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Hello.
And by ‘Hello’ I mean, POKEYMANS! I’m addicted, clearly. It has been out just over a week and I have put in about 19 hours. I don’t even know where I found the time. Unbelievable.
What up, home slice?
Until yesterday I had never been in a hammock before.
My life is now one step closer to being complete.
Hammocks are pretty damn great…
Hammocks + Beer + sun + slight breeze = awesome!
I had it all yesterday, except for the beer. It was awesome.
Good birthday, by the sounds of it? Sounds like you got the gift of hammocks!
It was a very nice day – mainly just hanging with the family, doing ordinary Sunday things.
I had no idea I needed a hammock in my life, but somehow Mrs Shane knew.
With the hammock/smart phone one-two punch, I predict weekend TAYin’ will be much more relaxing.
Nah, I still need to figure out the hammock dynamics. Whenever I’m in there, the kids try to push me like a swing, and that has a direct impact on the relaxing nature of it. 😛
*shakes fist* No good punk kids! 😛
Did I have the best birthday message? I totally did didn’t I.
It was certainly a highlight 🙂
It felt appropriate.
And you called yourself a Dad.
Happy birthday by the way.
Dagnabbit!
Everytime I try to enter friend codes onto my 3DS, it keeps saying I am offline, even though I can download games and videos easily :/
Tried a few of the “fixes” that are floating around on the internet, but none work.
Urgh, can’t connect to Xbox Live and now can’t use some online features on the 3DS, very scream inducing as I also can’t connect online with Pokemon Y, but I can with Black 2, what tha??!??
Time to get a new ISP?
Sure. blame it on your ISP.
@crazyguy1990? More like CrazyAwesomeGuy1990! Thanks Crazy!
You’re welcome, birthdaymang. 😀
Pokeyman?! Pokeyman! Yay or Nay?
Definitely.
I’d rather poke a lady, but don’t let that influence you either way.
Shane’s open minded like that!
Open-minded is good.
@strange
Dark Souls 2 beta will be open again on Sunday morning 5am-8am.
Is this just for cool kids in the know from the previous beta?
Praise the Sun! \o/
@freezespreston: That Supanova meat date I threw out there yesterday was just for seeing Shane in Artist’s Alley at the actual convention dealy. I’m sure there’d be more Shane meat and greet opportunities. Also nothing’s set, just thought it’d be good to work out date early. Only brought it up cause I saw Sughly ask on Shane’s Facebook if we had any days in mind…
All the days! All @shane! All of the time!
Exactly what I suggested.
Nah it’s okay. I’ll just go up with Mrs. Freeze on the Sunday.
I’ll be there all weekend!
If I go at all it’ll be on the Sunday.
We don’t really need to organise the Supanova part of the meat anyway, because it’s pretty much impossible for a large group to Supanova together.
What we do need to organise is the Thursday Meat because that’s the time Shane’s scheduled his TAYbie time, apparently. 🙂
I just wanted to relive the magic of the drunken karaoke meat after Supanova last year. XD
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/10/doctor-who-50th-anniversary-episode-gets-its-first-trailer/
I don’t even like Doctor Who, but this is a damn cool trailer. (In a pulpy sort of way. That patented kind that Doctor Who seems to specialize in!) Doctor Who spoilers, I guess?
I heard that they’re actually showing this in theatres. Perhaps Day of the DocTAY/TAY of the Doctor meat is in order.
I’m going to it in theatre! WOOOOO!
I didn’t even realise it was on at the cinema, and on at 11am as well. Screw the plan to download it first thing in the morning, I’m off to glorious 3d big screen 😀
3DS FRIEND CODE SWAP THREAD!
Alright, so I’ve been exchanging friend codes with peeps on Twitter for the last little while, but I figure since plenty of people are playing Pokemon right now, people might want to expand their friend rosters to take advantage of the new Friend Safari. And if you know what’s in your friend safari, feel free to share that too!
My friend code is 2895-7288-5741. Add me, and I’ll add all subsequent FCs added to this thread.
Pokemon in my friend safari: Seviper, Trubbish, Toxicroak
TAYNAMES!
Yes, but adding 3DS codes only works if both parties add each other – I could add everyone in there, but they wouldn’t actually be my friends until they also added mine.
I figured this would be a good way to flag all of those interested, and to share what they might have in their friend safaris 🙂
You have Machoke and Sawk in your friend safari! The third possible Pokemon isn’t unlocked until both you and the friend have beaten the Elite Four and are both online at the same time.
Yeah, still a good place to get peoples codes though.
And besides, you already have the most important person. Me 😀
I have added a few people from TAYNAMES already, mostly ones that comment here on TAY regularly, please add me back with code 4382-2002-0614
Beardy, I think I need to add you still. Either lunchtime today, or tonight.
Added!
To be honest, I have no idea who I’ve added =P
I’ve just added you!
You can add me from Taynames if you haven’t already (I think we might already be friends? Can’t remember :P) I’ll add you once I get home.
You may have my old 3DS FC. I’ve just added you now.
How does the friend safari actually work? I haven’t come across it yet, is it post Elite 4?
Yeah it’s post-Elite Four. It’s a kind of controlled Safari Zone where each person you have on your friends list generates a set of three Pokemon of a specific type.
For example, one of my friends makes it so that Sunkern, Ivysaur and Quilladin appear. So through the Safari Zone, you can actually capture mid-evolutions of starter Pokemon. And each Pokemon in the Friend Safari Zone has a chance to have a Hidden Ability that any other Pokemon you encounter in the wild cannot have.
A Wild Quilladin I caught last night had the Ability Bulletproof instead of Overgrow.
As a bonus to that… each Pokemon in the Friend Safari Zone is guaranteed to have at least two stats with 31 IVs. And it’s rumoured that shinies have a much higher chance of appearing in the friend safari zone, but I haven’t seen any actual evidence of that so far. Just people saying they’ve found shinies there.
Only have two eps of Orange is the New Black left for season one. So, so good. Can’t recommend this enough. Also finished watching The Killing on the weekend, one of the finest shows ever!
Mrs Shane is hoping to transition into a less violent, less aggressive show when we finish up Sons of Anarchy. What’s the tone of Orange is the New Black like?
I’m telling you, Freaks and Geeks if they went to prison. Much warmer and funnier than the premise would imply. There’s been some violence, but it ain’t Sons of Anarchy. I think this might be the show she’s looking for, Shane! 😀 Guard makes a point to say in the pilot that “This ain’t Oz!”… Some confronting stuff, but violence? Nope!
I’ll have to remember to [redact] it.
Do it! I admit, even though I had heard the buzz I kind of dismissed this as a dark, gritty prison show. Then Mashaa recommended it. Then @Sughly recommended it. Then heaps of people recommended it. I was wrong. Crazy good show with lots of heart. 😀
Sure, you say that, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence that you finally bit the bullet after I enthused about boobs.
Well. I do that a lot – enthuse, that is. But in this instance, about the ones in Orange is the New Black.
Might want to wait for the last eps first there cowboy…
D:
I mean, it’s not Sons of Anarchy violence. Haha!
Also? Cowboy? Perfect excuse to mosey! *moseys*
Ahhhh how amazing was season 3 right!
The way they rounded out Sarsgaard’s character, so devastating. They handled his whole arc of dealing with his execution so so well, especially considering its such well trodden ground already. Really had a strong grounding to it, felt really like a really believable arc across the series. The ep dedictaed to trying to free him was amazing.Oh man, I knew The Killing wasn’t the kind of show to have someone burst into execution room with a reprieve, but secretly hoped it would jump the shark and happen. Poor guy. Really great character. I think I preferred the Rosie Larson case in general though, but mostly comes down to preference. Pretty damn strong the whole way through.
Only criticism about season three was that last episode had lots of exposition in the car at the end.
Looked for Blu-Ray boxsets on JB yesterday and read the premise for the original European series. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t tempted to watch. 😀
Oh man, when Bullet died too. :'( Poor Holder. Loved that scene where Linden found the necklace and ran down stairs like crazy. So urgent I thought there was going to be a bomb or something then realized she was just looking out for the guy. Really cool friendship Holder and Linden had. Missed seeing more of Reggie in season three, though. Appreciated the fact all the show needed to be The Killing though was the two detectives and Seattle.Oh yeah, yeah Reggie was cool. That was a shame. I think they explored all they could with that relationship though, I think it was there to mostly highlight certain elements of Linden’s character, which it did.Yeah, that’s a good point. It related to this case, though. (Reggie being the one to commit Sarah into the hospital after Jack called.) Figured we’d get a flashback, but then you’re right, probably would be treading the same grounds of season two when Indian casino lady had her locked up.Oh man, I miss this show already.
I’ve watched the first two eps so far. Liking it a lot. I think I may have heard an American Pie reference in the first ep.
EDIT: To clarify, I’m talking about Orange Is The New Black.
Yeah, there totally was. There was a Star Trek reference with Red too. (Who played Captain Janeway in Voyager. XD)
Hola Tay
I had a semi-busy weekend! Went to my first ever Magic:TG Draft, did OK! Spent all yesterday helping a mate build a shed…and helping drink his beer.
A Monday Morning Question, apropos of nothing: If you could own one airship from any game, which would it be?
Beluga or Normandy. Always Baluga or Normandy.
Normandy as in the ship from Mass Effect? Because I’m not sure that really counts as an ‘airship’
It sails through the air! You can’t take this away from me, Negs! 😛
If you insist, though. Maybe Brian Westhouse’s flying ship dealy from Dreamfall.
…Oh my god, I so have to finish that, soon. I got pretty far, years ago, but there was some game-breaking bug at some point and I gave up and did something else.
Dreamfall Chapters is out next year!
Great Fox.
The super blimp from the Wolfenstein game in the late 00s (it was just called Wolfenstein).
Ragnarok
I had to upvote because I loved the shit out of that game, but I have mixed feelings about it as my 4th disc had a scratch on it and whenever you boarded the ship the game would freeze.
My elite-ranked Kirov would strike terror in the hearts of my enemies.
WHO’S THE BOSS NOW, NINTENDO?
Stripper zeppelin! just cause i can 😉
SHINY KARRABLAST! \o/
…Mild Nature /o\
Still, first proper shiny 😀
ps. Hello. The train timetables got updated for this week and now my train trip is 10 minutes shorter! Which would normally be good news but somehow it made my day 40mins longer 😛 Even less free time at home, hooray! I have no idea how they made the trip shorter though, the train stops at MORE stops! :S Just more proof that Cityrail is the devil.
SHINY HONEDGE! \o/
Can’t remember the nature, pretty sure it was something poo though.
So have they basically tripled the chance for shinies? Everyone seems to be getting them in Gen 6.
Well, except me… 🙁
This is the first one I’ve seen since the GBC games, so I guess something must have changed.
I don’t think anything has been confirmed yet, but I would say so. Unless everything’s coming up Powalen? No, that can’t be it.
It seems like it’s happening to more people than previous averages. I haven’t encountered one yet.
One day I will see a shiny Pokémon.
*stares off into distance*
One, day.
I got one once!
…it was with cheats.
You’re the worst kind of person.
And then, one day, just like me, you won’t be paying attention because it is 1AM, and you are just mashing A and then you KO it, and then 2 minutes later you go “… Those shiny sparkly effects… that was a shiny, wasn’t it?” and then you will tell this exact useless story years later to people who stopped paying attention after the second comma.
What? Sorry stopped paying attention after the second comma
Man, I didn’t even make it to the first.
I read it! I read your story, Bish, and I comprehended it!
Also replied to your answer on Potaku, but those ingrates edited it! Also we had some communication disruption, so maybe not all of my answer got recorded! Anyway the point of my story is “I will talk about Pocket Monsters, and I’ll like it, dammit!”!
In short, Megas aside, I think that Gen 6 has actually contributed to a much slower metagame and there’s almost no powercreep. Even including Megas, I had started to investigate ways to deal with them. In all of the pre-release documentation and announcements it seemed to imply that players could have one Pokémon Mega Evolve per battle. While this is indeed true, the exact nature of this limit was not made explicit. Any one Pokémon can Mega Evolve once per battle. If that Pokémon leaves the battle for any reason, when it returns it will be in non-Mega form and be unable to Mega Evolve again. I think this limit can probably be exploited in a number of ways to shut down Megas. And there’s the tried and true method of type matchups. I’ve OHKO’d a Mega-Charizard Y with STAB Smack Down (base 50 BP), although Zard is hardly the biggest threat. Togekiss hard counters Mega-Garchomp, being immune to both STABs, so I think we’ll see it enter high rotation. I had also thought that using Prankster Klefki to Trick an Iron Ball onto a Mega Chomp would be fun, but I’ve heard that Mega Stones might be treated like Arceus’ Plates (and cannot be removed).
Super!
Still on story mode, so haven’t hit post-game, though I was curious as to what others thought.
I tried to download the podcast the other day but it wasn’t up, true story.
They need to add Pokemon psychologists to the game that let you change a Pokemon’s nature.
What can change the nature of a
manPokemon?Yeah, my trips are screwed now too. I live near two stations – one is about a ten minute walk away, and has recently been redone to have lifts and everything put in. The other is about a twenty minute walk away and a seedy little hole of a place sitting in a ditch, with the ticket machine up the opposite end of the station to the one set of stairs into the place. So guess which of the two seems to be the only one to have any trains that travel to the city via Lidcombe now? 😛 We used to just have none of those between 10 and 2 on weekdays, or at all on weekends, but now it seems like they’ve cut them out completely. Bastards.
Fuck CityRail.
So after playing a bit of Mass Effect 3 multi on Saturday night with @sernobulus and @pyrean I’m starting to get really keen on getting back into it. It’s especially fun when you have someone playing a Geth Juggernaut who essentially ignores most of the bullshit attacks some enemies do (i.e. most of the insta-kills).
PS3 or XBOX?
Hah!
As Cakesmith may have made clear, PC 😛
Oh. I thought the implication was Wii U.
Put ME3 PC on your list in TAYnames’ co-op tab!
I’ll be surely up to joining in for the next one 🙂
Arkham Origins week!
Already? That came up quickly. For some reason I thought that game was still about eight months away 😛
Your face is still about eight weeks away! >:|
I’mma get mah Batmang statue!
NANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANA
Fishing! \o/The leader is good! The leader is great! Surrender your will as of this date!
How are the reviews looking?
Non-existent! 😀
That’s not a good sign 🙁
Could be GTA V-style though. So confident they’ve made something decent they don’t rely on reviews and an embargo ain’t necessarily a bad thing. This is what helps me sleep at night anyways. XD
It’ll be more of a worry if the review embargo ends on release day.
Looking forwd to it
Morning, ladies and gents!
How art everyone?!
LOOPS!
THREE-DEE-CEE-OHHH!
Something something etiquette something oh my…
NEVER TELL ME THE ODDS!
Usually digitally. I can’t draw for shit.
Me? Interpretive dance mostly!
Once at Uni when I was doing some creative industries elective someone totally performed an interpretive dance as their final assignment. It disgusted me. 😛
I would have stabbed them with a pen.
I *KNEW* someone would say something along those lines!
Also that it would probably be you!:P
We’re good, we’re good. You know uhh just… uhh good. Yeah. Anyway, how are things on your end?
Well last week was just all kinds of fuckery…
First the wind screen on my car got smashed ($500 fix /o\)
then little puppy started refusing to walk, and each time he tried to stand up, he fell over with a huge scream…
Rushing him to the vet, turns out he has a bacterial infection in his joints, causing him huge amounts of pain… so now he is on 2 lots of antibiotics and is starting to slowly walk again… at least he still eats and drinks but he seems so depressed each time he tries to play and realise he can’t walk… it’s heart breaking /o\…
on the plus side played a metric shit ton of Wind Waker on the weekend and it’s still awesome \o/
Poor puppy 🙁
Your insurance didn’t cover the windshield? I’m covered for a free windshield/year.
Nah because money is tight and adding that was too expensive :\ might consider it now though because that was too bloody expensive and i drive a lot so it’s probably going to happen again.
I’m not one for optional extras with a lot of crap, but I always get windshield coverage. It’s proven so useful too many times now.
Seconded. Aus roads pretty much guarantee that your car will be raped via the windshield. 🙁
At least you know what’s wrong with your puppy and that sounds treatable. Our old dog caught amoebic meningitis when he was a puppy and was in and out of the vet for a month or two. He’d get sick repeatedly and they put him on various drugs trying to figure it out and they’d work for a bit then he’d be sick again. Eventually we noticed he was acting like he had a stiff neck and mum mentioned that to the vet and they figured it out from that. And then he went on to exceed the average lifespan of his breed by 3 years.
Aw, man. Hope your dog pal is okay.
I wanna like your post (becuase WW too), but I don’t feel that is correct. 🙁
So.. good luck dude, especially puppy.
Yawn.
Weekend!
Pokemon
Friends
Pokemon
Star Wars
Pokemon
SWTOR
I only like three of those things.
You don’t like Pokémon? What happened to you Pow? You used to be cool
I don’t why I am doing this but I restarted my Pokemon game. Gonna nuzlocke it up and hopefully do alright. Currently have a Ledian, Burmy (female), Charmelon, Pikachu, Frogadier, and Pidgeotto. Not too shabby so far.
stuff:
over the weekend, I was feeling somewhat sub-par, so i took that oppourtunity to play games.
Pokemons stuff.
– I realised that I went to more gyms in pokemon yesterday than I’ve ever been to in real life.
– Tyrantrum is pretty rad.
Finally started playing Beyond : Two Souls.
– Really liking it so far. Currently about 15(?) chapters in. Got two issues with it that are bugging me a bit…
a) how the story is being told out of order. makes each scene lack context. like ‘why is X happening?’ etc…
b) umm… mid game spoilers
that chapter where you’ve gotta go into the facility & shut down the condencer. WTF?!?! that just felt totally random and didnt fit in with the tone of what I”ve played so far.Today. still feeling somewhat ill. its like 30 degrees outside & I’m shivering. & everything is aching. goddamn colds & fever shittiness.
coming into work today was totally a bad idea…
Going to an actual gym and playing Pokemon and getting a Pokemon Gym badge is a surreal experience.
It’s the first time I ever felt like I achieved anything by going to the gym.
Well, I know what I’m doing this week.
Playing SWTOR?
*taps nose*
*strokes beard*
A good weekend of ‘singing’ AC/DC, Queen, Megadeth, Metallica & Slayer at karaoke for my friend’s birthday, watching Brisbane Roar demolish Sydney in the A-League, Cambridge United continue our unbeaten start to the conference (16 games now), I bought a juicer and joined the Brisbane Bandits crew in GTA Online. Is there a Kotaku crew btw?
All in all, I’m so thrilled that is all over and I can get back to work…
There’s a Kotaku AND Potaku crew!
It’s very confusing. I don’t know which one to play in. :\
If it helps, on PS3 I found dozens of Kotaku folks every time I played, only other Potaku person I ever saw was Red.
That’s what I figured too. KotAU has 300+ members, Potaku has about 60 I think…
sweet *rushes off to Rockstar Social Club to change crew…I mean, I’m totally doing work right now*
bah, stupid crew limit, I’ll stick to Brisbane for now then until some space gets made in Kotaku
Hey man, I’m going to log in and quit the crew now. if you see this in time maybe there’ll be time to join. I don’t play much of GTA Online any more, so doesn’t bother me if I’m signed up!
“We don’t need no education”
“Yes you do, you’ve just used a double negative”
Yep, IT Crowd has ruined that song for me.
I laughed for a stupidly long time about that when I first saw it.
Took the opportunity to catch up on the latest Cartoon Hangover stuff last night. So freakin’ good!
For anyone that hasn’t heard of it, YouTube-based cartoons made by people like Pendelton Ward (Bravest Warriors) and Natasha Allegri (Bee and Puppycat).
Also, it has Rocketdog, whose owner looks kinda like @alexpants
Wind Waker:
Doing Triforce Quest, have one piece left and involves the ghost ship I randomly stumbled upon once. I have no idea where it is now. That fish I befriended needs to be more specific! 😛I’ve bumped into it a few times… The fishy does say which island it’ll appear near and during what moon phase… from the top of my head, it’ll appear near the island directly west of Windfall island during a crescent moon… but you need some sort of item (which i haven’t obtained yet) to be able to interact with itSo you’re saying I should go to a guide and put an end to this madness? If you insist! 😀
YesExcite! =D
Much excite!
So hype. Gonna win that console tournament medal this time.
I’d be happy to win ANY medal.
I also hope GW get involved in this one!
I lost in the final, Loops! I don’t even care that it was a piece of cheap plastic, it was my piece of cheap plastic.
THAT SUCKS! What game??
UFC Unleashed 3. I lost with 2 minutes left in the final round. Next year I’ll get my cheap plastic medal.
BEST place to have it.
I just REALLY hope I’ll be able to afford to go this coming year! 😐
Seriously – was the BEST weekend hanging out with you lot!
That kinda sucks for students. That’s right in the middle of HSC/VCE/Uni exams.
But, I’m not a student so \o/
This year’s PAX would have sucked for anyone that wasn’t 18 anyway.
I’ll be there! 😀
(hopefully :P)
And I’m betting it’s STILL going to be sold out and fucking packed! 🙂
Hopefully
I don’t mind if it is packed, but having enough space that you don’t need to queue for 1.5 hours to get into a panel will be good.
Unless of course they decide they have 3x the panel space so sell 3x the number of tickets /o\
I skipped most of the panels after spending the first day in queues for them. It’d probably be better with friends though. I’ll have to meet up with some TAYbies for queues so we can bullshit about games.
We only ended up going to one panel even though there was a dozen we could have been interested in. Just wasn’t worth waiting for an hour to get in with the possibility of then not actually getting in.
I’m just hoping they have the same or bigger area for the board games. There weren’t really enough tables last time, you really needed to grab one at the start of the day then hold it all day.
Much better venue. Also better timing as well, should be a lot less cold so the cosplayers won’t freeze to death.
3 MORE DAYS TIL PHOENIX WRIGHT
EVERYONE PLEASE COMMENCE HYPE SEQUENCE.
EDIT: OBJECTION! THIS IS THE WORST PAGE GET EVER
HOLD IT
Batman week!
I’M SUCH A FANBOY, I DONT EVEN CARE WHAT OTHER GAMES COME OUT THIS WEEK.
TAKE THAT!
(Given my only exposure to Phoenix Wright is MvC 3)
I sub in Deadpool
Bang! BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG!
The only reason i pre-ordered UMVC3 was because of phoenix wright 🙂
THE ONE WHO ACTUALLY COMMITTED THE CRIME, IS YOU!
OBJECTION!
This testimony clearly… uh… contradicts the evidence, in… uh…
Woah, that crept up! Didn’t even get a chance to play Wolf Among Us on the weekend because of Pokemon! I don’t want to miss discussions for this though! Game overload! Argh!
(“Crept” doesn’t look like a real word… :P)
How about this? I will delay purchasing it for several months, until I can finish #3 and #4 at least. Then we can discuss together, even though everyone else is long sick of it.
This’ll be fun!
Are you finished yet?
Are you finished yet?
Are you finished yet?
I will never get sick of Phoenix wright
eShop exclusive T_T
ITS BETTER THAN NOT GETTING THE GAME AT ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
It’s exactly the same as not getting the game at all for me. I refuse to buy eShop games.
Repost because … PAX!
I sent @scree my measurements for my cosplay. I’m so excited for next years PAX! \o/
Woo! Pax!
Keen.
PAX North! Still a thing now as it was then!
Is it, @dc?
Is it?
We might go see Only God Forgives again! I totally went to that! *shifty eyes*
Are you going as Lards? Excuse to be a dick to all the people!
Well I do have the right build for it …
Well, this is awkward.
I sweat to the great space wizard I will cosplay our SWTOR characters if you do.
That spelling mistake makes the sentence so much greater
…mistake?
or was the “sweat” intentional?
Please tell me it was a mistake or you’ll make me look stoopid 😛
I am all for this idea, but that could be incredibly awkward for me…
You mean the tentacles or the boobs?
Tentacles. My moobs are perfect for it.
Is this some kind of Japan version of Star Wars that I didn’t know about?
I’ve never been to a PAX, game expo, comic con, etc. I really want to take some time off work and fly wherever to attend one of these. Worth it? I’m sure you’ll say yes.. but..
I heard PAX this year was very crowded with huge lineups (of which I’m allergic to), so I’m assuming that a 3x larger area will mean less crowding and lineups?
OR 3x the people!
I don’t like crowds and yes it was busy as hell…
But honestly it was pretty amazing, if anything just to sit the panels!
I would highly encourage it
You know what’s going to happen next year right…
I COME FROM A LAND DOWN UNDER?
Shit i better learn it! i plan to be a citizen by then :\
Crowds drive me crazy and make my fists itch. Whether it’s a parade, a protest, a carnival or a concert, you can be relatively sure that your personal space and as far as the eye can see will be packed with wall-to-wall douche-nozzles. The level of density I’m usually most comfortable with is nothing much more than Queen St Mall.
But PAX, I didn’t mind so much. There was a really positive attitude, and it was my kind of people. Nerds and geeks.
Basically, if you’re not sure, I’d suggest 1-2 days. The panels are interesting, but you can also livestream them without missing much except for the good vibe of shared laughter and the potential for asking questions of your own.
You can always go where the crowds aren’t, so basically skip the really popular booths or activities, or do them when there’s an event on, like the final League of Legends or World of Tanks or Pokemon tournaments. (Although those were kinda fun to watch.)
The crowd density in the expo section (exhibitors with booths) wasn’t bad, and every time I went to the Big Top (resting/casual game-playing zone) there was plenty of room to grab some carpet space and crash on something for a quick resting of the eyes.
Three times the space means they will undoubtedly be selling more tickets. They always sell to Fire Marshall-mandated capacity, every show they do.
Is PAX more about these ‘panels’, than other game expos? Because to be totally honest, I don’t have the time nor care these days to follow what DeveloperX is up to in his world. Nor do I want to stand in a huge crowd listening attentively to some guy blab about some game-related stuff. Like, I’ve seen comic-con panels on YouTube and it’s just not my scene.
Would that be the perfect time to go see the other things, or is that mainly the PAX vibe?
I honestly spent most of my time in the expo looking at/participating in the exhibitor booths. That’s where all the developers show off their in-development games, and the indies try to get you to play their game and greenlight it on Steam. That was probably my favourite part of the expo, really, talking to all the devs standing next to their display machine, trying to figure out questions they probably haven’t been asked yet or snaffle up goodies from the bigger booths (World of Tanks gave me my new mouse mat and a nifty coffee mug!).
The panels I saw a couple of, but it’s mostly Q&A with famous people (like Gabe and Tycho! If you love Penny Arcade) and some of them can be pretty funny, but if you’re only there 1-2 days it is totally skippable and you will still have a good time.
Do you like board games? I feel like if you do, it’s amazing, but if you don’t it was a little bit average. Nice to hang out with all the other like-minded people but the show floor was pretty sparse (with the fucking LoL booth taking up half the space) and the panels were great but impossible to attend.
I sent @scree my measurements and got a restraining order.
HAH! i was about to say something similar
#immaturity \o/
I thought the response was that nothing could be done with measurements that small…
It’s all about how you use it.
You(Han) shoots first?
I’m disappointed in you. Not because of the joke mind you, because it took you so long to make that joke
Blame work!
I think I’m going to have to head down to Melbourne next year for it.
…I can’t afford the material as yet ^^;;
I’m going to finish Wind Waker today or die trying. >:|
You have until Thursday to beat it. Just take your time and sail the seas! \o/
To tell you the truth, I’m getting sick of sailing places only to be told to sail back to the other side of the map to get something. 😛 I’d be lying if I said the game wasn’t wearing out its welcome a little with me. Still having fun, but I long to finish it. Haha!
Monster!
We’re all monsters now, didn’t you play Spec Ops: The Line?
So just warp to somewhere nearby, gosh 😛
But I like the sea gulls trailing the boat and the music. GEEEEZ! 😛
But if it’s finished then there’s no more http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN_x1rpGbY8
It’ll live on in my heart AND mind.
Guys! Really awesome game comes out this week! I can’t believe any other developer would even consider releasing a game this week when it has to compete against this game. You know the game I’m talking about.
Another-Goddamn-Sims-3-expansion-because-apparently-the-last-$700-worth-of-expansions-isn’t-enough!
My sister has bought all of them. D:
Is she going to get this one?
You know it! I tell her not to. I rant about EA. The heart wants what the heart wants though. :'(
It’s all good though. The Sims probably funds other risky games like new IPs.
Yeah and she legitimately likes the games, so not my place to tell her not to buy them really.
Sure it is. You play real games *and* you’re her brother 😛
She’s currently playing Beyond: Two Souls and likes it. I can’t alienate the only ally I have! 😛
I’m sleepy as hell this morning and I can’t get any rhythm to my work because the network is slow. Ugh. I also decided to skip working out today because a) I have a headache, and b) I forgot to put my workout shorts in the dryer last night. I think I’m going to regret that later.
So, not the greatest Monday.
Hope you feel better!
I forgot my TOWEL today. I washed it yesterday in preparation and everything!
HHGttG is shaking its head sadly.
I know, right? My shoulder bag and my jogging backpack both have towels in them at all times (as well as other sundries such as first aid, screwdriver, umbrella, a small amount of emergency money), but when I took it out for washing… I didn’t put it back. Such failure.
You are most certainly not a hoopy frood.
Do you at least know where your towel is? It’s very important that you know where your towel is at all times.
Oh yeah, sure, it’s neatly rolled up on the living room table. For all the good it does me! >.
Apparently 2K Marin’s Canberra studio is pretty much closed. Super lame.
Friend from Uni’s boyfriend worked there. They moved from Brisbane to Canberra because of it! D:
Well that’s just shit.
Also, I didn’t realise XCOM Declassified was considered a flop?
Wouldn’t surprise me. It’s pretty mediocre. Cool style but the rest…meh.
It has a score below 70 on Metacritic so it’s obviously the worst game ever.
Everything I’d heard about it was okay, not great, but certainly not a complete flop.
An amazing game can still be a commercial flop.
Yeah, I guess it was a financial flop…
True, I guess it mustn’t have sold too well. Which isn’t too surprising considering the amount of hate it was getting before it even came out.
What I had heard was that it felt like there were flashes of a really good game buried in it, and if they’d had a chance to iterate on the concept it probably could have improved.
The real trouble I think is that it was in development for forever. They rebooted it internally several times and stuff. It was originally supposed to be out a year or two before Enemy Unknown. I think 2K basically sent it out to die so they could cut their losses and run.
Considering the development hell that game went through I’m not surprised. Remember that it was originally a FPS with a very different art style for the enemies. So all that work seems to have been scrapped.
So obviously I don’t know but I would assume that the development costs were higher for a similar game without all the turmoil.
Much like Beyond Two Souls, it seems to have gotten critically panned but people who are just playing it for fun are enjoying it.
I think I’ll stick with the turn-based remake though. That enemy within expansion looks like it’s gonna be insane.
Enemy Within? SO HYPE FOR THIS
Yeah, by all reports it was pretty disappointing. Frustrating AI, frequently-interrupted game flow, tedious/fiddly mechanics that were cool ideas poorly executed. Decent story with characters no-one liked. Great setting, under-utilized. And so on.
General theme seems to be failed to live up to its own potential.
Yeah, apparently they were down to a skeleton crew as of about six months ago. Apparently a lot of them are still working together at a new place, so it’ll be interesting to see what happens there.
My weekend storee! In picture form! 😀
Drove to a lookout with teh gf on Sunday. Relaxed, made out a bit, watched turtles frolic in the ocean below.
http://imgur.com/H5JJEqP
Just before we drove out, we had McD hotcakes and some coffee. Gf tried putting the lid back on her cup, failed miserably. My day was made, however.
http://imgur.com/DzGWFTi
On Saturday I took my mountain bike out, did some pretty decent downhill and 4×4 trails. Here’s the start.
http://imgur.com/m0ReKGb
Very early on in the Wind Waker fun, I come across these lovely facial expressions.
Not sure if childhood ruined…“Dat ass.” http://imgur.com/OMpXQn9
“Not bad.” http://imgur.com/ZPBvRGi
…outside? Am I saying that right?
WUT? are the graphics that realistic in GTAV?!?!?!?!
That’s not Mt. Basset is it?
…Yes. D:
MACKTOWN!
BTW how is mountain biking at Mt. Basset? I thought it was all just sand dunes in there.
Haha, you know the place? Or live nearby? 😛
It’s mostly dunes, yes. But there’s a small area from the hill top to the creek where it’s solid 4×4 tracks with some nice steep bits. Would definitely be more awesome if the sand solidified though…
I live in Mackay. This is exciting – that makes a grand total of 4 of us that live north of Brisbane!
Ohwowwhat.. someone from TAY actually lives here?! lolol. I guess it’s now obligatory that we meat. 😛
I used to host LANs quite often, although I haven’t had one for months. If you’re interested you could always come meet my mates and I at one of our nerd nights? We drink beer, eat pizza and play any combination of tabletop games, board games or card games?
FIVE links!?
It was a pretty eventful weekend.
…I’m not the only one who instantly saw a dick and balls in the third image, right?!
You dirty dirty man.
Hey, he isn’t the one getting his old fella some sunshine when out in public
I need to stop buying games on Steam. Found Shadow Man on Steam and lost my shit as I played the hell out of that back in the day. But it won’t run no matter what I try to fiddle with or download. In desperation I find a copy on GOG.com and rebuy it. It works perfectly.
Almost exactly the same thing happened with Wolf Among Us. Steam version won’t work regardless. Telltale’s version works with a small easy fix.
Pretty sure I’m nearly done with Steam.
How dare you? Valve literally never does anything wrong ever.
Le Gaben Master Race
Steam is pretty terrible at playing old games, I honestly didn’t have any problem with The Wolf Amongst Us when I played it.
I don’t mean this to be inflammatory, but it’s probably not Steam. Most of the issues people have (including me) end up being the computer involved, or just shit luck.
I have no idea what it is. It could be the devs code conflicting with steam or something on my machine. Just the fact that everything runs perfect outside of steam means I’m better off going there instead.
Could be any number of things, unfortunately. The most frequent ones are devs stuffing up the Steam version, something in the Steam install messing up/not running (like Direct X and other additional required software) or your computer just begging for a format because it’s a filthy prostitute and wants to stop you from having fun.
Well it was built by @welbot…
hehe it was indeed! I have no idea what you’ve crammed in there since I did so though. Does the steam copy do anything when you try to load? Any error messages?
Not sure what you’ve tried but….
Back up steamapps folder.
Uninstall Steam.
Install Steam.
Replace steamapps folder.
Don’t have a spare 2Tb drive to back that up to.
Want me to send you one?
I’m good. As @sernobulus said, it’s mostly the older games that struggle which I can get from GOG.com and Wolf Among Us came with a free steam key so I didn’t miss anything there.
Plus anything major I tend to play on the consoles. It’s just more of a minor annoyance and a bit of wasted money.
Does Gabenworld not offer refunds for non-functioning games?
Not without far far more effort than $5 is worth.
I’m a cheap bastard, so I would chalk this up to a “matter of principle” and then start fighting for my money 😛
Or just blame @rize. Usually works for me.
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Boardgames
Since there was no strong opinions either way (or at least no clear majority) We will be doing boardgames on Saturday. This way we can play later if people want without worrying about it being a school night.
Starting around 1pm-2pm and going through until people decide to leave. Will be held at my place in Glen Iris for those who don’t know, just shoot me a message on twitter or an email tigerion[at]gmail
We will put on dinner for people so let us know numbers so that we can cater for that. What is on offer will depend on the weather, but likely either a BBQ or a roast. Just let us know if you have any food allergies or intolerances. So dinner should be covered so just bring whatever you want to drink, snack on and play.
In honour of my birthday we will have a very light halloween theme running through the day.
Let me know if you are coming or if you have any questions
Tagging everyone in, I’ll repost during the week without tags
@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 @inquisitorsz
Pass, but thanks for offering.
🙂
Awww mannn.. this sounds like soooo much fun 🙁
Sorry i can’t make it, mate.
HANABI!
I’m a tentative yes at this stage. I’ll double check my diary. Can you do a reminder on thrusday or friday just in case I forget to get back to you.
No worries, can do
We are relaxed around notice. If somebody finds themselves free on Saturday and haven’t said they were coming then they are still welcome.
Put me down as a definitely maybe … although I wouldn’t be able to get there till 5ish. I’ll be in the city meeting some non taybies from 1 – 4. But I’ll finally make it to a boardgame meat!
I’m also going to have to say ‘probably’. I’m not sure what my weekend’s looking like yet.
I’ll be in Brisbane next weekend (November 2-3). I don’t know exactly what my plans are just yet but I figured something either at Saturday lunch time or dinner time could be arranged. Just depends on what my family wants to do (my Sunday is already booked out).
Next Saturday we’ve got friends coming down from Clermont, so I doubt Ber and I will be able to attend. Sorry man 🙁
Well look who came crawling back.
@sughly, @freezespreston, @strange, @transientmind, @beardymcmuttonchops, @welbot, @virus__, @sernobulus, @popdart5, @dkzeitgeist, @jimu, @gutsoup, @enduwolf and all the rest!?
Mutt Lee…. (yes Im drunk, Yes I’ll go to bed *humph*)
I’ll probably be up for a meat. Don’t have anything concrete planned for that weekend.
My brain is telling me I have something on the Saturday, but I can’t for the life of me figure out what. I’ll have to check with people who know my schedule better than I do. (Girlfriend, mother, brother…)
I might be able to do a Saturday lunch, especially if it’s southside, and free parking!
Today I felt job satisfaction.
Needless to say it was a disturbingly alien concept and therefore I hated it.
Also I got a girl’s number, but likewise I am convinced it is part of a pyramid scheme and/or a indication that my luck today has finally run out and that a low-bearing plane will hit my apartment at any time now.
…what do you do again?
“I work hard in an industry with stiff competition.”
I cook for an ad agency.
Not nearly as glamorous as it sounds. Fair amount of interaction with people, though, and apparently my demonstration of my nimble, slender fingers were enough to net me a phone number.
And I suppose the fact that I was serving food helped. Did I discover the secret of relationships?
Yes. Good food will get you in any door.
I won Mrs Shane by being able to replicate Sizzler cheese toast.
*writes down* Sizzler.. cheese.. toast. Man, becoming Shane was one the best decisions of my life! you know what they say- “Saturday, to be successful, you must be less like yourself and more like not yourself.”
You’ve got access to a replicator?
No, I can just make it multiply by looking at it and crossing my eyes.
You certainly have me taken by the word “food”.
Was it you in a wig that gave @saturday your number?
It was probably the fingers. In the past, I’ve definitely been able to get a turned-on ‘hngh’ out of interested parties by mentioning that my fingers were always long, so the parents pushed me to play piano. That and typing led me to develop strong, flexible fingers. (Do a worm/wave-like pushing motion with your hand, like you’re stretching it, for added effect! Tacky points.)
Things are looking up for Shane!
Uni is uneventful, Pax14 later in the year means more time to make cosplay, also Pax13 was way too close to SDCC this year.
To Do List:
Find job
Earn Money
Buy the pattern (shipping from UK)
Buy Materials
Make the thing
Buy horse mask
Buy baseball bat
Real blood spatters? Any volunteers?
I can help with the blood spatters but it’s probably going to stain your horse mask.
All the better, I should look like a murder scene for the thing anyway
Not trying to discourage you, but a LOT of people had the same idea at PAX 2013 😛
Yeah I know, but their costumes didn’t look too good, one of the masks I saw wasn’t even from the game.
I look forward to your bloodsoaked glory
Maybe he could mix it up and go as the crazy looking dude(shop owner/pizza guy)?
I do have the beard part down…
My only hope for PAX 2014 cosplay is that a game comes out where the protagonist looks exactly like me and has the same clothes and then I don’t have to do anything.
C’mon Walking Dead Season 2, you can do it!
Could you get royalties for them using your likeness if that was the case?
I’ve dressed up as 2 people in my life:
Alan from The Hangover and Roy from The IT Crowd. Both just involved me wearing a specific shirt. Oh, and I stole one of my sisters baby dolls for Alan…
Do me a favour and pay a bit of extra money for fake blood. Too many people use red paint and it’s too bright
Or if you’re hardcore you could buy actual blood from butcher!
It goes brown when it dries.
So I’ve heard.
It also doesn’t wash out ever. Ever.
Anyone who claims otherwise is trying to sell you something… which doesn’t work.
They might be talking about like a little scratch, or a drop of blood that’s come from a teen’s popped pimple or a clumsy person’s shaving cut. But anything more than that? Nope. Not coming out.
But when you’re cosplaying, that’s not as big a deal. 🙂
Even more realistic!
Or you could mix in some green and the tiniest titch of blue to brown it up. If you’re using acrylic, water it down to the point that it coagulates inside the fabric fibers instead of simply on top of. 🙂 I just like acrylic because you can leave it.
I used to deal with fake blood a bit when I was a stage manager for a theatre group, and our props guys always favoured concotions that were sticky as fuck and got everywhere (yeah, yeah, I get that you want the blood to drip off the shiny sword’s blade after the actors run each other through, but it fucks up the stage, dammit!) and/or had potent organic odors. God. I’ll know those again if I smell ’em…
Me, I’d probably go the food-dye route. (Red with a bit of green, again.) I’m not sure what you can use to thicken it up for effective spattering. Maybe stir in some flour in a water solution… Syrup possibly works too, but y’know. Stickyness/ants issues again.
Once I was trying to win a competition where you had to write a postcard from a zombie on vacation. I searched around for some fake blood recipes but yeah, horrible sticky shit that doesn’t look right at all. Especially since they like to use powder like cocoa or whatever, mix that with glucose syrup? Um no. Just looked wrong, all of it.
In the end I just used one of my staple guns I created in highschool to shoot myself in the finger (wasn’t man enough to just be able to stab myself) and squeezed the blood out onto the paper. Worked a treat.
Managed to secure my spot as one of the winners btw 😛
MANLY. It was right and just for you to win.
Late October is a much better time for PAX AU, aside from the fact it’s uni / high school exams. This year it was same weekend as Comicon which I think screwed us out of a lot of game stuff we would have otherwise gotten. It’s well clear of the other PAX events, E3, Gamescom and TGS and it’s right at the point that the big release rush gets underway so all the big publishers will want to be there to show off their games for the 2014 holidays.
Clicking Bad
Now they’re just getting greedy.
Also 17,502,933,250 pounds of meth went missing and is in the wild.
QUICK EVERYONE GET THE BUCKETS!
On the plus side, I found about that much in a truck somewhere. And, apparently against common-sense and prudence, took it. Because no-one’ll be looking for that.
I had completely forgotten about PAX, but might attempt to make the effort to get down there this year. If I organise early I should be able to find some cheap flights and maybe some cheap accommodation…say at a friends house (@f4ction).
I won’t break any furniture. Promise.
I’m not sure if much happened with it but Nova (I forget his actual handle) said something about trying to see if he could organise special deals for accommodation & tickets.
@novacascade, I think!
Dammit, I had that but then hesitated. Oh well, thanks friend!
I tried sending a few emails to the PAX info address but didn’t hear anything back from them yet. They may have been busy with PAX Prime coming up at the time. Now that the announcement has been made for 2014 I will try again. I still have a list of everyone who expressed interest
Could you please add me to the list kind sir?
Trust me, you are already on the list…
Oh wait, the PAX list. Right gotcha.
Actually you were already on that list too. Look at Mr Popular
*nods with approval*
Ok.
*Looks at @saturday*
I can’t remember if I expressed interest when you first mentioned it. But I can tell you that I’m expressing so hard right now!
So uh, add me to the list if I’m not already there man!
Should be workable, assuming I am able to go to next years PAX
Well, That was a weekend…
First of all Many Thanks to @TransientMind for hanging on Thursday I had a whale of a time.
Then I woke up sick in the YHA in brisbane, so doing work and then going home to sydney was unbearable. I didnt get to go to the concert I’d bought tickets for. instead I slept for 13 hours…
Still feeling ill but back at work…. send help please?
@transientmind poisoned you? D:
I did bring him that one drink which wasn’t sealed, but that TOTALLY wasn’t poisoned, I swear. I blame the friend he met after I had to run for prior engagement. (So I also have an alibi for the rest of the night!)
Convenient! *scribbles notes in Transientmind’s file*
You and your manual files.
Did your friend make you drink? Shame about not flying well.
Actually no she was driving so no more alcohol afterwards. (surprise to me on that one) But I think it was the other people in the YHA room I was in. Plus someone had the AC set to Siberia…
Any of your folks that play GTAV on PS3, we have a crew called the “Sons of Disparity” that is open to any to join , starting as crew muscle. We’re all about making cash and more importantly, having fun. Prefer people that use mics, and are mature enough not to run around killing crew members for no reason. Members are promoted by helping out other crew members in missions and jobs as well as freemode and representing the crew well. Currently at around 30 members. Check us out on the Rockstar Crew section 🙂
I dunno, can you ever match the glory of @bdkiaf’s BIKES crew?
Remember that time we had a bike race and he was winning and the finish line was in sight and a truck took him out. XD
That was crazy!
DC, will you come back when there are heists?
Are the heists there now or will they be patched in later? Also, I assume you guys are much higher level than me now.
I’ve not played online for a week or two, barely touched my PS3 as I’ve been doing other things.
Heists haven’t come in yet
Confirmation of a long-standing belief that truck drivers are arseholes.
Maybe someone who wasn’t winning the race paid him off? *shifty eyes*
Who ended up winning? Red? It was probably him then. He’s just jealous that I’m Nicole Kidman and he has to be one of those guys who don’t actually have a career anymore.
I’ll have you know that Angelo D’Angelo (yes, his real name) appeared on both A Country Practice and Heartbreak High!
Haha! I think I saw you guys a couple of times while playing. I (was) in the Potaku crew!
So, our unit at work moved to a new business group (and a new floor in the building) and have a new manager who just went ahead and booked out our schedule for the next couple months with various morning teas.
They’re the type where ‘everyone brings a plate to share’. ie: The most inefficient way of doing a morning tea. Predictably, there are ten tonnes of food left-over.
It’s a fine idea in principle – everyone bringing something for others to sample. Where it almost always falls down is in the execution: everyone goes ahead and brings more than they personally can eat. They bring like… an entire tray of brownies. Or a whole cake. Or a couple bags of chips and salsa. Or two-dozen cupcakes. Or two dozen donuts.
I can only comfortably eat 5 units of food, and I bring a plate of food with 10 units of food on it, and EVERYONE does this – so on a floor of fifty people there are 250 units of food being eaten and 500 units of food brought, resulting in 250 units of left-overs.
This is crazy-think approach to morning tea. The far more rational way we used to do when we had autonomy over it was to have everyone chip in a dollar or two, then go purchase a selection of foods tailored to the numbers anticipated. Minimal waste. Minimal hassle/cost/obligation to participants. Also you ensure a healthy variety of foods available with a balance between sweet and savoury – as opposed to the disorganized clusterfuck of no-one knowing what anyone else is bringing, resulting in several duplicate dishes.
You really have to wonder what particular objectives are being met with this crazily inefficient method.
In the meantime, I bring nothing and scarf down mountains of free food afterwards and question the wisdom of the hand that quite literally feeds.
I can dispose of the left over plate of brownies for you, if you’d like?
I dunno, look what happened to @gingerchris86 after he accepted a consumable from @transientmind
Yeah, but that’s because Transient doesn’t take too kindly to strangers! We go way back! I’ve talked to him three times now!
I didn’t do it nobody saw me do it you can’t prove anything!
Well, it’s a bit of a hike from where you are, but sure. When you get to the Gabba, it’s extension 56074 from the foyer, I’ll get you in and stand guard while you eat. 🙂
You can finish ours if you like? We were finished with them quite a while ago and now they’re just sitting in the freezer! Probably won’t feel too good afterwards though…
I don’t even wanna know what’s in your left over brownies, you crazy stoner. 😛
I was about to refute your stoner claim, but then I remembered that I may be organising quite a big Wednesday night out…
😛
You are doing it right. In fact, you’re doing everyone a favour.
Still intrigued by the idea of Fez on Vita. It should work incredibly well, and would suit the Vita perfectly.
Except then I remember Phil Fish is a fucking idiot man-child and I wonder if I would buy it at all.
I thought he was out? Dropped the mic and all?
That was Fez II, I think? Maybe? *shrugs*
I know he spat the dummy and pulled the plug on Fez II – not sure about the rest. Polytron appears to be doing the port, but not sure if that’s Phil Fish directly or not.
I hope that this upcoming Apple event this week includes a refresh of their Macbook Pro lineup so I can decide what to replace my current one with.
I really should have gone out and done something today. I’ve spent all morning on the computer in my underpants eating cheese sticks and drinking beer.
Not feeling 100% about that fact.
Did you sort out that snafu with your bad reference from the boss?
Not yet. Just waiting on a couple of last references to come through then write my submission.
