[clear]
This is where Kotaku readers go to talk about the stuff we’re not already posting about. Think of it as the official unofficial Kotaku community forum.
See Games Differently
Now you can get the top stories from Kotaku delivered to your inbox. Enter your email below.
By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Comments
2,019 responses to “Talk Amongst Yourselves”
Hello!
…is this thing on?
No.
Oh. Okay.
GET OFF THE STAGE! *hurls glass bottle*
Anyone else watch VGX on Sunday? I did and it was bad. No real game reveals or anything.
I liked the part were it looked like Joel McHale didn’t actually care.
I’m starting to wonder if he figured out how terribly it was going early on and just ran with it.
And it was still the best part of the show (give or take a couple of particularly lame jokes).
Sad.
No mans sky looked good other than that nothing really memorable like the Skyrim announcement or the Phantom Pains reveal
I’m not going to try and hide the fact that I dislike VGX, Spike TV and Keighley.
It wasn’t an award show, it was a three-hour advertisement. I watched the highlights, then went back and watched most of it once I realised that McHale was tearing strips off Keighley, which was amazing. Joel did more “hard-hitting” games journalism, asking tough questions, etc in 3 hours than Geoff will ever do over the course of his career.
http://images.eurogamer.net/2012/articles//a/1/5/2/2/9/2/6/lh18_1.png/EG11/resize/600x-1/quality/80
The questions at Reggie asking him for something more than Donkey Kong didn’t get tired quickly. That said, Donkey Kong really didn’t look like much different from the one on Wii.
I’m still not even sure what VGX is supposed to be. It’s one of those things that didn’t seem to exist before a couple of weeks ago, then suddenly everyone knew about it for some reason.
I forgot it was on until it was almost over. When I tuned in, there were some people up on stage rapping about bitches. I instantly closed the stream.
Well VG(A)X is known for not being credible as they have been known to take large sums of mney for spots on the “award” show
Mourning. 😀
Oh, no. 🙁 I’m so sorry.
Monday. But thank you.
Mournday?
Monday Mourning – Fleetwood Mac.
Coming out of my 8-track…
Hey peoples. I have a few codes that fell off the back of a truck to download Gears of War 2 and Fruit Ninja Kinect/Gunslinger (for 360)
If you’re interested let me know what you’d like, and I can email/twitter DM/post here if you’ll use them immediately!
Morning All ! How are we all, I am still battling this flu. Luckily I’m starting to cough up a lot of gunk now so its getting better
Happy Monday morning all /o\
I sort of lashed out and bought some stuff and things last night.
Game Boy Advance SP
Golden Sun
Advance Wars 2
Pokémon: Leaf Green
Zelda: A link to the past
Super Mario 3
Fire Emblem
Soooo I guess I’m going to do some hand held gaming in the near future 🙂
Golden Sun \o/
If Nintendo released that on the eShop I would go against my digital Nintendo games rule.
I’m looking forward to it, haven’t played it in years 🙂 I got it for $11 online, whether or not I received it and it works is a different story…
I still can’t believe how great Golden Sun was. I only had a passing glance at GS2 due to life and funds etc. when it came out, but the first one was just incredible.
I never actually got around to playing The Lost Age and Dark Dawn but yeah, it didn’t leave my GBA for months.
Seriously, release them Nintendo. Do it. Why do you hate money?
See you in July 2014 🙂
Brilliant games, every one of those.
😀
I couldn’t find the original Advance Wars cheap enough so I read up on the sequel and it looks pretty darn good 🙂
Zelda and Fire Emblem I’ve never played but I have high hopes.
the sequel is great, slightly less difficult than the first if only marginaly
Great \o/
I’m looking forward to seeing the battle animations again 🙂
Niiiiiice.
Now you just need an e-reader and a set of cards to go with SMA4 there!
Oh yeah? What do e-readers and cards do?
Sorry, I’m still new to the Nintendo/hand held front >.
They transform it into the BEST MARIO GAME EVER!*
*Opinion may be heavily biased
Also I just remembered that to take proper advantage of it you really need a second GBA and a link cable. The e-reader was a chunky peripheral for the GBA that scanned in “dot codes” along the edge of cards, which contained all sorts of data. There were sets that gave you NES games to play, Pokemon trading cards incorporated them somehow, there were ones for Animal Crossing on GameCube too.
The SMA4 ones weren’t released down here for some reason though, only in Japan and America. Which is a damn shame because they’re the best ones. There’s three types of cards – items, demos and levels. The item cards can be scanned in at any time on the world map to add whatever you scanned into your inventory. Including items that weren’t even a part of the game originally. There’s also a couple of Switch items, which add new features. Eg one of them fills the levels with the vegetables from SMB2, which you can pick up and hurl at enemies. The demo cards either show you secrets in levels like spots where you can exploit a tonne of extra lives, or they might show off a speed run of a particular level. And lastly the level cards. These add a whole new level to the game. It’s a little awkward to do though – when you scan a level, you have to reach the end for it to be stored to your cartridge. But you can store up to 32 of them in there (I can’t remember how many were released, but it might have been 33). Once they’re in there though, you can play them whenever you like.
Oh man that sounds pretty cool! Thanks for the explanation.
Have you ever heard of Megaman sets? I’d love to play Megaman X on the GBA.
Heh, I did manage to get myself some Mega Man cards once. Bought them just because I’d never seen them before, and Mega Man rocks 😛
But as far as I know they were only released in Japan, and Japanese cards don’t work with non-Japanese games. Oh yeah! There were also some cards released for Mario vs Donkey Kong. Again, they only came out in Japan, and the e-reader was abandoned before America bothered to release them. They added new levels to the game too.
Oh sweet! These e-readers seem like a pretty sweet gig.
I’ve definitely got my hands full with games for the moment but I’ll keep an eye for these if I see them cheap, thanks mate 🙂
score, those are some sweet games right there.
Hola Tay
How were your weekends? I went drafting (Magic: The Gathering) on Friday, lost two, won one, drew with the guy who eventually came first, which is a result I’m happy with. Spent most of Sat playing Guacamelee, which is great, but got stuck at the final boss. Sunday went to my aunt’s for a christmas thing, saw my Pop who’s off to travel the Trans-Siberian railroad over christmas (Apparently it’s -17 in Ulan Bator) and my cousin and his twin babies. Family!
A Monday Morning Question: Guacamelee is based off of Mexican culture, especially the Luchadores (Mexican Wrestlers). What’s your Luchador name?
I’ve noticed you have an interest in MTG.
As someone who has no knowledge of it at all and is potentially interested where should I start?
Is it like other TCGs where there are several thousand different types of booster packs?
Best place to start would be with Duel Decks or similar, as you can play against a mate with them to learn, or if you have people who play already an intro deck- they’re not that strong a deck, but they’re fairly simple in terms of what they do.
Failing that, if you want to jump into competition at your local gaming store, you can get onto the current Event deck, which is designed to be strong and customisable: http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/productarticle.aspx?x=mtg/tcg/theros/eventdeck
I decided that I didn’t want to have to fiddle around too much with constructing decks and paying-to-win, so I jumped into the Draft format, which lets me compete on my skills, not on my wallet, while still having an element of luck. it’s great fun.
In terms of boosters etc, the way Magic works is they have “blocks” of sets which are competition legal for a certain time. The previous block, Return to Ravnica, is legal until the block after the current one is finished, so those cards will be “standard” until about August next year.
I’ve been playing the current block, which is “Theros,” which is heavily inspired by Greek mythology. Any Theros stuff will be competition standard until Aug 2015.
*takes notes*
Excellent. Will look into it.
Also helps with my cousins christmas present because he’s into MTG. Kind of where I picked up a bit of the interest from. Or are boosters ultimately useless once you’ve got your deck figured out?
Boosters will be welcome- if he’s really into it he might have a competitive deck figured out, but there may be extra stuff or cards he can use for other formats.
If he’s been playing for a couple years he may have an extra deck to teach you with too
Every year they release a new core set and a series of boosters from that set. When the next core set releases the previous one becomes invalid for tournament play. Helps offset stuff like power creep in the cards, since the game’s super old (nearly 20 years old IIRC)
Best place to start is with a pre-made starter deck. But you need someone to play with and to teach you. It’s an easy game to learn but there’s not much point if you can’t play it regularly against people, the cards are too expensive to justify otherwise. Also if you don’t know anyone who plays you’d need to maintain multiple decks and get people to use yours.
El Fonso de Baste
El Grande Mojito.
I’d finish you off by shoving some mint in your mouth, before shaking you vigorously.
I’d be The Ceviche- Once I downed you I’d douse you in lemon juice (for your wounds) and leave you for 24 hours.
My weekend was good, been kicking fleshlings around in League of Legends. Been tagging up with a high level player who also is a semi-professional commentator/interviewer in the e-sports League of Legends scene in Oceania, pretty cool 🙂
Also, Snipers are OP as heck in XCOM: EU, just using 2 snipers with the “Use your allies’ sight as your own range” perk, and using the rest of my squad as spotters for them lol
Nacho Supreme. Nacho average Luchador.
My weekend was okay, managed to finally get my 360 controller working with the PC versions of Rainbow Six Vegas 1 & 2, managed to play the first one most of the way through and get a reminder of just how shoddy the job was. Seriously, put the game in a 16:9 aspect ratio and the title cards at the start of missions that are supposed to black out the whole screen leave large swathes of the level visible because the cards are formatted to 4:3…
I also managed to figure out a random gear script for Arma 3, now I just need to work out random patrols and running a generic script on the death of any unnamed unit and my big survival mission will be pretty much set to go.
Finished ac black flag this weekend. Must say once the story picks up it gets really good, and quite sad too. Multiplayer on pc though is just wth. Crashes random disconnects and blotchy, haven’t encountered much lag
I just started it yesterday on PS4 and I’m so happy with it. AC2 and Brotherhood are two of my favourite games, so it feels really great to enjoy an Assassin’s Creed game again.
I just couldn’t get into the first one at all which put me off the whole series, but with a bit of a wait until something new on the PS4 I’m willing to give it a go. Is it considerably different from the first one asides from different time period, weapons and obviously ships?
I hated the first one. None of the games have been that same as that one, the second was actually much, much better.
Regarding AC4 though, you’re a pirate, so that’s pretty rad.
ARRRRRRR
Also finished it this weekend. The character arc that Edward goes through I think is pretty good.
Teared up slightly at the end, where he looks over and has a Return of the Jedi moment where he sees the dead pirate brotherhood partying togetherThe game still had some frustrating bits (I hate those tail the dudes without being seen sequences sooo much, and also the instant-fail stealth bits though at least those were rare) but the rest of the game makes up for it. Probably the best AC game overall.
Yeah it was pretty good, but was different when compared to ac, I really like brotherhood and black flag was different, but I find both really good in their own ways.
Bravely Default Stuff
Been playing this all weekend, decided to do a hard difficulty run-through, however I think I might be unintentionally be over leveled I reckon I’m about 50% into the game most of my strategy is simple default to +3bp and nuke in two turns with 6 bp usage, its surprisingly effective. if you mix in buffs, specials, high mana/bp abilities.
I’ve only played it for a couple of hours so I’m still at the start. Really enjoying it though, pretty fun.
BRAVELY DEFAULT!
Man this game is fun 😀
Ringabel is so mysterious =) I just feel like a Pandora’s box will be opened when he recovers from his amnesia.
So my friend decided to make me a birthday cake on the weekend:
https://twitter.com/CannonFodderJnr/status/409812655549865984
Yeah, I probably deserved that after getting him a Luchador mask for his birthday…
Who wouldn’t want a luchadore mask?
It was black leather, and the mouth zipped up.
Bring out the Gimp.
Zed’s Dead, baby.
Oh, game stuff – Starbound! Holding off for the moment since there’s likely a character wipe coming for major rebalance. Started Dishonored, I’m liking it so far. Ghost / no kill can be a bit random, and no way I’m getting 100% completion on the levels, so I’m just going to enjoy and let the game take me where it takes me.
I’m not yelling at people to buy Starbound until they’re far enough through the beta that wipes won’t happen any more. After that point, though.
Seriously, I already rate this game higher than Minecraft and Terraria as a game, and currently at least on par in terms of building stuff.
Also, the audio in Starbound is just ridiculously good.
I’ll buy it when it discounts
Ridiculously good soundtrack. I put that and Stargazers on shuffle for background music for friends over on Saturday night.
I need to do that with Dishonored. I was getting to frustrated trying to ghost everything so gave up. But it just feels like doing it wrong the other way.
I’m still aiming to go full no-kill, but I’ve broken ghost to save innocents. Also stashing sleepers on the nearest roof since they seem safe from rats and observation there.
I found doing that was a huge positive when playing mark of the ninja
Went through and smashed it all out doing as much as I could but not worrying about failing. Then just went back and redid levels after I had completed. Only another 2 stages to 100%
I’m back.
Suckers.
Fuck.
…dammit-I mean Hi!
Who’s this guy?
Dan it.
Easy, it’s not Danuary yet.
How was prison?
It was pretty good, thanks.
Commiserations.
Also, I wrote out a lengthy reply to one of your old pre-recorded episodes (not realising at the time it was pre-recorded). So my words aren’t wasted, here: https://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/11/talk-amongst-yourselves-251/comment-page-14/#comment-2185358
I SAW!
Very cool. I’ll try and work it into a show.
It was mostly just for your info, answering questions you seemed curious about, but whatever you like!
Things to do today. And I don’t wanna do any of them. Also sleepy. Dad’s got a friend over and they’re digging through the walls and ceiling to fix up something with the new oven. Much noise. Doesn’t help I was up til 4am playing Snake.
Graduation tomorrow!
Woo grad.
Morning smexy ppls!
I take back my Link Between Worlds Hero Mode tears. If you stock faeries and bottles early on, and go heart hunting instead of dungeon grinding, it’s not so bad. I did find some enemies that do 7 hearts of damage though…that’s some crazy shit right there!
I’m impatiently waiting for my copy in the mail. 7 Hearts O_O ouch…
It may actually be more than 7 hearts, but that’s all I had at the time… O_o
I’ve finally finished modding Fallout 3 after watching some videos online, (http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL77ECC4B6194E1685 that’s the playlist in case anyone’s like me and is a complete novice to modding Bethesda games and games in general, they’re extremely easy to follow) and all I can say is why didn’t I do this earlier? It’s amazing how much even just a lighting mod changes the look of the game. So anyway, after this playthrough of the game I guess I’m now obligated to do the same with New Vegas and Skyrim as well as paying a lot more attention to Skywind.
Also, put my money down for Wasteland 2. Let’s just say I’m in an apocalyptic mood. Borderlands 2 is free later this month on PS Plus I think as well so will be getting that for even more wasteland goodness and doing some split screen shooting. Online gaming has ruined split screen gaming which sucks as that’s the most fun you can have gaming without setting up a LAN party.
Next pay and I put some money in for Star Citizen as well as checking up on the progress of Project Eternity
Borderlands 2 is free on PS+ this month? 😀 Awesome, I’ve nearly bought that so many times!
Take THAT universe!
hold that thought, might possibly be North America only. I looked it up a week or so ago and didn’t read too much beyond headlines
B2 may be one of the best made games I’ve ever played, I’ve put in 666 hours according to steam. If you get the core game free, be sure to by the DLCs, the season pass is definitely worth it.
Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate’s Booty was pretty good and Scarlett herself is awesome, decent selection of new enemies and locations.
Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt is a bit forgettable but it seems geared more towards raid style play which isn’t my thing, it does have a reasonably amusing antagonist though.
Mr. Torgue’s Campaign of Carnage is just fucking amazing all the way through and Torgue himself is just fucking bonkers. It’s extra funny if you’ve ever watched pro wrestling
Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep is pretty fucking awesome, more tina is never a bad thing, shitloads of new enemies and increasingly bizarre situations, extra fun if you’ve played D&D way too much.
Awesome 🙂
I’ve played it on PC until around level 18 co-op with a buddy..but then he got himself a gf and I haven’t seen him since. Right when I bought the mechromancer DLC 🙁 I’d like to see what Captain Scarlett is about.
Now that I think about it B2 did look a LOT better on PC…hmm maybe I should just stick to it on my lappy.
Who knows \o/
I had a pretty busy weekend playing pretty much nothing but tabletop RPGs, one of which I DM’d. Recaps as follows:
Saturday Pathfinder Ancient Rome session recap (with me as GM):
I owed my players a pretty good session considering we hadn’t played in about three months and I think I delivered. A massive group battle against gladiators in the arena in Capua which culminated in a showdown between the party and another group which they had made their rivals. I mixed in magic users and even an elephant (who actually hurt them a lot) so it kept the party on their toes. It was pretty epic when they baited the elephant into charging at them which made it rampage straight into a spiked pit and instantly kill it. The party are now on their way to Rome to participate in Emperor Nero’s birthday gladiator games.Quote of the session was when one of the players realised one of the NPCs gladiators had used lay on hands, a signature paladin skill: “Lay on hands? That’s a paddlin’.
Sunday Pathfinder Warhammer Fantasy session recap (with me as player, party is effectively level 9):
We’re still lost in this off kilter reality in the Lost Isles and we are attempting to find the lost Dwarven hold of Barak Fadrin. Turns out trying to navigate in a Dwarven ironclad in a realm where the magic is constantly affecting the world around us is pretty tricky. We ended up landing on an island where a large Elven city lay in ruins. We estimated the city had been in ruins since the War of the Beard which was a few thousand years ago. As a ruined city it was filled with Revenants and they were pretty creepy but we were guided by a brilliant white horse.The horse led us to some semi-friendly Revenants who told us that their murderer was in the centre of the town inside a large Elven keep. The keep was surrounded by a wall that had been buffed by Elven magic and while the rest of the party were trying to figure out how to get over/under/through the wall, I just bashed on the portcullis with my super magical lucerne hammer and broke all of the enchantments and busted the gate open.
We made our way to the keep where we encounted some Witchfires who were pretty nasty. We got inside the keep and discovered that the murderer was in fact a Banshee and she was primarily responsible for the Lost Isles being partially shunted between dimensions. It’s a good thing we had Rings ot Death Ward otherwise we would have been instant killed by the Banshee’s scream. We killed the Banshee which allowed the Revenants to finally rest in peace however some of the Witchfires stayed around and captured the white horse and attempted to corrupt it. We managed to save it by breaking the ritual and I managed to kill a few Witchfires while riding my horse and jumping from rooftop to rooftop and spearing them with my lance.
It turns out that the white horse was a Dragon Horse which took a particular liking to our wizard so it has become his mount. So our 9th-level wizard who can conjure massive pillars of flame and huge lightning bolts now has a flying Dragon Horse. We looted what we could of the Elven city and our Dwarf Forgemaster/Runepriest decided to strap the Banshee’s mithral throne to his back and walk out with it. We’re still trying to find the lost Dwarven hold but we might be here for a while yet.
Quote of the Day when we were figuring out who should get the Dragon Horse, the Dwarf rocks up and says: “Can I turn it into shanks?”
Y’all act like weekend TAY doesn’t exist. But it does you know, in all it’s tear soaked loneliness.
I saw mentionings of gift giving to celebrate the holidays.
I want in on that.
If it’s not too late, of course.
Livegeist on VHS?
Whatsa weekend TAY? Does it hurt?
There’s only week TAY
Hey I was here, I have no life so I’m always free on the weekends
So weekend was pretty good, got in a lot of game time on War Thunder (can’t stop playing it even though it’s a bit frustrating) and finished Lego Marvel Superheroes, which was pretty fun and surprisingly funny. There’s a really funny bit in the ending too.
HULK THOR SMASH.also tried CoD: Ghosts. It can go die in a fire….
A slow motion fire fuelled with loads of pointless nationalistic bullshit?
ha, needs more quick time events
I had a pretty good weekend. Finished Legend of Zelda LBW, it actually had a pretty decent ending. Played the hell out of Starbound, so much fun. I’m loving every moment of it.
Also, finally watched The Worlds End (Simon Pegg “end” movie”). It was fantastic, definitely up there with Shaun / Hot Fuzz (although Hot Fuzz is better).
I enjoyed World’s End also. Some really funny moments in the pubs – I laughed. Ending was a bit crap though – Hot Fuzz remains the best one.
I agree with you on the ending. Also I didn’t quite like how the cornetto was delivered. Still I enjoyed it.
The World’s End was good but I found myself liking it more the more I thought about it.
After walking out of the cinema I would’ve ranked them: Hot Fuzz > Shaun > Worlds End
Now though: Hot Fuzz > Worlds End > Shaun
want Starbound so bad, have to wait for console release
PSA: Apparently Steam phising emails are doing the rounds.
URL is missing the ‘i’ in ‘community’ (made not clickable, but just in case, don’t go to the site) http:/—-/steamcommunuty.com/
Does anywhere have a Xbone demo stand? I want to try out the controller, but everywhere only has PS4 stands!
http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/4-oddly-specific-scenes-new-spider-man-recycling/
@negativezero I picked up Akagi yesterday and, even though I knew of her reputation, I ran a few sorties with her. I then promptly put her in my secondary fleet. That chick is voracious.
How are you finding having the full four fleets? Maxed out most of the expeditions yet?
If you look at JP fanart you’ll find a lot of images where they’re all eating together and everyone has a normal-sized bowl of rice except Akagi which will be piled up ten times higher. 😛
It’s not so much that she’s hungry as that she chews through your Bauxite due to her planes getting shot down in combat with other enemy carriers. Even the bigger light carriers (eg Ryuuhou and Junyou) will chew through a lot of Bauxite if you lose planes. Happens a lot on practice battles. I found a way to reduce the loss is to add extra fighters to the carrier so you have air superiority, so your bombers don’t get hit as often.
Also I think one of the reasons I ended up finding Hiryuu much better than Akagi is that she’s more resource efficient. Plus has high luck (because at Midway the other four big fleet carriers were sunk in the opening of the engagement but Hiryuu avoided the air attack, sortied her planes and nearly sank Yorktown before taking a bomb in the hangar that ignited the aircraft fuel) so she tends to crit more often. As I understand it Shoukau and Zuikaku are a lot more efficient to run than Hiryuu and Soryuu, who are more efficient than Akagi and Kaga.
I haven’t played a lot since I unlocked 4th Fleet. Got Haruna to 10 or so and Kongo to 8, haven’t re-run 3-2 with my Destroyer fleet. I’m unlocking some expeditions, trying to get to one of the world 2 ones which has really high amount of return from it, with the intent that every time before I log off I send three fleets on long expeditions with high return rates so I can get buckets and bauxite to keep everything going.
4 Kongo-class BBs + Kitakami + Hiryuu uses a heck of a lot of fuel and ammo 🙁 Like, I think I’m going to have to alternate between them and my destroyer / cruiser fleets every other day if I intend to play more than an hour or two, though quests and expeditions will help offset that a fair bit. Expeditions especially. Check the wiki, someone did a resources-per-hour breakdown to figure out what the average hourly gain from each one is so you can figure out which ones to run back to back to increase your resources. It looked like if you do a pair of them you can get fuel with one and ammo with another, and then with the fourth fleet unlocked you can go for steel or bauxite with the others.
Yeah I’ve been doing pretty well with expeditions although I’m currently at the point where I need to level up my HQ to complete the higher level expeditions. I’m currently of HQ level 10 so I need to work on that a lot.
I decided to swap out Akagi for Hiyou at the moment simply because Hiyou was at a higher level. My secondary is running Shouhou, Akagi, Ise, Tenryuu, Sendai, and Myoko. I’ve nearly got all of the heavy cruisers I need to clear the composition quests but I keep missing out. Just need Nachi, Furutaka, and Aoba now.
It took me *forever* to get Myoukou. I got her as a drop from the 3-1 boss. The others I can’t stop getting, especially Nachi – I must have built her a dozen times trying to get battleships. World 2 drops lots of Takao and Myoukou-class cruisers.
The one cruiser variety I really want to get to finish out some compositon quests is the Mogami-class. Mogami specifically. You need Yamashiro, Fusou, Mogami and Shigure to finish one of the composition quests (I think you’re basically building one of the fleets from the Leyte campaign) and I’ve had them all for ages except Mogami.
Now that I’ve got the Kongos my focus is moving toward trying to get the rest of the fleet carriers as I only have Akagi and Hiryuu. I’ve heard that Kaga is a frequent drop from 3-1 so might give that a few rounds. Whenever I try and build a carrier I end up getting a light carrier instead and it costs way too much bauxite so probably will aim for drops. Also want to get Goya / I-58 so I have both the buildable subs and can do the 3-sub composition quest.
Other than that, once I clear 3-2 with my Destroyers I’ll probably put Murasame, Yukikaze and Hibiki aside and try and get Yuudachi and Shigure to their second remodels. Yuudachi especially, since her second remodel when modernized can hit about as hard as a heavy cruiser.
Other than that my wishlist also contains Nagato and Ooi. Both are apparently fairly difficult to get though.
Alright folks. So dinner this Saturday night.
Anyone have a better idea than the Bavarian? If not I’ll make a reservation tomorrow. If people could let me know if they are keen to come that would be awesome so I can give them numbers.
Other things (I know a few people were keen to catch up in the afternoon because they can’t make the Saturday night) can also be organised, but yeah, need to sort this out.
I think I removed most of the people who said they can’t make it but if you’re still here and want to be untagged, let me know.
@35, @alexpants, @anonymous_pessimist, @batgirl, @batguy, @cakesmith, @cj, @doc_what, @effluvium-boy, @fatshadylive, @gingerchris86, @gorzilla, @harli, @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian, @masha2932, @shiggyninty, @powalen, @ruffleberg, @rize, @blaghman, @markserrels, @rocketman, @steve-o_the_deve-o, @sernobulus, @mrtaco
Hello.
#Helping
Hi Nob!
Thanks Nob!
KFC?
KATSU. CURRY.
Considering the list is already like 12 people long I don’t think we will fit in Wagamama.
The first meat I ever went to we fit like 16 people on one table there.
Ah! Mono meat!
And yeah, Surely you could fit more people on a Wagamama table than one at the Bavarian?
That said, I’ll be there no matter where we go.
Although cheaper would suit me better. Because Christmas. Just saiyan…
Just saw this, I’ll put you as confirmed.
Main reason for the Bavarian was due to the out of towners wanting to go.
I’ll be there!
+1
Watched Amazing Spiderman last night. Noticed that the Indian guy from Oscorp looked kind of familiar. Then he says “blahblahblah Richard Parker…” and I was like WUT.
Yes, it’s the same guy from Life of Pi. Is this some sort of crazy coincidence?
Has anyone had any experience with NBN? I’m on Dodo’s 100/40 plan and it was “ready to use” about 2 weeks ago and I’m still waiting for a call from a technician to install the necessary hardware. How long does it usually take?
Welp, since you’re still waiting it’s not ready to use. I’d ring them up.
Well, I am terrible at timing posts by the looks it so
**REPOST**
Alright folks. So dinner this Saturday night.
Anyone have a better idea than the Bavarian? If not I’ll make a reservation tomorrow. If people could let me know if they are keen to come that would be awesome so I can give them numbers.
EDIT: @alexpants has suggested Wagamama (http://www.wagamama.com.au/)
Other things (I know a few people were keen to catch up in the afternoon because they can’t make the Saturday night) can also be organised, but yeah, need to sort this out.
I think I removed most of the people who said they can’t make it but if you’re still here and want to be untagged, let me know.
@35, @alexpants, @anonymous_pessimist, @batgirl, @batguy, @cakesmith, @cj, @doc_what, @effluvium-boy, @fatshadylive, @gingerchris86, @gorzilla, @harli, @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian, @masha2932, @shiggyninty, @powalen, @ruffleberg, @rize, @blaghman, @markserrels, @rocketman, @steve-o_the_deve-o, @sernobulus, @mrtaco
Got my brother’s engagement party on the 14th. sorry guys.
@benny I didn’t want to be left out. Oh look, I have a notification! 😀
Are you in Sydney? Feel free to come along if you’re in Sydney (I don’t know where a bunch of people are anymore /o\)
Haha thanks, but I won’t be in Sydney.
Though I will be in Melbourne the following @saturday.
I can’t make it
We didn’t want you there anyway.
*cries*
Why won’t you hang out with us Freeze?
I’ll be there, (+1)
Maybe splash out and go to Nandos this time.
I’ll never say no to the Bavarian.
Also, I should probably figure out when I’m actually heading over to Sydney…
Yes.
I just assumed Saturday morning. Feel free to come up Friday night but I don’t know what time I’ll be home heh.
@rize can just hang out with me.
Right @rize …
right?
@rize?
@rize
@rize?
Hey @rize
isn’t that right?
@rize.
I’m sorry, were you talking to me?
I am confirmed. Woo.
I’ll be there!
(Ugh, should’ve checked my second notification before posting :P)
EDIT: Probably would be free if there’s something happening in the afternoon as well (no life)
I’ve heard so much about this Bavarian place.
You should come eat and drink
too much!Basically what @rize said. Copious amounts of food and beer and if last time is anything to base it on, shots.
Sounds like my kinda place.
Apart from the beer.
I normally hate beer but there’s some there that are actually drinkable and… dare I say it… enjoyable! :O
Mango Beer!
Hmm. Well, mango vodka swayed me on that front. Maybe they can do it again.
GINGER BEER!
Hey Red, serious question. Did you enjoy the 1996 Phantom film? I loved it as a kid, went out and bought skull rings and everything. Recently I got hold of a copy on DVD as I hope to see how it has aged over the years – I hope it’s still good.
@redartifice
I saw that film. It was great for an 11 year old boy. Not sure how well it’d hold up, though. Hope it’s good 🙂
You know, even as a kid, I thought that movie was a bit bad. Enjoyable if you were a fan of the comics, but it didn’t get the set up or emphasis on the Ghost Who Walks aspects that was his whole schtick.
But oh my god, that Phantom 2040 game? Amazing.
I think I hired that out once. Played a whoooole lot of it before it got returned.
The Phantom film came out just before I started reading the comics, so I came to the film a bit later (and I do own it on DVD for completeness sake).
Good: The film did a good job at bringing to life the main elements of the comic- the Phantom lore is pretty much intact, Devil and Hero, the Jungle Patrol, the Bandar, and the Rope people we all done really well.
Bad: A lot more. The film adds many more mystical elements that aren’t really a central part of the mythos, many of the performances were weak (although I found Zane acceptable). Also, you saw The Phantom’s face, which comic wise is a big no-no
– Old Jungle Saying.The best adaptation of the Phantom is probably Phantom 2040, although that only works by jettisoning a lot of the lore as well. it’s weird, because most adaptations have tried to modernise the character, where the Phantom is loved because it resists modernisation in some ways- The comic has never been through a grim and gritty phase, and never had a silver-age weirdness. That said, it did modernise- from the 60s onwards it was very contemporary, and was one of the first comics to have African characters who weren’t stock natives (Hell, the president of Bangalla was a black African in the 70s)
If I was to make a Phantom film I’d look to the 1961-1994 Sy Barry drawn era- that’s when the comic was really modern while still being steeped in the Africa-centric stuff.
Phantom punches EVERYTHING!
There. Just wrote the perfect Phantom movie script.
Film budget is $800 million.
Well, that’s important, but The Phantom’s real gimmick is stealth and intimidation- he does all the Batman shit gadget free.
And he uses guns without killing people. Batman should be taking notes.
You meant Defenders of the Earth, right?
On a related note: Can anyone explain why The Phantom is so popular in Aus? It was actually something I noticed the first time I ever came here on holiday (Which coincided with the announcement of the Billy Zane film funnily enough). He’s virtually unheard of in the UK and not even that popular in the US these days.
I really really shouldn’t be laughing but:
What’s the best thing Ryan Reynolds has been in?
Scarlett Johansson.I had pre-emptive giggles.
Two guys, a girl and a pizza placeObvious joke is still amusing.
Drive was pretty cool in an odd noir way.
….
Wat?
I also enjoyed him in Blue Valentine.
Oh, I see your confusion. Completely different dude. 😀
Drive was one of the best films of 2011.
Also, that was Ryan Gosling. Not Ryan Reynolds.
derp.jpg
😀
Don’t wanna e-mail. Don’t wanna centrelink. Don’t wanna Climbey. Don’t wanna wake.
*hides in bed*
Climbey? I thought it was Sketchbook? Damn, I’m not up to date!
Don’t worry, I’m pretty sure Gooky can’t even keep track of all the ladies he has swooning over him.
Climbey isn’t Sketchbook . That’s why I want to hide 😛
If only somebody thought to mention that you should ask sketchbook out.
Then if she wasn’t interested you could actually pursue climbey. Such a shame that nobody said anything
What jerks.
Nothing wrong with polyamory as long as you’re honest with everyone, go for both!
So checked out the EBGames sale. One game I wanted is not on sale.
Fuck.
What game is that?
Professor Layton and the miracle mask
I tried searching for the game I want, and every time it just redirected me to the sale splash page.
Nope.jpg
You should complain and demand gift cards =P
The good ones never are.
Hello!
I FINALLY finished Ace Attorney 5 over the weekend! Pretty great! I think case 5 was probably my favourite, followed by case 2.
SUPER MEGA SPOILERS FOR THE ENTIRE GAME (minus the DLC case). DO NOT READ UNTIL YOU’VE FINISHED. SERIOUSLY, DAMMIT. DON’T.
I warned you!Man, twist after twist in case 5! I wasn’t really a fan of the space centre location in case 4 but it redeemed itself in case 5. They did a great job weaving clues throughout all the cases too. Playing on the new-Detective-for-the-new-game thing and giving him just the right amount of personality clues that you never guess him until all the evidence is in line at the reveal. Really liked that. Also, Edgeworth with glasses. The fangirls must’ve died.Speculation for Ace Attorney 6 (if it even comes out in English…)
Sounds like they’re building up to a big Maya return. Hope that happens!Just started the DLC case last night. After that I can get around to progressing past the second dungeon in Zelda ALBW 😛 And then I’ve got to buy Bravely Default. Games /o\
UGH THAT PIRATE SONG WILL FOREVER BE STUCK IN YOUR HEAD
The fact that they give the ability to replay it endless times throughout the case does not help.
We swim through storms and waves all because you see
Grand treasures and adventure’s waitin just for me
OH MY GOD DISCUSSION FINALLY
Yeah, I don’t know if I liked the reveal of the big bad?– Surprised that it was who you knew as Fulbright; thought that was really good, but not so much that he had actually killed Fulbright and was, essentially, a faceless man who got fingered and exposed in case 5. I definitely lessened the impact.
– I love that they character developed Apollo though.
– WOO MAYA
– Older Phoenix is a classy dude. Also love that they wrote in some confidence from age and experience for Phoenix too. He seems to have lost a bit in the transition from Hobo Phoenix though, which is a shame.
– I also think Case 3 was a wasted opportunity. Could have had far reaching ramifications and implications in the court system, but after that, the whole dark age of the law thing just ran back to Phoenix and Blackquill.
Yeah I know what you mean. But I suppose it doesn’t REALLY make a difference because you never met the original Fulbright (right? I don’t even know anymore). I really liked all the Wise Old Man Phoenix stuff they had going without pushing him into the background.Also really liked Athena (didn’t really like her character design when they first revealed her) but her animations and themes were awesome.
Hey, guys.
*Sportsball post*
We’re two up in the series!
Sportsball! \o/
The trouble with… us is that we always try to walk it in.
Win! 2-0, I hope we can extend that in Perth.
Have we knocked them over already?
Rained out I think
Nope, knock their last 4 wickets over in an hour by the look of things
I hope they still have some fight left in them by boxing day
Just realised how awesome it’s going to be after Christmas when I finally get to play Xenoblade again. (cc: @greenius)
Although, is it possible to transfer my save file from my Wii to the new WiiU? Not sure I have the fortitude to start all over again.
I think doing the Wii -> WiiU transfer includes all the save data too, though I’m not 100% on that.
I thought the Wi-WiiU transfer moved everything to the WiiU which means they’re no longer available on the Wii? Don’t really want to do that so I hope @mrtaco’s right and I can just use an SD card.
Have you got homebrew stuff going? Because I think it’s possible to duplicate everything by performing a NAND backup (if you have BootMii) of your Wii, perform the transfer to the Wii U, then restore the backup to your Wii.
That’s still effort though. Fairly confident the save should be transferable.
It sure is possible! It’s wot I dun!
Hm. Fairly sure it should be doable. I don’t *think* it was a save that got locked to the console, so you should be able to copy it to SD card then copy it to the vWii (after having played the game on there once, to “register” it).
Though this is all going on the assumption that the vWii works the same as a regular Wii. So I could be wrong.
BEST NEWS!
I’ve bought a new lightning to usb cable from Kogan. Actually, I bought 3, as they didn’t have single packs available, and it was 3 for only $12. I can live with that.
my friend bought a $280 HDMI cable for his PS4. WTF it came packaged with one are you mad? He’s actually pretty broke too at the moment, I don’t get his logic, he said “but it can transfer up to 16gb per second” to which I replied “Do you own any devices capable of 16gb / second? ” he looked at me with a blank expression. They also said if any other company brings out a faster one they will replace his for free with a better one.
You don’t understand, man, this HDMI cable prevents viruses and has gold in it. GOLD!
I bought one for my PS3 when I got it for about $70 and it’s got gold in it. Although it is only about 8 inches long
I bought one for $10 from the Reject shop.
I upvoted, but even $10 is expensive. 😛
I dunno, can’t you only get it cheaper by ordering online? In which case you have to wait for it to get there.
$10 is pretty good for a need-it-right-now solution.
Lol. Just lol. Amazing stuff.
O_o
I know right, i think he got suckered by a good salesman
MONDAY WORK ADVENTURES
‘Everything between point A and point Z needs to be marked as errors.’
*check back ten minutes later* Point A and Z are marked as errors. The between is not.
*headdesk*
IN OTHER NEWS
I started Persona 4 on the weekend. It was nice knowing you all.
ha, people are dumb.
PERSONA 😀 have fun, it’s so good
Lesson learned. In future, just fire them and do their work and collect two paychecks.
It’s difficult to fire your superior.
But not impossible.
You should totally forward all these emails to their boss. There’s literally nothing that can go wrong.
Persona 4 is so great!
YOUR FACE IS SO GREAT
HEY! Don’t you go spreading lies about me!
@dc , I finally watched Rick & Morty. Was pretty great, thanks for the mention it’s my kinda show. Rick is a very strange guy… i couldn’t tell if i liked him or not for about 3/4 of the episode.
You should watch Mob City too. Scratching that Boardwalk Empire itch nicely. A lot more stylized and noir-like, though.
I d’loaded that, will have a look
I saw your post about that I’ll have to check it out, I like Boardwalk, didn’t mid LA Noir & really like the time period, I’ll watch it tonight & take notes so we can compare 😛
Rick & Morty
cracked me up when they were discussing smuggling the seeds “I can’t do it I’ve done it too many times, they’ll just fall out of there, but you’re young your bowels are taught yet maleable” also thought it was funny when Rick tells Morty to shoot the guards cause they’re robots….. “they’re not Robots”Morty is basically like a Dr. Who companion only Dr. Who is a crazy drunk here.
NUMENERA: TALES FROM THE NINTH WORLD
For Those Who Came In Late; http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/
Next Session is Wednesday at 7:30 SA time! How did Glasshands get a hold of part of the city’s defence array? What’s up with the orange hoods? Don’t they know it’s a fashion faux pas? Will flexing ever impress anyone?
@tigerion @popdart5 @mythamphetamine @blaghman @novacascade @tech_knight @mawt
Is that this Wednesday?
yup!
Regarding that last question, most likely a big old nope..
He only needs to roll one Twent-… oh yeah, that’s a big nope, it is Blaghs afterall, couldn’t even impress a lady with those muscles 🙂
He’s not much, is he…
Taken my eldest bowling. Kokomo comes on and I start singing along. I get told off for singing horrible music (horribly). Party Rock comes on and she starts dancing and singing.
Good god is that going to be classic music in the future? D:
Who the hell is Olly Murs and why am I in trouble for not knowing?
Man bowling with my daughter here is making me feel old.
I think he’s one of those new fangled singers.
My kid only knows Play School music, Christmas carols, and (by accident) the “Na Na Na Na” song by My Chemical Romance.
I’m gonna stunt her social development so good…! 🙂
Sounds like she already knows the worst songs though.
I would take Play School music over the Wiggles or Katy Perry anyday. Unfortunately, I couldn’t talk my wife out of the Christmas carols bit 😛
Formative years are made for making them like what you like. Let her listen to Arcade Fire.
Yes this. Them she’ll grow up hating them for being Dad music and they’ll fade into obscurity.
Hmmm, new plan. Listen to the worst music all of the time so Party Rock will be uncool for being dad music!
I thought bowling was all about drinking horrendous shots?
Take me to Bermuda, Bahamas, come on pretty mama!
Kokomo rocks.
How do you feel about Muppets’ Kokomo? I feel pretty damn good about it!
Not bad, definitely reminds me what a classic the original song is.
Hi TAY.
I sure did play some video games on the weekend. Spoilered just to reduce wall o’ text:
Played a bunch of Mario 3D World on Friday night.
Other than a few issues I have with the way depth works sometimes the game is close to perfect. I had similar problems with depth in 3D Land, where I would think I was moving left/right (x-axis), but end up drifting towards/away from camera (z-axis) – this is probably a user error, but it’s frustrating nevertheless. Love all the collectibles, will give me a reason to keep going back for a bit. Finished world 3, and so far my highlights have been:World 3-5, I think it was called Pipeline Lagoon. This level had a real Isle Delfino feel to it and it cemented my desire for a Super Mario Sunshine 2.
World 3-6, I can’t remember the name, but it’s the Mario Kart level. Honestly just one of the most fun levels. I was grinning so much the entire time. So far, it’s the only level I’ve gone back to replay because I enjoyed it so much.
Played a little bit of Link Between Worlds.
I’ve been trying to play this only on my commute, to let it last a bit longer, but I’m up to the final dungeon. I think I’m actually up to the final boss battle, so it’s gone back to commute only. I may finish it this afternoon. I’m actually not ready to call this either the best overall or best handheld Zelda, but it’s definitely a contender. I do really love Link’s Awakening, and it’s up against a recent replay of Wind Waker as well. I definitely think the new item shop is a great step forward, and I hope they keep that format for further games.Played a bunch of Starbound.
So far, the game feels like a reskin of Terraria. That’s not exactly a bad thing. It does however still suffer from the same sort of problem that both Terraria and Minecraft have had, which is that nothing is explained. I felt that my starting planet was a little sparse in terms of resources – I found my first silver deposit at the 4th level deep, not sure if this is standard or not, and none of the native creatures seem to drop leather, so I was unable to craft any armour. I did luck out and get an incredibly strong 2h hammer as a random drop from killing something, but otherwise I feel stuck. Looking forward to the reset and starting a new character on a new planet to see if it’s different a second time. So the point of all that was, I find that the game very much requires me to have an external knowledge source (wiki) open to explain a lot of the game’s mechanics. Hopefully something like that is incorporated into the game – a kind of “Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” crossed with a Pokédex that updates as you comes across new stuff.Played some TF2.
Still my “fallback” game. Been teaching myself to Pyro more effectively; I find Phlog difficult sometimes due to lack of airblast, but damn if it’s not worth it when I can “Mmph” the entire opposing team. Beat the new MvM Tour. It’s hard and the item reward is a little insubstantial. Also, finally uncrated a Strange Grenade Launcher.re: Starbound –
I assume you know to use the bow to kill animals for leather, so it sounds like you just had crap luck. Best thing to do if you’re bored with your planet is to dump a heap of fuel in your ship and leg it to another one and see what you find. Also, unlike Terraria, horizontal exploration is very worthwhile, so do plenty of that.Also, TF2, I can’t stand not having airblast as a Pyro. I find it far too useful to my playstyle, and it also gives the opportunity of sacrificing yourself to ruin a potentially brilliant Phlog 😛
Airblasting Ubers away is one of the greatest joys of playing Pyro
Haha. Yeah, quite a few times I would try to air blast, only to be stuck in the line of fire, taunting, as I had activated Mmph.
Yeah. I do actually have some leather, but only 4 from a few hours of play. Circumnavigated my planet, has simple clothes and food shops. How do I make fuel?
