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Morning all!
Morning Beavwa how was your weekend?
Busy busy busy. How was yours?
A lot of driving too and from the beach and a 1 year olds birthday party
Happy Monday, everyone!
You should totally check out James Flamestar and the Stargazers, a comic for which I did all the artwork and scripting, and some of the story development. The hype for the Flamestar franchise may have wound down a bit, so long after the album’s release, but I’m all about the bad timing.
It’s 74 pages of partially-coloured epic comic awesome, starring a number of TAY and Pixel-Otaku regulars as they battle an evil, oppressive Empire with the only weapon they have: music.
It can be yours for only four dollars.
On a related note, seeking feedback on the price point. Too high? Too low? Everything’s negotiable!
Morning TAY, how’s every little thing?
My weekend was good, celebrated my girlfriends cousins first birthday and picked up KH1.5, played some xcom while biding my time towards getting Enemy Within. And next weekend is Sexpo so that’s gonna be fun.
Anyway I’ll see myself out for another week, see you guys around the wagons
http://www.shapeways.com/model/1465854/zelda-sage-medallions.html?li=shop-results&materialId=62
So. Damn. Tempting.
But. Have. No. Spare. Money.
Hnnnnggghh.
If they were metalworked, I’d buy them instantly. I can hold out when it’s just plastic.
Near as I can tell they don’t exist so you lucked out there 😛
Hmm. Wonder how I’d go trying to make some of those in metal?
It’s on shapeways. If you ask the creator, it is the work of ten minutes for him to get them done in metal.
Finished my final frame for helmet last night. Once I fibreglass and harden it I’ll do things like cut out eyes and add Glospex (http://www.goglospex.com/introh-red/) and fans for cooling. Now on to the torso or something!
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/82751694/2013-11-18-00.33.58.jpg
Must remember to measure properly in future. I now have three helmets of different sizes.
Why Indie filmmaking is rad:
After finding an ad on the UK Gumtree site, in which a man advertises that he will give a free room and board to an applicant on the premise that they will dress up as a walrus for a couple of hours a week for him, Kevin Smith talked about it on his podcast and it rapidly turned into an idea for a plot of a horror movie.
6 months later and the film is about to enter post-production.
Source
Cannot wait to see Tusk. It sounds amazing.
Less than a week until marriage.
Time for this!
YOU CAN DO IT!
What up TAY?
The show on Friday was easily the most fun I’ve ever had on stage. The crowd got right into it and ended up getting pretty wild. Our set was the only time security actually had to do something all night. Check it.
Back to work, (reasonably) refreshed after two weeks off, and the place has all the enthusiasm of a funeral. Same as always, it fucking kills me. Now watch two weeks of holidays wither and die in the vicinity of 24-48 hours.
Nothing like reality to bring you back to reality.
Damn your logic.
Making an interactive map for a private school at work and man these kids have it sweet. The map is for a new building that they’ve just completed and this thing is probably bigger than my entire high school was 😛
ANYWAY, weird competitive jealousy aside, I played games on the weekend! Because of the stupid rain. Episode 1 of The Wolf Among Us, which was great. The Stanley Parable, which was… alright. Don’t really understand the hype to be honest 😛 Maybe because I knew too much before playing. And Batman Arkham Asylum, which I’ve only played the first couple of hours of and has already blown away my expectations (they were very low because I usually dislike Batman stuff :P). Really enjoying it.
Hope you’re all well!
Arkham Asylum blew my socks off too. I was about 12-18 months late to the party after it’s release, because I was the same – a Batman game? Meh.
I picked it up cheap and was blown away by how good it was and how wrong I was to assume it might be poopy. Such an amazing game, and it was also my first real appreciation Hamill’s Joker. The setting was great, gameplay was great, plus some pretty neat concepts in there too.
I have Arkahm City and Arkham Origins, but have yet to play either unfortunately. I even have Blackgate sitting there too.
Hey TAY!
Counting down the days until my holiday!
Only 2 days of work this week (interrupted by uni exams)
What is everyone up to?
Classy older Phoenix, you’re totally hot.
And a single dad? With that dress sense?
How are the ladies not swarming all over you?
Dear Diablo 3
Your ending sucked and your credits went longer than the game. You really don’t need to credit the florist of the bank manager of the drug dealer of the key grips’s uncle’s 2nd cousin.
Regards
Freeze
Hola Tay
Not too exciting a weekend- went and played Magic on Sat, got my arse handed to me. Bought Saga vol 1 (Awesome) and the first issue of new Sandman. On Sunday played Skyrim and went to the pub with friends- one had been at Supanova and got me GRRM’s signature, which is now hanging in my loungeroom.
A Monday Morning Question: Sandman is a comic in many ways about dreaming and dreamscapes. Which dream of yours would be an interesting game?
That time I dreamt that a Charizard was attacking my house.
*cough*
Not sure I can answer that on a public forum.
Yeah, because usually this place is so restrained. 😛
Freeze’s Dream Game has been refused classification by the Australian Board of Classification 😛
SAGA! \o/
Volume Two is out now as well, it’s pretty damn awesome.
I have no answer for your question.
I’ll be buying next time I go near a comic shop
Open world sandbox post a disastourous event where people fight in the streets to survive, hide in bushes always in bushes
A stealth game where you avoid velociraptors and other forms of beasts because you’re too weak to fight and also no weapons
So many
Stranded and issolated in SE asia so join rebel group fighting against corrupt government
The cross world universe collision where our world and fantasy world meld together.
Starfighter combat similar to starlancer
Looking at finally upgrading to a mechanical keyboard for all the ‘clicky clicky’ noises.
Has anyone used a Logitech G710?
I think that’s the one Pip got. She loves it. It seems decent from the little I’ve used it as well.
I’ve been thinking about it, but it’s kinda overpriced for what it is.
Honestly, the best option is still Razer, with one important condition: do NOT use Razer Synapse (their software), especially if you have Logitech stuff (and therefore software). It’s caused so many problems for me that I’ve uninstalled it. The keyboard still does everything I need without it.
I’ve found it for $149.95 and I’m willing to pay the extra if it’s worth it.
I’ve had nothing but trouble with Razer gear (excluding one of their cheap mice I got for an old laptop).
I can’t fault the Blackwidow as apiece of hardware, but everything outside of that is a steaming pile.
Just looked at prices, apparently the G710 has dropped in price all over the place so they’re relatively comparable in cost now. If you get one I’d be keen to hear how it goes.
I’ll let you know when it arrives 😛
Confirmed. My Black Widow Ultimate is the best keyboard I’ve ever owned, bar none.
I had several Logitech keyboards and found them to be quite plasticy and crappy for the price. That being said, the last Logitech KB I owned was the original blue G15, so my information might be sorely out of date.
I’m still using my blue G15. Can’t complain about long term durability.
I’ve still got mine under my bed somewhere and it works just fine. My biggest issue was with the build quality, really. Didn’t have such a problem with it until I started looking at other keyboards. But the G15 and my 6 odd year old G9x still work perfectly – I won’t fault the Logitech longevity.
EDIT: I thought my G9x was dying a month or so back, but I think it turned out to be a funny USB port.
G5!
I had a G5 before my G9x as well. That was a fantastic mouse, and I only got rid of it (sold it to a mate) to upgrade.
There is no upgrading from a G5. Only another G5, then realising you don’t have any other USB mice available when one dies on your parents’ computer, so they borrow the G5 and complain about how strange (hi @strange) it is, then when you move interstate you cannot take it with you because they don’t want a normal mouse any more.
G5. I was unaware anything better could possibly exist.
@beavwa
I dunno man, the G9x is still my favorite mouse of all time. I’ve used a lot of mice too – it still pips my favorite Razer mice too. The only reason I’m not still using it on my games machine is because I need the extra MMO buttons on the Razer Naga.
In short, brilliant mouse.
G5. I figured I’d look at available upgrades and if there’s anything better once it died.
Got it in 2005(?), still waiting, and still very happy with it.
G5.
Razer is probably the best out of the major gaming brands but when it comes to mechanical keyboards the Black Widow is fairly middle of the range.
I’ve been using a Ducky keyboard for a while now and it is rad. Filco and Coolermaster also make some damned fine keyboards.
I’ve been wanting one for a while now, though with all the talk of the different kinds of keys they have I’d really want to try them all out first to see which sort’s best, but wouldn’t have a clue where you’d go to do that. Therefore, too hard basket 😛
We walked into Hardly Normal, and the sales guy pulled one out of the box so she could get hands on and make a decision. Then he even knocked a bit off the price so it was as good a price as anywhere.
Feck this cold. Going on two weeks now and no end in sight. 🙁
In other news, nothing of any great importance happened. I played the new DLC in Payday 2 and it’s pretty fun although it’s so annoying having to contend with Black Bullies.
Racist
I play as Chains (the black guy) so not racist. 😛
Is that because you think black guys are the best a crime? Racist!
I..whuh…ah I can’t win.
(Still not racist) 😛
Seconded. Take away the stupid cold and wind and rain and bring back the 30º days again.
I really want a hot and dry summer. I’m so sick of the rain.
Xbone on Friday.
Get hype.
nah.
Okay.
PS4 just under 2 weeks
Hyper Hype
So… Anyone that has watched the whole of Breaking Bad, how much spoiler is the front page of news.com.au at the moment?
Not very. Only spoils (vaguely) the first half of s5. it’s pretty funny
Having only watched up to season 2, I took that title as giving away one of the major parts of the ending. If this is indeed the case, and you’re throwing in a good dose of misdirection, I am very appreciative.
I’m not hedging either way, as either could be a spoiler. The specific clip it’s referring too, and this is spoiling very little, has an intro from the first half of s5 (and is as shane describes below).
The text in the article itself is a more explicit spoiler.
Nah, it’s just Hal from Malcom in the Middle waking up and saying “It was all a horrible dream.” It mentions some events from most seasons of the show in a vague way, so could be considered spoilers in that sense. I watched it and don’t think it’s really worth a look, though.
Breaking bad finale spoilers
The headline states “Walt Lives In This…” spoiling the fact that Walt dies.Ha, didn’t even notice that title. Whoops!BEAVWA DON’T CLICK
I think the headline is borderline- “Walt lives” could be a reference to “walt exists once again following the end.” The text of the article says “Walt survives” which is a bit different.Only advice I could ever give is: “do not use news.com.au for anything ever. period.”
It’s one of the few sites not blocked at work.
Had bee’s little brother over for the weekend – lots of Eath Defence Force was played.
Also played some 40k with him.
Mannn cultists suck SO bad when they aren’t in massive numbers!
BLOOD/LUTEFISK FOR THE etc.
PREDICTABILITY FOR THE PREDICTABLE GOD!!
Don’t ever change*Mannn cultists suck SO bad
I remember one time I was LANing against people in W40K while I was playing as Chaos:
“HAH! These cultists do no damage, I have no idea why you’re using-”
*Suddenly three full squads of raptors jump right on top of them*
“OH GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING EVERYONE OF MY TROOPS ARE DYING!”
Moral of the story: Don’t underestimate meatshields 🙂
Ugh. This Monday is terrible. I think I’d like to return it and get a new one.
On the bright side, I may be buying a car within the week.
PEANUT BUTTER FERRARI TIME!
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dammit I’m supposed to buy one of them but I don’t know what I’m doing, been about 3 months and i still have no idea.
Cool, what you choose? The RAV?
Looks like it may actually be an ex-fleet X-trail.
What model? Note that the best one is with the dash in front of driver, not in the centre. Apparently a whole bunch of other subtle improvements happened there too.
…there’s one with the dash in the middle? I *hate* that. Fortunately, it’s not that one.
Honestly can’t remember the exact model, but it’s either mid or top because climate control and a few other things.
Cool cool. Should come with CVVT (the silky smooth transmission). We have one for fleet car, it’s pretty nice.
Morning all. Mondays really blow hard with a vengeance.
I celebrated my two year anniversary with the wife on Saturday night by going to see Captain Phillips on the big screen. Great film – very scary, very tense. I definitely won’t be sailing off the Somali coast anytime soon. Tom Hanks is amazing, as per usual.
That’s two very scary, very tense films that I have seen this year (Gravity being the other) which had me thinking about horror films. I know I’m mashing two genres here, thriller and horror but I cannot think of the scariest film that I’ve seen for the life of me – that would hold up today and still freak me out.
The Exorcist perhaps? I re-watched the original Japanese Ringu recently and nothing – not as scary as I remember.
My question is; what’s the scariest film you have seen? Doesn’t even need to be horror-genre specific. I’m going to say The Exorcist, mainly because I can’t think of anything else – however I will need to re-watch to be sure.
Bowling for Columbine.
Scared the shit out of me.
Oh wow, totally forgot that one. Definitely going to re-watch that.
Sex and the city
Maybe the woman in black.
It’s hard for me to say because I don’t get scared by horror movies easily.
The trailer looked pretty creepy – I might have to actually watch that one.
I watched Sinister over the weekend, and that shit was skin-crawling. Loved it. The horror movies that go for the cheap jump-out-of-your-seat scares do nothing for me. It takes some skill to give me goosebumps.
Sinister is all kinds of messed, I don’t mind watching horrors but damn sinister had me reaching for a pillow to cover my eyes
Jesus Camp.
*shudders*
It’s about the indoctrination of children by right-wing evangelicals in the US.
Okay I just read the Wikipedia overview for that one. Uh, what the f?
It’s fucking terrifiying
I’ve heard people say things about Cannibal Holocaust. I don’t know if it falls under horror or thriller at all, rather than just gross, but I know it was meant to be hard to watch in one way or another.
Morning everyone.
I said this over the weekend, but I’ll say it again here.
If anyone wants help or advice if they’re thinking of cosplaying at Pax, I’ll be happy to help.
I still need to stockpile on those group cosplay ideas. 🙁 Keeping in mind we’re all lazy and don’t want to rock up with paper mache wings. Needs to be practical.
There are rules anyway. If the wings are too big* they would need to be cloaked. Weapons, if they are over a metre are banned, or cloaked (I can’t remember which), guns must have a ring of coloured tape over the barrel and no weapon is allowed to be useable. So nothing sharp, or functional.
My suggestion would be to ask what everyone would like to do and go from there.
Oh yeah, Doctor Who screening is this weekend. Woo!
Whaaa? I completely forgot!
We have our tickets
Same! Should be awesome 😀
I have my ticket!
Also (Night of the Doctor)
Paul McGann \o/Damn comments awaiting moderation >:(
Reposting without two links… Finished my final frame for helmet last night. Once I fibreglass and harden it I’ll do things like cut out eyes and add Glospex and fans for cooling. Now on to the torso or something!
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/82751694/2013-11-18-00.33.58.jpg
Must remember to measure properly in future. I now have three helmets of different sizes.
Speaking of which, I have to either cut the torso in half or make it massive as my head is too big for the neck hole without making the scale maaaaaasive. And I am not agile enough for large stilts.
BEARD MARINE.
aka Space Wolves?
I just rambled down further how you never see spesh maureens with beards too. First day back at work and all. I’m tired. Hngh.
How to make a space marine more manly? Add a beard.
Looking really good, what is the frame made of?
200gsm paper and a mess of PVA glue.
My beard will go for the event, since it is very uncomfortable with beard and helm.
You needed to think more about this and go helmetless. Cutting your beard off for anything is not on, not to mention we’d see a spesh maureen with a beard! You could be like a Captain or somesuch, they like to go helmetless. But you’d need to go Chaos, I don’t the Emperor is a fan of beards. That or the lack of facial hair is a side effect of the gene-seed. I blame the primarchs and their smooth, hairless faces.
I’m rambling now. Excellent helmet, excellent beard. Do what you will.
EDIT: Space Wolves, Leman Russ etc. Good work Cody. Go the fuck back to sleep.
I am far too ugly to show my face in public. But yeah, i’ll probably just cut it down, it’s about 2 inches long at the moment so I guess I could go down to 1/2 or something. But it’s only a month and a half of beardness anyway so it’ll be back.
If this goes to plan I hope to make a Chaos Marine next \o/
\o/ for not completely shaving!
\o/ for Chaos!
That must have taken a while. Did you use peppacura?
Si. Most people making them have been using foam but I have more access to body panel repair gear so fibreglass, bondo (car filler) and automotive spray painting will be the end result.
Just try to make it a little more rounded. It’s hard to explain, but sometimes the effect can be ruined if you can see the little triangles, so I would suggest sanding it, just to hide it a little.
You probably already though of that though, so sorry.
Yeah, that’s what the bondo is for. Bulk coverage then sand it down
This is the most EPIC thing i have seen on here.
By far.
You’re my hero.
Good morning,
Spent the weekend playing Devil May Cry HD and X-COM.
I’d previously only played the first hour of the first three games. Really loved my time with Devil May Cry. It looked amazing in HD especially the castle and pirate ship. I liked the ‘inspect/interact’ function with the environment and furnishings which if you read them created a greater atmosphere and reminded me a lot of the older Resident Evil games. With the first game finished I moved on to the sequel and completed the first mission. I spent most of the time using the new wall running ability and doing backflips, cause backflips are awesome! The combat seems to be a bit more free-flowing too.
Put about 3 hours into X-COM and I’m really enjoying it. Its a change of pace from I’ve been playing of recent times.
In other news, last week I went and saw G.R.R.M and Lena Heady (Cersei Lannister) and Michelle Fairley (Catelyn Stark) at the Opera house. It was a very interesting experience.
Happy Monday \o/
So the weekend was alright.
Contrast unlocked
Wasn’t allowed to play contrast without Mrs Tigs
Mrs Tigs go home
Played Contrast
Went to BBQ
Came home
Finished Contrast
I quite enjoyed the game which is good as I went in with high expectations, I’ve been waiting for this game for maybe a year. Artistically it is beautiful and always nice to get a bit of soft jazz through your games. Puzzles were interesting but not overly difficult. The gameplay doesn’t evolve much so more using the general ability in a different location.
Think it took us around 3 hrs to finish in total with time spent hunting for collectibles (Missed 2) so if you just wanted to blast through you could do it in 1.5 – 2 hours. For me I think that was a good length, much longer and the puzzles would get repetitive or the gameplay would need to evolve.
I think the game is really going to suffer review wise from being a launch title on the PS4. It isn’t anything that is designed for the new hardware or to be a showcase title. It is certainly a last gen title that has been launched on the new hardware.
Also going to get slapped by some people on a cost/time ratio. But for 15 bucks it was cheaper than 2 movie tickets and we both enjoyed it as much as movies we have gone to see. (Not to mention the last time we went to see movie it cost $150)
I fucking love Gojira.
These guys are fucking talented, and generally pretty unique as far as metal goes. They’re also French. No one ever thinks of French metal bands as a thing. So there’s that.
I decry the concept of page-get regret, and do so with quality such as this. Play this shit loud. I dare you not to headbang at least a little.
Easiest dare.
I don’t headbang. To anything 😛
I subsequently question your qualification as a functioning human being.
I do too, all the time 😛
My friends used to always go off at me for not moving around at all at concerts. I totally don’t understand that though, I don’t feel any compulsion to move at all. I’m there for the music, so instead I’m concentrating on all the sounds I can hear, while watching everything the musicians are doing.
This.
If you were ever right up the front for a Priest show I dare to not move your head then.
I mostly just do what you describe but there’s special about being in the front row for your favourite band that makes your body do things it doesn’t normally do.
Haha, I dunno. Fairly certain I would just be mouth agape in awe. And maybe peeing myself a little 😛
Man… man, you gotta be prepared to do that, if you ever want to get it in return.
#toofarI headbanged.
Another group that is ridiculously talented and doing something thoroughly unique is Kvelertak. They’re an unholy blend of death punk and Norwegian black metal and completely brilliant.
I will investigate!
Other standout tracks are Blodtorst, Fossegrim and Bruane Brenn.
They played Soundwave last year and tore the place to shreds. If you get a chance to watch them live the energy they produce is intense.
From Mars to Sirius is an INCREDIBLE record. Just had to mention this here, it’s urgent.
I red the name as Godzilla with a speech problem
So one million PS4’s have been sold. All of a sudden the 30-40 odd reports I can find of busted PS4 on arrival doesn’t sound so drastic.
Even 1000 wouldn’t be.
I was worried initially, until I remembered it’s the internet – everything’s a disaster and/or doomsday. The vocal minority as it were. Also, the people who aren’t having problems with their PS4’s aren’t making a peep. *shrug*
This generation’s buildup has been pretty shitful, actually. Mostly because people.
10% DOA rate.
I’ve seen worse. Much worse.
Where’s the 10% number come from?
Edit: All I can find is 0.4, 1 and 50%.
I heard some guy throwing 10% on the Kotaku PS4 Blue Light of Death article, but I’m not sure if he was referring to PS3, or if he wasn’t – where he got the figure for PS4. If PS4, that makes 100,000 dead consoles. I’m doubting this very much.
The story doing the rounds of the Foxconn employee deliberately sabotaging consoles seems dubious too. How many consoles would one guy have access too, and even if he did – quality control and testing would have to ensure the ones that got through would be absolutely minimal.
It honestly sounds to me like a few people have gotten DOA consoles and are (rightfully) upset, and the internet has just taken the ball and run way the fuck out with it.
Is that 10% a DOA figure, though, for PS3s, or is that a lifetime failure rate?
(Because apples =/= oranges)
Not sure man. Either way, 10% seems incredibly unlikely for any system.
10% failure rate over 7 years isn’t bad at all
That 10% is purely a speculative number pulled out of the air.
Was in reference to you ‘Even 1000 wouldn’t be.’ comment.
Closer to a 0.1% DOA rate. Although who knows what the actual number is, assuming that a large number of that 1 mil are to be wrapped and put under the tree
@freezespreston still interested in ‘trading in’ your 360? I was serious last week 🙂
I must have missed it. What was going on?
Endu is willing to beat EB and give you $12.50 for your xbox
Or work out something with youThanks Tigs. Yeah, you mentioned EB lowballing you on price and I said that I’d take it off your hands for substantially more – I’m looking to get one second hand now that next gen is here for my Mrs and son to play Disney Infinity. And I finally want to play RDR.
Sure man. I haven’t turned it on in ages so it’s not doing me any good.
How’s $50 with all the games sound?
What games?
Witcher 2, Alan Wake, Lost Odyssey, Gears of War and I’m certain there was something else.
Edit: Fable 2.
I’m sure this will get me crucified, but I’m not interested in any of those. MASTA RAIS!
$50 for console, cords, controllers is fine by me if it’s fine by you. When’s the next Brisbane Meat?
Saturday night at my place.
This private school building has a dedicated “Graphic Novel and Magazine Reading Room”…
Spared no expense.
They have a dinosaur tour?
You know, it wouldn’t surprise me.
Life… uh…. finds a way.
now I wonder if it was the $16K per student per year fees, or the insanely high government payouts that gave them that extremely important educational resource.
Though i did hear that reading room caused a bit of friction in the P&C board. 40% of them insisted that money would be better spent on a 3rd tennis court.
if you cant tell, i hate government funding of private schools. especially when they spend it on wank & not educationAdmittedly, pretty much all the wank that was built by the private school I went to, like swimming pools and tennis courts, was funded by some of the richer families, not from the school’s own coffers.
(They have eight tennis courts :P)
You know, reading about the excess of real wanky private schools makes me feel a whole lot better about my wanky private school education.
Back in my day, a tennis court was some lines painted on the asphalt of an outdoor basketball court
Yeah we had one of those. One concrete area that had different coloured lines painted for tennis, volleyball, basketball, netball, etc all over the top of each other 😛
Hey man, don’t diss private education.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!This might be a minority opinion, but I strongly approve of rich people getting some allocated space to sit down and read The Lesser Evil.
The richer the better, too.
They should get course credit for it, too.
Look guys, lets just admit it: The Lesser Evil is an education in itself.
And people wonder why Private Schools attract criticism.
So, I’ve been playing Portal 2.
WAAAAAY late to the party, but I really dig it.
Edit: Oh, it’s Stephen Merchant! That just clicked now for some reason.
When you play the co-op, and you should play the co-op, you need to find someone that is about as good at Portal as you are and hasn’t played it before.
I already played through most of the co-op a while back with someone who’d already done it once, but hadn’t played it for ages. It was ridiculously fun.
Indeed the co-op is pretty good, @jamiedeecee we need to continue our playthrough at some point! 😛
Just give me some kind of signal!
Such a great game. Easily my favourite Valve game.
I’d make a similar claim, but outside of the Portals and a bit of Dota 2 i don’t think I’ve played any of their other games.
@ynefel – I just realised, I’ve now had my mouse longer than the entire last console generation.
Edit: G5.
Hey, me too. Same with the computer. And the keyboard’s been around for maybe two generations 😛
Computer chair for me. I’ve had that for like 10 years.
Mouse is a little newer, wanted extra buttons for extra quick-key options for WoW PvP.
X : Rebirth – Mini-review after playing it for an hour.
– Looks very pretty.
– Handles well enough.
– A potentially scary amount of depth to it.
– Character models look a bit dated.
– Voice acting is horrifically bad. Like profoundly so.
– Possibly intended to be played with gamepad? I dunno. But theres a big ‘A’ that appears on the interface, sorta implying that K&M was not the intended control method.
Doing ‘Campaign’ mode at the moment, figured I’d wanna have a bit of a guided run through before hitting the sandbox mode.
Score: A copy of Brian Cox’s Wonders of the Universe on Blu-Ray, and an extremely detailed book on the history of trade between Europe and the Americas.
Scoring system explained:
Rather than a number out of a number, the score represents what I would give a personification of this game for its birthdayHow’s the game performance in terms of optimisation for you?
runs pretty damn well on max settings.
but I’m running a rig that was pretty OP when I got it & is still pretty decent.
i72600k, 16GB RAM & AMD HD6990.I played about 20 minutes of X Rebirth on the weekend, and promptly aborted because…. it looks fucking amazing. Got some other shit i wanna try and get done first. Incidentally, I hooked up my Logitech flight stick, and unplugged it once I realise I could play it with my 360 controller. It actually works really well. Pretty much every design/preview video shows them playing it with a 360 controller too, so i think it may have been a focus. (Not saying it’s the right way to play, just that it seems to have been optimised for it)
I agree with the character models and voice acting. I actually always wanted to get into the series, but never found the time or the energy. I do lament the lack of multi though, as a friend is bonkers for the series and we’d love to go multi.
But the game’s practically built to be modded, like it’s predecessors, so hopefully someone can mod it in.
I’ve been considering picking that up. It looks pretty and it looks like it has a ridiculous amount of depth.
Kinda bummed there’s no multiplayer but I might try it out when it goes on sale.
Edit: Or I could probably just wait for Star Citizen (??) when it comes out. I think that’s what it’s called.
Star Citizen won’t be till late next year. This is going to do me until then as well.
Bummer. Then yeah, X Rebirth will get in my Steam library sooner rather than later.
The Metro 7 Kickstarter is now sitting at 151% funded of the $850 goal. We’ve already hit the first stretch goal, which is an exclusive prequel story only available to backers of the campaign. It’s been more successful than I could have ever dreamed, and it’s only been live for three days.
I’ve already started writing the prequel. I didn’t realise how much I loved writing in this universe until I started doing it again. Work on the sequel might start sooner than expected.
For those who missed it, you can see the Metro 7 campaign here. It’ll be live for the next 27 days! Thank you guys so much for your continual support.
Have I mentioned that I am ridiculously excited about who backed the Villain tier? @rocketman is going to make the best villain.
Hotross the destroyer.
Haha, I was almost going to back that tier.
Congrats though man.
Thanks man!
All this private school stuff has got me thinking about my plain old high school. Worlds apart 😛
I remember there was a ‘big’ event around unveiling the latest and greatest addition to the school quad. It was hyped for days before at the assembly, etc and then one day we turned up to school to find that they had painted a new grid for handball on the concrete. The Principal did a ribbon cutting at lunchtime and then challenged all of us to a game.
It was a very momentous occasion.
Your Principal sounds pretty cool.
I have plenty of fond memories of my school principal.
Given the principal at my school for almost my entire schooling was my father, you’d hope I did.
Biggest day I remember at my high school was when some of my mates discovered that one of the grates in the ground could be opened up. They stuck the smallest kid they could find down there and spent the lunch break trying to spit on him.
I had some pretty lousy friends.
Morning guys!
Need some networking help!
is there any windows program that will tell you what is blocking a specific port on your computer?
i have forwarded the port from my router, yet my pc is blocking the port… ive uninstalled my firewall software, and even tried disabling the windows firewall alltogether… driving me nuts…
Something else may be tying up the port already. That or putting your PC’s IP into the DMZ on your router is also a good way to eliminate router firewalls/rules as an issue – it leaves your PC wide open to the internet, but is good for testing. And consoles.
This is all assuming you’ve definitely disabled Windows firewall and any third party stuff that could be blocking things.
definitely something on my pc is blocking it. port is blocked even on DMZ… also, its not in use by anything
Well if you’ve put your PC into the DMZ and it’s still being blocked, then it’s definitely your PC. If you know what port it is, you can use the netstat command from command prompt to figure out what the port is doing.
Example:
netstat -np protocol | find “port #”
So, ‘netstat -np TCP |find “4000” will show you TCP port 4000 and what it’s doing – if it’s listening, established, etc. If it’s established, it could be an indicator something else is tying up the port.
tried that netstat command for both port 8602, and a second port i forwarded, 1821
nothing came up
If it’s not showing up, then it means it’s not in use, which can be a good sign. It means nothing else is holding the port open. That implies it’s being blocked from somewhere or it’s not configured correctly.
this is my entire config.
in this screenshot you can see my pc’s ip, the port check results, and the router configuration page.
http://i.imgur.com/Cdf4RHF.png
i port forward services all the time, im sure its all configured correctly, unless im having a blonde moment. 😀
It’s a bit weird man. It looks fine to me, and I’m sure you’ve done it right – just listing all possibilities, really. Don’t know why it wouldn’t be working.
Are you sure it’s a port blocking issue? Kinda sounds like it could be something else.
If something can’t connect (assuming it’s configured correctly), then it either has no route (different IP ranges/subnets, no physical path), or something’s blocking it – be it firewalls, rules, or something already using the port.
You know what the greatest issue I ever had with a port problem was? Turns out my ISP had a forward proxy that was indirectly blocking it. A forward proxy I didn’t want, ask for, or agree to. Thanks TPG!
Oh, and it didn’t get fixed. Once I changed to Internode it worked 😛
Wow, that’s pretty jerky. I’ve never come across that before!
another small weird one for you… completely different pc…
opening a website in any browser, comes up with website found waiting for response…. never gets into website.
if i try to use the websites direct ip address, it goes in instantly. if i ping the website, it resolves the ip instantly.
tried the following fixes.
Running LSP FIX
flush the dns cache (ipconfig /flushdns)
reset tcp/ip (netsh int ip reset all)
switched over to googles dns servers (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4)
resetting history and cache.
have both chrome and ie installed, same problems….
Huh. Try a winsock reset – ‘netsh winsock reset’ (requires administrative privilege). Sometimes helps.
Just a stretch here, but I have seen some viruses, and most notably rootkits do some funky shit to network connectivity. As well as IP tunnelling stuff like Hamachi, etc. if it goes bad. Stretching here, but just throwing some ideas into the mix.
Wait, just had another brainstorm – if you can access via IP but not hostname, could be a DNS issue? Again, just a thought.
yeah that was my assumption thats why i flushed the dns and tried using different dns servers.
Is this about your RDP thing?
nah seperate… rdp is a ok, but was for a different machine on a different network
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Depressing that my new phone’s 4G connection is 4 times faster than my home ADSL2+ connection. Our communications infrastructure really is pretty fucked in this country.
And won’t get any better. D=
Well it is getting better, but not like we hoped. It’ll still be slow, but it’ll be a more consistent slow
Now obsessively following my PS4’s tracking to see where it is. Despite it still sitting in Ohio somewhere.
May sit there for a while based on the current weather they’re having.
YOU’RE NOT HELPING.
*twitch*
Happy Monday TAY!
Monday morning meeting all morning and now it’s lunch time. Best day!
Remember Videogames? I played some over the weekend! Still playing Pokémon, although I’ve slowed a little. I recently lost about 10 hours worth of stuff when I accidentally popped the cart out when grabbing my 3DS. I’m just grinding in the Battle Maison, getting BP and being screwed by random crits after a 48 win streak. I played some Diretide matches of Dota and I can’t see why people made a fuss. It’s such a terrible mode. I also downloaded and started playing Path of Exile. So much good times already. That skill tree is the greatest thing to grace videogames in such a long time.
Also, it’s Zelda week! So much looking forward to new Zelda, it’s going to be great!
I’m broke as hell, but will still be finding funds for new Zelda. Skyward Sword, Twilight Princess etc have never interested me, but I put unholy amounts of time into Link to the Past and Link’s Awakening as a kid. I want that in my life again.
AND I’M STILL YET TO PLAY A SINGLE ZELDA GAME! \o/
I’ve only done Link to the Past (SNES), Link’s Awakening (GB) and Ocarina of Time back on the N64.
The top-down ones are where it’s at, for me. Ocarina of Time was pretty good, but when I tried to replay it on 3DS, I couldn’t stand it. Apparently teenage Cody and adult Cody have different tastes or something.
But LttP and LA still work pretty darned well for me.
SOLD!
SNES VERSION IT IS!!!
Right after doom and destiny..
LttP was pretty amazing, but it’s been a good 15 years since my last playthrough. I’ve started it on emulators recently, but not actually played through. Amazing game.
Oh man, even @dc and @alexpants have gotten their feet wet in the franchise recently. It’s time, Loops.
Maybe i should start with the snes version… hmmm… play it bit by bitvia emulator at work or something
They also ported it to GBA, if that’s any more convenient for you.
I personally think the LttP is overrated as far as Zelda games go. OoT, MM and WW are all better experiences.
Does it make it worse to tell you i own almost all of those games, but am yet to play them?
Notably 😛
There has been so much hype for new Zelda that I’m a little worried about it. I hope it’s good but I won’t build my hopes into the greatest thing since OoT.
Also, yay Path of Exile. \o/ Such a good game considering it is f2p.
My Pokemon playing has turned down a lot over the last few days 🙁 There’s just not enough to do after the Elite 4 other than breed and battle online, which is sad coming off of B2W2 which I thought were great in that regard. Plus there’s never anybody online anymore. Here’s hoping the third version has more content.
I started playing style boutique but I did want to go back to pokemon
I play most nights, but forget to jump online since I’m just doing boring, repetitive stuff.
Yeah, the battle/trade requests are annoying when I’m in the middle of a good chaining run. So offline for that stuff.
I did 10 battles in a row and got bored. Battling isn’t really my thing, and it also seems to be about 90 – 95% of the post E4 content. Here’s hoping for DLC!
I think i need to do a kickstarter to pay for this wedding… holleeee shhheeeett 😐
What tier gets me a copy of Loops’ wedding night video?
All of them
Ugh, it’s the worst isn’t it. Ours started at about $12K and finished at just over $20K 🙁
Paid it all off in just over a year though!
Yeah man… we’re over the 20k mark too. we need to come up with 9000 by the end of the week, too 😐
Granted we have most of it, but it is litally ALL our money. we’re relying on the wishing well at the wedding to pay for the honeymoon accom and car hire…
is there an online wishing well so Taybies can input?
You’e already done your part by talking Ramen with me! 😀
Oh I see. You really want a bathtub full of ramen as a wedding present.
Yeah, we had already spent all of our money lol. We had to get a loan.
Ours cost $50. And that was just for the marriage license. Then afterwards, we all went and split dinner at a Greek restaurant.
Your wedding sounds like my type of wedding! hahaha
We cut costs left right and centre, ended up with a small wedding in a small town and still went over 10k, not including travel and such for the honeymoon.
Hiiiii. Weekend was pretty meh. It rained a lot and I played some GTA Online.
Although I did have fun with @steve-o_the_deve-o and crew playing some Axis & Allies. Who won? Are you alive dude??
Although the glorious U.S.S.Rs strategy of mass infantry failed, the combined attacks on Japan from our tanks and the American airforce let us capture most of Asia, and whittle down Germany with the extra resources. We played a few other board games which were quite good – but finished with Munchkin Axecop edition. It was hilarious – I have never played a game with so much back-stabbing.
Haha sounds awesome. Maybe next time I’ll have time to stay a lot longer.
Hey Melbourne Taybies,
Should we do one last meat up before christmas?
Only if ramen is involved
If you want ramen, we can get ramen. Aside from Yoyogi’s, there is Ajisen ramen and another Ramen place that I know about.
Is there one that serves a bath-tub size so i can bathe in it?
Probably if you order it.
Checked out a few places, apparently Ramen-ya is the probably the best. I’ve eaten there before and it’s pretty good and rather cheap.
SOLD!
I believe you may have to bring your own bathtub though.
RAMEN IS THE BEST FORM OF MEN.
IT SHOULD BE RAINING RAMEN!
I do not disagree with this.
No
We should do more than 1If you want
YES!
I am actually in Melbourne the week and a half before Christmas and I was hoping someone would put together a meat. I should be there from the 17th to the 22nd of December.
My first meat – YAY!
Happy to plan that for you. Seeing as I tend to always plan this things
Neato! Okay so whatever is easiest for you, you now know which dates I am in town for, just inform me of the day of the meat and I will run away from my family and be there! Haha, they probably want to spend most days out shopping anyway, so no trouble on that front.
We usually do Saturday because it makes it easier for most people to get there
Went to go and grab a healthy lunch.
Somehow ended up with Hungry Jacks and the X-wing miniatures game.
I’m bad at this.
Correct, should have ended up with burger edge and the X-wing miniatures game.
Grill’d > Burger Edge
It is known. Dem chips, man.
Love that place. SO expensive though. Mum and I usually share a burger.
With herbed mayo. Always with herbed mayo.
But man… dem burgers… my sweet baby jesus… dem burgers.
Moroccan Lamb is a flavourgasm, through and through.
eeewww
I always find that grill’d use too much sauce on most of their burgers. And I prefer the chips at BE as well. So basically you are just wrong
Three people v you?
you are wrong.
So wrong
terminally wrong.
You’ve contracted wrongcer
Ceasar Palace! Best burger!
Great success! I’ve eyed off that X-Wing minis game a bunch of times. Report back. I heard it’s pretty good.
Ohhh man – dat game.
All the wants
Dammit Rize, I’ve been eyeing that game for weeks…
So, apparently Sportsball stuff is happening Thursday morning in Brisbane, if I’m not mistaken.
Something about a burnt bail, and Poms.
If there needs to be bail paid before the game it’s probably a league match
audible laughter
Has anyone played the main game of Bravely Default yet? how strong is the emphases on this restoration minigame? I would hate to think I would need to idle my 3ds overnight just because I don’t usually get streetpasses?
Hello friendly people!
Yes, one of my infrequent TAY posts… I hope you’re all well.
So I need to vent to people who might have a modicum of sympathy for me. I have been playing GTA V and loving it. I just finished working my way through the EPIC, and expensive, Epsilon missions. Gosh…
Having not read ahead on how to get Gold on the last mission I proceeded to be the good boy and deliver the 2.1 mil to be sent off-shore via helicopter. The thanks I got was a rusty, useless tractor! So yes, apparently you were meant to read between the lines and steal the loot. Of course my last save was from days earlier and would have meant trudging through hours and hours of gameplay already completed. And I certainly didn’t want to run around the desert again for 5 miles on my bloody pilgrimage.Anyway, I missed out on the money and that’s that. Boohoo @ me. Haha….my wife was kind enough to remind me that money is fleeting anyway and that I’ll probably make lots more on the next heist. Thanks honey.
Kifflom!
my biggest bit of advice, DO NOT DO THE ASSASSINATION MISSIONS before the final heist and you will never ever have to worry about cash in that game.
You and your gang still multiplayering it up?
yeah my gang is still going strong, I haven’t played in like 2 weeks, been pretty obsessed with AC4, really surprised at how much I’m enjoying it, I’m not far off 100% in the single player campaign. Also playing a bit of Dragon’s Crown, it reminds me of Golden Axe but with a lot more Bewbs
I’m really looking forward to AC4. This time last year I thought I’d never play an Assassin’s Creed game again, but now I look forward to it. 😀
I really wish they’d made a new franchise about pirates cause I’m loving this so much but am concerned that there won’t be more like it. I want more Pirates more of the time, something really awesome about sailing in vidya games when it’s done right, you’re in for a treat I think. I’m almost finished it but am considering a replay as one of my first ps4 games 😛
I suspect AC4 will be the only game I play on launch week for PS4 and Killzone will be sitting, biding its time… waiting…
Good to know. Thanks. 🙂
I haven’t opened up those missions yet. That’s Franklin, right? Will I know clearly enough that ‘this is the final heist!’? I want to ask more questions but I’ll probably spoil things. Hehe.
You’ll know. And yeah, Franklin does those missions!
what dc said, you’ll know, and ypu the Lester missions for Franklin they’re marked with an “L” they will force you to do the first one but after that you can leave em.
Been playing Enslaved: Odyssey to the West on the PC. So, so good. You really need to get past that bridge, @strange. Possibly one of the prettiest games I’ve ever played. 😀
I got stuck at the bridge for the longest time too. It’s worth pushing through!
Just a crazy fun game. Love the dynamic between Trip and Monkey too. Beautiful scenery. Interesting story. Definitely in my top ten games of the generation.
Only problem with PC version is I’m playing with mouse and keyboard which is fine for the most part, but occasionally when I’m learning new combos it’ll give the Xbox controller buttons on screen and I have no idea what to do. XD
I remember back when my son had naps I was trying to get past the bridge for the whole of his naptime. It made me so cross that my only free time of the whole day was wasted like that that I never played it again.
Also, next time we hang at your place I’ll make a point to help you through if you want. Even if I’ve got to… play games in front of other people. D: D: D:
I think I need to get a screenshot of this before you change your mind. 😛
Worst case, I vanish everyone out of the room. XD
I want to buy and play that but can’t justify it at the moment.
Steam sale it is!
Even at full price I could easily recommend it without hesitation. Then again, you got so many games to play so it will keep!
Yeah, it’s not the price for me it’s the “OH GOD SO MANY GAMES!” aspect.
Do any of the Brisbane Taybies play golf at all?
I play video games, Freeze. Video games. >:|
😀
I play golf very-irregularly and do not live in Brisbane. Why am I replying?
Wii Sports Golf?
I ran over someone on the GTA V golf course. Does that count?
I play Everybody’s Golf 2 on my PSP. Ace game.
SMALL SPORTS BALL! \o/
Yep!
Oh wait, Brisbane…
End up rescheduling your Brisbane trip?
We’ve got Rockets AND BDKIAF arriving in January. You could too! 😀 (Also Ruffles in early December!)
Yeah, had to postpone. Work is just too busy at the moment.
One day I will venture there.
Is golf the proper word for when you get drunk and crash buggies into lakes?
It can mean something else?
In much the same fashion as friends and I used to go ‘fishing’.
Fishing usually equated to several days at a camp site doing nothing but drinking alcohol, drug consumption, swimming, and burning stuff on the campfire.
Mr. Strange does. I play mini-golf….
I have played golf very badly several times, but I’m a gun on a golf cart, we had those things doing donuts (on wet grass and at the bottom of a hill that let us build up speed). I enjoyed golf but was terrible at it,
I don’t, but Berkid loves golfing, as does my best mate.
Freakin hell what is it with all this RAIN??
I’m totally going to have to drive with the windows up again. Bleh.
You don’t have to.
If I didn’t dislike being wet so much then I wouldn’t.
But I do.
Just drive faster.
Everyone ready for the South Park game to be refused classification?!
http://www.playerattack.com/news/2013/11/18/south-park-stick-of-truth-has-mature-humour/
Fable gets R
South Park’ll be PG.
I don’t think anything listed in the report breaches our R18+ guidelines, but then again, who the fuck can tell what the classification board is going to do anymore.
Not sure how that would go down.
The anal probing does – hence why it was left out of the latest saints row…
I’m pretty sure an abortion clinic will cop a whack, too.
Oh, and the background sex. We all know how much they hate sex.
I think the anal probing will be what gets the RC, but not for the same reason as Saints Row. Judging by the screenshots released a while back it’s Cartman being anal probed IIRC. I’d say they frown upon children being anally probed.
They seem to get most hung up on the whole drugs for benefit thing more than anything. As long as it doesn’t have that, I’m sure it’ll be fine. South Park being such a particular style of animation would save it on some levels too I think – less realistic and all.
But then again, it’s our classification system. I often think it just comes down to what kind of mood they’re in on the day.
@sughly: Still keen to do Dreamworld trip before Freeze’s on Sat?
Yus. Is anyone else? Or is this a date now?