The boss usually contacts me 2-3 times a day to ask for help or to clarify something but I haven’t heard from him since I lost it at him.
What an arsehat.
That’s my every day! Except for the beer part! And cheese sticks!
Living the dream.
Oh man, that sounds like a great day. Except perhaps for drinking before noon – that’s one thing my constitution couldn’t handle.
We should have a @freezespreston alcohol intervention meat! We could do it at a pub?
Clearly @shane has never had the true breakfast of champions:
Weet Bix and Beer.
I do not recommend.
Although, we technically hadn’t slept yet so I don’t know if that counts as breakfast or late night/early morning munchies.
‘Brekky Beers’ are a thing.
That’s called a “North Queensland Breakfast”.
Funnily enough I was in Cairns when this happened.
We did this to a more than slightly hungover friend once, except with corn flakes.
There was vomit and much laughter shortly after.
I somehow managed to sleep through the hangover.
I may have slept for like 18hrs though…
Snap, Crackle and Burp.
#MASHJoke
*shakes fist at Hawkeye*
Shower beer after a big night is fantastic.
Only topped by swimming pool beer after a big night.
Shower beer is also a fantastic way to prepare for a big night out.
Beer is just fantastic.
It sure is.
I see no problem with this.
If I were ever able to retire, that would absolutely be how I’d spend at least the first couple months. I might change up the cheese-sticks/beer for other things, but that’s generally how things would go.
Whiskey and hot dogs.
Tequila and salami.
Wine and more wine.
@steve-o_the_deve-o
[Continued discussion, because reply is failing]
Hot diggety son, LAN! I’ve been wanting to have one for years, but we are having problems finding the space. I’m definitely interesting in checking your setup out haha.
Add me on teh twitters? @tehstickman. or… email: adr1k000@gmaaaaail
Just got linked this. There goes my productivity.
http://www.fullscreenmario.com/
“Clicking bad” – up to 1.2 quadrillion dollars…
Im now paying off the DEA with 3 trillion dollar bribes lol
Addictive game…
I’m on the cookie game. My progress is floundering. I leave my PC on during the day (8am to 10pm) and it still only buys me a couple upgrades/properties a day. 🙁
Late-game the really big income comes from upgrading the golden cookie so that it turns up every couple minutes. Keep a sizable bank of cookies aside, because the ‘lucky!’ cookie gives you either 10% of your bank, or 20min worth of cookies – whichever is LESS. So if you have a nice big bank handy, you’ll get 10% of it every ten minutes or so.
The frenzy one which increases production can sometimes overlap with the lucky one, resulting in some really huge gains if you’ve got a big enough bank set aside.
I just leave the browser open and click the golden cookie whenever I see if when I’m playing windowed games or watching videos.
Weddings getting awful close. So much to do.
Exams tomorrow.
Nervous breakdown? I’ll take two, thanks.
Sorry, fresh out. I’ve booked one for this Thursday.
*sigh*
I guess it’ll have to do.
How much extra is delusions of grandeur?
Not as much as you think it is.
But more than someone of your stature deserves to be paying.
There, I just gave you one for free.
Oh, that’s a very popular model. I’m sure we have one out the back.
The piece of advice my married friends cling to is this: If anything goes wrong on a wedding day, there’s usually a grand total of no-one outside of the bridal party that ever knows. The guests all think it’s running smoothly.
Until the murders begin! D:
You and i have been to very different weddings.
True story. I have never been to a wedding. #NoFriendsDC
I cordially invite you to mine.
Sure, I’d need to get a girlfriend, and be with her for a while, and propose, and all that, but these are just details.
Eh, I think I have plans that day. 😛
@DC HATS RED :'(
Naw, just kidding 😛I joke because I care! I care because you’re awesome! 😀
I keep getting emails from desperate singles in Russia, Asia and most of Eastern Europe. Want me to hook you up? You might be able to expedite matters a little, and finally get @dc to a wedding.
Because I’m signed in to my Google account at work, where I search Defence and Industry stuff, all of my google-served ads seem to think I’m in my 50s.
I get dating ads to match o_o
Propose to a homeless man = instant wedding!
Not in Australia, yet.
Homeless woman, OK, Homeless man, not OK.
It’s a nice day for a red wedding.
D:
I was thinking more Harper’s Island.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232320/
And if there’s one day in your life you’re permitted to be utterly terrified and rendered incapable of basic human function – this is it. No one will think less of you for it.
As for exams – study! If you don’t know it by now you’re doomed anyway. =D
That’s what we got told the other day. Don’t stress and don’t worry if things don’t go as they were planned to because nobody else knows what was rehearsed!
It’s not the guest i worry about…
Here’s a tip, lots of people release white doves. Maybe you should release colobus monkeys. *decisive nod*
What could go wrong!
This is the best idea i have ever heard
Everyone will talk about it for years to come!
Of this I have no doubt
Stand naked in front of the mirror and coat yourself in peanut butter. Flex your muscles, wink, and tell yourself that you’re awesome and all will be well. Affirm your awesome by approaching your fiance whilst still coated in peanut butter and propose various indecent acts to remove it.
They say it’s bad luck for the groom to see the bride on the day of the wedding, but I wonder if various bride-performed acts of indecency are out of the question if the groom remains blindfolded… I totally have to remember that for my own.
LIVE LECHEROUSLY.
Or the bride or groom is camoflaged with peanut butter.
PEANUT BUTTER SEXY TIME!
PEANUT BUTTER SEXY TIME!
My god. I NEED to actually do this!
Don’t worry, I just checked. You’ll be fine.
FINE IS BETTER THAN OK!!! \o/
You chose a wedding date close to exams? Yikes! You’re a brave one, all right.
Wedding is november 23rd – so it’s a month after. Luckily. Still meetings for the wedding are getting in the way of study time. Yikes. lol
🙁 Not cool. Hopefully you can stop stressing about the wedding for long enough to focus on exams. *hugasaurus*
Dawwwww ^_^
How did you know hugasaurus’ were my favorite type of dinosaur?!!?
And it should be all good – i took tomorrow off to cram before the exam haha 😀
The Walking Dead TV producer talks about the game, for those interested! Probable spoilers for all things The Walking Dead.
http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/18/4853044/telltales-the-walking-dead-is-true-to-every-spirit-of-the-series
But he’s the producer of the TV Show! What does he know!
😛
Yeah, that’s a bit rich. The order of excellence is comics>game>tv series.
He apparently knows the game is a shit-tonne better
Maybe he was talking about that other Walking Dead game. 😛
We don’t talk about that game.
On Walking Dead.
I tired to watch the first episode of Season 3 on the weekend. I got up to the part where Laurie walks into the house and immediately remembered why I hated that show.
That’s before the opening credits roll, for those playing at home.
If anyone’s stuck with it, should I?
Is season 3 worth my time?
I think the first half of season 3 is pretty great, personally. Really didn’t like the second half though.
I stuck with it and regretted every minute of it. There are some moments in the first half of season 3, but it’s not worth it. The rest of the show since then has been an abomination.
I might leave it…
Admittedly, I oversold its shortcomings. Abomination was a strong word, but I still think you’ve made the right choice!
There is one moment that is very satisfying, and may even make it worth your while.
(Legitimate plot spoiler)
Lori finally dies! \o/Yeah, I know that happens.
BUT, does the writing still blow?
Also, have you watched S.HI.E.L.D. yet? Holy mackerel it’s great.
It feels like a “My First Whedon” show.
Really digging it.
Yeah, the writing still blows and everyone is still idiots.
I’ve been watching S.H.I.E.L.D. So much fun. Looking forward to seeing where it goes.
Sort of spoilers, not really but might bother some people if they’re super strict about wanting to know nothing.
The main antagonist of season 3 has too much plot armour for the conflcit to feel satisfying, so the show is still ok to watch, jsut don’t expect anything in the way of real plot development.Season 4 begins with a bunch of randoms we’ve never seen before who will probably just be cannon fodder later.
Started watching The Frankenstein Theory. It’s made by the same people from The Last Exorcism Which is just making me remember how angry that movie made me. A fantastic, interesting movie completely ruined in the last 10 minutes to appease 16 year old girl gore fans.
Last Exorcism lost me about 20 mins in.
So many great things they could’ve done with the priest character and the “doco” format but it was just all abandoned.
And yes, holy shit that ending sucked.
I was expecting a rape ending.Not really related:
I saw a trailer for I, Frankenstein the other day. It looks awful.
“From the creators of Underworld”
HAHAHAHAHA NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPE!!!
On the topic of terrible looking movies, look up the trailer for Renny Harlins version of Hercules. I watched the trailer last night and was all “Wait, wut?”
I’ve been avoiding that trailer like the plague.
The poster was enough for me to know I wasn’t gonna like it.
Imagine 300, Troy, Gladiator and Spartacus had some bastard child that was deformed and nobody liked.
That’s what it looks like.
afternoon all!
so was a bit bored yesterday after finishing Beyond: Two Souls on saturday….
so i started playing around with some source stuff… made a hat for the Heavy… it has a bit of a background story… basically its the heavys stuffed kitty plush toy from when he was a little boy. thinking about doing one for each class as well as a weapons pack which will essentially be kids toys, ie, a nerf style minigun for the heavy, arrows with suction caps for the sniper, etc…
im already working on so much at the moment, just about to send my childrens book off to 2 or three publishers, started writing a scifi novel, and im working on an IOS game… im struggling to focus on one project at a time so i find myself leaving a project, working on another one, and keep getting back to t later…
any thoughts?
http://imgur.com/jWn3oU4
WRITING! \o/
Good luck with the publishers!
thanks man! its kind of an odd feeling submitting a childrens book, i mean, its quite extensive for a childrens book but very simplistic, but still it feels incomplete without the artwork, however that was the request on the submission guidelines.
http://imgur.com/b4WZsK9
http://cdn.meme.li/i/llhsi.jpg
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Apparently I’m still a fairly petty person. Someone downvoted a heap of comments in the Beyond: Two Souls article, then put up a wall of text.
Didn’t read it, downvoted it.
Read that as “fairly pretty person”
A little confidence goes along way!
Confirmed @rize is a pretty person.
He’s not too bad for a midget.
Oi!
Come down here and say that!
I’ve now got a screenshot of this, and will print it out and frame it so you can never deny it.
Do you come with the car?
Read it. still downvoted, made me feel too many EMOTIONS.
Mostly irritation at the writer. Irritation is an emotion, right?The dude’s clearly a tool, he’s downvoting anything even in the vicinity of a negative comment, even if the comment he’s downvoting isn’t negative.
Someone needs to tell him this isn’t Reddit.
I’m also very glad this isn’t Reddit.
So glad 😛
Le Reddit, i have been friendzoned *tips fedora*
RON PAUL 2016
This
upboats for you
DAE Gaben kittehs and sriracha?
He downvoted my comment and I’m the biggest Quantic Dream fanboy you ever did see! XD
I saw that, and I tag-called him out on it for being a fucking douchenozzle. Though I didn’t use that word, just told him he’s developed a victim complex.
I still think too many people confuse the downvote button with a disagree button.
I do it! How else will they know that they’re wrong?
Edit: Well. I don’t just do it for disagrees that are based on personal preference, only when people are being stupid-wrong (“u r all ps4 fanbois The One will rock ur box0rz”), not just ignorant-wrong (“Smooth peanut-paste is better than crunchy.”)
Upvote because agree
…
…
…I couldn’t not do it.
I hope you understand.
Holy shit. I think that guy climaxed several times while writing that.
*backs away slowly*
Wow. That game’s the return of Christ, but it’s Christ if he came back with a wicked motorcycle, a huge machine gun and even huger boobs!
Well the game was transcendent
I also saw that comment. I’m gonna go downvote it.
The dude was downvoting even comments which said they liked the game than writes a giant wall of text that makes me think he has delusions of grandeur on how important he is.
I haven’t played the game yet so can’t say either way, but holy shit people like that piss me off.
The reason I stopped posting about the game is because I realized I was taking other people’s criticism a little too personally. I loved the game and nothing is going to change that, some people don’t and that’s okay too.
Nah, you’re good man. There’s passionate and then there’s being a dick.
Exactly dude. Who cares what other people think about a game. If you’ve enjoyed it and you’ve taken something out of it, that’s all that counts.
There’s been times where people have hated games I’ve loved but if anything I take some comfort in seeing the beauty in something that others don’t. 🙂
He downvoted pretty much anyone who didn’t say Beyond : Two Souls is the greatest game ever conceived.
He downvoted someone saying that they appreciate the term ‘pants-on-head-retarded’. Wasn’t even anything to do with the game.
What a guy.
OH BEAVWA!
When can I get that Pikachu off you? I haven’t seen you online, or my 3DS is being poopfaced.
Tomorrow afternoon. What’s your in game trainer name? I have you on the friends list now.
It’s Ynefel. I’ll keep an eye out for you! Thanks again, bruspehine.
Well, to be fair, some people don’t get the reference and even if they do, a good number of folks hate any use of ‘retarded’ in the pejorative.
I’ve taken to pulling it out of my standard vocabulary, leaving it for the no-holds-barred company of known fellow deviants.
Oh man, even @dc got a downvote.
To be fair, those could be interpreted as dissin’ the game if he didn’t know why I wasn’t posting ’bout it.
Also: That’s the poster’s only comment ever. Weird.
HOLY SHIT IT REALLY IS DAVID CAGE.
It’s pretty transcendent, but.
I knew I’d read that shit before!
He’s posting it everywhere.
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
AMAZING!!!
Oh dear god, I want to see this on the front page of Kotaku.
Oh man, I guess I’ve got to fight him now for title of the Greatest irrational, argumentative Quantic Dream fanboy. D:
*training montage*
We believe in you DC, the power was within you all the time
*smash cut to @dc flexing Dualshock thumbs upwards*
*DC’s trainer yelling “now feel SAD! And now SCARED*
*Picture of David Cage in DC’s locker*
to the tune of Gonna Fly Now
♪♫ YOU’RE THE BEST.. AROUND..
NOTHING’S EVER GONNA KEEP YOU DOWN.. ♪♫
Oh gods.
Let @markserrels know!
We should let @markserrels know…
@markserrels? He sounds cute.
You really think we should let @markserrels know?
Nah. I don’t think it’s that newsworthy. People go to those sort of extremes all the time. It’s more just kinda… sad.
I meant more that if it’s a spammer or other weird viral marketing thing it could be something that could be blocked against.
i think it’s just a dude with too many EMOTIONS.
Oh.
My.
God.
WHAT DARK SORCERY IS THIS? DAVID CAGE IS SKYNET! NOT A PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION, BUT A VIRTUAL ONE THAT INFILTRATES ALL CORNERS OF THE KNOWN INNARNET. HE WANTS YOU TO FEEL!
Oh man. Hahahahaha.
Borrowed the link for a wider audience. (Hope you don’t mind)
My god. Could it actually be David Cage.
That is taking fanboy to new levels of madness
Googled the username, as I was wondering if it was a real person or some kind of elaborate spam thing. Found a steam user of the same name, and a couple of profiles on other gaming sites, commenting on other topics. Similar level of… um… earnestness.
What an odd character.
It’s the ‘crowd influence’ sort of approach. Funniest puppets I’ve seen were accounts spamming the pedigrees of the writing, acting and direction of A:CM in the first few days of release.
I guess maybe they think it can cancel out all the negative things they’re reading, or at least render it all into grey noise. Or there’s the more cynical side of me that thinks this kind of motivation can actually come from being paid to do it. Who knows…
I’ve seen sock puppets before, but I think this one is genuine, which is the weird part. My suspicions were aroused with the other commenters in that thread, but they all had a post history. The “first time caller” nature of that one was just odd.
Whenever I see things like this, I do find it to be an interesting exercise to look at the pattern of behaviour, and try to fathom what the motivation could be behind it. What drives someone to try to influence conversation like that, how much is passive comment pasting, or what will make them engage further.
… I’ll admit there’s probably something wrong with me when I get this level of fascination with these sorts of things.
Err, being totally not creepy:
Found his Twitter.
EDIT: On second thought…
EDIT 2: Basically he looks like some NSA conspiracy tin foil hat nutjob
Just looked like a puppet / spamming account. Just like the Kotaku AU one for pasting the wall o text.
Pardon my ignorance, but how do people know who downvoted? Or am I missing something?
Just click on the box that has the number of votes next to the up and down buttons and a list will appear!
Ah, neat!
Wait… what if that was… @dc ‘s linked soul? Daiden?
I mean think about it, besides Cage who else would like the game THAT much? 😛
I believe this theory to be true because my cup of tea totally moved as I wrote this…
There’s a break between spiffy new release games in November for me before the PS4 launch. Thinking of replaying some of my all-time PS3 favourites for old times sake… whittled it down to Heavy Rain, The Last of Us and Uncharted 2. (Though most likely will end up replaying nothing. :P)
Psst…
read The Lesser Evil.I’ll also be bringing more books with me to Brisbane.I’ll be bringing a punch in the face for you!You punch it, you bought it.
That includes me, and despite what Mrs Shane might say, I don’t come cheap.I do.Weird.
It’s just that Uncharted is the superior game.
They’re equally as good.
I’ve just played the first way more to the point I can almost recite dialogue. 😛
Pistols at dawn.
Always loved the Uncharted series, just hard to play them when they start to hit the difficulty spikes and surrealism.
I reckon I’d very likely replay The Last of Us, Ellie is just such a iconic character in terms of the November gaming hump I’d probably instead spend it on shame pile catch-up.
Hey! I’ve finished 2 of those games! GO ME!
JOOOOOOOOOOURNEEEEEEEEEEEEY!
I mean … chirpchirp.
CHIRP.
So about 3 weeks back i had my first taste of pen and paper rpg, being introduced as spiderman in the Marvel RPG game.
I gotta say, not only was it gruelingly difficult at times, but it was also hilarious. My favorite bit was when the hulk went on a rampage and i distracted him by slinging a web that attached his hulk wang to his gooch! With critical success!
A close second was using a web to swing wolverine at a group of enemies.
NOW next monday i’ll be starting an only run of Dark Heresy, the warhammer 40,000 pen and paper RPG, along with @f4ction and some other dudes – This should be pretty amazeballs and total grimdark! Can. Not. Wait.
Why has it taken me SO long to become such a uber-geek?!?
If all goes well maybe we should set aside a monthly online run of DH for just taybies via online linkage. Would anyone be keen for that?!
If you need to know how that could work technically speak to Red
http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/
Dark Heresy, does that use custom dice?
Nope. D10’s and D100’s mostly
Makes it easier.
We use http://roll20.net/ for Numenera, which can be as elaborate or simple as you want it. i don’t know how tactical the RPG is, but you can do all the grid-based miniature stuff pretty well – we did a battle last week with full-on character pogs, but you can do stuff a bit more freeform just as easier.
Nice drag&drop interface too. You can get a free acc.
Yeah that’s what we’re using for the one starting monday 🙂
Also, if you do want to run something I’m happy do be a technical consultant- i dunno the RPG system, but I can learn it if you’re new to DMing and need advice.
d100 system. Basically everything is roll a d100 and beat your attribute score. No custom dice required.
Also, @chuloopa, I’m keen for some DH. I’m currently playing an Only War (Imperial Guard version) with a few offline friends and I’m enjoying the crap out of that.
I’d be in for Dark Heresy as well. Been watching a series on youtube on it, seems like it could be a lot of fun, and a good way to learn more about the lore as I go.
I can’t remember the name of it but there was a game released a few years back that if modified/built upon would be awesome for online roleplaying. Basically there was a player and a conductor – with each taking turns of about a minute. The conductor would go first, placing sprites and backgrounds on a grid map and typing in a backstory. The player would then type what they wanted to do, with the conductor modifying/adding images and text to advance the story. It was an interesting concept.
I’m sure there are already many existing tools/websites for this purpose though.
i kept wondering last night how the hell i get more treats for my pokemon, when all of a sudden i think i got like 30 given to me by random people! \o/
ive just woken up snorlax and entered new town…You mean the Poke puffs? Do the little mini-games like berry drop and you’ll be awarded more puffs if you get a higher score.
Sooooo I kinda just impulse-bought a 3DS XL. I wandered into the shop and saw a bunch of them on display in the cabinet, and looked under the box – saw that it said Trademark 2012. Asked the girl if I could turn it on and see what version firmware it has, she went and got the manager who let me do it. Ding ding ding, it’s got 4.4. which is totally exploitable. The guy was even so nice as to match JB’s $238.
Oops.
Exploitable?
There’s exploit in firmwares 4.5 and below that has allowed people to run code in 3DS mode. It got patched in 5.0 and above which was the March/April (or was it April/May?) updates put out this year, so only old stock would be able to use it. At the moment there’s one product out there that uses it, but it’s still fairly new and doesn’t do a whole lot other than just run one ROM from a microSD at the moment. I’m not terribly interested in that, I buy all my games and have no problem carrying around a couple of carts with me at a time. But if it gets me a foot in the door for various homebrew and backup options down the track, then I’m all in. Especially after having just gotten shafted on my save data by Nintendo.
Exploitable? Are there…
*looks around suspiciously*
R4 cards out for the 3DS already?
There’s one. Sort of. It’s all only kind of just gotten off the ground.
I’m in it for safety reasons, because Nintendo doesn’t give a fuck about my shit.
are you reffering to ds flashcarts? cause my 3ds xl is on the latest firmware and i use a flashcart for my ds games (mainly cause i cant be bothered carrying around a ton of cartridges)… also some of the homebrew stuff is awesome…. you gotta try out portal..
this one…
http://www.r4isdhc.com/rtswhite/
Nah, 3DS stuff. I’ve got an M3 Real, there is indeed a whole load of cool stuff in the homebrew world. I’m a gigantic fan of StillAlive DS, though haven’t gotten to try out Portal yet. I much prefer playing DS stuff on my DS anyway, the 3DS is kind of rubbish for that.
Bravely Default is like 6 weeks away now and Nintendo still haven’t announced any details about this mythical ‘collector’s edition’ they said they’d be doing. 🙁
They’re just biding their time. I’m sure of it … ='(
Huh. Someone felt the need to downvote me for saying that I posted a picture of myself with my pants on my head.
Pictures or it didn’t happen.
Same people who told you to come clothed to the Halloween party. They just can’t handle the lusty thoughts that slam through their brain and wash away all coherent thought.
Is this joke getting old yet? I feel it’ll still have legs another two, three years tops.
Legs… top… I even pun unconsciously, it seems…
Probably for not providing a link. :'(
If it’s who I think it is…
He downvoted nearly every comment in there.
he’s trying to give you a life tip on the correct application of pants.
Am I remembering wrong or did you once post a picture here that you made your friend take? Possibly pretending to be in some sort of video game!
I’ll tell you now what I should’ve told you then:
PUT SOME CLOTHES ON! >:|
Surprised you didn’t have that picture in your extensive files.
So that’s where “PUT SOME CLOTHES ON, BABY!” originated. 😛
Toootally remembering wrong.
>_>
Everyone loves packaging, judging a book by its cover. What’s your weirdest personal example?
Mine is hardcover books with gilded pages. These trappings make me at least twice as likely to enjoy the contents. If I could get every book I owned recovered like this, I would do it in an instant.
On the flip side, owning a collector’s edition of a game seems to decrease my chances of enjoying it. Maybe it’s because I expect more from a game I paid more for. Or maybe I’ve just been unlucky. But I have very few collector’s editions that I actually enjoyed the games for.
Glossy bits on covers, like on my Numenera book. Always think it’s a nice touch.
Also, Bad Pharma’s paperback cover is my favourite book cover this year
I smell all my new books. They all have different smells and are all awesome in some way. My other favorite thing to do is tap a brand new book with my fingers and listen to the sound it makes. Works best on thick books, and hardcovers, obviously. Just close a thick book, and give it a firm tap on the front or back cover with the tip of one of your fingers. Sounds awesome. Kind of hollow.
EDIT: That sounds weird, but try it. Makes me smile every time. Books are awesome.
I like to heft thick books. Just hold them in my hand and sort of bounce them up and down on my hand while looking pretentiously thoughtful. I will try your thing if you try mine.
I will try it!
My Wind Waker CE would like a word with you…
On a more serious note, how do you feel with eBooks, regarding the lack of good or average covering? I haven’t found the physical presence to really affect my enjoyment if a book for the precisely one time I read it (unwieldy trade paperback monstrosities aside)
Nope! I personally can’t do ebooks yet (though I only this week joined the 21st century by getting a smartphone, so time might well tell a different story).
But to me ebooks feel way too ethereal and disposable. Not a good mindset to approach a book with!
I bought a Kobo Glo, and they’re brilliant. I still buy books as well though. The Kobo is just to take convenient copies of multiple books with me for certain circumstances. eBooks will never replace real books for me, but they supplement it quite nicely.
How is the OS on the kobo?
I have numerous pdf docs that I get, either technical specs or whitepapers that I would like ot be able to read when traveling. Does that let you upload PDF (and/or other formats) to the reader and read them when you want.
Or does it have a walled garden approach and you can only read things purchased through the offical store or in the official format?
It’s actually pretty good – I’ve got PDF’s and eBooks of various formats on there and they all work great. I mostly got it because it was one of the few reasonably priced backlit eReaders at the time. Pretty happy with it so far.
How is the backlight. Can you just have it totally turned off during the day?
The main reason I want the ereader is I can’t read for long periods on a backlight screen. Which is why the e-ink is so appealing
Yeah, there’s a button on the top, and you can turn the backlight off and on whenever you like.
I find that I tend to value all digital purchases (eBooks, digital games, movies and music) less.
If I don’t have a physical copy to look at and be proud of I just don’t seem to care as much. I buy a lot of quilting eBooks for my computer but without the weight and the bright cover and the ability to put them on a shelf and admire them I don’t really read them again when I’ve finished. I’ll read the physical quilting books over and over again though, even though it’s less convenient than having them on my laptop’s hard drive. I think I find the actual book more inspiring when it’s in my hands as opposed to on a screen.
Yeah, that’s the same for me. Practically every digital purchase I’ve made sits on a hard drive somewhere, unused.
As opposed to the physical, where only maybe half to a third sit there unused 😀
I like my books to be physically there. So I can put them on my shelf. And I like the weight and size in my hands.
Also so I can use them as makeshift bludgeons.
I love opening a new Nintendo machine. Everything’s all just so perfectly and neatly Tetris’d together. First really took notice of it with the GBA SP, that was amazing to me at the time.
I like it when books have geometric shapes on the cover, especially if they’re black, red and white.
Is there a reference here I’m not getting, or just a general preference?
http://shanewsmith.com/thelesserevil/
>:(
Not what I was thinking with Geometric patterns.
This is absolutely the best answer.
I un-upvoted everyone else’s comments to show just how strongly I approve 🙂
My examples of this are more for tech. I refuse to buy an electrical or tech thing unless it’s pretty.
For instance I went shopping for an iron on the weekend and gravitated straight towards a beautiful sleek black one with a bright orange cord. It was a little more than I wanted to pay so I looked at all the others but despite having the same features none of them were as pretty so I left without buying an iron and I’m now going to wait until the pretty one comes on special.
It’s also why I chose a Samsung mp3 player over an iPod back when iPod were all the click-wheel types and probably has no small part in why I love my PS3 way more than my 360. I have a weakness for shiny black tech.
Mrs Tigs does the same thing. Which is why we have a bright purple kettle, a bright red toaster and a purple iron.
Puppets are pretty terrifying. I remember crying when my mum took me to a puppet show when I was about four. You know what? I’d probably cry to this day!
How do you feel about muppets?
All things Jim Henson related have a pass!
So you’re okay with the Hynerian sex scenes in Farscape?
Because they freaked the hell out of me.
Amazing.
That’s exactly where I was going to take this.
They’re not puppets, Rize, Jesus…
And yet, you enjoyed the Muppet movie? I don’t get you, man, not at all. 🙂
I’m a rich tapestry of mental illness!
Also I’m pretty sure a muppet ain’t a puppet…
Idiot.
It’s not quite a mop, it’s not quite a puppet, but man…*laughs*
We went to a Chinese puppet/silhouette show thing for an excursion in primary school and they had the most evil looking puppets ever.
You would’ve loved it! 😀
*cowers*
What’s your stance on sentient dolls, eg: Chucky?
*shudders*
Puppets on strings or puppets on hands. Or both?
I think it depends on puppet design actually. XD
Oh man! I just realized now that Strange is going to make a puppet to terrify me. That’s how monsters roll!
Ugh, still gotta call Nintendo too. And lodge a proper complaint with Fair Trading. Also make a daring escape to climbing.
TOO MANY THINGS
Have you and Flu crossed paths at climbing yet? Did he have a parrot in his possession? (This is important!)
Not yet.
Unless he was in a clever disguise.
This answer works for so many questions I’m tempted to use it the next time someone asks me anything.
so how the hell do you breed your pokemon???
do you just leave a male and a female of one species at the pokemon daycare then get the egg?
One species, different species, it’s all good!
(real info: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_breeding)
What kind of depraved daycare are they running.
Bow chicka bow wow.
Who’s going to give zetrox the ‘pidgies and the beedrills’?
its the stork right???
Wine and dine. Avoid PETA.
Get a Ditto.
They’ll bang anything.
wait is that a legit answer???
Yep.
Nob put it better below.
Now that I think about it. You capture an innocent ditto from its home and then lock it in a “daycare” to “make an egg appear” with multiple Pokemon … that is all kinds of messed up.
its like a pimp – ho relationship… ditto gets all the action!
“What’s your story, babe? Who are you?”
“Anyone you want me to be, big guy.”
well, when a mummy pokemon and a daddy pokemon love each other very much…
aww gawd what have i done?!?!?!?
i’m sorry, i couldn’t resist 🙂
but nobs is a cool guy and actually answered it, so listen to him haha
Pretty much, if you have a ditto you can leave a Pokemon of any gender and the ditto and you will get an egg.
sweet!!!!
so umm anyone have a ditto ???
Have a look on the GTS!
i dunno how 🙁
Connect to the Internet, click the grey icon on the PSS (touchscreen), go to the second page, click GTS!
You can get one super easy on the global trade thing. I offered up a level 7 Flabebe and got a Ditto in about 30 minutes.
Put up an Australian Vivillon (brown/blue) and ask for a Ditto in return and you’ll get one in less than 5 minutes, guaranteed.
I didn’t know Vivillion had different colouring based on location. That’s so rad.
Is it true that I need to have seen a Ditto firstly before I can request one?
Nope. You can scroll to the bottom of the list of letters, and choose an option to type out the name of the Pokemon, meaning you can request ones you haven’t seen yet, if you know their name.
Spent most of today playing The Stanley Parable. Fair warning, it’s a game you pretty much want to go in blind. Find out just enough to see if you’re interested, from trailer or whatnot, and then either delve in or forget about it.
I’ve managed to get most of the endings so far, although I think the confusion ending went wrong because after I triggered the restart after seeing the chart describing how the confusion ending goes, I ended up getting the ending where you run around downstairs endlessly until you go mad and die. The first time I did anything, I just did absolutely everything contrary to the instructions. Ended up not saving a baby from a fire and playing Minecraft. Set the tone rather well. I really liked the confusion ending, mainly for the line that seems to just do its own thing. I’ve also tried to work out the code to stop the explosion ending from happening. I thought maybe it was something to do with the monitors off to the side but that doesn’t seem to work. Something to get charge on the other things? I don’t know. If there’s a solution, I haven’t worked it out and I might leave that to someone else.Overall, fun game. I like the illusion of choice and how “off the rails” things can get while all still clearly planned and stuffs.You can’t tell me what to do! >:|
Surly @dc is surly.
*shoves Red*
Well, you’re no longer invited to my wedding.
But I already bought my best man suit!
D:
Jokes. 🙁
I like sassy you, I just worry about violent you.
I’m not violent. I feel kind of offended at that suggestion. 🙁
I know you’re not violent.
I just get uncomfortable with all the violent talk is all. Not just you, but you do talk about punching Shane an awful lot. 😛
Right in the face.
Oh yes @fatshady @mythamphetamine
pretty sure that’s the point of the confusion ending, it actually ends there, and you start a fresh game after that point. confusing huh?oh and as for the countdown, i think it’s unsolvable.I also just went and got the heaven ending. The only one I haven’t got that I know of is the one where you play the “save the baby” game for four hours. Not doing that. I also accepted a delivery of several thousand boxes. Not sure how. A phone was ringing, I answered it. Next time I restarted there were boxes EVERYWHERE.So far I’ve gotten:
Disco secret.A telephone ringing, with a pre-recorded message warning me of heeding warnings on the dangers of pre-recorded messages.
The Real ending.
The museum ending.
The whiteboard ending.
The OOB ending.
The ‘Stanley is a person’ ending.
The ‘Stanley is a construct’ ending.
The confusion ending.
The save a baby/Minecraft/Portal/log cabin ending.
The ‘Broken narrative’ ending.
The Heaven ending.
Both Suicide endings (jump off platform vs. repeatedly jump off stairs)
The Space ending.
I’ve *seen* the Transcendence ending, though there’s no way in hell I’m playing save-the-baby and protect-the-kittens for four hours to get it.
I’ve also managed to OOB within the Screen Room, though that appears to be an actual gamebreaker, requiring a restart.
Haven’t gotten a box delivery though, that’s odd.
I don’t think there *is* a solution to the countdown end, I’m fresh out of ideas as to what, if anything, I’m meant to do.
Oh and
The Denial ending, by simply closing the door to Room 428I’ve done pretty much all of that too. Not the second OOB or some of the other more incidental stuff but I’ve knocked out pretty much every ending now.I just got the box delivery… yup.Also nabbed the speedrun achievement.
Wii U tells me I’ve been playing Wind Waker for 32 hours. When will this nightmare end. D:
When you defeat ganon?
ALL THE FIGURES.
And then selfies in front of every single one of them.
NIGHTMARE?!
YOU ARE A MONSTER!
WIND WAKER IS GLORIOUS!
Been pacing in circles for the last hour or so now. No matter how much I run over the same thoughts, I just know I’m gonna get wrecked the moment she starts talking. So horribly sick of this shit.
This about the 3DS? If it’s stressing you out so bad maybe you should just abandon it? I know it was expensive, I know you got things on it but this seems to have been on going for weeks now. This is probably the worst advice any one could give too. 🙁
Honestly, at this point, I tend to agree.
Think about this: How many hours have spent on this issue? Times that by an hourly rate (min wage is $16.37 an hour) and if the value is greater than a new 3DS, let it go.
My hourly wage is zero, so it’s cost me nothing 😛
I can’t just give up though. Letting them win like that will eat away at me more than anything else so far.
Than make the damned phone call!
http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t434/jk2la/MMHMM_zpsf393cd43.gif
I’m amazed they’ve spent this much time on it.
Forgetting how much your time is worth, they also have to look at how much their peoples’ time is worth, who they are actually paying directly for this problem. Most companies I’ve worked for, complaints managers get a discretionary amount to toss at any problems that look like they’ll take too long or get messy… unless they’ve got a really, really, really good leg or two to stand on.
I’d just call Fair Trading and get their opinion ASAP. Framed in terms of, “I need help, I think I’m getting the raw end of the deal here, but I don’t know if I can fight it,” they’ll hopefully be pretty gentle.
Only tangentially-related, I do miss working in customer service/complaints… There was something satisfying about winning someone over, or ‘fighting injustice’ (either ours, or the unreasonable customer’s) or righting a wrong. Such stories, I have… such stories.
They have been pushing quite a lot to close the matter. I’ve just been pushing back, timid as it may be 😛
But I guess it’s more or less “done” for now.
It’s probably getting to the point where I could openly play my 3DS at work and not get in trouble. That’s how ridiculously lax it is around here.
Also not having any work to do since 10am is painful. Why am I even here? D:
So anyone else think the Mr Bonding guy in X/Y is a bit suss?
I mean, he’s this middle aged guy in a pink suit who befriends children wandering around on their own so he can meet up with them later in random hotel rooms for special “bonding” time.It’s starting to disturb me.
He just wants teach children his O-powers. What’s wrong with that?
O my!
On that fact I misread that as Mr Bondage guy, I was thinking very suss indeed
You want creepy? Try this:
There’s a building in North Lumiose City. On the second floor, a motherfucking ghost lady flickers into existence, claims that ‘You are not the one.’, then freaking *floats* past you. Investigating the floor reveals that NOBODY IS FUCKING THERE. I freaked out so hard at that point.Who wants to help me name my blog?
In order to eventually make money from my sewing and quilting skills I’ll need a blog. It will encompass my patchwork, quilting, hand-sewing, hand-embroidery and machine sewing. It’s also where I’ll be posting about my adventures with the TAY quilt which I’ll be working on next year when my son starts school. I’m currently going with “Strange Stitches” but I’m unsure if it’s catchy enough. I need to get it right because I’ll have to stick with it as it will be part of my branding and reputation.
Page 6 has come early! Bring on the sewing puns! 😀
Or knot. They are a bit tack-y, and overuse is a bit crewel.
Ok, made the call. They were steadfast as usual, as expected. She said she was happy for Fair Trading to call them so I guess I’ll get that going and see if anything comes of it, but she also said that otherwise the 3DS would be disposed of today, they weren’t going to push things back again at all. So I said I wanted it back of course, and I think the place was kind of empty or something but whatever it was, she decided to waive the $35 appraisal fee. So I guess that was nice of her.
Maybe if I’m lucky I can figure out how to resurrect the thing.
….well that’s a new kind of reply fail.
Names a little long, might want to reduce it (just a tad).
Quilty as Charged
Sew Strange
A Patchwork orange
Strange Days, just for Doors reference.
I am also quite partial to the movie ‘Strange Days’.
But yeah, I wanted to keep it kind of ‘Strange’ related as its obviously based around my online identity. I probably should base it around my real name but I’m too scared to do that.
Strange Days works as a blog title as it ties into the chronicle aspect of it, but there is already a strangedays w’site.
Blog titles can be a little offtopic.
That said, Strange Crafts gives it a little occult/mysterious flavour
I like the witchy aspect of Strange Crafts but in the sewing world “craft” can be an insult. Like on Project Runway when they say a design is too “arts and crafty”.
Hmmm, maybe I’ll do a companion blog where I’ll showcase all my heavy-metal inspired designs with skulls and the like on them.
Strange Creations then?
People might have the unrealistic expectation that the things will be weird and kooky and be disappointed to find that it isn’t appropriate for creating warm and woolly offerings to Cthulu and the like.
Well in that case
Perstephanie’s Patchwork could work
I like “Sew Strange”. It’s sew simple!
I actually like “Sew Strange” as well. Is it better than “Strange Stitches” or on par?
Sew Strange, it’s a twofer.
Yeah, I like this and you know how I feel about puns.
I’m worried it will make people think I like puns and expect more of them from me! 😛
*strokes patchy chin stubble*
It’s a predicament. 😀
This is Australia. Business names have to have puns in them. ARE YOU UNASTR–glleuururrrrrggh I can’t ever use those words and not feel like a horrible bogan.
Still.
BUSINESS NAME = PUN. End of story.
What @transientmind said is true. I know the name of the place that did the security systems at the front door of school because the box has their name on it – All Wired Up.
I did a quick search and came up with a few others by that name though. Back to the drawing board, I guess.
Shame, I kinda liked it. Thanks for all your suggestions though! If nothing else, they’ll start me along the thinking path. It’s much appreciated. 🙂
Quilt by association
Strange’s Patch
Stitching is METAL
Now I want to listen to the Doors again.
Sew You’ve Arrived
Semi gaming flavoured?
Quilty Gear X
Weedle-point
Pixels and Patchwork
@shane is dyeing to have an excuse. He’ll have you in stitches.
tat’s true, he’s awl-ways clamoring for a good
pinpun, but they’re sew awful.Buy My Stuff Or Ya’ll Get Ya Legs Broke We Know Who You Are Quilts And Haberdashery Emporium.
Not the catchiest but people will remember.
Strange Creations
Dark Stitches
Almost Odd
Seams a little strange
As Picard says
Praise the sew
The only other thing to consider is the boring stuff. What are terms that people will search for to find your blog. Including that in the name can help you rank higher.
Knot Sew Strange
The Strangeblog or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Quilt
OMG!!!! She said it guys!! TAY quilt is still on track.
Woooooooo \o/ \o/
There’s a user on Kotaku called berzerkdc
Well… now we know to be careful.
From their comments, they seem really nice.
…so what you’re saying is that this guy is Hugo, and we’ve been living with Bart this whole time?
QUICK SOMEBODY SWITCH THEM BACK
Man, Dark Souls is looking brutal
Haha. I’ve actually stumbled upon that sort of scene a few times now.
JOLLY COOPERATION!
GOD HELP ME, I ACTUALLY MISS CUSTOMER SERVICE AND HANDLING COMPLAINTS. What is going on?! Who am I? What’s real?
Its ok. There’s a special place for people like you… We’re here to help.
*yells to the side* Get that padded van here on the double, we’ve got a live one here!!!
I DONT LIKE THE WAY YOU COMMENT, YOU HAVE BOTH CAPS AND NON-CAPS, THAT IS CONFUSING, AS A CUSTOMER I’D LIKE A FULL REFUND OF ALL THE TIME IT TOOK ME TO READ THIS COMMENT.
Urge now nicely-cured, well done thanks. 🙂
Oh man, without having a rant I’ll just say F%$# you work I am but one man.
So how is everyone else doing, good I hope.
Not too shabby! How goes your GTA V shenanigans?
pretty great, except they’ve patched a lot of good ways to earn money, so much slower. What have you been slowly walking past and observing lately?
Wind Waker! I’m finding it a bit tedious though. Don’t think Zelda’s my thing. :'( Looking forward to walking slowly and observing Gotham City on Friday, though!
Tell me about it. Earning money the legitimate way takes so long! It may be up to 30 years until I can own my own house. :'(
people can own buildings?
I was making a joke about real life and mortgages that take 30 years to pay off. 😛
I snagged the second most expensive apartment since it had the best view. The most expensive one has arguably a worse view. It faces towards the hills but in the end you end up not seeing much. Whereas the former has views of the entire city and even included the observatory.
Great view in the mornings when the sun rises. Such a purdy game.
Just like real life!
Aw man, I missed the thread to name Strange’s blog. I’m starting to see a pattern where the puns come out when I’m not around.
Eh, most of them were sew-sew.
DARN IT.
Pokéfriends!
I’ve added my details to the Pokémon page of TAYNAMES.
I’ve also added space for 3DS/Trainer name and Friend Safari – since the game uses one name on the PSS and the other name on the Friend Safari selection. I’ve tried to fill in the information I currently have.
added you!
“Despite all plentiful faults, Ipswich held an advantage over all the other localities in Australia that resembled holes – it produced the country’s best runners. A scientist (born and bred in Ipswich, incidentally) declared it was the ‘fine air and pleasant environment,’ but he was ridiculed until he could no longer leave his front porch for fear of being splattered in custard tarts. (Believe me, the sensation is most unpleasant.) No, it is a widely accepted fact that Ipswich’s widespread running ability is because the people are so eager to get away that their passionate escapism is manifested in abnormal athleticism.”
Worthy page-get.
Edit: I saw an article somewhere that was talking about Brisbane’s most affordable home prices by suburb. Eager to scope it out, I was disgusted and appalled to discover that they were all ‘suburbs’ in Ipswich, not Brisbane proper at all! Apparently they lumped them in under ‘The Greater Brisbane Region’, but fuck that – I had a mental image of anthropomorphized Brisbane and Ipswich. Ipswich was clinging to a life-raft of Legitimacy, and Brisbane was snarling and angrily stomping on Ipswich telling it to get the fuck off or it’ll sink them both.
Somewhat like Townsville and Thuringowa?
Thuringowa is now known only in spirit, and the namesake was cast haphazardly toward some shitty suburb they were building at the time which connected the two ‘cities’.
Maybe! I try to avoid going that far north if I can help it.
Being a RAAF rat, I did some time in Ipswich.
I left when I was like, two…Good to hear you got away so quickly! 😛
I am addicted to the video clip from this old Miku Hatsune song and I don’t know why.
Old Hatsune Miku sounds like K.K. Slider…
By ‘old’ I mean the clip itself is old – 2011. Or are you talking about the buzzy robot voice she has? It’s possible to tune and clean up Vocaloid to sound fairly realistic but a lot of people like her sounding like a computer.
I’ve heard some other stuff, and she sounded… less like K. K. Slider. That’s about all I’ve got. Helpful, I know.
People seem to like it. I remember watching a clip of Hatsune Miku, uhm… World is Mine. It was live, in concert, with a hologram. The crowd was SO into it.
(And then I went on a trip of finding other clips to figure out what the hell a vocaloid is, and yeah, there were people writing comments and apparently letters and stuff talking to her like she’s a real person and gushing about how her music conveys such a beautiful person behind it and how her words really touched their lives. So, people can get a little weird.)
Wow. I totally meant to post this this morning before work.
The Miku concerts are fucking weird. I’d love to go to one just for the bizzareness of the whole ordeal.
I’ve been waiting for holograms since I was a kid, so I’d go to one for that. 🙂 Also, seriously, those people in the audience seemed hype. That’s probably a good vibe right there.
Whenever I hear mention of Hatsune, I’m instantly reminded of either Matryoshka or this.
AAaaaaannd now I’m on a weirdo youtube musical journey once again.
Thanks?
That swaying reminds me of this
Oh god they’re practically the same message and all 😛
This song gets stuck in my head for days at a time.
CHIIIIIIIIRP
Yo!
I just discovered Pink Martini through a friend and they’re damn awesome:
In particular Hang on Little Tomato – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jz706sJMjg
Also somewhat related to the previous conversation about pants and totally unrelated to pretty much everything else, this is the 3rd pair of PJs I’ve torn at the crotch in as many months. >:(
It’s not what you think. I’m not well endowed. I think it’s just the way I sit on the chair where I sort of do that meditation like leg crossing when I’m at the PC – http://theglowinghive.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/meditation-pose.jpg
Managed to tear my favorite PJs too. They had colorful polka dots! :'(
You’re just saying that to make us feel less inadequate.
The new breezey feeling should be useful in summer 😉
There’s light at the end of every tunnel! Or at the end of every hole in my pants in this case. 😛
I was doing an immitation of eric cartman as a sumo once, and as I stamped my foot down, I tore a huge hole in my boxershorts. Right in front of my mother-in-law! She thought it was hilarious.. me..? not so much!
On the last night of my contiki trip I was involved in a dance off with a smooth-moving Mexican. ‘Get low’ was on, and not to be outdone I also got low – except my pants didn’t, resulting in them severely ripping, ‘From my ass-cheeks, to my balls (to my balls)”
at least it was your pants.. I was only wearing my boxers and a t-shirt when it happened.. Full moon came early that month!
Hmm. I can get Mario & Luigi Dream Team and Pikmin 3 from Blockbuster (well, wowhd I guess) for $75 all up. Tempting. I need a Wii U game and Mario & Luigi games are great, so I think that’s justification enough 😛
And urghh. I had a big night planned for Wednesday and in the space of an hour everyone pulled out for various reasons :l So instead I’m going on a man-date with you-all-know-who to some Italian place and then we’re finally going to see Gravity which we’ve been trying to find a time to go and see since it opened! Should be good, but I was kinda looking forward to having a good night out with other friends as well. Providing the restaurant isn’t too expensive not doing that will fund those games at least 😛 *silver lining*
MY friend just put up a video of us messing around on GTA: Online, check it out if you’re bored 😛 We do many jumpy things
HAI THERE EVERYBODY.
I have no idea why I’ve been making shouty not-dead posts recently.
LOUD NOISES.
Been playing heaps of Pokemon, but not as much as some of you guys. Craziness.
Managed to play 8 hours worth of Battlestar Galactica boardgame on Sunday with @hindenlagen. Despite the fact that he’s in Ireland. Somehow we made it workable via Skype. That’s how much he loves being a DIRTY CYLON WHORE.
Speaking of Battlestar, I bought a replica ‘Apollo’ Adama bomber jacket. It’s bitchin’.
Inaugural Perth meat tomorrow night apparently. Seems it takes a @fatshadylive to instigate one 😛
WE GET THE IDEA. WESTERN AUSTRALIA IS BEHIND THE REST OF THE COUNTRY. WE’VE HEARD THE JOKES BEFORE (EXCEPT FOR THE NEW ONES WHICH HAVEN’T GOT HERE YET).
So, yeah. Awesome.
Oh yeah, @grandmasterb-funk, not sure if you saw anything about the Shady meat (mostly organised via Twitter – not sure if you frequent that much anymore). So yeah. Going for food/drinks roughly 5.30/6ish from Hay St. At this stage, its Shady, Fled, PU and myself.
Wait, you… you got the tag right?!
Yes. I am the tag master.
(The fact that I copy+pasted from Page 3 is completely irrelevant)
I live in Perth…
Cool! Come on down!
And I’m sure there are others I’ve forgotten. 😐
I guess that should have been “I live in Perth! \o/” 🙂
Nah, you were right the first time 😛
Rydges Hay Street, 5.30pm.