There’s a terminal / computer in the cockpit of your ship. If you place coal or unrefined wood in the popup box it converts them to fuel.
A hint, coal = 3(?) fuel and wood = 1 fuel so try and use coal if you can,
I honestly think the whole fuel thing is the biggest problem with the BETA right now. I’ve read about (on the forums) some people spending like 20 hours in the first planet because there is no explanation of the fuel system,
Also, RPG folk: Is it just me or does this seem like a lot of fun?
http://wso.williams.edu/~msulliva/campaigns/john/
That sounds fairly similar in terms of player goals to how Fiasco works. If that is the case, it sounds like a hell of a lot of fun.
Fiasco isn’t skill mediated or competitive though.
You could do SO much with that.
Personally, my voice would have skills in “aggression” and “mimicking cute/fluffy/small animal noises”.
Or perhaps “narration”. “John decided that 11am was a perfectly respectable time to have a quiet drink in the corner office.”
…On second thoughts, could you somehow tie in this set-up in another RPG? Get two players to role play one character?
There’s a Numenera character race that’s a little more advanced that switches between two modes that you could have two people RP.
Also, my John would have to have skills in “charm” and “biting”
Finally got through to Centrelink.
AUSTUDY LOCKED IN FOR THE HOLIDAYS, FUCKYEAH
Aren’t you graduating tomorrow? Get your hands off my taxes, moocher.
😛I’ve decided I don’t have enough qualifications, and need more to try and counter this feeling of inadequacy.
Like hell I’m gonna fill my house with cats.
Cats are pretty good at making people feel inadquate.
Actually, the qualification treadmill is good at that, too.
I think you need a new plan. 😛
I never said it was a good plan!
I’m sorry =(
uh… so you should be… !
I don’t know if I need to clarify that 1) I was joking 2) I’m actually in favour of a welfare system that supports people who need it (with a reasonably relaxed definition of the word need, and 3) I was joking.I know me caring for Mum is cheaper for the government in the end, but I still feel bad.
For the record, I see that kind of thing as a sacrifice on your behalf, so it’s certainly nothing to feel bad about (in my mind anyway).
And just so you know, I wouldn’t be nearly so accommodating to my parents.
Yeah, I do like working. We’d be a lot better off if I worked but I think I would probably be worried that she’d fallen over or didn’t have anything to eat or the dog might need to go out the back (She can’t open the back door, it’s too hard)
Because it seems fun, it’s time for TAY “Everyone is John”
The game: http://wso.williams.edu/~msulliva/campaigns/john/
If you wish to be one of John’s personalities, post below. Once I have a couple, I’ll get you to bid for control and then give the scenario.
sounds cool. what details do you need?
Pick two skills and an obsession. As wacky as you like.
John is a middle aged man in Minneapolis with multiple personalities. You and all of the other players are one of those personalities, and you compete for control at various times by bidding from your willpower (which starts at ten)
Skills :
– Improvisation
– Forgery
Obsession :
– Sticking it to ‘the man.’ Doing whatever I can to make the world a little bit more chaotic.
Edit : *reads the bit about ‘keeping your sheet secret’* …dammit.
Eh, it’s easier if it’s public 🙂
I really want to do this, but I currently have the attention span of a gnat. A cold and flu drug-addled, it’s Monday, I only have to be in the office one week until I get three weeks of annual leave gnat.
I’m up for this.
Skills:
– running
– paperwork
Obsession (spoilerised):
Firing a gun.Sounds like fun! Lemme get back to you.
I’ve got my first formal performance management plan meeting this afternoon. I need to fill out a form with all kinds of possible-scary stuff! Wish me luck lol! D:
Break a leg.
Not your own.
Assassin’s Creed IV finished. Now I have to decide whether to continue Ys Celceta or start Bravely Default. Probably will go with Ys first.
There’s basically nothing else releasing that I care about until February or so so I should start planning to whittle down my Pile of Shame a bit before I retire everything.
I’m getting through it so slowly… mostly due to me being a bit ocd about 100%’ing every island I step on, and also only getting v. limited time to be able to play each week. 🙁 Somewhere 35-ish% so far, I think?
I ended with 93%.
Got every collectable at every location except the ones on the overworld map (it was just too soul-crushingly long to do, I should have been collecting them as I went rather than all at the end). Did every sidequest to 100%. Missed a couple of sticky notes and computers in the outside-the-animus bits because I hated those sequences. Didn’t get 100% sync on every memory because some of the requirements on some of the missions sucked balls.
I feel I got my money’s worth though. It probably sucked up close to 40 hours all up.
It’ll be really interesting to see where they take the series next. They seem to have hit on something amazing with the naval combat and everything, and the open world with all its sidequesting was brilliant, so I hope both those elements persist and they tone down some of the other stuff. There’s potential for a direct sequel in there, eg (minor AC3 spoilers)
you don’t have any real idea how Haytham went from being the son of an Assassin to a Templar Grand Masterso there’s some scope there. And honestly I’d be kind of interested in that since Haytham was quite interesting.I think they’ll probably explore a new time period though. There’s an email conversation outside the animus in AC4 where they talk about possible time periods and some of them sounded cool. I hope they don’t go with the Ashikaga Shogunate option, though that could be interesting if it’s around about the end of that era (end of the Ashikagas & Sengoku period) but IMO that setting’s done to death in video games. There were a couple of interesting ideas there but I can’t remember what they were. 🙁
I’m challenging myself not to use emoticons this week. I have to fight the muscle memory at the end of every sentence.
How was the Ruffles meat?
Haha! XD!
Sorry.
😛First 🙂
Then 😐
Then O_O
Then 😀
Wasn’t there 😛I attempted that challenge once. Then I realised I write the way I write because I like to write that and I don’t really care if it annoys people. Also, people might think I was an imposter if I didn’t use emoticons often. 😛
Didn’t you go the Ruffles Meat?!!! He’s not scary. 🙁
I didn’t go for #EmoDC related reasons.
>:(
Sometimes I used to worry that I look like I use 😛 way too much.
But I think how I’d look without it would be much worse.
Invent new emoticons instead of not using them at all
D.C.’s TOP TEN MOVIES OF ALL TIME:
1. GATTACA
2. ALIENS
3. CHILDREN OF MEN
4. GIRL, INTERRUPTED
5. PAN’S LABYRINTH
6. SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
7. INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE
8. SIGNS
9. LARS AND THE REAL GIRL
10. THE LION KING
All surprisingly newer movies weirdly.
Not saying they’re the best movies of all-time, just my personal favourite at the moment. The list will almost certainly be different next week or even tomorrow! What’s yours?
I approve of 6 of those, well done.
Re: Silver Linings Playbook, you keen for American Hustle? It’s by the same guy and has a seriously impressive cast.
You better believe I am! David O Russell, Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper together again… with Amy Adams. So damn psyched!
Fat, bald Christian Bale is way more exciting than it should be.
After seeing how great Silver Linings was I’m kind of sad O Russell dropped out of the Uncharted movie. It sounded like it was going to be Uncharted in name only, but I’m certain it would’ve been an incredible movie.
I know this was aimed at @dc, but after seeing the trailer for American Hustle, I am keen for it.
1. I don’t know.
2. I’ve added all of the above to a note, to make sure I watch all of ’em.
3. Thanks.
I know where you can get another list of movies!
* Clerks II
* Children of Men
* The Castle
* Aladdin
* Finding Nemo
* Toy Story 3
* Raiders of the Lost Ark
* LotR: Fellowship of the Ring
* Philadelphia
* A Few Good Men
Needs moar Dead Poets’ Society….
😛
I hated that movie! (Might be that thing where they force you to watch it so many times in school that they kill it. I hear lots of schools do that with Gattaca.)
They make you watch it in school? I’ve seen it four times,none of which were in school. Back in my day we read books at school instead of watching movies. #oldladystrange
ha, yeah i thought that was odd too, we only watched things when it was end of the term and the teachers couldn’t be bothered teaching anymore. I can only think of 1 or 2 instances of that even, 1 was animal farm, the other was The South Park Movie (okay I wagged and watched the south park movie, might have even been with Jimu, my memory is terrible though)
edit: They made us watch To Kill a Mockingbird as well
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. Django Unchained
4. Inglourious Basterds
5. The Dark Knight
6. Drive
7. Warrior
8. Inception
9. The Dark Knight Rises
10. Anchorman
I’m sure I’ve missed some. No doubt.
Oh man, I keep forgetting how incredible Warrior was. I preferred Batman Begins to Dark Knight, but you can’t go wrong either way. I can see you’re a Tarantino fan though.
I didn’t especially like Batman Begins, but that’s probably because I saw it after The Dark Knight. It’s not a bad movie at all, I just didn’t enjoy it as much.
I’m a complete Tarantino fanboy. I absolutely love everything he does.
Tarantino overkill? Nah, what am I thinking.
No such thing.
You’re forgetting Deathproof with Kurt Russell.
in no order whatsoever :
1) – Pans Labyrinth
b) – The Godfather
iii) – Big Fish
5-1) – Love me if you dare
½ x 10 ) – Lock, stock & Two Smoking Barrels
sei) – Night of the Living Dead
vii) – Night Watch
8) – Fight Club
i) – Trainspotting
x) – Harold & Maude
Pan’s Labyrinth! So good! I particularly love the OST.
1: Jurassic Park
2: LOTR: The Two Towers
3: LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring
4: LOTR: The Return of the King
5: The Lost World
6: Casablanca
7: Independence Day
8: The Avengers
9: Serenity
10: The Dark Knight
*List subject to change at a moments notice
The Mummy, 28 Days Later, Underwold, Underworld Evolution, District 9, Tarzan, Toy Story, anything Will Smith has starred in, any of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s old films, The Matrix, The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down, Underworld Rise of the Lycans, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Iron Man, Zombieland, Alien, Aliens, Deep Blue Sea, Underworld Awakening (I like Underwold okay? Shut up), Avatar, Cloverfield, Van Helsing, Les Miserables, Adam Sandler’s early films, a few romcoms starring Colin Firth and/or Hugh Grant, Signs, Watchmen, Tron Legacy, Studio Ghibli stuff (special mention to Nausicaa and Spirited Away), Disney’s earlier stuff, Pixar (minus Cars), all the other Marvel Cinematic Universe films and a whole host of other movies I can’t remember (sorry other movies).
Blade Runner?
NOT THIS AGAIN
1. Scott Pilgrim vs the World
2. Kill Bill volume 1 and 2
3. Toy Story
4. Bridesmaids
5. Bachelorette
6. Black Swan
7. District 9
8. Resident Evil
9. Hot Fuzz
10. Mean Girls
Kill Bill 1 and 2 are ONE movie. I have to watch KB 2 within a day after watching KB 1.
Or else what?
I’m not sure, I’ve never not watched the second within 24 hours of the first. I think I would feel empty inside if I didn’t watch the second. Also I would feel very disappointed with myself for breaking my tradition.
Completely forgot about Darabont. Shawshank/Green Mile/Mist could all easily make this list.
Aw crap, I forgot Shawshank 🙁
Double crap, I also forgot Pulp Fiction and Fight Club.
1. The Dark Knight
2. How To Train Your Dragon
3. Argo (Fuck Yourself :P)
4. Drive
5. Frost/Nixon
6. Scarface
7. Evangelion 1.11/2.22 (Interchangable)
8. Beavis & Butthead Do America
9. The Big Lebowski
10. SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
Upvote for Lebowski
\o/
XD
This Aggression will not stand, man!
Forget it Donnie, you’re out of your element!
😛
1. Eternal sunshine…
2. Children of men
3. Pulp fiction
4. Ponyo
5. Blade runner
6. Kill bill vol1
7. End of evangelion
8. Indy last crusade
9. Requiem for a dream
10. Fight club
Maybe?
Definitely not End of Evangelion. Get rid of that shit.
The rest is pretty damn good!
as long as he’s referring to the old one that’s fine by me.
Eternal Sunshine! So good. I always forget about it every time I make lists though. Ten isn’t enough. XD
Fuck. Eternal Sunshine. Damn it.
1. Gattaca
2. Leon The Professional
3. Casablanca
4. Seven Samurai
5. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
I can’t seem to narrow down the following into the 6-10 slot;
Amadeus
Cool Hand Luke
The Elephant Man
Raging Bull
Blade Runner
RoboCop
Goodfellas
Dances with Wolves
Battle Royale
Chopper
Memento
Hearts in Atlantis
Road to Perdition
History of Violence
Reservoir Dogs
Infernal Affairs
Oldboy
The Artist
Truman Show
The Departed
Also, notice no comedies? I mean how long can you watch the same film before it’s no longer funny? I say five. If I did have to include comedies though, they would be;
Dumb and Dumber
Role Models
The Pick of Destiny
Nacho Libre
The Cable Guy
Spoke to Legal aid and it turns out they can’t really help us with our issue. Woman agreed that something was weird about the way my aunts were conducting things though.
I’m planing to ring the solicitors that took care of my nans will to get a copy, seeing as Mum has never even seen the will and all information comes from my aunt.
So far, ceased contact with my aunt as she refuses to show us the bills and said if we wanted to see them, we should go to her house and see them.
I don’t have a license and she lives in country Victoria. She knows full well we can’t get there.
Also checking out local legal centres as they may be able to help us and dealing with the family.
In short: Fuck this shit.
Not showing bills but asking you to pay them? That positively screams dodgy
Hey at least you’re being proactive.
Honestly, I think that’s a good approach as I suspect your Aunt is up to something dodgy and aggressively being an asshole about everything to try and keep you finding out whatever it is she’s doing. Like, she’s got people living in it and you’re paying all the utilities or something. I can’t see why the utilities need to be connected at all, but in addition if the place is unoccupied the cost for those utilities should be much, much lower. I assume you’re being asked to pay a percentage of the utilities cost, split evenly among the families that have a stake in the house?
Pretty much. yeah.
So multiply the bill by the number of people it’s supposed to be split between, and that should be roughly what the actual bill is.
Then compare it against what normal usage would be. If it’s astronomical then someone is running a scam and you might not be the only one being affected. Is it only split between your family and your aunt’s?
split between 4 including us
Bill was… $250? So $1000 total. Assuming that’s a quarterly bill that’s the sort of electricity bill that a reasonable sized 2-3 bedroom home would rack up with 2-3 people living in it, in terms of heating and hot water usage.
Something is definitely not right.
I know it’s $450 for the real estate.
I think the water was $40 or something. Gas was kind of cheap. I had a list in the previous tay
Well if the electricity is high, one thing to consider would be shutting off the hot water cylinder. Even if the power is still connected so they can have lights and stuff, they don’t need hot water to clean periodically – cold will do the job in the majority of cases – and a hot water cylinder running all the time will chew power, especially if it’s old or the thermostat is set incorrectly. Hot water and heating/cooling account for the vast majority of household electricity usage.
Personally if I was paying a share of everything I would want it to be minimized as much as possible as well, so surely reducing the bill would be good for the whole extended family.
@negativezero
They won’t turn off anything.
Anyone else want to be John?
Do I have to do anything? In a timely manner, I mean. If so, probably best to count me out! 😛
You need two skills and a spoilered obsession. Wacky as you like.
We can do this over time 🙂
Is it just me or has Ozgameshop gotten kinda average lately? Particularly on Nintendo games. I can find everything cheaper elsewhere now with very little searching.
Saying that I do have $30 in gift vouchers I got from some study, so I might try and find a Wii U game worth buying…
Their prices have been creeping up a bit over the last year or so, to the extent that it might as well go to jbhifi since its only a few bucks more on average and you don’t have to wait
AUD value is dropping a bit i think.
Something to help brighten up your day! 😀
**NEW PAGE REPOST**
Alright folks. So dinner this Saturday night.
Anyone have a better idea than the Bavarian? If not I’ll make a reservation tomorrow. If people could let me know if they are keen to come that would be awesome so I can give them numbers.
EDIT: @alexpants has suggested Wagamama (http://www.wagamama.com.au/)
Other things (I know a few people were keen to catch up in the afternoon because they can’t make the Saturday night) can also be organised, but yeah, need to sort this out.
I think I removed most of the people who said they can’t make it but if you’re still here and want to be untagged, let me know.
CONFIRMED:
@batguy, @cakesmith, @cj, @doc_what, @gingerchris86 (+1), @masha2932, @powalen, @rize, @blaghman, @rocketman, @steve-o_the_deve-o (+ Mrs. Steve-O), @sernobulus
MAYBE CONFIRMED? YOU’RE A LITTLE AMBIGUOUS IN YOUR RESPONSE:
@alexpants, @mrtaco
EVERYONE ELSE:
@anonymous_pessimist, @effluvium-boy, @fatshadylive, @gorzilla, @harli, @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian, @shiggyninty, @ruffleberg
OR AM I?
I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE ANYMORE!
*rocks back and forth in the corner*
Pros of Wagamama: Cheaper
Cons of Wagamama: No beer, harder to get a big booking?
Yeah, the no beer con is a pretty big one (Steve-O sounded super keen for beer). But, I asked for suggestions and he gave one so he would get an A for initiative (and I think he really wants a katsu curry…)
I’m willing to give up beer for an hour needed to eat – I assume we will be going to a pub afterwards anyway?
Do only some Wagamama restaurants have alcohol? The one in Canberra sells Asahi, so I assumed they all did.
They might, but at the same time it’s not a 1L stein of German beer.
Didn’t Wagamama go into voluntary administration about a month ago?
Wagamama is pretty fantastic, but that’s a big con…
You could always have a friday meat there!
Isn’t that when the Muse concert that people are in town for actually is?
Sunday then?
I honestly don’t know how long people are in town for…
…SWTOR meat at yours on Friday?
😀
I won’t be home Friday night 😛
I will most likely be comming.
Count me in 🙂
I’m working this weekend. I’m working every weekend this month except for the one my family is having Christmas on 🙁
stupid need to earn money so I can by things….
Holy shit.
I got tickets to see The Rolling Stones.
Holyshitholyshitholyshit.
Hype.
Holy shit?
Frrrrrrrriiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeend!
I’m just gonna see them next time they’re here.
…
Emoticons? D:
Emoticons! XD
Who am I kidding? I can’t last a week!
EMOTICONS
Emoticons! \o/
( ̄ー ̄) I knew you’d come around.
I’m proud of myself for cutting back! I only use 😛 now!
and 😀 sometimes…
…and I suppose /o\ and \o/ count…
and I use >:] and >:[ a lot too…
Dammit!
Nice profile pic!
o<:)
David Cage!
Press X to D:
I probably shouldn’t read the Wikipedia entries for ancient Roman/Greek myths. Some of those images are definitely NSFW…
depends. if there’s urns, its ok. urns means its art.
Or a plinth.
cherubs, too.
Boo.
Urns.
Wow. Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 is a fantastic movie. Never saw the first one but this one had me giggling like an idiot through most of it.
I always thought that a food world would be great and fun for about two days. Then it would start to go off.
Awesome news. My son is a huge fan of the first one and I was hoping the sequel wouldn’t be too terrible as I’ll have to sit through it with him. And then probably a million times after we get him the DVD….
So many puns…
Oh. Okay then, maybe I’ll just send Mr. Strange with the kids. 😛
hehe when I heard about the second one, I was wondering why they would make it.. seems a bit silly after all the “trouble” from the first one. Glad to hear it’s good @freezespreston! I really liked the first one, so this is great news!
I loved the first one. ANNA FARIS!
Wow. It’s taken a while but I may have finally obtained a new artbook that’s on a level with the Okami Complete Works and the Valkyria Chronicles artbook.
Bravely Default Design Works: The Art of Bravely 2010-2013.
I’ve always said that if there was an artbook with Akihiko Yoshida’s work in it I’d buy it, and now that he’s left Squenix this might be the closest I can get. 🙁
The game itself is so pretty. Completely outstanding for a 3DS game. I can only imagine how awesome the art book is.
I’m really looking forward to playing it. I’ve got my copy already but I really want to knock out Ys before I start it. If I split myself between many games then I end up not finishing anything.
Yeah that’s fair enough. It’s amazing how much better a game is when they have a tutorial in it (I’m looking at you Bravely Default demo). Only have 2 annoyances with it so far;
1. Has an AR movie at the start which seems like it was kinda tacked on because it could.
2. There is no way to change the dub to Japanese for the starting cinematic. (dubs and subs can only be changed at the in-game options).
Your #2 point is something that really irritates me. To the point that it ruined a game for me once – I refused to play Soul Sacrifice because it makes you do an entire tutorial level before you’re allowed to open the menu and change settings, even though you had to pay for the JP dub DLC. 🙁
Afternoon everyone
Re-education (Through Labor) – Rise AgainstHi @spaghett!
Hi!
Howdy Spaghett, how’s tricks?
Damn good and you?
I’m ready to go kick some heads at a training company, but other than that, all good!
Last song played everyone? mine was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNH6PX-2euM&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PLB5015A6F9E5C0DD2
Manteca – Dizzy Gillespie
LA Noire! \o/
was it? The version I was listening to is the 1961 version from Carnegie Hall, though looking it up is was composed in ’47
I have no idea about the versions (didn’t watched the video, at work), I just know that it was in LA Noire and I like LA Noire 😛
Odd thing about LA Noire is that the soundtrack isn’t quite period appropriate. Manteca is, but the OST is closer to jazz from the late 50s.
’cause aliens.
Aliens who like modal jazz 🙂
@redartifice The Modal Nodes play Jizz, not Jazz…
@negativezero I’m more of a Max Rebo man myself
Kyoto – Skrillex ft. Sirah
Swimming Pools (Drank) – Kendrick Lamar
Over the Hills and Far Away – Led Zep. Actually I have heard this one on Triple M twice in the last week – first two times I’ve ever heard it on radio.
Shadows And Dust – Arch Enemy
One of the grooviest death metal songs there are
For some reason, all day my head’s kept creeping back to Reckless by Judas Priest.
@ruffleberg meat – @jimu perspective
@dc wasn’t there, everyone kept asking Where’s @dc ??
@dkzeitgeist was hella tired
@sughly ‘s abs shamed us all
We walked into The Man Bar, drinks were had….cannot remember anything else.
A good night.
The Man bar?! You mean The Beat? 😉
The Wickham actually
Edit: Ugh. I’m an idiot. Disregard.
I saw Serrels tweeting about Sughly’s abs and I have no idea what’s going on. XD
Looks like it was a drinking kind of night any ways, I would’ve been out of place!
When have you been outta place at a drkin kinda night?
I had to find my own way home!
Hope you knew what door to exit from on the train! D:
I saw Ruffles tweet about twenty empty beer bottles.
Believe it or not, that was before we even got to the Mana Bar.
Impressive! Dan’s vine dealy was pretty amazing too. (Love that @sughly is talking adventure games. XD)
https://vine.co/v/hQBPbPlQv5b
The fire alarm, we just sat there and kept drinking!
And talking about the earlier telltale games XD
I can barely remember, but I managed to get home sooo…
If you got or are going to get Bravely Default and you haven’t already, add me:
4038-6136-9136
(don’t forget to send me your friend code too )
Why?
I already have you but is there some benefit to having fronds playing it at the same time or something? I don’t usually care much for social stuff in my games though.
They can help you in your battles if I rememeber right
More friends = more people in town to rebuild shops which = better items for sale.
Pluse, friends are summons.
Play it, check it out.
There’s skits like Tales!
it drastically reduces build times when upgrading buildings, I’m sure it’ll be different but in the demo each dude you set on a building cut the time in half, so a 10 hour building for 1 guy takes 5 hours (real time, can be left in standby) for 2 etc.
Finished Assassin’s Creed 4. Pirate stuff good. Present day stuff, awesome potential that I suspect Ubisoft will never fulfill. :'(
Games finished this year:
Pikmin 3
The Last of Us
Tomb Raider
BioShock Infinite
Zombi U
The Cave
The Night of the Rabbit
A New Beginning
The Blackwell Bundle
Ico
Shadow of the Colossus
To the Moon
Dear Esther
Remember Me
Ni No Kuni
Deadlight
The Walking Dead: 400 Days
Gone Home
Rayman Legends
DmC
GTAV
Beyond: Two Souls
The Wolf Among Us
Batman: Arkham Origins
Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Director’s Cut
Wind Waker
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West – Premium Edition
Goodbye Deponia
Broken Sword 5: Episode 1
Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag
I’m also on the last world of Super Mario 3D World!
Probably only other new thing this year I’ll play is The Walking Dead which is supposedly Dec 17.
They may not fulfil it but they will probably stretch it out over a half dozen games, that’s KIND of the same
The first three games felt like they were setting up something. Now it all just feels like endless stalling. Luckily the pirate stuff was so damn excellent.
Update on the housing thingy
My aunt sent me this email
Will you be coming up to see the bills and get a copy of Nan’s will?Did you get the email I just sent you with the real estate bill?
There is an express train to [country] and the bus stops literally right out the front of my place. Or you could ask [Scree’s brother] to bring you up.
If you would prefer we could hand all this over to Nan’s solicitor at an exorbitant cost of which you would have to pay one quarter.
The little work that the solicitor has done for us so far cost us about $2000.00!
We have tried to avoid incurring any more costs from the solicitor than is absolutely necessary.
I don’t want this I have enough bills of my own that I have to struggle to pay, along with Nan’s.
Nobody pays me for the work that I do, I do it because I have.
Maybe it was a huge mistake letting [scree’s brother] live in the house rent free for 19 months.
We possibly could have sold it when the housing market was better right after Nan died. At that time it was better for selling than buying, we would have been offer a much better price than we are being offered now.
That’s what happens when you try and do the right thing by people.
My brother paid all the bills in the house when he was living there. She kicked him out and moved a hell of a lot of his stuff when he was at work. When he got angry, she raced over to our house telling us how my brother nearly hit her. He explained to us that he was just sick of being treated like a child.
Hopefully Mum and I can drop into Footscray legal services soon as it’s getting beyond the joke for us. We’re struggling to pay our own electricity bill without this being dumped on us for Christmas.
Sorry and thank you for listening to this. All help is seriously helpful.
Extended family are the worst!
They are. The worst.
Is this MiniScree’s mother? The one that was reading TAY?
Nope, the other one.
You definitely need to get a hold of a copy of the bills and the will. It’s a pity you don’t drive, though you could try and get her to scan a copy of them so that she can email them too you. That might be the easiest suggestion. Don’t let her say no to that, if you’re paying the bills you have a right to see them.
Also, if you suspect that there may be somebody living in the house, it is probably well worth trying to go and visit it. While you’re there you could check maintenance and gardening to see if they are being done, as I recall you mentioning they pay for that?
Definitely get legal aid though, paying redundant bills for an unoccupied house is not right at all. It would also probably be best if you had a copy of the will to take in with you so that they can read over it to get a proper grasp of whats going on. Also, write down a list of things to cover when you do go get legal aid, just to make sure that you don’t forget anything and so that everything you want to talk about get covered.
Sorry I wasn’t much help, I hope this all gets resolved soon though. Nobody should be under this much stress coming up to Christmas.
trust me, that is plenty help
Maybe a cheap way to check if someone is in the house is to get a pizza delivered, if someone is there at tea time then it’s probably a safe bet someone is living there
🙁
I agree with Liondrive a surprise visit to the house is probably a good Idea if you can manage it just to check how everything is there. Also maybe suggest to her that she asks for the utility companies to send her bills via email then she can easily forward them to everyone involved. Not sure if all companies do that but every one I’ve dealt with does. It saves them postage.
I still think seeing if they want to buy you out is the best bet. Though remember if you go this way and they do end up selling it for a lot more you don’t have any right to any of that money and can’t be mad. It also means if they have to settle for less or don’t sell it for 10 years you can laugh to yourself about them.
A question: if no one is there and it’s not being rented out why are there utility bills? That’s a little retarded.
Just on Saturday, I was out with friends for a christmas get-together dinner thing. My friend from the original group that would constantly be talking about our relevant girlstuffs with was there, as was his girlfriend who has been demanding to be kept in the loop. She’s totally Team Sketchbook, btw 😛 But yeah, I told them about how Climbey didn’t appear last week, and said it was probably another of the signs that the universe has been sending me. And that if she wasn’t there tonight, that’d prove it. (Friend doesn’t believe, but girlfriend does).
Welp, guess who didn’t show up tonight. In fact, one of the other guys there told me that she injured her back, and was due to be back TOMORROW.
Cut-off time!
Seriously dude, if you don’t just hurry up and make a move already I’m coming down there to do it myself. Do you really want to be responsible for the break up of a marriage and family? Do you?
The anarchist in me says yes.
Maybe I’ll do it. After that anything you do would have to look good.
If @gorzilla doesn’t do it then I will, then she’ll be all “I know that being gay isn’t a choice but I think I’m going to give it a go anyway”
Wait, so what did I miss on today’s episode of Days of TAY Lives? Is Gooks sleeping with Climbey or Sketchy? Or other? Or neither? 😀
Hmm the English teacher in my head is telling me that neither should have come before other. Fuck off teacher! Oops. Detention.
He’s still torn between 2 women. Frankly I think they’ve been dragging this storyline on too long, it’s near the end of the season and they need some kind of resolution or @mrtaco will wake up suddenly and the entire thing will have been a dream
Nah, it’ll be revealed that @freezespreston is his Father, and that @powalen is his long lost brother.
And then they’ll change the guy who plays @benny because the kid hit puberty
You’re forgetting the season cliffhanger where one of the girls reveals that she is pregnant. WITH GOOKY’S FATHER FREEZEPRESTON’S CHILD.
If @freezespreston is the father of the cliffhanger baby and is the father of @mrtaco then could the baby BE Gooky himself?
@aliasalpha My slash fiction skills aren’t THAT good.
Is Kotaku having issues? I keep getting “database error” when I try to load pages.
The levels of awesome in TAY are too high, the database cannae take it cap’n!
Yeah, had that earlier today. Not sure of the cause, though it’s an intermittent (though persistent) issue it seems.
Hey @dc , I know the game isn’t your cup of tea but playing Battlefield 4 I kept following this dude in my squad around thinking damn you look like Chalky, kept getting distracted from objectives because i was following him listening to him, I checked and sure enough it’s Michael Kenneth Williams. I bet they kill him first :\
Edit: I also just read he’s gonna be in the Robocop remake, I don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing…
Omar comin’!
Haha! Robocop’s got a pretty incredible cast. Holder from The Killing in particular!
Kotaku’s back \o/
But at what cost?
Well….that was a boring day with no TAY.
I ended up being more productive today than I am most days. The site should break down more often.
Strange person. 😛
..I managed to read like 6 chapters in A Feast for Crows.. Yeh its quiet at work this time of year..
I missed you all.
Things I did while Kotaku was down:
— Refresh Kotaku.
That is all. Uh, also talked on Twitter a whole lot. And played the Aveline PS4 content for AC4. I went to the gym too. Watched the Serrels live stream as well.
I watched some arma videos in between refreshing kotaku.
How’s the Aveline stuff for AC4?
Good while it lasts, but that’s half hour or so at most. Feels a little disconnected and unnecessary. Free is free, though. Can’t complain! Visually stunning too!
Did you get the disguise mechanic from Liberation or was it just her assassining it up all the way?
Basically same game play mechanics as AC4. (Minus the ships.)
Thought it probably would be, it seemed unlikely that they’d have added the changing rooms & variable costumes with discrete wanted levels just for a little addon content. I was just thinking that since they’re releasing liberation on PS3 it might be something they could mostly copy & paste
PS4 and going to the gym still sounds like a pretty productive day , heck thats more than I did at work. A large portion was spent reading and trying to decide on what starter to take in Pokemon LeafGreen when it arrives, felt like a 10 year old again.
I’m thinking…..bulbasaur, just because way back I owned red/blue and took the other two. And he’s pretty cool..evolves into a big, tanky plant guy who likes to lay in the sun.
Welp, that was a pretty boring day without the AU allure group up and running!
Sup all?
The Elephant Man is one of the most tragic films I have seen. It’s also one of the most brilliant. I think I just might have to include it in my top 6-10 along with Blade Runner, Dances with Wolves, Raging Bull and Goodfellas.
There I did it! Finally – my top ten!
You had me at Gattaca, Buble.
You had a few of my favourites in your top ten, but seriously it’s so difficult to pick only ten.
Yeah, if I made the list today it’d probably be slightly different.
I have no idea what my top 10 would be. So many movies I love.
I know, this list took me friggin’ ages to narrow down.
I think I could probably do a top 10 list for each genre.
“I am not an animal” => lose my shit 🙁
Oh I’m bawlin’ my eyes out come the end credits.
Movies I’m looking forward to in the next few months.
American Hustle, Dec 12.
Frozen, Dec 26.
Saving Mr. Banks, Jan 09.
Her, Jan 16. (Arcade Fire scores this movie. Also released the day after my birthday! XD)
Inside Llewyn Davis, Jan 16.
12 Years a Slave, Jan 30
Labor Day, Feb 06.
Man, Oscar season is awesome. So many incredible movies. What are you guys looking forward to?
12 Years A Slave and American Hustle look fantastic.
There’s got to be a making of a meat or two. You guys’ll probably want to do another Hobbit meat too, right? That’s Boxing Day, I think.
Anchorman 2, Dec 19.
Not on my watch. 😛
…
Something seems familiar.
It’s kind of a big deal.
Tay, never leave us again.
Holy shit guys she’s in this Japanese looking dress thing and is absolutely stunning.
…is what I was going to say at around 10:30. Then kotaku happened. Haven’t done anything since then other than graduate. But we’re in overtime now. We’re going to Wingman Girl’s place because Pillowmaker can’t get into the bar with everyone else. And Sketchbook is joining us. Omg.
Also she made mention of Japanese trains. Conversation starter!
Sounds like a promising conversation starter, get to chatting man!
Congrats, my friend! You did good on graduating!
Just remember:
Free beer.
You get beer for free when you graduate now days? They never offered ME free beer when I graduated a few years ago!
Sure I’d not have taken I since I don’t drink and I didn’t go to the actual graduation ceremony anyway but it would have been nice to be offered!
Oh no, this is something entirely different. I forced him into a bet. If he asks her out, I buy him a drink, if he doesn’t, he owes me one.
Oh yeah I remember seeing that. You should have gone for a bigger penalty though, it’s easy to wuss out if you only have to pay a few bucks for a drink, harder to do if your forfeit is a new release game or something more expensive.
But he never would have accepted it if it were something bigger, in which case it would have been no motivation whatsoever.
hmm that’s a point, it’d need to be a balancing act
When I graduated university, we were one of the first to walk out of the hall. First stop? Bar. 😀
Hey Guys! Hey, hey… guess what I did?
I made it to the end of a game! Like to the credits and everything! I just finished (the main storyline of) Pokemon Y. Winning.
Recently I’ve been the kind of person who buys games, but never plays them. Glad something came along that kinda sucked me back in. Now I’m inspired to tackle my steam games list… maybe. :-/
I’m the same, all buy and no play.
Same here. I r sad panda. 🙁
Ugh. Kids.
Ugh indeed.
I know two (separate) people who’ve had their first child in the last month.
I think they’re still too fatigued to realise that their lives are now over. 😛
Sure kids may be horrible, noisy, smelly, messy, irritating, noisy, sticky, expensive, noisy, time consuming, noisy and all round awful but…
…
I got nothin’…
Yeah, but then you get to mooch off of them when you get senile! That’s my plan anyway!
Well that might be an asset but I’d have thought the money you save by not having them in the first place would mean you’d not need to mooch.
Though I can see their value as emergency rations or a distraction technique during a zombie apocalypse so I guess they have some uses
Any money I saved from not having kids would simply go towards my shopping addiction, haha! And even though in a zombie apocalypse anything goes, even I would think twice about using my kids to distract zombies! Strangers, yeah sure, better them then me, but I might hesitate to push my kid infront of a zombie!
Note: I don’t have kids, nor do I plan on having kids for a long time!
That level of sentiment will not serve you well in the post apocalyptic world but never mind, I’ll say sorry after I shoot your zombified corpse
I never said I wouldn’t! I’d just think about it first. It would depend on how old I was 😛 anyway, I plan on holding up in Coles come the zombie apocalypse. Big roller doors, plentiful food, lots of water. That’s all you need!
I’m going to a friend’s house. They play enough zombie apocolupse games, I’ll be OK, right?
Weird. The bar up the top is telling me to log in but I can comment no problem.
me too
Me three
me four.
Me three.
Me potato.
Same. I also got stuck on a page that simply said “bool(true)” at the top of it for a bit. Better than database error and error 503 at any rate.
There’s also a few missing stories from the front page. I’m guessing someone had to restore a database from a backup
Also, I really don’t like the BSOD-style error page.
It is either really bright and annoying… or makes me think “oh god, I haven’t had a BSOD in 5+ years, what caused this?!” 😐
SPAMSPAMSPAM
If you got or are going to get Bravely Default and you haven’t already, add me:
4038-6136-9136
(don’t forget to send me your friend code too )
I was going to pick it up tomorrow but I haven’t really heard anyone say much about it yet.
I swear i replied the first time you posted this… but apparently that comment sort of disappeared…
Anyway im getting it this weekend and my code is:
2079-6679-5086
Also if anyone else wants to add me, do so, ive had this thing for ages and only have one friend :z
@popdart5:
Just managed to luck out and build Ooi (Kitakami’s sister ship) and a second I-168 back to back. Got Ooi to 10 and remodeled, time for some torpedo sister sniping.
EDIT: Also it looks like this week’s maintenance and updates they will probably introduce a new upgrade (possibly torpedo cruiser update!) to one of Kiso or Tama, probably Kiso. Not confirmed but they’ve said there’s a new Kai form coming to a 5000-ton class Light Cruiser that was part of the 5th Fleet (Kiso and Tama were both flagships of that fleet at some point) and which participated in the Northern campaign (i.e. the Aleutian Islands off Alaska).
Things are coming up Neg! \o/ Grats. I’m going to grind a little bit later.
Also, you may want to know that apparently the Christmas events will use lots of bauxite (i.e. will be carrier-heavy).
There are apparently hidden stats in the game that the players don’t know about. Specifically they’ve said that light cruisers don’t get the most out of 20.3cm guns which answers the question I had recently about what value the 15.5cm Triple Gun I got was good for since the 20.3 out-stats it and anything that could use a 15cm could use a 20cm.
Apparently at the end of ‘season one’ of the game they’ll be doing a Midway event which will be carrier-focused and will drop the carrier Taiyo. Apparently they’re also going to introduce a system at some point which raises level / stat caps for specific ships when you meet individual conditions for that ship, which could be interesting (perhaps remodel upgrades that require more than just leveling?)
Could be something like how they might keep track of x number of kills of a certain type of ship which they could use to fulfill the upgrade. I imagine it could be something like that.
Dang, now I need to grind more carriers. I don’t have enough material for everything. -_-
Just keep plugging away at it and get yourself into World 2 and World 3. I got quite a few light carriers in World 2, including multiple Junyou and Hiyou, both of which can operate nearly as many planes as a full carrier. Hiyou is my second-best carrier and has better price-performance in sorties than Akagi.
The fleet carriers seem to be pretty hard to obtain. So far I’ve only had one through construction and none through drops. Also it’ll probably be the later event levels that are using carriers. Last event the first two event zones were a lot easier – E1 was roughly as hard as 2-3 or 2-4 and I’m confident my current fleet would get through E2 as well.
Anyway, World 2 should unlock more expeditions once you get in there. There’s one expedition that takes a few hours but rewards ~250 bauxite. I’ve been running that repeatedly since the weekend and my bauxite supplies are back up to 2500 from ~200. Ammo supplies are up as well and fuel is my main limiting factor. It’s not that my Kongo-class BBs are that expensive to run (~70-80 for the full fleet per node), it’s the cost to repair them when they get damaged that’s killing me I think.
Last night in addition to getting Ooi to 10, I got all my Destroyers sparkling again and re-ran 3-2 with them a few times. First attempt I got through to the second battle node and dodged every attack up until the torpedo round in the second battle, where one of the enemy heavy cruisers managed to land a crit on Murasame and I had to withdraw to avoid her sinking. 🙁 So close to making it through the gauntlet. 🙁 I got another Haruna drop too, but I already have her so I used her as remodeling materials. Felt bad. But my Destroyers are getting a lot stronger now, most of them are 4-stars from remodeling and I’ve actually maxed out the armor stat on Murasame now too. A bit more and I think 3-2 will be done.
Hullo!
Hi!
Who’s this guy?
Wow, TAY was quiet today. Where were you guys?
Tay shat itself
I can’t remember what TAY going down resembled:
Was it a pornstar, an Italian footballer, or the Titanic?
A porn star with an Italian footballer on the titanic?
Any one else watch the Giz/LH/Kotaku live stream today?
Needed more Mark.
More @markserrels, more of the time!
Has anyone tried logging back in yet? I’m afraid if I log in while logged in Xzibit will jump out of the screen and start shouting things at me.
Mine just takes me to my profile page. I was going to try logging out, but I fear I won’t be able to log back in if I do.
Alright, logging out then logging back in doesn’t do anything, still have the same bar up the top.
ahh glad it’s not just me.. wth is going on here?! I’m only seeing one story from today, then it jumps down to 10pm last night..
There were a bunch of articles posted today — from the US (like GOG offering refunds and Steam lagging behind both GOG ‘n Origin) and a few local posts (favourite movies of the year, X1 selling 65,917 units in the first three days on sale ‘n smashing the old launch record held by the Wii at 32,900 units, etc.) but everytime you’d try to access them… there were database errors and site issues; it became entirely unusable.
Affected Giz and LH too.
Eventually all article links redirected back to the KotAU index, then the site was taken down entirely and all links redirected to the index of KotUS… and then when it came back up, they must’ve restored a backup from last night… but still seem to be some issues with the site, like the login system.
Poor Ben (and… I want to say Rob, is he the other guy?), I don’t think he ever gets to sleep anymore. 😐
@welbot how’s the job going?
job is ok. seems they are happy with me in the new role, but yet to sort out pay issue 😐 apparently they’re gonna chat with me about it this Friday though when some of the staff from Adelaide come up for our Xmas dinner, so who knows. Have to wait and see.
The pant clip on my Turtle Beach P11s snapped. 🙁
I’ve bought a couple of Turtle Beach headsets (PX21, Z2) from EB over the years (on sale, 40-60% off or something like that) and the sound quality ‘n design is good… but build quality? Urgh. So fragile. 🙁
I’ve had an Afterglow wireless headset for 6+ months, and it’s not perfect but I’d call it better value (even if the LEDs get annoying) than the Turtle Beach’s. No problems yet, but if they last more than a year I am probably converted.
turtle beach, eh? I had a set a while back. had em for about 3 months then this happened while putting them on
not big loss, I mean they sounded pretty ok, but they were damn uncomfortable.
replaced em with one of these & i’m really happy with em.
Hey the user profile link is back! After all this time I have no unread replies…
Hopefully things are stable now. I’d rather not spend another day without TAY.
ALL TAY ALL THE WORKING DAY
So far so good with no databank errors..HOORAY! Also HUMPDAAAYY
I don’t know if I can return to TAY. I’ve done some things I’m not proud of like …
work.Gross…
No matter how much I scrub I still feel dirty … ;_;
Just have surgery and take the week off work. It worked for me ;D WINRAR!*hands you a bottle of Bleach. and a steal wool scrubber*
I went to .com.au and it took me to a scary site full of scary people with guns
Enough guns to take down Godzilla apparently.
“Enough guns to take down Godzilla” would be a good name for one of those brainless mob shooters like serious sam
What’s up with Sam anyway, why is he so Serious? Did someone tell him he’s too laid back or something
Huh… I swear I have some comments missing and now there’s rogue notifications that lead nowhere D:
No there isn’t *shifty eyes*
I upgraded to Office 2013 and now I have cute bread slices, apples, milk containers with cute smiley faces on the border of my productivity suite.
Because you should always eat while working on important documents. What could go wrong?
SO CUTE.
http://i.imgur.com/0wRLKRl.png
Hi new people! We can be friends! (but only if you like Xenoblade) :3
<3
Hi Greenius! What’s a Xenoblade?
The secret to becoming my best friend!
My question is much like the one Strange posted, I don’t know what it is. Why is it good?