Not if I can help it! 😛
@freezespreston, @strange, @enduwolf, @jimu, @sernobulus, @welbot, @dkzeitgeist, @virus__, @popdart5, @transientmind, @beardymcmuttonchops, @gutsoup…
Kinda stuck tabletop gaming and then I’m heading off to Symphony Orchestra and potentially crashing @strange’s classy evening with friends.
Enjoy your man-date. 😛
Hey, atleast there will be no candles on the day after Valentine’s Day this time! XD
Haha. I’m keen for dreamworld regardless. Want to make use of this pass this one last time, probably will be a while before I cough up money for another afterwards
Agreed. I’m keen, but if for whatever reason you’d feel weird just hanging out with me… say the word. XD
Downvote! (not really)
man this timing sucks 🙁 gonna have to bail on this one too unfortunately. Right smack in the middle of a not yet full pay cycle. Gimme a few more weeks and I might be able to partake in the odd meat or two!
If I’m invited to the Ice Fortress (aka Casa del Freeze), I can pick you up and drop you home? I won’t be going to Dreamworld though if that’s what you truly desire.
EDIT: Oh wait… which Saturday (Hi @saturday) is this?
I think it’s this saturday. 23rd. I’m not actually sure what I have on at this point as my sis mentioned something about a dinner at her house this coming weekend, but didn’t tell me when it was yet, so I’ll have to find that out before I can commit to Freeze’s place. Usually she has her dinner gatherings on a Saturday night though, so I’m expecting it to be the same this time.
Welbottttt, you have a free pass to dreamworld (thats running out) and a lift down and up and a party hosted by freeze! Go to it you damn fool
I know I have the pass, but I dunno if I can go down to Freeze’s afterwards, so I would need to get back to Brisbane after the Dreamworld bit, and I don’t want to put anyone out by asking them to take me back if they have planned to continue down to Freeze’s, so I figured it’s probably less hassle if I just sit this one out. It wont be too long before I can start attending regular meats again, so as much I hate to miss the fun this time, I know good times are coming, so I’m not too worried 🙂
Is there a non-dreamworld option? I hate fun
Freeze’s place! WOOOOOO! (Though there should be sufficient amounts of fun there too, just so you know!)
If i was prime minister i would launch a “stop the boots” campaign to rid streets of people wearing shorts and tee shirts along with ugg boots.
VOTE 1 CHULOOPA \o/
Only so long as there’s a concurrent campaign to stop people wearing thongs with jeans. Or even just thongs as a replacement for regular shoes in general.
I’m all about extremes – so i would aim to stop people wearing thongs during a rainy day and perhaps for all of winter all-together
I never wear thongs with jeans. Nope, not me. Never. Ever.
All the timeThough that has changed in the past few months because city pavement is horribly filthy. I had cleaner feet after walking along dirt tracks than I do after a day in the city 😛D:
I’d be promoting ‘PUT YOUR FUCKING COLLAR DOWN’ and ‘TIGHTS ARE NOT PANTS’.
Oh god yes. Hell I’d even sacrifice the former for the latter.
Ugg boots are an Australian cultural institution.
GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM YOU UNAUSTRALIAN BASTARD
They are an institution to be restricted to the confines of one’s home.
I had a male friend that used to wear his girlfriend’s Ugg boots everywhere and I thought it was pretty cool (he was in no way trendy or cool) and people gave him the weirdest looks, that was back in 2001 before it was cool, so I fully endorse your “Stop the Boots” campaign
Can I choose to make it illegal to wear white socks pulled all the way up over the top of tights
My page get was terrible.
Please accept these high-speed photos of wet dogs shaking their heads as an apology.
http://www.demilked.com/dogs-shaking-heads-shake-carli-davidson/
You NEED to see these, trust me. There are things in there that you could not imagine possible.
@markserrels – this has you written all over it – especially the video at the end
oh man….. i thought that would be good but …..WOW
I KNOW, RIGHT?!
Woah, what the!
I BLOODY KNOW, RIGHT?!?
Blind mowing stuff
Dude, I expected greatness, not *the* greatest. I was going to try and pick a favourite but… nah. Too hard.
CHULOOPA \o/
Wrote a big comment, TAY went arse-up and lost it. Couldn’t be bothered writing it again…and it was a pretty great comment, too.
You all missed out on something amazing.
I totally did too. And it was even better. Yeah!
Was it about my junk?
It was bout my junk, wasn’t it?
It was totally about my junk…
I’m more concerned by the prospect of something not being about your junk.
Oh god…
Don’t even SUGGEST such a thing!
TAY lost my witty response to your post, so you’re left with this. It’s a bad day all around.
Oh man, I’m imagining it right now. Great post, Rize!
Kudos winner for sure.
Now I’m going to feel super awkward if someone votes for me for this…
Always ctrl+c before you hit post. I do.
Well, ctrl+a and then ctrl+c if we’re being specific.
I like to live dangerously. If something goes wrong I click Back, *then* I ctrl+a ctrl+c and try again.
The text hasn’t not been there yet 😛
Haha, that’s suicide. I should clarify I only do it for ‘wall of text’ posts.
Oh yeah, definitely gotta do it when it comes to walls.
So today has devolved into me bumming around reading TV Tropes. Best Monday ever. \o/
HEY TAY HEEEEYYYY
SUUUUUP!?
Studying in the library yo.
Dayum, girl.
Books be supa-fly!
You work dat thang!
Do the youths still crump? I feel like that’s something you should crump to.
No. We just twerk books now.
Gives a whole new meaning to the term returns slot.
Still blows me away how much EA-hating has just become part of the landscape. Like it’s not a passing trend – can’t say anything in public about anything EA related without someone piping up ‘FUCK EA’.
Doesn’t matter if it’s the developers fault, because FUCK EA.
Doesn’t matter if it’s the retailer’s fault because FUCK EA.
It’s pretty insane.
EDIT: Oh an Origin is actually a half-decent digital distribution platform? NO, BECAUSE FUCK EA.
I’m trying to think of the last EA game i played that I didn’t enjoy.
You only enjoyed them because EA sacrifices 1000 baby boats every day to ancient pagan powers.
Oh, and they also killed Jesus.
Won’t somebody think of the dinghys?!
Like, seriously.
Mass Effect games- loved
NFS games- love
Dead Space 2- didn’t finished but enjoyed
Mirror’s Edge- Love to pieces and is getting a sequel
I’d like to tentatively raise the prospect that they killed C&C.
Not sure how much of that was due to change and how much was due to not changing…
At the very least, they killed Westwood!
I honestly think C&C’s time was over, regardless of what they made. It’s been around for a very long time, and had gotten quite stale. Not sure if it could’ve been salvaged, even with change. Maybe. We’ll never know.
I think MOBAs and RTS like Starcraft II have just made things like C&C redundant as well. eSports, a bunch of things.
EDIT: Which isn’t to say C&C wasn’t brilliant – some of my fondest RTS memories are from Red Alert and C&C Generals.
This generation EA made some pretty spectacular games. And FIFA went from shit to best sports franchise out there.
Surely a sign of an evil corporation.
I’m trying to think of the last EA published game I did enjoy.
It was probably either Dead Space or Burnout: Paradise, which ever was more recent.
I’m struggling to even find an EA game that I own. Last one I can see on the shelf is Godfather for Wii. And before that it’d be TimeSplitters 3 for Cube (and imo it’s EA’s fault that the aiming system in that was screwed up compared to TS2 :P). Not sure I even own any of their games on DS, and there definitely aren’t any for Wii U or 3DS. I guess I could totally live without them 😛
Wait I lied. Forgot about 360 games 😛
At least got Brutal Legend and Shadows of the Damned.
Oh wait and PC. I got Mirror’s Edge a little while ago. But eh.
I got Battlefield installed and it loads straight into blue-and-red-glasses 3D vision. Kinda funny.
Origin seemed functional for the process, it seems to have improved since I last had it installed for the BF3 beta.
It’s no Steam, but it’s come a long way. Also Steam’s had an 8 or 9 year head start – plus Valve and Gaben means it’s above all criticism. I love Steam – more than Origin, but Origin gets a shit rap because EA and the internet.
Also, as for 3D stuff, I had something similar when I updated my Nvidia drivers. For some reasin 3D Vision was enabled in my Nvidia settings. No idea why, it’d never done that before.
… I couldn’t find the setting to turn it off. Rather amusing.
I know I had trouble finding it, but it should be in your Nvidia control panel somewhere. If it’s not, means it’s not supported and probably not the issue, i guess!
Valve is very easy to criticise, just not easy to do it without getting flamed.
For example: Source hasn’t kept pace with other rendering engines. Their customer service, if you have a problem, isn’t as good as many other companies.
I love Valve, love Steam and love the games they produce. It just weirds me out how everyone believes Gaben is internet Jesus and he’s not out to make money. He’s a supremely gifted businessman and a visionary, to be sure. But he is a businessman, and he’s here to improve his brand and make money, amongst other things.
Which is not directly proportional to the success of EA and/or Origin, but an interesting comparison regardless.
They’re also relentlessly secretive, and don’t make sales figures on their online platform known.
I really want to get battlefield 3 on pc now… because i’m both unsure of how BF4 would run, and also it’s spensiverer.
Also – People just like to hate things because they are fucking stupid and like to feel like their opinions actually matter.
Fuck those guys.
sorry for the swearsFUCK EA!
Seriously though, I don’t think EA is significantly worse then any other large corporation. But large corporations by there nature are designed to be as sucky as their customers will let them get away with being.I’m pretty meh towards EA. Don’t particularly care for them at all, but they’re not especially bad. Particularly these days. I’m more about bitching how Capcom are dicks.
Fuck Capcom.
#hipstergooky
Jesus christ not again…
Played the biggest venue in Canberra on Friday.
Playing an underground football club this weekend.
I think my music career has peaked.
I liked the part with the yelling the best
That’s my favourite part too.
So I’ve discovered a weird bug in Battlefield 4.
Playing as assault class causes my game to crash 🙁
Every now and then I was getting a black screen and the game would freeze. I never worked out what was causing it and thought it was just a random thing. Assault has so far been me least played class but yesterday I was tying to play it to unlock one of the mission weapons. I started getting the black screen again. Then it began to pick up speed. The more I played assault the more frequently it happened. At first I could play for 20 or 30 min before crash. Now I can only play for 4 or 5 min as assault and it will crash. Yet I can play any other class for as long as I want and no crash.
I tried making sure my graphics drivers were up to date (they are) and doing an install repair (it was fine) then I tried restarting origin, even restarted my whole computer. Apparently I’m just not supposed to play assault.
Anyone else had this problem?
That’s really weird. I haven’t heard of anything – if it is a bug or glitch, Google wil likely turn up people having similar issues, even if it’s not widespread.
Only problems I had with BF4 were it running like it was lagging, but Nvidia update fixed that (331.65 drivers, from memory) and the usual in-game issues like Shanghai crashing from levolution, which was since been fixed with a patch.
That being said, i haven’t really used Assault yet. Too busy playing Recon and getting my sniper rifles up.
Oh man, mine’s been crashing constantly for the last 24 hours and I only play Assault…. Might have to try another class I think!
Haha, yeah. I’m now wondering if maybe it was one of the weapons. I’d just unlocked the Scar-H. Is that what you use?
Saaaaaaaame! I was using the Scar-H!
Had a pretty awesome weekend. I went to a Doctor Who afternoon at a local bookshop to celebrate the 50th anniversary. They had 2 Daleks, K-9 and the TARDIS there. I entered the trivia contest and came second. I won a dvd, but if I’d got one more question right, I would have one a $100 voucher and a commemorative booklet. Nice to win something that I can use though.
Well, I ordered a G710+ keyboard. And a new 2TB hard drive. And a G602 mouse.
And almost a GTX 780.
This is why I shouldn’t be allowed on computer sites.
Pffft, 780. Skip the middle man and just buy a Titan. A 780 is just a gimped Titan anyway. Do it. Go on.
DO NOT TEMPT ME!
/Gandalf
Hohoho. The things you would do, wielding such dark power.
Not sure if missing an /s …
I thought the 780 Ti now trumps the Titan?
Depends what you’re doing. Even the 780 Ti is still throttled in some ways compared to the Titan. Totally destroying your flagship $1000+ card with a $700 offering less than a year after it’s release would not be smart. General benchmarks seem to suggest for gaming, the 780 Ti is slightly better in some regards, but as a workstation/crunching card, the Titan is still king. Pretty sure the double precision functionality on the Titan is still superior – but again, that’s purely for crunching data – doesn’t help gaming.
tl;dr 780 beats titan in gaming, titan is only worthwhile if you need it for CAD work or something and don’t wanna pony up for Quadro/Firepro.
A friend of mine in the US is pregnant and having Australian lolly cravings, so I’m putting together a box to send to her. Already on my list are:
Fruchocs
Fruit Tingles
Cherry Ripes
Killer Pythons
Any other suggestions?
DARRELL FUCKING LEA.
What’s a Fruchoc..?
An abomination from South Australia
A chocolate coated apricot ball, SA thing along with Haighs chocolates
Haighs chocolates is the best thing EVER.
Not even in the same league as fruchocs
I’ve actually been to the haighs factory, it’s very cool
I am immensely jealous now.
Where abouts is it?
Mile End- went there to look at their Lean program, they were making choc raspberries.
Oh no way – that’s super easy to get to.
Next time Bee and I are over there (march i think) i’ll have her take me!! 😀
@chuloopa I don’t think they do public tours. Melbas in the Adelaide hills does though, and their chocolates are very good.
Right. I’m not sure whether that sounds delicious or awful.
Awful.
I thought they would be delicious, so Bee got me some on her last trip back to SA… they were just so wrong on so many levels…
Maybe they just didnt travel well…?
They’re awesome, but not a packet-at-a-time awesome.
Tim tams?
Sadly, Tim Tams are available in the States.
Milo?
WHAT?!
NOOO!
IT’S OURS! NOT THEIRS!
PINEAPPLE LUMPS
They’re not Australian but you should get some anyway.
If it’s from New Zealand, it’s Australian.
It’s the law.
Vegemite.
She’s probably all over that one.
…now I’m wondering about how vegemite would go in the world of confectionery.
There must be a way to make it work, somehow.
Maybe in a salted caramel way? Dunno, the major taste in vegemite is savoury and not much else so it should play to its strengths.
Vegemite as a confection?
Give me a spoon, and we’re good to go. Seriously. I will eat Vegemite from the tub with a spoon.
Also, Vegemite goes well on Weet Bix (without milk, obviously).
…you mean there’s ways to eat vegemite without weetbix?
Jaffas.
Meanwhile, on Kotaku
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SOME PEOPLE CALL HIM MAURICE
WOO-WOO!!!!
Just brought my girlfriend a MtG starter deck..she chose a fire nature mix because of the picture on the front card time to stay 1 lesson ahead of her while teaching her
Green decks are fun
MAKE CREATURE BIGGER YES
STAMPEDE WINS ALL.
AND IF YOU CAN’T MAKE CREATURE BIGGER, MAKE 372656 SMALL ONES.
Ahhh youre starting mtg? You gon be so poor
I’m already poor so the jokes on you…oh I made myself sad
I still have my starter decks from PAX.
But i don’t have black or red.
My black and blue starters from Pax are still intact, cannibalised my white one. They were fun because they were super balanced against each other
Well that’s pretty good to know 🙂
Maybe i should learn how to play
I’m having fun with it.
Just be aware that card complexity shoots up outside of those starter decks- there’s a design philosophy where common cards are simpler.
I have both sitting intact somewhere in my apartment. Didn’t ever get around to playing with any of the decks, just rifled through them to see what they were like.
Dark Magician is so OP
Blue Eyes Dark Kuribo?
Black is where it’s at. A bunch of reanimated corpses having free reign as you can destroy all their creatures as soon as they bring them out.
When it actually works that is. Horrible failure otherwise *stares hard at @trjn*
I used to have a Black/White cleric deck full of clerics that gain X/X where X is the number of clerics in play and others that grant all clerics on the field flying/trample/deathtouch etc. Don’t think I ever lost a game with it. Alas it didn’t survive the move from my old apartment to the house. The whole shoebox stuffed with cards went missing 🙁
Sometimes the magic just doesn’t work :p
I do find it funny how attached new players get to “their” colour. It’s a bit like race in Starcraft, people pick one and latch onto it. Oddly enough, new players tend to hate blue. I find that pretty damned amusing because quite a lot of the interesting cards are blue, particularly the ones that lead to bizarre combos.
I had a deck that was based around Future Sight. The aim? Run myself out of cards so that I could infinitely put whatever I liked on top and play it so that I generated infinite anything I damn well pleased.
Honestly, the stompy creature decks never interested me. Maybe that’s why blue doesn’t get the newbie love, blue creatures are rarely as stompy.
That being said, I will always have time for a good, old fashioned WR weenie roast.
HOW
HOW IS IT STILL RAINING
IT HAS BEEN GOING ALL DAY
AND YET IT’S STILL GOING, AND GETTING HEAVIER
SURELY IT MUST ALL BE DOWN HERE BY NOW
Meant to be like this until Thursday…
Don’t you go out in the rain
Don’t go out in the pouring raaaaaain
Clear blue sky here
It’s 29 here. About time too.
Can we trade?
Please?
*looks outside and sees sun*
Woah woah woah.. it’s raining somewhere that ISN’T Melbourne?!?!
WHAT HERESY IS THIS?!
DARK HERESY!
\o/
THE BEST KIND OF HERESY, THEN!
\o/
We’ve had seven days with seven storms in the afternoon/evenings. Most have had the BOM give out severe storm warnings. Tennis ball sized hail in places one night.
Clouds coming over now.
My PS4 originated in Arizona, then went to Ohio, and is now in California. California is being referred to as ‘the gateway’ so I can only hope their teleporters are located there and it will be on my desk in about 3 minutes.
50/50 chance of being DOA according to internet research.
Because Sony are assholes, climate change and FUCK EA.
DAE gaben jesus Steambox?
Hi Taybies!
Sorry its taken me all morning to get here…
How are we all?
I Did gardening on the weekend. and My Boyfriend bought me an early christmas present… An awesome Winter Jacket (WHich given the current weather down here is great)
Sitting in the office with it on, and loving it…
Work is not interesting me at all today. its a tough day today, probably didnt help that I did Half a days work on saturday night 🙁
\o/ for early Christmas presents!
Back at work after 2 weeks off, and the realities of reality are crushing me. Home time soon.
Yeah, reality does suck. Horribly
Surprise TABTOL party.
*streamers* *confetti* *balloons*
TAY last posted: November 18, 2013 3:00 pm: 2865 comments
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Post #1: @gingerchris86 on November 11, 2013 8:36 am
Post #1000: @freezespreston on November 12, 2013 7:15 pm
Post #2000: @35 on November 14, 2013 11:56 am
Ok, the party is now over. Resume work.
As a total stats whore, I approve of this party.
*looks up from table, face covered in blow*
Parties over?? Aww mannnn…
Let the record reflect that I was not the one to blow on this man’s face.
Day made so early?
Nice work, buddy!
Oh gods, I’m second to @dc.
I need to go and do some serious thinking…
Not only that, he’s posted exactly double what you have.
Wow.
Had no idea I post so much 😛
Damn @shane, you be posting some long comments.
@popdart5’s are longer
I’m just saying, @shane could be a writer or something.
to be fair, he did repost his writeup about 15 times.
Probably because he’s old and kept forgetting he posted it.
Like when My housemates cat keeps forgetting she has food and then finds it again and gets excited that it’s there?
i do that too.
That’s me with leftover pizza.
I only posted the full version twice! It was a 4000 word write-up though 😛
@shane still wins because he’s more consistent. My long comments are only fortnightly.
But still, win for highest average word count. 😀
Nah.
Dayummm… I’m back in the top 10??
Woah…
@greenius is slacking off.
Slackius
D:
1/8 of TAY is all you.
Was… a pretty slow week too.
You’re a conversation facilitator.
never change
Hmm not sure how I feel about being unlucky thirteen.
So I’ll share it with @negativezero !
I like that Flu has one post and it consists of one word. XD
wow! tabtol’s back!!! stats ftw!
HAHAHA!
You actually brought back TABTOL.
Anyone know if Quicktime Pro on Windows has the trim feature? Because Mac does by default and it’s freakin’ excellent. No more sitting around waiting for re-encodes! In my current situation, double re-encodes! D:
Hahaha…
Quicktime.
Yeah. 🙁
Still, it’s by far the best situation for me right now. I just need to trim the start/end of a whole bunch of videos.
Hi everyone. Had to go to my sister’s TAFE today to help her with her screen and media class. I had to be a contestant in a quiz show she was producing. It was sort of fun.
I ended up replaying Mirror’s Edge over the weekend, just because. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the game is way too short. It made me want to get into parkour/freerunning, but I don’t think that’s something I can ever do because of my bad knee. It decided to act up during the weekend, and now it’s all inflammed. I’m thinking about trying to see the doctor tonight just to make sure I haven’t somehow stuffed it up permanently.
I agree, I was really starting to enjoy that game when it ended prematurely. Just like secks.
Pointed out by Virus on Facebook.
http://mydailynews.com.au/news/playstation-4-sells-over-million-units-its-first-d/2087031/
Something is wrong there. Can’t quite pick it.
ahahahaha, that’s well funny
“SONY’S” is all caps?
Nice picture of a Nintendo Box there
Dear Everyone
I F$*#ing kick ass, just have to tell myself every so often cause no one else does.
To anyone else who is underapreciated and good at what they do, whether it be at work or at home or raising your kids the right way YOU F#$*ing kick ass.
From
Gutsoup (clinging to anything positive to stop myself turning into a jerk)
Gutsoup ain’t no jerk! You should attend more meats, man. Didn’t we have fun standing outside JB waiting for it to open on GTA V day? 😛
You’re awesome!
haha, that was some pretty good loitering, If only we could make money somehow from it, we’d be rich
Loved the orderly counter lining up too. Everyone knew what they wanted that day.
The size difference between the XBone and PS4 is quite a lot. Given that they’re meant to be pretty equal tech wise, I wonder what the XBone is using all that extra room for? Does the Kinect require a bunch of hardware in the XBone to work properly or something?
maybe they thought air flow is a good thing and left gaps, the ps3 seems to be crammed in there pretty tightly, I hope they don’t have overheating issues like early ps3s
R.I.P Gutsoup’s original ps3, the qld heat was too much for her 🙁
Good point. The PS4’s meant to be pretty quiet though, and hot technology normally isn’t quiet.
It’s large so that RROD doesn’t happen again.
Hey, @beardymcmuttonchops, do you still want to live in my house? We move early January.
With no context, this sounds really strange (Hi @strange!)
The heart wants what the heart wants!
You should email the deets. Like, when is your lease up, what’s the rent, any pics of the place etc? mjhellscream (at) the gee mails (dot) com.
I posted this on Twitter already but figured I’d share it here.
IF YOU’RE HAVING A BAD DAY, I PRESENT TO YOU 222 GOLDEN RETRIEVERS!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2391957/101-dalmatians-Theyve-got-222-golden-retrievers-gather-outside-Highland-house-originate.html
I spent most of today reading the latest Pratchett book Raising Steam. It’s another Moist von Lipwig book, this time about the invention of steam trains and building a railway.
I was expecting the book to feature “The Undertaking” (mentioned in Making Money) in some regard but halfway through and there’s nothing of the sort. Then again, I assumed “The Undertaking” would be something like the London Underground and that can’t really exist until trains are a thing.
I really want to read that book. I love the Discworld series, and particularly Moist’s adventures.
I haven’t made my mind up about it. On one hand, I haven’t been swept away by it (which is true of most recent Discworld novels to be honest) but on the other hand, it’s literally the only thing I’ve done today.
It’s more Moist and it’s better than Making Money. You were probably sold with the first three words of that sentence :p
So music friends
did anyone know Spiderbait were releasing a new album?
did anyone know Spiderbait released said album two days ago?
how the hell did i miss that?
Edit: Shitty page get alert!
I was aware of this. I have yet to hear the album, but Janet is still one of my fav bass players ever!
Need to check it out. My favourite Spiderbait album is Tonight Alright. That album rocks.
You mean Ivy and the Big Apples right?
There’s a Spiderbait song stuck in my head. I’ll think of it shortly.
Wait, you’re right. That is the one and the song I have in my head is Driving Up the Ceiling.
So I have to go have my knee x-rayed and ultra sounded some time (hopefully I’ll get super powers from it. Super leg powers, and then I can be Kangarooman or something). The whole thing’s pretty annoying. The surgery I had years ago was supposed to fix it, but nope. All the exercises I did this year was supposed to fix it (the physio said I’d done everything right and was impressed with what I’d done), but again, nope. Hopefully this time they’ll finally be able to figure out a way to fix it properly.
Hope it all goes well, my friend!
@beardymcmuttonchops @freezespreston @shane @strange @steve-o_the_deve-o @dkzeitgeist @sughly @dc If i missed anyone or got these handles wrong, can someone else add them in the comments.
QLD Peeps! I’ll be in town on the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th of Dec.
Let’s do things. I’d like to book my backpackers shack somewhere near where you guys usually meet up. So let me know.
Also, if someone knows what train will get me from the airport to the city and/or the entertainment centre, please do tell.
I’ll clear my schedule.
Also the only train that goes from there will get you to Central so it’s pretty easy.
Central will serve you well for trains to the entertainment centre too. That’ll be the Shorncliffe line. Most trains will stop at Central and Roma St.
I won’t be there, man. I live 1200 km away 😛
You don’t want to be rude. You should probably come back to Brisbane… for Ruffle’s sake… not because I miss you or any thing. *shifty eyes*
Bit far away for me to know my status, but I might actually be able to attend if things go smooth in the next couple of weeks! All depends on how much works fucks me around. I’ll probably know by the 30th.
@welbot, @jimu, @gutsoup, @lambomann007, @popdart5, @enduwolf, @sernobulus, @virus__
We will do things. So many things.
THINGS! \o/
You pretty much want to stay somewhere near Central or Roma Street stations – you can get anywhere from those two stations. They’re very close to the city itself, and the Valley isn’t too far away, but no one really goes there. It’s kinda poo.
Unless you’re coming up to Mackay or the Whitsundays I’m a bit far away sorry mang
Stay in the City near Central station, I work in the City so I can at least do lunch, possibly drinks if any of those dates falls on a Fri Sat or Sun
TODAY I’VE HAD ONE COFFEE AND A REDBULL AND SOME PEPSI AND I THINK I CAN SEE THROUGH TIME.
Any food?
Jelly beans.
Ah! The D.C. diet. I hope it serves you well!
Call me crazy, but oven re-heated KFC bread rolls and chicken are delicious.
But not the chips, oven reheated chips are soggy
Bread rolls > all else.
Why is it so difficult to find good music these days? In reference to the brief Spiderbait discussion above, I was trying to think up that one song that I had forgotten and I couldn’t find a link to a sample of it easily (Grooveshark came to the rescue) or a damn lyrics page even.
This has happened before – I previously tried to look up a great Tenacious D music video, namely Wonderboy (with its Lord of the Rings-esque parody) and Youtube has nothing. Save for a crappy VHS quality version. No HD. Yet I’m surrounded by Gaga crap at every turn. What gives?
And yes I know – good music is subjective.
Blergh. Gotta stop trusting YouTube titles.
Haha. See what I mean?
C’mooon, Gaga’s new stuff is gooood! Jewels ‘N Drugs is my new favourite song! I’d provide a link, bit I’m on my phone. Also I get the sense that Gaga is pretty hated here, hahaha!
To be honest, I’ve only ever listened to two songs from her. Can’t say it’s my kind of music, but I appreciated the weirdness and ‘hooks’ to the tracks.
She’s not that bad, though I fully understand that she’s not for everyone. Having three sisters though girly things generally tend to rub off onto me :\
I love Radio Gaga but that’s about it.
*The Gaga fans come out of the woodwork. Jewels ‘N Drugs? Seriously? It couldn’t have been Jewels and Drugs? Superstars these days really like to endorse poor spelling and grammar.
What is the secret of your power?
Cock pushups. 😀
I FOUND A D FAN!
Seen them twice now – once with Foo Fighters, then again solo tour. Freaking amazing.
Oh wow, this week’s Walking Dead might be my favourite so far. Unexpected, considering how much I liked the past five eps.
Now I can’t wait to get home!
Actually the more I think about it 4×04 is still my favourite, but this ep leaves me reassured about the rest of the season.
Yeah it managed to surprise me. That guy, was an arsehole. Suddenly, he’s regained his humanity.Who knows, he may have shown up at the end of the last episode to give the girls somewhere safe to stay instead of something menacing?In season 3, the governor mowed down a group of people who were supposed to be his soldiers.Oh yeah, I know his history that’s why I assumed the worst when he showed up at the prison last week. But something seems different here, I don’t think he’ll be welcome at the prison but the family might?Don’t get my hopes up, DC! It’ll be your fault if I don’t like it!
😛
Almost Human started in the U.S. last night. New show from Fringe show runner J.H. Wyman!
Oooh! I’m Yaaarrrggghhhing it now!
And it should be done in *checks torrent* four weeks! Excellent.
This is part one of two parts, I think the second episode will air on Monday in the U.S.!
Fantastic, so it should be finished in four weeks and one day!
Eyepatch on.
Fast & Furious 6 was completely brain dead but damn entertaining. Enjoyed that.
I liked the bit where they used a car to break their fall after jumping off a tank.
I liked the bit where they fired the cannon to slow the fall of the tank
I went in with high expectations, considering it was the sequel to the Greatest Movie Of All Time.
They were well met.
I just finished watching Forrest Gump. I feel like my age and general ignorance of all things America means that I missed a lot of the more subtle references, but still, I enjoyed it in the end, but I feel like the first 40 minutes or so kind of dragged on.
Whoa! First time watching? That’s crazy! Now I know how Sughly feels every time we talk movies and I haven’t seen any thing. 😛
Yeah, I’m pretty dang awful when it comes to “essential” movies. I went through the Empire’s top 500 movies of all time and I’d only seen 148 of them, though 47 of that were in the top 100.
I just finished browsing junk mail catalogues for the week and my top deal is;
a 250GB Xbox 360 console with HDMI cable and 4 games – Battlefield 4, Halo 4, Red Dead Redemption and the latest Tomb Raider all for $278 at Dick Smiths.
Pretty amazing deal, really. Stay tuned for my new top deal same time next week!
In case people weren’t aware, you may remember that a few months back some journalists were caught on an asylum seeker vessel out in Australian water (though since they had legitimate visas, they were immediately released), well the writer’s piece is done, and I think it’s well worth your time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/magazine/the-impossible-refugee-boat-lift-to-christmas-island.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
I read that earlier today. Heartbreaking.
Everyone, say hello to Scrappa as played and drawn by @tech_knight.
http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/
Heromachine <3
It was way too hard to find something on deviantart or google images to fit his character. I wanted some tech on him and slight look of advancement but each of those avatars had either an assault rifle or “too advanced” armour, which made it really hard to find one worth the name of Scrappa, so I made my own 😛
Love the caption, fits him perfectly 🙂
I’ve been thinking about getting a Vita, so for all of you that have one:
Which is better out of Killzone and Soul Sacrifice?
I’ve heard great reviews about Killzone, not so much about Soul Sacrifice. After looking one up, I don’t think it’s really my sort of game. The review said it was really grindy. Any personal preferences?
Haven’t played Killzone, but Soul Sacrifice was fun. It is a rather grindy game, but plays kinda similarish to Monster Hunter.
Make sure you get Persona 4 Golden. So much fun (I got ~12 hours in, and had done hardly anything). Massive JRPG.
The new Batman game on Vita is an alright Metroidvania.
But the main drawcard for Vita, in my opinion, is the range of awesome indie titles. Hotline Miami, Spelunky, etc. Amazing stuff.
Wipeout 2048.
Otherwise, Gravity Rush, Cytus Lambda, or Persona 4 Golden.
Killzone Mercenary is the best FPS on the Vita by far – but bear in mind it’s probably a 6 odd hour campaign, and after that there’s only challenge modes and multi, so there’s not a massive amount of replayability. I loved it because I love Killzone, and was blown away by what Guerilla Cambridge achieved on the Vita – but yeah, it’s not a huge game you’d play for dozens of hours.
As for Soul Sacrifice, it’s utterly brilliant to me, and one of the highlights on Vita – but if you don’t dig grindies, I’d pass on it. It’s essentially Monster Hunter with demons and sorcerors. Again, I love Monster Hunter, so I loved this one.
Persona 4 Golden is a major highlight, but it depends on if you like JRPGs and anime, to be honest.
It’s a seriously large game that you won’t be putting any less than 40-50 hours in, most likely.
All three are recommendations, but it depends what you’re after. Honorable mentions to Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice, Unit 13, LittleBigPlanet Vita, Rayman Origins and MGS HD. Oh, and Hotline Miami works incredibly well on Vita.
Not too much to report from climbing this week. At one point Climbey started talking about some comedy show she’d been to see, and a little after said that the next time she was going, she could let me know and I could tag along. I asked her where it was, out of genuine curiosity. She said it was just in the city, but then added “unless that’s too far for you?”, citing my laziness in not climbing more frequently. So of course I took it and ran with it, leaving the invitation to fall flat and unanswered. I am good at things, and would make @transientmind proud I’m sure 😛
End of the night, when she’d gone downstairs to get ready to leave, I sat around fora bit but then decided to just suck it up and went down to find her. Said “I did intend on taking you up on your offer of comedy, but kinda let my stupid awkward jerk thing (or was it stupid jerk awkwardness?) get in the way”. So yeah. Finally got a number now.
Way to go! 😀
Hells yeah! You did good!
So. Damn. Proud.
Don’t worry, there’s still the part where I just let it sit there and do nothing with it.
That’s the spirit! 😛
Also, after I did the thing. She told me that she didn’t have her phone with her, it was out in the car. So she made me get mine from my bag instead. Which meant RISKING GETTING CHALK ON IT. The nerve of some people!
I tried to dust off my hands as much as possible, and make as little physical contact with the phone as I could. I can’t *see* any white on it now, but I dunno…
You didn’t leave a TAY window open with discussions about her, did you? 😛
She didn’t have her glasses on, she wouldn’t have been able to see it anyway.
She doesn’t really need glasses – she’s just lulling you into a false sense of security.
#FemaleHivemind
The sisterhood sees all.
Now that I think about it, this line of thinking leads to the conclusion that it never really mattered which girl @mrtaco ended up with 😛
Shit, you’re right. She’s already done the mindgames before, there’s no reason to think this isn’t another of them!
Well, there’s only one thing for it. Smash her glasses and devise a series of elaborate and dangerous tests for her eyesight. There’s literally nothing that can go wrong with this plan.
Because I didn’t have enough projects on my plate, I just sent an email to my publisher, pitching an idea for a crowdfunded anthology set in the universe of The Lesser Evil.
Shit’s getting real.
You and your work ethic! 😀
I choose to look at it this way. At any given moment, I might be working on one project, but I’m procrastinating on five others.
That’s the spirit! 😛
Also, I played a lot of Portal 2 tonight. The email is pretty much the only writing I’ve done 😛
Ah, Portal 2… so good. Where you up to?
I just rescued the potato and am now partway through Chapter 7. The potato is now trying to figure out why the people in the recordings and paintings look so familiar… because it’s a bit slow.Haha! Such an amazing game. That paragraph you just wrote shouldn’t make sense, but it totally does. This is probably one of my most played games of this generation. Have finished it three or four times. So good.
@dc You just like the post apocalyptic future-past urban(ish) decay
@shane & @dc
Reading this is making me want to (re)replay Portal 2 in 3D, for all the motion sickness joy!
@blaghman
I’m just waiting for the rift support
Frankensteins Army is one of the most fucked up twisted movies I’ve ever seen. Happy to put it on one of my favourite films of 2013. No CGI all practical effects and suits. Felt like one of those horror mazes the whole movie.
Horror mazes, eh? Those ones at Movie World didn’t really scare me at all. Hooray for being dead inside!
I have an idea for a horror maze that would scare you.
D.C. walks into the maze, a flicker of derision in his eyes, and stops. This isn’t a maze at all, it’s just a room. Across the wall opposite him is a mirror, a figure staring back at him. He’s used to this, he knows himself. He deals with him every day.
Then she walks in. She’s beautiful, that much is immediately clear. Her auburn hair is swept back, it curves slightly, mirroring her body. She smiles the smile of an old friend -or maybe more than a friend-, saunters up to him, and caresses his arm.
“D.C.,” she whispers, “It’s so good to see you here. I know how you are about this sort of thing, but it means so much to me.”
“No!” He screams, “No. You aren’t who you say you are.”
She looks at him, worry flickering in her eyes. “I don’t understand,” the worry thick in her voice, “but I know we can help you.”
So they file into the room. The people who act as those they know him. Who speak of old times that only his closest knew. The people who consider him a friend, but who he knows not at all. He must deal with them, but he is scared.
My favourite idea though:
You walk into a room, a corridor really. All along the walls are dolls, mannequins, marionettes. Puppets. You’re not Pupaphobic, not really, but everyone’s a little Automatonophobic, deep down. As you walk down the corridor you get the sensation that you’re being watched. Their eyes seem to follow you without ever moving. You turn to look at them, but they’re always still. Their dead eyes reflecting only the main light, swinging gently in the room. You reach the end, a blast of air passes over you, you turn around but the way back is blocked. You grab the handle, but the door is locked.
It’s just you and them.
I thought a horror maze for @dc would just be a bunch of actual friends who wanted to give him a hug.
@gutsoup
Boardwalk Empire pal ramblings about today’s episode:
Whoa, that stuff with Gillian was intense. Probably the most complicated character on the show. She’s a monster, but you feel genuine sympathy for her. At the same time, I’m glad Richard and his wife will most likely keep custody of Jimmy’s kid.
That stuff with Nucky and Eli too and the phone conversation with Sally at the end. Interesting times!
sorry for the late reply, didn’t get a chance to watch it until just then.
Boardwalk Empire Season 4 Episode 11 Spoilers inbound
Edit @dc
I really didn’t expect the Gillian bit, I was just thinking wow, things are really looking up for her there even though she won’t get Tommy. It is odd how much sympathy you feel for her considering all she’s done, but at the same time pretty much everyone in the show is a monster and I really like some of them.Didn’t think people would find Chalky that quick either, even though they did call out for “the girl” it was pretty suspicious that she happened to wonder off only hours before. Narcisse keeps proving to be a lot more resourceful than I’d given him credit for, he pushed everyone’s backs to the wall pretty rapidly. Also he’s so eager on bettering the Libyan race, are other races welcome? Racist 😛
I’ve always really liked Nucky for his intuition when things are going on behind his back he picks up on subtle things. The phone call at the end there was a surprise, he didn’t really seem like he was headed that way, though after Narcisse undermined him with the help of Nucky’s other partners coupled with the fact that he suspects his own family of backstabbing he probably feels like he’s out of friends. Once again I feel a lot of sympathy for Nucky and he’s one of the biggest monsters, a real testament to the writing and acting.
Sorry about the wall of text, I guess the show gets me thinking 😛
So tonight im home alone for the first time in months while my gf stays the night at her aunties to go to the beach with them tomorrow while im out working in the sun.
You dont realise how big ones bed is till you can stretch out in it and then you realise shit theirs so much space!
Other than that I started playing CoD Ghosts, I subseqently turned off CoD Ghosts due to being overly confused, preffering black ops layout, and getting steam rolled by a clan that by time I realised my whole team had quit they had killed me 48 times.
Also on the fact that my girlfriend and I now have MtG starter decks Ive realised we both have Fire/Nature starter decks however I have the Dragon Maze starter and she has the Theros Starter
Night, everyone.
So I was watching Batman The Animated Series earlier, and I saw this and I thought of @dc.
And yes, I should probably be asleep, but shh.
Second point, I watched the first episode of Almost Human. It was pretty good, I’ll attempt to keep watching.
Is that a show about something not human trying to be human or a show where a human doesn’t feel human? These shows and their crazy titles
For a second I thought you were calling @dc a loser. Bit harsh, geez.
http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/11/18/fallout-4-trademarked-teaser-site-found-and-other-unverified-rumours/
Fallout 4 rumours and trademarks. One thing over the Half Life 3 trademark though, there’s a website with an annoyingly loud morse code playing. Seriously, really loud
http://thesurvivor2299.com/
I’m a freaking huge Fallout fan, & I don’t doubt FO4 is in the works, & I’m guessing (like most other people) that it’ll get a VGA announcement in December for a late 2014 release.
but that site is probably bogus. registered via godaddy, unlike all other BethSoft sites & hosted somewhere in the middle of Siberia or something, again, unlike all other Beth sites, which are hosted in the US.
but having said that… I had a quick look at that page’s js & its got all this age gate stuff thats not been activated yet. so who knows…………. might be counting down to something else entirely?
…the actual nuclear war that brings the Fallout Universe to reality?
Just a repost from Twitter:
The Good Guys are having a clearance on games. They are all going for $10.
Shipping is $2
http://www.thegoodguys.com.au/buyonline/content/Promo_46
Games include:
PS3/360
Driver San Francisco
Black Ops
Resistance 3
Battlefield 3
Saints Row 3
LA Noire
3DS
Pilot wings
Kid Icarus
Resident Evil Revelations
I picked up Rhythm heaven on the DS for when I eventually get a 3DS. I’ve always liked the look of the games.
Also a good thing, you don’t need to sign in, you can just checkout as a guest.
Some decent games there!
Zombi-U is there.
Pikmin.
All the Gears of War.
Super Luigi Bros (brand new release!)
Pokemons Black and White and Black 2 and White 2
Buy ZombiU and instantly feel less crap for buying a WiiU!
I haven’t bought a WiiU, and probably won’t 😛
I’m constantly conflicted about getting one mainly to play older Wii games but then I was never the biggest Nintendo fan so I don’t know if playing the Galaxy games is worth getting a Wii U for.
Or maybe I should buy a cheap Wii but the Wii U is backwards compatible so why not have both. Maybe Nintendo will do a Galaxy HD collection. Who knows.
Aaaaaaa
Maybe I should concentrate on my PS3 backlog first.
I reckon we’ll hear talk of a new Galaxy game within the next year. Pure speculation on my part, but I think it’s very likely.
That…probably didn’t help, did it?
Damn it Rize!!!
If you were going to buy a Wii, I’d say just buy a WiiU. Honestly, they’re not a bad system. Some really cool ideas in place, and it showed some real promise at launch on the 3rd party games front. But as it stands, it’s just another Nintendo exclusive console – and while I don’t doubt a lot of those Nintendo titles are great, it kind if needs more than that, for me at least.
Yeah my feelings exactly. Having no major history with Nintendo I don’t feel confident about buying it solely for Nintendo games. Then again maybe this will be my introduction to their games. Yeah, buying a Wii U compared to a Wii makes the most sense. Maybe I’ll wait for another price drop.
Just had a look, there’s some Vita stuff too. No idea if it’s any good though.
Little Big Planet Vita is great. Thought about getting it too but I keep thinking it will be on PS+ soon.
LittleBigPlanet Vita is ace. Also, all your costumes and stuff from the PS3 version work on Vita too. Some really cool user-generated content too.
Well that was painless.
What did you get?
Super scribblenauts with the carry case, Super Street Fighter IV on 3DS and Resistance Burning Skies for the Vita.
I now own 2 Wii U games without owning a Wii U.
Don’t blame me when you buy the console. Sorry
😛
I nearly did that too. Was halfway through checkout before I caught myself 😛
I’m planning on buying a Wii U at some stage. And Super Luigi Bros is only getting a limited run so for $10, I’ll grab that.
whoah, there are some great titles in there, why am i stuck at work.. tekken hybrid $10 yes please. The more i look at the list the more i wish i wasn’t at work.
Star Wars Dancing for only $10?
Might have to get in on that.
Thanks, picked up 3 games. Would have been 4, but no more stock left for Luigi U. 🙁
Spring/summer colds are the worst. I’ve been coughing on and off for the past 24 hours. This is one thing I didn’t want to get from my Dad.
*cheers DHL on*
CARN GUYS SHIP MY STUFF! WOO! GO SON!
Look! There it is!
Maybe all those DOA PS4s were delivered by FedEx?
What is the world coming to?
Agreed. Reading news.com.au is definitely a sign of the End of Days.
Edit: Just caved and read the article. Want, more than ever, to get the global dictatorship I’ve promised myself, and undertake a massive cull of mankind.
I’m happy to lifeguard the gene pool.
With a shotgun.
as shitty & deplorable as that is, that article reported on, what, 6 cases of this ‘game’?
wouldn’t surprise me if they were the only 6 cases to ever have happened.
just news ltd doing its scaremongering thing.