Follow @thecracks1 or @fatshadylive or @fledau or @platinumurchin on Twitter also.
Balls. Totally came home from and fell asleep on the couch 🙁 Fail.
how does one twitter?
sorry guys but i’ve already got plans 🙁
give me some time though and i’ll go to the next one thats organised!
Hello…I haven’t been on here in awhile and I miss TAY so I come to say Hello!
Whats new?
*circles the wagons for old times sake*
HELLO! We’re no longer a games site; we are a sect of like-minded people seeking spiritual fulfilment through copious use of natural herbs and plants and pagan sexual rituals. Kool-aid?
PEANUT BUTTER SEXY TIME!
PEANUT BUTTER SEXY TIME!
Nah, I’m not a fan of anaphylactic shock. I’ll pass.
Oh no. You poor, poor man. Peanut butter is possibly one of the greatest substances on the planet. You actually have my sympathies.
*squints* what flavour?
Fuck yeah, the Portable North Pole is back for another year! Another year of pissing my brothers off with insane Santa videos 😛
Goodnight!
See you all in the morning!
Ended up just storming out of the house to go to climbing, no “excuses” needed. Today I realised that it’s actually the only part of the week where I can just get away from everything and truly enjoy myself without having to worry about anything else at all. Two nice long car trips of solitude book-ending several hours of focusing on problems that don’t matter and can completely distract my brain from anything that’s been bothering me, there’s no negative aspects to it at all. And today I really needed it, regardless of Climbey Girl related matters.
That said, I’m willing to accept myth confirmed on this one 😛
Turns out her date wasn’t really a date at all – the guy spent the whole time asking about her sister. Totally not cool, and while I’m not particularly familiar with them, I’m fairly sure it’s a gross misuse of a “date”. Found out she’s kind of secretly nerdy. She warned me not to laugh (started before she’d even finished that part) before telling me she’s kind of into anime. Nothing I’ve ever heard of, because I don’t have anything to do with that at all. She couldn’t believe I wasn’t familiar with Full Metal Alchemist for some reason. Got told I had to compliment and make her feel good about herself tonight, because she needed to go to her ex’s place afterwards and get her spare key back from him, but hadn’t seen him in eight months and didn’t want to face up to him. Familiar feeling, that 😛 Also kinda jokingly suggested I come with her, which I wouldn’t have minded doing but she was leaving early for it and I got to climbing late, so I didn’t want to cut my session short 😛 Then got the whole backstory on that situation with him (overprotective jealous type who was then the one to go and cheat).
What else. Oh yeah, when the nerdism stuff came up. I said how I was probably one of the biggest Nintendo guys she’d ever meet, and mentioned how my room was full of the stuff. She went and made a comment like “hmm… wondering what scenario would have me seeing your room”. Ha. I told her none of them, because nobody’s allowed in there ever. OH AND SHE WAS PLAYING MINDGAMES WITH ME! At one point, she said that I’d forgotten her name. Which was kind of funny considering that this conversation had come up with my sister, and she’d told me to absolutely do not ask to confirm her name. But then it went from funny to scary, with me wondering how she’d come to this line of thought and what she must have heard, and from where. And I probably gave off facial expressions that showed I clearly took the bait. I know I have a crappy memory, but I was certain that I didn’t remember asking anything about her name since the first time we introduced ourselves, but she insisted it did happen. I decided she was playing mindgames and she admitted to it – and luckily I did actually remember her name correctly when “proving” that I did know it. But god damn, she’s a tricky one.
My sister’s boyfriend’s sister happened to be there tonight, so I got a good grilling from her too. “So who’s your frieeeeeeend? ;)” It was bad enough getting that crap from my sister, let alone from someone else who I may or may not have had a thing for (shut up yes I know I have a problem. But she’s easily one of the coolest chicks I’ve ever met). But she seemed pretty sure from her brief observations that there was something going on there, just like everyone else apparently.
So tomorrow she’s off on holiday overseas for two weeks. She was sure to ask me if I’d miss her while she was gone, of course I told her “nah, it’ll be peaceful and quiet without you around” 😛 I guess that means it’ll be three weeks then before she reappears. Long time to see what happens on the Sketchbook Girl side of things, if anything. I realised today that pretty much the whole of my life, girls have come in pairs. There’s been the one I’m interested in, closely followed by the one interested in me. They can never split things up so that their appearances are evenly spread out, it’s always concurrent. And usually leads to me either doing something stupid, or just doing nothing at all for fear of making things go bad. And as nice as Climbey seems, and I probably would have otherwise tried to be even a little more proactive, I know I’m just hanging back to see if anything happens with Sketchbook. Which is kinda dumb considering I don’t really know much about her, especially in comparison to this one. And I know that if something DOES happen there I’m then probably going to have to make some kind of decision. Which is going to be shit, because I am incredibly good at being indecisive. But I know that’s exactly where I’m headed. I shouldn’t be allowed near people, I am no good at them.
Spoilerising because girltalk thoughtpurge wall of text.
Based on new evidence, I’m forced to conclude she’s just not that into you.
You had me at Nintendo.
Solution: Do something with all three. No decisions required until someone asks you to make one!
It’s not cheating until you get caught.
Well, it’s not cheating until you make a commitment to be exclusive. Otherwise it’s just ‘dating’.
Isn’t dating a commitment to be exclusive? I always thought it was… Or is that just old-world fuddy-duddy thinking?
Different around the world.
I Australia it mostly is, when you are dating somebody you are together. Mostly because we don’t have a real ‘dating scene’ so to speak. If you think somebody is interested in you you ask them out. cc @mrtaco
Which is how it works in most of the Scandinavian countries as well.
Other places like the US have a dating phase where you actively try to setup as many dates as possible and you see multiple people over multiple nights to decide if you want to start a full relationship with any of them. I’m not sure on when the dating ends and the relationship starts but think it is something like by the 3rd date things are getting exclusive (could be off on that one)
Wow, that’s really complicated. Seems a little strange to me (hi @strange!), but I know I’m pretty conservative about such matters .
Well, everyone has different ideas, so communication is pretty critical. But in general, if you ask someone out on a date and it goes well and you fool around a little, it’s pretty naive to think – without asking – that you’re the only one they’re doing that with or that they suddenly cleared their calendar for you and you alone once they decided to go out on a date with you romantically.
I figured it was pretty common for folks to have various different dates lined up at different times so they can pick which one’s going to work out best, then eventually have the conversation, “I want you all to myself. I think we should be exclusive.”
I’ve had that conversation and made that commitment, but it definitely wasn’t a given. Women play the field these days, too.
I’m just asking this out of curiosity, mainly because having concurrent romantic interests is an experience I’ve never had (let alone playing the field), but does that make it harder to commit to someone in the early stages?
Uhm. From my personal experience? Well, I might be a little a-typical, sorta… outside, looking in, on normalcy. But I kinda had the rules explained to me by savvy women.
But the longish story of how I might potentially be a little screwy on the subject:
My first few times ‘in love’ (well I was a teenager and an idiot. and yes, I know that’s redundant), I sorta had women up on a pedestal. I’d grown up with very strong women in my life. Mum, a couple of her very outspoken friends who were surrogate aunts, and their daughters who were kind of like surrogate sisters. I’d been trained to expect women to be more naturally virtuous, of superior intellect, to be respected automatically if not worshipped. They thought it was fantastic, that I’d been well-trained.Well. Anyone who has any life experience under their belt at all knows how long THAT particular set of beliefs will withstand contact with the Real World.
So yeah, I got cheated on a couple times by a couple real pieces of work, and took it damn hard. Realizing that women are actually just equally-flawed HUMAN BEINGS was quite disappointing. And for a little while I acted out. My wounded ego needed to prove a point to me that it wasn’t me who was easy to cheat on, it was just that women are naturally inclined to cheat with the appropriate persuasion – and I proved that by going out and seducing a bunch of taken women. Married, engaged, dating, whatever. I never actually cuckolded any guys because I retained a shred of decency (and didn’t want to get cornered by a jealous husband and his mates), but it was definitely disturbingly easy to convince women to temporarily ‘trade up’, or engage in a secret, naughty fling.
It didn’t last long before I resolved to never, ever, ever enable that kind of behaviour again because there’s enough pain in the world as it is, but for maybe the next ten years I was so disillusioned with how simple it was to convince women to cheat that I never really committed to anyone or expected it from anyone.
If you don’t possess anything, no-one can take it away from you.
I flirted with the idea of commitment a few times, while dating, afterwards. There have been a couple girls who seemed like they might be worth it. But it only takes a couple months to vet them and find them a bit too screwy for long-term prospects. Then, y’know. My best friend of my entire adult life eventually let the cracks in her façade show that she was actually in love with me and I pounced on it because I’d been holding a torch for her for as long as I’d known her. Real free spirit though, so I never really thought I had a shot and just had to put up with it. But we did the commitment thing, had the talk aaaaaand it’s worked out pretty great, the last few years. We have our idiosyncrasies, but she’s my girl.
@transientmind, thanks, man. Don’t worry – not asking you to speak for all mankind with your opinions. Was a good read and a good insight. Thanks
@dc, file this please.
Yeah. You do something enough, you get kinda good at it, and notice patterns. Same is true for flirting/dating. (Which is why some stories of awkwardness make me pull my hair out, kinda like watching a video of someone playing your favourite video game very badly.)
We all probably know friends (usually attractive women) who have never actually been single for any more than one week out of every six months, who seem to have a new ‘partner’ ready and waiting after they end their current relationship, who’ve never actually lived on their own and done the whole ‘single and dating’ thing. They just hop between long-term relationships straight away. “Incapable of being alone,” I call it. I imagine they have a completely different experience and opinion on what the rules are. Some of them (usually attractive women) probably never even have to worry about it – as soon as they’re heart-broken and single, as if BY MAGIC some eligible dude suddenly presents himself! (Not at ALL like he’d been waiting in the wings to swoop down. Hah.)
Me? I think it’s prudent to be a great deal more careful about how easily you let folks dominate such an important part of your life, and potentially for a very long time.
@transientmind: Roller coaster of emotions! Felt a bit disappointed in you! Then felt proud of you!
…
You’re awesome.
*moseys off*
@transientmind Hahahahaha, I love this analogy.
@mrtaco
Not so much you though, Gooky. Half the things you’re doing are pure awesome and you do them without even THINKING about it. That’s why you’ve got all these girls interested. That’s more like watching someone who complains they aren’t good at fighting games button-mash their way to combo-chained victory. 😛
You just need to seal the deal! Maybe make an actual, honest-to-god expression of romantic interest, like ask one (or all of them) out on a date (well – different dates per person), and make a move when it looks like it’d be a good opportunity even if it feels too soon to be courteous or ‘appropriate’ because no shit they are into you… But y’know. My advice might only work for me, and maybe fuck up your natural talent, so what do I know? 🙂 All I’d suggest is that when women are interested, they only stay interested for so long before filing you away as a ‘friend’ or furniture or whatever.
And yeah, @dc … I might be projecting, but I’m kinda convinced that it’s pretty hard to get this many years into life without doing some things you’re disappointed in yourself over. Some worse than others, obviously. On the plus side, I figure at least you can salvage some learning out of that sort of thing. There’s no way in hell I’ll ever cheat or participate in it for someone else. (Being taken helps but whatever.)
You’re living a rom-com.
I think Sketchbook Girl is the star though, not you, so you’ll end up with her. Orrrrrr you’re the asshole love interest and she’ll end up with someone else who “gets her” and you’ll just be upset and lonely.
Yo. When are we catching up and which state are you in? 🙂
PAX 2014 probably, since Canberra and Melbourne are much too far apart.
*sadface*
Well @masha2932 is sort of close to you I think and sometimes I fly up to Sydney. Are you ever around the Sydney CBD during the week? We could all meet up.
Psst… Though there’s a shorter span than between Canberra and Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney are still 300km apart.
😛
Ahhhh, what’s 300km for some online friends to catch up?!
Not really, as @shane said, it’s still a decent trip to Sydney from here. Though I am actually in Melbourne for a week in January. Most of that time is filled with tennis, but I’m sure we can make something happen.
Okey dokey. Hit me up when you’re down.
Hey! Our LEGO dinner still needs to happen!
Seems like you’re popular Mike Tarno, all the states need you 🙂
Besides this state. They want me to get the hell out of here. 😛
My money’s on the latter option.
Betting on the outcome of love? That’s an asshole love interest move. Not to worry, you can still get the girl if you’re Matthew McConaughey.
Are you Matthew McConaughey?
Maybe. I do have a reputation around school for not wearing a shirt.
I’ve learned two things from this:
1 – I’m sorry, but it would never work out between us. Cut me and I bleed blue.
2 – I clearly need to go climbing on Mondays. I’ve been there Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and weekends, and no ladies have thrown themselves at me. It couldn’t possibly be my aloof, cave-dwelling-loner disposition. It must be Mondays…
Welp, I obviously need to take up climbing…
Priorities, man.
He’s got his right! The guy’s got natural Game. He just doesn’t realize it. 🙂
On two weeks holiday from next Friday. Week and a bit to go. Then a week in Hong Kong, followed by a week of sitting on my glorious petoot doing three fifths of Fanny Adams. It’s going to be magnificent.
Can I say that I hate you. Just a little.
Yes, you can. It just reinforces the awesome that is holidays – knowing that other people are stuck at work and miserable. Then, when you go on holidays – I hate you back.
Holidays? What’s a holidays?
I haven’t had holidays since Feb last year. Unless you count the 6 weeks of unemployment from when I quit my shitty job,
Had a week off last week so have barely even logged on! Only really played Civ 5 in the spare moments I had, finally got the domination victory on a huge map, LONGEST GAME EVER.
Plan to start Max Payne 3 this week! If I have any experiences worth sharing I’ll just leave it here 🙂
I played MP3 recently. Happy to participate in any discussions!
Time to dust off the 360. Haven’t used it since NFS:MW /o\
Good game, good game! Really enjoyed it.
Good morning everyone.
I am loving Pokemon X. At the same time I am hating having to make my Brother a Mr. burns paper mache head. I really don’t want to do it, but I said I would. D=
Pity I tend to keep to my word.
Goooooood morning!
Oh, do it. Give us linkies to the final result. 🙂
You could always make it for me instead.
I do an exactly Mr Burns impression.
“Hey, one of your sites has dropped off the map. I gave them a call and they had the test and tag guys unplug the server cabinet. Can you sort it out?”
5 minutes later I discover they’ve screwed the OS.
I’m going home.
It’s like trying to explain to clients that troubleshooting our Unix servers yourself by pressing the reset button is generally not good for their health. It used to make me sad, and now I just frown a lot.
My wife’s boss was trying to do something one day and the server was slow. He contacted the external IT support they have and demanded admin access to it, they said no and would look into the issue. So naturally he unplugged it. Corrupted the OS and nearly screwed the data backup, then tried to blame IT.
I’m sure we could trade some epic user stories.
Hooray for working on a cloud based system where they can’t fuck with it.
We leave that to our devs!
Seriously, fuck those guys.Or when the devs reveal some magic utility or binary that we’ve sorely needed for ages, and would make our lives much easier – ‘Yeah we wrote that up years ago.’ Aaaaaaaand you felt like just not telling us, despite us repeatedly mentioning how handy such a thing would be?
Then they just look at you like you’re on drugs or something. The dev mind is a different mind.
The best part is when they’re like “Look how amazing we are! We came up with this idea all by ourselves!”
Meanwhile, in support….
“We put a request for that 6 months ago! All you had to do was change a field from defaulting from ‘false’ to ‘true’!”
That involves changing the bit from a 0 to a 1. And we know that your manager isn’t going to take that out of your budget, so what does that mean. A 1 shortage in Dev again!
122 bugs in the code,
122 bugs!
You take one down, and patch it around
679 bugs in the code!
Trading IT story is always great fun/depressing.
Windows 3.11 for workgroups AAAND GO
That’s sissy stuff. OS/2 Warp is far superior for upsetting people.
…have you tried turning it off and on again?
“yeah you need to turn it on… I’M SORRY ARE YOU FROM THE PAST?”
Best documentary ever
Watched Episode 2 of the walking dead last night..
Not exactly a spoiler, just a general overview ive had since the beginning of the show about Glenn (the Asian dude)… i’ll spoiler tag it anyway…
So im sure that Glenn has now become one of everyones favorite characters… but i just cant help myself… everytime i see him alone or when he seems vulnerable cause theres no one there to cover his ass, my immediate reaction is “oh shit, here it comes, this is where it happens!!! hes dead!”If you are trying to imagine my exact reaction, if anyones seen the hot tub time machine, it is the same one that the bald guy has everytime he sees that guy that will end up getting his arm ripped off..
For those playing at home, this discussion is episode 2 of season 4. No spoilers, though.
Comic spoilers:
I believe he died in the comics at about issue 100, but I must admit, I stopped reading at issue 48. Would have been a pretty tough thing to see, though.General show comments, prediction.
If there’s going to be a shocking death in season 4 of the show, it’s probably gonna be him. There aren’t too many of the original cast still remaining.Yeah, personally i think it would be either Glenn or even DarrylI’ll bet any kind of money that it won’t be Darryl. Half the show’s audience (fangirls) are watching just for him. He’s their big-ticket item at conventions, etc. Even if the writers want it, AMC will never let it happen.Spoilers for Eps 1 and 2 (and the last two episodes of season 3, I suppose)
Yeah, he’s gonna die. It’s coming! It’ll be the “big” death this season, I think. It won’t be the main dude or Carl (though I hope it will be :P) and I can’t see them killing off Daryl because he’s so popular. It’s gotta be him!As soon as they brought a bus-load of new people into the mix at the start of the season I said “I bet that, by the end of the fifth episode, most of those people will be dead. Everybody except for the black haired woman 😛
Haha, yeah, say what you will about the governor, but he kept those people a lot safer than Rick ever will 😛*Notice 500 errors being returned from external, large, global company*
Us: Hey guys, your system is down
Them: No it’s no-oh shit!
TUESDAYS! \o/
Tuesdays are becoming the new Mondays.
Does that mean Friday is the new Thursday? D:
I’m so lost. What day is today again?
Tomorrow.
*explodes*
DAMMIT POW! Look at the mess you’ve made. Who’s going to clean this up?
So inconsiderate.
Heh. Reminded me of this.
It must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.
Somebody else is doing my work. I can basically sit back and watch it happen, but there’s a host of problems that this is actually causing.
I don’t know how to feel. So I come to you, TAY.
Be okay with it. Read something and forget your problems.
But what could he possibly read? D=
If only some kind soul could suggest a book he could read.
Well, at the moment I’m reading The Grapes of Wrath. I’m still waiting for either grapes or wrath to make an appearance, but it’s all right. MattPantsVZombies, if you read this, we can start a pretentious book club!
#DeliberatelyMissingThePoint
I’ve always wanted to be in a pretentious book club!
I hear this one is good:
Link
Do THEIR work! That’ll show ’em!
But clearly they have no work! Because why else would they be doing mine? Unless they’re just a jerk.
Enh, I’d bite the bullet and get it dealt with. You’ll have to deal with those problems, otherwise.
“Hey, don’t get me wrong, I love watching other people do my work, but this is actually super bad because they’re creating problems.”
Oh you and your reasonable, responsible responses!
Get them to look at everything you do.
Then if anything breaks down the track or there are any errors in it then say “But this other person was making changes to it a while ago”
Have you forgiven Adelaide yet?
These wounds will take a while to heal, Red.
Best part? They finally stopped doing my work.
They did all the easy bits. And left me with all the tedious leftovers.
@strange
I asked Mrs Tigs about your blog name. She liked Strange Stitches as well. Her suggestion was
Stranger than Stitchin’
Haha! I like that one.
I like that one!
I like your wife, too. Almost as much as my son does. 😛
This article is handy. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10000872396390443537404577579033271214626
Especially this part:
I’m a productive procrastinator. I don’t need to feel bad about it because I really do get lots of stuff done while I’m procrastinating about that one big thing. This is also why I have a bazillion and one projects on the go. Personally I think that variety stops me from creatively stagnating and I’m now going to be proud to be a procrastinator. \o/
I’m the same!
I’m actually floundering a little at the moment, because my list of on-the-go projects is starting to dwindle, and my level of productivity is in freefall.
Interesting. Framing it as a character trait and the pros and cons associated with it. I did like
If it doesn’t need to be perfect just get it done and send it. Something do need to be perfect or at least as perfect as you can make them, so spend the extra time on it. If it is a rough mockup or a proof of concept don’t sweat the small stuff.
Did you read they ‘just tinker’ article that somebody linked last week. I found that one really good. Don’t put any pressure on yourself, set a tiny goal and just have a fiddle. So start with “I’ll just separate the material for the quilt.” Once you get that done you might start laying out the pattern or cutting out the pieces you need. But just starting anything without pressure to finish something can lead to doing much more than you intended. I liked that one.
That doesn’t require much motivation, unless you’re on Prozac or something.
I probably didn’t explain it properly. The idea of gettign to work and making a quilt can be hard because you have to select the material, select the pattern, cut the pieces, arrange them, stitch them, add the padding, overlock, stitch through the quilting, etc..
So you can put it off becaue it seems to big. So rather than say, I’m going to do 4 hours of work on the quilt, set a tiny goal that doesn’t require motivation. The task to complete is so small that you can’t make the excuse not to do it. Then because you have started you can just do a little of the next task. Without the obligation and pressure you can enjoy it and often will complete more than if you tried to do a solid 4 hours and ended up procrastinating for most of the time because it seemed to overwhelming.
Um…
It was a masturbation joke.
oh. I was confused because we were talking about things you procrastinate about
Heh
I’ll be honest with you, I’m interested in reading that article, but I’ve put it off until later.
Still having some weirdly mixed feelings about Pokemon X/Y. Admittedly I’m still pretty early in the game, and haven’t sat down to really give it a good bash yet. I don’t feel engaged as yet. It’s weird. The game looks amazing, I love the new battle animation, the scenery and whatnot. But somehow I don’t feel like I’m actually achieving anything yet? Having trouble explaining it.
The routes feel a bit too long and boring so far – too much repetition, it just feels like they’re making the routes longer because they can. Whoever designed the rollerblades/skates should be dragged out into the street and shot. Try and get through a one square gap in a hedge. Seriously. Or try and follow a one square path through grass. It’s utterly shitful. I appreciate the extra freedom in movement, but it’s so imprecise and ‘boaty’ it’s maddening. I hope there’s a bike or something in my future.
The new XP share makes me feel like I’m cheating now. I used to have to go through multiple games and find all the XP shares and get them together, now I just switch one on and that’s it. It feels too easy. Also we get XP for catching Pokemon now? Wut?
On the flipside, the game looks and generally plays amazing – and again, I’m pretty early in the game, so these observations may be premature or unfair. It’s just odd because after playing several other generations (both titles too) this one isn’t grabbing me like the others did, and I’m having real difficulty pinpointing exactly why.
Don’t mistake this for a hating post either – I’ll be playing both games through. Period. I love Pokemon. These new ones are just throwing me off a little.
Yeah, the roller skates threw me off, but you walk normally if you use the D-Pad, so that helps a lot.
That’s actually a really good idea. Wish I could opt to use the analog slider in a similar way though. Worked great playing previous Pokemon games on 3DS – but they were DS games, so not a fair comparison, I know. Wonder if there’s a control option to make the analog behave like a d-pad. I doubt there would be though.
There kind of is, in a roundabout way. Equipping the Itemfinder (when you get it) locks you into grid walking/running movement even when using the analog.
But yeah I thought the same about the skates at first as well. I love them now though, so I guess I got used to them 😛 I’m actually hoping they get rid of the movement grid completely next time and go full free-movement (never thought I’d say that :P)
Well that’s good to know. I love the old grid walking/running – but maybe I just need to give it some more time.
Oh, and turn the EXP Share off if you want to go back to ‘classic’. I turned it off before the second gym because I was steamrolling everything (and not even using half my team because they all kept up with each other). Even after turning it off I haven’t had to grind for the bulk of the game (had to gain a few levels before the 8th gym though because I was a bit behind).
Made the game a lot more fun for me. I think it’s a fantastic addition though, I could level-up 5 Scatterbugs at once! It was sweet. Going to be great for my post-game breeding spree!
I might try turning XP share off for a bit – I’m not even at the second gym and I’ve got at least three Pokemon that are level 25 odd. Although you’re right about power leveling extra Pokemon though.
Doesn’t the Exp Share in X/Y work exactly like the EXP All in older games?
@rize
Nah it doesn’t. The old ones were held items, and the new one’s a single item you turn on in your inventory and it boosts XP for all Pokemon in your party. The old ones had to be equipped to a single Pokemon, and only boosted that Pokemon’s XP gain. Which meant you needed multiple XP shares to boost multiple Pokemon.
So much hate in your words. 🙁
I find this game fantastic probably the best Pokemon I have ever player. Don’t get me wrong it’s not perfect, but I’ve never enjoyed a Pokemon game as much as I currently am.
You don’t need to spend days (real time) training your Pokemon before a Gym battle. I honestly think the exp share is the best thing introduced to a Pokemon game ever.
The long routes are just a way to train your Pokemon rather then the old way (run backwards and forward in grass for a day or two). In fact I have done almost 0 grinding in this game.
You can take off the skates by using the “+ pad”.
EDIT: I am the master of quote tags!
Sounds like the movement thing is just me, and I’ll either get used to it or there’s ways around it. As for the XP though, I still feel like it’s been made just a tiny bit too easy, but that may pass.
i’m just reaffirming the love for the new XP share, what i hated the most about pokemon games was how grindy they were, the new xp share removes the grind, therefore i love it.
I’m still not sold as yet. But I like grindy stuff though. Each to their own, I guess.
You can just turn off the exp share. That’s why I like the new system. If you enjoy the grinding you can just switch back to it.
Yeah, I know I can do that – and I’m getting the feeling I’m something of a minority here, but my issue is more with the fact there’s just an XP share, right up front, and it covers everything in your party. You used to have to track down the XP shares across multiple versions, trade them, give them to different pokemon, use lucky eggs, etc. Felt like you’d sort of earned the right to power level some of your ‘mon.
Now it’s like ‘Here! Have all the XP!’ Having to deliberately gimp my XP to meet some personal sense of achievement feels unnecessary as well, I guess.
I think it doesn’t alienate new players.
Plus, Mawt pointed out the other day that the EXP Share also shares any EVs gained! So you can EV train something that can’t even battle competently yet (babies and the like). EV training straight from the Egg!
I remember I tried reading into the EV stuff, back when Mawt posted it and it made my head hurt. Think I really need someone to sit me down and explain that stuff one day.
Athough I’m starting to feel like a bit of an idiot (or at least a minority) after my initial post.
@ynefel Oh I thought you were well into that side of the game. My mistake! Don’t feel like an idiot though, I felt the exact same way initially (not saying that you’ll have this big turnaround or anything, but yeah, you know what I mean :P)
@powalen
All good, I know what you mean. =)
I really should give this EV stuff another crack though.
Three weeks without soft drinks. It’s getting easier, particularly if I make sure I have cold water in the fridge. It is looking likely that it will be a permanent move. If you’d told me that I’d be considering giving up soft drink permanently a couple of months ago, I would have said you’re crazy.
It gets easier. I’m currently 1 year 6 months without soft drink.
Edit: What am I going on about!?
Awesome news, man! Keep it up. I’m lucky that I never got into soft drinks as a kid, so have never had to deal with that kind of habit/reliance/addiction… but if it’s as hard as giving up nail-biting (hardcore addiction), you deserve all the accolades!
It’s been almost a whole week since I touched Animal Crossing. I’m okay with this – I think I may have broken its hold over me. Instead of feeling regretful, I feel… relief.
Edit: also, I’ve played GTA Online a bit, but connection issues are marring the fun and I’m not sure it’s a long-term game for me anyways. Halfway through a case in Ace Attorney #3 and I haven’t touched that in about a month. Might be heading for a gaming sabbatical until Dark Souls 2. I’m okay with that.
It’s easier when you realise if you ever go back your entire town will be all “Oh, hey look who showed up >:C” and half the people you liked have moved away.
I didn’t really like any of them. After I got half of them wearing Peaceful Tomorrows design clothes, and the other half with “LesserEvil!” as their catchphrase… I stopped talking to them.
I started feeling like playing Animal Crossing was like working a second job. This feeling only took 3 or 4 days to manifest, and I promptly stopped playing. I think it was made more apparent because I’ve done stuff like full time raiding in MMO’s where it becomes more an obligation than an enjoyment. The feeling was familiar, and I promptly aborted.
I am SO done with raiding in MMOs. I won’t touch one where it’s the only end-game. Unfortunately… that’s most of them.
Been there, done that. Never got a world/server first, but the larger one I was in was server 2nd, and that wasn’t too bad. (Especially since the 1st assholes poached all our best-geared players with promises of first-dibs on drops for their first raids, instead of training up new folks to fill the gaps in their rosters.) My BEST raiding experience was in taking charge of a small family/friends guild where we all knew each other and could better deal with the personality differences and set more reasonable raiding goals, like only twice a night, and specific end-times instead of ‘until enough people have to go to bed/get burned out and it’s no longer viable’, which is an incredibly destructive way to run.
Again, not server first, but we totally beat a bunch of the larger ‘hardcore’ guilds who we were friends with, purely because we had good people, good rules, and good support. No DKP, no rolling – just whatever gives the biggest contribution to the group. Max-sized guild bank with everyone giving and taking from it as they pleased, with a significant amount more giving than taking, to the point that I frequently had to AH off surplus (which then went back into the bank to pay for repairs). Seriously: friends and family. The only way to fly.
But once we were done with the Lich King, that was it. We had our goal, we reached it, we didn’t feel like maintaining that discipline and stress again. Goodbye WoW. I jumped back in for a while to play some solo stuff, and one or two of the guys got into the more hardcore raiding because they loved that, but I never even did Looking For Raid, I just couldn’t stand the prospect of having to hop on to Youtube and do research on how to tank, having juiced-up little prima-donnas criticizing it or spouting their drama at me, a dozen different people and a dozen different priorities…
Small group play is where it’s at.
I raided full time back in BC, and burnt out real quick. Shit loot drops, getting robbed by fellow guildies on gear rolls, DKP etc. That got old real fast. These days I quit regularly, for 6-12 months at a time and when I do go back, I focus on playing with 2-3 friends and staying as casual as possible.
I have four 90’s, but only use two at a time – one for PvE, one for PvP. Even then, all I do is LFR on one toon per week. I refuse to tank or heal any raid content either. Not up for morons telling me how to do my job. At least as DPS, as long as I’m not completely shitbad, no one notices you.
The other character, I do some casual random BG’s to mix it up from time to time. I also outright refuse to do dailies or rep grind as well. Daily rep grinds and playing too many characters at once have burnt me out fastest in the past (apart from full time raiding, of course)
We also do regular xmog runs for fun too. Sometimes try and pick up rare mounts, etc.
If you can set some realistic rules to keep the game from being too time consuming or monotonous, it can actually still be a lot of fun.
I really enjoyed soloing a bunch of the old raids. Also, I REALLY appreciate that they allowed us to see lore developments in solo play instead of the part of the raid that everyone talks over, that you need to get a raid in the first place to see. That, and seeing things in the 3-man queues, whatever they were called.
I’m tempted to go back and do that just to see the fall of Garrosh, though the fall proper you need a raid for, and fuck that for now. I do. Not. Want. To. Raid.
You can see the full raid encounters from LFR these days. The only difference is the raid wings are staggered out slower than Normal/Heroic modes, and the encounters are simplified to offset the lack of group communication or coordination. For example, the 4th and final wing of Siege of Orgrimmar drops this week. I’ve been doing all the wings every week since they came out.
The hardest part of LFR is getting dropped in raids with retards/shitbads/trolls who just derail the whole thing or make it take forever. If you can get even a semi functional group, you can see all the same stuff the guilds do. The gear just isn’t as good and the encounters are simplified. It’s actually pretty easy – just depends on the people.
I definitely couldn’t handle doing it on more than one toon every week. Some weeks I’ve had single wings take 4 hours when they can be done in 1-2. Other weeks I luck out and just blitz them all. It can be trying at times.
I’ve been locked out of most of the end-game activities pre-Timeless isle (which is about when I stopped my revisiting) due to avoiding LFR. I could try and put together some average DPS gear, but I’m a dyed-in-the-wool tank. I need to know the fights. That means homework, that means longer play sessions, that means putting up with other people’s shit. And I can’t really stand the idea of that process again just to see certain bits of lore or to continue gearing up my character.
Challenge my fucking playing skill, Blizzard, not my tolerance for fuckwits and boredom.
It’s definitely not like it used to be, and sadly never will. People want content handed to them on a platter, then complain when they’ve run out of things to do.
Incidentally, I quit before 5.3 and walked back in just as 5.4 dropped. Timeless isle gives you free 496 and 535 gear, and basically gives you a free ticket to LFR, so it saves a lot of the old gridning and making up for lost time. Unfortunately, this means every shitbad and his potty mouth can get in LFR and generally suck and abuse people. But I stress, it’s not always bad. Just a lot of the time.
This sounds like about the only way I could get back into WoW – small group play with friends, running old content etc. Most of my friends stopped playing after or during WotLK though.
If you do, keep it simple. Don’t get carried away doing shit that’s repetitive and/or that you don’t enjoy doing. My problems arose when i was trying to get exalted with multiple factions or on multiple toons and doing 10+ dailies every day on each character. Or doing potentially soul-destroying shit like LFR. I almost hit the wall again when I started doing LFR on three toons for a week, and then went, no way. One toon does LFR each week, and that’s it.
It helps if you have a good friend or two who still plays. Me and a mate do our weekly BT/Naxx/TK runs, trying to get mounts and gear for transmog.
I haven’t played since 4.0. Transmog is the ability to make your gear look like old gear right? Always wanted to get a Judgment set for my Paladin but I think that’s basically impossible now. Collected several pieces of the BC purple recolor during WotLK but they changed the way that tanking worked on Paladins in Cataclysm and I suddenly became way too squishy to be able to solo the instances I was doing easily before that. Actually the changes they made to Paladins in 4.0 were a lot of why I stopped playing the game, just didn’t feel fun any more.
Yeah you can go pretty nuts on changing your gear’s appearance. There’s some small limitations, but you can even do stuff like transmogging a two handed mace to look like a two handed sword. It’s kind of cool, and ensures pretty much everyone looks different now. There are some things that have been removed, like Tier 3 – since Naxx got rejigged it’s not available anymore. The only way you can get is from an NPC-stocked neutral auction house that gets randomly populated with items and gear. But most Tier 3 pieces start at 10k bid, no buyout. Sometimes they just go berserk in pricing because everyone wants it.
But it is kind of cool, because you’re encouraged to go and experience old content again, even if you steamroll it and are just there for xmog gear.
3DS Get! Thanks again @powalen! Now to get the pokemanz!
There’s been quite a few 3DS acquisitions here lately, with the driving force being Pokemon. I do wonder if this is reflected nationally/internationally.
My totally unreliable, small-sample-size, personal experience says yes.
99% of the Streetpasses I get these days are from people playing Pokemon. Of those, most of them have no new puzzle pieces to give me (meaning they’ve either got a new 3DS or they’re just horrible people).
So yeah, that’s pretty much fact.
Nobody ever has any puzzle pieces for me. :'(
I cant wait to see the hundreds of street-passes I’m bound to get from the gamer-centric, technologically savvy people of Mackay.
But there’s no Holden Burnout Drift Yo 3DS game out???
I just want a 2DS for half the price of a 3DS. With an XL screen. And ability to fold.
So I want a 3DS XL.
Phew! Glad it got there in one piece.
I feel like raging and flipping tables and nothing has even gone wrong today. Think I just really don’t want to be here any more. Which is upsetting because I actually didn’t mind this job beforehand.
Actually actually I think I’m cranky with myself because even not wanting to be here and being completely angry with the company I’m still going beyond what I need to do here and doing the best effort I can. I can’t help myself.
I’m amazed you can even go into work after what your boss did. You’re a more level headed guy than me it seems!
This.
Well, one thing to keep yourself positive: you’ve certainly proven that you’re a hell of a bigger person than your current boss.
Hang in there.
Needs more kitty.
Paging @mcgarnical
I’m gonna join you in the rage. I’m looking at 20+ emails that went along the lines of: “Thanks for presenting something at our conference. Can we please put a copy of it up on our website? A PDF copy would be good too.”
Replies range from: “sure” to “when and where can we pick up our posters???”
Oh, these people have PhD’s etc.
How good’s Boo Night feat. Rarghh gonna be but?
New Arcade Fire! So damn good!
Afterlife!
I really, really love Reflektor too.
Orange is the New Black season finale spoilers:
Oh man, poor Chapman. You could feel the terror in that last scene. The desperation of finding herself cornered. Even the nativity play before hand, just sitting all stoic. Really hope this doesn’t add more time on her sentence, but I’m pretty damn sure it will. :'( Even though I feel a lot of sympathy for Red, I loved how the show came full circle since the premiere with the whole food situation.I am not clicking that one. I am looking forward to seeing how the show develops though.
Haha! I don’t want you to click if you haven’t watched. Would totally ruin that sense of momentum. If you ever want to talk any earlier plot points though, tag me and I’ll be happy to ramble!
Best show I’ve seen in a long time though!
Should tag some people who have actually watched:
@sughly, @jacksonwryan, @masha2932, @mythamphetamine
It was terror for Piper but it could also have been her suppressed anger finding an outlet for release. Especially with her losing Billy and Alex. It could also be a release for the audience after watching Piper stumble in prison she is finally her true self. Maybe she wasn’t so innocent as the first few episodes implied.One wonders what will happen in season 2 if they continue from where 1 left off. If Tiffany “Pennsatucky” survives will she report Chapman? She attacked her so she could suffer as well. Healy can’t do anything either since he is in trouble with Fig who would jump on his inaction. Will Chapman be sent to the psych ward for her reunion with MIss Claudette? Who knows?
There are rumors of more backstory for Red. I especially want to see how the seemingly innocent russian lady(in her backstory) became so powerful. That’s all I’ve read on season 2 though, i don’t want to get any spoilers.
I’d also like to see more outside prison stuff. You know that Mendez will through a spanner in the works and even though they were kind of in the background what happens with BIlly and Piper’s friend will be interesting to see.
Yeah, it was a great show and I hope its success doesn’t mean it overstays its welcome. I’ve liked the recent trend of shows ending when they are done.
This show has a dark sense of humour I suspect maybe Chapman will be gifting Tiffany a new set of teeth after all. There was that scene in the commissary where she was trying to work out what to give Tiffany to calm things down… they all said teeth! XD
I think this GED program will be important in season two. They made a point of mentioning it.
How stupid is Daya and Bennett though. Not sure who’s the bigger idiot.
Yeah, reckon you hit the nail on the head. It’s all suppressed human emotion. The series does an amazing job of intertwining this idea of human instinct and behaviour beneath all these much lighter tones, but it really comes to the front at the end. She says something herself along the lines of whether she was really her before prison, or now that shes in there. Or some such. That idea that a civilised person is just sugar coating deep seeded issues, and ignoring a more primitive side that people suppress, and that prison in a way is a unique setting that brings that nature out in people. Really really interesting stuff.Felt so damn bad for Ms. Claudette too. Also the guard she attacked. 🙁I wonder if “May I be excused from work because my spine is on fire?” is a legitimate excuse to go home early.
In other new, my back hurts for reasons I haven’t discovered. Probably ghosts.
Aw man, that ain’t good. Hope you feel better.
Uh yep, that’s a legitimate excuse. Also, if you hint it’s work-related injury and fill out an incident form, you can get Worker’s Comp!
I know work definitely doesn’t help, but then I’m probably not really following safe practises 😛
Shouldn’t be anything too serious, at the moment it just feels like muscle fatigue in an annoying spot.
Incident… form.
Let the courts sort it out.
Edit: if a public servant can get worker’s comp for landing a sex-related injury during a work trip, you can get something for a bad back probably caused by work.
You should probably follow safe work practices, and if you’re not sure on them, ask your employer for a refresher. Once they’ve done the appropriate signoffs for OH&S, their obligation to continually supervise you to make sure you’re following correct procedures is limited, and your potential to bring a claim could be limited.
Now, if you’re following safe work practices and get injured anyway, that’s a whole different story. Make sure you report injuries to your employer to place them on notice of a potential issue so you’re covered in the future.
ICANSEETHEFUTURE!
OHNO,I’MINFIRE…INTHEFUTURE
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I KNEW YOU’D DO THAT.
INTHEFUTURE
Better check there isn’t actually a fire too.
But seriously, there is nothing blurse, hope it clears up quickly dude.
@ynefel When you get the bike further on in the game, it shits all over the skates.
This is really my first Pokemon game played since first gen and personally, it rocks my socks. The EXP share makes the game feel speedier than first gen, and I’m having fun going forward. First gen did get to a point where it seemed to drag, and there was backtracking – I hated that. No backtracking in this new one – I just keep going forward, battling every encounter / trying to catch them all. Loving it. 20 hours in (though it only feels like 3) with 200+ Pokemon seen and I am only a couple of towns away from Pokemon League. I can’t wait for the end-game – and then some.
It’s near-perfect.
This may actually be the first Pokemon game I see through to completion! Yay!
I think the best part is it’s bringing even more people into the game, which is better for everyone!
Connectivity is amazingly simple now. Aside from a few minor annoyances, namely ‘Connection errors’ when trading on the GTS with filters. The trick here is lose the filters. Also the other annoyance being seeking a Pokemon on the GTS and literally having five seconds to make up your mind and trade otherwise it’s already taken by someone else.
Good news: no more Gameboy Link Cable or Wanky Wireless Adapter!
Watched two eps of The Walking Dead season four, I’ve got to say… I’m not hating this…
I still need to watch the second ep! No spoilers please! 😀
Really? I’m genuinely uninterested so far. I’d say if my girlfriend didn’t still want to watch it I wouldn’t have even bothered with season 4.
Maybe cause I don’t have any interest in the characters. Just watching as a fly on the wall kind of thing. Not brilliant or any thing, but not bad either.
My biggest gripe way back in season two was Lori. That was fixed, now I’m happy.
Yeah, I haven’t even started Season 4 yet because I have no interest any more but Mr. Strange keeps bugging me about it so I think I’ll have to end up watching it soon.
Men!?
Women!?
Maybe you should go back and watch the rest of the show 😛
I’ve seen the pilot. Hated it. Saw the season three finale too. Also hated it.
The season three final almost made me ill it was that bad 😛
I think the most interesting character is Carol. (I think that’s her name?) Short haired older lady…
She’s my favourite!
High 5!
This changes things. D:
Still?
Far out Walking Dead writers, flesh out your characters!
Lol, flesh.
Because Zombies?
Forget it.
Literally the only good thing about it was
that Andrea died.Hahaha, this. Man that scene was excruciating though. I don’t often yell at the TV… 😛You yelled at the TV? For realz?
My reaction: *yawn* *rubs eyes* *sigh* *check running time* *yawn* Oh, that’s a relief. She died. *yawn*( But I’m notorious for being uncharitable towards zombie fic. )
Not really in a good way 😛
“Hurry up you stupid woman!”“Oh you are so dumb. Stop looking at the dead dude and unlock your damn hands!”
“You deserved to die for being an idiot”
Shane’s Miscellaneous Updates Today
Your no-longer-daily dose of SMUT
Writing:
I recently asked my publisher for some advice about starting up a publishing company. He’s just gotten back to me with a very long and detailed reply. Very helpful start-up advice in there. I think this might end up happening in the next few years. Really exciting.Baby:
I’m currently in negotiations to take about three months leave from work when the new baby is born, same as I did when Liam was born. If the same thing happens this time as last time, and Mrs Shane gets sick of having me around the house, I might get to spend the last three or four weeks of that leave in the study writing!Self-esteem/mindset
New birthday. Chance to start over (technically, it’s not, but I think it’s at least better than New Years). I’m gonna be more positive this year. Probably not with regards to games, books, movies and TV, but with life stuff. Also, self-esteem is pretty good today (starting to trend back upwards towards zero! \o/), because I recently learned that I was the star player in someone’s sex dream.Brisbane
Get ready.Is it smart talking to your current publisher about that? D:
About the Brisbane thing, I’m ready. *clenches fist*
Yeah, it’s cool. Canada and Australia are far enough apart that there isn’t a whole lot of competition. Plus, regardless, I’m always going to be pimping Zetabella, because they’ve published my entire life’s work to date. Also, he’s just a cool guy who has an interest in all this beyond dollars.
Think I linked it to you at the time, but did you watch that doco Comic Book Heroes?
YES! Or, at least, I watched the first one, and found the characters to be a little too unprofessional to be really believable in the role.
Adelaide Supanova?
Shane came for Comic-Con this year! We had dumplings!
SATay meat if I’m not mistaken?
Yep
How’d you know about my dr—… carry on
…shit.
@shane is a regular dream slut
Playa-five o/
Well, this is REALLY awkward…
It’s okay, you were there too
When I told you about that dream, I did so believing you understood what privacy was.
Dream Shane gets around!
Just making sure I’m organised with regards to Brisbane…you’re staying with us, right? Right.
Okay then…so it’s not this weekend but the one after? And you’ll be there Thursday? Or is it Wednesday? And we need to organise a Meat for the Thursday for you, don’t we?
You can use my bus card to get to Supanova (woohoo, no talking to busdrivers required! ), along with whatever car-trips we can bribe Mr. Strange for. 😛 I’ll go with you on the first bus ride so you can find where you’re going.
We could have some sort of lunch meat?
I think Supanova is the weekend of 8th to 10th, maybe?
Lunch meat? Like devon or something?! EWWW! 😛
I don’t know what that is!
You aren’t missing much. It’s very cheap sandwich meat of indeterminate origin.
I assumed I would be staying with you, but then last week, our mutual friends J&L offered up their place to me, and they’re only five km from the venue. If it’s not going to mess you around too much, I thought I would stay with them instead. From an ideological perspective, it makes sense too, because they favour their xbox over playstations too. 😛
I should have let you know earlier – I’m really sorry! I feel awful now, and really guilty about all the organising you’ve done so far. 🙁
I’ve also ordered a bus card online, it should arrive here in the next few days (no talking to bus drivers!) And no bribes to Mr Strange are required any more.
Re: meats, yes, I’m going to have all of Thursday to spend with available TAYfolk (though the venue opens after lunch on Thurs and I will probably want to set up my booth later on Thursday afternoon). I’m up for food and/or activities and/or hanging out. Dinner is an option if more people are available then (as well, or instead). Whatever, really.
I will help you set up your booth if you need the help. (Assuming our first meeting goes well. If it’s awkward I might never speak to you again! :P)
How on earth could it go well if you plan on punching him in the face? 😛
It’s all about technique.
Offer is appreciated, man! I will let you know. You’ll need a high-visibility construction-type vest, though. Do you have one?
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Nah! What I lack in high-visibility construction-type vests, I make up for in enthusiasm!
Pfft! They’ve never even played Demon’s Souls and thought Titanfall was better than Dark Souls II at EBExpo. I think you’ve made a grave mistake, my friend.
Dark Souls is on rotation, though. They’re trying to mend their ways!
Maybe I can fix them. You don’t need fixing.
Holy shit, I’m gonna hang out with you so fucking hard, Shane.
Just have a fucking field day when I socially interact with you.
It’s going to be a fucking dream.
Fuck.
When are you going overseas? I’m going to be very upset if the answer is January.
Nov 17, I think!
Nailed it.
Radical.
What the hell is “January”?
Oh shiiiit. It hadn’t even occurred to me that I’d be in Brisbane in Danuary. Rad.
Are you and your merry minstrels performing?
Not quite yet. Soon though, if all goes to plan.
I’m coming up for Laneway on the 31st.
Coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool.
You don’t sound very prepared for disappointment. This concerns me.
Say it with me
“Just like my ex-wife!”
https://s3.amazonaws.com/webassets.ticketmob.com/LS/images/comedians/Rodney-Dangerfield.jpg
Things are looking up for shane!
Effin-ay I am so sick of writing “resume style” as my boss calls it. There is only so much smoke you can blow up your own arse before you sound like a prat.
Woo! NIN/QOTSA Tix 🙂
FUCK I FORGOT!
Reply fail!
I’ve already got mine!
WEEEEEEEOOOOOO!!!
Yeah, but in Brisbane. No one wants that.
It’s true.
Anyone wanna buy some tickets?
No one wants that.
@popdart5 that “The Strange” (hi @strange!) kickstarter has just hit $160k
Those are some purdy stretch goals. It’s always good to see more story when they create these worlds.
Also, I totally forgot to back this when you originally mentioned it. Shall rectify when I get home.
I just saw this on the Giant Bomb forums and it’s pretty good.
