[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
2,273 responses to “Talk Amongst Yourselves”
Morning all! Starting the two-month countdown to Dark Souls 2.
DAY 60:
DSSGHFJGFDjfd’ghsdfgjdfshgs
*foams uncontrollably*
More than 2 months for PC :'(
I don’t know if I should wait for PC version or not. =(
Don’t wait.
You know you won’t be able to wait.
You can always grab the PC version later in a sale or something.
Oh well, I guess I will have to get it (against my wishes), lest I want to witness the wrath of @strange
=PNormally I’d do that, if I was planning on getting the PC version more than a year later. That’s not happening for me, so I’m just going to start with the PC version because I know this is a game that I’m going to come back to. Might as well just start on the version that I’ll end up on.
I have to, I’ve decided that I’m not getting any more 360 or PS3 games unless they’re exclusives (most unlikely now) or unusually cheap. I’ve embarked upon a quest to get pc versions of as many of my console games as I can since sooner or later the consoles will die and not be replaced. Good thing is that most of the games I got in the steam sale were stuff like the older tomb raiders or indies like braid & limbo which were a buck or two each
We’re going to have to put some towels down to soak up the slobber
Probably a good idea. I can’t guarantee future days will be restricted to slobber.
Anyone got any idea where I can donate games to a kids charity or something? I posted here a few months ago about this but nothing really panned out. the kids hospitals, despite having consoles, won’t take them.
Have you googled it? Maybe email the people who run child’s play and ask them?
Yeah this. Try talking to some established charities that deal with that sort of stuff. With a bit of luck, they might even take them themselves.
Morning everybody I hope your mornings are better than mine.
I have come down with a case of man flu and feel like shit 🙁
How’s everyone else going?
Think I might be joining you. Got maybe 3 hours sleep (at best) last night, and having trouble swallowing [THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID!] now that I’m in the office. Bleagh.
I’m on a work site and trying to breathe through dust and particles i feel this must be what bane goes through everyday
Find someone im fancy dress and break their back. Might help…
I will kill the bat guy
I got the man flu last week and successfully infected all of my housemates so they could join in the fun. This sucker’s lasting a while as well. Me and my missus love Stephen King so of course any time either of us gets a cold we’re carriers of Captain Trips
I was sick yesterday. Feeling a little better today.
This morning Mr. Strange woke me up to tell me these guys have been added to the lineup for 70000 Tons Of Metal. 2 weeksfrom today I’ll be on board a ship with GLORYHAMMER! 😀
I hate/love when people post video’s like this. I keep getting lost in the sidebar with a heap of stuff I haven’t heard.
Related: Amaranthe are
pretty greatkind of all over the map quality wiseI can’t stop going through their catalog.Yeah, I’m rather fond of Amaranthe. Especially as I choose to believe their song “The Nexus” is about Demon’s Souls. 😛
They are also rumoured to be in negotiations for being on 70K. *fingers crossed*
As for your edits: if it’s on their first album, it’s likely to be not that great. Most of their last one was pretty solid though. I listened to it every day for a while there. They really do grow on you.
Just listened to The Nexus. Have they decided if they’re EuroPop or Metal yet? :p
I’ve not come across these guys but if they’re on Napalm Records then I’ll give them a go (can’t listen as at work). The lineup doesn’t look too bad either. Bit of everything there, Symphony X and obviously Carcass are the bands I’d love to see though. We’re off to Bloodstock this year though so I’ll get my Carcass fix then 🙂
Gloryhammer are pure cheesy power metal. A side-project of Chris Bowes from Alestorm.
Kinnigit metal from the dude behind pirate metal?
I genuinely want to know what he’s going to do next.
This is also the perfect level of cheesy for power metal.
Debating whether to buy rust or stand alone day z… Too much thinking for a Monday morning.
From what I’ve seen and heard I’d say you should pick the one that your friends are playing. Ultimately you can have way more fun in a group in Day Z, and I’m guessing Rust would be the same.
I’m keen to try rust I like the premise of it and already own stand alone so while ones getting updated (being day z) playing rust in the interim sounds fun
I sat in on TS and listened to some of my clanmates playing Rust last night. It didn’t sound all that fun when your base is overun by douchebags… 😀
Naked..douchebags
I would still wait a while for DayZ Standalone.
It’s still waaaaaaaay rough.
Morning TAY,
So it’ll be at least another 2 weeks before i have internet at home /o\
On the other hand i’m getting a shit ton of gaming done now that i can’t be sidetracked by Kotaku/youtube etc. \o/
Still plowing through Bioshock Infinite and still finding it pretty damn rad, and SOOO PRETTY!
I also bough a $1 Xbox 360 Wireless Controller receiver for PC off Ebay.
Wasn’t expecting much due to it being a chinese ripoff of a $60 product, but gave it a go…
Had to muck around a bit with the drivers but after that was sorted it works perfectly!
Both wireless controller and wireless steering wheel works without a hitch \o/
best $1 i’ve spent in a while!
misread as a $1360 wireless controller…
0.o all of the sudden that’s a very expensive product 😛
How is ye this fine morning Mr Freeze?
It’s my day off work. So I’m pretty awesome. Sitting here watching this.
I am both happy for you and awefully jelly at the same time!
No pants monday? no pants monday!
Best accessory for my PC too .
fought the ghost yet?
I don’t think so?
I’m up to:
Shanty Town,
Well just a bit after, where Elizabeth makes us go through another tear to find the smithing equipment…
also Fink is an arsehole 😛
Yeah he is, but what do you expect when he owns a large company?
I know! I’m loving the Xbox 360 controller + PC combo. It’s like the way all games were meant to be played. When I’m done playing using the TV I can sit at my desk and do real work with my dual monitors. Why did this setup not exist when i was gaming more in like 2002? I know this setup isn’t for everyone, but why don’t more nerds have a single computer setup? A console is good second monitor or better GPU money.
TENNIS TIME 😀 (I apologize in advance for any sportsball leaking into TAY)
Went to the Sydney Mens tennis final with a friend on Saturday night. The game lasted 53 minutes, it took longer than that to get home… Still, was a great game to watch in person. Especially because Tomic got smashed 😛
Up to the start of season 3 of Mad Men, too. I really want to google things about the series but because I’m so far behind that nobody cares about Season 3/4 spoilers anymore. Oh well. Still liking it.
Hope you all had a good weekend!
The problem with Tomic is he always tries to walk it in.
Did you watch that ludicrous display last night?
What was Tomic thinking sending Walcott on that earl…wait, that one doesn’t work
The problem with Tomic is he is an arrogant nutcase twat
Hola Tay
Had a fairly sedate weekend, went and gave blood then hosted Board Games at mine. Played Carcassonne, Hanabi, Jenga! and Ticket to Ride, twas fun.
Also, I am so looking forward to a week of 40+ degree temperatures with no air conditioning.
A monday morning question, then, to get your minds off the heat. Favourite Ice level/location from a game? I did love the whole middle third of Uncharted 2.
Rocket Knight Adventures. All the ice covered the top half of the screen and you couldn’t see yourself and the tiny platforms you had to jump between except when the lava periodically rose and you could see your reflection in it.
Yes it was that ridiculous.
So many games got the Battle of Hoth right that I’m gonna struggle to pick one… but that’s the location.
Battlefront and Battlefront II \o/
Did you play Rogue Squadron 2? I loved hoth in that, captured it so well, got to take out AT-ATs & AT-STs before providing cover for the escaping rebel convoy, I played that so many times, then Rogue Squadron 3 came with a co op version of Rogue Squadron 2 and I did it all over again with friends :D.
Pretty sure I’ve played that one. Also Shadows of the Empire. Hell, I even liked the Game Boy version of that battle! 😛
Shadows of the Empire was pretty great, messing with Wompas was fun, I loved freeing them and letting them run riot
Oddly enough, Cool Cool Mountain in Super Mario 64.
It was the first time that I thought a platformer got a cold level right – some parts you get buried up to your waist in snow, other parts you skid along on ice.
I read that as seductive weekend.
Also icy tower just the whole gamr
I haven’t had a seductive weekend in 3 years.
Over due, light some candles, get abit of rose water, a bit of brandy, and make sweet sweet love to HANABI!
“Oh darling, you really light my fuse. Let’s bang”
This porno rights itself! Now to not be sexist lets get a pizza delivery GIRL up in the action
First time you get above ground in Metro 2033
Winterspring in WoW. Spent many an hour farming a rare tiger pet so I got quite accustomed to it.
Honourable mentions to the ice cave in FFIX and the whole of MGS.
Can I say Shadow Moses? So pretty much the whole of MGS1 and part of MGS4.
Our aircon was broken. We had eleven people over last night for board games.
Luckily the apartment is so small that a tiny desk fan was able to do some very respectable work.
The northern area in FFVII was pretty cool. Snowboarding mini-game, snowy areas, then the climb up into the enormous meteor crater and everything. Not sure if it’s my favourite ice area though, just the first to come to mind.
Good Morning everyone
I finally got around to playing a chunk of The Walking Dead: The Game season 1. I was lucky enough to avoid all spoilers before playing other than the fact that it’s supposed to be very emotional, so I hardened myself and leapt in. Almost at the end of chapter 4
ow, they punched me right in the feelingsJust a reminder:
@sughly, @freezespreston + wife, @strange, @jimu, @gutsoup, @beardymcmuttonchops + wife, @popdart5, @sernobulus, @virus__, @dkzeitgeist, @transientmind, @beeawwb
Meat on Friiiiiiiiday.
WHEN: 7PM. FRIDAY, 17 JANUARY 2014.
WHERE: NEXT DOOR KITCHEN & BAR, SOUTH BANK.
WHY: CAUSE I MISS YOU GUYS SO DAMN MUCH! 😀
Strange has made the booking for 15 people cause she’s all kinds of awesome!
Really looking forward to seeing you guys. Food. Drinks. Good times a-plenty!
Everyone remember it’s @dc’s birthday. Bring all the gifts.
I know you’re joking, but in all seriousness: It’s not a birthday meat and even if it was, no presents. (Remember the last time I gave you a present on your birthday? Exactly! :P)
Yes it is!
I’m bring the gift of hugs, @dc’s favourite gift. =D
How good was Frozen? XD
I haven’t seen it yet. To much of a coward to go to the movies by myself. =P
Not very! Was so disapointed
Well I’m disappointed that you’re disappointed. TAKE THAT, SUGHLY.
I honestly liked it better than Tangled, weirdly! (And I loved Tangled.)
Nooooo waaaay! Ending was so cheap and rushed
this contains spoilers of every game @dc hasn’t played
I really want to get him something but am clueless about what to getGive the gift of not giving! Or the gift of sitting next to me on the train on the ride home!
He hasn’t played many Japanese games. he liked Ni no kuni.
He likes immersive worlds.
that reads like a poem or something, short, descriptive and effective 😛
Like sands through the hourglass, these are the TAYs of our lives
@dc birthday!Should be a good night,
Also, if you’re gonna be hanging around early, come under my bad influence umbrella and get a sneaky beer at The End.
IMA HANG WITH YOU GUYS SO HARD!!!
Ok
No piggybacks.
…then no
If you guys drink too much and miss the dinner I’ll be so mad at you, DAN!. 😛
We’ll be there.
They do wings.
And also all of you, but mostly wings.
Picturing you at the bar, chatting with us, massive erection.
Really looking forward to it! I’ll be coming in from a day at the beach, so you’ll either get a ginger with pasty white skin, or a ginger with skin that matches his hair colour. Taking bets now as to which it will be.
Is it Straya Day weekend yet? I need excuses to avoid inevitable ‘have a bbq and waste a day of potential gaming’ invites that will come this way. Finally have a dual monitor setup at home and am doing my darndest to allow it to get me through twice the games at once. Football Manager 14, Medieval 2 and Sid Meier’s Railroads the culprits so far
Simultaneous games? Hardcore!
Why else do you need 2 monitors
http://www.quickmeme.com/img/45/45dadbd9551fa0faa1b84d1023b0b038279608fd1274725f104df76ddd7ce5e7.jpg
Either way, I try my best 😛
I meant actually playing two games at the same time. Which was a joke. But that would truly be hardcore.
I’ll be in America on Australia Day. Worst Aussie ever. 😛
Or the best, you’re expanding our territory instead of resting on your laurels. You’re an achiever madam!
That is even better. It means you’re obligated to run around the place being even more obnoxiously “Australian” than you ever would be otherwise.
Last Australia Day I was in Japan, so I spent the day wearing a flag as a cape attached to my backpack.
The two previous years I was on the 70K cruise the Australia Day date actually fell during the cruise and we had a designated “Australia Day” spot near the bar on the Pool Deck with a flag set up and for Australians to meet and celebrate(drink) with other Australians.
Carcinogenic phallic meat tubes and yeast potion!?
Holy shit, sign me up.
quite possibly the best description of a ‘snag’ ever
If you tilt your head and squint it also kind of describes the S.N.A.G. acronym that was ‘popular’ in the 90s.
On the weekend, I put my first pre-order/interest on a board game. It’s the Witcher board game so hopefully it’ll be good.
If you end up playing as Geralt you have to do the whole game in a raspy Geralt voice.
That’s just the rules.
The worst part of playing Gearalt is that whoever is playing Triss has to throw themselves at you
The sex card mechanic in the Witcher board game will be a thing to behold.
Joke about sex cards goes here
Where did you preorder it?
Season three of Girls and season one of True Detective start today on Showcase, just so you know!
and they’ve changed the date for more Rick and Morty twice now, it supposed to be today again, I hope it’s today.
YOU FORGOT ARCHER SEASON FIVE!
Bill O’Reilly: What is it exactly that you do on your show?
Stephen Colbert: What I do is catch the world in the headlights of my justice.
This interview is fantastic.
O’Reilly is definitely in on the joke though.
New week, new year, NEW SHOW!!!
Introducing Dan And Karl Versus, an interview series focusing on ordinary people and their extraordinary lives.
This week, we welcome Milan Ghandi, a prominent figure in the Brisbane independent film scene and Indian Australian.
Listen as Milan discusses his experiences growing up in Australia, the traditions of Indian weddings and murdering his Grandmother via the shame of marrying an Asian girl.
It’s here, it’s new, it’s the same old Dan and Karl, now with GUEST!
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2014/01/13/dan-karl-versus-milan-ghandi/
LISTEN, SUB, TELL YOUR FRIENDS!!!
ZeitgeistThis on Monday is just what my week needed.Please pass along any thoughts, both good and bad.
This was our first attempt at allowing someone into the Zeitgeist dynamic and while it’s a little busy at times, I think it’s a pretty good first attempt.
It’s a good format, and I think it works. You got a guest who could ‘keep up’ with you guys, and I think it worked pretty well. Also, I think it’s probably a good move to get an Indian guy on before you really delve deeply into the “I’m not racist, but” conversations.
How often are you thinking of doing this format? Weekly? Irregularly? Got a good line-up of guests planned? The biggest risk that I can see is that the success of each episode is dependent upon the guest as much as anything else, whereas there’s a constancy to episodes that just have the two of you.
I’m sure you figured that out already.
Thanks heaps, man!
We’re gonna keep the schedule on these loose as we don’t want to settle into a pattern that could be hard to maintain due to the third party.
The major thing we’re worried about is people trying really hard to keep up with us and then saying something they’ll regret. It’s something Karl and I talk about at length whenever we’re thinking of people we want on. I think there’s this perception that we are absolute loose canons with what we say when in reality we know everything we’re saying and we know what not to say. And most importantly, we can defend anything we say because we’ve taken the time to think about it.
I think everyone is interesting, and while not everyone we have on will be “funny”, I think they’ll at least have some cool story or opinion that will entertain. That’s why we wanted to focus on just average Joes, everyone has a fart eating/piss drinking story, we just need to trick them into committing it to the innernette.
Nah, Star Wars has loose canon. I think your characters are pretty consistently written.
More seriously, though, it sounds like you’ve thought it all through.
I THOUGHT I WOULD BE YOUR FIRST.
throws promise ring on the ground.
I was hoping to do yours while you’re in town in a few weeks.
sounds awesome. Im really not that interesting.
Even if all you say is “I woke up in a graveyard once” you’ll fill an episode.
I have a spare ticket to see David Sedaris this Sunday at the Opera House if anybody is interested?
Story Time from childhood because i thought of it in the shower this morning and it made me laugh.
Do you guys remember Msn messaging? It was all the rage when i was a kid, I wasn’t allowed to have one for soo much longer than the other kids, Mostly because my mum was a semi decent parent and monitored her kids internet usage. When i eventually was allowed time on the computer alone it was only a hour a week. But boy did i manage to fuck up my social life in that one hour a week.
Let me just say that i wasn’t unpopular in high school. I mean i got picked on but i was never the butt of all the jokes, i had friends, some of them were even “cool’ and people liked me well enough, mostly because i was quiet. You can’t be hated that much if you just stay quiet. However msn gave me a outlet to talk because i wouldn’t be scared of the reactions of people.
My lowest moment came when i tried to trick a kid in my class to think that a popular boy wanted to go out with him. I did this in a not clever way. I simply copy and pasted her user name and made it my own. I didn’t hack her account, i simply copy and pasted her name and much to my suprise the guy didn’t fall for it. I ended up getting my just desserts and being dubbed “homo” for the rest of the year.
I also managed to start a conversation with a girl who was 1500kms away who i thought i was the girl i had a crush on at school. Mispelling email addresses does that.
So just a little warning for all parents, even the sweetest nicest kids should be supervised when using the internet.
On the internet, no one can punch you in the face. Yet.
All I’ll say is: I’m very, very glad that those conversations I had aren’t forever immortalised for all to see like they can be now on Friendface 😛
So damn many memories from MSN. So many. I basically lived on it in 2005 and 2006, and it’s tied to pretty much every important event in my life in those years.
Now that I think about it, an MSN conversation is what caused me to set up an RSVP profile and led to me meeting my wife.
Oh matey.
Sooooooo many stories of embarrassing MSN conversations.
MSN lead to my first kiss, btw.
MSN was how Artemis and I got together, and it evolved to facebook, skype(Mainly due to MSN getting replaced by Skype 100%), etc.
Edit: Also, any time someone from high school got ahold of my email address and added me to MSN, I’d have to sign up for a new account due to how much they bum rush me with abuse, I wasn’t popular either as many people already know.
Discovering Skype is awesome when you’re away. Phone calls aren’t the same. Even if your face isn’t doing much, it’s important to be there. So much is said in the quiet half-smile or the sudden sharp look of attention.
What’s an MSN? #BabbyLambo 😛
I came on to the internet just as MSN was going out of fashion…
ICQ was the rage when I was in high school. MSN (and AIM, a lot of my friends in the US used that instead) came along much later.
So many unsolicited spam conversations in ICQ. The good old days! 😛
ICQ was what we used on the college network, until the lovely American exchange lasses turned up, who were all about AIM. So, naturally, I switched.
Are you me? Except replace Mum with Dad.
Also I remember it well – still signing in to MSN daily 😛
Oh, Rocketman…
I love your stories. They’re always so genuine that you can’t help but smile, and sometimes laugh.
Heyo.
On the weekend I went ice skating at one of those travelling rinks. It was good – pretty decent ice quality and I ripped it up good too. 😀
Then on Sunday we went to cable wakeboard park. I’ve been wakeboarding before on a boat (but I never got on top of the water for an extended time…) and I’m a good snowboarder, but I really didn’t like the cabled ‘wakeboarding’. Maybe it was the park, which was pretty small, didn’t have long straights, and had plenty of sharp corners.
All in all, pretty eventful. Now I’m slightly sore. 🙁
i love ice skating, its so fun and dangerous, but mostly fun.
A PIMP is suing Nike for $US100 million ($111 million) after being convicted of brutally stomping a man while wearing a pair of Air Jordans.
This planet continues to find new facets to its weirdness.
O_o
Played Guitar Hero for the first time in ages last night. Used the big heavy Logitech and boy am I paying for it today. I actually have a bruise on my right arm where I kept banging my arm on it while strumming.
But I think I’m going to start playing more often again. It will be a good way to quickly regain the callouses I need to stop stabbing myself while handquilting. 😛
I think the last time when I played Guitar Hero/Rock Band was at the Strange/Chilli Dog meat. =P
you take the words “guitar hero’ out of that sentence and it reads completely differently :/
oh rocketman
I can’t unsee that nowO_o
True story: Just yesterday I was thinking how I haven’t played Guitar Hero in ages, and that I should pick up the ol’ Logitechs again.
\m/
Did I motivate you to get back into it? I’ve been on PSN playing it all week, you might have seen that. World Tour, Metallica, Warriors of Rock, Beatles Rock Band..
Awesome! And no I didn’t notice you, it was just a spur of the moment thing. 🙂
I only ever played Guitar Hero once. A friend of a friend had brought it over to my mate’s house for a small party. I was pretty excited because I’d heard a lot about it and how everyone thought it was awesome…
And on my first go I did pretty well. Really well in fact! And the chick who owned it complained that I’d obviously played this before and was lying about being a newbie, and she was putting it away now because everything was ruined.
🙁
Oh man, what a cow. >:(
I’ve actually been thinking of getting back in to a bit of GH or RB lately myself. Dunno what spurred it on, but just.. urges!
Mmmmm, total network outage to any “outside of this building” intranet and internet. ~90 minutes downtime. Just how I love to start my work week.
Gah, something is wrong with me today.
I’ve found myself trapped in comments sections twice already. WHy on earth would I start to read comments on those articles. Why would I click on the Female game characters article (because boobs) but then read the comments. The when i finally escaped that I decide to read the comments on a political article referencing gays, us politicians, abortion and child raising. What did I hope to get out of that.
Mondays can do a lot of different things to people, it makes them do crazy things…
Yeah, agreed. I’ve decided today is a day to learn. (I’m already getting bored)
I hate Mondays. I hate ’em. Therefore I decree, from this day forward, there will be no more Mondays. Got it? Today is Tuesday, then. Happy Tuesday, everybody.
I now hate Tuesdays.
Lousy Smarch weather.
yep, it must be a Monday Morning Motivation Meltdown, I can’t stay focused on work and keep looking at things I shouldn’t.
There’s a new 3DS game coming out in two weeks, Mario something. I don’t own a 3DS, but I haven’t heard anything about this game before seeing the pre-order at EB!
Mario… Golf? I can’t remember any other ones that are coming out.
On a semi-related note: Kirby Triple Deluxe looks amazing! Watched some gameplay yesterday. Not usually a fan of Kirby either. (Also, “Kirby Triple Deluxe” is such a fantastic name :P)
Found it. Mario Party Island Tour.
https://ebgames.com.au/3ds-162262-Mario-Party-Island-Tour-3DS-Nintendo-3DS
Why can’t it be golf…. I still break out Mario Golf on the cube regularly, one of the few games I can get my girlfriend to play.
Dont whiff!
you’re cheating……
Random Game Idea;
Was thinking about this last night , it’s not completely (or at all) thought out and very, very basic right now.
Story is something like, the world is on the brink of being destroyed Yada, Yada, Yada… You are sent down by the gods as a powerful being to fix the world. The thing is, the more the world is in peril the more powerful you are.
It’s a Action RPG where you start of super powerful. As you go through the game / kill bosses you “level down”. So basically you need to choose skills / stats to lose every level down.
The player can play the game on “easy” mode and just do the main story. Thus loosing the least exp but getting the “bad” ending.
Probably a terrible idea but … *shrugs*.
Sounds like Act Raiser in reverse. I’d definitely buy it.
Problem is powering the character down goes against the feeling of progress.
Could work really well in a board game though, where you have to balance your power against the state of the board.
Yeah that was my first thought too. There would need to be alot of balancing/rewards needed in the game. Not too sure how it would work though. Just laying out the basic stuff now.
Maybe when you lose a skill you you “master” or “reinforce” another skill?
Hmmmm, I need to ponder this a while. *strokes chin*
Ooh, the mechanic can be the aging process- you gain skills but lose raw physical condition.
That’s one of the mechanics that sold me on Massive Chalice.
You could see colour and life returning to the world as you self-sacrifice. Progress doesn’t necessarily have to be measured by character ability.
Progress isn’t always tied to avatars – think De Blob, Mario games, etc
@sernobulus That’s pretty cool, though I also like the aging mechanic.
The eventual end-game is that your character seals the Big Bad away or whatever and ends up as a secretive hermit in the woods, telling adventurers who to kill blobs. And those durn kids have no idea that you were the SCION OF DESTINY.
(Or, if you wanna go darker, the world becomes such a happy place that you become old and feeble, to the point that as you eventually know the joy of grandkids, the world being such a perfect place kills you.)
This just makes me think that you’ll end up facing the final boss as a featureless blob. The final boss? A newbie adventurer.
Essentially meaning that you end the game as a Poring.
I really like the idea of a forced level-down. It’s a really interesting idea that justifies an ever-increasing difficulty.
Story needs work, though. 😛
If I was to story it up, I’d make your character gain his powers from the same source as the baddies, so each boss you defeat represents a cleansing, or a weakening of the “hive”
I’m not that great at stories as you can see. =P
Maybe not a level down but a character change, you go from being a god, to a Demi god, to a hero , to a regular joe and finally a woman:P
You face the final boss in a wheelchair.
coma
You’ll be awesome on Zeitgeist.
It’d be good as a moral choice, you have to sacrifice your power to actually destroy the daemon or whatever it is rather than simply banish it temporarily. The rubes would never know the difference in the short term until the daemon you “destroyed” comes back, perhaps as the final boss.
It’d be ideal if you had a game mechanic where your abilities depended on help from people, in the angelic sense perhaps you got bonus strength from the faith of the people and when they realise you’ve been screwing them over they lose faith in you and you’re far weaker than you should be
Haha. Seal the boss away in an eternal prison so that you can never truly die.
(Then when some meddling heroes go and try to kill him properly for good, some crazy old man has to stop them. Possibly by releasing the Big Bad so that the old man can become powerful enough to kill the new heroes. With every intention of sealing the big bad away again – honest, totally.)
I’d play it! I like the idea of choosing what to sacrifice in order to progress.
Here’s another random game idea I’ve had for a while. Codename: Dark Rainbow.
Story
They say that if you catch a leprechaun, you will get one wish. Arthur Antagonist of Luxembourg, 8, was the first human to catch a leprechaun. He wished for himself to be the head of a Luxembourgian Empire.
The Luxembourgian Empire spread across the globe. To escape Arthur Antagonist and his unstoppable army, many countries fled to the moon. 3 years later, the Luxembourgian Empire landed on the moon, with the intent to conquer all.
It is the year 20xyz, and you are Proh Tagonist, a new recruit to the Moon Defence Force. This is your story.
You battle the Luxembourgian Empire, and it ends with a battle with the now 11-year old Arthur Antagonist. You can’t beat him, and just when you think all hope is lost, you catch a leprechaun somehow (moon rainbows?). You wish for more power. You defeat Arthur Antagonist, crushing the Luxembourgian Empire and saving the moon. You take off your space armour, and reveal yourself to be a woman in a bikini, metroid style. You then die because you are on the moon without a spacesuit.
Fin.
Gameplay
The gameplay will be a Serious Sam-style FPS where you can dual-wield all weapons. Want to shoot with a shotgun and machine gun? Want to akimbo a rocket launcher and a crossbow? Ever wanted to dual-wield a death laser and a solar-powered minigun? Now you can.
The game also features Serious Sam-style dickery; every health pickup spawns an enemy.
Since the game is set on the moon, gravity will be reduced. You will be encouraged to move and jump, as standing still will make the crosshair larger.
Enemies will include bears trained to carry guns, giraffes with head-mounted miniguns, rainbow demons, and an Allosaurus carrying multiple katanas. As you can see, the Luxembourg Empire is well equipped.
The Curious Game of Ser Nobulus
9 hours into Tales of Xillia and I just discovered you can equip skills.
This is just like that time I made it to Lorule Castle and discovered there were Tunic, shield and sword upgrades!
I’m good at games.
I played 4 hours of torchlight 2 before I realized what button to get into the equipment and skill upgrade menu, I thought it was getting impossibly difficult too quickly,
Took me an embarrassingly long time to realise that stamina was a useful thing to have in Demons Souls and I seem to recall jogging everywhere wishing there was a sprint. Then I re-read the manual… RRTFM
I am so utterly and completely disinterested in Broken Age. And I backed it at a pretty high tier too. 🙁
I am so utterly and completely interested in Broken Age. And I didn’t back at all. 😀
Want my copy? Not sure how transferable it will be though.
Aw, thanks man but that’s okay! You should definitely atleast try the thing. I think I might as well wait until both eps are released and see if they release a boxset!
I’m less interested in it than when I backed but will still give it a try
Double fine fanboi so still have high expectations that I’ll enjoy it. I was always more interested in massive Chalice since they announced that so waiting on that one more than broken age
I’m not a double fine fanboy (I’ve barely touched their stuff aside from Brutal Legend which I thought was incredibly disappointing) but I liked Tim’s work at Lucasarts. I think the main thing is that I really find the look of the game incredibly soulless and unappealing. Especially when contrasted against games with amazing quality character designs like Grim Fandango or Sam & Max.
I backed Massive Chalice because it sounds better and because Brad Muir is a cool guy.
That was their kickstarter where Tim basically said “Remember all those great games I made? Give me money and I’ll make… something” wasn’t it?
Pitched it as if they’d make a Lucasarts-style adventure game on a tight budget. Budget blew out, plans got crazy and it looks like it morphed into something I would never have backed.
Yeah that was it, far too vague for me to take a risk on. Especially when brutal legend began spectacularly enough that I managed to overlook the execrable jack black but then it nosedived into a console rts…
It was the first major Kickstarter thing (though not the first I backed) and before we learned we need to be ultra-cynical about them in the video games space.
So far the only high-profile Kickstarter video games project that I’ve seen where the game looks exactly like what was pitched is Obsidian’s new RPG.
Oddly, the tabletop games stuff seems to be the exact opposite. Lots of big board games companies going to Kickstarter to crowd-fund initial production runs of new games. Eg right now Queen games have a kickstarter for a Big Box for Fresco that bundles in every expansion (and have backer tiers where you can also pick up some of their other games, eg Alhambra Big Box). That’s the sort of thing that is pretty easy to back with confidence.
It’s interesting that some stats were floating around a while ago that showed software / games as one of the worst things to back with the highest failure rates.
I will agree that the most well planned, professionally run and accurately pitched projects I’ve seen on my list would be Project Eternity.
It’s a bit of a funny place with Broken Age now. I’m looking forward to getting the full game and completed documentary, but I’m just about ready to hold off on bits of either until the whole thing wraps up.
Massive Chalice I have not been keeping up with. Brad Muir is indeed awesome so I’m glad to be supporting that one as well.
Obligatory DOOUUUUUBBBLLLEEE FFFIIIIIIIIIINNEEEE!!!
And obligatory disclaimer: fanboy.
Obsidian are a AAA studio that, where possible (i.e. not South Park) knows how to deliver a game to a schedule and everything, though they historically have had some issues around last-minute polish. I’m not going to hold the unfinished nature of KotOR II against them as that was Lucasarts fucking them (they negotiated a deadline extension, got agreement, developed assuming they had six more months then Lucasarts reneged last minute and went back to their original deadline).
There’s no other example of a AAA studio doing a kickstarter. Double Fine are a large indie, and most of the other big projects have been small studios or startups with people who in a lot of cases have AAA experience or some kind of name to fall back on and legitimize their work. But I kind of view them the way I’d view a lot of software startups: good programmers and designers don’t necessarily make for a soundly run business.
And just as I’m whinging about Kickstarter, steam keys for The Banner Saga (which actually looks pretty decent too, and pretty close to what they pitched) start going out to backers.
Banner saga is looking really good, pretty much exactly what I was after when I backed it. Assuming it isn’t going to be ready until Wednesday for us
Project Eternity & Broken Sword 5 are the 2 best I’ve seen to date
More importantly, make a documentary of the whole process from the very start including all planning stages. Therefore no plan.
I said about a year ago that I was getting most of the value from backing the project just through those regular documentary episodes, and I still believe this. Disclaimer: fanboy.
The documentary is one of the reasons I backed it, but I refuse to fuck around on forums and stuff in order to see it. I assumed they’d get it to me, rather than expecting me to do a whole bunch of work to see it (I also kind of assumed I’d be able to download it and watch it at my leisure).
I have absolutely zero interest in being involved in the creative process for games I back and I get worried when developers allow that sort of feedback at all (people are idiots with no idea what will be good or bad in a game). I really hate that every project you back you end up having to create a separate account some place to even get your game in the end.
And don’t get me started on projects arbitrarily deciding to change the platforms they support mid-development. I stupidly sank a bunch of money into Republique because I liked the pitch a lot, but mid-development they suddenly decided to change the game from what they’d pitched (pre-rendered backgrounds with 3D characters a la PS1-era games) into a different type of game and also eliminate the platform I wanted to play it on (iPad 1) because my hardware’s too old. And then it turned out they couldn’t actually deliver the game to me on iOS anyway, because I’m in Australia and have an AU account not a US one. 🙁
Yep. I watch all the documentary episodes directly on kickstarter.
I’ve also generally avoided the separate accounts thing, which is why the few projects that I’ve backed that remain on my radar are ones that have given me Steam keys.
Regarding changing pitch / platform like that, I’d warrant that it would be grounds for getting a refund since they won’t be delivering the backer rewards for your tier.
Until recently my connection wasn’t good enough to watch streamed video at all, and I kind of wanted better quality than pootube given that I actually paid for it.
I got $5 back from the Republique guys (cost of buying the first episode separately) but had them donate it to Child’s Play because it’s too much effort to bother fiddling around for a $5 refund.
Also my current problem – I stopped watching the documentary episodes when I moved to a shitty internet connection. Hopefully this will be rectified by moving again before the end of the year.
Full documentary HD downloads will be available on the humble bundle page when act 1 is officially released. Also of interest – those downloadable episodes have all the spoiler blurs removed.
Guess I should play act 1 since all future documentary episodes assume that you have. That said, it’s still a beta, and act 2 is yet to come, so decisions decisions.
Yeah, and what is coming this week for backers is a beta so they can fuck right off if they expect me to play an unfinished product just because I kickstarted it.
I had a discussion a while ago about how beta access is expected as part of an investment in a project, so it’s a feature, not an insult.
I read the update a while back that said we get beta, and I thought, that’s nice, I’ll wait for finished release. Since then that info has grown and mutated into this big ‘release’ for backers. No, it’s not, it’s just beta. DF updates have always said beta.
Shit like this does not help:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/01/part-one-of-broken-age-double-fines-crowdfunded-adventure-game-will-launch-on-tuesday-for-their-k/
Looking up rentals in Dubbo sucks.
Most places have a grand total of a single picture of the outside. No idea whatsoever of what I’m really looking at. Makes it hard when I will have at most two days to do all the inspections before making up my mind.
* Looking up rentals
in Dubbosucks.It’s worse because I can’t just rule places out for having shitty kitchens because I can’t see the kitchens. I’ll have to show up to Dubbo at some point this week but it looks like I’ll be spending a lot of time there to go through all of this nonsense.
Shitty kitchen = cheaper rent. Make assumptions purely based on price, and the right ones that are a pleasant surprise at inspection will be the ones you want?
I have literally no idea about the value of pricing here because it’s all decidedly cheaper than any place I’ve looked at.
Work with the ones in locations that seem good – near shops, work, etc.
A very quick real estate search shows the houses are about what I’d expect, but units are dirt cheap. What sort of requirements are you working with besides ‘not a shitty kitchen’? Expected time staying? Room for visitors?
2 bedroom (somewhere to sleep and somewhere to dump computers), lock up garage, non-shitty kitchen. Overall just has to seem nice. Pretty basic requirements which make it hard to narrow places down based solely on what they show online.
Near hospital is nice but Dubbo is small and traffic is non-existent so it’s more important to just not be in a shitty part of town (apparently north and west?). I’ll probably be using a bike to get around, so anything under a 15 min ride to the shops so I can load up a backpack with groceries works for me.
I’ve called a realtor and they’re going to call me back to line up inspections and whatnot.
Looks like there’s plenty available at least, so going straight to a realtor with a guaranteed need should get you something lined up. When demand is greater than supply the realtors can be less than helpful.
*
Looking up rentals inDubbo sucksI’m going to pretend that I don’t believe that until I’ve lived there for a little while.
There are certainly worse places in Australia.
Dunna know if wes want one of dem der city folk livin ere
The worst part is that is probably true…
I grew up in a town about half the size of dubbo and it’s pretty accurate. And that wasn’t in WA.
You on the wrong side of the train tracks now boy
This is Dubbo we are talking about. They don’t need none of dat fancy “steam power” technology.
Horse and carriage? I’m riding on 80’s
Boo, I’ve lived in Dubbo before and they haven’t had a problem with having a “lady doctor”. They’re often better about it than people in Sydney have been.
I’m sure they don’t and that you won’t have any trouble like that
My comment was more relating to how Bunny fits into the blokey country town mentality. Although my experience was with a much smaller town so Dubbo might have a bit more diversity
You know for people who spend a lot of the time in voice chat together we dont really talk other than you telling me books to read? Why are you going to Dubbo? I assume you are following
the misses?
Freya got a job there. We have to be there in about two weeks. This is the first real attempt at looking at a place to live. We’re organised!
Any job prospects out there for you?
I need to worry about that but right now the whole real estate thing is enough hassle. I will worry about it once I know that I won’t be homeless.
Try the zoo, the rooms might not have the best privacy but… TIGERS!!!
Sell your car, and buy a Ute,
Grow a mullet
and start talking like Poida she’ll be right mate
but seriously why Dubbo?Was that Shaun Micallef?
“Classic sketch from Full Frontal, of one of Eric Bana’s most popular characters”
Going to guess no
I was talking about the guy that plays John Hulbrook, the interviewee. The expert of water stuff and nuclear things. Of course, you were being sarcastic, so I just wasted my time.
Wait, you’re moving to Dubbo? Is this why BOARD GAMES are coming to an end?
Yes. I may have mentioned this. I also may not have.
We’re going to try to do a mid-week one this week because this is all rather chaotic and there are a good number of people not working at the moment. There will probably be one or two more before we go though. Definitely make an effort to attend. We had Mashaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa and Mr Taco/Gooky here yesterday on top of the usual assortment of peoples.
I will try, I keep meaning to but something else always seems to come up.
Be careful if you go to the McDonalds in Dubbo. My dad fuckin wrecked one of the dunnies in there one morning some years ago. I dare say they probably cordoned off the area as a biohazard zone.. could likely still be dangerous!
19 hours left until my Xbox can run arcade games. 😀
Also, the other controller arrived at the post office.
Woo! \o/
Seems a long time, are you downloading one of those “every version of every game ever made by anyone ever” packages?
Yeah, it’s CoinOPS, so there’s a lot of games with it. 😀
Rocket reviews
Storm Front a Novel by John Sandford
The novels premise is about a archeology professor who steals a artifact and returns to a small town in america trying to sell it. The story follows a cop by the name of Virgil and his attempted recovery of said artifact. Now i will say now, i loved the main character, he was well written and very likable. The book also is pretty funny, providing me with a lot of “lol” moments. But there were lots of flaws which reek of sloppy character writing. THE COP NEVER ARRESTED ANYONE. It got to the point when I’m sure the novel would of been 200 pages shorter if he in anyway was a decent policeman. But overall it was a really fun read, i would recommend it for uncomplicated fun read with a few laughs to be had
6/10
Goldeneye
HOW HAVE I NOT SEEN THIS BEFORE IT WAS AWESOME FROM THE WORD GO. Brosnan, proved to me to be a witty sonofabitch and the movie just was pure fun. Didn’t take itself seriously and all the bad guys were like caricatures and it made for some hilarious encounters. I really enjoyed this and i’m sad i hadn’t seen the whole movie sooner.
8/10
The Iron Giant
The animation is beautiful, the characters while simple and fairly self explanatory are enjoyable and the story had me crying more than once. 3 times in fact. Just a great sense of place and time and very funny too. Just brilliant, highly recommend it.
9/10
I would of watched Summer wars too but for the second time i downloaded the french version, so im just going to go buy it today.
Goldeneye is awesome. One of the great action films I watched as a kid.
AND SEAN BEAN XD
Oh my god you hadn’t seen Goldeneye!? I remember when it was in cinemas! I want to see it again now! It also spawned the best N64 game.
I live a sheltered life, I told my grandad and he was like “how have you not seen it, It seems like something we would watch together?”
Now your ramblings about Storm Front make more sense.
I was talking about the Jim Butcher novel that’s the first in the Dresden File series. It’s about a wizard detective.
I read the wrong book? Well that explains why it was mediocre. I didn’t think you would tell me to read such a mediocre book 😛
Storm Front isn’t amazing. Apparently the series picks up somewhere in the second book but you have to read the first to get to the second. I didn’t bother with the second but I can see how the general idea could appeal to people.
Slightly biased because it was the first one I saw, but Goldeneye is still my #1 Bond movie.
For England, Rize?
No. For me.
WEEEEEEEEEEEE-*splat*Goldeneye was my first Bond movie.
My apologies to the people who came out for drinks on Saturday that I said nary a word to – I was given a few too many free drinks…
Does that mean you are just waking up? :p
IT CERTAINLY FEELS THAT WAY
YOU MISSED BOARD GAMES YOU JERK!
I’M SORRY DON’T HURT ME
I was wondering why there was a distinct lack of twitter activity.
Now I have “Do You Want To build a Snowman?” in my head.
Lucky bastard.
So coffees in Melbourne appear to have gone up again by another 20 cents. How are the coffees priced in Sydney these days?
$3.50 is fairly standard for a normal size. $4 for a large.
damn that’s cheap! We pay $4.50 for a large up here at a minimum for most places. I regularly see places selling large for $5.50. Pretty shit considering they’ve just announced that cafe dining/coffee drinking is at an all time high.
Canberra’s standard is around $4 for normal, $5 for large.
Good thing I don’t drink coffee. I don’t think I could afford it.
If I bought takeaway coffee I’d be bankrupt, I make my own at home and am lucky enough to have access to really good free coffee at work, I drink litres of the stuff every day and couldn’t manage without it.
Yeah, it’s too much. That’s actually one of the main reasons I drink almost no coffee these days. That and avoiding the crazy post-caffeine slow down every day.
I’m lucky. Despite the fact I live in a small city (about 80,000), we have enough decent coffee places that I don’t have to bother about the chain stores, although the only chains we have are Gloria Jeans and Hudsons.
Coffee machine at home. Grab my cup before I go to work instead of at work. Saves a ton.
Oh god, they had the nude by nature infomercial on, and it made me think,
“How would they go selling chemical weapons?”
-_-
Fine Print: No guarantee of a functioning warhead. Warhead may contains traces of pinball machines.
Thermonuclear weapons aren’t chemical! Those shopping channel bozos really are clueless…
It seems like I will be beta-testing an RPG system this weekend that a friend of mine has been working on for the better part of a year. He’s pretty much taken the 40K Dark Heresy rulebook and reworked it for a fantasy setting. It is sounding pretty good so I hope everything works as it should.
Of note is that the characters we used in the alpha test months ago will carry over to the beta test. So my Spriggan Inquisitor with 16 Corruption points will be rolling out again. Is it bad that I actually want my guy to get a mutation? >:D
So he invented Warhammer? 😛
Pretty much. 😛 He essentially backtraced the 40K system to a Fantasy-equivalent version and added his own fluff. While there is an actual Warhammer Fantasy RPG, he says it is distinctly lacking in places and is not as refined as the 40K system.
If you want to piss him off tell him he’s made Warcraft. 😛
Aaaaaand then this: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/04/10
I PLAYED BOARD GAMES.
Just a few minutes in and I was thinking “god, I’m too dumb for these things”. Then maybe an hour or so later and I was wishing to go back to something a little easier, like Battletoads. Or F-Zero GX.
Some of them weren’t so bad though.
You should have stayed for Archipelago. You can buy people and that’s totally okay.
You did fine. It takes a bit of getting used to thinking in a board game way, much like video games require some thinking.