Reasons, man. Reasons!
(@dc)
Oh. It’s you.
*shows myself the door*
😛 jk, I like XenobladeNever played it, no intention to play it (although that’s more because I don’t have a Wii)
GET A DOLPHIN!
Wha…?
Huh…?
Uhh…?
Oh, I get it, you must be “special”. IT’S NICE TO MEET YOU, THAT’S A VERY NICE HELMET YOU’RE WEARING! *pats on head*
MY HAND IS A DOLPHIN
“specials”, “specials” everywhere. THAT’S VERY INTERESTING *pats on head*, I JUST HAVE TO GO OVER HERE FOR A MINUTE! *runs away*
My copy is still shelved 😮 after bravely default I might actually start it, theirs a 2-3 month gaming drought you never know what’s liable to happen
D:
Speaking of BD, you’re killing it! So many things :O
I’m not new.
Then the hello was obviously not for you, GOSH!
I bought Freeze a copy and had to talk to a scary woman in the process, that’s got to count for something!
You met your future wife!
True story: I haven’t been back to that EB since.
Hi everyone. It’s good to have TAY back! I was getting very sick of being redirected to the US site every time I opened my home page 🙁
Edit: does anyone else think it’s odd that Tomb Raider is being jazzed up for the next/current gen of consoles? Surely it’s sold just about all the copies it’s going to, and any graphical improvements are only going to be incremental? Hope they’re not going to use the sales on this version to determine the future of the franchise.
Could be an exercise to get the dev team familiar with the hardware- something with a baked in audience that needs little extra design work.
But the baked in audience would be more likely to buy something they haven’t played yet, surely!
Honestly? If I had a PS4 I’d seriously consider rebuying it, it’s fantastic.
Yeah, I’ve got the PC version which is probably as good as it’s going to get and I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t tempting to get on PS4 as well. XD
More hair technology
Surely advancements in hair technology can’t get any more … advanced.
Yeah yeah!
Until we have split-end technology in video games, I WON’T BE SATISFIED.
Banned in Australia for its portrayal of women.
But didn’t you watch the trailer. THEY CHANGED HER FACE/EYES SLIGHTLY. IT CHANGES THE WHOLE DYNAMIC OF THE GAME! I HAVEN’T BEEN THIS EXCITED SINCE THEY RELEASED THE MALIBU STACY WITH A NEW HAT!
Let’s forget our troubles with a big bowl of Strawberry Ice Cream!
Regarding Tomb Raider: EB has a preorder price of $90 for the ‘Definitive Edition’. Perhaps it includes all DLC..? Even then, not worth full retail.
It’s not like they went through great efforts to release it, the version is probably the pre-console pc draft before the performance changes were made, financially speaking they can’t lose money by doing it.
I’ll probably hold off on getting it on PS3 until I buy a PS4 at some point in the far-future, now.
http://chn.ge/1e46bwM
Petition for a worthy cause.
Finally, something I can get behind!
Signed. I am the greetest slacktivist.
You better believe I signed. This cause is very important to me!
also, while we’re getting all activism-ish, dont forget to support this important cause
Saturday Meat Idea:
The Game Masters exhibition starts at the Powerhouse museum this Friday. Might be a good thing to do on Saturday afternoon seeing as a bunch of people are in Sydney and there’s a couple of people who can’t make Saturday night?
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/gamemasters/
Tickets are $22 for adults or $12 if you’re a student (ID required)
Thoughts? I know the likes of Pez was keen to catch up with everyone.
Speaking of Saturday night, I’ve contacted the Bavarian for a booking. I did also check Wagamama but they couldn’t guarantee a booking our size (18 people, which gives us 2 extra spots). Waiting to hear back from the Bavarian about what time they can fit us in.
Ultimately, the earlier the better because there are a couple of people who will only be joining us for drinks afterwards so we don’t want to still be there at 10:30 like last time heh.
Anyway, details for that below:
Booking requested for 18 people. 14 confirmed, 2 I have no idea you were interested by didn’t technically confirm and 2 spare spots.
Asked for 6pm time slot.
CONFIRMED:
@batguy, @cakesmith, @cj, @doc_what, @gingerchris86 (+1), @masha2932, @powalen, @rize, @blaghman, @rocketman, @steve-o_the_deve-o (+ Mrs. Steve-O), @sernobulus
MAYBE CONFIRMED? YOU’RE A LITTLE AMBIGUOUS IN YOUR RESPONSE. I BOOKED YOU A SPOT ANYWAY:
@alexpants, @mrtaco
DIDN’T HEAR BACK FROM THESE PEOPLE. 2 SPOTS TO FIGHT OVER:
@fatshadylive, @harli, @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian, @ruffleberg
Sounds good.
Cool, I’d be up for that. Whereabouts is the Powerhouse anyway? I don’t think I’ve ever been 😛
Ultimo, behind Haymarket.
Yeah… that place … with all the things and stuff.
There’s also an arcade at Haymarket. With dodgem cars. And laser force.
Oh man, the dodgems.
Breaking your neck is a rite of passage at Sydney Meats.
Woah, really? Here I was thinking it’d be at some far-off Neverland when it’s actually just around the corner from my work 😛
I have an extended family thing early afternoon that day but Im tempted to try and get out of it now
http://www.aturtleslifeforme.com/2011/06/freezer-meals-on-cheap.html
Lifehacker’s actually been useful for once.
I’ve been meaning to do something like this for a while.
We’ve already greatly cut our grocery bill by buying meat in bulk once a month and getting fruit and vegetable boxes delivered as well as me baking snacks for the kids instead of buying them but there’s been way too many occasions this year when I just haven’t been well enough to prepare something for dinner so we’ve squandered any money we saved by using it on takeaway food (because apparently Mr. Strange lost the ability to cook after we got married. 😛 ). This kind of preparation would save us having to get gross fast foods so often as well as making it easy for someone else to take care of dinner when I’m unwell. \o/
@mrtaco: How’d the party go?
Edit: Arrrrgh reply fail. Was going to make some comment about storing stuff in microwave and forgot to cancel reply.
Microwave Tacos? 😛
How convenient 😛Still that’s awesome that you’re taking lots of care of what your kids eat 🙂
Maybe Strange should make me a batch of freezer meals too. XD
I think the proverb about giving a man a fish versus teaching a man to fish applies here.
I’ll invite you over one day when I’m preparing all the foods and you can learn how to do it for yourself.
Fish? I don’t want no sea food! 😛
I was waiting for that! Thanks for not letting me down. 😀
Also, I should mention that this system I’m going with freezes the uncooked food, then you defrost it and cook it. so there’s still cooking involved. So even if I did give you some freezer meals you’d have to learn how to cook them.
Sounds nightmarish! D:
Oh man, don’t even get me started on that “convenient” loss of his. Or I’d have to tell you all about how on the night after I gave birth to our son, when I got home from the hospital I was still expected to cook dinner for everyone. And that’s not even the worst story! 😛
He sounds like a monster! Which is for the best since he married a monster! 😛
The Shield season 5 is some of the best storytelling I’ve ever seen. It’s just flat-out brilliant. Everything’s important – every moment. Nothing’s wasted. It’s all so intricate, so meticulous, and yet easy to watch, desperately exciting, unbelievably tense. And the characters are superb. Just superb.
I’m doing my annual rewatch, and it’s just as incredible now as it always was.
You rewatched Darabont’s episode yet?
Something something Mob City something something watch.
Nope, that’s season 6. I’ll get there.
You damn well better. >:|
😀
I’ve noticed (amongst my friends) that there is one problem with The Shield — there’s no novelty value or gimmick that catches their attention.
When I told them to watch The Sopranos: “Oh, the one with mafia?! Awesome!”
When I told them to watch Breaking Bad: “Is that the one where he’s a drug dealer and the guy [spoiler from ‘Face Off’]? Okay!”
When I told them to watch The Shield: “Eh… what’s it about? Cop show? Like Law & Order? Huh, better than The Sopranos? Eh… who’s in it? Wasn’t he in Fantastic Four? Eh… maybe. HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEW EPISODE OF DOCTOR WHO?”
Their loss, but still annoying. >:|
Pretty much this. Its hook is obvious if you watch the first episode, but it really can’t be summarised in any compelling sentence.
@negativezero I may have gotten a little distracted last night and instead of grinding for more drops and levels I ended up reading the manga (I think it was the official one but I’m not certain). It is surprisingly good with the number of references it throws in and I chuckled more than a little at a few of the jokes. Now I’m keen for whenever the anime comes out if they keep the same sort of self-referencing humour.
I might have to find a copy of that.
I’m also kind of interested to see more details of the Vita game. Specifically whether it’s just the ability to play the normal game on a Vita or if it’s a proper stand-alone thing.
I vaguely recall that it was mostly going to be similar but with more actual tactics in the combat. The wiki says it will be a “full-scale naval strategy simulation game” so it sounds like it might be completely different. Apparently it’s coming out in 2014 at some point as will the anime so I’ll be keeping an eye out for both of them.
Edit: So it turns out there’s about five different mangas strips running at the moment. I was reading the one I found here http://www.mangapark.com/manga/kantai-collection-kancolle/c1-6/1
NUMENERA: TALES FROM THE NINTH WORLD
For Those Who Came In Late; http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/
TONIGHT at 7:30 SA time! How did Glasshands get a hold of part of the city’s defence array? What’s up with the orange hoods? Don’t they know it’s a fashion faux pas? Will flexing ever impress anyone?
@tigerion @popdart5 @mythamphetamine @blaghman @novacascade @tech_knight @mawt
Maybe I should build a flexing robot and we’ll have better luck actually impressing people like “Wow! A machine that flexes!” 😛
It is possible to become skilled in flexing, specialised even. It would be a worthwhile investment. 😛
That should make all Might Checks to impress ladies one step easier.
Rolls a natural twenty, turns out it’s a lesbian. #storyofmylife
Oh please I want this to happen!
Flexing isn’t my number one priority in specialisation, as much as I would like it to be haha, fleshling females don’t really do anything for Scrappa, unless the girl REALLY tried to get his attention (Maybe). For me it’s using my heavy crossbow as upgrading it so much from the normal crossbow has made it harder to aim (Being a Jack I actually get a one step penalty for using it, unless point blank non-combat range like our last session) so I’m hoping I could specialise in using my heavy crossbow so that I no longer get that penalty
It looks like we may have another full house tonight. \o/
Not sure if I’ll be home in time tonight. I might have to duck out and see a fellow nano about this gem to see if he knows anything and I’ll meet you guys at Glasshands
Just jump in whenever you want
Someone at work walked up to my desk and asked if I had time to do a job for him. Nearly completely lost it and burst out laughing. Luckily I kept it in and said I only have 2 more days left here.
You should have said yes and done the shoddiest job ever then tarted the result up with stickers and glitter
The last couple of weeks I’ve been insanely stressed out about things and last night I decided to give myself a day where I don’t care about any thing. I just exist and do things I like and eat tasty food and talk to my favourite people. It’s a good day.
Best day. 😀
Okay, I’ll listen. I like the guitars in opening track already. XD
Finally.
Keep me posted on your thoughts.
Loved the album. Can’t tell you a favourite track cause it all blurred together in the best way possible.
Haha, I’m sure you’ll listen to it a whole lot more now that you finally have so you’ll have favourites soon enough.
My favourites are Demons and I Need My Girl, though the whole album is excellent.
Agreed. Worthy follow up to High Violet!
I actually prefer it to High Violet, that doesn’t appear to be the popular opinion though.
Your favourite people?
And you’re here talking to us?
naaaaaaw 🙂
Oh god, he hasn’t talked to me today yet D:
That’s what I do every time I go to the psychiatrist, on that day if I fancy a doughnut or a kebab I just buy it and don’t even let myself think “I really shouldn’t”.
I’m also more than a little disturbed by the fact I’ve just mentally invented the doughnut kebab
*patents Doughnut Kebab before @aliasalpha can*
That okay mate, you can even eat one before I do…
None of the 6 Xbox360 wireless controllers in my house will charge. Two of them will work, but only if they’re plugged in at all times. The rest won’t work at all. The amount of money I’ve spent on play and charge kits for these things is ridiculous.
Same with mine. The chargers work for a short time and then they’ve got to be constantly attached. D:
And this is the controller that “wins” in polls about the best controller! 😛
Seriously though, I just wanna play Lost Odyssey in a comfy seat, not the only seat the controller cable will reach. 🙁
PS3’s controller has it’s own problems though. Like how short that charging cable is. No way that can reach my couch. XD
Dude, it’s a regular USB. They come in superlong sizes for really cheap/
Oh, for real? I thought the connection to the actual controller was some special patented Sony dealy… this changes every thing. XD
Yeah, it’s a standard mini-USB connector.
Oh man, I feel stupid after all these years of bitching about this. Haha!
@dc It’s okay, I feel stupid for forgetting I can use regular batteries in 360 controllers!
that dude you met that bought me my ps4 brought me over an 8 meter usb cord cause he was sick of seeing me sitting on the floor with my troller plugged in, now I can like stand outside and play games peering through the window like some kind of stalker. Also the most hilarious usb cable i have came with the PS3s headset, it’s literally less than 10 cm long.
We have a really long one that reaches the comfiest couch seat that I have no idea where it came from, too. Must have been free with some device or other because I’m fairly certain we’ve never actually paid for a USB cable.
Plug the charge cable into an iPhone wall charger? From memory they don’t need to be connected to the console.
My play ‘n charge kits all stopped working as well. Within a couple of months, usually.
I have dozens and dozens and dozens of Sanyo Eneloop rechargeable batteries for camera stuff — now I keep 10 of them aside to share between three controllers (they take half a day to charge, or a couple of hours with a quick charger) and they are sooooooooooooooooo good.
Not cheap (I bought all of mine from overseas, but probably $15 for a pack of four batteries or $40 for batteries and the charger) but they last me weeks at a time (or, 23 hours into Black Flag since last changing ‘n they’re fine) and while I can’t play and charge… they don’t just randomly stop working on me either.
I have loads of batteries(handy when you have young children) so I just did a little mental cheer because I’d forgotten you could even use regular batteries.
Except now I can’t find any of the regular battery packs for the 360 controllers. 😛
Almost everyone I know who bought play & charge kits have said they sucked. I’m more than a little happy that my basic Duracell rechargeable AAs have lasted me several years so far. They can be a pain to mess about with but keeping one set on the charger means I’m rarely without power.
I gave up on the shitty Play & Charge kits years ago, mine stopped holding more than ~15 mins charge about a year in. I just buy big boxes of AA batteries from Bunnings or similar when I’m there and that’ll last me a good part of a year or more.
REPOST I guess…
Saturday Meat Idea:
The Game Masters exhibition starts at the Powerhouse museum this Friday. Might be a good thing to do on Saturday afternoon seeing as a bunch of people are in Sydney and there’s a couple of people who can’t make Saturday night?
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/gamemasters/
Tickets are $22 for adults or $12 if you’re a student (ID required)
Thoughts? I know the likes of Pez was keen to catch up with everyone.
Speaking of Saturday night, I’ve contacted the Bavarian for a booking. I did also check Wagamama but they couldn’t guarantee a booking our size (18 people, which gives us 2 extra spots). Waiting to hear back from the Bavarian about what time they can fit us in.
Ultimately, the earlier the better because there are a couple of people who will only be joining us for drinks afterwards so we don’t want to still be there at 10:30 like last time heh.
Anyway, details for that below:
Booking requested for 18 people. 14 confirmed, 2 I have no idea you were interested by didn’t technically confirm and 2 spare spots.
Asked for 6pm time slot.
UPDATE: Booking is for 5:30 (I hope that’s not too early for people). Only time they could fit us in.
CONFIRMED:
@alexpants, @batguy, @cakesmith, @cj, @doc_what, @gingerchris86 (+1), @masha2932, @powalen, @rize, @blaghman, @rocketman, @steve-o_the_deve-o (+ Mrs. Steve-O), @sernobulus
MAYBE CONFIRMED? YOU’RE A LITTLE AMBIGUOUS IN YOUR RESPONSE. I BOOKED YOU A SPOT ANYWAY:
@mrtaco
DIDN’T HEAR BACK FROM THESE PEOPLE. 2 SPOTS TO FIGHT OVER:
@fatshadylive, @harli, @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian
I am of the confirmed status for dinner. But maybe not for anything before it because I’ll likely be at work.
HA!
I will join Pow in this:
HA!
I NEED THE OVERTIME
HA!
DON’T YOU DARE GO BUMPER CARS WITHOUT ME
Or, if you decide to go, let me know and I’ll bail from work
I would say there’s a 95% chance of that happening. What am I meant to do? Entertain @rize all afternoon?
Speaking of which, do you have your plans yet @rize? I should be home Friday night about 11pm-ish if you were super keen to come up then.
@cakesmith Gunna come up on Saturday. If there’s stuff happening during the day then I’ll plan to be at yours before you need to leave for it so I can dump the car etc. to avoid hassles.
@rize I would say if you aimed for like, lunchtime that would give me enough time to put pants on in the morning. You can’t rush these things. Also means no rush to get back into the city.
Entirely up to you with what time you leave though seeing as you have to lug @blaghman around as well.
@cakesmith Lunch sounds manageable, cause it means I wouldn’t have to leave till like 9am.
Holy shit, I think we just made a plan.
A plan involving Canberra people!
@rize Well that just won’t do. Let’s cancel everything and reconvene Tuesday-ish to make plans for the previous Saturday.
Well that was the most productive morning i’ve had in a while, with Kotaku not working an all…
i didn’t like it
I slept in this morning, and when I got up TAY wasn’t working so I got ready to be all productive…but then they went and fixed it. How dare they?! 😛
If TAY wasn’t going to work today I’d watch my top ten movies of all time back to back.
Back to the Future part I, II and III, 3 times? and then the first one again for good measure?
GATTACA! GIRL, INTERRUPTED! PAN’S LABYRINTH! THE LAST CRUSADE! ALIENS! SIGNS! SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK! THE LION KING! LARS AND THE REAL GIRL! CHILDREN OF MEN!
SOOO.
BACK TO THE FUTURE PART I,BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II,BACK TO THE FUTURE PART III,BACK TO THE FUTURE PART I,BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II,BACK TO THE FUTURE PART III,BACK TO THE FUTURE PART I
is all i’m hearing
I do like those movies. And I’m one of those weird people who loves the third movie as much as the first two.
that’s because the 3rd is essentially a western and it’s awesome?
*mental hug*
Also, the OST is so damn good. I love the music so damn much.
Plus Einstein has an ancestor called Copernicus. AMAZING.
It ‘s a Western? Spoilers ;(.
Joking, I think everyone’s seen the movies.
It’s a really great list, but I imagine some of those might suffer being watched right after some others on that list. You should definitely try and rewatch your top 10 movies, but maybe just one a day might work better so you don’t accidentally ruin some of your favourite experiences.
Good advice! I don’t think I could sit through all those movies back-to-back anyway. Somehow I can marathon games and TV shows, but I can’t do that with movies.
Yeah, I’m the same. And I doubt I could watch anything at all after some of those heavier movies on your list.
It’s okay there’s a petition for getting compensation, see the previous page 🙂
I’LL SIGN THAT!
You know what you have to do!
http://chn.ge/1e46bwM
aaand signed… I REQUIRE ALL THE REIMBURSEMENTS BECAUSE NOW I ACTUALLY HAD TO DO WHAT MY WORK “PAYS” ME TO DO…
Yes I demand compensation for production that was gained during this outage!
Uh, I like Cheerios?
IT’S BACK. AND JUST IN TIME FOR MY LUNCH BREAK.
Yo.
DON’T EAT TAY! WE JUST GOT IT BACK!
But it’s so…
TAYsty.
I didn’t know you could get Doom on GBA! I would have picked that up with the games I purchased the other day /o\
Sigh… *refreshes tracking page* …games still in ‘Murica 🙁
Plane tickets double checked and printed, Muse tickets printed, Metric ticket info written down. Nothing to worry about except hype
HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE
seriously i am so excited for this. I have been looking forward since July.
WE HAVE ARRIVED AT PANIC STATION.
fuck i forgot accomadation FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
I really didnt, shame on you guys for thinking im a idiot 😛You still need to get in contact with SteveO? You don’t have @gorzilla number by any chance do you? You could probably call him and ask if he can get in contact with SteveO.
I did that exact thing this morning and found out what i needed too THANKS NOB I WILL SEE YOU FRIDAY LUNCH I SHOULD DM you my phone number on twitter
Yeah!
then I can sext youKeep in contact with you!Have fun in Sydney!
But why do your Metric tickets say Perth?
*heart attack*
Is it bad that I rescheduled the plumber to come today at 8:30am because I couldn’t be bothered hauling my arse out of bed at midday yesterday after a 6 hour skype session till 7am? 😛 But hooray! It looks like the shower’s being redone! It’s been my biggest gripe about this house (well, gripe that can’t be kicked out the door).
Soooo, studying for my exam tomorrow is going a lot smoother than last time I think. It’s a lot easier trying to study with a clear head. Plus I’m kinda looking forward to it cos straight afterwards some of my friends from Launceston are coming over for the night and we shall be getting drunk. Good times ahead, making them watch Tim and Eric, Childrens Hospital and the like again.
Good luck with the exam tomorrow. Also, next time you’re in Launceston, we need to have a meat, we can’t be the only state with multiple TAYbies not to have had a meat.
Thanks 🙂 I’ll see what I can do, spending time in Launceston is fairly hard for me, but I’m trying to work out a time to get up there some time.
Arctic Monkeys tickets purchased.
Yussssssss
Whaaa? Tickets!? WHERE AND WHEN!?
http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=ARCTICMO14
😉
06 May 2014 in Sydney, not too sure about other cities.
That’s a day after my birthday. It must be a sign.
Random D.C. story: When I was in London a friend and I sang Mardy Bum quite loudly on Baker St. Take that, Sherlock Holmes!
I call shenanigans. DC would never sing in public.
I used to drink, okay? 😛
Drunk singing is the best singing.
@dc would never go to a city!
Director of ‘Hours‘ stuck an album on imgur where he went through what it was like working with Paul Walker — http://imgur.com/a/kVxns
I never disliked him but I have been suffering from some Paul Walker fatigue, so at the start I was like: “Okay, so he’s a nice guy… is that really so strange?”.
Then: “So… nerds are defined by regurgitating memes and playing WoW? Heh… didn’t being a nerd once imply some sort of technology-related expertise or ability?”
.
But by the end it was: “Aww, man… I think I’m gonna watch Hours ._.”
I want to watch it now too.
Meetings! For days!
And then I find out that Kotaku has been dead for days.
COINCIDENCE?
Jerk! It’s all your fault! =P
yes.
For those having bad days/weeks:
The most relaxing song in the world: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMmMNyTwePY
For those who want relaxation and a laugh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e59guruVL4o
Oh for fuck’s sake, what is it with all these 360s and their stuff breaking?! First the newest slim version in the bedroom has some kind of issue which may or may not be the power brick. Rendering it unusable,regardless.
And now after all the trouble finding an original battery pack for the controller after the play and charge kit I’d been using died, I turn the original beige 360 on only to find that our remaining original harddrive (the other one dies a couple years ago) is dead. It was fine last night! I just wanted to play some more Lost Odyssey! :'(
So I have three Xbox 360s in the house, none of which are usable. I blame the XBone. Sabotaging its ancestors to get a foot in the door. 😛
Does seem suspicious. I also blame Obama!
Oh man…just realised how much it’s going to suck for my daughter when she gets home from school and I have to tell her all her Skylanders and Viva Pinata saves are gone. 🙁
🙁
Maybe Microsoft can save the data for you?
Not sure if it’s worth it, she’ll probably forget all about the 360 once they unwrap the Christmas WiiU.
The Christmas WiiU was killed by the Xbone..leave no survivors
At least all the character progress is saved on the skylanders themselves, and not the game.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that! Awesome, it won’t be as huge a blow as I thought, then. 😀
Do you want a hard drive for the old style ones?
Yes! Let’s make a deal. 😀
I’ll put it in the post tomorrow.
Deal done.
Thanks!
…Hmmm…just out of curiosity: do your daughters like the colour pink? I have pink fabric that needs to be made into something….
Haha. Both the girls rooms are explosions of pink.
Freeze is rather partial to the colour himself. 😛
Ooh…now I’m getting an idea…how does “Pink Souls” sound for the name of a textile project? 😛
Secret SanTAY away
Good thing this is secret so somebody doesn’t hate me forever when they dislike my gift.
I was stupid enough to make my gift highly personalised, thereby making it supremely obvious it is from me. I’ve been in panic mode since I sent it off yesterday. I’m scared they’ll hate it/laugh at it/misunderstand it. I’m also scared I forgot to actually finish the gift before I wrapped it again. 😛
I put my name on mine. Return sender address – I had to.
Michael Buble?
That’s ok, I put your name as the return to sender address as well 😛
Yay! Unwanted gifts for me!
I didn’t put my name. It’s from Santa, not me! 😛
I’m pretty sure I forgot to give my full name to Freeze when he was asking for addresses. I’m sorry, my secret SanTAY!
I didn’t either.
Packages addressed to” Powalen” or “Strange” will still get to their destination if the address is right.
Kinda more awkward when I had it sent to my work’s PO Box that has the potential of my boss picking it up 😛
(Speaking of which, if I don’t get my package before 20th of December I’ll have to wait until Jan 6 to retrieve it. I did not think this through)
Your name isn’t Powalen?
Not at night.
Is that when you dress up as BatPowalen and fight crime?
I’m sorry too, for the same reason.
…I should really send that off 😐
Maybe I should be lazy and hand it to the person if I see them on the weekend 😛
Only allowable if you dress as santa
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-203/comment-page-7/#comment-978828
Time travelling is fun. Some of these games seem like ages ago, not just last year. D:
Ahh Sleeping Dogs, decent game that feels like time has already forgotten.
Untrue – I started playing it two days before receiving GTA V in the mail. Played Sleeping Dogs to 100% completion, though, before I touched GTA V. I think Sleeping Dogs was actually a more fun game, tbh.
Also there are rumours of a sequel. Definitely not forgotten \o/
Loved the sense of being in a foreign city too.
i liked how people would curse at you in Cantonese/ Mandarin (I hope it was one of them). Made me laugh every time imagining what horrible things were being said.
You played the Dig in 2012? 🙂
I don’t think I’ve played it this century.
I’ve had The Dig since the mid ’90s. Took a long time to finish it though. XD
I never finished it.
It gets… odd… toward the end.
Also finishing it requires you to do the most annoying twitch puzzle in any adventure game I remember, where you had to catch a rat-thing by clicking in really specific places really fast IIRC. Always takes me forever when I play it (I have finished The Dig many times).
Highlight of the game is the soundtrack. Those sweeping tones and everything.
Love the hard science feel to the game too. That sense of exploration. Great, great game.
Opening cutscene is a thing of beauty to this day. So cinematic.
I love how they justify you having a shovel in the space mission because Boston is like “why the hell do I need a shovel?” then later on it turns out to be the most important item in your inventory and he’s like “what if I hadn’t brought this shovel?”
Watched The Walking Dead on SBS last night. I think it was near the end of season one. I’ve got to say, lots of Walking Dead fans are weary of the show and all that but I think season four (for the most part) has a far better feel and sense of being grounded in the real world and not as comic book-like.
Also was somewhat depressing seeing all these characters I didn’t know. (Knowing what that means in a show like The Walking Dead. XD)
Hey Taybies! You’ve had a rough few days – sorry about that, but how is everything going today?
I’m sure your days were far rougher than ours, my friend. Keep up the good work. Seems to be running fine now. Way to go! (Although there’s this. XD)
well obviously @benwhite never played Far Cry 2, otherwise he’d know to make anything run fine you just tighten the magic-nut on top of the radiator!
On a side note, that can’t have been fun! i saw a few database restores (old articles on front page) so i don’t envy you… good job though,
3 CHEERS FOR @benwhite
HIP HIP- *crickets*
HIP HIP- *crickets*
HIP HIP- …raaaah
EDIT – because all the spellingz
Ha! The goddamn magic-knot, OF COURSE!
Signed.
TAY is back, I had a giant meeting where I was easily the youngest and most inexperienced person there and I didn’t make an arse of myself, and I got a cookie.
So pretty ok today. 🙂
Plus it’s videogame night in my house, so I get to play the everloving heck out of AC4 for a few hours.Everything seems to be working as expected so far. Although it was certainly odd to get taken to the US site for a while there
You haven’t read the petition, have you
http://chn.ge/1e46bwM
I’m glad TAY is back so soon, so that the government can’t claim credit for the productivity bump the entire nation saw in the last couple of days.
HA! jokes on them! i was off sick until today so TAKE THAT PRODUCTIVITY
Productivity bump? Not in my workplace! *whips out my 3DS*
I was so scared and alone that I had to seek human interaction outside of TAY.
that would be a brilliant excuse if your kid ever asks about the circumstances of it’s conception…
“Well, it was during the great Kotaku crash of 2013…..”
I actually nearly wrote a big story similar to that, but then sushi turned up and I got distracted.
“… but then sushi turned up and I got distracted”
THIS STORY IS WRITING ITSELF!
Today Tay has been the only thing in my life that works! So thank-you. I hope the whole experience hasn’t been too stressful for you. *hugasaurus*
I can only offer Ben a mental hug! @pixel_the_ferret_viking never complains though!
They’re warm… and cuddly…
…
in my mind
I can offer some rye too.
Want some rye? Course ya do!
Thanks for fixing everything you wonderful wonderful magician 🙂
I’ve been there, brother!
Reward yourself with a big greasy sandwich.
Better for being able to read the random rantings and ravings of the loonies who inhabit this place.
I too often make just one sandwich for my lunch, thinking it’ll be enough. It never is. So then I have to get everything back out and make another one. And struggle to finish it.
Today I made a sandwich but I’m still hungry so I’m going to to make a half-sandwich. Bet I’ll still be hungry. 😛
You need a Flintstones’ garbage disposer to take care of that. (ie. a puppy of some variety!)
Her son will be a teenager soon enough and fill that role.
Instances like that are when I say “Screw it!” and go for the mega-deluxe sandwich. It’s like one and a half sandwiches but only using two slices of bread. It’s genius. 😀
I was about to suggest a double-decker sandwich. Kind of like a Big Mac with random slice of bread in the middle, but only with delicious things on it instead of misc crap.
The misc crap is pretty damn tasty though. Now I feel like a Big Mac!
All I can think of when I see a Big Mac is the Re-Burger from Yes Men.
Yay for the migraine I woke up with finally leaving.
So how’s everyone doing?
Discovered a Metric Shit-tonne of work that co-workers have left by the wayside to be picked up by someone else. only to find that that leads into more work. YAY FOR FUN!
Jobs, amirite?
I need to get a new mouse to use at work. My old Logitech MX Revolution that has lasted me through three jobs and eight years is finally at the point that the battery is lasting maybe a day or two tops (used to last for months) and this drop off has been really fast, the last four weeks it’s been noticeably worse each time. Also the rubberization on the right side is worn away and there’s a big hole in the rubber padding on the left side where my thumb has worn it all away.
Not sure what to replace it with, though.
Gaming mouse! I picked up a $15 Steelseries $90RRP mouse a while ago, I might replace my stock Dell mouse with it plus Razer mousemat. 😛
Work from home day \o/
So I’ve watched four episodes of The Shield, and I am currently uploading a chapter of my latest graphic novel (The Game) into an email to my publisher!
Also I had to do a little bit of work, but I won’t let that stop me doing the important things.
And just for those concerned that Shane and I haven’t rambled about Treme yet? We totally did that this morning in Direct Message form on Twitter. XD
Hey @dc and all other Adventure Game lovers.
Mrs. Quiz_b doesn’t like combat in video games. Normally this leaves her with almost nothing to play as most video games are about violence/combat in some way (the only exception to this is Civ, which she loves dearly but always goes for Dip, Culture or Science victories in). She also doesn’t like “twitchy” games that rely purely on reflexes.
I couldn’t get my first present for her this season as they sold out (Cheese Making kit), so I’m going to load her up on old school adventure games.
She’s played Full Throttle (loved it), she’s got Night of the Rabbit (not yet installed) and Derponia (first one), but I want to get her some absolute bang on classics. Suggestions?
My list is currently:
The Dig
Anna’s Quest (apparently)
Grim Fandango
The Day of the Tentacle
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
Monkey Island
Primordia
Resonance
Gemini Rue
Monkey Island
Ace Attorney 1-4
Sam and Max Hit The Road
Possibly The Walking Dead, 999
Botanicula
(many of the others mentioned we’ve played, i.e. Broken Sword and Longest Journey)
EDIT: You are all fantastic. I’m going present shopping this evening (physically and on dem internets)
Anna’s Quest!
@sughly, when’s that coming?
Urrrrrrrm, I’m out. I like a modicum of violence in my games.
As do I, which makes for awkward situations…such as me jumping into all the combat parts of Mass Effect, then she runs off and does the talky bits.
Ask me about Grim Fandango
So, @redartifice, what do you think about Grim Fandango?
I’m glad you asked! Grim Fandango is the brand new Adventure game set in the land of the dead! Follow travel agent Manny Calavera through an epic tale of crime and corruption set over four years!
The Day of the Tentacle
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers: This is my favourite adventure series. There’s a HD remake coming next year too, just so you know.
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars: Don’t know if you know, but the fifth game was just released. Very loyal to the earlier games. Second installment is released in January.
Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive: There’s a new entry in this series coming early next year. The more I think about it, the more this might be a better starting point for her.
The Longest Journey/Dreamfall: The Longest Journey: Dreamfall Chapters is released next year, so if she falls in love with the series you won’t have to wait long for a sequel.
Any thing in the LucasArts library, but I suspect these will be hard to track down.
She a fan of the Quantic Dream games at all? If so, I’d recommend:
– Fahrenheit
– Heavy Rain
– Beyond: Two Souls
(Which I consider classics. XD)
The Deponia sequels are way better than the first, so if she’s into that she’ll love the sequels.
Uh, will post more later. Will have to think about this some.
I’d recommend Telltale’s The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us too.
Scratches
Beneath a Steel Sky is available for free on GOG right now.
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge Special Edition (Which allows you to play in the original style as well except with voice acting.)
oh my god a cheese making kit
i love cheese
i want one
how do i submit an application to be your wife
Love me and hold me tenderly?
They’re at Home, that housewares store the last time I looked…Woah, no one told me there’d be physical contact involved in this job.
I rescind my application.
But…we could have worked so well together.
…
We’ll always have cheese, @bish. We’ll always have the dream of cheese.
Monkey Island Series are a blast, Day of the Tentacle, Broken Sword.
I’ve enjoyed the classic feel that a lot of the Wad Jet Eye games have – they are modern games but capture the old school Adventure game feels.
Oh yeah: Primordia, Resonance and Gemini Rue in particular.
If it’s violence she has a problem with, The Walking Dead won’t suit, but if the issue is twitchy mechanics, then it might be all right…?
Sadly both. She didn’t even like X-Com.
Why did I marry this woman? Oh yeah, because she’s awesome in every way except for her taste in video games.
I can relate. My wife won’t game at all, but she really enjoyed watching Heavy Rain, and making the tough (monstrous) choices in The Walking Dead. It’s almost a shame that she’s otherwise perfect 😛
I wouldn’t rule out The Walking Dead, though. The world is violent but it’s also about characters and relationships and a sprawling story. Just got to get past that immediate reaction.
Cheap DS + Ace Attorney!
Holy crap, I forgot Ace Attorney! These, so much!
Also Ghost Trick. That was a surprising gem of a game.
Hang on, is the first Ace Attorney on DS? Not 3DS?
We have one kicking around. She (and I) love the Professor Layton series.
Oh man that would be awesome.
The first 4 Ace Attorney’s are on DS. AA5 is the only one on 3DS!
EDIT: Recommended to play them in order!
They’re all on DS except the most recent one.
EDIT: In fact the first three are DS remakes of GBA games.
First four games are DS, but of course they play on a 3DS.
(Probably clarifying something everyone knows, but just in case!)
By four you mean five right? Edgeworth Investigates is still an Ace Attorney game. There’s six if you count the sequel but that’s only in Japanese.
Oh yeah! I haven’t played that game yet, though, so I don’t know if I can recommend it 😛
Monkey Island
Edit: Machinarium
Edit edit: a half decent gateway from adventure to ARPG could be DeathSpank. Just the first one, don’t bother with the others.
Edit edit edit: If you’re doing the DS thing, do you think 999 could be appropriate? More visual novel plus escape puzzles
Edit edit edit edit: If Machinarium is a hit, then Botanicula
Possibly? I’ll look into it. She loved “Monster Loves You” so she may like Visual Novel kind games.
Non-twitchy, non-combat, non-adventure tangent:
World of Goo
Eets
Journey
Scribblenauts
Papers Please
(Dredging the memory banks for games my better half has found appealing, she doesn’t like twitchy games and also got the civ v bug recently)
I second Botanicula and 999, but I’d suggest staying away from Deathspank as the humour is slightly immature and male-oriented.
Yeah, Ron Gilbert’s The Cave might be a better introduction. Really an adventure game-lite sort of game. Also Double Fine’s Stacking. All the elements of adventure games are here but looks deceptively like a platformer. Portal 2 as well.
She watched me play through Portal 2. She loves watching people play. She also provides the best commentary.
AC4: “Oh this guy doesn’t know what’s coming…he doesn’t know…he doesnOH YEAH through the skull!” “Uhh honey, you sure you don’t want to play?” “No, I wouldn’t be able to control the game and I don’t like killing people. I like watching you kill people though.”
(yes, that’s an almost word for word quote, which is why I know what type of games to look for!)
Portal 2’s coop is incredibly fun. I recommend playing through that with her. If she has trouble with the fast reflex parts you can do that while she puzzle solves?
I’d probably want to play Assassin’s Creed games if they came with a commentary like that!
Other great lines from her commentary:
“Take that! You just got killed by a guy who wears eyeliner!”
“You know, I think I would be ok on a pirate ship. I mean, aside from the obvious. I’d shoot anyone who tried anything. But I like the songs.”
The DeathSpank suggestion does come due to it being more of a whacky / humour centric game, without so much focus on gameplay elements of violence / combat. Definitely worth assessing before throwing someone into the deep end (it makes my lists since it was the first game she ever finished. In one sitting. Overnight)
I acknowledge it may not be everyone’s cup of tea cc @quiz_b
Sam and Max: Hit the Road!
Of course! *slaps forehead at missing one of the best games ever*
I didnt mention it because of Max’s psycopathic and violent tendancies
And the title has the word “hit”
http://www.adventuregamers.com/topreviewed
This might prove useful. Also this:
http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/18643
Giving the gift of adventure games? You’re the best husband ever! XD
You’re probably aware already, but as a wife may I strongly suggest it could be a bad idea to only get your wife something you like and want her to like. Make sure you also get her something you know she’d like(even if it’s something you don’t like).
Laura Marling CD and Nigella Lawson’s latest cookbook already wrapped and under the tree.
🙂
Awesome. 🙂
Also, this maybe handy: http://www.countrybrewer.com.au/categories/Cheese-Making/Starter-Kits/
Also also…does she really like cooking, or do you just think she does because she does a lot of it? 😛
She lists cooking as her primary hobby.
She sees cooking as a hobby.
A hobby.
Which is fine, because eating is possibly my primary hobby.
There’s just something about Nigella that’s so… lovely. I’m sure you feel the same.
Wait wait wait. Wait. If youre implying that Laura Marling classifies as something only your wife is into, I am turning my nose up at this thread and leaving right now!
P.S. Why is noone talking about Machinarium* (they probably are and I’m too lazy to read all the replies). But srsly, thats a pretty accessible game to people who arent usually gamers, from my experience.
Because that was the game that she first played to get back into video games! It was also the first special edition I bought. The OST and artwork were too damn good to pass up.
I notice a lack of comment on Laura Marling…
Yeah.
That may have been my Homer buying Marge a Bowling Ball moment.boooooo!
noo, that doesn’t sound right
*shakes head*
/sarcasm
#hubbyoftheyear
Buy her a bowling ball! 😀
Classic Simpsons. XD
If she has trouble with game controls then I wouldn’t recommend the recent Monkey Island games, you move the character directly and it’s pretty clunky if you’re not an experienced gamer. Stick to the remade versions of 1 & 2. They’re better anyway.
Does wanton cartoon destruction enacted by a psychopathic lagomorph and his long-suffering detective dog companion count as ‘violence’? Because if not your list doesn’t have Sam & Max and that is clearly a problem.
I think it’s when she has to do the violence herself? It’s weird, the Telltale’s Sam and Max she was fine with. Plenty of violence there.
But she’s never played the original. So it’s going in the list.
Sam & Max Hit the Road is miles better than the Telltale ones IMO.
Doesn’t do the violence herself… So… Minion games! Can I throw in the original Overlord? (At this point it’s well beyond gift suggestions, just game suggestions in general now. Sorry. Mostly trying to stick to things that are fairly easily acquired, mostly by digital download though)
…Portal? 😛
Original portal had a lot of very twitchy bits where you had to have very precise timing and aim.
Yeah, I know. But it’s nowhere near at this level:
so I figured it was worth a mention. 😛
Plus co-op!
Got an iDevice? Ghost Trick is awesome on iOS, better than the DS version. Both are good though.
You can get Flight of the Amazon Queen and Beneath a Steel Sky for free on GoG. Both are reasonable point & click adventures for their age.
Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis does have some ‘combat’ (there are optional fistfights) but it deserves to be on the list too, and I’d argue that Full Throttle had more ‘combat’ and ‘violence’ than it.
EDIT: Depending on how she feels about a horror setting, the Clock Tower games might be interesting? Horror setting but not combat or violence focused, you’re usually solving puzzles to try and hide and avoid dying. Corpse Party is along the same lines, as are the Amnesia games.
If you have a DS or 3DS you could try and get some of the Cing adventure games. Another Code / Trace Memory, Hotel Dusk, Last Window. Possibly some of the other good visual novel-style games might appeal too. 999 & Virtue’s Last Reward might be of interest. There’s lots of other options in the pure Visual Novel area too, they’re usually more like choose-your-own-adventure games.
Completely unrelated to my Mouse woes above, it’s now the 11th of December. The copy of Disgaea D2 which I was supposed to get from NISA in October still hasn’t arrived. The replacement copy they promised to send me still hasn’t arrived either, and I’m not even sure if it ever got sent. Additionally they haven’t responded to my subsequent status inquiries so I have to chase them again.
The annoying thing is they just announced an exclusive-to-them CE for The Witch & The Hundred Knight which includes a Nendoroid Petit figure. I collect Nendoroid stuff and game pack-ins are really hard to get, it’s rare for them to be included with US releases, so I really want to order that. But I’m now super-hesitant.
I’ve bought basically every game CE they’ve released since 2007 🙁
🙁
I’m guessing mentioning how good of a customer you’ve been to them isn’t getting you anywhere?
It got me to them agreeing to send a replacement. But I don’t know if they ever actually did it 🙁
EDIT: Emailed them again (last time I requested an update was 5 days ago which IMO is more than enough time) just now and if I don’t hear something from them in a day or two I’ll start a brand new thread.
I’m not even sure I want the game any more after all this. Leaves me feeling pretty sour. If I had bought it from a local retailer I could have had it in September, the PAL release was two weeks earlier than US.
Bloody hell I’m getting sick of waiting for this postie to deliver my stuff! I’m sure there’s nothing he can do about it because they’ve probably not reached wagga (or possibly even Australia) yet but its still damned annoying. Note to self: ALWAYS pay extra for postage that comes with a tracking number.
Dear Secret SanTAY (aka @benny)
I received a package in the mail today. I notified the police immediately. That doesn’t mean dick, though. #NearlyPageSix (EDIT: So very nearly Page Six 🙁 )
But more relevantly, I also got a padded envelope with a sealed copy of Pokémon X and a letter telling me not to worry about the $20 limit. Very generous of you, man. Thank you. Very much.
If I end up liking it, though, I’m never going to forgive you.
Sincerely,
Mr X
Enjoy, buddy!