Edit: i’m not trying to sound like a horrible person (that just comes naturally) & its not as if I dont care about the victims here, but news au report on a few cases of like 3 or 4 people doing something half a world away in that fucking ‘IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU TOO’ tone & I just wanna rage-puke at their goddamn shameless click-baiting shit excuse for ‘news’
It could be scaremongering, true – but I tend to agree with Shane.
It is more a sign of today’s society.
no, its a sign of a tiny group of individuals being dickheads.
it becomes a sign of society when its seen as acceptable by society.
I cannot disagree with that.
The institutions of society still decry this kind of behaviour. But there are undercurrents in society not supported by institutions, the ones that venerate physical strength and macho bullshit, the undercurrents that encourage individuals to focus on themselves and their goals at the expense of others – up to and including rewarding those who are able to stop seeing others as human beings – and the undercurrents that reward and incentivise behaviour that defies the structures of law and order.
But yes, in general, I still agree with you.
Too many douchebags, not enough gas chambers.
Though @35 is also right – there’s still plenty of decency out there too.
I can never agree with the “sign of today’s society” thing, because the way people use it always implies that society has gotten worse. Yes, it’s a sign of today’s society in the sense that society is different today than it was in the past, but at the same time, human society has always been pretty shitty. Today it’s idiots punching random strangers for fun, yesterday it’s repressed women, slavery and genocide. Tomorrow, who knows? If you can count on one thing when it comes to humanity, it’s that we’ll find a way to be dicks to each other.
A little off topic but did the Zelda code work for you?
Yeah, thanks. I had some trouble with it at first, then I realised I had to change my region to the UK. I sent in noms for you, but then Mark was all “we aren’t doing kudos this week”.
😀
I’m suddenly reminded of the South Park meme episode, which just serves to highlight how fucking retarded this kind of shit is. Lump it in with planking and every other retarded thing people try to emulate to be cool on the internet.
There are some real pieces of shit out there.
I would have no gripe with shooting any of these idiots dead.
I know it sounds like insanity to say such a thing, but I’ve always been one for removing the scum of society permanently…
Perhaps why it’s best i don’t own a gun.
Just remove the warning labels from stuff. It will sort itself out.
And remove the ability to file civil suits. Otherwise, the fucktards who survive get rich and live forever.
Edit: I may have been thinking about this stuff a little too much. :\
MORNING LADIES AND GENTS!
Last day of work before holidays for wedding and honeymoon!
HELL-TO-THE-YEAH!!!
Godspeed, little man.
Good luck!
Jealous of your holiday Chulo, where ya going for the honeymoon?
NOOSA! 😀
So nice up there, for a few months i lived about a 45 min drive from there
So I’ve been madly addicted to the GOG.com sale going on over the past 5 or so days. And I’ve bought a few spare codes of some games that I thought people might enjoy. I really want them to go to someone who has mad nostalgia for the game, or who never got a chance to play it for one reason or the other.
So yeah, let me know if you’d like to kill some time playing Jade Empire or Heroes Of Might And Magic 3.
There might be a few more to come as well.
another* my brain is gacked from watching the sale for so long haha.
Jade Empire was an amazing game. I wish they made a sequel.
On the Frostbite engine. I would be all over that.
I’ve been the same but haven’t been able to sink the money in to it – i just keep watching to see what’s next.
I did happen to pick up system shock, though. Haven’t played it yet and at $1.20 how could i argue?
If you promise not to tell the missus, I’ve picked up the following.
Myst
Sniper Elite
Baulders Gate II
Might And Magic 1-6
System Shock 2
The Witcher
Neverwinter Nights
Neverwinter Nights 2
Sim City 2000
Little Big Adventure
Little Big Adventure 2
Ultima Underworld 1-2
Icewind Dale
Primordia
Alpha Centauri
Miasmata
Theme Hospital
La Mulana
Tropico 3
I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream
Thief 3
Tomb Raider 1,2,3
Jade Empire
Thief Gold
Haha, I too picked up the following;
Tomb Raider 1, 2, 3
The Witcher
System Shock 2
Syndicate
Dayummmmm…..
I’ve missed a bunch of games lol
Nice pick up! 😀
LBA is amazing had so much fun with that
HOMM3 was the best of the series as far as I’m concerned.
I have a special place for 2 in my heart purely because it introduced me to turn-based games, I also thought that 3 was also the most polished.
Yeah, I don’t think I could even begin to count the amount of nights spent when I was younger playing that game hot-seat with a couple of mates. So much fun.
That game introduced me to hot-seating turn based games. So damned good!
…holy shit, I think I’m about to have a nostalgia fit. I reckon I’ll be hot-seating HOMM 2 tonight with my wife.
Giggity.
HOMM 2 and 3 are the greatest in the series!
Also, if you want to get rid of that Jade Empire code…for some reason I never played it.
Dammit Rize!
C7A2-N74W-G773-27ZWIs it a Steam code?
http://www.gog.com/redeem
Cheers!
So no-one for HOMM3? You know you want to find some delicious treasure chests and artefacts 😉
I’d be up for Heroes 3 at some point! 🙂
DPZR-UX5N-4ZKQ-ALJ6Got it! Thanks champ! 🙂
OMG HOMM3. SO MANY HOURS CONSUMED.
AND MANY MORE HOURS TO STILL BE CONSUMED!
So, it’s Comic Tuesday. You know what that means.
http://shanewsmith.com/published-works/james-flamestar/
No?
*sigh* Okay, I’ll see you on Comic Wednesday.
My antivirus says your link is threatening. Why are you threatening me, Shane? What did I ever do to you?
Really? That’s weird. Anyone else having that problem? :\
Nope
Nope. Running the latest Chrome on Win 8 with Forefront and it’s fine.
No threat here.
Have you bought it yet? No, the mystery of Shane’s threatening behavior solved
Oh, I get it! It’s a ploy to get people to check my site to see if it’s infected. Thanks, dude! 🙂
Yes, that was the idea.
*Shifty eyes*
I’m not getting the message anymore, so I’m going to take it as my antivirus being an idiot. It probably had a traumatic experience involving a Shane when it was a child, and now holds a grudge against all Shanes.
Fair enough too. I don’t much like Shanes either.
It’s my wife’s least favourite name. #I’veToldThisStoryBefore
I already have that one!
Speaking of Comics, I’ve been reading Captain Marvel. She’s awesome.
Whenever I hear about Captain Marvel, I immediately think about the DC one (who is now Shazam). Dang it copyright.
But yeah, Marvel Captain Marvel is pretty badass.
I hope Danvers makes it into the Marvel movies soon.
What if I already have this one?
Because I’m featured in it. Yeeeeeeah.
I really should have asked for some of that sweet, sweet Pozible money when I had the chance. *sigh*
o/
We should cosplay as our own characters.
:O
That’d be wicked. Just making sure you’ve thought it through, though: you and @alexpants would be bare-chested. On the other hand, you would get to wield a massive hammer that is actually described as “like Thor’s hammer” so that’s a plus.
I would need to grow my hair again as well…
If you do it, I will buy you a wig.
Saw a few cosplayers at Supanova who went without shirts. I admire their confidence but at the same time I felt like yelling out PUT A SHIRT ON! >:|
Actually, Mr. @shane, I’ve been meaning to throw money at you for Peaceful Tomorrows still seeing as you failed to bring copies to the Canberra meat.
Is it possible to buy it off you personally so you get all of the profit?
That’s a kind offer, man, but my margin is about the same regardless.
If you want it signed, etc, happy to provide one from my shelf, but these things cost about $7 to post + the cost of the book. You’ll save about ten bucks if you just go Book Depository. (Also, I am unreliable. Just ask @rize. He’s been waiting by his letterbox for nearly two months now)
This makes it sound like I don’t want to send you one. I totally do. I just think it’s fair you know what you’re getting into, is all.
It’s almost like you don’t want my money!
A signed copy is mighty tempting…
And it’s ok, @rize has been waiting and yearning for my package as well.
I’ll investigate costs and let you know! Peaceful Tomorrows Vol #1 came in at 510g, which put it into the “large package” category ($11 postage O_o ), but I think this one should sneak it at the lower rate.
Edit: I should also acknowledge that no one that I know of has pursued one of my books so diligently and doggedly. So, thanks for that.
Happy to pay postage!
Can you shoot me your address via the emails please?
shane at shanewsmith dotcom
Cheers!
Maybe you should just come to Canberra one weekend and pick up a copy.
Hasn’t worked for you yet 😛
I know, but I’m working under the assumption that Cakesmith is far more…effort…full of……something.
I would, but you know, Canberra.
We can get drunk and watch Alien/s and Star Wars.
Even if you don’t turn up I plan to do that some time soon.
Urgh. My new coworker. Just Urgh.
He did all the work he had in yesterday and cleaned up the whole shop. Now I have nothing to do.
Urgh.
He’s out to get you.
You should kill him. You could then hide the body and, when caught, explain you were doing some training to understand crimes from the perspective of the criminal, thus being promoted to chief of police immediately. Probably.
I’m sure your boss is badmouthing him all over town already. #helping
Seems like the thing to do!
Having a discussion about epitaphs with some friends, there’s a strong chance that when I die I’m going to have a Simpsons quote on my headstone:
“I’m a stupid moron with an ugly face and my butt smells and I like to kiss my own butt”
For a good time call :
sean s.
1985-2032
I’m certain your wife if she survives you would have absolutely no overriding decision she’d want to make at that time.
Unless you divorce her for a much younger woman a few weeks before you die….
I don’t plan to have a tombstone, but if I did, it’d read: Everything was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt. So it goes
Nice. Mine will say:
“Well, he sometimes tried his best. So there’s that.”
“404 soul not found”
I like that one, but it’s making me teary already. That can’t be good.
It’s from Kurt Vonnegut 🙂
“Epitaph was probably Dollhouse’s finest episode.”
You can’t have the word ‘probably’ on a tombstone! 😀
Yeah, if you’re dead no-one’s going to challenge your assertion so you don’t need to hedge it.
They’re not going to challenge it to your face, at least. Unless they’re crazy. But they can still challenge it. Much better to hedge your bets with a ‘probably’ and send them away secure in the knowledge that you were probably a reasonable person in life.
Or that you were a no good equivocator.
Tombstones are hard.
Also difficult to write“He did that thing once. You know what I’m talking about.”
I was always amused by what Trent Reznor wants on his:
REZNOR: Died. Said ‘fist fuck’ and won a Grammy.Spike Milligan’s is the best:
“I told you I was ill.”
Knowing of the man’s history of mental illness and whatnot makes it all the more fitting. Such an amazingly funny, gifted and tortured man.
“I’m standing behind you right now”
Didn’t we have a discussion about epitaph humour a couple of days ago? For @chuloopa’s competition, I think, and I made some really inappropriate joke about some bogan cancer victim being “fully sick”. That entry doesn’t stand a ghost of a chance. It was a grave matter. I’m dead serious.
Yeah, we did- it’s where I cited the one that @ynefel cited above
Has anyone played the Bioshock Infinite Burial at Sea DLC?
Played it last night. It’s only a couple of hours long. My afterthought: What the actual fuck?
I know medicine bottles are supposed to be child proof, but do they have to be adult proof as well?
It the worst when you feel like death warmed up, you struggle out of bed, have hardly any strength and then cop one of those
I keep a hammer next to my medicine cabinet for those days.
Unfortunately, it’s cough syrup, so I don’t think that will work too well.
I was just joking about the hammer anyway 😛
Headstone talk has reminded me of all the fantastic epitaphs you can find in certain games, and Baldur’s Gate in particular:
Here lies John W:
Looked up the mine shaft to see if the cart was on the way down.
It was.
I always liked the ones in the Fable games.
Yeah, they were pretty great.
Here lies the body of Rob.
If not, please notify the undertakers at once.
Almost Human was pretty okay. Its world is visually like Blade Runner mixed with Robocop mixed with I, Robot. Doesn’t really do its own thing yet, but it’s nice seeing moody, atmospheric Blade Runner-esque locales on TV. Potential to be awesome. One thing I loved is the lighting though. Some of the scenes were lit incredibly well. Favourite character so far is the police chief Sandra. (Who’s played by the actress who was Lisa on Six Feet Under!)
SIX FEET UNDER \o/
Been a long time since I last did that.
SIX FEET UNDER!
Help, I have done it again,I have been here many times before…
Things I like about Almost Human:
– Karl Urban
– Karl Urban occassionally slipping into his Judge Dredd voice
– The Adequate Spaceyness atmosphere
– The music
– Karl Urban never asked for this…
– Wait sorry that’s Deus Ex
Things I like less about Almost Human:
– I, Robot
– Which was not a good film, I do not think.
I loved I, Robot! 😀
Ugh.. new DVD in at work so i have to do collections.
I fucking HATE collections with a passion.
I don’t know what this means, but I love my DVD collection 😛
#Dense
THEN WHY DO YOU KEEP GIVING ALL YOUR STUFF AWAY! D:
If you love something, let it go.
That’s beautiful. *wipes away a tear*
So i’ve been spending some time with the Bravely Default demo, and it’s good…..REAL good. I know it’s not a true reflection of the final game, but it’s so much old school FF it makes my pants very, very happy.
I think this would please @jimu.
More than you could ever imagine
I started it this morning, had no idea what the hell was going on so I have up. True story.
This. I have no idea what anything means or what I’m supposed to be doing.
I’m glad I’m not the only one. The games doesn’t explain much, like how classes work. The demo was definitely made with the old school FF players in mind.
Yeah there wasn’t much info to be had. It’s more a combat and class demo than anything else. I loved the Brave/Default system though. It’s going to make boss fights so much fun! The hybrid job system is also going to be a lot of fun. I had my knight kitted out with a two handed sword and dealing massive damage using the jump command. Also, who needs red mages now that I can have white magic as a secondary skill on my black mage? Mwaahahahahaaaa
I can teach you, if you talk with all the townsfolk they do to, also as you progress it drops hints.
I played for about half an hour and I’m enjoying it. Like I’ve said previously though, it really makes me want an XL.
Same, in threeish days I did everything including maxing all levels and jobs and the town and bosses and GODDAM I CANT WAIT FOT THS AMAZING GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!!!
if you guys arent aware, there is a massive game sale online at the good guys.
all platforms, many games at $10. bought 5 copies of halo 4, one for me and rest for friends, as well as a couple of vita games
LALALALALALA NOT LISTENING
*plaintive cries from pocket*
It’s okay, credit card. I’m keeping you safe today.
I was being so, so good.
*sigh* Last of Us incoming from Mighty Ape.
I like to think a mighty ape will deliver it in person.
Maybe he’ll delegate to a Colobus though.
Colobuses (Colobi?) aren’t that mighty.
Though I hear there are a number of subspecies?
Oh, you heard right my friend. You heard right.
Three, right?!
perhaps a gigantopithecus then?
sale is also on accessories if that helps?!?
NO THAT DOESN’T HELP
*curls up in corner*
well, $2 delivery should do it then…
also complete guitar hero bundle with instruments $10…. if you’re into that \o/
Oh jesus.
THANK GOD the website isn’t working for me anymore :\
Complete guitar hero bundle? Where!? All I can see is the guitar bundle.
I saw Mashaaaaaaaaaa tweet about it this morning. I bought Rhythm Thief for myself and also ZombiU and Max Payne 3 for Mr. Strange for Christmas. We’re not supposed to be buying each other anything this year but $20 is a small price to pay for one-upping him. 😛
ZombieU is pretty cool multiplayer. One person spawns/controls zombies with gamepad, the other shoots em.
OH GOD I’M A MONSTER
Halo 4, Guitar Hero Metallica bundle should soon be mine.
It’s pretty awesome. I bought my stuff the second I saw it at 7am-ish because I thought it would sell out fast. Got Super Luigi U and Super Pokemon Rumble out of it, so I’m happy!
Damn you, I missed out on Luigi. 😛
same 🙁
hmm, all the people in my office are in a meeting and I’m the only one manning the place, it’s like a ghost town.
*puts pants on head and skates around office on an office chair*
They’re conspiring against you.
They could just be planning a surprise party for him!
A surprise MURDER party
well, good thing I’ve taken my birthday off then,
Bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Scree?
Is that a really long swear, or…?
I DON’T EVEN KNOW ANYMORE
On Facebook, you promised laughter. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LAUGHTER
It has been replaced by the blank slate of tiredness and confusion.
Sorry to hear, man. How are things going otherwise?
The guy sitting next to me eats with his mouth open, taps his pen on his desk for hours on end, and watches Youtube all day.
Sometimes you can justify murder, right?
… why are you stalking me? D:
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
Why wouldn’t I? 😀
Maybe that’s the way he laughs?
Me: Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side!
Pants: BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Hey TAY,
Lego Marvel Super Heroes is fan-freaking-tastic…
That is all
Plus people are a bit too creepily complacent in that game!
Spoilered just in case, not that it’s a spoiler but anyway:
Knicked a car yesterday as Iron-man… now in most game people get pretty mad when you take their car… but this guy proceeded to say “Yeah, Sure you can have my car, i need the exercise anyway!” and walks away with a smile on his face.
Note to self; i think they’re out to kill me
YEah but you’re a superhero. That car is now worth like 12314124 gold LEGO pieces.
Would you say it’s, Marvelous?
Dohohohohoho – Statler & Waldorf
Yep yep yep yep yep yep yep yep uhuh uhuh – Martians
Stop talking about it. It’s making wantsies 😛
oh OK, so i won’t talk about how
I spend a couple of hours yesterday just flying around taking in the sites around Manhattan,
Or running around Time Square as the Hulk, barreling into cars to make them explode because explosions = fun
OR bumping randomly into Stan Lee ALL THE FREAKING TIME…
Also hurling random cars around while people are yelling “HAPPY TO HELP” whenever you lift their car up caused me a bit too much amusement.
Also Spiderman is pretty rad
😛
I played the demo and i had the biggest childish grin when playing as spiderman. It was made of win.
That game is made to play on all the dreams you had as a child of these super-heroes… even just the small poses everyone randomly strikes (eg when spider-man lands and goes into the “Spider-man Pose”) and yeah, much like you i was just smiling the entire time…
Plus Hulk exclaims “HULK SMASH” when he does certain attacks and both my missus and me can’t stop laughing
Yeah, I’m going to get it.
Have you tried co-op? Half the reason for me to get it is to place with wife-face.
yep, do it!
Missions is much like any other Lego Game (AWESOME) and free-roam is just the game going into a split-screen so you can mess around but don’t have to hang near each other if you don’t want to…
Also playing Taxi Skeet Shooting is pretty awesome XD
(missus plays as Hulk, picks up and hurls taxi, Iron-man or other ranged character tries to shoot it mid-air)
hmmm… reading what i’ve gotten up to in that game makes me realise:
DON’T EVER GRANT ME SUPER-POWERS, EVER!
i would be the worst hero of all time
White House Down was one of the more inane movies I’ve seen. Didn’t even have the good grace to be terrible, just snooze inducing boredom. I don’t think they could have filmed the fight scenes with less impact if they tried.
See Olympus Has Fallen instead. That movie was boss.
Olympus Has Fallen was the best Die Hard movie since Die Hard With A Vengeance.
This is accurate.
Thanks for the info. I’m not a fan of Jamie Foxx or Channing Tatum.
Olympus Has Fallen it is then.
I was never a fan of Channing Tatum either.
Then I saw 21 Jump Street.
Oh man, if you even hated the movie it must be truly terrible. (Only cause you’re more forgiving on mindless action movies. :D)
haha oh my god i watched this on one of my two twenty hour flights to and from australia and Good lord, those two hours may have accounted for only 5% of total flying time, but I want those two precious hours back. I could have used it for sleep. That would have been at least 4 times better than watching it.
This woman across the floor has hung up bedsheets around her desk because apparently it’s “too bright”. I don’t know what to make of that.
You should see my setup to block the morning sunlight.
It involves paper, staples and posted notes
Your sunny disposition is distracting her thoughts too much.
Oh Freeze. Never change you rascal you.
Lesbians?!
Offices are where you see the absolute weirdest sides of people.
she’s a vampire, get a stake & some garlic, pronto
Oh shiz – that’s what i was thinking of!! Not Lesbians!!
Damn Hollywood!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian_Vampire_Killers
Why not have both?
that’s a pretty specific thing to hunt, I wonder how much business they get. It’s like the dude in Venture Brothers that only hunts Blackulas
I love how he has to keep explaining that although yes he is a black man who hunts vampires it’s not what Black Vampire Hunter means.
BLANKET FORT
She needs to think bigger.
Send an email to a few people with instructions not to reply to it as it is just a test.
Receive several emails saying “ok”.
*head desk*
At least your people actually read the emails you send out.
To be fair I would have sent that back to you as well, more as a smart ass thing.
Jerk 😛
All they did was make MORE work for me to do.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701154/quotes?item=qt0225875
So i was naughty and spend $1 (ONE WHOLE DOLLAR!) on the weekly humble sale thingy, mostly because of i saw Flight Sims in it…
Air Conflicts is pretty meh, but could be fun in multi…
What took me by surprise though was i game i have never even heard of…
Thunder Wolves…. anyone know it?
Basic premises you are a part of a elite mercenary group called the Thunder Wolves (surprise) which uses helicopters primarily to blow crap up… takes place in the early ’90’s, and story line is just as cheesy as the A-Team or Airwolf…
The gameplay is very, VERY arcade like… aside from being 3rd-person camera, it actually reminds me a bit of old Jungle Strike and Urban Strike games… (go from point a to point b, blow up stuff, collect boxes with your heli’s winch etc.etc.)
The actual game is gloriously stupid, basic and so much fun… i poured more hours into it then i thought i would…
can see multiplayer being heaps of fun as well…
grabbing all,
1st thought: air conflict looks awesome im going to spend some stupid amounts of time on these!
Reality: dont mind me, just pilling up another four games to my pile of shame.
Yep pretty much… Air Conflict is a bit flawed though, but still a good bit of fun if you’re not a Flight Sim Elitist
I always wished someone made a good Ace Combat-style game but with the crazy jets of the 50s and 60s. Chuck Yaeger’s Air Combat was close but the aircraft selection was super limited.
most arcadey air combat games aren’t very good 🙁
Secret SanTAY?
Was thinking about that just the other day. Is @negativezero organising again? If he doesn’t want to I’m happy to do it.
I’d be happy to organize it but if you want to then you can. Last year i removed myself from the gift loop.
p.s. Mobile TAY over airport wifi sucks. 🙁
Ooh, that’d be cool. Especially given the Good Guys sale! 😛
This Christmas I’ll probably give you guys the gift of circling the wagons!
Not a fan of Secret Santa stuff though, so once again, I’ll sit this one out. XD
Ooh, Guacamelee’s turned up on the Humble Store sale at half price…
http://collider.com/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-sesame-street/
I was finally able to open the medicine bottle. Surprisingly, it doesn’t taste too bad. Raspberry flavoured.
lego city undercoer on 3ds any good? seriously thinking about it….
From what I hear, it wasn’t. The Wii U one got great reviews though.
The Wii U one had some truly horrible load times but looked like fun.
What DC said. If you’re going to play it, better off on WiiU.
HOLY DAMN! Interstellar’s got an impressive cast. There’s some names that I think will be great even though they’re known for less great stuff. (Matthew McConaughey who seems to be doing a Clooney/Affleck-esque career reinvention at the moment.) John Lithgow’s pretty incredible in any thing he’s in. Jessica Chastain is so damn awesome too.
Can’t wait to see this!
http://collider.com/interstellar-imax-camera-learjet-image/
Ugh, Matthew McConaughey.
Almost Human discussion:
It really does lack an identity after the first episode (but then, who judges something solely on a pilot?), but I’m enjoying it.I’m pretty sure one of the big city shots near the start was a matte (well, a digital painting, but you know what I mean) rather than a cg cityscape (which the one right at the end was), which is pretty cool.
I find it funny when Karl Urban fails slightly at his American accent, because rather than slipping out completely, he seems to hold the american pronunciation, but gets the Kiwi/Australian inflection, which just sound bizarre.
I’m pretty sure I picked every single story point in that episode before it happened. Would it kill them to have a little originality?
Will keep watching though because
Karl Urban is prettyI like, uhhh, explosions. And stuff. And robots. Pewpewpew.I wouldn’t be surprised if this started out as an I, Robot TV series adaption. Even the police station looks the same. The tech lab looks the same as U.S. Robotics from the movie too. Only thing missing was the insane amount of product placements. (Even though there WAS a suspiciously out of place looking Surface tablet forty years in the future. XD)
Man, what is it with nearish future sci-fi and shoving Surfaces in it? The bloody recent Ghost in the Shell movie had Surfaces, and that’s just dumb. They have neural interfaces (and it’s not like they can say, “it’s set earlier, so they haven’t developed that stuff yet.” The main character is a mind implanted into a computer body. That shit don’t fly) . It’s a waste of their time to use an archaic “touch screen” to input data.
Atleast it’s more subtle than the product placement in Fringe. Once they had a Verizon phone and showed a close up then Walter said something like Wow, that technology is amazing.
It makes me sad that I remember the brand name, because that means it worked! 🙁
Actually, Fringe was largely sponsored by Sprint…
Ooooh, that’s right. Verizon was Alan Wake. Haha!
Makes me feel better that I don’t remember the brand name. THANKS RED. 😀
No problem
*Drinks Coca Cola*
Aaaah, Refreshing. Always Coca Cola.
I need to talk about something serious, TAY.
I fear close friend of mine has an addiction to Brake Fluid. (spoilered for wall of text)
I’m worried but he says he can stop anytime #dadjokepagesixEthylene glycol poisoning is actually pretty lethal, and you should really get your friend to stop.
#dadjokepagesix
Dad joke master
http://bit.ly/7JJSz8
I hurt my finger somehow and now have my index and middle finger (left hand) strapped together. I think I should just back away from the computer, attempts to type are haphazard at best.
Hell, if I wanted to play Dota like this, I’d only be able to play Skeleton King.
So that would restrict you only to dice games, yes?
:p
I can still shuffle cards 🙂
Good time to start playing Diablo 3
CRAP!
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/11/forza-5s-mount-panorama-circuit-looks-better-than-the-real-thing/
Why’d they have to show me this?
Now i want an Xbone even more :\
Just wait for Gran Turismo 6 – although after GT5’s sorely delayed release, that could be 7 years away.
Yeah but M$ currently holds the license to the V8 Supercars don’t they?
Wouldn’t be the same if i can’t hammer down conrod in a Holden XD
GT6 has Mt Panorama in it and GT4 & 5 had the official V8’s in it.
http://www.gtplanet.net/tag/mount-panorama/
*MS
Man, MS is pretty lame. Lack of nerve insulating covers is rather crippling.
You’re rather crippling.
Aaaaand ordered Pokemon Soul Silver along with Burnout Paradise from Good Guys. Stupid cheap prices.
Kinda hope I don’t hate Burnout. I haven’t liked what I’ve played of any of them after 2.
Whaaat. Burnout 3 is the best one!
Maybe he’s feeling a bit burnt out…
After Paradise? Yeah.
To be honest, I can’t really remember what was 3 and what was 4 since I only played them at my friend’s place on his playstation and it was a looooooong time ago. So it’s hard to even remember specifically what I didn’t like 😛 But I know I hated the changes made to Crash mode, and I think general shift to focusong on takedowns? Also the way you could rear-end a car but not crash was dumb.
The first two are still the best to me. Only, while 2 does some things better than the first, it also takes away a lot of what made the first one awesome. Best Burnout would be some kind of amalgamation of the two.
I put so much time into Burnout Paradise. 100%’d the single player stuff. I wrote a thing about it, but I’m way too lazy to go and find it…
My greek religion course was actually really interesting. I kind of wish I went to the lectures now.
Going to lectures? That’s not the uni way!
But it’s so interesting. He’s going past ‘and in this year x happened’ and getting all philosophical and it’s getting me back into classics.
I prefer my way.
Go to all the lectures, but sleep through 85% of them.
I’m really starting to hate going to yum cha style places.
As a fat dude I know everyone thinks I’m the one driving up the bill, so no matter how little I actually eat everyone gives me sideways glances when I only chip in the fraction of the bill that represents how many people were at the table, e.g.: 7 people, I pay 1/7th, which is the custom. If we were to really pore over the bill I’d be able to demonstrate my share was considerably smaller than that because I barely touched the food, but that’s now how you do things in polite society. You chip in 1/7th each or whatever. So stop fucking looking at my 1/7th share and rolling your eyes, mister two-plates-of-pork-buns-all-to-himself.
So, how was your lunch, TAY?
That’s kind of bullshit, man 🙁
I don’t know what a Yum Cha is, but it sounds fucking scary. D:
It literally translates to “Drink tea”.
Sounds like a nightmarish experience right there!
I’ll stick to the patented @shane/@strange Hungry Jacks lunch. XD
you’re a good hermit 😛
That’s not what @shane says. 🙁
I don’t know what this ‘Yamcha’ is, but it sounds disappointing.
Somebody has to get that reference. PLEASE.
Are you a yoshi?
Hilariously derailing one-liner.
“Hey Vegeta, look! IT’S A POKEMON!”
Sidenote, best interpretation of DBZ EVER! and everyone should watch it…
I’m just… Saiyan… WAKA WAKA
*Flys off*
You sit at a table and the waitstaff have trolleys with various dishes on them. If you take something from the trolley they stamp your table’s ticket in the section that reflects the value of the dish. The dishes range from $5 to $20 depending on what the food is. Once you’re done, they tally your total order.
It can be scary if you’re poor and don’t know how much you’re spending in advance, so in that case you want to have quick chat with whichever person is sort of the deisgnated host and be like “bro, I’ve only got $15 so that plate of crispy duck and a coke will do me, alright?”. Then at least when you’re splitting the bill later he knows your situation. Most of the time I just take $40 with me and hope for the best. A 1/7th share today was only $25, and that was including the fact everyone had a $7.50 beer.
But like I said, I barely touched the food – and I’d have happily paid more, if I felt like I’d put more of a 1/7th dent in the stuff we ordered.
I’m the opposite cause I always end up eating so much. But generally because there is always 1 dumpling or something left over and it needs to be eaten to clear space.
I really hate when people do that. I don’t care if you ate 4 times what I did I’ll still gladly chip in my share.
A friends wife is terrible for it. She’ll sit there with a calculator working out exactly what it is even going so far as to work out the percentage of the bread they ate.
As someone who’s pretty poor, splitting bills terrifies me. D: I like to order to my budget. The uncertainty of not knowing what I’d be paying would keep me awake at night. :S
What I usually do with my friends (hah), is everyone just pays for what they ordered. If the total bill was $100 for 4 people and you only ordered a $15 meal then you pay for your $15 meal.
If it’s split bill and I’ve only worked a few hours that week I usually just bail.
HA! What I would give to only work a few hours a week again..
You know my usual procedure in that case…
Also there’s a difference between being on a budget and being a tight ass dick.
Flip the table and throw dinner plates at me.
You’re a monster! D:
You are the worst at paying for things Freeze.
I still owe you money from the trip to Canberra because you won’t give me your details!
Freeze paying for things keeps me awake at night too.
And then the twenty minute conversation after with me trying to give him money and then he refuses to take it and I feel like a moocher. D:
He’s as kind as he is monstrous.
Oh, you’ll be paying for it later…
I get the whole aspect of “you can’t afford to do this so I’ll shout you” because I do it all the time with friends, but I can afford to give him the money dammit!
Let’s all just agree that Freeze is the worst!
@dc I can agree to that.
ONCE AT HUNGRY JACKS SHANE WOULDN’T LET ME PAY HIM BACK SO I TRIED TO PUT MONEY IN HIS POCKET AND THE LADY AT THE CASH REGISTER THOUGHT WE WERE A COUPLE. D:
You mean you guys aren’t?
BUT I WAS GOING TO VOTE YOU GUYS HOMECOMING KING AND KING FOR PROOOOOM!
Uh oh, I said the quiet part loud and the loud part quiet. Oh dear.
/simpsons
@batgirl You mean Queen and Queen right?
Are you sure you’re not overreading this, D.C.?
Because I have actually had a waitress assume that a friend and I were a couple (in her defense, we were talking about singing Queen songs in Harmony), and let me tell you, it was rather hilarious.
And super awkward.
Hey man, there’s nothing gay about Queen.
*consults Wikipedia*
I stand corrected!
Heh, I always remember how much my meals cost. Then when it comes time to pay, I just throw that much on the pile and if the total doesn’t add up because the others have only divided the total by the number of people, that’s their problem to sort out 😛
I am of the opinion that you throw about what your meal should have been, generally rounding up to the nearest note you have. If somebody wants an entree then soup then main then dessert they should be welcome to do so but don’t expect the person who only had an entree size main to pay as much.
Although things get a bit muddier with yum cha, then it is generally just a split down the line as who knows who ate what and how much.
I’m adding this Yum Cha thing to my list of places never to go! XD
Yum cha is awesome. If you are down I’ll shout you as I need another excuse to go. Due to diet stuff Mrs Tigs can’t go (too much onion and random things) anymore so haven’t been in ages.
Get a group and it’s great to try a range of stuff
Melbourne is also on my list of places never to go. 😀
You so kind though.
Hear that everyone? Tigs is buying everyone Yum cha when we’re down for PAX! 😀
PAX yum cha should happen
He ate nothing but spring rolls at Korean BBQ.
He really is terrible at the whole food thing.
Don’t forget that time I ventured to KFC with Mrs. Hellscream while you guys went to the Sushi train place. XD
I can’t stand that, I wouldn’t go out with them. Or just throw money on the table and walk out the moment the bill came.
Grrrr one thing that riles me up
I walked all the way to the shops to buy bread, tuna and cheese, and came back to scrape layers of other people’s filth off the sandwich toaster. Things are tough all over! 😛
I don’t think I’d prepare food in the work kitchen if I was paid to, beyond maybe some instant soup which only requires some boiling water. Considering they’re cleaned on a weekly basis, the state of the microwaves and fridges in this place is astonishing. It’s like someone comes in early monday morning with trays leftover from whatever they ate on the weekend and just hurls it at the shelves indiscriminately.
That reminds me, I should clean my filth off the sandwich maker
This is the first week of PB+J sammiches for lunch.
I usually go to one of the many food courts, but I’ve got a lot of other expenses coming in, so I’ve made the switch to bringing my own lunch in an attempt to save some extra dollars. So far, so good, but I’ve basically been eating at my desk and working straight through lunch, which is not so good.
Can’t really offer any advise for your Yum Cha troubles. Last few times I’ve gone has been with friends but someone in the group has short changed their contribution to the bill. I don’t really want to start a confrontation in the restaurant, so I’ve just footed the difference.
I typically don’t eat lunch, and I’m not overly social in the office so the occasional birthday lunch passes me by. I’ll usually only make an effort when it’s specifically a team lunch, or we’re being taken someplace nice by one of the legal firms that we give work to in which case I drink my way through half a cellar because that’s what you do when lawyers open their chequebooks for you.
I took my son out to the shops but we only had $3 cash so I bought a $2 burger which we shared and then followed it up with a soft serve cone each. Good lunch. 😀
Lunch with the Strange family is always awesome! 😀
I love PC Case Gear.
Ordered a new mouse yesterday about 3:30pm.
Arrived today at 12:30pm.
I’m starting to prefer them over MSY even though the latter is just around the corner.
I have an MSY in Fyshwick (like 20 minutes from my place) and it’s easier and more convenient to get stuff from other places. Usually either cheaper or on par, too.
I would never use MSY based purely on their service. If something went tits up you’re shit out of luck with them.
PC Case Gear has never let me down so they keep my business. Most of the time.
Oh, you can still get everything sorted with MSY. You have to be aggressive…and no, I don’t mean that’ll help, I mean that it’s mandatory to get anywhere with them.
PCCG are literally a 2 minute drive from my work. This has caused financial difficulties on many occasions. Oh, I don’t have to ship? I can just drive around the corner and pick it up? HNGH.
Incidentally, MSY are even closer, and I don’t buy anything from them unless it’s something I know is so simple I won’t need warranty on, or can go back to the manufacturer. They’re assholes, and everything is so cheap because there’s zero service, nigh on zero warranty, and their stores look like shit heaps. PCCG haven’t let me down yet, along with Scorptec. Both have been exemplary, even with warranty, queries, anything.
MSY have never been any different, and I remember when average joe found out about MSY years ago, and every man and his dog went there. ‘Oh, they’re so cheap!’ I tried to warn them. Then, being an IT guy, I heard endless stories of dodginess, fuckery, the whole 9 yards. Used to work for a guy who new the guy that owned MSY, and apparently he wanted to reinvent their image and shake the bad stigma attached – he was honestly confused why it existed in the first place, which was all kinds of funny. Incidentally, said reinvention hasn’t worked too well, since I heard that story 3 years ago.
Reading all this makes me super glad nothing’s gone wrong with my machine (knock on wood). Built the entire thing with parts entirely sourced from MSY >_>
a doctor and his colleagues are taking a stroll in the park when they see a man who was walking with a bit of a wobble in his pace.
they walk up to him.
“sir, we’ve been placing bets trying to diagnose your condition from a distance and we’re keen to see whos right”
“go on, you first” says the gentleman.
Doctor 1 : “you sprained your leg” said the first.
“next”
Doctor 2 : “you have some sort of bone disease”
“next”
Doctor 3 : “Birth defect”
The gentleman smiles and responds “you know, i dont blame you, i also mis-diagnosed my own condition. I thought i had to fart, and instead, ive shat my pants….”
Huh, just got an email from Steam telling me I’m in the Sharing beta.
Most interesting.*
*not reallyYour library is of such scope that you should take this responsibility seriously. You could bring Steam down entirely if you’re not careful
Bah, I want to get this just so I can have two damn accounts logged in at once!!
Whoohoo, Go Karting after work. One of my good buddies (the guy that is buying me a PS4) got himself a Go Kart last week, goes up to 70 klm/h and has off road tires. We had a go on saturday going off road and it was insanely fun I still hurt from then but I’m keen anyway. Only cost him $770 brand new and the dude has a couple more, I’m seriously considering getting myself one. Also it sorta looks like it belongs in a mario kart game & yes I did take a banana with me last time and throw it at my friend as I whizzed by.
Wait, how did you get a guy to buy you a PS4?
How do I get in on that?
TEACH ME YOUR WAYS.
You’ve got to bat your eyes and laugh at the jokes that aren’t even funny! 😀
I DO THAT ALREADY
he fell on hard times and I helped him out over a long period of time (loaned him money and bought him the occasional game while he couldn’t afford to and just generally supported him as a friend :D, then he came into some money and felt generous)
Aw.
That’s much nicer than seduction and manipulation.
To be fair, that’s what he’s using to get his Xbone!
MORE LIKE SEXBONER
People are laughing around me all the time, but I feel like that’s for a different reason. :/
People cower around me!
I know I do 😛
Even BEFORE they smell your breath?
that’s just a defence mechanism, really they’re in awe of the awesome that is you (you must be awesome your name is Sean or Shaun)
I’ve met that guy that bought you a PS4. He seemed like a good guy!
That’s my contribution to this thread right here.
I award this story 3 Shiggys.
I feel like everyone is missing the point – $800 for a gokart that does >50km/h ????? THATS CHEAP.
ha, exactly. he bought nearly an identical one for his son (it’s sorta the deluxe model) for $1700 and then found the guy selling them for $770 a week later, so he bought another. $800 is a great price, the thing is decent, pretty barebones but plently of room to add stuff to. I was shocked at how well it did off road too, we go it airborn a few times as well. The part of me that is an adult is saying “what do you want a Go Kart for” but every other part of me is saying “get the go kart get the go kart get the go kart get the go kart, eat the pudding”
edit: i regretted putting the ps4 part on there cause you’re right it drew away from the important part. Go Kart
Seriously, $1000 even. If it’s big enough and powerful enough to propel a grown adult into the air, it’s money well spent!
just had another go, they take a while to wear in and it was noticeably better tonight, the acceleration was much more responsive and higher top speed, becoming so hard to resist, I’m allowed to buy myself a birthday & christmas present right?
On behalf of anyone that matters – YES.
Alrighty. Secret SanTAY. Let’s do this.
I’m going to do this year so @negativezero can have a turn at not being left out.
If you want in email me at Binoter where the males are hot with your addresses. I’ll match you guys up, write a short slash fic for the two of you and get things in some general semblance of organisation.
Any ideas on limits are welcome too. $1? $20? $50? $10 000?A $20 limit has been enforced by the people’s demand and your own good.
WHERE ARE THE MALES OF HOTNESS! I WANTS THEM ALL!!!
http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/QotbayY.jpg
ha, so good
Oh MYYYYYYYYYY
sent.
No more than $20 including post, or I’ll have to pass. Gonna be a tight Christmas anyway, I think.
Just send them a signed copy of The Lesser Evil.
They’ll never guess who it was from.
EDIT: $20 sounds like a good amount I reckon.
Tempting to buy another copy, get Shane to sign it, and send it as part of mine.
EVERYONE should do this.
What? I’m just saying, it’s a good idea.
I’ll sign it as shiggy just to cast a little doubt.
Yeah, this. Anything over a $20 limit gets awkward 😛
I’ll be giving the gift of circling the wagons this holiday season and you can too!
TWIST! Every gift actually goes to you.
Cmooooooon DC
I don’t actually have an argument here.I had so much fun organising my present last year, so I’m definitely up for this.
I actually have some money this year, for once 😛 I’ll email when I get home!
Sure, why not?
Will email tonight.
Will email after work!
Was gonna say ‘do you wanna set a delivery date soft deadline’ but then I remembered lol Australia Post.
“Some time before or after Christmas”
Some year before or after 2013.
I’m hesitant to send you my work address, because as soon as someone gets a parcel here, everybody swarms and wants to know what’s in it. Am I ready to put complete trust in a TAYbie that they won’t send me something incredibly embarrassing?
No.
I can not pair you with @dkzeitgeist if that helps?
Don’t you trust your pals?
*scribbles notes furiously, just in case*
Jokes on you guys, I’m getting it sent to a PO Box! That way I can open it at home, with a gasmask on and my phone pre-dialled to 000.
Done.
If I recall correctly, last year you were required to give a couple of guidelines to what you like and say if you wanted to specifically be paired/not paired with someone. Is this something that needs to be provided this year as well?
I suppose if you really wanted to but if you specifically request someone it kind of destroys the idea of Secret Santa. At least how I see it. I’m not always right though.
Although as uncomfortable as the fact is I understand if people ask not to be paired with anyone.
Okay. I might participate this time. Just don’t pair me with anyone I hate! 😛
Count me in even if I only got confirmation my santee from last year recieved my gift about a month ago
You can take it if you want.
Or we can run competing secret santa rings to see who can out-gift each other.
God dammit @alexpants…
Thanks to your DBZ:A quote i now have
“I got a lovely bunch of dragonballs,
Here they are all sitting in a bunch”
stuck in my head :\
I lose all thoughts of anything else to do with Dragonball the moment it’s mentioned, and my mind just goes to the line “How can I rule the world with only one ball?” Which twelve year old me found funny, and twenty-two year old me finds HILARIOUS.
Hitler tried that, didn’t turn out that well for him.
That show is full of the best innuendo…
King Kai: He… he hung up on me! How the hell did he even do that?!? Damn it, I’ll call him back! *dialing sounds* Goku, I swear to God I will ride your ass on this one!
George Takei: Oh my!
King Kai: DAMN IT, TAKEI!
COuld be worse you could have Ghost Nappa stuck in your head “Vegeta geta geta geta”
…. DAMN YOU…
GHOST – NAPPA…
Vegeta geta
Clearly I’ve made your afternoon that much better.
The games I ordered from The Good Guys this morning have already been shipped…
I’m kind of regretting not completing my checkout this morning. Even though I don’t have a WiiU.
Mine hasn’t 🙁
They’re pretty good, those guys.
They’re Good Guys!
Mine too! I even got a phonecall confirming my address. I am not used to such swiftness or responsibility when ordering online.
is this in store as well as online? I was planning on dropping by one on the way home.
I’m not sure, but they did have a “pick up in store” option when checking out of the online store.
cool, thanks :D. I’m going there right now.
Has anyone else been playing Dragon’s Crown? I’m enjoying it, reminds me of Golden Axe, probably only because it’s a side scrolling beat em up with an Amazon, dwarf and rideable beasties. The only complaint I have is how the hell are you supposed to know what is going on when 4 characters plus enemies are all using flashy shiny attacks on eachother, it often turns into me bashing the buttons wondering “am I winning?”. Also can you stop people from just randomly joining you even when you don’t assign any companions, really frustrating when trying to do a side quest and your “buddy” jumps in and wrecks everything
edit: @jimu maybe
Watching TAY load and get stuck waiting for http://www.reddit.com.
Oh Gawker, you so crazy.
So what’s the correct way to follow TAY? Do you keep up with the latest and greatest post and only go back to replies of your previous comments – thanks to notifications? Or do you stay behind the eight ball and catch most of the replies that get added to the conversation?