You weren’t even a retard spy! And usually everyone goes through that phase…
There’s still time for that yet 😛
So I decided to give Deus ex: HR Directors Cut a go. I bought the original and got up to the first boss and gave up.
What a great game this is. It’s such a pleasure to be dropped into this cyberpunk world. A couple of the modifications, such as 2 energy bars restoring and auto-hack devices don’t skew things too much, but definitely make it a better experience – freeing you up to try out more options. I’ve been playing a lot smarter as well, levelling up hacking and speech earlier on definitely works if you are doing stealth, as most of the categories are combat related.
Pity about the PC optimization though. Frame rate is awful every time I walk into a new area, and my laptop should be easily be able to handle it.
I accidentally ordered a $23.58 copy of this game today for my 360. Oopsie.
http://www.thegamecollection.net/catalogsearch/result/?order=relevance&dir=desc&q=Deus+Ex%3A+Human+Revolution+-+Director%27s+Cut+%28PS3%29
I’ve wasted $24 on worse.
Hey puter minded folk, Our PC at won’t boot up, starts to then just sits there with a cursor blinking under “Memory at Bank (s)”. Anyone have any idea, i know that’s not a great description but can get more details as required. I s that a hardware issue like something up with the RAM or something?
Message seems related to RAM, but is incomplete? Try taking the RAM sticks out, and put them back in. If it doesn’t work, try running with just one stick in.
gonna try reseating, just wanted to make sure i was on the right track before pulling stuff out. Thanks
Do you have your paypal account topped up?
It sounds like the RAM in your PC required additional 1s but was unable to purchase them directly via paypal. So it has now going to the bank to get cash directly to purchase more bits.
haha, better get that topped up, next it’ll be asking me for credit card details, damned pay to play models suck 😛
Sounds like dud ram, possibly come unseated has it been bumped recently?
computer get knocked around constantly, I’m surprised it’s kept going as long as it has.
http://www.buildeasypc.com/category/build-pc/how-to-install-ddr3-sdram-memory-crucial-pc3-10600.htm
Pop the case open and have a look at the ram, it might just have been jarred loose, the clips are good but not infallible. It should look basically like the pictures in that article, if any of the long chips move then they’re not seated right and need to be pushed back in & the clips put back in place (the clips just snap in with a gentle push, the ram is often fairly hard)
thank you, I love Kotaku, it’s like a support group for anything 😀
Bad RAM module. A Memory Bank is a unit of memory inside the memory controller which may span one or more modules.
If the machine was previously working but now is not working:
– Remove all your memory modules.
– Add one module. If the error goes away, it probably isn’t the bad one. If the error persists, that module is probably bad.
– If the process above doesn’t fix the problem, try re-seating them all.
– If they all have the problem, then the memory controller is fried and you may need a new CPU or Motherboard
If the machine is brand new and has never worked:
– Re-seat all the RAM
– Make sure you’ve got it in a compatible configuration for your motherboard
Thanks, it’s an old machine so I’m guessing something has either become unseated or died.
if you’re still having issues with this, add me to steam if you can, and we can chat on there. Or grab my mobile number from Jimu and gimme a call!
thanks for the offer, I’ll definately keep you in mind for the future, I’m actually hoping to spend my tax on a gaming rig and had you in mind already 😛 but that’s a while off yet. seems to be ok, I pulled a bunch of stuff out gave it all a good cleaning, pulled the battery out & left it for a bit. Didn’t seem to work but a second attempt proved fruitful.
ah cool! glad to hear it’s working again 🙂
Surely if the memory controller is fried then chances are the entire mobo is KIA and the machine wouldn’t switch on
You’d imagine it would fail to POST with a memory error and you’d get BIOS beep codes or something to tell you it’s fucked instead. But computers can be strange sometimes.
Thanks for all the input, must have just been knocked, I pulled out the sticks & cleaned it up a bit, seems fine (I’m replying on the pc now).
Jetstar business tickets booked to Japan over Easter. Public holiday goodness means 3 days leave equals 10 days vacation! Going with parents too, and taking gf out on her first international adventure. Yays.
Can anyone recommend a half decent microphone preamp for a 3.5mm unpowered mic? I’m trying to get a strong enough signal so it can be used in device designed for line level signals. I don’t need anything fancy, just an input, a boost and an output.
Dirt cheap for preference and ideally not mains powered although battery is firmly in the “would be nice” category compared to being cheap.
Have a look at http://phonopreamps.com/, in particular the “Phono preamps with additional features” section.
Does not run on battery, though is easily small enough to pack and take with you. Cheap as chips, too.
I bought a preamp from them a while back, cost maybe $70 all up, delivered. Sounds amazing, too 😀
What about something like a Fiio e5? I’ve read a few good reviews on those from camcordery types using those for mic boosting but since I know sod all about audio I’m not sure if the amplification would be enough with an unpowered mic
What sort of microphone are you looking at that has a 3.5mm jack?
I’m not very familiar with microphones etc, though I dare say if it’s unpowered, you’re looking at phono levels of output.
The Fiio is designed as a headphone amp to be used with a portable music player, which provides line-level output from the dock-connector (in the case of iPods), or utilises an internal amplifier when using headphone-out (I believe), negating the need (or efficacy) of an external amp.
What you’re after (by the sounds of things -what exactly are you trying to do here?) is a phono preamplifier, which will boost the phono signal to line-level, ready to be further amplified to reach your output device. Recording devices will happily take line-level as a result.
It’s a PC headset mic (steelseries 7h specifically), I’m running it into a splitter box that was designed to take a line level signal which I bought as a result of not understanding enough about audio. From the splitter box it’s going into an xbox controller adapter and a recording PC, if I scream my lungs out the resulting recordings get all the way up to being nearly inaudible.
I’m guessing the recommendations for the Fiio were for people using low powered mics and not mentioning it.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2014-secret-developers-wii-u-the-inside-story
This is really interesting, an insider story by one of the developers who worked on a 3rd Party Wii U launch game.
One of the most interesting bits that basically confirms what I’ve personally suspected was the case for a while:
That’s a really, REALLY unhealthy development culture.
Stealingdrawing inspiration from other peoples’ best ideas is the key to progress!Absolutely. Not Invented Here Syndrome is one of the worst things that can happen to a software development team. If you’re going to compete against an established player you must do everything they can do at a minimum, ideally you need to do it better.
It was especially obvious when FF14 came out for the first time, too. It was like… Yeah guys. That’s probably really impressive compared to FF11, but you do realize that a shitload of MMOs came out since then, and founded a new set of Industry Standards, which you’ve completely ignored, right? They became the Industry Standard for a reason.
I’d wonder if it was a Japanese thing if it weren’t for the fact that Microsoft has something similarly close-minded, only with ‘innovation’. “We’ll tell you what you want,” syndrome.
The guy who helmed FF14 was actually proud of the fact they’d made the game without looking at anything else and that they had developed it to be ‘different to FF11’ and that was it. And the game was a barely playable pile of crap. They’d come up with some interesting ideas but as an MMO it felt like an alpha.
Then you get Yoshida (a veteran MMO player) coming in straight out of the DQ10 team after the initial guy got fired and basically telling the whole dev team to go play WoW and a bunch of other MMOs, then report back in a few months and talk about what worked and what didn’t, what ideas they should use and what they could bring together and improve upon. And the game is great.
Shane’s Clueless (Honestly) Of Overall Etiquette Doubts
Dear TAY,
I need to be SCHOOLED. If I have two friends who have gotten together and subsequently parted ways, is it socially acceptable to offer both of them my commiserations and “anything they might need,” or do I need to “pick a side,” as it were?
I can’t shake the instinct that contacting one means effectively cutting the other off, at least until this is all sorted out.
Stories, advice, and insults all welcome.
S.C.H.O.O.E.D?
I need to be schooled.
Swiftly Coached at Home to Overcome Obvious Educational Deficiencies?
Get them each to a pre-determined location at the same time under the guise of meeting you alone.
Throw a knife into the ground at their feet.
“Go.”
Seriously though, if you were equal friends with them before they started dating, nothing’s changed in their relationship with you.
You’re an adult and so are they and this isn’t high school. Picking sides is crazy and completely #Unnecessary as soon as you graduate.
My engaged friends just separated on new years actually. Really ugly situation. I’m more friends with the girl, but still friends with the guy. I’m giving it a while before I say anything to either of them to be honest, although I still plan on being both of theirs friends. Just cause they broke up doesn’t mean I have to pick one of them over the other.
This guy (gal?) gets it.
And a big ol’ shiny sticker that says “Mature” on it!
I hate those situations, Had it happen a few times and it always ends up weird because people can’t act like damned adults. I have managed to keep both friends but it’s made for a lot of awkwardness, we basically have to decide which friend we want to invite to events if one comes the other won’t. I really wish people could just be civil.
I chose to stay friends with both and have been frowned on by both parties for doing so.
these particular friends annoy me a lot cause we all knew it’d end up this way and everyone warned/told them and said if you break up we’re not picking sides and they were all “it’ll never come to that, we can be friends if it goes bad” now all they want is for people to pick sides…. jerks, sorry not very helpful just a bit of first hand experience 😛Ahh, ‘it’ll never come to that…’
Right up there with classics like:
“But OUR love will last forever!” / “We’re meant to be.”
“No-one understands our love!”
“Old people are out of touch, they don’t know anything!”
“You don’t know him/her like I do! If you just saw what I saw…”
and my favourite:
“It’s complicated,” when it’s really, really not. (90% of the time: someone cheated on someone else, or wants to, or still is.)
I have a friend who has said at least one of those (plus many many more) and everyone has told her to get out of the relationship but she refuses because of “love”.
I swear love and feelings make some people lose IQ points.
haha, great response, pretty sure they uttered at least one of those.
it’s actually gotten a lot more complicated after the split
chick is now engaged to another one of our friends which I believe is a horrible mistake cause they’ve never lived together and are currently doing a long distance relationship and seriously barely know eachother they dated for a month before she moved, not to mention that the guy she’s engaged to is broke and she just somehow got him to go $4,500 into debt for her engagement ring, not the wedding ring just the engagement ring (what the hell is she expecting her wedding ring/ wedding to cost) her original boyfriend is now married to one of her friends (they are now enemies because the man is her ex, no other reason just because they got together after she dumped him). People can be so dumb…..oftenFar easier to list the times people aren’t dumb
Next time you invite either of them to something, one (or both) of them’s going to ask ‘who’s coming?’ wondering – or straight-up asking – if their ex will be there. My understanding of these social thingies is that whoever does that is the friend which gets dumped.
I don’t entirely approve of this, but apparently it’s The Rules.
You didn’t date either of them. There’s no side choosing for you. If they make you, then they’re stupid friends anyway. 😛
This guy gets it. It’s up to them to talk to you really. You shouldn’t change how you interact with them really, but I think you’ll find one party will always tend to be a bit stand-offish after something like that goes down, so it will likely naturally sort itself out in time. At least it wasn’t like my situation where I introduced 2 friends of mine, and then they both stopped talking to me :\
Putting response in spoilertags because I know who you are talking about.
I love them both but I have to take sides, obviously.It’s difficult only hearing one side of things though.
One thing I’m pretty sure of is that you’ll be able to still be friends with both when everything cools down. However, things will be a bit weird for a while and you’ll kind of have to follow their lead.
The only caveat I’d add to everyone else’s stuff is you don’t want to end up as a mediator. Make it clear you want to be their friend and supportive but don’t want to be messenger boy.
If they’re both your friends, can you not support them both?
It obviously depends on your friendship with them but I’ve had lots of friends split up. I don’t choose a side generally (unless I actually didn’t like one of them anyway). I tend to try to support both of them and either stay friends with both of them or else the one that actually wants to remain friends with me.
Did the earth quake for anyone else just now?
Sorry about that, baked beans tend to do that to me.
No, but Kudo for your sex life.
So now that steam’s working, I put in all my Humble Bundle codes, then found two questions:
1. If I got DLC for a game I don’t have yet, if I eventually get that game, will I still have the DLC?
2. I made a Humble Account, because I’ll probably get more, can I move my previous purchase across, or does it only work with purchases from then on?
Can answer 2: there is a way to add earlier bundles, and if you used the same email address it should have picked them up automatically
1. Yes. Redeem again if any issues. Key is proof of ownership.
2. I don’t understand. Just keep the emails with the keys.
Re: 2. Some games on the humble store are Humble Store Only, but not very many. Most of them will include a Steam key which will either be on your email or you can look it up from logging in to your account on the Humble site.
Alright I’m off home, going to finish The Walking Dead game so if I’m not on tomorrow it’s because I’m weapin….. ummm doing manly things. yep
#ForClementine
So I am eating a cabbage for lunch. No seasoning, no oil, no salad dressing. This is how you eat healthy, right?
Physically, yes. Mentally, not so sure
Dude, that is keen.
Keen? He said nothing about mustard!?! 😉 Sounds like he’s in for a stinky night though, that’s for sure!
Red cabbage is pretty awesome raw. Just chopped up. Nice and crunchy and hasn’t got the bitterness of green cabbage. I like to have a big chunk of it with sliced carrot and chicken as a lunch periodically.
Who here has a 50inch or bigger TV, that’s LCD? What kind of backlight uniformity are you getting?
I’m on my fourth $2500 60incher. Had 3x Panasonics that had a faulty manufacturing process, and now this LG is starting to be a piece of junk. Can’t get plasma due to gaming, unfortunately
I just want a nice TV, y’know? :\
Aquire random coloured LED’s, glue them too the frame.
I am a electronics technician so you know my advice is good.
I’d probably get a better experience with them.
I thought contemporary plasmas were supposed to be good for gaming
Screen burn-in is still an issue unfortunately.
My wife and son aren’t home, if it wasnt such a hassle Id wheel the TV and PS3 into the toilet and play while I poo!
Dude, Bravely Default on the loo
This is what I’ve been doing and should explain why I’ve rebuilt all of Norende but only managed to get to Chapter 2.
I’m in much the same boat!
Ha ha! I was doing that. A month back, before I finished it.
I like to think that Mark Cerny came up with PS4 to PS Vita remote play while in this exact situation. “Playing games on my iPhone while defecating is quite unsatisfying. What a shame I can’t continue playing the console game I was just playing prior to this biological hiatus.”
I didn’t think your son was that old, don’t you still have a potty about somewhere?
I dooooooooooooooooooooo
Poostation ftw!
Poostation Vita has been in full effect from day 1!
Been playing Mario 3D World the last few days. Up to the Star World now. Have all stars/stamps/gold flags from the first 8 worlds. Such an incredibly fun game.
The first 5 worlds or so felt a bit too easy, and I felt a little bit disappointed, but the difficulty ramped up nicely towards the end. Some rather challenging levels, but still so much fun.
My daughter has played that almost every day since Christmas. But on the gamepad only so I haven’t been able to watch her. I only bought it for her so I could watch her play it! 😛
Play it! Amazing game.
Luke Plunkett’s latest Cosplay article has some amazing stuffs in it. So beautifully done.
On Wednesday there will be a super special secret awesome BOARD GAMES from about 2pm. We shall be attempting to play some larger games, like Battlestar Gallactica.
Also, that last episode of Sherlock just happened. Now to wait for the next season.
I hate Sherlock cliffhangers. Not so much the cliffhangers themselves (I love the new one), but the two year wait for them to be resolved >:(
Thanks for the Sherlock reminder
http://musicfeeds.com.au/news/muse-could-drop-new-album-early-2015/
Please please please don’t be shit.
Optimism rising. \o/
As someone who loved everything pre-Resistance did not care too much for anything after:
Origin of Symmetry: Part 2 please.
I mean, did you see the tracklist from their latest live album? What happened to them?!
1. “Intro”2. “Supremacy”
3. “Panic Station”
4. “Plug In Baby”
5. “Resistance”
6. “Animals”
7. “Knights of Cydonia”
8. “Explorers”
9. “Hysteria”
10. “Feeling Good”
11. “Follow Me”
12. “Madness”
13. “Time Is Running Out”
14. “Guiding Light”
15. “Undisclosed Desires”
16. “Supermassive Black Hole”
17. “Survival”
18. “The 2nd Law: Isolated System”
19. “Uprising”
20. “Starlight”
21. “Closing credits” (“The 2nd Law: Unsustainable”)
That actually seems like a pretty awesome set, but I thought Absolution was great, Black holes & Revelations was better, and 2nd Law was pretty good. I haven’t listened to Resistance. I think that’s the one everyone really hates? I never owned Origin of Symmetry and it’s been a long time since I listened to it but the main standout from that seemed to be Plug in Baby.
Origin of Symmetry > Absolution > Black Holes And Revelations > Showbiz > The 2nd Law > Being deaf > The Resistance
Matt Bellamy discovered he could get paid for being a self-indulgent wanker. Thats what happened.
I’m all for bands doing what they want & having total creative freedom, but seriously just coz you can doesn’t mean you should.
Thanks to everyone who helped me with the Hundle Bundle dilemma, I couldn’t reply on the other page because my iPad kept crashing on iOS 7 safari.
Why is it so dead in here…?
Hi!
Look a time traveler! How is it in the past young man?
Hang on, let me grab my punchcards to send this message with…
I’ve been messing about in gta online, trying to get my rally feeling right
We have lives God dammit!
*crickets*
Lives.. You mean those little numbers in the top corner of the screen during a game, right?
Ooh shit, 0 remaining? I’d better pay attention when I’m crossing the road, at least until I can afford a few more credits
7 GB remaining…
O.O
I mean, hi.
Wow, not much going on today.
The roads were crazy busy this afternoon though. And the climbing gym too, even early on in the night. Was there some kind of public holiday nobody told me about?
I just pooped.
It felt glorious.
Also there was this girl there who was crazy ripped. I mean she didn’t look like a gym junkie or anything ridiculous like that, ‘roided up to the eyeballs. But holy shit did she have some ridiculous amounts of muscle mass on her. Made all the climbs look like nothing.
Can’t decide if she was as impressive as she was intimidating, or the other way around 😛
“I’d hit on you but I’m terrified that you’d hit back”
@trjn is the Battlestar game as good as they say?
The BSG board game is gloriously fun. So much intrigue. Once you’re used to the mechanics, you can focus more on identifying the difference between sabotage by Cylons and incompetence by humans. As such, it becomes increasingly difficult for Cylons to make strong sabotaging efforts until later in the game. Also, the sleeper phase turns everything on its head (halfway through game, more loyalty cards are dealt out, ensuring the maximum number of Cylons are in play – before this, you can’t easily guarantee humanity/roboticism).
You can always ask @hindenlagen for more details – he’s both more concise and more articulate than I when describing his favourite board game 😛
Whoa! this is my first kotaku notification in ages! And for BSG talk no less! Best. Day. Ever.
But seriously it’s a neat board game that becomes great if you play with people who love backstabbing and can take a backstab with good humour.
You had me at ‘Whoa!’. Seriously though, this might be something to invest in as me and the missus prepare to watch through the series again on new shiny blu-ray
Does not ensure the maximum number of Cylons are in play, it guarantees that one person is a Cylon (you can be dealt the Cylon card twice, meaning only one person is a traitor the whole game). I strongly suggest adding the Pegasus expansion as well. You don’t have to use all the mechanics (new Caprica sucks dicks) but the expansion adds more interesting skill cards and more stuff to do in general. Like throwing people out airlocks.
True, however, there is a mechanism by which the “double cylon” can use an action to give his extra loyalty cards to another player, so there should be maximum cylons before the game is up (if the cylon is smart and has enough time). In Pegasus the loyalty card hand off happens automatically during a cylon’s reveal, so there is no excuse.
The only time maximum cylons might not come out is in the exodus expansion where a cylon card may be undealt.
I’ve only played one game so far. /o\
It’s pretty amazing, Be prepared for a long game though, It can take a very long time depending on what happens. The longest game I have played is 6 hours.
Once you get used to the mechanics of it all, I would highly Recomend the Expansions. Each adds a new mechanic or a new idea to get used to. but I love it so much. Will probably need to get my own collection if I move out.
Nice. I haven’t got it, and I don’t think my friends would go for it (though they are all Battlestar fans) but I’d love to give it a shot
It’s pretty much are you a cylon or a Human, Now kill the humans or get to your new home.
But there is so much more in it.
Sherlock.
Lame. Not clever or surprising and I almost fell asleep halfway through because it wasn’t even very interesting. And everyone raving about it just makes me feel old. 😛I should probably get around to downloading season 3…
Which episode? Before I click 😛
There’s no indication. I guess the most recent one. It’s not really so much a spoiler as it is a reaction which might colour your own viewing.
Oh wow, all three are already out! That was fast! (I guess because they’re so movie-like I forget that they come out every week…)
Only seen the first episode. Might just save it for when I’ve watched all of them then!
Spoilers for the latest episode
I liked CAM as a villain and I liked the Gordian Knot approach Sherlock took at the end. The rest is a bit fuzzy. Jim’s still dead though or Moffat is dead to me.Yeah. I am not sure I enjoyed this season.
Oh good, so I’m not going nuts then! I just thought I must be too old for it now or something. 😛
I just looked up a video of Battletoads on the Genesis thanks to something a friend did and HOLY CRAP MY EARS ARE CRYING WHAT IS THIS
Goodnight.
A mosquito was buzzing me in the bathroom while I was getting ready for bed. Obviously I had to hunt it down while I still had track of it, otherwise it’d spend the rest of the night buzzing me in the ear just as I’m about to fall asleep. Slapped it down into the bath, where it got caught in water left on the surface. Then I picked it up and placed it in the web in the corner, feeding it to the daddy long legs I noticed earlier.
That’ll learn it.
Spiders?! You crazy?! ALL SPIDERS MIST BE KILLED. WITH FIRE IF POSSIBLE. ALL OF THEM.
MUST BE KILLED. NOT MIST BE KILLED. KILLING MIST SOUNDS HARD. I MEAN, WHERE DO YOU STAB IT? CAN YOU EVEN STAB IT?
I have two spider webs in my place, but I’ve yet to see a single spider…
They’re hiding, waiting until you sleep.
Oh, Nob. You and your imagination. Spiders aren’t that smart.
They’re just invisible.
Apparently we eat them whilst we sleep. Who knew?
What’re you all reading at the moment?
I’ve recently finished Dr Karl’s new book, Game of Knowns.
I’m currently reading Matthew Reilly’s Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves. I love how utterly ridiculous his plots are. So much fun. Also noticed that Reilly’s a bit more casual with his coarse language in this book than what I remember of the others – not so much the dialogue, but in his descriptions of things. Eh. Still fun.
After that, I’ll read his newest book, The Tournament, then move on to a couple of Stephen King books I have purchased but not yet read – namely The Shining and The Gunslinger. Kind of excited to read Gunslinger, as I’ve read a few other novels of King’s that mention/tie in to the Dark Tower stuff (Hearts in Atlantis, I think the Talisman and Black House mentioned it?). Been a while since I’ve read any King.
Hrm. Now I want to read The Talisman again. One of my favourite books.
I’m reading the Divine Comedy, as part of my mission to self-civilise.
Inferno was quite fun to read; Purgatorio a little less so; and I’m really struggling with Paradiso.
When I get through that, I don’t know what I’ll read next. Maybe re-read something awesome, like the Foundation series.
I bought it years ago and have only touched Inferno. I think that’s the only part that really grabs people about it. I don’t know many albums recorded about Purgatory or Paradise 😀 hahahaha I’ve wanted to eventually write some sort of musical thing about the whole book but that’ll probably just end up as my teenage persona daydreaming as always
As a text, I’m not sure it’s dated very well. A lot of the physics of it – especially with regards to Purgatorio and Paradiso – is based upon a lot of celestial and scientific assumptions that are now 500 years disproved. Inferno is relatively unscathed by the passage of time, and still holds up pretty well.
As a theological piece, it’s vaguely intriguing, in some parts more than others. But it really shines as an allegorical autobiography, which is something the explanatory notes are helping me understand. A really interesting blend of fact and fiction in the work.
One thing it is, though, is layered. Insanely complex in terms of its references and linguistics. It’s extremely rich for analysis, which I guess is why it’s survived so many centuries.
A musical based on this would be… interesting, to say the least.
The Foundation books were amazing. Loved them.
Matthew Reilly’s new book The Tournament is better than Army of Thieves. It’s a Matthew Reilly historical novel. I agree with you that he seemed more casual with coarse language in Army of Thieves. I’m not reading a lot at the moment, but I do have quite a pile of shame that I really should get to, which includes finishing The Lesser Evil (@shane).
Have an upvote!
You too!
Dangerous Women – the recent G.R.R. M. anthology. The song of ice and fire short story wasn’t very engrossing. I mean, I understand it was from the perspective of a historian so that was the intention, but I couldn’t get in to it.
Some of the other short stories are gems though so I’m calling it a win!
Pokemon manga 😛
I have 8 books on the go at the moment.
The two I’m mainlining are 1984, by George Orwell, and Homeland, by Cory Doctorow. Both deal in some way with surveillance states.
Just finished Red Country, last of the First Law series.
What an incredible series this is. It’s so raw and the characters are so twisted, in certain aspects it put’s Song of Ice and Fire to shame. The action scenes are incredibly well written and just so damn brutal. Logen Ninefingers is definitely my favourite character of any book I have read, the ultimate crazy badass.
I kinda reading some pulp fantasy, the spellsinger series. But already read 2 back to back and thought I’ld go another. Mostly because I want to finish the series and get rid of it, not somethign I would read twice and I don’t have room to store all my books right now
Struggling to get into another one, once i commit it should be fine
I am reading Kotaku.
Have you never read the Dark Tower series before? I absolutely love it. Most people say The Stand is his best, but I lean towards The Dark Tower instead.
I’ve been meaning to pick up The Wheel Of Time from book one again but I lost my copy of the first book so until I get a new one that plan’s on the backburner. Other than that I’ll pick up the odd Star Trek novel for a quick read but I’m trying to concentrate on games atm so not much spare time for reading unfortunately
I did pick up Steelheart by Bradnon Sanderson a few weeks ago though and read the prologue but haven’t gotten any further than that yet
Hmmm, The Stand… @dc knows what I think about The Stand.
I preferred The Dark Tower, and it has some genuinely excellent bits, but that series is far from perfect too. I think Misery is the best King book I’ve read, followed (maybe) by It (though It was ruined by the really lousy ending section)
I think that’s a failing of a fair few King books actually, including The Dark Tower. His books are be no means perfect, but the characters are brilliant and that’s why I keep going back to The Dark Tower as the characters are developed so well, especially after the first book. I do need to read a lot more of his stuff but as I read, reading time for me is at a premium atm
Nope, never read any of the Dark Tower books. Something I should rectify.
I am slowly going through Dead Space Martyr, but I’ve decided to postpone it until I’ve finished another route in Katawa Shoujo.
Now I can’t get the mental image of Yamaku Academy being invaded by Necromorphs out of my head. And now I have the mental image of Rin shooting Necromorphs using her feet. Brains suck.
About half way through The Tournament.
I’ve decided that if I can afford to, I’m going to take Mum to see The Lion King while we’re in Sydney for Mother’s Day. Also, I get to see it. Manly musical time.
Hey, there is nothing feminine about musicals. It is hard as hell to move and sing and dance and act all at the same time.
I kid, I kid. Particularly as I’ve been both onstage and backstage in various musicals. You’re right though, it is hard as hell to coordinate all those actions at once.
@blaghman is meant to be taking us. If he ever stops being selfish and comes home from Japan.
😛Funny thing happened to me this morning
I was feeding my neighbours cats and watering the garden. Because of the hot temperatures, I had taken to watering it in the morning after feeding the cats.I unlocked the gate and filled up the lizard bowl. (bowl of water for the lizards) It was around this time I noticed voices. One male and one female. I looked around the corner carefully and though the face was obscured, I saw a naked man pissing on a tree. I flipped the fuck out and got out of there, not sure what to do.
I spoke to Mum, called @gorzilla, took Sid and went back. Sid however was no help and instead of alerting the people for me, went straight to staring at the cats. While I was trying to stop Sid from trying to get them to run. I heard someone call my name.
Turned around and found myself facing my neighbours eldest son. He’d put some clothes on this time. Apparently, he had meant to tell me yesterday that he’d come home, but kind of forgot. I imagine he was too busy setting up things with what I can assume is his girlfriend.
I think he was a bit embarrassed, but not as much as me. I’ve decided that I won’t get involved, as I’m not sure what they were doing (I can guess, but may be wrong) and he seems pretty close to his Mum so I reckon he’d tell her.
3 more incidents and I can overtake @rocketman
I doubt he will tell his mum about it, actually that would be an interesting conversation. “BTW mum, I boned this girl here on the couch you’re sitting on right now … So, how about that weather, huh?”.No I think he may have asked her for permission seeing as the rest of the family is on holidays
That’s weird. Even for me.
that’s just, wow
Last night I applied to university for the second semester.
NEEEEEEEEEEERD!
What did you apply for?
Engineering, I want to get into electrical engineering
Nice! That’s awesome!
Cool. I’m looking at going back to uni hopefully next year to do accounting. Just need my citizenship first and I can get HECS to help out. I miss my uni days, I played so many games back then
sweet, I’ll hit you up for a bitchin’ home made tesla coil when you’re qualified
http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu195/whicky3/stormy.jpg
Sounds awful.
I hear that’s where people go to have their soul get destroyed.
HA, UNI IS FOR CHUMPS
Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to get ready for Uni
lol, lerning.
This week I’m mostly reminded how much job hunting sucks. My contract’s up at the end of next month and due to restructuring my contract won’t be renewed. Ah well, a chance to get out of the public sector and at least the job market is better than the last time I was looking 3 years ago. As said above though, it’s also time to go back and study so I can be a fully qualified accountant
On another note, never start a game of Trivial Pursuit with your housemates at around 9pm when you’re all sick and need to get up early in the morning for work…especially when it’s an edition from 1981.
My favourite question of the night: “Where would you find a willy-willy?”
In a fanny-fanny?
😛YES!
that’s part of Willy Wonka’s discontinued candy line, I hear they’ve nearly reached a settlement with the affected families. 😛
but seriously where?Serious answer: A willy-willy is an aboriginal name for a small twister. Also called dust devils.
it’s a twister or cyclone apparently. This led to me making remarks about Dorothy and Toto being sucked off by a willy willy. A willy willy also dropped a house on the Wicked Witch of the East. Needless to say, it was a completely serious game of Trivial Pursuit
@dc @shane
http://www.vulture.com/2014/01/newsroom-is-coming-back-for-one-final-season.html?mid=rss?mid=vulturelatest
Spoilers for season 2!
Thanks for the info!
Shit, sorry.
It’s all good, I clicked off as soon as I noticed. Don’t think I saw too much. Good to know it’s coming back!
Woooo! Season two almost ties up all the story arcs, so will be interesting to see what happens!
Season two ending spoilers:
Rebuilding the networks credibility, most likely! Also, gun control? I remember Sandy Hook was just about to happen in the shows timeline. 🙁Stupid clicking the wrong ‘reply’ button
CoinOps has finished downloading.
Now the arduous task of getting it onto the Xbox.
Also, it’s currently 38 degrees.
Fuck Summer. 🙁
It’s days like these I wish this really existed.
I beat the crap out of my elbow last night and now it’s really sore 🙁
Feel like I need to tie my arm up so I can’t bend it at all.
Why did you beat up your elbow? Was it heckling you?
Yeah, then I told it to get bent and now I’m stuck having to do exactly that.
On the plus side, it gets me out of having to drive up the coast and help move furniture around.
I managed to burn my hand while cooking pancakes yesterday. Masochist Mondays!
*punches desk* Why was Deftones not on the first Big Day out announcement, they’re doing a sideshow in Sydney the day I fly home from Sydney too, boooooooo
Gah Reply fail 🙁
So.
Damn.
Bored.
Shop is the cleanest it’s ever been, I’m by myself, I have no work to do and no customers coming in. The whole center is dead.
*Licks*
http://www.reddit.com/r/FiftyFifty
The horse one…
shudder…
Well that’s probably going to eat up what little down-time I have today.
We should also add that most of FiftyFifty is NSFW. Like. At all.
Ever.
Sometimes not even the “Good” fifty out of the fifty fifty.
I guess I know what I’m looking at when I get home!
…Homework.
🙁
I scanned all the titles on the first page, and decided it wasn’t worth it.
Alright. I have a watch with a metal band. It has the typical clasp with the typical riveted stud thing that it clamps on to. Can I get a replacement of this?
Engrave me a small Caterpie keyring!
Have some light reading that I’m spending all day plowing through
You’re reading the public version? Don’t you work for a defense contractor?
No, I work for an industry group, and even then I wouldn’t have access to the other ver, it’s gov only.
Holy crap people, I actually have work to do. Away I go!
Nananananananana workman!
Traitor.
I posted this in the article regarding predictions for 2014. Here are my predictions:
A LEGO game.
A bad movie tie-in game that scores about 5/10 on average.
A CoD and a Battlefield or some spunk-gargle-wee-wee equivalent.
Some company will come out and say that their game must have an always online component, even though it would be quickly disproved by the Internet.
One massive blockbuster AAA title will have some semblance of story and take a very minor risk, so it will be crowned game of the year by August.
That won’t stop 50 other AAA titles that don’t sell very well to re-release their game as “Game of the Year edition”.
Xbone and PS4 will begin to slowly build a library and there will be a few interesting releases on them, but lots of not very interesting at all releases.
Something will cause the hype train to go into overdrive about something (my money is on Fallout 4 or a WoW reboot)
A lot of good games will be ignored.
A lot of bad games will be ignored.
I will copy and paste this exact status into an article asking what 2015 will be like and it will still be right.
I will eventually release a small book of predictions written so cryptically I will be hailed as a modern day Nostradamus.
There will be a serious flood of DLC and most of it will suck.
And a little more specific of a prediction:
Steam Box will do moderately well and position itself around Nintendo level in the console wars, with a lot of people becoming attached to it but many people seeing it as peripheral to the two bigguns (Xbone and PS4)
Procedurally Generated (spelling/right terminology?) worlds will become the latest ‘fad’ in many games and someone will find a way to incorporate it into a AAA title at some stage (they will announce it this year but the game won’t be out this year).
What about you, TAY? Thoughts?
My predictions:
The year 2014 will go for 365.25 days, but this will be rounded down to the nearest integer to accommodate a conventional calendar structure.You and your crazy ideas. You should be a writer.
Nah.
LOL. 😛
youdontsay.jpg
Hey Sydney Tay folk
Going to have a bit of spare time in Sydney, I usually spend some cash at this little shop that sells cheap (compared to Brisbane) anime, can’t remember the name but it’s pretty close to Paddy’s markets. Does anyone have any suggestions of places to check out, I’m staying on George street so anything near there would be nice.
Kinokuniya!
nice, thanks, that looks like it’s worth checking out.
At any given time of day, there is an average of 4.7 TAYbies in Kinokuniya.
well maybe I’ll see a Sydney tayby after all 😛
So Powerglove, the dudes that did the Blood Dragon soundtrack have some pretty great other songs, they do some metal covers of old show themes like Inspector Gadget, Pokemon, Power Rangers, This is Halloween from Nightmare Before Christmas to name a few, they’re pretty awesome. Well worth the listen. Plenty of songs on Grooveshark
on that topic, I hope they make the sequel, Michael Biehn is keen.
Love Powerglove. Had their Saturday Morning Apocalypse album on repeat for ages after first acquiring it.
I didn’t realise they’d done anything else, been listening to them all day, so good. 😀
You and @gutsoup are getting mixed up. There’s two musical groups with the same name.
Powerglove are a US power metal band that does video game music covers and stuff and are pretty awesome.
EDIT: Breaking into two to get out of moderation hell
Power Glove are an electronic / synthwave music duo from Melbourne who did the Blood Dragon soundtrack and are pretty awesome.
I thought something seemed odd and had a feeling there might have been 2, that’s what i get for doing a search and streaming a playlist. thanks for clarifying.
I was just going off what Gutsoup said about the metal covers of old TV show themes. Don’t know anything about Blood Dragon and its soundtrack having never played it, so was just commenting on the part of his comment I knew about.
yep, sorry. I’ll just say Both are pretty good until i work out who did what 😛
sorry for uneducated confusing post.
Don’t be sorry! It’s never bad if it creates discussion. 🙂
thanks, just felt the need to apologize for the misinformation, I usually know what I’m on about, must be slipping in my old age 😛
JAPAN GROUP – MARCH 2015 is a go!! \o/
Congratulations to @jocon for being the first to deposit. Obviously still plenty of places available. But if you want to spend 2 weeks travelling around Japan with myself, @jocon, @freezespreston, Mrs Freeze, @negativezero and @transientmind (plus various other people who I will get to book… hopefully) enquire below or shoot me an email to peter(dot)orange(at)harveyworld(dot)com(dot)au
Tagging @cakesmith @benny @mrtaco and @coldcamv who have shown interest previously 🙂
I’m working on it. $1000 in one whack takes a little to get together.
No worries. Don’t stress too much. There’s plenty of time 🙂
When I get paid tomorrow I shall be placing my deposit.
Awesome. I’ll make sure I keep an eye our for it
Wait what?
I’ve been putting together a 2 week tour of Japan for work, one that I get to go on as well, in theory as the group leader, but the company I’m organising through is also providing a guide. I’ve got an itinerary put together going to Osaka, hiroshima, kyoto, takayama, hakone and Tokyo and got everything locked in with Jo’s deposit today. Freeze, Neg0 and transientmind are all planning on coming as well.
Tour starts 21 March 2015 and finishes 3 April. If you like I can send you the itinerary and prices and all that. Then you can yell at Bunny to come along too 🙂
I don’t even know where I’ll be employed in order to apply for leave then.
“You know what I really like? This tedious mining mechanism where I have to mash the X button to charge up my pick axe.”
Said no one ever.
Just like real life …
I played something recently with a mechanic like that. Might have been the start of Ys: Memories of Celceta? Or Ys Seven? Can’t recall but I distinctly remember something where you had to mash X to get a big powerful stroke to break the rock quickly or something.
If it’s that case, IIRC it only happens once in the game and they never have you do it again.
Sounds like it’s a winner. Right up there with ME2 planet-scanning.
(*fire away!* “…Really, Shepard?” *fire another probe!* “Sigh. Probing… Uranus.”)
I… I actually liked planet scanning. Though I guess I was playing on PC; I hear the console controls for scanning were pretty horrible.
At release on console, ME2’s scanner moved half as fast and the cursor was half as big.
Booking rental inspections is just irritating.
Managed to line up seven so far on Thurday. Which is great until I realised that because it’s costing $700 to get to Dubbo for the day, that’s $100 per property just to have a look.
We better find something we like there or I’m going to be tetchy.
These might be reimburseable costs of moving. Is there anything like that in Freyr’s offer of employment?
Probably not. This is the cost for two people to fly to Dubbo and rent a car for the day.
Might be worth investigating. Some interstate job offers will cover this stuff. Check it out
The problem is that it isn’t an interstate job.
No, there isn’t. I don’t really care though.
Maybe even just consider taking whichever of the places are desperate and only signing a short lease – three months or something, so you can have more time to find someplace nicer/closer-to-work/whatever.
Man, I remember when I moved to Bundaberg… I’d been doing the harvest trail and some bartending work at the time, did an interview in Bundy for a Telstra gig.
I’d been picking lemons at the time, so my arms were covered in scratches from the thorns – doesn’t matter how thick your shirt(s) is, you pick lemons you will get thorn-scratches. So they looked at me a little weird. All the same, I had a good feeling about the interview, so I walked into a real estate office and asked them what cheap places they needed to offload. Pretty much signed the contract the same day.
(Note: This was particularly dumb given that I hadn’t actually been confirmed for the job at the time, but I was a lot more aggressive and reckless in those days.)
I never bothered to find a new place because it was perfectly adequate for my needs. But the take-away point was, I’m pretty sure every real estate agent has a real good idea of which of their properties have been vacant for too long, and can probably be negotiated down on the rent OR convinced to take a short lease. Some rent is better than no rent… Though they might all be trying to hold out til the last of the student renters look for places for the semester, this time of year.
Any TAYbies in real estate know what the busy period is, when agents start getting antsy about places that haven’t filled?
how the hell did you arrive at a figure of $700 for a day trip to Dubbo?! Does that take in to account missed wages for the day or something? That seems hella expensive.
Return flights x2 plus hire car.
Blimey! Didn’t really think about flights. I was thinking maybe $100 for fuel at most to drive there! Never crosses my mind that you can fly to destinations like there. Will probably be a bit like when I had to fly to Roma. Flight only took 30mins from boarding to landing. Felt like such a waste to me, but then I wasn’t paying, so I didn’t care much either 😉
I’m being harsh with my pile of shame this year. No BS. So, I have ‘finished’ Don’t Starve. I played about half an hour tops, and I’m most likely not going back. Picked it up for free on PS4, so no guilty feelings.
– Controls ere pretty shitty. Stupid choices for some button mappings.– Survival genre, but I need to look after hunger and sanity too. Cool concept.
– It takes way too long to just do basic stuff. You’re pretty much just playing to keep playing. Not exactly something I’m looking for in my current play style.
– The generated worlds were kinda silly. I took a wormhole somewhere and got dropped into endless fields with no wood or flint. Can’t make fire. Can’t do anything. Bye.
A pretty decent game I think, with potential to be a mindless grinder and keep me occupied for some time. I just… don’t have the time for it right now.
So you didn’t starve?
Well done!
Nah, died to some creatures in the dark 😛
The creatures probably didn’t starve as a result, too. Double win!
Sounds like I had a better experience with my playthrough of the game, but ultimately I reached the same conclusion.
I’ve almost unlocked the last guy you unlock through experience points, for some reason I’m really not enjoying it yet keep going back, I feel like all the pieces are there but they don’t fit right, I was actually really hyped about it. Also I’ve not starved once, everything else kills me but no issues with hunger.
I briefly checked out the items you can unlock later on but nothing really caught my eye. It seems like it took the mobile genre of quick deaths and re-playability and tried to scale it to a PC/console release.
yeah it’s weird, doesn’t feel like there is enough to it for more than a couple of plays, and it gets really repetative really quick. Maybe if I feel the need to play a game about trying to stay alive whilst being frustrated out of my mind I’ll just try Day Z
I’ve been trying something similar and then Mrs Tigs will say, lets play some planetside
Although going fairly well so far, I think I’m a 3 games finished this year
Random thing bugging me from the weekend…
I live in the ‘bad’ part of the Valley. I could explain that, but just in short… understand it has a bad rap. People know this. So it is absolutely baffling to me why, late at night (early morning) on a weekend, two weedy young idiots (who clearly weren’t locals) would choose to take their lives into their hands by antagonizing people there.
Walking down the street, I see some earnest, fresh-faced, teen-bearded youth trying to talk to me while I have my headphones on. I take them off, arching an eyebrow at him expectantly, just to hear him saying, “Enjoy your night!” I guess the idea was for him to serve as a distraction. Because as I continued walking and turned my gaze back to where I was going, another young baby-faced guy was hidden in the shadows of an alcove opposite, and leapt out at me, screaming.
Depending on the mood, I don’t startle easy. So his scream very quickly trailed off into a mumbled apology as he accidentally smacked back into the wall in his haste to back away. I’d been very restrained, mind you – only fixing him with a glare and unimpressed rumble of, “Hmm.” Pausing to see if he was going to go any further than just yelling, moving on after he shrank away like that.
But if I’d been inclined to violence – as so many in this neighbourhood are (you hear the fights all the time; I’ve stopped caring about whether the screams in the street are the good kind or the bad kind) – being surprised like that would’ve been all the justification in the world for some folks to get in a quick, instinctive punch in the face.
Who on earth does this? Who thinks it’s a good idea? Dark side-street in a bad part of town? Is this a new viral video thing like planking? Leaping out at people bigger than you (yeah, I’m not that big, but these guys were really gangly) to see if you can make them jump or something? I didn’t look back to the distraction guy to see if he was filming, was too busy giving the eye to the leaper. I really hope they lost their taste for it then and there, and slunk off to do something safer.