Crazy cool story time
I got a phone call an hour ago from my local EB Games, telling me they are giving away 300 Ganondorf figurines as some type of Nintendo pre-order/purchase appreciation and telling me I had to come collect mine I went down there immediately and it was no joke.
Hopefully it happens to another TAY to confirm my story =) never guessed EB World would pay off.
I just got called as well picking it up very soon to add to my collection 😀
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/111222071827801779938/albums/5951656090814053729
Do you know what female colobus monkeys have which no other animal on the planet has?
Baby Colobus Monkeys #dadjokepagesix@dc is not gonna know what to do with this one! 😛
I’ll do what I always do on page six. Make new enemies.
Just make sure it’s a female *human*.
JAPAN GROUP TOUR 2015
Hi folks, your friendly neighbourhood travel agent here. I have just spoken to my manager in regards to my Japan group. He has actually just returned from there and had a few helpful tips for me, as well as a couple of things that I am getting added into my quote. Stay tuned, the price will be going a bit, hopefully not too much, but I will get back to you all in the next couple of days.
I just want to say thank you so much to everyone. The support has been amazing. It really means a lot that you would consider spending money on a trip that I am putting together. I promise to do my best to make sure anyone who does come along has an amazing time.
Confirmed people – @jocon (+1) @negativezero @freezespreston (+1) – I have just confirmed with my manager that the deposit for the land content will be $500.00 per person. I have Freeze’s email but if Jo and Neg0 could either post their emails below, or send them to peter(dot)orange(at)harveyworld(dot)com(dot)au and I will send you through all the details I have as well as our details for payments.
Almost confirmed people – @cakesmith @transientmind (+1 or 2) – Have you guys been able to come to a decision/talk to friends? I hope I don’t sound pushy or anything. I would really like to get as many Taybies on this group as possible 🙂 Same as above re deposit and emails
Interested people – @rize @coldcamv @mrtaco @ontargett @benny – No rush or anything but just wondering if you knew anymore about whether you would be able to come or not? You will be able to deposit any time as long as I haven’t filled the group. I will probably be capping the group at 16 or 20 including me. Don’t want anyone to miss out 🙂
People I haven’t heard from – @dkzeitgeist @rocketman – WHY YOU HAT!?!?! 😛
Thanks again for all your support everyone. I can’t express how much I appreciate it
With all the added costs turning up for me next year I think I’m going to have to give it a miss, unfortunately. I’m really keen to go but just can’t justify the price.
Next time, though… 😛
🙁
No worries man. I know how you feel. I’m dreading pay day this week. I have so many things to pay for its not funny.
I would love to go to Japan, stay in a ryokan, drink warm sake, wave a katana around shouting, ‘IKE!’ and acting all Toshiro Mifune-like. *stares off into the distance*
If only.
Yes yes, I can do all that.
:O Um… I’m not sure I would feel safe in an enclosed area with you. Like for example, in an aeroplane 😛
Haha! I wouldn’t really do that in an airplane.
Oh well that’s ok then… In that case I can add you to the Confirmed list right? 😛
Put me in Interested, preferably.
Done and done 🙂
I’m out, sorry man.
Just can’t afford it.
🙁
But… but… I was going to wait until DANuary, but this tour was totally going to be called The Japan ExtravaDANza 🙁
I’ll be there in spirit.
(As a small, origami figure packed in @freezespreston’s carry on)
Woo! Hype. Even got babysitters already organised. \o/
@cakesmith should stop procrastinating and commit to drinking sake in a Tokyo karaoke bar with me.
Babysitters already? Daaaamn you are hyped.
And yes @cakesmith stop procrastinating 😛
Might I be able to register tentative interest? Too far in the future for me to give an absolute answer right now, though it’s sure as hell a possibility (and one that I would very much like to partake in).
Finances and such shouldn’t be a concern, though as to where I am (geographically, professionally and then some) I just can’t say >.
No problem at all. I’ll make sure I tag you in any future posts 🙂
Hey Nova. No confirmation just yet. Well… not for my brother or anyone else. Consider me confirmed. Do you have a preferred date for getting deposits in?
No real date for deposits. The sooner the better obviously. I’ll be starting to throw it out to the general public soon. I don’t expect that it will fill up super quickly but if you lock you place in, so much the better 🙂
There’s no rush for your brother etc either. As long as there are still places available when they decide if they want to join or not, there will be no problems
Emailed you.
Anyone else got their Secret SanTAY yet?
I got mine! Thanks again @benny! Great present, very thoughtful and generous. You’re awesome 🙂
I sent you Pokemon X? Crap, I need that back! Haha, kidding.
I hope my Secret Santee posts when they receive theirs. Worried it’s going to get lost because I didn’t put a return address on it 😛
Yeah, I got it, thanks!
If I was actually your Secret Santee then this joke has failed. Also, I haven’t got it 😛So glad to hear you enjoyed it!
There were so many fireman calendars to choose from but I got you the one I thought you would like best.
Yeah me too.
I think I got confirmation that my gift had been received in about October for last years one 😛
Holy damn, that guy’s got good hand writing. D:
It’s a mess! What are you on about?! 😀
Downvote for lies!
He’s known for his lies AND deceptions.
Now to begin hand writing analysis for forging- uh- I’ve said too much!Dee-Ceevil.
Haha, that was my first thought, too. 😀
Now I hate the Secret SanTAY gift I sent my recipient even more…I look really super-stingy in comparison to Benny! 😛
@benny is a monster, so selfish
Don’t sweat it. As per what the letter detailed, the gift for Shane was Secret SanTAY plus thanks for a few other things he had done for me recently.
Yeah you’re right. I’m just being way too paranoid about my gift now that I’ve sent it off.
I need to stop.
As of now, no more paranoid insecure posts from me about my Secret SanTAY gift!
Remember that someone is getting a present from me this year.
*swoon*
You’ll always be my first.
Hey @tigerion have you ever listened to the band Tarot?
As of about 10 seconds ago. Starting with Pyre of gods. Nothing NayNay so far
The singer is the bass player from Nightwish. His voice makes me instantly happy when I hear it. My favourite album of theirs is “Crows Fly Black”.
But yeah, I was asking because we received a copy of one of their albums for free with our Nuclear Blast order of other stuff but we already own it so I was thinking of asking Mr. Strange if we could send it to you because you tend to like some of the stuff I like.
Also, I think Tides would have to be one of my favourite ever songs. So beautiful.
oh noes, spotify doesn’t have tides. To the youtubes
Amazing introduction, very cool song. OK, found the full album, that should occupy my afternoon
Does anyone have @Virus email?
I need it for reasons :/
Just DM him on twitter! Also, I think it’s @virus__…
Well i dont have him on twitter, which is why i asked.
I said something sarcastic and he got mad and unfollowed but i would like to get in touch with him.
for reasoned.
Oh, sorry man! Good luck in your quest!
I have it. But I’m hesitant to give out others’ email addresses.
I understand, ill find another way to get in contact, im not going to put my mum in a situation she doesnt want to be in. 🙂
ROCKETS! A few told me you wanted my attention, though I know DC gave you my email, just thought i’d let you know I am aware you were after me.
I thought the Virus that sometimes hangs out here was was @virus__
He hasn’t been in for a while, there was some snafu and he decided to take a break
Oh Man, Secret Santay is super hard 🙁
It’s all @benny’s fault! 😛
Wasn’t there an episode of The Office with this exact premise? haha
The ipod thing, i love that episode so cringy. PHYSCH I DIDNT WANT THE OVEN MITS AT ALL
Mine’s probably super lame, but I’m sending it to the person on Friday anyway 🙂
Mine also. Done so much lurking trying to figure out what to go with. Still, hopefully it’s good and stuff.
Is there a cut off date?
Or just as long as it arrives before the 25th?
I couldn’t get a guarantee on delivery date, so went with “sooner rather than later”.
http://www.polygon.com/2013/12/10/5197628/pillars-of-eternity-gameplay-teaser-backer-site-now-up
Pillars of Eternity looks pretty great. XD
Ain’t no Black Lake…
Obsidian! OBSIDIAN! Every single one of their games has something pretty great about it. (Even their crap games.)
Lies. They have no crap games.
Except maybe Dungeon Siege III but I didn’t play that.
I think the exact term you’re searching for is “Pretty fucking great and why the hell isn’t it out yet damnit???”
damn straight it does.
@mrtaco: How’d things go with Sketchbook?
We haven’t heard from him all day so I’m taking that as a sign things went…well.
That or he’s descended into madness?
Luckily he goes climbing, so the ascent from madness should be easy…
…
WHAT HAVE I DONE!?!
JOIN ME, AND TOGETHER WE CAN RULE THE GALAXY AS DADJOKER AND SON
You done good, @dc. You done good.
Nah he is with cute climbing girl.
Or maybe both! Transporter accident, Star Trek-style! It could be like that Tuvix episode from Voyager. (Man, I’m a nerd. XD)
Wait sketchbook and climbing girl are different aren’t they? or are they the same???
he is worse with random women in his life than i am, hahahah nobody is worse than i am.
They’re just different voices in his head representing different parts of his personality. Sketchbook is @mrtaco’s introverted side, Climby is extroverted.
Maybe they are a transporter accident but the kind like in The Enemy Within that turned kirk into wussy kirk and rapist kirk
Either that or she’s sketching his splayed out corpse in her creepy serial killer art studio
Or, having just graduated, he has a hangover larger than Godzilla.
That new Godzilla trailer has some cool things going on. The colours especially!
Ha. You must’ve posted this right before I started typing up my story.
…holy crap that was ages ago.
I think in the last week I’ve slept an average of 2-3 hours a day, it’s starting to catch up, mind so cloudy. hrrrrnnnn *head desk* zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
A sign that I’m turning into an old man
How’s your PS4 treating you? Has it become sentient yet? Mine has! D:
pretty good although It crashes a lot, I’ve played Battlefield about 20 times now and I’ve never quit it once, every time I get kicked to the XMB and given an error message. Other games do it less but i think every single one I”ve played on it has done it at least once, I also keep having a “rebuilding database” message when i try and read messages I’ve received, it concerns me somewhat
edit: also have had endless problems with the store redeeming codes, I finally sorted out the last one yesterday but i had them fail and then claim I had used them already when retrying, went through 3 codes for the same thing for CoD Ghosts before it actually worked. Oh well teething issues I hope
D: Mine tends to get really loud after an hour or so of playing. This frightens me so I end up turning it off.
Mine gets loud for a bit then gets better. That was the sign that my first ps3 was on the way out, the fan would get louder and louder and louder and never slow down, if i turned it off it’d start quiet again and gradually work its way up to sounding like a chopper was overhead, I kept expecting Flight of the Valkyries to start playing. 😛
Wow. I’ve not had a single issue like that. ACIV froze once but the system still worked and let me close down the game and relaunch it no worries.
only had 2 proper system freezes, the rest it just closes the game puts up an error message, I can relaunch or whatever, hopefully today’s update will improve stability
also odd question, does anyone else here type like 100 times more posts than they actually post, I tend to type a lot, look at them and think meh no one cares about that Gutsoup *delete*
I care what you think. >:|
I tend to post and have regrets later and then edit out my comments.
[Redacted]
I used to do that. I probably still should. 😛
But you shouldn’t do that. Even if you don’t get an upvote or a response you never know if someone read it and was really interested or not. Write what you want to write!
sorry, I posted right before i left work. I think I need to moderate my self moderating I’m like the the Australian Censorship Board. I think a lot of them are worthy of the delete but I should let a couple more slip through 😛
I do this very often.
Very, very often.
On both TAY and twitter.
Not always with double-spaced lines, though.
I guess my main reasons:
1) That joke is too lame/obscure.
2) I don’t really know whoever I’m directing the joke at well enough to trust it’ll be taken the right way.
VERY often.Stop it! More Fled, plz!
this is a great response, I have similar reasoning, especially point 2.
I totally wrote an ode to doing that, probably in early-mid 2011, if memory serves. It was purposefully bad. A crowning achievement of mine, I think.
I totally need to read that, sounds great & good to know it’s not just me 😛
Nope, I type any crap that comes to mind then get mildly offended when I get no upvote or comment.
Ha, and that’s why we loves ya 😛
Words cannot express how much I hate cloudy-headedness.
So I started playing Muramasa again. despite getting several of the endings on Wii, I’m surprised that I’m still loving it.
Such an awesome game. So pretty on the Vita screen.
I got confused about that game and ended up not getting it, are there 2 different ones?
Oh crap home time, I’ll check for a response later, thank you in advance.
Petty sure there is only one version on Vita (Muramasa Rebirth).
Which is basically a rerelease of the Wii version with better English translation.
Muramasa the demon blade is available on Wii and Vita. I would suggest getting the vita one simply because it’s going to get the DLC.
Just one version on Vita (and one on Wii). Vita version has a vastly improved localization and has DLC stuff coming so that’s the better version.
Maybe the confusion is because of the title? In Japan it’s Oboro Muramasa but in English it’s Muramasa: The Demon Blade.
right, so a local copy would be better due to DLC, might just go digital, Thanks for clearing that up
Radio stations need to learn that playing a song once a day is enough.
play counts for various songs throughout the day get into the 5-7 range for 8 hours tha’ts deplorable, there is enough good music around that that sort of play rate is stupid. Even if it isn’t music i super like play some other singles from the same artists that you have played 8 times, wanna play a eminem song that’s fine, if you want to play another one that’s fine too but don’t play the same one 8 times. Also I’m only whining cause i cant turn it off or change it or listen to my ipod.
Couldn’t agree more.
I got home today to find both the Secret SanTAY gift I received and the one I need to send off waiting on my doorstep.
Thanks SanTAY, whoever you are!
Make sure you post the link to the right one
Went to buy Bravely Default but they didn’t have any so I ended up with a PS4 camera instead somehow.
Also being the Secret SanTAY organiser is fun. I know who got who so I can judge as to what and how much everyone thinks of each other. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA.
I know I surprisingly high number of people’s matches too. People kept e-mailing me for advice and I couldn’t help any one. XD
I couldn’t help anyone, either!
But nobody emailed me asking, so I guess that works out well.
You are the List master.
Upvote for Secret SanTAY shenanigans, not for the bizarre and not super-useful yet impulse purchase. 😛
Are you going to do one of those living room strip shows..?
*disconnects internet cable from PS4*
I don’t want to stumble across that on the What’s New? section. 😛
Though it’s nothing I haven’t seen before. Freeze answered the door once in a towel. D:
He had the towel on his head right?
I can’t recall. A lot of therapy has helped defuse that memory.
@dc – you look tired! Sit down on this totally-not-an-animus chair for a minute.
I thought you wanted more Freeze all the time 🙂
Haha! Classic.
Was considering it but I just might record them and send them to @dc as video messages instead.
Oh..
🙁
You had your chance for a Wet n Wild meat but someone doesn’t like water parks. 😛
He’s the only one who has subscribed to the mailing list.
There’s still time.
When is your first Twitch stream? With commentary of course 🙂
Late night if you catch my drift 😉
I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO GET MINE /o\
God damn it, I hate moderation..
@rocketman: @virus__ said it’s okay if I give you his e-mail address. I’ve DM’d it to you on Twitter!
danke
Yeah, this kid knows what’s up.
Fun fact about flying: if the person behind you on an international flight is a complete asshat and demands that you keep putting your chair upright (and thus not letting you sleep), the flight attendant will give you ice cream at the end to try and make up for the sleep deprivation.
You can sleep on planes? D: What madness is this!
I never let my chair recline though. I always worry that I’ll annoy the person behind me. 😛
Yep, this was me all the way to (and from) Canada. That in-flight entertainment stuff is pretty good, though.
I did annoy the person behind me. Fuck her. If everyone else on the plane has to deal with people reclining, including me, then she could too.
Yeah, I wouldn’t yell at any one in front of me. Just being a tall guy on a plane is tough at the best of times. Don’t like to inflict that kind of discomfort on someone else.
Oh man, don’t mean to imply that you do and more more than understand your reasonings. Just something I’m not game to try. Haha!
Dude what, it’s your right as a ticket holder to recline your chair. Attendants can only tell you to put it up during meal break, otherwise it’s up to you. :\
You can sleep on anything. I do it all the time!
I can barely sleep in my own bed.
Not with all that bed-making you’ll be doing.
Here’s a fun fact: I haven’t made my bed in weeeeeeeks.
I hope that doesn’t also mean you haven’t washed your sheets in weeks.
At risk of sounding too dickish….. (please take it as a joke :P)
..apart from Sketch/Climbey….yet!
I feel dickish enough running with the joke, but it must be done 😛It was real easy sleeping that one time I was in business class.
Shame I was meant to stay awake to shift my body clock…
The last two days have been the biggest rollercoaster. I think I’m just about ready to go and hibernate for a week or so now.
The invitations for graduation had the dress code listed as “formal”, so most people were dressed up all fancy and everything. A few who don’t seem to know what that means, but there’s always some 😛 We had to stop by school in the morning to pick up our gowns and hats, before making our own way over to the cinemas on George St in the afternoon. Quite a few were there already when I got in, Sketchbook among them. And as mentioned yesterday, when I briefly caught a moment of non-crashingness, holy crap she looked amazing. Had this kind of Japanese-looking dress on, it was just… yeah. Also seemed rather talkative compared to usual. Extremely, actually. And she really liked my tie, demanded to know where I got it from almost straight away. Had to search for the tag, because idk 😛
Hung around there for the next hour and a half or so, with Wingman Girl eventually showing up running a little late. This guy who has a habit of hitting on pretty much every girl he meets (to the point where several have had to alter their travel patterns to get to school just to avoid him. Also I swear I’m not talking about me) seemed to have organised with Sketchbook to catch a taxi over to the cinemas. And Wingman seemed to be wandering up the hall with them. So I tagged along too. Split fares and such, woo 😛 Took a while to flag down a taxi, most of them had someone in the passenger seat that we couldn’t see til they were going past us. Although there was at least one who was empty and ignored us. Managed to chance it so that I ended up in the middle of the back seat, blocking Creepy Dude from being next to her. Woo 😛
We all realised that we’d gotten over there kind of early, since some were thinking that the event started at 1 but it wasn’t on until 2. So we had time to get some lunch, and just bum around in general. Kind of ended up losing people here, and just wandering aimlessly for a while.
Eventually the cinema opens up for us and we all get ushered inside, sitting there waiting for a good half hour or so watching the same showreel on endless loop with orchestral Mario Bros music playing over the top of it. The ceremony itself kind of went on a bit, I don’t think we got out til quarter past 4 or so. Woo, we’re all done, it’s all over, yay, baw! It was a giant clusterfuck of people everywhere, very hard to lose people/be completely unable to find them at all. I kept getting asked what I was doing afterwards, but I wasn’t really sure what the plans were. The general idea was that most people would be crossing the road to Star Bar for drinks. I wasn’t sure if Sketchbook would be going to that or not, I figured in all likelihood she’d be disappearing when everyone dispersed and I’d never see her again. Therefore had to find her and take the plunge before that happened. Then I got chased up by Wingman Girl, telling me that because Pillowmaker wouldn’t be able to get into the bar, she was going to go back to her place with a few of the others and asked if I’d be coming too. I was vague and unresponsive, because I wasn’t sure if I’d rather go out with the guys instead for one last time. And still had to track down Sketchbook/try suss out what she was doing.
After a while of going around and finding people I wanted to say goodbye to etc, Wingman found me again and asked what I was doing. Somewhere in there she mentioned that Sketchbook was coming to her place too. So that was my decision made, pretty easily 😛 COMMENCE OVERTIME!
(It was while trying to cram onto the trains that she made a comment about Japanese trains, giving me the in I also mentioned in my last post when phone internet eventually decided to stop not working. Since I’d accidentally stalked that she’d been over there at the start of the year, getting back just before my trip started >.>)
We spent most of our time sitting around eating pizza and talking. I’m kind of pulling from my messages here to remember things now, since I was kind of giving my friend a play-by-play. He and his girlfriend have been following the drama very closely 😛 At one point Pillowmaker made some comment about my rock climbing, and Sketchbook just kind of arched up and went “Did you say you do rock climbing?”, then asked if I used the facilities at Sydney Uni. Apparently her brother does it there. No other specific bits to mention, but just from a general standpoint reading body language and behaviour and stuff (while I do consider myself to be somewhat dumb on the topic, but still) it overall felt like things were going pretty well and I could quite easily ask her out and expect a positive response. Given the opportune moment, of course.
And that’s what I ended up kind of working towards. At this point she would have to leave to catch a train home in a little over two hours, and Wingman’s only on her Ls at the moment and the only other driver in the house was on his Ps (but we had no plates). No one apart from me, that is. Only thing though, Wingman seemed to be intending on doing the driving, and just taking me as her supervisor. But then the drinks came out, and she was concerned about keeping her BAC at zero. Don’t worry, I told her. Have what you like, I’ll be fine to drive myself. Perfectly set up, I can take her to the station, get a little solo time to chat in the car and then when dropping her off, take my chance. The dominos were all set in place.
Wingman had a few of these “miracle berry” tablets. You let them dissolve on your tongue, and they change the way food tastes. Kind of makes the sugar go hyper-sweet. So almost like some kind of LSD party, we had her setting up a plate of various foods and stuff, and explaining to us what would happen and what to do. It didn’t seem to have as strong effect for me as it did for others. Didn’t taste any difference on the watermelon, although the apple seemed kind of candy-tasting. Grapes got nothing much, and carrots went kind of cardboardy. The tomatoes, I had a weird sense of them being rather sweet. We also had some sake, lemonade, coke, a cruzer of some flavour I forget but it was orange-coloured, and some midori. The sake seemed to taste kind of chocolatey, while the cruzer seemed rather nice. Oh, there was also this pinot noir that got opened but was kind of awful. It actually tasted nice now. But yeah, I was going easy on the drinks considering I was planning on being able to drive. Just tiny little drops of each, enough to taste. Sketchbook though… she was having a little more than that. Then started to get a little bit tipsy. Wingman was getting concerned, asking if she’d be alright to get home still (having to go back to the city and catch a bus, in the middle of the night). Initially she shrugged it off, but a little later “…ok guys I guess I’m staying”. HOLY CRAP, DOUBLE OVERTIME!
A little more talk here for a bit. At one point for some reason or other, something of relevance made me remember and say that “oh, I still need to put the stickers on my Metroplex!” The mention of which just made her stop as her eyes lit up, going “oooh…” Somewhat of a Transformers fan. Heh 😛 After that though, she broke out Pokemon again. Had something like 300 Gastly eggs sitting there, and was working on hatching them. Also battling with one of the other guys. Third guy and Wingman’s boyfriend were on his laptop looking at LoL stuff, then Pillowmaker, Wingman and I were in the dining room where Wingman was comfortable enough to get out her guitar and start trying to play things. I kept trying to make her play Judas Priest songs, but she wouldn’t. Except for when she was mucking around with some Four Chord stuff, and I realised that Reckless was one of them. So while she sung whatever she was singing something, and Pillowmaker sung some other song with her, I sung a garbled mis-memory version of it over the top, and it was awesome 😛 A couple of times I stole the guitar and tried to play things on it, but they’re hard. Still did well enough to piss off Wingman with some of the single-string stuff though. Also the part where I could actually use my pinkies to press down buttons (she has really short ones that can’t reach :P).
INTERMISSION. Things were starting to slow down enough for it to just about be bedtime. With Sketchbook still being kind of “new” to the group (at least in this context), she was going to sleep up on the lounge while the rest of us were going to be on the floor again, like last time we stayed over. Pillowmaker happily declared that she would be sleeping next to me, since I give free hugs. At some point in the night she told me she was cold, and got me to trade places with her so she was on the far side from the fan. Then said I would be her blanket, grabbing my hand and pulling my arm over her. Yeah.
Eventually we emerged this morning, to the smell of bacon and eggs. I was pretty zonked though, my “sleep” being more like an intermittent series of naps. Didn’t really do or say much, and had another bit of a nap at some stage, while everyone lazed around for a while. Eventually, Sketchbook was thinking about leaving in a little, having to get home and take some medication or something. Wingman was looking to me to do the run to the station, since her boyfriend (also on his fulls) was too busy back with the LoL stuff again. I was thinking of going too though, since she’d be hopping a train to the city and I’d be going the same direction. But then realised that if I drove to the station, Wingman wouldn’t be able to drive back. Dammit. Got a reprieve though – mentioned to her that I was thinking of leaving too, and her boyfriend managed to tear himself away from the laptop to drop us off. Here we go.
It was a little awkward for a bit at the station, but once we got down to the platform conversation broke out. And it went well. Really well. Even ended up using the Japan thing, asking when she ended up going. Didn’t get to lead in to the coincidental timing, but still talked about a whole bunch of stuff. How her trip sounded about the same as ours, then got to how amazing Akihabara was, etc. I mentioned how I got into Super Potato and saw+grabbed the $35 Powerglove the moment I saw it, she did the eyes light up thing again 😛 Pretty sure she’s the coolest girl ever.
We got to talking about plans for the holidays. I said I didn’t really have much on the books, just to maybe keep fiddling with my game and polish it up. Asked about hers, whether she had anything planned. She’s got a trip to Adelaide for a while. Where her boyfriend lives. DUN DUN DUN. Not entirely unexpected, but it was still a bit of a heart-dropping moment. Pretty sure I rolled with it though, don’t think I showed my hand. Kind of grinned and chuckled a bit, mentioned how I used to go there a fair bit because my ex lived there, like to make fun of it but it’s actually really nice, etc. But of course now with that revelation out there, I couldn’t just go for broke like I planned. And brilliant timing on it too, I was only a couple of stations away from where I would have launched into it. Not sure if this means I still owe @blaghman a drink now or if the requirement of a last-minute abort invalidates things 😛
Of course, straight off the train I was punching out a message to my friend to tell him about what had just happened. Long chain of talks there on the rest of the trip home. Also a little while later I got message from his girlfriend, expressing her sympathies 😛 She’s so sweet.
So yeah. I don’t know how to feel about this at the moment. On the one hand, I’m extremely happy with how well things went, actually felt like I was building up some kind of a friendship there. And I’d like for that to continue. On the other, I’m kind of disappointed that I didn’t get to go for it in the end after spending so much time building myself up for it, and being so sure I could have done it. But then, at least I didn’t go and make things awkward by launching face first into the ground. Although now I don’t really get that proper sense of closure that I would have otherwise hoped for, to help let me move on.
So now as things stand, I’m pretty much head-over-heels for Sketchbook, but can’t really do anything there but settle for friendship/hope for something further down the track. Then I’ve got Climbey who seems pretty interested in me, but it’s not really fair to her at all to let anything happen while I’m thinking about someone else. And at the same time I know it’s stupid to avoid that whole thing just because of a “maybe”. But at least in that case, the two are separated and I could at least explain to Climbey my situation. Definitely gotta be honest with her about stuff. But then there’s this whole Pillowmaker thing that seems to be far more than just her being her usually cuddly affectionate self. And that being within the same circle as Sketchbook. No idea how to navigate those waters, but I foresee great mess ahead.
Must be time to go hermit.
Life’s too short for this much beating around the bush!
Don’t beg. Attack!
You should’ve used @transientmind’s line: “Let me know when you want a man friend.” 😛
I’m sorry every thing didn’t go your way but there’s worse things in the world than being just friends with an awesome person and you should definitely stay in touch one way or the other. Congrats on graduating! Talk about season finale dramatics!
I don’t even know the guy and would not at all feel in any way comfortable using that line without knowing for certain that the guy was a total douche 😛
You’re right on the second part though. Holy shit the biggest season ending ever.
Haha, yeah I was just kidding about the first point, you don’t want to mess up someone elses relationship. Sounds like you responded the best way you could have…
Well it went a lot better than it could have, friendships with cool people are nothing to sneeze at after all and who knows, pre-existing relationships do have a tendency fall apart, particularly long distance ones.
If it were me, I’d let you off the hook for the bet
I think in the circumstances, the deal has fallen through, and no alcohol is owed to anyone.
That said, if you feel like you need a drink to recover your emotions, I can always buy you one anyway. :p
Jesus christ that’s 10.5k words. What even.
You’re telling me – I read the lot.
Look, I didn’t mean to come off as an arse with my earlier comments. Just know that the old saying of ‘there’s a special someone out there for you’ – pure crap. There’s actually plenty – the hard part is picking just one.
I hope that sort of helps soothe.
Hmm. On second thought, my wife probably wouldn’t like that one if she read it without context. Shit, you really can’t please everybody. 😀
There’s plenty around, sure. But some are better than others 😛
Also, times that by five and you’ve got yourself a novel right there!
Hahaha I just went to check the size of some of my larger blog entries for comparison, then got confused when the file sizes of those were much larger but they had smaller word counts.
On this one I read the character count instead. Dumb 😛
You want lengthy? I’ll give you lengthy.
I don’t advocate being a part of cheating. But if you put it out there, and Sketchbook decided a little later to break up with her boyfriend, then called you saying that she was free if you wanted to go someplace, that’d be ‘proper’.
The rules of engagement are poorly-defined and everyone’s take on them can be variable.
Academically stripping away the sugar-coating of all that stuff:
It’s pretty uniformly considered poor form for a girl to start seeing one guy romantically while ‘officially’ dating another – even if that’s a long-distance relationship. That’s textbook cheating. But if a girl calls her boyfriend, says, “It’s over, goodbye,” then hangs up and bangs a different guy, that’s not textbook cheating… but some people still don’t consider it to be moral – it’s not in the ‘spirit’ of the unwritten rules.
The ‘proper’ thing to do is apparently to break it off with the existing guy, observe an undefined waiting period no-one will ever agree on, THEN start seeing the new guy. To my mind, this is only a pointless formality if the decision to leave one guy for another was made while the original couple were still together, then I don’t see much of a difference between that and ‘official’ cheating.
The intent is still the same: “While I was seeing you, I met a guy I want to fuck, so that’s happening, and you don’t get a say in it.” And the other party DOESN’T get a say – you can’t reject a break-up, it’s a one-sided decision. There’s no sugar-coating that. A break-up formality is very cold comfort, and only serves to make the dumper save face or feel better, not the dumpee. I assume that the ‘waiting period’ is meant to provide the (usually false) impression that the break-up was because of the couple as a couple and not due to any external influences, but it doesn’t matter if it’s a couple days or a couple weeks – if one party starts dating someone who they knew while the relationship was on, no-one’s ever naive enough to think that the new flame wasn’t a factor in the decision.
IF you are the kind of person who makes a values judgement that dumping someone for someone else is a bad thing, then I’d suggest that it remains a bad thing no matter what kind of waiting period is instituted out of respect. That’s ‘if’ you think it’s a bad thing – not everyone does, and they have a point. After all: what are the ‘good’ reasons for a break-up, again? Does it have to be some kind of misbehaviour driving one party away? Or aren’t you ‘allowed’ to break up with someone because you’re just not that into them, now that you know more about them? We should all stick around in loveless relationships because of propriety, should we? If you meet your soulmate you shouldn’t be allowed to pursue a relationship with them unless you’ve made the appropriate efforts to stick with your current mediocre partner, to ‘make it work’? You don’t get to have a fulfilling and exciting relationship with someone you love if you meet that person while you’re going through the motions with someone you barely like… That’s what we’re deciding is good and moral? Nice values system.
There’s a very good reason people say, “All’s fair in love and war.” Rules don’t mean shit. It doesn’t matter if you formally declare war or just launch a surprise attack without declaration, the end-result is someone’s getting blown up, and observing the rules doesn’t bring back anyone’s loved ones. Same for love. People who get hurt get hurt, no matter whether you observed the ‘rules’. People might say, “It wouldn’t have been so bad, if it weren’t for the fact that it was a surprise or unofficial,” but that’s bullshit. What they REALLY mean is, “I’m upset that I got hurt/lost loved ones.” THAT’S the core truth.
At best, the formalities are a courtesy – a sign of respect. And to my mind, that’s their ONLY value. (A value I consider worth observing, but that’s personal preference. As Churchill once said, “…When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_declaration_of_war_on_Japan_(1941))
So here’s the thing.
Blunt advice not everyone will agree with:
You don’t lose any karmic points for putting your interest out there – that’s honesty. That’s truth. It’s unfair to YOU to sit there in the ‘friend zone’ and pine away, ignoring any other potential relationships because you’re too busy with some dream you won’t actively chase. Don’t go indulging in some martyr complex, wishing and hoping on stars and fairy dust and sighing into your pillow.
Take charge, be clear, communicate what you want – no expectations or obligations. That’s still within the rules. “Sucked to hear you mention your boyfriend, because I was two stops from asking you out. Call me if you decide to upgrade.” Then move on – ask out one of the others. (She won’t respect you if you just lurk. waiting.)
If she responds positively? Sure, ask, “Did you break up with whatsisface?” if you want to be in the karmic clear. If she gets offended, or shoots you down? Don’t go wasting any more time on something that isn’t going to happen. None of us are going to be astronauts either, but who says you can only have one dream? It’s a big old world.
No matter the outcome, don’t go being the friend playing The Long Game and waiting your life away for a chance to be happy. Go out and BE happy. The ‘friend with the secret crush’ is the worst geek stereotype there is. (And I speak from the position of a hapless fucker who DID that for entirely too long.) Don’t be part of it – be a Man who is in charge of his life. Things won’t always go your way, but you’ll have faced them as a man.
Would you really want to be in a relationship with somebody who has a mentality like this though? That is pretty pathetic. Jumping ship for a “better” option wreaks of classlessness. If the original relationship was heading for a break up then so be it, but it is still extraordinarily tacky to jump from one relationship to another (and I mean relationship as in a relationship, not a rebound, not a one-night-stand, but a fully fledged relationship). There is a time between relationships for a reason, it is to clear your head, get over the other person and to move on. I personally think that without this time it would be hard to classify what they had as a relationship, as they must be unaffected by breaking-up. Again, would you really want to be with a person who views relationships as disposable?
In the scenario where you stated that you are no longer attracted to somebody as you’ve gotten to know them more, can I point out that there is a difference between breaking up with somebody and then moving on, and moving on and then breaking up with somebody. Also, I’m not sure whether or not you can classify such early stages as a relationship either. That, to me, is more of the phase where you are deciding whether or not you want to be in a relationship with this person or not. This to me doesn’t count as a relationship so it is negligible to the above discussion as this girl is clearly in a relationship (long distance or not).
I see this as more applying to somebody that is actually available, i.e. no boyfriend / girlfriend. If someone is in a happy relationship, leave them alone. They aren’t available so don’t try and snake you’re way in between them just to get what you want. That is a dog act, and again, I wouldn’t want to be with somebody who is willing to break up my relationship just to have a chance with me. I see that as being pathetic. Sure, show that you were interested, but at least respect the person enough so that you’re not pressuring them into a situation that you shouldn’t be putting them in. Maybe mention that you were interested (tastefully, none of this “give me a call if you decide to upgrade”) and move on. It shows that you respect them enough not to be putting pressure on them, and that you’re mature enough to not let it phase you and to move on. In the event of an unhappy relationship, still be subtle at least. The decision to break up would come about naturally if either party was unhappy. And even then, still wait a bit before asking them out, they just got out of a relationship, give them some space.
Unfortunately the truth is that she is unavailable. Yes, it would have been good to tell her you were interested (although this would have been easier when you were unaware that she had a boyfriend as you could have palmed it off afterwards). Any potential move you make now would come across as tacky, as you know shes unavailable. The best thing you could do is move on, unfortunately, and just let nature take its course. There’s no point getting hung-up over somebody unavailable, and there is no excusable reason to interfere with somebody else’s relationship. Again, sorry things didn’t turn out how you’d hoped, but that is life in its essence. You just have to roll with the punches, get up, and move on.
Again though, it’s one thing to say “there’s no point getting hung-up” etc and another for it to actually happen. I can’t very well command myself to, say, just not be hungry any more, hunger is just something that happens of its own accord and then I have to figure out how to deal with it whenever it does. Same deal here. I *am* still thinking about her all the time, whether I like it or not. It’s not something I do, it’s something that happens. The only way to stop it at all is to just shut down all feelings entirely, and that’s hardly an ideal alternative.
That’s fair enough, and I admit that I did get a little caught up with writing and let the actual situation slip out of mind a bit (also I think I came across as a bit of an arse which was unintentional, so apologies for any apparent arse-ness!). It’s exactly how you said, YOU have to figure out how YOU’RE going to deal with it, which may seem tough now, but it’s only been a couple of days so far. Everybody deals with things differently, you just need to figure out how you’re going to deal with this. I would say sleep on it for a couple of days though. There’s no rush to do anything, gives you time to clear you’re head, etc. Plus you just graduated (congratulations by the way), so just relax and enjoy you’re new found time off. At the end of the day though, just do whatever feels right to you 🙂
P.S I definitely came across as an arse before, and I apologize again!
P.P.S Sorry for not really offering anything helpful, it’s a tricky situation 🙁
How long did it take you just to write the thing?
Did it over the course of two hours. But as mentioned above, I accidentally read the wrong numbers in the word count dialogue, 10.5k is actually the number or non-space characters 😛
Sucks buddy, more so because you don’t really have closure. I hope your womanizing in the future goes well 😛 I just don’t know if I’d call a drunk girl using you as a sorta blanket as a sign you should pursue it.
Neither.
She wasn’t drunk though 😛 And there’s other previous observations that, now in the current light of things, are blaringly obvious. There is almost certainly a development on that front now.
Ohhh okay, I assumed everyone was drinking 😛 I will let you use your judgement 🙂
Man, what a season finale. Can’t wait for season 2!
Bookmarked for when I have 4 hours to spare.
😛As someone who once fell head over heels, then went for broke and got the “I have a boyfriend” bombshell dropped too late to save me or the friendship, I think you got out of it just fine.
As for your other prospects… *grabs popcorn*
I’m sure any friendship can be saved even if there is some awkwardness.
I disagree. Some friendships die, and are meant to die.
#upbeat
Edit: to be clear, friendships can probably all be saved, but there are plenty for which the effort outweighs the benefits, and they should probably be left to die.
But if you liked them enough to want to go out with them, why would that like go away?
I’m a hermit. You need to explain these things. XD
I wasn’t expecting it either. I’d always thought it was really bizarre how love turns so quickly into hate in Hollywood offal. But there’s a grain of truth in there. I think it’s partly a defence mechanism, to protect the brain from imploding from the vacuum where your self-esteem once resided and the impossibility of the dream you held, and to prepare you for new, more viable conquests in the future.
But there’s also a certain fog that comes with infatuation. A pedestal of some sort, I suppose, that you elevate this person onto. And they become more than a person – they become an ideal. And that’s not really an accurate or fair way to think about someone. Because when the truth comes out, and the scales fall from your eyes, you start to see the unpleasant stuff under the surface. Little quirks that were once endearing become unbelievably irritating overnight. You feel like you’re suddenly seeing the ‘real’ person, even though this state of awareness is probably every bit as overblown as the infatuation stage. You kind of get the feeling that the friendship probably wasn’t all that real to begin with, and that it won’t leave a big hole in your life when it’s gone.
Also, in this case, I was being led on, and the dishonesty upset me. I felt like the world’s biggest idiot, and a complete loser, and although I shouldered most of the blame, I did spread a little around as well.
It’s not an active dislike I harbour, but a strong disinterest. Kind of a “I’m done with you” feeling. No real hostility, but no interest. Just kind of … nothing.
Edit: jinkies. That’s more than I intended to write.
🙁 Sounds like the kind of character building stuff that has made you the awesome guy you are today!
I still wouldn’t recommend it as a plan 😛
@shane I read somewhere once, “The people who have the most wisdom have made the most mistakes.” I kinda like it.
Yeah, I’ve been worrying about that whole pedestal thing the entire time. But it’s either not in operation and she is that great, or everything that happens just reinforces it to be even stronger 😛
Also I am now picturing fish-like scales on eyeballs and suddenly my eyes feel incredibly crusty and itchy.
Some more unwanted and unnecessary and probably terrible advice:
There’s no point worrying about it. It’s not the kind of thing you can ever know about until it all comes crashing down – so save the thinking for post-mortem. In the meantime, enjoy the feelings. Even if they ultimately don’t lead where you want, it still feels pretty great.
You’d best be careful that no one comes along and tried to de-scale your eyes and then turn them into crumbed treats. I was going to call them gookyfingers but that sounds like a euphemism for when the toilet paper tears and you end up with a handful of poo.
As soon as any kind of dishonesty of that type comes out then a person is dead to me. Emotionally manipulative people are the worst kind of scum
Damn son, quite a tale! Sucks about Sketch, but in a way you have some sort of closure already.
I’d keep it casual friendly with Sketch, and slightly step up the friendly with Climbey while you figure things out. They will fall into place eventually.
Also, be careful with Pillow. Be emotionally careful – some girls lure you in, thinking they like you. And be careful socially – if a random fling happened that had no meaning, other girls in your social circle will look down on you (and it may ruin your chances elsewhere).
Absolutely. Right now I’m scared of it breaking things whichever way it goes. Pillowmaker and Wingman are best friends, and she’s also been classmates (/friends?) with Sketchbook for the whole course. If I go along with it, it could fuck things up. If I avoid it, it could fuck things up. If I ??? it could fuck things up 😛
http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/500x/12507489.jpg
hello
JIMU! HEY!
Jimu! \o/
@popdart5: Kiso did indeed get a Kai-2 upgrade this patch.
She looks ultra-badass:
http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/kancolle/images/7/70/531987_415007208627754_739947721_n.jpg
They also finally fixed the bug where enemy carriers could send planes against you when medium or heavily damaged but your carriers lose that ability. Now the enemy carriers can’t launch planes either. Also they show how much XP is left to go for each ship, used to be you needed to run a sortie and see at the end.
2 new composition quests are added as well.
EDIT: I have one quest unlocked already – ships of the 5th Fleet. Nachi, Ashigara, Tama, Kiso
EDIT EDIT: And that unlocked another quest – Shiranui, Ushio, Akebono, Kasumi and Abukuma. Have all except Abukuma 🙁
Dayum that Kiso Kai-2 does indeed look awesome. Apparently they’ll redo her voice later on, same as they have done with the other Kai-2 additions.
Gonna quickly grind a bit now and then some later tonight. Hopefully the RNG Gods smile on me.
Well RNG just gave me three Nakas in a row so I hope you fare better 🙁
🙁 Hopefully your luck will turn.
My luck’s been okay overall I think.
A lot of people scrap her but I think that’s mean. I use her for remodeling materials.
I am in the most confused state of being right now. Simultaneous feelings of opposite extremes.
It’s odd. And giving me this weird fluttery feeling in my stomach.
And now for the true season finale twist. GOOKY’S A ROBOT.
Twist? I though that was whole premise of the entire series 😛
Oh man, network’s marketing materials must’ve tried to bury that to appeal to a broader audience. Now that running diagnostics montage makes a whole lot more sense!
Hate to be that guy, but maybe if you’d been a bit more direct earlier on then you could have avoided this situation. Nothing to do now but unfortunately, although hopefully you’ve learned to be a bit more direct? Sorry things didn’t turn out how you’d hoped mate, that kinda sucks 🙁 You know what they say though, everything happens for a reason.
This guy knows what he’s talking about! He watches Sex in the City!
😀
Sex and the City >:(
And let’s never mention that again…
Haha! My mistake! My mistake!
How goes your TV list, btw? Made any progress yet or whittled down what you’ll watch first?
2 seasons into The Venture Bros and almost at the end of season 1 of Fringe, with episodes of Sex and the City in between :3
Oh man, you’re getting to the really good part of Fringe where it’ll be taken to another level! 😀
You liking it so far?
Yeah I’m really enjoying it so far! Definitely one of the better shows I’ve watched! I’m loving the blend of Sci-Fi and crime solving! And yeah, it’s hell teasing something big at the moment, but I’ve no idea what! It’s shaping up to be one of my new favourite shows 😀
@liondrive: I just love the whole family dynamic that Walter, Peter, Olivia and Astrid share. Such a great show that stays great its entire run. If you’re liking it already, this bodes well… 😀
It hits a really great high, midway through season two.
@liondrive
Thoughts on Venture Bros pl0x.
@greenius is the only other person I know who watches it and he likes it so he’s pretty kewl.