It’s a channel where various people are asked to review a game for 2-3 min while eating a hot pepper. It’s funny seeing how long some of them can last and if their reviews make any sense. It’s kind of a one or two video thing for me though since people’s reaction to the peppers are generally the same but it’s an OK way to spend 5 min,
This is a GTA 5 review and it’s great because of the cat : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMbVaq5EUyo (no spoilers)
Decided to check out Catch of the Day’s stuff today after not looking at their site in nearly a year. I am instantly reminded of why I left – their site crumbles under the load of a couple people trying to snag $40 Apple TV’s. … Why do I even bother.
apparently it’s their birthday sale today and there’s a new deal every 30 minutes… one of my colleagues are monitoring it obsessively but each time he tries to add anything to basket it craps itself and i laugh at him…
true story…
and then i found $10
Yep, sale on. It’s the only time where they have decent prices. Too bad things sell out in <1min somehow, and the servers go offline for at least ten minutes. Plus with the Visa thing, it’s just a marketing campaign this time.
yeah pretty much, i don’t even bother with this sort of stuff… though $40 GTAV did catch my attention (does not include shipping :\)
I think it’s because they have like 10 of each item only.
QUICK SPEND IT ON CATCH OF THE DAY
Apple TVs that are likely being cleared out in preparation for a new model to be announced at Apple’s event tonight.
NIN/QOTSA TIX GET!!!!
Ninqotsa? Is that a Pokeyman?
Pokemon Z legendary confirmed!
Sick.
Sick.
Sick.
One thing I absolutely love about The Walking Dead is Bear McCreary’s theme song. So atmospheric!
Is that the one that is played during the opening titles? The opening is so rad.
You know it! McCreary does all the music on that show, I think.
His BSG stuff was amazing!
FunFact, – I’ve drunk beer at the brewery near armidale that provides beer/beer bottles for the walking dead.
It’s just about exam time!!
Wish me a broken leg! 😀
Macbeth.
EVERYONE IS GOING TO DIE!!! \o/
Pfft. Hardly anyone dies in Macbeth! Most importantly, the mad hero of the story dies. (Stupid witches.) That’s not an ill omen.
(Oh. Well. Macbeth, and I GUESS if you wanna get technical, King Duncan. His two guards. Macbeth’s buddy Banquo. Macduff’s entire castle staff, wife, and children. But y’know. LOADS of people still living!)
You’ll do good!
Good luck breaking legs!
Your leg, or someone elses?
PEANUT BUTTER SEXY TIME!
That sounds like some sort of ’70s variety show.
Or Japanese game show!
Peanut Butter Super Happy Fun Hour!
Loses half the viewers without the Sexy part.
Break all the legs!
(of the opposition) 😛
I think I want to attend the Adelaide Supanova in November just to bring along my comic book issues of Wolverine – the Not Dead Yet mini series and have them signed by Leinil Francis Yu. I swear he and Marc Silvestri pencilled the best Wolverine issues of the nineties. Of all time!
I’m still umming and aahing over going to that.
Approx. $48 for a two-day pass ain’t bad.
Read that quickly and pass turns into piss.
I may go for a day, and may pay for a GRRM sig. Will have a think.
Just get them signed by Shane!
They’re basically more or less the same writery type of fame, right?
If I were Shane, I’d refuse to sign anything other than The Greater Evil.
Or Violent Tomorrows.
When I’m more famous, I can afford to be that picky.
We all gotta start somewhere.
@shane, @strange: You guys going to have separate Browncoat meats away from us TAY folks? 😀
I guess there’s no reason I can think of that it couldn’t happen. It would pretty much have to be Wednesday night though… hmmm… over to you, @strange!
Well the people you’re staying with hang out with some BrisTAYbies on
twitter so I say bring them along to TAY stuffs! If you want to meet up with others you might have to ask your new hosts instead of me. You’re their responsibility now. 😛
Oh man, Shane’s wronged Strange! D:
So how is it going to go down? @dc gets the face and @strange gets the stomach? Or will you guys take turns punching him?
They have all day Thursday to trial-and-error until they find a system that works 🙁
I call the face! I want Shane’s beard to cushion my bony fingers. Also on an unrelated note: don’t shave, Shane. For… uh… reasons.
And with that, I’m retiring this punch Shane in the face joke. What @strange said yesterday was true.
Wait… so this whole time it’s just been a joke? I’ve been training myself to take a punch for nothing?!
Once you see me in person, you’d know how laughable it is to picture me punching someone. So. Damn. Scrawny. XD
Wiry guys can be quite scrappy. Also, when coupled with the skills and sensibilities learned from playing violent video games, they’re practically a militia unto themselves.
/FOXnews
Punch him? Why would I punch him? I don’t have to clean the bathroom now I won’t be having a guest. I should be high-fiveing him!
I’ve been feeling stupidly anxious for the last half hour or so, just sitting here fidgeting, not even pretending to work. Your post made me feel better. Thanks!
o/
🙁 I feel like that’s my doing. Sorry for the anxiety, my friend.
@dc, it’s not your doing. Not even slightly. In fact, it has so close to nothing to do with you that I was briefly convinced that your post was a reply fail. 😛
\o
I noticed you’d edited some responses to me about it and realised you must have been feeling bad. Doofus. 😛
I’m actually kind of glad you didn’t tell me sooner because I’ve had it in the back of my mind that I’m having a guest so I’ve been systematically getting the house in order which has been well overdue because of me being unwell for most of the year. It’s all good, so no stressing! I’m glad you get to stay somewhere more convenient to the venue.
🙁
Hngh. Can’t concentrate with Marion Cotillard at the bottom of my page. Stunning lady.
Mmm, very. Goddammit now I clicked on it.
Mmm, Emmy Rossum. Goddammit now I’m thinking about Dragonball Evolution.
Awww, all I’m getting is Rihanna and Widow’s peaks.
And agent scully, which is OK.
She was just there! *looks frantically*
Call me when it’s Emma Stone. Actually nevermind, I’ll go looking for myself. To hell with waiting.
This is acceptable.
I know I said a few weeks ago that I was done with reading reviews, but any one who was on the fence about Wii U version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution DC… Polygon liked it… (cc. @sughly)
http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/18/4851642/deus-ex-human-revolution-directors-cut-review-all-tomorrows-parties
Good to know. Though I’ll be getting it on PS3 if I do end up picking it up.
I’ll be upgrading my PC copy. I really am looking for an excuse to buy a game like this on the Wii U though. Unfortunately Splinter Cell was lacking coop and Arkham Origins is lacking multiplayer.
I would have considered Arkham Origins on Wii U, even with the lack of multiplayer (because errggh, other people), but I bought it earlier this morning for $38 for PC off a dodgy Russian CD key site, and I can’t argue with a bargain like that.
Lots of these Wii U versions are missing features for no reason at all. I might not play multiplayer for the most part, but if I’m paying the same price as the other consoles they should be the same! *shakes fist*
That is pretty cool. I’m super-fucking-excited about the director’s cut, but will be getting it on PC. (Already own the original on Steam, plus master race and all) I was particularly interested to see how it worked on Wii U with the gamepad. Sounds like they did a great job, and despite the fact I’ll never own it, it still makes me glad.
DX:HR is in my top five games of all time even with it’s broken boss fights. If they fixed that stuff and added worthwhile extras…. man. Such an amazing game.
Agreed! I love the idea you can upgrade the PC version for $5 if you own The Missing Link DLC too.
Is this available now? I can’t see how to do that
Not available yet, but:
http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/13/4835988/deus-ex-human-revolution-pc-augmented-with-directors-cut-for-4-99
Thanks 😀
I haven’t played the game yet mostly because of the bad rap the boss fights and the hope they would do this.
Easy choice for me
Edit: Gotta love people complaining that $5 is too much cause they got the game in a bundle for $3
I never played the original Deus Ex, so came into DX:HR blind. One of my gaming highlights of the last couple of years.
Once this is on Xbox Live, I might even fire up this game again. I didn’t get very far last time
I mucked around for too long in the headquarters as soon as I had access to it, and all the hostages were killed while I was crawling through an air duct there. Kind of a demotivator.Haha! I loved that though. I screwed that up too and it gave the realization that this isn’t like most games and priorities matter. 😀
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Then I restarted the game. XD
Bwuahahah. I did that the first time too. Like @dc, I restarted the game.
I’m seriously contemplating buying it on WiIU just because of the controller. I don’t think I can go back to a non-touchscreen Zelda after playing Wind Waker!
I loved that you could just look down and press save at any time. So intuitive.
Using the map on the fly was great. Especially with the Treasure charts. In the GameCube you had to keep opening and closing the menu to view the map. It was really irritating.
Even having the Wind Waker songs on the second screen worked well.
That’s why the WiiU failing makes me sad. Wind Waker is a brilliant example of how amazing a game can be if it utilises the Gamepad. (It’s probably silly, but I felt like I was really holding a map when using the Gamepad as a map).
I think Rayman was the perfect example of the Wii U controller for me. Zombi U too, weirdly. (That was all kinds of rough and unresponsive but when it worked it worked awesome.)
Hi, we understand our game was broken in places and needed improvement so we decided to listen to the consumers and patch it. Except we’re calling it a Directors Cut and charging you for the privilege. To all those who supported us early on…sit on it.
Whole new studio doing the improvements though. These guys need to get paid for their work and getting The Missing Link DLC and improvements for $9 on PC isn’t asking too much. (For me atleast. :D) Then again, like Cody I’m pretty fanboy-ish about this game. XD
The Wii U additions sound pretty substantial too, optimized around the controller and the like.
Hi, we’re revisiting a game that is at the far curve of profitability for us, and rather than do a lazy port we’re fixing many of the criticisms that the original consumers had about the game. We’re also making the new content available at a lower price for those who bought it and the DLC originally.
Technically the game wasn’t really broken, you could still get through the game being stealth it was just stupidly hard. Also, people that bought the game early can get the Directors Cut for $10 (slightly more if you don’t have DLC).
I’m glad they are doing this, they could have gladly said “screw you, we have your money”.
For the Wii U version? I can understand, because it’s been rejigged for the Wii U gamepad – so it’s not really a straight patch or port, it had to be ‘redone’.
As for the PC, it’s only $5. Not exactly earth shattering – and while the original boss fights weren’t great – they were poorly designed, not broken.
Don’t have a problem with the Wii U version. It’s a new release on the system and deserves to be purchased. Don’t have a problem rereleasing it on other platforms. Revitalise it and get more sales from people who haven’t played it. Just don’t think charging people who already own it is right.
There’s plenty of other games out there that would be torn to shreds for doing that.
DC originally wasn’t even going to be released on anything other than the Wii U though. Was fan demand. (And I’m sure crappy Wii U sales too…)
“FANS DEMAND DC”
@DC is multiplatform!
I think the biggest difference between it and other games is again – parts were poorly designed, not broken. That and it was a game that was so brilliant in every other way – so close to perfection – that many would be happy to cop a $5 charge for the privilege to play it how they always imagined it.
I agree that any other game would be torn to shreds for a similar approach, but the reason this one isn’t is because it’s a slightly different situation. Well, it is for me, anyway.
I frequently make exceptions to my often arbitrary rules and principles, just for the things I like a lot. I’m totally not the only one. 😉 I’m pretty sure that’s the human condition.
Ahh dangit, dont tempt me! I did want it, do still, but have so many games already. Spending all my moolah! Also, Phoenix Wright this weeeeeeeek zomg zomg
It’s not going any where. It’ll keep! 😀
Get back to work on Anna’s Quest >:|
And I’d better not see you at any of the Brisbane meats.
Don’t scare him off! I miss Sughly! 😛
Who else will eat the food I will inevitably be unable to finish when we all get food? Who I ask you? WHO!?
He’ll put up a fight at first and say he’s done… but just wait… it’ll happen. XD
Or pour the leftovers into a glass of coke. Poor @transientmind =(
Oh man, I felt embarrassed when that waiter was circling the table as we were doing that. XD
It’s OK, mang… I’m not drinking REAL Coke anymore, I don’t mind too much if it gets defiled. …Much. In a bid to give up soft-drinks and caffeine, I switched to… well. The foulness.
http://t.co/1LC47WkuOc
@transientmind
That’s a strong look of dissatisfaction / what-did-I-do-to-deserve-this.
I did the opposite. I switched from Zero to regular Coke in order to cut back or give up on soft drinks. It’s actually working. I don’t often crave a Coke because after years of Zero it tastes disgusting, not to mention sickly sweet.
Haven’t done one in a while, so: Would anyone like to do a Duel Shock? Not wedded to a topic!
For new people:
Duel Shock is a semi regular article I do for http://www.pixel-otaku.com, where we do a back and forth discussion on a gaming topic. Easy to participate in- we just email back and forth until we run out of argument or reach 3000 words- and a good chance to get a topic off your chest. Most recent one was me and @shane: http://www.pixel-otaku.com/duel-shock-grand-theft-auto/
My gaming history is limited. Metal Gear?
YES
My email is red_artifice at the mails that are neither cold nor lukewarm- email through and I’ll send you some info!
I’d be happy to do one with you if you need someone.
It probably would be the most grumpy and argumentative one you’ve had given how I’ve been feeling lately but it could make it interesting.
Sure- got a topic in mind?
Why boss fights are the best thing ever because bosses are pricks and deserve a right good thrashing
Bonus means I get to talk about Dark Souls \o/
http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/21/4863560/report-next-alien-game-ripleys-daughter
Weird. I likes me some Aliens though and want a good game, but not sure about the whole daughter angle. Should really be about Ripley’s cat. 😛
It doesn’t bother me too much; she’d make as good a protagonist as any. What does concern me is that, as much as I love Aliens, I just don’t think it translates well into a video game. Aliens is a horror franchise with splatterings of action, any video game based on it needs to fall into that same genre.
The problem is that horror comes from the unknown, and Xenomorphs are simply too well known at this point to be scary. They simply can’t recapture the tenseness of the first, or even second, alien film if they stick to Xenomorphs for their sense of horror. Unless they’re given free reign to expand on the Alienverse by introducing new creatures or types of Xenomorphs, I just don’t think that horror factor is going to be there, and if they do introduce new elements to the series, it runs the risk of alienating (no pun intended) the fans of the original films.
The other issue, with this game specifically, is bringing in clones and soldiers as enemies. Action has always being second fiddle to horror in the franchise, and that action has primarily taken place against Xenomorphs. Having Ripley Jr gunning down legions of soldiers runs the risk of making the game feel like a generic space shooter with little in common with the franchise it’s being based off.
I honestly think Alien/s would be perfectly suited for a Heavy Rain/Beyond: Two Souls kind of game. Character based, focus on storytelling and cinematography. Atmosphere!
Telltale!
Naaaaaaah!
Let David Cage do it! The last time a French guy worked on Aliens, it ended well!
…
Thinks back at Alien Resurrection. :'(
Of course DC won’t punch Shane in the face (and I think he has said he’s stopping the joke a few comments up) but it would be nice if you guys did a fake punch in the face photo during the meat.
Maybe have Shane slanting his head with DC’s clenched fist on his cheek/chin.
Just thinking out loud here.
I’ll be waiting 🙂
MASHA ENCOURAGES VIOLENCE
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VIDEO GAMES TO BLAME!
BAN PLZ
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Hahaha, that would be quite amusing. Especially with a little postwork, you could make it look quite gritty and hyperviolent.
I’m just going to get clip art and put the words POW , CRUNCH etc like in old comic books.
Instead of POW, have a picture of @powalen.
I don’t like having my picture taken. The last picture taken of me on my PC is from 2011. XD
Yet you introduced yourself to TAY with a video.
I’m guessing the Film student side of you won that day 🙂
No, I still feel a little this way but at the time I thought of myself as so weird and repulsive that if I was ever going to go to a meat I’d have to prepare people before hand. D:
Was just playing around with my son on my knee, snuggling and talking. I asked him what we were going to do when he was too big for snuggling and his immediate response was “play grown-ups games and watch MA rated movies together!”.
Sounds like the future for Strange is good! 😀
Damn that kid is full of win right now.
I figured out why my Gravatar doesn’t work, it was rated PG and they only allow G rated pics. So apparently people require parental supervision when looking at my face :/ (I am dressed as a zombie but still)
I’ve seen his face in person, it’s pretty scary! 😛
Mate, you just wait until we meet.
Your music scares me, so the fear is already there!
Good. You’re ready.
I fully expect that I won’t meet you when I’m there due to my music. I promise I’m not as angry as I sound.
Me when I have to use pore strips:
http://xkcd.com/777/
Every. Damn. Time,
Rule of embarrassing posts pops up again, I see. *sigh*
Haha! I’ve used them a few times and always feel so unmanly during the process. So, so unmanly. XD
Said the upvote fairy.
Mate, I’ll wreck you! Besides, @transientmind has assumed that role and he’s way more confident in his masculinity than me. 😛
@transientmind appears to be completely confident in every area.
Comfortableness of wisdom and being so damn old, I think. (Note: He’s only two years older than me. XD)
You are pretty damn old though.
That is true. *strokes patchy chin stubble*
Oh sure, I’m an expert at appearing confident.
(FAKE IT TIL YOU MAKE IT BRAH. …@dc)
Some of it is real. What isn’t… probably doesn’t matter.
Mate, I can fake confidence like nobody’s business. You wouldn’t guess if you saw me on stage, but right up until the first song starts I’m absolutely shitting myself.
At the White House Down meat I literally stood across the road from meeting spot for forty five minutes psyching myself up and was still extra strength awkward. Haha!
Man, there’s something about the stage, right? I did some acting for a while, and when you’re in a crowded theatre with several hundred people in front of you, and the spotlight’s down on you… that can be pretty wild. I don’t miss it that much, theatre people can be a bit… nuts. But still, hell of an experience.
He’s a fraud! Let’s get him!
*assembles riled up crowd with torches and pitchforks*
Aha, but I’ve never pretended to be anything but! Meaning, essentially, that I’ve been telling you all the truth all along. No need to be riled up then, mm? Now, let us all eat delicious cheesecake. I’ll leave you all to decide what type amongst yourselves. Cheerio!
(Edit: Attempt to emulate the character from the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.)
Also, if you’re going to wait out front of places super early, you should get a smart phone so you have a way to entertain yourself. 🙂
@transientmind I was entertaining myself by messaging Strange. SHOULD I GO HOME? SHOULD I GO HOME?
I’m guessing it won’t make you guys feel any better knowing that I’ve never used them. 😛
I never had much trouble with pimples growing up. My brother used to get a few though.
Me: “Can i have a tissue?”
Dad: “You’re built upside down.”
Me: “Pardon?”
Dad: “Your nose runs and your feet smell!” #dadjokepagesixThat joke blows.
Snot funny.
A real stinker.
Toed the line?
The grizzly bear doesn’t like shoes; he prefers to go bear foot.
#DadJokePage6
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A horse walked into a bar. The bartender said “Hey.”
The horse said “Sure.”
#DadJokePage6
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What’s the difference between roast beef and pea soup?
Anyone can roast beef.
#DadJokePage6
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I’m out. At least I got to participate today!
Liberace’s epitaph:
Fantastic
Fabulous*
You’re a failure as a son and you’re a parasite on the lives of your mother and I. Pack your shit and get out of my house. We never want to hear from you again.
#dadjokepage6
Ah, the old favourites are still the best.
Too real man, too real.
Really, really hope Arkham Origins is as good as the others. Gotham City in the snow with Christmas decorations almost ensures I’ll get something from this game though. So much looking around at stuff!
If it’s at Easter Egg riddled as the last two I’ll be a happy camper.
Makes me wonder what Rocksteady are doing too. Next gen Arkham game most likely and I’m okay with that. 😀
I figure the writing really can’t be much worse than City’s, and while Batman’s VA seems to be a bit bad, the rest appear acceptable, which leaves the combat system, which previews have said is basically the same (huzzah), and I guess the movement system, which I don’t know much about, but hopefully it’s fine. I reckon at absolute worst it’ll be decent, so I’m not too worried.
You didn’t like the writing in City?
It was very…
Comic Booky.
I thought that’s what they were going for? 😀
That’s pretty much what I play Batman games for though!
Kevin Conroy’s not doing Batman’s voice this time around? (That’s his name, right?)
No, they’re pitching younger.
Rocketman?
That’s odd. Unless they’re going for a teenage Batman most peoples voices stay the same, right? It’s like How I Met Your Mother, why would future Ted need to be voiced by different guy than present day Ted. :S
It’s before Batman started smoking and gargling bitumen.
That League of Shadows is into some crazy shit.
Why do you think Bane had to wear the mask?Pretty much. It feels like an excuse, most folks’ voices don’t change much from their 20s to their 50s unless they’ve picked up a heavy smoking habit.
“Can one of you guys take care of this for me?”
“Can’t.”
“Don’t call me that.”
#dadjokepagesix
Don’t ask me how, but I’ve managed to combine a tank shell, and a dog chasing something, in one sketch.
I’m working on the pic as we speak.
#NotAJoke
#Notsorry
#HashtagsforHarli
If someone asked me to combine them in a sketch I would just draw a blank
#dadjokepage6
Hmmmm, this post seems sketchy
#dadjokepage6
Hellscream asked on Twitter what was the game best representative of the last generation (as in PS3/360/Wii).
My initial thought was the Mass Effect trilogy (a little cheaty but I couldn’t say any particular one). RedArtifice went with Arkham Asylum.
DC gave the best answer: Uncharted 2.
I’m genuinely struggling to think of any other title that fits better.
Rock Band.
No, I’m not kidding. Rock Band was to non-gamers as Uncharted was to regular gamers. That make sense? I’m not using ‘casual gamers’ or anything of the sort because that would muddy up what I’m trying to say since casual has the whole stupid elitist tinge to it.
EDIT: It’s more a contender than outright winner, but I still hold unto the idea that it’s up there when we’re picking representatives of this generation.
I think Rock Band was the pinnacle of a certain trend, that of getting less “traditional” gamers onto consoles through other methods, but as a single example of “this is what games were like between 2007-2013” I can’t fault Uncharted 2.
If you’re going down that path, the answer is either Guitar Hero 3 or Rock Band 2. In terms of just straight up getting people interested, they did something pretty damned special. Unfortunately, they don’t summarise the generation of games. They cover a brief blip of interest that lead to the rise and fall of plastic peripherals. Thanks
ActivisionObama.If you want to include casual, the answer (for the same reasons) has to be Wii Sports.
In term of just summarising the games that we’ve seen this generation, Uncharted 2 covers it pretty damned well. It’s a sequel that improves on the original. It’s a cover based shooter. It’s graphically impressive and shies away from the grey/brown look of late Xbox/PS2 era games.
The only thing that makes Uncharted 2 not fit as a representative title is that it’s better than pretty much everything else released this generation. Surely a less impressive title like one of the lesser CODs or a Medal of Honour title would be more appropriate because quite a lot of games this generation have not been pants-removingly amazing.
I’d point to Uncharted 2 and say “if you want to know what PS3-era gaming was about, this is it.”
I’d point to something like FF VIII and say the same about PSOne.
Uncharted 2 and The Last Of Us pretty much sum up what the PS3 is capable of. I don’t know if they’re what the entire console is about.
Just like the NBA finals are the pinnacle of basketball but that doesn’t stop pick up games in the park from also being representative. That’s actually my biggest issue with Uncharted 2 as an answer. It’s too good.
I was thinking “mass appeal” when it comes to representatives. It was hard for me to decide between guitar hero and rock band, but rock band came when the trend was highest and set the standard that guitar hero never caught up to. Plus, I’m biased since my generation went through a very odd time in gaming.
You’re also absolutely right about Wii Sports, but I felt Rock Band hit more the middle ground between gamers/non-gamers, but again I’m applying a bias here (and probably for good reason, considering the demographics they cater to?)
I think Uncharted takes the spot because it marked a change in how AAA games are handled- the whole ‘cinematic’ experience, scripted set pieces gone wild, and that hooked a lot of non-gamers. Course, I could very well be wrong about Uncharted starting the ‘AAA cinematic’ experience, but I’m pretty sure it made it (unfortunately?) a standard to look up to.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is the trendsetter of all trendsetters.
Guitar Hero is a pretty good representation of this generation I think – in that it exemplifies the growing trend of increasingly frequent releases that saturate and then completely drown a market, rather than approaching things in a more sustainable manner.
Rock Band 3 is the correct answer, not 2 and definitely not Guitar Hero 3.
As always the answer is Dark Souls. Half the game is how the online system works and it would not have been possible on earlier generations.
I agree that Dark Souls is part of an ongoing trend in gaming, but I wouldn’t point to it as representative of the PS3/360/Wii era.
Hmm. You’re probably right. It was pretty niche and the online system never became a thing with other games.
Brown zombie shooter sequels would be more representative.
I’d argue that the multiplayer ideas introduced by Demon’s Souls and Journey are going to be the big trend for the next generation, not this one. A whole bunch of early releases next gen are really pushing it – Destiny and Watch Dogs for example.
I think Gears of War deserves a mention.
I honestly considered Gears, as I think it was one of best “of its time” examples
I was considering it too. Gears 1 was the first cover shooter that really caught on. Gears 2 gave us horde mode and somehow fell into it’s own ass with a melodramatic plot.
Actually, Gears 2 is a damned good nominee.
Gears 2 took everything about Gears and just made it better. I put a lot of hours into that game. To me, that and Halo basically summarise the 360 in two games.
I’ve been sorely tempted to replay the whole trilogy co-operatively with someone.
I could do it single player but my main memories of Gears are sitting on the same couch with a friend and plowing through the game in a single night. Playing Gears any other way just feels wrong. It’s probably why I didn’t like Gears 3 as much, because I played it on my lonesome.
I actually never played Gears 3, as I sold my 360 before it arrived. My memories of Gears 1 and 2 are with friends playing co-op, same as you. Sitting down and slugging out Gears 2 with my friend on Insane is a fond memory. We used to do that a lot – finishing Halo 3 and ODST on legendary together is another highlight.
…Jarman? :p
We did Halo 3 and Army of Two as well. Tried the Splinter Cell with co-op but it turns out that my friend was not the best stealth buddy.
Same couch co-op is pretty much my ideal way to play video games. That’s probably why I’ve latched onto board games in such a big way. They scratch the same itch while also offering competitive options.
EDIT: Gears 3 is pretty rad. Not as good as 2 but I played it under different circumstances.
I played Gears of War once. A friend had his 360 around and we started playing it co-op. I remember describing it as “the least enjoyable gaming experience I’ve ever had”. I just completely didn’t understand what was so appealing about it or why so many people seemed to love it so much. I mean I thought it looked terrible, handled terribly and just wasn’t at all interesting or fun. And yet for some reason I kept going, and we eventually completed the game. Don’t even know why, considering what I thought of it 😛
Gears was pretty much my introduction to shooters on the 360.
Unreal has this bizarre knack for getting the most out of their engine. Odd that. Each Gears of War game tends to represent what the Unreal engine (which I’d say is indisputably the most important engine of this generation) is capable of at that time.
So yeah, looking back I’d say that it doesn’t look great and it doesn’t handle amazingly. On the other hand, at the time it came out it was pretty much the pinnacle of what the 360 could achieve. We’ve come a long way.
I dunno, it was a long time ago that I played it. Start of 09 I think? And only owned a Wii. But still thought it looked gross 😛
Ah, the age of chest high walls.
Definitely as an example of the real trend this generation, which was the rise of people using middleware like Unreal instead of building their own engines for everything.
I don’t know if it counts as middleware when Unreal developed the game :p
Sure it does, they built the engine to power the game. In fact remember the whole Too Human lawsuit? Silicon Knights’ argument (and it was not without merit) was that they paid a license for the Unreal engine but what was delivered was unusable and unfinished because they were using the licensing money to develop Gears, which was effectively being developed as a tech demo & reference implementation for the engine itself, and Gears wasn’t done.
That was part of it but I thought the issue was that the support was lacking, not the engine itself.
I think something open world would fit better. RDR possibly.
Yes. This. Entering Mexico the first time with the sprawling landscape and that Jose Gonzales song playing is one of the defining moments where I could really say “this is next gen” at the time.
Also expanded from the idea that all open world games had to be New York City-like.
After GTA V exposed me to HelL.A. I kinda wish they were, though. 😛
Edit: Wait, no. I mean, I’d miss Red Dead’s awesome open world. What I mean is… I think they ran too far with it. Exotic locales is one thing, but The Pit of Abaddon itself? Noooo.
Crackdown still hasn’t been beaten for the feeling of freedom and openness it had IMO.
As an aside, I’ve got a thingo going up on Pixel Otaku at some point on the “gaming canon,” where I nominate Bioshock as an exemplar.
The Stanley Parable makes the same point without the poor shooting mechanics and world building.
Bioshock might actually be a good nominee for a game representing this generation though. If only because it is a generic Unreal Engine shooter with some world building :p
Call of Duty.
That’s a pretty generic answer, but that’s sort of the point. Shooters are probably the best representative of the current gen, and CoD is the archetype shooter.
There is a hell of a lot of people who own consoles purely for Call of Duty/Battlefield and don’t play anything else.
Edit: Also the 360 brand and Call of Duty are inextricably linked. So yeah.
See also Madden and Fifa.
Halo 3/ODST/Reach/4
(Edit: This is my Beyond: Two Souls. ALL THE FEELS. @dc)
ODST is my favorite Halo game, followed closely by Reach. Both were incredible games. I personally thought Halo and Halo 2 were vastly overrated, and I never played Halo 4.
As a sort of side note – Halo Wars was actually a really underrated game. It’s the best implementation of an RTS on console I’ve ever played. The unit selection and control was brilliant.
EDIT: I left Halo 3 out….. not sure where I’d put that. Prior to ODST, it was my clear favorite, but for me, ODST and Reach eclipsed it in every way.
Halo 3 was basically their, “OMG, 360! Hey everyone… witness the POWAH! Fuckyeah we can make this awesome,” effort, then with ODST they were like, “OK, we’ve got enough rope to experiment a little… let’s play! Huh, we actually managed to make some totally awesome improvements.” Then Reach was basically their, “This is as good as it gets, people.” Mic drop.
Handed it over to 343, who looked at the utterly intimidating past record and somehow managed to refine it ever so slightly in just about every way. It was like they dissected everything awesome about Halo, looked it over, then put it back together with a few improvements here and there and a better understanding of how to tune it to run better.
If you liked the Halo universe’s story and lore instead of just the multiplayer, Halo 4 is very worthy.
I found Halo 4 to be a soulless dudebro shooter personally. It does everything really well with great polish and everything, but the soul wasn’t there. But I’m a huge Bungie fan since the early 90s so the way they do stuff really clicks for me.
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I think Reach was far more defined than all the others, but for some reason I liked the ODST’s. After playing soulless and personality-void Master Chief, it was nice just playing as people. They made jokes, they had personalities, and they weren’t genetically enhanced super soldiers. They were just people.
That and I liked the game structure, walking through the wrecked city finding clues and then playing through the story leading up to it. Was a cool idea. That and it introduced Firefight, which was amazing fun. I mean it was just horde mode, but still – a lot of fun in a Halo game.
EDIT: That being said, the Reach guys bought a little personality and variety to the game as well. Seeing that Spartans could actually be distinctly different. Prior to that, I imagined all Spartans basically being clones of Master Chief.
Depends I think, if you focus more on the earlier half or later half of the generation. I think there’s one game that perfectly sums up the early days – Bomberman: Act Zero.
Here you have a game that takes a classic franchise, ditches its “cutesy” cartoonish appearing for something much more “mature” and then turns it into a first person game because they are COOL, and then half the game isn’t even accessible without an online connection (no multiplayer for you!).
That said, the game isn’t really that bad. Ignoring the first person mode and just playing it like a regular Bomberman game, it was pretty decent. Barebones, but enjoyable.
I’m gonna go with COD: Black Ops 2. For different reasons.
1. It’s the fifth games after the monumental and groundbreaking MW1, which was also in the same gen. The series has roots deeply in the gen.
2. It’s more popular on console than on PC. The style of play, the game design, etc, is very suited for console play. Hence another reason to pick it.
3. As the fifth entry into the series, looking back at the games in this gen you can see how little the gameplay changed… or how the story/landscape only changed. I don’t actually know what I’m trying to say with this point.
4. It’s probably one of the most universally hated – and at the same time acclaimed? – games of this gen. Five games yearly is just enough, everyone is sick of it. But if you ask some teenage “do you play games?” the answer will probably be “yeah man blops on console”.
5. Graphics are probably as best as they will get.
6. It makes great use of all online features, VOIP, matchmaking, etc.
It’s not the best game of this gen. It’s not the worst. But for me, it sums it up this gen perfectly.
A damned fine candidate and I can’t fault the logic.
Your third point was basically: shows how iterative game design can be and how that can lead to success, failure, accolades and criticism.
whaaat? I ain’t saying gameplay-wise BO2 was better than COD4, but COD4 set a precedent that Activision and Infinity Ward only dreams to live up to with every new iteration. If I were to compare BO2’s larger, but more controversial stature (as it is, I suppose) compared to MW’s sparkling legacy (it was damn near flawless upon release, and it might’ve been the forerunner for the AAA-oriented shift that shook up the generation,) I’d choose MW.
Yeah, MW1 is better in pretty much every aspect. But it didn’t define this gen for me, due to: not stereotypically console based, heck the PC community was bigger for it; was not made for consoles; didn’t have any specific console nor lounge room benefits. It was.. just a game.
Note: I’m taking all of this with a console-orientated slant, as you can see.
CoD4 redefined the modern FPS single handedly. I wholeheartedly agree. The only problem lay with the annual bastardised, uninspired sequels.
Reading through all these responses has made me realise that picking a representative game of this generation is a stupid idea.
The only thing representative of this generation is its diversity. There’s more people playing than ever before and the spectrum of what’s popular is very wide indeed.
Nope! There must be an answer! This is definitely not just a discussion that’s interesting to think about.
YES. I MUST WIN. ALL COMERS, CHALLENGE ME AND WE SHALL END THIS. (Bring your own favourite token to represent you on the Monopoly board, no standard pieces allowed to avoid duplicates.)
And after thinking about it that’s the answer I came up with.
0/10
Please see me after class.
Fine.
Lair.
Over hyped and proof motion controls are terrible while they tell us how revolutionary they are, like most of this gen.
Happy?
Much improved.
C-
Something something Journey something CHIIIRP!
@freezespreston You’re learning fast.
Minecraft.
What do you call a cow with no legs?
Ground BeefDid anyone hear about the midget who got busted stealing from a shop balanced on the shoulders of vampires?
He was charged with shoplifting on 2 counts!
I don’t get it. Vlad III Dracula was a Voivode not a count.
It doesn’t make sense.
😛
Maybe they were vampires from sesame st!
Pokemon people
I managed to get both a male and female Eevee, so I’ll be breeding them, in case people want them.
http://epicpix.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Now-Kith.jpg
Girls und Panzer + Monty Python = Sheer Brilliance
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/10/ask-lh-how-can-i-stop-browsing-porn-when-i-work-from-home-nsfw/
Wat.
Well, I clicked the link.
I don’t know what I expected.
Help?
Well, after you message yesterday what else am I supposed to do? ;_;
I dropped the guy a suggestion. Pretty interested to hear how it pans out to see if it’s viable for myself.
@ynefel pika pika
@ynefel sorry, it locked in. I can’t press anything if I accidentally hit ‘offer’
Thanks man! It’s all good, I figured as much. I was kind of sitting there putting Quilladin up going ‘Look! I’ve already got it!’ Then figured it’d timed out or you couldn’t change it or something.
I only really needed the other two gen1 starters and 2 gen6 starters, plus that magnificent Pikachu.
MANY THANKS, GOOD SIR! I wasn’t expecting the other starters initially, but then I realised you had them and was like YUS.
Picture a 32 year old man running into the loungeroom to show my housemate my shiny Pikachu, and she totally doesn’t grasp the concept completely. She was like ‘Uhhhh, cool?’ I’m like ‘LOOK. SHINY.’
Yeah, trading system is a bit dodgy, once you hit ‘offer’, you can literally do nothing until the other person offers something – then the trade can be cancelled. At that point, my only option was to power off or close the 3DS, so I was hoping you’d cancel the trade after a bit.
Enjoy the pikachu / soon to be raichu. My fiancée is the OT, and she’s starting to come to terms with the concept of shinies.
Hit me up if there’s anything else (non-shiny) you’re looking for, I’m playing my own game within the game of trying to get and breed lots of things people want – I added larvitar, baygon and ponyta to the available stock last night.
I’m hoping with the higher occurrence of shinies in this generation, and me breeding lots of good things people will want, the two will coincide now and again.
Arcade Fire front man just made puns on The Colbert Report. I don’t know what to believe any more. :'(
You’ve got two choices.
A) embrace the pun.
B) drop Arcade Fire.
Accept my heroes are flawed!
This was a teaching moment.
Edit: No. They’re not flawed. He was just nervous. Puns happen when nervousness is a-foot. *thinks back to the pirate joke*
Edit 2: No. I must’ve misheard. There were no puns. No. Puns.
Edit 3: I never made no pirate joke.
Argh!
No, Arrrrrrrgh.
I took page 6 to twitter. Couldn’t resist.
batrabiesgirl was talking about archaeologists.
Had to inform her that most archaeologists are depressed cos their careers are in ruins.
Holy shit, page 6 is quite rightly the highlight of my week.
It’s the darkness before the dawn.
I watch a lot of Dota 2 streams. It’s pretty damned rad.
They just dropped a major patch and some of the top Chinese teams are playing right now. The bad side? They’re playing in the D2L, a major tournament that has Ayesee doing commentary.
Ayesee treats commentary like morning AM radio; avoid dead air like the plague. His ability to read the state of the game is non-existent. His knowledge of the game is non-existent. His ability to hand over to more knowledgeable co-casters is … non-existent. He’s just terrible at his job.
Although he does have a pretty nice voice. He should do morning AM radio.
I have actively avoided anything that he has done commentary on since The International (where I watched the games he did commentary on in game with Korean commentary because Korean commentators make everything interesting).
He’s been at this for over a year now and just has not improved in any measurable way. Why must I be denied content because part of the content sucks ass. Seriously, he talks constantly and says nothing. Team Liquid got a bunch of players and casters to do some analysis of the latest patch. He wrote three paragraphs that essentially said “There’s a new patch and it’s going to have an impact on how people play the game.”
I wish I had the ability to waffle that much.
RAGE.
Bonus West Wing themed edit: RAGE is Martin Sheen’s initials.
This group assignment can go get rooted by a donkey. I’m the only one doing any work while the 4 other members just coast of my work! Getting a little sick of carrying their lazy arses while I put all the effort in only to scrape by with a passing mark.
Oh, dad joke. Hmmmm.
What do you call an Italian with a rubber toe?
Roberto.
That sounds like uni to me!
Oooh I can’t wait until peer-review time, I’m going to throw them under the bus so badly and demand that their marks get lowered while my marks get boosted up a bit.
Need to back it up with proof, and notify your supervisor beforehand. Otherwise your remarks will hold no weight.
There’s a section on the assignment that details who’s done what. My name appears in every section. I also have emails and texts sent to group members, so I think I have a pretty good case. Thanks for bringing that up though! Now I can get it all prepared!
http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/22/4865354/sony-experimented-with-xbox-layout-for-dualshock-4-design
Interesting to read this kind of stuff. Analysis of their competitions design without any sense that marketing is influencing what’s said.
http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/government-it/campaign-for-fibre-nbn-comes-to-malcolm-turnbulls-front-door-20131022-hv26o.html
That mob who ran the change.org petition for the FTTP NBN ran a Kickstarter for advertising in Wentworth’s (Turnbull’s electorate) newspaper. The first one has been revealed.
…
Stylish, if utterly ineffective. Looks like they got enough crowd-sourced donations to keep up the pressure for a while, though.
You know who’s pretty cool? @miketarno, that’s who! *decisive nod*
I like to call him Mikey T! True story! @greenius calls him Dave Grohl!
Awwwww thanks man. Likewise. Now I’m blushing. For real. 😛
And your sir, get the award for being the nicest person I’ve ever met online. Ever. 😀
Come to the ACT and get married \o/
You are! >:|
http://www.siliconera.com/2013/10/22/tales-symphonia-chronicles-reaches-europe-february-collectors-edition/
\o/
Now let’s see it confirmed for Australia so I can give them my monies
Apparently this is going to be limited to 10,000 copies across all of Europe and Australasia so it’ll probably sell out fast.
Any word on the EU retailer?
Not yet but Namco Bandai confirmed the CE for Australia.
EDIT: Amazon UK have a listing…
If there’s a limited CE in Australia, 99% of the time, it’ll be EB. I wonder if it would be more reliable to just order it from Amazon UK?
Edit: Amazon listing I found appears to just be third party sellers with an import from Japan.
Urghh. So sick of this housemate of mine. 2 things: My relationship with my “husband” which she’s trying her hardest to make us feel as awkward as we can about it, and this stupid fucking cat and my health which she sees purely as a game :l
But yeah, finally going to see Gravity tomorrow, which should be pretty good!
She went through with the pet thing? D:
Maybe you can make it run away.
Citronella the fuck out of everything 😛
Not yet thank god! She’s agreed to at least wait until mid-December when the other two get back from America. I told her I don’t want to hear about it again until then.
…Then she started crying, and going on about how I just want her to forget about it and she can’t be happy. Unfortunately tears don’t make me feel any sympathy for something as menial as a cat :/
No shame in guy love! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7hjdC8-jbw
Damn straight!
It is NOT helping my case that he had a shower, we hugged goodbye (he went to work and I went back to college cos I need internet), got my hair wet and now all I can smell is his shampoo, but she doesn’t need to know that 😛
Dad Joke page 6, huh…
Here’s one:
I have Princess Diana added as a friend on Xbox live.
Shame she spends all her time on the dashboard.
Why was Princess Dianna disappointed on her wedding night?
She thought all rulers had 12 inches.
OK TAY, I needs help. There’s a possibility my mother’s wireless modem is being hijacked. A very strong possibility. She’s NOT a power user and I’ve checked her usage, but she’s blowing through her multi-gig download allowance within days of every month’s reset.
I’ve checked her wireless modem and stopped the SSID from broadcasting, changed the WPA2 passcode, and added MAC filtering. Some cunt is still gaining access. After ten minutes google searching I discovered that it’s relatively easy to acquire software that will allow you to crack that encryption, detect which computers HAVE been white-listed, then spoof a white-listed address.
Basically, nothing I can think of is actually secure against a ‘hacker’ with google and some free time. How do I beat this little shit?
The only thing I can think of next is disabling the wireless entirely, running cat-5 to every machine in the house that needs it, and doing a tour of the neighbourhood with a baseball bat to take the knees of every neckbeard and teenager I find.
WPA2 isn’t easy to crack. WPA1 has an algorithmic flaw which is crackable and WEP can be brute-forced, but not WPA2.
What’s more likely is she has WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) enabled and that is super-vulnerable and should always be turned off and never touched ever, because *anyone* can use it to bypass your authentication and basically be given your WPA2 key directly. Just don’t use it.
Make sure the pre-shared key is long enough (I think it needs to be 16-20+ characters). Don’t use MAC address filtering, it doesn’t work against someone with the know-how to exploit WPS or crack WPA and also it’s harder for you to pick up on when an intruder is actually there because they have to spoof one of your known devices.
Also do an AV sweep. Make sure she hasn’t been zombied and got a bitcoin mining trojan or something installed. Then complain to the ISP that the usage seems extremely high, in case they’re accidentally tracking another user (this can happen on Telstra cable for example because the modem’s MAC is used for authentication).
EDIT: Also your WPA passphrase needs to be a random string of shit. Numbers, letters, symbols. No words, no patterns. Write it down somewhere if you want. 16+ characters ideally. Basically you want to force crackers to use a brute-force attack. Words, sequences and stuff which uses only lowercase or only numbers or the like are easier to calculate the entire search space for. WPA2 is harder to calculate a hash for but nowadays with a hash to find you can distribute the search over a lot of machines and crack pretty quickly, but brute force over 16+ characters is still going to take too long for a hacker to bother.
I was just going to mention the WPS thing but this is much better.
Hrm. It was definitely WPA2, I checked. But I’m inclined to go and change the SSID again, password again (but stronger), and do it all at the one time while the thing ISN’T transmitting wirelessly.
Which is better – if less satisfying – solution than the baseball bat.
Might just do that part anyway as a bonus to me.
(Edit: It’s also ADSL, but I’m planning on logging a complaint with Telstra anyway, let them deal with it. If all REASONABLE measures have been taken and they can verify that themselves, they can probably escalate. It’s gotta be illegal to do, so that’s another interesting avenue.)
One possible way to generate a hard-to-brute-force phrase is to take a quote or a phrase that you can easily remember with say 16-20 words and take the first letter of each word. Randomly uppercase a few and substitute some letters for numbers (eg a ‘t’ might become a 7 or a ‘s’ might become a $). You shouldn’t do this with words (common substitutions are the first thing they try when short-phrase brute force tables and dictionary attacks fail) but by adding the extra complexity to something that otherwise would look like patternless rubbish will increase the entropy of the phrase and make it harder to crack.
That’s probably the best idea..
Is there any way to check the ip addresses of computers on the network?
Then again, they could be using a dynamic ip address…
If you don’t see any rogue ip’s connected, my guess would be the computer itself. She’s probably picked up some malware from somewhere which has given them remote access. Possibly a rootkit even. Give the computer a scan with combofix and malwarebytes and see if it finds anything.
Well, it’s her work laptop with Education Queensland which run their scans pretty frequently, but I’ll give that shot too, thanks. 🙂
mmm yeah but they use norton! :p
that’s about as useful as tits on a bull!
Is she a teacher? If so, get her to ask her school’s OC holder to take a look at it. They’ll probably re-image the laptop.
Not sure if she’ll have the right permissions to install something like malwarebytes. If her laptop is a CFT (like the asset tag on the laptop starts with CFT) and she’s also a mobile user in active directory, she may be able to, but don’t be surprised if you can’t install it.
If you can’t get it installed, an OC tech should be able to check it out and sort it for her.
Yup, Teacher. And yup, tits on a bull. If not actively harmful. 😛 I will quote terminology!
You should be able to check the router’s DHCP tables, and it will list all the MAC addresses of the devices that are utilising DHCP, and what addresses they’ve been allocated. Then you can check all the devices using the router see if there’s any odd ones out. That should help determine if there’s any unknown MACs on the network. But if you’ve got MAC filtering on, and you’ve done all you say, I find it very difficult to believe someone’s hijacking it. Until you’ve got proof there’s definitely an unknown wireless NIC connected to your router, I’d be dubious.
I’d be more looking around for malware and/or viruses that are chewing your bandwidth. I’ve seen it happen a million times. Despite popular belief, wireless networks are actually not terribly simple to crack. It can be done, but it’s definitely not simple. And if you realise there’s a problem and change SSID’s, security, and enable MAC filtering, it’s nigh on impossible. I mean MAC addresses can be spoofed, but again, combined with all the other things, it sounds like a stretch.
It’s easier to crack a bad wifi password than you think
My point was more that it’s highly unlikely, and he can find out first if it’s actually happening or not quite easily, before chasing a potential red herring.
Yeah the idea that someone re-broke the security in like 10 mins seems too fast to me.
http://www.ozgameshop.com/wii-games/xenoblade-chronicles-solus-game-wii
!!!!
Everyone without this now has no excluse not to play the best JRPG of this generation.
Dear Neg
I have an excuse: I don’t allow Wiis in my house.
Taking a Stand,
Red.
#letterwritingpageseven
It looks a million times better emulated on PC using Dolphin anyway.
Good thing it runs on Wii U!
Oh hey Greenius is alive! And of course that’s what it takes to flush him out 😛
What’s with the Solus bit?
Xeno….Warrior Princes!
ORDERED!
(thanks for the heads up!)
Up to season 3 episode 3 of Breaking Bad.
I’m starting to really dislike Skyler. Really really dislike her.Also
The twins don’t really seem to fit the tone of the rest of the show. They’re very, well, cartoonish.I dunno. All the villains are pretty cartoonish in that show.Skyler hate is common. Technically she’s responding the way you’d expect anyone to in her situation, but she’s just so… WRONG. My wife has substituted Skyler for the c-bomb in her vocab. Whenever someone is being a terrible person in other TV shows now, she’s like “stop being such a Skyler”.First season I didn’t have a problem with her, thinking it was warranted in her situation. Then second season through to where I’m up to its just been irritating. Then she started banging Ted and for some reason it’s really bothering me.The part where she tries to make Ted make the right choice gets pretty annoying and dumb, but by seasons four and five she mellows and you forget how annoying she was. Lydia replaces her to become the more annoying and dumb one.Goodnight, gals, guys, and Scots.
@markserrels
Dear @Nomad,
Thanks for your hospitality in GTA Online tonight. Kind of cool being able to try out missions I’m not yet qualified to see. Also, picking up weapons I can’t get yet. That repo mission was disgracefully embarrassing on my part. All the apologies. 😛
It’s cool man, as I said, it was fun! (Except for when I shot you in the head early on.)
I’ll try and get online tonight after I watch Sons, have another go with you. Might even headset up tonight, and hang around longer then half hour!