Weird. People are weird.
Maybe they desperately needed to get stabbed for some sort of insurance scam but it couldn’t be their mate that did it.
It’s Zombieland all over again.
Said example is why I like to stay away from populated areas, or any area for that fact, late at night. People are idiots and the more distance I can put between them and myself the better.
that is annoying because someone will retaliate one day and they will be in the wrong and most likely be punished for it.
Spoilerised cause Rant
one of my mate’s brothers is in jail because he ran in to help a friend who was attacked by 5 drunken footy players in the Valley, they had him on the ground and were kicking him, so my mates brother ran over dodged a punch that was thrown at him at threw one back that knocked the dude down and killed him, so now he’s in for manslaughter. To make it worse the guy that died was an up and coming football star and they really demonised my mates brother in the papers, which caused dick heads to go and start hassling the family of the guy in jail, they had their windows smashed repeatedly, cars keyed etc, to the point that they had to move.Spoilerized because vengeful:
“Oh, so you guys think family are fair game, huh? Good to know. Just want you to remember later, you’re the ones who put that on the table, not me.”Edit: Seriously though, that’s fucked up. When I did security training, we were drilled pretty well on the permissable escalations of violence, the factors and levels that allow you to reach certain grades of force. One person against a group of (I assume) larger people should have pretty much everything all the way up to lethal permitted to defend their own life (especially if people are already kicking someone who’s down – that’s a MAJOR no-no, only one step below lethal weapons), but things get murky in ‘rescue’ situations, and it’s possible for all this to fall by the wayside if one lawyer’s better than the other. Which is a shitty way to run a law system, but whatever.
the Law sucks, like you say it pretty much comes down to who has the better lawyer not who is right or wrong. Kudos to you for holding yourself back.
Horrible story. Needs more funny moments.
Seriously though, that stinks. I don’t know much about the law, but that sounds like a raw deal.
Such is life. Stupid people are protected. 🙁
sorry, that’s why it was spoilerised.
It bugs me that there is either murder or manslaughter. There is no third category of “the other party were fucking retards that chose their own fate, you sir are innocent”.
Although it’s the most innate natural justice humans have known since the dawn of making rules, ‘live by the sword, die by the sword’ is mostly illegal.
Nasty. Glad you didn’t get mugged / assaulted.
Thanks. Though being mugged isn’t a huge concern. Random muggings in that part of the Valley are pretty rare.
There’s a LOT of violence on that street, but it’s pretty much club patrons on the move and bumping into each other or looking to provoke randoms (they’ve struck out on picking up, so the only other way to ‘feel like a man’ is to pick a fight). The other biggies are domestic stuff which has spilled out into the street (bizarrely actually got worse when I moved to a more expensive place), or the local homeless/addicts who know each other and something has come to a head. (Mostly women, oddly enough. Some of the addicts cling to the provider males like property, and jockey for position with others in the harem, which results in some truly godawful cat-like screeching.)
All ‘crime of passion’ stuff. Locals know pretty well that the ‘CitySafe’ cameras cover most of those streets very well, and a robbery or mugging would have you found out and locked up in pretty short order, so pretty much everything that happens is people who don’t care because they’ve lost their cool. Because ‘who slept with who’ or who’s looking at you funny is so much more important than worrying about cops when you’re drunk and some asshole is up in your face. Apparently.
If you’re a healthy, fit male who isn’t responding to provocation or doing something to provoke, you’d probably be just fine at any hour in the Valley.
(Some people can’t figure that out, though. Someone calls out, “Yeah, you better keep walking,” and they think that’s a good reason to stop walking. You really can’t help some folks.)
This jerk thinks he knows what’s best for me! I’m going to stop walking just to spite him.
Oh dang. I needed that kidney. Maybe he did know what was best for me after all.
Yeah, I’ve never had any problems in the Valley. That being said, I’m not really one to pick fights (or be provoked into one).
Drunkards in the valley are some of the weirdest people I’ve ever met. There is no understanding them at the best of times!
Seriously tossing up if it’s worth staying in the office late tonight rather than face the heat. Really sucks not having air conditioning.
But staying in an ait conditioned office, maybe doing a little work and playing some games until the sun goes down might be a go. Also depends on what Mrs Tigs wants to do around dinner.
Not a fan of multiple days of heat, although I might see if I can use it to get some of my clothes washing backlog done
I kinda like working late. I get a lot done after everyone’s gone home. Maybe the quiet allows me to focus, maybe it’s the lack of interruptions/requests for advice etc. Or the phone not ringing off the hook with people eager to add to my tasks.
SO do I, I tend to do it when I really want to get some stuff done.
I find that random office noise drains me and find it hard to smash stuff out, Also depending on how I’m feeling I’ll sometimes just go and grab a 6 pack and then work through to 11 or so.
Or at least until I start making really sloppy syntax errors and realise I would be better off not coding.
On a day as hot as this, it is awesome to find out that Launceston is getting a Cold Rock!!!!! Yeah boi!!!!!
So today I started thinking about interesting game design ideas and suddenly I’m thinking about how to make a fucking free to play browser game. What the hell is wrong with me? I’d blame my ongoing Kantai Collection addiction but I actually haven’t played that in about 3 days.
Yeah I’m feeling pretty neglectful right about now. Haven’t touched Kantai in just over a week. I enjoy it a lot but I’ve just got so much other stuff on the burner right now that I don’t really have time for it, no matter how well made it is for a browser game.
I haven’t touched it because my PC is in my room and my room gets all the sun from about 10am through 8pm so it was just too hot to enjoy doing anything there. Plus trying to get some resources up so I can waste them trying to build Taihou or Yamato.
I beat 4-2 last week though! Took about five goes that day to actually get to the boss node but when I made it I cleared it first go. Need to do 3-3 next but it requires a second carrier and I’m not confident about taking my Souryuu or Akagi into a hard fight yet. Slowly chipping away at getting Mutsu ready to replace one of my Kongo classes as a second battleship (apparently toward the harder maps, you start hitting nodes with enemy battleships that the Kongo class can’t hit hard enough to sink, need Yamato or Nagato class with Armor-piercing rounds which the Kongos can’t equip) and getting Kiso to Kai-2 (just hit halfway, she’s at 33 now).
But I have to admit I’ve lost a bit of focus with the game. Getting those last few ships I want is going to be very frustrating.
Lets make an Australian JRPG, Mate!
Struth!
The idea I have combines the previous ideas I had for making a procedural JRPG with some of the mechanics of a collection-focused free to play game. It seems horribly scummy and I suspect it would be pretty successful too 🙁
EDIT: Still banging some of the specific mechanics together though, it might not be viable.
Upvote for horribly scummy! I volunteer to test it and spend all my money on it because I am bad at this!
So, I am slowly melting and despite wanting to get things done, I am far too hot to actually do anything. It’s really feustrating
Not only are we Australia’s hippest city, but we can take a heatwave better than you pansies.
I wonder if Queenslands order of Milk Crates had increased since that announcement.
Yes but we can actually cope with the cold =P
No you can’t, you guys are pansies about the cold.
Hmm. Beer and Pixels on tonight apparently. And looks like a couple of school mates are going. Guess I’d better head on in.
Just had the shopping centre’s cleaner get cranky at me because I didn’t realise the guy I was serving was William Zillman. Not that I cared. All I knew he was a pleasant customer that I wish I had more of.
I had to google who that was.
Yup, me too.
Me three
Never ‘eard of ‘im
THE William Zillman??
Who’s THE William Zillman?
From a quick google, looks like a sportsman of some description. I would have been as oblivious as Freeze. Just another person..
*shrugs*
hello everyone except the jerks!
HI JI-oh, nevermind …
Fine. I see how it is.
🙁
Since I’m perfect and amazing I’m going to be the opposite of everyone else here and say “Hi Jimu.”
Hi, god among men!! 😀
hi
jerk 😛HA, so you’re not even saying hi to yourself, what a dick.
Jerk it out, guys.
…
I’m not clicking that.
That’s exactly what I had in mind when I wrote that. 😀
Good one DC!
Thanks Buble!
Hey how are you finding your new iPhone 5s? I’m thinking about getting one myself – an iPhone 5c in blue. Wasn’t really keen on the 5c initially but now I can’t take my mind off that awesome blue! Kogan have some pretty sweet deals.
You’ve been a bit quiet on here lately, (as have I really) I hope everything’s well.
I love my iPhone 5s. To be honest, I’ve barely even used it as a phone, but love it as a camera and music player and internet browser and mobile twitter using. Really like the interface too, it’s intuitive. Screen is so damn sharp and pretty looking too. If you can tolerate the Apple closed garden app store and the like, then I’d definitely recommend it! Just remember I upgraded from a cold war-esque Nokia pulled from the irradiated ruins of Chernobyl, so your mileage may vary. XD
I’m doing okay! Yeah, kind of been taking a TAY break of sorts. I think I spend too much time here. Need to find a better balance. (Which I haven’t done yet.) Hope you’re good too, my pal?
I’ve used Android, iOS and WP8 now and VASTLY prefer the iOS environment.
I’m peaches and cream baby, truly. Nothing wrong with a break from TAY if it makes you proactive and feeling better about yourself. Just don’t stay away forever – remember, you’re like one of the founding fathers on here. TAY royalty! 😀
I know the reason you’re talking about how good your phone is. You’re trying to get me to acquire a phone from the last 6 years! I won’t fall for your game! I love my 2007 flip phone, and nothing you say is going to change that!
In all seriousness, glad your new phone is treating you well.This is what I upgraded from! 😛
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbVPbytCcAA9FIo.jpg:large
I wouldn’t get the C just because it has last years internals with a cheaper case, yet is pegged as the same launch price as 5 and currently $100 more than 5. Or something.
Totally aware of all that. Funny thing, is the damn lure of Apple products – it’s just so enticing even though I know it’s a fairly average phone and I’d probably prefer the 5s! THAT BLUE 😀
@benny most people also just get a case anyway.
So true. Good point.
I saw Frozen for the second time in two weeks.
Because it was 45 degrees outside.
Fucking heat, go back to Mildura, and stay out of Geelong. 🙁
But still, Frozen was just as awesome second time around. 😀
Again, a friendly reminder to all that are interested that there will be BOARD GAMES tomorrow and probably also on Saturday.
I can make it on Saturday 🙂
Hoorah!
I can maybe make it tomorrow. Kinda gotta head into the city (again??) to do some stuff which will be kind of nearby. Just depends on whether or not I have to make it a short trip so I can drive up the coast instead.
Plans changed and it is now happening today. Although you posted at 4am which makes me wonder exact what you meant by tomorrow :p
I have the terrible habit of using “tomorrow” as a word for “after I have slept”. So it does mean Wednesday 😛
Awesome, looks like I don’t need to go up the coast after all.
So was it at 2 still? I think I’d probably end up getting there a bit late at this stage, bit of a trek to get from Ultimo to yours.
Just rock up when you can. People are going to trickle in over the course of the afternoon. A little like last time but over a slightly greater time period.
Well, I just read every Loldwell webcomic today. Click this link if you are willing to forfeit your day.
Today’s accomplishments.
http://imgur.com/BZrnUoU
Because I’m nothing if not a dedicated worker.
That’s dedication, you could have been bludging but you chose to hone your skills, improving your overall performance at work, good show there chap. Also they’re pretty rad, well done
What are they? Not the art, but the metal you’ve done it on? Just practice scrap bits or something else?
co-worker’s prosthetic leg
Anodized aluminum plates.
Swoit!
Final Fantasy VIII! SWEET!
Day Z players
Question cause I’ve never played but always been intrigued.
Are there actually many zombies in the game? I’ve seen a lot of videos and most usually seem to have the occasional zombie or just other humans who are usually griefing eachother. Probably completely wrong as I said I’ve never touched it but wouldn’t including more zombies to pose a threat to players promote cooperation a little more, maybe have roaming herds that are near impossible to tackle alone forcing you to team up. I dunno maybe I’m missing the point of the game and these sort of inclusions would hinder rather than help, it’s just the more I see the less interested I’m becoming in it cause it seems more about trolling than anything else.
none
:O
There’s not very many at the moment because zombie spawns, along with loot spawns are a bit bad at the moment, and they’re using a temporary work-around until they implement a proper system. But yeah, there’s not many.
My gym membership finally ran out so I freaked out and applied for 6 jobs in the course of one hour :\
Now that I’ve applied for some jobs all I can think is, “When I get a job, I’m going to buy all the games, screw the gym!”
Sherlock spoiler
Did ya miss me?Sherlock S3 was great!!!Who?
*tear*
yeah, adjusting my sight now & didn’t account for the wind 😛
No, no it wasn’t. There was nothing intelligent about it (not even Sherlock himself) and the best thing I can say for it was that it had some funny moments.Oh and also, probably be best to put your spoilertags on everything and say what it’s spoilers for.
(Latest Sherlock ep spoilers)
It’s not cool to just come out and say a pivotal line from something.If you don’t know it, it means nothing. It won’t mean anything until the moment you experience it. This is an impossible spoilerAre you just trolling me?
Did you like the first two seasons? We seem to have pretty similar tastes in television but I liked the first two seasons (except for the Hound of the Baskervilles episode). Haven’t seen the third yet.
Yep, I also didn’t like the Chinese episode. The middle episode was always week until this season.
Actually, suprisingly, I
‘d say the middle episode was the best.
Mild spoilers
It’s funny, the cases matter so little now, it’s all about Sherlock being a dick and hurting people he lovesI very much liked the first two seasons. This one, not so much.
Who’s this guy?
What has he done with Jimlock?
Hey guys, got a PS3? Got a US account? Got $10 in that account?
You should use it on Tales of Xillia. $10 on US PSN this week.
EDIT: Wait, $20. $10 if you’ve got Plus.
No plus and 9.80 on the account :-/
It’s still $50-60 on the Australian PSN store! That’s crap, Oz pricing blows.
It’s worse because it’s a DIGITAL store.
How does one hack into their own account? Mr. Strange made our US one but forgot the password and can’t even reset it because he was stupid enough to use a fake birthdate he can’t remember either. :S
Sounds like you should ditch it and make a new one to me.
I would but we actually had credit on the account and all our Rock Band songs (hundreds!) are tied to it. 🙁
Ever wondered what a rematch between dinosaurs and God would look like? Wonder no more. My three year old has all the answers.
http://shanewsmith.com/anniestories/
Holy fuck, that’s a troubling story.
This line particularly disturbed me:
D:
We’ve all been there, I guess.
I miss my tagpoles…
Precious keepsake or evidence in future criminal proceedings?
Probably both.Keep in the back pocket. It’ll come in useful at the 21st.
Or the trial.
Sup..?
Just watchin’ the game, havin’ a bud.
Bud as in beer or weed?
Haha, the correct response is, ‘True, true.’ or WASSSSSSSSUUUUUUUUPPPPPP
The folowing was repost from the article “The 10 Games I’m Most Looking Forward To In 2014” It started out as a hype list, but it devolved into a deconstruction of why Titanfall is so important to me.
It was such a long post, that I felt the need to post it in TAY, in the hopes of creating some sort of discussion.
Since everyone else is doing it, here’s my hype list.
Titanfall – I was a big fan of call of duty modern warfare 1 and 2. I thought the map design was great. (woo, rust) I usually don’t know the individual names of devs, just the company name. However, the name of Alex Roycewiz (map designer) still sticks in my head. I could go on about how LAN with the maps killhouse and shipment at school was a happy memory, so I will.
At my school, I was part of a government initiative to give everyone in my school a Macbook. Students could even take them home. Although it was nice to get a free laptop, I think it was a failed initiative, as it didn’t actually help all that much in the education department.
Naturally, students started downloading pirated games on it. People would hand you a USB with a game on it, and hour later you had your game. The games that spread around the most were Cod 4 and Minecraft. I eventually convinced someone to let me download Cod4 on my macbook. That day was a very significant day for myself as a game. I don’t remember the date, but it was somewhere in March/April of 2011.
Everyone would play the game behind the library, on the floor against a wall. I joined them. Every day, during recess and lunch, we would play Cod4. Even though I wasn’t very good, I still enjoyed it. At first they objected to my presence, as I was a pretty popular kid. But eventually, as the weeks went by, I gained their acceptance. This was the first time I did some actual socialising, during school, as I was once content to eat my lunch, sad and alone. It was great. But then the teachers came in. They instituted a rule banning laptops at lunch and recess, since people were “not socialising.” This effectively cancelled any play of the game. I returned to my former schedule of eating alone. Since my only interaction between my fellows was through the game, I never socialised with them again.
Interestingly enough, there was another encounter I had playing Cod4 later that year, but I don’t remember exactly how it happened. I think the health teacher asked a student what the big deal with the game was, and after hearing it, asked the student if he could download the game to his computer. Somehow, this lead to the teacher organising a gigantic party with the game during the last health class of the year. The plan was that it was going to be his class versus the other teacher’s health class next door. Granted, this barely worked, as wireless LAN only really allowed you to play with people with 10m of you, but it was still a fitting goodbye to the game.
Previously, I had had an Xbox 360 that had been lost in a move between houses. I had never bought any games for it apart from the titles that came with it (Lego batman, Pure, Shadowrun, and Halo ODST) I barely touched Halo or Shadowrun, as I didn’t think shooters would be my thing. (I was so wrong) I knew that Modern Warfare 2 was available for the 360, and that it had the capability to play online through some mystical system known as Xbox Live. (For some reason, I could never play online with Cod4, possibly because it was a pirated version) This was a major reason for me scrounging up a good portion of money from my bank account, (that was meant for adult life, but screw it cuz vidya games) and buying a Xbox 360. If I hadn’t bought that console, I would not be where I am today. I would have never gotten into shooters, or sunk my life into TES Skyrim. I’d probably still be playing my Wii. I wouldn’t have an awesome PC
I actually recovered the lost xbox 360 early this year. The exact details of how it was recovered are a little hazy.
Back on the topic of Titanfall:
Modern Warfare 3 was made with half of Infinty Ward gone, and it showed. Poor map design and variety (all maps were about the same size) is just the beginning of my list of complaints with the title. I think Respawn might be able to rekindle the glory days.
However, I played Modern Warfare 2 on consoles, and apparently the PC port was lackluster. I plan to buy Titanfall on PC. I worry for the state of the PC port.
However, since Titanfall is an Origin game, I don’t expect the price to go down ever. Steam sales have turned me into the cheapest bastard. In real life, when I go to buy things, my thought process is “Damn, this coffee is like 2 flash sales! I think I’ll pass, then.” I am deadly serious.
I get the feeling I’ll probably wait for a sale that will never happen.
It happened with Pokemon Black and White. When it first came out, I decided to wait for it to come down in price. It never did. Here is the price today. I never bought the game, and I have regretted it since.
Through this out of sequence spiel about call of duty, I hope I have communicated my feelings about Titanfall. I don’t just want this to be good. I need this to be good. This took me hours to write, but I thought it was somewhat necessary.
There are no more games on this hype list. I seriously can’t think of any. If you want to remind me of some game I have forgotten, feel free to tell me. I hope this ends up under the same spoiler tag, instead of multiple.
Uh, you forgot only the BEST GAMES EVER of 2014 yet to come! Like Thi4f (*ey4roll*), the rest of Wolf Among Us, Dying Light, Watch Dogs, Fallout 4 (*ey4roll*), Southpark: Stick of Truth, Banished, Wildstar, WoW’s new expansion, Homefront 2 (hahaha, just kidding, Homefront was shit), Witcher 3, Dragon Age 3, InFamous, The Division, The Order: 1886…
It’s gonna be a good year for hype. Maybe not a great year for games, but an amazing year for hype.
I really don’t think I care about those. South Park might be nice, but I expect it to release around the time that Half Life 3 does. I refuse to be hyped about Witcher 3 until I get around to buying Witcher 2. Dying Light could be cool, but it’s Techland, they’ll find some way to screw it up.
I refuse to be hyped until Sega announce Conduit 3. Conduit 2 wasn’t even that great, but it left on one of the biggest cliffhangers in gaming. I HAVE TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS.
I gave 3D castlevania (Lord of Shadow or something?) a go tonight, here are my thoughts on it:
BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANDBut listen to all the wonderful voice actors!
I will admit
Patrick Stewart voice over is pretty nice, pretty very niceI enjoyed what I played of it. Except for one specific moment:
I know I harp on this at every opportunity, but that part was bullshit. I guess I should be happy you gave up before you reached it.
The thing that bugs me the most is that Gabriel moves like he just ate a sack of concrete, while wearing his concrete shoes, shirt and pants. That and the fact that he is probably the most boring character I have ever come across in a video game in a loooooong time.
Katawa Shoujo talk:
I know I already had a thread of Kenji quotes in the last TAY, but this one to too good to pass up:
Also, Akira Satou has one of the most off-putting designs in the game. She looks like a mixture of Cloud and Neil Patrick Harris. Weird.
Heads up, your link (“designs”) leads back to Talk Amongst Yourself 😛
Shame, I wanted to see a picture of a Cloud / Neil Patrick Harris hybrid, but am too lazy to google 🙁
Fixed. The character design is weird, mostly as it doesn’t fit in with the rest of the character designs. Only Akira and Misha have overly “anime” designs.
Also, what is up with Google Images? Why is it that when I google “katawa shoujo akira satou” a picture of Akira awkwardly photoshopped into a black and white photo of Jack Ruby killing Lee Harvey Oswald the first thing that shows up? Why is a picture of Akira photoshopped into Braveheart also given equal consideration? Shouldn’t ACTUAL pictures of the character be shown before freaking quickmemes!? Why would an image of Misha cosplay get higher than an actual screenshot? I suppose I should be glad I didn’t see any Rule 34, but I think the memes might actually be worse. Freaking hell, this made me angrier than it should.
Rule 34 is why I leave safesearch on.
I had turned it off, because, “Pffft, prudes. lol, nudity.” Right up until I searched ‘Garrus Vakarian’. OH GOD NO
I remember when I was about 9 or 10, Google Image searching for “Bart Simpson.”
NOPE. NEVER DOING THAT AGAIN.
Woo, finally finished act 1! It’s surprising how long that damn act was. I don’t remember it being 4 hours long last time, but I think Lilly’s might be longer than the others.
The cinematic also seemed longer than the others, too. It really sad seeing those cinematics though. It’s clear the animator spent a lot of effort making them, but the movements of the characters are so utterly robotic. I wonder why they bothered making those cinematics, come to think of it. They probably took a lot of resources to make, yet they don’t really serve much purpose. The cinematics don’t really help the story all that much. I suppose you could make the argument that they are there to tell you which route you took, but the player should probably have figured it out by then…
What do you think TAY? What are the cinematics for?
A WILD 1:00AM APPEARS
Oh god I’ve got work tomorrow and ran out of masterballs /o\
Entice more with master bait.
Terrible.
Just… just awful…
Went out to Beer and Pixels to catch up with school friends.
Ended up running into two of the guys I met at board games.
Also I just spent nearly five hours straight talking about video games. Assuming my friend turned up two hours after I got there, and not earlier. Was pretty awesome.
Who did you run into?
Umm. Um. Dammit, names.
OH! First it was Dylan, then I was staring at Paul across the room for a while trying to figure out if I was recognising him or he just looked vaguely familiar, but eventually he spotted me and we figured it out 😛
PT56G-QJZTM-XH25T
Okay
…
?
Thanks.
No problemo 🙂
“When I punch those numbers into my calculator, it makes a happy face”
Really? I see boobs. Always boobs.
ah the good ol’ 58008 amiright? 😛
The Wolf Among Us episode 2 is coming early Feb! Can’t wait for it, I really enjoyed the first episode. \o/
I might have to check that out, I finally beat The Walking Dead last night. Didn’t mind it at all,
It’s @dc’s birthday today! HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROND!
Aw, thanks my friend! You so kind! 😀
Congrats on being alive!
It’s taken a lot of doing, man. A lot of doing. Haha!
When you compare the number of people who are alive with the number of people who aren’t, then add all the potential people lost to contraceptives, facials and wanking, its really quite an achievement.
The Earth has revolved around the sun x times since your birth. Congratulations.
Haha! Thanks pal!
HAPPY BEING-SHOT-FROM-THE-BABY-CANON DAY @DC \o/
I was cut out through sheer anti-social stubbornness. 😛
Thanks maaaaan!
Happy birthday @dc! A little something just for you.
Haha! So awesome! I thought it was going to be The Departure and it totally was!
You get me, Buble. You get me.
Sorry, I just had to fix the link. You’re too quick!
I’m known for my quickness.
Woah, I had never heard of Gattaca until now, but listening to the soundtrack and doing a quick scan of the Wikipedia article has definitely piqued my interest. I’ll remember to check it out next time I go to Video Ezy (which is about twice a year)
It’s our shared favourite film.
Happy birthday @dc!
Thanks buddy! You so kind!
happy birthday dood, I hope it’s a good day for you.
Friday and Sunday are going to be amaaaazing. Today will be alright. Haha!
@greenius totally gifted me Broken Age this morning, though. D:
what’s happening Sunday?
Nice one @greenius
Big Day Out! Arcade Fire!
oh, forgot that’s this sunday, derp.
Please go see Deftones and psychicly broadcast it to me, 😛
Better brush up on basic braining and my Psychonauts training.
Liar.
@DC! Happy birthday, man!
As a present, I’m taking today off from work.
Thanks buddy! Treat yourself to something nice! For me!
😀
Enjoy today, enjoy Friday, enjoy Sunday! \o/
We have a guy in the office called Gerd…
So i call him God… i see nothing wrong with this
How’s your day been Gerd? Would you like water..or maybe we should turn it into wine
Well it does bring an entirely new and amazing meaning to writing ERMAHGERD!
Anyone with a US copy of Muramasa Vita will be interested to know that the first of the four DLC episodes is out on PSN today, Fishy Tales of the Nekomata. It’s a whole new experience with a brand new character, Okoi, who is possessed by a demon cat and fights with her claws instead of swords. There’s a brand new story as well.
Here’s a (JP) trailer:
The DLC is $5. European release will be on the 22nd.
Hmmm, I want to pick this up. Still need to buy a new memory card though. Were are they the cheapest currently?
Also, @scree might be interested in this too.
I dunno, but I need to get me a 64gb card. Juggling things on 16gb is getting really hard.
Logged in at Lifehacker to respond to one of the nannies on the McDonalds experiment thing, but decided against it at the last second as I’m probably not in the right frame of mind to cope with all the downvotes. 😛
Don’t let stuff like that bother you, well rounded and good information will never be a match for assholes on a highhorse. It sucks that people online have to put up with such nonsense especially when they are providing a opinion about something and not claiming anything to be facts. It also sucks when people with good information decide to use it and be a jerk. Honestly sometimes people who are right but deliver it like a asshole piss me off way, way more than people who are wrong and deliver it like a asshole.
I guess its part of growing up that we start to view things through the eyes of others and tailor our response to them accordingly.
Hugs mother dearest. Also say more stuff. I never get to say hi anymore.
Hi, son! 😀
Downvotes are imaginary internet points that don’t matter
Unless it’s on Reddit where you have a running tally.
They can impact your ability to comment though.
Pretty sure we could all rock up and upvote it into such green that it would whip that busybody into such a fervor that they’d slip up and reveal (even more obviously) just how batshit crazy they are.
Edit: After all, you really can eat whatever the fuck you want and still be relatively healthy as long as you eat it at the right times, adjacent to exercise, and make sure that you take a multivitamin and do enough exercise to maintain a healthy weight. You might not get all the antioxidants you need for long-term health, but the efficacy of that is of dubious benefit given all the other things that are far more likely to kill you before free radicals.
Well part of them are right that eating a meal with excess or insufficient nutrients can have long term effects. Daily exceeding your recommended intake of sodium by 100% will be extremely unhealthy.
The other worry some people had was the amount of fibre, which could also cause problems.
I’m going to ignore your multivitamin comments, if you eat decent meals you shouldn’t ever need vitamin supplements. Complaining about antioxidents and the like is tosh, somebody who believes the health food benefits of whatever marketing company was paid to sell to them.
Well, the whole point is about what happens when you’re NOT eating decent meals, but instead trying bizarre diets without wanting to harm your health.
The multivitamin is the prop that enables the ‘eat whatever you want‘ assertion. Because it basically makes it true. If you’re not even going to pay lip service to trying a few greens here and there even if it’s only in a burger, or a ‘supreme’ pizza, then the multi is going to do its job in spades. You ‘should‘ never need it, but if you’re going to try crazy diets or eat like an MMO-addicted teen hermit, then yeah… it’s a great idea.
In general if you’re following those two basics of ‘vitamin requirements met, calories all used up’, you’d have to work pretty hard or have really boring taste in food and for a very long time, to do lasting damage to your health.
Fun story I am reminded of:
I remember one time a few engineering students I went to uni with set themselves a mission to get scurvy. Yup. Their brilliant idea was it’d be awesome to have on a medical certificate to present to their lecturer come finals time.
…Well, they were engineers, not brain surgeons.
They did their research and found that the foods with the lowest possible vitamin C content without killing them would be party pies and mini sausage rolls. (Which doesn’t say great things about the ‘meat’ in them because even meat has a decent vitamin C content thanks to the animal having eaten plenty of C themselves.)
Most of them gave up because they ‘didn’t feel so good’. Surprise, that.
Scurvy \o/
Yes I know what you mean but a healthy enough diet is easy enough to manage without having to take a multi. Even if you are then benefit of the vitamin is debatable. I think the biggest problem with the McD diet thing is the amount of salt you are ingesting. A multi isn’t going to help reduce that, it can be good for giving you what you are missing but can’t take out excess.
For the record I have no issue with trying it for a week, my biggest issue is the whole “diet” concept as a whole. It might help you lose weight or whatever but without changes the baseline diet things will just revert to where they were.
‘Dieting’ without increasing your exercise is basically just a really unpleasant exercise in starving yourself, anyway, which makes you miserable because your body is screaming at you that it’s starving. It’s no wonder they never stick. At least exercise gives you endorphins!
I finally got around to watching Desolation of Smaug yesterday and it was alright. Not good but not bad either. The whole movie was dragged down for me by
that goddamn cliffhanger. That is probably the worst point to end the movie on. People in the cinema actually groaned and some of them laughed in disbelief that that was the ending.All in all, a decent movie but definitely didn’t feel as good as the first Hobbit. I liked bits and pieces but other parts annoyed me.
Pop’s Movie Score: marathon-worthy but not a decent stand-alone film. 6 slowpokes out of 10.
LEGOLAS IS BATMAN
i like the scenes where he went badass. Orlando bloom as a elf makes me swoon.
There were points where Legolas was pulling off some crazy-elf BS but it was pretty entertaining/downright awesome.
The fight between him and the orcs in Laketown was a bit silly though. The fact that a bunch of orcs and two elves got inside a human town when the only way in is one bridge smacked of too much movie convenience for me.The way I see “the hobbit” is more about shoving a action movie into tolkiens world. The Lord of the rings is brilliant. But it’s also filled with so much story it gets overwhelming . The hobbit has all the cool shot from lord of the rings minus the big bulky story to pull along. You just have to try and appreciate them for what they are which in my mind is a movie series that is entertaining but not deep or engaging like LOTR.
Except The Hobbit is one of the better stories Tolkien wrote. Dude could world build like no other but once he stumbles across the mythical beast known as “plot”, everything is rather mediocre.
Tying all this extra stuff in does wonders to make it more Tolkien-eque but it does @sughly the goodliness.
Yeah, Tolkien was an absolutely amazing world-builder but a fairly average writer. A lot of what they’ve done to the Hobbit films is actually to try and work around some of the incredibly unsatisfying parts of those books. Trying to lessen the amount of Deus Ex Machina the book has (everyone is constantly being bailed out of impossible situations by some amazing and previously completely unmentioned thing which saves them in the nick of time, rather than their own efforts) and also the sudden story leaps
Eg in the book, Smaug basically goes to fuck over the town because it will make Bilbo sad and because he’s a mean dragon.I don’t really agree with how narrowly you’re defining “writer” there. He was a poor novelist and storyteller but his poetry and scene painting were fantastic.
Admittedly we’re now getting into semantics.
I meant writer as in writer of novels, so fair enough. He was an excellent poet and I’d argue he wasn’t a bad storyteller either (otherwise the books he wrote wouldn’t be popular 80+ years later) just not necessarily that great at prose.
I enjoyed it. Funny story:
My dad and I saw it together, I believe it was an 8pm session, but by about the last half an hour we were both nodding off into slumberland. We woke for the end credits and he turned to me and asked, ‘Do you know what happened?’ I replied, ‘Yeah I know what happened.’
Thinking he caught me napping and was testing me, it wasn’t until later that I found out he’d been napping too and was actually asking to know what the ending was. Neither of us knew.
That last fight
in the Dwarven forges against Smaugstruck me as being completely unnecessary. Could have ended the movie 20 minutes earlier and have a working story.I still need to watch it but everyone I know has seen it and I hate going to the movies by myself.
Yeah, I know, you’re sitting in a room where you can’t talk but it’s still nice to be there with someone.
I was in the same situation so I just went and saw it myself. I also saw Pacific Rim by myself too which was probably wise as I ended up grooving along to the sound track each time it came up.
I have the title track in my playlist I listen to at work
I haven’t completely finished the book (about the same area as the first movie) or seen LOTR (I really should someday), but this is what I thought:
I found it really funny during the barrel scene, they’d just stuck a Go Pro or something similar on the side, and there was a noticeable dip in quality, it looked washed out or something. I also thought they’d have to include that in the Lego game, because that would be so fun, right?
What I don’t get is why wouldn’t Bilbo mention to the others that one of the arrows found its mark and it might be best to, I don’t know, attack it through that hole, instead of covering him in a gold layer which does absolutely nothing?
And the darkness plot feels really out of place. The dragon’s been the main thing, now they’re introducing this other big, unrelated villain.
And then there was that love story between the elf and the dwarf, and he asks if she’ll love him or something, and we never get an answer! It looks like she’s going to say something, but then…CUT! Now we’ll never know what she says!
But yes, that cliffhanger was annoying.
Yo Rockets.
Watch Super 8 if you havent. I did and I teared up multiple times.
It’s just a bunch of pals hangin’ out, making movies. Oh man. So good.
And the alien but you know, mostly the relationships with the group of friends.
So. Freakin. Good.
Had a real Goonies. Sandlot Kids, early 90s/late 80s kids hanging out feel to it!
Also Elle Fanning was pretty great! Unexpectedly so!
THAT’S WHO IT WAS!!!
She was great.
Right!?
Anytime the group was all talking at once was amazing. Especially in the diner or in the car just after the train crash.
Some amazing dialogue.
Yeah, Abrams really nailed that kind of dynamic. I really loved the movie. Last act has some problems, but I don’t even care… first two thirds was just incredible!
Exactly.
Abrams has a knack for making me feel like I did when I was little. His movies just have that magic to them.
Yeah man, that universal experience of being a kid. Had a nostalgia to it, but didn’t dwell on that either.
Every time someone mentions The Goonies in the context of modern films I get terrified that someone will try and remake it and fuck everything up completely 🙁
Haha! There’s still talk about making a sequel with the original cast!
So like a modern version of stand by me?
Im in, ill check it out tonight. 🙂
Uhmmmmm, not really like Stand By Me.
I mean, kinda, but… it’s Stand By Me if it was directed by Spielberg who never got Close Encounters funded so he shoehorned some of the stuff into the script.
Kinda.
Basically it’s Abrams doing his best Spielberg impersonation and it totally works!
That is the best explain action of a movie I have ever heard. We can compare notes in the morning time.
Stay for the closing credits too. You won’t be disappointed. (Atleast I wasn’t. XD)
SO GOOD!
I think that’ll resonate with any kid who wanted to grow up to make movies. XD
tis a great movie, caught me off guard cause I heard nothing about it before watching it.
Except it does the same thing that everything Abrams does. Starts off good but halfway through completely forgets where or what it’s doing and just peters out doing whatever.
You’re forgetting that Dan and I are Lost true believers! XD
Lost was an appropriate name for that show’s plot.
Plot?
It made perfect sense!
*makes an elaborate chart*
*explains the chart in intricate detail*
*shows clips from the shows run*
So you see, Vincent the dog was behind it all!
*stirring music begins to play*
Your chart is just the word HATCH repeated a heap of times with a bunch of question marks, a giant empty space then the word SMOKE MONSTER circled several times.
How I expected Lost to end:
Oh my god, I was wrong!It was earth all along.
I guess you finally made a monkey
(I guess we finally made a monkey)
I guess you finally made a monkey
Out of me!
Disclaimer: Cakesmith has only seen the first half of the pilotWE HAVE TO GO BACK, KATE
Tell me you made it to that episode, at least.
Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
But apt.
Still, I enjoyed the ride.
I will remind you that Star Trek has some of the best pacing of a blockbuster in a long, long time.
Into Darkness is another story but that first one is pretty spectacular.
He’ll still be better at Star Wars than Lucas was.
Man, if I knew you hadn’t seen that when you were down last I would’ve made you watch it. Love that movie.
Also, also, if I may:
That soundtrack. Giacchino you genius!
Great movie. I think i’ll watch that tonight, THANKS!
I’m hungry and have completed one of two interviews today. Job hunting is definitely easier than 3 years ago. Helps that I have 3 years more experience as well though…
In football news, does anyone here mind if I talk about football? 😛 For some reason there’s a distinct lack of English non-league fans in Australia 🙁
Just talk about it anyway. I talk about sewing and quilting and hardly anyone cares but I talk about it anyway because that’s what I do with most of my time.
Fair enough 😀 hahahaha
Cambridge beat Luton, we need to beat them to get automatic promotion. Kidderminster beat the scum, I mean Peterborough. Football life is good atm
Anyone had any experience in building a baseboard for a model railway or other such project? It’s been a few years since I did anything major and am wanting to know which type of board would be best to use. MDF? Plywood?
Go for a good hardwood plyboard. It’s not cheap but it will last and handle the element better. MDF is good but it weighs a ton and gets destroyed by moisture.
Cheers. Moisture is definitely going to be an issue as will heat. Does plyboard handle heat well or does it tend to warp a bit do you know?
That’s why you want the hardwood. Having both moisture and heat warping is inevitable but the hardwood will be less than pine would be.
All this need was a reference to tea and this would have been the most British post ever.
FA cup and model railways
Smashing, jolly good, pip pip
Unfortunately I’m not a tea drinker (sorry for breaking the English illusion)
Worst pom ever. I bet you can even play cricket
I’m a fair decent bowler. My batting skills are only as good as Cook atm though 🙁 dunno if that makes me a decent pom or not 😀
*smacks sun*
FUCK OFF, HEAT!!!!
Also, I can’t get these files transferred to the console.
D:
cold showers and lots of them
I had a cold water bath yesterday.
Felt good.
I always find cold showers make me feel like I’m being waterboarded.
Same here! Even on the hottest day I have to have a moderately warm shower.
I can have lukewarm, or cool, but just cold water? no way.
I used to hate cold showers with a passion but I’ve learned to love them every now and then. It’s refreshing in a way that hot water isn’t
same here, I can’t handle only cold, it makes me struggle to breathe, i end up gasping for air, I tend to have hot showers on hot days and it helps cause it doesn’t feel as hot afterwards.
Cold showers always make me sweat for some reason. I have no idea why.
Nerh silly Transientmind,
That’s not sweat, that’s water!
*grabs cane, hat and tap dances out of the room*
Why can’t you transfer the files? You’re not trying to do it in the shower are you?
Started reading A Dance with Dragons this morning \o/
One more book and I’m free from G.R.RM’s grip and can read whatever I like!
Also, A Link to the Past is pretty rad on GBA, haven’t played a Zelda game since Ages on GB colour.
Aha. Ahahahahahaha
Try the First Law series next!
I just had a quick squiz on wiki about this series. Looks quite interesting! I’ll keep an eye out for them but for now I’ve been given about 8 ‘must reads’ from a friend of mine 🙂
Man, once a couple of years back a friend spotted (took a picture and showed us) this whole PILE of LttP copies for GBA that manifested at his local Myer. They were only like $20 or something. I begged him to go there and pick up three copies for me, so I could be perfectly set up to play Four Swords at some point if I so desired, but NOPE. Jerk ignored me 🙁
I got my copy from lukiegames.com for about $26, It was on sale at the time though, 45% off I think, if you’re interested.
I don’t know too much about Four Swords, is it a purely multiplayer game?
I think the GBA and Gamecube versions were, although the GBA version might (but I’m not sure) have a singleplayer mode. There was an anniversary edition released on 3DS a while back, it was the same as the GBA version, but had a singleplayer where you can control 2 Links, but you can’t get it anymore.
I supposed the easiest thing to do would be to test it out when I get home and see what happens. I quite like the Link sprites in Four Swords so I wouldn’t mind spending some time with it 🙂
Unfortuantely, it’s multiplayer only.
Other way around. GBA is multi-only, GCN lets you control all four by yourself.
Although as far as I’m aware, all three games are different to each other. Hard to say for sure though since it seems like nobody’s played the GBA one, or if they have they haven’t played the GCN one too :p
Ooh, Slow Tay.
I haven’t done one for a while, because I’ve been busy, but who’d like to do a Duel Shock on Pixel Otaku? I remember @scree you were interested at some point?
If you ever get stuck I’m happy to supply my special brand of uninformed ranting.
Sure! do you have a topic in mind?
Not really. Happy to jump into anything.
How about sequels? What makes a good one, what makes a bad one, “Spiritual successors” and unneeded ones?
I have some odd views on that I’ve been told. Could work.
Cool, I’ll flick you an email later
I’m still interested if you are
Sure! Got a topic in mind?
Don’t mind ^^
How about fan works? Cosplay, fanfilms, conventions?
Just watched a video comparing PS3 Tomb Raider and PS4 Tomb Raider. Sold.
I’m hoping for a Ground Zeroes PS4 console bundle. That may persuade me.
Malibu Stacy has a new hat!
I didn’t get to play Tomb Raider on PS3 due to my PS3 dying at the beginning of last year. I figure the Definitive Edition is a good option, and $79.95 at EB, so not badly priced either.
I guess … I’m just not to big on the whole re-releasing a game for close to full price. I guess the HD texture pack is nice but still…
Did Tomb Raider even have any DLC? I’d imagine they’d bundle it all together and that would probably justify the price (for me at least).
I didn’t think there was any DLC for the game. Besides, $50 for DLC. That costs more then the game actually does. /o\
From memory there was a couple of multiplayer DLC things, and maybe some alternate weapon skins or something.
=/
There was one new tomb, some new clothing skins, some new weapon skins, and a couple of other things.
Here’s a complete list:
http://tombraiders.net/stella/walks/TR9walk/dlc.html
I guess this is also for @popdart5
It kind of tempts me because I really liked Tomb Raider and they’ve apparently added some extra content, but I played it on PC so I already experienced a fucking amazing looking game, PS4 isn’t going to give me much on top of that.
So I’m going to wait until I can get it for $20 or so.
PS4 dudes and gals. How is your bluray playback? I’ve watched three movies now, and I didn’t notice anything wrong with the first. But the last two keep getting the audio out of sync. Have you encountered this?
Xmen First Class refuses to load properly Starts warning about how advanced and futuristic their BluRay is then just hangs at a black screen until you fudge around with the scene skip until it randomly starts the movie mid way through. Once that happens it works fine.
Besides that no real problems.
I get that with Zack & Miri, it won’t load because the PS3 can’t connect to the trailer server or some such nonsense.
If you turn off the innernette, it usually fixes the problem.
Could be that funky new copy-protection anti-piracy measure they uploaded to all Sony-affiliated blu-ray players. Cinavia, I think?
Haven’t tried BD on mine yet. Most of the usage has been netflix. Lots and lots of Netflix. That works pretty well.
I don’t think I have very many BDs in the house myself that are the right region to play (my family’s BDs are AU but my system is US) but I’ll try one of the Studio Ghibli ones I’ve got sitting around tonight if I have time and can pry my sister off the TV for long enough.