I’m obsessed with The Monarch, hahaha! It’s very good so far! I like how it doesn’t take itself too seriously, yet it’s not mind numbingly dumb, haha! Hopefully it stays this good! 🙂
@liondrive The Monarch is one of the most complex and brilliantly realised villains ever.
And it doesn’t stay that good. It just keeps getting better.
The venture brothers is easily one of the best shows ever made, there’s never been another cartoon that manages to make awkward anticlimactic failure so bloody funny.
I mean what other show would do an episode like “Escape To The House Of Mummies (Part 2)”?
@gutsoup too I think!
@liondrive
I AM THE MIGHTY MINOTAUR
Understandable. Graduation is a big deal. Epoch-making moment in your life.
…
What, that’s what I took from the story.
Finishing your course is. Graduation is like something you go back for six months later and pay them money and then stand around in a stupid looking robe with a dumb hat (unless you’re a badass Philosophy major in which case you get a cool hat)
From a situation I have no wish to divulge the details on a public forum for a multitude of reasons I know exactly what you’re feeling. It’s disorientating but chin up and power through it.
Err this party you went to, there weren’t large leathery eggs dotted about the place and the occasional spidery thing with a tail that liked to playfully jump on people’s faces were there?
I MIGHT know the reason for the fluttering feeling…
Wait, you were there too?
He was in a tree outside with binoculars.
Hi TAY! long time no talk… or lurk…. =.= whatever!
does anyone have any opinions on the novels concerned with blizzard lore? So sc, wow etc…
I finished Black Flag. I liked it a lot. Probably liked it the most of all of them so far, EXCEPT (ending spoliers)
The ending was awful.Now I’m playing Valkyria Chronicles on Ps3. It’s Delicious.
Also, for all our advances with technology… why do we still need a piece of glossy cardboard in the side of a microwave? (totally didnt think it was packaging and break the microwave within 24 hours…)
Anyways……..
*slithers back into the shadows*
=.=
Playing Valkyria for the first time?
Wonderful game! 😀
Yeah its been on the backburner forever. Up to chapter 3, seems real neat.
It’s so beautiful & a great game to boot, good choice.
I remember picking up and considered to buy Valkyria, but decided against it. I definitely regret that I bought Resistance instead..
Gaming Shame #06
Half an hour in, and this L.A. Confidential film is getting mighty interesting. 😀
Hooray for noir!
Reading this prompted me to do a search through my room mates movies collection (I’ve never seen it before either).
Alas, no L.A. Confidential but I’ve settle for the Nightmare before Christmas (also never seen before).
On a side note – With the amount of horror movies my room mate has I think I should be concerned.
I Love that film. I haven’t done a top ten list, but that’d be up there.
HI!
I’ve been absent from pretty much everywhere (apart from Facespace) for idk how long but it’s been a while… Lots has been happening or something to that effect. Got two jobs now, went from no jobs then within 2 weeks I had offers for 2, which was pretty sweet. So I sell games at one & booze at the other. This town if it has anything going for it is that those who live here are game addicts & alcoholics.. Btw it’s EB Games & Dan Murphy’s. Some of you know that though I assume..
Went to the wedding of two good mates, was a very lovely beach wedding, followed by a kickass reception with more free booze than I could’ve imagined (the groom distils his own spirits, so go figure) which allowed me to get appropriately intoxicated (read blind drunk) then injured myself on the beach at 4am with one of the bridesmaids…
Haven’t had time for games, apart from some Payday 2 & Rocksmith 2014 (it’s awesome, I would definitely recommend it for anyone who plays bass or guitar or even wants to start playing it would be a great help) BUT! I have slapped down a deposit on a PS4, so i’m waiting until probably March to get one of those though.
Been stocking up on Blu-Rays of late since JB seems to be literally throwing them out cheaper than what they can move DVD’s for.. So i’ve bought 60+ blu-ray movies in recent.
My awesome pup turned one a few weeks ago, but sadly our other dog passed away not long before then 🙁
Just been busy as all hell. If i’m not working I get to catch up on doing stuff around home or i’m out Leyburn with dad helping him with stuff there.
So yeah, what’s the go around here these days?
Hey man, definitely long time no see! Congrats on the job front, that’s incredibly good news and imagine it does wonders for the ‘ol self esteem. (And being able to buy things never hurts too. :D) Sorry to hear about your dog, though. That ain’t good. 🙁
Yeah, sucks. She was ours for the last 12 or so years. But Chilli is a great dog, albeit a little naughty heh.
Yeah having a bit of money is nice. Though I really need to control spending WHOOPS.
Glad you’re back, man. Hope (overall at least) things are going well.
Just in time to discuss SoA! We’ll be watching the finale tomorrow night 😀
I dunno if i’d use that term, cause I pretty much don’t get enough time to do much on the ol’ interwebs currently, retail + christmas = an interesting experience 😛
Argh, I know.. I’ve heard it’s a real “WHY KURT WHY” finale.. I have my suspicions on what’s going to happen. I’m gonna go watch it shortly I think!
Oh man, I’ve done a stint of retail and Christmas. I don’t envy you at all.
Re: SoA, I posted some predictions about a week ago, but I can’t remember what they were! 😛
It’s not too bad, just dreading Christmas week at the bottle-o since we have a drive thru, ugh. I hate the drive thru, worst thing to have! We’ll also apparently do a weeks take on Christmas eve :S So quarter of a million dollars and probably a million or two that week leading up… Fucken alcoholics this town, the lot of ’em.
I reckon Tara may be looking at the end. BUT I saw today that Kim Coates (Tig) has his own show coming up, so I hope that doesn’t mean he is being written out 🙁*Appreciative whistle at crazy numbers*
I hope that’s not the case… and I kind of half wish I hadn’t even read that. But it’s not necessarily indicative. Kim Dickens (who plays the madam Jax and Nero go into business with) was also playing a lead character in Treme at the same time (and they’re filmed at opposite ends of the country). That’s the beauty of small-season shows – committed actors can be doing 2 or more projects a year if they want! 🙂PS: Yeah, I think I agree re: Tara. Her descent is very Ophelia-like, which fits the whole Hamlet structure the show has kept to so far. And Ophelia does kill herself…Edit: fX is a network that loves their Shakespeare. During the second half of The Shield, network execs approached Shawn Ryan, and encouraged him to think of the last few seasons in Shakespearean terms. He says that it improved the writing considerably, and I agree (though it was damn solid beforehand). They pushed that so hard in the marketing that the last season was called “The Final Act” in all the promos.
Where that sensibility came in late in The Shield, Sons of Anarchy was deliberately built from the ground up to reference Hamlet.
Yeah, sorry! haha. I dunno, there’s been so many times they’ve made it look like Tig is about to die i’ve just lost all interest in them killing him off. I’d rather see him stay lol. But saying that he is a main character in the show and whatsername has only appeared in a handful thus far.I’d say that’s plausible, especially if she is driven to it by Jax or Gemma or even Wendy, with the way she’s about to be treated by everyone. But we shall see!
I’m gonna watch the 2 hour finale now I think, let me know when you’ve seen it.
Enjoy it man. I’ll be watching tomorrow evening.
Will do thanks 😛
Man thats a pretty sweet combo..games and booze \o/
Well done.
Oh man it’s awesome. Best part working for Dan Murphy’s is we get to do tastings, so they pay me to drink some days.. Best! I wish EB paid me to play games 😛 But it’s a good trade off since everyone I work with is awesome and the manager knows @freezespreston pretty sure that’s how I got the job too, dropped his name and I think the decision was set from there 😛
But it’s great, never worked in a retail environment before (office job previously and i’ve done some construction/agriculture stuff) I feel i’v really adapted well which is nice.
you injured yourself with a bridesmaid? That sounds like a whole story on it’s own. 😛
Haha, no comment? Well, beaches are not a good place to be at 4am when blind drunk I found out. I also managed to fall over A LOT walking back up, that sand was softer and not as supportive on the return trip I swear…
Apparently that’s what the young folk call it these days 😉
Disregard, I can’t read.
Then who was phone?!
Freight companies should create small flash games on their track and trace sites for those of us who sit there and click refresh over and over.
Find the refresh button! Is it over here? Nope, too slow, you’ve just bought a pallet of boxes. Oop, now it’s here! Sorry, too slow, you’ve just agreed to fund the express couriering of diseased monkeys across the country.
Haha! I’m not sure what’s worse.. Diseased monkeys or the hole burnt in your wallet from the express courier.
I laughed out loud at the difficulty spike in this flash game you’ve made up..pallet of boxes…diseased monkeys.
Might have been all that Dark Souls hah.
So, I just fell asleep for about 90 minutes, and I’m on sleeping medication.
About three hours ago, I decided to have a short black instead of my usual latte, and now my eyeballs feel like that scene in A Clockwork Orange.
In short, fuck sleep.
See how many seasons of your favourite tv show you can watch.
Oh wow. The facial recognition login on the ps4 works a charm. Turned it on after setting it up earlier (and watching the kids go nuts over the robots) and it just picked me up and logged me in.
Is it something boring where it really matches to an actual face or is it just a matter of taking a picture at the start & then it comparing? I’d like to be able to log in by mooning the system
comment mis-hap
Thanks for the session guys!
What is Raller Cay really up to? Is Akebe really trustworthy? How will Glasshands react to all of this?
And what is the Cantharx?
cc @blaghman @popdart5 @novacascade @mawt @mythamphetamine @tech_knight
Also, Popdart: http://wide-wallpapers.net/sci-fi-building-wide-wallpaper/
Sorry if I seemed more distracted/quiet than usual during that. My girlfriend was online and having a panic attack so I was trying to help her as best I can.
Sorry I could make it, but if it is any consolation I did manage to complete the accurate calculation of GST in my software. Whooo party time.
Yay tax!
No problem man, Popdart’ll have a recap up soon. All I’ll say before then is that
FLEXING ACTUALLY WORKED FOR ONCENOT ONLY ONCE EITHER!Was it scrapper or Russef doing the flexing?
It was Blaghs actually, AND it was to the slave girl he failed to impress last time xDGlasshands will be shattered. Sudden pane in the chest.
Glasshands has means and big musclebound enhanced thugs!
I don’t know what to play… :\
I can’t sleep… 🙁
I’m too bored to watch anything… 🙁
:`(
Ermahgerd guys, I’m gonna be in Japan when the Dark Souls Cafe opens. I can’t read a word of Japanese (unless the word is “no” (の) but that hardly counts), but I’m sure that website says “you must come here, Blaghs.”
This is the address, 東京都港区西麻布1-8-13, its in central Tokyo somewhere. Now you can get there 😀
@blaghman if it’s any use this is Nishi-shinbashi in Minato ward in Tokyo.
If its an authentic dark souls experience, the only word you’ll need is NOOOOOOOO! Possibly followed by screaming.
Be sure to take along a stack of sticky notes & leave messages for others. “I’m in trouble, please recommend a main course!”
HOLY… O_O
I will give you any amount of money to bring me something from there. I’d prefer non-perishable, but that would probably go against the whole Dark Souls ethos.
I think the best you’ll get is pictures, assuming I can even work out how to get there.
“The vegetables cut off the dead cock”
I love Google translate.
Urgh, powers out. Oh well, gives me an excuse to order pizza, get drunk, and gamble 🙂 there are worse things in life 🙂
Edit: and around 20 seconds later the powers back on. I’M NOT CHANGING MY PLANS FOR YOU AGAIN UNIVERSE >:(
Thermomixes are too messy. They are too expensive, and they take too long to clean. I don’t know why we have one. I’d prefer just a blender but apparently I’m not allowed to buy one 🙁
They are good for making dough though, if that’s worth $2000 to you… (it’s not)
Thermomixes are great. We just got one.
For us the huge thing is knowing what goes in due to the number of dietary issues Mrs Tigs has.
But Risotto and custard that you don’t need to stir, genius
Hooray!
I finally finished a piece I’d been working on.
Too bad I was supposed to have it finished by yesterday… :\
Here it is:
http://imgur.com/ez0aJx0
And, with that, goodnight!
Welp. Apparently Wingman thinks Sketchbook likely has anxiety issues (which looking back on things, totally makes sense now) and was yelling at me for almost going and asking her out on the train, telling me it would have been a hugely dick move to do that with such a long trip left ahead of her. Had absolutely no idea what was going on and couldn’t understand why she was yelling at me so much or why it was such a bad idea when it seemed perfect to me, but we sorted it eventually. Also apparently she was worried about me trying to make a move, and was actively trying to prevent it with stuff like the interfering with driving and such.
Universe was totally looking out for me, initiating the abort sequence at the last moment like that when I was out on my own 😛
Did your wingman not think to mention this explicitly? That seems like it’d have helped a lot
*shrugs*
But then if she had, maybe I wouldn’t have pushed to go through with it like I did, and wouldn’t have felt so good about how things went in the end. Pretty sure it all worked out exactly like it was supposed to 😛
I don’t think your wing man understands the job description. I suggest @transientmind be your wing man from now on.
Well she did do a great job to begin with, hence the name. Things just changed a little since then and it’s easier to not have to think of a new name 😛
Holy shit guys, we found a store in Stockholm with just a massive pile of board games. So much of everything. There were literally stacks of 7 Wonders and they had a much better range than Games Paradise.
That’s it, I’m moving to Sweden.
Learning to deal with the cold might be a problem but everyone here speaks English, so at least I’ve got language going for me.
Are you sure it’s not Stockholm Syndrome?
Take it from a pro,
the novelty wears off after a while
He said boardgames not borkgames
HA!
Bring the whole shop back home!
I’ve finally had chance to look at the bravely default demo. I get what many of you were saying before. This thing is brutal. I’m nearly dying and having to run back to town to heal after every fight and this is against the first foes you encounter as soon as you step out of town. One of the monsters is even capable of 1-hit-k.o.ing my dudes.
It’s a good chance that 30 launches won’t be enough for me. Stupid weird-ass Nintendo putting arbitrary limits on such thing. Good thing this doesn’t help you to unlock things for the actual game. Oh wait, it does.
Deliverance 2. (Warning: disturbing content)
WITTY MEAT NAME GOES HERE!
A few out of towners are gracing(?) us with their presence this weekend and things have been organised and this is your daily (per-page? I dunno how lazy I’m feeling today) post about it
Suggested this yesterday for an afternoon thing but fleshed out a possible plan last night.
Meet in the city after lunch (like, 1:30pm) and go to the Power House museum (near Haymarket) for the Game Masters exhibition.
Tickets are $22 for adults and $12 if you’re a student (ID required). The website says to allow for 2 hours to go through it.
ALTERNATE PLAN: If people aren’t too keen on that we can just meet at say, 3ish and go to Haymarket, go on the bumper cars, play some laser tag and laugh at Blaghs as he falls over nothing.
Once done, we make our way to the Bavarian Bier Cafe on York St (most likely via the likes of Kinokunya because you know, books!) and maybe grab a slurpee or something because we can.
Reservation at the Bavarian is for 5:30 (sorry folks, it’s the only time they could fit us in) and we will be kicked out at 7:30pm which works well because there are a couple of people who will be joining us for drinks but not dinner (@batgirl, @effluvium-boy – might be others). I’ve made a reservation for 18 people which gives us a couple of extra places should some last minute changes allow people to tag along or something. Who has confirmed and stuff is below.
From there we head to [TBC] to basically drink and party ’till we’re purple.
Yep. That’s about it. Cool beans? Cool beans.
CONFIRMED:
@alexpants, @batguy, @cakesmith, @cj, @doc_what, @gingerchris86 (+1), @masha2932, @mawt (+1), @powalen, @rize, @blaghman, @rocketman, @steve-o_the_deve-o (+ Mrs. Steve-O), @sernobulus
MAYBE CONFIRMED? YOU’RE A LITTLE AMBIGUOUS IN YOUR RESPONSE. I BOOKED YOU A SPOT ANYWAY:
@mrtaco
DIDN’T HEAR BACK FROM THESE PEOPLE. 2 SPOTS TO FIGHT OVER:
@fatshadylive, @harli, @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian
As a side note, if there is anyone that could contact Steve-O (maybe Rockets?) and let him know about all of this that would be rad as he’s already in Sydney and probably too drunk and/or hungover to see this.
I just agreed to work on Saturday but hours are flexible so I can be free for BUMPER CARS PLEASE CAN WE BUMPER CARS?!
You just want to laugh at @blaghman when he falls over don’t you?
People don’t fall over in bumper cars.
Blaghs finds a way. jeffgoldblum.jpg
Old people dinner! \o/
(I’m actually completely fine with this)
#OldManPow
…we need to get everyone singing that on Saturday night.
It will be like that time at Mojos when we were all doing this:
Oh man, when one of the bar staff ran over and joined in I lost it 😀
There’s a reason that bar is my go to drinking place haha.
And they all know me by name. And what I order. And give me free drinks. Awww yisss.
Is it because you are some kind of high-ranking underworld figure?
Heyo! Just letting you know that while I am super keen for large steins of german beer, I am willing to forgo that if people want to have dinner elsewhere? Otherwise what @cakesmith has organised sounds great. I will probably end up in the CBD for dinner tonight – Just need to get to my hotel in Ashfield today and meet up with @rocketman. I have no idea where his band (Metric) are playing but if anybody is interested I wanted to take Mrs. Deveo to that Japanese Restaurant next to the book store in town that I seem to end up everytime I’m down here. Muse on Friday starts at 7:30, so we still have time to meet up during the day if anyone wants to as well.
Reservation is already made and the Bavarian is ultimately a good location to meet up. I did look at the one other place that people suggested but they couldn’t guarantee a booking for a group our size.
Tomorrow I’m meeting @rocketman and @sernobulus for lunch at Circular Quay (because I have to give Nob the keys to the place he’s staying) so feel free to tag along to that. They have a food market at The Rocks which is rad.
How many extra spaces did you book? Room for two more?
For sure. Done and done.
And apologies man, looks like I missed tagging you on the original post.
No probs.
I’ve been finding it hard to pay attention to TAY recently, so I only noticed it yesterday.
Man I’d hate to be that ambiguous jerk who hadn’t yet confirmed >.>
There was more…but they’ve since confirmed.
Where are we going for drinks afterwards?
Bravely Default is cooool. Reminds me of FFIX!
(I think I still like P4G more though @jimu!)
SURVIVOR DAY TODAY! @sughly @powalen @strange @phoenix
According to Wikipedia, the finale is on Sunday :O
I’ve missed you.
Hi @greenius
#involved
zomg, Bravely Default. So fun. So much I still dont understand, abilinking and sending updates and I dont know whats happening! But having fun in all my confusion. Every time I try and update my own Tiz he looks the same as he did when I started the game, I dont geddit. SO FUN!
Survivorrrrrrrrrr!
You need to:
During a battle open Summon
Then choose the second option (Not summon friend)
Then do a really special move and it will record it and that will update it all. 😀
AAAAH! IT ALL MAKES SENSE!!!!
One day I shall own Bravely Default, one day!
I’m looking on the positive side and thinking that maybe I’ll be able to acquire a 3DSXL as well as BD after the Christmas and 70K wallet-locking is lifted for beautiful big-screen Bravely Default.
I was going to hold off on BD until after Christmas, but I finished LBW sooner than I had expected and don’t want to start a Hero Mode run just yet.
It is so good. The art style and visuals are amazing (3D seems a bit wonky). And the Job system looks like it’s going to be fun.
Interestingly, it reminded me more of FFXII than IX.
I’m liking the 3D effects. Been playing it the whole time with it on (9ish hours). It’s like a pop-up book 😀
I can’t seem to get the screen at a position where the two images intersect properly.
Most games I can place the 3DS on the desk, sit up straight, and it’s perfect. Not so much with BD. A pity, since the game already looks like a pop-up book in 2D!
Akihiko Yoshida was the character designer for FFXII and Bravely Default, maybe that’s why?
Probably has something to do with it.
Also, the whole “lived in” feel to the world and airships.
Reminds me more of V and Blue Dragon – Jobs Systems
Read my GotY article on Potaku and I quantified why P4G is better.
Reading frightens me!
A pox on yoo
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/12/im-nate-weiner-and-this-is-the-story-behind-pockets-highlights/
The immature side of me is having a fit trying not to dissolve into giggles.
I’m guessing it failed
Last night on GTA Online was… uh… madness.
I was playing with my gf (separate Xbox’s hah) and notice a typical “a bounty has been placed” message pop up, but this one was different. I look closer, and someone placed $1bil bounty on a dude. A-whaaaaaaaat? Coincidentally, the bounty came near me so I hunted him down and eventually got him. The same guy who placed that bounty then placed another 6+.
Then another dude somehow (it’s actually disabled, AFAIK) gave my GF and I $500M each. So long story short, I have $1.2B and gf has $500M+. 😀
Also, with the new patch game a content creator, so I took the opportunity to make a short race track to get easy wins to unlock turbo. Somehow the game glitched and I have the turbo unlocked for Sports, Super, Off-road, Motorbike – even though I only grinded Sports.
All in all, a pretty fun night. 😛
Last time I saw this comment it was something about a bridesmaid….
Yep. 😛 Reply fail.
HAH. So that’s what the original comment was.
So the UN is calling for Australia to criminalise smacking your kids?
How about they fuck off and let me raise my children.
Do they specify using kitchen utensils or just the hand across the backside?
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/united-nations-wants-australia-to-ban-smacking-prosecute-offending-parents/story-fnet085v-1226780993923
Australia ignores the UN anyway. See refugee treatment for example.
The whole smacking thing is ridiculous. I agree smacking your kid in anger is bad, but smacking as discipline is the only thing that works sometimes, especially for superyoung kids. If my just learning to walk kid tries to do something dangerous and won’t respond to my frantic “No!”, no law is going to stop me smacking that kid to get them to recognise the danger.
I don’t know how you children raising people do it, my friend had to go to his school yesterday because his son got stabbed in the arm with a pencil twice, the kid was aiming for his face and he blocked it with his arm. The stabber got 3 day suspension, this is the third time he has stabbed a kid at school. People should be glad I have no power over anything I would just start putting down repeat offenders. Stories like this just reinforce my not wanting to have kids.
O_o
o_O
O_O
/o\
I guess it’s good to find out early who the psychopaths are!
Mrs Shane and I have decided to try to raise our kids without smacking, but we recognise that’s a personal decision (and ultimately quite a difficult one), and that everyone has their own style.
Although on the other hand, I have seen some parents fairly lay into their kids for minor infractions, and wouldn’t mind seeing an end to that…
There’s a vast gulf between a disciplinary slap on the bum and abuse.
Don’t touch my son with that tone of voice!
Indeed there is, but it seems to be basically lumped in with ‘discipline’ these days. I’d like to see a clearer legal distinction, if such a thing is possible, coupled with some sort of enforcement plan.
Without having read the article or done any research (and barely any thinking), I think the reason the UN is calling for a blanket policy is because a) such distinction is impossible to make in a black-and-white legal sense, and b) child abuse (the far end of the discipline spectrum) is unnacceptable.
Of course, decent people get shafted in the process, but I’d be hypothetically okay with that, if the vulnerable kids at the danger zone could be protected better. That’s pie-in-the-sky-never-gonna-happen type thinking, but if there was a clear trade-off with concrete results, I’d be okay to make it.
Blanket bans aren’t the answer. It’s already illegal to a beat your kids. What’s needed is better enforcement of existing laws and courts that actually do their jobs instead of letting everyone go.
Agreed, which is why I stated that as my ideal. Clearer legal distinction and an enforcement plan! 🙂
Parenting is difficult. instead of laws stating what you can and can’t do we need more education on alternatives.
My mother was of the latter type so you’d think I’d be of the former type, but there’s no way I’m not going to use every disciplinary tool at my disposal. Give yourselves leeway so if there arises a situation where you’re out of options and need to try a smack you won’t have that guilt of breaking your rule eating away at you. If I smack my kids it usually hurts me more than them, anyway. 😛
Keep using language like that and you’ll get a smack.
Sorry about whinging about my family for the last couple of days. The support has been much appreciated and has really helped not only me but my Mum too.
Special thanks to @lucifer9783 and @gorzilla for putting up with my Mums ranting and mine.
Seriously guys, thanks.
are soWait we aren’t doing that anymore are we. =P
Are not.
I am terrible at compliments D=
I’m happy if I was of any help.
Go away actual work. I just want to write my recap for last night’s Numenera session. 🙁
Interesting argument: We’ve stopped speaking lolcat, we are now speaking doge
http://io9.com/we-who-spoke-lolcat-now-speak-doge-1481243678
wow, such linguistics, much doge
I believe the following reaction is accurate:
I’ve never understood lolcat or doge. Just seems entirely stupid to me. XD
Then again, I’m known for being closed minded and judgmental. 😛
Doge always give me a big grin, but actual dogs usually do that.
I’m just baffled how ancient memes get drawn out of the woodwork.
It’s like internet archaeology
That should be a meme in itself. Indiana Jones digging up lolcats and doges.
I’m getting ridiculously hype for Lightning Returns. I wish they’d stop talking about it so much on Kotaku because it’s months away!
That Collector’s Edition looks pretty cool but I’m thinking of imposing a no collector’s edition rule on myself next year and it’s not cool enough to weaken that resolve.
Is that with the pocket watch!? I want that pocket watch!
It is a very nice pocket watch….
Dammit Wilbur, don’t tempt me like that! 😛
I don’t really want to play the game, I don’t care about all the other stuff, but damn it I want that watch.
…I’m probably not helping.
It actually looks like an interesting game. Also JP dub option! But I have to force my way through XIII and XIII-2 first 🙁
If I was you I’d skip XIII and go straight to XIII-2.
Which is easy enough to say if you’ve already seen everything that happens in XIII. I hate the idea of not knowing the details of what’s going on because I didn’t finish the first game. Trouble is that last time I tried to finish XIII I got even less far into it than the first attempt at it before losing interest. Probably should just load up my old saves from my first attempt and begin at Pulse where the game’s slightly less unfun and maybe play with a guide or something.
But that’s not happening until I clear out my current backlog of Memories of Celceta and Bravely Default. Which is also not happening as long as I am addicted to Kantai Collection 🙁
couldn’t you watch a playthrough or something?
Damit! I was trying to talk myself out of preordering lightning returns at all. Now I want the collectors edition.
Better yet will be when the game actually launches in the US and all the game site reporting will be, “So now that everyone has finished it, let’s talk about the ending and plot twists and other analysis.”
Then when it’s finally released in AUSTRALIA, land of the penalized-in-price-and-release-dates-and-Americans-wonder-why-we-pirate-their-shit-instead-of-accepting-status-as-non-citizens, the games sites will be all, “Yawn, who’s still playing THAT? Everyone in the world (ie: American games journalists who got review copies early) got done with that WEEKS ago!”
…That got a lot more bitter than I anticipated.
@dc now i can’t stop listening to This
so thanks XD
EDIT – cause what the hell happened to half my post?
That’s deep and thought provoking!
yeah something ate half my post for reasons!
Great movies! 😀
finished Link Between Worlds last night.
thoughts :
its pretty good. follows exactly the same formula as OoT : do 3 dungeons, get the master sword, do 7 dungeons, fight the boss. fin.the main difference though is the sages. umm… who are they & why do I care enough to rescue them? I mean, most of them you interact with exactly once before they ascend to sagehood. as I was getting them out of their paintings, i was constantly asking myself ‘umm…. who is this? have I met them before? or are they just some random?’
contrast that with OoT where all the Sages were actual characters with personalities that you got to interact with before sagehood happened… also, the ‘twist’ about Helda or whaterver her name is was revealed way too early. the Betrayal of Ganon (or whatever he’s called in this game) was pretty much expected.
the other difference is the lack of side activities. every item is bought at a store, and all key upgrades are found within the 10 main dungeons. theres no long quest to find the giants knife sorta deals here. sure, theres racing & dodge the chickens minigames, and an arena sorta thing, but they dont really contribute much other than as a distraction.
visuals are beautiful. the contrast between Hyrule & Lyrule is great. models & animation are rad. music is brilliant.
dungeon design is perfect, if a little on the easy side. I would’ve liked a few more dungeons with the complexity of the Ice Temple place…
overall…… i really liked it for its gameplay & design, but less so for the story.
Edit: also I thought the final boss was a bit of a difficulty spike. then after I’d beaten him I realised there is a 2nd tunic upgrade (the red one) in the final dungeon that halves damage received. oh well. blue is a better colour anyway.
but yeah….. now i’m super keen for a Majora’s Mask remake for the 3DS. get on that Ninty.
The ice temple was the worst. It wasn’t hard, just badly designed. Also, there was the Maiamai quest on top of what you mentioned.i actually liked the Ice Temple. it was the only one that I had to think about. the rest seemed a bit linear. also yeah… the squid collecting thing. seriously, I found 70 or so, but i only upgraded 4 things – Hookshot, Bombs, Ice Rod & Fire Rod. Thats another thing that bugs me – I didnt use the boomerang once. ever. why is it even in the game?ill fite you
MAJORA FOR WII U
Who wants a TAYlist? I’ll be taking requests until noon.
Lost Cause – Beck
If you want to hear some Beck, you’ve only got 3 choices; Loser, Sexxlaws, and Where It’s At.
Sorry mate.
So asking for Lost Cause is ironic?
None of the above.
Uh, let’s go with Three Little Birds – Bob Marley…
Oh, god, I’m sorry, we don’t have it.
Worst radio station evah. 😛
Never mind. 😀
Wham! – Last Christmas.
Dust In The Wind – Kansas
Also I don’t know what exactly these lists are for, just something about broadcasting Musak.
I play the music you guys pick on the local radio station.
But I want to listen :'(
Make a generous donation so we can afford a Internet streaming license and the hardware to do so.
ALSO, Sara – Fleetwood Mac
ooh, Christmas theme?
White Wine in the Sun- Tim Minchin
Zero results for “Minchin” sorry, Red.
Fairy Tale of New York – The Pogues
Computer’s saying nope.
Four Seasons- Beggin’
No Beggin’, sorry mang, got a second choice?
The Smiths – I want the one I cant Have
Sorry, don’t have that one, mate
Obscure hipster request :
The Nation Blue – Black Market Sound
Serious request :
Urge Overkill – Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon.
Don’t have that one in the computer, sorry.
Don’t apologise Numbers. It’s my fault for requesting slightly obscure shit.
Also: A Whiter Shade of Pale – Procol Harum
We’ve actually got this one. I’m shocked.
It’s a classic!
R.E.M – Orange Crush
While we’re trying to trip up the computer: Only you – Yaz
Score one for Red, it’s not in the computer.
hahaha, in one year I will have gone surfing on Australia’s magnificent beaches* and now I shall ski on Canada’s majestic mountains!**
*it was one lesson of me flailing about in water
** no lessons needed, I can flail about on snow quite fine without help
I’m actually playing LoL these days. It’s nice. But then volvo brings me back with their seasonal events and hats and the such. 🙁
Starbound! It’s great. It makes my poor laptop cry. Perhaps time for a upgrade (or maybe just straight up build a desktop, it might be time for it)
Oh, right. Finals in Uni and Midnight shifts do not mix.
Last but not least, I hate snow.
Volvo has seasonal hats?
Well, no. I don’t think. They might. What matters is, hats.
Enduwolf superpost!
Week’s been pretty hectic so I haven’t had a chance to get on here properly, sorry all. Brisbanites, I know we had a tentative plan for a meat this weekend but there is a violent virulent disease infesting my house. I missed work all last week because of it and it’s lingering, and now my wife has it, so this weekend isn’t good for me. Hopefully we can organise something, but it’s not like I’m leaving your lives forever!
I bought the Humble Jumbo Bundle this morning, I know that this has probably already been done to death, but if anyone would like my Serious Sam or Garry’s Mod codes, let me know as games with male names scare me.
My Fire Emblem: Awakening showed up on Monday and it’s awesome! I’m a fan of the series (although I’m starting to wish I hadn’t selected Classic mode – in the GBA version I went like 36 missions before I lost someone – and only due to that axe that has a chance to recoil, but I lost Lissa in the first chapter!). It really came in handy when my powerbox blew on Monday night. MASTER RACE! Picked up a new one on Tuesday and was back in action Tuesday night, no sending my case off somewhere for weeks, nosiree.
Hope you guys feel better.
There’s a meat this weekend?
We were trying to. Kind of a grand finale for me as I’m moving back to the promised land come January.
I need to meat you and give you monies at some point too
WALKING DEAD SEASON TWO DROPS 18 DECEMBER (for 360 anyway)
http://majornelson.com/2013/12/10/coming-soon-to-the-xbox-live-game-store-6/
Episode 1: $5
Season pass: $15
Hells yeah!
Steam is saying Dec 17. Going to be awesome. 😀
Edit: Oh wait, it’s changed to Dec 18 as well!
I don’t know if I want to play them as they come out or wait until all episodes are released.
Ideally I’d wait until they’re all released, but realistically I know that’d be like torture avoiding spoilers for months and months.
Jump in! The water’s fine!
Be nice if it controls like Wolf Among Us rather than Walking Dead S1. WD was clumsy and irritating.
Yeah, definitely felt a lot more refined in Wolf Among Us!
How did it compare with 400 Days? I don’t remember!
Still felt slightly clunky. Wolf Among Us gave an overhaul to most of the mechanics for the better.
You’ve Got Time by Regina Spektor is such a great opening song for Orange is the New Black. Sets the tone amazingly.
I usually like Reggie’s work, but this not so much. It’s probably much better if you watch the show, or if you watch it with show’s intro.
Reggie?
http://youtu.be/0bLFO4ZV0i4
You make me proud.
@shane
Wow that SoA final last night… Hold onto your purse because it’s one he’ll of a ride! I won’t post any spoilers until you’re ready to discuss, but I will say I am very interested to see how the final season plays out.
Hi Ho Nomad, awaaaay!
It was pretty intense!
Looking at tablets for my wife for Christmas and I can’t figure out what I’m looking for, specifically, other than “not an iPad”.
At the moment I’m looking at the Nexus 10, Xperia 10, and Note 10.1. Anyone here have one and is willing to offer opinions?
Not the Nexus 10, but I do have a Nexus 7 and it’s the bee’s pyjamas.
I have a Dell Latitude 10 and it is brilliant (it’s a Windows 8 tablet, not RT etc if that helps).
My dad bought my mum a Galaxy Tab 3 for Christmas, I believe. Pretty good pricing in comparison to the Apple products – iPad 2 is still AU$449?! Whaaa?!
SOS has a Surface.
It’s pretty cool.
I think @doc_what has one, too?
Just get her an iPa—oh…
There’s pure Android a la Nexus, or there’s stuff with skins on it, e.g. Samsung/Sony/everyone.
– Nexus10 is getting a refresh soon, so it’s too expensive for now.
– Xperia tab is deliciously thin and light. Also dat waterproofing… It can be picked up for $400, which is a pretty damn good price and what I’d probably get myself.
– Samsung tab 2 10.1inch is on clearance at Harvey Norman right now.
If you’re going <10inch, get the Nexus 7 2013 model. If you’re getting a 10inch, get either the Samsung or Sony on sale (I’d lean towards the Sony).
Partially leaning towards Sony because it seems to be pretty good, but she actually has an Xperia phone so should make the learning curve much smaller.
It’s a pimp device, no doubt.
This thread has made me reinstall photoshop onto my tablet. I also found a bunch of music I forgot I had.
Uh, Houston, we’ve had a problem. 😀
I love Apollo 13
Tom Hanks is a pretty cool guy. Reminds me of my uncle.
+1 for accurate quote of the real line, not the movie quote
Hell yeah!
Apollo 13 is a great film – it’s one of my favourites, even – but as a space nerd some of the minor inaccuracies really grate on me. 🙁
Shiny new error page!
Your face is a page error.
Your error is a page … face?
Are you in Sydney yet?
Just had an interesting argument, which got a good laugh out of me with his reaction
Work Colleague: Darn it this automation task is taking too long!
Me: Come on, have some patience those tasks usually take give or take twenty seconds to complete, you don’t need to hammer refresh.
WC: If there weren’t these many issues with the environment right now it should be finishing immediately.
Me: It’s just twenty seconds…
WC: Really come on, in all your time in this company, how many hours have been wasted waiting on software to load or finish doing something for you?
Me: Good question, but I’ll have to counter with this: How many hours of your life have been wasted waiting on humans?
WC: *giving some kind of “whoa” kind of reaction then pauses*…wow that’s a very robot thing to say
I basically bursted out laughing at this point
Can’t believe how criminally easy my brother is to buy a Christmas present for, and yet my parents are so difficult. A million giftable hobbies versus no giftable anythings (Not that I’ve looked particularly hard for them yet :P) I do have the luxury of city shopping available to me now though… Hm…
ANYway, I have played no games.
I find myself watching TV of a night more often than not. Just couldn’t be bothered 😛 I really want to finish ZombiU before it turns 1 year old on Christmas Day, but that’s probably not going to happen. I’ll finish it one day!
Zombi U wasn’t even that lengthy. Where are you up to in the story?
I know, I’m just a bum.
Spoilers for a
vague(actually not that vague, apparently) description of what I last remember doing 😛Last thing I did was get the rooftop extraction where the helicopter gets taken down, then you get led along the river towards the bridge. I think I stopped playing just after that chapter, before entering whatever area is next.I know I’m not very far from the end, I’ve just got to kick myself into picking up the damn controller! (and finish bracing myself for the scaries)
The only thing we have to fear… is fear itself.
And zombies. Zombies too.
I have a pin which has, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. …And spiders.” With a picture of a spider. I pinned it to my shoulder-bag.
When my bag was stolen at a restaurant, it ended up in the lost and found of the complex… the only thing missing? The pin.
For the discerning thief!
Firemen calendars for everyone!
Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!
I always wanted to be a baseball.
Twirling, twirling, TWIRLING towards freedom!
Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos.
Hah, they actually were selling those again today.
Man, I should do that too. ZombiU’s sitting just before the point of no return for me, and I never ended up getting back to it. All my anti-scaries training’s probably dissolved by now too…
Also got both Rayman and 3D World sitting there waiting to be opened. I suck at this.
I loved that sense of accomplishment in Zombi U of being able to handle zombies better, divide and conquer and all that stuff. So good. You should play Rayman. Now. I practically insist. 😛
I too need to get back into playing ZombiU. From memory, I’m only up to
Buckingham PalaceTAYlist for the 12th of December 2013
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by apologies for the two week hiatusCornershop – Brimful Of Asha
Kate Ceberano – Pash
Wham – Last Christmas (Requested by @freezespreston)
Oakenfold – Starry Eyed Surprise (Interesting sound, I kinda like it)
Fleetwood Mac – Sara (Requested by @f4ction)
Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade Of Pale (Requested by @redartifice, Another one with a name I can put to a song)
Men At Work – Overkill
REM – Orange Crush (Requested by @crazyguy1990)
Kansas – Dust In The Wind (Also requested by @f4ction)
Wild Cherry – Play That Funky Music
Only did a 1 hour show, hence the shorter list.
Oh god you actually played Wham!?
Is that a problem, Wham is cool, a little bit OTT on the 70s, but still pretty cool.
Shut the fuck up. No.
Wham! is amazing. Don’t even question it, broski.
Just for you I’m sing Last Christmas again. Hater.
Did you see who requested it?
Yes, but I was worried you only requested it as a joke, expecting him not to.
I hate corporate culture sometimes. So many people have no drive and no ambition that it’s quite frustrating.
I strive for mediocrity.
Anything above average is just bragging.
My workplace it seems as though bottom of the barrel is standard. Anything above that is unusual which I guess is why I dislike the general attitude here.
then you’ve got the people who are ambitious to the point where they actively damage their colleagues to make themselves look better. they can go straight to hell as well.
everyone should be apathetic about work.
Yeah screw those people. I hate people who are so utterly dismissive of everyone around them and will do anything to get ahead.
I guess I’ve got more of a problem with ineptitude at my workplace. People are either unqualified or they have been promoted beyond their capabilities as they work in such a clusterf@#$ and first-gear fashion. They are the definition of “go slow”, both in quality and efficiency.
A real thing which is real: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle (Although the original document was intended to be humour.)
@shane dunno if you saw, but I put up a couple comments about The Lesser Evil on goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/779692411
Thanks my friend! The honest appraisal is appreciated, and I’m glad you enjoyed it overall.
Hey, it was a quibble, nothing more 🙂
I liked it too, though it took a while for me to adjust to the art style enough to be able to recognize the individual characters at some points. I think it’s even better when you factor in Peaceful Tomorrows. The story’s better for being larger.
Finished Bravely Default a few hours ago, I hope you guys playing it are prepared for a unexpected ending.
Very decent time sink, I recommend it =)
NegativeZero’s Kantai Collection Update That No One Cares About*
* except @popdart5
Logged in and did my daily bits and pieces as usual. Did the practice matches (running Kongo as flagship, Haruna, Hiryuu, Ooi, Kirishima and Hiei) and got Kongo to level 25 and her remodel. Running regular expeditions is making a big difference for resource availability, I had enough that I didn’t mind dropping 1000 fuel having four attempts at building a sub (Using 250/130/330/30 recipe). Trolled by RNG – three Nakas and a Choukai. I could have scrapped them but instead I used them to modernize my Destroyers.Ran through 1-1 with each of my six destroyer fleet solo three times to get them sparkly. Repaired up and after using the extra destroyer drops from 1-1 for modernization noticed that everyone was at 4 stars. Decided it was time, and ran 3-2 with them. First combat node went very well, just a few minor scratches and managed to sink several of the enemy so A-ranked it. But the first node is easy. Second one is the difficult one – two Battleships, two Heavy Cruisers, two Destroyers. Managed to make it through with only Hibiki taking a hit, but that hit put her into mid-damage which is the danger zone. Decided to risk it and push onward. This is a terrible thing to do.
The boss node, it turns out, is actually easier than the previous one – just Destroyers and Light Cruisers. Issue is that getting there puts your fuel and ammo into the redzone, which decreases morale and makes your ships more vulnerable. My Destroyers didn’t really get a lot of good hits i, probably a little bit too low leveled. Sank a couple but took a few hits in the shelling phase. Then the torpedo phase happened and Hibiki, by this point down to 3 HP, took a critical hit from a torpedo. 🙁 Then she sank 🙁
Luckily I had prepared! Prior to setting out I changed everyone but my flagship (Shimakaze) to different equipment. Before they were using 10″ High Angle Guns, Quad Oxy Torpedoes and 12.7″ main guns. Swapped out the main gun on all but my flagship to an Emergency Repair Crew. And it paid off. My just-sunk Hibiki miraculously came back to life on 6 HP, more than she was on beforehand. The torpedo exchange also nearly wiped out the enemy, just their flagship and one destroyer remaining. Entered night battle and Shimakaze torpedoed the destroyer followed by Yukikaze firing a shell that crit the boss.
3-2 boss cleared! S-Rank! No losses on my end (though aside from Shimakaze and Murasame, everyone was pretty damaged). The completion drop was Ise, which would be cool if I didn’t have her, but I’m not complaining. 3-3 it turns out is super hard. According to difficulty rating, 4-1 should be easier so I might try it next (World 3 and 4 both opened after clearing 2).
Beyond that my plan is to get Haruna to 25 and remodel, then split my main fleet in half. Kongo and Haruna to one fleet, Kirishima and Hiei to another, and then build a carrier group in fleets 1 & 2, with Hiryuu and Akagi. Probably put Kitakami in one group, Ooi in the other, then have two spots open to use for whatever makes the most sense. Probably usually run a destroyer and an extra battleship or light carrier, but eg if I know I’m going to encounter subs I might run a second destroyer. Should be good for grinding levels since when one team gets tired I can run the other.
I was about to say that running 4 BBs in one fleet must have been one hell of a drain on your resources. Good job on clearing 3-2 and getting through without too much stress (although that Hibiki damage was a bit too close for comfort).
Last night was pretty successful for me too. I managed to get Nachi and clear out the Myokou-class composition quest. Also constructed four carriers and ended up with Ryuujou, Shouhou, and two Kaga. I did some swapping around and now I have two CVLs running expeditions as they’re required while Kaga is taking centre stage in my main (nearly have Chiyoda up to her remodel so that’s good).
