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Yay! New TAY. Good morning everyone.
Good morning. Lol love fresh Tay. Phone does not lag as much.
Morning
Morning Scree how was your weekend?
It was alright. Nothing much to talk about D=
Oh except the convention I’ve been going to for years has stopped trading.
Oh that sucks what convention was it?
Manifest
Morning all! I had a hell of a nightmare last night. I dreamed that I’d lashed out and bought a Wii-U. And I liked it. D:
Also, there’s only a day or so left before The Lesser Evil goes up in price again. In the meantime, you can obtain it for your various screen-based devices for just 99 cents. http://www.amazon.com/Lesser-Evil-Omnibus-Graphic-Novel-ebook/dp/B00EG3X5C2/
(You’ll need to have your Kindle location set to USA to take advantage of this price)
I haven’t really played mine but I imagine that will change as it gets hotter
I dreamed I was sailing with my dad in a boat-car, then the boat-car sank and a squid with a dragons head broke into the boat-car and attacked us. I had to escape through one of the boat-cars doors and ended up washing up on a small chain of islands where a bunch of caravans were parked and tents set up. The people living on the island were all rather weird. There were lions living on the island, and a girl who lived with them, and she killed and ate one of the other residence of the island and then chased me up a tree.
So, not as crazy as your dream, but pretty close.
I think if I could afford a Wii U, I would buy one. I’ve enjoyed what I’ve played on demo units. Also, I haven’t owned a Nintendo console since my SNES.
I dreamed my backyard (which appeared to be the backyard of our house in Tasmania connected to our Newcastle house) had a wall of barbeques along the back fence and we had hired a BBQ operator (who also happened to be the postman, as well as looking like our Swedish friend Gnoff) but we didn’t have any meat and after chopping up veges and putting them on there, for some reason we decided to put big sheets of fresh pasta on the BBQ. And then a gigantic storm rolled in. We managed to rescue the veges, but the pasta stayed. When it finished storming the Gnoff/postman/BBQoperator was out there throwing the pasta on the grass, complaining about whoever put it on there.
I like your “nightmare” better. 😛
P.S. I already have the Kindle version.
Veges on the BBQ … 🙁
P.S. You could always buy it as a gift for someone else! 😛
WiiU is pretty fun. Also handy for the Wii-via-HDMI thing.
Gf and I picked up a remote and Pro Controller for $10 ea on the weekend. so we were happy.
Wow, where’d you manage to snag those from?
DSE had them in a ‘clearance: name your price’ bin. They still had em 50% off on shelves last week, so that’s like $32ea. I gf held one up to a random store guy was like “$5!?” the guy replied “..Yep! … Wait… I’ll go check” and offered us $10ea. 😀 Amazing deal.
99c is way too cheap a price for that book, it was a good read.
Very kind of you to say, man.
Hope things are okay with you!
Morning everyone. Hope everyone had a good weekend.
I finished The Witcher 2 on the weekend. There were a couple things I didn’t really like about it, but all round it was pretty good.
I also finally got round to beating the Pokemon League in Pokemon X. Facing the Champion was a bit disappointing.
I was all “oh, Gardevoir has a mega form, cool” and then, after it had mega evolved, “oh, well that’s a bit terrible looking.” I mean, they could have just given it wings or something, but instead they give it a giant poofy dress. I haven’t really used mega evolution in the game, mainly because a lot of the Pokemon I’ve been using haven’t had mega forms, but also because I lot of the mega forms don’t look that good imo.Not sure what I’m going to do in the game now. I don’t know if the meta/competitive game is really for me. I might try and fill up the Pokedex, since it’s super easy to trade with people now.I started Dishonored as well after getting it during the Stream sale. It’s pretty decent. Very Bioshocky.
On this Monday morning it is becoming very apparent I struggle to handle 4am finishes on Saturday nights…
WTB [Sleep]
#OldManCake
Also, being woken up by screaming children running around outside the apartment while playing is possibly the worst way to be woken up at 10am on a Sunday.
Actually, screaming children inside the apartment, bashing you in the face with toys, would have been worse. And 6am would also have been worse. #voiceofexperience #helping
You chose your fate Shane 😛
Oh and I forgot to tell you, but Peaceful Tomorrows rocked up.
How many Schrute Bucks do I owe you?
*shrug* Don’t worry about it.
Edit: didn’tseethatcoming.jpg
You are just the worst…
…but then you forget that I have your bank details. Commence the transfer of the random amount of dollars!*Fade to black* Directed by M. Night ShamamlamalanDamn it. All right, just send me the $6.95 I paid for postage.
$20? Cool beans.
I have the same issue with my next door neighbours kids, but they ride around on those stupid bicycles with the loud dodgy motors attached. GTA made me ready for this..
JAPAN GROUP TOUR – MAR/APR 2015
Yep thats right people, I have received a fantastic quote from one of my suppliers, and I present it to you now. We’ve got hotels, we’ve got trains, we’ve got sightseeing, we’ve got free time, we’ve got food. Something for everyone 🙂
Spoilered for wall of text, but EVERYONE should be reading this 🙂
Itinerary:
Day 1 – 21st March 2015 – Arrive Osaka
Upon arrival into Osaka airport you will be met and transferred by private coach to your accommodation for check in
Day 2 – 22nd March 2015 – Osaka
This morning visit Osaka Castle & enjoy a cruise on Osaka River. This afternoon we will be attending the (hopefully, depending on schedule) Final Day and Closing Ceremony of Osaka’s Annual Sumo Tournament. The afternoon of the final day is when the best competitors and the most important bouts take place.
Day 3 – 23rd March 2015 – Osaka
Full Day at leisure
Start of 7 Day Japan Rail Pass
Day 4 – 24th March 2015 – Osaka-Hiroshima
Today make your way to Osaka train station to catch the bullet train to Himeji. Tour of Himeji Castle with English speaking guide. After the tour, and some time for lunch, we will catch the bullet train to Hiroshima. On arrival into Hiroshima make your way to your accommodation for check in
Day 5 – 25th March 2015 – Hiroshima
This morning you will take a short tram trip to the edge of the Seto Sea. Here, board a ferry for the ten-minute passage to Miyajima Island. This tranquil island is home to Itsukushima Shrine, partly comprised of an offshore red ‘torii’ gate – one of Japan’s most famous and photographed sites. In ancient times access to holy Miyajima Island was through this ‘floating’ gate; you will arrive more conventionally, gliding into the ferry terminal. Take some free time to enjoy the peaceful atmosphere of this pretty island, mingle with the wild deer, and sample some Japanese snack food. Take this opportunity to try a traditional okonomiyaki pancake lunch before departing this unique setting and re-board the a direct ferry for the trip back to the mainland to the Peace Memorial Museum, dedicated to the events of 1945 and the aim of a war-free world. A visit to this exceptional museum is a sobering, yet educational experience. You will also see the famous Peace Memorial Park and a poignant cenotaph inscribed with all the known victims of the Hiroshima bomb, and the eerie A-Bomb Dome, a tragic city-symbol, left standing in a ruinous state after more than 60 years. In the evening, explore Hiroshima, a truly ‘reinvented’ city.
Day 6 – 26th March 2015 – Hiroshima-Kyoto
Today make your way to Hiroshima train station to catch the bullet train to Kyoto. On arrival into Kyoto make your way to your accommodation for check in
Day 7 – 27th March 2015 – Kyoto
Spend a delightful morning walking through the streets of Kyoto where you will discover some of the lovely temples and shrines in this ancient city. Begin at JR Kyoto station at 1.45pm and take a bus to Higashiyama, for an exploration of the beautiful Kiyomizu temple, with a panoramic view of Kyoto. Walking down Sannenzaka and Ninenzaka streets uncovers quaint shops in traditional Japanese buildings, and this walk has been described as one of the prettiest in Kyoto. Stop at tranquil Kodaiji temple, surrounded by formal gardens, and then continue on to Yasaka shrine, a Shinto shrine in the Gion district. Roam the Gion district, with traditional restaurants and tea houses (ochaya), and maybe spot a geisha scurrying along one of the many alleyways to her next performance.
Day 8 – 28th March 2015 – Kyoto
Today is a full day at leisure. Spend a day exploring the many sights and sound of Kyoto, or possibly take a day trip to Nara, famous for its parkland, wild deer and temples. Visit stunning Todaiji Temple, made without the use of a single nail, and the shelter of a massive bronze Buddha. Also see the smaller yet equally beautiful 8th century Kasuga Shrine. The entrance is lined by stone lanterns, creating an atmospheric approach. Spend some time mingling with Nara’s free-roaming deer, before your return to Kyoto.
Day 9 – 29th March 2015 – Kyoto-Takayama
Today make your way to Kyoto train station to catch the bullet train to Takayama. On arrival into Takayama make your way to your accommodation for check in.
End of 7 Day Japan Rail Pass
Day 10 – 30th March 2015 – Takayama
This morning set out on a walking tour of some of Takayama’s main attractions. As an introduction, visit the Festival Floats Exhibition Hall, home to colourful floats which come out annually during one of Japan’s most famous festivals. You will also visit Takayama Jinya, formerly a government building and home to some wonderful insights into Japan’s past. Your walking tour will include a stroll past some beautifully preserved wooden houses on Kami Sannomachi Street and a venture past some enticing sake rice wine breweries. This evening, continue your encounters with Takayama’s friendly inhabitants and explore the local eating options.
Day 11 – 31st March 2015 – Takayama-Hakone
Late morning you will leave your hotel and travel by coach to Hakone. This picturesque town is famous for its proximity to imposing Mount Fuji, a symbol of Japan and the highest mountain in the country. Before checking-in to your Japanese-style hotel you will enjoy a short boat trip on peaceful Lake Ashino, and an exciting cable car ascent (weather permitting) to the top of Mount Komagatake for majestic views of Japan’s most loved and famous geographic landmark. After a sumptuous Japanese dinner, you will sleep tonight in an atmospheric tatami-floored room, on a futon mattress.
Day 12 – 1st April 2015 – Hakone-Tokyo
This morning you will travel the short distance by private coach to Tokyo. This afternoon is at leisure
Day 13 – 2nd April 2015 – Tokyo
Following breakfast meet in the reception area of your hotel for a tour briefing before embarking on your exploration of the city. Today you will explore some of the city’s highlights on a carefully created tour. You will begin with a short walk to nearby Hama Rikyu Garden, dating to 1654 and once the private respite of the Tokugawa Shogun. After a stroll through this tranquil garden, after which you board a boat (shared service) for a cruise on Tokyo’s Sumida River. This short trip will take you past the headquarters of some of Japan’s most famous companies and will end near bustling Asakajusa Temple, the oldest and most beloved temple in Tokyo. Here, be introduced to the influences of Buddhism and Shintoism on Japanese culture. Around mid-day, travel to serene Meiji Jingu shrine and Harajuku. Here, mingle with youngsters dressed to the hilt in colourful cult fashions. Later, take in mesmerising sky scraper views of Japan’s major city from Tokyo Tower. Towards the end of the afternoon, return to your hotel by train and foot.
Day 14 – 3rd April 2015 – Depart Tokyo
At proper time you will catch the airport transfer vehicle to Narita airport for your onward flight
Hotels and Inclusions
Osaka – Mitsui Garden Hotel YodoyabashiHiroshima – Mitsui Garden Hiroshima
Kyoto – Mitsui Garden Kyoto Sanjo
Takayama – Green Hotel Takayama (ryokan)
Hakone – Hakone Yumoto Hotel (ryokan)
Tokyo – Park Hotel Tokyo
Holiday Price Includes:
All Accommodation
Breakfast Every day, Dinner in Hakone
Transportation and touring as per the itinerary with entrance fees
7 day JR pass
1 Local English speaking guide on touring days
Exclusions:
AirfaresVisa if necessary (If travelling on an Australian Passport, a Visa is not required)
Meals not listed above
Personal expenses (laundry, telephone, drinks, tips…)
Travel insurance (Possession of adequate travel insurance is a compulsory condition of travelling with Travel Indochina)
And all this comes to the price of….
$3,897.00 per person twin share or$4,461.00 per person single room
There you have it folks. If you really did read through everything, you have my thanks. Feel free to send praise, hurl fruit or anything in between as your reaction dictates. If I can start to get a list of people who are genuinely interested in coming, feel free to respond below or email me at peter(dot)orange(at)harveyworld(dot)com(dot)au
I will be talking with my manager when he returns from a trip next week (I think), in regards to how much the deposit is (It will probably be on the order of about $500 per person). If I can go to him and say I already have X number of people ready to deposit, that would be fantastic.
Thanks again everyone
Tags of people who have shown interest before: @transientmind @ontargett @dkzeitgeist @rocketman
Confirmed – @jocon @negativezero @freezespreston
Almost Confirmed – @cakesmith
Keen – @rize @coldcamv @beardymcmuttonchops @mrtaco
I am keen I just need the year to raise all that money
Thats cool. Once my manager gets back next week, I will confirm a deposit amount for you to lock your place in. Then you won’t need to fully pay the rest of the trip until about January 2015. Plenty of time 🙂
I too am keen and am in a similar boat to @coldcamv. Even raising the deposit may be difficult, but I will try.
No worries, I will keep you in the loop 🙂
…I knew that was something I was meant to do on the weekend
Note to self: draw up a new budget
There’s never much work to do on a Monday. Hop to it 😛
Cakesmith’s New Budget:
Stop buying games on Steam.
Done. 😛
By the way, do you think it’ll be more efficient for us to book airfares through you as well, or arrange our own? Obviously won’t be able to get a group deal but if eg. there are multiple people leaving a given city it might be nice to travel together the whole way and not be all over the place, especially when going somewhere that no one speaks English.
Honestly I would prefer to look after everyone’s flights. I’ve been looking into some flights already and trying to find an airline where the flights all converge at a stopover point, or at least arrive in Japan at approximately the same time. We won’t be able to look at confirmed flight times until about May/June next year anyway.
I’d be very happy to let you arrange the flights for me as I am extremely lazy 😛
That would be so handy if you could, since you know way more about all this stuff than us.
Thanks for doing this man, I know it’s a work thing anyway but it’s still awesome.
Consider me in the ‘almost confirmed’ camp.
Reckon it’d be alright to bring another 1-2 people?
Hell yes, you can bring as many people as you want. The more the merrier 🙂
Morning TAY,
How’s every little thing? It’s 36 today and I’m outside building a fence, yep, I will surely not last the day!
Hope other people are airconditioned and/or on holidays.
In other news who’s been keeping up with Survivor2299 it has me intrigued and I wish I could spend more time in the meta and reading everything but I don’t get paid to do that I get paid to work and I need money.
I’d like to say my office is airconned, but it doesn’t seem like that. Come the afternoon and the sun hits my side of the office and turns into a sauna. Joys.
I’ve been following survivor2299. Not to the point of decoding anything as by the time I look at an update someone else has already cracked it. Obviously hoping it’s real, I think there’s way too much effort gone into this for a hoax, even if the trademark was a fake. Even if it is a fake I think Bethesda would be fools not to announce anything after seeing lots of people going nuts over it
Good luck with the fence
Apparently, The Lesser Evil is selling quite well at the moment. Exciting, humbling, terrifying, confusing.
I actually have no idea how many copies are actually selling, but I pretend that there are thousands of copies, and I will be rich starting next week. There’s no way I can be disappointed if I set my sights that low.
Anyway, if there are that many copies out there, someone you know is bound to have it. Don’t miss out on the inevitable watercooler discussions!
99c for one more day only!
#I’llShowMyselfOutNow
Edit: Apparently its current sales rating means it’s selling about 1 copy a day! That’s royalties enough to buy one packet of instant noodles… EVERY DAY! \o/
File under “potential deals people may be interested in, holy shit it’s almost Christmas!”
JB have the Star Wars Blu-Ray box set for $67.20.
EDIT: Actually, there’s a bunch of them.
Indiana Jones – $43.20
Bond – $143.20
Breaking Bad – $119.20 (BR)/$92 (DVD)
Harry Potter – $67.20
http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/dvd/dvds-all-boxed-up.htm <— New link
Star Wars Blu-ray box set? Good, I’ve been looking for a present to give…erm…
Yeah, it’s for me.
For a second I thought the Indy set was the one with the grail diary replica.
It isn’t.20% off. Hey Red, Fringe complete blu-ray box is now AU$108 as a result. @redartifice.
Isn’t the Star Wars blu-ray set the one that has the stupid Vader “Nooooooo!” dubbed over the scene where the Emperror is electrocuting Luke, and that Hayden Christensen ghost? I would rather never see Star Wars again than legitimise that fucking shitfest.
I thought the “Nooooooo!” came from the end of ep 3 when Palpy tells Vadar his misses kicked the bucket.
Yeah. Then they dubbed one over the scene where the Emperor is frying Luke, as Vader goes over to pick up the Emperor and throw him down the bottomless shaft.
Because for some reason Lucas thought the slow zoom on Vader’s mask and the swell of John Williams’ score simply didn’t convey Vader’s strong emotions at that moment, despite enduring for 30 years as one of the best moments in the trilogy.
Oh wow….lame, very very lame.
Hence why I have some strong feelings about the current blu-ray set available for sale.
I believe it has both changed and unchanged versions of all scenes.
I shall have to investigate this claim.
By ‘unchanged’ you mean it’s still the godawful 1997 ‘special edition’ with all the extra bad CG shit though right? IIRC the original untouched THX remaster version was ‘destroyed’ when they did the Special Edition and fucked everything up the first time.
I don’t mind the ’97 version. I can live with the stupid music sequence in Jabba’s palace even though it completely shatters the tone, and ignoring Greedo shooting first is… difficult… but I can mostly ignore it. The other changes I am ok with.
The CG stuff in the Battle of Yavin don’t have the same feel as the old models did. That stupid extra sequence with the bad CG Jabba where Han steps on his tail still annoys me. Also the ending of RotJ where they changed the celebration music. I don’t mind the change but the original was better.
I don’t mind the revamped music at the end, though the shots panning across all the various places with people celebrating strikes me as a bit dumb. I think Lucas only did that because he wanted to tease Coruscant for the prequels.
Hope all is well.
Stole my room mates 360 for the weekend and bought myself The Witcher 2, its pretty cool. Looks and sounds great. The combat is taking a little to get used to but that’s only because I’ve never played anything similar before. I’m going to spend some time on the wiki, seems like there is a fair bit of lore and I have no idea who’s who or why this Kings attacking this guy.
Also, watched Hard Target for the first time last night. So cheesy, so good 🙂
You should spend time reading the diary. It’s pretty useful, funny and informative.
Ha, I didn’t know there was a diary >.< Sounds good though, I’ll definitely check it out 🙂
Watched the first episode of Attack on Titan last night. Damn this looks incredible.
It amps up then slows down here and there but overall its pretty entertaining. I’ve only seen the first 12 eps however.
Morning TAY…
DAMN these steam sales are making it hard to be good…
At least i’ve been strong and only bought one thing, AND IT WASN’T EVEN FOR ME \o/…
But Far Cry 3 for $8.73… F**k you steam and your generous sales…
SOOO how was everyone’s weekend?
I got a bunch of house work done \o/
I think i might be doing weekend wrong!
You know mentioning you want games that are on sale on TAY never ends well…
BUT WHERE ELSE CAN I VENT? 😛
Far Cry 3 is $9? :O I’ve been wanting that for ages! TO THE STEAM THING!
I know right?
I’ve been keen on this ever since i played Blood Dragon 😛
DAMMIT STEAM I CAN’T SPEND MONEY
Get it!
$9 is such a good price for a great game 🙂
Fingers crossed it will actually run on my PC 😛
Lol, Macs.
Wait, can I still say that?
Dual booting has actually been pretty good to me so far! It can run most things fine. It doesn’t set the world on fire with super high graphics settings, but hey, I’m a console peasant anyway. I don’t know the difference 😛
Yeah, I need to boot camp mine.
If only so I can play SWTOR when I go back to my parents place for Christmas haha.
sigh. I’ve ignored this sale largely by not being near my pc. I hate you all for spending more of my money for me
The only things I’ve wanted from the Steam Sale are Prison Architect (I missed my opportunity to get it half off, so I’ll keep waiting – I don’t want to pay $20+ for something still in beta – I’m cheap, I know) and Brave New World for CiV, which is still half off but I’m not sure I have $25 to spare.
Next sale. It’s not like I’m playing CiV rright now anyway. Too much other stuff on.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ELJROFA Civ V Gold + Brave New World = $19.99US
Well that feels like a waste considering I already have CiV and bought the gold upgrade and all the DLC already, but apparently I could get Brave New World by itself for only $14.99, so, that’s still a great tip.
I picked up Trine 2 for $2 and FFVII for $4 😀
Just bought FC3 – thank you!
I’M RESISTING \o/
Crap. Now Metro Last Light is down to $18.
SHADDAP! XD
Upon waking, I realized that in the first time in a year I have encountered my deadliest enemy- snow.
And so therefore to show my pure hatred for it I promptly went out, made a snowman, and then PUNCHED IT TO DEATH WITH MY BARE HANDS. Then I made that “I’ve got my eyes on you” motion to the sky, to signal my fragile peace with that harlot Mother Nature.
You know, there is totally a thing I want to try.
Water balloon with red dye in it, build a snow man, put the water balloon in the middle of head and complete as normal.
Wait for someone to pass by (preferably young, impressionable children) and start stabbing away at the head with a stick or whatever, laughing maniacally.
that’s some calvin and hobbes inspired level of hijinks. Do it, seriously.
Although I imagine with the amount of snow you get over there you’ll have enough to build a igloo.
… Actually, I’m serious. You’ll get enough to build a igloo. Or a italian-inspired villa, I ain’t a architect.
http://www.angelfire.com/wa/zzaran/images/Monster.gif
stop stealing things from Tumblr 😛
I got it from Imgur, which was a screenshot of a Tumblr post, thank you very much!
And regardless of its originality, it is still totally a thing I would like to do.
Morning all. Picked up two years worth of US PS plus membership from amazon for $60 as part of the black Friday sales so very happy with that… Looking forward to now dusting off the vita which hasn’t seen much action since finishing p4g
And caught up on some potaku eps over the weekend
That’s a pretty good deal. I love my Vita, and I’ve only played under an hour of P4G so far (saving it for the plane to the US in January). I was a PS+ member for ages before getting a PSV and had saved up so many games for it from PS+ I haven’t even played half of them.
P.S. Your name is extremely untasty. Eww. 😛
Yeah the PS plus vita games collection isn’t the best at the moment but I’m still looking forward to trying uncharted and hotline miami and hopefully over the next 12 months they will add some better games hoping for more JRPGs
P.s. I’m good cooked or raw what’s not to like about that 😉
A JRPG fan? Hmmm, maybe fish is not so bad after all. 😀
As far as JRPGs go, they’ll actually have to localize some of them before they can put them on Plus. At the moment it’s basically just Persona 4 and arguably Disgaea and Ys. 🙁
You know, I’ve honestly forgotten about a offer I made some time ago, so now’s the perfect time to bring it up again.
Steam Sales. NA prices are cheaper than Aus prices. Need a game? Want to pay EVEN LESS, you cheap asshats? Just shoot me a message here or on steam if you have me and I’ll see if I
like you enoughcan work out a deal with you.EDIT: Taybies only, though, needless to say. Better if, y’know, I recognize you. 😛
EDIT HARDER: Alternatively if you are a cool hip cool person you could, I dunno, change your IP address so you can buy steam games from another region. Can you do that? I’ve never bothered.
THIS SEEMS LIKE A DEAL THAT IS RELEVANT AND BENEFICIAL TO ME!
I’ve been to distracted by AC4 to look at the Steam sale much, but if I find something I may take you up on this offer.
They’ve put a lot of restrictions in place on the IP-switcheroo to crack down on avoiding the Australia Tax – a lot of popular VPNs are blocked, and both paypal and credit cards are being locked to their home regions. So your offer is generous and valuable.
5km walk to work, quick shower at work and find out that my work shirt smells like it does when you leave it in the washing machine for a day too long. Stale water smell, tasty. I swear I didn’t leave it in for more than 20 minutes after the washing machine had finished. Ho hum
Time to go check my various fantasy football teams
Another day in the office.
*refreshes TAY*
sounds about right. Monday’s are so productive 🙂
I bought Mario 3D World on the weekend.
I also finished Mario 3D World on the weekend 😛
Pretty good. Not the Game-Of-The-Forever (for me) that some people are claiming, but very solid. The mechanics of Mario really are the best of the genre. I also played a bit of Rayman Legends on the weekend and playing them both so close together made me realise just how floaty Rayman’s physics are :/
Great playing as Peach again though. Played as her for 99% of the game. I switched to the unlockable character after they were unlocked though and realised just how much I’d been relying on Peach’s hover as a recovery haha Kept falling from everything. Going to go back and grab all my missed green stars/stamps/etc over the next few days.
Unfortunate that there’s no challenge mode or anything like that. That was one of the best bits about NSMBU. Ah well.
Some guy I know was saying that Peach’s hover ability makes her not only the best character in the game, but completely trivialises 99% of the jumping puzzles.
At least it’s an authentic replication of the last time Peach decided to help out?
That was the case in Mario Bros 2 as well. I wouldn’t go so far as say “trivialises”, but it’s a very different playstyle. Mostly easier because you can line up landings much better but sometimes harder (bouncy platforms become a lot harder because the hover kicks in when you don’t want it to).
So if my daughter has never played a Mario game before, is this the one to get her for Christmas or should I start her with a different one?
Hm… now that’s a difficult question haha I don’t have much experience recommending games to kids 😛
I don’t think you can go wrong either way. A 2D Mario might be easier for someone new to get into but this one isn’t exactly amazingly difficult either. Depends which play style you think she’d enjoy more I suppose!
Well she’s almost 13 and 3D platformers are her favourite type of game and she’s obsessed with Zelda. I think she’s a complete Nintendo fangirl but she doesn’t know it yet. 😛
She has my Gamecube in her room though, so I was considering tracking down that GCN Mario game. Was it Sunshine? But anyway, the kids are getting a WiiU for Christmas so it’s probably best to go with the latest for now I guess. Thanks for your input. 🙂
My gf’s sister is 13 and a major Nintendo fan girl as well. We’ll be getting 3D world and she’ll be over our house every day until we finish it, I have no doubt.
Decent 3D platformer experience, she’ll be fine.
We’re struggling a little with this one when there’s a lack of experience.
Bought it, played through world 1 and half of world 2, all co-op.
Kept running out of lives, they burn fast in co-op.
The challenge mode in NSMBU is what made me a far better player.
Played the first half hour of Fez over the weekend. It really surprised me! I loved the moment the
world glitches out and makes it seem as if your PC reboots itself – pure genius.That seems like kind of a spoilery thing to say.
Wouldn’t it be better for people to experience that fresh for themselves?
Fixed!
Thank-you. 🙂
Incredible game that you could really leap down the rabbit hole and become all engrossed in. My gf started playing this and later started pointing out similar shapes we would see irl.
I’m a bit of a civilisation noob – What’s the difference between the Gold Edition and the DLC bundle?
The colour.
DLC bundle is map pack only. Gold Edition has all actual DLC except Brave New World, I believe.
Yep, this guy is right.
Also cheaper to get from Amazon. Here’s the link from @f4ction earlier
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ELJROFA
If I remember correctly you will need a US address. I wonder how many people live at the White House?
I’ve been sleeping in the Mural Room since Saints Row IV came out.
I was in the Queen’s sitting room until the secret service kicked me out.
Thanks Obama.
I live right next to Apple, according to Amazon 🙂
Also, tried out my PS4 controller on my PS3, was expecting a few games not to work as people have said the share and options buttons don’t port over, but they do in all the games I tried out 🙂 Fallout 3, I’m assuming New Vegas as a result, Borderlands and Sonic & SEGA All Star Racing. I’ll test out more games this week but it looks like the Dual Shock 4 is a PS3 compatible controller which is good for me as my second Dual Shock 3 broke a while ago
What. Sony said it’s not compatible. How is it working??
I just plugged it in by USB. I don’t think you can take the USB out, but worked absolutely fine for me. I think there was a Reddit thread somewhere that has incompatible games, but for the few I tried it worked fine. Next thing is to try it on my PC
Ah okay, so it’s just a standard joypad under USB (as expected) but bluetooth definitely doesn’t work?
So it looks like i might be moving after Christmas…
Been chatting with my Brother in Laws and they want to save some money too, so we’re thinking about a 4-bedroom split between us…
…
This should be interesting
Get bunk beds.
More room for activities.
*The top bunk mattress starts bouncing*
“Todd! You’re having a dream! Wake up! ”
“Dude, I am awake. “
Actually I think it was more like, ‘THIS IS THE FUNNEST NIGHT EVER!’
NO POWER TOOLS!
Good luck!
Both in finding a house and in going back to shared housing 😛
Yeah that’s going to be the weird part…
But we spend most weekends with them anyway…
Plus they’re both the majority of our Board Game crew XD
man think about it really hard…. we tried that this year, we all used to be so close and after this, well, my bro moved out after about a month and a half, and my mrs barely speak to him anymore, and we are *this* close to kicking out my bro in law…
We’re just toying with the idea at the moment… we’ve lived together before, but not for longer then a month at a time when we first moved here.
So yeah, it’ll be interesting, but out of pure necessity we have to do it
good luck man, i hope it works out!!
Hola Tay
I had a quiet weekend- gave blood on Saturday (apparently I have an outstanding platelet count) then went on an epic quest to buy my work secret santa present. Went to a specialist Mexican store (miles away) and bought hot sauce. Went back via bunnings and bought some plants and a planter box for my front balcony, so i can grow my own chilies.
Played a bunch of The Last of Us, about 80% through. Really, really good, living up to the hype.
A Monday Morning Question: What video game plant would you have in your garden? Given how useful it is, i think I’d have to go with Nirnroot.
The spore mushrooms from Farcry 3.
For, you know…
Medicinal Purposes.
If you read the memory cards, they say there are no adverse side-effects or addictive properties. WINNAH.
Chomper Plant from Mario. Or whatever it’s called. I’d be protected from robbers!
Flaaghra. Ain’t nobody gonna mess with my place then.
I’d go for a krynoid, that’d teach those worthless sacks of meat
Morning all!!!
so PS4…. ITS FREAKING AWESOME…
Short mini review of games i grabbed:
COD- Ghosts – havent played it yet
Ass Creed IV – ITS ASS CREED! and it looks really cool, especially after it updated, as the update ups the resolution from 900p to 1080p!
Killzone Shadowfall, – only played about 30min of it but story seems cool, and game looks amazing. like running a game on my pc on high settings-type amazing….
Resogun – man that game is MESMERISING it is just plain beautiful… so much fun. i keep on playing first level or two over and over…. damn you @freezepreston i want my high score back!
Contrast: Havent played it yet…
DC Universe Online: seems like a lot of fun, playin with a group of friends we all just rolled some new characters.
Warframe: Warframe is heaps of fun once you get into it… the melee mechanics need a LOT of work though…
Warthunder: Seems fun but is very slow paced… controls are also very awkward… near impossible to target anyone… im probably just crap…
hopefully Blacklight Retribution is released this week…. \o/
who else grabbed a PS4? I took Friday off to get acquainted with the new member of my family of hardware!
IIRC War Thunder can be played with USB keyboard & mouse, that might be a better experience?
That’s right I remember hearing about that might try it out tonight…
More correct to say the mouse makes aiming far too easy. Same issue when playing on PC.
Warframe : PC version bored me to tears. & the whole “you can buy upgrades & gear with in-game currency, but not the good & useful stuff, which you have to pay real money for” thing really pissed me off.
Yeah I know, but I’ve always been quite good at ignoring all the micro transactions stuff!!!
I’m surprised/impressed by the resolution bump to AC4. Enjoy the PS4! 😀
I’ve never been into the series but I think other people here were: the developer of Rune Factory (and Lufia, back in the day) has declared bankruptcy and shut down. Rune Factory 5 cancelled. 🙁
Aww man. Didn’t played Rune Factory a lot (from what I’ve seen it was Final Fantasy Harvest Moon which has to be a good thing). There was a great many an hour lost to Lufia 2 on SNES at my uncles place over Christmas Holidays when I was young. Imagine an 8 year olds disgust after he named Maxim after himself and halfway through the game finds himself married…and a father. My cousins never let me live that down.
Ahhh Lufia. My first ever JRPG. Closely followed by Breath of Fire II.
That’s sad. Might not be the end of an era though, depending on how the sale of assets goes.
Hey!
Words! Or something. I don’t know, I’m not a writer. I had to move my desk at work despite the fact I’ve only got 9 days left until I’m kicked out. So that’s something!
Oh, Mario CATS is a pretty amazing game. Forces myself to stop playing at the last world because I didn’t want to finish it on the weekend. Uhh, I think I’ve been playing too much SWTOR, I dreamed I was playing it last night >.> (cc:@rize @cakesmith)
And uhh, things …?
Oh crap! Bravely Default this week. So hyped for that game. BRING IT ON!
Hi all, weekend was decent. Went to my work xmas party, gf’s will be in a week or so. Anyone else having their work parties yet?
Our morning tea and secret santa will be soon. I’m looking forward to cake. 😀
I had mine a few weeks ago. Managed to empty the bar of their entire bourbon supply. Then met my new CEO and major shareholder and proceeded to tell them all about my adventures in Amsterdam. I can’t remember if they were impressed or disgusted.
We’re having lunch on the last day of work before Christmas (we shut down over the holidays). It’s my first Christmas in this job so I don’t know what the protocol is going to be. Do I get my bosses a present? Can I order the most expensive thing on the menu? Should I go wild with free drinks? I don’t know! 😛
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I went out yesterday to get what else I needed for my Secret SanTAY but ended up buying other stuff and forgetting about Secret SanTAY. Oops. 😛
Hopefully everyone who needed help with Secret SanTAY got enough help from the rhyme things last week. Also, are we supposed to be sending these ASAP or waiting until it’s closer to Christmas?
I did more or less the same thing- was in the city, thought I’d give blood then go buy the SS present, and totally blanked.
i reckon send them ASAP.
I’d say ASAP to avoid the Christmas postage rush!
Send ASAP with note saying they can’t open until Christmas.
I want to open mine as soon as I get it! >:]
You were giving suggestions? Because I kind of need some suggestions as I’m kind of stumped as to what to give. 🙁
We had an impromptu TAY musical.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/11/talk-amongst-yourselves-252/comment-page-5/#comment-2204091
Failing that, PM someone on TAY who is keeping an extensive list or files. Which seems to be half of everyone these days.
I’m happy with cash. Or fame.
I’m gonna live forever…
Oh. Unfortunately this was not useful to me. Secret reasons that I cannot reveal.
Can’t go wrong with lollies/chocolates or something like that!
Yeah, even if your recipient did do a verse, some of those were extremely difficult to figure out a gift from. I have no idea what some people were expecting to get as a gift from some of those verses!
Yeah come to think of it mine wasn’t very good. I was more focused on rhyming than giving proper ideas. Whoever drew me – Don’t worry too much. Anything would be great.
Ideas that I thought of:
For office workers – Novelty Stationary/Desk knick-knacks
Commuters – A cheap mp3 player (pretty sure they are under $20 by now) and load it up with songs you think they might like.
Posters – Movies, TV shows, games – do a little TAY/Twitter stalking and find out what people like.
Cheap Indie Games – There are steam games that go for as little as $2 at the moment. Plus Indie Bundles where you pay what you want. Find TAY-Names and see if the recipient has a steam account or if they even play on PC. If it seems a bit random write a note on why you thought they would like the game, and what you liked about it. Makes it a little more personal.
The finger of one of their loves ones – Cut up a magazine and use letters of different size and font. Demand that they post to TAY what they want for a present, and if they don’t you’ll continue to send fingers until there are none left. Maybe then go for the toes, but we are meant to keep it under $20 and I think postage might be an issue.
The rhyming was helpful! I went slightly overbudget, but you get that.
I hope the pressie to my recipient arrives before Christmas. I don’t mind when they open it! \o/
I started listing things out but didn’t put them into the song
Hmmmm I’ll try to get it done tonight
@shane: TREME! Foxtel is fast tracking it too, so I won’t have to [redact] it!
Looking forward to it, man!
Super Mario 3D World feels like a step backwards from Galaxy, unfortunately. :'(
Assassin’s Creed 4 on the other hand is so amazing. Been abusing the PS4 share function with screenshots on Twitter. XD
Really? I’ve been struggling To put the game down. The game borders on the perfect Mario game for me. XD
I just loved the sprawling, epic feel of Galaxy. The orchestra. Variety of puzzles and the like. Don’t get me wrong, this is a damn good game and an improvement on the New Super Mario Bros game that I really dislike…
Mario Galaxy was too much of the same thing for me. Don’t get me wrong I loved galaxy’s but Mario CATS is different. Every power up, almost every level I think “wow, that’s cool!”.
Haha! Just goes to show that tastes can differ crazily. 😀
I find this new one a bit disposable.
The double cherry power up is my favourite. I just wish there were more in the levels so I could have like, a hundred Peach’s 😛
(I can see where DC is coming from though, Galaxy 1 is still the best Mario game)
Every time the Galaxy theme kicked in I always had a grin on my face. 😀
There’s one new tune that I really like in this new game though! I would link to it but nobody has uploaded the soundtrack yet 😛
ps. I have the Galaxy soundtrack on my ipod 😡
I’ve watched the live scoring session so many times. XD
Hey, if it’s the best then why didn’t you suggest it when I was asking if something would be better to get than 3D World? 😛
I thought you wanted something for WiiU!
No it’s not, Mario 64 is!
Well, talking 3D anyway. Otherwise it’s SMA4.
CATS is moving very fast for someone new to the series. Almost overwhelmingly so.
That’s one of the reasons I love Steam games (or even non-Steam games that let you run with the overlay). Being able to grab screens whenever you want is awesome!
Needs screen recording functionality ASAP to be on-par with PS4/Xbone. !
Telltale confirmed The Walking Dead 2 will launch this month! (And there’s something new they’re posting tonight.)
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/12/01/telltale-teasing-something-for-the-walking-dead-on-twitter.aspx
Oh hells yeah.
All these people mentioning the Bond Bluray box has me watching mine. It’s amazing how well these movies hold up even after 30-50 years. Dr. No is more believable and real than Goldeneye or Tomorrow Never Dies. Something to be said about the value of practical effects and stuntmen.
Also Roger Moore deserves far more credit than he gets. He’s a fantastic Bond.
The Spy Who Loved Me is my favourite classic Bond and Tomorrow Never Dies/Skyfall are tied for favourite modern Bond!
Tomorrow Never Dies?
Huh.
I love it. I know it’s got many a flaw but the over-the-top Rupert Murdoch like villain and Sheryl Crowe’s theme? AMAZING! (In fact I think that movie has the best Bond theme evah!) You’re not the only spy out theeeeere…
Goldeneye’s theme is pretty amazing too.
I’ve always rated the Brosnan bonds as Goldeneye> World is not enough > Tomorrow >…….>A Piece of Bellybutton Lint > Die Another Day
World is Not Enough is unwatchable for me. Completely irredeemably bad. XD I’d rank them: Tomorrow Never Dies, Goldeneye, Die Another Day and pretend the other one doesn’t exist.
They just named her Christmas for that one joke. *shakes fist*
Oh, she was awful, but I thought the rest of it was pretty cool. Robert Carlyle!
Remember Pussy Galore?
I know, I know. But even so, I thought Christmas only came once a year is the worst line ever written.
Isn’t Die Another Day more of an homage to the other films than it’s own thing? I think that’s it’s main problem. It was a 50th anniversary celebration or something.
Funny you say that. I’m actually watching The Spy Who Loved Me right at this moment.
Roger Moore was an incredibly good Bond.
Based off your final line I don’t think we can ever truly be friends as Roger Moore was a crappy, wet, pathetic Bond in a sequence of terribly badly written films and the absolute best thing that happened to the franchise was when they dropped him for Timothy Dalton.
Roger Moore stayed on a couple of films too long. Esp by
Never say Never AgainA VIEW TO A KILL SHUT UP I KNOW MY BOND FILMS he was waaaaay too old and comfortable.That’s the one with the love interest from The Last Crusade, right?
Set in San Francisco, maybe?
The one with Grace Jones in San Francisco where Christopher Walken is the baddie.
I had this exact paragraph in mind, but was too scared to put it on TAY in case I started some hippie war against Moore lovers or something.
Connery was great but Spy Who Loved Me and Live and Let Die, while are not any Dr. No or Goldfinger, are still a lot better than Thunderball or You Only Live Twice.
Live and Let Die is suuuuuuuper racist which loses it quite a lot of points from me.
Haha, yeah. I watched it last night and cringed at Rosie’s “Oh lawdy!” schtick. But none of it seems to be done with any hatred and comes across more of a product of it’s time.
Although in a weird sort of way it was fairly progressive. Bond romancing a black girl, Kananga being a smart worthy Bond villain. The characters of Tee Hee and Whisper were treated with respect as being genuinely threatening and dangerous. Still racist as all get out now but for back then..
The worst stereotype was probably the Sheriff.
Calling it now, the Sheriff is the worst supporting character in a Bond film.
No argument there. He’s terrible and unnecessary.
But Goldeneye gets so many more points for Sean Bean.
Plus Tina Turner’s theme song is pretty damn iconic and sets the atmosphere perfectly!
We watched Star Trek: First contact the other night, And even though that film is relatively new I was still impressed by how good it looked on Blu-Ray
Oh man, I fucking love First Contact. Probably my favourite Star Trek movie.
Jerry Goldsmith’s score. GOOSEBUMPS. (Manly goosebumps, but goosebumps all the same!)
You’re all astronauts on some sort of… Star Trek.
FAN SERVICE! 😀
Just like the Tough little ship comment on Defiant 🙂
Funny seeing Adam Scott from Parks and Rec as one of Worf’s crew members! XD
Perhaps today IS a good day to die!
Afternoon, TAY.
Stupid heat. 🙁
It’s awesome isn’t it? \o/
Prefer heat to cold
Son, last week it was -4 here and it wasn’t even Winter.
You enjoy the heat. You enjoy the heat for as long as you can.
What is it about sit to stand exercises that make your arse hurt for so long? Legs I could understand but arse??
I’m no Mathematician, but I do believe the Gluteus Maximus muscle(s…?) are being worked out, hence the arse soreness.
Is that really maths? I remember much less arse in my maths classes in high school
That would be why I almost failed!!!
“You’ve got your head up your own arse!”
“I’m studying maths!”
No it isn’t, but like I said, I’m no mathematician!
Oh man, exercise is the worst.
140kg leg press probably didn’t help to be honest. I’ll not be walking normally for the rest of the day I suspect
You’re way fitter than me. I leg press a lot less than that. XD
That’s my light leg workout, my record on the leg press is 463kg. Mostly only out of spite because one of the trainers did 453 so I had to try and beat him. My hips haven’t been the same since so it was probably a mistake all things considered but it was fun to watch his face when I told him I beat his record
What’s a leg press? Is it anything like a garment press? It sounds very painful, and doing less of it sounds sensible :\
On the other hand, a sandwich press is not very painful and, in fact, delicious.