Watched Elysium on it, seemed to work fine! Still takes ages to get in though! *shakes fist at blu ray*
Mmm, the metal for this bulldog clip is soooo coooold. Sooo niiiiice. The coworkers eye me weirdly and observe that rubbing yourself with stationery is uncommon, but this is only because people don’t know what’s good for them. I know, and what’s good for you is nice, cold metal on your skin.
Yeah… but then again I don’t want humans hugging me all day… unless the girls in this office want to, not really going to say no 😛
Go put the bulldog clips in the fridge for a while. You know you want to.
THIS IS AMAZING
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shanell-mouland/dear-daddy-in-seat-16c_b_4585865.html?ir=Parents
That’s not a tear. I’m a man. *sniff*
Edit: Fixed link
I’m not sure I would have had the social skills to handle that eloquently. 🙁
I can barely muster a conversation with any stranger. Haha!
That’s bullshit. You handle yourself the same way around my son.
It’s your birthday, so I’ll refrain from calling you a doofus. 😛
Stupid Melbourne heat, making my eyes sweat
QLD needs water for the crops. I’m supplying that from my eyes…goddammit
What a legend
Ahh, I think I have just found the anti-me. We’d better not come into physical contact or we may destroy the universe…
@spaghett’s Last song played game!
Lush Life- John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
Far From Any Road — The Handsome Family (The theme from HBO’s True Detective.)
Been listening to this all day. So good.
Forces – Berserk OST
Amen & Attack -Powerwolf
Metal isn’t supposed to be catchy but there it is.
You think that song’s catchy? Try “We drink your blood” or “Coleus Sanctus”. So damn catchy. 😀
Mr. Strange loves Powerwolf and used to have them on regularly in the car until one day he was out and our son, who would have been around 3 at the time started singing “We drink your blood!”. 😛
The Fool – Dark Moor.
Did the free one month sub to Google’s All Access music thing and Dark Moor came up in a playlist of music Google suggested based on my listening habits on my phone. Loving everything I’ve heard of theirs so far. 😀
Should I Stay or Should I Go – The Clash.
Triple M’s Top 750 has been pretty amazing so far.
THE CLASH!
hey @dc, have you caught up on Rick and Morty, ep 4 was pretty great (as are all of them so far)
Still only seen the pilot. I know, pretty damn slack for someone who recommended it to a bunch of people. XD Speaking of TV shows, you hear Boardwalk Empires fifth season will be the last?
Dammit, go watch it, I don’t know anyone else that’s seen any. I really like it and can’t wait for more. They’re getting funnier IMO.
I did hear about Boardwalk, should make for a spectacular finale.
General Boardwalk spoiler
I’m imagining Al Capone is going to be doing big things this season, considering who he is and all and that his boss just left him the empire, curious to see where the Narcisse angle goesWatched ep 4 last night, such a funny show, up there with Archer imo 🙂
awesome, it is great, I’ll be sure to tag you in my future gushings over it. I love how bat shit insane Rick is.
Contains SPoiler of Rick and Morty S01E04
how funny was it that Morty was never actually in last nights episode, I totally thought they’d outsmarted Rick too, he’s a geniusHaha poor Morty, he was in the ep for 2mins and was woken up in the middle of the night and had a knife put to his throat. What happened with Mortys dad was pretty funny too 😀 poor guyThe guy had the best sex ever – even if it was simulated.He’ll have the memories. 🙂
Good episode.
I like how Rick in every episode says Morty’s name after every few words. ‘Hey Morty, we should go Morty, to the store Morty.’ Stuff like that. It really sells his manic nature.
I like that the episodes are on YouTube too, very convenient.
haha, yeah he is a lunatic in the best way possible, didn’t know eps were on youtube, that is convenient.
Wow. Club Nintendo finally delivered me a product which our household is making good use of. A Hanafuda deck! My son is picking up the rules for Koi-Koi rather fast…a little too fast if you ask me. #feelingold
I would use my Pikmin canvas bag more if it were big enough to actually fit anything in it 😛
I saw that. It definitely looks like one of the better gifts on Club Nintendo Australia.
Share office with co-worker. No-one else around. Only us in this office. We work quite physically close together.
Co-worker’s mum called her up to say “I’m vomiting and have the runs.”
Co-worker visited mum last night before the vom/runs came about.
Co-worker is now suffering a fever and stomach cramps.
I’m now suffering stomach bubbles and a light fever.
…Well…I suppose I have sick days and AC4 to finish…Really am not looking forward to the vomiting and runs, though.
might have to move console/pc into toilet or if you have a vita use remote play,
So.. sleeping with the co-worker, huh. 😛
Nope, just in a confined space [read: sardine can of an office] with no air conditioning and literally breathing in each others recycled air.
Also her fella is feckin’ huge and I would not want to mess with him, nor my wife.
Haha, sorry I was just kidding around – couldn’t help myself. Being that close to a co-worker actually sounds really uncomfortable.
I know you were joking. Just not thinking clearly right now. Bubbles and fevers and all.
Our office is so small I have to check behind me that she hasn’t rolled her chair out at all before backing mine out, otherwise it’s bumper car time.
We’ve actually played bumper car time in the office on a Friday afternoon. It’s kind of fun.I’ll bet your work has supplied you with ugly chairs as well
Do any Taybies live in/near Forster / Tuncurry?
Co-worker see’s me on gumtree trying to find a cheap snes and says to me “oh I’ve got a couple of those you could borrow”. I like this guy.
Now to find Turtles in Time! \o/
nice, I’e found 1 dude in our whole building that plays games and I never see him.
Is it the man in the mirror?
that’s why i come here, most of the time it is only the man in the mirror,
*moonwalks back to work*
I used to have a work buddy who would only talk games…..but he got fired 🙁
Upvote only because I picture him talking about video games non stop at his performance review missing the subtle hints that he probably shouldn’t.
😀
I think it may have been because he took a few days off when he got his PS4….and didn’t tell anybody…during stock take..
that’s why i put in annual leave, so I didn’t lose my job 😛 It was also around my birthday so i thought it was easily justifiable.
I suspect our IT guy might too, he has Mario music as his ring tone and sms tones, but every time he comes in there’s other people around and I have to stay “professional”
Bah professionalism.
I know right, I have somehow managed to keep my long hair though, even though I know my boss has a problem with it (my hair is about 3 inches from my waist, if i tilt my head i can sit on it) so that’s something. My friends always laugh when they see me in my work clothes (collared shirt, nice pants) cause it doesn’t suit my personality.
That’s quite an impressive mane. I too get laughed at when seen in uniform, more because I look like a child dressed up in man clothes.
haha, that’s how I always feel, I think I’m looking older now so I don’t look as silly, still look and feel pretty silly though.
Pics kgo.
??
@gutsoup
pics of long hair! And sitting on it!
oh ha, nah, I’m shy 😛
also it’s in pretty awful condition and not that impressive cause it’s so thin. I have the thinnest straightest hair of anyone I know
Oh god. My Facebook feed is starting to full up with conspiracy theories about Schapelle Corby again.
Kill me now.
that’ why I’m happy I’m even a hermit on facebook, I don’t have many friends compared to everyone I know thatuses it.
You ever do that Facebook cull we talked about? 😛
I’m just waiting to see an announcement for the totally-not-being-paid-for-the-story “Exclusive” interview any day now…
Unfollow is the best function on Facebook. I use it at least once every time I log in,
Fortunately that hasn’t reached mine yet. Although I’m sure it’s just a matter of time. Are they are least new theories or are they rolling out the same old stories?
It was all an Australian government cover up of their secret drug supply industry enacted by Fairfax and News Ltd.
There’s totally a bunch of government documents that prove it guys.
It all makes sense now. Also explains why the government is so worried and enacting a stop the boats policy. It is worried that people involved in the plan in Indonesia will sneak into the country and reveal everything to the Australian public
Because Channel 9 is doing that miniseries.
Why you have friends who watch Channel 9 is the big question to be answered here.
Because that’s the channel that showed the ashes. Obviously
My brother works for channel 9, is he in on this???
Wait she’s still alive? Amazing.
@shane: Watch True Detective! The Chief from Treme was in it briefly too!
Katawa Shoujo:
Kenji just accused Lilly of being part of the mafia. This guy…
OHHH man i liked that game. It was interesting and the story telling felt real. On my second playthrough i turned off the sex stuff though. It seemed forced and not neccesarry in the development of the characters.
Oh crap! Page six – that crept up fast! Quick, a joke..
..nothing. D:
Actually all that comes to mind today is the one I remember Jerry Seinfeld stating was his favourite of all time:
Two peanuts are walking along, one was assaulted.
Knock knock.
Who’s there?
Interrupting cow.
Interrupting cow who?
MOOOO……
FUCK!
I don’t know what burns more.
This heat, or your crotch after getting an STI.
#JokePage6
aww poor crazyguy1990! only a downvote! I lol’d but then I can’t vouch for the accuracy of this, so my opinion is invalid!
I think I startled @novacascade when I called him at work with some stupid questions.
Although I’m curious as to how many Freeze’s he knows when he asked what the deposit was for.
It’s a pretty common name. I’ve got three in my address book.
Somehow it’s @blaghman’s fault. He’s setting me up for not realising who he was that one time.
OH MY GOD HE IS OVER IN JAPAN RIGHT NOW! HE’S SETTING UP HIS ELABORATE REVENGE AS WE SPEAK!
Muahahaha! And now it’s too late for you to do anything about it!
Yeah I was rather confused, but then I also thought you said your name was Chris, not Freeze. That was what confused me more than anything. It was only when you mentioned Japan that I caught up with what you were saying 😀
Katawa Shoujo:
Remember when I said that Akira had the oddest character design in the game? Then I met Hideaki. Oh dear god… I refuse to find a link to an image search. Look it up yourself, and despair.
She just looks like a normal anime schoolgi…OH GOD WHY DID I LEAVE SAFESEARCH OFF?!?!
She? You mean he, right?Uh-huh…
Yes… he. I will say no more.
My brother rang me the other day, he was buying a pair of headphones and wanted advice. I told him I couldn’t really help him make a sound decision.
#dadjokepagesix hi @strange!Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn’t seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy whips out his phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps, “My friend is dead! What can I do?” The operator says “Calm down. I can help. First, let’s make sure he’s dead.” There is a silence, then a gun shot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says “OK, now what?
heheh oldie but a goodie! 🙂
They used that one in one of the KotOR games, using Mandalorians as the characters. It amused me.
It’s a classic.
@mrtaco
The 3DS version of Four Swords was the same as the GBA version, but included singleplayer mode and a few other maps. I couldn’t reply to you on the other page because my iPad kept crashing.
hey guys, not sure if this is within anyones expertise but here goes.
Mrs and 10 other girls had booked a taxi for about 7 hours for a hens night. Basically they are getting picked up from
1. Craigieburn at 9am going to south yarra,
2. Getting picked up from south yarra at 2:30pm to go to mooney ponds.
3. getting picked up from mooney ponds at 4:45 to go back to craigieburn
they were quoted about $150, reason it was so cheap was because apparently the drivers could go off after each drop off and do other jobs in between.
the taxi owner cancelled last night and the hens is this saturday. the girls have only budgeted for $200 on transport. does this sound beyond the realms of possibility?
You can try silver top shuttle bus or maxi taxi?
As scree says if you are happy to wait for a maxicab then they might be ok, maybe need a little more
You would probably know better than I but I would estimate
1. $60-$85
2. $30-$50
3. $50-$75
I haven’t taken cabs a significant distance in many a year so prices might be much higher than that now. If there is issues with a maxicab then you will need to times by 3
Best bet might be to try and make a deal with one of the drivers,3 big fares might make them willing to compromise
Is there any sort of online calculator for predicting fares?
lo
Will you welcome jerks this time?
sure!
hey can someone send me new TS deets?
sent to you through the twitters!
Trying to figure out what to do when we stop in Costa Maya for the day. The most interesting places are an hour to an hour and a half away from the port which means we may not get to do them depending on how late we sleep in, how long it takes to get off the ship,and how long we’re actually docking for.
Really want to try and see the Fuerte San Felipe Bacalar and the Lake there(nicknamed the Lake Of Seven Colours),but they’re the furthest away. Wouldn’t mind seeing the ruins of Chacchoben either, even though Mr. Strange continually tells me other people think it’s lame. I want to see for myself, dammit.
Apparently a friend of ours has booked this tour already: http://www.thenativechoice.com/chacchoben_ruins.php so Mr. Strange now wants to do it. \o/
It’s just a 15 US$ deposit each so if we sleep in or decide we can’t be bothered on the day, the cost is not too much to write off. And it’s really invaluable because we have the peace of mind of knowing we’re booked for an excursion. On previous 70K cruises we forgot to book our shore excursions and missed out.
Tell me, Strange. Are you worried about curses and the like? Ancient ruins are rife with them if my beloved adventure games have taught me any thing. Just remember to pick up any object that isn’t nailed down and try to go through every door and ask everyone about every thing. It’ll get you through the adventure!
Hey, I went into a bunch of Incan ruins and I only got cursed, like, twice.
I need to downvote this so I can upvote it more than once. 😀
I’m giving away all of my dead batteries. Free of charge!
I initially thought you were being serious…Then I realised you were joking…
Then you found $10? 😀
lol
Oh, and thanks to whoever recommended someone else the First Law Trilogy earlier today. I’m now grabbing them on my Kindle for the trip, too.
I’ve almost eaten this dinosaur cake on my own! *decisive nod*
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bd-_x4NCUAA8HFS.jpg:large
It kind of makes me happy to know there’s someone who works at Woolworths’ who is in charge of making dinosaurs for cakes. XD
I showed my son that picture and told him it was your birthday. “Woah! Dinosaurs must be his favourite thing!”.
They were out of the Colobus Monkey cakes.
That reminds me, I hope those poor monkeys in Helix weren’t your beloved Colobus’! D:
They were probably Gimpy Gibbons.
(Everything I know about monkeys is from Escape from Monkey Island!)
You would be the worst person to end up on the planet of the apes.
I hate every ape I see from chimpan-a to chimpan-z!
*wipes tear* DC made a dad joke on page 6 *sniff*
I’m so proud 😛
I have a confession to make. I own the first two Monkey Island games, and Tales of Monkey Island but have never played them apart from about half an hour of the first game, and the demo of Tales.
The second game is probably my favourite (with Curse of Monkey Island a close second…), but I’m not sure how well the first two have aged for a first time player. I can easily play them both but know there’s a lot of nostalgia there for me. @shane tried playing last year and didn’t care for them, I’m worried the same might be true for you. D:
As far as LucasArts games go, I’d rank Grim Fandango, Full Throttle and Day of the Tentacle above the Monkey Islands any day!
I know I’d like them though. I enjoyed what I played of them. I just have no idea why I never went any further.
Maybe the ghost pirate LeChuck scared you! Or the troll under the bridge! Or knowing the secret of Monkey Island was too much for any one person to know!
Also, how would you rate the others (after the second and Curse)? Should I skip everything and just play your favourites? Or should I skip your favourites and just play the others considering our recent TV show experiences. 😛
1.) Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge
2.) The Curse of Monkey Island
3.) The Secret of Monkey Island
4.) Tales of Monkey Island
…
Distant, distant 5.) Escape from Monkey Island
If you liked the little you played of the first, I’d play them in order! It’s kind of got a cartoonish story arc going on, but I’m certain they can all stand on their own.
So…I’ll probably like Escape the best? 😛
Almost certainly! 😛
O_O
Cool cake mang! They do occasionally have some awesome ones at my local woolies! Little while back I saw a Peppa Pig cake, a Hello Kitty cake and a Spiderman cake! Not sure if they’re all made in house, but they looked cool!
Haha! My mum bought the cake for me. She said she had the choice of cowboys or dinosaurs and thought that dinosaurs were more manly. XD
Yeah.. understandable. Whoever heard of brokeback dinosaurs!?!
Are you saying that gay men aren’t manly?
The contrary, sir! They are men’s men through and through.
no.. not a manly thing.. more.. a species thing!
I have reached my second favourite* part of each route in Katawa Shoujo. Learning how Hisao overcomes his heart condition. When I have fully finished this game, (it should take about six more months) I think I will compile a list of each lesson and post them in TAY. Hopefully Hisao learning how to overcome his obstacles might be able to help me overcome mine.
*Obviously my favourite part of each route of Katawa Shoujo is getting to know the characters. Their flaws, their strengths, what makes them tick, and keeps them going in their tough life. The characters start to feel more human than the people I know in real life. That is the essence of Katawa Shoujo.
Reached act 3!
I have noticed Katawa Shoujo has a common theme of the girls leaving at some point.
-In Rin’s route it was both the time that Rin started on her art show, and the falling out after the night together.
-In Emi’s route it was the break Emi and Hisao took for about two weeks so that Emi could study for her exams. This was because they were apparently having too much sex, and it was affecting her grades. Interesting predicament to be in, and one that I envy.
-In Lilly’s route, it was the two-week trip to Scotland so she could see her parents for the first time in 6 years. I suspect that this trip will have far-reaching consequences for the overarching plot. Let’s see what develops.
My family is away for a few days, so I’ve had the ultimate bachelor day: making artwork and watching The Shield. Have been very productive.
Here’s a sample of today’s work. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=653908121315126&set=a.363168413722433.77830.246284628744146
It’s always hard when they’re gone, but I am determined to make the most of the opportunity. Gotta keep moving forward.
Why are they away now? Why didn’t you arrange for them to be away March 14 instead? 😛
As for your edit, I don’t mind a few days away from my family, but more than about three and missing them is difficult. Except when I’m the one who’s away, because then I can be distracted easily. 😛
I know, I know… but I still have two months to strategise another pretext 😛
🙁 not rostered on next week, this upsets me cause I like money and working. Think I may start looking around for either another job in retail or actually go and do the apprenticeship I have thought of the past few years for a diesel mechanic.
An apprenticeship would presumably be better in the long run than retail. Especially if it’s something you’ve been considering for a few years now. 🙂
Yeah, I gotta look into it further, I know it would mean less money initially but long term would give me a qualification for a massive industry and could probably go overseas with such qualifications which would be nice.
So thought i’d try the new Bundaberg premix range, since work has them 3 for 18 dollars currently… Eh, the passionfruit & white rum one isn’t that amazing. My mate has been going on about how good the red rum & creaming soda one is though so I picked one of them up, so we shall see if he is correct or not.
Aww man…now I just keep seeing that kid from The Shining bend his finger and chant”Red Rum. Reeeed Ruuuuum.” 😛
Apparently, the same thing happens to drinkers after three bottles of the stuff.
I totally thought that as well after I typed it haha.
The ginger beer one is quite nice.
The creaming soda one ok but not as good, about the same as the sars one
Passionfruit was probably the worst of them
Interesting mixes.
The creaming soda one was awesome. I’ll pick up the other 2 tomorrow, see what they’re like.
@novacascade
Deposit sent to the account and documents emailed.
Sounds like you’re organising a hit..
Hits are cash only dude. Harder to trace.
Naturally…
I do em for gifts on steam
Awesome. Will probably hit our account tomorrow afternoon or friday morning. I’ll keep an eye out for it and let you know when I get. After that I’ll send through a confirmation letter with more details like final payment dates and such.
Glad to have you and Mrs Freeze on board 🙂
Sportsball talk: Just bought my ticket to the Ricky Ponting Tribute Match. Some pretty good cricketers coming for it including Ponting, Gilchrist, Hayden, Langer, Michael Hussey, Brett Lee (Big Bash League commitments pending) and Andrew Symonds. Tickets are a maximum of $15, so pretty good value for money.
Where?
Aurora Stadium in Launceston (Ricky’s home ground).
BROKEN AGE REVIEW:
The menu is certainly pretty. Won’t run past that for me 🙁
Master race! \o/
Oh good Page 6 is still here.
http://www.octopuns.net/
After what feels like years of pestering, my friend has finally gotten around to reviving his webcomic of awesomeness. I think you guys would appreciate it, if you haven’t chanced upon it already.
I don’t get #95
But otherwise they were pretty good don’t you think @shane and @dc
I think they are.
I haven’t read them all yet, but some of them are quite clever! 🙂
Heads up, Halo fans!
Amazon is having a sale on all the Halo books. (There’s like 15 of them)
This isn’t relevant to me, as I don’t have much interest in the halo series, but maybe someone else will have use for this information.
I am going to sleep.
Eh, already have all the novels 😛
Man, I need to stop going out and doing things all the time. There’s way too much internet to catch up on when I get back.
Now officially signed up for third year course! Fallback secured! \o/
Also more board games! I felt less dumb this time. Even when I completely walled in my city, and when we broke Quirkle.
Those were some silly games of Qwirkle.
EDIT: We also played two of the more complicated games we owned, one of which had an incredibly dumb rule book that I want to set on fire.
I should probably try to make it to another one of these board game meats. Even if it’s evident that some people would rather have the kettle on their team then me. But then who doesn’t like tea?
We have a day in Dubbo to work out how to house rule a kettle into our games.
Great, so my computer seems to have frozen on the “updating windows, please don’t turn of power” screen. Wait, no as i type this it’s now changed to shutting down. Was at 32% for over 40 min.
It now seems to be sitting on the shutting down screen for a worrying long time. Maybe this means it’s time to update to windows 8. Though I always suspect companies do this kind of thing to force people to update. Probably the same reason my iPhone 4s now runs like a piece of crap. They intentionally make sure it will so you want the new one.
Shut up, I’m not a conspiracy nut. That goes for you too, NSAQ
I had the same problem. I think the latest windows 7 update caused a few glitches. I got a “failed to shut down” notice.
Woah, blue screen driver power state failure. Possibly not good. But at least it is doing something.
hmm, seems to have started now. That was scary.
Keep an eye on it. Mine kept doing weird things and it was the PSU
If you have 7, stay with it.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD MORNING.
Hope you all remembered to stock up on ice cubes and cold packs.
I did more than sixteen hours of writing and artwork yesterday. Glorious.
16 hours O_O. Wow. Well done,
I’m in an airconned office but remembered to freeze my orange squash last night. Glorious 🙂
That’s a lot of writing and art 😐 don’t forget to sleep and eat 😛
I’m back in the office, so no 16 hour writing day for me today.
But when I get home, I’ll try to put in another six or seven.
Power Glove.
Holy shit. It is glorious.
haha, I had the same reaction. (I did however mix up the Aussie guys that did the Blood Dragon soundtrack with with the other one, I think the difference is the space, Power Glove or Powerglove, both are pretty great though)
Edit: I hope I’m not confused again and we are talking about the same thing 😛
Hmmm… I saw it mentioned (and that it was on grooveshark, so I went there), but it does appear I’ve been listening to the American no space band that does covers of game music. Now to try the other one with a space.
did you play Blood Dragon? the music improved the game by like 200%. So good
Still need to play Far Cry 3. Then Blood Dragon will follow.
Picked them up 2 steam sales back but haven’t got around to working out what uPlay nonsense I have to deal with just to play it.
aww, boo, u-play is the ghey. I would recommend both, last Christmas holidays I was consumed by Far Cry 3, it was the beginning of me actually enjoying stealth in games cause it’s so rewarding clearing out bases with no one ever seeing you. Then Blood Dragon came along and stealth went out the window cause Rex Colt is a badass who doesn’t need to hide & has weapons like a quad barrelled incindiery round firing shotgun. 2 of my favourite games from recent times.
Plus Blood Dragon has one of the best tutorials in a game ever!
I didn’t like that tutorial when I played the demo.
I understood what it was doing but it’s just one of those things where making fun of something but still doing the thing you’re making fun of feels just as bad. Like when protagonists in games groan saying, ‘not another stealth level.’ but you still have to do the stealth level as the player, ugh.
It was only a few minutes though so I’ll still play the rest of the game soon, I just have to finish Far Cry 3 first 🙂
I read the other day the Michael Biehn is keen to do another one and has spoken briefly to the creator about it. Funny in the article he said that after Blood Dragon within a week he’d had about 100 fans of the game approach him and tell him it was awesome, after Aliens Colonial Marines he got nothing, it was pretty clear he doesn’t play them cause he was really puzzled as to why so many people approached him about a new IP and no one did with the already established Aliens franchise. He sounds like a champ
@gutsoup
The danger with a sequel for Blood Dragon is to over do the cheesyness…
I think the reason why it works is because essentially the game is short and sweet, full of awesome… if they attempt to do a sequel, i would suspect they want to do a full length game out of it, and i would be afraid of the cheesyness from “ZOMG THIS IS AWESOME” to groan worthy by the end…
I do agree though, Michael Biehn is a cool guy through and through 😛
@gutsoup: I really don’t want a sequel. I’d be super happy for them to take an existing game and make a cheap cheesy 80s action movie spinoff from it again though. I want more stuff like Blood Dragon but I don’t want Blood Dragon II.
Awesome. I was a big fan of the original Far Cry – first game I could stalk the AI and hunt them down. I actually did a playthrough on Realistic difficulty to pretty much the end (I say pretty much, made it to the last area where there’s nothing but massive mutants with rocket launchers and figured I’d had my fun with all the normal enemies)
They’re both fairly high on the priority list of shame. I should probably compile that list properly to give myself a goal to work on for the first 6 months.
also, whoo I influenced someone 😀
Power (nospace) glove reminds me a lot of Arm (nospace) cannon (dunno if there’s space and nospace variants, but eh).
I think I’ve still got Return of the Attack of the Legend of Pizzor around here somewhere.
@negativezero
I really liked Blood Dragon and would hate for them to make a bad sequel and ruin it, I would also be happy for more cheesy spin offs, I think I like the thought of a sequel cause Michael Biehn is awesome, they should just cast him in any cheesy spin offs and I’d be happy :P.
Baw, for a second I thought you were talking about the actual thing 😛
Spelunky is a diviously evil and hateful game.
i hadn’t tried it until last night.
It kept killing me repeatedly.
I may have cried a little
I NEED MOAR!
it’s like Don’t Starve, it keeps killing me, and I keep going back, what is wrong with me 😛
Same reason why i like Dark Souls… Apparenly i like pain and suffering… Like S&M but for Video Games
haha, we do put ourselves through a lot of torment, we’re a strange breed we are 😛
Dear Tay
Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.
Also, a gif: http://i.imgur.com/bivlHmU.gif
Yours Truly
Red hot.
Oh wow. I can’t stop giggling.
holy shit, what is wrong with it? I just burst out laughing loudly, lucky my boss just walked off for a few minutes. A mate showed me this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oKTOTrao9g yesterday and I had a similar reaction.
Dobby’s twin also received a sock
Exquisite.
I gave the Banner Saga a go last night, Soooooo good! I kept saying to myself “I will save and quit after this part” but it kept getting more and more interesting. I’ve also been playing a bit of Enslaved (hi @dc). I’m reaaaaally enjoying it too, I don’t understand why it wasn’t well received by critics. So underrated. =(
Really glad you’re liking Enslaved! Such a pretty world and cool character dynamic between Monkey and Trip!
Enslaved want that badly received, most of the criticism against it was fair. It’s kind of short, the combat’s a bit simple, and the collectible doohickeys have awful design. In my opinion the story mostly made up for it, but mileage does vary.
I think it was buggy on release, hence the reviews. It think it also had frame-rate issues.
Here’s another fun filled reminder:
@sughly, @freezespreston + wife, @strange, @jimu, @gutsoup, @beardymcmuttonchops + wife, @popdart5, @sernobulus, @virus__, @dkzeitgeist, @transientmind, @beeawwb
Meat on Friiiiiiiiday.
WHEN: 7PM. FRIDAY, 17 JANUARY 2014.
WHERE: NEXT DOOR KITCHEN & BAR, SOUTH BANK.
WHY: CAUSE I MISS YOU GUYS SO DAMN MUCH! 😀
Strange has made the booking for 15 people cause she’s all kinds of awesome!
Really looking forward to seeing you guys. Food. Drinks. Good times a-plenty!
See? Fun filled! WOOOOOOO!
Too much fun! TOO MUCH FUN!!!!!!!! ARGH!!!!!
And that’s just a taste of the fun to happen on Friday! 😛
Tomorrow.
GIFT AND HUG SHOWER!
My fists will hug you… right in the face!
Maybe I want you to.
Yesssssssss.
First night out since the ‘Berg night where I was jetlagged to shit.
AND YOU THOUGHT YOU’D SEEN ME AT MY WORST!!!
o/
It’ll be my first night out since Mrs. Freeze’s birthday on Nov 23. I almost forget what it’s like to talk to people with my voice. XD
Hey remember that bit on page 1 where I said I wasn’t feeling well, like @coldcamv ? Turns out I was more right than I realised and have been bedridden for the last ~3 days. Starting to feel better now, and fever has broken, and I should be back at work tomorrow but if I’m not I’ll miss out. Please make offerings to your various Gods in my name.
Hope you feel better, man. 🙁
I will sacrifice the butter menthols to the fever and flu gods, by vapordrop be thy name you will get better!
This friday?
Nah, I’ll b thereWhat Would The Chief Say?
I’m sure a few of you remember us talking about doing a cheesy buddy cop film once we’d finished Julie VS The Dead and nothing ever happened.
Anyway, @Alexpants is working on the script but we need YOUR help!
I want this film, even more than JVTD, to be a TAY film which is why we’re littering the dialogue with TAY references, but I was hoping some of you talented ladies and gents would contribute to the story.
The first project is “What Would The Chief Say?”
What tired, cliche, humorous, random, or just awesome things might the chief of police say to our buddy cops or other police officers around the station?
The reason for this is I REALLY want @masha2932 to play the chief but what with him leaving, we’d have to shoot all his scenes first and write the rest of the scenes around that.
Reply below or head over to Pixel-Otaku! to leave a comment.
I should have said that what we’re aiming for is a low budget 80’s cop show not too dissimilar in style from Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace. Very campy with low production values.
When telling them to do a patrol he could say something like “I need you guys to Circle the Wagons”.
Reference: Cool it Sanchez
http://youtu.be/a8MsYislXJg
Good Gravy!
http://youtu.be/bPqRpar4PyE
Man, I wish I could grow an afro.
Has @cakesmith grown his hair back? Maybe we can cut it off, dye it black and stick it on my head
🙂
GENIUS! Or we buy a cheap wig from Paddy’s market!
I WILL GET YOU IN THIS FILM BEFORE YOU LEAVE!
Dammit Masha!
Actually, make him say that. “Dammit [insert name here]!”
And when anybody does something, they can call them a Monster. Or The Worst. Or [insert descriptive word here]-ius.
Also, while we’re listing things we want to see: make the main character interrupt Masha while he’s on holiday. Like, make him rush into the office wearing a Hawaiian shirt, holding a coconut with a straw and umbrella in it. COMEDY!
Also, do a where-are-the-characters-now end credits sequence. Those are good.
Those are my suggestions/demands.
Make sure “ugh, ” is said before it. =P
Yes! Very important!
Ugh, correctius.
Dammit Pow!
“That’s dumber than keeping bread in the microwave”
There needs to be bread stored in the office kitchen microwave at all times and the chief is always angry when he finds a loaf in there as he tries to warm his coffee.
I would like to see a link to my website post-productioned into every frame. Product placement is very important in TAY.
I’d also like to see new cop recruits hazed with the Oar of Thorns.
We should probably talk about getting some copies of your book some how. So every book on ever shelf is a copy of the lesser evil. COULD THAT HAPPEN?
Obviously, I love the idea. I have around 15 copies of my books sitting here (though only a handful of The Lesser Evil), that I can send up with someone if they’re travelling (or could bring with me if the stars align and I can actually participate). And most of the Sydney TAY folk also own a copy, that they could bring to shoots.
I know I sure do! While the Mashaa scenes will be filmed VERY soon, we won’t film the rest (including people interacting with Mashaa) until later, so we have time to plan this. I’ll also change billboards in post. Everything will be an ad for your body of work.
Woah. This movie gonna be AMAZING.
The chief is always reading a copy of The Lesser Evil or Peaceful Tomorrows
If I sent up a copy of Peaceful Tomorrows, and someone wanted to use a permanent marker to cross out the title and write POLICE PROCEDURE MANUAL, I would be okay with that.
Brilliant.
Can flu kill someone from them swooning to hard at his voice.
I would like to see a bit were there’s a hostage situation and all Flu does is say random words and the criminals give up just because his voice is so amazing.
“Kid, when I was a beat cop, we didn’t have no radio’s. We had to yell really loudly for backup and hope they heard.”
A TAY buddy cop movie?
Lots of gay subtext. LOTS.
So –
Story by Doc Watt
Screenplay by AlexPants and DAN! & Freeze
Prepare yourself for copy/pasted TMNT slash fic. D:
Story by Doc Watt
Screenplay by AlexPants and DAN! & Freeze
Dad Jokes by Shane
Story by Doc Watt
Screenplay by AlexPants and DAN! & Freeze
Dad JokesThe Lesser Evil by ShaneOh-ho-ho!
Well played sir!
There’s no subtext when it comes to me.
There is only text
https://twitter.com/a_sharples/status/422983604457570306
Cakesmith has his contributions.
Cop training team-building retreatCAMPING TRIP
Also, not necessarily the chief, but someone needs to at some point yell “IT’S JUST BEEN REVOKED”
SO DAMN KIND
Someone leaves the room for 10 secs and re-enters:
“Who’s this guy?”
Whenever someone mentions “Saturday” they follow it up with “Hi @saturday!”
Whenever someone says “strange” a “@strange” caption appears on screen.
Heh, it’d be funny to make everybody say “at strange” every time the word ‘strange’ comes up.
Also confusing. But funny.
I was picturing that at the mention of “strange”, whoever just said it turns to the camera and says “Hi @strange!”. Possibly waving too.
Then returns to character like nothing happened.
pronouncing @ as “at”?
I’m not sure, I’ve never heard it pronounced before.
I’ve decided to just post this GIF whenever somebody pulls a @saturday. I think it’s the best way to respond from now on.
This might not be workable but here’s a potential part of a scene.
“What sort of depraved person would do such a thing?”
“Yes Chief. A person would have to have a particularly dark soul to commit such a foul murder.”
Maybe slip in a wink or something and it’s golden.
Ale him put a pair of shade on before the dark souls part, Caruso the shit outta it
A 5 minute dialogue sequence where all characters inexplicably start talking in letter form.
Every 6th minute a character must say a joke…. or something along those lines to do with page 6 🙂
The chief screams every few sentences because he accidentally had caps lock on.
Rocket reviews
A fault in out stars
Before I begin, I want to point out I enjoy young adult fiction. I enjoy the cheesiness and over emotional rambling and being sad at things. Now having said that this book man, all the feels. The main character is a girl named hazel and it starts off as a depressingly real view of cancer and how people with cancer can lose all sense of purpose in their life. The book evolves into a love story between Hazel and another cancer patient. The book is filled with metaphors, talk of true love and at no point does the book devolve into a book about cancer. It made me cry thrice and those of you know how disturbingly easy it is to make me cry 😛
9/10
I’m the worst reviewer because I only ever consume media I know ill like 😛
🙁
Cancer is bad.
I got distracted by some other book just as they headed off to Amsterdam and never finished it. Should probably rectify thatCountdown to Dark Souls II: 57 days.
FDSKGHFSKGFHGFKGDFAKGJDFKGJDFKGJFKGAFKGFJGKAJGDFKGJGKAGJDKGJA\o//o\
That close? Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
THAT CLOSE!
*falls down twitching*
Wait Dark Souls II is out the same week as i’m going to the Grand Prix?
/o\ IT’S A BLOODY CONSPIRACY!!! 😛
It’s a shame you’ll have to miss the Grand Prix…
OR, bring a 1.5km extension lead, 100m HDMI cable, XBOX360, borrow power from one of the pit-garages and hook it up to one of the massive monitors around the track?
WINNER! 😛
I can just picture it. The drivers get distracted and crash their cars. YOU DIED flashes on the screen, and everyone starts to cry. It would be the best day ever.
Today started out with waking up late due to the missus being sick and waking up every hour or two with big coughing fits, running for the bus only to find out that the go card machine was broken so free trip to work.
I think I’m slightly up today, but that will soon change when the tiredness hits me. I have plenty of fruit for sugar fixes though
Oh, that reminds me to make a call! Thanks.
A couple weeks ago the go card machine broke on my bus too! After I’d swiped on. Couldn’t swipe off. BOOO, stupid fine.
“Ah, you’ll have to call Translink.”
“Bloody knave, I shall.”
“Hi! Yeah, we can’t see that trip yet, you’ll need to wait 48hrs for it to turn up.”
“DAMN YOU, BLACKGUARDS I’ll NEVER REMEMBER THAT!”
48hrs later…
“Mmm weekend, I’m’a’ play some video games.”
TWO WEEKS LATER…
“Zzzzzzz-snork! THOSE BASTARDS HAVE MY MONEY.”
And there we go… call made, $1.50 refunded. VENGEANCE IS MINE.
reminded me to remind the missus to ring Translink hahaha I got charged $20 the other day for touching off twice so in effect I touched back on for a journey that never took place. Next two times I touched on/off: $10 each time. The card’s under her name so she needs to ring up…No wonder Translink don’t have a Facebook page, it’s be nothing but abuse and definitely NSFW
I also have a hatred for Yellow Cabs after ordering a cab online 3 hours in advance and then it turning up 50 minutes late. Good job I ordered that B&W cab while I was standing in the soaking rain late for a vet appointment and it turning up 5 minutes after I rang
I like to vent about Brisbane transport 😀
http://www.bbcshop.com/doctor-who/the-fourth-doctor-time-capsule-dvd/invt/bbcdvd3800
Mr. Strange had some Fishpond giftcards and this is one of the things he bought which arrived today. So awesome.
Dear Tay,
What the hell? I go home sick early yesterday, feel better, bring in my big book of dad jokes for page 6 AND WE’RE ON PAGE 7 ALREADY.
Damn you. I’m gonna page 6 your letter writing page 7.
What’s the friendliest road in the world?
The M8Every page can be page six if you carry it with you in your heart.
Strange is gonna kill us.
That’s a very @strange reaction.
My hard drive for my Xbox MAME project arrived! \o/
And I’m picking up the other controller this afternoon! 😀
Also, I may have bought Soul Calibur V: Legendary Edition from the Playstation Store whilst it was on sale.
is it still on sale? I gotta get credit, want to pick up Muramsa Rebirth while it’s $16 too,
How much was SCV on sale?
I need to hear tales of souls and swords eternally retold
SCV was $21.
And that’s for the Legendary Edition.
The original version is full price, I think.
Definitely get the Legendary Edition.
Hey @sydney_peoples_I_have_no_list_for…
http://au.microsites.ign.com/bbsa2013/
Check it out. It’s IGN’s GOTY awards night with free food and drink and loads of pre-release games. The ticket are up for grabs tomorrow morning at 9am. I’m going to go, you should too! We have can have a ninja mini-meat sponsored by a rival website!
Only disclaimer: By telling you about this, you have to invite me if you get a ticket and I miss out 😛
Ok, so we need to settle an argument.
Pineapple on pizza: Yes or No?
Hells no!
Full disclosure, I used to have an allergy to pineapple when I was young. Now I don’t, but the mental connection is there…See, that’s an understandable reason.
So do you eat them raw or in a fruit salad or does the mental connection prevent that too?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple_Lumps
XD
Don’t actively avoid pineapple, but it’s not something I eat often at all.
Yes.
I like the way Enahs thinks.
No… unless you actually like it… then yes…
#helping\o/
God, you are just the worst person.
Damned Russiansmmmm potatoes…
Speaking of which, Potato Pizza is pretty farking amazing!
I’m having pineapple on the pizza I have for lunch so I’ll say yes
YES!
Yes.
I’ll eat pizza if its got pineapple on it, I just won’t eat the pineapple.
Yes!
I have been converted. Couldn’t fathom it when I was younger, but these days, yes.
No.
If you were a soulless monster that is.No.
Could never handle it as a kid. Now that I’m older and my taste buds are dying, I tolerate it, but would never actively order it. So my compromise is that if it’s on the slice, I eat it, but if it falls on the plate, it’s staying there. Survival of the fittest in action, except that they’re all dead anyway, and the most fit for purpose end up in my stomach, which is arguably a worse outcome than ending up on a plate, but then you end up in the bin… um, yeah.
What argument?
You know it’s wrong, it says so in the bible.
Yes is the only answer and anybody who says No is dumb and I don’t like them.
I say yes however my friend has a good point saying that its unnatural as there were no pineapples in Italy…(unconfirmed)
Absolutely not, what are you, an animal? Some kind of heathen? Why not just put cat turds on there? Madness. I don’t understand some people.
So now we can’t have cat turds on pizza either? Geez some people are fussy eaters!
No, not by itself. That’s not a pizza. You need cheese, ham, onion, pepperoni, capsicum, jalapenos, bacon, sundried tomato, tomato paste & fresh basil as well as a bare minimum.
No. I stick to @batguy’s philosophy of barely tolerating them, but actively wishing they’ll fall of so I don’t have to eat them.
Pinapples are way too extreme of a flavour to really gel well with anything, really.
TAYlist requests are now available, request now to get your song in the TAYlist*
*Not a guarantee
Barbie Girl.
I’d rather not, but if you insist…
If being insistent works…
Give a little – Hanson
Hot in the city – Billy Idol
Say Goodbye to Hollywood – Billy Joel
The Hives – Hate To Say I Told You So
Hand in my Pocket – Alanis Morissette
or
The Special Two – Missy Higgins
or
Walk Away – Franz Ferdinand
or
Forever Young – Youth Group
or
I’m In Here – Sia
or
I Want to Hear What You Have Got To Say – The Subways
or
Walking with a Ghost – Tegan and Sara
(I’m determined to get something played this week. XD)
This list is getting longer every time I refresh the page…
Overkill, much. We have Hand in my Pocket, so don’t worry mang, you’re gonna make the TAYlist.
Oh, play Overkill by Colin Hay too. 😛
Day after day it reappeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaars
Night after night my heartbeat shoooooooooooows the feeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaar
Ghooooooooosts appear and faaaaaaade aaaawaaaay
Summertime – Sarah Vaughan
Summer Loving – Olivia Newton John/ John Travolta
Sunshine of your Love – Cream
The Sun is Burning – Simon and Garfunkel
Summer Wind – Frank Sinatra
Summer Madness – Kool and the Gang
I’m sensing a theme to your choices…
can’t put my finger on what it is though
*strokes chin*
All groups with an “a” in them.
Hip To Be Square – Huey Lewis and the News
Now, if you’ll excuse me I have to go return some videotapes.
Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste.
feed me 1 stray cat 😛
Walking on the Sun – Smashmouth
Blister in the Sun – The Violent Femmes.
LOOK MY OFFICE AND HOME BOTH DON’T HAVE AIR CONDITIONING
Let me go oooooon, like a blister in the suuuun…
I’m dearly sorry, friend, If it’s any consolation it’s supposed to be 40+ here, today.
Yeah, it’s about the same in Whyalla as it is here.
Three Little Birds – Bob Marley
Requests are closed, thank you.
GWAR – Fuckin’ An Animal
I have no illusions that would make the cut but its a great song
I know you get this question a lot, but what is the TAYlist for? Do people just randomly recommend songs so that you can listen to them at work?
No way man, I volunteer at a radio station, and I play these songs on air, I take the best from my show and share them with TAYbies, since no-one can actually tune in (the broadcast range doesn’t go all that far)
DayZ question:
just wanted to get some opinions from people currently playing DayZ standalone. I totally understand that the game is in Alpha, but do you guys feel as though development is EXTREMELY slow?
I mean they had the engine, they had the chernaurus map, they had a lot of the 3d models, i really cant see any evidence of 14 months of development in this product at the moment…
i mean at this rate, unless they release some big updates in the next few months i dont see them getting to a beta stage before fall 2015…
My completely uneducated guess is that recently, development was focused on infrastructure and stability. The Alpha/Beta will let them test that thoroughly, and they can introduce the range of other features (which they may have already coded, don’t forget!) once they’ve done the testing.