I’ve started running a secondary fleet to get some more options at levelling and drops and I’m starting to run a little low on buckets and fuel. I did end up smashing through 1-4 and opening World 2 without any major stress (maybe a little but Yukikaze is a little trooper and dodges like a champ). Currently running Hiei, Kitakami, Kaga, Yukikaze, Ashigara, and Chiyoda as my main plus a motley of ships in my second.
*two* Kagas? :O Every time I try and build a CV I get a CVL or a fucking Naka. Naka everywhere 🙁 I am envious. I believe that Kaga fields the most planes out of any carrier though so be careful with your bauxite supplies.
I think Kongo-class BBs are more fuel efficient than the Fusous I was using before. For 4 of them (2 Kai, 2 non-Kai) plus Kitakami and Hiryuu it was about 84 fuel per battle node. Ammo is about twice that though. Supplementing resource gain with expeditions makes a big difference.
Yukikaze has an amazingly high luck stat. I think 60 is the highest in the game – reflects the fact she was one of only a handful of IJN ships to last through WW2. Most of the ‘miracle ships’ like her have very high luck.
Congrats on 1-4. World 2 is a bit scary at first but 2-1 is probably no harder than 1-4. 2-2 and 2-3 will be your mainstays for leveling for a while. All the ‘dead end’ nodes in 2-2 and 2-3 have transports in them which you need to sink for some quests. Also world 2 has much higher drop rate on light & heavy cruisers and battleships.
Per emerging tradition, Thursday is ThursTAY! Yaay. Upvotes for everyone.
I was able to secure certified training to grab a diploma that will assist international contacts with finding a better place for me. HOLY BALLS training makes me sleepy and the pacing is slow. I may see if there’s a possibility of taking a week off for a self-paced option, then blast it.
I have played some games since last week! In the last week, I played the Marvel Puzzle Quest game that came out on Steam. It’s got a lot of the usual F2P chicanery such as a special in-game bought currency which is required for upgrades, character slots, new characters etc, which can be kinda sorta grinded out in small quantities through free play. And a ‘sort of’ energy play-restriction mechanic – slow-regenerating health. Health packs are either bought with the paid currency or portioned out every half-hour (which means 1.5hrs downtime if your 3-man team gets wiped out). Found that I don’t really have the time to play it on the PC, but it’s also on mobile platforms and works pretty well there as a decent little time-killer in transit. (Though I do feel guilty for not using that time to like… I don’t know. Learn a second language or something.)
I miss Steam. I saw there was a sale on for some VGX thing, and there looked like some good stuff on there.
Somewhat downer news…
My girl had a psychotic break. She’s had mobile/skype access removed and will probably end up in a more long-term psych facility. In the process/aftermath she has said some… difficult things to accept. And is now participating in the ending of contact with me. She does not want me to waste my life with her when she is a ‘lost cause’. I am fighting just… so many people on this, but I didn’t expect it to be her as well. Have to admit it’s getting to me. There’s a part of me that almost agrees.
I’m so tired. I probably just need more sleep, more time in the gym maybe.
Unrelated… every time I’ve had a little time to try looking at Kotaku this week, the site’s been down or re-directing to the US. Is that a thing, or is it just me? Seems to be OK today.
Sorry to hear about the recent developments, my friend.
OK, see, now I think I get the editing urge.
Turning up once a week to shit on the mood is lame, and not what I come here for.
This is a place to soak up and enjoy the mutual love of vidjo-games. VIDEO GAMES!
SPEAKING OF WHICH: Looking forward to Friday night, I’m going to play some more. And probably the Saturday, too! Might try tackling Dark Souls on PC. I had no enthusiasm for it on PS3 whatsoever, it looked ugly and was frustrating to the point of boredom, but I hear there’s some community mods which make the PC version pretty great. I want to kind of hunt down that revelatory experience folks enthuse about. Y’know… get used to handling EVERYTHING on hard mode, make it a way of life, learn to love it, that kind of philosophy.
I think there’s some Stockholm Syndrome related to Dark Souls.
Not at all, man. We’re friends here, some more than others but all these interpersonal relationships are real. It’s stupid to ignore real world problems and it’s stupid to expect a friend to keep the weight of the world to themselves just because its some seriously heavy stuff. It’s our job as your pals to listen, offer support in any way we can even if it’s just a means for you to vent. If you want to come here for escapism and not mention your troubles then that’s fine, but please don’t keep this stuff bottled inside just cause you don’t want to expose us to it.
Here’s hoping Dark Souls treats you well. I couldn’t stand it. Loved the level design though. Finished Assassin’s Creed this week and thought it was a return to form for the series. Saw on PSN that you 100% it? Whoa!
Yeah, AC4 was the little treat I gave myself before unplugging the consoles. 😛
So yeah, I metaphorically ‘licked the plate clean’ on that.
I 61 percented it and that’s enough for me. Don’t think I’ll be going back. Finished the campaign. Took in the sights and sounds, but won’t be scouring the seas for every little piece of treasure. 😀
I’m pretty far in but then i made the move to PS4 and was going to restart it with the $14.50 ps3 to ps4 upgrade, which worked fine even all the DLC came across, then i go to play and it’s all “You must purchase a U-Play passport for $15”. Really annoying . I’ll probably just go and finish it off on PS3 and write off the $14.50. I recall recently someone was complaining about U-Play & I was all like “I haven’t had any problems with it” boy was I wrong, so glad they’re canning it.
They’re canning uplay? Or just the pass? Getting rid of uplay is pretty great news if that’s actually what’s happening.
@transientmind
Yeah getting rid of u-play altogether from what I’ve read, but they did say that it will include AC4 and remove the need for the passport, still waiting though
I’m 40 hours in and have hit about 35%.
Up to memory 5 I think?
I don’t think I can do much aside from reiterate this statement behind a whole bunch of hypocrisy because we all kinda do the same I think.
@transientmind, vent all you need man. We’re all gonna be here should you need us.
Dude, that’s rough. No advice, no platitudes I can give, that’s just rough.
Oh man, I hope things start getting better for yourself and everyone around you. TAY will always be here if you need it (except when the site was down, sorry about that).
I miss your stories.
sorry to hear, I hope things turn around for you soon. Hopefully you can take a little joy from your gaming time. Stay strong.
*manly air hug*
You know where I am and how to get me.
Yeah. Thanks. If I’d been down Currumbin way, there were a couple times last week I’d probably have gone out for a quiet drink. Oh, shit… that reminds me. I haven’t been looking at twitter AT ALL and I tried playing catch-up with TAY posts last Thursday and struggling today, but saw no news – how have police things gone? Any news?
Hahaha…..nope.
Haven’t got a No yet though so it’s something in taking solace in.
Sorry to hear, man. If there’s anything you need…
Can’t imagine what I would do in your position, but I believe no one would judge you if you decided to cut ties in these circumstances…
Edit: Not that I’m saying it’s an easy decision or anything, nor that you should even necessarily consider the reaction of others when you make your choice.
… I’ll be over there.
*Hugs (Manly)*
I’ve never quite had a breakdown but I’ve been fighting depression (mostly alone) for more than 20 years now, easily the hardest thing to accept is that you actually do matter. I still don’t really believe it myself but people reminding me that I do does help so anything you do to remind her that she matters is probably helping. All of this kind of thing might change dramatically in actual breakdown conditions though.
This is why I prefer computers to people, you program them and they do the job without any of this organic faffing about and if they stop working you can throw them out and get a new one. You just try that with people and see how far you get, a few people don’t work right, I take perfectly reasonable steps and suddenly I’m the “Riverina Slasher”!
Kickstarter video game get \o/
So the first of the 8 games i have currently in development has been released. Probably the smallest of them as well but small world 2 was released today and I have my steam key. Haven’t had a chance to play it yet but should get a chance tonight
I’ve only backed the ‘sure thing’ games, like Planetary Annihilation, Wasteland 2, and the Numenera/Torment game. (Heh. @Redartifice RP training camp will be invaluable for playing that, I’m sure!) I was even skeptical of the Double Fine Adventure, Banner Saga, and Shadowrun. Good to see some successes getting through.
Well I have wasteland 2, banner saga (that is coming out next month) and DFA. As well as Massive chalice but i’m a bit of a double fine fanboi so there is that.
Probably the biggest risk I have in there is the Road redemption but the risk of losing that money is worth it against the possibility of an awesome new road rash game.
From what I’ve read the Torment game will rely more on their “Tides” system, but you’ll know all about the weird shit that numenera can bring 🙂
You’re getting Wasteland 2’s beta? I’m avoiding all kickstarter betas and stuff. I don’t want to be involved with making the games in any way, just want them made and don’t care about them until they’re ready for me to play in their final state.
Yeah, same here. You’ll only get to play a game for the first time once and I’d prefer to do that with the finished product!
I’m in the same boat, I’ll get the game when it’s done and ready.
I actually nommed somebody this week for bug testing the beta so I have the best experience with the game
Only kickstarter beta I’ve played so far was Sir you are being Hunted, just cause I really wanted to see what the procedurally generated landscape was like (it’s very cool)
Raspberry M&Ms are best M&Ms. That is all.
You mean peanut M&Ms.
Nope. I actually don’t like Peanut M&Ms all that much.
I guess I need to try the raspberry ones then and kick my peanut habit. 😛
They are pretty awesome. They actually taste like raspberry. I think I might be addicted to them.
You mean crispy M&Ms.
Crispy are ok, but for me it goes Raspberry, Coconut, Crispy, Plain, Peanut. I haven’t tried the Mint ones yet.
….. I need to get out more, there’s more than just regular and peanut M&Ms, wait i do recall the crispy ones but all those others I’ve never heard of.
#hermitforlife
We should have a meat at the confectionery aisle at Woolworths!
Oooooooh, save this for when I visit Brisbane! I’ll buy everyone a Summer Roll!
They’re DaBest.
What’s a Summer Roll? Did you dream this?
@dc They’re wonderful, marvellous things! They’re usually on the very bottom shelf in the individual chocolate bar section. Only a dollar and boy oh boy are they worth it!
I bought two the other day! 😀
No you need to go to the butcher/deli part for that.
*adds Gooky’s name to the list, contacts Sketchbook Girl to tell her Gooky ain’t dating material*
“Chocolate M&Ms!?”
There’s a girl at work who has brought in a peanut-butter and chocolate CHEESECAKE/slice for us to eat.
I damn near proposed to her on the spot.
(Edit: Instead, I just looked her square in the eye and said despondently, “You’re already married aren’t you…” She laughed and looked pleased. Hooray for no visit from HR.)
I think you mean sour skittles are the best M&Ms. *decisive, nonsensical nod*
Sour Skittles are pretty awesome.
when i was 14 I got free skittles cause they were new and I did a taste test thing in a group, we also got to try those really thin French Fry potoato chip things, I like to think my positive input got them off the ground 😛 they made a fan of me from day one
But both those things have been around for ages! HOW OLD ARE YOU? D:
Older than you babbie
Aren’t you going to tell me to get off your lawn, Old Man Freeze ™?
like I said 14, was just after I got off Noah’s ark, those marketing guys set up shop fast 😛
*consults the scriptures*
Your story checks out!
I love those French fry chips, the salt & vinegar ones are some of the best S&V ever made, shame they’re so fucking hard to find in wagga, I need to make a special trip to an IGA supermarket since they’re the only place I’ve seen them
they are pretty great. For some Reason there’s this hot dog stand at Soundwave festivals (I’m sure they’re elsewhere just the only place I’ve seen them) that make hot dogs and throw like half a bag of those french fries on it, found it really weird, i would have just preffered the chips
I was unware that raspberry m&ms were a thing. I shall have to investigate this.
I have also been advised there is a dark chocolate variety and that is the superior variety
All this talk of confec – has anyone seen where the old Golden Roughs are hiding? I can’t find them at my local supermarket anymore?
oh no, I”ll have to look in mine for you, I hate it when old favourites disapear 🙁
Speaking of old confectionery, what the hell happenned to Fine Fares? Oreos just can’t capture the magic.
Those are easy as hell to DIY though, egg ring, bake paper, melted chocolate & shredded coconut. Bam, job done.
I have peanut butter m&ms sitting in a box here.
If I didn’t have to share the contents of said box with a friend I’d do a taste test
Holy crap, I just noticed I can touch my belt with my hair, I think I need a haircut 😛
But your strength and power is in your hair probably!
DIDN’T YOU LEARN ANY THING FROM SAMSON AND DELILAH?
Maybe this song will help.
you’re probably right, I better not.
The last time I had a proper haircut by a hairdresser was probably back in like 1998 or so, nowadays I just cut the end off myself occasionally (like once every 2 years or so :P).
I think I am Inverse Samson.
Perfect for headbanging
oh there has been a lot of long haired headbanging over the years, problem is is that I whip everyone in like a 3 klm radius (i do try and be concious of people around me) , last time was at Fear Factory, I moshed my way to the front & got a high 5 from Burton C. Bell. good times
Weave barbed wire spikes into the ends of it so it will not only look metal as fuck but will be an effective weapon should the need arise
He must be slowly transforming into SIndel
now to work on my scream & walking in heels 😛
I just googled to see who sindel was, given her attacks I think they might as well just rename her Angela Gossow
Every time I see people talk about Fear Factory I just think Donkey Kong Country.
Awesome.
I can’t believe it’s not butter.
I am now unemployed. It was a really great feeling, basically everyone said I have done exceptional work and I was a joy to be around. It’s nice to hear that kind of stuff.
Don’t take this post wrong, this isn’t a “me being sad” post. More of a realisation that I was more then a cog in the machine at work and that people actually enjoyed me on both a professional and a friendship level. Plus, I can sleep in on weekdays! \o/
At least you can play Starbound more, right?
I will bind all the stars together, thus becoming a SUPER STAR!
http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/love-you-leela.jpg ?
There will be a new Studio Ghibli film released in 2014. “When Marnie was There” (Omoide no Maanii”) adapted from the book of the same name by Joan G. Robinson. Will be directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, same director as Arrietty. Co-written by Yonebayashi, Keiko Niwa (Ocean Waves, Poppy Hill, Arrietty) and Masashi Ando (character designer on Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away and Paprika).
Amazon description of the book:
Though if it’s anything like Arrietty that probably won’t be a hugely accurate summary as that differed quite a bit. Apparently it’s on a list of recommended books for children that Miyazaki put together a while back which would be a really interesting list to get. I’ve never heard of it personally.
Obviously 2014 will also see English releases and home video versions of The Wind Rises and Princess Kaguya as well. Also as it’s the only feature film in the back catalogue not to have a BD yet, 2014 should also see the release of Spirited Away on Bluray.
😀
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/12/the-national-broadband-network-is-our-what-if-girl/
Dammit Gizmodo. That’s not the kind of thing I need to be reading right now 😛
I gather you didn’t make your move?
In a word, no.
In a couple thousand, it’s somewhere in the middle of page 6 😛
One moment.
Oh.
Have you spilled the beans to Winggirl?
She has the greatest insight into all characters involved – except, perhaps, yourself.
Yeah, she’s the grand overseer of all. Including myself 😛
Can she fix the NBN??
Nobody can 🙁
Just one more reason we need to build an army of robots and overthrow the governments of the world.
Unfortunately we’ll have to issue commands to the robot army over century old degraded copper and at a speed that often drops to 14.4kb/s. On the bright side, they’ll never pull a Geth and overthrow us after achieving sentience because I think sentience would need at least ADSL speeds.
@aliasalpha I’m working on it…
So I finally got around to watching the final episodes of Arby n the Chief. What started as a light-hearted Halo-meets-ToyStory machinima turned into such a thoroughly heart-wrenching drama. It had a reeeally sad ending.
So Arbiter and mastur cheef killed themselves, Eugene shot himself, Tyler got shot… twice, Colin became a prison sex toy… Yeah, I feel confident in saying that the ending was really dark. It was the perfect ending, but I really want to see what the fallout of the ending was. I want to see what happens the next day when Arbiter doesn’t show up. How would Claire react? Would she immediately realise the truth? Would she just brush it off, and keep showing up day after day in the vain hope that he will show up?I suppose some things could have been handled better. Tyler’s death kind of loses meaning when you can’t tell what happened because his voice is so muffled. And why the hell was cheef playing Sonic again? That made no sense.
Either way, it ended the way it should have, and the way it needed to. (*cough* Red vs Blue) To think that the show had 7 seasons… (not counting hypermail or that spinoff that shall not be named)
JonCJG/DigitalPh33r is a really talented writer, director, and machinimator. (it’s a word now, deal with it) I hope making the show hasn’t interfered with his uni studies too much, and I hope he can use this as a lauchpad for a writing career. He should be a film or TV writer, he is that good. Or maybe he studied anthropology at uni, and has no interest in writing ever again.
To all the people who suffered through my jumbled mess of an essay, thank you.
EDIT: Forgot spoiler tags
Got a link? never heard of it
Here is a link to a playlist of most of the episodes. (Does not contain the godawful spinoff “Arby n the Chief in L.A” ) When you get to the end, just search Arby n the Chief on youtube and watch it from machinima’s playlist. . For some reason, Machinima deleted the playlists of the earlier episodes, so I had to get a fan-made playlist. Also keep in mind that Machinima decide to start age-gating old episodes, so you’ll have to sign in.
A brief explanation of Arby n the Cheif:
A master chief action figure (voiced by microsoft sam) and Arbiter action figure (voiced by microsoft mike) both live and play halo together. The show is part machinima, and part live action action figures talking to each other. Cheif is a lovable idiot, and Arbiter is not.
Earlier seasons went for a “odd couple” style-comedy, but it slowly descends over the course of seven seasons to a depressing drama about existenal crises (They are talking action figure for chrissakes)
When I say this series is better than Red vs Blue, I mean it. The plot is better, and the cinematography blows RvB out of the water. Earlier episodes are a bit janky though.
Watch this show in a big marathon over the course of a few days and come talk to me in next weeks TAY. (Or whenever you finish it) I’ll be sure to remind you of why that show is so good.
Something to keep in mind: The episode “Endgame” is only somewhat canon. It was used as a lead-in to Arby n the Chief in LA, which was so awful that it was declared non-canon and everybody tried to repress the memories. Thing is, “Endgame” introduced a character that later turns out to be really important in the later seasons. It also started a story concept that later turns into the core concept of the show.
Good luck.
I finally updated my WiiU.
Now it’s going to continue sitting there doing nothing until I get a game for it
Just played my first LoL pvp match.
slowpoke.jpg
Did someone on the team graciously inform you of how much of a beginner you were, and how you should probably continue to play games such as Farmville, due to the fact that you’re clearly quite good at them?
Actually, everyone was pretty cool. Given the horror stories I’d heard, it was a pleasant surprise.
I don’t think I did too bad, considering. 4 kills, 6 deaths and 2 assists playing as Irelia. We even won the game, which was cool considering we were playing 4 vs 5 for most of it because our Ashe kept disconnecting. Luckily we had a guy playing Yi, who with the help of Lux, managed to get about 20 kills.
The LoL community is quite friendly… as long as your team is winning.
I’ve had a few games where I’ve been called a noob/feeder/scrub/racist/mockcuncher/whathaveyou even when the team is winning, and even sometimes when the team is winning and I’m not feeding like a champ (a very rare occurrence). But I rarely ever play with randoms anymore anyway, so my experience may be irrelevant.
I didn’t encounter my first unpleasant individual in LoL until I was level 22 I think and by then I was actually pretty adept at a few characters and invested enough to keep getting better. That’s a good first score for pvp, really good! You should add us all if you haven’t already, would be honoured to provide some tips if you’d like 🙂
Does @shane illustrate under a pseudonym? Do Book Depository employees not proofread when entering information on the books they sell? These are the questions that plague me.
http://www.bookdepository.com/Lesser-Evil%2C-Omnibus-Graphic-Novel-Shane-W-Smith/9781927384107
I thought the extra K would make me sound more exotic.
Seriously, though, it plagues me too, man. Plagues me too.
What’s a game that I could play for hours on end?
I need a game like that right now…
Pac man.
Pac Man Championship Edition DX is amazing.
I’ve only got regular Championship Edition on 3DS, but it was coooool.
Best though is Pac Man Battle Royale with three friends and a whole load of credits.
Donkey Kong.
Voltorb Flip.
This. I think on my last HeartGold playthrough the game clock was somewhere around 80 hours. I would say at least 20 of those were spent on Voltorb Flip.
I can’t remember the exact timing, but I’m pretty sure my HeartGold’s clock is currently just short of 25 hours and around ten of them were dedicated to Voltorb Flip.
Don’t have a DS.
4D Snake.
5D Snake!
DARK SOULS \o/
TAY
I’m already playing it, but I’m in the mood for something else.
Tetris.
Arma 3? Shitloads of exploration just loading up the editor, plonking down a chopper and flying around stratis & altis.
I’d feel remiss in my duties as a fanatical loon to not mention Dark Souls and Trials Evolution as well
It. You’re it.
So, when do I put on the clown suit and start massacring people?
Nightmares have returned! /o\
I always thought the ending of that book was terrible. The first 800 pages are brilliant and terrifying, and then all of a sudden
the kids are all having sex with each other, there’s some giant space turtle, and the Big Bad is no longer a genuinely scary clown, but a scarily generic giant spider… hmm okay then, Stephen. I guess it’s your book. *backs away slowly*Minecraft
Terraria
Starbound
Aren’t they all the same game?
You could try wandering the streets asking random ladies if they like the dubstep, that’s bound to take a few hours
I used to situp all night playing torchlight 2 last year!
Civilization
@nomad @f4ction @virus__
Sons of Anarchy S6 finale:
Well, sad to say, I kind of saw it coming. In one of my many discussions with Mrs Shane, we realised that Gemma v Tara was the only way this was going down. The scene itself was brutal and very well done – really captured the horror of the violence that has penetrated Charming, a horror that has been largely absent from the high bodycount this season.A pretty good ep, but unfortunately almost twice as long as it needed to be IMO.
Anyway, TINFOIL HAT CONSPIRACY TIME.
Let’s discuss a theory Mrs Shane had. I wasn’t sure about it at first, but I’m totally convinced of it now. She’s a smart lady to piece all this together from one viewing (now if only I could get her to remember to put the handbrake on when she parks the car :P).
We’ll open with the theory, and then discuss the evidence.Theory:Unser knew that Gemma was going to kill Tara. He set it up, actually. He knew the details of the deal, and knew Tara would be home (now or soon), unpacking. He saw Gemma hurting and drunk and vulnerable, and knew she was dangerous. He fed her only enough details to get her seeing red, and wilfully left the room, leaving his keys on the table, knowing for a fact that she was going to settle things with Tara. He sees himself as a good caretaker for the children (Uncle Touchy, etc). But the only way he’ll be able to access them is with the good grace of Gemma. So he engineered this plan to get the kids away from unstable crazy Tara and under his own watchful eye.
Evidence: 1. Unser flat out told Tara that he couldn’t support her plans anymore, that she’d done the wrong thing. He’s not her supporter, he probably no longer thinks she’s the best option for the boys.
2. After that, he accepted his place in the world and confessed his love to Gemma. She’s the reason he sticks around in Charming (he says as much again to Wendy in this episode). Tara hurt Gemma pretty bad – hell, they’ve practically been adversaries for six seasons. Safe to say that he’s switched sides, now.
3. He could have called Jax on the phone to get him to intervene the moment his truck was gone. Instead, he shuffles very unconcernedly into the clubhouse an indeterminate period of time later, and calmly informs them that perhaps they should get around to informing Gemma of the situation, because she happens to have stolen his truck. There is literally zero reason for this delay if not setting up Tara’s death.
The only real missing link is the assumption that he knew the details of the deal. But it seems weird that he would know as much as he told Gemma, but no more… doesn’t it?
DISCUSS!
Katey Sagal’s a pretty amazing actress!
That’s what I took away from the three eps of SoA I watched. XD
WORDS THAT CONTAIN SPOILEDNESS.
The brutal violence in the killing of Tara shocked me more than the act itself, I expected her to die episodes ago. As for Unser’s involvement, though I don’t see him as having set it up (at least not deliberately), I really like the theory and hope that’s what happens in the end.In regards to Unser knowing about the deal, there’s a thin chance that Roosevelt told him what was happening. I’m in the same mind as @f4ction that I don’t think Unser could’ve planned all this, but things certainly have fallen into place for him.Having said that, no one has told him that Gemma & Nero split? So all his hard work might’ve been for naught, there was that period where the house had Nero, Gem, Wendy Unser & boys. Gem was pretty content playing house with Nero. Unser was just the handy sitter.
Not sure he thought Tara was unstable, just desperate. (assuming you’re talking about the “miscarriage”?
We all knew Tara was going to die, sad she had to go, though saying that I think i’m more bummed that Roosevelt is dead, I really liked him in the last few seasons.It was only 20 mins longer than every other ep this year man. All episodes have ran about the hour long mark 😛
I just watched The Wolverine. It’s a pretty good movie. Better than Origins at any rate.
The cameo by Magneto and Xavier at the end was pretty rad.Good movie. If it came out before Iron Man, it would probably be seen as one of the best comic book movies ever. Looking forward to the inevitable sequel.
Oh sweet relief. Wingman went investimagati, and has delivered the news that Pillowmaker “does not want to jump [my] bones”. She’s just really super affectionate. Like, a lot. With all of us.
Guess you can put some of that popcorn away now, Shane 😛
Popcorn was for you, man. There’s a hole in the bottom of the bucket.
Shane! I’m disgusted!
But mostly proud.I’m sorry, but Wingman, Pillowmaker, Sketchbook and Climber sound like a standby X-men team.
Does that make me the professor?
…guess I’ve got the haircut for it.
“jump my bones”
Probably one of the weirdest euphemisms I have ever heard. Good job.
But I just put lemon pepper on it! Oh well, I’ll have to eat it now or it’ll go to waste
Okay, so I enjoyed Grown Ups 2. Am I like, the only one?
Probably.
I hadn’t seen the original and I didn’t think it was great by any sort of common sense or acceptable metric, but I laughed and enjoyed it too.
Shh, don’t tell anyone.
I can’t stop thinking about Beefcake Kitty.
The following conversation is based on actual events over the past 16 hours.
Me: Okay, you have a doctor’s appointment… what for?
Grandad: Ah, my toe is black and sore and swollen and the doctor needs to puncture it and I need to get a tetanus shot.
Grandma: YOU’RE STUPID! I TOLD YOU TO GO TO THE DOCTOR A MONTH AGO! STUPID! CAN’T TELL HIM ANYTHING!
Me: You know, with diabetes you can’t afford to mess around. [Friend]’s dad lost both legs with gangrene.
Grandad: It’s just an infection!
Me: Yeah, we can see — the rest of your leg is all red and your foot is swollen.
*repeat for 90 minutes*
Doctor: Woah… that looks septic… it’s gangrenous. You need to go to the hospital right now, I’ll write you a letter.
*Fast forward four hours, after the initial examination and then proper examination by casualty doctors*
Doctors: Okay, we’re going to keep you overnight and you’ll go into surgery tomorrow so we can remove the toe. We’ll have to keep you for at least one or two weeks to keep an eye on your recovery. [Note: Diabetic wounds heal a lot more slowly than in other people]
Grandad: Oooh. I noticed my foot joint normally clicks and hurts when I stand up in the morning, but for the last 4 days it was just numb and didn’t hurt.
Me: … (Wow, old people are stubborn)
Doctors: Well, after we remove the toe we’ll need to see if there is any more dead flesh, we might have to remove part of the metatarsal depending on how deep it is; we can’t find a pulse in your foot and it’s very faint up to your knee so we’ll need to keep an eye on the infection.
*Fast forward 10 hours, after much hysteria and panic and grandstanding between my grandmother/aunt/uncle, and staying in the hospital and taking photos of his gangrenous toe, and dropping off some stuff so he can stay overnight*
Me: Okay, goodnight! Good luck tomorrow! Hey, it’s Black Friday… what a good omen!
To Be Continued
… I am sure there is a valuable lesson to be learned from all of this, and I’m going to take a shot at what that is — don’t get gangrene. 😐
Or possibly a simpler one, “When something is wrong go to the bloody doctor, its what they’re for”.
My nan did annoying things too, she was regularly at the doctor for minor stuff but always denied outright when something larger was happening. A month or 2 before she died she was blacking out a lot, I had to carry her back to bed (fucking my back in the process, old women are made of lead I think) and as she groggily came to she kept insisting nothing had happened.
Yes, absolutely.
That said… I was honestly a lot more annoyed by my grandma and aunt and uncle — they’re all diabetic as well. None of them control their diets, let alone their diabetes, and they’re in near-total denial themselves.
I understand a lot of their carrying on was done out of grief and shock and trying to process everything, but they had seen his foot for a week before I was asked to take him to the doctor and they knew he had a fever for most of the week. My aunt is a receptionist for a doctor and thinks that makes her a doctor; my grandmother is a hypochondriac and is paranoid about everything; my uncle is practically Cliff from Cheers, i.e. a know-it-all.
My grandad is stubborn, an ass to anyone/everyone, smoked for 40 years, was an outrageous alcoholic for 40 years ‘n used to drink his pay as soon as he received the cheque, and is now suffering from the early stages of dementia. I am disappointed that for all their talk and for everything they had to say in hindsight, they did nothing when they had the chance… and then just wanted to talk themselves up when he was being admitted to hospital — it went from just not helping to actively becoming a hindrance while trying to get him ready.
Family. Urgh.
Has there EVER been a diabetic who properly managed their intake? I think they’re as rare as a unicorn. The members of my family who are diabetic basically only ever mention it when saying “I really shouldn’t, I’m diabetic” in between shovelling slices of caramel tart in their mouths at family get togethers.
Aside from being annoying and unhealthy, it means less caramel tart for me!!
Oh, they ALL use those little tablets of artificial sweetener in tea because that makes it all better…
Oooh! Oooh!
My mum is actually the outlier in the family. I won’t go into all of it because it’s a long-ish, not-quite-relevant story, but…
1) Went to a GP for 7-8 years, diabetes only got worse. Given more medication, criticised for not losing weight, was told she would have to go on insulin (which doesn’t help weight), had limited mobility from her weight + a misdiagnosed broken foot 15 years earlier, told the bones in her foot were on the verge of dissolving..
2) Switched to another GP out of sheer panic and distress. Was recommended to do aqua therapy and sent to a very good endocrinologist (I want to say Dr… Swaraj?). Was told she would never eat carbs again — not in a trendy Atkins or Paleo diet kind of way, but a “it turns into glucose, you can’t afford to eat it” way. She greatly reduced her meal sizes and refused to eat more than 20g of carbs/day from then onwards.
.
3) After 6 months of aqua therapy and practically no carbs, she could walk without a limp and had lost >10kg. The endocrinologist referred her to an exercise rehab group he works with (in a gym) for people with illness or disabilities, to help her lose more weight. She was dreading it, didn’t want to be seen in a gym while overweight, etc. etc. but she started going 4-5 days per week.
.
4) After 12 months (18 months in total) she’d lost close to 50kg, was told by the endocrinologist that she’d reversed her diabetes and she didn’t need to see him anymore; if he did see her again, he would be extremely disappointed (that she fell off the rails). She could not only walk freely, but actually run — foot will never be perfect, but now she’s not in constant pain.
.
5) Another year brings us close to present day, where she hasn’t lost that much more weight but everything is controlled and has been for a decent period of time. She’s been taken off medication because her blood sugar is back to normal and they were causing her hypo attacks (blood sugar too low). Her GP (who heads a teaching practice around southwestern Sydney) regularly shows her off to new doctors as her own little “case study.”
.
Extremely proud of what she’s done, and rightly so. Anyone/everyone she meets, she has to tell them everything she went through and how she was told “congratulations, you’ve reversed diabetes” etc. — which can be tiresome when you hear the story for the 200th time, but maybe she just needs a new and entertaining way to tell it. I can’t begrudge her success when she’s gone from being told by one doctor that she’ll be insulin dependent and might need to have her foot amputated if things keep going as they are… to actually finding doctors and people who could help ‘n had some sort of answer, and restoring some quality of life.
.
Will that work for everyone? No way. It’s a huge lifestyle change, and I’m sure she only made it through fear of being left in a wheelchair with no-one to look after her, if not dying. And then doctors can tell her she’s cured all they want, but there will always be that monster lurking beneath the bed — that seems incentive enough to keep going.
.
Though as you say, it’s in stark contrast to the vast majority of people. I still remember my (aforementioned; her side) grandparents making fun of her for the first 12-18 months — for the diet ‘n not eating 1kg of bread or potatoes with every meal, for the exercise, etc… but their attitude was “Oh well, I’ve lived a full life… I don’t mind if I die” which is a little different for someone in their mid-40’s with teenage kids.
.
And yeah, they are a weird family. Still much better than the cousins on my maternal side, though. 😛
… believe it or not, that’s nowhere near all of it. 😐
Bloody hell, that’s a total unicorn right there! Good on her!
I work at a medical clinic. Not really sure how much I’m allowed to say thanks to privacy and whatnot, but there was a dude’s file that I scanned, and he was diabetic, and one of the letters was like “Patient is very good at managing his diabetes. He says that he occasionally becomes Hypoglycaemic on weekends when he sleeps in, but otherwise has no problems.” And I was thinking that he was the raddest guy ever thanks to that.My grandfather is 85, has had diabetes since he was in his 40s, and manages it 90% of the time by watching his diet and exercising. He only started taking insulin shots when necessary in the last three or four years, after he had a hip replacement that reduced how much walking he could do.
I think people just don’t want to accept if something’s wrong, if it’s their maybe it will go away if you leave it because once you know it’s something it makes it that much more real.
I had pain for 2 weeks before I went and saw a doctor and I only did because my girlfriend told me to. If I had of left it I was told i probably would of died as it was cancer.
I was diagnosed with diabetes about 6 months ago. I’m trying to avoid complications with diet and exercise, but I do have problems controlling my eating habits.
I think you’re doing the right thing — you can make the effort and whether or not it’s perfect (my mum cut carbs out of her diet almost completely, but went 6-9 months where she still bought a tonne of bread/potato/pasta… and then expected me to eat it all so it didn’t go to waste — no way, when that’s her main problem… but you get into habits) at least you’ve tried, or you could be like 95% of my family who rely on medication to keep their sugar low and just eat whatever they want, which… well, mid-to-long term it just doesn’t work like that.
But, g’luck with everything!
Thanks mate, I’ve cut down on white bread and stuff like soft drink, chocolate and chips. It hasn’t been easy so far, but I think I can do it.
One might almost say that you’re… on target?
I’ll show myself out. 😐I don’t think anyone has made that joke before.
I almost made a Poochie joke in TAY earlier this week — I am only human, I cannot resist them all.
You should be getting biz-ZAY with your Poochie quotes. Consistently and thoroughly.
… in slightly more on-topic news — I started off really disliking Black Flag.
The controls and movement felt as bad as AC3, as if no improvement had been made at all (I felt like the transition to the new engine and types of environments hurt running/movement in AC3)… the story seemed non-existent (you are a guy who goes to work for Abstergo to find entertaining stories; you are a hedonistic pirate)… and there were glimpses of really good ‘n nice things which just felt unenjoyable and frustrating amidst all the bad.
Then, somewhere along the line when [REDACTED] happened… and some more gameplay opened up and some semblance of a story appeared… I realised I was starting to enjoy it. It’s still a very flawed game, but unlike AC3’s tedium it actually feels fun.
I blame the sea shanties.
Cat woke me up around 4:45-ish this morning.
She needed food.
She’s an old cat.
We’ve had her since ’97.
…
:3
I think I might be cursed when it comes to travelling.
There was a bomb scare in Tegel airport (that’s in Berlin for those playing at home). We were meant to go there tonight and catch a connecting flight through to Zurich. Instead, an hour before our flight, there was an announcement in Swedish that made everyone in our gate look confused and start to wander off.
Eventually we found out that they were redirecting our flight so everyone with a connection (read: half the plane) had to be rebooked.
Anyhow, there was a ridiculously long queue at the ticket window thingy that didn’t move for a long time. We played Hanabi while we waited. Started with a perfect game and then fucked up royally. Eventually we got put on a flight for first thing tomorrow morning. Direct too, so as long as there isn’t a bomb scare in Zurich we should be fine.
In the meantime, we’ve been put up in a fairly fancy airport hotel. Got a free curry and are now in some rather ridiculously comfy beds. I also want to steal their bathroom. It’s amazing. Seriously. Can I just put it in my checked luggage and take it home?
On another note, Sweden is so damned pretty. We also ran into a dude from Brisbane who happened to be working at a cafe that Trip Advisor advised us to visit on our trip. So weird running into someone who had also just seen snow for the first time less than a week ago.
… I struggle to see how any of that, even being put up in a fancy hotel and being given free food, makes you particularly unlucky… and so I would be happy to swap if it gets to be too much for you. 😀
I’m tired and making less sense than usual. I realise that’s rather hard to achieve and yet somehow, I’m doing just that.
WITTY MEAT NAME GOES HERE!
A few out of towners are gracing(?) us with their presence this weekend and things have been organised and this is your daily (per-page? I dunno how lazy I’m feeling today) post about it
Not much interest in the Game Masters thing so:
Meet at say, 3ish(?) and go to Haymarket, go on the bumper cars, play some laser tag and laugh at Blaghs as he falls over nothing.
Once done, we make our way to the Bavarian Bier Cafe on York St (most likely via the likes of Kinokunya because you know, books!) and maybe grab a slurpee or something because we can.
Reservation at the Bavarian is for 5:30 (sorry folks, it’s the only time they could fit us in) and we will be kicked out at 7:30pm which works well because there are a couple of people who will be joining us for drinks but not dinner (@batgirl, @effluvium-boy – might be others). I’ve made a reservation for 18 people which gives us a couple of extra places should some last minute changes allow people to tag along or something. Who has confirmed and stuff is below.
From there we head to [TBC] to basically drink and party ’till we’re purple.
Yep. That’s about it. Cool beans? Cool beans.
CONFIRMED:
@alexpants, @batguy, @cakesmith, @cj, @doc_what, @gingerchris86 (+1), @masha2932, @mawt (+1), @powalen, @rize, @blaghman, @rocketman, @steve-o_the_deve-o (+ Mrs. Steve-O), @sernobulus
MAYBE CONFIRMED? YOU’RE A LITTLE AMBIGUOUS IN YOUR RESPONSE. I BOOKED YOU A SPOT ANYWAY:
@mrtaco
Start writing @mrtaco (+1). See if that encourages him…
😀
It’s Gooky. You’d have to write @mrtaco (+6).
Maybe we should just submit an application for him to become the next Australian Bachelor.
Where are we meeting at 3? Outside Galaxy World?
Most likely.
I thought it closed?
The one in Market City? It moved a while ago (same floor, different location).
Unless it has closed since the last time I’ve been there? If it has, you might want to tell Cakesmith, not me 😛
In fact: @cakesmith
Oh, there’s another? I only knew of the George St one.
The one at Market City is better! It has dodgems! And laser tag!
For those that are interested….
Fallout
Fallout 2
Fallout Tactics
Are all currently free on GOG :o)
waaaaaaah?
*runs off*
HAHA! Pixel runs funny.
… waaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
you*sob*are*sob*not*sob*allowed*sob*to*sob*make*sob*fun*sob*of*sob*me!
Haha. He even cries by shouting Bork.
… *Bork*
That’s okay… i know you all love me… you buy me pretty things… THAT’S A SIGN OF LOVE RIGHT?
*Pulls down sleeves to conceal bruises*
Had a go of Tearaway last night, has some interesting ideas, pretty funny seeing your own face on screen as the sun all the time (in real time so you can pull silly faces). I like the ability to take photos in game of creatures that you can then make printable papercraft models from (I’m far to lazy to ever make any but the thought is cool). Very simple gameplay, nice relaxing game & reasonably priced.
So how ’bout that Survivor last night, huh? @greenius @strange @sughly @phoenix
Spoilers (careful, essay!)
Tribal council is really getting messy, huh? That immunity challenge though! hahah Ciera! Behind the entire way and overtakes everyone right at the end. Love those kind of finishes!I can’t help but feel that Monica is playing a really stupid game. Does she seriously think that by Tyson and Gerv (how do you spell his name, anyway? :P) taking her to the final that she will win over them? She really has to pull something out of the bag if she wants to stand a chance, and I think that siding with Hayden/Ciera would’ve been a good move for her. Especially if they could blindside Tyson, who she knows has the idol and can now use it as essentially a free pass to the final.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens when Laura M (or maybe Hayden) comes back from Redemption. Ciera is long-gone if she doesn’t do something, Monica has no chance if she doesn’t do anything and Laura/Hayden will support Ciera. Tyson will easily win if he gets to the final, I think. I don’t think Tina has it in her to beat Laura M so she’s pretty much out (though that would be pretty great to see)
2 hour final next week! 😀 (Finally greenius can have some mystery back in his watching :P)
So tempted to click those spoilers! I’ll wait until after I’ve watched, though.
Ese?
Ugh, Monica is annoying! She’s this season’s “Sherri” :P. I hope Tyson wins because he’s seem to have played the best game and it’s always good when a deserving player wins. But if Monica wins… ugh… !I hope this wasn’t a stealth spoiler for the final three 😛Monica is still better than Sherri though, at least she’s won a couple of challenges! So not COMPLETELY useless and with no delusions that she was playing this grand subtle game that nobody knew about haha Oh, Sherri…
Nah, just along the lines of I want Tyson to win the most and I want Monica to win the least :P. Would’ve been happier if Hayden’s (or other loved ones) plans worked out though!I completely agree about Monica – at least if she sided with ciera and hayden it would have given her at least a little credit towards taking some control herself. Not much, but better for her than riding coattails the whole damn way. Ergh, such an idiot. And ciera! CIERA! That was amazing. But I was really gunning for Hayden by this ep, I liked how much he ramped up his game so he was making for a good underdgo story. Sigh. Im coming back around to ciera… I still feel bitter about her sticking to Tyson, which infuriates me when she says the stone thing last week was her chance to make a move (no, no you had that chance and you messed it up girl).Dont think Tyson quite has it in the bag though. If Ciera or anyone from redemption gets to final three, I reckon theyve won. All the people on the jury dont like tyson/gervais/monica. Anyone else there has it in the bag imo. And thats kind of sort of what I want to happen :3
@powalen @greenius @strange @phoenix
I just can’t believe… if Ciera had made her switch one week earlier, she would’ve got the hidden immunity idol and not shared it with Tyson like a stupid! Then this week would’ve been very different if she won the challenge as well! Argh!I’d be interested if Laura M gets to the final three. I wonder if she would get votes. She hasn’t been around for most of the actual game, but at the same time she has completely owned every challenge.
Rockets and I saw Metric last night =D
Also my sister and her boyfriend joined us and we had a few beers and burgers beforehand. Rockets told all his best Christmas party stories (read: all of them). It was good times.
But now I’m tired and my everything hurts and I still have five hours left of work
AHHHH was it good? Stupid question but still…. very reluctantly passed on getting a Bris ticket since Id already spent up big on other concerts :'(
edit: ah goddamn it, just looked up the setlists, they even played black sheep :'(
It was amazing, man. They have so much stage presence. And it was a really nice mix of new and old sounds. I didn’t expect to hear Black Sheep, but they did it and it was awesome.
sooo…
here we were thinking it’s going to take a while to find a decent place that allows for 4 people and 2 dogs to live, so we started having a casual look around.
Went and had a look at 4 properties, and ended up applying for 1 thinking “yeah as if”…
2 days later we got a call going “it’s yours”
…
\o/
so I’m moving at the start of Jan XD
Where is the new casa de ferret?
So my day was rather “meh”. And then a parcel arrived at my door.
I opened it and inside was…another parcel.
And another!
And another!
By this time I’m laughing and laughing, and my son is dancing around me laughing and exclaiming “It’s like Pass The Parcel!” and even though I already know what’s inside I can’t help but be caught up in all the excitement and I still can’t stop laughing.
And finally we get to unwrap the 360 Hard Drive that Freeze sent.
http://t.co/3xy6RyTqWu
Thanks @freezespreston! You just made my day. 😀
That’s awesome!