Haha, that shooting was totally my fault. I felt like such a derp, but I laughed pretty hard. I don’t know how the bad sport thing works – that won’t hurt your rep, will it?
I should be around tonight. I don’t own a headset though 😛
And a fellow Sons fan! I am so hype for season 6, and can’t wait to start watching it. (Mrs Shane and I like to get the whole season before we begin watching)
I doubt it’ll affect my rep. I think you’re my 3rd kill that wasn’t retaliation. it just means I won’t get the 2k bonus for a day without killing, so not a problem.
As for SoA, I can’t handle missing eps, mainly because I’ll see spoilers somewhere, and I never find the time to marathon a season uninterrupted!
I’ll have to remember to tag you when it comes time to discuss the season!
In the meantime, if you’re jonesing for some debrief, you could discuss with virus__ I think he’s up-to-date with it.
Oh yeah, I also noticed that at one point you gave me $1000. Was that deliberate? What was it for?
It was deliberate, around level 40 you unlock crate drops, like what Trevor does from the airfield. It’s why we were attacked, right before I killed you. The crates from xp, money & sometimes weapons, and everyone on the map can see it. I gave you half of what was in the crate, seeing as how you gave your life to protect it!
So apparently i’ve put 27 hours into Wind Wanker so far…
DAMN THAT GAME FOR BEING SO GOOD…
also good morning TAY,
Hope everyone is well…
Morning Pixel!
I haven’t even started playing my WiiU. I think I’ve been too busy with visitors and now halloween stuff.
naw that sucks… Wind Waker is such a good game (i missed out on the early 2000’s Nintendo era so this is my first go)
HIGHLY RECOMMEND… although i don’t want to finish it because i don’t know what to do after XD…
On the plus side though, HALLOWEEN \o/
no wait… kids are going to come and knock on my door /o\…
but i have 2 dogs that’ll scare the crap out of them \o/
I played it on Gamecube, so I’ve already played it
I will get around to it.
As for halloween, we never really get trick or treaters. It’s for my brother -_-
I just want to get it over and done with so I can work on Nobs cosplay
It’s so pretty on WiiU. I was blown away when I first fired it up on the WiiU.
is that the Mr Burns head for your brother? sounds like more effort then i could be bothered with personally 😛
Yeah, I should’ve said no. Oh well, better keep going
I’m curious for the final result though, so wouldn’t mind seeing some photos once completed 😀
eh, it won’t be that good. I’m half arsing it.
Problem is getting it to stay on my brothers shoulder -_-
@scree just paper-mache it straight onto his head… problem = solved XD
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
Exactly.
WIND WAKER! I played a bit of it last night.
Just picked up the Master Sword. I also got the swift sail. Man, you go SO.DAMN.FAST with it.I tend not to use them personally XDI enjoy the sailing, but then again i’ve always liked sailing in games and taking my time… i appreciate the opportunity
Not sure if typo or injoke I missed…
Come be in the cool kids club, we talk like young kids yo… i mean yolo… we be for sheez the coolies and we has swag like totes… we get all up in dem wind wankers
Edit – that hurt my brain
…are you having a brain aneurysm?
I’m having an aneurysm out of pure stupidity
Three new games added to the last Humble Android Bundle
CHOO CHOO!
It’s been raining off and on since yesterday in Melbourne and it’s cold, dark and windy. Would send this off to NSW if I could, minus the wind, of course.
It stormed late last night and then when I woke up everything was completely dry somehow.
Sorcery.
Having said that, the storm was awesome. I lay in bed listening to it 😀
You’re a big kid now!
Hahahahaha
Now that’s a dad joke!
Okay, that was pretty good 😛
Went to bed at 9:30pm. Didn’t get to sleep until 2am.
Yay! \o/
bow chika bow wow
Those sexy @shane dreams man….
Yeah, the prospect of one of those would keep me awake too… O_O
Edit: from fear. Fear only.
I choose to ignore your edit.
Stupid sexy
Flanders@shanePity that lifehacker article wasn’t more helpful for you.
Translink ticket get.
Brisbane just got a little more real, folks. (I’m still not entirely convinced it exists, though)
Focus your belief, Dreamer. Soon… SOON we shall enter your world. MwooouuahhahahahahahahAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Er. *cough*
enter our world, and then proceed to melt in to a puddle :\ bleh! fuck summer man!
Go Card! If you say Translink ticket random people on the street will laugh and point at you! 😛
Starting to think this trip is a mistake…
Atleast there’ll be no punching!
Definitely a mistake.
I can’t believe i am actually remotely hype of an AC game…
But BlackFlag is looking pretty damn decent…
and i’m finding myself getting a bit hype…
But to me it’s more ‘OHAI PIRATES’ speckled with some AC mechanics no one really cares about….
BUT PIRATES \o/
‘Butt pirates.’
EVEN BETTER
Looks like Pixel is moving back to the ACT!
I was hyped for ACIII, but the thing that killed it for me is the story. It sucked.
Yeah, I’m one of THOSE gamers.
If they get the writing right in this one…well…I may cave, and cave quickly.
I like good story, and never played ACIII due to people telling me how bad it is… i might pick it up on the cheap at some point…
But that’s the thing, i really don’t care about the Ass Creed aspect of the game, but i care about the Pirate aspect XD…
Yes hopefully the story is decent, but from what i hear, it’s been going downhill since AssBro so i’m not staying too hopeful of that
“Butt Pirates” and “Ass Bro”. You’re really aiming for something here, aren’t you?
I agree. I haven’t had a good pirate fix since Sid M’s Pirates! was re-done.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What can i say, i love my brain sometimes XD
Although i’m pretty sure AssBro has been Brotherhoods long time name in here 😛
And yeah Sid M’s was great, i still have a soft spot in my heart for the first ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ game that had absolutely nothing to do with the movies as you played as a guy called Nathaniel Hawk, and ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ was mainly just used to sell the game, as it was intended as a sequel to Sea Dogs
No class this morning, wish I knew before getting to the campus at 9 in the morning.
Read your emails, people. I can’t stress that enough.
Thanks for the advice, Numbers!
I went to buy some tinfoil at the shops but Patricia had bought all the tinfoil for her massive hat …
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/10/holy-crap-has-the-famous-glitch-missingno-returned-in-pokmon-x-y/
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2013/10/22/exclusive-the-order-1886-screens.aspx
Ooooooh! The Order screenshots!
I can’t wait for this game. Looks so damn atmospheric.
Damn exclusives… looks pretty but there’s no way that i am getting a PS4 anytime soon if ever so i’ll miss out ;_;
Random idle thought for the hour:
My brother has a black-surfaced dining table, which is quite reflective, like a deep pool of still water. Dinner guests have asked in the past about it, and the boys are happy to say that it’s easy to clean and so forth… but they always add a warning:
“Oh, hey, just a quick heads up. If you look down to your reflection, no matter what it says or does, do NOT listen to it. It is Evil, and will do anything to trick you into letting it out.”
People invariably look down to the table with vague concern and directly into the eyes of their reflection and imagine it as a hostile presence, trying to escape this onyx prison… and many of them get incredibly creeped out.
Imagination is awesome.
Tables like that are why man invented tablecloths.
When they stare into the table you should whisper.
“Let me out-out-out…”
It’s spookier when that malevolent mirage just stares directly at you. Distrustful and accusing. Biding its time. If it ever spoke, it would be using your voice, or some whispering shadow-mimicry of it, filtered through the faint static of crying innocents.
I was just thinking the generic spectre / ghost / apparition voice over that’s always used in TV/Movies/Games.
Xeno…
it’s so much fun to fuck with people’s minds 🙂
Pokétalk (no spoilers):
Oh boy! My team is all trained up and (hopefully) ready for the Elite 4. I saved facing the doorway to enter and going get started on the train trip home.I can’t wait to finish the game and get stuck into creating some actual decent pokemon (most of the team have neutral natures because I couldn’t be bothered searching for good ones :P). I’m gonna start by training up some of my favourites and then try and slot them into some teams for some online battling! I’ve also got to try some more Mega Evolution because I never trained up anything that could use it 😛
My final in-game team if anyone is interested: Chesnaught, Vivillon, Aegislash, Clawitzer, Noivern and Heliolisk.
There seems to be a lot of empty spaces in the overworld though. Look like places where event pokemon would spawn or something interesting would happen. Can’t wait until we hear about DLC and the like!
ps. I hate the fact that Vivillon outclasses Butterfree in just about every way. Almost the exact same moveset and better stats ;_; I’ve got my fingers crossed for Mega Butterfree DLC.
In other news: I had to endure a couple sitting behind me on the train violently making out for 2 hrs. Turned the sound up all the way on my 3DS and could still hear horribly loud lip smacking. Ugh, ugh, ugh 😛
B-but Vivillion #1 kawaii waifu/husbando.
Seems like a pretty solid team. From memory, mine was:
Hawlucha, Heliolisk, Doublade, Fletchinder, Goodra and KlefkiThere’s a lot of overlap in peoples teams this gen because of the low number of new guys. I totally would have used Fletchinder too if I’d have known it would turn into a Fire type! 😛and I’ve got like, 8 or 9 different Vivillon now! 😀 I wish the colours passed down when breeding though. I want my properly bred/trained Vivillon to be a cool colour…
Heh, my Fletchinder was just there for Fly. It was only about level 40, it didn’t actually battle. But it’s got great movepool for Physical attacks, and apparently can be made as a Special Attacker as well.Yeah. I can understand they wanted to encourage people to keep using GTS/Wondertrade and the new PSS, but still kinda sadface. And only giving Ocean to a single country? Boo-urns.My team currently is
Charizard, Blaziken, Delphox, Tyrantrum, Doublade and LaprasYeah, not exactly balanced.
Mine’s far from a balanced team at this point. Mostly just levelling stuff that @beavwa gave me:
My glorious shiny Pikachu, Ivysaur, Wartortle, Charmeleon, Tyrunt and an egg my Ditto and Snorlax made.
I mostly just need to dump over all my Pokemon I’ve got sitting on Black 2 at the moment. I miss my Zekrom and Genesect.
At this second, my team is Fletchinder and 5 eggs.
… I should probably get back to those gym badges at some point. Keeping pace at home pretty well, we’ve both got 6 badges.
I also have larvitar, baygon, dratini and ponyta available if anyone wants those (as well as gen 1/gen 6 starters, and I’ll have stacks of gen 2-5 once the bank opens)
Blaziken, Pikachu, Greninja, Pidgeot, Lapras, Snorlax.
So there was another school shooting yesterday in the US.
I’m sure it’s GTAV or Candy Crush Saga’s fault.
Clearly it was Secret of the Magic Crystals
Fuck me, what are they up to now, 1-2 a month? This is getting ridiculous.
Who wants to bet there won’t be any addressing of the actual underlying issues, though… they’ll just become desensitized and write it off as the price of the freedom to bear arms and ignore community mental health programs/fight ‘socialism’.
Healthcare? What are you? A commie?
‘MURICA!
Where the solution to a gun control issue is more guns!
You might enjoy the freedom to bear arms,
BUT I RETAIN THE FREEDOM TO ARM BEARS
Guns don’t kill people. Stop saying that or I will shoot you with this gun and you will, coincidentally, die.
One of the victims was a teacher who confronted him and tried to talk him down. What’s the bet they all start screaming that if he had a gun everyone would have been saved?
But the right to bear arms is in the constitution, man. Who cares if it was drafted 200 odd years ago? IT’S THE FUCKING CONSTITUTION. WHAT ARE YOU, A COMMUNIST?
IF YOU CUT ME I BLEED RED!
Besides, the entire point of that amendment wasn’t for vigilante justice, it was to form civilian militias to fend off invasion, or to overthrow their corrupt government. Which… well. Good luck against the military and drones and shit.
It kind of became redundant when the US decided to form a standing army instead of relying on militias, but no one wanted to repeal it just in case, and now they’re stuck with it.
Oh man! Have been playing a little bit of Deus Ex: Human Revolution and it still looks mind blowingly beautiful. You can see that the engine is a little dated now technically, but the art direction is so strong that it doesn’t matter!
I’m gonna grab that on the WiiU this Thursday and it’s all your fault!
Also, I fired up Borderlands 2 last night for the first time in a while because I needed more cell-shaded games after playing Wind Waker for a couple of hours! =P
Yesssss!
I’ll let you know what it’s like after some research on the weekend.
Got your ticket dealy for Saturday yet, btw?
Is that this Saturday? Doesn’t really suit me. I’m house sitting (playing video games all weekend).
Aw, that’s too bad. Saturday, yeah. Sorry to hear that.
Hi
@saturday!@shane!Obligatory “Borderlands isn’t cel-shaded” pedantry
Your face isn’t cell shaded!
..Yes, you’re correct!
DXHR is an awesome game. The Director’s Cut version should fix the biggest issue the game has as well. \o/
I’ve had the Orange is the New Black theme song stuck in my head for days. D:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9_isl1jjHc
You ever listened to Regina Spektor before? I actually think you’d really dig her stuff.
I haven’t, but I like her voice and this song in particular is amazing.
Oh mannnn. I love her music so much. Far is probably my favourite album, so give that a listen.
Bleh, tomorrow is a big day at work. I’m too anxious to do anything. Why can’t this week be over already!
Hope everything goes smoothly, my friend!
I’m sure it won’t! But I will keep moving forward I suppose!
That’s the spirit
Says the ghost.
HAAAH IGEDDIT
#pixelgetsjokes
Get what?
:S
@transientmind -RE: Internet hi-jinx
also worth noting that many modem/router models have a security flaw where disabling WPS does not actually turn it off. some thompson, billion, netgear and dlink models suffer from this flaw… i believe most have patched it using a firmware update…
realistically however, if you have enabled mac address filtering, i dont see how its possible for another person to connect.even through wps… is she torrenting? and if she is is she seeding?
some isp’s calculate downloads & uploads as part of the quota…
most modems have a way of viewing what devices are connected to the network… that might be worth a look… keep a lookout for any unknown devices…
failing that, several types of malware/virus can have her PC act as a P2P mule, so be sure to check that…
if she is getting dropouts, it may also be worth changing the ADSL password.. it is actually possible for someone to use her credentials to utilize her connection from a completely different household, if their lines have the ADSL codes from the same provider on their line….
for example, if we are both with TPG, and your connection gets disconnected for some reason, you can aactually use my credentials to login again with full internet access.
There’s a movie about Lance Armstrong coming out. This picture was posted on Reddit.
His upper body is far too toned and bulky and his legs aren’t anywhere near bulky enough. Admittedly, it’d take a few years of riding bicycles up mountains to get that physique but that isn’t too much to ask, is it?
Also tan looks very wrong.
Did you see LeMond really sinking the boot in to Lance this week?
I missed that.
I think I need to look that up … and done.
Nothing really that surprising to be honest. LeMond was always critical of Armstrong and I don’t think anyone can make an accurate prediction of the state of the peloton without drugs.
Even after all this clears up, LeMond is never going to be able to reclaim the title of greatest American cyclist. TeJay Van Garderen just needs to win a tour (lol “just”) and most people will forget that LeMond even exists.
So Batman Arkham Origins (shut up, it’s my Pokemon/CoD, ok?) is pre-loading on Steam.
I’m sitting here waiting for my GreenManGaming key to come through.
Does GMG get keys before launch time?
It’s a 17gb download, so I want that baby ready to go at 4am (AEST release time).
Has TAY had any experience with GMG keys?
Oh man, I can’t wait for Arkham Origins. I thought it didn’t unlock on Steam until Saturday?
It doesn’t unlock until 4am Saturday morning, but it’s pre-downloading the game now according to reports.
That makes sense! Carry on! 😀
They will usually send keys out early if there’s a pre-load available.
Thank you Ser Nobless. Today you have given me hope.
Another quick question: How often does hitting refresh on my GMG games page begin to constitute OCD?
I do not wish to be the destroyer of hope, but some past big releases, GMG has had issues with sending out keys at release time, and haven’t had them available beforehand. It’s amusing to browse the forums at that time if you’re not one of the poor saps affected.
http://content.ebgames.com.au/website/images/documents/BatmanArkhamOrigins/index.html
Arkham Origins Collectors Editions have been delayed. No fancy statues on Friday.
This makes me a sad panda.
:'(
Well said!
Is it both collectors, or only the “definitive” one? I ordered the other collectors edition.
Dear TAY,
Please help. I know some of you love the Pokeymans, as I do. Is Pokeyman X (or Pokeyman Y, if you prefer) worth buying a 3DS for? If your answer is yes, please also provide your top 3 games for the system.
Yours truly,
Endu T. Wolf
P.S. I blame that Nuzlocke article!
YES!
Also games to get besides Pokemon X/Y:
– Luigi’s Mansion 2
– Fire Emblem
– Mario & Luigi: Dream Team
Also, if you are a fan of JRPG’s, Bravely Default is coming out in Nov I think.
I think this Pokemon has got to be my favourite Pokemon. I had slowly lost interest in the previous ones (couldn’t deal with all the grinding). This one is just, so amazing.
Dear Enduwolf,
Fire Emblem: Awakening
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D
Pokemon X/Y
Those are my top three and there are a bunch more games that make the system worth it.
Yours sincerely,
Popdart5
I say yes, but I’d buy any system for Pokemon, so…
My top three (excluding X) are Fire Emblem, Mario Kart 7 and Animal Crossing
I was going to suggest Animal Crossing but I think the hype train has left the station already. Not many people are still playing it.
Guess it depends what you want to get out of it. I never really considered it a multiplayer game (though I only play it once a week or so now I’ve got Pokemon).
Yes!
Fire Emblem
Dual Destinies tomorrow! (that’s right its my top 3 and I haven’t even played it, I’m that confident of its awesome.)
ZELDA OOT 3D
I haven’t played the [condemned by PETA], but I have some recommendations anyway.
3DS:
Ocarina of Time 3D
DS games:
Phoenix Wright series
Chrono Trigger
GTA Chinatown Wars
E-shop
Donkey Kong (old Gameboy version)
Link’s Awakening
Dear valued contributors,
Thank you for your candid responses. I can confirm that this lycanine does enjoy the fire emblems – I own the GBA one for my DS Phat and also the Wii one. I think I just found my Christmas present.
Yours in pixels,
Endu T. Wolf
though ill never admit it in person, I bought a 3DS XL solely for Pokemon…
i would do it again in a heartbeat…
other games? i find EVERYONE loves animal crossing a new leaf, though ive struggled to get into it…. i might give it another chance after i get bored of pokemon… unless a new pokemon is out by then…
i also did grab Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening from the eShop which is all kinds of awesome.
Planning on getting:
Zelda: OOT
Zelda: ALBW
DKCR
DK (NES Version,pretty cool)
Someone asked a similar question the other day, more than three games there but hey:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/10/talk-amongst-yourselves-246/comment-page-7/#comment-2010791
Oh man, speaking of Arkham Origins, there’s a massive spoiler on the internets that is really riling up some people, so just a warning to anybody who may be caught unawares.
Aw man, people are the worst. Thanks for the heads up! You’re alright!
You enjoying Goodbye Deponia, btw? Can’t wait to play this! *shakes fist at GOG*
It’s a rollercoaster, and the best in the series. Can’t wait to talk about it with you, bud.
Aw man! That’s good to hear! Likewise, pal. GOG release is still three and a half weeks away, despite the fact every other online store seems to have it. I don’t understand, Daedalic. I don’t understand. :'(
It’s probably an anti-piracy thing since GoG releases have no DRM.
GOG’s also crazy popular with adventure game fans though. Seems weird to shun that audience, especially when all their other games like The Night of the Rabbit launched simultaneously. You’re probably right though.
Hmm, that’s a awfully passive page-get. I’m gonna have to tack on something appropriate.
http://shanewsmith.com/published-works/the-lesser-evil/
perfect.
What’s this shit?
The Lesser Evil
By Shane W. Smith
Back of the book quote:
“What’s this shit?”
By Shane W. Smith
you heard it here first, folks.
It was the best review I got 🙁
Alert!
People’s jimmies have been rustled!
Poor Jimmy!
having read it myself, the content is set to MAXIMUM OVER-RUSTLE. I can only imagine it when people actually play through and discover it for themselves.
Batman has the Christmas spirit in his heart all along?
Then the 45 minute montage of him helping Santa to deliver presents!
GAME.OF.THE.GENERATION.
Presents like a punch in the face.
Am I right, DC?
You and your violent ways.
Batman is actually Santa, it’s just that those villains have been very naughty.
Batman touched your jimmy… ?
Was wondering what that rustling sensation was
Quiz: Do I evolve my shiny Pikachu to Raichu, or keep it as is and find a new Pikachu to evolve to Raichu? I eventually want both – I guess the main questions is whether I want a shiny Pikachu or shiny Raichu. I know a lot of people say Pikachu is better than Raichu if he has a Light Ball.
A shiny Raichu does sound mighty appealing though – I’m leaning towards that at the moment. And if I do evolve shiny pikachu to shiny raichu, when should I do it? General consensus seems to be around 50 after he learns Thunder.
And reading that back, it sounds thoroughly disjointed.
Does Raichu actually say “Raichu” like Pikachu does? I found it awfully amusing the first time I heard one.
Because I’d make a decision on that merit alone.
He doesn’t, apparently.
Edit: I wish he did though. His ‘Rai’ is actually kind of cool.
If you breed shiny Pikachu, can you get another shiny Pikachu?
I’m actually not sure – good question.
As far as I know there’s a slightly higher chance, but still not a particularly good chance.
Edit: Actually, that’s not true, my bad. Though you can get up to a 1/1024 chance of breeding a shiny by using parents from different regions (use the GTS to get a ditto from another country) and having a shiny charm.
Don’t think so. Same (slim) chance as any other. Unless there was a change in XY that I don’t know about (which would be fantastic).
Shiny Raichu looks better than Shiny Pikachu, I think. Also it’ll stop saying it’s name which is a plus 😛
EDIT: No point waiting until it learns Thunder though, it can learn that later with a TM.
Shiny Raichu is winning at this point.
Oh bro, c’mon, you weren’t amused when you figured that out? C’mon, bro
bro
BROOOOOO
The Pokemon saying their names is the worst thing about the anime, in my opinion 😛
Did you not like pikachu in Pokemon Yellow, then? because that was just pure anime-oriented fanservice. You got to talk to him, and he even followed you around, that was the shit.
… and I just reminded myself about a feature that gamefreak will probably never implement again. :/
Honestly I did like that but I put that down to it being the first game I actually owned and being mad for the anime at the time 😛
It’s not like I hate that Pikachu says it’s name in this game, I just hope that it doesn’t spread to every pokemon next generation. I prefer the cries in general.
What level would you suggest then? Looks like a bunch of moves can be gotten from TM’s.
Whenever you want! If I’m not waiting for a certain move, I usually just evolve stone pokemon when I feel like they’re falling behind the rest of my team.
Looks like I’ll evolve him at 42 – he learns Discharge at 42, and I can learn Light Screen and Thunder from TM’s after that if I want them. Thanks for the help!
Eh, pick the move set you want from levelling and TMs, and go from there. Extra disclaimer – if you evolve it ‘too soon’, can’t the move re-learner help out? Not sure on that one.
Shiny Raichu.
Raichu is the badass Pikachu is terrified he’ll become.
Fun Fact: My phone autocorrects Raichu into Taichung for some reason.
Repost because shattered.
Arkham Origins Collectors Editions have been delayed. No fancy statues on Friday.
This makes me a sad panda.
Batman wouldn’t taken that injustice! What you gonna do, huh? HUH?
Obviously go into the store shouting “WHURRISHE?! WHURRSJOKER?!”
You’re missing the most important part- start punching random bystanders then cry out in the most edgiest, gruffest voice “MYYY PPARRENNTS AARREE DEEEAAD” whenever you knock someone out.
WURRSRACHELJOKR
PUNCH @shane IN THE FACE!Guess I’m just going to have to play the game while staring moodily at the spot where the Joker should be sitting.Will riding the Arkham Asylum roller coaster in the dark help? :S
Is this a metaphor for state of mind?
He took a lot of shit in injustice god rest his bat soul getting hammer pumped by superman and a dude who talks to fish
At least you still get to play the game. Still sucks, but not all bad.
@redartifice
Some googling tells me all collectors editions on all platforms are delayed.
I could be wrong but that’s how it appears.
Well, bollocks.
Guess I’ll have to play more GTA then.
Game is still being released and you can still pick that up. Just need to wait for the rest of it.
I think.
The way they’ve worded it is “You can purchase a copy on the 25th…EB will contact you when the rest is available” so they could be expecting you to purchase a second copy.
My preorder is with JB, they had the price at the time. Not sure what their deal is.
Thing is, I’ve got enough to play atm- GTA V and PS+ Revanganang and soon 3DS will tide me until batmang.
I need to get back on Revanganang. Played a couple of hours and stopped, because something distracted me.
see, I love Metal Gear when I’m playing it, but buying it is always a weird thing for me. Always seems to be another game i buy first. At least for the low low price of free I can grab it straight away.
Revanganang was a funny one – wasn’t interested, because I wanted a new MGS game. Platinum stuff is ace, but wasn’t in the mood for MGR. But I was at an EB the other week and it was on sale for like $40, so I thought why not. I should have it to go with my Metal Gear collection anyway.
Boardgames Report
Since there was no strong opinions either way (or at least no clear majority) We will be doing boardgames on Saturday. This way we can play later if people want without worrying about it being a school night.
Starting around 1pm-2pm and going through until people decide to leave. Will be held at my place in Glen Iris for those who don’t know, just shoot me a message on twitter or an email tigerion[at]gmail
We will put on dinner for people so let us know numbers so that we can cater for that. What is on offer will depend on the weather, but likely either a BBQ or a roast. Just let us know if you have any food allergies or intolerances. So dinner should be covered so just bring whatever you want to drink, snack on and play.
In honour of my birthday we will have a very light halloween theme running through the day.
Let me know if you are coming or if you have any questions
I have a question: Happy Birthday?
Not till Halloween
You should bust out Ghost Stories if you want a light halloween theme. I’d say Last Night on Earth or one of the bajillion zombie games but Ghost Stories is better.
Although the dice are inexplicably sticky.
Last night on Earth is great fun.
Especially when you play the priest with a holy baseball bat, bust out a door, and announce in a terrible Irish accent “WHICH ONE OF YE BITCHES WANTS TAE DANCE?”
I’m incredibly over Last Night on Earth.
As fun as it is to have a battle priest wading through zombie corpses in the corn fields, so much of it just isn’t balanced. Some scenarios (save the townsfolk I’m looking at you) don’t even have an explanation of how either side can actually win.
It’s kind of okay but there are just much better games out there that do everything it tries to do but better.
It’s not one I’d buy, but it’s fun every now and then.
It’s very much focused on the flavour ahead of the mechanics, and I find that games that do that can die on the vine a bit.
Ghost stories is high on the wishlist but i don’t actually have it yet
Our one and only victory was actually pretty anti-climactic. We had what had to be the weakest Wu Feng incarnation and just rolled him. The game ends when you beat the Wu Feng incarnation (pretty much everything before that is essentially treading water in shark infested waters to stay alive).
I want a real victory.
Castle Ravenloft might be another fun Halloween game, if you have it.
Speaking of Batman, one of my first posts on TAY in December 2011 was ranting about the PC version of Batman: Arkham City and not being able to play it. I was thinking of repurchasing it on the consoles. Shane, who I barely knew at the time, offered to send his copy! To an internet stranger!
@shane is awesome! There will be no face punchings!
You have retracted and reissued that threat so many times I don’t know what to believe anymore.
He’s just trying to lull me into a false sense of security. A sucker punch still has the potential to flatten, no matter how scrawny the arm delivering it!
http://cdn.crushable.com/files/2012/09/hulk-punch-thor.gif
Wait, does he actually make contact with Thor?
Pfft, yeah, but what have I done for you lately?
Taught me the meaning of friendship?
*stirring music begins to play*
Oh wow, that’s sappy. Guaranteed to make any first meat-up extra awkward! 😛
Oh, it’ll be plenty awkward already! I’m pretty disappointing in person. I get nervous easily. I start rambling. I repeat conversations we had three seconds ago. It’s gonna be awkward, my pal.
I can punch you with my miiiiind.
I go quiet when I’m nervous. I think we’ll get along just fine.
With every silent response to my ramblings I’ll panic and start speaking faster and faster, convinced that you hate me. XD
Feel the need to bring this out of retirement too so you remember how awkward and terrible my voice is. D:
Doofus.
^^ who’s that handsome fella?
Howyoudoin? 😉
What language is that you’re speaking?
Edit: damnit, I think this is the joke I made the last time I saw this video. #NewMaterialPls
So I asked my mate how his day was going.. he replied
“crashed my motorbike in the wet and got stuck in cast iron park bench.. so i poured petrol all over it and made a petrol fuse from 20 metres back then lit it with my gun. Nice big explosion in the rain.. waited for the cops to come and led them on a chase down to the beach.. bogged the sedan i stole to get there and got in a combi van i found which wouldnt start”
“Sounds like a fun day” I said.. “How’s your GTA5 progress going?” :p
*laugh track*
*strums guitar*
*sees @strange glaring at me*
*puts down guitar and backs away slowly*
@strange, what are you doing in @dc’s room? Does Mr Strange know where you are?
I got a hankering to play some rock band lately.. no idea why just all of a sudden.. haven’t really played any since LittleJJ left. Guess it’s just not as appealing alone.. think I might have to give it a whirl though.
I’ve long thought I should pick up a plastic instrument + game from cashies for the hell of it. Must be a few floating around.
What console? If you’re on PS3, I’ve got a Guitar Hero controller that I have no need for.
Thanks for the offer, but it’s not more than an idle thought at this point- I’ll have a look around first.
Sounds like we need another @strange meat! I think that was the last time we played some Rock Band.
Should’ve been at Can’d Meat. @rize and I pretty much played it all night.
Except Hysteria…
Man, I still can’t figure that one out!
Been meaning to redownload it heh.
Was clearly not playing the C chord properly.
Something something G-String, innuendo something something
I’m too tired to come up with something, but someone definitely should
Your strumming the wrong g string? Wait now I know why they say you should pick the cords because that would probably feel better than strumming one
Snapped his G string while fingering A-minor? D:
Capitalization & hyphenation have never been more important.
At least there aren’t any F-holes on a guitar.
Clearly you haven’t met many guitarists.
Nobody said anything about A-holes.
Inyourendo
Nailed it!
Fingering A-minor, Playing G-string, busted my guitar’s nut.
the last one there is an actual part on a guitar.
EDIT: Neg-0 beat me to the punch.
Fingering a major, but there was general upset.
#InTheArmy#InTheNavy!I regret making this comment because of all the replies.
I’m sorry, everyone.
I get the reference you were going for! The just don’t understand the power of the C-Chord.
I can never seem to find the positioning to get the c chord
I regret nothingOk, maybe a little regret…so it appears to me that the crowd that will see jesus on a piece of toast really does exist…
find an odd shape in a shopfront of a game, (clearly supposed to represent light inside the building to give the black front some depth) and oMG GUYS ITS MISSINGNO!!!!!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/10/holy-crap-has-the-famous-glitch-missingno-returned-in-pokmon-x-y/
i mean what the hell???
i wasnt even going to waste my energy to reply to that article, so i thought id bitch about it here instead…
Glory to the hypnotoad!
One word. Hernandez.
Confirmed: Missingno is Jesus.
s’ok, I did it for you.
Not being a Pokeperson, I’m sure I won’t understand most of the replies.
On the subject of talking about articles outside of the actual articles… The ‘This generation’s best Final Fantasy games’ article brought up a point I totally want to smash into authors and game/movie/tv writers everywhere.
It was talking about The Last Story and mentioned that it features: Which, yeah. The near-universal proliferation of that trope bugs me. So hard.
Hollywood imprints on us from childhood onward some really great templates for falling in love (or more accurately, lust), but nothing about how to maturely and responsibly handle hitting the standard 3 month cooling off point, or broaching contentious, big, important subjects like kids or marriage or religion, or when love just isn’t enough to overcome a conflict in those big life priorities, leaving you to leave someone you do still actually love, or just what kind of compromises and sacrifices you have to make, and where that line is, how to keep things exciting, finding reasons to be with someone other than just being comfortable or terrified of loneliness, etc, etc, etc.
(Although no, we do NOT need to see any more Eat Pray Love style, “But I’m not haaaaaaaappy,” mid-life crisis shit.)
Love is complex, messy shit, yo! There is no such thing as, “And then they lived happily ever after,” and I’m pretty sure media force-feeding that lie into us is the reason for the staggeringly high divorce rate. Why aren’t more realistic relationships being portrayed? They can be cruel and ugly or heartbreakingly bittersweet, or even surprisingly uplifting and life-affirming, this is FERTILE GROUND, people! And better yet, folks with life experience will be able to RELATE to those types of sub-plots, even if it is with a frog-boy and a bunny-eared girl.
…End-rant. I dunno (and actually doubt) if The Last Story does justice to the idea, but I just really wanna see some REAL relationships in RPGs instead of ‘you’re cute and we had a moment when our eyes met, I guess I’ll offer you blind, suicidal/homicidal devotion for no real reason.’
There’s precious little of that kind of relationship complexity in any entertainment.
One reason why Californication feels so damn fresh when I watch it. It’s a really ingenious example of a complex TV relationship that doesn’t sacrifice the Hollywood gooey romantic core.
Actually, I can’t remember any specific examples, but it seemed kind of like Buffy/Angel hit some of those notes on occasion. Such as
very pointed sex-without-love, like when Wesley turned into a fucking badass, or when Buffy was using Spike. And the layer of complexity with Wesley where that abusive relationship actually did have a kind of twisted love to it.But yes, just… so, so rare.It’s almost as if these geek writers have no actual experience of how complicated things can get. And no, not facebook complicated which is apparently usually just short-hand for, “One of us isn’t as into the other one and are sleeping around,” or, “I’m seeing someone who doesn’t want to commit,” or, “Trying polygamy because it seemed hip and edgy.”
Geeks don’t know things about relationships? Say it ain’t so 😛
I think (at the risk of grossly generalising) it’s more the case that the relationships of geeks tend to be fairly standard, safe, conventional ones, without any of these fucked up complications. So they rely on their experience of popular media to inform their writing when it comes to penning scripts, and the bitter cycle continues.
Lost count of the number of friends from high school and uni who basically didn’t play the field as much as they really wanted to, met a strong-willed woman who made the decision that ‘he’ll do’, then commenced the process of long-term-relationship courting which basically involved hosting parties, going camping, meeting parents, getting a pet, having kids, going to markets on weekends, having dinner parties with other couples, joining a book club, converting them to drinking tea, and buying their clothes for them.
So it’s not like complication is all that common… but I have no doubt whatsoever that there are undercurrents in those relationships. Private, unspoken, maybe even unacknowledged and unaddressed.
Fictionalising those undercurrents is a desperately difficult thing to do, because in and of themselves they aren’t dramatic. Events are dramatic. Strong feelings are dramatic. Even existential emptiness can be dramatic if handled right.
But a vague sense of unease, and a mild curiosity about the untaken paths of life… that’s very difficult to dramatise, unless you simplify it by introducing some external crisis as an obvious metaphor.
Not to say it hasn’t been done, and even quite well. American Beauty, I suppose, would be one particularly good example of such an internal crisis manifesting dramatically. Gilmore Girls (believe it or not) actually did this quite well with the Luke/Lorelai relationship, and actually managed to keep the unspoken issues unspoken even during their break-up. Knocked Up touched on these undercurrents (albeit very simplistically).
But none of these feel like spot-on examples.
This is the kind of thing that’s much easier to represent in prose, because you can tell it straight. You don’t have to show it visually to an audience.
Same reason they go for over the top theatrics when showing stuff like OCD too. Can’t show what’s in a characters head so they over compensate with the what you can see stuff…
@shane – I think that’s why they get relegated to soaps only. They’re complicated, so they take up writing time. But in that medium, they also get hyper-dramaticized. That’s why I think their natural home should really be the RPG, or other stories where there is actually something else going on as the primary focus, but we have believable, human, messy relationships running in the background. It’s probably just too much writing, but I know a lot of anime run ‘filler’ episodes in between major battle arcs, and they’d probably do just as well or better spending that time handling the human impact of the insane shit they get up to.
Not all us geeks have your natural talent for having chicks hanging off them all over the place and coworkers trying to set them up. 🙂
Love? Love is for the living!
You seem to get that much more in the soapy style dramas. Things like Offspring cover that much more than other genres.
Generally you won’t get that in the movies, the happy ending is where the story stops. Or there is already trouble and either played for laughs or maybe as a redemption play. But the major points you make (cooling off, religion, disagreements, changes in looks and interests) are very rarely covered.
As of today it’s a month until my wedding!! 😮
Shocking that someone is actually marrying me, as it is, but she still has time to opt out.
And *I* still have time for a one-off fling with that dreamy @markserrels
This still makes me laugh more then it should
hahah that’s pretty good… buuut… THIS!
SNACKTAKU – Caramel Slice
All throughout the morning I was craving a caramel slice. Lunchtime hits and I go about my normal break, all throughout still craving a caramel slice. After lunch, I made a beeline for a cafe thingo I spotted in the shopping centre. Surely they would have a caramel slice! No caramel slice. Fine, obviously they don’t want my business. I’ll go to the other little cafe thingo. Hooray, they have a caramel slice! A caramel slice was promptly bought and taken back to the office and amongst drooling stares and jealous glances of coworkers, took a bite. First impression: oh no, they gave me a coconut slice instead! Wait, no, that’s clearly caramel. Why can’t I taste it? Oh, it’s because the crumb on the bottom is twice the thickness of the actual caramel, the star of the caramel slice. Second impression: you know, the coconut isn’t so bad. I’ll just eat it from the bottom-up and save the caramel for last! What a brilliant and messy plan.
Verdict: 8.7 out of 23 and a half Shiggys. Should’ve just bought from Coles.
Ugh, that’s a wrong caramel slice. WRONG.
That little cafe thingo that I don’t know the name of is never getting my business again! What a waste of $4! This is literally the worst thing that has happened in Australia this week!
What’s that on the superior Bish measurement system?
I believe it is roughly 23 out of 10.4 Bish’s, but the exchange rate fluctuates a lot.
Today I dropped some popcorn on the ground but then I picked it up and ate it.
Ladies and Gentlemen. Your hero and mine.
*genteel applause*
(Edit for ladies. Cos we have some. But just gents on its own sounded more posh and gratuitous an affectation in my head.)
@sughly?
No, @bish has an iron stomach.
Guy brought in a watch with a 2gb USB stick built into the band.
You could say it was pretty flash…
Back to page six with you.
You could. You wouldn’t though.
He wouldn’t dare! >:|
I would.
It was pretty flash.
Watch yourself.
Went into EB to ask about the Arkham City Definitive Edition I’d preordered. Apparently I’ll be getting mine, the store I ordered from got 3, and mine is one of them. So if you ordered it, I’d check with your store whether yours is there or not.
I got a text message personally addressed to me saying I wasn’t getting it. Apparently @platinumurchin did as well.
Lame 🙁
Edit: The EB guy said 99% of their Definitive Edition stock is delayed and should arrive next week.
I’ve never played any sportsball game ever. The other day (week, month, they all kind of bleed together at the moment), I decided that I might try one out to see what the fuss is about. Madden seemed like the obvious choice because it’s about the only sportsball that I don’t like and it’s pretty much the biggest sportsball title.
A quick Google search told me that Madden 25 is coming out in November. Perfect. I can wait a while and pick it up.
Turns out the PS4 and XBone version is coming out in November. The game came out on current gen platforms in August.
That’s how much attention I pay to these sorts of things.
Go team go!
I’ll probably pick it up later this week.
Will this be the next Journey? Only time will tell! 😛
24 – 32 – CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP!
Up until the word ‘Madden’, I thought you were going to try REAL sportsball!
Surprisingly, I was non-terrible at tennis as a kid. Played a little basketball with friends too. Mainly I played cards though :p
I was decidedly below-average at tennis as a kid. But I think it was because I was younger when I was doing it and didn’t have the patience for such long matches in the beating sun. Did much better at soccer, was absolutely hopeless at basketball, but it didn’t seem too bad because everyone else was pants as well. Ended up most enjoying the ones I was good at (doesn’t everyone?) which were basically running, swimming, and rowing. (In reverse of order of how quickly I dropped them after leaving home.)
…I need to get back into sportsball. By which I mean rowing. So… no ball. And barely sport.
Madden is usually pretty polished. Personally I’d go for FIFA as a sportsball jumping point, but that’s really a personal preference.
Also, apparently next-gen Madden 25 doesn’t look too great, so you’re probably not missing much there.
I’m not rushing into the next gen anyhow. Just got confused with the dates.
Well from all accounts the current gen Madden 25 is perfectly fine. The only complaint I’ve really seen is that it’s not much of an improvement on Madden 13, but that’s hardly an issue for you.
This is more an experiment to see what the fuss is about and how welcoming they are to people completely ignorant of the sport.
I understand every other sport that gets an annual EA sports title. Madden seems like the only real option.
Fair enough. Then Madden is probably the best choice. Those games are really the only reason I have any idea how American football works. From memory, they’re pretty easy to get into, there’s an option to just have the game pick the best play each time which is super handy until you get a grasp on things.
The general impression I got (I don’t do sportsball games) is that Madden is a dried up old husk that stopped doing anything particularly new and interesting about five years ago when they tore the testes off their competition by signing an exclusivity deal with the NFL.
FIFA is the sportsball game franchise that generally improves every year and is the better one to look at.
But Soccer makes sense.
as the brother of a person who buys FIFA every year, there isn’t much change in fifa games….
i think the biggest change in a while was in FIFA 10, where they finally switched to 360 degree movement.
Sega Soccer Slam. Best sportsball game.
I prefer Mario strikers on the Wii. That game was awesome!
Haven’t played it yet, though I think my friends tended to much prefer the Cube one over Strikers. Maybe.
I’m seriously considering taking all my games into EB Games tomorrow to trade them in. I asked friends on Facebook if they were interested, and apart from one possible sale that fell through, I didn’t have any interest. I have about 45 games, so I’m not sure whether it’s worth it or not. Any advice would be appreciated.
TAYswap/lend!
Or list them here.
Disclaimer: I am quite cynical about trade-in deals. You won’t be getting much for your buck…
Edit: Even the Kudos prize you got if you gave them away here might be worth more than the trade-in value 😛
Edit 2: alternative: http://gamerdungeon.com.au/index.php?/forum/15-trading-forum/ This place isn’t tooooo bad
As a former EB Games employee I can tell you the trade in prices are rubbish.
Expect at most half of what the current sell price is for PO. Even less depending on the age of the game.
If the game has ever been part of a console deal expect to get close to nothing for it as I can guarantee they have about 100 copies in the store room.
I was a trader before I moved to PC gaming and it only really benefits people who trade regularly (ie: buy new game, finish new game, trade new game in for newer game)
Also, depending on your state will depend on if you can get cash for them. In Victoria you can, but NSW will be store credit only. Cash is also 10% less.
EDIT: Ah, reply fail. Oh well, here’s some info for you Shane!
Thanks man! Much appreciated! 🙂
Do you play any of them ever? If not, then they’re worth nothing to you and anything you get is profit.
Edit: I should add, this is from a guy who gives away handhelds for free because I’m not using them, so take that as you will.
I don’t play any of them because my PS3 died in January, and I’m not sure I want to replace it.
Not sure but pretty confident you’d probably get better re-sale value on ebay. EB’s liable to give you eighty bucks for the lot.
EB’s likely to only give you store credit. Got a list of the games? TAY may be of assistance.
Incoming wall of text/list of games:
Assassin’s Creed 2, Assassin’s Creed:Brotherhood, Band Hero, The Beatles: Rock Band,Bioshock 2, Brutal Legend, Blazblue Continuum Shift Extend, Final Fantasy XIII,
FIFA 12, FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa, Fritz Chess, Gran Turismo 5, Guitar Hero III,
Guitar Hero Aerosmith, Guitar Hero World Tour, Guitar Hero Metallica, Guitar Hero 5,
Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock, Lego Rock Band, Lego Star Wars Complete Saga,
Little Big Planet 2, Marvel V Capcom 3, Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect 3, Midnight Club LA Complete,
Mirror’s Edge, NBA Live 10, NBA Jam, NBA 2K12, Orange Box, Playstation All Stars Battle Royale,
Ratchet and Clank Trilogy, Red Faction Guerilla, Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare,
Rise of the Argonauts, Rock Band, Rock Band 3, RUSE, Rugby World Cup 2011, Skate 2,
Skate 3, Shaun White Snowboarding, Street Fighter X Tekken, Skyrim, Tomb Raider Underworld
Platforms? Some of them are obvious but the rest not so much…
I think they’d all be PS3, given the reason for sale is a dead console.
All PS3.
Excellent. Now we can judge you on your
terrible(actually pretty good really…) taste in games.@trjn
Sportsball \o/
How much do you want for Skyrim and SF x Tekken?
Make an offer. Vanilla Skyrim and SF X Tekken has had all codes used.
I dunno- $40-50 for the two?
$40 will do. DM me your deets on Twitter and I can post them tomorrow.
Done
Whack them up here, and I’m sure you’ll find some buyers.
The reason I hadn’t done that before was that I was trying to avoid a bit of mucking around.
Yes, what @shane and @negativezero said! Ask TAY. TAY knows/helps all. TAY is wise.
Actually, on that note, I have more game keys to give away, someone remind me to look that up later tonight!
Hey @transientmind, don’t forget to look up those keys you’re going to give away later tonight,
It is afternoon, not night!
Oh! You meant someone to remind you later tonight to do it, not for someone to remind you now to remind you to do it later tonight. Got it!
It’s night somewhere.
http://collider.com/sarah-silverman-susan-313/
Sarah Silverman pilot that didn’t get picked up. Actually pretty damn good. Just don’t get too attached.
whenever i hear about failed pilots, i always think of Lookwell, a great pilot from the 90’s written by Conan O’brien and starring Adam West as an aging actor who once played a detective, and thus now thinks he can be a detective in real life, super funny.
Heat Vision and Jack!
*mental note to watch yours later*
well, i was going to write about heat vision and jack, but i thought i’d be talking too much, thank you for putting that up!
I KNOW EVERYTHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!!!!
Based on concept alone that should have spawned several seasons.
Reminds me of that Batman Animated Series episode with Adam West. The Gray Ghost I believe?
While thinking of what to do with my games, I’ve had Spotify Radio going. Hasn’t picked a bad song yet.
I love Spotify. I have a playlist that I listen to at work that I just add songs to. It’s a strange mix.
Well worth the $12 a month.
Hot steak! Lucky. I’ve gradually dropped off out of using Pandora, but I had to continually slap it on the wrists. No! Bad radio. Naughty. Stop that.
…Then I just used it to look up the albums of artists it recommended to me that I hadn’t heard but liked. (Like Five Finger Death Punch, woo!)
there is something seriously disturbing about an 8 year old boy being taught O-powers inside a hotel room right at the back of a hotel by an old guy named “Mr. Bonding”.
his excited tone is even more worrying… surely this crap is intentional right?!??
Pokemon as a whole is kind of disturbing when you start thinking about it.
Going to write my submission to the police tonight. Been told this is my last chance. If I fuck this up that’s it, I can’t reapply ever again. Anyone got any advice?
Looking in your direction @redartifice and @transientmind.
This infuriates me. How such a good guy can have so many hurdles. 🙁
Sincerely hope every thing goes your way, my friend!
I think the thing that’s bothering me the most about it is before I had a definite plan. Was either getting into the police or if that fell through buy a franchise of Minit.
Now I’m facing neither being an option and have no idea what to do with my life.
You could still buy a franchise. Then you’d be a boss as well. And better… a competitor. You’d get a good opportunity to show that asshole up.
You but the franchise and you’re still beholden to Minit rules and inspections. Chunk of your money goes to them every week. Benefits them more than you.
Which exactly why they want me to stay as no one else can run this store like I do and it’s most profitable for them for me to buy this store.
I’m happy to look over anything you put together. Just let me know.
For letter writing?
To whom it may concern.
I am writing in reference to application number ####
Following my initial application, I became aware that the referee that I had provided from my current employer was poorly suited to the task, as Don’t call him an idiot, but imply that he’s misinformed
To supplement the previous referee reports, I have attached two additional personal references. These referees can be contacted via details
Thankyou for providing me with the opportunity for clarification.
Yours sincerely,
Uncle Freeze.
Also, happy to review the final letter, send it to red_artifice at the mails that are akin to a summer’s day.
Uh.. Are your summer days filled with males who could only be described as hot?
Yes.
(I like this, but in the part referring to the referree I’d maybe indicate surprise – which is important because you had so far received positive feedback in performance reviews.)
Red’s advice: so much better. 🙂 I still think getting clarification on what they want is important. This is nice and concise. Succinct. But I think they might be looking for a little more. I’m guessing these guys usually want to know about any particular ‘story’ or ‘incident’ behind this bad review, the surprise of it all AND the request from the employer for @freezespreston to stay on after an unsuccessful application? I think it’s worth a mention.