An Alpha build doesn’t have to be everything they’ve made up to this point. It’s entirely possible that the next stage of DayZ is nearly ready to go.
Edit: or you might be right. They might just be lazy or inefficient or incompetent, or just resting on the laurels of their success.
i just think they are making some bad decisions. i know theres some new content coming soon, what they should be doing realistically is optimizing server performance. constant lag issues make it impossible at time. rubber banding is also a problem.
i just hope they get around to it before they introduce animals…. that will completely screw the server load for everyone.
spent 5 minutes literally trying to axe a zombie (should be a 1 hit kill) whilst my two friends slammed it with baseball bats. Server glitches, zombie goes flying into the sky and my 2 friends are accidently pummeling me with the bats. legs were broken, and i died whilst they were trying to bandage me…. wish i had been recording…
I haven’t played it, but to my understanding they had to completely redo the engine.
Didn’t they do a complete rewrite of the engine?
Swear that’s why the release date has blown out multiple times.
realistically, they implemented some of the Arma III engine features (lighting, HDR, subsurface scatterring). So basically they are running a modified version of the Arma II engine.
It’s a modified branch of the take on helicopters engine with some arma 3 addons. Seems a shame they didn’t just chuck the entire arma 2/toh content and rebuild from the ground up in A3 since it still feels like A2 to me
Maybe they’re looking at the feedback they’re getting and rather than making a ‘zombie survival’ game they’re considering changing it to a ‘backstab as many people as possible’ game.
That said, it is only in alpha, things will change, sometimes games don’t look like they’re making any progress and then multiple rollouts can come in short succession of each other. I guess with early access to games we can now see more clearly the development cycles of games. As @shane said below as well, developers don’t put everything they code straight into the current build either so what you can play right now isn’t everything they’ve done
Nah.
@dc?
No. Nothing Emo. Realised I was overthinking something I shouldn’t be and I’d probably ruin something if I did. Guessing some of you are in on it judging by my wife stealing all the phone numbers out of my phone. So not going to think on it.
I’m known for my emoness?
You guys suck. *turns on My Chemical Romance*
I’m in on it!
I’m not. I just wanted to feel included.So I’m in on not being in on it! \o/THATS JUST WHAT SOMEONE WHO WAS IN ON IT WOULD SAY!
Can I also be in on not being in on it?
We can get jackets!
Perfect apparel for the clueless on 40 degree days! \o/
Nah to the power of 8?
Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah
Hey Jude.
Okay, fine. I was just asking.
*storms off*
What is, Do you want to hear a joke about Sodium and Hydrogen?
Happpy Thursday friends,
Completed my first dungeon in A Link to the Past this morning before work! Quite enjoying this gem. Works so well as a handheld game.
Also relived one of the most harrowing decisions of my youth and chose Squirtle on Leaf Green. Appropriately nicknamed Leonardo (lame I know).
Oh and sent my application in to work in Canada end of the year. All before work started, busy morning!
Whats errrrybody doing?
You reminded me it’s Thursday and not Wednesday like my mind is thinking. Great success
Canada’s one place I’d love to go to. I hope you get it 🙂
Thank you, fingers crossed!
I just want to see a moose \o/
They’re huge, ugly and… huge!
…
That is all 😛
I’m hoping to win trust of one by offering maple syrup so he may be my faithful stead.
That happens in Canada right?
Bacon. You’ll need bacon as well
Can’t comment, i only know the swedish variety… standing around cross-eyed and clueless, but comes running when you open a Carlsberg
Anything in Adelaide atm: http://gfycat.com/NeedyAfraidDrongo
and that as much as anything led to my drinking problem http://img.pandawhale.com/31226-Airplane-drinking-problem-gif-IVz7.gif
I just wanna tell you both good luck, we’re all counting on you
Indeed, is a shame my new rental place has no working aircon 🙁
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151784250266734
this is making me laugh more than I really should. Anyone going on a cruise anytime soon? It’s a video btw, not a photo 😛
@strange
man last 4 episodes of south park have been hillarious… the console wars trilogy, then the hobbit… oh man that hobbit episode….
Hey baby, if you’s was a hobbit you’d tell me right?
“…yes she has a friend named Gandalf who happens to be a wizard.” *calls phone* – “Bitch, how you not the Hobbit again?”
Really unfortunate interaction with my boss this morning. I just came home from my night shift this morning and he calls me, in a chummy voice, asking when I’ve booked my flight. When I tell him it’s on Feb 8th he asks me if I can work more days and I tell him I can’t do it since I had already planned on finishing work this week plus I have things to do over the next 2 weeks.
Instantly the chummy conversation turn sours and somehow it’s my fault he didn’t get enough new staff on time*. He shouted angrily and told me to just leave and not come in today and I was OK with that and I thanked him for giving me the job in the first place. Just before he hang up I could here his voice change when I thanked him (kill them with kindness :-)) and 10 sec later he calls me back and says I can work tonight if wanted to.
I really wanted to say no but I had already budgeted for the extra money I’d earn today to pay off some bills.
Anyway last day of work tonight. Woo \o/
*That’s silly. I gave him a month’s notice in Decmeber and another 2 weeks notice at the start of this year telling him that Jan 15th would be my last day. At that time he agreed saying that date was OK and I could work more days as I needed if I wanted to do so after the 15th. I took that offer and changed my last day to tonight so I can finish on payday (Friday morning) and get my pay as I leave.
He’s an OK boss too most days and I’m sure he’ll apologise tomorrow but, Ugh, I don’t like manipulative nonsense like that. I was hoping to leave everything on a good note too.
Anyway now I can start focusing on my packing this weekend.
Packing-wise, it’s surprising (and not surprising really) the stuff I’ve accumulated over time. Mostly PS2 games that I bought when I first came to Australia. The PS3 and 360 were already out so as a student I took advantage of the cheap deals and mainly played my PS2 before I bought a PS3. Now they’re are too many of them. I’ve even looked into courier and shipping companies and the quotes some of them have been giving me are too much. Prices have ranged from $1000 – $4000. Jeez.
It’s just games ( but I want to carry them, waaa) and hopefully I can leave some of them with my cousin. Yesterday I was so close to convincing myself to spend the money even though that is really irresponsible – I’m still thinking about it.
I was even looking at shipping the TV I bought myself mid last year but I’l just give that to my cousin’s kids since they only have a CRT for gaming.
Has anyone dealt with moving a lot of stuff internationally? Maybe there are some companies I’ve missed. I should probably call the airline and check their prices for excess baggage but I haven’t bothered because I’m sure they’re really high*. They only offer 30kg on the flight.
I know I can manage to squeeze and fit my ps3 games and clothes to fit the 30Kg limit it’s just the extra suitcase full of PS2 games and some LEGO sets I’d have to leave behind. I also have a backpack full of uni notes which I’m not sure if I should throw away. I haven’t had any reason to use them so far but I keep imagining a scenario in my head where I have a marketing job in the near future and I’ll use them as I work on a project.
*Are there any sob stories they will accept? 🙂
You may or may not be able to purchase additional luggage allowances for your flight, or use your airline’s couriering service to get some gear on the same flight as you. I don’t know much about this, but one call to your airline should set you straight for that.
Speaking from experience, excess baggage charges come in a variety of tiers.
* Additional bags, with each bag under the weight limit, pre-ordered before the flight: reasonable cost
* Additional bags, not pre-ordered before the flight: about double the reasonable cost
* One huge honking bag that weighs a million kilos: extremely excessive cost, charged per kilo
Have you checked out any of these?
http://www.discountfreight.com.au/methods.php
http://www.worldbaggage.com.au/
http://www.qantas.com.au/travel/airlines/prepaid-additional-baggage/global/en
I haven’t tried any of those. I’ll look into them later tonight.
Thanks.
It’s one of those things where I’d like to do the thing where I just board the plane with a backpack and be free of all these material things but at the same time I can’t.
It’s those two copies of peaceful Tomorrows that pushed me over the edge Shane!
Monster!
Just kidding. Those were already planned as part of my carry-on luggage. 🙂Edit: spelling
I know what you mean, man. It’s tough when you’re told that things are just things, because it’s only partly true.
Yes, things have no real intrinsic value beyond whatever value we impose upon them, and some things are just objects that can be jettisoned without regret, but on the other hand, objects can hold significant sentimental value.
And with some items, it genuinely feels like you’re throwing out memories when you leave them behind.
They are physical representations of our journey through life, emblematic of the ways in which we have changed and the ways we haven’t, signifiers that remind us of the good times associated with them.
I imagine this effect is tenfold when you’re leaving a home behind.
In regards to airlines, they are usually pretty scrupulous when it comes to excess baggage, but it boils down to the person checking you in.
I travelled with 32KG baggage, and got away with it but i wouldn’t try for much more then that…
In terms of shipping it, it’s unfortunately criminally expensive.
Pack&send is the cheapest i’ve tried so far, but it’s still not great…
If you can put up with the wait, shipping via sea is cheaper then air, so that could be an option?
I MAY ONLY HAVE MET YOU ONCE AND WAS A QUIET ARSEHOLE BUT I WILL MISS YOU MASHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Pack and Send were actually the ones who offered me the cheapest quote at about $1200.
I’ve looked into shipping too and contacted a company called grace removals and they quoted me $1500 for a box of my own inside a container. /o\
You were not a quiet arsehole. Don’t be silly Pixel. There were many people there and we just didn’t get a chance to talk. We’ll meet again 🙂
WE BETTER!!!
*lip quiver*
TAY-meat in Kenya anyone?
Funny thing, I actually bought a lotto ticket on Tuesday wishing to win some money either to come back for a ‘visit all the TAYbies’ trip or if I won a big amount pay for a week long TAY safari for all 50+ TAYbies.
I won nothing 🙂
IMMA CROWDSOURCE THE SHIT OUTA THIS 😛
But only if i can have a proper safari hat… NO WAIT… Everyone needs a safari hat…
and Khaki shorts…
yeah!
Well I have an ‘uncle’ in Kenya so I could be up for that.
Well maybe in a few years when I have some money anyway
Are you saying he wasn’t quiet, or he’s not an arsehole? I choose to believe the former 😛
\o/
I’ve dealt with grace removals quite a few times. They’re actually usually more expensive as they offer really good service, so if they are offering a reasonable price then I think you should take it.
I moved the majority of my stuff a couple of years ago from England to Brisbane with Pickfords, I believe they have offices here. To ship I think it was half a container worth of stuff, roundabout 20 average sized boxes, it was around the $1500-2000 mark and I think that was with them packing all my stuff for my mum as well.
It depends how much stuff you have though. They price on volume as well as weight so big boxes full of games might be more expensive than you think. Maybe get a cd wallet and put the discs in there and the manuals in a bag or something? You can always buy new game cases for cheap wherever you end up I’m sure (cheaper than shipping them at least I’d imagine). If it’s just games you want to move then that’s what I’d consider doing. If you have a fair bit of other stuff as well like furniture (I had a shedload of books) then a shipping company’s your best bet
I’ll give Pickfords a call. Thanks
How important are the cases for games to you? I’d get some of those spindles you get blank discs on, put the games on those & just use them for transport. Maybe take the cover inserts & whatever leaflets are being passed off these days as manuals out, lay them flat & put them in a binder in your hand luggage and get new DVD cases when you get home
I moved back and forth from Norway but I managed to stay in my luggage restrictions 😉
Will you have family visiting you soon? I had friends who were planning to visit about eight months later so I left some things with them that they brought over (because they were going to be tourists here, so it meant they’d have space to take presents back to Norway with them).
My mum moved to the UK a few years back and she shipped a lot of stuff in a container however I think that was probably in the high price range.
The other option that one of the other girls used was some kind of unaccompanied baggage thing and the airline basically chucks the bag on a plane that’s a bit underweight anyway within the next week and calls you to pick it up.
http://www.qantascourier.com.au/Unaccompanied_Baggage.html this looks like it. Not sure what the costs will be, and obviously put your cheaper things in there so you don’t get hit with extra taxes.
I also recommend a way to reduce space and weight – get rid of the cases. Take out all the paper packaging and put it into a folder and chuck the plastic case. Put the discs into a disc file and you’re done.
Sorry your boss was a jerk!
Aw man, your boss is a jerk. You handled it in classic Masha style though. All kinds of classy.
*looks at your post*
*looks at my post below*
Get out of my head, Shane.
You weren’t in there a few hours ago were you? Cause, uh, it’s totally cool if you were, but-
Hey, look behind you! A three headed monkey!
*rocks back and forward gently*
The things I saw… I can never unsee…
Colobus monkeys. Colobus monkeys everywhere!
Aw man, he sounds like a bit of a jerk. Blaming you for his disorganisation is just mean. Kudos for handling it so maturely – responding kindly is something I would never have thought of.
“Kill then with kindness.”
Oh my God. It suddenly makes sense. The missing people, the mysterious corpses, no sign of force. You’re a hitman, Masha. You’ve been killing people off the only way you know how. It’s beautiful and genius.
Thank you Blaghs,
I am being very polite to you now, nothing unusual, no need to be afraid.
*Sharpens knife*
Nice of you to cook a roast dinner for him as well.
Like a nice Agent 47! Out with the piano wire and in with the courtesy.
@freezespreston Forgive me if we covered this here, but did you ever hear the result of your appeal?
They called me for the reference, and I ducked their calls for three weeks, and then eventually, in a moment of weakness, answered the phone.
Under bright lights of interrogation, I told them that I was pretty sure that Freeze was masterminding the patch over of the Finks by the Mongols. They thanked me for my time and hung up. I breathed a sigh of relief to be off the phone, and then remembered something important. I called them back to inform them that Freeze had a history of stealing diamonds in order to find a cure for his cryogenically frozen wife, but that he’d sorted things out with Batman and done his time in the asylum.
They said that none of this would disqualify him.
Then I told them about his penchant for dad jokes, and there was just this stunned silence. In a choked voice, the guy told me that I’d just given them some very valuable information and prevented them from making a grave mistake. Just before the line was disconnected, I heard him shouting “WE HAVE A CODE RED.”
Absolutely none of this happened… except I really do breathe a sigh of relief every time I hang up the phone.To be fair, the first call is what you’d expect about Queenslanders.
For well over a month after giving a reference to Freeze I almost had a panic attack every time the phone rang.
You should be a writer.
Nah.
I know, I know, it’s a crazy idea, I’m just putting it out there.
Urrf. You had to ask me that. No I had not. Was avoiding following up because utterly terrified of a rejection after nearly 2 years of hurdles and set backs.
Just sent an email asking for feedback on where my application was and my hearts sitting in my feet and I’m shaking crazily.
Will be good to have it resolved one way or the other, so you can move on either way!
All the best, my friend. I hope everything goes your way.
Break a leg.
Not your own.
Already tried that…
BOARD GAMES tonight and BURGERS at Grill’d beforehand. \o/
My friend tells me that he’s managed to grab Firefly: The Board Game and wants to play it tonight. Get hype!
Its a good boardgame. Pity its only up to 4 people. I’ve got a 7 person boardgame night tomorrow 🙁
7 wonders!
Yeah I’m making Anton bring that, I’m also probably going to buy Formula D.
Other option, of course, is to set up another table so you can break into smaller games if needed.
If I host board games I keep the invite list short.
I normally have a lot of people say no, this time more yes than I expected 🙁
We tend to have six or seven at the usual thing. Guess @gingerchris86 is preparing to take over :p
We’ve just starting doing two tables with the occasional larger game (basically The Resistance). On Saturday, we did three different games because there were eleven people.
Splitting up is really the best way to do things. You can make any number from three to maybe twelve work if you can find space.
I’ve managed to work out tonights menu of games so it should work..
7 Wonders, The resistance and Formula D (with everyone else moving the cars)
Of course there is ability to split up if more people show up 🙂
7 people is the worst. 🙁 So many great board games top out at 6. And 7 is just small enough that breaking into two groups is also tricky.
Megaman X and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4: Turtles in time on SNES are far too hard to find and for a reasonable price.
Hmm, then again its hard to put a price on childhood memories.
Bugger.
TMNT: Turtles in Time is such an awesome game. I think my cousin still has a copy of it.
One of the best sidescroller beat em ups in my opinion. Plus you know….NINJA TURTLES!
I have spent the day revising computer networking, mostly how UTP works. For most of the day, I haven’t been able to shake the mental image of Mr T. with a necklace of RJ-45 connectors, saying “I’m Mr T568A!, no crossover in this b*tch! Straight-through!”
Help me.
As long as Mr T is speaking the truth, you should just go with it. If he’s feeding you misinformation, you might need electroshock therapy.
I pity the fool who doesn’t like he!
I hear the Flavorwave is pretty rad.
You’ve got to be careful to route exclusively over wired networks because T don’t like travelling through the air
MAKE IT STOP!
The KFC English burger is surprisingly nice. Crispy chicken fillet with hot english mustard and coleslaw. I can see myself eating that again.
The Aussie burger by comparison looks like utter shit. It’s a soggy fillet burger with beetroot added because that ocker mate. Blergh.
Did you take pictures? Lifehacker’s always looking for peope to submit stuff for their takeaway truths and taste tests.
You are so Unaustralian. I’ve alerted A Current Affair.
HA!
I could stop it…. *turns off ACA’s Computers*
The best English thing about this Ashes series has been the KFC burger. Yay my heritage
I’ve had a few of them. They’re really good. But I’ve never liked KFC’s cheese. That brings it down.
I tried that sesame chicken stuff, fucking vile greasy shite. Its pretty much the avatar of the junk food stereotype. So weird since kfc normally manages to be palatable
Noooooo. It’s so good 🙁 It’s the most amazing thing KFC have ever made…
I’m willing to accept the possibility that it was an anomaly but it was pretty awful. Since I have kfc so infrequently I’ll probably not see it again unless they keep it on
I think I just shat myself…. I tabbed back to this screen to see the Skulltula pic… Screamed. and then realised….
TAYlist for the 16th of January 2014
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by good god it is hotSmash Mouth – Walking On The Sun (Requested by @beavwa, it was 42.9 C)
Alanis Morissette – Hand In My Pocket (Requested by @dc)
Billy Idol – Hot In The City (Requested by @tigerion, it was 43 C, even)
Billy Joel – Say Goodbye To Hollywood (Requested by @shane)
Hanson – Give A Little (Requested by @trjn, get off my back about fucking Hanson)
Pink – Please Don’t Leave Me
The Hives – Hate To Say I Told You So (Requested by @crazyguy1990)
Shaggy & Rikrok – It Wasn’t Me
Midnight Oil – King Of The Mountain
Youth Group – Forever Young (Requested by @dc)
Frank Sinatra – Summer Wind (Requested by @redartifice, it was 44.3 C)
Huey Louis & The News – Hip To Be Square (Requested by @cakesmith)
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Three Little Birds (Requested by @vonsack)
Billy Joel – My Life
Franz Ferdinand – Walk Away (Requested by @dc)
Violent Femmes – Blister In The Sun (Requested by @redartifice, it was 45.1 C)
YESSSSSS! Much obliged, my friend! 😀
You got THREE.
*flicks fringe*
‘Don’t worry, about a thing’
\o/
That was my alarm clock song for the better part of a year and now it just makes me feel like I gots to get out of bed. Still a great song, though. Just a cautionary tale not to use your favourite songs as ring tones or alarms.
A fantastic song to wake up to! One that would definitely put me in a relaxed mood for the day, at least until I got to work.
I’ve had the Game of Thrones theme as a ring tone for the good part of a year. My only complaint so far is missing so many calls from humming the tune!
At various stages of life my wake-up alarm music has been:
VAST – Touched
Terranova – Midnight Melodic
Alabama 3 – Woke Up This Mornin’
Zero 7 – Destiny
Jim’s Big Ego – Stress
Then I stopped using musical alarms and got a really fucking noisy klaxon instead. Though I’m thinking about going back to a musical one.
Don’t do it! I still can’t hear Riot Van by Arctic Monkeys without flashing back to my 2006 ring tone.
Yeah, ring tones probably isn’t the best idea. Doing that totally ruined Massive Attack’s Unfinished Sympathy for me. But this wasn’t my phone in my ear, it was the stereo in the living room/main room of wherever I was at the time, so more like alarm clock radio type thing, only with cool music. 🙂
One of the places I was staying – beach-side – actually had self-opening shutters on the windows, timed to let me see sunrise on the ocean. Listening to that music totally brings that memory back…
Edit: I really miss that place. I need to live on the beach again. Global warming weather catastrophes be damned.
Edit2: I also kinda miss vodka breakfasts. And being 21. And the regular diet of ridiculously hot backpackers wasn’t too bad either.
@transientmind at 21 sounds way cooler than @dc at 21. I guess all versions of Transientmind are cooler than all versions of D.C. too. 😛
Transientmind at 21 was a scoundrel and a reprobate and you’re a much better person for not having been him!
You’re assuming “regular diet of ridiculously hot backpackers” isn’t a cannibalism thing.
@aliasalpha TRUE AUSTRALIAN.
Where’s my bAaaarbiee Girrlllllll…. 🙁
Some place you’ll never find it!
Thrown under a bus so that Hanson made the cut. \o/
I’m not giving up more Hanson. They’re too rad.
I swear I put it on the TAYlist some time last year, made it to November before giving up.
But yeah, I’m not really into that song, so I vetoed, sorry.
Urgh. I now have a state election coming up.
URRRGH.
Anybody ever seen a political advert and how shoddy and sucky they are?
Anybody ever seen a local advert made in a very small community (i.e. on a shoe string budget with no production values and that horrible “I’m local!” taint that some adverts get?)?
Now combine the two.
Hello Tasmanian political advertising.
…URRRRRGH.
“Local”
Isn’t everything local in Tas? 😛
Especially the prostitutes.
Voting for the candidate on the ballot paper is like browsing the cubicles at a train station restroom and picking the least filthy one of the lot.
Voting in any election is like browsing the toilets at a train station to find all the phone numbers scribbled on the stall walls and deciding which one to call up and invite to your place for the evening. If you’re lucky, the issues you end up with will be treatable.
Woohoo! This one is treatable with non prescription cream from the chemist so I don’t even need to go to the doctor, result!
Hobart or Launceston? If Launceston, we should have a meat.
Hobart, but if the majority of Tassie TAYbies are in Launceston I could be convinced to do a road trip. 🙂
Actually, now the majority of Tassie TAYbies are in Hobart, now @benj lives there. I might have to do a road trip.
Do we have an election soon? First I’ve heard about that…
Also, is there a third Tasmanian amongst our ranks?
15th of March (day after my birthday). Stupid politics.
Third Tasmanian here. Wow. We have three people in a forum? That’s…I’m sure we all know each other somehow, it’s Tasmania after all.
I hate it when people ask that. I hate it even more when they turn out to be right and I DO know someone else from Tassie that they know.Since eating cabbage only for lunch last time wasn’t so great, I have decided to add grated carrot and balsamic vinegar. I think it was a wise decision, no? Too bad I sliced my finger on the grater.
mmmm skin and blood
All a part of eating healthy.
Haha, just impressed my bosses, they were all scratching their heads over some complex issues that have been going on for a couple of weeks, I told them “give em here, I’ll show you” spent the afternoon fixing it all up, took it to my boss and he said “Wow, you’ve got really good problem solving skills an a lot of patience”, all I wanted to say was “IT’S CAUSE OF VIDEO GAMES!!”
*pats self on back and gives self a handshake*
I was right to believe in you!
*scribbles note in Gutsoup’s file*
:D, *sniff* thanks man, I couldn’t have done it without your support.
Home time
*triumphantly struts out of office*
That might be less a validation of your abilities and more than @dc is now convinced you actually exist
I’ve hung out with Gutsoup on three separate occasions. Once was outside a JB Hifi. We bonded over GTA V!
Bonded in the camaraderie sense or the stuck together with glue sense?
BOTH!
9/10
I was expecting you to say “First one and then the other” but its damned good nonetheless
Its the hair!
Just like Samson.
What is going on in here?
We’re doing stuff, Jimu! Things!
Hope you’re well?
ahhhh, u know
Nothing you’d be interested in.
*uncomfortable silence*
Damn
WHAT’RE YOU DOING HEREEEE
@DC
I..I’m just browsing. Wasn’t gonna steal nuthin’ or nuthin’
one of the managers at work was sleeping at his desk today. He would’ve gotten away with it too if the snoring wasn’t so loud 😀
I think the George Costanza method of setting up a bed under your desk is better
I kept asking the Supervisor where I work if we could have a hammock. Never got one though. =(
demand it as a breach of human rights 😛
I did bring up today the warning you get with games about taking a 15 minute break every hour and how that should be applied to working in front of a computer all day. That’s as far as that conversation went 🙁
haha, I tried that, I said. “We work outside most of the day and only have this small site office, we should be able to get a bed in case anyone suffers from severe dehydration.”
Hey PS4 people, quick question!
You know on the PS3 how you can have multiple accounts? I was just wondering whether the PS4 was the same, or whether it was more like the Vita.
For example on the PS3 you can have a US account and any purchases from the US store can be played by other accounts (like my main Australian one), however, since the Vita only allows one account at a time you’re unable to play US store purchases on another account that isn’t the US one.
Thankssssssss
From what I understood (I don’t have a PS4) you can make as many accounts as you want on the PS4, similar to the PS3. The biggest difference I can see is that only games bought on the “Master Account” are shared through multiple accounts on the PS4. Although I think you can have multiple “Master Accounts” anyway.
As many accounts as you like with their own PSN account.
Yeah the excuse with Vita is that it’s a personal device but PS3/4s are family devices or whatever.
Works exactly the same as PS3.
EDIT: And that includes sharing software on the box. Though this *might* require you activating the box as the ‘Primary PS4’ for each account to allow all accounts to share each other’s downloads.
Eg. I have downloaded War Thunder from the PAL PSN and can play it on my US account, even though the US doesn’t have the game yet.
What about that “Master Account” thing Nob mentioned? My primary account isn’t a master one, can I still play content from it on other accounts?
Related question:
Can I only link my primary (sub) account to the PS4 or do I have to link the Master Account for it as well?
Your account is a kiddy account? All ‘normal’ accounts are ‘master’ accounts. The Master / Child account stuff is for parents to set up restricted accounts for their kids AFAIK.
You have one PS4 that is your ‘primary’ PS4, but that PS4 can be the primary PS4 of any number of accounts. I believe that it works such that on your Primary PS4, every account can access your stuff, but on anything else you have to be signed in.
It might be a kiddy account? I can’t remember when I set it up :P. There’s a master account and it ‘s a sub account under it. The master account is just one I made but don’t use so I still have access to it but purchases and stuff are taken from the master accounts wallet.
Mmm, maybe it is a kiddy account <_
… It probably is. There’s no path to upgrade one to a master account though.
Do you use it on your Vita? I think Vita can only have master accounts but not sure.
I do, so I guess you can use sub-accounts on Vita then.
Looking for rentals is something.
The first two places we saw were the best. The last place we saw looked like it was poorly maintained and the previous tenant died there. The death is less of a problem than the fact that the carpet apparently started bleaching itself. I suspect mould.
The amount of room you can get for under $400/wk is insane though. You can live fairly cheaply as a couple and if you get into a sharehouse it’s just obscene. There is the slight downside that it’s in Dubbo but I guess everything has a price.
When I was looking for my previous house, we went to an inspection for a four bdroom place. Pictures looked ok, but the price was really low, which attracted us.
Arriving at the house it was swarming with people, but we quickly realised something was up. A woman was in the driveway, coughing and telling her partner that she couldn’t go back in there. We quickly realised why -the mould scent was intense. We went in, hoping it was just near the entrance. The smell was pervasive, and everyone inside was holding their nose. We quickly left.
What gets me is there were people living there. Why they hadn’t gotten landlord to fix it I don’t know,and how the agent could let the place in any good conscience boggles the mind.
I lived for over a year in a sharehouse on the Central Coast with a terrible mould problem. I was always getting sick, everything in the house was damp to the touch and my clothes and shoes all had to be thrown out from the mould. We were constantly trying to get the landlord to do something about it but they never did. This went on for around a year. I moved out because I’d broken up with the guy I’d been with,not because of the mould. Sometimes you’re just grateful to have a roof over your head.
Sure, but you actually do have rights as a tenant to a livable property.
*kicks tire*
so this what one of those innernette things are all about huh?
so i can access the online technosupercyberinnermahspace from at home?
neat!
HEY TAY, I HAVE INTERNET AGAINI thought you said two weeks. WHY ALL THE LIES!?!?!?!
Foreigners are known for their deceptions! 😛
SSSSSHHHHHHH, (that’s a secret!)
That was allegedly the wait because the previous tenant had not disconnected their line and they needed to go through all this authorisation stuff, which i guess makes sense…
But i know a guy *taps nose* on the inside who fast tracked our request and boom, we got a sms today advising us it had been done \o/
Here’s some celebratory music!
Taylor Davies \o/
*wipes tear*
I was hoping for this.
You can’t trust me to link to JRPG music since I don’t know any! Unless you want to hear Miracle/Reunion from Ni No Kuni again! XD
that’s not celebratory music! THAT’S NOT CELEBRATORY MUSIC AT ALL! >=(
The second half of the song is pretty stirring from the two minute mark! 😛
What about this?
(cc. @greenius…)
Dammit @dc now I fallen into a wonderful FF orchestral pit of amazingness.
:’)
Pretty sure that was Freeze’s wedding song!
Oh god, the memories … THE FEELS! THE FEEEEEEEEELS!
@dc ’twas.
ye boi
http://www.speedtest.net/
Results pl0x.
Nothing amazing because i’m back to ADSL2+
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3235450713
*cough*
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3235454164
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3235458292
oh erhm… i’m sorry for your loss /o\
Hmm, these speeds are faster than usual. I usually get 0.5Mbps. I guess it’s because I am out of peak hours?
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3235548332
Heh, I forget my workplace is connected to the (old and good) NBN.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/3237126942.png
At home I would get approximately 1% of that…if I’m lucky…
Funny story:
I was at a Qantas Club, the internet wasn’t working, so I decided to do the test on my iPad. Results:
Download: 0.01 Mb/s
Upload: 0.00 Mb/s
Ping: -1
How do youe ven get a ping of -1? How does that happen?
Oh hi there
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3237120312
So, i am still working on the beemo cake despite the heat. I need to use my computer but it’s rather hot.
There’s also thunder and lightening but no rain.
Sounds like the makings of an Agatha Christi-esque murder mystery, right there!
Who murdered Beemo?
Right after the bridge is washed out leaving a group of suspicious locals and strangers trapped in Scree’s front yard.
Um…okay?
You can’t have a whodunnit without suspects!
It was all the horrible neighbours, which is most of them
Including the one who said you were abusing your dog?
@redartifice
I have no idea where that person lives. I don;t really care =P
*cue dramatic music*
Also, maybe Scree lives on the Orient Express?
I choose to believe this as well…
All her horrible neighbours lives on the other cabins!
There needs to be a rich fop, a former officer ranked no lower than captain, a foreign one to be the obvious suspect, one with an eyepatch which may not be necessary, a thief (possibly jewel thief, better than random bag snatcher anyway), an old lady who is probably a drunk and a middle class married couple having a bit of a rocky patch.
Got home from work today and downed a litre and a half of pineapple juice with dinner.
No scurvy for me this week.
Unless that was pineapple flavored condensed scurvy in a bottle ™…
WHO WOULD BUY THAT
Assassin’s Creed 4 fans who want the authentic pirate experience, that’s who!
A bottle of rum, a bottle of gin, a bottle of Irish pineapple scurvy o
you get crazy stuff in Collectors Editions these days
Also engineering students
cc @transientmind
The same mastermind behind the scuvy plan was also enough of a genius to get a lung infection trying to play the didgeridoo on the communal vacuum cleaner.
He returned to us after a doctor visit, waving around x-rays which had doctor’s notes on them. Most of the notes were in unintelligible medical jargon except for one giant circled area with very large, very clear, double-underlined note: “GROSSLY enlarged liver! Investigate urgently!”
He was oddly proud of this. “Must be all that drinking I do!”
😉
Woo!
Yeah! Life.
This wasn’t a reply fail. I feel good about life.
Choose life!
Except when we’re talking about a negotiable prison sentence.
No joke, that was my highschools motto. It was printed on the uniform and everything…
Sounds like they were stuck in the ’80s.
Wake me up, before you gogo…
@DC @Freezespreston i’ve picked up a shift for tomorrow 9-5 (8-4 for you wacky QLD folk) so uh, I dunno if I’ll be able to make it tomorrow. I really couldn’t say no to it either since I need the work :/
New plan! Everyone meat at @virus__’s work. The drinks will be on him.
Nah man, we’ll just call it a tasting, tasting’s are free!
I don’t finish until 4:30.
Ah okay, well i’ll meet you at your place of employment then if that’s all good?
I understand, my friend. Hope you can make it, but I would most definitely understand if you can’t!
I can easily get to the place where The Freeze works after I knockoff, so should be sweet. Just hope i’m not one of the poor souls that is helping to unload these 19 pallets of stock we’re getting tomorrow. Fucked if I know where that is going to fit since our current store is smaller than a BWS ugh.
Is there a group accommodation thing happening for PAX this year? Is PAX happening for TAYbies this year?
Asking for a friend.
PAX!
I… don’t think sleeping in the convention is the best idea.
Or maybe it is. PAX after dark, anyone!?
Sounds kinky.
I’ll give you kinky.
#page18
It’s in the city centre this time, so that’s a possibility 🙂
Haven’t heard of anything accomm-wise, but PAX is definitely happening. No organisation yet, since it’s 1234234 years away.
From a friend of mine
Way to go, Adelaide!
*hurls tomatoes*
WE’RE NUMBER ONE! WE’RE NUMBER ONE!
In boringness 😛
Nah. That’s such an old canard, perpetuated by people who come here for a week and don’t look around.
There are plenty of ways to entertain yourself in Adelaide and surrounds. Within an hour’s drive, there are two major wine regions, a shitload of safe, clean beaches, a couple of national parks, the whole hills region, and a bunch more.
Plus, we’re the festival state. From now (tour down under) until April there’s shit to do all the time, including the Fringe & Arts festivals, the Clipsal 500 and a bunch of surrounding events. Outside of the major ones, there’s always little festivals or things going on, and a bunch of other stuff.
TL:DR Anyone who thinks Adelaide is boring hasn’t tried hard enough. True, it’s laid back, but not boring.
It’s all true.
According to the car thermometer at 1500 yesterday, wagga was 48c
Most recent Sleepy Hollow episode:
They finally mentioned his clothes! Best episode. 😛Crane: ‘One sign of the impending apocalypse is surely skinny jeans’Nice
🙂
Shit.
Looks like getting my stuff over from the original hard drive on my Xbox will be more difficult than I first thought. D:
Muramasa Vita DLC 1 impressions: 2 and a half hours in, did lots of exploring so only on Act 3 having beaten the second boss. Based on the amount of locked abilities I’m thinking the story here could be roughly half the length of one of the the main campaigns. Not sure I’m digging the combat with Okoi as much as I did with Momohime but the differences are interesting at least. Very much worth the $5.
Also you have the ability to make it rain cats.
EDIT: Apparently she has two endings and to get the second one you have to go and defeat all of Momohime and Kisuke’s bosses again with Okoi. This might take a while to finish D:
Senran Kagura Burst’s PAL 3DS release (it’s getting a retail release, WTF? US was eshop-only and I already bought it 🙁 ) has some risque box art:
http://www.siliconera.com/postgallery/?p_gal=366772|0 (slightly NSFW)
The Japanese box art was nowhere near that smutty. I guess it immediately tells you what the game is about though.
It’s sure to make something burst…
By which I mean wallets.
Get you minds out of the gutter. 😛
Europe wins again!
i had to stare it for a good while before i realised it said Burst and not “Breast”.
but hey, the cover shows what you’ll get from the game.
As fearless as I am, that’s a game to buy off the e-shop, methinks.
But European release means you have to import it which means it gets delivered straight to your door and no one has to see or know about it. Except you, the website and the credit card company.
Like the rest of your questionable materials ;D
This heat won’t go away until Saturday.
And it’s 24 degrees right now. 🙁
Maybe some nightblogging will help cure my insomnia…
it’s 33 dry degrees here.
D:
WE’RE NUMBER ONE!
Lime & Soda water is good.
Shame the can is only 200ml. 🙁
24 isn’t hot >:(
Not compared to 45 it isn’t.
It’s 18 where I am. It soooo hot, I don’t know how I’m going to get to sleep tonight!
😛What? 24’s where it finally moves out from “cold” to “comfortable”.
Posting again because new page, but how many interstate TAYbies will be heading to PAX this year? Is anyone looking to share a hotel room or similar?
I’ll be there, not sure if Faction has anything organised for accommodation, so I guess I’ll see.
I’ve yet to purchase a PAX ticket, but I’d like to do it soon, though want to try to organize accom first 😛
You, uh, may want to look into that. Though maybe that’s my super nerdy 3 day passness showing.
We’ll have room for you to crash if you can’t sort out accommodation, so don’t be too concerned about that.
<3
I’m going. Or planning to at least. Who knows what’ll happen in the meantime.
Still haven’t got accommodation sorted yet, last year a bunch of friends shared a room and we’re kind of vaguely looking to do the same again. No one’s gotten off their arse to do anything about it yet though, myself included 😛
I’m going. No flights, no beds. YOLO.
Me!
Haven’t even thought about accommodation yet D:
Kyrgios won the first set?
And why can’t I watch Andy Murray?
Fuck you, Seven.
I should be sleeping,instead I’m listening to Red Hot Chili Peppers. :\
MORNING!
It sure is.THANKS CAPTAIN OBVIOUS
o7
*head desk*
HI SHANE!!! 😛That blissful few seconds after you first wake up and there’s no knowledge or memory of any responsibilities, obligations or stresses.
Then it all comes crashing down and forces you out of bed.
My wife shakes me awake in the mornings telling me to move my car. It’s quite distressing.
You should swap cars every morning so you can sleep in. Whichever car is closer to the road is the one she takes.
She clearly is telling him to move the car so she can get out of bed
Long story. I had that car accident back in October, now I’m using my mother in law’s second spare vehicle that my wife does not like to drive. She always gets home before I do and can’t be bothered doing the switch at night. I could always car shuffle two vehicles myself so I guess it’s my own fault, really.
That confused few seconds after you first wake up and there’s no knowledge or realisation that everything that just “happened” didn’t happen at all. You don’t actually have to be worried about how your girlfriend’s French father was essentially ordering you to find two guys to hire to take a hit out on some other guy when you wouldn’t even know the first place to start looking to find such people, let alone the money to pay for their services.
…
Listening to awesome music on Spotify is a great way to start the day.
Which awesomeness are you listening to this morning?
Listening to Heavy Metal radio, so plenty of different songs. Cowboys From Hell by Pantera is on at the moment.
I’m currently trying to work my way up through Cemetary Gates on Rocksmith 2014 on lead guitar atm. It’ll be fun and frustrating in equal parts 😀
That’s was what I was using at the gym this morning, awesome album
Ugh. Last night was hell. I had issues sleeping. Blergh
heat, THUNDER, LIGHTNING, WIND \o/
no wait /o\
yeah last night was not great
Hi Scree
What are the plans for tomorrow?
Go to optic bar and grill at 11.30 and eat things
I feel like I’ve been blanched.
All I want is one embrace/I’ll twist this bottle in your face!
“Ned you’re supposed to be fighting her off!”
“i’m tryin, im tryin!!!!”
New Orleans
Home of pirates, drunks, and whores
New Orleans
Tacky, overpriced, souvenir stores
I will not defame New Orleans
If you wanna go to hell, you should take a trip
to the body odour south of the Mississip’
or just head straight to detroit!
Your skin is coming off?
Currently 25 in Canberra, and in a couple of hours it’ll be 42. That sounds so unnatural…
I reckon Tone Abet has built a heat ray, or something.
Why would he do that? He’s trying to prove that climate change/global warming is crap and we don’t need to crackdown on our emissions
😛
It’s all the hot air coming out of Parliament House.
HIYO.
Nailed it.
Clearly he has a weather dominator. He’s in cahoots with Cobra to take over the world.
It always seems to happen when there’s a bunch of people playing Tennis in Melbourne…
Just another reminder:
@sughly, @freezespreston + wife, @strange, @jimu, @gutsoup, @beardymcmuttonchops + wife, @popdart5, @sernobulus, @virus__, @dkzeitgeist, @transientmind, @beeawwb
Meat tonight!
WHEN: 7PM. FRIDAY, 17 JANUARY 2014.
WHERE: NEXT DOOR KITCHEN & BAR, SOUTH BANK.
WHY: CAUSE I MISS YOU GUYS SO DAMN MUCH! 😀
Strange has made the booking for 15 people cause she’s all kinds of awesome!
Really looking forward to seeing you guys. Food. Drinks. Good times a-plenty!
If you happen to get there early, reservations are under my last name which is:
ClarkeAlso, I’ll probably be moseying about a little early.
I know Dan’s planning to get drinks at The End before the meat too.
When I was out yesterday I made sure to get some cash out so I didn’t forget. I is all organised and stuff. 😀
I’m kind of nervous! Was going to see Her at the South Bank Cineplex to calm my nerves before hand but they ain’t showing it. D:
Don’t be nervous, it’s just us! Maybe you should have a drink with DAN! beforehand to calm your nerves. 😛
But Dan makes me nervous! (I love you, maaaaaan, but it’s true. You’re way too cool for me. XD)
He’s too damn cool for anyone! That’s what makes him fun. And he talks a lot so he’s easy to hang out with.
I don’t want to be a weird friend he talks about on Zeitgeist for weird behavior, though.
Also! ALSO! I won’t be radio silent. You can contact me on twitter and I’ll be able to see it now! XD
Happy birthday 😀
/slow
You’re 363 days early! Fast!
Aaaaaand I’ve got tonsillitis. Looks like Monday-Wednesday was just the prelude to the main event. Back to bedridden I go.
Man, I was really looking forward to this. 🙁 Going to have to be extra excited for the next one!
Aw, feel better, my friend! 🙁
Cheers, gentsicles. Have lots of fun regardless!
🙁
Err I texted @Freezespreston like an hour ago saying I couldn’t make it cause work was dicking me around but now they let me go early, so i’ve no idea.. I should be able to argh. Stupid work.
@shane, you’re pretty awesome! That is all!
I get a post all to myself? Well, now I’m all embarrassed.
I think you’re pretty awesome too. But don’t tell anyone, or they’ll start those jokes again…Don’t worry, won’t try to put my hands in your pocket… this time…
@shane and @dc had squirrelled away time for their tryst, and the day was finally upon them. Sure, Shane’s family thought he was “writing,” but DC knew the truth…
He needs to stop. He’s making everyone else look bad! 😛
If it’s any consolation, most people in my real-world-life don’t really like me.
Cause you make them look like piles of crap as people in comparison! 😛
Aw man, I feel kind of bad now.
Monster.
🙁 That’s no consolation.
If it’s any further consolation, I don’t much like them either.
*gives DC punch in the nose*
*folds up punch in the nose, puts it in pocket*
Oh, that reminds me! *sends photo*
Haha! Thanks, man. Like usual, I look all kinds of terrible. 😀
Thanks for taking it!
That porridge thing that everyone raves about?
yeah it’s pretty great
*nods*
You sound like you’ve never had porridge before…
… maaaaybe? 😛
my parents gave me oats alright, but never heated it up… just milk… i hated it 😛
Whaaaaaaaaat
That’s gruel and unusual punishment.
My mum is a nurse, they are unusually cruel 😛
i think i’ve been over that before XD
No. >:|
Though @strange might think of your jokes as PUNishments, they are actually always excellent. So. Damn. Good.
<3
*hands crown over*
Now make sure you see a dentist about that crown.Why I don’t get along with people:
At work, some song starts playing at somebodies desk. A guy walking past says “what’s that music?!” and a girl standing near my desk says “it’s probably just a phone ringing”. Which it would be, there is no doubt of this. Happens all the time. I pipe up and say “Nooo..somebodies probably just pumping some beats to celebrate Friday”. Girl turns to me and says “No, I’m pretty sure it’s somebodies phone”.