Or is there another method?
The current page is the only page. Unless you’re @dc.
Time travelling is fun!
I usually have the last two or three pages in tabs, occasionally go back and refresh them to skim through for new replies. Otherwise just mainly sticking to the latest page and using notifications to track anything else.
Kinda wish there was something that just rounded up all new posts since your last visit or something like you get on a forum, but oh well 😛
That used to be @dc’s job.
Many have tried to follow past pages. Many have fallen.
I miss @greenius. Some say he went back a page too far and hasn’t been sighted since! D:
hey good point where is he lately?
He might’ve accidentally killed an ancestor while time travelling and wiped himself from existence!
I think he’s been feeling blue lately.
TAY ain’t the same without him and @transientmind.
yeah there’s a bit of the old blues going around, hope he’s alright and transientmind
Someone get him some yellow, stat!
Ew don’t associate me with that colour 🙂
ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE!
It’s like that one time you talk about someone and then they’re standing directly behind you.
Welcome back Greenius. 😀
yeah, red is a much better colour.
Commie.
hey, there he is, *waves happily*
Some say blue is the warmest colour and it ain’t easy being green, but they’re fools. GREEN IS WHERE IT’S AT!
:'(
Orange is the warmest colour.
I feel bad because I went off at him about something and he disappeared after that. He even said he thinks I dislike him which makes me feel worse because that’s not even slightly true.
Come back @greenius.
I’m sure it was just bad timing, but yeah that would make you feel pretty lousy
I felt partly to blame too for starting that whole Skyward Sword conversation. 🙁
I love Skyward Sword.
Definitely helping.
You must be to blame for my copy of Skyward Sword not working, too. Damn you, DC!!! *shakes old lady fist*
It all fits! Rich tapestry of Zelda conspiracy culminating in me not liking Wind Waker!
Someone please use this idea for a ghost story we can tell on Halloween.
Some say on Halloween night, a faint mumbling can be heard when reading past pages of TAY… The deeper you go, the louder it becomes. Curious, you continue going backwards, hearing the sounds grow louder and louder. It’s only when you reach page one that you realise what is being said, but by then it is too late. @greenius claims another.
“Xenoblade”
Sounds like you just did! 😀 Though everyone should tell it slightly differently. Just so it takes on urban legend status.
There is no correct way! I think most people just hang out on the current page, though.
Oculus support got back to me, saying that the code I’d shown looked perfectly fine and asking if I could send through a barebones project for them to see it running or whatever. Took a little while to clean out the folder of everything that was unnecessary, then zipped it up and mailed it off.
Went to check e-mails again just before, and found a delivery failure notice. Something about being a security risk. What? Probably opened up the thing and found some dlls, before shitting itself.
Tried again with a zip instead, but no dice. Tried once more by renaming the file to a jpg and trying that. No failure notice yet, which is kind of surprising.
You making a game for Oculus? Craaaazy! You should compare notes with Lambo!
On an unrelated matter, have you texted climbing girl yet. Even just to make sure she has your number? 😀
Don’t wait too long!
It’s not waiting if you just do nothing!
Yeah, but you don’t want her to write you off. Maybe fall into the arms of a Chris Evans like hunk.
Can’t blame someone for wanting a significant upgrade 😛
The way it all went down the only expectation is that she’ll let me know when she wants a thing to happen, therefore I am the one waiting on her and don’t have to do anything >_>
Does she have your number now?
Yes.
Or at least, I assume she does. Unless I punched in her number wrong and said hi to the wrong person. Or she misremembered her number. Or alternate possibility #3.
@mrtaco
Alternate possibility #3 is a sweeping tale, following the adventures of “Climbey” as she is betrayed by an evil witch, and is left with mere days to find the kiss of her true love, without the use of her voice- and worse, her phone. She desperately journeys around, knowing that if she fails she will turn to naught but foam.
@blaghman …I think you gotta ease-up on the Disney a bit.
Why? They tell tales as old as time! Take you to whole new worlds!
Sorry @mrtaco but never has a comment been so deserving of a downvote
@mrtaco
Hey, I went with the original ending, not the Disney one, so you shut your trap!
@mrtaco wait, you txted hi and received no response? D:
@tigerion Hey I’m allowed to be concerned. Can’t let him go and overdose or something 😛
@blaghman At first I thought that it was some kind of merging of Beauty and the Beast as well as The Little Mermaid, I don’t even remember the whole kiss thing. Haven’t seen the movie since I was like 3 or something >.>
@batgirl Hello.
@mrtaco
Well I hope you know what your homework for this week is.
@blaghman Yes. Finish off this Rift integration, and finish writing up all the blog posts about it that I was supposed to do over the course of the year. Also something about a cover letter for a job application.
@mrtaco
You are a lost cause, and I weep for you.
Kyrie Eleison,
Christe Eleison,
Kyrie Eleison.
@blaghman I imagine that must be how my parents feel.
Not really. I’ve been using it for my research project at school, at first I was just trying to get it integrated with the framework we’ve been using then hoped to move on from there and make some kind of cool little demo thing… but it turns out that’s easier said than done. Hit a wall with it where nothing appeared to be wrong going by the instructions, but the results I was getting were incorrect. So now I’m just trying to get the damn thing working then I can be done with it 😛
As for the number thing – rather than put it into my contacts, I instead opened up messages and put her number in there, just sending her a message saying “Hi.” About an hour later, when she must’ve gotten home I guess, I got a message back saying “Hi”. So either I’ve had the message confirmed as received, or some stranger has just politely responded to my misdirected message.
You replied to that message though, right?
Of course not.
That’s my boy!
@stickman Nah, did receive response. See above.
Dropbox, public link, paste into email.
But then I gotta go and make me one of those 😛
I haven’t had another failure notice yet though, so I think the jpg thing worked. Whodathunkit.
I’m meeting people at Pieface tonight. Pies will be consumed so who can recommend me the best looking face for the sauce? I’m leaning towards >:D
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
Pieface, eh? @Shane was telling me that this was just a Brisbane thing!
I’ll never trust him again!
We have them in Canberra too. @shane is a filthy liar.
Why would he lie? What does he have to gain? D:
He wants all of the Canberra pies to himself.
Oh man, all the signs were there! How could I be so stupid!
I’ve never seen one in Brisbane, where is it? I went to Sydney in 2011 and there was one on every second corner, and they were open at ridiculous hours, I was eating pie faces at all strange hours of the night.
ha, I miss spelled pie faces as pie faeces and found it hysterical……….. I’m an adult
There’s like four around Queen St alone. XD There’s one right near the EB we use for meeting up. Which you’d know if you met up. 😛
I’ve probably been to the city once in the last 3 years or so and that was briefly when i met you and Sughly.
#hermittinglikeapro
Hey, we’ve met twice in the city! Remember the west end drinking adventure? I THOUGHT IT MEANT SOMETHING. *throws dinner plate* 😀
that doesn’t count as the city, we were like west of it or something. It meant plenty, it meant Gutsoup woke up the next day with blank patches of memory and became concerned that he’d behaved like a douche.
You were fine. You didn’t try to unbutton Sughly’s shirt like Jimu and Dan!… XD
@dc and you’re worried about the girls on Saturday night…
@freezespreston: I was worried about Gold Coast people in general. XD
Melb has them too. Conspiracy
Now I can’t help wondering what else he’s lying about!
What! I don’t get out much. How was I to know? HOW WAS I TO KNOW?
All trust is now gone. 🙁
my lift home just turned up with his GO Kart…………….. Excite. hope everyone else has a great afternoon. once again, I’m an adult 😛
Took my son shopping to find some fabric to match the glow-in-the-dark skeleton fabric he chose at the quilt fair. We bought skull fabric, spiderweb fabric and witch fabric. Going to quilt it with glow in the dark thread when it’s done. I think I’ll be fighting him for ownership of this one. 😀
Oh man, that sounds awesome! 😀 Best quilt evah!
Fuck yeah, uncle just dropped off a part from some computer or other that he had, with a whole bunch of display ports on it – but most importantly, a 30-pin ribbon cable + connector. Could work for what I need, but the board also has a small 4-pin connector for a ribbon cable which is perfect for what I need. Just need to cut off four wires from the big strip and I’m set!
Now if only that stupid package from Hong Kong would hurry its arse up, I could finally get to work on this stupid 3DS thing.
Spoliers just in case anyone is really edgy about reading things in the Bravely Default Demo..
10 hrs for one man to move a boulder!?Bravely Default Demo loses points. Too realistic. I want a fantasy strong person, not a wuss.
http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/the-playstation-4-sold-one-million-units-in-24-hours-a-number-that-is-even-
Showing against previous launches just how impressive that number is. Wii sold the most at launch last gen with 600,000 in 8 days.
Of course the comments are stuffed with people claiming it somehow is less than every other launch because (insert convoluted logic here) and declaring it a failure already.
$400 is a good price. $550 is not. GG, USA. 🙁
XD
Gamers are a weird bunch. We’ll always find something to rant about.
God forbid we’re ever impressed or excited by something. That’s just the height of uncool.
EDIT: I lol’d at the first comment from a guy who worked at Best Buy on the PS3 launch, and because that didn’t sell like hotcakes, he doubts the PS4 sales figures. lolwut
@welbot, @jimu, @gutsoup, @lambomann007, @popdart5, @enduwolf, @sernobulus, @virus__ @beardymcmuttonchops @freezespreston @shane @strange @steve-o_the_deve-o @dkzeitgeist @sughly @dc @rocketman
Ok QLD peeps.
Everything is booked. I’m staying at some place called Kangaroo Point. No idea if that’s close to where you guys usually gather for meats but whatever, I’m easy.
I’ll only be busy for half the day on the 7th (Until about 5pm). Otherwise I’m free from the 6th to the 9th.
It’s been years since I’ve been up there. So I’ve got no idea what’s what.
Also, page get!
Kangaroo Point’s pretty central. You’re reasonably close to South Bank and the CBD is just across the river. Wouldn’t be too much of a walk but there’s CityCats, buses and the like that’ll take you places. Might be worth getting a Go card too, maybe?
Meats can take many forms, my friend — usually around South Bank, The Valley, City or West End.
Go Kart?
he’s correct, You really need a Go Card or you’ll be paying WAAAAAAAAAY too much for pub trans.
Hook that shit up!
Even with a Go Card, public transport in Brisbane is insane. Completely mandatory to have one though.
totes
That could work too! @gutsoup knows a guy!
oh man, I’d recommend the Go Kart, after tonight’s efforts I’m really considering getting one, so much damn fun.
Man, I can’t wait until we get travel cards. I hate buying tickets 😛
So weird that Brisbane implements this before Sydney and sounds like we’ve implemented it better than Melbourne too. D:
Is funny, years and years ago, I went to Taiwan, a country far poorer than ours but where all the computer shit is/was made and they had all that card shit set up back then.
I was like WOOOW! THE FOOTCHA!
And then Brisbane got it and I was MEH.
Can’t wait til they can track our movements more easily.
*shifty eyes*
But you never have to speak to another ticket booth person again. 😀
The hermits best pal!
We already have a solution for that – ticket vending machines!
Drinks Sat night?
I can lunch in the CBD Thurs and friday too.
Whatever’s happening, I’ll be there. That’s a threat/promise.
You were asking about comic places on twitter earlier:
Comics Etc on Elizabeth St and Ace Comics on Queen St are the only places I know. I’m sure someone like @jimu would be more helpful!
That’s the best one, but there are 2 more hidden away in the CBD
Ruffles! I’ll definitely be up for something while you’re here.
I dunno what I’ll be able to do out of the things that get done, but I’m sure I’ll be able to make it to meet up at least once during your time here. I still have to be careful with my $, but at least I’ll be on a regular pay cycle, so hopefully there’ll be a meat somewhere at southbank/west end or something where parking doesn’t cost the earth. CBD will pretty much be out for me though. Just too damn expensive.
Yup, you can untag me from future posts. I’m Canberra-based, now and for the foreseeable future 🙂 Hope you have fun, though!
I suppose i could do that…maybe.
I’m also in Brisbane. Aloha.
OH YES!!!:
http://comicsalliance.com/hayao-miyazaki-new-samurai-manga/
@doc_what @sughly
Oh man, that art style is amazingly purdy.
Arent you just the treasure trove of interesting news lately!
;-D
Sup.
Do any of you Melbourne Taybies like the band Be’lakor?
@jimu
Is kosher.
kewl
Jimu’s kosher?
and Halal
Hey, thanks for well-wishes, I miss taking it easy and gabbing already. Sorry for not replying straight away. But I have to work so much harder than I am, and it’s really hard avoiding distractions as it is. And gaming. I did let myself finish AC4 last week, but then I unplugged the consoles so I don’t lose valuable time with everything I’m trying to do.
I’m just so lost, which is not a place I’m used to.
Overshare/vent:
My girl’s had to fall back on her parents for support for her medical bills because she can’t work anymore. They’ve taken her back to Hawaii, and the distance and lack of her independence/privacy is driving me nuts.
The doctors say the tumour in her head is inoperable, that all they can do is slow the growth and hope it doesn’t kill her in the near future. Be resigned to organs gradually shutting down til the whole thing gives in. But these are the same fucking incompetent doctors who put her through literally YEARS of tests before anyone fucking thought to try a MRI. YEARS. YEARS WHILE IT WAS GROWING. Years that she lost function after function, trialled expensive and painful/side-affect-laden medications, thinking it was hormones. I wanted so badly to injure medical professionals.
So anyway, there’ve been second opinions, but only from people on her insurance. Which is all she can afford.
The only thing I can think of is to throw money at the problem. Even though she wants me to just cut her loose.
(What the fuck is that? Let her just… rot in a hospice somewhere? Like god damn hell.)
But I don’t make enough money for this. I need to make more and not the kind of thing I could just run some kind of fundraiser for… I’ll need to make an order of magnitude more than I do. But fucking EVERYONE wants to make more money and they want it for stupid inconsequential shit like living better or fancy cars or houses or just to keep fucking score. And these are the people I have to compete with… And they’re so much better at it than me.
I don’t know. I’m busting a gut at work, moved into a different role I hate precisely so I can churn out the productivity with more measurable results. I’m going to be the best. THE best. Number one. Use it as leverage for promotion, get my hands into some better projects, apply for all the training, pad out the resume til it looks stupid with ambition that I’ve never had. But it’s just not fast enough. I need to be somewhere else, doing something else. I’ve just been wallowing in this comfortable, shitty, unambitious position for so long that I may have done her a major disservice.
I grabbed a couple ‘second job’ bits for weekends and nights, just some temp contract work, and I’m trying to pick up a few other things like maybe some night-shift security work or an out-of-business-hours call centre gig but it’s all kind of thin on the ground at the moment, and there are a lot of people who are leery of someone working two jobs. I may need to lie, or at least obfuscate. And the taxman takes a huge amount of the extra I’m getting, so it’s peanuts for the effort.
I impressed some people in Malaysia when I made the toast at my Dad’s wedding. A lot of people were in tears and I got introduced to a few daughters that night, and got a few business cards. I’ll have to look up the time difference and call them, see if I can get anything out of that. I don’t know if it was because of any actual skill, or just new ‘welcome to the family’ stuff. Possibly because it was off-the-cuff, without notes? (I mean, it wasn’t completely improvised, I had a very good idea of what I wanted to cover and some points to hit, but yeah, nothing scripted; I figured it’d have more impact from the heart, which seemed to be the right call; it was good crying from the crowd, not bad.) Not sure what kind of jobs I can get where making a decent speech is my only qualification, but I hear client liaison gigs pay alright, and there’s good money to be made outside of Australia… so yeah, I might travel if I can score big enough. At the very least, there’s the Rotary, Lions, and Toastmasters clubs the guys wanted me to join, maybe I can network there.
I’m TERRIBLE at networking.
It all just highlights that I really don’t know what I’m doing. Making stupid amounts of wealth is the realm of the exceptionally talented or exceptionally manipulative and I’m neither not exceptionally talented or comfortable with either. I read some ‘how to get rich’ manuals, but the only clues those yield is that you can get rich by writing ‘how to get rich’ manuals.
Maybe I have to shave, wear the thousand-dollar-suit more, get a tan, work out and bulk up, fix my posture, get the teeth whitened, buy an expensive watch and shoes, tick all those ‘markers of success’ boxes all the fucking magazines and websites talk about, to be taken seriously and subconsciously pre-judged as higher value. Serious Gattaca shit. I don’t know. I keep sabotaging myself with cheap distractions, no matter how many I cut out, I’m just not as disciplined.
But I talk to my girl and all she can do is cry and say she’s sorry for everything; all this. And it breaks me. Nothing is more important than this. Nothing. The thought that what I need to do is something that I’m not capable of… terrifies me.
OK. I gotta go and get some more work done; I’m still not the top performer in this new role and it’s already been a week and a half. Gotta focus.
Sorry to spew downer shit on everyone, but thanks for the mentions and well-wishes. I still look in every now and then in a moment of weakness, but any luxuries at this point feel like self-sabotage.
*manly hug*
Sincerely wish you guys all the best.
Not to tell you what to do or anything man but if I were in your situation I’d probably say get fucked to busting my guts for nothing here and go over there to spend what time I could with her, see what employment opportunities you can sort out there.
Hardly downer at all, I think it’s incredible what you’ve done already and how hard you’re pushing yourself. Given the same position I’d be just standing around wondering what on earth to do, all the while not actually getting anything done at all. That kind of pure determination is impressive.
Yeah, what this guy says. You’re an impressive guy, Transient. You’re also one of us, you’re welcome to speak your mind any time you want here and we’ll be happy to listen.
I agree with Freeze on this one. Stop trying to bust a gut and spend the precious time you have with her. I also understand the need to better yourself, everyone tries, but as far as I’m aware that shit is almost always a slow process. How will you feel when the end comes around? How do you want to feel? Shit, this is difficult – I should just quit while I’m behind.
Enjoy the time you have. Also, just remember everyone here likes to chat. 😀
Crap, in hindsight who am I to tell someone to essentially ‘just give up?’
I have no answers, sorry Trans.
I want to say what Freeze says makes a lot of sense too but no one knows more about the situation than Transient himself. Can’t fathom how tough it is at the moment for those guys. 🙁 You’ve got our respect, my friend!
@freezespreston is probably right, @benny, but not in the ‘give up’ sense as much as find employment closer to her and pursue things there. America’s in the shit right now, one of the worst places I can think to be looking for work as a foreigner, but I do have some friends who either were once or are currently with some major multinationals like Rio Tinto and the like who might be able to get me an in. I was more thinking of throwing myself in with the Asian family who might have more sway and better opportunities, but location’s important.
He’s right on the spending time. I need to be there, ASAP, or have her under my protection and my support. We wasted far too many years apart, and I kick myself every damn day for not having simply manned up ten years ago and told her how things were going down: her and me. Together. Instead I fucked around thinking I would never be good enough, that she knew what she was doing and was as wise as she made out, and throwing myself into stupid, pointless, relationships I couldn’t commit to because I had her always in the back of my mind.
Wasted, miserable, lonely time apart, for no reason other than we were stupid kids who thought we knew better.
*man hug*
Are you in white collar world? I gather image means a lot there so yeah, maybe try to look the shiz.
Also, from what I have seen hard work does not get you as far as opportunity. Call those peeps, meet new peeps, do that whole networking thing.
And if you are gonna bust your gut make damned sure everybody who matters knows it was you. The saying “nice guys finish last” exists for a reason unfortunately.
But honestly, and I hate to be that guy…
but some stuff just cannot be fixed. Doctors are just people and medicine is just the sum of the best that can be done so far.Don’t throw yourself so deep into trying to make the cash that you never see her and enjoy the time you have.
Jesus.
Let us know if there’s anything you need from us pal, even if it’s just lame jokes on twitter
First up, and most importantly: *hugasaurus rex*.
That’s a pretty fucked up situation you guys are in and I understand how it can throw you into a spin, however from a girl’s perspective if you were my partner and all that bad stuff was happening to me, knowing you were practically killing yourself to try and make things easier for me would make me feel worse, not better.
Just take a step back and breathe, and then try and find the balance that this situation will require.
And don’t think of TAY as a luxury. Think of it as a lifeline for when you’re drowning. Sometimes just dumping everything that’s on your mind onto TAY can make the difference that you need to be able to pull yourself together.
Hey man, don’t want to add to your woes and stresses, but can anything be done for her on the public purse here in Australia?
Wish I was able to help out some. If it’d help, I can send about $100 your way, but can’t really assist with the ongoing income supplementation. 🙁
No man, thank you – but no. Money is good, but it’ll be a drop in the ocean, and thus wasted. I need to be able to support two people and pay to bypass waiting lists, pay professionals for 2nd opinions and ‘experimental’ treatments not covered by insurance, and all the other shit that’s getting in the way so far. Enough to look after her so that we don’t have to rely on her family, who don’t want to deal with her, but also don’t want her dead, for their conscience’s sake. She’s on their dime at the moment, so there is no urgency beyond that they’ve resigned themselves to just ‘making her comfortable’ and keeping her shut up cheaply in some kennel out of the way. I just need to be able to earn enough that I can sustain her on MY dime. Definitely no. But thank you. I know people want to do what they can, but at the moment what I need is to fly with the high rollers.
It’s got to be possible, people do it, I just have to figure out how and not fuck about when I do.
Well, if you think of anything you need that I can help with, just say the word. In the meantime, know that I’m constantly thinking about your situation, sending hopeful thoughts.
I have to second what @strange said. TAY is probably one of the main reasons I’m still around today. Even forgetting all the material generosity I’ve been blessed with by these wonderful people, I don’t come here for that. I come here for the people. Everyone is always willing to listen and even if the only help they can offer is a virtual hug, it’s touching to know that there’s people out there who take the time to read/listen to what you have to say. That’s friendship!
Given your situation, I can’t really say that I have anything useful to offer you in the way of advice or in a material sense, but you’ve been a great friend to me in the time I’ve known you. We’ve only met once, but you’ve always taken the time to listen to my seemingly never ending list of bullshit that has afflicted my life, and you took to time to consider me when faced with that market research opportunity. Even though it didn’t pan out, the most important thing to me is that you remembered me.
The fact you took a few mins out of your life to inform me of an opportunity to possibly improve my situation is the reason I will NEVER forget you! Sure my situation still sucks now, and I don’t have much I can offer to help at present, but you’ll always have a friend willing to lend an ear at the very least!
If anyone can do it, you can. Your keen mind, charisma and sense of purpose amazed me when we first met.
Also, what @jocon said rings true – it’s not so much what you do but who you do it in front of. Your plan to milk every connection and call in every favour is good. But, before you turn on the charm, have a plan. Know what you want, know how getting you that will benefit THEM and then convince them that they should have done it sooner.
We all love you man – let us know if you need us to help. It’s not just the friendly ears and hugs either – people here have a wide range of skills and a variety of connections.
I’m in marketing. I handle communication, image, brand, every day. I’m also not a very nice person so I will help you lie, cheat and steal your way to her side with your fortune in hand.
Just watched Argo. Man, that is a brilliant movie. Tense and brilliant. Deserved the Oscar.
Go Argo**** Yourself!
Nailed it.
@benny
Is Saturday the 21st of December okay?
Perfect. 😀
Thanks, Scree. I can’t wait for the end of year!
Right. I’ll continue to organise it.
HEEEEEERES SPAGHETT!!!!!!!!!! I MISS YOU ALL
Whoa, you spooked me!
Good to be back, serious
Going to try to come on once a day
Joan of Arc — Arcade Fire
How’s Sam? That still a thing? Hope all is well with you!
Paradise Circus by Massive Attack
Yeah still with Sam brother, how are you?
That’s good to hear. I’m decent, man. Can’t complain!
*leaps out* SPAGHETT! \o/
Update on Spaghett’s life
Still with Sam
Still loving on Microsoft
Waiting on my Xbox
Improving at work
Still seeing shrink
How are all of you wonderful people
Still with the Mrs
Still loving the vidyer
Can’t wait for…you know what
learning a new job at work
only ever saw a shrink once, found too many beers with friends a much better way to sort my shit
You?
Too many beers is probably cheaper too!
Hey, Spaghett!
Aspen Loop – OK Ikumi
Glad to hear you’re doing well!
<3 xo
I fucking missed you man
Everyone seems to be ignoring me on steam, so I’m going to go sit in the corner and sulk.
Shut up, I am an adult.
Hi, dood!
Yay! \o/
😀
I would also like to get link between worlds day 1, but I’d rather have food on the table for Christmas
I set aside $100 from my TAX return for games.
Thought I’d be buying FFX/X-2 but that looks like a mid next year game :-/
Ah, wish i could do that. =P Mum and I are struggling quite a bit because my Nans house won’t sell. So we’re playing for two houses -_-
Ouch, find it hard enough paying for one!
@jimu exactly. So most of the money goes to christmas stuff for now
Have you sent me a message? I’m not on Steam much.
No, I don’t think I have you on steam
scree06 if you wish to add
Will do.
Just watche \d the Link Between Worlds vid on eShop and am prolly gonna have to buy it day 1 now.
Hope I can knock it over before …you know what.
Super Mario 3D World? PS4 launch? Goodbye Deponia’s inevitable launch on GOG?
The Suspense!
Bravely Default
Thinking of getting the Humble WB Bundle, but not sure because my steam isn’t working at the moment…Anyone know when/if the codes run out?
They do not, so grab it now!
I take yer brain to another dimension: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4eav7dFvc8
Unrelated: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbBbFH9fAg
OK, last one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_6IjeprfEs
Maaaaaan… just refreshed Tactical Haptics’ kickstarter to find they’d thrown in a couple of new tiers, a little more expensive than the early bird ones but less than the regular ones. I wanna support them. And woo slightly cheaper. But on the other hand, money. Bleh.
sorry
@dc check out this METAL song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vLm5AetaZI
You lost me at metal song. 😛
It’s like… Castlevania meets Banjo-Kazooie?
And Unirally. Or something. I don’t know.
But I think I like it.
Ok, brass interlude. I do like.
@dc, give it a go.
self described as Metal meets broadway @dc 😉
Broadway? That’s more a Blaghs thing. 😛
Just have a listen!
(u too @blaghman )
I want more.
Devin Townsend
Strapping Young Lad
REPOST! Probably the first of many over the next week.
Alrighty. Secret SanTAY. Let’s do this.
If you want in email me at Binoter where the males are hot with your addresses. I’ll match you guys up, write a short slash fic for the two of you and get things in some general semblance of organisation.
A $20 limit has been enforced by the people’s demand and your own good.
Binoter?
Had it since I was 15. Everything I typed in was taken so made up a word in a fit of frustration. Never changed it and still use it.
Obligatory Tay Slash Fic.
Freeze fluttered his eyelids seductively at @bdkiaf, waiting for his warm embrace.
“Play me,” said Freeze, “Play me like one of your hardcore songs…”
The fact that @freezespreston and @bdkiaf were the first two upvotes on this is so, so telling.
Emailed. One of you lucky people gets to send me something for Christmas. Apparently, I’m hard to buy for :\
Hard to buy for? How’s a rock?
Does it keep away tigers?
#WatchingTheSimpsons
Considering it, but on the other hand getting gifts for people I actually know is too hard a task as it is.
Back from NZ finally.
Was good. Except that I stupidly didn’t check my travel insurance very well, opted not to reduce my rental car excess (“Oh my travel insurance will cover that no need to pay twice…”) and my sister scraped the back of a car against a pole.
$2000 + 15% GST down the toilet. 🙁 Going to ring them again tomorrow and ask if I can just pay for the repairs, since it was a paint-level scrape and nowhere near worth $2300 NZD to fix, because I absolutely can’t afford that. 🙁 But let this be a warning to everyone: check your documents correctly and pay that excess reduction. 🙁
Damn man! That’s a right bloody shitter :\ Hope they give you an alternative! Damn expensive scratch n dent repair!
Apart from that though, I hope you had a good getaway!
I was visiting my grandparents – one of which is suffering the later stages of dementia – so it wasn’t much of a holiday. Was good to see them regardless though.
Ahh fair enough. Possibly a good thing to see them now. My g’ma’s going through the same thing. Hard to see her go through it.
http://www.redbubble.com/people/logetero/works/11033811-artorias-of-the-abyss?body_color=silver&p=t-shirt&print_location=front&ref=shop_grid&style=mens
@shane @strange @sernobulus
If not for the words, I would be buying this one in a heartbeat:
http://www.redbubble.com/people/logetero/works/11063887-oscar-of-astora?p=t-shirt&ref=work_carousel_work_portfolio_1
Gorgeous work. Really really nice.
Damn it! I missed page 6!!!
Oh well. Guess I’ll have to leave it here instead!
How do you make holy water?
Boil the hell out of it!Came back to my computer to find some messages from my friend (wingman girl) “I am freaking out a little, because someone not related to [Sketchbook] reblogged someone’s post, and it had [Sketch’s online name] tagged, and I checked it, and they’re friends, so now [username] tags are showing up on my dash outta nowhere”
The universe is up to its old tricks again.
I don’t understand this trick. Doesn’t the universe know you just landed one girl?
It does. And it either wants to steer me back towards the one I had my eye on, or just wants to taunt me about it.
What’s this universe you speak of, it’s clearly a test from the sisterhood.
I don’t think this is a message from the sisterhood. They don’t really like to get in contact with me at all.
THEY’VE BEEN TRYING TO GET IN CONTACT WITH EVERY CHANCE YOU MEET.
YOU JUST STUPID. (I mean that in the kindest way possible. :P)
OMFG, this post just almost made me fall off my chair 🙂
Also, the universe is the thing that made the moth land on my face.
That one was definitely not the sisterhood.
Also there has been no landing 😛
Finished Enslaved: Odyssey to the West again. Such an amazing game. Got Pigsy’s Perfect Ten left though. Never played this DLC before, so looking forward to it!
Games completed in 2013:
Pikmin 3The Last of Us
Tomb Raider
BioShock Infinite
Zombi U
The Cave
The Night of the Rabbit
A New Beginning
The Blackwell Bundle
Ico
Shadow of the Colossus
To the Moon
Dear Esther
Remember Me
Ni No Kuni
Deadlight
The Walking Dead: 400 Days
Gone Home
Rayman Legends
DmC
GTAV
Beyond: Two Souls
The Wolf Among Us
Batman: Arkham Origins
Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Director’s Cut
Wind Waker
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West – Premium Edition
Post apocalyptic urban decay.
Really curious about the DLC. Let me know how it is. Length, story, etc.
Family Guy needs to add a laugh track to it. I’m not entirely sure at what point I’m meant to laugh any more.
An over the top laugh track over unfunny stuff might make it funny and then you won’t know what’s unfunny any more. D:
I did not understand that one bit. Take my upvote.
Portal 2. So good.
Up to Chapter 8, two or three chambers in. No idea how far to go, and don’t wanna know 🙂
Portal 2 has some of the best achievements for screwing about in the game.
I’ve found a couple by accident, but haven’t looked at the list because I don’t really want to be spoiled.
Yeah, good idea! Plus it’s fun to work some of that stuff out on your own!
Indeed, an excellent game. Only made me rage once due to shitty game design, which is a record in my books!
brilliant game.
obvious bit of advice though, if you wanna do the co-op (and i’d highly recommend doing so), try & find a partner who hasn’t played through already.
I’ve already played through most of the co-op, with someone who hadn’t played the game in AGES. It was insanely fun. Really need to finish it though 😛
Sleepy Hollow. Did you watch the latest episode yet @dc?
Ugh. So lame and predictable. And everyone was acting way stupider than usual this episode. Also, are they just going to make up Ichabod’s backstory as they go along? That was a bit of a stretch tonight considering last time we visited the past she was a maid and they were pretty much in love already but now she’s a lady and engaged to his best friend and they’ve only just discovered they love each other. Like I said before: UGH! Lame lame lame. Lamey McLamersonosaurus.Watching right now. I love this show. Almost Human isn’t the new Fringe, this is! 😀
Will read spoiler after it’s finished.
Haha! Oh man, I regret reading these spoilers now. XD
I liked it. I like Abby and her sister. They’re basically the Winchester bros in sister form! Also am surprised the wife’s a cast member and the sister isn’t. It’s over-the-top and often silly, but once you suspend disbelief it’s all good. Just like Fringe.
Then again, we don’t see eye to eye on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. too, because I’m unwilling to suspend my disbelief there. 😀
I dunno. The atmosphere and characterizations are enough to win me over for this show.
I agree about stupid decisions though. First time I saw those UV lights I thought I hope they’re running on generators because the power will be going out. Haha!Also, I’ve been wondering what you think about Almost Human. I’m not sure I like it yet. D:
Now you have my attention. I need to look into this.
I just finished the latest episode of Supernatural.
I should say I’ve only watched the first season of Supernatural, so probably am way off base here. XD I think both shows cover similar ground though.
They’re nothing like the Winchester brothers. This show is nothing like Supernatural. There’s no chemistry like that between cast members. If you go into it expecting girl Winchesters you’ll be severely disappointed. If you go into it expecting a mildly entertaining, mindless supernatural procedural then you’ll be okay.
But… there’s nothing BUT chemistry with this cast! 😛
Then I guess there’s nothing with this cast. 😛
:S
I think exactly the same about Agents of SHIELD, btw. 😛
@dc I don’t understand why you keep bringing up SHIELD and comparing it to Sleepy Hollow. It’s weird. It’s also like you don’t know how to respond about Sleepy Hollow so you’ll respond with “SHIELD suxxxx” because you know I like SHIELD. 😛
What? I feel like that’s insulting and you think I’m an idiot.
I was just pointing out the parallel’s that we seem to have polar opposite views of these two shows. One persons irredeemable, flawed show is another persons something special. Give me a little credit, Strange. >:|
Your post seems like a good way to shut down all freakin’ discussion…
Blergh. I’m outta here for the day. I know I’m going to regret this post tomorrow, but whatever…
Chill @dc.
I was merely pointing out that you were the one shutting “down all freakin’ discussion” on Sleepy Hollow by constantly bringing up Agents of Shield things. I’ve never said Sleepy Hollow was irredeemable, I’m still watching it, aren’t I? Just because this episode was lame doesn’t mean I hate the show.
Arggh. It’s next to impossible to have a discussion with you about stuff you love. You’re too defensive and take it all personally, like I’ve slashed at you with a knife instead of pointed out flaws in a TV show.
…
Damnit @dc.
I think the sister’s a way better character than Abby and the show would benefit from more of her. I suspend my disbelief all the time. Doesn’t mean I have to excuse an episode that pretended to be a big reveal but was really just so cliched and predictable.
Haven’t watched Almost Human yet.
P.S. Just in case: remember, if someone insults your favourite show/game/band/whatever they’re not insulting you. I’m putting this disclaimer here because recently my husband got really angry and offended when he thought I was making fun of his current favourite band. And I wasn’t even, really. He was just really defensive about it for some reason and so every comment I made sounded to him like I was making fun of it.
So yeah, we’re still cool, DC. Even if me and Sleepy Hollow are no longer cool. 😀
Edit: Yeah, guess this disclaimer wasn’t enough. 🙁 PEOPLE CAN LIKE DIFFERENT STUFF TO YOU BUT STILL LIKE YOU!
Dammit, the middle click on my mouse is starting to go.
That’s the most important button for web browsing!
Sooo moving went okay, I guess. At uni right now because we still won’t have internet access beyond data packs on phones and the like, and it’s kinda driving me insane because I don’t know how to live without human interaction AND without internet. Like… what am I meant to do? (I just realised that totally looks like I’m talking about sex and porn, but that wasn’t actually what I was going for :P) On the plus side we have some Mexican chilli spice jar thing at home and I’ve been using it on literally everything I’ve eaten because it tastes amazing.
Now I just need to figure out what’s happening with Centrelink and I should be set! I fear this is going to take a trip to the Centrelink building and not just be a case of doing it online… 🙁
Pile of shame!
Marathon a TV series you’ve been meaning to watch, but haven’t yet!
That or go exploring!
I downloaded the entirety of Parks and Recreation the other day, so there’s that 😛 There’s also the majority of the current season of Brickleberry left to watch, and I’ve been meaning to watch The Kroll Show, so there’s a few things, I’m just generally not an I watch TV in massive bursts kind of person.
Last week back up in Launceston I had to ask my brother what people actually do for fun by themselves :S I can’t remember what I used to do to keep myself entertained before this year. I’ve always had at least one other person to hang out with when I’m bored. It’s kinda concerning really 😛
What did he say? I need to know, I don’t think I’ve ever known what to do other than sit at home and either internet or play games 😛
He said play MMO’s and multiplayer games. But… internet. Also doesn’t help that I don’t like MMO’s and online multiplayer 😛
That’s also the opposite of by yourself. How silly.
That was the point though, it’s a way to do things with other people whilst still being by myself 😛
Haven’t any of you kids ever heard of books? 😛
What console is that for?
PS3.
Yeah, I’ve been doing my best to remind you all that there’s (some) life beyond video games and intywebs.
Oh yeah. I used to read *heaps* before Internet days. Since then, I think about the only thing I’ve read was the new Harry Potter books as they came out. Used to be that I’d end up reading for a couple of hours when I went to bed, but now I spend those couple of hours on here instead and just go to bed later.
Computers ruin everything 😛
TAY is a kind of reading!
I’m the same, and it actually makes me feel really bad, to this day. I haven’t read a book in at least a year, and I used to read at least one every month or so. Have done since I was a kid. But computers and video games ruin everything. I just don’t have the time. I need to make time, books are the fucking shit, yo.
I’m reading spellsinger by Alan Dean Foster
Then again I’m old
The majority of that is on Steam and it won’t let me connect in offline mode, so… 🙁
I do have a few 360 games still in their shrink wrap though so I might set that up and get started tomorrow 😛
Aha! My tinfoil hat was right after all!
Orange is the New Black is brilliant. It takes me out of my comfort zone yet still makes me laugh. I’m looking forward to episode 7.
Best new show in ages!
It was cool seeing Taylor Schilling at the end of Argo. Also the red headed chick was really bugging me as I knew I’d seen her before. Then I saw her name in the end credits and I realised I’d seen her in Scrubs.
If you’re any thing like me you’ll have the theme song stuck in your head for weeks to come!
Taking steps is easy, standing still is hard…
I’m becoming quite accustomed to moustachery again. I mean, it’s still a bit of a surprise whenever I approach a reflective surface – but it’s a nice surprise, I like what I’m seeing 😛
Gonna be hard to give it up once the month ends.
Movember is actually a secret plot by the League of Men to recruit more bearded and moustachioed men to the ranks of True Masculinity. Some will fall at the end of the month, but many more will sign up permanently.
Fight the Sisterhood!
That’s a good way to stay single. Embrace the Sisterhood with resigned acceptance for your fate 😛
Hey if you’re good at something… 😛
You really will. Not many girls like them. And the few that do, reluctantly put up with their loved one.
I got told I can do movember if I don’t need any kisses for the month. 🙁
It was Mrs Shane’s idea that I grow a moustache and beard. I maintain she’s trying to cover up as much of my face as possible (with glasses, only my nose and ears are unobstructed these days!)
It goes both ways though. If you don’t get any kisses, either does she 😛
eww…. moustaches.
i was so traumatised by having a moustache for 31 days last year, I’ve needed to have a full beard for a whole year just to feel normal again.
It’s always been fascinating to me that some of the most massive advances in the human race as a whole have never eventuated because of the monetary cost involved. A construct of our society that means nothing in the end. The only thing holding us back from all sorts of wonders is ourselves.
Some of the massive advances have never eventuated because they would cost the big corporations their livelihood, as well. The only thing holding us back from all sorts of wonders is the Governments, the Corporations funding them, and ourselves. 😛
This. Batteries that last for months? A pill you can take once a day for all your nourishment? Electric/hydrogen cars? People in power will kill to stop these advancements happening.
Well that is the core concept of government. Setup to give a central whole so that the many can achieve what individually we can’t. Which has worked to a huge degree no matter what you think of them currently. The healthcare we currently experience is a prime example of what the funds of the many can do.
Even governments are now moving much more towards the mighty dollar being everything. Debt isn’t a bad thing if you get something from it. We never would have completed the snowy river scheme without a level of debt.
Much of it isn’t so much to do with money, but national borders and other divisions. Amazing things could be done with the money each country spends individually if they pooled the resources, shared the knowledge and worked together.
True, but look at it this way. Would you be willing to work for free, or for low wage, to provide the labour needed to undertake massive advances in humanity? How would you provide for your family then? The Government could provide free housing and food, but then you’re entering into socialist territory, and there are many (mainly America) who would never go for that.
Plus, under such a system you would never be able to rise above your station. You could live a perfectly content life, doing things for free and getting things for free in return, but it would be very, very hard to ever become more than what you are.
We could quickly advance humanity as a whole, but in doing so the individual could, and more than likely would, greatly suffer. Some would say it would be worth it in the end, but those people are normally the ones who vision themselves as the overseers instead of the grunts doing all the heavy lifting.
A version of all this is already happening right now. Mobile phones have greatly advanced humanity in the western world. Connecting us and putting loads of information at our fingertips. And it’s all come at the expense of third world workers who are barely surviving.
Sorry if this post reads a little weird. I wrote it in seperate sections and then just threw them altogether. Basically though, it’s a nice thought to have, and an easy thought for someone living in a first world western country, but history has shown that full blown socialist societies don’t really work out, and our current time shows us that many are suffering under the more socialist nations out there.
It’s interesting to put it that way. The concept of the individual is one that is predominant pretty much only in the Western World.
I suspect as the quality of life improves around the rest of the world (and I like to think it will start to improve) more people will take up the idea of individuality and individual rights.
I don’t know about that. That’s a very ethnocentric opinion.
From what I understand, almost the entire Eastern world sees life through the eyes of the family unit or work group (or other relevant group the individual can belong to). I’m not entirely sure this is the wrong way, or a view that needs to be corrected.
On the contrary, I’d probably say that in addition to its virtues, the concept of individuality (at the worse end of the spectrum) promotes selfishness, bitterness, jealousy, and all manner of anti-social and sociopathic behaviours.
Well, if we’re arguing concepts taken to their very worst, group units promote segregation and discrimination of those not in the group, and creates a them verse us mindset in people, which is ultimately destructive for society as a whole because you get all sorts of infighting.
As for the idea of individuality and individual rights, I don’t believe they have to come at the expense of seeing the world through the eyes of a group, because that’s exactly how the western world functions. We all consider ourselves as individuals, yet at the same time we all seek to belong to a group, whether it be political, religious or other.
Humans are social creatures, and we’re always going to have that grouping aspect about us. When it comes to individuality though, I believe it’s a concept that naturally comes when a society or individual achieves a certain quality of life and level of stability.
You can see the way this works to a degree in western society. Take any middle or upper class person, and they’ll have a very strong sense of individuality (as well as potentially strong group ties, depending on the person), but if you look to the lowest of the lower class, those that are barely getting by, and their sense of individuality, or at least individual rights, will be much lower. They’ll take dangerous, low paying jobs and think nothing of it because it’s providing for their family unit, or whatever group it is they belong to.
If you take the rights of the individual argument too far you end up with Randian derp.
GTA V patch 1.06 is out, beach bum content too. Patch fixes the car selling glitch (did it for a while, got what I wanted, then got out without being too greedy, however I know a few people who’ve had their characters deleted repeatedly, money disappear etc who had hundreds of millions in their accounts… silly lads), fixes the criminal records race to not pay out stupid amounts of XP.
However, it doesn’t fix the Rockstar created mission COVETED which pays out 12k each time you play it and around 1800xp 🙂 enjoy, only takes around 5 – 10 mins to do this mission, our best time so far is 3 minutes. 😀
Does it fix the shitty servers, lag, AI/weapon balance? 🙁
Fixes mainly monetary costs of things. Havent noticed a lot of lag myself to be honest, find it to be one of the more lag free games on my end. Weapons balance is pretty off especially with those with the preorder packs.
Spoke too soon, can still do the car selling glitch, just works a little differently.
So, uh. Conception II is going to be translated for the west for both Vita/3DS. If you know what game series I’m talking about, well, then, good for you. I think. For those not in the know, it’s a sequel to a PSP rpg that was japan-only that involved dungeon crawling and getting new party members by seducing women via dating sim mechanics and pseudo-creating “star children” to help you in fights.
We all up to speed now? Questions? None at all? Good.
I’ll probably pick this up day one.
Certainly seems like a …. something game. I will be shocked if it’s not given an R18 rating. The Fable remake was given one for rewarding the player for sex.
To be fair, there’s no sex. It’s just that you and your partner pour your souls into a doll and make it come to life.
See? No awkward discussions about the birds and the bees and the soul transferring.
Despite it’s odd premise, I’ve heard good things about it’s combat system. Perhaps @negativezero knows more ’bout it than I do.
Sounds … Something?