If you need to expand or offset the manager bollocks, I’d definitely point to your employee record if you have one, and the perplexed act is good.
I know if you’ve got some other references it might be weird, but if there’s anyone else from Mister Minit that can provide you a reference or some information on a letterhead such as HR or etc. you’d be ahead. Not to disparage the fine references people wrote you, but employer letterhead is usually >> personal referee. At least for jobs, it may be a little different for po-lice.
OH. And attendance records. Combat the ‘lazy’ accusation.
I have a bunch of references from co-workers but not on official letter heads. Head Office didn’t even know anything about what was said or why or even who I was but have told me in no uncertain terms they would back up whatever my area manager said.
Hoping the references from people who work with me every day and know exactly how I operate will be sufficient to counter a guy who sees me once a month.
c*@#s. Doesn’t matter, you’re not looking for a reference from HR, you’re looking for statistics, metrics, measurable data. If what the area manager said doesn’t match the data, that’s their problem. (And you could make it their problem in a defamation suit.)
The biggest problem with my company is even if you’re completely in the right and the customer doesn’t have a leg to stand on they give a black mark next to your name. Ie: the amount of people I et coming in with watches without a warranty card, receipt or even one of our batteries in the watch claiming they got it done here a few months ago and want their money back is astounding. I say no sorry can’t help as it’s blinding obvious when another companies name is on the batteries but they call head office who without question orders me to refund/do the watch free and adds a customer complaint to my file. It’s ridiculous and humiliating but that’s how they operate. Won’t back up staff under any circumstance.
That’s awful about the head office.
I’m sure a couple of good references, especially if you tackle the bull by the horns and address the negative one, will counteract it.
Out of interest, have you had any more illumination on why you got the bad one other than the guy being a dick? He knew it was coming so why did he try to fuck you over?
Not to be cynical but the fact that I expressed interest in franchising in his area if I didn’t get in and Area Managers get a $10 000 bonus if someone franchises through them in their areas is there.
Greed is a powerful motivator. And he’s ducked everything since?
What a jerk.
That’s worth a mention. That’s very much worth a mention. Mention that. No, seriously. People have done far worse things than give a bad reference for $10,000.
Thanks for the vote of confidence, but I got no experience here and don’t want to give you any false sense of authority with my advice. I don’t do hiring, I’ve not been on that side of the desk.
But here’s my thoughts:
Experience telling me it’s probably worth asking the police candidly what they’re looking for in this submission so you don’t run too long, miss the point, or fail to address what they’re actually after. It’s not so much, “Tell me what you want and I’ll do it!” as much as, “How do I avoid wasting everyone’s time here and get to the guts of what YOU want?” Or, in HR language: “What are the criteria you’re looking for? Which key issues do you want to see addressed?”
I’m happy to write a personal reference as well as what the other TAYbies sent, if the cops say more will help (also worth asking about), and while I can’t write a professional one I can certainly try to emphasize traits which will likely/obviously cross over, which is where they are probably looking.
All I can reinforce is to be dispassionate, neutral, let the facts speak for themselves. I know it’s probably tempting or might seem virtuous to ignore the issue of the bad reference, but I don’t think it’ll do you any favours. I think it probably deserves at least a mention, even if it is only one of disbelief or confusion, saying why this seems contradictory to your employer’s reviews of your performance both before and after; it was a shock to you because your feedback so far has been mostly (if not universally – you don’t deny the existence of customer complaints, but anyone with experience knows they happen more in retail/service industries than elsewhere) positive. It’s not ‘he said/she said’, it’s addressing a very relevant point that obviously has their attention.
Quick suggestion is that I’m guessing Mr Minit is large enough to have a HR department: ask them for statistics or performance reviews. Many larger corporations make a mission of having that stuff available, but I don’t think it’s a legal requirement. Customer compliments, secret shopper results, awards, any measurable performance indicators. Try to do it in writing then follow-up and escalate with a phone call. You want that written record in case they try to impede you; it’ll be useful in any dispute with Fair Work, later.
It’s all I can think of. Happy to proof-read, it’s my username at gmail. I’m sure @shane would probably be keen too, and I dunno who else might do that sort of thing professionally.
***
Try to avoid stressing. (Yeah, I know.)
If these guys handle the number of applications I think they do, there’s a good chance they’ve seen it all. Employer references carry a lot of weight, but I have no doubt they’ve seen their fair share of vindictive, selfish, and dishonest employers as well, and they should be open to this possibility. What I’m getting at is… don’t let any defeatist feelings in on this, it’s probably a real shot and not just a formality.
That point about metrics is a good one. If you can paint your previous reference as anomalous it’s definitely good, but don’t try to sound too “whiny”- acknowledge, address, and supplement.
I agree with this advice. The reference can’t be ignored. If you don’t bring up your side of the issue (with the requisite tact of course), it becomes a case of “he said, no one argued.”
http://www.blastr.com/2013-10-22/abrams-almost-human-delivers-fringes-sense-humor-new-trailer
New Almost Human trailer, the FOX show by the Fringe show runner.
Looks kind of cool.
I’m still waiting for the adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis’ Powers.
You know what I’m super hype for? True Detective. Matthew McConaughey is going through a bit of a career redemption at the moment.
Yeah! I agree, doing what Clooney did a few years back and that’s served him well. Plus HBO!
Village cinemas gift vouchers and their online booking system are retarded :l
Listening to The Last of Us OST. So, so good. Probably my favourite game soundtrack in a long while.
Also just remembered there’s story based DLC for this game soon. I can’t wait. 😀
Do you know if it’s set during or after? I kinda hate ‘during’ DLC which makes me go and replay. Even if the ending was… ‘conclusive’, like Mass Effect 3.
From what I hear it’s separate from the main story. Not sure when it takes place, but you won’t be playing as Joel and Ellie.
That sounds right up my alley!
I really should play that game.
You should! I recommended it to @sernobulus and he loved it. 😛
*starts writing @dc’s name on list*
*pencil snaps in half*
So should I.
Oh who am I kidding, I don’t play games.
Do you want it..?
Slate’s full atm. I’ll grab my own copy later
The @ontargett Epic Games Sale
Prices negotiable. Beat EB’s trade in price, and you might have a deal! Contact ontargett direct and make an offer!
All games are PS3! (I’d be all over some of that shizz if it was 360. Oh well)
Assassin’s Creed 2
Assassin’s Creed:Brotherhood
Band Hero
The Beatles: Rock Band
Bioshock 2
Brutal Legend
Blazblue Continuum Shift Extend
Final Fantasy XIII
FIFA 12
FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa
Fritz Chess, Gran Turismo 5
Guitar Hero III
Guitar Hero Aerosmith
Guitar Hero World Tour
Guitar Hero Metallica
Guitar Hero 5
Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock
Lego Rock Band
Lego Star Wars Complete Saga
Little Big Planet 2
Marvel V Capcom 3
Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect 3
Midnight Club LA Complete
Mirror’s Edge
NBA Live 10
NBA Jam
NBA 2K12
Orange Box
Playstation All Stars Battle Royale
Ratchet and Clank Trilogy
Red Faction Guerilla
Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare
Rise of the Argonauts
Rock Band
Rock Band 3
RUSE
Rugby World Cup 2011
Skate 2
Skate 3
Shaun White Snowboarding
Street Fighter X Tekken
Skyrim
Tomb Raider Underworld
Wait… you’re not ontargett!
*pulls of mask*
It’s Old Man @Shane!
He would’ve gotten away with it too if it wasn’t for you meddling kids!
Jinkies!
Well, it was nice to see the PAX AU account respond to a few tweets about accommodation difficulties the weekend before Melbourne cup – they’ve made special arrangements with Oaks in the city for stuff to be set aside at a special rate for PAX attendees.
http://conferences.ozaccom.com.au/2014/pax14/index.aspx
I noticed they had PAX rates on accommodation on their site this year, too… But if it’s anything like this year, that shit is going to be sold out ASAP.
*logs in to property backend*
Hmm, few left.
I wonder what Crown has…
There will be more hotels added to that soon. We’ve got a bunch of clients setting up rooms/deals for it too.
My mate’s wife is a travel agent, so we’ve already got her searching for us!
$200??? Wow, fuck me. 3 nights is $600, return flights are probably $400. Or more, considering some other event is supposedly on at the same time so we’ll be price gouged for sure.
I dunno, $1500-2000 for a weekend? Seems pretty steep.
Got compared to Joseph Fiennes’ Merlin, from Camelot. Watched a couple clips on youtube.
THIS DOES NOT SEEM TO BE A COMPLIMENT. That man looks ruthless and unstable.
Isn’t that what the ladies want now? An unstable Christian Grey type?
I already have a lady, I don’t need any more! Wait. Hmmmm.
What’s the cheapest prices you guys have seen for Arkham Origins for PC. Uni friend is asking around!
Uhh, I bought it for… $37.50, I think? That was off G2play (dodgy russian CD key site), and using a 7% off coupon.
That seems a little shifty. Not sure I’d feel comfortable recommending them that. XD
ive done it heaps of times… you just gotta be able to distinguish the legitimate ones from the frauds… thats usually a dead giveaway… also you need to confirmthat your not buying a special russian version that needs to be activated over vpn then language patched… they alwys tell you though.
this one is legit and not russian…
http://www.cdkeysdirect.com/products/Batman-Arkham-Origins-Steam-Cdkey.html $33
http://www.cjs-cdkeys.com/products/Batman:-Arkham-Origins-Steam-CD-Key.html $42
I actually think Steam/GMG (Steamworks game but GMG throws vouchers around all the time) is the cheapest at the moment. There’s probably some CD key sites you can buy it off, but I got burnt by my usual place about 6 months back so now only buy keys from Ozgameshop (who have it for $53)
EDIT: And for those not picking up the PC version or CE, the console versions are $58 in the new Big W catalogue according to Ozbargain.
Wonder why they’re pricing it lower than most AAA games. Hope it doesn’t reflect a lack of confidence in the final product, given that it’s not by the usual developer…
I just picked it up on Steam, it was $53 AUD I think. $50 USD.
First @dc reverts, now we’ve lost @shane too.
What is this nonsense, there’s still another week to go!
I think we started too early. Was more fun in Halloween week last year. XD
This is exactly what I was gonna say. I lost all enthusiasm for it.
Kind of like starting Christmas on October 1st
*shakes fist at shopping malls everywhere*
I might just change mine to something different for some variety. 🙂
Pfft, I’ll just keep mine the same until someone complains. 😀
2 games down, 44 to go. Thanks @redartifice.
No, thankyou!
Three packets of easy mac may have been a little ambitious. *comatose*
I like to take a packet or two and then add extra ingredients like chopped bacon, tomato and extra cheese.
This is the first time I’ve tackled 3. i normally do two, and it’s just right. Don’t feel overly full or anything. I like the extra ingredients idea. Will attempt instead of a third packet next time.
Friend pointed me to news report that NSW landlords are raising rents to capitalize on the number of new tenants due to bushfires.
This is not a good week for my temper. I’m honestly surprised that we don’t have more vigilantes running around if there are people out there who actually keep up to date with the news and hear this kind of shit all the time.
Yeah its messed up. Makes me angry too. Some politicians are using is to blame other pliticians policies and stuff.
Typical human nature, nothing really surprising. Just like the rent and literally every-fucking-thing here is more expensive because of the mining industry. 🙁
Ah! Can’t stop playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution even though the Director’s Cut is out in days. D:
How dare you?
I’m sorry. D=
Just do a run that’s the opposite of the type you’re doing now? Like… make your current game a swift and murderous one, and the director’s cut a slow and stealthy pacifist run?
My OCD requires that I replay the a game in the exact same way I played it the first time.
YOU SHOULD BE PLAYING WIND WAKER
I don’t want no excuses.
Unless the excuse is DARK. SOULS.
You will be pleased to hear my xbox controller is getting delivered tomorrow. I can start Dark Souls over the weekend… and thus ends all hints of productivity
But… I don’t like it.
Man, I love Jet Set Radio future so much.
I should make more Jet Set Radio future art, but for some reason I never do it =(
Edit: Not Jest
Jet Force Gemini.
@gorzilla and I played that. We laughed at the crawl.
That was one game I didn’t expect to have jiggle physics.
It does.
I wish they’d done JSRF HD instead of the original game. The original was a stupidly difficult, fairly unfun tech demo / proof of concept, JSRF is where they made it into something that was actually good.
Yeah, hopefully they release it on steam eventually
Yeah. I bought JSR HD in the hopes of having some fun but I got frustrated with the tutorial. I palyed it on Dreamcast and I was alright once I got going, but JSRF was a much more accessible/pick up and play game that focused on speed and tricks.
I still have my old Xbox version (on the combo disc with Sega GT) which is backwards compatible with 360 so I can still play it, but I want a HD port!
Actually that reminds me, did you know that Hideki Naganuma finally admitted that he was behind the group ‘skankfunk’ that did the soundtrack for the anime Air Gear, which sounded exactly like JSR stuff? Or at least, he admitted that skankfunk is ‘a guy that lives with him’ :V
He’s got a channel on youtube that posts his stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/user/mojahoihoi?feature=watch
Seems like he’s using the name Skankfunk for his more electronic stuff, eg:
(removed to get out of moderation hell)
He’s still got it. Why is he not on more soundtracks? 🙁
EDIT: There’s some cool stuff on that youtube channel btw. Like some of his old stuff from Sega Rally, a remix of a track he did for a solo album from MIKI, the singer from Guitar Vader, his Sonic Rush stuff, lots of Yakuza bits and pieces…
The URL I linked second before editing and sending my post to moderation was this:
Peanuts! Popcorn! Ice Cold Drinks!
Man, Gizmodo has so many old stories stickied up the top of the front page lately that I can hardly ever tell if there’s just been no new articles or not. And half the time they seem to replace them with even older ones.
Listened to the Gone Home audio commentary that was patched in today. Interesting stuff!
@transientmind: Something something game keys something night something.
…
*moseys off*
Ah, yes! Well done sir, thankee. 🙂
BOARD GAMES
ADVENTURE GAMES
Just games in general!
3DS + Pokemon Y get!
Thanks again @cakesmith!
Friend code is Redartific 1650-2316-8634
Added. Mine is 4382-2002-0614.
Retardific? Dude, knock it off. You’re just baiting me now.
5198-3369-2904
Eh, why change now.
Will add you presently!
3DSBROS! \o/
Added you.
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I am not good enough to add now? D=
You certainly were 🙂
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Added. mine is 0576-4656-9696
Just got back from seeing Gravity! Was really good. It was pretty tense, a little more action-y than I thought it would be, and it ended the opposite way in which I wanted it to, but that’s just me 😛
Omg cinemas though. This couple came in and spent five minutes looking for seats with the perfect viewing angle, perfect vibe, and perfect audio positioning. Fuck it was weird. The perfect spot was directly behind us, of course. That and this group of girls came in and out of all the places came and sat right next to Oliver and I. We were on a (man)date guys, leave us alone D:
You guys don’t do allocated seating in Tas? How was the Italian place? Romantic? 😛
Ahahaha not in the slightest 😛 We basically went in, ate and left. We went and sat somewhere else and just talked and shit for an hour cos we didn’t want to stay there any longer. That’s not a bad thing though, I don’t think the aim was to actually have a romantic dinner!
And nah, no allocated seating at village cinemas here. I think gold class does but we didn’t wanna pay like double for that.
It took an hour to shit?
Yes
:l This is the maturity level of one of my friends, and the shit I have to put up with…
http://i.imgur.com/8lHDmAM.png
Why does a HD remix or reboot or whatever of the Strike games (Desert Strike, Jungle Strike etc.) not exist? 🙁
Or Ultimate Air Combat for the NES which had both an afterburner-style cockpit dogfighting part AND a desert strike part!
I believe I’ve lamented this fact on here before.
Seems like something you could probably knock together with a small team as a $15-20 downloadable title too.
To my mind, the Windows 95 game ‘Return Fire’ was a bit of a look-in at what kind of direction a re-make might take. While not the same, it scratched many of the same itches.
The last people to touch it were EA Tiburon (Nuclear Strike) and nowadays EA has them doing Madden and NBA Live 🙁 But the series pretty much lost its way after Urban Strike, the 16-bit games just felt better. Didn’t transition to 3D very well.
Which is another reason I reckon a small team downloadable game would work really well. Keep it sprite-based, but with modern graphics tech.
OK! Keys! I did not get rid of all my keys before. So here is some up for grabs, lemme know:
Battlefield 3 (Origin)
Breath of Death VII (Steam)
Burnout Paradise: Ultimate Box (Origin)
Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising (Steam & Origin)
Crysis 2: Maximum Edition (Steam & Origin)
Dead Space (Steam & Origin)
Frozen Synapse (Steam)
Medal of Honor (Steam & Origin)
Mirror’s Edge (Steam x2 & Origin)
Natural Selection 2 (Steam)
Nuclear Dawn (Steam)
The Ship (Steam)
The Sims 3 (Base game, High End Loft Stuff, Late Night, Date Night – Origin/EA site)
Keeeeeeeys. Say whatcha want.
Oh darn, I always forget something.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent (Steam)
Red Alert could be fun! Can’t remember if I ever played 3 or not. I remember being hella addicted to 2 though. Nightly battles with the wife.. ahh the good ol days
You want the Steam or Origin version?
Purchased too many Humble Bundles?
YES. I’m not purchasing the current one or the last one even, there’s too much stuff I already have.
I just got Crusader Kings II and The showdown effect from the Indie gala if anybody is interested. Both steam keys
Consider me interested in Crusader Kings II.
ooh wouldnt mind trying Natural Selection 2
Is Red Alert 3 Uprising on Steam a standalone, or do you need the base game?
I… honestly don’t know. I’ll check the store page tonight.
http://www.siliconera.com/2013/10/23/bravely-default-collectors-edition-revealed-europe-includes-figurine/
This looks awesome.
Europe’s been getting crazy with the collector’s editions lately.
Shame they don’t filter through to Aus, might’ve been more inclined to purchase some of the games otherwise.
@DC @sughly @bdkiaf @anyone who wants to indulge me in a music post
Firstly i will give you the bands im looking forward to seeing live at BDO
Grouplove
They are indie Rock group, their music is upbeat full of awesome hooks and a weirdly appealing vocalist. They realized a album a few weeks ago and its a good starting point best songs are “Way to go” and “borderlines and aliens”
DC likeability ratio:
y 3 out of 5
Naked and The Famous
These guys are really hit and miss for me but when they hit they hit really hard. The songs i like from them are anthems. Like a montage song to some really upifting shit. The singer and the synth just flow together so very well. “Young Blood” and “punching in a dream” are their best. Close your eyes and let them make you happy.
DC likability ratio: 2 out of 5
Flume
Best Australian producer in a long while and he is only a kid. Seriously talented dude. I am sure you wont like him but the stuff he makes is known for heavy drums, catchy vocal loops and very polished producing. Its pretty but i think you need to be a type of person who enjoys this sort of music. “holding on” and “sleepless” are two of his best.
DC likability Ratio 1 out of 5
Tame Impala
POST psychedelic group of guys. The tunes stay in your head for days and they personally transport me into someone who is a bit more simpler and doesnt worry much. its kind of fuzzy and wonderful. Best tracks are “Feels like we are only going backwards” and “solitude and bliss”
DC likability ratio : 4 out of 5
Now some stuff i think you should check out that i personally like
CHVRCHES-The mother we share
The Jezabels- The End
HAIM- The whole album seriously they are all good
Arctic Monkeys- Do i wanna know
Two door cinema club- Come back home ,actually the whole album “Tourist history” is great
Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Maps (you will like this)
Florence and the Machine- Listen to the album “ceremonials” from start to finish its a emotional journey and brillant
Passion Pit- Take a walk
Bat for Lashes- Laura ( sughly and I have a crush on this lady)
Grimes- Oblivion
crystal Castles- Not in Love ( LISTEN TO THIS .THIS IS PURELY THE BEST SNYTH YOU WILL FIND IF YOU DONT LIKE THIS THERE IS NO CONVERTING YOU)
Well there is a lot to take in but i urge you to try it. Broading my musical horizons from just whatever was on the radio to finding bands i love was one of the most fufilling things i have done. Have fun and tell me what you think.
Oh man! Thanks Rockets!
I know of Grouplove from the link @Sughly posted. (Everyone’s gonna get high!) Also, I know Naked and Famous from SSX. I’ll close my eyes and think of snowboarding. 😀
I was on the Arctic Monkeys bandwagon, but got off after Favourite Worst Nightmare. (Not because they were bad, just cause it reminded me of a very specific time in my life that I felt like I needed to put some distance between. That probably doesn’t make sense.) When I liked ’em though, I really liked ’em. Even saw them live. Got my ticket stub somewhere still. XD
I’ll investigate more thoroughly tomorrow!
I think that Grouplove song will probably remain your fave. Dont even know if they play it live though T_T Underground, their song from Frankenweenie, that would be one youd like too I think
That movies sitting on my DVR… waiting…
Florence and the machine does wonders for my ears.
Bat for Lashes is growing on me, though I only hear it on radio, which is *very* rare.
Flo Mo is a goddess. Easily one of the most incredible voices around today
edit: even when The Strokes followed her at Splendour, they were like ‘how do we follow that’. The freakin Strokes.
BDO is obviously all about Snoop Dogg aka Snoop Lion aka Snoopzilla. How did you miss that?
Nah, but srsly, there’s not a whole lot on BDO that I’d be hype for, and certainly not a lot I’d expect @dc to enjoy. The fact that my favourite band on the lineup is Northlane is a pretty good indicator of that.
Edit: Also, did you listen to that Saviour song, @rocketman? Here.
Because I have no work to do, here’s a list of things I think @dc would dig.
Arctic Monkeys
The new album is pretty top. Standout tracks are “Do I Wanna Know?”, “R U Mine?” and “Arabella”
Ben Folds
Ain’t no way you’ve never heard Ben Folds before. Can’t really go wrong with the Rockin’ the Suburbs album. Personal favourites are “Annie Waits” and “Zak and Sara”
Explosions In The Sky
Super atmospheric and emotional instrumental music. I’m almost 100% certain you’ll love it. Pick any album and listen from start to finish. The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place would be my album of choice.
Gotye
You’ve obviously heard “Somebody That I Used To Know” but check the rest of his stuff out. His first album is pretty special. “Heart’s A Mess” is probably the standout track.
HAIM
Like Rocketman said, every track is a winner. “Falling” and “Forever” are my favourites.
The Jezabels
Listen to “Mace Spray” and you’ll love them instantly.
Matt Corby
Any track. You’ve probably heard “Brother” if you’ve been near a radio in the last couple of years. “Souls A’Fire” is my personal pick.
Phoenix
The whole album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix is pretty special. “Lisztomania” is the standout track.
Regina Spektor
We’ve had this discussion already. Just go and listen to her.
Sufjan Stevens
The whole Illinoise album is fantastic. Just listen to it. I’m almost certain you’ll love it.
The Temper Trap
Conditions is a great album. “Sweet Disposition”. Enough said.
Speaking of Explosions in the sky, did you happen to hear of an Australian band called ‘Because of Ghosts’? I happened to hear them on a late night home and hosed kind of thing on triple j once and love them, theyre by far my favourite band of this kind of genre. They are on hiatus at the moment, which is super sad. This is the song that made me fall for them, has an incredible build – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQttr9PWgms
Also, that ep Jezabels did, the last one before the album with Mace spray on it… ergh, too good for words.
And also, I think this is a very DC friendly list indeed. Sufjan’s Illinoise is so so good. Phoenix’s ‘Its never been like that’ is also quite amazing.
Noooo.. The video won’t play at work 🙁
Boooo
So many edits!
I did try to pick the most DC friendly stuff from my collection. There are a whole lot more things I’d have put in if this were a list for someone like Rocketman.
Yah I just listed stuff I got recently. Truly wasnt for anyone in particular :3
My list for dc is ‘all the Radioheads’
Thanks buddy!
So tempted to make a list for noone in particular but myself, then I remember I’m lazy
Do it! I need new things to listen to.
Awww OK! Thats all the prodding I need to babble about musics too. Edit incoming.
Say Lou Lou – An australian/swedish twin duo that are making some special synth ballads. Album incoming December (I believe?). ‘Julian’ is one of my faves, but did a gorgeous cover of Tame impala’s ‘Feels like we only go backwards’MO – very talented lass, just put out an ep called ‘Bikini Daze’, but she had a few songs before that that were a little better. Standout is ‘Never wanna know’ from her ep, but ‘Glass’ is a rather funky pre ep song.
Haerts – just put out an ep called ‘Hemiplegia’, but they have a bunch of other songs they released before it. Favourite is probably ‘All the days’ off the ep.
The Preatures – a few ep’s floating around, their best is easily the latest ‘Is this how you feel?’. Standout is the title track. Met these guys at a little music shop show recently and they were lovely!
Lorde – yeah I joined that bandwagon. Really like ‘Team’.
Múm – just put out a new album, Smilewounds. Very Sigur Ros-ish (also an Icelandic band), but the mellow kind. Kind of like a cross between Sigur Ros and Four Tet. Opening track on the new album is great, ‘Toothwheels’.
Polica – new album is pretty great, Shulamith. Not as good as their first though. My fave is still an oldie, ‘Wandering star’. Ahhh so good. Even Bon Iver called them the most interesting band around, for good reason. He guests on the new one which is cool.
Portugal The Man – here’s a BDO band dc, but not sure youd like them. They have a new album theyll most likely play more of, which I like, but it’s no ‘Censored Colors’. ‘Colors’, ‘Salt’, both great songs. ‘Lay Me Back Down’. Argh, great album.
DIIV – another BDO band. Again, not sure if dc will like them 🙁 Favourite by far is ‘Doused’. I am hopeless at describing bands by genre, so… eh… I wont.
Alright I think thats plenty of ramble :/
I don’t think it’s possible to dislike Lorde. She’s pretty special. I’ll check the rest of the stuff out that I haven’t already heard.
Much obliged!
It should be noted I forgot people were recomending stuff to you and I got carried away just rambling new stuff instead ^^ there’s probably a lot you wont like. Forreals, you would be a fan of Radiohead. Whole discography of amazing music to catch up on there. The only band I’d put above Arcade Fire. Er, except Pablo Honey. Just skip that one. I’d say, start on OK Computer, I think it’s one of the most accessible, and my favourite. The Bends is too, but it’s got a very 90’s rock thing going on that’s aged not as well as OK C. In Rainbows is a good follow to that. Then Amnesiac is getting less accessible, more melacholic, mellow, skittish in parts. Hail to the Thief is kind of similar in that way actually, very dreamlike, with spasms of rock tempo in there (one of my fave albums). Then Kid A and King of Limbs, both a bit more experimental and jarring at first, but can just create the most surreal moods when they grow on you.
Ahhh just started Ok Computer, goddamn this is good.
Oh, yeah. I got they were general recommendations but appreciate them all the same!
You sir have quite a good taste in music.
Smashing Pumpkins Oceania in NYC blu ray is amazing.
Just thought you all should know.
Also, it’s currently raining heavily. 🙁
Why do you hate rain so much? You’re always shaking your fist at rain but I freakin’ love it.
Rain is atmospheric. Rain is cool and brings the temperature down. Rain smells good. Rain sounds good. Rain is awesome. I won’t stand for your rain bashing any longer. 😛
Rain gets my clothes wet and makes me smell like a dog.
So there’s that.
You and I are very different people. (I don’t go outside. :P)
Also, I like walking in the rain. 😀
It’s probably to do with my autism, :\
I panic and run for shelter immediately.
Edit: Felt like I over shared a bit here, so editing that out. 😀
*sigh*
Yes @dc it does shrink in the rain, happens to all of us, no need to edit that out
😛Classic DC, your such a big fan of Heavy Rain
rainymood.com – so pretty.
Opened up my 3XL to start checking out what’s what. Some tiny tiny contact points in there. Looks like I’ve got 6mm of clearance between the board and the case, and I’ve found some pogo pins that are 7mm long but look like I should maybe be able to clip some length off them. Hopefully. They’re pretty much the only option that seem to be around, everything else is like an inch long. Two weeks for them to arrive though, so gotta just hang around and wait in the meantime 😛
Friend Code?
None yet, won’t be doing much of anything with it til I’ve at least secured a restore-point backup first.
What are you trying to do?
Trying my hand at a NAND dump method that I’ve been reading about, mainly since the XL has open contacts for it on the back of the board so you can do it as a solderless/non-permanent thing if you get it right. The tricky part seems to be getting wires out so that you can connect it to a computer, so far most of the ones I’ve seen either put a hole in the case to use some kind of a connector or they have wires sticking through some of the smaller holes already in the case and just dealing with them being there otherwise. I’ve got an idea for one that does neither of those things, though will have to take another dive back inside to see if it’s possible. Otherwise I’ll have to figure something else out.
I think I need this.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004Z4GLCI
That’s so awesome, right up there with one of these:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/TAKARA-TOMY-TRANSFORMERS-MUSIC-LABEL-MP3-PLAYER-SOUNDWAVE-BLACK-CH-AQ1390-/181237246266?pt=AU_AnimationArt&hash=item2a3294e93a
Seriously hope my work makes a decision on that new position soon. And of course I hope they go with me! So sick of trying to live on $25 a fortnight :\ I wanna go to meats again! I wanna EAT meats again too! There’s only so much macaroni and bread one body can handle. Think I’ve just about reached my limit! I might turn in to macaroni soon!
So apparently there’s some new 3DS XL colours coming out in Japan.
http://i.imgur.com/ZynEMkx.png
http://i.imgur.com/X8Oz3PX.png
http://i.imgur.com/eFvGmmx.png
I sure as fuck hope they stay there, because I NEED that orange one. What I do not need, however, is regret.
Man, that orange one is slick. Ain’t nothing wrong with my current one, but I’d find it hard not to pick one up.
I hope the orange one doesn’t come here, my red XL might mysteriously break or something and I’ll be forced to buy one.
They both look amazing. Black body with coloured buttons? Yes please!
But also, yes, please don’t come here. I’ll have to give up videogames just to be able to afford all these 3DS’s 🙁
I’m worried about Arkham Origins now.
Not only did they take a long time to show any actual game footage but it turns out that they haven’t sent out any review copies. We’re not talking your typical embargo that conveniently ends on launch day. They’re not letting people review it until it’s out.
That’s a bad sign.
also really cheap for a AAA title?
Is it really? I don’t really pay attention to that sort of thing.
$58 at bigw
http://www.bigw.com.au//bigw/search/bigw_search_results_gallery.jsp?bmForm=search&bmFormID=k70AzX4&bmUID=k70AzX5&bmIsForm=true&bmPrevTemplate=%2Fentertainment%2Fvideo-games-consoles%2Fwii-u%2FWiiUGames%2FbpnBIGW_AID122754%2Fnintendo-wii-u-batman-arkham-origins-with-preorder-dlc.jsp&bmEditable=searchterm&bmHidden=searchterm&searchterm=batman%5Cu0020arkham%5Cu0020origins&bmHidden=searchSubmitted&searchSubmitted=true&bmText=searchInput&searchInput=&bmFields=bmFormID%2CbmHidden%2CbmIsForm%2CbmUID%2CbmForm%2CbmEditable%2CbmPrevTemplate%2CbmText&bmHash=76dc32acb8574d41d6c6e496838be6f93a23cb22
thats with the preorder dlc
I guess I’m just used to Greenmangaming prices. It’s less than $40 there.
It’s also pretty cheap for AAA on Steam. Like… $50. We normally get $80.
Yeah it’s sending all the wrong signs at the moment.
That said, maybe it’s just coming in hot? Perhaps has a day 1 patch? People seemed fairly positive about what they saw at trade shows and stuff…
There’s reviewers that already have it. Downgrade alert levels from Code Red to Code Blue.
But we haven’t heard from them! Which means they’re embargoed. The way embargoes have always worked for games journalism is they’re allowed to run early if they’re good reviews.
Yep, there is still plenty to be alerted about, but at least it’s not a new low of not even sending out review copies.
Hey everybody, lets get these TAYlist requests started!
Get the girl back – Hanson
Birthday cake =P
Horse with no name – America
Birthday Cake is a good thing to play if you want to make sure no one can ever listen to the radio ever again because they’ve driven spikes through their eardrums to stop the pain.
Yeah, numbers had the joy of hearing it last night. It was a joke =P
Incubus – Drive
Stockholm Syndrome – Muse
Lost in the Supermarket – The Clash
Golden Brown – The Stranglers
I Got Erection – Satyricon
Srsly though, Sweet Disposition – The Temper Trap
Three little pigs – Green jelly
Heard it for the first time in years this week
lol i still have it on my Hit Machine 2 CD!
traded a Level 7 Zubat, for a level 37 Ditto! \o/
Ditto!
You got that deal too? What are the chances?
The prostitute of the Pokemon world.
WTF is Jynx then?
Nicki Minaj.
ZING!
Holy shit.
hahahaha that made me chuckle…. weird stares all round the office!
I caught a bunch of Lickitung while training on Victory Road and nicknamed them “‘Me’ Time” for Wonder trading.
Didn’t get anything worthwhile in return. Wish more people would offer more interesting things.
So badly can’t wait to not have to use Unity any more. Tried adding a GUIStyle to change the appearance of some text in a label, but nope. Changed absolutely nothing. Tried changing the GUIStyle to have different colours and font sizes and stuff… nope, still no change. Google has nothing, I’ve got no idea what’s going on. So I try appending a string to the one being passed in just to see if it would make any change at all. OH HEY LOOK AT THAT SUDDENLY ALL THE CHANGES APPEARED. And now I’ve reverted all the extra changes to how it was to begin with and suddenly it’s actually making changes.
Unity can go choke on a dick.
i used this:
I’ve been having the weirdest post apocalyptic dreams lately. D:
Urban decay?
If only!
I had a dream that my teeth kept constantly falling out, and I had to scoop them out of my mouth to prevent choking. But I still had teeth?? D:
..And something else, but I forgot.
Well, that’s terrifying. D:
They’ve announced new Crusader Kings 2 DLC where you can be elected pope.
I can feel that game’s icy tendrils pulling me back…
Well that’s a bit crap…
Apparently my missus don’t qualify for centrelink because i earn “above” the pay bracket so she qualifies for squat, despite being unable to work :\
Oh well, time to sell cars and crap, it’s back to basics
🙁 Sorry to hear that, my friend.
Shithouse. Does that at least mean you get a tax break for having a dependant?
(Edit: Typo.)
HAH- *cough*
i mean no, because she’s not a dependant yet (ailment less then a certain amount of time i am not yet sure of)
Damn. Maybe come tax time it’ll have been enough… Still. Shitty.
*fingers crossed*
eeeyup, for now i just have to suck up to Telstra/Red Energy/The Bank and every other place we have contracts to try and reduce our cost of living…
Surely with enough of a sap story i can bring some of the stuff down right? RIGHT? 😛
Plus everyone loves a foreign accent! You do the talking!
See if Centrelink will at least agree to a Health Care Card. It’s a weak-ass version of a full concession, but some providers will offer discounts for them. I think Telstra is one of them – it was when I was there, though you had to be the account holder, so you’d possibly need to transfer into her name… Which should be painless. I dunno about the others.
Unfortunately the ATO is rather archaic when it comes to dependant status as well as they rely heavily on what Centrelink tells them. Which for the most part can be either contradictory or inadequate.
If you need any help Pixel, I’ve got a tax brain so I might be able to help you out if I can.
Tax brain? I have to pay $800+ to ATO on my return! 😀
I can only think of $150 worth deductions, plus maybe some clothes and car deductions but that’s borderline lying. Everything else is just a blatant lie.
Help me! Please! 😀
Low income tax offset maybe?
Stationery or other expenses if you’re studying?
Working from home? If so, claim part of your household electricity and what not.
But yeah, sometimes you just mucho boned because you simply earn too much. Moral of the story: don’t be so rich. 😛 (I kid, I kid. Seriously though, unless you have to travel a lot for work [ie interstate or overseas] or work in a trade, there aren’t too much deductions that ordinary workers can claim.)
Already claimed the $16K tax offset. Working full-time from office, so not much to claim. TBH I think I got shafted by my minority second employer that year, which didn’t tax me enough. (Still seemed like a lot though…)
Thanks for the tips anyhow.
I might leech a bit on that at some point, i’ll keep it in mind thanks mang 😀
Went through the same thing when I was first moving out of home (due to parent’s income, ignoring the fact that I moved to another town as a student), and again a few years ago with my wife (basically the same situation as you). Centrelink’s idea of a proper income is (putting it nicely) outdated, and has been for a looong time.
On the bright side, when you get through all this shit, you’ll start to enjoy money way more than you used to 😛
This is true XD
And it was naive of us in the first place to expect not to cut too much of our currentl life-style… we were always prepared to cut stuff, now it just becomes horribly apparent how much we have to cut…
Sucks a bit, but i’m trying my hardest not to get too down… i can always find a second job
Never lose hope.
I’m confused,
Are you offering yourself or requesting my services? 😛
Breaking Bad
For such a pleasant guy Gustavo is terrifying.http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/22/4865096/plants-vs-zombies-composer-developing-spirited-away-inspired
This game sounds like it’s going to be as good as it is heart breaking. :'( (cc. @sughly)
This sounds like an awesome concept and could be an amazing game. Definitely also seems like the sort of concept that Ghibli would spin a film out of. One to keep an eye out for when it releases.
Hnnnngh… this is taking off something I’ve played before, in a rather big way. I dont think you played it, so cant say out of spoilers. A mishmash of this game and Spirited Away. Still, sounds cool, unoriginality aside
Haha! Now I’m intrigued!
Yes well I have recommended it in the past, you shouldve listened. Harumph!
Would that thing possibly be To The Moon?
I’ve played that, I don’t think Sughly has! XD
And even if it was, why would I admit to it if I said I didnt want to spoil..?
Because I can’t see how you could possibly spoil the game by saying that it sounds like another game which isn’t even out yet and which only has like a 2-line description.
EDIT: Side note, the only adventure-type games I can think of that take place in Hospitals are Sanitarium and the new, as of yet untranslated Corpse Party…
Oh, man. I loved Sanitarium. So Twilight Zone-esque, especially that chapter with the corn field. If I remember correctly, @sughly and @strange didn’t like it though. :'(
@dc You do not remember correctly. I quite liked what I played of Sanitarium!
*takes @strange’s name off the list*
Because that whole synopsis is how a game’s ending turns out. You don’t know it until the end.
Also @dc @strange – I liked Sanitarium too! Finished it in an Adventure Gamers forum community playthrough, was fun
Maybe I dreamed you guys didn’t like it! (cc. @sughly, @strange…)
@sughly: oh. That’d be a kind of cool twist, yeah. But also now I’m super curious what it is because I’ll probably never play it and the rate at which I actually finish games suggests that I may even have started playing it and not know.
My one complaint so far about the English edition of Bravely Default is the box art. It’s fucking terrible. 🙁 The JP art was so much nicer.
I prefer the JP cover too. I can see why they changed it though. I’m probably not getting the collectors edition anyway so it doesn’t really bother me much.
I’m talking about the box art on the game itself. The CE outer box has the JP fairy art.
Oh yeah, so was I. Sorry, should’ve separated my two thoughts a lot better there 😛
Gone Home audio commentary spoilers:
The card to Sam signed from Uncle Harvey is totally Harvey Smith’s hand writing. XD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Smith_(game_designer)
Might watch a walkthrough of that sometime.
Not buying, have a beef with the developer. They were one of the ones crying about how they want to boycott PAX but ‘can’t’ because it’s bad for business.
I thought they did boycott?
It’s pretty damn unique and one of the best gaming experiences of this year for me!
Ah, so they did. Still no change to my boycott then. Folks boycotting PAX makes it easier for me to keep my pile of shame under control.
Heads up for people with US PSN accounts for PSP/PSV: both the Corpse Party games (which are excellent) are currently $10 each (50% off) until November 4th as a Halloween special.
Kind of annoyed I paid $20 for Book of Shadows a week or two ago. 🙁
So picked up a ticket for the Video Games Symphony performance that is going to be held in Brisbane in about a month’s time. I vaguely recall other people were planning to go to that so maybe it might end up being a slightly classy meat?
Wear suits. Monocles. Canes.
I like the way you think at exactly 11:44 AM!
Let’s be friends.
Classy friends wearing top hats.
But ONLY at 11:44am.
You have to call it Monocle and Opera Cane meat.
This is Queensland you’re talking about. You’d be lucky if all of the people who attend wear pants. 😛
Edited for spelling fail.
I can’t afford to go alas, but if there’s dinner before or after I’ll probably maybe be keen!
As far as I know @strange is definitely going, @freezespreston and @sughly have indicated they’d like to go but I don’t know for sure!
Yeah I cant really afford either, too many other sparkly things that are taking the attention of my wallet T_T
I really wanted to go to this but it’s on my wife’s birthday and with her not being a gamer she made it very clear that there was a right choice and a wrong choice.
So you’re going yeah?
I’m gonna be deep in DisneyWorld.
Real deep.
anyone know if there is a step counter or something in pokemon?
Not that I know of in XY.
Was the PokeWalker incorporated with Black/White or was it earlier? I’m surprised they didn’t back something similar with X/Y considering the 3DS already has a step counter.
Wait, do you mean an in-game step counter for eggs or a pedometer, @zetrox2k ? None of either in XY.
The PokeWalker was used for HeartGold/SoulSilver and nothing else. I was hoping they would bring similar functionality to XY with the built-in pedometer as well, but alas. A lot of missed opportunities with the 3DS hardware I think.
Yeah it was a bit weird to not include it considering they’ve used the pedometer fairly effectively for the Streetpass games. Oh well.
The biggest thing missing is proper Streetpass functionality 🙁 It would’ve been cool to have a Trainer house where you could battle (AI versions of) the trainers that you Streetpass. Or have it conduct a Wonder Trade when you Streetpass someone. Or even just record mixing so you can see their stats and things. Lots of missed options.
Maybe in Pokemon Z…
Or as *le gasp* DLC. Nintendo would be stupid to not include one of their most hyped functions of the 3DS in what is their biggest game on the system this year.
Imagine if they used Streetpass and simply did a Pokemon petting zoo style thing where your Pokemon and the Stretpassed trainer’s Pokemon interacted. It would be like Tamagotchis all over again. Get on that Nintendo.
“In the 25th century coming out of the closet means you can bring people back from the dead. Progress, people.”
Star Command has the greatest upgrade descriptions 😀
A young man stands before his parents. They sit on the couch, looking up at him expectantly. He has news to tell them, important news. The young man opens his mouth to speak, then closes it. Taking a deep breath, he tries again.
“Mum, dad. There’s something important I have to tell you.”
“What is it honey?” his mother asks, a look of concern beginning to spread across her face.
“I’m… I’m a necromancer.”
Silence meets his words. His mother’s hand instinctively reaches our to clasp her husband’s hand. A small movement, not intended to bring pain, but the young man notices and is saddened.
His father stands up, a look of cold furry on his face. “Get out.” he commands, a deadly edge to his voice.
“Dad…” the young man begins, but his father interupts him.
“I will not have any raising of the dead in my house!” he yells, the anger that had been building up inside of him released at last.
The young man looks to his mother, pleading; she turns her face away, refusing to meet his gaze. Looking his father in the eye, seeing the hatred that is held within, the young man turns and walks out of the room.
His father collapses onto the couch, as though the effort of what he has done had exhausted him. His wife places an arm on his shoulder.
“Perhaps it’s just a phase.” she suggests.
Necromancers do it to death.
http://candybox2.net/ Yesssssssssss.
…There is something wrong with me.
I’m rather tempted to sell my Surface and get one of those $300 8-inch Windows tablets that are coming out. Apparently Bay Trail tablets aren’t half bad for gaming. Intel’s reference design can hit about 30fps on Torchlight II at 1366×768 (I have no idea how graphics intensive that game is, but I’m imagining it’s not too intensive). So they should be capable of playing indies and low end/old 3d games. Combine it with a virtual gamepad overly program like this https://gameplay.gestureworks.com/ and you’d have a pretty awesome little gaming tablet/portable game console. And you could plug a USB hub in, plug a few gamepads in and hook it up to your TV and then you’ve sort of got an Ouya…that actually has games 😛 Plus you could install bluestacks so you can play android games on it too.
I am mightily tempted try this, might help me actually get around to playing some of those games I bought in Steam sales and never played… I think I’d want to see more benchmarks first though.
Bay Trail is the new Atom stuff? I’d love to see some benchmarks on those chips, see if they’ve finally gotten to the point that you can use them for some general computing.
Sooooo…
Now I have a 3DS, on which I want to play one game at a time max, and I’m playing Pokemon, what is the absolute next game I should get? Something that I can’t play anywhere else!
Fire Emblem
That’s pretty much what I’d been thinking, but I’ve not played a JRPG in a very long time.
More of a turn-based SRPG than a JRPG. And my GOTY so far!
It’s not a JRPG, it’s a turn-based SRPG. More akin to a western tactical RPG, more classic D&D style or similar.
This.
Luigi’s Mansion!
…
I don’t have a 3DS, but Luigi’s Mansion.
The other Pokemon game.
#helping
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D (if you don’t already have it on Wii). Also Sonic Generations (I just find platformers are a little bit better on 3DS than console or PC).
Otherwise, Fire Emblem, Kid Icarus, Streetpass games, and more.
Kid Icarus is something you should probably borrow from someone and see if your brain can go through the contortions necessary to be able to play with those crazy controls though.
eReader advice time
Thinking of getting an ereader for Mrs Tigs for her birthday.
Would like to go with an eInk based one as she struggles to read on a backlit screen like a tablet or monitor.
Nef was saying that the Kobo Glo was quite a good piece of tech. What do people have and what would you (or just as importantly not) recommend
I’ve got a Kindle and liked it enough that when I accidentally smashed the screen on my old one, I bought a new one the same day.
Really, as long as it has eInk, you’re good to go. I don’t really see the need in most of the features. Being able to sync wirelessly is neat if you’re using it for RSS feeds but mostly you’re just going to load them up with novels and not go online with them for months.
I have an iRiver at home and it’s pretty amazing… I’ve heard good stuff about Kobo as will… At the end of the day, there’s not thaaat much difference other then size of screens when it comes to eInk, so i suggest going into stores and trying out, see what works best for you (or her) and going with that… as long as it read common doc types (epub, pdf, doc etc) then you should be just fine
Excitebike and Donkey Kong are still pretty good these days, Mario Bros too. But if you have two GBAs and a link cable then absolutely get a set of Super Mario Advance 4 cards, they completely transform the game.
Thank you for your addition to the conversation 😉
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I was wondering how long it would take someone to downvote me for saying I disliked Spec Ops: The Line in the latest “Tell Us Dammit”.
It took one hour.
No one can take that time you got 100 upvotes away from you! (Except for the people who downvoted you. Like @freya. XD)
She may have left her account logged in on my laptop and I may have changed the downvote to an upvote at one stage. There was some back and forth :p
You MONSTER.
I haven’t played it yet, but the crowd tell me it is the best meta-game in gaming outside of EVE!
I think people have built up the hype on it too much.
I played it when it first came out and loved the hell out of it, but it was before all the hype surrounding it.
You hipster…
I sit in basically the same position as BunBun (God, I hate saying that). I think it’s good. I think it has some good ideas. It is a game that I think people should play. It’s just also rather mechanically dull, and very ham-fisted.
…
Also, Nolan North…
I played it after the hype, and it really messed the game up a lot. Regardless, I don’t think I would have been too positive if I’d played pre-hype, just…less negative?
Monaco!
With ZOMBIES!
http://www.pixelsforbreakfast.net/2013/10/criminels-de-zombie-monaco-update-adds-backstory-and-zombies/
I really need to get around to actually playing Monaco with people sometime. I’ve only played the start of it solo and wasn’t very impressed, but I hear it’s basically only fun multiplayer.
The thing you need to be prepared for in multiplayer is everything turning to shit.
You will sit there planning, you will mentally play through everything, you will decide that you are ready to crack the challenge in front of you. Then you’ll accidentally go left instead of right, activate fourteen alarms, have the entire base on you, and the entire group will then spend their time running around attempting to aggro guards away from the one person who is actually doing something useful.
Or, the miner dude will just break through all the walls.
Mostly that one, really.
The thing I love about Monaco is it’s fun in both sneaky mode and everything-has-gone-to-hell-gtfo mode.
Sooo Tired. And work is making me Grumpy…. Someone make everything go away please?
I’ll do it. Me and Mr Baseball bat.
My crankypants are on good and way too tight, and I am filtering everything through a lens of concentrated aggression at the moment.