–__–
Sounds like you need a sarcasm sign… everyone needs a sarcasm sign
-_-/sarcasm| << see that, that’s my sarcasm sign
So did you write that on a piece of paper and hold it up every time you are sarcastic?
I do keep a notebook handy where the cardboard cover has it written on it :P…
i should make a nice big elaborate sign that keep bluetagged under my desk that i can pull out at any time
Are you coming tomorrow Pixel?
yes sir 😀
Should have acted like you couldn’t hear any music and they’re actually insane. And possibly a Cylon.
Rocket Reviews
Wolf Children
From the same director as ‘The girl who leapt through time” and “summer wars”. It was just a treat, visually the shadding was dynamic and easy and enjoyable to watch. The music was brilliant and emotive. The story is a bit of a coming of age tale, first with the mother as she develops trying to raise 2 children who can turn into wolves. Then as the children start developing. It was really heartwarming. My only complaint was it seemed a bit slow, and they use a weird film mechanic where they linger on shots for 1-2 seconds, its not bad, its just a little jarring sometimes cause it seems like the film is paused. I enjoyed it, it made me both sad and introspective, thats how i know it was good.
9/10
Im turning into a games reviewer.
Worst movie ever. 8.9 out of 10 😛
Real discreet, Bonds. I needed some new underwear and there’s nothing I hate more than the awkward cash register moment with Best & Less lady so ended up just buying them online. They send it in this elaborate Bonds packaging that details exactly what’s in there, colours and all.
Awkward signing at the door moment with Indian courier instead. Not sure that’s better. XD
Next time you have to buy some in a store, hide them behind your back and say to the lady “If you show me yours I’ll show you mine.”
It would’ve been better if you’d answered the door in your old, falling apart (I’m assuming, why else do you buy new underwear?) underwear exclaiming ‘Well it’s about time, I’ve been waiting weeks for these’ and then proceed to change in front of them…wait, how’s that better?
*backs away slowly*
Even better if he just wears no underwear at all when opening the door, only a t-shirt or something and then exclaims it…
Works 67% of the time, every time
I once freaked out a courier by answering the door clad in nothing but a towel. In my defense, I had literally just gotten out of the shower which was at the other end of the house and the post guys at my old place would basically walk up, ring the bell and them immediately start writing a card out so if you didn’t open within like 30 seconds you’d have to visit the local post office the next day (between the hours of 10 and 4 when they could be fucked being open, mind you) and deal with the most grumpy, unfriendly post office workers in Melbourne.
Supermarkets that sell bonds and certain department stores that have self-checkout are your friend.
I avoid self-checkouts. I just know the moment I buy something embarrassing or personal the machine will break and seventeen people will arrive to help me with my purchase. Then I’d have to flip the nearest display and bolt for the door!
Real discreet, DC. Now we all know you wear Bonds underpants….
*snigger*
*torches TAY and builds new life elsewhere*
I bet they’re red.
Damn pinko.
I wear Bonds, too. @dc solidarity!
Bonds are best. @dc has good taste.
I’m pretty sure most Australian guys do. Maybe I’m wrong?
I know some guys who swear by Rio. Crazy persons. And there’s some kind of non-Bonds brand I don’t remember which does a fair facsimile of Bonds’ ‘very comfy undies’ range. I typically just poke my head into Target every few weeks to see if they’ve got one of those crazy specials on, then buy a few pairs of undies.
You can never have too many.
Haha! Since starting going to the gym I have way more showers, oddly. I also hate doing the washing, so make sure I have enough to last a full week. >:|
I think you might be wrong. It’s possible I’ve seen more guys’ undies than you. And way too many generic “white” Y-fronts that you just know their mother bought them. 😛
I pride myself on not having seen as many! 😛
*shrug* whatever’s cheapest at KMart when the time comes to go shopping. I like trunks at the moment. They’re like briefs, but not as brief. I like that.
Trunks are the best kind of mens’ underwears.
Tried ’em all out, have you? 😛
Edit: I agree. They’re comfy and actually kind of stylish.
Calvin Klein and Politix are where it’s at. So much better than Bonds.
I have actually been on the verge of throwing all my existing underwear and socks away and just buying a massive pile of new pairs of everything. Especially socks. So many mismatched socks 🙁
So. Damn. Early.
*rubs eyes*
I’ve been awake for hours. Worked out at the gym. And cooked pizza.
Now I wait.
*waits*
Pizza for breakfast. Living the life.
The life’s living me, Pow.
The living life’s Pow, me.
The living Pow me, life’s
That sounds horrible.
Oh yeah? Well so’s your face! 😛
Of course it is, I just woke up!
Morning hair on your face?
morning beard? that’s a thing right?
Don’t mind me! You’re a dream boat!
Or so the swooning girls lead me to believe!
Nah. He just never leaves the house without stuffing a whole salami down his jocks.
Nah, I saw a pic of him and he’s okay.
He resembles a young Manny Calavera!
bony?
His scythe, he likes to keep it next to where his heart used to be!
@dc next time he goes to have a drink you should exclaim
“Have some, Manny, just so you don’t forget what premium tastes like”
then go back to your punching bag 😛
Or when he has girl troubles?
“Love? Love is for the living, Sal.”
@dc
Your going to get a sore throat if you have to say that every time he has girl trouble
@dc and each time he leaves, give him a stick and say:
“Oh, and that compass in the handle, sure will come in handy too!”
Also changed your username and avatar apparently
@scree Melbourne meat plans tomorrow?
Not sure if/when we can make it, got a real estate appointment in the morning.
11.30 am onwards. Optic bar and kitchen
We’re having a meat?
@scree maybe should send out a reminder and tag more people?
I meant to post a reminder on monday but heat
Heat is why I might not make it. May be sleeping to try and catch up the deficit from the last 4 nights of 2-3 hours I’ve had.
Fair enough.
Will try though. I vaguely recall allegations of cake.
Yup. There will be cake
Edit because the “yep and nup” guy was another comic.
Anyways, this is sad, I love me some British comedy and he always ended up on the good shows as an awesome supporting character.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-17/vicar-of-dibley27s-roger-lloyd-pack-dies-aged-69/5204348
🙁
He was brilliant, absolutely brilliant in Only Fools. Very sad day
Son of a biiiiitch….
He was awesome in The Vicar of Dibley and Doctor Who…
Huh, I just watched Vicar of Dibley yesterday. Damn shame.
For the metalheads here, Kreator and Death Angel are touring here in April. Iced Earth tour and now these two, I’m in old school metal heaven. Kreator are one of the few bands I’ve wanted to tick off my gig list for ages
If I’d known you were interested I’d have told you as soon as I found out the other day. Mr. Strange has some very handy contacts so we often get a heads-up before the official announcements. 😀
Don’t forget Orphaned Land, Dark Tranquility and Septic Flesh are all touring here around the same time as well.
I like people with contacts 😛 My gig calender is piling up this year which is a pleasant surprise for all but my bank balance. Bloodstock is still on the books as well this year. Another chance to see Emperor and Carcass. I haven’t been this excited for gigs in years
This is the part where I again gloat about leaving in a week to attend this: http://www.70000tons.com/artists.php 😛
I’m not even sorry for gloating because I’m getting super-excited now.
no need to be sorry, I’d be shoving it in everyones faces if I was going 🙂
If you ever get the chance to do it, don’t hesitate. This will be my third 70K cruise and it’s an experience like no other.
Being poor sucks
Then again I’m not that into live stuff
@transientmind loves metal.. bulldog clips. XD
Oh shit, I totally left some in the freezer, thanks for the reminder!
…Ahhhh, that’s gooood.
I’ve seen Kreator, so damn good. Will go again for sure if they come to Brisbane.
19th April which I’ve just noticed is a Saturday. Finally Brisbane gets a metal gig on a Saturday night 😀
https://www.facebook.com/events/252828138220056/252857678217102/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity
Woot 🙂
…but it’s Easter Saturday and I will be away that weekend! Argh
*Puts on pretentious film buff hat*
So, the Academy Award nominations were announced:
Nothing for Rush. Really? Like, not even the technical awards. The sound mix in the movie was amazing. Let alone Daniel Bruhl performance which was incredible. I mean, American Hustle was good but Bradley Cooper was the weakest actor in that movie.Things that are weird to say:2 time Academy Award nominee, Jonah Hill
Academy Award nominated Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
@dc @dkzeitgeist
I saw Rush
i liked it a lot
*nods*
Academy Awards don’t equal quality. Never have.
He was out-acted by Amy Adams’ cleavage.
*swoons*
That cleavage gave me a Rush.
That Rush gave me a cleavage…
…
waaaiiit
Miyazaki’s final film The Wind Rises was nominated.
Shame that Frozen also was, and so Disney will most likely do some back-alley deals to ensure that Frozen (the film they made themselves) wins instead of the one they licensed from some shitty Japanese company. :\
Ooohh. Bunch of ArmA stuff in new humble bundle. Might be an excuse to try it out.
I’d get it, but I think DayZ mod is dead now since the release of the standalone?
Not really interested in DayZ (groan, zombies) but ArmA is supposed to be alright or so I’ve heard.
If it helps, it’s not really a zombie game as much as it’s a kill-on-sight PVP arena with zombies as occasional environmental hazard.
Arma is the kind of game where generally it’ll click or you’ll think its stupid. Kind of like Dark Souls in a way, its hard, you’ll die a lot but it rewards paying attention and playing carefully and harshly punishes running in like you’re a supehero
I’ve been meaning to try and organise some multiplayer ARMA II for ages and kept not doing it. After playing a bunch of Day Z I figured I should try out the game it’s based on.
I really don’t need another unending game. Do the Arma games have campaign thingy that can be completed?
Yep, apparently so.
Yeah, it’s all mission based and there’s a proper campaign, missions vary in length from about 15 minutes to over an hour depending on how careful you are and how effectively you fight.
Isn’t Afterlight considered the weakest of the UFO games?
Swashbuckle just got announced for 70000 Tons Of Metal. I always love watching Pirate Metal on board the cruise, it’s always even more fun than usual. 😀
This week, we discuss urban legends so of course the topic of our first kisses fits the theme perfectly.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2014/01/17/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s04e12-urban-legends/
If you haven’t taken the plunge yet and broken your rule of mixing social circles, today’s the perfect day to like Zeitgeist on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/DanKarlsZeitgeist
@dc is not gonna last long this week!
I never do…
…
:\
You’re known for your quickness!
I wandered past the noticeboard at work and someone put up a poster saying “I love this department.”
My immediate thought: Ha! Gaaaaaaaaay! (Immature I know but Chang can be so applicable in real life).
What is with Amazon listing products like shoe polish or workout videos with prices in the trillions?
The reviews saw usually worth a laugh but I don’t really get it.
Bug in the algorithm.
Acid Burn?
Crash Override?
Oh man, what were the others…
I know what I’m watching on the weekend!
Cereal Killer
YES!
AGHHHHH!!!
all i can remember is those 2, The Plague & Cereal Killer
Scream Spoiler
it’s funny the dude that played “Cereal Killer” was a serial killer in ScreamZero Cool!
Jaws?
Phantom Phreak and Lord Nikon
EDIT: I wanted to say Dixie Flatline as well, but that’s Neuromancer.
-REPOST-
This week, we discuss urban legends so of course the topic of our first kisses fits the theme perfectly.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2014/01/17/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s04e12-urban-legends/
If you haven’t taken the plunge yet and broken your rule of mixing social circles, today’s the perfect day to like Zeitgeist on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/DanKarlsZeitgeist
liked.
regretting it already.
Excellent.
They’re talking about making a Dexter series spin-off…
…about Dexter.Wut?
Dexter was the spin off series. its like they’ve taken in medias res & applied it to a whole series. it starts by showing the end.
the actual parent series is a work life / romantic comedy about Masuka.
Edit: i would totally watch a series about Masuka.
/o\
I lost track of that series after s4. From what I’ve heard, I got out at the right time.
I think that’s how far I got into the series, its a shame it ended like it did :/
They’ve released a preview for it too.
Just created a playlist with one album from each band that will be on the cruise(except D.R.I. because super ewww 😛 ). 431 songs, 32 and a half hours. With the limited loud music time I get, I’m not sure I even have enough time to listen to it all before I go!
I was going to do the same for all the bands at Big Day Out.
…
Then I just ended up listening to Arcade Fire over and over again.
Go see Snoop
Dogg Moose Meerkat Dugong Lemur Capuchin Quoll Walrus HyenaLion.Should have said Snoop Colobus. @dc would be bound to see him then.
I got you.
Knew it was going to be that band.
I think they’re on at around the same time as Arcade Fire, so you can’t even see them no matter how much I insist.
I did the same last night with some of the artists going to Laneway \o/
Jagwa Ma, Cloud Control, Run the Jewels, The Jezabels, Unknown Mortal Orchestra , Lorde, Vance Joy, Warpaint.
I’ve got some listening to do before 1st Feb 🙂
so looking forward to CHVRCHES and Adalita and The Jezabels. It’s going to be an excellent day 🙂
Big fan of CHVRCHES 🙂
I’m not sure if I’ve heard adalita, I’ll give them a listen tonight too!
Our oven is pretty terrible. My cake sunk a little because you have to open the oven to check on things due to there being no light. Somehow, one side of the cake burnt but only down the bottom. It’s…complicated. so I have decided to use the convection microwave instead from now on
you’re in Melbourne. just leave it outside for 45 mins.
Will only need 30 minutes if you put it in a car with the windows up
“Here’s something I prepared earlier mates!”
*Bloop bloop, opens car door*
Tune in for another episode of Jazza Oliva’s kitchen mates!
When will the cool change arrive?
D:
7 hours 55 minutes and counting
according to my weather app, between 2200 and 2400 tonight
That’s not efficient at all. You are the worst German ever.
Efficiency is overrated… YAAAY COMPLACENCY \o/
I hear it’s going to get to31 in Sydney today D:
😛I heard 29 today but 32 tomorrow. It’s going to be the worst. May as well live on the sun.
Where are you?
Geelong.
I have no plans to leave Brisbane at this time.
When you put on your sunglasses.
So Page 8 and Page 9 manage to crash safari on iOS 7 towards the bottom. And I tried Chrome (which is slow on iOS because Apple has some crazy code thing which other developers can’t use) and that managed to crash the entire OS (Apple symbol comes up and then goes to homescreen, but a tad faster than a reboot). It’s like they haven’t taught iOS how to handle memory efficiently or something.
EDIT: Spelling
TAY crashes the browser pretty consistently for me on ipad 😛 Wish I could force the mobile stylesheet on it.
It ‘s just a really dodgy OS update. I’m not on the latest build, but still, this should have been fixed in QA. A TAY person needs to start working in QA for Apple so nothing like this ever happens again.
Teehee kike.
Fixed now.
TAY on my Sony Xperia E is pretty crap too.
Just went for a walk around the block…
I guess it’s a tad bit on the warm side 😛
Yeah, but it’s supposed to be 21 there tomorrow!
I had to turn the office air conditioner temperature up a little because it was getting a bit chilly.
Same here. Except I don’t have control over the thermostat here. I think someone heard that there was going to be a heat wave, and they panicked and overreacted. There are people walking out of the building into the heat every hour just to defrost, and others who have brought jumpers with them to work.
In my house it’s a constant battle over the air con. Mum keeps turning it on because she’s melting, I keep turning it off because I’m freezing and getting a headache.
Which funnily enough is happening right now.
Time to take the next step and move in with one (or all) of your girls.
And fend for myself?
You’re crazy.
Is it ducted? Peg a towel over the vent
It is, and that is a great idea.
(Spoilered for wall of text)
Phlanispo’s List of Movies He Has Not Seen Because He Is a Young Bastard
-Castaway-Gattaca
-Matrix Trilogy
-Casablanca
-Citizen Kane
-Scarface
-The Godfather
-The Shawshank Redemption
-Fight Club
-Pulp Fiction
-2001: A Space Odyssey
-Die Hard
-Alien
-Reservoir Dogs
-The Sixth Sense (Even though I know the ending)
-A Clockwork Orange
-Hard Boiled
-Eyes Wide Shut
-Predator
-Kill Bill
-Robocop (Original)
-The Goonies
-Crocodile Dundee
-Ghostbusters
-The Princess Bride
-Spaceballs
-Revenge of the Nerds
-Lethal Weapon
-Mad Max
-Terminator 1 (Watched Terminator 2, freaking loved it)
-Top Gun
-Schindler’s List
-The Big Lebowski
-The Truman Show
-Saving Private Ryan
Is there anything I missed?
I don’t know what’s worse, Not having seen Alien or Ghostbusters.
No wait, definitely Ghostbusters.
When I was a kid, I really wanted to see Ghostbusters. I saw it was set to be on Television one night. (Please remember that Ghostbusters was 20 years old by that point) I was so excited. Then a bunch of my mother’s friends showed up and I couldn’t watch it. When my mother was told of this, she responded with “I am sure it will be on television next year.”
Excuses are all well and good but what are you going to do to rectify this grave injustice and insult to me!?
I haven’t seen either of them either. At least not end to end, I’ve seen bits of both. I don’t have an excuse either, other than conservative parents.
I don’t have any desire to see Ghostbusters but I would like to see Alien one day.
How do you people live with yourselves!?
WHAT WILL YOU SAY ON YOUR DEATH BED WHEN YOUR CHILDREN ASK “Yo Dad, what did you rate Ghostbusters out of 10?”!!!
At the rate I’m currently going I don’t think kids will be a problem.
Also how about this: I have seen Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection end to end.
Alien. Is. The best.
Just. Man… I don’t even know what to say, you know?
-sigh- I guess, just… just do whatever…
…
…
wut
I just haven’t had the opportunity to see it.
Was about to pose the same quandary.
Came to the same conclusion.
Not having seen Ghostbusters is almost unforgivable.
Also,
You can totally see one of Sigourney Weaver’s boobs exposed in Ghostbusters. Freaking weird the first time I saw that.Because I’ve got no idea what you have seen, here’s a partial list.
– Clerks
– Clerks II
– Children of Men
– Mallrats
– The Castle
– A Few Good Men
– Indiana Jones movies (except for Crystal Skull)
– Serenity
– Star Wars IV-VI
There are so many. So, so, so many. I need to get home and list my DVD collection for you.
TV shows are where my expertise lies.
In that vein, you should investigate:
– The Shield
– The Sopranos
– Sons of Anarchy
– Six Feet Under
– The Wire
– The Newsroom
– Treme
– Firefly
– Gilmore Girls
– Friends
– The Simpsons (seasons 1-10, which you might not have even been alive for)
– The West Wing
– Farscape
– Oz
Best movie list ever!
I have watched the first 18 seasons of the Simpsons, thank you. I have watched them so much that I can (or at least could) identify which episode I am watching by the first frame after the opening. I don’t think post season 8 stuff is as bad as people say it is, even though the celebrities were pointless.
I have watched all the Indiana Jones and all the Star Wars movies. I actually saw the Phantom Menace first, since I thought it was the first movie. I really need to watch the whole of Friends. I own season 1,9,10. I have seen many episodes on TV, but not enough. It costs so much money to get the DVDs though.
No, the first frame of the Simpson’s is always a cloudy sky with some blue, you might be able to guess the season, unless the clouds change with every episode.
I’m going to assume Jurassic Park isn’t on that list because you’ve already seen it multiple times.
I saw the first half of the movie before I got bored. The “Well, here we are, back in the car again.” line really tipped me over the edge. (Unintended puns are the best puns) Then I read the book and loved it. I tend to prefer books over movies almost every time, though. I hate the Harry Potter movies, but the books are some of my all-time favourites.
If you only see one make it Shawshank.
Then punch yourself in the dick for not having seen it already.
“Get busy livin’ or get busy diein’”
WATCH KILL BILL vl 1 AS SOON AS YOU HAVE THE CHANCE, THEN WATCH KILL BILL vl 2 IMMEDIATELY AFTER!!!
Also, please tell me you’ve seen Scott Pilgrim vs the World?
Yes, it was great. I suppose Kill Bill is in the same vein?
Also, VEGAN POWERS!
Hahahahaha, Kill Bill is nowhere near in the same vein as Scott Pilgrim, I just really like Scott Pilgrim 😀
If you’re a fan of overly stylised violence, awesome one liners, Japanese culture and sword fighting, definitely watch Kill Bill! My second favourite movie of all time!
…
You’ve never seen 2001 or The Truman Show? Alright.
The Truman Show is great. Best seeing if you hate big brother, it’s kinda like a parody of it (even though it came before it).
2001 is best after you’ve read the book, since the book was written at the same time as the film, so they’re pretty close, apart from one major discrepancy. The film’s pretty unclear on a lot of the points, so it only makes sense if you read the book, but it’s a very good book.
Both films are pretty cheap nowadays as well.
Yeah, go back and watch all of those. ESPECIALLY Gattaca and Casablanca.
Yeah, you’ve missed a few things…
Road to Perdition
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
True Lies
Unbreakable
Starship Troopers
Pitch Black
Stargate
Crouching Tiger: Hidden Dragon
Forrest Gump
Twister
Spaced Invaders
Batteries Not Included
The Fifth Element
Saving Private Ryan
Godzilla (the 90s version with Matthew Broderick)
Cloverfield
Mrs Doubtfire
Every Batman movie except Batman and Robin
Hook
Toy Story
Ace Ventura (uh, maybe just the first one)
Mask
The Mummy series
Independence Day
Silence of the Lambs
Addams Family Values (it’s a sequel, but it stands on its own and is the better of the two)
Hot Shots! (and its sequels)
GoldenEye
A League of their Own
The Naked Gun series
Back to the Future series
Pretty Woman
Speed
Toy Story
Se7en
Home Alone
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the original live-action movie)
Edward Scissorhands
Kindergarten Cop
Total Recall
Notting Hill
Love Actually
Austin Powers
American Beauty
Point Break
Braveheart
Wayne’s World
12 Monkeys
Jerry Maguire
Complete that list, and you will understand ALL the pop culture references. ALL THE REFERENCES!
Upvote!
Downvote!
Batman and Robin is a comedy.
Go in expecting that, and you’re golden.
Also, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pNY2Krf3Rw
Incredible.
What is that word after Matrix?
That word is Heresy.
I just realised…This is all a conspiracy.
Wet N Wild Sydney opened a little while ago. The heatwave is now hitting Sydney. The Wet N Wild people need profits. They caused the heatwave so they could get people to go there.
It’s so obvious now.
they’ve got a secret factory that just does nothing but pump carbon dioxide into the air.
#fact
Holy crap. January 25 will be the 10 year anniversary of the arrival of the Opportunity rover on Mars. It’s still working.
wasn’t it only supposed to last a few months?
90 sols. Which is slightly less than 90 earth days I think? So it’s lasted about 40 times longer than it was designed for.
what is it with NASA? they need some goddamn self-confidence.
“oh… the mars rover will last 90 days. coz you know… we’re not that great” *shuffles feet shyly*
10 years later…
Edit: its always been the case.
“oh… the Voyager1 will only last 5 years. coz you know… we’re not that great” *shuffles feet shyly*
36 years later….
Here’s how I think it went:
___
“The president wants us on Mars by 2013”
“We can’t do it.”
“I know.”
“We’ve got the Mars Rover, right? We can at least send that up, say it’s going to do some recon for us. Ha! We can tell them it’s looking for signs of life, or water!”
“Hahahahah! Awesome. But that thing? It’ll last a hundred years up there.”
“Don’t tell them that! They might realise we can’t get a person to Mars.”
“So what do we say?”
“Ninety days.”
“Aren’t they going to get wise?”
“Maybe. But at least in ten years time when we haven’t set foot on Mars, we can at least point to the Rover and say, ‘hey, it’s not all bad.’”
“You’re a genius.”
* Everyone gets a raise *
just replace * Everyone gets a raise * with * Government cuts all the funding * & you’re spot on.
* Government cuts all the program funding *
* NASA staff get another raise *
That’s pretty impressive. Howabout those solar powered batteries, eh?
solar power’s clearly crap and the work of the devil. The Rover would be working a guaranteed 100 more years if it was coal/gas/petrol/nuclear powered, plus it would give off emissions into the Martian atmosphere creating an Earth-like environment for colonisation
Really should get a school named after it!
Opportunity Memorial Elementary School of Excellence for Gifted Children
And they get held back so long that their schooling career lasts forty times longer than kids of other schools.
http://bit.ly/K8iSJI
@transientmind sent me the photo from when Shane was in town when I totally punched the guy in the face, good and proper. Terrible facial expression aside, thought you’d guys want photographic proof.
God, that’s so fake. I’m surprised you didn’t Photoshop tits onto me.
You’re fake. I bet when Pete Murray wrote this song, he was thinking of you…
*runs off sobbing*
I can’t believe you photoshopped the blood and horns out, man.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oa9wm9m2lh969hs/BeI9NDnCAAAftK-.jpg
I concede, that’s a better photo. XD
Why are you punching me?
oh wait no that’s Shane, silly me… The rugged handsomeness should have tipped me off
from the expression on Shane’s face, it looks less like a punch and more like a loving caress.
and from the expression on DC’s face, it looks less like a loving caress & more like your first experience of BDSM & you’re not exactly digging it.
Well bear in mind that it’s posed, so it’s more like:
@Shane: Sigh. Oh well, hopefully this’ll be the last we hear of this tired old bit…
@dc: Oh god how long does it take to take a photo this is an uncomfortably long time to make contact!
missed opportunity for the old superglue-on-fist trick there
more violence needed
This is more how I remember it
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oa9wm9m2lh969hs/BeI9NDnCAAAftK-.jpg
Oh the humanity. Won’t someone pleeeeeeeeeease think of the children?
This guy is a comic book artist!
I don’t see what that has to do with the photo :\
Hey @trjn I was lurking in articles and I noticed that you & @freya are moving to dubbo?
What caused this? Work?
When is this happening?
Is my incessant questioning too personal?
Also I live about 45mins away from there. @novacascade is just under 2hrs away.
She got a job there that starts in early February.
If this means we already have a ready made potential board game group, I’m all for this sort of questioning :p
According to google maps you are only 19 hours away, weekend drives to dubbo for 4 hours before i have to drive back. woo
Why would you need to drive?
He doesn’t love us enough to spend several hundred dollars on air fares.
Dubbo has a airport? huh the things you learn.
Yup. They even have a security gate thingy now.
They didn’t the first time I flew there around this time last year but when we were there yesterday, it almost felt like a real airport.
Its probably like bundaberg airport. It has a room and a long piece of concrete.
Has it been upgraded from a grass runway yet? 😛
Yeah and after the security screening went in there was a massive cluster—- between Qantas and Rex as to who was supposed to pay for it
Sif a rocketman has to pay to fly.
I love you guys enough to have spent many more than several hundreds of dollars just to attend board games, FYI.
Just in case you guys ever get into an argument about who loves you more, between Rocketman and me.
It’s me. The answer is me.
It’s all we do, argue about which of our friends loves us the most.
Only 9 hours drive from here!
Hell I’m up for something new! My experience with board games noodles the usual suspects. Mostly monopoly.
I could even show you the sights of dubbo, (there aren’t any) 😛
Teaching people how to play board games is pretty much my job these days. It’s the only thing that I’ve done on a consistent basis since moving to Sydney. Well, I’ve also consistently lost at board games, but that sounds like a worse job to brag about.
I’m up for board games 🙂
having coffee flavoured yoghurt for lunch, thought I’d try it cause I love coffee,
it is terrible 🙁
I’ve had coffee yoghurt…
no wait…
That’s my coffee from last month that i left on my desk 😛
you sure it’s still on your desk, I’m starting to think that that’s what this actually is
I secretely supply all major yoghurt mafia’s with the main ingredient… How else do you think i can afford my expensive life style? 😛
Reminds me of hunting for mugs of coffee at school…
When I was at high school, our school made a big deal of setting up ‘services’ clubs to fill in a Friday afternoon. Most of them were not exactly ‘as advertised’, except for the ‘Shop’ club who worked on building sturdy wooden outdoor furniture for the school. .
So there was the Animal Services club which was full of girls who think puppies and kittens are so ky00t, who ended up getting shipped to the local animal shelter to muck out the poop.
There was the Emergency Services club which basically spent all their time drilling in orienteering, knot-tying, first-aid, environmental hazard awareness, fire extinguisher use, and other emergency procedures. (This was all legit shit, too. Our school was run by an old ex-Army Major who staffed it with a bunch of ex-mil teachers, and their idea of a ‘school camp’ was to blindfold and dump students in the wilderness with fifty bucks, a map, compass, and a list of objects to acquire from various landmarks. Yeah.)
I was in the ‘Community Services’ club, which was – surprisingly – was filled with our most reckless and violent juvenile delinquents. We spent our time visiting Old Folks homes, talking to the residents. The guys LOVED it, because the old folks would buy us bottles of lemonade to take back, and would tell us the most horrifying stories of the war they could think of, to the delight of rough little teenage boys. And some of the dementia patients would hit on us, thinking we were male prostitutes.
At one point, however, I joined the ‘Art Club’. Which basically consisted of cleaning up the two giant Titan sheds that comprised the Art department at the time. Cleaning a hell of a lot of paint, brushes, palettes, fixing easels, and the one funniest quirk for the end of the day… As the temporary captain of that club (I had a lot of fingers in a lot of pies in those days – it was a small school), I offered a prize to whichever student could collect the most half-full coffee mugs belonging to the diminutive (and hot) head of the Art department. Bonus points for whichever mug showed the most advanced signs of fungal/bacterial growth.
Each student would usually bring around at least a couple mugs. In the space of one week we’d always uncover dozens.
WOOOH \o/ one of my comments triggered a genuine Transientmind Anecdote™
That sounds kind of awesome.
Oh man, it WAS awesome. I mean, we bitched about all the things they made us do at the time, but we also kind of loved getting pushed.
Many times they took us out on ‘bivouac’. Because our year group was always the eldest (they kept adding year levels as the school got older), we were the guinea pigs for the all the camps. Whether it was island hopping on the coast, trekking across Fraser Island, or heading up to the Granite Range and climbing mountains, or paddling up the river to get to the Cooloola sand flats.
We’d be taught various bushcraft skills, had to carry all our food and shelter and clothes for most of the camps, sometimes our shelters were ‘hutchies’. Many of the routes we took to places weren’t popular or marked trails, with orienteering instructions that could only be found at each step of the way.
Carrying all your food can be pretty rough. Some of our hikes were like… 50km forced marches to hit the next station before being allowed to rest and eat, dig your own toilets, and if we were on the coast when we did, we’d dig up pippies out of the sand and boil them up in a tin-billy til they opened up. Salted hobo-oysters, basically. Since we had to carry all our food, there emerged something of a trade market, trading their ryvita crackers for cheese or mars bars. When you’re starving and burning so much energy, you wouldn’t believe how good a bag of ryvita crackers looks, and with some processed cheese-sticks smooshed over it? It’s like a feast for a king.
One time we were at a facility which had cabins and nice food – they divided the groups up into squads on two teams. Raiders and defenders. Midnight, pitch black, the defenders had to protect the food stores from the raiders by spotting them with spotlights in the wilderness. The raiders had to stealth their way to the supplies in order to gain access to them. The loser got no access. SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST!
Heh. One of my favourite memories is when we were paddling canoes out on a strait to get to the next island in our plan, and the canoe started to sink.
Possibly because we were carrying the bulk of our crews’ packs (wrapped in garbage bags for waterproofing) as they scouted ahead. These were decent sized packs, too – 60-75litre jobbies. My mate behind me was saying, “Uhm. Cam? I think we need to start bailing out water.”
I looked down at my ankles and frowned as the water was well up to my socks, splashing around pretty well in there. I agreed, “Yeah, crack out the billy and get started, I’ll keep pulling us along – we’ll swap when my arms get tired.”
“Uh. No, Cam, I think we need to SERIOUSLY bail. Like… bail out.”
I turned around to look at the guy, and he was up to his chest in water, the back of the canoe sinking around him. We were not long before hitting the briny deep.
It was immediately obvious to me that ‘bailing water out’ was not going to work, and I got him to tip the canoe over to use as a floatation device. We almost lost two of the packs in the process – I had to go diving down into the water to retrieve them and it got so thick and dark that I couldn’t see shit. It was pure luck that I was able to grab both and drag them to the surface.
Hitching everything to the canoe and paddles, we had to swim-drag the whole contraption to the nearest land, otherwise everyone in the squad was going to be without rations for the week.
We were almost there to right the canoe when one of the supervising teachers in a tinny sped up to check why we were straggling, and he took the packs on ahead and helped us right the thing for completing the journey weight-free.
Good times.
Stop trying to poison yourself. You’re attending the meat, poisoned or otherwise! >:|
😀
ha, yeah it’s questionable, I’m starting to wonder if it’s actually this terrible or if it has in fact gone bad.
Keep eating it. It’s the only way you’ll know for sure.
that’s what I thought, if I reach the bottom and am still alive it must be ok.
I just threw half of it outNow the issue is you might’ve just gotten the one bad yoghurt in that production batch. In the interest of science, buy several more to be certain that it’s a minging product
I would have made the same decision if I saw coffee yoghurt. Thanks for being the guinea pig, guinea pig.
Oh man, the Greek yoghurt from Coles?
I accidentally got that one one morning instead of apple.
It really is terrible.
It’s just called “Queensland Yoghurt”
I bought it from a lunch truck, that should have been my first clue.
Might just be something to avoid, really doesn’t work as a thing
@negativezero
Dude have you seen the anime “golden time” i read a kotaku thing on it and watched the first episode last night, twas pretty good and quite funny. Im not sure it will continue to be like that but it seemed something easy to watch and follow.
I’ve seen a few episodes (tip: most seasons for the last 6-7 years I will have seen at least the first episode of just about everything that isn’t a sports show or a show about groups of homoerotic pretty boys, and even then there have been exceptions) but I find that sort of RomCom kind of hard going. Especially in a university setting like that, because I 100% can’t relate to the sort of life that most University settings depict as I did Computer Science (i.e. actually had to do coursework and not bludge), lived at home and not in a dorm, had my fees paid for already (grandfather left me a fairly reasonable inheritance to use for university fees) so I didn’t really need to work during the school year, and was a girlfriendless loner nerd (not much has changed).
But anyway, I dunno about it. It’s adapted from a manga by the same author as ToraDora and has a lot of the same sort of feel to it I think, and while I can appreciate that one as well, I ended up watching about 18-20 episodes then my interest just dropped off and I never finished it.
Golden Time started last season and I started watching it with everything else but put it aside after 2-3 episodes because there was a whole pile of other stuff I was watching that I enjoyed more (can make a list if you want).
Let’s hear more about these homoerotic pretty boys.
I’m not really an expert. Every now and then one comes along that I find bearable so I sometimes will give them a look. Usually because there’s some other factor that made me notice it though, like the setting is interesting, I like the staff or cast involved, the art really appeals or something.
For example late last year, Kyoto Animation (I almost always enjoy their stuff) did an original production called Free which was about a bunch of well-muscled young men getting their shirts off and getting wet together.
Drama about a boy’s swim club. It’s actually pretty reasonable, if a little genericI would like that list, I really enjoy anime when its done right but they seem to fall into 3 catagories
Slice of life: which i don’t hate the characters have to be good enough to pull it through though
slice of life with a twist: usually a secret superpower or something weird happens to the main characters
then the whole assortment of battle anime which i really like when their is actually a story and not mindless weird shit happening for no reason (looking at you Valverave the liberator seriously WTF)
I really dislike the ‘slice of life’ term. I don’t know if there’s a Japanese genre term that fits that type of show better, but the feeling the good ones evoke is mono no aware.
Anyway if you like that sort of thing then you should go watch Aria. Three seasons (13, 13 and 26 episodes) plus a special episode that goes between seasons 2 and 3. In a nutshell it is about a bunch of girls who paddle gondolas around a beautiful utopian Venice on future Terraformed Mars. Everything is tranquil and relaxing and there are lots of cats and heaps of long panning shots of stunning scenery. Also everyone’s name starts with ‘A’ except the mailman. I don’t know why.
In general though, I was talking about a list of stuff from last season and what I liked and didn’t. If that’s what you want I can do it. Probably will take a while to write it though.
New season started last week (Japan works on a fixed 13-week season cycle called a cour, starting first week of January) so new stuff is 1-2 weeks in. Can give first impressions of just about everything (there’s a couple I haven’t seen the first episodes of yet) if you’re interested in that as well.
Yes very interested, its hard to talk about this stuff when you find a random good one because even die hard anime nerds might only watch 3-4 series a season.
I’m usually doing 12-15 regularly most seasons. Sometimes more. I have a very high crap tolerance though, I think.
I’ll do something up. What do you want first? Last season summary or this season impressions?
My 2011 Macbook Pro is dying. First I was getting random unexplained Kernel Panics, then I got a few overheats where the system just locked up completely and a siren began beeping at me until I turned it off.
Then last week I had it unplugged for a second and it turned off. Battery status was ‘service required’ or something. Now the battery is completely dead, Reports that it has 4 mWh charge at 100%, should be 4100 🙁
The machine itself was purchased around August 2011 so it’s now about 2.5 years old, and also apparently Apple doesn’t offer warranty on exhausted batteries anyway. I’d argue that the battery was defective. Not sure if it could have been the cause of my kernel panics or not though.
So if I want to get the machine back to relatively working order I’d need to make a Genius booking to have a Genius do their Genius bullshit and pay them $160 to screw in a new battery. But my worry is that it’s just a symptom of a much more fundamental internal problem in the machine and that a new battery wouldn’t stop it crashing all over the place. Kind of a dilemma.
I wish there was some other manufacturer out there that made laptops with decent specs and the level of polish and build quality that Apple have. Everyone else, it’s either a cheapo piece of shit or a ridiculous looking slab of thick plastic with vents and flashing lights and shit festooned all over it as a ‘gaming’ laptop. That said the latest MBP refresh took out discrete GPUs in everything but the $3200 15″ model and fuck that.
You can’t swap in your own batteries on MBPs anymore?
Man, Apple is really getting worse. At least with the Air it can kind of feel justified because all ultrabooks are a bit obnoxious like that.
As of about 2010 or so, the battery is integrated and requires some expertise to replace. I don’t think the 2010 and 2011 MBP batteries are hard to do but from the Retina model onward they’re much more tricky due to the thinness of the machine. I think in my model the main issue is that there’s some components in the way? Also requires special screwdrivers 😐
Just helped the father in law get an ASUS Ultrabook – thin, light, solid, good looking, SSD, for just over 1k (ex demo).
You might be surprised what you find if you take a wander through somewhere like a good JB.
Ultrabooks generally have crap hardware and I get a fair amount of use out of having a reasonably powerful quad-core. Compiling software and stuff. And gaming when I want to, though obviously that’s not often.
But I can’t really afford to drop anything on a new machine right now, just don’t want to spend money on fixing a problem in something that is far more fundamentally broken.
Laptop batteries (in Australia, at least) are legally considered a consumable, and once past the provided warranty period are considered “used up”, not “broken”. You can always try arguing that it’s faulty but I don’t think you’ll have much luck 🙁
Yep. It actually *is* faulty (it told me so itself) but no way to prove that now that it’s also dead. 🙁
Hmm, I know that feel. I was lucky enough to be part of a “give the students macbooks” program at school. (Ultimately a failed program but one I was glad to be a part of) However, the macbook has been on the fritz since late 2012. I have had this thing serviced multiple times, but to no avail. They’ve re-imaged it, replaced the hard drive, replaced the RAM, and done a bunch of other stuff to try to fix it. After doing all that, the technicians suspect motherboard failure. The annoying thing is that since the macbook isn’t legally mine, I have to give it back later this year. I am pretty sure that they won’t accept a non-functioning macbook, or my excuse that I tried to have it fixed multiple times.
I’m in Brisbane for the laneway festival and im free on the 1st of Febuary. Im bringing my lady friend, i also havent told her i know you all from the internet, so this ought to be amazing fun when she asks why everyone calls me “rocket” Maybe ill just say that my sexual prowess is of legend. No i shouldn’t say that.
“It’s legendary across cyberspace”
That should swoon and amaze her!
Time to come clean about your love for Elton John?
I voice that everyday, I actually start the courtship of any woman with a 1hr long speech on why Sir Elton John is a hero.
Wait, you have another lady friend? Are you @mrtaco?
Nah same one as before, My life is just like degrassi jnr high except i say the word
<“cunt”/s> way more.and more talking about boys?
I actually have no idea what the hell degrassi jnr high is but I’m assuming its some terrible tween show.Bingo, bango bongo.
Terrible tween 90’s show from canada.
Interesting fact, Drake the rapper played a kid in a wheelchair in that show i believe.
Who’s Drake the rapper?
exactly nob, exactly.
Is that the one that Jay and Silent Bob guest starred on?
I would watch that show.
Karaoke meat! With special guest appearance by @bdkiaf?
Sounds great buddy:)
Definitely say that.
I’M EATING MACCAS AND THERE’S NOTHING THAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. NOTHING.
I’ll do something. I’ll heat up leftover potato pie from last night and om nom on that
Almost the weekend, almost two weeks with this poxy cough, almost time to clean the backyard out of a shedload of mangoes from the mango tree that’s currently being trimmed back (maybe the arborist will do us a favour and remove all the mangoes already on the floor) and cut the grass at the bottom of the garden that’s well over waist high now. Post-gardening will involve cider and couch
Lesson to be learnt, don’t do up a roster involving women to do gardening work, move out and then move back 6 months later and assume that said gardening work will’ve been carried out as normal while you were gone
You have a mango tree? You know expensive mangoes are? That’s like a tree that grows money!
not the type of mangoes that taste any good unfortunately 🙁
I’m so happy that with each post you make, you get more and more English.
I’ll work on an old timey English gentleman’s accent for you
Radical.
So tomorrow I go up the coast to a friend’s place, he’s invited a bunch of us to come and stay for the weekend. Also on the guest list is Pillowmaker, who I have not seen since “the incident”. We’re also still yet to actually talk about what happened. So I guess that’ll finally happen. Maybe.
Or it won’t.
Just hide outside in the bushes until everything blows over.
If the talking makes you uncomfortable, I have a suggestion:
Show up naked, rose in your teeth and a fistful of contraceptives. No words will be needed.fistful of contraceptives would be a great band name 😀
TAY BAND \o/
I can play spoons…. welll i can knock spoons together….
i can play a triangle?
OKAY FINE, I CAN’T REALLY PLAY MUCH /o\
except trombone but they don’t make ladies swoonI’ll play the Ocarina, @jimu got me one of them a couple years ago, I ran around Woodford folk festival playing it all week.
I’m sure trombone can be turned into a funny pun…but its Friday after noon and my concentration levels are really..coffee.
Omen brother!
Amen brother!EDIT – YOU HAPPY NOW @GUTSOUP, YOU HAPPY? ლ(ಠ益ಠლ).
Sanguis Bibimus.
Corpus Edimus.
Tolle Corpus Satani!
Ave!
Ave! Ave Versus Christus!
Omen Brothers 😛
Edit: dammit pixel you ruined it
Double edit: These are lyrics to “The Omen” #relevant
I’m freaking ecstatic
*bounces around excitedly*
😀
Trombone is perfect for the TAY Dixie Band!
Anyone play the Banjo? 😛
…Kazooie?
My daughter plays the Kazoo. e…gad!
that’s raising her right.
It’s just like a round guitar, right?
someone totally needs to play a theremin,
I can play silly buggers but there’s not much call for that in a contemporary band
I can do the blurt fart thing on my leg.
Will that help?
Furtive Pygmy is the best band name.
haha, that is good, but they’d never turn up to their own shows 😛
Just say it was your twin brother Mooky who routinely tries to sabotage your life in increasingly elaborate ways. Tell her he’s dead now.
And that if it had been you instead of Mooky you would have banged her like a screen door. The ladies love that.
How do you have a beautiful and amazing wife? did your dad swap her dad a goat or something?