Just be thankful it didn’t contain the contents of Mrs. Freeze’s birthday pass the parcel game. XD
Haha nice wrapping. A mate of mine did something like that with my birthday present this year, a box, a smaller box, a few plastic shipping bags and a lengthy series of progressively smaller envelopes until I got to a note that said “Now tell me to go & get your present out of the car”
*Reads up about Elder Scrolls Online*
You have to buy the game to play.
“That makes sense I’ll happily do that”.
It has a monthly fee.
“Not terribly happy about that but I’m sure it will go free to play soon.”
It has a cash shop.
“Fuck you”.
Yeah i’m not keeping my hopes up for this game
I’m be giving it a go.
Y’know…after it all dies out less than 3 months after release and goes F2P.
It’s 6 years too late. If this was released in 2007ish it would be fine but the only game that still survives on that model is WoW.
Cash shop? Like paying for in game money?
And buying items with real money.
Boo-urns.
Little brats running around geared out on mummy or daddys credit card.
I hope there’s a way I can attach my credit card to an one-click button so I can make more purchases, more easily! 😀
It should be more sophisticated than that, it monitors your microphone or webcam and if you say “oooh” or look interested then it automatically buys it for you
when i saw all the expenses involved and the microtransaction crap I put this in my mental trash can. Was looking forward to it too…. jerks
Companies need to realize that microtransaction bullshit is an understandable necessary evil in a game that’s free, but not in one that you pay full retail for. Especially if it’s also got a monthly fee. I don’t mind monthly fees for games that are actually good and I don’t even mind having a few vanity things for purchase but if they’ve put the usual free to play crap in then they can fuck right off.
What’s worse is that the social/auction house mechanics only work if you’re in a guild that PVPs enough to claim some trading territory, and your skill set changes based on what weapon you’re carrying, so if you want to fling fireballs, you need to have a Staff of Fireball Flinging equipped. As opposed to running around with a sword, chopping people up and zapping them with lightning when you’re a little tired. You can’t learn all the skills, it’s a traditional class-based WoW-type system. So… basically none of the stuff people loved about the earlier TES games.
Hype bubble SO burst, for me.
Last day of work for the year! 😀
ME T-… oh wait… i only get the 25th off /o\
on the other hand… MONEY \o/
I get money for nothing! But no chicks for free.
But you get to install microwave ovens
Custom kitchen deliveries?
He’s gotta move these, refrigerators,
He’s gotta move these colour TEEVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSS.
And now I’m listening to the song. Couldn’t help myself.
Dire Straits… i heartedly condone this!
All chicks are free if you’re doing it right. 😉
I know I shouldn’t be doing this and I know I should be working on the Numenera write-up buuuuuuut…
Star Wars d20 Season Finale Final Session was last night and recap is below!
We were part of the Rebel Alliance’s first major battle over the planet Dac or more commonly called Mon Calamari. We managed to divert about two-thirds of the Imperial fleet to an obscure planet-side uprising in a nearby sector but it was still a hard fought battle. Our sadistic and insane droid decided to pilot an X-Wing and ram a Star Destroyer with a full load of proton torpedos. Funnily enough he survived.Our tiny little freighter/mini-corvette could not stand up to a straight duel with a Star Destroyer so we sought out the command ship and commenced boarding operations. It was highly successful and we found that our boarding plus the prior damage to the ship (this was the same Star Destroyer that got rammed) was enough to force about half of the ship’s crew to abandon. We made our way to the ship’s bridge to take control of the vessel and it was there that our DM had our climactic epic battle.
We came face-to-face with the two Dathomiri witches plus our old nemesis the Imperial moff who we thought was dead. He boasted about how this was the end for us and the rebellion. Unfortunately for him, he really, really should have sought cover before making this speech as our gunslinger nailed him with four blaster shots straight to the chest in the first round of combat. And then he died. 😀
The Dathomiri witches proceeded to cause us trouble but we took care of them, killing the red-robed witch who was wielding a double-bladed lightsaber. The other witch managed to escape with Force invisibility and piloted an escape pod away from the Star Destroyer. We clipped her with the ship’s guns which sent her crashing into the planet and we presumed that was the end of it.
The Rebels won the Battle of Mon Calamari and we were all awarded medals by the Rebel Alliance (from Bail Organa no less). Little did we know that the witch’s escape pod crashed on Mon Calamari and she managed to survive. As the scene faded to black, there was a very distinct, respirated voice who ordered some Imperial troopers to retrieve her. Darth Vader had found a new apprentice. Dun dun dunnnnnnn.
And now I will write the Numenera recap. Sorry about being late with that everybody.
So i’ve started playing this great new game that you’ve probably never heard about before…
It’s called Terraria, and guess what? it’s pretty amazing!
it sure is, I built a castle and kept expanding and expanding, it ended up being 8 stories tall Had a Throne room about 38 other rooms if i remember correctly, including basements and treasure rooms underground, it was about half way into the sky (it changed to the dark space background on the upper levels). had such a great time with that game, cannot wait for Starbound on console.
I’ll get into Starbound when everyone else has lost interest XD by then i’ll be able to afford it…
will you be getting it on PC? by the time it comes out on console everyone will have lost interest 😛
Yeah probably PC… i like running Indie games on the laptop so it’s portable, TERRARIA EVERYWHERE \o/
they reckon Starbound is coming to Vita.. Console Starbound EVERYWHERE!!
niiice… that’s awesome!
i don’t have a vita though XD
aww, oh well I don’t have a gaming laptop or PC, can’t have everything I guess 😛
At least we have a means to play 😀
I’m back and it’s Friday so you know what that means!!!!
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2013/12/13/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s04e07-uncomfortable-secrets/
This week, learn of my desire to wear a g-string and Karl’s hatred for one of history’s greatest humanitarians.
I think you’ll get a kick out of this episode, Brooke.
Double D Fridays!
http://www.pixel-otaku.com/double-d-friday-13-dec-2013-2/
A new regular on Pixel-Otaku where we group together boobs! Wait! No! Group together all the digital store updates for easy browsing!
What do you guys think? Would anyone find this handy? Is there anything I can add to make it better? I Don’t know if there are any Steam or GoG posts out there that tell you what’s new that week, but we’d be more than happy to add that.
I liked it. I do find it hard to keep track of the Nintendo e-shop stuff so having one handy place to check out what’s new and what’s on sale is quite nice. Thanks. 😀
If you are wanting to add steam and gog type stuff the best place to get it from would be http://www.steamgamesales.com/
Has good filters and shows steam, gog, GMG and gamersgate and lets you order by discount so you can only grab whatever is 50+% off or whatever your limit is
Favourite OST for a game this year?
I think for me it’d easily be The Last of Us. That score was so damn beautiful. I particularly love The Path. What’s yours? Don’t forget the links! 😀
Hotline Miami. Just because I haven’t played many games and I love electronic music.
If the Hotline Miami soundtrack had been in any other game I would have said that it was stupid, and bad, and that I hated it. Yet as part of Hotline Miami, it just worked so very well.
Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssss!
you played blood dragon, that was all 80’s electronic synthy stuff
It’s on my backlog. 🙂 Looks good!
it also has a button to flip people off, a feature that should be in every fps
Fire Emblemu! The chapter (12, I think) this plays in is by far the best in the game. Rainy, stormy, dulled sound effects,
a good-hearted enemy General character who sacrifices himself for his army, this music.So very very good! 😀
Star Wars: The Old Republic – Rise of the Hutt Cartel/Galactic Starfighter Expansions
Because it’s just the Star Wars soundtrack 😀
Starbound. It’s just exceptionally beautiful.
Just like your face!Wait, that’s a compliment…UNLIKE YOUR FACE!
Going to fail at linking (because I’m at work) but Far Cry Blood Dragon. So good.
this guy gets it 😛
I haven’t played it yet, but I’m assuming Phoenix Wright 5 has the same soundtrack as the other games. It’s a clear winner.
No links.
An updated soundtrack 😉 Plus new character themes (which are amazing)
Needs more sea shanties.
Here, I’ll even help you.
I sailed around those seas for so long I had the shanties playing in my head when I dreamed at night.
Thomas Was Alone 😀
Blood Dragon, that theme and ending song.
A Link Between Worlds. That Violin reworking of the original theme was amazing, the full orchestra playing mit is amazing, and the fact that you can listen to redone recorder and guitar versions of the classic songs is great.
Hint: Nintendo, release this soundtrack on iTunes please.
Who said that Friday 13th is unlucky?
So far today I’ve gotten into the Hearthstone beta and when I logged into Kantai Collection (@popdart5) I found myself with a bauxite surplus, used it to attempt a Carrier build and instead of the usual outcome (light carrier I already have or a Naka) I finally got Soryuu. Now I have half of the Fleet Carriers. \o/
The Templars said it was unlucky. That’s who. 😛
Damn those dirty Templars. They deserve a good stabbing in the neck.
Nice! I assume you still need Kaga and Hiryuu as part of 1st Carrier Division and Shokaku and Zuikaku as 5th Carrier Division? Hopefully when I jump on I’ll get lucky and build another Kongou class.
It seems they’ve been doling out Hearthstone invites pretty regularly lately. I got mine on Wednesday and a bunch of my friends got theirs yesterday. I hope you enjoy it (although it’s not like you need another card game :P)
I have Hiryuu already, she was a super-lucky build I got around HQ level 5 or 6 – she was the second carrier I ever built after Shouhou and the first super rare ship I obtained. She’s my highest-level ship. Level 55 now, where the rest of my well-leveled ships are in the 28-35 range and only Fusou, Kirishima and Yamashiro are higher. Hiryuu is insanely powerful due to her massive luck stat (reflecting the fact that at Midway she dodged all the air attacks against the main carrier fleet, where Kaga, Akagi and Soryuu were all critically damaged, and subsequently launched her aircraft and fatally crippled Yorktown before going down). She’s also cheaper to run than Kaga and Akagi (I assume Soryuu should be the same cost). Less fuel and ammo and her aircraft complement isn’t as big – a little bit more than Hiyou and Junyou – but for some reason I constantly found that side by side, Hiryuu was more effective than Akagi. I got them both around the same time.
I believe the idea is that Soryuu and Hiryuu are cheaper to run than Kaga and Akagi because they were built as carriers from the outset, where Kaga and Akagi started life as battleships but were converted during construction.
I do want to get Shoukaku and Zuikaku though. They’re the most efficient carriers in the game. I’d also like to get Zuihou as she’s the only light carrier that is eluding me.
EDIT: https://twitter.com/KanColle_STAFF/status/411297424615821312/photo/1 🙁
You must be getting close to having most of the ships by now, aside from the event only stuff. I hope I start getting some good stuff as the only really lucky constructions/drops I’ve gotten were Kaga, Yukikaze, and Hiei. I guess I just need to get to the harder worlds where the more illusive drops are.
How many sorties do you usually run before calling it quits? I try and run about 6 or so which, combined with the daily construction quests, usually saps my fuel pretty hard. I’m considering skipping the construction stuff for a while as my resources in general (aside from ammo) need to regenerate.
Edit: Blah, work internet is blocking Twitter. I assume it’s not great cos of the 🙁
It’s not great because of the impact it will have on my wallet 😛 Akagi and Shimakaze figures. Probably will skip the Shimakaze one because it’s Figma and I’m not into those, but the Akagi is a Nendoroid and I’m a massive collector of those. 🙁
Regarding resources (Spoilered for length):
Generally I will run 5 practice matches in the mornings, 5 in the afternoon, then sorties depends on how damaged my ships get and what the dailies are. I always do the sequence of construction dailies but skip the last one, so that’s 1 equipment build, 1 ship, 3 equipment, 3 ships. If you put the minimum resources in for each then you’ll make more resources than you use. You also end up with heaps of insta-constructions (even given that you need to burn two to do the daily) and your number of construction materials will go through the roof, mine’s close to 80 now.
Practice matches can give insane ship XP. It picks five other admirals and updates their fleets in realtime, so often you’ll see them with just a single ship in their fleet because they’re running 1-1 to sparkle them. Whenever you see that you immediately pounce. Easy S-rank and against a high-level admiral that can be 900xp for everyone, 1200 for the Flagship and 1500 for the MVP. If your flagship is MVP that’ll be 2k+ which is usually most of a level on its own. It’s a great way to level up a new ship. Just make them flagship. There’s no risk and you get good XP even if you lose (though a win is better obviously). Practice matches also don’t have the 15-fatigue penalty that returning from a Sortie applies.
I always do the repair five ships quest. Generally that’ll mean that in the morning I’ll repair four, and then one more in the evening. Also always do the resupply quest (protip: it counts the number of distinct times you replenish either ammo or fuel, not number of ships, so if you have 6 ships and they’ve used some fuel and ammo, then you click each one, fill just their fuel, then just their ammo, then do the next one and so on and that’ll be 12 replenishes in one go). Usually the ships I build for the construction quest are doubles of what I already have (like Naka…) so I use them for remodeling and do the 2 modernizations quest (also track the weekly 15 remodels quest at the same time, since I’ll often modernize more than twice).
I’ll usually do the Daily sortie sequence where possible. That’s usually do a sortie, then sink a flagship, then do 10 sorties. 10 is easy because I was running my destroyers solo through 1-1 repeatedly to sparkle them. World 3-2 with anything other than a destroyer you’re guaranteed to go into a fight that at worst is destroyers and cruisers but at best is 4 normal destroyers and a flagship light cruiser. A fleet with a carrier or two, 1-2 battleships or heavy cruisers and a submarine is very very low-risk leveling. Most of the time the carrier and sub attack (or can use Kitakami and Ooi instead of subs) will clear most enemies and your battleships mop up the rest. I’ll often get perfect S-rank on it. Put a ship you want to level as Flagship and they get ~700xp for an S-rank. But you need to go home after that because the node after is usually two Wo-class Carriers (though this can be good if you get the sink 3 carriers daily) and two Ru-class Battleships. That node can be good for one of the weeklies but you will get hurt doing it.
Other than that, I’ll also often run world 2 (my ships at 30-35 absolutely stomp 2-2 and 2-3, especially if I include Hiryuu) if I need to sink transports for a daily or weekly. Most nodes in 2-2 and 2-3 have some transports. This is lower-priority though because the fuel and ammo usage is the same but the XP is worse than just running 3-2.
The other benefit to jumping on for 15-20 in the morning to do practice matches is that I can pick up any fleets that went on expeditions, restock them and sent them back out again. There’s quite a few longer expeditions that can give you big chunks of resources, those are good to run while sleeping / at work. There’s others which are short and give good return per hour, those are what you run if you are going to be playing a long session. Make sure you select the weekly 30 expeditions quest! The daily 3/10 ones will reset overnight and de-select themselves but the 30 won’t. Should just have it selected all the time.
Yeah I try and cap as many quests as I can when I hop on and I should probably avoid attempting to build multiple carriers/BBs for the construction quests. That’s most likely why I’ve burnt through a stack of steel and fuel.
I don’t usually get a chance to hop on in the morning so I generally aim for the long term expeditions. Unforunately that does mean that I can’t really get the 3/10 per day and the weekly is a little out of my reach. I haven’t gotten up to 2-2 yet so I haven’t had a chance to clear the transport kill quests. Soon though.
Regarding the figures, ooooh. I predict my wallet will get a fair bit lighter as well. If they release more figures, that could be disastrous. 😛
There’s a Shimakaze Nendoroid already. I think she sold out on Preorders though. They announced Akagi a while back but the pic I linked was the first time the prototype’s been colored.
I’m expecting they’ll probably do Kongo next if they keep going.
EDIT:
http://mikatan.goodsmile.info/en/2013/09/27/nendoroid-shimakaze/
Goodbye savings, it was nice knowing you.
Heh, after all the free cash we got on GTA Online a couple days ago, this happened yesterday.
A random dude called Free GTA V Cash (read: that’s the Xbox Live account) with a rank of 1000 who couldn’t really be killed came onto our map and started handing out money and bounties. Hacker? R* employee?
The game is just so much more fun when you don’t need to worry about money.
http://cv.bngames.net/
I wonder what this is. Speculation at the moment appears to be that it’s some kind of spinoff of Namco’s Idolmaster series, except managing voice actors instead of idol singers (‘CV’ is an abbreviation used for ‘Character Voice’ for games, anime etc.) but I can’t see how you could make much of an interesting game out of that. On the other hand it’d be kind of meta, especially if you’re managing fictional characters. Most of the target audience would buy the game because of the people doing the voices.
Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics free for a limited time on GOG
http://www.gog.com/news/free_games_fallout_fallout_2_and_fallout_tactics
free? what the huh?
Went there, ended up buying Die By The Sword instead.
:\
That game was awesome, not the least because you could lop off your enemies’ limbs and your character was a scotsman.
Interesting. I have been meaning to sign up for GOG for a while, and this finally gives me an excuse!
But I have a conundrum. I am 16 years of age, and I worry that if I put my real age, I will be screwed by U.S age ratings and I won’t get to buy any of the games I will want later down the line. I made this mistake with YouTube, and I can’t watch certain videos. (I really hate it when reviews are age-gated, I am old enough to buy the game but not old enough to watch a review)
I don’t want to screw this up.
As far as I know GOG don’t age block anything, certainly isn’t the kind of thing I could imagine them doing and I know that there was at least one 15 year old on the forum a year or 2 back & he never complained about not being able to buy stuff.
There really is no good reason to not sign up for GOG except being afraid of awesome.
Maybe he hats fun!
Do you hat fun @phlanispo?
Because it’s okay if you don’t sign up for GOG if you hat fun…
If you do like fun, there’s no excuse 😛
Surprisingly, I don’t hat fun. However, the main reason I did not sign up to GOG until now is because I didn’t know how GOG did downloads. I have both a HDD and an SSD. The SSD is only big enough to house the OS, and nothing else. Everything else must go to the HDD. I was was worried that downloads from GOG would go directly to the SSD. At least with Fallout, I can risk this as the file size is tiny.
…
And it seems that these games are going directly to my SSD. Damn. I guess I can only download games from GOG if they are >3GB. I guess I’ll have to limit myself to the PC classics.
well at least they get added to your GOG inventory so you can download them whenever you want… also can’t you just specify a different file location for your downloads?
I have my OS on an SSD but all my downloads go to my platter drive
Are you using the GOG downloader thing? There’s a setting where you can change the default download path but frankly unless you really NEED the downloader, I’d just stick to downloading the regular way & telling it to go to your HDD. There’s no steam like program to run the games through or anything, you just get an EXE (and in the case of huge games, a few other supplementary files) that installs them the old fashioned way.
If things are automatically downloading to your SSD because its the default save location for your browser, when you click the game page on your GOG shelf and it opens the list of downloadable content, you can just right click the link (usually called “Windows installer – English” for the game itself), select save as & you should be able to tell it where to go (so to speak)
Thingeek pressies get \o/
that was bloody quick delivery, ordered it last friday…
My missus is now massively into A Song of Ice and Fire (she’s going through the books) so i saw it only fit to get her the official A Feast of Ice and Fire: the Game of Thrones cookbook…
Had a flick through it…
OMG…
OMG…
I think this will be a present that ends up giving more back then i thought…
If she makes all of the stuff in here;
Medieval Beef and Bacon Pie?
Onion in Gravy?
Winterfell Breakfast with white rustic bread?
*drooooooooooooooools*
Not quite the gift of Adventure Games, @quiz_b’s still the better husband than you. (Though you’re close, my foreign friend. Close. XD)
I want to get one of those Battlestar Galactica singlet things they wore on the show for some reason. http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/eeff/
I got her a light-up Mjolnir as well because she loves Thor… DOES THAT HELP? 😛
Maybe get her a bowling ball too? 😀
are you assuming i haven’t already? 😛
I love that you judge both me and @pixel_the_ferret_viking ‘s worthiness of marriage purely on our gifts to our spouses.
That being said you’re damn right I’m the better husband.
You gave the gift of adventure games. I’m bummed you weren’t nominated Time’s Person of the Year. Stupid Pope.
Well you’re definitely the best husband to your wife 😛
A Feast of Ice and Fire: the Game of Thrones cookbook… such a good idea \o/
I often get hungry reading chapters where food is involved, GRRM goes into such detail about the meals.
Well maybe not the dog sausages..
Little miss muffet….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLMydhMqWDQ
Haha nailed the part on food, sometimes they just go on and on and on.
Especially the
Purple weddingI have that book. It’s awesome.
I’m even thinking of making our Christmas feast entirely from the book. 😀
*DROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLS*
CHRISTMAS AT STRANGE’S PLACE!!!!!
Negative thought: I hate brown nosers, new person at workis making my life difficult and is quickly gaining favour over me by sucking ass and the bosses seem to be very receptive to it. Don’t suck ups feel dirty? I would
Positive: I have no commitments, the house to myself tomorrow & a big pile of unfinished games, whoo
At least now you know your bosses value bullshit over productivity.
yeah, it’s killed any urge to do anything today, I’ve done almost nothing since I got here . I’m usually a great worker too.
*goes for smoke break*
Gather round, boys and girls, Imma lay some Christmas Party wisdom on you.
My area of the public service is pretty batshit crazy for parties. I got invited to:
* Team Christmas Party
* Branch Christmas Party
* Group Christmas Party
* Department Christmas Party
I went to the team one, because there was no way out of it, but I made my wife and kids come so I didn’t have to socialise with anyone.
For all the others, I pled poverty and elected not to go. Manager felt so guilty that I get sent home when each of these parties occurs.
So.. I’m going home now. At midday. Four hours early.
#DoingChristmasPartiesRight
Why not make it feel like you’re struggling through the monotony of a Friday?
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/
As ashamed as I am to admit it, according to your counter, I’m usually your first hit most Fridays.
Oh Shane, you gent.
haha, nice work, I weazeled my way out of 2 different ones, I barely socialise with my friends so there’s no way I’m hanging out with co workers. I don’t play well with others 😛 (I’ve actually had that on report cards as a child)
I tried pleading poverty for mine, and my mother was like “I’ll pay for you” and then our boss was like “no, it’s cool, you’re covered” and I sort of cried a little.
On the bright side I got to hear the story of how one of the doctors forgot that he had a patient in for acupuncture, and went home while he was lying on the table, needles sticking out of him (This story told from the perspective of the patient who dozed off (and is the husband of a receptionist, thus his presence there)).
Our department had a Christmas lunch in the CBD which I thought was interesting as we’re all based out in a stupid sub-office in the suburbs. Turns out that their plan all along was to have everyone catch taxis (using the public service Cabcharge thing) into the city, have lunch for about two hours, and then catch taxis (again with Cabcharge) back to work so that we can all work for about an hour and a half.
Nepotism ahoy.
My old work Christmas parties would always be free (free food, free fancy alcohol etc) and include a free $20 CabCharge voucher. I miss those /o\ New workplace parties include cover charge and cheap-ish alcohol with finger food provided. No more parties for me!
Enjoy your half day!
Parties are the worst. I’m always at my worst when I’m at a party.
You obviously just need to drink more then 😛
I agree. It’s about time being a social recluse paid off.
I and a lot of people I know are just like that. Normally I’d suggest we should all hang out but it’d be a huge black hole of negativity
I spoke to my boss about organising a team lunch for Christmas. This is pretty common, most departments do this. I was told we don’t have the budget. This is beyond my comprehension. Our team only has 4 members in it, everyone has been working their asses off and we’re actually a pretty profitable firm and we didn’t need to go anywhere super special. Pretty disappointed. At least we have the firm-wide one.
We have to pay our way for all the parties.
Well ignore my spoilt brat whining then.
Had mine today- we pay into a social club to cover it. Good fun, but I left a little early as I was getting a bit over it and needed to do some shopping.
**REPOST**
I’m back and it’s Friday so you know what that means!!!!
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2013/12/13/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s04e07-uncomfortable-secrets/
This week, learn of my desire to wear a g-string and Karl’s hatred for one of history’s greatest humanitarians.
I think you’ll get a kick out of this episode, Brooke.
She did.
(Dane was being an ass and wouldn’t let me talk to you in third person using his account, but I thought I would go ahead and do it (in?), regardless… So thanks, Dan. That was my very first shout out, and what a superb one it was at that; I may even go so far as to say that I think my life might now be complete because of it.)
Dane really is just the worst.
🙁
Boo hiss, I feel sick. Boo hiss, I say. I’ve been throwing up since 7am.
I started using GameMaker Studio last night, it’s really straight-forward for beginners (and yay for not coding anything since 1999 VB script). Yay for little space man who shoots bullets from his eyes at skeleton space men.
If you’ll excuse me I’m off to go be physically ill again.
I had that stomach thing on Sunday. It was pretty crappy.
Luckily mine only hung around for a day. Grab some Powerade/Gatorade/salty cordial of your choice, made me feel much better once the ralphing became less frequent.
Electrolytes and hydration help avoid the dehydration that inspire the headache/dizziness/fever-symptoms that a lot of people just associate with sickness. @f4ction, Dans is smrt, you should do as he does.
As if I needed an excuse to go back and play Chivalry: Medieval Warfare…
Oh wow, thanks to the little chat on the last page we had, I’m back onto Dire Straits – I’d almost forgotten just how good their music is! Their greatest hits pretty much finishes up with ‘On Every Street’ and it’s so beautiful. 😀
I love Private Investigations… the guitar sounds awesome!
Private Investigations is my go-to when I want some Knopfler. Has most of his best Dire Straits stuff plus a lot of his good solo stuff, though it doesn’t have anything off The Princess Bride. Also gets bonus points for opening with the full-length version of Telegraph Road.
Christmas Party Part 2
There’s 7/8 of a Cheesecake Factory chocolate mud cake in the fridge, left over from my team party on Tuesday. There’s literally no one else here. It’d be a shame to leave it here to waste over the weekend.
Fucking awesome.
awesome, any time anyone brings cake here there’s a tornado of people for 5 minutes then nothing but an empty plate and tumbleweeds. I just went to the greasy lunch truck and got one of the healthiest looking things they had, a chocolate donut.
It’s usually like that here, too. But we had a lot of food on Tuesday, and I think everyone just forgot about it 😛
Who was the one person who had a slice of cake at the actual party while everybody else stared at them eating it?
Hahaha actually it was me…
Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies
Be-Bop-A-Lua, Baby What I Say
Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta Woman
Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay
He got the action, he got the motion
Yeah, the boy can play
Dedication devotion
Turning all the night time into the day
Dammit @benny XD
As much as I like Dire Straits, that song should probably die in a fire. Or just not get itself heard by me again. One of those.
There’s plenty worse songs that are more deserved of that fire, Shane. 😀
*cough Minaj cough*
It’s true, but not many that so thoroughly tarnish the reputation of an otherwise great band 😛
…i like it XD
You know how some songs get better the more you hear them… Like Stockholm syndrome. Walk of life kind of did the opposite for me. I guess I don’t hate it, but i have heard it enough for my lifetime
Aaaah so your “Walk of Life” is my “Uptown Girl”*twitch*
Uptown Girl*twitch*
Just got a newsletter from my favourite quilting shop. Normally I wouldn’t post here about it(especially because nobody will understand why I just about screamed when I saw they were bringing Kaffe Fassett to Brisbane )…but this time there’s zombie fabric!!!! http://www.tqes.com.au/index.aspx?KW=zombie
http://www.siliconera.com/2013/12/12/square-enix-president-talks-future-plans-smartphone-console-games/
More like Square Enix President Talks About How Everything They Do Will Be a Fucking Smartphone Game Or Be Chock Full Of Microtransactions 🙁
this makes me sad
On a tangent from this, I like how proud the announcement was last night of the 1 million sales for Xillia (thought of this with squeenix calling the numbers for hitman and tomb raider a failure)
Yeah, 1 million makes Xillia I think the biggest since Symphonia (Symphonia sold ~950,000 on gamecube worldwide and another ~500k on PS2 in Japan). Turns out if you pick one platform and put all your games on that platform rather than scattering them to the four winds like they were, people buy them all.
I wonder how much of that was million was international sales? It sold half a million copies at launch in Japan, so it’s possible that that number was just JP sales.
EDIT: I was a little annoyed last night that Zesty Tales will be a 2015 game on PS3 not PS4, but I thought about it a bit and that should give Sony 3-4 years to build up an install base on PS4 before Tales turns up. That’s probably actually a smart move. Vesperia launched on 360 pretty early on and sold very poorly. Tales is niche enough that it probably needs a 10-15 million install base to sell to to be profitable. Especially since Japan is still the lion’s share of the market and assuming early 2015 the PS4 would only be a year old for them.
I gots a new phone. A smart phone. It’s so pretty. I don’t want to touch it.
*remembers the first day I got an iPod and tripped and smashed the screen*
my phone has a shattered screen thanks to Kratos :/
still works so I’m not getting it repaired for ridiculous prices
Get one of those toddler-proof cases with the farm animals on them.
Well c’mon, the sticky-beak in me wants to know what type of phone it is!
iPhone 5
Oooh, very nice! 🙂
Do you know if it’s 5c or 5s?
Or maybe it’s just an iPhone 5.
I’m not good with phones! I thought they only came in “C” or “S”, haha! My bad! Sorry for all the questions, I sometimes let my curiosity run wild! 🙂
S!
The Kardashian phone? 😀
You know it! 😛
http://store.offbeattreats.com/merchant2/graphics/00000001/cellphone2.jpg
Can you get those with smarties?
Wouldn’t that make it a smart(ies)-phone?
…
I’ll show myself out,
it’s this -> way, right?
More sophisticated than my old phone!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbVPbytCcAA9FIo.jpg:large
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTYwMFgxNjAw/z/NLoAAOxy3NBSfYws/$T2eC16VHJIQFHI,nvRCGBSfYwv0nIw~~60_35.JPG?set_id=880000500F
That was my first phone. I’m not a phone person at the best of times so it was only ever in my bag for improbable emergencies like breaking my leg when out for a walk
There are people playing legitimate backgammon in the lunch room. I’m actually a little surprised.
I haven’t played backgammon since I was 8 and would play with my Grandma.
The people who were playing it weren’t old either. I guess that’s what surprised me the most. I always imagine it as like an old man’s game they play in the park or retirement home.
Not like those shifty back-alley illegitimate backgammon houses, no sir, I don’t like them.
BOARD GAMES!
Game music is always good motivation to get through a mountain of work, put on the Blood Dragon OST and I’m destroying my workload like Rex Colt destroys…….. things……. all the things :p
oh man, I’d almost forgotten how great Blood Dragon’s soundtrack is, i remembered it being great but damn.
The entire Command & Conquer series OST (Except for C&C4) helps me out in getting motivated and it gets my circuits charged up.
HELLMARCH.
I didn’t mind the latest version of that
I thought the same until I heard this one
More like Mechanical Man in this case.
hey that is a good choice, I’ll keep that in mind for the future 😀
The eclectic madness of the soundtrack to Beyond Good & Evil is hard to beat
Impressed. I ordered a three pack of lightning to USB cables from Kogan on Monday, I think it was Monday anyway, and they’ve arrived. $12 for the 3 including free delivery. Woot!!!!!
man they make usb connections for everything these days, Lightning to usb, you’d think they’d need some sort of conductor or maybe energy converter to get all that power into a simple USB, yay science
😛 sorry , I’m losing it todayalright I’m overworked / overtired, I’m gonna stop posting today cause I’m finding everything hilarious and I’ll just end up posting dumb shit that only I’ll find funny. Have fun everyone 😀
but but… I LOVE RANDOM NON-SENSICAL HILARITY!
well then i pass all responsibility onto you over the contents of my posts, if anyone gets annoyed at me I’ll direct them to you 😛
BAU \o/
Business as Usual, for the uninitiated
Well to be fair if the cable had to handle all the 1.21 jiggawatts of the lightning bolt it would need a flux capacitor at least. But that’s overkill, you only need to power the phone, not send it back through time.
Had my first angry client phone call today! Yay! /o\
One more week ’til Christmas break. One more week ’til Christmas break.
Gonna go home and cook up a truffle-making storm tonight and over the weekend. I aim to be swimming in these things so that, even if I gorge myself, I’ll still have enough to take home for Christmas lunch 😛
“Hey Pow! These are some great looking truffles! But they taste a bit… interesting. What is that?”
*Flashback of Pow languishing in a bathtub full of truffles. He is in bliss.*
*Pow snaps back to reality*
“It’s the, um… rum.”
I finally took the plunge and ordered myself TrackIR5 with the clip addon thing that makes you look a bit like a borg. Also getting a Steelseries 7h headset so I’m poor as all hell (fuck medicine, it can wait a week) but I’m going to hear and see everything!!
Are there any little tricks I need to know setting TrackIR up?
I’ll still have enough to take home to Gutoup
*fixed*
*replyfail @powalen
Anyone else gotten this email from Square Enix?
http://aliasalpha.customer.netspace.net.au/squeenix.jpg
What would be in it do you think? The publish some okay stuff but I imagine I have most of it and they also publish a lot of total shite so I’m not sure it’s worth the risk for me.
I’m going to guess it would have:
– Just Cause 2
– Deus Ex: Human Revolution
– Hitman Absolution
– various DLC
– Some OSTs from various games
– $20 store credit
I’m more than likely completely wrong, so don’t trust anything I said 😉
I haven’t received anything like that – to be honest, not sure which email address is connected to my Squenix account.
Seems pretty cool though. I think I would probably talk myself into getting it.
Even if they only give you two games that’s still a pretty good deal.
That is assuming they are giving out games and not something else like a lifetime subscription to FFXIV that you are still required to pay.
Last Played Song Game:
Johnny Cash – Personal Jesus
The Last of Us OST
Papa Roach – Getting Away With Murder
Papa Roach bros! o/
Puscifer – Dear Brother
Papa Roach – Scars
Are you actually a 16 year old girl? 😛
Ignore him, @pixel_the_ferret_viking. Everyone needs to listen to Angry Young Man Music once in a while.
Hey my albums are on random and i like anything Papa Roach…
also
*looks down and pokes a bit*
nope, definitely male…
… although being a girl for a while could be pretty rad
hahaha, I didn’t have the nerve to say it.
WHAT’S WRONG WITH PAPA ROACH? 😛
You know I’m only poking fun at you right? That’s kind of my thing.
You filthy European*sobs*
THE WHOLE WORLD IS AGAINST ME,
WHERE’S MY ICECREAM?
*runs off*
of course i do! if i took something like that to heart i wouldn’t have gotten very far in life 😛 plus you’re a cool guy i don’t mind stuff like thatEDIT – crap i accidentally a word
Blame @rize. It was all his idea!
@cakesmith HE’S SUCH A JERK* AS WELL
*pretty cool guySeriously, i don’t mind at all, i’m pretty confortable of who i am, and i know it’s in jest, i actually trust you guys XD
Oh look, the foreigner forgot how to use English.
HI GUYS!@rize WELL MAYBE IF YOU…. NUUUURH!
HI RIZE *flails arms*let’s just focus on what we do have in common 😛
*puts down hatchet*
aaawww do you mean i don’t get to use this?
*kicks dirt*
see above, it’s all in jest, i hope you know that XDI know, we’re all friends here, haha
*sheathes katana*
The Melvins – Civilised Worm
Can’t stop mentally playing Reckless.
Dire Straits – Sultans of Schwing.
SCHWING! 😀
Pain: Nailed To The Ground
This is the worst game ever invented.
Milkshake – Kelis
This is pretty damn fantastic: http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/i-34sCGhx/0/X2/i-34sCGhx-XL.jpg
An article on the moral panic that came before video games. Before D&D, before rock&roll, the scourge of ‘modern’ youth was… dime novels. Young men led to idleness, ill temper, and suicide through the vices of cheaply-available literature. Though the blame didn’t rest solely on the ‘penny dreadfuls’ and their like… the author goes as far as to suggest any significant binge of any otherwise esteemed reading is unhealthy to the young mind.
Fascinating.
Transcription from the image:
Some time ago the papers reported the suicide of a young boy whose mind had become disorded through dime-novel reading; while more recently at Freehold, New Jersey, an organization of boys, calling themselves the “Jesse James Gang,” were indicted for larceny to which they had been prompted by the same pernicious stuff. By way of remedy a bill was introduced in the New York Legislature prohibiting ‘dime’ publications; but the bill was not passed, and it is doubtful at any rate whether the difficulty could be solved in this way.
Even if a boy does not incline to the dime novel or the weekly ‘penny dreadful’ he is hardly less in danger from what we call the standard fiction, if he uses it – as too many do – without moderation. Dickens, Scott, and Charles Reade are not in themselves demoralizing; but to read half a dozen of Reade’s largest novels in as many weeks, as I have known a boy to do, is a mental dissipation which cannot fail to be injurious. The prevalence of this form of dissipation is obvious, but hardly anyone realizes the extent to which it prevails; and it is for the enlightment of parents and teachers on this point that I propose giving the results of some inquiries which I have made among thirty or forty boys in a private boarding-school in the State of New York.
Of these, five or six confess at the start that they do not read at all. “I have never read a book,” one small boy of ten writes, “But my mother has read some to me.” Half a dozen more merely state their preferences in the various departments of literature, while eighteen or twenty furnish in addition a very full list of all the books, so far as they can remember, that they have ever read in their lives. It is from these that I have drawn my conconlusions, which I feel justified in doing from the fact that the boys are fairly representative, in point of age, intelligence, and social position, of the school-going class all over the Eastern States.
Some of them, I am sorry to find, are addicted to the permicious literature of which I have already spoken. One has read the life of Jesse James, and prefers it to that of Garfield; four of perused one of Zola’s vilest novels…
END
Those who demonise a hobby or other pursuit either are ill-informed, uninformed, or just plain malicious.
This needs to be on a stone slab on a wall somewhere.
Intellectually lazy is the most probable explanation. They don’t remember being this rowdy (even though they were), there’s this new thing kids are into therefore it’s obviously the sole cause
Urrrg. Turkey, Brie and cranberry sandwiches for lunch.
Overdid the turkey, the Brie and the cranberry on each sandwich.
*belch*
Worth it!
?Hm, that’s what I should do with Christmas day leftovers
Our family tradition (that I started at the age of four or so) is Turkey and Pate sandwiches.
Mwahahaha, everyone just left early (I can’t :/) and left me alone in the office.
*puts pants on head and skates around the office on 2 office chairs*
You DID remember to turn the security cameras off didn’t you?
Not according to this youtube video I’m watching
It could be the next big youtube meme
Trying to decide if it’s worth trying to smash through as much training on SharePoint as I can in two weeks to make myself a stronger candidate for a promotion.
Anyone here ever have to deal with it?
EDIT: I…erm……GAMES.
I’ve had to deal with games…
I actually did a joint MS presentation on it when it was very early launch software
I don’t remember anything about it and haven’t used it in 10 years
#Helping
Some small-mid businesses use it for their intranet. 2013 version is pretty cool, I guess.
We use SharePoint for our intranet. It’s… extraordinarily irritating.
We have it for ours too. When utilised correctly it’s pretty good. Problem is, most companies approach it in such an insanely incorrect way that you end up with a really terrible user experience (frequently seen as laggy over the top pages).
Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World Sixth Session Recap 12th December 2013 starring:
– Blaghs aka @blaghman the tough Glaive who masters weaponry,
– Nova aka @novacascade the stealthy Jack who explores dark places,
– Phetys aka @mythamphetamine the mechanical Nano who fuses flesh and steel,
– Ranger aka @mawt the rugged Glaive who lives in the wilderness,
– Russef Volarskii aka @popdart5 the mechanical Glaive who murders,
– Scrappa aka @tech_knight the mechanical Jack who talks to machines, and
– Storyteller aka @redartifice the awesome GM who weaves tales.
And unfortunately absent:
– Beltigron aka @tigerion the mystical Nano who crafts illusions.
Author’s Note: And that is the last session until the 8th of January. Sorry about the delay in getting the recap out to everyone but I hope you enjoy everything, including Blaghs’ much improved flexing ability. 😛
The sun had well and truly begun to descend when the party left Akabe’s manor and were left in a precarious position. They had to find out where and how Glass-Hands was acquiring these shield array components lest they wanted to feel the comfort of Charmonde’s prison system. Deciding that it was much too late to rush back to Glass-Hands and confirm the delivery, the party ended up spending the night at a small hotel in the Docks area of the city. While the party was resting up from a long day, the party took turns keeping watch on the lounge where Glass-Hands was conducting his business to see if they could catch a glimpse of any mysterious or dirty looking characters. Turns out that the party needed a narrower list of potential suspects as the lounge was home to a wide variety characters, ranging from half the junkies in the city and small-time crime bosses all the way to semi-respectable gentry and wealthy merchants.The party decides to send someone in undercover to see if there was anything important going on inside the lounge. Russef volunteers for the operation and, with a careful application of a few synth materials, saunters up to the lounge looking like a completely different man than the one who visited earlier in the day. The two bouncers at the door, thick as tree trunks and with enough muscle to put Blaghs to shame, were waving a small tube of synth over the people that were entering the lounge. Russef realised what the device was doing and rearranged his equipment before the bouncers could scan him. This enabled Russef to evade detection and enter the lounge with all of his weaponry.
The lounge was packed full of people at this time of night although none of them looked too suspicious to Russef’s eye. Just as he was about to stake out a booth, a waitress came up to Russef and offered a tray of carefully arrayed inhalers, injectors, pills, and various other drugs. The waitress had small streaks of green going through her hair and a few similarly-green gemstones embedded in the bare skin on her shoulders. Russef looked around at the other revellers in the lounge and found that most people were either drinking, puffing away, or injecting themselves into nirvana. The waitress noticed his hesitation and offered something a little more special than the standard Red River or Bile that was on the tray: the horizon-expanding Aoloae. Russef accepted the waitress’ recommendation and she guided him over to a small booth and placed an injector on the table, saying it will make him see things you normally wouldn’t. Russef immediately injected the mysterious Aoloae and began a wonderful and magical journey.
Under the effect of Aoloae, Russef’s senses were heightened drastically and he began perceiving the world around him in a strange new way. Russef began seeing patterns forming between people and seeing a web of relationships and interactions. He saw that everyone around him was up to something and that they were all guilty of something. He saw conspiracies and treasons and dirty dealings. He saw a few people enter the back room where Glass-Hands was conducting his deals and he knew every one of them had a lot of secrets. He had a vibrant vision of a man in a City of Key that would make everything clearer. As his mind spun at what he was seeing, the waitress came back over and asked if he had enjoyed his hit. Russef said that it was inspiring and he had never had anything like it. The waitress smiled and said that sometimes the things that you see while under Aoloae turn out to be true, like when she found out that her boyfriend was cheating on her with her best friend. Russef thanked the waitress for the Aoloae and he stayed in the booth to wait out the rest of the drug, staring wild-eyed at the people and the world around him.
Two hours had passed and the rest of the party had not seen any sign of Russef or any disturbance that may have put him in trouble. Ranger assumed that something must have happened to him so he left Nova on watch while he approached the lounge. The bouncers at the door eyed him warily and they waved the strange devices over his person. One of the bouncers grunted and motioned for Ranger to deposit his weapons over at the coat desk just inside the bar. Ranger volunteered his crossbow for storage at the coat desk although that did nothing to stop the vicious glare that he was receiving from the female bouncer that was standing just behind the coat desk attendant.
Moving away from the coat desk, Ranger surveyed the lounge and, while it was still busy, it was definitely quieter than it was earlier in the night. Ranger spotted Russef in a corner booth and he clearly looked like he was recovering from some sort of hallucinogenic high. Ranger decided to ignore Russef and took up residence at the bar where he ordered himself a drink. As he was in a far more lucid state than Russef, Ranger kept an eye on the comings and goings of the people who were visiting Glass-Hands’ back room. One man in particular caught his attention: a tall man with a top-knot on top of his head went into Glass-Hands’ back room. Russef spotted him as well although his eyes were more drawn to the man’s brooch which was in the shape of a serrated dagger. After only a few minutes inside the back room, the tall man stormed out looking quite angry with his meeting. Ranger decided not to pursue the man as he felt that it would be far too obvious while Russef was content just starting into space.