You smell like bacon if you use a sandwich press which is a bonus but it hurts to eat so it’s something of a double edged sword
They can be rather painful if you attempt to use them on non-sandwich things.
You’ve got to ask yourself: If you’re using a sandwich press for things that aren’t sandwiches, is it still a sandwich press?
http://www.cpsc.gov/PageFiles/134492/Cybex%20Leg%20Press_LARGE.jpg that’s a leg press. In fact that’s kind of exactly like me except that I’m a bloke with a beard, am 38 and sadly have notably bigger tits an my muscle mass would weigh more than she does. Other than that, identical
I generally do incline leg press (150-160kg) as a warm-up for doing squats to get everything moving, but if I do it on its own I don’t get much muscle soreness in my arse, it’s my quads that get sore from that. Squats are what gives you the glute pain.
Upside: if you do it regularly enough you get to the point where the soreness is never that intense and doesn’t linger for days any more. When I started doing stuff, leg day would mean that I would have trouble getting up stairs for the following 2-3 days after that.
Jesus man, i can barely lift my own legs inclined. Are you superman or something?
When you are a lardy fatass like me, your legs need to be twice as strong to move around your massive bulk. Also I’m fairly strong in my legs and back generally. And I’m not about to say that ~150kg is easy to lift or anything because it absolutely isn’t.
I used to just do squats but I couldn’t get the full range of motion needed to do it well because my calves and hamstrings would be too tight. After I broke my toes earlier this year I had to build the strength back up in my leg after six weeks not being able to lift anything through it, so my trainer had me on just the leg press to help rehabilitate it, and we found that if I did it first all my leg muscles would warm up and I could squat better too.
Two weeks into going to the gym I look forward to leg day. It’s chest/arms day that makes me feel like a broken man. XD
Chest and back day makes me feel like a weakling. 🙁 I can’t do a single body-weight chinup yet and I’m pretty weak in my chest as well, though improving slowly. Used to be that doing chinups, even assisted, would make my biceps so sore and inflamed I couldn’t straighten my arms for 2-3 days after 🙁
I don’t look forward to Legs Day because my trainer has me doing one-leg squats to try and improve my ankle stability and I am amazingly shit at them.
Work morning tea + staff awards + secret santa is over. It was great. 😀
I got the lil car from party popper thingie (woo, cars!), the Pokemon plushie as gift (Minin, right? Someone knows me well – I have a few of them!) and the pictured award. Pics made me lol.
http://i.imgur.com/3O9AZ28.jpg
You work with a bunch of ducks? lol
Pretty much all females, so yeah I guess. 😛
I don’t think I need to specify what I misread this as, right?
Yeah, I was wondering what kind of workplace serves brunch too.
@tigerion
Thank you very much, sir! 😀
Bad, crazybuy *bop*
Thank you crazybuy
*rubs own head*
Ow.
You’re welcome. 🙂
Apparently there’s an upcoming episode of Family Guy that is an hour long cross over with the Simpsons. Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith and Hank Azaria are meant to be on board.
http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/07/18/simpsons-family-guy-crossover-episode/
Well that sounds awful. I’ll happily be wrong about that though.
I have no doubt whatsoever that you will be completely correct.
“Remember that time our shows were funny?”
*credits roll*
(I shouldn’t be so negative :P)
I like this. It’s nice to see rival shows being friendly and getting along.
Even though people think of them as rivals, they’re both on Fox so they’re not exactly competing for ratings or anything.
Besides, they both suck too much to have any loyal fans left these days.
NegativeZero’s Kantai Collection Update that No One (except maybe @popdart5) Cares About
Got home on Friday and logged in. Decided to try pushing my luck, after the sudden breakthrough earlier last week where the RNG goddess decided to stop trolling me and dangling Battleships just out of my reach and give me Ise. Attempted to build another BB, and magically I got the Hyuuga, sister-ship to Ise. Immediately began leveling them up, upgraded them at level 10 into Aviation Battleships like my two Fusou-class.While building Hyuuga as part of a daily construction quest I also built three other random ships, one of which turned out to be the heavy cruiser Kinugasa, who I had been trying to obtain for ages. Getting her along with Ise allowed me to clear out two of the composition quests.
Began running a primary fleet of Akagi and Hiryuu, plus Fusou, Yamashiro, Ise and Hyuuga. Even at much lower levels my Ise-class hit very hard which was nice. Began grinding 2-3 a few times to try and get the two new BBs to higher levels. This also freed me up to move some of my secondary ships I’d been running in Fleet 1 into Fleet 2, and given that they were getting fairly powerful as well I found my secondary fleet was easily the match of 2-2 and 2-3 as well, though the enemy BBs are a bit tricky for a heavy cruiser.
While doing said grind I managed to get a second Ise, which I think was the RNG goddess trolling me again.
Then with my primary fleet getting a bit more powerful I decided I’d have a few cracks at 2-4. I was easily steamrolling most of the enemies but couldn’t make it to the boss node without some of them getting hurt enough that I wanted to recall them just to be safe. Finally managed to push through to the Boss node and cleared it first go. World 3 and 4 both unlocked! And to make things even better, the drop for the 2-4 boss was heavy cruiser Myoukou, which I had been needing to get to finish a composition quest that was a pre-requisite for the quest to have all four of the Kongo-class BBs, which unlocks the 4th fleet.
It turns out that 3-1 is actually on paper easier than 2-3 and 2-4. Like 2-2 you’re mainly fighting destroyers and cruisers. The difference is that they’re higher-level enemies, Flagships and Elites, meaning they’re harder for lower-level ships to crit against. My 4 BB 2 CV primary fleet were absolutely smashing the crap out of them though, often sinking 3-4 of the enemies with the initial aircraft wave and then the BBs easily clear out the rest.
Problem was that I couldn’t get it to let me into the Boss node for the area. Just RNG badness (unlike 3-2 where you must have a fleet of destroyers to get to the boss). After many runs over the space of the weekend, last night I finally managed to get through to the boss. Stomped it first go, easy fight. And the drop for beating the 3-1 boss was Kongo-class Battleship Kirishima! Super happy.
So now I have to clear 3-2, which means getting a fleet of six Destroyers into around the level 30 range. Spent the remainder of my fuel in PVP, 2-2 and 2-3, with my new Kirishima (who has shot up to level 10 already), CVL Hiyou and Chiyoda all acting as escorts for a trio of three of my lower-level Destroyers. I already have Yukikaze to 23 so I’m letting her sit for a bit while I concentrate on Yuudachi (currently level 15), Hibiki (10) and Shigure (7) as those three all have a second-tier remodel after their initial level 20 remodel. I haven’t decided which other two of my collection will get the same treatment. If I manage to get a Shimakaze to drop or build for me then she’d definitely be worth it, but really those five are the only top-tier destroyers. If they update the game again and introduce a second remodel to another DD then I’d pick her, but assuming that I get no others past this point I’d probably pick more of the Shiratsuyu-class or perhaps my Makigumo since she’s rarer than many and has some nice starting gear after remodel.
In the meantime I’ll probably split my primary fleet up, running 2 heavy carriers and 4 battleships is a massive resource dump. I’ll probably go back to running a single light carrier and battleship pair in fleet 1 and 2 and supplement the rest with cheaper ships like cruisers. And I’ll start grinding 3-2 as I’ve been told the rest of the Kongo-class battleships drop fairly often from there.
You’ve had a better luck than me. Congrats on filling out the Ise-class BB and clearing World 2.
RNG god has been trolling me pretty hard on 1-3 as I keep getting thrown into the maelstrom path rather than the boss path. Ran it about a dozen times over the weekend and only got the correct path to the boss once before I was thrown back to the side path. I double-checked if there were any composition requirements but it seems I’ve just had really bad luck.Coincidentally, I’ve been derping pretty darn hard and I wasn’t tracking my dailies so I couldn’t figure out how why I wasn’t getting more development kits. Yeah, I’m pretty noob still. Thankfully I’ve got both Sendai and Naka CL drops and I only need Jintsuu to clear the quest for the third fleet and I’ve been clearing expeditions at a steady pace.
Still haven’t lost a ship yet and my HQ is now level 6 and my flagship Tenryuu is level 10 so I’m not doing too badly. Haven’t gotten any BBs or CVLs yet but that shall hopefully come soon.
You will probably need to get at least 1 BB and one CV or CVL to clear 1-4. There are carriers there. At a pinch you could probably use a heavy cruiser or two but IIRC the boss node for 1-4 is quite hard, plus you need to get through a lot of nodes to get there.It actually sounds like you’re doing okay to me. It took me ages to get Sendai as she’s actually a rare drop. BTW, you can tell rarity by the background color. Common are blue, Uncommon is purple, Rare is grey, Super Rare is Gold, and the Ultra Rares are holographic with a sort of cloudy purplish color. Generally when you remodel a ship her rarity goes up one slot, so a Grey will become Gold when remodeling etc.
Thus far throughout the game I’ve only gotten 3 UR (Akagi, Hiyou, Yukikaze) and 4 SR (Ise x2, Hyuuga, Kirishima). Also for the first week or so all I had was destroyers plus Tenryuu and Yura. I kept doing one of the construction recipes for building carriers and eventually got Shouhou (CVL) and that made a big difference.
Keep at it and you’ll get some nice stuff eventually. One of the most important things to do is the construction daily quests, the brown series. Once you unlock the daily, it’s Develop equipment once, build one ship, then develop again 3 times, then build 3 ships. You get enough instant-build materials and new construction kits out of that that you end up net positive in both even if you use the insta-construction blowtorches to clear out two slots, and overall assuming you do the minimum amounts (btw, 31/31/31/31 has a higher chance of cruisers and a minor chance for rare destroyers and subs than standard 30/30/30/30) you end up several hundred ahead in every resource.
Assuming I’m reading the Japanese correctly, this twitter update:
https://twitter.com/KanColle_STAFF/status/407295309711015937
Says that they’re down on the 4th for Maintenance and Updates. No new shipgirls are being added but a certain ‘hai hai~’ one may be getting a second ‘kai’ evolution. The particular line they mention is one of the lines that Murasame is always speaking, so I guess they’re continuing their trend of introducing second-tier remodels to the Shiratsuyu-class destroyers with her (previously they added new evolutions with new art to Shigure and Yuudachi).
Just in case you’ve got one kicking around. Might be worth investing in her for longer-term use if you do, assuming this is correct. We’ll see if it’s accurate or not.
Hmm, if that is correct then I’m in a good position. I have Murasame and Shiratsuyu so I might start getting them some experience.
Shiratsuyu-class are good Destroyers generally anyway, so nothing lost if you do put some effort into them.
Actually it might be that they don’t introduce a Kai-2 form like with Yuudachi and Shigure. Two weeks ago they changed the art and voice samples for Shiratsuyu’s first upgrade. Might do that with Murasame.
Started looking at the cost of flights from Brisbane to Osaka (yeah I’m hype, what of it?)
Economy class with Emirates is AU$17500 return.
Yes that’s the right amount of 0’s.
Brisbane to Osaka via the moon?
It would want to be. Else Emirates Economy comes with piles of cocaine and hookers carrying crates of Cristal to your solid gold throne.
Tigers on a gold leash?
At least two, and a shark infested moat of Evian around your seat.
Imagine what you’d get if you paid for first class!
To be fair, it would take a LOT of lights to cross the ocean.
No idea what you’re talking about *whistles nonchalantly”
I’m surprised Emirates would even toy with the idea of letting some non-oil baron peasant board one of their flights.
Edit: Haha man that sounds a lot meaner than it was meant to be.
Coal barons need to fly too.
How is Emirates still in business? I’m sure all the tycoons have private jets!
Pretty sure I’ve flown with them before. Must be a mistake.
http://i.imgur.com/hFU1JDV.jpg
Heh. And not even direct.
Still seems incredibly expensive. Maybe because it’s so far in the future they only have fares open for oil barons?
Why am I suddenly thinking @transientmind is going to be on that flight.
By 2015, he’ll own the plane. Or maybe even the entire airline.
Out of curiosity I did the exact same flight but from Sydney.
Most expensive: Malaysia Airways, $9679
EDIT: Even going first class with Korean Air is only $13426
Fuck yeah my 8250 lives!
Took a good 15mins or so for the battery to actually start charging again. BUT IT’S ALIVE!
Man I miss that phone.
And in 50 years, when you find it again, you’ll say the exact same thing.
And then when you pass it to your children. Then down to your children’s children…
I did the same thing the other day for my 6100. Had to get that one out to check out which numbers for a few of my contacts were their current numbers, since I had multiple listings for a few but the “default” marking didn’t come across in the transfer. But it was just so amazing how small and light and comfortable it is to hold and use. I miss that.
This one I’ve booted up to check some stuff on Snake. I can’t believe how fast it is to do everything. Like, I click a button. And at the exact moment I do that, the thing I wanted to happen HAPPENS. STRAIGHT AWAY.
Also my high score in Snake was actually 855.
My first phone was the Nokia 8310.
I still have it and yes, it still powers if I charge it.
Fuck Fuck FUUUUUUUUCK
No one go on Twitter. Walking Dead S2 spoilers from Shiggy and others.
Not huge spoilers, but still enough to be IRRITATING.
[CENSORED].WHY DID YOU POST THE SPOILER AGAIN????
THE WORST.
im kidding i dont care 😛
Yeah, saw that too. 🙁
Ah, put a warning on that spoiler tag D:
I thought the warning was implied, but okay, I’ve clarified it!
Thanks. It’s entirely my fault, but still 😛 Jokes in spoiler tags have taught me bad habits.
I’m more annoyed that Telltale is revealing this sort of information in the first place! 🙁
All fair points, and I guess I didn’t need to mention it at all. I will re-edit, and I apologise to you.
Wait, this post has totally confused me. I have no idea what’s going on! haha
EDIT; Just to be clear and all that: not annoyed at you, Shane 😛 No need for an apology.
Guess I totally misread everything. SORRY
😛Wait… jokes in spoiler tags… THAT WAS ME.I’M SORRRRRRRRRRRRRRY 🙁Yeah thanks to the stupid new Twitter thing where it automatically shows images I got miled spoilered too. I don’t really care as I doubt I’ll ever play the rest of the first season let alone anything newer (I found the first chapter incredibly unenjoyable) but I know that was going to be seen by people accidentally who really didn’t want to see it 🙁
Some of the sea shanties in Pirate’s Creed are crazy catchy!
You can turn them off in the menus.
Why would any one want to do that? D:
Because the shanties are racist and so are you if you like them.
😛I thought you guys established I was racist when I said I’m looking forward to going to a Mexican restaurant. 😛
Black people are terrible
And so are the Jews
Let’s kill all the Mexicans
And go eat Chinese foodAnd nuke the Chinese too
I haven’t played the game.
Edited for thinking of a
bettermore racist line.Whoops. Reply Fail on my behalf.
You get all the catchy ones early and then once you get more it takes forever to get to the good ones again because they’ve filled it out with annoying ones. 🙁
Haha, I cut them off mid song. They’re a well rehearsed group!
Was talking on TS with Rize, and he mentioned one of the shanties, and I was like “I don’t think I know that one,” and he responded with “you will if you hear the chorus.”
THAT’S A LIE THAT’S A LIE THAT’S A LIE LIE LIE!
That’s actually my favourite one.
WEEEEEEEEEEE!
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Sounds like the start of the Doctor Who theme.
This just in: BBBC* sues Nintendo
The extra B is for BYOBB** (Bring your own barrister)That extra B is a typo.Fifty years of Prior Art, bitches.
and that’s discounting the time travel they could claim
Nintendo says the Doctor is stopping everyone from buying WiiU’s because…Timey Wimey Stuff?
UGH. Mondays, am I right?
This may be controversial, but I don’t mind Mondays. It could have something to do with the fact I don’t have a job, but Mondays aren’t too bad for me.
Yeah, when you don’t have a job every thing is different! Might weird you out to know @shane that Saturday and Sunday are my least favorite days! XD
Doesn’t surprise me that you hate days when TAY is quiet. Makes sense, really.
But @saturday is awesome!
:p
No, your unemployment is totally unrelated. I don’t know why you would ever think that.
This is indeed an example of a Monday.
I find they suck because it seems no one ever delivers stuff I’ve been waiting weeks for on mondays
Totally. Let us wallow in misery together. Ugh.
something something Garfield
I just ate like half a cheese cake. My Mondays going gooooood 😛
@strange @sernobulus @jo @DARKSOULS\o/PEEPS
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1926778898/ref=ox_ya_os_product
Enter the code BOOKDEAL and get the whole thing shipped to you for $28 roughly
Code expires in the next few hours.
@freezespreston, don’t do this. Please recall I ordered your copy ages ago.Nifty. Not too big on art books, but nifty.
clearing out my steam inventory.
got a few things free to a good home :
1 x Payday2 x Godmode
1 x Ace of Spades
1 x ShootMania Storm
someone take them please.
Edit: they’ve all been sent to random people.
….
Decline
EDIT: I’m actually impressed you found one I didn’t own.
EDIT 2: I could’ve sworn I owned it.
if you dont want it, pass it on to someone else, coz i really dont want it back.
Edit: I was surprised too.
THANK YOU #35 YOU’RE PRETTY AWESOME GUY
LIAR
you’re welcome, Mr Ferret. hope you dig it.JUST TAKE THE COMPLIMENT ASSHOLE
I got a Job offer in Canada, in Manitoba the coldest part of Canada, in a town of 4000 people.
WHY AM I ENTERTAINING THIS IDEA????
coz it’d be a pretty awesome experience.
also, Bish-proximity.
its 2000 kms or more from bish, you actually would have to drive into the US to get to toronto from Manitoba
still about 12,000km closer than you are now.
I talk to him nearly everyday, he sends me messages with lyrics to 80’s music. He is pretty rad.
Why is everybody jumping ship to Canada!?
Are you all Alien Interfaces and going to “Canada” is code for being deleted?
The mysterious attraction of Poutine.
It’s code for China. They’re all actually communists. They get picked up in secret from Canada by Harold Holt’s submarine. They used to do it from Australia but Tony’s watching the beaches.
You know polar bears are common there yeah?
I mean, if that’s not reason enough I don’t know what is.
Really polar bears in Canada ? didnt know that. although i dont know a lot about canada
This should help.
Also this
I’ll stop being a dick now.I “googled” canada and got to the wikipedia page. You are like internet god.
I was going to do a “fun facts about Manitoba” and just list a bunch of random bad stuff but decided this was a less dickish thing to do haha.
Oh i know its terrible, Its so cold and small and nothing is there.
But life experience and the call of the void.
Im still sure that i just want to do it because i thirst for adventure every three months. Ill get there and it will be shit and ill want to go back home to no job and sadness. Or good things could happen.
hahahaha
Good things never happen to me 😛
@rocketman
Imagine me giving the speech from Independence Day but instead about killing aliens its about moving to Canada.
Congrats!
I plan to be there myself this time next year.
Theory: playing enough SSX will make you a snowboarding god.
Watch “The Fourth Kind” then visit Nome when you get there!
Make a list of pros and cons of staying vs going, mull over it for several days and then throw it in the bin and do whatever seems good at the time.
Ugh, why do I bother interacting with people on Gizmodo? It always ends badly. Especially on politically aligned articles.
at least its not lifehacker.
Something something bread in the microwave
Dont comment on lifehacker, Those guys hate being told they are wrong. Any article that mark writes about trying some new diet or excercise or sleep thing people jump down his throat saying he is wrong and its akin to committing suicide.
“Australian government couldn’t organize condoms and lube distribution in a brothel.”
Shit, guess all those airports, armies and taxation systems don’t work as intended then.
I guess they’d point out that those were set up by the former government and the current one hasn’t had a chance to fuck them up yet?
Nope. Everything is Tony Abbotts fault.
Especially the crucifixion of Jesus.
JESUS WOULD OF BEEN SAVED IF TONY DIDNT CUT THE CARBON TAX.
just because i hate political stuff, i am making a joke. This joke does not reflect my personal political views, of which i have none.
If they had had proper NBN they would have been able to stream the crucifixion and no one would be arguing over it.
Oh, I forgot to mention:
I was in EB on the weekend and they said they sold out of Xbones. But, as I was killing time, I saw an opened box on the floor with a sales dude inspecting it. I asked him “haha, did it break already?” and he replied saying that some crazy dude traded in his un-opened Xbone for $300 in-store credit.
Some people are truly retarded.
seconded, the motion passes.
So retarded. How could someone even entertain the thought of having a console over a PC? At least he/she came to their senses.
MASTER RACE HOLT! \o/
😛
WE SHOULD PLAY LOL AT YOUR LAN,
THEN FARCRY 2
THEN ILL BE PASSED OUT
I don’t think LoL would be worth it – we would have to install and wait for the patches on my crappy rural internet. Need to find some good games that would be easy to pass around on a network.
One of us, one of us!
Stolen? Gift?
Also walk in for store credit is easier than the hassle of putting it on eBay to some.
Day one preorder and switched preference after e3
Tbh it’s more suspicious if he traded in a stolen one. Why else would someone be happy to lose at least $200? The dude could have camped in food court for half an hour and sold it for $500 easy.
looks like “the mandate” got funded on kickstarter. GG.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1964463742/the-mandate
Was there a steam sale on or something? I don’t think I’ve actually opened Steam in about two weeks.
Nope.
Are you lying in a vain attempt to spare my wallet?
The problem I found in the last 3 or so sales is that everything on sale I already own, or it’s not yet cheap enough to impulse buy.
still is going on i think. I dont buy steam games often cause i dont even install them. STUPID NQ internet
Share files with your bros! Friend did that with me a couple years ago.
Thanksgiving sale, to answer your question.
…I just decided to Adblock all of the article links on the bottom of the page.
No regrets… but one get. \o/
Guys, Monaco is $3 on Steam atm (flash sale). Prob my favourite indie game this year
Thought $3? I’ll try that. Load up Steam and I already own it…
Dear Secret SanTAYers.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/12/gift-guide-the-12-most-passive-aggressive-secret-santa-presents-you-can-give-this-year/
Is farting in a bag still a thing people do?
Im asking for a friend 😛
Please, if you’re going to gift outdated technology at least do something not mainstream.
Like a Betamax or Laserdisc.
i hope you have an HDDVD player!
…yep.
60GB Xbox 360 hard drive!
Hey, a journal is a great present to someone about to go travelling.
My Mother gave my Uncle Nicotine patches one year. It was… kind of hilarious. Also I don’t think anyone else would get away with it, but Mum’s a little scary…
Edit: Also, fuck that list, socks are amazing.
Re-posting because I only just read it on the last page:
(With regards to the rhymes and ideas for Secret SanTAY gifts):
Yeah come to think of it mine wasn’t very good. I was more focused on rhyming than giving proper ideas. Whoever drew me – Don’t worry too much. Anything would be great.
Ideas that I thought of:
For office workers – Novelty Stationary/Desk knick-knacks
Commuters – A cheap mp3 player (pretty sure they are under $20 by now) and load it up with songs you think they might like.
Posters – Movies, TV shows, games – do a little TAY/Twitter stalking and find out what people like.
Cheap Indie Games – There are steam games that go for as little as $2 at the moment. Plus Indie Bundles where you pay what you want. Find TAY-Names and see if the recipient has a steam account or if they even play on PC. If it seems a bit random write a note on why you thought they would like the game, and what you liked about it. Makes it a little more personal.
The finger of one of their loves ones – Cut up a magazine and use letters of different size and font. Demand that they post to TAY what they want for a present, and if they don’t you’ll continue to send fingers until there are none left. Maybe then go for the toes, but we are meant to keep it under $20 and I think postage might be an issue.
Pro-tip regarding Steam games: TAYlist has a co-op section. If you know PersonX loves co-op games, buy them a couple of the ones they are missing!
HA! Have they disabled comments on that article? XD
It’s like they know..
For work I just came across a company called “Schindler Lifts”.
This has to be a bad joke, right?
http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler_Group
They predate the holocaust by about 70 years.
INTERESTING
I can’t find any reference of them referring to themselves as “Schindler Lifts” until the 70’s though. So I stand by my terrible joke!
Check out the manufacturer’s name the next time you use the escalators.
No, but apparently their service is!
Is it wrong I’m now imagining Schindler working out in a gym and then beating Nazis up.
Haha I was in an elevator at Woolworths last week and noticed that on the button panel. I chuckled 😛
Every day on getting up to go to work in a rural town, I would wake to stare at a sign for ‘Fuchs lubricants’. Always made me smile.
@jocon
DUDE WE MISSED YOU and your awesome voice, join us on TS sometime. We have a new server, i cant remember the deets but ill send them when i get home. anyway COME PLAY GAMES AND SHOOT THE SHIT WHEN YOU CAN.
By the way this goes for everyone, I enjoy talking to people on the TS server, if you haven’t joined us before, you totally should. Its fun and occasionally me and blaghs sing duets (we do it literally all the time is fucking annoying)
And if you jump on the server late enough, Rocketman has usually gone to bed!
And by late enough we mean like, 8PM.
Haha sure.
I’m currently still embroiled in Dark Souls but once I’m done I’ll probs jump on the PC more and say hi.
Dammit!!!!! Bought Game Dev Tycoon from the Humble Store. Installed it and found out my version of OSX isn’t enough to run it. What a pain.
10.9 free upgrade yo. Unless you’re running like powerpc mac. 😛
@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 figure that’s the easiest way to do this but I’ve only got the Syd people.
Thank you and have a nice day!
I should probably un-tag @shane from these
And i probably shouldn’t tag him in posts explaining I’ll un-tag him
cc/ @shane
DM’d!
oops! I replied to the post in old tay! done! 😉
sendered
@dc
I believe he’s attempting re entry sir.
@dc
Just keeping the British end up sir.
@dc
You always were a cunning linguist, James.
@dc
I have been known to keep my tip up.
@dc
Just a slight stiffness coming on… in the shoulder.
@dc
A little restless but I got off eventually.
@dc
I thought Christmas only comes once a year.
@dc
Well, I’m afraid you’ve caught me with more than my hands up.
…
I’m going home. This fucking sucks.
Good afternoon people
Last song played was Murder Mitten by I See Stars
Iron Swan – The Sword
And I think you mean good evening #pedantry
Let’s Get Ridiculous by Redfoo.
Still can’t stop listening to that song…
21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson
Hallelujah – Cale
Upvote for that version. :p
Hello
HI JIMUJIM!
Hi, godlikeBlaghs 😀
Did I leave cheatmode on again?
Jimu! Always a pleasure!
Hi, dood!
I see how it is.
Who’s this guy? (Never mind the fact that should be being said about me) 😛
Who’s this child?
Ys Seven, day something.
In the desert now, far less dessert than I had hoped. This guy has a hammer with which he uses to hit stuff.
I hope I can replace my archer soon, she bores the crap outta me.
Game has really generic everything except music, which is hit and miss. The rockin stuff is rockin but the attempt at heartfelt shit is puke worthy.
I’m enjoying my time. Isn’t blowing me away or anything.
Thankfully easy really is easy this time, I know this because I haven’t spent far too long on the same early boss like I did in the last Ys.
Both are better than Ys I&II on DS, that shit is shit and I dont like it.
I had hoped P4G would at least come second in that handheld vote, looks like both Zelda and Pokemon will knock it lower 🙁
Zelda is worthy but Pokemon Black or White 2 is better than X & Y. Bit ‘arsh really.
Aisha is awesome, she fires her bow basically as fast as you can spam the button and most of the time it’s from range as well. I ended up using her ahead of Adol most of the time.
The game’s a slow burn at the start when you’re going around the villages and everything, but it escalates and gets better and better as it goes. I hope you make it as far as the Altago Ring, if only because Crossing Rage is one of the best boss battle themes ever.
I just like swords
Im back at altago looking for scarlet rock or something
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=poopsock
Well… Now I know what that is…
O_o
Don’t click through if you value your sanity.
I think I’ve read enough UD to gather the definition from the URL … 🙁
Artorius huh.
Did not expect to be fighting him so soon and maaaaan is he a jerk.
Once he goes super-sayan I just cannot touch him – his triple overhead slam becomes impossible for me to block and is undogeable to start with. And he is just so fast and has so many attacks it’s hard to get a hit in.Not giving up but damned if I know what I’m gonna do.
Definitely not go fight the black dragon of instakillyoufromamileaway thats for sure.
Haha. Told you it would be a challenge.
How did you go with the Sanctuary Guardian?
Not too bad, killed me a couple of times but was pretty straightforward once I figured out his attack pattern.
And seriously, that dragon.
He does an aoe on the ground beneath him at a distance at least equal to that of Havel’s tower to Dusk’s crystal golem, and the shockwave reaches and immediately kills me 😐No way could I have done that fight without the Greatshield of Artorias. I have no tips to offer, I’m afraid.While he is charging up his super saiyan thing ie: starts gathering the darkness, you can hit him two or three times to cancel it out and keep him a bit more docile.Hmm, that might be the ticket, thanks.
You gotta be close already, and quick, though.Yeah tried it a few times, usually not fast enough and the two times I got there I could not do enough damage to stop him before the aoe came out.But I shall persevere…
Tomorrow.
The wikis say three strong attacks will usually do it. I never succeeded in breaking his concentration, though. I just Greatshielded him instead 😛Wow, damn. My weapon is too slow for that.
He is resistant to bleed I suppose.
I’ll try boosted great combustion, maybe it will do enough.
Oh, Dark Souls.
I thought you were talking about a new DBZ game or something 😛
I’m home finally – what an awfully long day. Shane was right, Mondays. UGH.
Mind you, I did just get 94% in my theory exam tonight. 😀
That’s pretty bloody good, nice one. What didn’t you get right, trick questions or obscure stuff?
If you know the content and you revise thoroughly, it’s always the trick questions and stupid mistakes that catch you out. 😀
Latest Walking Dead TV episode spoilers.
It was silly. Also, when Rick asked Michonne “Where’s Carl?” All I could think was “He’s in the house.”( https://twitter.com/Strangist/status/205260220451143681/photo/1) I said it out loud and Mr. Strange cracked up laughing. 😛I read some reviews. My favourite quote from those:
“The Walking Dead is TV’s okayest show that we all want to be great.”Sounds like a bloody ep, from all accounts. But all the reviews seem to agree that it’s failed to pay off on a whole bunch of set-ups.I’ll watch it tonight!
EDIT: Got slightly spoilered on Twitter last night though.
Slight Walking Dead s2 spoilers on IGNs Facebook page, just a heads up.
Thanks! Will avoid IGN today (and every day :P)
Spoilers on Kotaku’s front page too.
GAH. This is terrible 🙁
I think my original plan to wait until the season is complete and then marathon it is going to be difficult.
Yeah, I think it worked okay last time because expectations were blown away throughout the season and word of mouth spread with every episode. Now any one who’s remotely interested is a potential spoiler source. *shakes fist*
Looks like the spoilers on IGN and front page could be the same as you saw on twitter yesty. I’m no stalker I promise >.>
@BEAVWA!!!
Thank you kind sir!
I guess you could say that i’m now
willing to make the commitment to wakin’ up
at the crack a’ noon, for deep-knee rock squats!
Seven or eight at a time! In a row!
ROCKON !..! -_- !..!
Brütal Legend GETIT’S GIG TIME! WHAT T-SHIRT AM I GOING TO WEAR?
BRAIN ANEURYSM!
Upvote for correct spelling.
Morning all!
Only 10 hours left to get The Lesser Evil for $0.99.
http://www.amazon.com/Lesser-Evil-Omnibus-Graphic-Novel-ebook/dp/B00EG3X5C2
Clock is ticking. I think all your loved ones want a copy too. Make this your budgetest Christmas yet!
PS: If my Secret SanTAY just goes ahead and gifts 20 copies of this book to other people and sends me the receipts, I’ll be happy! 😛
So sales man-like lately. XD
Social media storm today, radio silence for three months afterwards while I contemplate hanging myself in a hotel room. That’s the life of the travelling salesman.
Your usage of the hyphen in between the words man and like is a little concerning. 😛
I’m known for my illiteracy.
And editing. And lists. And punching. Faces. And that pirate joke. ARGH!
Have I missed anything? 😀
Gattaca?
Post apocalyptic urban decay?
Love for the majestic Colobus?
QUICKNESS
Being a terrible hermit.
Man-like describes me pretty well, actually. There’s a subtle difference between me and man, but no one can quite put their finger on it…
Well I finally did it, SKYRIM! on PC!
Time to experience all of those tasty looking mods.
Mmm, mods.
*drools*
YEEAAAH \o/
I highly recommend Sounds of Skyrim (Wilderness, Dungeons and Civilisation from memory) they are awesome!
Also if you want to tinker and are willing to accept a performance drop, ENB for Skyrim is pretty amazing!
HD Textures are a must
and so are Static Mesh Improvement Mod
I pretty much run stuff that doesn’t change the overall gameplay, because reasons…
Although i did download a “Passive Horses” mod because i got sick of my horse having a higher kill count then me XD
Yeah, started looking at the sound and visual mods, plus the immersive armors (I think it is called) oh and the mod that adds cloaks or capes.
May take it slow at first, PCs are scary and using stuff like mods makes me think I will make the computer blow up.
Yeah be careful, i suggest only adding a couple at a time, because it can cause severe stability issues having too many mods XD
Winter is Coming cloaks are awesome!
Pretty night sky is a must have mod.
Saw this headline, and for a second thought my wife had written an article.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/12/thats-not-how-breasts-work-ryse/
HAH!
Being that it ends with: What about penis physics, I wonder?
This is entirely possible…
Also you should probably run…
fast…
Happy birthday, @gutsoup! You’re awesome, hope the day and year treats you well!
Thanks mang, days been good so far, it’s involved couch, coffee and video games
Best day ever! Enjoying the PS4? Assassin’s Creed has consumed my life. Tempted to start Killzone just to see next gen goodness. 😀
@shane: New Treme was so, so good. Didn’t realise until I started watching that I’ve got a real fondness for these characters. You watch yet?
Nah, I was [redacting] it last night. Will be watching probably tonight.
Was basically a who’s who of people deserving of Emmy nominations!
Is that the TWD2 pic on the front page that everyone was raging about?
Yes. That’s the one.
To be honest the screenshot makes me want the game less. =/
I don’t understand this at all. I know season one was a fairly self-contained experience, but this is like a TV show with an ensemble cast.As long as the writing is good you should give them the benefit of the doubt.
This is just an extension of what came before and what came before was good.Also picked up Civ5 for the PC. This should be interesting as the last Civ game I got for the PC, er 2 i think, the first time I played it I think I was on it for about 18 hours straight without even realising.
Here’s hoping that happens again.
Though I don’t know how it could possibly beat Civ Rev on my iPhone.
😛
Goodbye Hugo. We will still be here in 2014 when you surface for some air.
With both SKYRIM! and Civ5… yeah I think I may be occupied for some time.
Relevant.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=poopsock
Every time someone mentions that a staff member at my work is employed as a casual, I have to stifle the urge to mutter “filthy casual”.
Just remember they’re getting paid more than you.
Yeah but when you’re pooping on a tropical island somewhere and realise you’re getting holiday pay, it’s totally worth it.
Downloaded OSX Mavericks overnight. Seems to be working well. It will be interesting to see if there’s any major differences between this os and the one I’d been using.
I suggested that on the previous page haha. What version was the current?
10.6.8 I think. It’s taken a fair chunk out of my download though. 🙁
Nice, that’s $50+ worth of upgrades!
The Lesser Evil (as endorsed by Mark Serrels on Facebook)
99 cents.
You can afford it. You can afford TEN.
Oh, here’s a story that’ll make you buy a copy out of sympathy:
I knew my parents weren’t going to buy a copy, so I gifted them a copy. I told my mum, “I’ve bought you a copy of The Lesser Evil.” Her response: “What’s that?”I’m with your mum. I haven’t heard if it until just then.
Guess I need to spamvertise more.
Other than the social medias, are you advertising any other way?
Eh couldn’t be stuffed dicking around with addresses, so decided to buy it at full tote.
Yay comics!
Oh, you fool. I think from memory you already own Flamestar, but I comped you a copy anyway. Email inbound.
Also,
Ouch, Mum.*shrug* I’m used to it by now.
Happy Families!
Before I reluctantly drag myself off to a Telstra shop, would anybody in the great Hive mind of Tay know what the approx price for unlocking a Telstra Wifi 4G usb dongle thingy might be.
I have never actually had to have a device unlocked by Telstra before and I haven’t the faintest idea of how much it might cost.
I vaguely recall unlocking a mobile costing $50 years ago. No idea about today, nor with wifi dongles. Any particular reason you need to unlock it? May be better and easier to just get a different one with whoever you’re changing to.
Changing to a Virgin plan, but heard reports that there device is large and rather crappy. I get a better deal if I bring my own modem and I like the current telstra one, basically just a usb stick which can also create wifi hotspots.
Ahh. Fair enough!
What’s that? You’re going overseas for a few weeks and need it unlocked to use over there? Well why didn’t you say so.?
If the SIM is on a Telstra plan, it should be free unlocking for the device. Prepaid? No idea.
Considering the amount of time I’ve spent in Assassin’s Creed IV I think it’s only fair I tell people that it’s so incredibly worth buying. I was hesitant after playing Revelations (disliked) and ACIII (great environment, complete apathy regarding characters other than Haytham intro) but this is just a hell of a lot of fun.
I’m going to wait for it to go on sale. In the mean time I have 2 copies of Brutal Legends to start. =P
I wasn’t liking it all that much then this happened. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10152043057051628&id=561911627&__user=561911627
It turned into a broken Facebook link?
GOTY!
Fixed? I don’t know. Facebook is the only way the PS4 will share videos for some retarded reason.
Wrote a thing about GMing Numenera on the interwebs for TAYbies:
http://www.pixel-otaku.com/red-rants-coming-back-to-the-tabletop/
Great write-up Red. Always cool to hear how the GM feels about how a campaign is progressing. And yeah, people seriously should try out RPGs at least once to see if they like it. 😀
Just read it, 10/10 would read again 🙂
Always looking forward to the next session
Just got back from talking to the surgeon (he was the same one who operated on me originally). He’s ordered an MRI on my knee, but I’m definitely going to have to have surgery on it. The giant bit of bone that’s been floating around in my knee since the original surgery that I’ve been complaining about for years and people have been saying is nothing, turns out it actually is something.
Who would have thunk it
Did they give you an idea on whether it is fairly straight forwards or not?
Sounds like he’s just going to cut in there and take it out. The MRI is to see if there are any smaller pieces he also needs to take out.
Because I’m weird, I’ve decided I’m going to see if they’ll let me keep the big piece they remove.
It would be weird not to want to keep the bit they took out.
Good luck sire.
So what you’re saying is, it turns out that something isn’t nothing, it’s something? WHO KNEW?
Good to hear it’ll hopefully get fixed now, at least!
And grant him Super Powers… I’ve heard things like that do that
GUYS GUYS IM IN SYDNEY NEXT WEEK
METRIC AND MUSE
DINNER WITH TAYBIES
WOO
OH SHIT MUSE IS NEXT WEEK!
WOO!
So Pizza Hut is giving away a PS4 every hour along with your choice of Knack, Killzone, Driveclub or Infamous Second Son.
Something weird I can’t quite put my finger on.
Oh yeah, the pizza is terrible. No wait. Something else.
Hmm.
I’m reading through the rules and regulations and I can’t find anything TOO dodgy. Well, aside from the usual level of dodginess that goes on in competitions like this.
kinda dodgy: you essentially can’t be related to ANYONE that works at Pizza Hut – even 1st cousins rule YOU out of winning something.
I think he’s referring to the fact that Infamous Second Sun isn’t out on PS4 until march (?) next year. =P
That’s all right, technically neither is the PS4.
This. It seems like they’ll have a bunch of stuff in 6 months to give away but are jumping the gun and running the competition now. Not really dodgy at all just a bunch of excited winners who are going to need some patience.
Don’t think Driveclub is out for a while yet either.
A) I missed all of that. B) even dodgier – there is NO second son prize.
In the terms and conditions:
14. The first valid entry drawn in each Hourly Draw will each win a Sony Playstation 4 (500GB) and subject to availability, the winner’s choice of one (1) of the following games: Knack; Driveclub; or Killzone Shadow Fall. Each prize is valued at $649.
I repeat: NO INFAMOUS SECOND SON is mentioned ANYWHERE in the terms and conditions. So they are advertising on the box a game you can’t win.
…yeah, dodginess meter rising…
Ha. Didn’t see that. Good to know their Second Son promotion includes no Second Son.
They probably published all their material for it before Second Son got its release date announced- wasn’t it and Driveclub originally going to be a launch title?
True. Although they’re still offering Driveclub in the T&C’s and that can’t be offered for a while.
Driveclub was pushed, but Infamous was never a launch title in the US or Europe. It *is* a ‘Launch Window’ title though, and it’ll be a launch title in Japan.
@rize
Did you ever ask the wife if we could invade your house?
@bdkiaf, @shane, I volunteered Rize’s house for a barbecue, since I couldn’t think of a better option. It’s probably a fair trek for you, Shane, but ehh, whatevs, this is why I shouldn’t attempt to organise things.
…I’d totally forgotten about that. I also just realised I haven’t organised accommodation for Sydney next weekend.
Erm…yeah, sure, it’s fine! Lunch or dinner thing?
Lunch? Does lunch work? Do @bdkiaf and @shane have an opinion? Are they free to turn up then? Are they dead now? Who knows? Find out next time!
I dunno. When is it again?
#OnTheBall
Uhh, this Saturday? I think? Could probably do Sunday if that’s better? I don’t really know…
I don’t know, either.
This is Canberra meat organising at its very usualest. 😀
@sernobulus, the difference between a forced redundancy and a voluntary redundancy is this:
* If you get called into your boss’ office, and told you have no job any longer, that’s a forced redundancy.
* If a memo goes around saying “We have ten staff and five positions. Anyone want to volunteer to be made redundant?”, that’s a voluntary redundancy.
They sometimes have different payment schemes. Your situation definitely sounds like a forced redundancy to me… EDIT (BUT if they offer more more for a voluntary redundancy, it sounds like they’re trying to do right by you).
Find out how much you get for each one, and pick the one that suits you best. You certainly can’t be forced to take voluntary redundancy 😛
Edit 2: You should check your enterprise agreement or contract to see if there are any other differences to be aware of. This is the kind of thing that varies from workplace to workplace
Basically what’s happening is I am being offered a bonus for taking a Voluntary Redundancy. I’m just being cautious because I don’t want to accept it then realise I have missed out on something else.
Anyway I’ve sent an email to my union asking about it.
As far as differences in the workplace is concerned both are the same, just don’t want to be ended up being taxed more after I leave or something like that.
If both are the same, then voluntary redundancy just makes them look better (especially if your dept or govt made a commitment to reduce forced redundancy). I say stick it to them and say no.
Edit: If there is no difference, I’m sure your union will advise you to embarrass them as much as possible too 😛
Edit 2: I forgot about the bonus. Take the bonus. /o\
@rize
news about JC2-MP on the front page,
Official Steam Support
Awesome! Not too surprised because the mod had has Steam authentication for a while. Still, awesome 😀
Seems I’ve been on a bit of a WWII bender in games lately. Skyrim will cure that right?