There’s not much that a daily cocktail of hallucinogens can’t accomplish.
Also, I am notoriously bad at following my own advice.
I thought it was the tag-line on your online dating profile? 😛
damn you @shane,
Laughing fits in a quiet office is evidence that i’m doing zero work…
But holyshit i’m using that
holy fuck that was dark and specific almost like DC has experienced this before. WHERE IS THE REALLY DC ?
IS YOUR NAME CC?
are you that annoying bitch character from the nanny?
Until required to be resurrected to shore up a weak plot.
He’s currently romancing Climbing Girl in the Caribbean.
You! This is all your fault!
I’LL KILL YOU, MOOKY! *gives chase*
*lures Gooky into a trap*
WHAT INCIDENT!?
IS THERE A WRITE UP!?
Yeah. Somewhere. Anyway, at some point, they ended up sleeping next to each other, her with an arm and leg thrown provocatively across him. And then at some point she laid right on top of him, and they stared deep into each other’s eyes. Also, they were naked the whole time.*
Somehow nothing happened.
* Some creative licence has been taken.No bullshit, this is almost the exact thing that happened with me and my girlfriend and I was like “Man, how do I know if she likes me?”.
What. A. Fuckhead.
The first week I started going out with my wife, we ate six dinners together, two breakfasts, and spent a total of about 100 hours (out of the 168) together, including a sleepover. And neither of us had any idea whether we were liked by the other.
Man, we suck.
I think the whole uncertainty thing is REEEEEALLY common.
Same deal with me and my girl K. On-again-off-again everything in a pretty sexually-charged context, loads of hanging out talking about shit, each thought the other was pretty much just in it for the easy access to sex as opposed to actual capital L ‘Love’. Well… she knew how I felt before I knew how she felt, because I’m easy to read. And then I actually told her because fuck living like that, grow some BALLS Transientmind.
Hm. Same thing in high school actually… There was a girl I was totally crushing on who I was good friends with, she made what I only realize were passes at me, in hindsight. And when her name came up in conversation in the car with my brothers a while ago, I casually mentioned, “Man, I had a bit of a crush on her…” And my brothers both stared at me incredulously then slapped me upside the head, groaning, “OH MY GOD. We just thought you knew what you were doing and weren’t that into her!”
And that one chick was a friend of my brothers who I spent hours with in the car, chatting about shit looooong after we’d got home (which at one point killed the battery and had to call RACQ to get it started up again). She actually had to point out to me via SMS, “A girl doesn’t spend four hours chatting to a guy in a car for no reason.” Which, yeah… OH DUH I AM AN IDIOT and made a move on her the next time I saw her because daaaaamn, dat… everything.
Oh man that sounds so similar to me and my best friend in senior year of high school. Major crush on her. We did the whole car-talky-battery dead-thing as well.
Our whole school year was watching and waiting for us to start dating, we never did. Our year also come up with some creative rumours (apparently we went at it like rabbits). Looking back I missed so many passes. There was even one time she pulled me aside at a party and was down in the dumps that nobody wanted to hook up with her. Stupid, naïve me consoled and comforted her *face-palm*.
Months later she started dating a douchebag who hated me for how close we were, haven’t seen her in years.
Meh \o/
Coolstorybro.
Yeah… nothing like missed opportunities that make you wanna travel back in time and punch yourself in the balls.
I had a similar thing going on with a friend, a little after high school. We were the only two that lived over in our area of Sydney, while the rest were all over in another cluster more north-east. So when things were going on, I’d offer to give her a lift there and back. Actually now I can’t remember if that was how it was to start with or that came later. I just remembered that things actually started when we went to see a movie together, I think it was Sweeney Todd. Afterwards, rather than get in the car, we just stood next to it and talked. Really close to each other. For hours. In fact we didn’t get home again til like nine hours after we’d left. And it wasn’t that long a trip.
All the other times when dropping her home, I’d end up parking out the front of her house and we’d still be there I don’t even know how many hours later. Four was probably the minimum length of time. The best ones were when we were outside her aunt’s house though (she was much more cool with things than her parents), and we were still there at daylight when her aunt got up to fetch the paper. Came by the car and said hi. Nothing awkward at all 😛
The best part was that despite all of this and all our friends assuming we were together, we never actually were. Except in hindsight, we totally were. I was an absolute moron, and many times have wanted to go back and punch myself.
must be a pretty common thing. I do that too.
though I think I do it more out of disbelief rather than actually being unsure.
Not sure if I should up- or down-vote you ….
There was mention of it 😛
Honestly not trying to sound like a smartarse: I fail to see any problem. Did I miss something?
I’m with Rize on this one.
I saw mention of an age gap. Is she, what, like 13?
Haha, thankfully not. Though she was pretty much the youngest student at school I think.
Thankfully it’s all legal and above-board. Now >_>
He liked (an)other girl(s) at the time!
You guys would be terrible at soap operas. You gotta be committed and tune in regularly.
OOOOoooOOooOOOooooooOOO!
And then on top of that the paranoia that this will blow up and cause problems and awkwards in the social circle (of which other girl is a part :P). But I am kind of just assuming that it will all work out for the worst. It feels like I have a habit of making that happen.
You’d be surprised at how little that ‘same social circle’ thing matters. 🙂
I mean, oh totally, there will be bitching undoubtedly. Power struggles, mind-games, rivalry stuff… But that’s not your problem, you can totally ignore all of it..
I specialise in worrying about problems that will never eventuate.
When I built myself a Captain Falcon helmet, I thought that I would struggle to hear people talking to me through it, so ended up looking up an amplification circuit so that I could have some hidden microphones to pipe the sounds through to a set of headphones I could wear underneath. Had it all working great, and everything was perfectly packed away and concealed within the little yellow ear dome things on the side of the helmet… but it turned out that I didn’t really give the circuit enough amplification power even at full volume, and I could still hear through the helmet perfectly fine anyway.
So it was all a big huge waste of time. But I was still happy with my work 😛
An episode guide would help new viewers, I may have missed a bit at the start myself
Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot.
I dunno if its this weather or your saucy tales but I do believe I’m feeling faint.
Wait, I missed this. Start a blog for this, it’s getting too hard to follow!
Okay from that link I am not entirely sure what happened, except that the two of you appear comfortable with physical intimacy.
I think that you are both interested in each other on some level, and that the only way to avoid drama is to be adults and own up to this and exactly what your level is.
I mean, I told this dude I had a crush on that I did, over Twitter and now we’re moving to a random country town together, so it does work out sometimes.
Yeah, but you’re moving to Dubbo… so your story could be seen as a cautionary tale 😛
Oh man, I hope you’ve told @trjn. 🙁
The guy she’s talking about is handsome and intelligent. I can’t compete with that. Might as well just go with it.
To be honest, it was more like
Me: “I have a crush on someone”
Trjn: “Is it me? It’s me, isn’t it? I know it’s me, you don’t have to tell me.”
You told me i didn’t even for a second think it was bunny, in fact i believe my reaction was
no no no not him anyone but him.
Im a great friend. In my defence bunny used to be way way way more sarcastic, he has now turned it down to be a nice and awesome friend.
I blame my healthy diet of board games.
I feel like this is surely my influence on him.
Be an adult? I don’t know how to do that!
And she hasn’t had much time to figure it out either! 😛
After 38 years of observation, I think I’ve distilled the essence of being an adult down, it seems to involve being boring, I’d not do it if I were you.
My advice is to tell her about it, tell her everything you feel. Give her every reason to accept that you’re for real. Tell her about it, tell her all your crazy dreams, let her know you need her, let her know how much she means
Why the FUCK am I quoting Billy Joel? I’ve been brainwashed by my car stereo…
I meant be an adult in more of a sense of “don’t be a toddler”. Know what you want, own up to it, be ready to deal with consequences of voicing this.
Actually toddlers tend to have steps one and two under control.
You know you make it really hard to be irrational when you go and be all reasonable like that. Stop it!
Put it down to me having years more experience of having behaved like a toddler (irrationally) and not wishing the results on anyone.
She still toddles like an expert though.
ffs. Guess I have to go to Soundwave now to watch Megadeth after basically no Brisbane sidewaves again
BLIMEY!
Wait, you’re a Brisbane TAYbie? Feel like I haven’t been paying attention! XD
Waves at TAY from the RBWH (place of work, I’m not sick…allegedly)
One of my friends works there. And my mum.
Conspiracy.
I am neither of those people…as far as I know
STAY AWAY FROM MY MUM!
Brisbane never gets any good Sidewaves. 🙁
not since the accident
Brisbane is an accident, yes.
Perth says hello.
Not that I even check or anything.
I’m just assuming we get continually shafted.
I haven’t seen anything to the contrary.
Dammit, I’m still pissed that Metric cancelled three days before their show.
Grrr.
gorramit some of you people need to get avatars, I have no idea what is happening in this thread
because you asked so nicely 😛
British! 😀
is there anything better?
Holy shit realisation.
The NASA plan, part deux
___
“I don’t think they’re buying it.”
“What do you mean?”
“They still want us to go to Mars.”
“Hmm… sounds like we need a disincentive. Something that will make Mars terrifying, or at least deeply irritating. I have an idea. Get me Disney on the phone… Hello, Disney? I need you to make a movie called John Carter…”
BLIND MOWN
Disney could now put Jar Jar and the Ewoks on Mars. That would be enough irritation to keep anyone away
I’m sure that Disney obtaining LucasFilm was Phase Three of NASA’s grand plan.
So some friends were talking the other day and they were saying that there’s actually trials/competitions being held already for folks to live on Mars and assist with its self-sustained habitation/terraforming. They’ll go over on the understanding that they’ll never be able to come back and will die on another planet, forging new and uncomfortable ground for humanity.
I totally hadn’t heard anything about this. It sounds awesome, but I’m guessing newspaper headlines in 2030-2040 (Heads up kids, we’re closer to 2030 than we are to most of the 90s) are going to be something along the lines of Martian succession, or a death cult going insane and wiping out the colony due to some heretofore unknown version of cabin fever/earth isolation.
I was born closer to the Apollo 11 moon landing than to the current day.
You know what’s shocking?
I was born in 1984.
I’ll see your 1984 and I’ll raise you…actually, I can’t. 1984 as well. Ghostbusters and Transformers will be 30 this year along with us two
I wonder what the age range of TAY is, like who’s the oldest and youngest.
P.S. I’ll raise you 2 years (I’m 1982)
I’d be interested to know that too. I’ll SurveyMonkey it up for Tay next week.
I think @phlanispo is our youngest (16?), younger than @lambomann007, who I think comes in second.
Not sure who’s oldest. It’s not me. @dc is older than me, and @strange is waaaaaaaaaay older than both of us 😛
Ah, @phlanispo, you seem like such a cool guy but I find it weird talking to a 16 year old on here. I don’t know why. I remember when I was 16 I felt all mature enough to post on somewhere like this and I was, but I still feel it’s weeeeeird. XD GET OFF MY LAWN! 😛
That’s because you’re an old man who was more than twice his age two years ago.
How old do you think I am? 😛
Ah, @dc, you seem like such a cool guy but I find it weird talking to a 29 year old on here. I don’t know why. I remember when I was 29 I felt all mature enough to post on somewhere like this and I was, but I still feel it’s weeeeeird. XD GET OFF MY LAWN! 😛
#OldManStrange
If it’s any consolation, I find it hard talking to people my age. Yay talking to people twice my age :/
I’d make a “to catch a predator joke,” but I can’t think of anything. I’ll get back to you later. Take a seat over there until I think of something.
I’m so old I couldn’t even remember @phlanispo’s name! 😛
every time I see the name all i can think is Phil Anselmo, I actually thought it was a weird spelling of it until now, i had to really stare at it to make it not say Phil Anselmo
Don’t worry, I’m pretty forgettable.
it’s great that our common interests help everyone to get along regardless of age,
We get this question a lot. I’ve usually been the oldest and Lambo used to be the youngest but one of the newer peoples( one of the guys starting with P I think) is now the babby. Not sure if anyone of the newer ones are older than me, though. I’m 37.
Pretty sure @bish is in his late 60s.
that’s pretty cool though, 20 years difference roughly, impressive that most people seem to gel so well, not like out in the stupid real world where people make a big deal outta stupid stuff like that.
It helps that I’m immature. 😛
I just reply failed to this and got a page get :/
Isn’t welbot older than you. I know that you are older than me, and now so is aliasalpha (well he always has been but I know it now)
Otherwise I think I’m part of the get off my lawn brigade.
Welbot is younger than me. But apparently @aliasalpha is older than me by a yearish.
Sounds like the score to beat is the 26th of April 1975 (Midday in case of a tie breaker)
I am proud to accept this prestigious award.
I hereby present the Babby of TAY award to you
*Single tear
86, baby. The year, not the age.
So you are 1926 years old? That’s quite a hard one to beat.
1927, duh. 😀
That band from the late 80s?
Well I’m from ’75 so I pre-date Space Invaders
nice, you’ve seen the rise of all the games 😀
Aside from Tennis For Two and Spacewar!, pretty much.
Oh and Nintendo & Sega stuff, never did get any of their gear.
Inb4 Necromorphs.
John Carter the film was adapted from books by Edgar Rice Burroughs first published in 1912. NASA was formed in 1958.
So your telling me NASA’s invented Time Travel?
IT department walked around the office saying our servers will be down for down for 5 minutes. Everybody has decided this is a perfect excuse to go to the pub.
if the IT department joins them then it’s definitely beer o’clock
lol one of them went to the gym, so it looks like it.
To– to the g… Jesus Christ. Tell him he’s doing it wrong. Good grief, our two-martini-lunch chain-smoking ancestors would be rolling in their graves.
It’s been fun today. Thanks for the sanity check, everyone. I would have preferred cash, though…
I’ll show myself out.I’ll submit a full report of your sanity levels to the appropriate authorities, please pack an overnight bag and await the arrival of the nice men with your new straight jacket.
Anyways, I’m going to the city. I’ll be radio silent from now on- wait- no I won’t! I’ll be TAYing from the train good AND proper. *nod*
Have fun, man. Enjoy the birthday celebrations
Happy Birthday DC
TAY that train’s brain’s out!
Well trains don’t have brains really, the closest is the driver so sneak up behind him all ninja like and scream TAY!!!!! until he jumps out the window
you’re not immature all those other people just don’t know how to have fun.
I may also be rather immature 😛
Edit: reply fail, Worst get ever 🙁
Best get. 😀
I’m potentially going to meat 8 Taybies I’ve never met before tonight O_O
That’s more people than I usually interact with in like 6 months (socially, not work)
You’ve met us, just not in person. 🙂
yeah, now you can all punch me in the face for littering TAY with my ramblings 😛
Edit: especially dc, i hear he has a thing for face punching
I hope you don’t die or get kidnapped. For all I know, TAY might be an elaborate setup with connections to the mob.
well I’ve met a few, so I’ve been lulled into a false sense of security, potentially a very easy target here 😛
The only guy you need to worry about is Jimu, but I’m sure you already knew that 😉
It’s one of those black market organ harvesting things, they even give a huge clue by calling the get togethers a “meat”.
Glad I live way too far away to attend although now I think about it, I reckon my dremel would have a kidney out in record time…
Oh god. One of the folks at work is leaving the team today, heading to a different company. So we had a ‘morning tea’. Read: multi-hour smorgasbord. All the usual party pies, cheerios, chips, dips, lollies, etc… But also a crate load of mars bar slice, a tray of crispy hot chips with chicken salt, and a home-made dip which was basically like pate covered in layers of sour cream, guacamole, diced cherry tomatoes, chives, and grated cheese and shallots. Sweet chilli grain waves. Giant jaffas. Tim-tams. Shapes. Cup-cakes.
I’ve been eating for hours, now. I’m… I’m going to explode. After I do, I leave everything to be shared equally among my brothers, on the understanding that they will be responsible for taking care of our parents in their dotage. Everything except my phone, PC, and online accounts, which go to my girl to trawl through and catalogue for a memorial.
I shall crawl into the filing room so as not to make too much of a mess when my belly finally bloats to the limit of distention then ruptures and bursts. Don’t be too surprised when my zombified corpse ups and makes it out for gangster wings TAY meat.
so what’s for dinner?
The stuff that he stole from the going away party.
I assume that’s an office tradition at all offices that have been open long enough to establish office traditions.
Gangster wings. Even if it kills me again. 🙂
I never saw the appeal of wings. More bone than meat, just give me a thigh or something covered in hot sauce
I think it’s the whole eating with your fingers thing.
Thighs are the best chicken meat – the most moist, juicy cut of chicken, with the easiest separation from bone and good skin coverage. But for some reason, places don’t do BBQ thighs, only BBQ wings. Probably because EVERYONE knows that thighs are the One True Cut, thus there are loads of wings left-over at ultra-cheap.
Zoned out right about here.
Man, we had a farewell morning tea today and they had some party pies and sausage rolls. This was for a guy who had been with the firm for 15 years.
we just farewelled a dude that had been with this company since they established (only 11 years) and they got him 2 cheesecakes and 1 beer, the cheesecakes were then shared between about 25 people. They do buy cakes for everyone’s birthdays though, so that’s nice.
That’s pretty cool. I love cheesecake.
yeah, i booked 3 days off around my birthday and thought, no way I’ll get cake and they went and organised it for the day before i went on leave, they look after us here and then throw unrealistic amounts of work at us 😛
damn, we farewelled a guy who’d been here for 6 years and took the afternoon off and went to a half decent eatery with alcohol thrown in.
I’m hoping one day I endear myself to an office enough to get a plate of triangle sandwiches with the crusts cut off
That really should’ve been a steak & booze lunch with the afternoon off.
I’m imagining you now as Mr Creosote from The Meaning Of Life
As was I. 🙂
Stay away from the after dinner mints and you’ll be fine.
Sounds like a great way to spend Friday at work! Much better than mine that’s for sure! Most exciting thing I did all day was go to the post office and stand in queue for 30mins to send 3 packages!
Someone just text me before
“don’t get offended, but you sound really gay in messages”
There are several things wrong with this message
1) saying don’t get offended automatically makes me offended
2) now the person can act all superior when i get offended
3)How does one suggest their preference of prefered partner in message form other than saying ” i want to be in a relationship with a man”
Basically i hate people.
maybe they’re old fashioned and think you sound really happy in your messages?
“No offense, but even if I was, you wouldn’t be my type, sorry.”
“No offense, but I like women. Good luck finding a date though.”
Basically.
Except… meh.
Only problem I have with the, ‘no u r’ defense(/offence) is that it implicitly buys into the concept that being gay is undesirable or lesser. Which, y’know. Fuck that so hard.
Yeah, that’s where it falls apart.
Atleast they didn’t end it with ” no homo”
But they said NOT to get offended. So you’re not allowed to, ok?! You’ve got to learn to follow the rules.
Don’t hate people, but.
You could always reply with something like “I’m not, sorry if I got your hopes up”. If nothing else it’d piss off a homophobe which is always worth doing.
I’d start intentionally sounding gay-er in my texts to freak him out, but that’s just me.
Okay, so I’m three years late to the party but I purchased an Amazon Kindle Touch 3G yesterday. The e-ink display is very impressive and way better at displaying texts than my iPad 2. The only downsides are a slow interface and no back-light. Still, a great buy at A$99.
Stephanie Meyer and Suzanne Collins here I cum!I’m not going to get an e-reader.
I still like my books made of dead trees. They need to be weighty and booky. Also need to be able to bludgeon someone with them at need.
Plus, they look nice on the shelves.
Understandable, but books! Lots of books on hand at the one time! So efficient.
Given that I only usually read one (sometimes two) books at a time, the convenience doesn’t really bother me. Carrying a book around isn’t much of a hassle.
Books should be like PS3/Vita cross-purchases. Buy one version, get the other.
There are apparently a few where you do get that now, really nice feature but I don’t do the whole dead tree thing so owning a physical book would be a negative for me
Just kidding @shane I have no interest in those authors. I bought the device to read The Lesser Evil Kindle edition of course!
Naturally.
okay, now to rush home and try and make this meat on time.
If my bedroom has not once again been transported into the mouth of hell I may have another attempt at beating the godfuckingdamned Taurus Demon.
It does seem unfair to expect you to fight a daemon on its home turf
What’s your weapon of choice?
Playing online?
Pointy things with sharp bits. I think I have a scimitar.
I’m playing on PC and I think it’s online but I haven’t been invaded and buttfucked by some random dickhead yet.
I started a new game a few nights ago, and I found the battle axe I’d picked up by that fight to be pretty handy.
Summoning friends can help as well. That’s how someone else here has gotten past it twice.
The invasions I’ve had on pc have been radically different to the ones I had on 360, mostly they were people who showed up, gave me stuff and buggered off again. Very strange
Fifteen minuuuuuuuuutes.
I’ve been here since 6:40am. It’s not as bad as I thought though.
What the shit, it’s only 29 degrees? Why am I still in the office when it’s so cold outside?!
hey look, England have put up a half decent total. I can be kinda happy for the next couple of hours before meanie Australians beat us again
You could always just remember the Hugh Dennis joke from Mock The Week “Its no surprise the Australians beat us at cricket, hitting things and running away; it’s the criminal mentality”
I’m remembering that for next time 😀
Cool change is coming through. I can be more of a human being and less of a hunk of sweating meat.
Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime for
A cooooooooooool change
Now that my life is so rearranged
I know that it’s time for a cool change
Can anyone suggest a free alternative to netlimiter? I’m getting annoyed at youtube uploads chewing up all my bandwidth because they have unlimited access to my connection.
your modem/router may have functions built in that can help you limit bandwidth for certain sites. Can’t help you with software solutions though as I’ve never looked for one before.
Booking my tickets to PAX and what is the Omegathon and do I want to participate.
It’s a multi event knockout gaming competition where the contestants compete in a wide variety of games across the three days. The final event is always a surprise- last year it was flaming Jenga.
Done.
Forgot to say: The contestants are randomly selected from all attendees who agree.
Tickets (badges?) purchased. See you then, folks!
\o/ All aleph, all the time
Yay! PAX Numenera, here we come!
Beemo cake is done. It looks like a poor man’s attempt but not bad for my first try. Stupid icing that I bought which was a ready made one for outlines looks horrible and was melted. Stupid Melbourne
did you get any pics before it got all melty? even after?! I’d love to see a Beemo cake!
I did, it’s currently int he fridge. It’s pretty crap but at least I now know to almost double the quantity
haha I made a pretty crap cake for my sis one year, but pretty crap cakes that are baked with love always go down well 🙂
It tastes good, I know that much
The heat seems to have gone away. \o/
I felt tired, but then I had a nap and tacos.
Also, I decided to format my laptop, because I was bored.
I might try and find the MAME version of the original Soul Calibur.
@tech_knight
You may like this
HAHAHAHA OMG that’s so adorable! xD
Small projects I need to do at some point:
Put the TV capture card back in my PC and try to run the Atari 2600 through it (or confirm that the Atari doesn’t work and it’s not just that the new TV can’t pick up on it)
Repurpose an old laptop to run Johan Sebastian Joust now that I have 6 move controllers.
I write this here so hopefully I don’t forget about it and never get around to them.
Especially the second one – would be nice to have this up and running at some point before we have a housewarming party (once we have a house).
Do you not have a TV with a coax input? Imagine how good Berzerk would look when on an 80cm LCD!
I’ve tried in the past but couldn’t tune the signal – not sure if this is due to the signal not being strong enough for a modern LCD to detect, or because the Atari is dead. I thought the capture card manually tuned to the right frequency might help as a work-around for this.
Only problem now is that I have no idea where the capture card is since the last time we moved, and I might wait until we move again to see if it comes out in the re-packing and unpacking (hopefully for the last time).
Doesn’t the 2600 have one of those test card modes with a black screen & 2 vertical white lines? That should be picked up by anything with the capability of seeing vhf
Don’t have a test card. Maybe I’ll give it a chop anyway and see if I missed something last time.
From what I’ve read they were a lot more slack when it came to exact tunings back in the day and modern TVs with digital tuners often struggle to pick up a signal between 2 channels. The solutions I’ve seen involve either buying an adapter to convert it to rca or popping it open and manually adjusting the channel output (it looks like it’s basically a screw you tighten) till it hits a sweet spot
Yeah, problem is that there’s no outward feedback on the device – I can’t even tell if it powers up or not. Given that, I’m hesitant to buy any adapters. Guess I can look into adjusting the output. I think I heard something that may have sounded like space invaders near default channel 3 before auto tune wiped out all the stations (not quite game enough to factory reset the tv and lose everything else I’ve set up).
Got an old vcr collecting dust in a shed somewhere that might be able to temporarily bridge the gap? Atari into it’s coax in, rca out into your tv?
@aliasalpha Unfortunately moving 4 times in the last 5 years has left me not carrying older things like VCRs, in fact two moves back I ditched the old TV that would have handled it too. No time for regrets now.
Dear @dc http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-259/comment-page-9/#comment-2356267
Back from dinner with TAYbies. Thought before bed: These are good people, I like this meat thing.
Wait are we back to talking about wings?
Or is this the backpacker thing again
Yeah dude, this is by far the friendliest community I’ve come across. 🙂
It was awesome dude! Great to see you coming back to meats!
Hey man, thanks for hanging out…
Sorry ’bout the excessive amount of drunkenness.
Hope you had a good time!
I decided to format my now 7 year old laptop.
Unfortunately, this now means I’m temporarily running Windows Vista on it.
D:
I’ll start drawing a pentagram outside, then I’ll place the laptop inside it, douse it in kero, set it alight and offer it as a sacrifice to the underworld where it belongs.
The landfill of Vista software in the south end of the Underworld is getting a bit large. Hades will probably try and return it. I suggest sending it to Fólkvangr. Freyja is kind of laid back when it comes to Vista software. She won’t accept Macintosh software, though. That’s more of an Odin thing, after all.
Why temporarily running vista? did you restore it using the recovery partition and that’s what was originally on it? As long as you’ve got at least 4gb of ram, vista should run ok though.
Yeah, it was originally a Vista laptop.
Hey there’s nothing wrong with Vista! Well not that much
Okay there’s a fair bit really but it’s still a good OS at its core and is handy for stuff where you don’t need to use it for day to day desktop work, its whats running one of my HTPC’s.
Must be the season for repairs, I resurrected my netbook last night thanks to a rather fancy trick I found on the net of rewriting the boot partition to repair the SSD that I thought was dead. Decided to install Linux Mint on it since I didn’t have the media for the version of XP that originally came with it. I’ve not had much of a play with it so far but it seems to be working pretty well and I think it’ll serve well as a tertiary HTPC (Is it weird to have 3 HTPCs?)
For those up late or reading this early don’t forget Melbourne meat tomorrow / today
Meating at Optic bar in fed square from 11:30am
Not sure on plans, lunch and drinks there and then work out what happens from there I guess
THERE WILL BE CAKE!
I’m gonna try an make it! I just don’t know how long me and my girlfriend will be able to stay because of family plans that I didn’t know I agreed to..
Hahahahaha, did you guys get @dc drunk? 😀
He was drunk before I got there!
Must be DAN’s doing. #Danuary
He’ll spend all tomorrow apologising for it no doubt the doofus.
@rocketman: You asked for some recommendations about anime from last season I enjoyed. Here it is. Enjoy your insane wall of text.
Spoilered because holy fuck this ended up long.
First off, I’ve been watching shit for a long time now, over a decade and I’ve seen a huge variety of stuff.Just so we’re on a similar page, there obviously are genres and elements I like and dislike and this affects how I might rate stuff. I don’t really go for Sports anime, I find it pretty formulaic and I’m not into many sports Japan cares about (side note: I would fucking love a Cricket anime/manga. There’s so much crazy bullshit in that game it would be amazing). I like most action stuff. I like ‘real robot’ mecha anime a fair bit, preferring Macross over Gundam. I’m not hugely well-versed in Super Robot stuff but absolutely love Gurren Lagann and GaoGaiGar. I got into anime via Evangelion so obviously that’s a long-term favorite. I have a massive soft spot for stuff involving eastern esp. Japanese mythology and folklore. I also have a bit of a soft spot for historical or period settings – while Evangelion was my entry point, I think the show that hooked me in the end was Rurouni Kenshin, though everything produced after the superlative Tsuiokuhen/Reflections Chapter OVAs is dead to me. I’m fairly tolerant of repetitive or average storytelling when the characters are interesting. I like relaxing, uplifting type slice of life stuff like Aria or Hidamari Sketch. I’m not much for straight up RomCom stuff unless there are other elements to keep my interest, as mainly I feel like I lack a point of reference for it to feel as relevant to me. Kyoto Animation have never made a show I don’t like, though I enjoy some more than others. I have a high tolerance for shows where the main premise is cute girls being cute. I wouldn’t normally admit to it but I secretly have a thing for a well-made Magical Girl anime, of which Cardcaptor Sakura is by far the best. I will often watch stuff with art I find aesthetically pleasing (usually this means that it has character designs by an artist I really like) simply because it’s pretty. I don’t really go for ‘girls’ shows involving lots of pretty boys, though there are a few exceptions to that when things align right for me.
With that out of the way, last season’s stuff. I can’t really link any pictures or anything without vastly exceeding the URL limit and going to moderation so you may need to employ some googlage.
First off I probably should mention that leading into the season there were some ongoing shows I was watching. I generally don’t watch weekly because the pacing is frustrating as fuck and I skip any filler, but I watch Naruto Shippuuden in bursts. I also follow the current Hunter X Hunter remake, usually weekly and I always watch the latest episode of Space Brothers when it comes out. I assume you know Naruto, and HxH is basically a Jump action show along the same lines which you may already be familiar with.
Space Brothers is a story set in the near future about two brothers, Mutta and Hibito, who decide as kids to become Astronauts. The younger brother (Hibito) pursues his dream and at the outset of the show is training in Houston to be part of the crew traveling to the recently established moon base, while the older brother (Mutta, the protagonist) had given up on his dream until he is fired from his job as an automotive engineer and decides to try out for a position with JAXA. It’s scientifically fairly rigorous though it is I think aimed at a slightly younger audience around 12-14, follows everything through all the trials and training and dramas they undergo trying to reach the moon. I am a massive fan of space stuff and so the show is way up my alley, with references to all sorts of other space-related films and everything. I really like it and if this sounds remotely interesting to you it’s definitely worth a go. Currently it’s about 80 episodes in.
The only other show which I watched and enjoyed from last season was one that bled over from the season before. Monogatari Series second season is not very well named, as it’s actually the third season of the -monogatari story. If you wanted to watch it, you would need to go back a few years to Bakemonogatari TV and its OVA series, then watch the sequel season Nisemonogatari, then watch the Nekomonogatari (Black) OVA series. This is a straight continuation. It’s also an excellent show overall. Following the story of Koyomi Araragi, a high school boy who became a vampire due to events which haven’t been animated yet (there’s a movie in development). It’s got a stunning artistic presentation. The director, Akiyuki Shinbo (Madoka Magica, Zetsubou-sensei, Soultaker, Hidamari Sketch, Nanoha and others), is one of the best in the business as far as TV anime goes. His style is very interesting, usually involving a rapid-fire series of shots from random angles, suddenly using a color filter, interspersing with a quick-fire series of text shots and all sorts of things. The -monogatari series has the benefit of also having character designs by Akio Watanabe. The main draw though is that the show has absolutely amazing dialogue. It’s a very dialogue-heavy show and most episodes are comprised of two characters talking to each other. Most shows this would be boring, but the dialogue is so snappy and the voice actors so snappy that it really works. Overall the series is one of the best of the last few years so you should pick it up starting at Bakemonogatari and give it a go.
In terms of the actual shows of last season, quite a few of the better ones are longer shows that have spilled over into this season as well.
Probably the best other show is Hajime no Ippo: Rising which is actually the third season of Hajime no Ippo. I know I said earlier that I don’t do sports anime, but Ippo is much more of a battle anime. Ippo Makunouchi is always bullied at school until he meets Takamura, a former stret tough turned professional boxer. Takamura introduces Ippo to his coach, and Ippo decides to become a boxer. The first season of the series ran for about 50 episodes I think, and the subsequent two both 26, so if you wanted to pick this up you’ve got a fair bit to go. Personally I think this is the definitive fighting anime. I’ve got very little interest in boxing as a sport, but I absolutely love Ippo. It doesn’t go amazingly over the top with people having super powers, Ippo generally fights by going toe to toe with his opponents and outlasting them through sheer determination and guts. It also can be quite unpredictable. Plus the characters are all great, with each of Ippo’s opponents and friends being nicely developed with interesting quirks and personalities. It also has some great comedic moments. Strongly recommend.
The obvious second one is Kill la Kill. This is the debut TV series from Studio Trigger, who made a lot of waves last year with an awesome little short film they did, Little Witch Academia. Trigger is a bunch of veterans mainly from Gainax, including people that worked on FLCL and Gurren Lagann, and Kill la Kill is very much along the same lines, a hot-blooded action anime with lots of fighting and shouting and revealing outfits and burning justice and so on. It’s got that same crazy animation you see in FLCL, but dialed up ten notches. The protagonist, Ryuuko, transfers into a new school armed with half of a gigantic pair of scissors, looking for the school president in order to get information about the person who possesses the other half of the scissors and who murdered her father. Except the school president is an insanely powerful dictator who runs the school – and the entire town – by force using a top-down system where the student council rules the club leaders who oppress the rest of the school population. It’s a bonkers show overall. Overall it’s good and very entertaining, though I would recommend watching Gurren Lagann, Top o Nerae 2 / Diebuster / Gunbuster 2 and FLCL first as I think all those are similar but better.
There’s a couple of other sequels running in last season which I can recommend as well. The first is Little Busters! Refrain. I think I recall a while back you mentioned enjoying Angel Beats. Little Busters is an adaption of a visual novel by Key (Kanon, Air, Clannad) and written by Jun Maeda (all the Key games and Angel Beats). It’s origins as a visual novel are fairly obvious, as the story basically plays out in a series of arcs each focused around one of the girls in the group and they can get quite emotional. Additionally there’s something else behind everything. Key has a reputation for making ‘crying games’ and doesn’t pull any punches making you feel sad and depressed, and this is no exception. Basically the plot revolves around Riki, a kid with Narcolepsy. He and his group of friends, a rag-tag group that call themselves the Little Busters get together to do various things. Kyousuke, the oldest, is graduating at the end of the year and decides that they should make amazing memories together as a group, and declares they shall do so by forming a baseball team. But that’s really just the surface of it, just an excuse for them to come together. Each of the characters has some deep issues or problems to deal with, including Riki himself. I actually haven’t finished Refrain yet – I didn’t feel like being depressed – so my recommendation is tentative, but I’m fairly confident based off the strength of the first season of 26 episodes that the 13 episodes of Refrain will be of similar quality. And even if not, the characters make up for it.
I’m still not sure yet whether I want to recommend Valvrave the Liberator or not. Really this was one 26-episode series which was split into two cours with a break between. I feel like with it Sunrise were trying to recapture what made Code Geass work so well. Incidentally if you haven’t seen Geass, I’d recommend watching it instead of this without hesitation. On the surface, Valvrave has a lot of setting ideas pulled straight from Gundam’s playbook. A peaceful colony attacked by a fascist military regime. The colony turns out to have been producing super-powered giant robots that the enemy military is intending to capture. A random student ends up piloting said robot and saves everyone. The big twist with Valvrave is that piloting it turns the pilot into basically a vampire. He has to feed on other people to live. Additionally if he bites someone, his consciousness can be transferred to them, effectively taking over their body. The show doesn’t pull any punches and takes a lot of turns toward the worst possible outcomes for everyone. It’s well-produced and well-animated. The ending was quite abrupt though and left a lot to be desired, but also left things open for a sequel. Anyway if you’re desperate for a science fiction action drama with giant robots and have already seen the better options, it’s worth a go.
Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta is not a sequel per se, it’s actually a re-adaption of the Yozakura Quartet manga, which was previously adapted fairly badly a few years ago. Subsequent to the old show, a series of OVA episodes were made with a completely new staff lead by director Ryo-Timo. There’s a concept in Anime called ‘Sakuga’. I’ll expand on it some other time, but Sakuga sequences are super high-quality animation sequences are, animated by a single keyframe animator. Ryo-Timo is an excellent Sakuga animator, so some of the action sequences he does in this are amazingly well animated. The setup for the show is that there’s a town in Japan, Sakura Newtown, where humans and Youkai (spirits / monsters) coexist peacefully. It’s got an ensemble cast rather than a single protagonist. Akina is technically the closest to a protagonist. He’s a human, but his family has a hereditary power that they can ‘tune’ a youkai, sending them to the other dimension where they are from. He’s joined by Hime, a spear-wielding girl who is also the Mayor of the town and usually is wrapped up in an incredibly long scarf; Kotoha, a half-Youkai ‘kotodama’, a power-speaker who can magically bring into being any object she has touched before by simply saying its name, and Ao, a Satori, which is a youkai that can read minds. Ao’s ‘antennas’ are basically cat ears, and she has the added bonus of being one of the rare examples of a character voiced by Saki Fujita, who is most famous for providing the voice of virtual idol Miku Hatsune. Personally, I absolutely love Yozakura Quartet. It’s adapted from a manga by Suzuhito Yasuda who is an artist I really like, and the whole thing really clicks for me. That said, I feel like Hana no Uta might be a little bit fans-only. About 2/3 the way in, there is a massive time skip where it jumps forward. To get that content you’d need to watch the 3 Hoshi no Umi OVAs, and I’d recommend doing that. Also if seeing girls panties offends you then skip this because you’re going to see a lot of them. Mainly from Ao, who wears a ridiculously short one-piece dress.
Speaking of beautiful animation, last season had two pretty good examples. The first is Kyoukai no Kanata, which was Kyoto Animation’s show for the season. All their work in 2013 was original shows which was a nice change since KyoAni usually do adaptions of existing works. KyoAni are probably the premier animation studio in Japan right now, though Production IG are more prestigious and IMO Ufotable and PA Works are better at animating. But with KyoAni you get the whole package. Quality character designs, beautiful high-quality and consistent animation and good direction, plus they get budgets that allow that to all work. The series is a fantasy romance drama about a girl, Mirai, who is from a cursed bloodline who hunt supernatural monsters, Youma, by using their own blood as a weapon. She meets Akihiko, a Half-Youma who she finds out is immortal when she stabs him through the heart but is unable to kill him. It’s a very enjoyable, well-made single-cour (13 week / single season) show.
I mentioned PA Works as being better animators than KyoAni, and the other high-quality animation show I mentioned is a PA Works show. Nagi no Asukara is an interesting show. I’ve actually fallen a bit behind on it, as it’s one I’m tending to watch in chunks. PA Works are an interesting studio. They don’t have a wide body of work but they’ve already begun to form a strong niche in drama. They don’t have the well-rounded ability of Kyoto Animation, who produce more enjoyable shows. Probably the highest point for PA Works was mystery/horror anime Another (which you should watch ASAP as it is awesome. Don’t read summaries, they’ll spoil the twist for you). PA Works drama stuff (True Tears, Hanasaku Iroha, Tari Tari and this) all have a really hard to describe quality to them. They feel a lot less like anime, and a lot more like actual TV dramas. The characters and the way they interact feels a lot more genuine and nuanced than you get in most standard anime, and they don’t rely on tropes and conventions. NagiAsu’s world is interesting. It’s set around a small rural fishing village. The four main characters are junior high school students who live in the ocean – they’re basically mer-people, though that’s slicing it fairly thin. With only the four of them left and their species slowly dwindling as more of them leave the ocean to live on land, their school closes and the four are forced to start going to school on land, with the ‘normal’ humans. The story revolves around the drama that ensures as they learn about the surface and find their place with the people that live there. It’s a bit slice-of-lifey, though more drama-oriented and has more progression and inter-personal relationships and conflicts than you might find in most slice of life stuff. Additionally this is a two-cour (26 week / two season) show so it’s currently still running.
Another of the series continuing into the current season is the second season of Magi. Magi is a well-made action-oriented fantasy anime which pulls most of its ideas from Middle Eastern mythology, especially the 1001 Arabian Nights. The protagonist, Aladdin, is one of the Magi, effectively a wizard who chooses people to become the Kings of the world. Aided by his friend Ugo, a Djinn imprisoned in Aladdin’s flute, he meets Alibaba and other friends and together they do various actiony things which I won’t talk too much about for fear of spoiling. Magi has some really high-quality fantasy world-building going on. The Arabian Nights thing isn’t just for flavour, there are actual well-defined countries with different people groups and customs and everything. I enjoy Magi quite a bit for what it is.
Simple action-oriented anime for a teenage demographic is obviously the most common sort of stuff, and aside from Magi there’s a few other examples, all of which are two-cour shows. The first one to mention is Strike the Blood. It’s a fairly average adaption of a fairly average light novel series. Very conventional overall. The world is basically ruled by three ‘progenitor’ vampires, the most powerful supernatural beings in the world. Set in a town in Japan where various monsters live alongside humans, Akatsuki has just inherited the powers of an unknown fourth progenitor, making him one of the most powerful beings on the planet if he can figure out how to use his abilities. An organization sends Yukina Himeragi to guard and watch him and if necessary to kill him. Honestly, actiony light novel adaptions like this are a dime a dozen, there’s one or two every season. If this sounds interesting, give it a go. I think instead of this I’d recommend grabbing the first season of Toaru Majutsu no Index (A Certain Magical Index), or even better the significantly more enjoyable Toaru Kagaku no Railgun (A Certain Scientific Railgun). A lot of the same feel and the same sort of content, but Index and especially Railgun (which had a second season earlier in 2013) are better.
In addition to Strike the Blood you could try Tokyo Ravens which is another two-cour action anime. The main character, Harutora, is a member of the branch house of the Tsuchimikado family, who are a powerful clan of practitioners of Onmyou ‘magic’. Harutora has very little magical power, but due to various reasons he becomes the familiar of Natsume, the daughter and heir of the main house of the Tsuchimikado family and believed to be the reincarnation of Yakou, one of the most powerful onmyouji to have ever lived. He ends up traveling to Tokyo to attend Onmyou school with Natsume, only to find that she is posing as a boy there, as no one knows that the Tsuchimikado heir is a girl. Overall, it’s an interesting enough show if conventional and I’d actually probably suggest it ahead of Strike the Blood as well.
The final one of the two-cour shows is probably the most interest to gamers. Log Horizon is another show in what seems to be an emerging popular idea recently, which is Science Fiction anime involving virtual worlds. In this case, as with contemporary Sword Art Online and progenitor .hack, the characters involved are trapped inside an MMORPG. What sets Log Horizon apart is that, unlike many shows of this ilk, the actual game they’re trapped in is believable and consistent. The author of the manga this is adapted from is apparently an Everquest veteran, and that really becomes obvious. Shiroe is an enchanter, the strategist of a legendary group of non-guild players from the game (when it was a game), the Debauchery Tea Party, who were effectively a top-tier raiding progression guild. The Tea Party subsequently disbanded, joining various guilds, but Shiroe prefers to stay on his own. When a new expansion for the game is released, all the players find themselves trapped inside a much more real version of the game they used to play. Shiroe meets up with Naotsugu, a tank, and Akatsuki, a
rogueNinja Assassin and they try to make sense of the world. The show delves into topics like newbie characters being exploited for XP boost items, players learning to work as a team by allowing the tank to manage aggro and so on. Basically, if you like MMORPGs and were frustrated by things like Sword Art Online where it was hard to actually a game in there which remotely resembled a real MMO, this is your show. It’s a little bit low-budget but that’s about the only complaint I have.And speaking of low-budget game adaptions, I’m actually a bit wary of suggesting this one, but I found Walkyure Romanze highly entertaining. Basically it’s a bog-standard adaption of one of the many ‘visual novel’ (misuse of term, ask me to explain some time) games that Japan produces dozens of every month. One guy, many girls that each basically feel like they were constructed in a factory to each have their own generic charm points and so on. The cream of the crop generally get promotional anime adaptions, and periodically they’re half decent. This is one such case. By all measures it’s a mediocre to bad show. But it is also a show about beautiful ladies getting into leather and steel and then attempting to drive hard shafts into each other from horseback. Because everyone knows that jousting is a sport enjoyed only by the most noble and attractive ladies. Seriously, it’s a show about girls jousting* while trying to catch the eye of the protagonist, a guy who used to be a jouster but now he isn’t because he hurt his knee. He also has slightly less personality than the berk they got for that Bachelor show my sister & mother were always watching earlier in the year. Which is amazing because that guy was a cardboard cutout. But anyway, the execution here is what saves it. It’s completely dumb, full of stupid innuendo and risque shots and is generally moronic. But at the same time I found it very entertaining in spite of itself. Oh, and if you think Jousting is odd, ask me some time to recommend you the one where the girls are all personifications of assault rifles, or the one where bunches of cute girls engage in the most honorable, noble and dignified ladies sport of competitive Tank Combat. Yes, really. Girls und Panzer was fucking awesome. Actually, watch that instead.
