything I said about Trubbish.
Klefki is the most retarded Pokemon I’ve ever seen.
Bahahahahaaa….just did a quick image search. Who even comes up with something like that?!
I’m waiting for one based on a USB drive.
…
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I’ll post this on new TAY but do you guys want to lock in Sat 9th of November for Brisbane Supanova meat? Meat @Shane! PUNCH @SHANE!
I also would like to do something on the Thursday prior if folks are available.
Saturday? Unfortunately I’m working. Guess I’m out 🙁
High chance of rain tomorrow…
:\
Why does it have to rain tomorrow?
Cause you lied when you were seventeen?
Nope.
I was only nineteen.
@cj, was that you dominating in GTA Online Deathmatches? If so, good to hang out with you briefly, man! You carried our team. I was dead weight (often literally).
Connection dropped out, but not before many good times and many weird times were had. I may go back for more.
Yeah boi!!! Sure was me. Rolling all them gangs and doing the criminal activities.
(I have no idea what your talking about and haven’t played a single second of GTA 5 yet. However am curious as to why you thought I might of been said mystery player)
Username was somewhat like your RL name.
Also he had a tattoo on his chest that said “I am @CJ from TAY”
That last bit may not be true.
… well, whoever you are, mystery not-CJ, thanks for carrying us last night! 😛
The Stanley Parable had/has so much more depth than first implied. Holy crap that’s a cool experience.
Managed to break it twice by OOBing though, but hey, it’s all good 😀
Been lying here in bed for over an hour now, with my brain absolutely buzzing with thoughts about the whole Nintendo deal and what I have to do about it tomorrow. Also that I have to find my sister a present. And get out of having to skip climbing (though got a passable story for that I think). All the while I can’t stop Prisoner Of Society running on endless loop in my head, and I’m trying to flush it all out by trying to think of something more sedate like the Sketchbook Girl situation instead. It’s not very effective.
SHUT UP ALL OF YOU AND JUST LET ME SLEEP
Two hours now.
And of course it was a reply fail. Stupid mobile browsers.
@jimu, @greenius: WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING HERE? D:
Checking notifications! 😀
ZING!!!1!!
I saw my MGS4 Slip Case edition the other day and thought about how much you wanted one back in the day 😀
Before I got one?
Now I abuse it it cos I don’t love it anymore 😛
Pokémon Stuff:
Have you guys ever wondered if there’s a ultimate catching Pokémon?
A pokemon that can learn mean look, false swipe, odor sleuth(for ghosts I guess) and hypnosis or Thunderwave all in the same moveset?
Yes, and there’s Mew or Smeargle.
I’ve always thought about the idea of a level 100 Pokemon catching Pokemon but I’ve never bothered to go through with it 😛
Ive thought about Pokemon…. a lot…
Hey @greenius did you watch Survivor yet? I’m gonna watch it later today so expect tagging. 😀
I watched it!
(@greenius @sughly @powalen )
So glad the loved ones finally won. I hate it when Survivor starts out lopsided. Think they chose smart on not taking the fishing gear as well. You can make that stuff. Spices and a wok are pretty priceless. Also looking forward to seeing what the “switch it up” thing is. And definitely think Aras may have shown his hand too early.Disappointed Candace went home though. Was hoping she’d send her husband home 😛Don’t know why he gave the clue to Monica again though, it’s pretty obvious that she’s just going to waste it. Give it to someone who might actually use it and try and break up some friendships while you can! 😛
Yeah, Candace and Brad on Redemption Island all by themselves would have been hilarious! And John gave the clue to Monica again because he’s not all that bright and didn’t have his wife there to tell him what to do again.Haha, exactly what I was thinking. On both points 😛
Ahhh the loved ones winning was so exciting haha! I really like all the remaining people on that team, dont want any of them to go. Returning players team needs some culling. I was asking my sister though, when theyve mixed teams up in the past, have they done it with uneven teams? I dont think so… not particularly fair to the winning side. I think they only mix them up when its dead even. Maybe? Still, curiouser and curiouser… the family thing though is adding SOOO much more interesting strategy, way more than I expected. Crazy cool strategies going on.I can’t remember what the numbers are now but they could do it when the teams are uneven and make the Redemption Island people battle for that extra spot 🙂
Ooooooohhhhh damn girl!