Play Valkyria Chronicles!
Oooh yes, yes I should..no wait. I want to play less WWII themed stuff, not more. D:
If it doesn’t cure it I’m sure there’s a mod that turns dragons into Nazi warplanes anyway.
A vast open world WWII RPG game, war raging across it all with you trying to survive and influence the tide of war?
*throws money in every direction*
I reckon the second the game came out and people said “You can play as a Nazi!” you’d be in trouble.
That said, i always thought that Gearbox’s Brothers in Arms: Furious 4 concept sounded kinda cool, Borderlands meets Dirty Dozen/Inglourious Basterds
Er, fictional alternate history WWII?
The other problem with WW2 is that it had a large mechanised component.
WWI however…
That would be terrifyingly awesome.
MOH Airborne is excellent.
Play Commando: Behind Enemy Lines!
Or the second 🙂
I was a huge fan of BEL & BtCoD & even the second one!
The headaches trying to get the first working over multiplayer correctly, the buggy network code… the inevitable screw ups from people… but when you eventually pull it off…
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_megpxz0Law1rmot3ko1_400.jpg
I never played multiplayer on them! I’d imagine it would be great fun though.
I still remember planning for a wave of enemies in the second game somewhere near a giant Buddhist statue, plan went off without a hitch 🙂
Was hoping to find a complete WWII overhaul mod for skyrim. Alas you will just have to imagine that I did
So thanks to Brütal Legend and my quote earlier, i’m now listening to the original Tenacious D album…. i’m OK with this
Drive-Thru cracks me up every time.
PUT TWO OF THEM UP YOUR ASS!
I’m trying to watch my figure…
I love you baby, but all I can think about is kielbasa sausage.
Your buttcheeks is warm.
@dc
Walking Dead Season 2 (Game) Spoilers.
The Walking Dead was a great game, with a great story that had a great ending. I wanted to see them take a risk and try something new. From the looks of it, they are just going to strut out the same characters and not take risks.To me it makes me worry that they have run out of ideas. At first they said the second season would have new characters and no previous characters. Now they are just trying to bank off the fact that “maybe if we include people from the first season people will play it”.I understand what you mean and would’ve preferred a new, self-contained story but Telltale at the moment are on a roll creatively. Their games have never been better and their Walking Dead follow up The Wolf Among Us might just be their best work yet. They’ve earned some credibility to me and I’m gonna trust them. I think going in with a bit of cynicism is just going to make any minor flaw that much worse. Blind optimism is where it’s at. XDIt’s almost like a TV show though. Buffy the Vampire Slayer had an amazing second season finale. Then went on to have an amazing third season finale the next year. Sometimes there’s way more stories to tell with these characters even if it doesn’t appear obvious initially.Hope I’m not coming across as a jerk. You’re awesome my friend.
But the fact that they went back on their word makes me think that they has no faith in their next season. As I said, they’re hoping the players love for the previous season’s characters would carry the game.to me, what they are doing the equivalent to bringing in a guest actor into a failing TV show to boost viewer numbersWhen did they ever say no character was returning and what makes you think any one perceives The Walking Dead as failing? They’ve just come off Game of the Year awards and have nothing but good will their way. People would’ve bought the season no matter what they did. What’s with the creative doubt, though? I don’t understand where this cynicism is coming from?Haha! Oh man, I think I’m talking in circles. You’re giving your opinion and I keep questioning it in different ways. XD Sorry ’bout that, man. We’re just not on the same page here, is all. Or The Last of Us’s page. Or Super Mario 3D World’s page.
…
NEMESIS! D:
Pretty sure I remember as well them saying it would be all new characters. As you said, people will buy it either way so why did they not feel like it would stand strong enough without returning characters?Also no offense or insult intended at all but you’re not the most objective person about the things you love. You get pretty passionate about it. I need to say that’s not a bad thing, it’s good to be that way about what you love.
if Telltale had turned around and said, “look with think this story isn’t over so we are going to release 5 more episodes” or “make a whole new a season 1.5”. I probably would have been all over it. (In a good way).🙁 I feel like whenever I try to have a good natured debate everyone accuses me of being unable to take criticism. Strange with Sleepy Hollow last week and now this. In my head I never mean to structure my posts like this, I guess it’s just a failure of not being able to articulate my thoughts properly. Makes me feel like crap. Blergh. Not your fault, it’s clearly my fault.
It’s who you are. Never change.
Well it’s a bad thing if no one can feel like they can talk to me and expect reason. 🙁
If I didn’t want to have a discussion about games with you I would have never started this conversation. I enjoy talking games with you especially because we have different (sometimes extremely different) opinions on games.
You stick to your opinion yet you don’t talk down to people that don’t agree with you or claim your opinion is better. I’ve never been offended by anything you’ve said, and your my Arch-Nemesis.
TL:DR Don’t be a doofus @dc, you’re a cool guy I enjoy discussing games with.
This is just me, but I really like your take on things. It’s really easy to get down on something, and even easier to do it before all the facts are known. You’re one of the very few people I know who doesn’t do that. I genuinely value it in you (and envy it too, actually), and you should value it too.
In terms of reason, it’s probably the most reasonable perspective to have. Your fanboyism over existing media though is quite frankly disturbing, and is something I would never do.
(DARK SOULS \o/) (SIX FEET UNDER \o/)In terms of criticisms or whatever, I can’t comment. I’m pretty much always taking digs at you, and I assumed because I’m still alive, you didn’t really mind 😛
MASTER RACE!
It could be a fake-out- they might kill Omid in the first ep.He’s not my biggest concern. The fact that Clem is in it even though they assured us that her story is over.Also 400 Days was pretty amazing. Want to see how this all fits with what we know about season two.
I AGREE WITH EVERYONE. I THINK IT’LL BE GOOD, BUT I STILL WORRY!
Am I the only one here who didn’t like the Walking Dead game?
…yes. yes you are.
You have no idea how proud of this I am.
Well, it’s understandable. The gameplay was only okay, and emotions don’t work on crusty black hearts.
EMOTIONS
Finally, the recognition I deserve!
The only thing I don’t like so far is that Telltale feel the need to show these kind of teasers at all. People would’ve bought it anyway based on the last game, I really feel like they should’ve kept any characters completely secret until they were revealed in-game. Newcomers aren’t going to know who the characters are and returning players would’ve had a nice surprise.I liked the very first teaser they did (the one with just Clementine’s hat on the ground) because it never revealed anything much at all, but at the same time made you think about what it could mean.
I’m sure the game itself will be good.
I agree with this. Completely!
This is going to sound a little emo and I promise you I’m not suicidal in the slightest, but lately I find myself getting increasingly weary at life. I feel like my existence is pointless. I contribute nothing. I’ve wasted every good opportunity that’s ever come my way. I’m tired of feeling like this, of having no reason to ever get out of bed in the morning, of not being able to make long term plans because I’m so damn poor. Being unable to deal with the most basic social situations. So weary. 🙁
Time to get back to writing. It’s purpose, work, and maybe even an income, all without the demands of having to deal with people.
I offered a collaboration of some sort before, and I’ll stick by that offer. Happy to help in any way other than collaboration also.
Edit: Also, unsure if sympathy and moral support were implied, so I’ll imply them now.
*hugs of non-invasive variety*
Let me know if I can do anything. Also, move to Canberra. We are good at being incredibly anti-social. 😛
Haha! I don’t need anyone’s sympathy or moral support. I just need to vent. Thanks though. 🙂
Of course, man. Anything you need, I’ll do my best to help.
More seriously, it does sound like for the sake of your sanity, you need to find work or vocation of some sort. Even if you just study by distance at one of the free universities. Work isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, but it’s a good distraction from the realities of meaninglessness.
Not that I’m telling you what to do – just my impressions.
I haven’t heard the backstory, and I know you have anxieties, but maybe get a job/volunteer/take up an outside of the house hobby- something that gets you out of the house a bit?
Got a gap on my resume that’s so huge and unexplainable that I don’t think I’m employable. Haha!
I’m reasonably confident that’s not the case, and this is just an excuse not to try.
if you are looking to reenter the workforce, there are job services that can help. Again, I dunno your circumstance well enough to comment, but if you’re through centrelink they may be able to point you right.
Also, volunteering is a good stopgap to bolster the resume.
You say that you spent the gap on Sabbatical. A really long one. You learned a lot. Oh man, you met some monks and they taught you a lot. Very fulfilling, even if you’re a little dubious of the spiritual side of things.
Maybe I was taken by Somali pirates or drugs lords in Columbia? D:
You were in New Orleans, helping them rebuild 😛
In all seriousness, you don’t have to justify gaps in your resume unless you’re directly asked about them. And if you’re directly asked, some version of the truth is usually best.
You took a break for artistic reasons.
Mate, I know the feeling. I’ve had that feeling many times before. There’s been days when I’ve just wanted a reset button for my life. The only advice I can offer is Dory from Finding Nemo’s: Just keep swimming. It will get better.
You know there is one person who can change that?
Change is scary and hard and it’s all too easy to fall in a rut and stay there but it’s nearly always worth the effort.
Superman?
Is Superman that person?
I was thinking Batman. Superman can’t do much with a reporters salary.
Dude, firstly i know exactly how you are feeling, exactly. I feel that every second of every day. Like it wouldn’t matter if i was here or not, not that i want to end my life just that if i didn’t exist the world would keep turning. Here is the thing though. That little voice who you think is talking sense is wrong. Very wrong. If you didn’t exist i wouldn’t have you anymore. This may sound selfish but i don’t care. You are my friend, i love you. I am thankful you are there. Every little sarcastic comment that we swap makes me smile and think how lucky i am that i have you as a friend.
Change is hard, it takes work and taking yourself out of your comfort zone and depresion has a way of getting in your head and questioning the point of even trying. I am telling you it is definitely worth it. I’m not cured. I still have days where i don’t want to move from bed. Days where it seems like nobody cares. But they do, i really feel like my life only got better when i decided to make a effort. So make a effort, even a small one at first.
PLEASE PLEASE TALK MORE, i enjoy your comments so much and you make me happy. Don’t take my sunshine away asshole.
You so kind.
I could add my voice, but my case is slightly different to most people’s (then again, isn’t everyone’s case slightly different to others??)
But as a very newly minted TAYnewb, @rocketman and @dc swapping comments is pretty funny to read.
This whole comment is really just a chance to point out that “Don’t take my sunshine away asshole” is the funniest thing I’ve read since a Pratchett book on Saturday night.
ooh, the new one? I haven’t got it yet
Worth it. Sure, it’s not a Vimes/Watch book, or a witch book, and it isn’t up there with Going Postal (even though it’s a Moist von Lipwig book) but it’s a good Discworld novel. Better than Unseen Academicals.
Yeah, Academicals was a little uneven. I’m halfway through The Long War atm.
I think Academicals was worth it entirely for Alphonse Nobbs (Not Related).
Was it you who was applying to do a Ted talk? Did you hear back from them?
I did apply about the self-stigma and surviving mental illness.
They lost my rejection letter, so I found out when I went to chase them up.
Still going to write and film my talk, but in my loungeroom, avoiding my toddler and my wife playing CiV or Candy Crush.
Y’know.
All professional like.
EDIT: Good memory, btw!
Remember to post it here on TAY!
Also if you don’t mind me asking, what sort of mental illness you got? Very personal so I understand not saying. (And I imagine the reveal in the video will be stronger without knowing specifics.)
Hey DC, now that TAY has wondered off for a few pages I feel I can post back here and very few people will see it.
I will do the reveal in the video, but it’s a horrible chronic condition that has almost constant depression, hallucinations and a tonne more.
I’m thinking of doing a “Draw your life” first and then the self-stigma talk. I think I just need to get my story out…
Anyways. Just wanted to say thanks for the interest. It does mean something, as does this community. You guys are pretty bloody awesome.
Sorry to hear about your troubles, my friend. I don’t talk about this often but I got different troubles of my own. Have had pretty severe OCD since I was a kid. It’s not fun. Whole different beast to what you’ve dealt with but we’ve all got our burdens. 😀 Can’t wait to see your talk!
Arcade Fire tickets were sent out yesterday! WOOOO! (Also I guess there’ll be other bands there too, but I like to think of them as all being support acts for Arcade Fire. XD)
Yeah we are going to have fun. Lots of fun.
Just like everyone else said – change is the answer. Either you convince yourself that everyday menial actions (such as @rocketman loving your comments) enhance the quality of life of others, or you need to mix it up. Do something different.
How drastic/radical is up to you, but once you are resigned to the fact that everything is shit, you stop giving a fuck and do something different. Eventually you come to realise that the something-different is actually hitting a spot. A nice spot.
Eventually the time will come where you’ll be tired of this too, and the wheel rotates again.
Dear @DC
I’ve been there before. Its not fun.
Keep busy. Volunteer somewhere, go study something.
but most importantly, DONT THINK FOR EVEN A SINGLE FUCKING SECOND THAT YOU ARE WORTHLESS OR THAT YOU DONT CONTRIBUTE ANYTHING. COZ THATS JUST NOT FUCKING TRUE.
as for good opportunities…. there’ll be more of them. I can guarantee that. great opportunities never stop turning up. you’ll find even more if you go looking for em.
highest of fives & hugs & stuff.
Edit : I find that reaffirming advice is best delivered at extreme volume with lots of coarse language – ALL THE FUCKING CAPS ALL THE FUCKING TIME.
FUCKIN’ A
Re: edit: That’s the Mallrats principle.
I do that when i need to pump myself up. Also its alot easier to take advice if the person swears alot. im not sure why.
thats just how I talk really.
I’m tempted to sue here, you’re clearly stealing my entire act! Blatant case of infringement, I’d accuse you of depriving me of income if I ever had any.
Are you able to see a counsellor or better yet a psychiatrist? Maybe through a job network place? Since it sounds like a fairly persistent thing, it sounds like the kind of thing that’s going to disrupt your ability to work so you might be able to get it free. Certainly worth asking
Just gotta find a good reason to get out of bed. ‘Good’ doesn’t have to be complicated. When I was unemployed this year and feeling low it was generally something as simple as ‘I get to talk to my friends’ today that made me feel better, which is getting into cheesy levels of sentimental but is definitely true. If nothing else, don’t underestimate the value people place on your friendship, because it certainly means things aren’t pointless.
I feel like I never have any new stories to tell my friends and am just telling stories I’ve already told before.
Geez, I need to lighten up. Thanks Alex. XD
You don’t need new stories to tell your friends, you make new stories every time you hang out. 🙂
Like that time @dc punched @shane in the face and I took a photo then didn’t post it anywhere.
…I should do that.
TRANSIENTMIND!
<3
I’ve spent the majority of my life thinking I was worthless, unemployable and useless. It wasn’t even until recently when I discovered I was actually really good at sewing that I thought I had a purpose in life beyond popping out smart, creative kids. So for at least 20 years (from 16 onwards) of my life I was lost.
I only found my way due to the support of everyone on TAY at one of the lowest points of my life. If it wasn’t for the TAYbies I’d never have had the courage to try something new and would never have discovered I could do more than I thought I could.
You’re on the right path. You’re clever, good looking, you even make pirate puns( 😛 ) and you’re nowhere near as bad at social situations as you tell yourself you are. You’re just kind of in limbo at the moment and its up to yourself to get yourself out of it, with the support of your many friends. Friends who value your friendship greatly enough that you can think of that as your purpose until you’re ready to find a secondary purpose.
We all believe in you, @dc. It’s time to start believing in yourself. *hugasaurus*
:’) Thank you, Strange. You’re awesome.
Okay that was a little against the flow of the other comments so..
Chin up! 😀
I just realised that next year sees the release of Satellite Reign, Wasteland 2 & Project Eternity.
2014 is gonna be awesome for old-school RPGs.
Pity Torment: Tides of Numenera is now 2015!
Aaaaand potentially Fallout 4?
…I hope.
oh god yes.
but I think that the direction Fallout went in after 3 is less old-school & more… just plain rad.
Hopefully they stay away from the RadAway.
DARK SOULS 2.
Might be new school, but has plenty of old-school sensibilities.
I finally started Dark Souls properly the other night with the intention of getting into it.
so far so good.
Beat the Taurus Demon & was stupidly low on health, so I chickened out & ran back to the bonfire in the Undead Burg so I wouldn’t lose all the souls I had.Am I doing it wrong?
Edit: Spoilerd just in case.
Nah, there’s a bit just after that which can mess you up if you’re not ready for it. That said, the shortcut back to the the Burg is not much further on.
This it pretty much any moment in the entire game.
Actually, that’s a good (though WIMPY) strategy. As Blaghman said, you never know what’s up ahead.
Only rarely will you be rewarded with a safe path to a save point after a boss battle.…the bosses dont respawn do they?
Edit: to be fair, I am pretty wimpy.
You’re worried about a Taurus demon respawn?
Hahahahaha. Just you wait.They don’t respawn anywhere, though, do they? I do kind of want to show 35 a screencap from Demon Ruins, though 😛The 6 in the lava don’t but the ones in the Demon Ruins do. I was farming them for souls down the big stair case.Oh yeah, forgot about those.
nah, I can take him. its more that I just dont wanna have to do it again right now.
Bosses don’t respawn, and neither do a handful of major enemies, including NPCs (hollowed or otherwise, with only a couple of exceptions), Havel, hydras, Black Knights, blowdart guys, giants, titanite demons (with one exception), and a few others. All other enemies will respawn every time you die or rest at a bonfire.Thank Christ the blowdart guys don’t respawn. They are mega jerks.I have a big tear in the cover on my lightning to USB cable. Should I stop using it and get a new one?
Unless you want to short the cable and potentially your USB port i would.
Get some Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Shampoo.
i both love & hate your gravatar. just thought i should point this out.
Lick it.
Job listing for the position of service desk manager has just come up at work. Now to determine if I can bullshit my way through this and somehow get that job. Considering the people involved in the process know me pretty well, I’d say my chances are slim 😛
If anyone can bullshit their way to the top it would be you, or a really big breasted woman. Because lets be extremely sexist for a minute here, boobs are worth 2 degrees.
Let me add, This is a joke and not at all how i feel about job vacancies, WOmen have to work just as hard as men if not harder to advance in their choosen career.
I like how your jokes now have disclaimers.
Your face is a disclaimer
Let me add, I only started doing it because I’m becoming extremely self concious about how my bad jokes are
1) not funny
2) offensive
SO now even if they are terrible and unfunny i dont offend anyone.
Disclaimer was too late, already dropped my monocle.
INTO MY COFFEE, ROCKETS, INTO MY COFFEE.
WHY ARE YOU NOT DRINKING TEA, ARE YOU SOME SORT OF BARBARIAN!
Maybe this is what grandmama meant about people in the colonies “going native”
Because I’m out of my fancy tea and the office only has Bushells and I’d rather lick ashphalt.
Just say that it’s for a friend. Bladow Blize. And that if he happens to get the job, you will quit yours.
And kill him.
And take his job.
I may not have thought this through.
Which is why taking those organs we harvested from homeless people to the Canberra zoo to help the dying zebra was a bad idea.
Favourite specific moment in a game this year?
Mine would be in The Last of Us:
Joel and Ellie and the two brothers flee the sewers into the sunlight and are greeted with an overgrown suburban street. It’s quiet and peaceful and beautiful. We’re given the opportunity to take a reprieve from the action and just take in the surrounds and the multiple character moments scattered about. There’s another scene in Salt Lake City like this too which was equally as good. (You know the one. 😀Hang on, before I read this
Is this before or after you meet David? The horse just died for me.Spoilers are before that. There’s a vague spoiler for after too.
Right, I’ll ask you again when I’m done (82% as of last save)
Metal Gear Revengeance
Every Boss in the game
But serious props to the final boss, versing a roided out senator was amazing. also Judo throwing 50 story tall robots over your head.Beyond: Two Souls
Also, I loved this from Beyond: Two Souls. Ellen Page singing is always an easy way to win me over though.The finger part in Bioshock Infinite
Edit: Err, that sounds ruder than I planned
The part in pokemon X
Where the weird giant guy definitely forcefully performed a sexual act on the little fairy flower pokemon, Oh that didnt happen in the game. YOU ARE KIDDING YOURSELF IF YOU THINK IT DIDNT HAPPENPokemon XXX.
How about the Middle Aged man meeting the young boy in a hotel room for “bonding time” so he can teach him “O-Powers”.
“Hey, does this rag smell like chloroform to you?”
And then the screen slowly got dimmer and dimmer…
Well the screen does fade to black after he shouts “IT’S BONDING TIME!”
I think we are all a little bit terrible humans.
I dunno. From the sound of it, there’s no way this is accidental innuendo.
They definitely knew what they were doing when they added it to the game.
There’s always been slivers of innuendo in Pokemon!
It always gets me that it’s a male cloyster.
Don’t forget the Ferris wheel bit in Pokemon B/W. =P
Was that the one with the sweaty girl?
@dc
Yup, so uncomfortable. XD
There’s also a female swimmer who says something like “If I’m wearing a bikini, where do I keep my Pokeballs? Woman’s secret!” before battle 😛
Duff & Eda. The couple that send out Onix and Cloyster.
@dc In the Japanese version of the game, after the ferris wheel ride, the “sweaty girl” reveals that she is actually male and dresses up as a woman to keep his job as a Nursery Aide 😛
The only 2013 games I’ve played have been Tomb Raider, Injustice, and… I think some third game which was obviously not memorable enough to qualify here.
I choose not to participate in identifying a moment. Instead I’ll just scream DARK SOULS \o/ at the top of my virtual lungs and *crash* through this window over here.
The Last of Us:
OkayReally though, the entire ending section was amazing. Heck, the entire game was amazing.
I’m always bad at this sort of thing cause I can’t think back far enough to consider everything this year.
Basically all the character interactions in AC4 are up there, though.
Oh man I don’t even…
Every single moment that things just escalated in Wonderful 101. Which is practically the whole game I guess. There really should be something from Pikmin too, but I can’t think of any. Rayman Origins, when I hit that water level and that music started playing. Fez when I realised it was more than just a platformer playing with perspective.
I also need to get onto Zelda and Mario so I can add things from those to the list.
Oooooh, that reminds me!
Pikmin 3:
First time seeing the flying Pikmin carrying stuff and the Pikmin singing to the music.I’ve been trying to find a copy of W101 but nowhere sells it 😛 Should probably head online before it goes out of print or something…
My local EB has like 8 copies.
“Nowhere” in this context means the one or two JBs I’ve bothered to look in 😛
Like Freeze said, I’ve found most EBs have a copy. And just on the weekend I saw one in JB at Bankstown. And just checking now, Big W has it listed online at least.
Search better! 😛
But that requires me to put in effort…
The bit in Bioshock Infinite where it finally ended and I could stop playing it.
I actually didn’t play many 2013 games this year, and those that I did, I didn’t really like that much or were kind of niche and I don’t really remember many key moments at all, just the overall experience quality.
You didn’t even like this scene from BioShock?I like the upbeat version that plays during the credits.
The TV show Treme has an insanely cool soul version of that song. So, so good.
(Season two spoilers!)
No, moments that were kind of interesting like that just made the crappy tedium of the actual gameplay even worse and the massive dissonance between what I was doing and what I felt like I wanted to be doing even worse.
I wanted to explore Columbia, not slaughter hordes of the same boring dude over and over in the most brutal ways possible.
First hour was mind blowingly good. I’d play an entire game of that sort of exploration!
Yes, this exactly. The first hour was great.
I think I wanted Bioshock Infinite: the Adventure Game.
I think @sughly wanted that too. (Who am I kidding? I’d play that any day!)
I agree with this. I found the combat really repetitive (which is certainly not a problem I had in the other two games), which is a damn shame, because the setting and ideas behind Infinite were very cool
Deadpool
Cable starts telling you why it’s so important you go to where you’re going and Deadpool retreats into his head complaining about how boring it is then shoots himself rather than listen to it.All of Tiny Tina’s assault on Dragon’s Keep DLC for Borderlands 2. It’s the most fun / funniest thing I’ve played this year.
Oh man, I loved all Tiny Tina’s dialogue in the core game.
If you haven’t played her DLC, I can’t recommend it enough. Best as a group, though!
I really need to finish that. The mate I’d been playing it with has unfortunately been quite unwell.
To the Moon Spoilers:
What’s that, this game is old and you should shut up about it? Quiet you fool. Still counts since I played it in February!
I’m actually not sure about stuff from this year. This is difficult.
I’m getting increasingly hyped for Ace Attorney 5: Dual Destinies. And especially the DLC, where I get to defend a whale accused of murder (hopefully a killer whale). It sounds every kind of fantastic.
I hope it’s a well orca-strated case! 😛
Apollo Justice is awesome, and I will be sad when it’s over, though.
I’m getting a little uncomfortable at how often the 15 yo’s panties are brought up, but every time is legitimately funny. Much confusion.Lucky I refreshed before posting to see your edit 😛 Playing Apollo Justice before Dual Destinies is pretty essential.
Fingers crossed it doesn’t have a dol-phinish 😛
Fantastic.
A joke with porpoise.
Ha 😛
…if it does, I’m sure it would be on porpoise.
<_
some people didn’t care for apollo justice but i loved it, up there as one of the best Ace attorney games.
They are magic panties, so its ok.Those people are FOOLS. This game is amazing.
So, Pokemons people.
I just got given a metronome which apparently makes the pokemon holding it do extra damage with moves uses consecutively. Does that stack with a move like echo voice?
Theoretically that should work, yeah. Just be careful of Ghosts and Soundproof pokes! (I always forget Mr. Mime is soundproof :P)
Hooray! Also, anyone with disable would be annoying.
Has Fallout 4 been announced yet?
Yup
In my dreams atleast.With all the build up, I’m hoping we get more than just a brief trailer that doesn’t really show anything like we got when Skyrim was announced.
If (IF IF IF IF) the information is coming across correctly, they already have the location, some of the main NPC’s and a great deal of story worked out (which you would kind of hope they would have at this stage in the game).
EDIT: So I hope they would have a proper trailer ready to go.
Here is a nice summary document, keeping you up to date with the changes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pJLwd0osKpnp6kEogWh6KAZZiM0Rh-odwWCDc3VEMVE/preview?pli=1&sle=true
but that initial fallout 3 teaser trailer was so hype though!
After loving Obsidian’s take on Fallout I don’t think I could go back to a Bethesda one. (Haha! Who am I kidding, I’ll happily play it.) Just loved Obsidian’s sense of place and character better.
I wasn’t enjoying ACIV much at all but ever since I stopped trying to play it the “right” way by avoiding combat or being scene I’ve enjoyed it so much more. Charging in full tilt and stabbing 3 guys before anyone even realises what’s happening then clearing the last couple with your swords before they can call reinforcements or raise an alert it SO much more fun.
Edit: Screw you Ubisoft and your optimal missions. They’re boring and unfun and I’m just going to play it my way.
I found the side objectives are much better implemented this time around than AC3 which was just unintuitive and frustrating. These ones lend themselves more to how I’d play anyway. 😀
I HATED the optional objectives in AC3. Incredibly frustrating.
Chase the flying page? Agreed.
More the DON’T DEVIATE FROM THIS PATH OR GIANT MISSION FAIL tasks
At least you can do that. That’s the big change in AC4, back to the way it was in the first couple of games. You can fuck up the stealth and recover from it, etc. The game reacts to the way you’re playing instead of proscribing a path and penalizing you for not doing exactly what they want.
In AC3 what you’re describing would have been instant fail and start the sequence over.
So, uh… apparently there’s some niche expo next year in Melbourne called PAX Australia – and I got a pass to it. I’m beginning to think that booking a hotel as early as possible is probably wise…
Any recommendations on places to look at (or, alternatively, avoid)?
(Probably mostly asking other interstate’rs who went this year.)
Help us @novacascade!
I stayed at the Hilton South Melbourne last time and it was pretty nice.
Although seeing where @cakesmith was at the Crown Casino looked brilliant if not overly dangerous to my wallet.
http://conferences.ozaccom.com.au/2014/pax14/index.aspx
PAX Organisers have already booked a large block of rooms that you can book through their site. Alternatively you can probably find something cheaper at different places. I stayed at the Ibis Styles Kingsgate last year. Rooms were pretty basic, but comfortable enough.
Woot!
Sorry. Just felt like a brag.
I don’t know what I’m looking at but: hooray!
Sales ranks, man. Sales ranks.
It’s NEARLY Broken Sword 5 day, it’s so close yet so far!
Excellent pageget.
Ah, Paris in the Fall!
I remember watching the opening cutscene of this game when it was released with my brother. It totally blew ours minds. So, so amazing. Then we convinced our mum to buy it and it didn’t work on our computer. Sat looking at the box longingly for months. XD
Pick an objective 100m away and time how long Edward Kenway takes to sprint there.
God damn he is slow.
That’d be the scurvy!
Interesting question- who would be the fastest (human) videogame character on foot?
Depends, are we including super powered characters? If not, I’d say Faith Connors.
I’m gonna go with no powers, no enhancements, and has to be human. So Sonic is right out
I remember seeing a YouTube video explaining it would be Ezio if you consider falling as a speed.
Seriously, some guy calculated the gravity of the world in Assassin’s Creed only to figure out that it’s twice or more dense than Earth’s. So he would fall faster than any other character.
Horizontally? No idea.
Probably why him and Kenway run so slow, it’s too hard to lift your feet.
Are we including constantly-rolling-around speed? 😛
Faith is a good answer
Master Chief, no doubt.
I feel he’s a little too post-human
Ah good point. Didn’t see your disclaimer before I posted. In that case, I would probably pick a random player from Fifa when you make them sprint. They can be pretty quick.
Or, you know, Usain Bolt.
Well Sonic the Hedgehog’s official top speed on foot is 3,840mphThe player-character from SR4? maybe being in a simulator doesn’t count.
Ryu Hayabusa?
I remember there being a lot of talk when the Rift came out about how the Scout was really off-putting when everything in TF2 got scaled to IRL proportions, since he actually runs at something like 35 miles an hour.
That’s why Scout is the best class.
CJ from GTA: San Andreas is stupidly fast, I believe.
I think he was a bit slower than Claude from 3 & Tommy from VC though
All this talk about Night of the Rabbit in the game of the year thread reminds me how amazing the OST was… So. Damn. Beautiful.
You mean the guy insinuating it’s not a real game because he hasn’t heard of it?
That’s the one! It’s one thing when people say that about Heavy Rain and the like, but a traditional point-and-click adventure? That’s one of the oldest genres of games ever. Why’s he so crazy, Freeze? WHY?
I think he was traumatised by an adventure game as a child.
WHY RUBBER CHICKEN WITH A PULLEY IN THE MIDDLE WHY
http://electricalivia.tumblr.com/post/51739086191/hand-neck-finger-face-tattoos-and-why-i-wont-do-them
Interesting read.
Other than the first bit about how they heal, even though mine turned out fine, those reasons are pretty bullshit. That’s just my opinion from having hand and finger tattoos though.
tl;dr don’t get tattoos?
So last nigh Myself, faction, Nob and blaghman tried our hand at multi-player game called “Forced” here is my review
Their netcode is crap, like utter crap, taken from there official steam page
“Doesn’t play nice with wireless networks”
40 minutes of attempting to port forward and unblock firewalls later we still didn’t get to play. So me and blaghsie played LoL, we lost our game.
0 out of 5 rocketships
Didn’t force it enough.
good one.
<3
Fuck, these past few days have been something…
So I ended up failing programming. Got 47% when I needed 50%, but I can do a supplementary exam next Thursday which is good. A week and a bit to get 3% smarter 😛 (Other than that I got a credit and 2 distinctions). The downside is that I was going to go home tomorrow to see friends and also go up to Burnie to see other friends, but now I can’t. The upside is that instead of me having to go to Launceston, my friends from Launceston are coming down here next week which is nice! Gonna take them to my favourite food place. They can also meet my darling housemate!
Onto her… I gave her a massive lecture about respect yesterday. I knew she thought she would be able to step all over me because 99% of the time I seem so quiet and shy, but she’s becoming scared of me now I think, now that she knows what I’m capable of when you push me. Soon I will have control… Oliver didn’t realise how bad things were getting until I told him to read through all my tweets from the past few days. Although I do feel kinda bad cos I promised him I wouldn’t let him be bothered by housemate stuff while he’s away.
And I finally have internet on my PC again after over a month! So good! I missed my PC. Good thing too, cos I can’t exactly study programming on a phone…
Yay supps!
I had to do three medical supps one time. Not fun.
Suppositories aren’t much fun.
The fact she is now fearing you rather than just accepting that she was in the wrong and that she should pull her head in is a little interesting. I hope she doesn’t start badmouthing you behind your back and start manipulating any shared acquaintances into thinking you’re a terrible guy. Because you seem like a pretty cool guy.
Bad luck about having to do a supp. 3% sounds pretty achievable to me so good luck. 🙂
I found her weak point. Normally I don’t take advantage of people’s weak points, but I had to do something then, even if I never bring it up again. The only two shared acquaintances we have is my other two housemates, and, well, they’re very firmly on my side anyway, so no dramas 🙂
And thanks! After doing the first exam I know what I need to be focusing on which helps a lot 🙂
NegativeZero’s Kantai Collection Update that No One Cares About Except Maybe @popdart5 But He Already Saw My Tweets Last Night Anyway:
Having recently opened up World 3-2, I decided yesterday that it was time to start building up a Destroyer fleet to clear it, as you can’t get to the boss node in the world without a fleet entirely made up of Destroyers. My only real issue was picking six to level up. I knew I would take Yukikaze as I already had her at level 22 and she’s one of the two rare Destroyers and has some of the highest stat caps. I was also fairly sure I’d want to take Yuudachi, Samidare and Hibiki due to the fact that all three have high-level (55-70) second-tier remodels. The final two slots were pretty much open.So while doing my daily construction quest I found myself with a bit more resources than I needed, so I thought I might as well jump onto the JP wiki and check the highest-probability recipe for building Shimakaze, the other super-rare Destroyer who is something of a mascot for the game. Apparently the RNG Goddess has started to smile upon me again, because I got her first attempt. \o/
Based on a twitter tease yesterday it looked like Murasame might be getting an update in the next maintenance, so I decided to take her as my final Destroyer. Unlike some of the others I’d never actually fielded Murasame before, so she was level 1. After the 6 PVP sorties (I used a fleet made up of five of my six destroyers (less Yukikaze) and Kirishima and lucked out because the HQ level 101 Admiral I was pitted against on one fight actually had only one ship, a light carrier at level 84, and my Kirishima got a crit on her and instantly beat her. The rest of the PvP sorties were defeats, but the XP was good anyway due to the massive level disparity.
Decided to split my primary fleet in two to act as training fleets for the destroyers. Sent Hiryuu, Kirishima and Yamashiro to escort Yuudachi, Shimakaze and the now level 6 Murasame. After a couple of very successful sorties through World 3-1 with the group I decided to have a go at 3-2, reasoning that the enemy ships wouldn’t be that much stronger (they aren’t) and the XP would be higher. Very first fight in the node, I clear it with some light damage to a couple of ships and medium damage to Murasame. The fight dropped my second Kongo-class battleship in as many days, this time I picked up Hiei.
In my elation at this development I stupidly decided to advance to the second node. A node where, it turns out, a trio of enemy Wo-class Carriers was waiting. Due to only running the one carrier I didn’t have air supremacy, and in the opening salvo the Wo-class flagship dragged my poor Murasame to the bottom. I was a bit shaken by this as I’d never had a ship sink up until this point. After sinking the enemies I had to take a couple of minutes to gather myself. I’d forgotten that sinking was a risk. 🙁 Luckily it wasn’t one of the ships I had put much effort into, but I still felt kind of bad.
So I ended up doing the safe thing and solo-grinding world 1-1 with Yuudachi to get her to level 20. Tedious but cheap and could keep doing it indefinitely. In the process I got a drop of a replacement Murasame.
My Akagi is getting extremely close to level 30 now, about 600xp away, so my intention tonight is to get her to her level 30 remodel first. Subsequently I’ll be putting effort into leveling the highest-level of my chosen Destroyers which I think is Hibiki or Samidare. I’ll also continue trying to buff my Hiei up and aim to hopefully do some runs of 3-2 with a more robust fleet to attempt to get a drop of Haruna or Kongo. At the current rate I should have a full destroyer fleet ready to attempt 3-2 by next weekend.
SDFLSUHDFOIUHSEJSDF ASFD I AM A GENIUS
Spent the last I don’t know how many hours trying to wrap my head around a multi-dimensional problem only to keep tying it in knots instead, BUT I FINALLY CRACKED IT
*spins on floor in circles*
Elaborate!
Unless NDAs are involved.
In that case, Don’t Elaborate!
Haha, nah nothing like that. Just a little thing I’m working on for school. Some offhand comment (and an ensuing argument) about 4D stuff on Friday got me thinking about how you’d do something like that. And now I’m trying to put together a 4D version of Snake, and things are going well. Tends to be quite the mindfuck though.
H-h-h-h-h-hypercuuuuuuuuuuuuube.
Programmatically, it shouldn’t be a big problem, I think the logic should scale ok?
The projection to a 2D surface for display is probably not going to be very intuitive…
I assume you don’t mean 4D as in 3 spatial + 1 temporal 😛
Yeah, four spatial. Stupid temporals 😛
At the moment it’s 3D with the 4th being displayed as a spectrum of colours. There’s also buttons to switch which of the coordinate axes are being displayed on the spatial axes being drawn to the screen. Initially I had them rotating through, and that worked better while I had absolute controls but now that I’ve got relative controls working, making it just switch out the fourth dimension with one of the others works much better.
I keep thinking I can speak and understand Japanese.
I think I need to watch a little less anime
I keep on having the same thing happen. I think I must be getting better but I think it’s just that I’m learning more and more completely obscure things that are utterly useless to know if I actually want to use the language.
I know Blaghs had the same issue. He’d recognise the language but forget that he can’t actually understand it.
It’s worse for me, I did Heisig’s Remembering the Kanji twice and although I’ve forgotten a lot of the obscure ones and I have learned proper readings for some of them, I still have an association with the english keyword for a lot of them, so I’ll be reading something and I’m recognizing the keyword combos, not the characters, and I’m sort of doing a two-step process to get to the JP reading for that at best, but most of the time I just don’t know the reading at all.
I’m like that with Klingon
No, you just need to learn more!
http://www.memrise.com/courses/english/japanese/
I’m currently writing out Kanji flash cards. I will then move onto verbs and such. If I memorise them, then I only have to learn the sentence structure
You’re writing them out? Have you tried using software like Anki to do SRS flashcards for you? I had a setup at one point where I found a font that showed all the stroke orders as well and used that (because stroke order is super important when trying to read people’s scribbles)
I’m writing them out because it will help me memorise. I will practise them with stroke order and such later
I like to think I speak fluent fake japanese
Bloody hell @dc. I haven’t even finished the tutorial missions yet and I’ve killed more people than you in ACIV.
About to overtake @thecracks as well.
Not even close to @blaghman though…
I refuse to kill people I can knock out. I’m a lover, not a fighter!
Every time I go into a restricted area I make a point of leaving no one alive.
You and I are very different people. 😛
He’s a cop. Or wants to be.
I do the same.
When playing the PC version at one point uplay was telling me that I was in the top 120 most prosperous pirates but I’ve since fallen much lower and I don’t know if that was accurate anyway.
I was about 620 last time I checked.
I saw on screen once “D.C. has overtaken you in prosperity” and I was like “NOT ON MY WATCH” so I just went around looting everything I could find in the hopes of getting back ahead.
How do you view this information? Also, sounds like I need to go on a murdering spree…
Database -> Leaderboards.
You have about 280 kills and are second in the board. @dc had 240.
@Blaghman has nearly 1200 the psychopath.
It popped up on screen one time that I was like 380th in the world for most kills, and while I’m pretty sure that’s only PS4 players, that’s still a little worrying.
Found a photo of me from when I was 21. Makes me laugh. XD Brisbane TAYbies will know I don’t look like that. At all.
You still look like that. Just with less hair. And more frown lines from being a worrier. 😛
That guy used to worry about stuff too. (Then again, so would six year old DC. XD)
Pic for comparison?
Got no recent pictures of me. Haha! Last one on my PC is from 2011. XD
Edit: There’s this!
DOUBLE WHOA
I created that video to prepare TAYbies of my awkwardness before I attended first meat!
I was not so thoughtful!
*sigh*
http://i.imgur.com/9csvUWB.jpg
Hah, nice. When I was 21 I was halfway through my honours year, and had long hair and a full beard, which I shave for charity.
These days I look pretty similar, but fatter.
A TALKY!
I spared no expense!
Ha! Exactly the same!!!
WHOA
If I could find a picture of me from when I was 21 you’d probably be scared of me. 😛
But I already am scared of you! D:
If you really were scared of me you’d be making yourself eat proper food and playing Dark Souls. 😛
Maybe I’ve got a death wish. 😛
Dark Souls will help with that!
I’ve tried to stop/slow making fanboy pro-DaS comments to you – I know you don’t have any interest in Dark Souls, Mr. @dc and that’s ok. I’m just making joke because of appropriateness in reply to your last comment. My comment is meant light-heartedly (like the vast majority of what I say). Please understand!The best I can manage is a photo from when I was like 8
http://aliasalpha.customer.netspace.net.au/adorable2.jpg
I’m the tall one
Watch out, @cakesmith.
Lives up to the picture name, totes adorable. (Note to self: never say totes again unless you’re refusing a tote bag someone is trying to hand you.)
17.
https://twitter.com/freezespreston/status/402576573053673473
You kind of look like a young David Bowie.
@sughly knows the score
Total anime bully hair!
I do?
you do
So this happened.
http://www.twitter.com/Mythamphetamine/status/407785679347658752
OK, so that’s just clickthrough shit and I didn’t think it through very well.
Emo-Null, 2005/6
https://myspace.com/systematic_imagination/mixes/classic-my-photos-349061
Errm, let’s change that. Try again.
HOLY SHIT DUDE. HOLY. SHIT.
I believe @strange would probably want a heads up that there’s partial nudity. I remember someone posted a chest shot once and she didn’t care for it. XD Actually I’m pretty sure that was Aleph too.
o.0
I don’t recall this. My apologies!
@mythamphetamine: I think it was when you got your puppy. You posted a picture of you with dog. XD
Oh I DO remember that!
It’s too hot up here to remain fully clothed 😛
Pretty sure you have more problems with partial nudity than I do, DC. 😛
Sssh, you’re my scapegoat! 😛
Yeah, it was a thing 😛
Scary Aleph!
You look like you belong in a modern Final Fantasy
18. I was so much less fat then. *sob*
IM EXCITED
I was forced to be excited by my friend.
Dood, I didnt know you knew Jason Donovan!
I totes know the dude on the far left o.0
Stalking Blaghs for years, you’re bound to meet some of his entourage!
Just the other day I met… uh… never mind…
That’s funny, because I don’t!
(I was at a friend’s engagement party, so there were lots of people there I didn’t know)
You look older than you do now. Benjamin Button style!
Really? Now I’m curious, how about this one (this is also at eighteen, ignore the guy next to me).