This could also be because I’ve set a food budget and am abiding by it (thus perpetually hungry for all the bad things), am working out more, and quitting delicious pure TrueCoke for Coke Zero-satisfaction, rising early, working 11hr days, gaming less, can’t sleep properly, and the GF is now far too far away in a residential facility to deal with healthstuff, where she is unhappy and miserable which I don’t ever really talk about because 1) private, and 2) I can’t do a god damned thing about it except try to cheer her up over emails and phone/Skype calls and I wouldn’t be terribly upset if my condensed rage were to manifest in some sort of explosion and level everything and everyone.
Although I’d probably be pretty pissed if that affected my professionalism. I try to clamp down on that.
Crankypants with added stress underwear for me.
Do not want.
And in a later post, Freeze too. Must be something in the water, we’re all going crazy. Or Allure is manipulating pages in such a way as to subliminally influence us into maddened frenzy.
Don’t be silly. They would never do that.
Now, excuse me while I go buy some porridge. May Serrels be with you.
What we need is a big TAY Grouphug *hugs everyone*
Sorry to hear about your troubles, my friend.
Only one of those troubles not of my own making and I’m on top of it all… just. Very, very pissy.
It’s an unattractive sign of weakness, gotta work on squashing that.
@sernobulus: I know you had something you were dreading today at work! Hope all is going well!
If we had real life O-Powers Nob, I would totally not use any of them on you and instead spam you with “Nice!” all the time.
I’m working from home today, so of course I played GTA Online during my lunch break. Someone griefed me in such a way that I couldn’t help but be a little impressed.
I was robbing a petrol station, as you do, and some clown came roaring in and blocked the door with his car before running away. So I was trapped in the petrol station as police choppers and cars gathered outside. I got away in the end, but that was pretty masterful trolling on this other guy’s behalf. 😀Haha! That’s awesome! Trolling like that I find is good natured and fun. Hard to stay mad at that.
Exactly. I wasn’t mad at all – I was laughing too much.
Hope you put that newly stolen money in the ATM before the inevitable shoot out. XD
Now that would have made sense. Haha! Didn’t even think of it.
ATM? FOR SUCKERS
Do it on your phone!
Yes, hide in a corner, crying and tapping away on your phone!
Except getting wasted by the cops takes money directly out of your bank, too… So. Boo for that.
(Edit: Seriously, I spent $25k in hospital/bail fees in my earliest levels trying to get my $2k insured bike out of the lockup, and every time I tried to get it out, the cops added an extra fucking star to their response when I hopped the wall into the lockup to the point that I was being chased by the army after trying to get my bike out. Fucking ridiculous mechanic, that escalating response.)
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Trapped in a well? I’ve heard no barking dogs trying to lead me somewhere! I suspect this is a Boy Who Cried Wolf-esque hoax!
Sorry Freeze, joking is the only way I know how to deal with these situations! A girl once told me I became emotionally stunted at sixteen…
shit breeding snorlax’s takes for ever…. if anyone wants one i have about 4 on standby if they missed it at the bridge… (not a spoiler)
That’s because they always fall asleep halfway through the deed.
cant the partner do the work for once?!?
But isn’t that just another Snorlax? 😛
No, it’s a ditto.
aaahhh… kinky!
the little guy is so overworked… 12 sessions in 12 hours… i feel bad for him.. i will (not) release him into the wild when i stop playing!
There’s four cookie and cream cupcakes in the fridge and I’m worried I might eat them because-
Screw it, I’m eating these cup cakes. >:|
Your fridge is quite possibly the best fridge in existence. There’s always something really amazing there! 🙂
Haha! When my mum visits, she stockpiles the house with snacks. Little does she know these snacks are mostly the only things I eat all week. XD Also, it’s not my fault there’s a Cheesecake Shop in walking distance! 😛
Dear lord.
Certainly better than mine, which is currently filled with old veggies and about 4 types of mustard.
Awesome sauce.
Where does your fridge keep getting these delicious treats? Does it have a wormhole to the cake dimension?
Dammit, I’m kind of annoyed at myself for not getting tickets to Muse now after spending most of today listening/watching live shows on YouTube. Forgot how good they are live.
But then at the same time I’d have to listen to songs from ‘The Resistance’ and no one wants that.
..I want that. You can take everything from The 2nd Law except Madness and Panic Station and fuck that right off though.
I’ve been listening to Metric all day going ‘eeeeeeeee rocketman and i are gonna see them this year eeeeeeee’
#nothelpingatall
#hashtagsforharli
I have tickets to see Queens of the Stone Age. And Nine Inch Nails. So yeah, take that!
I am happy for you. But not jealous.
Hi Guys! It’s time for a Blaghs update. Those times when lots of insignificant things that nobody cares about get lumped into one big post that everyone can ignore. YES!
When I woke up this morning, I was not expecting to see the phrase “purge of the anal canal” today. Well, time makes fools of us all. Now please, enjoy that mental image.
I finished watching Clannad After Story last night. Dear lord, the feels. So much feels. Like, an enormous feel train. Not perfect, but overall, pretty damn good.
Games. I think I played one of them once…
Been reading lately. Going back through The Obernewtyn Chronicles, because I hadn’t read the latest book in it (which was released in like 2011 or something), and I’m about a third of the way through it now. It’s kind of weird reading them back to back because some of the plot holes stand out a little, and there’s also all this stuff that I thought I remembered happening that didn’t, so clearly my mind is a dirty lying wizard.
Edit: Cookie Clicker. I’m up to nearly 143 Billion CPS normally, and a smidge over 1 Trillion when in a Frenzy. I really should stop playing, but I can’t. I just have to keep going.
*ignores post*
MONSTER. @blaghman is laying out his soul here, and *reads post*
Talking about…anal canals?
OK, yeah, justified ignore.
The only one of Key’s games that has more feels than Clannad is Air, but Air’s anime adaption isn’t so great. I still get a bit teary whenever I hear the final song 🙁
If I wasn’t way too lazy to play games, I would look into that, but errggh. Games.
That said, Caturday recommended I look into Tomoyo After, because apparently it provides some contrast to the ending of AS, but well. Errgh. Games.
Didn’t they make an OVA episode on Tomoyo After? Or am I creating my own crazy memories again?
EDIT: Ah, nevermind. I’m thinking of the Kyou OVA 😛
Umm, I think the OVA covers what happens in the normal game if you’re on that arc? I’m not sure.
But I also watched that, and while not sad, it was depressing as all hell.
DVD/BD release of the first season had an extra OVA which had bits of Tomoyo After in it I think.
Tomoyo After has 18+ content FYI. Remember the Tomoyo arc in the first season? It’s basically a lot like that.
Personally I had issues with Clannad just because
I find Nagisa kind of annoying. I vastly preferred Kyou to the restAre you watching Little Busters? It’s not being adapted by Kyoto Animation like the other Key stuff but it’s still fairly reasonable, and that’ll be going to some dark and unexpected places in the second half (which just started)
Yeah, I agree with your issue with Clannad, but I think it’s worth it in AS (Spoilers for the latter parts of After Story, I’m not sure how much of it you watched but you said you hadn’t finished it, yeah? Not sure how to explain further…)
for Ushio. Every time Ushio speaks it’s like a little dagger of sadness driving into my heart.And no, I’m not watching Little Busters, I was completely unaware of its existence until just now. I’ll consider looking at it, but my list of Anime to watch is still so long.
I’ve played a good portion of the game and I know how the story ends. 🙁 I wasn’t in a good place at the time when After Story was running and so I stopped watching and have never really gone back – I think I’d have exactly the same reaction to you.
Key are fucking bastards. They deliberately make games to make you feel like crap. 🙁
Little Busters’ adaption hasn’t got the subtlety or nuance of Kyoto Animation’s work, it’s a bit workmanlike. I’d probably recommend Kanon instead. Maybe even Air, though Air works far better as a game because
the main character’s perspective shifts in an odd and uexpected way halfway through.Have you watched Kyoto Animation’s Kanon? They did it a year or so before Clannad’s first season. It’s a bit lighter overall than Clannad but it’s a really solid show.
I’m curious what your current priority list is. I have a shitton of older stuff that I’ve never started or only watched part of and I’ll often get bored with what’s currently running and just dig out an old show and marathon it over a week or so. Maybe we can coordinate.
Currently my priority’s on stuff from 2 seasons ago (I think, I lose track easily) that I started to watch, but never finished. So Gargantia, The Devil’s a Part Timer, and Attack on Titan. I’m not really sure where to go after that, to be honest. Lately I’ve just been watching things that make me sad, I assume because I hate myself. I guess if I’m doing that then I should probably finally watch Grave of the Fireflies…
And in terms of Anime, odds are I haven’t watched it. I tend to only watch the mainstream of the main, and it’s only really been this year that I’ve started watching non “Shōnen” stuff.
All three of those are good choices (though I also didn’t finish Gargantia yet). Titan works *much* better now that it’s finished. The show has absolutely terrible pacing and didn’t fare well watching it on a weekly basis at all, it’s much better to watch in chunks.
EDIT: If you really want to make yourself feel like garbage, then Grave of the Fireflies won’t do it. You need to track down Now and Then, Here and There. On the surface of it it’s a typical story about a kid that travels to a fantasy world. It just happens that that world is the most bleak, oppressive and hopeless place imaginable. It’s one of the only shows I couldn’t finish because of how dark and upsetting it was.
Baccano!
@negativezero
That sounds wonderfully depressing!
@powalen
Yeah, I’ve been meaning to watch Baccano for a while… … In my defence, THE LIST.
My only exposure to Air was the anime adaptation and it made me sads.
It’s the song at the end. That fucking song.
More like Clansad!
WORD PLAY!
That was a fairly … something morning.
Company is being gutted and the position I am in is being cut down to 5 people. There are currently 18 full time employees doing the same job, the next month or two are going to be interesting.
🙁 Hope it all goes your way, my friend. And on the brightside, atleast they paid for your education so if something were to happen you’re still ahead!
Oof, that’s rough
Oh man, sorry to hear. Hope it works out the way you want (whatever that is)
I’d start looking around. Maybe not start organising interviews just yet, but prepare for the worst.
Eat too much chocolate until you’re full of the force, and then cut down the competition a little.
It works for Lards.
Thanks Newman.
Are you coming on Saturday night to get spooked?
I hope so.
There’s a lot more talk about sports games lately than I’m used to seeing, and it made me wonder: if you had to play a mainstream sports game, local 4-player on console, which one would it be?
I don’t know if I could say I really *like* the games, but FIFA is usually a good bit of fun when playing with friends.
Do racing games count as sports games? Like, touring car racing?
Probably NBA.
Lee Carvallo’s Putting Challenge
Top Spin!
It’s the only sport that I know the rules of 😛
Blood Bowl, maybe. Rocket Jockey.
I’m actually one of those people who buys FIFA and NBA 2K every year, but even I know the correct answer is NBA Jam.
Only if it’s in an arcade cab.
Nah, the newer console one was actually pretty top.
NBA Showtime on Dreamcast!
NBA JAM
or MARIO KART
I have never played a sportsball game.
I just bought Madden 25.
Is Mario Tennis an option? :p
nba jam, WWE and MAYBE Fifa… (not a fan of it)
I’d play whatever game the other three are playing at the point when they hand me a controller. Willing to try something new for friends, but not looking for it in my own time.
SSX is as sport game-like as I get.
I claim to be a moderate snowboarder irl due to that game 😛
Have never been to the snow.
dude, NFL street 2 on PS2, i played it with my friends a bunch, that game is super fun.
I enjoyed my time with Fight Night on my friend’s 360.
Modern sports sims seem to demand at least a basic understanding of the sport.
It’s not like the old days when it was X = kick, A = punt (I said PUNT, Nanna!).
I got Madden free with my Vita and figured I could just have a bash around with my very limited understanding of NFL.
I couldn’t even figure out how to pass.
I guess if I had to play a mainstream sports game, about the only sports I have a basic understanding of are NRL or cricket.
Definitely Mario Kart. Or New Super Mario Bros.
If we’re including motorsports or fighting then I would play any UFC/boxing or racing game that involved cars over any other sport game. Hell, I could probably enjoy myselfp laying the game for the 2012 Olympics.
If we are talking specifically about sportsball, then I would likely choose FIFA. I definitely have no interest in a rugby, baseball, cricket or NFL game, and the only basketball game I’ve ever liked was NBA Jam.
man COD Ghosts new footage of multiplayer looks like ass the physics are all screwed. players fall over in mid air… then a second later fall straight down to the ground… among a ton of other issues.
It’s gonna be fun, but.
Bit o’ the ol’ pew pew! Know what I mean?
Course you do.
-wink-
TBH ive had fun with the past cod games… even though they are repetitive, they’re always fun playing with mates… i could never touch one on my own…
but stuff like this, severe physics glitches specifically are a deal breaker for me… i just cant even look at it… hopefully they do some serious work to the collision systems before release…
I’d suggest the footage used for advertising could be old, and likely from a pre-release/beta. CoD games are always released pretty damned polished. I wouldn’t be going off advertising footage. Even if there were issues, a game as big as CoD will have them patched out so fast you wouldn’t even notice.
Boy howdy.
Classic DAN! post.
Say no more, say no more.
-wink-
A wink’s as good as a nudge to a blind bat.
TAYlist for the 24th of October 2013
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by the guy who needs a paying job sometime soonWendy Matthews – If Only I Could
America – A Horse With No Name (Requested by @Scree)
Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition (Requested by @bdkiaf)
1927 – Propaganda Machine
Rob Thomas – Her Diamonds
Clash – Lost In The Supermarket (Requested by @redartifice)
Romantics – What I Like About You
Don Mclean – Vincent
Angels – Let The Night Roll On
Green Jelly – Three Little Pigs (Requested by @tigerion)
Genesis – In Too Deep
Irene Cara – Fame
John Butler Trio – Close To You (Just the right amount of cowbell)
Stranglers – Golden Brown (Requested by @FreezeSPreston)
Mental As Anything – Nips Are Getting Bigger
Alex Lloyd – Amazing
Real Thing – You, To Me, Are Everything
Incubus – Drive (Requested by @Beavwa, now I know the name of this song I like)
Robbie Williams – Let Me Entertain You
Little pig, little pig, let me in 😀
@greenius: You listened to Reflektor yet? Listen to Reflektor!
Album’s nearly here \o/
Eyeing off the JB Hifi pre-order t-shirt. Haha!
I haven’t bought a physical CD in ages. Preordered it on iTunes a month or so ago and got Reflektor immediately so I don’t have to rely on rancid youtube videos for my listening pleasure.
Oh man, I’ve seen that horrible About Time trailer so many times before the Reflektor video. So. Many. Times. They added a new video for Afterlife two days ago if you haven’t seen/heard it.
Is it on par with Reflektor? Because if it is I might hold off. I’ve had albums spoiled completely for me before because the best tracks were released beforehand. I’d rather experience it all together in a cohesive form since Arcade Fire are one of the bands that actually still makes albums and not just collections of songs.
Yeah, you might as well wait. Just as good as Reflektor, though not quite as layered but still good. Their albums tend to flow amazingly so will be best to hear it like that first!
Still haven’t!
Queenslandahs! Good news! Meteorologists say that the stupid high temperatures we’re experiencing this Spring won’t translate into an intolerably hot Summer. Hooray!
Yes, the temperatures will be only above average for Summer instead of record-breaking. (Wait… above average? Noooo.)
The reason? Massive increase in humidity! High humidity typically results in extra cloud-cover, which reduces temperatures.
AND MAKES ME SWEAT LIKE A FUCKING RACEHORSE. You troll bastard meteorologists. That’s like telling us we won’t have to worry about bushfires in Brisbane because the city will be flooded. This is not cause for cheerfulness! Extra humidity is terrible, terrible news! I hate hot weather with the intensity of a thousand suns. What’s the job market like in Tasmania?
How are your feelings towards your immediate family members?
I only have brothers, but some of my female cousins are amazingly fine.
(Edit: Er… so I’ve been told. One is a swimsuit model, so it stands to reason. *cough* I wouldn’t know because I don’t see attractiveness in my relatives, because they’re related. …Yup.)
I suggest a Wet N Wild meat some time this summer!
😉
You got something in your eye, friend. 😛
Be SunSmart, DC! Swim-shirt. Wetsuit thigh-covering shorts, tonnes of sunscreen on knees and calves, and even/especially the tops of your feet (seriously, my brother’s partner got 2nd degree burns from not sunscreening up the tops of his feet when on holiday, recently. He also burned the soles of his feet because he was riding around on jetskis for a couple hours and APPARENTLY the reflected light from the water burned his soles).
It’ll be almost like wearing head-to-toe clothes.
I haven’t taken my shirt off in public since 2006. Don’t need to worry ’bout that. I cover ALL my pasty white skin. XD
I figured, and was suggesting that SunSmart would be a great way to lure DC into a swimming event. 🙂
DC is making things sexy.
:S
I was just looking for a segue to suggest this for a while and thought summer is going to be hot post would be appropriate. Guess not. D:
YOU GUYS HAVE A WET N WILD TOO NOW!
I’ve lived in my neighborhood for six years now and only realized this week there’s a public pool around the corner. 😀
Public pool? But that’s where the commoners go.
I’ve been thinking about trying out lap swimming for exercise/getting out of the house. Commoners will be the price I have to pay to do it. D:
@dc Swimming is pretty radical. They need to hurry up and invent an underwater ipod so I can not get so bored 😛
I haven’t swam properly in years and am worried my form will be terrible. I want to break into the pool by the cover of night and practice. Haha! Don’t they have those bone conductive headphones or something for swimming?
@dc
I really wish I had a pool. I would swim all the time if I did. But I refuse to go out in public, so I’m pretty screwed in that regard.
@blaghman: Yeah, the pool is literally ten minutes away from me and I’m looking for excuses of why I shouldn’t go. Haha!
@dc Mine’s a 20-30 minute walk, so it’s actually a pretty good distance to heat yourself up, then cool off in the pool.
(Un)Fortunately for me, I’ve grown too fat for any of my board shorts, so I can’t go swimming out in public.
Lap swimming is the BEST exercise. It’s better than running or cycling in terms of lung capacity AND low-impact on your joints.
At our pool back in the bay, we had a lot of triathletes ended up doing most of their conditioning in the pool. They found that improving their swimming technique not only gave them a better edge, but that they could run further and harder after pool cardio training than they could swim after doing running cardio training.
Edit: Also, just go sometime during the early afternoon or late morning. All the ‘pro’ lap swimmers and swimming clubs will be running at extreme early morning or after 5pm.
The swimming isn’t the problem. Just other people. D:
Mm, that’s why the edit recommendation.
@dc should be most perfectly alone during those times. Hell, I think some smaller pools even actually CLOSE during those times.
Move to Melbourne! Dry, baking 40+ days in summer thanks to searing hot wind, but no humidity!
15 degrees difference in temperature depending on which way the wind blows. Great for people with short attention spans!
So its gonna be hot AND sticky. Perfect, just perfect.
A/C up to 11 yo.
https://ebgames.com.au/3ds-164389-Bravely-Default-Deluxe-Collectors-Edition-Nintendo-3DS
$150 🙁
ORDERED IT ANYWAY.
6-day-late Birthday Present to myself.6-day-late happy birthday wishes!
No I mean it releases 6 days after.
I’m not quite over the hill yet. 🙁
Far out, that is pretty expensive for a 3DS title, even if it is a limited edition.
It has a figure and a proper-sized hardcover artbook.
WHAT?!
THAT PRICE IS OUTRAGEOUS.
SO OUTRAGEOUS THAT I’VE SHOWN MY DISPLEASURE BY PRE-ORDERING IT!
(I haven’t, I think I’ll go in store and try tomorrow)
I’ve been refreshing their site all day hoping it would be listed. Then I gave up and bugged them on twitter and within 2 minutes of them responding, it was up.
I just bought that expensive wiiU on the credit card.
Unless GT gets it I won’t be D=
I want to, but then I envision all the other things I could buy with $150…
I’ve been running out of space, so I figured I’d actually clean out and sort my general “downloads” (which is specifically Yaaarggghhh downloads) folder. 2 hours later, with all my TV shows sorted, duplicates and unnecessary ones removed, and everything is gloriously neat.
And I saved myself a whole *checks files* 20 gig… Maybe I should try culling my 1 Terabyte game folder instead. Hahahaha, silly Blaghs. I’ll just buy another Hard Drive. >.>
One of the best things that theoretically I would have set up had I been an evil pirate is Flexget, which is a piece of software which monitors multiple RSS feeds for torrents of the next episodes for the shows I want, waits for specific qualities and groups, adds them to Transmission to download into a specific folder for each series. If I used such a system it would run every 30 minutes and upon finishing the downloads, Plex would immediately pick up on the change and download metadata for the episode such that when I arrive home I can immediately watch whatever.
Of course I don’t do any of that.
That would be handy, but it sounds like it would take all of 3 minutes for me to set up, to potentially save me hours, and I am way too lazy for that.
You do need to keep the config files up to date as well (i.e. add new shows and remove old ones). But it’s the best thing ever. Fire and forget. I may or may not run it on my (always-on) NAS.
Are you running out of space on your ssd?
This is coming from News.com.au… :S
http://www.news.com.au/technology/american-network-nbc-publishes-map-showing-the-whole-of-australia-is-on-fire-oops/story-e6frfrnr-1226746114107
But, the whole of Australia IS on fire. It’s been spread around by those flaming kangaroos. =/
You mean those ones that we all ride to school/work?
Yup, those ones
So thats why all the schools are shut. Not because of the fires, but because all the kangaroos are one strike 🙂
It’s a diversion tactic.
Diversion from what?
news.com.au’s own shortcomings 😛
WOW, that article is seriously casual.
DARK SOULS!… is currently installing. Any tips for someone’s whose experience with the Souls franchise is about 15 mins of Demon’s Souls at Blagh’s place the other week?
Cry. Lots of tears.
Wikis are good. My approach was to plan meticulously, practice success in my head, and then fail miserably in reality. That’s not for everyone, though 😛
And don’t visit the graveyard first.
Go slow. Keep your shield raised if you don’t know what’s around the corner. Magic is super OP.
EDIT: Also deaths are learnding experiences.
Don’t give up. Its normal to die in that game.
Didn’t realise Path of Exile is out on Steam, anyone going to give it a go?
Well, I think it’s free, so it couldn’t hurt. 🙂
My play through was fairly uninspiring. If you play it like a normal diablo clone, you’re going to turn it into a jogging simulator. Just try to do more killing than looting, and leave crap on the ground that you know won’t sell for much because picking up stuff will fill your inventory VERY fast and there is a serious lack of fast transport options to sell shit.
It’s basically the opposite of Torchlight within the same genre.
I’ve been playing PoE since closed beta and I’ve always enjoyed it. So if you want a party member, I’m in (not this weekend though, my computer is going in for repairs.)
I’ve never been much of a Pokemon guy. I got into it kinda late – as far as I can deduce without hitting the photo albums it might have been Christmas ’99 when I got given a copy of Red and Pinball, while my sister got Blue and Yellow. Played a whole lot of both of them, finished Red eventually though only by ‘roiding up my guys on glitched rare candy. Don’t even think I paid that much attention to types, maybe did the obvious ones, keeping the initial three out of the way of each other, but I always found the table in the manual confusing so just ignored the rest of them I guess. At some point later my sister got Snap as a present, and we both played a tonne of that. Otherwise, it’s been over a decade since a Pokemon game has entered our house. I’ve never bought one.
When Black and White came out I got a little caught up in the hype, with everyone going on about how good it was and all the things they’d fixed. Even started to consider it at times when it was going cheap. Never went through with it though. The same thoughts have been coming up lately with X and Y, everyone at school has their 3DS out constantly playing Pokemon, and they keep telling me I should get it.
Then an opportunity came up and I kinda broke my streak. Oops.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/Purchase131024.jpg
Ladies man!
*actually reads posts*
One of the rare posts that isn’t applicable… carry on…
Well that said, today I did find out that Sketchbook Girl does in fact have a 3DS and has been playing Pokemon, despite never having seen her with it or gotten a StreetPass before. So something to keep in mind I guess 😛
I’ve been thinking that maybe Nintendo lady (Jodie is it?) is screwing you around so much because she looks forward to talking with you every week!
Hahahahaha, all @mrtaco has to do is say something nice and suddenly a dozen new 3DS consoles arrive on his doorstep.
@shane The Lesser Evil has arrived. I have a free day tomorrow, so I will read it then.
Mine arrived December 8th. I’m still biding my time. I remember it like it was ten months ago. I saw Regular Show with DAN! and Sughly that morning at Indro. Good times, good times.
I’d love to watch Regular Show at the cinema. Large screen Mordecai and Rigby sounds awesome.
Two weeks, man. That’s all the time you have left.
You’re not going to punch me right in the face, I hope.
I haven’t decided on my approach.
You should read it.
But that’s what Shane wants me to do!
Actually, I hope you never read it.
Let’s see if that works.I hope you enjoy it, my friend! And it leaves you wanting more!
… in a good way.Half the internet isn’t working, it’s really annoying :S It seems to be anything hosted by Amazon is down, which is a lot of things these days. Also Twitter.
And omg I can’t for the life of me figure out what to do with Oliver’s Christmas present. I asked what he wanted and he said a personalized mug from the place I got my 99c mousepads from (artscow) and said “go nuts” but I have no idea what to put on it 😛 I want it to be meaningful, nothing about “us”, and something to do with pop culture/music/movies/tea but that’s about as far as I’ve got.
Geez, anyone else and I’d just get them a block of chocolate.
I CHOO CHOO CHOOSE YOU.
And make sure there’s a picture of a train on it.
I feel I must share this
http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/aWZEGjq_460s.jpg
Mudoken cat!
@redartifice @shane @transientmind
Any of you guys happy to look over my submission for me?
Yeah man. shane at the shanewsmith.com
Hit me with it!
Done.
Received. Hang tight!
And… replied. Hope it helps.
Some of those things you have to defend yourself against… gah, it just gets my blood boiling.
Thank you so much. I’ll take all advice and help I can get since this is my final chance.
I think the evidence, more than the wording, is going to be the key here. But happy to help in any way I can.
Yeah, send it through
Redartifice hanging with hot males?
red_artifice with the neither cold nor female.
Done. Let me know if it’s better than my original idea of going with “I don’t know how to put this but, I’m kind of a big deal. People know me. I’m very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.”
Quick, someone hire this man!
Sent it back. Jeeze, that jerk must have done a nasty bit of character assassination on you.
Just thinking about it gets me too riled up to sleep! >:(
He really did. Then he claims I’m his best employee and he has no problems with how I operate.
Thanks a bunch. You and @shane have been a massive help. That was just a first draft so a work in progress.
Ah well, just think- When you have the job you dreamed of you’ll have the sweet satisfaction of knowing you didn’t let the bastard grind you down.
Mornin’. Missed the boat? Happy to review whatever you’ve got man. Username, gmail.
Hope that process didn’t keep you up too late.
Dark Souls (also walls of text)
Uh… Its a pretty cool guy 😛Decided to go with a Wanderer as my class because I always prefer playing the Rogue like classes than the warrior or mage. Got through the Undead Asylum fairly easily, up until the Asylum Demon of course. I learnt from the 15mins on Demons Souls to always take it slowly and that served me well enough. Managed to defeat the Asylum Demon on the third try. The first time I died was because I just stood and looked at it from the balcony before it jumped up and destroyed the balcony and me in one hit. Second and third times I managed to hit it with a jumping attack straight off the bat which took a massive chunk of health away. Managed to only get about 2 more hits on the 2nd attempt, but the 3rd time went well. Just kept moving around waiting for it to attach, dodge and then get up close for a couple of hits before rolling away.Did a little bit of exploring around the first outer area before starting through the Undead Burg. Had a bit of trouble finding the way forward, but I seem to be making progress. Until someone invaded my game. Only been playing less than 2 hours, still getting the hang of the controls, whereas this guy had clearly been playing a while. I think he tried to bait me into trusting him by approaching slowly and bowing to me. Before he drew his sword and started wailing on me. He had several different weapons and some weird shield that distorted reality in front of him. not sure if thats an item or just because he’s and invader. I got super lucky that his connection seemed a bit dodgy and he actually froze which allowed me to take about half his health away before he started moving again. There was a lot of dodge rolling, but somehow I managed to defeat him. Serves him right… Bastard 😛 Not long after I found a bonfire in the middle of the Undead Burg, and knowing it will bring back everything I killed, I decided to heal myself up and quit for the night.Questions –
Can someone explain the invaders and summons in simple terms for me?Why does the giant crow just sit there staring at me after it took me away from the Asylum?
Is there any particular skills I should be investing in?
Some hints:
STATS
General: you start to see diminishing returns once you hit a certain point with stats. Most of them start to have very little additional benefit after they reach 40. (Each new level still increases your various resistances, though.) That’s still a ways off for you, though! 😛—
Strength and Dexterity are useful for scaling damage (depending on type of weapon), and weapon/shield/armour access (bows for example have a DEX min, and most swords/axes etc have a STR requirement)
Endurance increases stamina AND weight capacity. It means you can equip heavier stuff before you start to slow down. Very useful.
If you’re gonna be a magic build, intelligence investment will help you, as will attunement. Some spells have an INT requirement, and most scale with it. ATT determines how many spells you have ‘equipped’ at any one time.
If you’re a miracle build, faith and attunement are your stats.
Hardcore builds don’t add much to Vitality, but if you want more health as a buffer, this is the one you want. I think in my playthrough, I only levelled VIT three times. If you don’t have the skills to prevail, a few extra HP really isn’t going to help much. (Of course, I should add that this is just my opinion, and it is actually possible to build a high END, high VIT unkillable tank and that’s viable too. )
CROW
The giant crow can fly you back to the Undead Asylum for an optional sidequest later on. Nothing for now.SUMMONS
Later on in the game, you’ll get soapstones. Each one is a different colour. Each one serves a different purpose. White soapstones aid co-op play, red ones are used to invade other people to kill them and steal souls. There are also a bunch of others for more specific griefing that you’ll come across later.In terms of summons, you’ll (generally) only ever meet folks within 10% of your Soul Level. But a lot of very experienced folks will deliberately keep their level low, either to exploit the inexperienced or to invest their souls elsewhere.
UNDEAD BURG
Take the time to explore. Find the undead merchant and buy some gear.Just quietly
My main character has over 2200 HP. Paired with a very high endurance and Havels set he can go toe to toe with pretty much anything. Beat NG+4 Four Kings by two handing a Great Axe and hitting the Estus while waiting in between spectres. High VIT is a very viable build.Yes, of course you’re right. I did mean to add a bit about any build choices being viable, and personal preference and playstyle being the main considerations. I’ll adjust my tone! 🙂Cheers Shane, that helps a lot. Appreciate it. I like the idea of it being a skill based game, rather than just over level your HP until you are unkillable. Now I just have to find out if I can actually learn the skills of the game enough to progress 🙂
You can.
Be prepared for Undead Burg to take ages, though. I spent about 10 hours of my first playthrough there, but it all clicked, and progress was much, much faster (though not without occasional speedbumps) after that.You can use Humanity (Number indicated at the left of health bar) to reverse hollowing. Think if it as turning on the multiplayer functions. Can’t summon or be invaded while Hollow.
You can summon players to help when you see the white line of writing on the ground. If orange writing use them as they are Sunbros who play almost exclusively for co op and helping. Red writing is initiating a duel with someone. You can use an item you get later to put your own summon signs down.
With certain types of orbs you can invade other players games. You get invaded or invade players within a certain level range of yourself. The distorted shield is a Dark Hand which is a late game item so the guy is keeping his level low so he can grief new players.
Thanks Freeze, it sure seemed like my invader knew what he was doing, had all sorts of weapons, swords, claws, some weird light ball thing that let him chomp down on me like a vampire…. Certainly glad he had a dodgy connection because otherwise I know I would have lost all my souls
Nice work beating him, man. Must have felt pretty good.
More relief with the invader. Though getting past the Asylum Demon on the 3rd go felt pretty good. Considering how badly I got beaten the first 2 times I was quite happy to get out of there on the third attempt. Luckily I got my souls back each time, so I had a decent store by the time i got out
Richie Benaud’s hit the fence! 83 and not out! Marvelous effort!
Really?
It looked more like he bowled the fence, hitting middle and leg.
Well, the approach was a little sloppy, but he still managed to hit it front on. Lucky he’s a stonewaller or he might have had to draw stumps.
They managed to update the robot that wears his skin after he died 20 years ago to be able to play cricket?
*deep breath*
PHOENIX WRIGHT IS OUT, YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!!!!
Oh, cool! Let us know (spoiler-free) what you think!
I’m keen to know.
what game are you up to now?
Midway through the second case of #3.
The one with Maggey and the café with the very weird he/she hybrid.oh… that guy… yeah… he’s something. also have you discovered that godot is the coolest prosecutor ever yet?I feel like I’m… waiting… for him to do something.
#BeckettHumour
These starters are all kinda retarded-lookin’. Feraligatr seems to be the most badass of them though, so I guess he’s the one to go with. Even if his name’s spelt dumb.
Nooooooo!!!
Typhlosion is the way to go man!!!!
“Are you kidding?! Meganium is the best!”
– said no one ever.
Typhlosion is sick, but doesn’t have the moves to back it up. Feraligatr is where it’s at.
He looks silly!
Got dragged down the the Uni library. Sooo many asians asleep in here. Good chance to download all the tv shows I’ve been meaning to download though!
Dammit, Batman is out and sitting on my machine ready to go, but I’m 25% of the way through the final dungeon in Trails in the Sky and should really finish that game first. 🙁
Batmang isn’t going anywhere. Finish playing with tits first.
Amusing side note: the name of the final dungeon in TitS is
the aureole.Also the internal decor is white stuff spread over brown and it looks like someone made the place out of oreos or something.
got a week of leave coming up at the start of november \o/
DARK SOULS HERE I COME…
Getting close to finishing Wind Wanker i think,
Got 5 of the 8 Tri force pieces
So Dark Souls gets my full attention when that has happened \o/
In regards to Dark Souls
I’m in the Darkroot Gardens, after killing the one-legged-lightning-hurling-SOB demon (Titanite demon) and just killed that irritating moth dude (Moonlight Butterfly)
Got owned the first time due to being a heavy Melee build, so i summoned Beatrice the Witch and kited the shit out of him, and took some good chunks of health out of him when he landed by 2-handing a bastard sword…
Then i found the Elite Knight armor (MY FIRST NEW ARMOR SET \o/)
all in all, a good spent 2 hours XD…
NOW ONWARDS TO BLIGHT TOWN…
Well TAY, I am in a fowl mood today.
Just before I went to go to bed last night I find out that a bunch of people, actually no, they’re not people, what they are would require me to say several very bad words, had trashed a bunch of sites at the cemetery back home, including the one of my friend who died in a car accident a couple of years back.I don’t recall ever being so angry and upset in my life. It really doesn’t help that the 2nd anniversary is less than 2 weeks away and I was already starting to feel crappy over that.
I’ve actually pretty much lost all faith in humanity.
So, how’s your Friday?
wow people suck!
Just when i think people can’t stoop any lower then continue to amaze me…
Sorry to hear mang, with something like that, there’s nothing i can say or do that would help, but you know you always have support here
I can only surmise that people who do such things have never lost someone, or just can’t appreciate the gravity of what they’re doing. It’s a pretty disgusting thing to do, defacing someone’s resting place – I hope that one day they suffer a similar loss and begin to understand how thoughtless and painful what they did is.
Aw man, I’m sorry to hear this. 🙁 People are simpleminded fools.
Triple J got sick of people complaining that it used to be better and took over Dig Music. It’s meant to be Triple J without the presenters and playing music more in line with the stuff that shows up in their hottest 100 of all time.
This is the stuff that’s been played today. Seems pretty okay.
Might check it out when the Doctor comes on so I’m not grinding my teeth for 3 hours.
Seriously he’s intro is so annoying, how many times do we need to hear “it’s the doctor, here he is! It’s him! You’re listening to the Doctor!”
Bullet.
I’ve learned to deal with him over time…except for his laugh. It sounds so forced and uncomfortable…
I deal with it by flipping over to different stations.
He’s voice just irritates me, sounds as if he’s always got a smug smile on his face. Really boils my blood when he pops in for the last 20 minutes of Lewi’s segment too.
#endrant
They really should have braded it as Triple J Classics…
Also, it’s my new work radio station.
They’re still playing a lot of new music. It just happens to be more alt-rock than Aussie hip hop or that weak folksy indie stuff.
Oh I know, but there’s way more older Triple J stuff than newer.
I turned it on and they were playing Silverchair. Always a good start.
Everything I’ve heard so far is something I identify more as “Triple J music” than what I hear when I listen to Triple J. This is a really good sign. I actually have pretty high hopes.
Soooo, triple J from 15-20 years ago? 🙂 (When I was a high schooler and actually listened to radio?)
Yeah I’ve started to listen to a lot of radio over the past few months. I can tell you its not far from the crap you hear on GTA radio.
When I listened to the radio, it was almost always Triple M. Aside from the Nickelback, most of the music was pretty okay. Shame about the commercials and well, everything else. It’s amazing listening to a radio station that actively treats its listeners like morons. Couldn’t tell if they were playing to the stereotype of that’s what they genuinely believed people wanted.
Yeap that’s still triple M.
I’ve only recently started listening to the radio in the car because my wife was getting snarky about the terrible albums I chose to listen to on the iPod because she has to change it to something she can tolerate whenever she drives.
I decided I couldn’t be bothered picking an album to listen to then switching back whenever I put the car away (especially since I do a lot of short trips), so I just listen to the radio instead.
When I was a kid I was torn between 2Day FM and Triple M (104.1 and 104.9 respectively). Nova (96.9) started up and I liked it for awhile but it soon became kind of dull. I never really liked Triple J. My mother’s station with all the old people music was 2WS (101.7) which was later rebranded as WSFM.
So it turns out, after a month of experimentation after having taken a break of some 8 years from listening to the radio on a regular basis, WSFM is the only station 30 year old me can tolerate. Everything else has too high a proportion of terribleness.
I’m pretty much ok with this.
That’s pretty much it. Wsfm presenters in the morning are just terrible, though the music’s alright. I think its the music that drives every radio station.
God, I can’t even tolerate the ad segments they run in the evenings for “Jonesie and Amanda in the mornings”, I definitely wouldn’t tune in for that garbage if I had to drive to work. The main redeeming feature of WFSM is that at the top of each hour they play ten songs in a row with no ads or lengthy talk segments. Of course if I happen to start a 10 minute drive at 6:45pm, I might not hear any music whatsoever that isn’t part of an advertising jingle. Oddly enough the most memorable advertisement I can think of that I’ve heard are the ones where some git is having a fake conversation with a marketing specialist and smugging it up about how radio is the most effective way to gain and retain customers.
Radio ads suck hard core testicles. And yeah you are right you don’t want to tune in on that Jones and Amanda garbage
WSFM is the station I listen to, and I don’t even live in Sydney. Oh Canberra.
Hah. I’d have treated it like the ‘toilet seat’ situation.
I actively ignore/provoke women who demand that the toilet seat always be left down.
Argument: It’s an equation of effort.
Men want it up.
Women want it down.
If the men are always leaving it down when they’re finished for the benefit of women, that means they’re having to lift the seat when they start, then lower it when they finish. The women don’t have to touch it at all. INCREDIBLY UNEQUAL DIVISION OF LABOUR.
One of my younger brothers works in a female-dominated clinic where they have harped at him about the toilet seat issue… Because there always has to be a fucking drama, they’re never happier than when they can be self-righteously pissy about something. His response was far more subtle and clever than mine. He’s taken to lowering both the ring seat AND the lid/cover seat.
It annoys the hell out of the women because it means that they, the perfect pristine delicate flowers, still have to touch an icky ewwy toilet seat, which was really their main complaint all along – that men are better suited to touching icky things and should be the only ones to suffer it. But they can’t SAY that. So they just grumble quietly and stew.
…He’s kind of a genius, that boy.
Hah! That’s a fun solution.
I wasnt’ going to harp on about it but the iPod radio issue does irk me a little. I either have to tolerate her music (which is apparently universally awesome and above reproach) or pick what I want to listen to at the outset of my journey, then put it back to her music when I get back. She has justified this position by implying that my music is bad and indirectly trying to shame me for listening to it.
I have no shame, but I also have little tolerance for taking time out of my day to engage in a meaningless conversation when the alternative is to literally press the “Radio” button on the console at the start of my journey so I can listen to classic hits of the 70s, 80s and 90s, and the “Aux” button at the end of my journey so the iPod can pick up where it left off in the middle of some Alex Lloyd shit shingle.
(It’s not about efficiency, it’s about winning. Assert your dominance!)
Cheers for that. will definitely apply that if such a situation arises
Step 1: Download whole GTA radio set of tracks
Step 2: Take commercials folder, copy to music device with all your normal music
Step 3: Play on shuffle in the car.
Success. You are now listening to GTA radio in real life, and it’s worth it for when you have people in your car that haven’t played GTA before.
God, I would love to see innocent passenger reactions to some of the talk-back shows.
Hahaha that is a purely brilliant idea. You know I just might try that. though the radio will say CD on its display.
Argh. I feel conflicted now. What’s the point of taking requests for Dig Music? I loved the way it was essentially a giant music library on shuffle.
Grr gar ragh. Everything is horrible. I’m going to go outside and find some clouds to shake my fist at.
Bah, so tired. Couldn’t sleep last night. I’m over thinking this “work” thing. It can basically turn out 1 of 3 ways.
1. I secure a job, which means I push someone in there 40-50s who has a family to take care of onto the street.
2. I quit right now and get no money, I miss out on a more the 6 months payout.
3. I don’t get the job and get made redundant (thus getting the payout).
I think I need to purposely sabotage my running for this job.
Yay redundancy package?
I think Nobs is Qld gov like me, and they’re not especially generous packages.
Would you say that the government is screwing you with its package?
Actually scratch that, much more likely outcome to 3 is;
They offer me a position in a job that has nothing to do with that I already do and don’t want to do. If I decline I get nothing.
That’s not necessarily the case. It has to be a job at a similar level and require a similar skillset, I think. There’s a whole bunch of legislation around what makes a proper redeployment offer – I suggest you familiarise yourself with it, so you know what to expect.
I think that’s true. When I was made redundant from CGU due to our team being dissolved (as a call centre rep/underwriting specialist) they tried to offer me a sideways move into the administrative team. I opined that this would be a step backwards career-wise for me (if you can believe that) and that I preferred to take my redundancy instead, which was equivalent to three months salary based on my 2-year tenure at the company.
As a side note, when we were being made redundant they had us fill out forms weighing up why we’d be suitable to stay on after the restructure, effectively applying for internal promotions to related teams. There were ten vacancies for fifteen people. I decided I would actually like the opportunity to focus full time on looking for other work as I’d been wanting to leave for a few months anyway, so in my self-assessment I made sure to be 100% honest about my weaknesses instead of trying to gloss over them.
They said in the meeting they appreciated me identifying those areas because they saw it as me wanting to really focus on developing myself – I think really they just appreciated how easy I made it for them to choose me as a canditate for redundancy.
So yeah. If you want the redundancy don’t sabotage yourself, just tell them you’re committed to self-development to ensure any weaknesses you have don’t compromise your career.
If you like it and want to stay, go for the job. It might sound callous, but it’s not your concern whether other people get the job or not. In this situation, you need to go for what you want. Keep in mind that if you get the job and they don’t, the older people can fall back on a crapload of experience to get a new job.
Oh, and speaking from personal experience, don’t quit immediately. It was a stupid choice I made ages ago and it lead to WoW. You don’t want that, DO YOU???
This. Also, the 40-50yos might be happy to take a six month payout! 😛
Definitely this, @sernobulus. It might sound callous, but it is a fucking tough market out there at the moment in Brisbane. There are still people who got turfed during the big cuts who haven’t been able to find decent work. You would be competing with some 15,000 other office workers. Do not quit right now, that wouldn’t help anyone.
I can vouch for that. I’m one of them 😐
Morning, TAY!
Pokétalk:
I’ve got about six Ralts with perfect IVs in SpA and Def (also a whole bunch with just perfect SpA) if anybody wants one. If nobody takes them they’ll just be Wonder Traded!
Also, if anybody comes across a Cleffa/Clefairy/Clefable that they are willing to part with, I would be very interested in trading for it! No preference on gender/stats/etc (I can breed for that stuff), I just really want one!
I’d be happy to take a female Ralts if you have one spare.
Sure thing, kiddo! Next time I see you online I’ll send a thing (can usually only play after 8:30 on weeknights)
I caught a Ralts.
I called it Helmut.
I could probably use another one, I traded away my fully evolved one for breeding stock of some sort (may have been Dratini).
I’ll try to get a clefairy to trade in return.
Cool. If you can’t find one don’t worry too much. Anything will do in return! (I’m also looking for Mawile if all else fails but I think I can catch one of them myself)
Pokétalk! \o/
My most recent victory: MVPW-WWWW-WWWX-T3XE
Kept being pestered to battle by a Passerby while I was trying to farm up some Friend Safari pokémon. He was packing legendaries+starters+mega-lucario (for anyone following along at home, this is a team of someone who doesn’t know what they are doing). I had to use what I had in my battle box, since my party was just my false swipe aegislash and a bunch of freshly caught safari mons. I ended up taking 4 Pokemon against him. Turns out I could have taken 3 and still won – I switch to Heliolisk late in the battle, mostly to tease that I could, knowing it was going to get fainted – my Hawlucha outsped his Mewtwo, so I could have just left it in and used Acrobatics instead of U-turn.
Anyway, the moral of this story is Nidoking and Greninja are darned good and give me all dat type coverage.
Saved to watch at home!
Shucks, howdy everyone!
I like working fridays… i get to wear hoodies to work
No way! I’M wearing a hoodie to work!
NO…WAI… TWIIIINS \o/
SO AM I!!!
HOODIE GANG!
…
wait since when does your work condone casual Friday?
We tried instigating it, but got punched down if i remember correctly
Hoodlums.
Hoodlum Havoc \o/
RAYMAN!
I have work polo shirts now, so I just wear that with jeans. It’s a pretty good compromise. Plus, Zelda hoodie!
*high-five* for Zelda 😛
Shit, that’d be nice. I have an industry visit so I’m suit-trapped.
*shudders*
suits
Hoodie suits?
instant winner!
Assassin’s Creed style. Stealth hoodie.
I’ve always had a problem with the whole AC hood deal. I mean they’re absolutely terrible for maintaining a good sense of hearing, I can’t help but feel they’d be far more of a hindrance than help for what they do.
I suspect it’s for obfuscation more than situational awareness in the case of AC. Personally I have issues with the construction, too. Anyone who’s ever tried to use a hoodie in the wind knows how utterly fucking ineffective they are in any but maybe 45 degrees of orientation in strong winds or fast movement, yet when the Assassins perform their acrobatics, it stays fastened to their skulls as if by magic.
A hoodie for combat purposes, to me, would feature a tight-fitted skullcap or balaclava of some kind, with the hood fastened to a rigid frame over it, to conceal the face and maintain shape. You could even armour it, if you were expecting that to be an issue. Vented or mesh side panels would both alleviate the impact of wind resistance, and also allow greater aural awareness.
Actually I’ve always found that my hoodie stays firmly in place.
Though that’s mainly due to the whole shaven head thing, meaning that my scalp is basically velcro 😛
I hate when people schedule meetings for Fridays. So much sympathy whenever I see someone come in on a Friday with a suit jacket and tie on.
Considering it’s not even 9 yet, 24 degrees and humidity is approximately several million percent a hoodie is a bad idea here mmkay.
… sleeveless hoodie? 😛
http://m.alibaba.com/products/sleeveless_shirt_hood.html
… i need that in my life… though i look like a twat in a tank top so i can only imagine what i’d look like in this 😛
The same as everybody else
A twat 😉New Humble Weekly Sale.
I did it TAY! I have the pokemanz! And I have no idea what I’m doing! But my ‘friends’ in game call me ‘Sax Machine’ and my toad looking pokemon is called ‘Lick Me’.
That’s progress!
My friends call me Rectal Hammer.
I named my Fennekin Mozilla.
Also the word Bum isn’t filtered out so have fun with that one.
I called my Chespin Pike.
Also, my Squirtle is named Gamera.
If you add lots of people as friends you can use a bunch of cool online features! http://www.tinyurl.com/taynames
Errr… How do I do that?
Do I add friend codes or search for peoples names in game?
Outside of the game in the 3DS friends list. Add codes there!
O.K. My code is 2492-5532-3162.
They call me Big B (I was too lazy so I picked an auto suggestion). With my Fennekin ‘Funnel’ and my Charmander ‘Burninator’, I have mostly just stuffed around hatching a couple of hundred eggs and doing lots of trading for the last 50 hours.
They call me Big B he said with a sly knowing wink.
I’ve played a bit of Batman Arkham Origins. General thoughts (Zero spoilerage, but just to be safe):
It uhh, it feels like a Batman game. Seems to be a tad buggy (though that may well just be the Master Race version, and I know I’ve had issues with fully downloaded games on Steam before), but unless it implodes in on itself at some point in the future, I can’t imagine there’s much to worry about. Yay.Awesome. This is exactly what I logged in here to find out.