One more to suggest, especially since you mentioned you like Slice of Life anime. Non Non Biyori is a classic example of what I like to call the ‘healing type’ slice of life show. These are shows that evoke a sense of mono no aware, or sensitivity to the impermanence and transience of life and appreciation of fleeting beauty or something. Also they’re basically shows where there’s no conflict, the setting is generally mundane, the tone is light and relaxing. Other examples (and good things to try if you like this at all) are Aria, Minami-ke and Hidamari Sketch. Hotaru is a ten year old girl who transfers to a new school in a rural village in the mountains. Including Hotaru, there are five students at the school. Renge, a first year elementary school kid (~5) who is childish but often quite perceptive; Natsumi, first year middle school (~11) student who is a bit of a rebel, and Komari, Natsumi’s sister who is in her second year of middle school but is smaller than her younger sister and Hotaru, a source of constant consternation. It’s basically a slice of life comedy show, with the girls doing various things throughout the school year, lots of long, loving shots of beautiful rural scenery, and various amusing jokes and situational comedy. I’d probably recommend trying some of the better Slice of Life shows ahead of it, but I enjoyed it a lot, especially as a palate cleanser.
Hopefully this enormous wall of text is helpful.
By the way, there’s a really good video series which explains ‘Sakuga’ animation on youtube here. Goes into the way animation is done in Japan, and stuff, quite interesting and there’s some great examples of Sakuga animation in there too (I’d forgotten how fucking badass Sword of the Stranger’s duel was)
Dang, you just ’bout absorbed everything from the fall season, huh? I’m curious what you think of Gundam Build Fighters, because I hear it’s a delightful watch (I guess after AGE anything would be better..)
I like it a lot but it’s not something I’d casually recommend. It’s specifically aimed at Gundam fans and people that built plamo at some point and without that I don’t think it’d have a huge amount of appeal as it’s basically a battle anime aimed at 8-10 year olds, i.e. the same demographic as AGE was.
EDIT: And as I mentioned, I basically try and watch at least one episode of everything in each season because so often there’s a show or two which on the surface seems like it would be utterly crap but turns out to be quite reasonable. Can’t pre-judge. So I’ve seen at least something from about 85-90% of TV anime from the last five or six years probably.
So the air-con in the house started leaking water and rattling… i think this might be a problem :/
Dear Lego lovers. KMart have the Monsters Haunted House for $170. It’s a sweet as set at an excellent price. Well, it’s relatively expensive, but for the number of pieces and the details that’s really good.
Is that the one with the light up bricks? My nephew had that and all I could think when he was showing it to me was “Where was MY light up lego???”
I’m not sure amigo. I didn’t see any light up bricks on the box, besides the ghosts that glow in the dark. But yeah… where were those pieces when we grew up!?
The other cool set that’s ‘on special’ is the Lord Of The Rings Pirate Ship Ambush. On special at BigW for $88 ($52 off RRP). The reason it’s so cool is because, wait for it, it has a Peter Jackson minifig!
It’s not officially confirmed I don’t think, however if you watch the film, one of the pirates is actually Peter Jackson. And the minifig in this set is, without doubt, that pirate. So that’s pretty neat.
I’m not a LoTR fanboy, but having a minifig of Peter Jackson’s character in arguably his biggest film is pretty neat. 😀
Okay, so I know I was pretty drunk and embarrassing last night. I sincerely apologize if I ruined any one’s night, said something wrong or let any one down. 🙁
Thank you guys for an awesome night, though! Particularly @strange who did all the heavy lifting on the planning front. (Making phone calls? That’s madness!)
Thanks to @gutsoup and @jimu too for making sure I got home okay.
Dude, no apologies. You were fine, at least until the point where I left. 😛
He started sobering up after you left.
I did?
I think the walk was sobering us up and slowing down the drinking.
All of us.
I remember hearing people all night saying how crazy drunk I was and to make sure I get home alright. Then I fist bumped them, cause nothing says sobriety like fist bumps! XD
That was mostly just @strange I think
What you may not remember hearing was me @gutsoup @dkzietgeist @sughly saying you were “fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine”.
That was not me. I never told him to make sure he gets home alright. Because I’m a monster. 😛
Until @sughly bought him a pint 😛
That guy is a gentleman and a scholar.
He’s a cool guy, I like @sughly, he’s also nice & polite, something some people lack today like a few I work with >_>
Awr, get fugged, gunt!
^^
you were fine, nothing to be concerned about at all. Thanks for the entertaining evening, it was good to finally meat so many people in person. Also if it were up to me and Jimu we would have probably missed our train, you were our drunken voice of reason 😛
I’ll put that on my resume!
DRUNKEN VOICE OF REASON (2014-Present)
So, so cool hanging Gutsoup. We’re not supposed to have favourites, but you’re totally one of my favourites. 😀
haha, thanks man. You’ll be hired for any job anywhere 😀 . I’ll try and make it to more meats. It was fun hanging out with you guys and I need to get out more. A big thanks to @strange too for doing the organizing.
MOOKY!?
He made out with @mrtaco’s girlfriend. Or something. I’m actually a bit confused by it all.
Don’t you mean girlfriend(s)?
WHAT, HE DID IT AGAIN??
he a playa, yoo caint hold that back, brother
HE WHAT?!
Spoiler because baww:
Our cockatiel Jimmy died this morning 🙁 Apparently he was ok when my parents got up, but then they came back and he… wasn’t. It’s also shitty because he was my sister’s bird and she’s over on holidays right now, and just found out yesterday she didn’t get into the course she was hoping to this year. Don’t think we’re telling her about it til she gets back in another few weeks.🙁 Sorry to hear that, my friend!
sorry to hear that 🙁 What is it with people giving cockatiel’s names that start with J though?! I know 3 people who’ve had them, and they all had J names. I’m to blame for one of them though. My best friend got a cockatiel, and I suggested he call it Jarvis as in Jarvis Cocker-tiel! he loved it so it stuck!It’s true. My grandparents had one as well, they called him Joey 😛
Although my cousins’ one was Spike. He was also the first to start talking, and then kind of passed it on to Joey when he stayed over while the others were on holiday. Then I think Jimmy got it from Joey when we took him up with us once for some reason.
We called our cockatiel Nutbag because he was a mad bastard right from the start. Ahh I loved that bird…
*Parrot lovers (but not in that way) hug*
I can definitely recommend an eastern Rosella as a pet as long as you have tough ears and a ready supply of things they can chew so they don’t do what mine did one afternoon which was go all quiet for 15 minutes and when I looked around several of my DVD cases had been chewed.
He’s a dear little chap really but some of my Dr Who DVDs will never be the same again…
I ate uncooked trout for dinner last night @virus__ was not impressed :p
Tasted like Salmon sushi roll
Oh, I also ate @gutsoup ‘s ‘taters and @freezespreston ‘s chicken wings
And a hotdog.
I had three meat balls. Based on how drunk I got so fast, I suspect I should’ve had more. Haha!
Hope you had a good time, my friend?
them ‘taters was weird
Eh, not really. Just not overly keen on fish these days 😛
Finished Enslaved very good game but …
that final boss fight -_-Haha! I kind of loved the scale of that fight, but it was a constant unrelenting battle. Found it easier on PC than console weirdly. Might’ve helped that it was my second play through!The idea and scale of it was cool, but the actual fight just really annoyed me. *shrugs* maybe it’s just meYou going to play Pigsy’s Perfect Ten DLC? I found it good, but also a huge departure from the way Monkey controlled which led to frustration controlling Pigsy.
I probably will, gonna give it a little break though. Kinda got really frustrated with the last boss. XD
I enjoyed my time, don’t really feel like playing again.
Maybe in a few years when they do the Ultra HD/4K release. :p
Last Played Song Game:
New Slang – The Shins
Primadonna – Marina and the Diamonds.
@dc
Sorry this is so far back, but I wanted it to be a bit more private rather than flashed all over the recent pages of Talk Amongst Yourself.
Sorry if I made you feel awkward or uncomfortable or embarrassed or anything the other day with my drunken ramblings about taking you out clubbing :S
I re-read them sober and thought that I may have come across as a bit pushy and overbearing and just generally like a spastic, which I’m usually not like at all. I generally tend to get really happy / energetic when I get drunk, so when I’m sitting down getting drunk that’s when my hyper-ness comes out through drunk messages. When sober I’m the complete opposite.
I was totally only (semi)kidding about taking you out clubbing, like, I’d offer if I was in your area cause you seem like a really awesome dude and generally fun to hangout with (no homo), but I wouldn’t try and drag you out or feel bad if you didn’t want to, haha! I know I haven’t technically met you, but I have too much respect for you to purposly put you in scenario where you feel uncomfortable.
Anyway, I just wanted to apologise for being a drunken mess and maybe putting you in an awkward position.
Pals? 🙂
Haha, someone’s been doing some over thinking of the kind usually reserved by me!
For one, you didn’t remotely make me feel awkward or uncomfortable. Not at all. Could see that happiness and enthusiasm in your posts. There ain’t nothing to be embarrassed or sorry about. I vanished from TAY for a couple of days for unrelated reasons, that just happened to coincide with the timing of your post but believe me it had nothing to do with it. I thought it was funny and I can safely say it’s not somewhere I would go on my own but if you ever came to Brisbane I might get the courage to attend with some safety in numbers, of course. Haha! (That or just do what we usually do at meats!)
Once again, no need to feel sorry man. Of course we’re pals!
Awesome, that makes me feel a ton better! I admit I thought maybe I was the reason you weren’t around for a couple of days, but I’m glad to hear it wasn’t me, haha! Hopefully whatever reason you weren’t around because of isn’t too serious, or that you’re feeling better at least 🙂
I got myself curious about what makes a club a “Megaclub” and have never been on a holiday before, so I’ll probably be in Brisbane around June / July (hopefully with a mate), so if it happens I’ll invite you and anyone else who lives nearby out with me closer to the time 🙂
You’re awesome man, hands down one of the nicest people I (kinda) know 🙂
Aw, right back at you, man. You’re awesome! I probably don’t live up to the hype, though! 😛
Things are better now. Wasn’t too serious, was just in a bit of an emo mood. Haha!
I’ve read on TAY before that you live up to your reputation, so don’t stress 😛
Good to hear you’re feeling better though man, I hate hearing that my friends are feeling down 🙁 Makes me feel down too 🙁
I might be a cunt, but I’m not a fucking cunt – TISM
Quiet B – Mitsuhira kaneda
Uhhhh *avoids question*
Born This Way – Lady GagaI might’ve been listening to Miley Cyrus’ Party in the USA a couple of days back! XD
Sorry ’bout last night, man. Hope I wasn’t too bad. You’re awesome!For what? Enjoying yourself and having fun? Doofus.Also
I’m showing Mrs Freeze this. You gonna get so slapped.Ah, I also worry that I annoyed Mrs. Freeze and missed social cues and wouldn’t stop rambling when I should’ve.Well it was better than Backstreet boys which you were singing along to, yesterday in the car…
Mnemic’s completely kick arse cover of the Duran Duran song Wild Boys.
It’s possibly my favourite metal cover of the last decade, the only real competition I can think of off the top of my head is Diablo’s cover of Abba’s Dancing Queen
Bad Romance – Halestorm
Their cover of Get Lucky is also pretty awesome 😛
If I Had A Tail – Queens Of The Stoneage
Dividing by Zero – The Offspring
I lost my glasses yesterday. *shakes fist*
Luckily I really only need them to see stuff far away. If I drove, this would be catastrophic but it ain’t for my day-to-day hermit life. Just the world has lost some of its HD-ness.
On the brightside, with the exception of a minor headache this morning I don’t seem to have a hang over at all. Feel good and mellow. Maybe I’m still buzzed? 😛
Are you sure you’ve lost your glasses and haven’t just put them far enough away where you can’t see them?
Don’t think of it as losing HD, think of it as gaining antialiasing
checked the top of your head?
Board games aren’t happening today unless there are some last minute arrivals.
So instead I’m getting ready to move by moving my PC so we can use the study nook area to dump a whole bunch of boxes of things. It’s really disorientating having my second monitor above my main monitor. I’m glad this is only for a week or two because I could get used to this and then it will be incredibly impractical.
Guess I’d better go outside and do some gardening
On the plus side, I just bought loads of fruit for smoothies and juicing. Kiwi and pear juice sounds like it could be a weiner
Ginger goes well in juices, particularly with watermelon/rockmelon(cantaloupe).
Try a chilli, sounds mad but apple, carrot & chilli is awesome
Thanks for organising @scree and for the beemo cake.
Was good to catchup and see people and to meat @coldcamv
I might get around to doing a write-up sometime this weekend
Yeah thanks @scree, cake was amazing!
It was good catching up with you all again 😀
For a first meat besides the awkwardness of me attempting to walk up and say hello it was really fun and great to put some faces to screen names!
And also thank you @scree for some delicious cake!
First-time meaters are obligated to write a 3000+ word write up.
You wouldn’t need it if you’d showed up =P
But @dc (and others) need it!
Tigs has an image of the cake, does that satisfy your needs?
Pics or it didn’t happen! 😉
@welbot
I’ll upload mine later
Sorry I didn’t make it @scree. I was asleep until 1pm 🙁
That’s alright. You warned me.
I’m sorry we didn’t make it either.
It’s fine. You had prior engagements.
Since I am uncreative, I decided to have cabbage on it’s own again. Salad dressing and seasoning is for the weak!
…
I will come to regret this decision.
But whhhhhhy..? Pickled cabbage is really nice, coleslaw is really nice, but plain cabbage? Aw man that’s just D=
Last night was fun. I’m amazed how little sleep I am running on and given I went to work this morning. You know what? I’m going out again tonight cause I hate myself!
Thanks for coming out last night, my pal! Good night! 😀
No worries man, was glad I could make it, I really needed to get out this all work & no play thing gets tiresome. Money is nice, but I do like to keep my sanity.
Hopefully the end of the story!
Mr and Mrs Oliver got back on Thursday, we all sat down with our housemate and another mutual friend of both sides, told her we want her to leave, which at first she was insistent on staying, but we broke her down… quite a lot and she said she’d leave. Fast forward to now and she’s already left! She’s just got some stuff left to pick up and then she’s gone for good. She also has some stuff to drop off cos she took EVERYTHING from the kitchen and when I asked she said she didn’t realise we owned anything in there… omg.
It seriously couldn’t have gone any better. She got somebody (probably her mum) to write up this cute little ‘notice of demand’ letter for us, which whilst holding absolutely no legal weight at all, it made my day with how ridiculous it all is. Want your mail redirected? Go to Aus Post, not us. It’s an amazing letter. I feel like posting it.
But yeah, really glad to a) have my Oliver back, and b) have somebody in general around that I like. Plus I also got my Chilrdrens Hospital t shirts! 😀
“have my Oliver back”
:’) nawwwwwww <3
Hey, I’m his Benny 😛 He made that quite clear to his wife!
(I could’ve told the story of our trip to the park last night and the… weird things that happened, but I thought maybe not)
Just like Turk and JD? As numbers has corrected me
That’s probably the best way to put it, although I dunno who’s closer 😛 I love him, he loves me, and as he said to me tonight there’s photos to prove it!
If his wife is okay with it, then it doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks, right?
Yup. She thinks it’s kinda funny but otherwise she’s fine with it, and neither of us could care less about what some people say or what it looks like. It’s great
word of warning, don’t completely disregard a notice of demand. People usually put stuff in writing in case they decide to get arsey later down the track, no matter how ridiculous it is. Maybe write a (polite) letter back giving advice on what they’re asking such as paying Aus Post to forward their mail. Best thing to cover your back in return 🙂
Surround yourself with good people though. I’ve only looked back on a few of your previous people, but it sounds like you need positive people round you atm, and of course TAY is always here too
Checked up on it. Sounds like she technically wouldn’t have a legal foot to stand on.
If the debt is relatively small – say under $2,000 – many people decide to write off the debt because of the perception that it is too difficult and expensive to pursue, especially if lawyers are retained. – See more at: http://www.artslaw.com.au/info-sheets/info-sheet/debt-recovery-small-claims-procedure-vic/#headingh22
It’s probably just her trying to make things difficult.
DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD!
Part of me is disappointed that there will be no more tales of drama though 😛 But it’s far outweighed by the side that is happy for you.
Anyone have a Nexus 5? (@blaghman apparently? :P)
I’m kinda thinking of getting one but I dunnae. Who knows! Just the usual questions, is it good? Pros/Cons? I currently have an iPhone 4S which I’m happy with but I kinda like the whole “Nexus” look and I think I might have a crack at Android. I don’t use my phone too much except for browsing and for social media, so the bigger screen will be a nice welcome.
@beavwa the Play Store is out of stock at the moment but they’re expecting to get stock by the end of Jan. I may just buy one anyway but I’ll let you know if I do and hopefully I’ll be able to answer any questions you might have about it.
I’m a Nexus 4. Complaints for it are that it overheats, and that its camera is a little crap. Both of these are way better in the 5, though the camera is still nothing compared to, say, the lumias (c.c. Lambo). Other main issue is that there’s still sometimes stuff on iOS that I want that I can’t get, for obvious reasons.
Oh yeah, other thing to keep in mind is that it’s a massive phone, though I guess that should be obvious thanks to the name…
What sorta iOS things?
Lumia has a pretty camera but eww Windows phone
OK, so that’s four seasons of Archer polished off, time to grab the next on– huh. That’s weird. Where is the next season? I only see one episode. That can’t be right.
*wikipedia*
Wait. What? No… no! No no no nonononothiscan’tbehappening! WHO DOES THAT? Who makes a kickass show then only has four seasons of it by the time I get around to watching it meaning I have to WAIT for episodes, like a damn ANIMAL! (No offense to animals.) But do I LOOK like an animal to you? (Again, no offense.) AUGH!
I feel your pain man 🙁 Just finished it off myself, can’t wait for season 5! I’d rather wait for it all to be out before watching it rather than waiting week after week for one episode at a time though.
Try finishing season 4 a year ago and having to wait.
Or try The Venture Bros only having the odd episodes released every 18 months or so.
And one of those being the documentary on Shallow Gravy that went for what, 8 minutes? I was getting flashbacks to the mid 80s & the “No, Doctor Who hasn’t been cancelled, its just not on TV this year, or next” thing.
There’s good news and bad news.
The good news is that new episodes started last week.
The bad news is
that the first of those episodes was basically a pilot for the relaunch of the show as Archer Vice. You can find the details at the end of S05E01.I literally, not figuratively, just finished watching it and it looks like this could be the best season yet.
I like a show that’s not afraid to change its premise midway through its run too.
The montage looked good but we have to see it to know.
Mainly I just wanted to do good news/bad news.
Archer is great.
You should also watch Bob’s Burgers. Just as good if not better
*Googles “how to buy a house”, weeps*
Seriously though this is scary even though I can’t afford it yet.It’s only getting harder unfortunately =/ I might just end up with my Mums house
Just wait for a few years till 3d printers come down in price and I’ll run you off a quick copy of my place on the sly
Will there be working plumbing?
Well it’d LOOK llike it should work, that’s surely near enough
Close enough is good enough.
I figure if you only eat things that LOOK like food, you’ll only excrete things that LOOK like poo…
http://www.news.com.au/technology/the-3d-printer-that-can-build-a-house-in-24-hours/story-e6frfrnr-1226798960267 I seem to be oddly prophetic…
Or possibly just odd.
This is me every time I think about it. Theoretically I’m saving but at the current rate I think that the house prices are going up faster than my deposit fund can keep up.
The real killer is the fees though.
Yeah, it’s not as simple as “This is how much it costs”. A shame, I’d really like it to be straightforward…
But hey, at least I’m looking at something that may get me away from here, and towards something better (and not entirely discounting the time I’ve spent here!)
Just about everything goes for Auction here too so if you end up interested in something where someone wants to have a dick length contest you’re fucked even aside from the fees 🙁
I’m well aware of my less-than-average phallic prowess… this poses a problem in the housing market, it would seem. Perhaps a prosthetic is the way to go? (I’ve no idea where I’m going with this)
I know! I could kickstarter my home loan. Perfect \o/
@shane, @strange and others who play dark souls
http://imgur.com/6oc7rvf
doe sit look like the “skirt” is painted? I can see that they’ve put texture but I’m wondering if that was caused by limitations and if I should paint it, or create another layer of cloth.
Any and all help would be appreciated.
I think the ‘skirt’ is actually the tattered bottom of the white tabard with the sun on it. There’s just a belt cinching it in the middle.
Yeah, I understand the shape. That’s why skirt was in ”. Just didn’t get the texture on the bottom.
Sun bro!
\o/
It looks dirty. Maybe dirty up your tunic when it’s done? And it’s not actually a tunic,come to think of it. It’s only joined at the shoulders, the sides are open and cinched by the belt.
http://images.eurogamer.net/2013/usgamer/darksouls_solaire.jpg
Thanks Strange. I’ll speak to Nob and make sure he’s happy with it before proceeding.
So I just completed Lilly’s route in Katawa Shoujo. I was going to post a big long list of my thoughts, but I no longer have the willpower. I will say, this route was longer than the others. Rin and Emi’s respective routes took 7-8 hours, and Lilly’s took 11:31. I had a big marathon, and I played this game for about six hours, even though my clock tells me I have been playing for 9.
Even though there were many missteps in Lilly’s route, I think it might be my favourite. I was firmly in the Emi camp up until now… but I have since transferred. Fellow TAybies, I urge you to play this game. Even if you don’t like romance stories. I didn’t think I did until Katawa Shoujo came along, but now I am not so sure. It’s free. Don’t let this opportunity slip by.
As to be expected, this game will linger in my mind for at least a week, curb-stomping any possible chance of productivity. I will not get a good sleep tonight. Now, if you excuse me, I will eat my long-delayed dinner. I leave you with this quote from Lilly:
I have a whole stack of VNs I want to get to ‘some day’ and that’s pretty close to the top of the list.
I played it for several hours in a row, and I struggle with playing most games for more than two hours at once. If that isn’t a hearty recommendation, I don’t know what is.
Basically, the writing is brilliant, and the characters are some of the most fleshed-out and deep people I have ever encountered in all media. That’s not saying much, since I am 16 and therefore inexperienced in such things, but hey, Emi Ibarazki made my no.1 spot for favourite fictional character ever, and now that I have done Lilly’s route, I am considering reversing my position.
If you had asked me before I played the VN if I would date either a blind person, or an amputee, or a girl with scars that cover half her body, I would tell you no. I would say that I would be unable to get over their disability, no matter how nice they were. Post-Katawa Shoujo, I would say yes without hesitation. I really think this game has bettered me as a person. Yes, I would go as far as to say that.
Tl:dr I would recommend it. Please note that I may be somewhat unhinged, having spent a whole day with a blind girl that doesn’t exist. Take my opinion with a grain of salt.
So we’re all united in the ‘Lily best waifu’ camp?
MAH BRO.
*Copies “waifu” into urban dictionary*
Yeah, best waifu! I was surprised how eerily accurate the definition was.
You know, I am surprised how many TAYbies have played this game. For a niche visual novel, it sure has a lot of fans.
He does not know about waifus
this is good
I assume this is a new mind to
corruptmoldKS is actually pretty popular, almost like a cult classic among video games. It had a interesting story behind it’s development, it had a fair amount of attention from the media upon it’s release, and because of this it had the distinction of being a representative of a genre not popular to the west. But most of all, it was a solid game.
Oh God no. My friend posted something on Facebook that reminded me of this.
This is going to be stuck in my head for the rest of my life…
PS, please tell me I’m not the only one here familiar with this.
I’m not clicking that just in case.
I don’t know how old you are, but do you know of an old kids cartoon show called Aarthur?
And I said “HEY! What a wonderful kind of day, where we can learn to work and play, and get along with each other”
…I just realised what you did and I hate you for it.
The song I linked to is the damn Library Card song!
“Having fun, isn’t hard, when you’ve got a library card!”
But now I also have the damn theme song stuck in my head too! F*** that damn show and its catchy tunes!!!
Oh god damn it.
Hahaha, I refuse to suffer alone!!! >:)
Also, sorry if I got it in your head!
I watched a lot of that show when I was a kid, and I somehow dodged that bullet.
You should be thankful for that! Very thankful! That damn song is always lurking at the back of my mind. Any mention of library cards and that song is in my head for a week! D:
I need a bit of linuxy advice from linuxy folk (about linux), how do you get it to listen to a microphone? I’m hoping to use my newly resurrected netbook running mint 16 cinnamon as an ad hoc mic preamp until I can afford to get a real one.
I’m hoping there’s something analogous to the Windows 7 “listen to this device” checkbox where whatever comes in the mic goes out the speakers.
Any thoughts?
Okay seems I managed to fix it myself, i had to reboot after installing a package, it’s like it was the bloody dark ages! I’ve been really spoiled by how good windows has gotten since vista.
Epic feedback loop traps aside (people 2 blocks away would have heard that first one), I might have something that will do the job until I can afford a real preamp
I accidentally updated Chrome last night, now flash videos aren’t playing audio. Can anybody help?
I’ve been reduced to using Firefox like some filthy animal.
Be thankful you aren’t using IE.
*shudder*
Personally I find Firefox to actually be faster. It helps that I prefer Firefox’s interface over Chrome’s. The way they manage history and bookmarks strikes me as more intuitive. Just my opinion. *shrug*
Different strokes I guess.
I prefer Chrome, but sometimes Chrome won’t connect to the internet, so I use Firefox and it works great. I generally find Firefox more reliable, but prefer chrome.
As long as none of us use Internet Explorer, we can exist in harmony.
The main thing I love about Firefox is that when you type stuff into the URL bar, you get a list of EVERYTHING that relates to what you’ve typed. Not just the five that Chrome thinks are the most important.
Also it seems to be a whole lot easier to find things in menus when things aren’t working.
Okay… so my audio is back now.
\o/
😀
o/
Since I lacked the willpower last night, I’ll try and give my thoughts, point by point, on Katawa Shoujo – Lilly’s route.
-You were right, @gorzilla, Lilly probably has the best route.
-That scene in the wheat field where Lilly and Hisao confessed to each other struck me as one of one of the weaker writing moments in the game. It was something about the constant use of “I love you,” and Lilly screaming Hisao’s name for no reason. Although it becomes somewhat justified later, once you delve a little deeper into Lilly’s psychology, it still stuck out as a surprisingly weak bit of writing. A shame, considering the significance of the scene.
-I am a little annoyed that the VN expected me to know what Tanabata is.
-The route was three hours longer than I expected it to be. I was convinced that the chapter “Out and about” (the fancy restaurant scene) was going to be the last. Then BAM, the twist happened. -The chapter “Out and About” was well written and interesting all the way through. Although it’s essentially 25 minutes of Hisao and Lilly talking, the amount of sheer character development more than makes up for the three-minute loop of the Red Velvet song. But hey, it’s jazz.
-The twist… oh man, the twist. It’s the kind of twist that you don’t see coming, yet kick yourself for not seeing the signs. I know Lilly’s distance and her outburst at Kenji should have been a warning sign, but I was oblivious to her misery. When it was told to me, I found myself uttering “Oh shit.” aloud.
-I wonder whether Lilly’s blindness actually played a part in her parents abandoning her. It’s probably just Akira’s insane rambling, but I can see her parents being that cruel. If it indeed was Lilly’s blindness that made her parents leave, fuck them. They are awful human beings and should stay as far away from Lilly as possible.
-Although Hisao trying to get to the airport to stop Lilly is a cliche, it was so well executed that I am willing to forgive 4 Leaf Studios. I think I was selfishly cheering for Hisao, since I wanted a good ending. That’s the thing, I knew he was endangering his life, but since I wanted Lilly to stay at Yamaku so badly, I was willing to let little details like Hisao’s safety be forgotten. I know I was cheering for a fictional character, but I am disgusted with myself for doing so. That’s the power of the writing, I guess. The characters and their troubles feel so real, that wanting something to happen at another character’s expense seems unbelievably selfish.
-It’s clear that Katawa Shoujo runs more on emotion than it does logic, but I can forgive that, because the feels. It never truly explains how Lilly managed to stay in Japan, but I don’t care.
-When the credits rolled, I found myself crying “No…” to my monitor. When the after-credits scene happened, I was filled with such joy.
-The scene with the blindfold was surprisingly poignant. Although it could definitely have been executed better, it was a nice scene, nonetheless. Also, blind people have the best sex. Who knew? But wait, the thing in Lilly’s hair was a ribbon? I thought it was a bow of some description.
-It’s weird to know the characters well enough that you can tell some ugly aspect of their future. I can tell Lilly will become a full-blown alcoholic at some point. It’s inevitable. She is clearly prone to addictions, evidenced by her addiction to caffeine. She hides it well by drinking a lot of tea, but it will be harder to hide an alcohol addiction, sadly. Freaking Akira.
-Akira Satou may just be one of the most irresponsible and unreliable characters in the game. In almost every scene, she shows up, then leaves early.
“Happy birthday Hanako. Here’s some booze. Share it with my sister. Gotta go.”
-Every time Hisao has a heart problem, I think of the doctor at the beginning of the game.
“People with arrythmia tend to live long lives.” Screw you, doctor. It is obvious that Hisao won’t live to see 40. Don’t feed him that bullshit.
-The more I think about it, the sadder I suspect Lilly and Hisao’s future will be. They will both study teaching. At some point, Hisao will succumb to his condition, and die young. Lilly will be crushed by her loss, and turn to drinking alcohol and caffeine in the hopes to dull the pain. She will morph into Sae Saionji, (the art gallery owner from Rin’s route) and become a sad relic of her former self. She will eventually move back to Scotland with her asshole parents.
Jeez, I hope my prediction is incorrect. That would be a horrible way for everything to end, but I don’t see how my prediction could be avoided. Hisao WILL die young.
-The more I look at it, the more Lilly’s route seems to be the pinnacle of Katawa Shoujo. Her route is obviously the longest. She has the most sprite work, as she is the only one to have a sprite that doesn’t face Hisao. It was unexpected for the developers to make a new sprite for Lilly, just for that restaurant scene. Although I haven’t done Hanako’s or Shizune’s routes yet, I can almost guarantee that they don’t end on such a grand scale, with Hisao’s heart nearly killing him.
-I am both happy and tremendously sad that I got to experience this. I am happy that I got to experience something wonderful, but sad because I don’t think anything will top it. I don’t think any other story could hook me for hours on end like Katawa Shoujo. I don’t think any other story could emotionally manipulate me the way that Katawa Shoujo did. I don’t think anything could make me experience such joy and such sadness as Katawa Shoujo. I don’t think anything could produce characters as deep, memorable and relatable as Katawa Shoujo. I don’t think anything will top this. I hope something so good as Katawa Shoujo won’t make other experiences seem lesser.
I don’t want to see a movie, and leave saying “Yeah, that one character was good. But she’s no Lilly Satou, that’s for sure.”
I don’t want to read a book, and say “Yeah, that writing was good. But the writing doesn’t compare to Katawa Shoujo, that’s for sure.”
I don’t want to listen to some music, and say “Yeah, that music was good, but…” I don’t want this to happen. I didn’t want Katawa Shoujo to be as good as it was.
tl:dr Katawa Shoujo is fantastic. I don’t know why I spent an hour telling TAY my thoughts about a game that, what, four TAYbies have played? Even then, I don’t think anyone would want to read that wall of text, so I think it was more for my benefit than for anyone else.
The very first time I played through Katawa Shoujo, I said I would just pick whatever feels like I would pick in the situation, instead of planning anything.
…Ended up not being paired up with any of the girls, getting a bad end and dying a horrible death.
😛
Me too. Remember kids, make friends or die.
Chainsaw Rin needs to become a thing.
It was the firebat Hanako where I lost my shit.
You’re reading far too much into the whole alcohol thing with Lilly. Her little ‘obsession’ is really just to showcase that she isn’t as stiff and uptight as she appears to be, and as a little joke because minors drinking alcohol is funny stuff. Sometimes. No, it isn’t. Don’t drink, kids.
Also, are you new to VNs/Anime/Manga in general? Because if you want your heartstrings pulled, I’m sure a few TAYbies have a few suggestions in mind..
Hmm, maybe you’re right. I remember that there was a bit of dialogue that hinted that Lilly might be addicted to caffeine, so she drinks absurd amounts of tea. I also think there was a bit of dialogue that said she had an addictive personality, but my brain might have made that up to justify my belief that she has a caffeine addiction. Her eagerness to drink alcohol afterwards led me to believe that she was developing something. Of course you don’t develop an addiction after drinking alcohol twice. My whole theory of
Hisao dying and Lilly turning into Sae was completely divorced from reality. Although I do think Hisao won’t live a particularly long life, my prediction makes very little sense. I based the entire theory of my stupid belief that Lilly is addicted to alcohol, when I’m not even sure if she’s addicted to caffeine. But still, Akira has less responsibility than a bag of turmeric powder.Also, yesterday I learned that the drinking age of Japan is 20.
In answer to your second question, I am quite new to animes etc. I am pretty sure that Katawa Shoujo is the first VN I have played. (What a good first foray to the genre) I am fairly new to anime, but I am taking it slow, only watching one anime at a time. The big problem with anime for me is that, because of the Japanese dialogue, remembering names and events is hard. Whilst I have no problem reading subtitles, (I can’t remember the last game I played where I didn’t turn on subtitles) my brain can’t remember what exactly happened, since the audio in my memory is all kinds of messed up. When I try to remember certain scenes, my memories are a weird mix of incomprehensible Japanese dialogue, with English dialogue that sounds like what I was thinking whilst reading the subtitles. I get through it okay, but I forget most scenes. Here’s a list of anime I have watched:
-Seitokai Yakuindomo: Actually awful, just a series of perverted jokes with no segue. Avoid unless 14 years old.
-Henneko: The Hentai Prince and the Stony Cat: Actually pretty good, too bad I refuse to say the name in public. It’s apparently very similar to Liar Liar. Don’t know what that is.
-Watamote It’s You Guys’ Fault I’m Not Popular: Not sure if I actually enjoyed my time with it, but I am glad I watched it, at least to see the rule 63 version of me cock everything up.
-Kill la Kill (What’s available, anyway) : I have watched the first 13 episodes of this series, since I wanted a change of pace from the slice-of-life comedies. It’s awesome. Since I have a tendency of watching shows in a succession, I will not return until the series is over. Hopefully I will have remembered the plot by then.
I have read @negativezero’s write-up of his favourite anime. Instantly forgot it. I should track it down and copy/paste it into a word document.
Turns out that taking Japanese classes in primary school didn’t help me learn Japanese. Who knew.
Go back two pages for some suggests from last season, though none of them would get close to being on a list of favourites for me.
As far as VNs go, if you want to feel like crap for a bit then you should try and track down a fan translation of Clannad.
I think I’ve hit my quota for feeling crap. Time to cleanse my palette with Serious Sam or something.
Haha, yeah. Katawa Shoujo maxes out the feels. I had to have a cool down period before I did anything else. I’ve been considering going back and doing all the bad endings as well but I don’t know if that’ll make my brain melt.
Now you’ve played through Lilly’s route – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKg62dlepok&list=TLraoemKaI3i1RYXbhm1X7-fIzusLJONAm
I think i link that persons videos every time Katawa Shoujo is mentioned.
Don’t worry, I know why you spent an hour talking about it. It sends your mind reeling so much you need to get it off your chest. I didn’t think Lilly was becoming an alcoholic but now you’ve mentioned it I can see that as a possibility. I think it was more just her way of being a little bit of a rebel and letting off steam when she’s usually so prim and proper. Either way she is headed to a sad ending when Hisao dies, but then I guess that’s the case for most of them. For some reason it does seem like Lilly would feel it the most though.
PS: many more then 4 Taybies payed it. maybe only 4 of us became mildly obsessed with it.
I haven’t played all routes, having only done Rin, Emi, and now Lilly, but Emi’s route made it seem like all the exercise had somehow extended Hisao’s life by a few years. However, I am constantly confused whenever that doctor at the beginning claims that Hisao will have a normal-length life. Clearly, that isn’t the case.I don’t know how accurate my beliefs on the Lilly alcohol thing was, but saying she will become a full-blown alcoholic was a massive overstatement. I still believe that Lilly is addicted to caffeine though.
I think this is the last of the Katawa Shoujo talk from me for quite some time. I know I need to go back and try and get Lilly’s bad and neutral ending, but I lack the willpower. I know I need to do it soon, or I’ll forget certain details and I’ll feel less crap than I rightfully should.
I think it’ll be a long time before I can play another route. Since I get the feeling Hanako’s route will have the same events, (Hokkaido summer house, Lilly leaving for Scotland the first time, Hanako’s Birthday) I will probably do this one last. That means Shizune is up next.
I finish my Katawa Shoujo talk with one question:
Isn’t it weird doing a new route, and having a few scenes with the girl from your last route?
By that I mean from a character perspective. You are doing a scene where you supposedly know nothing about that person, yet you know the very essence of that character. It was a bit weird reading a scene with Emi, and thinking “This girl cries herself to sleep, and she will continue to do so, because you chose to romance Lilly instead. You monster.”
I’ll have to replay the begining ot be sure but I thought the doctor meant he’d have a normal live as in he wouldn’t need to spend most of his time in hospital or carry around huge amounts of medical parafinalia everywhere he went (which is mostly ture).
he definetly seems like he’ll live the longest with the Emi route. Unless he pushes himself too hard and has a heart attack tyring to keep up with her. Or she stabs him when he follower her to the kitchen a second time.Also, Lilly dosen’t have a bad ending. Just neutral and good. Though I guess the neutral is kinda bad but only really in that it’s not good.
As for the replaying on different routes it s a bit weird. My first play thorugh was Emi and then when I went back for the Lilly one every time I ran into Emi I felt horribly guilty like I was cheating and I had to keep reminding myself “This is a new universe that events that happend in the last universe have ceased to exist. IT’S OK I’M NOT A SCUM BAG!”
Wait, I just read the Wikipedia article on Katawa Shoujo. Apparently, it is speculated that Kenji used to be Yuuko’s boyfriend.
what what what what what what. Whaat…
It’s just fan pandering, but I do believe Kanji actually says at one point he had a girlfriend. I forget about Yuuko, though.
Yeah, in the bad ending of act 1 (@powalen knows what I am talking about) Kenji mentions that he had a girlfriend, and somehow the refractory period after sex with his girlfriend somehow made him a misogynist. That makes sense… I think? I remember that Yuuko said she had a boyfriend that left for no reason at about the same time Kenji broke up with his girlfriend. I personally don’t believe in the fan theory, but the fact that the theory was predominant enough in the KS community that it got onto Wikipedia is most surprising. It’s rare for fan theories to appear in character bios on Wikipedia. I don’t see the connection, as Yuuko was probably staff by that point, and she values the income she gets from her job too much to risk it.However, I do remember in Emi’s route, that Kenji has something of a hatred for Yuuko, more than most girls. So there might be some legitimacy to this theory after all.
Actually, the more I think about it, the more sense this theory makes. I was completely skeptical when I first started typing, but now I am… less skeptical.
EDIT: Three edits later, the link works and grammatical errors are fixed.
I think that is very heavily implied in the game. I think it was in Rin’s route there is a whole thing where Kenji is going out of his way to avoid her whilst intentionally putting himself in situations where he has to avoid her and shows that she’s pretty much the focus of his ridiculous fear of females. I have in my head that he said she was the one who started everything but it’s been a while. I may have that wrong.
Would selling a few of my PS2 games be a good idea?
I was thinking of doing some selling of some of my collection as well. DS, PS2, PS3 and 360 stuff. There’s obviously a fair bit I’d like to keep but there’s a lot of it I doubt I’ll play again (and if I did suddenly want it again I’d get a HD remaster or a digital re-release or something)
Went out last night with some mates we went to Timezone and turns out Timezone have 2 Metallica pinballs! Was pretty awesome, I just need more practise at pinball, damn it. Would buy one but they’re 9 grand for the non arcade version 🙁
Drunken Robot Pornography keeps getting better and better.
Love the Arena Builder.
I’ve heard good things about it.
We are talking about the same thing, right?
I hope so.
😉
Here you all are. Beemo cake
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/20140117_205932.jpg
wow! you did a great job! you should be totally proud of an effort like that! 🙂
*The adventures of Blaghs in Akihabara*
“Hm, I’m hungry, maybe I’ll go eat at the Gundam café. Hm, I think that’s a queue, maybe, it’s kind of hard to tell… Bugger that, I’ll just go to a – is this attractive Japanese lass trying to drag me into a maid café? RUN AWAY.”
“Ooh, I wonder what this store i- okay I’m just going to mindbleach myself now.”
“JESUS CHRIST THERE ARE A LOT OF FATE/STAY NIGHT AND ASSOCIATED STUFF FIGURINES AND WHY AM I NOT ALLOWED TO OWN THEM ALL?”
“OHMIGOD THIS MADOKA FIGURE IS SO CUTE! Oh, that Japanese guy is looking at me like I’m mad.”
The amount of Fate goods is incredible. I think I’ve accumulated more from it than anything else, just by picking up stuff now and then for a long time. I think the only other franchise at the same level of figure popularity is the Miku Hatsune stuff.
Yeah, it’s a little surprising. There was some Madoka Magica stuff and a whole lot of One Piece. Then a lot of Evangelion, Gundam and a variety of stuff that I don’t know, and a bit of what I recognise. It wasn’t really surprising how little of a lot of this stuff I knew, but definitely a bit of a shock.
Half life for most anime is about 6 months once it finishes. Madoka Magica is popular again right now because of the new sequel movie that has just been in cinemas there. Evangelion is one of the only shows where the character goods have had massive staying power. But for some reason Type-Moon’s stuff esp. Fate is constantly popular despite having had a very rocky start in animation (Tsukihime anime was absolutely terrible and Fate/Stay Night was pretty badly adapted as well). Things turned around a lot when ufotable took over doing their stuff and apparently they’re going to be doing a new Fate-related project, either an adaption of the game’s third route (which is the ‘true’ route and follows best from Fate/Zero which they animated a couple of years ago) or a re-adaption of the whole thing. Possible that the current goods build-up is for that, but I feel like looking at my collection there’s been a fairly constant trickle of stuff. Especially Saber figures. I own about eight at least.
So I guess you could say that you were …
*puts on sunglasses*
tempted by Fate.
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Did you try Mr Donut yet?
ALL THE MADKOA STUFF!
I was hoping I could find a thing of whatsername from Another being skewered by an umbrella for you, but I had no luck.
Hahaha, that sceene.
I would be amased of someone brought out a series of figures for all the key death sceens in Another. I’d probably go broke.
@phlanispo
I use Netscape Navigator *hipster hat*
Anyone else notice that there doesn’t seem to be a lot of news this week? Does that always happen around January?
January is typically a dry spell for news.
Thought it was something like that. Are all the staff back as well? Maybe a few of them are still away.
I should be asleep, but I’m not tired.
D:
So I’ve decided I”m definitely old and cynical.
I can’t think of any games I know are coming out this year I’m excited for and the few games I let myself get excited for last year ended up at the best being generally disappointing.
Apparently there is no joy left in my life.