You look younger! Must’ve been the glasses and hair cut! XD
Alright, final test, how about this one (I’m the one on the right, you can tell because my hair has always been crazy thick)?
Now I’m just sad about how cute I used to be. I hated being called cute, and now that I’m a fat old blob I wish I could go back to it. Haha.Definitely look way older there!
Babbies!
http://postimg.org/image/5kl61jm93/
Newborn and toddler ‘Leph.
Totally Jay Baruchel!
27. Three months ago.
This’ll make it easier on the bounty hunter!
I mean, uh, awesome photo my friend!
Haha, this guy. 😀 Thanks.
So what’s the verdict? Adam Sandler, Matthew Fox?
Buble, maybe?
Haha Michael Buble? Time to bring out his Christmas CD I guess. Thanks for the reminder.
I’ve also had Rob Thomas. And Tom Cruise but that one’s bullshit.
I mostly get screams and cowering!
Hio!
Oh man, it’s Jimu! D:
Play it cool, D.C., play it cool…
*takes deep breath, psyches self in parking lot for 15 minutes*
Here goes nothing. You can do it. I believe in you, D.C.
Hey Jimu!
YOYOYO!
All psyched for Bravely this weekend???
😛I don’t know what that means! D:
He’s come on too strong! RUN DC
I have to cancel my pre-order because I can’t afford it. I probably don’t have enough time to play at the moment anyway so I guess it’s for the best.
*bleeds from face*
⚠
I see empty box
It ‘s an exclamation mark in a trangle, like a roadsign, minus the colour.
Sooooo
Is that pro or anti Bravely?
It was actually in response to your “Hio!”
I (Bravely) take a neutral stance.
Mgha!
I hart J Park!
Cool, didn’t realise GaiKai was coming to Vita, HANDY DANDY 😀
http://www.siliconera.com/2013/12/03/gaikai-will-bring-critically-acclaimed-ps3-games-ps4-2014-vita-afterwards/
WHy am I the only one postin?
Wha happen ta everbuddeh?
THEY’RE DEAD, JIM!
Apocalypse! I’ve been taking in the urban decay! So beautiful!
Oh man, I’m SOOOOO happy right now.
Playing Apollo Justice, and have just started
Phoenix Wright’s last case!Phoenix objected to something Gumshoe said, and THIS MUSIC started playing. My favourite track from the first game, that was sadly absent from 2 and 3. I was so shocked that I just let it play on loop for about twenty minutes, bopping along with the stupidest grin on my face.I agree, Treme was pretty great! *nods knowingly*
Uh… tomorrow we will have discussions. Or maybe Thursday.
Only get one episode of something a night, and mid-season Sons of Anarchy is just too damn compelling.
So’s your face! >:|
Yeah, Bravely Default is gon’ be awesoem
Enjoy 🙂
… WOW.
*dies happy*
look up Gyakuten meets orchestra and turnabout jazz soul, two awesome official soundtracks.
Here’s objection, jazz style.
they’re amazing
Choose Life!
*lives happy* doesn’t have quite the same ring. But I guess it means I can keep bopping.
Difference between your link and Shane’s definitely sums up why I love orchestral music and hate synth. XD
So I just bought a 1440p monitor to take over from my 3x 1080p monitors…
I am excite.
Also, I blame the Steam sales.
I keep thinking I should look into one of those.
Amazon had a 39″ 4k TV for sale at $489 + shipping, although I missed it by a day (they had removed intl shipping) and today they’ve bumped it to $659. If I were in the states, that’d be my bet.
In light of that though, I’ve gone with a QNIX QX2710 for $340 or so, free expedited shipping from South Korea. Pretty damned cheap considering the price points offered by the more well known brands.
I’m interested to see if any 1440P monitors with G-Sync come out next year, since I’m due for a GPU upgrade sometime then. Should be nice if it happens.
I’m interested to see how my 6970 fares with it. Shouldn’t be *too* bad, as it does just fine with the current setup.
Well, you’re looking at about 85% more pixels on a 1440 display compared to a 1080, so for normal day to day stuff it will be faster, and if you ran games across all three monitors it’ll be faster, but if you relegated gaming stuff to one monitor and used the other two as off stuff, then for games it’ll be a decent chunk slower.
Probably. Technology can be weird sometimes.
Edit2: Mentally re-re-did some maths, probably still got it wrong.
Yeah, when/where applicable, it was thrown over the three monitors.
I’m hoping I won’t have to replace the GTX770 I have for a while or that buying a second one cheaper in the future will see me along.
You’ll still run back to at least one more monitor. 😛
Walking Dead Half-season finale spoilers (I dislike how they break up the seasons like this :P)
I dunno… I’m torn on this episode. It was pretty cool in some moments, but overall it’s just… why? This episode would’ve been great as the finale LAST season, not now. At least finally, finally we can move on from the whole Governor group rivalry thing, right? 😛 There were some cool moments in the episode though, like the girls shooting that army woman (though I was kinda hoping she would survive) and the other little girly getting chewed on (didn’t expect her to be, also for some reason as soon as I saw she was digging stuff up my mind went straight to “mine field” for some reason D:)I look forward to seeing more of the two sisters though, now that they’ve lost both father and daughter (also assuming the one that was involved with the shooting survived. They didn’t show her dying so you can only guess). Hopefully they either join the group or meet up with Carol and create a three lady tough bikie gang or something 😛
@strange
Hahahah! I said “He’s in the house!” at that exact same moment too. It was too perfect.It’s totally the You know nothing, Jon Snow of The Walking Dead it seems.
I really liked the sisters too. The one that always pretended to be tough and Alicia had a thing going on, I wonder if she witnessed what went down. Also Carol would be proud of those girls, but I get the feeling Alicia wouldn’t have fired on them.
The thing I liked most about this ep was how it served as bookend, one chapter’s over and a new one begins. Let’s just hope it’s more like prison sickness story arc and less like governor…
What do you mean by “I wonder if she witnessed what went down”? The Governor-is-crazy thing?Rick’s group killing her girlfriend! She kind of sneaked off midway through fight and I don’t think we saw her again?Ahhhh! I thought you were referring to Alisha witnessing something. I gotcha now. Yeah, it doesn’t seem like she (Tara! Google tells me her name is Tara :P) would’ve seen that! Though it wouldn’t be hard for her to guess what happened.I didn’t read the spoilers, but what the hell is with the ‘mid/half-season finale’? If it’s in the middle of a season, it’s clearly not a bloody finale, is it?
It’s a thing! Always used to be a two parter traditionally, but with cable shows they’re basically structured like mini-seasons.
This way they can drum up finale hype twice in a season! And sell more DVDs! Or something!
I dunno, I just don’t like it because I’m selfish and want all the episodes right now instead of waiting until after Christmas 😛
Gots to love Netflix releasing entire seasons on one day and leaves the pace of episodes to the audience!
Really? That’s awesome 😀
I love binging on shows, waiting a week between eps is a killer.
All eps of new Orange is the New Black season two will be watched in a week, I bet. *waits for April*
I do kinda like the week wait between episodes though. Allows for these kind of discussions episode by episode instead of for the entire season!
Yeah, that’s the one thing you trade off with Netflix, though it also leaves a lot more surprises watching at your own pace because people haven’t talked about lots of specifics between eps.
First time I’ve watched Good Game for a while.
What the shit is up with that robot? And all the cheap slapstick?
Was it Good Game spawn point, or whatever it is? I’ve only watched like 2 episodes of the show in my life, but I’m pretty sure the one with the rowboat is a more kiddy version, or something?
Mark was on it once! And there was a song about a Wyvern that hasn’t left my head since!
Wait wait you’re telling me they brought in a robot, but didn’t re-instate P-Nutz?
THIS IS AN OUTRAGE
Xmas Finale special or something.
Cheap slapstick, you say?
*throws pie at Freeze’s face*
Wise guy, eh?
You chowderhead!
So Oliver’s missus told me I should buy a Tim and Eric poster to put up in the kitchen… Spagett it is! (Am actually going to look for a print of this)
http://www.entertainmentgeekly.com/images/uploads/spagettPoster.jpg
I predict housemate will take issue with this and this’ll be the straw that breaks the camels back and then we’ll all get to watch your trial on prime time news!
That would be amazing if things blew up over Tim and Eric. I couldn’t imagine a more perfect scenario 😛
It’s crazy, here I am talking to a guy I went to primary school with (on Facebook). Haven’t seen him for almost 20 years, and we’re planning to catch up soon. Small world.
Thanks for all the kind words you guys said earlier today.
I feel like I didn’t come across as very grateful, but believe me… I am. Just felt oddly vulnerable about something that’s been on my mind for a while now.
Hey man, we just want you to feel fulfilled in life- something that can be hard when you’re in a rut. I hope you find something soon!
I hope you feel better soon man, just keep your chin up and keep moving forward.
Watched Monsters University this evening.
Why didn’t I see it when it came out in the cinemas?
It was so awesome! 🙂
How’s it compare to the first? I wasn’t really a fan but loved Pete Doctor’s follow up stuff. (Was he even the director this time around?)
Oh my god Sandra Bullock, get off my TV screen!!! ARRGGGHHH!!! *slams TV into ground*
Hey now, Gravity was great!
I refuse to watch that movie! I will only watch it if (maybe potential spoilers?)…
Sandra Bullock floats off into the sun and Dies!!!I have an irrational hatred for Sandra goddamn Bullock. I cannot see her face nor hear her voice without getting mad!!!
Adam Sandler is my version of that, but Reign Over Me was actually a solid film. I think every actor is allowed to have one.
Jack Black is my version of that, I hate everything about him but even with that, I loved brutal legend right up until it became a console rts…
Jack Black and his whole schtick was perfect in High Fidelity.
The trailer for that made me very mad because of the female. Then I realised it was Sandra Bullock (who I normally like). I am still undecided as to how I should feel.
It’s a great flick
Yeah, I’m sure it is overall. I was just slightly pumped after all the articles and headlines about “wow space is terrifying in this new scifi’. Then I watched the trailer, and it was just some silly girl who was floating in space due to her butter fingers. 🙁
Still keen to watch it though. 😀
I HAVE APPLES NOW
THEY RANDOMLY SPAWN THROUGHOUT THE GRID
YOU CAN EAT THEM
WHEN YOU EAT THEM, YOUR SNAKE GROWS ANOTHER SEGMENT
I AM HAPPY
IT IS WAY PAST BEDTIME
<============:)
Friendly snake says “Hi!”.
Today is my work from home day!
Of course, as good as that is, it brings with it a whole host of new complications.
#thankslifehacker
So this is now deep embedded in my mind… Started playing in my car on the way to work, and now it won’t get out…
Ducktales, woo-ooooh!
DAMN YOU
*storms off…*
*… To youtube, because DUCKTALES, Woo-ooooh!*
You’re welcome.
…
*opens youtube*
Did you hear about the kidnapping at school?
It’s ok.. he woke up!Police were called into a daycare centre where a three year old was resisting a rest.
A kid started playing in, uhhhh, the, um, sandpit.
He…ahh.. He….. got all sandy?
It’s too early and I haven’t had any caffeine.
He just really likes to go against the grain.
I was driving along with my dad one night and noticed the moon was crescent shaped. “I wonder if it’s waxing or waning?”
My dad squinted out the window and said “Waning? It isn’t even Woudy!!”
Also, the classic doing the rounds at the moment:
A proud new dad sits down to have a drink with his father“Well son, now that you’ve got a kid of your own, I think it’s time to give you this”
“Dad, you don’t mean-”
“Yes son, I do” *Dad pulls out copy of 1001 Dad Jokes, 5th Edition*
“Dad… I’m honoured…”, he says, tears sparkling in his eyes.
“Hi honoured”, replies his father. “I’m dad”.
-Doctor, I keep thinking I’m a cricketer!
-Howzat?
-Don’t you start now!
That seems like it would work much better spoken. Written the doctor just looks like a dick.
The Doctor is a dick in all those ‘Doctor, Doctor’ jokes. Maybe I made it obvious and the real joke has it as, ‘How’s that?’ perhaps? I’m not sure.
Out of curiosity, how many AC4 people here have join Initiates?
I did awhile back, don’t remember how or why. Or what it does exactly.
Essentially, if you don’t care about the lore etc. you can consider it an extension of Uplay achievements. Do things in AC, get DLC rewards.
What if I do care about the lore? (which I do)
Then there’s a tonne of extra info and reading on there, some of which is pretty interesting (and cool!).
Awesome, have to go to the website for that then?
How do you spot a blind guy at a nudist colony?
It’s not that hard.
Been messing around with the Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances game (browser based). It’s nothing special so far, just a C&C themed faux-RTS. If anyone wants to give it a try (authenticates via Origin): https://www.tiberiumalliances.com/ref/zZuOslae8ckgxDtWY_9P5w
I’ve lost faith in C&C since C&C4… eeeewwww…
C&C 3 however!
I still haven’t tried 4. I will at some point, I guess.
You got it on Origin yeah? during the “sale hiccup”?
Yup. So basically in terms of value I’ve already got my money’s worth 😛
Oh damn. My left foot is absolutely killing me at the moment. I’m supposed to go for a walk with a couple of mates, but I don’t think I’ll manage it today.
I hope it heels.
Bravo!
So i am a idiot, like a fucking idiot.
I booked tickets so myself and mr Alex pants could go see metric.
I was super excited and even pre-ordered the exact minute i could get my hands on them. In my excitement i booked tickets for their Melbourne show and didn’t realize until this morning.
luckily the Sydney show still had tickets and i bought some verifying this time that the show was in Sydney. ROCKETMAN AIN’T SMARTICLE.
on the plus side, THERE IS NO PLUS SIDE I AM A BOOB
You are, not the best at organising trips are you? 😛
Im going to end up in Portugal next week by accident.
for a positive spin on this, you’re great at problem solving under strict time constraints?
got anyone in Melbourne you can sell the tickets to?
MAYBE, its not a big loss, better to find out now than later.
Just for this I’m not putting out on the night.
Seriously it’s fine dude, the problem got solved so don’t worry about it. And if it hadn’t been solved, it would’ve been sad but not the end of the world. RELAX M’BOY.
off to the first of two job interviews over the next two days. I love restructures at work bringing uncertainty
GOOD LUCK BRO, SMASH THEM.
Don’t smash your interviewers. Don’t.
SHUTUP POW DONT TELL HIM WHAT TO DO 😛
dont punch them though, probably wont get the job.
dammit, I read this advice after my interview. For some reason the urge to punch people wasn’t there. Round Two tomorrow, will I do a Mike Tyson impression? Time will tell
Good luck bud! I know what you are going through. Getting interviews is a good start!
cheers 🙂 my contract isn’t up til February but trying to get ahead of the game. All the interview though I should be able to not be nervous for them. Ho hum
Ugh, should’ve taken today off work as well…
Anyway, will post something shortly about @rocketman and @steve_o_the_deve_o (<- that’s probably the wrong tag) in Sydney next weekend to try and organise…something.
@steve-o-the-deve-o?
@steve-o_the_deve-o?
EDIT: SUCCESS! \o/
My dad is coming home from a business trip today and takes a picture of the clouds outside of the plane from his window seat.
He sends me a text of that picture with the caption:
“Hey, which one do you think has all your information?” #dadjokepagesixThats brilliant, your dad sounds awesome.
Sorry to lie to you rockets, but I may have used some dramatic license
ass, why would you lie to me red, is it because I’m gullible and its hilarious? I understand that carry on.
groan…that’s actually a good one
They’re ALL good.
Bleh, feeling so … bleh today. Should have taken today off. On the bright side
…
*headdesk*
ON THE BRIGHT SIDE YOU GET HUGS FROM ME NEXT WEEK.
you know if you want
(kicks ground sheepishly)
Don’t kick sheep! They are the pillows of the animal kingdom!
WHat are the blankets of the animal kingdom? dogs? Cats?
Tauntauns
well played nob, well played
Last night @f4ction, @blaghman, @rocketman and I gave Risk of Rain a go. It’s actually surprisingly good. Reminds me of Borderlands but as a 2D platformer.
I need to stop missing jumps, and being shit and things. I think ill just stand next to faction next time. 😛
Still really fun though. I want new characters though.
Yeah, I was tempted to play Singleplayer last night but the game breaks on my main monitor (my monitor has a weird aspect ratio) and I couldn’t be bothered switch my monitors around (ugh, it takes like 3 button presses).
3 buttons, fuck that what are we animals?
Right!? It’s like we’re in the goddamn Stone Ages over here!
You are the Queen(s) of the Stone Age
I wish!
*googles Risk of Rain*
Hmmm…interesting.
Me too, I’m getting a lot of crap from my manager again about not keeping tickets updated… yeah it’s got nothing to do with you constantly pushing me around to do other things for you or taking many hours out of my day to help customers on something. I’m not gonna miss him when he goes back to India.
Edit: I’m getting so depressed up to the point of wanting to quit.
Do what you think will make you happy buddy, If you do feel like there is no other option make sure you find a alternative before biting the bullet. Hugs bro.
I don’t know, I really don’t. Either I risk making my depression worse (This is one of the main reasons why I’m barely about on TS and TAY for the last few weeks) and keep the job I’ve got, which does pay well but the cost of my well-being is getting higher and higher up to the point where I want to just leave and never come back. Or, I quit the job and risk being stuck in unemployment/getting crappy jobs only due to my lack of “education” having only a low level networking certification and advanced diploma, then things really get fracked up for me in the long term, since I’m still earning for my apartment.
I’m in a bit of a pickle…
Have you seen your doctor? Its not normal to feel anxious and deppressed most of the time buddy. You know the shit i go through and i wouldnt wish it on anyone, especially a good friend such as yourself. Maybe see a doctor and see if you can take some “stress leave” to figure your brain out?
This anxiety/depression combo I’ve had for as long as I can remember. I think Tafe was the only time I didn’t feel it cuz I was finally realising what I was quite good at in life other than playing video games. I’ll have to look into whether or not the doctors I usually see are versed in psychological issues rather than physical ones like being ill. I’ve got Friday off in lieu at least after my last weekend was taken away due to platform outages at work on Saturday and Sunday, so I could fit in some time to look up a doc then.
It wouldnt matter if the doctor is versed in it or not, they can always reffer you to someone else. But its definitely the way to go. Its hard to go through, just know TAY is here bro and if you ever need a escape you know im usually up for a game of something.
hugasauraus
It’s helpful seeing a psych if you can, mine hasn’t resulted in much difference in my actual mental state but I’m feeling better just knowing I’m at least getting some help.
In two days the package should arrive \o/
It should also be fitting!
Huzzah! \o/
COME BACK TO TEAMSPEAK, I HAVENT TALKED TO YOU FOR A WHILE.
You can talk to me on steam.
I played 2 hours of the Last of Us last night and ended up feeling like absolute crap.
Apparently it sets of my simulator sickness
That sucks. You gonna keep giving it a go?
I’ll probably keep playing through it, but in much shorter sessions
I got that as well. It’s the vibrating camera in the first few sections. They cut it out not too far in.
Nah, I’m not sure what it is but I’m still suffering it even when the camera has stopped the chaking
Sinister. So I watched it last night based on a recommendation from someone here (I believe?) and from my uncle. I turned off all the lights, opened the window, grabbed the torch – all for good effect.
Eh, not so scary.
It was interesting, sure, but I really think I’m just not that easily scared anymore. Then I turned to my wife, and asked her what she thought. She punched me in the arm and said something along the lines of, ‘that was the scariest movie I have seen! Why did you make me watch it? I hate you!’
Apparently she had been cowering under the blanket for most of the film. So there you have it – Sinister – the scariest movie of all time. For her. My search continues however..
Amnesia? Won’t work if you’re read too much about it.
I’ve found that films that go beyond reality don’t scare me. The Strangers was a fairly recent good one that simply involved
strangers wearing sacks bags over their heads stalking a household? but managed to creep me out.Also, I remember Hostel freaked me out the first time I watched it. I didn’t want to travel for a time after that. So real = scary to me.
try Inside
The Cure for Insomnia. Haven’t actually seen it, but it’s thr longest running movie of all time, goes for 3 days or something. But it was never rereleased for DVD, so good luck finding it (it’s scary because you have to stay awake for something potentially boring).
downloaded a heap of mods for Skyrim last night.
goddamn… it looks so pretty now. only downside is it occasionally freezes.
just things like better lighting, more grass, enhanced towns (so just cosmetic stuff using pre-existing models, so there shouldn’t be any major conflicts between the mods)
I’m thinking it might be because its hitting the RAM cap due to all the extra trees & stuff…
but I cant decide what mods to get rid of….
so questions for PC Skyrim people : what mods are you running?
I think all I’ve got downloaded is midas magic, thief tools and a couple custom armour and weapon mods.
I think I’ve got all of the sounds of Skyrim, enhanced grass, enhanced static mesh, pretty much what you’ve got. The lighting mods and the improved night sky are pretty fantastic as they make travelling at night such a surreal experience. Also it kinda forces you to pack torches because it gets really dark.
I also got more blood cos why not and I grabbed the SkyUI thing for streamlined UI. The only one I’m considering getting rid of is the removed motion blur when you perform executions but I might stick with that one. The rest of the mods have been excellent and I’ve stayed away from the lore-breaking mods and any of the adds additional content stuff.
Oh. Improved night sky and more blood, I also got them.
I would want to run a mod that got rid of all the horrible snowy non-green areas 😛
I think there’s a mod that turns the whole place into a desert.
That would be just as bad! I’ve seen one that turns it into a rainforest! 😀
Actually, I take that back. Desert is much better than Tundra.
With those mods you usually run into a problem with your graphics card running outta RAM. Download Afterburner and monitor usage, to see what has a big effect.
4GB of graphics RAM isn’t enough? :'(
I suppose theres other things I could do to fix it. I upped the render distance from 5 to 9 cells in the ini file, which I know puts a bit more strain on your machine. might drop it back to 7 tonight…
4GB? You got a new AMD card or something? Nice. 🙂
Render distance makes a huge impact, if you increase it along with everything else.
nah, its an HD6990 (aka 2x HD6970 + glue) still, i thought they had the xfire issues sorted out…
You actually have 2GB VRAM then. It’s shared by each GPU. 2GB definitely hits its limits with Skyrim mods @ 1920×1080, so I’d re-recommend checking your usage on Afterburner.
Good card anyways and not really an issue in 99% of other games. 😛
Regarding render distance: you’re compounding the demanding-ness of the game, since you upped shadows/details/everything, and then increasing the distance that all of this is required!
really? looking at the cards specs, its saying that its got 4GB…
anyway… I’ll turn the render distance down. I mean, with the the enhanced trees / grass mods its not as if I can actually see very far.
Yah, marketing hype. It’s 2GB per GPU, so 4GB total. However you still only have 2GB that can be used at any GPU at any time.
@stickman well… thats just disappointing. & confusing.
Quietcool ENB
Skyrim HD
Skyrim Flora and Fauna
Sounds of Skyrim (ALL OF THEM)
Perfect Water
Shenk’s Thievery Overhaul
SMIMS Static Mesh Improvement Mod
Perfect Fire
Climates of Tamriel
…
and some other stuff, that’s just off the top of my head XD
Also decided to play Skyrim last night… ended up spending 3 hours tweaking ENB…
OH i did manage to walk from Riverwood to Whiterun \o/…
I seem to spend more time tweaking mods then i do playing the game XD
I’ve actually found myself refusing to use quick travel (aside from the carriage) because I want to see the impact of the mods. Dayum it all looks so pretty. 😀
Yeah i tend not to quick travel…
OHOH add Scenic Carriages to the list of mods…
Bit buggy but carriages now makes sense XD
*madly scribbles down list*
Still rather intimidated when it comes to mods, mainly because I still haven’t had the chance to even look at them, let alone work out how to install them.
One word:
“Nexus Mod Manager”
*counts words on fingers*
Yep…
Does it all for you…
And steam workshop is a godsend… Subscribe to mod, open Skyrim Launcher and BAM… downloading…
No stuffing around with data files, invalidation archives etc…
pretty amazeballs
if you’re using Steam, just go to the workshop & subscribe to the ones you want. it all takes care of itself like some magical mod magician.
if you’re going through the nexus though…. no idea.
Thanks @pixel_the_ferret_viking and @35 I am going through Steam so hopefully even I won’t cause my PC to go into meltdown.
just a tip so you can avoid what I’m going through –
get them one at a time.
download one, play for a bit & if theres no issues, get the next one.
otherwise, if you’re an idiot like me & get 38 at once, then when shit goes weird, you’ll have a much harder time working out whats causing the problems.
A rabbit is sitting at a bar, having a drink.
Suddenly, an older rabbit turns to him and yells, “I had sex with your mother!”.
Unperturbed, the younger rabbit continues drinking.
Again, the older rabbit says once more, “I had sex with your mother!”
The younger rabbit turns to him and replies, “Go home, dad. You’re drunk.”
#DadJokepage6
Did you hear about the bicycle that tried to get up the hill?
He couldn’t do it. He was two-tired.
#DadJokepage6
Im not sure i get the joke, is it funny cause rabbits have lots of sex?
It’s funny because rabbits are alcoholics.
And it destroyed his family.
I have heard that, They myx a mean moatosis
i hear its killer
Nice 🙂
ALRIGHTY EVERYONE. Starbound beta comes out in around 18 hours and 45 minutes. Get super hype, people. OR ELSE.
(actually, it’s probably completely off, but SOMETIME TOMORROW!)
Eh. 😛
Looks pretty. Is it platformer or strategy?
It’s like super terraria in spaaaaaaaaaaace
Space Terraria.
If my work’s farewell / Christmas party wasn’t tomorrow I would so take tomorrow off!
can i buy it or did i have to back the kickstarter?
http://www.playstarbound.com/store/
TANK YOU buddy, it can be our new game.
we now have 2 and a half
the half is trying to get forced to work.
I actually have a couple of spare hypes right here.
I’m not offering them to anyone, I’m just bragging.
5AM tomorrow. I can probably fire it up tomorrow night.
Hype.
!
@benny and i wrote a thing about Metal Gear Solid
http://www.pixel-otaku.com/duel-shock-metal-gear-solid/
Awesome!
METAL… GEAR…?!
Sounds like a solid game.
I’m surprised there was not a single “SNAAAAAAAAAAKEEEEEE!” line in that entire article. Mildly disappointed there but it was still a good read. Much nostalgia was had.
SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKEEEEEEEEEE works better if you have the music cue to go with it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6QWC5ZIPuI
I actually just bought the legacy collection this morning and I’m hoping to get into the series. I’ve only played snippets of MGS 1 and 2.
What’s the best way to go about it? Chronologically or just follow the games’ release dates?
I’d follow release- the series builds on its own mechanics very well
Thanks 🙂
When @dc’s not on screen everyone should say “Where’s @dc”.
Also, @dc needs to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine.
Actually, he has the latter.
When is @dc going to get to the fireworks factory?
I know what will get @dc to come back! Jokes obviously!
Worker: “I’m taking tomorrow off, I have a problem with my eye”
Boss: “Whats wrong with your eye?”
Worker: “I don’t know but I just don’t see myself coming in”.
#dadjokepage6
there is literally nothing to do at work.
LITERALLY. i spend 3 hours yesterday hosing out and scrubbing the shed floor. Inside is immaculate, paper work is up to date, no training to do.
I have never been so bored, i should of just taken a sick day like i was planning all along.
You could do my work? What do you know about industry clusters?
That businesses and suppliers being close together sort of forms a symbiosis of sorts and all businesses benifit?
wikipedia makes everyone sound smart.
Pretty much, though there’s a couple of other tricks to it. I’m presenting on it tomorrow at a conference.
Is the presentation about why putting sex shops next to deli’s is both weird and super effective?
Both have excellent ranges of sausages.
Yes. Yes it is.
WHAT ARE THE OOD’s
ELECTROCUTING ORB OF DOOM
What are the Oods?
http://tinyurl.com/pk7wauo
I’m the same boat, just sitting around and watching the clock tick down. Worst hump day ever.
I’m sensing a theme to today’s TAY.
Is it cowboys and indians???
or space robots
or lack of motivation
tick tick tick
BOOM
TIMES UP MOTHER TRUCKER YOU ARE DEAD.
It’s all of these, and more.
A very comprehensive theme.
I don’t think we know how themes work.
We should totally do a cowboy themed TAY page.
God Eater 2 is getting a patch to add online multiplayer for the Vita. I wonder if this is because of a lack of Vita penetration in Japan resulting in them lacking the critical mass that eg Monster Hunter has, where it’s easy to find people to co-op with in your local area, or if they’re adding the patch because it’ll make the game viable outside Japan. Hoping for the latter.
cc @ynefel
It might just be a feature they wanted to include for the localization if they ever intended on it.
I’d sure hope that there are no Vita penetration videos online! D:
Rule 34 says there are. 🙁
God Eater 2 is one of the main reasons I decided to give the Vita another chance. That, Binding of Isaac Rebirth and PSO2.
New Humble Bundle.
Magicka, Sanctum 2, Orcs Must Die 2 and Garry’s Mod all make up for the fact that you also end up with Natural Selection 2.
No Serious Sam 3 love? it’s pretty fun
I’ve played a Serious Sam game in the past. Can’t remember which one. It was OK, I guess.
2, and it was with me XD
3 is ten times better though
+1 for Magicka. Great 4-player co-op fun.
It will start winding down for me in just over a week – until then IT’S CHAOS HERE!
Reply fail. @rocketman
I have 3 weeks left and i have 2 days off next week for seeing concerts in sydney.
Im pretty hyped for my 16 days off. My sisters are both here for the holiday and we finally have room for them which means i get to have a very very christmas 🙂
We should have a magicka playthrough again man that game is awesome.
*** Awesome could also mean buggy piece of crap.
Tagging @bish incase he needs a good laugh.
Such a great game!
Also, one of the best things about it is that as long as someone owns all DLC, everyone can play it with them.
I’d be keen for some more Magicka. It’s a shame it’s limited to four players – would be such an awesome LAN game.
Yeyeye, I have a couple copies of it. 😛
I found it way too difficult, but maybe playing it co-op makes it easier/more fun. But now I can’t even do singleplayer. Stupid Steam can’t connect!
Yah some of the boss battles are really hard with just one player. Need to use a specific combo of spells, otherwise you’re dead. 🙁
Girlfriend is going away for 4 months and we’re starting to realise we’ll be missing our anniversary, her birthday and valentines and its all starting to sink in now =/ We’ve been attached at the hip for about 3 years now, so this will be hard.
Dear phlaiman
Sounds rough, but I’m sure you’ll find ways around it. Where is she going?
Regards
Lonely Hearts beat in tune
#letterwritingpageseven
Dear Red,
She is going to Washington DC for an internship. I really want to be able to visit her but financially I’m not sure if it will be the best decision considering I am trying to save at the moment.
For ever yours,
phlaiman
Dear Phlaiman
As cool as a trip to washington would be, if you’re going to the US you’d want to do it properly, which could cost.
That said, trip with GF would be cool
Voyager Red.
Dear Phlaiman,
That’s a shame, but it DOES give you the opportunity to have a pretty fantastic reunion after the 4 months is up.
Nam sain,
Rize
P.S. “Girlfriend going away, this will be hard”
P.P.S http://tinyurl.com/nmo5g2o
HE’S TALKING ABOUT
GETTING A PUPPY FOR COMPANIONSHIPRIGHT?I know that feel. My girl is heading to Europe for 3.5 months in April 🙁 I will be going over with her for 2 weeks in the middle, but its going to be really hard. Its bad enough that we already live several hours apart and only get to see each other every other weekend 🙁
Not as bad as @tech_knight though…
but just think of the money you’ll save on anniversary / birthday / valentines gifts!
You’re doin’ it wrong. Be an antisocial shut-in like myself and never have to worry about anyone going away, ever!
Srsly though, that sucks. As others have said, at least you could have an awesome reunion, right?Once again my work IT system hits me in the face with his ancient ways. Yes I know I was due to update my password but I didn’t think you would do it in the middle of the day and lock me out of all of my work. I just had to restart and log back in to everything which in itself is a five minute task.
Yay government. -_-
Lol have fun with WinXP. 😛
You should ring IT and see if they can disable that restriction for you. We do it at work because our staff can’t even remember one password, let alone a new one every month – it just adds unnecessary tickets to our help desk.
Casual booth set up next to me of one of those Rent2Own things.
Xbox 360 for $30 per week over 12 months.
Bargain.
Oh wait, per WEEK.
Disregard.
“You too can own the Xbox 360 for the low, low price of $1,560!” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
You could buy 5 250gb 360s for what that’d cost you in a year.
You get 3 games with it though.
Well, in that case…
set up a booth next to it offering your old 360 for the low low price of $20 per week.
The irony is that it works out to be $360.Deja vu right there.
You give me $30 per week for 12 months, and I will refund you $720 at the end.
Double your money?
The total is almost enough to buy THREE Xbox Ones.
Yep, if you saved that $30 a week for three months, you could buy right into next gen without a problem. I cannot believe there are people out there who wouldn’t even bother with that basic maths.
If I had to guess I’d say it’s people who couldn’t save a penny to save their lives. Maybe people on unemployment benefits also? Though seriously, come on people, shop around. Any XX-month interest free deal at major retailers shit all over this one. It’s criminal.
Dear TAY,
Oh man I have a work shing-ding on this afternoon. Like, in three hours, for a client we use for a lot of travel.
It’s fine, you know…except for the hanging out with complete strangers, in a foreign office, with “networking opportunities”. To top it off, I’m the ONLY one from my massive workplace going, which means I won’t know anybody.
Does anybody have any advice on how to not come across as an anxious dick?
Regards,
Quiz_b
If anyone walks up to you throw business cards in their face until they leave.
Does not work so well for Gambit, mon ami.
Edit to sound more Gambit-y.
Dear Quiz B,
I used to be like you and i still am
Rocketman
seriously though, just walk up to some non threatening people, try making light of the situation, a joke about the food or something. Introduce yourself and make small talk about your jobs. then the best part is once you know one person you can just tag along with them. I swear to god i have met more people that way than any other way. People in general are nice and will notice if you are a bit awkward and will want to make you feel more at ease.
Fixed.
EDIT: Tags are hard.
IT HAPPENED ONE TIME
i should clarify, it happened one time each over two years
Yes im a mess of a person, shut up you guys are the same you just dont tell the world of your hilarious failures
It’s why we
lovetolerate you Rockets.I tolerate you too cocksmith oh shit i mean cakesmith
Hack yo’ life.
This may be terrible advice.
if they haven’t met you before, you can just pretend that you’re a not an anxious dick & they wont know any better.
just pretend you’re confident & charismatic & interesting. thats what i do.
I think you are all 3
i literally had a conversation with bish one day that was like
“@35 is a cool guy he seems way to cool to hang out with us, maybe he is taking pity on us”
When one of you goes missing and someone called @36 starts posting, you’ll know what’s up.
–Frank le Dau, Senior Creative Reporter for ACA
so my act is pretty convincing then? :p
thanks man. but i like hanging out with you lot coz you’re all genuinely cool & fun & friendly.?I totally feel the same when hanging out with Transientmind and Sughly. XD
1. Don’t walk through the door, kick it in.
2. Announce your presence with a “yo to hold onto your panties ladies as Quizzle B is in da house an they bout to get DROPPED!”
3. Stride in, slap the first woman you see on the butt, call her a bitch and demand she get you a drink.
4. Turn to the closest guy with your hand up for a high five with a “wemminamirite?”
The rest should run naturally after that.
YOU ARE A MAD MAN FREEZE
Mad man?
Could be worse. you could Gender swap everything in that comment 😛
Oh God I laughed so hard at that my office colleague leaned over to see what I was reading. She wasn’t amused.
Serves her right for snooping.
THIS MAN SHOULD POLICE US
Ask “how’s business”
“plans for christmas”
“Anyway, I’ll keep circulating, may chat to you later”
And repeat
This. The act of being socially social is actually the most unsocial thing you can do in a social society.
Sociiaaaalllllll.
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/11/how-i-became-the-kind-of-person-who-can-work-a-room/
Apparently the key is talking to pairs of people, not alone people.
(My version of this is sidling up to pairs of people until you’re just out of comfortable talking range, but well within eavesdropping range. It makes everyone feel very awkward, which levels the playing field!)
Edit: whoops, looks like fled beat me to it.
Dear Anxious Quiz,
That sounds terrible, I know you feel its going to be rough, but here is a few tips on how to pull through those awkward “Networking Opportunities”
Step 1. Drink all the alcohol
Step 2. There is no step 2
Sincerely,
Helpful Cam
Dear Tay.
It’s terrible. I’m the only person under 30. Aside from flirty travel agent, who is also trying to get me to chat up 50 year olds. I may have drank a lot of wine.
Yours,
Quiz didn’t slap anyone on the arse yet b
Hello TAY,
I have a $100 Wesfield gift card I forgot about from last year that was expiring next week so I’m thinking of buying a VITA over the weekend. Big W will be having a WiFi VITA with Tearaway on sale for $199 on Saturday. I would have preferred a bundle with more games but this is the cheapest I can find, I’m sure they’ll be cheaper stuff over Christmas but I can’t use the gift card then and I can’t think of anything else I want from a Westfield store at the moment. Or should I buy a EB/JB gift card with my gift card and wait for their Xmas vita sales?
So what are the need to know things for a new VITA owner? What settings etc should I change/activate when I get the unit?
A 32GB card is enough right? SuperUfo has one for $63, which would make my overall purchase price $262 which seems to be what VITA bundles at EB/JB currently cost.
Can I use the VITA without a memory card? Or do I just leave the VITA boxed until my memory card arrives?
Has any game/app used the 3G function on the 3G+WiFi variant of the vita? Should I get that version?
Can I sort games into folders like on PS3?
Is there a cheaper or better bundle you are aware of?
I already have a PS+ account so I’m not going to buy any games for the foreseeable future. Actually since this is a fresh console I want to see how long I can go without buying a game. Other than persona 4 (which most of you claim is THE vita game) and LBP Vita(which is the only game I really wanted) most of the big VITA stuff is on PS+ It might be an interesting experiment about my thoughts about game ownership and whether just experiencing the games will be enough. Also I’ll try as much as possible to not have a Vita backlog. This could be a freah start on my gaming habits. Maybe downloading one or two vita games at a time.
Thank you,
Masha.
Nothing you really need to do. Maybe check for updates when you get it. Only thing I would suggest is maybe get 2 memory cards. Only one region can be set per memory card so if you want to access the US PSN you will need another memory card.
I think the VITA comes with a small memory card. So you should be able to play it straight out of the box. If you are planning on hoarding all the PSN+ games a big memory card will probably be needed.
3G is pretty pointless as far as I can tell. All games and apps that require a connection to the Internet need a WiFi connection.
Isn’t the account switching process cumbersome? I think you need to reset your system or something? I have two accounts on PS3 but I think I’ll stick with one for the VITA.
Oh nice, I hope this Tearaway bundle has a memory card. I can’t see any pictured. Thanks for the tips 🙂
Need to factory restore VITA to use another account. So: take out card #1, restore, insert card#2. Each card is linked to the account too.
Can’t just buy $100 of KFC?
Ha ha, I don’t think I can eat that much 🙂
‘But you’re fat!’, I hear you shouting.
That is more to do with poor eating habits and lack of exercise on my part
🙂
You don’t think you can… but wouldn’t you like to be sure of something in life?
Knowing is half the battle, Mr. Masha.
– Folders: yes
– Get the 8GB memory card + games combo. It’s like $40, and the old bundle with LBP, Wipeout, etc is a great deal.
– Holding down the PS button gets you into a neat menu with volume/brightness/etc
– The VITA comes with a nice intro video explaining features. The game pre-installed on it is good to work out every feature (touchscreen/back)
– Memory card is required, yes.
– Can set up VIta to auto-download updates like a PS3 since you have PS+
– Keep an eye out for sales on stuff. I picked up 4GB cards for $5 at HN one time.
– 3G just works as a data connection as per usual. No need to get it.
– Check out the other bundles. Tearaway is $38 in stores, while Killzone is like $58. So if this appeals to you, better to get Killzone bundle and purchase Tearaway.
Holding down the PS button is a good tip. Thanks
Nice, I like the auto update feature on my PS3.
There are no other $199 bundles I can find but that’s why I’m still hesitant about buying now. I need to use the card for something though
🙂
Thanks for the info:-)
Pretty sure EB/JB/Big had killzone bundle for $199 too.
That offer ended November 27th and it was at JB. Just missed it 🙁
Maybe buying the EB/JB gifcard is the best option just in case they repeat the deal over xmas.
Curse my indecisiveness! 🙂
I’m fairly sure that the Tearaway bundle was also with an 8gb Memory Card but I may be wrong on that?
You can use *some* Vita games without a memory card, but it varies and I’ve never done it.
Default settings are all good, the only thing I did was shove most of Sony’s useless shit apps into a folder to hide them forever. Yes, you can sort stuff into folders, but it’s manual. 3G functionality so far hasn’t had a compelling reason to have. I got 3G for mine because I was worried that in the future I might wish I had it.
I’m using a 16gb and while it’s a pain to manage all my stuff, I’ve got a fair amount of games on it. I have Super Stardust, Gravity Rush, Lumines, Gravity Rush, Atelier Totori, Guacamelee, Sine Mora, Virtue’s Last Reward, Black Rock Shooter, God Eater Burst and Corpse Party: Book of Shadows all installed and have just under 1gb free. However I tend to buy most of my games as physical media still.
If the bundle has an 8gb card I’d use that for a bit until you can justify importing a 64gb, especially if you’re going to be mainly digital.
I’m not sure if it’s worth jumping now or waiting, but I suspect it might be better to get one now, I can’t see them discounting it much more after Christmas. Especially if the bundle includes the old OLED Vita, that thing’s much nicer than the new one.
I think I’ll go mostly digital for the Vita, I have too many game boxes.
This is the bundle they’re selling. https://m.bigw.com.au/entertainment/video-games-consoles/ps-vita/bpnBIGW_AID126930/playstation-vita-console-wifi-with-tearaway?utm_source=dgm&utm_medium=affiliate
No mention of a memory card but it’s the 3G version 🙂 I’m like you in that I keep thinking something might use the feature in the future and i’ll wish I had bought it
You seem to have a decent amount of games installed so maybe I don’t need a memory card that’s too big. I’m still uncertain about the timing but I have a few days to think about it so maybe I’ll change my mind.
Thanks
Vita games range from 1-4gb. Download-only stuff esp. indies tend to be smaller. IIRC Uncharted was around 3.5gb, Gravity Rush is around the same and so is Totori. The rest are ~1gb each or less. IMO a 4gb would be way too small. I find the 16gb very restrictive and at some point will replace with 64gb.
The right-turn indicator on highway #1 in my city, in the ‘city gates’ is broken. Massive queues and me performing illegal manouvers ensue.
1. I ring Police. After 5 min intro I get put in queue.
2. Police don’t care at all.
3. Ring local Council.
4. They lodge job with Main Roads since it’s…. highway one.
5. They ask for my underpant size so they can fully determine the extent of the report.
tl;dr no one cares.
I hope you convinced them of your extent.
Or maybe current tent, depending on your level of excitement.