Haha wow. My younger just lost her shit at another kid. Dropping her off at kindy and another kid was looking at me and said “Hello Daddy”. My girl dropped her bag, went right up to the other kid’s face and nearly snarled at her “It’s not your daddy it’s my daddy, understand”. She’s 2 years old.
are you sure your not the daddy?
HAH! that’s awesome… kiddy turf wars
Someone call Maury.
Haha! Teenage years are gonna be tough on ‘ ol Freeze! XD
Two years old? Shit I didn’t think I started kindy until like… four. Maybe even five? I wasn’t actually speaking much until 4, either.
Did you know the Freeze’s are geniuses? Mikey W is crazy smart and his kids love classical music! CRAZY SMART!
“Kindy” is pre-school in QLD, isn’t it? I don’t even know anymore!
Nah, kindy is everything before Prep, which is what used to be pre-school.
Kindy for me was the one year before pre-school. Apparently some people do it for multiple years? At any rate, Kindy, then pre-school, then year 1, then through to 12. 1-7 were primary (but not anymore – 7 is now moved to high school I think).
Confusing. As what you call pre-school I would have called prep and pre-school is what you went to before you did your kinder year. prep-6 is primary, 7-12 high school
in qld, it’s always been kindy, pre-school, then school.. until this year.. or next year.. they decided to align themselves with nsw.. and probably the rest of the country. I was 2 when I moved to qld, and my sis was almost 4. Due to moving to qld, she actually ended up starting school earlier than she should have, and later on got held back a year because of it.
exactly the same for me.. kindy for a year (only a few days a week) then pre-school, then school
Non speaking toddler years five o/
I asked this over on gizmodo’s whitenoise, but I doubt i’d get an answer, being slighly gaming related, I now present you my shameless copy and paste double post!
Ok so, im in the market for a tablet. Im after a windows 8 tablet running the full windows (not RT) I have a few options im thinking of:
Windows pro 2
Windows pro
Dell Venue Pro 11
My quesiton is: is there a big jump from the windows pro to the pro 2?
I want something that will handle full applications, maybe a little editing on GIMP when i’m out and about, and possibly some Minecraft of Civ IV, would this be possible on any of these systems?
And also I wanted to know, are the new Bay Trail Atom chips, would they be suitable for the above tasks?
Also have I missed something?
I don’t know much about these but I’m sure the resident MS fanboy @lambomann007 can probably help you out.
I also think @doc_what has a Pro, so he might be able to shed some light?
Bay trail aom chips: I prefer Salt and Vinegar, or sometimes Barbecue
#helping
Ugh. Salt and vinegar. Unless it’s balsamic vinegar. I like those ones.
#Fixed
The Penny Arcade crew did a fair bit of talking to various professionals at a promotional thing Microsoft did for the new versions of the Surface. It was distinctly lacking in breakdancing hipsters and heavy on actual creators, using the device and noting its pros and cons in the context of their profession.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2013/02/22/the-ms-surface-pro
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2013/09/23/the-surface-2
Apparently the reviews, once posted on Reddit, were favourably uh… reviewed. (META.) And you know Gabe’s a gamer, so there’s that element to it. Probably worth a read, he steers clear of a lot of tech jargon.
Also, Bay Trail Atom chips are probably a gimmick, just like Kettle and all the other ‘gourmet’ chips. Get thee some Thins Light & Tangy and if you wait til they’re on sale, you can probably buy 2-3 times as many. Quantity AND quality! (Kidding. I think Gabe mentions the chip upgrades in his review, too, but that might’ve been the Penny Arcade Report instead. I sometimes get confused.)
Thanks for that, it was a good read, and it covered all of the questions I had about the Surface Pro. now i’m just not sure if the price difference is worth it getting the Pro or Pro 2. I do like new technology though……
there isn’t a huge jump from pro to pro 2. pretty much the only difference is that the pro 2 uses a haswell chip, so should theoretically be better with battery life.
/edit forgot to say that the pro2 has bigger storage options too
So Doc brought a chainsaw to work today.
Fridays, amirite?
Just… give him some space today.
Tweet me when today’s article goes up, please.
I’ll be interested to hear your thoughts seeing as Rev is when I stopped enjoying AC games.
I had a dream I chopped my left arm off with a chainsaw last night.
…
*moseys off*
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=271
Did you do it in front of a camera phone to get the next clue you needed?
My Soviet era Nokia let me down!
Boardgames Repost
Since there was no strong opinions either way (or at least no clear majority) We will be doing boardgames on Saturday. This way we can play later if people want without worrying about it being a school night.
Starting around 2:30pm and going through until people decide to leave. Will be held at my place in Glen Iris for those who don’t know, just shoot me a message on twitter or an email tigerion[at]gmail
We will put on dinner for people so let us know numbers so that we can cater for that. What is on offer will depend on the weather, but likely either a BBQ or a roast. Just let us know if you have any food allergies or intolerances. So dinner should be covered so just bring whatever you want to drink, snack on and play.
In honour of my birthday we will have a very light halloween theme running through the day.
Let me know if you are coming or if you have any questions
Would like to get a feel for number so I can stock up today, let me know what your current thoughts are
@tech_knight @jordi @pixel_the_ferret_viking @negativezero @tofu @inquisitorsz @zetrox2k
EDIT: If you have any Halloween themed games you would like to play bring them along
count me in, but I can’t get there till about 4-4:30
Excellent
I won’t make it sadly, Saturday I’m picking up my new car so I’m pretty sure my Saturday will be really busy managing what to do with my old car. Sorry Tigs 🙁
No problem Techie, good luck
I will be there, but I’m not sure yet whether I’ll be there for dinner. I may need to leave around 5-5:30. Will get back to you this evening when I have a definitive answer.
I would like to come, but I have no way of getting back home
i think I’ll have to bail, sorry. Had some work come up and not sure how long it will take. Probably most of the day. Have fun for me!
Thanks for letting me know
Thanks for reminding me
@tigerion: yeah, just confirming: I’ll need to shoot away at 5:30 or so, have a family event to get to.
No problem, thanks for the confirmation
This pokewalker thing confuses me.
Also I’ve heard it’s supposed to be surprisingly accurate, but it’s telling me I’ve done nearly 3500 steps this morning. Seems kinda high.
it kinda screws with you when your not sure if someones taken 3500 steps IRL or in pokemon :S
Something like this
Happy Friday \o/
Star wars d20 Session Recap:
Goddamn Dathomirian assassins. They jumped us in a library of all places and instantly knocked our assault droid unconscious. Thankfully they didn’t cause a TPK as they retreated after one of them nearly got critically-hit and our Jedi was about to unleash a butt-tonne of hurt.I didn’t really do much. My tech specialist finally finished his personal combat droid that he will take into battle as his combat skills are rather lacking. So he has created the Mark VI Nascent Designation Individual Extraction, Security, & Elimination, Large-class. Or VIN DIESEL for short (acronyms are fun 😀 ).
Awesome acronym.
Wait they ‘nearly’ got hit so they ran away? Cowardly dogs
Well Force users have the potential to gain this feat called Dissipate Energy. Basically it means that, provided the Force user can react in time, they can attempt to absorb the energy from an energy-based attack and heal themselves. Considering all blaster fire is energy-based, it is pretty ridiculous (our Jedi was abusing the hell out of that when we were fighting stormtroopers in the last session).Our Gunslinger unloaded 3 shots at one of the witches, with 1 missing, 1 hitting, and 1 a confirmed critical hit. The problem is, the witch absorbed the fire from the critical hit using Dissipate Energy but failed to absorb the other shot. If that critical hit connected, it would have knocked the witch unconscious as critical hits go straight to wounds rather than vitality (Star Wars d20 has a slightly different system than regular DnD, despite being based on DnD 3.5).
Also the other witch was about to cop a full-round, power-attacking, Battleminded Jedi attack so things would have quickly turned south for them. The DM admitted he was preserving them for future use so that’s going to be fun.
It’s been awhile since I looked at any EU but…
isn’t Dathomir that technological backwater with the Rancor-riding Force-witches?YepYep. Hence why they very nearly completely wrecked. Also it appears that we have massively pissed off the Emperor for him to send the witches at us.That particular part of the EU never made any sense to me.
And that’s not even the strangest or most ridiculous part of the EU by a long shot.
No, The Crystal Star and every fucking thing in it takes that honour.
Kevin J Anderson’s shit gives it a run for the money though. And those terrible comics he wrote as well with the clone emperor and stuff.
In fact I’d argue that basically nothing in the EU is particularly good aside from the X-Wing stuff and Zahn’s books.
Looking at the list of SW books on Wikipedia I’m staggered that there’s been so many since I stopped reading them 13 or so years ago. What follows is a brief ordering of the ones I’ve read, based on the value of their contribution to the franchise as a whole.
1) Timothy Zahn’s “Thrawn” trilogy.
2) The entire X-Wing/Corran Horn saga including I, Jedi can be taken as one pretty decent chunk.
3) Timothy Zahn’s “Hand of Thrawn” duology.
4) the immediate post-Endor era (Truce at Bakura, Courtship of Princess Leia, etc.)
5) The “pre-movie” era, including stuff like the young Han Solo trilogy,
5) The Corellian Trilogy
6) The Black Fleet Crisis trilogy
7) Me taking the original trilogy screenplays and putting them into a blender with two cups of my own piss
8) Splinter of the Mind’s Eye
9) Anything written by Kevin J. Anderson, Barbara Hambly, or Vonda McIntyre. That means the Jedi Academy Trilogy, Darksaber, Children of the Jedi, Crystal Star, the young Jedi saga aimed at kids, etc.
I didn’t really read any of the New Jedi Order stuff written under the Del Rey publisher apart from the first one where they kill off Chewbacca, which I don’t even know where to begin. I guess a lot of these newer books have their fans but they changed publisher and style around the same time I was growing out of these books which are mostly on the level of shitty fanfic apart from maybe the top three entries in my list (I’m a bit of a Zahn fan, can you tell?). Obviously I feel strongly that there’s a tipping point where the existence of the EU novels does more harm than good.
Most of the games have been pretty good though, KotOR, TIE Fighter, Dark Forces/Jedi Knight, etc. Even the Pod racer game on N64 was pretty good and it had the misfortune of being associated with The Phantom Menace, the movie so poorly thought out that it’s basically inconsequential.
The NJO stuff started out crap, but then went good for a bit before the decree came down from upon high that people were going to get really confused by the fact there would be an Anakin Skywalker in the prequel stuff and Anakin Solo in the EU, so
after spending several books developing Anakin from one of Kevin J Anderson’s terrible mistakes into a really interesting character, they killed him off. Everything screeched to a halt at that point while they scrambled to compensate for the change and it completely lost me (also didn’t help that one of the books in the continuity never got published in Australia for some insane reason).Dark Forces, while great games, fuck with the canon a bit too much. Swamp wampas and shit. I also feel you’re rating The Courtship of Princess Leia way too high, that book was utter trash (thus my previous comments on it). To show the level of quality we’re talking about with the EU, I would revise it thus:
1) Thrawn Trilogy
2) X-Wing
3) Hand of Thrawn
4) Pre-movie stuff
5) Prequel Trilogy movies <– so we have a quality reference
6) First half of NJO
7) Random shit from Fanfiction.net
8) A bucket of turds
9) Everything else
@negativezero you’re probably right, it’s been too long since I really read this stuff so my frame of reference is skewed – I also have a weakness for Courtship because it was the first one I read. I was going chronologically and at the time the books were relatively new – the X-Wing books weren’t out yet and my friend I borrowed/bought the books off second hand didn’t have Truce at Bakura.
I still love Dark Forces/Jedi Knight even though it throws the canon off a little bit though.
When I started reading them the Zahn trilogy was it. When I was much younger I thought they were all generally okay aside from a few of the real stinkers. Then I re-read and god damn 🙁
I’m actually kind of hoping that the new films (did you hear that they dropped the original writer for Episode VII and confirmed that Lawrence Kasdan is writing it instead?) basically cut the shitty EU off at the knees. The period after Timothy Zahn’s trilogy was so successful where basically all the books were glorified fanfiction sent the EU to shit, it’s so loaded up with complete crap now that it’s gotten unintelligible. They kind of tried to bring it back under control with the Vong invasion and stuff (spent the first 5-6 books improving on or killing off a lot of the awful characters that esp. Kevin J Anderson shat out) but even that spun out of control.
Ideally the new films will nuke it all, pave it over and give them a starting point for a new EU continuity free of some of the stupid shit that accumulated in it over time.
I didn’t see that they replaced the original writer for Lawrence Kasdan so hopefully that bodes well. I am cautiously optimistic about the new films as Lucas has been cut-off from Star Wars entirely and the EU will hopefully recover.
But yeah, Zahn’s trilogy is definitely a high point of the EU for me. I hope they don’t try and replicate that in the films as I don’t think there is any point considering the books have done pretty well as they are.
Aw man, Batman: Arkham Origins is taking ages to install on PC. *shakes fist at first world problems*
Now it’s making me download six gb even though I have retail version? D: *shakes fist*
The Steam release was an 18gb download for me.
Which completed super fast because Cable is awesome. \o/
Aw man! Says it’s got two and a half hours left of downloading for me, cause I’m in an internet backwater. XD
I couldn’t get to sleep last night, so I started downloading it at like, Midnight, and so it was ready to go when I got up this morning!
oh my god phoenix wright you guys oh my god.
i spent all of last night beating the first case.
so far it’s great, the 3D models look fantastic, the character animations are 50 times more detailed than the sprits were, i actually enjoy playing the game with the 3D slider up. Also the Anime cutscenes are really cool, and are also in 3D, which i didn’t expect they’d be bothered with.
Aw man, couldn’t you have said that it was terrible? I was planning on Pokémanning tonight! D:
Still going to buy it today to show my support and whatnot though.
that’s out now?
crap.
Would you recommend it as a starting point for someone new to the series?
I’ve been considering fast-tracking my 3DS purchase and the game looks great.
You have android phone/tablet right?
Get the HD trilogy for that.
Or iOS. Can’t remember if you had an iPad or not.
I can’t find it on the Google Play Store 🙁
Was it iOS only?
Some research indicates the English version is only on iOS and the Japanese version is on both.
Weird.
Yes and no,
each phoenix wright game is self contained in a sense, like there aren’t any massive links between the cases between each game. so if you did just get this game, you shouldn’t have that massive struggles with the story.
however, to get to understand the characters and some other plot points, it is best to have played the other games.
if you dont want to play through EVERY phoenix wright game, the best would be to start off on Apollo Justice – ace attorney, that game has the most relevance to dual destinies. however i fully recommend playing the 3 original games on DS (or iOs) as those games still hold up today.
Started tweeting about Madden and now I’m being followed by someone that claims to be a “Sr Research Scientist EA Sports”. He probably won’t enjoy this much.
That moment where you tweet “Oh! So I press X to Sportsball! This game makes so much more sense now.” after 5 days of playing it will be the tweet that breaks him.
I think I have a new life goal.
So I’m going to a Simpsons Trivia night and we need a team name.
So far we have:
Lee Carvallo’s Putting Challengers
Globex Corporation
Compuglobal Hyper Meganet
Suggestions?
Krusty’s Komedy Klassics.
No Homers
Already taken.
Internet Kings.
For faster nudity.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/
We used Bob last time.
Lil Bastards
Kwazy Klown Airlines
Gentlemen’s Relief Productions
Uncle Homer’s Day Care Center
Actually go with Uncle Homer’s Day Care Center because Dan feels kids.
Bart Gets an F.
It’s the only episode I can remember from memory.
Okay, got most of the stuff for my trip to Brisbane sorted. I’m going to be there all day Saturday and most of Sunday next weekend (November 2-3).
Doing family stuff from 5pm on Saturday and Sunday afternoon until I leave is booked out to go see my friends’ new house and puppy and whatnot. From about 10am Sat to 5ish is free though. Meat up and do something in town?
So basically all the times I can’t make it?
I get it.
It’s not personal, I’ve just conspired to ruin any chance of happiness you might ever hope to have.
I think I’m actually free on that Saturday (for once – I swear, a few weeks in a row of obligations and I start really noticing the lack of ‘lounge-around-in-underwear-eating-icecream-from-the-tub time’). I could do a lunch or sommat. Will do the tagging roll call later unless someone else wants to fill in what I miss from memory…
@dc @beardymcmuttonchops @dkzeitgeist @enduwolf @gutsoup @sernobulus @strange @sughly @welbot
Uhm. I’m sure I’m missing someone.
@trjn That’s the weekend of the NaNoWriMo writer’s retreat 🙁 Feel free to come visit me on Straddie! 😛
Hahahahaha. Gold. I guess this is Kotaku News comments in a nutshell?
It’s funny, because I followed the Dirt 2 & 3 benches very closely and actually own both games.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/10/theres-a-rumour-that-the-next-call-of-duty-runs-at-1080p-on-ps4-and-720p-on-xbox-one/comment-page-1/#comment-2045432
ABORT ABORT ABORT
Good lord that went on for a while, I escaped while I still could. Not sure if they are specific console fanboys or a console fanboy and a technical graphics whore
Coworker just returned with his Arkham Origins CE – I thought there was some delay on the CE stuff? Incidentally the Joker figurine/diorama is fucking cool.
EDIT: Impressed with the rest of the stuff too – nice hardcover art book, posters, extra goodies. I like seeing proper CE’s like these. Not the ones with DLC codes and a shitty coin or moulded plastic junk.
EDIT EDIT: ‘Moulded plastic junk’. Heh.
There was a line at my local JB with all these people who pre-ordered the CE and none of the staff knew where they were. D:
How can you not know where they are? You could live in the box it’s that massive.
I have a text message on my phone saying I won’t have it but yet here the box is.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/245280
Enslaved!
aaand wish listed…
God damn that list is getting rather large XD
Mine is only 54 games
at this stage i use it more as “Oh by the way this game exists” rather then a wish list XD
Sounds familiar. Although it does get dangerous when they start sending “Oh by the way that game you are interested in is now on sale. BUY BY BUY” messages to your email and/or phone
Yeah i hate that 😛
ESPECIALLLY during steam sales, because there’s at least 2 – 3 daily
Also are you able to make it to boardgames tomorrow? Just you or the missus as well?
At this stage probably not… i might come and say hi, but don’t plan food or anything for me… sorry dude, i know i’m very unreliable at the moment…
i guess you can say i’m reliably unreliable XD
bork bork disappointment bork
You are more than welcome to drop by for however long you want. Understand things are tough right now and other thing must take priority
Premium Andy Serkis face!
DX9 port, but damn I’m sure it looks even more spectacular than the console version. 😀
Looked amazing enough on consoles any ways, the art direction! SO DAMN PURDY!
Chilling at the moment, listening to Public Enemy in preparation for seeing them live in March. I can’t believe that Public Enemy and Macklemore and Ryan Lewis are coming to my town for a festival. Hope they both get decent setlengths.
*braces self*
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/10/youtube-reacts-to-beyond-two-souls
“This game racist” is almost as good as ” Watch out for the monkey. He throw things.”
Sage advice for folks in all walks of life.
(Edit: Typo.)
Watched it, loved it. Thanks for the link! 🙂
Made the mistake of eating ice-cream and jelly while watching it. When this comment came up: “This will either be the best game ever, or the biggest disappointment… … … 50/50 chance” it must have looked like I sprayed blood all over my keyboard.
HAWLUCHA!
… you planned that didn’t you? 😛
KILL IT WITH
FIREPSYCHIC!Makes a great HM Slave!
But Khangaskhan!
es numero un!
I walked to Big W during lunch and I had to restrain myself from purchasing Batman Arkham Origins. I was holding a copy in one hand when the other hand slapped it and made me put it back on the shelf. D: Aww, but I really wanted that. Now I’m talking to my own hand.
You gotsta tell that hand to stop pushing you around!
I’m too afraid. XD
Treating your hand to Batman is the least you can do for it, given all the terrible, filthy things it does for you…
I know, right! Stupid hand.
But it’s always treated him so well up ’til now!
Just had a super attractive girl tell me she likes my wallet.
This means she wants to sleep with me right?
I ain’t saying she a gold digger…
😛
But she definitely messing with a broke nigger.
Don’t do it, man!
That happened to me one day and I ended up getting married…
@freezespreston upvotes! What is this madness?
I upvote all the time 🙁
Haha, sorry if I upset. You just have a more restrained upvoting style than @dc.
She wants to sleep with your wallet.
It could imply she likes leather, if you know what I mean.
Leather? Not that classy.
Kotaku and my links never seem to work well together.
For reference my wallet is a NES controller.
No follow my ass kotaku >:(
Well retro is in at the moment. Maybe she was just admiring the hipster-nature of your wallet which is a receptacle of symbols of capitalistic greed. I dunno, just chalk it up to people are weird.
???
Ladies man!
Meanwhile on Lifehacker: “How do I stop gaming from ruining my love-life?”
Non-Serious Answer: Join in. Co-op/multiplayer is awesome foreplay.
How To Stop Watching Porn While Working
How To Stop Gaming Enough For Sexy Times
Is Lifehacker written for anyone besides me?
I liked their article on keyboard shortcuts the other day. Mainly because I learned that windows key + down will minimise the current window, which is way more reliable and less suspicious than alt-tab.
Only works if you’re running the window in windowed mode. For full screen you have to double-tap down.
The More You Know
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They even have helpful advice about bread storage.
IT WAS LIES. I tried it and it went off faster than when I leave it in the fridge!
The problem with gamifying your sex life is that there’s no higher-tier to go for a reward once you get good at it.
There’s always cheats.
Cheating is the Monopoly of sex. It seems like harmless fun at first, but eventually you wind up alone and everyone hates you.
Was reading through that, preparing to say something along the lines of “Here’s a thought: grow the hell up you whiny friggin’ child”. Then I saw Serrels’ response and can’t stop laughing 😀
Some of those comments made me really, really uncomfortable.
Hm. One of the filmies went down to the shops at lunch and came back with an XL and a copy of Pokemon. Seems like the unit she picked up might be an older one like mine, with the older firmware. Might have to pester her about testing out whether the game will force an update or not 😛
How’s Arkham Origins, @dc?
Decent. Still early. There’s a tone difference between the Rocksteady ones that’s really noticeable, but definitely solid all the same.
Yeah, whereas Rocksteady was more Batman: TAS, this feels more like the recent movies. Particularly with the THUDTHUD-THUDTHUD soundtrack.
While I’m here, Spoiler for once the game opens up:
How rad are the Christmas carols that are playing in the background? I know it’s a stupid little detail, but I love it. Probably mostly because I’m an idiot who likes Christmas carols.Is anyone planning on travelling overseas next year? I’m trying to put together a group departure with work. Where would you want to go? What’s on your bucket list?
I’m thinking about Japan.
Not sure when or even if.
But it’s been discussed in passing with my sweet lady.
Japan is great. Skiing is excellent. Prices are nice, the people are super-nice.
It’s also cheaper than a vacation inside Aus, go figure.
Whether or not it’s cheaper depends entirely on whether your trip includes a stop by Akihabara or Den-Den Town I think (I also hear that Akiba has kind of over-commercialized in the last 5 years or so and lost a lot of its soul, and that Den-Den Town is more like what it used to be.) I’ve never been to Osaka so I don’t know for sure 🙁
Akihabara was like JBhifi 6 stories high covering entire blocks. Only better than JB lol
US (kids to Disneyland (by kids I mean me (naturally))), Japan and Munich for Oktoberfest.
Realistically we’ll probably just head over to Fiji or something for a week or two.
I would love to go to Japan. Mum would love to go to England.
We have money for neither =P
Save your pennies… or buy a lottery ticket 😛
We try to save but all the money goes on bills.
Trust me, I was very close to offering to sell my WiiU on here. Thought about it 3 times but Mum said not to.
I’ll give you $5 and a banana.
Compromise and stay in Australia!
I am! Or so I am told.
No idea where yet. Japan? Iceland? Something.
And my buckets have no lists.
Canada.
As for bucket list, probably just lose myself in some faraway place with no plans. See where I end up.
My bucket list involves South America, but I don’t think I’ll be going there for quite a few years.
Batman: AO is sitting at home waiting for me and all I want to do is get home and play an old game I’ve played a heap of already.
I’ve become everything I’ve ever hated:
@cakesmith
We can play SWTOR tonight and talk about how we’re not playing Batman.
That was the plan, yeah 😛
Oh, I’m not invited. I see how it is …
Today has been one weird day.
Bad mood because of all the stuff that happened last night, then my sister sends me a photo of her latest ultrasound and you can totally make out the baby.
Oh yeah, I’m also going to be an uncle, so that’s a thing.
Well done. That’s bittersweet.
That’s a pretty awesome way to feel better. Congrats!
I got a second message with it that can be summarised as:
You are not allowed to teach it bad habits.
Suggested response:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHANO.
That would be like trying to stop the tides.
How else will can one be ‘the cool uncle’? Wind ’em up with candy, soda, and horrible, horrible video games and movies, then let ’em loose on their parents… the perfect crime.
My sister knows me way to well. She’ll turn her back and BAM!
Baby will be doing the goosestep.
Yeah. Focus on that, I’d say. Enjoy the moment.
Oh wow! Congrats, man!
2:681:1
I finally posted on Lifehacker you guys!
P.S. Thanks again everyone for your advice re: Pokeymans. I’m going to pick up a 3DS tomorrow. Totally Nuzlockeing my first run, I love the idea.
You brave man
Brave man. I chose to Nuzlocke on my second run and ended up with Froakie, Pidgey, Pikachu (so lucky), Burmy, Ledyba, and Charmander. Hope you get some good Pokeymans. 😀
Thinking back on how often I watched Homeword Bound as a kid I found this video on YouTube.
Probably the cutest thing you’ll see today.
http://youtu.be/m_VEAKEsNfo
My wife tells me I’m Superman in bed.
Faster than a speeding bullet she says.
“That’s because I was thinking about your sister.”
#howtostartcouchsurfing
Maybe it’s because you keep wearing your underwear over your pants.
My wife called me her sub. I thought it was cos I was long, hard and full of semen, but turns out it was cos I was cheap, quick and easy, yet totally satisfying.
Tangentially related: my three year old called me a superhero today (cue inflated self-esteem) and immediately followed it up by squirting me with water and saying I was dirty.
“I always get freaked out when you start singing Ben.”
“Why’s that?”
“Because if you sung louder it would actually be quite nice”
“…”
I guess I’ll be hitting the talent show circuit then
General Pokemon X/Y questions:
1) Are shinies very noticeable? Like, do they still do the whole sparkle thing when you see them?
2) Where do people here put their friendcodes? I’m borrowing a 3ds at the moment, but plan to get my own soon so won’t add anyone straight away, but I recall people talking about a list or what not?
http://www.tinyurl.com/taynames
this should help
Thanks man! That’s a lot more extensive then I imagined, but I’ll add my details when I get my 3ds!
You shouldn’t feel obliged to add friendcodes to the 3DS, with the way that it works most people probably won’t even know you have them added.
Yeah, but doesn’t it add pokemon to the friend safari or something? Also everyone here seems nice anyway, so why wouldn’t I want to add them as friends? Unless they all don’t like me or something…
Just tell us when you’ve added your details, so we all know.
I should of elaborated more, as scree said just make sure we know what your code is, I wasn’t being personal.
Oh, I get it, it’s a two way thing, so you both need to exchange friendcodes! Gotcha! I don’t really know how the code thing worked, so thanks! I’ll put my code up on here then when I get it! Thanks @scree and @distantdrop!
in taynames, add your deets to the pokemon tab as well!
argh… i hate it when you are looking for something but cant find it…
i have like 3 or 4 Xbox LIVE 14day-1 month trial codes and am tying to find them soo can send to a friend of mine to jump on gta online, and cant find them for the life of me… lol
GUYS, MY BABY IS HOME!
…I don’t know whether to feel happy or sad.
man being sick sucks. damn you body! I can’t afford to waste food!
When I had gastroenteritis and couldn’t keep down any solid food, the hospital had me on an IV drip until I could keep liquids down, then they sent me home and told me to just drink powerade or anything else which was basically sugar water. Cheap and nasty version would be cordial.
The human body can actually survive a ridiculously long time without food at all as long as you’re getting energy and liquids. Even longer if you have the luxury of a multivitamin or at least vitamin C. Maybe try just going with cordial until you’re keeping food down again. 🙂
My mother used to swear by Flat lemonade on a crook stomach for this reason.
yeah my mum’s a flat lemonade person too. I had a can of ginger ale stashed in the back of the fridge. Opened it and let it sit in the fridge for a few hours. Not long ago took a drink and managed to keep it down so far.
Don’t think it’s a major ongoing thing.. just struck me out of nowhere all of a sudden, spewed, then have just felt all gurgly guts since. Sure I’ll be fine by morning. Just regretting all that wasted food :\
Man, if I am in your vicinity at some point I am buying you a steak.
Cheers dood! If all goes well with the interview I had at work this week, I might actually be able to afford to buy some decent food before the end of the year! Fingers crossed anyway!
So long as it’s stirred with a fork. Gotta follow the ritual, my man.
Urgghh!!
So my internet went down the other day. Turns out it was their bad, the exchange or whatever. So the guy came and fixed it, and I was all happy because I could go and play the new batman! But first I had to download it via steam, and as it turns out ALL my internet is slow, Sigh. Guess I need to give Dodo a call. And I was excited to play the new batman too!
There’s your problem. Dodo.
Fuck. I just stumbled upon Sketchbook Girl’s dA account.
I should just close the tab right now and forget I ever found it. I’ve been down this path before, and no good can possibly come of it.
…Should
Aaaaaaaaand now I’ve ended up finding her tumblr as well as the fact her birthday was a couple of days ago.
On the plus side, at least I now know she’s older than the Creepy Limit.
Jesus. It looks like my plan for Halloween next week mightn’t have been such a crazy idea after all, so now I gotta go full-steam ahead and make sure it gets done. In four days. I can do that, right? Sure.
Also apparently SHE TOO WENT TO JAPAN AT THE START OF THE YEAR. Freakin’ got back just a couple of days before me and my friends left. Woo common grounds.
Ok, I’m done now. All closed. Enough peering behind the curtain.
Not creepy at all man 😛
This is why you stay off the internet at 2 in the morning
Eh, I’ve done creepier. This is a step forward for me, I even knew when to stop this time!
I think I’m glad I did it though. Got to know a little more about her (personality-wise) and now feel better about being interested in her, like I have more reason than just “ooh she’s pretty” 😛
Finished Trails in the Sky! A little over 47 hours.
Final boss has three forms and took forever. 🙁 Also fucking cliffhangerI’m so glad I held off playing this until Second Chapter was confirmed for localization, I don’t think I could have coped with the two year wait otherwise. It takes a long time to really get going and it’s a bit talky but it’s really good, enjoyed it immensely.@strange are you still playing?
well glad you waited till the announcement …. I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER FOR TWO YEARS!!!
I started it back two years ago but when I heard it we might not get the rest I didn’t finish it at the time.
I feel for you. 🙁 That ending… 🙁
Tossing up whether or not to start Batman or play something else (finish Tales of Xillia?). It’s not reviewing very well. Sounds like I should be glad I didn’t preorder Blackgate too. 🙁
I’ve enjoyed what I’ve played.
Still nowhere near the focused brilliance of Asylum but gotta chase that open massive world bullet point for the back of the box.
Screw the reviews. It’s awesome and fun and addictive to play!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/madoverlord/bubblegum-crisis-ultimate-edition-blu-ray-set
The original Bubblegum Crisis is one of the must-see Cyberpunk anime. Mainly draws from Blade Runner with a bit of Akira (though it predates the film) and a larger bit of Streets of Fire added in.
Don’t know who else besides me here would be interested in this… Looks like all their premium tiers with cool shit like animation cels are gone already (probably only had one of each) so basically at this point it’s taking preorders for an international release. Which is fairly reasonably priced IMO.
To be honest, I wasn’t really impressed when I watched the first few episodes or so.
*Apologies, I watched Tokyo 2040, not this one.
2040 is a pretty average remake, the original is a classic, provided you know what you’re getting into (1980s anime is very different to modern stuff a lot of the time)
My favourite anime includes very mainstream stuff, namely; Neon Genesis Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop, Macross Plus, Patlabor, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Initial D and Fist of the North Star – but not a lot of 80s.
Fist of the North Star was 1984, Patlabor was 1989, Akira was 1988…
Arkham Origins:
@blaghman:
Have you had trouble getting into the vent in Enigma’s comm tower near the Gotham Police HQ?Oh, that’s right, has anyone finished Arkham Origins yet? Care to write a short review about it?
Even though you already know the answer, I’m going to respond and say yes, because if I don’t, I look like a jerk who’s ignoring you.
Have just been asked to do a naked photo shoot in a bath… Umm…
By who?
And/or with who?
A friend doing a photography degree, and just by myself. I asked her to elaborate and I can wear shorts. That’s… easier. Still dunno.
Just give her the ones Oliver already took.
… *no comment*
But no, don’t think I’m gonna do it. AFAIK it’s for a public exhibition or something and I’m not comfortable with that!
We made a calendar once for a co workers secret Santa. Each month had one of us in a “sexy” pose. Mine was me kneeling naked under a running shower with my hands bound behind my back and a loop of rope coming up around my mouth.
Still paled in comparison to one of the guys full front view completely naked with everything tucked under. *shudder*
Ahahaha 😛
*writes down christmas present idea*
I had someone ask me to do a photo shoot once. Model for a photography class. Black and white. Tasteful. Nude. 😛
Challenging shit, mentally and emotionally. Agreed to do it, buffed and toned the fuck up, swallowed nerves, aaaaaaaaand the class got cancelled. Thank god.
Yeah this is meant to be tasteful and everything and something to do with birds. I’d be fine doing it if it were just for a folio to be handed in, but not for a public display.
I’ve seen what she’s done with other females and it’s not bad. Not sure if she has many or any males, and I have no idea why she even wanted me to do it in the first place. I’m confident there’s better looking guys that would be willing to do it :p
Weekend TAY!
Apparently there are cars going really fast around a street circuit in the Gold Coast.
Can anyone verify this?
I can verify this only by what I’ve seen on tv
For once I’m not working up there during it thank Christ.
It usually destroys any chance of getting anywhere by itself but it’s compounded this year by all the light rail construction.
Either I’ve made it into Steam’s family sharing beta or that shit just dropped. Either way, apparently I can share my Steam library with friends.
Anyone else get that?
So I decided to trade ‘a couple’ of games in that I had to put towards the next gen consoles since I was a bit strapped for cash.
I ended up walking out of EB with $1,200 odd, 2.2m of receipts (way taller than me!) and zero regrets. Well, so far anyway. I’m sure one of those games will be worth a mint one day. That’s most of the PS3 and Xbox 360 collection traded in, with some controllers, PSP and Wii games in the mix.
Next gen here I come!
O. M. G. What have you done.
Eh, $1,200 credit is not too shabby I guess.
I know. I sort of miss the collection already. :'(
But it was time to let them go. Kept only the ones I’m really fond of. I did let go of a few that perhaps I shouldn’t have but it’s too late to regret that now!
Tell me the ones you regret and I will tell you if you are wrong. 😀
Haha, well even some old titles that are worth nothing really like Most Wanted I should have kept. They had sentimental value. Same as Oblivion. I’ll never play it though, but it was pretty much the first game I got for the 360.
I think the first was actually GoW so that one I’m keeping!
Even a moderately up-to-date PC will get better mileage for oblivion, so probably the only thing you really miss out on is any unclaimed cheevos. But who cares about those?
Pretty much. It was just the sentimental value of it being one of my first. 🙂
Out of curiosity, how many games did you trade?
It’s easy to figure out, given EB trade rates. My calculations suggest 2,400 games.
Hehe, it was 107 games, including a few controllers. It ranged from peanuts for some PSP games ($2 odd) to $30 for the controllers and some games just under that.
So it’s not THAT bad @shane.
Hmm. Not bad at all. I’m now considering doing the same to fund a new PS4.
Make sure to put a list of games you want gone, as a hoarder of video games I could easily buy some off you for a little more than EB, so they can sit on my shelf and wait 10 years to be played.
I did this with my PS1 + games to get a PS2, and I have always regretted it. I had release copies of the FF games and stuff 🙁
That’s like 20 Xenoblades!
I did keep Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn on the Wii! Alas no point getting Xenoblade now since the ex took the Wii and if I got another Wii, I know I’d play it once for Xenoblade and then never touch it again, ever.
You say it like that’s a bad thing 😛
I hear emulating it on PC is the better way to go anyway so you could always do that but should still totally get a legit copy of the game first 😀
I HAVE to get a legit copy as I don’t play dodgy games, ever. One day, one day.
How’s you? Finished all your hectic schooling? Up for a catchup in the city?
I’m good but we won’t be able to chillax for a while. It’s exam time now until the end of November D:
Guys, I have Pokemon Y sitting in my 3DS barely touched. I wanted to try and make a good team for online battling, but I have no idea where to start and I don’t want to copy + paste some other guy’s team so I abandoned it.
Should I try playing it again?
…Also hi, long time no chat.
Of course you should try playing again!
finished Beyond : Two Souls this afternoon….
goddamn…
Haven’t felt so haunted by the ending of a game since To the Moon…
had a few problems with the story & pacing, but overall, I goddamn loved it.
I goddamn love you, 35. 😛
Commence bromance in 3… 2… 1… 😀
Decision time: Tales of Xillia continuation, or Batmangs.
Ended up with the bat. Not sure about the game so far. I finished
the pengiun’s shipand so far only one predator room (which was the part of these games I most enjoyed) and I still haven’t remembered all the controls yet so it was kind of hard. Feel like it starts mixing in different enemy types way earlier than City did, and still think whoever decided you should suddenly have to flip the controls and pull away for dudes with knives is a moron. Also Batman’s punches feel really weak, I don’t remember fights taking so long previously. Did they make his counters really weak suddenly?Boss fight against
deathstrokesucked until I figured out what they wanted me to do, then it was pretty awesome.Had a pretty awesome day today. Walked over 5 km, watched the Tassie women’s cricket team play NSW, and went to a trivia night, which my table won. Unfortunately the prize was a bottle of wine for each person at the table, and I don’t drink. Oh well, I won!
Being the smartest in the room is its own victory. Also, you’ve foiled their dastardly plan to use drunkenness to even out the intelligence in the room for the next trivia event 😛
The fact that it was for a good cause helps as well.
So I basically met my nemesis today at a social thing with my brother. Guy makes three times what I do, just as smart if not smarter, is like… six years younger, more buff, better dressed (yeah somehow managed to make my $1200 suit feel like grungy rags), better at bowling AND pool…
We walked down the street and everyone knows this fucker, just randoms walking up and shaking the guy’s hand and giving him a cigarette, telling him to have our party stop by their club later… Like every third person we walked past, every restaurant and club. Changes our plans for a nice dinner at a reasonable place and walks us into some normally-has-a-waiting-list-months-long place full of stupidly trendy wealthy people, and a menu I totally can’t afford. I wave off most of the ordering explaining I budgeted for a much cheaper place, he offers to cover it all.
Jesus Christ that made me feel like a miserable old failure. Like… if I were the kinda guy who hurt people for money, he’d be the kind of guy paying me – that level of difference. Man.
I gotta get my shit together.
Or you could become Heisenberg…
Heh. Don’t tempt me.
(Edit: Because we all know how THAT goes. Only less successfully for me, not having paid much attention during high school chemistry.)
I’m uncertain if that’s a good idea.
You have a $1200 suit?! Jesus.
My only suit cost me $120 (yep, 10% of your suit), and that felt like an extravagant splurge that required much belt-tightening.
Hope that makes you feel better.
Well… I guess everything’s relative. Yeah. I guess I just got rattled by being so outclassed in just about every way. I’m not used to that. 😛
(Edit: Which, now that I look at it, is a pretty arrogant whine and more than a tad deluded. “Waah! I wasn’t the most talented/wealthy/popular/savvy/intelligent person in the party! What’s going on?!” So I probably had it coming. Getting beat with the perspective stick.)
We should hang out again if you want to look good in comparison with someone, my friend! 😀
Hey! *slap* Don’t say that! You’re an awesome dude.
Who the hell is this guy?!
This is how I feel when I sit at home eating my macaroni, and people ask if I want to go to mcdonalds 😐
Comparing your life against others is generally a path to misery.
No matter who you are, there will always be someone better/luckier than you in some regard.
And then everyone dies and it means nothing anyway. So relax, have fun and just do your thing, whatever that may be.
Night, all.
Yup. Sure is.
Morning to some, if they feel like getting technical.
Personally, it’s not morning til I’ve gone to sleep and woken up again. Even if I go to bed at 9am, I’ll still say “goodnight”, and when getting up at 4pm it’ll still be “good morning” (followed by breakfast, of course).
Oh man, went to Movie World Fright Night! So much fun!
We went through the four mazes: The Walking Dead, Evil Dead, Hillbilly Slaughter and The Darkness. Best one by far was Hillbilly Slaughter. Really cool attention to detail and lots of genuine scares and unnerving stuff. Park has really great atmosphere at night. Lots of smoke and street performers and people in costumes.
Speaking of movies, everyone HAS to watch Rush. I seriously feel like going to watch it again.
Next up though is Gravity.
I caved and ended up buying a Harley Quinn figure before I left. Mrs Freeze wouldn’t let me get the $500 36″ Poison Ivy one no matter how many times I told her how amazing it was.
Haha! Awesome night! 😀 I liked how Sughly, Dan and me were all wearing variations of the shirt and two strangers made comments about that. 😀
Spent all day constructing my Halloween thing for Wednesday. I don’t think my brain’s had this much exercise since… I don’t even know, months ago. June at least.
Lots of maths. Geometry everywhere. Paper and cardboard all over the floor. Loads of stickytape. Constantly in and out of the bathroom to check things in the mirror.
Yup, I’m happy.
$125, 2 album codes and 10 hours later, and I’m spent. Time for bed.
Great job on the Lame Game Marathon guys, doing a helluvva job!
Eughhh. May have given in and done that photo shoot. It was kinda relaxing but sooo awkward. Interested to see how they look in the end I guess!
I caved and sold a ps3 to cash converters. Guy asked how much I wanted for it, and I said given they they sell them online for $200, I thought $100 would be fair.. his counter.. $55 :\
Managed to talk him up to $60 at least. Still not what I think it’s worth, but don’t really have much choice. Hopefully that’ll get me through til the end of the week.
Just as an added extra, I thought it was rather shitty of the guy to give me a card after the sale, offering an extra 10% next time I sell something… so clearly he could have given me more. Damn glad I didn’t just settle on the original $55 he offered, or I would have been super shitty.
Next time I do sell something to them though, I’m gonna go the same route, get them to offer me fuck all, then ask for more, and when they agree, pull out the card, and ‘oops! forgot I have this! better make that 10% more!’
Have to say though, I really only expected them to offer me 20-40 for the ps3, so I did come out better than expected, but damn.. they’re gonna sell it for 200.. hardly fair
Cash Converters have never been fair. They exist as a last resort and know they have the advantage. It’s what they do.
Should have put it online yourself asking $150 or something for it.
I would have, but I needed money today, or I may not have been able to make it to work tomorrow :\
I could have lent you $60 =(
it’s ok. I still have another ps3. I used this one in the bedroom mostly to stream movies from my pc, so it’s not a major blow.
Plus I already owe way too much money on bills/credit cards atm. I don’t need more mounting up.
Also cheers for the gesture! Very kind of you!
I know, but even though I don’t have much, sounds like you have even less.
I’ll get by somehow. I managed to get some butter from my mum today, so at least I can make mashed potatoes now!
Just spent three hours shopping for cardboard, straws and ping pong balls.
Ended up coming home with styrofoam balls instead, hopefully they’ll do the job ok.
They tend to fall apart whenever you hit them with a paddle. Though if you’re fashioning a table tennis set and paddles out of cardboard and straw, you might be okay.
Really, really enjoying Arkham Origins:
I’m at the Gotham Royal Hotel…This place is incredibly cool. One of my favourite areas in an Arkham game evah!
Huh. I’m finding it to be the weakest of the series so far.
Early Game Spoilers (2nd Boss)
I beat Deathstroke and found the fight extremely infuriating, countering everything then when I am at 1% health the game decides to tell me “BTW you need to press counter at the right time, not when we tell you”. Also, why use a different kind of dodge when he uses a blade? seems a bit silly (and makes no sense) when the game ignores its own rules. Oh, and to top it all off when you beat him the game gives you a timed mission!Despite the stuff above I had been enjoying it up until that point.
I’ve been finding the boss fights are WB Montreal’s weak spot. Something Rocksteady did awesome.
Something Rocksteady did awesome in Arkham City. Much as I love Arkham Asylum, its boss fights were god-awful messes.
I’m fighting him right at this moment.
It’s pretty frustrating.
@dc
Treme season 3 get. Will start it tomorrow! By my calculations, we won’t get it finished by the time I’m in Brisbane, but we’ll definitely be well under way!
Just as long as you’re up to date for the last season! 😀
We’re hype. We’ll be watching it roughly as it comes out. That’s the plan anyway.
Even if we hold over a few eps so we can watch them closer together, we’ll have it finished pretty much when the finale ends! Discussions!
I finished Arkham Origins earlier today (it gets an “above average” score), so I’ve started playing Enslaved. Man, I can see why D.C. loves this game so much. Shame it seems to be a very bare bones port, but I can’t really complain (that said, I’m going to complain about the resolution options. Why is there a 1900 * 1080 option, and then a 1920 * 1200? I can’t really tell if there is actually a 20 scanline difference though, or if it’s just a typo, but it seems kind of dumb).
POST APOCALYPTIC URBAN DECAY! 😀
I’m kind of sad that it doesn’t have a theme song.
1920×1200 is for monitors like mine with a 16:10 ratio.
Oh, I’m aware that it’s a normal resolution, but why is the step down 1900?
oh sorry.. I didn’t notice that in the 1080 one. that is a bit weird. if it’s 1900, you should have a letterbox effect on either side of the screen if your monitor does 1:1 scaling. If there’s no black bars down either side, I’d guess it’s a typo
@freezespreston
Thanks!
No problemo.
Greenius! You’re alive!
is there another program that is similar to spotify but is better?
Pandora, Rdio.
thanks, spotify is doing my head in, randomly stops playing songs
Just finished Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. That was the gaudiest, tackiest, most 80s thing I’ve ever seen.
Magnificent.
It’s one of my GOTY candidates.
Awesome. I need to pick this baby up (once I finish the other games in my pile of shame including the recently downloaded Stanley Parable).
I played the demo and kept on cracking up in the tutorial.
Most games I’m not that eager to go look up their codex/database reference entries whenever you stumble across a new enemy type or weapon… in this, I was. That reference database is gold. And yeah, finishing Blood Dragon was actually one of the first items on my pile of shame list. Mostly because I’d heard it was short and it should be easy.
It actually helped get me really into Far Cry 3, now. Blood Dragon is like a stripped-down, small-scale, simplified version, and it really whet my appetite for something more involved. So that’s the next game in the pile of shame list.
(And yeah, Stanley Parable isn’t exactly ‘pile of shame’ yet, in that I only got it a few days ago, but it’s totally getting bumped up the list early after that awesome demo.)
So Batman PC is kind of buggy 🙁 I might hold off on finishing it for a bit to give them time to get a patch out.
Wait, when did Monday happen?
Still yet to cut anything out, all I’ve been doing is drawing things. Then erasing them and drawing them again because something was slightly wrong.
I did end up with a super awesome perfect mathematical coincidence fitting a ~30cm circle and ~40cm circle on the one sheet of A2, because the smaller one only needed 270º16′ of the thing, WHICH HAPPENED TO BE A QUARTER OF A DEGREE LESS THAN THE ANGLE FORMED BY THE TWO POINTS OF INTERSECTION BETWEEN THE TWO CIRCLES.
It made the OCD side of me all giddy and start running circles on the floor.
You really need to hurry up and hook up with one of those girls before it’s too late.
*one or more
@greenius, @jimu: WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING HERE?!
Same old, same old! (checking notifications :P)
Finish Wind Waker?
@jimu – Getting the Bravely Default: Collector’s Edition? It looks alright but not $80 more than the standard edition alright :/
Wind Waker and are aren’t exactly the best of pals. Haha!
D:
So what happened??
Haha! Lost lots of focus towards the end and keeps making me do lots of leg work for minimal results. XD
Oh that. Common complaint, I was too involved in the world to notice.
Every time I pulled up some piece of crap from the bottom of the ocean and Link’s little face lit up I was in love.
Fungaz crozzed for a local release…
But it’s on EB’s website! 😛
But it’s also like $150 which is like $80 more than what the standard is, which is why I asked. I’d prefer the Japanese edition cause I’m not a figurine sorta guy (art berks r da bomb)
It aint,, I checked.
No-one told me and now it’s gone….thanks guise 😛