Are you telling that’s not how it’s done? THEN WHERE DID MY KIDS COME FROM HUH SMART GUY?!?
Apparently it’s a pretty strange game though.
I remember pouring my soul into a doll once…
So, Fire Emblem: Dungeon Crawler Edition?
OH MY GOD IT EVEN HAS THE BABBY MAKING PART
HOW DID I NOT DRAW THIS COMPARISON
Not sure if I want to pick up Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON’T KNOW! or not.
Pros:
Adventure Time
Co-op Adventure Time
Co-op Adventure Time dungeon crawler
Cons:
$40 price tag
No reviews
Doesn’t have online coop I don’t think. =(
Was just talking to @rize about it. Apparently consoles have no online, while PC is online only.
Which probably means the net code is terrible…
Oh really? I suddenly became interested in the game. If you guys pick it up let me know. I’ll grab it aswell.
I’ve managed to find 1 review so far.
Eurogamer 4/10
Annnnnd according to the Steam discussion page co-op is indeed local only.
PASS.
I guess you could use Hamachi, but then you would have the problem of using Hamachi.
Memories of D2 days…
There was always one guy that could never connect to the server and got pissed because he couldn’t.
I prefer never to use Hamachi again because apparently everyone in the session I log into could openly access my computer including all of my files without needing a password and I still don’t know how.
Your robot porn collection got aired out in public?
@freezespreston
Thankfully no one saw it…
Also, DUDE NSFW that machine is wearing nothing! 😛
My friend purchased the Xbox one, here’s what he had to say:
“Ohhhh fuck, this is fucking terrible, why did I buy this piece of shit, it’s like a shitty bastard child of Diablo3 that is incredibly shitty.” ..He’s returning it.oh man, that is pretty bad, did he say specifically what he hated so much about it?
“It’s literally an extremely shitty clone of D3” So, to expand, he mentioned some stuff about really bad mechanics; you have to do a dungeon until you find certain items, if you dont you have to do it all over again and again until you find it all. Etc.
aah, i misunderstood, i thought you meant he got an Xbone (Xbox one) and said all that about the console, not a game, deeeeeerp.
I read good
Haha, I re-read my status and thought you may think I was talking about the console, but then I mentioned Diablo3! And it’s not even released yet! 😛
I have Diablo 3 on Ps3 and didn’t mind it at all, i guess each to his own then eh.
I’ve only played a bit of D3. But the point my friend was making is that D3=good, AdvTime=shitty attempt at D3 clone. Or something.
😀
shit my reading / interperating skills are just gone today, I don’t think i could have misunderstood your comment any more than I did. Originally thought it was about Xbone then thought it was about Diablo on console vs PC, maybe i should just go to sleep.
I choose to blame Go Karting for rattling my brain loose.
A valid excuse!
New work car get!
2013 Ford Ranger (2 wheel drive boo!)
100kms on it, I’ll put pic up on twitter later, but I’m kinda psyched!
Nice. They are a really good looking car, at least in the dual cab. The single cabs look a bit truncated.
Yeah it’s a dual cab with the canopy. Downside is that because of the plastic flooring in the back, the 2 30-35KG payphones I have in there slide around when I drive. Probably more a comment on my driving habits though!
Some cheap rubber matting from Bunnings solve the problem?
Aw that’s a brilliant idea man! I was just thinking of getting some carpet, but rubber would be better & cheaper! I’ll float the idea with the boss, maybe we just buy bulk to do all out cars with it.
Played a bunch of BF4 with @cakesmith, @pyrean, and @blaghman last night. Suddenly I was reminded of what really makes the battlefield series excellent: playing with friends.
And watching Blaghman pilot helicopters…from a distance.
I refuse to get into any aircraft except with someone I know can fly it OK. I won’t even fly them myself, because I’m crap. BF4 is pretty ace though, I’m holding back because the mate I smashed BF3 with doesn’t have internet until December. I’m the same. I’m happy to play by myself, but usually end up on a hill with a rifle chilling out. Once my friend gets on we go batshit with vehicles and all kinds of stupidity.
I can fly a heli quite well, but frequently get ruined due to lack of ground support, like no one keeping the AA suppressed…
Still getting used to the attack chopper weapons in terms of accuracy, though.
EDIT: Also, might do a Steam announcement next time there’s a group of people playing so more people can join in.
We should play again tonight.
Let me know, I’ll be up for some BF4.
Being in the helicopter @blaghman is piloting
Him telling me to take over right before I bail out of said helicopter
Bailing out of said helicopter
Laughing as said helicopter plummets to the earth
I’m assuming you’re all on PC, I’ve been playing the gimped ps3 version
New page? NEW REPOST!
Alrighty. Secret SanTAY. Let’s do this.
If you want in email me at Binoter where the males are hot with your addresses. I’ll match you guys up, write a short slash fic for the two of you and get things in some general semblance of organisation.
A $20 limit has been enforced by the people’s demand and your own good.
PS: Even if you’ve half committed or gone the whole hog here could you please send me an email? Means I can keep it all together and makes it a bit easier having a list in my inbox there.
$20 can buy a range of excellent board games!
@popdart5 That Strange (@strange?) Kickstarter keeps piling on more stuff!
I know right. There is so much stuff now and I am looking at potentially upping my amount.
So it’s sounding like rather than doing Persona 5, Atlus is working on a sequel to Persona 4.
I liked P4 a lot but personally I don’t want to go back to that setting and those characters, I want something new. 🙁
Nawwww, that’s a bummer
Don’t get me wrong, I loved every second of P4 but that story is done. As you said I want a new setting / characters.
P4 is an amazing game, but I always dug the characters and setting/style of P3 more.
I just want more variety.
Yeah a change of scenery would be welcome regardless. Sad part is, thanks to P4G’s rampant success, it only makes a sequel more likely.
So Melbourne Taybies
Benny will be in Melbourne on the 21st of December. So we will have a meat up! \o/
I know it’s a little close to Christmas, but hopefully we can do it.
details
Saturday the 21st of December
12pm at Optic bar (connected to acmi)
We will wait for people there, or if people would prefer we could meet at Yoyogi’s or Ramen Ya.
Fine by me! I’ll be there
I’ll say yes for now, but may have to pull out closer to the time when I know what things are going to be like.
So I had a terrible night. It was so damn hot so I couldnt sleep and then finally i managed to get some sleep only at 2:30am I got woken up by my dad telling me mum’s having a heart attack.
Those are words no one wants to hear, I was outside leading the ambos in and spent the last 8 hours in the hospital with her and my dad making sure shes ok, they are waiting for her test results but its not looking good 🙁
Fuck dude. Strength and good juju to you and yours – you’re in my thoughts. Keep us posted man.
I lost my dad when I was 20 and I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.
Thanks man, I just got home to rest but will be back there later today.
Im sorry to hear about your dad as well.
It was a long time ago now – rest up and stay positive.
Shit man, that’s horrible. I hope everything turns out okay. =(
Thanks, me too. Just means im gonna have to be extra careful with my diet and stuff, STRICT SALAD!
Aw, man. So sorry to hear this. Sending good thoughts your way.
Thanks DC means alot, mums strong but she has a temper of a banshee so she will be ok
Oh no 🙁
Really sorry to hear. Sending positive thoughts to you.
Cheers Shane, See this is what I love about TAY, someone has a problem and theirs an outpouring of support from the community, it truly is amazing.
That…sucks, man.
Try and stay positive, and hopefully it’ll all turn out well.
Thats the game plan, She was positive for me when I was in hospital now its my turn to return the favour
Hope things are well with you too…
Im fine, I have a check up tomorrow to prove it, granted I still hate the feel of needles
fucking hell.
man, all the best to your family. mum in particular.
its scary shit when stuff like that happens.
stay strong man. your mums in good hands.
Thanks man, it was a scary thing when I got woken up, I had that sick feeling in my throat all morning, the ambulance drivers were nice but and kept calm and kept mum calm so shes in good hands and I know she will pull through
my old man had a severe heart attack, followed by a minor one, a few years ago, so I can sort guess what you’re going through right now.
but 3 or 4 years later, he’s still kicking.
seriously, I found it absolutely amazing at how treatable heart attacks were. so yeah. it might be a hard time, but you’ll all get through it. i’m sure of it.
if you need anything though, we’re all here for you man.
It means alot, my dad had 2 heart attacks in a row back in 2007 but hes still kicking. Its just abit of a shock to the senses when you realise that this could happen to any of us.
I was shocked by how treatable it is as long as you follow doctors orders and dont think your better than you really are.
Man, that’s rough. My Dad had one a couple years ago, it’s not a pleasant experience.
Hope your dad is alright. Its not but it always seems to me the worst news comes when your asleep, its never during the day its always at night. Both parents heart attacks were betweeen 2-3am and my grandpa died at 3am a few years ago..I blame daylight savings
Sorry to hear that mate, I hope it all comes out okay. My thoughts are with you.
Thanks man, It makes me happy to have alot of friends around giving me their support, couldnt ask for anything more.
Can’t really say anything that will help, just know we’re here for you.
*hugs*
Thanks Strange, again it means alot to have you all by my side on this and it shows how close everyong is in this community.
Also this means I need some comfort gaming so im buying a copy of Resonance of Fate, sure I wont get it for 2 weeks but its comforting
Eek, the pressure! One piece of advice to ensure you can enjoy the game: as soon as you can, go to the Arena and talk to the guy on the left to do all the tutorials.
I wish GMG made it more obvious when a game is going to be activated and installed through their shitty slow-ass capsule download service instead of Steam.
After having a month off in August I just checked how much leave I have left, and I still have 3 weeks? I was of the understanding that my annual leave didn’t accrue…
I don’t plan to ask anyone about it in case it gets fixed.
Annual does. Personal doesn’t.
One of my old jobs paid it out each year, if you hadn’t taken it.
My old job (and a lot of places) will give you forced leave if you have too much.
Same.
Yeah, most paid leave continues to accrue while you are on paid leave. It counts as service for most purposes.
Logitech G710+ get!
EDIT: This thing is stupidly heavy for a keyboard.
It’s all the mechanicals.
Eww… macro keys.
Pic of the new work vehicle!
https://twitter.com/DavoCross/status/402962472249729024
Still needs the sign writing done but I’m able to use it until then.
It’s certainly a vehicle!
Read the comments on the latest Anita Sarkeesian article (They’re not as terrible as they have been in the past) but one thing bugged me:
People really need to stop trying to draw a line between “casual” gamers and “serious” gamers. It’s a stupid concept- people can interact with serious games casually, or take casual games super seriously. The fact that people continue to try and draw the distinction is frankly crap.
I log into Steam now and again to check for deals/specials. I’m seriously a serious gamer.
Just got a big letter in the mail from Frankfurt. We’re starting our Eurotrip there and got this deal that included some Frankfurt Cards (I assume some sort of touristy thing). They asked me what dates I wanted them for and I accidentally said 8/11 & 9/11. Figured it was easy enough to fix and sent a follow up email saying I meant 8/12 & 9/12,
The cards have 8/11 written on them.
I put this down to the person doing things being so efficient they didn’t consider the possibility of a typo.
German Efficiency.
I imagine there’s a giant frankfurt in Germany working at the transport office reading your email and trying to fix the dates on his computer, because his keyboard is too small for his giant sausage fingers.
Man, that job would be the wurst for him.
Oh Hello Migraine! 🙁
*In a stupid voice*
HI CHRIS! HOW’S IT HANGING?
Ha! Thank you I needed that. But seriously, I havent been able to see for the last half hour. Now I can but am Photosensitive as fuck. But also working… Queue Nausea in about an hour
As a medical unprofessional I recommend the foetal position accompanied by copious amounts of tears for twenty minutes twice a day.
If that doesn’t solve your problems, nothing will.
I recommend drugs.
then throwing up on a colleague.
then using that as an excuse to go home.
I was a jerk before, let’s never speak of it again! Sorry Strange!
…
The entire Deponia trilogy is available on GOG now for $20!
http://www.gog.com/promo/goodbye_deponia_launch_promo_191113
Hey, I watched Almost Human, seems pretty cool.
Found out the second ep is actually much further down the production order- it’s actually like the sixth made, which makes so much more sense to me- seemed like they went from “grudging respect” to”buddies” mega quick. The guy who plays the robot is awesome, and Karl Urban is usually fun. Will keep watching.I kind of don’t like it at all. 🙁
apparently a big and strange twist got cut from the end of the first ep, and they’ve retooled a bunch of the early episodes to fit, which is perhaps why the second ep seems a little identity free.I saw your comparison to I, Robot. i refuse to see that film on principle.
HI @dc!
Hey Nobs!
How’s things?
I gots a headache and am in a bad mood, but I went to the pet store and slack jawed gawked at the cats and all is right with the world again.
I need cats in my life. Thinking of ditching Mr. Strange and the kids one weekend so I can go stay with my parents and dose up on cat snuggles.
Cats are awesome. The best sleep I ever had was when a cat was sitting on my chest purring. Never felt that relaxed before, never felt that relaxed since. 😀
you need one of those crazy japanese cat cafes to open up near you, or better yet open one yourself :D.
I like to think no one opens a cat cafe, they just take it over by force and there’s not a damn thing the owner can do about it. Then Stockholm Syndrome will take hold!
Nothing cures the blues better then puppies / kittens. =D
i love my puppies, regardless of what kind of day I’ve had as soon as I go out to see them it all fades away, it is impossible not to crack a smile with fluffy monsters acting like you coming home is the best thing ever, makes you feel wanted.
I call them puppies but they are getting pretty big, about 35 kg now but they still act like pups
Should I get this, DC?
Dunno. Probably my favorite adventure series in some time, but your mileage may vary. XD
That’s not helpful at all. I want you to take responsibility for my decision! 😛
But that didn’t work so well with Monkey Island, one of the ‘classics’… I won’t have any more adventure game blood on my hands. 😛
So, for people who enjoyed Theatrythm.
http://tompreston.deviantart.com/art/The-Spoon-Stands-Alone-367718755?q=gallery%3ATomPreston%2F32317977&qo=42
N’aww. 🙁
Confession time: I don’t care for The Legend of Zelda.
http://www.pixel-otaku.com/zelda-week-red-rupee-rants-i-dont-get-it/
I don’t care for modern Zelda, but have a special place in my heart for LttP and Link’s Awakening. The 3rd person ones never really did anything for me, and the NES titles were a little too rough for me.
Downvote becuse you’re a terrible human being.
😛WHAT WOULD YOU KNOW YOU’RE JUST A DINOSAUR AT A KEYBOARD
😛We can no longer be friends.
Just kidding. *shifty eyes*Nvidia 331.82 drivers are out, for anyone using Geforce cards – most notably the latest revisions include BF4 performance gains among other things, so check it out if this includes you.
man…. i haven’t updated my drivers in ages. I’d totally forgotten about it.
I am the worst master-racer ever.
Should do it pretty regularly. New games are regularly given performance boosts with driver updates.
used to check for updates pretty regularly. just been really slack the last few months. I’ll get onto it tonight.
I dunno if grad job searching is preferable to uni work. Maybe i should chuck my exam and keep studying….
I think, at the least, I need to take a course on understanding the waffle that’s used in job descriptions.
I wish I could give this five upvotes.
What area of work? Here’s my understanding: graduate positions – these are made specifically for grads, are paid less, entry-level, tailored for the education, view to progress into permanent staff.
Other – just apply for shit. Experience > all.
A lot of paper shuffling government positions.
Ive had a few other jobs over hospitality and retail so i have experience… but peeling potatoes and working a computer dont add up on a resume 😛
I spent a few years writing that waffle – I can help.
Tyvm.
Im gonna try applying for a few things fairly blindly, and possibly above my qualifications, but if it doesnt work out ill give you a shout.
Last week I won a three month gym membership with a personal trainer. Activated it this morning. First session is on Friday. I’m feeling scared and self-conscious already. XD
Don’t be. Personal trainers are great and exist only to help you. They’re not going to judge you, so no need to be self-conscious.
Was hoping for a girl personal trainer so I wouldn’t feel as self-conscious, but got some guy named Ryan and everyone knows Ryan’s are the worst. 😛 I guess a girl personal trainer would make me self-conscious in a completely different way though. XD
Ryans are the worst, true. I bet he punches you right in the face.
Mate, I’ll wreck him!
guym? what’s a guym?
.. oh, a guym.
Good luck man! I really should get back into some sort of fitness thing.
Thanks man. Really close to my house though and has a pool as well. Gonna make the most of these three months even if I embarrass myself. XD
I lived really close to my previous gym but didn’t use it as much as I should have.
I’m probably going to buy a cheap treadmill off gumtree and use it to walk on while I gaem.
Get a pair of wireless headphones too! You’ll thank me when they drown out the whirring sound of the motor.
Good idea!
http://www.likecool.com/Virtuix_s_360degree_treadmill–Gaming–Gear.html
this one
Why walk & game when you can game to walk
They kickstarted that a while back.
I acknowledge I’m never going to be as fit as my Skyrim character and I’m not going to even try 🙂
yeah I know it’s old, just thought it was relevant 😛
I’ve done a massive ammount of work already today and now have zero motivation and am commenting on things i probably have no business commenting on.
DC is going to get fit so he can beat me up for not liking The Last of Us. D=
Maybe I’m just preparing for the apocalypse so I can take you guys on post apocalyptic urban decay walking tours!
“And if you look out to your left you can see what was once th- excuse me for a second.”
*Grabs a mutant sneaking up on the group, tears its head off and kicks it into the canyon*
cardio 😛
You wouldn’t beat up a guy that likes Rayman Legends right. ;_;
Good job! enjoy it.
By all your comments on the subject combined, it sounds like an awesome deal.
Lady asked if I wanted to try a Zumba class. I said no. XD
:O !? Shake that THANG!
That made me think of Captain Planet.
me too but i didnt know how to do the crossed out words thingo so couldnt make it work. 🙁
A good personal trainer will push you until you feel like dying but be incredibly encouraging and make you feel great about it at the same time.
I love personal training sessions. So damn motivating.
I don’t want to throw up like the people on The Biggest Loser. D:
It’s happened to me before.
…
D:
I’m more worried about crushing my chest with weights after my arms splinter and snap off.
Ewwww. I’m never setting foot in a gym ever. The sweat thing already bothered me enough, but I don’t want to imagine people have thrown up on the machines too.
My PS4 just landed in Melbourne, apparently. Hopefully this means tomorrow! Now, to wait for my Ozgameshop delivery. Should be within the next 4 weeks, knowing them. =/
Was scouring JB Hifi before hoping accessories and games were on sale already.
No idea when my PS4 will arrive though. We ordered through Big W and they’ve been not forthcoming with delivery dates. XD
I’m going to a midnight launch for mine. It’s going to be nerdy.
I’ll be nerding it up elsewhere simultaneously, unless you have some kind of silly daylight savings then not so simultaneously
Where’d you order yours from, Gutsoup? JB?
I think my friend went with EB, I’ll just start following him around and see where we end up.
also i did reply to your Boardwalk post, i just watched it a day late.
Oh yeah, I saw that. Good post, was just on my iPad and was too lazy to reply.
Such an amazing episode. Thought the Chalky part wasn’t the best, but it ended well!
Question
Boardwalk Empire S04E11 Spoilers
so my understanding is that Chalky thinks he was double crossed by Nucky, and Nucky thinks Chalky took off and doesn’t know exactly what happened in the car but knows that senator Bater (I think that was his name) double crossed him. Not sure if I missed something but why isn’t Nucky looking for him to try help him and why did he sound pissed at Chalky when he mentioned it to his brother? Shouldn’t he be concerned for his wellbeing?I think Nucky cares about Chalky to a point but cares about himself way more. After the whole Florida thing went down in the episode I think the best Nucky could’ve done was let Chalky go and that’s what he tried to do. Don’t think he wants to rock the boat by going after him. I think Nucky blames Chalky for putting him in this position when he really put himself in that position.Hahaha, I cannot wait for all my australian friends to join me in the brilliant new PS4 era!
and then we can all sit around waiting for games to be released.
It will be the WiiU all over again! \o/
with 24 launch titles I think it’s already got more games than the Wii U 😛
What game did you get, btw?
I really only wanted Killzone Shadow Fall, but decided I needed more than one game, so got CoD Ghosts as well. As tired as I am of the CoD franchise, I still need to experience it on PS4. I’ll be picking up Diablo III as soon as it’s released too. Other than that, not much is grabbing me.
Killzone and Assassin’s Creed 4 here. Vowed not to play any more Assassin’s Creed after the third game… but… pirates!
Heh. Butt pirates.
I haven’t played an AssCreed since Brotherhood, because the Templar thing storyline just lost me man, not to mention I hate Ezio – but I’ve actually debated AC4. Precisely because it looks a little different.
EDIT: I skipped AC3 because it just looked uninteresting to me, and the reviews secured my ‘meh’.
just to butt in where I’m not needed (like always)
I didn’t care for any AC game at all and I’m loving the swash buckling nautical adventure that is AC4. seriously wish they’d made a new IP about Pirates, really fun.
Doc’s is somewhere in Sydney and I’m already plotting to steal it when the delivery guy shows up with it at work.
Still no failure notice for my latest attempt at replying to Oculus support. But no response from them either.
F5. F5. F5. F5. F5.
Oh man, this is like the Nintendo thing all over again! Call Jodie! She’ll know what to do!
She’ll just hit on him again. He needs fewer complications. Fewer!
Upvote for fewer
More upvotes are fewer upvotes! #Paradox #WheatleyDoesn’tGetIt
You use right words good
You should be a writer or something!
WE DO NOT SPEAK OF IT
To celebrate my triumphant signing up to a gym, I’m going to eat four red velvet cupcakes!
This reminds me. I got two beetroot in our fruit and vegetable delivery box yesterday. I’ve been meaning to make a Red Velvet cake with beetroot. I think this is a sign. Better make sure I have all the ingredients before I do the shopping tonight.
Cakes with beetroot? What an age we live in! 😀
What’s next? Carrots!?
That gives me an idea!
*strokes patchy chin stubble*
A cake shaped like a carrot!
Ryan is gonna “tsk tsk” at you and you know it.
@bdkiaf can mind his own business! 😛
New Super Mario 3D World is getting awesome reviews. 9.25 on GameInformer, 9 on Polygon. (First high score there in a long, long time.) Too bad there’s no online multiplayer… that time will come with Mario Kart, though. I CALL DIDDY. SUGHLY CALLS BIRDO.
I thought @dc didn’t multiplayer!?
Also, I CALL KOOPA TROOPA!
I played GTA V for a whole week! I stole Red’s car!
Bastard.
My favourite GTA memory was when you guys went to do a mission at the beach and I had a bicycle when you left me and then I stole a car and drove through your gun fight brushing past Dan. Made me laugh for five minutes. XD
Any time you want to jump back in man, let us know
Thanks man, but I think I’m done with that game. GTA games are like Maxis games for me, there’s always a point where I never want to play them again. XD
you should play it again sometime with fronds.
Also I call Dry Bones if he’s there.
My friend told me to get in his car, cos he had a chopper and was lifting me away to run from the cops. Then he proceeds to drop me into the ocean. I died, had to pay $400 for destroying his car, and got ‘bad rep’. :'(
Boo!
I’m DaBest
I’m Diddy and everyone knows he’s the best. (Until he gets his tail caught in the spokes, but that’s yet to happen!)
Yeah, well… Diddy hasn’t even been confirmed yet so 😛
Oh he’ll be confirmed and then you’ll be sorry. >:|
Sorry you’ll be eating my dust!
(I really shouldn’t be starting this, the only reason I win is because @greenius is terrible)
I’m pretty terrible too. I bested the AI in Mario Kart Wii, but suspect that ain’t hard to do. Never been tested with real life opponents. D:
Dude that’s a lie :P. You’re just really good (the only explanation is that your defs cheating) and I’m pretty okay! The lag doesn’t help me, but I ain’t DaWorst.
if they don’t confirm diddy they better have another Diddy Kong racing planned 😐
I call Funky!
I usually pick Yoshi, unless Mrs Shane is playing, because she likes Yoshi. In that case, I pick Mario, the all-rounder.
This game (as well as the unannounced Zelda) is the reason I’m hanging on to my Wii U.
EDGE magazine called it “the most next-gen game that 2013 has yet produced”.
Coming off the back of Zelda LBW getting similar high praise across the board leaves me with a question that’s hard to articulate without sounding like a fanboy.
Nintendo has maintained a high level of quality across all the titles it has released this year*
*Luigi’s Mansion 2, Super Luigi U, Fire Emblem, Pikmin 3, Wonderful 101, Monster Hunter, Mario & Luigi Dream Team, Pokemon X & Y, Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, Wind Waker HD, Animal Crossing New Leaf, Zelda Link Between Worlds, Super Mario 3D World– with many of them receiving high critical and user acclaim – so why is no-one talking about them? Why is this not the year of Nintendo?
Is it just because there are so many vocal haters?Because none of those titles other than Wonderful 101 are new.
This is exactly the attitude that bugs me.
Nintendo make very good quality games, I’m not disputing that. They just feel very safe, and there’s nothing there that makes me want to buy a Wii U.
There’s no game there that I look at and go “Wow, this is going to be a fundamentally different experience that I can’t get anywhere else.” Also, if you’re not a fan of the series (I made this point up top with Zelda, but others may feel the same re Mario) what makes me, as an outsider, feel welcome? There’s nothing there to engage people who don’t know about the series already.
The fact that 3rd party support on the Wii U has collapsed doesn’t help- why should I buy a console just to play Nintendo games when i’m still going to have to maintain or purchase another console for anything else?
Also, half the games there are for the 3DS, which is doing gangbusters anyway.
My comment was about Nintendo in general, so I’m not sure what turned it into a “Wii-U is the only console you need” discussion.
My argument is more of a “there’s no justice” style lament, and I’ve focused on Nintendo, but there are other titles that will be equally overlooked in an equally criminal fashion; Hotline Miami will probably get a nomination for “sound”, maybe even for visual design, but the fact is it will otherwise be ignored in favour of something like BioShock Infinite.
My other lament is, if these games are truly deserving of these scores and then ignored, any attempt to “convince” people of their merit leaves me looking like a fanboy.
I just think it’s actually a market expectation thing. For the record, the two pokeys took out the number 2 and 3 sales spots in the US in October (behind GTA V) and i think have been rewarded with near universal praise. My point really was that while Nintendo has maintained a high level of quality, it’s a high level of quality on their own systems, which is why they haven’t cut through. Nintendo’s fate is tied explicitly to its hardware, and if the hardware is lacklustre it’s going to mar the reception of its titles. That’s the issue too- while you may be able to convince someone that Wind Waker HD is great, can you convince someone it’s pick up a Wii U and then play it great?
I’m not sure what your point is with hotline Miami- it came out last year and won a couple of critics awards- i don’t think it was overlooked at all.
It’s taken so long that I’d nearly forgotten about it, but I’ve nearly (finally) got my hands on AC4. Hooray!
I second your hooray, it’s well fun.
Out on PC now, FYI.
Tomorrow, technically, but I wouldn’t be surprised if people are letting it get out early.
Oh, I only say because of a Steam pop-up advertising it.
LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK OF IT PLEASE
Even if I find I don’t like it as much as you, I promise I’ll be gentle when telling you.
Honestly though even if I don’t like it, once I get on the ocean I’ll ignore the assassin part and fall in love with the pirate part. Trust me.
Holy shit. Holy shit. This day. Good thing I’m working from home today – if I’d actually been at work, I think I would have hit somebody.
🙁 Hope all is well, Shane?
I’m dealing with it by swearing out loud a lot and periodically minimising my work window to do TAY and writing.
I took my bad mood out on Strange! Your way is healthier! 😀
I don’t feel better yet. Did taking it out on @strange help, by any chance? Because I’ll try anything.
*sells tickets, buys popcorn*
Are you trying to say I should take it out on my wife and kids… or you…? Or that you love Strange? I’m very confused.
I was just thinking Ryan Gosling would cheer you up. It works with @sughly. 😛
@dc
If I’ve learned anything from Rocketman it’s that I should send videos of Troy and Abed, Madeon songs, or Red Pandas. I can only assume that these work for all people.
Also, north side Brisbane TAYbies who live near me? Gym gave me a couple of seven day passes to give to friends (to try to trap you into joining!) Say the word if you want them! XD
Or you could use them to extend your three months? 😛
I’m northside. Where is this gym you speak of?
Pretty far north, like Lawnton north. Technically not in Brisbane any more north. Haha!
i thought you’d get all your fitness from chasing smurfs?
What days are you guys in town for in January @rocketman and @bdkiaf?
I arrive on the 30th of January and leave on the 2nd of February.
The latest >Iwata Asks discusses A Link Between Worlds with the development team and is pretty damn cool! Red, you love this Zelda stuff!
@redartifice
F5. F5. F5. F5. F5. F5. F5. F5. F5. F5. F5. F5. F5. F5. F5. F5. F5. F5. F5. F5. F5. F5. F5. F5. F5.
Ctrl,Alt,Del
Alt F4
*pulls plug from wall*
Ctrl+Shift+P
R E D T U B E . C O M
Enter
For a moment I was confused as to why you were getting people to print their current document.
Opens command prompt
C: enter
cd windows enter
del system 32/* enter
del system32 enter
Walks away
Opens terminal.
rm -rf *
Open notepad
shutdown /f /s /t 60
save as lol.bat
Copy to startup folder.
deltree is the original and simplest tool of destruction.
I’ve done this to a couple laptops in retail stores. >:)
Ctrl+Shift+Esc!
Order a Tab and press the Any key
L, R, select, start
Left, L, R, L, R, L, L, R, R, A
Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right B, A, Start
R2, L1, Square, Sqaure, Triangle, shake controller up and down.
Heavy Rain.
FIXED!
x to “Jason”
You forgot:
That’s only in Heavy Rain: @freezespreston edition.
Look at camera,
“Xbox, Play Fo-”
Bwahahahah!
I’m sorry, I really can’t.
I’m scared @shane has just shipped several boxes of stuff to my place.
RE: Buying a copy of Peaceful Tomorrows and how much money to give him…
EDIT: Tags broked….
I went to the Good Guys last night and was met with some really shitty staff, I asked “which way to the $10 games” they looked at me with a blank expression, I had to inform them that they had a sale on, they completely denied it and i had to take over one of their computers and bring it up on the screen and say “see”, they then proceeded to tell me they wouldn’t honour the promotion but would give me 12.5% off the marked price (most were around $40 to $50 so I’d only get $4- $5 off). So my mate and I made them get a manager, who was a complete polar opposite of the other employees, keen to help, friendly as hell, shocked at how the other staff treated us etc. and he had me sorted in about 2 minutes. Got some cheap games 😀
That place will henceforth be known as “The shit guys & One really Good Guy”
Edit: I hate being that annoying customer but if you have a sale on be aware of it please. 😛
That has to be really annoying as a customer and the staff could definitely have handled it better but shouldn’t the manager be the one making sure their staff are aware of sales? or maybe it was their head office not letting them know? I’ve forgotten where I was going with this.
I brought a TV form the good guys a while back. The sales clerk had really big bright red finger nails. Not sure why I remember this.
yeah, something had gone wrong, but at least they know now 😀
Damn it EVE online, stop tempting me!
You keep saying how much you’ve changed but you and I both know we’ll just spend our time together floating around in High sec mining rocks until I get bored and leave you for another game again.
SPREADSHEET SIMULATOR! \o/
Heh, same here.
I keep thinking “One more try, maybe I’ll join a nullsec corp this time!”
And then realise what a terrible idea that would be.
I can’t risk my shiny space ship!
Risking shiny things aside it would be very stressful and require a lot of dedication and time. Most of it, in true EVE fashion, spent grinding or waiting around but now with the threat of imminent death hanging over your head at every moment and someone to yell at you when it happens.
But would have it’s awesome times too I suspect.
On a related note what are you playing these days Gorzy?
Bored does not begin to describe me lately so I’m looking for ideas.
Battlefield 4, some FF XIII-2 to try and catch up before lighting returns comes out and a bit of guild wars for no apparent reason.
Hahaha, everyone in the office left early, stuck here alone again………
*puts underwear on the outside of pants and pretends to fly around the office*
I’m an Adult (I think that’s my favourite recurring TAY theme, cause it really applies to me often :P)
Set up camera on desk.
Raise wheelie chair to just below desk level.
Run across room and jump at char.
Lend horizontal with one arm extended in front closed fist.
Win/How am I going to explain this to work cover.
damn, no camera. Still fun though 😛
So after discussing it yesterday on TS, I just watched Batman Beyond – Return of the Joker (the DVD release), and damn it is dark.
But, it helped to reinforce my view that we really need a Batman Beyond game in the vein of the Arkham games. Not only would you get traversal through a highly vertical city, aided by a jetpack. But where Bruce is dark and stoic, Terry is a lot more… Spidermanny, and fun. So you’d get to mock thugs from the shadows as you stalk them, and hang on future-gargoyles, and fight future things. And whatever.
Also it would be super late nineties, and that is just the greatest thing ever (we’re going to go hang out at the club, and dance a lot to rave music, and then drink coffee because we’re underage).
I now all those words, they didn’t all make sense to me when strung together but I know them and they sounded good. You won my approval. I wish you the best in your career in politics.
I would play that.
Also a Gotham by Gaslight game (which was planned but cancelled)
Instead you’ll have to make do with Young Justice Legacy.
One will rise. One will fall. One will die.
The one that dies is Tula.
Why the hell does this game bug me so much?
I have 3 Village Cinemas eVouchers that have to be used TODAY… WHO WANTS THEM???
“First Email Address i Get below wins, or first tweet.”
@dc, STOP UPVOTING AND GO TO THE MOVIES!!!
We don’t even have Village Cinemas here, but thanks all the same. 😛
B-But, I went yesterday!
D:
Wait, what are they?
free movie tickets. have to be claimed today
want them??
cant they be redeemed today for a screening at a future date?
tried that, unfortunately no
damn.
feel like going movies 35?
also anyone have a 1 month xbox live card i can paypal off them? not sure who to buy from online /o\
where can i buy an xbox live 7day/14day/1 month pass from online with an instant code?
Only place I can think of is OZGameshop but seems like they are out of codes.
I’m trying to read about working with blocking and seams and my brain is just giving up.
So it seams your brain is blocking your attempts to learn.
Hahaha.
*Prepares chart to explain the joke to Nob*
I will just try again tomorrow
Hahaha I get it, charts are funny. That’s the joke right!?
Ohhhh, I get it. It’s funny because no one uses charts anymore. That’s gotta be it.
I haven’t seen @mrtaco on my train platform since that
fatefulawkward day. I think he hides from me now.REREEEERERRREEPOOOOOOSSTTT
Alrighty. Secret SanTAY. Let’s do this.
If you want in email me at Binoter where the males are hot with your addresses. I’ll match you guys up, write a short slash fic for the two of you and get things in some general semblance of organisation.
A $20 limit has been enforced by the people’s demand and your own good.
PS: Even if you’ve half committed or gone the whole hog here could you please send me an email? Means I can keep it all together and makes it a bit easier having a list in my inbox there.
Witch!
I’ve emailed!
You were the first.
Dear @scree,
Who am I sending your games to again, please? Can you please also send me an address? Much thanks, and apologies for the delays! I’ve had them waaaaaay too long.
Sincerely,
Deadbeat gamer
Did you play them all?
I’ve played about half of them. Am ready to send off at least those games 🙂
You’re supposed to send them to Blaghman.
Address of 15 Blaghman Bl.
Blaghsy, BLM
BLAG
memolition.com/2013/10/16/time-lapse-map-of-every-nuclear-explosion-ever-on-earth/
This is absolutely batshit insane to think this is all real and to see it like this.
How we aren’t all already living the Fallout universe by now is beyond me.
Because Mutually Assured Destruction is a wonderful thing.
Oh man, humans are idiots.
Haven’t run into @powalen at the station since that
awkwardfateful day. Probably did something at the @bish thing, so now he turns up just that much later than usual.I turn up on time! It’s you who is early!
I’m not early, I was just particularly late that one time!
It’s probably better this way anyway. No need to regularly get stuck in a big ol’ pile of awkward 😛
But… but… I had conversation topics picked out and everything!
Including “How are you?” and “Weather is nice, huh?”.
“So how about that poke… man?”
I demand you guys now meet within a week, take a photo together, and post the story on next week’s TAY.
SUP NERDS?
Nothing. Remember, we’re nerds.
With nothing but your virgnity to keep you warm at night.
Even the ones with babies. DIVINE CONCEPTION.
It’s true. I’ve never known a woman’s touch. My wife keeps telling me the kids are a gift from the gods, Nick and Brett. I’m not sure what religion it is and can’t find any info on these gods but I have faith.
Praise be to Nick and Brett.
My heel hurts and there’s no one around to complain to about it.
Are you okay? Would you like me to call the Whaaaaaambulance?
Apparently I am ten years old now. :p
Yes please.
Or mum. Get mum.
That’s how I feel 😛 I want to complain about things and be comforted but there’s nobody around that gives a shit D:
The worst is when there isn’t even anyone around who doesn’t give a shit.
I decided to give the Bravely Default demo another go. It went down something like this:
Me: “Oh a cave, I wonder what’s inside”
*6 Kobolds appear*
Me: “Oh, uhhh, okay. Maybe they are weak I can probably …”
*Kobold archer 1 attacks*
*Kobold archer hits entire party for 50hp*
Me: “Wait wha…”
*Kobold Archer 2 double hits entire party for 70 damage*
Me: “Why did he double at…”
*Kobold Slasher critically hits party member*
*party member faints*
Me: “Wait can we slow down a bi…”
*Kobold slasher 2 attacks 2 party members and makes them faint*
Me: “Uhhhh”
*Kobold hits remaining ally and they faint*
Me: o_o …
*Game over*
Me: o_o
And then you went out and bought the game bringing a smile to @jimu’s face?
oh, crap, you just reminded me, I better play that before I suffer Jimu’s wrath
*grabs 3DS :D*
do the quests first & speak to ALL the townsfolk, they warn you where you should and shouldnt go and in which order!
Yeah, the town’s folk said “You should go to the cave to the west first to train up”. I did and that happened. =/
Do you do any quests?
if you do the first two you will have had to kill about 10-15 lots of doods outside town, earning cash levels and job skills, so that when you actually get that first quest in the cave you will be kitted up, buffed up and ready to RAWRK!
Yeah, this! And I can only find one quest in the town! I must be missing something… Is there more than one town or something? 😛
One town, just keep talking to townsfolk, quests only pop up one at a time so a guy you spoke to before may be a quest giver now.
I did sneak a peek in the cave before I was ready, but not quite as unready as you.
A dood was KOed and I retreated back to town.
Oldschool fun!
I reckon the full game will have a fair bit more handholding though.
I imagine it’ll be a while before you can change jobs even
That’s what I’m hoping for. If not I’ll just slap it on easy difficulty and coast 😛
Once I got my head around it, it was way less challenging.
you’ve been spoiled by Pokemans :p
spoke to the first guy I could he said “the town is a different place after dark, you should check it out, you might find something new” ok got it, spoke to the second guy, he was a guard and he said “You shouldn’t go out after dark, there are powerful imps out there and you’ll be easy prey”, I think the first guy either thinks I’m pretty tough or IT’S A TRAP.
Ha!
Tomorrow lunchtime in the CBD I’ll be giving BD:FF classes, all are welcome to attend :p
My experience was a little different
*You might want to get new weapons and armor before moving onto the tower to the south*
*Looks at restoration progress, another 4 hours on rocks, prob another 1-2 hours afterwards for the weapon store levels*
*Sighs*
I did the town restoration last, just made do with what equipment was available…
hmm, my experience was pretty similar to you,
Went to the cave as recommended by villagers, immediately attacked by 2 Kobold Archers and a Dr’gon, they wiped the floor with me, so i thought okay, must be doing it wrong, I’ll try using the “Brave” function next, so, next battle 6 Kobolds appear, bam ….. dead.
*turn off console*
Did you do all the quests around town first? Theres at least 2.
nope, everyone i spoke to kept telling me to go out of town, but i didn’t check everywhere and kept getting interrupting phone calls.
I just downloaded the demo. I hate this limited number of plays thing. I probably wont get anywhere near the limit but just seeing the number makes me feel like I’m being accused of having done something terrible.
I played the demo about an hour and I thought it was crap. Not because the game seems bad, just the demo is awful.
EDIT: Thought I should mention the reason I stopped playing was that the game completely crashed. 🙁
Here Comes the Night — Arcade Fire
One more sleep and it’s Xbox One time! Hoolay!
YAAAAAAY
*virtual high five*
More like Xbox FUN!
I am not very good at sledging things.
Xbox None?
What a good Xbox PUN!
More like Xbox RUN.
Because you take one look at it, turn 360 degrees and RUN away.
So you end up running into your console? (360 is a revolution, right)
Nah, the revolution ended up being the Wii.
Wheeeee!
So tired you guys, day off tomorrow for shrink
DAY OFF 😀
Sup in all your worlds?
see below
All the exams
OH MY GOD I THINK I JUST HEARD BJORK ON A KMART CHRISTMAS AD
NEED SOME HYPERBALLAD TO FEEL BETTER:
Speaking of, ever wondered where David Cage gets his ideas, @dc ?
Cricket starts tomorrow!
\o/
Cricket starts tomorrow!
/o\
Cricket starts tomorrow!
|o|
I believe that’s AFL not cricket.
Edit: D’oh. Six. I haven’t watched cricket for a while.
Son “helped” me do the dishes.
A lot more water on the kitchen and adjoining floors than usual, hmmmmm.
Helping! \o/
Not really related but … I think I am starting to get the hang of Bravely Default. Once you actually get passed the no tutorial thing, it’s a lot of fun!
YAY!!! \o/
I have been noticing that a fair bit lately, demos that just chuck you in the thick of it.
Ni No Kuni had a boss fight fro krikeys sake.
I’ll have to try again, I got destroyed in a most frustrating fashion. Put me off it a bit
Its hard but good!
After a level or two, once you get the hang of spamming Brave you’re like “THIS IS EASY!” and then you hit the first boss battle…
then its about saving brave & knowing when to use it, @gutsoup
Finally doing something about figuring out how to enroll for uni next year! It’s only taken over a month since I was meant to 😛
Omg I’m going insane without constant internet access. I got through the 7 episodes of Brickleberry I had left to watch but that only chewed up like 2 and a half hours 🙁 There’s todays episode that I’m downloading right now but holy fuck am I bored. I’m also hungry. Very hungry. I’m not getting out of bed until like 2-3pm because there’s fuck all to do, and that scares me because that’s what I did pretty much all of last year and that wasn’t exactly a good place for me. I need stimulation, or a purpose, or something 🙁
Build a fort.
I lack the required number of sheets and pillows 🙁
Build a forge and take up blacksmithery.
Make up your own movie in your head, and visualize it form start to finish.
What the shit is this download screen Nintendo? You’re telling me nothing!
Is there a direct tonight?
..no idea?
Downloading the Bravely Default demo.
OH YIS! We gon’ streetpass on Satdee BD stylez!!!
Go back to the main system menu and you can see the wrapped present icon for the game. Try and open that and it’ll tell you the percentage downloaded. Downside: you will then have to close the system to keep it downloading.
Reckon Pokemon bank will go live this week?
Just ordered Rayman legends vita from Playsia for 26.26 cos of limited deal.
quite good, quite.
Love that game, sooo good.
Was impressed by the demo, just had too much on my plate at the time and had only *just* finished Origins.
Prolly arrive the week of Bravely sooo…
Portal 2.
Lunacy.
I love that the achievements are puns <3I’m in space. SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE.Man, Black Mirror Season 1 Episode 3 is like my worst nightmare 😛 It’s set in the future where everybody has memory recording implants and they can replay their memories in their heads/broadcast them on screens.
I already re-read and overthink TAY comments, emails, messages, etc enough without being able to relive everybody I meets facial expressions or my general awkwardness haha
Great show though! So unfortunate there’s only a handful of episodes, but I guess that’s for the best.
@dc I’m picturing you as Jay Baruchel in This is the End.
I don’t know what that means! D:
What does that even mean?!
*furrows brow, tilts head sideways*
You’ve made the list, Benny. I don’t know why, but you’ve made the list.
Consults the scriptures. All of this has happened before and will happen again. D:
What!! It’s like I’m in DC’s head
Haha, wtf is going on here?
Jay Baruchel plays a character that doesn’t want to associate with people in the film but is coerced into going along to a big celeb party. Made me think of ‘hermit’. Then it made me think of you.
Now I don’t know whether I should be sending through another e-mail to see if the last one got there or not.
Maybe if I don’t hear anything back by the end of tomorrow…
A good pretext for follow-up emails is to say something like “Is there anything else I need to send through?”