#WhatIt’sStillPageSixInMyHeart
Every page is page 6 to you.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
MAckay and north QLD is pretty great like that.
Just put money down for Wasteland 2. I’m getting more and more excited for upcoming games than I have been for a long time. Damn it’s been a while
WASTELAND 2 HYPE.
Seriously though, between that, Satellite Reign & Project Eternity, I’m gonna have all the RPG goodness I could ever need.
There are some genuinely brilliant games on that Biggest Disappointment list.
My biggest disappointment was The Last of Us, but now my biggest disappointment is the fact that I can’t vote for The Last of Us.
Yup, same.
Good Game gave it GOTY last night.
Opinions sure are something.
True. I’m with you though. Good story and setting wrapped around a mediocre game.
If I felt the same feeling for Ellie as I did for Clem in The Walking Dead I feel it would of been better
If you mentioned it in the Nominate your biggest disappointment post then it should be in the list to vote for. Did Serrels forget to add it?
I voted Wind Waker. I know it’s not terrible, it just was genuinely disappointing that it didn’t live up to my expectations.
You monster! Yeah, I was disappointed with Wind Waker, too. 😀
You’re okay, Buble. You’re okay.
I still don’t get this Wind Waker thing. What did I miss? Last I saw you’d been playing non-stop and raving about how awesome and pretty it was.
Last third of the game was so terrible that it tainted the entire experience for me.
Ah.
But how can that be a disappointment when you were warned in advance by several people it gets tedious at that point? I thought disappointments were when you were expecting different.
See, here’s the thing, I expected the Triforce quest. The Triforce quest did not bother me because I started doing it really early, so it wasn’t a massive hit of searching.
What did surprise me was how bad the last two dungeons of the game were. The second to last one had poor design decisions, and infuriated me immensely, and the final one was the least creative I’ve seen ever seen (and it was annoying). So even with the expectation of being annoyed at the last bit, it managed to exceed my expectations of badness.
I still liked the game overall, but the end really killed its vibe.
I voted Rome: Total War 2. That was such a let down from both the first Rome and the other Total Wars.
How is Rayman Legends in there? I could understand if the was the Rayman Legends delay but I’m pretty sure they mean the actual game.
The game was the original game except improved in every way. =/
@sughly, @strange, @freezespreston, @sernobulus, @virus__, @jimu, @gutsoup, @popdart5, @transientmind, @welbot, @dkzeitgeist, @beardymcmuttonchops, @lambomann007
He’ll be in town this weekend!
I’m a terrible person. My weekend is solidly booked out on all days so no meat for me. 🙁
I’ll hopefully be able to make the Saturday late-ish lunch thing.
I have a market research thing from 12-12:45 or 1pm on Saturday in west end. If we end up meeting around there, and someone else goes early enough, I can pick you up on my way through. I’d be picking you up around 11:30am if that were to eventuate. Let me know if anyone else wants to meet you at west end around midday, and I’ll make it happen!
I’m not in town Friday (going to Leyburn), Saturday i’m working till late & i’m also working Sunday :/ So yeah.. I kinda forgot @freezespreston told me about this and forgot to put down I was n/a, damn it.
I’ll be there!
Whoops. Lesson learned, do not make half hour calls overseas. Sooo expensive :S
I am actually really scared that I’m going to get this for Christmas… http://www.threadless.com/product/5411/Living_Aqua_Teens/tab,guys/style,shirt
What gets me the most is the raw chicken for a tongue.
Psst, watch the new Adult Swim show Rick and Morty yet? (cc. @gutsoup…)
Not yet, still living with a shitty 3g dongle 🙁 Haven’t forgotten though! The rate AS post about it on facebook I don’t think I’m going to forget either 😛
oh, man thanks for the reminder, i stared blankly at my pc last night thinking, I know there is something I’m supposed to watch but couldn’t remember. will attempt to tonight.
Let me guess – you could have bought a next-gen console instead of making the call? 😛
I could’ve gotten close 😛 I need a stable connection so I can use skypeeee and make video calls so I can see my dear friend’s face again 🙂
Heh, blowing people’s minds with 4D Snake. It’s pretty rad 😛
Sounds extremely dirty.
Sounds like he’s referring to the write-up Red and I did.
Exactly what I was getting at.
So ah, yeah, apparently people will be in Sydney next weekend for events and stuff so I’m pretty sure the plan was to do…stuff. Not things though. Things are terrible.
What we know:
Rocketman, Steve-O, Mrs. Steve-O, Rize, Nob and Blaghman will be around. It’s also probably the last chance we will all have to catch up before Christmas.
We know the date: 14th December 2013
We also know that food and alcohol will be consumed.
What we don’t know:
Pretty much everything else. Where do we want to consume said food and alohol?
@35, @alexpants, @anonymous_pessimist, @batgirl, @batguy, @cakesmith, @cj, @doc_what, @effluvium-boy, @fatshadylive, @freya, @trjn, @gingerchris86, @gorzilla, @harli, @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian, @masha2932, @shiggyninty, @powalen, @novacascade, @ruffleberg, @rize, @blaghman, @markserrels, @rocketman, @steve-o_the_deve-o, @sernobulus, @shane, @dc, @mrtaco
Right, I need to book flights and accommodation for that.
Yep.
Apparently we have an empty apartment that weekend. Just need someone that’s going to be there to grab a set of keys to pass on to you.
Steve-O’s in Sydney next weekend? Oh man, that guy is insane.
Yep
damn. got an engagement party to go to on the 14th…
They’re (probably) less important than @rocketman
I’m gonna tell him you said that. He’ll cry.
Also, why end it there? Come to Melbourne for an exclusive meat with ME, the following Saturday 21st Dec! Somewhere at Fed Square. Anyone have any other details to my meat? @scree
Who knows where my meat is going to be? 😀
I think @scree said we’d be meeting at Switch in Fed Square? Not sure though.
I’ll be there at least.
Optic bar, not switch
I’m kind of a big deal. People know me.
Also, Anchorman 2 should be out by then!
Uh, I’m pretty much a definite no. With two small kids and a pregnant wife, even leaving the house is hard, let alone the city. Sorry, dude.
It’s in jest @shane at the recent tagging of you in Brisbane meats. Notice DC was also tagged?
I did notice, but I also wasn’t sure, because Sydney isn’t actually crazily out of reach for Canberrans, so I thought I would make my position absolutely clear.
It’s ok Shane. We understand if Sydney is too far for you to dump a bunch of stuff you don’t want 😛
@shane come to my meat. It’s betterer. And closer. *gets map out*
*Cuts out everything between Sale, Bendigo, Wagga Wagga and Cooma*
See? Closer!!!
Fine. Don’t tag me. I didn’t want to come anyway.
We didn’t want you anyway.
You should come though. You can be buddies with @sernobulus.We could share a queen bed. =P
Freeze likes to cuddle.
Shotgun little spoon!
For reals Freeze, should come.
I would but I think I’ve used all my brownie points by this point.
Only one way to find out!
Tell her the night before you leave that the flights are already booked and you’ll be back in a couple of days!
You can use my bed!
Just, you know, wash the sheets when you’re done.
Unfortunately my work christmas party is the day before 🙁 I would much rather hang out with you guys, but… work party has free food 😛
I’m sure @rocketman will pay for your dinner if you let him rest his hand on your leg.
Sounds like I’m definitely getting the better end of that deal
Bavarian Beir cafe is awesome
A bar big enough for all of us is always the issue though. Fucking tiny ass bars not big enough for 40 people.
Also i am around from the 12th and stevo is around from the 9th i think so if anyone wants to catch up during the thursday or friday morning or afternoon im keen to see your happy faces.
I’d like to go to the Lowenbrau (mostly after talking to @rize about it last time) but it can get even more pricey.
And yeah, finding a bar to fit everyone is always a pain haha.
YAY! LOWENBRAU! I DRANK SO MUCH OF IT AT OKTOBERFEST I GAVE MYSELF GOUT! I CAN RELIVE THE MEMORIES!
Also, Friday, we should do lunch. There’s some rad markets at the Rocks near my work.
SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN.
Any chance of relocating this slightly north to Munich? @freya and I don’t really want to work in another set of trans-continental flights if we can avoid them. We’ve already scheduled a lot of flights and train trips in December.
I am interested. And not even in Streetpass any more, now that I have all the puzzle pieces!
Though seriously, bring your 3DS. Need moar streetpass.So *that’s* why the 14th was in my head as an important date before…
Oh man, I need to add you to this list. Grabbed it from an old post haha.
My invite probably just got placed in the same envelope as Freeze’s by accident 😛
No, we just don’t like Freeze. We try not to let him know though.
Shh I’m trying to make him feel better!
It’s okay. I’ve come to terms that douchebaggery is intrinsic to Sydney living. 😛
Survival of the dickest.
I’m up for whatever!
Just keep in mind that it might be hard to get into a restaurant or something if that’s what we’re doing, because of the whole Christmas thing 😛
Yep, that’s why I’m going to default to the Bavarian by the end of the week if no one comes up with anything better.
WAGAMAMA. KATSU CURRY.
CURRY.
I would say too many people for there.
So that song down there is playing in my center at the moment.
Seems a bit of a charged song to be playing in a shopping center. Not that I care but unexpected.
For the non retarded link. Kotaku hates my links.
NegativeZero’s Brief Kantai Collection Daily Update That No One Cares About
Not much to mention really. Didn’t get any interesting drops. Did get both Fusou sisters from World 3, as well as a Kitakami who would have been nice if I didn’t already have her. Used them up as modernization trash after stripping the 36cm guns from the Fusous to use as extra equipment for any new BBs I get. Started thinking I could do with a second light carrier to offset Hiyou (I have a few others eg Shouhou but they simply can’t carry enough planes to justify their use) and then I noticed I’ve had a level 2 Junyou for ages and never used her. So started on that.Got Akagi to level 30 and Remodelled her to her Kai version for more planes and more hunger for my resources. She still seems oddly ineffective compared to Hiryuu. Need to get some other fleet carriers to find out if my Hiryuu is just super good or if Akagi is just crap. Possibly the difference is in aircraft quality and the amount of modernization each has received since the Remodel reset Akagi’s stats back to base.
Attempted to build some decent cannons and a turbine but failed in all cases. Best I got was a 15.5cm Triple, but I don’t understand what that gun’s good for. It hits better than a 14cm but worse than a 20.3cm, but the smallest class ship that can mount it is a cruiser, but all the cruisers able to mount 15.5cm Triples can also mount 20.3cm, and all the rest seem limited to 14cm. Seems kind of pointless for a rare equipment.
Other than that I continued to level up my two recent Kongo-class acquisitions – have Kirishima to 20 and Hiei to 14 now. Got Hibiki to level 20 and her first remodel, so now have 3 Kai destroyers. Shimakaze is at 17, Shigure at 15 and Murasame at 12 so I’ll probably level them up in that order.
Probably won’t get a chance to play tonight as the game’s down for updates and maintenance and I’m heading out for a belated birthday dinner with the family. Probably good to have a day’s break since it’ll give my resources a chance to recover, noticed my Bauxite supply is getting a bit low and I’ve got next to no fuel in my reserves.
I didn’t play enough last night to warrant a big post. Suffice to say I built two Chiyodas (because one clearly isn’t enough) and one of the Fusou sisters. I’m not scrapping anything yet but I’m trying to speed-grind Chiyoda up to her light carrier remodel so she can run with Shouhou.Got a stack of destroyer drops (nothing worth noting) on 1-3 and I still haven’t gotten to the boss yet. I’m going to try running CLs and DDs to get the correct compass spin as I think there might be a hidden composition requirement. It might just be that you’re not supposed to try running it with 1 BB, 1 CVL, 1 AV, and 3 CLs.
I was going to try grinding tonight but I had forgotten about the update so I guess that will have to be another day. Dang it.
@popdart5 update notes for today’s update as they appear on the twitter account,
EDIT: translation of the notes by someone who actually knows what they’re saying here:
http://pastebin.com/u1t4JJwS
We really should update the TAYlist to include city locations.
That way we don’t all need to be creepy-like with maps, photos, pins and string.
If you want to be creepy-like however, I have no idea why you’d need pins and string.
Maps and photos should suffice.
@dc knows why
Nah. His work is all list based.
Strings connected to lists
@greenius didn’t need that to immediately identify people he had never met at PAX this year.
Are you saying that you’re not as good a stalker as him?
Totally.
I have suggested this before and for some reason people don’t want to do it?
Hmm lemme see if I have administrative control over taynames..
Assuming direct control.
So I got my DVD of The Enemy Of The World today, pretty bloody good overall.
Lost for pretty much my entire lifespan, copy found somewhere in Africa (Nigeria I think it was), given the digital restoration treatment and damn does it look great for footage that’s getting on towards half a century old.
The story was a lot better than I expected as well, having read the outline of the story in books I was expecting something a bit closer to the usual “character 1 looks exactly like character 2; wacky hijinks ensue” style farce, a bit better than the normal kind of crap being Dr Who but pretty shallow. Instead it was a really good tale of manipulation and politics with none of the characters really getting in the way and not suffering the 6 episode fatigue that Dr Who stories occasionally suffered from.
Sadly there’s no real extras, I suppose they wanted to get it out in time for the anniversary and most of the people involved in the production are dead now anyway. There is a trailer for the next story (both chronologically and in release), The Web Of Fear. Really quite dramatic looking, far more so than any old Dr Who story ever had before.
So yeah, quite happy with it. I’d definitely recommend it to fans of classic Who.
You know how EVA 1.11-3.33 look amazing on blu-ray, if you have no idea what I’m talking about just trust me they look gorgeous. But the original series even though its restored looks shitty in comparision. Thats why i cant watch old doctor who. Everything feels so dated. Like the characters, story and the footage. For its time it always will be seen as the pinnicale for amazing budget story telling but i have been spoiled and i cant return to the old Who.
Next you’ll be saying you can’t watch it because it’s in black & white, it’s thinking like that which caused the bbc to destroy the original masters in the first place!
Effectively YOU murdered Dr Who you monster!!!!!!!!1111
The original series of Neon Genesis has been restored on Blu-ray?!
NO ONE TOLD ME!
Weird, Nigeria actually delivering on claims of treasure.
Aw man, got an email from Good Guys saying that they can’t fulfil the order from that $10 thing a while back. Thought for sure I wouldn’t miss out seeing as I ordered relatively early. Oh well. They’re pretty good about it at least, refund plus a $40 gift card. Could do much worse.
Luigi U I can understand running out of, but they didn’t have a copy of Pokemon Rumble to give me. Nobody even bought that game when it was new! 😛
@greenius @beavwa (who else wanted to know? I can’t remember)
I got Super Scribblenauts, Resistance Burning Skies and SSFIV 3DS with no hassles.
Metallica guitar bundle is a no-go for me.
Read it again. They CAN fulfill that list, or they CAN’T?
I thought they told me that the whole order was out, but then re-read and it says they will get those to me.
Any of your order. Shit. Here’s what I got:
Also, according to this email, I am getting Pokémon Rumble, and only missing out on gold / silver. That doesn’t seem right if I get it from a much later order (rumble, gold and silver were previously raised as unable to get so it’s funny if it comes back now)
At this point I’ll just have to wait and see what arrives in the delivery, their story changes every time about what will and won’t make it.
I’m going to use that $40 voucher to get whatever game comes with the wiimote plus. Cheap controller.
Good idea! I might do the same, I only have one Wiimote now. Or maybe a Pro Controller.
What WiiU games are must gets?
Pikmin 3 and Rayman Legends!
Better on wiiU or Vita?
Uh, couldn’t tell you. Touch controls were incredible on the Wii U and I imagine that’d be the same for the Vita. All levels come on the Wii U disc and you’ve got to get free DLC for Vita. Probably otherwise the exact same experience. Depends if you want to play it on a HDTV (which it looks stunning on) or portable…
probably portable. I will play it longer
Pikmin 3 should be played with a Wiimote and nunchuck though. I imagine trying to use the gamepad with that would be pretty irritating.
It is tricky, but it’s definitely the way to go.
I’d say the SUper Mario 3D World, NSMBU.
DON’T BUY! Just remember – KK! 😀
huh?
Lemme guess. You’re not in Secret SanTAY, are you?
No, I opted out. Sorry
No big deal. Maybe someone will gift you something anyway. 😀 It’s Christmas!
No one will.
Hint hint, nudge nudge, maybe I will? 😀 And no refusing!
@benny
It’s fine. I decided no games this Christmas. Mum and I are short of money so we’ll just buy stuff we really need.
No games this Christmas? What is this, the Scrooged film? You’re killing my Christmas spirit! How about this – if *someone* gets you a gift this Christmas, whether it be a game or not..
..no refusing! 😀 Err because you didn’t have to pay for it! There.
@benny
But I feel like I am always on the receiving end of this stuff. I don’t mind. After christmas once I’ve paid off most of my credit card, I can start buying games again
W101, Mario CATS, Wind Waker HD
What’s Mario CATS?
I think he’s referring to the new Super Mario 3D World.
All your base are belong to Mario.
Somebody set up us the bob-omb.
Pikmin, Wonderful 101, NSMBU, Rayman as already mentioned.
New Super Luigi U is worth a look-in too. And I’m a huge fan of ZombiU.
YOYHO Hi
Was JUST thinking of you Jimu. That’s creepy.
Except I imagined you saying, ‘What up, TAY’ instead.
I like you
SLUT
i thought i was your one and only.
I like you.
Who here doesn’t? No one answer that. 😀
I- Oh. OK.
Blaghs, you’re the exception. The guy who gifted me Batman Origins can say whatever he wants about me! 😀
Oh. Well with the sweet power of freedom, let the truth be shown.
“Uhhh. Yup.”
Wise words indeed, inner voice, wise words indeed.
Changed profile name to something holiday-related, before it was cool.
I wanted “Флед Мороз” but the system would not accept it – so I worked within the given constraints.
So in these past 48 hours I’ve gone from going up to Launceston to see friends, to them coming down here just for the day on Wednesday, to hosting a party on Thursday night after my exam… Could be interesting. Never hosted a party before, it was easier to show up elsewhere 😛
Yyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssss!
Artorias the Abysswalker: Defeated.
Never has a video game accomplishment felt so satisfying.
For this victory I would like to thank my most unlikely but effective secret weapon:The Dark Woodgrain Ring.
That little bit of extra speed and invulnerability when rolling made all the difference: suddenly I had the maneuverability needed to avoid tricky attacks, time to follow up with my own and the speed to get in and out of range.
He was still damn hard though. Have not had such an intense battle since defeating Ornstein and Smough the first time.
All of the DLC bosses are massive pricks and it feels so damned good to beat them.
I need to do a melee build playthrough at some point. Some point rather soon.
Probably at least before 2 comes out I suppose. You got time.
My problem is that I’m moving in February. That makes this a little more difficult.
Who else here reckons tthe day I get Bravely Default is the same day my Rayman Legends arrive?
I don’t know, @jimu – I’ve long since given up trying to predict the movements of the Australian postal system.
I am confident that should such a disaster occur, you will be capable of dealing with it effectively!
Mmm, throw Rayman on the pile
On the plus side one’s a story heavy game and one’s not which means you can play them both at the same time without confusing you. XD
Dood, Bravely conquers all.
I ahd hoped Rayman arrived sooner 🙁
TV people, I need some help!
I find my taste in TV shows has started to become quite, feminine, scarily feminine in fact.
I need something new to watch, preferably not too old, doesn’t matter which genre, so long as it isn’t classified as “girly“. Also, I would prefer it to be a complete season, nothing on-going as I hate waiting for new episodes.
Any help would be great, and any suggestion would be helpful! 🙂
Orange is the New Black. It’s set in a women’s prison. Has an ensemble cast that’s primarily women. Just an amazing show all round. The most Freaks and Geeks-like show since Freaks and Geeks. Piper Chapman’s a fairly normal girl who’s past catches up to her. She’s sentenced to fourteen months in a women’s prison as her fiancee deals with the fallout.
Freaks and Geeks. Relive the awkwardness of high school by laughing at others still living it. Seen through the perspective of the Weir siblings, one in the ‘freak’ group while the other is in the ‘geek’ group. Set in 1980s, but resonates with any one who’s been a teenager. Amazing cast: James Franco, Jason Segel, Seth Rogen, Linda Cardellini, etc…
The Killing. Slow burn murder mystery. Atmospheric with strong characters. This isn’t like Law and Order. It’s about the long haul effect of crime on the people who investigate and the people who knew the victims. Stuff you don’t see often in these shows. (Leg work, clearing suspects, etc.) First case is about the disappearance of Rosie Larson, a regular seeming teenager. It’s also supposed to be Sarah Linden’s last day on the job as her replacement Steven Holder becomes her partner with a very different investigation method.
Treme. One of the best written, grounded TV shows I’ve watched in a long time. Set in post Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. Hard to do this show justice in the description, but there’s a massive cast of varied characters (musicians, chefs, police, lawyers, etc…) living their lives in a city changed by the storm. It has an amazing sense of place and realism.
The Newsroom. Aaron “The West Wing” Sorkin’s new show about cable news. Smart, funny and self-contained. Most arcs will have been tied up nicely by the end of season two. (Even though a third is on the horizon.) A fairly passive news anchor has a public melt down that forces the network to hire a new executive producer and retool his show.
The Good Wife. Don’t let the name fool you, this isn’t a girly show or a soap opera. It’s a smart procedural law show with strong serialized threads running beneath the surface.
Boardwalk Empire. Set in prohibition era Atlantic City and is about bootleggers who supply alcohol illegally. It’s almost a real world Game of Thrones in how it’s structured. Huge cast of characters whose names you won’t often remember.
Game of Thrones. I’m not a fan of the fantasy genre, but I freaking love this show. Amazing visuals, compelling characters and politics. Good watching.
Fringe. FBI Agent Olivia Denham finds herself the head of new team tasked with investigating cases based on Fringe science. Starts off as an X-Files clone but really comes into its own by the end of the first season. Amazing, strong characters.
Lost. Follows the survivors of Oceanic 815 who crash land on a mysterious island somewhere in the pacific. There’s all kinds of weirdness happening here.
The Americans. Set during the cold war and is about a seemingly normal American couple who are actually sleeper agents from the Soviet Union. There’s an amazing dynamic between the two leads as they find themselves assigned to be husband and wife. Also cool parallels running beneath the surface about the FBI tasked with hunting these agents.
Gravity Falls. New animated Disney cartoon that’s probably the strongest thing they’ve done since Duck Tales in the ’90s. Amazing art direction and cleverly written with early Simpsons kind of humor. (Jokes aimed at adults that’ll go over kids heads while still being funny for kids too.) About Mabel and Dipper, two siblings, who spend their summer vacation at their great uncle’s Mystery Shack in a town with supernatural occurrences.
Mad Men. Can’t believe I forgot that. Set in an advertising firm in the ’60s. Incredibly written, beautifully paced drama. It follows a guy named Don Draper who’s basically the definition of damaged goods. An insanely great ensemble cast too. (Elisabeth Moss in particular as Peggy Olsen!) Once you start watching it’ll be no surprise why it has won best drama Emmys countless times.
SIX FEET UNDER. One of the greatest shows ever written. About the Fisher family who runs a funeral home. It’s weird. It’s dark. It’s funny. Also taps into something unspoken about the human experience. It’s so good.
Also, you like what you like, man. Who cares if your definition of a good show is different from others. Just out of curiosity what sort of stuff do you like?
Thanks for the suggestions man, I’ll look into them 🙂 and I like pretty much anything, except I’m stuck in a super girly show loop at the moment that I’m trying to break, but it’s tough. Umm no judging, but my most recently watched shows are…
Gossip Girl (all of it). I’m not even gonna bother with a description, it’s about bitches and sluts 😛Pretty Little Liars (Seasons 1 – 4.5). Highschool students being blackmailed by dead school bully.
Greys Anatomy (Seasons 1 – 9). Medical residents progression through, stuff it, more bitches and sluts 😛
Jerseylicious (all of it). I only watched this because it’s funny watching them get in fights, and my sister left it on, and I didn’t want to, but next thing I knew I’d watched it all, ok?!
Bad Girls Club (season 6). Unruly American girls put into a house to share, lots of fighting, drinking, and more fighting.
And now the hum-dinger.
I accidentally started watching Sex and the City, and I’m liking it so far… 🙁
I watch normal shows to, I swear! I like The Walking Dead, Supernatural, 30 Rock, Community, South Park and other stuff, I’m just literally stuck in a girly show cycle!
Hey man, I watch Grey’s Anatomy too. First few seasons had some deceptively good writing. You know what, my friend? You should watch the HBO show Girls. I’m pretty sure you’ll like it. Might not seem super manly, but has all kinds of buzz.
I used to be self-conscious if things I liked was considered manly or not but now I don’t give a damn. Haha.
HBO Show Girls?
😛Based on your viewing habits I recommend The Vampire Diaries and Teen Wolf.
Also, I was around when Sex And The City began. Everyone was watching it, boys as well as girls. It’s nothing to be ashamed of. I hate it when the media or social media categorise entertainment as gendered. If you like it, watch it!
I have Vampire Diaries on my laptop ready to watch, hahaha! It was going to be my next show to watch, but I wanted to break the girly shows, at least for a bit! I’ll look into Teen Wolf too! I really like SatC so far, it is surprisingly funny, and not what I was expecting! It just comes cross as a “girls” show unfortunately, but it’s actually quite good!
Also, thanks Liondrive! I like getting an opportunity to talk about my favourite shows!
That’s alright! Greys Anatomy was really good from seasons 1-7, then it started to go downhill unfortunately 🙁 it’s one of my favourite shows though. I love Yang so much hahaha! She’s such a good character!
I thought it was amazing up until the end of season six. All down hill since then. I feel like they’re stuck in a cycle of dramatic deaths and repeating storylines. You might like the new show Sleepy Hollow?
Yeah, they tried to be all “fresh” in season 10 by bringing in new inters, except they destroyed the chemistry between Meredith and Christina and absolutely ruined Bailey! Bailey is not meant to be nice! Also…
Killing off McSteamy was dumb, he was great!Sleepy Hollow looked promising, except i hate waiting for episodes, haha! I like to watch it from start to finish at the pace I choose! Has the first season finished yet?
Nah, won’t finish until around April or May next year.
I actually really like what they’ve done with Grey and Yang this season, feels like one of the first genuinely new plot developments in a while.
@dc
I’ll look into Sleepy Hollow when it’s finished. There is enough suggestions here to keep me going for a life time in the mean time, haha! And season 10 is my least favourite season. I suspect it will get cancelled soon, there just isn’t enough new material unfortunately. The new interns aren’t interesting enough to carry it into more seasons, and there is only so much that can happen in a hospital. Meredith and Yang were at their best between seasons 3 and 6.
Edited because Meredith and Grey are the same person, durr liondrive 😛
Lost. Fringe. Agreed.
I really like the first few seasons of Lost and watched them religiously when they were on TV. I accidentally missed a couple of episodes though and got completely lost (no pun intended) so ended up giving up. Fringe seems really interesting as well, I’ll definitely add that to my list of shows to watch!
Lost has a huge turning point at the end of season three. It’s easy to lose interest in the events leading up to that.
Fringe is only my favourite show of all time. 😀
Once again, you’re okay Buble. You’re okay.
Lost hits a point where you either love what’s going on or don’t. I loved it. XD
Ooh, this looks like a job for cartoons! *chorus of voices* CARTOONS!
Young Justice: Two seasons, and cancelled in its prime. :/
Gravity Falls: Never releases new episodes. :/
Avatar: The Last Airbender: You need to watch this so that Korra makes sense.
Batman Beyond: Okay I’m just fucking with you (though I do actually like this show).
Thanks mate 🙂 I see Young Justice on TV every now-and-then so I might look into that a bit more, and I’ve watched all of Avatar except the new stuff. Is the Korra stuff worth watching?
Korra’s pretty damn excellent. The second season just finished (of four, I think), and it definitely gets my vote.
Thanks man, I’ll definitely look into Korra now! I really liked The Last Airbender, except for Aang towards the end. I found he kind of became all sulky and annoying, and Katara was a bit grating at times, but overall I enjoyed it!
The Wire!
Or Arrow- you can watch that for the action scenes, and whoever’s putting you through the girly stuff can watch it for shirtless Stephen Amell.
I mean, I’m a heterosexual male, but damn that guy looks good without a shirt.
I was interested in Arrow, except I was put off because I liked the Green Arrow that they introduced in Smallville and didn’t want them to redo him! I might look into though, it did look promising from the TV ads. Thank you! 🙂
It’s a bit of a rough starter (well, not so much rough as procedural), but it gets really good once the mythology kicks in.
Anime
Neon genesis Evangelion
Awesome show about teens fighting giant monsters that is way deeper than anyone first expects.
Haibanei Renmei
This one is about little girl angels born into a walled-off town and is amazingly emotional
(Probably girly, but meh)
FLCL
Nuts anime that is as deep or as shallow as you want it to be. Nothing compares.
Paranoia Agent
Satashi Kon, the greatest anime director ever.
Just watch this.
Lain
Internetty weird cool. Girly protagonist
Now and Then, Here and There
One of the most positive heros in some of the most fucked-up situations I have seen.
So good!
El Hazard
Light-hearted adventure in a fantasy world. Romance, comedy, drama, it’s great!
http://pintaw.com/haibane-renmei-anime-wallpaper/
I’ve seen Neon Genesis Evangelion, it was really good! Except for those last two episodes, they were really weird. I kinda got bored with all the talking so I ended up zoning out, haha! Those other suggestions seem really interesting as well, good interesting though! I will probably look into that Haibanei Renmai tonight, it sounds like something I would like. Also, are these subbed or dubbed? I can only watch dubbed anime because i find i spend all of my time reading the subtitles otherwise and end up missing whats going on on the screen 🙁
The last two episodes were my favourite of the series, that’s all the important meta-physical stuff.
Each to their own of course.
Check out FLCL, same studio’s next project. Much more easily digestable.
Now and Then, Here and There is absolutely harrowing. That’s one of the few shows I’ve ever dropped halfway in because it was too bleak and depressing to watch. 🙁
Suprisingly enough, it all works out in the end.
That boy just stays so positive throughout, I look up to his naivety. What a champ!
Sons of Anarchy has six seasons in the can (and only one more to go)
Motorcycle club in California. Structure of the story is heavily inspired by Hamlet. Epic character drama with a decent dose of violence.
The Shield has all seven seasons (all done and dusted with one of TV’s best ever finales)
Top shelf cop show. Focussed mainly on a dirty (but effective) cop and the destruction and havoc he wreaks.
The Wire has five seasons (all done)
Compelling mix of macro and micro drama, great cast of characters, impeccable writing, and a tone and sense of pacing that mirrors no other show.
Californication has six seasons down (only one more to come, in Mar 2014)
It’s a show about a writer who pines desperately for the woman he loved and lost, who has a way of attracting other, sexually-available women, and a passion for self-destructive behaviour. The role David Duchovny was born to play.
The Sopranos (though that might not fit into your ‘not too old’ bracket, I dunno)
If you don’t know what this one is about, you’ve been under a rock. Psychologically speaking, this is by far the smartest show ever written.
OZ (slightly older than the Sopranos)
Prison drama. Intense violence, intense emotions, often links the goings-on metaphorically to real life. Some great ideas, cringeworthy violence, and some genuinely tear-jerking moments too.
They’re the manliest shows I can recommend. All are seriously compelling beyond the man-appeal though!
Edit: because all other jerks are formatting their posts and justifying their choices.
You’re the jerk! >:|
I MISS YOU!I watched Treme 4×01 – of course it was excellent. \o/
Had a kind of full circle feel to it, huh? The stuff with Jeanette’s restaurant and the way Toni’s new relationship and banter mirrored Creigh’s from season one. Also stuff like LaDonna and the Chief surprised me, but really all the seeds were planted last season. Some incredibly good writing there. I loved the ep. Had a goofy grin on my face the whole time, knowing that I’m watching something great.I’m glad I’m not the only one who felt the ‘back to where they started’ vibe. All the Obama-related promises of ‘change’ at the start of the episode were a sort of ironic clue, I think! It remains to be seen whether that’s a good or a bad thing for each character, though, I guess.I’m gonna miss this show so bad when it’s done.
I think in a way season one characters were desperately trying to hold onto their old, pre-storm lives and now their regular lives have just caught up to how things used to be if that makes any sense. I love Antoine’s character development though and how all these characters are starting to weave in and out of each others lives. (Sonny at the clinic for example.)Oh! Some stuff I forgot to post before.
Davis stuck in the pothole, the first shot after the credits. That’s featured in the show before, I think in season 1. Also supporting the full circle theory. And the credits themselves support your post, with almost no Katrina or reparation footage – life is almost back to normal.Such a crazy well constructed show.
I’d like to see more scenes with Annie and Sonny, just cause of how different they are from when we first met them but that’s the reason we’re probably not going to see them together on screen. Liked how the Davis/Annie thing was handled. Still friends and confidants and all that. Same with Jeanette/Davis too.Thanks mate! I’ve seen a bit of SoA, not for me unfortunately. Californication and The Wire sound interesting, I’ll definitely look into those! And I’ll look into The Sopranos and Oz, but for some weird reason I don’t usually like old shows / movies / music. If they’re not too old i’ll probably give them a shot! The Sopranos is the one everyone raves about yeah?
OZ 1997-2003
Sopranos 1999-2006
Yeah, Sopranos is the one that gets credited most often for the golden age of television that we’re currently enjoying. Me, I think it was probably a bit more organic than that, but it’s still one of those head-and-shoulders-above-the-rest type shows.
I think the golden age of TV goes all the way back to The X-Files with its film like production values! Then ER and The West Wing and…
Yeah, like you said… more organic process than just one show. 😀
Shows like Law and Order too (1989 pilot, I believe). Production values were always great.
You can trace it all the way back to M*A*S*H for bringing thoughtful scripting to ‘pulp’ genres like sitcoms, and probably even further if you wanted to.
I like X-Files! Team Scully for life! and @shane 1997 shouldn’t be too old hopefully, I’ll definitely give it a go! Thanks again man! 🙂
No worries, mate. Hope you enjoy! 🙂
Sopranos. Californication. Agreed.
Edit: Well that was weird.
MAke this post useful.
@liondrive: Watch The Venture Bros. Not enough people do and it’s one of the best written shows on TV animated or live action bar none.
And Archer!
YES!
@liondrive
My roommate was looking into Archer! I saw the first episode and really liked it, except I’m forbidden from watching it without him and he’s going away for three weeks! I’ve vaguely heard about The Venture Bros, but not enough to look into. I’ll look into it now though! Thanks man! 🙂
It’s a parody of all the 60’s and 70’s hero cartoons while still being its own thing. It’s a really dense show that doesn’t take time to explain the jokes or try to beat you over the head with them. You either get them or you don’t. And it’s not all non sequiturs and filler either. Everything is important to the overarching story, even seeming mundane details.
An ideal clip to show you what The Venture Bros is like:
http://youtu.be/xJdf9Y86_2s
Please let the whole show be like that! That was so good, definitely looks like my kind of show!
It pretty much is, a mix of stupidity, awkward failure, over the top violence and non-sequiturs. Easily one of my favourite shows ever
If you like metal, Metalocalypse is another top choice
Never forget Archer!
About 25 people have shared this to my Facebook today.
I… I don’t even know where to start with this.
Just post back YOU’RE ALL FUCKING INSANE
I called bullshit on it and everyone started jumping down my throat and started telling me that I must be having sex with Newman.
There’s a mental image I didn’t need.
My facebook feed is generally filled with Newman performing all sorts of sex acts with all sorts of things :S
It’s really annoying.
Sounds like you need to do a cull!
You really should unfriend him then
Facebook is the devil’s playground.
Start by condemning the LNP. If it’s been corroborated by 25 people, it must be true.
If it is on Facebook at all it’s generally true right?
My first suggestion would be “So they’re posting the videos eh? Give me a link to prove you’re not bullshitting”
Or if you want to scare them off say “AWESOME! I so wanna watch that! Link it now!!!”
start with a google search for news articles containing the words ‘motorbike or bike or cycalist and railing’ from Australia.
not a single hit. its most likely bullshit.
Oh. Campbell Newman.
I thought you meant this one
It’s just a reworking of one of the other ones that are still going around.
I had a bunch of ‘don’t flash your lights back at somebody if they flash you or they will follow you home and kill you as part of a gang initiation’.
At least I know this one should be taken seriously because ALL CAPS
IT MUST BE TRUE IT USES CAPS ONLY IMPORTANT STUFF IS IN CAPS
I think this should be allowed on those douches who ride on those noisy electric bicycles at 9am on a weekend.
fuck those guys.
I’m excited!:
http://www.destructoid.com/photo-m.phtml?photo_key=278519&post_key=266814#prevnext
You can spend real money in Bravely Default to make the game easier! How awesome is that?
@jimu
I love that kind of DLC, cos I can ignore it with no problem 😉
More TV discussion, more of the time! XD
Sorkin is terrible and only went to TV because he failed in games!
Hmmm, that’s an astute observation. I will ponder it some!
*strokes patchy chin stubble*
@shane: So good to have a Treme pal to talk with as new eps air. I’ve gone three seasons with no one to ramble with. XD One last thing from the season premiere I loved:
Toni’s daughter not being a cliche. Happy that her mother is happy. Would’ve been very easy to have her remain the surly teenager, but I like how she’s grown up. Creigh would be pleased they’ve both moved on, I reckon.More people should watch this show. It’s brilliant. Has an authenticity to it that I don’t think exists to the same degree anywhere else in television, largely of course to the characters who resist stereotypes and tropes.
And that Shorty music was crazy catchy!The sad thing is I’m pretty sure most people aren’t choosing not to watch it, they just don’t know it even exists. :'(
I tried to get Mr.Strange to watch it but he turned his nose up at it because he’s a doofus.
I told you when the series ends, I’m there 🙂
It ends in four weeks. You could start watching it now! 🙂
@strange @shane
http://www.play-asia.com/dark-souls-ii-collectors-edition-paOS-13-49-en-70-737l.html
They’re taking preorders again.
Edit: O_o… Dat price
That’s the Japanese edition with replica weapons I believe. Hence the price. Also Play Asia. Hence the price 😛
Edit: yep, that’s the one. They look sooooo purdy. But alas. Dat price.
Dat price. D:
So long, mini weapons. I’ll just have to covet you from afar.
Edit: Also, thanks for the heads-up, Freeze. You’re way more efficient than Play-Asia’s notification system!
Finished The Last of Us.
Fantastic. Subtle, heartbreaking, and truly adult.
Also, post-apocalyptic urban decay!
*nods approvingly*
Such a beautiful game. I think the gameplay mechanics in Uncharted were way more solid, but everything else in The Last of Us was perfect!
I might have to check it out then. Maybe.
Spoilered for those who haven’t played it (gameplay critique only)
I like Stealth games. TLoU had some issues (mainly baddies with too good vision) but I enjoyed the gameplay.Also, thankyou to everyone here who was very good with spoilers for this game, I genuinely had no clue where it was going.
Excellent vision and utterly abysmal vision, depends who they were looking atThat was the most disappointing part of the game to me, well other than the fact it finally ended and I didn’t want it toKind of felt like when I got to the last page of The Stand. I spent so much time with this world and these characters that it was sad to let them go. :'(
Or the end of ME3’s Citadel DLC or the final chat in the core game before you head out into battle one last time. Garrus’ goodbye speech still chokes me up a bit
@liondrive:
SIX FEET UNDER. Can’t believe I missed this, but it’s one of the greatest shows ever written. About the Fisher family who runs a funeral home. It’s weird. It’s dark. It’s funny. Also taps into something unspoken about the human experience. It’s so good.
Haha, thanks again man! You sure do know your TV shows! I’ll go through all the suggestions and make a list of shows to watch in like half an hour, I’m a little busy watching Sex and the City at the moment, hahaha!
TV is one of my great loves. XD
I also feel like I should tell you there’s a Sex and the City prequel series running on The CW in the U.S. called The Carrie Diaries. What you do with this information is your own business. 😛
Why did you tell me about this?! I’m trying to break the girly show cycle! Now I HAVE to look into it, especially if Samantha Jones is in it!
Not until season two.
…
Oh man, I spend way too much time reading about TV. I even read about shows I don’t watch. XD
So it’s just Carrie for the first season? *sigh* If a whole season of just Carrie is what it takes to see even five minutes of Samantha, so be it. Samantha is worth it. In just a few episodes she’s already threatening to dethrone my all time favourite TV female characters.
*crickets chirp*
I’m afraid I’ve exhausted all my Sex and the City knowledge. So how ’bout that local sporting team? 😛
Haha, I never expected anybody ever to even remotely talk even the slightest bit about SatC with me, so no worries 🙂 And sports suck, stupid sport, ruins everything!
A great show that wasn’t mentioned in the previous page is HBO’s Girls. So good.
I’m afraid @dc beat you to that one already 😛 it was mentioned in a comment though, not in his list. Although with that being mentioned twice now I’m going to have to add that to my list too! Too many shows, too little time!
Cool 🙂
Dammit. Networking night went really late. Hardly any time to keep working on Snake now 🙁
Networking night, eh? Make any ladies swoooooon?
He did say ‘working on snake’. I guess that’s what they call it these days.
A classy euphemism if ever I heard one!
Heh. That did come up tonight at one point.
“Wanna see my 4D Snake? ;D”
Man, gooky must go to better networking events than me. Networking I go to ands up being all old white ex-military men.
This is GookyCon though, the convention that happens once a year where all Gooky’s love interests meet-and-greet for photo ops with Gooky!
If I did, they didn’t tell me about it.
It was basically just a social get-together for all the students, first and second year. Since we don’t really seem to see each other much other than the changeover in the middle of Wednesdays.
Finally saw that first year that allegedly had the gigantic crush on me way back when, though she didn’t seem to show any signs of interest. Probably got over it. But then I am still sporting the ‘stache I suppose 😛
Heads up, Frank Darabont’s new show Mob City starts tomorrow on TNT in the U.S., very short season of three eps that run for two hours a-piece. Looks incredibly good!
Dear god. I’m about to start my very first experience with an MMO.
What am I doing?
Grinding!
What one?
DCUO on the PS4.
I thought DCUniverse shut down. Probably thinking of something else MMOish, they’re not really my thing aside from swtor
I think it may have but they relaunched it? Maybe? I don’t know. Literally never played one before.
You’re a strong man to have resisted the temptation this long.
I’ve heard DCUO is pretty fun and it works with the mythos pretty. Hope you enjoy it. 🙂
You could be thinking city of heroes?
Could well be, that was the Cryptic one wasn’t it?
Yep, went for quite a long time before they shut up shop
QUICK
SOMEBODY HELP
I JUST SHAVED OFF MY MOUSTACHE
IT LOOKS WRONG
I DON’T LIKE IT
UNDO
UNDO
CTRL+Z
Quick do that thing, like on a computer when you reset it back to a few hours ago!
You will forget what happened in those hours… but you will have your moustache back!
If that doesn’t work i remember reading on one of the earlier TAY pages that someone has a time-machine… beat them up and take their moustache!
But D.C. owns that time machine, and he goes to the gym…Don’t mess with him!