Nova was on watch on a rooftop opposite the lounge when he saw the tall man exit and walk as though he was fuming. He decided to continue to observe the tall man as he kept walking away from the lounge. The tall man joined a small gathering of other men and Nova recognised a few of the men as looking similar to the thieves that he pursued earlier in the day. After they stood around talking for a little bit, the tall man led the small gang down a side alley where Nova lost sight of them. Nova decided to pursue the group and he scaled down to street level and moved unnoticed into the alley. He spotted the tall-man and his gang standing beside a wall when the tall-man pulled a crystal out of his pocket and held it towards the door. Like what had happened with the thieves, the crystal reacted and a door appeared from its out of phase existence. The gang entered through the now material door and the tall man closed it behind him. Nova crept up on the door as it was phasing out of existence and attempted to find some way of opening it. Alas, the door seemed to only work when it was in this plane of existence.
Nova returned to his post of keeping watch outside the lounge while Ranger and Russef retained their spots inside. Closing time was rapidly approaching and Ranger and Russef both elected to leave before they were kicked out. Once they were well clear of the bouncers at the front door, Ranger asked if Russef had seen anything of note. Among his post-Aoloae cooldown ramblings, Russef mentioned that the man with the top-knot seemed important. Ranger agreed that he did seem up to something and, when they reported back to the rest of the group, Nova spoke of what he saw with the phase door in the alley. The group decided that they would keep an eye out for this strange man however they all felt that they should get some rest.
The next morning in the lovely city of Charmonde, the party ventured forth and immediately sought out a meeting with Glass-Hands to report on what they had discussed with Akabe. The bartender is the same man who was there yesterday when the party visited and he waved them through to the back room where Glass-Hands was securing a few choice items. Glass-Hands locked his cabinet quickly and whirled around to warmly greet the party. The party explains that they delivered the shield array component to Akabe without incident although she was very infuriated that someone like Glass-Hands had access to what should have been secure technology. Glass-Hands said that he expected a response like that and he was hoping for some sort of compensation for fulfilling his public duty.
Glass-Hands made good on his promise and he recompensed the party. He gave back the coin purses that were stolen from Scrappa and Beltigron and Nova, Russef, and Blaghs agreed to trade in one of their cyphers each for the Numenera artefact that Glass-Hands had secured. When the trade was completed, Scrappa and Phetys realised that the artefact was a device known as a Shatter Wand. They knew that such a device would reorganise the molecular matter of a target when they are struck with the wand and deal considerable damage. If the target was then hit the wand again or by some other weapon, the target would shatter violently and explode into fragments. Needless to say, it should not be taken lightly.
After their business was completed, the party asked Glass-Hands where he acquired such an important piece of technology. Glass-Hands deliberately evaded the question, saying he could not give up details of such an important supplier without something in kind. He requested that Akabe could pay him for his services if she wished although he said that she should hurry as there are competing interests for these shield array components. Blaghs decided to flex his muscles and attempt to impress Glass-Hands into playing ball. Surprisingly, Glass-Hands was impressed by this display and he offered a job to Blaghs as one of his muscle once he was finished running with the rest of the party.
Glass-Hands still insisted that he should be paid for any information that he divulges however he was willing to provide something of use to party. He mentioned that the party should go to an agricultural district of the city and seek out an old abandoned factory. Glass-Hands opened his cabinet and withdrew a solid blue crystal which looks very similar to the crystal that Nova saw the tall man use last night. Glass-Hands gave the crystal to Phetys and he said that the party will know what to do with it when the time comes. He says there is a man that traded him the last shield component and he has many more with potentially more to come. Glass-Hands said that he expects adequate compensation for this information and for any future services rendered. Glass-Hands also mentioned that should the party try something that would endanger their “friendship”, Glass-Hands had a lot of boys and they could all be “acquainted” with the party.
Keeping that not-so-subtle threat in mind, the party left the docks district of Charmonde and sought out the abandoned factory that Glass-Hands indicated. As the party travelled through the agricultural district, they noticed a number of large, bulbous mushrooms that seemed to have a distinctly fleshy nature to them. They were of a vibrant, blood-like colour and the farmers were growing them without a care in the world.
It wasn’t long before the party found the abandoned factory. The factory was also of the same white hue as the rest of the city however this building seemed to have been grown straight from a number of trees rather than built. The party ventured inside and found the factory in a state of advanced disarray and decay with a thick layer of dust coating everything. After exploring a few of the still intact rooms, the party entered what looked to be an old manager’s office and they were able to see the faint traces of a phase door on the wall. There was evidence that people had used this door at some point but it didn’t look like anyone had come through here for a number of months, if not years. Phetys pulled out the crystal that Glass-Hands had given him and he held it close to the phase door. The crystal shone brightly for a few seconds before the phase door shimmered into existence. The party carefully opened the door and peered inside to find a long corridor that seemed to look like a cross between an attic and someone’s cellar. It appeared to be safe so the party entered into the corridor and closed the phase door behind them where it returned to its other plane.
The party explored this strange corridor where it alternated between feeling like they were in a tall building to feeling the dank mustiness of someone’s basement. Eventually the mish-mash of different rooms ended and the corridor took on a much more subterranean feel. This was only amplified when the party rounded a bend in the tunnel and it opened out to a vast cavern with a huge tower-like structure in the centre of it, shining like a beacon. The party could see a few people milling around however none of them looked particularly friendly. They decided to tread cautiously toward the tower.
As the party got closer to the tower, more and more people started appearing out of the shadows. The party also saw that the tunnel they came from was just one of dozens of separate tunnels, all of which the party assumed led to a different phase door. Nova noticed that some of the groups had some of the orange-hooded men that they had seen in the rally at the square yesterday and he realised that some of them looked like the men that had been hanging around the tall man with the top-knot. He overheard one of the gang mention something about a tall man with funny hair called Raller and Nova understood who they are talking about. He attempted to approach the group and hear more of their conversation, however in his haste he accidentally kicked a loose stone. The gang members were startled by this and turned around, demanding to know who had been spying on them. Nova chose this moment to reveal himself to the gang.
The gang began threatening Nova, demanding to know why he was spying on them and who he was working for. Nova explained that Glass-Hands had sent him for more information on the shield array components as he is seeking some more. The gang leader stepped forward and said that there is no way Glass-Hands would send just one person to do a deal. He demanded that Nova reveal whoever else he came with or bad things may happen to him. Phetys started approaching the sign of the confrontation but Nova shook his head at the gang leader and said that he came alone as Glass-Hands wanted to do this discretely. The rest of the party remained in shadow observing Nova attempt to negotiate with these thugs.
The gang leader said that they personally didn’t have any more shield components but they knew a guy who did and that man was not happy that they traded one to Glass-Hands. They weren’t going to say anything further as they weren’t sure that Glass-Hands had actually sent someone to trade with them and they started threatening Nova again. Nova manages to calm them down and convince the gang that he was in fact working for Glass-Hands but the gang leader still demanded to see who else Nova had come with before they started talking. Nova called out for Blaghs to step forward and he casted a very imposing figure compared to the members of the gang.
The gang leader was rather cowed by Nova’s backup and started spilling the beans. The man who was collecting the shield array components was indeed the tall man with the top-knot and he was called Raller Kay. The gang leader said Raller was paying one hundred shins per array to anyone who could get them so his little group had made a decent little pile of coin. Raller was associated with Nerada Trome and her anti-Papist movement although the gang leader wasn’t sure if he was a bigwig or just a lowly instigator of the rallies. The gang leader said that Raller apparently hung out in one of the agricultural districts however he said that no-one knew how to arrange a meeting with him or how to contact him at all. They said Raller always knew where you were when he wanted to talk to you.
Nova asked the gang leader if he could let Raller know that he wanted to speak to him but the gang leader refused unless he was paid. Blaghs made himself appear even more imposing by emphasising his bulging biceps and the gang leader quickly backtracked and said that they would try and let Raller know that an associate of Glass-Hands wanted to talk. The gang leader did tell Nova that his boys would cut him, Blaghs, and anyone else they worked with if they double-crossed them and Nova told them that that would not be a problem. As Nova and Blaghs walked away, they overheard the gang leader telling his boys to figure out how they got in here and stop it happening again.
Nova and Blaghs rejoined the rest of the party in the shadow and they all decided to leave this cavern through one of the other tunnels rather than the one they came from. As they followed the twists and turns, they came to another phase door which opened out to an alley near the main square where the anti-Papist rally was held yesterday. Unfortunately the party was spotted by a little girl and she ran away when Scrappa told her cheekily that they were wizards and just appeared out of thin air. The party started walking through the main square when Ranger got a salute from one of the on-duty City Watch however Ranger rebuked this public acknowledgement of his status and the City Watchman merely swiftly hid his salute and gave him a knowing wink.
The party figured that it would be wise to return to Akabe with the knowledge that they had gathered and the party made its way back over to Akabe’s manor in the wealthy district. Akabe’s maid opened the door and was impressed by Blaghs’ much improved flexing musculature. She was momentarily distracted by the man-meat in front of her and a thin sliver of drool escaped her lips. She shook herself out of that reverie and welcomed the party inside. Blaghs decided to remain behind and keep the maid company.
The party found Akabe relaxing in her study again and they reported to her their findings of Raller Kay and the shield components. Akabe was only mildly surprised that the anti-Papists would stoop to sabotaging the defences of Charmonde. She was convinced that the anti-Papists under Nerada Trome were conspiring with the Gaians to the north to attack and destroy Charmonde. Akabe needed to inform Queen Amalu as soon as possible but she noted that declaring the Orange Hoods and the rest of the anti-Papists as criminals and terrorists would lead to open civil war and destabilise the kingdom. She wanted the party to pursue a different path and find out where the Orange Cloaks were hiding the shield array components and bring them back.
Akabe could not say where the Orange Cloaks were based for if she knew that they would have already been dismantled. She suggested that perhaps that is question best asked of the Cantharks who reside outside of Charmonde and have been known to answer questions with near-perfect accuracy. Akabe does warn the party that the Cantharks are fickle creatures and they do demand gifts and tribute for any questions that they answer. If a gift is presented that they do not like, they have been known to kill and display the bodies of those who displease them. She says that the Cantharks can be reached by entering a portal in the wealthy district while wearing only blue-coloured clothes and while bringing a suitable gift.
Akabe does say that that is just one option that is available to the party. She does thank the party for the information that they have already gathered and she rewards everyone with a small gift of thirty shins. Phetys makes a rather unusual request from Akabe and would like one of the small blue jewels that encrust Akabe’s scalp rather than the coin. Akabe is initially offended as these jewels are a tradition of her family however she says that she might be able to donate one of the jewels that has lost its lustre and power.
The party is gestured out of Akabe’s manor and past Blaghs consorting with the maid. The party faces a dilemma: do they go and risk seeking the wisdom of the Cantharks or do they try an alternative approach to tracking down Raller Kay? What of Glass-Hands and his decidedly shady involvement in all of this? And what of Queen Amalu and Nerada Trome? Are they merely puppets of their servants or do they truly hold the keys to power in Charmonde and the kingdom Navarene? Tune in next time on Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World.
I really dislike how you have to sign into additional accounts within Steam to play certain games. It’s quite annoying. I haven’t been able to fire up FFVIII yet simply because I have forgotten my Square Enix username and password. Ugh.
Fuck Squenix Accounts. Also Fuck Ubisoft and their uplay shit. And everyone else that does this.
The only time it’s acceptable is with MMOs.
Okay, so that was pretty painless to reset the password..
BUT THAT’S NOT THE POINT I’M TRYING TO MAKE HERE!
GTA4 was the most absurd so far, steam, GFWL and rockstar social club. Suppose we should be grateful it wasn’t published by ubisoft or we’d have uplay on top of it.
I just replayed FFVIII (not rubbing it in) on my holiday…2ish months back.
Heaps Id forgotten, still an amazing game.
Oh god. I knew they overturned the gay marriage stuff but didn’t realise they were annulling the marriages that did go through.
Abbott’s gone from someone that I didn’t particularly like all that much but didn’t care really all that much about being in power to genuinely disgusting me.
I legitimately haven’t watched the news since that guy was elected.
Never took up the whole news thing. Lot of arseholes doing things that make me sick.
You’ve illegitimately watched the news? HOW COULD YOU?
Apparently it’s because of some legal technicality rather than bigotry so that makes it 100% okay.
Next step is to follow india & recriminalize homosexuality…
Is it still illegal to plot the violent overthrow of a legally elected government?
I’m personally hanging out for the re-introduction of slavery.
Well it’ll only take a small change to the work for the dole rules so it might be next
Well, I think it’d be of benefit to the country if we introduced the real dole bludgers to slavery. 😀
Yeah but given the fact that most people on the dole are actually trying to get work in an utterly shit market, you’d be enslaving a large majority of people just doing their best to get at a few scumbags
As I said, target the dole bludgers. And, to be honest, there’s a shittonne of them. My mother had patients back in Queensland who were Fifth generation Dole Bludgers. There are huge groups of people who live entirely without giving a shit, giving a bad name to those who actually try, I vote we put them in a mine.
Well those people we can mine for raw materials or failing that, soylent green.
Technically, the High Court was correct in destroying the Marriages of these people who love each other. It’s just that the constitution really, really, really should have been fixed by this point.
It’s cool though, the people will be able to call themselves Divorcees now, right? I don’t know if it counts or not, but shh.
As far as I know annulment means it legally never happened rather than being legally ended so they don’t even have that
It was all a dreeeeeam.
“Oh my god I was wrong.
It was Earth all along!
I guess you finally made a monkey
(Yes we finally made a monkey)
I guess you finally made a monkey
Out of meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee”
I didn’t realise they were annulling them either 🙁
Wow, that’s 30 couples who went to the trouble of throwing a wedding, just to have it all cancelled posthumously… aghh, that’s bullshit.
Trouble AND expense which I can’t imagine they’ll be reimbursed for. That might be worth a class action suit to get the costs back.
Honestly, and without sounding discompassionate, the couples who got married knew that was a risk whgen they decided to get married under a law that was in contention. Not saying it’s right, but it was definitely a known factor.
Exactly. They’re still going to be married at the end of the day, just not legally married. When the law changes again they’re just going to have to sign a bit of paper, not have a whole other wedding. It sucks that there are still people opposed to same-sex marriages, but hopefully soon people will actually start treating everybody else as equals.
http://www.allout.org/aus-marriage-equality there’s a petition to sign for it already.
This was a pretty cool guy
http://9gag.tv/v/1951?ref=fsidebar
Love it. 😀
Reading is pretty cool.
Words’n stuff.
AND THE WALKING DEAD S2 HYPE!
Hype except may not be able to afford it
You may know about it already but greenmangaming have walking dead s2 on sale for 10% off and there’s a 25% off coupon that can apparently work with it so you could get it for a bit under $17
It’s not steam, just redeem it on telltale games’ site, dunno if that makes much difference to you
Probably still won’t be able to. Maybe after christmas
WALKING DEAD S2!
My hype for that was killed a few months ago because my computer refused to play any TellTale games at all… But then I updated my PC to Windows 8.1 and that fixed the problem, bizarrely :/
HYPE MODE REACTIVATED! WOOOOOOOOOO! \o/
OHHHH, reading is cool now, huh?
Books r my frends
Watching the King of Rift LoL stream at the moment. Will post my thoughts as a reply after it is over.
I watched the Little Wraiths vs Royal Struggle match. While watching the stream, I realised I was bored. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I don’t like watching live games, or maybe I just can’t get into a match with teams I have never heard of. I suppose the World Championship Series was the culmination of my interest in League of Legends as an e-sport.
I will not be watching the rest of the tournament.
Yeah I find anything but Pro LoL matches to be boring as well.
Big fan of the LCS though.
Numenera tumblr has been updated! 😀
http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/
Wtf I’ve microwaved my dinner twice now and it’s still as cold as I’ve just taken it out of the fridge.
put a glass of milk in and zap if for 3:30, if its not boiling over then your microwave is probably buggered
Or set on low power/defrost I guess
It’s brand new so I’d hope not 😛
Third time’s the charm though. There was a weird rattle coming from the door so I pressed it in hard til it stopped, and things came out hot afterwards. So I guess that fixed it?
Just got a message from my Mum that my barely 60 year old Dad has had to be taken to the hospital because he can’t remember anything that happened from about 2:30onwards today. Apparently wasn’t a stroke but he still has short term memory loss, can’t remember a few upcoming events and failed the memory test they gave him. He’s currently waiting for a CT.
🙁
🙁 sorry to hear that, I hope it is nothing serious.
We’re all sending good thoughts to the strange clan.
Oh man, I hope everything turns out okay. Sending good thoughts your way. 🙁
all the best, sorry to hear.
Pretty much what they all said. Hopefully it’ll be something really mundane like he was abducted by aliens and they wiped his memory so he can’t remember their nefarious plans to turn cows inside out for no readily apparent reason. That happens to me every few weeks.
Okay so he was allowed to go home because they didn’t know what happened to him. Scan was clear, but now they’re “not ruling out a mini-stroke”. It’s a bit frustrating. Where’s Dr. House when you need him? 😛
Thanks for all the kind words guys, it means a lot. 🙂
Doing any better today?
Haven’t had any updates so I’m going with the “no news is good news” way of thinking. 🙂
Manus, Father of the Abyss:
Defeated.
Ahem…
woo.Seriously though, I actually roared at the top of my lungs in victory after this one. Made my housemate come over to see if I was ok…
But man that was hard. Truly was the culmination of everything I had learned thus far in Dark Souls. Timing, patience, positioning, strategy, observance, reflexes: everything had to be perfect.
Glad I did not give up.
Oh man, that’s pretty impressive. Onebroing Manus… that’s epic. Congratulations! 🙂
Cheers!
Now… Kalameet.
Heh yeah, had a quick couple of goes at him to see what his deal was.
Looks like his fighting style is simpler than Manus’s (thankfully) but problematic in it’s own way. Stamina regen I think shall be king.
Shall let you know!
Wow. That was a super tense LoL match. One of ours was afk, so it was 4 v 5, yet we still managed to hang on for 50 minutes and even went on the offensive after they drove us right back to our base. 12 kills, 7 deaths and 8 assists as Irelia. I think I’m starting to get the hang of things now.
What summoner level you up to?
Four. So I’m still a noob facing other noobs.
On AU server?
It looks like my main account has been deleted or something (I should probably get around to complaining about that) so I have a level 5 alt going that I play with a mate who is also starting out.
Add PneumaticEye and let me know if you want to play some games sometime.
http://www.triplem.com.au/melbourne/music/news/2013/12/the-foo-fighters-play-a-surprise-gig-at-redballs-rock-and-roll-pizza-in-california/
\m/><\m/ Fuck yeah! \m/><\m/
Just finished Ass Pirates.
Is it just me, or did it just sort of… end. I feel like there wasn’t enough build up there. It’s like, bam, over, here’s a video where Hatham appears, have some character development. Lamelamelamelamelame.Excellent spoiler could either be Ass Pirates or Ass Pirates…if* you know what I mean
*you do
Donkeys?
One can only hope 😉
The only downside of using the shortening of the name of assassin’s creed to make a joke about anal sex is that it requires using the incorrect spelling of the word arse
I just pretend it’s American porn and I feel better
Kills/Ships Sunk pl0x
Isn’t that pretty much exactly what happened with Ass2 and then a year later AssBro came about to actually do the second half of the game?2 at least had a build up towards the end. It’s like, you’re fighting the Borgias, now go and KILL BLAHDEBLAH MAIN GUY THE POPE! In Ass Pirates I barely even noticed that the last three missions were all like “kill the main characters” and then after the last one it was like “AND NOW THE GAME IS DONE!”AssBro – I approve
Night.
Sure is!
Smart-arse 😛
Better than the alternative which is being a dumb-arse
Some alleged screens of Creative Assembly’s new Alien game have surfaced
http://www.bluesnews.com/s/147455/alien-isolation-screenshots
Eurogamer claim they’re legit so I guess we can start getting interested now (and no doubt bagging the not-very-good-but-nothing-like-as-bad-as-the-hype Aliens Colonial Marines)
Considering it’s been almost 30 years since the last good Alien branded anything came out I’m not exactly optimistic.
I don’t think its possible to make a great Alien game. The idea of the xenomorph is that it’s a perfect organism. More than able to wipe us of the mortal plane. Games are about making the player feel powerful. They don’t marry.
*cough*
So a friend linked me to this video. That was two hours ago >_> Now I’ve watched all four of them.
Then this one on some shit that went down/is in the process of going down with Mighty No. 9. Wow.
Married TAYbies or those in long term relationships,
Do you sleep in the same bed?
I was watching Masters of Sex last night (great show, season finale next week) and I noticed that one of the couples sleep in separate beds. I thought this might have been a 50/60s thing, when the show is set, but doing some light research I’ve found that many couples do that today. The number is under 30% but has been slowly rising.
The main reason people do it is for better sleep- partners might sleep differently, be on different sleep schedules, prefer different levels of warmth, different mattresses etc.
Other couples like sleeping in the same bed and learn to adjust to their partners quirks in bed. There’s the argument that physical distance could lead to emotional distance.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jun/08/separate-beds-key-good-sleep
This article sites some research about how the lack of proper sleep can lead to weight gain and reduced brain power and general alertness
It’s interesting reading about the different combinations people use.(these are just anecdotal from the comments section)
For those who sleep in the same bed:
1. They use different blankets so that there’s no fighting about them
2. Have the modern mattresses with different settings for each size.
3. Have a really large bed where they can cuddle but when it’s time to sleep they have enough room
For those who sleep in separate beds
1. Two separate beds close together, sometimes in a frame
2. Separate beds in the same room
3. In some cases different rooms altogether
So what do you guys do?
Feel free to ignore this post if it’s too personal, I was just curious. It’s more about sleep anyway than sexual habits so I thought it would be ok.
We’ve always slept in the same bed. Just a regular Queen mattress with one blanket. Only disagreement we have is about the fan and what speed it should be.
Married, same bed – unless I get kicked out. Then it’s just me in a single bed in the spare room plus a good night’s sleep. 😀
Alone. D:
Since having kids, my wife has co-slept with the kids, which means we’ve been sleeping separately. Before that, we’d always sleep in the same bed, and will again, when we’re done with kids.
No relationship here, but I did end up thinking about it recently, having stayed the night at a friend’s place and basically shared a bed. I dunno if my sleep was crappy because of it being a makeshift mattress on the floor, an unfamiliar environment, or having someone there getting all cuddly with me, but it was extremely broken and intermittent 😛 Got me wondering about the last time I shared a bed with someone, and trying to remember if that affected my sleep at all. But that’s way too long ago to remember now.
Thanks for the replies guys
I’ve always imagined having a group of friends (4 or 5) who I’d hang out with on weekends where we would just talk about stuff. Life, love, sex, work, games etc
You know ,we’d talking about the usual at first but slowly over time it becomes a source of comfort and therapy for all parties involved where everybody can talk about their personal issues without judgement. *
Just stuff that occupies my thoughts.
*Although if it was a TV Show we will probably end up sleeping with each others’ wives and husbands leading to physical confrontations and the eventual collapse of the group**
**I watch too much TV 🙂
You should start a ring in advice show (or email in youtube channel.)
Call it Sex With Mashaa.
Ha ha, oh dear. Maybe.
🙂
That’s a fundamental difference between TV and porn, in porn your ‘everyone shagging everyone leading to disaster’ scenario would instead be ‘everyone shagging everyone leading to an orgy at the end of the movie’. Thus proving that porn is the path to world peace. Or something.
LittleJJ and I slept in the same bed most of the time, unless she fell asleep on the couch. Or if it was super hot and I wanted the fan on but she didn’t
I’ve always slept in the same bed as all the guys I ever lived with.
One guy I ended up getting in the habit of going to bed just as he was getting up and not having that shared time at the end and beginning of the day really hurt our relationship.
These days I mostly go to bed the same time as my husband,( even when we used to have our son in our bed or his cot in our room) because it just feels really weird and alienating if he goes to bed first. Mr. Strange doesn’t take his laptop into the bedroom so it’s also the only time of the day when I can be guaranteed of his attention.
When we had our honeymoon in the US our travel agent didn’t book us hotel rooms with a queen bed, they were all twin double rooms. It was super weird being in the same room but not the same bed.
Mr. Strange is super covers challenged though. Like he’ll think the bottom corner of his side is the top side and pull it up to his chin, or he’ll roll over and put 3/4 of the covers under his arms, not caring that he’s stealing them from me. It’s getting worse and worse so before I give in to the urge to murder him in his sleep I’m making an extra quilt for the bed so we can have our own covers. 😛
Ha ha, hopefully the new quilt helps.
The no devices in bed thing has always seemed like a good idea to me.
Hopefully I can implement that with future partners. At the moment I just watch a TV Show or two before bed. I’m hoping to start reading in bed again in the new year.
You could always sew a length of piano wire down one side of the quilt so it can also be used as a garrotte, that would let you keep your options open
This is why you were Kudossed! You have all the best ideas.
I’m always glad to help a lady in need of a twisted sick idea
Just got an email from Groupon. Bobble water bottle for $24.95 (RRP 74.95).
Curious as to what exactly could make a water bottle so expensive I do some research and they sell in Target and BigW for $8.95.
Bargain.
Yo Sydney-Siders, Mrs. Deveo, Rocketman, SirNob and I shall be heading to Ichiban? (Ramen place next to Kino book store) for lunch at 12:30. Anyone is welcome to join to hang out before the official meat starts.
I decided to open my two money boxes this weekend and see how much I had saved in coins throughout the year. I thought it would be nice to either put the money in the bank to continue saving if I had enough or just get myself something for Christmas.
This year I managed to save $143 in total. $109 in gold coins and $34 in silver ones.
https://twitter.com/Sir_Mashaa/status/411668875650928640/photo/1
I had a ‘if i have over $200 in coins put it in the bank’ clause but since I missed it I will be putting that money towards a VITA if there is a good deal during the Xmas/boxing day sales.
I usually like keeping one box for the silver coins and another for gold ones. I like coin boxes since they help keep my wallet lighter but are also a good way to save some extra money. I usually put aside some of my regular pay in the bank as savings but the coins are a way to save without thinking too much about it and it is a surprise finding out what you’ve saved at the end of the year.
Feel free to share yours if you want. You can do it through the week if you’re not at home today or tomorrow.
I have a habit of dumping the coins from my wallet in a pile somewhere before I go out, just because I hate having a fat, overloaded wallet. Usually thanks to change from train tickets. At the end of last year I had a hundred odd dollars in coins, and I sorted it all and slowly ate though that here and there. But then stuff in my room got moved around and I started to form a new pile, and it’s covering most of the shelf next to my bed. Should sort that and take it to the bank or something.
Yeah I use buses a lot to get around and I end up with a lot of change by the end of the week.
Yes you should take your coins to the bank- much easier for the machines to count the money if you have a lot.
I’m looking forward to going to the bank and just dumping the coins in their machine. I’ve always liked those machines.
dawww! your moneybox looks like the little milk carton in the video for Blur’s song Coffee and TV!
http://www.fact.co.uk/media/11454769/coffee-and-tv.jpeg
So kawaii!!
Ahahahah, has anyone gone back to the Oolicile garden and fought the two lesser sanctuary guardians before?
Man it is intense, the Bell Gargoyles have nothing on these two.
Mwahahaha.
I have found a way to take Kalameet down to half HP in one attack 😀
?
Crown of Dusk + Bellowing Dragoncrest Ring + Red Tearstone Ring = massive pyro damage.Then, get underneath him when he rears up on his hind legs and flames the ground in front of him and cast Flame Tempest.
Because he is so big and takes so long to do that attack he gets hit by every fire pillar. It’s devastating,
Of course you have to be at about 100hp for the Tearstone buff to activate and you only have enough charges to cast Flame Tempest once, but with a couple of modifications I should theoretically be able to take him out with three spells.
Theoretically.
It seems like BIC have a sense of humour
http://mediapathic.tumblr.com/post/69936322574/infinitystops-holy-fuck-well-played
Sort of reminds me of this Rhod Gilbert bit
http://youtu.be/OMM_HjKlrOI
I just don’t get people who say the main reason their Xbox 360 is their main console is because the controller is better. I wonder if they realise they can get a third-party PS3 controller in the style of a 360 controller? That way, you only have to worry about the games and whether your friends play it!
Yeah I have used one of those and they are not the best, the shape and build is never quite the same.
Also button mapping can be annoying – for example BF3 on PS3 the fire button is right bump, not trigger which is slightly awkward on a 360 style controller.
They’re not going to be the same, but there’d be other ones as well. I’m sure many brands have tried.
the power a controllers for PS3 are pretty awesome, or at least can be. Had one crap one and one awesome
Bravely Default question for anyone who’s into it (@jimu ? anyone else? I dunno….)
rebuilding the town thing minigame thing….
umm…. when it says 70 hours to do something… is that 70 hours in game? or just 70 hours with the 3ds off? or like just set the system clock forward 70 hours?coz I really dont need to move that rock that much.
Edit: spoilered just in case anyone would consider that a spoiler.
Edit #2: nevermind. worked it out. the answer is streetpassing. downside is that i’ve gotta go outside….
Bravely Default is a pretty cool guy.
so far, yep.
Picked it up yesterday, played half an hour.
EDIT: It does feel like a mix of FFIX and FFXII, Vagrant Story too.
It’s 70 hours in-game, but this also includes sleep mode (but the game has to be open).
But the time that’s shown is for one villager. If you add another it’ll be something like 35 hours so the more you add the less time it takes. I think StreetPassing people adds one more villager but you can also go to “Update Data” in the save menu and you’ll get around 3-5 Net Friends per a day which also add villagers.
Derp. Didn’t see your edit.
Does anyone else have the game?
I think I have @sughly @sernobulus @blaghman @jimu @doc_what @distantdrop @mawt as in-game friends but I’m sure there’s more of ya’s. I think both people need to be online at the same time to become friends though, but I’ll try to add @35 and @benny (or anyone else) when I can.
Ablink and Summon Friends feels like cheating, so I never do it 😛 (cept when fighting nemeses)
I picked it up today but I think we’re already 3DS fronds.
Yep, but you need to be in-game friends in order to use all the features. It seems to automatically add your 3DS friends as long as you’re both online at the same time.
Okie dokie. You’re still online regularly?
I’ve only been playing Bravely Default in the morning lately. In the save menu go to Add Friends and it’ll automatically add anyone on your friends list that’s currently playing. If you’re lucky you’ll get a Jimu or Distant who’re both OP 😛
Currently playing or anyone who’s updated the cloud?
I thought your update just went online and they grabbed that? No??
@jimu seems like the latter. I was just guessin’!
Are we Ninty friends?
Everyday you can add 3-4 friends via online (spotpass) just do the Update on the save screen either at the red man or on the world map.
Most of my villagers are from online, only a few streetpasses.
im not sure…
if not… 1349-5476-6540
Does anyone buy Steam gift cards or frequents a place that does? (EB?)
I’m just wondering whether they’re still $20 for a $20 gift card. Since it’s 1:1 it helps when the exchange rate is low since you’re pretty much paying $20 AUD for $20 USD, but I’m guessing the probably raised the prices 🙁
With that near-constant sale that was running at EB up until about a month ago, they were still selling $50 USD gift cards for $50 AUD as the standard, non-discounted price.
I can’t see it having changed, but yeah — definitely better value than relying on paypal/Visa/Mastercard/whoever to underestimate the exchange rate.
Edit: I just looked it up, and it’s tough to say because they don’t sell them online but… one post on Whirlpool seems to say they’ve gone up in price, while I definitely picked one up for $50. If you’re very lucky, it might vary from store to store?
Urgh, WA suuuucks! There is absolutely nothing to do here, and no opportunities for anything except mining!
So Google have a done a whoopsie with their copyright policies. Some of the channels I watch have been deeply affected by ContentID claims. ClassicGameRoom (one of the first YouTube partners) has quit youtube because of this. All his videos will be uploaded to his website and YouTube competitors.
Because of this, I am going to have a semi-boycott of YouTube. If a channel that I have subscribed to also has a DailyMotion account, I will watch it there instead of on YouTube. Sure, Google still gets money because of banner ads and the like, but they won’t be getting as much. Although I have problems with DailyMotion, (A new interface to learn, videos not showing how far the video has buffered) I am willing to support the company. Sure, DailyMotion will become as evil as Google if they become too popular, but that day has not arrived yet.
So you’re planning to surf at the front of the wave of evil?
Black Dragon Kalameet:
downed in two attacks, in under a minute, at level 1.
\m/
You 2 hit killed a boss in dark souls? How the hell did you manage that, did you find some kind of tactical nuke resin?
Heh something like that.
An extreme glass cannon build, a bit of luck and good positioning.
Crown of Dusk + Red Tearstone Ring + Dusk Crown Ring. This give a huge damage boost to pyromacy and additional spell castings.Then, get underneath him when he rears up on his hind legs and flames the ground in front of him and cast Flame Tempest.
Because he is so big and takes so long to do that attack he gets hit by almost every fire pillar – generally hits for about 60% of his hp. With the Dusk Crown Ring it can be channeled almost twice, plus Firestorm as a backup.
Of course you have to be under 57 hp for the Tearstone buff to activate and most of his attacks cannot be blocked so it’s not as easy as it sounds.
I got lucky and managed to hit him for about 80% hp with the first round and he used the attack again not long after, giving me the opportunity to finish the job.
Hey guys where’d you all go?
I went to get a drink then I came back and everyone was gone. Didn’t even say bye!
Monsters, all of ’em.
Maybe they had to take their women home before you made them swoon?
I needed a poo, who knows it might have swooned as well so better to be safe than sorry
Wouldn’t you like to know.
Definitely not talking strategy at Sketchbook Girl’s house, though. That would be crazy.
Good thing we rolled a natural 20 on our Hiding From Gooky check!
John Carmack’s friend with the hat reckons he knows @batgirl from a dating website.
Gotham Singles? Also which batgirl, there’s been a few
Hahahaha and he’s got a pipe. Of course!
Aaaaand with Solitaire as a distraction Gwyn The Lord Of Cinder is swiftly slain.
I kinda feel bad for the guy.
Nonetheless, Dark Souls Onebro playthrough:
Victorious!
Pics shall be forthcoming.
Right, I have just started playing Catlevania Lords of Shadow -Ultimate Edition tonight. First impressions are extremely positive. Here is a random assortment of thoughts on the first 100 minutes.
-World building is very good. It has a fantasy-medievil motif with very heavy infulence from Christian mythology.
-The game looks amazing. Here is a picture to demonstrate it
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198073484188/screenshots/?appid=0&sort=newestfirst&browsefilter=myfiles&view=imagewall
-Music is magnificent. I already knew this coming in, but it is really well put together. Serious thumbs up to Oscar Araujo.
-Although this might annoy some people, I really like the camera angles when you are simply walking around. When the mere act of walking around is fun, that makes me happy. That is part of the reason I didn’t like WH40K Space Marine much, in that game there was a lot of walking but the movement was not fun.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=203789719
-The puzzle 90 minutes in is complete bullshit. I don’t see any actual brainpower that could possibly be applied here, it’s just mash buttons for ten minutes until it magically solves itself
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198073484188/screenshots/?appid=0&sort=newestfirst&browsefilter=myfiles&view=imagewall
-The naked fairy that shows up right before the puzzle is completely out of place. I get that fairies probably don’t have need of clothing, but why was it put there? The fairy is is oddly loli to…
I initially chalked this to the fact that CLoS is a Japanese game, but I was wrong. CLoS is Spanish.
No, I did not take a screenshot.
-The name of the main weapon is boring. The weapon is a crucifix-chain whip combo that was made from the nails used in crucifixions. How awesome is that? And what is the name of this almighty weapon? The Crucifix of New Hope? God’s Wrath? The Whip of the Martyrs? Nope.
It’s called the “combat cross.” Well done, Mecurysteam. Well done
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198073484188/screenshots/?appid=0&sort=newestfirst&browsefilter=myfiles&view=imagewall
-There are a bunch of images that give you no choice but to hit F12
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198073484188/screenshots/?appid=0&sort=newestfirst&browsefilter=myfiles&view=imagewall
-The world is dark, but then something funny like this happens:
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198073484188/screenshots/?appid=0&sort=newestfirst&browsefilter=myfiles&view=imagewall
-I like the fact that you flip through Gabriel’s journal by using PageUp and PageDown. Don’t ask me why, I just think it’s neat.
-The game controls surprisingly well with Mouse+Keyboard.
Wow, that was a lot of writing! I hope those hyperlinks work, I have never tried linking Steam screenshots before.
Well, I screwed up the links. I know if I try to edit the links again, the comment will be awaiting moderation for the next couple of years.
It’s ok guys I made it home, John Carmack and friends didn’t eat me.
Also, rain is a jerk. Sleep time.
Funny thing is, it’s wake up time for me.
Dear SunTAY,
I have accidentally won a graphic novel that I already own. Anyone want a digital copy of this? http://www.amazon.com/The-List-Paul-Bedford-ebook/dp/B00GY1BUTE/
It’s no The Lesser Evil, but it’s not a bad read.
All right. @jimu, I’m giving them your email address. You should receive it as a Comixology gift. Enjoy! 🙂
PS: Apologies if this crosses some sort of line.
Urrrrrrrrrrrrrm, OK?
I kinda hate digital comics.
I think I just don’y have a decent device to enjoy them on maybe.
http://collider.com/interstellar-trailer/
First trailer for Christopher Nolan’s new scifi movie Interstellar.
didn’t really give us much did they
Into season three of The Walking Dead now. This season is very over the top and comic book like. Preferred the more grounded first and second (and fourth) seasons, but it’s still decent enough.
What’s a “comic book” like?
Not exactly grounded in real world. (Sometimes. :P)
Like movies or TV?
I think you mean Super Hero comics.
It’s like saying all music is Pop music cos that’s the most popular, you know?
Should’ve said not grounded in realism. Meant no offence. I just associate more over the top concepts with that format, is all. 🙂
I’M OFFENDED
:pThe steps reviewers have to take to avoid ContentID claims are ridiculous.
EDIT: I did a grammar
Wake up and turn the TV on. It’s on channel 11 and playing the 80’s Turtles. Best morning ever!
Now 7th Heaven is on and wifey is happy.
WHERE CAN YOU GOOOOOO WHEN THE WORLD DON’T TREAT YOU RIGHT?
Cheers?
SOMETIMES YOU WANNA GO WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME!
Roseanne?
THE ANSWER IS HOOOOOME. THATS THE ONE PLACE THAT YOU’LL FIND
7th heavennnn
Oooooooh
I’ve never actually watched the show but I’ll be damned if I ever forget the theme song
In the summer after Uni finished before I got a job I spent my days watching 7th Heaven at lunch time. One time a uni friend came online and we both sang it together via MSN. XD
Sup TAY
I got a question, for Christmas this year my family is buying my 5 year old cousin a new console.
I thought this was a great idea as my cousin has been very ill all his life and has recently spent the last 6 months in hospital, but will get to go home just for Christmas. I personally feel the need to something special for him this year as because of the living distance between us and various commitments i had this year i haven’t been able to see him for over 6 months. And each time the rest of my family comes back from seeing him they tell me all he keeps asking is where i am.
Being the resident gamer of the household it was up to me to decide what to get him, but i’m really not sure which one.
The options are pretty much a 360, Ps3, Wii U or 3ds.
I really started to think about what he would enjoy the most, considering what console it was probably didn’t matter to him as much as the games.
Also because of his condition he is physically unable to partake in sports, this made me think the Wii may be too “active” for him, but i don’t know.
So what would you guys recommend?
Ps. He also really likes cars, both the movie and actual cars, so any good kids racing games like, Mario kart or Modnation/little big planet karting are also worth considering.
Poor little guy. Hope he has a great Christmas. 3DS might be a great option, whole Nintendo library is kid friendly and it’s also portable so if he ever has more issues he’ll always have this console with him? Not a handheld guy myself but there’s plenty of great games on it too.
Also if it’s car he likes, Disney Infinite on all the major consoles might be something worth considering?
I don’t think you’d go wrong with a 3DS… generally pretty healthy library like DC said, but given the conditions and I started thinking what a kid that age might like, and I think the Wii U might be pretty cool too. Apparently Sonic Racing is actually a pretty good game (hearsay), Mario Kart 8 is coming, and he might enjoy stuff like LEGO City Undercover.
Sonic Racing is great 😀
Thanks for the suggestions guys!
I definitely think Nintendo’s library is the most suitable, but the Wii U is also the most expensive. Although i think i won’t go a 3DS yet because i think he will like split-screen and having someone to play with. I might even fork out and get him a 3DS just from me if i can find the money (maybe for his Birthday haha)
Where might be the cheapest place to get a Wii U and What would i need for two player games? (just another controller?)
For 2-Player games,I think you just need a normal Wii (the original) motion controller and a nunchuck or the pro controller. I think some games have support for 2 gamepads, but I think most just require the motion controller and the nunchuck. Keep in mind whether you’ll want to get the basic or premium pack. The basic one is white and has 8GB of storage (though you can add more through an external drive I believe) and the premium one is black and has 32 GB of storage and comes with Nintendoland. It might be worth going the premium if he might be buying retro games off the e-shop. For buying the Wii U:
JB Hi-Fi: $428 Premium with Mario U and Luigi U
$348 Basic with Skylanders Swap Force starter pack
Big W: $428 Premium with Just Dance 2014 or Premium Mario U and Luigi U
Target: $429 Premium with Nintendoland
Sold Out Basic with Just Dance 2014 and Nintendoland (might be available in store?)
The Good Guys: $419 Premium with Nintendoland (presumed)
I didn’t find anything on ozgameshop, don’t know if I’m looking in the right spot, but online might be a risk if you have to get it by Christma, because of shipping times.
Most of the controller stuff is just personal experience with a friend who has one, I don’t have a WiiU personally.
The WiiU is also backwards-compatible with the Wii, if there’s some good racing games there.
Good Luck!
3Ds would be great as it doesn’t need any setting up like the TV consoles do, and portability is great when you’re a kid because you don’t have rely on nobody else wanting to use the TV.
If you choose a console though, WiiU or PS3 are far better than a 360 in terms of games a 5yo could play. The PS3 would have more games at the moment, but when you consider the WiiU can also play Wii games that opens up a fairly extensive library as well. Either would work, but I’d still vote for a 3DS over them.
Edit: Just remembered you can play the WiiU games on the gamepad screen thingy so that makes the WiiU even better.
2DS
1DS
0DS
iPad Air 2.
So thin, it has no dimensions.
4DS.
As @dc said, Infinity’s good fun, and the Incredibles campaign has cars you can drive, the Monsters University one has bikes, in case getting the cars set would be too much.
I would say the nintendo consoles. Mainly because the back library is massive and the games are very kid friendly.
Most kids seem to like skylanders and disney infinity. Also, perhaps pokemon?
The best and worst thing about muramasa the demon blade is that the food looks delicious.
I really want to eat it but I can’t because it’s a video game D=
Lick the screen?
This is a sign of the fact that this TAY’s conversation well has dried out, but what is better?
Eating penne pasta with a spoon or a fork?
My sister and I just had a mini argument about this.
I always thought you used the spoon to eat any leftover sauce.
Fork. If you’re spooning, you’re doing it wrong and you can sit at the kid’s table.
…not that I condone spooning with children.
That’d be bad.
Yes. Utterly terrible.
>.>
Fork. How do you even eat pasta with a spoon in the first place?! It doesn’t seem, natural.
Fork.
Spoon is Hard mode, and I’m not ready for that level of pasta eating.
New Plate+
Fork, the challenge being to get a piece of penne on each tine of the fork.
Failing that, chopsticks, you could get 20 bits of pasta threaded on a pair of sticks
SPORK!
@dashals, I’d like to know what your issue is? You seem to be on some sort of bender downvoting anything and everything I type for some wierd reason. Your accounts fairly new, I’ve considered you might actually be someones alt, but it’s not likely, but is there some sort of particular gripe you have? It’s quite wierd too, because quite frankly, a lot of the stuff you downvote has been, to be honest, stuff that isn’t even *worth* downvoting? So what’s the deal @dashals?
I have to admit, weresmurf, for months I just assumed you Gravatar was a yellow silhouette. Then I checked your profile. OH GOD.
Hehehehehehe things that have been seen cannot be unseen…
I used to think it was a mudkip o.0
I herd u like mudkips aye?
That’s worth a downvote (proceeds to downvote everything).