I think it might be too early for that though. Redemption people dont usually return til merge. Usually…
I did but I’ll leave the tagging to others :P. I’m not really posting, just sort of checking and responding to any notifications.
I agree with what everyone said :). I wanted the loved ones to win as well since it’s no fun when one team dominates the whole time, especially if it’s a whole team of returning players (so unfair)
As for stuff that hasn’t been said. It’s probably mean and all that but Laura B is so mehhhh. They’ve barely shown her and when they did (with her making that comment to Kat) it was all cringeworthy. I really wanted to watch another Rupert season and I’m sure the others really wanted to play with him too so it’s really unfair to her but she’s mehh. Kinda glad they went with Laura M though as it’ll make Redemption Island interesting :-).
@powalen @sughly @phoenix
Yeah I kind of agree with you about both Lauras. Don’t really like either of them much, to be honest.As for not posting, that’s why I was putting it here in Old TAY. 🙂
Hope everything’s going well for you, I miss you! *hugasaurus*
Hey I like the other Laura! The one that isnt B. M? *shrugs*. Shes an idiot massaging Aras, but still. Im gunning for her in redemption.@sughly too
Yeah, other Laura is cool. I totally don’t remember her at all from Samoa but I think I liked her then? She seems fine this season except that whole massage thing was weird 😛
Oh yeah, Laura B… I like her still caus I can see what shes trying to do, and I think shes doing as best as she knows how as an outsider. But still… goddamn she has no skill for taking attention of herself and getting in their good books XDMore Survivor. @greenius @ sughly @powalen @phoenix
Just watched the last two episodes.
Still can’t believe Vytas didn’t go. Splitting up Aras and Vytas should have been a huge priority. Also, I was right about Tina’s daughter being useless. She came over with Vytas and immediately just started doing whatever her Mum told her. I don’t really like Tina(for all their talk about trust she’s proven herself to be the least trustworthy out of their supposed girl alliance) but her daughter is really just kind of useless.Best thing:
When Brad got eliminated, my son (who’s been watching with me) came up to me with tears in his eyes and a wobbly lower lip saying he needed a snuggle.He said Brad was his favourite. 🙁 I think he just liked repeating Braaaad Cuuulpepperrrrrrr! though. 😛Err…@sughly.
I’m behind on Survivor and no way currently to catch up! Will have to either do a big catch up in a few weeks or suck it up and watch the latest episode on TV and guess what happened last week 😛
Mmmm I dont reckon Katie is useless… I mean, what else is she going to do going into that group? I think shes intelligent and could be good, but probably wont be because shes too soft spoken. I think she seemed to be pretty keen to get Vytas out, but probably didnt want to stir the pot, better to not go against the group lest you become Kat and get voted off. The other women are the dull ones strategically I believe.BUT, big crux of all this is… Ciera has no reason to stay with those guys come merge, so she’ll go back to Katie, and in turn the other girls. Ciera knows Tyson wants Aras out, so they should totally tell Aras and Vytas, and keep those two. Then they have majority! Woop woop.
Your theory totally depends on Ciera being smart,though…. 😛Hahaha! Heyyy, I like her, shut your dirty mouth! No I have my reservations about whether she will or not too :'(
OH HEY.
WHAT UP?
Dammit Mr. White, I was going to make this old TAY all about Survivor! 😛
This could be a safe place where we can talk about Beyond: Two Souls! 😀
If I ever get to play it again!
ok then, so last time i was on i posted my new video game sketches now i would like to take some request for what vg character i should do next
Hey bjh! Just letting you know that most people won’t check this as it’s last week’s Talk Amongst Yourselves. The latest one is here: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/10/talk-amongst-yourselves-247/comment-page-5/
Some people will check it, though. For weeks to come!
Hehehe
thanks