Got a texta? Draw one on until you can grow a replacement
This guy is a thinker!
Heh, you shave, then look in the mirror and wonder whose face that is. Doesn’t take long to get used to it.
QUICK. SHAVE OFF YOUR EYEBROWS.
THEN GLUE THEM ONTO YOUR UPPER LIP.
PHEW. PROBLEM SOLVED.
Think of it as an opportunity to grow a proper beard. Like a MAN.
Thank you to everybody for the TV show suggestions! There was a far greater amount of suggestions then I was expecting, so it’s probably going to take me a year to get through them all! The shows on my “To Watch” list are (spoilered for length puposes):
– Orange is the new Black– Freaks and Geeks
– Treme
– The Newsroom
– The Good Wife
– Fringe
– Lost
– Gravity Falls
– Six Feet Under
– Vampire Diaries
– Teen Wolf
– Sleepy Hollow (If it’s at the mid season break)
– Young Justice
– Avatar: The Legend of Korra
– Arrow
– Haibenai Renmei (if dubbed)
– FLFC (if dubbed)
– The Shied
– Californication
– The Sopranos
– The Venture Bros
– Archer
– The Wire
– Girls
– The Life and Times of Tim
– Naked and Afraid
– Carnivale
Again, thank you everybody for the suggestions, especially @dc, who’s TV knowledge is scarily comprehensive, in a good way, and who’s suggestions make up just under half of my list!
Edited to include The Wire, cause I forgot to put it on my list 😛
Double edited because there’s even more suggestions, and I cave in to peer pressure real easy 😛
Needs more The Wire.
In fact, your list should be:
1. The Wire
2. Everything Else.
😛Fixed! I swear I put it on there :\ Oh-well! It’s there now!
CARNIVALE CRANIVALE CARNIVALE
watch CARNIVALE!!!!!!!
Episodes is pretty good too. Matt Le Blanc stars in it, the show kind of parodies him actually.
I second the Gravity Falls recommendations. That intro music is so good. The show itself is great too, good charaters, interesting mythology and just fun stories and moments. Wait until you meet waddles.
Bob’s Burgers is another great animated show. I’m surprised no one mentioned it actually. Unless I missed it on the previous page
Workaholics
Life and times of TIm- another great HBO show. This one is animated but the situations Tim gets himself in are so funny. You want to cheer for the protagonist(Tim) but as the show goes on you get to realise he’s kind of a jerk too.
I could never find this show on [redacted] sites but if you see it at an ABC shop you should watch LAID. One of the few local shows I’ve enjoyed and it unfortunately ended after 2 seasons.
It’s a date was a surprisingly good Australian show that started this year too.
Also for a dumb but funny reality show watch Naked and Afraid
Psst, hey you, over here
CARNIVALEThere’s way too many shows! I was expecting like, 5-10 suggestions, MAX! I’ll add Life and Times of Tim, and Naked and Afraid, but not Carnivale.
Fine I’ll add Carnivale 😛Thanks for the suggestions mate! 🙂
Oh, and I’ve seen all of Bob’s Burgers, such a good show! Louise is definitely the star! I’m a bit surprised it wasn’t mentioned either now actually.
Louise is awesome. She is great. She is definitely my favourite, although I like Tina too and her weird zombie dreams 🙂
You almost scared me there with your spoiler 🙂
Edit: Spelling errors
Tina’s dreams are so messed up! And her zombie / Jimmy Jr fanfiction! So disturbing! She’s definitely second behind Louise, but Louise is just too funny to beat! All the characters are great though, it’s a shame it’s such an under appreciated show!
@jimu:
http://gematsu.com/2013/12/bravely-default-sequel-announced-for-3ds
Bravely Second
\o/
Hopefully this one doesn’t take a million years for them to localize too.
Woah!
Yeah, would be nice to get this within a year of Jp release
Man I was tempted to recreate Monstroso but ended up with a painfully immature idea of cool superhero.
https://twitter.com/freezespreston/status/408223899457835008
Completely drawing a blank on his name though.
If I were a superhero that looked like that I’d call me The Gargoyle.
Went with The Cyan Osprey.
FreezeSFlightston.
I think I spent more time in the game making characters than actually playing them.
Enjoyable game though. Would like to go back to it at some stage.
Hmm. E-mail from Good Guys, saying they weren’t able to fulfil any of my order (Burnout Paradise + Soul Silver). And I still get a $40 gift voucher. On top of the refund.
Not bad. Not bad at all.
brb. ordering a whole bunch of obscure & old & possibly out of print games.
I’m gonna be rolling in gift vouchers.
The clearance page was empty last time I checked. Which happened to be the same day the deal went live I believe.
Yeah, I got one game out of three posted, same $40 voucher. Good stuff, this way I’ll get at least one more game for free. 🙂
Okay so after hours of fiddling i’m pretty damn pleased with how Skyrim (SKYRIM!)
now presents itself without grinding my computer to a halt…
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=200659678
Oh wow, that sky looks like a photo!
I’d like to see more pics, during daylight, of the landscape as such.
daytime sort of… i don’t actually have one of the landscape yet… i’ll get one when i get home 😛
Is my TAY broken or are people really quiet today?
*crickets*
…
okay then
*sits down in the corner*
Shush. You’ll ruin the surprise.
Shh, it isn’t even today yet.
am i missing something here? 😛
WHAT’S GOING ON?
IDON’TKNOWWHATWE’REYELLINGABOUT!
SURPRI…ahhh Pixel ruined it.
Good one Pixel.
i don’t know what i did but \o/
And now for something complete different…
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs.Brown
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you’ve had quite enough
Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
That’s orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it’s reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the ‘milky way’
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
It’s a hundred thousand light years side to side
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick
But out by us, it’s just three thousand light years wide
We’re thirty thousand light years from galactic central point
We go ’round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know
Twelve million miles a minute and that’s the fastest speed there is
So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space
‘Cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth
Can we have your liver, then?
I’m home sick today :(. probably will fall asleep in a bit 🙂 until then what games should I be looking at. Any new Point and clicks? What about RTS Games? Any awesome story games for master race?
http://www.gog.com/game/broken_sword_5_the_serpents_curse
Broken Sword 5 was just released today!
There’s also The Night of the Rabbit and the Deponia series!
If you haven’t played The Wolf Among Us, it’s every bit as good as The Walking Dead.
Hope you feel better, Chris.
Every bit as good as The Walking Dead? I think you mean much much better.
Then people will say that I’m not objective with the things I love. 😛
Is that a problem? 😛
Wonder Woman in the new Superman/Batman/All of the DC Characters movie
http://variety.com/2013/film/news/gal-gadot-wonder-woman-batman-vs-superman-1200918310/
Sounds like they’re trying to do an Avengers type thing without the leg work Marvel did. Justice League!
Yeah with Ben Affleck as Batman…
Edit – Which could be a good or bad thing because people now have me convinced he’s actually a decent fella *squints*
I don’t get all the hate on Affleck. 2000 Affleck maybe, but the dude has proved he can act (did anyone see Argo?)
And before you bring up Daredevil, he was not the problem with that movie.
I agree with that arguement but i guess i never shook off the 2000 stereotype of him and have violently hated any movie i’ve seen with him…
I’ll try to be subjective about it 😛
So either
a) You haven’t seen Argo
b) You’re wrong and think Argo was a bad movie
😛
*hits beeper*
a) Haven’t seen Argo…
lock it in!
…
What’s an Argo?
Argo fuck yourself
Seriously, watch Argo.@cakesmith will do…
However i searched for Argo Fuck Yourself and it’s not the kind of movie i was expecting 0.o
Meant to link the trailer – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w918Eh3fij0
“Argo fuck yourself” is a repeated line in the movie 😛
I’ve never disliked the guy. He’s got a good head on his shoulders, he’s done a decent range of flicks (including Mallrats, one of my guilty pleasures, and Jersey Girl, an even guiltier pleasure), and seems to be a down-to-earth talented guy.
i honestly don’t know what it is…
I agree he’s a good actor, plays his parts solidly (including Dare Devil)…
I just thoroughly dislike him…
I’ll give this Argo thing a try, and who am i kidding, i will watch Superman vs Batman…
Who knows, it might change my mind about him
You, I like you.
And yeah, very grounded. Couple of quotes from a recent interview:
Source
That was actually interesting…
*sigh* you guys are actually going to have me convinced that he’s a “good” guy by the end of this aren’t you?
MY WORLD IS FALLING APART
Do you need proof about how passionate he is about making good movies now?
Here ya go – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtLKn5Y1ulc (You can skip to the 3:30ish mark)
@cakesmith
DAMN that’s a manly beard!
… *sigh* FIIIINE i’m i guess i’ve been convinced 😛
My work here is done.
Cakesmith, awaaaaaaaaay!
*jumps out window, misses and hits filing cabinet next to it, knocks himself out*
The more I think about Affleck in the role the more I think it could work. I just need to stop equating him with the Affleck in my head of 10-15 years ago.
I guess that’s true, i am very naive and biased when it comes to that though so it’ll be hard to shrug off…
Still don’t know if i could see him as batman though… he might make a good “batman” but he ain’t no Bruce Wayne (in my mind)
I like Affleck’s choice. It’s not going to be Nolan’s Batman but he’s got that squared jawed hero look to him.
Isn’t she a bit on the petite size for the role?
I thought that as well, but if there’s one thing Snyder movies have in common is getting his actors to bulk like mad and look the part.
I said on Twitter I always imagined Jamie Alexander in the role, but she’s got a contract with Marvel to play Sif so that probably won’t happen.
Hey, if Deadpool can be Green Lantern and Daredevil can be Batman…
I tried to reason with that as well, but the difference would be that Thor is a franchise that is actually going places.
Deadpool, Green Lantern and Daredevil aren’t.
I thought a new Deadpool movie was in the works?
If by “in the works” you mean “production hell” then yes.
But my point still stands. Green Lantern is a dead franchise staring Ryan Reynolds. I would almost guarantee that contract is well and truly expired/torn up.
oh god yes, i would never argue that XD…
i am still hoping for a full-blown awesome Deadpool movie though
Which makes me very sad. Green Lantern had so much potential. 🙁
Here’s hoping that that era of DC is the same as Daredevil-era Marvel in film terms. It’s all going to be better from here.
Nice.
Because of course she doesn’t get her own movie.
@liondrive: I approve that you’ve got a list. I’ve got a list myself. (More than one in fact.)
Like this one:
I’m glad you haven’t tried to sneakily delete my recommendation ;D
As well he shouldn’t. It’s one of the more interesting films I’ve seen this year.
Hahar! I’m not on the list!
You’re on a list, just not that one, Buble.
American History X is probably the most uncomfortable film I have seen.
I found Once were warriors much, much more uncomfortable
I have heard what that one’s about and I don’t think I’ll be watching it.
Really good movie and I do recommend it. Protip don’t watch it on a first date
Eh, domestic violence isn’t really a topic for entertainment for me.
Guys! Pants wrote about Mario being overshadowed in his own games! You should read it! http://www.pixel-otaku.com/mario-overshadowed-in-his-own-games/
I love Mario. Not in that way though.
The LNP has claimed that Labor have no right to criticise them as Labor is irrelevant.
That’s arrogant even for politicians.
And Newman sits arrogantly like:
http://www.italianweek.com.au/UserFiles/image/Events/CampbellNewman.jpg
So yesterday we got a $220 electricity bill. Muma nd I weren’t pleased because it’s right before Christmas. We will be able to pay it, it’ll probably just take some scrimping and saving.
Then my aunt gave us the bill for my Nan’s house which is up for sale. $650 approx.
Either we forget about Christmas, or we forget about the bill. =/
Don’t need gifts to enjoy christmas. Just get some nice things later on when you have money and things are cheap.
Sucks about the timing though. I got something similar lately, always sucks.
Yeah, but it’s more about not being able to afford food. I’ve been saving up, putting $50 aside a fortnight, so we have enough money for food.
:\
🙁
Who is living in your Nan’s place? That seems like a really large bill and shouldn’t it be paid by whoever is there?
No one. Not sure why we’re playing $450 for a real estate agent.
Oh the bill is for the estate agent for doing whatever they do to try and sell it?
I read that as an electricity bill and couldn’t work out how an empty house had $650 in electricity usage
Yeah, but the house hasn’t sold. Why right before Christmas -_-
@negativezero So it turned out maintenance for Kantai was done by about 6pm so I was able to get on anyway. Finally cleared 1-3 although it was a close run thing (two CLs down to 2 HP, yikes). I built another Kongo-class but I got a duplicate of Hiei so a little disappointed there. It does sound pretty ridiculous that of the three BBs I have constructed, two have been Kongo-class. RNG by cray cray.
Edit: Kantai page-get.
Congrats on 1-3. That took me quite a while to crack as well. On the upside you’ll find that once your ships have cleared it a few times they’ll have leveled up enough that it gets easier and easier. Especially once you get a carrier or two to supplement them – the initial airstrike from a good carrier can cripple an enemy fleet.
Whenever I attempt to build battleships I get a Takao or Tone-class Heavy Cruiser or I get a Tenryuu or Tatsuta. I’ve had much better luck with BBs dropping from sorties.
I did end up playing last night as well. Got Shigure and Shimakaze both to their level 20 Kai remodels and Murasame to 16, as well as getting Kirishima to 25. The Kongo-class remodels have some badass rare equipment as standard, their Kai forms start with 41cm guns and 15.5cm Triple-Barrel support guns (which are miles better than the 15.2cm single-barrel gun that the Fusou and Ise classes start with) as well as 12.7cm High Angle guns. All rare gear. Pretty nice. My un-modified Kirishima-Kai has higher firepower with standard equipment than my Ise and Hyuuga do at 20 with three 36cm guns loaded.
I also had another go at building a fleet carrier but I got a Chitose instead. I don’t mind this as I didn’t have her already, but I won’t be leveling her up unless I get an Ooi as a drop as otherwise I have no use for Chitose’s midget subs (already have Kitakami, and aside from the two tenders + Kitakami and Ooi and the subs, the midgets can’t be used by anyone).
My bauxite, fuel and ammo are all super low at the moment. I’ve had to stop running my carriers at all to try and get the bauxite back up. I think the problem is that if I run my former top-end fleet (Fusou, Yamashiro, Ise, Hyuuga, Akagi, Hiryuu) then *all* those ships launch planes and the seaplanes launched from the BBVs always tend to get shot down which means I’m dropping 50-80 bauxite every sortie if I use them. So I swapped to an all-warship fleet for a while esp. while leveling the destroyers, but running BBs like Kongo and Hiei constantly has chewed through my ammunition stores quite fast too.
Plan is to continue to run a leaner fleet while I level Murasame to her Kai remodel, then have one pass at 3-2 with the six destroyers and see how they fare. I suspect they’ll still be too weak to last through to the boss. I’ve read that the suggestion is to take them all high morale (sparkling), level 30+ and 4-5 stars from modernization so assuming that’s the case I intend to split them three and three and run them each with some cruisers and the two Kongo-class BBs. Probably keeping them to World 3 as much as possible for the added XP and better drops. Luckily getting them to sparkling is easy, at 20+ they can all easily solo 1-1 and so they’re guaranteed to get MVP. Run that once or twice and they’ll be shiny and sparkly assuming they take no hits.
FYI there will be a Christmas event starting in a few weeks. Special maps with extra bosses and stuff. It looks like it’ll be a tie-in with an anime series currently running, Arpeggio of Blue Steel, so characters from that will probably be bosses and I would be stunned if they didn’t add I-401 as an event drop. Would also imagine that if you manage to get high enough to be able to do the harder areas in it they might bring back some of the drop-only ships from the earlier events this year. Specifically Yamato and Musashi. That’s what I’m hoping at least – Yamato hasn’t been obtainable in the game since the event in August.
Which ships are you running in your main fleet now?
Ooh that is very interesting regarding the Christmas event. I don’t know if I will be of a high enough level to snag some of the rare drops but I shall try anyway.
I’m currently running Chiyoda as flagship (still pre-remodel so I need her to level), Shouhou, Hiei, Fusou, Ashigaro, and Kitakami. I think my highest level is only 11 so I have some work to do. I have a stack of LCs but Ashigaro is my only heavy cruiser so I’m trying to crank out another to complete that fleet composition quest. I already have all of the LCs I need to unlock the third fleet but I just need to clear the quests leading up to that. I’m also trying to get the carrier-kill quest clear to unlock Akagi but I’ve only run 1-4 once since getting there.
I need to run sorties more often as I’m not in a precarious position resource wise. Expended a stack of instant constructions and dev kits yesterday so my steel is a bit low. Otherwise, all good on that front.
You’ve got both Chiyoda and Kitakami? Awesome. After her Torpedo Cruiser remodel, Kitakami with midget subs can be crazily powerful.
Sounds like you’ve got a pretty reasonable primary fleet. IIRC I cleared 1-4 using Shouhou, Ashigara, Fusou, Yamashiro, Yura and Yukikaze, but I might have had Hiryuu by that point instead of Shouhou, I’ve forgotten.
Assuming the event maps are like the November one, E1 was roughly the same sort of difficulty as 3-1 and 2-3 in terms of number of stars, but was closer to 3-1 in difficulty because many of the enemies were Elites or Flagships. IIRC only the final bosses in World 2 are Elite. You needed to be able to get past at least four consecutive fights to get to the boss, and needed to beat the boss 4-5 times to drop the health of the stage to 0, and the boss needed to be sunk. And the drops from it weren’t as focused as world 2 and 3, I was mainly getting crappy destroyers from running it. 🙁 But the upside is that beating E-1 gave me Iku (I-19). First enemy node was 1-3 submarines so you really needed to run at least one or two destroyers or light cruisers to be able to damage them. Also getting to the boss required a fair bit of luck because the boss would fuck you up something terrible if you went in badly damaged, so often I just couldn’t make it there.
I cleared E1 with ships around the 15-25 range. I think getting Hiryuu, Fusou and Yamashiro to their remodels was what allowed me to push through. I also used Imuya (I-168) as my flagship to take a lot of the fire (DD and CAs always target subs first). I reckon by the time that the Christmas event rolls around, assuming they have similar difficulty you should be able to at least clear the first event map. When I cleared it I was easily able to do 2-2, 2-3 was most of the time, but I hadn’t cleared 2-4 yet and it took me a few more days leveling up to be able to do that. You’ve already got a leg up on me in that you’ve got a Kongo-class and they’re much better battleships. By that point you’ll likely have Hiei to her remodel and I’d expect you’d probably have a fleet carrier too, either by getting Akagi from the quest, or from a lucky build.
Probably don’t expect to be able to get Yamato or Musashi if they’re available though, they dropped from really high-end event worlds.
Yeah I figured that about Yamato/Musashi. Being probably a) one of the rarest and b) one of the most powerful BBs, it’s unlikely I’d be in a position to even attempt the event that drops them. Thankfully I’ve got a bit of time so I hope to have at least one ship to level 20 in a week’s time.
Once I get my first remodel done, I’ll start looking at modernising as I have a tonne of duplicate DDs to either scrap or consume. I have far too many Miyukis.
IMO it’s okay to burn some stuff to modernize ships that you’re using a lot but haven’t gotten them to remodel level yet. Some of the classes have very high remodel levels – the subs remodel at level 50 for example, so I’ve modernized and maxed out both of mine. Iku can hit for upwards of 200 damage against a light ship with a torpedo crit now. 😛 I also did some modernization on my primary fleet ships because I was using them a lot and wanted some extra survivability. Plus I kept getting close to the 100-ship cap and felt like scrapping destroyers for a paltry amount was less valuable than using them to buff stats on my primary hitters.
So, I actually had some time to play SKYRIM! on the PC.
Downloaded a few mods to make it pretty and everything worked well.
Now, I may be thrown out of TAY for this but… I think I prefer SKYRIM! on my 360
*flinches away from the stones and arrows thrown Hugo’s way*
It’s not the game or PC, it has to be me.
I’m stran… er, odd.
I believe it is mutiple things, first, I’m playing on a laptop with a basic mouse, so I am not really setup for gaming.
I am really not used to playing on the laptop so even the most basic actions feel awkward.
The other weird thing is it feels very sped up. Everything feels much faster and it feels very weird. I guess I am just slow.
I will keep trying at it, especially since some of the mods out there look amazing, but being the old fashioned barbarian I am, I don’t think I will be spending as much time on the PC version as I have (and will continue to do) on the 360.
But like I said, I am odd.
Did you see my screen on the previous page?
if not, here’s another
SO PRETTY!…
Inventory system took me awhile to get used to, but now i don’t have a problem with it… if it feels sped up, maybe it’s because it runs smoother? i dunno never played it on console…
But each to their own… i don’t know if you can connect a 360 gamepad and play with that if you prefer? if you can’t out of the box, maybe there’s a mod for that?
Very pretty.
I will certainly keep at it and after spending only Talos know how many hours playing it on the 360, there is no doubt that it would feel odd.
Had a look and it looks like connecting a gamepad is part of it’s basic settings, so I will connect my 360 controller and hopefully that will help the transition.
The speed was just weird. Can’t really explain the sensation myself, it just felt sped up, it didn’t feel like it had the same weight behind movement as the 360 version. But, that is probably just my inner weirdness coming out.
New things are scary and therefore must be bad 😛
If it’s new and you don’t like it, bash it…
if you still don’t like it, bash it again,
Repeat till satisfied
Right, I’ll go get Clubby.
Clubby will make everything right in the world.
Play the PC version with the 360 controller. You will need the wireless receiver.
I think I have an old wired controller somewhere, hopefully that will work, read ages ago that it should… to GOOGLE!
I use a wired 360 controller on the PC and it works flawlessly.
I don’t much like playing games on the PC either. It’s uncomfortable mostly. Also for some reason I place zero value on my PC games and really don’t care about them.
I’m like this as well. For me I think it’s kind of like eBooks. Digital items have no meaning to me. I need to hold something in my hand for it to feel real and valuable.
Hence the reason why I have 5 bookcases filled double stacked with books.
I’m the opposite, why have a physical copy when you can have a digital version of it. No worrying about damaged CDs, storage space for cases or swapping out CD’s. Infact I rarely get physical copies of PC games unless I get a CE.
I don’t get the arguments that come up with this (save for storage space, which is fair enough). Damaged CDs and swapping discs has never been an issue or worry for me, nor do I see how they could be.
As someone who has moved apartments many, many, many times… it WAS totally an issue for me. Until I pretty much digitized everything and no longer worry about it. But yeah, there was always some CD case or key lost or damaged in a move (out of the hundreds owned).
Very much this.
Back in the early 90’s I was very much PC, I used to be with IT, but then they changed what IT was. Now what I’m with isn’t IT, and what’s IT seems weird and scary to me, and it’ll happen to TAY, too
*old man Hugo*
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not.
Huh? Why would I be sarcastic?
It’s because of the way I play PC games – and not in a traditional mouse/keyboard office desk sense.
I sit on the couch and play my PC games like a console gamer does. I find it very comfortable and I value the dirt-cheap digital games immensely.
That’s pretty much why I thought you were kidding. No beef.
I’m happy for you to be Strange. 😀
It took way longer then I would care to admit editing out all the stranges 😛
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE STRANGE!
STRANGELANDER!
THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE
I can understand preferring 360 on a big TV to playing on a little laptop monitor.
But having it on a proper PC with lots of prettiness and space cores falling out of the sky is unbeatable
space? SPACE! SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE…
OMGOMGOMG I’M IN SPACE!
I can’t tell if half the comments in this stub are serious or not?
I have my PC hooked up to my TV with a 360 wireless controller for gameplay and a handheld wireless keyboard/touchpad for navigating. This is the ultimate console.
Oh, I know your problem. It’s Field of View (FOV).
PC port of the game kept the same FOV as the console game, and it just looks retarded on a screen that close to your face. Can cause headaches too.
Read this, set FOV to 85-90 or as preference:
http://hubpages.com/hub/change-fov-skyrim
So I wonder if when I cancel a pre-order with EB they’ll give me cash back or just make me have to take it as store credit. I might call up and cancel over the phone instead of going out in this heat because I strongly suspect it’ll just be store credit.
Should be able to get cash back but I guess it depends on the EB.
they can offer you store credit, but I’m pretty sure they have to refund you if thats what you ask for.
http://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/consumer-rights-guarantees/repair-replace-refund
Oh! Just remembered I still need to go grab that last thing I need for Secret SanTAY (I’ve been out every damn day this week and still keep forgetting. 😛 ) so I should take care of both things at once.
Thanks to @35 I will ask for cash because it will mean the difference between being able to buy refreshing drinks while I’m out or not. 😛 I don’t really mind if it ends up being too much trouble to argue with a scary salesperson, though. I’ll just put the money on the Dark Souls 2 pre-order instead.
They don’t have to refund cash, even if you ask for it, unless the goods are damaged/faulty/etc. (At least that was the deal when I worked in retail).
Store credit most likely.
That’s for returns though. This is just a deposit on an item that hasn’t been purchased yet, I’m not so sure it’s the same.
It’s a deposit for a reason.
Further to everyone’s helpful contributions:
EB will usually want to make a refund in the same method in which the money was paid; so cash for cash, refund to card for credit/debit, store credit for store credit. Your mileage may vary. The “trade goods for cash” licence for retailers actually varies state by state – give it was difficult and expensive to get in NSW, games are only traded for store credit here although I understand QLD allows trade for cash in which case you may be able to get a cash refund even if the original payment method was trade-ins.
As far as cancelling pre-orders, there should be no problems with doing that. Store Manager may be disappointed in losing a KPI metric but that’s just tough cookies.
Someone please remind me why I’m spending my birthday at work instead of playing Starbound?
Happy birthday! 😀 Hope the year treats you well, Beavwa!
It’s your birthday today?!
If so, Happy Birthday! Hopefully when you finish earning all that useful money at work you can go home and be spoiled with thoughtful gifts and food, glorious food. *hugs*
Happy belated birthday!
Because… er… um… getting money good? (yeah I got nothing)
Happy anniversary of life commencement!
First off, Happy Birthday!
Second, because you’re earning your big bucks to get what you want later on. 🙂 Usually I take some leave for my birthday.
Happy birthday Beavwa Mang!!!
Also you’re not looking too well are you feeling alright?
Maybe you should go home for the rest of the day… and take tomorrow off too to make sure you’re over that nasty bug you’re so clearly dealing with!
#trustmeimadoctor
Happy Birthday Mang!
Because you accepted your birthday gift early so now the actual day has no meaning
Was the shiny worth it now!
Happy birthday!
Happy Anniversary of escaping the womb, Beav!
😀
Happy birthday!
Happy Borthday!
Congratulations on Age++.
Our birthdays are surprisingly close to each other. :O
Speaking of that did you decide to do anything for yours?
I just did a really small thing, and went out with the family last night as well.
Happy B’day @beavwa! Hope you had a better day at work than usual at least!
Applied to have 2 weeks off early next year (last week of Feb/first week of March) with no plans besides a friend from home being in Sydney for a few days at the end of the last week.
I’m looking forward to it so, so much. Maybe I’ll head to Queensland for a couple of days or something.
You should come up and we can go to Wet N Wild and take our shirts off.
*swoons*
I like this plan.
Well, I just checked and flights are on sale to the Gold Coast at that time.
I guess I should look into some accommodation.
You can come to Mackay and….see stuff…and visit all the attractions…and..and…climb a tree…
TAY. LEGO. HELP.
Asked my sis what I should get my nephew and she asked him. “Uncle Tigs bring me Lego” was the answer. So I need to know where is the best and cheapest place to get Lego that I will have within 3 weeks
Keep an eye on Target, they often have their Lego on sale and a fairly decent collection.
The problem with Lego is that every place will have a slightly varied selection. So if you’re looking for something in particular (say, the police dog small box) only certain places will have it.
When I was looking for it, I found Toys R us to be the most expensive, target to be the cheapest but they didn’t have the small dog box. I found it at Big W.
Mr Toys Toy World. If that doesn’t work, Toys R Us.
DAMMIT… never heard of that website before, checked it…
now i need THIS in my life…
Oh fuck yes.
*Bang*… Oops my jaw just dropped one sec…
*click*
Wow… that is just incredible! Now you’re making me want one
Target, Big W and the like tend to be more expensive than they should be so only buy from them if you’re desperate. Online, Fishpond or MightyApe generally have some good deals on LEGO but if you must buy in bricks and mortar try Mr.Toys/Toyworld. I find they’re usually the cheapest. Occasionally Myer have some really great deals on LEGO so they’re always worth checking out, too.
(I have a brother-in-law who’s addicted to LEGO. “For the kids”, of course. 😛 )
MYER usually have some great deals over the holidays with 20-40% off various sets. I’m sure there will be some sales over the next few weeks. I got some nice sets from them last year for half price 🙂
Also if your nephew has a console or handheld get him one of the LEGO games too. You can get him a LEGO playset and a LEGO game 🙂 The older games are really cheap now and even the new one will be on special over xmas. You can even play the game together when you visit.
Mob City! Frank Darabont! Today!
DAMMIT JIM, i’m a doctor, not a walking TV Guide!
I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about XDYes, uh-huh, I agree.
*smiles and nods*
New television series from writer and director Frank Darabont. (The guy who did Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and the Mist and was responsible for the first season of The Walking Dead.) Set in Los Angeles around the same period as L.A. Noire!
SKYRIM!
sorry guys i apologise for bringing my personal crap into TAY but i just really need to vent.
My dad just called me about two hours ago, my mum is back in hospital (she has ovarium cancer) and she isnt doing very well…
doctors have basically told him that they cant continue with chemotherapy at all because they cant get to any usable veins, and surgery is not an option… basically its as long as she lasts from hereon out, but they said it wont be for very long.
i still dont know if she is able to leave the hospital at all. doctors asked for us to go in at 9am tomorrow.
to make things worse my relationship with my brother has been rocky at best over the last three months and since hes living with my parents, we have barely visited her in the last three months even though they live 10 minutes away.
i honestly dont know what im expecting from posting this but i just really really needed to vent somewhere as i feel like im on the verge of a breakdown.
Just: *hugasaurus*
I’m so, so sorry to hear this, Zetrox. This is truly an awful thing to have to deal with. Take solace in the fact that you’ve got time to spend with her now. We’re all here for you, man. Whenever you want to talk or vent or the like. Sending good thoughts your way.
I got nothing that would honestly help in your situation other then fluffy words, which means bugger-all…
Just know that we are here for you and *hugs*!!!!
My advice is – if possible – get off work, get off TAY and go be with your mother!
Us losers will all be here when you return. 😀 I also send my regards.
That’s pretty much exactly what happened with my sister a few years back so I know pretty much what you’re going though and how much is sucks.
*huge hug*
Maybe speak to your brother before you go in to see her. Create a truce or something for her.
Ovarian cancer is a horrible thing.
Took the opportunity to go home during lunch and try out Starbound.
…I don’t want to go back to work.
I’ll probably jump on this when no one else is interested just like Terraria XD
*Rize calls work*
“Hey, just calling in to say when I was out to lunch I got hit by a truck and am now dead. I’ll be back in next week”.
I’ll try and get a server up after work tonight.
I have this song stuck in my head but I don’t mind.
I have this song stuck in my head and I mind. D:
I used to be obsessed with his song ‘Supreme’ (and music vid) when I was younger.
I have this song playing right now and it’s great.
That’s awesome. 😀
has there really not been a TAY post in over an hour, or is something dodgy going on?
Lunch!
Agreed. Only food is more important than the Internet.
The ashes is on. With all the sportsball nuts on here that must be it
Leave approved! Awww yeah!
It’s a little strange when your boss sends out an email to your entire team when it contains smiley-faces and “tee hee”.
Tee hee? Yeah that’s pretty weird. Social media lover I’m guessing.
He’s in his late 50s and is close to retiring. Not exactly your typical social media lover.
Haha. I was way off.
Could be worse.
Could be a 20-something year old guy who really likes Hanson.
Are you talking about @redartifice. That always seems to come up as a spotify suggestion for him, I’m starting to suspect something
Our office has been decorated the bejeezus out of for Christmas so people are bringing their kids in to see it and there are like five babies here help help get me out.
List them on ebay for quick sale & pickup only. See if anyone comes round to buy them
Well fuck, I just got filmed to be in an ad on TV for my gym. Easily the strangest thing I’ve done in a while since I normally prefer to be the one holding the camera or failing that, hiding from it. I suspect I won’t show up much in the final cut since the focus was mostly on my trainer and they did a lot of close ups but its still a scary prospect.
Hmm, I think I’m going to put it on my resume, there’s fuck all else on it so it’ll at least look like I did something this year. 2013 – Gym Advert as “Bloke with boxing gloves”.
That’s why whenever I go to the gym, I have an emergency tub of ice cream, ready to be whipped out.
See a camera? Stare at it, eating your ice cream, scooping it out with your bare hands, sobbing.
Guarantee you wont be in the final cut.
might end up as the ‘before’ part of a before-and-after comparison though…
Or it gets you a starring role
Is this you? Do you feel like you have no idea what you should do at the gym. Call now and in just 6 weeks we will turn you from this *Bish sobbing* to this *Studly McStudMuffin*
Is the studly mcstudmuffin a new breakfast thing at maccas?
As much as I love ice cream, I dislike cameras more. In that situation I’d smear the lens with icecream and then run away to scoff whatever is left, probably while sobbing.
Hmmmm middle ground is so mainstream
My secret santee is either going to love or hate my gift
I tried to be smart/amusing with mine but I suspect I failed miserably. Should be interesting.
I’m pretty much in the same boat. Oh well hopefully it works out for both of us
Mini-rant of today:
So a few months ago my boss quit. I was then told that I am in the front seat to take this position and that I’ll need to step up to cover this role. However, we will only be getting a new person to replace the last one if its needed. Fast forward to today on my mid-year review and I’ve just been told that they are happy with what I have been doing, everything has been functioning and things are getting done on time due to my management, so that’s why they won’t be giving us a new person. And to boot, they won’t be looking to formalise my leadership role until May.
I feel like they’re waiting for something to fuck up, just so they can tell me “no”.
I need another job. Unfortunately I don’t think I’d get any real recognition for what I am doing right now. Urgh…
Chin up! It does sound half-positive. I think? May is just around the corner – nut it out until then and then BAM! Who’s the boss now huh? I’m wondering if you can then get a say in whether someone else can be hired once you’re the bossman come May.
“Don ye now our gay apparel”
*immature giggling*
You look fabulous
Why thank you.
I’m video editing over Teamviewer. Lol, this is going better than expected.
Well that was surprisingly easy. Went up to the EB counter and told the nice guy I needed to cancel some pre-orders. Handed over my EB World card for him to scan, he got me to sign something and before I knew what was going on he’d handed me back cash. \o/
I really need to learn to not be scared of this kind of thing. It usually goes fine.
You keep forgetting that to those kids you’re the scary old mum lady 😛
Former EB employee. Can confirm mothers are scary /o\
Hide before they see you! No place to hide? Run away! Run away!
Heh, I probably looked pretty crazed today as well. Was too hot for vanity so I was wearing a singlet I usually wear to bed along with a knee-length skirt that exposes my gross rash, plus I’m not well so I’m on Codral so I probably had feverish eyes. In retrospect I should have expected him to want to get rid of me quickly. 😀
He was probably just happy you didn’t mug him.
Now that I think about it… are you sure you didn’t mug him?
“Just take the money and go!”
wasn’t it just too hot?! It was terrible at my work today. Probably doesn’t help that I work in an oversized tin shed, but usually being in there is enough to take the bite out of the heat. Not today though. Was terrible. Was so glad to see black looming storm clouds when I walked out this afternoon!
I know that feeling, I had a digital/analog watch hybrid where the analog time goes 1 second slower than the digital time per day. Anyway the digital screen just suddenly died one day, but the analog still worked, so battery seemed to be still good, plus it was only 4 months old. It took a bit of to-ing and fro-ing all while I was getting more and more anxious about this encounter with the staff showing him the broken watch and my receipt and he asked if I wanted it replaced. I basically just lightly chuckled and shook my head saying “nah just a refund will be fine, please”. I then got another digital watch just after from another shop, it’s been serving me well but the metal chain strap keeps catching my wrist hairs, ouch!
Just to let you know, the digital and analogue watches usually have two different batteries for each one inside the watch.
Oh right, never knew that, cheers for the info
I’m not sure if it was in this week’s TAY or the previous one but I decided to take @strange ‘s advice about just trying to do something, even for a few minutes, instead of just sitting there when I’m tired after work and surprisingly it worked. I was not as tired as I thought I was on most days and I could play some games.
Using that advice I managed to finish two games this week; Shank 2 and Guacamelee.
First off, Guacamelee.
@jimu and @dkzeitgeist were right, this game is great. The game was part of the PS+ Instant Game Collection this month and it was a small download(500mb) so I decided to try it.
Despite the slow start, the game reaches a point where you unlock 1 or 2 abilities and it just clicks and I really enjoyed it from then on.
Guacamelee is an open world 2D platformer set in a Mexican themed world. You slowly unlock abilities as a you play that allow you to go back to previous areas and open up different parts of the world or just get power ups and collectibles. A metroidvania basically ( I don’t think I’ve played one before so this might be my first one )
You play as Juan whose friend( the president’s daughter) has been kidnapped by the villain for a ceremony to link the world of living and the dead. The story is not as important it just serves as a reason for the game to grant you new abilities and for forward momentum through the game.
The abilities you earn through the game are Guacamelee’s main and strongest part. These abilities are useful for both platforming and combat and there are some amazing sections in the game where you are able to use 3-5 abilities all at once to cross a gap and it feels so satisfying when you complete them.
Abilities are colour-coded and as you move across the world you will see different coloured barriers signifying the different abilities. Red blocks are for the uppercut ability, green ones are . You earn abilities by finding statues in the game and a goat appears to grant you your abilities. The goat turns out to be a shaman who can transform into a goat. I was always looking forward to meeting him just to hear what he had to say next.
You also unlock the ability to turn into a chicken which allows you to jump higher but also access small tunnels that lead to new areas and collectibles. Because backtracking is going to happen as you play, the chicken ability is very useful because you move faster as a chicken and this reduces any frustration you might have about going through areas again.
Even in combat every move is useful. abilities like dimensions switching help to fight against enemies in different dimensions and even later in the game you get enemies with colour coded shields that are link to your abilities and you need to destroy their shields first before you can hit them. the combat system was surprisingly enjoyable and I even went out of my way to go
the ‘Carvena del pollo’ level – which contains continuous rooms full of enemies – just to keep using the new abilities I gained in combat.
I tried to avoid mentioning most of the abilities because I enjoyed learning what ability was next to earn
The controls are great too and I never found them to be a problem even with the PS3’s sometimes slippery triggers. Everything felt really well made and when I made a mistake I knew it was my fault. I was surprised how well the analog controls worked to since I thought this game would require the d-pad but I preferred to use the sticks. Also tip: Dodge with L2, the using the right analog stick is not fast enough.
Boss fights seem hard at first but once you learn their patterns they are satisfying to take down.
The music is great as well and combined with your dimension switching ability the music changes slightly when you change dimensions from a more upbeat tone in the living world to a sombre one in the land of the dead
Fast loading between worlds and after death.
Numerous gaming references and memes on billboards and within the world. I was pleasantly surprised I was able to recognise most of the gaming ones. Also I think the music in the final level has elements of the super mario bros end level music- the music that plays in the fire levels of the first Super Mario Bros game.
Good humour between Juan and the other characters in the world
Didn’t like as much:
1.The music can get a bit repetitive the more you play but the differences in tone when you switch between dimensins helps reduce the repetitiveness.
2. I would have liked it if the game had a recover ability when you are hit in the air. The game requires you to move upwards in some areas and it would be nice to be able to recover from a fall in mid air instead of watching your character fall to the ground and you have to repeat the section again. Even in combat juggling enemies in the air is great but if you are hit you have to wait until you fall and then start fighting again.
3. There are times where your a special move refuses to work for some odd reason. You can chain 2-3 abilities but sometimes I might have a full stamina bar but I can’t chain the 3rd move.
The only thing I wanted more from the game were challenge levels to test more of your platforming and combat skills and apparently there is DLC which provides this, which is good news. ($2-3 on PSN and free with the gold edition on PC)
Hopefully I didn’t ramble too much, my thoughts are all over the place.
To summarise, Guacamelee is awesome and one of the best games I’ve played this year
Shank was the second game I played and it was OK. The game has a great art style which all of KLEI Entertainment’s games have had so far. Animations looks great and the effects of grenades, explosions and gun fire are all nice to look at. T
The gameplay unfortunately takes its time to get good. For most of the game I felt like I was just button mashing to get through enemies but it was only until the last few levels where I began to really start enjoying the combat and begin chaining my punches, grenades and kicks to great effect. And by the time that happened the game was over. Thankfully there is a survival mode and it has online co-op so if anyone wants to play let me know,
The boss fights are OK and doable but the game introduces smaller enemies during the boss fight which SUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKKKKS. This is fairly common in many games and I understand why games do this e.g. the smaller enemies can give you health but in Shank they are a constant source of frustration. Finishing boss fights leads to a sense of relief rather than a feeling of triumph.
I had a few glitches too during transitions from the end of a level to score screen where the game just freezes for a few seconds. No idea why, the screen just goes black.
inconsistent checkpoint system- the game saves before a boss but when you quit to the main menu you have to start the level all over again. Why?!
Shank was OK overall not great not bad.
It was nice finishing games again and I hope I don’t get into a month long rut again.
My next game might be Warp, I bought it on sale last year after enjoying the demo and the little I’ve played so far is cool. After that maybe Remember Me but I’m not making any promises 🙂
I might continue with Guacamelee too and try and find more of the collectibles.
The green ability is the ‘Frog Slam’.
Post-endgame:
Have you hunted down the orbs?Edit: whoops, wrong word
I’ve only found 2 orbs. How many are there altogether?I’ve found the one you get for finishing the game and the one you get for finishing the treetops level. Also how challenging is the Tree tops area. It was hard at first but once I completed it I felt really satisfied. Also that chicken is a troll, telling you at the top of the tree tops level that you’re only halfway there only to say psych two platforms up.
Edit: Made the same comment twice
I think there are 5 all up – tree tops was probably the most annoying platform-y one. If you want to know the locations of the others, the information is google-able (surprise, surprise!)I really enjoyed Guacamelee, but I did not think its metroidvania-ness was much of a highlight. I found the combat system really satisfying!
Yeah the combat was surprisingly good. It looks simple but chaining hits between enemies was great. I haven’t got the 125hit trophy yet. My max has been 90 hits I think, I keep getting hit by the red guys who throw bones.
Have you downloaded the DLC? If so, how is it? Apparently it adds harder challenge levels and time attack levels.
Do you guys have the DLC @jimu @dkzeitgeist?
Not bought DLC (yet).
Nah, no DLC, didn’t like the sound of it *that* much.
Maybe if it goes on sale
Upvote for Guac love 😀
The Guac love is strong. Very Strong 🙂
Yay! I’m Helpius!
*pokes face into TAY*
Hi *waves*
Hope you are all well
*flees before overstaying welcome*
Hey, it’s the guy who doesn’t meat! You should meat! There’s a meat on Saturday! Jimu will be there! Meat!
MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAT!!!
Taking a TAY catch-up day. Please don’t be alarmed if your old posts are responded to and/or upvoted.
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:}
I was alarmed, I admit. Now I feel like I can let my guard down. *sits cautiously, tentatively looks about*
Welcome back sire! Hope you’re feeling a little more cheery this week! 🙂
Secret Santa present bought! Now to get to a post office…
I’m really hoping mine doesn’t fall flat 😛
I’m prepared for mine to just be like “What the fuck is this? This is shit!”
But then, I haven’t started preparing mine. I’ll be doing that soon. Maybe…
Mine’s purchased and on the way there, should be fun 😀
Is it a sex doll? I assume that a flat sex doll would be bad
I initially inflated it, but deflating allowed me to save on postage.
Finally!! Back on Kotaku after so long. Damn, I missed this place ( and you guys).
*Stretches*
*Cracks knuckles*
*Clears throat*
Who’s th-
*Takes a sip of water*
*Clears throat*
^ Who’s this guy?
Err…hello!
A marvellous thing has occurred.
I have come to fight Manus and what do I find?
Onebros! Two of them with summon signs up looking to fight as well.
Haha, if only I was not terrible at the co-op….
Hope it went all right!
Nope!
We failed about a dozen times, though one guy gave up after about 5.
Also got invaded by a dark phantom, I assume also a Onebro cause of level restrictions. But he did not last long.
OMG
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/12/05/ys-5-fan-translation-released-full-series-now-available-in-engl/
We can finally play Ys end to end. \o/
I need some help. I’m trying to set up an Ebay account, and I’ve entered my email address and it comes up as already in use. I have looked up the user id associated with my address and it is not mine. Is there anything I can do?
You could ask for a password reset – it will probably send an email link.
Then change password, delete impostor’s account and start your own.
It says: error
You have not yet confirmed your registration with eBay. Please complete registration before requesting a new password.
Hmm might have to contact customer support, they can probably help out.
And/or set up a new email account and use that.
I have created an account using my secondary email address.
@popdart5
Murasame’s new remodel art is a massive step up from the old one:
http://i.imgur.com/txVt0Ov.jpg
Unfortunately I ran 3-2 with my newly minted Destroyer fleet and it sent me to the node where all the Wo-class Aircraft Carriers lie in wait for unsuspecting ships. Got annihilated. Thankfully it was first combat in the sortie because there would have been sinkings otherwise. 🙁
Wow not kidding. That is a very nice visual upgrade.
Bad luck with the carrier node. I’m surprised that such a higher level world can only be cleared with a full fleet of DDs. Sure it’s challenging but you would need to grind so much.
I ran them a couple of times this morning and it went the other direction, toward the boss node instead, and this time the enemies were a bit easier (destroyers & cruisers). Only took one hit first time, on Yukikaze, but it put her into enough damage that I didn’t want to risk it. Repaired and re-ran, got a harder fight and still cleared it with an A-rank. Again, too damaged to go on. They’re gaining XP each time at least. I’m thinking if I get them all to ~25 and with some modernization, and sparkle them first, they should be able to make it with some luck.
Also got my Hiei to 25 but don’t have enough ammo to spend on her remodel 🙁
🙁 If you level Hiei up again, do you forfeit the opportunity to remodel or is it now that you’ve reached the minimum requirement you can do it whenever?
I didn’t get a chance to play last night so I have no news. Thankfully I’ll have a nice juicy stockpile of resources to burn through tonight and hopefully get Chiyoda to level 15 for her light carrier remodel.
You need to be at least the minimum level. I believe that the level transfers over as well. What’s lost is any modernization you’ve done, as their stats reset to base for the remodel. It also de-equips all your gear and equips whatever the starting gear is for the remodel version which is why certain ships are worth leveling up even if you don’t want to use them, eg Isuzu gets free air radars as she goes up (and she remodels at level 12) and Chiyoda / Chitose get midget subs at their level 12 remodel.
I’ve actually got my light carrier Hiyou on the verge of a remodel as well. Oddly I find her to be more effective with planes a lot of the time than Akagi is.
Tonight’s your last chance to pick up a great box set at JB, or 20% off any other DVD or Blu-ray.
Why do they need nine discs for 3 Star Wars films?
Also why can’t I just get the original versions of the proper films without all of Lucas’ tampering and bullshit attached? 🙁
Because you touch yourself at night.
No, because George Lucas will do it for him.
That box includes six films, original and prequel trilogies and three discs for extra goodies I’m guessing. I agree about the tampering though, I’m not a fan of the added CGI in the original trilogy and I haven’t seen it yet but I’m pretty certain I won’t like the howling Darth Vader either.
I’m confused, there’s only three Star Wars films. Do you mean that the Ewoks movie and the Holiday Special got discs?
Haha, now I’m with you. 😀
RAGE get, Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 get! \o/
Also, I kinda bought Dungeons and Dragons.
And the Monsters University artbook. 😀
And Shakugan no Shana Season 3 Parts 1 & 2 on Blu-ray/DVD.
D&D books?
No, the starter set.
4th edition red box?
Not sure if it’s 4th edition, but it is red.
Probably is. Let us know if you want DM advice or something
Industry night was alright. Soooooo lucky I did 4D Snake – meant I actually had something interesting to show. There didn’t seem to be too many people stopping at the programmer tables, only had maybe three of my postcards taken I think. Talked to one guy who recognised me from IFEST last year, I think he may have kind of offered me a job? Sort of? As a Unity programmer though. It’s like some kind of sick joke 😛 Got his business card and he said to e-mail him. Then a guy from Halfbrick really really really liked Snake. Also really really really didn’t understand it 😛 But he was there for ages offering suggestions of ways to change and fix it and things like that. Gave me his business card too, they’d be looking for programmers towards the end of the year and that I should e-mail him my resume to put in the pool. Success?
Also I can’t find my hard drive. I think I left it at school. I hope I left it at school. Fuck.
Nice, Gooky doing some networking.
Maybe Halfbrick stole your hard drive and Snake 4D will be their next game and you’ll be a damn liar for claiming you made it. 😛
I want to see this snake. Figure out a way to upload it. 😛
Something something redtube.com
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
That final line of South Park’s console wars trilogy.
Brilliance.
I’m going to try my hardest to download it, but I fear I may not get very far…
Bloody hell Broken Sword 5 is fantastic so far. Really excellent game, feels just like the original 2 in so many ways and more modern in others that don’t detract. So far, narry a pushing box puzzle to be had!
Oh, tell a lie, there was one but you had to push a single box so you could climb on it, that strikes me as fair enough
Yeah, I’m enjoying it too. The humour and charm is back too. Has made me laugh more than once showing random inventory items to people and seeing their varied reactions. The backdrops are stunning. Can’t say I’m a fan of the 3D animation during cutscenes, especially when Daedalic games are still doing traditional animated characters but it’s pretty seamless in the actual gameplay. So far, so good. 😀
Introducing everyone to Trevor is my favourite so far. That and the cologne kind of reminds me of showing everyone the clowns nose in BS1
Or the tissue with grease makeup on it. XD
George: “I’m so surprised this cookie has held up in my pocket”
Nico: “Got to work on the small talk, George.”
XD
Sounds like we’re pretty much up to the same spot then
Just finished part 1, damn I love this game! I’m tempted to have a marathon of the other 4 in the time it takes them to release 5 part 2
Goodnight.
Oh and also.
Last day of school tomorrow. Forever. IE last chance to man up and get shot down by Sketchbook Girl. Well, save for graduation maybe. Or possibly if that one that keeps using me as a pillow invites the two of us to her party in a week or two (seems likely, though attendance of both…?).
You just know that I’m totally going to not.
Alright, I’m gonna make a deal with you that a friend once made with me. You ask her out, succeed or fail, I’ll buy you a drink. You don’t ask her out? You owe me a drink.
Think about it man, at the very worst, you get something for what is basically nothing.
So what kinda drink did you buy him? 😛
A beer. But that’s not the point.
Actually his bet with me was $50 to ask out the next 3 single girls I met.
I managed to weasel out of it because I only met 2 new women in the time between him making the deal with me, and six months later when we spoke again. I was in mad hermit mode at that point.
Real response:
Go forth and conquer…
Go forth and conquer…
Go forth and conquer…
*breathes from paper bag*
I nearly didn’t ask a girl out once…
but then i did…
we’re now married (6 years)
and then i found $10
#truestory
Dude $10? You’re so lucky. 🙁
You can do it Gooky
At the end of the day the worst that can happen if you do ask is she says no, you don’t see her again and you move on with your life.
The worst that can happen if you don’t ask is that you will be considering her even after you aren’t seeing her anymore and you miss out on something else because you are still hung up on her.
Nike it up buddy
Insert @transientmind motivational story here
That’s my thinking. I figure getting shot down is likely, but I can’t really let anything happen with Climbey while I can’t stop thinking about Sketchbook.
Alrighty. @mrtaco:
Hah. You shouldn’t be afraid of getting shot down. You’re offering someone something awesome and kickass, but if you’ve ever worked in any kind of sales position, you know that people turn down cool stuff – even free stuff – all the time. It can be disappointing, but it doesn’t reflect badly on you and you shouldn’t take it hard.
You wouldn’t BELIEVE the number of times I’ve been shot down. Some of them are OK for your ego, things like, “I have a boyfriend, but if I didn’t…” but some of them have been outright weird. I’ve never had any laughing rejections (I’ve seen ’em though – utter dick move, ladies). One girl actually tilted her head, frowned and looked thoughtful before asking, “Why?” Knowing what I know now, I probably could’ve rallied and put out a decent come-back, but that one totally threw me off-balance. (Also, to anyone who ever gets, ‘I have a boyfriend’: smile and reply, “Let me know when you want a MAN friend,” before you walk away.)
Also, sometimes a seeming rejection of non-interest or responsiveness isn’t exactly a rejection. Girls can get nervous and awkward and uncertain, too. I’ve seen it plenty of times when just tossing out random compliments (I guess some would call it flirting? Does it count if you aren’t really interested and just think their glasses look good?) to girls in service positions, or at the bus stop. Sometimes it’s obvious, like smiling, ducking the head and looking away, they’ll reach up to touch their hair or face… Other times, they’ll just freeze up and get very awkward or look uncomfortable, then when you walk away, taking their discomfort for rejection – I have it on good authority – they go home kicking themselves the whole way.
Just like I’m pretty sure every guy in history is familiar with doing at some point.
One girl I had a thing with for a while was incredibly shy and coy, and I THOUGHT I picked up a few hints of interest but just wasn’t sure enough about it, so dropped several of my own, encouraging her to show some sort of more positive sign. She totally let the opportunity pass by, and I walked away thinking obviously she just wasn’t that interested… Until I remember I’m a fucking MAN and walked right back and took the assertive lead, with results right then and there. She admitted afterward she was glad I had, because she hadn’t been game to make a move. It’s not necessarily fair or ‘right’, but women ARE still being conditioned by society to not make the first move.
So yeah. It’s probably in the bag already, even if she may not exactly react amazingly, just remember she’s possibly just as awkward as well. Girls are human like that.
Besides, you’re not asking her to marry you and have your kids… just to go out and have a little fun. No pressure. No drama. No worries.
Go for it mate, she’s more scared of you than you are of her. Or am I thinking of snakes?
Anyway, ask her out and I’ll buy you a PS4 and/or XBOne*
*This isn’t actually true
You know what you need to do.
So what did you end up doing?
Nothing 😛
For now.
Heh at least you probably have a second chance, no wussing out of that one
I hope not. Really.
The wussing out, that is. Dear god I hope there’s a chance 😛
Well the only thing worse than a ‘No’ is a ‘What if I had’
Okay, maybe genocide is worse but only a little.
What if’s would be at least as bad as the combination of always online DRM & flaky 56k dialup
I *do* like to go out of my way to avoid most forms of DRM…
Fuck Assassin’s Creed IV completely. Just took a 90 degree turn straight into steaming piles of shit and now it’s doing the absolute worst bits of AC3 again 🙁
I think I know what you’re talking about. There was like four back-to-back missions like that and then it got good again. Here’s hoping it stays good. XD
Sequence Seven, I think. I just did six and that kind of sucked, then got pulled out of the proper game so they could do their irrelevant meta-game ‘modern world’ bullshit, then back in and suddenly it’s forced stealth with only one non-obvious path to do anything and instant fail if you don’t do it exactly as the designers intended. Oh and by the way, often you will do it absolutely right but the AI will glitch out or otherwise fuck you over anyway so you don’t even know if you’re doing it wrong or not.
Whoever designed the goddamn ‘tail these people but don’t be seen’ mechanic in the Assassin’s Creed games deserves to be keelhauled, right beside the fucker responsible for the eavesdropping crap.
Yo, @shane, @bdkiaf, @rize.
Are we doing a thing tomorrow? Is that a thing that’s happening? Or am I just going to dance outside Rize’s house until his wife yells at me to leave? Also, organisation is hard when it’s hard to access dayTAY.
Upvote equals answer.
Also, I have no idea.
Suuure!
I’m happy to have you guys around if you wanna come for a lunch thing or whatever. As long as I know by tonight that I’m supposed to be doing something it’ll be easy for me to be organised 😛
I’m gonna say “fuck it, it’s on”because at least that gives me an excuse to make gingerbread men.
Righto. I’ll make sure I clean the house then 😛
Hello.
Woke up this morning to find my pc won’t turn on. My monitor will but the tower won’t. Tried checking the power cable and it’s plugged in properly.
Gonna try buying a new power cable
Before investing in a cable, i guess the power cable to your monitor is the same type, just use that to confirm the tower will turn on, just so you don’t waste your money
The monitor power cable is different so I can’t check
well that sucks!…
don’t have an old-school kettle or anything with a standard power cord? 😛
PS3 uses a standard PC power cable as well, you might be able to try that.
My PS3 uses a figure 8 rather than the standard PC cable
Randomly started up without me noticing. No idea what is going on.
Was it simply not switching on? Or was it switching on then immediately stopping again? The former is probably a PSU problem, but the latter is likely a short somewhere, possibly something not seated right or a loose cable crossing a circuit or similar.
Check that your ASOC D-pin configuration is set to DTPM mode so the TxPx is bridging to the JSM correctly without modular interference.
#helping?
Am I ever not?
Again but in simple terms please.
I’m glad you have no idea what I’m talking about because neither do I.
My PC diagnostic skills extend as far as smacking the monitor when things start going awry.
62% of the time, it works every time
Check the polarity of the flux capacitor
Could be a dead power supply.
Apparently it’s Work in the Nude Day today.
I believe absolutely nothing I read on news.com.au 😛
There’s no way I’m getting my kit off here at a truck depot.
*sniiiiff*
*in a gruff voice*
“you smell mighty pretty boi!”
Make sure you scrub them wheels there REAL good. 😀
http://i.imgur.com/XS5LK.gif
I thought it was yesterday. No wonder I was getting so many funny looks yesterday. So embarrassing.
As a receptionist at a health centre, I can get behind this.
That Spider-Man 2 the Second Part Deux: The Do Over Sequel trailer looks kind of awful. Like it’s trying WAY too hard for gravitas and meaning.
Soooo… like Spider-man 3?
Kind of like it. XD
I’ll be honest and say its got me interested and I hated the first Amazing Spider-Man.
I’m pretty sure most of that interest comes from Dane DeHaan though.
I only noticed it on my second watch but it’s actually an incredibly colourful trailer. They really “pop” so to speak which is a nice change from GRIM AND DARK AND LOOK AT ALL THE SHADES OF BROWN AND DARK BLUE WE KNOW!
I didn’t mind (read: i could tolerate) the first Amazing Spider-man…
I definitely prefer Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parker over Tobey Maguire’s…
But again that’s my personal taste which you will no doubt change again XD
Can I? Because I will if you allow me too 😛
*sigh*
Lay it on me 😛
I guess I’ll put it all in spoiler tags incase people haven’t seen it and still care 😛
Peter Parker
First up, I love Andrew Garfield, but the Peter Parker in the movie is so incredibly “meh”. He starts the movie as a likeable, well-dressed, attractive, athletic, intelligent teenage nerd and ends the movie as a likeable, well-dressed, attractive, athletic, intelligent teenage nerd with super powers. Even before he has his super powers you see him standing up to people and being a “hero” so to speak. So there’s very little development in the character. And he stutters worse than Shia LaDouche in Transformers.General Points
Spider-Man can’t keep his mask on. Generic villain who is conveniently connected to every person in Peters life. Pretty sure everyone in the school knows who Spider-Man is because he’s god damn terrible at hiding his secret identity. If you play basketball and manage to smash a basketball ring, people are gonna notice. If you throw a football and it hits and bends a football post, all physics aside, people are going to notice.Pros about the movie
Peter and Gwen have great chemistry. Kirsten Dunst wasn’t in it. Emma Stone is amazingly attractive. Andrew Garfield is a great actor. They got the “movement” of Spider-Man when fighting. Kirsten Dunst wasn’t in it.I agree to all of this, and i would never deny the movie is majorly flawed…
I still prefer it over the original Spider-man though for reasons stated below… again personal taste and all that 😛 not trying to tell anyone it was a good movie, just that i enjoyed it.
Do it. He’s wrong about Tobey Maguire’s Peter Parker.
I wouldn’t say it’s possible to be wrong about personal tastes, but i’m interested to hear other peoples opinions
With The Amazing Spider-man I just felt everything about it had been done before. Done better, too. I really felt I needed Spider-man 4, not a reboot.
While i agree a reboot was unnecessary, i do appreciate the more comic-booky reality of spider-man (slightly more quirky, web shooters instead of sperm-from-wrist super power etc.etc.) which is why i could tolerate the idea…
The original spider-man was good… for it’s time… but i re-watched the other week and it definitely hasn’t aged well…
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
Oh God, I hope Spider-man 2 still holds up today. That one was the pinnacle of Spidey films.
@benny
i concur, that one was the best of the 3… but even then i have a gripe with Tobey’s Peter Parker XD… can’t place it, he just doesn’t strike as being… right?
i dunno…
Doc Oc was pretty cool though
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
Personally, the single reason the original trilogy will be better than any new iterations?
Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell. 😀
You could try but you’d both be wrong. Neither of them can even compare to the greatest.
Behold! Evidence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXrZrUmmsp8
Hahaha that’s great
Skipped to some random dialog
“If he is found innocent he will be released and will award the contract for the steel mill to
a Canadian!”Oh the horror
Oh wow, that’s old. Good thing I wasn’t around for that one. I grew up with the animated series. That, plus X-Men animated and Dragon Ball Z on Cheez TV – best childhood mornings ever.
aahh the 90’s Spider-man…. now there’s something i’ve watched (and still watching) to death… so awesome!
It could just be the tone of the trailer but the overly heavy super cereal thing it has got going has been one of the hallmarks of every incredibly bad superhero movie that has come out.
Except green lantern. Pretty sure that wasn’t a hallmark of that one
Dane DeHaan is awesome! So good in Place Beyond the Pines and Chronicle.
only a couple of days until a double whammy of VGX awards and Cambridge United on tv in the FA Cup. The latter involves staying up late on a Monday morning, but hey, all my deadlines at work seem to be today so I can be a zombie on Monday no problem
Christmas party day \o/
Although I’m sure these things were much more fun when you didn’t have to pay for them. Should be good though, already pre-ordered my duck curry and planned the lucky dip
I’M BACK FROM HONEYMOONIN’!!!
had an abso-bloody-lutely wonderful time – and now i’m back at work 😐 lol
How is everyone?!
What’s the goss?!?!
On a side note, picked up Battlefield 3 complete the other day because it was $29 – now it needs almost 50gig of updates?!! WTF man….
Edit: proper post to come, this is just a quick hello while i’m meant to be working. 😀
Hey Choops, congrats on the wife get!
Gooky is going to requite his unrequited love today
Both Zetrok and Transientmind need all the hugasaurus’ they can get
Steam sale has been and gone and we have a full 13 days before the next one starts
something something videogames
NegZero has become a pusher and got popdart into the same addiction he has
People are organising meats I can’t attend
Secret Santa is either on the way or sitting on the couch thinking he will get around to it soon
Loops has a sore back from being flat on it for the past week
You make it sound like I didn’t want to get into it. 😛
RecommendTAYtions please.
Mrs Shane needs a laptop. It will be used for study purposes, so it basically needs to be able to access the internet and run Word. Ideally, it’ll be responsive enough not to be irritating, and reliable enough to last a few years. New is preferable.
Any favoured brands?
Places to purchase from?
Budget… hahahaha! What budget! (as cheap as possible please)
Thanks
MacBook. Pro or Air. Either. I’ve had real world experience with MacBooks outlasting their Windows brethren. That’s not to say you can’t get a dud, though. Secondly,
Apple customer service is second to none. Take out an Apple Care plan and you will have peace of mind for the years to come. Standard warranty is only one year, sadly.
Ah. The magic word. Cheap.
Um, yeah probably not an Apple then. Like they say though, you get what you pay for.
Let’s say for the sake of argument (and accuracy) that I had a “budget” of about $200, maybe $250.
Oh shit, haha. That’s probably not even enough for Apple Care.
O_o
Whoa.
does she need a large screen (14-15″)? If not I’d suggest a half decent netbook for that price. Dunno if there’s a umart near you but worth checking them out. Customer service is zero, but that’s not why you go there
Okay then. I guess it’s time for ‘steer-clear’ suggestions then. Personal opinon, of course.
Don’t get HP or Acer. I’ve had more than two HP laptops where the battery is bin-able after one year. Bash me if you will, but Acer make some real cheap and nasty looking products. Probably cheap and nasty to use as well. (Sorry to all you Acer owners!) but I really think Acer play off the name similarities of ASUS. ASUS is the better product.
I hate to burst your budget bubble, but even the cheap cheap laptops are probably going to set you back about AU$400.
..more to come.
That’s probably too low- entry level laptop is about double that.
Myself and my friends had Acers, but we all had various problems with them. I’ve heard nice things about Asus. HP stuff is loaded with bloatware.
MSY is usually pretty good on prices: http://msy.com.au/Parts/notebook.pdf
It’s going to be extremely difficult to find something at that price.
Starting to realise that. I’m so used to buying second-hand electronics for myself that I forget the ‘new’ price is so much higher.
Also, the other point I’d make is that if you want to get a bit more use out of it, mid-range at least is worth it.
Don’t go for anything without a half decent CPU. I made that mistake, got a 2.1ghz pentium b950. I thought it’d be good for basic coding & web browsing but pretty much every day I say “fuck I HATE YOU!!!!” at it when it constantly stalls.
THat’s probably more the HDD..
Never had an issue with a HDD like that before
EH, I have 2.0GHz dual-core Pentium, 4GB RAM laptop that I purchased 5 years ago for IT work including excessive coding and web dev etc. Never had a problem with it really. The slow HDD is noticeable though., since my main rig runs one.
Asus is the most reliable, in my experience. We have four Asus laptops still running in this house, whereas any other brand (HP, Lenovo, Toshiba) we’ve tried hasn’t lasted long.
My last two laptops have cost between $300 and 400. Both from Harvey Norman actually, now that I think about it. Both have been advertised in a super-sale thingy. If it’s for studying next year, I suspect the post-Christmas sales may be handy for you guys in this regard.
Oh, I should also mention that both of those were only so cheap because they have no CD/DVD drive in them. So if you need one of those in your laptop it’s going to cost even more than $400.
Are you after the laptop for portability or because you don’t have space for a desktop
Portability is a must, as she will be studying at the kitchen table while the kids are out.
AH! Forget my email then. 😀
Extremely generous, though, man! Thank you!
I will see if we can find some out-of-the-way place that it might fit, and get back to you with a final answer, if you don’t mind! 🙂
No problem at all.
I’m confused. If the kids are out, then why does she have to study at the table?
Because she doesn’t think we really have anywhere in the house to set up a desk 😛
Uh-oh…she’s trying to muscle in on your mancave! Quick, change the lock! 😛
Hahaha, we’ve already had that conversation. Thankfully, the weather is starting to get hot, and there’s no ventilation or cooling in that room. Thoroughly unsuitable for anything in the summer months.
Wait… that’s bad! 😛
Tbh the Surface RT first edition that’s on sale at JB right now is probably the best. It comes with Word (no need to pay $50-100 for student version), it has a stand, supports USB/bluetooth mice/kb, and doubles as a recreational tablet.
Give Lenovo a shot. I don’t know if they ever get as low as $250, but I bought an awesome laptop almost 2 years ago for $650 that is still going strong.
Maybe periodically check:
http://shopap.lenovo.com/au/en/deals-and-coupons/outlet-clearance-laptops/?ipromoID=auow_pub_lusplit_b3_clearance
They have one for $500 atm.
Its Friday \o/
Yes! yussssssss
Another of the great men of our time has passed. Nelson Mandela has died at the age of 95.
If only more people would follow the example of forgiveness and reconciliation rather than revenge
As usual, The Onion says it best:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/nelson-mandela-becomes-first-politician-to-be-miss,34755/
Sadly that is extremely accurate
Edit: TAY doesn’t need my bitterness
*shows self the exit*
Tell them you’re having a bad day and just want to be left alone.
Or just start picking your teeth with the letter opener.
ha, they don’t listen, anyway sorry, I shouldn’t have brought my crap here, sorry I edited and made ur response look weird. It’s all Gutsoup’s fault everyone don’t worry…..
*runs*
ARGHHHH!!!!
For the bazillionth time, everyone: stop worrying about talking about your problems/annoyances here. Dealing with that kind of stuff is part of what made this place so special.
scree response
…………sorry
Gutsoup, I really like you. Don’t be sorry, be comfortable! Own your TAYbie-ness and rampage around here like you own the place! 😀
thanks, I like you too 😀
*kicks down door and drags in recliner*
now you’ll never be rid of me 😛
Yes: Dear sir or Madam, kindly f$#@ off before I drive my letter opener into your skull… please
hahaha, this made me smile 😀
See?! We’re good at responding to this kind of thing. That smile Pixel gave you probably just saved your freedom and your co-worker’s skull. 😛
So stop stressing about what you post here. Please.
I think the only thing that saved them is the fact i can listen to music, so i listened to some angry metal followed by some cheerful metal. 😀
Metal saves the day again
edit: this is my cheesy I need a cheer up song
http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Sunshine+And+Happiness/xBGU?src=5
right near the end there’s this goofy voice saying things like yeaaah, for some reason it reminds me of Jimu 😛
I think a lot of us stress to varying degrees by how much we share and the impact it may (though probably won’t) have on others. Hooray insecurity!
Doofuses. 😛
“For your own safety and my sanity, please go away.”? 😛
Get some pamphlets and ask them if they have found Jesus in their life
And then warn them that they might not have as much time to find Jesus as they first thought… 😛
then grab letter opener and smile maniacally, while starting to giggle under your breath
So last night I played BOARD GAMES at a shindig hosted at Grill’d Fortitude Valley and set up by a friend of mine (he of http://www.youtube.com/The4DFour). It was pretty fun although I didn’t win anything.
I got stomped in Kings of Tokyo where I was killed in the third round (Cyber Bunny why do you betray me 🙁 ). I did decently in Small World: Underworlds although that game got pretty crazy fast. Then we finished the night with Lords of Waterdeep which was super fun although I kept getting blocked at every chance when I wanted to complete quests and what not. It’s a shame we didn’t get to play ZOMBIES!!! as I bought that recently and wanted to try it out. Hopefully next time.
Hey guys, I need some help.
You know how my nans house isn’t selling? Well, I tried to tell my family that Mum and I can’t afford the bill. This is the response I got:
“Our idea is to sell the house not give it away!We need the gas on for the hot water and the electricity, when we clean the house. Also it is very cold in that house throughout the winter. Not that you would or Bradley for that matter would know any of this because you are never there to help! But I’m sure you will reap the reward of the money when it is finally handed down to you both.
The bills are normal bills they are not discounted like you would be used to on a pension! Think yourself lucky we are not charging you for the maintenance and endless work we have put into keeping the house respectable while it has been on the market.
Maybe you could ask [Scree’s Brother] to help you pay your bills and the estate bills! He is working and could be living with [scree] and giving his board money to you instead of [scree’s aunt]
You were emailed about the real estate agents bill on the 12th of October, haven’t you save anything towards it?
My response (so far)
Mum says that she can’t afford to pay both houses when she only gets $300 a week on a pension. As for saving up, we have, but now we have a $200 gas bill that we have to pay. As for that pensioner discount? The GST completely negates it, so we only end up with a $10 discount at most on a normal bill. So we’re paying the same as you, minus $10. Oh, and as for the house being cold, we’re well aware, seeing as we also live in a concrete house and our gas heater leaks gas. So we can’t really use it.If this keeps up, we’re going to go to legal aid, because we are fed up.
Also, Mum said [scree’s brother] has nothing to do with the will. Not to mention that you don’t really inform her of anything.
Btw, what happened to the $300 we paid out last time for the real estate agent?
Just so you know, our bills are always going to come first and we are not going to starve ourselves to pay Nan’s bills.
Does that sound okay to you? As for the maintenance, my mother uses a walker and I don’t drive. If we were to get there we would have to catch 2 buses and 2 trains before walking a half hour. Not really suitable for a person who can’t walk too much.
Any and all help is appareciated
Wow. There’s a bit of vitriol in that email (the one you received) O_o
My response would be to cut them off completely, no communication, no contact. But admittedly, that’s not for everyone, and probably not right for this situation. I’ll give it some thought.
It might be worth mentioning that the house has been on the market for a long time and the ongoing costs (and inconveniences) for everyone are starting to overshadow the potential benefits of hanging out for a buyer with the right kind of cash.
Is there anyone living in the house at the moment? I genuinely don’t understand why the place needs the water and gas connected (electricity, sure, but the others…?) Edit: on reflection… how often does it need to be cleaned? And what cleaning uses electricity other than a vacuum?
No one is living in there at the moment and we really just can’t afford it any more.
Sorry, they need the electricity to turn the lights on using a timer and to have the radio going 24/7
Weird. Might be worth floating the idea that you believe the electricity, water, and gas are all unnecessary at this stage, and that this will be the last bill you pay. Then take your sweet time paying it.
We brought it up last Christmas and multiple times before that. I have also warned them about squatters living in the house. They just ignore us.
what a horrible situation, I’m sorry I have nothing useful to offer and I’m glad to see other taybies seem to be more useful. You mentioned your mum with get about 1/4 when sold. Are the other 3/4 paying their share of the bills?
Yeah, but they can afford it. Mum is a pensioner and we wouldn’t even be able to afford our own bills if I wasn’t paying for half the rates. I also pay for the credit card and phone. Oh and I give her rent money so she uses that for food and bills too.
Then you can feel free to slot this into your letter.
“We have previously advocated for the electricity, water and gas to be disconnected as, because no one is living there, they are unnecessary expenses. In my opinion, the size of this latest bill serves to validate that perspective. We are on a small fixed income, and cannot afford to be paying for unnecessary expenses like this. We wish to reiterate our strong opinion on this matter, and will not be contributing to further unnecessary bills like these.”
Thanks Shane. Thanks everyone. Mum and I both appreciate it.
Exactly this. Electricity is fine, but disconnect the gas, that’s just … weird.
Also, if they keep pushing for elec bills that you can’t afford, draft up an agreement with them: they pay your share of the bills, you will pay them out when you receive the settlement.
I don’t see where a $200 gas bill fits in here. :\ May very well be squatters are you say.
The $200 gas bill is our own.
We were saving up for my Nans house, but we got a large gas bill so the money may have to go on that
Oh! Welp, see here: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-253/comment-page-10/#comment-2267941
That may be the best solution if they keep pushing.
That sounds terrible. D:
The situation, not your response.
They sound unreasonable but because they’re your family I guess you can’t tell them to go fuck themselves?
Are you guys counting on any money the house might make from being sold? If not, it might be easier to just wash your hands of the whole thing. You obviously can’t afford all these bills they’re sending and I think they’re taking advantage of you being somewhat timid.
We would be happy with any money. We’re not greedy. If the house sells for $200,000, Mum gets a 1/4 of that.
Best advice I can offer without knowing the people involved is to take as much time replying as you want to. By far the best thing you can do is avoid strong emotion (either way of the scale) either when writing or in the writing because it generally never helps.
Other than that, all I can say is good luck, cause that’s a pretty shit situation to be in.
Does that sound okay so far then? My response I mean.
Hi Scree
I’m happy to help out with a response but you will need to be a little be clearer before what you say makes sense to us.
Some questions
I’m assuming this was an email between yourself and another family member?I might have missed all the details so if they were posted previously just link me to them
What is the current status of the houses ownership?
How long has the house been vacant? And how long on the market
What is the bill period for the bill they are asking you to pay
Who is doing what at the house and who is paying for what
Can you give a breakdown of all costs associated
Also if you are comfortable say what is the distribution of proceeds for selling the house (What is currently owed in the mortgage, how many people with share in profit, etc)
What is your preferred outcome
Shoot that through in an email tigerion at the google mails
At a high level I would say you are making the letter too personal and conversational. Don’t include things like Mum says……. Just write the letter on behalf of both of you.
Our personal financial situation doesn’t allow us to spend cover costs on multiple properties.
We appreciate the work you are doing and that you want full market rate for the property however we are unable to continue to pay for the maintenance while waiting for this to happen.
We propose that (insert preferred option here)
Well, the house is paid off. It has been vacant for roughly 2-3 years and it’s been on the market that long.
The bill period we don’t actually know because they don’t send us copies of the bill, just what we have to pay. So they send a list of bills all at once. We’ve never actually seen an original bill. And they don’t really give us any time, they just kind of send it and expect us to pay.
As for who is doing what, we’re not really sure. When I was talking to my other aunt, she would mow the lawn like once or twice a month. As for the actual cleaning, I’ve no idea.
The four of us are paying equal share of all the bills.
Our share is:
Melbourne Estate Agents 25/09/2013 $450.00
Hume city council 30/11/2013 $69.25
AGL GAS 19/11/2013 $3.07
AGL Electricity 06/12/2013 $27.17
Yarra Valley Water 17/12/2013 $39.43
APIA House insurance 1/12/2013 $44.52
This is our share of the bills. I’ve no idea what the others are paying.
The distribution of proceeds is split equally between the four kids.
We just don’t want to have to pay for this stuff anymore.
How often do you get a bill for Melbourne Estate Agents. That is an $1800 bill
Electricity seem high if that is monthly, $100 for a vacant house.
So even if those bills are quarterly it is costing you all close to 3 grand a year. If that’s monthly you are getting closer to 10 grand. And that is before estate agent fees. Multiple that by 3 and you are talking significant amounts of money. If as you said the house could be worth $200, grand you have potentially already spent 10% of it’s value trying to sell it.
I would be saying that you need to draw a line and set an ultimatum. Either take the house off the market and get the agent to rent it out, it pays for itself and you can share whatever revenue comes in from that.
Otherwise set a date to auction the house and take whatever price is offered. If they want to refuse the offer that is made then they can buy out your share for that price.
Again this is purely advice from somebody who doesn’t really know the situation so this is something you really need to sit down and discuss seriously with your Mum before you come to a decision.
I am telling Mum all the suggestions that you’re giving me. The estate agents is a one off, but even so, Mum and I have no idea what we’re supposed to be paying for. We’re not sure if it’s for the previous agent or for the new one…I just have no idea.
I think the bills are quarterly. I’m not sure as I said, they never show us the actual bills.
I highly suggest you get everything in writing and copies of all bills. You’re probably getting ripped off. Send that letter ASAP – if they refuse to deliver, refuse to pay. Legally they can’t cut you out of any settlement anyway.
Cut off the gas line, turn off the electricity but keep the account connected. Water? Put locks on the main tap.
Real estate agent fees are odd. You can get agents that don’t charge anything until the final settlement, then they take a percentage.
Once you have a copy of all bills, split them equally. Since it should be pretty minimal by now (insurance mostly, rates), you may be able to afford it. If not, draft up the aforementioned agreement regarding your family paying everything and you repaying after settlement.
2-3 years on market? It’s obviously not working. Start posting on FB, Gumtree, etc. Or drop the price, take it off the market even. 2 years is not good at all. Have you received any offers?
We got an offer for $230,000. We said take it, My uncle said the same, but my aunts disagreed.
I think with the offer you have much stronger stance with any legal avenue you pursue. If your aunts are convinced that the property is worth much more than that then they can buy you out.
What @tigerion said. Push for a buyout or a settlement, get this sorted. 3 years is a long time. They don’t hold all the power, believe me.
I haven’t heard all of this story, so forgive my naivete, but is there a possibility you could rent it out for a while? At least then you may be able to get it cost neutral.
Also, if it’s empty and closed up, kill the power and gas. Fuck the rest of the family- if they want it connected they can pay for it.
Renting will cost more as the rent would have to be split 4 ways. And if anything breaks we need to fix it.
We don’t have any power as my Mum’s sisters are the executors of the will.
I’m not sure renting will cost more. You won’t be on the hook for bills anymore (except for water supply), and you’ll be getting a small amount of money in each fortnight. It won’t be a big turnaround, but it’s a move in the right direction!
You’ll need to fix anything that breaks anyway, regardless of whether the place is being rented 😛
Hang on, is the house paid off?
My suggestion (I am not a financial planner): Rent it out, and put the rent into a trust or something to pay for repairs etc. once you sell it, split the trust.
It is. Thing is, we don’t really have any power. My two aunts are the executors.
Obviously I haven’t seen the will but the power you do have is to stop paying.
But seriously Scree I would recommend as a first step making a call to legal aid and just asking what your options are. It’s a free call and they will have so much more experience in dealing with this sort of thing than any of us.
I think we’ll have to. It’s looking like we don’t have many other options
This makes a lot of sense (I also am not a financial planner)
Serious question time:
I need a name for my 40k Chaos space marine legion. Something suitably awesome.
Think heavy metal album/band names, almost.
Go!
Visceral Coil.
That’s a bit TOO heavy metal name. It needs to still make some sense 😛
Pretty damn neat, though.
VISCERAL COIL \o/
It really does make sense. Pretty sure literally a Visceral Coil would be an intestine. Not sure you want your Legion to be named after innards, though. 😛
what’s wrong with innards 😛
swirls around a big old bowl of soup
Innards is one of my favourite words to say. It’s a strangely satisfying word.
VISCERAL COIL REVEALERS
i meant it doesn’t make sense in terms for an army name – other than that it does make sense, as you mentioned, and sounds pretty brutal.
The Lutefisk Eaters.
LUTEFISK FOR THE LUTEFISK GOD
Have you got a look (colour etc.) yet?
apologise if you’ve already posted these previously
They’re white with a brass trim 🙂
Haven’t posted them yet – so you’re all good! 😀
Something Something ghosts, phantoms or spectres could suit white…
Fallen Spectres?
Ghost Lords?
The Phantom Legion?
This is me brainfarting 😛
Rusty ghosts
Loopy ghosts!
ohOH or maybe something something Templars?
the Templars wore white didn’t they?
Fallen (i like fallen apparently) Templars?
Brass and white makes me think angelic.
The Blooded Angels?
The Fallen Legion?
The Bronze Horde?
Hmmm good effort, but kinda generic or too close to existing loyalist/chaos chapters
The Angelic Coil. ANGEL GUTS
LACUNA COIL!!!
oh… wait…
Fallen Oracles. Dread Punishers. Champions of the Eye.
Man.
Those are pretty cool. I’ll give you that.
If I had the money/time/painting skill, I would be all over 40K miniatures. I love the lore and the idea of it but I can’t quite get into it.
Are you/have you bought the miniatures from GW or are you going through an alternative source? A friend of mine swears by this Chinese company that does miniatures for anywhere between 50% or 75% the price that GW charges. Not exactly authentic but he says it’s good enough.
I save a bundle of money by buying my stuff from ebay, gumtree and slavetopainting. I have heard the chinese knock offs can be pretty bad.
Having the time and money can be a problem, but painting skill doesn’t come naturally to anyone – it ad to be built up. I still have my first minis… my god, the humanity…
The Colobus Monkeys. *decisive nod*
The Colobus Monkeys OF DOOM!
The Flamestar Battalion
A name with flames, battles, and lions. Also stars because space. And a healthy dose of Shane W Smith promotion. It’s all you could want.
I guess the veiled self promotion was The Lesser Evil
Of course.
The Hounds of Chaos
Teletubbies First Legion
Tinkiewinkie the Despoiler
Are they aligned with any specific god or are you going for chaos undivided?
Undivided. It’s the only way to roll.
The Pale Riders.
THE DUAL STREAMERS!
Meatgrinders.
Karma Morgue.
Betrayorama
The Claws of Abandon
The Cladestine Mass.
AND MORE – can be found here: http://metallizer.dk/generate-random-heavy-metal-album
My god.. this is like the best thing ever…
EVER!
Sons of Anarchy \o/ (cc @virus__ @nomad)
We’re up to date now. But we have a whole week to wait for the finale…???!!
*tears hair out, goes on violent rampage*
Sons of Anarchy would also make a good names for Loops legion.
Sons of TAY.
How good was the tension of this week’s ep? I think it took all of Nero’s will to comfort Jax rather than beat him.I’m glad Tara went the way I thought, by not actually taking the deal, however everyone thinks she did so that won’t go well. Could pretty well watch her struggle through the decision all ep.
And isn’t Jax weaving a Web of lies and betrayal? Young Lin won’t be pleased to find his uncle has been offed.
The tension was AMAZING. The scene that was tensest for us was when Tara went and got the kids from Wayne and Wendy. They did that so brilliantly.My prediction: murder/suicide with the kids 🙁
A Kurt Sutter show has done this in the past (The Shield), and it would also fit with Tara’s Opheliaesque descent into madness.
We also really loved the Juice scene with Nero in Deosa. Ridiculously tense and so well-played. Poor Juicey.
Can’t believe I forgot the scene with Juice. So good, I’m feeling really bad for Nero, getting “suggestions” from Alvarez (who hasn’t been seen for a long time), finding out his almost son is lying to him. I think he’ll unravel next season, starting with next week’s ep.Haven’t seen the shield so the thought never crossed my mind that Tara could be so desperate. I hope that she still has enough sense to see that killing them is far worse than the alternative.
I also think Jax kills Nero this week. For some reason, I kind of feel like Nero’s story is almost done. He’s already chosen the ‘life’ over the farm for his son, and he’s learned the truth about Jax. Either way, he’s out of the business, and I’m not convinced Jax will leave him standing with what he knows. He’d be too strong an antagonist, and too powerful a dividing force.I think this is important, because we’ve seen Jax transition into Clay. This was finalised just before Clay died, when they both arrived at the same solution to a problem. If history is going to repeat, the new Clay (Jax) is going to have to kill the idealistic moral centre of the story (JT, now Nero).
Edit:
that said, every one of my predictions to date has been well wrong, so I still believe this show can do something better, something more fitting, and something more surprising, than anything I’ve mentioned.Oh… Man that’s brutal, I really really don’t want that to happen. He’s such an awesome character. Damn…Yeah, I agree. But think of the incredibly epic character drama that could spiral out from that 😛It’s a 2 hour finale as well. Fuuuuuuuuuck.
Hey @dc, the way you talk about your entertainment, you seem to have a kind of artistic eye. Just curious: are you good at photography at all?