Reminds them that you’re on top of it, and you still seem amiable in the process! \o/
This e-mail was the response to the “you need to send us more” response though, so I’m not sure if I can use that one again 😛
“Earlier this week I sent through x, y and z. I just wanted to make sure that these are sufficient for your purposes and that the matter can progress. Otherwise, please let me know if you need something more from me, and I’ll send it right through.”
I’ve written a lot of these and haven’t been fired yet! 😛
After the third email I just say “have you had a chance to look at the below” and curse at them for their inability to use flags.
A sound strategy.
Oh yeah. Fun times today, when my friend brought up that she still had to ask the admin lady if she wanted to come to her 21st (the two of them are practically besties). She didn’t really want to do it though, not wanting to put her in a position where she’d feel like she couldn’t turn her down and generally just feeling too awkward and scared. I tried to force her, pulling her up out of her seat before she gave up and said fiiiiiine, I’ll do it. Of course I went to go along with her, be there for moral support/generally just take over and do all the speaking for her if need be.
Except then as we walked past the girls’ toilets, she takes a sharp left and goes in. Ha, like that’ll stop me. I turn and follow her, as she walks into the disabled cubicle and locks the door. For a moment I stop and stare at the wall, before looking up above it then down below. The gap underneath doesn’t look too bad, so off I go crawling underneath. 😛
For some reason she didn’t expect that at all, although with how long we’ve been hanging around she really shouldn’t have been expecting anything but. She was practically in stitches, watching me struggle to get in under this gap. Turns out I have sliiiiightly too much butt to make it through cleanly, although it was partly down to the seam/belt loop on my jeans catching under the wall. It was a struggle, but I got through eventually. Then we both spent the next five minutes or so trying to get ourselves to a point where we weren’t just bursting out laughing, which was extremely difficult considering that memories of what had just happened were continuously flashing up in our minds. I don’t even know how nobody walked in at the point where I was most stuck, surely murphy’s law or some such should have applied there. For a moment we thought we heard the sounds of someone else entering the toilets, but I don’t think there was anyone there.
Eventually we made our way out, totally unseen by anyone, then spent the next few minutes at the front desk trying to calm the laughter bursts again so we could get to the point of what we were actually doing.
Hooray for adventure 😛
This story could’ve ended up with you being arrested if she veered into the bathroom for the usual reasons you veer into bathrooms. 😛
Psh, what do you think I am? Completely and totally reckless?
From now on, you have to ask yourself: what would Climbey think about this situation? 😛
(It is Climbey isn’t it? Not Sketchbook or Mrs Nintendo or [insert any one of a thousand names])
The answer’s always the same though. Eyeroll/facepalm/similar 😛
(And it is Climbey. Sort of. Well, she’s the one that likes me. While Sketchbook is the one I like. And Mrs Nintendo is… I don’t know who that is. But she should stay away)
;_;
Okay, almost caught up with Walking Dead show. We’ve been watching one every night. One episode to go. So far this season hasn’t been that bad.
Not looking forward to the Governor though. Still think he should’ve been killed off last season. I don’t care if he’s a changed man or redeems himself or whatever other spoilers I’ve been seeing people carelessly throw around on twitter. Still think he needed to be done with at the end of last season for closure on that arc and leaving room for new stuffs to happen.I liked the most recent ep, but I agree:
Walking Dead doesn’t need a mustache twirling villain to be interesting, the world and survival stuff can be interesting on its own as proven by the sickness arc.Agree agree agree agree agree agree x100 So agree.
You’re in for a treat with the Governor episode. 😀I thought the exact same thing – but the episode is brilliant.
Goodbye Deponia is so great, I like that:
Minor plot point for first chapters.
Most of Rufus’ quest so far is just busy work to keep him out of the way.Just in case you missed it too, GOG for the next day only are giving away the first two games for free when you buy the third game!
http://www.gog.com/promo/goodbye_deponia_launch_promo_191113
DC, do I want this?
Edit: I just read some reviews, and it looks like the sense of humour is an acquired taste. Less tempted now.
To tell you the truth, I’m glad you don’t want to play it. Too much pressure hoping someone will like something you like. XD
Yep, because the entire friendship would have been riding on it. It could change EVERYTHING.
If anyone predownloaded the Day One patch for the PS4 to avoid server jams on the day, 1.51 got released today and it’s 859MB.
Currently downloading at a few hundred bytes per second. Yikes.
Oh man! Where do you get it from? Just put it on USB on launch day?
http://us.playstation.com/support/systemupdates/ps4/pc_update/index.htm
Yeah, get it now and just stick it on a USB so you can update straight away without waiting for a download which will be insanely slow due to everyone doing it at once.
You so awesome, Freeze! Thanks for the heads up!
Really looking forward to weekend dealy too, btw. Going stir crazy. Got cabin fever. Haha!
I’ve got cabin fever it’s burning in my brain
I’ve got cabin fever it’s driving me insane!
Muppet Treasure Island \o/
I’ll be changing the hard drive over in mine as soon as I get it, so this will come in handy.
Morning everyone and no one 🙂
SPAGHETT!
That’s all.
Helicopter – Bloc Party …
I mean, hi Spagett!
Infection 268-7 – Solar Fields
Hi @spaghett!
Hey buddy, I love Solar Fields
Got into him after Mirror’s Edge!
Just reading the news this morning and come across this: http://www.news.com.au/technology/aussie-ryan-jake-lambourns-sandy-hook-computer-game-sparks-anger/story-e6frfrnr-1226764871354
How disappointing.
Really pisses me off when people make media like this and claim it’s to send a positive message (i.e. gun control) when really it’s some little turd looking for attention.
I’m not sure what to think about this.
Purely from just reading the article, it doesn’t sound like this developer is trying to do anything but generate publicity for himself by stirring up shit… if that’s the case, he’s a douchebag.
On the other hand, if he’s trying to offer some deeper social statements (unlikely, but let’s give benefit of the doubt), they’re definitely being lost in the mix, and that’s sad in its own way too.
edited cause i haven’t looked into it enough to judge i guess, but at a glance that just seems f#$*ed up to me.
Next-gen questions:
– Is the Xbone and PS4 region free?
– Who’s getting them (either or both) on launch? If so, which launch games?
– Any news on the controllers’ PC compatibiity? Last time I checked the Xbone’s one would receive support in 2014 and the DS4 had only “basic functions” (whatever that means). Is there only a wireless Xbone controller?
Cheerio
GREENIUS! \o/
Edit: Forgot to tag this post #helping
PS4 is region free – games only, of course – BD playback is still region locked. Should be getting my PS4 today hopefully. You can guarantee the Xbone controller will receive native Windows support like the 360 did – I would hope the DS4 does, but don’t know.
how are you getting one today :O
Imported it from Amazon.
Jelly 😛
I believe the PS4 is region free, but not sure about the Xbone.
The Xbone controller will definitely come to Windows at least several months after release, so MS can keep using it as a selling point for the Xbone early on.
Basic functions for the DS4 probably means it works as a generic bluetooth controller, no official software yet, which means the touch thingy probably won’t work yet.
Hey Greenius!
-I believe both are region free this time around
-I’m getting a XBone, with AC4, BF4 & the new COD(FIFA also came free with console). Parents wanna get me a couple of games for christmas, so I’ll probably add Forza and DR3 to that list. May get Ryse at some point depending on reviews.
-I can’t answer much about the PC controllers except to say that MS have mentioned supporting drivers to use the XBone controller. Dunno if this will just be on Win8 or if they’ll have some sense.
Hi Greenius
#SerHelpulus
Anyway to kinda be helpful. I’m not going to get a PS4 right away. Gonna wait for a couple of games (Uncharted, Infamous, FFXV, KH3, etc…). So I will more then likely get one Midish next year.
August next year for me \o/
Late adoption bros!
So, in like 5 years then?
Hah, yeah.
Don’t buy two new consoles this time!
I’m getting a PS4 on launch, picking up AssCreed 4 (which I think I’m supposed to grab today) and Killzone: Derpy Derp. Also thinking I’ll pick up Super Motherload (I used to love the flash version) and Flower (so I can sit on TS with Bunny and complain about how bad it is), can’t remember if there’s anything else downloadable I care about (well, aside from Resogun/Contrast, which are PS+).
So far as I’m aware the DS4 works as plug and play for PC, but as mentioned above it’s relatively bare bones support (so far as I know, all buttons work properly, analog is analog, digital is digital, and they’re all mapped correctly by default) but still a whole lot easier than for the DS3.
I have no idea if the Xbone is region-free but I’m getting one at launch tomorrow with Battlefield 4 and Dead Rising 3. I’m hoping I will be able to convince my wife to also buy Forza 5, but I think she would rather keep the money, probably so she can buy more nail polish because 120 just isn’t enough!
They need to stop making more colours, damn it!
PS4 is not 100% region free – as with the PS3, the publishers have the option of region locking if they decide to be enormous fucking assholes again. Xbone is 100% region free. BD regioning applies for movies.
WOOT
A new Lesser Evil review. Another five starrererererr!
Thanks @popdart5!
As I’m pretty sure all of you own a copy of the book by now, I’m putting this here not as a marketing ploy, but as an expression of excitement and bragging.
I figured I’d leave that as a little present and wait for you to notice. 😛 Spreading the good word my friend.
It took less than a week (just). Guess I just showed you how often I search for myself online 😛
*closet egotist
Feathers are fun. I discovered this last night.
I’m going to leave that like it is with no explanation because its more fun for you guys that way. Any of you that know me would know that the actual explanation is boring. 😛Giggity?
PILLOW FIIIIIIGHT!
Despite the headline’s misleading content, it seems possible that Dark Souls 2 will eventually find its way to next-gen: http://www.gamerheadlines.com/dark-souls-2-gen-consoles-ps4-xbox/
And new video: Executioner Battle. For those who have seen trailers, it’s the:
dude in the chariot.http://au.ign.com/videos/2013/11/11/dark-souls-2-executioner-boss-fight
Oh man, this game looks awesome. Oh MAN.
MUST.NOT.CLICK.LINK.
So damn awesome.
So. Damn. Good.
*circles wagon*
*circles chariot*Just get it on PC, then it’s next gen. =P
But… this way I get to buy TWO COPIES.
You just don’t get it. 😛
Buy it on Xbox now, and PC later?
I like the way Ezir thinks.
Slighty OT: I’m really loving the way that The Simpsons has found its way into TAY recently. \o/
http://i.imgur.com/oJefFfk.gif
Exactly what I would have posted 😀
Buy it on PC as well.
3 copies!
Last song played game anyone?
Hosted by yours truly, THE SPAGHETT
Everything to Nothing by Lamb of God
Save Me Once Again – The Rasmus
Holy Shit It’s Spaghett – Rize
Who is that guy
The one over there
My god it’s spaggett
He is no limp noodle he is spagetttt!!!!
good song that one.
melody is a bit repetitive though…
Dust land fairy tale – the killers
Future Fuck – Magic Dirt.
Sitra Ahra – Therion
Hi Spaghett! 😀
Bad Devil – Devin Townsend.
Thanks to Jimu 😛
I approve 😀
If we’re counting the radio, I think there was some David Bowie on WSFM last night. Probably Changes or something.
Starfuckers Inc. – Nine Inch Nails
Southern Sun – Boy & Bear
Telegraph road – Dire straits
Upvote for the oft-unrecognized Best Dire Straits Song. None of that Sultans bullshit.
What is this kotaku site ?
I HAVENT POSTED in ages because work has restricted Internet usage and I’ve been working around country towns instead of at home. I have seen so many beautiful things.
I’m doing pretty well. I’m not sure exactly why but I feel more zen lately, not as angry or terrified like usual.
How are you guys?
Rocketman! \o/
MUSE! SOON!
What is this Rocketman person?
A hot to trot confirmed bachelor with a flair for adventure. Or some tall childlike monster.
He’s not the man they think he is at home!
hey @ynefel that follower request you just got is me, not just some random. just in case you dont recognise the handle…
I am feeling the love from all you wonderful people
It’s a shame I ever had to leave, my internet at work is damn near blocked entirely
But, on my Performance Improvement Plan/Health Plan I am improving so much better
Awesome to hear!
Huzzah!
Joining the Library last week may have been a mistake.
I took my son to the Library and joined because he’s on the cusp of being able to read so he’s really excited about books at the moment. And then I discovered their Craft section. I’ve been borrowing ALL the quilting books (which has actually been really handy for tips for the very traditional quilt I’ve been hired to finish). And “ALL” is no exaggeration: we’ve been to two different Libraries twice each in the past week.
But yesterday a quilting book I’d forgotten I’d ordered showed up in the mail. Usually I’d be super-excited but this time I was all “Yep. It’s another book.” Mistake. 🙁
yeah. libraries are the worst.
I’m gonna be on edge all day today!
Uncertain employment ho!
Hope everything works out, pal.
When do you find out, man? Is it today? All the best of luck, whichever way you want it to go!
Today/tomorrow is when we find out if we have a job. If not then in a week we find out if there’s a position available somewhere else where we can transition to.
It sucks nob. But if you do have to go, you get a chance to explore some more options. Maybe move jobs or cities and find something better and if all that fucks up you can move in with me and we will watch Korra and play games 🙂
Hah. I was contemplating moving to Melbourne. Really enjoyed it over there for PAX. Plus I get to hang out with @f4ction!
There’s always Canberra. We have @shane.
SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAANE.
Yep, and I attend social gatherings so rarely that it’s always a treat to see me (because all the bad memories fade).
Wait, could Canberra deal with a 25% increase in population?
As long as you don’t want my job… yes.
Of course not.
Anyway, in a completely off topic discussion not related to your original comment in anyway, What job do you do again? and if someone where to hypothetically to want that job, what skills would
Ihe/she need?I dunno. I’m still not sure what my job actually is most days.
No, move to Sydney! Everybody’s doing it these days!
Since I’m hoping to move in Feb into a really nice and huge place with some nerd friends you could totally nerd it up with us!
Yay!
I just realised,
It sucks nob*giggles*
Well, I guess your day’s not all bad then. A bit unprofessional, but hey, that might not matter tomorrow 😛
Happy ending!
EVGA’s Geforce GTX 780 is back in stock at PC Case Gear. Crap. Must not buy.
So hungry…
http://media.tumblr.com/d38cd50b552cef41e0258e61759d9c4a/tumblr_inline_mwj3xzsyhA1qzqhv2.gif
Guys, having some PSN problems and im calling bullshit on Sony’s response…
So i tried to access the PSN store on my vita an hour ago, and it kept telling me my password is incorrect. I tried loging on through the playstation website, and still couldnt log in.
i phoned sony, and after putting me on hold for about 15 minutes they gave me an answer along the lines of, “everyone is being forced to change their PSN password. Its for security purposes”. He seemed very unsure about his own response.
thing is, why would they disable users passwords without an email or anything? i would have expected an email from sony asking me to “Please update your PSN Password”, provide a secure link, enter old password, new password, confirm new password and done.
having to “try and log in then hit the forgot password link” is an awfully suspicious way of doing this???
EDIT: If anyone can check any of their sony devices and confirm, it would be appreciated!
Yeah, it’s bullshit. I just signed into PSN on my PS3 with no problems.
thanks for that strange!
I can’t log into Sony Entertainment Network website. Dafuq.
invalid password?
Yeah. I reset password to what it was before, now works fine…
the only time I’ve been forced to change my password in the many years I’ve been on PSN was after the Lolsec attack, never again since.
yeah thats why im worried, my credit card deets are on file.
that is pretty worrying, I hope you sort it out.
After the Lolsec stuff i made sure to wipe my CC details
Edit: sweet, i just saw negz post, seems legit
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-11-21-psn-eu-resets-many-user-passwords-as-a-precautionary-measure
ah thanks for that negs!
It’s like a TAY reunion today, with @greenius, @rocketman and @spaghett all showing up!
*Takes photos, sings horribly-out-of-date sap songs*
And the award for most improved odour goes to…
*sniffle*
I choose to counter that with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co_6MTY-BE8
OMG guys! Shane’s back!
@freezespreston: I don’t understand why you tagged me here? What gives?
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/lady-gaga-snl-promos-2013-11/comment-page-1/#comment-162712
Wait, that works?
BRB, tagging DC in everything
You were complaining that you really wanted a meat. So obviously you would need meat accessories
Experimenting.
You should be past that phase by now! 😛
TAYlist request time, Here we go!
The Message- Grandmaster Flash
Obscure hipster request :
Son, Ambulance – Sex in C Minor
Serious request :
PJ Harvey – Good Fortune
The District Sleeps Tonight – The Postal Service
I’m tossing up between two:
Pat Benatar’s “Love is a Battlefield,” or “The Phantom of the Opera” from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s seminal classic, The Phantom of the Opera.
Queens of the Stone Age – No One Knows
Kotov Syndrome – Rise Against
Rockit- Herbie Hancock
Rock It – Little Red
Danger Zone – Kenny Loggins
Friends – Angelo Janotti 😀
Tip of my Tongue – Diesel.
Head Over Heels – Tears For Fears
But I feel like I might have suggested this one before.
Rainbow Connection – Kermit the Frog
or if not,
Save Me Once Again – The Rasmus
Where’s the Baseline – Spiderbait (my favourite song from their new album :3)
Erasure’s cover of “Take A Chance On Me’.
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/musicnews/s3895736.htm
ColdCamV linked me this on Twitter. Big Day Out sideshows. Ah, Arcade Fire… D: D: D:
Thought you were praying to the resurrector?
Turns out it was just a Reflektor, Red.
@dc gonna roadtrip?
Ah, I’ve never been poorer… so no…
You could sell your BDO ticket 😛
Still flights, hotels, food and all that. Arcade Fire tickets are $100 on top of that too.
BDO will be awesome, though. @sughly and @rocketman will be there and they’re two of my favourite people! 😀
You could stay with any one of a dozen Sydneysiders! Or all of them! Or make it a day trip.
And you could hitchhike instead of flying, and eat roadkill instead of paying for food.
And you could mug someone at the gate and get tickets for free.
It’s the perfect plan. And nothing can go wrong.
All of us in Brisbane need to move to Sydney or Melbourne. Too many bands just do Melbourne and Sydney, and they get all the best sideshows from the big festivals.
You Brisbane TAYbies are my favourite people. NO ONE MOVE TO MELBOURNE OR SYDNEY. (You hear that, @sernobulus. :P)
I agree.
Especially @dc.
Completely off-topic, but for the longest while I thought you hated me, my friend. XD
Haha, really?
What did I do?
Oh, he thinks everyone hates him.
And so far as I’m aware, he’s only correct IN ONE CASE. *Glares at D.C.*
Yeah but that would involve having to live in Melbourne or Sydney.
Nothankyou.jpg
Oh, Sydney’s not so bad!
Once you get used to the stabbings.
To be honest, I’d love to live in Melbourne. Every time I go there I just feel at home.
I dislike cities.
I’ve been swaying more and more to moving to melbourne lately, but doubt I ever will since Ashton’s mum isnt keen on it :'(
But yes, totally agree. Currently dipping into my moneys even more to take a flight in and out of Sydney in Jan to make a concert. A show thats only $40 suddenly becomes $160+. Stupid Sydney and Melbourne stupid *grumble grumble*
Mrs Shane and I have finally started watching Season Six of Sons of Anarchy! One ep per day until the bitter, bitter end. Mega-hyped.
@dc Janette from Treme is in this season! she plays a
madam in charge of a small brothel, and she gets nekkid with the main character in the first ep.@virus__ and @nomad (I think Nomad is SoA people)
Episode 1
* School shooting 🙁* Poor Otto – there’s not much left of him. The prison rape scene was horrible. 🙁
* Jax, Jax, Jax… he doesn’t really want to be a family man, does he? The letters he’s writing to his sons feel almost like a goodbye. Edit: also those kids are getting passed around a LOT. No one seems to want them, not even Wendy (and wasn’t THAT scene weird?)
* Feel a little cheated that it wasn’t Gemma who turned Tara in. That was set up to be the big cliffhanger at the end of last season.
* Also unsure they needed to show the Federal Marshall (retired)’s addiction so early in the season. I was more scared by him when he was always on his feet and in control.
* Bobby’s reforming the Nomads. He’s got the massive dude who moved his fridge, and we think that pretty soon Juice is gonna sign up, and possibly Tiggy too.
* Still, a lot of stuff happened that’s gonna shake out in some interesting ways. Can’t wait to see more! Amazing show.
Haha! Yeah, Janette from Treme was in Deadwood too!
Also, eventually…
Mr Wu! COCKSUCKER! SWYGN! COCK SUCKER!I’ll find the to read a synopsis of the episode, last night’s ep is still fresh in my head so I need to be sure when I reply I’m not spoiling future events!
this season surprised me with how much I’m interested in it. I as starting to lose interest after last season but this one pulled me back in
I’ll tag you in future!
Personally, I loved season 5. Structurally, it made a lot more sense on the second viewing.
@dc unsure if you’re on blackout or not, but the trailer for season 4 of Treme looks amazing
http://www.hitfix.com/news/new-trailer-for-treme-season-4-teases-the-shows-final-5-episodes-watch
Totally on a media blackout. It’s like a week away and only five eps. STOP RUINING THE THINGS YOU LOVE, SHANE. 😛
Good trailers don’t ruin things. Good trailers build hype.
Also, I believe (in most cases) good fiction can’t be spoiled, because it’s the experience, not the twists, that make it good.
But the twists and uncertainties are pretty great too.
At least they would be if they existed. Everything seems pretty predictable lately.
You should watch Treme!
Give me a run down on it. Or @dc can
Post Hurricane Katrina. CNN have gone away and so have the national guard, now it’s just the people who are left behind. We follow musicians, police, lawyers and the like and they rebuild their lives and get on with living. Oh man, this sounds pretentious. XD
Psst @dc, you forgot to mention it’s set in New Orleans 😛
@dc
Well it either sounds pretentious or like a full on soapy.
Pure drama or more comedy. Different content to be sure but what would you say it is similar to in style and tone?
Eh, not soapy or pretentious. It’s like The Wire, I guess. I haven’t watched the wire. It’s a drama. A good one too.
@shane: That hardly seems important. 😛
@tigerion, it’s really got a feel all of its own. I’d hesitate to say it’s unique, but I can’t think of any easy comparisons. It is by the same folks who made The Wire, and has the same kind of mix between big issues and little people that The Wire had (though Treme tends to focus more on the characters than The Wire, and relies a lot less on suspense and intrigue, and has a broader ensemble of characters), and a similar journalistic ethic that likes to focus on the details. It’s a deep character-study drama that steadfastly resists all the tropes of soap-operaism. It also manages to make New Orleans, even disaster-stricken, feel like a holiday destination. And the music is soooo good.
Alfonso Cuaron’s son Jonas has shot a short film expanding on one of the plot points of Gravity.
Watch it here. Gravity spoilers in the film and in the link.
Can you remind me tonight? Really want to see this, but don’t think I can do it justice here at work.
http://www.winamp.com/media-player/en
:'(
Omg. End of a 15 year era. Can it be? 🙁
I haven’t used Winamp for about eight years. Now I feel bad. It totally whips the llama’s ass.
Finally the llama torture will end.
I used Winamp once about 10 years ago and outright hated it, but it’s a shame to see it vanish (or at least not get officially updated) for the people that like it.
Jesus no. I’ve been using Winamp since I was about 16 or 17 – so 15 years. It used to be the only way to play MP3s well back in the day, and has remained a minimal, highly functional media player ever since. It’s on my list of those 10 or so apps I install every time I format or get a new PC. Every time. I even own a Pro license. =((((((
Compared to all the mostly bloaty shitfuck media players on the internet at the moment, Winamp is still the best.
EDIT: Downvote because there’s no other response to such a piece of news.
You could always switch to RealPlayer?
LOL
Downvote accepted. 🙁 Let us cry together, brother.
It started to get bloaty. I had a version 3 install that I always kept, found that far better than anything that came with 5+
I just put mine in Classic or the middle skin – Modern, was it? Turned off all the shit like library and what not. Just a player, equalize, and a playlist. Simple.
Who will whip my llamas now? 🙁
Has anyone played Tearaway? I was really interested in it then I forgot it existed.
Nope, reading review now though. Will contemplate getting it when it drops to decent price.
It sounds like it’s a good game but I can’t get past how absolutely repulsive I find the art style for some reason.
Little Big Planet devs, very similar.
LBP’s Sackboy is awesome though. I like the look of those games heaps, a lot more than I like the actual game itself (super-floaty, unfun platforming with way too much momentum and stuff).
yeah it does look a bit odd, I think I’ll get past that if the gameplay is good, I just like how it actually uses some of the Vit’s features (camera and rear touch pad). Such a good bit of hardware, it really deserves a couple more games that use all its features.
Goodbye Deponia is so fun. Rufus is such a jerk. 😀
So it’s pretty clear why you like him. :p
And why you’d probably like him too! XD
WOULD I LIKE HIM?
He’d punch you in the face.
You’re not supposed to like him. He’s endearing in a jerky kind of way though. 😀
Example of Rufus’ jerk behaviour in Chaos on Deponia:
He needs to feed a cat, but has no cat food. So you have to kill three baby dolphins by tricking them into doing circus tricks into a mincer. D:If you want a likable, ‘good’ character then you should play Night of the Rabbit instead. XD
Woah.
Yeah, that doesn’t sound like something I would enjoy.
That was probably the worst thing I’ve ever seen in an adventure game. XD
What, that doesn’t make any sense? How would the baby dolphins have been trained to do tricks if they’re just babies?Adventure game logic =/= real world logic.
What? That doesn’t seem right.
I use 4 flowers daisy chained, a slightly weathered cat head totem, the fourth stick of Warrglethorp the only slightly mad, and a rusty bucket to form a winch to raise a rickety wooden bridge all the time!
<3
Last time I’ll post this, but this is an incredibly good deal if you like point and click adventure games!
http://www.gog.com/promo/goodbye_deponia_launch_promo_191113
Just… don’t judge the first chapter on its horrible, horrible tutorial.
Oh the amazing dreams I’ve had of drop kicking Wenzel into the horizon…
Oh man, I hate Wenzel. XD
Any one planning on using their real name on PS4? I think I will. The only people I play multiplayer with are friends who already know it and my user name is already a variation of my name.
No way bro, I gotta keep my secret identity!
>.>
Sure do Robert.
You know it, Alan.
Wait, that’s not Alan, that’s Steve.
I assume there’s an option to have your real name only visible to friends, so I’ll probably go with that. If that doesn’t exist I’ll be sticking with my PSN ID.
Yes, you need to send request, get confirmed, and then you get put into a ‘close friends’ friend list.
Radical.
Nah. My handle is ShaneWSmith. I prefer to stay mysterious.
(His real surname is Schmidt)
I hear he has a fine art collection if grandfather brought over in the 1940s
depends.
if profiles are searchable by real name, details of said profile had better be hidden until friend requests have been made / approved.
if not, i’ll be sticking with my nom de clavier
Billy Joel?
Dan Clone? 😀
Oh wait, you’re Dan anyway so that makes no sense.
I probably will. I dont like my PSN name (or understand why i came up with it) and the option to use a real name is the closest thing to a name change i know of -_-
See above, you need to manually add people to ‘you can see my real name!’ list.
Probably only with irl friends.
The Pokemon universe really shouldn’t be thought about at all.
So I rain in to a couple of honeymooners, Yuu and AMi, whilst I was spelunking. Yuu turns to Ami and says “Honey, why don’t we share some of our happiness with this young trainer?” then they both proceed to beat the stuffing out of my pokemon. If that’s their happiness I’m guessing it must have been an arranged marriage.
Maybe they’re just into some kinky stuff. There’s nothing wrong with that. Who are you to judge them, Gorzy? Huh?
however, the good thing about the pokemon universe is that i get to destroy the hopes of Kindergardeners!
You monster! you’re supposed to let them win!
gotta teach them about dissapointment early
I liked that in B2W2 there was a kindergarten where the toddlers had higher level Pokemon than the Elite 4. How!?
Uh, says the trainer who battles 6 year old kids and takes their money.
Hypocrite.
I don’t know if I should laugh or cry.
…
I’m gonna go with laugh.
Saw the news on twitter, man. I’m sorry. 🙁
If there’s a bright side, at least they paid for your education and you leave there better off than when you first arrived? You’re awesome and likable and employable. You’ll do fine!
Well, shit.
More time for SWTOR?
Sorry, man. That’s never good news, even if it’s an opportunity in disguise. But look on the bright side, it might be an opportunity in disguise!
That blows, man.
BOARD GAMES!
Saturday at 2pm!
Second last time this will happen this year and there won’t be any after we move to Dubbo. So anyone making excuses about going another time, there will be very few other times!
Exclamation mark!
You guys are moving to Dubbo? Permanent thing or just doctor related stuff with Freya?
Doctor related stuff for a year.
Oh, uh, sorry, I don’t think I can make it.
I… have to do… things.
And, uh, be somewhere.
Oh!
Canada!
Yeah, I have to be in Canada and stuff. Yeah, that’s it.
You’ve attended more than @markserrels despite living in another country, so there’s that.
You’ve got to play it cool, Trjn. First thing you should do to play it cool? Stop playing board games! BAM!
Hm. When is the last one?
Wanna see which of the two is the least ungood 😛
At some point in January.
England is the overly strict parent, America is the middle child, Canada is the one whose deeds go unnoticed, and Australia is the rebellious teen.
what does that make Sri Lanka?
The black sheep that isn’t spoken of
That’s racist! _insert-meme-here_
I’m shit at making decisions, so help me out here guys.
Do I get a new guitar, or do I get tattoos over the xmas / New Year break?
Tattoos! That’s what I’d do!
Why not both?
Yaayyyy
A guitar tattoo!
A tattooed guitar!
Embed a guitar into your skin!
the only reason I cant do both is money.
goddamn money 🙁
Money is that stupid middle-man in a shopping transaction. You use your lifeHours (tm) to purchase coins, then you purchase goods with the said coins at a constantly changing exchange rate, then you supplement the purchase of said goods with some more lifeHours in order to enjoy it.
You’ve lost the game before you even started. 🙁
Well, think of all the happiness you’ll get from staring at your tattoo in the mirror (or with your neck arched). Then, think of the happiness you could have from strumming a guitar and: getting performing contracts for the olympics, making panties drop at the mention “yeah, I strum geetar”, getting invited to crazy parties, etc.
Speaking from experience, being a musician doesn’t drop nearly as many panties as you may think.
I’m pushing myself to get a tattoo done before Christmas. I don’t really know how this will help you make a decision. Tattoo race, maybe?
The winner gets to choose the loser’s tattoo 😛
guitar, that’s what I”d do, but I’ve got no Tatts so there’s that.
Tattoos! That’s what I’d do!
Guitar, which you then use to busk on the street and gather money for the Tattoo.
@dc @bdkiaf @powalen @stickman @rize @gutsoup
thanks all. tattoos it is!
next step is working out what and where…………….
“I heart Mum”
Butt
only choice
My brother has a tattoo on his butt with “Happy Birthday [friend’s name]” and a piece of cake. My brother apparently puts less thought into his tattoos than I do.
ha, that’s pretty funny, but man it’s permanent. That’s why I don’t have one cause I’m sure I’d get sick of looking at the same thing eventually no matter how much i might love said thing. But eh, i find it hard to commit to anything so no surprises there. 😛
That’s why you get it on your back! It’s not your problem! XD
aah, that could work. You are wise 😛
Shrink appointment complete
Afternoon status: Slag off until needing to leave at 2pm to get a train at 2:39pm
Mission: Eat two minute noodles with cheese and play GTA Online/watch Truman show
GTAO on 360 or PS3?
360 man, currently watching Truman show though 😀
Wrong answer :'(
NegativeZero’s Gaming Update including NegativeZero’s Kantai Collection Update That No One Cares About.
I went away to New Zealand for a long weekend and took away both my 3DSes and my Vita. Did not touch the Vita though so not sure why I’m even mentioning it. Anyway, I had intended to do more gaming while away but the changes to the aviation rules haven’t percolated through to everything yet, so about the first 30 and last 30 mins of the flight you can’t use any electronic devices without someone having a stern word at you. So I ended up watching The Wolverine (it wasn’t as terrible as I expected it to be) and then played the Bravely Default demo on the flight over.
Bravely Default Demo sucks. 🙁 There’s no plot to anything and it’s all GO GET ME FIVE DEMON SCHLONGS quests. Like an MMO or something. Also you start at level 1 and with no skills and it feels insanely difficult as a result. Eventually got to the point that I was leveled enough to face the mobs properly but didn’t progress enough to feel like the combat system was that enjoyable. It feels incredibly slow. Your attacks don’t do enough damage and it doesn’t surface anywhere near enough information about initiative so you have no idea what order everyone is going to do shit (specifically the enemies) so you can’t really plan. You have to program in all your moves for the turn and then hope that things are timed correctly. Seems a pain. Wish it was ATB-style instead. Also the return to random encounters while walking around on the map feels incredibly regressive in a world where every other JRPG has enemies on the map, but I think they’re deliberately trying to evoke the style of the PS1-era Final Fantasies. Graphics and music are great. I played for a bit then the game completely crashed and then we were landing so I had to turn it off. Disliked the demo a lot so didn’t go back to it. Still excited for the release of the actual game but my initial excitement has worn off a little, now I’m feeling a bit more cautious. Wish I hadn’t played the demo at all.
I broke my No Digital Games on 3DS rule because I was going away and I wanted something to play while away. Picked up Senran Kagura Burst on the US eShop, which by the way was a huge pain to get credit for. It… also kind of sucks. I sank 4-5 hours into it and I wouldn’t say it was devoid of all enjoyment, it’s just an incredibly shallow, repetitive side-scrolling beat em up. Feels like Streets of Rage or something, except periodically it shoves semi-clothed boobies in your face. It’s kind of wordy too during the story bits. Additionally the plot is exactly what they adapted for the anime earlier in the year, so I know what’s going to happen and that kind of sucked what was left of my interest out. Really sad that they localized this instead of the Vita Senran Kagura game, which is a properly made Dynasty Warriors-style 3D action game with some actual depth. In retrospect if this was what I wanted I would have been better off spending the time in Dragon’s Crown.
Upon returning from NZ, yesterday I got my Assassin’s Creed IV keys etc. from Green Man Gaming. Hadn’t realized it wasn’t a steam key – it’s distributed via their shitty Capsule thing, which is insanely slow. 18gb took most of the day to download, varying speeds between 200-400kb/sec. I’ve got a ~95mbit connection at home, Steam will usually give me 3-4mb/sec. Anyway, I only got a chance to play an hour or two so I’m pretty deep into tutorial land still. Seems okay. I’m super disappointed that despite having been talking about how they’d tried to fix the shitty issue the AC games have always had where the jumping sometimes will spaz out and have you run up a wall or something instead of what you meant to do (which AC3 made even worse) it’s still exactly as broken as AC3. I also felt like the combat system was changed for the worse but I might be wrong on that? It doesn’t feel right. Probably initial teething issues that will go away once the game opens out a bit though.
Came back to a crapload of resources in Kantai Collection, so I did the stupidest thing possible: I spent a chunk trying to build another battlship. And got a run of cruisers that I already had. The RNG Goddess was not smiling on me yesterday at all. I managed to level up a fair bit (got my Yukikaze and Fusou to their remodels, started using my sub as part of my main fleet) and had a few cracks at the event level but couldn’t push through. Additionally because my two Fusou-class Battleships are upgraded and run a Seaplane squadron, when used in tandem with my fleet carriers (side note: despite being weaker on paper, I find that my Hiryuu is vastly better than my Akagi despite being cheaper to run) it’s chewing through my Bauxite pretty fast. Managed to beat the boss in world 2-3, but 2-4 is way beyond my current level. Spent ages grinding 2-3 in the hope of getting a battleship drop (2-3 has a chance to drop any of the Kongo-class sisters) but no luck. Managed to get drops of all three of the light carriers available, but other than that the game gave me Tone-class Heavy Cruisers about eight times, and the one time I got a Battleship drop, it was Fusou, who I already have. 🙁 And then while feeding unneeded Destroyers to my I-168 to boost her torpedo power I accidentally fed the Inazuma and Ikazuchi that I’d been leveling up and lost them. Need them for a quest and can’t get Ikazuchi to drop again. Have the worst luck. 🙁 Going to keep running 2-3 until I get some extra ships I need and maybe level up one or two of my heavy cruisers to Remodel if I don’t get the Battleships I need.
Status: Still Addicted, dammit 🙁
You really shouldn’t assume that no one cares about your posts, Neg.
I’m almost sure that no one cares about my ongoing struggle with addiction to a random Japan-only free to play browser game involving moe anthropormorphisms of WW2-era IJN ships. But I’m happy to be wrong on that.
I’m interested in the WW2 era ship stuff, not so much the anthropomorphisms.
There’s technically not a lot that makes them ‘ships’ aside from their classes and names, the fact you build and repair them and that there’s a bit of naval terminology and tactics in the battle system.
One of the upsides so far is that my already completely random and incredibly uneven Japanese knowledge now includes obscure naval Kanji. I probably could barely introduce myself properly yet I know that 潜水艦 is a Submarine.
Unfortunately I agree with your Bravely Default demo thoughts. Dampened my hype a little. I’ll give the demo another go though, I didn’t really play it for very long.
I’m not even sure that the demo is representative of the final game. The things like the slow battle system where supposed to have been fixed in the new JP “For The Sequel” re-release which is the version of Bravely Default we’re getting in the west.
My help ticket for the crashes I’ve been having playing as Assault class on BF4 hasn’t been answered so I’m currently trying a fresh install. Re-downloading the entire thing.
ouch
Hey, question about anyone who’s ever ordered with Mighty Ape- are they usually quick with taking payments? Apparently my copy of The Last of Us has dispatched without even a pending transaction on the cc
Lol, that would be a nice gift. 😛
Any other Brisbane TAYbies keen to go to Dreamworld before Freeze’s thing on the weekend? So far it’s just me and Sughly!
Cute.
Get a PS4 for $149 when you trade a kidney! Only at EB Games.
trade them both and get an extra 10% off your PS4!
What the fuck is wrong with these schoolies balcony hopping 20-30 stories up?
Idiots are gonna idiot!
I just don’t understand why they don’t use the hallway. You’re not going to get in trouble if someone sees you, your parents aren’t there.
The problem there Pow is that you’re trying to apply logic to the situation.
Haha we use that line a fair bit here at work.
Schoolies always makes me depressed. I wasted my teenage years and never did anything remotely interesting /o\
I spent schoolies week playing WoW.
Yep.
I spent mine on a big-arse ship eating all sorts of fish I’d never heard of.
Also learnt what wasabi is.
Most of my group were underage during schoolies so we just stayed at the hotel watching movies and playing tennis the whole time.
(My kind of holiday! :P)
I spent my teenage years playing video games and writing stories and avoiding social engagements like schoolies. Nothing’s changed.
I spent my schoolies at the Sunshine Coast. Almost got in trouble for twirling a Coke bottle that was mixed with vodka near the police.
Video games. It’s that damn Mirror’s Edge.
I was a total drunken idiot for the whole week I went and never considered it. There were a couple times people yelled at us from other balconies to climb across, we just ran up the stairwell and banged on doors till we found them.
Was Jimu involved in this too? 😀
he sure was, we was very drunk for a very long time 😀
You going to Mrs. Freeze’s dealy on Saturday? I’m pretty sure @jimu will be there?
I believe jimu is going, I don’t even know how I’d get there.
I’ve been hermitting really badly this year, aside from the couple of meats I’ve been to with you guys I’ve probably only gone out socially like 4 or 5 times this year and 3 of them were concerts so I wasn’t exactly socialising.
I think Jimu’s training it down, maybe?
will his training feature montage music 😛
Pretty sure it’ll be Gonna Fly Now from Rocky, sorry.
Get it right slackers!
@gutsoup
@gutsoup can train with me, if he can handle the heat!
I’m doing train station runs. Nearest station is only a 5-10 min drive from home.
what a nice guy
Freeze is known for his niceness!
Also, don’t be scared of TAYbies. You know me and Sughly already and the rest are good folks too.
They’re all right…. I guess.
I MISS YOU, SHANE! REMEMBER TWO WEEKS AGO WHEN WE MET!
Ancient history, man. I’m looking forward 😛
I miss you!I probably would have jumped.
And I would have been completely sober too.
I’m curious to know if the new XBone controller will sync up with my PC for gaming? Hmm..
Not immediately as far as I know. Within the next few months I believe.
Not sure if there are any drivers for it yet…
While M*dollarsign* supposedly won’t have drivers out for a while, I think there’s a dude setting up custom drivers (he did ones for the DS4 for Macs, I believe), so if you look into that, you may get an answer.
My friend decided to put her headband thing on me during lunch. So now I look like a cleaning lady. Or a sushi guy. Or, combined with the moustache, some kind of latino gang member.
Imma cut you.
Pics, kgo.
Tried to get my friend to take one, not sure how well it turned out.
We’ll see when I get home.
AC4 get!
Oh, and if anyone is interested, the Buccaneer Edition (read: statue) on PS3 and 360 was stickered at $88 at EB in Woden. If I remember correctly, you can pay like $15 to upgrade to a new-gen console edition when they’re released?
Yeah I saw that today at lunch as well. Pricing confirmed.
Those buccaneer boxes are huge!
I had a glorious adventure at EB an hour or so ago.
I went down there to pick up my preorder of the Buccaneer edition for PS4 (I need to have one game for it, right?), and I’m like “I’m here to pick up my preorder blah blah words.” And the guy’s like “it’s not in the system.” And after checking a few things “yup, definitely not in the system, are you sure you preordered it for this store?”
Now look, I’m not the most self-assured guy around, so I was open to the possibility that I had screwed up somewhere, so, not wanting to cause problems, I left and subsequently came home, and checked my preorder thing online, and oh look, it’s at Woden. :/
I have mine in my shop with me as I speak.
Guy was confused as to why I’m picking up the PS4 edition until the manager reassured him it’s okay it’s out.
I feel like there’s more to this story…
I preordered it online for pick up in store, and the online system is balls, that’s basically it.
I knew there might be a problem because last time I was in store I asked about it, and the guy was like “well, the online system is balls, so something probably went wrong there, do you want me to look into it?” and I was like “hahaha, that’s a problem for future me to deal with.” DAMN YOU PAST ME!
It’s completely manual.
Store receives an email with a gift card number that has the deposit amount on it and has to process the pre-order with that.
Seriously? Hahaha, that really is balls. I’m too lazy to return today, so I’m hoping I have the older staff in tomorrow since they’re a whole lot more chilled. Hopefully it can all get sorted out, and if not, I’ll just cry. Hehehe. That’ll show them.
They’re really not great with that sort of thing. When I went to pick up my preorder from there the guy looked scared and confused when I asked for the PC one…
the little card dealy i got says $14.50 to upgrade
The one that came with Battlefield 4 does not show a price, which is troublesome (insert EA slander here)
Can it be Saturday yet? I think after today I need to hang out with some cool people!
I hear @freezespreston is a pretty cool guy.
Aw, but I thought we were hanging out on Saturday. Who’s this cool group you befriended?
I was waiting for this comment. =P
It’s going to be 23 and 21 in Canberra this weekend. Is that cool enough to hang out here?
1 degree here on Sunday.
Out-cool that!
-20 in Antarctica. He could chill with some penguins.
And then recite all of Arnie’s lines from Batman & Robin.
CHILL
A FLEAS IS COMING
Where are you @saturday? 🙁
Oh wait, Saturday in Canada every day. Canada is cool. Or so I’m led to believe.
Alrighty people.
I’m going to be closing off entries into the Secret SanTAY tomorrow afternoon so I can get it organised and people have time to get things together and posted in time.
So emails into binoter hanging with hot males if you haven’t already.
Looking at @rize @alexpants and @mythamphetamine who have said they’re interested but haven’t confirmed.
Also everyone else.
I think I sent one?
Ayup.
Got my email, man? Am I all set with the hot males?
You know you is *wink* :p
Ayup.
I hope my Secret SanTAY owns an Xbox 360.
Whoops.
I’ve set a reminder on my phone this time. I’ll email tonight. Any specific info you need?
Just the address you want it sent to.
Oh. I should probably send that too.
I don’t think i sent you my address, will resend
I just hope I sent my address to the right email. Possibly the most cryptic email I’ve ever had to decode 😛
binoter at gaytimemovies dotcom
Done and done 😀
Just realized the gym clothes I bought look exactly like what the staff at the gym wear and now people are going to ask me fitness questions. I’ll prescribe cupcakes and lots of them.
Just don’t get confused and call people cupcakes. 😀
Oh, I hope they have CCTV that goes viral. Or DC tells us stories. One of those.
People on the internet get very mad when they are both wrong and referred to as ‘cupcake’.
you’re hired, that’s my kind of training
Someone emailed me directly and stated that their computer system had just crashed on them, restarted and is now okay but just wanted to inform me anyway.