I’m good at nothing. Haha! #EmoDC
You’re right – that’s not even good emo. Too much laughter.
Grr. Give me a proper answer. You’re good at a lot of things!
Maybe I’ll rephrase to see if it helps: have you ever had an interest in photography? Or do you know anything about it?
He’s good at Pirate Jokes, apparently.
He’s not good at BUILDINGS BECAUSE HAT
Dammit @dc, it was a serious question. I need someone with a good eye and knowledge of composition to help me out with photography,and I was hoping you could help because you do have a good aesthetic. Even if it’s just to accompany me when I need to shoot my products so I can have a second opinion I trust.
I was even gonna pay you (in home-made bread if that’s all you’d take :P).
I’m happy to help if I can. My grandpa was a professional photographer, and my dad used to take a lot too. I’m not a genius when it comes to photo stuff, but I probably know enough to help you out a bit. If you have questions I don’t know the specifics about, I have plenty of resources I can use to get the answers too!
Awesome, I’ll hit you up next year when I’ve got some prototypes sewn up. Thanks! 😀
Don’t think I’m right for it. Thank you though.
I think you’re a liar. 😛 Why you no wanna help your friend out? 🙁
Seriously though, not trying to give you a gift or anything so you shouldn’t be scared. 😛
I just like your visual perspective so I thought it might be fun if you helped me. I’m not trying to photograph buildings! 😛
Because I’m good at nothing. Haha! #EmoDC
You’re definitely good at making me want to hit you….
FF VIII has just come to steam.
Man, if I didn’t already own copies of that game…
Oh man that brings back memories. First game I pre-ordered, convinced my parents I was too sick to go to school and they left me at home. Home meant quickly getting dressed after they left and getting to the local EB.
I devoured that manual on the way home on the bus.
By happenstance, the next day I woke up covered in Chickenpox.
I was the happiest 9th grader ever that month.
*Buys it again for the memories*
EDIT: words.
One of the first games I played to completion, and one of the first I owned.
FF8 is probably why my grades weren’t great in year 12. I remember getting into trouble often when my mum would come to wake me up for school and i was still awake from the night before playing FF through the night. aah, sweet memories
I love the plot, though Adult me looks back on it and goes
“Time Compression is such an arse pull”yeah there were a few odd coincidences that were a little lame, like oh hey we all happened to grow up together and all of us forgot, also the main enemy just happened to be Matron. all a little convenient. I really loved the Laguna storyline too, so good I really liked Ward, I’m also really surprised i remember so much about it, there are so many games I’ve played since and forgotten entirely, shows the qualityThey didn’t conveniently forget, GF’s made them forget. Matron wasn’t the real enemy either. You should play it again so you can remember what happened better. 😛One of my favourite games ever. I have 3 copies. I’ve replayed it at least 5 times and I don’t often replay stuff.
Yeah, the GFs made them forget, but it’s still a pretty big coincidence.I also wish they’d made Laguna and Squall’s relationship explicit
Yeah, there’s nuances to that plot I can still recall. One of the first games I experienced rather than played
Hey Red, have you seen the brief write-up I did called Eyes On Rinoa which is sort of related to FFVIII?
Oh wait, you did read it. And commented.
You deliberately went out and got infected with Chickenpox so you could play FF8? That’s dedication.
When I got chickenpox it was in the middle of summer when we were away camping so I spent most of the Christmas break holed up in my grandparents caravan with a Sega Master System and Alex Kidd in Miracle World. 🙁
A) nice spot the typo in my post. 😛
B) Ouch. Still, I reckon you’re probably an expert on Alex Kidd now, right?
I finished the game without realizing the rock paper scissors guys had a specific sequence to their selections. Sometimes I’d lose dozens of lives trying to beat them.
I got Chicken pox at the age of 21. That was a fun summer, as it came after missing all of my uni exams on another medical issue, working at Toyworld over christmas, and before starting my honours year.
I suspect that my parents used to deliberately send me around kids that had it so that I’d catch it as a kid, because it’s much nastier to get as an adult. No good vaccine for it (there is one but it just makes the symptoms milder) and who knows, maybe in a few dozen years we’ll find it makes you immune to some other weird virus, like having had cowpox made you immune to smallpox.
I got chickenpox two days before my 10th birthday. No vidya games make up for that. 🙁
Chocobo World
I just replayed it, everything made a lot more sense except ultimecia has no motivation
There is actually a scene with a guy saying it doesn’t matter.And you what? I was thinking about it, and from a 17 year old’s perspective that is perfect.
adults choices made no sense to me at all back then (still dont really,)
The Squall & Laguna relationship is actually all explained if you keep talking with the Laguna, Ward and Kiros NPCs before the end of the 3rd disc.
I remembered Laguna being a cock for abandoning his children, but he literally had no other choice.
My mother has been in town for the past two weeks, so we’ve been going out to dinner a lot and general catching up. Father is coming here tonight for the weekend. Gf suggested a dinner with her parents too (since we’ve been twice to this new asian place that’s hard to get a booking for). Mission was quickly aborted. D:
You mean you dumped your gf?
Or just killed your parents? (Or her parents?)
LOL. Thankfully, no. 😛 Just going to dinner with my parents and gf. The parents-meet-parents thing can wait a bit longer …
parents meeting parents things are weird, took me and my GF just under 10 years for my parents to meet her dad. My gfs dad is a cop too which was a little intimidating in the early stages of our relationship.
He’s gotta be one of the easiest going cops I ever met!
it’s true, but still you know, he did tell me once it was good to see I didn’t have a record. :/
Weirdly, GT5 was the game I bought my Driving Force GT for.
Now that GT6 is out, I feel…nothing. 🙁
I’m pretty much exactly the same. I suppose the bonus for me is that using GT5 & the DFGT actually taught me to drive (or at least be comfortable using a wheel & pedals) so it saved money on more driving lessons
I got so excited about GT5, I got a G27. No urge to get GT6 or retrieve GT5/G27 from the friend that borrowed them a year or so back.
So PS4 folk, anyone played War Thunder (or PC folk since it’s old news to you guys), it’s pretty fun my only complaint are some planes are locked out unless you pay for premium currency to buy them, still it is free to play so micro transactions are forgiveable I guess oh and the fact that they didn’t even attempt to make the menus console friendly, at least i got to test out the touch pad as a mouse . It’s pretty impressive how much you can customise & level every plane and their crew individually. Also been playing Lego Marvel Superheroes and having some fun with that, nice simple game for when your brain isn’t working that well also it has 155 characters.
I believe that @tigerion and a few other TAYBies play or played it on PC.
Also saw that there’s an expansion to it coming soonish (this month?) that adds the noble team sport of competitive tankery to the game.
Later on they intend to add naval combat too, I think. I’m hoping all that stuff is playable together because it would be amazingly awesome to run air cover for a tank assault.
that does sound pretty great, i hope they do it. I’m liking the physics and plane damage, really cool how every bullet hole seems to affect your handling, took me a bit to realise that was happening i thought the game was bugging out cause I kept losing control, then I realised derp your missing half your tail of course your not gonna fly well. 😛
I played it on PC but I got sick of it pretty quickly. You hit a point where progression is too slow and your planes are too weak unless you grind for ages or pay to unlock better stuff that it becomes dull. It’s not exactly pay to win, but once the game felt like a grind to me I figured there was no real value in playing it anymore.
yeah I can see that happening, the plane I’m researching atm seems to be taking a stupid ammount of time compared to any I’ve done prior. I don’t see myself paying for credits so I’ll probably have a similar experience to you.
@ 3DS peeps
I’m thinking about my next 3ds purchase once I’m done with Pokeymans.
Fire Emblem or Bravely Default?
tough call, Bravely default has benefits for street passes so maybe if you don’t get them often Fire emblem might be the better option, have only played the demo for bravely default so i can’t really pick a winner.
It looks like Bravely Default will be one of those games that’s best while others are also playing, so get that next.
Yes. Yes you should.
I’m on a one game at a time rule with the 3DS. Could eventually do both, but that’s my hard and fast rule.
As much as I love Fire Emblem (best game on the 3DS) I agree with Strange. Also you’ll be able to find a copy of Fire Emblem for a long time yet while Bravely Default is a little more iffy.
+1 on the fairy one for those reasons
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One game at a time on 3DS.
GOOD LORD MAN, GET YOUR HEAD SCREWED ON, BRAVELY BRAVELY BRAVELY
Has anyone here ever used Corsair Vengeance headphones? I’m thinking of getting either a steelseries 7h or the vengeance 1400s, the latter is getting a look in because of the noise cancelling mic which seems like it’d be quite handy.
Can anyone offer some perspective on the corsair option?
Probably not helpful, but having had a set of Steelseries break the same way as the myriad of complaints about their build quality across their whole range, I recommend the Corsair if they’re good.
Also @chuloopa: Speaking of 40K, how’s the RPG going?
I missed the last round with the wedding and noosa – but the next game is this coming monday.
BRING IT ORRNNNN!!!!! 😀
Apprently, after I let the GM play in my stead, i am stuck, cowering, behind a table being shot at by 8 people with las carbines and very close to death.
I get the feeling i’ll be rolling a new character soon! lol
Or getting a stack of cybernetics. 😛
I should really stop looking at RPG bestiaries while I’m at work. I’ve got way too many ideas for creatures to throw at my party and storylines to create. Gah.
Interesting fact I did learn though: a group of satyrs is referred to as an orgy.
Not so much a collective noun as a ever present verb for satyrs.
In all the hype the internet has had for the new Spider-Man trailer it appears that “X-Men: Apocalypse” being announced has kinda gone under the radar.
I’m finding it really hard to summon enthusiasm for the next X-men. I’d have been happy for a straight continuation of First Class, I worry the new one is going to be overstuffed (even with mutants I like, like Blink.)
Apparently the plan is to set it up so that the “First Class” universe can kind of be its own thing without having to stick to the canon of the original movies.
The fact that you have a story from Matthew Vaughn/Jane Goldman (First Class/Kick Ass/Stardust) being directed by Bryan Singer (who knows how to handle an ensemble cast, he’s not Brett Ratner) as well as all the original casts coming back is enough for me.
EDIT: Also more McAvoy/Fassbender bromance.
Although, it does kind of imply what will happen at the end of DOFP.
**SPOILERS FOR AGE OF APOCALYPSE COMIC/POTENTIALLY DOFP FILM (TIN FOIL HAT THEORY)**
Age of Apocalypse deals with Legion going back in time to kill Magneto. But he goes back to a time when Xavier and Magneto were still chummy and Xavier dies protecting Magneto. Magneto comes to believe in Xavier’s ideals and becomes the “good guy” so to speak. Apocalypse takes the place of the bad guy in that timeline.So what does this mean for DOFP? Well, unless they’re going to use the whole “let’s send someone back in time again!” plot you could potentially see the death of Xavier.
EDIT: More tin foil hat theory – in AoA, Bishop goes back with Legion is the only one who knows that the timeline has changed. Bishop is in DOFP. Maybe he goes back with Wolverine and it has been kept under wraps?
Going by my limited knowledge of the lore (based pretty much on the Wolverine and the X-men cartoon):
It was my understanding that Age of Apocalypse was one possible timeline as a result of Mister Sinister’s experiments. In the cartoon at least, the DOFP and Master Mold timeline was averted only to cause the AoA timeline to come into effect.It could be that AoA will have a similar jumping between timelines style of story as DOFP and once that is averted, things will be all dandy. I’m not across the other future X-men stories eg. Cable and others but that might be something that could be mined for a future movie.
The X-Men universe is a clusterfuck of timelines.
What I see:
DOFP leads into AoA which introduces the likes of Cable and the X-Force movie in development.
There’s also a new Wolverine movie in development as well but I have no idea where that would fit on the timeline (Old Man Logan style movie anyone?)
Kind of makes sense. The First Class actors signed a 3-picture deal if I remember correctly which would allow them to finish up after AoA.
EDIT: Apparently the upcoming Fantastic Four reboot exists within the X-Men universe as well.
Another Wolverine movie? Geez, I like Hugh Jackman as Wolverine but enough is enough. Too bad Fox won’t ever stop milking this cash cow and give the licence back to Marvel. Although it is good that the next Avengers has both Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch so there is the groundwork there to create a unified Marvel film world. Here’s hoping anyway.
Cable and the X-Force would have to lead to a Deadpool movie at some point but I think they’re going to give that a wide berth for a few more years yet. Origins wasn’t that long ago.
I don’t actually mind X-men being separate, as it’s it’s own thing even in the comics
Crossovers with in universe stuff are the best though. That’s why I really like what DC did with Smallville and Arrow where you got to see all of these little snippets of the wider mythos. Plus comic books do tend to have villains that go across a number of the superhero franchises so having superheroes do the same makes sense.
I agree, with X-men you can get away with it for the most party as they have a ridiculously large cast of characters to play with and their storylines are pretty self-contained. Personally I’m a fan of the larger universe interacting with itself so I love the Justice League and Avengers series.
@popdart5 But other than Spiderman and Wolverine being Avengers, i really don’t see a great advantage to having the X-men in-universe with Cap etc- I’d prefer they be theeir own thing and be able to breathe a little.
DC is a bit different as its books tend to be smaller in terms of cast.
@redartifice True that. I guess I just want to see it all come together in a big geek-splosion and have it be awesome. X-men always did have a different style so it would suit running in its own set of movies.
That said, a movie about the Civil War arc? That would be badass.
@popdart5 I think Civil War is way too elaborate to be filmed- and didn’t the X-men largely sit it out?
I want a Ms/Captain Marvel appearance before any specific plots 🙂
@redartifice True that about the X-men, can’t believe that slipped my mind.
And yes, a Captain Marvel movie would be awesome. At the moment, it looks likely to be superior to any prospective Wonder Woman movie (because there won’t be one ho ho ho).
Apparently Deadpool is ready to go (script is actually meant to be really good) but Fox don’t want to greenlight an R (MA15+) movie as they’re considered box office poison.
Damn it Fox, why must you ruin it for everyone? 🙁
A serious, honest to comic Deadpool movie would be fantastic. Of course it would have to be R but that’s the only way it would work.
I just saw your edit about the Fantastic Four. In my view, that really should sit in the rest of the film Marvel continuity as they were all about the interstellar travel and exploration. Seeing the Fantastic Four interact with the Celestials, Watchers, and the Skrull would have been awesome. Now we get to sit through another foundation movie with more Doctor Doom.
Thanks
ObamaRupert.I’ve always thought X-men worked better away from the rest of the Marvel ‘verse. The whole mutant persecution thing loses some of its impact when you’ve also got characters like Spiderman, Thor or the Hulk running around the place.
Noooo, you’re killing me today, DoFP sounds amazing! Arrrgh!
STOP IT!
People missed a new X-Men movie being announced?
Don’t worry – it’s not the end of the world.I still haven’t seen The Amazing Spiderman, or The Wolverine. I have got to catch up on my superhero films.
I’m watching The Wolverine tonight.
360 version of Alan Wake: Collector’s Edition is $15 at EB. That’s for the awesome books and packaging and extras, etc.
Also an awesome game, that’s probably worth mentioning
PS4 on display in JB. Picked up the controller, and my hands cried out in delight, like I was holding a GameCube controller for the first time again.
Now they just need to release some good exclusives already so I can get a PS4.
Only thing preventing me from getting a PS4 is lack of availability.
Woe is me.
I can’t decide whether or not to get Phoenix Wright 5. If I do, it’ll be the most I’ve paid for a game all year (excepting GTA V, which technically I paid for last year), and it’ll just be a digital copy to boot 🙁
On the other hand, Apollo Justice was awesome and the ending genuinely twisty brilliant.
There’ll be no other way to play it so you’ll have to decide how much you really want it! On the plus side: it won’t go out of print while you decide.
(It’s pretty fantastic though :P)
Does Nintendo e-shop ever run sales or cut prices?
Edit: or, approaching the problem from a different angle, do Nintendo Dollars ever go on sale?
Very, very rarely. There might be a Christmas sale coming up but for something as new as Phoenix Wright 5, I doubt it will go on sale.
What Poppy said. Even if it does go on sale, don’t expect to get more than 10% off. 20 if you’re lucky.
EDIT: I don’t think I’ve ever seen the eShop cards go on sale. I’ve never really looked though.
Finished Link Between Worlds last night. I think that’s my first official game Finished for the year, since Pokémon / Animal Crossing / Monster Hunter / Minecraft / Terraria / FTL etc. end up in more of an ‘abandoned’ status when I’m not playing, and they’ll never be Finished finished.
Edit: Speaking of games that will never finish, Starbound will be racking up a lot of play time for a long time to come now.
@powalen @sughly @greenius @phoenix Why is there no Survivor discussion?
I just watched yesterday’s episode.
As much as it sucks for Hayden, I’m glad Katie drew the white rock. She’s been useless since the first day. I doubt she’ll make it through Redemption but I’d be happy to be proved wrong. It’s always been unlikely anyone but Laura will make it through that.Not sure it was the smartest move at Tribal,but at least it was a move. Good to see things shaken up a little bit. That “rustle” “ruffle” thing was hilarious.I loved that Tribal Council. It would’ve been sooo good if Tyson went after all of that haha Oh well. Don’t care that Katie is gone, don’t care if she stayed. She’s just there like whats-her-face was last time that got to the final three 😛 I really hope that Tina doesn’t throw the challenge like she mentioned in the next week preview.Speaking of… that redemption challenge was pretty great too. Laura M is a gun! Completely dominating every challenge. Pretty tense seeing Tina and Caleb too. Unlucky to him.
It’ll be interesting to see the fallout from Ciera’s flipflop in the vote. NOBODY was happy with that!
@sughly @phoenix @greenius
Hayden was happy for it! 🙂 but yeah, super sad to see Caleb crash out, literally 🙁@powalen @sughly @phoenix
I was waiting for you guys to watch the ep and start it! 🙂
That ep was filled with lotsa little chuckle moments like “what do you and Colton have in common?” 😀
Defs was a ballsy move though! I’m glad it wasn’t Tyson, I want him to winnnnnMmmm I really like Tyson, but I want to see it get shaken up before the end, so Hayden’s become my underdog. If Ciera’s mum comes back in, that will change it so much, but I dont think redemption person will come back in til ep after. Might be too late for Ciera/Hayden by then. Tyson finding the immunity puts a massive spanner in the works for those against him too, obviously. But im with Pow, REALLY wanted to see Tyson go down with the white rock. Wouldve been incredible!Wow. Looking at the overall GOTY list there this year hasn’t been crash hot on the games front. All my favourite games are from 11/12.
11/12 were stellar years, but there have been some standouts. I think the generation leap is a major factor.
There’s been stand outs but other years I don’t think they would have been quite so much.
@dc would disagree.
But yeah, I agree with you. Nothing there really screams “VOTE FOR MEEEEEEE” to me.
Edit: granted, I haven’t played most of them 😛
I feel the opposite! This has been one of my favourite years for games!
Pow’s GOTY: FIRE EMBEREMU
Fire Emblem was pretty great but I thought XCOM was better.
There’s a lot of good to great games but nothing much in the way of excellence.
Hah, opposite for me again. Didn’t like XCOM as much as I was hoping because it wasn’t enough like Fire Emblem 😛
I had to go for Bioshock because it was the only game on that list I finished/played enough of to vote for…
And I guess it was pretty good.
I think for me it’s either Tomb Raider or Fire Emblem, though technically FE is a 2012 game. 2011 and 2012 were much better years.
I couldn’t really bring myself to vote for any of them, compared with contenders from previous years.
Oh wait, this is an actual vote thing? Shows me for not reading the Kotaku homepage while at work!
Still… Eh 😛 I’d rather read you lots’ individual GOTYs than the big wigs.
I really liked what this year offered storywise.
Agreed. I think the last 18 months or so we’ve seen a lot of truly mature storytelling
On the other hand, DOTA!!!
And board games, I guess.
I been having a great year P4G to start lots of fun between and Bravely to finish!
Oh my god. Giving references to real estate agents is awkward.
“If you owned an investment or rental property would you be happy to have *friend* as a tentant?”
“…yeah” *5 seconds of silence*
That one really caught me off guard 😛 Ask me again in 30 years time maybe.
Wow. 5 mins to go on Friday afternoon. I finally finished a bunch of web dev stuff. All that was left was to move a menu structure.
Now, I have a fucked up website.
Fucked up in the sense of not very good or fucked up in the sense of “Dude, that’s just… wrong!”?
Half of the site went missing. Most of the menu’s just went poof because the CMS decided to throw some errors. Luckily content wasn’t lost, but it would have been a lot of repeat work to get the structure back.
I’ve got it under control now, but wow was I (and still am) insanely annoyed.
Kudos…?
Asked @markserrels on twitter. Apparently nobody nommed this week 😐 I was going to, but I get home to late to make the cutoff.
I was going to nom for all the help I received today, but I also missed cutoff
All you had to do was ask.
You can have the kudos Shane 🙂
First, the mechanism on my CD player part of my stereo breaks.
Now, it won’t turn on.
Thankfully, my brother told me about TuneIn Radio.
One quick download of the Android app, and I’m back listening to Triple M Melbourne! \o/ 😀
*drooling*:
http://comicsalliance.com/holiday-gift-guide-2013-comic-books-deluxe-edition-limited/
Looks like I’m having to pay over $100 for Ex Machina HC Vol 4….ouch.
What. That’s crazy! Why?
Dunno, noone has it it stock. It’s eBay only now.
Worst thing is, it was at my local shop for ages and I didn’t grab it, thinking it would be cheaper at bookdepository
http://booko.com.au/9781401228453/Ex-Machina-Deluxe-Vol-4
Some of these might have one in stock… have you checked them all?
Ever bought anything from BetweenReads?
They seem to be the only ones with it
Nope sorry. Next time I’m in the city ill see if they have any in stock.
Hnnnngh, says their supplier has limited stock….
Has anyone had to deal with Iinet? They seem to be the only other provider in my sister’s new area other than Telstra, she’s had a few bad experiences with Telstra and would prefer not to use them.
:/ worst get ever :/
We’re on iiNet.
We’re getting 100GB (Peak) /100GB (Off-Peak) per month, and that’s $29.95.
If you really want some expertise, I’d suggest looking here:
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum/92
have you had any issues with them?
Nah, not from memory.
I’m also with iiNet. I have a package that is for home phone and internet. I pay $90 for both but I get 250 gigs. No off peak or on peak
Customer service is pretty good too
Sweet, she’ll probably go with them, I just spoke to her and she has a couple of friends that said similar stuff
I hear good things.
We were on iiNet from about 2005 through to a couple of years ago. I thought they were pretty great., never had any issues.
In fact we switched over to Telstra from them 😛 Think they offered mum a pretty good business deal or something. Dunno.
I like them, only switched away when we moved to a Telstra only area, looking forward to switching back. They’re a little more pricey than the likes of TPG but you get good service.
I’m with iiNet, btw. Love it. I had a month of bad service (when my old ISP merged with iiNet) and they compensated my inability to watch twitch.tv by giving me a three month refund (i.e. $330 back!).
Wasn’t even their issue but they fixed it for me. I’m on a 100/8Mbit connection on a 550/550GB plan, btw.
I was with iiNet for ADSL2 at two different places, total of about eight years, and they were generally great. Good value plans, good service, lots of unmetered stuff. Only dropped them for Tel$tra because I’m right on the edge of the exchange here and had to choose between ~3mbit ADSL or 100mbit Cable…
Just got comped $150 worth of steaks and Glenfiddich scotch.
Had to wait over 2 hours and take the steaks home in takeaway containers because they somehow kept asking if we’d eaten but never brought out the meals but still. Can’t complain about free.
So, the battery in my mouse died, and I’m stuck using my Wacom Bamboo Manga to move the mouse.
:\
And I found new battery!
Crisis averted! \o/
Just watched Pokemon Origins Ep1.
More mature than the usual toons and a lot more faithful to the game mechanics.
Shocked to see Squirtle bite Charmander’s neck while Charmander screams!Looking for opinions on my new shirt design
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/giftbox-1.png
Made me smile.
Does it reference something?
He’s shooting at an amazon drone.
what is an amazon drone? (I don’t think I’ve played/seen/read that)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25180906
Here you are
Ah cool, that makes more sense.
Still, design is good enough on it’s own I think, even without understanding the reference I liked what I saw 😀
People are talking about shooting them down for goodies.
I immediately thought of animal crossing.
Amazon are trialling using drones to deliver online purchases. So rather than wait for the delivery van to turn up the drone just flies it off and delivers it to you
That’s cool. 😀
Where’s the buy-it-now button? 😛
So I liked the Kick Ass movie better than the comic
But I liked the Kick Ass 2 comic better than the movie.
So I guess owe @blaghman a drink. For now, anyway 😛
It was kinda good. She ended up sitting down with us at lunch, and there was another big ol’ discussion and chat with everyone. Pillowmaker sort of invited her along to some museum exhibit that I’m also invited to and will happen at some point before February, she seemed rather keen. So there’s that I guess. Also dunno what’ll happen in regards to Pillowmaker’s 18th in a couple of weeks, but I feel safe in assuming there’s something. But yeah, there just wasn’t the right moment for it at all today. There’s still graduation on Tuesday though.
Final post to annoy you all about this thing that I’m determined to happen, and that will inevitably fail:
@bdkiaf (are you even alive?), @shane, I will be at @rize’s (at at?) house some time between 12 and 1 in theory hopefully. You should be there. I’m making
gingerbreadwait, no I messed up, so instead it’s mysterious biscuits >.> . You will probably need to find out his address. (I have it here somewhere if you can’t work out how to contact him, which just leaves you with the problem of contacting me)…should’ve gone to Canberra this weekend 😛
If you leave now you could get here by like, 3!
But then I would also actually be in Canberra. It’s one of those “good in theory” things. Like Communism.
Uh whoops. Only just saw this. Morning sickness and crazy cranky kids mean we probably won’t be able to come… Sorry!
Oh yeah, just to show you how amazing Starbound is… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cubBKGTdu_4
Just now picked up my Bravely Default Collector’s Edition from my local EB Games, feels like a sin if I pry it from its protective bag, what do I do =(
I managed to peel that big sticker off the back in one piece!
Haven’t decided if i wanted to cut through the middle or attempt peeling it, seriously considering getting another copy -.-
I cracked mine, box will go on the shelf next all the other 3DS games for easy access.
Will place that statue ….somewhere.
Artbooks can go with other art books, Box itself will then be on display ….somewhere.
Buy another copy for playing.
My local EB didn’t actually order any stock besides pre-orders…. now i have to wait a week 🙁
Guess what just arrived @blaghman !
IT. IS. GLORIUS!
Please email me your bank deets so I can forward to you the FUNDS.
I am sooooo happy!
Yeah, totally forgot it was Christmas time. Weekend deliveries RULE!
Well, it’s been six years but alas it’s time to say goodbye to my decks. Let the saving fund for a PC that can handle more than 19FPS begin! DayZ standalone, Dark Souls II and FO4, I’m coming for you.
Ok f*** Manus.Artorias was a jerk but at least it was a straight melee fight, none of this one-hit dark sorcery stuff. Yeah I know about the pendant but the charge up for all the sorcery attacks look the same and if I guess wrong, thats it.
Bah.
Dark souls boss spoilers 😛
Pfft like I talk about anything else on here lately 😛
I got my #Stargazers shirt from http://www.shanewsmith.com finally!
https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/625552_10151532711147325_1816665369_n.jpg
OH MY GOD TWO LINKS IN A SINGLE POST I AM A GOD
I said ‘god’ a little more than I should’ve there. I don’t even care.
@shane
If your wife would be happy with a word equivalent thing maybe check out the Acer Chromebooks
Probably closer to your budget with the saving you make on windows and the like
Or, @shane, if all she wants is word, I have a copy of Office Home and Student at work that’s available for use. I can send it to you to install for her.
Apparently EB Games is having some sort of 24 hour online only sale or something starting at midnight on Monday. Just thought I’d point it out for anybody interested.
http://content.ebgames.com.au/madmonday2013.html
I got an email about this last night. Said they would be sending out a preview on Sunday sometime. Should be interesting to see if there’s any decent bargains, or whether they’re just going to discount enough to match other retailers everyday prices! :p
Hey does anyone here have professor layton and the miracle mask? And has anyone played the azaran legacy? I have the later but not the former. Do I need to play them in order?
Haha, I don’t have Miracle Mask but I do have Curious Village, Pandora’s Box, Lost Future and Last Spectre if you have the time for them?
Own them all and played through them. The only one I’m missing is miracle mask and because it came before Azaran legacy I want to know if I need to play it first.
Just found out last spectre, Miracle mask and Azaran legacy are a trilogy. So I have to play Mask first.
I just found out that adding two spoons of sugar to a sugarfree drink, and stirring it and causing a small centrifuge to give a caramel taste makes it taste better.
🙂
sounds interesting! might have to try that someday!
To carry on with Nintendo’s absolute rubbish region-locking, I’m in America right now and the charger’s not even compatible…I got a 3 in 1 pack from best buy last time I was here, but couldn’t find the wall charger so I have to use the car one if it gets low…Nintendo is the worst with Regions.
…What?
You mean a US charger won’t charge your AU unit? Or some combination thereof?
That can’t be :/
No, any charger will charge the device, but the AU charger won’t work in America because of the voltage. The PS4 will work anywhere, as does the PS3 (I think, but I’m not sure about other consoles), but the 3DS charger won’t work in America, so you have to spend $20-30 to get a charger.
Oh. Yeah, that ain’t no region-locking thing 😛 Most chargers here tend to only be designed for 240V, not so many are 110-240 for international use. Had the same issue with traveling to Japan where they only have 110V like America, and our hotel didn’t have any international voltage sockets like some tend to. But that said, we had no problem charging our 3DSes there, it all just went a bit slower than usual. Not sure why yours just flat-out isn’t working.
I haven’t tried actually charging here, I just assumed it wouldn’t work, or could possibly brick the console, which wouldn’t be good. It’s just annoying, especially as it can be difficult to get a charger.
Might actually be a voltage thing; 240V compared to the 120V North America uses.
My US 3DS charger doesn’t feel like it has an in-built transformer or driver, so it might just be Nintendo don’t want you potentially frying your 3DS since they haven’t added in any protection.
Yeah, it’s a voltage thing, but it’d be nice if it just worked anywhere…
So, by virtue of hooking my PlayTV up to my laptop and finding 32-bit drivers, I’ve managed to be able to watch TV on another screen that isn’t my TV, whilst I work.
World Cup groups have been drawn. We’re in Group B with Netherlands, Chile and Spain.
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Well at least we qualified…
It will be a fun series of matches to watch though. Even though Australia was defeated 4-0 by Germany the last time around it was nice watching the match.
A few months to go. Getting excited.
So in addition to getting refunded $10 ($12 including delivery) for the Metallica guitar bundle that was never coming to me, Good Guys gifted me $40 which I put toward a blue PS3 DS3 controller! I know, I know, PS3 is old school now but it’s a blue DualShock 3 for $12! (including delivery) 😀
Nicely done, Buble!
Just finished watching Mob City, Frank Darabont’s new show. He’s the guy who made Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and the Mist, not to mention the first season of The Walking Dead. It’s basically L.A. Noire, the TV show. (Atleast visually.) Really looks identical to the city depicted in that game. The characters here are pretty damn compelling too. I highly recommend it if you’re a fan of noir! So much charm and atmosphere!
@gutsoup, I get the feeling you’ll like this too. It’s an interesting perspective change to the East coast shenanigans of Boardwalk Empire.
The Mist is sooo good.
You know it! I just love the sense of foreboding in that movie!
So many characters from it now feature in The Walking Dead too!
Haha! Yeah, Darabont’s one of those guys who remembers who he likes to work with. I remember he directed an episode of The Shield and was so impressed with the crew of that episode that he used that crew to shoot The Mist exclusively, not the usual film guys you’d go for…
There’s Green Mile and Walking Dead actors in Mob City’s cast too.
He directed an ep of The Shield? I didn’t know that!
Edit: just looked it up. Wicked. That wasn’t a bad ep, IIRC. Definitely an important one!
You should watch this, Shane! i think you’d like it!
Is it as good as LA Confidential?
Trick Question. LA Confidential is amazingYou know I haven’t seen any movies. Geez. 😛
LA Confidential is the definitive Modern take on 50s noir. Killer cast (Kim Basinger, Kevin Spacey, Rusty and Guy Pearce in their breakout roles) and impeccable direction and writing. Highly, highly recommend.
I know TV Darabont is different from film Darabont too, but I definitely preferred this pilot to The Walking Dead’s pilot!
NegativeZero’s Kantai Collection Update that No One Cares About (except maybe @popdart5)
Spent basically all day playing. Ground out both sets of PvP fights, didn’t do that well. I probably should have waited a while longer before playing, but I realized today that I haven’t been using Expeditions at all and they’re actually fairly effective ways to get resources. So I grabbed some lowbie destroyers + Tenryuu and had them go find me piles of ammunition and some bauxite. Going to have to remember to keep them running doing stuff the entire time I play. Sent on the right expeditions with the right ships you can get most resources at a reasonable rate over time. The best ammo expedition also returns insta-heal buckets which is useful.Aside from that, ground 1-1 heaps with my six primary destroyers, one at a time so they got the sparkly high-morale bonuses. Makes them really hard to hit. Also grinding that area was netting me 1-2 destroyers every time for very low investment and I was basically letting those pile up to 8-10 and then using them to modernize whichever destroyer is weakest. My six are now between level 26 and 23, with Shimakaze at the top because she tends to hit harder. Second-highest isYukikaze. I had her from ages ago so she’s had much more modernization – lots of Choukais and Mayas when I was trying to do 2-3 – and has better stats as a result, plus she has massive luck stats compared to the others so she tends to be more likely to get crits and dodge damage so tends to get MVP often. The other four are lagging behind a bit. I think my Hibiki is cursed – she keeps getting sent to the boss node in 1-1 and getting the boss fight with 4 enemies instead of three and taking bad hits that everyone else dodges. 🙁 Anyway, the Destroyer fleet is all now modernized to 3 stars. I need to get them around 15-20 more torpedo stats and around the same again in armor and hopefully firepower. Anti-air doesn’t seem too important yet, which is good since it’s hard to level it up as you need carriers and battleships to do it.
Had a few cracks at 3-2 with the destroyers as I was going along. Getting them sparkling definitely helps. They hit more often, even if the damage is small, and they dodge a heck of a lot better. If I do night fights I can clear the first southern node in 3-2 with them, and will get A/B if I move through without finishing everything. Made it to the node after that a few times and it’s pretty awful. Every enemy is elite-class, and it’s a set of 1-2 Ru-Class Battleships, 1-2 Ri-class Heavy Cruisers 1-2 To-class Torpedo Cruisers and 2 Ni-class Destroyers. So far I even getting to the node with light damage, I haven’t managed to make it through this fight without one or two destroyers taking a hit, and it’s usually from the battleships which hit a destroyer hard. Murasame and Hibiki tend to really like standing in the way of enemy fire. 🙁 Still, they’re definitely doing better and I think if I get a lucky break I might actually be able to make it to the boss node. Don’t know what’s waiting for me but I hope it’s not hard.
After playing for hours today with the Destroyers, I eventually decided I’d had enough so I spent the remaining ammo and fuel I had to refuel my primary fleet (Hiryuu – my highest ship by a long shot now, she’s level 50, Kirishima, 32, Hiei, 28, Fusou, 43, Kitakami, 27 and either Iku or Imuya depending on which hasn’t been damaged) and ran 3-2. Obviously went to 3-2-A since it seems you always go there if you’re not a destroyer fleet and took out everything in the opening salvo – Hiryuu and Fusou’s planes took four enemies and Kitakami and Imuya finished the rest.
And then Haruna dropped. \o/
This is after the game’s been trolling me with drops all day – twice spent the resources to build a Battleship and got Naka instead, for example. Literally everything was destroyers and light cruisers up until this point, then suddenly Haruna. So now I have 3 of the Kongo-class BBs, just need Kongo herself to finish out the set (and most importantly unlock the 4th fleet, which shall be super useful for expedition grinding). I’d also just hit HQ level 40, so maybe that affected the drop rate? Dunno for sure, but it did seem like the Ise and Hyuuga I suddenly got happened around the level 30 mark, and Hiei and Kirishima happened close together around the 35 mark. I may be reading too much into this though.
Hoping to clear 3-2 some time next week. Will probably keep 3-2 as a grinding spot for a long time though, 3-2-A seems pretty efficient for bringing up new ships if you’ve got the resources. I’ll probably try and take a break tomorrow to let the resources build up again (I’m at < 100 fuel and ammo, ~300 bauxite and for some reason have 5000+ steel right now) but I intend to focus on Haruna for a bit, try and get her up to 25 for remodel and hope I get Kongo in the process.
@dc! You can upvote things on the PS4 What’s New menu!
Oh, I saw. I saw. >:|
So I royally fucked my thumb today with a knife. There is watered down blood on pretty much everything I’ve touched. I gave up cleaning cos more blood was just getting on everything :l
My friend built his first PC today. The first thing he wants to do with it? Start playing Xenoblade in Dolphin again now that he has a more powerful computer. He’s an okay guy.
Picturing you doing it intentionally, before waving it at your housemate and saying “next time, this is you”.
For some reason.
Ahahahaha omg I’m sharing that with the other two 😛
If you’re still bleeding, write a note in your own blood. Nothing creepy though, just a note saying something mundane like you need more milk
Is your friend @greenius?
Nawww, but I think they would get along just fine indeed.
Speaking of the green mang, where has he gotten to?
XENOBLADEEEEE
I just ate a poptart and fuck do I feel fat now. (and sick)
Apparently these are breakfast foods? I guess they could work if your aim was to take a shit right after breakfast every morning… Keep yourself regular and what not.
@popdart5: addendum to my KanColle update from earlier: I just logged back in and re-ran 3-2 with my main fleet. Two nodes, two drops – a second Hiei, then Kongo.
That’s three in a row because I got Haruna before. I’m thinking that HQ level must make a difference.
Fourth fleet! \o/
Goddamn you’re on a roll. Grats on the drops. \o/
Kongo is pretty amusing. She speaks with an accent, slightly weird thing where the emphasis and rhythm is wrong or inconsistent. And mixes in random english phrases. And talks about drinking tea.
There’s no one here!
D:
I am, maybe that’s whats driving everyone else away. I’ll nip off & see if they come back
Wait? Aliasalpha’s gone? Sweet, I can start talking again. >.>
So… telltale are making a Borderlands game.
https://twitter.com/telltalegames/statuses/409459583858401280
Not sure how I feel about that, I’ve rather gone off Telltale stuff in the last year or so, maybe borderlands will be the thing that pulls me back in
I love the world of Borderlands and always wanted to see something more story heavy there, so this pleases me. 😀 The Wolf Among Us and The Walking Dead are pretty incredible too, so can’t wait to play this.
Interesting set of games in EB’s PS3 bundle.
Last of Us, Mass Effect 3, Max Payne 3 paired with Darkness 2, Duke Nukem Forever and Grease Dance.
Dear EB,
If you’re selling a Wii U Premium with 5 games but include Nintendoland in there you’re only including 4.
Regards
Freeze
I don’t have nintendo land. I am a bad wiiU owner.
And really it’s only 3 because one of them is Wii Music, for the Wii. 😛
Unless it’s the new bundle that includes NSMBU and NSLU, in which case they’re only including three games. Two if you go by @strange’s logic 😛
Because I’m sick and I was rushing I managed to kind of ruin my SecretSanTAY thing. Sorry, unfortunate secret person!
I think it’s fixable but I’ll definitely wait until I’m better so I don’t make it any worse. 😛
Hope you feel better, Strange.
ditto!
@dc
I want an adventure game that’s not too hard and realatively cheap. If it could be horror based, that would be awesome.
Don’t suggest scratches as it sets off my simulator sickness. Can you think of anything that fits the bill?
This almost feels like the beginning of a Little Britain sketch.
Really? I don’t see how ^^;;
Because it doesn’t initially seem like it’s going to result in humour and then it doesn’t result in humour?
If you don’t mind old games I’d recommend Sanitarium,
http://www.gog.com/game/sanitarium
Wake up in a mental asylum with no memories and have to piece together what happened to you. Isometric view like Baldur’s Gate, but definitely a point-and-click adventure game. Horror aspects with a lot of surreal, Twilight Zone-esque stuff going down.
Another old game is Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers. There’s a HD remake coming out next year, so might be worth waiting. If you don’t mind pixel art then this game has held up incredibly well though.
http://www.gog.com/game/gabriel_knight_sins_of_the_fathers
If you don’t mind new games using the pixel art style you can’t go past The Blackwell Bundle.
http://www.gog.com/game/blackwell_bundle
You play as Rosellina Blackwell who’s bound with a spirit. They investigate crimes. Not really horror, but there’s a a certain spookiness to them. There’s four games included here. (All pretty short.)
I should say all these games go for cheap during sales so you might want to wait it out, especially with Christmas sales and the like on the horizon.
If you just want to play a good adventure with no horror themes, Night of the Rabbit.
http://www.gog.com/game/the_night_of_the_rabbit
Still pretty new and expensive, so might not fit your criteria.
All three of the Deponia games are pretty great too.
@sughly might have some better suggestions. You’re totally right though, @scree. Would’ve recommended Scratches. That’s too bad about the motion sickness. :'(
How about Phantasmagoria?
@scree
From an interview with Roberta Williams.
I thought it was terrible and certainly wouldn’t recommend it to any one. XD
I liked Roberta Williams Laura Bow series though. And King’s Quest.
Quick question about all the games mentioned, Is the movement anything like scratches? I will probably wait until christmas, but I might jot the names down
Nah all third person point-and-click adventures.
First person is fine, I played Dark fall the journal without any simulator sickness
If you can wait a few years I’m just sketching down ideas for one right now.
Failing that, it might be an idea to check out Stasis: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bischoff/stasis-2d-isometric-scifi-horror-adventure-game
I was going to suggest Sanitarium but I’ve been beaten to it.
If you could find a copy of Noctropolis, that might scratch the itch too (http://www.mobygames.com/game/noctropolis/)
Oh man, now there’s a blast from the past. Haven’t played that game in years.
Yeah I must admit that seeing screens of it gave me a warm fuzzy nostalgia feeling, must see if I still have my disc around
Ooh ooh. I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream.
Haha, just did a quick mod of “easy mode” 4D Snake into 5D Snake. KINDA HARD =D
Might only take a modified rotation algorithm to make it a little more playable though.
…may have just spent the last hour and a half playing it >_>
By 4D do you mean 4D objects in a 3D dimension, or 4D objects in their own dimension?
On top of X, Y and Z, there’s a fourth spatial dimension W which lets objects appear to be in the same position as each other, but shifting your perspective reveals them to be separated.
Huh, something weird happened today. When I tried to access the site, I had constant database errors. Eventually, it let me in, but the interface was totally different. I assumed that Kotaku had changed the website layout to something horrible, and the database errors were because they were implementing the new interface. But then went to the website through my lifehacker bookmark, and Kotaku’s interface went back to being normal. Can anyone tell me what the hell happened?