I replied that I have forwarded info of the situation to Cyberdyne Systems for further analysis.
In my defense I was only a smart arse because:
1. No other info provided, no computer number, no error codes.
2. Did not use the help desk, tried to get around it by emailing me directly essentially trying to jump the queue and get things looked at faster.
3. The Terminator is awesome.
1, 2, 3, they all check out. You’re cleared to proceed with future replies of this kind.
Since Kotaku hasn’t reported on it yet, big Persona Announcements are going to be streamed on nicovideo this Sunday with a pre-announcement stream event tonight (p-ch.jp).
Also a english voice actor for Persona 4 has listed “Persona 4 Vol. 2” and “Golden 2 Persona 4” as well as Persona Magazine being revived next month.
Best case scenario (in my opinion) would either be a continuation of the Persona 3/4 arch (i.e after Arena and it’s sequel
i.e freeing the MC from P3 and dealing with Nyx) or Persona 5.Worse case scenario… would be anything to do with the Persona 4 slot games which is what i’m fearing the most due to the teaser site showing 3 boxes with a different image of Teddie in them and if you do match the images it they shake and scramble.
Paging @sernobulus and @negativezero
Continuing Persona 3 & 4 is more of a worst-case scenario for me. I’m done with Persona 4’s characters, I want something new and not more of the same, especially after waiting for basically an entire console generation for a new game.
Especially if it means I have to go play Arena to follow the plot since I refuse to do so given the region lock.
TAYlist for the 21st of November 2013
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by so many requests I couldn’t fill, sorryPearl Jam – Daughter
Billy Ocean – When The Going Gets Tough
Tears For Fears – Head Over Heels (Requested by @alexpants)
Kenny Loggins – Danger Zone (Requested by @cakesmith)
The Sweet – The Peppermint Twist
Pat Benatar – Love Is A Battlefield (Requested by @Blaghman)
Whitlams – Thank You
Erasure – Take A Chance On Me (Requested by @strange)
Savage Garden – Affirmation
Herbie Hancock – Rockit (Requested by @redartifice)
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five – The Message (Also requested by @redartifice)
John Butler Trio – One Way Road
Black Sorrows – Chained To The Wheel
Diesel – Tip Of My Tongue (Requested by @benny)
Blondie – Heart Of Glass
CHAINED TO THE WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL
I can’t help think of this song whenever I see a Robert Jordan book on my shelf.
Well shit, now I have to listen to Savage Garden.
*hands over man card*
*shreds man card*
And the Spotify list!
http://t.co/DKtAN1bRpi
do you ever use Grooveshark? I started to cause spotify keeps spazzing out on my work puter.
You’ll play Savage Garden but not Hanson? Now you’re just being petty.
True, I haven’t liked Hanson for years, but Savage Garden is still all right in my book.
Also, the computer picked that one out.
I don’t think it’s possible to listen to music featuring Jamaican steel drums and not feel happy.
I want to buy some and anytime someone’s feeling down I’ll just follow them around plonking out some cool island beats until they’re happy.
Edit: also the combination of Synths and steel drums is surprisingly awesome
nooooooooooooooiiiiiiice
also you reminded me of this
good old Mr Bungle
I don’t know what’s happening but that is cool.
Arcade Fire’s Here Comes the Nighttime has steel drums AND synth, particularly in the second half of the song.
arcade fire has synths? I thought dc hated synths?
They did their prep work though and released three non-synthy albums… just to ease me into it…
The new album Reflektor has all kinds of synth!
I’ve been listening to “The Knife” really nothing like any of my other music tastes but I just can’t not like it. There’s something about Scandenavian female vocalists that I really enjoy.
dafug? I was checking out more stuff from them, they have a song that sounds like the underwater Mario song, ha
check out Na na na by the Knife, i swear they stole it.
I can’t get past how much that particular song (I think it’s that one at least) sounds like ‘Cities’ from Sound Shapes.
Ok, sent another e-mail through to check that my “jpg” one made it.
At least I’ve got all my blogs out of the way. Well, written. Still gotta actually post them. And think up appropriate times for each of them.
Thank god I post stuff about nearly everything I do. Comes in handy when I want to track down what I did and when I did it.
Comes in handy for the sisterhood too.
I think I have a problem (well, I know I have many problems, but you understand my meaning).
Whenever I’m in a shopping centre or supermarket I usually end up mouthing along, or sometimes singing the songs that play. Normally this isn’t too bad, for instance today I was only singing along to Natalie Imbruglia’s Torn. Right, yeah. Could be worse.
Day before yesterday Gaga was playing. So of course a pair of cute girls had to enter the aisle as I obliviously sung “I’m your biggest fan I’ll follow you until you love me, Papa, Papara- Oh.”
When I was 18/19 I’d just dance along to whatever I was listening to. Life was so simple back then.
Greatest page get.
I’m tossing up between whether I should declare this “HAVE NO SHAME PAGE THIRTEEN” or “I SWEAR I’M NOT GAY MUM, STOP LAUGHING AT ME PAGE THIRTEEN.”
I’ve heard worse themes. (Mainly the slash thing Red keeps trying to make a thing.)
Page 13: @blaghman/? fanfic page!
Paging @redartifice
@Cakesmith had been heartbroken when @blaghman had lopped off his flowing locks…
@dc was torn. On one hand, he hated slash fiction and all it entailed, but even he had to admit there was something…sensual about the fiction that red kept writing…
😛No shame page 13.
o/
They caught you any way, that’s your excuse to play it cool and keep singing even if you’re dying on the inside. They don’t have to know that. 😛
The “Oh” came out before I’d even thought about it, and they were both just sort of looking at me. I know I should have played it cool, but my immediate response was to walk out of the aisle and then laugh at myself (which given the volume of my laughter means they probably heard that too).
You can laugh that stuff off? You so mentally well adjusted! 😀
I learned many years ago to laugh at my failings immediately, since the only other option is to cry.
I mean sure, I get home, spend hours mulling it over in my mind, calling myself a fool, and wishing I could change every little thing of my life. But in public I can usually get by.
Did you moonwalk outta there? Always moonwalk out of tricky situations.
Reminder to self: learn to moonwalk.
*signs up for moonwalking lesson*
when do we start?
Alright, the trick to moonwalking is that most people do it wrong.
Start with your right food ahead of your left. Lift your left heel, then slide your right foot across the floor backwards while flat, when it’s back far enough, lift its heel, flatten your left foot, and slide that foot back. Once you get good enough you can string it together properly it looks SLICK.
Yep yep, I had these basics down, just need to practise. Cos I wanna be like MJ – AH HEE HEE HEE!
I’m cold and I am shamed
Lying naked on the floor
Yep, nothing wrong with singing that out loud in public.
It’s actually a pretty awesome song. I approve. XD
Ah, three years ago. Simpler, youthful times.
I wish I could go back to College, in College you know who you are. You sit in the quad, and think “oh my god, I am totally gonna go far!”
This song works better if you remember that years 11 and 12 in the ACT are called college, and I can never remember which -if any- other states use that naming system.
Victoria = nope. It’s (well, was) VCE.
My school labelled itself as a college, though it was years 5-12.
My school was “Radford College,” the year I entered it became 5-12, and when I was year 11ish, it was pre-school to 12, but even so under the Canberra system years 11 and 12 themselves are referred to as “College.”
I think Tasmania uses that system. 11 and 12 are more like uni than high school.
Sooooo… I may have just purchased another HD7970 graphics card…. I’m not sure what exactly I’ll do with it, but I have two options:
1. Crossfire with the first in my rig
2. Shove it into my HTPC.
Option #2 looks more probably at this point. Hooray for a $300 next-next-next-gen ‘console’!
3. Give it to Powalen
4. Return it and buy an nvidia card
Actually, damn, this was definitely considered. Purely so I can have PhysX (need dem smooth waves in Just Cause 2). The only problem is that equivalent NVIDIA cards are way more expensive at $400+
I got a 680SOC for $315 on clearance. Just gotta watch for sales
That’s a pretty nice price!
Yes! I got it for AC4. Loving it, looks amaazing.
Crossfire, baby. Why put it in an HTPC?
Because i5 3570K, 8GB RAM. 😀
@gorzilla
If you really are considering EVE again I have a plan/suggestion/deal for you.
We (and anyone else interested) re-sub for a month, join the Brave Newbies and aim to lose at least 100mil isk worth of ships in that time frame.
I’ve been playing Young Justice: Legacy, a tie-in to a cancelled cartoon. The game was delayed for a long time and they sure as hell weren’t working on the game during that delay.
I might write up a review but the short version of it so far is: Do not play Young Justice: Legacy.
Now I am sad because I am reminded that Young Justice was cancelled. 🙁
I’m still upset they cancelled Young Justice. A pox on cartoons living and dying by how much merchandise they sell.
ok
I am really bummed out that Crimson Dragon has turned out to be a steaming turd. Panzer Dragoon Orta was one of my favourite games on the Xbox, and to get a follow-up like that… 🙁
SUCK IT< SCUMBAG
Nah, jokes, that’s tooo bad, bru *manly man hug*
Meanimu. 🙁
RARRGH!!
Best sthing on TooToob evahz
i really dont like VIII… but i love Uematsu, so you get a half upvote
YOU GET A NERDRAGE REPLY
I ONLY ACCEPT THINGS THAT ARE IN FRACTIONS
Betterer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB-HnaRc5nk
YOU DID NOT JUST START A FINAL FANTASY MUSIC WAR!
Bestest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C6iHlBN_ZM
Bestest ultimate double stamping no erasing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8czONkksfA
Or the sadderer classy version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_q6p5mH47U
Boo. Bring back broadway metal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCC8Et1gxKM ?
No the good one.
😛
This one’s more metal. Still has the issue that Repo! ain’t that great, but I totally have a soft spot for it.
This alright?:
Oh yeah, not ONE person* showed up for my Bravely Default lesson today, I am very, very dissapointed *waggles finger*
Including myselfI beat the second boss if that makes it any better
A little yes
I am not understanding it too well. ^^;;
Where you at, any specific probs?
Just starting out but it took me a while to realise you could buy magic ^^;;
Ah, OK.
Just make sure you keep talking to townsfolk as you complete each quest. This way you shouldn’t wander into areas too hard for you. 😀
bah, i made a lengthy reply that failed, got some database error message, couldn’t be arsed re typing it, so I’ll summarise. I tried again, I did good this time. 😛
I’m like… 10 minutes into the demo. Enjoying it so far! 😛
YAY!!-!-!
Hola Sydney TAYbies! @rocketman, Mrs. Deve-O and I will be in town next month. Myself and the missus from the 8th through to the 15th and rocketman…well he’s organising flights as we speak. I am currently booking accommodation and the cheapest I have found for the week is about $900. Ouch. If anyone has a spare mattress and is willing to put me and my plus one up for a night or two, I would be much obliged to lower the total accommodation cost. I will have Mrs. Deve-O with me so any untrue furniture-breaking rumours you may have heard about me won’t happen….even if they were true. I haven’t told the missus that I am planning for us to couch-surf with internet randoms yet so this should be interesting.
Regardless of whether you have a spare mattress for us, I would love to meat you! We will be busy Saturday night with Muse, the purpose of our trip. But any other time if people are up for meats during the day/night whatever, let me know. I would love to catch up with everyone at the Japanese restaurant I met people at a few years ago and then go out on a pub crawl.
Good news. I went to the doctor today for a checkup, and I found out I’ve lost a total of 8 cm around the waist since starting to lose weight. Had my weigh in today and I lost another 600 grams this week. Woot!!!!!
http://s3.amazonaws.com/rapgenius/1352471476_success_baby.jpg
I misread the link as rape genius. I have no idea why
Edit: because I can’t spell
o.0
Could you say, that you’re on target?
Last exam was a breeeeeze. And then I got 5 free beers. Thursday, you’re okay.
Dear ACIV
Thanks for giving me a piece of string and telling me to tie my own damn knots. My shitty knot work really drives home the authenticity of the piece.
Regards
Freeze
Can’t tell if that’s a metaphor or a gameplay mechanic.
The statue requires assembly.
Aaaand that’s all my back-dated blogs posted.
I think I’m out of work to do now, until the support guys get back to me? Not sure. Either way, there’s some level of relief.
Can’t believe it’s almost all over already. Time for sads.
Just watched yesterday’s Agents of SHIELD.
Was so creepy at the end when Coulson said “Did I fall asleep?” just like a Doll from Dollhouse.http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-19/berg-queensland-party-crackdown-out-of-control/5101438
…what on earth is going on with Queensland?
Shite. That’s a bit extreme :\
Just in time for Mrs. Freeze’s birthday dealy! 😀
Ahhh, now it all makes sense.
he’s jealous cos nobody ever invited him to a party
For a very limited time, you can get 25% off the James Flamestar comic.
Details here: http://www.facebook.com/ShaneWSmith.Author (and please throw me a like while you’re at it)
The discount was what made me decide to buy it.
Hope you enjoy it, man! Let me know if there are any difficulties with downloading, etc, and I’ll make it right!
Also, thanks for taking a chance! 🙂
Huh. Apparently I’ve got the house basically to myself for the weekend, from tomorrow night.
Sounds like an opportunity to be taken advantage of…
ALL DAY ACCORDION! \o/I read that part before the spoiler as a heavy hint to the sisterhood.
Then the implication worked as intended 😛
Got 3gb data put on my wifi dongle thing. That might keep me sane for like a week or two. I’m so glad there’s a note on our account that basically says “give them 3gb data for free every time they ask for it.”
There doesn’t appear to be a limit on how many times we can ask for it, but trying to get through to somebody to do it is the biggest hassle. Their CS is so friggen complicated.
I’m still trying to work out how getting likes on Facebook works. Normally when I post something (which isn’t very often at all), like 10 girls will like it and maybe one guy. I post my drawing of a pig with the Telstra logo on it and dicks going up its arse, and only guys like it. It’s been years but I’m still trying to find the kind of post that achieves a perfect balance!
I would have thought it was pretty clear. You’re a chick magnet like @mrtaco, except when you draw dicks.
G’night, TAY.
So pokemon X/Y apparently had some pretty obvious holocaust themes that I was completely oblivious to.
Main bad guy wants to purge a portion of the population, was also the inventor of the holocaster. Holocaster kinda sounds like holocaust… Does that mean that I stopped the pokemon equivalent of the holocaust?Maybe I’m reading too much into it though…
Not really. Main story arc spoilers:
He wants to stop the pain and misery of people doing shitty things to each other. More a belief / ideology driven thing than a belief that some segment of the population is ‘better’.Super spoiler
He believes Pokémon are the superior part of the equation, but is willing to wipe them all out to stop them being misused as it’s the only ‘solution’It was just a thread I stumbled upon, haha. My tired little mind could see some similarities though, although only very slight.
Ho hum. What’s new these days? Persona announcements, cool, cool, wait is unbearable, etc.
What’s this? something about twitch? oh boy, how much drama can I expect-
….
Ok, I’m done with the internet today. Goodbye, all!
Someone ran me through that whole twitch thing last night.
It’s pretty… yeah. Wow.
As part of an ongoing campaign to expand my mind by reading the literary elite, I tried to read some Jane Austen, but faltered 50 pages into Sense and Sensibility, and returned with enthusiasm to my 3DS instead.
Trials and Tribulations is AWESOME. I’m on the final case now. Can’t wait to play Apollo Justice, and maybe Dual Destinies too! 🙂
Im reading some classic literature: World War Z
I read Penthouse for the articles.
Gotta catch ’em all.
https://twitter.com/CannonFodderJnr/status/403468632937615360
I don’t know exactly what it is, but from the little I’ve picked up, it sounds like a big achievement! Nice work, man.
Mostly just means I’ve ridden out the trading and mindless grinding step that most find too boring. 454 ‘mons in total.
Edit: Total for National Dex is just over 500 now, which still puts me about 200 short of absolutely everything.
O_o
That’s unreal!
My Cousin who plays pokemon has added a few taybies. His friend code is 2809-8310-8470
Added, but I don’t appear to be one of the ones picked. 3668-7797-0858
I’ll let him know
I’ve started reading The Tournament by Matthew Reilly. It is brilliant so far and obvious that he’s done a lot of research into the era he’s writing about.
I enjoyed it.
He does obsess a little over (later spoilers maybe?)
The multiple orgy scenes. He seems to wallow a little too much in the chapter long descriptions about a 16 year old girl.Not reading that until I’ve finished the book.
I wore a PlayStation shirt and cap to the Xbox One midnight launch and I didn’t get viciously murdered by fanboys.
Nice page get. 😀
Reviews are coming in. Who’s ready to FLOWER?
http://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/score/metascore/90day/xboxone
http://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/score/metascore/90day/ps4
How to flower?
Can flower crawl?
@shane Screw reading Jane Austen, just watch Clueless instead. That’s what we did in Year 12 English 😛
OBJECTION! I’m fine with the choice I made. TAKE THAT!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1594744513
Holy shit I hated that movie by the end of school.
…and before I started.
When I was in Year 12 they brought out a combo DVD pack with Clueless and Mean Girls, which everybody bought. It resulted in quotes from those two movies being used in most conversations by everyone in the grade for the whole year 😛
I am so glad I didn’t go to your school…
Yay, response from OVR Support!
“Yes, I got the files and was able to compile the project.
If I have time I will take a look at this today.
Thanks, ”
Yay, now I feel annoying 😛
REPOST because no one reads previous pages.
For a very limited time, you can get 25% off the James Flamestar comic.
Details here: http://www.facebook.com/ShaneWSmith.Author (and please throw me a like while you’re at it)
You gave me a partial refund.
Bastard.
😛
That’s just going to make him go back and give you a whole refund. 😛
A whole day with nothing to do.
Oh oh before I forget everybody who is a doctor who or British crime fan should watch BROADCHURCH.
DAVID TENNANT. Wooooo fanboi
They’re doing an american ver with Anna Gunn and Jacki Weaver
U.S. adaption coming next year too! David Tennant is also reprising the role!
Why can’t the US just leave British shows the hell alone?
I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen a US adaptation that wasn’t an abysmal stinking wreck compared to the British version.
The American version of the office has to have a word with you.
While the American version was by no means bad. The British one is much better.
It’s a different humor, personally I enjoy the US version more. British humor is usually focused on putting one character in impossible situations and watching them squirm. While Americanized humor does something similar it also doesn’t completely isolate the audience from that character. That’s what I think anyway.
Americans like laughing at other people.
British like laughing at themselves.
Shameless US!
While not originally British, I really really liked the US version of Wilfred.
For once they didn’t try to recreate the exact same thing word-for-word and somehow create an abomination that is nowhere near as good as the original, and instead just let it be its own thing. And it was all the better for it.
Well that’s just dumb.
Is he going to do an American accent or are they going to do the whole foreigner-comes-to-visit thing like they did with
SherlockElementary? 😛Saw a few bits of Broadchurch when it was broadcast over here a while back. Was a damned good show, from what I saw.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but
the final episode said at the end “Broadchurch will be back”. Any word on a 2nd BBC series?.And SERIOUS spoiler:
Not that I reckon Tennant’s character is going to last much longer.5 days until Ys: Memories of Celceta! EXCITEBIKE
OMG!
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-11-21-lightning-returns-final-fantasy-13-has-japanese-voice-over
Squenix finally listened?!
Needs 1000% more punching Snow in the face.
I think you have a typo there where you tried to talk about punching Hope in the face.
Telltale games possibly working on a Game of Thrones game? Could this be their “Dream Game” they hinted at a couple of months ago?
Eh 😛 The Game of Thrones thing went past me while I was under my comfy rock.
If they are making it though I should probably get around to seeing what all the fuss is about.
They need to get back to work on The Walking Dead *shakes fist*
I’m still kinda peeved off at them for the story of season 2. =(
I’m going benefit of the doubt for the moment. But yeah, totally get where you’re coming from.
As a long time fan of the books BUT NOT THAT DAMN TV SHOW I’m cautiously optimistic… and excited.
HAPPY XBONER DAY TO EVERYONE CURRENTLY PARTICIPATING IN HARD-WARE PORN!
Personally, im one week away from my PS4…. \o/
Thinking about going to BigW later though to buy an Xbone controller @ $58… I mean cant really go wrong at that price, want it for my pc, i know theres no windows support yet but better than paying $78 at a later date eh?
man BigW is doin insane xbox one deals…. games are $67, console is like $570, and controllers are $58. If i had more disposable income would have bought one 🙁
Errr, won’t that be wireless controller? And won’t that require wireless receiver dongle, or to have the USB cable plugged in all the time? Just heads up.
yeah already on top of that! 🙂
apparently can be done both ways. receiver or cable… but thats not a biggie \o/
This morning was crazy with thunder. It was nearly constantly rumbling, for a good hour or two at least. Even managed to wake me up early.
I woke up startled because I thought I heard the sound of someone breathing next to me. Turns out it was somebody outside (3 stories down from my window) who was breathing extremely loudly.
Creepy ventriloquist!
(is there any other kind?)
Star Wars d20 Thursday night recap:
Our job was to secure a prisoner that was being held by Jabba the Hutt in his palace on Tatooine as the Rebel Alliance said that she was of great value to the Alliance. Turned out she was also a Jedi so that explained a few things.We figured that rather than attempting to break the Jedi out of Jabba’s palace and turn him into an enemy, we would attempt to barter with him. Fortunately, Jabba had placed a bounty on a local Trandoshan criminal so we swiftly claimed that bounty and brought the Trandoshan’s head to Jabba. Thankfully Jabba was in a good mood so he allowed us to trade the value of the bounty, plus a little extra on top, for the Jedi prisoner.
We felt pretty good about ourselves for getting the Jedi out of Jabba’s prison without making an enemy of him however, just as we left Jabba’s place, we were ambushed by Boba effing Fett. Turns out that the Emperor decided not to send the Dathomiri witches after us today but rather send one of the most powerful bounty hunters in the galaxy. Unfortunately for Boba he was up against a dual-pistol gunslinger, a Rebel officer wielding a blaster carbine, two heavy combat droids, and two Jedi.
Boba put up a good fight but there are only so many blaster shots, grenades, and lightsaber strikes that he can weather. My personal combat droid was firing so many grenades that one of them misfired and exploded in our faces but we still knocked Boba and sent him careening off into Tatooine’s dunes when a blaster shot punctured the fuel tank for his jetpack. As our GM said, “No one can kill Boba Fett. Not even Boba Fett.”
Anyway, we safely returned the Jedi to the Rebel Alliance and we are making preparations to end the year on a bang by liberating Mon Calamari from the Empire. That may or may not turn into a trap. 😛
Ugh. Devil May Cry 2 is nowhere near as good as the first 🙁
The news Telltale making a Game of Thrones game pretty much made my morning!
Try dmc 3.
I’m thinking im just going to skip past 2. I’ve heard better things about 3 too.
I would put them in 3, 4, 1 and then 2. I rather liked 4, but I know not everyone felt the same way. I also quite liked Nero.
I’ve heard that Nero’s claw, uhh devil bringer I think it’s called, is pretty fun to use. A friend of mine just told me 3 is pretty good. Did you play the reboot?
Yes. If you get the special edition, you get to play as Vergil.
I’ve played through with Dante but I haven’t got the Vergil DLC yet. I liked it 🙂 creative levels and combat was cool.
Are you playing it on PC? Mine is on PS2 so I have two discs. One for Dante, one for Vergil
Dinner and drinks in SYDNEY on the 14th of December. Feat ME AND MR AND MRS STEVO. Woo
misread that as “Fear ME AND MR AND MRS STEVO”
& I was all like, ‘yeah, ok. I sorta do already to a degree’
but then i stopped being an idiot & read it right & then I was all YAY ROCKET & DEVE-O(S) MEAT.
thats the day after Muse Yes? (planning on stalking you at Muse too)
I might see if I can make this.
ROAD TRIP.
I know yelling road trip doesn’t really alter it from being “boring old car trip” but it makes me feel better.
You just want someone to order drinks for you…
CORRECT. THE LESS CONTACT WITH PEOPLE I DON’T KNOW, THE BETTER!
Do it. We can rack up another $900 bill at the Bavarian…
You still sound like you feel bad about that…
Impressed, not bad.
Is the Bavarian a beer hall? I would be interested in seeing if I could help break the $900 record.
It is. There’s a couple of them around.
Although, there is also this one, which is a more German experience….
http://www.lowenbrau.com.au/
And for good measure, this is where we usually go:
http://www.bavarianbiercafe.com/venues/view/14
That bill was without trying. With trying, I think the 3 of us could do it. Whether or not that’s a good idea is a different matter… 😀
So, what you’re saying is, we should do it?
And pre-drinks before Muse on the Friday as well?
Not sure if we’re staying one or two nights. I’ll be there if I’m still in Sydney.
I have friday free besides the actual concert too 🙂
Huh. Turns out the screen drawn to the framebuffer has differing alpha values stored in it, so when my distortion shader runs it pulls those out and draws the transparent colours even more dull than they used to be. Whereas the chromatic aberration shader gets the R, G and B values from individual pixels, so the A is manually set to be 1. So after all that it’s not that my ChromAb shader is making things brighter for no reason like I thought, but my regular one is just making everything dull. How about that.
Yeah, I hate when that happens. You’re going to need a new Flux Capacitor.
If you oscillate the quantic diffuser and harmonise it to your GPU output you can sometimes get away with buying a new one
Atomic batteries to power. Turbines to speed.
Lock S-Foils in attack position.
REVERSE THE POLARITY
No, you can’t risk total protonic reversal!
Dear @dkzeitgeist, I was all set to receive some advice on how to ruin my marriage, but the play button is absent from your latest episode. Thank you for that. Sincerely, happily married.
Edit: nvm
There’s another way.
https://twitter.com/freezespreston/status/403442613811830784
Nice little detour into If I Were You territory, @dkzeitgeist.
Also, you asked for it, so here it is. Dating website story. I don’t mind sharing it here, because I think I’ve mentioned it all before, but please don’t use this in the podcast 😛
I wasn’t especially keen on the idea of signing up for a site like this. Like you, I remember a world before the internet, and this whole thing seemed kind of seedy, desperate, and like an admission of failure.But I was lonely, and down on myself, and had no real-world confidence in approaching girls, and no real prospects, and had accumulated zero experience trying it the normal way.
And I kind of got pushed into it by a friend. (Actually, now that I think about it, Strange was with that friend at the time. I’d totally forgotten about that until just now)
So I swallowed what tattered remains of my pride I could find under the bed, and signed up for an account at RSVP.
I went through a few photos of myself and picked out a couple of faves. The ‘highlight’ for my profile was me in a black skivvy looking down quite pretentiously at the camera, a silly look that I drew attention to with a caption with the word ‘pretentious’ in it.
Profiles don’t let you provide any contact details (and they’re closely monitored apparently), because the sites get their money by selling your contact info to prospective partners. Setting up a profile is free, the cost are incurred when you decide you want to get in contact with someone (i.e. at the point where you actually are kind of committed to the idea).
I set up something literate, vaguely self-deprecating, and marginally nerdy, which instantly set me apart from pretty much all the other guys of my age in my region. I was going through a rather extreme Joss-Whedon-fanboy thing at the time, so that featured a little prominently.
Most of my ‘competitors’ seemed to be slightly-off-looking jocks who wrote in txtspk and just wanted some cheap encounters, rather than making a more intimate connection. There were about 50 other guys, from memory. Only about eight girls.
For all these reasons, I just felt like I didn’t belong here. I put my profile up and decided to not pin any of my hopes on it.
But I got three “kisses” in the first day. A kiss is like the Facebook equivalent of a “poke”, I guess. Just sort of a free way to communicate to someone that you’re open to establishing contact with them.
One of those kisses was from the future Mrs Shane.
I decided to take a chance and bought some credits from RSVP. They sold them in lots of five for about $60. Each credit allows you to contact one person – I don’t think they sold them in single packs, the sneaky bastards.
I’m so strictly monogamous that I didn’t even feel right making contact with multiple people, so I just contacted Mrs Shane, and we used the lousy chat window that came up to exchange email addresses, and then we both gladly left RSVP behind forever.
That was seven point five years ago. We’ve since gotten married and had two kids (with numero trois on the way). The marriage couldn’t be more secure, or our compatibility better.
We told people we met at uni (and it turned out that we did actually have an exam in the same hall a few days before our first date), and in some ways, that story feels kind of more real to us than the actual truth.
I could never have gotten this lucky on the first try in the real world, so I guess I should be more grateful for online dating. But I still feel kind of ashamed of it.
I met my wife online too and I’m damn proud of it. Of course, we met on supergiant MMO World of Warcraft, but still.
‘The classic love story of when zombie meets troll’ did feature in my wedding speech. I wore a fedora and carried a cane and it was awesome.
Awesome story! Way to go, Shane!
Anyways, I’m off to our company Golf Day. If you see a news article about someone being run over with a golf cart in Adelaide I swear it wasn’t me.
Congrats to the kudos winners
A company golf day? SNOBBY MCGEE OVER HERE
Nah, that’ll be @dc stealing your golf cart.
I just turned down going to our golf day about 5 minutes ago cause screw that.
Who won kudos?
We find out in about six hours.
Yeah I thought so. Red made it sound like it had already happened.
YOU WON KUDOS
So i just sold my Fat PS3 80gb, with no controllers or cables on ebay .
Coincidentally, whilst doing so, I’ve proven one of two things: the existence of brainless zombies, or that people do not require brains to function;
so here is where i lay out the situation… I had a spare ps3 fat. basically i got a faulty ps3 slim from an IT customer of mine for free, that had a faulty BD-Rom drive. I repaired it and made that my main ps3, and retired my fully functional fatty to a box. i decided to sell it rather than have it sit there.
I started the auction at $99, and set a buy it now price of $150 Remember that. auction start at $99, buy it now for $150. Free shipping. I thought to myself, “There is no chance someone will pay $150, especially considering a controller alone costs about $70. You can buy a slim for $169 brand new, WITH a controller, and a 320gb HDD is like $40.
Well my friends, the last 24hrs of the sale, the auction was on like donkey kong. Not only did i sell it for an amount that i thought was impossible, but the bidding went PAST THE $150 BUY IT NOW PRICE!!! it actually sold for $157.50!!!
why wouldnt you just hit the buy it now button???
and to make sure i wasnt screwing anyone over, thinking it came with controller and cables, i messaged each bidder, to let them know the following:
(copied and pasted from ebay PM)
Console is 100% working bare in mind however that it:
* DOES NOT come with any controllers
* DOES NOT come with any cables
* DOES come with Modnation racers
* IS NOT a PS2 backwards compatible model
i did try to edit my listing to add that in but it wouldnt let me edit it with less than 24hrs left
(The Buy It Now price disappears the instant the first bid happens)
Good news for you, though! Awesome 🙂
\o/
It’s because it’s a fat and is probably on old, hackable Firmware
nope, clearly marked as ***ON NEWEST FIRMWARE!!!***
with everything, the caps, stars, and exclamation marks!!!
It’s still a Fat system though. The recent super-slip re-release is absolutely shithouse with that crappy flip-open lid and everything and I’d probably rather buy a working good condition 2nd-hand Fat or Slim than one of the new ones at the same price.
EDIT: Also a working Fat might be able to be parted up and the parts sold separately at a profit for repairs to other systems.
that is a good point actually… too much hassle to part up though…
Welp. Just sitting around, doing nothing.
My friend isn’t even here to go and annoy, so I have no idea what to do.
Cry.
That’s your solution to everything.
It’s suprisingly effective. I am a advocate of the blaghman church of cryology. I have to pay him $80 a month but I get a free hug every 2 months.
Ugh now the guy next to me is executing extreme dual restless leg syndrome and it’s shaking my monitors thanks to the hollow floor and STOP DOING THAT YOU ANNOYING PRICK
This is further proof that life can be made easier by carrying around a cattle prod.
I got zapped by a electric fence generator at work once. I stopped being annoying for a while. I started convulsing though.
That still sounds pretty annoying.
solution: amputate 😛
so given that Burnout Paradise doesnt work on my PC for some unknown reason, I’m looking for a decent racing game.
Open world by preference. And the most important thing about racers for me is the crashes. Burnot style crashes > NFS crashes.
any suggestions?
NFS: Most Wanted is pretty rad. And developed by Criterion.
yeah, I thought about that one, but the crash animations bug me. the car models are just too rigid. I mean, if I’m driving along at 307km/h & slam into a wall, I want the car to get turned into a crumpled wreck, not just lose a bumper & get bounced into the air.
Crashes are important to me, coz thats what I spend 95% of the time doing.
It’s not open world, but Split/Second is fucking amazing.
It’s basically a Michael Bay racing game.
‘SPLOSIONS! ‘SPLOSIONS EVERYWHERE!
YES. that is pretty rad.
Also, Blur. so damn good.
I really liked Blur. It was like Burnout meets Mario Kart.
Wouldn’t have given it a second thought if I didn’t get it for free. Kind of a shame that just about everyone else did the same.
picked it up cheap in a steam sale just outta curiosity.
its freaking rad.
and now its not available anymore… which sucks.
Good game, too difficult though. The AI can actually cheat. Considering I lost my 3hr savegame on that one (stupid save location too) I now only play it with friends on game nights. 🙁 Super fun blasting the electronica and revving engines with 4 of us.
Best played solo or co-op? I still have it shrink wrapped.
All you need are the two equal-greatest racing games of all time.
F-Zero X and F-Zero GX.
Driver San Francisco is great. I can’t remember what the crashes look like though so it might not be great there.
Great game, I still want to go back and unlock some things. Crashes are decent, but Burnout AFAIk is the only one that tries to make them ‘realistic’.
Today is too quiet. There’s hardly anyone here. As in at school.
Hell, here there’s only one @dc post on the page.
I can be DC today, i have no work. so boooored
Let’s both be @dc.
Upvote everything!
Tell me something about colobus monkeys. Or post-apocalyptic urban wasteland.
What’s with the post-apocalyptic urban decay thing. Is it just because he hates buildings? Or is it the other way around?
*shrug*
Making “@dc hats buildings” a thing is possibly my favourite TAY achievement.
…
Wonderful…? I think you mean
So. Damn. Awesome.
He’s probably listening to Zeitgeist, and taking notes.
edit: meh
LEGEND OF KORRA s2 review
it was fucking good at the end and in the middle. I feel like Korra relies a little bit too much on Deus Ex machinama the problem wraps up because of some weird outside influence that we have never heard of before. I mean its still satisfying because the animation is gorgeous and the dialogue and interaction between characters still feels genuine and its very funny. Just the writing staff seem to write themselves into a weird corner were all hope is lost and even the biggest fan wouldnt be able to figure out how our hero is going to succeed. In saying that, i probably would whinge if it was “predictable”
still a awesome 2 series with such different storylines. Nickelodeon has really outdone themselves
Time for my daily Kantai Collection update that no one cares about
Played an hour or so, did my daily duties etc. Fought one dude in PvP who had already gotten the new 2nd Upgrade form of Hiei which only was added to the game this week. 🙁 It made me sad because I haven’t managed to get any of the Kongo sisters 🙁Ran through World 2-3 a few times, getting nothing remotely interesting to drop, just the usual lineup of cruisers I already have. On the upside, I’m increasingly finding that 2-3 isn’t too hard for my primary fleet as they’re all getting into the 20-30 range now, so are dodging a lot of the enemy attacks. Been running Imuya as my flagship because as a Submarine, the enemy destroyers and cruisers will focus-fire on her. I’ve fed so many other ships to her that all her stats are maxed until I get her to 50 and Remodel, so most of the time the enemy attacks are dodged and it’s rare for her to take a heavy hit. This results in my whole fleet taking a lot less damage so I can keep fielding them for longer.
Had another couple of cracks at the first Event map because they’ve extended the event an extra 7 days. Still haven’t made it to the boss yet though, always get to the node before the boss and one of my ships will have taken enough damage that proceeding runs the risk of sinking it, so I turn back. Difficulty-wise the bulk of the nodes in the event seem about the same as the boss of 2-3, but the issue is that the drops in the Event map are basically everything imaginable. This means I always get shitty destroyers because I have no luck at all.
So I had a lot more steel in my stockpile than expected, and decided I’d have a crack at building some battleships again, since I’m still stuck with just two. Two builds, one got me yet another heavy cruiser, the other got me a battleship… except it was Yamashiro, which I have probably acquired five times now and my original is my highest-level ship at 32.
Additionally my second crack at the Event map resulted in my Hiryuu being sent to the dock to polish her flight deck for six hours and my Choukai nearly being sent to the bottom, and with no steel remaining for repairs I decided one more sortie with a few of my lower-end might be okay. Ran 2-2, straight to the boss node. Beat the boss and got an unexpected drop: Chiyoda, one of the two Seaplane Tender ships. Finally. In addition to this allowing me to complete a quest I’d had since close to day one, the Chiyoda & Chitose are unique in that they have six remodel phases, most importantly at level 12 they can be remodeled into Submarine Tenders, which gives you a pair of Type-A Ko-hyoteki Midget Submarines that are incredibly powerful on certain ships as they give you a first-strike capability. \o/ The Seaplane Tender pair have been on my big list of things I hope to get eventually so it’s nice to strike one off.
Still no Battleships though. As I understand it World 2-4 is very difficult to clear without at least 3, preferably 4 BBs and I still only have two. I’m mainly hoping for one or two of the Kongo class but at this point I’d probably settle for anything new. On the other hand I might be expecting too much too fast.
Tonight I’ll have maybe one more go at the event map, then start leveling up my Chiyoda.
Status: still addicted. 🙁
New car get!New debt get!
Woo!
What did you end up with?
Debt!
ohhh is that from Volswagon?
Ended up with an Oct 2011 X-Trail ST-L. The more time I spend with it the happier I am with the choice!
Has yours got like 100 12V power supplies hidden all over it? We’ve got an 03 ST-R and they’re everywhere.
Yeah, I think I’m going to take the time to map them all out. Based on a preliminary look, it could take a few days…
I just went to the gym. Not my natural habitat. Personal trainer was cool and made me feel at ease around the intimidating people.
Edit: Blergh. Worst, self-obsessed page get evah.
just remember that all the really buff guys there are more than likely using some form of steroids, so their testicles probably resemble (and have as much functionality as) prunes that have been stepped on repeatedly.
I feel like you could use that as a threat.
“Don’t make me step on your prunes!”
I feel that’s not elaborate enough for some reason.
“I’ll juice your prunes”?
“i’ll rip off your fucking prunes, dip them in honey & give them to an ageing pensioner to assist in keeping their fucking bowl movements regular”yeah…. I’ve been watching The Thick of It recently. some of the most inventive swearing and threats I’ve ever heard. its impressive.
How regularly do pensioners have to move their bowls?
Once a week should be sufficient for exercise and socialising.
hey, unlike you, i’m not a professional writer. Im allowed to write stupid stuff like that.
Prunes are still rather sizable aren’t they? I always thought the comparison was more like sultanas.
Aw man, you’re really going to be leaving me alone in the scrawny tall-guy club? 🙁
Haha! I have a bad feeling that I won’t be able to put on any bulk even if I wanted to. D:
Sure you can, just start eating properly.
You’re asking too much. *eats cupcake*
I wish I had your problem. 🙁
given that I’ll never set foot inside a gym, you’ll never be alone in that club.
and there are others….
*high five* no Gym Bros
I figure 20s are going quick and I’ll never be this young again and its something worth trying this once.
yeah, I’m in my thirties and I feel unhealthy as ever, still not going to a gym
Good for you if you can do it, I’ll just continue down my path of self destruction 😛
Nothing wrong with self-destruction. A little self-destruction never hurt any one.
…
Wait a minute. XD
ha :P, so are you gonna start taking supplements to help bulk out. I worked with 2 different dudes that did that and they both developed terrible flatulance problems, I wouldn’t recommend it 😛
Haha, no I don’t plan on changing any thing about my lifestyle except going to the gym. If it works, it works. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t. XD
Looks like the seasonal staff have started their shifts at EB Games, time to avoid that place for the next month getting accosted every time I just want to browse can be frustrating.
I also picked up the Xbox One at JB I decided to go with Dead Rising 3, still undecided on Ryse and BF4 seemed to be having shipping errors so I didn’t grab that.
Overall I’m excited, looking forward to getting off work.
Ha-har! (my attempt at a triumphant laugh)
On Monday I’m getting Injustice: Gods Among Us for $20 from a guy at work. #Winning
You must teach us your money saving ways
Never buy anything at launch. Sit and wait patiently until the right deal comes along, and then end up buying something you only have a vague interest in (such as Injustice) at a good price, for the sole reason that the price is good. Brag about the good deal to overcome the buyer’s remorse. End up with a whole bunch of stuff you don’t want, give it away on TAY.
Repeat.
since I’m not gonna be getting a next-gen (or is it officially current gen now?) console for a few months, I figure Im gonna replay some of my favorite games from the current (last?) gen.
Started last night with Prince of Persia (2008). So damn pretty.
Other things I wanna revisit are Heavenly Sword, Red Dead Redemption & Assassins Creed Brotherhood.
Should probably try & get through a bit of my Pile o’ shame as well……
anyone else planning on cramming last gen stuff before picking up a new console?
Was thinking of replaying Uncharteds and The Last of Us and Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls but that’s way too intimidating.
Does WiiU count as next gen? I’m considering side-stepping the whole XBOne/PS4 circus and just get a WiiU and power through some Nintendo stuff.
Pikmin 3! So good!
yep. Wii U is next gen.
just not in a hardware sense.
Dang. I guess I can’t join in on the nostalgia cruise before going next-gen as I don’t actually own any current gen consoles.
Wii U is backwards compatible, isnt it? you can do the Wii games?
Still need the Wii U first. 😛
But yeah, I will be engaging in much past-gen nostalgia/new experiences when I get a Wii U.
Also I don’t actually have a last gen console but when I get a WiiU I’ll pick up some Wii games and have some fun.
I can lend you a couple if you like. I don’t think Mario Galaxy, for example, is ever coming down in price.
Ah it’s all good. My sister has a Wii that she doesn’t play that much of so I’ll scrounge a few things from her. Thanks for the offer though. 🙂
Obligatory Xenoblade! mention for @greenius
Actually, I’m thinking about another Dark Souls playthrough. Maybe Mirror’s Edge too. I should probably have a go at Deus Ex as well. Dark Souls 2 in March already pre-ordered for current gen!
I’m in no hurry. Probably going to get a console August-ish next year.
Deus Ex is so damn good, Mirror’s Edge too. Can’t wait for new games in both series.
Dark Souls is on my Pile of shame…
Its one of those games that I want to play, but I find it a bit daunting… so I never really got around to it.
It took me ages to get into the Souls games. Several hours actually, over several separate attempts. But once they clicked, oh man, it was just impossible to stop.
I was going to but I’m starting to get flooded by PC releases. Think I need to stop buying stuff for a bit, which is probably a good idea regardless cause I need to start budgeting a lot better.
Haha, stop buying games. Good one Rize!
I was thinking of working my way through all the DLC that’s released for games I like but which I never played. So things like all of Skyrim’s DLC, all of ME3’s DLC etc.
I’ve been trying to but end up playing PC games and then finding that PS3 stuff just looks so icky and it’s a pain to have to swap over to it. Also my PS3 might be dying, it sounds like a cessna when I turn it on 🙁
Guaranteed safe calling them 8th gen and 7th 😛
I still need to play the Prince of Persia(2008) DLC. I might do that when I replay the game and Ubisoft hopefully sells the DLC on special over christmas.
I want to Replay Ratchet and Clank: A crack in time. If I can manage I’d love to get the platinum trophy on the game too.
I”ll be going through my pile as well. There are som many good PS3 games I haven’t played.
Once I’ve completed most of my PS3 games I’ll be waiting for a price drop or a hardware revision before I get a PS4.
I’m not planning on getting an Xbone or PS4 (at this stage, at all, but like James Bond says,
“I thought Christmas only came once a year”“Never Say Never Again”; anyway, this tangent got weird, I’m just going to jump right back to it:) as I’m happy with what I currently have.I will probably just make a point of finishing most of my Wii U games. I usually get into a mindset to play a game, but I also have a ridiculously small attention span, so if the TV gets hijacked I’ll either start up something else on PC or go to one of my old fall backs, like TF2 or Civ or Elder Scrolls.
I’m revisiting Valkyria Chronicles to tide me over to the 29th. The last “new” game i bought was The Last of Us. I’ve been holding off buying new release games lately. My plan was to wait for them to become digitally available on the PS4 so i don’t have to keep switchimg between consoles.
I’ll be playing catch-up…or you know, getting even further behind :-/
Reposting because no one reads previous pages.
For a very limited time, you can get 25% off the James Flamestar comic.
Details here: http://www.facebook.com/ShaneWSmith.Author (and please throw me a like while you’re at it)
Last call for Secret SanTAY. Going to start assigning pairs tonight and get the ball rolling.
Talk to Binoter the hot male via email if you want in but have been an indecisive commitmentphobe so far.
You got mine right?
Ayup.
Since I’m never sure when it comes to email, did you get mine, or did I somehow screw up typing 19 characters?
Ayup.
How’re you planning on making the pairs?
@Redartifice is gonna write a bunch of slash fiction with all different permutations, Freeze will pick his favourites.
@shane and @freezespreston knew that their love would be difficult, but it felt so right. They looked deep into each other’s eyes
“freeze,” said
“did you know Stargazers is 25% off at e moment?Old school names in a hat.
Although @shane’s idea has its merits.
I just sent an email right now.
Haven’t received it.
Sent mine last night mate.
Boss: Jesse, I’m supprised you are in. You were looking a little stressed yesterday.
Me: Nah, I’m fine, besides needed to be in for an hour this morning to finish something up”.
Boss: “You sure, you are still looking a little stressed, right?”
Co-worker: “now that you mention it Jesse does look a little stressed”.
Me “nah I’m fine”
Boss: “No, Jesse. You’re looking stressed. Maybe you should take the afternoon off.”
*finally clicks into place*
Me: “ohh, well, now that you mention it I AM feeling a little stressed.”
I imagined a slightly different ending to this.
“hey, Jesse. you seem stressed.”
“nah, I’m fine”
“yo, Jesse. everything ok? you seem a bit uptight.”
“…no. I’m fine. thank you.”
“You ok, Jesse? you seem a bit str-”
“I’M FINE. FUCK OFF. RRRAAAARGGGHHHHHHH”
*Nob hulks out, flips all the tables & eats everyone*
…has someone been streaming our SWTOR sessions?
You’re looking a little stressed, Jesse. Hope no one took your girl!
… o_o
Believe me. I know that song. I got it sung to me repeatedly through high school, regardless if I liked it or not.
It plays in my head every time someone says your name whether I like it or not too.
I’ll make a point to speak of it no more. XD
Edit: Sorry man.
monstruo!
*Nob looks upon this post, sighs, writes “D.C.” on a piece of paper, underlining it for effect. As an afterthought adds “The List” to the top of the page.*
That’s awfully close to a pun there, sir.
It’s funny because for a while after Rocketman discovered his name he would start singing this on Teamspeak and it all brought the rest of us together to find a way to choke people through the internet.
The Friends theme song plays in my head every time I hear Rockets name. That or a certain Elton John song… Candle in the Wind. 😛
I always thought he identified more with Crocodile Rock….
One session at the gym and he’s already threatening to kick sand in people’s faces and steal their girls.
Ask for stress leave for a few weeks.
Attempted an improvised lunch. There was only some plain rice and… lamb, I think? left over in the fridge. Dumped some peanut oil and soy sauce on the rice, then sliced up the meat into little pieces and put that in. Then cracked a couple of eggs in there, aiming to cook them up a bit by heating it all in the microwave a lot. Kind of like a vague attempt at fried rice.
It was… only mildly successful. Maybe a little not.
…….this weekend’s gonna be tough
If you’d done it in a frying pan (fried rice likes to be fried. 😛 ) it would have been pretty good.
I know, but it was super late last night when I started packing lunch and all we have here at school is the microwaves 😛
Lamb shanks for lunch. Impending food coma…
I am going stir-crazy here. I swear there must be *something* I can do. But I can’t think of anything at all.
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Have you considered playing a game?
Pfft. Games are for nerds.
You can buy and read James Flamestar. It’s pretty epic, and comes in an easy-to-read and very adaptable PDF format. Also, if you use the discount codes, it’s only $3.
A small price to pay for sanity.
Only Ones Who Know – Arctic Monkeys
Beat of Your Drum – 78 Saab
Just Run – DevilDriver
I absolutely suck at this game *sigh*
23 – Mike Will Made-It
What Only You Know – Dark Tranquility
Punish my heaven
*air guitar*
Not sure where you are but in case you’re not aware yet, DT are touring Aus in March: Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney.
http://www.metalmassacre.com.au/Dark%20Tranquillity%20Australian%20Tour%202014
In Brisbane, didn’t know they were touring, cheers 🙂
Saw them in Sydney about 4-5 years back, would go again for sure.
Hey, I’m Brisbane too! Will see you there, then. 🙂
For sure!
I read DT as Dream Theater and got excited and then really disappointed when I realised it wasn’t what you meant..
Now I know how my parents feel.
I did this too!
Beer and Battle – PF10c Final Showdown!
I like podcasts for work, make me feel like I’m doing something more interesting
Rain Song – Dirty Three
Beyond: Two Souls spoilers:
Also been listening to Jodie’s version of Lost Cause constantly. I think I like it better than the Beck version.
Slipped – The National
The Lorde cover of Everybody Wants to Rule the World. (cc. @rocketman)
Took me a listen or two to really get into it, and I’m not massively into the first 30 seconds or so, but the latter half is pretty great. And no, I don’t know why I feel like I have to defend my choice in taste.
Oh man, I heard that after @sughly mentioned it on Twitter. Mind blowingly amazing version of a song I’ve never liked until now. So damn good.
Mmmmmmmm buuuuuut as much as I like Lorde’s, still not as good as the original.
I can’t stand Tears for Fears at all. XD
Get out
Okay!
I’m really divided when it comes to Lorde. Half of her stuff I really like and other stuff I either don’t care or outright dislike.
My favourite song from Spiderbaits new album
Where’s the Baseline
I’m not good at last played songs, because songs only play for me on Mondays when I’m driving.
Today I had Magnet Missiles stuck in my head.
Magic Missile?
😛
Don’t Stay – Linkin Park
Confirmed Rize is a 12 year old boy full of angst.
dont make me find that video of us all drunkenly singing linkin park.
Hilariously enough, Somewhat Damanged by Nine Inch Nails started playing when I posted that.
But in the end, it doesn’t even matter.
Blood on the Ground ..in my arse.
by Incubus ..in my arse.
All these Xbone/PS4 articles are bringing all the fanboys out of the wood work. It’s so weird how lots of them act like the fanboy stereotype without any self-awareness. :S
Yeah, none of them even realise the Wii U’s the superior choice.
Oh you!
As that’s all happening, us PC guys are watching the masses below… dance puppets dance!
😛
The most annoying of them are the PC elitists.
They don’t seem to understand that the console market dying is bad for the PC as well. PC is a niche, albeit a large one. Consoles are the mass market. If the console market dies, then the current AAA games go with it, because without that mass market to sell the bulk of the copies, there’s no way that PC would break even on those budgets.
yeah, what’s with all the segregation, shouldn’t we all just get along for what we do have in common, a love for games. The more methods of playing the better and it helps with diversity a lot. Who am I kidding though, haters gonna hate.
Damn leisure computer fanboys.
Dammit Cakesmith and 35 !!!!!
Now I want to replay Split/Second again. Awesome game.
I really wish the game had a decent xp system in multiplayer- I would have kept playing. The game’s multiplayer was so bare bones I didn’t even bother with the multiplayer. Blur did multiplayer right with a good xp and unlock system since you could get xp for anything-not necessarily finishing in the top 3. Drifting, wrecking others were all rewarded even if you were in last place.
The Split/second singleplayer was the better of the two for me though. Blur felt really empty and kind of hard even on the normal difficulty.
How awesome was the survivial mode for example? So good, I wish they had more tracks for it though(one of the game’s main problems). Dodging the blue and red barrels was great and exhilarating.
Just look at it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxQhkM6KjG0 Oh man I might play this again over the weekend.
I also liked the whole TV like presentation the game had. I just wish they had gone even further with it but I would definitely watch a Split/second like TV show.
The music was really good too. Kind of ‘generic’ but purposefully so.
Fanboy reminisce over 🙂
One of my top games in the PS3/360/Wii generation.
i would’ve picked it up again on PC, but like Blur, some jerks decided to take it off the Steam store…
My main memory of Split/Second was the disapproving look on your face as a bunch of us tried to play it at Pez’s place, and then having you casually beat the game into submission.
Pretty sure it was with one hand, too.
Ha ha, I remember that! Stop crashing everywhere Rize!!
Great times. I was just trying to unlock all the tracks for everyone.
We also played some Red Faction Guerilla wrecking mode – so fun. We played Little big planet 2 too and Motorstorm(Pez beat me- damn Pez!)
That was a really fun weekend now that I think of it. That was on the last day of the house warming. The night before Shiggy was making his weird fried maccas burger, Dance Central was played and Pez fisted a big jar of Nutella.
I remember Dan made a video too with my ugly face at the start- i think I pressed the play button on the GO Pro by mistake.
Here’s the video, great work by Dan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2A8mUL3Se4&list=PL743F6BE89F0137C6&index=1
My watched pot is not boiling.
Curse you, phrases!
Blergh. Word play is the worst. 😛
It’s not wordplay, it’s a figure of speech!
Oh yeah, well so’s your face!
I am rubber, you are glue!
How appropriate, you fight like a dairy farmer…
That ain’t right. *flees*
Then you’d better stop waving it about like a feather duster.
we’re not even on page 6, where puns and wordplay are a diamond dozen.
Greetamings TAY, I hope all is well with you.
As for me, I have just lost my job >:I
Damn state government!
Oh well, it was to be expected so I am not that surprised, bloody inconvenient when I have a $220,000 mortgage and no income though.
Still, I have a bit of savings behind me and I had been saving my rec leave so I should have a bit more money incoming to help keep the bills and loan repayments paid.
Plus, as I haven’t had a holiday in a year, this will be a good time to do nothing… well nothing besides looking for a new job.
Glad I wasn’t that set on getting an Xbone or ps4, plus with a massive amount of Xbox games I haven’t played in ages, I think I will be able to get by.
Plus, there is always SKYRIM!
The other good thing, time off will mean more time on TAY… good thing for me, I didn’t say it was a good thing for all of you 😛
Sorry to hear about the job stuff, my friend. Hope everything works out real soon!
Thanks DC
So much shit luck with jobs lately…
At least you’re looking on the bright side. Hopefully Clubby’s income keeps rolling on in!
Clubby’s income is normally spent cleaning all the vaious blood and guts off him… plus the manicure and pedicures of course.
shit man, thats, terible… all the best mate, hopefully you look back at this in 12 months time and think to yourself “thank fuck i left that other crap hole!”
I did think, the one upside to this is that I don’t have to work here anymore.
That really sucks.. sorry to hear that sir. Hope something new and exciting comes by for you soon, and if not there’s always using Clubby as your resume
Tried that once… it didn’t end well.
shit man…. thats really not cool.
I’ll keep an eye out for anything in TAFE for you.
State government for you, should be interesting to see what happens now that there is only two staff members for three seperate library locations which service at least half a dozen government departments and agenices.
Thanks for the offer, I have started looking at casual pools for the council libraries, don’t trust any of the state gov jobs anymore.
hmm…. they dont think ahead do they?
just keep in touch with whoever is left there. dirty trick they tried to pull a few years ago was to fire library staff & hire cheaper, not library qualified, clerks to do the job. Union took em to court & won.
so if thats how they wanna maintain services while cutting costs…. hmm…
but yeah, its about to get a bit rough here too.
theres talk of a restructure happening early next year, so there should be a spill & all the library jobs will be open for applications. we’ll see what happens.
i seriously dont think i could go back to working for councils. the pay is rubbish & the vibe is all messed up & uptight…
still… good luck mate.
Good luck with the restructure, unfortunately that is what did it in for me, as they were able to turn my position into a temporary one making it that much easier for them to get rid of it.
Agree with the council work, but I think I may just do some casual work in the short term, having to deal with all that crap will light a fire under my arse to get a real job 🙂
oneumbrella.com.au & zenmgt.com helped me a whole bunch when I was looking…
Thanks for the reminder, I had forgotten about Zenith.
I actually was with One Umbrella nearly 7 years ago now, I will definitely get back in contact with them.
All the best man.
You will get a new job soon, I know it!!
Besides you need to pay for the house you invited me to. 🙂
Hey, at least I have time to organise that now 🙂
They need to fire a bunch of people to afford important upgrades to their salary and retirement packages.
For the good of the country.
Ha, one of the big bosses did a once in the blue moon walk around today and when he asked how we were, my supervisor told him that I wouldn’t be that great seeing as how I had just lost my job.
The big bosses reply was “Yeah, that’s happening a lot” then walked out… couldn’t help thinking, wow, your concern is really touching.
Sorry to hear, also. Time to put on a suit and start acting all important and what not. 😀
For jobs!
Well, job interviews actually.
AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH, STILL TO HORRIBLE TO THINK OF!
Wait, formal loincloth to the rescue.
🙂
Is that these things
“Time to put on a suit and start acting all important and what not”
AAAARRRRGGGHHHH OH GOD, THAT IS WORSE THEN LOSING MY JOB!!!!
😛
Nice of lifehacker to rub it in though.
You planning on taking a break over xmas and getting to it in the new year or just look right through
Dammit, that sucks. 🙁
Hope things work out for you soon. Wish I could do something to help. *hugs Hugs*
Bugger, hope you pick another one up soon!
My friends…. i have come to the conclusion that the Universe sucks.
Theoretically its been going for 13.8 billion years, with not a single update, with the exception of some occasional expansion packs, and cosmetic changes (new stars, stars removed).
They could at least update the physics engine and enable some superpowers, ie, flight, superstrength, time travel…
Earth didn’t buy the advanced evolution DLC, that’s why
Must be waiting on the GOTY edition, with everything packed in.
Maybe Earth already did and this is just new DLC on top of it that isn’t included in the GOTY edition
(I’m looking at you Gearbox!)
Superpower content was a pre-order exclusive to certain planets.
Should’ve got in on PC. its got a rad modding community.
Edit: Needs the LSD plugin though.
No wonder my aim is horrible in lasertag…
My eye brows are crazy grey now. I used to pluck all the grey hairs and now if I did that I’d have no eye brows. #OldManDC
Well any wonder. They always say that for every grey you pull out, a whole bunch more will grow. Now look what you’ve done!
You and your old wives tale. Quit being an old wife, Gooky. 😛
I can marry me if I want!
What, none of the hundred women throwing themselvs at you will suffice?
Sexy grey DC – it worked for Clooney 🙂
Going to the gym, plucking your eyebrows…
It’s all becoming clearer.
Quarter life crisis?
New dame in DC’s life.
I thought you only loved adventure games. Who is your new squeeze? Talk!
http://www.news.com.au/technology/nextgeneration-console-war-microsoft-and-sony-wage-battle-for-your-gaming-dollar/story-e6frfrnr-1226766078318
GingerChris posted this on Twitter. It’s Mikey T!
@miketarno has finally made it. I hope he doesn’t forget about us now 🙁
Never! You’re still my peeps. *performs a virtual secret handshake*
…holy shit, it is too!
I love how the pros and cons for each console in that article are basically just reversed haha.
Side note, that article is pretty shitty. Full of factual errors and half-truths.
That goes without saying! XD
If you’re expecting more from news.com.au you’re doing it wrong…
XBONE CONS:
“Less graphical grunt than the PS4”
PS4 CONS:
“Not as powerful as the Xbox One”
umm……… i think that ‘@miketarno is a person who exists’ is the only piece of information contained in that article that is both factual & not totally batshit.
And even then, how can we be sure it’s not Dave Grohl?
Dave Grohl is less attractive.
One thing’s for sure. @miketarno cannot deny he bought an XBoner now.
I’ve got 2 tickets to Vegas if you want to get married this weekend. 😉
I should point out. I don’t stalk news.com.au, I found it through google news.
Man I look like shit. Tired and sleep deprived. 😛
Also now I’m forever bound to a factually questionable piece of news and one of the unfortunate faces of Xboners at the launch event in Australia.
Every so often I get into what can only be described as a musical sort of mood. All I wanna do right now is go home, chuck on some awesome music nice and loud, open a bottle of wine, and zone out for like 4 hours.
Enya? Orinoco Flow?
Caribbean Blue > Orinoco Flow
Beautiful.
Orinoco Ninja Flow
…I’m so, so sorry.
Good music and just chilling is an excellent way to relax and destress. I shall have to incorporate alchamahol to see if it’s even better.
My musical moods are like twice a day, and I chuck on something like Wicked, The Lion King or Beauty and the Beast Broadway recordings, the Avenue Q soundtrack, that sort of thing.
I see you shake with An
Tici
…
…pation.
Shiver* 😛
Wait so the new Phoenix Wright game in addition to being digital-only wasn’t even complete and they’re adding new paid DLC cases to it? :\
Capcom!
dual destinies felt complete to me, it was just as long as any other phoenix wright game (5 cases like the rest). the DLC is a case with little relevance to the main story, you don’t have to buy it to get the “full story” or anything like that.
Don’t judge it just because you have a grudge against the E-Shop.
I don’t have a grudge against the eShop, just against Nintendo and Crapcom 😛
all i’m saying is that its a bit annoying to see someone criticising a game they haven’t played.
you have your right to hate nintendo and capcom, though, they do shitty things, just dont hate on my beloved phoenix wright 🙁
Does anyone on here know anything about old cameras?
What sort of old cameras, are we talking SLRs as opposed to DSLRs, or like, basic 30 second exposure pinhole style cameras?
It’s a 1952 German Dacora I. I want to sell it, but I’ve no idea how
Uhh, my recommendation is to find a group of hipsters, and try to see if any of them want a super retro camera, don’t worry guys it’s only like $600, it’s totally a bargain.
Well you can always chuck it up on ebay and see what happens
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Vintage-German-made-DACORA-120mm-film-folding-camera-circa-1952-/181192638952?pt=AU_Vintage_Cameras&hash=item2a2fec41e8
I guess I can chuck it up on ebay at some point.
I have a really old camera that was given to me by my Grandparents that’s absolutely ancient.
It was made in, like, 2005 or something.
Hey, I might know someone who’ll buy it, so if you chuck it on ebay send me a link. Friend of mine collects old cameras, she says that the market has got really tough since hipsters got into them
Problem is, I don’t even know if it works.
@shane I haven’t received my email with the download for James Flamestar yet. It’s possible I may have mistyped my email address, but I don’t think I did.
Drats! You should have been redirected to a download page immediately after checkout.
I’ve sent you an email – can you let me know if the link in it works for you please? If not, I’ll figure something else out for you tonight.
Sorry about this
It could have been a user error. In any case, the pdf is downloading right now.
Freeze had a similar problem. Never got to the bottom of it. He’s a Hotmail guy too. I might need to investigate this a bit further.
@sughly I watched Survivor! (@greenius @powalen @phoenix)
In what dumb world does Ciera think it’s smarter to vote out her Mum than to keep her? They knew the “alliance” was turning on her so if they turned back then there’d be no justification for hurt feelings in the Jury later. Katie’s desperate so she’ll clutch at any straw you give her, and all you have to do is tell Monica Tyson’s gunning for her next and she’ll go with you because she’s paranoid as hell(with every right to be, though 😛 ). The guys were splitting their votes at that point, so it would have been an easy way to get rid of Tyson or Gervais while they were thinking they were sitting pretty. Would have been way smarter to do it when Tina was still around, but this season’s group hasn’t really been known for their smarts. 😛Oh well, at least it looks like they might finally be waking up and considering other alliances. Would be hilarious if they manage to completely blindside Tyson and he goes with the Idol in his pocket, though. 😀Yeaaaahhh… I do agree with you on Ciera, but I think she’s just being cautious. If she goes for a move like that with Monica, it could just as easily go back in her face and she would be the next gone. I think she has a good ‘safe’ game plan, and I think she can get far… but because shes not making big bold moves it might not pay off. She’s basically getting as far as possible with doing as little as possible, but intentionally. So yeah… hard to sell that to the jury. And if that happens with Tyson, wouldnt be the first time! I like Tyson, but I like that the games getting shaken up a bit more next ep. Hopefully.Also yay go strange for starting a convo woo!
If they’d made the move while Tina was around they probably wouldn’t have needed Monica. If they’d made it with Vytas there’d have been no risk at all. He wanted to get back at Tyson and the rest for voting out Aras. Still don’t understand why Vytas, Tina and (useless 😛 ) Katie didn’t make any moves while their heads were on the chopping block because there were obviously moved to be made, they just didn’t make them and instead chose to just go bad mouth everyone at Tribal to try and cause unrest in the “alliance”.Also, Katie was so stupid giving away to Ciera she didn’t have the Idol. That was a true *facepalm* moment.RE: Your second spoiler:
Hahahah! I know right! I was just shaking my head at that moment. How dumb do you have to be. She’s not a good liar, our Katie 😛Awwww! But, to be fair, Ciera was pretty convincing. Or maybe I’m just gullible too. I was even buying what Ciera was saying T_TI liked Ciera’s lie, and lols at how quickly Katie gave it upI can’t really discuss too much since I was accidentally spoiled and can’t really discuss possible scenarios without giving things away :(. Stupid Google, and stupid me!
Also, I thought you said Cirie and was all yeahhhhh cause Cirie is awesome :D. I’m currently watching Panama (s12) which has Cirie and Aras.
Yeah, I was just talking about that moment in your spoiler over in my response to Sughly. 😀
Also, how did you get spoiled? I thought we got the episodes soon after the US. Is there bigtime spoilers out there on the internet?
Since I’m rewatching Survivor I was curious as to why they decided to go to a final 3 instead of a final 2, and whether it was actually explained by Jeff/in the show. They had a final 2 until season 13 and then they went back to a final 2 for season 18, before going back to 3 (confusing!)
So I Googled “Survivor final 3” and within the first few results was something like “Survivor Blood Vs Water Final Three Spoilers (names)” 🙁
I think it finished filming mid-year so spoilers must’ve leaked (it’s happened before) and so far it’s looking to be true. They’ve also been wrong in the past so who knows…
Curiosity killed the cat!
I’m glad that Tina won her round of the challenge though! I like the people who are nice 😛 Wasn’t a hugely monumental episode, but still decent. Next episode looks to be interesting. Finally they’re figuring out that Tyson is running the show 😛@sughly @greenius @phoenix
If Tyson gets to the end he’s won. If they get him out before hand, could be up in the air a bit on a winner. Depends what happens between losing Tyson and the end.My new Xbox is amazing guys
How have all your days been?
Incredibly long.
And now I feel like I should be trying to do something with the rest of it.
So, MrTaco is it? You are new to me, since my absence, tell me a bit about yourself?
Why was your day long for instance?
Also, Hi I’m Spaghett
Hi. I’m an identity crisis 😛
Been lurking in the comments around this place for ages, this year some shady character got me dragged into this whole mess and now I can’t escape.
Long day was long because I was sitting around school with basically nothing to do.
All you need to know is that @mrtaco likes Xenoblade 😀 whatta guy!
EDIT: Never mind. Decided to pass on it. I might pick it up during the Holiday sales instead.
yeah. its not a bad game, just doesn’t live up to the “OH MY GOD ITS AN id GAME!!?!?!?!?” hype.
its average at worst.
looks damn pretty though.
just make sure to get the HD texture packs.
Hmm…
Now I’m not sure whether I want it or not… 😐
BAH!
Bravely Default demo has ruined all other games for me!
I can’t commit to any when all I want is that awesome job system!
Dark Souls did that to me. Poor Dragon’s Dogma didn’t have a hope coming straight off Dark Souls with me.
Witcher 2 followed Dark Souls for me. Same deal 🙂
I have a confession. I don’t really understand the jobs system.
Jobs are classes.
Any passive skill that you learn can be equipped by any other job, assuming you keep under the point limit.
You can assign one job to be secondary, and you retain whatever abilities it has.
So: If you’re a Red Mage, you can only use level one black and white magic. If you assign black mage as your secondary job (and have it at level four(or whatever the requirement is)), you can then cast the third level black spells.
Another example:
If you’re tanky gee mcGee class, you can cast the self protect ability, and the protect some other dude ability. If you spec your second class as the lancey dude, you can use the jump into the air and hit on the next turn move, or the do AOE damage move that they have.
Hope that helps.
Probably doesn’t, but lie and say that it does anyway.
TL;DR: Red Mages are really cool.
Yeah thats it, just level a job for a while and switch it up, cos yoy can equip multiple passive skills too
Is this meant to make my brain hurt?
Just try different stuff, see what helps, what you like and keep the good stuff.
Experimentation is key.
I like high physical attack and white magic, mabe you like black magic or something.
Sounds a lot like good ol’ FF tactics from the GBA days. I loved that game.
Yeah, exactly like that.
It all started in FF3 then FF5 started the carry a skill over thing. Tactics is pretty much FF5 style.
If you ever played Blue Dragon on 360, that was an even more developed version.
Bravely so far seems about on par with Blue Dragon, but well see when the full game drops 😀
Personally, I have a lot of fun experimenting with different jobs and abilities and seeing what can be achieved with certain combinations.
I ended up at the end with 4 knights, two with white mage secondary and 2 with performer secondary.
And they all had the same damage lessening skills equipped.
I ended up with 4 ninja’s with buff-up, angelic blessing and pain suppression/spread whatever its called, all with white mage as their secondary.
I really like that song that raises attack. Shortens the length of long boss battles.
I used that spread ability too, quite handy.
Im sure in the full game I’ll go differently as there be so many more abilities to choose from.
I do like the double sword, though.
I mostly went ninjas since it seemed they can do more strikes per attack, and buff-up seemed to outperform any other passive in long fights.
I was having too much trouble in the last two boss fights because I had shit equipment.
I think Knight made up for that and I needed a shield to stay alive long enough.
I haven’t even tried anyone as a Performer yet because the outfit is ugly. 😛
Yeah, not an elvis guy…
I like Ninjas and Valkyries best.
For costume I like Ninjas & Red Mages, great to see a male in a rose motif
I don’t understand anything about this game… The jobs system doesn’t make any sense and the game seems stupidly hard.
You want tips?
I should be right, just need some time to figure it out I think. I’ll try not to give up on it!
Biggest tip for @benj: don’t play the demo, just wait for the actual game which AFAIK has a whole bunch of enhancements to the battle system vs the demo and actually has a plot and will teach you how to play and have properly tuned difficulty.
I finally remembered to download it. Haven’t gotten to playing it yet though.
I have an admission: I’ve never liked the jobs system in FF5 and derived games. JRPGs for me are all about the characters, and part of that is that every character is meant to have a specific, defined role in the group. Every character being able to be every class makes everyone feel generic. Additionally the OCD way that I play games means I want to constantly optimize my play, and the jobs system runs at complete counter to that in addition to constantly making me wonder if I’m doing it wrong.
The Internet has made me a cynical old bugger. Reading the Xbox Biggest launch in Australian Gaming article, I just knew the first comment was going to be “PS4 will be bigger”.
Time to forget all my troubles with a big bowl of strawberry ice cream.
Wii U will be bigger!
Oh wait…
It has a bigger controller!
I think what they mean is that there has been nothing as huge as the Xbox One launched before. Except maybe the original Xbox, that thing was pretty chunky. But I’m finding it exceedingly difficult to google for a comparison between the original Xbox and the Xbox One.
Fuck you, Microsoft. That was your plan all along.
The display inits actually hide some of the console, at least at Harvey Norman anyways…
Nothing is bigger than Xbox One, that thing is massive. 😛
I can’t stop watching that Van Damme Volvo ad featuring Enya. It’s beautiful.
“Say good night, asshole!”
“Goodnight, asshole”
Oh man, do you remember his mullet in John Woo’s Hard Target?
I DO NOW! 😀
http://flickfeast.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Hard-Target.jpg
Good movie, if it’s the one I’m thinking of
Same here. And that music… oh that sweet, sweet music. In fact I have it on right now. Must have listened to the best of Enya about 15 times since I first saw that ad.
Since watching Batman on Go, I really want to play one of the games. Too bad I’ve finished Lego Batman 2, can’t get past Clayface in Arkham City on PS3, and can’t download Asylum or City GOTY editions because they have too big a download 🙁
Might I suggest reading Hush?
I think my housemate just likes to be a bitch for the sake of it.
Neighbour comes over to let us know they’re having some people around and they’ll have music playing and if it’s too loud then come round and they’ll turn it down. They’re nice people, don’t give us any problems, they just have small parties like once every few Fridays.
What does she do? Starts yelling, tells them she’ll call the cops instead, gets angry with them and sounds like she’s about to cry when they ask her why she’s being so difficult. Fucking hell. From now on she’s banned from answering the door. Way to make the neighbours hate us for no reason other than the fact you’re a self centered controlling bitch.
Maybe she’s just upset she wasn’t invited?
Definitely not 😛 They’re a bunch of middle aged bogans, not people we’d want to hang out with
nutter
Maybe it’s “that time”
Does this girl see a psychologist? Because she has issues. Nobody cries at the drop of a hat unless they have a mental problem.
Sleepy Hollow: is that the MILF dude?
DILF?
Caught up on Walking Dead show.
Urk. I can see what they were trying to do with this episode but it seemed really contrived and predictable. Still think the Governor should have died last season. This feels too much like Lost’s tail section.I watched it last night too! Completely agree.
Spoilers
I DID like that we got a bit of a break from the main group this episode. And liked the new characters too. With the second camp being introduced in the next episode though, I really hope this doesn’t become Woodbury 2.0 with the whole Us vs Them thing. That was the main thing I disliked about the second half of season 3.Also I thought it was super sad when The Gov went upstairs to the old mans apartment and found him zombified in the bath. I thought the old man fell in the shower and wasted away, but turns out he just shot himself 😛 Way to make me overestimate your writing, Walking Dead writers! 😛
It won’t
if anything will happen, the governor will try and make a living protecting this new family until michonne shows up and they’ll have an awkward stalemate where she will most likely say he’s changed and the anger towards him is gone because he’s just trying to protect this girl as of she was his daughter.Earlier tonight, Mum sent me a message asking me to send her a “selfie” (ugh), because her friends want to see what I look like with a ‘stache.
So I took this picture and captioned it “I got told I look like a latino gang member”.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/ImmaCutYou.jpg
(@stickman)
Or a sushi chef in a bad porno.
That was another option. At least this one doesn’t look at all like a cleaning lady 😛
Yeah, you do have a fair resemblance.
XD
I feel like a West Side Story joke is appropriate.
Unfortunately, even though I know all the songs, I’ve never actually sat through it.
All I know is *clicks fingers*
I’m sure you also know “I feel pretty, oh so pretty, I feel pretty, and witty, and bright! And I pity, any girl who isn’t me tonight.”
Yeah, you ain’t too bad ;D
Lmao, mrtaco fits. 😛
Time for bed.
See you all tomorrow.
Oh wow. This Fez thing is really cool.
Really really cool.
Indeed. Just wait till you clock it, you’re in for a surprise. And then another surprise. It really gives you a new perspective on things.
Yikes it’s 3am. I guess a self respecting Xbox One owner can’t possibly go to be earlier than this…
Thus I shall listen to Enya: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfYIMyS_dI
My eye is swollen. I think @dc punched me in the face when I was asleep.
In other news: ZELDA DAY! 😀 Also my Grandparents are coming to visit to assess my unit. I think they’ve been worried about me living in the big scary city 😛
Fingers crossed I make it somewhere in time to buy, SO MUCH TO DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
If you get down before 5 there’s about 3 EB games on the way to my place. We can always make a stop.
Gonna go find an owl now, if I can.
Been looking since Thursday with no luck.
Hopefully pick something up at the local shoppin cenner.
where I should hopefully get Zelda.
I should be down before 5 unless there is some catastrophic screw up 😀
“Gramps, I’m okay! Really!
I’ve only been robbed thrice and sexually assaulted five times!”
Found posted in the Dark Souls Facebook page:
If I opened a hair salon in Lordran I’d name it “Prepare to Dye!”
HEALTH UPDATE –
So my mum is now out of the hospital, she had to stay in over night to run tests. The good news is they’ve ruled out heart attack the bad news is they have no idea what it is and so she has to go do more tests including swallowing a capsule camera.
It’s touch and go basically, she’s at home resting but the doctor said to us for all we know she can seem fine for a few days and just “drop dead”(doctors words) so that’s a thing.
Otherwise all is well, and just want to thank everyone here for helping and supporting us during this time I’m honestly humbled by how amazing all of you are. thank you.
My dad went through the same thing for years and it’s a horrible thing to worry about. Stay positive man.
They only managed to diagnose my dad earlier this year and while it’s not good (systemic lupus), it’s actually better knowing what it is and being able to treat it then not knowing.
That’s how I feel, it’s bad being diagnosed with something, it’s even worse being told we honestly don’t know what’s wrong.
I hope your dads alright man
damn man.. sounds terrible :\ sorry to hear about the situation. Hope they can find the cause soon. At least your mum’s not too stubborn to go to a doctor like mine. Mine’s been sick for weeks, but refuses to go see anyone about it because she thinks it’s just stress, and as soon as the stress is gone, she’ll get better :\ So annoying to talk to her these days cos I just want to slap her and tell her to stop being a doofus..
Just tell her a friends mum thought the same and then she had a possible heart attack at 2 in the morning. That might make her rethink going
I’ve tried just about every scare tactic with her that I can so far. Nothing seems to get through.
Chloroform soaked rag?
lol not sure I can get my hands on any..
Good morning TAY, what’s on the agenda today?
I’m currently at work. Once I finish around 3pm I want to go and get a quote on spectacle prescriptions [the frame on my glasses broke 🙁 ] and maybe do some light shopping.
Finally, if I’m not too tired I’ll try some more GTA 5. I’m currently trying to get a fighter jet from the military base but they keep shooting me down. Has any GTA player managed this? Tips?
What about you spaghett?
Me? Some light shopping with Sam and then some Xbox One
Legend of Zelda in 12ish minutes then off to @FreezeSPreston’s house to party like it’s some kind of year that partying can be associated with!
1882?
WHOA I’M AWAKE
ZELDA
Oh wow! The soundtrack to Link Between Worlds is amazing!
It’s raining in Victoria…
Heavily. 🙁
They call that time to play some Heavy Rain…
See what I did there?
save it for page 6.
Why is it so difficult to buy fridge magnets? No where sells them! 😛 Internet it is, I suppose!
Christmas parade at my work with the arrival of Santa. There was a girl dressed as a present. My co worker told her she had a nice box.
“co worker”
Got a Link Between Worlds today, but I have to do work.
WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME NINTENDO!
Oh wow, I did win Kudos. I thought @redartifice was kidding.
THANKS EVERYONE WHO NOMMED! OM NOM NOM..
Congrats, man.
Congratulations
Just noticed: ozgameshop have the limited edition Wind Wanker HD bundle.
Get it before it sells out!
So, what is everyone up to?
I have made it to Anor Londo in my Dark Souls Onebro playthrough! \o/
Now I have to face Ornstein & Smough! /o\
Hah, there’s a show on lifestyle food right now called @dc cupcakes 😛
NegativeZero’s Daily Kantai Collection Update that No One Cares About:
Had another crack at the first map for the Fall 2013 event and I think my fleet finally hit the tipping point, because I managed to make it through to the boss, which I promptly smashed to pieces. Disappointingly I found that the map itself has a health bar which must be depleted by beating the boss more than once (luckily it doesn’t regenerate). So basically ran it a few times last night, then once this morning and after a few poor runs, beat it. I-19!
Played the crap out of the game today, despite stopping several times due to lack of fuel. Got the Chiyoda I picked up Thursday night up to her second remodel and Midget Subs, which I promptly stripped off her to give to my freshly minted I-19 until leveling her up to level 10, where she gains the ability to do a per-emptive torpedo strike without the extra sub. Gave the other to my Kitakami torpedo cruiser because her torpedo strike is vastly more powerful.
Haven’t run any World 2 stuff due to grinding the first 3 worlds with I-19 so still no Battleship. Also used her in PvP against a level 100 Admiral who was running a fleet entirely of destroyers. Surprisingly my Takao-class Heavy Cruiser fleet + Iku ended up winning with a few well-placed shots and some quality air support.
Status: Still Addicted.
Bonus tl;dr image: http://i.imgur.com/SU1If7f.png
Well that’s one way to get a pageget…
I have no idea what the hell this is but it’s interesting and looking at the image it makes me think of a anime version of Navyfield
I’m not sure about Navyfield but I think that it’s slightly different.
I’m also not sure about this description since I haven’t played it before, but I suspect that it’s more like Pokemon, except instead of capturing monsters you’re building or obtaining random ship girls. They all have their own stats and progression and everything, and there’s a semi-fixed number (they add new ones during events and stuff, and new remodels – think Evolutions – every now and then)
Is it F2P or P2P
F2P but requires some VPN fiddling to get set up initially, and it’s 100% in Japanese. Playable enough once you learn what does what though I guess.
English walk through is needed
http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Kancolle_Wiki
So so hard to tear myself away from Fez.
I hit the credits (wow, that geometry porn) then went back into “new game +” and am trying to clean up the rest of what I left behind. Solved a few rooms, but now I think I’m pretty well stuck. Like, Adventure Game (hi @dc) stuck – just got no clue how the puzzle’s supposed to be solved 😛
There’s three rooms on the map I haven’t visited yet, and eighteen that still contain a “secret”. Reeeeeeeeally don’t want to look up a guide on how to get through though.
Scratch that, down to 11 rooms with a secret now. Got rid of two of the unvisited rooms (third needs all cubes to reach) too. Had to get a new perspective on things, that fixed a few of them. Then another couple were knocked out by solving that stupid owl thing. Also finally figured out the crypt dealie.
This is driving me nuts.
I’ve figured out from the classroom stuff (with the 0, 1, 2 and 3 dimension pictures) what the symbols for 0-3 are. And deduced what the symbol for 4 must be, thanks to the crypt treasure maps. But then you have the equations that seem to have the A=A, B=A thing that makes it look like there’s more than one symbol for 3, and then the other three equations showing (assuming I’m correct about the duplicate symbols) 1+2+Y=X, 2+3+Z=X, 1+4+Z=X. Then you have that dice thing that matches up with the other diagrams in the classroom, giving another bunch of symbols for 1-6. But then that messes things up, since it gives Z=4 and X=5 for those equations which doesn’t make any sense.Maybe there are other clues, but just looking at the equations on there own, there are literally infinite solutions. As long as Y is 2 more than Z, and X is 3 more than Y you can use any set of numbers to solve them@dc drank a beer!
#hellhathfrozenover
Damn shame hell isn’t in Brisbane then, cos damn.. sick of this heat. I thought with all that storm activity last night things would have cooled down, but no such luck.
I drank two beers and had one shot and after five years without drinking? Didn’t really affect me in the slightest, so at least I’m not a crazy light weight. XD
Sure is toasty here today :/
Ornstein and Smough defeated.
Onebro style.
Awwwwwww Yeeeeeaaaah.
What does Onebro style consist of? One life for a playthrough or something?
OneBro is a Pyromancer playthrough where you never level up, and so remain at level one the whole time (Pyro is the only class that starts at level one).
Eww, sounds tough! A bit easier than not being able to die though, that would probably be impossible! Good luck with that @jocon!
Thanks mate!
Impressive! Nice work! 🙂
Things I Did This Weekend
by D.C.
— I went to Big W and watched Sughly buy The Legend of Zelda.
— We went to Dreamworld and rode many a ride, including Tower of Terror about four times and the Giant Drop about four times.
— We went to Freeze’s and met up with Nobs, Jimu and gang for Mrs. Freeze’s birthday.
— People drank, I felt pretty self-conscious and acted weeeeeeeeeeird.
— Trained it home with Jimu and we talked about stuff. STUFF.
STUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUFF
Just finished translating Fez’s tome. That’s one whole load of gibberish.
Also I think I’ve now memorised the entire alphabet.
Yup. I can read what the villagers are saying without any assistance now 😛
Aha! I think I found the symbol for five!
I have no idea how this helps me, but it’s progress!
How to lose friends: Question Dr Who, make fun of Star Wars, and work in a backhanded Harry Potter jab at the same time, apparently 😛
I outdid myself.
YOO MUNSTER!
Finished Goodbye Deponia. Oh man, going to miss this series. :'(
So @chuloopa is married. I hope this won’t affect Page 18.
PS: Congratulations, I suppose! 😀
Oh, for real? Holy damn! Congrats, my pal!
Get yourself on Facebook already.
You don’t need Stalker D.C. in your life, Shane. Hermit D.C. is better!
Not sure I’ll be able to tell the difference, actually 😛
I just got outta that horrible place! 😀
At a birthday dinner for my wife at my in laws. Mother in law gives a present to wifey of some satin underwear. Wife looks at me and says aloud “you won’t be tearing these ones getting them off me”.
Awkward silence across the table ensues.
Happy birthday to Mrs Freeze by the way 😀
Hope there was much merriment!
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I just solved the boiler room puzzle by accident. I thought I had two possible answers, but neither one worked. Then I go and rotate everything to get out of there and the anticube appears. Now I have no idea what the answer is or how to use it to solve the number system dealie.
In the meantime I figured out the deal with the tuning fork-looking things and wiped those out. Also chanced upon the rest of the clock. Just gotta figure out the bell, the observatory, the riddle and the big black block.
Ok, started a new file and found I was missing a symbol 😛 Any wonder. Now I’ve got numbers 1-8 and 10. And now I know the numbers on the bell. But I have no idea what they mean (Edit: Derp. Of course I try the convoluted idea but not the simple one). Bleh. Also got other number symbols that I don’t know what they represent.
Puzzles are the worst. They get me all caught up thinking and stuff.
ACE ATTORNEY \o/
Just finished Trials and Tribulations, and have launched straight into Apollo Justice. I love these games so damn much. I think I’m gonna have to go ahead and get Dual Destinies, even though I hate buying digital products.
By the way, you should totally consider buying one of my digital books: The Lesser Evil or James Flamestar.
DO IT MAN GET DUAL DESTINIES I’M PLAYING THROUGH THE DLC
IT’S GOT A PIRATE HAT MOUSTACHE MURDER WHALE
THERE IS NO WORD YOU CANNOT DISLIKE IN THAT SENTENCE
I am both confused and delighted by Persona Q.
Hope they localise quicksmart!
I got streetpass hits from @sernobulus in Bravely Default demo which will carry on the full game 😀
Doctor who was awesome!!! 😀 😀 😀
Did anyone do a @freezespreston meat writeup yet???
Prolly worth putting up a link to PQ:http://www.siliconera.com/2013/11/24/persona-q-shadow-labyrinth-coming-3ds/
Also, a Shadow Nob invaded my town in the new Zelda, luckily I was able to beat it off!!
(I already said that in person, what a pooperheed)
It’s true, you beat that little guy so hard.
You… beat it off?
Thank god you didn’t say that on Page 18…
Meh, it’s just Etrian Odyssey with a Persona veneer from the look of it.
Much more excited that they’re doing Persona 5. Kind of bummed it’s not going to be done until the end of 2014 though, that’ll mean 2015 for an English release. PS4 will be two years old by then, and PS3 will be a decade old. 🙁
Don’t forget the additional 1 year Europe localisation with the region locking.
EO + Persona? Hell, can’t be any crazier than SMT + FE. I’m just surprised 3ds got something at all (and I’m also pleased at the initial outrage it caused :P)
But yeah, announcing it for PS4 would’ve been a system-seller, no doubt. I’m hoping for cross-buy, but hot damn at least it exists! Perhaps it’s color scheme is red? A very sharp look compared to 3’s somber blue and 4’s cheery yellows.
Would you mind not saying something negative every time I post?
The F1 from Brazil isn’t on until 2am.
🙁
Best thing about living in Switzerland?
Well, the flag is a big plus.
…ok, I just solved the riddle and I’m not entirely sure I know how. I had one answer but it didn’t work. But then I thought that maybe I just had the blocks arranged wrong, and while I was fixing them the answer triggered. Oops.
That just leaves me with the tree island and the black block left uncleared. I guess that anticube I need must be with the black block :/
God damn it, why is F1 more important to me than sleep right now?
Seriously, were humans made to be awake at this hour?
I guess that’s why night shifts exist.
I feel like I’m here every TAY and night.
Jesus fucking christ, this race has pretty much summed up Webber over the past few years, stuck behind fucking Vettel. 🙁
And Webber says “Fuck it” and ditches the helmet. 😀
Guys… I didn’t sleep for the entire night.
The entire night.
From sun down to sun up.
;_;
See you all in new TAY.
You’re crazy, guy!
“A question that sometimes drives me hazy:
‘Am I , or are the others crazy?’”
– Albert Einstein
@welbot, @jimu, @gutsoup, @lambomann007, @popdart5, @enduwolf, @sernobulus, @virus__ @beardymcmuttonchops @freezespreston @shane @strange @steve-o_the_deve-o @dkzeitgeist @sughly @dc @rocketman
Can you guys twitter DM me your emails. I’ve got all the Syd people but not you guys 🙁
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